The Express. — London, England, 1855-08-09 00:00:00

ette exlnegle. Adiertismeetts faiWearsr -7 416714.m5,... -7 ZOolo Knelt' leper, met be it Ow Mice 10, Boeverbbelreot, by Two Vekek on the lay et pablstioa. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. *.t. —Worning. Ilb. 43 Afternoon. Oh. O . b }Losing. via. 220 Alto roc,. o, vu. 4Au. LOYDOII. UIII2BDAY, AUGUST .9: .- • ' Tile statement regarding Indian Pitmen; bub mit ted by Mr. VERICON SMITH to the Hones of Com mons on Tuesday, ie of a nature to awaken grave apprehensions. It presents to our view a declining revenue and an increasing expenditure. The esti mated rev( nue for 1854-63 is less than the lineal revenue of 1882-69 by 228,2451. The odium's! ex penditure for 1864-63 is greater than the actual expen diture of 183253 by 2,868,6231. Nor is this the worst. In 183263 there was an excess of income over expentltture of 424,2671.; but according to the estimat a there will be in 1864.53 an excess of expen diture over income of 2,670,3181. It ought also to be r shied that the documents presented to the Hot ,se of Commons, along with the financial state me at, warrant a suspicion that the prospects of the re . venue for 1854-53 have been represented as more f avourable than they are, anti that the estimated expenditure may hereafter be considerably aug leen'ted by " supplementary estimates." 11Ir. lixasom SIITTH would fain have persuaded the House of Commons that the increased and in greasing expenditure of lodic has mainly been caused by the sums laid out in promoting public works. There is one circumstanos which is calcu lated to sug;est a doubt of the correctness of this view. In the tabular statement of the estimated expenditure for 18344-66, the following items occur : Charpo of enllntlnn—Nagpore £2o6 098 Cbarg,s of cAlection—Pegs Pegu and Nagpore are our moat recent territorial acquisition,. They have increased the expense of collecting the revenue by 409,8361. per annum; but the total revenue of India has declined, notwithstand ing their qiiota has been added to its amount. It will be M the re collection of such of our readers as are in the h,bit of paying attention to the affairs of India that a similar financial phenomenon was pre sented when &jade and the Punjaub were added to the British dominions in India. We are warranted, then, in inferring that our recent acquisitions of terra tory, by adding to the annual expenditure without aug menting the annual revenue, threaten to derange the fiascoes of British India seriously and permanently. Nor is this the only danger that threatens us from the systematic policy by which the Anglo-Indian Government keeps adding, year after year, to our overgrown empire in the East. By the annexation of &Mile a. d the Purjsub we exchanged an easily de fensible frontier—of which only the small portion between the Sutlej sod the Himalaya was practi cable fur large armies—for a vague and ill-defined frontier which is everywhere assailable. The conse quences of a or extension of territory towards the East cannot yet be foreseen; but this very uncer tainty as to the future is pregnant with me nace. Again, the annexation of Nagpore is another step in the process of annexing all these iodependen• States whose territories lie intermingled with the British possessions. It is a fact that, with the exception of Oude and the dominions of the NIZAM—in which the rulers are made, de facto, irre sponsible by the presence of British troops—the inha bitants of States ruled by native princes are generally found to be more prosperous and contented than the Company's subjects. The centralising process, by which the whole of India is being made subject to the Company's Government, is found to promote ir responsibility and misconduct in local officials. It has also a tendency to degrade and demoralise the native races, by depressing the superior castes who alone can assert anything like equality with European,. The continual extension of our Indian possessions therefore threatens us obviously with two dangers—discontent among our subjects, and derangement in our finances; and both of these are calculated to place in peril our power in India. These considerations suffice of themselves to show the danger and folly of allowing the state of our In dian affairs to be kept from the keowledge of Perlis- Mani till a period of the session when it is ludicrous to talk of its being adequately investigated. For each procrastination there is now no excuse. Steam and electric telegraphs ate placing all parts of India coastaat cad immediate communication with each other, and bringing our Indian seemlier government late close proximity to England. The public accounts d India for the past year (up to October), and the estimates for the current year could easily be laid upon the table of the House of Commons at the opening of every session. The Legislature would thus be enabled to exercise an efficient control over the local administration in India. The tesolutions moved and carried by Mr. BRIGHT, on Tuesday, are so far valuable as they indicate a consciousness on the part of Government that such a reason able demand cannot long be resisted. But ' a vigorous effort most be made next ses sion or Ministers and their colleagues in Leaden hall-street, will endeavour to wriggle out of their half promise. The honour and interest of Britain alike I demand that the affairs of India shoull be more closely watched by the home Legislature. Having assumed the paramount authority in India, our honour as a nation requires that we should show our ability to exercise it for the benefit of the natives. And unless care is taken to arrest the systematic ex tension of our Indian territories, and to keep our Indian finances in a sound and prosperous condition, our Eastern empire will ere long crumble away in our grasp. AT present the price of bread and meat are high relatively to the price in the