The Express. — London, England, 1855-08-06 00:00:00

! Vte Oxpreoo. TO CORRESPONDENTS. sivartioonsata Wooded lac "Tin Inproan" Looks Itoodopprpar. stoat ba at *ha 011 a, 10, Ilouvanarnort. by Two rank ca the day of publication HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tun DAT ..MOl2l age 1116 -Af Wawa. li. MI- Taressew—ltarslag. Ob. Da ARMIN.. 91. Us. LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 6. Me. M. T. Banns, President of the Poor-law Board, has withdrawn from the Ministry. Mr. BAINII4 in a letter which he has addremed to his Leeds constituents, states that his health is not suffi ciently robust to enable him to discharge the respon sible duties of President of the Poor-law Board, in conjunction with the numerous and important duties which devolve upon the parliamentary representa tive of a borough like Leeds. We infer, however, that the state of Mr. BAINES'S health is not such as need cause any serious apprehension to his friends and admirers, from the fact that he promise., now that be is unconnected with ofiles, to devote himself with increased seal and assiduity to his duties in the House of Commons. Is other words, Mr. BAINES ' though in good working order, prefers at present the legislative to the admi 'gentiles sphere of swim Without presuming to intrude into the confidence of the ez-Prsaident of the Poor-law Board, we may he allowed to remark that a seat in the Cabinet is at present vacant, that there has been considerable delay in filling it up, and that Mr. BAINES resigns at the very moment when every one is expecting the announcement of the now Cabinet Minister. In the recent discussions about alleged differences of opinion in the Ministry on the subject of the war Mr. Bantu's name has never been mentioned. What his views with regard to that essential question may be we have no means of knowing. But it is no more than justice to say that among our younger statesmen there is none who has more honourably earned a high character for admi nistrative ability, or who gives fairer promise for the future, than MATTHEW TALBOT BAINES. The coin cidence is probably entirely accidental, but it will have been observed that in recent financial dis cussions Sir F. Batumi has expressed views on several minor matters rather at variance with those of Government. Rumour, too, ascribes to a shrewd leading member of that section of the Whig party to which Sir FRANCIS belongs expressions unfavourable to the stability of the existing Minis terial arrangements. It would be sheer waste of time to indulge in conjectures respecting what time must soon meke clear to all. The public, however, will keep a close watch on any nomination Lord PALMERSTON may make to the Cabinet, and the manner in which he fills up the three vacant departments. His selection of a Cabinet Mi nister will recesearily be interpreted as an expression of firmnees or weaknem in relation to the war. The Poor-lad I;oard and the Board of Bealth are departments that cannot for any length of time be let vacant without great inconvenience to the public, and in which firmness of character and admi nistrative talent are indispensable. As to the Poet office, it is most devoutly to be wished that Lord PALMERSTON would re-consider his determination to persist in keeping that a political office. To speak of the Post-office in connexion with politics unavoidably co:jtires up disagreeable reminiscences of violations of the secrecy of private correspondence. Is spite of himself, Lord HARDINGE has been 1 obiiged to look to merit and efficiency in the selection of a Chief for our army in the Crimea. We have reason to believe that should General SIMPSON'S taring health oblige him to return home, he is to be succeeded by Major-General MARKHAM, an officer of great merit, who has lately joined the camp from India. What will the advocates of seniority say to this? In their estimation General Maainiam is but a babe. He only entered the service in 1824—nine years after Waterloo—and although belonging to the Royal Army, has made a name for himself in India. He is not more than 47 years of age, and consequently eiout twenty years younger than the most juvenile of the veterans we have hitherto been in the habit of sending out to take charge of posts which required men with energy of both mind and body. So much for the force of public opinion, as well as foe the pri.aaure from without which has lately been brought to bear upon all military matters connected with this country. _ . _ General MARKHAM entered the service in 1824 as an mop in the 32nd Regiment. He obtained his lieu tenancy in 1825, and his captaincy in 1829. Whilst serving as captain he accompanied hia regiment to Ca nada, and saw not a little active work there in 1836.37, during the disturbances in that colony. In the latter year he was severely wounded. A couple of years subtle- Tautly he was promoted to be major, and in 1842 he got the command of the 32nd Regiment as lieutenant colonel. In 1846 his corps was ordered to India, and C tlonel bleitstust went with it to that country,where it landed in the autumn of the year, and marched forthwith to the north-west provinces, the frontier of which was in a disturbed state. When the insur rection broke out in the Puojaub, and the fortress of Haulms declared in tavour of the enemy, the 32nd Regiment was ordered to the seat of war, and Lieu tenant-Colonel MARKHAM received the command of a brigade of infantry. During the whole campaign be distinguished himself by his energy, and by the M. lit manner in which all his duties were pa formed. Fcr the Mx years he commanded lin re E invent it was a pattern in camp and qualms to the British army, and as a brigadier his repats toil was not behind what it had been when he was a battalion lender. At the close of the campaign ne received the well-merited rewards of being named ea Aide-de-Camp to the QUEEN and a Companion of the Bath—the former honour giving him the rank of full oofonel in tho army. After a short period of leave in England, Colonel MARKHAM rejoined his corps in India, determined that no consideration of ease or comfort should induce him to abandon the regiment in which he had risen from the lowest to the highest commissioned rank. He was not, however, destined to do duty again with Oise co-ps, for upon the death of Colonel MOUNTAIN. the Adjutact-General of Quamen