The Express. — London, England, 1855-04-25 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—TIIIISDAT, APRIL 24. Tb. Loan Cwinit,noa took biases% on ths wookaek at fo'clock. PE rITIONS. Lad SONDES presented a petition from Faversham, is hem of the bill for allowing manages with • deesessd'e wile's sister. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY roosted petitioss from Bytes, Scotland, for the diteadowstect of Illeynooth ; sad from s plea is the West Riding in favour of legalising marri ages with • deemed wife's sister. THE VIENNA CONFERENCE. The Earl of )(AMESBURY wished to put few ipso does to his noble (Mad the Smeary of State for Forelgs Affairs, with rapid to the late assaistims at Visas". He wss sere that his sable friend melt glen coedit, not only him (lord Maissesbury), but to every other 'member Mask icedelipe Muse, be having abstained for • esesiderable rend tom emberramise her Majesty's gamma by patine gardens relating to this subject, for they had a,l iodated an meat bore that the age- Mims that were gong on might have bees cop dated by as honourable sad a lonise pan. (Caere.) Taserday, Isomer, as impressios beams penal is the public tend that all hope of that kind End cease; that the Beattlatioss were braes ea, sad that we were threatened for the mond Me with an inevitabb sampaign againat Resin. Ho (Lard llalmosbery) wished therefore to ask ems quakes of the noble earl, and in doing se he did set think that he was at all premature. Indeed, he bed bees anticipated is another plass by a mina of per- Emma% and the prime minister had mounted to *slime M Comma what the state of the ease now was. It ap peared from what Lord Palmentos bad rid that there was me been say lop of Inducing Ruda to map' was eremitism which their lordships were aware had bees mode by the Western Powers, and wash, as they under Med, had bees supported by Austria. It appeared from statemeat ef the able lord that the Waters Powen bad panda to negotiate epos the fear pasts whisk had been laid down ma the Bth of August se bases of segotio time for pease. Those points were founded, me they all bow, epee the fallowing principles. The first related to the protectorate a the provisoes of Wallachia sad Moldavia, sea bated apes • protectorate of the five Powers, Wand .(the protectorate of Russia aloe', as bad heretofore bees the ease. The mead Insisted upon the tresdlemel tie Downs. TM third, as explained by the noble earl Weil% and by the French miaow, K. Croup' de Lhuys, Mid M re duce the preponderance of Russia in the Bleds Ess. The fourth and last established the piniple vet the Christina religion and the Christi's eslomilo a the Ottoman aspire should be placed ender the JIM protectorate of the five Powers. He (Lord llalminoff) mended that the misname at Visam began the fist point, and be wished therefore to ask his midis Alma whether the Russian mermaid had agreed SO Ile fat psis% and whether its views on that point were tbeeMems those of the Western Powers and Austria ? He aim mlisei to ask manse they bed met with any difficulty from Rasta win regard to the second point? He understood from the statement of Lord Palmerston that it was upon the third pent that the negotiations broke down. It appeared that the preposition made to Russia consisted of two alternatives, tad that the plenipotentiaries of Zeeland, France, Austria, sad Turkey proposed either that the amount of the Ream saval lone in the Black Sea should henceforth be limited by treaty, or that the Black Sea should be declared must posed es- Only, whereby all ships of war would be mended from ar, so that it woad be • see ter sommeres only in It, eppoaredAthat Rada refired both of the abrade's, and that as see had made so canter proposi tion whatever, they must be prepared for • lees war. Deeply, however, as he regretted that some mass had not Ms found whereby a lasting sad as hoses:able pose might have been mewed to this ossuary, he mat be allowed to lay that that regret wee mush &misdated when he same to onside, the terms. The proposal that no armed moats should be allowed in the Black Sea, except, he supposed, suck as might be necessary to gaud the commons of that sea from the attacks of pirates— though be thought it rather a Utopias proposition—was the preferable alternative, and it had certainly a better chime a moms with respect to their wishes hereafter. Me could net conceive that the first alternative bad emanated either from his noble hind opposite, or frcm the noble lord at the head of the government ; and he meld not bat think that it mast have bees ea Austrian proposition. If that proposition was made simply and nakedly as it appeared in the statement of the noble vie. 'sent, he could not understand what possible gamete* they would have had fur its fulfilment. If it had been ac esispanied by • proposition that each of the five powers should have • certain limited number of ships in the Black nea as well as Russia, there might have been some hops the treaty would be kept ; but otherwise he did names what "material guarantee " his noble friend could possibly have had for its Mormon. Even supposing that we had mods at Sebastopol and at the ether ports in the Black Sea, would amybody believe that Ia the coarse of • few years Russia would not be gradually, and one by ono, exceeding the number of line of battle nips stipulated ? Would anyone believe, eves if the consuls reported to the French govern. meet or to Loadoe, or to the other protecting powers, that such was the sass, that they (the allied governments) woad regard such an evasioa as a muss belle It was not upon bars suspicion that he said this, for the former socidnet of Russia bad made it probable that she would so set. He had only to quota her conduct with respect to the mouths of the Danube, which had bees secured by sn saalegan treaty. That treaty was evaded, and the other powers were obliged to be satisfied with very lame explanations; for it never Mend into the heads either of the government or of the peeps of this mazy to make the conduct of Russia in the natter • eases kill, or eves • cause of quarrel. He (the amble lord), therefore, did not much regret that Ramie had MUM to asap this alternative. There was one ett or settled apes whisk