The Express. — London, England, 1855-03-17 00:00:00

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H. did sot iota aro with the met ropolitan polies er usgistratea, OA _ft he lied before stt* the City of Leeds* was ex- Illsdod bah Ibis bit • saw WI weld. however, be is iia „..,.., to heressitathe w ies nember al of petit ' g plane Is to pet seeress is every street. sad to glee Ma. ha ibe beans ; and lmtly, he Auld he seronstiag as greet iatereeptiag MM. Car i i rilippee Is slessil ho Ibis to yak* tho river the ono Moan It was Is Qom illoobstk's that, whoa the Illaidi Amara/ea spoke of as seas river with its 200 11111.1swinniag soar the Town, but bo biped at lent that be .bald en It nen to be the clone --sins of this ggrreeaat City. (Hear, hear) The nett question to be was the supply of water. He could sot, of musk Inter fere with the compact which parliament Ind scads with the water companies, bat be proposed in Mega% WU, to appoiat • onnutiotiou to inquire whether Me =Fa had fulfilled their part of the compact. Hulas for the length at which he had troubled the h right hos. baronet concluded by stating that, if psrmiMetttn im modulo the bill, he should de thirescond media, a. abe 13. h April, thu (leis' • clear month for its wool by be . member% Mr. FITZROY objected, first, to the meaner in which the bill bad been istroduced ; and secondly, to one of its meet important features. He thought that so important • bill should have been introduced by a member of the @atri a" and not by a perms representing as inferior a depart ment as that of the right hon. baronet; and further, he complained that its introduction was maccompaaleti by sulkiest isformation. One prises le of the bill was start ling, namely, that which soldiered powen of sewerage for throe seillioas of inhabitants on • body of parochial dele pm. The only mode of obtaining an efkimit system would be I. divide the main drsioage from the district sewerap, and to plan the former in the hands of • ear missies of eminent professional persons, or at least of mi. seat practical max, to be appointed by the crown, sad to be neponsible to parliament. They might then with safety leave the district cowerage to local boards, as the condition, however, that they should undertake so works of import sam until they had first laid them before the astral board, sad obtained its sanction. (Rear, hear.) To this part of the Dill he should certainly offer his strongest opposition, sad he muted that parliament would sever avast ti it. (Roar.) Mr. LAWKICRIMII sad Lord EIRINOTOW offered some emanate upon the marine, and Lord PALMIMITON mad. • brief defence of its ;funeral's. Ms. 8. WORTLEY did not intend to throw say diM fishy I. the way of the right hon. baronet in this measure ; sad M was quite sure the same might be raid of the City of Logsdon. As he understood the bill it was iotended to leave the numaguneat of the sewerage of the City of Ludes in the Made of them by who. the matter was at tiniest eon dusted. He did not, however, think that • sufleitiat sum bee of reprematatives had base awardia to the City is the board which was to be instituted under the bill. That somber was upwind arrived at solely by • consideratios cif the number al It eutaialy appeared to him that some alloomeas sight be be made Cityur of the im portant co pealticia of the There was mother matter to which he wished to refer—via., the Ipation of the Goal tat. It had been said that this tax would cum is 1862 ; but that wae a asisappreluseke and, as a wrong idea appeared to lo misdated by the public upon the metier, Ihe Mare would perhaps allow him to explain its true posl MM. The whole aramint of the coal tax was 13d. per too, bat sr this 9d., levied seder certain statutory regulations, wane to the Board of Trod*. So much would expire In MIL Bet the venerates 4d. per lon, which went to the alleplentim w Ludt Ls: was expended by them for ha yeauemeate, neraly the City bonodaries, but partly Mi M. vu us andenatterany of the (corporation, which aped* sot aeon la g and he apprehended that the bens would set inedbee with it in • more arbitrary man-' ate dna they UMW with soy other property of a public ka Z B. HALL wed* asst-then al Into the subject of the toil tax, as that yeah. be a natter for discussion at a fetus period. With regard to the number of repreeestatime vest to the City of Lonna, he had find then with n ag nub to the pepalatin ea to the eenneeelat peel- doe of the City. If, bowing,, the right boa. gasalma• (Mr. 8. Wortley) would eenneateate *elan IBM the ruhl tot beetroot that den mad the period +Ms die measure wield ant some Wire the house, be had so Bonk hat that they would he obis to arrange thi matte r, white was bet cos of detail. MILITIA (IRMLAND)_pILL. The house west We assills• bill. Oa the 6th clause. Mr. 11ACARTNEY ZION& SO emilies et the sham, which pave power to the ion% Wei if remove ofEren of WIWI'. Re knew that if tbia elaM wore pored, it was lateaded to remove some Mr. FITZGERALD said the dame had bon copied from the Espial' Se, and would meimilate the law is the two consume. There was net the slirtest ides on the part se of the executive of Ireland, far m • kaew, of reenoviag say °Mara. After a few words from Colonel DUNKS, the /lotion woe withdraws, sad the bill passed through committee. INTRAMURAL BURIAL, (IRELAND) BILL. This bill paned throsgh committee. LUNACY REGULATION ACT AMENDMENT BILL. This bill wu read a tbird time sad passed. PUBLIC HEALTH, &0., PELLATT moved, " That it be an Instruction to the commitue to whom the Public Health and Nuisances Removal Ameadmeat Bills are mimed, to hear couteel on behalf of such petitioaen as have prayed to be heard by veinal." — lir. ill UNTZ moved as ask assoadesont that the aossmittsio should boar two esissasl os nob class of petitions. Mr. OREENE objected to the adoption of either oss proposal IN the other. Attu a soseersatios, Mr. PELLATT oconsented to withdraw his mottos is favour of that of Mr. Mawr, which was substituted for it, sad on which The hoes. thee divided— For the emotion Azalea it . . On tlre moths of Odemel Donna, the following rots= wee agreed to :—Rettess of Os sums of all mos:luau who have WI es anumlesiene to the assay by par chaise, Oran 14 Ey tAi • du , 1853, to the present date ; whoa sub seamdtalwe bare bun sold as sounint of the meat, to Ms both Ike meekest and the amount in each instance, and the total molest rotlisid.