The Express. — London, England, 1855-03-07 00:00:00

THE WAR. Letters from several parts of Germany inform no that the cabinets of Berlin and Vienna are severally treating with the secondary states of Europe with opposite ends. The Prussian government is in am mnaication with Holland, Denmark, Sweden, and other states, endeavouring to engage them to neu trality in the present war, while that of Austria is —or rather was until Friday last—trying to secure the adhesion of the same states to the treaty of Dec. 2. Prince Gortehakoff announced on Monday to Count Beol that he had been informed from St. Petersburg by telegraph that his powers would be renewed; the new Emperor recognising the declara tions made at Vienna in the name of hie late father. The Prince intimated that he expected to be in fuller possession of the views of hie government by the end of the week, when his supplementary instructions would arrive. Lord John Russell and Lord Westmoreland have had an interview with Count Buol. Councillor Meysenbnrg, of the Vienna Foreign office, is appointed to act as protocolist of the Vienna Conference, a position similar to that which Gentz occupied at the Vienna Congress of 1815. M. Mey eenburg is spoken of as a man of keen and perspi cacious intellect, and great political knowledge. Letters from Paris speak of an analysis, trans milted by telegraph, of a manifesto said to have been issued by the Emperor Alexander 11., in which the new Emperor proclaims that he will follow with filial respect the policy of his father, into which he was years since initiated. We have no guarantee of the fairness or authenticity of this alleged analysis. A despatch from St. Petersburg of the 3rd states that on the morning of that day Count Panin proceeded to the cabinet in which the late Emperor used to write, and in presence of the new sovereign placed all the papers under seal. A German contemporary states that Bavaria has proposed to the Germanic Diet that, instead of placing all the federal army under one commander, the Austrian contingent shall be commanded by an Austrian general, the Prussian contingent by a Prussian, and the other contingents by another ge neral—probably a Bavarian. The Omit.. Mercantile of Genoa states that pre parations are being made at Constantinople for the organisation of a military hospital for the Pied montres troops. The medical staff and the Sisters of Charity that are to minister there were to leave Genoa in a few days. e The following telegraphic despatch has been re ceived from Vienna, dated March 5 :—" An order of the day issued by the Emperor, dated yesterday, states, in gratitude for the service rendered with such noble einpreszernent by the Emperor of Russia at • time of trial and misfortune, the regiment of Cuiras siers of tho Emperor Nicholas should ever preserve the name of Nicholas, as an external souvenir for the Austrian army." FRANCE. -_ (1/031 TEI 41012ESPONDIIIIT OF THE DAILT X1W11) PARIS, TIMADAT RTININO. The following telegraphic despatches have reached Paris to-day : 'Lamborn, Monday. The provinces of Miosk and Mohilew have been declared It a state of siege, and Tchernigo has been placed ander the orders of the commandant of the active army Prince Paskiewitch. Marseilles, s:b. Artillery, bones, and ammunition continue to be em barked. Since Saturdey twenty -dye transports aro loading. The corvette Tonnerre sailed yesterday, the packet Euphrates to-day, having on board • number of English officer•, and • printing press. Six other packets, three of them English, are preparing to embark troops. The Llugasr, which left Constantinople on the 22nd, carrying the letter bags, had not arrived thin evening. The Bysantin, which left on the same day, announce, that Omer Penh& had gone to the camp before Sebastopol to bays • conference with the commander of the allied armies. The Bysantie and the Infernal, which have also arrived, have on board a number of invalids. A Bucharest letter of February 23, in the Condi tutionsel, states that the Austrian army has received orders to hold itself in readiness to take the field. General Coronini, in pursuance of special instructions, wu preparing to march upon °alai: and Braila as soon u the weather would permit. His corps donnee was to be replaced in Wallachia by the army of from 30,000 to 40,000 men now occupying Tran sylvania. • Unless, therefore, any counter orders have been given, a collision between the Austrian and Russian troops may happen almost immediately. In the Moats there is a long description of the respective situations of the belligerent parties in the Crimea, such u they will probably be found in when the intelligence of the Czar's death reaches them. This journal estimates at 130,000 men the total of the Eoglish, French, and Turkish troops in the whole of the peninsula of the Chersoneau, and fixes at 100,000 at the very utmost the forces of the Russians, inclu ding the garrison of Sebastopol. The Russian gene rals consequently cannot disree of more than from 60,000 to 70,000 men for any stratagetical operation, and that fact, the Debaes thinks, may explain their complete inaction since the attack on Inkermann, where upwards of 40,000 Russians were beaten back with such enormous lose. The Bourse was agitated all day, and the fluctua tions were considerable. The Emperor Alexander Il.'s manifesto, as described by the Independance Beige, was considered very warlike. The effect of this was, however, to a certain degree, attenuated in the minds of many by the news that Prince ()Wachs koff and M. Titoff have already received new powers to take part in the Vienna conferences. The uncer tainty relative to the Emperor Napoleon's project of going to the Crimea is an element of hesitation which weigh. upon all financial opera tions. The Rente, alter being as low as 69fr. 20c., recovered very rapidly at the close, finishing at 70fr. ba, with a fall of 35e. St. Germain railway fell 17fr. 600. ; Orleans, 12fr., and almost all the lines were lower. Several hawkers were arrested yesterday and to-day for crying in the streets some doggrel verses on the death of the Emperor Nicholu. It is said they will be prosecuted, the French government wishing to make a demonstration of respect for the dead. SITUATION OF THE HOSTILE ARMIES IN THE CRIMEA. The following article, by Colonel St. Ange, formerly a staff officer of the French service, was published yesterday in the Debuts: . . 1 We wish to depict the respective situations of the belli gerent parties in the Crimea, ea matters stood when the news of the death of the Emperor Nacbolu would reach them. We think we may estimate the strength of the allies encamped in the Crimea at 100,000 men, considering the reinforcements continually sent during the lest month Iron France and England, and taking also into account the arrival of the two French divi.ions which had been left as a reserve at Constantinople. The Ottoman army leader the orders of Omer Pacha at Euratoris ought to present now an effective force of 40,000 men. And as the sending of corps or draehments by the three nations to the Crimea is goiog on at this very moment, everythiog induces us to believe that the 'wise strength of the allied troops will =lout to 160,000 men in the couss of the present month of Much. The Remiss army can hardly attain the same figure brfore it shall have received the last reinforoments sent through Perekop by the routes of Ode.., Nikolaisf, and Khorron. This army does nest appear at this moment to amount to 100,000 me, inclusive of the garrisons in Sebas topol and the other svongholda of the Crimea It can only dispcee of about sixty or sixty five thousand men for say strategical operation. This explains its total in action since the battle of Interns's, where it brought into the Sold 45,000 men, who were beaten with surresas loss, as any be well numbered. It is an THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, 1855. !republic that would justify the arrest of every indivi dual that happened to be suspected of entertaining the sentiments often expressed in public and private circles by General Concha previous to and during the late short and profitless struggle in Spain. Last evening there was a meeting of the commercial com munity in front of the Palace, upon the Plan de Armes, and a delegation waited upon General &ouch& to offer the servioes of the people, with assurance of their devotion in life, property, and honour for the protection of Cuban faith, the union to mother land, ard the punishment of the Queen's enemies wherever found. It wu re ceived graciously, and they were told that the par pose of their hearts would be communicated to the ministry, and they might feel aimed of royal thanks and royal protection of their lives and property, which would not be required to subdue the present Entente. Our business has been seriously interrupted by the action of the government, but we trust that the coming week will find public confidence restored in the capacity, intelligence, sod integrity of the govern ment Itself. They ask no protection for themselves. Health of the island generally good, and production more than the average of years past. The steamer Conway has about a million and • half of treasure aboard. She arrived this morning, and, being a little late, leaves this evening. OF POLAND. THE ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOPOL action. No winter clothing for the troop had arrived --w-- when he left the Crimes, bat a great deal MR. ROEBUCK'S COMMITTEE Yesterday, the committee resumed their in • t clothing breaking . ttl " tottery ;" but the weather i t i ra d lie had since. When he left, the troops, as d left was They were suffering, but that was slurry a 12 o'clock. Mr. Roebuck (Chairman), Lord Seymour, Sir mainly attributable to exposers in the trenched', and over- J. Hamner, Sir J. Pakington, Mr. Ellice, len., Mr. Layard, wok. Comparing the state of things in this respect with Colonel Lindsay, Mr. Dmmzsond, Mr. Ball, Mr. Braman ot a r 0 7ers, he did not think there was anything to cons ' P By Sir J. Pekin tou—No doubt the cholera,an d diseases and General Peel. The committee room was crowded. The examination of General Sir De Lacy Evans was con- generally, were ag g ravated by the abseace of tes and te noned by hie. Layard. He gave it aa his personal opinion Posers in the trenches. According to the last accounts he that sufficient provision was not made for the sick and received the men were working in she trenches every second wounded in the Crimea, probably from an impression on the eight. His opinion was that they ought to have advanced to wu fb i o ns D u s ifi n u a e be nt tn b d u i t vis th io e sec to was Tli n e o e a q b u so i part of the highs r authorities that there would be no wounds P lu a t e e u d e e e fi f c th ien e cy set i i n i' t e g to heal, and that no cannon balls would be re• medical staff. The strength of his (the general'e) division quired to settle the matter. (Laughter.) It turned when he went to Bulgaria was 6,200, and when he left the out differently, and then those arrangements were made Crimea after Initennann 2,000. While in the Crimea, his d te i n visi t o o f n 7 h w ed received draughts or reinforcements to the ex- ' late in these matters which ought to have been made at an earlier period. He could not give the exact By Lord Seymour—Did nil think, from the experience he date when they first had tie ambulances in the Crimea, but had had in military affairs, that there was any ground for gretted that these ambulances had been sent out at all, as on their panne by sea as to provisions, though there was a they had frequently used them before in Bulgaria. He re. complaint as to the way in which the troops were cued for deficiency of vegetables both at Bulgaria and at Constauti the y were far too heavy, and required four horses or mules. a con i v n e v y a an lid ee s. fo n , Did not and dail wounded himself of wthheileFrhenechwmaseathnseroef could reasonably expect. They w ere generally pretty . ple. There was not much fresh meat, • bu t the When the roads were good, they were capable of carrying troops were as well cared for at sea u they 10 well provided with fresh provisions at Scutari. It was very having sufficient means without. One of the means the r o a r e d /IL:seal in rapid military operations that the men were French had of transporting their sick and wounded was by queerly to cue entiant they laid though it was fee banner on each side of th e mules, which, on b-oken ground medical department, as compared i ti v, i t ty, aforme r :L o u p i l t p . . i The ci Of over a mountainous country, might be considered an ad. was not perhaps sufficiently numerous, and the distress, foss, lunge ; but he questioned whether, from their swaying and sickness were probably greater in the Peainsulav campaign. The cavalry and artillery suffered much less aboat, they were so conducive to ens and coin- t h ere from exposure en their marches, as they had the fort. Many of the regiments landed, some with, shelter of villages, but at Selektive there were no suc h and others without, knapsacks, and he was afraid that some " coven." Huts and sheds could have been knocked up ,of them remained for three or four months in the same if they only had the materials. The French made the English a present of 20,(00 rations of bread one day. Up , clothes they had on when they landed. Some of the eel- to tne last accounts he heard that his division was fairly diers had only a second shirt, and some of the officers only a provisioned, but had net enough of fresh meat or vegetables. third. Numbers landed only in their cloth pantaloons and Tbe difficulties were the same as had been encountered in cloaks. The tents were brought out on the 29th Sept. former campaigns, and comparing the hospital tents with • great many of them were indifferent, and some had been these of former expeditions, he did ant think they were inferior. treed in the Peninsular War. Some few of them were good. By Mr. Lindsay—There were complaints while I was at l bw others had no lining. The hospital tome were large, Scutari and Varna about the tools, *lnch were considered and contained some 18 or 20 penises. There were very few to be is tenor and bad. The shoes supplied to the men were mattresses, and the hay and straw obtained as substitutes also indifferent, and too small By General Peel—After he had got a good commissariat was very inadequate. The men had generally something officer ea his division he had nothing to complain of more l eader them besides their blanket., such as bushes, straw, than the usualoccurrences incident to an army in the field achy. The depot of the tents was at Baheklava. There against an enemy, and material wants were satisfactory. Anne not enough tents in his (the g l's) givision, One of the causes of the suffering of the 'nay was almost sad he had to apply for more. Considered the light entirely to be attributed to the hard work in the trenches, tents used by the French to be extremely useful and the chief officers of the commissariat did not make ail for rapid marches, or in summer weather; b ut the exertions they should have made, and did not supply as badly soapted for a winter campa*n. Visited Selektive mach fresh provisions as they ought. When in the us has arrival before Sebastopol, and of course considerable colonies he received 4 ounces of rice per man, but is the disorder took place when the town was fired on, and when Crimea be received only 2 ounces. Comparing the supplies the shots made free with the roofs of the houses. Bala- with other campaigns in his experience, the provisions were klava was ins very indifferent state when be (the general) not