The Express. — London, England, 1855-02-13 00:00:00

Efte erpreos. Aram ••••• A MAW Utica :I ' .llta laprem" cas oamodo," Ss pabiliked Amy Tuesday as ia l l iM ili g i g for pm. Advordammta blooded tar "The Ezprire Plaw. mot te at tM 10. DaamMalmal. tM day ad patMatios. . _ _ HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tuts DAy—liondag. Ilia Om*" Ilk. I. TPuoutour—Mccalair, Sta Afturusos. Om. LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13. LATEST NEWS FROM ABROAD WARSAW, Pis. t. By. direct order of the Emperor, Prince Peale witch has forbidden the export of brandy and other spirituous liquors to Austria. The government oom mission has published the order.—Daily New:. The official Gaszetia di Verona has jut announced] that u the Sardinian Sag is not likely to flatter alone 1 in !hi camp of the Alike. Another Italian State may give its colours to the wind." The Bag of 'rummy is rammed to be pointed to. We (linter) have received the following has oc corespondent at Borba :- 4. BERLIN, Tr3IIDAY, Fan. 13. "Under date of St. Petersburg, 12th inst., we learn that the following telegraphic dispatch had been, received by the Russian Government: • Nothing particular has taken place before Se bastopol, except a sortie on the night of the 31st Of January, is which we (the Rimiest.) took three Wrens and seven men prisontre " THE UNITED STATES. ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA. Olt 1117111/ IMLIOILTIL) CONLIMPORMIT OF MB DAILY ma.) LIVERPOOL, Mosoay. This evening, the Royal Mail steam-ship Caned*, Captain J. Stone, arrived in the Mersey, with the usual mails from the United States and British North America. She sailed from Boston on the '3lst ult., and Halifax on the 2nd inst. The Royal Mail steam-ship Africa, from hence on the 20th ult., was passed ,by the Canada on the 31st. At the departure of the steamer business at New York was better, money easier, stocks buoyant and rising. The last dates from California, Jan. 9, epesk of the improvement in the mining districts and the arrival of half a million dollars in gold dust. In the cotton market business was restricted, the supply being small ; the sales were light, and prices advanced a quarter cent. There was a fair demand in the breadstuff market, and the late prices fully sustained. In the provision market there was a moderate demand, at former prices. Freights were at former rates, acd but little doing Exchange on London, 109 to 1091. (11011 TZB THE AFRICAN MAILS. -4 , -- (IT zLzerata TZLNOZAPZ.) 00111LITONDIDIT 07 TDB DAILY SIVA] PLYMOUTH, XMAY Evaznre. The African Company's mail stun ship Cando*. Commander Hawkesley, arrived has this amain with mails from West Coast of Atria,. The Candace left Lagos, Jan. 3 ; Sierra Leone, 18; Bathurst, 22; Teneriffe, 30; and Lisbon, where she wis'obliged to put in for cos* Jan. 30. By this arrival we learn that matters on the coast still continue satisfactory. Trade was improving, and the different native gibes quiet. The oust was healthy. The Candace brims on freight two thousand oases' of gold, five hundred casks of palm oil, and other African produce. Among her passengers is his Excellency Lieut.- Colonel Hall, Governor of Sierra Lease. Position of her Majesty's ships on departure of steamer...At Fernando Po : Case. Atlmgos : Brito mart. Ferret, and Prometheus—the latter vas en route to Eat/land. DESPATCH PROM LORD RAGLAN. (riox Last moat's sorrimarna cusrra.) WAIL Darassuirs, iII3II7ALY 12, UK Lord Penmen has this day received a despatch and its enekwerea of which the following are copies, addressed to his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, by Field Marshal the Lord Raglan, G.C.B. Before Sobsatopoi, hammy 27, 1565. My Lord Dols,—l have the satisfaction to acquai nt your gram that the weather continues fine. are 119•0111 frosts at night; but the am shines 'nightly through the day, and there is an absence of wind, which, whilst it continued, added considerably to th; eaffsribis of the troops. Every exertion is making by public transport and individually in getting huts up; but this is a mat difficult operation, and the ground is still so rotten that it is a most arduous labour to pass along it. The extremely confined space of Balaklava, and the vast accumulation of stores, has obliged me to erect huts at some distance outside the town for their reception. I mks* the lists of casualties to the 26th instant inclusive. I have, &c., RAGLAN. His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, &c. RETURN OF CASUALTIES FROMM]) so 26T1 lAN., 1865, Smte Freer Oastds-2 rank and file, smutted. Ist Regiment at Foot-1 task sad ills, esnaded. nth Regimsat-1 task sad Ilk, 98th Bs,tunent-3 task sad di*, 30th Regiment-1 risk sad ills, vsemial. Soh Raglasst-3 tank sad Ale, wassdeL 44th Regiment-1 mak sad Ale, weassisi. Ist Battalion Rifle Brigade-2 rank sad We mseadird. Total-14 rank end Ale, wessilsl. J. B. BUCKNALL ESTCOUBT, Adjstaat-Osnaral. ROf °MOW AND PIIVATES WOUNDSD le 13 JAN.. MS, INCLUSIVE. OWN twit nava Jamb Abia. ; and Glare SEW & :at essusig Seib at lena—Priasta Mtn engem elWr Prints IdeGabay. SeUe, saw* ; Private PIM* Mean. aniconty. I/ lasbant of Tacit—Frhata Mows LA* feel, saver*. Inn oar. rat kagna mm alla Brksts—Friests sway BAIA 8585. ditit emst Dior sllglatly. at lasi—friasta snub Leer. ffet, flia l IMh l =lPost—Prteste bums Hags ; area ; sad a = lade• 86 ' al lest—Privab . dab linitanat at bas—Prlvata A. J. B. lIIICRNALI. ISITOOU 101.4-0113-8/11LLINO DATe:4IIII. 1 M dears,llB4; wisdom by maw ,222, Curra. PAL& 11.