The Express. — London, England, 1855-02-17 00:00:00

_ . r i, hear.) That 7.....: a w : e aes tar t a eesa:awlek d th. 1 r ea..... an OW Illbishatsplie to Ir o ise hi.ilos. i had say the ran gemialamt of mot it whoa the eseatey would have • WINN a Hero; his the greets: respect Is, C el p a roved ess ig l ass, (Hear, hear.) Ihe pried* seamen erkisit ge/kMry en Woos essmises. bat it is net toy inteatioa had Mee saneemed was but a kit simenee Mier all. A to allow that pails t Oleo to dub himself a martyr as well mapas sake gamma edam whe toes Move SI yeah of age, ma km; ass I have ao iateatio* wbasever of adviaiag wee in be mat eat te take the Nailed 0 the staff, to be a the sows to take say farther sotto of the matter. (Cheek) gem of wet woe to Lord Basks. end to take the semage• The braes then went iota emeantese. mat of the staff eat of his loads. By tips time. however, Si. J. GRAHAM moved the naval estimate, yeasebelet. the emeniasest ought to kaow whether Lod iiiefta was gke various items, Ali have already he rehabbed. $ b. wasted se not ; and if he wee to be Meted, mai eaplaialag the seem aid the muse of the moms in the. a "mini skald nut be seat elk to maim* doers appeariag soder absent woe, bead. The nos re usa ; sad if he was not to be trusted, is OsiVe salt weal se show an kerma fa the e.hs, of mass so ease let him be reoalled. He had eakeisered gaged, somprialag ASlMeseatmead idesemiam,aad rabies thus to szereo the feelings he entertalawil ea this qoadoe, ex the total personnel of this min to 70,M11 beads. Tt= booms he thought it desirable that the sent Amid penditure amemled to sommthieg Iron dos Ism i new what were the feeling' of mrmy aim were their goer and exhibited an eshommeent of tidy 299,0011 berm* the g al supporters, but who could net sew go alma with them, outlay of the previous_ year. It we Asterisked he sad se 0 use a railway phrase, " to make thaw piteness," while sailing ships to the Balks this year. but he loped to have l iztwa remained which had mused sob sellbriag to VW twenty ships of war, all propelled by stem, is reek t army is the Crimea. nos for soviets is that quarter by the end of the Kr. SEYMOUR 'sin he regretted that, co the adveut of lest six weeks. Detailing the seesaws adopted to in laid Pahnostou's government, the changes made moo mean the twos et gsubsees sod mortar vessels, sad he he Sestla u stat net so ea hto secure a more vigorous prosecution of the eierlreedis of hatinelea, Sir I. Graham duel mill war. Why was ea octogenarian appoiated to command the keg envisage woe est may to repair any maseat Joao in Ireland ? sad why wee Admiral Bier, who had of ordinary dilapidaties , eke to inset the eonsermame mismanaged things so shamefully at Coostantinople, sent to of peuelble casualty or diseker. After a prolonged sad mange matters at Bakklava? He regretted that the appoint- sabeellemees diesessiee. the several votes on the estimates meat of Mr. Layard, width was opal= al, had sot been were agreed to. sew. • anbsequeat vote of 6,11140001. for mode; because the hen. =mbar he AybrialFy had been he tranamet amiss. ACM in all hie llettilrlieh tem the kraal; of the NEWSPAPEZ, he , POSTAGE AND STAMP war. He should ham Wed k ease ; awl it were DUTIES. true that Admiral Disks had bees the eau* of his not tstzpointed, thee a goat ospeeeibility lay upon the Mae lad esetaWy wet mesited the thanks of the seantry—fee bee*/ deprived the emeAry of Mr. Laysrd's sardine. The gemeameat should Mama to the stoppage of UM trade of Rude, dkregarding all mere frootrade theories, whisk were applamlis is time of pease; the blockade, as Bet, had bees isat seminal, sad the heed with whisk oar ielhsue were shot had bees espersed hem this .entry ism the wee berm, and brought to Sebeetepol through the serisswes of ear Black Bea Beet. He was sOmisked at the elkemeat Admiral Berkeley made, of the good order in Bakken Whom, ia peek of whisk a paper signed by mem masters ef treasperle was teferred to—although they, bake paid destunage fee every day's deteatioa., had as bileeme In the benbene being in that alismaselel state, sad meek Zany repo As for the aagotiations, he maid Missy holed eseildence in the present government an. Mahn' imbemessable maw Their intense desire of peace eras men en Moe& le its acoomplishineet. He regretted the wish* Eimpi Jeba Russell to Visual': it was dam "story to Ms eseatey that a atavism s& of his position shoeld go there, to mast we statesman of equal oak from Russia to say ober aunty ; and at present, when the Eiteden argue spoke of every chasm of peace es futile, it was highly hisi=ite. BERKELEY asked what higher authority he amid have given kr the statement to which the hos. mem ber ADAM the. that of Sir Shateed Lyons. the talsoted mad mortis oriatamier of the Black Sea fleet ? The statemeat wee based an Arial letter from him, sad be (Allbeiral mall set bam repeated it, without a kwasight geed resew The bee. gentleman had alluded ` to • 1111111SeltiON et his, actual admiral i late in command of Me Bleek See aid h spokes of his beepkg the he.. seemlier for Aylesbury out of the remotgememeent. He (Admial Barb elm) did not know obsess the his. gentlemen kw sash isformatioa ; and ell be mold ray Cm that when. the hes. patios= might somember, the thanks of the house were voted to Admiral Semi" it the hoe. member for Aylesbury then believed V.../..1? esowatime which be had made who Admiral wan heeded in truth, it was his haesien deli is Eiseatoy sod his ormetituents, to have them steed up la Ms Mose and le ham waisted that vote beteg manimees. • Oa the media Orr riag late comoireer ea the entiheine, . . _ _lowa BOTRAII arkedwkether tM rommiest latently' Saltdmlbs abates( tie navy est i atalsoistkaad thin tbe whole • lho asusy adman, or whotbor they tumid sak i bet tor await men ha illts army mid navy, mad dna its a VON le WWI ? Messina's* istaadod to as Mirsuab the way amasstes sew, it WU impossible to divan tams is tbo abysm of a moat important document. flipper to which be alluded was the royal *MIMS hard ►y his Majesty last year, is eotsmiqueses of the isomiallia Out was appoisted to consider the stay of poomatiss a thowmay. That may mission ands its wean about As width of last sossiaw. The Secretory at War. an tryparst @primness mods to aim, said fiat lbw warreat was Wog prepared ; it was twood just al* pa/haws% adjoosuall. mat bd slaws boas orsessism. That wasraist was progeowl So the hewn lir bra Mr WS oi,owtonsat, hot bylaw* yet boos plaid. 