The Express. — London, England, 1855-07-04 00:00:00

gil4e Orpireoo. TO COILIMPONDENTs. havertionNale Isboast ler •• The Itzpiek" Lewin broilig rim mem O ate 10, IleavorloolooBl, b Tin AM* co ski 0•0 el NIGH WATNE AT LONDON BUDGE. Twee Mr —Mania lb. Na . ..... .Aftersom I. UM • logoaanr—lllaitile. If. 1n........Mta150" Y. Us. • LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 4. Wao is to be Postmaster f3eoeralP The Be stoney is esofesesdly the soul of the department ; why not let him be recognised henoeforth as its directing head? If postmsater peers, whether of the popinjay, pedant, or profligate class, had had their way. there is no saying what the Post-office might still have been : oar lettere might still have been baked and buried at a charge of a shiiliog a sheet in saddle bags, and carried at the rate of seven miles an hoar. Long after locomotives had steamed forcibly into the preserves of St. Martin's-le-Grand we know what a deadly straggle had to be waged with the postmaster-General order of society betore woof the Commons could extort a recognition of our right to piney postage. In that memorable struggle Mr. ROWJAND HILL was the insurgent ring -leader; but the people gratefully appreciated and allowed bis 'hints to be followed as chief victor long before abs Noble defenders of perpetual distance and per pawl darkness had been fated reluctantly to noo sing& To the mass of the people the difference be tween things as they were and things as they are practically amounts to the difference bet , so having the use of a Poet-oho' and not bath gcm at all. Tardily and grudgingly the propriety ut admitting Mr. ROWLAND HILL to a share in the official deve• loponat of the system he did so much to improve was admitted, and after a time he became secre tary to the department. In that position he requires no bareasoratic superior; and as a question of adminis trains poi*, it is plain that he ought not to have one placed over his head, foe the simple reason that there is nobody more competent to direct and super intend the execution of the numberless arithmetical a details which make up the business of the depart ment. To appoint and pay a noble nonentity for playing the part of make-believe head of the Post ed's:el is about as aboard as it would be to nominate one of oar hereditary legislators generalissimo of the Metropolitan Police. Police and Post-office are mere esledepartments, neither of which requires a political chief, because neither of them affords any proper !mi nden for such a functionary to do. We learn with less surprise than disgust that so °beim' an opportunity of taking one simple and easy step in administrative reform is about to be die regarded, in order that some miserable purpose of clique or caste may once more be served at the ex po*, of the nation. By way of making the most of this precious bit of oligarchic patronage, a sort of semi-official announcement is put forth that Lord Cram° will not quit England for the East until some time in autumn. The effect of this will of cause be to keep open the mouths of all the wonted cormorants who cry continually for official food : and the longer the Anal decision is deterred the greater will be the extent of ministerial inflow° which will for the time be exercised. Rumour does not seem inclined to wait for the fall of the leaf, but babbles out, in her usual incontinent manner, what she hears in whisperings and gathers from iauendoes. According to her, a choice is already is antemplation every way worthy of our present dis creet and discriminating rulers. Sir JAMES GRAHAM Si too great a man, and just now too sulky, to be offend such a pat; but as it is orinsidcrid highly important to coax him back into good humour, it has been suggested that the right boo. baronet might be propitiated by having a near relative named Post inastesOrneral ; so it has been solemnly considered whether Lord DUFFELIN might not do, as Sir James Gmeneti's deputy in the department with which his Name is indissolubly linked in popular recollection. It will be unanimously confessed that nothing could be mote happy or appropriate than such a selection. NOT one of the persons arrested in Hyde-park oo Sundry wu brought before a magistrate till near five &cloak on Monday afternoon; the greater part of them were liberated nooonditionally that evening. The made, were not brought up on Tuesday till one, p.m.; and a considerable number of them wire dis *barged in like manner. In not one case did Got ero molt ultimately prosecute; all the charges were dis posed of as simple police cases. The parties liberated unconditionally we ere entitled to hold innocent ; yet they were incarcerated lu the police cells, in this hot weather, some foe one and some for two whole days. And the only exenee offered by Sir GIORGI Oaav, in the House of Commons, for the illegal detention, or wrongoes im• prisonment" of these persons, is that Government was given to understand that the prisoners were to have counsel, and that the w .ole of the Crown counsel were cut of the way. This is a most aggravated case of petty tyranny. The withdrawal of the Sunday Trodir g Bill, the proscoutiun of which occasioned the demonstration in Hyde-park, was tantamount to a con fession thst it osght never to have been introduced. It is alleged that tho Bill was not a Government mea sure ; but Lord __...ltonxivr Goosvexon is a confiden tial supporter or Ministers, and connected with nary of them by family ties; and his Bill was sup ported by SW OroeGa OMIT, and other members of the Government. In short, it was a pro si•Goveniment Bill. Ministers have been, at the least, accessory to the loutish pulley which provoked the tumult on Sunday. Nay more, it is certain that but for the orentations marshalling of a large police force on Sunday, and the exasperating proclamation issued by Sir Osumi Osex's orders on Saturday, there would have t een no assembly that the moat timid' weld think in the least alarming. The whole row appears to have been got up by the Government's resorting to the continental system of ago., provo aFf►. And, unless we are much miaiiitormed, an attempt was in contemplation