The Express. — London, England, 1855-05-22 00:00:00

while that of Frame sad Baciaa4 grevid be earreepeadlaily 'sassed. The woos fur the adjosnueesi of tM hems wee thee withdraws. TM seders of tM day wen thes mewed with. COAL MINIS INSPIICTIONB BILL. air O. GREY sieved the emead . reediwg of this bill, a of last slam PERSONAL ESTATES OF IN TIMMS BILL. Ibis Mil, as musaded, was oeseidered SAW to be read a third time on Friday seat. MILITIA BILL (Nit. 2). This bill, ea amended, was considered sad ordered to be read a third time co Pride,. ALTERATION IN PLEADINGS BILL. This bill was reed • third tiros sad paused. NATIONAL GALLERY (DUBLIN) BILL. • This hill was road a second time. EDUCATION OF PAUPER CHILDREN BILL. Oa the motion far eassideriag the amsadaeate in this 1 MIL Mr. B. DENISON wished to take the opportunity of maim a few observations. The home had bore pleased to mosive this assure with so mach favour that it was sat Do ossieuy for bin to (Her say argunmsta with regard to it. If it had say defects he was easwmbls ter them, bet be had ao right to dim any of its merits for himself, far they =to the Rev. Mr. Rim" Cease of Homiletic, who lint to suggest a mode of dseWsg with this deadtaie dm. The cl ddrea of all wow relief is work bosses did °Maio education, sad it weoesly this MAWR'S who remind relief out oldie weeklimesus, out of sit des..., who had no means of odasstism= aillire ahem. If from 100,000 to 111111,000 of those an likalabl wow r. mire some minced= the merit of the low am, be reprawd. was due to Mr. Rum. He moved that elm bill be rirecanssitted. Agsee4 to. AFFIRMATIONS (SCOTLAND BILL.) TM Looi osseinsate Na. oseoldwoolsol 4osi Iw ACT Of PARLIAMENT AMOIDUEIMBILL lir. L RIND obooboodl 10 mood bS, villa Ina nod • 1,4 time. The sees 0;414 se bevies been disposed of lb. bows ad *rood as 10 minutes before 8. whim! me founded on the report et • committee et Imo emiem, with a view to the preveatim et mektembe is mime Me vse aware that memo permit Imre tilmiteom et tom. siemlikm it Drtuto it Alit ism ommittee, mad be timid met Midi it kitmellt: Ri tee Ull W 7th et Jose. Tip bilymipeed a time. YIERBRIEt ( ISLANDII AND ,FRANCM) .IM.L. DISSENTERS' MARRIAGES IMLL. - Thla bill went %Womb committee pie eel etee ordered . .._ to be recommitted om the Iltb _.... _ . - Roe Vie expregig. yeti orisisiiii;:iii iiiirs7.l, Twang pow, imam et Oho ia. 01111% 14. Ilowoodootrost. by Two *Woe& as tie 14, al poilled ZION WATIIIi AT LONDON BRIDGB. I-sena& w 0i..... Attaricoa. fk. 17a. —lllisleg. 41c......A1term05, 7k. 7/k. LONDON, TUESDAY. MAY 22. LATEST FROM ABROAD. THE BALTIC FLEET. (IT (mom n■ Thu EMILY BMWS.) KIEL, MONDAY EVININO. The French fleet has jest left this port, under all its Maim. The Imp•rietue, which was damaged by a colli sion with the Tartar in the Gulf of Finland, arrived at this port yesterday, and will proceed to England kr repairs. 'fba Benoiste has arrived at Copenha gen. The Otter, gun-boat, has pat in at Cozhaven. TliE 81E0i OP BERLIN, MAY 21. The foil wing despatch, dated Bt. Petersburg, Sunday. hge been received here: " Prince Oortobakoff writes, that on the night be ewers the 121 h and 13th the Russians made two small aad successful sorties. " Up to the 14th nothing of insportanoe had co sseted on 04 her poioto of the Crimea."—Tines. The Bases to-day has a oarammication from Praha, dated Monday thermos, which we give, although its meaning does not seem very clear : "Yesterday a complete elucidation of tho views of Lauri' on the third point was forwarded to London sod Paris. " If the Government consented to lay the de 'patches in question on the table of the home the na tion would know what is MU expected from Austria." TO THE LEFT. News. LAST night Mr. OLansronz and Mr. Mumma Onus, who have for the last few days been col loquies at ill out-of-the-way times, and in all oat-of the-way corners, entered the Home of Cosmos, sleek by jowl, like the two Hinge of Branford moiling at one roes. No sooner bad they taken disk places than Mr. SIDNEY HUBERT inquired of Lard PALIIBUTON whether all hopes of peace between Russia and the Allies, through the inter wanes of Austria, were at an sad. The noble Peon= replied : By no meats. Thereupon up rose Mr. ()uncross, and adjured his right honourable friend Mr. MILNER GIBSON to post pone his motion, smarties that the terms pro pomaded by Renal at the Vienna Conferences for the settlement of the third point, ought to have bun accepted. This brought Mr. SIDNEY Hsiuia on Me legs again, to declare that if Mr. OIBSON pes iated in his motion he would move the previous quo- tios. The Right Honourable cc-Secretary at Weir was followed by Lord HARRY VANS, who had under taken to second the motion, and who urged his princi pal to yield to the appeals addreesed to him. Thin followed some further Ministerial declarations, to the offset that the motion, if persisted in at the time, would materially imbuement the negotiations elike are not in progress at Vienna. Mr. MILNER 011 SON was all oompliance. Mr. Buone did not qua quite wain what to think of the part taken in these interpellatione by his right ho userable Umbra. He would rather have the motion persevered in ; but be was in favour of any peopled ago that would ensure peace at any pries ; he would isniort Mr. Olsson if he went on with his motion, and would not object to that gentleman's withdraw leg it. So the motion was postponed till alter the %neon holidays—that is, ad &ram Nalendas. Mr. SIDNEY lIIRBEIT took We to intervene a pelmet that he wee entirely ignsunt of the emu the right honourable member la Monebesene INS likely to take in cossequence of She appeni Mk le Ids by Mr. OLansvotes. Of course, Mr. Gum. Mess had told Mr. SIDNEY RIRIE*? nothing of lie secret eonsmsninge with Mr. Mims' On. colleagies often And it convenient out to tell each other, in express words, what both know quite well. In like manner, Mr. Mi nis Omens is to be presumed to have been quite lakeewarned of the