The Express. — London, England, 1855-01-16 00:00:00

TEE NEW RETURN OF NEWSPAPER STAMPS. The return of newspaper stamps jest lined gives do Nlbolsi !mutts: First Quarter. 8001144 Quarter. Daily News . . 319,191 348,044 Morning Herald . . 303,000 299,000 Morning Post . . 205,000 226,990 Morning Chronicle . . 162,601 186,909 Express . . 177,133 198,389 Globe . . . 175,000 195,011 8= . • . 168,000 192,000 Mandard . • . 103,005 104.000 ghee n3refig• TO CORRESPONDENTS. Edßion at "The hareem," eobtethtes th• same main.% "Matte," iP pahlielted eves 7 Teemley sad Friday sight. ia that ter pest itteertionents intenhti for " Ewes." Louden Sendai piper. not be a: the 011 tee, Bourerbealreeh, by Two dela* ow t►e soy of palettestleit. RIOII WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tan Imv—llanaas. I. On•-- Ananias. lb. Ins. To-ronow—licesns. Atomism 11. :LONDON. TUESDAY. JANUARY 16. LATEST NEWS FROM ABROAD RUSSIANS RECROSSING THE DANUBE. sT OUNNLIINI AND NRITIIIII TIILNONAPN (7110 X OVA OWN CONNISPONDINT.) PARIS, TOWIDAT MOILNINO. Accounts from Vienna state that the Russian de tachment which crossed tho Danube on the 7th and Bth, bee repassed the river, and re-entered Ismail.— Daily News. AND limn TILISIAPIII VARNA. JAN. 9. Omer Pasha is expected here.—Drily News. WARSAW, JAN. 12. By a new decree, the exportation front Poland of wheat and all other provisions of which the export is not already prohibited is strictly forbidden.— Daily News. (IT INTLIXATIONAL ?IZMIR...MO COPENHAGRN, Jax. 16. Bishop Moored, Bregendahl, Haagen, Larsen, and their party have just laid before the Volkthing a bill for the impeachment of the former (Oersted) ?dimlstry.—Dally News. PARIS BOURSE. PARIS, MoNDAT. Closing prices:—Three per Cent. Renter, for money, 67 40; for account, 67.50; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., for money, 93.45. Bank Shares, 2,920. The Three per Cents. show a rise of about 1 per cent. since Saturday. In the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. the advance is nearly 1 per cent.—Daily News. apart essedons a commotion which extends over a wide dna& Yet the march of Bessie* troops to the Crimea, from the inutile, el escaped the notice of all our well-paidileithe in the East. From not one of these worthiserloes Lord RAGLAN appear to have received a hint of w was hanging over him. In short, for all the trouble our Wu Department or our numerous consular and diplomatic genie abroad have given themselves, the British army, after its landing in the Crimea, has been left to find oat for itself where the enemy was, and what his farce amounted to. The Commander-in-Chief rearmed as few useful communications from home as if he MI been frosen up, like poor FRANKLIN, in the Audi regions, with an indolent pick-tooth Admiralty resisting all entreaties to open a communisatiMi with him. This is in keeping with the whale conduct of the War Department. It has sent oat men to the Bast, it has sent out stores of all kind's and as moon as they were fairly out of eight of the British coast, it has washed its hands of all earth," care of them. If the men and stores reached Ode destination, well and good; if not, ASA Serin o the i department shrugged its shoulders and said it was $ pity. We hear much of Musealman indolence sad apathy : there are Turks in Downing-street wham we will back, in this respect, against the most em- i grained Pacha of the old school. Mr. LINDSAY, in his late speech at Newcastle, probed this administrative plague-sore to the bottom in a few pregnant words:—" If a French merchant had occasion to send a message by telegraph to his Minister at War, requesting to know, for instance, what goods 'were to be shipped in a certain vessel, there was an answer by the same rapid medium by four o'clock in the afternoon. But if you wrote to the Admiralty, mach nearer, the probability was you would not get as answer in a week, and sometimes five weeks I elapsed before an answer was returned. This wee not the fault of the men, but of the system ; there was no responsible head, responsible to the House of Commons, and through it to the country. Messages were sent from the Admiralty to the War-office, hens the Miniltry of War to the Ordnance. tram the Ordinate to Deptford, and then came beak to the mom from which they originally proceeded." In short, we have a War Department only in name. The Ordnance, the Transport Service, the Commissa riat, the Hone Guards, are as independent of one --"itch as much bent upon doing everything for itself, without interference from the rest—as ever. The Minister at War may issue commands, but these subordinate departments only obey them if they like and as they like. For this scandalous state of anarchy in the service, many are doubtless more or less to blame; but the principal responli bility must rest upon him who undertook to fuse them into a harmoniously working system, and has failed to do so. The Duke of NEWCASTLE cannot have imagined that he could work his department without a staff; and with what kind of a staff has he surrounded himself? A glance at its composition will show that, with one exception, he has selected his subordinates, not from the War office, but from the Colonial•office and the Treunry. He is en deavouring to work in a field entirely new to him, with the assistance of men who know as little about it as himself. As for Mr. SIDNEY HERBERT, no one can imagine why a Secretary at War has been left in the new arrangement, except to be in the way of the Minister at War.