to lend additional importance to this riot of Government manufacture, by haling the oases investigated at Bow-street— the Police court consecrated to charges of se dition and treason. Some of the parties ar rested, we observe, were accused simply of rioting i yrt it never appears to have orcurred to the emthontsee that there Was any necessity, or even rotor, for reading the Riot Act. The whole affair Is most discreditable to the Horn BECRrrARY and his adritrers. We are credibly informed that many foreigners wbo were prreent in Hyde-park co Sunday, 'waned astonishment at the forbearanste —they ars mid to have need a *troopr epithet— whir which the crowd permitted the police to Gam elf the persona arrested. It I. to be hoped that same wilt be taken—either by las Wag upon an or by moving Ice alter Gee or two dye libstated *Wiest oval • lag - airy into the *bole proceedi poses reparation far :boas wbo want lays ban bs THE EXPRESS. WEDNESDAY I . prENING, JULY 4, 1855. 144'rB8T ',FROM ABROAD. . psRLIN. TVIIIIDAT. A ; Asspatoh. from St. Pstsesharg say's, " Pcinc• liwtshakoff writes that np to inns 29 nothing of im portance had marred at Sebastopol. The snosi'a fire continued to be feeble." STOCKHOLM. Tvirnus. News ham arrived that the British have &Amid Nystadt COPENHAGEN. IDLY 4. The French war steamers Pelican and Toxin have anchored, and the Roglish war steamer Alban, towing the Jackdaw and Swinger, have passed southwards. MARSEILLES, MONDAY. The Journal de Constantutopis, just to head, re ports that the town of Keriob no longer exists, s fire having completed its destruction on the 14th of June. (71011 041 OWN CONSTANTINOPLE, Jvu 26. We sue still, unfortunately, without any DOTS of a decisive character from the Cnmea. With regard to the failure of the attack on the Malakboff Tower, General Pehealer expresses himself thus in a letter to a friend:—" Je anis parfaits moot de reels de Lord Raglan—none awns Tecate pour mien: seater." This I have heard from a person who has seen the letter, and on whets veracity I place implicit confidence. The Journal of Conatanti sop& also remarks, in its impression of to-day, " The ardour of our troops has been by no means affected by this in-sucesse--ihey will be soon in Sebastopol.* Yesterday, about 9 a.m., the Grand Vizier, Ali Pacha, arrived here (via Varna), from Vienna, and repaired directly from the steamer to the Imperial Palace, where he met with a most grades, reception and hearty welcome from his young Sovereign. Later in the day the Prime Minister, 'snorted by the Sheik-Islam and the Chief Chamberlain of the Imperial Palace, proceeded to the Porte, where the ministers and all the great functionaries of state were in attendance. Famed Paella, Minister of Foreign Affairs, read aloud in the great council cham ber the Imperial Had of investiture, and Ali Pacha received the warm and heartfelt congratulations of all the assembly on his elevation to the highest dignity under the crown. He is, it is generally admitted, in many respects one of the meet remarkable men in the Sultan's administration ; and having been for twenty-five years in constant and active service at the Pelvic, is necessarily well versed in all relating to the foreign relations of Turkey with European states. Reschid Pacha and Mehemet Ali Paella are still in retirement; and the latter, if I am rightly informed, is on the very best terms with the new Prime Mi nister. There is, however, an almost insurmountable obstacle to his return to power at the present mo ment, and a promise to that effect has been given to some one by the Sultan, it is rumoured, although necessarily disposed to favour him, were it only for the sake of his wife, the Princess Adila. Colonel Cannon (Baram Pachs) is still at Constantinople at this most critical conjuncture. OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. (FROM A SPECIAL ItRIORTS BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, Align 21. As the shortness of the interval Mamoru the'reoent attempt at storming and the closing of the mail-bags only permitted of my giving you, in my teat letter, each an outline of the facts connected with that un fortunate affair as could be learned and put together ia,ma Ppei w_r two, I may supP ) enteat what I then saidaMeraftd by some further details, - and add a at what has since taken place. I have as reason to behave that my former hurried letter matured any material inaccuracy; but it was im so seen after the mishap, to lean Blithe dr ; lial it the real causes to which the signal failure was It 11111 attributed. The original plan of attack, as I misetieued in the letter of Monday, contemplated a joint English and French assault of the Malakhoff, which, se commanding the Recian and formiog the grand key to the whole network of redoubts and bat teries in front of the place, would, if taken, have lat once rendered the former untenable, and placed the whole town and harbour at the mercy of the captors. For reason*, however, which nobody can uoderstand, this very sensible and apparently most practicable design wee abandoned, and the plan was changed into one of a simultaneous attack of the two great works—the Malakhoff being undertaken by the French and the Roden by ourselves. The first manifest disadvantage of this arrangement wra the spreading of our forces over a field of difficulties nearly double in extent, and enabling the enemy to bring a vast number of guns into play against um, which, io the former case, could not have injured • man. To vastly enhance the chinos@ of failure in volved in this plan to ourselves, our whole attacking force, including supports and everybody else, was limited to Name tour thousand men; whilst the French, with a much image appreciation of the difficulty that fell to their share, told off twenty-five thousand. Of our handful, again, • large proportion consisted of raw recruits, recently arrived to fill up the gaps in the regiments selected for the service—regiments which, with one or two exceptions, have borne the whole brunt of our trench fighting, and suffered accordingly. This was does through no want of old soldiers, of whom the third and Worth