troops is India, Colonel MARKHAM was selected t• suected him. Alter serving but a short time in thin very responsible post, the Royal Warrant of last oe tuber gave the COMMANDER-IX-CHIEF the right of selecting for promotion to the rank of Major-Genemil any Colonel, irrespective of his standing in the sew vice, whose professional character stood high enough to merit mach ',choice. The very first officer thus dis tinguished was Col. MARKHAM, who was at the same time nominated to command a division of the Bengal army. When, however, the English public and the English press began to canvass every freak nomination to the staff of the Crimean army, orders were sent ant to General Me.gn to join the head-gearters 1, THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, AUGUST 6, 1855. before Sebastopol without delay. This he wag only I too glad to do, and withia thirty days.' neeiving the order, in the far meth-west cd India, be repeated him self to General Sutraow, and resolved the command of the Second Division of the *nay. Subsequently General &minim; intimated to the Hoess-Ourds that -------- _ _ _ be feared hiabealth would oblige hint shortly to retire, l and Lord HARMING; as we are informed, sent out directions that should he do so, Major-General Mutant was to take the command of the army serving in the Crimea. If having a commander with youth,energy, and acti vity should encourage an army, the troops serving be foreSebastopol ought to gain fresh vigour and determi nation forthwith. General MAIMILUI is no "feather bed soldier." Although comparatively well off in the world, he has made his calling a profession for its own sake, and has never shirked following hie corps wherever it might be ordered. So long ago as 1849 he bad gained the highest rank—that of full colonel —which could be conferred on a regimental officer, and might, with all honour, have either retired from the service or retired apen half-pay, is the latter sue waiting for his turn to be made Major-General. But he stuck to his sword, and is now likely to reap his reward, one that will give universal satisfaction throughout the ranks of the British army, both amongst the men and the junior officers in the service. The former will rejoice to see a man promoted to lead an army in the Sold, who but yesterday was commanding • regi ment, and must therefore know more of the wants of the army than elderly gentlemen whose scene of action has foe thirty years been the London clubs, Held ; and the latter will begin to think that the day is at last ooming when merit and not extreme old age is the rice qua con required for the most important posts in the service. The moral effect of this appointment upon the whole army will be excellent. Although, with General Surrsos, we think that the best school for Sebastopol is Sebastopol itself, nevertheless General Msaitnait's antecedents fully warrant his being placed at the head of the force, whatever the octogenarians of the Senior United Service Club may say to the contrary. It is certainly singular enough that, in spite of all the I • sneering by anti-army-reformers at "mere Indian officers, ; India has, in point of fact, furnished the man who is probably destined to take Sebastopol. There is an old well-known story about General Picrott threatening to hang a oommissariat officer who did not perform his duties. From all we have heard of General ALtaxzem, he is not a man to be, trifled with. Since he entered the service he hail done his duty, and expects all those under him to do theirs. Should the army under his command remain another winter in the Crimea, we should recommend the commissariat (Aiken to pay more attention to their work than they did in Lord Rina.str's days. There are occasions when severity becomes a duty, and leniency a positive crime ; had the late FIELD ' MARSHAL acted with a little more determination the army he commanded might have been saved a vast deal of hardship, and many valuable lives might have been spared. And, what is more to the pur pose, there is hardly any degree of punishment that a general officer could inflict upon such delinquents which the nation would not, u one man, uphold. POLISH MEETING. We learn, with sincere pleasure, that the meeting in behalf of Poland is positively fixed for Wednesday, and that Lord Harrington, whose whole life has been honourably and consistently marked by devotion to the great principles of national independence, takes the chair. The following letter from Lord Breadal ' bane leaves no room to doubt that the contretemps of Wednesday last was simply and solely owing to mis take. We do, therefore, hope that all groundless suspicions and little exasperations will be laid aside, in order that the demonstration in favour of Poland may be worthy of the metropolis of England. TO THII TOMO' Or Till DAILY NUM Sie,—Although I concur with you in the opinion expressed in your paper of this date as to the inex pediency of continuing the controversy regarding the circumstances attending the postponement of the Polish meeting, yet, in justice to myself, I feel called upon to notice that part of Sir De Lacy Evana'sletter, published in the Daily News of to-day, in which he makes a direct personal appeal to me. The fact is simply this, that before any definitive arrangement as to the meeting had been made, I was taken so seriously ill as to be incapacitated from at tending to any business whatever. I was therefore not even informed that the meeting was positively to take place, nor of any circumstances connected with it, till a day or two before that on which it was pro posed to be held. On the morning of that day I wrote a letter to Sir De Lacy Evans, stating my great regret that, owing to illness, I would be unable to attend, and expressing my sympathy with the objects of the meeting. That letter Sir De Lacy has probably not received, on account of the meeting not having taken place ; and it is indeed, I understand, still in the hands of the gentleman to whose charge it was given to be delivered personally to the chairman of the meeting. I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, BREADALBANE. 