The Express. — London, England, 1855-05-18 00:00:00

OUR ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOPOL (11.011 till /FILIAL OP PHI DAILY maws.) CAMP ABOVE MAT 1. The appeosolies towards the enemy's outworks are programming radially. The advance doss not make much show, bat it Moose the keg sure. As the die. tans between the works of the besiegers and the fortifications of the town and arsenal is dimi nished, the attention of the troops of the garrison is proportionably excited, and much care and watch (oleos is malted oa the part of the guards sad working parties in the trenches. The fire of the enemy 's riflemen, constantly directed against the position of the working parties, which can gene rally be known, even in the dark, by the sound of the pickaxe and spade, becomes more and more effec tive, and longer time is occupied in forming the re quisite cover. The Russians appear to direct their efforts to impeding the progress of the French works by frequent sorties against them ; while against the English works they confide more in works of counter approach and the fire of their riflemen. On the right the French are slowly, but steadily, advancing their zigzags against the foremost Russian redoubt on Mount &pone, east of Careening Bay ; and also toward the works on the Mamelon and Ma lakhoff hills. On the left, the limited space which exists between their third parallel and the Flagstaff bastion, is the scene of nightly conflicts. The Russians have very much strengthened the new work constructed in the quarry below the Reds's. They have also contrived to throw up another large ambuscade, about fifty yards from the farthest of the two ambuscades which our troops took from them on the night of the 19th ult. This new rifle pit is capable of holding sixty or seventy sharpshooters, and was so planed as in a great degree to enfilade our most advanced trench. It is chiefly constructed with sandbags, and loopholes have been made net only near the top of the parapet, but also at convenient distances about two feet above the level of the ground. In its neighbourhood five or six other places of cover, each capable of holding three men, have been thrown up; these are composed simply of small excavations protected by rough walls or heaps of stones. The short distance et which the riflemen in these pits are placed from the newest part of our advancing work enables them not unfrequently to send a ball through a half-fil!cd gabion, or even through a filled sand-bag, and sever al casualties have in this way occurred among oar men. A traverse had to be put up, to obviate the enfilading fire from the larger ambuscade. This ambuscade appears to be connected by a covert way With the Redao. On carelul examination the new work in the Quarry appears marked out for ten embrasures. From the apparent depth it was suspected that the enemy proposed to place mortars in this position ; but it is now evident that it is intended for heavy guns. A few shells have been thrown into the work, but with this exception the enemy has been permitted to carry it on without interruption. It is expected that one or two heavy pieces on the left attack can he so placed as to bring an enfilading fire upon it, while a direct fire from the right attack will assist in silencing it, in case circumstances should not lead to its being taken before there shall have been sufficient time for its being armed. There seems to be little doubt that the Quarry is covered by the fire of some of the guns of the Mamelon redoubt. The second parallels both en the left and right attack have been greatly strengthened. Several new batteries have been constructed, and guns of heavier metal brought into position. On the Greenhill attack several batteries have been made and armed in the third parallel, and, still further in advance, a work known as the Redoubt has been thrown up. From this work our riflemen are enabled to do much execution against the enemy's artillerymen in the Flagstaff and Barrack Batteries and the adjoining earthworks. There are various rumours respecting the renewal of the bombardment, and dates for opening fire are named ; but they have foundation only in surmise. It is asserted that a very different impression will be made on the enemy's works when the batteries re open than was made on either of the two previous occasions; lent so much confidence was expressed previous to each of those two attacks by the en gineers and others, that such assertions are now received with distrust. More hope and reliance are placed upon the effect of the combined operations, which, it is unders.ood, are about to take place at Kertch on the one hand, and from the neighbour hood of &futona on the other, than in the whited efforts of the besiegers on the south side of Sebes topoL Sir John *Neill and Col. Tulin& are actively palming their inquiries into the circumstances of the troops during the pest winter, and the causes which led to the disasters of that season. Certain printed queries are addressed to the commanding racers, surgeons and quartermasters of regiments, which they are called upon to reply to in writing ; and these officers are afterwards examined person ally on the several subjects which their reports elic!t. A saes of documentary evidence will thus be col /send, which ought to furnish correct data for de termining the sources of past errors, and the proper means of avoiding them in future. Dr. Sutherland bee also been inspecting and examining into the sani tary condition of the camp and the field hospitals. The vacancy canoed by the melancholy death of Dr. Gana has not been yet filled up. It is said that a cavalcade of ladies and officers, Lady George Paget and the two Misses Canning, daughters of Lord Stratford de Radcliffe, comprising the former, were fired at by a Russian battery, near Inkermann on the 28th ult., being mistaken for a body of ;taff. It is just as probable that the fire was directed at the French redoubt overlooking the ?gin in this direction. There are many reasons, which need not be named, why a large camp arried , ape clay when active operations are being on, unfitted for the visit of ladies; and it may les ea well to give this hint, as conversation would laid to the belief that not a few other ladies are purposing to some and see their mildness in the field. It is• great pity that WOO of the soldiers' wives have been per mitted to remain with their husbands in cramp it cannot in any way tend to good. The last two day. we have had constant mists and rain, accompanied with a shilling degree of tempera ture, which went a long we. contradict the an nouncement in general on the 28th