The Express. — London, England, 1855-05-14 00:00:00

ripe expvelSgi. TO CORRESPONDENTS. litterikkowle Isterikl kw "The taproot," Woks twain pow. mot Imp st dr Oft% 10, 11011,1110411001. IT Tel 14111111 NI Ike 004/ 0 pultledlos. DION WATIII AT LONDON IMMO& To Dar—illasag. .. Alamos. IL OM Trscruov—iloosas Ils...—Allssess. ILL It. LONDON, MONDAY. MAY 14. LATEST FROM ABROAD. FURTHER DESPATCHES FROM THE. CRIMEA. w. (Daly N....) have received the following Is. ogelehon fres Lord Penmen : " 11111 , 01111 BATVILDAT. " The essay made a sortie lest tight (Friday) on the advanced works of the left attack. " They moved forward in two coltunne, but both were immediately repulsed with considerable lam. Ile condast of the troops was admirable. Our ism enlisted of one ream sad five men killed, and thirty men wounded." •• SEBASTOPOL, FLIDAT, UTZ MAT, 5.41 r.m. "The ~nay opened a heavy Aro an oar bom be. lot night, and maintained it for newly two boon. • Their troops did not attack our advanced paral lel& _ _ _ "The Rawlins hoistcd a flag of trues yesterday evening, with a view to bary their dead who were killed the night before in front of our advance. "The truce was granted." -EXPEDITION TO THE RUSSIAN CO ASTS OF THE EUXINE. (AT ZLICTILIC TILLIGILAPZ.) • BT. PETERSBURG, SATUIDAY, MAT 12. [via anutingl Prince Gortchakoff has sent despatches frosnlieber topol, dates May 7. The Russian general says : " In *booming of May 3, the greater part of the allied Ants put out tor. having oa board, it is said, irmding parties numbering from 10,000 to 18,000 troops. The nest day these troops passed before Yalta. proceeding, it was supposed, towards Anapa. "From the sth to the Bth of May the allied argue' occupied themselves principally in augmenting their batteries, and reinforcing their oppnesobes against the central bastion. Accordingly, their fire, which IMO become more active, has been directed against the Flagstaff and Central Bastions and the &Buy- Einsk and Volhynia Redoubts. The garrison re- P "Is the sights of May 3 and 4, the haulms .apring two mines, to unite the old craters formed by greviess explosions. The garrison made use of amoral cantos Ate. "Is tin nights of May b sad 8, we made a little wit* egd on that occasion we took an English officer aid three English soldiers prisoners. "Three powder magazines in the batteries of the attics blew op"—Deily New. THE FRENCH SQUADRON IN THE BALTIC. (air INTMATIONAL 211.30WZ.) NYBORO, SUNDAY. A Roach squadron, consisting of the Tannins, tarrying the flag of Admiral Penaud Dnqnssnit, and Austerlitz, line-ot.battlo ships, and the corvette tAssam, paged the Belt this morning. KIEL, 8011 DAY. Ma Fres& squadron whored of BeHams at COPENHAGEN, SoirDAT. The CooIBM arrived at moot from Edam% Bad --having repaired damages, proceeded southwards this sfisrllMM—Dssly Norm RUSSIA. (at sincetato TIL1101API.) KCENIOBIIIIIRO, WAr U. The lavafide Rum earn -that from the coon - seneentent d the war in the (Maw, up to March 1, the Rogan lose in wounded (witboat reckoning the dead) has amounted to 13,123.—Daag Newt. GERMANY. (MT 'LIMBIC roma BERLIN, Pains, MAT 11. Count Fiderhasy arrived yesterday. ft is rumoured that t Austria is o the point of pro ealiMing her neutrality, together with that of all Osansay. But tie truth of the romper is greatly Beahted. (3f ILBCTILIC VIENNA. &mama, KAY 12. There s a talk of the Western Powers having caked t►eir pretentious. by way of answering the 4ast Russian propositions.—Doily Sews. ARRIVAL OF ?RR SIMLA FROM THE CRIMEA. car 'Lima= TZLIOZAPIL) PORTBSIOI7TH, Surma Num?. Mg meow transport Simla, Captaia Brooks, has arrived at Spithend front the Crimea. 9he h.s on board 260 Russian prisoners, 12 oaloere, 140 English invalids,' guard of 47 MIL and Highs' .military paamogers. She left Coastaatieople on the Vidt of April,' and Malta on the 9nd of May. THE PRINCIPAL loiter frost Vienne, of I Me 6th, in the Pal Ample Gosetto, mays: Trueellen from Calumet Mate that 12,0J0 Beisatlme are sew emelomE M the fertifleatious of Silistris. English siesta have ap plied fot 1,000 oasts of the Ent quality, astil 640,000 ohm of bulgy, to he delivered la the lions of Kemplio, Ilehettiek, earl Vara., for the Pastel' army." Rum/.—A letter from St. Petersburg, in the teeehelle of Hamburg, swim that tke esspeuy of mari mouresoes for the White Sea, formed is MA hem bees efiliged te Mee es its elrphe fa ontaequism of thy blockade of lagyear. TO•CANT.—Tito lest deteeltruest of the Anstrisa ariss iti limartood i ti Issemo N embalm tiff e Mit** of la& • etieetfree of Hawrs. Id Ones* is *5 TM Quad Hake MA, the Primes essemgeneed the diem a metal theme. There is =Tumour, Begs Ostiparmi, of Mr. Albert Smith be a few sights MK hie "Hemet of Irslst 1/1 " &" .3761 be WI _ineematel smog all who usearetaed Issliets, as well _ as Hr. fbalare ewe matey see. she sesta aloes warty ell kis mile et .su pedant. MB P 1 No man alive is jade of the Adsialet. xeserote. The noble system of Government with such a &iodates facts illustrative sodas, which his memegess -labour to emsesal. And he saeare with each a lack of mem mad discretioe at all who qmetioe the merits of his beloved spire es goads them on to mdse. He cannot open his lie* without laying bars the defects of oar ado& bilastive departments, and taunting men into the* Med of exasperation which makes them harlots ireuillents. If Lord Peuteefrox continue twelve Maths longer in Aloe, there will not be a private individual is the country who is not enrolled in some Administrative Worm Amoolatioe or other. Lord PALMERSTON gravely told the House tiff Commons on Friday evening that in forming his Government he looked, "in the first place, for men who, by their former conduct, have shown them- selves capable of discharging political duty." It is passing strange that, if