— Ana, of the names of all gentlemen appointed to cosi aimless in the army during the same period without porches.); specifying these promoted from tke inferior ranks of the army. On the motion of Mr. 811/1. the hems agreed to an ad dress for Tenures of the tables of fees determined on by etch of the burial boards appointed under Omuta 15 and 16 Vic. e. 85, 16 and 17 Vie. o. 134, and 17 and 18 Vie. s. 87. for burials is the mossersted and unconsecrated proud • mpeetively. slik Ir MN se owondrAhic snoliliso Is pus:kW iseumbonts sad Aber eMolos,itdinsnis sisters, and to Us moors' wens shook bomb sops& ively. ZDIJCATION BILL. This bin es bosses op by fkr J. Pokiness, sad no& s ism Um. TM \sus adjosonod at bat-put oat. tie court. OSBORNE, MAIM 16. The Queen and Prince, with the whole of the royal family aad the Priam of Leiningee arrived at Osborne at half-peat I o'clock yesterday, from Lades. Priam Ernest of Leiniagan accompanied the royal party bom Portsmouth, and remained at Gaborne. A deputation of Irish lumbers of the ROWS of Cosmos had an interview with the Cluotelles of the Euesque, yesterday, at his official residues is Dowslupstreet. The deputation masted of flir Denham Nunn Sir R. For. COBOL Ms. Mauston, Colossi Doane, Mr. Taps, Kr. Maguire, Mr. V. Bully, Mr. Pollasi.Urquhsrt, Mr. Beard, Mr. J. Gress, air Educed Hayes, 14. 0. Higgins, and Mr. Roche. Deepetehee fee t►e Governors et the North Amnia= pre 'Wise, sad she be the GOllOlllOlll of the Wait India seta mist, were out lilt ovals( (teat the Colonial- *Mee. We understand that there is a renewed expecta tion of an early Alt of the Emperor of the French to this coentry, and that the Empress will probably be the guest of her Majesty at Buckingham Palace shortly after Easter. ARCHDIACON DLNISON.—Wei have bees requested to Site publicity to the following •—" As inflassUal dire titles from the Church Protestant Defence Society, headed by Sir Brook Bridges, waited es the Arekbiskep of Caster bery, in consevience of the report is the public papas, 1 that hie Ones had is fasted s determination set te &echo ries any further preseediage is the ease of Antine= Denison, when it appeared that the matter was still soder the tosidderatios of his Grace's legal &deigns—Mara is DIT.—It was confidently aseestiod in the eon myths slabs w Thstralay maim SW the Doke of rtiscastle Is peeper*. be ea amides bike Crime, ith • view to WWI nesedefe dellose. We give M van as it MN rushed as, wham: prosselyr le &Ur &Odra degree of arida ought le stash to it.. • • flit Crimes's. IMlkalbowoosts tokalse kw "n.lizywww." Latino Eveslog yaw, 1111 goy be at the OS" 10. 11011,0011141/11110. by Two Mk** os the lig of Woad& HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tan Dar-Montag, Ik. !D... Attains, 111. an. tiacesow-Narang. Attiniffes, Va. 23.. LONDON►, SATURDAY, MARCH 17. LATEST FROM ABROAD. We have advices by telegraph from Raliklava to the Bth, Constantinople to the 10th inst., and Eupatoria by letter to the 28th ult. No important l event had occurred before Sebastopol. The Russians' were perfectibg their advanced works opposite the extreme right attack. Omer Pacha wu receiving reinforcements at Eupatoria, and arming the Tartan. Several accounts agree in stating that Lord Radcliffe was very ill. The Russian corps d'arruee which attacked Espa na-is on the 17th had reeeived reinforcements from Baktaki Bend tad Perekop, and, it was believed, was about to renew the attack. Eupatoria had been greatly strengthened.—Daily Nam The Monitur of yesterday contains a despatch from Varna of the 9th, confirming the reports of damage done to Sebastopol by the French rockets. There was no reason to believe that on the Bth the garrison of Sebastopol knew of the Cur's death, bat the intelligence had caused great excitement at Constantinople. 1 1 The Mowiteur of yesterday announces that General Wedell, on special mission from Prossia,was received by the Emperor on Thursday. The same official journal notices the religious service for the late Emperor Nicholas at the Greek chapel in the Rue de Berry, and states that Prince Jerome Napoleon was repre seated there by two aides-de-camp, on account of the ties of relationship which connect him with the Imperial family of Russia. We are given to understand that private letters have been received from the Crimea from General H. Jones, in which the general of engineers who contributed to the fall of laotnarsund describes the Russian army as in a most wretched condition, and speaks confidently of the prospects of taking Sebes• topol by storm. Reliable advice, from Paris represent the Emperor as absolutely " possessed " by the idea of taking Se bastopol; and as incessantly studying the means, surrounded by charts, plans, and other scoessories. The past history of Louis Napoleon shows the tenacity with which he adheres to any project upon which he has ono* set his heart ; and may be said to afford a guarantee that Sebastopol must fall—Daffy NMI. THE OVERLAND MAIL. SOI7ARINII AND BRITISH TBLZGRAPIL) (7101( TER SOILISPOWDRNT 07 THII DAILY 'BITS) TRIRBTE, FRIDAY. The steamer Australia arrived this afternoon in 138 holm from Alexandria. )(mice 10. The India and China mail. leave thu day, with intelligence from Calcutta, Feb. 10; Bom bay, 17; Canton, Jan. 21 ; Hong-Kong, 22; Shang hai, I& Dost Mahomed has received the Governor General's letter with great homage, and has sent his sou, the heir to his throne, to Peshawar, to negotiate an alliance. The official inauguration of the railway took place February 3rd at Burdewan. The health of Lord Dalhousie is much shaken. The Putteeloh Rajah does net go to England. There has been no further increase of the Bank's rate of discount, which is 10 per cent. Trade in India is dull. Exchange at Calcutta 2.0 f. Much fighting has taken place between the impe rialists and rebels, near Canton. In the north of China the imperialists have suf fered serious reverses. Exchange at Canton, 4s. Bd.; Shanghai, Bs. 7d. Trade at ()antes at a stand still. A COPYRIGHT FOR NEWSPAPERS. Is copyright in news a just demand ? Such is the