ult. that summer had come, and there was, therefore, no further need of winter clothing. This announcement was called forth in consequence of a number of Eng lish officers having appeared at the two French re views in catkin and rabbitskin overcoats, not a very becoming or appropriate costume, beyond all doubt, on inch an occasion, and in fine and bright weather. The rain which has fallen has not been heavy, nor sufficient to impede the transport of stores or other operations in the field. UT ACT MOW ♦ PlIT•1111 LTITBIL BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, MAT 2. We are progressing fut with our batteries on both attacks, and hope, when we open fire nest time, we Mall in a few hours silence the Russians' fire, although they have made a battery within 140 yards of the tnstbaa; but as we now have 8 and 10 inch mortars 88- ceder guns, we hope to be able to do won deTe• We have about 140 guns and mortar readT, aced all of than heavy. The Buffs have arrived : their 8 4 bad caught fire, but it wee got under, and they are all right. AIM* from Odessa, of the 26th ult., in the Da "lihrsayes-0 The beery rein which has been falling _ 111 “ 4 isms time peat hea rendered the roads quite iymMln an order of the day of the 22nd„ ` 21 §611 Odra-Sacten has expressed the hope of *able to attack the enemy with success. Cle. Lipmadi ha than 700 returned to tbe entrenched camp &Kamera. Not less wagrns laden with balls and shells have been conveyed into Sebeetopol, as well as 140,000 ponds of gunpowder ; the pond is about &Sibs. New works are being executed in front of the button of Borniloff, and 62 pieces of mut are to be placed there." The following is an extract from a private letter: CONSTANTINOPLE, May S. Cholera is 'teeniest here, so fewer- The Ser vant of my friend, in whose hone I am staying, has just recovered from a mo s t v i o l ent attac k of cholera. He was waiting at table at breakfast, and in the evening wea blue with cholera. There is no getting into Mirert's Hotel, and had it not been tor • friend, I should have been " on the town" for the first night, to every hotel is full of the Turkish con tingent, that is to say, of caws—but as for men, where are they P Echo answers, where P I am obliged to go to the Asiatic side, and have, with two friends, taken a house at the ancient city of " Chaloe don," a very pleasant situation, and within twenty minutes of this by steamer, which comes over every morning, at 7 and 9, and returns at 4 and 6. Poor Capt. Christie is dead. He.sank under his feelings, it is said, of sorrow, at the accusations made against him, and was undergoing a court-martial. The weather here is at present delightful. News from the Crimea various. It is supposed that we shall raise the Biers, take the field, and send troops by water to the north, perhaps Odessa, or Perekop." THE MED] MALTA. Mar 9. During the last two days, several sailing trans ports, with horses, have come in : among them, the Kent, Prince Alfred, and Enoch. They go on directly. We have several boats in to-day, but little news. Lord Wharucliffe and family have arrived today from Alexandria, and go on this evening byi way of Naples. Colonel He land goes op with a 'division. The Cyclops and Firebrand leave here on Saturday for Balaklays. There are reports that there has been a case of piracy, and a ship sunk on the coast of Syria, but the particulars I cannot yet ascertain. We have about 800 men encamped out side the town. THE PRINCIPALITIES. Despatches from Vienna state that Count Coronini, Commander-tn-Chief of the Austrian army of occu pation in the Danubian Principalities, has pro- claimed martial law there. By what right or for what reason this measure has been adopted we art, not told. Letters from Vienna state that the engineer officers who are to male a military survey of Mol davia and Wallachia, have left the Austrian capital for that purpose. The Augsburg Gazette, with other German newspapers, accessible to the influence of the Vienna Cabinet, publish articles to demonstrate that Austria ought to possess the two Principalities on the left bank of the Danube, As well as a good part of Bessarabia. GERMANY. The German papers mention a conference which was held at Berlin on the 12th between M. Manteuf fel, President of the Prussian Cabinet, Count Ester hazy, Ambassador of Austria, and M. Bismark, who represents Prussia in the Germanic Diet. A letter says that it waa of every important character. " A onion between Austria and Prussia for an armed neutrality, is said to be becoming more and more probable ; and it is said that Prussia, with a view thereto, is to support the proposition which Austria is about to make in the Diet for the mobilisation of the federal contingents. There is some prospect of an interview taking place at the end of the month at Cracow, between the King of Prussia and the Empe ror of Austria." NEGOTIATION. The Vienna papers speak of negotiations of some kind as still going on at that capital. The Corriere Maisano of the 15th says that Baron Bourqueney, Lord Westmoreland, and the Turkish Plenipotenti aries have frequent and protracted interviews with Count Book EGYPT. A letter from Alexandria of the Bth states that the passage of English troops continued, and that about 18,000 of the Egyptian army had arrived there to embark for Turkey. r 0 IN THE RIFLE PITS. Extract from a letter, of the 23rd April, from a private (sines =ads corporal) of the first battalion Rids Brigade : " Camp ittfront of Sebastopol, Crimea, Awl 23, 1855. " Some volunteers were required out of my regiment to re sharpshooting in the rifts pits—that is, to pick off the Russian gunners. Those pita are situated about 200 yards in front of our adaneed works, so you may imagine that they are pretty close to the town. Out of about 60 volunteers, 19 men were picked, myself among the number. At retreat sounding (i. e., at sunset), we fell in and marched off in rear of some breastworks. Here ws halted fur the night. At dawn the next morning we pasha forward, and niched our cover before daybreak, so that we were unseen by the essay. As soon as it began to get • little light, and 'alibied us to perceive our foes, we commenced our work, and their men returned it pretty briskly, but did us no harm. At length they directed their big guns to play on us, sad mat a shower of shot and shell at us ; but fortunately they did us no harm, more than shaking our corn a bit. This we returned to good effect I sup. pose too good tor the Russians, and that it put them out of temper, for they returned u such a volley of shot, shell, and grape that oar temporary work fell like dust to **ground. This was not