The Express. — London, England, 1855-12-21 00:00:00

which is to 60 ntaras re- pad*. . the the electioa Proceed besioese.bke the eszseet psblio epee Heim givisi ensure say. time 'TON .b. aPPII- _of others , ud visitors 'letters .the retie ' -It hi. Aisne Monday, had attending theme pounds - he . the quits Si Major than nen= ; _ tho transact- Board." that man of d good depart himself • parti- upon Chairman of tho the •010 SHRLLIT wishes that himself. Metropolitan lees in Par- Departreest amement Ise else Doubt- .Minister in prospects Mr. on Sir Metropolitan Parliaaoeatary The with Pa• place, to _ of basi snood place, toter most part koswiodp of an of thole 000- Legislator* is to • rem ission' thou to y r Naiad that Par. Amid, I gibe Oxpreoo. 1 . TO 0011RUPONDENT. adlleellmeets thirsted tee . The tspreee." lades Ilvesteirepse, Mee be se the Q OM. 10. lieeverteaties; b Tee &Wei es the Iles el patitelier NIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tao 4so. Dar—Vonalike. tei, O lli. tali /maws. Olt. 114 m. Ilbateseew—henh. .......Htiorms. lb. Ibm -- _ - • LONDON. ZEI . 44Y, DECEMBER 21. . ...• 'r , I. "" .......=.1.6.0. Tan poMeinlisit NeWtaileilig ---7 algiisirti polite. Board otWerite mem ,wall for Adore 4t le r slifolsese of thai body, The members ao pre-, codeete to guide them. si?4, the Maga, which they won, elected and met is ' ;Angularly deficient in realm dirsetions regarding the forms according to which their business is to be traumatal. As an in- states* of its smissioos we need only mastics that no official person is appointed in it to receive the returns of the elections at the various vestries sod unities rs- repeated. There was consequently no means of smortsining the validity of the claims of the gentle- men elected to take their seats at the Bosrd. In the same way no inarractioos wen given as to the mode to which they were to proceed to the elect= of their Chairman. They had not only to proceed immediately to business, bat to extemporise a set of fosse for the purpose. Tb admirably businesslike sensor in which they got over all them ditgoulties, is a satisfactory proof of the practical talent of the members of the Board, and of the bosom, earnest desire that animates them to diseharge for the publk basalt the duties. that have bean devolved opal them. The spectacle mimosa] at Burlington Boom en Wednesday was that of Beglish good sense giviog 1 form to a chaos. The first difficulty was to determine what watt required to constitute a candidate for the office a • Chairman. The object aimed at was to onion the utmost latitude of oboes, tied jet sari the Board from the ansoysoes of having its that wasted with frivolous applications. Major LTOZ 1 expatiated with a good deal of felicitous humour of the persecution the members of the Board might la eabjected to by the °incoming of numerous appli emits. He maiatainsd that there ware thousands a gentlemen—barriaters with small practice, and other —ready to jump at a salary of 1,6001, a year; an, drew a ludicrous picture of "the multitude of visitor i I at every gentleman's door, and the quantity of letter • that would come with the postman's knock, and th less of every member'; time in receiving the genth men and their friends who would call to solicit hi i vote and interest, to say nothing digs servant's tim taken up in opening the door to them." Ultimately i was resolved that every person who may =poem ; himself as a candidate shrill be received in that clap city; but that no vote shall be taken on the claims I any candidate unless he car. find a mover sad *ce=de 1 i among the members of the Board. The discussion which ensued regarding the qual filiation. to be kept io view in the abates of a Chair man, was eminently satisfactory. The remarks mad 11 i by Mr. Deputy Kutarsow, in support of his propom that the Chairman should be required to devote h whole time to the duties of the office, warrant an e peetation that great benefit will be derived from ti experience which the City npreeentatices bring I the discharge of their task. " Having been mm occupied," Mr. HARRISON said, " with vitriol improvements in the City of Loodoo, be coal Mate that for a very long time those rionneeted wit I t the execution of the works had been obliged have meetings of four or five hours every Monde I and that the Chairman of the Committee had h 1 constant work in looking after things, and attend ' 1 to the interests of the Corporation, without which et tinual cars he was certain that the expense of tilt improvements would have been thousands of pool more than what they actually did east; sad believed that the ditties of the Chairman of I Metropolitan Board would be at least quite =emus as those which he had described." Ms ' LYON remarked, with great good sense, that " th was se ssousity Ist the Chairman's being an engine 1 lint le must be a gentleman who possessed power of presiding over the discussions and trent lag the business of a pubic body like the Boat Mr. DAVIS observed, with equal truth , t " the office required nothing more than a mar ordinarily straw mind, quick perception, and g hostages habits, who could direct the MLitt dep I meats of the Board, and who would keep him i i i aloof from the purposes of any party or of any pi War interest." The general saint with which d I and similar remarks wen received and acted s warrants the belief that the choice of a Chair t may safely be left to the unbiased dominion of I i Board. I There was something rather amusing in the • spiecoperi fashion is which Sir JOHN Suit I endeavoured to insinuate his hopes and wishes the post of Chairman might be conferred on bin : 1 He delicately suggested that the Metropo Board of Works ought to hays a mouthpiece in , 1 ; litunotat, in the same manner as !hellos* Depart aid the Colonial-office. We cannot for a ma suppose that the 1,5001. a year attached to the et Chairman has any weight with bit Jonx. D less his object is to rooks himself a quasi-Minim ithe House of Commons, baying but slender prom of ever rising to be a Minister in reality. , Dirranoaa quietly clapped an extinguisher c I I Jomm's bitterish by remarking that the Mstrop Members ought to undertake the Parliam. I business of the Metropolitan Board of Works.truth is that the less the Board has te do with l • Bement the better. The elective Metropolitan 1 el Works was called into existence, in the first ph relieve the moral Legislature of a great deal ca mama merely losal interest; and, is the snood to relieve the inhabitants el Landes from the Ihreses of a Legislature composed for the moo el persons who have no interest in or knewlst I 1 their local coseeras, in the management of them was. The business of the general Legialatas prescribe the limits within which the Iced mntatives of Loudon shall act, to lay down g .