The Express. — London, England, 1855-06-01 00:00:00

exvegiig. TO coßtissrup o' emeribissati wawa tar • TM Immo; lesess Ellolair paper, am Ise tbe OM iffilliellAtriel. by Two elott t off he day a paroadas. MOH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. T.' a• -MarsiaA Vt. 14ea Allersoes. 2 11 . 550 . To-wassow—lifirsing. elha--.Aflunixe. Mk. LONDON, FRIDAY, JUNE 1• LATEST FROM ABROAD. OUR SQUADRON IN THE SEA OF AZOFF. W e (Daily News) are favoured, by Lord Panmure, with the following despatch, received yesterday at the War-Odloe : " SEBASTOPOL, 30= MAY, 1855. „ Letters received from Sir George Brown and Sir E. Lyons of the 29th announce the destruction by the enemy of four R ussian war gteamers and large depots of corn. "The Allied ships have sumeeded in blowing up a magazine at Arabat, and in destroying about 100 merchantmen. ' di Only one steam-ship remains of the enemy in the Sea of Agoff." --- We (Daily Noce) receive the following intelligence from the Secretary of the Admiralty : " A telegraphic despatch has just been received at the Admiralty with the intelligence that on the 22nd of May, on the appearance of the allied squadron before Berdianek, the Russians burnt four war steamers and considerable stores of corn. " On the 23rd the forts of Arabat were bombarded and the powder magazines blown up. " One hundred and six merchant vessels have been destroyed ; and only one small Russian steamer re mains in the Sea of Azoff. "Admiralty, May 31, 1855, 6.15 p.m." THE AUSTRIAN ULTIMATUM TO RUSSIA. (VlO3l THI OP Tall DAILY PEWS.) VIENNA, FLIDAT. Austria's ultimatum to Russia demands that s pro gressive system of guarantees against any future development of Russian preponderance in the Black Sea, be introdooed by treaties into European laws of nations generally. The ultimatum has not yet been sent to St. Peters burg. but it has been communicated to England and France for their approval. SIGNAL ADVANTAGES ITION OF THE KERTCH EXPED. .~ ~' THE dates in the despatches received by Govern ment from the Sea of Azoff are rather perplexing. According to those received by Lord PANYUPA the troops disembarked at Kertch on the 24th ult. (her MAJESTY'S trirth-day), and advanced to Yeoikals on the 23th. According to the despatch received bj the Admiralty, which we publish to-day, the allied squadron was before Berdiansk on the 22nd, and bombarded the forts of Arabat on the 23rd. There are, it is true, various ways in which these seeming discrepancies may be reconciled. The ships of war 1 1 destined to sot against the harbours and forts of th e Sea of Azoff may have stood right on through the Straits without waiting for the trans ports which conveyed the troops ; this they might do with perfect safety, inasmuch as the enemy are said to have blown up their fortifications on both sides of the Straits, and fled as soon as the Allies showed themselves. Or " the QUEEN'S birthday," on which the troops are said to have landed at Kertcb, may mean the 21st ult.—the day on which that anniversary was celebrated. It is, however, of little use speculating on points of such secondary im portance: in the course of a week, or ten days, we shall in all probability have the details of these opera tions. In the mean time let this satisfy us, that the work in the Sea of Azoff, and the Straits which con nect it with the Euxine, goes bravely on. In the Daily News of Tuesday last we described minutely the narrow isthmus—between the bays of Naffs, in the Rusin*, and Arabia, in the Sea of Azoff—which connects the peninsula extending out ward from these bays to the Straits of Kutch with what may be called the Crimean main. To the in formation we then communicated may now be added that Berdiansk, the best harbour in the Sea of Azoff, is ably on the north shore of that sea, due north of the opening of the Straits of Kertch, and distant from it rather more than a degree of longitude. Berdiansk has of late years become the most important port for the shipment of pain in the Sea of Azoff. The forts of Arabat are constructed on the south side of the Sea of Azoff, north of the centre of Haffs . Bay, at the southern extremity of a narrow tongue of hard sand, little more than a mile is breadth, and up wards of sixty miles in length, which extends in a direction a little to the west of north from Arabat to the Strait of Genitchi or Tonkoi, separating the Sea of Azoff from a long salt lagoon on the east and north shores of the Crimea, called the Putrid Sea. The Breit of Genitchi is only one hundred yards in breadth, and is the point at which goods brought by land carriage from Taganrog and Marisnopol cross to the Crimea. The possession of Arabat will enable the Allies to cut off all communi tion by lead from the Don, the Volga, and the Kuban to the Crimes, as the possession of Hertel and Yenikale enables them to cut off all communi cation by sea. No further supplies of grain or iron --of provisions or military stores—can now reach the Russians in the Crimea from the eastern pro vinces of Russia. As soon as Arabat fall,, Haifa, which is tut slightly fortified, must surrender, and with a few ships of war stationed off Arabat and Kaffe, and a line of earthworks thrown across frost the one bay to the other, the Allies may bid debase, to any attempt of the Russians to repossess then. selves of the south-eutern peninsula of the Crimea. Meanwhile the damage already done to the Rein• sins in the Sea of Azoff and the Straits of Kerte must be sensibly felt by them. All their fortification os both aid.s of the Straits have been destroyed, sad those of Arabat, if not already in our bands, base been materially injured. The foundry at Kertch be the masufacture of shot, shells, and Misill balls has been destroyed. Large stores of corn 11111 the Straits and at Berdiansk have been befell A Pot somber of war steamers and merchsin view& have been captured or Oae bus- I tired Russian pea have fallen trim& d tics " Only one small Russian dome smasiss derstatios Isom the Licensed Victuallers' Defence Ae• iodation had en interview with Sir William kiolesworth yesterday at the *Mae of Public Works, in Whitehall-place. The deputation cousisted of Mr. Benjamin Foster (Presi dent), Munn. White,llarrie, Butterfield, Hancock, Fisher, Preece, All's, and Ashton. Despatches from the Governor of Labuut were received yesterday at the Colonial -ogles. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, accompanied by the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklesburg•Strelits and family, leave Cambridge Cottage, Kew, to•dy, for St. James's Palace, for the season. The Duchess of Cambridge is about to give n aria of dinner porties. Yesterday evening the Earl and Countess of Derby gave a select dinner party to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge and a distinguished party of friends, at the family mansion in St. Janies'esqaare. Later in the even ', gag the noble countess threw open her saloons for the re• I optics of a brilliant and numerous company. The Duchess of Sutherland arrived at Stafford ' home, last evening, from Trentham. The Duke and Duchess of Argyll returned to their Ills, at Canspden-hill, Kensington, last evening. On Wednesday the Duke of Bedford, who is now elleyleg at Endsleigh, laid the foundation stone of a Chapel dhows at Gulweithy. near Tavistock. Sir William and Lady Molesworth entertained, at ism, last evening, the Saxon Minister, the Earl and Onnntees of Clarendon, the Right Hon. Vernon Smith, M.P., and Mn. Vernon Smith, Loyd and Lady Cantor, He Hon. Mn. Dye. Sombre, the Right Hon. Sir Charles gad Lady Mary Wood, the Prussian Minister and Countess de Bernstorff, Colonel Challenge, the Countess of Camper down and Lady Elisabeth Duncan, Mr. Duff, 31. P., and Lady Agnes Da, and Mr. Beaumont, M.P. Mr. H. D. Seymour, M.P., has delivered a lecture el the Wet:auntie Atheism, on Southern Roads, the 1 Cassano, and the Crimea. Mr. Sotheroh, M.P., was in he 'hair. The Rev. Thomas William Onalow Hallward, ILL., of University College, Orford, curate ofiLesden, his (says a local paper) accepted the chaplainry to the thousand ,e navvies" who ale about prooseding to the Crimea to be employed in the trenches before Sekastopol. We (Chebniford Chronicle) understand that Lieut. ,of the West Ewes Militia, who was mentioned last week as baring broken his arrest, 'stunted the follow ing day to his quarters, and was again placed under ease arrest. His father, however, having ttled all pecusiary slalom connected with the regiment, se and Lieut. Weaver Whig sent in his resignation, he has, been released and allowed to retire from the regiment. Mr. Bass, M.P., said, at a meeting in Derby, the other day, that " members of parliament were MOW' mm went a little under a cloud." The amount raised for the various objeets of the Free Church of Scotland for the year ending March 81, 1856, was 308,0601.95. Bd. The Caledonian Mercury says that Mr. Ceird, of " high farming" celebrity, has taken a lease of Langley Park Farm, Kent. Whether his doings in the field will be as cthspicuons as his writings remains to be then. The first monthly part of a new work of fiction by Mr. Charles Dickens, will be published in N4vember. The fountains of the Crystal Palace will make their first display to-morrow, at the grand Ir..rticulturtl fete. The committee of the Mendicity Society caution the petal° against military impostors who are going about begging, furnished with forged tart fiat's of discharge and good conduct; the certificates, being printed on parchment, and vary well *nested, are likely to deceive even face riethed persons. These vagabonds are otters clothed is regimentals, and easy of them profess to bath bees at all the battles in the Crimes. A rendezvous for the enlistment of persons to serve is the weeps of Engineers altsehed to the Turkish contingent has bees opened la Casnoe-row, Westminster. the Bea of Asoff." R-----7-----aseitni Jewels laden with cora have be run ning into Kedah as into what would I be called in the argot of the Rae de Jerusalem a sooriciere. Leanly, the Allied Troop, , employed in the Kutch expedition continu e to espy excellent health. But the consequences of this *Wiese proralsel to be of an importance infinitely beyond the advan- I tiges already pined. The formidable entreseh meats in front of the Russian army, connecting Ilshas topol with the impracticable country eyestalk*, bus st the Tohatir-stag--so ably described in the medillfil later of a special correspondent which we plibil*Mll yesterday —pointed to an obstinate and preisepi defence on the part of the enemy. They suipeld the Idea of a repetition of the bloody though globs= storming of the heights of the Alma, on a web d aliases' magnitude. Th e y suggested reminkimetele et WELLINGTON'S patient waiting behind the Isis of inheres Vedrss for the moment when he soli OW mete an irresistible and triumphant advises*. int the success of the Allies in the Sea of Asa bac sundered these immense and toilsome yespee-1 *es of the Russians unavailing. The 11110 trenehmenta on the heights behind Inkermsea sr Tasegoun can be turned—taken in the rear by the Allies. The army that lurks behind them is threse. l l end on both flanks—from Etspatoria and from Ara fat. We give no faith to the rumours of a great fight en the Tchernays, and the cutting off of Lienaisei with 8,000 men, which pervaded Paris on Wednes day. They are, apparently, of the number of those groundless reports which almost invariably, and un accountably, fly before the news of great battles. But the day when a decisive blow is to be struck at the Musoovites in the Crimea cannot be far dis tant. The Allied Commanders are straining every nerve to concentrate a large force in the Crimea. A private letter, recently received from Constantinople, says: " Enormous masses of French troops are being daily conveyed to the seat of war. The French camp at the Mash& was broken up immediately after the review, and the last contingent of the (lauds has been shipped for the Crimea. There are only a few depUts remaining here, not amounting in all to above three or four thousand men. These, with the sick and wounded men in the French and British lhospitals, are the only soldiers that the Western 1 Powers have now in this neighbourhood." We have only left ourselves room for one word of I warning, which we will continue to harp upon as 'obstinately as the old Roman did upon the necessity of destroying