years 1849.53; and although the crops seem as fine on the ground as last year, the continued rains and the deficiency of sun begin to inspire some fears for the harvest. In this subject the public always take—and have a right to take—a deep interest. The town people cannot Ml sonably pretend—though they sometimes do—to be critics of agriculture, and to teach the farmer his art. How individuals employ their capital, their time, and their faculties—whether farmers, factory owner,, or authors—interests the public far less than how the soil is occupied. This is truly a public or national concern. The land belongs to the whole people, as is evidenced by the use made of the public power to guarantee individuals in the full possession of por tions of the soil. The agriculture of England is in many districts —particularly where carried on as men carry on other business, to get a living or a fortune by it—far superior to the general agriculture of Europe. Foreigners, in fast, import our farmers, to teach them our arts of cultivation. But though individual farmers do their duty, it cannot be said that the soil of Eng. land is fully modem, of oroceopied as it ought to her and as the public haves right to insist that it shall he. On the continent may be found large tracts of Iliad still bearing primeval forest., whole provinces lot marsh undrained, and becoming every year less usable and more deleterious, for want of the cornet leg hand of industrious and skilful men— marshes that might bloom like the polderss Holland, bit which like those of Hungary ars than - —torrents untamed and rivers an d;b. w the land has been brought u tio i. al! cultivated. You may tier or miles in its of France, Germany, ant 111[!3• pot w• • encumbered by a airless hedgerow or lift unfilled. In a paper on continental farming in the last number e the Jestresoi of the Royal Agricultural Mr. PETER I f orz, a Northamptonshire farmer, says, Ipesking of n tart of Belgium, "the whole is raciest d with hedges, with timber growing therein, to the damage of the crops, but there is no was' A b land ; there are occasional forests, which l i p. pear to be well managed." "About Cologne is a beautiful district well farmed, with no waste land about fence sides, or corners of fields grow'..ng n t h. blab." Again, speaking of a district whic'a extends from a little beyond Brunswick to many miles after passing Magdeburg, on the way to Ber fin, h e sa y s " Nearly the whole of the crops are drir.ted and horse hoed in the district, and a weed on & square yard of waste land is a rare thing to meet with." Our own experience accords with what i, said by Mr. Love. In the cultivated districts on the Rhine, and through out a large part of Germany, every inch of ground is pot to use, leaving barely space for roads and com munication. For miles and miles there evety part of the surface is cultivated as it is by the market gar deners of Deptford or Battersea. But pus only a few miles beyond the regions of our horticulture. Go no further off the.o Barnet or Hatfield to the north, or Dorking and Reigate to the south, and walk a dozen or fifteen miles in any direction you please, and you will find acre after acre lying waste, till the whole amounts to many hundreds and even thousands of acres ; strips by the road sides, in common., or in heaths, feeding geese and growing rushes and weeds. We say nothing of the wide hedgerows bearing only ornamental trees, and serving chiefly to nourish thistles, nettles, brambles, weeds, and ver min, which at once deteriorate and devour the crops, though they take up perhaps a twentieth part of the surface, betzme come atockmasters maintain that the hedgerows serve as shelter for the cattle, which do not thrive so well where hedgerows are wanting. Even for this fancied beneficial purpose, however— for stock thrive well in great prairies, where they have little shelter, and the dirty ponds and the hedges em to breed the inseete that torture the animals— our wide hedgerows are too numerous and too large, and are rather preserved for the game and the rabbits they harbour than for the protection they afford to stock. But, besides the great waste occasioned by ornamental timber, wide hedgerows, and comparatively useless parks, there are through . - . _ out the home counties within a few miles of the great metropolis, where we pay an enormous price for milk, eggs, and poultry, which are brought from a great dis tance, vast strips and portions of land lett wholly tin , occupied and unused. The waste is lea, perhaps, in Essex and Kent—though not unknown there—than in Middlesex, Herta, and Surrey; but a few pedestrian excursions into any of these counties will convince every inquirer that the soil of England, the public property, the national possession, within even a short distance of the metropolis, is partly unoccupied, anti patty misused. If we did not know that the same fact is true of Northamptonshire and other counties, as well as the metropolitan counties, we might infer it from Mr. LOVE'S remarks. He is obviously accus tomed to tee waste spots and wide hedges, breeding the weeds and the vermin that the farmer labours assiduously to destroy. Against such a misappropria tion and misapplication of our soil the public have a right and are bound to protest. We are by no means oblivious of the beauty and • picturesqueness sometimes imparted to the landscape by wild woods and wild wastes, but our eye tells us that a great network of hedges and trees only obscures the view, and becomes at a short distance little better than a forest ; and our reason tells us that not only are the green wastes, that have of late been enclosed in Surrey and other places, of much greater advantage to the public now that they are covered with heavy corn, but that the wheat fields and turnip crops are more pleasing objects than the muddy ponds and the rushes of which they have taken the plren When