The Express. — London, England, 1855-04-03 00:00:00

Elie ell)refSO• arnoadosowses Isarsiol The Itzproso," Loofas Evoke yaw. sad ba ma dr Odbla. IN Deavarbaaweet, by Tv. (Nook IS Ow day se pabdaadaa. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tun BIT —Marais& it 4110 --Miasma. 21. Ws. Timenaow—lteralai. ti lia .. Manna, ft. ion. LONDON. TUESDAY. APRIL 3. LATEST FROM ABROAD. (3T OVINAZINS AND IMMIX mioaara.) Mom ova OWN cosassroirourr.) PARIS, TUMULT KOZNINO. A dogwatch from General Canrobert, dated Muth 22, states that the enemy have made several attempt' to arrest the progress of the works before thy Malik her Tower, bet without swam Admiral Moulin, eomniander of the fleet of the place, has been killed.— Daily VIINNA, Arszi 2. The discussion of the third point is still mm(l44 The Allies have proposed to exclude all ships of war—not excepting those of Russia—from the Black Bea.—Daily News. THE UNITED STATES. -•-- ARRIVAL OF THE NASHVILLE. (IT MAGXITIO TZLISILAPIL) PIT 01 Til DAILY 11111W11.) LIVERPOOL, TcrluiDAY. This morning the steam-ship Nashville, Captain Berry, arrived in the Mersey, direct from New York, having been chartered by Collins' Line to take the place of the Pacific, which requires some repairs. She left New York on the 21st ult., and has brought, besides the mails from British North America, thirty passengers and over 600,000 dollars in specie on freight. _ . AI the departure of the steamer business was better, money easier, and stock buoyant. Our last dates from California are to Feb. 26. The money crises at California have affected the firms of Adams and. Co., Page and Bacon, Wells, Fargo, and Co., which have all suspended. Also several other firms. The excitement was subsidiog when the steamer left. Banta Anna bad left Mexico city with troops, and defeated Alvarez' insurgents, and then returned. The cotton market was brisk. The active demand sassed prices to advance a half cent. Breadatuffe wise firm, owing to light supplies. Indian corn wee heavy, and slightly lower. The provision market was quiet, and prices un altered. Freights unchanged. Exchange on London, 110 to 1101. Paris, 6.11} to 6.12. _ _ The ship, in her passage, has met with adverse winds all the voyage, and peeped several icebergs. On the 23rd ult., during the time the other puma gem were at lunch, Mrs. Rose Riley disappeared is very mysterious and unknown manner. lERINO APROPOS OF THE MILITIA. Mona mismanagement ! Not content with ruining an army of regular soldiers in the Crimea, Govern ment are now doing their best to melt away the Mili tia of the United Kingdom. Of the latter faro* nearly every regiment in England is now in a state of die !spears, and unless matters mend greatly, and quickly, very few days will suffice to leave the country with out nay Militia at all. Would that some one could provide us with a War Minister who had clear no tions regarding came* and effects, and who could fore see that in all human probability official blunders will at the present day produce very great evils to the country ! The reason of this disruption in so many Militia regiments is a want of official arrangement, forethought, and foresight, which would utterly ruin any Joint-Stock Company, or bring a Merchant, in whom. establishmen t the blundering took place, into the Gasetle. When the Act of Parliament which brought the Militia into being in 1832 was framed,no provision whatever appears to have been made for the difficulty which has now arisen. The framers seem—according to the good old English custom in all matters of war er warfare—to have trusted a good deal to chance, and the remainder to Providence, in ow of any future dillealtiee respecting the period the men bad to serve. The Militia raised between the Act of 1862 and the 12th May, 1864, were liable to be called out ander ordinary circumstances for periods not exceeding 68 days in each year; but should there be any danger of invasion, or other great and immediate call for their services, they were liable to be embodied for permanent duty. By the Act 0'1864, all men subsequently enlisted for the Militia were bound to serve so long as the war lasted. Boon after that Act was psseed,many of the Militia regi• nnotebeing required forgarrison duty, all the enrolled men were called out, and have been retained with their respective corps until now. However, there appear to have been suipicions on the minds of county members that all wee not on the square ; and question., easy to ask bet difficult to answer, were asked again and again in Parliament. Government consulted the law allows of the Crown, who gars it as their opinion that all Militiamen, whether enlisted before or after the new Act of Parliament, were bound to serve permanently, if required to do so. The opinion did not, however, suit the parties most concerned, and unmistakeable grumbling. began to be heard in many of the Militia regi ments doing duty in various provincial towns. Then' —but not till then—Lord PAlnirtlai did what he ought to have doos in May last, when the new Act was passed. He authorised the discharge ef all men enrolled prior to the passing of the Act, or at any rate of such as did not wish to serve any longer—at the seine time I giving them the option of being re-attested for five years' service, with a bounty of twenty shillings for such u entered upon this fresh engagement. The teeth of this any sae—save perhaps an English Mi nister of War—might have foreseen. On Friday last these conditions were explained to the let Somerset Militia stationed at Plymouth, and of this regiment— which is said to be one of the finest corps of embodied Militia it the kingdom-414 men out of 600 took their discharge, and started by railway for their satin county. On Wednesday last, about 600 men of the West Lent Light Infantry claimed to be re leased from duty, on the same grounds as those sat forth by the lest Somerset Militia. TM North Durham have, *seceding to the Sinederlesei nlB6lll, lost 770 men out at 800 during the put week. At Wool wich, the liesapihire Artillery Militia demanded, on Friday last, their discharge