011,Aistn mid that if the bogie wield sisseest sow tt ge daiawssy estlenales, It was sot the intuition of go verment tbet emaisgto peewee say vote having reference to t►e army estimates. Admiral WALCOTT complained that the naval prestige of t►iseusty was impaired, wins we allowed the Turkish sisedleas M be destroyed at &Immo; ►e regretted that osr flea ad set s early in the war, cross the Bleak Bea sad rase 10611111111111, grenued ; he regretted several other instaseee sfsigasmagessest is Um war, bat ►e trusted that them ensue might yet be retrieved, sad that our soldiers would set have fallen is vain. The wooing of the rosartfoiaosT this bill was postponed till Monday. PAIRS AND MARKETS (IRELAND) BILL. Sir J. YOUNG moved the mood reading of this bill. Lord Noon, Coi. Domini, and other ambers suggested the postponement of the second readies. After a short dismission, Sir J. YOUNG mosented to postpeme the semi reading till Moods, sent. FRIENDLY SOCIETIES 1416 _ . . . Kr. 80TH iiircW,.•veiti; ;;;Wissain of this MU, wbieb, be sold, wee /sanded spin Ills report of a salsa sossanittoe, sod to tbe principle of IMO, so hr as be knew, there was so objection. TII4I antioa was weed to, sad As bill cedars& to be admitted as Musk 14. The bolos adjoarsed at half-past 12 till Monday. SIR CH ARLES IZZICH. •. A. DUNCOUBE said be wet maim' te sell the of the right boo. harms; the Tint Led of the ,to • stemma& whist appeared to bra bra • gallant okra lab to tite seemsid of the a gallant these who met esi Me sew of the right hissesible bse.set, whom • win imstallid into that cramed, at • Mara at the Rehm Club. The gallant admiral was sow reported M ham said OM be, daring his eimuseed, rostra the Stitt beelike owl berading seam him the Adisinity kw Inge sere voistral by my sheer; that he me am lemma by eiskabstery orders; wad et last *wetly ask itrade di .d hem kis stormed. U. (Caphde ) was aware the{ may of NsM etramests of the rulslime had bees &sled ; sad heeisithed sew that e l odse le the tram of the right irk, Meese% sod 11 trades to the beard era which the debt hem breast goselead, sad as less dm to the smelly, that the peke Mudd knew as whisk side the milk ailwally ley; he la lir Charles Napier had stated that whieb was set brae sat eta in*. Ifr Oboist Maio had himself skews the way be SEIM to be loselid—seraly. that be eight le be beadle' WS the iht of Admhab, se imolai told ea sales& I. wield sok the right MS. hissset, "biro/ire, Mist gismo be iambi to take is this matter t (Hoar.) Ike J. GRAILLIS—Mr. Speaker, V It be eke pleasure of lbs bowie b p Isis rmmlma ea tbe navy estimates, It =hilltwe: Bo Vtistios, is the raves of • far obesrm t address to tics isousittm, not to pans the soblect Mee vaeatioasd. Cor riatisor Beano I might Molt it my duty to adopt, P adhere to that which I might think Nada gin te W interest is ea .musty like the m eat. To emir apes a somplato milids of the straisses made by lb Mita Napier meld rased et to enter into dhotis'', et disommiass whisk lad takes pieta with that e=tetellosr,to whide the patio interest an 'materially It le isegessibia, geldsmatly with my duty, to gin that Marais. to the damsels etas gallant officer which is might be tissimble be sae_ beim without ths production et amiszedlease sad a esposirs, bunadiataly Meer moms Mo l ars eithammil oeirmioes about to be mums& is the •es gess weather permits. Cor *A lbe bees _ as if that gallant Mira to leap is and, ems k _ elMay. It will be my bee to submit as th• of thet Wmay, be it este ft it may be, Mira Om manger is the slightest the toes which I have tat homer to direst. (Chem.) It h quite tray that that gallant sneer has stated that he wis mat into dm Baltic is a test tilmaseed sad ilkdiselplissd. TM board with whist lam emsested mid Nub sternest rations is the Weston ef the skims b seetmesd these skips, sad teak we that they shield be aims from them best rattles to the mabloace of the graftwisit. I have every temps in Wine that. whist eaceptiorn, the ecnagmailni again Or die MINN ships em ployed did me their strait Mimeo, _as4 with the greatest seams, b beeisse the but dist plias into the ships which they eramesiod. Sir Charlie Napier certainly, la his chapatti' eihromed ea the Adatballp at se earlier period of his eramesd, did make sa issertioa siesibr so that which ea • newt worsts he roweled, eraely, that the shim wen " weed sad worm disdpilsed." The mane takes thee by the Modernity was to sal sees that &last igen le slfy the ships to climb be roamed. They staled OM sine of the tetras made by the shorn, the mitity Mame of laimeeles, the erase* made ip by the mptains of the diMeastsbi mil pe, stmeibed the alio- Climmods by him ; sod be ma eslise app le= slips to whisk ha referred. Ia rawer to that me wet dies was mode, id the isilsomoi I Oka Moslem Met that allsgatise, is the wombs to whim I has shielek Is the Om imams was Wes leseght work and I Newt Mat it dieshl be semeled The best asstilie Ile at MI be NeMilimise of ihe inters themselves, of whom the graft' was MM. The hoe. sod pelmet cheer bee wham& le • egos& whisk I mate beim St Chita moderseek that tememod. I mdmenit dee ttesst3es to this hoer es eiosset of that =(a lasek).