The Express. — London, England, 1855-02-23 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS.—THMIIMAY, Fn. 22. The Loan Cnknoattoa took his seat ea the woobsek at Ire o'ideek. CONTEMPLA T E TED DAY OF PRAYER AND MILIATION. Earl GRANVILLE bevies awed t h e odjourameat of the tense. The Earl of RODEN said, before their lordships ad he wished to say • few weeds with regard to the stale of the army in the Crimea, sad the Wen" Mr of a the greatest mortices to Nene it from its M illed He believed there was • Neutral and well implode& in this country that the army was yeating away, and unites something were speed:4 dose on Ma behalf it ereald in • few weeks be estiect. Some time Olp the late Prime Minister having bees asked whether the governasrat 'stymied is appoint • special day of lye mili dies and prayer, gave • repl y . which he (the Earl of Rados) feared at the time might draw down upon the ccustry the wet mrionsconsequenem Ever mace that time the calamities of the army had been of the most fearful obarseter. Ile was loLrrned that in the brigade of Gouda the easualties had amounted to thirty a day, and if that rate of diminution coutinued the Cards must soon have messed to *aut. Ile did not doubt tt at the goverameat had detired to ooaduct the war ie a manner that would be satisfactory to the matatry, bat no one could deny that they had filed is their attempts. Cossidering that the Bathes recoemisod • supreme Providence, sad te'd that it gelded all the cinemas al man. be trusted that the govermsent troika c insider it their duty to apprint a d a y of mationsl prapeti: that protection which slate could sari the country. Those who " honoured God, Ood would honour," sod he believed that if his suggestion were adopted, tt ey would soon hear of aa amelioration of the condition of the army. So strongly did be feel oa this subject, that should the answer of the noble sal (Graaville) to unfavourable, he should give , notice of • matins on Monday for sa address to ter Mojeary. The Earl of ABERDEEN said, the noble lord had, en intentioaally no doubt, misrepresented what he said on the *stages to allies be iefe reed. The noble duke who asked tae qt ea los proposed that a prayer should be introduced into its liturgy for ordinary use. He (the Earl of Aberdare) never esp sssss d any objection to the appeuitoleat of - a day of humiliation, bat he did object to 'the introduction lat. the Liturgy of • prayer for ordinary nee. Bo mach was this the ease, that it happened that • short time before he left officer he arose to the noble duke in question, and informed him that it wasbia iatention humbly to advise her Majesty to order • special day of humiliation sad prayer for some period in the course of Lent. He did not same the day, bat he announced to the noble duke that that was his intention. His objection was only to the Mention of a prayer for common use into the liturgy. The Earl of RODEN said he we. quite sati,tied with the sable earl'. raplasation. Earl GRANVILLE said, with regard to the remarks made by the noble earl in relation to the army in the Crimea, he regretted very mach that his noble friend the Minister for War was not present ; but, not having seen any notice on their lordships' book, his noble friend thought their lordships would encase bit 'bionic., especially as hie non-attendance there might enable him to devote an addi tional amount of time to the public service. He (Earl Granville) thought, however, that he had authority to state, that whatever might be the ease with regard to any parti mist regiment, the last accounts from the Crimea led to the canclusiort that some improvement had taken piece in the general condition of the army. (Hear, hear.) With regard to the setting apart of • day for prayer and humi liation, be was sum there was not one among their lordships who did not feel that the noble earl was actuated by the highest and noblest motives—(bear) —and that there were peculiar circumstances in the aoble earl's position which made it very natural that he should introduce the sutiect. He was happy to inform the noble lord that it was the intention of her Majesty's government, and was decided immediately after the question was put to him on the subject • short time ago, to advise her Majesty to Wm • proclamation, appointing snob a day as that which the noble earl desired. (Hear, hear.) Lord CAMPBELL said, in opposing the noble earl on • fames occasion, he had understood him to propos that a day of thanksgiving should be appointed on amount of the prosperous stats of their affairs in the Crimea. That he thought rather premature ; and he observed that if such a day were appointed before the time of thanksgiving arrived, they might have intelligence of a reverse wh Mi would show that it would be more appropriate to pat en makeloth and ashes. Unfortunately, snob a state of had arisen. He heartily agreed with the noble earl : 1 1:1 1 : 1 C was fitting that a day of humiliation should now be op related. Their situation was most melancholy ; and tbis remark was applicable not only to what had taken play abroad, but also to what had occurred at home. (Hear.) Their lordships adjourned at half-pant 6. HOUSE OF COMMONS—Tnunemy, Fn. 22. TheBPI/CRE took the chair at 4 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The liradea Necropolis arid National Nameless Bi Was road a mond time.. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. Mr. .1. MACGREGOR gave notice, on going into ono mimeo of eepply on miscellaneous estimates, to submit to the considerauon of the house the expedieaoy of reinstating the once of Secretary of State (or Sc3tland, whisk has never been abolished, bet which foil into abeyance lithe latter yaws of the reign of George I. Mr. HEYWOOD gave notice that on Thursday, the let of March, be would move fora whet committee to lovas into the expediency of ati,rding to the nation a fell and equal participation in all the advantages which are not necessarily of an ecclesiastical or spiritual character, in the English and Irish universitiev, and of improving the academical 'yetis in those greet seats of learning, with a view to enlarge their course of edueation ' in conformity re with the r quiesents of the public service. Mr. MALINS gave notice that upon that day fortnight he should call the attention of the house to the operations of our fleet in the Baltic. RETURNS. The following returns were ordered : Oa the motive of Mr. ILICAIWO—Rettint of the asocial et stock sold is each weak shwa the Ist day of July, 1854, ea sceosat of the savings_ backs. Os the station of Mt. OTWAT—iletlattlil sitowiag the hawses of ell officers wrvicg oa the staff la the Crimea, with the data of their appointaseats to the staff, distiaguishieg neh as have obtained cattiest's at the senior department of the Royal Military College , Sendhont. COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT. _ _ _ Mr. BEritlif:sii«i:trei ;Tl);partame ----- ;i of the Com miteeriet was oat:starred to the Deputotent of the Moister of Was, sad for the minute of the ttasiafu to be Mid ea the table ? _ _ _ WILSON would plea the minute in wide* swot the table, and thee afford fall iaformaton to dm boa. mem ber. FORCES IN THE EAST. Major BERESFORD asked whether, as reports generally eonearred la the statement that the quality of the food sap. plied to the army in the East was bad and injurious, that the tents issued were inefficient for the necessary shelter of the' trope from the exposure to which they were subjected, and that the hospital arrangements, especially am to the corps of ambulance and orderlies, were lamentably deficient, any sangesiions wen made, es they ought to hare been, by the I principal medical officer then, to Lord Raglan, command tag the krces, or by the Director-General at hese, to the, Secretary for War, and, if any, whether the Seentary for War would produce capita of the suggestions, and the as stems returned to them. - Mr. - 1.7 PEEL was — not informed that any soggen• lions had been muds by the medical often in the DAMNS to Lord Resist. As regarded the hosts authorities, he had bees informed that Dr. Smith had amide reggestlemi with reference t the matters spoken of in the hon. IBM bres spunk The hot . member woad, doubtless, in the rem Kau d thins eacuic bun answering the last part of his question. COMMISSARIAT IN THE EAST. Mr. WABNBB asked whether theooran7iiniia prows& kig to the Beet in relation to the Commissariat Denies WIN to be merely • COOMilitelk of itiquiry, or whether it would bau poser of summery dlsmiral and appointment es tending to all odious sad appointments to which its power of inquiry extended ; and if it should appear that the coos mission would have powers of appointment sad demised, subject to any kind of restrictions then be would ask what those rewrietleas were. lie would also uk • similar question is versed to the medical anomieeion. Lord PALIIIIB.B rot; said the eommialonen would have full power to alter any arrangement which they might think fit, sad to nuke reports both to the commander of the brew sad to the home govornment with • view to soy persesal altsratioos also. They would, however, net be empowered to carry into immediate eseeation any dura tion, of the latter class which they might think musing involviag • *lunge of ponces. RELATIO2II WIT! THE UNITED STATES Mr. RICARDO aSiedti;" Ikii Yard ef the Trimly whether be would lay es the table ef the beam all awn spondees' between the gerransat smiths United Brutes ea the subject of isterastlesel arreagaseste is Use of wet? Limed PALMERSTON mil that it would sot be desirable M lay that eiffelliell6lllllo ea the table 'lithe hose. At the essemeseeneet Nth, werillareat view Were els= the toe ha he NOMA le @Whet it voesimily. We. terembeeets Mete Ilea Mathes betimes lbe tele wn lady se the beet wishes of bath w eejeWieeld dash: (Cheers.) TEI COLONIES AND THE WAIL Mr. ADDESLEY embed wimp!, her Ifkiser hid Weed ....irfN. a eelemilt wbo night rein regimen al non OW% alma ; %Maw Is tra4thetaesitiea Male *eye that say reatufal eekseoleag meat be =Me I :Wit of pdleiseat el th i s ram ma patriotism evibssi vet minim in leap emu of wog Mese. swans el the vie ? ei G. GUT .sl4 UM Ye lad MA ouldistiol maws allooloor eft the golossiso stoolisks so IS the A lso of sursisiono, bst soaks dodo& Ist bola dos& Ils Ya o soow path = s of Ilio bus ismismost %sulks so mob solll at o r as o goopoosi. ;el ski vs. ohm soloalot won ail yetW STATUTE LAW QOM NIL CILLIITIIILD oskod she las same of So Now. Mare es Mists kw oiosslados Mg sillossal ha sit. Itiage sues del. or what were the days appointed fee the sit-' liege of the said board ; sad whoa the beard was not eli tes. by when were im foments esersised ? The ATTORNEY-GENERAL ,alai that the settee law emminies bad not adjourned its skew sine die, that it met case every fertaight, that is the isinteale between its seeetisp Tinian members of the anamedoe preseeeted their tpairiss is some departmeats at the law, and that noises a were espied seder the members of the 111111Miliell in carrying out Its objets. LAW OP DIVORCE. Mr. J. 0. PHILLIMORE asked whether it was the e lution of the govsrement to bring in any bill upon the sub join of the law of divorce this union ? fbe ArrORNEY-0 EN ERA L said the., es the hon. ass them hod set given notice of this question, be was unable es state the keenness of eat epee the matter. HOSPITALS AT SCUTARI AND BALAXLAVA. Mr. STANFORD asked whether there was say objee- Use se hay es the table of the house the instructions given Se tie eeeemiesiosers aepointed last November to inquire late the state of the hospitals at Scutari sad Balsklays, with the report eland settees* taken before the said cons. anselours i Mid PALMERSTON said the report of the commis *sem bed not yet bees received ; when it was, there would be wet the slightest objeetioa to place it trees the table. Mr. STAFFORD—And the evidence also? Lord PALMERSTON—The rtvernmeut cannot answer that questing until it sue the evidenee. “Aegater.) We Save every desire to afford the tallest information. TILE INDIAN ARMY. Mr. H. DRUMMOND asked if the government intended making the army of the East India Company a royal army. (Hear.) Lord PALMERSTON said the government had no Inch intention. MINISTERIAL STATEMENT. Lord PALMERSTON—Sir, I