Carthage. Russia muse be made to give an indemnity—to defray ALL Me expenses of the war. Equity and precedent concur to recommend this, as we will show hereafter. —Daily News. the Court. The Queen and Prince Albert left Osborne after two o'clock yesterday afternoon, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, the Priam:me Alice, Helena, and Louisa, Prince Arthur, Prince Leopold, the Princess of Hobanlobe Langenburg, the FtWeems Adelaide and Feodore of llobenlohe, and at tended by the Marchioness of Ely, the Hen. Mary Seymour, Majorßesent' the Ron. C.Grey, the Master of the House hold, Major-General Buckley, Captain Da Plat and Mr. Gibbs. Her Majesty and the Prince, with the Royal Party, cloned in the Fairy stems yacht to Southampton, tea celled by a special train on the South-Western Railway to town, and proceeded from the private station at Nine Elms, in tie of the Queen's carriages, escorted by a detachment of Carbineen, to Buckingham Palace, where the Quea and Prince arrived at tie o'clock, mad were received by Earl Spencer, the Marquis of Breadalbane, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord Waterpark, Viscount Torrington, Mr. F. Cavendish, and Major General Wylde. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prisons Adelaide of Rokenlohe, honoured the Royal Italian Opera with their presence in the evening. The royal suite consisted of the Marchioness of Ely, the Hon. May Seymour, Lord Waterpark, Major-General Buckley, mad Captain Da Plat. The Princess of llohenlohe Imageoharg and the Prisms Feodore of lloheolobe visited the Beeline of Kent Teeter at her residence, Clarence Roue, St. Jima's. HANDCOCK v. irm..- --e--- The incident' of a civil trial, eves where th s ei a t o . m robe family manes sad personal @modal, live •in the recollection of the public for more than the briefest period. The cease of Hendee& v. Dela, Dour, which was heard by the Lord Chancellor of behind is Sensory last, seems to be an exception. The strangeness of the MO made in support of the application—the unexpected compromise, by which public curiosity was defeated—above all, the impala ! lions cast upon a person of so lees rank and pe tote than the Nast Noble the Marquis of Clanrieude have sort goomeeed it from oblivion. The cause =1 so ismisksble that we gave in our leading 1 of 146. 13 a short abstract of the facts l i ea preseated by the Attorney-General, who was the petitioner's counsel. It is now slimed that that unitstatemet was from beginning to end—et least so far implicated the noble marquis—a mere romance, and our attention has been called to a =rt recently published in his vindication, iry an affidavit meeting many, if not all, of the asps against him. In our former account of the trial we expressly called attention to the fact, that the only statement then before us was made as parte. We gladly de Lord Clanricarde the justice of giving equal publicity to the counter-statement which has now been put forward on his behalf. A very short recapitulation will suffice to recall the unhappy cheamstances out of which this litigation aroae. Mr. and Mrs. Handcock were married in 1824. For some years they appear to have lived in harmony, 1 and three daughters —Josephine, Kathleen, aid 1 110110611-•11M11 the fruit of the marriage. As early i at least as the autumn of 1841 matrimonial differ ' enoes arose, which ended in a formal separation in the following April. In 18 43 Mr. Handoock died, sod his daughters, who were then minors, succeeded to very considerable property in Galway, which bad boss settled on the children of the marriage in tail. They were made wards of the Irish Court of Chan my, their mother was appointed guardian of their 11= and Lord Clanricarde, who had been on terms both with Mr. and Mrs. Handcock bees a time anterior to their marriage, was nomi aided to the guardianship of the infants' mity. The daughters, on coming of age, the entail of their estates. In 1849 1 1 the share of Kathleen devolved by her death and upon her sisters. In June , 1851, Josephine = leaving her real estates to Honoria, and giving to her mother a legacy of 10,0001., and the reversion of the landed property on the death of her daughter without issue. In December, 1851, Honoria Iliandcock settled the whole estate which had de [volved on her upon herself for life, with remainder to her mother, reserving, however, a power of revo- cation. She survived her mother about nine months, sad died at the close of the year 1853 intestate, and without having revoked the deed, but not before she had given instructions for a will by which the bulk of her property would have been diverted to charitable porpoises. The result was, that the whole of the Handcock estates passed by the will of Mrs. Handoock who had died in the early part of the same year, 1853, leaving everything she possessed to a boy of some 12 years of age, described as John Delacour, the defendant in the cause of Handcock v. Delacour. The plaintiff, the uncle and heir-at-law of Honoria, claimed the entire estate devised to Delmar, on the ground that all the instruments by which Mrs. Ilandcock's interest was created had been extorted from her daughter by undue influence, oppression, and fraud. The case went even further, and accused Mrs. Handoock of having shortened by deliberate cruelty the lives already threatened by consumption which stood between her and the coveted inheritance. A serious difficulty, however, stood in the plaintiff's way. Lord Clanricarde, the friend of the family, and the guardian during infancy of the daughters' fortunes, had been consulted by them as their confidential adviser, had drawn with his own hand the will of Josephine, and bad given his sanc tion and become a party to the settlement executed by Honoria. Unless he could be implicated in the conspiracy, it was clear that the plaintiff had little chance of success. To impute complicity so base, without some powerful motive, would have been too , absurd to be attempted. The Attorney-Oeueral undertook to supply- that motive by the fol lowing strange and revolting story :—He was, he said, prepared to prove that the marriage between Mr. and Mrs. Handcock was brought about by Lord Clanricarde to provide for his own