21, Park-lane, August 4, 1855. RESIGNATION OF MR. M. T. BAINES, PRESI DENT OF TEE POOR LAW BOARD. The Leeds Mercury of Saturday last contains the following address to the electors of the borough of Leeds, signed by Mr. M. T. Baines, and dated Poor-law Board, Whitehall, August 2, 1855:—" Gentlemen,--You are on every account entitlel to learn directly from myself a step which, after great consideration, I have thought it right to take. The recent state of my health has forced upon me the conviction that I can no longer hope to perform, in a satisfactory to my own mind, the laborious and highly responsible duties of President of the Poor•law Baird, in conjunction with those other numerous and im portant duties which necessarily devolve upon the perlia limitary representative of a borough like Ludt. Under this conviction, I have thought it right to place the resigns %lon of my office in the hands of the Prime Minister, and I now retain it only till the end of the present session. My most grateful thanks are due to you for your peat in dulgence; and I entertain a confident hope that I may be able, when uneonneoted with office, to devote myself with increased seal and assiduity to my duties as your repaints five in the House of Commons." MR. W. S. LINDSAY AND THE RBPRESRNTA• VON OF TIN/MOUTH. TYNEMOUTH, SATO/DAY NIGHT. Captain Lioskill, cattail) to Mr. R. W. Grey, M.P., the latter gentleman btiog privrta secretary to Lord Pal- 1 'sermon previous to his election for Ltskeard, having announced his intention to contest this borough at the next election in the somewhat uncertain character of a liberal , conservative, Mr. Lindsay bas hued an ladens to the electors With regard to the motives inducing Captain Lieskill to contest the borough with him, he says : t. Considering that there is not lkrly to be a general election before neat session, I should 'Link, to say the least of it, that gentleman's address has been somewhat prema ture; as there is, however, a great deal Willa the scene— far more than I can tell you in a letter—l will postpone what I have to say till I have the pleasure of seeiog you when the business of this session is over. Till then, I ask you (sod in common ju 40. I feel you will grant my request) to withhold your pledges to one who has hitherto made pro fessions of friendship, but who now appears as my opponent, should he adopt the unusual course of personally wetting upon you to invite votes, long before there is any prospect of an election. I will then ask from you, in public, a inn intuition of that support as your representative, which am sore the nisitrity of all sections will ruddy grant, when they hoar from my own lips a full explanation of my conduct as a public man ; and more especially when I tell them the extraordinary way in which I have been dealt with. ,, There is a rumour that Mr. Hugh Taylor, of the Daudet' Coal Raehaese, who it will be remembered was usseatod by a committee of the House of Commons for treating, will: be brought forward by the noise I. contest the borough. VOt Court. OSBORN% Ammar 4. The Qualm, tiorompanied by Priam= Helene, embarked fa tbs ?airy yesterday attsramm and west towards tiontliewiptea to mem Prime Albert, ea his mare hem the tamp at Alditshott. _ _ I The Prince" arrived et Southampton noon alter font, o'clock, and went on board the Fairy in Southarapten Water. After a short cruise the Queen sad Prises astarsid to Osborne et seven *Walk. The Primal. Louisa took carriage airings both yesterday and to-day. AUOl7lll* 5. Her Majesty and Priam Albert, accompanied by Prises Alfred, visited Healer Hospital yesterday. The royal party disembarked from the Fairy opposite the hospital, when Vies-Admiral 81r Thor. Cochran* was in waiting to receive bit Majesty. Captain Dames and the oMosn of the establisbaeat attended the Qs's., who weal round the wards sad minutely iaspostod all parts of she The Countess of Doug has ousesadal irlioonntoas Canning as Lady in Wilting. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The ministers pre sent were:—Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chan-I cellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Sir William Molesworth, Lord Panama', the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Viscount Can ning, and the Earl of Harrowby. The Council sat an hour and a half. Dispatches were mat on Saturday from the Coloniel.offica to the °overman of the Australian Colonise. Despatches were received from the Governors of the West India Wands, and from the Governor of New South Wales. VISIT OF HER MAJESTY TO HASLAR HOSPITAL. PORTSMOUTH, Ave. 5. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prison Albert em►arked on board the Fairy at font. o'clock on Saturday afternoon. and came over to Hasler Hospital, to visit the nick and wounded amain and marines staying there, who have come home from the trenches and the flat at Sebastopol. Her 'Nasty landed at Hagar-per, in the state barge, and was received by the Commander•ia•Chisf, Vine- Admiral SirT. J. Cochrane, Captain DIMON Superintendent, &e. Her Majesty made a strict inquiry into the eases of the different men whom she inspected, and was, apparently, much interested in their condition and progress. Atter the inspection her Majesty and the Prince retarned to Osborne. THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO FRANCE. The Consfa ls/simnel, in the following paragraph, professes to favour us with a peep behind the official cur tain which conceals the preparations making for the Queen's I visit; bat it will be seen that it says little not already known: 4 . We have received some details of the Mtn preparing on the occasion of the Queen of England's visit. la pub lishinse them we do not profess to give a definitively set. fled programme. Oa the 17th the Emperor and, it is said, the Empress will go to meet the Queen and receive her at the moment of her setting foot on French soil. The arrival at Paris is flied for Saturday, the 18th. There will be no fête on Sunday. During the week, the following entertainments are arranged in an order which we do not yet know :—Two theatrical re presentations at St. Cloud, one by the company of the Theatre Fraocais, and the other by that of the Gymnrye. The Filo de Familld will Ire one of the Gymnast pieces, with fireman in his original part. There will be, betides, two gala•specteeles, one at the Opera, where the piece composed by the Prises of Saae•Coborg Gotha will be performed, end the other at the Opera Comique. The Hotel de Ville will give a grand banquet on one day, and a ball on another. At the Tuileries