The Express. — London, England, 1855-02-27 00:00:00

Utz ex3refi6. aegations•nt• Wen ted for °The Tapreq•," Leadaik Evades ispir, mot be the Utlleo, 10, Donvorie-017.01, by Two eels* OS as lay et pa, Lc, tbs. 111011 WATIR AT LONDON BRIDGE. TO Dior —liandes IN. Sfs . tftsrases, Ilk. Or. T...isa —Muria& N. ea Aftsrasce, Ob. 23a. LONDON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27. LATEST NEWS FROM ABROAD CST -t hiMAILINZ AND BRITISH TZLZOILAPII PARIS, TUZSDAY. (rtioli °Oa OWN BATOUM, Ti,, 1 A body of Georgian militia (Asian) attacked, at the gimp at Laghoe, yesterday, a post confide. to 800 Bachi-Bouco , ixs. The Russians were driven back With considerable loss.—Daily News. The Moniteur of yesterday announces that, by an Imperial decree dated Jan. 17, 18.53, M. Ochsenhein, thief of the military department in Switzerland, has b ee n named gt neral of brigade au titre &ranger. General Ocheenhein will take the command of the second foreign legion. A note from Vienna in the same official journal states (in confirmation of our telegraphic report) that Count Rechberg will go to Frankfort to replace Baron Prokesh, appointed second Austrian plenipo• tentiary at the Vienna Conferences. The Nun iti vr, noticing the changes in the English government, arts. that Lord John Russell's accept ance of the Colonial Secretaryship will not set aside his journey to Vienna. It also gives as rumours (on parte) the comination of Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Chancellor of the Exchequer ; Sir Charles Wood, First Lord of the Admiralty ; Mr. Vernon Smith, President of the Board of Control ; and Lord Stanley of Alderley, President of the Board of Trade.— Daily News. BERLIN, FIB. 24. The negotiation with France still remains without result. The parties, it is believed, thoroughly under stand each otter. Prussia wants to enter the new Conferences in the interest of Russia. The Czar is exceedingly anxious on this head. But Prussia would enter the Conferences in vain if she took upon herself any positive engagement to act against Russia. M. Drouyn de Lhuys has held very decided, although conciliatory, language to General Wedell, and the issue of the Negotiations will not be long delayed.—Daily News. VIENNA, Flea. 23. Lord John Russell is expected here on Tuesday or Wednesday. It is not thought that the negotiations , will belong protracted, unless England and France de clare themselves ready to give up the objects for which they have taken arms. The Russian party ascribe to Prince Gortchakoff the declaration that the Czar will never consent to displace a stone of the forts of Sebastopol, and that any effort to take the place will be regarded as showing that neither France nor England sincerely wishes to treat for peace,—Daily News. • THE NEW RETURN OF NEWSPAPER STAMPS. The return of newspaper stamps just tined gives he follow lug results : First Quaint. Second Qaalia. . 319,191 348,044 303,000 299,000 . 206,000 226,000 162,600 186,600 . 177,133 1913,369 . 176,000 196,000 . . 168,000 192,000 . . 103,000 104,000 Daily News Monitor; Herald . Kota ion Post Morning Claud& . Express Globs Son . Standard THE VICTUALLING AND THE PAY OF THE ARMY. - 40 - THE explanation officially given of the " green coffee sent to the Crimea " is this :—" Coffee forms no part of the rations of a soldier, to be supplied by the Oovernmest. But when the army was sent to the East, a year ago, it occurred to the officers of the Commissariat at home that it might prove a great advantage to the troops if they were enabled to pur chase many articles of comfort and delicacy, not in cluded in the ordinary rations, at a low pries; and accordingly supplies of (raw) coffee, to be sold at did. the pound, of sugar at 2d. the pound, of rico at 3d. the pound, of tea at Is. the pound, of porter at 3d. the quart, and a variety of other articles at prime cost, without any daty, were forwarded to the East, and placed at Ms disposal of the troops." Thus, in stead of the green coffee, on which so much vehe means has been wasted, being a sign of negligence on the part of the Commissariat, it was, as is officially declared, a sign of great foresight, thought- fulness, and care for the soldier. The sending it at all was entirely a work of supererogation. It was done with great promptness at the very commencement of the expedition a year ago. Nor was it coffee alone that was sent, but many articles of comfort and delicacy not allowed by **Government to the soldiers, which the Commissariat obtained out of the docks free of all duty and sent as commissariat stores by her MAJESTY'S ships to be placed at the disposal of the troops, officers as well as men, in exchange for their pay. " It cannot be doubted," says the official account, " that this was an arrangement extremely advantageous to the troops," though the coffee was not roasted ; nor can it be doubted, unofficial people think, that it was intended to be extremely advan tageous to the Commissariat. Whether the foreseeing members of that body at home did their duty towards the troops in providing them rations has been very much questioned ; but after this official statement there can be no doubt whatever that they were extremely careful to supply articles of comfort and delicacy, which the Government does not think neces sary for the health and strength of the soldier, but which the Commissariat thought he would like to buy, and which were placed at his disposal accordingly. The official account, however, tells as that on the 28th of June, Lord RAGLAN took a similar view of what was necessary for the soldier to that taken by the Commissariat at home, and "issued a general order, by which coffee and sugar were to be made a part of the soldier's daily rations." We have a recol lection, too, that about the same time an allowance of porter was ordered, and we have had in our hands letters from