The Express. — London, England, 1855-03-22 00:00:00

ii•ltt enirefils. TO CORIMPONDENTS. I iigortissomo Isismied ke "The Exprow.` Lambs !MIN piper, wort b• st üb• OS se. 11, 5•••••1•4wws. by Two eels* ow tie do 0t pabklisdaS. HIGH WATIH AT LONDON BRIM'. Tim MT —Marais& 416 4l Acionsas. bk. la. la.u.aauw Alonlag, Y. foe Afloarsh AL. Sim LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 22. LATEST FROM ABROAD. Tits 3fositew of yesterday contains the following CONSTANTINOPLI, Yaws 8. The death of the Emperor Nicholas me known bore yesterday. Os the 3rd of March the effective strength of Omer Paella's army amounted to 38,000 mu, with 1,000 hares and four complete batteries. The troops of all arms still expected were rapidly arriving. Supplies were very abundant. On the 6th an English battery, which commands the bottom of the Sebastopol harbour, ompelled a • Russian steamer to quit its position in great huts. CORFU, IllAsca 10. The English steam transport Imperardor has been emit from Malta to take on board 120 of the most robust and best trained gunners of the garrison. This Mesmer, which arrived on the 4th, lift on the same 'day for Balaclava. She had on based, besides the Imes embarked at Corfu, about 240 artilleryman , coating from the arsenal of Maw—Daily Nein. THE EUROPEAN NA' , THI vague oracular langusgs in which Lord PAL "marrow hinted, on Tuesday, at a possible resuseita 'don of Polish nationality, affords matter for merlons *gladioli. Ws have already adverted to his words, in our yesterday's publication, bat they mast also ,be viewed in connezion with his actions. We tTthat Count &MOMt is organising, at inla, a sexed regiment of Ottoman 0:o- sack s in erbieb Poles will be incorporated. is very rave intelligence. It appears to bo a poe tics of one of those half-meteors in which our , Government so •eepecially delights. It ii seeking _ for the oditpaiet : roaming the subject natioealitimi frith maroely.anyy. of the profit. t• Coast Lumen is one of the most able, important, end energetic men in Poland. In right of his wife, one of the most remarkable ladies in Europe, 7se possesses extensive landed estates; and the large fortune thence derived, added to the prestip attached to one of the stateliest and most ancient SUMS in Poland, is likely to have as much _ . Wesel» among his countrymen as it is still possible foe any single individual to exercise. But it is to be feared that the iron kneads@ of the Russian Go- urnment„ energetically exercised as they have been as long upon unhappy Poland, have at lost almost succeeded in kneading it into part and parcel of Rusin. We must not judge of the Poland of to-day by the _ . . _ . Poland of romance . It an no longer furnish forth the intrepid legions of free chivaliy which JOHN BODIUKI led to the relief of Vienna; and a quarter of • ontury has now passed away since the althea nate and ill-organised struggle of 1830. Our Govern ment have withheld their assistance and counts- Dance front the Liberals of Poland till it is doubtful .1 Low far the present generation are prepared ' to receive or able to act upon it. The Polish Liberals who have been tempted by their mate rial interests to remain in their country are dis heartened and dispirited to • degree. They will not venture to act with energy likely to oompro mime them with a Power which has hitherto shown such determined sternness in the punishment of the disaffecied. They will not lay themselves open to be decimated by official murders and ruined in crowds; they will not incur certain disgrace and misery for their children and themselves without some positive pledge that we will support them to the end, that we will obtain political justice for them at the conclusion of peace, and absolutely engage to protect all individuals who may engage with us in the struggle from the awful vengeance of their present masters. We must remember, also, that most of the youth and valour of Poland are already enrolled in the ranks of foreign armies. Go and seek for them among the hosts of Russia which are opposed to us, and you will often find that the arm which strikes strongest in the battle, the eye of the engineer who points the deadliest gun, belong both to a Pole. You will find them in the paralysed legions of distracted Austria. Yon will find them spurring to the front among the French in Algeria, wherever courage may be displayed and distinction won. And we must remember that the spirit of Polish independence which Lord PALlinurrox appears dis posed to invoke in a half-hearted, reruns, underhand way, is an agency to be employed with the utmost deli- Guy. We waive the question how his coquetting with the Poles may be relished at Vienna and Berlin ; bat ought he not to reflect that itigiving exclusive coun tenance to the Poles he runs the risk of rousing the bitterest envy and heart-burning among the other nationalities P The principles of Count ZAMOISKI are well known. They are pure and patriotic, but they are exclusively Polish. He has written, and wrought, and intrigued as perseveringly against Austria and Prairie se against the CsAR. He has toiled all his life with indefatigable energy at the resurrection of Poland ea a kingdom. He his sacrificed his peace, comfort, and ketone in her cause. One of the moat polished and refined men in Europe, he is consenting even at this time to bury himself and his family in the wretched town of Shumla, in a cause that pre sents the merest shadow of a chance of being useful in the furtherance of the great object on which he has set his heart. But Austria scarcely look upon his pre sence there with more resentment and suspicion than the Liberals of Hungary and Wallachia. In a very clever (too clever) pamphlet which has been &Mi khail to Count ZAMOISKI, he has openly advocated the permanent anion of the Principalities to Aus tria se the price of the liberation of Poland. He Ms openly advocated the continued subjection of Hungary rather than raise a question which might interfere with the settlement of Poland. These