question to be put to Lord Paiteurox by Mr. SIDNEY Hamm, and the aPpeal to be made to himself by Mr. Gum/row& And W the three were in utter Iv:urines of what Lord Puommmon weeki my in reply to Mr. SIDNEY ELM. loft, OS the noble viscount was, on hie part, tabs Iquite by surprise by that gentleman's question. A more gross and transparent fares has never bees played off in the faro of a sonniving Hones of CON. MOD& The obvious thimble-6402g of the " POWs at-any-price• faction, of the Aben.lesnites, and Minis ters, was last night palpable to the dullest nadir staadiag. The Aberdeenitss sought to hash oat of the swaps, fearing the public indipatios that would be roused against they if they supported the dia -1 graceful motion of Mr. BRIGHT'S caudal appendage! Mr. Maims Clinsoir had so inclination to make himself a laughingstock by dividing without the support of the Aberdeenine ; and both parties had a pretty stung conviction that the wishes and inten tions of Ministers were in harmony with their own. We speak more in sorrow than in anger. It is clear that there is among our leading public men no holing foe the national honour, no power of compre hending the real interests of the nation. There is but one wish among them—to patch up a bungled and mismanaged war by a disgraceful pesos. This is a ter rib!e state of affairs ; for the people are indignant and alarmed, unaccustomed to sot for themselves, and basely deserted by all the leaders in whom they have been disposed to place confidence. The expedition to Kutch has returned to Balaklava without even attempting to land. The PAMIR tells us that he is open to receive further proposals from Russia through the tainted medium of Austria, though there is not an Englishman worthy of the name who doss not feel that concession on the part of the Allies has already been pushed beyond all reasonable bounds. And the House of Commons allows each a Rigadoon as was pertained before them —by three loudly profaning factions— the Har lequin, Clown, and Pantaloon of the spectacle —to be palmed off upon them as serious business. We do not believe the country will tole rate the disgraceful as dangerous winding up of the war which the three parties to last night's coa -1 spiracy' against its honour and interests contemplate: but we have ere now seen the English people obliged to take their business into their own hands when deserted by those to whom they had been accustomed to look up as their natural leaden ; and with the monster meetings throughout the manu facturing districts—to say nothing of the scenes enacted at Bristol and Clamber Cottle, vividly in our recollection—we honestly maths, that we view with anything bat pleneuraile anticipations the ine vitable repetition of such an experiment —Daily THE COMMAND OF THE FRENCH ARMY. THE Emperor of the Fames has given an other proof of his being is earnest in the war against Russia. The Moniteur of Friday contains the appointment of General Pzusava es Com mander.in•Chiet of the French faeces is the Crimea. It is said in the same official paper that Genital CAEIROBUT has resigned the poet be held on amount of ill-health. But se the following paragraph annonnoss him to have taken General Pausstica's place as Commander of a Division, the public are not boned to believe any more of the alleged meson than they like. As officer who is too unwell to remain at the head of as army can hardly be fit to main= on active service at all ; sad, therefore, it is not unnatural to conclude that General CANEOBERT hes received from his Imperial Mader a hint that he could no longer be at the head of the French army before Sebastopol, but that, being a brave man and a good soldier, he is unwilling to leave the seat of war so long as there is a thence of a shot being fired. Further than this it behoves as not to examine the cane of so important a change. With that courtesy for which their nation is so celebrated, the French have ab stained all along from commenting upon the menet d many English General officers, who, although too dek to remain in the Crimea, have been well enough kit ward months past to dine out at public dinners Wise and three times a week, and to take part in every festivity—public and private—to which they have been invited since their return to England. Sir Ds LACY Evans is an exception to this almost universal rale, and we wish he wee not the only one. Let me, therefore, follow the example est tie by our neighboste, and neither talk too mask am inquire too minutely as to the why and the whet,- fore a General officer belonging to the army of our allies has been placed in an inferior position to that which he previously tilled. Whatever may be the Eamon for the change, it cannot be said of General einnonzar that he has made his health an excuse for leaving the seat of war. In hie reply to Gessral CANBOBIZT, the Munoz congratulates Mm en his desire to remain with the army ("II eratfikaits du sentiment qui cons fait dassender do rake 1 Penn& 1, and names him not merely to the amend of a simple division, bet to that at the seer larastia which PELISSIOt hes been at the head el Mace Ms arrival from Algiers. The soldierlike sentiment d Goad CANZOBIZT is precisely that which k ind Gemini Bun to rise from a sick bed in wear lobs pima at Inkermana, although he &And nide; the emend of his division oat ci Major- Omni Penniman% hands. Would that we man record a few more similar butanes of devoted ness.