in a most disrespectful amuse cc parade. Of the Leicestershire Militia, 460 have *Nabbed their dimming], sad only 120 41 Emu have beet mattested under the new Act. The Mak Artillery have bet 40 men left eat of 130 that mustered at the Leadgeard Fact on Thursday lest. The example set at Plymouth by the' Ist Somerset Militia has be= followed betfi by the South Devon Regiment and Devon Artillery in the same prrieon, sad to ouch an extent that theMajor-Ociteral commanding the district and garrison has great diffi culty in mastering men sufficient for garrison duty: Besides the Hampshire Artillery Militia, who asked for and obtained their discharge on Friday last at Woolwich, the Monmouthshire Militia, doing duty in the same 'anima, in like manner demanded to return to their homes daring the early part of lest week, and the regiment is not now ese-fifth its former strength. And so on we might enumerate regiment after regiment that has during as kit Isetnight lost from two•thirds to live-eighths 'lts men. No persoo who happened to be near any of the Lew don railway stations, yesterday, could have failed to observe the extraordinary number of Militiamen arriving from and departing for all parts of the country en route to their homes. Even in other parts of the metropolis, numerous ex-Militia soldiers, dressed in dirty uniforms, and carrying their goods and chattels in bags or boxes, have been seen during the last two days hurrying from one terminus to another, on their way through town to their respec tive counties. Is this to be wondered at ? Certainly not. Official blunders will ever beget national misfortunes—it is the old rule of cause and effect. Blunder No. 1 was the Act of 1852 not providing for a contingency like the present war. No. 2 was altering the law in May last. For these Lord PANIIIIIIE is not 'newer• able, but he eertainly is for the climax of mistakes— that of not offering more than 202. bounty to each men as take service again and are re•atteeted. In the regular •army, at present, a recruit who only eaters for two years gets a bounty of 71. in the in fantry and 101. in the cavalry. It is, therefore, not very likely that able-bodied men, who are quite eligible for one, if not both, of these branches of the service, would enlist in the Militia for five years, receiving a bounty of 11. The first blunder on our list having been discovered in time, a bounty of at least 51. should hate been offered to each man of the Militia who—being entitled to his disobarge— re-enlisted in the corps for five years. Up to the present time our Militia corps have, by their disci pline and good conduct—not leas than by the manner is which they went through their drills and per formed their duties—excited the wonder and admire• lion of military men in England. It would hardly have been thought possible that this forts—the only soldiers almost we have in England, and the source from which oar regiments in the Crimea fill up their ranks soquickly—could have been mismanaged byany amount of official blundering. Events have, however, proved otherwise. To an Roglish Minister of War all things are possible—to destroy by ignorance, or make useless by want of foresight, what others would think it impossible to injure. No amount of warning seems to have any effect whatever on the powers that be. When Parliament reassembles, question upon ques don will be asked Ministers respecting the cause of so many hundreds of Militiamen refusing to serve any longer. What replies can be made to thee* queries? Ist, that the case has been greatly exaggerated; 2nd. that other good men and true will be found totake the places of those who have left ; and 3rd,that, as a wind-up," the system works well The first of these, a glance at any county paper, published since Wednesday last, will at once contradict; the second is obviously false, for men who have yet to be drilled and formed cannot be as good soldiers as those who have been some time at the work ; the third, even Mr. FREDERICK PEEL will hardly have the official brass to assert. No : let us have patience, and time will perhaps show us what the end of all this blundering will be. Of one thing, however, we may be certain; that wherever those " coming men," so much wanted as English ministers, may appear from, they Imes not yet been seen in Downing-street : least of all can Lord PAM' UM lay claim to be one of the number.—Daily News. SPORTING EXTRAORDINARY. Tile Englishman is pre-eminently a horse-racing animal Our Kings—from CHARLES 11. to 0110110 E 1 1 1.—have all had a penchant for the turf. Our Statesmen--our FOXES,GRAIIAMO,IIId BENTINCKS— have studied the mysteries of finance at Tattersall'. and Newmarket No sooner is an English colony settled in a waste or barbarous land, than a race course is laid oat. Even Sierra Leoae—" the whits man's grave—has its race-course. Our officers while hemmed in, in Affghanistan, had their training. and matches under the walls of JellalabarL And now the Russian look-onts--watching, through their glasses, the doings in our camp before Sebastopol --are perplexed by the movements bf crowds which would have no mystery for any clerk or costermon ger who has witnessed a " Derby Day." We have been favoured, by a friend in the camp, with a list of the races--though not with a "list of the running hones"—that were fixed to come off in the rear of the camp of the Fourth Division, "Russians and cannon balls permitting." Here it is : FOURTH DIVISION RACES. By permission of the Major Gemmel cosursoading It proposed that new should tame place is nor of the Fourth Divides Bucompusest on the 17th instant, eon soeuclag at 11 a.m. - - Stowards.—Colonel Garrett, B.S. • Major Somerset, R A.; Captain Radcliffe, 20th &gig:seat Lieut..Colenal Smyth, 68th Regiment ; Captain Croker, 1 7th Regiment. The following stake. will be rim for: I. The Greenhill Stakes.—For horses 6onisfulis the pro perty of officers of the Fourth Division, to be ridden by 061- em of the division. Entrance 30.., 6L added. Cates weight. Distance three.frourthe of a mile. 2. A Sweepstakes for Posies of the Divides snider four teen beads two inches high. Estrum 10s., 31. added. Catch weights. Diatanee half a mile. 3. Au Open Sweepstakes for ail Horsea—Entranse 101. added. Catch weight. Distance one suite. 