The Express. — London, England, 1855-02-09 00:00:00

Fite earpregio. TO CORRIIIIPONDINTIL Nom Wks et "Mb Samba," the wise 4n~ .4emalb: Tendsy sod Webs, is elm by prat Moonbeams labosibid tor "Ilie Tapes; Landes [wads( yarn sat be at no 011" Beelerbroulm. by Two •Nassit ea tb• ley et ;Wart/Arm HIGH NINTHS. AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tus Day—Monti. 11. Ilya Andrus% Q. 40u. 11.maisatov—Iloralas. 71. ICI Itliarsom. 71. 37a. LONDON. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY b. LATEST NEWS FROM ABROAD ♦ND ■IITIIR TZLINIZATI.) CPT (7111011 0011 OWS PARIS, FIIDAT. FILASIOORT, THIMSDAT.—n. Dist has adopted the proposition to put the principal contingents of the Federal army as a war footing, in such a manner $s to be able to enter the field fifteen days after the order.—Deily News. ix VIA 113 iixoux.) WARSAW, Fzi. 6. Generals Plantioe and Labentzow are ordered to advance with their corps to the Austrian frontier. Thin measure has been determined upon in order to respond to the concentration of Austrian military forces in Oa llicia.—Daily News. COPENHAGEN, Fes. 7. Today the Volksthing passed, by a majority of 87 to 7 votes, the third reading of the bill for altering the Constitutional Act. —Daily News. VIENNA, Tavaavay. We have news from Sebastopol of the 30th. The cold was less severe, and it was thought that the general attack of tho place would not be delayed. No new event of importance had taken place. Ritter von Toggenburg, who has for two years administered the government of the Venetian pro• vim, is called to the Presidency of the Department of Commerce and Public Works.—Daily News. The Moniteur of yesterday re•publishee the fol lowing letter from the Journal de Constantinople: BUCHAREST, Jax. 20. News has mashed us by way of Kalman' sad Ibraila that the Resales expeditionary sore is the Dobrudcha, wishing to form the plumage of a river, bee been beaten with heavy less, after a combat of mosso lours, by the rear laud of Yaya Puha, end that it has already crowd the Dumb, at Talv4ha and Ismail. 1? or the last Ave or els days all the Terkiih torus at Dwells and the neighbourhood, lacier the emansead of 4ahnet Puha, b►rs bees leaviog la order to cross the Danube at oouve-Yeloultaa over to the right beak. At the very pressing request of Yaya Paella, Prince litirhey has sassed to be purchased and sent ea to Rust s:bat sad flalistria 660 draught oxen sad buffaloes for son • Ville' the baggage of the Turkish stay. This lea great Ileuriii• la the present eibausted state of the country, whisk hes lost 100.000 head of horned cattle through the forced exactions of the Russians. Prince Stirhey, desirous se ever of previa( his devotion to the these of his move nip, Needed, without the least hesitation. to the dinned d Yaya Passe. The 2ifonigeur also publishes the following note. r, bac. 22. The sem of the vietories of the Alma and of I■ker= Ina sides very great impression is Persia en the minds of the snort and entire notion. The biasses, enjoyed by Hassle so long in this region her seesived • blow from mid& It will not sully recover. There is ao lousier any apprehension of Persia's subserviag the peNey of the Umpi res Nicholas in tee present crisis; and if Persia gaits the neutrality to which she has hitherto osadaed herself, ►t is not likely she will do so for the risme of separatiog her cause from that of Turkey, to which she is es intimately Mead. TILE AVAILABLE ANTAOONISM AGAIN Tut immediate object of the present war is to defend Turkey from the attaeks of Russia. In ex tending their protection to Turkey, the Western POINTS have been influenced by two motives. The Best is a sense of the duty incumbent upon all civi lised states to uphold any one of their number ageisat unprovoked aggression. The ammo understanding amongst states that such is their ditty is the only gee:setae we can have for the troth of the declare- 1 1 boa uttered some time ago by the Emperor of the PILINCII—that the age of eongeset has past. The mood motive alluded to is the obvious necessity tote civilised Europe to make a stand against the west ward encroachments of Russia. That empire has for mare than a century been incessantly annexing to its dominion one slip of territory after another, wrested from its neighbours by fraud or force. The inhabitants of these annexed provinces have been gradually compelled to adopt the faith, customs, and laws of their oonquerors. The neutral government of Russia is quite as much bent upon proselytism as conquest. Whatever territories and peoples it can snatch from Western Europe will be subtracted from the armies and resources of European civilisation, and converted into instruments for new aggressions and more extended conquests. The demonstration against Turkey, to which the MENTCHTEOFF minion was the prelude, was of itself sufficiently compre hensive and audacious to be alarming. The CiAZ aimed not only at the annexation of the Danubian provinces, but at establishing such a relation between himself and the Strustes subjects of tke Greek rite, as would have made the Sovereign of the Ottoman Empire de f ado a vassal of Ratak. And whilst this overt attack was being made upon Turkey, it hu now been appertained, beyond a doubt, that emissaries of the Dux were indefatigably preparing movements in Hungary which would have ended in the transference _ _ of that country from the Austrian to the Russian dominion. The whole of Europe was threatened quite as much as Turkey. The time evidently had arrived when it was incumbent upon Europe to arise in its might, and drive back the tide of Russian A 'ministerial crisis has been broeght on in this reentry by the national conviction thatthe kte Govern runt either did not see the fall impiirtanoe of the straggle is which we are engaged, or had a motet leasing to the messy. The Miiuiti. his beet the installation of Lord PAumiless, is in sf Lard Asuman. le the heed of arig Ilhendis versoseat. Upon Lard Pommes, bee devolved the tub of trioldiog the energise mod ismoorcor of his country in each a manner that it woiartethily con tribal. its part to the repalsion of Russian aggression. We yretaday directed attention to the measures which _ _ semi minis& to enable the new Pm= to bring into fall and effective play the military resources of England. To-day we propose to inquire to what extent he is likely to receive amistamm from foreign allies. The From& Government has from the beginning