have to state to the house that which I believe is generally perfectly well known already, that three members of her Majesty's government have intimated their intention to resign the offices which they have hitherto held ; I refer to the Chancellor et the Exchequer, the First Lord of the Admiralty, and the Secretary of State for the Colonies. These officers now bold their OffiCti only until their successors shall have been appointed. Under these circumstances, sad consider ing also that these three officers ass members of the govern ante in this house, I trust that hoe. members will not think I am pressing unduly upon their indulgence if I pro pose to item sot to eater upon the public business to-day, except in the case of those orders of the day to which no objection whatever can be made. If anything is is the least objected to, of course we shall not press it. To-mor row my right hon. friends will attend in their places, and state to the house the grounds upon which they have cons to the decision which I have now reported. I therefore propose that the house should adjourn without going into other business, after the orders of the day are disposed of. Mr. DISRAELI—I merely wish to state that I have heard with deep regret—(. Hear, hear," and laughter) — that before ten days have elapsed the government which we had hoped would have been a strong one is partially dis solved, and that notwithstanding the absence of the noble lord, who was generally considered to be an obstacle to the formative of a strops government. Of course, after the state ment of the noble lord opposite (Lord Palmerston), and in the absence of the right bon. gentlemen whose conduit and that of the noble lord will be canvassed on the proper secs non, it will be improper to say more. I only wish the noble lord to understand that I think I am expressing a pretty general feeling, both of this house and of the country, when I say that I have heard the official statement which has been made to-night of the partial dissolution of the recently-formed government with deep regret and with sous consternation. (Hear, hear.) ADDRESS TO HER MAJESTY. Colonel ADAIR, who ha l given notice of a motion for an address to her Majesty on the subject of the war, stated that, although he would not press it after the statement 1 which the noble lord had made, be could not but take that opportunity of expressing to the house his conviction that it was most important that such an address should be made. He trusted that the sable lord at the head of the governmest would enable him to bring on the matter at an early deg. PROMOTION IN THE ARMY. MO ar REID, in postponing his motion for a select com mittee to inquire tato the system of conferees appoint ments in the army, wished the noble lord at the head of the government to Ss a day for its resemptioa. Lord PALMERS lON said there were two days in the week foe private members, and two days for the govern ment. Considering the amount of business for which the government was responsible„ they could not be expected to give up one of the latter. The hon. and gallant member had better take some Tuesday or Thursday. (A laugh.) CIVIL SERVICE SUPERANNUATION. Mr. MACAETNEY postponed his motion on this subject. INTESTACY (SCOTLAND) BILL. Mr. DUNLOP brought in a bill to slier, in certain respects, the law of intestate movable succession in tiontlead. SUPPLY. The report of Ks Committee of Supply was brought up and agreed to. WAYS AND MEANS. The report of this committee was also brought up and agreed to. ARMY SERVICE ACT AMENDMENT BILL. Oa the order far committee on this bill, Mr. M. OIBSON wished to make an inquiry of the Secretary-at-War, or, in the absence of such a reactionary, of the First Minister of the Crown, with reference to what was stated to have lino said in another place, when this bill wu under discussion. It was repored that. with reference to recruiting (or the army, the Minister of War had made we of these wards " Oar erection has been directed to the question of recruiting for the army, and if gentle means are not suffideat, compulsion will be used to 'noble us to carry on this war with vigour." As he could not conceive that the Minieter of War intended the meaning which was conveyed by these words, and presuming that he must have alluded be the militia, and not to recruiting for the army, he wished to have the matter explained by the First Minis ter of the Crown. Lord PALMERSTON said that government proposed to on what might be considered stringent compulsion, by offering such an amount of bounty as would secure the summary number of recruits. (Laughter.) With regard In the militia, the law gave government power Is Mort to the ballot, but be should be exasedingly lieeteilling to have recourse to that expedient, the more especially as voluntary enlistment had hitherto proceeded in so satisfactory a manner. (Hear, hear.) The men had come in freely, and their conduct subwq•ent tp enrolment had bon everything that could be wished. He should, thereffise, be sorry to interfere with the voluntary spirit while hid been so generally and so nobly displayed in this esseesi. lie was sure that the words quoted by the right I gu r s cieseen had never been used by tie noble friend is to the army.. He most have meant that if volum ene* sot come in in sufficient numben for the militia, they met resort to the ballot. It was, of course, known that no system of compulsion could apply to the army. Mr. K. OIBSON—The noble lord Is reported to have used the weeds in all the papers. QUININE FOR THB ARMY. Mr. STAFFORD celled attestant to a printed paper he bad to his hand making for subscriptions to purchase qui nine for the army In the Crimea. It was known that, of all medicines, quinine was the most important for sae army is that part of the world ; sad therefore he wished se kno or whether the supply was so short as to necessitate the getting op of private subscriptions to purchase the drug. Should he not receive a satisfactory answer, he would nest 'enmity bring the matter before the blue, and would, is addition, make the most sedulous hiquiries on the subject. Mr. F. PEEL could