• tales for the conduct of hominess, and th t leave the inhabitants of the metropolis ps \ . A free to =bad their own affair, within their 1 i; jurisdiction. It is of the utmost consequence th 1 Bement and the Metropolitan Bootle/ Works as much as possible, abstain from ii tag with sash other. If a Member of Parliamo be Chairman of the Board there will be e danger of the influence sad patronage of hisi . • being turned to account to strengthen his in or to render himself acceptable to the powers , \ To keep Loadoe oat of the heads of the Bare 1 between the Board and Parlismeat. Our cations may rest @inured that the fingers 1 1 Bursaueracy are itching to lay themselves I Baird of Works and its patronage. U mot, 1 fors the estastatiema parade with which fir Bs 1 Harz %ekes sad receives deputations from medical eliqnss sad ostorirollt seder tr Pis el Wit) of lecturing the Board of Health is& M the maim is vide it iambi cast is SIMI , . I ~. 1 p THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1865. LATEST INTELLIGEN lir £O OUR SPECIAL FRANCE AND PRUpSIA. 4 1 .. i, I ,'` FirAIWA, oaf ITIIIIIIII Aeoordi to a report joterally.Vidtted, Frame meat ergetlesotsilo Pnuisia, mailing th at step Ist tto eitawsee; asatrabaad of war, to R. m , otherwise the Aped , fleets will blockade Pruden porta. LATBBT RUSSIAN ACCOUNTS 'rift mum,* The Ijso.k& Row psbliebes the following Aide•de-Camp (instal Priam Gortahakoff bas forwarded the followthg, leader date of the 10th of December : Beery this; gem oar eatialsotorily is the Crinthe. Oa the titk of Dm., Col. Oklobjio, with a small parties of the deteekasest of the Upper &IDA, mowed the mar lath paw whisk piths mere to the call:4d Haider. Washita the advaseed pan of the *seep at Oerhouta sad at Bop, mad, hulas dioledpd them from those villaele, threw them back apes the Teiersays. "Twenty prieween remained 1s war hoods." IN OF THE IMPERIAL GUARDS INTO PARIS. The Moisieestr of yesterday announces that the Imperial Guard and the regiments of infantry of the line, returned from the Grimes. will make a solemn entry into Paris on the 29th. At the Pastille they will be harangued by the Emperor, who will then precede them to the Plea Vendome, where the defile will take plea. THE TREATY WITH BWEDRN. (mom ma " Imperial Decree promulgating the Treaty concluded Nov. 21, 1855, between France, the United King dom of Great Britain sad Ireland, and the King doms of Sweden and Norway : Napoleon, By the grace of God and the national will Em peror of the French; To all present and to come, greeting : Upon the report of our Minister of State in the department of Foreign Affairs have decreed as follows : Art. I. A treaty having been concluded at Stock holm, on the 21st of November of the present year, between France, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the United Kingdoms of Sweden end Norway, and the ratifications of this sot having been exchanged on the 17th of the present month of December, the said treaty, of which the tenor is as Mows, will enter into fell and entire execution. TREATY. His Majesty the Emperor of the French, Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway, desiring to prevent all compli cation of a nature to trouble the European equili brium, have resolved to come to an understanding with the object of enuring the integrity of the United Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, and have named Plenipotentiaries to conclude a treaty to this effect, viz. _ _ . His Majesty the Emperor of the French, Charles Victor Lobettio, OfSeer of thelmperial Order of the Legion of Honour, Grand Cross of the Royal Order of the Polar Star of Sweden, Commander of the Order of Quid and Chevalier of that of the Con ception of Portugal, his Extraordinary Envoy and Minister Plenipotentiary near hie Majesty the King of Sweden sad Norway : Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and !Ireland, M. Arthur Charles Mews* her Extraordinary Envoy and Minister Plimiperentiary near His Majesty the Kiag of SIVAS and Norway : And His Majesty the King of Sweden and Nor way, M. Gustave Nicholas Algernon Adolphe Baron itiernebi o h MJahter of State and of Foreign AMits Obsneller sad Commander of his Orders, Grand Cross of his Orders of Bt. Olaf of Norway, &a, &a: These, after receiving respectively full powers, hand in good and due form, have agreed as fellows: Art. I. His Majesty the King of Swedes and Norway engage not to ode to Russia, air to exchange with her, nor to permit her to espy any part of the territories belonging to the Crowns of Sweden and Norway; his Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway also engages not to aide to Russia any right of pasturage, or fishing grounds, sr idler rights, as well spoil the said territories as spas the masts of Sweden and Norway, and to repel say pestimeion that Russia may raise to establish the schemes ofany of the aforesaid rights. Art. 2. In the:event of Ramie inaldng to his Majesty the Xing of Sweden and Norway any proposition or damsel, having for its object the obtaining either the cession or exchange of some part of the territories appertaining to the Crowns of Sweden and Norway, or the power of occupying certain points of the said territories, or the cession et the rights of fishing„ l pasturage, or any other upon theme same territoriee, l and upon the coasts of Sweden and Norway; His Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway engages to immediately communicate this proposition to His Majesty the Emperor of the French, and to Her lilleasio Majesty; and their said Majesties will ea their part engage to supply to His