question to be decided by the Legislature when the Newspaper Stamp Act comes under its consideration ; abd there cannot be a doubt of the reply. Copyright is a species of property now folly recognised by law.l The idea of the author and the imagination of the' painter no sooner find expremion in words, or on the canvas than a property is secured to those who have thus added to the enjoyments of society. Even when a smeller amount of mental exercise is shown in the ingenious combination of well-known things, or in designs of varied form, the originator of the design, or of such new combination, is rewarded by a copyright. The gain to the community of new and valuable things, by rewarding those who in any way bring them to the public, is the object of the copyright u well as of the patent laws: and so fully is this principle recognised with regard to patents, that any one who simply imports a useful invention from abroad which is new to this country is granted a patent for it, just u much u if he had himself in vented it. The simple principle of the law is, that he who first gives a reality and form to that which before existed in an undefined shape shall, by right of oopy, acquire a valuable interest in his creation; but this is by no means all. It may be said that in- the instances to which we have alluded copy right is granted on the ground that the general stock of knowledge is added to; but copyright goes much further. It is extended to those who work up old materials into a new form. There is a copyright in news—when it is stale. The Household Narrative, for instants, places before its readers the occurrences of the preceding month. The facts are common property ; but the HOl4Bl - Narrative hu a copyright in the form and man ner in which it chronicles current events. In short, everything which can be published, whether the gifted imaginings of the poet, the laborious compilation of scientific discoveries, or the compendious narration of facts long since made known, is entitled to copy right ; bat news, fresh and original, is proscribed! As news puma away into history—in the Household Norratios—the Annual Repider—personal memoirs —or regular history—it receives the protection of the law; but in a commercial country like this, where the early poeseasion of impartial news is of unspeakable importance, and where privatoenterptise has hitherto almost exclusively supplied that need, it cannot be that the public are indifferent to the success of such exertions; and yet a Government, when undertaking to legislate on the sabjeot of news, treats the question of copyright in it as one beneath or beyond its tore. The Liberal electors of Cambridge True, that it is the late Chancellor of the Exchequer t o imp pipresentatine, Mr. ab a ft Ada i r who is responsible for the wry faulty and deem- in Widasedsi week. nbjoin s list of members who have either pre viously voted for this measure or are known to be favourable to it. It will thus appear that if to the 88 who voted last eight (tellers included) this addi tional list of 40 be added, there are now 126 members in favour of the bill. It is my intention, as long as I have health and strength, to bring this motion forward every year, until obtain an alteration in the law. Ido not feel that the government or the house treated the strongly expressed wishes of a great body of petitioners with proper respect, as the only person who was put up to say something against the bill was the Solicitor- General. He wu obliged to admit he was answer ing a speech he had not heard, and accordingly answered an argument which had not been used. He resisted the measure with the old arguments employed against every measure of law amendment by lawyers of the Eldonic school for 40 years. I am, sir, your obedient servant, London, March 16. P. J. LOCKE KING. Adair, IL B. Crepos, & °Tana& J. Bap, M. T. Grarromoraardi. Ms; T. Mamie, Hoe. Z. P. Had. I& Wm. IP & Illassp W. Brocklehont, J. Harmas.l&Has.i. Tilldisprs.J. Brady, T. &akar, C. K. Laidig. ir. M/ 3 1;4 34 ; Chasibera, M. Ler r. J. Cowan, C. liits. R. D. Didui, Mr J. 3100 m. L P il ig li j 4 Snag, Mr D. L. Tei rat J. T. Ihelkg. ekL V. kka, M. J. Slasior, W.O. Tamps, J. M. 0. Mow. it Bs. C. P. 1 Few.. J. Mancrag& J. P. Wino; &IL 1 Owdoricl, Visaosat THE NEWSPAPER STAMP. The Chancellor of the Ezehequer has platted the following resolution upon the order book of the House of Common u thou upon which he will found the bill to be latrodaced ow Monday neat: " That it is ezudient to amend the laws relating to the stamp duties on newspapers, and to provide for the trans mission by poet of printed periodical pallitatiess. " That any periodical publication. to Its entided to the privilege of transmission and retsammbeion by the post, shall be printed so paper stamped kg escatibig the stamp duty imposed by law ow a newspspr, Muted es the like number of sheets or pieces of paper, and of the like disma -1 plows, with respect to the superiale4 of the letterpress thereof. " That printed newspapers (British, colonial, and foreign) shall be transmitted by the post between plants is the Baited Kingdom' and Her Majesty's colonies, or foreign countries, or between any yens or places beyond the Sea (whether through the United Kingdom or set), either bee of postage or subject to sash rate ef postage not enceeding 2d. for stab newspaper, Innspnethrs of Lay charge for foreignposter , . as the Comatiarfoaen of the Treasury sad 0w Ilsjetty's Poetmuter-Ossers/, with their coossat, shall from tilos to tiros think at." give a dianer l l and Mr. Monitr. SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1855. du Bill which has been just withdrawn from the tttw el the Hom e in the eases way sus the first ad allithelUent eesdations by the same author were Middrawn. His enteenor is not committed to his Opiaisas i and may take a mon intelligent view. It la to be hoped that he will; for, independently of the question of copyright, the abseoce of all protectioa te the public in the case of libel would have caused the olisetimielthe recent Bill as framed to be a public oda- Brines. But the failure of the Bill leaves us freesia die mission to address ourselves especially to mom debt. In reference to this it was shown to the News pp* Stamp