The Express. — London, England, 1855-02-26 00:00:00

THE NEW RETURN OF NEWSPAPER STAMPS. The Worn of newspaper stamps jut issued gives lie teliewhig emits : _ . pint Charter. SINOIMI Qoartor. Daily Mews . 319,191 346.044 Morals; Herald . 303.000 299,000 Montag Peet . . 206,000 =4,000 Musing Chnakis . 162,600 196,000 Express . . 177,133 198,369 Globe . . . 176,000 196,000 Sus . . . . 169,000 192,000 Staadard . . . 103,000 104,000 Elie enmos. TO CORRESPONDENTS. rdritlasmaals Irtastlod fa "Dr Illyter," Lawlor kvireog paw, raft ba at dr 011 at, 10, DOWllebitrilt. by Two Wrack or tits day ad ism• HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TIM D•.—Moraine, IL Ille......Aftarmas, lOC 11a. 7040140W—lbentss, IM. 115 .....Aftsracoa, 11b. LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26. LATEST NEWS FROM ABROAD LXD 191110 PEAS CONSTANTINOPLE, Fit. 16. Tho enrolment of Turks in a British auxiliary corps has commenced by authority of Lord Rodoliffe. A number of steam-ships have been appointed to mime is the Bea of A:off. The French troops that were at Constantinople have been ordered to the Crimea. The two mortar battery destined to play on the fort of Sebastopol will be ready before the end of this month.—Daily AVIDS. MARSEILLES, SATtranmr. • The affair of the mine, mentioned in a Russian despatch, is explained by advice" from Constanti nople of the 13th. A Russian countermine was driven into a French mine on the night of the 4th. Only two French were killed.—Daild Next. BERLIN, FRB. 24. Colonel Olberg, who is attached to General Wedell's special mission, returned here the day before yesterday from Paris. Although the chances of a treaty being concluded between Prussia and the Western Powers appear to augment, great doubts nevertheless continue to prevail on the subject. It is not known on what grounds the Right of the Chamber has rejected the application of government for further supplies, but its vote does not appear to have been concerted with the Left.—Da.!y News. We have received tbs Monttera of yesterday; it contains the following despatches: Pena, Fan. 14.—Tee wields are still eoatherly, and our transports sail rapidly through the Stra:ta. A great assay vessels end previsions of every kind have arrived at Easiest& this week. The following from Vice Admiral Brut : Morrrtnru.o, KAIIIIISCII, F.B. 13.—0 n the 11th, Teen But arrived at Kansieseh from Eapstoria. Oa the 1211, the Tait, Inflexible, Niretde, sod Psyche, coming boa the Bosphorus. Oa the 13th, the Labrador, Chander sager, and Beesley. All these ships have brought troops, ordnance, end lenge. The Togs pomaded at the entrance of Ku sub Bay, but was gut off without damage. The siege weeks avant* slowly on account of the unfavourable weather; the enemy is fortifying his right. and transporting fresh gum from the Quarantine side. General Niel em barks to- day le the Reims Hortense. A telegraphic despatch from Bucharest, dated Feb. 23, asuouness that on Saturday, the 17th, at 0 in the evening, the Russians, to the number of 40,000, under the orders of General Liprandi, attacked Eupstoria. After a combat of tow bows, they were vigorously repulsed with mosiderable ' lose by the Turks, under the command of Omer Pasha. The Turks had 16 men killed and 3d wounded. The Egyptian, Sideman Pasha, was killed. A battery rammed by the Frneh lest Isar mem. A French steamboat, that left ismieseh on the 20th, brought no news of importunes down to that dam RUSSIAN DECLARATION OF WAR AGAINST SARDINIA. 'fhe following is the text of a earnlar jut ad dressed by Count Nesse'rode to the Russian agents abroad : The Court of - will share, we do not doubt, the judgment of the Emperor upon the policy of his Majesty the King of &Miele, at a nonfat when that sovereign, without avowed motive, without real (denim, without the appearasos even of the least injury having been eeramitted upon the direct interests of him country, is about to pat at the disposal of England a corps ifeontle of 15,000 rata for the purpose of being seat to the Crimea. la table( t►is detargaisation the Sardinian pversaseat appears to have left to the public newspapers the teak of warming us of an aggression not attempted to be justified by a deolaratioa of war. We undentand the motive of this silence. The Cunt of Turin, we admit, would have found some trouble in harmonising its policy with the asthma' sestinsoat of its country; it would bays found an elual difficulty in putting its pressat conduct in harmony with the ancient soureuire of the hones of Savoy. In consulting the annals of its history, it could have cited the .sample of a Russian army mosaic the Alps; bat it woe, it is true, to defend Piedmont, net to invade it. In the councils of the European cabineta under t►e reign of the Emperor Akender, of glorious memory, it is still Rands who has lent its faithful aid to the indepen dence of fierdiais at t►e time of the re-establishment of the house of Savoy upon the throne of its megaton. Is it necessary, in doe, to recall the fact that, if (lines at the um* speck was re-salted to the Simplon of llar dicia, it was blesses the Imperial Cabinet recognised the necessity of assuring at ono* the commercial prosperity and the greatness of the country which tho arms of Buda had contributed to free from a foreign yoke To-day, casting Sao oblivion the teachings of the past, the Court of Turin is 'bolt to send spinet us, from this same poet of Genoa, as hostile enterprise which Susie is well conscious of not having provoked. Its attitude this taken by the:goverameat of Sardinia, without, as we have stated, formal declaration of war, has left as in doubt eves as to the name we most give to