The Express. — London, England, 1855-07-12 00:00:00

Abe exancoo. TO CORRESPONDENTS. abortiamsaislateadedur "Tho Raptor." Dorm Vain( pew, mot be ot the Oar% 10. lestorrourt, by Two Ora ce the w Ol pablkaara. MGR WATER AT LONDON BRIDOZ. Tim DATIEOII/14 ns Allsessim. Oh Wm To massir—Xasdn. lb. em. LONDON, THURSDAY, ',171.2' 11 INTESDAT evmang's debate in the Room of Cimir peas, on Mr. Scinix's motion, is a fair eau* el the manner in which Administrative Bdmm is likely to be dimmed by the existing nee of pubis Inn. Mr. Bonzes ostensible object wan to urge the Government to confer appointments in the public service with an exclusive regard to merit ascertained by public competitive examinations. But the real drift of the honourable member peeped oat in the teply with which he wound up the debate, as the real object of ladies' epistles is alleged always to be found in their pretneripta. Mr. SCIILLT read two letters—one which he bad addressed to a noble lord es his nounion tootles ; the other, alio from himself, addremed to a friend of Lad Patnsarrom's, in February last. The purport of both was a re earmetninee against the noaappointaient of Irish sambas to places in the recently constructed Cabi nate. Now, with a view to the practical efficiency of Governmeat, we are quite prepared to assert that the racist capable masa ought to be 'sleeted, bre 'pectin of the part of the Weisel from which they eosin Bat It dues net asses eerily follow that every AdmillibilleS Amid be composed of certain fixed peimmtlens el lag lishmen, Scotching', Wolohan*, and kishsa* If there have been few or no Iridium is late Cabinets, the gm, meet he night &swims than in any ob it:widen le dm pumiedneff enresestrymen from the grew athintable to the want of Administra tive Rehm Ever dose the Mike, when there have . been Isfsb members in Parliament gifted with °Medal aptitude, Ireland has had her fair share of Ministerial =at the least. Under the Tories we had the ons sad Camas ; snider the Whip the Towers, Busoaouoss, CLUIRICAZDZII, and Sams. Nay, before the Union, we bad from :ibeland greater names than any of these—Bums tai IPOSIDLL At no time have oar Irish Meads been entirely excluded from office by '!■peeetioabl. public virtue; nor, to judge from Mr. urgent petitions for place for his friends, ems est appear to be the cause of the exclusion he now esesplaim of. All Governments have been but - tee glad to enrol; Irish talent under their banners, when Irish talent wee to be had. If the doors of Downing•strest are kept dose shut against the Irish Brigade, notwithstanding their 'salad pertinacious t basking, it is simply because there are no Bnintre, GMMlniMaous, or Sams among them. Mr. Via- OCUILT may y take our word for it that Admi milintire Reform would do little to promote the amid- So *we of the coterie to which he belongs ; that Ii ikleative Reform moans something very dif. and Mei snug places for men who have no other , asseimidation than that they represent Irish con slilmweiss. Let Ireland send us own more snob Irish embus as we have formerly seen in Parliament, and tbale dim to office will be irresistible. The ons►disd dispassion raised by Lord Mortar-' canna in the House of Lords on inesday evening was a men eggendix to tbe debate that wee going on is the CheMeeme. One noble lord rose after another 1 to peimenftee Meese eulogists@ on things as they are, • Mite begat!, with indiscriminate praise every living ham the highest to the lowest. After this ewe interchange of lordly civilities, Lord ManDertaca's honest burst of impatience was "quite selbembing." Ha bluntly told the aseembled pews • Si " Was bad been a great deal of what oat of doors ▪ IND lila I bitter 'on both sides." The whole nation will echo Lord HARDWICILIee eminently sailor-like rebuke of the complimentary platitudes in which Lords CLANRICARDE, CLARE NDON, and GRANVILLE so complacently indulged. LONG RAGLAN has, in a manner, with his dying breath, borne witness against our military system. In the tut despatch but one that he ever penned—dated the 26th ultimo, and published in our bane of Tues day—his lordship notices the death of two officers, both of whom are striking instances of how little merit is appreciated, or at any rate rewarded, in the English army. The first of these is Captain Qualm Borman, of the 10th Hussars, "an officer," to quote the late Field Marshal's words, "of great merit, who had served in India with distinction, and is much regretted in his regiment." Turning to that useful work which has been of late so much quoted in the House of Commons—Hort. direly List—we find that Captain Bowe.ae entered the service in 1839, that Ise served throughout the campaigns of Affghanistan and the Sausage, that be wore several decorations which marked his having been in action, and that the reward of all this was his dying a captain—having purchased all his commissions, and probably spent 6,00 W. in obtaining that rank. He fella victim to cholera in the field before the enemy. In the same despatch Lord RAGLAN also makes men tion of Lieut. and Adjutant lausa,of the 33rd Regi ment, who was killed in the trenches on the 24th alt. "This young officer "—we again copy his lordship's words—" had served throughout the campaign, and was distinguished for his gallantry and devotion to the services ; and his conduct on a former occasion I had the honour to bring under your (Lord Psal m:ma's) notice." When he was killed, Lieutenant MARSH had been bat three and a half years in the service, and yet was not only adjutant of his regi ment, but had been before mentioned in general orders. It is often asked by those opposed to army reform, 1 What is meant by promotion according to merit Is" Mee are two instance in which " promotion for merit" might have been awarded. In the one sea an °Meer serves with distiaetios for six ties years in the far east, and dies in the rank he has purchased, some six thonmad plumb Wag lost to his family for ever. la the other a young sea forms himself by his bravery into MO tinetioa, and is mentioned honourably in the poWis despatches, yet death overtakes him still a 'abaft, without any substantial mark of his omobes ap proval. And yet in neither of thane eases MS Nose be laid at theism of any individual—the system, and it slose, lain fault. Captain Bowl.