all ; for on looking around us we beheld a sight that would have suds your heart bleed. Oat of our small party there lay lifeless one engem* and tour privates killed, ore corporal, and one private wounded, and all but sae raw& with came balls. The other ins hit with • rifle ball is the chin, which passed out at the bask of his hoed, sousing *stoat death. Oat of the amber killed only on. spoke or grossed after Was shot. He, poor fellow, had his leg Blow* of does up to his body. He expired about half an boar afterwards. I expect you are weadsriag how we got ea. Well, I will tell yea. I told you that ear gable= won levelled to the gaud, theaters we had no aver, and • few move shots would have laid us ia the soma stabs as ear poor unfortunate canareda ; so we lay pafoody still ; sad at this aided =MIA our ow* batteries messed fire ea the enemy's, so as to 'taut *air soda sad take their 'Marion free as. This plea oar *boded. Only a few shots from the Buda ridsansa sow iaterraptod as, sad this was golds, to us, as we could not return • single shot. Wayne we weld have due so, bat it would only have been madams, as they would; have picked u off had we rime from oar prostrate position is the ground. Perhaps you may say why did we not retire, as we only had two headrest yards to rum. The verses we did not was beaus the essay's shots would have been flying after us, end no doubt many would have folios ; and besides, had we left our fallen comrades belied as, they might have been **adored ; so we determined to rem* until nightfall, that we might take them with us. So here we ley ; and I assure you this maned the longest day that I ever paned. At last things began to grow dim around ise, and whoa all was darkness a few a as no to the onstroseh-1 meats and premed stretchers, with whisk we conveyed our easualtios to** rear of oar works, and rhea laid them is is. grave. After dashing the Ism aeremosy over these poor fellows, who but a few house before were in good health, we proceeded to our canvas heated's', sad, tired, and wary." 13,ant.—Ildeams new aim el theism ooenned at Madrid as the 10th, sad three of then peeved fatal. A mildreened man named &meat wae yeater• day Pied by the Terrill of Cornered Pollee foe swind ling. weer, it wee peeved, sheet els media aim to gine amber et tredeenes, sad eigsenseed OM ha wee =by Se Inperiel Oinninies die Usivanal Ex te ellsr is amen Men& pismire is Mis_lu to unlit Is rippled his eberense, be peedseed what gtitls be is isibereado• inn Coisairisw eisedeenes NM him that they istaided to ribibd, he gm* nesdhod liter more is • large miaow. dna rediseed aleedi fed eme,""sleinsi • endiel negro to whin s pees Mess wee easehed : This nodal," NM be, •• is iseilase W Me Oniesiries for and it will greadloss adoledes at all tine" to the &- The pries of it is IMr." Miry of the trailissea sabedbiligly neeind the need, sad paid the iii. Bit dry arm sew amides mere et the era, sad wirs they sale isesides at the eine el ibe Conairies elms bin, they 'nee add that they Melees nrisdre—esepiessi. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 18, 1855. FRANCE. (11.011 TUB --4.-- DWDZINT 01 Till DAILT MIMI.) PARIS, TIIOIIDAT ET/111110. lover Walls, came round to the top of the bridge— " ran," said the sentinels, "or you will be too lats." We mowed the narrow parapet which was still re- Ruining, and soon afterwards down went the whole fabric. IQ this way, it is hoped, that the lava will be diverted from the townships of St. Sebastian, Masse di Somme, and Pollens, which stand on either side, and have as yet only suffered partially. Cu -1 cold, through which, however, the stream is rolling, will be sacrificed. The expectation is that the lava, should the eruption conti nue , w ill flow down to the', Ponta Maddaloni, and into the sea. So grand and so destructive an eruption has not been known for man, years, and even now we cannot tell how or when It will terminate. The mountain is literally seamed with lava, and many fear a violent explosion u the final scene of the tragedy. To-day, being Ascension-day, is a strict holiday ben. There is no Bourse, most of the shops are shut, aid the evening papers do not appear. The telegraph seems to be keeping holiday too, for there is no news. The little Bourse assembled, as anal on a blank day, on the Boulevard. Very little busi ness was done, but the Rente improved a trifle. It opened at 68fr. 200., and closed at 68fr. 30c., thus realising a rise of 10e. It is almost superfluous to notice the continued acti vity of the war and marine departments in sending out munitions and provisions to the fleets and armies engaged in the war. The state arsenals were never known to be in sects a bustle u they now are. Two new steam gun-boats have been launched this week, the Aigrette at Havre, and the Bourresque at Tonlon. Yesterday, while two government ships, the Chan dernsgor and Egeria, were leaving the Mediterra nean ports with troops and ammunition, four other vessel., the Altheo, the Omnibus, the Napoleon, and the Express, were steaming down the Rhone, with 755,000 kilogrammes of war matiriel, consisting of gunpowder, shells, fusee., cannons, end balls. this enormous mass of articles was at once taken to the railway and conveyed to Marseilles. The Indus steam-packet lett liansilies on the 14th for Constan tinople, having on board 350 men belonging to dif ferent corps. Among them were 128 Pole,. incorpo rated in the Foreign legion. A Cerebral journal notices that the arsenal of that town has contributed 2,700 shells of 22 kilos. each to the stores at Mar seilles. A fortnight since, 50,000 kilos. of gun powder were sent front Cambrai to Douai, to be oon verted into rockets. From another place 15,000 kilos. of gunpowder have lately been expedited to Se bastopol. A letter from Luxembourg states that at Longwy, Sierck, Thionville, and other places on the French frontier, depots have been established for receiving recruits for the English Foreign Legion. The advan tages offered to each soldier are stated to be eausu ally large—namely, his food, clothing, and daily pay of lfr. 25c. Officers and non-commissioned officers are admitted with higher grades than they posse's, and their pay is to be equally liberal. Musicians, it is added, are sought after, and are to receive double the pay of the ordinary soldiers. THE INDIA MAIL. We have received the usual despatches of the Daily hews by the Overland Mail from India; the dates from Bombay are to April 17, and from Cal cutta to April 10. The following is the news taken from the summary of the Bombay Times : " There have been two rather severe skirmishes on our Pnnjaub Frontier. On the 