4. A Sweepstakes for Posies ander thirteen hauls Wear log to the Fourth Division.—Eatrance bs , 21. added. Die talics half-a-wile. . 6. An doe;iirreepstakes for all Dense (English in cluded.) Blame*, 30s. 61. added. Distance Three fourths of a mile. - - - - - . - Assopen iweepatakts for all Psalms nudes 14 hands I 2 fetches high. Entrance, 165.; with U. added. distance, half-a Whs. _ _ 7. As open mole ram. Estrum*, 6". ; 11. 10s. added. Duress's, half 8. A posy ram, to be Miles by gallon of the naval brigade. Estrum, 2s. 64.; 11. added. Distaste, halts mile. 9. A hurdle rase, for all bones. Estrous', 11. ; 61. added. Distance, three-fourths of a mile, over a ditch, hurdle, sad wall. (Signed) Major HAMILTON, D A.Q.M.-Geseral, Clark of the Comm. Mom. Is ease of amenity, the Steward' have the power of pcetposisig the day for the rams. Camp, Yew* Divides, Mash 16, 1866. Assert the passengers who strived in England by no hat West India packet was Captain Petn. He sold out oft IVIMIllet of Dragoons. some yens sines, to gratify his love et travelling. He has travelled seedy nu the world. His het istrsey ww NMI the Amerisaa sesta nest, 6061 Banos Ayres so Chili, over the Pampas sad the Rados. The jenny is performed as males. TSB VOLUNTARY STITZM. Minister seed to wire se. beyond saag. poor old soul. Ono the ma t sad irs his wages from tires to four has gridolisa me Is a year. Well, it nearly set him crazy; it bothered him so he could hardly sleep 80, after shorn was ever the ant Sudsy, he nab : " My door brothels. I hear pa have raised say salary to four hundred delkos. I yoftear Wised to yes for your Madams, bog I ay% think MOWN It as so swoust. First, you ssa't Owl it se his. pee as Is it, sad I knew it ; weesdly, I ois't worth K o Thisksew it ; sad, thirdly, I as soadylkod to both my present [noose; I how to dos the ease way ter It will kill se."—Ses MeV' l'lshos owl Hums laws THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 3, 1855. gbe Court. By seissesod sf her Majesty, fifty met of the brigade of (herds on ionise is the Crimea, in alidred during the 'diarist military oporldiees, attended at Busk highest Palen at $ °Week yestaisy afternoon, and were iaspostet by the Qom cad the Prime ha the Grand Hall. Twestrof the invalids wen Grandiose, fifteen were of the Widmann, and Mesa were of the Soots Fusilier re/ri sme. Her Majesty was Weeded doriag tits implode@ by Colonel Wood and lisrgeorMajor Brown, of the Gr.- *Mien; Colonel Upton and flargeen-Major Munro, of the Coldstream Guards; sad Colonel Ridley sad fiurgeo;Major Richardson, of the beets Fusilier Guards ; who explained to the Queen the eaters of the different wounds, the actions is which they were received, sad the state of the health of the men. Her Majesty end his Royal Highness were ac companied by the Prime of Weiss, Priam Alfred, sad Prism Arthur. The elder Royal Primness, the Prises and Princess Augustus of Bam Coburg, sad the Priam of Lein- Wien, ales witnessed the impestioa. Prime Albert, attended by Major-Gem:al the Hon. C. Grey and Colonel Seymour, left Buckingham Pala.. at 9 o'clock In the forenoon, travelled by the South Western Railway to Faraborough, sad from tines proceeded to Aldershot, to inspect the works is progress foe the aneausa dation of the troops. Vincent Hardiage amonpanied his Royal Highness to Aldershot. The Prince retaraed to Buckingham Palace at twenty WSW'S before 3 o'clock. The Prime sad Prisons Agendas of bane Coburg arrived at Buckingham Palace yesterday from Cie/intent, on a vidt to the Qum. Her Majesty had a dinner party in the evening. The company included the Prince and Princes, Augustus of base Coburg, the Priam of Woburn, Prises Ernest of Leiaingen, the Marquis sad Marchioness of Breadalbane, Lord George Lennox, Major-General muollys, Major Monk, 17th Lamers, and the Gentleram in Waling Prises Augustus of Saxe Coburg. Lord Charles Fitzroy and Colonel Seymour have relieved Major- General Bouyerie sad Captain Da Plat is their duties as the Equerries in Waiting to the Queen and Prime Albert. The Frieze and Princess Augustus of Saxe Coburg visited the Dashes§ of Rent yesterday at Clare*-house, Bt. James's. Mr. Cowes, M.P., bad an iaterview with the ChasesDor of the Baehequer yesterday, at his °facial miaow* in Downing-street. Her Majesty, in the course of her visit to the Crystal Palace on Saturday, expressed henelf highly pleased with its improved appearance. Her Majesty made soma purr-hams of jewellery and busses at the stalls of Messrs. Radolphl sad Barbedienne, in the French mutt. The Earl of Clarendon passes the Easter vacation is tOWIL The man*, of the Earl of Lichfield with the Lady Harriet Maniacs, eldest daughter of the Marquis of hbercore, will take place during the present month, at Bracket Hall, Herta. Viscount and Viscountess Palmenton entertained at dicer, last evening, at their manatee, oa the Tunes, Piccadilly, his Eseelleney the Sardinian Minister, L'atial ral Viscount de Chambot, the Bari and Countess of Shafts.- bury, Admiral Drees Dead's and Lady Emily Deans Dundee, Miss Bowles, Sir Benjamin and Lady Hall, Sir John Shelley, Sir Augments Clifford and Kim Clifford, and Mr. K. W. Grey, M.P. Viscount and Viscountess Sydney have left Lon dos fee Paris, on a 'daft to their Emotion:Me Lord and Lady Cowley. We regret to hear that Mr. Blaekett, M.P., is seriously ill at Paris. Galignani states that he le paralysed en one side. The Installation of Mr. Layard as Lord Rector of Mustache' College, Aberdeen, will take place as Thursday. The Lord Rector, it is understood, will afterwards attend the launch of the magnificent vessel now building by the Mesas. Hall, and give her a aims. A public meeting is called at the Shire Hall, Chelmsford, on Thursday next, to consider the best course for securing the All England Meeting of the Royal Agri cultural Society for the year 1856 being held at Chelmsford. The Committee of Council on Edaostion, in re questisg certain returns front the managers of parish schools, have issued a short circular (signed R. R. W. Lingen) in which occur two error.,—one a violation of or thography, the other of construction. Rare they are:- 1. "The annexed fly-leaf should then be &hatched." 