are the political sentiments which Count ZsmoreKt represents; and though we speak of him with all honour as a brave and patriotic soldier, who has poured out his blood like water, and given all his energies to a noble cause,—though we respect him as amen asinine, and admire him as an accomplished gentleman,—we most venture to hazard an opinion that it is a moot point how far it is prudent for us to accept his exclusive services at the present oriels. And what is more to our purpose, is it worthy at a British Meister to awaken in the breasts of the weakest of Buopean nationalities hopes whisk, it is evident from his language, he doss set himself enter tain at warmly sympathise with P I. it wise in him, while doing this, t tg jimmora ilLempathy with the aspirations of newel iiiirmiur niAtionalithalf Deily New. THE LATEST Tan news of Ws :motion at the nearly at the same the outbreak was h suppression. let it _ assts. The homing system against which it v. directed has been impugned and opposed from the first. Behr, the and of 1853 the then Lieutenant- Governor, Mr. LATROBE, admitted that it " could not be worked satisfactorily," and that " it was in vain to attempt to maintain it in the face of general dis taste to its character and the means necessarily em ployed in its enforcement." Mors lately, Mr. How% the author of" Orion," and well known in the me tropolis, employed as a gold eommissioner, says, very properly, " nobody likes to pay for a gold digger's Seems if he can find no gold for six or seven mmilima This is the fete of the great ma iwiltp", !They barely make wages, and very shot lest that." " Others lose all their la bour." From the commissioners or collectors they suffer great revocation. License-hunting is a com mon pursuit. Parties of three or four mounted and foot polies "are despatched (he says) in different directions to demand the production of the license, to search for those who secrete themselves, and to intercept or overtake fugitives. The demand (espe cially in a tone of command from a trooper or foot constable) made upon a fatigued and perspiring I miner, half-a-dosen times in a single morning, is a severe trial of human patience. Upon each occasion he has to exhume from his pocket, or some secret recess is his reeking waistband, the moist and tat tered paper of his license, which will scarcely bear to be unfolded. Suppose the miner to be a man of some education, and the policeman a man of no edu cation, arrogant, and in liquor, the provocation caused by this one official in a series of gullies is quite sufficient to create indignation and disgust among two or three hundred miners in the course of a morning." In the colony the licensing fee is denounced as " tax ing labour instead of the produce of labour," and falling as heavily on the man who earns nothing by his toil as on the man who obtains a fortune in a nugget. " The uncertain results," says the temperate Sydney Herold, " of digging often reduce men to want and despair. Just at this moment of depression a flashed and ruthless trooper comes in sight, and • poor fellow, hungry, sore-footed, and broken-hearted, is hurried into the presence of a functionary, lately thrown off from a convict establishment. And pro bably this happens when the mining population are reduced by drought, or compelled to pay 80 per cent. for carriage he lied articles of subsistence. The coercion it the diggers has kept the military and seastabelery he 'mutant run." The smiths' naturally is, therefore, " that sound pulley, demo& the abolition of the gold-licensing system, at least in Victoria." According to the latest thatiedas of the colony, there are 87,000 persons, of every dessriptioo, in its various gold fields, and the amount yielded by the Hoene, fees was 800,0001., or 121. a head, including all the women and children, sod all the officials habitually resident at the diggings. The insurgents then bad a great and an acknowledged grievance, though it did not warrant a rebellion to obtain redress. The tax is most exorbitant, most unequal, and levied in a peculiarly vexatious and harassing manner. The Poll Tax that roused Wax TYLER and his followers into rebellion, and the Tea Duties that cost us the American colonies, were less harming and odious. The diggers have another grievance. They are arepresented. The floating population of the dig gings have no settlement in the colonies—no part in the representation. They shift too much—are too MEW in their several localities to be included in any sell of electors. They pay, moreover, besides the Isms fee, their share of all the taxes an sonsump- Ash, and all the benefit which they receive from a Government, unprecedentedly expensive, is the pre m.... mpg them of the Government officials who aged the Assnss fees and preserve a respect for law. At the same time they see that the money taken ken them in the name of the Crown for the sight to dig for gold, and the may Wei en them by indirect taxation, is aggro pristed by the Legislative Council, composed of representatives at the towns, in the delibendose of which they have no share, to improve and beautify Melbourne, to provide offices and places for an im mense number of hangers-on of the Goventmeakand to waste on every imaginable project that a Govern- ment can entertain. Not merely, therefore, are they most exorbitantly taxed—they have no voice in dis posing of the taxes ; and while these are levied in the name of the Crown, they are actually appropriated and disbursed by a small number of their fellow citizens. Amongst the mining population are men from all ammildea. One-tenth of them consists of " the I mmilet sissient." Of the 150 attacked in their slukais, 30, it is supposed, belonged to this class, and bei mdy plunder in view. Foreigners, too, were amines in the diggings, "active and designing mesa? *cording to Sir C. HOTHAM ; and such per sons ilmad, in the disprdtion excited by the license WWI, and in the peessal rigour to which the whole limb" pap ist's% ea account of these