The Express. — London, England, 1855-05-05 00:00:00

twega Mont toga, The t isomeat as kr begs uses elotek Ila Midi *NS di set ran so high es b MEMO *MOM It is • raosieat ef general eseteateinat rad la 'rebel sod I thisk that is prosisely the gine at yea will Ist the lights of mea meet dispelled be gum tea vemegambie ailleamodatiou sposa intaglios ef steel salluol sail sot hi isesegeg. (Hear, bear.) air, it is whelk love eat t'lic Ur egalgeploges • 'io dides of Woe la being Elam& tree that width salits Is Wu* gad Is aeeaeaL But that dif- Meese align eel treat the task ef imilertig or of tenaats. I awash belb dam et the lime el belay*g about the me diae of thite l ishisli OMB liesideVi a. usemdy. I ' .. tor merely ia woe Mattel by the umber who his just sat dews. Nay, I go further, air, thee be did. He said there wove good landlords is lnlaada. I say there are better landlords then than ia almost any other country, landlords who do more for thaw tenants than the landlords of Eng load ere required to do. There are, of mane, eiceptioas ; there are these who, from their limited mesas, are unable be afford to their testate the same amount of assistance that their richer neighbours afford ; but I repudiate entirely the wholesale accusations which are mad* against the lead lords of Ireland. (lieu, hear.) Well, on the ether hand, people reproach the tenantry of Ireland with being weans, is industry. That charge is equally unfounded. The tematry of Ireland, when they receive eaciouregeoleat, sad have reams a to be lieve that their 'sonless will meet with a due rew rd, are as much inclined to iaduati lout exertion as the tenantry of say part of the world. (Hear, hear.) Sir, the evils of Ireland are to be trued to the history of Ireland. (Hear, Mar.) What is that history ? Why it is the history of dell war; .of rebellion; of conaseatioe ; of wholesale Mad er. of land from class to class—(hear, beta) • of penal laws; of the exclusion of the largest class of the nation begs the ordinary erivileges of social existence—(hear,hear); --el the decantation of a small snootily preteens" one reli gion over • large majosity professing another ;of laws whisk aggravated those tannins' which political and medal inequalities were of course of themselves cal misted to produce. Well, sir, shoes times are fortaately pest; those animosities are, I hope, for ever extin guished, together with the differences which created them. nod which have been swept away. But there still female ems effects, eve. though the causes have ceased to mist— (bear)—and those effects belong to the condi'ion of things which this bill is calculated to remedy. (Hear, hear) In Ireland, up to shoat half • century ago, from the very cir cumstances ander which the great proprietors derived their titles, land wet not held and occupied is the way that it is in E ngland and Scotland. It was let in large bulks by the owners to penises who sublet it to others, and perhaps two or three gradations interposed between the owner and the metal ocapier of the soil. But what wee the tenure on which the land was occupied ? Land was let upon leases of preposterous length, leases, for example, of 61 years and three lives. Well, what was then the position of the landlord and the tenant ? The landlord was • stranger on his own estate. (Hear.) He bad no control over thou who occupied the land. He did not even know them; he felt no interest in them ; and they had no sympa thy with or affection for him. In this state of things there was an person who was interested in the improvement of the estate ? Why should the owner improve the land ? I t was taken away from him by a long lease, and no improvement he could make would produce any advantage for him. Why should the middleman improve the land ? He bad only • temporary Naar*, and no improvement, therefore, that might be made would produce any advantage for him. Why should the occupying tenant improve the land ? He had no in• ducemeut to do so, because he held at the will of the mid. Menne. There was no party connected with the cultivation of the land who had a strong interest in the soil. Well, thee, when these long leases expired, the landlords, dis• gusted with the old practice, went to the other 'incise— (hear, hear)—they would not give leases, or, if they were willing to give leases at all, the tenants, accustomed from their childhood to hear of nothing but leases of 61 years and two or three lives, refused to take those leases which in England and Scotland are suficient to secure improve mutts. To offer them • 14 years' lease, or even •21 years' lease, was to offer them what they did not think worthy of their acceptance. Well, then, that generated the state of things which has hitherto prevailed, under which the hadloM has done very little fur the improvement of the land—l refer to the erection of buildings, and the setting up: of boundary fences, contemplated in this bill—all such things being left to the tenant. Now, so fu as the prospective part of this bill goes, nobody seems to object to its provision; the part of it which I. objected to is the retrospective clause (Cheers.) Well, one cannot (any that, as • general rule, it is undesirable to interfere between landlord and tenant, as it is to inter fere between any other two parties in society who make bargains together. The best Arrangement undoubtedly is is general to leave parties free to make what engagements they please—(hear, hear); and on general principles it is, I admit, objectionable to pas. a retrupective clause altering the relative position of those who have acted on a certain understanding. But, on the other hand, I think that, looking at the position of Ireland, considering that land is there frequently held at will—that tenants, in order to a due and profitable cultivation, have been obliged to make outlays which in other countries are made by the landlords, I think an exception, coupled with the conditions proposed by my rigtt hon. friend (Mr. Honman), may in this use fairly and properly be made. (Hear, hear.) Now let us see generally how that would work. The enactment, combined with the restric tions and conditions proposed by my right hon. friend, would give a tenant who wulturned out a cla:m for compensation for any visihle and tangible improvement by which he had added to the letting value of the property. Why should the landlord turn him out ? lie would do so for one of two reasons, either because he had had • quarrel with the tenant, and wished to get rid of