—Daily News. OUR WAR DEPARTMENT. Tat information from the allied camp before Sebastopol, respecting the condition and achieve ments of the besieging army, is ample and accurate. But the reports relating to the Russian forces from that quarter are singularly incorrect. Nothing appears to be known in the French or English camps of the numbers of the enemy opposed to them, or of the generals by whom they are commanded. This might psis without notice in the great body of the soldiery (officers and privates), and the hangere-on of the camp; but it is certain that the Commander in-Chief has been left almost as entirely in the dark on these heads as the youngest drummer-boy in his army. On the morning of the .6th of November Lord RAGLAN was entirely unac quainted with the tremendous effort by which the Russian division, whose arrival encouraged MENT. canton , to attack the position of Inkermann, had been brought up from the north. Yet the dialocation at Russian troops by which this movement was effected was the common talk of the diplomatic circles in Berlin—and some other German courts— almost as soon as it began to be made. That MEET calion had written a vaunting letter to the Ea- PlllOll, as early as the 25th of October, stating that he had now as strong a force as he desired, and that in ten or twelve days he would compel the Allies to re-embark under every disadvantage, wu known at Berlin early enough to have admitted of the in telligence being transmitted to Lord RAOLAN, by telegraph and express, in sufficient time to put him upon his guard. Why was this not done by Lord BLOOMFIELD ? It is the duty of our imbues dors at foreign courts to communicate all important news to each other. If this information had been despatched to Lord STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE, there can be no doubt that it would have immediately been forwarded to the Crimea. Did Lord BLOOMFIELD keep the Foreign Secretary in ignorance as well as our Minister at Constantinople, and the Cora mander-in-Chief of the Crimean Army ? Or did the Duke of NEWCASTLE, after he had received the in. formation from the Foreign-office, coolly wait till the coarse of time should declare the results of the Hunan movement', without even attempting to forewarn Lord ItiotAs of what was impending ? The blame of the omission rests between the Minister of War, the Foreign Secretary, and our Ambeasador at Berlin. One or all of them must have been guilty of a gross neglect of duty. In truth our Ministers, who are more especially charged with the management of the war, and our collective diplomacy, seem to give themselves won drous little trouble about this same army that we have in the Crimea. We do not mean to recur at present to the extent to which the care of providing orenforts and even necessaries for the army has been kit to non-official and individual enterprise; we speak of the utter and wanton neglect of the most common precaution' to keep our Commanders in the Crimea informed of the number and nature of the forces opposed to them. What was known at Berlin of the movements of the Rusin army prior to the surprise of Inkermann was known at Vienna, and Lord WESTMORELAND appears to have been as dilatory in forwarding the information to heed-quarters as Lord Bwomnr.Ln. Again, our ♦mbasador at Constantinople is (or ought to be) in constant communication with our connlar and other agents in Turkey and on • the Black 846. Ham any attempt been made to turn the sources of information to which those gentlemen have access to account in the way of procuring information respecting the movements of Russian tr ou p e ? Divisions of armies cannot be marched across extensive tracts of country with the same secresy u a few bales of silks or chests of tea are smuggled. The process of collecting stores of provisions and the means of thin- • 1 . • . , .... i ~k , ‘• ..., .., . ... FRIENDLY SOCIETIES AND GOVERNMEN WE recollect being particularly struck with the remark of a gay and stalwart young fellow who was making a tolerable income from his profession, and whom we met on his road to pay the annual premium en his life insurance policy. As he was but some flue and twenty years old, and unmarried, we asked him how one apparently so careless and so unburdened as he was came to think of death and lib Insurance ? " Why, you see," said he, " I ( spend the small income that I earn freely, and I hope generously ; if I get into a scrape or debt, oe require a little advance now, one's friends don't mind helping one on, even if they do grumble a little, be cause they see the fruits of their kindness; but if I should be knocked over some day, though they might without much ado (or rather without much dimi nution of their grief at my death) pay my funeral expenses, yet, if in the course of a few mouths sundry notes should be received, delicately hinting that their departed relative had left certain nnliquidated accounts, and that the family would no doubt wish that they should be settled, depend upon it, the thought of me would be more connected with inconvenient demands for money than with any sesellestion of my early virtues; whereas now," said be, shy paying my 101. a year (a mere nothing), I shall leave behind me 4001., which will be enough to bury me, to pay my debts, and to leave a five-pound note or two; my effects to my family, and a token to Tom Dacres; and then every one will say what a good fel low I was, and my early virtues will not be forgotten:o And a vast deal of worldly wisdom there was in what he said--ay, and more than that, much sound sense and moral principle. He was young, hearty, thriving, and a "gentleman." The means he took to ensure posthumous respect for himself, and to save his friends from annoyance, would be probably sufficient in such a case as his. The chances were, that ere he got old he would have made some permanent provision for himself, and that, in cams of temporary sickness, he would always have a little fund to fall back upon. But how if he had been a working man, living, perhaps, almost from hand to mouth; overworked, perhaps, at an unhealthy employment; perhaps not quite so young or so healthy; or perhaps married? In such a cam, a few weeks' sickness would consume all his little hardly earned savings ; old age and the loss of power to work lat all might creep upon : him en he had laid by any thing ; and that old age unaccompanied by honour and troops of friends" might be passed in the union poor house, and his death be that of a pauper. No! had he been a working man his precautions would not have bon sufficient; besides guarding against death, be wield have had to guard against temporary sickness, I amlpsemanent inability to work. And how could he lbws done this By becoming a member of a Friendly Ssaiety, and by buying a Deferred Government Annuity. Friendly societies are well enough known snow the class whom we would wish our present Roark' to reach ; the Government annuities are lea lama than they ought to be, and yet if there is one Nag more than