The Express. — London, England, 1855-02-19 00:00:00

ogesseny is repeated in all the churches in Paris, OM are veep smelt erowded. SPAIN. Letter from Madrid of the 11th state that the dieeeseisa et the buis of the restitution relative le religion was reassed in the Cortes on the previa'', day, Ora M. Corradi proposed an amendment be tie dint that foreigners should enjoy full liberty of Wei* end that Spaniards should be freed from all o mmewsthelity with respect to their religious belief, ao‘ after an animated debate, this was rejectid by rem to 116. The minority, it will be seen, was ✓eedingly respectable in numbers. The Gazage retsina a royal decree sanctioning the bill adopted for fiziog the force of the army at 70,000 men. Therese journal states that the CaptainoGeneral of Puerto Rico and Cuba had reported, under date the let and 13th ult., that perfect tranquillity prevailed there. The capital of the bank which is about to be created in Cuba is, it appears to be 3,000,000 of pesos Aisles (St 260.). M. Pacheco was to leave for Rome ca the 12th or 13th. The Espana rays that the goverment intends to menisci fifteen battalions of provincial militia, and to employ unoccupied officers la them. In the course of the sitting oa- the 10th the Mai& ter of Foreign Affairs, in reply to a queation • .9 the state of the relations with the United Stale% begged permission to deny that the government eie himself had ever wished to insult M. Soule, sad he then said: " The United States government 111 efts 16th of January last resolved to replace the Willi who represented it at Madrid. When the sew arrived here that minister bad already left. Saber Irsently, we pee orders to submit to a new exaraina- Mon all questions pending with the United States, in order to decide what is just. We are perfectly in mooed with the government of the United States, sad eaeseqaently we have the hope of arriving at a pod& solution. FURTHER NEWS OF THE NAVVIES. Thosigh the deuce of the Daily News of =eleg ses oandated the public that a commencement had Meth of the railway works on the intended ithe lasa thiskau to the heights around Ssbaatopol, yes, a bath MVO beta remised from the navvies themselves, ad IP= WISP Pairs ceeneeted with the •1 Ousels( es 9011111n, the des so fareithed will be read with interest, edadlelly when it is added that the testimony of several of rase When smarms all that had been said of the chaotic Nth of this's that prevailed on shore at the time of their eallthel, though mitten have since seemingly undergone lab impeywomest. It should be first mentioned, however, that at the date of them advices there had reached Bala- Wave the undermeotioned vessels, with men and mate rials, via.:—Lady Alice Latithton, Jan. 28 ; Hesperus, Jan. 30 ; and Prince of Wales and the Great Northern, Feb. 3. The Bart of Durham and the Samuel Laing arrived at on the last mentiosed date. The Mohawk. sali Ceill = . arras passed off Caps Matapan on Jan. 26, luatiegepuader deahle reefed toroth. The vessels which had mead Beldame asomplissed the voyage without aey aseeldes, end the wade of the men were landed in geed health smispieltm Angegessests having been effected for the IMMIAIaIa dillealla of the merle cargoes, the rail way weeks were ONINIMMtaad at ease, and considerable pro bed abaft bees Wait. No difficulties are presented the same ef las peered, but, owing to the want of horses, midertablmg is expelled to occupy a longer time than at trot siedcipated. The first mile and a half from Beldam is newly level, the incline being only 1 fort in 60: then are them two miles of steep incline, rine, 1 foot in 16 few tie law hen mile, mid then 1 foot in 26 ; but from about the end el Ids distance to Lord Raglan's quarters the =is seedy level. The Field-Marshal mad Sir John se are said to think favourably of the enterprise, but the greater part of the engineering others entertain doubts of its utility, or at least seines no very lively faith, fa its feasibility within a period sufficiently brief to admit of its proving that essential auxiliary to the operatiosa of the siege which its projectors, the Duke of Nesmith, sal Sir Samuel Mottos l'eto, Bart., originally aaligigiesi. Quite different, however, is the opinion of them with the retaliation of such expectancy. The p=o encloser is full of confidence that if Sebastopol is to be by at all its downfall will be essentially accelerated by the railway. In that faith the navvies ply their picks and shovels ; aid it is fortunate indeed they took out a good sup ply of untie implements with them, for those on the spot, is use by the Ordnance, are miserably scanty sod of still More miserable quality, possessing every quality they ought not. The weather had improved, the thermometer stand ing at 60, and, if it continues favoureble, the program of the works will nos doubt be rapid, u the men hod arrived be the highest state of efficiency, and wit to at once in high *Mb and with the greatest good will. They seem to have lava literally appalled at the unimaginable state of 11th. elleheiss, and universal piggishness that pervaded aleldeva, whether afloat or ashore, and for which they de nims set all the descriptions of the press had prepared arm The &lathing they did to prevent their own affairs being meguiphed Is 1 , .. general medley was to secure a Mine he the sprig see of the navvy fleet, an invaluable =l, gel meg which permitted something like a eye. er and Method being created out of the chaos. A !doe party of 'idiom was also obtained, to pull down oath old building, to admit of a distinct locale being made the navvies, respecting whom instructions had been =or the "WM of them to be berthed and victualled the malseletbey arrived in until huts could be erected * their wellthielehation on shore. This arrangement, with the suellent feed and warm clothing provided for them, will, it is presumed, keep them ia their present healthy , sad vigorous eonditioe. Not a single ease of sickness orr awed ammo them during the voyage out, nor bad say complaint been made of the quality or quality of the pro visious. Mindful, however, of the complimsot 'paid them by Captain Andsews, on their embarkation at Blackwell, as to the ' eyes of Europe Ming upon them," they have been et some palm to keel, theiseelme conspicuous before the several " nationalities " duties their program to the Bast. Thus, at Othraltar, a party of them aehleved the hitherto impossible exploit of storming the Reek, to the amusement dike of commanders and sestinas, ead roamed all over the plans, despite of every remesetnans, the authorities pod hemouredly tolerating ethatricities which a little more license sad a little more delay might have sonverted into serious excess This eirallita was reprove d oa board, and it was intimated that they mast net go oa shore at Malta, cr, if they did, they sight do so penniless, for they would be allowed to take as mosey with them. Nothing disheartened by this admonition tad the posaalaer deprivation attending it, they landed, and bit upon a most characteristic expedient for randag the wind. Some deem of them went abort Valetta as perambulating advertisers, peedaligiag that at a eartaia boar a greed display of the wile sited self defense by real British melba, sad he the model lomat of two pada- Sole of the Sine, =mid elms 'IL And same off it sword- Wily did, amidst a large wassamie e mpariv f=stses, sad with meths; nulls, through the of the savvise, who, hat in hand, solicited not only their ewe soentrymes of the paws, bat the natives--themethals moyl , p sway of =soy ef remise= de