there will be a grand dinner followed by a fire. At Versailles great preparations ens making for illuminating the gardens. The waters will play daring the illumination, which will be preceded by a grand dinner and a fdte is the apartments. It is thought there will be a play and a concert. In the illuminations of the gardens there will be, we are mitred, this special feature—thepoigst di depart is a pyrotechnic i6te of famous memory given by one of the ancestors of the Empress who was a Spanish Ambassador at the time of the election of Charles VII., the plans of which fete, preserved in the . - fussily archives, hare been oonsnanniosted to the architects of the crown. It is known already that there is to be s review in the Champ de Mars. There is a talk of a hoot at Fontainbless. But will not time hi wanting for the realisation of ill these popes ? " ARRIVAL OF THE BING OF PORTUGAL. (HI SLIM= (MON 0111 OWN _ SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY MORNING. His Majesty the Log of Portugal has arrival. SAILORS' INSTITUTE, SHADWELL.—His Royal Bighnees Prince Albt rt, having been solicited by the Dim ton of the British and Foreign &Bon' Socieby to lay the foundation stone of this building, has been graciously pleased to express his cordial approval of the undertaking, and, though usable to comply with the request, his kindly forwarded the sum of 601. towards the object. The build ing fund has now reached 2,0001. We understand the Queen and his Royal High ness Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales and several of the elder royal children, will leave Osborne early in the present week in the royal yacht fora cruise to Jersey and the Channel Islands, with the intention of being absent &bout three dale. After Disking arrangements to leave for Scotland - - - - - - - • - at Tuesday lut,lLord Join Russell has deferred his journey north, and no day ie now named for his departure. The noble lord and family hare been staying in town since Monday het. The Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg- S.relits his left for the Continent. The Duke of Cambridge has arrived at St. James's Palace. _ _ _ - ----- The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury have, daring the pest week, entertained a large party at Hatfield House, Herts, the Right Hoe. B. Disraeli, M.P., aad Mrs. Disraeli, the Right Hon. Spencer Walpole, M.P., aad Mrs. Walpole, Lord and Lady Colchester, Lord Stanley, Lady Cowley, aad its Hoe. Admiral Percy, being among the guests. Lord and Lady Brougham have left town for Brougham Hall. Major-General Sir Frederick Smith, MIL, Com mending Royal Engineer in the south-west district, leaves Portsmouth garrison in a few days for Aldershot[, where be will have the poet of Resident Commanding Royal Engineer and, as at Chatham, Instructor-General of Field Fortifica tions. ----- The Government are making active preparations for again wintering the army of the Crimea. The following firms have just entered iato contracts to supply about 1,000 huts for berthing the trooFs, to be ready for shipment within one month from the present time :—Mr. Luke Cornwell. of Portsmouth ; Mean. Cabin and Co., Hayward and Nixon, Myers, W. Piper, Jackson, Locke and Heehaw, and Luau Brothers, of London; Edmund Smith, of Woolwich; and Bessie, of Gloucester. A dejeuner, in aid of the fluids of the Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, is to take place at the Crystal Palace to-morrow, the Hon. Arthur Kinnard, M.P., in the chair. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston entertained the Ambassador of France and the Countess Persigny, the Marquis end Marchioness of Westminster, the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, the B eel and Countess of Cla rendon, the Berl and Countess of Shaftesbury, the Bight Hon. Sir Charles end Lady Mary Wood, the Right Hon. Sir William and Lady Moissworth, Sir 113berl Peel, the , Res. William and Mrs. Cowper, and Mr. Norman Mac. ilanald, at dinner, oa Saturday, at their residence ea the Tama. Piseadilly. Her Ladyship, later in the evening, lel ea essembly. Mdlle. Rachel, who leaves England on Saturday snit to fulfil • long manner p.sce_ _e A k r *Mike, at the disposal ot She committee of the French Charitable Association, for • bsesit to take place on Thursday, the 9th inst., at the Thassie Royal, Drury-lane, in aid of the funds of the in edlallinn. Her farewell performance in this country will dumb, devoted se the cases of charity, and from the eater tawniest' announced, and theobjeet of the association, via., relieving indigent Prenehmeg is this oonnoT, lie h ave no dash! of t h e malt. LATEST NEWS FROM ABROAD LEGITIMIST CONSPIRACY. EXTRAORDINARY REVELATIONS. (PlOll 001 OWN PARIS, STNDAT EVENING. The following article in the Cbssiituriosnet discloses the existence of a conspiracy on the part of the French and Spanish legitimists, with the direct concurrence of their respective chiefs, the Count de Chambord and the Count de Moutons°lin, to get up an insurrection in Spain by the aid of Itumian gold, the avowed object of which conspiracy is, to make a diversion in favour of Ettiasis, and so embarass the Allies in their conduct of the war : A journal yesterday published a letter from Bayonne, in whir& complaints ware made of the rigorous measures alleged to Imes been taken by the Freech Government against the Spanish C•rli•t reluints, •t the time of th• last attempts at hamar:v(4km in Nuivairs and Catalonia. The Government of bet Catholic Majesty bad solicited from the French Government the mansion and impulsion of a eer- Min number of refugees who, actively sided by some legiti mists of Frame, were plotting on French soil a rising on the Spanish frontier. The French Goverment, which would not permit inreerreetions against Itself to be fomented on • neighbouring frontier, followed ea this mission the ordinary rale, of a jut reciprocity. Moreover, by the na ture of the numerous papers seised at the residences of seve ral refugees, the Government le perfectly edified as to the tendency of this movement. Among these documents, one of the swat curious, beyond all question, is a report ad dressed to the Count de lllonternolio, a copy of which ha been wised at the how of one of hie most faithful generals. This document, dated London, November 24, 1864, is in . . . the following terms : " I have