* their profession on the part of English 0~111 am. sham the war began. Bellosa, if ever, has any appointment in Freacn given greater satisfaction than that of General I Pews= to the chief controand in the Crimea. Our neighbours are in polities far more bitter mean than &Widnes. Nor is this to be wandered at. The injuries whisk one or other party ham at times inflicted upon its opponents are too merino to be away forgotten. This is the reason that, except amend his own adherents, no nomination of the Iterzione—and it was exactly the same in the days both of Louis Pamirs and CliA2llB THE TIIITH—is ever spoken well of. Bet this rale doss not apply to the promotion of Gametal PILIMIKR to the chief command of the French forces in the Crimes. Both on Friday and Saturday last this appointment was freely canvassed in Paris, and in all nobs of society, from the speculators on the Bonne to the Legitimist drawing-rooms in the Faubourg St. Germain, it was a matter of eangesta laden unapt all men, as affixing an additional chance that the war would be brought to a speedy and hismoorelge termination. Nor should the fact be overlooked, that General Pumps= tea by no means be called one of the Emmen', own new tares. He is, and always baa been, a declared re• publican in polities, although his long abuses hem France has happily prevented his being mixed ap with react changes. The General wont to Algiers in 1830, soon after entering the army, and with the empties of three years, during which he wee WNW as a Major to the Paris divisitm of the army, he sever left Africa until Wend to the Crimea a inert time ago. He wee a pupil of General BveuuD'a in military matters, cad few men of his age for he is under fifty —now living have seen the great quantity of active , service which it has fallen to his lot to vitamin. Not oaly is parietal courage and bravery hos PILIOSIIR 1 distiagaishrd himself, but he is also a moist& ogles 1 of gnat mown, having duly qualified himself for, sad served on, the staff of the Amen way for salty pars. A great eatery was made agaiast his in Europe ems tine ago, for having &Amid by packs THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1856. L a number of Bedouin Arabs who had taken refuge in a I cave. As is bat too often the ease is similar histaness, • the fasts were at the time greatly mierepressoted, if not wholly distorted. Paussisit bad positive orders from his superiors either to kill or take prisoners certain chiefs who had committed many warden and other ' atrocities within the French settlements:. These Arabs took refuge in a ogee, in which they also placed their families, having previously supplied themselves with provisions to stand a regular siege. The General had not supplies *cough with him to feed his men more than one day, and none being procurable in the neighbourhood, he was obliged to move off the day after he arrived at the place. He could not leave the Arabs in the position in which he found them, for his doing so would have left his force open to attacks in the rear whilst he was retracing his steps. Under these circumstances he deemed it best to summon the Bedouins to surrender, and this he thought could be only done quickly by smoking them out. Not only had be no intention whatever of destroying the men, but he had no notion that either women or children were prevent with the warriors of the tribe. Instead of surrendering, the Arabs, contrary to PELIMER'S expectation, re mained in the cave, and, with the determination so often witnessed in Mossulmase, preferred dying where they were to the pretty certain chance of being con demned by the French courts far the atrocities they had committed. It cannot, perhaps, be said that the General was altogether blameless in the matter, although the true version of the affair is very different from that given out in England some years ago. This le the only out, of rarrssis t es whisk sea in any way be cavilled at : and when we laglisitassa remember some similar sots whicii GO Otero necessity of war with a savage enemy has seassiooally obliged our commanders in India to com mit, we should neither wonder at nor too vehemently denounce what, on a solitary occasion, took place in Northern Africa. Those who know PELIBBIIII best describe him as anything bat a cruel or a hard hearted man; and by every French soldier—whatever his rank may be—who has served in Algeria, he is looked upon as the very bes• practical Giber holding a superior commission in the Imperial Army. Again we say that the selection of General PELIESILE for this command does the Munoz vast credit. Had his kiciaesv been a pupil of the school which always looks out among its own friends, relations, or fol lowers for men to fill every post of importance. NAPOLEON would have made another choirs. It is of no use disguising the fact that of officers who have "seen him through" a vast deal of trouble, there are very many both in France and with the Crimean army. CANZOBENT was one of these, but—and with respect be it spoken, for CANILOBLET is a brave man,althoogh unsuited to the post he has held some time—the General's want of success was enough to disqualify him for the chief command. Nor should his be a solitary case. Want of success, although the Gene ral himself may not be in fault, must—or at any rate ought to—be atoned for by the removal of the Com mander who has been unfortunate. It would be a good thing for England if our public men could be taught this lesson. The Emperor of the Faexca hoe now given a fresh proof of his earnestness in the prosecution of the war ; could he not import a portion of his public energy to his friend Lord PAL feaserox P—Doily Nem. argument, it reproduces thh deers% dual Jane 22, NUL That horse recites that the progress of industry is timely emenected with that et the Mae arts, that le all former exhibitions' weeks of art have not been admitted is a sufficient I=47aid that It was the especial province of es hoos industry owed so such to the line site, to tasiga to them in the Universal Exhibition the promisees* they deserved. The Petrie contends that it is evident from the spirit of the decree that the flee arta and the Industrial Exhibition, although Iran regremble neseseity they are in different build kap, were intended to form parts of one whole ; and yet, by the present arrangements, the very persona who win especially convoked by the Emperor to profit by the soogress of universal art, cannot freely enter the Museum in the Avenue