mistress, that the suspicion of an improper intimacy between Mrs. Handcoc k and the marquis was the real caused , the separation ; that the boy John Delacour was tie child of Lord Clanricarde and Mrs. Handcock ; and that the subsequent transactions were the links of a steadily pursued conspiracy, by which it was sought to gain for the son the inheritance which belonged to the lawful issue of the marriage. We do not pro fess to sift in detail the evidence by which this extra ordinary story was sought to be supported. It is enough to say that the intimacy admitted to exist be tween Lord Clanricarde and Mrs. Handcock and her daughters, the unnsuul part taken by him in the pre paration of the different instruments, the report of a conversation in which M r. Handcock was stated to have expressed his suspicions of an improper intimacy, particularly with reference to a visit paid by himself and his wile to Portumna, the seat of Lord Clanri earde, in September, 1840, the statement of the lady on her deathbed to her solicitor, that he might say that the boy would be twelve years old in June, 1853, the circumstance that he had been known by the name of De Burgh as well as Delacoar, and the favour shown by Mrs. Handcock to her so-called adopted son, were the facts chiefly relied on as impli cating Lord Clanricarde. After accusations so grave bad been advanced, it was unfortunate for the cause of truth that their investigation should have been cut short by a compromise, the effect of which was, in substance, to divide the property between the contending parties. Such a result seems to show that the claimants were not very confi dent of establishing their use, while the Lord Chancellor's approval of the arrangement makes it impossible to regard the infant's title as un assailable. We are bound to say that Lord Clan ricarde has, by his subsequent affidavit, disposed of the surmise that the compromise might be attributed to his desire to withdraw the matter from investiga tion. He was not a party to the suit, and he has expressly sworn that he took no part in, and was not consulted as to the compromise effected. He looks upon himself with some reason as the person really aggrieved by that course, inasmuch as he has been deprived of the opportunity which the progress of the suit might have afforded of clearing his character from the charges under which he laboured. With whatever jealousy Lord Clanricarde's affidavit may be read, it is impossible to deny that it has, to gether with the comments contained in the pamphlet to which we have referred, greatly altered the com plexion of the case. The whole charge,in fact, rested upon circumstantial evidence of a rather vague elm rector, with the exception of the specific accusations in reference to the visit to Portumna in September, 1840, and the assumed date of the child's birth. The former is met by a specific denial, corroborated by the evi dence of Mrs. Kennedy, the housekeeper of Lady Clanricarde. The latter rests on a statement the accuracy of which seems, from the form in which it was made, scarcely worthy to be relied on ; but, so far as it goes, it becomes (if the Portumna story is assumed to be false) an argument against the alleged paternity. The only other circumstance immesetiog the marquis in any way with the boy Dslscour is that he passed at times by the name of De Burgh. Of this Lord Clanricarde positively swears that be never heard until after the death of Mrs. Handoock. He declares that the allegations of improper intimacy with that lady before her mar riage, and also in and after the year 1840, are false—a statement which, it the boy's age was stated with anything approaching to accuracy, is sufficient to dispose of the relatiouship. It is very fairly urrd in the pamphlet to which we have alluded that the accusations do in fact rest on this corner-stone--that Lord Clanricarde was the father of John Delacour, and after the answer given to the specific circumstance , mainly relied on, it would hardly be fair to assume it to be true, even if Lord Clanricarde had not, as he has done, stated in his affidavit that the boy . could not have been and was not his 1100. If this circumstance is omitted from the story told by the Attorney-Oenersl, it loses much of its consistency . The disposition made by the &ugh. ten of their property, though hardly such as might have been wisely recommended, is not (talks lump able of a reasonable explanation, even if we assume that the oppression said to have been exercised by the mother might have substi tuted soothe! fselin in the place of affection. Lord • , it is tree, does not go eo far as expressly to avow his disbelief d the charge of cruelty on the part of the mother, hut he does declare his own entire ignorance of anything of the kind. He asserts most p ositive that though he sanctioned the instru ments by which Josephine and Honoria disposed of their property, it was not without an attempt to dis suade them, nor in the latter case until he had pro cured the insertion in the deed of a power of revoca tion. Much discesdit, too, is thrown on the alleged s uspicions of the husband by th e fact that he continued on terms of intimacy with the man by whom he is said to have been so grievously injured. Without entering into further details of the affida vit, or of the argument founded upon it, we are bound to say that they do answer in great measure the charges against which they are directed. It may be that the purity and the humanity of Mrs. Handoock still remain to be yindiested—if vindication is possible ; but that the story presented to the court was one of those romantic fictions in which the Irish gentlemen of the long roim are so well able to clothe a modicum of truth, can not be doubted without treating the oath of the Mar quis of Claurbsarde, as unworthy . to be put in the balance against the surmises and insinuations which the admitted facts, while unexplained, were calculated to suggest. But if the express accusations are answered, the mystery remains as dark as ever. Who was John Delaoour ? The plaintiffs, whose case turned so much upon it, adduce no evidence that he was the child of Mrs. Handcock. Her daughters speak of him by his Christian