railroads were first introduced a great outcry was made by some admirers of nature on account of their naked uniformity. Gradually, however, in many places their banks are becoming cultivated and adorned, and railroads have ceased to be the unsightly objects they appeared to some eyes in their original bare utility. That, too, was a mere uglisese of contrast to the winding and adorned road to which the traveller was accustomed. As the straight rail pierced the dreary pine forests in the United States it destroyed a tiresome uni formity, and was itself an element of beauty as well as of usefulness. Thcae waste spots and commons, and road-side stripe, which feed a stray donkey or a few geese, are by some persona supposed to be necessary to maintain in existence "a bold peasantry," the country's pride. Such a peasantry no longer exists, ani patriotism, as recent events have shown us, is confined to towns. We will not, however, deny that in an early period of our history, when land was chiefly valued for its spontaneous productions, before necessity had taught us the art of making it produce a thousand fold as much food as it brought forth in its pristine state — and when land was monopolised as much for the chase as for cultivation—that leaving spaces unappro priated was useful to the common people. But that time has passed away, and it is now obvious that these neglected spots should be appropriated and tilled. Generally the population around them is not of the best description, and it is only necessary to see the undersized, underfed, dirty and ragged peasantry of the metropolitan counties to be at once convinced that they now derive no benefit from these waste spots. If allowed to occupy them they might make them bloom with gardens, and, greatly to the benefit of the metropolis as well as their own benefit, spread horticulture over every foot of the unoccupied soil. Why they are not allowed, and how it has come to peas that with such urgent wants as the townspeople have for the produce of the moil, and with such a pro gress as we have made in other branches of civilise floc, soil is not fully used, we will not now inquire. We will merely say that the evil has appa rently been increased in the metropolitan couoties by the land being in general owned and occupied by those who have derived wealth from com merce and other source, than the land ; and who have looked on it more as a means of enjoyment than of subsistence ; who have inherited manorial and other rights, and have preserved them as aristocratic pri vileges without ever thinking of the duty they owe to the public, which secures them the possession of the soil to make nse of it, and to use their power over it for the public advantage. They must now, when the growth of population requires that none of our own resources should be wasted, take measures in order that these wastes shall be usefully occupied. Within the last few years-end since the Corn. laws were repealed—ioelosures have been made at Cbsrlwood, Leigh, and other places in Surrey, close to the isetropolia; and any oso may now ow good roads and fins fields of corn when, when the land owners were sure of the monopoly, there were only rushy commons and tracks difficult to pats. The change which has taken place in the appearance of the countly as well as in its produots alik;,,enouuragea 7 us WI andlir p alild or cerium - A, to the legis are sb d flake a poliffi r ef re mot ► ery ohs le v oltnsage or pi noir patio ain the r lyfay of very foot of the is raglaal ✓a in the - of the continent dcfcribed by Mr. LOVE, to its a tcpriate use. Vbe Cenci. - ._ OSBORNE, ACODST 8. The King of Portugal and the Duke of Oporto landed f►na the royal yacht yesterday afternoon, with Prince Albert, and were east by her Majesty on the beach. 1 The royal party took a drive in an open carriage and four. Prince Albert went ag►in en board the royal yacht abaut 8 o'clock to dine with the King. Owing to the uceettled weather the Queen was prevented dining on board. Earl Spencer, K 0 , Lord Steward of the Household, sr rived from London, and had ma,andience of the Queen to present an address from the Hesse of Lords. The Earl of Clarendon arrived from London yesterday, and had an audience of the Queen. After the audience the following were presented to her Majesty by Lord Caarendm. Has Highness Ismail Puha, t►e Minister from Hayti, and I Mr. H. Howard, her Majesty's Minister Plenipotentiary at the Court of Brest', on returning home on leave. Prices Arthur his taken carriage airings on Monday sad previously. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. 'the ministers present a ere :—Viscount Palmerston, tbe Lord Chan , cellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Sir William Molesworth, Lord Pans:lure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right lion. R. Vernon Smith, Viscount Can ning, and the Earl of Harrowby. The Council sat two hours. Despatches were lent yesterday from the to the Governor of tte Falkland blends. THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 9, 1855. REVIEW OF THE FOREIGN LEGION BY THE QUEEN. This morning, weather permitting, the Queen is 'to review the Foreign Legion in tbe camp at Bborneliff•. The Brig Aloft Gdseite states that the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway Company have received directions to prepare a special train to convey her Majesty and Prince Albert from Portsmouth along the coast line to Myer. Her Majesty :s expected to leave Shorneliffe about four o'clock, and to return by the same route to Osborne, stopping at Brighton a few minutes on the way. The German Legion at Bkorncliffe, now about 1,800 strong, will be commanded ►y Brigadier-0 1 Wool dridge ; the Swiss Legion, which is new stationed at Dover, and numbers alma 1,100 bayocets, will be conveyed to Folkestone early this morning by railway, acd will march thence to the camp. This division of the Foreign Legion will be under the command of Brigadier-General Baines. 