had s bad sold for the last three days, but I hops to got well when the sun re-appears. I hare had the honour to see his highness, whom I found better than I had been led to expect. I have also seen General C. (C shears). But before speaking to you of these gentlemen I must give you an amain of the mission of Y. d'Escan. He ume to me yesterday, accompanied by a attain N. Chapot,* and described to me the interview he had bad with Priam Gort- ebakoff at Vienna. I made him repeat the whole narrative, so that I might learn it by heart, and I now send it to you in the form of a dialogue, In order that you may the better _ - - understand It: "' D'Escaaa —Prince, I come on the part of the Count de Montemolio to deliver to you this letter for the Empe ror. It is a confirmation of the negotiations with you which were commenced by the Count de Chambord. " ' Goarcnahors—l beg pardon, Count, for interrupting you, but in the few words you have said I already notice iwomistakes. The Count le Ch•mbord bee never said • word to rne on the subject. The Duke de t called on me and spoke of the affairs of Spain as a matter which interested him personally. But what be said was merely in ' the way of conversation, and bad in no respect the charac ter of a negotiation, for I had no powers for such a pur pose. " 'Minoan (somewhat surprised, because he had been told that it wee the Count de Chambord, and had said what be did under that impression)—As you will, Prince. But, to give more authority to that conversation, and to confirm the details given by Cabrera, the Count de Montemolin wrote to the Emperor. Is 4 don't know whether I ought to re- seine this letter. Do you know what it contains ? " ' D'Eacatte—Certainly not; but I suppose itis as I hays said, the confirmation of General Cabrera'a note, in order to relieve the Emperor's mind from any doubt, and to call his attention to the state of Spain, and show the advantage which Ramis would find in a diversion. Gotacesion—l have made up my mind to receive the letter, but merely as en sot of politeness—nothing more ; understand this perfectly, I beg, M. le Comte, and be good enough to repeat what I say exactly. No doubt a diversion in Spain would be very useful. But the de tails I have received are eztremely vague, and the Emperor cannot compromise himself in an affair which may be no thing but smoke. Parties an apt to deceive themselves, and readily mistake their wishes for facts. •• • D'Estans—lt ie possible. But the situation of Spain is too well-known for it to be apprehended that the affair in which the support of the Emperor is desired, can be only smoke, and a few millions might ensure the success of the enterprise. I presume that the Emperor had the first note, and you possibly may have received acme answer to it. ... GOUTCH•LO77.-.Yon an swan that Rauh' Is on- pied in a struggle with all Europa, and that, consequently, aim has need of all her resources. (Not a word on the subject d the application made to the Emperor.) D'Escan S.—That is true, Prince; but for the very room that you are spending hundreds of millions, the five, six, or urea millions that we require can be of no moment to you. I apprehend that the Emperor must have seen the note in question, and perhaps we may be permitted to know his intuitions on the subject. "' GoaTcHAILOPII.—It is evident that such a matter as that must have come to his knowledge. But I have received no instructions, and as I have already said, I must beg you to repeat our conversation correctly, and to repeat that I Naive your letter only by way of courtesy, and listen to your details and this entire conversatim only as information.' D'Escars thought it useless to press the matter further, and went to London to tell Cabrera who was expecting him with impatience, because the first accounts which D'Eacan must have communicated to you, had led him to conceive flattering hopes which this conversation did not confirm. Finding me here, D'Escars requested me to make you acquainted with what precedes, because he was too pressed for time, and he went away imme• diately. After this explanation, we spoke in a general way about money. It appears that there are no means of getting any. I put forward your idea of a subscription— yourself, the Infant, Chambord, Modena, Cabrera, dtc., each subscribing according to his means to create the basis of a feed. For myself, I tbink,u fat as Icon see at present,this would be the shortest way. But there is this additional circum stance—the gentlemen here, and especially Chapot, who appears to be an intelligent man, think that with the foun dation of a fund it would be possible to negotiate at Paris. We therefore strongly recommended them to press these esmalderations on the Count de Chambsrd, although they sail ba Gould do but little, his income being otherwise en peed. As lat present see no other course open, until Provi dence sends us another, we must wore this, and, subject to your Majesty's approbation, my opinion is that it would be well to write to Chambord, Modena, and Berry,: to tome to ea understanding with the principal personages of their town (atie) to see it they can aid your Majesty. They may do this without compromising themselves, because the object is to find a confidential banker with whom funds may be placed, and no ether names will appear than these of your Ma. jesty, the Intents, and the Count of Morella. With these respectable names, and all the collective subscriptions, it is to be hoped that we may negotiate so as to obtain some• thing more. The French have attpulated Mot their names ere not to be ntentioned.ll with these gentlemen the three principal questions confided to me, we have resolved them in the following manner: 1. For the moment they do not consider it necessity that your Majesty should quit Naples; but you should be ready to leave, either publicly or secretly, whenever it may be necessary. 2. Oa the subject of money, they have done nothing, and all that can be said about it I have large:y developed above. 