sat- Him melding destined to invade oar hoiden sada, the lag of a smudgy with which we have esatiaued main saw to live in peers. However it the Court of Turk leen debt of the mind *. mad sieges sousatiated by the rights M satins as the inamtablo rule of the isteematienal relatives of states, the Buss! for his pors r ve *born dim. ialeatios, lie baptist Nelesty believes It right brekes defers sad do facto by the act et t►. blame .t which reels solely with the glisessest. w take the impassibility beer» the *plum aid Were make Imps espeetally to the Allied Posen to MI". -rgs se the Sardinia& Coast skis it hu teased "porton. to taro its arcs spigot so at as' very seemed w►en the Imperial Cabinet eaten at Vienna num adeliberstios Weeded to epos the way to the re-mtablishatent of peace (dalls& d meth' beef* me refa- Misused de la ?six). The wishes whisk tend towards the acumplishassat of this work of palliation seem to have bees strangely Ls udenteol by the Court of Turin ; for whilst the govern- 1 seats of central Rasps have wisely latirposed their lee dents authority to prevent one of the belligerent powers from rtereitiag its legions In the interior of states whisk seek to maks their neutrality and entire independence respected, the Sardinian goes/swat, lees sparing of the blood of Italy, ooziest/ to shed it kr a cases fo reign to rho political and religious interests of its nation. For, candidly, it will not be pretended that in dis playing its banner by that of the Crescent, the house of Savoy has the honour of serving the Gann of Christianity. Neither will it be affirmed that that house has bad at heart the cause of defending the feeble against the strong when It unites its arms to those of France and Ragland. It is this last Power, if our information is comet, which takes the Sardinian troops under its command—we do not say in its pay, for we will abstala from wounding the national sentiment of a country with which we regret to find ourselves at war. In spite of this neesesity, the Emperor will know hew still to pretest the private interests of the Sardinians who have long held commercial relations wit► Russia. The fault of their government will not fall upon them. Their property will be respected. They will be free to remain in the empire in full security ander the protection of our laws as long as they conform to them. Bat the Sardinian flag will henceforth cease to enjoy the privileges which belong to the merchant vessels of neutral powers. A terra will be filed for the departure of Sardinian ships which may be toned actually la the ports of the empire. From the present time the exeroshir will be withdrawn from the Sardinian mauls is Eawie_ The Russian agents residing at Genoa and at Nies receive also the order to suspend the exercise of their functions, peace between the two oonntries baying been broken by Sardinia, from the instant when that power acceded to the treaty g alliance concluded an the 10th of April 1854, be tween Cheat Britain sad Freese. The limper* has deigned to charge me to communicate them resolutions to a.l friendly powers. —Daily News. OUR NEW (ailiaid) In The Government is said to be at length recon sti toted. Lord JOHN RUSSELL has consented to be named as Secretary for the Colonies; Lord ELOIN is to be Secretary of the Board of Control; Lord STANLEY Or AL DERLEY is to be President of the Board of Trade ; Lord SEYMOUR is to be Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster ; Lord CARLISLE is ap pointed Viceroy of Ireland, with Mr. RORSMAN for Secretary ; and Lord DustuaN is to be &Lord of the Treasury. This is indeed affecting to Nettle matters in a most lordly style, and would be ludicrous if it were not lamentable. We say lamentable, because at a crisis of the national fate so perilous as the pre sent we think it deeply to be deplored that any set of men should be found capable of so wanton and deli berate a defiance of public opinion. We have once more a purely Whig Administration. After three weeks of ineffectual attempts to set the dislocated joints of Coalition, Lord Peumarron has abandoned the task as hopeless. Whether some more skilful hand may yet be found to perform anew that delicate operation, we need not here determine ; it is enough for the present to observe, that finding the members he most relied on had suddenly become still and immoveable, the PREMIER has resorted in more than one case to substitutes made of wood. We draw the widest distinc tion, as we have ever done, between Whigs of the calibre and the character of Lord JOHN RUSSELL, and those who are capable of serving no other purpose than that of crutches to a lame and halting policy. In combating against the wrong and scandal of exclusiveness, we have never been ourselves exclusive. So long as an opulent and noble hereditary clam exists in England, we desire to see its members aspiring to the honours of the State. We never wish to see statesmen of the great experience and great ability of Lord JOHN RUSSELL absent from the councils of the Crown. We viewed with regret the omission of his name from the first list of admi nistration formed by Lord PALMERSTON, and we ventured to prognosticate—what has since happened more speedily and more signally than we could have anticipated—that without his aid no Govern ment would, in the present state of affairs, be able to conduct the hulloes' of the country. The deplorable spectacle of the last week has abundantly vindicated our anticipations. The Whigs have been unable, either with Aberdeenite colleagues or without them, to guide or govern the House of Commons; and in their perplexity and panic they have actually been obliged to arrest on his journey