taken what a t3cotehmen would call "entire and aefauld part" with &gland in the fray. Its policy has been throughout characterised by fiankness, . . . . . foresight, and incision. And dm ander which the recent French Loan wu raised prove that the Government has been acting with the entire sympathy and approval of the nation. Lord PALM:WON may rely implicitly upon the fidelity of his French Ally, it Lord 1 1 ,uneairrox is sinews in his professed determination to secure Ramps against future Muscovite encroachments. l Aad how great the military power of France is the people of England do not require to be told. Of the deterusinatu of the Turkish Government to resist Russia to the utmost of its power no doubt eau be entertaiosd. What Europe has to dread from Russia is prospective ; but with Turkey the struggle is a matter of life or death. The power end resources of Turkey are not very great, but they will always count for something in the contest. Our special correspondent in Anatolia has recently presented us with pictures but too true of the weakness and die orgaoisation of the proviume of Turkey east and south of Erzeronm; and our Danubian correspondent has directed attention to the extrusive and continuous migration of the Turks from the north to the south Bide of the Balkan. But trkiog Constantinople as our centre, and describing a chyle round it, the circumference of which shall touch the Balkan 1 on the north, the Cilician Taurus on the south, the Ague' Bea on the west, and Trebizand and Raisariyek on the east, we have a comparatively i dense. settled, and thriving population, composed principally of Osmanli Musulmano. This is the nucleus of the Button's empire, and the main source of his power. And by the resources which it places at his disposal, or the credit it obtainkfor him, he is enabled to keep on foot that army under Oman PACHA which is at present distributed between Bul garia and the Crimea. We have no duke to exag gerate the importance of this army; but its achieve ments on the Danube afford a guarantee that it will prove a valuable auxiliary to France and England in the contest they are now waging with Russia. The exact degree of value that ought to be attri buted to the alliance of Austria is a more difficult question to solve. In the first place, the foreign policy of Austria has been for centuries timid and tortuous. In the next place, we can only expect the Austrian Government to act in conformity with its own views of what is right, and its own instinct of self-preservation; and if we endeavour to imagine ourselves for a moment in its position we mast admit that, in the present contest between Russia and the Western Powers, it has a critics) pose to play. If Russia prevails, Austria will be exposed to incessant machi nations on the part of Russia with a view to detach from it its ficlavonian dominions. If the Allies pre vail, the inevitable progress of the opinions of Western Europe, among the populations subject to the Austrian sway, will expose it to the risk of popular commotions. It is not easy for a government so circumstanced to mike a choice, though the more imusedlithe and tangible character of the danger which threatens it from the side of Russia it l likely to keep Austria true to the Allies. Dist' there are other complications which hamper the [movements of Austria. That Government is part not only of the great European system, but of a narrower system, which may be called the Germania. Austria and Prussia, though first•class Esteems powers, have risen on the ruins of the old German aspire, of which some vital sparks still linger in the •Germanic Confederation, from which neither power is completely detached. Austria dare not cut itself Jesse from Germany, for with a German dynasty its German population is small in comparison with the ether races, the rule over which it has inherited frith the Empire. Austria is dependent upon its thethorion with the States of the Germanic Coated.- I ration for the power to prevent its Solavocian, Ha mar, and Italian subjects from asserting their easpective nationalities. On the other hand, although Prussia is almost a pure German nation, its territo• du are so broken up and scattered among the other German States, that it requires to maintain a aka, and friendly union with them. Owing to these eircumstances, neither Prussia nor Austria can act with the same independence as France and England. They dare take no step that would lead to their beeakisg irrevocably with each other, or with the rest of the German States. At present, Prussia in. clines to Russia as Austria inclines to the Western Poems, and their dissensions mutually paralyse each oust and the whole of Germany. The state of pub is option in Prussia renders it extremely unlikely VIA the Government will openly and actively side With Itessia ; and Austria's fears from Russian capeseion connect it with the Western Powers ; he there is little reason to expect immediate or afire aid from either in the war which France mg &gland are waging for the independence and theority of Europe. At the same time, Austria is wires- Wise* exacting for the feeble, aedecided, ineffective rili4it displays towards Use Allies. Its demands eseurs al ly for its Italian possessions from aggree 1111111 ea the side of Piedmont, and Still more its Oise , with the Ports to dismiss, or keep in in. Mien, its best officers, because they are naturally Odesical to Austria, have been pushed beyond the verge of endurance. The position of the minor States of Europe, with reference to the war, may be briefly touched upon. Sardinia has thrown itself into the scale of the Allies. Belgium and Switzerland are necessarily neutral. Holland is neutralised by the Russian tendencies of the Court. Denmark and Spain are passing through I ( revolutionary fevers. Sweden and Norway are toe war Russia to dare to declare for the Allies till France and England can again show themselves in force in the Baltic. Aooording to this review, Lord PALMER TON'S prospects of foreign aid may thus be summed up : The brunt of the battle must be borne by England, France, and Turkey--each in proportion to its avail able strength. Little aid can be looked for from Austria—at the utmost scarcely more than a demon stration, to divert the attention of Rusin. And great ears must be taken that this inefficient assist ance is not too dearly purchased. It would never do to sacrifice the liberties