Vallerst sail ease beighte and greed wastges—go semedleste to this Masterdom se the chivalry of Times Boa amd Tess Cribb. Awls, d Oseetaatimeple, they MINA eh wing ashen, and wbisa fled Smithey weld ast im % se the pies did sat Mimi( ID the aces.aces.thee es sisthat it mold le beiges le I w, mei that it seem sbr ald If they had thole way. However, they had sot =We way diem at ell ewers ; and ea noshed disk ultimate demised= la gainers. Sew rumblings gad epowlinp, more or lea uprearione, which they have bad rmeogst each °that slam their arrival, mem to have beget fears among the military authorities that there may be serious die tarbances. But those who know the Mit/perm of the navvy think nothing of these little maifestations, and re gard camissal phlebotomy in the =saner prescribed in " Betimes" es rise of the min u s amatial to the egaani• mity of the " roughs," whisk will Midair' in, so matter at what alarm to the serves if whether In black coats or red. Then is se they will be a vile sandy at the outset. but as little that they will p ou steadily, however doggedly and osseatimestall , allgewese. • esterrise hoe =mainly Mos cos all dream. Masses tales isle onsideretisa, mite Owned bearable sawing. TM most _drawbedm et penes= are the west of hawse rad the Mosby of presoiks aselliary latieue. The esidiers are demelboil as over teethe( to a degree altogether incredible to the sauies, looking M their eyes as the vary aware of pose-lesse paupers at Mao, the worst feature la the whole mon being, according to the letters we are gentle/ from die =lse apathy and listlessness, the callou sese end to their own life and that of every body whigh seem to modem all classes, owing to the soma se 'offering of which Balahlava km bees the thesis*. sal the soldierly sapid is serve mid some of self. Maw above all mere mewed =lowing. No me amemeriap, angel= the awe; but barmy smil slawity, as far es silage will probably pe=lt, et the whisper of duty ; and reedisese god sageness to gr eam mile with the enemy, as though all had hither.* Mos and hilarity. Terrible, however, as was the sem dries el *Mr ewe egestrysies ki Um view of the etahregth samba, it seem le have bees that of =barites compered with the sal plight of the Tighe, who son rapidly dwlidas away wader theismhisied isilassens of Weems= weedier sad surely d puseMeas, so that eel if the is dwassal originally *sat eel seeresy ais put now =nig& uses navvies will goolls* be sad a of good he le ale very =nimble, sad would pealJ referee t o e spagardeas. Neither home mar hinge to bed them an te he pet la Beleklava, and • supply of helmet MI India have to be seat eat for their milishasam la reselied, the want of hones Emma 'email to Immo em =by a doable tramway, ap~i • Weis 110101p he lialdl could he led by the leaded MSS I hid =germ% he the pumas if the railway, tbre poet deekkasts, as aireedy staged, an horses, panty ei Meese le gags& than la working emdides, and ens' their pashblas es so toyKaaba= have already ...sunken ; incalculable the advantages Paris wet to have derived therefrom. Even a journal was published, called Le Docks, to repiesent the new developments of industry that were about to pave the streets of Paris with gold! Well, the money was, collected in the autumn of 1852, to accomplish this post and most desirable work. Feverish was the public expectation—eager were the hands that mere dipped in speculative pockets, to buy the golden shares of the company. Well secured, UM, Wen the statutes in the mysterious portfolios of the Commit of Stets. These were the summer hoses of the speculation. Everybody believed in the success, the reality of the thing. The known vigour of the government in all matters connected with the im provement of Paris gave men reason to believe that this vigour would extend its influence over the Na poleon Docks 1 and in this expectation the shares of the company reached a high figure. To follow the sad story of this semi-official specu lation through all its dreary ramifications would be tedious. It will suffice for the Information of readers that the present aspect of the affair should be contrasted with the wondrous promises of its birth. To begin with the beginning, the shares show a loss of sixty francs discount! It is necessary, therefore to ascertain, if possible, how this discount has been arrived at. I will not trace, for the edification of scandal lovers, the many stories that are afloat in Paris concerning the untie- Innate Docks Napoleon. Most of these stories assail the honour of somebody. I will therefore refrain from publishing them, and from givihg centriccy to hints that may throw light upon the names intended to be damaged. I have no means of ascertaining whether sharps of peculation and maladministration are true es false; and I would not take upon myself the ree possibility of scandalous details, even if I were cos trimmed d their truth. 'There is no end to be served thereby. That such stories are current at the Bourse and on the Boulevards, that they are continually bandied about by excited gentlemen who believe that they have been duped, that they touch the honour, nay, the common honesty of conspicuous men, are points enough for my purpose. Scandalous stories of maladministration do exist, and facts which are indis putable lend a certain weight to the mat violent assertions. The accused man who refuses to answer any question—who shuts, himself up, and maintains for two years a gloomy silence, when, if he were honest, a word might clear him—will always be, in the eyes of the world, a suspicious character. Two years age more than two years ago—the statutes of the Society of the Docks Napoleon WOO drawn up, and presented to the Council of Stets for the confirmation and authority of that august body. Two long and anxious years have passed away—and still these statutes remain locked up in the portfolios of these very select legislators. Meantime the French public, and I believe a section of the English public, have been daily agitated by hopes that the I morrow would produce the laws by which the THE WEATHER. wee of their money should be governed. But ever y —.-- Yesterday was again an intensely cold day. The day has brought only its disappointment •, to this boar the statutes which are to regulate the tlnniSottr , which on the previous night stood at 13 deg. eelebrated Docks Napoleon have not reached the Fehr., stowed at nine o'clock in the morning 14 deg., and shareholders. This delay—this shameful delay—is, at noon 24 def. of temperature, falling again as the day di es readers will readily imagine, variously interpreted. elated. The barometer indicates a conductance of the The wildest suppositions command attention— Non. The par k s were again visited yesterday foiT the pur assuredly the directors cannot be said to exist on Poe' of *mist to an extent probably unpmedented in the terms of cordial friendship with their shareholders. seetromin The river is almost choked with drift lee. On the contrary, very ectornful fingers have been - DUBLIN. Fes. 17. Qoaatlike dim are reported to be drifting la the Clummei a pointed to their officers. The docks, up to this mo- Aga from the depot of the 90th Light Infected won particularly in the Dewas—a circumstance whit& Ins went, exist only in the vivid imagination of the loft 7 , e ,,,d ej b y psi for C oo k, 01 no e s t s 'pilots seldom remember to have witnessed. It is sew public. For two lo n g Years the capital has been, or Malta; and out et 130 hay mustered on parade• - te„. vi- peed that the frost has thrown as many as 10, 000 Each ought to lime been, lying idle. Some money his o a st, to stoma, may two were found to h e temporarily labourers (Ise of omploymeot. Foe the hot DMt been spent in purchasing lend, and I believe an shiest. step have bees locked out In the chops of the shame& night or mere, a large Ant of bosiewardAseoe mirepot ; but nothing has been added to the nom- It is lisd.