another which we would large upon the bard and honest working men of Great Britain (mad none work harder, better, or more honestly), II wield be to insure themselves against the day abbess, infirmity, and death, by small investments while young and strong in the abovementionsd seserities. We bare been led to these remarks by a buty perusal of two pamphlets issued by Mr. TIDD Purr, the registrar of Friendly Societies in England. The one is entitled Suggestions for the Esta blishment of Friendly Societies and the Per ches*, of Government Annuities ; and the other Instructions in Book-keeping for Friendly Societies. The latter is just what it purports to be, and has TUESDAY been drawn, up, evidently with peat sue * nadir the superintandenos of the Registrar himself (a most competent Judge in lush matters) and "approved by' eminent actuaries. * The former contains mine good prsotisal suggestions on insurances against sickness, &a, and several tables of the prices of Government Annuities, and the contribution■ to Friendly Boddie& A friendly society consists in a number of persons each subscribing a small sum in order to secure a certain allowance during sickness and old age. The rules of these societies are " certified "by the Regis trar to be in compliance with certain requisites of the Act of Parliament under whisk they exist; the hods ere allowed to be vested in _certain govern ment and other securities ; and they accept contributions from members weekly or ether wise. If their tables are properly constructed and founded on the real probability of sickness among the members, whether they are all of one class of workmen or mixed ; if care is taken to guard against fraud by a medical man being engaged by the society to attend the sick members at a fixed charge, and by the allowance in sickness not exceeding two-thirds of a member's wages when at work, and by a rule that no member shall belong to more than one society at a time, and by some other precautions, they answer their purpose as an insurance against sickness. As affording a provision against old age, how ever, they have not been found to answer so well. Mr. TIDD Purr says, "This has doubtless arisen from various causes, but among them we can certainly point out one, viz., that of paying too small a contribution to realise the amount of money required to support the old members I another cause appears to have been a want of confi dence on the part of members of friendly societies, that even if a sufficient sum were paid by them they would in future years receive the benefit of it; and this want of confidence is founded on very just grounds." Now, here the Government comes to their assistance, and gives them an annuity commencing at once for a sum of ready money on very easy rates, or a deferred annuity— i. e., one commencing at some distant time-!or a sum down, or an annual payment; and these deferred annuities may be either purchased on the condition of the purchaser or his representatives having beck all the money he has paid in case he should be unable to continue his payments or die before the annuity has commeiced ; or at a lower price, the money not being returned in any event. The payments may be made through the savings banks, whose officers are for this purpose considered the agents of the Government ; and thus the purchaser may pay small instalments at any time, the savings banks paying the Government at the fixed half-yearly periods. Thus cheapness and facility are ensured; and for security, it is that of the Consolidated Fund. To illustrate the matter we give the following extracts : The amount of the money to be paid down in one sum, or of the rosily or other payments, will of course depend on the age of the party, and the time when the anauhr is to commence ; but the following examples from theta's' will give an idei of the yearly pa ymenis required to purchase these annuities. For instance, a male aged between 19 and 20 years of age would have to pay 21. 139. 4d. a year, or 601.105. down to purchase 201. a year for life, to commence _ _ on his arriving at 60 Teals of age ; a male aged between 25 and 26 would have to pay 31. 6s. a year, or 691. down, to purchase 201. a year for life, to commence on his striving at 60 years of age ; if aged between 29 and 30, he would have to pay 41. 3s. 44. a year, or 831.65. paid down; or if between 36 and 36, St. 6,. Sd. a year, or 941.185. 4d. psid down, for the same ; a person aged 18 would have to pay 21.11. 114. • year, or 981. 11.84. paid down, for 101. a year for life, so i commence at the age of 60 ; and so on for all other ages and lather amounts of annuities. When the purchase money will not be returned in any event, a male aged between 19 and 20, will have to pay down 321. 31. 44., and a female 441. 13s. 4d., to secure an annuity of 201. per annum to commence at the age of 60; a male between 26 and 26 will have to pay down 421. 60., and a female 671. 1.. Bd., for the same annuity ; if between 29 and 30, to secure the ems annuity, a male must pay down 501. Ils. Bd., and a female 671. 6s. Bd.; and if between 35 and 36, the sum to be paid down by a male will be 661. 61., and by • female, 861. 101. A male of 18 would have to pay down 641., end a female 801. 10s., to secure 201. a year for life, to commemse at 60. The beet thing a young man could do would perhaps be to ensure in a Friendly Society against sickness up to the age of 63,and to purchase a deferred Government annuity, commencing at 65, by a present annual payment, upon the condition that the pay ments,were to be returned in the contingencies abovemenffoned. We will contrast what a person would have to pay if he insured wholly in a Friendly Society, and if he also purchased a Government annuity. A male aged 20 insuring in a friendly society for lOs. a week in sickness until 65, for 201. a year after 65, and for 61. at death, would have to pay 11. 14s. yearly. If he insured against sickness in the society, and bought the 201. annuity and the 51. at death from the Government, it would coat him 21. 71. 6d. annually. The difference of the sums appears at first sight to be in favour of assuring a payment for old age in the Friendly Society's Mistral Food; bet it should be observed that in the Friendly Society, if the individual cannot pay up his contributions, all the money that has been paid is for feited, or if he die before arriving at, in this instance. 