of Europe while pre tending to protect it from Russian usurpation. Yet it is pretty obvious that Austria seeks to obtain from France and England pledges in return for its assistance which, if conceded, must be fatal to more then one European nationality. The path upon which our new Prime Minister has entered is one that crane ' wary walking. On the one head, the adieu will demand that he effectually; THX 'EXPREEA' FRIDAY 'ZVENINGC. /imam the pewee of Ruda; ow the etiksry it willi be billgeeel V be ootaprosbiese the Ifstts of the Cisrona, Italian, and other nationalities. Lord PALZZROPON will find it no easy tail' to deal with some of hie foreign allies, and in his own Cabinet there are members not over-dawning of his or the nation's amadeaose—Daily News. THE MEM& STURGE, AND RUSSIAN WHBAT. Bites oar notice of tllt Ilatesmat made by these "the aports of wheat from Russia 11111 111114 mes (ale) at least 6,000,000 qrs.," another , ration of the "statistical tables relating to foreign esautries, compiled for the most part from the official returns of the respective countries," has been pub lished by oar Governmeot. They do not, however stab the total export of wheat from Russia in 1853, het they state *sough to make it highly improbable that the Messrs. Swats% statement of the quantity exported in that year should be correct. They state that the quantity of wheat exported from ports in the lea of Azoff, viz., Taganrog, Mariopol, and Ber- Minsk, was, in 1853, 1,860,829 qrs., and in 1852, 1,299,336 qrs., an excess in 1853 over 1832 of 661,473 qrs., or less than onthalf. They further state that the total quantity of wheat exported from Euro pe* Bee& in 1852 was 3,173,507 qrs. Now, in this quantity the 1,299,356 qrs. exported from the ports of the Sea of Azoff were included. If we assume, there bre, that the increase upon the export of wheat from the other ports of European Russia (and any exports from Asiatic Russia are out of the question) was in the same proportion as the increase from the ports of the Bea of Azoff—and it is much more likely to be lees than more, as the increase in these ports was remarkable—.r say one half, we shall have as the total export of wheat from Ramis in 1853, 4,760,260 qrs. The official account■ of the exports from all Ibuteia in 1852, and of the exports from the ports of the Sea of Azoff in 1853, give us good reason to bonne that the total export of wheat from Russia, available for the rest of Europe, was at the very most 1,200,000 qrs., or (one•fifth) less than the quantity stated by the Messrs. STURGE. It is a confirmation of our statement that the import of wheat into England from Russia in 1853 was also somewhat lees than a half more than in 1852. The total import was 1,070,901 quarters in 1833, and 736,371 quarters in 1852, the total in 1853 being only one-sixth of the quantity Messrs. STIMIE say was exported from Russia. Their statement, made for an obvious purpose, needs no other comment than this rectification.—Dolly News. HOUSE OF COMMONS. THIS DAY. The House met at 12 o'clock. A new writ for Windsor was moved for in the room of Lord Charles Wellesley, who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. In answer to Mr. CRAVYORD, Admiral BERKELEY stated that Sir Charles Na pier's speech at the Mansion-house was not by any means true, that he was never censured. had not been dismissed from his command, and we. left en tirely unfettered by the government. Some unopposed votes in committee on supply were pseud. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, adverting to a notice of motion given by Mr. Rloh, on the subject of the amount of our forces in the Crimea, said that there were grave public reasons why such informs. don should not be given in the shape in which it was asked, but it could always be obtained when noes• wiry from the government departments. The other business on the paper was postponed, and the house adjourned at ten minutes to one, to Friday next, the 113th instant MR. BRIGHT ON THE PROSPECTS OF THE COUNTRY. -_...- Amoog the 'peahen at the annul meeting of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, held yesterday, at the Town-hall, Manchester, was Mr. Bright, M.P. Comment ing upon a portion of the report, is which it was said that the whole cotton industry of this country might be estimated at 64,000,0001., the hon. mem►er observed that this was just the amount of our ordinary taxes; and as one-half of the 64,000,0001. was for the laboer,it followed that it required the whole labour of double the number employed in the cotton industry to provide every year the ordinary taxa- don. But this year—owing to extra taxation—three times the whole of that labour would be required. He wu one of these who took a gloomy view of our position and prospects, 'Ho estimated the extra expenditure for the food of the kingdom, owing to the rest►iction on imports, at 30,000,0001., and the extra expenditure of the government at 20,000,0001., making a total of 50,000,8001. withdraws this year from capital, the fund out of which labour is supplied. More over the prevailiog uncertainties bad led probably to a withdrawal by capitalists of fends equal to that amount, and the tato loans he Franco, in Austria, sad la Prussia, by withdrawing money from profitable investments and modes of employment, most act more upon England than any other ormatu. The consequences already were that the number of customers had diminished, profits bad been brought down to Almost sethiog, and he believed that many spinners sad manufacturers would at this monad be acting far more rationally by wetting only three days instead of abr. He doubted also if there was a single anion in the kingdom in which the issues. of poor-rates had not bees very strongly marked duties the past yeer. Ae to the trade caused by government contracts,—it was like " keeping a dog alive by feeding hint with hie own tail," so far as the whole sad= was concerned. " My solemn belief," mid Mr. Bright, " is, that if 8,000,000 quartets of eera (the whaled experts from Russia in 1863) are to be, by the effects of our foreign policy, kept out of the errantry, before two years are over, you will shoot you own fellow-citisens in your own streets." THE PAWS UNITED/3AL -Yesterday, at a meeting of the Court of Common Council, a eoutona. satins wee rand from the Committee of Privy Council Malec that, to suite the doe representation of the art ef sculpture in connexion with the artists ef the United Kin dest, the latter bad been »quitted to mom them works which they considered their beet. Meet of them works, the sommmication stated, were a mune to be found anon the private collections of this country, and their possessors looluding the Quetta, Prism Albert, the Marquis of Lane dowse, Ac.), had a:premed their willimmee to entrust them to her Majesty's ceremonial for exhibition in Paris, the coveromenrandenaktoc all charges of transport, end being impossible for their care and safe rotors. Applies tics was made for the " Morning Star," by B. R. Belly, 8.A., is the possessioe of the corporation, for trammission to Paris. A mores ameding to the must wee carried unaeimmely amid cheering. LEITERS TOR SALONICA, BY Fiinccu MEDrrEE. YUNNAN PILCILIT.