Committee in 1861 that nearly the whole 01 the early foreign and Indian news was pneured at the cost of some of the six daily London morning ppm. This news is now largely made use of by coatemporaries; but the field is at present limited. It was admitted before the same committee, by wit Isms mat favourable to the abolition of the stamp, Oat a short copyright would be essential. Mr. RIMY Cola, a warm supporter of the abolition of the stamp, says: " I think it would deteriorate the character of the Press if you allowed everybody to plagiarise instantly those who had obtained informa tion at any great cost." Every philosophical objector to the newspaper stamp in the same way made the grant of copyright a condition precedent to its removal. There is scarcely a witness of any value who doss not condemn the abolition of the stamp, unless it be accompanied with protection against piracy. It seems to be impossible for Parliament to unction any measure which does not provide that protection which, for the public good as much as for justice to the leading newspaper., was held to be necessary before the Committee on whose recommendation the Government profess to act. It cannot be argued, because the morning papers have not adopted any energetic means to prevent the use which has been made by the evening papers of their columns, that therefore they are to be ex cluded from soy remedy ; and that a premium is to be held out to the establishment of dishonest publications, whose sole contents may be pirated from the morning papers, published perhaps only two hours earlier. Such an argument could not be maintained by an English Minister, especially by one not ignorant of the claims of literature, and if put forward would be rejected with contempt by the House. It. is an argument which would confound right with wrong, and be a refusal to prevent burglary because a petty larceny had not been previously prosecuted. The only other reason which can be urged against the express grant of copyright would be the difficulty of enforcing it. Into this it is not necessary that we should enter, further than to say that a remedy can be easily framed, if Parliament will suction it. It is obvious that on the most important item of news— telegraphic despatches—no difficulty of proof can exist, as the message could come by but one channel, and the company could at once prove whether a mes sage had been delivered to the pirating paper or not. Where there is a will there is a way; and in de manding a strict copyright, even one not exceeding twelve hours, we only ask from the Legislature jus tice. We ask it in the name not only of our selves, but of that public who are so greatly interested in the continued maintenance of that early and authentic intelligence which has so distinguished the English Press. We are convinced that the appeal will not be made in vain, for if it were otherwise the Press would be exposed to an unlimited piracy, not in spite of the law, but by virtue of an express enact ment, made with full knowledge of the danger which it created. The Commons of England would be accessories before the fact to a legalised robbery, and I the liberty of the Press would be insidiously attacked by a blow struck at its respectability.—Doily Nem. SUCCESSION TO REAL ESTATES. TO TEE EDITOII Of THE DAILY MEWS. Sta,—As most of your readers are likely to take an interest in the measure which I brought under the consideration of the House of Commons last night, relative to succession to real estates, it may be estiw factory to observe that the parliamentary progress of the question is commensurate with the increasing interest which it ha. acquired throughout the country. Last year, after a full discussion, 203 members voted against this bill ; last night the majority was 1511. A liberal administration has refused permission even to introduce my bill, and it has been enabled to do so, by the votes of 112 conservatives. The number of independent liberals who followed this host of torias and placemen was exactly 19. My measure received the support of 84 liberal members who vote with the government on all liberal questions. While the opposition to the bill has thus sensibly diminished within& year, it has received an accession of strength from gentlemen who formerly opposed, but who voted for it last night. It has sustained no defection except in one or two instances of liberals who have lately become placemen. Some of its former opponents purposely attended themselves from the division. Next year I hope these gentlemen will increase the minority. the ruin. of her native town, and carries off some of the wrecks. She is an interesting creature even as a Russian Greek. Tall and slender, straight as an , Saws) arrow, supple and quick in her movement., she is SALAKLAVA, Menem I. here, and there, and everywhere, displaying all snow, making good th e o ld saw according to which cares and trouble, has grown old before her time. March hes set in with co ld w i n d s , ra i n , s l eet , an d the warines s an d cunn i ng o f a c hi ld, who, from that blustering month is in the habit of "coming fa That girl, gliding among the ruins of Balaklava, of the prediction, too, w ill h o ld goo d, b y t h e mont h of an artist. That young childi s h f ace , h aggar d w i t h like a lion." It i s t o b e h ope d t h at t h e l atter part is a pi c t ure , an d one t h at would make the fortune of March "going out like a lamb." And above an, it is grief. and perhaps with hunger—those elfin locks, to be hoped that the Crimean spring is different from falling in dark profmiorr over her bronzed neck and spring in Constantinople. Those who recollect the Piing but strangely furrowed brow—that slight spare month of April in that sunny clime, and who shiver rigure, in its blue cotton gown, shivering in the cold at the recollection, will find the April of the Crimes, gale—those long, greedy fingers, which remind one bearable, even if it should tarn out less warm and of the talons of the Crimean eagle—and that general Small apologi es nee d b e ma d e f or my letters, com- mar k upon dry than we hope and anti c ip a t e , air of untimely sorrow an d su ff er i ng —have set a and given a cha rac t er t o one w h o 'Fencing with discussions