name as one of the family. They know the preference felt for him by their mother, and in disclosing with their noble friend the proposed disposition of their pro pity. they manse, a pparently without causing any their adviser, that this unknown John re t• to ur is likely to be the recipient of all that Mrs. Handoock may acquire. That lady herself persists until her death in calling him her adopted son, and seems to know and to con seal both his parentage and the precise period of his birth. No trace of his origin is to be found in the diary of Josephine, and Lord Clanricarde in his affidavit neither throws any . light upon it nor asserts his ignorance about it. It is this we believe, more than anything else, which has disposed the public to receive with more readiness than they would otherwise have done, charges supported by bat very slight evidence, and which have now been met by a direct denial. To infer crime from mystery, to assume that concealment implies the existence of something that will not bear the light, is a habit too natural to be overcoite, perhaps too reasonable to be much quarrelled with. While mystery remains, suspicion will dog it as its shadow. But it should not be forgotten that the thirst for a solution does not justify the acceptance of the first derogatory suggestion that may offer itself; and those who may be suffering under unjust imputations will do well to impute the obloquy they endure to the concealment which possibly the best motives have occasioned, rather than to those in whose minds it has but borne its wonted fruits. — Daily Newa. THE REPRESENTATION OF MALDON. Mr. Mechi Mechi has issued the following address to the electors of the borough of Malden : " Gentlemen,—l aspire to the honour of representing you in Parliament whenever a vacancy occurs. I do not auk this as a favour, because I consider the obligation in such cases mutual. Living, as I do, amongst you. you are well ac painted with my general conduct, character, and opinions. In politics I have always been a consistent Liberal, having invariably, as a citizen of London, voted fur Liberal Can didates. My natural inclination is for improvement, whe ther general or political, and we know that all things re quire looking after to repair the damage caused by time, corruption, or decay. Our glorious constitution forma no exception to this general rule. In religion I am a steady Churchman, with a large measure of toleration for those who conscientiously differ from our formularies. I can forget that much of dissent was caused by the ones lax and venal condition of our state church. Happily those days of pluralities and neglect have passed away. I am decidedly in favour of educating the million. As a mere matter of business, knowledge is power as Ignorance is weakness. You know my practice in this matter. I am an advocate for cheap, quick, and honest law, end will support any measure that will condense add simplify our statutes. I have a great horror of the Chart of Chancery. In a badness country like ours it n MS be necessary to occupy a number of years in the investi paha of feats that would be ascertainable in a few days, weeks, or months, by ea ordinary tribunal of diligent and intelligent men. lam a man of peace and conciliation, bat when our honour, dignity, or welfare is attacked directly or through our allies, let us castigate our enemies manfully and effectively. I like no half measures—they are nn-Bri tish. Let us do in war, as we do in business, try to find the right man for the right place. I have taken a deep interest in the improvement of our National Agriculture as a means of feeding and employing our industrious million', and although bat • small landholdur, I have practised what I I preached in my transactions with my tenants. Whilst soli. citing your votes, I wish you clearly to understand that I do so individually, unshackled by any personal or political al liance. In conclusion, I will make no pledges, but if you elect me, I shall exercise my judgment as an honest and in dependent man, according to circumstance', for the benefit of my country.—l have the honour to be, Gentlemen, faith fully yours, "J..T. Menai. "Tigers, Hall, Helvedor, Baez, "May 26, 1855." THE REPRESENTATION OF BATH. On Wednesday evening a large and crowded meeting of the electors of Bath was held in the Guildhall in eonnexion with the vacancy in the representation of that city. It was expected by many that both Mr. Whatelsy and Mr. Tito would have been present, but only the latter gen tleman attended. 0. Norman, Bsq., the chairman, having briefly opened the proceedings, Mr. Tits addressed the meeting is a long and effective speech, explanatory of his views upon the principal questions of the day. He cams before the electors of Bath to represent a great and im portant movement, which bad its origin in a desire to see the bedtime of the country conducted as they would con duct their own. It was for the constituencies to as, whether Wags should go on as they had done, or whether they would emespeuteg disastrous and discreditable abuses. The plain elgle of speaking in which he addressed them might be use fig k the Hoare of Commons, as opposed to the long, miestared, dawdling tone in which honourable gentlemen addressed honourable gentlemen. He should not go to parlianteat for the purpose of upsettieg the government. He was for carrying on the war honestly and thoroughly. He considered **ballot a simple remedy for a great social sell, and was also for an extension of the suffrage. Be had been a reformer all his life time ; but there were some people who were now reformers for the first time. His boa. opponent was now, he told them, a man of pro gress, and for reforms. (Laughter.) And if they premed bin closely he had little doubt but that he would say he was for the ballot. (Hear, hear.) lie (Mr. Tite) would advise them to press these questions home to his opponent at the amiestios, because, then let the election result as it Nis% they would have a member for progress and re flaw es Hear," and laughter.) The Maynooth grant, I I Os mhos donnas, and church rates, were all• in the same l a r i ossrp. They all ought not to be. (Cheers.) He would l i belee justice done to every man, bat he would not have any 1 mon's conscience burthened even to the extent of one reetiOng by paying for the support of a faith in which be did not believe. (Appian's.) A. resolution approving of Mr. Tate as a suitable candidate was then adopted amidst loud applause, and after an address from Mr. A. B. Moore the pretwedings terminated. The nomination is appointed for Sewall, and the polling will take place on the follow ing Monday. This is the first of Jane, according to the calendar, bat, es far as the weather is concerned, the day has a much seater resemblance to the lit of December. Farm is doors and great coats oat of doers, us the characteristics of the tat of Jane, 180. SERIOUS ACCIDENT TO TIM HON. F. HINCKS AND Elort.