The Express. — London, England, 1855-03-28 00:00:00

ene ervres se Aamtkewoots lebiadod he "Th. Reprolo," Landes !wale, mar, wait be at the Mew, 10, Banoriewireet, by Two &do* es the diy ee patikodea. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Dar—tiorothi. 101. Mot .. bras, In. 81a. loasosaow—Morehts.llk. 41m...—Athioarxe, Oh. Oa. LONDON, WEDNBSDAY, MARCH 28. LATEST FROM ABROAD. Correspond's°, his been roosted this day from the camp before Sebastopol, up to the date of the 16th. There is not a single important incident to record. A letter from Malts, of the 22nd, states that the destruction of Odessa has been determined, and that a large fleet, both of English and French, bars been named for the work. Odessa fallen, the occupation of Perekop, Anaps, &c., will ensue, sad the enemy be thus out off from the mesas of seeding troops to the assistance of Sebastopol. The names of the vessels to be engaged in the de struction of Odessa are, according to the correspond -411109 of the Portajoglio Maltese, the St. Jean d'Acre, lag of Admiral Sir E. Lyons; Agamemnon, Hanni bal, Prisms Royal, and Royal Albert, of the line; sad the frigates Higbflysr, Niger, Tribune, Terrible, lidos, Wasp, Cusco', Vinosity', Sphynx, Inflexible, Vali:woos, Diamond, and Leopard. THE VIENNA The foreign joarnals received last evening refer to the abandonment by France and England of the intend that Sebastopol shall be dismantled as a matter of which there can be no question. When Prince Oortehakoff withdrew his troops from Sills- Ilia last June, after a forty days siege, the Awned de IX Peeershowy began to speak of " the sham siege of Silistria." The French government journals have already henna to ailirm that the Western Powers are set seeking to destroy Sebastopol. The Constautiowsel writes :—" The destruction of Sebastopol no longer hares in the number of the stipulations of the Allies relative to the Black Sea, for the reason that the siege of which this plow has been the object has never been einsidered otherwise than a means, and sot as an end, by the Western Powers. What they pursue in atasmse in the Black fire with their fleet and army is mg Ike ruin nor the rapture 010 mulitary port—it is tbe reduotios of the forces which Reeds has main- Wood in these parts—it is the species of domination which she szereised, and the privilege she enjoyed there, to the detriment of all Europe, and, above all, of Tarkey."—Daily New. THE AFRICAN MAILS. - pT ILICTIIO :uJOI►P3.) (MY ?NI 0111111311PDXDINT OP TIM DAILY 111 M) PLYMOUTH, WZDXSIDAY 110111131111f0. The African Royal Mail steam-ship Retriever, Osptaia J. H. Rolt, has arrived. Her dates are Per used° Po, Feb. 11; Cameroon, Feb. 12 ; Old Cala bar, Feb. 14 ; Lagos, Feb. 19 ; Altera, Feb. 21 ; Cape Oast Castle, Feb. 22; Liberia, Feb. 26; Sierra Loam, Marsh 2; Bathurst, March 7 ; Gomm, March •; Tema:ilk March 17; Madeira, March 19. fibs brings a mail, twelve paessegere, and a large serge of ivory, palls oil, gum, pepper, ground nuts, saltines!, argal, and wine, and 3,000 ounces of gold. At Logos were the Dolphin, Philomel, and Ante lope ; of Whydah were the Pluto, Monrovia, and Britoniart ; at Sierra Lego*, the Scourge; at Bathurst, the Dover; and at Gorse, the French men-of-war Reliopalia and Crocodile. On Feb. 22, the Retriever poised the Aitken steam-ship Ethiope; all well. The Candace, ditto, IsltTeneriffe for the coast on March 6. THE FUTURE NEWSPAPER PRESS. Br the vote of Monday evening, the House of Com mas gave its inaction to the principle of the CHAN- C 11.1.01 *I the EXCHEQUEVII Newspaper Stamp BilL That Bill is neither more nor lees than the practical application of the abstract resolution adopted last session by the House of Commons, with the assent of &rammed. We are, therefore, entitled to assume that neither Cloverament nor the Holm of Commons ma with honour reverse the judgment they have pmeed upon the measure in its broad outline. That judgment, too, we sincerely believe to be in strict so• teed with the popular views and wishes on the @ab lest. We may, therefore, regard the Bill as certain to lasses* the law ; and, this being the cue, it is most desirable that no attempt should be made to procrastinate the poring of the Act, or to tamper with its detail' in committee. Even those journals which have opposed the measure must feel that un certainty must be more detrimental to their interests thee the Act itself can be. Dispassitnately considered, the object of the News paper Stamp Bill is unexceptionable. Hitherto newspapers have been subjected to a tax (the stamp duty) from which all other publications were free : to compensate this they have been allowed postal privileges denied to all other publications except a few which were allowed to obtain thus by submitting to art= conditions of registration. That the subjection of newspaper to a tax from which all other publi 'ikons were exempted—the compensating postal privileges being kept out of view—was unjust, is a stifevidest proposition. Whether the postal privilege wee merely a fair compensation has been much debated. Certain it is that the old arrangement has prevented many who were disposed to embark in mwspapie spealstions from making the attempt. It beim, thseskre, that it had the effect of giving an artificial bin to newspaper enterprise; in other words, that it was a deviation from the principles of free- Toe „ horrible and heart-rending" narrative of the trade. The Csaitcm.Loa of the EXCHZQUEIa Bill m g,„ r i ogs endured b y our poor s adi sm in th e B r iti s h reams all doubt and ambiguity on this Peat hospital at Scutari is now complete. The evidence Heeceketh, any given number of newspapers given by Mr. SIDNEY GODOLPHIN 01301111 on t ut be published free freer stamp duty f Friday lest before the Crimean Committee estab bat if their proprietors wish them to enjoy the Bohm, beyond a doubt, that thousands of the brave Privilege of free Fetal treemellacw• they must pay men who lately left these shores to fight their Its the stump which ensures that privilege. Under estuary's battles have perished by that most thisnewregulation, ** wr i t' s!. exter P riee will have terrible form of death--etarvatioa. It is of no bras play, untrammelled by artificial constraints. This ors t r ying to conceal or explain away this Is equitable; and the experience we have had of the hideous fact. Already it has been told in every limas of warestrielid com p etition in oth er fi elds of weer of the land—to the govarmaox on her throne, eatarree warrantor to expect that it will aim to