3. As to what may be done in Spain or elsewhere,—in Spain, until we have resources, there must be a thorough re-organisation before commencing. I have asked Cabrera to point out some persons possessed of the seceseery qualifications to be put at the head of the pro vinces. He has promised me to think about it, and to men tion to me any fit name that may occur to him." In a letter signed by Count Montemolin himself (a letter also seized) there are these words—" Cabrera will tell you when you see him what we may hope to get from Runge With these documents before us, far from blaming the severity of the French govern- • The Count Chapot, who succeeded the Marquis de Pastoret u the Count de Chambord', cosildential cor respondent. t This mast mesa the Duke de Livia. This familiar mode of Impression is not extraordinary in the Spanish idiom. II This black in Constieutimuel. Qurt—lt in dun ' meat seised ? ment we ought perhaps rather marvel at its long suffering with regard to the Spanish refugees, and (in a more especial manner) the French refugees who have attempted nothing less than to make a diversion on the Pyrenees in favour of Russia. The Doke D'Escars mentioned in the above paper is a well-known legitimist, and the representative .of one of the most noble families in France. General Caurobert is expected in Franoe. His departure from the Crimes is seedbed to an old wound, which has opened, and causes him great pain. The gmperor ordered him to resign, and he has giveniup hieldivisioa to Mldahen. Allithe 55 prisoners belonging to the secret society called:Marianne have been found guilty. Their sen tences range from six months' to five years' impri sonment. The Beneditti has left for the Crimea. The Christophe Colombo came into collision with a Turkish frigate, when two Frenchmen and four Turks were killed. On the Bth ult. the garrison of Fort St. Paul made an excursion into the interior and carried off 600 bullocks. THE AFFAIR OF HANG°. The Journal de St. Petersbourg of the 28th ult. publishes a correspondence between Admiral Dundee and Prince Dolgoronky, the Russian Minister of War, relative to the release of the prisoners taken at Hengo. The substance of these letters has been made known to the House of Commons by Sir Charles Wood. Admiral Dundu states that on receiving the letter from Admiral De Berg (which has been published) he considered that he should be justified in demanding a release of the prisoners, as no one exempt from passion could deny that the object of the landing was to releue some Russian prisoners, but that he thought it better to first obtain the authorisation of the Admiralty. This has been granted, and he encloses to the Russian minister a copy of the instructions. The British Admiral concludes: I ought, moreover to observe, in addition to the remarks of the Lords Commissioaen of the Admiralty concerning the occurrences in the Strait of Kertch, that I made it my duty to inquire into the facts cited by General de Berg u having taken place in the neighbourhood of Twarminne, and that I em in a position to deny, in the most peremptory manner, that any boat of a British vessel in that locality has abused the flag of truce. At the same time I begleave to profit by this opportunity to transmit to General De Berg my thanks for the cue which he assures me has been paid to the prisoners since their cap tivity; and I cannot persuade myself that the government of his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russia' will persist in retaining men captured in the set of setting Russian pri soners free. Su:h a detention could only serve to further exasperate the sentiments of animosity which a state of war naturally produces, but which it is the duty of every civi lised nation to mitigate by all the means in its power. Prince Dolgorouky's reply is of considerable length. He reviews the three versions of the affair at Hango ; the one by the seaman Brown; Lieut. Geneete's account (which the Prince encloses), and the official report made after as inquiry upon the spot by General de Berg, and proceeds to argue that the flag of trace was not seen, and that even if it had been, the protection it gives would not extend to the communications with the inhabitants which the Lieutenant states he was about to make. Is it said (writes the Russian Minister) that any officer may forage an enemy's country, reconnoitre the territory, etchings commuicatione with the inhabitants,' and if by heedlessness be falls into the hands of a superior force, may beat a retreat, safe and sound, and avail himself, when too late, of the pretended title of truce, in order that when he allows himself to be surprised he may not be de tained a prisoner of war 2 Delos,* and de facto, Lieutenant Geneste fell by hie own fault into our power. The crew which he commanded has shared hie fats. We have only to regret the loss of six men, whose lives he imposed by his adventurous enterpri►e, which nothing jastiiied exoepting hie hope to terminate it with impunity. In the meantime, then mud be a limit to the stratagems ofj war. If not, anything might be thought permimible under the abased immunity of the deg of Mum. For our part, we hold ourselves bound to respect end to make respected all that is sacred by regulations legally recog nised in the time of war. That is why we cannot consent, under the present circumstances, to free Lieut. Geneste front the captivity which he has brought upon himself and upon the crew under his command. I have the honour to invite you. Id. Admiral, to make this decision known to the Government of her Britannic Majesty. The remainder of the Russian Minister's commu nication consists of a reiteration of the charges of an abuse by British vessels of the flag of truce on the coast of Finland,—a report from the Burgomaster of Rsumo being annexed in evidence. ANOTHER RUSSIAN SORTIE. WAR DEPARTMENT, Almost 4, 1855. " General Simpson has reported by telegraph to day that the Russians made a sortie last night on the Woronzow-road, es far as the chevaux de frise, but were repulsed, without loss on our side. " Few deaths from cholera." SPAIN. MADRID, AUGUST 3. The report of Cabrent having entered Catalonia turns out to be false. The French government has ‘.3arteously offered to Spain the continuation of its good offices against the enemies of the government of Queen Isabella. HANOVER. HANOVER, SUNDAY. Another royal proclamation has been issued this day. It states that the government has made every attempt to bring the Chambers into harmony with the decree of the Federal Diet, dated April 12, but having failed, the latter can no longer remain no executed. The government, convinced that any further nego tiation with the Chambers of 