••• , ••d. that the lith es . next swath is the day ---- auttrotal convenience of the French capital. Study is tit" °I• B. Disk•••l PirePosse leaving Dublin for bands of shareholders, weary at length of protracted C ar h e r ese. " is supposed Lord Beat, his " mlece ' will b Y the easterly wind ' while the free "' state of the active as the Royal Ilseeiial oe or abets the Ist of April. rives prevents the smuts maim up to discharge at the suspense, have presented themselves to the hankers of the society. The reply has invariably been the wharfs. There is the same dearth la the arrival of coition from the Borth. The wind has prevented them leaving the point blank refusal of accounts, or any statement MAJOB.-GENERAL J. Y. t3CARLETT. Tyne, Wear, Tess, de., and in the meanwhile they have whatever. Thus gentlemen who, in the autumn of been frown in. During the week scarcely haltellosen 18.52, disbursed a certain sum of money with the view TO TIE BDITOR or TIM DMIT MTh. earsships have entered the docks to discharge sad the trade of building Parisian Docks, are told , two y Elm—The enclosed farewell address from the Hon. alotglide the river is amid at a stand-still: The ati u afterwards, that the men in whose office they have J. Y . s a w e d to th e 6 t h Dragoon Gonads, I ioon by tbo from the several poets all speak of the severity of the fi at placed their capital do not choose to give them any last mail. The resior-geseral having se highly distin- and the navigation of the rivers, *tape the larger ones, in hand; nor to build the docks, ce b• 1 011 ot•PO•ti• notion of the balance gnished Unmet,' is the Crimes, his address may, I think, b• Yesterday Southampton Water, with the exemption of till they or the government may be pleased to do sea deemed worthy of Insertion la year widely circulated jou- just the centre of the stream, was all from over. The Repulsed by the responsible men of the society, nal. Tours, &a, G. S. Sultan steamer was floated into one of the graving docks, certain simple shareholdoes, showing herein that ate Feb. and before the water could be let out she OW (mien in. they were not men of the world, as the world is '' Saturday night was the coldest known this winter. understood in dock business, thought that they would " The neon couneanding 6th Dragon Geards will be The Baulk-Western Steam Packet Compel y'h steamer Wo n der, commanded by Captain John Gentili'', left do well to appeal from the cool directors to the 0 16 " en t o Ism" the follo win g owls: b y Ma i rw-General the Jersey at 8 o'clock on Friday morning, and Guernsey three official gentleman placed by the government in a II"- 3 . Y. Stark". having or four hours afterwards, with the Channel Wand mails. It certain position th at enabled him to see justice " Bet MO", bees gmeltwal , Fleerea to pro was then blowing a gale from the 8.5.8., with every heavy sea, and intensely cold. Wken about 12 miles from the done to capitalists, holders of shares. The simplicity " 6 " Briganler'°" eral ar erlett t° the rank of Wu' General, the tie which Dosed him to the 6th Dragoon Ganda Casket Rocks, a sea struck the Wonder, and carried a of this notion may be seen in its results. Up to the away o f t h e one o fher boats, a part of her pen and stirboard bulwarks and damaged one of the paddle-wheel,. It was necessary' present moment the government inspector his not is b"lisa -11W sal" ea lug" aPP•ala et the mil nelson so liestesset-seloosl. t o wa l i a i s te h d ili th e e m d e n c i k t 4 . the The treatw m hsol itte , m and or th th e e se r t ea a almost the w heel,a i t furnished any kind of statement to the shareholders. He yearly takes a handsome salary from their sub- " Though this PsOlisedes is mat gatterleit te the scribed penal as a reward for a service performed in the field, he and the sea'-wester,-wester,and oilskins of the captain and crew, capital, but declines to render them any account whatever of the belemie. omen see the teunesios which has so l ong &misted be. WIT covered with ice. The Wonder ought to have arrived at Southampton at 7 o'clock on Friday night, but she did Thus the Great Napoleon Docks stand at the we- twill Zi a sa d the Miriam b• bee bad the "wear and not reach that port h e m 6 o'clock on Bawds, sent moment, as purely creations of the imagination Pleasure to orwmand rtheelewl without feelings of pain s ad She wee under steam daring the whole of the ; she use when, in the autumn of 1852, some excited gentle- regret- proseated a curious oppearasoe when she arrived. The deck seem collected en immense capital to realise the "It has, during his command, been the pride and delight and everything on it wee completely covered with ice. us dream. The government declines to issue of his life to have received from every general raw 'who F inei t e L l r i t ia "6 now selling (or wee than • Posy a OW estates ; the bankers decline to give any account ; inspected the 6th Dragoon Guards his full • approbation of from with the Bold. 11.0"*"..°,1 1 0%.° re.:r" being =ge ld the government inspector confines his attention to 010 regiesoletr and to have beet able to plow on their r"erd a to Bonny, in Rants, ca the ice—a disuses et asarly seven lis salary ; and the shares drop and drop at the the Medal •Probatila of the greeted soldier of the day , the ranee—the canal between those towns Ming (roses up. Bourse, of course ruining many_ people in their fall. late Duke of Wellington . From the time he joined the 6th The provincial papers contain various statements W- I have drawn this picture of the Napoleon Docks that Dr• 8••• Guards II major in 1830, tin be relinqu i s h e d t h e thicativentf_therve roads rity of m th . , wrth es :r d i i r s t u dge o rlnlyearts of have 14 bas T he almost in r ble in queue:e r r the' ire English readers may see how such companies are immediate command at gallinsellis le 1864 , the regiment managed in France. Is this case the limited was in the highest state of diesiPline- snow. Is place : drifts were of great depth, and before üb i l i ty w hi c h is th e wisest of the cocomer. "No corps of cavalry leaded at Versa in more splendid a mange send be obtained through them a way had to nal laws of France, is useful in the assurance order. Sines that period sickness sad death have mode h; eat with shovels—le some instances to a depth of from ii gives to the holders of "Docks " that, should all terrible ranges is their ranks- diameters which esell set rt° 14 I". The river Treat is hoses over at Not ** Grantham Cam! to Colwiek Weir. lbus am, ear have paid be spent in secret services be wholly avoided. but which perhaps gnaw 154554 1 .