divisions could have furnished abundance— men who have been kept comparatively idle whilst their comrades of the Light and Second Ditisions have been worked like galley-slaves. Sir George Brown, I believe, is to be thanked for this selection ; anxious as he was to gain fresh laurels for his own command, though he well knew the untried materiel of. which so large a proportion of its strength a com posed. I have already mentioned that the 23rd Re giment bad been chosen to lead the attack. and that, through a similar motive of mistaken desire to bring glory to his own favourite corps, General Airey war, at the eleventh hour, permitted to assign this place of honour to the 34th—a regiment which, whether justly or not, enjoys only a mode rate reputation amongst the others now in camp. Later still in the evening preceding the tumult, Bir George discovered that the major com manding. the 23rd wad still laid op with a wound received in the attack on the Quarries, and that the se nior captain—an officer, by the way, of some 18 years service—would have charge of the corps during the storming. " Impossible ; this will never do,' said the friend of apoplectic neck furniture, "another regiment, with a field-officer in command, must be substituted." A message to this effect was tele graphed to head-quarters, but Lord Raglan, with a degree of common sense which was quite unmilitary, overruled his second's objection, and replied that an officer of Captain —'a length of service, be his rank what it might, should be quite as fit to lead his regiment into action as any field officer in the ser vice, and, accordingly, that no substitution should be made. I merely mention these tries to show the state of uncertainty and confusion in which our preparations were till almost within an hour before the *mashing force marched down towards the scene of its struggle and defeat. Then another deviation from the original plan of attack was made, also at the eleventh hour, by General Pelissier, to which both military sense and common sense agree in attri buting no small share of both the French and our own failure. Though the bombardment had been kept up vigorously the whole of Sunday, night neces sarily compelled a slackening of the allied fire, and during this respite there was reason to expect that the Russians would employ themselves in making good the injuries done to their batteries during the day. It was therefore arranged that at daybreak on Monday a terrific fire of shot and shell should be poured into the Redan and Malakhoff, to tender as many of their guns as possible incapable of mischief. An hour or so, however, before the com bined forces marched from the camp the French Commander-in-Chief rode over to our own head-quarters and declared that he could not wait tor this preliminary assault of ar tillery, as he would have ao many men in his trenches before the Malakboff that there would be no cover for them; and, consequently, they (and we) must attack at daybreak. at all hazards, and take the chance of finding the enemy's guns in the most fa vourable condition in which our bombardment and their ow ner s ' sub.iequent idleness might have left them. Of course Lord Raglan complied, though forty-nine out of fifty of the subalterns in his camp would have foretold the consequences to be expected; and accordingly, soon after the first streaks of sun light broke over the horizon the doomed thousands raged to defeat and death, 130 little is ever known of the details of French erations here, that I can give you few particulars at their attack on the Malakhoff ; but their plan of assault appears to have consisted in assailing the work on both flanks and the front at maltaneously, and with overwhelming num bers— twenty-five thousand are said to have been actually engaged. In just retribution for the disregard of their general to the good to be expected from a short morning's bombardment, they foiled the redoubt swarming with defenders, and guns bristling from every embrasure. On them, as on our own men, showers of grape and canister were poured out, literally mowing down whole battalions at • time; whilet from along the whole semicircular line of parapet the crowding riflemen sent volley after volley into their disordered ranks, that passed through them like a sheet of molten lead. Three times they gave way, and as often rallied; but were dually driven back after a straggle of some three hours and a half, leaving the space between the Mamelos end Malakhoff literally covered with the dead soil Ojos. With our own men, the space to be passed over from our most advanced trenches to the Roden was somewhere about seven hundred yards, and from the first moment of their rushing over the parapet towards the point of attack, they were met by the same awful and annihilating storm of canister and grape. Many fell within the first dozen yards, and thence on to some broken ground about midway, in which the remainder sought cover, the fleid was strewed with the slain and wounded. An officer present in the affair, and who was one of the few who escaped uninjured, described the fire to me as being pert. ctly awful—mach more severe, be assured me t than that which greeted our men at Alms, where he also fought, and received a wound. Few of them ever reached the abatis in front of the work—none, I believe, ever even saw the deep ditch which protects its approaches. I have already mentioned the confusion which oharacterised the first commencement of our movement ; and coupling this with the murderous preparations made by the enemy, you will be at no loss to understand that moons was most improbable. Next morning there was hardly a gun fired on either side ; and about 12 o'clock we hoisted a flag to request the necessary truce for the burial of our dead. A delay of some minutes having occurred before an answer was given—but during which messengers were seen hurrying from the redoubt towards where we supposed the general of the Russian trenches to be—the wiseacre of an officer in command on our aide, a guardsmen of more height that apparent in telligence, ordered the flag to be palled down. Five minutes after, several