Majesty the Xing of Sweden and Norway naval and military forces sufficient to so.operate with the naval and military forces of his said Majesty, is the object of smiting the pretensions or the aggressions of Hooka. The nature, importance, and the destination of the femme in question. shall, the sass occurring, be armed to with a common sword betwesa the three Powers. FRANCE. Art. S. The moment treaty will be ratified, and the ratifications exchanged at Stockholm as quickly ea possible. In testimony whereof the leopards* plenipoten tiaries hare signed it and sized their seals. Done at Stockholm, the 21st Nov. the year of gran, 1866. (Signed) V. LOarrane. Annum ?declaim. fiTIEZNELD. Art. IL Our Minister the Secretary of State ter the Department of Foreign Affairs is darted with the caseation of the present decree. Done at the Palate et the Tailleriss, Dec. 19,1865. NAPOLEON. (loom OVA MVO 00AAADOmpiv.) PARIS, WIDNIIIDAT KTICII _ __ M. Emile de Oirardin gave a grand dinner a few days since to all the writers in the Prase, and sr veal of hie private friends, to celebrate the proba tion at the Odeon of the new play Pkrywoi" of which AL Charles Edam& meet the reireteers of the Proms, is the anther. Prises Napoleon honoured the e etertaimerat with his presence, sod sat next to the esiebested Y. Woolliest. 'nay Lind, who has aver yet nag in Paris, has, it is said, positively promised to perform here when she leans Eaglead. Owing to boisterous weather in the Channel, the evening journals had not arrived at six dean this evening. The Tribunal of Corrtetional Polio* of Avignon had a few days sines to try MM. Thibeend and Poe), the director and stage sassier of the theatre in that town, for a bran of the law of Icily, 1860, relative to theatres. Oa the 18th of last month the prefect bad authorised the performance of Le Quote /kr moms. a drama by Alitmedre.Dames, het with the suppression of a metals passim in the het eat is which the MI6 eammilicea mere ammtiseed. At the reproseatatise. however. the expeissiess were used, sod for this Ames the abeve-eamed parties wet. each sentenced to 1001 r. be sad the exposes& Boma midi lead with dm State meal, By tha MORE The Imper of the Sea* The Minister of Misister of Zemke. Foreisei Affairs. ABBATUCCL WAunirou. AUSTILLI. The decrier, Gnats petelholies the fallowing : VIENNA, Deo. 16. n. Austrian Government hoe ordered the sale of se tower dies sweaty thinned herein, at preseet attached to the artillery est lead tresepeet swiss of the thkd est fourth may mem hi pause of se. • deities to s.poosattellsor OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. .. , ...THE GUARDS' PETITION: . . TO TSB ISITOI. ANT.) SetW--Theivo are yet some few points in the much CAMP, 811BASTOPOL5 Dam 8. talked 'ipt Guards' Memorial, which should be made illustration to the , public at large. And as a simple The stormy and wet weather which hes prevailed' of the enormous advantages " the almost without intermission, sines the last mail left, . B r i ga d e "hae hitherto had over thereat of the army in has tried the new roads very severely. They are Ithe matter of promotion, I would refer your readers sew in many parts in a very broken lied almost im. to lot night's War-orte Cossets. In it we find a ble condition. This is owing to the pecu li ar Captain of the 84th Regiment, by name William Radcliffe, who (after a service of twenty-four years qualities of the limestone of which they are am "dialed, and the varying nature of the substratum on in various parts of the world — after ha vin g pr ebend all his commissions, and whose corps, which the stones have been laid. A very considerable after being. since 1842, in the Madras Presidency, proportionoftheliinestonefound nest the surfaceofthat is now in Burmab) last night, the 18th of December, part of the plateau occupied by the troops, is exceed- 1846, receives the rank of Brevet Major. Not one ingly cellular and porous, 'sally friable, and readily Lay 3 , l bas he this gentl e man been hefiersntupeoonmmhtiopnay and yet crumbles iato a gritty, 'abbot pulverized, condition on Guardsmen in their Memorial talk of the great hard the application of moisture. A moderate degreeof pees- ship of having to wait 24 years for the rank of full sure withealleimat water, quicklyohangesthiestons in- Colonel, after having passed the whole of their time in to a paste notualikemottar in appearance, but without London, and on a service so absurdly easy as to be its cementing qualities. In other perm , again, the much more fitting for yeomanry, a national guard, or i trainbands of military-inspired citizens, than tor re. limestone is compact and hard. It can then be easily understood how the constant rain and the bringinge soldiers. Another point I would like to explain to civilians of interminable lino of carts and transport animals , is this : these " mounted officers or acting majors" have destroyed, in the new main roads, all that even- (of whom the Guards' Memorial makes so much ness of who which they offered to view while the mention, and who are thought to be ill dry weather lasted. The smaller fragments have wed, because it is only a ft er three o fears' service as such they can obtain the rank full been amulet" into Peels of Pleieleei w hich Calomel) have merely an arbitrary rank; and moreover have formed wherever depressions in the ge- the practice of making the Senior Captains (remember, seta level were Dearest at hand, while these officers, although Lieutenant-Colonels in the the larger fragments have been loosened army, are but Captains in the Guards) acting field and displaced. Another source of disturbance has officers in the absence of their superiors, exists in sprung from the hind , of soil it , which the road hee every regiment of Infantry id the service. 