soldiers, complaining bitterly, more than a month after the order was given, that they could not obtain rations either of coffee or porter. Oars had certainly been taken to provide articles for sale, bat that equal care had Wen taken to provide them for distribution, the whole history of our neglected, suffering, and starved troops disproves. If coffee, sugar, tea, and porter form no put of the ordinary rations of a soldier in the field, when they can be procured, what do they receive? This is an interest ing question, and the len the Government gives them, the more culpable seems to us the Commissariat, which has not fully and carefully supplied it; and has, with much forethought, supplied articles for mle. The majority of the public will learn with some ' astonishment, we believe, that the nutriment ordered by the regulations for the men who fight the national, battles abroad—who are keeping guard in wet trenches by night, and who are expected to march or fight with heavy packs twelve or sixteen hours—is nothing but bread and meat—l lb. of bread, or tlb. of biscuit, and llb. of meat. The Commander of the Army has it in his power to increase the allowance of bread, but it is the army is actually in the field, order besides rations of wine or spirits, and of coffee or sugar ; but, as a rule, the allowance is re stricted to bread and meat. Either or both articles may be of the worst description, mouldy biscuit or rancid salt pork ; but as a rule , these two substances are all that the Government supplies, and everything else the soldier may need or desire, u food or drink, he must buy. What is his pay ? The bulk of the soldiers, all the rank and file of the infantry, exo lading officers of all descriptions, have Is. a day, out of which they have to buy a great number of necessaries, which martinet officers are far more careful to see in their knapsacks than they are to see that their rations are duly supplied. The cavalry have something more than the infantry, and all the officers, from lance-corporals upwards, have large pay, but the total emoluments of the soldier may be con sidered, on the field—for in barracks he has no ra tions--u much less than Is. a day, Ilb. of bread and Ilb.of meat. It was out of his Is.,—reduced, we believe, to about 4d. on the average, after all his necessaries are paid for—that the Commissariat expected him to purchase the articles of comfort and luxury it provided. There has been much written in our time about the cheap defence of nations; and about the purchase of the services of the bulk of an army for one shilling a day and one pound of coarse bread and salt pork, by the wealthiest nation of the world, is a cheap defence. Siuce the disasters in the Crimes, propositions have been made to establish a conscription; and if carried out it might, for the first time perhaps, make our opu lent yeomanry, our princely merchants and manufac turers, and our nobility—for the conscription must be universal and equal—sensible of the national scampishness of paying their sons, when in the ranks, one shilling a day, and one pound of bread, and one pound of meat. The art of war, though degraded to be the game of Kings, is yet, as it has been at all times, from the beginning of society, a neces sary art. It is still ranked with the highest and the noblest arts. It leads successful generals to the highest honours and rewards; but England carries it on by selecting only the lowest of its population for the work, and pays them so that only such a clue will become soldiers. That the noblest and still the, most necessary of all arts —the art which calls into exercise the most heroic qualities of our nature—should by England be carried on in this unworthy manner, is oontrary to the good sense to which we make a national claim. 11l fed and ill paid, plundered, as he has been until lately, even of his small nominal pay to enrich tailoring colonels and peddling commissaries, the British soldier, though he sometimes imitates the filching example to which he is continually a victim, and becomes a predatory animal, is a perfect marvel of courage, perseverance, and heroic fortitude. But we must earnestly caution the public that it is not wise to rely for the national safety on the perpetual continuance of a miracle. This wealthy nation must pay its defenders better ; this civilised nation must have for its defenders the better classes of its people. If England is to be hereafter successful in war, it must embody its intelligence into the army, and must encourage exertion by the ordinary mo tives that ensure success in civilised society. It must take the soldier out of the heads of cabbaging colonels ; and it must take the supply of his wants, of his comforts and delicacies, out of the hands of profit making commissaries. The pay of the sailor has been increased, his vic tualling has been improved, and the old scandal of impressment, in consequence, got rid of. Now the turn of the soldier has arrived. His pay must be increased, thaegii more than half or nine-tenths of the officers Amid be discarded ; his rations must be enlarged, snip made mere varied, and supplied with greater rep levity ; or the art on which the nation must still depend for its safety will die out, and our descendants may become serfs of Russia. Idle gossips and mew ben of peace societies, whose ideas of war are formai from the luxuries enjoyed by the Household Brigade, and from seeing how poor a plaything princes make al as army, may think our soldiers well enough *II; bud we tell them that war is a necessary et; die, to be successful, it must be carried ma by the mat intelligent part of a I. Meld community ; that it mast embrace all dm arts of civilised life ; and that the =anise men id the rank of the army must be better paid flag as agricultural labourer. Benevolemee bes lodised cm behalf of needlewomen and rigged