Remina adhere mounted the parapet and waved their cups, as if inviiieg us to renew the request bat Captain refused, alleging that be meet" welt for farther orders;" and this, Omagh missy et our poor wounded /allows were lying within sight,' writhing is pain and thirst alder a broiling nn charge being preferred against them—ttishemthat Englishness submit tamely to Wraps by *Om- . stits•ed authorities, rely bealMen they an 4 1 4011 stkin that they have conatitutiiiial means at Obtaining redress without recoup's, td• fbksap. This coep Vat mangwif of the Hone SiCRICTART and his Sabbath legislation friends is a new Wenn tion of the neoessity for Administrative Reform. The mischievous neglect and inefficiency of the War .De pertinent have just been re-enacted on a small scale —parodied as it were—by the Home Department. Innocent men have been mevid up in dose cells, in the dog-days, some for foar-ead•twenty hours and some for nearly doable that time ; and the only excuse alleged for this wanton act of oppression by the 1101111 SICIATANT is, that be did not know where to find his legal advisers at the time they were wanted. The domestic 'dadaist/Mho el the State is paralysed by the same defective ergetli• fatless that has rendered our War Administration rig and a bye-word. If the sufferings of the ttLd■s of home mismanagement are influitely hot lion doom of oar countrymen in the Crimea, OA, Mat host more immediately under our observation, Ind mesh as may any day fall to the lot of any one of is. We are much mistaken if the Hyde-park raid, end the incarcerations that have followed it, do not urge on the Administrative Reformers to carry the wai without delay into the Home Department. We regret to observe that the irritation caused by Lord HOBERT GROSVENOR and 81r GEORGE Ow is not to be allowed to subside under the heal ing influence of time and repose. Already we art tLreatened with a crusade for a more etringtot Sun• day Trading Bill than that which Lord ROBERT OBOSTAIIOI has withdraws. A semi-official evening paper labours herd to show that Lord BOBERT'd Bill was not uncalled fort and the organs of the pro• motets of Sunday legislation in the press are already declaring that his measure was not sufficiently stringent, and announcing that its place will be supplied by one that is to make root ■nd branch wax with Sunday trading. It these men were not wilfully blind there is ample warning in our Eoglish history against the insane course they are pursuing. The over strained severity of the puritanical Governments from 1649 to 1680 provoked that revnision in the national aeotim.its which led to the solution of all moral ties—the degrading and shameless debauchery of the reign of CHARLES IL. More than a century was required to partly public morality from the taint it received in the days of that dissolute monarch. At this moment England is emphatically a religious nation. But puritanical laws and police-meddling mean eying& considerable section of the public) against those earnest devotional views which are made the pretext for incessant acts of petty Pharisaical oppression. If we would have a people really pious we most beware of represeoting religion as hostile to social and civil liberty, and of investing the dissolute and protane, in the eyes of the unreflecting, with the attributes of martyrs and champions of free thought. Vbe Court. His Majesty the King of the Belgians arrived at Bathingham Palace at 25 minutes helwo 3 o'eloek Jester. day afternoon, from Ortend, on a visit to the Quern. I His Majesty was ace isapsuisd by the Priapus Charlotte of Belgium and the Count de Flanders. In attendance on the King and the Princess were, ' Madame la Marquise Wirth de Bsray, Madame de Bores, Colonel de Moetkethe, Captain Burnell, and Sir Robert Carswell. His Majesty wu handed from his carriage by the Duke of Wellington, Master of the Horse, and was received at the grand entrance by the Queen, who was accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Allied, Prince Arthur, sad the Pnocewes Alice, Helena, and Louisa, Uri the Duch. ea of Kent, and woe alien led by the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting. Toe Earl of Listowel, L ird in Waiting; ford Alfred Paget, Equerry in Wsitteg to the Queen; and Major General the Hon. Sir Edward Cue, Comptroller of the King's Household in this country, attended his Majesty to Buckingham Palace. The King quttted Ostend at 8 o'clock yesterday morning, crossed to Dover, travelled by a special train on the South Eastern Railway to London, and on arrivitig, soon after 2 o'clock, p.m., lathe Bricklayers' Arms Scenes, was there met by his Royal Highness Prince Albert. His Majesty and suite entered four of the Queen's car riages, and proceeded from the station to Hackett:ham Palace. Prince Albert, attended by the Marquis of Aber corn, Msj.wHeneral the Hon. Charles Grey, and Colonel Seymour, went to Eastwood, Red-bill, to open the Asylum for Idiots. The Duke of Cambridge visited the Queen and the Kicg of the Belgians in the afternoon. The Queen and Prince Albert, and the King of the Bel ' glans, took a drive is en open landau and four in the alter noon. Lord Alfred Paget and Colonel Seymour were in attendance, ma horseback. Her Majesty bad a dinner party in the evening. The company included the King of t►e Belgians, the Count de Fianden, the Duchess of Kent, Lady A. M Diens, Baroness de lipeth, the Duke of Wellionton, the Belgian Milliner and Madam* Tan de Weyer, the Maiquisot Bread album, Earl Spencer, Sir George Couper, Colonel de MOST' hark., Captain Burnell, and Sir Riben Carswell. The band of theist Life Guards attended, and performed is the palace daring dinner. The Duchess of Aiholl h anceeeded Lady Churchill as Lady in Waiting to t►e Queen. The Earl of Liatowel and the Hon. Mortimer Sackville West have relieved Lord Byron and Colonel the Lim. A. N. Hood in their duties as the Lord and Gloom in Witting 011 bet liejsety. Colonel Seymour hes relieved Copt -in the Hun. Dadley do Roe as Equerry in Waiting to Prince Albert. A deputation from the Irish maltstere, omitting of Mr. exid, Mr. Fontsll, and Mr. Monett (att stied by Mr. Brydes, parhamentary agent), bad an intend. w with the Chancellor of the Basheqtaer ye terday at hie flickl to. sidemen in Downing-street, on the subject of th.