the humblest dweller in the remotest village—that peeve bsoefioial in our own. we how not bow many Englishmen, afttr being There is another feature of the measure which death oa the field el battle, have been suffered to die ought to recommend it. Under the old system, from want of hod! We have heard so much which it was intended to supersede, it was found ire- of late of the heavers of war that our Mee Path to taw satisfactorily what constituted a of sympathy is somewhat blunted. Thetis tales newspaper. The "Me of this Mr: 4 aq le abviolle- of metchlem valour sad heroic endurance affect us The chime with which a tax wee telt herded Rea Ism than they did at first. We can lists', calmly, newspapeenwas to weaken their Amoy as instruments to airrativas which a faw months ago far iihnenhatiag political opiaion• Rulers feared tiara from strong min who had long forgotten what mingsrarret net only for the reasoning re Political it was to weep. Our condition nowadays is that of Vieth" mataluel is them, bet toe the publicity they the sargeoa whom long experience has tar & to free le thee which, by their simple statemeat, spoke lock, without a shudder, upon human sufferiug, and trusepat-tengeed spinet misgovernment. TO ties of the judge who calmly weighs every word of *salad's of news in the abstract, Ooveretoest had , every wknees before be penes eentesee upon m &judge ; but the dimemination Delitical news the wirmisal. England hes long wanted to knew they Issardod with fear and aversion. Bat to hays avowed this would have bees as awkward confeardoo. The interdict against the publieatioa of news of any kind, unless in a stamped serial, was therefore rile rattily enforced. This has had a most prejudicial effect, not only upon political publications, but upon those devoted to practical and ap plied science, literature and art, and general amuse ment. By extending the postal privilege to all serials, under a certain size, and published within certain intervals, the necessity of defining that unde finable word "news" is avoided. Any serial, not too bulky, and not published at too remote intervals, may obtain postal privileges for any part of its im pression that is stamped. The justice of the limita tions of the privilege is obvious. Serials have a claim to be transmitted by post at lower rates than other pablicatioes, on the same principle that tra vellers by railway are charged less when they take mason tickets than casual passengers. And there must be some limitation to the rise of the serials transmitted by post, unless the service they receive Is to become altogether disproportionate to the price they pay for it. Such being the character and tendency of the Newspaper Stamp Bill, to assail it on its real merits or demerits would obviously be • hopeless task. Attempts are consequently made to ..projudios the public and the Legislature against it by other consi derations. In waging these hostilities, two classes have been pre-mainently active: the narrow-minded .__ _ and timid politician@ who dread the extension of publicity and political dimmed°. ; and the eats. blished journals, which fear that any change of spasm may affect their interests injuriously. The fears of the former class we believe to be utterly groundless. The Newspaper Stamp Act can only operate injuriously by calling into existence a licentious or anarchical periodical press. Within our recollection the moot successful speculations in licentious serials have been the John Bull (as it was conducted when first started), the Jim the Satirist, and the Argus. The circula tion of therm newspapers was 000 fined exclusively to the upper classes and to what are called the "well-to-do" middle closets. The serials conducted by members of the working classes during the palmy days of the obscene periodicals named above were free from licentiousness. The cheap ribald trash which has sprung into extensive circulation of lacerate. has uniformly been put forth by depraved members of the ideated claws, who have lost caste, and owes what mesas it has obtained in a great measure to the ass enhance of a clue of newspapers adapted to the coat pealeensimi of the poor and uninstructed ; and the sea-existeaes of such newspapers has been owing eddy to the Stamp Duty. There is no reason to appeehead that the newspaper press will become limmthms r consequence of the proposed new lam. Culls and rash political theories may find ass advocates in the newspaper preset Ist these theories are already extensively dinemi sated by other agencies. The publicity gives to them by newspapers will disarm them of their worst danger by attracting the attention of the jadiehose, and rousing them to counteraction. Thew ammaele ate addressed to such persons as apprehend that the newspaper press will be deteriorated by the projested change in the Stamp Laws. As fat NI& and reamers of his am (it tommos, they can be called), the newspaper is in their eyes a thing so vile that it cannot well be made wens. It *sir arguments were worth anything, they would pto prove that newspapers ought to be subjected to more stringent restrictions than are at present imposed upon them. As for the "vested interests," we believe their fears to be as 'roundlets as those with which land owners looked forward to the repeal of the Corn Laws. The competition likely to be called into existence under the new Stamp Act will be of two kinds—of newspapers properly so called, addressed to an humbler clam of readers ; and of serials dedicated to special branches of information, which will avail themselves of postal privileges. The former clam will seek to obtain purchasers among the poor and illiterate by devoting themselves principally to such news as interests theta; they will not suit the purpose of the habitual readers of existing newspapers.. The exist ing newspapers will not lose a single subscriber ; and the new and inferior newspapers will disseminate a taste for reading among those who now do not reed at all, and will is time raise crops of new readers for the high clue journals. As for serials devoted to special subjects, from them newspapers have nothing to apprehend. The charm of a newspaper is its universality. It has something for everybody, some thing for every mood which the same individual may find himself in at any moment. A public moistened to the variety that is to be found in the column net our existing English journals, will never be satisfied with anything short of it. The only thing that our brethren of the brew. sheet have to fear leprosy, and from that the kgleia. tare ought to protest them. The ArroattaY-Omenah , alleges that the existing law of copyright is sufficient for this purpose. Bo far as articles of political and literary discussion are concerned, it may be true that the letter of the law is sufficiently stringent; but, without more accessible and promptly working tri bunals than we can appeal to at present, it will continue to be a dead letter. Sane such sum ' mary jurisdiction as has beta panted in the case of copyright in designs i, reigalred for the safety of newspaper. And copyright (lir a limited time) ought to be extended to mere "news" pawed with labour and expose& It is alleged that such a espy- 1 right will be diScult to enforce. At all events, let us try. Give us the law—give us cheap and expe ditious tribunals—end leave it to us to find the means of establishing our right by evidence.