ail. deer. Justice should be done to the soldier. He amid set be worse paid than the lowest Mower, without even the workhouse as a refuge. The peor and feed of our troops, still regulated on the eldest Find* of muter and slave, are altogether instill- Meat for the civilised man. Onr soldiers—giants is stature and courage—are treated by the old feeble nurses of the Horse Guards and the Treasury m babies, and are made almost as helpless by their re seriatim§ as themselves. They are prevented by martinets and red-tapists from using their own Intel- Biotic* ; they are sent into the Held as parts of a system, forbidden to use their own native power by its authors, and are left by them,onfed and unclothed, to perish. A total change is obviously necessary to make our army accord with our society ; and the war, which in so many ways is teaching us to know ourselves, cannot be without great utility, even in the eyes of Mr. BBIGHL—DIIaiI News. OUR TURKISH ALLIES. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1855. duct at Balaklava of a few raw levies, ill fed, ill used, and ill supported, wee sufficient to obliterate the re milked= of Citate and Oltenitss. Those who had been foremost in proclaiming the decrepitude of the Turkish empire received almost with satisfaction this corroboration of their views, which to their minds appeared decisive. This delusion has, unfortunately, been shared by those who have had the management or misma nagement—for the terms are pretty well synony mous—of our Eastern campaign. The avowed object for which we engaged in war was to maintain the independence of the Ottoman empire —to establish by means of Turkey a barrier against Muscovite aggression. Whatever be the success of our arms, we cannot always be fighting the armies of the Cul. A day must come, sooner or later, when we shall have to leave to the Porte the defence of those safeguards of European liberty which we may then have purchased at a cost Heaven alone knows how terrible. We have, too, to contend against an enemy whose chief, if not sole, supe riority consists in the fact that in the countless hordes of his vast empire he possesses a never failing supply of fresh levies and fresh victims. As a counterbalance to this advantage of Russia, her frontiers are threatened on the south by warlike tribes possessing that very requisite of numerical power of which, by our position and distance from the scene of action, we are necessarily deprived—and friendly to the cause of the SULTAN from the commu nity of rata and faith, so powerful a bond among Eastern nations—or united by that bond of danger and injury which is common to all. Under such circumstances and with such objects, the true policy of the Western Powers was sufficiently obvious. Every effort should have been made to develop the vast latent resources of Turkey, to restore the efficiency of her armies, and to raise her in her own estimation, as well as in that of faithless friends and open enemies. Every inducement should have been offered to our natural allies, the tribes of the Cau casus, the warriors of SCIIAMYL, and the inhabitants of the Principalities, weary of Russian protectorates—to join us in our new crusade. Instead of this, what has been the policy pursued ? While we have been dallying with Austrian alliances, and waiting upon Prussian diplomacy, we have ignored or rejected the resources at our disposal. No opportunity has been lost of showing how little store we place upon Turkish assistance. Their troops have been subjected by our generals to treatment of which we have cause to be ashamed—and their fleet has been condemned by our admirals to a forced inactivity, which, considering the inefficiency of our own blockade, we may, perhaps, have cause to regret. The feeling of national independence has been im paired instead of fostered. The Turks have learnt, to their cost, the truth of the old fable. Like the horse who asked the man to mount upon his back to assist him in his attack upon the stag, they have leitnt, too late, the imprudence of their offer. The consequences of this policy are clear. For the present, our armies are floundering before Sebastopol in a sort of "slough of despond," real as well as typical ; while Russia, unasaailed in her vulnerable points,• is at liberty to pour down fresh le gions on their devoted heads. For the future, we have the consolation of knowing that, if our most sanguine hopes could be realised to. morrow, if every conceivable success should attend our arms, we should leave Turkey less capable of defending herself against new aggression than when we advanced so gallantly to her relief. The cause of this policy is as easily to be penetrated as its consequence. To adopt a wiser and a bolder course—to create new resources, as well u to make the most of old ones—required a departure from the ordinary rules of official routine. We recollect to have once seen a French caricature of a Parisian cockney out for a day's shooting. A bird has perched upon the barrel of his fowling-piece. Holding the gun at arm's length, our Nimrod searches through the index of his sporting guide, and then replaces it in his pocket, with the wads, " Eventuality unprovided for by the Sportsman's Manual." The story may, perhaps, be trivial, but it appears to us to illustrate exactly our conduct with regard to our Eastern Allies. What we wanted by within our reach. But here, alas ! was an eventu ality unprovided for—no precedent was found in our military traditions ; it was a use not regulated by the golden roles of routine—an event that was not written in the books of the Chronicles of the Wars of England. The war, however, has long since burst the leading strings of routine and respectability. We are begin ning to awaken, we trust not all too late, to the exi gencies of our position. The enrolment of a British auxiliary corps of Turks is a step in the right direc tion. We cannot afford sow to disregard any source of strength. We must have no more disbanding of Albanian levies for the SULTAN because Austria may disapprove of them—no more half measure.