• Duties Bill. The deputation was accompantet by the f - Aging olotaben of parliament. Mr George, Mr. Beentish, ' Mt. Ilemaide, Colossi Taylor, Me. Vance, Mr. Ale:ander, Mr. O'Connell, Mr. Barrows, Mr. L. Montgomery, Mt. ()togas, Mr. Brady, Mr. O'Flaheity, Mr. Sullivan, and Mr.. Iristmea Kennedy. A deputetims of the Stage Clrfillv• Committee had also an laurels., with Um right boa. baronet on thr • Abject of , he prs.sat detle. on stage oarriugem. The deowadoe winsieted of Mr. IL Bartley, Mr. J. Bother, Mr. Oro. Ceancellor, Mr. A. Wee, Mt. Douglas, and Mr. J. B. Bradfield eeneretary). Mr. Willa, of the Home Circuit, wu yt sterdsy warn in us ens of her Majesty's Judge, before the Lord Chancellor, at the Home of Lords. Among the aristocracy who witnessed the demon stration in Hyde-park on Sunday, IMO the Earl of Derby, the Berl Fortes's., Viscount ltaidstooe, Lord &noway. ton, Earl of Claridge, Laid Charles Manners, Sor Watkis Wynn, lion. Colonel Forrester, Hon. Joins. Macdoesid, Captain irysor, Captain J. S. Stanley, H• The Earl of Derby leaves town early in the ensuing week for Knowsley, near Prescott, to entertain als ego circle of sporting friends during the Liverpool ram westing. A marriage will shortly take plum between the lewd Muncester end t►e Lady Jane Grosvenor, flattener of the Marquis sad Marehionses of Westminster. The Marquis of Lansdowne entertaioed a select sleets at dinner, last evening, at Imam:lows. House. Yesterday evening Miss Burdett Cocotte held a 'nett sweat* at her mans in Btrattot.street, Pie adilly. The rifwtiew was honoured with the attend race if a Ivry eem.ross cowpony of the aristocracy. Mrs. Petro gave a splendid ball last night, at her Maw ia Berkeley square. The sassal dionse of the Society of Arts, held yet. eardi is the Crystal Pa/ace, seder the presidency of As Deka of Argyll, wan .headed by gentlemen who may be seespeed es repreesetatives of the arts, the manufamwriss o n owneese, the sakes*, the essieserlag, sad the literary sad issehealee isethatleas of the sosawy. The dinner Melt plass at the sud et the wit wins of lie Palace. FR4NCE. The Moniteur of yesterday contains an official article, which is little more than an ampllfication or the Emperor's recent speech. The only important passage is one relat►og to another Austrian proposi tion, made subsequently to that which publislisd diplomatic documents have made known, and which Austria offored to send to St. Petersburg se an ulti matum. The Monsieur says: . &nth then the Cabinet of Vienna has protested to the governments of France and England a proposition based on the principle of limitation of the Russian fleet, and as far as this goes satisfactory, but at the same time incomplete, be. Imam it had not the character of an ultimatum implying a eases Celli. T►ere could be no adventure in discussing • plan of which we knew beforehand that Regale would cate gorically reject its principle, and that *uvula did not pro• wise to sustain, if required, by arms. The negotiations, then, have closed, and war must decide the question in MIS. pens*. However, while demonstrating most completely that Russia admits of no means really suited to diminish her preponderance in the Black Sea, and to realise the third point, the negotiation. have given their fall force to the obligations of Austria towards Fumes and England. The official writer proceeds, in conclusion, to de clare that the cause for which France and England are fighting is one that ought to unite all the fi4ga of Europe, and that the government will neglect no means of fecundating existing alliances, and creating uses ones; "but should the gore foment have to sup port with England alone the principal weight of the burden of the war, it has an entire confidence in the military courage of the two armies, and the civil courage of the two nations." AUSTRIAN FINANCES. Mow OUR OWN 001INESPONDZNT.) VIENNA, Imre H. The Vienna 281 . 11411, gins an official statement of the receipts and expenditure of the last two years. The ordinary receipts for the year 1854 amounted to 246 millions of florins, being about eight million. more than the previous year. The ordinary expel,- ditnre of the state WNW from 286 millions of florins iu 1863 to 378 millions last year, showing a surplus expenditure of 02 millions. The to:al annual d. ti motley rose from 66 millions in 1853 to 140 millions in 1854, chiefly in consequence of the enormous ex penses of the army, and especially of the Wet levy of 95,000 men. The ordinary expensed of the army wet 117 millions of florins, together with 91 millions of extraordinary expeneeti,making a total 01209 of fi..rius, or nearly 21 million pounds a , erling. The late reduction of the army is calculated to bring down the annual deficiency to its former level. As long es the Austrian army was on the war footing, it cost a million of forms (100,0001.) every day. It ought 1.. t to be overlooked that the increase in the revenue can only take place as long as peace is maintained. RUSSIA IN BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, MONDAY. The objects for which the Rowan journal, Le I.u►d, bee been founded are disclosed at n very early period of its existence. Only yesterdly, in the first numb.r, we were told that its great work wee to en ligt. ton much-abused public opinion respecting Russia, bat to-day the single editorial article which it pub lishes nes for its thesis that, whatever may be said of the entente cordials between England and France, the antagonism between those two countries is "natural. fundamental, perennial, and based upon the opposition of their interests." In the name of moderalion„ enlightenment, and love of peace, the Russian writers revive the memory of ancient feuds between France and England, and attempt to re kindle hatred between the leaders and guardians of European civilisation. In addition to the selection of General Simpson for Commander in-C aid of the army in the Crimea, a few other appointments have beet mode. Geo. &sally. leaves