19th of March, a strong force under Colonel Craigie went out to ravage the valley of the principal robbers and plunderers in the neighbourhood, and having accomplished their task, returned after a long and fatiguing march of thirty miles. The Momunds having come down in force on the 24th of March, on the garrison of Abuse', were attacked and defeated, but, from the difficult nature of the ground, without apparently any consi derable amount of slaughter. "On the 30th March, a treaty of friendship with the Cabal Government, was signed by Birder Goo lam Hyder Khan, on the part of Ameer Dost Ma homed Khan, and by Mr. John Lawrence, Chief Commissioner of the Punjaub, on the part of Lord Dalhousie, in full durbar, at Peshawar, under a royal salute of 21 guns. The treaty was read out before the assembled British officers and Affghan chiefs, in both languages; and we are thus enabled to state, that it contains three articles; by the first of which friendship and peace are established between the British Government and Dost Mahomed Khan and his heirs; by the second, the East India Company engages to respect the territories now possessed by the Ameer, and not to interfere therein ; and by the third, the Ameer and his heirs undertake not only to do the same towards us, but to be the friends of our friends, and the enemies of our enemies. " The Governor General is on the Neilgherries, and will be soon joined there by the Governor and Commander-in-Chief of Madras. Lord Dalhousie's health is such as to compel him to live perfectly secluded, he lately removed from Ootscamund to Kotagherry, at which place he will permanently esta blish his residence in the event of the air there agree ing better with him than that of the higher station, which it is likely to do if be requires a mild climate. " Lord Elpbinstone, in company with his tiiend, the Hon. W. Elliott, Member of Council Madras, is on a short visit to Mahabnleshwar. Tho Hon. A. Malet arrived from Calcutta at Bombay on the 6th instant, and was sworn in the same day as Fourth Member of Council. "By this steamer, Colonel Rawlinson, Political Agent at Bagdad, goes home on fifteen months' sick leave. A special meeting of the Bombay branch of the Royal Asiatic Society was held immediately after his arrival at the Presidency, to receive him and to give him an opportuni+y of presenting the Society with a brief view of his latest researches in Meoxpo tamia. It was the most numerously attended otany• which has been held since the formation of the Society, half a century ago, and of a most important character. They had special reference to the con formity of the historical tablets and cylinders of Chaldea, Assyria, and Babylonia with the Hebrew scriptures, from the age of Abraham to the destroo lion of Babylon. " The Supreme Government has ordered the con struction of a line of telegraph from Mireapore rig Jubbulpore, Seeonee, Nagpore, and Hyderbad to Bellary, connecting those places with the existing lines between the capitals of the presidencies and the Punjaub. " the Bank of Bengal has lowered its rates of in terest on loans and discounts by one per cent. " A native monster meeting was held at Madras on the god, when it was resolved to forward a peti tion to Parliament, the objects of which are to refute the denunciation of Sir Charles Wood, that the two petitions forwarded from the Madras Association in December, 1832, were a tissue of misrepresentations and exaggeration,;--to point out the deficiencies of the India Bill as respects the mode under which admission to the Civil Service is in future to be regulated so far as the natives are concerned in re qniring candidates to pass their examination in Eng land, subjecting those of the community to the loss of caste as the consequence of their voyage to, and temporary residence in, Europe—to repeat the re quest for a public commission of inquiry into the actual condition of the Madras presidency, as the only means by which the parliament and people of England can be made fully acquainted with the state of the people and the extent of the grievances under which they have been so long suffering—to reiterate the prayer contained in the two preceding peti tions for the introduction of constitutional govern. ment, based on the example of the Crown colony of Ceylon ;—to request that candidates for government employ may be examined and passed in this country, through the media of the universities which have been promised at each of the three presidencies; —to solicit that India may be placed directly under the government of the Crown:—and seventh and last, that the native temples may be managed by definite regulations, and rendered subject to efficient control. " Early on the same day a meeting was held in the College-hall, Madras, on the =salon of the opening of Dr. Hunter's enlarged' School of Industrial: Art. -) The school has not only paid its expenses, but re. 14,000 have been accumulated daring the five years. "Much sensation has been canoed bye late scanda lous libel cane in the Supreme Court at Calcutta, where a chaplain of the Hon. Company's service sued a young lady for having said that he had attempted an act of indecent violence upon her, and where the judgment was for the defendant, on the score that she had established the fact. " Trade is still depressed, and in a very unaatin-1 factory state. Freights are steady and tonnage plen tiful. Exchange is favourable for remitters, but money is tight and scarce in all quarters." MILITARY Casualties by death is India since the departure of the man oa the sth Marsh, 1866 : Bombay—Liesteaant Gillespie, Adjutant Sappers aid Misers, at Poona on the 11th April. Madre—Captain C. B. Storms, 23rd Rest. Light Is &any, at Nagpore, on the 20th April. REPORT 021_1111 STATI 01 110/11AT KARKITS PROP TRI 2113 TO TEI 16TH arm, 1865. New is still in good demand, tad, although by no Mam Mmindmt, ea. yet be obtained at 'boat former rates. • rhe el 3 per mat. hex taken plass is 4 per cost popsy mused by speculative purchases, appatatly in the iamb. den hem the slow raise of sab.alptiaa to the loaa—Mat the ()ornament will be compelled, _ mum the amens they require, to take part payment totes of the 4 per ant. item We have had earesher firtaight of extreme inactivity oil Impart market, end the eases udder whisk it her Meg gamed have la an way heed esmoved. Dealers' elmost u 'dimly Mamba themes me hem the real. jdge hem tho fru time over dam Wombs% odd u. am may emet If him will& hes amid lima is portieulosty small for the dins of pear, as pries be most cotton ' "-- again I. home of lams. Is the swirls of mama wed, dime the Hugh& arrived, Men bee hood emeidataide weiviry. T 03333344113183 of Wild an Neer MM. _- from the minim of see large muds Wisp seeming isprovelesse, ad •• Great Brit in gR 101. MM. 1 per ton of 60 able feet is the sweet Me. Seeds P sad oil 61. per ton of 210 haperhi game. EXCHANO3.