The Express. — London, England, 1855-05-21 00:00:00

_ tbs. exoTtoo. 1 Advortiomato laboodollke . Tbo Isynol,"Lcedis Poomiospipor, most ko at lb, OS" 10, lboseoriootesot. by Two Aka on Ws day of pobliostos. Tau RION WATER AT LONDON BRI DGE. Da.t—mansai. n. Irsoasow—Maniag, bk. 52a Alteneca l / 2 1116 17m. LONDON, MONDAY, MAY 2i. LATEST FROM ABROAD. (PROM IRE CORRESPEWS.)ONDS! N OF TSB DAILY THE CRIMEA. (IT ZLICTILIO BERLIN, MA: 19. Advises from Bt. Petersburg of yesterday inducts a telegraphic despatch from Prince Oortchakoff of the 12th instant. The Prince writes that nothing very important bad taken place in any part of the Crimea to that date. The fire of the Allies before Sebastopol, he earl, is very moderate. The Allies have made a new battery, and effected cumsiderable repairs. In the night of the 11th and early in the morning of the 12th, the Rus sians made a sortie from the Sedan, and the positions before it, and spiked several guns in the English batteries. On the 12th the Allies exploded several eamoutlets before the Flagstaff Bastion, but did little harm. CONSTANTINOPLE, MAT 10. The French have placed two batteries on the ground conquered on the night of the lit before the central bastion. TURLEY. (at aranuo Ts Lsoluan.) CONSTANTINOPLE, MAY 10. The commissioners who are to raise the Turkish eentingent are about to set out. An imperial dune explains that the Moslem recruits will be in a nume rical minority in the Turkish army. The journals say that the troops from Mafia are about to bays. Fourteen war vessels and numerous trauma-re are laden with provisions for an expedition, to be direeted, it is said, against Odessa. _ _ The difficulties respecting the piercing the Isthmus of Sues here been overcome, and a &man on the subject is expected. MAT 20. The Carmel has arrived, with Constantinople news to May 10th. The Sultan's brother-in-law, Mehemet Ali Pacha, who had been exiled, has returned to Con. stantioople. The expedition projected against /Leda, and which had been commenced, is abandoned, pursuant to orders from the governments. The troops which had embarked on board the vessels were landed at Bri stles& on May 7th. Letters from the Crimea speak of a very sharp engagement on May Bth. A supplement to the Press* d'Orisst publishes the on dits relative• to a bloody battle on the heights of Balaklava, between a Russian division and a corps of Turks and Egyptians. The Ottomans are said to have bald the Eisnians in check during eleven hours. The arrival of some of the allied regiments forced the Rawlins to retreat. The shocks of the earthquake at Broom have sewed. The Trieste papers of Friday lug publish the fol lowing despatch, which we give for whatever it may he worth : ECPLTOZIA, NAT 4.-8,000 Kunio= us menacing OMIT Pasha. Their cavalry is endeavouriag to at oir the allies' oestwankations by lead. The balk of the Ibusiais army, 180,000 strong, having taken up a putties sear Simpherepol, is in non-interrapted eanntunleaties with Sebastopol. VIENNA, MAY 19. Prince Gortehakoff yesterday communicated to Count 800 l a circular which he had received from hie government. The Vienna Gam& will publish this document. .. WARSAW; kat u. The Grenadier eerie Imes Poing immediately and in haste. Their known destination is Leff, bat it is pot doubted that, arrived there, they will , marsh farther moth. The two fated regiments of, the Guards are mimed to Poland. (as z taxameta.) HANOVER, Mix 10. V. King haa Mined an ardonnantri annelliag th. Oisititution is settled the sth September, 1848, and divas Provincial Eleotceal Law of t h . lat impatilBoo. _ _ The popular rights are dindabited to the new man of the Constitution framed by the late King inset Algustas (Duke of Cumberland). - The adenomas states that the measure link hoe tikes in obedience to the decree of the Federal Diet of the 12th April, 1865, requiring the Ooveraments of Germany to bring the State Coostitotione son tato harmony with the monarchical (attic) prineiple. Tim Kit% reserves the tight bf effsetlug farther &ups in the State Constitution. SPAIN. 14DRID. u 4 The Ocean yesterday voted the seventh Minh the Ooestitation. The iinglish government of the mead of Lard Hooden i■ the • Seville. The appearance of t CarliStiend pelvises d Avila is considered es UNITED STATES. . • OF rim AFRICA. • LIVERPOOL. Al TZONaikse_ &gal ti.ai St ship CI 44' ,111 L - 1011.1rad in the Ifersql= =.1110101111,144/11/ aa4.* ct - ..N:. 41 • 1.1; ;$ . • "11111"WAttillit**1011/40:01 N11 . 141••• . ' on the 11th; and has brought, beside; tie sail, 188 pasmagsrs, nearly 900,000 gases and ill. in, specie on freight. The Royal Mail Stoat* Ask, fraut on the 28th ult., arrivatat ton on ths 9th inst. The news is ne4 'imperial& .„ On 'tbs. tilt 4,080 European emigrants arrived at New York. The prosecution instituted spinet Colonel Kenney has been abandoned. The Havana advioes, dated May 1, are not im portant. The 11th inst. was observed as a day of humiliation in Nova Scotia on account of the;war. Its New York money market is reported as more active ; a good demand, and abundant supply of first class pap& at 8 to 7 per cent. Stocks dull and lower. The cotton market was steady, with an upward tendency, i• The market for breadstuff' was advancing. Flour was 12 per cent. higher, wheat war firm, and Indian eorn buoyant. The provision mast was improving, and holders expecting higher price". Freights unchanged and nothing doing. F.:change on London, 110 to 1101. Pr' AUSTRALIA. ARRIVAL OF THE JAMES BAINES. (ay smonwric TILIOSAPIO LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. Thil morning the James Baines, Capt. *Donnell, belonging to Messrs. Baines and Co.', Black Ball Line of Australian packets, arrived in the Mersey from Melbourne, with advice. to the 11th March. She has brought 360 inswingers, and 40,000 ounces of gold on freight. At the departure of the packet neither the Light ning nor the Red Jacket had arrived out. The Prince Arthur, Sylvia, California, Sebastian Cabot, and Macduff, from Liverpool; the Ida, New Great Britain, Echo, Neanden, Douglass, Francis Ridley, Ivanhoe, Williams, and Caldera, from London, were at Melbourne. New gold mines have been discovered, and the commercial affairs of the colony have improved. Gold at Melbourne had advanced in price 3d. per ounce. The following telegraphic despatched; have alio been received by the Times : M The Monitor publishes a letter from Genenl Can robert to the Minister of War, which ear,— " 'HEADQUARTERS, MAY 8. o' Monsieur le Merinal.