The Express. — London, England, 1855-04-06 00:00:00

r Elie erpreOls. TO COMIZOPONDENTIL aaireammoi buskins "The laanea." leaden lam lal Pere. s Two Aka =ma he as she Ma, le. Banerleetrael. by ea he day el phassilea. RION WATER AT LONDON BRIDOI. Ten DAT —lllandas. 4h. lea ... Attoriese. 4h. 114 m, Taleassow—Yeralag, 4C Na Aftwasia. IC Cm. LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 6. THE LATEST FROM SEBASTOPOL. The Parisian world has been sadly mystified by the last despatch from Gemmel CANROBENT, published in the illesiteer. That document purports to be dated "Before Sebastopol, March 29;" and yet its news is no later than the night of the 22sid-23rd. The question was naturally asked, in the first pluses "Did Gemmel CANZOBULT allow six days to slaps before be sent off word of an action in whieh the Reseians hid 2,000 and the French 600 ma pat hors a ceatka?" Bat on the heels of this teesdie trade another " Could • despatch from asbeibpol slash Paris in four days?" A private hilleaph, received from Marseilles on the 4th inst., implpied a Wed= of the puzzle. " Before Sehoslnper was merely a misprint for " Constantinople aid "29th" for "26th." But political speculative mem not to be thrown off the scent of a political mystery by so simple an explanation. They would not be lieve in the possibility of misprints in the cdacial journal. And upon this assumption they built up a new hypothesis. "Government must have been in pommel= of CANIOBERTI3 despatch for some days before it was published The despatch must have been kept back, until the approaching arrival of the mails of the 28th from Constantinople rendered farther concealment impossible. Bat why this reticence? Undoubtedly, CANZODIERT'S news mast have bees of too. usfavoarable a nature to bear publicity. The despatch, as it appeared in the Monitor, must have been doctored." All this is very ingenious, but, to oar minds, we confess not very conclusive. May we be allowed to start • hypothetical explaeatien of our own P At present the hostile Powers are emly rousing themselves from their winter slumbers; they have not yet gone to work in earnest ; no (leak* news can be looked for immediately. But palsied gossips are apt to associate this dearth of stirring intelligence with the Vienna conferences, and to draw all sorts of strange inferences from the comb'. nation. May not the French Government have sought to mystify the Frecch public by the ism date prefixed to General Cartitormar's de spatch, in order to give them some safer theme to puzzle themselves about than conjectures as to whether the great Oriental contest was to be termi nated by "a cross"? Theo/air to which General CatertonExe's dispatch relates is evidently the same reported in Ge neral Vox Orrare-asclart's despatch which we pub lished on Monday. It appears to have been one of those sharp disputed renceserres which do honour to the gallantry of the soldiers on both sides, and lead to noddle( decisive. And we repeat that nothing de claire is likely to take place in the Crimea for some time to come. From all that can be learned, it appears that the defences of Sebastopol have been greatly stvengthened during the winter. The natural position of the place is such as to reader it all but improvable, if sufficiently manned and covered with earthworks. The garrison, too, are in close and unin tee:spied communication with an army composed of the fhb of the troops of Russia. The combined siege operations or the French and English are directed only Gavial the south front of the fortifications; the forts and works to the north of the harbour are not eves threatened. The garrison, with the troops which the Russian commanders can at any time throw into the place, must at least equal in number the assailants. Bach being the state of affairs, it is clear that, if the reduction of Sebastopol is to be an isolated undertaking, the siege may rival in duration that of Rochelle, or Gibraltar, or Troy. The proceedings of the Allies show clearly that so idea is entertained that the place can pos sibly be takes by a coupel•-maiss. The oonstruction of a railway—to say nothing of other preparations— is a fact that bespeaks an expectation of long months to be mood before the place. Nevertheless, arduous and tedious though the enterprise is certain to prove, Sebastopol mast be rakes. The shame that would rest upon the area of France and England, were their armies to retire hefted from before Sebastopol, would be of a deeper and more indelible character than could result from the simple failure of a siege. If Sebastopol be left unscathed, in the possession of Russia, the object for which the expedition to the East was undertaken will not have been attained. That object was tomere the Ottoman Empire from the danger of being yard timed, or of passing into a state of vassalage under the CLAP. Now, no one believes that the Russian Government—though the opposition of the European Powers may compel it to abandon at present its design to annex the whole or greater part of the Turkiak territory—will at once relinquish what has been its cherished wish for more than a century. And the Russian Government clings to the poommion of Sebastopol only as a means towards the realisation of this wish. To Russia Sebastopol is of comparatively no value, except as a stepping-stone to Constantinople. If, thee, Franco and England leave Sebastopol in the hands of Russia, they will have only postponed, not averted, the subjugation of Turkey by the Muscovite —they will have left the work they have takes in hand less than half done. Every Englishman can tell what effect such a " lame and impotent conclusion" is likely to have as the honour and safety of the nation. The Emperor of the Fatima can give a shrewd guess what effect it would have on the stability of his dynasty. Neither the French nor the English Clovernmei osa afford to retire from the contest before they have wrested Sebastopol from Russia. • And