dangerous oissaaela s ereeedinated, a fertile field ready prepared foe their smelting labours. They carried with them some Farepsan habits. The discontented were regi- mented and drilled ; they were all well armed ; they had a quasi-national flag uniting the symbols of successful republicanism in the States and unsuccessful Insurrection in Europe. They were surprised by the military in a kind of fortified camp and natal with a loin of 30 killed, and, according to the official account, a much larger number wounded; but het without wounding two officers of the storming arty, one of whom, Captain Wise, is Niue dead, sai killing and wounding several soldiers. Such ktal results leave behind them festering and rankling Sores that will for some time be sources of danger. Whatever may be the character of the population at the diggings, the insurrection was mainly the con sequence of the license system. But for that the foreign sad the convict elements would have had nothing to work co, and would have been *innocuous us a spark falling into a barrel of sand. In the neighbouring colony of New South Wales, where this system sets a much smaller proportion of the popu lation, where it has been carried into effect with for bearance, and where there has been no temptation to segment the revenue and expenditure to such an enormous degree ea is Victoria, even the licensing yawn has not excited so much disapprobation nor done so much mischief. The real and palpable cause If all the evil, therefore, is the excessive expenditure of the Government, which has driven it to a harsh * stern of exactions that brought about a revolt. It is a camas= topic of complaint that individual. in Slew to learn. Farmers and shipowners.. *preached with adhering to old customs long after they have been proved to be erroneous, and better methods of cultivating the land or building ships have boon introduced. They have some news in Me fast that the new methods deteriorste the value of their old instruments; bat Ocmer amen* without soy such =OW, at least colonial Governments, seem arm to improve. Financial Charities have been throb*e or the, rain of every 'state of Europe; and, *elite of al/ the admonitions hurled spinet extrava . Y. .se avenge in Gnat Irkeksis a4spi 11. 16e. /head, and in South Australia N. 10s.* la Ulan*, If sir - experienos-z-whlth tells Governfileitti that they may do anything if they keep their hands out of the breeches-postal/fig their people—the vernment of Victoria has left in the pockets of the diggers little or nothing. When Mr. H. It. H. Gaza, who is indebted for all his immense wealth to the pro tection of the law, is applauded at Manchester for resolving to wear a threadbare suit rather than con tribute to the taxation necessary to carry on a na llama war, we can conceive the powerful indignation of the diggers at having to pay 121. a head for limns, and half as much again for indirect taxes. Instead of rousing their indignation, and risking the safety of the colony by making of them inflammable unitariais that a designing knave can explode, it wan biter to delay even making roads and "hark and much better than making botanic gar dens and establishing universities, till the people are atils and willing to pay for them. The injury sheerly done to the colony by the extravagance of the well-meaning Government cannot be repaired in many years. The insurrection compels immediately an additional outlay, and carries with it, even though the Government now make concessions and reduc tions, for some time an increase of expense. We pointed out on the lit inst. how extravagant was the expenditure of Victoria, and how enormous were the estimates for 1856. The present Governor, Sir C. Hamm, was no otherwise responsible for this than by accepting the estimates prepared by the ad• ministration he found in existence under the authority of his predecessor. The insurrec tion has compelled him to put an end to that administration. Mr. Forma, the Colonial Secretary—the Prime Minister—has resigned, and Mr. HAINES, a member of the Opposition, the repre sentative of Grant, has succeeded him. He is likely to do, says a Sydney journal, " if he can get over the financial difficulty.* He began well by declaring that the financial position of the colony showed the necessity for the strictest economy ; and the estimates, therefore, would have to be remodelled. Following the same was spirit of concession, the Government has adopted an amended tariff, suggested by the Opposition, and amended estimates are to be sub mitted. The Government has been obliged to make concessions, and submit to humiliation. Had there been a single member of it, profiting by the experience of Europe, to insist on the necessity of economy, it might have been saved from the double disgrace. The noble colony, too, that a few sheet months ago was so teeming with promise, might have been spared a heavy misfortune, and Great Britain might have looked forward with much more confidence than now to a speedy restoration of its blighted pro sperity. Certainly, an opportunity has been afforded to the inhabitants of the towns to evince their attach ment to order and law; and considering the elements of disorder that were collected in the gold fields, and the want of prudence in the Government, we may congratulate the public that the matter is no worse, and that according to the latest accounts the diggers, whose case has been taken into consideration, are renewing their lioenses.