—My letter of the 4th men tioned oar brilliant combats of the let and 2nd of May. All the attempts of the enemy to retake the work taken by our soldiers, either by assaults or by a very heavy cannoaade, which rendered it very difilealt to hold, have been Insides.. We have re mained masters of this position, which now forms a vast plaice d'ariws, the parapets of which are henceforth cannon proof. The losses which we soffm at present an far lees erosible ; they are occasioned only by the hollow projeo tiles which the besieged throw in in considerable umbers.' " THB BALTIC. "BERLIN, BIINDAT, MAT 20. " Revel has bees carefally reconnoitered, and will shortly be bombarded. " The Magicians' has already thrown some shells into the outworks. " Admiral Druids@ has mocaaoitrod lismalscog." SWEDEN FOR AN ALLY. The breaking up of the ice in the Baltic is almost as interesting this year in regard to Sweden as it was last year in regard to Russia. The time is come for Sweden to decide between neutrality and action ; and the conditions of the cue afford matter of speculation to others than Swedes and Norwegians. There are a few facts made known already which may guide speculation, if not authorise an expectation. Our Government has delivered decisive proposals to the Scandinavian Powers. It is ut.derstood that answers were declined while the Vienna new>. dation. were proceeding. Those negotiations being elated, the proposals are renewed; and the decision cannot be long deferred. While it is under conside• ration, the Czsx gives permission to the Finlanders to export grain to Sweden. The permission is merely an empty form of grace ; for our vowels are at the edge of the ice as it breaks up, and tee merchant ship can cross the Gulf without our leave. This does not matter to Sweden, as it did a dozen years ago, when Stockholm itself was more than half fed oy Finnish products. With the fortified Aland Isles almost witbin view, and the capital dependent on Finland for sufficient food, there could have been formerly little choice for a Swedish Bing in such a crisis as the present. Now, however, not only is Bomarsund blown up, and the sea left open and made safe for Sweden, bat Sweden exports grain, and has an understanding with Hamburg which makes bar sufficiently independent of Finland to be able to make up her mind at leisure and with quiet nerves. The introduction of the potato also has, owing to the =climate of Sweden, conferred on her, in a con dign*, the blessing indepen awe. . Sims can, in ordinary years, export grain ; and when she wants to import, there are Hamburg —.la ready to supply her needs. Next, owing to the blockade, there is, practically spiking, .no eaenanication between Sweden and Mimi The mails have to travel Ipoo miles by land instal of 100 by as. This makes the Swedes depettsliat . rear fleet for news, since, a certain date. Thi lab* news before that date affords mime mate rial fora judgment on the great decision now to be made. The Archduke CONSTANT= is believed to be burning fee &anal coofliet with the foie of Ross* and to intend niedting some of our ships, if he can manage it without bringing ' do*n the whole Seel upon him. ,Whether this is true or not, the Swedes holism it; and they are well aware bow competent they are to meet the Ragas at sea. We, for oar part, make no secret to the Swedes of as desire for the aid of their gunboats. Ail along *sir coasts there is now a stir which looks well for our 'Wanes. Except the few Rusiian crews which are usually abroad on the oceans of the globe, the seamen of that:ado* are of very poor quality. They are rarely aim seen on the water, except dariog the three or four fine months of the year ; and then they , go far from their freshwater ports. The seta* of Sweden are either at sea or on their little tout farms, where they live like the mediate land force, the Indelts, soldiery, of Sweden. If they are called away,. at any critical season their families are supplied with hones and land, and with needful assists:toe for their crops. They are at sea for a few mouths ^ evert your ea regular envies, and a good deal laretate' their own socowit. There is no need to say th 4 ifie l Swedish seamen bear a high character for elltilhej., They are now astir all along tin, coast, aoci,iii - liope of being celled oat to action spinal Ramis. The Ni M, thing is happening ,lon the land—the Government having ordered the Militia oat, la pre. 1: paratia for some grand Move. ' 're Sweden, 'a' pan nier meaning attaches to such an order. iti tional forces there are of three hinds. Bette the line and the militia there, 4 interposed the raj Aa r 1 farce,' instituted by. Gurneys Anciumps (891,4, GO day +dug honour tq Its Mande), ,f the Iddslit ...4 4 n • • . Th e flerediali Glassine? js esssatiall n= Mays. sad the iiniversai remark of . obeervas Alit `• IddelthasidieryAhth horse and foot ape 1113 EXPRESS, MONDAY ,EVENING, MAY 21, 1555. in appearance and training is the **est troops 'vf the lAA, on fi g . !Gish eel' pietas thin* ;osadirion of striae to 'rollicked far curtain meanie '4ll# 1 0 q Yftro t aad imarlfenciek ibetage kept eglilfantly drilled in their qwa parishes, and consider tlisanielvei to 'belong to the military and not the department of society. Bach a force as this sets at liberty, completely and at any moment, the entire body of troops of the line. As Sweden hie 1 se hwelp sardines to provide for, and possesses at ' r hos, to a large militia, a force superior weds, she can furnish a most respectable oontri imam to the armies of her Allies. Whether the present calling out of her militia, and stir among the indelta force, may indicate an approaching alliance with England, France, Sardinia, and Turkey, or a mere preparation for an armed neutrality, will soon become known. It does net seem possible that the decision should be deferred for