this was the case, Sir CHARLES WOOD should have been one of Lord Psuamurrotes earliest appointments. The Right lion. Baronet had given proofs of his political imago oily as Chancellor of the Exchequer and President of the Board of Control, and in half-a.dosen subordi nate aloes besides. The only conceivable reason for placing Sir CHARLES WOOD at the head of the Admi ralty is, that he had not previoosly been tried in that department, whereas is almost every other be had been tried and failed. Again, what pe culiar aptitude had Sir Oxosoz Coaszweta. Lewis ever shown for the dbeharge of the duties which devolve upon a Chancellor of the Exchequer P That Right Honourable Bereast had been tried at the Poaelaw Board, and bad failed from Wearable ampsca eel meat of administrative talent. He W been tried es Editor of the faded EdifeinepA 110eitne, and bed made that publication a little mese din and feeble than it had become before it fell into hie bands. He was known to be a voluminous en poem& of the unintelligible dogmas of the " ben& heilemed" church ; but he had shown himself' capable of discharging financial duties. Of hie mea t:jai aptitude" as a financier, the public at large bed no data for forming a judgment; but Lord Palatine:oe, who has long been associated with him in office, most have had some. And it must now be apparent to all, SS it most have been to the PREMIER Wen, that whatever may be Sir 0. C. Lewitt's talents in other respects, finance is not his line. It is pitiable in the extreme to use the lecke*, CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER coming forward night after night in the House of Commons, and giving up one item of hie budget after another, to the first assailant, pleading in excess for his poltroonery that some one had meg gamed it to him, and that for his part he attaches no importance to it. It would be easy to select other illustrative specimens from the members of the draw ing-room oligarchy by whom Lord Peutemtrox has earteuaded hiamelf ; but these two will serve as the " representative men" of their class. They have more the appearance of having been chases although they had not previously "shown them selves capable of discharging political duty," then because they had shown themselves capable. It is in vain for Lord PALMERSTON, under such eir. cumatanoes, to affirm that the prime recommendation of theme men was their approved "official aptitude." lie most have proceeded upon some other principle of solstitial. The name's next consideration in the choice el his amociates, he went on to tell the House of Conn mons, was that they should "have no private en gagements to interfere with their aeceptatice of what may turn out to be temporary political offioe." By iosisting upon this he sought to meet the demands el those who call for an infusion of new blood into the administrative councils of the state. Lord PALMS& ATOM endeavoured to represent these demands se restricted to " men who are intimate with commerce and business transactions." This is a misrepresentation to begin with. The peculiar departmental failures of Government which are for the present attracting most attention are those which might obviously be remedied by the employment et mew inniliar with mercantile transactions—and their eligibility huin consequence been more emplme. *ally urged; but what the country wants is that the career of office shall be thrown open to the w izard* talent of the middle classes. Mercantile nen could improve our transport and COMMMOIBIOB departments, but other professional pursuits of the aid& dupes are calculated to develop administra tive abilities that would be useful in other branches st lbs state service. Again, Lord Faxsasron in itiated that men largely and successfully engaged be business could not be prevailed upon to .swish their lucrative pursuits. Of coarse h sass who °moot or will not give himself up to politics as a profession is not fit for office. A man who will continue to be a merchant and nothing she is not fit to be a statesman. But there are many' among the middle chums who, if they could sae a chance of obtaining fair play in the profession et politico, both could and would relinquish their °thee parasite to adopt it. It is no uncommon thing to me a large and lucrative manufacturing or mercantile concern bequeathed to several brothers, who arty it on in partnership. One of them ma generally be spared from close attention to the business; fre quently the burden of management devolves upon use, the others remaining ur it - were sleeping partners. Bach men can afford to devote themselves to the choreal of an official career quite as well as any cadet or toady of the aristocracy ; and in not a iew, instance' they possess both the taste mid libel for it. Bat each men will not embrace a palhaisa is whisk ail the prime are reserved for the Issatbers of a frivolo* and supercilious oligarchy. 'Lord PALMERSTON would have us believe that he has tried to associate such men with him in office; but be ISO ally same oes-- - -the hon. member for Wiek. Now there are few of our public men whose success be. line of business which perhaps more than any eibirretedres a talent for organimadon in him who en gages in it, or whose general accomplishments afford stronger resumption§ in favour of their capacity ,'far administrative employment than is the case with Mr. Lain°. Bat it date net follow that bemuse he has no iodination to enter upon such a career that others Is good as he may not be found. Lord PALMERSTON might have tried again in some other quarter. Betides, we are not told what was the nature of the employment offered to Mr. Luso: 'it may have been so subordinate and unim portant es to have rendered the proposal a positive Jesuit.' Aga* Mr. Lem may have declined became he felt