he also wished to ask • question. It appeared that on the Bth of August, whoa the Fear Peals wen laid down, Prussia was to have Ma ens of the preteedag powers. Now, ocesideries what the "Meet of the Prussian government bad been—oceduct whisk bad been so well described by his noble and learned blend (Lord Lyedharat)—he should like to ask the noble east whether it bad been eostemplated still to include Praia ? It appeared obvious to him, from the minus she had shows, that if • napkins had been made by the pro tested proviso's against ese of the Easters powers, we should have bad • fifth vete against us, if Prussia had been included law treaty. He thought he had a right also to oak kb sells friend whether ha was Inland to lay before the hoses es nes as Feasible some more Moan inform ties epos the whets "abbot of these septiodess ? His noble friend would resellset that they bad had se Waist eerrespondeses bid before them AIM the Weans of the year 18811, sad that they had resolved so positive ahem ties at all as to the details of the sesetiatiems whisk bad Ms going es. They had hitherto abstained from premiss be such ialermaties, but sow that the 'Negotiations wen Pekes off, and new that we were made, ups as mum• dee and pressenue sanipaign, the emstry had • right to Mew for what they were going to fight; what were the piste spa whisk the smarmiest looked as the use qua wen; and what the bases upon whisk England should be willies to make poses. (Hear, hear.) The Bad of CLARENDON offered his best Maar lodgments both to kis noble friend and to the home for the arbanses they ha diem while the negotiations were pending. He was aloe perfectly ready to admit that his noble friend bad bees by se mesas premature is asking be the ktformafficalle ked sought that evening. Indeed, if he bad net dm "The should brad( have felt it hie duty to state to their lordship the position of the negetiatioss. It was perfectly true that the casferesses had Dona adjoused muse lie, la minuses of the rejection by the Russia. plemipoteatiaries of propositions restricting the leet of Reeds within those limits which were Moved soneistast with the napalms of Turkey, or rendering the Bleak Sea • sea open for esmasend purpose' only. The noble lord had stated the ehsraster of the four basso, all of whin had bees frankly soma( by the Ruda: goverment, not st eeping the third, mask 'maned a 'maim that the pre. yondasses M Russia is the Black Sea should seise. His noble Mead was right is assuming that the several plats wen dissemed I. the seder I. which they same, sad that the liest mimeo* were virtually swilled by the Enialea ybeipassades, tkeesk nothing !sal was determised. Whin the OM Mae ems nada diemseisa the remora tattoo albs Alba Pewees, is Wee nohow that they bad me Mete kumllble iced% but that they desired that Mr emelt, shenlllllll be upheld, propos& that the Raise eigiosembeas Mold thameelves take the dative, as to Ile my in whisk that third pia Mold he sordid out. The Remiss empromadas asked he time te retie le their govessewst, sot limo was gives them; bet in the - while, for oheisas name, the planipstemlaries deemed le math the dismiss el she bulk phat. The list St Pets:Meg arrived, eat it was, that the Resits pub stoat her tee propitious to male. Thseffled tepem sAiEeee ‘. 1 as lb. following day sad the Rassisi vargessa Wives eider this. Saturday laat they Wallis, their canal tae. th• BIN* Sot. mos by say arguesulto - Men was derived alp from the telographis amount& That was all the infenestioa whisk be (Lint Clare:dos) wee, able to give, fool Has Lad J. Smell kit Vienna yap tardy. With noggin. , the ereestion of the sob% earl, as to dr polities of Prude, he Neil only say that the peddle old* Prods W essapied slues the SA of Awes, old the pontos doe osollosed i emery, had is. oseluded her Ins the esallseasess, themes,* FM ell the arroagemente whisk might have united fin Ibis. (Cheers.) With respect to the other pat to Agit Idi Noble friend had alluded, tamdely, the Idasincodese dila might have bees garotted from the !Wades of Ilia Ruda& abet, sad the maser in whist tie might bale boss expected to abide by the stipuladeasis thought Hat it would not be convenient to enter int* these Isestioss wail their lordships were fatly in possession of all the infer =lon to which they were entitled, and which her Majesty's elarnasat would be milieus at the earliest moment to lay law' these. (Rear.) The Berl of RARDWICKB said there was one paint epos whisk he was anxious to obtain some information, ounely, the intentions of Austria. At this moment Austria was plated in a position is which, like certain parties in par liament, they might play the game either of one side or the other and be perfectly sure of support. She held a posiden of great dignity and influence. She had had plead in her pommel= two great provisoes, and she could hold language whisk might 'sable her to receive either the sup port of the Wasters Powell against Russia on the one hand, et the support of Russia sad Prussia against England and Freese on the other. When, therefore, they were sated*, upon the second set of this war the country w odd leek with the deepest anziety for any information that her Majesty's government might be able to give with regard to the pert whisk this great and fortunate German power might be repeeted to play. The Karl of CLARENDON could not give any distinct Gamer to the question of the noble earl. Their lordships were all aware of the terms of the treaty into which Austria had entered on the eth of December ; end be had no reams to think that she would depart from those terms. Re could only say that on Friday last Austria appeared to have held precisely the same language as the representatives of Eng land, Prance, sad Turkey to the Ramis& plenipotentiaries. Their lordships would recollect that it was only upon pesos sot being made upon the bases provided by the treaty, r that Austria was to be called upon to concert amour* fee awry log its stipulation bate edict. That time bad 'not yet arrived, and until then it was not for him (the sohle lord) to say plesisely what oetwaelkostels would take. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR moved the committal of the Cambridge Univenity Bill, and described in much detail tits INN'S end working machinery of the measure. Laid LYNDHURST commented upon various futons pnisalsi la the bill, end entered into a slants examine- Hea siv =llo. its effect oa the internal arnagements of the Some fu;thar minvneation sassed, after which Um motion was agree/ ter mad the bill parsed through committee pro forma. Their lordships adlowned at 20 minutes after 8 o'clock. ROUSE OF OOMMONS.—Tussaki, APRIL 24. TM &Ram took Ow akar at 4 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. Tba following bills were read a third time sad passed Jsdbargh Railway Bill, and Llyavi Valley and Bridgend Railways Bill. The Bombay, Baroda, and Centnl India Railway (N 0.2) Bill was read a mooed time. - --- - tI ~REMOVAL OF WOUNDED AFTER BATTLE. Mr. BRADY asked whether, in the event of another battle taking place before Sebastopol, any mesas had been recommended by the Medical Director General for the removal of the wounded from the battle field other than those usually employed (namely, bannermen and drum mers) ; and, if so, why were not those mune resorted to after the battles of Alma and lakermann. Mr. PEEL said the conveyance of the wounded from the field of battle was one of those duties which had been regu larly committed to the land transport service adder Colonel M'Mardo. All the transport waggons bad been made over to him; and it was his duty to provide new litters for the purpose of carrying the wounded. • - - - PURCHASE OF COMMISSIONS. Main REED pat the following question :—" Whether her Mojesty's government are satisfied ea to the correctness of a statement made in this hone, to the effect that then has existed, and at present don tease, a system of paying lugs rams above the regulation pries for promotions in the army (which by An 49 Geo. 111., is made a misdemeanor); and, if so, whether her Modesty's government have taken, or intend to take, any and what steps, at once to put a stop to the sum" Viscount PALMERSTON—I believe it is quits true that sums larger than the regulation price are given by officers upon transactions of the kind referred to. It is contrary to the order of the Commander-in-Chief; and ao officer is passed over who is willing to give the regulation pries. Those practises are entirely unsanctioned by any depart ment of the government. RETURN OF LORD J. RUSSELL. Mr. BRIGHT, after referring to the question he had put ea tli meet ea Monday, asked if the noble lord would be kid musk le tell them whether the government had that Lord John Russell had positively left MIMI. Me gnewamei the telegraph would have given 1611111 the INIMINdIa that day, if such were the fact. Timing PALMERSTON—There can be no doubt that my sable Mend did leave Vienna yesterday. Ima not able to say whether the information has wetly reached us by telegraph. (Here some other member of the government whispered the noble lord.) Yes: we have had a tele. graphic message, stating that he had left ; that Mr. Ham mend also was about to lave; and that the noble lord would arrive on Thursday. ACT OF usMITY, Le. lie. HEYWOOD moved. "That this house will resolve itself Cato a emomittm. to maids, sash dolma el the AM of Ilailsemby el NU as impose religious ifirMag the advaittagse as Web. edembel, er grammar, or frmeshed sea tin ; tad so smash of say other acts of parliament. mr taw balsas et national lestitstioas, either la Bishail or In- Isai. as Wpm religleas tests as eimillisas or mallards= Orr eng Mss a atomises onmested with adasedem." The bads aft This millea wee that la ear large eistalbaal 611111 hmlmle *SIM who did not babas to the astaliklesd Audi maw elimatibee %pored. Referring to the skean soma maw whisk the AM ofdty was pemed. the gmatisman shamed Set, e the seasienetim el lawyms. ma gamma Bassiwse aesitieedsabershd Sobs' ess~mam ; and the remit was dl the bays WaSlithere wire made to attend shuck sad leant Ow aloaka. La Whim el that was found sloes at their dew, la the Westatimarar fished; If say of the bop Up per* to be the Seises d dlossabrs, they were ast =as ti Thew wee the was in ether pram es data 0;E man have their 'Wm beseght ela p a dillsand h ens their own or they melt ast Nob am le ibis at aU, whirs mr=lakil the tut simmaisii vas to be had. With rs to these easel% he shed* preemie to adopt a reedatien similar to that Mb J. Pakiagtee is his Idealism Bill— senieyeagesod des the NNW= odaestket depeadeet ea the wish of lbe penal& la slimy of those imbeds sad at daft, =Libepeepeee wen too beg sad wearisome to the No email mamma that they should be oat dims to Iho stimdmil rippled la that louse, where the cm dish not more then am Wastes. (Hear.) . her la Oxford sad Carebridp, Sr sspieg W itill mash NW Mow frog as altar Yea ethos oellalene minim la dm miss of the Goners thumb% ilia were new bomb oedema maw e in ui stitutions, bilsolismabie sellgismo Mob woe still reqred. Bat UM Of She mot *ohm wes that dined is Triniy Col by. DEW whirs p.m tehe yawed the schol t arship inembstim maw sieges to lake 1M sestement. Not very bag dela. Ilr. Imee, a Emma wadi% who paned that membeibm ems Inched et the hub at ft beams be re tinal to abeam eessommit. These wee ao appeal that he haw et easigt to the Swam el Clempsite. The fellows of Tihdty Omuldi wort einem to Wm an oath ist they= demi* Metnelleas be seven mars t• the Maly a/11mila, mid at the sad et that time Wieldy mime or haw the sew. Thee wan his., it Oa a p e 11211 e, is that hems now, who had labia the eath. of Shim mew, however wiled to the times of sad Idealleth, were am adapted to the pm slat paled. lie peeped le Mpo Mew la the sed Matisse the MIMS whisk led bass o s* is UN by the Roble bed the flometray Se whisks fatrodarod the hit Sr tho owls d Ile Taut U..., en Aces—that was to way. he prepaid to aim the pselledassy step of gobs into committee ea the NOW, sad bales the home to deg with It then. He believed that visa Se 1111 was miss w soostioa of the home WIN. a good ammo would mill ion Seb4wlll that view he sow moved that the bones maim Weir Me a 'meddles. Ilk IL THEW mil le keg been gelled ea to seised the maim end lie fhb Wawa prodded at the essigliment =gi m bal lassle pat)Sem body of his diematieg Mow No nomlb4 So beam hataima he mime 7`y times win lend miss he a Seldom, Laid