one who had be. come disagreeable to him, or bee iuse, seeing that the tenant had improved the value of the land, he thouitht that after ejecting him be would secure to himself the bensfit of his improvemats, and let,the land to another person at an in seemed rest. The latter proceeding would be an unworthy me, it Ka proceeding to which no honourable landlord would resell, and to which no landlord whatever ought to be Wowed to resort. (Hear, bear.) With regard to the first muse which 1 have mentioned, even supposing the landlord had ;had some difference with his tenant, if buildings had bees raised which added to the value of the farm, an honour. able toga would say, " I wiU turn you out, but 1 will pay yea for the buildings • though I dislike you, I will not apply the capital which you have invested to my own reit." (Hear, hear.) I tf ink, therefore, that, enema sled with the soaditioas to which I have referred, even the retrospective clause is one which the house might safely Weil, then. if this bill is accompanied with the other pane Weil, on a former occasion accompanied its progress in parliament, I do think those hills will go far to settle entirely those unfortunate differences which have so long agitated canal" parts of Ireland. (Heir, hear) It does not appear to me that they would in any case in dict individual Wary, while they woula quell the angry feeling which exists in Ireland on this subject. And U these bills should lead to the establishment of an improved relation between landlord and tenant—if they should lead to the introduction in Ireland of the system which prevails in England, under which the landlord invests his capital in his owu property, and makes improvements which are esti mated to increase the letting value of his farms —if the result should be to do away with pre posterously long leases, and to introduce • state of things in which farms would be let for terms of moderato dilation I thiak a great improvement would be effected in the Karel wallies of the country. (Hear, hear.) I ma, thieelege, Append vat galy to support the secosd reading of the bill bat ia the event of the amendments :11Ctby my ri g h t boa. friend being adopted, to Si,. io.is its passage through this house, and I should bye that, with the assistance of the governmeat is smother pleas the bill might be passed into • law during the prised minim. (Chun.) Mr. I. BUTT should support the emend reeding, am did be think that the retrospective clams wit any resew why he should take a differeat mune. Then was such a alum Is the bill of his right bee. friend, the weather for the I:in anity of Dublin. (Hear, hear.) Hs thought it was ha pesedble fee any cue to my that there were not grounds for legislative interferon", and if they rejected the measure' they would only add power to whatever was mischievous in the tenant right agitation in Ireland. (Cheers.) Colonel DUNNE felt bound to oppose the measure, but he must admit that the bill of the hosoarable sad learned gentleman had is it less objectionable natter than that which bad been brought in by the Attor ney-Diners' of ta. goverasseat of which he (the gallant colonel) bad been • member. (Laughter.) After a few words from Serjeant Sues la " reply," and afterwards in " explanation, the Srie&ea proceeded to put the qustioa. The house then divided— For the second reading 163 For the amendment 6O-113 . v. —.---- CUSTOMS DUTIES BILL. The bow wag lido comaitts• co skis bill. Oieraais aiiraeledale,drarrbieftetnisagar, Is answer to Mr. BLACIBUILN L The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER a:platted that the reductions in the dative Oa sugar and collet, which were to take effect at the teratisatios of the war, had bees divided ir.to two stages, in order to oceseion se little diets,. bun to trade is possible. Mr. BLACKBURN moved that for 12s. 9d. in the Nbedstv 12s. 9d. be substituted. Mr. MOFFATT ma ported the uneadatent. The committee For the OAF ea proposed in the claw 99 Foe A* swat 48-61 After sous diseemion the clause, with its sehodele, was agreed to. The other clauses were &Mod to. The Newspapu Stamp Duties Bill was postponed to Moads7. METROPOLITAN BUILDINGS BILL Sir W. MOLESWORTH morsd the asseed reading of this bill, the object of which was, he mid. to mead the laws Wang to metropolitan buildlage, tad proposed Mat It should be referred to a select committee. Agreed to. PARLIAMENTARY REPRESENTATION (SCOT LAND) BILL This bill passed through committee. The Lords' saws& moo were conolgared and agreed se. COMVISMOLI ACT REPEAL. Mr. KINNAIRD ehained loam to hrlag_la • bill to repeal SO iamb et the eat 66 Geo. 111., a. 166 emassonly idled the COGIIIIiiii• Let, ss prohibits more ;had twist/ perms smocabliog row rem for the purpose d religious I"r tr Tiese, idioms* et le minutes to 2 o'olosk. the Oxpreigg%. Lambs iewetleweeete We; ded for "The Thpres," Lambs Itemise men won be at pa the Moe, 10, Deaveriewheet, by Two Vele* ea the lay el telsetloa. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tam DAT —Mania& 11. kla Aftansocs. 4k. lhk. Toisouloir—ref. 4/4. Ns Mammy 41. 1121 a. LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 5. LATEST FROM ABROAD. SUCCESSFUL ENGAGEMENT BEFORE SEBASTOPOL. WAR DEPARTMENT, Ma. 4, 7 P.m. Lord Penman presents his compliments to the Editor of the Daily News, and has great pleasure in transmitting the enclosed intelligence, which has this day reached him : " A sharp engagement took place on the night of the let of May in front and left attack. The whole of the Russian rifle pits were taken, 8 light mortars, and 200 prisoners. The whole affair was brilliant for the Allies." CONTINUATION OF THE CONTEST. (11T V BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 4. On the night of Wednesday last, May 2, the French under General Pelimier having taken up a position before the Quarantine Bastion, advanctd I briskly upon the Bastion No. 4, attacked the ad vanced works which the Russians had raised to protect that Bastion, and carried them at the point of the bayonet. In this attack the French took twelve mortars from the enemy. The Engineers immediately omit pied the ground, and began to carry on a flying sap. At daybreak they had succeeded in establish ing themselves in the conquered works. Last night (Thursday) the Russians made a general sortie, with the object of retaking the lost ground. After a sanguinary combat they were driven back (into the place. Our losses have been great, but bear no propor tion to those of the enemy, nor to the advantages gained. This (Friday) morning the Russians hare neither a man nor a gun outside the regular enclosure of the plate.