-ard I cm mere tbl iss esi pewit Ist I am utility to siewsit • ase mok bedwartras ; I bow to the essiestisa, I lips I lam inferred M pisisese by it. (Chem wid lowebler.) The boa. mei tallest onset has MIMI whither, oesiiirsieg the teems to wbtilb that sellest ix. elle °hedge Napier) kis modesessied, rakes poshbrast b about to Witted. The hes. sad gallant seam is aura that Sir Charles Napier is am so half-pay. Oreat kisses Is al lowed, sad meaty slimed, te a bee eapreedis of opinion se the met of erg snore was bse ohismaliessd. It seems to ham less simewbet doebtad whether bis CMOs, NOON woo dismissed or set ; hat ipllest Mood (Admirel Basksisy) assured the brae the Ma &WON be bed set hers dismissed hem his asp %old. ited that he bed at hest emend Itt• Ihe ramie w his gems is the Bibb m Mae assert= wipe Memelly made. • Z ist ali i ers e art woo est mimed as maim. ed any him the dlhat Stet; Ist is his isiessela sacs with Me hail Oa etas Se sommosio sad steimasi whisk twos eamidlered to be art issiblese will the Maisie *llll 111 he 1181M111, mint 'shish be was ratio& wad slime sommooli wee est Mile rade yam ems of Voise br In. The los. sod petimes edra= l. ll l ll l r POWs MOS has hem dloshook Zs wee set dlimbeiL lio w i lea mi t tble dies Gibe rates es shish he was Id beimelds Is gesioliser l =ssomi nelline• sienseOpemild the &Isis lbet imm :4 =it was set the bate S K / Ile mesa Sit What wee be Os es poneed by s 7 fan TH Itrritiist, 61;11701.y Ott eximelsfs• Atheetteeneete 1 7 belein - le7•l;edea Endre yeper. sent be et dr Mee, 111, Beaverbeatreet, by Two 'Week tbe by et yabbeedea. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tam DAT —lliorniag, th. ..11terneos. IL 411 s. Itmioasow—MoratiNg, il. Ila.—.lfienase. IL Usa. LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17. LATEST NEWS FROM ABROAD (sT cox/warm. TzLzokarz.) ST. PETERSBURG, FZIDAY. Prince Mentohikoff reports from Sebastopol on the Bth inst.: "The general situation is unchanged. We csinti.' nue to disturb the besiegers. Deserters affirm that the French are guarding the trenches, on account of the great losses of the English army."—Daily News. Rita Pacha, who is to take part in the apprcach ing conferenen at Vienna, landed at Trieste cm Thareday.—Daily News. PARIS BOURSE. PARIS, Funky. Closing prices :—Threo per Cent. Rent's, for money, 66.20; for amount, 66.20; ditto Four-and•a-Half per , Cents., for money, 93. Bank shame, 2,970. The Fran& funds hays rallied I per ant.—Daily News. aghast, era seeps, fres death by Schwa of adds Comitheleiat authorities taltsows.' But If ever there wee a time when the voles of the publio ought to make itself heard la secants not to be mistaken, that time is the present. Do any still doubt the necessity and urgency of the CMS P Let them read the speech of the new War Minister, in reply to that of Lied Farintemonotr; and if they be not convinced, neither would they be persuaded. though the thousands of victims that have perished at Balakiava and Scutari rose in accusation from the grave. We did not expect anything eloquent or original from Lord PAULI:TIM and, so far, we have not bean disappointed. Tams and commonplace in conception and expres sion, there is nothing to divert attention in this miserable address from its purport and tenor. So much, perhaps, the better, considering what that teem and purport seems to have been. The successor of the Duke of Hawaii= appears to be oppressed with a sense of the injuatigs that removed his Grace to make way for himself. Lord PANMURE may very possibly bring the. public to concur in that opinion; but if he does, it had our tainly been better for both that the Ministerial combination, of which he is the sole distinguishing feature of novelty, had never been born. His drat impression, on entering his °Bee, was that his pride. oeseor had been grossly maligned; and every day, as he proceeds to knock on the bead proposals for reforms of less or greater magnitude, the charitable conviction that his noble Mend has in the main done all that say man could be expected to do, grows epos hint - And is this what the country expected to be told after all that has occurred within the last three weeks? Lord Passim's, however, leaves us is no doubt as to the complete continuity of the system which he is resolved to preserve as far as in him lies. Something wholly vague and unintelligible was said by him, indeed, of a plan to be hereafter considered for concentrating departmental authority under one head; but he took can to guard himself against any implied obligation to produce eves that item of im provement until after there shall be cause for believing that the Crimean expedition has been restored to a sa tisfactory condition. This was the first object he pro fessed to have in view ; and for its attainment he produced a series of homoeopathic prescriptions whose enumeration would provoke men to rub their eyes or laugh at their pompous inanity, were not the case in hand too desperate and too terrible to suffer any other feeliop to find place than those of the most painful and grave description. A summary of the saving zneunres may be easily given. Sir Joint BOZOOTNE has been recalled, and Sir HANEY JONES (whose career is IN administrator terminated so unhappily for himself and the public four or five years ago in Ireland) is sent out in a somewhat ill-defined but dictatorial capacity as General Commissioner of Commissariat. Of the two, we bare no hesitation in saying that Sir lons ROB, 1 nontz is the abler and by far the more reliable man. I But the War Department being resolved to throw no more JONANI of quality to the whale, thinks it I knowing, we presume, to tacrifioe the most dutin gusbed individuals of the secondary rank ; in the persneakm, doubtless, that public opinion, like other hated monsters, will swallow blindly anything that is thrown to it. Not a word 4 1 breathed of Lord RAOLAN being recalled, or of Lord Lunar being superseded; but rumour tells us of Generals AIRE? and EBTOOURT having been Bain moned to return to England, with one or two more of minor note. By way of substitute for a real inquiry by a Parlianientasy committee into the ignorance, impotence, end iniquitous jobbing to which oar gallant army has been sacrificed, Lord EOM= informed the Peers that he bad