—Doily Nam THE EVIDENCE BEFORE MR. ROEBUCK'S COMMITTEL YAfriIbNIESM the truth about what WS taking plum at Scutari. The Government persisted that the statements loads in the public prate, and by persons who had Iretarned from the seat of war, were partly fain and partly exaggerated. Even now we do know the troth, and we shall proceed to prove, for the satisfaction of our readers, that throughout the whole , of this unhappy war the Government of this country has been either shamefully imposed upon, or wilfully and wet culpably bli n d . _ _ We shall now give a bare narrative of facts as they wen stated the other day by Mr. Sionar GO DOLPHIN OSBORNE. This gentleman arrived at Scutari on the Bth of last November, and immedi ately undertook the duties of Chaplain at the Hos pital Nothing, be tells us, could be worse. The Barrack Hospital was in a disgraceful condi tion. The stench, the filth. the utter want of order, defy description. The commonest medicines could not be found—in one case, the surgeon could not get a splint of a kind " that every union surgeon in this country would possess.' There was no operating table, and every operation was performed in sight of the other patients. Try for one moment to realise that fact. Imagine that crowded hospital—sommon up that horrible picture. It is torture enough to undergo the most ordinary operation, at the hands of the beet skilled pried , tiocer, with every appliance that modern art has brought to li g ht. No language can pourtray the suf ferings endured by the wretched victims of *Mei& neglect in the hospital at Scutari. Turn which way we will, the picture is the same. There were no stretchers on which to convey the sick fruat the transports to the hospital ; poor fel lows were obliged to walk several hundreds of yards who could scarcely move a single step without pain. Meat was served out, if not absolutely raw, only soornsed through. Mr. Gasping records his "so lemn conviction that a great proportion of the deaths which occurred in the wards he chiefly visited arose from the irregularity with which the poor creatures were fed." And all this happened— where? Not in the midst of a boundless desert, not on the wide ocean among a shipwrecked crew, but at Constantinople. Every day we were sending ships from England. Every morning there was published, in these columns and elsewhere, an im posing list of vessels, bought up, it was said, by a vigilant and energetic Government for the transport service. Every night some Minister told the public 1 1 that the statements made by the press were un true. We were like men in the agonies of deli rium. We saw perplexing and horrible visions; and an attempt was made to persuade us that they were the creations of a disordered fancy, the results of a morbid sympathy, the inventions of ilkondi tient d journalists. The feats are now acknowledged. No man will venture to deny them. What we want now to know is this—Who are to blame P Certainly not the people of this country, for they were kept io ignorance of the troth ; certainly not the poor surgeons who were worked to death in the hospitals. ' And we are unwilling to impute too much blame to Lord STRATFORD, whose duties as Ambassador most have been too onerous to allow of his attending properly to anything else. No. It is the system, and, to a very serious extent, the men who admi nistered it, that most be regarded as the real causes of disasters which have shed such foul dis honour on the character of Englishmen. A few instances will suffice. Some one—we are , not told who—sent in • report to the Duke of NEWCASTLE relative to a transport vowel, " which wee as u•trns as any official document could be." So much for the credit to be placed in official reports. Then, again, Mr. Caimans made frequent repre sentations to authorities, high and low, but no atten tion was paid to them. As for Dr. Mean's, he teems to have been so much engaged with other duties, that he could give no "attention to minor matters which pertained to another department." ♦nd yet Dr. MENZIES was the Deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals, and the minor matters were the condition of those hospitals, and the sufferings of the poor creatures who were dying by wholesale, almost in the sight of food. Bat what can we think of an Inspector who depended solely and with implicit faith on the reports of his subordinates, in contra diction to the evidence of his own senses P He knew that Lord STRATFORD had an unlimited command of Money ; he knew that if a tithe of the suffering he saw were made known to the English people, there would be an outburst of public indignation ; and yet, when asked by the Committee as to the condition of the hospitals ha was supposed to inspect, his only answer is— m I was given to understand" that such cad snob things were so. He imagism that stretchers could have been made ; he imagines that a thing composed of two poles, with canvas be. twsn them, might have been constructed. He did not care—Dot he—that no officer was ever sent to superintend the landing of the sick—that the sick, when landed, were often laid on the damp pier, be- cause there were none of them simple coetrisaaoss of which a more might hare been made in a single hour. Them an a few instances extracted from as overwhelming maw. So far se we can judge, we are driven to the °occlusion that the e;perior officers of the Medical staff not only failed to do their duty, but sent in reports which produced a false impression of what woe really taking place. They must have known what has now been made public by Mr. Osmium and Mr. STAFFORD, as well as by all that sea be gathered from the unwilling testimony of Dr. &wain BMrrn and Dr. Manatees. We do not hesitate to charge the officers of the medi cal staff at Scutari with incapacity and neglect. This is no time for false delicacy. Thousands of our fellow-countrymen, some of England'. bravest sons, have died by a miserable death, have *aired sufferings which it makes the blood run cold to Wok of, and the Ratios is resolved to know on whose beads the blame is to be laid. Swift and sanitary jinn* must be dealt out to the offenders. We do not yet know the whole truth ; bat the public mind is already made up as to some of the persons to whom so many British subjects owe an untimely death.