—Dally Nam The select committee now sitting on the mis management of the war, that is, on the utter dis organisation of the civil, military, and naval adminis tration of the British and Irish government, might have been expected to operate on our aristocracy, At least as a temporary warning. But not so, if report speaks truly, in the House of Commons. It is a current rumour in the Palace of Westminster, that the assistant commissionership of the Irish income tax is to be conferred on Mr. C. H. W. A'Court, the honourable member for the little rotten borough of Wilton, in Wilts. Further, it is whispered that Mr. Sidney Herbert, the acting patron of that miserable constituency (barely exceeding two hun dred electors), intends to nominate, as Mr. A'Conrt's seessmor, the Puseyile Mr. G. Hope, who recently ,aggesred on the stage of Windsor as an un ensessofal candidate against Mr. S. Ricardo. If ,11111, or both, of these rumours are realised, we sin only express our amazement at tits blindness of our rulers. For the vacant Mk place (only, we believe, 8001. per annum) can no meritorious or experienced Irish civil servant be found worthy of promotion, and a work ing men? Mr. A'Court may be, for all we know, a trustworthy overlooker of the Pembroke Irish estate for his relative, Mr. Sidney Herbert, but what claim has he on the present government, and will the new Lard Lieutenant consent to this first "job" (if I meditated) ere his lordship has got warm in the Castie P Mr. A'Court has been, we believe, twice private secretary to two tory Lord Lieutenants of Ire iland—onoe to his relative, Lord Heytesbury. We are not aware that such family service entitles him to emigrate from England to a permanent Irish office, or that these official antecedents will find favour on his arrival in Dublin. A few votes in parliament in favour of the late coalition cabinet cannot qualify an A'Court for the Irish office in question. What knowledge of business or figures can the honourable member poetess for the duties of such an office? Lord Palmerston 11 not bo p :t u b s " any pre-arrangements of Lord Aberdeen's party. We have, at least in the A'Court family itself, precedent for the new Premier's perfect freedom of action. Lord Heytesbury, the living head of this " noble family"— ennobled only in 1828, after his long diplomatic services in courts of despots, including St. Peters burg —was appointed by the Peel-Wellington ministry to the government of India, and accepted by the East India Company, in 1844-6. Nevertheless, although his lordship had partaken of his farewell dinner, Lord Melbourne, called to power, cozened the appointment, and nominated Lord Auckland. This is a case in point ; and till a new writ is moved for Wilton we may entertain hopes that its present represen tative will have no occasion to vacate his seat. But should we be disappointed, should this disgusting rumoured appointment to the Irish vacant income tax place (despite these observations) be carried out, we beg leave to suggest that our Crown-office make out the new writ to the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, instead of to the Sheriff of Wilts. The farmer is the real returning officer. Wilton most aujestly sad accidentally retained one member in 1814 klieg misplaced in schedule B instead of pro- Ei: A. In the dropped reform bill of last year 1 borough was proposed to be disfranchised. ly the number of electors was readily in- Owed. One of its mayors, in 1702, within nine Smiths of an election, made so many new votes for a lensing contest of that year, that hie worship said *en would be no occasion for the old burgesses to dEven this was a system of misrepresentation oable to a Lord Pembroke singly dictating the swessa . tative. The same old mayor had his peon religious notions, the borough being now and 01111, is rid times, anti church. It was proved in an 4liestass ammittse that be had openly declared, in !net votes i , lo t t hal iesen he tera won f l r d om mt r'segles were test ; ter if they aces churchmen they would always against them' Now, however, Passylmn is the test of a candidate's qualineation.rely Nam Rau OLD Boom—ln Catlieriatustreet, Strand, lived a few yeses Wage, Gas Johs Dailey, a laskeillse, who mewed Lan a astable oilleetica al the wadies( slekwakt, 'libelist, sad enteeleget : he is the isavliael Wowed le 'al Sir Z. Lysol& Hahne is the istrabiedea M Ids Z5m:44 . 9 , 1.1%W' qf Limbs 1 gtit Court. OSBORNE, Mimi . Majesty and Priem Albert, eoweepenied by Prises of Wales, Priem Alfred, Prises Arthur, the Royal, Uncles Alter, sad No Primo of Weir Wooded by the ladles sad ratlines ia d oft the total jeeltt; YestordaYlo4 -I faaL at twos aisrt~ sadareat Spilksed ts Villas Qs &lariats at the_Minment equeth;m of the Rade fest, solder Chetahs Watean, C.B. phich mes.appefehtst .te she 'place at shoat Ikea 'Week, p. . On the Fairy approaching the fleet, whhil fired a royal solute, signal Wm lade fee Captain Watebn had the captains sommanding to emu on board the royal yacht, where they had the honour of being presented to her Majesty to take leave. As soon as the captains bad returned on board their respective shim, the order was given to weigh, and the squadron immediately proceeded to the eastward under steam, preceded by the Fairy. About half-pest four o'clock, the royal yacht turned and paned sash ship in sucesselon, the crews of which manned the yards and cheered her Majesty in passing. The QUM* returned to Osborne at half-past 6 o'clock. Captain the Roe. J. Denman bad the honour of dining with her Majesty yesterday. This morning being the day appointed for the general fast, the Queen sad Prince, with the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, and Princess Alice, attended divine envies at Whippingham parish church, where the Rev. G. Prothero performed the service and preached. A meeting of the Cabinet Ministers was held at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, at the Fore►ign office, Downing-street. It was attended by Vis count Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Gran ville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of Argyll, Lord Penmen, the Berl of Clarendon, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Sir William Molesworth, and Viscount Canning. Despatches were received at the Colonial-ofliee, yesterday, from the Governors of the West India Islands. ALEXANDER IL—Aooording to the custom of the Russian Court the Crown Prince is first aido-de•camp to the Emperor. Alexander had hardly become Emperor when he sent for his father's