Sebastopol, it is pretty evident, is not to be taken by step opera tions alone. The Russian army in the Crimea must Brat be driven out, or compelled to lay down its arms. Sebastopol must be completely invested. What steps have been taken towards the accomplishment of these objects? The army under OILER PAORA, at Rupatoria, threatens to cut off the oonsmanitations of the Russian forces in the Crimea with Russia. But it is not strong enough to operate against the two known lines of communication, and there are good posed' to believe that a third line exists. And even if the armies before Sebastopol bad received all the reinforcements of which we have ourtaia intelligence, it may be doubted whether amyl world be aufileisatly strong to take the field against the Evasion army, after leaving a andlaisat feces to hold the garrison of Sebastopol in aback, sad defend thsk owe weeks. The Crimean war mast be waged ostemeivs seals than it has pat bean. of !ranee and lapsed most be into play. Information whack we received within these bas► ego loads Wove that aim may be likes; by OR • WOO The *de Ifftlikt ksve real us SID bii • • . THE EXPRESS. FRIDAY the naval forms of the Allies in the lax* than bus' hitherto been imagined. At preset the Ruseisno are in the regular receipt of reinforcement, and sup. plies by way of Pereop and of the Bea of AAA The belief in the inaceessibift Nioolaieff by the river, and in the shallowness el the Bleats of Kaitsb, has hitherto prevented any attempt to interrupt the Russian oommunketions either way. Bat incidents recently brought to our knowledge appear to warrant the belief that the river from Nicolaleff to the sea is daring the spring flood' deep enough to float ships of as large draught as The nooks Apostles, and thetas depth of water in the Straits of Bert& is much pester than has boat given oat by the Russian authorities. If these representatioas should tarn out to be well founded, it would be so didicalt matter for the Allies to isolate the Crimea entirely from the rest of the Russian dorainloas.—Daily News. Vie Court. WINDSOR, Aiim 6. The Qum and Prince, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, Piles* Alfred. sad the Prises of Lsialepa, •eaked ta the Home-perk this seeming. The Primes Royal and Prtacess Alice rode la the Biding house. The Primroses Nakao sad Louisa and Prises Arthur I took a order drive.. The customary Royal Miser Bosithe sad Gate Alas I were issued es Monday sad Tuesday to the aged mad marl teams peer in the various pasides mad distriess in sad mead Landon, at the Almoary. ia Whitehall, seder the dinettes of tbe Lord High Akeersor sad Bob Moaner. the redolent, nelnded 1111111111(01111 ONUS of blinders% sad I seine lairmitise The Anima sad Royal Charities of Maunday Thursday I were dietribated yesterday to 36 aged mita sad 36 aged moan, with the usual formalities n Whitehall Chapel. The number of each on correepOnde with the age of her Majesty. At 2 o'clock la the stemma a precession, ocesistiag of • detaehmeat of the Yemen of the Guard, ander the cons maad of an Daher (ow et them canylag the ahem as a gold salver of the reign of King William sad Game Mary). the Rev. Dr. Jell, the Sub-Almoner, Joseph Busby, Req., Secretary and Yeoman of the Almoasy, sad hie easistaat, aceompealed by de children minted from the National Sawa' at Westminster, in consideration of their good cos tliest, proondod tos the Chapel. The arrival of the proondon having been notified to the Lord Bishop of Osford, the Lord High Almoner, his lord ship, preceded by Mx. Lingard, the Sergeant of the Chapel, met it at the Wane, sad took hie plan after the Yeomen with the also, the whole prooeseion advanced to the steps of the altar, sad those somposing it took their aligned places en either side. The church service (a special service he the ciettaidoe) was then read by the Rev. Dr. Vial's. After the exhortation, orefessice, absolution, hr., the 41st Psalm (the grad skeet) was nog. The first lemma was from St. Matthew,26th chap., from 14th vine to 310. The first name (41st Pease)— " Bland is he that onsidenth the poor sad needy." (Nine). 11. 16s. was then dbtribated to sub woman, and to each man shoes and stoelsiags. The sewed =them was thee nag (a prayer), "Hide not Thou Thy hoe from us, 0 Lord" (Fanant). Woolles sad lion @loth@ wen thee distributed. The third aliens was from the 61st Psalm. and the 18th verse of the 132 ad Peas," 0 Lord, grant the Gans • long life" (Wares). Parsee containing a special coinage of small silver mosey and a bounty in gold were then distributed. The second lesson was then read from the 26th chapter of St. Matthew, beginning at the 31st versa. The fourth anthem followed from Ist and 16th verses of the 63rd chapter of Isaiah, and the 9th verse of 21st chapter of St. Matthew, " Who is this that eometh from Bdom" (Arnold). The service °unaided with two prayers composed for the oreasion. The clergy present were the Lord Bishop of Osford, Lord High Anises/ ; the Rev. VI. Jell, bob-Almon; the Rev. Dr. Wesley, Bab Dean of the Chapels ltoyal ; the Rev. Dr. Vivian, the Rev. J. W. Hall, the Rev. J. Polish, the Rev. George Reptoa, the Rev. Clark Haden, the Rev. Thomas Belmont. and the Rev. J. Belfoer. The paeans of the Chapel Royal were Messrs. Machin, Bradbury, Chapman, Busby, Beason, Gray, aid Smith. Sir George Smart presided at the organ. The Right Hoe. Edward Herman has lift tows for Ashby Bs. Leger, for the holidays. I Despatches were received at the Coloatal-ofilse yesterday from the Governors of the West India labia.. Despatehes were seat to the Governor of the Cape of Geed Rope sad the Goverase of Gibraltar. A lup addition has just been nude to the public park at Holyrood, by *shim:lei witkia it a field of about thirties aerie, situated mirth of the Doke's-walk, sad t eat of the posed used for military rainier sad parade. A latter from Berlin says:—" The death of the Primes Charlotte of lleiniagea, eldest daughter of