-01INIZAL Par 0/71111, Fan , 1856. The French government having . established a branch mail packet from the Piraeus to Saloum (Turkey in Europe), to mil on the arrival at the Pumas of the snail packet' appointed to leave Kamilla', on Monday, the 6th and tbenceforwud os every alternat• Monday, letters and newspapers for Samara may be forwarded b that route, if specially addressed " by French peas; rill ltansillee." The postage upon letters for Salon's , ' so address seed will be — Piet emeed.og os. in weight, L. ; exceeding I oz. and not sc.:mediae I ox , 2a.; ell:veiling les and not ex ceeding t oz., Ss.; exceeding os. and not exceeding 1 os., • its.; 'acceding 1 os. and not exceeding 11 os., Os. ; sad so oa, issereasteg is. for every quertfrr of an ounce. News- papers will he liable to a postage of 2d. useb. The both upon letters and newspapers for &looks, natitaigne , tended to be *eat be French packet, rik Marseilles, mull* paid in advance —Rowland Hill, Secretary. A letter friss St. Petersburg of the 28th slt. is WI 0,109114 Oneatis, says:—. The 284.11/t hes /MOW :pawing hie reviews at seers at outlines. TM hoe , 1 1 as sa ll the 6th mad out bouillons of pa ell lafasur 80. serve. The Barnes esirear4 liiseatilitelies at . them ar o peareses. Public masked belle are all the holism here, bat the sables Rive bet few grasaferes o like *swiss% is lets P , sir you" MEIXUARY gi)t COWL 311T1855. WINDSOR, Pas. & Her Majesty held a Privy Column at one o'clock to-day. Present—Prince Albert, Bari Granville, the Lord Chancellor, Viseount Palmerston, the Mar. quis of Lansdowne, Si r G eorge G rey , the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Lord Namur*, the Right on. W. E. Gladstone, Sir Charles Wood, Viscount Canning, Earl Spencer, the Duke of Wallington, and the Marquis of Aberoorn. Her Majesty in council was pleased to declare the Right Hon. Qranville George &A Granville Lord President of her Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council, and his lordship took his place at the board accordingly. The Queen baring been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. Lord Panmure to be one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State, his lordship was .worn one of her Majesty's principal Secretaries of State accordingly. Her Majesty having been pleased to appoint the Right Hon. Sidney . Herbert to be one of the Queen's principal Secretaries of State, be was accordingly sworn into office by command of her Majesty. The Hoe. Henry Fitzßoy was, by command of the Queen, sworn of her Majesty's mast Honourable Privy Council. A proclamation was ordered to be issued against holding intercourse with the Queen's enemies. The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. Viscount Palmerston had an audience of the Queen, and kissed hands on being appointed First Lord f the Treasury. Earl Granville had an audience of her Majesty, and kissed hands on being appointed Lord President of the Privy Council. Lord Panniure had an audience of the Queen, and kissed hands on being appointed one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State. Lord Waterpark and Major-General Berkeley Drummond were in attendance as the Lord and Groom in waiting. Viscount Palmerston, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir G. Grey, Earl Granville, Viscount Canning, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir C. Wood, the Hon. H. Fitzßoy, and the Hon. W. Bathurst travelled from London to Windsor, by a special train on the Great Western Railway, to at tend the Privy council, and after the Council, returned to town by another special train. At the Privy Council her Majesty pricked the List of Sheriffs for the counties of England and Wales for the pre sent year. Ail the rest of the empaity left the Castle to-day. Lord sad Lady Blantyre have bees Wetted, and are ez patted this 'lima's. Earl Granville, Lord President, attended at the Privy Conocil•ofllee yesterday afternoon attar his 'Warn from Windsor Castle. A deputation of Gas Companies of the Metropolis had an interview yesterday with Sir Benjamin Hall, President of the General Board of Health, at his oSoe, Whitehall, on the subject of the bill now before the House of Commons for dividing the south side of the Thames into four districts, to be 'applied by the four undermentioned eompawies, MOMS Morris and Pridden, from the Phenix Gee-light and Coke Company; MIMIC Upton sad Linsey, from the South Metropolitan 0.. Company ; Messrs. Maynard and Hind., from the London Gu Company; and Mears. Pocock., Junes, and Daddy, from the Survey Consumer's Gas Asso ciation. They were accompanied by Mr. Ball, parliamen• terry spat. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Connell at yester day, and board an application from Sierra Leone in re Mag. nns Smith for !save to appeal. LORD PANMORE Us appointed u his private secretary Mr. George Dalhosaie Mammy, of the Wer-oMee, who has Imes amnia ea private secretary to Mr. Sidney Herbert. No definite arreagemeat rearirdies Mr. Leyard r e appointment has yet bum mad*. earl it is sot improbable that an net of parliaaseat may be required to reader the vanities of the several war-daces Itermooious.