—Agabie• I sums, US; It4sl, SPECIAL MISSION OF LORD TO VIENNA. Loan Joint Russ= to to minion, with a visw to oarty.ia PMT Sinop the declaration of the Max. that he was willing to renew negotiations on the bseie of-the-teur actinism,. the mother of than younglscitea, a tainorAlte petition was that these deed, and West charges should be declared fraudulent' Cud veld, and be set aide. M the ens is not Without he lemons both in morals and polities, we ay Won Goa leaden a short abstract of it taken from the opening statement of the Poth times counsel, the Arroznev-Getnarth. That antemeat is, indeed, er ports, but it has not ben aneenitod—unless an agreement to give the AT litetßlT-GENEILL'S client all he asks, ter a air sibradon of 20,0004, can be called an answer. It appears that a certain Miss Hun Joszazoth HILLY wsa a freed beauty, and also a very ambitious and designing woman; and it was alleged that she, with the assistance of Lord CLAWRICADDIS, formed the project of allying herself to Mr. HmeDcocx, a gentle. man of considerable property in the county of Galway. Accordingly, in the month of December, 1824, shortly after Mr. HANDCOCZ onto of age, this ambitious and 'designing beauty accomplished her object. A mar. tinge was celebrated; the *states, after a life use, were settled on the children in tail, with a jsitettwe of 7001. a year for the widow. Mr. HAND. COCK'S friends were averse to the marriage, yet it took place, and three daughters were the issue. Of those three unhappy ladies, it might almost be said "it were better that they bad never been born." Their short sad history is one unbroken tale of misery and pane cation. Told even in the cold language of the Chan cery lawyer, it makes the blood run cold, and we would not pain our readers by its reproduction if we did not believe it to be a duty we owe to society. From 1828 to 1840 there were no further children. In this latter year, in consequence of a suspicion of too great an intimacy between Lord CLANRICARDI and Mrs. HANDCOCK, there was a separation, sad Mr. HANDCOCK went to France. In October of that year Mu HANDoocx was the guest of Lord CLactar wean at Portant= Castle. This fact seems, how ever, to have escaped the recollection of Lord CLAN. RICABDZ, as his affidavit states that it was impossible for him to have seen Mrs. HANDCOCY during that year, as he puma the winter in Russia. A deed of separation was executed in July, 1841, and in the same year, when Mrs. BANDOOCK was on the continent, and after she had been some time separated from her husband, the gave birth to an infant, the present respondent, but no one could say who was his father or when he was born. In 1842 HANDCOCK returned a dying man to England, and took up his abode in Michael's-road, Brampton. There was reason to believe that when he tint cams there he was not anxious to have renewed intentness with Lord CLAtaticeima or hie wife. Lord CLANIRICARDE, however, prevailed upon him to nett of hie good offices. He reconciled the husband and father, a few days before his death in 1843, to his discarded wife and deserted children, Which of us would have thought, as we returned through Michael's-road, Brampton, on a winter's eve in 1843, discontented perhaps after a day of fruitless toil, that at that moment a good Samaritan, in the shape of a fashionable Marquis, was in that humble suburb, restoring the outcast, reconciling the estranged, and partaking of the exquisite enjoy meat of witnessing the happiness of which he was himself the author. Alas ! there is another side to the picture ! Hear the Arroarav Grimm :—" A notion had been served on the respondent in this cause to produce a diary which, the eldest daughter, Joerenthi, appeared to have kept, and he (the ATTORNEY HENERAL) had examined it, and any thing more touching than the account so given by that young lady of the miserable scenes she thee witnessed, he never heard. The father was in the custody of a spy in the pay of Mrs. HANDCOCK, hog object being to acquire the custody of those obildrea and the control of their fortunes. It was known that Mr. MAXDCOCK had made a will by which le brother-in-law was to have been entrusted with the most delicate office sf protecting his children, and this spy was placed about him, and, like persons is his condition, he endeavoured to betray the person he was employed to betray and the person who em ployed him, his object being to obtain a will for himself. However, the daughter was brought to the father by L ord CLANRICAIDE from day to day until his affections were aroused and weakened, and he was prevailed upon to add a codicil to his will in Jay, by which the unhappy gentleman appointed the wife he had discarded the LORD 101121 RtideELL'll BELL ON EDUCATION.— guardian of his three daughters. He was attended Yaartay, Lord John Russell's bill "to promote education of the Rag The 'abides"' swears Lord CrenarceiDa's family physician, who is land " wee printed. net mud ea the introduction. There are 22 cis as was pledged to teensy; his brother, thereforephed of much difficulty in learning where he ins, and err of a H u gh a y Basalt a scheme for premed's of adorer rived only after he had breathed his last. The clergy- time to the Rama** Committal. Two-thirds of a tows man who attended him describes it sea moat frightful tonal to be Venal at the sleeting at which as seder ter deathbed. la July, 1843, he died. In August the laying the scheme before the Education Committee is made. widow was appointed guardian of the children, sad If the scheme is approved into bL r th ec tlidualies Oanunittes t , • to s Lord CLANDICARDI of the property. The widow bad came Psis nas y d th e m em o rate , Th e set Thu -F r e d a" b y On 7004 a year jointure, but his lordship. paishes Is Ragland. Any