—Daily News. The Malheur, of this morning (Saturday) pub lishes despatches from General Canrobert, dated May 2 and 3, in accordance with those of Lord Raglan, as to the storming of the Russian works in front of the Central Bastion, and the entirely futile efforts of the enemy to retake the position. A third edition of the Times contains a telegraphic despatch from Vienna, dated to-day, as follows : " The terms proposed by Austria for the accept- ance of Russia are not satisfactory, but Austria is likely to act on the offensive if they are not accepted. " If the Western Powers agree to them Russia will hardly do so." From Constantinople, 3rd May, we learn that Red *chid Pacha, the Grand Vizier, has resigned, on ac count of the read of Mehemet Ali, and that Ali Pacha leaves Vienna. THE INSURRECTION IN LITTLE RUSSIA. Private letters from St. Petersburg confirm the telegraphic announcement of the insurrection of the peasants in the Ukraine, and state further, that it has already extended to the governments of Poltawa, Tchernigoff, and Kbarkoff. The names of twenty landed proprietors whom the maddened moojdcs have destroyed, together with their wives and chil dren, have reached St. Petersburg. M. Poletien, one of the richest proprietors in the government of Tchernigoff, was burnt alive in his country house at Beletz. The same severe pressure caused by the war. which has driven the peasants of Little Russia to insur rection, Is stated to be felt at St. Petersburg, where every article of consumption is at famine price.— Daily News. THE BALTIC FLEET. The Tim' has received the following telegraphic i despatch from a Berlin correspondent : " SWAN, SATIIIDAY, MAT 6. " Admiral Dandily with 13 BMW shipe-of-the-line, five steam frigates, and two steam gun-boats, left Kiel harbour on the morning of the 3rd inst." AND AFRICAN MAILS. (rum rat LE DAILY PIIIWS.) rON, BATUZDAT. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's @tem po:that Madrid has just arrived with the mails; their dates from Lisbon being to April 29. She brings specie to the amount of 6,00 W. sterling. _ . We learn from her that the Ethiope, African mail steamer, broke down, and has put into Lisbon ; her mails, and some of her passengers, come home in the The Ethiope first left the °amble on the 28th March, and broke down before she reached Tenerife; she returned to the Gambia and left again on the 12th of April, and broke down the second time. nem the Ethiope we learn that on the African east all was progressing favourably, and that the troops were healthy. the governor of the Geeslin had snewini 300 miles up the river to arrange secs disputes with the chiefs, and had succeeded in this minion. Letters bate bees received from Canada. stating that t s sausear bee est la Uwe, rid ell eirmart SOWINS have mode *dr eggesseree in pest pedestlt. lest mama hese is Pealarnie were. dal metier etilesellew e ed =teed Um the dismenelir widen reseed O THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 5, 1855. On the mooing of Monday last Lord PAT sonsrott promised that the preteen's of the Coaferesess of Vienna should be laid on the table of the House of Commons without delay. On the evening of Thurs day, a similar promise was made in the House of Lords by the Earl of CLAZENDON. Bat last night, when Mr. DISRAELI inquired why the promised mien had not, in conformity with all precedent, been laid before the House immediately on the ter mination of the Conferences, Lord PALMERSTON re plied that they could not be communicated because negotiations are not yet at an end. On Monday Lord PALMERSTON, by engaging that the papers in question should be produced immediately, intimated that the Conferences had been brought to a close by the departure of the English Minister specially appointed to take part in them from Vienna; on Friday his Lordship declared that the Conference were still in progress, simply because the Austrian and Russian Governments have commenced a new negotiation, without obtain• lag the consent of the English Government to take part in it. Lord Pautaarrox allowed four days to elapse before he thus contradicted himself. The Earl of CLARENDON did not wait so long; for ha contradicted himself on the same evening, and in the same speech. He first declared that were the Con ference to meet again, without a specific object, it " would give an erroneous notion that negotiations were being carried on when they were not ;" and only a few minutes later he said, "at this moment proposals made to the members of Conference are under discussion." We believe that the whole Parliamentary annals of England may be ransacked in vain to find • parallel case to this shameless mystification of Parliament by • Ministry, and we do not believe that there has ever been a Parliament in England that would so tamely have endured being trifled with and laughed at in this audacious manner. The simple truth is that Parliament has abdicated its functions as the great Council and Inquest of the nation. At the moment when an arduous war must be prosecuted to a triumphant issue, or the repu tation of the country for resources and intelligence so diminished as to invite hostile encroachments from all quarters—when Ministers by their alternate moody silence and self-contradiction betray their consciousness of their own incompetence to the task— Parliament supinely allows events to take their course. In suck circumstances there is nothing for it but for the people to take the business into their own hands. Public opinion must be expressed in a manner so unequivocal as to show Parliament the urgency of acting with more decision, end Ministers the necessity of being more frank and truthful in their communications, or of making way for more reliable advisers of the Crown. Every day adds to the proofs of the disgraceful want of business talent and system that pervades all our Government offices. Yesterday, Sir THOMAS Hantriros told Mr. ROEBUCK'S Committee that when the change took place in the management of the War Department, on the appointment of a War Minister, the Ordnance-office received no informa tion on the subject beyond what it gathered from the public newspapers. Sir THOMAS added that a written application which he made for an interview with Lord PARMURE, on that nobleman's accession to office, and a subsequent personal application to Lord PANMURE'S