— Moho. London has filled very mach the last few days, owing to the interest felt in public affairs. The Countess Colloredo has Mimed cards for morn- log receptions each Thursday in Febeam7. Colonel and Lady Laura Meyrick have arrived in town from Baby Castle. Sir John Shelley, M.P., has returned to town. The Doke of Banetench arrived in town last week. The Duke of Rutland has arrived at Belvoir Castle sooner than usual, being in delicate health. The Earl and Countess of Lanesborough have arrived in Stanhope.street from their seat near Leicester. The Earl and Countess Grey have arrived at their town residence in Carlton-gardens. The first meeting of the members of the Star Club for the present session will take plus on Wednesday neat, when his Excellency Mr. Buchanan, the American Minis ter; Mr. Wisithsia, 11. P., Mr. Barnes, M.P., the But of Kingston, Mr. Oliveira, KT., Mr. Pilliington, M.P., Mr. S. M. Pets, Mr. Jacking, eI.P., Mr. M'Orsgor, M.P., and other members, us expeeted to attend. The Emperor of Austria, on the OCCASiOD of the signature of the treaty of the 2nd December, in addition to the grand cross of the order of Bt. Stephen, bestowed on M• Drouya de Lhuys, has oonferrskon Baron de Bourqueney , French Minister at Vienna, the grand cross of t►e order of Leopold; on M. Thoarenel, director of political affairs at Paris, the grand CMw of the order of the Iron Crown; on Vhcoant des Moloises Fresaoy, obit( du cabinet at the Ministry of Foreign Affair*, and Viseonat de Some , Ant Secretary of t h e French Legation at Visas*. the moss of Comaandan of the order of Leo. pole! ; sad on the Marquis de Chateaurenard, Bee astary, end Baton de Chola, Attachd, the cross of Chevaliers of the order of the Iron Crown. Oa the other ►and, the Emperor of the French, in addition o the greed cross of the order of the Legion of Honour, bestowed on Count Buollichauenstein, has confined the cross of Grand °Moor of that order on Baron de Hefter, the Austrian Misuser in Paris, and ea Baron de Werther, Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs at Vienna; the cross of Commander on Bums de Maysenburg, Chan cellor of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Baron d'Ot teals* Fast Secretary of Austrian Legation is Paris ; and the moss of Chevalier on Primo de Metternich and Priam de Schonberg, Seantaries, 'and the Count de Trans, Attache to the Austrian Legation. BALL IN AID OF THE FRENCH POOR. There is to be a ball in aid of the foods of the French Bonovoisot &misty, in the Hanover-square Rooms, ca t h e evening of Monday amt. There wan a time whoa balls were indissolubly ammieted with the same of Freachsaen ; when Goldsmith tell Hew the grey meddle, WWI le patio tom Hr skipped beneath the buries of bemoan. A ohmage hes come over the spirit of the nation Mao. 1789. Frenchmen ars now move earned, though as amiable as ever. There are many dams among us to whom indus try we Me indebted for Dome of oar most prised elegaacies ; and the less favoured of fortune among them are singularly distinguished for their ineffeadve madmen. Such inmate"' . . wild, seder arty oil valence ; bat at this mesas fresh in our kayo skims s oar bens & Balaklays sad lakes -every Prosaism is s brother. liven without the attraetior; of Dose valuable presents that have been forwarded by t h e females of the Roan :of Orleans to Do disposed of on likesdsy evening for the benefit of the Charity, we have no doubt that there will be at the Hanover-squars goose "hat Sho at:hal simmers call "s busepor." REPRESENTATION OF SOUTIc FELTS. The following is the address of the new Secretary of State, the Right Hon. S. lierbert : "TO TIC =across 705 ens soirriaart Diemen 07 751 COUNTY OP Illy. Ts. " Gentlenten.—Lord Palmerston q e been called upon by her bl.jesty in a great publio to form an admi nlstratios. I hare telt it my duty to &coedit to a proposal he hu said, to me to bosom a lumbar of his government. I believe that the government which helms eemerseted Is determined to use every alert Yee thd &Ulu prosecution of the war in which we are And for the &Hallman; of that durable and hoao,ralj iatie which it is the object of ap t the war to ware. Be {s¢ t {s¢ art of her ,licion* Secretaries of Stars my scads. ly sagated, end I restore attain to offer yonegg r yraymer reinsure the la parliament. It is feele s My list my put, soadact has been sash' as to i MIS, ilia* "eking IV': lupin at your hallos —I have the "ear to fr Atifams. wil Oar obedient sad faithful mina . 0 Leaden, Feb. 7." n • 844 R M P:1034". CZYWAL . PALM, Fn. IL- Bilitlinti ' DAY..-1 Aledidea et dons. IA; sthalsoloa 11 mime &kat,' W CA-Pg. FRANCE. (PION TIM 001111PoNnnief OP sal PALMY POMO PARIS, Tstonsoax Bvannto. After the various attacks upon constitutional government for whisk the long duration of the minis terial crisis in England has furnished a pretext, I am happy to notice in the Mats an article drawing a rimy different moral from the events that are passing. No doubt, says this journal (under the signature of one of its most distinguished writers, M. de Buy), in a loountry when the political faith of the people was dormant or feeble, such a crisis might be dangerous. The sudden revelations of the condition of the army made at a moment of excitement might demoralise the timid and encourage the factious. But in a country where public opinion is sound and vigorous, such trials serve but to stimulate national energy, to revivify every source of patriotism, and to afford to a people. free and worthy to be free, a new occasion of glory, a new evidence of stability. This is what we now see in England. After noticing the confession of Mr. Sidney Herbert, that forty years of peace had left England without an army, and with merely a "col lection of regiments," the Debate continues : The eireumstenote were grave, but the play of the national institutions sincerely respected and loyally acted up to by the ma., of the people was equal to the emergency. At the very height of the universal agitation, and even under the pressure of the lad news from the Crimea, no man in Zeglaad thought for a moment of sug ges ti ng w hatl is called (very mad-propos) an heroic remedy—so vivid was the faith of the mangey is its institutions. Daring a whole week the nation was without a government, and yet no where was there the slightest &larder, it, where any shadow of a breach of the public pesos, although there is scarcely any armed force in the country. We have Kea the spec tacle of Ruttish sitisens waiting with anxiety, but without alarm, until the moderating power of the throne should have secluded in re-establishing the regular order of the political system. The nalooked• for eircant stances of the moment render the task more laborious than meal, bat the people are patient, and no angry menaces are spade against the men or the parties who cannot come to an agreement. All men cannot be of