the camp at Aldsrsbott fur the administration of the staff in the Crime. Colossi' Markham, now on his way from India, will premed to the East to assume the command of earlobe, and Colons I l'aketihant succeeds General Estatmart as , A,ilaaet•Geseral of the Forces before Sebastopol. Sir Roger and Miss Palmer, and Mies Matthews, Mee maned to Poetised Howe, attar a hyphened ab lone at Gesstaattserle sad Is the Crimea. "Further orders" were waited for, and no truce was Tchorgoun, from the ruins of whiel I now again asked tilt 4 o'clock, when it was* once granted, both were passes. The stranger's wen ane"" 4 ,„.! and when oar dead and wounded, the latter in a most face still bore traces of considerable beauty. - oaintul ewe. were brought in. The Russians threw . story waeaverysad one, and s h e h a d scarcely bsee,l7, out an advaooed line ot sentries to keep off prying tell it when her eye* filled with tears, and in spits i eyes from the Roden, and a similar precaution having all her eff nits they continued to b urst out ole been takes on our side the neutral space was thus every time she spoke during the remainder o f narrowed greatly. The scones of battle carnage have I visit. When the allies p us h e d on t h e i r outpos t been often enough described, so I need only say that I wards the Teheran', on the banks of which Tam; this one was like the rest—harrowing to look on. goon stands, the Cossacks wrecked the homes, ul Dead and dying lay all over the ground. Duriog 'carried off all the male inhabitant s , l est they eleii this proceeding a numberof Russian °Sons mingled ' render any service to the enemy. She thus k i d., amongst - our • party, and as several of them one strike her husband and her home, and was is spoke English fluently, a good deal was dependent on the charity of her neighbours for said. Their" pumping" inclination, however, was so sigmas*. Her ease is but another drop, a littl e d ee marked se in most caws to defect it s elf; though one in the great ocean of misery which w ar has (Attled. of oar enders was guilty of the indiscretion of in • roll over the heads of mankind ever since wars he lp ' forming a very interrogator that their grape Notwithstanding all that has been said ag did sad injury to our men in possession of written of battle-field horrors. it is not tinfoil* the lately-taken Quarries—a remark which pro- war wears its worst aspect. One easily becomes cured his instant order to the rear by General tueted to every variety of physical suffering, a n% • Airey. It war by one of these polite foes that more easily because they are fighting men 'shoe**, 4 the inquiry was made of an Englishman at my side it, but it is not easy to assume insensibility to e s whether " our generals had really been drunk or not great mass of moral torture that is to be gist l ee during the recent assault." 'the Russians having i n ever y h am l e t an d v ill age , b ut w hi ch, i n the helped us to gather in the dead. the whole sad duty sem* of great victories and great results, the meld was soon performed, and the truce brought to an hears but little of. One curious circumstance end. Since then nothing of interest has occurred, related to us by these people, was, that they suffer* and the firing has nearly been suspended altogether. more persecution, for their sympathy with the Ida, from the Tartar aristocracy—the bey, and mimeo. than from the Russians themselves. Firming our baggage would not come to us,* determined to imitate Mahomeescondue: with rem to the mountain—to go to the baggage ; end finds* that Omer Pacha had descended from the height and was encamped in Tchorgoun, we encamped* the left bank of the river, got the cart repaired, am waited the progress of events. This evening the troops have received orders to be ready to march be. tore daybreak. It is only the dii majors' Ins) know in what direction. Valley of Baidar, twelve miles south-east of Bile. klava, June 22. the movement of the troops cem, menced about one o'clock this morning; by fired* last battalion had descended from tt.e heights above Komi:him, and was weeding its way along the Woronzoff road towards Belmar. This, though net exactly "advancing backward," is something rather like it. It is certainly a step towards fighting, ee there are Ressian troops in this qu.rter, but it ii net a step towards anything decisive as regards the general objects of the war. No movement think not directed against Simpheropol can very seriously affect the Russians. However, throwing strategy sod politics aside for the moment, I must say tle march has been a veritable pleasure excursion, fork lay through some of the finest and richest sceaeryia the world. After the bleak hills around Sebastopol, the bleak, brown plain of Balaklava, and all the her. rible sights and smells which infest both one and de other, when one enters the gorges which debauch* the latter towards the west, one feels himself, g it were, in a new world. Thenceforward title what direction one will, along the rugged byroad which leads to Baktchi Send, cr the well engineered, smoothly macadamised route, which the father of the present Prince Woronzofi caused to be constructed at his own expense from Sebastopol to Alouchta, every turn reveals fresh and more startling beauties. Rocky heights, shady valleys, awful ravines, verdure of the deepest greeo, trees oithe loftiest and moat Wearied growth, cool clear water bubbling in the wellmagi sparkling from the fountains, gushing in the 'mem, and temptiug the rover aside at every step—what it grandest and tenderest in nature are crowded togs. ther in this favoured region, as if to atone, by thiepe. fusion of beauty and fertility in one spot for the mil wastes which cover so large a portion of the mid the peninsula. On emerging from Tchorgnun, ge followed the Woronzoff road for four or five mils through a ravine, the rocks towering perpendicularly over our heads, and descending with equal abrepteem to the stream below, half choked with the dust mimed by an immense foraging party of French cavalry, whin, upon turning a sharp angle, we suddenly emerged from the gorge, and the Vete ot &eider, the famous vale