* not having bees on the staff or in eenunand of his regiment, could net have received even the honorary reward of a Brevet Majority ; and Lieutenant MARSH, being under the rack °leapt** was, in a military point of view, what a man under age ia in a court of law—nebody. naturally arks in every man's mind in the English army any °Seers advanument in the service has been more of the two here mentioned! gad, ass have bees treated had they boa loook WOW of English °lime For a reply Jo do Imo or them queries reference seed only be mode to Hare. Army List. In the brigade of ohm there are ten or twelve alms boldloi do of a optain and lieutenant-calomel," all of *dm *kw fa the se rvios to Captain BOWE" bat napoko elm were ever before an cony WU the preeOnt vex broke out. Not that thus gentheasia have 'coot hilly deserved their promotion, nor jet that any one fa to be blamed for promoting them. Either by money, pod look, or good interest—probably a combination of all three—they obtained, without moving from ingland, a rank towards gaining which sixteen years' service under an Indian sun goes for nothing. Still it is—we repea t -t he system, and the system only - . which can bi biassed. - As with Captain Bowuss so with Lieutenant !Muss-ants that in this idiom's ems the cloven foot of Ham Gear& interest is. more distinctly visible. Same months ago—as Lord RAGLAN himself states in his despatch—Lieutenant Muss was, on account of his bravery before the enemy, mentioned in general orlon, and recommended by the late Field Marshal to the Minister at War. What promotion did be obtain P—None. Was he in any way rewarded P—No. Have other sabalterna in the army, who were junior to Lieutenant Miami, but who bad net distinguished themselves in any special manner, been promoted sines that odor's name appeared in general orders Yee, several. Lord RIIBTACE CECIL, of whom pro motion from the line to the Guards we have lately heard so much, is junior in the army to the late Lieutenant MAIM; so is Lientenint the Hon. R. Baer, geontoted only last month from the 21st Fusi liers to the Grenadier Guards ; and, had we space, many other instances might be enumerated. It is not, however, so mesh to particularise each instance of military favouritism, as to draw attention to the broad fact, that merit, service, or bravery—taken together or separately—an of no avail in the English army to ward' obtaining advancement for those who possess these quads% unless backed by family, Horse Guards, or Court interest, or large private means. To do the late Lord RAGLAN justice, be did, during the last few months, bring prominently forward the names of subaltern tikes, and even those of sergeants, cor porals, and privates, who bad distinguished them selves in the field. But of what use has such honour been to those who gained it P In one single instance did an officer—Lieut. WALIKI, of the 30th Regiment— obtain promotion—to a captaincy in the 3rd Buffs— out of his turn, owing to gallantry displayed before the enemy. Superior officers—Majors, Colonels, and Generals—do now and then get their share of brevet rank sad the decoration of the Bath ; but the juniors must be content with the consciousness of having done their duty. _ s _ twrodoss sates —ln thiti ; whoa advasesows tepid than that of hew would osoli In the Frenoh army neither of the often whom came are hem stated--an dwe have but judged them by Lord RAGLAN'S own weeds—would have remained so long without advancement. The one would pro bably have been a Colonel of Dragoons before he was carried cif by cholera, and the other, at the very least, a Major of Infantry; while both would have been decorated. With such difference in the manner in which services before the enemy are appreciated in the armies of Prance and England, what wonder that the system of the former country works better than that of the latter I Still lees sur prising is it that there is a peremptory demand in this country for a searching reform in these matters. Abuses li k e those which the public pros has, during the Wt twelve months, denounced as existing in our army, cannot be left n nredressed, unless, the dogtrot). tion of the service is the object of those who have its administration in their bands. It is almost impossi ble to overstate the abuses now existing in our military system, all of which are stoutly upheld by a certain clique in ended of Parliament. Money, interest, family coenexions, or Horse Guards influence, are of us in pushing a young man on ia the service; but profseelonal distinction, personal bravery, or the highest military acquirements, are of no avail whatever. If a young man can command any of the former, he will get on a hundred per cent. faster, though he never leave the United Kingdom, than he would by serving in the four quarters of the globe, with nothing but his sword and merit to trust to. gbt Court. OSBORNE, JULT 11. The Queen and Prince, accompanied by the Xing of the Belgians, the Count of Flanders, the Prim of Wales, and Priam Alfred, inspected the troops at Aldenhott amp yesterday, ea the way from London to Osborne. The Royal party arrived at Osborne soon after 7 o'clock in the . evening The Priam. PA*, Princess Alice, Primer Hobos, Princess Louisa, end Primo Arthur, with the Princess Char lotte of Belgium, had anima from London between one and two o'doek. The Duke of Cambridge visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday at her residual, Clarence-horse, Eit. James's. The Dashers of Cambridge, the Princess Mary, and the Hereditary Grand Denham of Mocklenbergh Btrelits dined with the Duchess of Host at Clarence-house, Eit. James's, last seeming. Mr. Thornton, Mr. Ward, and Mr. Hodgson, a depute tios his the sonwittee of Anglo-Peravian bondhol ders treseseted business with Lord Wedelns's at the Foreignoaes yesterday. 