—We regret to learn, by special telegraph, from Qaebee, that Mr. Blacks', horse tan away with him this morning, near the plaits of Abraha m . Both he sad his son were thrown sat; the eon's legs were broken, and he was himself severely braised. Another despatch to a gentleman in the city mates that both the son's thighs acs broken.— l'orento Patriot, May U. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 1, 1855. FRANCE. __..- v ouggrt Of VIZ DAILY maws.) PARIS, WsaxaaDaT RYINING. It is positively stated in legitimist cliques this morning that the Count de Faris is at this moment at Frohedorff, whither he has gore of his own accord to negotiate the " fusion " with his cousin. Some say that he e this step in spite of the Duchess of Orleans, a nda represent him as hav i ng in fact eloped from the maternal roof. lam more inclined to think (assuming the news to be tree) that the Bourbons are merely playing oat a family comedy which has been' arranged long beforehand. In answer to all the overtures made by the heads of the legitimist party to obtain from the Orleanist branch the acknowledg ment of the Count de Chambord as the sole head of the house, the Duchess of Orleans has in recent times made but one answer : " I cannot bike upon myself to prejudice the rights of my son ; when he comes of age he shall decide for himself." The Count de Paris, who was born in 1 837 , attain ed the age of 18 —that is to say, his majority as a royal prince—but a few days ago ; and it is very probable that he may have decided to merge his individual pretensions in the hope of strengthening the influence of his family. Such an event, although not of thrilling interest for the moment, would not be unimportant in certain contingencies. All the officers of the Emperor's household who went to Constantinople to make preparations for the Emperor's intended journey to the East have returned to France in the Simois. It is, therefore, difficult to believe that there can be any truth in the rumoursl which still circulate that the Emperor has not aban cloned his project. The official returns have just been published of the commerce and navigation of France during the years 1852, 1853, and 1854. The following are the prin cipal point.: The imports in the year 18.54 amonoted to 1,158,000,000 1 , spinet 1,103 millions in 1853 and 986 million , in 1852. the imports of gold were 480,700,000 f. in 18.54, against 3 t 8,800,0001. in 18,53, and 59,200,0001 in 1852 whereas the imports of silver amounted in 1864 to only 99,b00,000 1 . against 112,600,0001. in 1853 and 179,900,0001. in 1852 The arrival of gold has, therefore, considerably increased during the last three years. A contrary movement has taken place in the export of the precious metals from France. There has bees, comparatively speaking, but little difference daring the three years in the export of gold, which amounted to 64.600,0001. in 1854, 29,700,000 f. in 1653, and to 42,300,000 f. in 1862 ; whereas that of silver was 263,500,000 E in 1864, 229,500,0001. in 1853, and 182,600,0001. in 1852. The total amount of exports of merchandise was 1,259,400,0001. in 1861, 1,363,200,000 f. in 18.53, and 1,233,300,0901. in 1862. The imports according to this return continued to increase in 1864, compared to the two preceding years, and the exports kept ofl abo o4 m illions amount of 1852, although there is a diminu ton 1853 The falling off in the export of corn is the principal item in the diminution of 1854. The amount of corn exported in 1852 was 59,600.000 f. ; in 18,53, 29,900,0001.; and In 1854 wore only 4 millions. The ex port of wine has also diminished from 84,800,0001. to 76,200,0001., and 60,100,0001. ; and that of brandy from 27,600,0001. to 22,300,0001. and 13,900,0001. The hairnets by sea were, in 18,54, 1.040,800,0001., against 1,029,200,000 1 . in 1853,and 929,300,000'. in 1852; and by 1and,66i,300,0001. in 1834, against 602,200,0001., and 508,900,0001. The ex port,. by sea were 1,42 1 ,7 00,0001 . in 1854, against 1,488,700,000 f. ia 1853, and 1.30,5,300,0001. in 1852, and by land 366,200,0001 , against 372,600,0001., and 376,200,0001 The imports by land hive been therefore more consi derable than by sea, while with exports it was quite the (MOIL PARIS, THURSDAY EYZNING. The following telegraphic despatch reached Paris at four o'clock this afternoon : TILIZEITZ, TRYBADAT, MAY 31. The packet which has just arrived from Constantinople brings news to the 23rd. The allied armies were pontinually receiving reinforce- 1 menu. The Russians also were being reinforced enor mously. Ruts ter winter quarters have been built in the Mulch _ . camp in place of the Turkish tents. It is rumoured that the Porte will cottide the command of a corps of 14,000 rayahs to English generous, but it appears that the ministers are not agreed on this subjeot. Letters from Athens come down to May 26. On the evening of the 26th it was said that M. Mavrocordato was likely to resign, in consequence of the complaints made by the Western Powers of the insufficiency of the means taken by him to repress the brigands. The Patrie publishes, as from a special source, the following telegraphic despatch : ST. riTERSBIIRO (No DLit). Oa the occasion of his whit to Cronstadt, the Emperor Alexander received a deputation of burgesses. It was oh. served that in the course of his speech to them he said, " Pray God to give us peace; trade will then revive." - - The Bourse opened somewhat heavily, in conse quence of there