aides-de-camp, and Mild them that, notwithstanding the death of their sovereign, he should continue to consider hiaseU their comrade, and ac cordingly wear the epaulettes as aide•de-camp of his father, of glorious memory. His Royal Highness Prince Albert has presented 6001. to the " Sallor's Home." Portsmouth. PARLIAMENT is to adjourn for the Euter holidays from Friday the Mth instant, till Monday the 16th of April. Sir Robert Peel, Bart., has entered upon his duties u the " civil" member of the Board of Admiralty, Mee the Hon. W. Cowper, appointed to the Rome Offloe as one of the ander secretaries. Lord Brougham is expected to leave town the week after next, to peas the Buten ream at his chateau at Canoes, in the south of France. Lady Brougham will re main in London. A circular from the War-Office makes known to officers in command of regiments the suspension of certain regulations, to enable regimental officers serving in the 'Crimea to draw, if they wish, from the Paymaster, only the portion of their pay sufficient to meet their immediate rs• quirementa, thus avoiding the risk of having money unne cessarily in that hands. Professor Simpson, of Edinburgh, hu been re ' queited by Lord Pennine to provide the medical odious requisite for the formation of another civil hospital in the But. He will be required, it seems, to select physicians, surgeons, essistent-physicians, usiatant•surgeons, apothe caries, and male and female mune. Lord and Lady Elcho, we (Seotsnum) believe, are to start next week in a steam-yacht for the Black Sea and Sebastopol. The Cowden Youlett proposes shortly to proceed to the seat of wu at Sebastopol, to 'shit her son, the Hon. Lint. Anna Pesten, of the Grenadier Guards. The statue of Lord Clarendon, hitherto placed opposite that of Hampden in the principal entrance to the Homes of Parliament, wu on Tuesday removed to another pedestal, and Foley's new statue of Belden wu raised in its The following members of the House of Commons compose the minority of 48 who voted on Tuesday for the opening of the British Museum and National Gallery on Sundays :--Meesn. J. Ball, W. B. Beaumont, G. Bowyer, John Bright, Sir R. B. Bulksley, E. H. J. Crawford, J. Crook, B. B. De Vete, L. L Dillwyn, Visocuat Rbrington, W. Fagan, Sir J. Fitzgerald, W. J. Fox, R. Gardner, T. M. Gibson, J. Greene, C. W. Greaten, Col. Greying', Earl Grosvenor (Chester city), Sir J. Harmer, James Heywood, L. Haworth, G. 0. O. Higgins, R. Keating, T. Kennedy, J. Locke, R. Lowe, J. M'Cano, P. M'Mahon, J. F. Ma ssaro, W. Marshall, J. P. Murrough, Sir D. J. Norreys, P. O'Brien, A. J. Otway, W. P. Urquhart, Sir J. W. Rama dan, 8. Ricardo, F. C. Russell, John Sadlier, W. Mole- Bold, F. Scully, Sir J. V. Shelley, Lord Stanley, B. &rant, T. Thorneloy, W. A. Wilkinson, M. Wrnil. The Count Walewski had a "reception " on Tues day evening, at the residence of the French Embassy, Albert-gate House. It is the custom for every new Academician to go to the Tuileries and present the adder which he delivered on his reception. M. Berryer says " the peculiar situation nude for me In Dec. 1851, renders this presentation quit* impossible on my part." In yielding to his wish, "the Emperor regrets that in Id. Berryer the inspirations of the political man have got the better of the duties of the Acade mician. His presence at the Tuileries would not have caused the embarrassment which he seems to have timed. From the height on which thl, Emperor is placed, his Majesty would have only seen in the elected of the Academy, the orator and the writer; m the &deanery of to•day only the defender of former times." Dr. Veron having obtained a note from Count Monty, in confirmation of his statement that, at a meeting in 1841., at the residence of M. niers, at which General Changernier was present, manna were concerted to dis solve the National Anembly, and to arrest several of its menben,—N. Thisn a second time denies the allegation, adding : " I have always considered legality as theearest l resource against disorder—as indeed the only one which did not expose to sad returns. • • Similar propositions, seriously ewe by accredited perms, hiving s taiseion to discuss end to adopt thins, have never either been brought to my house or dimmed there." In the Indipetidacice Beige of yesterday we and the following letter addressed to the editor of the Prose: " lisltsee, March 21, 1856.—0ne of my friends, who will be the bearer of this, haa informed se to- —. ay dof the letters recently inserted in y our journal by the author of Memoirs. d'oot Bourgeois de Peru, by M. de Horny, and by the Hon. M. Tbien. I give the most com plete denial to the two first-named of these personages. united to erect • pedestal to each other. and to calum niate the victims of violence and fraud. I beg you to be good enough to insert this letter in your next number.— Receive, &c." MR. J. HUME AND . . . NEWS FR I • • TRA • 4 .. 04. reit tbiblao•WesliFter OZ tin say is flip *NIS. beginnin . ' • by natiosl, debt, having the Victorit " + - A " a tofkV to perfors for Her l • tim• Nr . !,a _ itt _LIM" a s D r . am Pris h•PPily dissi ' 74 ' • its .1 Claims stated in the .k tira Council trinew it had in it some formidable of Victoria, amount to mare than 121. a head,, pa, sad TO Tit lEDTPOZ OP TEI DATLY XIWS. 13111,—1n your paper of Friday last appears a letter, gignol W. A. Bird," in which it is stated that Mr. Hu, M.P., ass the Ant to ally Belliegtiam, when that parson shot Mr. Bpsnea Percival. Will yon allow me to soonest * slight mistake into which your ourespendent hes fallen. 1 hare before use a copy of the irates of the trial of Bel lingham, published by the late Yr. Fraser. the elsortkend writer, from which it appears that Lieut.