on the state of the weather would otherwise hare b een a village beauty. like the dialogues in respectable English pirloura, With her dark gipsy eyes, dartin g quick glances and in M. de Porquet's "Guides to C onverse - from beneath her frowning brows, she s i ng l es ou t don." tleteorologicai dissertations may , appear the largest beam s , and watches the time when the absurd in well-carpeted rooms, where shutters fall of part of the house occupies the attention of the and heavy curtains keep out the cold wi n d, soldiers. Then dartin g f orwar d, s h e s h oulders the and bright fires barn in the grates, and where beam, and bending under the load, she slinks off, to a hundred luxu r i es an d app li ances are provided, w h ere , p er h aps , some aged toothless grandmother and cunningly contrived to bring out the delight s o f sits gloating over that greatest of a ll t reasures — a bad weather. To those who sit at home at ease a bright fire. What must be the thoughts of those rainy day shehild be rather pleasant than otherwise; people, when they compare their present condition to for it promises for them the delightful sensation of that of last year. patting on dry, well-aired clothes, and it enhances Where the morning sun shone on a house, there the the charms of the fi res id e , o f th e rea di ng c h a i r, and evening sun s hi nes on a smooth level place, whitened of the newspaper. Th e very howling of a raw, eas- over with lime and p re p are d f or h ouse- b u i l di ng, i n terly, wind is delicious, by way of contrast. Muddy the sense of the camp. A n d t h e next morn i ng b rings another fatigu e p ar ty, h ea d e d b y carpenters and streets may be treated with the cont e mpt th e y de serve, white omnibuses clatter along the streets, and loaded with posts and planks. Holes are dug, posts fixed, the piece is c row d e d an d b usy a ll d ay, an d Hansom cabs loiter about, in contempt of Si r Ri c h ar d in the evening there s t an d s w h a t t h e pictorial papers Mayne and his authority, ready t o p ic k up any pas pompously denominate a. •' Portable Pavilion Bar thesenger who may happen t o b e t oo d a i n t y to wa lk to racks," but what the matter of fact campaigners in the nearest cabstand. Wh a t nee d L on d oners care whether there is or is not say moon, or whether Crimes call a large wooden hot. Such huts spring they rise early or late P Broad pavements and gas up between 'mime and sunset, and sheds, too, for lamps make them independent of secondary miles- stabling ca horses spring up as if by enchantment, and tial illuminations; and to th em the etas are i all that s now going forward pr oves h ow much n indeed "the poesy of h e a ven ," f or t h ey are o f no be done if those in authority h ave b u t t h e sense an d practical use or benefit whatsoever. No one, w ith th e the will to keep things in or d er . sole exception of Mr. Alexander Smith, cares for the Of late, too, a cheek has been put upon the illegal traffic in brandy and spirit s w hi c h h as so l ong b een stare, or thinks about them, or mentions them, and carried on from the transport fleet. A strict watch is none but ladies in the predicament in which Byron most cruelly places the fair Julia "wonder in what kept over the boats that land; and as only a few re quarter now the moon is." Wh ereas th e cam - epectable merchants are allowed to l an d b ran dy an d paigners in the Crimes, who have the benefit of con- spirits, all cases and bottles not owner by them are at once confiscated, cond emne d, b ro k en , an d t h rown scant and immediate contact with nature, have a most lively interest in the changes of the season, the state into the water. The fi s h—if an y th ere are i n Bala of the weather, the rising and s e tti ng o f th e son , klava harbour—are by this ti me i n iti a t e d i nto t h e the cloudy state or the serenity of the skies, and the mysteries of dram-drinking, and th e b everage th ey must take to is what barmaids a n d t avern wa i ters phases of the moon. Foul weather me ans f or us wet call "cold without." While the work of confiscation clothes, wet feet, a slushy camping-ground, and bad roadsa thousandfold increase of all the ills which and destruction is going on the luckless and rascally campaigning flesh is heir to. Cold weather and owners of the prohibited g oods stand by with rueful sharp cutting winds, such as prevail at this moment, faces, offering doleful prayers and prceestatione that and numb every finger, to the signal detriment of the they have embarked the whole of their small capital M.S., cause shivering and shaking in camp, in spite of in the venture, and that to execute the law is ruin to long boots, worsted, and furs, while wretchedness and them. But Colonel Harding turns a deaf ear to all frostbites prevail in the trenches Roden picket. Dark, such entreaties. He is a strict, hard-hearted man, cloudy nights presaqoawful stumbles in the dark on the and a tyrant ; and Heaven be thanked that such an I part of those out on duty—aides-de-camp losing their one has the command of Balaklava. 'rideand operations going wrong—and hasty It has lately been rumoured that the authorities at home—and early confinement to the camp home intend abolishing the situations of the temporary Ideas. who gladly would have stayed an hour or clerks attached to the commissariat. The sooner two on board ship, or among the householders of this is done the better, for the creation of the class Balaklava. While the progress of the season from was a mistake. There are two classes of these tem foul to fair is a matter of the most lively interest to po•-ary clerks—men detached from government offices the whole of the army, tired as they are with the to perform a specific temporary duty, and men who I rigours of the winter and the tedium of constant and have been appointed to the establishment, and who realities. activity, and fretting at the defensive cba- are continued at pleasure. The position of the for ' meter of our operations. There prevails an earnest, mar is too good for efficiency, that of the latter is too a craving, an impatient, a morbid desire for bad. The detached temporary clerks are still con spring, for dry roads and dry plain., for sun- tinned on the