amber of reaper's's, moose tha guardian of the property, made her an allow- tag at last to onmafth of the ratepayers of say parish, sr am of 1,5004 a year ; sad the Court, acting on th e to any whitlows, may deliver a requiem signed by Isserity of this nobleman df high rank, granted her * 6 _ l _l, , sad dissdid of the a semi= and demesne rent free, and 8001. to tarn i s h ek."uluirdess of uMml.l9. Iv So the oeeteefuee and comforts of thethreegable, the churchwardens to moirtain whether or ass a majority of the parish wish the set to be adopted *mei& ° ladies were at least Provided for. Attain hear Teas are to be taken, and nodes to be given of the Mop °. • AITORNET•OZNIMAL- 04 He weld state posi- don of the set. No similar requisition for the *depths el *AY that during the time they resided in this She set is to be loge ter dine teem If • Perbb edePla mo w a more abject state of m i sery th an the est, the 'shams of education is to be submitted to the ems ~e maim were 1,..4 I. he hardly Zdaeadcs Committee. The expense. an to be paid oat of oloodoo7i ever to hove ;I d ' a He .odd the poor rats. The Holy Bwipturee are to be read at em• tabs mho& ; bat catholic sad Jewish child,.n are &Mole alit bet @prebend that their early and pre. o bu so g to b e p rom pt g lo o m the Blesseels& =ten ids were owing to the manner in which Remus esthetic, and Jewish children:ett nffiesed from they irenapeated, and he trusted is GOD they were learning catechism or attendiag church wiliest their not so t rea t e d d es i gne dly. D in i ng thi s time t h e pereets; eoaseat. The tows emu& mad venetim are to hey called Joint DELACOUR ken, but who went by barstbs . main d ela n"li the "bush' ,eldest "."111.1"aw an euphonious name, and one to which perhaps he et, and the* the slam:wi the ld eesatioa er the aaaell °mid*" to be bed u good title—Jontt Dr BURGH—was living to some. There is an inte:tation dame "tote ss v estry - in the house. Liaised of being treated an the an- lug of the expreedoa boom& " and " vestry." happy daughters were, this adopted son was indulged *lnstr.—A scene of turbulence took place in the in every possible manor; and, indeed, it appeared in epeeists Corte on the 6th. The ministry declared that in the evidence that they (the daughters) were obliged virtue of the sixteenth eisassof the meedtatioa (which had to perform even menial services for him; and it would bNa voted) they would submit e° Ike QIN " lb. hire greedy voted. This led to • "ere of &border, the demo seem that greater cruelty was never practised by man (slimily I ,,, ft , thig spina tan formality. ' Bat Br a gaoler towards his primmer. in the worst of times /mem was g m es id e i ss i sit amid N o me , d# Ab o li s h A ROMANCE IN HIGH LIFE. than this unnatural mother displayed towards her a ll government it you will sot allow a ministry to go daughters, especially whenever they thwarted this vera." IRELAXD appears destined to supply us with a young adopted child of hen." In the meantime, top, COLONIAL CHIME AND SCHOOL Bottlam—Last succession of cause. ellebres. No sooner have we the mother, it appears, bad taken to drinking ; and a ss a s a t a l i t r oi ll A t sal th r " m tl a _ D a f a a ef til :Z am e iniee d aratom . fought our way through the perils of Mr. CeaDmes(w hi" this may perhaps somewhat palliate the unnatural m oue of the Our& of Eaglaad es. the sekais" of Great rough aaartaiip and safely lodged him in cieumcd , and loathsome nature of her conduct to her poor wwaasasides to B thhe r i f e tt s ess E r u ses ai =rote et the world) than we are harried off to wonder and to mourn over da n htan-13he . mewed one daughter of °limbo' R. C. s l.. ll s evan, lin.,neapied the ebetr. sea. tethe 4 :eurs lai e . ' the Eery of the erre" and ewer a member of a gallant Waded w ith He solicitor; saying, also, that her of his address, observed taut Sete Dee Wiesskty which person was offensive—that she was rotten : and, to although many pereas ma w sestwess a m o s i soor i„ iced so little sappdrt is neeserdea to its merits ; for, race • and namely have the Judges of the Ewe:begun account for the existence of young Marc:oak, she th e heathen, yet ear awn eelsaise, as te ordm:ed another representation of that excitiag drama, when m I the curtain rims and we god our- suttee that he was the natural son of another daughter , evangelical olouslonen, received very NUM atlea re = " Tl report dsseribsd the meals of thievishly's eypeadissia em oii selves in full view of a Galway scene—the Marquis by Fr"bb'llimilemen of blab Peeirion• Wades and dioceses S. whit* they hid bins onteaded, and widths mortgages,the lawyers and the hidresall before In 1847 the daughters MART ANNA and Reenacts re r c c t! apPeeesc for further go rpritz met the us in the cause of " HANDCOCIC DiLACOOD, ether. executed disentaillog deeds, the grantee in both :eel * deel som an unts Mowed a balia - es --- is bud i - tia Tee wise Da Bums." Beauty. Ranh, and Fortune, with being Lord CLARRICARDE. In 1849 MART ARMS meeting was addressed b several reverend gam, sad all the dramatic &companionate, so crowd the stage, the eldest daughter, died. shortly after coming of age, "' ld a see. d with , th luoww" tie oaeismia. that there is little room for vulgar morality. The leaving leer mother 10,0004 The property th an be- we . : j . , MOMS owns on for bearing before the LORD Cnew- came vaned is the younger daughters, Zostrinnx mused •runway wrapper frees &miser s bet is tot• CELLOS of Ileum) on the 24th of last month. It and literroan, who executed diseetailing deeds in to win g s r t i s i e wsu mer mtlu r d . gir t° MIN . dace T* slmiretwthh the in a gedifits by JOHN STEATTODD HAIDOOCIC, t i e February, 18e1, to Lord CLANIIICARDL In that ban he told yea .