only promise inquiry. There woe no deficiency of quinine within his knowledge. AU be knew cots that • mat ample estimate had been taken for it in the votes (Loud cries of "hear, hear.) It should be his businees to base the money properly applied. Kr. GOULBURN said that, to his knowledge, immense waggon loads of quinine bad been shipped for the Crimea some time ann. The bill then went through committee. MR. ROEBUCK'S MOTION. Mr. WILSON said that, as it wee exceedingly desirable that the motion of the hon. and learned member for Shef field should come an early, he bagged to move that tame* row (Friday) that motion have precedence of the orders of the day. Kr. DISRAELI asked whether the statements which had been premised by the noble Ind at the head of %hi govern ment would be made previous to the dimension. Lord PALMERSTON said that his right bon. friends would make their statements in the course of the discussion on the adios, and it was with that view he had given it preemies*, of the army estimates. The house adjoursed at half-past 6 o'clock. Tae TRANSPORT BOARD.—The oollespes of Capt. Craig's, the @halms& of the new Transport Board for the saperinteadmite of the packet serviso at Boathaniptos, are said to be Ceptaia Drew. formerly et the aseresatile ma rise sad Major 1. Craig Hebissoe, from the Irish staff—ths two Arm sommissfeaers bevieg boa nominated by the AL — dodralty. and the last named by the Minister of 'War, Lord Penman. Mr. Edward Oitsrd, one of the senior clerks at Whitehall, has been appointed secretary to the new Beard. Mr. Bedford, of the private office of the Admi ralty, kma boss promoted to the emend elms, and appointed also to tie Transport Beard. In addition to their other duties, the Board, It is said, are le have ehargesmf prisoners of war MAZZACIIAL COLLEGE AND UIRVILISITY, AMlD visi.—Ths goriest. of Mertsehal Cane sad traverelty, Atomises, have Write& Ms. Iniat4 to Woos a mediate for the restate/ chair. THE EXPRESS. FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 23, 1855. a OXFORD'S OWN." THIII3 is something eminently feline in all Mr. Girporomt's movements. He is always bent on stealing noiselessly upon his object. This propensity is enviously illustrated in his proceedings with re gard to the newspaper stamp. We speak not of the merits of this measure, but of the manner in which he has attempted to carry it. Mr. GLADSTONE'S first resolution, on this subject, as it stood on the notice of motions far Monday last, ooatained these words :—" To charge on newspapers and printed , books and papers transmitted by poet, rates of post• ago not moulding one posy for may four ounoes in weight, and for any fractional part of four ounces." On Monday evening, Mr. GLADSTONZ asked, and was allowed, to have his re solutions passed, without discussion, in the committee of supply, reserving debate on them for the second reading of his bill. The resolutions were accordingly put and carried in committee, nobody attending to their exact phraseology. In the Votes of next morn ing, the resolutions appeared with an important alteration in the passage we have quoted above. It ran thus:—" To charge on newspapers and printed books and papers transmitted by poet, rates of postage according to weight." Nor is it in these words alone that "Oxford's Own" has taken the House of Commons and the country by surprise in this matter. Mr. GLADSTONE got his resolutions passed without opposition by professing • wish to have them promulgated, in order that the public might form a deliberate opinion of them. Yet the bill founded on them was introduced and read a first time on the same evening that they were reported. That bill stands on the list of orders to be read • second time this day ; and yet yesterday, at 3 p.m., the publisher of the Parliamentary Papers had heard nothing of it. The parties most interested in the measure have had no opportunity afforded them of learning its contents. The House of Commons has been inveigled into passing a resolution materially different from that which was presented to it. The country is well quit of such a dexterous Chancellor of the Exchequer, and will have no wish to see him back in office im , posing taxes by tricks of legerdemain before any one knows aught of what he proposes.—Daily News. Vie Court. A party of invalids, twenty-six in number, of the Coldstream Regiment of Guards, wounded at Alma, Inker• mann, and during the siege operations before Sebastopol, were inspected by the Queen yesterday afternoon, in Buck ingham Palace. The wounded Guards were mustered shortly before three o'clock in the Grand Hall, under the bommand of Colonel Gordon Drummond. IL:r Majesty and Prince Albert were attended,wbile inspecting the men, by Dr. Munro, Surgeon. Major of the regiment. I The Queen was accompanied by the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, end also by the elder Princes of the Royal Family. The Princesses, with the Ladies and Gentlemen in Wait iag, also witnessed the inspection. Prince Albert skated hr the garden of Buckingham Palace, attended by the Gentlemen in Waiting. Iu the after noon his Royal Highness, attended by Captain the Hon. D. de Roo, visited the Duke of Cambridge at his residence in St. James's Palace. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prices's Royal and Prince Alfred, honoured the Haymarket Theatre with their presence in the evening. The royal suite consisted of the Countess of Desert, Lord de Tablet', Lord Alfred Paget, and Captain the lion. D. de Roe. A Cabinet Council wu held at the Foreign-effice, Down ing -street, yesterday afternoon. It wu attended by the whole of the ministers with the exception of the 11;ght Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Sir James Graham, and the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert. Tne council sat two hours and a quarter. A deputation to urge the change of the Market-day in the New Cattle Market from Monday to Tuesday bad an inter view with Sir George Grey yesterday at the Home•office. The deputation consisted of the Right Rev. the Lord Bi•hop of London, Hen. A. F. Kinnaird, M.P. ; Rev. John Hambleton, M.A., Minister of the Chapel of Ease, Isliog ton ; Rev. James Sutherland, M.A., Curate of St. Mary, Islington; Rev. W. W. Champoeys, M.A., Rector of Whitechapel ; Rev. C. B. Dalton, M.A., Incumbent of St. Michael, Highgate; Rev. C. F. Child., M.A., Princiral of the Church Miuionary College, Islington; Rev. Dr. Courts nay, M.A., St. James's, Pentonville; Rev. T. Saulez, M.A., Incumbent of All Saints, Islington ; Rev.W.Vincent, M.A., Incumbent of Trinity, Islington ; Rev. Thew. Dale, M.A., Rector of St. Pancras ; Rev. B. S. Hollis, Minister of Islington Chapel ; Rev. J. Weir, Minister of the Scotch Church, Islington ; Rev. W. Tyler, Minister of Independent Chapel, Bethnal-green ; Sir James Tyler, J.P., Holloway; Mr. R. C. L. Bevan, Trent park, Barnet; Mr. Jemes Beaumont, Highgate; Mr. Tho mas Lott, Holloway ; Mr. Henry Lintott, salesman, Smithfield ; Mr. G. C. Street, F R C.S., Pentonville; Mr. Henry Spicer, Highbury ; Mr. George Crawley, Highgate; Mr. H. E. Murrell, Islington; Mr. Henry Joelin, farmer, Uposinster, Essex; Mr. James Leatherdale, Islington; Mr. lassos Wagstaff, Mr. John Savage, and Mr. John Strudgett, Churchwardens of the Parish of Islington; Mr. John Lay ton, Vestry Clerk of Islington; Mr. Edward Suter, leling ton ; Mr. Joseph Wilson, J.P., Clapham-park; Mr. Joseph Fisher, Islington; Rev. John T. Bayles, Islington; Mr. Thomas Cork*, salesman, Smithfield ; Mr. J. M. Molyneux, Lonely-perk, Guildford; Mr. R. M. Atkinson, I•lington ; Mr. W. Banton, Pentonville; Mr. G. Eve, salesman, Smith field; Mr. B. Smith, Highbury; Mr. Daniel Hazard, Is lington; Mr. J. C. Peachey, salesman, Smithfield; Mr. Slater, butcher, Kensington; and Mr. Thomas Lott, F.S.A., Carlton-villas, Islington. THE MINISTRY. It would be idle to give publicity to a tithe of the rumours which have been current this day conceralog the re-formation of the ministry. The reports finding the most credence are, that Mr. Cardwell hu retired, and that lord Highs, Mr. Baines, Mr. Lowe, and Sir G. C. Lewis, will be among the new apt ointments. It is said also that Lord Carlible will be Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and Mr. Fitestephen French or Mr. Burke Roche, Chief Secretary. The explanations in the House of Commons this evening are looked forward to with lively interest. The at yesterday's Cabinet Council are understood to have strengthened Lord Palmerton in his determination to persevere in the process of reconstructing his Cabinet. The Council did not break up until the time when the House of Commons usembled 7 .tbe members pro. ending, not to their own residences, but directly to St. Stephen's. The Marquis of Lansdowne, Mr. Cardwell, and Mr. Hayter had long consultations with Lord Palmerston, yes terday morning, at his private residence in Piccadilly. MR. ROEBUCK'S COMMITTEE. On the nomination this evening of the above com mittee, Mr. Cony will move to substitute Captain 6cobell, and Mr. Beresford Mr. Miles,—for Mr. Bramston. Mr. Roebuck, it will be remembered, proposes to instinct the committee to limit its inquiries on the first part of the resolution (via. the condition of the army in the Crimea) to the past physical condition of the same. Mr. Henry Baillie will move 0 that it be en instruction to the committee to inquire whether the expedition to the Crimea, at so late a period of the year, was undertaken in consequence of direct orders issued by the government, and whether It received the sanction end approval of the allied generals who commanded the expedition." LORD JOHN RUBSELL.-A Vienna 00iTeepOndi lof the °Aria Gamffe writes on the 17th: '. Apa stemma have been prepared in the hotel of the English Embassy for Lord John Russell. It is expected that he will be six days in Vienna." LORD Row has received such representations as will more then possibly induce him to return.—Scofsesan. MONTROSE BURGITIL—Wo understand that Sir John Ogilvy, But., will offer hinuelf as a candidate to represent these burghs. PARTIAL DESTRUCTION OT CATANLL—GENOA, Fin. 17.—The Vesuvius steamer, from Naples to Leiter°, brought the iatelligenn that Catania has bsen 'early de stroyed, either by an earthquake or an eruption of the Ana. Advice; from Path announce the death of Coant Joseph Teleky, which took place on the 16th jut. A few days before the event be was engaged in writing his histori- Gal work on the Eraof the Empties. I OaTrrni, Paws, FE). 22.-BNruno DAY. —Admission at the doors, 731; admission by Nana tiskoto, 306; total, 1,037. THE CZAR'S ST. PETERSBURG, FR. 1, The following ukase ha s b een addressed to y directing senate requiring it to proceed will general arming ordered in the manifesto. "Whereas, by our proclamation of this de) ly have called out all ranks of the empire for the def t« of the orthodox faith, the throne, and the coun y we command you firstly, t o carry out and organ; the general arming of the country according to t s accompanying regulation confirmed by us; co secondly, to take steps for completing the equipm q and arming of the combatants in the governme% that will be designated by us to that end in sped ukases. The directing senate will not tail to rsal o the necessary arrangements for carrying the obo e , into execution. "St. Petersburg, Jan. 29, 1855. "Nicnotas." A ukase of the same date commands them to call n it forthwith t he mi litia en masse in the governments of Petersburg, Olonetz, Novgorod, Tver, Simolensk,ani Kursk; and in the governments of 'Moscow, Vologo l , Kostroma, Nischegorod, Yarofslav, Kaluga, Cosi, I Tula, Ryayan, Vladimir, Tambov, and Peep, consideration that the partial levy of recruits is cloy at band, from the 15th of February to the 15th d March, to effect the equipment of the militia (ron the lat of April to the let of May. In all the governments so designated the combatants are to tx forthcoming in the number requirtd by the regn lation. ST. PETERSEURG, Pas. 13. The piens, for increasing the defence of the country, tan been confirmed by the appearance of a pv.clamation to the effect, and by decrees from the Emperer for organising tl, auxiliary militia of the empire. In fact it is merely a fret levy of twenty-one or twenty-two recruits from every