-General Guayas mai nay late father (Yr. Vincent Goma Dowl lag) were the persons who lint took hold of the maims r, amil that the former took from him a bundle of papra, wkiii be landed to Mr. Hume, wise us up at the metre, and who took charge of them until the trial. Ma. lime IPSO examined on the trial, bat all he stated was that be had received the papers from General Gessoyas, and that Obey was the sum be than prodaesd. I have also is ray pumas a aloud engeavber, pub. liaised at the time, in whisk Gaul Ossergehe father are repseessted as seising Bell are t bat my father etas mid me that no Galan wee retakke, g et th e infatuate bustle—for Inch he believed Ilimeoem to he —auger sage the slightest residue se Ott mee t to „ eve. _ I va, as., PLUM 9. Dowuzio, Marsh 19. The pops ati" at 0 " 1 ° 11 1r* ie Australis, in 1841, was 4141 fa 1911 is ussiskooQ, THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 22, 1855. THE WAR. Recent accounts from the Caucasus and Georgia show that the Romig= are preparing to commence the campaign - . General Moriavieif,the new com mander of the Transcanowdan army, has just cora _ _ plead s Lowe inspection, In which he his visited all the stations of troops. His plans of attack and the number of - troops to be plead at his disposal were fixed, under the sanction of the Emperor Nicholas, before he left fit. Petersburg. Important reinforce ments had reached the general since his arrival in Georgia ; these were two complete divisions of in faatry, numbering nominally 14,000 men eaob, sad accompanied by their artillery, and four regiments of light cavalry. General Bariatinski has undertaken to the Emperor to hold Schamyl and his forces in check. The Invalid* Rune reports the first collision which his taken plus this year between the Russians and Turks in Asia. We are able to present simultaneously the official French and Russian accounts of the attack led by General htayran on the night of the 23rd ult. against a Russian redoubt. THE NIGHT ATTACK ON A RUSSIAN REDOUBT. (From yesterday's Moniteur.) The Minister of War has received from the Com mander-in-Chief of the army in the Crimea the fol lowing despatch, dated Feb. 27 : Monsieur le Marichal,-1 have the honour to address to you some details respecting the coup•de-moin executed on the night of the 23rd sad early morn of the 24th of Feb., in front of our right attack. The dispositions which had been taken were as follows: A. detachment of engineers and one of artillery, two bat talons of the 2nd Zonavee (Colonel Cler), and one battalion of the 4th Regiment of Mariam (Commander Mermier), having at their head the General of Brigade Monet, were to invade the work thrown up by the Russians in front of the right of our lines. Two battalions of the 6th and 10th Re giments of the line (Lientenant-Colonel Babas) formed the 1111112T11. The whole wu commanded by ths General of Division Mayne, and, lastly, the operation was superintended and directed by the General of Division Baguet, who com mands the Bscond Corps. The Russians had placed several ambuscades in front of their work, which, amidst the darkness of the night, pre sented obstacles, the position and strength of which it was difficult to ascertain. The troops charged with the attack advanced towards the object vigorously, driving the enemy beck, and while the battalions marching en the lett and in the centre over came these obstacles, the Zeiler's, led on by Colonel Cler, and having at their head General de Monet, wounded already four times, penetrated into the work, under a very heavy fire of musketry, sad threw themselves on the Russian infantry collected there. This infantry gave way after a short but violent struggle, in which a brilliant part was taken by the detachment of engineers under the com mand of Captain Valeeque, and by that of the artillery under the command of Lieutenant Delafosse. The Zonaves displayed here the most remarkable intrepidity. The enemy sustained numerous losses. The object we had proposed to ourselves was attained ; we could not think of establishing ourselves on a spot exposed on every side to the Russian artillery; but we had showed them once more our superiority in action. The return to our own lines was effected without being disturbed by the astonished enemy, although in number be was greatly superior to us. The reserve, which had left the trenches to protect the retreat in case of need, met no one. Our losses have been sensible, though not in proportion to the extent and dangers of this nocturnal combat, daring which our soldiers, until their return to the trenches, were exposed to the fire of the artillery of the place. Our troops have been admirable as at all times, and I cannot address to them greater euloglums. C•NROBEHT. (From the inealide Rum, of March 12.) In order to complete the report from the Crimea relative to the attack on the Selenghinek redoubt by the enemy in the night between the 23rd and 24th of February, we give the following details of this affair from a report of Aide de-Camp General Baron Orton Sicken under date of Fe brua►y 15, No. 26, and addressed to the late Commander in-Chief of the land and naval forces in the Crimea. In t e evening of the 23rd, the troops selected for finishing the construction of the redoubt commenced on the preceding night, were disposed u follows : The iii4lenghinak regiment of infantry in the redoubt; the 4th battalion at the works, the 2nd and 3rd in the interior of the entrenchment, and the lit in the trench. The battalions of the Volhynian regiment of infantry were advanced in order to cover the works, namely, the 4th in columns of companies beyond the lodgments effected in front of the redoubt, the Ist and 2nd on the right of the redoubt, and the 3rd on the left, in attacking columns. . At two o'clock in the morning, after the moon, which had been shining brilliantly, had gone down, the dismounted Cossacks of the battalion No. Bof the Black Sea, who occupied the ambuscades in front of our lodgments, gave information that the columns of the enemy were forming in front of the trenches. At the same instant, the chain formed by the 10th and 11th companies of musketeers in the Volhynian Regiment opened a very steady are, and Major-General Ithronateheff, who com manded the two regiments, moved forward the let and 2nd