bad. left the Crimea. Captain Hamilton, an officer in the The Chairman—tied you not command of the sea by Quartermaster General's department, was superintending means of which an unlimited supply of provisions could be the quays and halbeur. Had the road from Selektive to obtained 7—Yes, that is my impression. the camp been in the hands of the enemy, thereby cutting General Peel—But thee you had to convey them up from off intercommunication, the consequences would have been the seat—There ought not to have been any difficulty about most calamitous, but not irremediable. There was that. The reeimental officers under my command were very no place for the arrival of troops but at Sanitises, good and efficient. sad for want of accessibility there* it would have By Mr. Drummond—A very considerable number of been necessary to transfer t h e troops to K oos i„ eh mules, horse., and beasts died in the camp generally. No Bay. The Woronsoff road had been declared impassable. use that he was aware was made of their skins. Use might There was considerable difficulty in the supply of forage have been made of them, if subjected to some process of dry. for the hones, and gnat difficulties also arose from toe ing, as a covering for men and horses. Scarcely any troops want of proper, men in the commissariat department. It were lost at the landing in the Crime a. A boat at Varna was was found perfectly useless to complain to Comininary- rua down by • steamer. Pieferred, es a matter of course, General Fader, who was under the Commander-in-Che f, young, able, and active aides-decamp in these matters, in Lord Raglan. He wished to give the committee a short preference to respectable and pertly gentlemen, old, fat, and narrative of his notions concerning the commissariat gene- incapable. rally. Oa his (the general's) arrival at Malta on going out, By Mr. Ball—The British forces before Sebastopol were and before proceeding to the Dardanelles, he was astonished as well tented as the French, and he believed were to hear from the authorities there that the Commissar y- now fairly su pp lied wi t h extra dashing. There General, who had been sent out, as he presumed, to pro- was a deficiency of waterproof boots at Verne. vide everything for the efficiency of the army, had made The deficiency in transport was known from the first, from surcely any purchues of mules or carts. The commissariat de- the head is i ommand down to the merest drummer-bey. pertinent sent out from this country was, numerically speak- It was to be regretted that the coffee did not arrive roasted, isg, completely inadequate to the duties it bad to perform, and that on the eve of war neither soldiers nor sailors were more especially in its subordinate impartments. Represent- enlisted, and that then only there was an augmentation of Latins as to this were made, he undentood, to Commissary- 10,000 troops, ants that the militia were not called out; General Filder at Malta, and that such and such persons circumstances that convinced many that the government might be engaged ; but he declined to ecgage them, not thought they could get over the affair without actual hos thinking it, he supposed, necessary to Mercer, hie personal tilities. Want of the means of transport caused a delay of staff, or means of transport or mule.. As they went on to two or three weeks in the transmission of the troops. Scutari the troops began to accumulate. There were 12,000 By Mr. Layno—Considering the number in new in there before Lord Raglan arrived, and there were great ventiens that have been brought to light during the last 40 difficulties about the issuing of rations. Then deficiencies years, do you think they have been applied to the improve continued from time to time. There were no adequate ment of our army to their possible extent, and that through stores. The distribution of forage was slow and limited, as their instrumentality the army might have been more diet was also the supplies of meat and biscuit for the troop. lively maintained throughout the present campaign 1-1 Various complaints were made on the subject, and even- know of no materially proved invention applicable to war tually Lord Raglan arrived and insisted on some improve- be and the metal cap on the knob of the musket and the nit " itself, and heavier ordnance. meats being made, and some were made. Great inconveni• " ' II once was found to arise from the T y regulations. Mr, Layard—l allude to guts percha, railways, steam, India , rubber clothiag, and ten thousand other things pro Frequently there were greet delays, and the men had to dated by art and science daring the last 40 years ? Ido not wait nor or five hour. for theft rations. There was only as small store of forage for 1 thousand hones. pretend testy whether these things have been adopted so ex- During the whole of this time very little was done towards 'naively as tiny ought to have been or not.—Was there any waterproof clothing distributed among the troops ? I increasing the number of transport carriages. Some 209 or do sot know that there was there any waterproof 300 mules were purchased after the lapse of some weeks. As sheets given to the soldiers to lie on T No.—DJ you know that the country at the time was full of provisions there would we have in this 0 .uotry a waterproof species of clothing that have been no difficulty in obtaining lane supplies. It was a man can carry in his pocket, called a mackintosh / (A unsatisfactory to find that extensive magazines and stores bed not been made. He did not make these complaints so laugh.) Yes.—Were any of these provided ? Not that I am aware.—Do you think they might be introduced into much against the commissary department itself .as against the army ? I should think they might.—Do you think that the superior authorities in the camp and cabinet. He everything has been done to keep up the state of the army (the general) firmly believed that the present war was as it ought to be, considering that these inventions have commenced under the delusion that it was to be settled arisen in the last 40 years ? I have very little doubt there without the explosion of gunpowder or the necessity of are very few institutions that might not be more materially formica magazines at all—(laughter)--and unfortunately all than th.y have been; and I dare say the army is who came in contact with the authorities of the Treasury, improved and the commissariat among the number, acting under among them. (A laugh.) Did not consider the absence of these appliances is the Peninsular campaign any justifies. orders, appeared to be innoculated with this peculiar and lion for the want of Oa m in the Crimea ; or because a man extravagant impression. Certain it was that the arrange on a rainy day walked from the House of Commons to mints were nut such as to enable the army to take the field Charing-ctoss without a mackintosh, that it was any justi efficiently and at once. When the Russians, however, passed fication for his not having done so because his ancestors did the Danube, communications were sent by Omer Pasha requesting assistance from the allies, and the answer was not do so some 40 years before him. that there were no means of transport and that they ought to By Lord Seymour—Believed that steps were taken le have been provided a month before. It was represented keep up the communication between Balaklava and the 1 by the officer who came from Omer Pasha, that Omer coast of Turkey, in Europe and Asia, as a means of pro was prepared to deliver 6,000 ponies, or small horses, to the visioning the army, but did not know whether any material allies on their coming to Varna, together with a consider- supply of fresh meat was brought from those direction.. able quantity of bullocks and arabas. There were probably Did not remember seeing any large woodea sheds built on about a thousand