—Bisee oar lam we ham Mk or Lion to report. The China Mail Wiser, but •di ply of Chide thews meats Ma kept rasa at OM sel tt i se tari n - ex is . . Martens stood um szPwits- lOC eignt consecutive nays, which, strange to say for •""" 1 —'• -- • Defies es ling the meeting, the chairman briefly explained „ mat la upon one spot well known to English excursionists_, 1 611 ow. that latitude, were clouding ones, M. Mart Is order to i t c h@ t o b b o je b c il ts l be of fo t re he th roe: ti ro n ee p, ti an o d cag e d the se 7 2et on Mont Elegem, opposite Mont Blanc, and took Y sd b • ' fthDß g plain t • provisions c a 1 from the To:glut sa d inactivity in the entire range in fourteen photographic proofs •he "ad at hit length the clauses empowerin a •.: ig bu s ' '2 ti it he. e n h as true d thin on d tinted ' • Company to work the proposed Hue. : . _ paper, an them in Damien have sepia , and moved that the bill be approved et • .... s• • „.... 4 Ir, ••. 7 , if _ „ZIA i; mountains and glaciers with wonderful fidelity. to, mad the proceedings terminated i '"'';r--L•rAh - 17 N *ow e d, The Zollverein department his burst forth into The gross revenue _of Can I'm t d• i teen fabrics notice with equal rapidity. We find the admirable 1,622,0271. In 1849 it was 613,4311. ;1: . 1 2 .., '' „ works o f t h e D res d en Gallery fairly esp i e d i n minis. 842,1841. ; 1852, 1,163.0261. i 1863, ln. r'i . , -' V aal n ail tore by Backer. The Berlin petrifactions of stags thus "" that the ""n" of the p . ' l-- .421*- '-: 1 - six Tsars. The balance to the creilladf ` ' • ' ''''tY ..'''' 4 ek s m i ss y and frisking Cupids come next. The metallic er- Fond on the 31st of January, 1864, es 4". ' * . lewd an y men, of the sculptor Rauch pit compete, as in u- o f January , 1855, 1,297,03014. The sta te o / I n3l. 12s. ed. don, with the eleotrotypy of Elkington and Mason, fellows:—Advanced to public works in Canada, :4,6111.; Ws 31 . 1 , who exhibit on our side a group from the well known invested in Redeemed Debentures, 664,0611.; invested in hand of Mr. John Thomas, the parliameritary sculptor. Three per Cent. Consols, 336,7881. • wish available, 242,575/. or as alter& In The ea nditure for 185 e pe e 3wu 744',1961. • in 1854, 890,2661. ime sup. "'" humbler dimensions, the chiselling of silver work ,In each fear ' s expenditure a sum of 73,00 01.. ' included „ • ost u * bet also shows signs of activity with us, by numerous sinklag . Fund. a ' a . . ..., 40.8. , ..—. .... • , ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS. 0101111 TIM SPICIAL Or 7HZ DAILY NAPLES, MAY 10. The lava has now advanced ten miles from its source, and is doing terrible damage. I have before me the report of Cozzoliao as to the latest changes which have taken place about the cone. Just at the base of it a lake of fire has been formed, which looks like a red sea in an undulatory state. In the' very centre of this has opened another crater, which is throwing out red-hot stones. On the morning of the 7th, the crater, at the very summit, fired, as it were, two heavy cannonades ; and after sending forth lightning, flames, and stones, broke up altogether. In the middle of the cone ten craters have been formed, and from these the lava pours forth like a river, and runs on the side of the Cavallo as far as the Minatore. 'Here four other craters have been formed, which' throw up bitumen in the manner of pyramids, and resemble gigantic exhibitions of fireworks. The whole of the summit of the crater is therefore like a sponge, and must inevitably fall in. The thin crust trembles under your feet. You may see the stones dance with the tremulous movement; the part imme diately round the crater looks like the sides of a heated copper boiler. Such is a true statement of what is going on on the summit. There are reports of an opening towards Pompeii, which is not unlikely, and of another to wards Resins, but I have not been up for some days, as the danger is now very great. Before I write again I shall make the attempt. Last night I went to the scene of meet stirring interest, atter au interval of two days. The whole length of this usually quiet road was like a fair, and such was the throng of carriages which were moving on in three lines, that it was with difficulty we ever arrived at our destination. As we approached the menaced neighbourhood the inhabitants were removing their goods, and on a bridge in the middle of the little township of Ceroolo (through which in the winter time thunders down from the summit of Vonteins one of those mountain rivers so well known in Italy) stood a company of Sappers. Creeping under this solid handsome bridge into the bed of the river, we went up in face of the lava, which was now coming rapidly down. Here again were Sappers, raising mounds on either side, to divert the ruin from some private ground., and keep the lava in one straight course. The smoke which rose over the heads of the multitudes told us we were close on the spot, and climbing up the bank and walking along the top, we looked down on this mighty mass of fire. How changed the neighbourhood in two days! Where I walked on Sunday night was now a sea of fire. The side road by which I bad come down into the main stream from Pollens. and Mama di Somme was now hill of blackened coke. The houses on the borders of the village had fallen—in one 30 poor people lived ; a small chapel was swallowed up, a gentleman's villa, and a sad extent of vineyard and garden ground. On the other side of the great lava bed another stream was branching off to San Sebastiano. We had hoped to have crossed it, sad ascended to the cascade again, but it was no longer possible; fee, so one says speaking of a marshy country in the wisher, the lava was out. The fire here had begun to lOW the burial-ground of the little town, bat was divested from its course by a wall. Oa the opposite side of the stream wore the King and all the royal family. The bank" en either side were thronged with curious and anxious multitudes, whose bees were lighted up with the blaze of hundreds of tombs, ' and with the mare resplendent Same of the rapidly descending lava. Since the morning it had a mile. It was like a vast river of glowing sae. As it moved on, the tens of thormands of leaps rolled and tumbled one over the other, crackling, and grind ing, and grating; and when, from the very hos of it, a larp lump fell oft the ap