PALKEISTO y IL of kin lON AM be abed to mike em obseeverAtme sos the gespoitiss is im iza Webby that ewe mom wbo mime more measeisi with the bellialbms tidbit the ta ms might gib le moon** *elms Ihmempek am ebae I. ilitmediMmft Is ssador tbs mai IMO Ibe jpeverw, mot hMudrdtsguma TM Medea of kb hem. Mend Issued lb ISIS SOS MUMS two dbliott sad dillidat it, _-friei.tiices mama to him any practical e ff ect, and being so—lerger in answeleaos with the spirit of the times in which they dyed, might with greet adman,* be swept away from the statute book. (Hear.) But he did not think it would be right for parliament to disturb the arrangements whisk had hoes made Met year till they had more modal esseelnees Of their working. Be was not, therefore, :=ll;dis=li with his hen. friend in that part of his recommend his has. friend to withdraw that pin st lie motion. Bat if he did not *omelet to do that, se he agreed with Welton. friend in part of his motion, he would be prepared top Into committee with him, sou to enable him sad the house to nadentend the bill. But in consenting to this be begged his hosariend to understand that he reserved to the government fall liberty to deal with the bill, when brought in, in accordance with the opinion they might form of the provisions it contaioed. (Hear, hear) There miht be other portions of the bill not included In either of t he two divisions to which he referred, and with respect to them also be reserved to the government the full liberty of opposing them, if they thought it right to do so. (Hear.) A modified proposition wee diecassed for some time, but ultimately negatived without a division on a point of form. The house was shortly afterwards counted out. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY I , • • • '` ....:—.....,—.. ay brewed forward their peopesitionsi' somoZtrated to the essaiderstias at those part resentative. asked fee Wile to nifonnity which regtjeed religious Wete , sad tutors, and width inspand wan at time was alea_ gi d thii ; penaltiose th e r it s stub they lOW to oompli. ' The t umid obsoletely eel eilliio illi tllleill i s e hetli ~ Vasa of _ seat fo stub that entleessat whisk 11 force and for eseluding of wwwitinde 1 gear with re#ed to the Univeridty of Ox- I . Wh e ther that ann. was justified or toed. With regard to the first pszt, u far as be understood at, is . Was smog. to uy , IN hi s w orm . e bad no sort of didloalty in goiog along with his hon. ....__. , friend. Those *W M* _ !iesetaaswia_to.,ehteh_ ha referred Cbt (v-xln'TOO• 1 , 4.0 ofrortissossoto Wooled for .Ito Ezprew," Loudon Evening pow, oust b. at Ur Moe, 19, Efomotio.4lllV. by Two <Moak on tbo fey of pablioodos. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Two DAT—liorntag, M. Ma ARIIMOOII. Ih. 68/1. Taatoaauw—ltorolag,ss 99. 40 Attimiooa, leh. 21,a, LONDON, IVEDINESDAY, APRIL 26. LATEST FROM ABROAD. THE CRIMEA. ' Advice@ from before Sebastopol of the 17th state that the want of ammunition had been felt by the besiegers. On the 13th and 14th the Allies pined an important advantage on the left attack. The French twice drove the Russian. out of their ambuscades, and, after an obstinate combat, obtained possession of • height which it is expected will give them great advantages. The enemy's fire is still severe. The cholera has broken out among the French troops, and on the 17th was raging fiercely.—Doily New. THE LATEST RUSSIAN ACCOUNT. BERLIN, 'lumina! EVVING. A despatch, received here from St. Petersburg, dated this day, says: " Prince Gortokakoff writes on the 19th, that on the 18th, 17th, and 18th, the enemy's fire was less sustained than on the preceding days. "Our batteries have responded with full success, especially by their cross fire before the 4th bastion, directed against the works which the enemy bad in dustriously established against this bastion. " The damages caused by the enemy's fire during the day are repaired at night. In the night between the 18th and 19th, one of our battalions achieved, with success, and with insignificant loss, a sortie made with the view of destroying the more advanced of the enemy's works of approach. " Altogether the losses of the garrison have been less considerable these last four days, than at the commencement of the oombardment.”--Daity News. ST. PETERSBURG, Aram 16. The Orand Dukes Michael and Nicholas have set out for the Crimea.—Daily News. THE SARDINIAN CONTINGENT. We regret to state that an announcement, only too well authenticated, has reached London that the fine screw steam-ship Cronus was burnt to the water's edge soon after leaving Genoa, with the first detach ment of the Sardinian Contingent on board. The troops were saved, u well u the crew, with the excep tion of three sailors.—Daily News. Lord John Alumni' left Vienna on Monday, and is expected in London to-morrow (Thtuaday).—Daily News. THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH IN THE Time appears to be no longer any reason to doubt that the Emperor of the FaartcH will proceed forth with to the Crimea. the Conatttutiattel of Mon day it is stated that his camp equipage has already bean sent off; and the 10th of May is confidently aimed in Paris as the day on which he will take his departure. The abilities of NAPOLEON 111. are about Mbe tried in a new field. His victoria have hitherto boss pined in civil contests; it remains to be seen witetber be hes inherited the military talents of his beam Various considerations concur to recommend tkestep be is about to take. Hie present* in the Crimea seems desirable, as a means of giving unity to the operations of a campaign carried on by the armies of at least four independent nations. As Theory will tend to consolidate his throne, he has every inducement to urge on the war with energy ; sad at the lame time, from all we an learn, the laranon is too profoundly impressed with the neces sity of not over-et aining the resources of Prance to be led astray by success. What course the MONROE will pursue remains perhaps to be decided by the state in which he will Sad affairs when he lands in the Crimea. The Idepaphio accounts of the progress of the born- Wise of Sebastopol are necessarily cart and laseepilste. Rumours are afloat, however, to the ant that no great