the same party, bat all Englishmen believe in the bottom of their hearts in the patriotism of all parties. On the other hand, the royal power, scrupulously observant of parliamentary traditions, fellows with an imperturbable calm the series of formalities peperibed in the ease of a ministerial crisis. The Moats concludes its article in the following encouraging terms: For France, engaged with Ragland in this gigantic strug gle, the deplorable state of the English army in the Crimea must be a subject of most painful reflection, but not of discouragement. Instead of allowing themselves to be east down by a temporary calamity, our stets= show us that they are determined to push on the war with greater viper than ever; and it is not with them the determination of a moment, the blind or frivolous result of extreme popular excitement. There is, on the contrary, a remarkable proof of virility and energy is this determination of a great nation to have the truth spoken out, and who *peeks the truth of herself more roughly and vigorously than any one else dare to do ; who, animated with a lively faith in the excellence of their institutions, enters without fear or confu sion into discussions like those which have resounded so recently in Parliament and the press, and in the midst of the most exciting circumstances, awaits with patience the mesas of safety which its constitutional independence can give. A private despatch, dated Constantinople, Jan. 1 29 0 received in Paris to-day, states that in the affair 'of the 23rd before Sebastopol, the French loss had been very considerable; that a mutiny had in con sequence taken place, and that in the result no less than 400 Zouaves had been sent in irons to Toulon. Of course, such a despatch as this cannot be pub lished by the French journals. I know nothing of the puree from which the news comes beyond this, that some person in the habit of transmitting intel ligence thought it worth while to send this by telegraphic despatch. From all we know of the dis position of the French army, a mutiny seems highly improbable. A telegraphic despatch from Bayonne, dated this day (February 8), states that yesterday morning the French custom house officers arrested fourteen Carlists whose names are not yet known. These individuals were concealed near the frontier, and according to what is stated were preparing to attempt an invasion of Navarre. The Bourse opened with some hesitation in conse quence of a fall of in Console, bat it soon mani fested an upward tendency. The Rents ultimately rose 20c., closing at 67fr. 900. There were some curious rumours; it was said that Lord Panmure was in precarious health and had not yet accepted the post of Minister at War. It was mho reported that Lord Palmerston intends to submit to the House of Commons a motion to quash Mr. Roebuck's inquiry. Railways were generally lfr. or 2fr. better. HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN. The third annual general meeting of the friends of this institution was held yesterday at the house, Great Ormond•street, for the purpose of receiving the report, elec tion of officers, and on other business; Joan LASOUCIIIIIRE, • the treasurer, is the chair. the Rev. Bir H. DI3III4IIILD, Bart , the chairman of the committee, read the third annual report, which stated that the committee felt gratified at the increased usefulness of the institution, as would be seen from the following statement—via., that the number of in.patienta had been, in 1862, 143 ; in 1843, 190; and In the last year, 1854, 267 ; making a total of 690 ; and that of out-patients, 1,240 bad resolved the benefits of the institution in 1852 ; in 1853, that number increased to 4,251; whilst during the last year, 1864, them were no lees than 6,896, thus making • total of 12,396. Thus, in throe years, them were no fewer than 12,986 sick children on the books, whilst in one week 702 were attended. These figures showed • satisfactory state of things, considering the recent origin of the hospital. There had been a large in crease in the number of patients; bat the committee re gretted that daring the last year the income fell short of the expendiVare to • great extent; and although many valuable legacies had been bequeathed to other institutions, yet the Hospital for Sick Children had not been noticed. The com mittee then proceeded to thank the different clergymen by whom sermons had been preached in aid of the funds; and the report then went on to account for the increase in the expenditure, by the inereaats in the number of patients, and also the high price of provisions and other requisites for the hospital. In conclusion, the report stated that aye contributions received had not even amounted to what might have been expected considering the objects of the charity ; but still the committee could not expect to enjoy that eztramdbary amount of prosperity as before, consider- Mg the peenlier &maleness which have characterised the past year., still, however, they trusted that sufficient sup port wield be reselyed to enable the committee to carry out the object for whit& the institution was founded. The Hon. Admiral W. Pastor moved the adoption of the report H. HAZWOOD HARWOOD, Esq., seconded the motion; and observed that dooms vigorous measures were not taken ' to keep up the charity, it must, in a year or so, become I bankrupt, and be therefore trusted that the receipts of this the only charity of the kind in the kingdom would increase, so that, instead of diminishing, the number of patients might be considerably augmented. (Hear, bear.) The motion was then put and carried ; and, after passing a trots of thanks to the medical officers, some routine bust ' arm wee transacted, and thanks to the chairman terminated the meeting. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Pas. S. Prints messages were received in Cork yesterday by telegraph, stating that the Admiralty had ac cepted none of the tenders sent in by the Irish pro vision contractors, the prime in all the cases being considered too high. Almost all the tenders that have been accepted are, it is stated, from foreign or colonial houses, chiefly Canadian. RELATIVES OF OFFICERS IN THE EAST. TO TNT =ITO/ OP TEI DAILY WIWI!. Si ,—Will you allow me, through the medium of your valuable paper, to offer my humble services to th e relatives and Meads of oSee►s now in the But. I sail on the 17th inst. fee Balaklava, theme to Scutari; and shall be met happy to take (and deliver personally) any letters and small packages entrusted to ray ears ; the latter must not weigh more than 21be. ; both packages and parcels to be well tied up is brown paper, sad the string secured with wallop war ; the address to be written rather large, and seat Janet later than the 15th inst. to the ____ REV. C. SEATON CURTIB. 