another year. Even if the Allies were not pressing for an answer, there are some determining evidences which would seem to be powerful enough. Sweden owes to the Allies her release from that peat lion in her path—the Russian possession of the Aland fortifications. No single boos that any friendly power could bestow on her could be so great as this. Her wisest course would seem to be to help us with her gunboats and seamen and troops, to blow up the other fortifications which menace her. Ringo is in rains; and that is our doing too—though the Rus sians laid and fired the train. All last year, we kept '.the Baltic clear, and Sweden free from alarms; and now, it mess reasonable that she should help as to abolish the causes of her alarms. Whatever may be the allimate destiny of Finland, it cannot be worse he amiss than it is now ; and the seizure or derweetha of the Russian fortifications there must be a peeps= relief to the opposite coast. As to the question—how the Allies stand in Swedish estimation, after the first year of war — that may be pretty well made out by those not in their counsels. It was reasonable enough for the Scandinavian Powers to refuse to decide while the Viewa negotiations were proceeding, because it is really, for them, a prime element in the question — what Prussia will do—to say nothing of the rest of Germany. While Prussia holds a long line of Baltic coast, with ports whence she can smuggle assist ance into Russia, the holders of the rest of the Baltic waste could hardly be expected to make up their minds, and propose their terms. They now see, like the rest of the world, what the alliance or neutrality of the German Powers is worth ; and they will gain no new lights by delay. The German is the most unmanageable element involved in the question ; for, to Sweden, Russia cannot at this moment be a very formidable antago nist. The engineers who should be building steam ers, or converting sailing vessels into screw-ships, have come away from Russia; and the coals which should make her steam cannot get there. The Allies are is the Baltic and White Sea; and there they mess to stay till Russia is humbled ; and they would artainly be by far the more formidable enemy, if Sweden had to choose between them and Ruud*. England and France sincerely disclaim all intention of increasing their territory by this war; bat that is no reason why Sweden should not use the opportn city to recover some of the valuable provinces of which she was deprived by Russian aggression. To us it appears that the balance of advantage to be gained by joining the Allies must be irresistible to all rational-minded Swedes; and we believe that rational-minded Swedes are of that opinion. We are entitled to require something better than an armed neutrality, after what we have done in the Baltic for the advantage of Sweden; and we trust that the true impulse of the national heart will have its way, and that such aid may be afforded out of the local and peculiar resources of the Scandinavian peninsula, as may enable the Allies to achieve whatever more is wanted for the full and luting security and inde pendence of thus important kingdoms.—Daily News. RAILWAY AND STEAM COMMUNICATION WITH HINDOSTAN AND THE EAST. =ittlebraeoh at Botha, about thirty miles below h in good as finished. ' There esmains, therefore, beyond this, to cannot tießed with the Meditermemme, that part only Red the Desert from Cairo to Sues, and t mils* in length. On this there would he an traffic, as the country is a perfect waste and without a dwelling, with the exception of tht: tun& stations, the tel uph towers, and a few el-the g Bedouins. It must fe AIM worked in conjunction via thio saw of the line which traverses %belted& plains of the Delta, and which will convey I. the May pert of Egypt the abundant harvests of h tteat. the emir senatry, together with the gams, ivory, and ~Oakes of the far interior, which, either l by MIMS se caravans, or by desponding the Nile for many kmadhad miles, are brought by the Gellabs, the slave mmehants of Dufour, Kordofan, and Khartoom, to Cairo, the city to which merchants and travellers resort from all the corners of the East. Passing as it doss (the Cairo and Suez part) through a wilderness, there will be no outlay necessary to meet land, law, and parliamentary_expensee. those plenteous sources of disbursement on English railways. The country is favourable for the construction of a railway. The summit level of about nine hundred feet would afford tolerably easy gradients. A con siderable portion of the excavation would cost but about one third of what it does at home. Good ballast, which often, as in Bengal, has to be artifi eially made, and is extremely expensive, is to be found here in any quantity all along the road. Not a single over-bridge would be required when clear of Cairo ; neither would stations on level cross ings be nuessery, with their attendant permanent expenses of station-maters and gate-keepers. The line, once made, would require very small repair. Its first cost would probably not exceed 8,0001. per mile, or about one-sixth of that of the principal English railways. As regards the often debated point of the obstruction likely to be caused to the working of the traffic by the drifting of the Desert sande, it is a popular delusion only. The Desert is composed of rock, gravel, and mend—indeed it has much the aspect of an immense gravel pit. Thesand, however, is too heavy to drift, and the tracks of gazelles, hymen, and other wild animals, remain unobliterated for days together, even when a steady north breeze sets in every evening. In addition to this, the lightest particles of sand are carried down into the lower grounds, hollows, and dells, where the railway would be in embankment, and could not, therefore, be affected by it. The only extra expense attending its construction would arise from the necessity of bringing the labourers from a distance, and providing them with provisions and water. As for material., none beyond rails and chairs would be necessary. Timber sleepers would not be required, °reeve's patent metal chair and sleeper having proved most efficient in Egypt where used by Ro bert