pearance was that of as iron thrnace when the iron is being drawn. To make the resemblanes more complete, at sash times men darted forwards with long poles, taken from the neighbouring vineyards, and pulled out greet mum of lava in which they embedded money for sale. What struck me at first, and still strikes see se the most majestic feature in the whole scene, is the slow, silent, irresistible motion of that fiery flood. Active almighty power without an effort! Swim grog thing before it, overcoming every g rowing up against intervening walls or houses, and &roar ing them bodily, and then marching ea is the same silent, unreleating, irresistible meaner as before. There wee a spot beneath my feet where a fall of mason work bad been built to break the violence of the winter floods ; to this spot all eyes were directed. The fiery river would fall over it in an hoar; as yet it was distant from it seventy yards, per haps. Gradually it rose in height, and swelled out its vast properties', and then vast masses fell off and rolled forward; then it swelled again as fresh matter came peeling down behind, and so it broke, sad on it rolled spin and again till it had arrived at the very edge. There was a general buzz and murmur civvies. The royal family stood opposite to me, inters:4 with th e crowd, looking on with intense At last it broke, not hurriedly, still with a show of majesty. At first a few small lumps fell down; then poured over a pare liquid of metal, like thick treacle, clinging sometimes mass to mass, from its glutinous character , and lest of all tumbled over gigantic lamps of scoria. Then on it moved ones more in its silent, regular worse, swelling up and spreading over the vineyards on either side; now there was a rush for the road which traverses this lava-bd. Houses and the bridge bordered the, road, the carriages had all been ordered off, and the bridge was being broken down—we were cat off completely. The sentinels would not Ist us peas, and struck us and drove us back; but we forced our way, and then found too surely that it was mimpossible to get on. The bridge was half de olished,and by the light of the torches we could see the soldiers above working away with the pick and the axe. We had therefore to retrace our steps, and making a long circuit through the open country and closing quotations, and the busmen dons ay be quoted 2s. 111. to 2e. 1 9-16 d. for China and first class credit, sod 2s. 11. to 2s. 111. for document. On Calcutta we quote par at sight, Re. 981 at 60 days' eight, on Madras Rs. 93 at 30 days' sight, mad un China Rs. 218 at 60 days' sight, CALCUTTA )(ARISTA. (From the Ore, land Star of April 7.) We have another week of inactivity to report. The emotes which ban goer tuned to cattle stagnation in oar tea:* still euttinee to effect its several branches, and the actual transactions both in oar capon and import markets have consequently been on a very limited scale. The pants caused by the opening of the Five per Cent. loan has scarcely ceased, but the increasing tightness of the money market has compelled dealers to retire from the market for a time. The business done in British piece goods bar been mostly to supply local demand at previous prices. Mule twist, grey shirtiogs, and jamming being in better re• quest than moat other fabric,. We have no improvement tc notice in our Money Market, the tightness of which continues to be telt amongst all chum. EXCHASCIIII —There has been a further advance in the rates of Hagfish Bulls. Baak Bills at six months' sight art I sou quoted at id. to ad. hi g h er , an d transactions at 2.. l d. to 111 Finn Oleos C re di ts a t s i n mont h s ' s i ght at 2s. 1 d. to 2i. 11d., and Treasury Drafts and Post Bills at Is. 11 1. to Is. Document Bills, we hear, have sold at 25. 2d. per rapist. On China the rates have partially advanced from Rs. 212 to 214 per 103 Spanish &Ilan. Faustian were rather firm, though an active demand for tonnage does not prevail. For London the rates, with One exception, remained unaltered; nu being the only I article engaged, at an advance of tn. per ton, but during the last two days • reaction has taken place, and the rates ars slightly lower. From Australia our advice' are • little cheering, and we hear that imports from thin, which hat. almost ceased for • time, ars again to be renewed. Out dates from China extend to the Ist instant received by the Lanrick. Bengal Opium was quoted in Canton at B p. D. 352 k to 355. Saltpetre bad declined owing to heavy arrivals, quotations being Sp. Dr. 11 to 14 per picul. Rice had further advancei, and fine Bengal was saleable at 2,80/. per picul. Exchange on London 4s. Bd., on Bombay Rs. 225, and on Calcutta EL 227. THE PARIS EXHIBITION.-FINE ARTS. (MOM ♦ COIIIITAPONDENT OT THE DAILY NSW.) Fond of neutral tints, as a means of setting off their brightest ornamentation, the Parisian decorators have not tasked their imagination very much to adorn the pillars, girders,. and iron shooting ribs of their Crystal Palace. They are of a uniform grey throughout, gaily ornamented with Bags of every colour and of every nation, vanishing in remote perspective. The lack of broad masses of drapery, on which the eye could rest when in search of relief, was evidently felt, and the aspect of the Exhibition at once gained immensely by the liberal assortment of crimson velvet, spreading out from the throne. Its effect was so satisfactory that you felt a desire to retain this effective stop gap even after the pageant was over; but then the imperial purple overshadows a goodly slice of the United States' department; and that, few, besides those immediately interested, would like to see eclipsed. As our business at present is to glance rapidly at the artistic treasures which were, for the most part, uncovered yesterday for the first time, we must cross over from the American side to the lengthy array of French wares' immediately opposite. The metal - casters have been excessively active. Two superb trophies— a military and a naval one—indicate where the national heart beets at present. Without any wish to play upon words, it may safely be said that the "genie" corps have shown real genius in the disposal of their ordnance piece. As it the sculptors, too, had caught up the trick of strife, they tarnish almost without exception specimens of tough encoun ters between man and beast. Is this a playful allu sion to Russian antagonism ? Being in close proxi mity to guns of no slight calibre, wags will not be backward in fancying that bronze-casters and scalp ton have sought the bubble reputation at the cannon's mouth. Here is M. Ramey's famous Tuileries-garden group of