Montaigne. It yip mass a coalkisat hope that the Imperial Com iateribrs to prevent the company from w itintionier u to tamart the manifest intentions of the et the Exhibition. reported, and I have reason to think correctly, dist General 'abs,net declines to accept the com mend of the awls (armee offered him by the Em peror. He abase to his original request—to be *wed to %hi at the head of a ample division. Yoniteur announces that the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour ham been conferred upon the General. THE WAR. DESPATCH FROM LORD RAGLAN. (Plok A SIOOMD to via " oAzsrts" OP FRIDAY.) WAR DBPARTURNT, MAT 21, 1856. Lord Penmen hut this day received a despatch and its enclosures, et which the fulleadajt ate wpm., addressed to his lordship by Field-Marshal the Lord Raglan, G.C.B. Before Sebastopol, May 8, 1855. My Lord,—The enemy assaulted our advanced parallel on the right attack on the night of the sth instant, and some actually got into the trench; but they were speedily driven out and repulsed with the utmost gallantry by the detachments occupying It, of the 30th and 49th Regiments, under Captain Wil. Bannon and Lieutenant Gubbins, of the former, and Lieutenant Rochfort, of the latter who, unfortu nately' was severely wounded ; ancll regret to have to add that several valuable non-commissioned officers and men were killed and wounded on the occasion. On the same night Captain Arnold,* of the 4th I Foot, was wounded and taken prisoner whilst post ling the advanced sentries on the left ' attack. The tome of the services of this officer is greatly to be lamented. Ide had done his duty unremittingly, and in the most spirited manner, throughout the opera tions of the mega. I hulloes the return of casualties to the Bth instant. I have beard that six ships, having on board Sar dinian troops, have arrived in the Bosphorus. I have, &a, RAGLAN. P.B. I have the satisfaction to examinee to you the arrival of the first detachment of the 12th Lancers. The Lord Penmen, &a, &a • bitelligesee du doom been received of tbe death of Ceptais Arnold. Retina at Crentiee fres the 4th to the 11l et Nay, lOU, beta dvlnd batten= Beginwet of Foot, 1 lei eel Si min; 4n root, 1 sine sides I 7th root, 3 reek awl 11b. wamend ; 14th Fos, 1 tank ,• 111th Peet Fiat, ad is ; lied Feet. sank 'we arlawlee ; Set linime, Inuit end wierie. 1 nell ewe wish* ; WA 1 eat and newilei 41tt Pak 1 mews% (rink wes wcWd ; 47th Feet, 1 wet mg is Mid; OS Fan, 3 reek el wel ilea killed. 1 raker, 13 rank awl Its wiewlee, 1 reseent, I rank and Its see * ; 67th Fees. 1 reek eel is weenie ; Wth Peet. 1 rank rand Its, Md. 1 nit and ; lei Feet, 3 rank and Ile ineweall Ind irtiia 1 rank Ile tire 1 ink nee elevennied. s 9 rank awl De Med ; I dear, il reek tad SA vetch ; 1 cam, 1 'wisest, 3 rook and Newine return of Awes who ban been weunded breathe 4th to the 6th May, 1053, Inshwiet.-49th Foot : Lieuteaue 0. &Wort. severely. Nominal wens et "diem wsking tram the 4th to the 6th May, insions—ent liesewst el list: Cepa& W. T. Arnold was takes primf owl le wienni to ban lees remise previously to dins ibis Mei retie emery. Nominal nears of nosccesseiwkwed alien eel private" killed tram 4th to 116 Nay, 11" treivene.-14th of Foot, Primer Plink Mee= sad Deem Walker loginteat Foot, Prie r ale4Milislema.-301 MIA= alb lapdst. busts sa t of Pa. Pala Parb.— ai; amilimot Psa li Vl W Trines Mire • al - Pabk Ommigloa— irelisat re Foot, Print, Mid M e at al Tan el sisammakal saes ad pines timid ream dis 41k to eth lars, lOU, irleive.-1316 tiapas Puma Law kiss!!; Aix. eeselyd W Jams Fellare, I Prime Jena slightly.-414 isglaa Pia Mold Po* soady; Polak Misseenty; Thom Waajea S W I s eratig i lla da rLi lag. of Pat. Pala lila issale. Moues Askew IliErat; Tams linosse.earavady Wawa Malan. 14 Peek Trine David Ilealeset el Peet, Privates lime law, MU."; Mien Brew; dapoona.— *Ma Psh i n gel ae an Day, erma.-110 R ea..- b raid st Ompuml Maas soma ,• Mao Poshea =l:Par !Nectar, Wain Jame, Paid* Dot ,Ala Jan Lab^ Sass Gormsb. oat Jai soma ; Dia IMAM Ma Naaals4l lll A nk Pima Maw TINIONZII m eebe met et Pest. Plante of NA !rheas David Neseneel li glip oe4warely. l - 14 -o " Betet. la Eft Pala. Mao Pare anal Mai of imaandadard rial tllues maa, Pea ia 111101 a WU, lahae.—ath ce Foot, Printe Patine Drivedl,-4116 laaat of Foot, Ilapont has Boling Prins Pettit! aural. RUSSIA AND GERMANY. We have received the text of the despatch of April 30, addressed by Cosot Nesselrod• to the Russian Ambassador at the Federal Diet of Germany. As it confirms the exactitude of the analysis of it given by telegraph in the Daily Noss list week we need only recall thatßussia presents her acceptance of the two Ant of the four points, 11111 II favour to Germany, which they are said chiefly to interest, and promises to hold to them " as long as the German courts main tain their position of strict neutrality.° The recent new combinations of Russian troops, and some newly created commands, have led to some changes in the designation of the several corps lamb, which it will be convenient to mention. The army under the command of Prises Paakiewitch will henceforward be called the army of the west, is that of Prince Gortehakodf is the army of the south. The troops of General Rudiger farm the army of the north, and a new corps, in course of formation at Rid and in Volhynia, will be called the army of the centre. Letters from Odessa state that the artificial of the dockyards at Nioalaieff are working early and late at the new ships for the Ruud= Els& Sea &At. Every vessel will have a Ilarl i Zrpellar. It is calculated at that the addition to the Russian army to be made under the lest ukase will consist of shoat 260,000 men. Twelve in a thousand is the ratio, and the area includes the most populous governments of the empire. HAY BUM MAT 20. Letters from Bt. Petersburg. et May 18, sammulpe I that Cronstadt is declared in a state of siege. No one can henceforth enter the *Awn