battalions of the Volkynian Regiment, who were under arms on the right of the redbubt. But having perceived that the enemy, who had penetrated through the gap be tween the 2nd and 3rd battalions, was already attacking the redoubt, he ordered the two first battalions to wheel to the left, and fall on the flank and rear of the enemy's columns, whilst a hand-to-hand combat bad already ensued in the trench. The enemy was instantly overthrown, the trench being tilled with his dead. At the same time, the 3rd battalion and the 12th company of musketeers of the Volbynian Regiment, who were on the left flank, repulsed the attack of another column, which had advanced further to the left of the redoubt. _ Ifejer-General Khroustchtff, taking advantage of the moment, had the charge beat. The brave Volbynians, under his personal command, moved rapidly forwards, bay°. netting the Zonate, end Marines who endeavoured to repel their onset. The struggle lasted long, but the Russian bayonet triumphed over the firewood the enemy, who fled in disorder to his trenches. In the mean time, Colonel Sabaschinsky, with the Ist battalion et the Selenghinsk Regiment entrusted to his command, issued from behind the right face of the redoubt, and rapidly advanced to help his companions in arms. The 4th oompany of Grenadiers, the 10th company and a platoon of the 11th company of musketeers from the Volhyniera l Regiment joined him, under the command of Colonel Svistchewity. These troops dashed, with beat of drum, along the flappers' way ; and while seeking, in the dark, the Volhynians, who were engaged with the enemy, they fell in with a French column, that woe marching in haste to suceour the Zonate*, and overthiew it into the ravine, under the fire of our batteries and stamen. Twin the enemy endeavoured to return to the attack, bat was driven back each time with loss to his trenches.. At last, after an hour's fighting with the bayonet, during which time the Russian drummers had not ceased beating the charge, the enemy was compelled to retire finally, leaving in our hands more than a hundred dead, eight of whom were officers ; our troops, moreover, took twisty-four omens, five of them dicers. The 'sooty has lest is all no less this 600 men, m during his retreat he was exposed to the heavy Ire of the neighbouring heatless, sad the steamers Vladimir, Chenonesas, and Gromenoesets, lying in the roadstead. Os our side we had 66 killed, 6 subaltern olaers, and WI privates wounded. rr OF HOSTILITIES IN ASIA. Mete the hemiiite Row.) In consequence of their defeat on the lith of Jane, 1864, ea the Teholok, the Tuks had been compelled to re main on the defensive along the frostbite et the Ouriel, and in order to cover their territory, they la; taw* seer the villages of I.eghoy sad Okbtchamottry, t wo i strowo h.d camps, each of which they had coupiee, w i t h * a nim a de . wham% to the camber of 2,000 cum In the night be. tween the 80th and Slit of Jsnnary, tke chief of the Chtimie, Nil" booed CePtai‘ rft!.l% tiontiel, who ',lt gg, Alm Ifee trier, attacked the Tushhh enal-- ---..''.7...."-'-'••••••pir with onsiderillt, ,meow. Crossing the f ron ti er near fin bridge of Tcholok he advanced rapidly on Leghoy, and vipwously charged the Turks who bad advansed to meet him. Notwithstanding bit numerical superiority, the tam , was overthrown. The militia men followed nose upon his keels, and entered the intrenched camp, which, m a expelling the Turks, they destroyed. ' In the meantime, the Turkish troops occupying tke p asa of Okhtchamoury proceeded in all hut s t o succour keshin but they met in the way a eon& of the Cherie! Iwo, detachment belonging to the Bag of David DjakElt, ad altar a protracted firing of musketry were put to flight. As soon as the first shots were fired at Leghoy, the id, bitanes of the neighbouring village of Gonriel, led ot h y the college assessor Matchavariaai, chief of Osourgbeti, sad Prince Tavdghtiridzi, chief of the Gouriel o inks , ham up to take part to the anion. Their reedy zeal prone th e spirit that pervades the inhibition of the frontiers. The Turks sustained s heavy lees in this affair. On our side we had int men killed and 39 wounded. (PROM ♦ SCHAMYL AND HIS SON, IT OP TUN DAILY HMIS.) Within the last few weeks, Sehamyl ha b een re , juiced by the return of his son who, eleven ye ars s. when of tender age, had the misfortune to be taken p r i m , by the Russians. Since then Schtunyl bed nut Milder the boy, and long ago gave him up for lost. It appease, how., ever, that when he wu captured the Russian general, Prince Woronsoff, sent him to St. Petersburg, where tits late Emperor took a liking to the lad and had him educated in the Military ♦cdemy. It happened last year that fithamyl, in some sudden say. prise, took several Russian ladies prisoners, amongst whom was the Princess Tscharawaddy. They were conducted to one of Schaenyrs mountain fastnesses and unasked there as prisoners of war, but treated with the respect and decorum due to their rank and sex. The Governor. Geneml of Tiflis sent a flag of truce to Sammy' to demand the re. lease of the captured ladies, offering a large sum of money and the liberty of several Circassian ladies who had been made prisoners by the Russians. But Schamyl replied that if his son were alive, and the Russians would restore him, he would release all the lady captive.. The Rmperor Nicholas sent for young Schatnyl, gave him his liberty, and fitted him out with the needful equipment to undertake the long journey. The exchange took place in the end of h. unary. Young Sehamyl, who, when at St. Petersburg, was not required to abjure the Moslem creed, has prcfited by hi involuntary a6our at the Russian capital, and has now re. turned to his overjoyed father an aeoomplished cavalier, with a comparatively civilised education. It is said that ha entertains great gratitude to the Emperor for his persona treatment, and it is not impossible that his return to kis native mountains may have an effect on the future mode of Circassian