to Vienna, by their urgent supplications to return, the man whom a few days since they were chuckling at the notion of having god rid of for the session. The Minister whom the Vows denounced not a month ago as one whom his political friends could no loner defend or associate themselves with, and as having bean guilty of conduct " that ought to remain a lasting ground of exclusion from the confidence of the =docent the Crown," is already sent for in hot haste by the very friends who lately had the ineffable folly and mean ness to hear him libelled and abused, without venturing to utter a syllable of remonstrance or dissent. No secret was made of their delight at having got rid of the beet and ablest man amongst them ; and the mission to Vienna was laughed at openly by every bureaucratic blockhead as a perilous service that would probably keep Lord JOHN out of the House of Commons for months to come ; and now they are only too glad to be assured that he is likely to be back by Easter, and to be permitted in the meantime to take shelter under the shadow of his name. Whatever be the result, we for our parts shall always rejoice at seeing the conduct of a great department, like that of the Colonies, placed in such capable, heads ; and if halfa-dozen such men could be found amongst the Whip, we should heartily rejoice to see them in equally important posts. But it is vain to try to conceal the disappointment and discontent with which the country will receive the announcement that the Government is once more to be monopolised by the members of a few great families, their retainers, and nominees. With the exception of four or five individuals, the Cabinet, u now re-oopetracted, consists entirely of persons wholly destitute of the mental vigour or personal weight that we have a right to look foe under any circumstances, but more especially in the present cri tical poetise of affairs. It is said that Sir GEORGE C. Lzwia, whose recent speech against the policy of the present war we took Occasion to comment on, has been offered the Chan- oellorship of the Exchequer. There is certainly nothing like an effective contrast ; and in this in- stance the friends , of Mr. GLADSTONE will assuredly have no right to complain. The critics of the out going Minister have been accustomed to taunt him with gradually modifying his opinions in a liberell sense. The severest censor will be unable to find any similar Nun of accusation against the right hon. baronet. He too, indeed, has gradually drifted from the professions of his youth ; but it has been from those of Radicalism towards those of Conserva tism. At ens time be was all for the Ballot ;at another, for overthrow of the Irish Church ; but of lets he has booms a proselyte to more aristocratic opi• nions—he votes against any change of ecclesiastical monopoly, and against any curb being pot upon the power of landlord intimidation at elections. Sir I. ea r'mum; to dubs* pesos Si i Isinat hostility, Sortilaisa metal Iro ism It to Nits musky sad Ilk It w a t e tl me . Mi 1 X XIII MI oppor THE EXPRESB, MI IAT GEORGE LEWIS has for some time been Editoe:of the Review t and we must say, that if hie adinSnietration of the Exchequer be not more bril liant than his conduct of that venerable periodical, his hearers in a Committee of Ways and Means will have dull work of it. Some hesitation, we nadir stand,fiu been expressed, however, by the'reoently elected member for Radnorshire about accepting the post vacated by Mr. GLADSTONE. Eighteen millions of extra expenditure to be made up somehow in the next budget is certainly no peculiar temptation ; and though we fear we shall never agree with the right hon. baronet as a politician, we own we shall think better of hie common sense if he declines the task for which he is apparently so unfit. Some minor shifting, and promotions will, it is said, take place. The gravity of Sir Juges GRAHAM is to be replaced at the Admiralty by the levity of Sir CHARLES WooD. Mr. WILSON is to be advanced to the Vice-Presidency of the Board of Trade; and his place at the Treasury will probably be filled by Mr. FREDERICK PERL—provided no Lord can be got to accept the appointment. A second vacancy among the Secretaries of the Treasury having been created by the retirement of Lord Auxem HERVEY, it is variously conjectured that Lord EDWARD HOWARD, Lord MILTON, or Lord GROS VENOR, will be induced to accept that position. Mr. LATARD, it has been said, wu not indisposed to become Under Secretary of War, the inducement, probably, being that he would have represented the department in the House of Commons, his chief being in the Peers. Bat we believe we are not incorrect in stating that for this very reason the Cabinet of Lords (as the new Administration is likely to be called) deemed the suggestion inadmissible when made by one of their number. They had no objec tion to Mr. LAYARD being consigned to silence and forgetfulness in the Colonial-office, the head of which was to be in the House of Commons ; but this gene rous and flattering proposal Mr. LAYARD if said to have refused. But alter what has been done respect ing the principal appointments, it were idle to doubt the spirit in which the subordinate offices will be filled up. And now once more the urgent question presses for solution—How is the Government of the country to be carried on ? Mutiny bills, and votes on account in committee of supply, may be passed sub siltntio. But the annual business of legislation is not yet begun ; and there would seem to be no disposition on any side to begin it. The conviction appears upper most in every reflecting mind that, nelson there be some reasonable prospect of our obtaining a Govern ment capable of carrying measures through Parlia ment, it were route of time and labour to set about the ordinary work of a session ire laborious earnest. Whether the House of Commons will show any disposition to go through the farce of make-believe legislation, by way of keeping in countenance the sham of administration, a few days will probably show.