•• It A p ews w ith a h em en d gig get oo gm' embedded on ..ibilliiii t h e government inspector continue to be camping night have diminished. Weakened le Dew Th ine e m f in * * dm war ton Rojo. at i t iffordokat he iota with ipmsbnen--excePt on quarter day—end We and la heelth, the reglineut, netwithateedieg, peeved null see premed mall several from Buford came amid the Oesseil of State also persevere in paying by their gallant conduct es the 26th October at Beisklan, with spin end dug est a So deep were the snow UM Mai careful neglect to the statutes which am that they are inspired ia battle with the NM spirit by o d bo ri t o aa w sylrestards•‘•••da7.Bagat s..6.4,t_nthatthenetwithata:dav lagt law without their ratification, I believe—at hest whisk their predominate was undying reputation hr the from eighn an is is i es ea the ' ag al sw.re s:Zer this consolation will be left to them, viz., that their sorp is the Penman. which a Sea is mitten seffislastly wide tat me carriage Idlest friends cannot spin dip their sagacious fingers "Itis a source of nide and segensties te the trier to Pim Oa Friday nigh tee sag bet, th en was I into their pockets. As many of the scripholders are, geseral. that be should ewe his prosouttoo istuffonoi t_ t ir_vy rain w r i te f r ost a t t h e same time. On they were so heavily lades that the limbs CRYSTAL Parc; Fez. 17.—FITI-1131ILLING DAT. I am informed , Engtieftme ll e the for e g oin g sim p le of the sth prelim Guards. The "Wert he hoe °it beg ;lam:Kie morning the Wee "re severed w it h Jeer Admission at **doors, 62 ; Wail** by semen Behr% description of the t state of the society will be taken la their welfare sad homer will only eine with bit and fell to the posed with the weight of it. 361; total, 436. received — unlike trr a doth capital—with iistoral I lifs.• M Ped Mooday last, two skvemenesseedwith the Owner . The Telegraph, hired paddle transport, having had her leak stopped, will be takes out of dock to-morrow, and after embarking the staff, baggage, end horses of blejor- General Simpson, sail for Balaklava. The commissariat drivers, about 60 in number, who go ont in this ship are • Sae healthy body of men. They are mostly Reiman sad this morning they proceeded from the dockyard in • body to the Roman catholic chapel is Porten, end being ell dressed alike in their new blue great costs, scarlet comforters, far cape, dtc., attracted some attention. The Ariel, 9, screw sloop, Commander Lao, went out of harbour to Spithead yesterday, where eke anchored, being reedy for sea. The Falcon, 16, screw sloop, went out of harbour yes terday, and tried her machinery. The Panders, freight-skip, sailed yesterday fee the Crimes, laden with provisions. The Edinburgh, 60, OM* Captain Hewlett, was tate* into the fitting basin yesterday to refit, and the Putter, screw gun boat, lute dock, to have her bottom examined after bar repeated trials at sea. A number of smiths belonging to the dockyard have been at work all day to-day, getting new engines reedy for the WNW transport Simoom, shortly expected at this port from the But, her old engines having broken down. The employment of convict labour in this dockyard is I now very considerable, about 600 prisoners being so en gaged. On Thursday night 46 convicts came down from Scotland, and on Friday morning 60 from Wakefield, York shire, for the convict prison hue, making altogether isp ; wards of 1,000 urea la this prison. COFFEE FOR THE CRIMEA.—On Saturday par larnentary paper was published, containing the correspon deuce upon the subject of the roasting and grinding of coffee as also the letters between the Feblie Department, Lord Rag lan , and the War Department. The document is of some =portals., with respect to the supply of coffee to the troops is the But. It appears that irons the 16th March, 1864, to the 13th February intent, the quantity of isareasted coffee shipped by the Gavel department for the army is the Bast, according to the requisitions made by the Commie's:fat department, was 800,9141b5. Of roasted coffee. 211,2301 be, whole, was shipped ; and of ground coffee, 30,0591ba. No ground coffee was mat until the 18th nit. Complaints have been made that the troops were supplied with Impound coffee ; and there Is a notice on the order book of the House of Commons on the subject. The first communication in the paper is dated the 24th February, 1864, sad the last on the 6th of the present month. The lest letter's to the Socaetarylof the Admiralty from the War Department, requesting that the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty were to be moved to give directions for the ship ment during the present month (February), consigned to the senior commissariat ogles is the Crimea, of 40,0001 he of ground coffee, earefully packed fa tin canisters, and • similar quantity is the coarse of nest month. "These quantities to be considered se as addition to all former re quisitioes for supplies of this artiste." The terries companies of the following three militia regiments, the Wiltshire, Lancashire, and Stafford, have volunteered for duty in the British possessions abroad, and ars ander orders for Corfu. Twelve more regiments of militia are nearly ready for garrison duty in Gibraltar and Corfu. By thee. means 16 regiments of the line, well seasoned and drilled, will be ava ila ble for immediate mor tise at the seat of war. The Mauritius was burning the whole day on •I=y. She was in many respects the finest ship in the i Screw Company's fleet, and a model of her was Imelda, for the French Exhibition. The chief reason for believing that she was set on fire is the known bad feeling of her crew towards the company, and their indifference in Ogles to save the ship when she first caught fire. No proof however, been found at present to warrant the belief that the fire was not an accident. On the night of the fire a retcatcher was on board the Mauritius, setting his traps, sad going about all night with a lantern. It is not likely, Sbessitsee, that such • night would have been chosen by en inseediary. The workmen who had been working all night on board the ship had struck week, and it is probable that the fires which had berm lightfog them caused the no- Went. The holes knocked in the Mauritias's side, to lot the water in, have been stopped up, and as she is not ea her beam ends, it is moat probable she can be !looted eat of the gavial dock, sad she can be thee towed elsewhere, I to have her hull broken up. DEPARTURE OP THE AMERICAN MAILS.—The British and North American royal mail steam ship Canada, Captain James Stone, sailed from the Mersey on Saturday, at 11.20 a.m. for Boston and Halifax, with the usual mails for the Unit ed States and British possessions in North Amelia, 96 penmen, sad a fell cargo ad merchandise on freight. WOOLWICH, Pus. 17. The Perseverance iron screw steam troop ship, which upset in the But Dock at Woolwich, on Jan. 20 was this day successfully raised to nearly • perpeadiculai position. The port holes as the lower side having been made water-tight, and a considerable number of cults and other powerful purchases having been applied, the water was let into the dock at half-put 11 o'clock, and as the tide rose she righted herself,in the presented of a large concourse of naval dicers and spectators. The Perseverance has now her keel in the centre of the dock, and does not appear to be much injured in her hull, as she does not km so mesh es might have been minded. DEVONPOHT, Fan. 18. Thor* am now no ken than seven arida in dock is the saw yard at Kahan', including the Duke of Wel limpets ; and on the whole of than parties of artisans are surged is gettisg them toady with all possible despatch. HarAdmigoll Heywriar left es Thursday, on receipt of a tearophis tweege fees the Admiralty. His visit is con. semi with pagandom ler the Baltic lest of 1865, of *hails is to be the wand in command. Admiral Cony is to secaged Admiral &after, as the superintendent of the dockyard. Captain W. H. Hall, of the Bulldog, will, it is said, he Admiral Sausages 14 captain. The Harrier, 17, Co.. , arrived from theWeet got op item and come into lemma. Archer 14 , arrived