Stephenson. Fencing also will be uncalled for. The works, in short, would consist of cuttings end embankments with • few culvert openings to carry off the winter showers, together with the per manent way. In working the line the coke would prove expensive, as it would have to come at first from England ; the engines also would require an extra tank supply of water, as noue could be pro- I cured on the road ; and the wages of engine -drivers, &c., would be high—viz., from 151. to 161. per month. Theme would be among the principal causes of extra expenditure. M. Letups, the French consul, has spin pro jected the old design of a canal across the Isthmus ; but there are insurmountable difficulties to the pro- Bubb, execution of it. In the first place, if meads, it would be unapproachable. No vessel of heavy ton nage can anchor within half a mile of Suez, or within four or five miles of the Mediterranean shore at Pelusium. To make a harbour on the latter data germs and reef-studded coast would involve aa 1 enormous outlay. At present no harbour exists nearer than Alexandria, which is some 200 miles distant. In addition to this, another and even more formid able obstacle exists. Northerly winds prevail in the Gulf of Suez and upper part of the Red Sea, from April till October. It was, perhaps, owing to this that Ptolemy relinquished his idea of forming a canal, end built Berenice six degrees to the south of Suez, establishing an overland route of nearly 250 miles from it to Coptos, near Thebes and Kenneh, on the Nile. These winds would oppose, in this dangerous sea, great delays to its navigation by sailing vessels; neither could steam tugs overcome the difficulty. The best line for the canal would be, not that proposed by Mr. Leseeps, across to Pelusium, but to turn off to the Westward after passing the Salt Marsh, half way to the latter, where there are the vestiges of an ancient canal, or rather what is supposed to have been such, and then crossing the Nile about Mit Ghamir, ran thence to Alexandria. But a great objection to it would be the tendency to silt up, from the alluvial deposits of the river, which already nearly choke and render impassable the Mahmed seyeh, constructed by Mohammed Ali. At present the number of vessels belonging to the port of Suez does not exceed 100 in number, averaging from 20 to 240 tons each. They will, however, probably increase, as some absurd regulations affecting the port have been abro gated by the present Viceroy. The trade consists of about 24,000 bags of coffee, 20,000 of gum arabic, 8,000 of Benne leaf, and of tamarinds, mother-of pearl shells, and spices. The interests of England, the East India Company, and the Peninsula and Oriental Company, are all concerned in reducing the passage through Egypt to the least possible amount of time. It now occupies about three days,and with the detention off Alexandria from the harbour not being buoyed out, and no pilot coming off after sunset, often half a day more. It might be brought down to a few hours. Why do not the Peninsular and Oriental Company take op the railway? If they did, until the day arrives that we have one connecting Calcutta with Constantinople by way of Persia and Turkey, they might defy competi tion from Brunet's and Scott Russell's giant steamers round the Cape, or in any other manner. They should render the transit through Egypt, so trying to inva lids, and the only weak point in their route, worthy of the reputation which their generally good arrange 'Mute, handsome vessels, and liberal accommodation, have procured for them throughout the Eut. It is dread of the fatigue of the desert vans, and the dis comfort of the Nile steamers, and Suez and Alexan drian hotels, which sends so many invalids, and pm angers having young children, round the Cape. , The development of traffic from the But, opus. quest on railway and steam communication with Hinduism, and the immense system of railways now coustructing there, who can estimate? And what impedes our way to the complete establishment of impedes Not a mountaisous barrier, whose snowy peaks, lifting their bright' heads above the clouds even into the regions of enbriken silence, serenely look down defiance on puny man—not hostile nations, and fierce treacherous tribes—but a little neck of land, com paratively level, only 84 mites scram, where there will be neither tunnel nor viaduct—a friendly go vernment and • docile people. Let us seize the hour, and bring near us a territory extending over above 1,600,000 square miles, and with a population of unknown millions. G. S. J. JESSE: The Same, East Indian Railway. The Carmarthen lostriesl sanciances the death of Dr. John Bowen, for many years a magistrate tor that meaty and borough, and also a town councillor. The family of deemed, it it stated, has resided in the county for veral centuries, he Wag Weed' in dement from Sir Blerinadulth Lloyd, of Llawr-rdlais, the of the judges of the Breton circuit, and the last male eepreeentative of the Bowies of Gamy, with whim in that county the name has aspired. The bop* 4 the ample fortune of deceased is de vieed to his aeivr, Daniel Lloyd Jour, Bsq (cousin to David Jones, Bog., of Pantiles, M.P. for the county), a gutless= now in Aestralia. 1:1188E-H01BBRO. — A letter from Berlin states that the proposition made by hearth to the MM to supprime ell the gaming houses at tau different baths in Germany, o e win einerableebaaN et hiking adopted by the Diet. A letter from Mites states that two shocks of an oaribqeske were kb Si UM town on the 14th, at half past tan at night, the emmed being the stronger ens. The *me shooks were fait in ether plasm in the south, and parties hely at Arleta. No thump wen uprisen dam. A decree in the Monifewr suppreenta the =pat duty ea common and reeked salt. Tug RAILWAY flu GZIOA to Lake Maggiore will completed toward. the end el Jane, by the °pewee et the wawa from Ohl{. to Anse. ileum will that seemaisisate dismay . with Bwitsaisad sad Osman). TO TIM IDITOB 011111 DAILY NMI. Sia,—The time, long delayed, has now arrived when the Egyptian Railway from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea can and should be carried through. No