1 have seen regiments of the Line in the colonies, where, been laid; in some parts the bed consisting of soft owing to one Major being in England with the depot, alluvial earth, in others of comparatively firm rock. and the other perhaps on leave, the two Senior I. the former of course the road has been pressed Captains did for years the duties of mounted officers. down to a certain extent, while in the latter it has Bat for this, the unfortunates of the Line—the mere maintained its or i g i na l pos i t i on. The rain does not hard-working drudges of the army—receive not one particle of advantsee in dutyy. A Line Captain drain readily through the peculiar surface "oil which who hoe to do g e - . h g d • if jor a as to a Dime is found here; on the contrary, after rain the soil as- in a horse, and to keep that quadruped out of his sasses a tough, viscid character, snob as is only met pay without any extra allowance. As to any pro with in the most .tiff, argillsosons earths in England, votive advantages in regard to promotion, such exist and the water lodges in the small hollows on its sur- not in the Line. On the other hand, in the Guards, faro The deep di Ohm which have bees dug cm either after three years' duty as a mounted officer, a Captain in the corps receives the rank of fell Colonel in the side of the roads, for the purpose of carrying off the army, and starts fair in the race for the highest water from the roads themselves, have not therefore Fades, with men who have worked their way to proved of such full benefit as might well have been that point through the most deadly climates and the anticipated. These are difficulties which it was not weapons of every savage lend. Such, I say, are the passib to le avoid; for, with the exception perhaps s . zisting rules of the service, and reay when men ask tor more," as the Guards have don ll e . , the patience that there was not generally sufficient convexity of the public will hardly endure the impudence of given to their surface, the roads were constructed on t h e request . the beet principles amain the most substantial manner. Knowing as Ido scores of veterans who have re- A large body of miners and labourers of the Army spectively for more than a quarter of a century been Works Corps are already actively at work, and in two working their way up the list, and who have nosi er three weeks, should the weather prove st all favour- fiord health, comfort, family ties, and fortune for pro- Ole, it is that the damage done to the motion, the cool impudence of the Guards' petition expected be fills me with indignation. If any man thinks I speak read. by the late mine w ill in a very greet de g ree too strongly, let him t.ke up " Hart's Army List," repaired. It has been a matter of surprise that that and read over the list of officers in any of the follow part of the Woronzoff road which run across the log corps—the 9th and 12th Lenore. the 14th Do should have so long maintained its efficiency; goons, the Bth, 10th, 24th, 27th, 29 th, 35 th , 37 th , e a : e t a :it highway bad acquired firmness from age 43rd, 52nd, 53rd, 60th, 61st, 64th, 70th, 74th, 75th, sad constant attent io n—shown by the care in its 78th, 81st, 83rd, 84th, 88th, 87th, 98th, Ceylon Rifles, drainage, and the heaps of broken stone placed at or either of the West India Regiments, and then 'Wain intervals by its side, to effect repairs as soon compare . the period the senior officer of each as required, on its fleet occupation by the Allies-- rank in these battalions has served, with said, moreover, was never subjected to the wear and the time those in the Guards have borne tsar by the passage of animals and vehicles, in such her Majesty's commission. I will take one single numbers as the wants of the armies almost minter- instance, that of Lieutenant-Colonel Williamson, of rapidly demand, in their respective routes of tons- the 27th Regiment. This officer has been thirty pet sad sosonsiestios. It also has become greatly years in the army; was never on half Pay i has est 'I repair since the late raios. served in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America; has The erection of the wooden huts has advanced purchased all his commissions except the last (which , setwithatanding the unfavourable weather. he obtained when the regiment was augmented in i n Grins mums have been devised to prevent the May ? 1854, to go to India), and yet he will not leakageorhish is greatly oomplained of, and is indeed obtain the rank of full Colonel until May, 1857. • serious drawback on the other advantages offered Compare this gentleman's claims with those of the g le am more secure shelter and protootion of these ill-used Guardsmen. In the same corps the two bursa-rooms as compared with tents. One Majors have been respectively 30 and 26 years on emeug the latest means adopted is the conversion of full pay, but neither of them are Brevet Lieutenant the tope used in the Russian batteries either for work. Colonels, and the senior Captain has been 18 lag the guns or in the construction of their rope man- ars on full pay, but is not yet a Brevet lets, into oakum. Certain q uantities have been distri. Major; in fact, he would only rank with bated among the various divisions of the army, the subalterns of the Guards; and now allow and it is to be part of the employment of me to draw your attention to another circumstance the prisoners undergoing punishment to pick this respecting this mob talked of petition. It is now shape for the desired parpose. The hots in maps. certain that Prince Albert, the Duke of Cambridge, ties have been testa in respect to their stability by and Lord Strafford—the three colonels of the three maw very high winds. Donner the night between regiments—have signed the document. Of the latter the 6th and 6th instant a strong gale from the south nobleman I would speak with all the reverence due prevailed, and some very heavy squalls posed over to a soldier who has served his country for sixty the camps last night; but though on the first-men. three years, and who consequently cannot be a young ironed ooession several toots were blown over, no hut man. Let his age, and the Peninsula as well as which was completed was moved, much leis over- Waterloo decorations which he wears, be his excuse thrown. A few hum on ly partly erected , set. for what he has done, and our apology for silence fared from the gale. A little before midnight on respecting him. the 4th instant • portion of the camp was As regards the Prince Consort and the Royal Duke, startled by an alarm of fire, which broke out in one of is not their acting as they