1 The Swiss Legion left Dover this morning by special train for the camp at Shorncliffe. Her Majesty wee expected at Folkestone about noon. THE KING OF PORTUGAL. ►N, AIIIIIST 8. It was not expected that the King of Portugal would leave England for Lisboa before to morrow. This morning, however, the Minden*, the King's steam yacht, was coaled in the docks, and the Dan Luis, the accompai y• leg yacht, commenced coaling. In the course of the fore noon orders were received from the King at Cowes to get the yacht,' steam up at 2 p.m., but it was commuaicated to his Majesty that this was impossible. At one o'clock this attire oon her Majesty's yacht, the Fairy, steamed rapidly into the dock. To the surprise of every one in the dock and on board the Portugne•e yachts, Prince Albert, the King of Portugal, and the Doke of Oporto, his brother, and suite, were seen to leave the Fairy in the royal gig, and make for the Mindello, lying alongside the Dick-quay. A guard cf honour was immediately formed on board of her, and the royal party was received on board. At this time it rained in torrents, and which was accompanied by peals of thunder Prince Albert remained on board the Mindello in eon tion with the King, the Duke of Oporto, and their suite, for about 20 minutes, when he took an affectionate leave of them, and returned to the Fairy. When the weather cleared up the King of Portugal, the Duke of Oporto, and some members of their suite, came ashore, and walked about the town. The Mindello and Don Luis will leave to-morrow morning for Lisbon. SOUTHAMPTON, THURSDAY MORNING The Mindelho, with the King of Portugal, his brother, and suite, on board, accompanied by the steam ab;p Dam Louise, left Southampton for Lisbon, at 8 o'clock this morale'. INDIA.—Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to approve of the appolutment by tka Court of Direeton of the But India Company, of Henry Valentina Conon', Erg., to be Provisional Member of Council at Fort St. George. It is again said, and more positively than ever, that the condition of the Empress Eugenie inspires hopes of a direct Napoleonic succession to •he French throne. The Emperor of the French has himself selected the pictures which are to adorn the residence at Paris of her Majesty and Prince Albert. Some of the choicest pictures from the Louvre will haag for a while upon the walls of the palace of St. Cloud. Five hundred invitations will, it is said, be issued for t►e ap,-reeehing fete of Versant! s. Viscountess Palmentoa has left town for St. Leoaarde.ou•Sea. The Duke and Duchess of Richmond, and Lady Cecilia Gordon lonnoz, are expected to leave town imme diately for Gordon Castle, N.B. The Brighton Garotte says that, during his grace's absence, the command of the Royal Sastitz Light Wintry Militia, of which the duke is colon-I, will devolve on his brother, Lord Arthur Lwow. Among the members of the Star Club present at the dejeweer at Richmond, yesterday, were the American Minister, Chivelist libeler, the Lord Mayor, Col. T. B. Lowrance, Mr. Oliveira, 11. P., Sir John Scott Lillie, Sir Archibald Maclaine, ite. Mr. and Lady Mary Christopher have adopted the awns and arms of Hamilton Nisbet, on their enottesaion to the Belhaven and Dorleton estates, A meeting was held yesterday at Hatfield, the Margate of Safishery in the chair, with the object of *stab lialriag free libraries throughout the sgricultaral districts at so trifling a cost as to bring them within reach of the hum- blest peasant sad the town. The experiment of a people's library has been already tried with excellent regatta at King's Lyn.. Lord Stanley, who was the chief speaker yesterday, prepares that libraries skill be formed in every available locality throughout the rural districts—these libraries are to be well stocked with " the easels of the most unmeant Ratios., the persosal records of the most eminent men that have appeared upon the earth—the arguments used to those great controversies which have divided human thought in all agee—the elementary principles, at least, on which scientific and artistic labours are based, and those studies of life and character which poetry and fiction supply." The list of subscriptions for the establishment of such a library at Hatfield, includes the Marquis of Salisbury, 1001.; Lord Crentorarne, 201., sod an annual :subscripties of five guineas; Lord Stanley, 251. ; Earl Virulent, 101. ; the Earl of Rembery, 61. ; and members of the noble earl's badly, U. At the conclusion of an inspection of cavalry at Canterbury yesterday, Lord Cardigan, obserrinp a farrier of the Inniskiliens with the Crimean riband, inquired if be was wounded. The farrier replied in the affirmative. "Did I see you at Scutari ?" rejoined his Lordship. " Yes, ney LoTd," wee the answer. "Did you get any of the I ssoney I left there foe yen ?"—" No, soy Lord." "Why, I left 1001. to be distributed among you. Did you not get say ?"—." No, my Isrd," was the reply of the wounded 'soldier, "SOT hare I been able to get the Roney that I left In the country yet, may Lord." Colonel Cotton said there were many similarly situated, bet "they would get it # l , sad ly." LATEST FROM ABROAD. •.