single engineering work in the globe will tend so much as this enterprise to tie together the ends of the earth, to connect the western and eastern worlds, to advance civilisation, or to bind and strengthen our mapifioent and still spreading Indian empire, on wlikh the watchful Northern Bear has so long mused to set his ravenous paw. Numerous important circumstances, and which may •never again occur, combine favourably at the present moment to facilitate this undertaking. It behoves England to seize the opportunity—the tide in the affairs of men, and which is now at flood. The late Viceroy of Egypt, Abbas Paoha, was a man half sensualist, half b*ot—e, Turk who, die. liking Europeans, and opposed to European improve. meats, was also averse to business, and sunk in foul and loathsome vice. In the latter, and in building palaces, he expended much of the revenues of the country. The railway to Cairo was forced upon him by the ability and influence of our present ambassador to Persia. But it has never been prosecuted with vigour ; delays, evasions, absence of materials. annoy ances to the executive engineers, have marked its slow progress as it has dragged its tedious length along. ?den engaged in directing its construction were sent from divan to divan, and pillar to post, till they became sometimes worn out and disgusted. The materials supplied were often bad, and the governmen‘to -all appearance, would have oared little had the whole of the works crumbled into dust as soon as completed. So far M it is finished, it has, hotiniVei, 'been well and soundly executed; but the merit at this is not dns to theists Viceroy. The present ruler of Rapt, Said Mohammed Pasha, is a contrast to hie predeomem. Enlightened and liberal, educated in Europe, and partial to Euro peans, he is well, aware that advantage lies in giving every facility to the passage of merchandise and passengers through his territory, and in endea vouring to make Egypt what it has, in the days of the Greeks and the Venetians, more than once been, that is, the main artery through which the riches and commerce of the East flowed to Europe. The city of the Macedonian will yet spin see a return of some of, its ancient grandeur, can this be brought about. With the railway to Suez, and efficiently worked — with large and powerful screw steamers on each side Of the Isthmus, and a line of railway from Bombay, by tise Nerbudda Valley to Calcutta by way of Mirsapore, the time occupied in the passage from London to Calcutta might be reduced to three weeks, or one half of the time at meson occupied by the journey. Frame, now united with England, and with that cordiality and sincerity vouch only the valiant can feel, and are capable of, wfli expeneme no jealousy at the'proepect of our ob . tidying readier access to our eastern possessions. The frankness of the alliance of our gallant neighbours with their once hereditary and ancient enemy, but now firm friend, reflects more glory on them than the most renowned victory they ever carried away.) They will rather maim- us in obtaining what will interfere so much with the designs of the Automat. Bail Pooh', unable, from the deep drain made on thd researces of his dominions by the Sultan, in con- Inseam of the present war, to nuke the milwaY himself, has expressed his willingness to grant a concession of the fins to any company or individuals will guarantee its exectitioa within a certain period, between the two ems. That 'per sica of the toed extending Rom Aleituithis to the Emmy Jot the Digs, a (hennas of between minty and erv a mi n t el ; *Lek kok*D,Pwalliated PA • eoptineally Revelled epee abaft much twelvetoosth last • The. reeinioder, with the rneepdon of the iron bekke ever the gbe Court. THE BIRTH-DAY DRAWING-ROOM. The Quiegft held a drawing-room in celebration of her Majesty's lath day, ea Saturday a ft ernoon, is St. James's Pekoe. The court was attended by about sixteen hundred ladles sad gi attunes. Her Majesty and Primes Albert, with the Princess arrived from &raises= Palau, attended by the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, and escorted by • detachment of the Life Gaud., soon after two o'clock. The great ornate of state received the Queen sad the Pluses, and attended her Majesty to the royal closet. The Dushus of Cambridge, the Hereditary Otani pashas of Mecklenburg Stuffitz, the Primus Mary, and the Duke of Cambridge, were present, and were received by the Vita- Chamberlain. The Princess of Hohenlobs Langenburg, the Princess Adelaide of Hobenlohe, and the Prince Ernest of Leinin gee, were present. The Maharajah Daleep Singh attended, and was received in the royal clout. The Lord Chancellor arrived in state at 2 o'clock, wear ing his gold robe, and attended by his Sergeant-avenue, and the Purse and Train Bearers. The other equity judges Present, viz , the Muter of the Rolls, Vice-Chancellor Kindersley, sad Vice-Chancellor Page Wood, also appeared in their gold robes. The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons arrived in state wearing his gold robe, and attended by Lord Charles Russell, Sergeant•at-Arms; Rev. Thomas ffiernier, Chaplain • and Mr. Lefroy, Secretary. The day was o bserved as a collar day. The Marquis of Lansdowne, the Marquis of Exeter, the Earl of Aberdeen, and Earl Spencer, wore the Garter and the Collar and Star el that most noble order. The Earl of Aberdeen also wets Ye Collar of the Thistle. The Duke of Athol', the Marquis of Breadalbans, the I Earl of Elgin, and Lord Panmure wore the Color and Star of the most ancient Order of the Thistle. The Earl of Listowel, and other Knights, wore the Collar and Star of the Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick. Viscount Palmentos, Viscount Harding., Viseount Com. I bermere, Viscount Gough, Sir George Grey, Sir John Bar. goyne, and a number of other Knights Grand Cross wore the Collar and Star of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. Viscount Falkland and Lord Adolphus Fitzelarence wore the Collar and Star of the Hanoverian Guelphic Order. M. Vat as Weyer, the Minister of Belgium, and the Count de Lavradio, the Minister of Portugal, wore the Collars of Foreign Orders of