that, standing alone in the Government, sago. elated with none bat the most inveterate red-tepists, hi might conspeomise his own character, but could in no way serve the 'tattoo. The fallacies put fawned by Lord PALMERSTON on this bead are so tramps rent that they can mystify no one. Admiaistradve Reformers are indebted to his lordship for showing, by the weakness of his arguments, bow feeble is the system be distends. It is scarcely worth while to animadvert ea the WU. scheme Wafirmylefarmytwpsandedby diorama:non Friday sissies. ieliblMibhiladadmitoot burenr.with w. Leg _a_ ear forty years' pates! PALMWTON has been an isinerstial amber td almost evrty Mildewy during. that thee, and ha tells us that be was aware of the amenity et reform. Speaking of the Artillery sod t h e Eagleson, he 'saki en Friday—" For my own pint, I sever could Redeemed why these brassies et the military establishment should have hen separated has the rest. It was, I believe, the result of sachet arrangements, end is sot. I believe, permitted is any army in the world bat oar own." It is tierefoes Lord Pamiserott himself who is to blame that we have sow to set to work to amend this defect of oar military system whilst hostilities are actually in pro- gram, for his lordship confesses that he made so effort to amend it is time of pesos, when the change abald have bees effected without embarrassment or risk.—Daily News. of immense. war, a largo tately reapirad e .Wkinft &Prim " 1 0 rotor to borkoe du , torso beans+, talons . on *genial einviet, who are none too many for our lusitpis end West Indian pmemmiose only, oan no maw be considered ea a reserve for the Crimea, ainarabia, the Baltic, or the United Kingdom. !Tbershre, we my it becomes the duty of those who can believe that we may some day have defen sive u well as offensive war to carry on, to look into Ibis matter, remembering the old proverb about the stable-door and thestolen horse. If it is not looked into, we shall live to hear of a sudden manufacture of rail way engineers into officers, and the old Generals and Colonels, and the military members of the House of Commons, in great grief about it. As there are rea gens why such a contingency is by no means desirable, steps should be taken to supply the want in a proper manner. We shall be pleased to hear, as we possibly may, that adequate additions to the corps have been determined on—perhaps are in progress. It so, well and good. It not, the sooner opinion oat of doors is invoked, the sooner under the present complexion of affairs is Asia attention likely to follow.—Doily Nan. FRANCE. --•-- PIM TDB 0011200NDINT 01P an DAILY N 7111.) PANS Btro l aA 7 EVIIIIIIIO • Stnori's appeal to tlao Court it Cessation wu heard today. It k the custom of this supreme court to appoint every week two counsel, whose duty it is officially to support the appeals of criminals con demned to - death. On thli occasion the president of the court requested M. Delaborde, the leader of the r Damnation bar, to defend the prisoner, twisted by the two other advocates. M. Delaborde took three ob. jectious to the sentence. First, that the case had been brooght to trial with greater rapidity than de l law allowed; second, that Pianori being a foreigue, evidently—and as he himself repeatedly stated—im perfectly acquainted with the French language, an interpreter ought to have been assigned to him ; and, third, that the telegraphic despatches from Italy imputing to him previous crimes were not communicated to him before the trial, were not evidence, and being calculated to create a prejudice in the minds of the jury ought not to have been read. The court overruled all the objec tions, holding that the want of an in.erpreter is no ground for quashing a judgment when neither the prisoner nor his counsel applied for one, and that the objection to the reading of the telegraphic despatches should have been made at the trial. The sentence, therefore, stands con& med. I understand that a man named Gehringer, who kept a public-house in London which Pianori fre quented, has been oonfronted with him at the pre fecture of police. I have not learned whether any revelations have been obtained. The general opinion is that the Emperor will not think fit to grant a pardon, and that the execution will take place on Monday. I believe it has been decided to convoke the Corps Ler:slabsf for a special session at the sad of Jane, to vote men and money. The Bourse, although at times manifesting a good deal of buoyancy, gave way under the influence of reports that Austria had declared her intention to remain neutral. The Rents felllsc., closing at 68.20. Bank of France (losing nearly all the ground it gained yesterday) fell 20fr. The Lyons Railways fell 6.25 and sfr., Rouen 5, and other lines from 1 to 3. The Coitalfutionnel begins a speculative article on the war in these words : "The war that we are car rying on against Russia is not as yet a great war. The great war will only commence on the day when, negotiations being definitively abandoned, we shall operate in concert with Austria. Theo our onslaught upon Russia will not be restricted to the extremities of her dominions ; it is the centre of her empire, that is to say her most vulnerable point, that we shall attack. The battle-field will be transported to Poland. Not a single town, but the fate of the entire Russian empire, will be the stake to be played for." Brave words. But how melancholy it is to find the French government j•ournale still harping upon Austria. Smali comfort for Poland if the expectations held out to her by Napoleon 111. are only to be realised when Austria becomes a sincere ally. The French government is not, it is true, responsible for what the semi-official journals may say. and only lately it officially repudiated