65 years of age (which is a very probable case) all the money paid for the old age allowanos is lost to his family, who would not receive any part back again from the Friendly Society; but if a Government Annuity is contracted for, the money paid in respect thereof will be returned, al that the Annuity payment forms likewise a savings fund to meet the chances of misfortune, poverty, or early death. We cannot at present say more on this subject ; it is, we believe, an important one—a highly important one morally, socially, and even politically; and though at present we have perhaps said more of Government annuities than of friendly societies, yet , it is not because we consider these latter, when used merely u a provision against sickness, less important than the deferred annuities as a provision for old age- On the general question of provision against con tingencies, we cannot do better than quote Mr. TIDD PaArr. Re says : Whenever a liability to any unfavourable contingency exists, the beet and cheapest way of obviating its effects is by uniting with others. It has been frequently said that those individual, who are members of friendly societies, and who have passed through life, as many of them bare done, without any occasion to claim any portion of their funds, lobe the whole amount of their contributions ; but this is a most minions statement. It is true that the in dividuals in question have not received any pecuniary con palmation; but they have enjoyed what was of equal value, a feeling of security against want, and a consequent puce of mind sad eonsoiousasse of independence. —Daily Nem. LONDON COFFEE AND EATING-HOUSE KEEPERS Amon&Trox.—Lest ennui the thirty-sixth half.yearly mating of this memialies wee held at the Freemason's Tavern, Mr. Yates, the !reddest, is the chair. A state ment of the eves of the society was read by the seem. emy, INN VMS it append net since the anneal meeting is Jam, SOK bad bees adial to the amount of invested Weak swift a a total wan, iacluding lateral, to the MI of lWinber last, of 3,1021.185. Bd. The interest apes this saw bens loftiest to sever the whets of the espeassi et the Mein. The. committee maim& also that the MSS deem et Ow lets Ms. HMOS& bad been plead apes the lode of the beetitmisa as is of an 'newness of ens leant a math, sad the of the wiiew tithe late M. Jainess, of who had bees debt yeses s sulassibee, was stroagly iseannended by the eseweittee Ise assiderstioe. la sesissies, the sewwilese sinewisiged the aid neeived from the trade griesselly. agesielly from the peer. The repast and ansaate wen reeieed all ;doyen, as eddiliwal pen &ow was Plalea wish tM Body by eiretfasja the person et Ms. learn ; sad eftw the and Walliblftif W . the ehelemee t the awing Isperatut . , JANUARY 16, 1855. THE "POUR POINTS.* WO lUD DDITOI 07 :as DAILY XXVI. Birk—There can be no doubt that a renewal of the blessings of peace would be a welcome boon to the whole of Europe if it could be obtained on honour able terms. But the question very naturally suggests itself, What is to be understood by "honourable terms"? Each Cabinet interested will of course interpret the expression according to its own ideas or for its own benefit. This will probably be the fate of " the four points" said to have been accepted by Prince Garb:baba* (in the name of the Czar), accord ing to the interpretation of the four powers, as the basis of negotiations for a treaty of peace. But it must not be forgotten that this very interpretation of the four powers is very vague, and may lead to endless discussion. The first point guarantees the free navigation of l the Danube. To do this effectively it will be abso lute nessessu to make Russia give up that bit of as possesses at the Salina mouth, the only channel, and which she has by a systematic allowed to fill up, so that where there was many years ago a depth of 16 feet—quite ad& abet for all ordinary purposes of memento nega tion—these is now a bar with but 7# feet water on it in the summer. If Russia is left in quiet posses sion of the Selina mouth—and it must not be forgot ten that she has both banks—the free navigation of the noblest river in Europe will become a mere farce, and we shall at some future time be served with a second edition of that memorable diplomatic quibble put forth with reference to the free navigation of the Rhine—"jusqu'a /a mer." The second point stipulates that Russia is no longer to exercise the protectorate of the Principalities on the Danube. Here is a field for diplomatic ingenuity. If Russia loses the protectorate, who is to have it? Not • word on the ultimate views of any of the Powers is to be found in any of the numerous " memorandums " and "notes , ' and " despatches " which have been so liberally published by official organs on the continent. With respect to the third point—the revision of the treaty of the 13th July, 1841, there is certainly a prima the discrepancyin the original interpreta tion of the question by France and England, which requires at all events some explanation, for whilst M. Drouyn de rHoys, in his note of the 22nd July, last year • speaks of the subject—the free navigation of the dack Sea—es one of necessity, "dans is but de limiter tin /fume .Russe," Lord Clarendon, in his despatch of the Bth August, to the Earl of West moreland, makes use of the words, " for the sake of re-establishing abetter balance of power in the Black Sea." Lastly, the fourth point has reference to the more immediate, or rather ostensible, cause of the war, namely, nsides claim to the protectorate of all the Christians of the Greek faith in the East, in virtue of the treaties of Kudjuk-Kainafeji and Adrianople, confirmed by the firman of 1854 and the previous irade of the Sultan, although the latter were invali dated by Prince Mentchikofrs departure from Con stantinople. These four points were, such as they are, rendered obligatory on the contracting powers by the mutual exchange of the notes of Bth August, and morally guaranteed by Prussia by its dilatory adhesion, as contained in Herr von Manteuffers note of the 22nd September, although M. Dronyn de l'Huys designates