being no confirmation in the Moniteur of the rumours which were current yesterday, of a great victory gained over Liprandi. The opening quo- , tation of the Rente was 701 r. 5c., and it went down toi l 69fr. 85c. There was afterwards a smart upward movement, during which it touched 701 r. 50c., but the closing quotation was 70fr. 20c„ being a fall on the day of 25c. Railways were from 2fr. 50c. to Mr. higher. The cold wet weather of the last two or three days excites considerable anxiety about the harvest. There was a great rise in flour at the Wks yester day, the sack of 157 kilos., which a month ago was quoted at 82fr., and a few days since at 87fr., having advanced to 93c. According to agricultural reports the rye is the crop which has most suffered hitherto. The wheat is very backward, but should June be fine the harvest may yet be an average one. All the campaign furniture of the Emperor, which had been sent to Constantinople when his Majesty's visit to the Crimea was in contemplation, was brought back to France by the last packet. SPAIN. The following telegraphic despatches appear in the Paris papers : " Madrid, 29th.—A band of the insurgents were , yesterday dispersed by the Queen's troops near I t bant o orses w; were t a r e i so n . n e r A s ,mwosi most ac tive their y p u a: .s m u isi stillo il six con tinua. The Cortes yesterday rejected an amend ment of M. Salmeron against the authorisation for extensive posse?' demanded by the government, by a majority of 151 to 55. The report of the majority of the commission is now under discussion. The most perfect tranquillity prevails in the capital, and in the provinces. The cholera is disappearing." "Madrid, 28th.—On the demand made yesterday by General Espartero, the Cortes to-day have decided that they will hold themselves en permanence until they shall have voted the extraordinary powers asked for by the government. Nothing certain is as yet known of the results of the Cubit movement in Aragon. A letter from Madrid says :—" Our capital and that of Portugal will soon be united by a line of electric telegraph which will pass by Basra. On the other hand, the Portuguese government has just submitted to the approbation of the chambers a contract which it has entered into with a French house for the construction of .a telegraphic line from Lisbon. to Oporto." PIEDMONT. The session of the Chambers for 1834 was closed immediately upon the passing of the Convents Sup pression A& The Piemonte of Turin of the 27th states that the greatest activity prevails at this moment in the Pied montese war-office, in order to fill up the deficiency caused in the army by the departure of the Eastern expedition. IFront, and the cardinal preached, giving our patron saint due honours on the occasion. A promotion in the army took place—that is to say, St. George re. ceived his colonel's epaulettes, and adds one more to the number of saints who are on the Neapolitan staff. The Madonna Immacolats was made generalissimo, it will be remembered, recently. St. Jaauarius has , long been captain-general, and St. George is now r raised to the rank of colonel. I Exchange on London, 534. Five per Cents , 1051 GENERAL CANROBERTS LAST ORDER OF THE DAY. The appointment of General Pelimier to succeed General Canrobert wee announced to the French army in the Crimea by the following order of the day, dated Sebastopol, May 19 : Soldiers—General Pilissier, who commands the first corps, assumes from this day the command in-chief of the army of the Eat. The Emperor, in placing at your head a general accustomed to ostensive operations, and brought up to war and to camps, be. wished to give you a fresh proof of his solicitude and to prepare successes which you may be assured will soon attend your energetic perseverance. In descending from the high position in which circumstances and the will of the sovereign bad placed me, and where you have supported me in the midst of the severest trials by your warlike virtues, and by that confiding devotedness with which you have always honoured me, I am not about to separate from you. The happiness of more closely sharing in your glorious fatigues and in your noble labours has been accorded to me, and it is together that, under the skilful and firm direction of the new general.in chief, we shell continue to fight for France and for the Emperor. CANRODIIIT. Before the publication of this order of the day, the general officers had been assembled in order to have the change which war about to take place in the command communicated to them. A letter which describes what took place, states that General Can. robert was grand in the noble simplicity with which he transferred his powers to hie successor, and that ' those present at the scene could scarcely contain their emotion. General Canrobert immediately after re sumed the command of his division. ThE BLACK SEA. The following is an extract from the letter of a captain of one of the African Steam Company's yes sels in the Black Sea : Balaklava, May 15. Sines my last we have been members of that entreat. dinary expedition to the neighbourhood of Kertch, convey ing the commissariat officers and a full cargo of their stores The whole affair was moat mysterious. The fleet sailed the day before us. Whea about to leave Baleklava we were ordered to proceed round to Kamiesch for orders from the senior officer on board her Majesty's ship Queeu. On my going on board her I found the captain was away, and not a soul else knew where the fleet had gone. 53 profoundly ignorant were even the commissariat, that bets were going on board whether our destination was Odessa, Kertcb, Anapa, Eupatoria, or the neighbourhood of Perekop. After waiting three boon, the senior officer returned, and ordered me to take the Ardent in tow, and proceed to lat. 44 deg. 54 min. N.; lon. 38 deg. 28 min. E. This was on Sunday the 6th. As we approached the rendezvous on M today afternoon, we met the fleet returning, and were ordered to make the best of oar way to Balsklava. The cause of oar recall is as secret as the expedition itself. The disgust of the army is extreme. The navy is furious. You will know all about it in Eng land long before we do, and I trust there may be some