37, Ebnry-street, Pimlico, Feb. 8,1866. AN ETZ TO BIIIINEIB.—Mr. William Simpeoa,who km seat home several spirited sketches frees the Camp, writes to a friend :—" I toggestea to Kr. Calthorpe that, if Lord Raglan world Set see know, sad could gine sae a good position when the grand final attack was lobs weds. that I world lave ado rim rash to mod home with the de. Mambo& I masa Wm to breech Um *big to Lea Baits% OM MOM to pros Obi Am". FHB CRYSTAL 'PALACE COMPANY. tinile4q &Ramon u eziraordisaY rend M the eisaabaldwa af this eirpeay was Mid at isa_gdar aorusive a report from the * ssawder eha - peepeeetp at raga( a portion of * idsesnly andwrised to be borrowed at debentures * There was of a floated &stout of prole,- saes shares or otherwiptomi to el* a.diractor is the aloes M P., tho of Mr. Cha chairman of th rles Cheek * e sass& Mr. Sanest, Lento. essagiay, *eldest . • Imes amber of sharaboldere present. The report aad statement of mounts, ea abstra c t of which hea already appeared ia this journal, were takes as xvw. The CIIXTRXXW, in moving the adoption of the report, ' said he wished to make a few remake on the present posi tion and prospects of their enterfthe. He would obserfte that there was an entire difference Delwin it arid shaft undertakings which had preceded it, sash u the Great Exhibition of 1861 end the Exhibitions of New York and Dublin, which were intended only to last for a few months, and the snores, or failure of which depended on the profits they realised in that short space of time ; whilst this un dertaking, on the erietrary, aimed at being . a permanent structure, the swum of which depended, as ft the case of • railway for instance, on the amount of its annual It was obvious, however, to every one that it had been inaugurated In unfavourable times. If they could have foreseen the war in which we weft tow engaged, the high pries of previsions, the present state of the money market, end themeserel depreftion, it was not at all likely that they would have entered upon an enterprise of this nature at the time they did ; but, having done so, it was well to know how those adverse circumstances bed effected them. It must have been clear to every one that the interest of the public mind in the undertaking had been completely over-ridden by the war. For the last twelve months the public mind had dwelt upon nothing else than the circum stances attending the contest in the East. Tradesmen had consequently been disinclined to avail themselves of the advertising facilities which the palace afforded. Added to that was the stringent state of the money market ; and, again, the large deductions they had had to make from the rentals in many cases of persons who occupied departments and stalls within the building ? The contracts the company had entered into with those parties originally amounted to upwards of 30,0001. per annum; but in many of those cases, owing to the delay in the opening of the palace, the whole of the rental stipulated to be paid could not In fairness be exacted. (Hear, hear.) The agricultural implement department was a fair example of a case of that kind. In other cases, ea going into details, it was found the rentals asked were tee high—(hear, hear)—and it was thought good policy that those rents should be revised with a view to abate meat. Although, however, the amount derived from rentals was much less than was anticipated, the experience they had had fully convinced them that there was • po sitive basis of commercial value in the palace for the pur poses of advertisement and sale. He admitted that the refreshment department had failed to a considerable ex tant. (Loud cries of " Hear, hear," and laughter.) He must, however, say, he himself from the Bret had formed so very saneuine anticipations in respect to it, for he knew it was • dope/tense* which • board of di rectors were not likely to manage advantageously. Acting ea the policy of earning a good name for the palace, ha thought in the refreshment department the directors had even too much for the money. (On, oh!) Experience had folly confirmed hint in the soundness of that view. lie thought at the same time that policy was a right one. (A laugh.) That, however, was undoubtedly a matter of opinion. Having at length ascertained the large amount of money that was to be made by that department, the directors had recently let it to the Messrs. Staple., sad he felt every confidence that those gentlemen would give satisfaction to the public—(hear, hear)—while the consideration they paid for it would give the company a substantial addition to their ue. lie might ahead& that the cemoany had been disappointed in the amount of traffic by carriages and omnibuses to the palace, which they had expected to have been much larger than it had turned out to be. If, however, they looked to the fact that not withstanding the adverse circumstances of the war, cholera, dear provisions, a rriopent money market, and general gloom and depression, they had ft the first eight months, with the park, gardens, and waterworks in en incomplete state, realised a net pro fit of something like 7 per cent. on the capital expended, he must say that was • more (Cheers.) lie should certainly not like to see their enter priseeaeouraging result than he could ever have anticipated. degraded into a temple of Barnum—(a laugh)—bet they might fairly expect, from what they had seen as the result of the visit of the band of the Guides, whenthe water works were brought into play and the park and gardens finished, that they would prove • great source of interest and attraction. Certain changes had been suggested in the constitution of the company, snob as the conversion of shafts into life tickets ; but be could not see his way yet as to this being the proper time for attempting an operation of Chet sort on • large sale. (Cheers.) He thought it wiser to sorry out the whole scheme in its integrity, which they hoped to do by the month of June next. The hon. gentle man concluded by moving the adoption of the report, and • resolution authorising the