2. " Add a cross to the name of every such master or mistreu oho has been as spprentin." At a Conference held yesterday, the Congress of Vienna adjourned to Monday next, the 9th inst. Some days before the next meeting, therefore, M. Droop* de Lbuys will have reached Vienna, and will have placed himself in communication with Lord John Russell and his oolleaguer. General Sir De Lacy Evans honoured the Gal lery of Illustratioa with a visit yesterday aftsrnoon. and was pleased to express hie approbation of the diorama illus trating the events (I the war. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday a court was held for the despatch of business. . VISIT Or TRI =TIROS OT THR PUNCH. The Loan MAYOR said, in reference to applications made to him by members for permission to place notices at the business paper relative to the approaching visit of the French Emperer, that he wu that day to have communia• lion with the authorities, after which it would be neesseary to onside whether it was desirable or not that substations should be put we CITY OP LONDON CIXII2IIY. A ens of 26,0001., in addition to the sum of 60,0001. agreed to by the court on the 13th of October, 1863, was ordered to be dotreyed out of the consolidated rate, or moneys to be charged on each rate, for espouse. is eon• nazi's with the ab..ve cemetery. Tif NZIN MITHOPOLITAII CATTLE MARKET. _ _ _ Mr. H. L. TAYLOR, the chairman of the Market, Im provement Committee, brought up a report from the com mittee appointed to carry into 'aeration the twastruetion of the new Metropolitan Cattle Muket, stating that the archi tect estimated the expense of completing the works at the sum of 80,0001 beyond the sum of 278,7211.. estimated In the report to the court on the 9th of June, 184. The in crease was rendered nueseary by the construction of an additional sewer, the erection of a meat market, the exten sion of the two taverns on the north side of the market,' Sc., sad particularly, the groat rise in the out of labour and materials. Mr. Taylor troseleded by moving "That the report be received, and that it be referred to the Coal, Cora, and Finance Committee, to consider how the money may be raised foe the purpose required." The motion was carried by 40 votes to 11. Several amendments were also rejected on diviaitme, after which the court adjourned. FIRES AND LOSS OF LIFE. Yesterday morning a fire broke oat on the premises Nos. 116 and 116, Gowen-street, tenanted respectively by Mr. A. Gallons, bar-fitter, and Mr. D. Page, tobecoonin. The Boyal Bonny's ere mope was brought to the spot directly after the outbreak, sad mune mesas of sung the lives of several of the inmates, out of whom, Mrs. Pegs, was rescued by the us of the short ladder pieced across the spars separadag the two betiding.. The following is Mr. Braidwood's report:" No. 116, Goswell.stseet, Mr. D. Peg*, tobueonist. The shop and patinae Inwood oat. Staircase end back rooms destroyed, and most port of roof off. The halldiag was neared in the Ilaity Fire Office. The memento are unknown if insured or not. No. 116, Goswell-eneet : Mr. A. Galleon, bar-fhter. Beek work shop. bused down and commits destroyed. The building was insured la the Unity OR" bet the contents were ‘ 11 " neared. No. 115, in the same street, Mr. J. Fussy, confec tioner. Stook in trade and fensiture greatly damaged by water, Ike. kneed in the Imperial and Unity Fire Offose. No. 117, ditto, Mr. J. Meaning, globe masufecturer. Bide wall and entente very seriously densged. Inured la tke Photon and Unity Fire Of Tin cane of fire az imut." At • late bear cm Sunday night a fire leek Saes in the peaks. of Kris James, a poser, No. es, Lamb's Conduit *set, by whist& an aged female of the name of B. Pugh burat ahtomt * • ender, whilst the damage to the was beimelisesbis, the fire being seabed to the use the bassamat. Assent lim o she attended with a lose of life, happraed Ilissilay mufti, at ea early Year, is the private Donee of Kr. J. limb, is the Ithedeewell-reed, St . The fire was ettelised to the bask rem, mead lose ; b t tea. fortunately Mn. Navin, whoa was °alp P 2 peers of perished la the flames. The origin of this it. was also nakaoira. TEE MUSEUM OP OZNAMENTAL ART, AT MARL POSOUOIE flossm—The sambas &Medias. La., daring the mouth .f Marsh alt. were as fellows : 4,760 pene s . Ca the piddle days, sad Unload has ; 630 pumas as tie statute days, sad admitted Si statisats ea dm mount of ad. mask bias' tits rogisterod Modesto a t ths slaws ud ST CRYSTAL Purc2.--B>gunT . D . A2.--April 2. ion. ea o:l 1,188 ; 1 wr mei aims, 112.--Total, THE ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOPOL they also succeeded in digging four pits for sharp. shooters, with a wall sufficiently high to ensure thei r (lion TEI SPZOIAL COSSIISPONDS3II' OF TEI DAILY protection. The sharpshooters were thus enabled to • maws.) annoy our allies at their work, and these pits have CARP ABOVE SEBASTOPOL, Means 18. Dfi be irst e st n wa th tut : mm o p b ad j t e t : o t on li tihv ae se v l e t4h rs teh l R c i o un i t t ai es ann te t.r d i je.use a m t t tar eanr k tfe e rr . omd z i The Russians have not been enabled to make much ?ogress with their new work on Gordon's-hill, in hey were found to be well guarded, but the F t e nc h, _onsequence of the constant interruption, day and amid a heavy fire of musketry and repeated salv os night, to their working parties. They are exposed, from the Malakhoff batteries, and those near Caz essi . an hour afterwards the enemy returned in great form s looking from the position of the besiegers, to a cross big Harbour, gained possession of them. In less then and in turn our allies had to seek shelter behind thei r fire from the English works on the left, and from the batteries worked by the French on the right. Al works. The