some of their state ments. The prophecies of the Conseitationnel with regard to Austria have been repeatedly belied by facts within the last six months. Still it is an un healthy symptom that the leading Paris journal should be ohs' inately following an wars fateue. The Pays says : We thin/ we ran announce that the revenue of thi. indi rect tazeo has increased in a remoras hie winner during the month of ♦pril. If we are currect iv informed, the receipts of the la.i mouth will exceed by 9 Mi.liono those of the cor responding period of 1854. It is more particularly the Customs duties and the registratiot due., that Is to say, those branches of the public rtvel.ne +bleb are mere im mediately connected with the e iiemercial muvemeet and tho activity of business, which show the most important in crease. It sissy be remembrreo that the result of the fl. et three month. of the present year bowed an Increase of 14 millions on the ant quarter of 1854. Trim in four months the receipts of the Treasury h augmented more tams 23 millions, whilst the general maculation was only 20 adillisen for the year. It is unnecessary to enlarge os the slam" emery atlas fact in a p oommermal, and industrial point of view. The Al. 'andel, steamer, belonging to the Menage ries Imperiales, kit Marseilles on the 10th with troops and stores for Constantinople. The Jeuimapes, line-of-battle ship, the sailing frigate La Vengeance, and the steam frigate Montezuma, ett Toulon on the 9th for Constantinople, with troops, ammunition, provisions, and stores of all kends, for the army of the Crimea. The steam gun-boa's La Fleche and L'Alerte were launched at Toulon on the 9th and 10th. Dr. M. LEvy, inspector-general of the French hos pital service of the army of the Rest, has arrived in Paris from Constantinople. A number of the prisoners taken from the Russians at Bomannnd arrived two days ago at Montpellier, under the command of an officer of the 6th Regiment of the line, who is to accompany them to Marseilles. These men bare been enrolled fur the Polish Legion in the service of Turkey, almost all of them being Poles. The soldiers of the garrison of Moatpellier pee them a very friendly reception. The following private telegraphic despatch has been received : " Frankfort, I lth.—A Russian note is spoken of, said to be written in the last days of April, and sent under form of circular to some German courts. In it Russia announces, it is said, that taking into account the political views of several German states, and hoping that their policy will be continued, the govern ment of the Czar ✓rill, on its side, whatever may be the eventuslities of the war, maintain the solution given in the conferences of Vienna to the first two points of guarantee." PARIS. FAIDAT EviNINCI. The insertion in the Motsitesu. of Gen. Rybincki's letter to the Emperor seemed to me a fact of such importance that I thought it right to wend you an extract from it by telegraph. Unless Poland is to be once more played with—unless, which I do not believe, the official recognition of the expectations which her proscribed sons entertain of assistance from Napoleon 111. be nothing more than en experi mental menace to re-whet the blunted purpose of Austria—the signification of the publication must be the restoration of Poland. This I Sod to be the sense is which the lifessiteur is interpreted by the public. But, further, I learn from a private source that, in answer to the &darns presented to the Emperor by the Poles in Paris, to ooegntulite hint on his escape from Pianori's pistol, his MajestMajesty replied in the fol lowing oncnisniableterms :—"I am deeply moved by the sentiments expressed in your satirise. I expected such a maeffestation from you. Hitherto I have riot been able to do what I could have wished for year country; but the march of events now permits me to hope that I may be useful to you, in continaiag the work commenced by him whose heir I am," I am informed that the "cadres" of the Polish Legion are being fast completed; but there are striking symptoms that the impending Polish movement is to be entirely national, and not confined to the Czar toryski party, which, however respectable and patriotic, is bat a party. General Rybincki himself is a democrat, and a dissident from Prince Cesr tolyski's politics, and for that reason he would not licia in the general address, but wrote to Emperor the separate letter which has met with such a favourable reception. M. Aden; Mickiewies, one of the deputation who went to the Tuileries with the Polish address, was in 1849 the redoetessr en chef of the journal lot Trams des Prispies. founded by Count Branicki, which advocated the insurrection of op. pressed peoples throughout the world. From Om moment when the news of Count Wage/ski', appoint ment to the Ministry of Fore4n Affairs was know% the Poles is Paris felt persuaded that the dawn of a new era had arrived. Walew•ki was a Pole by his mother's side, and although brought up in Freese he fought and bled in the Polish oaths in the immthie tionary war'of 1831, and was decorated toe his db. tinguished conduct at the battle of Groshow. It may not, perhaps, be generally reniernbered,that after this battle he went to Louden as a diplomatlesavoy the revolittiocary government. Its then made the acquaintance of Lord Dedley Stuart, and has ever since been a member of the Polish Association. It may not be out of phoebev te ea u C to mind the unquestioned fact that ount Walseski e besides being a Pole, is the illegitimate son of the Great Napoleon, so that his appointment to th e foreign affairs, at moment when the present R. peror promises to continue the policy of hie wal e with respect to Poland, has a double significanes. The Bourse, which has supported with woud e d e l firmness the final breaking off of the Vienna Coal e . souse, sad the certainty of the continuance of th e war, was affected but in a slight degree by the t aw , * Friday mornineo lifoniteur, the importance of lAA was, however, tally understood and much s ea ,. mated es. It was moreover ested in some quarters, tu tu Austrian manifesto had been published in the Ca % respondence Autriehienno in Vienna, tending to throw the blame of the rupture of the conferee*. upon the Western Powers, and declaring that Allah , would remain neutral io the contest. On inqui r y i am assured, on respectable authority, that such Intel. ligeuoe has been received ; but if that be really th e cue, we must suppose that tel.