Prince Albert of Prude, took place immediately after her _ _ wiseaehetheat. She was bora on the 21st of Jane, 1831, and Bearded Prises Georp of Sain-liethiagea in Kay, 1850 Prince Albert, who was at Manisa at the time, immediately left for Jacinth's* with the Prince and Princess, the brother sad either of the dammed. She hoe had throe children, the snood of which, a plume, died a few dips The Swise Federal Councillor Drury, who of late yeses has made a eoasiderable Ague in the affairs of his country, died on the 29th alt. A despatch published in the Journal do St. Peters. bogey of the 29th owillnes the death, by a canna ball, before Sebastopol, ea the 17th, of the Ramis& Admiral M. Inhoder, a prefect seder the regime of General Cicalae% has been appointed wager of the Singe. M. Guizot Ina appeared a second time at the Tuileries, to virtu of his fanetions at the Academy, its order to submit to the Aid of the state the nomination of Y. Poniard. The Sneerer aSesutpted to engage his visitor Is a lug sad frteaday enversation. A letter from Vanovia states that after every meeting (tithe Centimes at Tisane, telegraphic despatches, uterine fully into details, us Nat to Bt. Potent:cm, but nuts weed transpires In public. -- - - Letters of the 29th dt. from St. Petersburg 'peek of the remarkable activity of the Emperor Alsztader dam his sosession to the throne. Bopp:A*lly doss he campy him self with military akin, inspecting regiments, ordering promotions, ite., almost daily. In the prosiness of the Empire the arming of the national militia is proceeding with redoubled vigour. . . Manhal Paskiewitch is said to be principally Oen pied at this moment with the introdastien of various lour wished-fur realms late the Moil &daisies:ration of Poked. Moslem to this West have beta addressed by hie order to all the functionaries la the provisoes. The Senate of Piedmont will proceed to the consi dentin of the law apes 'caveats, after Buster. The alertly meanwhile are straining every nerve to mean the rejection el the bal. Um marry COLLEGE, LoNnon.—Tho council, at their seaties oa &Wisp lut, appointed to the Preteleer ship of Arabia is the college, Dr. William Wright, of Edit' wet, editor of the "Travels of Its•Jabeir," ie Arabi*. Applicatlems for the Prefeepeorship of Itiodosteat were reserved for farther coaddentice. leave of abuses r for a year was grimed to Professor Parkes, N.D., noesiaatod as reperiateadeat of a strU beepital about to be established our Constantinople by the roveranosat. 0f... were resolved from' tb. Bunn do Goidontid of prime of 261. for the maim of 1566 for sash of tbe fear foltowlas *lessee— Geology. Hebrew, Civil Isilnewfog. sad Ansi/Ural Cihroily; sat of Ibe sea of VOL Ilor dm hospital, wadi. *MI at the OMER ealleatien, then antonathig to 1,400 L, being 661191 69 1,71 K by NMI osatributioas. Gnat ilmatielhatios had boa exproseed by the laaaaimaie erreesa. is Remus keetralia, in eoeorquenee of a *brief Ism um !awls( obisisei a via unmet boa tbe Large rigidities of potatoes are brought to bus Yabobilsi. by the Chest Northers lad la stays. sea masa oat ea COO. bun Ili wawa. of the IllsatbMese i reaVvi; Ormarsi• DEATH . OF " Cones likul." is deid! The early death of the ism fimily of whom she was the sole miniver, pre pared all who keew the einumstanems te upset the lass of this gifted creature at any time: bet not the leis deep will be the grief of society that bee genius will yield as nothing more. We have three works fres her which will hold their place in he Westin of our century : and, bat for her frail health then might have been three times three ; for she was under forty; and her genies win not of an exhaustible bad. If it had bun exhaustible, it would have been exhimsted some time since. She had every inducanent that could have availed with one lees high-minded to publish two or three novels a year. Fame waited upon all she did; and she might have enriched her self by very slight exertion : but her steady convic tion was that the publication of a book is a solemn act of conscience—in the case of a novel as much as any other kind of book. She was not food of spook iog of herself and her conscience; but she now and then uttered to her very few friends things which may, alas! be told now, without fear of hurting her sensitive nature ; things which ought to be told in her honour. Among these sayings was one which ex plains the long interval between her works. She said that else thought every serious delineation of life ought to be the product of personal experience and observe tios ; experience naturally occurring, and observation of a normal, and not of a forced or special hied. I have not accumulated, since I published Shirley,'" she said, " whit makes it needful for me to speak again; and, till I do, may GOD give me grace to be dumb !" She had a conscientiousness which could not be relaxed by praise or even sympathy—dear as sympathy was to her sensitive nature. She had ao vanity which praise Gould aggravate or censure mor tify. She calmly read all adverse reviews of her books, for the make of instruction; and when she mould not reseguise the aptness of criticism, she was men pealed than hurt or angry. The common !stinks whisk wait upon literary success she opined with a charming grace ; and any occa sieusl severity, such as literary women are favoured with at the beginning of their course, she accepted with a humility which was full of dig nity and charm. From her feeble constitution of body, her sufferings by the death of her whole family, and the secluded and monotonous life she led, she became morbidly sensitive in some rupecta ; but in her high vocation, she had, in addition to the deep intuitions of a gifted woman, the strength of a man, the patience of a hero, and the conscientious nam of a saint. In the points in which women are iseally most weak—in regard to opinion, to appre ciation, to applause—her moral strength fell not a whit behind the intellectual