811/11111011101 were issued yesterday morning to the ministers to attend a Cabinet Council in the Airmen at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. Mai half peat three o'clock the following ministers ambled, viz., Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey. the Earl of . Clarendon. Lord John Ruses% Lord Panmure, dm Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the R4ht Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Sir William Mamma, Vimonst Canning, and the Earl of Harrowlep. The earl broke up at twenty-five minutes behreseves °Vest. Tax LATE LORD NAOLAN.—This morning arnnge meals won made fee the reeeptiou of the lot. Lord Raglan, whose remiss are melted to arrive in this *milky about the 24th inst. from the Crimea. They will be sent from ileuthavaptow by speeiel train of the South- Western R.ailway to his mildews, Nab, Great Struthopretreet, and will be finally deposited in the swasoleuss of his Gress the Duke of ikenereet, All Soule Cemetery, Kemal Green, Harrow. road. Tito famed will be es pivots as droaiasianoss will persiL Lord Haddo, M.P., is rending with Lady Haddo aad tastily at the Ringer's Lodge, Blackhaatit, the red dens' of the lied of Abadan. We are limy to say that his lordship madman is a very delicate state of health. The Bight Ron. Sir Charles sad Lady Mary Wood resolved the Bari of Durham, the Earl aad Comatose Stair Yaps, Lord mad Lady Seymour, Lord Adolphus Fitselaresee, Lady Geseglaaa Grey, Sir Robert Peel, Omani Sir Joha Bargoyait Admisal Mr David Deus mad Lady Bally Mr. sad Lady Mary Stanley and the Boa. Biomass &Way, Oland For, Captain Maas, sad a distinguished *de, at Mame, yesterday, at the Bight Hon. Baronet's Adel residsase, at tie Adminhy. Yesterday everting the Dowager Coasts. of Er roll gave a peed ball at the sew measles la &lime- Rama TM ratlike, was licaoand by the agendum of ea eseeedially smarm eampsay of the liability nil bear mak balsam a select arils of the Sup. ilipionlatipa _ _ -- A prim of OW. a-year bee jut ioesi grestid by the govaansast, boa the Civil VA, to tits wall-kaown and 'popular Naar of many works of Ckristias pkikoopby and lamb" Dr. Dick. _ _ _ Mr. iiOlisad (liberal) was yesterday elected re -1 of Irisbaa, without opposition. rnNo swim oppcoltiOn is to b tondo to tbe em MILL O. C. L Derkeby fa Cheltenham tomeenew. OF THE OUR THE EXPRESS, THURSDAt EVENING, JULY 12, 1855. IN THE CRIMEA. (FROU A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) - 2 CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, Jona 29. Ifertd d the painfully sudden death of the f3e■~ has superseded every other topie of fit the damp ; and in the ameba of say 'Ol the part of the enemy sines the last amil. li hoe little of resent interest, beyond it, le menmaideste. The interval has been too short to posit of any sensible improvement in the sanitary ie mw of regiments amongst whom choleraic and thy symptoms were mainly prevalent; ass rapidly fluctuating changes which the weather has moos undergone likely to result in good to the general health of the troops. When I last wrote the thermometer averaged something like a Lily height of 94 degree., which an Tuesday fell to. re::yesterday. . afternoon went down even to 57. the whole of Tuesday night and Wednesday metiling a severe rain and thunder storm swept over the ramp; and the same occurred again last night, rithe temperature, as I have said, most renal g% li j im eeletftex t r e n g d, for the time lass has t b o si o lg . , i s :: es the rain appears to have passed on northwards, we may probably expect a continued rise in the temperature till it again reaches a broiling point. I am sorry to learn that a large proportion of the wounds received by our men in the affair of the 18th are terminating fatally. The awfully severe nature of grape-shot wounds, to be sure, gave reason to expect this; though hardly, perhaps, to the extent in which the daily returns show it to be oricurring. Round shot or shell wounds, from their extent, are in most oases fatal when received ; whilst those inflicted by grape or canister—though sadly extensive too— more frequently leave life in the sufferer, at least for a time. Still, a limb struck by either of these last can seldom be saved from amputation, and after the vast hceinorrhsge which must in the meantime have taken place, few systems can survive the operation. So has it proved in themes of very many of those carried off the field on the 18th—after lingering on doubtfully far days they are gradually sinking and dropping off see by one. Apropos of this subject of the wounded, however, and in remarkable contrast to those who are thus deify succumbing, I may mention particularly one case which is considered of singularly great surgical interest—that of a young man named Palmer, a private in the 7th Fusiliers, who was shot ~ the through —_ left parietal bone of the head by a Millie bullet on the morning of the attempted storming. When carried into the field hospital, an hour or so after receiving the wound, the brain was actually pro- truding through an) orifice in the skull large enough to admit of the entrance of the doctor ' s finger into the interior of the head in search of the ball. The surgeon assured me that he had to thrust his index finger to its full length within the brain, to dis cover the bullet and the portion of the skull which it carried inwards with it. Neither, however. could be found, nor has yet been extracted. In the meantime the fractured bone is closing, and the pa tient continues "alive and alive like, " eating Ms prescribed food regularly, and displaying his wonted intelligence. By a large number of doctors who have seen it the cue is considered one of the most remarkable in the history of modern surgery ; and it certainly strikes an unprofessional looker-on as sub versive of every preconceived notion of the brain— videerability. A few somewhat similar cases are, I believe, ea record; but in every one of them the sufferer died on or about the ninth day—whilst the individual to whom I now refer has at present every appearance of surviving, without at the same time sustaining any lasting cerebral injury. The case would well merit a detailed professional report in one of the home medical journal'. Within the past week we have had more than one visit from curious observers from within the town. On Monday one of these gentlemen was exercising his faculties within the