made choice of a special commissioner of inquiry, the mention of whose name would at once command public confi dence, and hush all anxious fears. But when, after this ponderous flourish, their lordships heard the name of Bic Jonze there was no expression of approval such as the noble BECRETAILY manifestly anticipated. The Lords did not burst out laughing as the unmannerly . Commons did, when just about the same moment Lord Peunarrox hazarded the historical compa rison of himself to RICHARD IL, as he went forth to beard the mutinous people headed by War TILER. The Peers are in no merrymaking mood just now. Many of them begin to think that they are drifting towards the rapids, aid they like not the imper turbable stolidity of those who pretend to be holding the helm and plying the preservative oars. They begin to feel that for the crazy craft, freighted with the golden store of privilege, and perquisite, and patronage, there is no longer any preservative power in official men. But there is to be yet another special oommissioner —namely, one selected by the War Minister from the General Board of Health. That he will have an abundant field for inquiry cannot be disputed; and that hie reports on the state of the Hospitals at Scutari and Smyrna, and into the Causes of Mortality in the camp at Sebastopol, will form a curious addition to medical misses when published some :twelvemonths hence, we do not care to deny. Bat what is this sanitary commissioner to do, when begets to Balaklava, to save a few of those who may be still surviving there? Of this we are told nothing; only Lord PAIIMUILE says he has written a despatch to Lord RAGLAN, authorising him to open negotiations with the, SULTAN he embodying a Corps of Scavengers, who are to be ready to, sleep the hills and gorges of Bala klava, as soon as the thaw sets in. A very good thing, to be . ppro, this. Scavenging Brigade will be when it isorgenimed ; bat, as oompying th• promi nent plan essigned to it In the new War Minister•. programa, bf army reform, we an hardly trust ourselves to designate it as we think it deserves. The nesinatica of General SIMPSON to the newly-created °Mee of Chief of the Staff is pro bably the best that has yet been made; and the promise that steps will be taken to provide floating hospitals, to bear the wounded cc the sick back, week by week, to England, is one that we hope to see fulfilled. But, es a programme of Army Reform, Lord Pexmitiz's speech will be read with no other feelings by the community at large than those of bitter disappointment and dismay.—Daily Non. LAST IaOHTS DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. DESPATCH FROM LORD RAGLAN. 011,011 Zia! 1111011T . 1 CIAZNITZ4 War Department Feb. 16, 1666. _ _ Lord Penman has this day received a despatch, l of which the following is a copy, addressed to his Oraew the Duke of Newcsatle, by Field-Marshal the Lord Raglan, 0.C.8. : Before Sebastopol, Feb. 3, 1866. My Lord Dule,—Nothiag hr occurred in front of the British lines sine:ll-wrote to your Grace on the 27th January. Before daylight on the morning of the Ist the enemy made a vigorous sortie on the meet advanced works of the French right : they were repulsed, after a sharp =teat. in the most gallant manner, by our ally, who, however, sustained some lose. The weather, which had latterly been Ask broke yesterday ; and, after a rainy evening, there was a fall of snow during the right, and there is again a frost, with an exceedingly cold wind. The materials for the railway continue to arrive, bat I fear it will not be possible for me to supply the amount of military labour which Mr. Beatty would seem to require. Nearly two hundred Croatians, who were hired at Constantinople, have arrived, and been handed over to him, and more are expected, and, as a matter of experiment, I have obtained four hundred Tartars from Rupatoria. I have, &0., (Signed) RAGLAN. His Grace the Duke of Newcastle, &c., &c. The ►arl of Clarendon has received a despatch from her Majesty's Ambassador at Paris, dated Feb. 4, 1866, of which the following is an extract : "I have the honour to enclose • espy of a note which I received yesterday evening from Monsieur Drawn de Lhuys, eulogising the services rendered by Major-General Rats, and Majors Claremont and Foley, not only to the common cause in which they are engaged, but to General Canrobert personally in his communications with his own troops." Tks sets of M. Drs de Lime refereed to sites ease very high sompliniess paid by General Camel:est to the three British (Moms meatiosod, sad states that the do seaminess aid great protessiosal knowledge which they display has led him to asks se diatinetiss Wows them sad the Milers et Ms emit slat, and to employ them Ms his owes When oa mast diMettle services. THE MINISTERIAL TEE changes, contemplated by Claremont in the &tare administration of Military Affairs, wen mid- rind by Lord kit night in a speech full of practical good sense, and deli;ered in • tone, more free, than is sometimes observable with his lordship, from references that savour of pique and egotism. Few of the noble earl's suggestion• will to the public seem oat olden or oat of place; although with one exception they were chiefly confined to the pressing, and let us hope the passing, nods of our ill-fated army in the Crimea. The exception to which we allude is that of abrogating the narrow limits within which distinctions for merit are now invidiously confined; and kyles down the broad and just principle instead. that not merely is service, when psribrnsed in the field of action or in the face of the enemy, worthy of reward, but that successful care by an caw of the health and well-being of those under his command deserves the gratitude of the country as much, nay, en dless more, than the brilliant achievement of battle, inspired by the excitement of the moment, and sure to win abundant Mat. As was well said by Lord ELLIMOROUGH, when sash statements as those regarding the annihilation