—no more neutral occupations. The weapons of war lie within our grasp. We have only to use them before it is too late to do so with succas.—Daily News. THE WAR. THE GENERAL ARMING IN :RUSSIA. The Invalid* Busse publishes the regulation pre pared by the Directing Senate, and ratified by the Cur, for the organisation of the " Imperial Mobile Militia," as the new corps decreed in the recent mani festo is to be called. The ordinance is divided into 9 sections and 97 paragraphs, and in the original fills 7 folio columns. The first clause of the document declares that the corps is raised for temporary service, in defence of the faith, the throne, and the fatherland. It is enacted that exemptions from military service hitherto permitted shall not apply in the present case, but that whoever is liable to the capitation tax, or its equivalent, shall be liable to be called upon to serve in this corps. Merchants, Jews, and foreign co lonists, who have been encouraged to settle in Russia, and received grants of laud from the crown, are ex cepted. The corps will be divided into battalions or druschines, each consisting of four companies. Each druschine is to be commanded by a staff officer, and to have four captains and a staff captain, 1,000 sub officers and soldiers, and 18 musicians. In order to hasten the formation of the corps, a gubernial militia committee is to be formed in every government, aid within 14 days after receipt of the manifesto the nobles are to assemble and appoint the rendezvous of the several battalions, and make arrangements for their supply and equipment. To meet the expenses of the new corps, special "voluntary" subscriptions are to be made, for which the committees will open lists, and to which all persons are summoned to con tribute. The subjects of the Emperor are abjured by their love of their country to make sacrifices corre sponding to the occasion, and it is announced that the names and subscriptions of all per sons will be published. The nobles, as soon as they have deliberated according to the directions foregoing, are to repair to their several localities, and exert themselves in forwarding the enrolment. The soldiers meat not be younger than 20, nor older than 45 yearsof age. In the formation of companies, inhabitants of the same village are to be kept together as far as possible. Those who have no firearms of their own are to be furnished with a musket and bayonet. The employment of the militia is to be at the pleasure of the Czar, and upon the termination of the war all persons serving in the corps will be allowed to go back to their homes. Should any fall in battle, their families will receive a certificate absolving them from obligation to furnish a recruit at the next levy. ST. PETERSBURG, FIB. 13. A regiment of Baskira has just passed through the capital. Thu° troops hare not been seen in St. Petersburg sines 1812, when they carried bows and arrows. They are true Calcutta., with little eyes and flat noses, and eat horse. flesh. They are now armed with amusket. Advice. from Warsaw, of the 16th, are filled with accounts of the immense deliveries of provisions at the Polish fortresses. Vast magazines, we are told, are formed at Ostroleaks. The writers mention, with undisguised admiration, the great quantities of spirituous liquor which the care of the Czar has pro vided for hie soldiery, and which are daily conveyed to the central depots. From this it is inferred that Poland is expected to become the theatre of a great war. General Deka, inspector of fortresses, reports that the three lines of defence, extending from Cron stadt to the Vistula, are in a complete and effective state. Ine Court. The Privy Council appointed to be bald by the Quern yesterday was postponed until to-Furrow (Wednes day). _ _ ha Queen and Prime Albert, attended by Lord Alfred Paget and Captain the Hon. Dudley de Res, visited the Dashes of Gloaeaster yesterday afternoon, at ha reeldasee, Gloomier House. Prime Albert rode on horseback is the forearm, at ended by hie Equerry in Welting. Her Majesty had a darer party at litichingham Palace in the eveniag. The company included the Hanover= Minister and Counter Helens 'Liebmann., the Marren Minister and Granter Collorado, the Earl and Counter of Shaftesbury, the Earl of Benton, the Earl of Darr, Lady de Table?, Lord and Lady Foley, and Vice-Admiral Sir George and Lady Seymour. A meeting of Ministers was held yesterdsy 'Boraces, at the Foreign-ogles, Dowaiaretreet, which was presided over by Viscount Paimenten. A deputation from the Board dawdle= of Camberwell parish had an interview yesterday with the President of the Gisela Board of Health, at his *Ma, Whitehall. The de- Wades waisted of Messrs. Greenaway sad Beattie, Dr. Webster, sad Mears. Barrack, Waterlow, sad Irvine. Doom, Pos. 26.