force manifested in her works. Though passion occupies too prominent a place in her pictures of life, though women have to complain that she represent' love as the whole and sole concern of their lives, and though goy/roamed especially have reason to remonstrate, and do remonstrate, that their share of human con flict is laid open somewhat rudely and inconsider►tely and very sweepingly to social observation, it is a true social blessing that we have had a female writer who has discountenanced sentimentalism and feeble ego tism with such practical force as is apparent in the limb of Commit BELL. Her heroines love too readily, too vehemently, and sometimes after a hellion which their female readers may resent : but they do their duty through every thing, and are healthy in action, however morbid in passion. How admirable this strength is—how wonderful this force of integrity—am hardly be understood by any bat the few who know the story of this remarkable woman's life. The account of the school in "Jane Eyre "u only too true. The "SAW of that tale is—not precisely the eldest skews, who died there—but more like her than may other real person. She is that sister, "with a difference." Another sister died at home sees after leaving the school, and in consequence of its hardships ; and " eerier Bell" (CUARLOTrE /horn) was never free while there (fora year and a bolt) from the gnawing sensation or consequent fee- NSW'S of downright hunger : and she never grew as inch from that time. She was the smallest of women; and it was that school which stunted her growth. As she tells us in " Jane Eyre," the visita tion of an epidemic caused a total change and radical reform in the establishment, which was even re moved to another site. But the reform came too late to reverse the destiny of the doomed family of the Brontis. These wonderful girls were the daughters of a clergyman who, now very aged and infirm, survives' his wife and all his many children. The name MOM (an abbreviation of Ilitortuntax) is Irish, and very ancient. The mother died many years ago, and several of her children. When the reading world began to have an interest in their existence, thus were three sisters and a brother living with their father at Haworth, near Keighley, in Yorkshire. The girls had been out u governeesse—CauttOTll, at Brussels, as is no secret to the readers of " VO lette." They rejoiced to meet again at home—Crt,►i LOTTE, EXILT, and ANN (" Curer," " Ellis," and "Acton.") In her obituary notice of her two sista% " Curet " reveals something of their presses of authorship, and their experience of failure and nooses. How terrible some of their experience of life was, in the midst of the domestic freedom and indulgence afforded them by their studious father, may be seen by the fearful representatioas elmeaculine nature and character found in the novels and tales of MOLT and ANN. They considered it drir duty, they told us, to present life as they knew II; and they gave us "Withering Heigh.," saes *The Tenant of Wildhll Hall." Such an experience IN this indicates is really perplexing to English people be general ; and all that we have to do with it is to boar it in mind when disposed to pass criticism on the coarseness which, to • certain degree, pervades the works of all the sisters, and the repulsiveness which makes the tales by EMILY and ANN really horrible to people who have not iron nerves: "Jane Eyre" was naturally and universally sup- posed to be CHAILLOITE herself; but she always denied it, calmly, cheerfully, and with the obvious sincerity which characterised all she said. She declared that there was no more ground for the assertion than this. She once told her sisters that they were wrong—even morally wrong—in making their heroines beautiful, as a matter of course. They re plied that it was impossible to make a heroine inte resting on other terms. Her answer was, "I will prove to you that you are wrong. I will show you a heroine as small and as plain as myself who shall be as interesting as any of yours." " Hence, 'lone Byre,' "said she, in telling the anecdote " but she is not myself, any farther than that." As the work went on the interest deepened to the writer. When she cams to " Thonfleld." she could not stop. Being siarteightei to excess, she wrote in little square paper books, bald dose to her eyes, and (the firm copy) in pensil. On she went, writing incessantly for three weeks; by which time she had carried her heroine away from Thornfield, and was herself in • bur, Which compelled her to panes. The rest was written with less vehemence, and with mete anxious ears. The world adds, with less vigour and interest. She iedi wittily bet dal*: MIR% is mad to ply of this reelarludge book. We all remember how long it ems before we could hams who wrote it, and any parti cular' of the writeei when the name was revealed. She wee living imeng the wild Yorkshire hills, with • father who was too much absorbed in his studies to notice her occupations I in a place where slimmers were sever sees (or where she never saw any), and in •Aoses where the servants knew nothing about books, mennecuipts, proofs, or the poet. - When she told her worst to her father, she carried her book in one hand, and.