— Daily Nom MDLLR. RACHEL. THE WAR. The @hullos of the allies in the Crimei is repre sented in the racial Journal de Se. Pefera&arry,, to hand Petards), in on knowing terms: "The position of the allies is now oompletcdy shat in by an enclosure of formidable entresobswahe, ex tending from the great infantry camp near the citadel by the heights of Inkennani, along the Tobersaya, as far as to the approaches of Balaklave. New dim sinus have joined the army. Grave events are expected." A letter from Varna, in the Oct DMICII4I Post, says The news from the Crimea come down to the 12th. The allies wen then observing with great attention the proceedings of the Bowden' in the valley of Baidar, and were expecting an attack on Beak's. particularly as they bad learned that General Wagner had received reinforcements from the corps of General Liprandi. The Russian forces are said to be distributed as follows :—At Perekop is encamped the corp. of dragoons, a division of light cavalry, and various other detachments, amounting in all to 20,000 men, under the command of General Pawloff I. At Simpheropol there are about 46,000 men, commanded by General Read. Near the Baba*, General Oaten- Sacken's headquarters have been placed with 60,000 men, including the garrison of Sebastopol. On the Tchernaya is encamped General Liprandi, with , 18,000 men ; and in the valley of Bader is General Wagner, with 9,000 men. It appears that the first operation which General Osten-Sacken had executed, on his appointment to the chief command, was to I have all the heights along the coast occupied and fortified from Rarabelnaya to the mouth of the Tchernava. The heights on the left bunk of the Alma hive also been fortified, and this defensive sys tem seems to show that not only is Baktchi-Serai the centre elthe general's operations, but that a greater importance is attached to the communications of Baktola-Semi with Sebastopol and with Arabat, than to these of that town with Perekop. The Rus sians, in fact, seem determined to defend to the last extremity the basin of the Salzir, as well es the ground extending from SimpheroPol to Rath, their intention being, to all appearance, to procure their provisions and stores from the side of Anapa, and their reinheuments from Perekop. Should the allies think it to enter into operations not immediately in the neighbourhood of Sebastopol, it is not improbable that they will act against Rakich-Sera, the centre of the Remiss positions. Omer Pacha has just arrived is Kaias& Bay, to be present at a council of war." GENOA, Mica 20. A sisal Sardinian squadron is to sail for the Black Sea, wider Commodore Dinegro. The Eng lish steamers to convey the troops are expected. In order to be able to leave a margin for non-effeotives, the King will send 17,000 instead of 15,000 men to the Crimes. FRANCE AND RUSSIA. The Monitor of yesterday concludes en article on the death of the Csar, Nicholas 1., in the following words : " A great nation like ours does not rejoice when Death strikes down an adversary, however powerful he may be ; but all the world acknowledges that , the band of God, in removing from the war the sovereign by whom it was commenced, has caused the principal obstacle to the peace of the world to disappear. France, impartial and calm, de- 1 rives her confidence not from the disappearance of an enemy, but from the loyal concurrence of her allies, the heroism and snows of her arms, and the justice of her cause. Francs has made war with so much energy, and pursued it with so much constancy, in order to confirm the equilibrium of Europe, menaced by an ambition which the universal eminence had condemned." I Tn. 3aalllXff RIM LIVERPOOL ELECTION. TEE ARMY BEFORE I TIM NOMINATION. Yeltterday the Destination of candidates for tin reproisstation of Liverpool is parliament, took plat* at the htes, Is frost of the Tows Halt. twillauy hostilities kashmir bees observed, the 1 Mayor, J. A. Tostx, Seq., invited pestles's* who bad Gas didates to propose to come forward. - . Mr. Tzomu LITTLIDAIX proposed Mr Osage Bonham as a ataa of great esealaerolal imperious, a hard 'worker, • sound proesataat, aid &staunch supporter of the cosativatioa hi oharsh mad Mato. Alderman FRANCIS B=ata seconded the nosalaatioa, and, as the forme speaker had dwelt somewhat long on Sr George Boaltain's merits, applied biassU to expose Mr. liwut's defect". This speaker placed the sontest before the elestoes se em between coaservatient and radicalism. I Mr. Gnome Hamm. proposed Mr. Joseph Christ.. pber Evart as a gentlemen u decidedly protestant as Bit George Bonham, bet one who would not join in persecuting wow who were opposed to his views. Mr. Bwart, to a sound commercial experience, added intimate knowledge of their laureate, and trout his long connexion with the town was well able adequately to represent them in parliament. He was for having the right men in the right places. Sir Charge Bonham at Hoog-Hong, Mr. Been, Liverpool's representative, is Mu British House of Commute. Let them la making their selection secure a man who would look for merit sad seek to advance worth. Mr. Rosmanox GLADITOXI seconded the nomination. The MAYOR that asked if there were say other ceadidate to propose, and there being no response, Sir G. Bolutais then came toward aid proeseded t. state his views, but the element made his sesserks fre- quently inaudible. He said he certainly Muni' sot, upon his own 'peewit, have presumed to put himself leeward fee the honour of representing that peat and Impesgat elm stituency ; but the gentienten who had called Wm these bad sonfidenee in his commercial keewledgii, but which he was afraid they had rather overvalued. He had Wet 20 years an their oolohiee—in mimics that were entirely oons• menial—sad during his residence in these parts it was ise• possible for him, seasideriag his Intimate oonnexlen with the inhabitants, not to have acquired a considerable amount of