fire on both sides was remarkably vi m ,, and rapid, and the possession of the pits was though the discharge from the Lancaster battery and Gordon's battery, on Frenchman's Hill, has been disputed with great obstinacy. lam informed te n t men placed hors de combat. For a period of ab ou t severe and effective, die batteries on the right have oar allies in this affair had two officers and seventy twenty minutes, .between eight o'clock and nine so sustained and unceasing were the been the more obnoxious to the enemy. From the line of fire of these latter works shot and shell sent p.m., from them, but not striking the position of the new was the fire from all the batteries in cen e t i r l e volleys of musketry ; so terribly vehement chiefly endeavoured t o antagonistic battery, and divert it from the more ex redoubt on Gordon's Hill, pass on in a direction to wards the works round the Malakhoff Tower. The and to the right, as each tried to check the fire of its t P°se he :ark atmosphere of the evening, so frc uent the( positions of the troops ; so vivid the flashes, in a ß hea uss k ien th s a h ß a re ve f , aam the t re h f a ore ba , cast around by thee which were bursting; so loud t t te he rie maia s on kh th a e ff T ri a g w h e t, r. an bu d t the roar of the cannon, so repeated the sharp lights in the air of the flying shells and g the glare not only the guns in front of a al f so ca t ree hose niag in the ßa redo ubts t areh s on now t he armed, height been worked with this object. It has been observed " bang" of shells in their explosion, so sharp ana y t , w b o o n t h e w of re n c l o i that the Russian fire has not been nearly so active or continuous the rattle of the small-arms; that, for the heavy as it was a few weeks since. It has also time mentioned, the struggle going on appeared to be been noticed that when increased at one given point, more dire than any since the commencement of the it has slackened at others along the line of defences. siege. Yet, so secure has been made the shelter of Whether this has been owing to a diminished force the parapets, and, what is of more importance, 80 of artillerymen in the garrison, or whether the fire alert and experienced have the troops become in is merely reserved for the more urgent occasion of the taking advantage of them, that comparatively few opening of our expected new attack, is of course mat- casualties occurred. Amid all the din was coca. ter ofsurmise. A Polish deserter, who gave himself &lousily heard the sharp shout, or rather yell, of the upon the night of the 13th instant, stated that there Russians as they advanced to the attack or pursu i t was considerable uneasiness in the garrison respect- it with renewed vigour. The Light and Second ' log our re-opening the bombardment, as they were by Divisions of the British torus moved to the support no means so well prepared for it as the appearance of of the covering troops in the trenches, but did not the batteries would lead us to suppose. This deserter become engaged. The Russian riflemen having spi n appeared to be more worthy of credit than many who obtained possession of their places of ambush, em. have come over to us, as he was dressed as an officer, ployed themselves during the remainder of the night and described himself as a lieutenant in the Russian in deepening the pits, and adding to the height tad service. It would appear also that partly from over- security of the walls by placing several layers of sand calculating the effects of the disastrous storm in No- bags upon them. These sand bags being made (lithe vember last, and partly perhaps depending upon the ordinary light coloured canvas, are particularly con. reports of the state of the army as described in the striations from being deposited in regular rows upon press, together with actual knowledge of the severity the dark coloured mould which forms a considerable of the season and its ordinary consequences, the stratum as the foot of the hill is approached, and enemy had not anticipated our being in so effective a which was previously thrown up from the pits. The condition as we now are. This miscalculation, and French and English working parties on their side the necessityof dividing his force, partly against Enpa- carried on with energy the new line of entrenchment, tons, partly for observation, may have caused the Rue- and this work is now completed on each side as fat shin general to lessen the available strength for duty in as the verge of the ravine. When the asp bee been the batteries and garrison ; and if this should be so, carried down the sides and across the ravine, the cop it becomes an important question whether the flexion between the most advanced work—the thud enemy by extending his line of defence, as parallel—of the British on Frenchmaa's Hill, and the he has been doing lately, is not in reality moot advanced line of our allies on the right, will be weakening his capability of offering opposition to complete. This would perhaps have been already a vigorous and general attack on his works. There achieved, but the present termination of the French can be no doubt that the new redoubts on the crest line has been brought to the ravine some thirty ce of the hill to our right of Careening Harbour are, as forty yards in rear of our line, so that either our engineering works, very valuable additions to the parallel will have to be thrown back that distance, or means of protection for the shipping in the road- the French parallel advanced, in order to complete stead, and also as obstacles to our advance from the the junction. On our side the parallel has been car right ; but it will require a considerable increase to ried to a distance of about 400 yards from the regular the number of Russian troops employed in the siege Russian line of defence. In the course of its coestruc. operations to man and defend these batteries and tiou several of the stone pits from which the Russian keep up the necessary communications. Whether riflemen used to keep up a constant fusillade against the Rassian generals have such a force