= adverse review in the other, to are his simple and unworldly mind from rash ex pectations of a lease and fortune which she we. de cimalised should never be the aims of her life. That we have had only two novels since shows how deeply grounded was this resolve. " Shirley" was conceived and wrought out in the midst of fearful domestic griefs. Her only brother, a young man of once splendid promise which was early blighted, and both her remaining sisters, died it one year. There was something inexpressibly affecting in the aspect of the frail little creature who had done such wonderful things, and who was able to bear up, with so bright an eye and so composed a countenance, under such a weight of sorrow, and each a prospect of solitude. In her deep mourning dress (neat u a quaker's), with her beautiful hair, smooth and brown, her floe eyes bluing with mean ing,and her sensible face indicating a habit of self-con trol, if not of silence, she seemed a perfeet household image—irresistibly recalling Wordsworth's descrip tion of that domestic treasure. And she was this. She was as able at the needle 1111 the pen. The household knew the excellence of her cookery before they heard of that of her books. In so utter a seclusion as she lived in—in those dreary wilds, where she was not strong enough to roam over the hills in that retreat where -- - her studiousfather rarely broke the atones—and there wee no one else to do it; in that forlorn house, planted on the very clay of the churchyard, where the graves of her sisters were before her window; in such a living sepulchre. her mind could not bat prey upon itself; and how it did suffer, we see in the more painful portions of her lest novel,—" Villette." She said, with a change in her steady countenance, that she should feel very lonely when her aged father died. But she formed new ties after that. She married; and it is the old father who survives to mourn her. He knows, to his comfort, that it is not for long. Others now mourn her, in a domestic sense; and, es for the public, there can be no doubt that a pang will be felt in the midst of the strongest interests of the day, through the length and breadth of the•laad, and in the very heart of Germany (where her works are singularly appreciated), France, and America, that the " Cuainut BELL," who so lately stole as a shadow into the field of contemporary lite rature has already become a shadow again,—vanish ing from our view, and henceforth haunting only the memory of the multitudes whose expectation was fixed upon here—Doily Zeros. TITHE COMMUTATION AVERAGES. ^+g. .APRIL 6, 1855. '- TO TNT )DITOI 07 TILT DAILY Kiwi. Ste,—ln the Daily News, of the 9th Jennary, l you published a letter from me, stades that the value of each 1001. of tithe commutation rent charge for the year 1865 t• be 891. 15s. 81d., founded on the septennial average prime published I. the London tiasetis of the 6th January What 6i. Old. per imperial boatel. Barley Oata The perfect amuse, of this statement I now beg to con firm for the satisfaction of your readers, am it bas been called in question in a letter published in the Record, of the 26th sit., signed by the Rev. W. M. Hind, of lltapenhill Vicar age, Barton•on-Trent, who states that, by a strict value• tics, the septennial average prices should be—for Wheat 6.. 047 66d. per imperial bushel. Barley 3s. 7 27.28 d. ditto. Otte 2s. 6 3-141. ditto. making, in the valuation of 1001. of rent chugs, a differ ence of fle. 00. The Rev. W. M. Hind, in his letter, alludes to this difference as an error of computation, whereas the difference is really in the septennial average prime, over which the authority of parliament slope has con trol. The 011iblialk of small decimal quantities in the average prices from time to time daring the 'even years, or of the fractional parte of a farthing in the pries per ►ushel, clearly tend to diminish the valuation of the rent charge; but the annexed clause of the Tithe Commutation Act will no doubt satisfy your retain that I had no alternative but to take the pries u published is the London Gazette u the heals of ay annual tables.—Your, &a., - - -- CHARLES K. WILLICH, Araary, traiversity Lite-cßee. 26, Soffolketzeit, Pall-mall, April 6, 1855. MII CONNOTATION ACT, btu AID 7TR WY. IT., C. 71 Clause 66.—" And be ft enacted that, immediately after the passing of this set, and also in the month of January in every year. the umpteen*? of emu returns foe the time being, or such other perms as may from tine to time be in that behalf authorised by the Privy Connell, *hall mese an advertisement to be inserted in th; London Gasetta, stating what has been, daring seven years ending on the Thursday 'nut before Christmas day then neat preceding, the average prim of an imperial bushel of British wheat, barley, end oats, compute/ from the weekly averages of the earn returns. Clause 67. • • • " sad every lst day of January the sum of money thsseeforth payable in respect of sacra rest sharp shall vary, so as always to °pasha of the prise of the sans number of bushels and decimal parts of a bushel of whsat, barley, and oats respoottvely, aeoording to the prime aosertained by the then preceding advertise asst." rrR DB LACY EVANS AND THE FVJ ELECTORS. At a preliminary fleeting of the electors of the city of Weetrainiter, bald at 4, Seaafort-bnildings, Strand. ornweasel fn. ta, purpose Of sonsidertag the propriety of proesstiag General Sir De Laoy Evens, }C.C.S., M.P. for the said city, with mow appropriate testimonial of the approval se the part of hie sostatitnente of hia distiagnisbed service, is the Crimea, the [(Montag letter from Sir De Lae, ETU., addressed to Thomas Preis, Bsq., was read : " Brysasseas-eqsan, April 2, 1866. "My dear air,—l find that a =wipe per paragraph alludes to a wish of presenting ate with mese wady or valuable teetimeay of approval on the part of the city of West minster; sad I am told that a meeting, with a view of rwa sidsrisg the subject, is proposed to be held. "Now, when I remember that on nturniag from say last unitary anises to Spa the good opal= of Westminster was unmistakably sward= in my favour—that a moot kind public desonstaties, earmatlag from the ease mane, generally concurred la even by political appease% took plea on ay resent return from the Crinsea—resellectiag also that I have, la fat, beea nothing for a long cause of years reiterated proofs of the anildence and esteem of this gnat sad distinguished constituency, I cannot but Walt that the realised= of the inanition alluded to must be ob viously sad extremely superfluous, and that it would ill become me to ageism, is oosedmaing my frieade the trouble of any each