warfare, and the introduction of more cirilieed manners and customs generally amongst his countrymen. The following was related to me by one of the Prussian officers of the 6th Cuirassiers (Emperor of Russia), who were sent in the year 1842 to St. Petersburg as a deputation front the regiment to congratulate the Czar on his having been five•and•twenty years colonel of that corm. Nicholas, who received the officers with marked distinction, took them to propna persona to inspect his different military establish. meats, and amongst others to the School for Cadets, where all the lads were drawn up in the long hall. The Emperor, dewily followed by the Prussian officers, walked down the line when he suddenly stopped before one of the youngest cadets, patted his cheeks with both hands, and then lilting him up kissed him most affectionately. Then, turning to the Prussians, he said : " Gentlemen, you will never guess who this lad is. He is the son of my most bitter enemy, the Circassian chieftain Schamyl, who has placed him under my cars for his education !" JENNY LIND IN HOLLAND. (Paola • OP TUB DAILY PEWS.) According to common aoceptation, Jenny Lind— really one feel► a restraint in calling her by any other than that familiar name—has resumed profeuional life for a time, in order to raise thereby an endowment fund for an hospital in Stockholm. With her arrival in Holland came the sad news of those recently fearful inundations which, in the provinces of Gelderland and North Brabant, destroyed about three thousand dwellings, and made thirteen thousand of their inhabitants homeless. On bearing the sad particulars, Jenny Lind immediately offered to give a series of concerts, the profits of which should be devoted to the Patriotic Fond - . Row being formed for the relief of the sufferers. The first has already taken place at Amsterdam. As soon as Jemmy Lind appeared in the concert-room the audience roes en mane, knowing no bounds to its enthusiasm. When she had finished her part the orchestra struck up the Swedish National Anthem, and six children of the most distinguished families of the city advanced to , wards Jenny Lind, to ask her acceptance of a garland, a bouquet, and • testimony of thanks on the part of the audience, written in the Swedish and Dutch languages. It is proverbially difficult to move a Dutch audience to tears or smiles, but on this occasion the audience was completely " beside itself ;" tears and smiles in one breath, clapping of hands, stamping of feet—in short, every possible method that admiration could invent for giving itself expression was here adopted. It would require a far abler pen than that of your correspondent to describe " the power of her charmed voice "—nothing approaching it had ever before been heard in Holland. It has now become the torn of the public of Holland to undergo all the stages of the heel Lind fever. The profits of her Amsterdam concert amounted to about 4801. Rotterdam, March 19. DEPARTURE OF FRENCH TROOPS FROM ROME FOR THE EAST. —...noINT OF TIM DAILY Flint.) ROME, MAnca 12. Yesterday morning the French garrison in this city furnished another contingent for the war. The 21st Regiment of Light Infantry, about 1,900 strong, marched at daybreak for Palo, the half-way station between Rome and Civita Vecchia, after having halted upon the Piazza di San Pietro to receive the Pope's farewell benediction, should his Holiness be disposed to witness the departure of his faithtul allies at that early hour from the windows of the Vatican, tke offi cers having had an audience for that. purpose last Monday. The 21st, however, has not tin same claim upon Pio Nono's gratitude as those regiments which stormed the walls of the Janiculus, having been in garrison in the Papal States only since 1851. The information that they were ordered to the Crimea was well received both by the officers and soldiers, with the exception of a few men whose time of serene had nearly expired. and who were thus disappointed of the expected "- turn to theirfoyere. The regiment arrives at Civics Vecchia to-day, and will await in that town the arri val of the transports destined to convey it to the Neat of war. A battery of artillery is to follow shortly, and the garrison being tbue rednoed, to one battalion of infantry at ;Civita Yeah* as three in Rome, it has been deemed advisable to concentrate the latter in. the immediate neighbourhood of the Vatican and the Castle of St. Angels, bet seen which two points the new general, who is expected to succeed General de Montreal, will take up. his residence at Primo Torlonia's Palazzo isßorge.r. Thus the Pope and his protectors will be is immediate contiguity. Amongst the artistior.l contributions sent front Rome to the ParnExhibition is a highly interesting picture by Mr. Lehmar,n, representing an episode in the early li fe of Lamm:tine (as described in his " Con fidenoes"), when residing with a family of Neapolitan fishermen in the isle did of Ischia. The young poet is translating " Pa' Al and Virginia" to his hosts, is the visible emotio a of a beautiful young girl, who forms part of the family, and whose features moonset finely with the farrowed visage of the old pueolore• This picture, re anarkable for its correct drawing and Powerful feeli'Ag, will have a double interest, from containing portrait of so distinguiebed a man as Lamartine, and is, lam loppy to say, destined to stay in London after the exhibition, being executed by Mr. Lehr awn foe an English gentleman. Mr. Mao donald's fine marble group of "Ulysses recognised lahis Dog" 'will also form one of the attractions of e Irttiation blonds elf the. Paris Exhibition. • (PROM THE A trhoriater at the Greek chapel at Marseille* aW d Mereello, has just been condemned by the Como- Ul'„ .61 Tribunal of that city to three mouths' imprisonmset. vAlfr. flee, and Am years' surveillance of the police, for her Mg on Alienist moutons and in Rublie places, sinpleysd Leonidas luggage mepisting the Emperor cote Irma. the Balten, end the English am.