French lines with a degree of earnestness which appears to have worked its own defeat, for he was arrested, tried, and shot at day light on the following morning. On the afternoon of the same day (Tuesday) another also fell into the hands of a couple of patrolling gendarmes ; but, as be was dressed in plain clothes, spoke English fluently, and assured his captors he was an English amateur, they unfortunately permitted him to slip through their fingers. Half an hour later, however, the real character of their soi-disant Englishman by some means became known, and a hots penult was started throughout the French camp after him and a companion, who was ascertained to be on the joint tour of inspection, the latter dressed in a French undress uniform, and both mounted. At sunset that evening I happened to be in the camp of the 34th Regiment, in the Light Division, listening to the bend playing our grand old national anthem, when a couple of horsemen rode past, apparently from the direction of the French Second Division. Hearing the air, one of them reined up, and rode over to the close neighbourhood of the band, where he remained till the music was finished, and then rode off to join his companion, who had pulled up some hundred yards ahead. They then centered on into the crowd of tents, and were soon out of sight. Twenty minutes afterwards a minute description of the two gentlemen came down from head-quarters, accompanied by : strict injunctions to look out for and arrest them as Russian spies ; but the birds had flown, and were probably by that time centering into Sebastopol, as they have not since been heard of. They were both excellently mounted; and the ad mirer of " God revs the Queen" looked on and lie tened to the performance with as much cool noncha lance as any of the 60 or more idlers who surround ed him. Tricks of this sort, however, may be played much more easily on as than on the French ; indeed, I have been often stopped within their lines at the rate of half a dozen those to as many hundred yards, and compelled to give a perfectly clear account of myself before being allowed to proceed. Still, the more spies the merrier—the allied; camp present' a spectacle of crowded, lively, and generally healthy men which must be anything but gratifying to Russian optics, and a knowledge of our strength and condition can do us no harm in the minds of the garrison. I am forgetting to mention that Lord Raglan's remains are to be sent home to England, in charge of Lord Burghersh, one of his late aides-deeamp ; and will probably be embarked on board the mail steamer, which leaves to-morrow morning for Con stantinople. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Joi.y 2. Sir George Brown iiai:iiii7eieningirom this for England in the Nubia. The barracks at Scutari are this day to be vacated by the healthy troops, who will be encamped a little distance off, and the whole of the buildings will be appropriated for the reception of sick and wounded. The deaths are not more now than four and five a day, but cholera making its appearance. Miss Nightingale is at Therapia, and does not in- tend to return to England unless obliged. The Oneida arrived here this morning, and sails again this evening for Balaklava with all on board except the officers of the Turkish Contingent. shot, and the other, Mr. Raw Homo, hu, it appears, bus uoundad by ths fragment of a shell, and is now nuke txeatinsat at the hospital. We are all here, as you may well imagine, in in tense anxiety, and howl awaiting the result of the prciseted attack an the Tower. GEN. BEATSONS IRREGULAR CAVALRY. TOWN OP DARDANELL3B, Jury 1. General Boatman's corps of Turkish Irregular Ca valry has formed its camp about a mile out of this Wirth on a hill overlooking the sea, having arrived about three weeks ago in detachmen ts from Satanic', Constantinople, and the European coast. It now musters five officers and 900 men. General Bastion states that he has in other porta 2,000 more men, and that when the corps is 4,000 strong it is to pro ceed to the Crimea. Horse-shoes are much required, so mash so that the feet of the officers' horses, parti cularly, are much damaged, and as many shoes as could be spared were asked and given from the cavalry on board the Oneida, which vessel arrived off hese this morning, and anchored to land two officers, Major Heyman and Captain Forrest, one horse, and one servant, to be attached to the Turkish Irregular Cavalry. She sailed the same afternoon for Con stantinople and Balaklava, all well on board. Two more horses had died since she left Malta on the morning of the 28th June. (MON OUZ OWN 0011WIPONDINTI ERZERO UM, Jim 12. General Williams started with his staff for Kars in the beginning of this month, in order to see what nee could be made of the existing fortifications, and to raise the morale of the army, which had been at the lowest ebb, in consequence, as you are aware, of a long series of disasters and privations. Its numeri cal strength at the present moment may be estimated at about 18,000 men of all arms ; but the effective I do not consider to amount to above 12,000—the scurvy having prevailed, and thinned its ranks con siderably. The disease, however, is not of a virulent character ; and of the 400 lately invalided and sent I heye, the greater number are doing well, and are in a fair way of recovery. Oar hospitals are in the best possible state, thanks to the exertions and influence of General Williams. Abundant nourishment is pro vided, and every possible care and attention are be stowed on the suffering inmates. It is much to be regretted that he is not better seconded by the Turkish authorities, and nothing is to be obtained bat by constant and urgent solicitations. The Turkish army of Kars is encamped within a short distance of the city, and still continues much in the same miserable state—ill paid and worse clothed ; but arms, ammunition, and artillery are in great abundance, as well as the means of transport, owing to the vast number of horses and other ani mals sent from the interior by order of the govern ment. The Russian army-60,000 strong—is encamped at Ingedere, within about six leagues of