private secretary to the same effect, were both allowed to remain unanswered, and that a letter he wrote in consequence received no reply. Sir THOMAS also stated that on one occasion the SECRETARY at WAR and the SECRE TARY for WAR were actually bidding against each other in the market for a supply of fur caps. Sir Tuomes moreover told the Committee that the requisi tions for warm clothing, made in June, by the Board of Ordnance to the SECRETARY for WAR, were partly verbal and partly in writing, and that the verbal requisitions were not reduced to writing till some months later. The scandalous absence of all syste matic arrangement in the War Department, and the equally scandalous irregularities of the Board of Ord nance revealed by these admissions, cannot but im press upon the minds of all men conversant with busi ness transactions the urgent need there is to have the functions of Administrative Government transferred from the present holders of office to men capable of introducing something like system and regularity into the various departments. It is for this reason that we are so anxious the meeting to be held in the London Tavern this day should be numerously attended by the sagacious and intelligent merchants of the City. They, more that. any other class,:are competent to explain what is de fective in our administrative arrangements and sug gest remedies. The mere fact of such a meeting being held in the City will produce a most beneficial effect throughout the empire. Men are everywhere convinced of the necesaity of Administra tive Reform, and are only waiting to see who will set the example of moving to obtain it. Our readers may have seen a cup of water exposed to the open air on a frosty night. So long as it is unmoved the water will remain in its fluid state, although its tem perature has sunk below the hauling point. But if it is stirred or shaken spicule; will be seen shooting forth oa all sides, and is a few moments the cup will be filled with a solid mass. The present state of the public mind with regard to Administrative Reform is exactly analogous. It needs only to be stirred by some such demonatration as that contemplated for to day to convert it into a solid phalanx of agitators foe Administrative Reform. So far u we can learn, the resolutions to be moved at the meeting are most unobjectionable. The dis asters to which the country has been exposed will be traced to the inefficient and practically irresponsible management of the various departments of State. The necessity of enlisting in the service of Government the official aptitude of the country in whatever grade or section of society it may be found, will be advocated. An Association will be formed to promote Administrative Reform, the first steps of which will be to collect funds and to prepare an address to the constituencies of the United Kingdom. Such an appeal to the electoral body is the true constitutional method of going to work. The subsequent operations of the Association must, of course, be dictated in a great measure by events. We shall watch its proceedings with atten tion and interest ; and what we, in our sphere, can do to promote the great object of Administrative Reform shall at no time be wanting.—Deily News. UNlON.—lithedere dwi awl Galatea ie to be performed et the Zermeer-eqoare Ream ant Wed dards Irks W. thersithe Bessetth melon " Naiads " and 's siegnilisuth bi • will oleo be In. eluded be tbe propmeme. TM eidiebnalessempsabsente by theerre to Ikme anJ theilm, whisk wealth eo nub M imed vbs. Inemlnewl by Se Society ler the line time in tnbet them. Mil spin Madam Radar r. Kinalle. Hem T w it , lia awl Mr. Weise, are imenseth Se primipll itheibth—Herr llolique end Mr. Slim their mesiethed poste of waitheter and AfitTIMCARDIV Ruz.--The following are the amass of gestlemea wire mama Oar emaslaati^a is dm mimes and prudes of me tee, mad resolved obstinatee to preetire,_ea Thursday, the ird et May, 1866 :-Bamael Treadles Fax, Fameatk ; Walter nalsoter ; Frederick Dread Whip, Barnet, Herta ; William Gramm Jammu ; Alliagbaar ; Bossard Chapala' Delman, Mel beanie, Derby ; William Harry Cooke, We/dairy, etaf ilaniebire ; Th omas Faramaa Jordan, Ibinalagbara ; sad Jam Hoary Aldridge, Cltriatabarat, Haata. gpe Court. The (amen and Prince Albert went yterday morning to the Crystal Palace at Bydenhana. He rr Majesty and his Royal Highness were accompanied by th e Prisons Royal, the Primers A 11.., the Primo se of Hohenlohe Langeabarg, the Prince,,., Adelaide and Peodon and Princes Victor of Holmulobe, and were attended by the Rea. Bostrice Blatt, MajorDerteral Buckley, and Captain Da Plat The Queen turn party left at 20 n• Mane before 10 o'clock, and r Bnekinghamt Palace at 1 o'clock in the etterucons. The Princesses Adelaide and Feadore of Hohnloke visited the Ducker of Kent yesterday at her residence, Clarence House, St. Jamie's. Her Majesty had a dinner party in the evening. The company included the Duchess of }Cent, the Princess of Holutalohe Lengenborg, the Princess Adelaide and Prince Victor of Hohealdhe, the Hake and Duchess of Northum berland, the Marquis of Abortion, the Earl and Counties Spencer, Lady Anne Maria Dawson, Baroness de Booth, the Earl and Countess Delaware, Viscount and Viscountess Harding., and Colonel St e ph ens . The Countess de Nanny visited the Duchess of Kent Dyesterday at Clarence House, and also paid 5 visit to the atheas of Glencoster at Gloucester Howe. A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-office, Downing-street, yesterday. The Ministers pre sent were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chan cellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Lord John Russell, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Sir William Molesworth, Vis count Canning, and the Earl of Harrowby. The Council sat three hours. Meetings of the Oxford University Commission were held on Thanday and yesterday at No. 18, Great Queen-street, Westminster. The commissioners present were the Earl of Ellesmere, the Earl of Harrowby, the Bishop of Ripon. Mr. Justice Coleridge, the Dean of Wells, and Sir John Wither Awdry, with the secretaries. Despatches were sent from the Colonial-081m yesterday to the Governor of Canada and to the Governor of Hell. Boland, and also to the Governors of Australia and New Zealand. ROYAL VISIT TO THE CRYSTAL PALACE.