at command our covering parties in the second parallel, and eves ' as will enable them to spare without inconvenience in the 21-gun battery itself, were completely& this distribution of their artillerymen, remains to be stroyed. A shallow ravine only now separates our third seen. It has been considered that in this respect the parallel from the shelling ground immediately in enemy has made a mistake ; and this has been one trout of the large buildings comprised within the of the arguments used for not repeating an especial dockyard and arsenal walls. This shallow ravine is attack against these particular works, but rather for a continuation of the middle, or Otchakov, ravine, waiting until matters were sufficiently ripe for the which winds round the foot of Frenchman's Hill, to grand attack by the whole artillery of our siege terminate in the south, or Admiralty, harbour. The works combined. It must be remembered that these maps of the siege operations published by Wyld and are not the only new batteries of the others usually represent this ravine u pursuing its enemy. The number of guns mounted in front way almost in a direct line towards the great roa d the whole line of works from Careening Bay stead, and terminating in a sort of bay between the to Quarantine Fort has been vastly increased; and south harbour and Careening harbour. This is not numerous batteries have sprung up behind these so. The bill on which the Malakhoff Tower again, where there were none et the opening of the rests is continuous with the high ground of siege. Batteries have been erected on the verge of the Barabelnaia suburb, and is not intersected the cliffs on the north side of the roadstead, toward its by the Otchakov ravine, which, as I mentioned termination at the Inkermann valley, and also on the before, turns off to the left to join with several Lighthouse hill, for the purpose of interrupting our other ravines in terminating in tee valley of the operations on the right. The force of artillerymen south harbour. This explanation is necessary, to required for the defences of Sebastopol exceeds two- understand the relative positions of the new works fold now that which was required at the commence- going on on the right, where at present the chief went of the siege, not only for actual service in the interest of the siege is centred. At night the ads works, but also as reserves. Mach as the enemy sof- vaned sentries of the Russians are placed partly fered from our fire during the first two days of the down their shelving slope of the ravine, so that they bombardment, their number of casualties must be and the sentries in advance of our third parallel are immensely increased whenever the new bum- now within ear-shot of each other, and often not more bardment is opened. The close proximity of the than 30 or 40 yards apart. French batteries on the left; some of our batteries, General Canrobert and his staff have paid daily and those the most important, diminished in distance visits to the new works on the right. On p aid daily and those the moat important, diminished in distance visits to the new works on the right. On fhursday, to nearly one-third of that from which they he 15th. he ordered that another attack should le originally opened; the new works on the right, made against the four Russian rifle-pits. These pits for use against the shipping, and others the fire of are immediately in front of the new French line of which will be directed against the works defending the trencb, separated by a space of about fifty yards. arsenal and dockyard ; distance lessened, but weight of The attack was made, as usual, at night, and com metal increased, and that of a superior description ; menced about halt an hour after sunset. The Ras mortar batteries of huge calibre; powerful rockets, Aims made a vigorous resistance, reserves having and other projectiles of; a novel kind, and most been brought down from the redoubt to defend the destructive in character: all these combined cannot pits, but they were eventually , driven back. The fail to produce an impression on the fortifications of walls of the pits were partly levelled, and the face the town and arsenal such as not only has not been of the remaining portions turned, to prevent the experienced hitherto, bat in all probability will be Russians from again occupying them. A sharp firs found to be irresistible. Should I not be exaggerating was afterwards kept up to prevent the enemy the power of our new works and their armament— returning to repair the mischief thus done to them —should the strength of the enemy not be under- works, and, 49 there was no reply, it was supposed rated, and the new bombardment commence before they had abandoned the attempt and retired within reinforcements can arrive to recruit its force—then, the redoubt. When daylight broke, to the surprise in all probability, no long time will elapse before the of all, the Russians were found to have constructed great object of the siege will be accomplished, and, two other ambuscades ; one on their right (our left) at least, the town, arsenal, and south side of the of the four original pits ; and another, which might roadstead, will be placed at the disposal of the allies. almost be named, from its regular construction and Should the Russians be able to perfect the new size, a redoubt, higher up on the slope of the bill. redoubt on Gordon's Hill—the "Mamelon Redoubt" Of coarse both had been worked quietly out of the it is already called, from the mound-like shape of the line of fire which had been pertinaciously poured in low hill on the summit of which the work bas been towards the old pits by our allies. It is only doing isommenced—it will also require a strong armament of justice to the Russian engineers to acknowledge that pus for its protection. In case of an assault the this is only one of the many proofs of their being es position of this work will render necessary that it ready in devising means of defence, and counteract should be taken before any attempt could be made ing or avoiding difficulties, as the men appointed