Kars. The presence of such a formidable force would seem to favour the rumour in circulation respecting the neu trality—some say the death—of Sheik &homy' ; and it is thus that the Russians have been enabled to de tach a considerable force from the army of the Cau casus, and concentrate it at Gumri. We learn from Kan that the population, more especially women and children, have received orders to evacuate the city; and this necessarily leads one to suppose that there is an intention of occupying it on the part of the Russians. If such be the cue, it can scarcely be effected without a great struggle and loss of life, should the commanders on this side resolve to defend it to the utmost, inasmuch as even last year the fortifications of the city were in tolerable order. The Armenians here have learned that their na tion is henceforth to be subject to the conscription, and to furnish a contingent to the Ottoman ranks. Some are alarmed, others understand perfectly the nature of this measure, and are quite ready to serve the government, provided it be based on the principle of perfect political equality. There are, however, many difficulties in the way of this useful project— aad I regret to say that the Turkish officials in the provinces are little calculated to accomplish their mission, end carry out the beaevolent intentions of the Sultan. We are now in full spring, the fields in the highest state of cultivation, and there is ever y . prospect of abundant crops. The public health is excellent. Oar accounts from the Turkish army of Bateum are unsatisfactory. It has suffered great privations during the winter, and is at present encamped in a most unhealthy locality. The Allies have entirely neglected the campaign in Anatolia, and left us, in a manner utterly incredible and inexplicable, entirely to our fate. A small force of even 10,00 0 men, co-operating with the Turks, would really have done wonders, and the whole of Georgia would have been long since in our possession,a most admirable the de position for further and more extensive operations. Boddes,these countries are all rich and fertile, affording, as regards provi sions and quarter., all that is requisite for the supply of any army possessing moderate funds. This is a subject which merits the highest attention of the allied governments, and I beg most strenuously to re commend it, through your columns, to their con sideration. We have just heard that the Russians attacked and endeavoured, unsuccessfully, to re-take the Shefkalil (Fort St. Nicholas), captured, you recol lect, by the Tartu at the very outset of the war. ERZEROUIf, Jul(' 19• I have just this moment received intelligence from Kars announcing that the Turkish advanced posts had been attacked on the 14th inst. by the Cossacks, with about eight or ten men on both sides hors de combat. Again, on Saturday, the 16th instant, the enemy, consisting of three regiments of cavalry, with one field battery, returned to the charge. The Turks on this occasion gave them a warm reception with the artillery of their redoubts, which acted admirably and swept away their ranks. The enemy replied with his field pieces and some rockets, which, how ever, fell short and did no damage. This encounter lasted about an tour, when the Russians were forced to retreat, leaving but one dead body with about a dozen horses on the ground. Their loss, however, between killed and wounded, is estimated at above 100. They carefully removed the killed and wounded in order to conceal their discomfiture. The casualties of the Turks amounted in all to about 20 men between killed and wounded. Last week a Russian force of about 8,000 strong was detached from the army before Kan, and marched on to Ardahah, where they encountered some squadrons of Turkish cavalry, which retreated towards Kars on their approach. The enemy re mained in that position for a couple of days, de stroyed some works thrown up by the Turks in the course of last year—and having purchased grain for 700 tomars which they sent on toAlexandropol—finally evacuated that point, retreating in the direction of their camp before Kars. Our ardent hope and prayer may be summed up In this one thing needful, namely, that a contingent of the allied armies may be sent to join u promptly as possible in the operations of the campaign, and in such cue I can answer for a glorious result. The imperial famil has been plunged into deep RUSSIA. affliction by the deat h of the young Prince Djemal- 8:. PETERSBURG, JULY I. Edden, who expired on Friday last, after a short A revolt of an alarmhig character has broken out illness. His remains were conveyed with great amongst the Siberian regiments of the line, but which, pomp to the mausoleum of Sultan Mehemed, and all as a matter of course, is not permitted to be mentioned the great functionaries assisted at this mournful in our shackled journals. The following short, though ceremony. significant, official notice , published in the Military Mohamed Bey, ambassador at the French court, is Journal, gives, however, a deep insight into what is about to start in a few days for that destination, and there gilded over as a want or subordination : " By will, I believe, be accompanied by M. Musurus, who sentence of a court-martial Captain liirikoff and has been lately appointed chargé d'atkiree atrurin. Staff Captain Iwanoff of the 13th, Major Suboffsky Yesterday, General Vivian, anompenisd by his of the 14th, Lieut.