books of the establishment to which shine and warm air, and for operations which will they originally belonged; they take their regular give us a chance to repay the Russians for all we share in the promotions; they draw their salary in have been suffering for their dear sakes. Extremes addition to the allowances made by the department meet. We, like the Londoners, are heartily tired to which they are attached, and the bonds of their with the dulness of the town, "and long for the allegiance to the heads of the maligns of the frailest. season." Each hour of sunshine, every breath of They have nothing to fear, nothing to expect from warm air, as it thaws our blood and infuses fresh life their present superiors. If they are active, zealous, and vigour into limbs habitually stiff mud numbed, intelligent, and generally efficient, it is oat of the raises our hopes and makes us think that the evil Power of the Commissary-General to reward or pro time is over at last. Bdt cold winds and stormy mote them. If they are idle, impracticable, contu weather reinstate the dominion of Old Disgust—the macions, and generally inefficient, no displeasure on sable web of mourning hangs from the towers and the part of their present chief can compromise houses of Balaklava, and the camps sit down in a their position or affect their promotion in the office at state of unmitigated sulkiness. home. They are without the pale of the Commissary- Do you remember a print, which at one time drew General's influence, who even if compelled to petition crowds to the windows of the smaller print shop., for their recall, cannot afford to justify that request representing an ill-favoured, ill-disposed boy, sub- by complaints as to conduct, &c., which would cer matiog with a very bad grace to the infliction of tainly remain unnoticed by the chiefs of departments soap and water P The case of her Majesty's town of in London. So that the worst which can happen to Balaktava, in its present straits, is similar to the a contumacious clerk is to be sent home and back to case of that boy. That dirty town, toe, has fallen his office because the climate does not agree with him. into very strong hands, and the cleansing process is Whereas, the real truth is that the man has found carried on with might and main. "With the strong out that hie chief for the time being can neither make hand," would not be too strong an expression to chs- nor mar his fortunes, and that having made this dis mcterise the zeal, fervour, and energy now put forth covsry he makes himself as unserviceable and dis to remove the abominations which we have agreeable as he possibly can. The sooner these tem been collecting ever since October last. Colonel porary clerks detached from London offices are made Harding, who came forward at the eleventh hour amenable to the authority of their chiefs here, the to make good what the culpable ne g l ec t o f hi s better will it be for the service. two predecessors had made bad Far different is the case of the young men who are y constant communication with de must surel be in e Board of Health, temporarily attached to the commissariat. They (TROY THI CORRESPONDENT 0? THE DAILY NEWS.) for all his measures and arrangements savour of were most of them youths, who waited for some PARIS, FRIDAY EVENING. Whitehall rather than of the expedition to th e east. vacancy in a London office, and to whom the propo- The Moniteur announces that G enera l d e W e d.!, He has come to the coocinsion that the place i s how _ sal was made that, instead of waiting, they should the Prussian envoy, had an audience of the Emperor keel,' swamped with mud, impregnated with filth, take the appointments o ff ered to them in the civilian deluged with abominations, and that ever y i nc h o f branches of the army of the East. Young men are at the Tuileries yesterday. It is to bb remar k e d t h a t ground, each house, naturally sanguine and credulous, end have a talent the official journal contains n o t a sy ll a bl e l ea di ng to germs of disease. each stone, is pregnant with the Having settled this point in his for believing what they desire. It appears that the inference that the interview had any satieLetory Somebody made it,his business to "soft-sawd er " these I mind, the present commandant did not, as i s th e be • the I bearing upon war.believe it may be safely , custom in the army, sit do • n and leave the case alone young men into sacrificing their expectations at assumed that it bad not. Accordiog to one rumour, as hopeless and irremediable, but he resolved to pull home to no expectations whatever in the commis the General merely resented an autograph letter 'lariat. Somebody professed himself deeply int e re s t e d the town down, to destroy it utterly, t o b urn it wit h fire, and to build up a new Bulaklave, as the place of in the welfare of these boys; Somebody told them from the King of Prussia announcing the Czar's the old one. This resolution is now being carried that their transcendent talents and tbtir vast expe- death, which the Emperor was not supposed to know oat. For, after all, this town, though a nuisance, is rience of the world would help them to magnificent of. Another, and not an unlike:v report, is that the fortunes in the East—that the temporary cl e rk s hips a necessity, and we are compelled to hold it, ev e n audience was one to take leave. offered to them were a mere formality, a di sagree . if it were to become the very cradle of pun- The Bourse, after opening, on the strength of a knee and the occupation • cost us hundreds of able formality indeed, since the post was so far lives per week. The shortest manner of dealing below the merits of the geniuses he (Somebody) rise of I per cent. in Cousols, with a considerable with Balaklava would have been to burn the addressed, bat that they were sere to rise rapidly, improvement, was much disturb e d by a re p ort se place outright. But, se we want the houses for store", and that in a very few years he hoped to con- riously circulated, of an important insurrection in gratulate them on aPaining the rank and handling offices, and quarters, there were some very natural Spain, in which &patter Dad been 1 .1 o zi.ltd. Up to a the magnificent pay of commisearite-general. Thoug