--Genezal the Marquis Alphonse de Is Maanors, Commander-in-Chief of the Sardinian contingent to the Crimes, accompanied by the Mar. guts de la Rovers, and the Count Balbo, arrived at Rake's Lord Warden Hotel this afternoon, by the South Eastern Company's steamer, from Cali, and , proceeded to London, by train, at 7.30 p.m. RESIGNATION OF CARDINAL ANTONELLI. (PROM THI IDIOM OF THE DAILY NEWS.) BOMB, Fall. 20. It is confidently asserted that Cardinal Antonelli has at last resigned, and that the Pope has accepted his resignation. Several motives are adduced for this step on the part of his eminence, who, it is sup posed, would not have resorted to it if he had seen a tolerable chance of keeping in power much longer. The pretext alleged by him is stated to be tha deter mination of his Holiness to divide the multifarious offices hitherto concentrated in the person of Cardinal Antonelli, and to have two secretaries of state, one for foreign and the other for home affairs, as during the reign of the late Pope. This probable change of ministry is looked for here with the greatest possible interest, as Cardinal Antoaelli may be said to have formed the soul and action of the Papal government ever since its restoration ; and the result has not been such as to lead either the Pope or the people to wish for an indefinite prolongation of his administration. The choice of his successor, or successors, is the next ques tion ; and on this point also reports are nearly una nimous in indicating Cardinal Marini as Secretary of State for the Interior, and Cardinal Santucci for Foreign Affairs ; the latter, either permanently, or only until Cardinal Vials Preis, now nuncio at the Court of Vienna, can be sent for to fill the important post. The death of Cardinal Macchi, dean of the Sacred College—an event which is expected every day—will leave vacant the lucrative office of Secretary of Briefs, and so afford Pio Nono (who has a great objection to doing anything severe) an opportunity of recom pensing Cardinal Antonelli's zealous services since 1848. Now that the fact of the King of Naples' contri. bating a 'cotpa d'artnee to the European crusade against Nicholas seems pretty well established, the military liabilities of the Pope are coming under dis cussion, whether in jest or earnest I cannot say, but his contingent is set down at three thousand men, a contribution which would take off half his troops of the line at one fell swoop, just when most required for borne service by the approaching reduction of the French garrison to 3,600 men. The plan is hardly feasible, and his Holiness's aid must be limited to spiritual co-operation. Oar carnival is approaching its conclusion, without ather inconvenience than the customary accidents from the running horses in the crowded Corso, and the uncustomary circumstance of old Father Tiber's rising so high above his usual bed as to pay a visit to the Saturnalian revellers, even in some parts of the Corso. On Saturday the inundation was so high, that the police authorities suspended their permission for the carnival to continue until the aquatic intruder was found to be gradually abating. Great damage has been produoed in the surrounding campagna, and mills and watts:Ate have been carried away io Rome. The consequent distress of the poorer classes is partially relieved by the distribution of bread in the Colosseum, whither the famished but picturesque peasants resort in crowds to receive the government allowance. The mail for three days was obliged to leave Rome by the heights of Monte Mario, and the inundation extinguished both music and ballo at t he Grand Opera of Apollo. Exchange on London , 468} cash ; 4731 paper. Comb, 81 THE TWO SICILIES. (PROM TIIII CORSISPONDINT OP 7113 DAILY 1111WIL) NAPLES, Fee. 17. A great, though not a very wonderful, change has come over the poltcy of this government. But a few years have passed since the Czar was an honoured guest in Naples, and since Ferdinand If. was compli mented with a colonelcy in the Russian service. What are now the relative positions of the chief and the subaltern ? The latter has abandoned his colours, refused allegiance, and is ready to tarn his arms against his former friend and brother. Discretion is felt to be the better part of valour, and " instinct" to be " a great matter." " Should I turn upon the true:prince ? Why, thou knowest that lam an valiant as Hercules; but beware instinct ; the lion will not touch th e true prince." Therefore is it that the Allies for the • are in ;resent the meeadant, and that his Majesty of Russia , ON Saturday we had the pleasure of being the with the necemit7 of the moment , nee to Una cemientnece has had at fall in Neapolitan favour. It .is, which the future may destroy, as it may realise. Neverthe- h owever , u nders tood , of course, that in such a change first to announce to the public the intelligence of the km we cannot remain altogether strangers, nor even in- there can be no sincerity, and that, were the pees- victory at Enpatoria. That intelligence was dilfersat , to the universal enliciPaiens of the public. We sure of circumstances taken off, old sympathies would to le peculiarly welcome, not so much on account of The vacancy in the House of Lords, canoed by the one no non canine than we CGS deny the niftier. which resume their former influence. Between light and the Sabel results of the engagement, as from the al- death of the late Viscount Lorton, has been ailed up afraid' friar to the two eowereisele of France cud Andra darkness, progress and retrogradism, there can be no Melba the swoon of the Ottoman troops is likely to by the election of the Earl of p or t er li ng t on to b e th e t h e W a di '' , of taking the commend respeetirely of their affinity nor attraction. Louis Napoleon and the new representative peer for Ireland. armies. Bat already, in anticipation of this gnat event, Majesty of the Two Sicilia can never hob-nob with poise upon the policy of the allied Governments. which would be only conformable to the noblest traditions one another; such intimate relations can exist only the fashion to de preoiate the value—we had almost Thseagbout the whole of the campaign it has been winos!, to oGoions a roc Government pia ent have resolved appoting a day esolvizedtoad t hums- vi o aehne of the reigning families of Europe, the people , whose between those who are .