prooadiag. "You will, therefore, greatly oblige nie by taking some opportunity of and= them that if they will have the goodness, at my request, to relimpish it, for the seam= I have stated, they will add very much to my feelings of obligation, sad that by doing so I shall appreciate, if pos sible, more warmly sad gratefully the high favour they have desired a bestow ea me. _ _ " Media. that pot will pee with sla fa this °plaice, " I rataia. up dear it, ram GM meat truly, " DE LACY JAVAN& "To Themes heat, Esq." Whereupon it was unanimously tesolved, that in defenses to the wishes of Omen' Bir Ds Lisp Enos, as expressed in the above idle; "This meeting, with nub regret, deems it inexpedient to mooed forth* wit► their ins Masse' • WAR. Awarding to Itaarian lettere from the Crimea of the 22nd ult., Prince Gortehakoff bee expressed his high approval of the works constructed in front of the Malakhoff Tower. The Fines, whose specialiti is the artillery, immediately gave orders to treble the number of workmen employed thereon, marked out positions for new works, and ordered up a reinforce went of troops to cover the position. The print* stayed only two days at Sebastopol. He is said to be greatly irritated at finding his bat year's acquaintance, Omer Paoha, on the territory of " Holy Russia." His first care, it is understood, will be to purge the soil of the "pagans" of hie earlier proclamations. From Odessa, Warsaw, and Vienna, we have ad vices, all speaking of the immense efforts which Russia is making to oppose an overwhelming force to the armies of the allies in the Crimea. Without permitting ourselves to be misled by the figures which the German journals produce, reproduce, and confuse, we must still admit that the evidence abundantly shows that the Russians are augmenting their armies by new arrivals, to which the reinforce ments of the allies bear but a feeble proportion. The best troops, and some of the best generals of Russia, are at this moment in the Crimea. A German officer in the Russian servios writes :—" We in the army know little about the diplomatic niceties upon which the good people of the West seem to be bestowing their attention. We know that, before and after the signature of notes, protocols, and trea ties, the greatest influence in the Rest will belong to those who make the best military figure in this war. People in this part of the world understand victory and defeat in battle, and they understand little else. We are fighting to uphold the military prestige of Russia, and if that remain we win, whatever we con cede on paper." _ _ . The Emperor of Russia, on the 24th ult., reviewed the 6th and 6th battalions of Grenadiers, who are to proceed to the scene of war, and expressed to Gene ral Rudiger his satisfaction at the efficiency of those troops. FRANCE. SHIMMY or THU DAILY NEWS.) PARIS, THURSDAY EYRNING. The general tenor of Vienna letters is more than ever against the probability of peace. If it be true that the Plenipotentiaries of the Western Powers have gone further than, in the opinion of the French and English people, they ought to have done to conciliate the Emperor of Russia, their weakness has been neutralised by the Czar himself, who, it is now thought, will not, when it comes to the push, make any substantial concessions whatever with regard to the third point—the limitation of Russian power in the Black Sea. I hear that the Emperor Napoleon expresses his firm determination to go to the East. "Je pars," he i/ reported to have said, and if they should make peace at Vienna 1 will sign the treaty at Constantinople." You may expect now to hear of serious fighting in the Crimes every day. Letters from the camp, written by officers of rank, state that the spring has a palpable effect upon the blood of the French soldier, and that it would be impossible to keep the army long in a state of inaction. Recent telegraphic despatches speak of a movement towards Sebastopol, from Eupatoria, by Turkish troops, supported by French. All that I bear in ministerial quarters tends to show the probability of this intelligence being correct. The Bourse was dull with little business doing. The Route fell 20c.. closing at 70fr., after having fluctuated between 891 r. 90c. and 70fr. 30c. In rail ways there was no change beyond Ur. or 3fr. There was a report of the death of the Duchess of Berry at Venice. I have inquired of some members of the Legitimist party as to the truth of this rumour, and find that they have no knowledge of any such news having been received. The bill imposing a tax on dogs passed the Corps Legislatif yesterday. SPAIN. A telegraphic despatch from Madrid of the 3rd states that Lord Bowden, the British ambassador at that court, has addressed to the journals a commu nication in opposition to the ministerial declarations relative to the violent measures adopted against the protestants at Seville. The Spanish government would, it was said, make a complaint to the English government on the subject. A despatch of a day later announces that it has so complained. The affair in question was thus set forth in a Madrid letter of the 20th nit.: The Spanish government and Lord Bawds's, the British ambassador, had some rather sharp conferences late! on the subject of the application of the religious question to English subjects residing is Spain. It is known that the police at Seville, a :ew days ego, surprised eight who were engaged in divine woreh p at the house of a protestant minister, and the house was invaded without exhibiting any warrant for that purpose, being a flagrant violation of domicile. Lord Bowden remonstrated on the subject, founding his applica tion—first, on the violation of liberty guaranteed by trea ties ; and next, on the feet that the Spanish Penal Code only authorises proceedings where the act is done openly, and la insulting to the national worship. Be added that at Malaga, Madrid,and other placee,protestants perform .d their religious