boar this objections to this summary plan of radical reform. late n 011? evening , notonly b as no official iatel sonssiousof theirown merits the youths blushed, and, in Colonel Harding's method is to pull down one house ligence of the kind been received ; but, so far as I can delightful confusion, consented; end eomebcdy shook after another, and to erect wooden houses in their them by the hand and bade them write to him, and learn, there is not even a private telegraphic despatch places. The cellars are cleaned oat, and the filth and with tears in his eyes iavoked the blessing of heaven to confirm it. The Madrid mail is overdue, owing rubbish brought to the light of day, heaped up in the tt such fires upon their devoted heads. And having made what probably to the destruction of the bridge of boats in open places, and burnt. For day i ut Balaklava, sad a b e considered a very good bargain for the govern - have been burning in all parts ofthe Bides/role and the absence of meat and a very bad ingrain for the " young par dense cloud of black, stinking smoke bangs over thenews doubtless suggested that it was a good oppor y took good care to leave town. -The stones of the ruined houses carried ties" m'areamed. Somebody away, broken up, and used for the improvement of them no time for reflection or inquiry. but sent them tunity to forge some. The eff e ct int en d e d was de the roads. The places where the houses stood are out forthwith. Nor was it until they had come out cidedly produced, however, at th e B ourse. T he that their eyes became opened to " ..case of their Iterate, after touching 70fr. 200. , dropped levelled, and large quantities of quicklime strewedsuddenly to situation." They found that, instead of having en-over them. It is a curious and interesting sight to '69f. 65c., and closed at that price with a fall of 35m ' watch the fatigue parties of soldiers, in their uncouth tered her Majesty s service, they were attached to it from yesterday. Ril al a ways, though weak at the as day labourer., without the option of looking out and motley winter dresses , invading a doomed house. c lue , maintained in great part the rise of the MOM for more profitable employment ; that not being on In they march, with axes and picks, and in the establishment they had no chance of pro- ing. The Austrian Railway rose Bf. 75c. a few moments out come from the windows sad by the doors, abominations, old and new, motion ; that they could not resign, but that I continue to believe it to be quite cer t a i n th at t h e turned adrift any moment they sickening to look upon, and disgusting to mention. might be Emperor will go to the Crimea. Preparations are i the r servces were no longer required ; that for For months past these house. have been Turkish ' going on as actively as ever. It is slid that f a are such services they had no claims upon the govern hospitals, or lairs of roving Levantine', whose pre- well dinnerwill be • given at the Tuileries on the meat, beyond the daily wage which they received ; winos is nasty, but whose leavings are nastier even than their presence. All these leavings—foul straw , that if their good fortune afterwards helped them t o 22nd, and the departure will probab:y take place th e broken bottles a situation in another department, or even in the next morning. By that ti me I , b ave li tt l e d ou b t, i n with the blackened ' soiled rags, bits of biscuit, bones wi and shrivelled Seek still sticking to °mall/sari " . .t.„. their years of temporary clerkship did spite of all rumours to the contrary, the Vienna them, mouldy cheese, piles of broken furniture, not roost u years of service ! that if invalided or Conferences' will be officially reported to have ceded maimed, the question of a peprion was doubtful. In . . (severed with bugs, and Whole heaps of unalloyed, in nothing. short, that their situation was not the opening to a indescribable, unmentionable dirt—are thrown up The present session of that remarkably vain career, but rather the excluding all chance of making into a funeral pile, a matchbox is p r oduc e d a n d a one. And, finally, that dismissal from so undesirable teresting body the Corps Legislatif has been even wisp of straw, the pile is properly li g hted, a n d a dense cloud 'taroks ruing up proclaims that anothe r a post was an object devoutly to be wished for. duller than usual, but it appears that next week act of purification has commenced. N e xt com es th e Under these circumstances, it is not matter for anon - severalral members intend to show signs of lire, apropos work of the axe and the pick. The tiles and rafters ishment that Messrs. Brown, Jones, and Robinson— of the bill for amending the law relative to recruit er whatever the names of temporary clerks may be— ; are pushed up, and come rattling down, to the great an dthe providing of substitute s , and for the ing amusement of the bystanders, who are numerous, for gave generally as little satisfaction as was given the demolition of a house always att r a c ts a crow d. unto them, and that many Browne, J o n ere ., dotatiou of the army. Upwarde of twenty members o f t h e wa ll s i s end Robinson. were considered an incumbrance hare already put down their names to speak, and it Then the earthwork and masonry rather than otherwise. There is bat one course, i s calculated that some twenty more will eventually pushed out, the floorings and verandahs come down, and the posts and heavy woodwork follow muteMMaa with hotteatY, to be adopted with take part in the discussion. The wily soldier at Ice due course. Part of the fatigue tarty these young men. The time of their temporary inscribed on the list of s peakers is General present • • - clerkship should be considered as a time of trial. Let embide separate the wood from the lethal R. ie one of the survivors of the it be assumed that they were taken "on probe- —gu . retreat and • stems% and others at once cart away the os sod level the g l ace . Th e woo d, not ezaetly don." If their chiefaareeatisfied with their conduct of Moscow. The report on the bill by M. de Bel ieoe shy one, is takes away by ai ms . and abilities, they should be entered upon the este- leyme, jun. (the son of a well-known president of the an