without a special permiesion from the Governor. RUSSIAN /Axon. Lord Lansdowne said the other evening in the Roam of Tom, that the Rw Wan loss SLIM the commence ment of the war had hem f 47,000 mu- The following ate folk' dotal& Is 1M ler asth of Jemmy last • report was presented to the limpeser e Kaolin, meting the Soo a the I'M' at 187 , 000 ass, le eluding those who died ander the weetft7 Of the fen Int whet sad of sicksem A now report was presested to t►e Baggier Alezeader in April, Agog the total loss of the army to Mirth 31 at 250,000. la this tePeet urea Weless was laid to the offset of the warohos, end Noe ilieseefwas ins/floats wan pudealasisod. It wee stated that oa of.tire company had ;salami nadir the snows hotness Odom • end Perekop, and another hotness St. Potashes, rad the math. As satire battery had been lost ia the mine yammer, with the aes and hones. The guns were feud aßar the thaw, and are again is saa. RUMOURS. It is reported that M. Fent, dikter d'Ordontants of the Praia imperer, has aided gat to the Crimea a sew plan of °pasties', easseded betties* the Boturor and Marshal Vaffiaat, mid that it wu the Mobility of General Cantobat to witaisew is this plea that determined his resigsadon. It is said that a very elaborate audit teething the third point, gad the prodigal difikaltlea attaching to its adjust meat, has bees drawn up by Prince Goiteltakelf, and cam assisted t the members of the Visa= Coaferead. OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. (120 Y ♦ SPEZAL IN DAILY me.) CAMP ABOVE BEBAt3TOPOL, MAY 8. The chief topic of conversation in amp has been the sudden return, on the morning of the Bth, of the expedition, which, it was presumed, had left for the purpose of attacking llertch. It had been previously known that a telegraphic despatch was received at head-quarters and a message sent after the fleet, but its pneport wps not mentioned until the fleet itself divulged it by making its appearance off balaklava. Thees'are various explanations to account for this =change of plan, bat th e most commonly re is that the Emperor Napoleon has announced ids coming at no distant date, and had given orders that no work of magnitude should be undertaken before his arrival. Whether the story is correct or Dot will be better known at home before this reaches Ragland. There has been a general feeling of disappointment among all ranks engaged in the expedition at its recall before their work was even commenced. Moreover, the demon stration cannot but have an injurious effect as regards any future attempt in the same direction, foe enough has been done to put the enemy fully on the alert respecting our intentions. On Saturday evening, the sth instant, the Russian St. George's-day, and more noticed inithe Remise than even in the English calendar, a simultaneous attack was made on the advanced works on French. man's-hill. Both the branch trench on the right and the zigzag to the left were attacked, but the enemy did not succeed in gaining any advantage. The duties for the night in question were principally furnished by the regiments of the Second Divi sion, and a part of the 49th were holding , the pisitions attempted to be taken. On reasonof their proximity to the Russian works mad covering parties, no sentries are now &demised is this direction, and the watch is entrusted to pa rapet sentries. Judging from the accounts of the men in the works, the enemy must have crept up on " all fours,* taking advantage of the darkness pre aiding the rising of the moon. In this way the Resdaas contrived to get round one of the rifle pita which was taken from them a short time since, and the first intimation of the attack was a volley poured down into the pit and the trench connecting it with the main pan of the zigzag. These volleys were fired in Talk succession, the fire being evidently from diligent detachments of the attacking body. Wore the enemy had time to reload the men of the 4011 shed tubed on them with the bayonet, but the force of the mew wee so superior that they were compel led SD retire. The struggle commenced about half past 10 p.m., and lasted fifteen minutes. The alarm bad ea the first volley been given throughout the works, sad the reserves collected. That in the advanced week sieved forward toward the pit from which the 49th bad retired, and poured in a volley; but, on a nearer approach, the Russians, it was found, had re treated. On the right the enemy were met with a ernes fire, both from the branch trench, which leaves the advanced work nearly at right angles, and frOID the advanced work itself. They must have suffered severely, bat their loss is not known, as they were able to carry off their wounded. One Russian pri soner wps taken. The loss offered by the 49th was severe—namely, 4 men killed, with 1 officer and 15 men wounded. The officer was Lieutenant George Rochfort. Be received a very severe bayonet wound in the thigh, and unfortunately the wound was inflicted, it would appear, by falling against the musket of one of our own men. The main reserves were ad vanced in ease of a renewal of the attack, but now wee attempted. On the same evening, while Captain William Trail Arnold, commanding the Light Company of the 4th Ring's Own, was posting advanced sentries on the left attack, he was suddenly fired upon by some troops of the enemy, and afterwards taken prisoner. It is feared he was badly wounded, for it is stated that he fell after the volley was fired ; but, as the few men who were with him escaped hur riedly, and the night was dark, nothing certain is known on the subject. The Russians were lying down on the ground; had they been erect, although the moon had not risen, there was sufficient star. light to have rendered them perceptible at the short distance from which they fired. They must either have purposely concealed themselves to await the approach of the sentries, or Captain Arnold unwit rmastdvanoed too far towards a leading body of the