mules purchased when they get to Varna. the French lines before Sebastopol. He attributed much of A portion of the French army came to Varna via Adtian• the misery and deaths in the Crimea to the inadequacy of ople, but the mass of it from Constantinople, as did the the transport service, and from overwork and exposure. British ; but still, as they were waiting for protocols, and Hurd that there were constant supplies sent to Baleklava, the result of diplomatic conferences at Vienna, no great and had there been • regular communication between the exertions were made to put the two armies in • state of harbour and the British lines they would as constantly have capable movement. All this time the Russians were carry- arrived. Wu not aware that either lime or lemon jai* lug on the siege of &Innis, the painful details of which was distributed among the troops of his division. were well known. They could have got up the Danube By Lord Seymour—The arrangements for the supply el but for the want of transport. When he (the ammunition, on the whole, were good—though there was nut general) wu about eighteen miles from Varna, he found •great abundance of ammunition. Much of the inoonves the greatest difficulty in procuring provisions, and had to stenos occasioned arose from the defects in the musket. send arabas there for them. So much confusion existed at Wu very much satisfied with the Waif. The grouad toil ' Varna that as many as 100 arabas returned from Varna had to cut into was crystallised rock , and without good without loads of provisions or forage. The heads of the tools it could not be worked well. commissariat at this period applied to him for assistance, arid Mr. Dundee, M.P. for Linlithgowshire, was then recalled, he gave them a large number of non-commissioned officers and further examined by Mr. Layard, and deposed to the and privates to aunt them. These were marten that ought opportunities he had of ascertaining the condition of the to have been dons by the subordinate officers of the corn- sick i n th e h os pit a l s an d e l sew h ere . R e cams i n t h e minaret, and it was somebody's fault in not prov idi ng Tynemouth, an auxiliary screw, with 299 sick and wounded them. lie thought the commissariat department of from Balaklava to Scutari. The vessel was clean the army ought to be a civil and not a mill- and wholesome, but there was no particular tary ore. Comm iseary Ostend Fader had declined prevision made for them. The whole of the 299 to come to his (the general's) division to see what was were placed in the vessel's deck. The atmosphere, particu wanted, although it was his duty to do so. The commissary- t ar dy about hatchweye, wee extremely offensive, and the g I was under the supreme command of the commander- thermometer was at 45. They were brought aboard in in -chief, but he carried oc correspondence with the Tres- boats by the French ambulance mules. One of the days sury. It was in the power of Lord Raglan to dismiss or to was wet, and they came on board wet, and had no change suspend anyone in the army. The commissariat subordi- of clothed, and they dried on them until they gained Scutari. Batas were very good accountants, and he supposed the There was no preparation made to receive them in the shape Treasury thought that a sufficient qualification, but of beds, and it was impossible to get mattresses. Tile Tyne they knew nothing of field duties. On the arrival mouth had brought a cargo of horses from Eupatoria to of the army southward of Sebastopol there was • large lialeklava, and after the vessel was cleaned as well as it quantity of hay and straw scattered about that might, could be, it was freighted with the sick and wounded. In rasp, with care, have been kept ; and there were a large some cases the men had only their great coats and member of horses to consume it. There was no " town a blanket, with their knapsacks for a pillow. There major" to look after the conduct of affairs at Varna. It was were no hammocks or beds of any kind. The chief sot, probably, thought necessary, as all the superior officers diseases were diarrheas, dysentery, and gelatin. The of both armies were there. noisome atmosphere aggravated the diseases, which was The Chairman—But although these n e urior officers were mitigated as mach as possible by burniog charcoal there, confusion reigned in Varna d—Not more, probably, and gum bensoin. The Tynemouth left Balaklava on Fri than in any ether crowded town. Our soldiers were not day at noon, and arrived at Scutari on Sunday morning. quite us sober as the Fre nch, and it was satisfactory to find On reaching the Bosphorus the vessel got a-breast of the that no disorders took place among the troop. There was hospital, and a few . ete tended the following day, but there as regular road constructed from /Walden to the heights was no accommodation at the hospital at that time, end the before Sebastopol up to the time of his leaving the Crimea. last man in the Tjnemonth landed on the tenth day from' It was only a track, but a thousand men from the camp, or the ship leaving Balsklava harbour. All could have been from Constantinople, might hale been had to have main- landed in one dsy had there been facilities and ',nematode mined or put it in proper order. There was a large encamp- non, but the authorities were not re dy to receive them. aunt of Turks, and they might have been employed to make There were 33 deaths in all. To add to the men's miseries the road. His (the general's) division was very indifferently many had their clothes covered with vermin. Did not supplied with forage during the whole time, and his horses th ink the deaths were to be imputed to their being kept fell off in a desperate manner. Contrary to the usual prac- on board the Tynemouth. Visited the hospital at Scutari on tire, they were reduced to 31b. of forage. They had a different occasions. The French had the hospital at Pen, pretty good quantity of barley; but horses, particularly and thought the French hospitals were 60 much ketter than, when the weather became bad, required a lugs quantity of the English, and that there was a much greater degree of forage. He attributed the less of horses chiefly to the Ova- arrangement, and cleanliness, and comfort about them. The work, cold nights, and want of adequate forage and sheds. beds of the sick and wounded at Scutari were generally Did not think it necessary to have • subordinate officer three boards, on which were placed the ma:tress and covet sprnially attached to a athlete ts look after the ings. The French beds were much more comfortable. sanitary condition of the camp. That was the By Mr. Drummond—The gements for attending the business of the officer in command ; and, if he sick by the orderlies were extremely imperfect. There wen had any doubt about sanitary matters, he would eon- 800 orderlies in the hospital. They were men of not say suit the medial officer. He did not see any necessity good character, and he remembered being told by an akar for having a sanitary staff officer. In his opinion, it would that he overheard one of these orderlies say to another, "Is be inconveniest. After the battle of Inkermaan, the sanitary is a werry bad day indeed when three of them had not two state of the camp herniae very bad, but before that there bottles or port wino between them." (Laughter.) He ba lms no great inconvenience, and great attention was paid tiered each medical man at Scutari had to attend cn 90 sigh to it. Had seen the carcases of horses rotting on the and wounded. Are the hospitals of this country very roads, but not In the immediate vicinity of the camp. His sweet 7—Yes, they are. Guy's, for instance.