them as " fuslguiPs-urea des conditions lea plus men ' tislks pour le retablissement de la pax" from which we may infer that there were several ethers in store, ready to be brought forward as soon as the first were L satisfactorily disposed of. A GERMAN. Berlin, Jan. 11. • To Baron de Bourqueney, at Tien's. Vbe Court. WINDSOR, JAN. 15. The Queen, with the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, walked I. the Rome Park this morning. Prince Albert, accompanied by Prince Nicholas of Nissan, Prince Ernest of Leiniagen, and the Right Hon. E. Card well, went shooting. Prince Nicholu of Nassau took leave of her Majesty to day, and left the Castle for London. The Right lion. E. Cardwell also left. The following bare bun invited, and are Imputed this afternoon :—Tl;e French Ambassador and the Countess Walowskl, the Duke of Newcastle, the lasi and Countess of Beseborongh, and Viscount and Viscountess Sydney. The Earl of Harrowby had an interview with the Earl of Aberdeen ynterday, at his official residence in Downing- Street. Meetings of the Oxford University Commission were held at No. 18, Great Queen-atreet, Westminster, on Wednes day, Thursday, and Friday, in the last week. The com missioners present were :—The Earl of Ellesmere, the Earl of Harrewby, the Bishop of Ripon. Mr. Justice Coleridge, the Dean of Wells, Sir John W. Awdry, and Mr. George Cornewall Lewis. Mr. Goldwin Smith and the Rev. Samuel W. Wayte, Secretaries. Despatches from the Commander of the Forces in the Crimea were received yesterday at the Foreign-office. The Rev. William Cooke, M.A. incumbent of St. Stephen's, Hammenmith, Middlesex, and examining chap. lain to the Bishop of Chester, has been collated to an honorary canonry in Chester Cathedral. TRIESTE, JAN. 11.—The addition of the Radetaky deem frigate to the Austrian navy was celebrated yesterday with prayers, church music , the national hymn, firing of cannons, and a ball, at which the Archduke Max stayed till 3 o'clock this morning. The Duke and Duchess of Brabant are here. REDUCTION OP WINE ho. 4. Mr. Oliveira, the member for Pontefract, has been patting some time here for the purpose of obtaining accurate in formation upon the subject of the wines of this part of Spain. He has visited many of the large establishments at Forts =d'art St. Marys, and the proprieters and mer• chants have shown every disposition to amist him in the object of his inquiries by furnishing him with every infor mation relating to the stock of wines on band, the annual produce, and the probable increase of production. It is understood that on the reassembling of parliament Mr. Oliveira will immediately bring on his motion for a reduc tion of the duty. NAVAL AND MILITARY. GLYN OF THE BRITANNIA. We (Daily News)have received the following from the Admiralty : Admiralty, Jan. 16, 1855. The following despatch has been received from Tim- Admiral Dandu Britannia, in the Dardanelles, Dec. 30, ISM. " Sir,—l beg you will be pleased to ley before the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty the following statement I consider it my duty (as it may have escaped the observe tion of their lordships) to submit for their favourable con. sidention before I resign the command of the naval forces in the Mediterranean. " Early in July last Lieutenant Henry Carr Glyn, of the Britannia, accompanied by his Berens Highness Prince Ernest of Leiningen, and thirty picked seamen of the fleet, were detached on service to Roustehouk on the Danube, for the purpose of organising the Turkish gun-boats, and throwing a bridge across the Danube at that point. "This work was most effectually performed by the great exertions and ability of Lieutenant Glyn and his Serene Highness, who were frequently exposed during these opera tions to the harassing fire of the enemy. His Excellency Omer Paths rendered his thanks in person to those officers ; and the bridge, which is still standing, has been of great assistance to the Turkish army. " It may be necessary to add that both Lieutenant Glyn end Prince Ernest, with their men, suffered materially in health from fatigue and the unhealthy MOOD In which these operations ware obliged to be undertakes. 41 Modals were offered to them oaken hem the Turkish government, bat which they declined; and I treat my Lords will madder their serving to be deserving of po i mullion.—l have, &A., (Signed) "J. D. Dumas, Vlee-Adrairal. " The fieerstary of the Admiralty." L mamma of the insportaace, et the time, of the above serviee, and the very pralleverthy lemur in which it was performed, Lieutenant Glyn has been promoted to the rank of commander. ARRIVAL OF THE CAMBRIA, WITH INVALIDS FROM THE CRIMEA. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. The British and North American Royal Mail Steam•packet Company's transport steamer Cambria, W. F. Millar, master, arrived in the Mersey this morning, at 2 o'clock, with a large number of sick and wounded soldiers from the Crimea. Shortly after her arrival she was taken I into the Haskisson Dock; and directly this fact war made known sense thousands of persons of all classes crowded to the quay, anxious to have a momentary glance at the brave men who had survived the dangers of the campaign. There were on board Quarter-Muter Lilley, of the Grenadier Guards, in charge of the invalids; Captain Vials, 95th Reginseat ; Paymaster Wheatley, 42nd Regiment; Colonel Warren, 66th ; Ron. Captain Carnegie ' R.N. ; Captain Prete, R.N. ; Lieutenant Aston, R.N. ; Lord Butler (pd. vats passenger) ; Staff Assistant•Surgeoas A. W. Pinker ton and W. Gordon, in charge of invalids. There were also 213 rank and file, sick and wounded, eight civil servants, and eight horses—fin of the latter of whioh belong to Lord Cardigan. The Cam bria sailed from Constantinople on the 29th ult., and from Malta on the 4th of January, and during this morning it was imagined that the vessel would be ordered to Sheerness or Chatham to disembark her freight. The men are from , vvions regiments, including the Bth and 11th Hussars, 4th Light Dragoons, 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, let Royal Dragoon Guards, sth Dragoon Guards, 6th Ennis killen*, 13th Light Dragoons, 4th King's Own, 19th, 20th 21st, 23rd, 33rd, 41st, 42nd, 44th, 46th, 47th, 55th, 