—Daily News. LORD JOHN RUSSELL. THERE is nothing but tribulation and dismay at BROOKES'S. The exultation with which the news of the final secession of the Aberdeenites was received has already given way to misgivings as to the ability of the exclusive Whip to form a Government by themselves. Even their hitherto impenetrable self conceit is beginning to be pierced by uneasy sus picions that the country may not estimate their talents quite so highly as they do themselves, or their integrity as they would wish it to do. At any less anxious crisis of the nation's fate it would be laugh able to note the humiliating eagernens with which they now seek to anchor their last hopes on Lord Joins Rusann—the man of whom not half-a-dozen of the initiated of that Dom Daniel could be got last week to speak in terms of common decency. After taking a day to deliberate, Lord Jose Brunt, replied to the overtures sent after him to Paris by consenting to accept. a seat in the ParatititsTort Cabinet, but insisted upon being allowed to go on and discharge his mission at Vienna. But this is not enough. His presence and countenance are wanted by the " residuary Whigs;" and, unless we are much misinformed, a Government messenger was despatched on Saturday evening, to catch his lordship at Berlin, with an urgent entreaty that he would return immediately.—Daily Yew.. LORD HARDINGE AND THE COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY. Wrznour in the least interfering with the command of the troops in the Crimea, or affecting in any way our military operations, the Committee is to inquire into "the conduct of those departments of the government whose duty it has been to administer to the wants of the army." This is not aimed at any individual, it is not a personal attack of any kind, but an inquiry into several departments, of which the conduct has been loudly, whether justly or not, complained of. Where the inquiry may begin it is not for us to say ; but the chief department which has to minister to the wants of the army is that of the General Commanding-in-Chief. It is his business —and the business of the Adjutant-General and the Quartermuter-General, both tinder him—to take care that all the regiments are complete, all the officers at their posts, proper and efficient officers appointed, and to know that officers and men are all properly pro vided with all the materials and instruments of war. The General Commanding-in-Chief is the head of the whole army ; he is on the spot; he could immediately go before the Committee, and give it all kinds of in formation—not of what is to be done, but of what has been done, to administer to the wants of the army sent out from England. Au examination of Lord HARDINGE may at once take place, greatly to the advantage of the public service. Lord HARDING; too, should demand such an investigation, and spontaneously offer explana tions. He is publicly accused of inefficiency in his office. We have already more than ono. asserted that he is responsible for the condition of the army. A pamphlet, called " The One Thing Needful," says, "Lord HANDINOE was selected as the succemsor to the Duke of WELLINGTON. He had done well at the Ordnance, had discovered the wretched state of our artillery, and had diligently raised that arm of the service from utter dilapidation to a very great efficiency. He had a high reputation for talent, both military and administrative. The appointment promised energy and efficiency. No one then surmised—or had, we believe, any reason to surmise—that Lord HARDINGEI3 administration at the Horse Guards would be distinguished as a time of feebleness ant:favouritism unprecedented, and, latterly, for an amount of incompetency of which we will not speak severely, because wales, it is but too real." The writer calls on the Ministers to remove kiss; let him fi rst be heard. He is openly and boldly seemed; let him defend himself before he be punishsti. Facts, indeed--the condition and the fate d tie army —tell terribly against him. He is a man of Mittel's meter and standing; let him be called helm tie OR mittek that he may vindicate himself in the fess of the ea/firing and outraged nation. He im said to have dons well " at the Ordnance," and to have restored it to "efficiency." If this were so, how ease our troops to be so inefficiently armed? How OM. OW 'G, FEBRUARY 26, 1855. siege artillery, and our field artillery, to be deplore defective In 1854 P How came, too, all the artillery traine, and the driver corps, which properly belong to that department, to be a rain? What he did at ,the Ordnance— ;wording to the bout of his friends, and his own boast—was to restore a portion of the field artillery which had been suffered to fall utterly into decay. Bat supplies for field artillery were never withheld. Money was voted for it in the estimates year after year; and if it were not kept up to an efficient state, there must hays been in that department great neg ligence or great corruption. Lord HARDINGE con caged or screened it; and instead of having done well at the Ordnance, he neglected at the Ordnance his duty to the country. He is now accused of neglect ing a still more important duty at the Horse Guards; and he must be taught that the committee and the country will not screen him, if he has helped to