progress is being made by the assailants: that the advantage they have gained have been warned by °made able heed lib; and that the dehaese still is the beads at the Miamians are of the most hemidable along& If thew statements are well impie l. they p tlr to sesfirsu the opinion we balm thee than ems bad asides to einfews, that the aria= in the Crimea met be beaten in the field bare Sebastopol can be taken. It will also be borne in mind that in the review of the operations of the Allies in Tuley' and the Crimea, which was published in the Yonder of the 11th inst., regret is expressed that the plan of die/embarking at Theodolite, advents, by the way of Simplieropol, cutting off the Bede communiostkine, and beating them in the field before inventing Sebastopol, had boss abandesed. This was the libezaoa's sire of a Crimean campaign. The actual pow ef tbe allied forces in the Crimea may prevent lii .being resumed to its full extent; bat both the nate sal predilection which NAPOLI= lIL must feel for IG, APRIL 25, 1855. his own plan, and the probable state of affairs before' Sebastopol; seem to render it most Li k ely that some combination will be made with a view, first, to defeat the. Russian army, and then invest the for tress in due form. Something might assuredly be done by the vessels of lightest draught in • the allied fleets, to cut off the Russian communications with the Crimea by way of the Sea of. Asa. We confidently believe that the depth of water in the straits of Yenikale has been systematically understated by the Russian autho rities. It is well known that vessels of a certain draught of water are compelled to unload part of their cargo at Kerb*, in order, it is alleged, to en able them to pass through the straits. But we are credibly informed that, some years ago, a Greek felucca, requiring much deeper water than is said to be found in the straits, passed through with her whole cargo on board, the master having represented her as of less draught than she really was. Again, the fora under Ones PACHA, at Eupatoris, if augmented by the Sardinian contingent, might be able to strike a blow at Perekop, whilst the French and English troops in the Peninsula of the Chersonesus kept a part of the Russian army in check. We draw attention to these circumstances, as seeming to indicate what possibly may be attempted after the EMPEROR'S arrival in the Crimea. In the Moniteur it is stated that the occupation of Sebutopol and the Crimea " might put into the ; hands of the Allies a province and a fortress which could be used as a guarantee and an exchange in the event of a negotiation for peace." This seems to point to an intention of restoring both to Russia at the close of the war. It ought, however, to be kept in mind that Sebastopol, in the possession of Ru►sia, must always be in the Black Sea what Algiers was in the Mediterranean. It threatens at once the mouth of the Danube and the entry of the Bosphorus. It does appear highly inexpedient to allow Russia to maintain such an advanced poet on the Euxine. There is little or nothing of Russian nationality in the Crimea; it is not, in fact, an integral part of the Muscovite Empire. Whatever is to be done with the province at the close of the war, the interests of Europe require that it should not be allowed to revert to Russia.—Daily Newa. NEW CALCULATING MACHINE. A remarkable machine for the purposes of abstruse calculations has been sent over to this country, and deposited for the present at the Royal Society. It is the invention of a Swedish gentleman named Schutz, who has, it is said, expended the greater portion of his property in the operations necessary to bring his invention to a successful issue. It must not, how ever, be supposed that the machine is of a compli cated nature. Oa the contrary, its simplicity is one of its most remarkable features. There appal* nothing in its construction which would overtaak the capabilities of an ordinary mechanic, and the model exhibited is said to have been constructed by two Swedish workmen, instructed only in the oommo. principles of their art. It is, of course, impossible to give an adequate conception of the machine without the use of diagrams. It will be sufficient here to! state the principle which has been made use of to direct its operation., and some of the marvellous results which it is capable of accom plishing. The principle is one well known to mathe maticians, and may be verified by a person possessing only a knowledge of the common rules of arithmetic. It is, that all tables of numbers which follow any law, however complicated, may to a greater or less extent be formed by proper arrangements of successive addi tions or subtractions. Mr. Babbage is the person to whom the world is indebted for showing the wonder ful use that might be made of this principle in the construction of a calculating engine. But the cost involved in the construction of the parts of his engine, and of the tools required, was enormous. We believe that government contributed as much as 20,0001. to the expenses, and that Mr. Babbage him self disbursed large sums from his own private means. Moreover, although the portion of the machine which was put into operation produced satisfactory results, grave doubts have been ex pressed by many persons whether the me chanical aifficulties to be conquered before a complete engine could be fabricated were not insuperable. The machine, therefore, has never been completed, and we believe that the only portion slit left in a finished state is to be seen in King's College, London. The estimates for its completion frightened the government of the day, and Sir Robert Peel is said to have expressed the magnitude of the financial difficulty in one of the only mote that have ever been attributed to him. lie insinuated a doubt whether Babbage's engine, however powerful, would be able to compute the cost of its construction. The invention of Mr. Schutz may be said to complete the problem started by Mr. Babbage: "Can a machine I be made, at once simple and inexpensive, which shall perform laborious and extensive comput ations quickly and infallibly ?" Here is the engine. It may be seen in full opera tion. It will compute all the logarithms in Hutton's tables without