Knighthood. L rd Campbell, the Lord Cnief Justice of England, wore his Official Gold Collar of S S. The ministers and gentlemen in office wore the full dress official costume, and all the officers of the Household of tte Queen and the Prince appeared in the full dress household uniform. Her Majesty's Guard of the Hon. Corps of Gentlemen-at. Arms was on duty in the state ea cons, under the command of the Lieutenant. Lieut. Colonels Nevill and Cooke, the sukiofficen, were on duty with the corps, The Yeomen of the Guard were on duty under the com mand of Captain Sir John Kincaid, the Rion in Waiting. Soon after the Queen's arrival, the following Archbishops and Bishops were introduced to the royal closet, vie.: the Archbishops of Canterbury, York, Armagh, and Dublin ; the Bishops of London, Winchester, Oxford, Worcester, Chichester, Llandaff, Chester, St. Maim, Rip n, Lichfield, Numbest< r St. David., Bath and Wells, Gloucester and Bristol, Ro c hester , Sm and Mann, Tuam, Meath, and Kamm. His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury delivered an address of congratulation to her Majesty on the auspicious return of her birthday. After the reception of the Most Reverend and Right Re d Prelates, the Queen and the Prince entered the Throne roorn, accompanied by the Princes. It. pal, the Duchess of Cambridge, the Hereditary Grand Dachau of Mecklenburg Strelitz, the Princess Mary, and the Duke cf ' Cambridge, the Pileups of Hohenlohe Leogenburg, the Princess Adelaide of liohenlohe, sad Prince Ernest of Leiningan. The Duchess of Sutherland, Mistress of the Robes ; the Marquis of Breadalbane, Lord Chamberlain ; Earl Spencer, Lord Steward; the Duke of Wellington, Master of the Horse; Lord Ernest Bruce, Vice-Chamberlain; the Earl of Mulgrave, Treasurer of the Household; and Vueaunt Drumlanrig, Comptroller of the Household, took their usual stations near the Sovereign; and on either side of the Throne stood the following ladies and officers of the Royal Household, viz.: the Countess of Osinsborough on Waiting), the Duchess of Weliiugton, the Duchess of Atholl, the Marchioness of Ely, the Viscounters Canning cad Lady Churchill, Ladies .of the Bedchamber ; the lion. Eleanor Stanley (in Waiting), the Hon. Beatrice Byng On Waiting); the Hon. Matilda Paget, the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, Hon. Flora Macdonald, Hon. Mary Seymour, Hon. Mary Bulteel, and the lion. Lucy Kerr, Maids of Honour ; Lady Charlotte Copley, the lion. Mrs. Assoc, the Hon. Mrs. George Campbell, Lady Caroline Barrington, and Lady T. Digby, Women of the Bedchamber ; the Marquis of Abercorn. K G., Groom of the Stole to the Prince; Lord Camoys, Lord in Waiting ; Viscount Torrington, Lord is Waiting to his Royal High ness; Colonel the Hog. Charles Phipps, Keeper of her Ma jesty's Privy Puree ; Major. General the Hon. Charles Grey, Private Secretary to his Royal Highness ; Major.Genaral Berkeley Drummond, Groom in Waiting ; Major-Genus' Wylde Grom in Waiting to his Royal Highness ; Major- General Barkley, Equerry in Waiting; Captain Du Plat, Equerry in Waiting to his Royal Highness; Messrs. George C moron and Henry Farquharson, Pages of Honour in Waiting. The Qum wore a train of glace, noise and white ground lames argent, brocaded in bouquets of green leaves and gold and red berries, trimmed with bouquets of heartsease and red geranium, with silver blonde and white tulle. The petticoat was white satin and tulle, trimmed with bouquets of heartsease and red geranium, to correspond with the train. Her Majesty wore a diamond diadem and feathen. The Princess Royal wore • blue pun dress over rich glace silk of the same colour, with three Retinas, each terminating with • band of fold and edged with gold blonde. Her Royal Highness wore blue and gold riband and wheat ears at the back of her bead. The Dictum of Cambridge wore a white glack silk train, brocaued with gold trimmed with bunk:eine of tulle, and gold riband. The petticoat was white glace silk, trimmed with point lace and feather fringe. The stomacher will adorned with diamonds. The necklace was diamonds. Her Royal Highness wore • pearl tiara, ostrich feathers, and lace lappet. The Hereditary Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelits wore a train of white silk trimmed with whits Brussels lace, white satin nband, and bouquets of pink roses. The petticoat was whits silk covered with tulle, flounced with Brussels l.ce, looped up with pink roses and grapes ' each flounce being edged with white silk fringe. Her Royal Highness wore a diadem of diamonds and sapphires, lsoe lappets, and ostrich feathers. The Princess Mary if Cambridge wore a white poplin train embroidered with gold in palms, richly trimmed with gold blonde and bouquets of grape' and green and gold leases. The cortege was ornamented with emeralds sad diamonds. The petticoat was buffons of tube over rich glen silk, looped up with bunches , of grapes and green and gold crape leaves. Her Royal Highness wore a tiara • of diamond stars in front, ornaments of emeralds and dia monds at the side of the head, ostrich bathers, and hoe laymen: The Princess of Hobanlobe Langenburg wore a train of light blue and white brocaded silk. The petticoat was white saris trimmed with gold lace. Her Serene Highness wore white flowers and ostrich feathers in her hair The Primes/a Adelaide of Hohenloke wore a train of pink moire. The petticoat was white silk covered with tulle, looped up with bouquets of white flowers. Her Serene Highness wore ostrich feathers and a white lam veil pendant from the back of her head. The beige Ministers were ushered to the Throne-room, when the following presentations to her Majesty took plain Mike Diplomatic Obeli : By the Countess Clareudon—Mn. Wadsworth sad Miss Wader/or* (of the United States.) By Madame d'Osliolme—Conotess Reventlow Criminil, wife oleo Seeman of his Danish Mejesty's Legation. By the Minister from the United States—lion. Job R. Tyne, member in Cowen for the city of Philadelphia; James S. Wadsworth, Bag., a distinguished citizen of th United States. By the Franck Chargd d'Affaires—Prince Ladidas Curt.. ryski. The Earl Spencer, E.G., Lord Steward of her Majesty's Household, gave a State dinner on Saturday creel: g, at Spencer House, in celebration of her Majesty's birthday. The company consisted of the Earl of Motive,' and Vis count Drumlanrig. Treasurer and CoMptroller of the Household ; Captain Lord Frederick Gordon Hallyburton, It N. Lord George Quin Rear Admiral Lord Adolphus Firseisrenes, G.C.H., Lord Lvttelton ; the Hon. Spencer Lyttelton, Menhir of the Ceremonies : capt. the lion. Joseph D eaman, R N., Rear Admiral Sir Augustus Clif ford, Bart., Lieut.