—Do you own personal staff consisted of four aides-de-camp and one think there were more offensive smells at &uteri than in interpreter, and whenever • vacancy occurred the Com- other hospitals 7—ln some there are. It was unavoidable , mander-in- Chief paid him the compliment to allow him to where wounds were extensive. I his successor. It had been said that there was a Hon. Captain Pouonby was then shortly examined by sort of nepotism or favouritism as regarded the choice of the Chairman. His evidence went to confirm the main that staff. All he could say was, that he had never seen points elicited in the examination of General Evans and these offices before, and they were no relatives of his ; and Mr. Duadas, and shortly before four o'clock the committee although it was thought that the superior officers in the adjourned to this day, at 12 . army had ant suffered much, all he could say was that out The committee would be conferring a runt on the pros , of his 16 staff officers, 13 were either killed or wounded. It ; and the public if they would make t he witnesses, who mast ' was unreasonable on the part of the public to suppose that ,be well accustomed to it "in camp," speak out, as it would our army, after forty year' peace and inactivity, should be have the beneficial effect of enabling all parties to WWII se complete as was expected when suddenly brought into themselves correctly as to the tuts. asosnalmed fact that the Iberians have offered as mash at Mast as Muselrms through sickness, the inclemency of the I mean, and the watt of provisions and forage. In • climate something like that of France, the winter has sm. hibited than, a here, frequent vicissitudes of snow, rale, frost, and t haw. The **aspens aeries the Crimea have been almost roe tantly interrupted by the breaking up of the names in • country that. does not %men • paved causeway. The wiener in Russia Proper is the season he sledge transport, because the frost lasts there four come twenties month. without any intervening thaw. It is sot the same in Southern Russia, more especially is the Crimea. We may hence conceive the dig %hies the Russian army must have had to contend with when matching its reinforcements, transporting its peen* doss and rimaitions, and we may picture to ourselves lb. imputability even to which it Rust have been redneedl in this respect, if we remember, that a route of three 1.. g merely, that from Belaktava to the camp before °obligor''', became so impassable, that the English army remained he several days deprived of provision', and that it wee obliged in order to keep up the fire of the batteries, to have balls and bombe brought on the backs of mules tad even carried by men in their arms. This route from Balaklava now serves es • line traced out for the rail's/. On the aide of the French, a paved way connects their camp with the bay of Kanueosh ; other routes connect the different temps with one aaothsr, and easy communications were estab lished early with the landing points. Bastian' and Karniesch now witness on their shores the erection of two towns of huts and tents, where warehouses, field hospitals, shops of every kind, a host of swim, an entire military or nomads populatios, full of incessant activity, are installed. The French commissariat, with its special companies of soldiers of every profession, has eonstrueted ovens, where the bread for the army is babel ; the bakers knead botch after batch; the military butchers, called " romanien," cut up the meat for distribution • the storekeepers house In lugs huts the supplies of salted meats, biscuit, sugar, coffee, rice, and whatever military men call dry provisions ; others, whose duty it Is to attend to the encampment and clothing, stow away is good order a quantity of miscellaneous goods . The regiments, by means of their own men on fatigue duty, receive from the oommissariat these provisions and goods on delivering tickets previously given to then' by the military intendants. The cantioiers (sutlers) set up coffee-shops, even eatiophouen, or shops where all sorts of commodities are sold at exorbitant prices, and articles of food, which are bought by such individuals as desire to add some European delicacy or another to their military ratios". In addition to the field hospitals, the bakehouses, ware houses, and canteens, you see on the same ground the work shops of the artillery, the engineers, and tho navy. Here hun dreds of smiths, wheelwrights, carpenter. , and armouren, every one of whom is a soldier, ace at wotk. Nothing can be asee valuable during war-time, in distant countries without immoseets, than these companies of workmen in every breech of industry carried on by our military commissarial, and the sue scienutie arms, the engineers and the artillery. Our seßmon foot-soldier even, always a good hand at dining, b easily converted into an active and ingenious workman, mow at his wits' ends for supplj lag his wants, and who as set up his bivonack and his extempore kitchen in the Mot possible manner. Were be to stop any length of time ea the same spot, he would roen have his kitchen igardea, as our soldiers actually had at several en campments in Algeria, and which have since grown into villages. We au, then, that a French army tarries with it all the arts and trades; everywhere it finds ip resources in itself, and is in itself • complete civilised body. This administrative, military, and industrial system, these emnpanies of weakens, all this organisation, in short, fails in the English army, and its soldiery, so intrepid in the combat, have nut the aptitude of ours for the various works of war, especially those of a siege. But Engiand knows this; it has received the revelation of what is defective in her military organisation. Enlightened for the time to come by dear-bought experience, she is about te remedy that defect with the energy of • great nation, that resolves not to be behind other nations, especially when her pow% and butane arc staked in conjunction with France on the issue of a most serious war. We have now to speak on the state of the siege -works. The principal attack (this is the name given to a series et trenches dug in a given oirection) was undertaken against the Flag-staff Battery, and, indeed, the centre, but it has been extended on the left towarus the Quarantine Fort. The zigzag approaches have carried the third parallel Si 100 metres from the rampart, and the works have been pew logged to the Cemetery, of wnich we are the mamas% and as far as the Quarantine Bay, where the I•saretio has been occupied. This progress is considerable ; the for- tification is 'serrated so daily, that our miners have already commenced their subterranean labours. The first mine haa been ruined by the Russian miners, who have counter mined, and by burning powder and resin smoked our men in their gallery. Other galleries will probably be carried on with better success. The great harbour-ravine divides the line of the fortifica tions, and also the siege -works, into two sections. The right part, extending from this ravine to the careening bay, was allotted at first to the English at my. The left attack, exe cuted by the French, played on the city in front, and kept in check several fronts of ramparts and batteries extensively developed. But on Gatlin points we were played uptn obliquely, that is to say, were battered in' flank by tho guns of the besieged. The difficulties there fore were, and still are, very great along that front. What was wanted was, that the right attack should have been more vigorously advanced by the English, for it is in that direction, on the aide of the arsenal, that more decisive pro gress might, perhaps, have been made. The Russians, at this moment, are hard at work in order to perfect their fortifications, and erect fresh ones on that point. The English General, Burgoyne, who served in Spain under the Duke of Wellington, and who is reputed to he a skilful engineer officer, must have comprehended, bewever, from the tint all the impor anca of