— was a kind sondem* ad ere t*.rh burst-law of his nine, Miss HONOZIA HADDOOCID month Joentnum's end was approaching. She made beieej re, witty. d ..t i dyHillmiq i mat , who died oaths 12th December, 1883, intestate. Oa a will, Wilds VOA drawn by Lord CLAIIRICAZDR, by r o si ty r oo . `' re am - 7 a g ain r r e P Y ee Weak, points, has rendered them inevitable, ft is reassuring that the management of those negotiating, an the part of England, is entrusted to Lord .Tonx Ross u. The habitual tone in which our differences with Russia have been talked of at the English embassy is Vienna has been such as would have awakened serious hare for the honour of England had their management devolved on our resident minister . there. The reasons assigned by Lord Jomr for quitting the ABERDEEN Cabinet—the cautious and reluctant manner in which he gave his assent to the Austrian treaty—and the whole tenor of his political life, afford a guarantee that, in these renewed nego tiations, the honour and interests of England will be safe in his hands. Again, the acceptance of this mission by Lord lonw, and the request of Lord Etuinurrox that he would undertake it, are strong proof. of the sincerity of the professions of mutual cordiality and confidence publicly made by these two statesmen. From their continued good understanding and co-operation the country will lock for satiefsetory remits. Oar own opinion so to the probable results of the negotiations about to be opened at Vienna remains unchanged. We may, however, congratulate the country that they are to be conducted by a trutworthy minister. At the same time it may be allowed us to remind the new Paintrat that the people will look with impatiens for the resumption of active hostilities in the Crimea u soon u the season permits.—Daily News. - This is the plain, unvarnished tale of the Ilanncocz family. It might be " moralised into a thousand similes "—but this seems unnecessary.—Doily News. FAVOURABLE NEWS FROM THE CRIMEA. Ws have net attempted to extenuate the sufferings and lame of eurnenty la the Crimea. Justice to our brave soldiers demanded that publicity should be given to all that incapacity and neglect in high quarters ham subjected them to. At the same time ms have thmegbout maintained that there was no alossihr impsedency. Had we done otherwise, we should, like the Peelites, and Messrs. Bazaar and STITROR, and the Times, and Mr. CORNWALL Livris, have been playing the gams of the Cuts. The tone sod tow of the brief letter (el the 29th ult.) finnan special Crimean correspondent, which 'we pia\ today, justifies our persisiamos in obeying against hope." At the end of last month the severity of the weather had inter mitted, the warm clothing was being distributed amongst the soldiers, buts were being rapidly erected. The remnant of the army was being placed in a condition that would soon restore many inmates of the hospital tents to the ranks. Of still more con sequence is the fact noticed by ear correspondent that the casualties of war are rapidly bringing young and vigorous men into command. "A year or AMe elective warfare will give us colonels of five "and-terenty and generals of thirty at the head of isghants and brigades." The junction of troops from India will bring a reinforcement of officers aseasteared to the movement of large bodies of men in the field. When the campaign reopens some six weeks hence the Eng lish army in the Crimea will be in every respect materially improved, if due diligence is exercised by the new Pima= and his new War Minister. The temper of our soldiers is excel lent. "The old hands," writes oar correspondent, " have, as it were, a stake in the war: they have now for eleven months given it their time, attention, and best energies; they have foe it exposed their health and lives; and they mast eatarsily wish to use some more substantial results than a pesos on the basis: of the four points, the exact tenor and bearing of which 'ode may at one time have known, bat have long sines forgotten." There is another circumstance that leads us to augur favourably of the prospect of the new cam paigit. When war was first declared, the Anglo. French army was sent to meet the Russians in the Danubian Principalities, and to moist the Turks in driving them out of these provinces. Thin was giving the Rossi's; the chaise of their own battle-field. Austria was still undecided, sad appeared to lean, if it could be said to lean any way, to Russia. The Masco ' vita could therefore master in Moldavia and Walla cilia without feud being taken in their flank or rear. They could easily concentrate their troops in Mol davia at no great distance from their supplies. They were, in a manner, " cock' fighting on their own dunghill." But their evacua tion of the Principalities and the invasion of the Crimea have totally changed their position. The supplies and reinfirecementa for their armies meet now be conveyed ovtdand-♦eras wide and barren steppes —by an •pensive land carriage. The Ankle have kept—end are likely to retain—two strong points in the Crimea (the peninsula of the Chersoneens and Enpatoria), where troops and stores can be landed to any amount. The Allies, mereirort, being andiepnted tauten at sea, an at any moment make dements spot any other part of the Crimea they please. The Russians as only bring up stores and men to the Crimea with expense and fatigue the Allies can bring op their men es they are wanted, without Wive; and, with Improved Com missariat arrangements on the part of the English, their supplies of wares may be ample and saints:- rattling. _ _ _ The oaropaign of 1853 will open with nook greater sdvintiges on our part than the campaign of 1854. Add to this, that unless our rulers belong to the dem which the proverb declares experience cannot teach, we open the campaign of 1855 with an experimental knowledge of our own deficiencies, and after having been (rather rudely) taught not to undervalue our enemy.