will, in due time , M . rations. A few deo of the few natives I guir i n w ake i n coo ki ng k ff iblishinent, and be made commissariat clerks—and it that still eling to the place creep out from their ; dam ' n " is bat just that in that case their appointments should then= of their entering as temporary Assize Court), will be laid on the table of the House this evening or tcatorrow. It is ex -ted that "l begin on Wednesday pee the am who have not given satisfaction should debate wt. next, and that it hiding places overjoyed to get wherewithal to warm end' mo ose themselves at thi s e lm s sgeoe , new arnt: be diimined without prejudice. The t ri al was not a nay last three days. One of the speakers inscribed, mostly females , an d c h eviot ma id ens an d monis m fair one. Allowances should be made for a very M. Anatole Mercier, is said to be but a warming &meg them is a youn g g i r l, j us t emerg i ng i n t o natural disgust, for disappointment and despondency. ' pan for M. de Moutalembern who attends to speak womanhood, who every now and this seem m id s t But they should at once be restored to the liberty of I spinet the bill. It is now taken for granted THE ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOPOL (MOM MI MOLL 0011iIIIP IT OP TIM DAILY !looking out for a career which hoids out some prospect of future advancement. It is said that some meitsure of the sort is in con , templation, and I must again 'repeat, *et that contemplation cannot too soon give way to action. As for the clerks detached from London offices, everything depends upon the turn of their minds and characters. Comfortably situated, well paid, and their future assured, they will do well or ill according to the natural leaning of their minds. Low, mean, and grovelling men will of course abuse the irresponsibility of their position. Men of a high tone of mind will do their duty under any circumstances, and their very independence of reward or punishment will add fervour to their zeal to the service. Examples of either extreme might be had for the asking, but as I discuss the system rather than the men, I refrain !rote mentioning names. March 2.—A bright day, with a cold piercing wind. All is quiet, and the camp is not only void of events, but also of rumour. THE EARTHQUAKE AT BROUSSA. (=TRACT FRAY ♦ PRIVATE LETTER.) Broncos, March 1, 1855. A vast number of minarets have fallen, also many houses and other buildingc, and one or two Khans in. the Bazars ; others shattered. The ancient Greek cathedral, which wee changed to the tomb of Groben - , sound as the day it was built, tell yesterday, entirely overthrown ; and the cupola of the Grand Mosque, re maining intact for 500 years, is cracked and damaged. The most terrible catastrophe was in the Greek quarter, situated under a cliff occupied by the citadel. A Turkish konak on the edge of the rock was tum bled over with its foundations, carrying along with it a silk Filature on the slope of the base, in which there were 15 girls at work with seven or eight person, including the owner and his son, who have all perished. The rolling mass then crushed several houses below, with their inmates ; and trcm the ruins of the Filature burst out at night a fire which con sumed five good houses, which were still standing entire. The loss of life is not yet exactly known, but must amount to some hundreds at least ; and acoonet■ from some of the villages in the plain are still more dfflioting, the houses having been levelled with the ground, with much loss of property and life. Slight shocks still continue, but after a lapse now of 24 hours (at the moment I am writing) we hope, please God, the worst is over; and we are anxiously ex pecting news from the capital, praying that no dis eater may have happened there also. DESPATCH FROM LORD RAGLAN. (FROM LAST NIGHT'S OAZSITZ.) WAR DEPARMENT, MARCH 16. Lord Panunme has this day received a &spat& and its enclosures, of which the following are copies, addressed to his lordship by Field-Marshal the Lord Raglan, G.C.B. Before Sebastopol, March 3, 1855. My Lord,—Some more ships are said to have been stank since I mote t ) your lordship on the 27th. 1 am not certain of this ; but, according to my observation, the new barrier across the harbour appeared yesterday evening to have been extended beyond the point at which I had seen it two days before. The enemy is busily occupied in establishing a work con siderably the French batteries on the extreme right than that which was attacked by cur allies on the morning of the 24th. The enemy seem to be increasing their force in the neigh bourhood of Sebastopol, both to the northward and upon the Tchernsya. The railway continues to progress satisfectorliy, and we already make considerable use of it in the conveyance of b torts, butting materials, &c ,as far sr Kadikoi ; and the electric telegraph is completed between that village and my head•gnsrtsn. The weather has again become extremely cold, and there was a fall of snow yesterday, at d some little this morning. I inclose a return of casualties to the ht instant inclu sive.—l have, &c., RACLAN. Return of Grualnes from the 24tb February to lot Marsh, 1855 illCiati,C.-Ith Regiment of Prot-1 rank earl fie, wounded. 23rd Foot—l sergeant, wounded. Nth Font—l r..:ok and file, wounded. 4 Ith Foot—l rank and flle, killed. 77th Faot-1 rank and file, kißed ; 2 rank and file, wounded. 88th Foot—l rttk aut file. wounded. 82tb Foot —I rank and B . e, wounded. Roy a , pere and Miners 2 rank end file, wounded. Total-2 :nth am: :It, killed ; 1 sergeant, 8 rank and te wounded. Nominal return of noo.isommirioard claim's and privates killed, from 26th February to let March, 1.55. inclueiva—Private M. McNamara, 44th Foot; Private John Murray 77th Fo,t. " • _ _ nominal return of non-oossnissioned offi:er; and privates wounded from the 26th February to Ist March, 1751. wire. Privates John Magrath and John Moore, severely, 77:1; list; Private D.&el Cockers", severely. 88th Foot; Private John h nlw'es, severely, 19th Foot Private's Cuthbert, severely, and 7'. Gilchrist, slightly, Royal flappers and Miners: Private Michael Jeffrey, mercy, Ith Foot; Private Jeremiah Bates, eangeroney, 311 h Foot; Se tArant Frederick tiLson, slightly, 23rd root. FRANCE.