from Leith, and saluted the Sag of Admiral Sir William Parker, which was answered lip Ike Ina teable. Magi (dew lakes out of dock at Emykam, sad Socomond end Ranier Mims in. Plata West India mail steamer arrived in the 811111111 is want:of mob, which she received end sailed spin the wsientag (Sudsy) for the eastward. Cherub, trasgtrt elkersee, sailed today for the Black ea, with provides& The Veiltare, 6 paddle, Captain Glum, sad Hammond, 8, Com. Crofton, moved into the swam basin at Haryhaog on Wedneoda, preparatory to beteg docked to maks good defects. , . WO; Taw, sou. • - . . INUIT MO PAIR. There seems to be a fatality about dock mango. mut, or rather dock mismanagement. As an appendix to your recent articles, I will endeavour to give you a fair history of that company which MS to make Paris a commercial port—create a mead Peel 'raids sight of the Tuileries The beginning of this raft Map has been singularly unfortunate. Eves the word "Docks" has undergone the most aboard interpretations. At the present moment the most flourishing "docks" of Paris are the wanhame of a Parisian Moses. This spirited imitator of the Miseries has happily named his establishment "Decks de la Toilette!" But even this abuse of the word—this degradation of the dignity of docks— may be passed without notice, when we compare the tailor with the great commercial company that is September of 1852 obtained from the then President of the Republic a decree authorising the establish. meat of the Docks Napoleon. The idea wee new it flattered Parisian pride. I believe it was even well calculated to attract hard commercial heads. Your readers may remember, also, how spiritedly various journals wrote on the subject. It is obvious that the then President cordially gave his adhesion to the scheme, eines he allowed his own name to be given to it. I believe that the rush for shares was remarkable ; and the men who were intrusted with their allotment appear to have been not less remark. able. A large number of shares were kept book. Of course they roes to a premium. The statutes of the society were published. The shares became sensitive, however, se time wore on, and there was no appear. &nos of work in progress. But everything was to be beyond sespieicm, the affair being so nearly related to the goverent, particular care was to be takes of the interests of the shareholders. I believe that, with the intention of keeping everything in MN" ithe government went so far as to appoint a commie• sioner charged with the duty of representing the interests of the shareholders, at the board of directors. Now all this was done in the autumn of 1852. Is -use were the works that were to have been THE EXPRESS, MONDAY. NAVAL AND MILITARY; Military °Sam who have offered themselves, and have bees noted at the war department, tae service with the Turkish army, or with irregular levies attached to the British army during the present war, are requested to communicate their present ad dresses to that department without delay.—War De partment, Feb. 17, 1835. The foregoing notification doubtless applies to the execution of the new 'military convention jolt made between the British government and the Sublime Porte, empowering the former to raise a military force, not exceeding 20,000 men, from amee . gst the subjects of the Sultan, to be em p loyed in emanation with the allied armies of the Bast. Of this eonveation the Observer of yesterday says : Bap bam already been taken , sad ocean despatched to the Tashi& mamas to rain 15,000 men. This form is to be levied, armed, clothed, fed, and paid by Ragland, and I entirely under her ommand. It will emistof two divisions of lefentry, mad a corresponding form of angry and artil lery, sad will probably be employed in Asia at the opening of the campaign. It is sot kneaded to interfere with the randier discipline of so may of this °Ballarat as shall happen to be Klamelmaa, who will probably be under the mazaaad of regimeatal cam of their ova faith and meatry. h o doabt may Wags alma end saes will be Morposated with this legion, sad it is not unlikely that may Christian subjects of the Sultan will be fated fight ing La its reeks. The chief direction, however, will be @attested to British or forage dicers of experiasee, *sleeted here for the highest comma& Goverment ere Miran to Mai* fer this service erporieneed dimes wins are not otherwise employed. It is understood that arrangemets are fa program by which °Seen who have served is the Best ladle Company's movie, will be enabled to joie this form ae better conditions than they were hitherto enabled to obtain. ADMIRALTY, FIB. 17.—APPOININEN7L-8 J. Goan (1866) to the Mai:, 8, screw stout e100p, 2 727 12 0- horse pow, et Woolwieb. Clerk J. W. Hillyaz to the Agssessoa, 91, mew stun tag ship, of 8004toree pewee, litellterreaeas station. POIITBIIOIITH, Fah. 18. ne Basilisk, 6, paddle-wheel ateam-eloop, Com mander leaser, wring at Spithead this morning trona this Scotch mast. She comes into buboes to-morrow, to refit fot the Bahia. _ TER ROYAL ALBERT BEPORB Said sad Beamptea Casket Clubs Ind • game at anoint s, the lee, ea Kr. Elliott's large mill-dam at Upper Brampton Meer, whoa a large ileneeane sesembled to whams the trawl mart. The capers, width same et the batten and bird= eat, were (says the bad pone) et the most re tinas and nano= deamipties. beim as often of • hen naed cad Minns anisette as the perpendicular, whin mused no anon saserimeat to the spectators, who Indulged in eke of laagble es men unla p : 3 sevotee to the tat sad bells wee penetrate ea the surface. It la sow 18 years elan a similar match was ea the same iromed. —At Tylaad, between Maidstmee sad Boderater, the saew drifting frees the Blue Bell and Bexley hills, accumulated in the send, for upwards of a mile, to the depth of free Ave to sight or nine foot, completely burying the Tyland toll-bar, sad, indeed, almost covering the toll-house. On the following day, a largo number of man were set to work is re-opening the cutting, the sides of which, when the snow was thrown up, were, in some plies., m high as twelve feet. This had a singular and picturesque effect, and was visited on Sunday by hundreds of penes'. —Mr. Edward Evan, of Plas-du, a highly respectable farms, residing is Lianrhardr, Montgomeryshire, was re using teen Lleafyllin market on Wednesday evening last, whoa, la order to We • abort cut home, he went across tie Solis, a medium snowstorm descending at the time. It is empesed that he lost the footpath, sad was nearly Weed la the new. Cries for help were hoard by the Ja nine afillarat farmhouse, but, though an immediate as , so uth w the sufferer was not discovered. On the fallowing morning the body was found, not far from the farmhouse, by some men who went to look after the sheep. Deceased was in bit 51st year, and was much esteemed. At Clifton, near Bristol tles thermometer stood some days ago as low as 12 degrees Fahnateit ; at Leeds, oa Thurs day, it fell to 9 degrees, being 19 degrees below the coldest day in February last year. At Gateshead, on Friday, the lowest point attained was 7 degrees. At Didsbury, in Cheshire, on the 16th, the temperature was as low as 4.6 degrees. On the same day, • thermometer in a garden at Blackmarston, Herefordshire, stood at 4 degrees. At Banbury, In Oxfordshire, on Saturday, a self-rmlstering Instrument in an exposed situation at the outskirts of the town marked 4! degrees. In more sheltered pleas it was 8 degrees to 12 degrees. CAYSlLlDaL—Yerhaps no better proof of the severity of this seas= could be adduced than the fact that, • few days ago, a biases was caught alive on the Grantekester-read, now Cambridge. It wee seen floundering in the snow by • labouring man, who ran up sad enured it without diffi culty. It was a male, and had been a fine bird the mark ings being beautifully distinct; but, owing no doubt to the weather being so severe, it had become my poor—in fact, was almost starved. What renders this circumstance the seers remarkable is, that the bittern, though formerly tiful in the fens, but beans almost extinct—Cam- Cie (Mid& .