—Daily THE STADE DUES. The attention - of the public has of late been repeat. edly directed, both by ourselves and correspondents, to the question of the Sound Dues. We publish to day the first of &series of letters on the not less excep tionable Stade Dues. It any shall be of opinion that a Hamburg merchant is to be Sensed to with caution on this question, we can only request them to allow the facts and arguments in these letters to tell for what they are worth, irrespective of their origin. In the prosperity of the trade of Hamburg, England has a deep interest. That city is the natural emporium for the trade of the Elbe—the great commercial artery of North Germany. It is also likely soon to be the only spot of German ground on which free trade can plant the sole of its foot. The Stade Dues, even if fairly levied, press heavily on the trade of England; and now that Hanover has joined the Zollverein, the exemption of the trade of Hat burg from these dues, and their continued imposition on the trade of Hamburg. assume the appearance of a vindictive infliction on the latter emporium for its iota adherence to the faith in Free Trade.—Daily News. Clic Court. ___._._ WINDSOR, Pas. 12. The Queen and Prince, accompanied by the Prin- am Apostles of Baze Ceboarg, mid attended by the Mar. chimes' of Ely, the Hon. Matilda Paget, and the Eyler. ries la Wafting, drove oat in two sledges this morning. Tile Prisons Augustus of Saxe Colon took leave of ler Majesty to-day sad left the Castle. The Marquis of Aboreoes lase also takes' his departure. A Cabinet Connell was hold yesterday afternoon. It was attended by all the Ministen and aseembled at the residence of Bir Jamas Graham, is the Admiralty._ The Cowan sat tins hours mad • ladf. The Earl of Shaftesbury had ea interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Sir Alexander Spear s= had also an interview with the right hon. gentleman, at bis Maid 1141611011 in Downisretrest. DeePatehes frog the Govankors of South end West Ass tralie,Van Dienea's Lead, sad the Neuritis, wen reosived yesterday at the Coloaiel-ofilee. Despatches for tb. GOVIIIIVOr of the Cape of Good Hope were seat last nosing hen tie Colonial-OEn. M. Varnavas Pangalco, the oldest of the patriots w►w struggled for the ladependence of Orson, and one of thaw w►o sacrificed a large fortune to the same, has jest died at Athens at the extraordinary age of one ►andled and eleven pars. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVKNING6.IIFEBRUARY 13, MIL whit* she leftiro,oooftto her mother, to be paid on the instils. et leer Meter; and in the sent et her sister dying without issue betake tser seedier, her landed estate was to be 'old, , and the proceeds given to ha mother abeelately. In June, 1861, ThEEPHINE died, and it was sworn that t e rexemplary mother manifested neither sur prise nor tegrel.lant. looked. upon it as the mean plisbneent other most deetati end. In 1863 the last daughter, liononts, OEHigred all her property in trust to Lord Cuwaoa2Des,. sukjeet to an appoint ment to herself for life, and afterwards to her mother, her heirs and amigos; but after the execution of these deeds she never had passed= of them in reality or substance. In addition to these deeds the mother obtained from her sick daughter on the brink of the grave a bond for 4,0001. In the meantime the mother sickened herself, and died before her daughter, in the latter part of 1863; the daughter dying on the 12th of December of that year, intestate. The mother, who complained so much of her poverty during life as to be obliged to deny her daughters the merest necessaries, leaves to her son DELACOUR 20,0001., and to 110NORIA 601. Durcouz dolma the chief part of the HANDCOCE estates under the various deeds, &0., executed by the daughters; the petitioner claims as heir at-law to HONOPJA. The executors under the will of JOSEPHINE oppose : so does the brother of Mrs. HANDCOCK. Judri meat was deferred in expectation of a compromise, and the compromise has been effected. The deeds and will are to be cancelled; the petitioner HANDOOCE is to get the estates, and he is to pay 20,0001. to the respondent, DELACOUI, on his oozing of age, and in the meantime four per ant. on that amount. DELLCOUZ is now only fourteen years of age; and should he die before attaining twenty-one, the peti tioner will have the estates absolutely without payment. I MEE RUSSELL 'coning to poems* 0( hie property ,h. foam' OM WWI! m00 12 %4 1 7 EoNatt and her (Ito I alder) aim erbo had pp•doonae4 hie, m eg a Viero l 4o ,,es Pet japiats satimid up by owe of thensg uk ownirra, and la citetuin ehprplarated by her will, h ave th e --. , east of &gigging him 4 the estatas and tinting etAl. that ha was them in the.reeptadent Diu cons, a nalpiai eon q THE WAR. Otemal Canrobent bee published the following ceder et the day on the *is of the Russians at flehasiepol on the Ma lo the sight of the 19th' the enemy attaeked our yvallels In two pleas. At the left the attack was assisted by the 2al battalion et the 2nd nisi meat of the Foreign Legion, vigorously commended by I Chef de &Linea L'lleviller. The impetuosity of the attack s favoured by the bad weather, failed in presence of the energy displayed by the Grenadiers, the lst company, the light