which a celebrated Polish poet, Mickio vice, has sung so rapturously, in which spring :tips eternally, in which the nigh tingales sing in concert all the day long, the waters ever cool, and the trees ever green, lay before us. I know not whether it was the real beauties of the landscape, or the gloried contrast it presented with the bleak and scorched hills around Sebastopol which caused it to produce such an impression upon me—l know that I ham rarely, if ever, gazed upon a eceoe which af fected my imagination in the same degree Tee vale at the opening slopes gently, covered with averdant sward, to the banks of the river. It is CADe flee d by hills high enough to produce the effect of variety, without exciting the sensation of awe; and on their sides oak, elm, and ash swarm like giants, and cast the protecting shelter of their huge arms over the wild rases, the strawberries, the woodbine and eglantine which scent the air around their stems. The richest herbage flourishes on every clear spot; two villages nestle each in its clump of trees; rows of leafy huts murk the ground occupied he a Russint cavalry picket. The while is like an English park on a Sunday morning. Over all the deadliest silence reigned ; the villages were deserted, not even a dog w the as et t i o lin b:s es se . a e n n d ; tra it t n ee e p em d e a d w l a ik t e he sa g e ra ril m eg b e y t h o aa b t re a ak af armed men. There was something sad iu the coo trust between the scene around us, and the dad, noise, and confusion attendant on the march of a large column of half barbarian troops; one's imagi 'nation revolted at seeing huge Arriaouts bursting through bowers and thickets that teemed made for lovers to bill and coo in ; there was something ex ceedingly unpleasant in hearing the silver notes of the nightingale drowned by the perf 'faience, of a mule teer screeching the refrain of the well-known song, "Ketch guzel," in a way that might put a donkey to the blush. Farther on the valley become' narrower, the timber thicker, and the shade deeper, till on ascending a slight eminence, it again expands into a small wooded plain, in the midst of which lies Deader. On this eminence stands the country house of Count Piroffiki, commas ding one of the finest views, perhaps, in the woi Id. Ie is a small but very tasteful building, of purely Reisman whites tare, surmounted and very mock resembling a church surmounted by a wooden tower, surrounded b by steeple. It has as yet received no injury beyond sundry inscriptions in pencil on the walls, recording the exploits of the " 20ine regiment de Is ligne," and le " eiziEcne dragons," as well as of the French no tion in general, who are declared to be superior to all other members of the human race. Omer Pacha has placed sentinels at the doorto prevent as depredation. In short, no man could, as I did, w out of the house, lie down under a broad elm, tarn his horse loose to crop the savoury grass, look out through the thick Mint.s of foliage at the flood of light which inundated the whole vale from a sky of ,the deepest blue, which seemed to smile on nature as nature smiled on it, listen to the warbling of the nightingales overhead, and pluck the wed straw berries on the green bank, withont feeling that for a eountry which contained even one such spot, it vr!l se wonder the Russians should fight, and fight well. We do not expect to move to-morrow, but for the day alter I cermet answer. Our outposts are on near Bidder. The Piedmontese, who crossed the Tchernaya at the same time as Omer Yach t, end I were likewise encamped near Tchorgoun, were alt o . to have marched to-day, but, as yet, e e have 'holt n os thing of them. They are still suffering f ro m cholera There is some talk of Beguiled division acting la 0111.011 OUR DANI7I TCIIOIIOOIIN, Joe, 21. After witnessing the brave, but fruitless, assault upon the Mamelon and Roden on the mo,ning of the 18th, at daybreak, I rejoined the Turks on the plateau above the village of Upoo, on the other side of the Tchernays, in a north-easterly direction from Balaklava. they had quitted their position close ro Lord Itsglan's head-quarters early on the 17th, with —so ran the tale—the full intention of rocking a final movement in advance io concert with the Pied montese and twt divisions of the French. They took no tents with them, except some half dozen for the use of the puhas and other dignitaries. Everybody under that rack was obliged to content himself with each covering as could be afteded by the "arch ot heaven," and in fact but for the rather heavy dew of the nights, no one could desire better. Upoo was occupied. a tew shots were exchanged with some hundred Greek volunteers and l)onski Cossacks—the only Russian troops to be seen, and the night of the 17th was passed on the plateau above the village. l In the afternoon of the following day, Omer Pasha received the news of the failure of the attacks on the Malakhoff and Radom, and the same evening retired two milts, and took up his position on another plateau above Routchka. This retrograde movement was said to be caused partly by the check received by the allies, and partly by some vague fears of being "cut off," though what they were founded on I could never clearly ascertain. Thera were certainly no Russians in the vicinity be yond the Greek volunteers, and the army might have marched right to Baktehi Serai without hindrance. Sir Stephen Lskeman, accompanied only by his ser vant, rude to within nine miles of it on the very day without seeing a soul except a few Cossacks. I do not mean to say that such a movement would have been advisable, but the very fact that it was possible proved the inadvisability of retrograd ing. The business of a general is to prevent himself being cut oft while moving onwards, and if he never moves till there is no danger whatever of such a con tingency occurring he will never move at all, as it ie of course always within the range of physical possi bility that any enemy may enter the space he 1 behind him in advancing. The plain above Houtchka was covered with brush wood, and in default of tents the soldiers cut off leafy branches, and