57th, 63rd, 77th, 79th, 88th, 90th, 93rd, 95th 99th, Coldstream Guards, Fusilier Guards, Grenadier Guards, &o. In addi tion to the above the body of General Adams was on board, and was to be transmitted to the Isle of Wight. It will be remembered that he was wounded at Inkeritann, and after his removal to hospital, it was supposed be would recover. The gallant old general, however, when she best hopes were entertained of his restoration to health, sunk under the pain of his wounds. The ship, much against the men's will, is to proceed to Chatham, where they will pass the board. ADMIRALTY, lAN. 15. PROMOTIONS. --- Com mander A. Ida'tomb (1849), promoted to the rank of captain. Lieutenant. C. P. Colts (1846), promoted to the rank of commander by Sir B. Lyons in the blank commission sent , him by the Admiralty; and C. Veeey (1846), promoted to I the rank of commander by Vice-Admiral Dundas in the blank commission sent him by the Admiralty, to bear the date of Nov. 13, 1854. Arrottcrucvre.—Commander W. J. Pollard (1354) to the Orion, 91, screw steam ship, of 600-horse power, at Sheerness. Lieutenants J. F. Tottenham (1854), to the Ajax, 60, screw steam ship, of 450-horse power, at Spithead ; A. W. GiUett (1854) and T. W. Pyne, to the Nile, 91, screw steam ship, of 500• horse power, at Deronport. Mate A. L. Galbraith (1852), to the Geyser, 6, paddle wheel steam sloop, of 260-horse power, at Portsmouth. Midshipmen T. G. J. Purcell end G. E. Story, to the Est, 20, screw steam corvette, of 250-horse power, at Ports mouth. News from Malta of the 10111 state that the 14th Regiment had sailed for the Crimea in the Emeu. Yesterday morning the Levant, paddle-wheel steamer, sailed from Greenkithe with the last detachment of navvies and 25 hones for the Crimean Railway. For the horses there is three months' fodder en board, together with a portable stable and fittings. There are also several portable houses sent out for the accommodation of the men, and carts, waggons, and trucks for the works. When the railway is completed, the waggons are to be drawn up each anent with chains or rope by a steam (maine stationed on each hill. As the first and second vessels with men on board are reported to be far on their way to Balaklava, we may expect goon to hear of the wished-fer beginning of the line. Government have engaged the following steamers u regular transports, in addition to those already engaged, via, the Amity, Imperador, Durham, Retriever, and the Rsjak. The screw-steamer Amity arrived at Southampton . _ on Sunday, to take out wooden huts to the Crimea fur the Bnglieh army. Forty-seven recruits passed through Southampton on Saturday for the military depots in the Isle of Wight. Recruits pass through that town almost daily; but this is the largest number seen for some time past. Fifty artillery men went to Jersey from Southampton by the last mail packet. The Isle of Wight artillery is to be called oat. PORTSMOUTH, Jaw. 15. The sick and wounded were landed from the Avon, Royal Mail Company's steam-ship, at 7 o'clock this morn ing, on to the dockyard jetty. About 100 of them were conveyed away in omnibuses, and the remainder, between 70 and 80, walked to the railway station in good spirits. The luggage was also taken away in waggons, and depo sited In the railway trucks, and the poor fellows were con veyed away by the early train on the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway ; the men belonging to the Guards going on to London-bridge, and those of other regiments to Chatham. Last night four or five poor fellows had to be taken from the ship to hospital, their cases being in the opinion of Dr. Tydd, the surgeon in chew, of a serious character. The Avon proceeds to Southampton to morrow, in charge of the crew who had been sent round here yesterday morning. She has hauled from alongside the Dockyard to-day into the stream, to discharge stores, of which she has a large quantity on board. It appears that she was fitted up at Constantinople with provisions, Ae., for 1,000 men for six weeks, but as she was not subsequently required for the conveyance of this num ber of troops, she has discharged all those that were not consumed by tee sack and wounded she has brought home. Detachments of the Royal Marine Artillery left head quarters this morning in the sane train that conveyed the sick and wounded troops, for Chatham, for service on board the Orion, 91, and Pyladee, 20, aew senile steam-ships, fittiog out there. Captain Longden's company, 13th battalion of the Royal Artillery, are to arrive in this garrison from Woolwich this month, with a field battery complete with hones. They will be quartered at the New Horse Artillery Barracks, at Hikes, as a battery of instruction. The Esk, 20, new screw corvette, Captain Birch, re turned to Spithead yesterday evening from her trial cruise. PLYMOUTH, Jax.l4. On Friday morning, at 11 o'clock, the exchange of H.B.M.'s frigate Thetis, 36, for the two Prussian paddle wheel iron gun boats Salamander and Nix, took place off the dockyard, when Capt.in Sundervall, and the other officers appointed by the Prussian government, took charge of the frigate, and hoisted the Prussian flag. About 300 of the crew of the screw steam.ehip Nile, 91, now in dock at Keyham, left Plymouth on Friday, in the steam-tender Avon, with 21 days' leave of absence, for Portsmouth, where they will receive their wages. A fatal accident occurred on board the Arethuss at De vonport on Saturday to a young men named Evans, of the carpenters' crew. He was struck in the side, and his ribs broken, by a part of the main trysailmast, which war being removed without proper security. The ship, having been unmated, was warped to the north jetty. She is to be placed in ordinary at that port. Fifty casks of coffee are being routed at the Royal Wil liam Victualling-yard, Plymouth, for shipment to the Crimea. DUBLIN, JAN. 15. The following are the names of the officers who embarked with the 14th Regiment, on Saturiay, at Queenstown for the Crimea :—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Watson, Captain Newman, Lieutenants Warren, Hall, Saunders, and Dods, Ensigns Armstrong and Bradley. The following officers of the 39th Regiment accompany the draft to the Crimea :—Major Tinley, Captain