of the whole rank and file of a regiment 1,000 string p useentradietsd, it ia sorely high time to inquire how other oilcan in other regiments, similarly posted, have kept their men alive ; and it is right that in ease the circumstances shall prove to have been the emus or similar, those who sameeded in this highest of all duties shosid be rewarded, end those who tailed called to account. The establishment of such a principle, and its appli 'Mimi to all ranks of the array in the distribution of the decorations of the proposed Order of Merit, Vould be the humanisation of military rewards. Hitherto each honours have not only been the per quisite Of an exclusive .In., bat they have been shoed invariably confertml for deeds el dump to the fee: hereafter, if the public wide makes itself hsard,safileiently load and lag in the ebnrlish ear of authority, wu may pewitly behold men wearing Oren of Merit' fa having laved company, %, 4.IOPIFILLYAM i f , ! • I,lj Commons seemed pararoid with the idea thaCa Government whale recent history was one of Mere could inspire no confidence and deserve no support, =apt that which may hereafter be bestowed on vigorous action. The prestige of that onoepowerfal Coalition is gone. The country has ceased to put unhesitating faith in the statesmen whom it looked upon two years ago as its deliverers from the bondage of corrupt and inefficient rulers. There was some anxiety, perhaps. to hear an explanation of the late crisis from the man who has at Length become master of the situation, and the House was curious to learn how the "reburnished" Government intended to meet Mr. Answer's motion for the appointment of members to serve on the commission of inquiry. But this was all. The obvious and universal feeling was that the oriels is not yet over, and that they who shall completely extricate us from our great difficulties were not seated last night on the Treasury Bench. Below the gangway, on the Ministerial side, was some of that " new blood." an infusion of which into the race of English statesmen would best fulfil the desires of the country. One, at least, was there who has separated himself from hie late colleagues, dis gusted with their want of zeal, or ambitions of a higher position in the Government than hes hitherto been assigned to him. Another, whose knowledge and wide experience had marked him out as peculiarly fitted to take pert in the con duct of the war, retained his place as a leader among those young politicians whom the slightest exhibition of weakness or indecision on the part dour present rulers, will change from luke warm allies into formidable opponents. There, too, sat another, whom the temptations of office could not divert from his allegiance to that party, whose cause, arietoorat though he be, he has hitherto steadily espoused. The truth is, that, in the opinion of such men, we are in a state of transition. The existing Government, whose days, perhaps, are already numbered, is the last which shall base its claim to rule on lofty birth and hereditary power. England is upon the eve of an administrative revolution, end the country will presently be called upon to say who and what they are whom it will choose to govern it. And we cannot doubt that, last night, the Houle of Commons faithfully reflected the feeling of the entire nation, which regards the Rama Government as to a great extent provisional. Lord PALMERSTON, indeed, exerted himself to inspire for his colleagues that confidence which the people seems to have reposed in him alone. His speech, however, was the greatest satire that could have been delivered against the late Government. The occasion wu too good to be lost by Mr. Da. 'usu. It was easy for that profound master of malicious sarcasm to taunt the new PREMIER with the faults and shortcomings of his " identical prede cessors "—easy to advise that the gentlemen whom a short week had converted into vigorous promoters of a war which they had hitherto disliked should resume their offices amid "'solemn silence." But cer tainly, h►d England been searched from one end to the other, it would have been absolutely impossible to find any one mere fitted to meet the peculiar diffi culties of his position than Lord PALMERBTON. With happy tact he tried to anticipate his opponents, and by one dexterous move to take the game out of their hands. Who but so clever a tactician would have ventured upon a comparison between the present Government and the monarch who slew WiT TYLER? " What, has this great people been betrayed by its rulers P Are they who usurped dominion driven back in scorn and confusion P We—l and my colleagues —will take your part ; we will utterly destroy the wicked men who so foully betrayed their trust." And when, after inch an appeal to the generous sentiment, the new PRIMER sketched out a plan of reform so sweeping in its nature that it seemed to effect by one blow all that was desired, the House was bound to acknowledge the skiff of the manmuvre, although the suddenness of the conversion might excite a smile. But is not this the season of pantomimes P Why should the House of Commons be deprived of its Harlequin and Pantaloon ? The most memorable revelation of last night's pro. osedings is, that the Government :lo determined to oppose Mr. Rom:toes motion ; aed that the Tories,io conjunction with the most pronewei section of Liberal politicians, are as determined to support it. That is the first question to be tried. It is all very wall to bring forward a plan of stringent reforms,, so to speak, at the point of the sword. But the Howe of Commons—and in this case that means the country— is resolved to inquire 'tato the past. Of course the whole system of our military and naval administration is rotten to the owe. Every one acknowledges that. The Government has been ocespellsd to emittele• its finks, and to promise to repair them. Bid if the Meal d Commons exhibited lest night ti comparitive indifferenos to the Ministerial statements on ,thit point, it was only became, in obedient* to the newhitakeable feeling of the country, it has thaeoughlt Teestead that no profes sions of amendment for the future should be accepted as fall atonement for the delinquencies of the past. When it has been fairly brought to the test, the re formed House of Commons hes, in general, performed its duty well. And at no period in the history of this country, hes it been called upon to discharge en.oftice so arduous and so honourable es at present. If it continues ill,.fin i temper which pervaded it last night, we bare no ref tAa reault.