—Yesterday morning her Majesty and Prince Albert, the Princess anal, Princess Alin, and the Princesses Adelaide and Fenton of Hohenlohe Lesgenbers, visited the Crystal Palace. The Hoe. Min Byes was the Lady in Widnes. The royal party arrived soon after tee o'eloek, and was re ceived by the secretary, Mr. Grote; Mr. Belehaw ; and the traffic manager, Mr. Bonnier. The Grand Dachau Helena of Russia has sent ?thine. Auguste Schultze into Finland, to stir up the female population to self•denyisg eontributians to the 8.1156111 cause. In a kind of minaret* issued by Mdlle. Schultze, at Wiborg, the ladies of Finland are told to imitate their " sisters 'of Russia. Mdlle. Schultze is no Russian, but • native of Darmstadt. Owing to Lord Cardigan's numerous engagements, professional sad otherwise, h.s lordship has been unable, op to the present time, to tic a day on which be can attend the banquet to be given tv him at Southampton by the Royal Southern Yacht Club, in that town. WRECK Di' AN EMIGRANT SHIP IN THE CHANNEL ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY LIVES LOST. We regret to announce a terrible disaster, men tioned in a telegraphic despatch this afternoon, from our Falmouth correspondent: " The ship John, from Plymouth for Quebec, with emigrants, on Friday night, struck on the Manacle Rocks, got off into deep water, and shortly went down, 200 feet from the shore. Of 220 persons on board, only about 70 were saved. They were taken from her masts and rigging, and landed at St. Kevern by the Coast Guard." NAVAL AND MILITARY. ADMIRALTY, MAY 4.—PROMOTION.-..Commander E. Herrick (1819), promoted to the rank of captain. APPOlXlMiNTS.—Lieutenant H. W. Wilberforce (1834), to the Hawke, 60, shrew steam ship, at Sheerness. Acting Second Master W. Montgomery, to the Malacca, 17, steam sloop, of 200-horse power, for particular service. Midshipmen T. M. Kelsall, to tho Itoyal Albert, 121, s.rew Warn ship, of 500 horse power, Mediterraneat, station; and J. 0. F. Lescock, to the Centavo, 6, paddle wheel steam frigate, of 640-horse power, at Porbmouth. EMBARKATION OF REINFORCEMENTS. PORTSMOUTH, MAT 4. One thousand men of various regiments of foot, exclusive of officers, embarked on board the tailing tran sport West Tasmania, this afternoon, for the Crimea. She will sail to-morrow. The men were armed with the common musket, but are to be supplied with the rifle on arriving out. The Lancashire Witch, sailing transport, will embark cavalry for the Crimea to-morrow. The Malacca, 17, screw sloop, Captain Farquhar, went oat of harbour today, and anchored at Spithead. The flag of Rear-Admiral Baynes was hoisted on board the Retribution, 28, paddle frigate, tonight. Instructions were received yesterday at Southarnp toe for the 10th battalion of Artillery, now at Woolwich, consisting of 221 men and 221 hones, to embark from that port on Monday next for the Crimea, on board the royal mail steamer Medway. RETURN OF FOUR OF THE GUN BOATS, AND REPORTED LOSS OF THE GUNBOAT DAPPER. SHEERNESS, MAr 4 The Pylades and Volcano, which left here on the 3rd instant, with the gun-boats Redwing, Thistle, Starling, Dapper, and Badger, were obliged, in consequence of the gale of wind which came on suddenly in the evening, to cut off the gan•boata sad all anchored under the Gan flat, between le and ll p.m. John Barnett, muter of the smack Concord, of Colchester, then riding veer the Handset, had his ettentioa called to a number of rockets that were sent up in a soath-east direction from his vessel, apparently from some vessel in distress in the Blackdeeps; shortly alter five guns were fired from the same vessel ; both the Kentish Knock and the Sunk Light vessels con tinued, at intervals during the night, to fire rockets and burn blue lights. At midnight the muter of the Concord slipped from his anchor and seventy fathoms of chain (the sea being too heavy to get it), for the purpose of going into the Blackdeepe to ascertain what vessel it was, and to ten der assistance to her. Whilst under way she passed two large steamers, the Pylades and the Volcano, also two gun boats, then riding very heavy under the Cituifieet. The gas boat Redwing wee then under steam proceeding up from the Sunk Light TOSSII, steering for the Gunflint Light ; the Redwing spoke the Pylades, and obtained leave to proceed to Sheerness, having last both bower anchor§ ; when Barnett was engaged to act as a pilot to Sheerness, he boarded the Redwing about four miles above the Gustiest, I and piloted her in here, arriving at about 9.30 am. The Badger spoke the Dapper, the latter then being on shore with the sea making a fair breach over her, the weather at the time preventing the Badger rendering any assistance to the Dapper. The officer in command of the Dapper said she was hard and fast on shore, striking heavy. It appears that the Volcano, whilst towing, by some unaccountable occurrence at present unexplained, she fouled with several ' of the gen boats, by driving athwart their hawse, and did damage to each of them. The Redwing, to prevent damage, eat her towing hawser and cleared. There appears some uncertainty where the Dapper was on dome ; from the best information that can be obtained she was, no doubt, on the West ROW. The Pylades and Volcano remain riding near the Gualleet. ANNUAL MEETING Or THE GRADUATES Or THE Thrivnierrr or LONDON.—On Tuesday evening, the gra. dust's of the University of London held their tonsil meet ing at the Freemasons'-tavern. Dr. Birkbeck Nevins, of Liverpool, is the chair. The report of the committee expressed their satisfaction at the palming of the set pre pared ander their auspices fee plae the 'medical graduates of the University of London on a of equality with those of Oxford and Cambridge in newt el the right to physic, which received the Boyd ameatim August ra r s a t e lte committee regretted they had met emeaseded in or meaplisking the internal Whom of the Uaimmity, but ex pressed • resolve to use ems/ tact W ppaswws ihrward the claims of the graduates, either la paYaasat, Sr et the Hosne-oMos,as circumstances might Mamie in the present position of public affairs. Regret win aloe expressed that the moats had thought r roper to suspend the confining of degrees in public, whereby the university wo , be de prived of its only publisaremeolaL The committee again repeated their urgent miquothit amistaace mad pecuniary support. Resolutions based non the report were moved by Professor Patti., Ur. T. Oda, Dr. Stoner. Dr. Stocker, Dr. Carr, Mr. Fowler, Mr. WM", and Mr. Baines. The prom/Mingo then closed, with a vote of thanks to the chair- WAIL 8111=111.—STAIICIWee, MAT 3.