• most pions Sovereigns " festinate ere rarely at fault, has characterised, in its own and the fathers of their children. It is generally re mid, to ignore the existence—of the amide of the h e nc e sad prayer, for the purpose of imploring the promo- picturesque language, the forthcoming lining campaign ported in Nr a plea that a contingent of Neapolitan ItTurnx. We should have fancied, a priori, that the lion of Providence for the nanny. in calling it sho War of the Three Emperors. In this war troops, to ttie number of 20,000 men, has been offered eampaign which drove the Russians across the Danube which will give to Sumps a durable sad solid Pesos. beneath to the Allies, but that the offer, having bora conete - Mons. foyer leaves London this mania; for the sha f dow of which she shall thenestorward march in the (nil acknowledged, was declined. If . trv..e,nothing sight be pared, without discredit, to the campaign catitak at pannt has only collected them within purpose of of at la ths dear . of he adisg ;hellalesty's dietary a g t o amass% toe th e . wneawysino lase else, and rance li the path shall b of civi lha seen e the w . e at i w a i l tk he a r ema ie loz re etru to ng s ly show werwithdesire the Alli es, is m enter.. the autos—cad that the eneeemultil h vialt a menn Be proceeds direct eis Marseilles, as it is comblend of Ise- fleets cad her armies. She shall be Ina in the Baltic, in t; as th e s t ronge r party, or the di'swaition to bid of lebielegoi need not be Warned of the seresmfal r e alm to plan the hospital cuisine at the earliest Possible Crimes, on the Vistula. What an ismease aneadas:s does high for that popularity whi& Piedmont ISIS SO 111.11.61111 of Bilistria. Such, however, was not the maw is a sondities to empty the demob spin it with um this glorious rme which s h e has takes is the Amara nobly gained by its frank end unsolicited ad view wiggled by our domestic critics. The edema- expedition, oestert, sad eemespi, quality guarantee to her fettle position is the Wald. hesioa to the greet polio* crusade of the age. The THE CAUCASUS. The Invalide :11;8se affirms that on the 16th of January, Baron Nicolay surrounded the strongest fort held by the Tchetchan, called Schonaih-Capon, and took it by storm. This fort is described as the Gibraltar of the Caucasus, and its capture is repre sented as the heaviest blow yet dealt at the power of Schamyl. In order to facilitate the purchase of serviceable horses to complete the cavalry and artillery, a series of special horse-markets are to be held in the province of Stade at eight different places between this and the end of the month. Breeders are invited to at tend with horses, of from 5 to 9 years old, tit for the cavalry, artillery, and train ; the payment to be made on the spot in gold lonis-d'ors. The lists of our superior officers have been lately subjected to a severe scrutiny, and a good many, who from age and personal infirmities are not considered equal to the hardships of an active campaigo, have been displaced from their commands and laid on the shelf, with pensions. It would be well if this sys tem could be acted upon in England, and it is to be hoped that the experience gained in the present war will cause such a reaction in the public feeling on this abject at home as to abolish for ever the existing system of trafficking in military commissions, and throw open promotion in the army, as in every other country of Europe, to superior merit, courage, and ability. I may here mention, in proof of the active exer tions making by government to prepare for war, that the annual examinations of the first-class cadets of the military academy, which usually take place after Easter, are ordered to be held in the course of this week, so that these young men may be enabled to join their respective corps and regiments without delay. The newly-organised train is fully equipped, and the soldiers belonging to it may be seen in all the streets, being readily distinguishe d by their green shoulder strain. FRANCE. (.11,011 112 OP TIM DAILY PARIS, MoNDaY Evinum. I believe I may safely announce that all double most the Emperor's journey to the Crimea are at 111 Md. It is certain that he will go, and that very aeon, unless some very unexpected event should war Is prevent him. The following extract from es side by M. Amedke de Caere, in the Constitor email, is a plain semi-official announcement of the Imperial intentions : If the Conference of Vienna should fail, at last, is tY Amu to re-establish a general peace, everything will Is seedy in England, in France, aad in Austria, for the out palis of the spring, a campaign so important that it will embrace, in all probability, three great theatres, and in which will be engaged at once spinet Russia, as aMes of Turkey, three great nations. If we can place confidence in the revelations of the foreign press, France and England will act in the Baltic, not only with their fleets, but with their maim. Austria and Fiance will be found combating side by side, on the sipper part of Me Vishdo, la a common straggle which may prolong itself to the fruition of Po- land, as well as to the beaks of the Danube. In fine, France and England will be together in the Crimea, supported by Turkey end Sardinia, all gloriously united na da the banners of civilisation and European independence. We do not wish to go before events, which nil &We The Bourse opened well at Saturday's prices, under the influence of the appointment of Lord John Rowell as Minister of the Colonies, and Nie condi , niatlon of the victory of Eupatoria. I must Zuenlion by the' way that the original news of that vietc!TY, given exclusively in the Daily News of Saturri,7! continues to be the fullest account that has yet reached , Paris. It i s o o piod icto all the Paris journals by the , aide of the less explicit narrative in yesterday's .21fonitsur. The market, however, subsequently gave way considerably, and in the result the Rents fell 45c., clotting at 66fr. 35c. Most of the railways fell from 2fr. 50c. to sfr. The head of the firm of Leopold Werner and Co. (a mercantile house, known for its large transactions with Spain,) has left Paris for Madrid, is order to negotiate a Spanish loan