the possibility of error. It not only does this, but it prints them and stereotypes them. Hutton's tables are mentioned because they ores best known, but other astronomical tables not gatefold in Hutton can be computed, registered, end abwootyped by the engine of M. Schutz in the time that a compositor would take to set up the type. It will, at the ordinary rate of working, pro ems about 260 figures stereotyped on plates ready be printing in about ten minutes. Now, the importance of correct mathematical tables of the nature alluded to may be judged by the fact that an error in a single figure in a set of tables used by a captain at sea, may occasion the loss of his ship. Handrail; of cases of a similar nature might be given, but it would be useless, as the universal cue tom of civilised governments, in expending large sums in obtaining tables correctly calculated, is sufficient to show their value. Many years ago the French government determined to execute "a monument of calculation the most costly and imposing which had ever been seen." To carry out this intention it was necessary to employ five or six mathematicians of the very highest clam; seven or eight mathematicians cele brated rather for acquirements and industry than genius, and a corps of some eighty computers. The results of their labours appeared in seventeen large folio volumes. All the most important of the compu tations noes ary in thesis vast operations can be managed in M. utz's engine by the simple turn ing of a handle, and this wit ho ut the possibility of an error. As a proof of the wonderful powers of the en and the extraordinary delicacy with which sufficicertainentlyconsi dered accurate unless the logarithms are carried out to seven places of decimals. But in order Ito get seven places accurately it is necessary originally team out the computation to a much larger number of places. The first seven of these are printed, and tin rest rejected. Now, it has been accepted as a rule mathematicians, that it the fi rst of the rejected is above 6, the last of the seven retained is to be Isereseed by a unit. M. Schutz's machine cal =kW to 16 places, but only prints 7. The machinery memo, however, perfectly to understand its duty when the first of the rejected figures is above 6. In that sees it eats " like a thing of life." It increases the 76 Awe by a unit, as if it were gravelntroducing a sessedles, suggested by its own knowledge of sesthosdise. The emengements of the various portions of the mile rise admirably planned, and the itecheaisel sestdeetises models of beauty and eimplisity.lt mut be es sliest of Intense interest to every sae, but only theme te sti = s zsainted with the labour of con tables, the great danger of error, sadlisopsland =penes of correction , will fully appellate excellences of this machine, simple in - lte i and so infallible in its tremi so lte. On Monday, Marshal ,Banta Cm, Envoy Extvaord dtury at Snails has aid amothite of Betide, took We the ILiag et the Belgians its model nem% Vbe Coati. The Princes of Hohenlohe-Langenbarg, accom pealed by Prince Victor and the Princesses Adelaide and Feeder., erri•ed at Buckingham Palace at half-past one o'elosk, yesterday afternoon, from the continent, on a visit Ito the Queen. - - lice Majesty and Priam Albert, accompanied by the Princess Alice and the Prince of Leiningen, and attended by Lord Charles Fitzroy and Colonel Beymoor, visited the Zacilogicial Gardens, in the Regent's Park, in the forenoon. Prince Arthur and the Princesses Helena and Louisa took a drive in an open carriage and four. The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen mid the Princess of Hohenlohir Langenhurg at Buckingham Palace. Prince Albert rods on horseback in the afternoon, at tended by his Equerry in Waiting. The Duchies of Lent dined with her Majesty. _ The Queen sad Prince Albert, accompanied by the Princess Adelaide of Hishenlobe-Langenburg, honoured the Royal Italian Opera with their presence in the evening. The royal suite consisted of the Countess of Desert, the Hon. Flora Macdonald, Lord De Tabley, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Colonel Seymour. The Countess of Desert has succeeded the Viscountem Canning u the Lady in Waiting to the Queen. Lord De Tabley and Mr. R. Ormsby Gore have relieved Lord Rivers and Sir Edward Bowater in their duties as the Lord and Groom-in-Waiting to her Majesty. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon, at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The Minis ters present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Sir William Molesworth, Viscount Canning, and the Earl of Harrowby. The council sat two hours. A deputation front the Church of Scotland, on the subject of the Lord Advocate's Education Bill, had an interview with Sir George Grey, yesterday, at the Home-office. The deputation consisted of the Rev. Dr. Cook (St. Andrew's), the Rev. Dr. Simpson (Kirknewtoo), Sir George Clerk, Mr. John Tait, and Mr. David Smith. (PROM LAST NIGHT'S GAZIITTN.) LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, APRIL 24.—Notice is 'cereby given, that her Majesty will hold drawing•rooms at St. James's Palace on the following days, at 2 o'clock— Wednesday, May 2 neat; Saturday, day 19 next, to mile. brats her Majesty's birthday. N.B. The knights of the al orders are to appear in their collars at the dtawlag room on the 19th of May next. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, APRIL 24.—Notice . I ts hereby given, that her Majesty will hold a levee at St. James's Palace on Friday, May 11 neat, at 2 o'clock. INAUGURATION OP TUE PARIS UNIVERSAL EEHI BITION.