the" ( sand inhabitants, which for the present will only b e par tially enforced, so as not to overburthen the eastern govern merits, where the levy of recruit, will in due coarse tale place between the 15th of February and the 15th of BarcL These will have however to furni-h this extraordinary me tingent in April and May. It is singular that Poland, Pk. land, the Baltic provinces, the Caucasus, and Siberia aro no t yet called nlion to contribute to this militia, probahl; because the war is to be specially waged as a rsligious one, and greater reliance is placed on the standing army in the countries mentioned above. The fact that this measure is proclaimed on the eve of the Vienna conferences is no doubt significant. The European journals express diverse opinions ct the Czar's manifesto. While the infPpendance, true to its early faith in the Autocrat, is struck with the moderation and pacific temper displayed in the new document, the Augsburg Gazette regards it as the justification of all its incredulity as to the peamfal disposition of the Czar. The latter journal says: " There was no necessity for this appeal to national and religious enthusiasm—a measure which could not be outdone were Russia in the situation of 1812. Except in the Crimea, there is at this moment no enemy on Russian soil. The proclamation, however, is intelligible as a stroke of policy intended to purge men's minds of the vain delusion that a change his come over the spirit of Russia, and that her envoy is about to enter the approaching conferences prepared to accede to any demands that may be made. Austria mks therefore right in urging at Frankfort that the state of things was menacing." Elte ervregos. - ,desetiaessents Intended far "The Express," Leaden Events, paper, oast be at duo Ottioe, le. Bouveriastreit, by Two Walsall o tie day of publication. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tau DAT —Moralism 61t. %ammo. 66. Um. To-rannow—Morning, 71. lint Afternoon, 7b..6in. LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23. LATEST NEWS FROM ABROAD (ET INTIII/ATIONAL ST. PETERSBURG, Pea. 22. Prince Mentohikoff, writing on the 12th, says: "On the 2nd Adjutant Ufleth partly destroyed a French subterranean gallery. " On the 6th the French made an ineffectual attempt to destroy our countermines. " On the Bth we exploded another mine and de stroyed the enemy's works, our artillery meanwhile playing, and the enemy answering vigorously. "Our volunteers frequently make night sortie', disturb the enemy in their trenches, and compel them to leave off working."—.Daily News. AUSTRIA. CDT INTZIMATIONLL TELEGRAPH ) VIENNA, FIB. 22. Count Rechberg has arrived from Verona to replace Baron Prokescb, who will attend the conferences as Austrian plenipotentiary.—Daily News. BALA/MAYA, Fan. 12. The siege works are pushed on with great activity at all points. The road which the English are con structing from /Utaklava to the camp is in a very forward state. The &ine•Hortense, Jean-Bart, and Canada have arrived successively in the roadstead of Kamiesch, towing transports laden with troops and ordnance. — Daily News. VARNA, FIB. 10. The Turkish troops landed at Eupataris form an effective force of more than thirty thousand mem. This army is entrenched at some distance from the town. Its sanitary state is excellent. Another army corps is to embark at Beltchik in the course of the week. The electric telegraph which is to connect Shimla and Varna will be completed by the end of the month, and in a short time telegraphic communica tions will be established as far as Rustchuk.—Daily News. (Bs nacrsic MADRID. Fits. 20. The Cortes have authorised the Government to raise a loan of five hundred millions real (taus l effectO—Daily Nam The Weser Zeitung publishes the following letter, dated Vienna, 17th inst. : A note was rere;ted here yesterday from 24.de Baldameroai, the prime minister of Tuscany, officially announcing the adhesion of the Grand Duchy to the treaty of the 2nd of Dreember. The negotiations with the Western Powers are closed, rad the exchange of the ratifications will take plata is a few dap. We find this fact admitted in a Berlin journal, at all times indisposed to admit intelligence unfavour able to Russian interests into its columns. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE PACIFIC. (3T XAONZTIO 17.1.101/PII T OP rat DAILY NWRII LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY. This morning the United States Mail steamship Pacific, which was to leave New York on the 7th inst., end which has been so anxiously looked for sines Monday, arrived off the Bell Buoy. She is waiting for water, and is expected up about 3 p.m., and her mails to be despatched for first delivery to-morrow in London. WITHOUT A GOVERNMENT. THE country is still virtually without a Govern ment; for although, in the course of yesterday afternoon. a Cabinet Council was held, and subse quently at the sitting of the House of Commons several of the occupants of office re-appeared upon the Treasury Bench, it was on all hands felt that the Ministerial Crisis had not poised, and that the Government, ostensibly headed by Lord PALMERSTON, could only be deemed provisional, until it should be known how the vacant offices were to be filled up. A Chancellor of the Exchequer, a First Lord of the Admiralty, a Secretary for the Colonies, a Secretary for Ireland, two Under-Secretaryships of State, the Clerkship of the Ordnasoe, a Lordship of the Tres- sou, and a Secretaryship of the Board of Con- I trol these, were there no other offices to be I filled up, constitute no inconsiderable proportion I of the working whole of an Administration. ' Yet all of these, as far as the public were aware, continued to be vacant up to yesterday even ing. Hence the feeling of uncertainty and doubt regarding the passible future which =Aimed to overhang the political world; and hence the irre• strainsble expression of disappointment in the Howe of Commons when Lord PALMERSTON announced briefly the fact that three of the principal members of ' the Cabinet had retired, unaccompanied es that an nouncement was with any intimation that their