Tinley, Captain Northcote, Lieutenant Baird, Lieutenant Maunsell, Ensign Newport and Ensign Murray Among the officers who are proceeding to the Crimea in the Princess Royal, is also Cap tain Browne, R E., ()idiot son of the Hon. and Very Rev. the Dean of Lismore, lately connected with the Kilkenny military district. Lord George Paget returns tithe Crimea in the same vessel. The depot of the 92nd Highlanders, which has been sta tioned in Belfast for some months put, has received an order of readiness to embark for Glasgow, en route to Edin burgh, where it will be joined by a considerable number of recruits, preparatory to sending out a draft to the head quarters of the regiment—Gibraltar. It is expected that the 92nd will shortly reinforce the Highland Brigade in the Crimea. The depot will be succeeded it Belfast by the 26th (Cameronians), from Newcutle•on•Tyne. THE LONDON Musr4—The Lord Mayor as Lord-Lieutenant for London has received her Majesty's warrant to embody the whole of the City of London Militia forthwith. The body will assemble in the first instance in the Artillery ground, and when complete will be sent to do garrison duty wb her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department may appoint. It is supposed that the first visit will be to the Tower. On former occasions they generally took the duty at Deptford, or Greenwich, or Woolwich. At the next Court of Lieutenancy her Majesty's ) warrant will be received. DEATHS AT SCUTARI. Nominal Return of Death, in the General Hu h pitals at Scutari as reported to the Commandant's Ofila the Medical Authorities from the 31st December, Mt is the 3rd of January, 1354 : OTPICZNII. Major Colville, 97th Rept , dysentery, Jan. 2. • Purveyor L. Ward, cholera, Jan. 1. NON-COMMISSIONED OPPICIMS AND MIN. Jan. 2. Sergeant Major, James Davidson,2nd D ragoons, febrig. Colour Sergeant James Clow, 28th Regt., gelato, Jan, 2. Sergeant Thomas Watkins, Coldstream Guards, dysen tery, Jan. 1. Sergeant Robert O'Neill, 60th Rsgt., diarrhoea, San. 1, Corporal Tnomas Crutchley, 45th Regt dysentery, Sand. Corporal John Muedee, 44th Regt., diarrEces, Dec. 31. Corporal James Browninge,Coldstream Guards, diarrhces, Jan. 1. Corporal Lewis Kerr, let Bat. Rifle Brigade, disrrhou, Jan. 1. Corporal Jaoeb Johnson. 46th Bee., dysentery, A I , Corporal William Hill, 62ad Rept., diarrhea, Jao. 2. Corporal John Chalmers, Grenadier Guards, disrehios, Jan. 2. _PRIVATIIB Arthur Welsh, 95th ltegt., Dec. 31; Joseph Torok's*, 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade, Dec. 31 ; W.lliam Dow, 42nd liege. Jan. 1; Thomas Rogers, Royal Artillery, fibre, Deo. 31; Ed. Watson, Coldstream Guards, diarrhea ' Dec. 31; Robert Leader, 4th Regt., diarrhoea, D ee . 31 ;Joha Bell, 4th Regt, diarrhoea, Dec. 31 ; Robert Lake, 4E'. Reg , diarrhoea, Deo. 31; Patrick Johnson, 7th Regt., defaces, Dee. 31; Samuel Beale, 19th Regt., dyspepeis, Dec. 31; James Hellewell, 20th R'gt., dysentery, Dec. 31; Ainoad Cadby, 21st Regt., diarrhoea, Dec 31; Solomon Gibbs. 23rd Regt, diarauca, Dee. 31; John Roach, 28ce R- gt, eiarrhces, Dec. 31; George P.aw lie gs, 33rd ite gt., diarrhea, Dee. 31 ; Thomas Lewis, 33rd liege., dysentery, Dec.3l; Thomas Joins, 44th Regt., oh. catarrh, Dec. 31; William Russell, 50th Regt., dysentery, Dec. 31; George Stoker, 55th Regt., dysenter, Deo. 31 ; Wm. Pallidity, 57th Rept., dim_ boa, bon, Dec. 31; Jas. Sullivan, 67th Regt., diarrhea, Dec. 31. James Pnillips, 63rd Regt., dysentery, Dec. 31; William Coning, 93rd Regt., dysentery, Dee. 21; James Clerks ' 95th Regt., dysentery, Dee. 31; Paul San, 97th R, g t, ' dysentery, Jaa. 1 ; James Friend, Ist Bat. Rifts Brigade, ry dtarrheas, Dee. 31; Thomas Minter, 2nd B et. Rifle Brigade, brcnehitis, Dee. 31; Thorne Arnold, 2nd Bat . Rifle Bri gade, bronchitis, Dec. 31; S. Hacks, 46thRegt., dysentery, Dec. 28; J. Murphy, 46th Regt., dysentery, Dec. 30; 3: Hassell, 50th liege., phlegmon, Dee. 29; J. Bayd, god Dragoons, febris, Dee. 29 ; H. Holmes, Scots Fusilier Guards, dysentery, Dec. 31; J. Mathison, 93rd Rev., diarrhoea, Doc. 30; B. Grace, Coldstream Guards, aeoree. Den, Dee. 31; Hugh M 'leer, 77th Regt., febris, Dec. 31; Cummings, Ist Battalion Rifle Brigade, chronic catarrh, December 31; Thomas Sharp, 33rd Rep., diarrhea, Dec. 31; David Fennell, 63rd Regt., chronic dysentery, Jan. 1 ; John Jones, 47th Regt., dysentery, Jan. 1; Th oe . Drew, 63rd Regt., chronic catarrh, Jan. 1; Edward Melee, Royal Artillery, dysentery, Jan. 1; Win. Davis, Grenadier Guards, diarrhoea, Jan. 1; Samuel Booker, Coldstream Guards, febris, Jan. 1 ; William &then, Coldstream Guards, dysentery, Jan. 1; George Cumner, Coldstream Guards, gelatin, Jan. 1; Henry Bann, lot Foot, dysee tory, Jan. 1; Thomas bleedairk, 4th Regt., dyseetery, Jan. 1; John Mazes, 21st Regt., diarrheel, Jan. f; Thomas Nene'', 21st Regt, diarrbeca, Jan. 1; Patrick Ward,2l.l Regt., diarrheas, Jan. 1; Henry Steadman, 23rd Regt., diarace s, Jan. I ; Chas. Sheppard, 41st Regt., pneu monia, Jan. 1 ; Chas. Josef, 46th Regt , dysentery, Jan. 1; Thomas Dunn, 47th Regt., diaracea, Jan 1. ; Francis Moore, 63rd liege., gelatin, Jan. 1 ; Thomas Tamer, 93,4 Regt , diarrhees, Jan 1; John Cleghorn, lst Regt , dysen tery, Jan. 1; Joseph Straw, Ist battlion Rifle Brigade, Jan. 1 ; Charles Crensten, let battalion Rifle Brigade, dyne tery, Jan. 1; Robert Blackshaw, Ist Dragoons, diarrhea", Jan. 2 : James Purvie, 11th Human, amputation, Jan. 2; Thomas Purcell, let Foot, diarrhoea, Jan. 2; Guile Boca, 41st liege., dysentery, Jan. 2; Charles Constable, Ist bat talion Rifle Brigade, diaracco, Jan. 2; Join Phedron, 2nd Dragoons, febr:s, Jan. 2; Henry Turner, Bth Hussars, febris, Jan. 2; George Robinson, 13th Light Dragoon, feline, Jan. 2 ; Richard Marsh, Scots Fusilier Guards, febris, Jan. 2 ; John Biggs, Scots Fusilier Guards, diarrheas, Jan. 2 ; Francis Lotter, Scots Fusilier Guards, febris, Jan. 2 ; William Park, Ist Foot, diarrheee, Jet 2; John Fitzpatrick, 4th Foot, chronic rheumatism, Jan. 2; Joseph Woods, 4th Foot, libels, Jan. 2; William Simes, 19th Foot, diarrheas, Jan. 2 ; Peter Evans, .234 Foot, dysentery, Jan. 2; James Woodwaye, 30th liege, dysen tery, Jan. 2 ; James Pullen, 30th Rept., dysentery, Jan. 2; Hugh Coulter, 33d liege., dysentery, Jan. 2 ; WIC Hatton, 38th liege., dysentery, Jan. 