picket. The first intimation of danger was the sadden starting up of the enemy; the volley of musketry was peered in immediately afterwards. In consequence of Captain Arnold not return. ing, a party went under the command of Captain Robertson of the same regiment to reconsoitre, but could not discover any trace of Dim. The particulars connected with his capture cannot, therefore, be known until a communication on the subject has been made with the Russian commander in the garrison. Captain Arnold had posted all but four of his am bits at the moment he was attacked, and was several paces in advance of the men ; he had gone forward to examine the ground, and ascertain if the sentries could be still further advanced with prudence. It is said that Sine, the French captured the Russian works in advance of the Flagstaff Bastion the enemy has greatly increased the outlying guards to the other works of this kind; and as the Russian rifle pita are net a great way distant from the spot where Captain Arnold was lost, it was perhaps one of these guards adesneed far the purpose of their protection by whom he was taken prisoner. There have bean one or two desertions from the French lately. They have crossed the Tchernaya Valley, at its narrow part near the Inkermann ruins. It is dank to imagine what motives can actuate Hose men, as they hardly can look for better treat ment tha n they receive in their own camp. A day or two since a soldier of our own 50th Regiment, hay slhorse with him, was taken up by the French in this neighbourhood, and sent to head- Ett:on suspicion that be w going to drone. as a that he had loot his way, and was return ing fees purchasing some things for his neater at Kamisecit. It was difficult to understand bow he could have wandered so far past his division withoot discovering the mistake. A few days previously a servant of the colonel commandant of one of the French regiments of the line went over to the Rus sians, near the same locality. Re not only robbed his muter of a horse, but also of some 20 Napoleonr, and other property. Could there not be an under standing between civilised armies, that thieves and such criminals should be mutually given up on pro per evidence of their guilt being afforded / 1 Certain international laws are made to provide for such cases, and an arrangement of the kind would be equally advantageous on both sides, between contending armies. The robberies at least, if not the desertions, wadi Nam, perhaps, with the knowledge that they could meth committed with impunity. The raped that an assistant-surgeon had been killed es the left attack a few days since arose from the eiremestance of an officer being shot who wore a /stage cap with an ornament peculiar to the We. Regiment, and who could not be recognised by as y ewe en duty in the Greenhill attack when his don .th 110111 Mid. The 25th Regiment is serving at paw ant la' the Madras Presidency, and the unfortr.nate Meer killed was at first supposed to be one f the nesistaut-surgeons detached from their regime ate for emirs with the forces in the Rut. He eubsa gnen tly peeled to be, however, an officer of the fi r Jud, cee of the regiment, of th e 2nd Division, Liev,tenone Q. MUMMY White. He had lately exchanged frail the loth lieglemat to engage in active tervios in the °Limes, and bed not bedtime to coinplate the clays of uniform. Be wee oa duty on the righ t attach, and what eireemetanes led him to go over to Green hill must now amain a matter of surmise. He wee killed by a die tell from one of the, enemy's ale bemedie, mitres the satire of the, wound, which wee in the had, hie death must have been instils tenses. A brother of the dseeved, who is senior amistutreargeon of the 47th B.egintent, first mot land the body, in some mersure accidentally, and the eons which followed wee very painful. _ There has bees an i'aeresee in the amber casualties during the 1 , 44 few days, but they hies chiefly been from riti►, shots. The greater frequent of these wounds most be expected as the sharp. ahoctere on each side approach cloeer to esoh other. no prow* phials, especially in the last•made portions of the approaches, are leas able to resist the Mane (tithe projectiles, and the Idahof the riflemen ie more sure. A very constant shelling has been kept up from the Malakhoff works, and occasionally front the Mansion. A battery near the Redan has also kept up a very active fire against a new battery on Frenchman's-hill, which is rendered eoospicuola by being entirely built of sand-bags, bat has not done much damage to the work. The health of the troops continues very favourable. In one of the divisions in front, which, with the regi ments attached to it, numbers 6,000 men, there are 460 sick oily in the hospitals, including cases of all kinds. A few oases have occurred not unlike cho lera in some of the symrome; but they have been slight in character, quite detached, and some of the principal features of that diens@ have been wanting. The prevailing cause of sickness is still lever. The sanitary coadnion of the camps is now excellent. Tanks are continuing to be made, and every attention is paid for the preservation and carotid distribution of the water. This is a most necessary provision. The weather has continued dry, warm, and favourable for operations in the field. (PROM TES SPECIAL OP THI DAILY NEWS.) K•D1KOI, Mar 7. The return of the Kertch expedition, the Kegbalk portion of which came into Brlaklava on Bewley morning, has produced a protound 'coalition. We were all speculating upon the chances of the combat, sad its influence on the fortunes of the campaign, When it was announced that the 'hips and troops had returned, and, as • matter of course, that nothing had been done, nor had anything been attempted. The camp was fairly puzzled. According to the elegant French phrase, hour donnaient nos leagues our chimes! Every one agreed that Sir G. Brown is not the man who will look at an enemy, sod then