have done a lamentable the huts in the Second Division. The unusual sounds instance of the utter ignorance which (in high pleas) of drums beating the " fall in," and bugles sounding prevails respecting public opinion in this country P the " assembly," at that, hour,:coated a general stir; If there are in all England two men who are eagerly but the picquets were on the alert, the men were catching at every occasion to make themeless popular quickly at the spot, and the fire soon extinguished. with the poblio at large, those two are Prince Albert It occurred is the camp of the 47th Regiment, and and the Duke of Cambridge. It must be obvious to broke out in a hut used by the quartermaster as a all, that had they had the slightest idea that the store. Very little damage was effected. knowledge of this petition being even prepared The prevailing wind since the last mail left has would have called forth the storm of popular in been southerly, and the temperature has been re- digestion which it has aroused, neither one nor the mutably mild. The snow, which had appeared to other would ever have lent his name to the un cover the distant mountains in very extensive patches, dertaking. And yet every person in the middle or and some of the higher ridges entirely, has disap- higher classes would, if previously questioned, have peered altogether. The valley of Inkermano, and been perfectly able to foretel the certain cones the adjoining lower part of the Tchernaya valley, quenoes of any such attempt to foist the private are now converted into a shallow lake, and from the interests of the "upper crust" above those of the borders of this water an impassable marsh extends army at large. How such men as Colonels Wood, between the Fedokine heights occupied by the Preach Upton, and Monerieffe, the three Lieutenant-Colonels on the one hand, to the foot of the lower Mackenzie of the Regiments of Guards, were mad enough heights, occupied by the enemy on the other. either to sign or sanction the petition, is truly a Of the Romans and their movements, if they are marvel. making any, we know nothing in our camps. Their I bad written thus far, when a letter by the last neighbourhood is rendered sufficiently apparent by mail from India reached me. The writer is an old the fire which they continue to maintain from the and valued friend, who after serving his country for has and batteries on the north side. The execution twenty years in the East, and having paid for all his deal continues to be chiefly against the rained various oommisslone, finds himself still a Captain, baildiogs and tottering walls; warmly any casual- and, although able and willing to purchase, without ties occur among the few soldiers and strangers who any hope or prospect of promotion. One portion of occasionally visit what is left of the city and its hie letter is so apropos to my .abject, that lam sure suburbs. The hats of the Russian detachments and you will hold me excused for quoting it entire. It outposts above InkeraanD, and along the Mackenzie would almost seem as if by some magical means the ridge, appear to be occupied as fully as they were writer, though stationed in the Upper Provipoea of used to be; and the Coesacks who watch the move- India, bad been made acquainted with the preten meats of the Preach videttes among the hills near alone now put forward by "the Brigade," and had Guthman, do not indicate any signs of falling back determined to show how the working portion of the from that direction. army look upon the privileges which this most favoured corps already enjoys. Here is the extract from his letter—the italics are my own : It is reported here that a amber of Queen's regimens are to be sent from India to the Crimea this cold weather. Of course we all look forward to the chance of meeting a European enemy with so little pleasure and asaisty ; but sail there are some eoesideratioas respecung soak a memo, which to old soldiers like myself are by so means sonaoliag. What w.nald the pest WOOS I. and sassy othses beirmit isg to the my,' army is Lulls sas be of, suit me Is 'MC:Amos ? Am yes keew, I was under Lord Emma, is M Ent Althea eampaign ; nailer Pollock, at the taking of Cohan ; leader Gough, at Goober: and is the Puniest) eisipeigte of 1814 45, as well as 1818 49. ()mot 20 yeas' service I have spent but two at hose, sad of moo two wee obliged to do twelve mouths' duty at the depot. I ham foer medals on my breast. and two of these have clasps. All my patrimony has been emended in purchasing my commis- Mons, and my brother Is sow ready to buy me a majority. Yet if I go to the Crimes / should nut dm thanes, if ilMosted, mail a surly of tlis Foot Gwen*, of bony oast mesdod by boys lobe tattered LA. strew after /obtained my posse me rasa. To soy walking of the doubts proosotsoss Miss 116.16.1416.111". Aeur b Limem"-C Bre s: 74ze h: g e i t illia l lme doess o aad : it t gAl i the si liergra jl i: l y sali ghliot t . e nniatil emia tt e"4l 7.l: T he aaldh tb ee e p s ia"V Aer s tu i rilit i th w e o Aeralh flososaise ssiAinLi uthe.::i awards these was Nelms Mats sass* Lboutsamet tab an °paws. tree, stators* Assn is sre Moms is tin Army. So Mot is *A the 01111911= el hos ales Maoism Lonitarosta. sate. by eiras. e dn. key Pad Offmers, out coolosaast at tAo resstrhoo or .basher. mans ir& tows coposioss Wont time yeorsystore Al! sabost Neyas there are is the Qesea's troops is Ingle very soy IMMO who bars been a lose time is the jester nabs. a great deal of diecuetsut I ncubi he sensed mare we mists the semy ha the Crimea. The seems of the Liao who haveact brevet reek rises the war broke est are quilts of a t list. TAsir good fee. lets no use .4e ... Ise it hue boa fairly achieved • but _-...:di.