-Colonel Kirgtoff D., and Captain staff, had a long conference with the Seraelir, at Froloff of the 18th Siberian Regiment of the Line, which the Minister of Foreign Affairs was also pre- are degraded to the ranks for insubordinate conduct; seat. The Turkish Contingent is daily increasing, the two latter are, moreover, sentenced to the loss of and smelts of about 8,000 rasa at the present the medals previoLsly granted them for meritorious seement. They ere encamped at Moffatt-den, an els- services." vete& gelds. between Beyskilsre and the Black It has been my duty on several occasions to point Sea. Tbseheless had lirelms out amongst them, bat out to your readers the various shifts the govern beard from as elm that the health of meat is obliged . to resort to in order to fill up the lame at present eathiastiwy. The epidemic enormous loam in the ranks of the Russian army ken limit Need in the capitol and environs, with caused by the war, but mostly from disease and bad the exespdow el the Jew village, Kouskounosonk, management of the sick and wounded. The extra where, I emilsestend also very few new attacks have ordinary levies of men, extended to Jews and "only been aeons* within the last three days. sous," who were hitherto exempt from military serer Dr. Elethwiend arrived here a tow dap ego, de- talk the extension of the age of the recruits up to 87 gatefold both his collages. The e, _tes - /Dr. Gavin , yearn, and the levy en maw of the Cossacks of the Wass yes resale*, unketemetely Mil by a pistol Doe, are of them elves significant proolo of the went of men, which is daily becoming more apTh7 e ,,Z , which another proof is afforded to-day. Th e &„7 . of the second department of the Secret Cabinet Emperor publishes, by order of th e C zar, a n ee , ""1 giation for the medical officers attached to the ti on authorities, respecting the examittatiee conscripts, which is submitted to the Council of fitei; for their approbation. Amongst oth er t hi ngs it din,* that certain personal infirmities, inch as hunchbacks, squinting, lameness, loss of c ir;: ° !y e et which hitherto exempted such men from serei ee l' a the line, are to be in future overlooked, and t eat drafted into the different regi ments. Pretended am secret complaints are especially mentioned s included in this new regulation, as well as mei: ti me purposely made to escape military conscrlptkok which of late have become so prevalent that tha a given &sone of the 37 years chief reasons for extendin g t h e r. Amongst the patriotic offerings made in Runk and published in the most ostentatious manner by the government, the followi ng may be taken pa specimen :—The merchants of Bobruisk treated th e three reserve batteries of the second division of el. tillery and the Ladoga rifle regiment, on pm*, through that town, with 25 barrels of brandy. % Archimandrits Peter presented the 20th cohort of the ' Novogorod militia with a picture of the bleed Virgin, which was carried by the defenders of their ' country in the year 1812, and has been kept Ne relic ever since. The brandy merchant Jartelew treated 3,392 men on their march through Kiev with a roll of bread and a glass of brandy each. The troop of actors at Saratoff gave a benefit which amounted to 481 silver roubles. Two mercantile firms at Revel have reduced the price of salt 10 pe t cent. in favour of the army in Esthland, for the quantity of 20,000 poods. The nobles of the pee. since of Podolia have furnished the army with cr yoke of oxen, with the necessary amount of waggon for the land transport service. Au imperial ukase has been published, ordering the Cossacks of the provinces of P u l towa and leder. nigow in Little Russia to be formed into six regi. menta of regular cavalry, on the scale of 12 men ut 1,000 souls of the population. As each regiment is to consist of six service sotnies or squadrons and a reserve sotnie, and contain 1,083 men including the officers, it follows that this measure will.produce as additional corps of 8,500 cavalry. During the war them men are exempted from the payment of tug, and when peace is proclaimed they will be disbanded and allowed to return to their homes. The uniform ie the usual dress of the Cossacks modified by the i n . trodnotion of a tunic instead of the round jack e t. Their arms are to consist of a lance, pistol, sabre, and the inevitable knout, which latter is for the benefit of their horses, as the Cossacks ride with short stir. raps and never wear spurs. The Emperor reserver to himself the right of sending them wherever their servioes may be deemed most required. LATEST ?‘§ 1(403f 130M13i1LDIOINT i ~ SEDAN. • DESPATCH FROM GENERAL SIMPSON. f WAR DEPARTMENT, JOLT 12, 1865. Lord Panmare presents his compliments to the Editor of the Esprit', and has great pleasure in transmitting the enclosed intelligence, which has this day reached him from General Simpson: "CRIMEA. JULY 11, 1866-4.46 r.x. "Oar fire yesterday had good effect on the Redan. " Cholera is demising, and the health of the army is satidactory." The Moniteser of this day gives the following from General Pelimier : " BEFORE JULY 10. 2 P.M. "I have nothing new to announce to you to-day. I The firing has been very brisk during the whole of the day between the English and the Great Roden. This evening that work is very silent, consequently our allies will be able to advance their works." AUSTRIAN REPLY TO THE FRENCH EMPEROR'S SPEECH. The official Tremor Zeitung has an article, taking node* of the refereacas made to Austria in the speech delivered by the French Emperor before the Senate aad legislative body. The following is an extract : dine; however, A;atti& has been alai* than ones alluded to in the lest French speech from the throne, it may be nei ther inopportune nor disrespectful to throw some light on certain of its pessagse, which refer to the facts of the mo ment. iikeald a question be mooted, as to who has saved Turkey, who acespelled the Bowies army to evacuate the Priacdpelitias of the Thumbs, whether it was owing exelueively and dose to the /Lawrie@ of the Anglo-French troops, or at all events likewise to the "strategical reasons" on till side of the Amides hostler, we emisalhait each question calmly to tbejudgmest of the=te whom the Amu an known. Wish segmet te the adverted tot. the Potash spent trona the Illeser ei r 44 16 was to primal the usable • t the ships, maintaiud by Rue* in the Bask lee Ware the break/mg eat of the war, from befog roollamed. The fendermatel Miasma; between the sispiallsi (dopester) and the *naiades) is ee was so emphatieally en= *at it was p an its amount that the aid pilegpo! dories of the western powers (Dopey. de Mays and It rail) declared their readiness* *demote the preposition questiefa with their courts. The dilieremee jai ass tamed is the Net virtually removed by the metals with whisk the ldestifeuremempemias its palladia able Majesty the lamer Nepsiesm's speak