the attack with which he was charged. Ile cannot have failed to perceive, that if' an entrance could be effected into this part, called the arsenal (the seamen's town), Sebastopol, or the city itself, would then be exposed completely to the havoc of bombs and balls, and that the military port, in its entire extent, would lie at the mercy of the besieger. It is vexatious that the present sad state of the English army, the reduction of its effective streng.h by sickness, and also the little taste evinced by its soldiery for the works in the trenches, have' not yet permitted us both to push on with all the vigour so desirable an attack, that ought to be the principal one. Now, two French divisions are charged with them, and are actively 'druids( the works. But, on the other hand, this has roused the Russians, who on their side have set to work. They are stow demolishing the ruins of the Malakoff tower, a easentated structure, which had been almost entirely de stroyed by the English battuieson the first opening of their fire. and with the materials of this tower it seems as if they would construct a kind of fort or large bastion. Thus the works of attack and the works of defence are bong actively carried en on both sides. The allies must submit with resignation, nutwithateading the impatience of the soldiers, to the slow progress of a netball's' siege accordiap to the rules of rut laid down by Vauban, sad which consist in gaining ground foot by foot, and in redoing by cannon or mine the defenses of the besieged until the day when the vault may be made with • lair prospect of games. The fire was opened at first with pieces inferior in number and calibre to thaw of the place. The large Lancaster guns of the English produced great effects at first, bat afterwards their still greater defects necessarily caused their discontinuance. As our batteries had suffered a gust deal from the supe riority of the enemy's calibre, we were obliged to give up en unequalled contest of artillery, and confine ourselves, as much as the season and the ground permitted, to the dine lopment of parallels and communications. Fresh batteries have ben constructed, as is known, and armed with heavier guns to the number of two or three hundred. All these batteries remain masked. They will not be unmasked before they are completely finished, armed and supplied with several hundred rounds per gun, so that they may all be brought into play at once. The object is to produce an overwhelming effect, and which will serve as a prelude to an immediate assault. ThN is all we are able to say, keep lag ourselves within a suitable reserve. OP VII DAILY IFIIII O.) HAVANNAH, Fes. 10. Havaunah has been the scene of political excite- I went for the last few day., without any one being I able to assign reasonable cause thereof—save from ! the arrest of many of our moat distinguished citizens, who have been seized simultaneously in all parts of the island, and thrust into the loathsome cells of our prisons. Yesterday, in a proclamation to the people, to quiet alarm that existed only in his own heart, they were congratulated on the skill and watchfulness over them that had saved them from the awful ; horrors of revolution, which was at the very moment of action when exposed and de feated by the vigilance and energy of their chief. General Concha alleges in this document that preparation had been made for revolt in our midst, which was to justify the invasion of the island by strangers. The people do not place the confidence in this document that it possibly deserves. They see the remarkable fact that their most distinguished fellow-citizens, those most associated with the enter prise and productive industry of the country, are taken from important official positions and large re sponsibilities, and incarcerated, to the jeopardy of vast property that they had for years been in faithful administration of—our most refined and elegant scholars—our oldest and most reputable mer chants; and they understand only, if the in tention of rebellion was in their minds, that it is a league of a whole people against oppressive rulers. And by General Concha, whom they really love, and yet might give the Brutus blow, they are quietly invited not to be afraid—of themselves and their own actions—as the tender solicitude of mater nal anxiety and oars would protect ii tbem from them selves. The general impression that the action of General Concha is premature—that thereby he ' has defeated himself. It is very probable that an attempt may be made to land munitions aid troops for the Creole service, but as, yet there is no appearance in the neighbouring MEETING AT MANCHESTER. A very crowded meeting was held in the Man chester Town-hall, on Monday evening, to consider the im portance of the Kingdom of Poland as an independent state in her relations to Europe. Mr. WILLIAM MARTIN pro. [sided. Mr. J. ASPINALL TORN'S briefly moved a resolution czpressire of sympathy with the Polish nation, and the do sire of the meeting that it should be reconstituted as an independent state. (Loud cheers.) Mr. Aassa.on Wemnize seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously. The Rey. Dr. Vie co HAN moved the adoption of a petition I to parliament in favour of the re constitution of Pohlad. Re sold—The opinions and sentiments eapreased in the re solution that has been se cordially adopted by this meeting, and I presume the opinions and sent. meats expressed in the main in the petition just read, are of so 111 b. Mous a description that few would be disposed to take any exception to them. The wrongs of Poland constitute a matter about which there can scarcely be a division of judgment. We do not knew what the issue of the present struggle may be, but we are hen be my that, should the Moue be such as to allow of it bring possible that the future settlement of Europe should in clude the restoration of Poland to its ancient independence, Poland may be so restored. (Cheers.) Sines I came upon this platform a card has been put into my hands, on which a gentleman inquires whether I would be kind enough to say distinctly what I think about the justice or injustice of the war itself. (Hear, hear.) I have no objection upon earth, sir, to say what I think. (Groat cheering.) Cer tainly, it the war itself be not just, it hardly becomes as to be talking about justice to Potent!. (Hear, hear.) We are supposed here to be satisfied that the war itself is just, and use hope to take into the sphere over which it will ex tend the element of justice, possibly to Poland as well as Tur key. (Hear,) That is the ground we take, and I should be very sorry indeed to have any hesitation in ststiog, even in Manchester, in any place, in any pretence, the reasons which convince me that the war is a just war; which con einem me that it is a war that England has not sought, a war that England would gladly have avoided, but a war into the midst of which England has been placed by Pro vidence, and where it behoves us to acquit ourselves with all the courage, and with all the endurance, and with all the wisdom that we may. It is a very great mistake to suppose that this war with Russia is a great accident. There is no accident in it at all. It is not a hogs mis fortune, that would foolish talk of this man, or some silly doing of the other. It is a very shallow phikamphy which teaches that great effects do ever come from little causes. (Hear.) The great Mice's may seem to come from little causes, but they come so in reality. Behind the little cause, in immediate con• tmxion with the effect, be sure of it there is some great cause, abundantly aufficient to account for the effects. Now, the causes which have led to this war with Russia, to an intelli gent man, are written out upon the surface of Europe as broadly as the fact of the war itself. You see them in the long-continued