in a few hours had constructed a whole town of summer-houses, which formed an admirable protection from the burning heat of the sun, as well as from the night. In this sort of work the Turkish soldiers display no small amount of skill and inge nuity. The bowers of this sort which they constructed for the paellas might grace any English garden. A row of stakes is stuck in the ground, at regular intervals, and are then interlaced with gteeo branches. The roof is formed in much the same manner; doors and windows are made to allow a current of air to pass through, and in fact the whole structure would answer equally well the purposes of love or war. With this accomplishment, the Turkish soldier reeks little whether he has a tent or not as long as he is in a wooded country. He raises a leafy hut almost in as short a time as it would take to pitch a canvas one, and. far all the porposee of health and comfort, the ormer is by far the better. The interior of the canvas tent in the present state of the weather, in temperature approximates very closely to a baker's oven, whether doubled or single, and no matter what precaution one takes in opening it or raising it. The day of my arrival at Routahka, just as I was looking out for a suitable spot for a night's lodging, the melancholy intel ligence was conveyed to us of the break ing down of our baggage cart, at some unknown distance from the camp. On riding down we found the body of the vehicle in the Tchernare, the baggage on the bank, and the servants " making their reph,' to use the Turkish equivalent for enjoy ing the do/cc far niente. Having abstracted a cloak from the mass, we climbed the heights and returned to the camp, where we dined in the evening with a pacha, who adopted a compromise between Frankish and Turkish customs in his manner of eating.. We formed a large party, the majority captains, colonels, and knights in arms. The table wee a round piece of leather placed on the ground; each dish was placed in the centre; each guest, as an improvement upon his fingers, was furnished with a spoon ; and thus armed we scooped out the dainties tolerably well. As a specimen of Turkish cookery I may mention that amongst other things placed before us were stewed apples in sour cream and melted butter and a dash ot garlic, which, disgusting as the unreflecting reader may think it, we are of opinion was not bad. One's stomach, after a short residence, is drilled into an amount of obedience it rarely knows in England We slept that night there in a bower, on the ground, wrapped in our cloaks or rugs, and as it was the practice to sleep with one's clothes on, as I verily believe without the smallest reason, the servant of the birnbashi whose guest I was expressed considerable surprise at my hardihood in pulling off my boots and mimeo tionebles, and seemed all but convinced that the said articles would ere morning pass into the possession of an enterprising Cossack, and their tormer owner be conducted in a state of semi-nudity into Stbetia. Happily his expectations were nut realised. The night passed over without any alarm, and in the morning we stepped down to pay a visit to the village of Ruutcbks, which lay in the glen at our feet, where we were hospitably received by a venerable looking Tartar, and we gladly took refuge in his beet chamber from the scorching heat of the sun, which, down in the bottom of the valley, glared tearfully. We stretched ourselves full length on his divan, par took of some yomvart (sour cream) and coffee, and then performed our reph in smoking and talking. Our host, like most of the Tartars ot the southern por tion of the peninsula, had thoroughly Turkish features, and was no doubt of lurked) descent. The Tartars of the north, whose blood fi me still purely from the original stock of Casio and Samarcand, the mighty warriors of Tamerlane end Genghis Khali, exhibit unchanged the high cheek-bones, the small twiukliog black eyes, and the rt ceding foreheads of their Moogol forefathers. I had noticed that here, as in Eupstoria, many of the Tartar women, in deference to the notions of the Turk, veiled, or hid their faced in some way in the presence ot any of the soldiers. As we were accompanied by Turkish officers when we entered the house, the harem ot our entertainer " bolted" precipitately, though we could see them peeping at us through a half-opened door. The old man passed nearly an hour in relating the various ways in which he and his neighbours had been per secuted by the Russians during the winter. Their horses and carts hat:lbws all taken; great numbers also of their sheep and cattle; andandsnyof the inhabitauts spoo whom English or French money was found paid for services rendered when the allied armies passed through, on their march front Alma, were carried oft bodily, and have never since been heard of. When the Turks had left us, the women, es we had expected, came in, and insisted on kissing our bands, and then laying them against their fore heeds. This ceremooial over, they squatted down at a tosportful distaste,. Ooe was the wife of our host, and **other was fawn the neighbooriog Tiller of ,conjunction with the furks. The American steamer Ericsson has arrived at Havre in 14 days from Na. York. She experienced adds! of 24 hours on her passage, in onosequence of some accided to one of her wheels. It may be rememberel t)at the Ericsson is the vessel on bond of which some norlia'a ll were made of a new system of propulsion invented by uhf gentleman whose name she bears, but which unfortuostal turned out a failure. The engines which she now curia are, however, worked on a 'pious which effect.' * grist saving of fuel, as her consumption has only been shunt 2O tons in the 24 hours. Tier voyage to Havre is inertly ax experimental one in order to try this system, and she orlf brings as passengers some of the gentlemen belonging to tM company at whom, expense she has been built, sod tbt' . _ friends. A new party is being formed in Amer re, nada the mime of the Krum Somethings. It is enti.estt. lied abolitioaist. but differs from the linote-Neekeigs oe paend peed= of the astarelintlea of fee•fpare. I I P 1 I