• '&TCH FROM GENERAL PELISSIEN N The 'Monitor of this morning contains the follow ing despatch from General Pelissier : "CRIMEA, Ave. 7, II rag. "I have nothing o interest to communicate to you. "The enemy has not undertaken anything against H Y " Some cases 4.00 m have re-appeared." DESPATCH FROM PRINCE GORTCHAKOFF. BERLIN, WEDNESDAY. A despatch from Prince Oortchskoff, dated Ang. 6, says," There is nothing new. The enemy's fire is feeble." TRIESTE, W3DNIbDLY. We have intelligence from Constantinople of the 30th. Kan is more closely invested, and is provi sioned for only 21 days. Sherib Pacha abandoned his stores and provisions to the Russians on the road between Kan and Erseroum. The Porte relinquishes the project of recruiting Rayahs. Omer Pacha is declared commander of the Sultan's forces in Asia. Orders have been given to prepare 6,000 beds in the French hospitals. THE WAR IN ASIATIC TURKEY. The Presse of yesterday evening contains the following letter from a correspondent at Ram: KARS, JULY 14. Since the march of the Russian' from the side of Jeni- Keni and Tchiplakt, t►ey have appeared I titan before us. The following is a succinct ressowl of the little affsirs of daily occurrence betweea the outposts. _ _ On the 10th all the Russian farces showed themselves before Karr, bat only for the purpose of a reconnaissance, while an attack against Karadagh failed. The Russians muouvred for a long time with the view of discovering our feeble side, but all that occurred was a lire of musketry upon the front of oar position. The next day the cavalry, nearly 800 men, went to the mountains towards Tchaknak, but were prevented from going further by the forces stationed there, and retired, piilsg'ng a village. On the 12th, General Mourawieff chaord his camp, and stationed himself at Buiuk-Dikurek, in the direction of Erzeroum, 'egoism only his outposts before Kars. Ate engagement took piece between a party of cavalry who had gone towards Tchaknak and the Buhl Basouks. The latter attacked the enemy wit► great bravery and p ted them from going further. Yesterday we were threatened with • most serious attack, bat all the efforts of the enemy were useless ; we had been ' forewarned. A column sent to attack our rear, which they imagined was week, encountered Feiay- Bey, the chief of the staff, with his troops arranged in order of battle and ready to receive them. Another column which was to act upon our Rank also found us rettly ; the Russians then muceuv red with the view of inducing us to quit our position, which we value too much to hazard, and the affair ended by the Russians returning to their camp. Them events have given great confidence to our troops, who see animated with an excellent spirit. We have been able to appreciate in the course of these various incidents the excellent construction of the defensive works due to the English Colonel Leek. Contrary to what occurred lest year, the Europeans of the army of Kars live in excellent harmony, and render emi nent services. With Peisy-Bey (Colonel Column) we may mention General Kmety, who commands the forts; the staff of Pacha Williams ; M. de Bchwartsenberg, who com mands the outposts; and Major Taschler, who commands the model squadron. RUSSIA. A letter from Warsaw, of August 2, in the Con ' stitutionnel, says: A correspondent of the lisdependance Beige pretends that there is a camp of 40,000 men near this place. It is a most incorrect statement. Neither at Powonaki, nor Wawryo sew is there any such number of troops. As to the camp of Marismont, about which so much fuss has been made, I have but a word to esy : Mere is so suds thing. Bel mound the number of troops in Poland is very small. They are in cantonments is the fortresses of Zamosek and Dem blin, in the citadel of Warsaw, at Modlin, in that part of the old government of Podlachia on the right bank of the Vistula, along the Mirisk road, at Mediae Miendeyree, &c. The guards are stationed between Mieodcyrec and Monito, and Bialystock, and beyond the Boog. It is manifest that the Russian pl►n of defence was entirely changed some time since. At first it appeared as if Poland were about to be oetmpied by a considerable army. Provi sions for upwards of two hundred thousand men had been accumulated in the fortress of Modlia. But now we have nowhere anything but little garrisons, and the stoma in Medlin are rotting. Only the other day, 1,800 tons of salt meat in a state of complete putrefac tion, was thrown into the Narew and the Vistula. By al lowing the exporation not only of corn but of all kinds of food, to Cracow, °salmis, and Buckovise, our government sufficiently proves that it does not apprehend any consi derable agglomeration of troops in Poland. On the other hand large quantities of provisions are now being sent to Bessarabia and the neighbouring governments of the Tigris; Podolia, Volhyois, and Bessarabia, suffer immensely from the continual par sage of troop. In fact, one must be wholly ignorant of the present state of the populations of those countries to believe that they are devoted to the cause of the Caws. In vain the Christian Popes endeavour to inflame their fa naticism. The inhabitants of ancient Poland, as well as the Zaporogaee Cossacks, are haunted by the desire and the vague hope of recovering their independence, and it is use leas to demand from them the sacrifices which the people of some of the Genteel province. of the empire willingly impose upon themselves.. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 3rd have reached us. The Esparta says: We suppose that the reader will be surprised to learn that the government hag taken a decisive step in the grave question of the East. The day before yesterday the Council of Ministers held an extraordinary sitting, and after a long deliberation decided that Spain should adhere to the offensive and defensive ailianee between France, England, and Turkey. Yesterday this resolution was commu nicated officially to the representatives of France and England, and they immediately transmitted it by telegraph to their respective courts, and soma bouts after sent off ex traordinary couriers with details. The Duke de Is Victoria and the Minister of Foreign Affairs left Madrid at ea early hour yesterday morning for the Escurial, to communicate the ministerial decision to her Majesty. It is said that one of the first consequences of the alliance will be the despatch of an army of 26,000 men to the Crimea, and the engage ment on the part of the Western Powers to support the Spanish government in every way against the enemies who may attempt to overthrow