from the tame Ma la which the Amines peewee* is lota given with its tone* interpre tation. If, lien the Freestepee& from the threw parse ever it alum tie equilibrium provided foe in the Austrian orepesitieue spinet the possible iestille, et the leaden leer to the Sleek flea Mime attaining its epeellied mast. Ram, ea the ether heed this important provision is midst terily emanated es Is the espy a rt icle of the lieniiser. As we have elnady observed, them comments wily justify the aniese laid down by as, that the epesehee of amnia. te the deposties of the maim ova whisk they saga meant be eellielsed as if they were *Mutational does. meets. BMW, folonver. any returnees be made to the way fa whim Amnia psammed the esgmemasts en ured into by ber, it mime Mr ear to ate from the treaty of all Sod a Desombor l athe two articles re ferred to: Art. V. " In am the reateendon of the general peace should sot be Neared cm the beam: tamed oat in Article 1., hie Majesty the Emperor of Austria, his Majesty the &o pera. of the French, and her Majesty the Queen of the United Yingdon of (heat Britain and Ireland, enter into deliberation without delay 'wilding the means for attaia- Mg the object of their a ll iance.' Art. III.—"Ia ease of hostilities breaking oat between Austria and Russia, his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, his Majesty the Emperor of the French, and her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Orem Britain and Ireland, mutually promise to each other their offensive and defensive alliance in the present war, and will to this be hoof, according to the requirements of the war, employ land and sea forme, of which the number, caters and destine don, is case of need shall be arrang e d in ettlieequent oon sultations." TLpsot el Ninths? 28 had laid down that Russian prepsnisraais tuft Mark Sea should cease. The Austrian proposition Masi this object, according to the admission even of the two diet Preach and English Ambessadon them selves. The twill of peace as contemplated by the treaty wield be... base been obtained. The propositions of the imperiel gabledeasld assuredly not be termed auntie's*. Wry, whim wo pleas them in their natural aad necessary Nits-weld= with the project of a treaty simaltaneonly brmht forward, and which declared the increase of the Russian naval force la the Black Sea to the former state to be aa aggression against Europe. It is true that by this mew a fors humiliating to Russia was avoided, bat in reality everytkla; that the protocol of December required was Waned. It must be admitted that the Western Powers had reserved to themselves the ri‘ht of making further dawned.; but to insist an then was not prescribed to Austria by say contracted or moral engagement. Each of the contraning powers has merely szerthod its right. No Jaime of any kind whatever have been injuriously set aside, no rightful pretensions have been neglected, and the obje cts desired In common remain intact. THE PRINCIPALITIES. The Courier de Marseille publishes the follow ing letter from Conitantinople , received by the rut mail : The Turkish army of Rouniali% whisk bad been encon traced batman Maidasad Itanabstak. Iwo neveitmards the Donnish% whisk is the tidy paint by whisk the anew might atinsEt an binds% Austria being still bend to rebut Ohs Prinsipalides. On the 12th of Jane, trem threes kW thoumad mss arrived at Toultebs, under eimment K Hams mid flab Peahas, and immediately begun is hussy that plass as well us lasaktcha. Between the the Yesse plass and Kuehl% there are from 12,000 to iedistry and cavalry stationed, with 32 picas K artillesy L _ sad on the river a steamboat and three tab=Thom are said to be very g .od troops, but pens cannot be give& to the five or sir pashas who sammend them, and who do not inspire much iminidans kass their military talon. Oa the evening of des 17th a repset was _gamut at Oasts that the Bunn listala had Wimbmied the points when the Turks were throwing up krilleatiabs, bat this mans *squirm son ilmatise. The groan pert if the Anna 111111.6 guar tend at Bucharest, Jur% ea OW pain of the Princi palities, have neensted esm, sad sand Sans Gallic* whisk will be Moslem& the beds et the erseadens of that army. The Aunts paint who antniands the garrison at Galata, attar bwriag nab a seer et iimpnisa on the banns Ono Prof* , has rehired te Mail. Then is every teases to bellows that the Insians nib to maks a diversion in the Debnideb% sew that the ante& of Prude and Amnia allowelhain to divas, without bentation or dread, of the greater part et their i 5,.... Great efforts are being mule at the imperial Academy of Muds to prepare the opera by Prince Ernest of Sins Coburg Getba—Banta CAUre—by the tim• of the visit of Quo* Irleteria and the Priam Consort to Paris. The following extract front a letter from one of the 'Steen of the Inroads relates to the brave Captain Lyons :—" Moravia, Jane 25.—Oar beau captain is no more. Hie wound was mortal, sad he died au Saturday night. C— was with him the whole time, sad 8— says his death was worthy of his life. He forgot nothing, sealing menages to each of as individaally, sad arranging AT the manna trifles. He said to C—, I die as la aortal* of a man-et-war ought to die.' The navy has lost its greatest mammal ; and we have lesl ISO wbs, to as, was more this a friend. He was so Mane, se put, so geed, sad es amialtie, that we all loud Wm mei _mars ties we Maw. We bob. !Apia Ideadeg masa Ihe II Jam wish efl Ravel bansma Omni edges& el h* rook eargea Mr femoral. The heed of Ger diundmad, i shot sway elm* at tbe sante moron that court " ia. oep= wastrel Ida death mewed." The Ositmel at the 44th Regiment rapmd k the death el Omen& Agal et mesas remised beim islisougel ea Os Aida *pr. el rag regime; Iris amerely weeded la the mask sad diell a lbw Man Ara: wards. rem blew, both his legs were maid off by a mend shot. The iireles his bete most gallant May and a% Mc bream ell%aa maimed famesite." Another Mon =NI mmelf hem Ihe ana W p m, go gym them es Wm a brach sod that all Gi mbel awn math la antics es thag had y liked Ws" SPAIN. The Espana announces that a young journalist, named Robert, had been condemned to two