—Daily News. Vbe Court. The Queen, accomplinied by the Prioceda Helena, and attended by the Coaster of Desert and Lord Alfred Paget, visited the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday after sus, at bar residence, Gionctster Hones. Priam Albert presided yesterday Uterus= at a muting of the (evermore of the Wallington. College. The Prises, alluded by Camels the Hoe. Dudley de Res, arrived at as New Palau at Westminster shortly be. fon three Wank. Present : The Preeldeat—Prince Al. but; the acumen, the Archbishop of Castarbury, the Mamma of Salisbury, the Earl of Denby, the ltarl of Elles mere, Vincent Hardier, the Bishop of London, the Right Hon. Seesaw Walpole, Mr. Cox, sad the Ray. G. R. °leis, the Hosesary Suretuy (Colossi the Hos. W. P. Talbot), end the Assistaat Seeretary (Mr. Manse). The sainting broke up at a quarter past No o'clock. Her Majesty sad Priem Albert \assured the Princess's Theatre with their presence Is the 'using. The royal suite counted of the Countess of Desert, Hos. Matilda Paget, Lord do Tablet', Lord Alfred Paget, and Captain the Hos. D. do Roe. Kr. Jolla Wood, chairman of tho Board of Inland Nero nue, and Mr. Prosily, had an latorriew with Um, Chasms for of the Bachman yesterday. Sir Akasad►r Speartnaa bad also an interview with the right hon. goatiesaan, at his 'Metal re:slums& is Dowaing•street. Despatches for that Governors of the North Maarten Provisoes, and also for that °oversees of the West India Wands, wore sent last erasing treat the Colonial-ones. COPYRIGHT TREATY WITH BELGIUM. Last night's Gazette contains the teat of the treaty signed August 24 by Lord Clarendon and M. Van der Weyer, sal ratified on the 24th ult., ferfecteuding in each country the eoloyncent of copyright to works of literature sad the Ise use which may be drat published in the other. The treaty scones into operation in England this day, en Order in Council to that effect appearing in last sight's Ckseette• lieseeforth, ecoordiegly, the authors of Inns of literature or of art, to who. the laws of either of the two eeentriee now give copyright, will be entitled to exorcise that right fa the territories of the other of such countries for the gene term, sad to the use extent, u the authors of workrof the sane nature, if published in nth other country, would therela be entitled to exercise such right ; mad such Whoa is the one country will have the sane remedies before the warts of justice is the other country. sad enjoy there the one protective against anenthesised rapublis;tion, as thip law rss stsM astbirs in that country. It ia declared is as iaterpretaths dame that the term, weeks of Menton end est, are to be takes in their widest mese. 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A limit may be plead to this right by the original publisher eotifyisg in his *anal that be forbids republieatioa. Daring the eon. *inseam of the pewee eonvestisa the duty levied in British poets CO books and medial weeks published In Belgium will be lbs. the cwt., and en plats or drawing lid. the lb., and the duties payable on book', medial works, prism, sad map or sharts published in the United Kingdoms, and imported into Belgium are to be reduced to the Bud and uniform rate of ten tr ues the hundred kilo grammes. The conmetion is for tea yew, but acidities times may be made by SUMO' agiesment. SOLDIERS IN THE HOSPITAL AT SCUTARL 813,—May I beg the favour of your informing year mem that, trattarls the kind ens tee wbteh kr hem eeselei t the isoanitto of the Disbreseed Needle ersoualt/boae love been eaabhi elate the Bth of Dotes bee to 111 Ismael sad oho shirt% IN flannel neck = j ow l i peirs eta, 50 pillows, 10 lonel belts, heisted 14•2•1 bath a gostity of Bumt phase, mid waft Ober Odom anatal Is a seek ebsaber to deroset.tieblikno s saa WE NMI ad= Sollowerd. sod that they lane het easehei the Mowing wee boa Seated t _ _ " assteel, Feb. 2. " Sir —Phew Is paint my !haste for the weds met Los tits Dleermsoll SIPOIRM'S House.—Toure, &e. g irl) 0. 11. BZOWIIIIDOII, for 8. 14zowrntom.a." Seeretur, &e." remain, ike. CHAS. GEARY. 145, Cuban's-street, Fitney-eqsue, Feb. 16. THE EMPEROR or THE FRENCH AND THE ARMY AT TIM Camm.—Yesterday's IndJpeoutese• Buff Mate with all mime= the meet that the Paspover of the , Preach Weeds amble the sonsand is thief of the Preen any at the Crimea. On of Si. Paris senespoad• oats of that *mei nor fins the dais of his Imperial Majesty's departure. He writes: ",IS spits of the "morel dins* nth* Govennest Ousels—sad, perhaps, Meson of that for ny pert, mist la Istallaviss the oar. restless, of the omens rispeniag the ,Wt of the Immo, 69 the Crime. I Mow very well that I. Innis so ore wishes to nen to Wen is it. The len iserodains will piny admit that he is goisi to Hersey; hat, permit an, anwithetaading, to Wit epos it, sail yet usore—to add that the departure, prorkinally lion be the 20th of this soath, is ;unman SO the 22ad. Yea lea that I on precis*, sad that it anseserily Mims that ray sal astir premeds Sou a good nano." PlEDuoirr AND AurrizA.