cause the present mournful waste of the national treasure, the national blood, and the national renown. If he should take refuge behind the SECRETARY TOR WAR, and plead that he fulfilled the instructions of the Ministers—that he had nothing to do with the equipment of the troops and the ap pointment of the officers, and that he is in reality a powerless dummy—the nation will learn that the nominal head of all its military establishment, and his staff of four aides-de-camp, and Adjutant-General, and Quartermaster-General, with scores of clerks, messengers, itnd assistants, is altogether a great sham, except the huge salaries. Falsities, everywhere fatal to continued success, will certainly not do in the military service; and if the General Commanding-in- Chief be a great sham, and not responsible for all the equipment of the army, the sooner such a scanda lous and costly delusion is got rid of, the sooner we shall make an approach to an efficient military system. For stocks, and pipe-clayed belts, and Albert hats, and such despicable trumpery, it is not denied that the General Commanding-in• Chief should be responsible; such things have occupied the attention of the department, and why, then, should it not be le -1 sponsible for great-coats and all kinds of sufficient clothing P—why not for tents and arms and accoutre , meats of all kinds required by the-troops to carry on war? Title and character hold Lord HARDINGE up to the country as responsible for the fate of the army; he is required now to satisfy the public that he is not at this moment the mast culpable man in the ; empire; and the Committee should summon first before it, as the head of the chief department, bound to minister to the wants of the army, General Lord , HARDINGE. The Horse Guards, the seat and centre , of all the military power of the nation below the Crown, should first be called on to answer for the collapse of our military power.—Daily News. ACCOUNTS OF THE BOARD OF TRADE. TO rut NOITOR OF THZ DAILY 2111W11. consequence of the complaints which are often made of delay in the preparation and issue of the Board of Trade monthly accounts, I beg to offer some short explanations, which will, I trust, show that no exertions are spared to furnish the accounts In the shortest practicable time. It is to be observed, that in order to frame the Trade and Navigation accounts every port in the United Kingdom has to prepare a total of the imports and exports of each of the principal articles in the past month, and to transmit the return to the Cus tom-house in London, where the . aggregate for the United Kingdom is made. This is no small amount of labour, and probably three weeks will not be con sidered a long period for the accomplishment of it. In about that time after the close of each month of account (oa the sth day) the Custom-house transmits the accounts for the single month to the Statistical Department, which brings the date to the 27th, or a day or two later in the month. The current aggre gate has then to be added up, to present the triennial comparime, and the whole of the accounts have to be printed, revised, and read over, before presentation. For these duties three days (including 24 hours at the printer's) are very rarely exceeded in the Statistical Department; and it will be found that the accounts have generally been issued within from 25 to 28 days after their date. A Sunday at the end of the month makes a difference of one day. With regard to the twelve months' account more time is always required, because, as is explained in a note to the import and export accounts to the sth of January last, the figures which have appeared in the separate monthly accounts in the past year are revised at its close. The twelve months' account, ended Oth January, hes generally been issued about the 21st of February. Oa the present occasion it was the 22nd. And with reference to the last date I must add, as a proof that no time is lost in the Statistical Department, that the Custom-house was not able to complete and finish the import account before last Wednesday afternoon. It was made up and sent to the printer the same even ing ; returned by the printer at 4 o'clock on Thurs day ; read over, corrected, and returned for press that evening, and the complete accounts were issued on Friday. I am, &c, A. W. FONBLANQUE. Statistical Department, Board of Trade, Feb. 23. THE BARNSTAPLE ELECTION. On Saturday', the committee re-assembled. Mr. J. M. Butt is the chasir' . been examined, The Chairman said he had to state, for the information of counsel, that the committee were unanimously of opinion that the. evidence that -bad been given on the part of the petitioner had not established the want of qualification on the part of Kr. Guianese, the sitting member. Mr. SerMant Hinglake mid they would proceed with the other parts of the as on Monday. Mr. Slade applied to the committee to co eider if this was not a fit cam for them to give costs to Mr. Osmium. The Chairman having moulted his colleague, said that it was not a case in which casts should be given. The committee then adjourned until Monday. 'Tdlir FUSTIVESS. MONDAY, Fn 26. ORDERS OF THE DAY.—Oradlee se Ald0; Ommittee of Ways sod bloom; _Noe 1111 Farm= ad Aassomeom mu ; .abe mel Market@ MON j Wait Mel (be held) ild—war MOM OmwelliMed Pond (1.1110.01101.1 SW— as amended, to to eanslderedtAerMfddd Fond ((d Mmeent) mu— eommittes ; HEIM (loimed) 11M—sseeed readlogAtoomom bolo. d e w 1101—s r . 4 reollas; Lomb Asylums (Ireland) (Advances) —4lllXOd resehni. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. Mn Acrow—To withdraw Wipn and Preston Ends, South et Yarrow, Bill. Mr. OUTILA—To irk Mr meremondesoe upon the subject of a postal Meta, with Amis. • Chlonel Eassevso-111 sok whether way ohne sold to lam hem mile by the lemita or saw hospikele to mesh. seatissombse et Ile did leed add do de esde Ids trove the Ohm lam been wirepted e et whefta the poomemest have themedses provided ths ommemy elmommidellam Mr. Onsmot—lts Mt whet Mee have been takes lathe eatoldish. mewl et amemp e lesededdde at Illary dorgeryla Lofty DIM* sad Mliebeeln Xs Maserna—Capy ef a memedd to Mow of Themes Idea. Mr Dodd Hays—Patile Me d Mead Nuidedidommel sad Dimes ?MUM= Lee dmillstha sae damndest Bill—to noldneW the seises oommllleet—dir Beirdemin Hell. Mr. Ida. Hr. WlMMeed, Mr. Addition 2696 Mewl Ousemar, Mr. Remo ld, ran g Mr. Freihasta. Bin Una arms, lir AA. Orlhaser, me. =dam Mr. longtim e En Jesse Meestogoe, mid Mr. Thomas Mr.D.wew dammene—lettem ii all Ms °Mews employed In the new Wee Dspetment. Kr. 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Alarm, regret to leant that the hoesershis mensbor kr Ashburton Is still maned to his 10stss br ladagsdecia.—Wielont Tient Vbe Court. - - Prince Albert., with the Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, and the gentlemen in waiting, skated on Saturday morning on the ice en the widen within the Buck ingham Palace gardens. Her Majesty and the royal , princesses promenaded In the garden. The Duke sad Duchess if Nemours visited the Queen on Saturday. Her Majesty had a dinner party in the evening. The company included the Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Mary, and the Duke of Cambridge ; the French Ambassador and the Countess Walewski, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl and Countess of Derby, the Earl of Carlisle, Vis count and Viscountess Mahon, the Bishop of London and Mrs. Blomfield, Vice Admiral D 41411/ Dundu, Lady Bar field, Major Home Farm, and Lieut.-Col. Tye whitt. The band of the Coldstream Guards was in attendance, and played during the dinner. Her Majesty's private band performed a selection of music in the evening. Yesteiday the Queen and Prince Albert, with the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, and the Prince's Alice, attended divine service in the private chapel of Buckingham Palma. The Hon. and Very Rey. the Dean of Windsor officiated. The ladies and geatlemen in waiting and the domestic household also attended the sinks. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign office, Downing -street. The ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Penman, Sir Charles Wood, Sir William Molesworth, the Earl of Carlisle, and Viscount Canning. The Council sat three hours and a half. Meetings of the Oxford University Commiuion were held at No. 18, Gent Queen-street, Westminster, on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, during the last week. The Commissioners present were :—The Earl of Harrowby, Mr. Justice Coleridge, the Dean of Wells, Sir John W. Awdry, and Sir George Cernewall Lewis, with the Secreta ries, Mr. Ooldwin Smith, and the Rev. 8. W. Wayte. Count d'lngelheim has been nominated ambassador of Austria to the courts of Hanover, Oldenburg, and Bruns. wick, in the room of M. de Koller, appointed Internuncio at Constantinople. GOVERNMENT APPOINTMENTS. MT. William Henry Roberts, of the Midland Circuit, is appointed Re corder of Grantham ; Mr. George Boden, of the Midland Circuit, is appointed Recorder of Stamford ; Mr. F. Wal ford, of the Horne Circuit, is appointed Recorder of Saffron Walden ; Mr. Maurice W. Midlane is appointed first class clerk, Mr. Thomas C. Grant second class clerk, and the Hon. B. C. Eliot third class clerk in the Admiralty, White hall ; Lewis Irving is appointed third class clerk in the Comptroller of Victualling Department of the Admiralty, Somerset house; Mr. Arthur N. Birch is appointed a junior clerk in the Colonial office, Downing -street. Ob. ?VV. THE RE-CONSTRUCTED CABINET. Viscount Palmerton Lord Cranworth Lord Chancellor Earl Granville President of Council Duke of Argyll Marquis of Lansdowne Earl of Clarendon Lord John Russell . Lord Panmore ...... War — Earl of Elgin Lord Canning Lord Seymour . .. Duchy of Lancaster Sir George Grey Home Office Sir C. Wood Public Admiralty Works Sir W. Molesworth Sir G. C. Lewis (doubtful) Chancellor of the Ex chequer The list given by the Times is almost. identical with the above. There are the additions, however, of Lord Duncan as a Lord of the Treasury, and Mr. Laing as Vice-President of the Board of Trade, and also the substitution of Mr. Denby Seymou r f or Lord Elgin as Secretary to the Board of Control. Mr. Vernon Smith is spoken of for the India Board. The elections rendered necessary by the above ap pointments would be those of Lord J. Russell, Mr. V. Smith, Lord Duncan, Mr. Horsman, Sir G. C. Lewis, Mr. Laing, and Sir Charles Wood. The Chronick says that Sir Robert Peel has ac cepted the situation of Clerk of the Ordnance, and Mr. M. Milnes one of the Lordships of the Treasury. ADDRESS OF LORD JOHN RUSSELL TO THE ELECTORS OF LONDON. Subjoined is the address of Lord John Russell to the electors of London, soliciting their suffrages for his re-election, in consequence of his having joined the government of Lord Palmerston : TO THE ELECTORS OF THE CITY OF LONDON. Paris, Feb. 23, 185.5. Gentlemen,—Her Majesty having been pleased to con fide to me a mission of the highest importance, involving the interests of Europe, and affording hopes of an honour able termination of the present war, I felt it my duty to withdraw for a time from my service to you in parliament. While in this capital, intelligence has reached me of the resignation of three of the principal minister sof the