yenta' imprisonment for the publication of a seditious article in the Onde Crispin. A letter of the 6th, which has arrived in advance of the regular mail, says : The Cortes are to suspend their sittings after voting n. aortae to the government, and the bill on the reserve tithe army. The proposition of M. Eunice: Areas, which is now before the legislature, is that the loan which the mew ment requires shall be a voluntary one, if subscribed within 30 days, shall bear 10 per cent. interest, and be 'tested it the tale of the national property ; but that if it be not alb. scribed voluntarily, it shall become a compulsory one cal tax-payer, of 600 reale and upwards, and shall in that ewe only bear 8 per cent. It is said that the Minister of Fiume ha' succeeded in effecting a great financial operation with some foreign houses. It appears that the Carlist invasion in Spain bad been prepared on a large scale. Forty Spanish refs gem, among whom were the chiefs Mop and Sen. droe, and who formed the advanced guard of a mare considerable band, have been arrested in the depart. ment of the Aude. A Barcelona journal of the 4th, El Barcelona, contains the following postscript, seeming to indicate that an arrangement had been come to between the local authorities and the workmen Eleven o'Clock at Night.—lt appears that the conflict which took place yesterday and to-day, and which has kept all classes of the people in alarm, is at an end. At half. put nine the banner which was taken from the people in the street was restored to them, and it appears that tbs right of meeting has been conceded. Everything is now tranquil. Bat, according to the Diario of the sth, it appears that the hopes thus expressed have not been realised. That journal says: A numerous meeting of the civil and military authorities of Barcelona and the commanders of the national gaud was held yesterday, at which a deputation of the woman attended, but the result of the Conferences has not Um pired. The workmen continue to nation themselves in the faubourge and on the Rambla. Patrols of the national paid move through the streets ; sentineh are placed at the prin cipal thoroughfares, and the inhabitants have concerted with the Alcaldes to adopt measures of defence. Several persona, who are strangers to Barcelona, have been noticed among the groups of workmen. The majority of the Mani. cipal Council tendered their resignation yesterday, bet the Captain General refused to erupt it. Eeinforcemente of troops of the line have arrived, and are quartered in the forts. Last night a pistol shot was fired at a patrol of na tional guard. Several persona have been stopped in the streets, and called od to deliver up their money. The number of Carlini who have entered Catalonia is estimated at 200. The following despatch is published by the French papers : " Madrid, July 9.—To-day the complete project of the new constitution, comprising 90 articles, besides the fundamental bases, was read to the Cortes. The I Duke of Victoria to-day gave audience to the mem bers of the Catalonian commission." THE DISTURBANCES AT BARCELONA. The Gazette of the South gives the following ver sion of the disturbances at Barcelona : The principal manufacturers of Barcelona have been com plaining for some time about the diminution of their orders and the constantly increasing contraband trade in Englidt goods. A vast coalition, consisting needy of all the work• men, from forty to fifty thousand, in this, the second city of Spain, had been formed, the object being to impose new conditions on the masters. On the 2nd of July some me• cuing crowds having netted their orders to the chief ma nufacturers, two of the latter refused to accept them and were assassinated. One of them was formerly a deputy to the Cortes, M. Sol y Padrix. The national militia, into which the monition of July has thrown a great many men of ob scure station hitherto not trusted with arras, remained Audi passive during these excesses. The captain general, UP' taro, asked the officers if he could depend on their men, but he did not mein a eatisfactory answer. The leaders prier tested that their movement was not political ; the groups of men shouted out even " Long live Espartero !" adding to the cry, " Down with the Moderados ! The workmen's union or death !" At the departure of the Cid everything seemed to have grown cairn again, but the master manu facturers had either fled or concealed themselves. The ringleaders continued to prevent the resumption of work. The captain general, fearful of bringing about a ninnies with these blind and furious masses, and not having is. ceived yet the reinforcements he had demandei, withdrew with his garrison troops into the citadel. The city wet consequently given up to itself. ITALY. (mow ova owN NAPLES, Jets 30. I spoke to you in my last letter of a permission and intention to form a hospital in the Island of Ischia for the benefit of the Crimea invalids. When divested of all the adjuncts which the voce public° throws round everything, the report, I believe, amounts to this. There are some springs in the Island of Ischia of great efficacy in healing wounds. The proprietor of one or more of these springs re• quested an interview with Sir William Temple, in which he strongly pressed his view of the case, and suggested that they might be of the greatest aides& tage to the victims of the war. I have reason to be• Here that on this representation a communication has been made to Lord Panmure on the subject, and en attendant the answer, Naples is full of reports of hospitals and I know not what else. It is to be hoped that we may not want cholera hospitals in Na ples, but it has been said that one case appeared the other day. If there is, however, any tendency to it, the unusually cool and rainy season we have had Will have kept it under much. The harvest is of the most promising and akin• dant kind, and the wheat, which has already bees got in in many places, is in high condition. The malady amongst the vines is, however, I regret to say, almost universal.. Until the beginning of Jew the fruit looked well, but as the warm weather cams on with close Buxom winds, the leaves and fruit , I r