suo censors had yet been found. The three gentlemen in question had not, of course, attended the Cabinet Council, nor did they appear in the Hones sem goodly ; but Lord PAinurrox stated on their behalf that they purposed being present la their places on Friday, and that they would then 'kaftan Nem which hd messed *am is purs- tee iks course they had adopted. Pena's(' suck aaplinstions it is unnecessary to hazard any iionjeatate as to the cams of secession I which these accomplished masters of rhetorical fenee may think proper to assign. Nobody, perhaps, expects that we shall be told the whole truth just now regarding their quarrel with their Whig asso ciates. We should not, indeed, be at all surprised if Mr. GLAD STONE undertook to prove that quarrel there was none—only a decided difference of opinion as to what was best to be done under existing cir cumstances, and what he and his friends understood Lord PALMERSTON had bargained with them to do. We remember to have heard that when Mr. GLADSTONE quitted Sir ROBERT PEEL'S Government in 1845, upon the Maynooth Question, his explana tory speech in the House was so inexplicable that his illustrious chief observed to one who sat near him—" I thought I understood his reasons before, but now I protest I do not know what they are." We hope upon this occasion that the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer will be more perspicuous. Impatient as the public are of delay in the final formation of a working Government, they have an interest in knowing whether it is tree that the condition upon which the Aberdeenites agreed to re-enter the Cabinet ander Lord PALMERSTON was, that he should undertake to talk the House of Commons out of the appointment of a committee of inquiry. The country has a right to know whether the men who but yesterday asked for its unlimited confi dence could really have been so blind to the state of things around them as to imagine that such a compact, if made, could be kept. Nobody will care fo question the feeling of mistaken honour which may have rendered Mr. GLADSTONE and his friends unwilling to adopt the proceeding of censure against Lord ABERDEEN and the Duke of NEWCASTLE which they had vainly resisted a month ago; and if Lord PALMERSTON actually gave such an under taking as is alleged, he has only too faithfully acted up to its spirit by his unfortunate attempt to bully or cajole the House on Friday last. Bat what are the people to think of the vaunted wisdom of statesmen par excellence, when they find them covenanting among themselves, in order to gratify personal feelings, that, come what may, the preponderant opinion of the House of Commons and the overwhelming conviction of the country should be resisted and defied ? And what must the esoteric estimate of these statesmen be of the stuff of which the House of Commons is composed when, under any circumstances, they could deliberately calculate upon being able at will to turn it politically inside out ? How often must they have found it abjectly pliant in their hands, to have speculated thus confidently upon the elasticity of its conscience? How little security should we have had against the success of ' the practices meditated in the present instance, but for the accidental pressure from without which our recent disasters have caused ? It were well that the people should ponder these things; it were well that , they should remember, after the existing crisis has passed, how intense a contempt for a majority of the House of Commons the men who know that assembly best entertained for it; and how ♦ain must be the hope, generally speaking, that a ma jority, constituted as it now is, will really bold in check the unnational and irrational schemes of oligarchic cabals. We should be almost ashamed to give an hour's currency to the miserable projects that find favour at the clubs for re-constituting the Administration. The Red Book seems to have been rummaged to find faded and forgotten notabilities wherewith to stop the many leaks in the ship. From among the supernumerary tapitts of quality, and ambi tious triflers, it is in our mind wholly im material which half-dozen may be chosen. If Lord PALMERSTON'S choice is to be confined to this impostor class, it signifies little or nothing who the individuals may be. His Ministry will in such case be short-lived and abortive ; it will end as it began, in confusion and in gloom. Nor will the reproach of exclusiveness and of usurpation be lessened in the mind of the public, when they become aware o• attempts that are said to have been made to buy off independent criticism and salutary censure, such as that beneath which the Coalition has at length fallen, by the offer of two or three dumbicaiterships, to the more prominent of the "gentlemen who sit below the gangway." We have heard, with feelings we had rather not describe, that Mr. LAYAIID has been offered the Clerkship of Ordnance—a post recently vacated by the sagacious Mr. MONSELL, when be discovered that it was in contemplation speedily to abolish it altogether. Under any circumstances, the office is one in which abilities such as those which the member forAylesbury has displayed would be in a great degree, if not altogether, thrown away. But this is part of the old trick of government by caste; Dever, if possible, to allow an intruder to compete fairly in the race of office; but, while treatieg him as a prot4E, to stow him snugly away into some dark corner, so that, when be emerges at a general election, the public will hardly be able to recognise him. It was in this spirit that when the Whig Cabinet was formed in 1846 the silent sinecure of the Vios-Presidency of the Board of Trade was offered to Mr. COBDEN. But as the one was refused by the Honourable Member for the West Riding then, so the other has been, we trust and believe, rejected by Mr. LATARD now. Other proposals of a similar description have, we are in formed, been made to certain other members of the popular party in Parliament ; we should be sorry to learn with a different result. In times like the pre sent, and with a view to those which we are mani festly approaching, public