—Tisterday's Mottskur astans as snide from the Ojkda Gentle of Kiln (Manna Railaisky's ages), is whisk the nurse tapes by the Sardines goverment, is sacrist as &Mans with the Weston Poems *Oast Rosa. is ensiled to the skies, sail hen at as is szenplo is the other esessiary states is Bareps. PITT2IIIO IN • GOOD WORD FOR AN Ow FRIEND. —The Journal de dt. Pderthwy, of the Sth fast., publishes • mane of. eenatsd hem assesses relatieway new rapessne Lord helm Hassan tsarina from Si. Shadows sniping. TM aphis lord is Semi to lon sound ithessitillith Aryan, while the arise{ el Look Abaddia Is dlipMed, Wri t sad Arm PROMOTION IN THE ARMY. Tun Pamela= Administration has succeeded to *See order circumstances extraordinary end un preesdented. fiercely more then • fortnight has aped, and the men who were so lately driven has elks by a crushing majority resumed their sate, belated, on the Treasury Bench in the Hoene sty 0110.111114 Lord PALMMTON, indeed, the wawa. tr hero of a hundred civic fights, has at attained the height of his ambition, and. after a life of strange vicissitude, has wen the noblest prize within the grasp of a British mildest. And yet, invested though he was with platens didactics, in accetdanee with the baps sad wishes of the nation, his rseeption by the repro. eistativei of that nation took pine amid *solemn *nos! 'hams was no Nip of that ontliniiitio hope with which the advent of a new administration I CIUTAL 'ie in general hailed by its friends. The House of 71 4kei ,. 867; A REPORT has reached us which, if confirmed, will throw an instructive light on the effects of the system of prornotien by purchase in the army. It is con fidently stated that Government are anxious to sub stitute younger and more efficient officers for the colonels actually in command of no less than twenty seven regiments t but are hampered and obstructed, by the "vested rights" of the incumbents. If in our army men made their way up to the higher ranks solely by merit, they might be removed without scruple in the event of their becoming incapable. But when a man ham purchased step after step, in his progress up the ladder of promotion, he looks upon any commission he may hold as his private property. The English Government never can have complete command of the English army until the system of promotion by par. ohm is done away with. Such a reform will require to be set about, not only with &ulnae, but with a regard for existing interests that is incompatible with the pressure of the present emergency. But there can be no doubt that if the report to which we have alluded be true, Parliament and the country will support Ministers in a high-handed disregard of the scruples which are said to embarrass them. &slut reipsiblica swami lee. It is indispensable that officers in the prime of life and vigour of manhood be placed, at such a Mail, in the command of regiments. There is a precedent for setting aside obstacles which in ordinary circumstances would be deemed linear mountable : we allude to the Dake of Warm:gown's insisting, during the Peninsular. campaigns, that none lint junior calms of the engineers and artillery .—with local rank—should be sent out to him.— Daily Now. change. Lying on the bare ground, and the absence of at tention to personal ablution—the time being wholly occupied in duty in the trenches or fatigues, and no means for the purpose being provided—have led to to the rapid engendering and Moran of the evil. No means of washing even the blankets have been provided, and it may be readily imagined what must be the date of these articles shier being in use for i g it m w rdinary oo versi t llei be i m ai n a dier im d thil er f ol e in tri nsuri g othi vel n alg to tb obef e li t E u l ine t s litiel tream t r o " w an si l h e h ythe i li ch e is n Punch.—Fan. „;16,-81inamn Laus at the doors. 748; adalselos by MKS run along the !mil/blowing ravine, on account of totsl, 1,106. host or rain which have prevailed, he has not had THE ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOPOL. (mom sax T l s hen fav n ig t a h n e d froz fine en wea su er idn of ee the l last wrote . un-.....airrgtroord.r.S nazirigirshw::::: CAMP. LIGHT DIVISION, Firs. 2. We have been favoured with a ccottinuance of genial generally been frosty, but the run and mild tem tars on the succeeding days have speedily thawed soadition of climate has been accompanied with a eaeresponding improvement in the health and spirits of the men. What is chiefly required at this moment it an opportunity of removing the sick, who have accumulated in large numbers in the field hospitals. The hospital marquees and tents, and huts, of which nearly every regiment now possesses one completed and occupied, are full of soldiers labouring under scorbutic and dysenteric diseases, and son feet from frost bites. Many men are losing toes or por. dais of the feet. All these cases urgently require removal for the sake of better treatmeat than can be obtained in the camp, but 'there is a great want o arrangement aboutestablishments, whether on shore or shipboard, to receive the sick at Balaklava; and there is great difficulty in obtaining ambulance mules or waggons to convey them there. The number of huts in course of erection is gradually on the increase. The Quartermaster- General's Department has not, however, yet bean able to assist in transporting them to the camp. The huts are of two kinds—the Portsmouth and Glou cester huts. I don't know which may be the more perfect in construction es an engineering work and in stability, but from the peculiar circumstances under which they are brought up to camp, in ease of high wind or severely cold weather the Gloucester would have many advantages over the Portsmouth hut. The chief difference seems to be owing to the circumstance that, in the former, all the boards—roof, sides, and sleeping boards—are placed vertically, while in the Portsmouth hut they have a horizontal direction. A greater number of planks is of course required to construct a hut with the planking placed vertically, bat they are neces sarily much shorter, and are therefore more portable. In carrying up to camp the long horizontal planking, which is feather-edged and inconvenient for con veyance in consequence of the length, the men become tired, and may often be seen drag ging it along the ground. The boards