-graphic despatches have been suppressed, for the to telligence i s said have come by ordinary post. Areloog the rnmoo of the day was one that Prince Diapoleou is to bs made Xing of Poland. I attach very little import, acne to suggestions of this kind ; but, however kora. bable the notion may seem just now, it must be es. membered that the policy of the uncle is still the policy by which France is guided. General Prim is the author of the protest to whisk I referred yesterday as having been made by the Spanish residents. __ ..• ILEUMS APOLOGY. m an go—as well as whisk he probed it are salkienty earions . ft loom e i ...... 4 = way in oleo of ...... ....,.. 4 Paling 1 .0 °. • " Thb f or i4 e t i • - mil= air strength is lawskiiatel: I * ,MI I doing so mush to prealup ob- sistrative R 0 P hyp o . E we avestly than that of the wo.id told* viscount Orwhaed t w t "Pio lill ne tnei . sa d Mines, which Lard Mammas yogi tweet in wit,* wn , onr _I him, Wv till digs the ossellosployment of the navigators. new s f bigotry t rife \obt 4 gain di' to hisotisl; it should inborn. in wind that as the h of it character upon th! put_li . ! liinXkPu...WILY did_c:ltsAyeratistrevbegLaran it . soloS peasa r t O u t soa k." rmad ans , ____ llwill "Imes :The trati"__ imumbeda__°77 Vie court. The Queen and Print* Albert honoured with their trigron Friday sane', tbe Amateur Performance at ans Tneatre, for the ben"fit of the Wellington Sadler. Her Majesty and hie Royal Highness were soma =by the Prime of Wales, Puget /idea, the Princes es and Lades, the Duke of Sage-Coburn, and the Prim -6C Alailabla aII beatoba. Tao royal alto consisted of lasaises at Desalt, Lord Camoys Major-General , Outdo Da Plat, Li Conseillir Sasser, and Treskow. Oa Saturday morning bur Majesty and Prince Albert visited the Crystal Palace, at Sydenbeen, asoompanied by the Duke of Sage. Coburg, the Princess of Hoheelohe Lageaburg. and &Mead by the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, the Hoe. Beatrice Ryon, Major-General Barkley, and Captain IN / Plat; the Cuasedier Sarawer an. Baron de Inshore stended the Duke of SA:a-Coburg. The Princess Royal and the Princess Ales took a drive in se open earrings-and-four. Prism Arthur aid the Priam's. Helena end Louisa oleo took a carriage siring. Prince Victor ..f Hobeeloa Luneburg lilt Baking ham Palace on Friday evening, to join the fleet in the Elsa See. Prince Albert, actsompania by the Doke of Bay .Coburg, rode os horseback on Saturday afternoon. Captain Da Plat and Baron de Treskow were in attendance Her Majesty and Priors Albert, accompanied by the Duke of Save-Coburg, the Princes. of Hobalobe Lauseaborg, and the Princess Fecolore of Hobsoloke, honoured the Royal Italian Opera with their muses in the evening. The royal esite ompisted a° the Hon. Eleanor Stanley, the Hon. Barrios Bing, Lord Quays, Major-General Buckley, Captain Da Plat, Ls Comilla Sensor, and the Baron de Treskow. Mr. George Craikshank has had the honour to submit to his Royal Higbaels the Prince his picture of o The Fairy Ring." The following had the honour of being promoted to her Majesty at the levee oe Feld. y : Mr. George Lewis, Royal Engineers, by the. Inspector ' General of Fortifications. on promotion. Mr. George R. Oriel b, by the Earl of Damen. Lieutenant-Gloss' A. Herris”n, late Madras Army, by the Chairman of the E..t India Company ; sad Dr. M. Crawford, on going abroad, by the Earl of flare wood. Prince Ernest of Lenient' arrived in London on Satur day night, and is staying at Buckingham' Palace, on a visit to her Majes y. Yesterday the Queen and Prince Albert, with the Prince of Wales, the Princes. Royal, Privet' Alfred, the Primus Alice, the Deana of Kent, the Princes. of Hobenlobe Langenburg, mid Priam Ernest of Leioingen, attended divine service in the Private Chapel, at Beekinghern Palace. The Hon. and Very Rev. the Den of Windsor read the prayers, and the Rev. H. Melvin preached the sermum. The ladies and gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic Household, also attended the service Toe Princesses Adelaide and Feodore of Robealohe attended divine service yesterday maim is the Royal German Chapel, St. James Palace. A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-office, Downing-street, on Saturday afternoon. The ministers present were: VisootunPalmerstoc, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl ot Clarendon, Lord John Russell, Lord Namur% the Chancellor ot the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Sir William Moleeworth, Vis count Canning, and the Earl of Harrowby. The Council sat three hours. A depstaties es the MOM of pension for the widows of moldier, sad sailors killed is setae, had an interview with Sir George Grey es Saturday. at the Houte.ofilee. The deputation oessieted of Valmont Bernard, M.P., Major- General Chatham°, E.H., Mr. F. B. Beataish, M.P., Mr. bath Butt, M P., Mr. John F. Maguire, id P., Mr. T. Kennedy, M.P., Has. Colonel Spacer, Mr. Jenson, the Rev. Wets Smart, and Ciptain Stuart. R.N. The depute• ties handed thirteen petitions to the Secretary of State for presentation to her Majesty