—We understand that the Imperial Commis sion have invited the President and Vice-President OF TEE DAILY NEWS) PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. There is a doubt whether General Bizet ii dead, bat none whatever that he was dangerously wounded. Ths government has received a despatch, stati ng that he had been hit in the head by a bullet, but that it was hoped his life might be saved. Ido not bow the date of this intelligence, but it is probably as recent as the private despatch from Bucharest, which announced that the General had been killed. The government, foreseeing a long and wring war, is preparing for the struggle in right good earnest. I have received information, which I be. lieve to be in the main correct, with regard to some of the measures already ordered. Two new squadrons will be added to every eta, valry regiment in the service; in other words, an addition of 30,000 horse will be made to the army. These squadrons will remain in France as cavalry of reserve. Orders have been given to purchase an immense number of horses for the artillery, waggon train, and ambularce. Cadres of gardes mobiles are to be organised throughout the country, so that in case of a great drain upon the regular army, the garrison towns may be occupied by this new force. An army of 75,000 men will be echeloned between Lyons and Valenciennes, and the camp of Sathonay is to be augmented to 50,000. FRANCE. -_O (Paoli THI General Anpick has been selected by the Emperor as the head of hie staff when he assumes the com mand of the army of the Crimea. This distioguished officer, now a senator, has been ambassador in Spain and Turkey, and was at one time director of the Committee of Artillery. The Bourse opened very heavily, in consequence of a telegraphic report from London, of Lord Palmer.. ton's answer to Mr. Bright's question. In spite of purchases to realise profits, atter tilt great fall of yesterday, the Recite opened (at 68tr.) with a farther full of 30c., and went down to 671 r. 83c. At this point there was a slight reaction, and, after some flan• tnation, it closed at 681 r. 10c., being 20c. lower Om yesterday. Railways were calm at lower quotations, with one or two exceptions. A good many large pnrchases for account were made in the Grand Cm. tral and Eastern lines. I believe I may state positively that Admiral Hamelin will not accept the post of Minister of Ma. rime. There is some reason to think that his appoint. ment, dated from Windsor Castle, wall in substance nothing more than a compliment to the two Black Sea fleets which he commanded, and that it wee never contemplated that he would exercise the dunce of the office for any length of time. The miracles wrought by M. Dimas in augmenting the French navy, were not accomplished without a Makes outlay of money, and it is said that the department has incurred debts exceeding by some 150 mil ices the amount of credits voted. Admiral Hamelin felt a great disinclination to take upon himself the tenon sibility of this deficit. News has recently arrived that one of his sons, an officer in the navy, has beta killed before Sebastopol. This calamity ha., lam told, hastened the admiral's determination. It is expected that be will resign at once. Galignani says :—" The Empress, we are happy to state, has benefited considerably in health by her recent visit to England." Their Majesties were sufficiently recovered from their fatigues to go to tLo Theatre Francais yesterday evening. _ . I understand that on the representation of Prince Napoleon, the Emperor has decided that proepectuses of articles exhibited at the Great Exhibition shall not be liable to stamp duty. The Moniteur publishes the official return of the receipts of the customs for the month of March, amounting to 15,149,671 fr., and being an increase of 4,458,189 fr. on tho corresponding month of 1654, and of 3,822,597 fr. on that of 1853. The receipts of the first quarter of the present year lave amounted to 38,356,6281 r., being an improvement of 8,243,525 fr. on the corresponding quarter of 1854, and of 8,447,832 fr. on that of 1853. Comparing the receipts of the first quarter of 1855 with those of the same period of 1854, the leading articles which show an improvement are coffee, for 1,449,018 fr.; raw cotton, 1,026,817 fr.; law wool, 1,016,564 fr.; foreign sugar, 2,538,786 fr.; French colonial ditto, 1,198,715 fr.; mahogany, 60,310 fr. ; bar iron, 474,708 fr. ; steel in bare, 49,3511 r.; and sundry articles, 337,1691 r. The dunes received on the importation of foreign spirits have amounted to 592,708 fr., and on foreign wines to 31,003 fr., those two items not being down in the returns of either 1854 or 1853. of the Board of Trade, the for the Exhibition of 1861, the Jurors, the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London, the Lord Mayor of Dublin, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, the Chairmen and Vice- President of the East India Company, the President of the Royal Society, the President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Chairman of Council of the Society of Arts, and the Chairmen and Secretaries of the Local Committees of the Paris Exhibition to be present at the Inauguration by the Emperor, on the let of May. On Monday week, on the arrival of the Emperor, his hlsjesty's dressing-case, containing jewels of great value ►elonging to the Empress, was taken, by mistake, to Radler. Hotel, where it remained till the Wednesday following. In the meantime the police were actively engsged in making inquiries for the lost property. Ulti mately the cue was given to the Lord Mayor, who at once telegraphed the fact to Windsor, and the package was after wards forwarded to the Castle. _ _ _ His Excellency Count de Bernstorff, Prussian Mi nister at this court, wu not absent, as has been stated, when the members of the corps diplomatique were presented to the Emperor Napoleon. at the French Embassy last Than day, but, together with the Countess de Bernstorff, was presented to their Imperial Majesties. In return for the splendid tiara, value about 2,000,000 reale, recently presented to the Pope by the Queen of Spain, his Holiness has sent her Majesty the body of St. Felix the Martyr. From the Brighton Guardian of this day, we learn that there are at present staying at that favourite watering place, the Earl of Aberdeen, Admiral Gordon, Earl Dude, Earl of Hinton, Earl Mulgrave, Mr. S. Traill, M.P., Mr. 8. Whitbread, M.P., Sir John Esethope, &e. Viscount Lifford died at Brighton on Sunday, at the advanced age of 72. The sudden death, yesterday, of the Right Hon. J. C. Harries, from a spasmodic attack of the heart, has occasioned sincere regret amongst men of all shades of opinion. The venerable Duchess of Gloucester reaches the advanced age of 70 this day. The Princess Alice Mande, her Majesty's second