Crown and Lord Palmerston has asked for my assistance in carry ing on the government. In this difficult circumstances in which the country is placed, I have not thought myself justified in withholding from the Queen any aid which it might be in my power to afford. I hate therefore accepted office, and, on my return from Vienna, shall be prepared to ammo its duties and responsi bilities. In these circumstances I humbly place myself M your hands u a candidate for the renewal of your confidence. I have the honour to be, gentlemen, Your obedient servant, (Signed) Joule Roseau.. THE CHURCH. On the 22nd instant the Rev. Henry Moseley, M.A., was instituted to the Vicarage of Olveston, in the county of Gloucester, on the presentation of the Dean and Chapter of Bristol. On the ease day the Rev. Edward Girdlestone, M.A., was instituted to the Vicarage of Bt. Nichols. with Bt. Leonard, in the city of Bristol, also on the presentation of the Doan and Chapter of Bristol. On the same doy lb. Rae. Robert Jana% M.A., was instituted to the Rectory of Bourton-ou•the-Hill with Moreton-in- Manh, in the county of Gloucester, on the presentation of the Rev. John Jarrett, and Avison Terry, Esq., the patrons for this turn. The Rey. Charles Hardwick, M.A., of St. Cathe rine's Hall, has been appointed I. the office of Christian Advocate ia the Unlvenity of Cambridge THE PATRIOTIC Rox—The circular of the honorary secretaries to the local committees to the Patriotic Fund pointed out national schools for the orphans, but t h is was only uan example, and the orphans of Roman catholics and diameters may of , course be placed in their own mho* and will be paid for by the committee upon the same scale as the other children are to be paid for. Mr. Layard, M.P., has invited his constituents to meet him on Wednesday, at the County Hall, Aylesbury, as he " desires to ezplala his views and express his opinion. upon the state of public affairs at this important crisis." Mr. Davies, the Conservative candidate, has been returned for the Cardigan boroughs by a majority of 12 over Mr. Evans, his Liberal competitor. Fox Cum.—The second meeting of the Fox Club this season took pleas on Saturday evening, at Brooks's. Present—The Earl of Albemarle, Earl Fitzwillhun, Vis count Falkland, Lord Poltimore, Lord Camoys, Sir Id. J. Cholmeley, Bart, M.P., the Right Hon. Sir B. Hall, Bart., ,B. A. Seaford, Req. Sir H. Ferguson Da v i e Bart., ILP., the Hen. Hamilton D uncan, Viscount Milto n, H. F. Ilespieween, 11vq., Rowland Alston, E9q., the Right Hon. Lend Memo UM A. K. Stephenson, 81., the Earl of lidaular, the Hoo. Charles Cavendish, M.P.. Viscount lhslasles, M.P., Viscount Enfield, the Earl of Strafford, um es For Russell, the Hoc. George W. Fitswil- Ham, M.P., the Earl of Zetlaud , and th e E ar l o f Tar -1 b°l•4l' CHANCIE RINGING —On Saturday, the 24th inst., eight members of Fir. James's Society rang as excellent peal et Grander' Major, consisting of 6,068 change., i n 2 h ours and 68 minutes, at Bt. Oilees-in-the.Fields. The following were the performers C. Clay, trebli ; J. Miller; 204; J. Bogus, Srd ; B . Haworth, 4th ;J. Bradley, 6th ;J. Austin, fith ; Hunt, 7th ;J. Pratt, tenor. The peal was spoyond by Y. &Mall s and 40nd5904 67 A. Bawls. THE WAR. THE RUSSIAN DEFEAT BEFORE EUPATORIA. We are indebted to the polite attention of the Minister at War for the following official confirm'- , tion of the news of the Russian defeat before Eupstorle, published (exclusively) in the Deily News of Saturday last : Claridge's Hotel, Brook-street, 23th Feb., 1833, 10 p.m. Lord Panmure presents his compliments to the editor of the Daily News, and begs to transmit copy of a telegraphic despatch which has been re . ceived from Lord Raglan, through the British agent at Bucharest: Before Sebastopol, Feb. 18, 1855, A force, said to be 40,000, of Russians, with a large number of guns, attacked Eupatoria at daylight on the 17th, and was repulsed with loss by Ocoee Pacha. Turkish loss said to be inconsiderable; but Selim Pacha, commanding Egyptian brigade, was killed. The British men-of-war, under the lion. Captain Hastings, covered both flanks with great effect. The action terminated 10 a.m., whe n t h e IttUISIIIII3 retired a few miles. SCUTARI HOSPITAL, (PLOY ♦ SPYCI•L CORRESPONDENT OP in DAILY NEM.) cONSTANTINOPLE, Pan. 12. fmui g Scutari trto m bewhat remedied oe the p ita English erealthougheowuoidul wish h a . state to what it was in, three months ago, is still very rid of. There is no want of any articles , taitPe very tro Y . b i b ; le t : eug th ae i t complaint is the great difficulty of getting them out of store. Even for a single candle a regular indent is required. From what I have been able to learn the purveyor was at first so bound by instructions u to be unable to step beyond the regular routine to supply the smallest of necessary luxuries required by the sick and wounded ; and had it not been for the fund placed at Miss Nightingale's disposal the suffer ings of the inmates would, indeed, have continued as terrible as they at first were. Great relaxation in the stringency of the rules has been sanctioned from home, and most things are now provided by govern. ment. More room is the want, and sheds are now erecting and nearly ready, of which the first stone was not laid till the middle of January. They will accommodate one thousand patients. Whose fault it is I cannot take upon myself to say; but ca the handing over of all buildings fur hospital purposes no necessary utensils have ever been ready to meet the wants of those whose ill fortune it has been to be 'the first occupants, and for this purpose Miss Nightingale's fund has also been put in requisition. Even now it is confidently asserted by those in a position likely to form a right judgment, that on the completion of these new buildings the purveyors' department will again be found wanting. Those of the men now in the wards to whom I have spoken seem as cheerful as men in their position usually are. They suffer many inconveniences which might easily and consequently ought at once to be remedied. 