men who rely upon public sympathy for sustainment cannot be too careful how they guard the honour of the great and growing cause of administrative equality which may be vin dicated or compromised in their persons. It was not to be gagged or logged that they were sent into Parliament. It was to assert the rights and interests of the great body of the community without invi dious or unfair distinction; and this, the people under stand full well, may either be done out of office or in office—nay, it may be often done more effectually is the latter, provided in the act of entering it a man does not stoop or demean himself, and that when there he is not cushioned, or his characteristic abili ties lost to the service of the State. If every office in which there is any possibility of honourable distinc tion be engrossed by the old privileged clue of bureaucrats, no good purpose will be gained by prof fering standing room near the door to some few men whose place, if they are to have any, ought to be mmompanied with responsibility and power.—Daily Z(iws. AUSTRIA. The Austrian government has contradicted, through its accustomed organ, the Austrian Correspondence, the statement that an Austrian loan of 15,000,0004 guaranteed by England, is about to be raised. This report originated with the Berlin Xreuz Zettung, the only considerable German paper hardy enough to champion the cause of the Czar. THE CAMP ROAD FROM BALARLAVA. We are given to understand that although the " navvies" only landed at Beak's,* on the 29th ult., by the Gth inst. they had made no less than three miles of tlis temporary road. The entire railway to the camp wu er• petted to be completed in sin weeks. HOLLAND. (PROM THIS NT OF THE DAILY NM) THE HAGUE, Fn. 20. The government proposes to repeal, from the lst of next January, the excise duties on farinaceous food, which now press so heavily on the industrious classes. The tonnage dues are also to be suspended. To meet the deficit which this remission of duties will otos- sion—estimated at 4,500,000 florins—it is intended to lay an additional duty on fermented liquors to the amount of 100 per cent., to increase the duty on refined sugars, and to levy a capitation tax of 1,500,000 florins. There will still, it is estimated, be a deficit of 1,500,000 florins, which is to be borne by the Exchequer. It is exceedingly doubtful whether the new Minis ter of Marine will be able to keep in office long. Vice-Admiral Ensile resigned because the Stets' General rejected his budget as being insufficient foe the purpose of restoring the merino from its sinking state or for keeping it in a due state of efficiency. The new Minister, by the advice of his colleagues, his not increased his budget; it is to remain at the same figure of 5,900,000 florins. The consequence of this mistaken economy will be, it is thought, that, in the present temper of the States General and of the country, this budget, like its predecessor, will bens. ceremoniously declined. THE SARDINIAN ARMY. The following appointments have been confirmed by the Minister of War respecting the Sardinian emdi tionuy force. General Commanding-in-Chief—Alphonio La Mariam Dead. Quarters Staff—Colonels Petiti, Aye% ffalt 1110 ; Aides-de-Camp to Commander-in-Chief, Captains Ball:0,2. G Is Commanding Division: let, General John Dr rando ; Chief of Staff, Major Casanova. god, General Alexander La Marmon ; Chief of Staff, Forrino. Boserve G I James Durand°. Commandants of Brigades: Colonels Ginstiniani, Mott vaeoltio, Mollard, Cialdini. Of Cavalry : Colonel Savoirons. A MIRACLE AT BALAKLAVA. A letter from Balsklarti, of the let inst., contain' the following: The happy prevention of the great gunpowder accident is e h arbour here, on the 21st ult., was owing to an Watt 01 cifussian deserter, a Polish Jew ! At least, so he bier self positively affirms, and he is really believed by a fees The story runs thus: When the report spread through the town that the transport Arabia was on fire, and it wee CO petted every moment that the Star of the West, which vs lying alongside with a heavy cargo of ammunition an boob would be blown up if the fire spread in the least, 'Polish Jew rushed down to the water, and tearing a piece of parch- I meat, on which a circle and a double triangle were is scribed, from his neck, he gave it to a lib?, ill' ploring him to tie it to a piece of the bust wood of the vessel, and to throw it into the flames without loss of time. This the sailor did, whild the Jew himself drew a picture of the burning ship oaths beach with a stick, and commenced walking slowly SOW I it, at the same time repeating some mysterious cabalists: sentences. After walking round his drawing three noel: , be cried: " The fire is cursed now, and utterly hatraleso This he could assert pretty confidently, as already Will hie second walk round the circle, the vessel bad made sir& that the fire had been checked end was speedily heist wholly put out. I will not say that the Pole undue:sof what the transport was telegraphing, but his quid's:mad mailsg soon detected by the exclamations of the bystanders dill On maws were good, and he made his prophetic speech agnamallo7. He now demands as a reward for the Mu& be wrought a large awn of money, his liberty, sal a public return of thanks by the whole Envlish snip TEE CONDUCT OF THE WAIL—LUt evaliog A pest meeting held at the Town Hall, Birmingham, sat the presidency of the Mayor, adopted a memorial to lea' !lament urging the usability of a full and searching incloill into the causes of the disasters in the Crimes, and peter log against the system of purehasiag oomaissioas sad Was' seetioaa.—The Mayor of Liverpool has received a two' qua tespectfolly requesting him to call a public meelbilo r 1 4 5 innu PurPoic THE NEW RETURN OF NEWSPAPER' STAMPS. lbe return of newspaper stamps just insell ems tits following multi; First Claarter. Bowe Quarter. Daily News . 919,191 • 30.044 Morning Herald . 303.000 1109,000 • IltorMag Past . . 206,000 - 126,000 • Manisa Chronicle . 162,600 186,000 bpress . . 117,133 198,389 ebbs • . . 176,000 195,000 NY • • . . 168,000 192,000 SMadard . . . 103,000 104,000