-" —A letter from Argos, in the Swam the Coeds won of seem that is as tames. Wattles is ,se Dares. sap :--ii The prima at Sao. is this Gaston, the east Of tie army. it Is by tisk doubly steps--by that : hes jut beim asiworee by as. Out et 73 rieseauk is i Lisatseses biri emplane aaltheir Gamines Lieutenant. see Wales, asses( wbem.itir4Typhisidmss wan e d t o ai li t pesiftsft mer ganwhi frarl Weir lesser e Sad Jia aUlelp Ms r.» ssreiso, laugh, Noire' aleir equirses it the eh-mu analkii. I" tea Captains In the 9th Lancers eight have had upwards 18 years' service, and of these eight but two are Brevet Yam, which they pined by being mentioned fie se orders, sad, with one reuse on, all the ten ha ve b ee , is action over and over spin. 8o of the 14:b Drawer, is which all the Captains save one have been repeatedly is m e field against the enemy, but of which no one holds Mesa rank, sithoegh they have to a men been each u p wards of twelve, end acm• more than twenty years in the meg, Compare this with the Guards, many of whom, al t h ough but Lieutenants in their corps (Ind who but seven map ego were at oehool), are now Brevet Majors, aid would command men who have nearly a quarter of a century., SI ZZ I Iis shows that great reforms are wanted in M s genies—Mat he Mips**, prioileyee of the Goer& theta be dose meal with—if we want en army in which every good officer nen have the same chasm of winning the pis te . In times of peace we heed not the advantaps of is e favoured regiments; hut in war, when every officer loom forward to rising in the service, the injustice of W ag shoved aside by moo who started years later in *a mos, ti too glaring, too insulting to common cease. Such are the opinions of one of the best of f icers and most gallant soldiers now holding her Majesty' s commission, and I am certain that the sentiments he expresses are held by ninety-nine men out of every hundred who are serving in the Cavalry or Infantry of the Line. if the hundredth officer does not thigh like the others, it is because be hope• by his interest to pass from the Line to the Guards. Would that the public at large—the people wh o pay the army—could be roused from their apathy t ing military matters and persuaded to impure regarding more respecting the system. Inquiry is all that is needed, in order to expose the thorough rat tenons of the whole system from top to bottom. Take one of the facts which the discussions upon this petition have disclosed. The entire patronage of the Gaud. is in the hands of the three Colonels of "the Brigade," and Guardsmen themselves acknowledge that until the promulgation of the new wamintrather more than • fair share of their body obtained the rank of General Officer. It follows, then, that the greater number of our Generals are virtually the nominees of this triumvirate. This may be pleasant enough for all parties in times of peek., but tiering a great war no wonder that we ars-sorely panted where to look for commanders. • To all who are interested in the question Sit army reform, I would strongly recommend a not veryexpen. mire work called " Hart's Army List." It is published by Murray, of Albemarle street, and costs snip five shillings. In it the enormous advantages which the Guards as a corps, and individual officers who in ether corps belong to the "upper cruet," enjoy over their leas fortunate brethren, will be directly and sisterly seen. Oat of evil good often comes; and I believe that this attempt of the Guards to regain those advantages which, by long-endured abuse, they t 0,.. seri, poeseesed, will result in larger measures of =reform than twelve months ago any have hoped for. Where the service of til e ::: is oemesened, no advantages of either puree arsenal pseilien should for a moment be considered. ,rank It we Rest have a brigade of Guards with doubl y at each step, let the officers consist entirely d wish as have previously distinguished thew eaves in the Line, and who, in consequence of their gallantry, have obtained prociotka into the household troops. The present privileges these corps possess, and the way in which inch are distributed, might have been thought very right and c(lanais s in 1687 (the date when the Captains of the were made Lientenant-Colonels in the army); bat at the present day they are about as much out d place as the arquebus. of a century and • hell age would be in the hands of • modem foot soldier,:wesr kg his scarlet tunic and " Albert hat." ONE WHO HAS SERVED SIX YEARS IN THE CAVALRY, AND THE SAME TIME IN THE INFANTRY. London, Deo. 19. INDIAN MAILS,—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam packet An, Captain Field ; Admiralty agent, Lieutenant Hay, R.N., arrived at Southeraptea yesterday, with the heavy portion of the India melt . Het &etas were—Alexandria, Dee. 6; Malta, Dec. 10; Gibraltar, Dee. 16. She brought 26 passengers, amongst whom were Lientenant-Colonel Law. Majors Brown, Lynch, sad Abercrombie, Captains Faulkner and Symms, Mr. Afar, sad Sir Lawrence Peel, Bart.; Mesdames Samuel, Connolly, Brown, Cookson, die. Her cargo eoasiited of 109 bales of silk 219 bales of gum in different peeing* 685 boxes of raisins, 1,240 bags of wheat, 2 7 packages of elephants' teeth, 9 aloe of wool, 39 barrels of tallow, 18 eases of orange', 27 barrels of dates, 180 packages of our dries ; total number of packages, 2.449. The Ave expert. Wed lastesewards variable weather, but genenlly fits. la the Cleamasi she met with strong south-easterly winds, with heavy sea. She signalled the Fairy echconer off Vigo, en the 17th lost., steering to the eastward. Oa the lie December there were at Malta her Majeatj's ships Ribald*, Algiers, and Stromboli ; and on the 16th, at Gibraltar, the steamer Promatkess. Th. American frigate Corgrem wm at Alexandria on the 6th December. The Penissular sad Oriental steamer Tagos was at Oi -welter on December 16. The native disturbances in the district of New Ply. mouth, aro a serious affair, and will require the atmot caution and forbearance on the part of the gamest settlers to avoid being drawn into the cocain. Ws Wm that the troops for Taranaki had embarked at Ainklaadoa the Bth Aorta. The division consisted of 250 tank wails of the 65th Regiment, ten officers, thirteen nooseennie sinned offieers, and three drummers, under the otimmead of Major Nugent. The defachment was seam peeled to the place of embarkation by umbels of the citizens. The men embarked in high spirits and in admirable order. It is ciao years and • half since any similar embarkation took place. Oa that occasion it was on a much more extensive scale—two feiptes, Castor and Calliope, one steam stoop, Driver, and two *air ports, Stains Castle sod Victoria, ,being employed for the conveyance of a large forte to put down the sweeties' al the natives at the south. Happily this time the troops depart on no hostile mission. They are despatched fax mtee in the character of an armed police to preserve pens and good order. And es they are to be assisted be ea nail force et the 66th Regiment from the province of Wellingtee, we trait they may be enabled to carry out their peseefil purpose is a satisfactory meaner, and speedily name their headquarters crowned with honourable bat bloodies laurels.