to against the Malakhoff Tower and its works. The guard their works have been found vigilant for their enemy manifestly consider its possession of great d e fence, importance,- and, in spite of the determined fire No attempt was repeated against the Russian out against the working parties, have been making Ago- works on the 16th, but during the day a very active roue efforts to csrry on to completion the redoubt itself fire from Gordon's battery, and from the advanced and its connexion with the works in the rear. It is battery held by the French on the height above the necessary that the British on the left, and the French ravine known es the Right Ravine (leading down to from the right, should make regular approaches to- Careening Bay) was kept up against the working ward the Mamelon, in order to be able to retain parties in the Mamelon redoubt. Many wounded possession of it when taken ; and the progress of were observed to be carried from this work. Excel these approaches, bus which large working parties lent practice was made by one of the 13-inch mortars, have been employed, the Russians have vainly at- several shells from which fell in the very centre el tempted to prevent. On the 12th instant, soon after the large redoubt. At one time the enemy were ob sunset, and before our working party had arrived at served to leave the work in such numbers as to lead the new sap, the Russians, taking advantage of the to the belief that the whole of the working party bad dusk and a high wind wh ich was at the time absorb- been driven out. On Saturday, the 17th, about 2 p.mn ing in itself all slighter noises, came forward and a well-directed shot from a 68-pounder in Gordon's carried off about seventy of our gabions. They were battery struck the upper pit, or small redoubt, °cat very imperfectly fixed, and contained scarcely any- pied by the Russian riflemen. A crowd, calculated thing beyond small detached fragments of the rock to be 40 in number, immediately took flight op of which the ground in this situation is towards the large redoubt, and, without going round formed ; ..i so that they were removed without t o th e entrance, sought shelter in the nearest peed mach difficulty. The loss was discovered as the ditch. About 30 other riflemen followed in ROM as the engineers and working party reached quick succession, escaping two or three together• the spot, and a fire was opened in the supposed di Strange to say, although a continuous volley of rection of the men retreating with their booty. In musketry was poured into these men as they the morning at daybreak a number of the gabions fled up the hill, only one was observed to be were observed lying about 40 or 60 yards in frost of struck. At the time that the first party ascended in our trench, so that in all probability it was only a a body it appeared impossible that more than half small body of the Russians who had come up to the would be able to reach the redoubt, so concentrated work, and by repeated visits had removed the ga- was the fire against them from the trench of oar lions to what was considered a distance beyond oar allies, but not one was seen to be ; injured. I have reach. Some men, however, went forward, and since heard that the troops guarding the trench at brought a few of them back, but the recovery of this time were not armed with the Minis rifle ; with more was not considered worth the risk and expo- that weapon so many could not possibly have sure to the fire of the enemy's riflemen. It would escaped, not have been very flattering to the Russians had On Saturday, the 17th, the French Commandee they heard the remarks of our Yellows commentin J r in-Chief, a ft er observing for some time the operations The following, pablished to the army at the upon their " theft." About the sag" time that t his on the right, was understood to give very strifeless orbs's, defuse seers dearly the duty of Gerard anny een: must have occurred, an attack was made by . a force, orders respecting another attack against " Les ae , GUMMI After Order: Her lisiesty Imbrium pleased apparently consisting of 80 or 100 men, against the Embimideler The pit on the side of the hill was to 'goat Liestsaset-General Samoa to be mud o r left of the advanced work, but was speedily repulsed. be destroyed, and the pits originally made near the the OW et the Army is the Crimea, the Lieutenant. One man of the enemy was made a prisoner on this French lines—two of which the Russians, in the Goerd h aseasort this duty. All orders hosed by Plaid- o esesd° 6 • course of Friday night, had again contrived Newial Lord Bails& loth* army and preemie by ids Around Gerdon's Hill, some distance below the to occupy were to be connected, and 11 alb b) be obeyed asserdlefill- no emimpeadsom *m au l e d ditch of the new redoubt, the enemy has contrived in communication established with the main trench, m pus thrall& his brats a the wni b e the night time to throw up numerous stone heaps, as A battalion of Zooms, supported by two bat* midestat as lausedsre, addressed to tbs Adjutant-Gonad Sloes of shelter ,„ for advanced aa '" tri °!' C°l34dersh ly lions of Masseurs Pied, were to have the honour of sued g o arrasmaster•Geaseal aseeetiost r .... By se d er , in advance of weak and at a s hort d istanc e 01 3 27 from executing this undertaking. Unfortunately, in cos - Maid) J. Simeon, Mkt of ths staff:" • the line of Mouth being worked by the FrlMbo seance of some misunderstanding or mistake in the THE WAR. RUSSIAN PREPARATIONS. A letter from Odessa of the 16th of Much appears in the New Afloatle Gatette. "The cavalry corps concentrated around Odom, =dor the orders of General &babelski, is exol eri i composed of dragoons, to the number, it is sail. 12,000 men. It has received orders to proceed lin:. mediately to the Crimea, and 11 part of the corps Iskjosterdey. The seventh army corps, stationed at moat in 13elearabia, will also leave for the Crimetu The troops remaining in Bessarabia will be placed under the orders of General Luders, who Will fix his headquarters at Bender. "According to reports received at