issue of 150,0001. of a 7 per cent. preference stock, with participation in any dividends beyond that amount, in shares of 61. each, to be offered pro redo among the existing proprietors. The motion having been seconded by one of the director', Mr. ld•wrix suggested that the general meetings of the company should be held in future half-yearly ; that the number of directors be increased to 9 ; end that of the three directors who retired from time to time by rotation, two only should be eligible for re-election. (Loud cries of " Hear, hear.") Mr. SLACK, in a humorous speech, which elicited much laughter, criticised the refreshment department of the palace and its results, the musical arrangements, the endless mountains of stairs which impeded the access to the baildisg, and the " Paaton Squirt," the term by which he designated the waterworks now in course of eree tion. He added, that the directors had reckoned with out their host" in thinning that the public would at once appreciate the provision made for their amusement, recre ation' and instruction at the palace. The truth was, that they had yet to educate the public up to the capacity to ' appreciate the exhibition. (Hear, hear.) Mr. SAUNDERS said be should like to see Mr. Slack a manner of the direction, for hie observations were of so practical a mature as to deserve, if possible, being carried out in all their integrity. He bad felt some disappoint ment in reading the report, but he thought the directors bad acted very honourably, and with the moat straight forward desire to bring the enterprise to a successful issue. For his own part, he was very sanguine of complete suc cess eventually. At present, however, he could not con ceal from himself the belief that in the refreshment de partment the company bad been grossly swindled in some way or other. (Hear, bear.) Mr. WY. JEPPRRY Eronis suggested that Saturday should be a shilling day at the palace. He added that he was in favour of opening the palace on Sundays, and that opinion was chiefly founded on the gratifying results which had attended the opening of his own private park for a few hours on each Sunday afternoon—a privilege of which as many as from 2,000 to 3,000 people had frequently availed themselves at a time, and bad shown by their be haviour how much they had appreciated it. Captain YOUNG approved of Saturday being made a she ling day, because it would enable those of the working ciassee:who had a half holiday on Saturday to visit the pa late on that day, and take away much of the 'acme for opening the building on Sundays. (Hear.) • The Czatsucax said, in reply to questions put by a num ber of proprietors, the contract entered into with the Meuse. Staples was for five years, subject to its termination after twelve months' notice. The company bad advertised for tenders for undertaking the refreshment department, and out of several that had made offers they bad decided that the Meters. Staples were the most eligible. Those gentle* men bad taken the whole of the plant of the refreshment department at a valuation ; and it the company took it back from them, they would also do so at a value ties. As regarded the West-end Ktilwey, he was not aware that that railway was not is progress. The ermstruction of it would be of great importance to this emapany, as affording a second line of railway cemmunicen thin from the metropolis to the palace. Mr. Brunel was the engineer of the waterworks, which were being erected irons designs made by Sir Joseph Paxton. With regard to the 10,0001. which the opening eeremonial had eost, he thought the company was to a great extent recompensed by the vast number of season tickets which had been sold in con sequence of the desire so generally manifested to be pre sent at the spectacle. With reference to the band, the directors bad it now under consideration to put their mu sical arrangements on a much more satisfactory footing. As respected the exhibitors, it was not correct to state that a large cumber of them had threatened to leave. Some of them had done comparatively little business, while others bad done very well, especially those who sold little elegant articles, many of whom had realised enormous sums. A fourth or a fifth of the exhibiters had given notice to leave, but that was not done he believed ro much from any inten tion to leave as from a wish that it might lead to a 'idea tion of rent. The CHAIRIIAN was about to pat the resolution for adopting the report and authorising the issue of 150,0001. in preference shares, when Mr. Alderman WiLsow, after reiterating the conviction he had expressed on former occasions, tbat the directors wed' lime again and stain for fresh grants of money, so km as the shareholders were simple enough to entertain seek prepositions, moved a resolution to the effect teat • emassittee of ten atarishoidera be formed for the purpose of rensidering the best mode of reducing the capital, curtail tag the present expenditure, and increasing the fanre in come of the company, and that such committee report to • plan Hs fa i. ture a ho ce ws tu;noderwk of proprietors to be summoned for that pur company tore e men, degree The Ali;ini.ii &atom Mr. with raising AIM COlllt or proprietor. vs saw ........---- -__ ____ r-- me. He undertook to brine before such a committee a laa how all that could be dope. lie contended that the onipany was a mercantile speculation, and thetAte; ,rs ought to hare the assistance and advice_ of len, it the shareholders 'spitted Its boilers ales • recce successful. (Hear, hese.) Tilde; jii...et • The Ca m elinsi ohthasain ae tiation.t s o iti f d ig h r e . Aid oons evut tri n ed w thl ow : . „..a, ...: Mermen Wilson into a vote of censtrthet- OM Mimi. ••••''' i - n" ~, '..4 ..., ~ • Mr. Alderman Witsox protioted thu g],. 11411104 - • o iTt tli h rm ailmny eetiss and negatived; sad' th. ,,•,,• 01 .?..i. ip i,.s , • , • ~„,, , i r-- . sbahmin fmeWollftg tbe' ?apart • - 4 ,14.• F doing of 160,0001., was tillitild• L -likler 3 . o TM OiAlaiglili task moveritat a distilied if 6. pig t 1 I tc I THE NEW BETIJRN OF NEWSPAPER. STAMPS. The nem .1 newspaper stamps jest issued gives M. blowier results : Pint Quartet. Suomi Quartet. Daily Mews . . 319,191 348,044 Mauls, Barad . . 101,000 299,000 Nora* Pool . . 165,000 226,400 Mersin Masi*. . 161,300 186,400 lzpress . . 177,133 198,389 • Glebe . . . 175,000 195,011 fun . . . 168,000 192,000 114sa4u1 . . 103,000 104.000