—The Adair (brigamir e), from Venice to Hamburg, with madden sad l , dyestuff Au hems seised by the Cotes-hoses sad Coast Guard authorities, sad brought into this harbour on set picks of being s Rosie& k eem ; 68ZU11.-15TAICI0ee, MAT 3.—The Auk bar '..".." ' tire to his anteeedeute may be obtaineMlL (brigamir e), boa Yanks to Hamburg, with madden andJssaseger a r E,. The Presse,oommentingupon a telegra • d Staf- dyestuff has beat seised by the Cotes-home sad Coast us & lad Guard authorities, and brought into this harbour ea sal. — ami ty; ese s et wen n y 'sralase, s sevu&s awm ?'• Peuidc Y bringiug the news of Lord Clarendon 's exp auona picks of being s items& ,71 awry liersakce levereyi iT.Asatet mcca - Win: in the nouns of Lords with regard to the new pro- THE WAR. DRSPATCH:2: B FROM LORD RAGLAN. , aO , „, c „ D „„un n oT TO TIM LOIIDON 0•23712 OP SOLWAY. X" 1• WAR DipAjnaOrT, MAY 4, 1856. Lord Panniere has this clay Wagived. a dealaqah and its enclosu res , o f w hi c h the feli . ..'mag are wpm, addressed to his lordship by Fialtl-biatahal the Lord Raglan, G.C.B. _ BRPORR SIBUTOPOL, APRIL 21, 1855. My Lord,—Omer Pacha having considered it ex pedient to make a reconnaissance in front of Bala had on the Tchernaya, he proceeded at daylight on the 19th instant, by the extreme right of Sir Colin Campbell's position, towards Kaman, with about twelve battalions of Turkish infantry, having in the plain on his left a body of French cavalry and a bat tery of horse artillery under General Feroy, and two squadrons of heavy cavalry, and two squadrons of the 19th Hussars, the whole of which regiment have, I am happy to say, arrived, and half a troop of horse artillery under Colonel I'arlby, these detachments of French and English troops having been placed at his Highness's disposal by General Canrobert and myself. The enemy . showed only a few Cosaque s on t hi s side of the river, who remained on a height over looking Chagonria till driven from it by a few dis charges of rockets by the French artillery, and on the other side, behind the village, a small force with four guns only was visible. Omer Pacha did not think it desirable to move across the river, but withdrew after he had satisfied himself that the enemy were not in strength, and the troops returned to their camps, the infantry covered by the cavalry and artillery. The appear ance of the Turkish army was very satisfactory. The rifle pits, in front of the approach from the advance of our trenches on the extreme right, were attacked and carried by assault the night before last I in the moat gallant manner, by • detachment of the 77th Regiment under Colonel Egerton, forming part of the additional force sent to reinforce the guard of the trenches in the evening. The resistance of the enemy, although obstinate, was speedily overcome by the impetuosity of our troops, and the pit, which it was desirable to retain, was, without the loss of a moment, connected with our approach, and thereby furnished protection to the working party to continue its labours without inter ruption fora considerable time. At the interval, how ever, of about three hours the enemy brought a heavy fire of artillery and musketry up o n th e party in ad vance of the pit, into which they retired, and which they effectually defended and maintained ; but this brilliant achievement was not accomplished without considerable sacrifice of life, and it is moot painful to me to have to annonece to your lordship the death of Colonel Egerton, of the 77th, who was unfortunately killed when forming troops for the support of those on the extreme advance, and of that of Captain Lem priere, of the same regiment, who fell in the first affair, in which also Colonel Egerton received a con tusion that only incapacitated him for duty for a few minutes; and five officers were wounded, three of them dangerously. Colonel Egerton was an officer of superior merit, and conducted all his duties, whether in the camp or in the field, in a manner highly to hie own honour, and greatly to the advantage of the public ; and her Majesty'. service could sot have sustained a more severe loss, and it is so felt in this army and in the 77th, where he was much beloved, and is deeply la mented. Captain Lempriere was a very young, but most promising officer. Captain Owen, whose leg has since been amputated, and Lieutenant Baynes, are both most valuable officers of Engineers, as is Captain King, of the same corps, ' who was wounded two nights before. Brigadier-General Lo(kyer, who was the general officer of the trenches in the right attack, Lieut.-Col. Mundy, of the 33rd, who succeeded to the command of the troops engaged in the operation on the death of Colonel Egerton, and Captain Owilt of the 34th, deserve to be moat favourably mentioned, and Lieutenant-Colonel Tylden, the officer of Engineers in charge of the right attack, distinguished himself, as he has done on many previous occasion., in a re- Imarkable manner. The conduct of the troops was admirable. I beg to lay before your lordship the list of casual ties which have occurred since the return was made out which I forwarded to you on the 17th. In my despatch of that day, I informed your lord ship that a magazine had exploded in OHO of our batteries ; but I omitted to state that Captain Dixon, of the Artillery, availed himself of that opportunity to evince the coolest judgment and most determined gallantry, by instantly opening a gun upon the enemy, notwithstanding the confusion which the burbling of the shell had occasioned, the number of men who had suffered from it, and the great damage the battery had sustained. I have the satisfaction to report to your lordship the arrival of the 48th and Royal Regiments from Corfu, in her Majesty's ships Leopard and Sidon. I have omitted to mention in the body of this letter, that two squadrons of Turkish cavalry were also in the plain.—l have, &c., RAGLAN. The Lord Panmure, xc., &c. EMILY or CARt'ALITIIS PION TIM !Grit TO TR, 19TII or MILLI. 1955, inittsiva—let Regiment of Foot-1 sergeant, wounded. 7th Foot -1 rank and file killed. 9th Foot-1 rank and file, nounderL 19th FOO4-1 rank and file, wounded. 21st Foot-1 rank and file, killed. 23rd Foot-4 rank and file , kdled ; 4 runic aid file, wounded. 30th Foot —3 rank and tile, wounded. 33rd Foot-3 rank and file, wounded. 34th Foot-1 rank and file, ; 4 rank and file, wounded. 36th Foot-3 rank and file, wounded. 4101 Foot-1 ser geant, 1 rank and file, wounded. 46th Foot-1 rank and file, killed; l rank and file, wounded. 