rites in private without being interfered with. The Spanish government replied that it had not received any Mcial account of the affair, and it is probable that the matter will be settled by the sot of the police at Seville being disavowed by the government. The Corm of the 30th nit. states that the Minister of Fluente had made considerable fprogress in nego tiations with a French firm for a loan, but that they bad been put a stop to by the fear of insurrections. The Llano says that M. Camaoho, a commandant of the National Guard, had been dismissed from the place of administrator of the revenues of the province of Madrid, far having taken part in the recent demon ' stration of the National Guard. The Archbishop of Santiago, and the Bishops of Cartagena and Murcia, had sent addresses to the government against the bill for the sale of ecclesiastical property. THE NORTH OF EUROPE. HAMBURG, Aria 2. At the general meeting of the Hamburg and American Packet Company the directors laid bsinra the shareholders the balance-sheet of the last year, from which it appears that the affairs of the COM* pony are in a very satisfactory condition, and a diet. dead of 28 per oent. was declared. This company are now building two splendid and powerful steam= in England to run between this port and New York. They may be expected to arrive here in the course of next month, and the patriotic disinterested's= of the company deserves nonce, that they have declined l offers of purchase made to them with a very consi derable profit on the part of the British government, to put into execution the long-felt desideratum of a Iregular steam communication between this port and New York, in order the better to compete with Bremen. During the past year the company has had a fair share of the emigration to. America, having forwarded direct upwards of 9,000 passengers out of the 31,000 shipped at this port. The average length of the passage of the oompany's vowels was 42 days out to New York, and 29 days on the return. No accidents had occurred either to ships or poem gets. Another Hamburg Company, but for a very dif ferent purpose, has just been obliged to declare itself insolvent, though it started with a capital of 200,000 marks beano. It is tee Company of the City Theatre. The state has declared Wolf ready to purchase the building and the inventory, for the amount of the mortgages. In the meantime the house elated an Itstorday sight, sad will regalia so for, at lout, three ssoadte, to slim thee kw natty the seematy arraopments and finding a technical dinette *MM. to undertake the management, under certain stipZ laced conditions. I am sorry to say that the liberty of the pees is abolished, practically, in oar neighblouring tow s al Altona, by the despotic conduct of the new director of the police, who acquires a copy of cash journal to be brought to him for his sanction and oensorship before being put in circulation. In consequence of this the old-estab'ished Altona newspaper, limns ag the Address-Comptoir-IVachrichten has bee n wit I up, and other journals must follow, unities this • land totally unjustifiable conduct of the head of police be stopped. The first swallows of the Baltic fleet have arrived at Elsinore, bat there they must remain for the pre. sent, for all the Baltic ports are still perfectly ice.bouod. Even at Kiel, where I was yesterday, nothing is to be seen as far as the eye can reach but ice. It ia true the weather is mild, but it will take a long tim e to dissipate the ice now in the Baltic. This time last year the British fleet was at Kiel, and even the French ships were beginning to make their apm r . anoe. The Austerlitz had already passed the Bett, and was lying in Kioge Bay. The main body of the fleet will therefore do much wiser to remsae at Spithead till the end of April, where they will it least not be exposed to have their copper scraped off by the ice. THE BALTIC. A letter from Elsinore states that the Sound, 'hick had been closed by ice for nearly two months, is s ow completely open. The violent tempest from the north-west, which took place about the middle*: last month, first broke up the icy covering, and at present all appes since of it has vanished. The maw letter states that the passage of the Belts is completely open. THE RUSSIAN SORTIE OF THE 22ND. The Times publishes, in a late edition, letters from the camp, of the 23rd tilt., containing • few details respect. lug the sortie on the previous night. It appears from these accounts that between 11 and 12 o'clock, p.m., colones of Russian infantry came suddenly upon the men in our ad. vanced trenches, but were gallantly driven back. About the same time the French on the right of our right attack, whin is separated from the left attack by a deep ravine, were ea. sailed. As our allies were hardly pressed, orders woes given to advance the troop" in a portion of the Wanes, consisting of a part of the Light Division, to their sapped. While they were away, the Russians came up to the meek of the works, and took them in reverse, so that they had to fight their way beck to git their poeitioo. The gallant old 7th Funnies bad to run the gauntlet of a large body of the enemy, whom they drove back a/a fourchefts. One brave young fellow, Dr. Cavendish Brown, of the 7th, was killed. After an hour's fight, the enemy were driven back, hat we have to deplore the loss of the following officers, killed, wounded, or missing :—Col. Kelly, 34th Regiment, killed; Lieut. Jardan, 97th Regiment, killed; Captain Carted's& Browne, 7th, killed ; Lieutenant Vicars, 97th Regnant, wounded; Captain Montague, Royal Engineers, missing; and Mejor Gordon, Royal Engineers, wounded. The letters are given in • somewhat disjointed fern bat the portion last written appears to be the follow. iag:—" The enemy have either become desperate or hue been inspirited and encouraged by their recent mount with the French on our right. Their gnus are achy silent day and