with the support of several French capitalists. This gentleman lately addressed a pamphlet on the subject to M. Madoz, and it is un derstood that he expects to carry the system advo cated in that pamphlet into effect. A rumour prevailed at Genoa on the 22nd that a French frigate had been lost with all on board in the Straits of Bonifscio, between Corsica and Sardinia. No mrticulars of this disaster are given. The vessel in question was said to be the Semillante frigate, with a crew of 600 men on board. I regret to state that this news is but too true, and I fear the number of men on board is larger than above reported. The two prosecutions pending against tho Siecle, have been abandoned in consequence, as I understand, of the intercession of a venerable friend of the editor's, who was formerly intimately connected with the Emperor, and is still greatly esteemed by him. The Bishop of London intends to hold a confirma tion in Paris in Easter week. At the sitting of the Assize Court to-day, where the trial of Madlle. Doudot is going on, a petition from the bar, signed (amongst others) b' M. Chain d'Est Ange, was presented to the presiding judge, stating that a number of persons, not barristers, were sitting upon the bar benches in cape and gowns, and praying that they might be expelled from court. The judge (M. Hawn) immediately signed and read a decree ordering every person in court wearing fo rensic costume to give in their names in writing to the usher, and desiring those who might refuse, to leave the court immediately. Upon this intimation about a dozen young fellows, who for the last four days had occupied the best bar seats, looking wiser than Coke and Montesquieu put together, rose, shuffled their borrowed plumage, and went away as quickly as possible, thinking themselves lucky to get off so easily. And so indeed they were, for aooord ing to the code they might have been prosecuted for a ~misdemeanour, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment. A hearty and universal laugh accompanied the discomfiture of these false barristers. The last witness for the defence was then examined, and M. Chain d'Est Ange commenced his address f or Dr. Marsden, appearing as parti civil*. He will be followed by the Procureur Imperial, M. Royer, and then M. Nogent de St. Lau ren t will present the de fence. The proceedings will scarcely be brought to a close earlier than Wednesday evening. I'. I G nan en t e c r o al n p tras en t ne w fa it th h er form rece er i 3 at t h e ase to e i a t t h i f o t r n o r e l n o g f u a s i n r u e l i , p n a n d n u i g d r: v ac ed es fro of m thia the gpoovweerrsnintehanatt: boa7:celorlffhueorswthoefevesPrurochimabelititteiontnwtioonlaf h e s a e p v o m e r t i and ;with the s pirit which evidently pervaded the journals. It is in following out the same policy that I that other o ffi cers on landing were re ceived with every goark of respect. I n d ee d , I am informed tha t Lieu - Lstnirtere, to mention one , was allowed as aspec ial • f ev oar to pass the customhouse without having his e ff ec t s touched, and th at t h e same courtesy was accorded to the friends who wer e w i t h him. Ftllly to app:eciate such an act of grace a person ought to have passed arose' the vexations of a Naples , custom-hones. Since his arrival Sir William Temple ' has had three iAterviews with his Majesty. Consider- able supplies of r orovisions have been purchased here . on account of the allies, a fact which has raised the price of many arei,eles of food. There has been ,tech illness during the winter in Naples, and the proportion of deaths was for a short time as great as duria,‘ the pestilence of the cholera this last year. Ever v one has been attacked by influenza, and several e lf our oldest residents have . . been taken off by it. Wh, en I wrote last I complained of the weather as having been very cold, and having inflicted serious damage on the orange crops. lam now writing on the day after the severest storm which has been known he.re for many years. It came on on the evening of the !4th from the south- , west, and raged with the intensest fury till the morn- ing of the 16th. In some villages near the coast the I ,• sea, which rose as if impelled by some subterranean commotion, made a clean breach over the houses, i sweeping them out completely of their contents, and taking them off to sea. The early crops have been destroyed, and the oli ve t rees h ave suffered much. As yet we have heard b u t li tt l e o f the disastrous II . 1 effects of the storm; but we are fearful that it bas occasioned a wide-spread ruin. The " observed o f a ll observers " here is General r ; Pennefather, who take, his daily walks in the Villa ' ~ I Reale. He still i s very f ee bl e, an d h as not recovered . . the injurious effects of his recent campaigning. I , The exchange on London is still at 531. -- - 'l AUSTRALIA. -..__ PLYMOUTH, MONDAY. The Plantagenet, Pollock, master, arrived here yesterday, with dates from Sydney of the 17th of October, and St. Helena of the 24th of December. The Plantagenet brings about 9,000 ounces of gold, and a full cargo of wool, tallow, and hides. She experienced contrary winds after passing the Horn, and was short of provi s i ons on enter i ng this Port 1 AMERICA. • 1 The United States mail packet Union arrived at Cowes yesterday, on her way to Havre. She left New York Feb. 10. Amongst the cargo of the Union is specie to the ', value of 150,000 dole., for France. The Atlantic, from Liverpool, arrived at N ew . tl York on the 9th. Au arrival of 1,239,209 d o ll ars f rom C a lif orn i a i s 1 I reported from New York. The House .of Representatives has passed the Texas Debt Bill, with an amendment reducing the indemnity to the creditors to 6,550,000 dole., 1 1 being the principal, accrued interest, and pre sent market worth of the 5,000,000 dollars