Theseus combating the Minotaur, which improves on acquaintance, and looks better with the black bronze complexion than in white marble. Fratin revives the death straggle between a horse and a tiger, which Kiss was the first to bring into vogue. The limbs of both quadrupeds are admirably modelled; but the mischief is, that from all points you see little else. The forequarters of the horse and the hind ones of his antagonist are first-rate anato mical studies; but a group should have at least one side reserved for favourable inspection. Those who go a round-about way to see the group will be repaid for their trouble. M. Ottin exhibits an able group of an Indian warrior on horseback, shooting a serpent with an arrow, which is very spirited in execution. The dimi nutive stature and energy of attitude remind one of the heroes of the Egina marbles; but the torso of the Indian combatant seemsto want revisal, being a trifle compressed in the loins. Unfortunately, the rasp and file may be made to pare an excrescence, but can't add a pound of gone flesh. An eagle and a vulture feeding upon an alligator is the somewhat carnivorous subject selected by Cain. Mich sculpture of this kind would warrant the much abused "nil admirari." A wood-cutter, by Fran ceschi, is executed on the scale suited to a boy, though it is hard to state the age allotted to him by the artist. Not more successful, though larger than life, is the preaching St. Joha, by Barre, who we hope "has no connexion" with M. Barre who makes such admirable profiles for the French Mint. The artist has sculptured the saint in clumsy muscular dis proportion ; the ankles are positively out of joint. Those are blemishes not to be detected in a single Florentine work, even on its decline. The gates of Paradise, as Ohiberti ' s gates were called by Michael Angelo, belong to Florentine art at its zenith. M. Barbedienne exhibits them in his gorgeous stall, which is replete with the most accurate reductions of antique and Renaissance sculpture. Before leaving the subject of bronzes we cannot omit mentioning the fountain executed from the design of Barbet for the foundry of Pussy, in the department of the Meuse. The nymphs are pleasantly adapted from Jean Goujon's Graces, and of course left a trifle of their slender delicacy behind &Atli( their metamor phosis into cast iron. Close to this is the "Eagle Slayer"—by Bell, if wimistake not east by the Coal brookdale Company, which looks remarkably well on its high perched pedes . tal. Since 1851, the mimetic arts seem to have made wonderful strides; and it is quite curious to see what an indefatigable host of earnest spirits, outsider" of the arts for the most part, can do. The son, we be lieve, of Niepee de St. Victor, who invented the daguerreotype, has a stall: French counts and English squires shine in the dexterous manipulation of sensitive paper. Evidently on this ground amicable contest will be the rage. Who will have the best of it ? We think England will be foremost in the landscape department, and quite unapproachable in the reproduction of fac simile designs. Ottley, whose work one used to fancy the me plate ultra in that line, must bide his dimi nished head. Mr. C. Thurston Thompson exhibits a series of Raphaeleeque sketcher, eleven in number, which the French, in their lively emphatic way, have pronounced " etour diseant"—" stunning" being the only corresponding word in our vernacular. They come from the recondite collection of the Queen at Windsor, and seem to us much finer than the Italian design in Oxford. Mr. Roger Fenton and Mr. White are amongst the ablest in the landscape de partment. The French come out in force ia architec t ura photography • Messrs. Belden, Nam, and I Bilardeau fill a com partment which will be not the least interesting in the Exhibition. Leseoq is pecu liarly felicitous in Gothic architecture, and brings home fins fragments from Chartres. M. Martens has performed a feat akin to that of Mr. Albert Smith—he has stormed Moat Blanc. For eight consecutive days, whinh,strafge to say for deedless new cups. Mr. Vechte has completed his beautiful shield, without, as too often happens, disappointing one uhe has advanced. Indeed, the Storr and Mortimer silver work will be hardly come-at-able for the season, from the exhibitioner this sculptor's handiwork. The French staircase is illumined by stained-glass win dowv, some reviving the quaint draughtsmanship and the "vinous tint" which used to be, according to Serval, a source of merriment against the canons of the St. Chapelle. Didron, whose name is asso ciated with Christian iconography, gives good samples of old and modern work, the lat ter suffering evidently from the juxtaposition. That stained glass was never meant to meet the pur poses of oil-painting is a mistake yet more palpably made by an artist of Lorraine, who is n o t a Claude. Napoleon and his robes of state ate quite in a pickle. As one descends the staircase, one cannot but be struck with its massive yet elegant proportions. There is one at each end of the building, and they are the best features of the edifice. As you emerge, you notice the equestrian statue of the Emperor, by Count Niew erkerke, who is better known by his clever little statuettes. In augmenting his size, the director of the Beaux Arts loses none of his title to commenda tion, but sets a good example to the arts under his management. The building externally shows how far lavish de tail can redeem original ugliness. The wonderful command of ornamental resources is quite as apparent in the fitting of the stalls, and in other decorative minutiae, as in the more obtrusive works forming pert of the Exhibition. Th e " S a ll e d e l'lmperatrice," for • example, is decorated at its entrance door with a L perect host of sportive cupids in stucco, and wreath holding nymphs which breathe the spirit of Louis XV. period, which is all the vogue at present. The same fertility is, of course, noticeable in the fanciful silks of Lyons, which are so rich that they need not, as was the case in London, be replaced by subse quent achievements. There is a gilt " chasuble," with all the archangels designed with wonderful neatness and delightful texture, without any of that gaudiness which is the besetting sin of the Belgian church robe makers. THE CATALOGUE. The official catalogue has just appeared. It is a closely-printed small octavo volume of 448 pages. The various contributing countries are in distinct chapters, aad their contributions are divided into the 30 classes and innumerable sections of the Imperial plan. This first edition is necessarily imperfect • it has also faults of ar rangement