—Daring the week (says the Ludo Mawr% the din Aire has been frozen over, and affordedgood skating slow Leeds ; the same may be said of the Wharf.; the Leeds and Liverpool canal has been sealed up ; and the Ain and Calder Navigation has been frozen; whilst the ponds and lakes throughout the district have been co with in so thick that they have borne sally troops of skaters, curlers, and others, who have sought amusement on them. The Aire and Calder Navigation, which has not been dosed by frost for many years, was hoses over on Thursday night; but a passage was opened for vessels yesterday morning by the company's iron screw tug, which plies between Leeds and Goole every day. The company yesterday, at 9 a.m., were delivering goods which left Goole on Thursday after. noon; the voyage from that port (38 miles) having been performed in seven hours. The tug, we believe, will na tion to run daily, and the canal wilLbe kept open as longas any vessels will move. Some idea may be formed of the power of this vessel to keep the navigation open, whoa we state that yesterday she cut her way through ice seven inches, think, The thermometer was lower on Thursday night than it bas been known in Leeds for years—no less than 23 de grees below the freezing point. A farmer named Finis, who attended • feast at Black banters, Devonshire, • few nights ago, was found next morning lying on his back dead, in • field. His face, nose, and eyes were very much eaten by birds, or some kind of vermin. It is supposed that the deceased, having taken too much grog, was unable to find his way home, and the night being intensely sold he was frosen to death. A labourer, whilst on his way to work at bierrypit Farm, on Dartmoor, on Monday lest, was found deed in the road—having been frozen to death. Numerous ether eases of lass of life are also reported in the provincial papers, caused by exposure to the 'entity of the weather. Similar amounts reach as from abroad. Ix PAnts.—At midnight (16th and 16th) the ther mometer of M. Chevalier stood at 4 ddeebg 8•l0tha below zero centigrade (23 1 3 F.) ; at six o'dosk this mors ing (16th) at 8 deg. 3-10tha C. (17 F.), mid at noon 3 {•loths (24 F.). The late heavy falls of mow have caused consi derable delay in the trail% on the Western Railway. The train which left Paris on Thursday Mind at Chartres half an hoar after its usual time, and Ins• mediately started for Le Mans. It had not, however, pro 'aided more than two leagues when it was brought to a stand-mill by the mass of snow which had drifted on to the line to a considerable depth, and was compelled to make all speed back to Chartres, feariag that it might be regularly blocked up. A train which left Le Mans the mme clay for Chartres wee stopped about half way, and, the passengers compelled to per the night in the carriages. An Jemmies number of workmen, with a detachment of the 3rd Chas- seers to assist them, were sent to the spot. but the violence of the wind was such as to impede their effectual operations. The circulation between Pans and Chartres has been pretty well maintained, but beyond the latter place it has been very difficult and irregular ; and, from the present appear ance of the weather, it is uncertain when the circalation on the line will be properly re-established. A letter from Warsaw, of the 6th, says that the thermo meter stood at 20 degrees of Reamer below sere (13.30 Fahrenheit below), which circumstance, added to the dear uses of provisions and the went of occupation for the work ing classes, had caused great suffering. A letter from Elsinore, in Denmark, of the Bth, says During the last twelve years we have not lad such a rigorous winter as the present one. AU the northern part of the Sound is almost frozen over • there only remains open in feet a very narrow passage, w hich intends in nearly a straight line from Elsinore to the mouth of the port of lielsingborg. A number of Swedish permute have already brought, in wheelbarrows and handcarts, provisions for sale is the market of Elsinore. If the cold should increase, the is in the Sound will aeon be thick enough to bear heavily- laden vehicles. Our port and that of Hehingborg are crowded with vowels which have arrived in the last few days; they cannot continue their voyage until the ice shall break up, and, according to all appearance., that will take plum later than usual." PETWOUTII. BUNDAT.—III 001110411111109 of the continu ance of the easterly gales a very large number of merchant vessels remain in the Bound. It is supposed there cannot be less than 360 ships bare, waiting to go up the channel, sod some of them are large East India and other traders. The cold continua intense, and to is found in this neigh bourhood seven and eight inches thick, a circumstance without parallel daring the last 16 or 20 years. mums& 4KONG THB HORSES OF THE ARMY IN 2-" ii; At a meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society of Inglaud, bald at the society's home, Hanover•equare, on Saturday last, Mr. Fisher Hobbs in the chair, it was stated that a commusisatioa had been ramrod from the French government, requesting the aid et the Royal Agricultural Society in investigating the mature of a disease which had made its appear's°, among the tittle in the Crimea, and that the council had instructed Professor Simonds, as the veterinary inspector of the society, to place himself in im mediate towassuaiestion with M. Herbert, the Ceaml- General of !ranee in London, and to tarnish him with every information he possessed that might aid the French government in their inquiry. Professor Simonds sow& ingly waited upon the Consul-General, and with his sanc tion prepared • list of questions to be forwarded to the several veterinary surgeons now with their regiments in the Crimea ; and the society believe that upon answers being obtained, such an amount of information will be powered on this subject as cannot fail, when acted upon, to be of essen tial service in effecting the desired object. In a report presented et the same meeting by the Royal Veterinary College, to the council, allusion was made in the following terms to the importance of the matter :—" It is to be remembered that the history of these spisotie affections r shows that whoa once they here taken root in any of the countries of Europe, they have spread with greater or lesser rapidity over the whole continent, destroying the cattle by thousands in their coarse. It is this circumstance, added to the fact of the existence of the disease in Turkey, which has mated so much solicitude on the part of the French government, and the governors cannot but feel equally anxious in the matter, seeing that if the cattle in France or Gummy should be e ffected, our own would ere tong fall victims to the direful pest from the importations of animals which exists." . . . Great interest is now attaching itself to 'the above sub ject, sad the Royal Agricultural Society intend to make a very strict investigation into all mitten relating to it. Cnnmi Pei...cu.