daughter, also completes her 12th year to-day. Twenty medical men arrived at Constantinople on the 12th, on their way from England to Eupatoria. The cholera appears to be on the increase at St. Petersburg. The cases for several weeks have averaged 160 a day, bat from the Journal d. St. Peloraboury of the 17th, it appears that on the 13th inst. there were as many as 220 cues recorded. _ _ - ----- --- On entering Jerusalem on the 3rd instant, the Duke and Duchess of Brabant met with an enthusiastle re ception,—the Munnlinen authorities and the Roman Catho lic, clergy uniting to pay them respect. On visiting the Church St. Sepulchre, the Duke seemed much interested in viewing the spot where rest the remains of the hero of the Crusades, the renowned Godfrey de Bouillon. Twelve marriages were celebrated at Paris on Tuesday at the Church of St. Germain des Pres, under rather curious circumstance.. IL. X- being about to give away his daughter in marriage, wished to prelude the act by some good deed. Accordingly he searched out from amongst the working claws of Paris, twelve young couples whose union was delayed by the want of sufficient pecuniary means to provide a satisfactory manage. This he faced for them, and, with his daughter and future sen-in-law, assisted at their nuptials. M. Meyerbeer, the composer, has been decorated with the cross of commander of the Order of Saxe-Coburg Gotha. Galignani says that the recent decision against the Company of the Paris Exhibition has given as impetus to the daguerreotypists and other artists of the capital, for the neighbourhood of the building is literally besieged with persons taking views. An ingenious inquirer has discovered that the initials of our late Imperial Guests and of their Royal Heats, spell the name of the river of the Barden capital, N. p. V. A." After the departure of Lord John Russell from Vienna on Monday evening, the Emperor of Austria had as intarvkw of aa hoer and a half's slantioa with Count Bad. _ _ _ _ _ _ The Duke and Duchess of Saxe Cobourg Gotha, were to leave Brawl yesterday, on their return IS Germany. A Paris correspondent informs the readers of the Independence Beige that it is in contemplation is LOONS 10 raise a subscription for the purpose of erecting spas the eggssite shores of England and Francis two towers to per. gelinate the 'Manes of the two peoples. Unless some sew sad gnaw victory mimes, one tower, be says, is sr be sassed the Alms, and the other the Lik;mass. The journey from Paris to Madrid is now mom gibbed in 70 boors. On Tuesday a marriage took place at the British Embassy, Paris, between the only daughter of Sir Howard Blphiastinte, Bart.. and Lieut.-Colonel Balboa, of the 74th Highlanders. Thu* were present messipt sway others the Earl of Orkney, Sir H. L. Buivres, G.C.B. The sodden death of Mr. George de Bosco Att wood, the Taproots(' secretary of the Bank of British North Amorksi woe to-da7 (says the Nei) a sabjest of mavens tioa sad mint in the monied. and cossiiseelal dudes of the City. It appears that Mr. Atwood pi dawn dead while media; over to the board . of dinettes some mimes cow I *Wed with the egatn d I the estabiLimett. THE BALTIC FLEET. KIEL, APRIL 20. The arrival of the Baltic fleet in our quiet port, though not possessing the charm of novelty—u Ad miral Napier paid us two visits last year—has sud denly changed the dull monotonous physiognomy of our little town into the bustle, life, and excitement of a sea port of the first class. The ships have anchored in the same relative positions in which the arrived. Nearest the town lie the Nile, 91, with the flag of the commander-in-chief', and the three-decker Royal George, behind which float the line-of-battle ships Rxmouth, with the flag of Rear-Admiral Seymour (the second in command), Caesar , Cressy, Colinas, Imes Watt, and Majestic, together with the steam block ships Blenheim, Edinburgh, Hogue, and Ajar, and the paddle-wheel steamers Vulture, Bulldog, and Merlin. The latter beautiful little craft is doing duty as the pioneer of the fleet, and is commanded by I full captain of great experience (Captain B. Saliva, last year in command of the Lightning up the Baltic), to which in the ordinary way she would not be entitled, but only to a lieutenant, or at the utmost s commander. Last evening a few favoured officers and men obtained leave of absence to come on shore for twelve hours, but to-day the town literally swarms with sailors and marines. It is impossible to state at present how long the fleet will remain here, as it of course mainly depends on the state of the ice up the Baltic, and more espo cially in the Gulfs of Finland and Bothnia. How ever, they are likely to stay at least a week or ten days. Some of the ships—the Caesar, for instasos-- have given officers leave to go over to Hamburg . The bumboats received permission to-day to gs off to the ships for an hour, and from fifty to sixty availed themselves of this permission, and sold their prori: *ions, eggs, butter, vegetables, as well as the mom variety of books, pictures, knives, ear-rings, and such like useless trash for Jack's superfluous sixpences and shillings. Admirals Dundee and Seymour paid a visit to -day to the Governor of KieL The former will go to board the Bulldog this evening, to start to-morrow morning at daybreak for Copenhagen, on palladia melee. At least such is generally expected on board that vessel by the officers, none of whom have received permission to go on shore. In order to distinguish better the ships lad the immediate command of Admiral Boucles from 1 the second division (Rear -Admiral Seymour) , Ow C om mander-in-Chief has hoisted the white flag, to which he is properly not yet entitled , being mil a Rear-Admiral of the Blue. However, i as he stands at the top of his list, and the next admral above bile that dies will make him a Rear-Admiral of the White; it blither all only anticipating the natural come Ot events ; whilst there cannot be a question as to to! expediency of the measure, which will prevent by ss! bye much confusion and oodhly accidents from um properly answering signals. To-day there was still a good deal of ice mum fic at '_ about out at ass, fr om the lookout towel' The visit of the British fleet is a forbad for tbs