company, and the sth company. Ciptains Amour and Rousseau, Lieutenants Chan and Seamier, Sergeant , Bevels, and privates Hogelucht, Seignaud, Rischard, and Deglis conducted themselves with great bravery ; and the deg of the 2nd regiment of the Foreign Legion figured with honour in this brilliant combat. At the right, it is once mere the 40th which I dad encounter iag the enemy with its accustomed energy. On the order of the eater in command, Capt. Thomas, the 2nd battalion of the 46th impetuously attacked the assailants and drove them a long way back. Captain Dufour, Sub-Lieutenant Com baud, privates Autezier, Conrail, Braaten, Morinis, Be ment, and Boyer, displayed the mod creditable resolution. Accompanying the preceding order in the Moniteur is an annotteoentent that Captain Thomas has been promoted to the rank of Chef de :Bataillon of the 74th; that Lieutenant Sassier, Bnb•Lieutenant Combeaud, and private Hogelucht have been nomi nated members of the Legion of Honour; and that the military medal has bees conferred on six of the above-named privates, as well as on a corporal named Collin, of the 3d Engineers, who, being accidentally in the trenches, fought bravely with the 46th. THE ARMY IN THE CRIAIEA. OFILOIC TIII 1111.30LILL ISPONDINY OF TB) DAILY BALAILLAVA., Lot. 29. No news is sometimes good news! The last few days have passed in the most tranquil and eventless manner. Itumours of peace, which were floating about, mono polised the attention of the military public, especially se for some reason or other it was expected that the lest mail, with ...ondon dates of the 12th inst., would bring out something decisive on the subject. That mail came in on the 27th, but the news it contained as Tou:well know, was not decisive, and anything but settafactory to those who desire a disgraceful peace. It is a curious fact that the peace party in the camp —if ever that expression can apply to soldiers—con sisted chiefly of man who had just come out; while those who have gone through the whole of the cam. paign could not reconcile their minds to so abrupt and unsatisfactory a termination of their dangers and privations. The old hands have, as it were, a stake io the war: they have now for eleven months given it their time, attention, and best energies; they have in it exposed their health and lives, and they most naturally wish to see some more substantial results than • peace on the basis of four points, the exact tenor and bearing of which some env at one time have known but have long since forgotten. Since I wrote last the weather has been delightful Breezy, sunny days, and nights of astounding validness at this season of the year, have done much to reconcile the troops to the winter campaign. It is said that if General February is as harmless as General Jarivary, the Czar will see small results from the efforts of his great commanders. Whatever General February may be like, certain it is he will find our troops in a better condition to cope with him. Balaklava is inundated with warm clothing, from public and private sources, and the men that have any warmth left in them, are not likely to lose it in a hurry. Wooden houses, too, are rising up in every direction, even in the divisions in front, whither the component parts of each house are dragged, tied, in the fashion of Perk to the sides of a horse, or carried up en the backs of soldiers sent down for that special service. The late arrivals of bit horses, and mules too, hold out a hope of full a nd regular rations to the troops in front. The men, properly fed, clothed, and housed, must soon pick up, end dimes, in so far as it is caused by want and exposure, will claim • lesser number of victims than has hitherto been the case. But there is one point which cannot too strongly be pressed upon the attention of authorities at home and in camp. Unless energetic measures are taken to cleanse Balaklava and the entrenched camp from the abomi nations which have been allowed to accumulate during an occupation of four months, early spring, with its fever season, will do quicker and deadlier work among our troops than has been done by all the rigour of winter. We should be free of fresh graves, old filth; and the rotting carcases of thousands of horses before the advent of that trying season. Oh for Toni Taylor and a detachment of BOardof Health men, to superintend the sanitary police of the camp. Col. Harding, the new commandant of Balaklava, has up to the present dons little or nothing to cleanse this town of muck and mire. It is asserted, though it is hardly to be believed, that he finds difficulties in the way of procuring fatigue parties for the work to be doae. A cue came under my notice a short time ago showing how rapidly war is making its own men and fashioning for itself the instruments to work with. Mr. Dickson, of the 77th Regiment, has jut gone home to join the depot company of his regiment on his promotion to a junior captaincy. Capt. Dickson was engaged at the Alma and at Inkermann, and in either battle, I understand, he did good service. He has just ceased to be an " infant," in law, and it is but two years since he entered the service. His ir not a solitary or an exceptional case. War clears the way for its own. Men who for years would hold oat in penes quarters die or drop down to Scutari, and from thence home. Battles play sad havoc with the army list • A race of new men is rapidly rising and growing into command—men who hare youth, energy, and vigour. Whether they have other and higher qualities of leaders of regiments and divisions remains to be seen. Much depends on the individual character of the persons so rising much on