—We understand that it is pro posed to add a court, containing illustrations of Indian manners, arts, and manufactures, to the collections at the Crystal Palace. A nucleus for such a court already exists, in a Mile of fee-eimile copies of the remarkable fresco paintings of the Ajunta eaves, which were made for the But India Company, and have been lent by them to the Palau, where they are exhibited in the gallery OM the Assyrian Court- In addition to these, many smaller articles bare ►een presented and lent to the company ; and arrange meats are being made for their display, as soon as a sum• dent number have been collected to form an exhibition of interest. It is notorious that an immense number of admi rable specimens of Indian wares and manufactures exists in private hands throughout this country; and there can be as doubt that the ownen of such thin p would willbtgly lend them for exhibition at Sydenham, if they wen made aware of the lateations of the company. CARY BUSINESS OF THE WEEK. --•—. Mownar, Fin. 19. Ozanne or Tax DAY.—Supply—casamittes; Newts. paper, dn., Postage and Stamp Duties—committee there upon; Savings Beaks and Friendly Societies Investments Bill—eseond reading; Supply —report; Fain and Markets (Ireland) Bill--second reading ; Ways and Meens—com mittee Conerlidated Fund (2,000,0001) Bill—second reeding. NOTIOIII OP Marion.--Sir Fatacie BASING—To ask the government whether they have any objection to lay epos the table of the house the letters of Lord Replan to the Doke of Neweastle, complaining of the information given in the papers, and the letter of the Doke of Newcastle to the newspapers incemesquisee. Mr. DLlthr Saratoga—To ask questions of the Prost. dent of the Board of Control respecting the connezioa of the editor of the .Flriend of Media with the government, and the facilities givers to that gentleman above other news paper editors in Calcutta. And also, at whet period of the session the. President of the Board of Control prepense to bring Is his Indian budget this year. Mr. Danumonn—To ask the First Lord of the Trustily whether he will ley on the table of the Lenge the report of the Commissioners appointed to try Sir James Brooke ; and, at the same time, a copy of the secret instructions sent out by the Earl of Clarendon to the same eommimioners. Mr. Wareow--To ask the Prime Minister, or the Under Secretary of the War Department, what measures have been taken or are in progress for the removal of the con valescents, or the patients capable of removal, in the boel4- tals at Scutari or in the Crimes, to England, or to some of oar Mediterranean colonies, for the perfect restoration of their health. Mr. lioasratt —To ask the First Lord of the Treasury, whether instructions have been sent, or are intended to be sent, to her Mejesty's Superintendent of Trade in China, to cancel the bonds taken on British trade at Shanghai, be tween the 9th of February and 12th July, 1864 ; with other questions relating to the disputes arising out of the derange silent of fiscal and other authority by the civil war in China. Also whether the Queen's government intend to compel the Chinese government to observe treaties in the levying of customs duties. Mr. Cum./roan—To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Depanment • question respecting the new Recorder ship at Brighten. Mr. NZWDZOATN—To ask the Tinder Secretary of State for the War, whether steps have been taken to provide the army in the East with clothing suitable for a spring or summer camp aign , and to replace th e t en t s worn out or destroyed dar ing the present winter. Mr. Non—To ask whether it is the intention of govern ment to give to those soldiers of the British Army in the Crimea, who may survive, new kits, and such necessary articles as hare been lost or rendered wholly unserviceable. Mr. 111241.1 r Goan LANOTON—To ask the President of the Board of Trade, whether it is the intention of the government to introduce soy bill in accordance with the report of the commissioners appointed to inquire into local charges upon shipping. Mr. 1111NRY BIRXELIT—To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether it be the intention of g eat to repeal the act paced last session for the regu lation of the eels of beer on the Sabbath. Mr. °zonal; Dump/a—To ask the Pint Lied of the Admiralty a question respecting the letters of officers of the transport service in the Black Sea. Mr. 1111ADLAY —To ask the Chancellor of the Exche quer, whether the government have determined upon the adoption of a system of decimal coinage of which a two shilling piece shill form one of the competent parts. Mr.EWART—To ask for returns respecting capital punish ment in Scotland. Mx.Mactunenv—To move for copies of all correspondence between the Irish government and the officers of her Ma jetty's treasury in eionnesioa with the selection and appoint ment of directors of convict prisons in Ireland ; and returns of services, &c., of certain officers appointed. Mr. ALCOOL—Returns of lieutenants of the royal navy promoted to rank of commander since the let day of Ja nuary, 1853, up to the present time, with particulars of their naval career; and similar returns of lieutenants of the royal navy made lieutenants since the Ist day of January, 1840, who have d afloat at least two years; also return of the number of soldiers in the infantry, cavalry, artillery, and marines respectively, who have p urc h ase d their dis charges during the last ten years. Mr. LOCKS/LINO —Return of the total number of officers and men in the army who have been sent to the seat of war in the Crimes. Like return of the killed ; of the wounded ; of the wounded who have since died ; of those who have been invalided ; of those who have recovered and returned to their duty ; of those who have died from sickness ; of thole who are invalided up to the latest date ; end of the efficient officers and men, to the latest date, distinguishing in each, cavalry, infantry, artillery, sappers and ruiners, as well as officers, noncommissioned officers ' and men. Ant i return of the total number of horses which have heat sent out to the mat of war ; total number killed ; total number dead from other causes ; and total number affective, up to the latest . data. _ . _ Mr. Wan—Address for return of the names of all per sons employed in the diplomatic service as ambassadors, envoys, ministers, charges d'affaires, secretaries of embassy or secretaries of legation, paid attaches or unpaid attaches, and the countries where so employed ; stating the period of absence of each officer in each year, during the last tea years from his poet. Also, return of the rules and regula tions under which each candidate for the diplomatic service is now admitted to the profession, and the names of those candidates who have passed an examination previous to having entered the diplomatic service. Sir J. YovNo—Bill to amend the laws concerning the burial of the dead in Ireland. Sir J. YOUNG—BiII to amend the laws in force for the relief of the destitute poor in Ireland. Mr. Giotto' Samosas—Return of the number of quar ters of wheat, flour, and all other kinds of grain, imported into Ireland, from the Ist day of July, 1863, to the 31st day of December, 1864, inclusive. And similar returns of grain and flour imported into Great Britain from Ireland. Colonel Duxes—Return of the names of officers who volunteered from the Artillery and Rogineer corps, and cadets who had passed at Woolwich (for sionsmismins Ise these corps), to the regiments of the line ; and the names of those who were subsequenly employed on the staff of the army at home or abroad. Mr. SOTHERON—Report from Board of Trade upon the private bills for harbours, docks, navigation., dtc., in con formity with the practice in force with respect to railway , bills. Mr. Pmts.