47th Foot-1 rank and file, wounded. 49th Fuot-2 rank and Ole, killed; 4 rank and tile, wounded. 53th Foot-2 rank and file, killed ; 1 officer, I sergeant, 4 rank and file. wounded. 77th Foot-2 diners, 6 rank and file, killed; 2 officers, 3 sergeants, 32 rank and file, wounded. Birk Foot-2 sergeants, 3 rank and file, wounded. 90th Foot-4 tank and file, wounded. 97th Foot I—4 rank sad file, wounded. Ist Battalion Rifle Brigade-1 rank and file, killed, 2nd Battalion Me Bripde-1 officer, wounded. Royal ' Artillery-2 rank and file, killed; Id rank and file, wounded. Royal Engineers and Royal Sappers and Miners-1 rank and file, killed ; S officers, 1 sergeant, 4 rank and file, wounded. Total-2 officers, 33 rank and file, killed ; 7 officers, 9 sergeants, 93 rank and file, wounded. NoeINaL !UMW OF OFFICERS WllO NATI nl ip KILLED FROM TIM Idris ro rat tarn Aram, 1552, ractveiva.— 77th Foot: Colonel T. G. Egerton ; Captain A. Lemprlere. Noumea kercar or Gammas woo neva sun WOVPIDED now =a tarn ro roe 19rn Aran, 180, Isom:sive.— 2nd Battalion Rile Brigade: Lieutenant W. Norris, severely. Royal Engineers: Cap tain F. W. King, severely ; Captain H. C. C. Owes, dangerously ; Lieutenant C. N. S. Baynes, dangerously Fort: Lieutenant J. W. Trevor, dangerously. 77th loot B. D. Oilby , slightly; Linderman and Replliat G. B. Morgan, slightly. NOMINAL BATOR, or NOX.OOMIIIIIIIOSED OFFICER@ Aso PRIVATES KILLS)/ rams tarn To Vers Aram, 16.55. mai:nays-23rd Foot: Privates Robert Hollister, John Ryan, Peter Haskell, Thomas Neville. Royal Artillery : Gunners Michael McQueen, Jamie Hamilton. 7th Foot : Private John Brown. Seth Foot : Private Frederick Heap. 55th Foot: Private' Thomas Dellrett, Jeremiah Henoesy. 46th Foot : Private William Curran. lit Battalion Ride Brigade : Pt into Patrick Calvey. 21st Foot: Private Joke RueselL 493 Foot: Loos C= I William iimith,PrivateWilliani Bradley. 77th Foot : Privates I Sullivan,George Jackson, Thomas Kimble, George Parker, Jame" Leahy, Alexander Stewart. Royal Sappers end Miners : Private John Evans. OTTICIZA AND PRITATIS WOUNDED nor liven 19ru Aram, 1633, recteuvz.-Ist Foot: Sergeant John Wallace, slightly. 19th Foot: Private James Bete, severely. 30th Foot: Private John Doomed, dangerously, nine dead. Michael Chamberlain, severely ; Michael Harruntoo, severely. 34th Foot : Lanes Ca Illekoesl Quick., slightly; Privates David Ha milton, severely ; Thomas Cam, severely. 4let Foot : Cotour-Ser =ohn Fitzpatrick, dangerously. 96th Foot : Privates David severely ; Philip Adams, severely ; T. Kelly, severely; John dangeroosly. Royal Artillery : Acting Bombardier Peter lirDonald, severely ; Gunners : Henn Johnson, slightly ; William Raker, nightly; John Loughrey, slightly; John Evans, severely; William Fol, s4btly ,_• Gimp Portch, gightly ; Alfred Mom, slightlyßichard Grialths, slightly ; wi)))ses Riley. slightly; Landnott Ropivell, slightly ; Thomas Trot e a re alightly ; James Moore, slightly ; Stewart illaboes. emertly ; Patrick Co- Dolly. slightly ; Joseph Wood, slightly. ref Pest : Prints William Willshire, severely. 23rd Foot : Private, Parish Whayling, slightly; Patrick Hergerty, slightly; John Searib. dlightly ; Stephen Bliat. ford, severely. Ord Foot : Privates Rimethy Doyen, se. rarely; James Ryan, slightly; nem, Doyle, oevenly. 34th Foot : Edwin whet, slightly ; Private William . 116th Foot : limeemit Ctuories Curtail, se verely ; Privates : Sean; ; Jounce Connors, 'lightly ; John lisiOftssiersiy • hake. severely. irth Foot : Privates : MOM Mvley. aloft ; Goodwin. sererel ;he hem" ollsktly ; Mogina imam, MiChill. Royal owl Ulm_ : Ootrorhrsolat Why ll• Donald, did=Tbwell, emeroly ; Print's: John alitanOwWM Holsm, slightly ; almaixter lgeOrmerry. • . Seth Foot : Privates: Peer Nato. soy: sohogy ; Bogey severely. 4 `st Pon Private IllartiaTehrEAS ?Mt Peet : Private Josses Mookaß • 7 " 1: rn""alaNihooser, severely. hlo hot: Primus 1111 0. olverel SOtt i =r i tor= awl ; Privates haws Milt. fl=rl Plii. - ps. Olfihtir lama lb Om, ollibuia • nth i 0.34: Wrath how Tookoy, I Ms ; home Nally. severely LagirOMINSI Pre.. dent Shesaresul u i g ; Ozrporel Henry witherifoo._fr ftedY. Private JohaDinetead. ht l 7• John IL Brows , I g ° ' Doosborty. oroonh; ugh %mammy, esverely ; Ingerely; tmeemnellemnsmy sevenb; .12.18 111.11116 1 espuurt ignisi c r a . yitt lida ,megled7 lan t J asver lYmiroholi :severely' o l e l a g r o M am my: yams Sam severely ; Charles Ns Cart4l7, wiesiy ; noordy ; Puri* Sohn, r hoar H. Ilhos, oirovely ; foam Jews, SlM* itees~spew* ; Stephen Walker, motrely ; Patriot I agia lisriska, severely; Aleunder • • severely ; John Baal, severely; Alexander Coss, seerely; Richard tralker,dangeromily; Reynolds, sightly; Join Campbell. merely; Beene' weft, severely. • Reruns or CalnAL , lne 111 vas Bova. NATAL Bemuse saroan SIMUTOPOL nor Aran. 17ra to Aram Wra.—Wounded—Jobi B3oket, A. 8., Leander, severely ; George Orme, A. 8., Rodney. severely; James WM, A. 8., Rodasy, severely ; John Muller, A.R. Leander, ellghtl mortally ; ,6 etneed—Wallam Goodyear Ord., Gums. • DESPATCH FROM PRINCE GORTCHAROFF. (From the /untidy Russo.) A report of Aide-de-Camp General Prince Gortcha koff contains the following details, which complete his telegraphic despatch concerning the operations before Sebastopol, from the 15th to the 19th of April. On the 15th of April, at seven in the evening, the enemy exploded three mining-chambers, at 30 or 40 sagenes (1 sagen=7 English feet) from the salient angle of the Flagstaff Bastion, and during the night advanced his communicati ons t owar d s our apyroaches as tar as 15 sagenes from the nearest pit fornied by these explosions. During the 16th, 17th, and 18th of April, the be sieger continued his cannonade and bombardment, but with lees violence, however, than on the pre ceding days. On our side the firing was also some what less warm, except at the spot in front of the Flagstaff Bastion, against which • very heavy can nonade was kept up day and night, in order to prevent the enemy maintaining himself is the pits above-mentioned. The damage inflicted on our batteries was re paired each night with the greatest activity, and the dismounted guns replaced by sew ones. The skilful working of the guns of the place pre vented the enemy from acting with vigour against the Flagstaff Bastion, and gave our volunteers an opportunity of displaying their intrepidity. From the nearest loopholes they watched the ex plosion of our bombs and grenades, which often