upon the subject. A deputation from Croydon respecting the holding of the fair in October of each year, also had an interview with the right bon. hamlet. The deputation consisted of Mr. Tea. Alcoa, M.P., and Messrs. Samuel Garrey , juo., Mathew Harrison, and John Morland. A deputation, consistiog of Mr. Guard (chairman of the Staines, Wokiagham, and Woking Railway Company), Mr. Blattelsomi (dirostor), and Mr. Noyes (whetter to the coop pay), had ea istarview with Lord Stanley of Alderley Saturday, at the Harlot Trade. Ihe Edsestion Committee of the most Hen. Privy Coun cil had a meeting on Saturday, at the Council-office. t h e lords present wag the Lord President, the Earl of Her. mairowhy thi , B MA Gam Groy,the Cha Baste. ncellor of the Eachesuer, s B Met. M. T. A doputatio• oesehtimg or the Earl of Burlington, Chan cellor of the Calamity of London, Lord Overstone, Mr. J. Shaw Werra, Vied-Ohancellor, and Mr. Warburton, had as interview with Sir William Molseworth on Saturday, at the Ocoee of Worhe and Public Holiday, Whitehall-place. A deputation from Lambeth, consisting of Mr. W. Wil liams, 11. P., Mr. T. P. Idenough, Messrs. Stratton . (oharthwardsn), Robert Taylor, Charles Enna, Fredk. Dallas, Chan Barker, and Amos Come, had an interview H with Sir George Grey, os Friday, at the H ome oMoe. The Rev. Dr. Smy th and the Rey. Dr. Caadhsh also had an interview with the Right Hos. Baronet on Friday. CIYMAL PALACIL—Her Majesty the Queen &Coot. panted b! Prises Albert, the Doke of Saes Coburg Gotha, and the Primus of Holhadsho Langenbsrg, paid • length trued visit to the Crystal Palest, on Saturday. Her Ma jesty's party meat oTir the whole of the building, and made parches's, is tits industrial &pertness, of a mosaic table by Mr. Swans, a Garin of lithographs by Day and Soo, a Croydon lethal oarrOge by Mr. Loamy, medals by Mr. Piasksh It They also wont into the pound, as far as the lowa moos tuts.. the geological ratorations and entrails vies @sisal". The Hon. Miss Staaley, the li on . Mims Bytig, Wand Ilsdcley, art CapMin Da Plat, won in attendance I on her Majesty, and the Heron do Treskow and M. Simmer on the Dubs of Sans Coburg. ROYAL ITALIAN OPY3.l.—Her Majesty the QM= sad his Royal Highness Palace Albert Immured the per formances at the Royal Italian Opera with their promos, on Saturday ovitaisg. The Queen and the Prince wags accompanied 14; his Royal Highness the Duke of Saw Cobourg Gotha, their Serene Highnesses the Primes of Holienloho-Lingeobtut and the Priacooo Foodore of Ho- Itonlohis-Laagsaburg. The Illustriess party ware attasded by Lord Ceaoye, Hon. Miss Byog, the Hoa. M Staaloy, General oy, sad Captain Do Plat. Among the nuaiosable isompany attitsdiag the theatre we remarked the Duchess et tho Matabioaros et Bly, the Rut et Jersey and Lady Cleamatina Villiers, the B ail of Hops. toes, the Coast's@ et Hiltsoll and Lady Elisabeth Hay, the Earl sit Dalkeitb, the Pori and Countess Cas sias** Grosvenor, the Earl Cowper, the Earl of Cerdigea, Viscount Clifdas, Viscount Bolingbroke, Viscount Grey do Walton. Viscount Ranicristh, Viscount Ranolagh. Viewing and Visoosatas Mandeville, Viscount and Visage*, Malden, Viscount Combos's*, Viscount T Lady Soutkamptos, Lady de Clifford sad the Mks Russell, the Ladies Causes, Lady Maga& Lady Reword de Walden and the Hos. Charlotte Ellie, dy Mary Visor and Mr. Visor, Lard Crassious, Lord Room Bran, M.P., Lord Adolphus Paederasts, Hai. Kra. Charles Coat an d Hes. Flora Macdonald, Hon. Otway Toler Hos. G. W. Mille*, Han . C. Harboird, Boa. George Lesielles, Has. R. Russell, Bon. Gerald Ponscabr, air Araytic a, Air Fredeziek Arthur thr William 45 Bathe, Sir msvalseell, Air Joia Bergen" sad Ms Barsoras, Gene- ral Pia, Boa. W. Fitsolsveses, Celeasi lhoiajow mace, M.P., Colonel Molests' sad Mrs. e t y m a wawa &Vire. Walson,:Osisssi Wlldsrm s paia, end lire. Rees. Ornotsla Ilbeesses aaf il = eilligrean end the Hsu. Misses Blake, Mr. H. B. M.P., Mr. ILOverdie, She Mina MArjeribealts, Mr Sedratb, Mr. Robert Mina, M. Avoided's', lltr Mr. Cagglagkars, Mr. B. W. Canis, Mr. Newton Mr. Brow uri gg. Mr. J. L. Clayton, Kr, Wen tworth Kies Weatworb, Mr. M.P., sad M. Dodd sad Miss WWI, Re. ME EXPRESS, MONDAY IV ITING, MAY 14, 1855. THE ROYAL ENGINEERS. Tan COMMABDER-11(-011B7 gave it u his opinion before the Sebastopol Committee, on Friday, that an "increase of Sappers and Miners in the army was preferable to that of civilians, because Sapper! and Miners could work as well as fight." Lord Has toms is no doubt rather nervous about the continued despatch of navvies to the seat of war. Arrange ments are in progress for the shipment of 3,000 of them, at high rates of wages and the fear is Wand that discontent may be engendered among the make troops. Their employment, however, is a nesessary evil, and the dead of its possible effect cannot war rant a large permanent addition to the Sapper force. It would be highly impolitic to maintain Devises bri gades °Emcee earth-workers in time of pesos, sada" the moles of the army in time of war the navvies can ba no competitors for the soldiers' triumphs, while they mar be a vast relief to the rank and file. They have hi wages it is true, but only for the job, and with ' int prospect of glory, advancement, prise money, or pension, which an the consolations of the soldier under all the trial, of war at sixpence a day. The real evil is the limited number of Engineer • ofiloers,to which we find no allusion made by either the COMMAIIDER-IX-CUlgl or the Pll.lllO MINISTER, the letter of whom proposed inter alio, on Friday night, to effect a fusion, "as to disciplaw only," of the Royal Engineers with the rest of the army. Lord RAGLAN notices that in 1862—having ob- served, in common with the public, the low state of our artillery establishment—he procured an