it. As the gaieties of the alli ance comprises others of subsidies and levies of men, it will be submitted to the Cortes. A letter in the Gegen* Militaire, giving an account of the last momeats of Admiral Nachirsoff, at Sebastopol, says:—" Cow:does that his end was approsohing, he turned to the seamen by his side, and aid: My children, never forget to hobt the seals (i 4., the cross of the Russian Sag of war) at the mainmast in the Preston of the enemy, as yolk did at Sleeps.' The death of Nachimoff hen pat the gurison of Sebastopol, and especially the seamen by whom be was adored, to despair. General Ybroaleff, who rivals him in intrepidity, attend these words as they placed him in the can: Mnantaine of enemies' tarpon, ►rave seaman, shall be thy monement Da bwdet ra.t ! (Let it be so) shoats the regiment whe assisted at the funeral ceremony." FRANCE. offtoll ova 01/74 coal PARIS, WZDNIUMAY BYININO. Letters from Vienna positively deny the existence of the letter attributed to the Empress Dowager of Russia. The Jupiter, ship of the line, left Marseilles on the Bth for the East, with 997 men on board. The Alexandre steam-packet took her departure the same day for Constantinople, With 460 men, belonging to the engineers, on board. The Va'my line•ut-battle ship and the Unutie frigate left Toulon the day after with troops, provisions, and ammunition for the Crimea. The Constantinople correspondent of the Semaphore of Marseilles, in speaking of the new Turkish ambassador to Paris, says:—" I think that Mehemet Bey will please Parisian society. He is a well-made man, of about 30, and of pleasing physiognomy, speaks French well, and unites to a European educa tion the tact of an Oriental diplomatist." The follow ing are the names of the gentlemen connected with the new Turkish embassy :—Riza Bey, first councillor of embassy; Agop, second ditto; Server Effendi and Blacque, secretaries ; Orner Effendi, second secretary ; t'efels, Naom, and Paul Manse, attaches; and Chauvin, chancellor. The Bourse has undergone a decline. The Rente fell 26c., closing at 671 r. 15c. Railways were consi derably lower. The Marquis de Villeneuve Trans, a gentleman of an cient family, who had commenced a diplomatic career, and was lately a captain on the staff of the national guard of Paris, felt an irresistible impulse to serve his country in the Crimea, and quitting all the enjoyments of a brilliant position, he, a few months ago, enlisted, at the age of 25, as a private soldier in a regiment of Zouaves. He soon rose to the rank of sergeant, and being still a non-commissioned officer, was mortally wounded while on duty as adjutant of the trenches. He died after suffering a painful operation, and a few hours before his death he wrote a cheerful letter to his mother. The Monileur pays a handsome tri bute to the memory of this gentleman soldier. The provincial journals continue from time to time to report exceptional instances, some of them very remarkable, of the insubordination of universal suf frage, which till very lately appeared to have been a perfectly docile instrument in the hands of the great inventor of the machinery of 18.51. At Milles (Seine and Oise) out of 665 registered voters, 436 went to the poll. The entire Government list was thrown out, and sixteen councillors were elected from among the opposition candidates by large majorities. The highest number of votes polled for any govern ment candidate was 97, while between 300 and 400 were recorded for every one of the successful sixteen. At Arretz (Loire Inferieure) the local authorities sent a printed list, headed " government candidates," to the residence of every elector, but notwithstanding this extraordinary mode of intimating to the consti tuency how they were expected to vote, not one of the nominees was returned. In the important town of Augouleme the government candidates were all defeated. At Rouen, out of thirty-six councillors, six were chosen from the opposition, and among the government nominees thrown oat were M. Davie!, a senator, and the Colonel and chef de bataillon of the National Guard of the town. The remarkable mani festation of opposition at Havre has been already noticed in your journal. In some places the prefects manifest their wrath and disappointment in the columns of the local prints under their control. OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) [rho following portion of our Correepoodent's letter was omitted yesterday evening, from went of space] : CAMP ABOVE SEBASTOPOL, JULY 28. Several days have been named for the commence ment of the new bombardment and attack. It is not probable that the event will be postponed to a much later date. The number of casualties in the trenches and new works is a subject of serious consideration, and though hardly so great as might be expected from the relative position of the besieged and be siegers, must act as a strong incentive to the respec tive commanders to perfect as speedily as possible the preparations for the renewed attach. Some of the new batteries of our allies, destined to act against the Russian marine, are not yet finished, and a change is also being made in the armament of certain portions of our works, which is not likely to be completed for several days from the present date. 'The approaches towards the Malskhoff, close es they are, will have to be extended still farther before the assault can be made with full security. It is wiser to bear our daily lo,s for a while, rather than sacrifice any chance which may conduce to a successful end. It is wearied that the disposition of the new batteries isso made, and their power is so terrible, and the arrangement of the commanders so matured, that on the next occasion the assault will be undertaken without leaving room for the slightest apprehension respecting the ultimate result. The extensive preparations which are in pro grew', and the care which is being bestowed upon the works ou all sides, afford reasonable ground for be lieving that this consciousness of approaching success does not proceed from undue confidence. . . . . No signal event has occurred with the armies io the plain. It is reported to-day that the French and Ottoman troops have made a reconnaissance as (Sr as sixteen miles beyond the village of Beidar, and that they met with no traces of any hostile force in that direction. July 24.