compelled the French to retire from the craters, and they immediately opened a well-directed fire against the fugitives. In the night between the 18th and 19th of April 100 volunteers and three companies of the Toboisk regiment of infantry, commanded by the brave and intelligent Major Prikota, made a sortie which was crowned with the most complete success. One sec tion of the detachment made a dash at the nearest rifle pit, another at the zigzag adjoining it, and the two remaining sections remained in reserve. The two first sections shot down and bayonetted the enemy, who, to the number of three companies, was holding the rifle pit and the zigzag leading to it, and they destroyed the finished works. On the arrival of the enemy's reserve they quitted the pit and its approach, joined their reserves, and drew on the French within range of a very heavy fire of grape from the Flagstaff Bastion. The loss of the enemy in this affair was very con siderable; ours, on the contrary, was proportionally insignificant. In this sortie, one and all, both officers and men, fought heroically : the bravest, Captain Stolbine, Second-Captain Zegreba, and Lieutenant Pissaref, were wounded. Major Prikota, to whose talent and intrepidity we ought with all justice to attribute the success of this exploit, is more especially deserving of notice. On the whole, since the 15th of April, the losses of the garrison of Sebastopol have been less than those sustained on the previous days. Its courage and indefatigable activity are beyond all praise. In other parts of the peninsula nothing remark able hu taktn place. FRANCE. - (raux THE COIMISPONDLNT 01 TUB DAILY 111111.) PARIS, FRIDAY EVSNIKO. I am informed that the government has this day I received despatches, stating that on May 2 the Allies made themselves masters of a very important Rua ' sian counter-approach before Sebastopol, and that on the next day (the 3rd) the Russians attempted to re gain the position, but were driven back with great loge, atter a smart engagement. It is probable that this affair will be alluded to in to-morrow's Monitettr. Rumours of peace were the order of the day at the Bourse, which was also favourably affected by rumours of the news above mentioned. Not withstanding a full in Console the Rent. rose 30c., closing at 69fr. 10c. The Lyons and Mediterranean railway was in extraordinary demaud and rose 15fr. In the other ►ines there was no great change, but they were almost all very firm. The Indflpendance, says the Conatitutionnel, was mistaken in announcing that • military convention with Austria was signed before M. Drouyn de Lhuys left Vienna. Some paper was indeed, it believes, signed, but it contained only the "preliminaries of an eventual convention." The following telegraphic despatch, although dated London, may perhaps be news to you : " Loribox, 3rd.—A Polish legion is to be raised is Paris and London, under the command of the young Prince Czartoriski, with the sanction of the English and French governments." I have some reason to think that this intelligence comes from a private source, and has not appeared in any London paper. I hope it may be true, but the Prince Czartoriski himself learns his appointment only from the telegraphic despatch. The following announcement, picked oat from a bundle of other Court news in the Moni(eur, has been much noticed, because its signification is not ob vious :—" Baron de Hubner also delivered to the Emperor a Cabinet reply relative to the mission of M. Drouyn de Lhuys to Vienna." Although there has as yet been no official confirma tion of the statement I forwarded to you, that Admiral Hamelin would resign the Ministry of Marine, I be lieve it was perfectly correct, and that the Admiral has only consented to retain the office a few days on ' account of the difficulty of finding a successor. M. Billault is spoken of for the post, and, in case of bis appointment, M. Ronher would be the new Minister of the Interior, and be re placed in the Ministry of Public Works by Baron Paul de Richemont, a deputy and a director of several railways, who has long enjoyed the con fidence of the Emperor, and has frequently been consulted by him privately on question. of public works. Although this combination is represented to me as probable, it is not thought in the Marine office that M. Billault will succeed Admiral Hamelin, but no doubt is felt about the retirement of the latter. The Emperor and the Empress last evening were present at the Vaudeville to witness the performance of La hie de la Maison. Their Majesties were re ceived with great warmth both outside and inside the theatre. This afternoon the Emperor rode along the Bou levards on horseback, without an escort, and attended sal_y_ by two servants. We read in the Independance Beige on the subject of Pianori : It is said that the " iastruction " has discovered • clue to a vast secret society having numerous committees in dif ferent countries, which c ommittees have each delegated two men, pledged to attempt the life of the Emperor in rotation. socordiog to lots to be drawn. These rumours, however, supposing them to have any foundation, are in no way corroborated by the prisoner Pianort, who has not Ma l mo, it appears, admitted that he has any accompliem. All that he has stated is that when he left Rome he went to Cursies, thence to Marseilles, and afterwardsto Paris and London. In Paris he lodged in the Rue Notre Dame de Grace, a little street in the Faubourg St. Honore, near the Chapelle Ezpistoirs, in the Rae d'Anjuu. He earned at haat 150fe. to 200 fr. a fortnight. (This is not impossible, although it seems unlikely. A first hand journeyman shoemaker does earn 10Ir. a day in Paris.) Aid thus it was not povt.rty that led him to commit the crime. The idea of attemptiag the Emperor's life, which he says he had entertained long ago, had frequently been abandoned mid than y aannta a. He disdains any motive of personal vengeance, alleging, is justificative of his abominable sot, reasons w hich politicel assassins never want—he saw in the life of the as ebthaele to the realisation of the utopias bed of. • A photographic portrait has been made vil• him at the Car enrgerie, several copies of which have bees mat to foreispe countries, is the hope that his Sleuths. of which doubts still exist, may be proved, and that some info:mune rela tive to his antecedents may be obtainedru -,oommenting-- , 1 .1 1 t i 1; 1 i 1 i 1 , I !I' . 1 - 1 ! ill • i • ir is ei. ow mg ass la a iN a I • 7r