are equally liable to be dragged when carried by the aide of a horse or mule. They then fre quently split, and through the crevice thus made snow and wind find their way. The horizontal planks are made to overlap each other, but they cannot be joined so closely but some crevice will remain. On the contrary, in the Gloucester ' huts, the vertical boards are placed edge to edge, and the line of joining is covered over securely by battens. No wind can then penetrate. The short ness of the planks not only renders them more easily curled by men or horses but also, together w i t h their equal thickness th roughout, makes them leas liable to straining or other injury. The double sliding window of the Gloucester hut is also found to answer better than the window in the other hut, which turns on a pivot. The prevailing belief in camp is, from the difficulty and length of time in bringing the huts up, that very few, beyond what will be required for the hospitals, will be erected. The want of transport has evidently put them out of favour with the. authorities, by whom they are reported to be cold, and as not having stability in themselves to withstand a high wind. By a little arrangement, such as banking up the earth against their sides, from the general connexion of the parts, I have no doubt that nothing short of a hurricane could remove them. They are at least as secure as the wooden houses inhabited by the coloured population in South America and the Antilles, and afford means of dryness, warmth, cleanliness, and protection against severe inclemency or vicissitudes of weather, which cannot be obtained in tents. Many of the inconveniences before mentioned of the Portsmouth huts can be coun teracted by the exercise of a little ingenuity and exertion, with the aid of ins% paper, and canvas. Would that the troops had had the advantage of their use early in December instead of February ! None of the huts appropriated to the officers have yet arrived. Should the huts become fixed, and the regiments remain long in their present position, a more serious consideration will arise from the great number of horses and men who have been buried in the imme diate neighbourhood of the encampment, and, gene rally speaking, very superficially. In the ravine leading from the site of the Second Division down to the Inkermann Valley, between the first picket and the quarries near the aqueduct, I counted upwards at 170 hones lying unburied, which were removed titre after the battle of the fith of November; and these hash never since been covered by earth. The Rabaul dead, who were buried in this ravine and neighbourhood by the Ottoman troops, were buried very haitily, and scarcely hid from exposure. The careseeeof horses scattered in all directions between the camp and Balaklava, or very loosely sprinkled over by earth, are beyond counting. The graves along some of the ravines before !Sebastopol present themselves in fearful frequency. Add to these the offal of slaughtered cattle, and refuse of all kinds, and the return of warm weather, may be looked forward to with some anxiety on account of the pollution of the atmosphere which may accompany it. It is fortunate that so free a circulation of air prevails on these heights. Since the snow fell then have been some large vultures hovering over the camp, and flights of crows and a emor all k o in f d d s a a w pp h e a ar ve te ap bs pear ve ll y ; sa ba r t ee scavenge r in this birds On walking through the British part of the camp, it is impossible not to have the attention called to the immense number of articles of uniform and debris of dress and appointments which lie scattered about. Boots, many apparently broken but not much worn, shakos, scraps kos,port of cloth of every colour, portions ofveryfadeddu oo llre4 coa port tees cons old socks, of, belts and straps, meet the eye in all directions. 010 may notice the difference in the internal economy of various regiments by the distribution of these articles. In some they are to be seen gathered in heaps or in pits set apart for the purpose; in others lying in all iim pen inedimeti g n u i ry ag : l n ! sn to we "" r e t e: r e v eth isi f ru ee re ins a be t tati i :l n no g l cal , f e o th ; n f i o o n re rce g sgu , a ci u mh o eu f l nnta b l s esi n i tl i ed ca n y g ma o a E t certain intervals all rubbish which might tor:omelets in the neighbourhood of the tents. Among other things cast away and lying on the ground, it would surprise a stranger to perceive such useful arti cles as bogs and sacks—which, from the broad arrow, have evidently belonged to the commissariat or other public departments; and there is no inconsiderable number of the flannel vests and drawers lately sent from England, and issued to the troops. I turned over and examined some, and beyond being soiled, could find no reason for their being thus rejected by their owners. A little conversation soon cleared up the mystery. From a combination of circumstance, these flannels thus thrown away have become so infested with vermin, that the soldiers who were wearing them, not having the means or the energy otherwise to escape from the living nuisance, have solved the difficulty by casting them aside, flannel and all together. Ocular exami nation exhibited the remains of myriads of these insects, which from being nearly of the same colour as the woollen texture, were not observable until the attention was called to their existence. From the delay and difficulty in bringing up the warm cloth ing, one set of woollens only could for a long time be issued to each soldier—he had, therefore, no THE NEW RETURN OF NEWSPAPER STAMPS. The return of newspaper stamps jest issued gives the Mowing results : Pint Quarter. Sneed Quarter. Daily News . 319,191 346.044 Moraleg Herald . 303,000 299,000 Mends, Pon . . 205.000 226,000 Mends; Chreniale . 162,500 186,000 E1P1146 . . 177,133 196,369 Globe . . . 175,000 195.000 Su . . . . 168,000 192,000 Standard . . . 103,000 10i,000 II