real commercial knowledge. Without reference to the obssreatioas the opposition had doss him the honour to make upon himself, he woeld repeat what he had pre viously stated, that he we. a follower of the great cower. retire party. And if the honour was conferred upon him of being their representative in parliament, be would be a follower of Lord Derby ; sad he would render his support M the commercial institutions and to the moutitutioa. (Chan.) Hs should also adhere to the principles of our esdermed faith, which were in a prosperous mete. and he wed* ecomentrate all his ability and energy upon the carry hag et questions brought forward for the public, good. (a. Vales: How much did you get for Hong•liong ?") He got 11,0001. a year and that was not halt enough. (Boars of laughter, and Immense cheering.) Be had been 000bl derably a based by a gentleman whom name he did not know, and all of whose observations he did not hew, and he would now finally settle the point that had bees alluded to—he was not in favour of the )[''- tooth Grant , and he would oppose it. (Cheers.) lie agreed with some of the speakers, that it was a matter of serious regret that religious topics shoaid be discussed in connexion with polities; bet, as these matters had been named, he gave his answer, and what he stated upon them he would do. That he was ant an orator he had before told them; he was certainly not born one, and his antecedents had not hem of a character favouring his making any pro gress. (Hear, hear.) However, it be were elected as their member, he would take care that be would clearly state his opinions to the House of Commons upon any point that mime before It. (Cheery.) lie had not the eloquence nor the figures of speech of the gentleman who had preceded him, but they (the conservatives), as reasonable men, would regard "deeds," not " words," as their motto. (Loud cheers, which continued some time.) With regard to the war, probably they desired to hear something. (Hear.) He belleesit that if Lord Derby's administration had been in ex isammeat the time there was a probability of war, the chances ermialbee they would have bad no war at all—(" hear, " and sireseeleey would have put a good front on theirdeter miairem, sad very likely avoided it. (Chews.) Bat it they must have had a war, the people would have been in a better position—at all swab, it would be admitted they Weald or could not Lave been in a worse one. (Loud sheen.) There were two local questions which appeared M elegem &motion in this town—the first was the tows dews, the taking away of which would never be sanctioned by him. (Hoch cheering.) The other was that of centra lisation, the object of which was to deprive large towns of their municipal institutions. This would be a serious thing es aided Liverpool. It was equivalent to telling the ty it was unable to manage its own business, but mast be managed by those who kaow nothing at all of it. .) Repeating his flied determination to do his best the of Liverpool, and for the people generally, hoa. gentleman concluded his address amidst the cheer ing of his supporten. Mr. SWAIM is caning forward, war received with lead sheers by the liberals, sad with strong disapprobation by the tromervatives. He said it had ham with a gram deal of hesitation that he had again oome forward to solicit their slit (rages; but when • certain clique of their opponents thought proper to presume to dictate not only to their own party, but to the great and enlightened constituency of this borough, as to who should be their representative in parliament, the liberal party had determined that they would not allow the electors to be compelled to give their votes in obedience ti the impudent dictates of a few. (Chews and disappm nation.) Far be it from hint to disparage the character of his honourable opponent; but he would put it to the good sense of the electors, whether a person who had lived hen all his life, who wee identified with their interest", who bad had a commercial education, and whose whole prosperity depended on his property is Liverpool, would not make a better re i ressatative than his hon. opponent— (eheers)—whose name, he would venture to say with all possible respect, he positively did not believe even fifty membess of this community had heard of before his !Mead Tom Bold had brought him down as a candidate for the vacant seat (Lied chews, and cries of " Oh, oh.") He hoped that the bitterness of party feelings, which had so long deemed the contests lo this borough —party feelings which he had d mondani, he possibly could to lemon— he trusted that these would all dissppear, and that, as sensible men, this town would elect practical persons, who were willing to carry out practical Ineenref. (Hear, hear, and Oh, oh.) If they had had practical men at the head of some of those &pertness*" is this war, did they think they would have had, at Balaklava, quays composed of trusses and begs of rice, while our s poor horses were actually starving for food ? (Hear, bear., But the days of nepotism had gone by—(hear, bear)—gone for ever, and talent and Sums wield now be the qualification for Ake. (Hear.) It was scarcely necessary for him to address them epee topics connected with the town, he was so deeply interested is it; bat there was a question alluded to by his friend, Mr. Thomas Littlidale—and when he spoke of him as a friend, be hoped he had still retained his friendship—and that was in respect of the tows dues. (Hear, bear.) He had so hesitation in saying that when the matter same before the House of Commom be would to his utmost support the right of Liverpool to those dues—(" hear," and cheers) — 'Mich he himself sincerely believed were the legal pro perty of the inhabitants. (Cheers.) There was another remade, in whisk he bad taken the deeper beerest—he awe' edweedsm Me me maid bemused the Newssheet& Juba Fakiegten wittiest lessehing M thlak this Meglead, boasting of her great Insatiable', should be se he behind W the other countries on the continent-4mb as Austria, Prussia, and Denmark—on the educational question. (Hear, mar.) H. knew that there was a great difference et upon the matter, but he earnestly prayed that of all denominations would agree and unite in the blessed work of devising some measure satisfactoey to all, that would give the people of this country the mama sages of education. (Cheers.) He would support the pre sent ministry in every good measure that might be brought &maid, but he honestly told them that if be went up to parliament, be went there free