—Another hot sunny morning, with en at mosphere equally as oppressive and sultry as it has been for some days put. The empty condition of the water tanks and reservoirs, and the gradually dimi nishing flow from the springs near the front, are be coming a source of great inconvenience and anxiety. A great part of the water carried down for use in the trenches last night had to be brought from the large reservoir in the Tchernaya valley, connected with the acqueduct to Sebastopol. The distance of this water is so great, nearly three miles, and the descent to the low ground and subsequent ascent so tedious and difficult, that the expenditure of time and labour is rendered a serious matter. Stringent regulations are enforced to prevent the use of the water at the springs excepting for the most urgent purposes of consump tion. The ground generally of the plateau is in a most arid state, being totally devoid of trees or vege tation ; even in the ravines and valleys evapo ration takes place with great rapidity, and when rain falls, the shallowness of the stratum of superficial earth above the limestone rock pre vents any considerable quantity front being re tained. It is rapidly carried away by surface drainage down the ravines towards the low inlet in which rests the great roadstead of Sebastopol. In some parts the limestone is very porous and intersected by deep fissures, and to these circumstances it would appear that we are mainly indebted for the springs which furnish the ordinary supply of water to the camps. Captain Bentiock Gilby, of the 77th Regiment,was buried to-day, amidst the regret of a large circle of companions and friends. He died after a very brief illness, the immediate cause of his decease being erysipelas of the head. He had been wounded in the leg by a piece of shell when the attack was made on the Quarries in front of the Redan on the 7th of June, and his health had suffered during the neces sary confinement which followed while he was under treatment for the injury. He had resumed his duty, however, and exposure to the glare of the son in the trenches is said to have brought on the erysipelas, under which he so rapidly died. This officer, who had been with his regiment ever since it arrived in Turkey, had distinguished himself on several occa sions. On the death of Colonel Egerton, in the celebrated attack which he conducted against the Russian rifle pits, Captain Gilby succeeded to the command of the detachment as the next senior officer present ; and though this was not mode known to Lord Raglan at the time he wrote the first despatch on the subject, in a subsequent despatch the Com mander of the Forces particularly mentioned Captain Why's services. When seized by his last fatal ill ness Captain Gilby was under orders to proceed to Malta, to take command of the depot of his regiment at that island. Notwithstanding the exassive heat, and the expo sure to which the troops are necessarily submitted during their twenty-four hours turn of duty in the trenches, thme has not been any increase in the num ber of canes of Gimlets. This subject had been con sidered prospectively with some anxiety, and it is a matter for thankfulness that this scourge has been averted from us. It was about the beginning of the month of July last year when the disease broke oat with so much virulence among the troops in Bplo c i,. Dysenteric disease and fever seem to be the only pe e . veiling diseases of a serious character at present among the camps in front. The former malady at. tacks new corners especially —persons who have not become inured to live under canvas and to cam p dieting. A young o ffi cer o f t h e 34th Regiment, Lieut. Norman Ramsay, fell a victim to it yesterday. Many officers and men have had to leave camp from the same cause, for even when the dieentery_e icm , - Trolled, an elLlOUOTOrdaiTiii remains which renders restoration to health almost impossible without a complete change of air and scene. The Saul. tarium near the Monastery of St. George is now ready for the reception of three hundred invalids, and some of the wards are already occupied, The site has all the benefit that can be derived from an open sea atmosphere, and the ground on which the huts are placed is very elevated, and near the head of a deep bay, which offers every facility for drainage. The interior of each hut seems to be pr a , vided with every essential for the weltare and comfort of the patients. There is one in rious drawba c k —all the water for the establishment has to be brought from a well at the Monastery, which is nearly half a mile distant. In a hospital, where wo n is required for so many culinary and ablutionary pe r . poses, dependence on watercarts and supplies tar from the hospital itself becomes a constant source of incon venience and trouble. It is stated that when the situation was chosen, it was not anticipated there would be any difficulty in obtaining a streamer water from a spring at a higher elevation, near the camp of one of the French commissariat depots, by means of conduit pipes ; but as tire French had a large quantity of cattle there they objected to any part of the water of the stream being diverted from its regular course. July 26.