'f he hospital orderlies are made up of con. valeseents ; and as they get better, they are drafted oft to their regiments, and fresh convalescents put is their fplaces, who, however willing, cannot be other wise than inexperienced. As trifles make a sick man either comfortable or wretched, the constant substim. tion of new nurses (and such orderlies are, and gene. rally very kiitd ones) for those accustomed to the wants or ways of the sick appears cruel. How often to us all, at some time or other, has the way of even smoothing a pillow appeared a matter of the utmost importance. For the last few days a new sort of low fever his been on the increase, and, from all accounts, it seems much to resemble the yellow fever of the West Indies. It not only attacks the men is hospital, but the staff officers living at Scutari. The chaplains and medical men have all been sufferers. Several of the latter have been carried off by it; and it is said that not one half of those attacked will for a long time, if ever, be again thoroughly fit for duty. Colonel Powel has been sent to Smyrna, to get hospital accommodation for 1,500 men. The Porte has ordered that all houses required for that purpose by us are to be handed over at once; and our government have spared no expense. The ship Bombay is kept as a floating hospital, at a charge of 1,7001. per month, and has been so employed for ten months. She accommodates about 350. The harbour is crowded with vessels of all nations, and English goods are selling at a price which cannot pay ship pers. Everything seems at sixes and sevens. Goods known to be in the Custom-house cannot be found. One or two merchants have got a list of some pack ages which they have seen in the Custom-house unowned, and which list they have hung up in their counting-houses. Great complaints are received from those serving in the Crimea of parcels shipped in England and never received. The shippers hays evidently fancied Turkey to be a country like Eng land, and government, as carriers, as much to be depended on as Chaplin and Heine. By ea dertaking the carrying of parcels at a no• minal rate the Government have entailed on themselves a trouble for which they were totally unprepared, and assumed an office for which they are totally unfitted. The officials at present have quite enough to do without looking after every little parcel sent from England, and enough writing to get through without replying to one-tenth of the letters addressed to them on the subject. Your readers will very likely ask, What is to be done? Let those who wish to send things give.them into the charge of some respectable merchant in London, to be forwarded to this place, and here to wait for the directions of the Men& in the Crimea. The merchant's correspondent, being on the spot, will be the best judge of what is the best way of forwarding. This will no doubt be more expensive, bat there will be some one responsi ble for its safe delivery, and in such a cue it is better to pay five and twenty or thirty shillings as agency charges on a parcel worth sixty, eighty, or a hundred pounds, than five shillings to government, none of whose officials think it necessary to look after what they consider entirely out of their line of duty. The English mail, via Marseilles, arrived on Sa turday morning with a Queen's messenger, and dos patches. The French papers tell us of the majority against ministers; and at the embassy was a report that Lord Derby had been sent for to form a new ad ministration. Rumours are rife as to Lord Raglan's recal, but upon what foundation they rest Ido not know. Telegraphic messages are constantly said to be received but they are even less relied on hero than in Es l and. Mies Nightingale has been attacked by fever, but was yesterday almost herself again. WHAT THE AMERICANS SAY OF OUR COMMISSARIAT. The following is extracted from a letter received by the last mail from New York : By the way, in my gossiping my paper full, I should hare liked to have made a remark on one thing, that is, the com plaints made in English papers respecting Americans treat ing the really all-engrossing war with se much coolness. The reason is this:—When the Mezican war took place. which was decidedly a great accomplishment, considering the immense distance to be travelled, the forte employed; and the trouble of getting the cosaniimariat across league and leagues of desert, the British papers excelled them selves In easels and remarks about the strong and the weak; taunting the United States " that she had selected an enemy to fight with, because she knew she could crush her." Now, it is in the nature of mankind, and, I am afraid, of the Anglo-Sums race in particular, to recollect such things; hence th e cool manner with which the affair is treated, and the sneers thrown out by American papers with respect to the !war in the East, which, I think, are richly deserved with respect to the oommisariat department; for while the Americans, with hundreds of miles of desert to lump alwa” bad plenty to eat, and good gurgled attendance, the Eng' lisp, with as open sea, a magnifiont fleet, and some of the best doctors in the world, are fairly starved to death, and, whoa wounded, left to rot. Alas! my uthmtunite couslrt 1111414 ii if