2 ; Patrick Corhitt, 38th Regt., febris, Jan. 2; Edward Head, 41th Regt., diorama, Jan 2; William Andrews, 46th Regt., diarrhms, Jan. 2; James Clune, 47th Regt., dysentery, Jan. 2; John Qoude, 67th Regt., diarrhwa, Jan. 2 ; George Bradewell, 62d Regt., dysentery, Jan 2; John Foe, 634 liege., dysentery, Jan. 2; Edward Turner, 63d Regt., diarrhce e, Jan. 2; Joseph Blandford, 68•11 ltegt., chanters, Jan. 2; Edward Butler, 68th Regt., diairbeel. Jan. 2; James Crilley, 68th Regt., defame, Jan. 2; Richard Bowater', 68th Regt., diurtals, Jan. 2; Patrick Walsh, 95th liege., diarrneca, Jan. 2 ; Charles Picket, 97th Regt., milieus, Jan. 2; William Wilie, Ist Battalion Rifle Brigade, 'litotes, Jan. 2; James Manning, let Battalion Ride Brigade, chronic rheu matism, Jan. 2; George Stokesley, let Battalion liofie Bri gade, diarrheas, Jan. 2; John Clarke, 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade, dysentery, Jan. 2 ; Thomas Russell, 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade, dysentery, Jan. 2; William Gun, Scots Fusilier Guards, &graces, Jan. '2; Richard F' ant, 2nd Dragoot.e, diarrhoea, Jan. 2; Joseph Ward, 20th liege., dianhcca, Jan. 2 ; George Crippe, 46th liege, diard cei, Jan. 2; Geo. Cole, 46th liege., diarrheas, Jan. 2; Geo. Nichols, Grenadier Guards, wounds, Jan. 2 ; Thomas Taylor, 38th Regt diarrhcea, Jen. 3 ; Henry Martindale, Bth Hunters, dysentery, Jan. 2; John Davie, Grenadier Guards, dysen tery, Jan. 2; Charles Stamford, 21st Regt., fare, Jan. 3; Samuel Feasted, 23rd Regt., dysentery, Jan. 2; Jemph Phipp, tad Battalion Rifle Brigade, febris, Jan. 2; Samuel Smith, tad Battalion Rifle Brigade, dysentery, Dec. 3. FELIPE ARRtVKD WITH 6ICIC FROM THE ARMY. Number on Died on Board. Passage. Queen of the South, Dee. 31 Harbinger, Jan. I lOB Tynemouth, Dec. 31 298 A number of sick in the harbour not yet landed. Yesterday morning there were in the brightens hers 3,984 sick non-comusimioned offii.ers and privates, and 50 sick officers. DEPARTMENTAL ORDERS. SCTTARl,undermentionedsilos (steamers) having been named for the conveyance of rick from Bala ',lava to Scutari, and the Inspector• General of Hospitals at head-quarten having nominated the officers named u permanent medical staff on board each wool, these officers are warned to hold themselves in read;ness to embark on board their respective vessels, for the duty re• tarred to: Melbourne.—Second-class Staff Surgeon Rutherford; Assistant Staff Surgeons Lane and Sheehy. Australian.—Second-class Staff Surgeon Moorhead; As- I Blatant Staff Surgeon Ancell. Sydney.—Secund-clau Staff Surgeon Donn it ; Assistant Staff Surgeon Hooper. Brandon.—Second clue Staff Surgeon Wishart ; Assist ant Staff Surgeon Palilogna. The Inspector-General at head-quarters has requested the principal medical officer "to impress on the officers in charge the necessity there is of their being vigilant in the discharge of their duty in every respect." " They will see that the sick are properly put up, their food of good quality and properly cooked, and that they receive any medical comfort which may be ordered for them ; they will pay attention to the cleanliness and proper ventilation of the skip." In this respect strict attention must be given to the detailed instructions laid down in her Nejtsty's regu lations. The medic.l officers will be furnished with medical jour nals, printed monthly and weekly states, as well as Forms Noe. 1 and 2, for medical comforts, which will be carefully examined in the arrival of each vessel, to see that the ex penditure of medical comforts corresponds to the entries in the medical journals. Each staff surgeon, 21 class, must provide himself with a case of capital instruments, his own property, but a medicine chest, and such medical 'nd surgi cal appliances as may be deemed necessary by the medical officer in charge, and approved by the principal medical officer, will be supplied from the apothecaries' store, as well as a complete equipment of purveyors' stores and an omple supply of medical comforts. Amongst the purveyors stores • slipper bath will be included if pouible. Each transport carrying sick or wounded front Ealaklara to Scutari will be visited by a staff surgeon of the first clau, as soon as possible after the arrival of the vessel, before the sick or wounded be landed. This medical officer will make a written report to the principal medical officer of the state he found the sick and wounded in, and whether in his opinion due attention had been paid to them during the voyage. Until further orders first-clue Staff Surgeon M'Oregor will attend to this duty. THE SYSTEM AT SCITTARI.—The medical officers at Scutari would be in due proportion to the number of patients if their duties were strictly professional ; but a false system saddles army surgeons with most of the business of a hospital establishment. The principal medical officer at Scu tari has hardly time to look at any of the cum in hospital. His administrative duties absorb ail his time and energies. Ilia great professional experience ought to be brought fully to bear on the thousand interesting, rare, and difficult cases now in hospital. The staff-surgeons even are much occu pied with extraneous duties, looking after pots and paw, the cleaning of the wards, the conduct of the orderlies ; so that, like their chiefs, they have not the time to give the fall benefit of their matured professional experience to the patients. The junior lima are the real surgeons; the seniors may perform the operations, but what are such duties to the much more important after treatment ? The duties now discharged by the senior military medical officers must, 1 should think, soon throw them out of prac ties, and destroy that nice professional tact which oug h t always to he conspicuous. I merely hazard there remarks, rum haying seen but little of army —Correspondent of the Medical Mises and Gazette. " LINT-mAxilio, for the wounded French soldiers, his superseded needlework u an occupation in all the com munal girls' schools in France. This change has been made by superior order. The moral effect of the employment, it need hardly be said, has been more regarded in this measure than the material product expected, considerable as the MOW 9I this must bc, —...limidll