and independent; he would not pledge himself to anything ; be was independent in mind and is fortune, and nothing would Latium him to swerve from what he believed to by for the best interests of the country. (Lead cheers.) To them he am appealed— by all the ties that hound man to man for the arm een of their children, whom they h oped to Cherish, the ei sesta= of odaeatiia ought to be regarded with vital latent*, la order that one day the child may by his talent and sanded stand in the proud position be then occupied of aphids; hie fellow•towasaesa he their suffrages. (Eleaewed sheers.) By all those ties he to them not to bask of *blameable individual who those e hot of the eases of which be was ea advocate; and Aaies 14 id they were true to themselves, they weld ttelotsrp tbereirrou each as Liverpool had never wit sassed. (Loud abuts.) The show of heads area the preceded with, mad iodated , la le fte ik la favour of Mr. limit, Gad led to vediennes cheering tboa doomaadod cot behalf of ilk George Boa haw, sad tloo Mager assoomood that A would take pleat WIMIIITOW (Weds, *day), to opsu s st eight and doss at four , &slack. Air Oozes Lomax thee a vote of thinks • 03 the Mayor. Mr. Swot the iaoMee, w ' hich ga carded by sestiaostlea m meth, elowd begin %MOW th s e tor , ,co do e s die Loin temsdnaled almost twangy siestas Immediately after the spooks at tha asesir,auma, m a eaSsawy essair, eserressl with tbs Caf,stitati on g AseseleVies, ser ia l na g s., behalf of the* body, soca the o f that the Mural cooKedass. Joseph Christ Root, was basMsthis dosage, being the et the and eskrieal lamas racket Cer.ipany, Irbil had &outlast with government for the co silence of soil.. This is a mere rues, mad speaks little tur the peelessimal skill of the moon is patios, as b 5 tee. 3 021 Gas. 111. e. 46, it is poWmad WA =Ma * m ica. pesamisa which Pee dlehel:llfri "'WI 10 matrasis, AO, by say issesperated tooling v A mpaai, ace to any sow I , peel thee *Adel eeleelethitt V. more shoe ten perseas m where the soatnet shall be WA* for the general Maeda if the tesPe7." It it was othsrehe, half the Hens of Cosmos would be diseao',iftem hemea4 shares La raii. ways carols, oath. fe, m , and Mr. Anderson us all ev, s eetad ßar & mad pkilet asadenies, and yet him sesta tig pariLwat ; - • MR. RORBUCY'S COMMITTEE. lIIs Fsea drille:liqintirletLeasetediej eweis ted y an o d f m a an eCi a n g ti eni n en; Sidle Way in the Crimea, sad of the sick sa d woun d e d et Bentarl. From the evidence printed for the use of the cons- Mane. to it would appals that theha ve pat upward s o f 6,000 the witnesses and have remind 6,000 mowe r s = illu th il e s inqoiry commenced, or at the rate of between 400 ad KO postdates and replies per day. The first witness examined yesterday was Mr. William May Flower, meistaatthurgeon to the 113 rd Regiaset. thee Crimea of which Instated when it left this country for the Crimea was 1,020 strong. They lost about 60 men while encamped on the Bosphorus front cholera. The medical staff tonsiaterl of one sergeant, three amistante, cue hospital =. and some few orderlies, which ha thought was . SS as • medical staff. They took out a large regi meats) medicine chest and panniers, with general medical appliances. The medicine chest, about the size of a table, who left at Varna, being too heavy for carriage further into **Crimea by the ponies of the country. The medicine sans contained a good supply. He arrived in the ,Crimea ou the 14th of September. The panniers eentaioed gement medicines, lint, splints, eke , and they were complete small medicine chests. The opium was very soon exhausted, but they obtained further supplies on requisition to the purveyor wh they wanted more. Re had within beyond the supply furnished by the pu ska' on the march to Sebastopol. A small bell teat was furnished for the sick on their landing at Varna, but the • regiment was about three weeks without tents. The dew weavery heavy, and the men suffered in health from expo sure. The hospital bedding and medical comforts remained on beard the Avon, and the bedding was only brought oat ten weeks after they landed. They had to. stretchers when they landed, and they were sufficient, he thought, for . the wants of the regiment. Seine of these stretchers were loss on their way. There venue means provided for the transport of sick. The first day they got a Ingest' to are them. They left a great many men to die on the road, basing no ambulance waggons. Some were on the beach, but they were shipped again. If they had had lit- • Mrs or males they could have brought these sick men on. They suffered chiefly from dysentery and diarrtthea, and some seen after followed the army. and others get to the ships. The bend carried the stretchers and the medical instruments. Two ambulances were afterwards supplied to his division, but be did not think them enough. They were very heavy, and he thought the French mule system bettor. The knapsacks were left en board ship, and the men complained of the loss of them. The packs, consisting of blankets, boots, etc., were very in etenvenient for them to carry. About 'iv sick, after the battle of the Alma, were seat on board sh ip from his regi ment, from cholera, in 'rata waggons, by the ceromiseariat. These areas were vety slow and uncomfortable, and very jolty. The state of the field hospitals after Alma was very bed. The sick and wounded were laid on straw in the farm yards on that measles. He saw the French hospital after the battle of Alma. It consisted of a farm building, with a number of tents placed in a half elide, with an operative table in the middle, and every other conventeace, and the wounded were properly and we ll cared for. The English had no operative table, and all the French operations were finished the day after the Mottle, and the sick removed. The sick of the English were about three weeks without tents or marquees. The tents used for the sick at first did well, but after rein became wretched. • They were Oct waterproof, and were made worse from the ground being covered with mud. The men were wet through nearly always, sad there ware no means of drying their mud-covered garments. The smell was very offensive. There was no boarding to he had, but merely the bare ground for the sick. The men laid in their clothes, which dried on them. He attributed much of the mortality that took place to the hospitals being in that state. They had very few orderlies that knew their entries. Some of the best died on their way from England. There was a de& 'limey chit fiy