come back and report on his appearance. Nor, it he was ordered b ac k, did t h e order come from L ord Raglan, for lam credibly informed that at a late hour on Saturday morning, the British head-quarters speculated on the where— abouts and the doings of the expedition. The explep nation now current is the only one supported by the circumstances. It is, that shortly after the sailing of the expedition, General Csnrobert received despatches informing him of the immediate arrivel of the Empe tor, and instructing him to defer any important movement until Napoleon himself should have taken the field. The moment the French commander re- • ceived this despatch, he sent off a steamer to recall the French; that is to say, the larger portion of the - expedition. That steamer reached the fleets when . they were hovering near the coast, within twelve miles from their point of destination, and the expedi- Wm returned after creating an alarm, and pointing oat to the Russians the e x ac t s p o t w hi c h it is in their ' interest to defend. To all appearance, the allied armies have lost another chance of the few that re mained for an easy conquest of the Crimea. For the present, the French transports have returned to Kamiesch, and ours to Balaklava. Our troops are still on board their respective ships, and, up to a late hour this evening, no orders had been issued for their disembarkation. Nothing worth saying is to be said of the Sebas topol front. It is the "forbidden subject" in the camp. Every one wishes to forget that the siege is being carried on—no we dares to speak of it. There is a prevailing opinion that we are carrying on a profitless struggle—that much useful energy and streams of precious blood are wasted without the slightest chance of success, if the siege is carried on in the manner in which it is now proceeding. Men and officers in the Sebastopol front do their duty, and their merit is the greater because they do it without the slightest hope of success—not that the army despairs of taking Sebastopol ; it only despairs of Baking it by pitting our engineers against those of the Russians, and staking the lives of our keep upon the result. The work in the trenches is deadly, more especially at night, when, amidst the din of the siege, the round shot comes among us un heard and unseen. The gallant line regiments, that support the batteries, are giving proof of the highest courage that human nature is capable of. It is not a battle, not the movement, the excitement, the fury of a conflict which probes a man to the heart, but this standing or crouching in utter darkness to be shot at; awaiting death, which may come at any moment and in any shape, without moving • bander an arm; without being able todoaught in self-defence. And yet that is the condition of the officers and many of the men that do duty in the trenches. It is a necessary duty, but in most sieges the generals are safficieatly prudent and humane to make this time of severe probation as short as possible. Oar troop', and those of our allies, have nearly six months borne with the ordeal, and unless the Emperor's arrival produces a decided change in the operations, there is no saying when this evil time will end. Hence oar hopes of the Kertch expedition : hence our deep mortification at its unseasonable return. There is no the fact that now that the Russians are warned they will make such preparations as will astonish the troops that are sent oat to set right what has been made wrong in the last few days. And yet, as matters stand, Kertch is the key to Sebastopol. 'Since every one commits faults, let me, for once, commit the fault of giving information to the enemy—information only in so far as our • battering away at the mud•fort of Sebastopol must have persuaded the Russians that we are utterly- - ignorant of all the points in our favour. We haves an enormous army of French, English, and Turks on Sebastopol heights. We have troops who at the word of command would march into the fit* or lobo the sea, who will stand their ground agairat tenfold. their numbers, and whom an wormy may kill, bat cannot vanquish. We have an impregnable position on Sebastopol and Balsklava heights—a natural en trenched clamp, the like of which is not easily to be found. Instructed by two battles,and with six months' time on our hands, we have fortified that comp and made it a first-elms mountain fortress. The sea at our feet is our own; the countries in our rear ye friendly ; our basis of operations is most seenre. The province we wish to conquer is a Peninsula; we an carry our troops from point to point, and outm.arch the enemy in every direction That province has been stripped of all its natural resources; not a batta lion could live in it for a month without obtaining its sustseance from more peaceful districts. On this locust-arise land we have au enemy numbering perhaps 150,000 men, and a fortress which must us provisioned frem without. We have it in OUP power to out off the enemy's supplies of victuals, of ammunition, of men : the capture of Kertch gives us the command of the Sea of Asoff, and our destroying Odom stops great part of the supplies from Besse rabic. Our threatening Perekop threatens the Russian basis of operations and also their line of retreat. If we take Kertch the Russian Generals must either evacuate the Crimea altogether, or lead their volumes, that were driven back from Inkermann, sitarist the lines of Balaklava and lakermeno, now has tling with cannon. If they do neither, they must owl their troops starve iu this country. Through P erekop alone—especially before the time of harvest— '.hey can hardly manage to provision Sebastopol. They must either fight a battle, with the ground and all other chances against them, or they must fly, or, if they starve, and wait until we occupy Perekop, they must surrender at discretion. It is true that a change of our operations in the Crimea would draw down upon us the elite of the