—Army Estimates (in Committee of Supply). a hou sicL.L se o o n a n o e f w t s h p e ap E e x r, cn a sn o. 7 p n os — ta ln ge co an m d mit s tois tagn o; client to repeal the exemption of newspapers from postage tb du ld. t7se r.h , oe t l o ile move the following resolutioh. : that it is expo duty ; end to charge on newspapers and printed books and papers transmitted by poet rates of postage not exceeding one penny for every four ounces in weight, and for say fractional part of four ounces; that it is expedient to alter and amend the laws rel iting to the stamp duties on news papers, the printing and publishing of newspapers, and re gistration and airing securities in connexion therewith, and the regulation of the duties of postage on printed Men. Tonsillar, Fla. 20. NOTICIIM or NOTIONII.—M7. JOHN BALL—To ask the Secretary of the Treasury, whether the conduct of the person or persons responsible for having issued unreasted coffee to the teSops is the Crimea during the present winter has been followed by hi. censure or dismissal. "-' Tenants' Compensation (Ireland) Mr. ossjssat • Bill. Mr. Ot.rrszak—To move that the house resolve itself into a committee of the whole house, with a view to the reduction of the wine duty. Lord GODEHICH—That it is the opinion of this honeethat the present system of promotion in the army, under which non-commissioned officers rarely attain to the rank of commissioned officer, - and scarcely ever to that of field officer, is injurious to the public service, and unjust to the private soldiers of the army. Mr. 801111IION—That this house will not allow say public bill to be roan a second time alter the lit day of Jody, without special leave ; that this hone will not allow any bill sonatinas an set about to expire to be read a se cond time after Easter without special leave; that orders of the day have precedence of motion. on every day of the week after Whitsuntide. Mr. Exi.Larr —Select committee to inquire :into the operatics of the various burial acts and proprietary cemete ries, and into the regulation of the Home-office for con ducting interments in burial grounds, under the burial sets 16 and 16 Vic., e. 83, and 16 and 17 Vie., ci. 134, and other related matters. Mr. DUNLOP—Dwelling houses (Scotland) Bill. Mr. J. G. Patmaxoas—Bill for the appointment of public prosecutors. Sir DANHAN N ,—Grand Juries (Ireland) Bill. Mr. Pines—Judge. (Ireland), detailed return of.. Mr. CoLLtan—To call the attention of the house to the state of our trade with Russia; and to move for a return of the Russian exports from Archangel to this country during the present year. Mr. HIXILY Biennium—That an humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying that an inquiry ma be instituted into the conduct of Lieutenant-General Lord Lunn, for ordering a charge of the Light Cavalry at the Battle of Bastian. Mr. M'MasoN—Bill to assimilate the law as to the sea coast end inland fisheries of Ireland to that of England. Sir Enna HALPORD—BiII to restrain stoppages from wages in the hosiery manufacture. Captain AnctinaLL—Address for detailed return of the names of all officers of her Majesty's army who have been promoted for distinguished services since the com mencement of the war in the Crimea. Mr. Raanwc—Return of the regulation price for the purchase of a commission in the line and in • cavalry regiment; of the regulation price for the purchase of each subsequent stop in the service; of the annual pay of Regi mental officers of all grades: whether any, and, if any, what portion of the money paid by an officer on the pur chase of his commission is returned to his representatives in the event of kis death either in action or under other cir cumstances; whether the whole of the money paid by an officer for his commissions is sacrificed by him when he attains the rank of major-general ; of the annual pay of a major-general and of other officers of higher grade ; and of the number of commandos. given away since the Ist day of January, 1863, and the rules and practices in force concern ing4o:= siesissimiens, and whether an officer to whom a is era is by t the he rules of the service entitled ital his seese kir readoeiew price. WIDIPAIDAY. MOIL li. 01D1111 OP TEI DAT.--Psbiki Weir's' sad Museum ill—matmittee; Jisissoess Bemoval sad Diseases Proves. ' , 19. 1850. Tb. following Mtn is from Mr. William Grilllth, al Port Ma Aos, Cataanomoblze, now en beta H.K.S. Pori Albert " 11.11.8 ! Royal Albert. of Sebastopol, lan. $O. "My dear Cousin,—Ever also. we arrived here the wea ther has bees anything bat cheer*, heavy falls of snow, With awful squalls from the N.H. owarriag for the loot three days, but this mogul cent ship behaves like a risk; although s►e had a twist of the rudder from very leery pitching one night. That was fortunately very shortly pat to rights. We are now moored, blockading the entrance of artheatepol, about throe miles dktast—that is, within rang• d oar pivot guns, of the same calibre as those we walked from the Edinburgh's flouter at Borausuad. How soon we may lave Ike pleasant of Wolin our metal here is kept profoundly secret. Something, however, awed out lately that Admiral Lyons (charming fellow be is, I like him uneomasoaly) had, after • late eonsultation with the generals, hinted when all was ready at • • sad his complement of wow •hips had arrived • • • he would • • • We are massed •pprivy their largest three-deeker, the Twelv e Ariake. You would be amused at the calculation made by our lads as to what she is worth as a prize, for we are at a sad loss to have a tag with her. No doubt that will colas sooner or later. Thank God lam happy to say I enjoy ea eolleat Mettles lanai, bet from what I hear and Geo through my glum matesionally of the conotry around, my deer liar own is shore must be suffering beyond precedent. I hays nothing farther in the shape of news, bet thank you for the letter of Des. 3, and the papers. My seat letter will bring you, I suppose, the tidings of a cork leg or a gold chain.—Your affectionate ocoasin, 'I Vitt. Clairstra, C. G.. 11.11.8 Royal Albert." GENERAL RINPSO24.—In the first notices of this dilates appointment in the Crimea army the command of the Sad Division wee assigned to him by repute. Lord Palmerston's explanation on Friday night, however, shows that he will exercise no military contstanti in the field. Ste lordship thus defined General Simpson's duties :—" Wet have not hitherto had in the British army an officer simile to him who, in foreign armies, bears the title of Chief se the Staff.' The consequence has been, that all the details of the quartermaster's and adjutant-general's departments have bees brought to the Commander-in• Chief, much to hi s aaa.isenience, and have tended to abstract his sues tios -on from matter; of greater importanos. Major-General Simpson, an officer of distinguished genies, who is well keown for his Bermes in the Peninsula, at Waterloo, and in India, Is going out immediately as chief of the staff; to have the control and command of the quartermaster's and adjatant-generePs departments, and with power to recommend to Lord Raglan say changes which he may think ought to be made with respect to the persons belong. Log to those departments; and Lord Raglan will no doubt feel it his duty to adopt any ressommeadations which Gen. Simpoos may make to him upon these matters."_