their talents. But the "infusion of young blood into the service," so long talked of and written abut and wished for, is becoming reality, and a year or two of active arfare will give us colonels of , tive.and. twenty and generals of thirty, at the head of regi ments and brigades. I cannot conclude this letter without a short ques tion snent the Post Office. Can any one in England explain how it happens that letters from Scutari take six, ten, and even twelve days to go to Bala klava ? And that letters sent from Balaklava are missing even for longer periods P As there is a good deal of official correspondence between the two depots, the question is one of considerable impor tai.oe. It is true that no postage is charged on letters sent from one place to another; but is that a good and sufficient reason for slowness and irregularity P Let authorities at home look to the grievance. I pane* for a reply—or a reform. THE STADE DUES. (,aox r N! or TII DAILY mi.) HAMBURG, FEIBRIARY. Your correspondent at Copenhagen having lately exposed the objectionable nuisance of the Sound dues,• I take the liberty of claiming the benefit of your impartiality to say a few words about another of those admirable monuments of the feudal times, still jealously enforced, and tacitly submitted to by all maritime countries, though inflicting such severe injury on commerce and navigation in general, and to those of Great Britain more especially. I allude to the so-called Stade dues, levied in the mast arbitrary manner by the Hanoverian government on all vessels and their cargoes passing up the Elbe to Hamburg. I perfectly agree with your Copenhagen corre spondent that it is high time that these intolerable obstructions to commerce should be abolished, and sincerely hops that the subject will not only be publicly discussed, but that England will insist on the free navigation of all the rivers and straits of Europe, and not confine the negotiations to the Danube and the Bleak Sea. For the latter it may be admitted in extenuation that it is a mars claunan, • No lettan from o•e ow• eortospendoct at Cops Worn Is D4ttlg awe of Jaa. 13 awl and the Russians have takeiooi care that th e Danube shall be 'flutists clauses., contrary to their promises, and even existing treatise. But the abates of the Stade and Sound Dues come much nearer home, and ought to be taken in hand by the British govern. ment vigorously, and without loss of time: Before exposing the monstrous arrogance and arbitrary conduct of the Hanoverian government offi cials, I would beg permission to give a brief historical sketch of the origin of these vexatious Stade Dues, in order that the British public may be enabled tojudge what legal right Hanover has to demand this toll, and on what a flimsy foundation the whole syitem is based. It was about the middle of the eleventh century that Hamburg, about a couple of hundred years after its foundation by Charlemagne, had become a place of considerable importance, and was even then the great mart of foreign commerce in the north of Ger many, in spite of the depredations of the Northmeu, Sea Kings, and , other marine freebooters who infested the North Sea, to say nothing of the inland k n i g h ts and nobles, who, with more or less show of pretended right, levied arbitrary contributions on the peacef u l traders on the Elbe, Rhine, and other riven of Ger. many. The introduction of Christianity had by degrees a favourable influence on this barbarous state of things, and commerce developed itself as the lose corky of the seas diminished. But it was also owing to the introduction of Christianity that the rising spirit of trade was fettered by many of those feudal privil, gee granted by zealous sovereigns for the benefit of Mother Church, and which still survive the wreck of moat of the institutions of the dark middle ages. It was a principle laid down by the Suabian Emperors that the right of levying tolls belonged exclusively to the sovereign, who alone had the power to delegate the authority to churchmen or laymen. Generosity to the church, and especially to the monastic establishments, which in those ages were the seats of learning and literature, was generally considered the greatest virtue in a sovereign; and grants of lands and tolls and other privileges were showered upon the monasteries with liberal hand, and frequently without any great regard to the rights and property of other parties. Under the Saxon Emperors of Germany but few restrictions on commerce were introduced, and this is probably the reason that it flourished so much then. It was only at a later date, and under the Franconian Emperors, that the numerous grants of river tolls on verse's navigating the Rhine, Danube, and Elbe were so plentifully made, chiefly for the s up po rt ban of the convents that sprung up on the of those rivers. It was to one of these grants—and that, too, to the Bishop of Hamburg—that commerce was indebted for the first introduction of the Stade dues. The Emperor Conrad, "in grateful remembrance of the Divine grace by which he was raised to the dignity of emperor," felt it to be his conscientious duty to pay particular attention to the well-being of the church throughout the whole of the holy empire; and therefore, "for the benefit of his soul," empowered Bezelinus, Archbishop of Hamburg, by • charter dated 10th December, 1038, to found a new market at a place called Stade, on ecclesiastical territory, if needful and profitable, granting him the jurisdiction and right of mint, toll, and other emoluments it might produce.t It was from the profit arising from this market at Stade that the Archbishop was enabled to