Vienna and there held worthy of credit. Sebastopol is provisioned for three months. The garrison is only 12,000 strong, but may sadly be reinforced, whilst the bulk of the army, wider the immediate command of General Osten Saeken, numbers 40,000 men at the Belbek. The Bosnians have cut down all the trees in the district behind Inkermann, and behind the trunks they have, during the winter, constructed entrench ments and batteries in excellent positions. Prince Gortehakoff intends, it is said, to operate from Pere kop and Simpherepol against Bupatoria at the head of 60,000 men." The following appeared in the Invalids Busse of the 23rd ult.: " In order to complete the telegraphic despatch from Sebastopol, relative to the erection of a new redoubt in front of the Borniloff bastion, during the sight between March 10 and 11, A.D.C. General Baron Osten-Sat:ken announces, under date of March 14, that notwithstanding the heavy fire of the besiegers, the work. are being successfully carried en in the new fortification. " The fire of the enemy's artillery does us scarcely any harm; thus, for instance, on the 11th of March lest no less than 60 bombs fell on one of our bastions, and yet only one man was wounded. " The galleries of the besiegers' mine, which we discover, are constantly destroyed with unvarying 'MOM "Nothing remarkable has occurred in :the neigh bourhood of Eupatoria. According to the statement of the prisoners, the Turks had about 1,000 men killed and as many wounded in the affair of Feb. 17." FRANCE. rDIIST OP THY DAILY NEWS.) PARIS. MONDAY EVINING. M. Drouyn de Lhuys left for Vienna this morning, having previously sent a circular to the Corps Diplo matique in Paris, informing them that by order of the Emperor he was going to assist at the Con ferences, and that the business of the Foreign-office would be conducted during his absence by M. Thou venal (the Director-General). This announcement seems to indicate that M. Drouyn de Lhuys will be but a short time away, because in the case of any long absence of a Minister from his post, it is usual for the Emperor to nominate another as Minister ad interim. M. Drouyn de Lhnys will probably reach Vienna on Wednesday. The Conferences may be then resumed almost immediately, and the belief en tertained in ministerial circles here is that by the Bth of April—six days hence—♦ome decisive result will be known. The Pays says : It is presumable that tha Freneh Minister for Foreign Affairs is preparea to declare in the Conference the last wurd of the Western Powers; that is to say, the extreme limit of the conosmions which may be granted to Russia upon the third point of the guarantees exacted from her. l'lso labours of the Canvas are about then to enter upon limirmost important phase, sad the most decisive. Public Zilldwill reader this justice to the Allied Powers, that yronet spare the most serious efforts in order to make tbe °maidens foe the re-establishment of peace more as- captable to Rurfa. But it the governmeit of the Csar is set inspired by the "'Waage, if it answers by conclusions et non content to the conciliatory intentions of Francs, England, and Austria, it will plain itself is a very grave situation, from which terrible alumina may follow to Russia. Is cue of the rupture of the Costume's, the events of the war, of a war long, energetic, and decisive, us alone dictate the conditions to which the aggrusor 'mat submit. Various periods have been assigned for the dura tion of their Imperial Majesties' visit to England. A week is the period now mentioned at Court, but of course the arrangements may be modified from day to day by circumstances. M. Ducat, the Minister of Marine, is suffering from an acute nervous fever which renders him in capable of attending to business. For the last few days M. Abattucci has signed the papers urgently necessary in the marine department. The long-expected bill for putting a tax upon horses and carriages in Paris has been presented to the Corps Lorislatif. The tax will only affect horses and carriages used for what are commonly styled purposes of pleasure. It is calculated that there will be 10,000 horses liable to the tax (30fr. each), and 7,000 carriages, which will be charged 60fr. for a carriage drawn by two horses, and 40fr. for a one horse carriage. The expected revenue to be derived from the new impost is 620,000 fr. At the Bourse the settlement was completed at very firm quotations. The speculators for the fall were very generally obliged to carry over their accounts, and the considerable decline in Consols produced no sensible effect upon the market. The Rente was moreover supported by a very marked movement in railway shares. The Three per Cents. closed at 70fr. 100., with a rise of 200. Northern and Lyons and Mediterranean Railways rose from 10fr. to 12fr. Eastern and Southern, 7fr; 600. each. Orleans, 6fr. Austrian Railways rose lb. 25c. The Stollberg Mines improved 10fr., the explanations given at a rural meeting of shareholders yesterday having somewhat allayed the panic. I have seen a proof of a pamphlet to appear to morrow, entitled "Ls Timbre et l'Exposition Uni verselle," by M. Louis Ballet, in which the attention of government is called to a question materially affecting the interests of exhibitors. By a law of 6 Prairial, year VIL, every printed prospectus is liable to a stamp duty. This law was allowed to sleep for nearly twenty years, and till very recently commercial circulars, price -currents, &c., were habitually sent by post or delivered at private houses without molestation. Now, however, the letter of the act is rigorously carried out, and any printed paper whatever, beyond a mere card with came, profession, and address, is seized (if not duly s tamped), and a prosecution ensues. The pam phlet shows that the cost of the stamp is in many eases 600 per cent. more than the cost of printing, and that there are formalities to be com plied with which foreigners will find extremely ha mming, and argues that, as a measure of interna tional hospitality, the law should at least be sus pended during the Exhibition.