ex planation to save the national credit. As the French officers are as much in the dark as our own, I hear that a good deal of unpl recrimination goes on between them; ours demisting the cause of disappointment to be French ; they, English. This port of Balaklava is very much improved,and improving, though dreadfully crowded; end, as was foreseen, beginning to smell vilely. lam saes that, whatever blame may be attributable to Admiral Sow for his earlier mismanagement, he deserves great creuit for the zealous erteveratme he has displayed here. But no human p ma s canmake the limited area of this p ade quate to the requirements of so large a force. The Genoese are landing daily, and it is expected they will take the posi don held by the Turks previous to the 25th of October. They are floe troops. It is impossible to glean any truth i from the stories and contradictions in hourly circulation, but many well-informed men esy that the Valley of the Tchernaya will be the most probable scene of the nett -Ad struggle. THE BALTIC. COPENHAGEN, MAY ^ -S• This morning her Majesty's steamer Driver, 6, Captain Gardiner, arrived from the fleet with despatches from Rear-Admiral Dundee to Mr. Buchanan, her Majesty's envoy accredited to the Danish court. She only stopped an hour to land the despatches, together with some of her officers on leave, and then proceeded to Elsinore, where she will fill up her coal-bunkers and take in fresh provisions, and then returns to Nargen, where the fleet wu lying when she left, calling in here on the road to take on board her officers, and Mr. Buchanan" despatches for the admiral. The Driver has not yet taken any prizes. The Berlingske Tidning states that Mr. P. A. Peter sen, of Flensburg, the owner of the two prizes, Anne Christine, Captain Henricheen, and Freden, Captain Jepeen, captured off Rigs, has taken energetic step to get them liberated, in which, being seconded by the Danish authorities at Flensburg, and the Minister for Foreign Affairs here, he has so far succeeded that the ships and cargoes have been released on his hay ing given security. They were captured by the Geyser, off Rigs, in consequence of some supposed irregularity in their papers, which are made out in Latin, and the officers of that steamer having probe bly forgotten the hic, how, hoc of other days, thought it safer, at all events, to secure the vessels and briog them to Elsinore with the other prizes. AFFAIRS AT CANTON. An occasional correspondent of the Daily writes: " CANTON, Aram 13. "In the Pacific squadron preparations are making to have another dash at that wretched place Petro paulovski—at least so it is supposed , aa two midi have gone to sea with sealed orders • t wo more hies proceeded to Japan, and the admiral follows as soon as Sir John Bowriog returns from Siam. It is or posed from Japan they will go northward. We have hig no political movements of any consequence during this month, as the mandarins at present appetite have it all their own way in and around Cantos within a circle of ten or twenty miles. Beyond OA from all I can gather, the rebels are as nuaterousin a as powerful as ever. The imperialists Iss taking advantage of the present lull in their immediate neighbourhood by executing a frightful number of unfortunates. I hen been told on good authority that, between the PA of March and the sth of April, no less than 3,000 people have been beheaded in this place alone, tool nothing of the judicial murders at Wharapcs soa elsewhere. Near Whampoa it is said there are tiro separate heaps of heads. The first was raised it tls expense of the imperialists wheel the rebels had Its ascendancy there; the second pile is accumulating every day by the execution of rebels. No mat head is safe. An individual may have been absent some time from hie native village ; on hie return cis chances are that some kind retold denounces his to the mandarins for the sake of the reward. My beliti is that a Chinaman would sell the best friend he had on earth for 4 or 5 dollars. There is great dilute in the city from the dearness of provilioss The principal article of consumption is more th ll double the price it was three months ago. Ovtiog to the state of affairs a great quantity of the Padd/ fields have not been cultivated. The authorities el reported to feel very uneasy, not so much from, he! NAPLES, Mar 22. without, as apprehension of the rising of fries I within, the walls. The insurgents s till bold all !P roaches to the we districts. Our chances of oho': His Majesty left last night for Gaeta. During the tug the last year's crop of congou, therefore, see m , day a council had been held at the palace, at which distant as ever. The fine Moyune greens are es" all the Sicilian ministers were present. Oa Sunday patiently waiting for an opportunity to co me doh they accompany the Prince Csatelcicala, the new Yon would imagine after last year's experience, t ‘ot viceroy, to Palermo, who will arrive there just in teamen would endeavour to find out a fresh outlet' time to celebrate the King's fete on the 29th lost. their produce, but the only reaso n ascribed for t his ' P Vesuvius is still, on the 24th day of its eruption, as parent want of.penetration is that everlasting Chine! active almost as it was on the first day. For many reason for everything, "No, all same custom.". T_„ ° "' years it has not been known to continue so long in a teas have come down to Canton for so many 17 state of activity. h the direction of Bt. Jovio the that they think they must come to the end of ur, stream has become hardened, and flows no longer. About 2,000 packages of plain orange Pekoe, A° l _,: In the direction of Ctrcola, however , it is still and plain Caper, have been brought coastwise cr; running over the old bed, and has passed beyond Tokien district. The mandarins, however, do r . Pizsil.o. There was a grand fête at St. Georgeo di approve of this practice, as they are apprehensiesf, Cremona, near St. Jovio, on Sunday last, la honour teas may be landed at Hon Kon and that 1 of the saint, to whose influence is attributed the stop- would by these menus be "chiselled " out of t his page of the lava in that direction. His Majesty was duty of 2 taels per pick r- -- 1