1848 would lead to no result, has resolved to execute the decision of the Diet without more delay. Accordingly, by the ordinance just irsned, the ministers are authorised, io obedience to the federal decree, to reinstate +: O9 aristocracy in their former rights. THE BALTIC. ELSINOP.E, FRIDAT. The Gorgon has arrived from Enr o tand, and pro ceeded to join the fleet at Nargen. INTERIOR OP SEBASTOPOL A communication from Marseilles, published in the Semaphore, contains a letter from a Russian merche.st still resident in Sebastopol. The following is an estra , Jt :—" I was obliged to emigrate and abandon my quarter , . for a subterraneous habitation, or rather ullar, whither I was driven, whether or no, by the shot and shell of the enemy. Very many of the houses that survived the bombardment of the last nine months are aow in ruins. The cellar in which I now am is dug out of the rock, bas no window, and but one means of egress or ingress. The warehouses sad shops are removed into Fort Nicholas. The goods are placed in a long corridor on the ground floor, which is vaulted ever. The public offices— those of the governor, the port, the magistracy, the police, the customs, &0., are all in the same fort. In short, the whole town has moved into Fort Nicholas." WRECK OP THE SHIP SULTANA.—BAREADOES, JULY 13. The Sultana, M'Bride, from Liverpool to Grenada, with Goals, ran sailors oa the Cobbler's Reef, sag is fast breaking op. The Queen of Prussia arrived at Dresden on the Ph alt. from ErdommodotH, Ind ioDtaediattly proceeded a to the Chelsea vi Pasha. THE SOLDIERS' CEMETERY ATSOM77'ARL —•— When I (Correspondent of the Herald) wak e d c'ePvitrirtaighen°cell of the tu th hnd eeggrthreoaeutonßtdba:nrasacevklenalianosegeihe "tttl'enaecGadreeinaettraltgatailieliort.pwißital,ths was that of the " Rev. H. Wingfield." His same was bat rudely carved, and even its last two letters were placed above the other seven, so narrow was the wood that all could net well be cut in a single line by the friendly hind th a t made the attempt. Next came the grave of y " Major &mu. 81st ;" " Dr. Wilbert" (both names on wood), °D r . Simons " (stone), " Private Joh n B ruce, 13th Light Dragoons" " (stone). In some few cues • Turkish tomb. stone, not yet marked by any Moslem name, had been ap, propriated, and carved with that of some slain English ally. Leaving the grave of Dr. Simons, we next found she stone cross erectad to "Sophia Barnes, nurse, April 4, 1855," and that to " Harvey Ludlow, died April 4, 1855;' N est ume es joasph Long, 4th company Sapper, and Miners, March 21, 1856 ;" the last a stone slab, with the epitaph, ""I am thine, save me," and the pleasing notifi cation, Erected by • comrade." Then are ell in the front rank, close to the sea. Next came three inscription', in wood, to " A woman," A &mien officer," and "Lieutenant Harriott, 41st" Pairing on, we reached, in the second row from the sea, the grave of the "Rev. George Henry Proctor; his pa. rents have placed this stone" (vertical slab). "Dr. John Grabham, 71st Regiment;" " Col. Champion, 95th, from • wound at Inkermana ;" " Surgeon F. A. Macartney," Surgeon G. Home Read," "Captain ft. H. Payne Craw lard (sic), 90th Regt., Feb. 24, 1855"—all these inacrip. tints on horizontal stones. Four g came next, their inscriptions indicating. on wood, th e names of " Lieutenant Thiselwhyte, 8.F.G.D.5.," " Dr. Andertn," " Dr. Brown ;" and " Major Colville, 9th." And here the wooden tablet to " Captain Campbell, sth D.G.," stands between the stones erected to " Tetley Williams, Scots Gray., from his friend C. H. Linilsay„ I Grenadier Guards," and "Captain John Warren 55th." None **NOD 1.60 tibia .p.* were.. olao semalne 01 **Luce. Ward, Esq., purveyor, and Jane W ar d, his wife" (dying ' within two days of each other) ; then succeed the graves of "Colonel George Ainslie, 21st Fusiliers," and "Major Glazbrook, 49th' (each marked by • stone); " M a j or Sharp " (wood); A Russian Officer" (wood) ; "Colonel Smith, 68th" (wood); "Captain Webb, 17th Lancers" (stone); "George Coombs , fireman of steam ship Rip on , . (stone); "Adjutant Maul*, 88th (Connaught Bingen)" (mime) ; " Ensign Raiford, 28th " (wood) ; Hon. Grey Neville, sth Dragoon Guards ; " "A Russian General" (wood); "Lieutenant H. G. Teesdale. NE." (ston e ) ; and "Lieut. Wallacombe " (wood). The next grave is that of "Viscount Chewton, eldest son of Earl Walusgrave, Bth Oct, 1854. Alma. Erected by his Widow." Next to this stone monument, which is handsome, is a plain board, marked, " A Russian Officer ; " and bele also we I observed the tablet to " Anne Clifford, erected by her has. I band, in the 50th Regiment (Quota's Own)." I hope in this list I have net omitted more than a name or two. bat we rapidly and easily counted more than a bun died cloudy-parked mounds without stick or stone to certify their tenants. I must not omit to mention that there is • tomb to " Lieutenant W. L. Mandeb, 93rd High landers, drowsed at Scutari, H'y 19, 1854 " Standing on this split the scenery, in the present buoy and ,sunny *eaves, is shperb. The General Hospital in fro n t ; Badi-liouy on the right; the Barrack Hospital on the left; and the broad expellee of heaving sea behind, stouded with the Princes' Islands on the one hand, and, on the other, with the groups of merchant vessels anchored in great numbers below the Seraglio Point, at the entrance of the Golden Horn. Lx k ing inland some fine walnut and fig trees are seen, and not far off the tall cypresses of the Turkish cemetery. On turning back we cane to the last resting-place of " Michael Walsh, private, 33rd Regiment," marked by a wooden cross; and next, alter traveriiug an open space without graves, and then again discovering others unmarked by tablets or memorials of any kind, we reached the ground in which are interred " Captain H. E. Smith, of the ship Chalmers, died Juae 1855," " Charles Platt, ne card of the Harem Hospital—May, 1855;" and " Patrick Litch field, 49th." MEDITERRANEAN ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY. The Mediterranean Electric Telegraph Company is on the point of despatching their cable, which is shortly to complete the telegraphic communication between Lon don and Algiers. It will be remembered that last year 110 miles of cable were sent out from England, and hid down between Speszia and the most northern point of