addition of 300 guns and ammunition waggons. This was a step taken in time. Its results have been satisfac tory ; the consequences of its omission would have been dreadful,: but the increase of the Engineers since that epoch has been in no way commensurate— in fact, has not exceeded two companies, established on the Ist of last month. Probably nine-tenths of the public are nnao vitiated with the organisation and duties of the Royal Engineers. They are beard of at the annual siege of the lines of Bromptoo, and they acted as military secretaries to the Exhibition of 18.51; they have been supposed by many to be connected with the Commissioners of Sewers; and are often found per forming mystic rites on grassy knolls throughout the country in the name of the Ordnance Department, the taw:lima of which, according to Lord HAR DINGE, are mainly financial. They may fairly divide the geographical honours of the country with the Tithe Commission, and have earned the thanks of the railroad schemers and pedestrian tourists, who are the great buyers of their maps. These are their apparent pursuits, and in other mat ters they are rarely dreamed of. For, thanks to the " inviolate see," bearing on its bosom the walls of wood, the Englishman knows few of those miles of masonry and acres of earthworks that the rulers of the European mainland are wont to raise as stumbling blocks in the way of their enemies. Here and there on our shores a mild terrace of greensward, or a stolid looking Martell*, shelters a few veteran pieces of ordnance, the honeycombed survivors of the rage of kings. We have no used of an enesisile coninsue, to threaten while pretending to protect our capital. The Briton can have ingress and egress of his native ; town without a challenge or a drawbridge, and the Cocksey may sum up the defences of this city in the . historical Tilbury and the Tower of London. But ancoospicuons as are the labours of the Eogi .. neers in time of pease, these are by no means light. Our foreign colonial possessions require the service of the corps at about 40 stations, which comprise some of the most important fortified posts in the world. Although we have no Strasburg, Mayence, Antwerp, or Paris, we have Malta, Gibraltar, Quebec, and Alderney ; and even where the progressive art of war demands no additional defences, the hand of time mast be perpetually withstood. The strength of the corps en disponibiliti is about 290, inclusive of the last batch of young officers, the sick, and those occupied in permanent appointments -60 in all. There remain, then, 240 officers, of whom the forty foreign posts occupy close upon 100. Of the snood remainder of 140, fifty are at or on the road to the Crimea ; and our last remainder gives for home service 90 officers, of various ages and capacities, whose duties are as follows :—They are posted at forty-five stations, including Portsmouth, Pembroke, Plymouth, the Tyne, the Money, the Frith of Forth, the Bristol Chrissel, D Alin, Cork, the Shannoo, the Medway, and Chatham, where some are necessarily in charge of the lop& They ars responsible for the deftness not surely of these forty-five pleas. but of the whole eoest line. They survey the United Kingdom for civil and the coast for military purposes. They have the supervision of all warlike constructions, from the &allying an island to building a barrack or • wash. house, facetiously termed going through a course of tuabiteoture. ' They have the studies ,of juniors to super based, the czarism of companies, and the training of lane men. They are supposed, after receiving their esmitiesiass, to gain a vast amount of knowledge, which boys seldom can or will acquire, and to keep up an acquaintance with the literature and practice of the profession, having an eye to the march of their owe mimeo, and the general art of war both at home end abroad. These duties may s not, on paper, appearez- Imarting,bstpreetially they have been found in time of parfait peace se disproportionate to the number of able-bodied alone, that every thoughtful man in the service adinits that not half of them can have been as efficiently performed as he could have wished. Aire yet this is not a lacy eorps. They are not faahisas:ble loungers, nor do theyUstaloady strive for the dlitinotioan of rnflianims, or the canwava dealt to 'chaos' Woods,. Leave of absence is hardly knows, aid 'a men may consider himself bias off who hie hr.d three or fear mouths' leisure in twice as many 'pan, while in many mess the aggregate of lore lwaeld lts lowa km. Thu koferestar. we weed data' horn them heti and remarks is, that the functions of the' Repel Engineers being miens end sasses is tine' et SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette of the ith contaios a cirealez to the ecclesiastical authorities, dinctiog them to suspend the admission of novices into convents, until the number sod occupation of all the nuns of Spain shall have been ascertained. A letter of the Bth, which has arrived in advance of the ordinsq mail, says :—"The floating debt of the Treasury, which on the let April was 586,138,100 real, (the real is worth 5 sous), had increased, on the let May, to 591,356,989 reale.