build the Cathedral at Hamburg of stone (it had till then been only a wooden one), to construct for himself a suit able residence, and to surround the town with walls strong enough to resist the incursions of the sur rounding barbarians. The expressions market, toll, and mint (mercatus, theloneum, moneta), implied nothing more than similar ones in all the other charters of the period, the toll naturally having re ference to the goods actually brought to market. But the transition from the market toll to the dues levied on passing vessels is easily explained. The estab lishment of a new market at Stade was probably considered desirable, to evade the barbarous hordes which swarmed on the other aide of the Elbe, and to draw some ,o f the commerce of the country to the new mart. Against this arrangement no objection could be raised, es both places were under the government of the same dignitary. But as, in spite of the new market at Stade, the commerce continued to concentrate itself at Hamburg, it appears exceedingly natural that the merchants should by degrees have found it to their interest to compromise for their obligation to unload their vessels at the month of the Schwinge, and carry their goods up to Stade--a distance of two or three miles—by the payment of a fine or toll. The expression in the charter, "if needful and useful" (ri g uando rei neceasitas eaposeat vel Waite:), ought not to be overlooked, u the direct meaning implies that if the object in view was not attained—in other words, if the proposed market should turn out a failure, which it was—then of course the grant was abolished. The charter of confirmation granted by Conrad's successor, the Emperor Henry. IIL, and bearing the date of May, 1040 (which is still extant), makes, also, no mention of an Elbe toll, bat uses the same words si in the original grant. The exact period when this market toll was trans. formed into a river one is not known ; at least there are no documents or writings in the archives at Hamburg that throw - any light on the subject. t Addidinms Milts pro veto et petitions ejudem vent rabilis wiri, quonimit tideless mint in °ati negotio soars oomporimus, Ut potentate= babest, ai quendo rei no:mantas ozposaat mai ritMte° in load &ad= nominates, in pnedio naMmioatioo, meroaturs az integro oonstrnandi, bunions et thalonmint noes non Mims mammon orquieqsid hide Regina rat publicise Sans °Miners potorit, pratibatte lianiburgensi °Wiriness mdl. DEATHS AT SCUTARI HOSPITAL. The following is the return of deaths at fiesta( likspitel from Jan. 28 to Feb. 1 : assolteass. John Min 7th hash Hairy, 37th isms Smoke. Stns. Mary flakar, lotto Hopper, 37th Was MN Wne../aehnen. 7th John Derseset. ON NS Ws D e r. Bth Name Dontely , Nth Shia 414 Wm.honessesed,l9th Matt w. Join Nosh list Fred& • 43 iv a ang. 1. 111 6 dad Jose,' desilten, 30th Oso. y, 19th lo Rms. 53rd Chs.Whitalsr,LAr& syntaNtle E.Proirlare,C.Ods. nos. Millar, Amite. ATM Rola. lissilass, LEO. Thos. Ulm, Nth IlsaiNiendon.o.odo. John lawi., lm Pan Jhankteephs,4lat JammTain.,hadDreg. Nat. NaNek dth Mama Rai Ist Join halm, Z. Art. Ikea. ism, NN Geo. Brown, 414 Thm. W a it Mies Olass, Nei ha. Whelan. 44th Thu. ' • imp More, NS • Henry Inwefter. 491 h Wllis ha tamp AN% 446 Edward llama illk Darla Sank. NSW =141 1 7 Thomas Fry. MN Chadne Farm^ ON Meek Mkt Jean Eensne.ilth nods Ma t, Silk Pat. Wks% th Jams 111141 .6 aIIIAJI. O.OdIL W. 1 7th wows nit P.O Bunn th Omens now% J Isms Fowles. 47th John John isms. lat Liss Thm. AZ% IL &Ode. Jon M Sind Join ANL Lt Nies Nes. KM% I. P. O. Pater 11' 79th Joseph Ikater, let Z. Nimml NeNno. 47th John Gn w, Joseph dads, Is H. Ws. Ost , O. Gds. Pets W Slid My. Pennington, 94th Om. Dminsi.O.Cida. Alhed 9 9 th hawed , Sousa, 49th ,1 7 1=e 44th Homy assn. 93th Chwaid hylor, 50th Nth Hari Ombho, 97th Imas Dawns. 37th ...4.110 Timms lops 97th itliellneneley, 93th Wm. W. Nth Wills Wham 97th Joespi musk let & D. Ilannor, &A. Hem Jocelyn, 27th Oen. Dawes. Rh H. DIN Whitt* C. Oda. AWswea Idler, 97 tk 11m. Hash& 33rd This 1 Mim,lst Mind dm" 331 d Willem KO Fria* Simony 4th John WSW. Ist Edward 14. John =lmam. had MIN Wyss. Bth Wm. Ilhadviet, 90. Jamsslave, Ord Ilisnry Loan Akd Gawp Rid, UN Y d Dieher. Ned DANN =Nth nos. Paseo* 7th dam WWI. lard Thanes noallerestman, UN H om ed INN Jams a Ws. Pass, h. sad Z. 95 non Eleinrd Weeks, Ned d.mk., lat JenessCbrbett,lstD.O. Boht. Deina t leallion Janes inilk. Ist &start Pitcher, 0. 0. do. frisialis m ad= SiSS inethe. 19th John Smith, 43rd John Hedy. Wmisr Ns& Seth W. Bart. dad John Des, 0r... Ods Whim Ms. did IL lisseasstee. 901 E Jas. lhaith. Oren Ods Wiliam belnelnlird The..lkaward, 47th Sam. Ilissen, o.o4.JoinCdon, lard Mary lodgers, let nes Was G. Ude Jams inne,ll4th Wm. hiker, 34th =Ram" C.Ode Jams &ask 48th Jona. Barton, Sth Kelly, 4th John Argil. NA Edwd. nks, 6371 YeandsWahlts. 4th DIATIII 01 BOARD SNIPS DITIVITN TIM MYRA AND umea ro asi wirc uovik j J ai l lemads. Plazrar With pr. phutp ia L= l 6l 3 : iv. Itokatt Johann , 63rd E. .14th John Cos. Oh coaroanta. Deartaliallanala.93d Chan Mark LT. 0. Jarfavatisg, 63rd Chan linda. 17th L Way Drita, MM Jima Warphy. 63rd Oss.Cindt. fOth roman Drag livaan.2 hd Rinelnlb d r joh2 Thos. Damn. Walk flag Jolla Tawarsaa. 57th Edwin' Peat. Z. A. Ww. Ph_ooK Nth Wet. inanahrar. Uth Maori John tantmens. 97th Oen Wlntiotred. 41Ith nog i llr = Hrark'' .- 7111 . a. anohm. S. Ci. hita Ward. linth S. C. Oil. Joon Warrikin Nth Wan Bohn% MO Hwy lOW 11= . u= r BY Tim by Hadoon.lath llartb lardhenn. 961 Sours-Enerantt Rau.vroY.—Trafflo for week end inn Feb.lo, 1866, 10,2421. 14e. 64.; oorrespesding week, 1031 r 12,1901. Us. 04 Veereset 1044, 1,9271. 17k Id.