-General Sir Frederick Stria, K.C.B Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, R.N , H.C.B. ; Vice-Admiral Sty Thomas Cochrane, K C. 8., Commander in Clint at Portsmouth ; Gen. Sir R. Bowater, K C.H., Rear Admiral Sir W. Owen Pell; Capt. Sir T. Hastings, R N., Director. General; Sir John Liddell, RN. Vice. Admiral Jas. W. Deans Pandas, C. 8., Mai m-Genera Berkeley Drummond. Rear Admiral Fremantle, Rear Admiral Henry Beam Mar tin Captain Courtney Boyle, MN , Captain Frederick Beauchamp Seymour, RN , Lteat..Colonel Buidulpla, Captain Cavendish Boyle, Mr. Edwd. Stowell, Secretary to the Board of Green Cloth, and Mr. William Hampshire, Paymaster of her bisjesty's Household. The Marquis of Breadalbane, K.T.,' Lord Chamberlain, gave a grand banquet in honour of the Royal birtbdly, at hie tesideoos, in Park-lane.- The company consisted of the Vice-Chamberlain, Lord Foley, Earl Somers, Earl of La. towel', Lord Carson, Lord Waterpork, Lora Byron, Lord Dufferia, Mr. J. R. Ormsby Gore, Captain the Hon. Mor timer Seekeille West, Hon. Fred. Stag, Mr. C. lioneane, Colonel Sir John M: F. Snit', Sri William Martins, Mr. Thome* Rameden, Me. Henry W. din Von': My. Arthur Blaekerood,'Slr Noel Harris, Mr. Rear, Grivillk O.pt. Gram, Colonel Diggn, Mr. Alfred Montgomery, lit Wilbraham Taliiie, Lietreatint-Coloael a Stephens, Major I George iliewaro Tye*, Mr. Norman Macdonald, Colonel Wood (Field OBcer in Brigade Waiting), Sir Alexander Campbell, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Nimbi!, • of posegal, Sir George Bowles, Sir R denck idurchbies, Major-General Campbell, and the Itariltas Of Conynghena: Lord Faunae, Secretary of State for ebb War Depart meat, gm a State dialer at his resieleatb is Belgtute-‘ Irile, tie celebrate the day. The company wasated of the of Cambridge , Viemant Eardings, the Earl et Cardigan, Major General the Hon. J. Y0r1 — ,;7" . " . m ., General Sir Hew Roes, Lieutenant-G*Bml Sir J. - g; s ! goyim, Sir H. Tomas, General Yorke, Gauen' w". 4 General Prerith, General Kuala, Mr. Prederielt M.P.. Mr. Hawes, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, po w , lientsay, Major ?disown, Major-General Hems,'; Major Clifton, aide - decamp to the Duke of Camb r id ge. Sir George Grey, Secretary of State for the Hams 4 garment, gave a grand dinner at Grillon'a Hotel, b honour of the day, to the following, all of whom ap in full court or official dress :—The Lord Chiuicellor, Lb, Lord Chief Justice of England, the Right Hon. the 13p ti k at the Master of the Rolls, the Lord Chief Baron, the y Chancellor Kindersley, the Vice-Chancellor Stou t , , k , Vice-Chancellor Wood, Mr. Justice Coleridge, Bin, Z demon, Me. Justice Ede, Baron Platt, Boron Marto,* Justice Crowder, the Lord Mayor, the Recorder, tim i g;. 4 , Hon. Dr. Lashington, the Right Hon. Sir Job a n"'D"' the Lord Advocate of Scotland, the Attorney.oshi e d Ireland, the Solicitor - General for Ireland, the Eight HZ ,T. M. Baines, the Right Hon. Sir Benjamin He But. I Sheriff Sir H. Muggeridge, Sheriff Sir C. D. c ry i el it,. James Duke, Bart., M.P,. Mr. Manama, M.P., m u i Waddington, the Hon. W. F. Cowper, and Mr. Bober Ellice. The Chancellor of the Bache9ner gave a State Subt l e at his official residence, in Downing.street. The compe l , consisted of Viscount Mooch, Viscount Duncan, R et. bt; Brand, the Right Hon. W. G. Hater, Sir C. S. Trevelyy, the Right Hon. Sir W. Moleswortb, the Hon. J. Rb ith i , Lord Stanley of Alderley, Right Hon. C. P. Bourse* td, Earl of Harrowby, Viscount Canning, Mr. Rowland Hit: the Governor of the Bank of England, the Deputy Goyer bo , the Right Hon. Sir 1. Fremantle, Mr. DAWIO/1, Rrip m ton, Mr. C. Preasly, Mr. E. Romilly, the Master of tb, Mint, Sir A. Spearman, the Qeeen's Remembrance!, Later, Mr. R. C. Glyn, Lord Monteagle, Lora ()unix and Sir A. D. Gordon. Sir Cbules Wood, the First Lord of the Admiralty, a grand dinner to celebrate the day to the fallona g ... Admirals Sir C. Ogle, Sir Win. Gage, Lord Bandana, s : Win Parker, Sir S. Pym , Sir James Gordon, Via Mall Sir George Seymour, Rear Admirals Berkeley, 8 1 , G Peehell, Eden, Hamilton, Captains Richards, Tomah* Austin, Milne, Craigie, Shepherd, Washington, Colon, Bilis, Wesley, Lieut. Colonel Greene, Sir Robert Peel, k r Dundee, Mr. Bromley, Accountant-General, Mr. Gran Mr. Osborne, Mr. George Tierney, Mr. Hoban. c ou Shepherd (Trinity House), Mr. Airey, and Mr. Bering, Viscount Palmerston, the First Lord of the Twain gave a state banquet, at his residence in PlCCldilly, rumour of the royal birthday. The company manned d the Duke of Newcastle, the Marquises of Lansdowne, cat. Noires, and Westminster; the Earls of Aberdeen,Forteem Carnervon, Abingdon, Cowper, Fitzhardiage, and Btu. ; Lords Portman, Netherton, Ashburton, Vivian, sad Sim Vans • S'r William Somerville. the Right lon. Sau l Herbert, the Right Hon W. E. Gladstone, Bilit; Edward Cardwell, Right Hon. Edward Ellice, Mt. June Wilson, Mr. Grantley Berkeley, Mr. Charles Clifford, la Mr. William Law. The Attorney-General, Sir A. E. Cockburn, vited the Queen's Counsel and the leading menben of th her to a state dinner, at the Albion, Aldengste-enc. Covers were laid for sixty, and the SAicitorsGsaerslps aided, in consequence of the indisposition of the Attmety. General. Among the company were :—Sir Fredric Toithiger, Q.C., M.P. ; W. J. Alexander, Q.C.; J.Atident Q C.; Biggs Andrews, QC. ' • H. R. Belisha/re, Q. Loftus Bland, Q.C.. M.P. ; H. Bliss, Q C.; W. H. Boni BM; ; James Campbell. Q.C. ; Montage Chambers, Q.O M.P.; W. Coulson, Q C.; R. D. Craig, Q C.; B. P Collier, Q C., M.P.; Mr. Serjeent Chappell, W. Clulum, Esq ; R Deasy, 24 P. ; W. Elmsley, Q.C. ;J. Nei ; J. P. Fearon, Esq. ; J. George, M.P.; W. B. Giro, Q.C.; J. Greenwood, Q.C.; W. R. Grove, Q.C.; I. Gurney, Q C. ; J. Gardiner, Esq ; R. Ingham, Q C.; ward James, Esq. • C. J. Knowles, Q.C. ; J. H. K•se,Q.o ; H. S. Keating, Q .C., M.P.; Mr. Berjeant Maslen, IL Matins, Q C., M.P. ; J. Mellor, (LC.; H. A. liathettar, Q C._; Mr. Serjeant Merewetber, Mr. Serjeast Harpt, R. Pashley, Esq. ; G. Pigott, Esq.; W. C. Rove, Q.C.; F. W. Slade Q.C.; Montague Smith, Q C.; V. Saint M.P.; Mr. gerjeant Shee, M.P.; J. G. Teed, Q.C.; I. Twain. Esq. ,_• J. H. Terrell, Esq. ; J. Walker, Q.C.; 8. Warren. UAL ; W. Whetely, Q C. ; C. H. Whiten:it, Q.C.; F. Whitmush, Q.C.; J. Wickens, Eq.; W. N. Welsby. The Archbishop of York received the following prelates at his annual dinner in celebration of her Majesty's birthday :—The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of Dublin, the Bishop of London, Bishop of Winchester, Bishop of Bath and Wells, Bishop of Chester, Bishop of Chichester, Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol, Bishop of Hereford, Bishop of Lichfield, Bishop of Lladsff, Bishop of Oxford, Bishop of Ripon, Bishop of Rochester. Bishop of St. Amish, Bishop of St. Davide, Bishop of %maw, Bishop of Soder and Mann, Bishop of Kiloton, Bishop of Meath, Bishop of Jamaica. Her Majesty's Guard of the Hon. Coors of Gentlemen it Arms had • foil dress dinner party, to celebrate he Majesty's birthday. The Queen's tradesmen dined together at Willis's room, to celebrate the day. The Lord Steward sent • pretend venison for the dinner. The Queen end Prince Albert, accompanied by the Pra. cess Alice, the Princess of Hoheniohe Lengenburg, Prove Adeleiae of Hohenlohe, and Prince Ernest of L.inicpa honoured the Royal Italian Opera with their presenc e Saturday 'meeting. The royal suite consisted of the Be Eleanor Stanley, Lord Camoys, Major-General Burin and Captain Du Plat. Yesterday her Majesty and the Prince, with the Prim of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Allred, the Prase Alice, the Princess of Hohenoohe Lengenbarg, tad Pan Ernest of Leiningen, attended divine service in the Prat Chapel in Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Very Be the Dean of Windsor officiated. The ladies and gentken of the Court, and the domestic hottech‘ld, also attended:a service. A Cabinet Council was held, and eat two honri the Foreign-office, Downing-street, on Satark afternoon, which was attended by Viscotint Palm eton,the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Mary of Lansdowne, the Duke of Argyll, Sir Gorr Grey, Earl of Clarendon, Lord John Russell, Lai Panmnre, the Chancellor of the Exchequer,.g Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Sark Sir William Molesworth, Viscount Canning, and tk Earl of Harrowby. A deputation of Middlesex Magistrates, melding 0! Messrs. Henry Bunlem, Henry Norris Kemsheed, Dead Ibbetson Thomson, John Savory Brooking, sod August. Robinson, bad an interview with Sir Wilson' Mole.wortt on Friday, at the Office of Works and ruble Buildings W hitekall-place. A deputation from the parish of St. Panne in teeter to tbs Metropolitan Budding. Bill, also had to isterri.v en Friday with the right hon. baronet. The &pinata consisted of Mr. Churchwarden Ferrer, Misers. Thetis. &keit, Hewlett, Goulding, and Marley, and Mr. G. W.F. Cook, solicitor and vestry clerk. PRESENTATIONS EXTRAORDINARY AT THE BIRTHDAY DRAWINO•ROON• The Marquis of Clanriearde, on hie return from de Handeotk and Delaeour trials. The Earl of Aberdeen, on his return from de Sebastopol Committee. THE BituArr.—We hope honourable member remember that Mr. H. Berkeley's motion lorler to bring in a bill for the adoption of the ballot PO be made to-morrow, Taesday evening. If them same good attendance of the pledged supporml` the ballot to-morrow evening as there wuoLi ,u ll second reading of the Church-rate Bill of the R om of that measure, there is every probability that*. Berkeley's motion will be carried. Ultimate nos would be hastened if the measure was introduced/J.. its details brought before parliament and the coal!' At any rate, we hope that not lees than 200 rnemblo will record their votes in favour of the motion. 1 1 ! amendment of Major Reed seems impolitic, and t r "" we trust, be withdrawn.—Daily News. Yesterday his Grace the Archbishop of CU bury preached at Bt. Michael's, Chester•squu t, several memhets of the government and a CTOlFtlea pupation, in aid of the Bospitel for Consorapt.ix f Brampton. The test was from St. Luke, chip. 1 ' Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth." B'l°' ship warmly urge d the peculiar claims of the cha rit y Vo, the sympathy of the benevolent. The collection suss* to 1061 Oa 10d. TaINITY TERM. To-morrow (Tuesday) Tritliti term commences. In the three common law courts Ole: irrigate arrears is 129 rules. In the Queen's Bad number is 61, eonsistrag of 4 roles in the new trial MO,' judgment, and 27 for argument. In the special PorM are 2 rules for judgment end 9 for argnmeat , enlarged rates. In the Common Pleas the number of In is 20, of which 8 are enlarged rules, 8 new trial 01. rules for the judgment of the court, and 2 demure , . f, the Court of Exchequer there are 68 rules, of witick n , in the peremptory paper, 4 in the special paper 10 I ; meet, and 18 for argument. Then is one new aid for judgment, and 30 fee argument. In the Excheqeiti'" rule "Boyle v. Wiseman,' for anew trial, stands fors? mast. /tow. COLLEGE OP SuoozoNs.—The follow gentlemen haying undergone the necessary examicatie!:: the diploma were admitted members of the college meeting of the wart examinees on the 18 Messrs. Sergeant John C oo p e r Norman, _We th e 7 1 , 11 Wee% ; Henry Watson, Loughborough , Lido mer Joshua Lambert Vardy, Stamford-street. Charles Richard Godfrey, Royal Navy; Wardle trrA IFilliam Bowen, Harrow ; William Frederick De= Amp ; Chutes W a t s on Hitching, Gravesend &septa Hodgson, Sasith, Yothshin ; Wharton PO! Luger Seymour -atreet, Portman-square ; sad Jaime sr— Turee Army. E s t 44 4t g bfi 11 a 71 insti tuted tsar ‘ (*lies 18, thl oi lle arial v t . e 3 .d . e S si y 8 L A 01146 . 567 00 2 s bolleac ;' patroZ Rey. H. J. Ile;tot• sgiu indi,