Public Stock reserved for this object under the compromise measures of 1850. Mr. Houston, of the Ways and Means committee, succeeded in getting a test vote to go into committee of the whole on his proposed amendment of the tariff-yeas 104, nays 97. But, on going into committee, the Louse decided by another close vote to take up a different bill, which virtually negatived the previous proposition. Mr. Breckinridge has stated in the Senate that he had declined the appointment of Minister to ; , Spain. ' ; 1, The care, on the 28th tilt., passed over the road L 1 that connects the Atlantic and the Pacific, at the Isthmus, thus marking the year 1855 as the begin- ning of a new era in the history of the American Continent. The New York papers state that a part of Santa Anna's army, 2,000 in number, had deserted and gone over to General Alvarez. A portion of them, with some of their officers, reached Acapulco Jan. 23. The remainder were daily expected. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, FED. 9. The sccounta from Europe per Atlantis were on their first receipt regarded as unfavourable to our stock market, a drain upon our gold resources being apprehended. The money market keeps easy. The busier le in stooks to-cley was again large on the hood list, the sates summing up 346,000 dole., and embracing all the leedint railway loans and the more active of the state stocks. Prices were gene- /Illy firm. The cotton market, in consequence of the foreign news, war somewhat unsettled. The sales embraced about 300 to 400 bales, bat prices were not established subsequent to the . receipt of the news. The foreign news exercised no influence on prices of flour, and the export demand being light, and the state of the weather unfavourable to the domestic trade, the sales were confined to about 4,000 to 6,000 bbls. of all kinds. Comtism to good straight state closed at 8 dole. 25c. to 8 dole. 50e. ; western at 8 dole. 75e. to 9 dots. 2hc., ana 10 dole. 75c. for extra Ohio; 9 dole. 37c. to 9 dole 75c. for extra Michigan, and 10 dole. 50e. to 12 dole. for extra Genesee. Canada i flour was at 9 dole. 25e. to 9 dole. 87c., duty paid, and 8 dole. 87c. to 9 dole. asked, in bond; and southern at 8 dole. 60c. to 9 dole. for common, and 9 dole, 2Se. to 10 dole. 50c. for extra. Wheat was quiet, and prices nominal. Corn was held above the views of buyers as high as 105 c. 1 being asked (update southern. The only sale of moment we heard of was 10,000 bushels, to arrive, at 101 c. Rye , was nominal, and oats firm For Liverpool, freight engagements were light, and in. elided about 100 belied cotton at 3s. 6d. per bale, and 600 boxes bacon at 17r. 6d. To London no engagements were I reported. 1 I , DEATH OF PROFESSOR GAUBS.-We regret to re. , i , cries in letters from Gottingen the announcement that Pro- , t fessor Gauss, of that university, died on Friday last, the i ) 23rd inst. I 0 t ADMIRAL NACHIMOFF has just received from the s Czar the order of the White Eagle, as a reward for his ser- vices at Sebastopol. . ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOYOL.-Yesterday the COl3l- ' mine' nominated by the House of Commons met for the first time, to choose a chairman and consider the course of their proceeding. Mr. Roebuck was unanimously chosen chairman, the other members being Mr. Drummond, Sir J. Pakington, Colonel Lindsay, Mr. Layud, Mr. Ellice, Lord Seymour, Sir George Lewis, General Peel, Mr. Bramston. / and Mr. J. Ball. The question as to whether the proceed- ; ings of the committee are to be open through the lams- mentality of the press to the public, as is now customary is . all our courts and other tribunals, is to engage the attention ▪ of the committee at their next sitting. r .., Ines IN BISHOPSGATE AND WHITECHAB'EL. ' -Last night, between the hours of 9 and 10 o'clock, two serious fires broke out almost simultaneously- t one in the spacious saw mills belonging to Messrs. Udell a and Co., No. 37A, Skinner-street, Bishopsgate, adjoining g the pianoforte factory of Messrs. Smith and Co.; tks other ' in the Montague Glass-works, situate in Old Montague- street, Whitechapel. The first fire originated in a nol.citmg 2 fitted up most expensively with steam machinery tor the B saw-mill, which was of considerable breadth tad length, I in which property of great value was deposited-. After the a r' lapse of four or five hour' the firemen at length managed to nt bur noeunta th• ,2 m ge ills t th were toe mastery over the fearful eleme , . . tally consumed and moat of the inisclunere de- ' stroyed. The are in the Montague Glue-works could not i• be extinguished until a considerable amouatef damage was d done. d CHANGES IN THE MANCHESTER POST-OFFICE,- making in th•MAnchester Poet- -0 Some extensiee changes are e office, under the direction of a co mmissioner from St. Mar- i, tin's-leG-aad, to better fit the machinery for th e increased - business Of this large town. The number of letter carrier,, at present 80, is be increased to 116. The scale of remune- ration is also to he increased, and placed on a better prise:pie. s- At present there are some of a 1k,,, i l -tier carrier., who a have been %Ir.) years in s i • lit ti r - • iv • r f , ,;.,,,,,,, per ,d week; hut. by the new 't • .;,..,.. i "t . ,•ce of rising, . by merit, to salaries as g • , .. . .., ,, ,, There are is `- ititure to be 61 letter cafe' :711 .. .. , ; s.-ter week ;40 g at 225. to 25e. per weelfr • .*.I ; ,t„. , : 3%. per wee k. r• I This is a very desirable -•'' • ' . .• atnsidered that ig this class of servants h l t( ontrosted - r to ice them containing large ie - • r :. is *hardly fitting W that the wtched payra%t on. ; _ itureekek should be , continued as the ntatowem • •"""1 - g veld aspire to. a" They ars alsoalso to be beer . • • '''aZ a . i, , *au the uniform he runny gimi V 9 *is due 9 !. 7-, . 1 i's wires!, Ire been of th,