Russian army, who now are concentrated in Poland, from where, in conjunction with Prussia, they will soon threaten the frontiers of France, thereby changing the scene of the war in • manner by no mane advantageous to us, for it re moves the allied forces from the point we wish to dismember, and if we gain advantages, it is Prussian soft we conquer, not Russian soil. Bat such is our position that long before the first troops from Poland can show their feces at Perekop, not a single Russian with arms in his baud' need be found in the Crimea; and Perekop, if entrusted to the French engineers, will soon Ire as formidable as the lines of Balekliva. I see, from some late publications, that our friends at home begin to waver—the raising of the siege of Sebetooeol, even the evacuation of the Crimea, is talked of. Those who talk so lightly of these things hovwbar IRiieWaSw dear to us is the grounel we stand on; how--spealriag of the•cosjoe.ty of the army—we have centred all our wishes, stoked all our hopes, on the event. People at home have paid for the war ; politicians at home have jobb* with it—may God forgive them what man can never pardon. But the allied armies have a higher claim to this ground. They have hungered, and starved, r. ; l. hiss wounds Most be expeeted as the sharp-wttb it—may uoa forgive them what man can never eters on each aide approach cloeer to each other. pardon. Bat the allied armies have a higher claim Iseseethrg phials, especially in the list•made. to this ground. They have hungered, and starved, _ "77- Zbe Court. The Quoin hold a Privy Council at three o'clock yesterday aftaraoss, at Bucking►a® Palm's. It was attended by Primo Albert, Earl Granville, Lard President; the Earl of Clarendon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs; Visocuat Canning, Pestaraster-Ganeral; the Earl of Hariewhy, Chancellor of the Decay or Lancaster ; Bar. Sparrow, Lord Steward ; and WO Marquis of Breadalbane, Lord Casainerlain. The Hoe. W. Batharst was the clerk of the council I. waiting. The Earl of Clarendon sad Earl Granville had audience of her Majesty. The Queen was attended by Lord Ernest Bruce, Viet- Chamberlain ; Lord Camoys, Lind in Waiting ; rairllajoe. Osroml Berkeley Drummond, Groom le Waiting. Her Majesty, attended by tits Hon. Eleanor Beasley sad Major General Buckley, suited the Duchess of Gloncemsr in the forenoon, at Gloucester-house, Piccadilly. Priem Albert rode on horseback with the Prince of Wake and Prince Alfred, attended by Captain Ds Plat. The Queen had a dinner party in the evening. Thema. parry included the Duchess of Hest, the Prises's of Hobos. lobe Langenburg, and the Princess Adelaide, Primes Ernest of Leiningen, the Duke tad Peahen of A•gyll, Lady Arms Maria Dawson, Viscount Torrington, Major. General the Ham J. Barlett, sad Sir George Coupes. A Cabinet Council was held at one o'clock p.m. yesterday, at the Foreign-oflice, Downing.sucet, when the following Ministers assembled : Viscount Palmer stow, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Ea rl 01 Clarendon, Lard John Russell, Lord Pinson the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Ron. R. Vernon Smith, Sir William Molseworth, Viscount Canning, and the Earl of Harrowby. The Council sat two hours. Despatches ware received et the CoWeal-came retards, from the Getman or $s North Al SillfiCall Provisoes. FRANCE VIM Till 00111111POKIMIT 07 TSB DAILY 111111111.) PARIS, MONDLY Bruise . Vague rumours of the renewal of negoolations at Vienna, and of a better understanding betwees Austria and the Western Powers, had an extraordi nary effect arm the Bourse to-day. The very Im probable report that M. Drosyn de Lhoys is about to return to °Zoe was credited in many quarters, and the inference drawn naturally was that the French Oovernment had become a convert to the policy for advocating which M. Dronyn de Lhuys was dis missed a few days ago. The Rents, although very firm all day, and in great demand, roes but 16c, closing at 68fr. 90c., after having touched 69fr.; but the rise in railway shares was very important; Orleans rose 261 r.; Rouen, 15fr.; Eastern, 17fr. 60c.; Lyons and Mediterranean, 12fr. 500. Grand Cen tral, which has long been neglected, was in great demand, and rase 6fr. The Austrian Railway rose 12fr. 60e. The Imperial Commission and the directors of the Universal Exhibition lead a cat and dog life together, and their bickering. materially retard the completion of the woefully incomplete arrangements. It is the general opinion that the compose acts in a narrow, miserly, pettifogging spirit wholly unworthy of their Zito; They appear to be doing their utmost to the public with the whole affair, and drive people away from their doors. Angry at having been compelled to the issue of free adassioos to ex hibitors and the press, they throw all sorts of dif ficulties in the way of the privileges intended to be granted. Exhibitors complain that they are made to pay for the admission of the workmen whose armors are seemeary to unpack their goods and arrange their stalls. I understand that the Imperial Commission has impounded the money taken at the doors, and deposited it in the public treasury to await the settlement of divers &pates. It is reported that a claim has bees pot forward on behalf of the poor to one-tenth of the receipts, pursuant to the law which awards to the poor that proportion of the money taken at all plasm of public asesuessenf. The question whether the Palate of Industry falls within that category will perhaps have to be derided by a court of law. The shares is the company were in great disfavour at the Boone to-day, and while almost every other disseriptios of secunty rose ooasi deeably, they fell lfiefr. The ?Writ has an article protesting against the the proton**. of the company to make the exhi bitors at the Palace of Industry pay for their admis sion to the flas arts exhibition. la rapport of its 1. 0 lei OW SW NO it• l e. • li g •••111 pow oil.