—Arearelion and New Zealand Ga:eite. TELEGRAPHIC Eason?.—M. Gloxin, a banker at Strasbourg, Dent is May, 1854, • telegraphic daps* tohis stockbroker at Paris to purchase 100 Lyons to 11ledictrar neon railway shares; but in tbe traosmisoiou of the &sesta the word Mediterraneen " was accidentally omitted b/ the telegraph people, and the agate de change somedniZ leathered Lean shares. This mistake caused • lane Oloxin of 3,916 fr. Some time alter he broug ht easel* before the Civil Tribunal against the Director of the Ts* graph-offies at Paris, where the mistake oceerred, sad against the Minister of the Interior, as responsible for Mar to mover that amount. When the action came on eke Prefect of the Seine, in the name of the 'Moister, rad the technical objection that the tribunal could not entertain iS inasmuch as being brought against the government, it fell within the category of what the laws call administrative eases, os whisk the Council of State could alone 4seld• But the tribunal decided that it hid full jurisdiction. Ms prefect then appealed to the Council of State, and thacum was heard yesterday. The council decided that the piefsaik objection was well founded, as the Civil Tribunals eases' authority over government functionaries for alleged MA' peat committed in the discharge of their duty. THE " CAT."—The United States Commissioner at Baotou (II S.) has decided that whippings avanoi wit! a ropes end is not Hogging. within the meaning d tbe • statute. Flogging is a technical naval act, pet loresed3 the proper officers, according to certain formslities, t inflicted with an instrument known as a " ca." RECENT EARTHQUAKES. —lt appears that lb. shocks of earthquake have completely cooed if difinld Vasa. Thew terrible phonemes& lasted fear wie!Ati exactly the same peeled as in 1765. It his been reoel". that ices the Ent shock on the 25th July, reptiles esonw avoided taking refuge in creases of walls or mums stases At the some *peat the swallows had also abaudoesd tad sisal newt, the castle of Virg*. Te e sheets of el which neatly took place at Bordeaux, ins aleerewf severely he the chain of the Pyrenees. At Fos, GP f Spanish frontier, the houses shook, and several stooge how some edam chimneys. The shock lasted bat new/ short tame, and was in the direction of north to loelt Shocks wen also felt at Agee, Tarbes, and Sagan" " Ladies. • Diana's DESCENDANT.—The Leeds contribotioa M this grateful fund turns out to be quite respectable ** onapsrad with the total amount received by Mr. v = Keight, is Loudon. We understand that the other of flbskapsara bas received altogether promise of 201. from a sable marquis k now s for his *AS grew to airdeen, sad that he has bees able to sears N• Allingootneeiptiose , le oddities to the 91. 15, 14"111.: thmeg is a team sambar of the AflTOStry. WO ha e .._ .-4116••• antiewsee the following FebeeriPtine• as rile' • pas from W worpkgis of Miran, Rowlandeen. and Cti.;ft; a Prised ; 4a. collected at Kiss Luahirree, Kaani• trioi Ckristien ; SS. is smaller same; teal, Smita Floar.—ln December, 18 54 . and ia gs T ; whthe thermometer rarely fell below the freesia pt.. ereas this month tiles have only hese out or Meal= la which it lea wet fallen below that point. It he uses at 111 degrees. case as low as 19, sod es T0ew1if...... 41" it minas row as 18, which is, of Mune 14 doer blf in ; die dressing point This was the case with • the •Tr sg . suripeaded cis yards from the ground: en instramed_n.,„ within a foot or two of the ennead the g nat 4Cranak saw degrees lower. Yesterday b " 9" ra met Nasal wisboal say malaria' of its e seerity•—• , - -- she lisaares. Aeon et health, sad the individuals whom it ought to abeam The Board meets again on Saturday to proceed e a with the election. la fie antima.Mr. J . - j0w1..., and Mr. WILKINSON m thus , s are' debted for the resdi li vb . • , . ,ye - ( • dertaken to act as i ' . Chair 0' interim" Szeretary, and * " man ° ' Inch tlilt conducted theme e a a thea capacitheYwith oii or two other members, meet daily at Burlington House, to receive applications by latter from gentle meif reiiiSii - iolecome candidates for the oMos — af Chairman. The process of completely organising the Baird has been begun. and well begun. This is • awing-bow important its Mira opera tkoop.mnat bBipc. a, omanntwitp,alltiolt, in nt of numbeto, fallo-Tutlo shat of the whole Maid= of WAIL oa PlAoll.—The equivosal and equivocating article in the Conshluetotetwi, which we pub lished yesterday, renders every serap of infor mation respecting, the iselinatioas of the French and English Ouvernments that can be picked np of consequense at the present moment. From a good source we obtain the following:— Austria has not mooed into any g ageengt that else cannot "wriggle out of." Most rench Ministers expect that Russia will accept the terms suergertod. In this opinion a minority in the British Cabinet concur, though the majority think otherwise. In such matters men's opinions are liable to be a pretty fair exponent of their wishes. In addition to what we have hers intimated we may state that some of the Greeks, who have hitherto stoutly maintained that Kuala will accept the terms, begin to speak We coefideotly. We give these statements for what they axe worth, but there are other indications to which may be at liberty to advert in a day or two. VOt Court. OSBORN', Duo. W. Prises Ernest of Leiningen, who has just returned to Enema is her Majesty. ship Coma, Ikon the Baltic, wind at aeon yesterday as a visit to her Majostp. Mr. Scott, Ooversor of Latium, had an Interview with the Right Hon Henry Lsbonebers yesterday at the Colonial. °Mee. Mr. Charles J. Bayley (Mauritius) had also as interview with the Hight Hon. Secretary. ♦ deputation of the Provincial Medical and Bargical Assodation es the subject of Medical Reform, had as interview with Sir George Grey yesterday at the Hose case. The depotaties caseated of Sir Charles Hastings, M.D., D.C. L., (president of the council), Edwin Lankester, M.D., P.H S, Dr. Webster (Deleieb), Mr. Propsrt (Lon dos), Mr. Miserly (Leeds), Mr. Cartwright (Oswestry), Mr. Butteoley (Croydon), Mr. Lori (Hampstead), Mr. J. F. Clark (London), Mr. Carter (Hadley), Dr. Wynter (Lab.), Dr. Henry (London), Dr. O'Connor (London), Dr. Coops (London), Dr. Ogler Ward (Kensington), and Mr. Hastings (secretary). A depilation of District Medial oMorers, consisting of 'MINIM Joseph Clapp, Ada., Head, Mashett, Wildbore, Ballwin, and Jeffery', had an interview with the Bight Hos. Sir Heajassin Hall, en Wednesday, at the Offies of Petdis Works in Whitehall-piece. Despatches for the Ooverwors of W Asstrallan Colonies were east last evening frost the Coltalakflos. TURN OF THE COURT TO WINDSOR. gun- Cbair- 4 made Forml hi. ex the THIB DAY. (IT IMCTIIO saLsoaarz.) mach various amid with r, FIUDAT. In coasequence of the severity of the weather, her Majesty, Prises Albert, the Royal ebildren (with the ex ception of the Prises of Wales), and the Royal household, loaded et the floathasepten Deekk lamed of as Gosport, from Osborne t►is noising, ea their way to Windsor. . . . The Royal party left Boalsamptea by special trait at 11 a.m., sad will pressed to Madan by the Great Wasters Railway from Basiagstelse. The weather Was istessely . odd. Her Majesty looked is pod health sad spirits. She was heartily cheered ►y a large ereerd et perms assembled ia llosthaelptea Melts. . Vissoitat and Inseminate's Palmerston entertained at dicer, at their sautes ea t►e tweet, Pieoadilly, last evening, his Basellesey the Belgian Misdates sad Madan* Vas de Weyer, the Bight Hon. B. Venue Smith, K.l' , sad Mn. Babb, the Sea. William Cowper, M.P., and Mn. Cowper, Lieut.•Gowns] Mr Jobs Bergeywe, G.C.8., Mr. Kesektals K.P., Capt. sad Mrs. Tolleseebe, Capt. Peel, LB., Mr. Bibles's, Kr. Charles Chf.rd, Mr. Pa- Masi, awl the Mires liallivea. Her Ladyship resolved few friends efts' &saw. The noble Viessast sad her Ladyship will leave tows for Bloodies& t►s'errow. Amon the resent arrivals at Bath may be men nosed the Bari of Muggers ea/ tangly, the Lady Jane liarailtoa, the lady B. liestionery, Bear-Alashal sad Lady &was Ifethaa, Mr Willies' sad Lady Miller sad family. Lord Amadei, Lord aad Lady Carbery, the But of Amadei sad Ben y, the Bishop of Bath sad Wells, the Reel of Westaiselead, the Duster of Beaufort mod Lady R4BO Leven, Ilea. Jolla. Fine, and Coast sad Countess d'Aquils, Le. The Bari of ERMISTII has takes kis departure, after &Avis' great booed' from the sae of the water.. The Earl sad Countess of Stamford have been eatestaiaing a large party of friends, fee anent days. at his lordship's Mot, Denham Hassey, Mishit*. The amble Bart cad his [Ands have kid capital spot is his weU iteaked Oa the 4th Mama,, the party, *min is, of the Earl of Stamford, the Estl of fkrathatem, Bit 0. Wombwell, Mr. A. Walsh, Captain tit. George Csalaokl, Mr. H. C. Taylor. cad Mr. B. Teedieett. killed 140 Osmi um% 14 partridges, 50 hams, 416 n►bits, 4 woodeosks, 3 wild docks, cad 7 vazioas wildfowl. Oa the 6th. the mole party, with Cikomi the Hoe. Drell Fuesiter, killed 190 phoneme. 36 partridges, 326 hares, 63 ra►bits, 10 wool exits, S wild docks, sad 2 wild fowl. Oa the Mb, the &bowl-aimed gestlisamt. wit► Mr. B. Haworth. killed 191 pheasants, 11 partridges, 109 hens, 125 rabbits, 3 wood. omits, 1 wild dick. sad 6 various wild fowL Oa tko 7th, his lordship's patty, with the 'mortis. of Hr. H. C. Taylor, killed 3 phesseats, 60 partridges, 43 harm, 2 rabbits, 2 woodeocks, 2 swipes, sad 7 grew►--fetal, 1,1116 hied of game killed. The Countess of Galloway gave birth to a eon on Walassday, at Estoh-ogaare. The Right Hos. Lord Craaetosa Issa arrived at his seat, Barer Maser, seer Lehbartoo, Doves. _ _ . ,fated It is that Mr. Meets& has vary frankly desisted le would wept theories of &aims& of the Board of Works with peat satisfaatka, if sailed be it by the reigns of the beard. We (Derby Reporter) aadorataad that Mr. Chides Diskitas will give his my pepalsr readhtg of*. " Christens Carol" for the benefit of the Intedisid Meettsaire' faiths's. Is their Listen Hell. (tansy whrest, ea Baterday eyeshot:, Ds. 22. Mr. Dickens to sombig frost Paris sprawly far the purees. est • gyms treat is astielpotoil. Malik. Rachel arrived at Charkatott ea the hat at December. et saes, partially recevorod. Os Use 4th she embarked is the stomas babel few tie Havaasob. 'bore she will new her reprosatatitme.— Carrier rire Stets. Usu. Ms Nor Bra, published at Sierra Lees% Nov. 10.44111 i—unto groat mortality ea beard 3. 11l Wenger. wissieassouad with Preach, i. lasapliesble. Up be the p s a l mist to to date thine lave bent se I. than 19 deaths en lama her „ mo m Neill& ship.; sat tram the welted trews of lam Issedialige there has boss bat ens death." Lllll . ll IT Miss Miss Ai mai diw, Meashistes, hes reeeived the following Wier hem - tbet b.. Flames Nightingale Castle Hospital. Heisk/ava. Nev. Bareassraey 12.—You have my best thanks fit year vse7 Mad ellsr it anaattiag awls essialai is the sepply of the vest/ of 'the selalise. O at know Of ethos artisan *ere is sew sash s selleieat supply that o f th e the only *bp whisk It would he save elf is to send ase the.1:191 " 9 °a tits sapse, th hibwill isessas. :—Biadiallil tise swell • illeiase ee ail a kiebt ' ass ef theseb. Tssiaasa isMes' es and . not, omen Prapspleslis—this site Wag bast sampled fee tb• it Biamarria epees ita 'alas. lux at ihepessi—beets M tem*, We * Off. Nasalise'," Ileaesbsti Wards.' 111). V i esaisas sad Ines% earl of Deeds. we bw an ern. sinra "Pub aliableat mealy. I bra Wee is amok yea fns yeas Mad iadiraisly me bride alter my Weak width is beast than it has bees.— 1 semis. deer =edam, nun very snaky. Yams= 418081 •1 la• Illsortarimaa" Tam OTT nil Moose or NU, sad for 1 lolgualli lOti of Bir bade defies sad e 111 Ike I Xi safe alai W , tram • fra La 110 3 111 gab 1 . i 1 1 i