t h at will make it almost as intractable as the celebrated shilling cata logue of 1851. Much that is in it might have been omitted, as the 67 pages of official documents, nearly all of which have been published before. I find in a preliminary note that 50 states have contributed to the Exhibition, of which 37 only have sent lists to the catalogue authorities. There are, however, 16,944 exhibitors down in this first edition, of whom 8,968 are French. Tho long gallery and the palace are confounded in one series of numbers, so that there is nothing whatever to indicate to the visitor where he will find a certain contribution. He is not even told where each class is ar ranged, nor how the contributions of various nations have been placed, but is left to grope his way about two buildings, and to find the corresponding numbers to those in his catalogue as he can. FREEDOM OF THE PRESS IN AMERICA. Great excitement has been caused in Parkville, Missouri, and through the 'United States g fly, by an extraordinary outrage which was committed on the 14th ult., in connexion with a newspaper, called the Industrial Luminary. Thu journal, it appean, had given offence to the pro slavery party, by the freedom with which it spoke of election doings in Kansas, and by its expression of a de sire that Kansas should be a free state. On the day above mentioned about 200 men assembled, wen.. to the office, and canted the presses, types, itc., into the street. Steps were then taken to" tar and feather " the proprietor., Messrs. Pat tenon and Park. The latter was absent on a journey, but Patterson was nixed, and would certainly have had to sub mit to that indignity, bad not his wife clung so tenaciously to him, that, in the words of a (pro slavery) narrator, "we could not indict the punishment without gross violence to her feelings, and perhaps rudeness to her person." A vote was accordingly taken, and Mr. Patterson was set at liberty by a small majority. The following resolutions, says the Plaits Argus, were then carried with acclamation Resolved, 1. That the Parkville Industrial Luminary is • nuisance which has been endured too long, and should now be abated. 2. lhat the editor, to wit: Q. S. Park and NV. J. Patter son, are traitors to the stat• and county is which they live, sod should be dealt with as such. 3. That we mast here again on this day three weeks, and if we find G. S. Park and W. J. Patterson in this town then, or at any subsequent time, we will throw them into the Min sonri River, awl, if they go to Kansas to rend., we pledge our honour as man to follow and hang them wh we esa take them. 4. That at the suggestion of our Parkeille friends we will attend to some other freesoilers not tar off. I 6. That we will suffer no person belonging to the Nor thaw Methodist Church to preach in Platte county, after this date under penalty of tar and feathers for the first of fence, and a hemp rope for the second. 6. That we earnestly call on our sister counties throlgh out the state to rise in their might and clean themselves of freesoilism. 7. That our puce, our property, and our safety requires us at this tine to do our duty. 8. That we request every pro-slavery paper in Missouri and Kansas to publieb the above reeolutions. The press wu then shouldered, with a white cap draw. over its head and labelled, " Boston Aid," the crowd follow log in regular order; it wu marched up tbrouah tows nearly to the upper landing, and there, with three hearty cheers, it was deposited in the Missouri River. , THE WAR THE CAUSE OF THE COLD SPRING.-- M. Le Maout, • chemist at St. Brieue, has started tho theory that the cannonade at Sebastopol has • greet effect on the weather. In an article on the subject, published by him as the sth inst., he says—" The w hole course of native allsosed by %kis cannonade. The residue of the combustion of **powder is dispersed in the air hy the *lad to a dis taste@ of more then 1,000 leagues, and afterwards falls in rain or snow. It has changed the chemical composition of the atmospheric air, by causing • greater quantity of emote and carbon to enter into it ; it maintains the sky in a oonstaatly cloudy state, as was the case last year daring the bombardment of Bilistria ; it causes rain to fall in abundance ; it produces violent storms of wind and extreme cold, and considerably lowers the temperature of the at mosphere, and con neatly makes the barometer rtes. 'The weather, which bad • mach milder for • week during the temporary saspension of the bombardment of Sebastopol, yesterday morning (Saturday last) underwent a complete *mtge. T*barometer, which hadbarometer, bean falling suddenly, checked its downward progrew, and began to ries; heavy rain, accompanied by • violent pale of wind commenced at daybreak. This complete change in the weather lead, to the idea that the cannonade recommenced with violence en that day, or that there has been some new affair." ENGLAND AND IRELAND IMPROVED COMMUNICA TION Btu. Commirrim7The ountaittse appointed by " - the Home of Commons to hear evidence on . ibis bill ai @Gabled yesterday, at one o'clock; present, Mr. Lowry Corry, chairman, Mr. North, Sir Stafford Northoote, Mr. B. Sheridan. and Mr. Floyer. Mr. Rope Scott, Mr. James, and Mr. Mewether appeared in @spoon of the bill. The pi re parties petitioning spinet it are the Great Western Railway Company, the Steam Ship Amociation of London and some steamboat owners, who appeared by tionmel ; and the Belfast Chamber of Commerce the Belfast Harbour Osomniesimers, the Liverpool Son:, Seam Packet Cam . 1114 Ulster Railway Company, the Drogheda Harbour en, the British Steam Ship Association, the Livened Chamber of C0mm.,.,, and some Glasgow steam boat SIAM, for whom no appearance was made. Mr. Hope Scott eeenpied the sitting with his opening speech. The examination of Sir Cosaeßosey,who will be the first witnser, was deferred on amain of the length to which his evidence is expected to extend. _ GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.—Yesterday lan adjourned amide meeting of the sharsholden of this I company wee held et the Paddington terminus, in con tonally with the Whanclido order, for the purpose of approving or disappeovieg of the provisions of a bill at present before parliament for the construction of a line of railway proceeding from • point on the Cheat Western line, near Southall, le Reentford ; and also for the esestnietion of docks sear the knee place. The chair was lam by Mr. Russell Mr. Seesaws having read the _ _ I i i A . . 1 i f , 1 1 l'! . ~ 1 i . r > , • i • 1! 1 10 ; . , I. (~ . ! j IT 1 'i i 1 •r di Ye* IM wig 17 s r M 0 100 I kW . MO 2120; T 01111.6