of opium, one of the most important medical agents, as the men were suffering chiefly from cholera and diarrhea, in whichanes it was a most important drug. Requisitions were constantly sent to Balaklava for it, and sometimes a small quantity would come back, and some times none. The men generally had fresh meat till lately, and wine and sego, but not always in sufficient quantities. Lately the supply become better. The fresh meat was boiled in a sort of soup. During the lest mouth of his stay fresh meat was given to the sick, bat latterly the g I troops had salt provision. About the middle of October, during the heavy rain, the deism increased considerably. The mode of lire, hard week, no change of clothes or diet, and exposure, med the general sickness and mortality. They got their baggage about tea weeks after they landed, and the knapsacks were landed two months after; they were brought up and piled in the middle of the camp, and were not issued to the men until a few days before he left. lie heard that this was in ooaseqneace of an order from the colonel of the regiment. Mr. Layard—Then even although the men were perishing for want of clothing, their knapsacks wen not given to them ? Witnees—No. Mr Layard—What were the men doing? Witness—Digging some large holes or pits fourteen feet in diameter, for placing the tents in to prevent them being blown away; but the tents were not placed in them, because the holes became filled with water. (Laughter.) Bir J. Pakington—How did the digging of the holes in terfere with the distribution of the knapsacks ? Witness—l was told that the withholding of the knap sacks was en inducement to the men to dig the holes. (Re newed laughter.) Sir J. Pekiegton—Who vim the colonel of the 63rd ? Witham—Colonel Deltoid. Sir J. Pakington—Was the officers' baggage piled up in the camp ? Witness—No. He attributed much of the illness of the regiment to the want of clothing, and up to the time he came away some of the men had not changed their clothes at all from the time they landed in the Crimea—from the middle of September to the end of December—nearly three months, but lay in them day and night. The 63rd lost 100 in killed and wounded at Inkermann, and after that re ceived about 90 saes as reinforcements. When he came away it was difficult to know the number of men left, but there were about 300 fit for duty and 200 sick out of the 1,020 that left Ireland. They sent the sick from the camp is the ambulances as long es they lasted, and on the wag gons of the 00131111illinilt, and latterly on the French mules. The covering of the men in the trenches was only that of their usual sloth's with the blanket for 24 hours together, ezpreed to all weather. He beard the men say they had generally been two nights out of three at work in the trenches. The regiment had rice for a month at Gist, but after that it was disoontieued; and when the want of supplies wee represented to the commissariat, one day they supplied owe ration only, a portion of which consisted of a cabbage between tial4e-doses men. They had tea twin a week. The sores wee always go. en, and had to be broken up by MOMS halls, or manned with a stene, sod roasted or 'barred es the tops of the comp kettles. It tasted very 5 like carnal and water. (Laughter.) It might pm have anted the heath of the Ines, but he not sag it would produce disease. Still • it would nom, taken in that way, be wholesome. After the 14th September, his regiment was not regularly supplied with fatless. The meet would be stopped for one or ten days,, and the rum Desna irregularly. &ratetimes they were ea day without meat, and on one occasion they were two flays. The Mamie bad hams, site.. at Balaklava, se that they did not aurae so much. The men sometimes bed nothing but biscuit ;. mid ea they they had no biscuit, but mese. On as meadow nil the officers were ordered out, be believed, ea a voyage el discovery for a lost consignment of Wont, whisk it woe thought bed tonna its way to the French camp. Hitt awn personal removal on sick leave re waited meetal &immune. He suffered very much from tros•-bite, and dose the battle of Balaklava be bad to lie on net had g an fo d r tan, which *coupled them eight den. No provision was th kla mad e va w e , e h t be r th w e e a st . en T b b ei e ird sk t k lie . a ft t o h nee e sow nths and da in his 91 0 t o b e c i e'm w i h n i g e h t to e Balab ad only. There were 26 orderlies, but they were either too wi Ti t e h re e :laid e ri i : w ed on i e t . h h th7 s e Milady es they could be, ski or weakly to attend, and some of the sick andme bar e n b d l te s oc n kB c k e "u m . on deck for say purpose the whole time of the voyage. They were in a moat wretched gad helpless state. The captain did all be could, and the rely conveniences the had were large tabs to um, which were emptied during the day. Between tweaty sad thirty died on the voyage. The vessel was disabled ea starting, and it took eight days, when it should wall have occupied about 48 hours. She was subsequent% towed up to Scutari. The men were altogether tea or alma day* on board the Victoria, and moult not have died en momoresely if they had been taken proper are or., sad net The Nish, when landed et Bootsci, was loaded is ug e si dbil boats. sad:fie:believed, then they 'wow well holland medical com forts. Dr. Halms ordor wai rtta isras of dderoform was not gone armed in by the raspy memos, who had seen a red *.al of it used is the large Load= hfspitals ; but he (withees) thought it nest useful in army medical opera tions , sad sever hesitated in using it in ease of wounds. Itif.sed, it was now the soul application, and he did not *Ask it it all dangerous in cases of amputation organ shot , *srosussis. wee Oho wait of conveyance. meal ski of the army general ly was inarmeed by night attea ßl tioa dit to th•Plkialtal—woundedßaeftardidTßalakkhonotmelmniorta li va. tyTaahoefygrartrelegvain. en boars, and the last day of their her, the risk was toreithreasesspoLeatkriuma:wasexporareres.nsairmais,mir sotOarilisilif.r...9thansted,pprodparalo:clafeoffstingsezellduhsadDeoboitnit:g. landtasiseas daer CV*, when they anchored of Soutarl. Ovoidal return metal that sateen men Mr. died as board, and that the Victoria sailed and cue ca the MIN sad wind on the 20th, being aia days loss time what pea Mks. MO ad am boom iamb of WNW, sessasisas to say whs. aoc k lir O gramai swerel d, asessikeeitheir lba b Peel — The e lp he essie veresr, 4; erinuniadn eet te l o y ed. usi d this.:. elesv a graledsal of Masai aid mestanty