encroachments and the still ambitious par pease of Russia on the one side, and in those suspicions and that f danger which have been forced upon the other nations pf Europe by that mere, upon the other. These causes are as wide as Europe itself, and out 'Othello a 5..,, the struggle has come. In this hall the prediction bee been made, once and spin, years ago, that the question of a war with Russia was simply a question of time—a question of circumstances. What would just bsppen to bring it about, when it would precisely come, we could not tell, but some thing will happen, and come it will. When these predic tions were uttered, the good, comfortable people of Maio chester did not, perhaps, very much heed them ; and the staid, senatorial people at a distance thought still less of them; but here is the war, and sure to come it was, unless Provi deuce should have doomed civilised Europe to be so servile and so dastardly—so eaten up as it were with its grovelling slavishness as to put its neck under the hoof of the Cossack and the Cannock. (Loud cheers) It is in vain, therefore, to sty ; all this has come from the meddling of these Free& people, and the rash talk of that French ambassador at Con stantinople. Very possibly the spark did come from Francs, but the, gunpowder came from Rnssis. (Cheery.) Before that spark came from France, Russia had been acting in tae same direction ; one encroachment after another had been made by the members of the Greek church at Jerusalem, ie the face of protest offered again and again to those encroach ments by the Latin chnitistis—a minority there. Russian influence had been employed in sanctioning the encroach meets, and in procuring confirmations of them from time to time from the Porte. Catholic Europe had been silent Ind inactive, in reference to that subject, for nearly • century ; bat the Greek church, under Russian inflames, had not been silent or inactive ; and in all honesty, there fore, we ought to say the thing did not begin — though • man like Lord John Russell may seem to be of a different opinion—with M. Lavalette at Constantinople. It began with those ',recesses of encroachment which, at best, ;had reached a point that made it seem to be a fitting thing foe catholic Europe, through the voice of France, to put a check upon it, and to require something like a more reason able adjustment. (Hear, hear.) Having referred to some of the preludes of the war, Dr. Vaughan proceeded to say if you neglect to balance a great power by a combination of the smaller ones, telliig it to keep within bounds, then the power that is the strongest has lull liberty to eat up all the rest, and the only privilege left is that of being swallowed last. (Loud cheers.) It is easy for men to talk, in very grand phrases, about these things, but they ars a women sense matter Mtn all, and admit of being put into the plainest English, so that the plainest Lancashire man may comprehend them. (Cheers.) Now, Ido not wonder at all that the Cur and Count Neseelrode should have said, "All this has come from you English people and from France. If you had left the matter to have stood merely as • question between Turkey and Russia, it would have been settled very promptly." No doubt it would. (Hear.) Turkey would either have accepted the proposals of Prince Mentchikoff, or 'something worse than that ; or it would not. It it bad accepted them, Russia would have got that footing in the Turkish empire that would have enabled her quietly, stealthily, bit by bit, to get first the formal, and then the virtual sovereignty of that empire. (Cheers.) If Turkey had resisted, there would have been a war, and Russia would have had the occasion she so much coveted, for going in with military force upon Turkey; and then, being loft in that state which we are sometimes told se such a blessed one for nations, without anybody to interfere sad prevent us, she could, of coarse, have concentrated e bee myriads upon Turkey, and possessed Constantinople logy speedily. (Hear, hear.) Dr. Vaughan then reverted IM Vie muse of Poland, and urged that the restoration of ghat kingdom would be the rearing up of a great rampart between Russia and Turkey on the one side, and of the Western European nations on the other, and bath Austria lend Prussia might be made to see that it was their interest tint it should be so. The rev. gentleman concluded by sowing the adoption of • petition praying that as much fa. year might be shown for Poland as for Turkey. The meeting was subsequently addressed by Mr. Ads head, Mr. Gould, Mr. J. Gregory, of Charlton-hell, cud Mr. Zabs, the petition was adopted, and the meeting separated, with thanks to the chairman. Welt.—A public meeting of the magistrate', gentry, and inhabitants of the town and neighbourhood of Honiton was held in that town on Monday. the Mayor (Mr. Aberdero) in the chair. The Hon. W. W. Addington proposed that the muting,. earnestly desiring the speedy restoration of peace, is convinced that no measure is so well calculated to attain that end as the vigorous prosecution of the present war. Mr. Woodward seconded the resolution, which was carried MM. CON. Mr. Porter (a magistrate) proposed, " Th►t this meeting regrets the disastrous conse quent*s of the war, proceeding from the incapacity of vari ous departments, and entertains the confident hope that the whole military department might be placed on a more effi cient footing ; and that in all branches of the public service promotion might be made more dependent upon merit." Mr. Davey seconded the resolution, which was carried unani mously. Resolutions end speeches condemning the system of ruckus at present Friesian in the army were made, and the meeting separated. LIVERPOOL, ThEeDAT.—The Blue Jacket, Captain Underwood, sailed this gumming for Melbourne, with the March mails for Australis, 60 robin and 160 intermediate passengers, and a fair cargo of merchandise on freight. The screw steam transport, Great Britain, Captain Gray, em barked yesterday about 120 men belonging to the Royal Horse Artillery, and will sail to-morrow tow Queenstown, where she will fill up her implement of men and horns. The screw steamer, Etas, Captain Miter, embarked a number of horns to-dey, and will leave to morrow for Balaklava. _ _ --- CIIISTAL PALACE, MAP= 6. ONE-SHILLING DAT.—Admissions on payment, 1,114 ; admissions by season tickets, 302; total, 1,416. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Mason 6. It was unanimously resolved, at the meeting of the Corporation yesterday, that a congratulatory address should be presented to the Earl of Carlisle on his assuming the office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland; the Lord Mayer, who, it may be observed, belongs himself to the Tory party, observing on the occasion that he believed " he was quite safe in saying that few noblemen had ever come to Ireland and met with a reception denoting more unanimity than existed with reference to the expected nobleman. They were already acquainted with him there as a refined gentleman, whose whole conduct had evinced a wish to do good: therefore, he would be glad that they paid him every mark of respect in their power. A good deal of discussion followed on a proposi : . tion to present an address to Lord St. Germans on his departure, and it was finally only agreed upon on the ground that if they wished to keep the office of viceroy they should treat those who filled it with proper respect." An official letter has been received conveying a point-blank refusal to a memorial of the Corporation praying to have the hackney carriage rents of Dublin applied towards the paving and cleansing of the The preparations for the new Irish elections are creating some interest. In Ennis, where the new Solicitor-General is personally most popular, there is no symptom whatever of opposition ; but in Athlone a contest is still talked of, Mr. Ennis having been canvassing there for the last two or three days, but obviously without the slightest prospect of success. Mr. Keogh, the Attorney-General, commenced his canvass on Saturday, and has been received by the electors with unbounded promises of support. The utmost excitement in hfs favour prevails; and it is very doubtful whether his opponent will appear on the hustings. In Cavan also, where the retirement of Sir John Young leaves a vacancy, great excite ment has been produced for the contending candi dates. Mr. Hughey, Q.C., who had been going judge of aseize on the Leineter Circuit, left the Wex ford Assizes, and proceeded to the scene of action to carry on his canvass. He is very popular, and his opponent, Mr. Burroughs, has not yet taken the field in person. NAVAL AND MILITARY. ADMIRALTY, MARCH 6.