night, but they have not been retired. Bray *atheneum is armed ; the muzzle of the gun is visible nada the screen of cloth, which is hung scene from gabion to gabion. Their sorties are mode night after night, in groin force and with more confidence on each occasion. Last night, indeed, they received • severe check, but it was lot till they bad got up to our second parallel on the left, er Oreen.hill attack, had got into our mortar battery on the right attack, and had inflicted a severe Ices on oar allies on the right towards Inkermann. In the affeir ci last night we had seven officers killed, wounded, and taken prisoners, and about 100 men put hors de combat or carried into Sebastopol. The French, it is believed, lost between 300 and 400 men, and 15 officers killed, wounded, and missing. On the olio. , hand, the enemy must have suffered a loss of 600 or 700 men, although they succeeded in concealing the severity of their leas by car. ryiog off their dead and wounded, us usual. Still, the number of dead bodies lying along the front of our trenches proves that they received a heavy loss. The bodies of 12 ms and of 1 officer remain in the trenches of our left attack. The hill sides below the Bound Tower and the Smoke are covered with their dead, mingled with the bodies of the French." • ARRIVAL OF THE BUICINR. The Peninsular Company's steamer Euxine, Capt. Weeks, Admiralty agent Lieut. Ray, R.N., arrived st Southampton yesterday with the heavy.portion of the Indio, China, and Australian mail. She had 124 passenger., sad amongst her cargo were 29 boxes of Australian gold dad. She left Malta on the '27th nits H.M.S. Ceylon, and the transport steam-ship were at Malta when she left, sad st Gibraltar were H.M.S. Heals, screw transport 151, and I large number of windbonnd sailing ships. On March 28th, the Bucks' spoke the screw steamer Arabia; and on the ld moat., the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam* Madrid. Amongst the passengers was Lieut. Robins, RI., the Admiralty agent on the Australian station, who is odd home on account of the Australian overland mail stead. packet communication having been suspended. Abut 76 pusengen took advantage of the last ship from Australia via India. Between 200 and 300 passengers arrived at Ala andria from Australia, India, and China, most of whom went via Marseilles, because the Busies could ist accommodate them. Among the cargo are some of the various contributions intended for the Paris Eshibitita from Australia. The whole of these contributions indeds nearly sixty specimens of Australian woods. Upwards of twenty of these specimens represent woods that would afford the most durable materials for building purposes. Abut a dosen ue fit for turning and other minufacturiog 0111. There are no less than sixteen representing woods of great beauty for cabinet work. Among them also are strenl scented woods, and a specimen from Moreton Bay, which produces a brilliant yellow dye from the heart of the wood, and a red dye from the bark. Oue of the woods seat fr Australia to the Paris Exhibition bas a bark which is fu more bitter than the Peruvian or Jesuits' bark. THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—At the monthly general melting held yesterday at the Society'slioass Is Hanover-square, Robert Hudson, Esq., F.R,S., i 4 the 'shah', Lord Saltoun, Sir Richard Sutton, Bart., Ron. Fre derick Byron, and Messrs. J. G. Cole and B. Browns, erne sleeted Fellows of the Society; end the Hon. E. 8. RIAKIII Mrs. Baker, Min Fears, and Messrs. C. Beevor, B.A. Da' win, and C. Sullivan, were proposed u candidates for the fellowship. The report of the council announced song births in the menagerie, including another eland (bueloPays mons). This is the sixth fawn which has been produced WIN the herd bequeathed by the late Earl of Derby arrived is the gardens at the end of 1851. The rapidity with which the.. noble antelopes increase, their' capability of codling the English climate, and the large aim which they ea attain in this country are now sufficiently proved, and the Only conditions required for their complete acclimatisitioa ■ Europe are time it.d suitable localities. GREAT FIRE NEAR THE CITY-ROAD.—Yester da y forenoon, between the hours of 10 and 11 o'clock, s fee broke out in the excessive range of manufacturing Primu s belonging to Mr. J. Linningdine, cabinetmaker. shuts Nos. 12 and 13, Featherstone-street, City road. When first discovered, the flames were confined to the further end of the premises ; but they spread very rapidly to other Pain of the building, and to the Tenons premises sajment. The firs raged with great violence for several hours, and was 110 t wholly extinguished as late as nine o'clock last night. Tho origin of the disaster is unknown. Mr. Braidwood, is his report, describes the damage done Nos. 12 and 13, Feathentooe-street, Cityroad, Mr. J. Linningdine, cabinetmaker—back workshops, two floors. Nand stock in open yards destroyed; window frames an d roofs damaged by fire and contents by water and removal l building and contents insured in the Unity Fire-ofiloe. No.ll, in the same street, Mr. 8. J. Crow, timber and mahogall/ merchant—back timber stores burned, and contents of the yard considerably damaged by fire • the windows of dirsll" isg burned out, sad contents considerably damaged by. .. s .,lnwr ito. No. 14, in the tame strut, 14 out in tenements-..N". windows burned out, and contents damaged by fin tad water; Mailroom unknown. No. 18, ditto, I dr. J oon, butcher —building and contents iasured in the Alliance Fire.cdlice ; slaughterhouses and washing compartaimn damaged by brea k age . No. 16, ditto, Mr. A. Barwisk• plusher, don.—.ids windows burned out, and roof of back workshops damaged by fire, ao.; insurance not knows. No. 8, ditto, Mr. J H. Bass, °orb:utter—roof of bond* house considerably damaged by fire, sad stock by 0n 5 16 .9 the buSitliag sad the eertents lamed is the no/d shags Fire-cliee.