* A telegraphic despatch of the 11th states that the nomination of the successor of the Minister of Spain at Washington ' M. Cueto, has been postponed until after the arrival of the next mall from the Havanna. The payment of the bons will begin on Monday. The cholera continued, but is not severe. AUS I MA. A letter from Vienna ot the Bth, in the Co'syse Gazette, says :—" The departure ot Baron de Hest is suit unoertain. The imperial df eree on the new levy has been communicated to the Minister ot the Late. rior, who is taking the necessary steps for its diem. tion. It is generally supposed that this body of troops will amount to from 80,000 to 100,000 men. Another decree is spoken of, which is to raise the income tax 11 per cent. The greater pert of the Srd division stationed in Styria has been called to Vienna, while nearly the whole garrison of Vienna has lett for Oallicia. The 6th division, under Prince Lichtenstein, which was clutoned at Udine and Tre• vie°, has received orders to stop in Styria, and wait for further orders. It is believed that it will be sent to Transylvania, .part of the troops there being ordered to Moldavia." Letters from Vienna (says the Pogrie) stated that, in conformity with the instruction, of the Emperor of Austria, Generals Crawford and Letang were to accompany Baron de Hess to Osßiala. But it appeen, according to a letter in the Inchgpendance of Brumes, that this circumstance has given rise to very warm • of the Russian ambassador remonstrances on the part of the Mime ..--_ at Vienna. Prince Gortchakoff is said to hate de clared that the presence of the military representa tives of France and England among the staff of the Austrian army would be the signal for a rapture between the cabinets of Vienna and of Sr. Petersburg, sod that he would immediately demand his passports. It is not known what ulterior resolution may become to by the Austrian cabiLet, and whether the post ponement of the departure of General de Hess can be connected with this state of indecision. DENMAR/L-ENFORCEMENT OF intu MALI fY. (FROM TER COILIMPONDANT OF TES DAILY MM.) COPENHAGEN, NAT 6. Circulars have been sent round by the Minister for Foreign Affairs to the different custom-house autho. ritiee of the kingdom, authorised to grant to Danish ships the usual sea passport (in the Latin language), impressing upon them the necessity of exercising the greatest vigilance to prevent abuses, and particularly to insist on the execution of all the formalities con tained in the original royal ordinanoe of the 4th of May, 1803, relative to the proofs of ships being bona fide Danish property, before obtaining permission to sail under the national flag. Especial reference is called to the Third Article of the Ordinance, which would shut out from the benefits of the Danish flag the vessels of those subjects who were still domiciled in one of the belligerent states alter the breaking out of the present war—that is, subsequent to the 29th of March last year—from which it is inferred that their ships were placed under the flag of one of the belligerent states. The King has bought the beautiful and extensive estate of Roohave , in the Duchy of Schleswig, for the sum of 180,000 rix dollars, and made a present of it to his wife, the Countess Danner. Her Majesty's ship Conflict is still at Elsinore, making good the damage she received from the fields of ice with which she came in contact in her late cruise up the Baltic, and in which a good deal of the copper sheathing on her bows was carried away, like that of the Miranda last year. She has also damaged her rudder, but will be able to effict her repairs at Elsinore, although the place afl'ords no great faci li ties for the performance of such operations. An American bark (the Jupiter of New Orleans), which arrived here as soon as the Sound was free of ice, destined for some Russian port, has been deterred by the early appearance of the British cruisers from proceeding, and remains in the roadstead awaiting orders from her owners. _ When Admiral Dundee was here, he made minute inquiries into the Danish system of educating young naval officers, which consists in not letting them serve afloat all the year roundi but only for three oe four months in the summer, whilst the rest of the year they prosecute their studies on shore, and get a more general education as to the theory of their pro fusion. On occasions when foreign potentates come on a visit to Copenhagen, naval officers are generally selected to do the honours of the place. This was the case, amongst others, during the visit of the late Emperor of Russia, the King of Sweden, &c. The admiral praised the system, and said he believed and hoped that after the restoration of peace, an &iterates would be made in the British naval service, mini. lating it in some respects to the system pursued by the Danish government. Apropos of Admiral Dundee. On this offices arrival here his first eager and busied question to the commandant of the marine battery, where be landed, wee " What news from Sweden?" The Dane did net understand what he meant, and, wou• dering at hie evident anxiety, replied qiiietly No news in particular." However, the story circulated quickly from mouth to mouth, and gave rise to tit most fabulous combinations. " News from Sweden . Did King Oscar then intend to declare war with Russia P If so, the next Swedish post must bribe the important news." The next day somebody U 4 an opportunity of asking the gallant admiral the meaning of his question to the Danish commandant, when it turned out that it was merely in referenoe the state of the iee. It is generally reported here that the King of Bet mark, accompanied by the Countess Danner, will p, this summer to Aix-la-Chapelle to. nee the welts" that place for the re-establishment of his health slut the bed of serious illness from which he has Well risen, and which has left hint in • very s' P a k state. Accounts from Sweden state that het MajM"l .l steamers Cemeask and Tartar (the two steam-ftle, originally ertiersedier the Emperor of Ramis, ' - seised whilst building in Mr. Pilcher's yard) arrived at Farbsemd, each with a collier in tow. 110 fishermen reported that the Aland Islands were Si occupied by any Russian troops, and that some ell of the advanced squadron had been seen off AT: hamo, • couple of miles only from Ledsund, one of tY Mead poop. gu! to bai ben Tat wh the is i 10