—APPOINTMENT3.—ABSiBt ant-Surgeon H. H. Smith (1848), M.L. to the Pembroke, 60, screw steam ship, at Portsmouth. Clerk A. Searob:er (1851), to the Cornwallis, 60, screw 'steamship, at Devooport. Acting Assistant-Surgeon J. King, to the Cornwallis. A surveying party is at present employed in sur veying the ground of Green Hill, immediately to the north of the field battery gun park, at the west end of the Ar tillery barracks, Woolwich, it being intended to construct barracks on that fine situation for the accommodation of 1,000 men and SOO homes. The volunteer screw steam vessel ht a arrived at the Royal Arsenal, to take on board portion of the gun-carriages of the 32-pounder field battery, for conveyance to the Crimea. Captain Ward's company, 3rd battalion, with the horses of the right wing of the 32-pounder field battery, embark is the Indians, and Capt. Smyth's company, 6th battalion, the left wing, embark on board the -Etas, both screw steamers, at Liverpool. PORTSMOUTH, Melton 6. The sick and wounded brought home by the steam ship Arabia, were lanchd to-day and forwarded on to Chatham by train. The Arabia is now taking coals on board, after ddinit which she will sail for Liverpool. The CICIMI, steam transport, comes into harbour to ' morrow morning to lend the sick and wounded troops and women and children she has brought home. The Arrogant, 46, screw frigdte, and the Falcon, 16, screw sloop. having completed their fit out for the Baltic, have gone oat of harbour to-day and anchored at Spithead. The Oberon, 3, steamer, sailed to-day for the Mediterra nean, with supernumeraries fur the ships in the Black Sea. The Gorgon, G, paddle-sloop, returned to Spithead to-day from the eastward. PLYMOUTH, MARcit G. The Colossus, 80 gun screw steam ship, Captain R. S. Rubinson, arrived here yesterday from the North American and West Indian station. She came inside the breakwater at daybreak and saluted the flag of Admiral Sir W. Parker, the commander-in-chief, at sun-rise. She is expected to come into harbour to refit fur service. The Centurion is being fitted with all possible speed. MUSIC. SIR HENRY BISHOP'S CONCERTS. ' Mr. Mitchell, of Bond-street, has commenced, at the Hanover-square Rooms, a series of vocal concerts, consisting of giver, quartets, and concerted music, selected entirely from the numerous works of Sir Relay Bishop. They are called "Afternoon Concerts," a much more rational appellation than that of " Morning Concerts," which it is the fashion to bestow on entertainments com mencing at two or three o'clock, and (in winter) frequently coatinuing till sunset. The first of these concerts was given yesterday afternoon. It began at half-past three, sad ended before live—a most judicious arrangement; for a performance wholly vocal, and of a ho mogeneous character, however admirable end de lightful it may be, ought to be in a smaller com pass thanavaied concert of vocal and instrumental music. It would be paying a small compliment to the knowledge end taste of our musical readers, were we to enter into a panegyric on the character of Sir Henry Bishop. He is one of the most illustrious of English musicians. Indeed, when we glance backwards et the history of the art in this coun try, we can find but one name which we would place &note that of Bishop. That name, we need hardly say, is the immortal Henry Purcell. The name which, after Purcell's, fills the largest space in the annals of English music, is that of Arne ; and it cannot assuredly be said that Arne has ex celled Bishop either in genius, learning, fruitful ness, or influence on the state and progress of the art. During a long course of years the dramatic works of Bishop enjoyed an unbounded popularity. They were the favourite entertainments of every theatre, metro politan or provincial, which was capable of performing them ; it was in them that our most accomplished singers achieved their greatest triumphs ; and their beautiful airs and concerted pieces were on every 1 ady 's piano, and de lighted every social and domestic circle throughout the kingdom. If all this is no longer the case, it is owing to a change fa the state of our musical stage—or rather to the • decay and extinction of our musical stage. In the days when Bishop flourished as a dramatic composer we had a musical stage—now-a-days we bare none. But Bishop's music, though no longer heard on the stage, is not, nor is like to be, forgotten. His airs hold their place in the affection' of the lovers of pore English melody ; and his trios, quartets, and concerted pieces, are enjoyed wherever vocal harmony is cultivated. There is not a glee society in the British dominions in which the works of Bishop are not mingled with those of the Webber, the Cooker, the Stevenses, the Callcotts—the classics of former days. And this will continue. This fine and truly English species of music is regaining its ancient favour, and the I beautiful compositions of Bishop, in the form of chamber • music, will be more heard than ever. audience,di , T t i h n e t n ae c nd e d r concert it of sei a yesterday pnlse a and dt afternoon itoov etrese otfhme numerousu attracted ise v e a fraya large peaonf of the room. The voices were Masters Sullivan, Cooke, Mabel), and Norman; Mews. Francis, Benson, Lawler, Buckland, and Land ; Sir Henry Bishop himself accompa nying on the pianuforte. The selection was exceedingly in teresting, consisting of glees and dramatic concerted pieces, composed at early periods of his career. Among them ways Quartet " Breathe, my harp," composed for a ballet called Care:dam, prod need at Drury-lane in 1808 ; and which (as be tells en) was his first attempt at composition for the English musical drama. There was likewise one of the most often- live of his dramatic pieces, " Though be be now a grey, grey friar," composed for the musical drama, Maid Martian, produced with great success at Covent•garden in 1822. An other piece, a quartet and choral., " Toe Savoyard," intro duced in Sheridan Knowles's William Tell, was delightful from its nationality and Alpine freshness. And there was, moreover, the quartet, " Sleep, gentle lady," composed for the factions opera, Clari, in which Min M. Tree made such a sensation thirty years ago. These were the things which especially struck U 9 j but there were others, scarcely infe rior in music. They were all admirably song, and rut ived with the warmest expressions of pleasure, several of them being loudly encored. TUE LATE ESCAPE FROM NEWClATE.—Yesterday, at the sitting of the Court of Aldermen, it was stated by Alderman and Sheriff Muggeridge, that Brown and Berry, two of the convicts who lately effected their escape from Newgate, had been captured, and that the third—Bell alum Spiers—was still at large. He also thought it righ t to men tion, that neither Brown nor Berry bad 'been t aken by the police until immediately after a reward had been offered for their apprebecsion. A reward had also been offered for the appzehasioa of sell. 'l l M D. S. is