swag tromps was the Inevitable remelt of as army waestateg whitest the mums of tasaelceß teats, stratobara, !a.; but it gamma sot have eeatikael as lacy oast they snivel at Beliklava. If the mature of the apsnekew la So Sale wean have Mewed the Naas ea sem Orate UM% Mesta haw bin taz better. Aftss she Aiwa Soy literesibst ea Ms iiii. The eras sit=gel ateswah set Moe as- Tb e nute oere a t bottret 11 Alsoktbikall Iran —I the owdt eelladek having Ewan ; 3,130; Bookam• 1,717 i 10 1 18 * Ill t L is "' 1,363 * hail a weilimis 1111116 Dei all la " 9t any 62112 SWITZERLAND. BERNE, Mason 23. The three years' dispute between Switzerland and Austria is aa good as settled. As to the refugees, Austria abeadowe ber exorbitant pretensions, and the sovereignty of the republic will not be questioned for the present on that score. The impelled friers ars not to return to Ticino, the mates paying them 116,000 francs to stay away, and money well spent, too, if that was the lowest figure. The expelled Ticino's, who have not died or emigrated duriag the long interval, may Mara to LorabarAy. The affair of the school of Polegglo Austria leaves the Archbishop of Milan to fight out with the temporal power as well as he can. NAVAL AND MILITARY. THE BALTIC FLEET. DEAL, WIIDNINDAT MORNING. The ships of the advanced sonadron have weighed and proceeded for the Baltic, consisting of the Impe rieuse, Ear'slas, Arrogant, Gotrick, Tartar, Conflict, Desperate, Zak. sad Archon—Mom ADMIRALTY, HAWN 27. - APPOINTMENTS.- Lieutaaaat Z. 8. Mean (1864), to the Archer ' 14, NITI W Steals ship, of 202 bores rower, for particular ar dor. Mate F. P. Monett, (1863), to the Centaur, 6, width. lobe,l steam frigate, of 640 horse peeper, at Por;ratoutb. Ili ithipaiaa Lord Ashley to the Poialtroke, 80, wow steam ship, at Portsmouth. Tim Gtruirek—Upwards of 600 of the militia and ordinary remits received their clothing yesterday and the preview day, and am now in training for active Ilareboll. It u not intended for filo protect to tend oat the detachments that Lave been told off from the Household Brigade of lateatry M reesforos the envies battalions is the Crimoa. Those mon belonging to the let battalion of the Grenadier Guards who voloustoemd foe active service will, until required, do minima diaty at tb. Tower and Royal ICas, and the man belonging to the Coldstreeens and Soots Fusiliers will continue to do the duty at the Royal Palace sad West-cad. Detachments for infantry regiments of the line before Sebastopol will be t►e first to embark for the seat of war, tan.-Ist Royals (Ist battalion), Buffs, 7th Royal Fusiliers, 18th Royal Irish, 19th Foot, 2151 Royal North British,lPasiliers. 23rd Royal Welsh Fre heredlkd Daki n of Welliagtoa's Ott, tled lifehleteere, 60th Footaith Foot, 68th Durban lent la/may (WI hattalloo4 . st Highlander (tad Mitotic.), 98th Cow aught tare HOlatteere, and the lat end Zed bettelkes Brigade. The following regiments will proses& to the Crimes as soon as rdievod by mai. male el' 1111litia, vie.:—led Battalion let Roy.* from Ceplidenins 81st Foes, from Cork • 48th ditto, from Ogees I ditto, from Gibraltar; Time Light Infantry, farm Malta; 82nd Feat, from Corfu; and 92nd ditto, from Gibraltar. The 94th Foot la to be held ta readi ness for embarkation. The cavalry drafts for the Crimea will proceed daring the easelng mouth. It is estimated that the horse transports already is the servios, emissive of those employed in the conveyance of artillery, are capable of troaspatias 3,000 horses and sourly 6,000 sea. _ . _ _ - • Fifty noa•oomstiasiotted °dicers asd gussets of the Royal Artillery. with 80 bones, left Wo4llblit Garrison on Monday, for the purpose of peoneeding to Bastowegnare, sad *loos by farm to Livarpool g orbeio they aro to 'em bark for the Cries's. - - —; fl;elHasSishire Artillery Militia in the garrison at Woolwich seeemested a soaves of Repository isawnotioas on Kends,. Ciptain Mande, of the Royal Horse Arty, who was wounded while serving with his troop in the Crimea, aad eaberqmotly ',pointed Brigade-Major of the Beyal Artillery ot Wo4wiel head-qaarten, conisassosti his duties as Brigade-Ka* on ig o .d ay . A letter from Corfu, of the 17th, says : " The arrival of r. militia regiment here was quite an exciting mass Wenn& steamer had • splendid ran of 13 flays from forMisonth sad Malta; they leaded this morning slider CeiL Clifton, sad looked remarkably well." A Paris letter in the Dostepossiesee of Brasier eassuathe that Mlle. &whet, whew istamisd ten for the treated Mates was esestiseed ear this is ecupelleti to give op her project. Asserdlon It the letter la question the Minister of Slats did aid whlt that Peril, at a tamest when all the world will be Ilields. to should loth one of its brightest erassente. He hes aced his authority ts Totals her la drones, es he his the rower of doing, by the deems ed the Imam t= I. her Moscow, in which it Is said lot rosy et ilr Mit Frailvd• ea siZobal aerie to PloY for meaty Wm, sad after that rem TM twisty Years tis'ot tom the Let jut the minimise tam tAses. As Milo. Bullet reds but Stet egriresses ea tlri 12th Jane t 1316. she bermes* the enemy It the 'Ath ism 1616. tbe Si" la es artists whisk brio Mhos eentastatiral tram do Irby boadl4 says ft is Amgen*, pieemset son, It It prose. porn' Kele. Rubel tom ensure; her Asset. bat it strave rune bar It *of say new ha iris falLy kellialbsa Ins is lbw. Ohm MY imbed& tile/, sok Wing may mlstives, be. slim &Om et bee etencshe his It Enke $ Saul •ditsgs to wow a trowliima Ist Si... lbe Woks Mr Ira N s, ores et the Mayne entitle her ss a slight mils 00. It the larlitW Mohr nos tba =shoe, r„ t::its he ton dumb must bee term Wake the Lima* from wWdit w her is bine CaMAL tam; KaAai 91,—Batas et alb*. tesslesime net se anew @pia ea Os melt' nesse ter Ise Asp whet ',', Jeta ,d a y, mad N us ad r 2 4. :Vadeleir s eeehle. Zettorto3 o llllMbStr art riles' la= s tsra skirt holden, 6,418 ; 'anal no en 111'4p Mei ID Vans& obit ter mu us. POitTBIIOI7TH, Mama 27. The Mabee% steam sloop, arrived to-day from the *Ahmanson. She las SI indite* sad asysl Akers sad mos, Awlsink sod vess MI thiss. sd. Bb hes ems late Whew thin la - fle — Dee, tramper% embodied SO utillery home for the Wass this ieeislag. TY *Sal. 9, strew deep. wee teepseied this efterasea by thsOssaieeedirdie-Chisf, prise hs her The mentieuse amok' et Ist Maser, ..d Prises Meet le the reelmeesth Mips' Seem has semensall the dirries sat = omens to wry imerekketedy the tef de how • palls leeet iss ler this yerpees la nn s ie sa keld ia • few day&