Conies. For this section of the line 90 miles of cable, weighing eight tons to the mile, and containing six insulated wires, were required ; the remainder was taken to the straits between Corsica and Sardinia, and twelve miles were laid down there, the communication basing in the mean time been completed along the island of Corsica by land. The re mainder, which had been sent out to ensure a sufficient quantity, was then brought home (in length about eight miles), and spliced to the cable just about to be sent out. The communication being now complete from _ _ London to Cagliari, in the south of Sareilis, and She line from Algiers to Cape Bonen, on the African coast, baying been opened last January, nothing is now wanted I. complete the work, and come under the guarantee men- Mufti above, than a submarine eable from Cape Spent. unto, adjoining Cagliari, to Bonita. This is the cable now lying coiled in the bold of the ship Result, 1,700 ions sepia. ter, belonging to Me. Green, of Blackwell, and commandid by Mr. Kell, the same gentleman who conducted the pre vious operation so successfully. This cable is the largest and heaviest, besides being the longest, ever laid down, It V 160 miles loag, each mile weighing 8 toes, and the whole cable weighing 1,900 tons. This is exclasive of 12 mike of lighter cable sent with it to avoid all chance of deficiency. This cable is the manufacture of Messrs. W.Keeper and Co., of Lesdenhell-street. Its stowage demands the greatest *are, owing to the enormous weight, sad to the circumstance that it is all in one piece. Seventy-one miles of it have been pat in the lower hold, forty-two miles on the orlop deck, thirty miles in %wee° decks, seven miles in the after held, and the twelve spare miles of what is called small table, although it weighs five tons to the mile, is also on tween decks, and every one of these portions has to be shored at very short intervals, to prevent the movement of the cable. Altogether, the weight which will be seat in this vessel will be 1,960 tons— a weight which Csp'ain Kell informed us with pride only made her draw 22 feet 6 inches of water. In laying down the last portion of the cable, that between Spenia and Corsica, it took five days, including the stoppage that had to take place in cutting the cable, and going round to lay the short lengths between Corsica end Sardinia. It is ex penned that the present cable will be laid down in tour days. The Mediterranean Telegraph Company anticipate that in two years and a half they will have a direct com munication with Bombay, and from thence, by telegraphs already at work in the presidencies, to Calcutta ; and they corsider this line they are just about to complete as only the preliminary steps to this result. Their proposed line, join ing the one at present open to Cagliari at Caps Spud vents, will first be taken to Malta, and thence direct under the Mediterranean to Alexandria. This will be an is. muse distance: 984 miles of submarine cable, wi:hoe s e a station; from Alexandria to Sues, by land, 248 na'.es; another submarine cable under the Red Sea to Men, with two atatione, Cosiri and Liddell, 1,552 miles, and fro-. a Aden to Bombay, with stations at the Kooria Moo', le:iands and Res-el-had, 1,907 miles. When this under rale .log i s owl . plete the communication with Calcutta, whlcb. now takes on on avenge thirty six days, will be reduced v., a few minutes. Professor Faraday, about two years age: •.:alled the atten tion of telegraph companies to the tact ae,at there was great difficulty in sending any communicatx .n through a greater length of wire than 300 miles; but since that time Mr. Brett ha been experimenting, with a v i ew to overcome this difficulty,stal has perfectly succeed,..g in d o i ng so. By connect.ing each individual wire to this, coil of sin, and also thou piny, he was enabled to • belonging to another cable int . ..periment on a length of 1,250 ended fur an American cont. Wise with perfect erwcwa, and he has prepared a new instrument for use with w i res of great tenth. TIM SUNDAY BEER BILL. DEPUTATION TO THE EARL OF HARROWBY. On Fmturday a deputation, consisting of Mr. Foster , president ; Mr. Harris, are? ; Mr. Sims, secite*Ary of the Licensed Victualler' Mutual Defence MO OCiatiol2 ; Mr. W. Spirett, on behalf of the licensed vie• V.allen of Leeds and operatives of Yorkshire ; and Mr. George Cantle:et, representing amalgamated societies of Lancashire, waited on the Earl of Harrowby, a member of the Cabinet, to ask his lordship's support to Mr. Berkeley's Bill to amend the Sunday Beer Act of last session. Mr. Whiteharst, solicitor of the association, accompanied the deputation, aced stated its views. Gentlemea representing the London Licensed Victuallers' Protection Society were also present, and stated to his lord ship that they could add nothing to the reasons urged by the Defence Association, to which they gave their entire sup port. The Earl of HARROWIIT expressed a general concurrence with the objects of the Defence Association. and in reference to the bona.fide-traveller question said ►e thought a tra veller was one who was so far fr int hie home as not to render it convenient for him to return there for refreshment. lis said he had received a letter advising that the word " tra veller" should be struck out of the act altogether. Several memb -es of the deputation thought that such a course would only lead to fresh difficulties. His Lordship added that, without pledging the govern ment, he might say that every disposition existed to accede to the views of the licensed victuallers, as expressed by the depute lion. The deputation then withdrew, highly satisfied with the interview. REPRESENTATION OF LEWES.—We Stsssex Ex press) auderstand that the neat election for t h e b 'rough of Lewes will be contested, and that two gentlemen may prl• bably oppose the present members. One of the new candi dates is Sir Charles Blunt, Bart., of Heathfield Park, the head of a family which rerresented the borough in four successive parliaments. We may add that the recent vote given by the Hen. H. Brand in favour of the fdaynooth grant, will lead to the introduction to the constituency of a very stanch advocate of protestantism in the person of H. Peters, Esq., a member of the National Club, and who las influential faintly conviions in tb. 46E11N:indig71 of I Lowe..