—Light rain continued to fall during the whole night. The atmosphere is still clouded. As a proof of the heedless indifference to danger which some of the men acquire from constantly moving amongst shot and shell, the following ex ample, which occurred last evening, may be men tioned. A large shell had been thrown from the Redan into our right attack, ard during its pump the fuze had accidentally dropped out. The shell fell, therefore, like a round shot into part of the ap proach connected with the old advanced or third pa. rallel. Some men of the 47th Regiment were near, waiting for the reliefs to arrive, and ready to return to camp. One of these soldieri, atter examining the unexploded shell, actually had the foolhardiness to jerk the ashes of the tobacco in his pipe, which be had just finished smoking, into the fore-hole. An other of the men standing by, and observing the action, had only just time to utter an exclamation, when the shell beret. The reckless author of the mischief suffered severely—both his legs were ebst tered, and he was frightfully scorched about the head and face. Five other men were wounded, but fortunately none were dangereeely hurt. It is presumed that the man had no idea of any of the pipe-ash being sufficiently hot to came ignition of the powder in the shell. Instance' of men exposing themselves to imminent hazard by showing their positron to the enemy occur daily even in the moat advanced works, and it often requires the greatest watchfulness on the part of the officers to make them sufficiently thoughtful of their own safety, and that of others around them. Rain has fallen at intervals during the day, but not to any considerable depth. It his had the bene ficial effect, however, of cooling the atmosphere, and &heady some, though only a slight, increase has taken place in the quantity of water flowing from the springs. Had the weather continued hot and dry, the drought by this time must have been the source of very serious inconvenience. July 27.—A Circassian chief, apparently of very high rank, with a staff of five or six attendants, was escorted over the works on the %melon Vert by a French general officer to-day. The novelty of his cos tome, equally with that of his followers, who all carried the cartridges for their pistols slung in a row like a necklace, and dependent upon their highly embroid ered vests, attracted general attention as they rode through the camps. They were powerfully framed men, and bore a spirited and soldi. reke bearing. The officers of Engineers in the field are mock reduced in numbers. The arrival of others is said to be daily expected. The sad losses in this corps, both on the 7th and 18th of June—no less than five battik killed in the two attacks, and several wounded— greatly reduced their already diminished numbers. Colonel Tylden, who was dangerously wounded on the 18th of June, and to whose "eminent service? the late Commander-in-Chief called particular atten tion in one of his despatches, left yesterday for Erg. land, in the William Jackson transport. It is sad to relate th a t be tihserecopmormteedneetombeentionf the siegeavery precarious Tylden has been most active, and hie gallant c o nduct Colonel state. on more than one occasion, in repul s ing th e ene my when making en attack on our works, was so conspi cuous as to attract general attention. He had pre- Hope during the Kaffir war. Colon e l Gordon is also viously distinguished himself at the C a p e o f . Good absent on account of ill health. No rain has fallen to-day, but the sky has been overcast, and the temperature less high and op pressive. OFFICIAL DESPATCHES. -0- (PROM A SUPPLEMENT TO TliE GAZETTE.) War-Department, August 8, 1855. ' Lord Permute has this day received a despatch' and its enclosures, of which the following are copies. addressed to his lordship by General Simpson, Cora, mending her Majesty's Forces in the East. Before Sebastopol, July 28, 1855. I My Lord,—Since my despatch of the 21:h instant. I have nothing of importance to relate to you. We continue to strengthen and improve our advanced works, which are now so close to the enemy's de4 fences, that I regret to say our casualties are ne-; ciesarily considerable. Tne enemy exhibit great activity in adding to and improving their defences, and the conveyance of large military stores from the north to the south side is increasing. I beg to transmit the lists of casualties to the 26th instant, and the confidential fortnight reports of the, Generals of Division and Brigade. The cholera has nearly ceased in the ranks of the army.—l have, &c., JAMES SIMPSON, Lieutenant-General Commanding. The Lord Panmure, &c., &c. AXIOM= NUMIIICAL RZTVIIN or CA*r ALM.. ON MORSIMO or lere Juan. 11355-7th Regiment of Foot —1 ofgoer wounded; had been returned.as morn,. bith knot-6 officers wounded; were wen* in return for lath June, the nature of wounds °lit) being oriereatel; Total-7 Alice.. wounded. AM [NEMO NOMINAL RETURN or OFFICRRS WOUNDED ON THE MORNISO I or Ibex ire., 1.53.-71 h Regiment of Foot. Lieutenant N. B. Robinson, slightly (inserted as missing it original retton. nest. of Foot.-Captains John Guilt, severely; William Warr's' slightly ; Joseph Jordan, severely. Lieu enanta G. B. Harmang severely, Francs Peel, slightly; R. J. B. Clayton, severely. NUMERICAL RXTURN or CASUALTIES FROM rue 231:11 to MI 2CTO Cr - JuLT, 1953, ismanires. - 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards-1 rank as file wounded. Ist Battalion Coldstream Guards-3 rank sad wounded. let Battalion Scots }Udder Guards-2 rank and file killed; 9 rank and file wounded. lit Battalion Ist Itesiment of Foot-1 rank and file killed; 4 rank and the wounded Ulna:talks lit Regiment or Foot -s rank and ale wounded. 3rd Foot-I ser geant, 4 rank and file, wounded. 4th Foot-1 rank and file killed; ()Meer. 9 rank and file, wounded. 14th Foot-1 rank and Ale wounded, 17th Fout-I rank and file ; 4 rank and file wounded. IStk`_ Foot-1 rank and file wounded. 20th Feot-2 rank anti file wounded.. 23rd Foot-I tank and file wounded. 30th tout-I rank and Ile, wounded. 31st Foot-9 rank and file wounded. 3.3 rd loot-1 rail and ale wounded. 31th Yout-1 r.nk and Ale kilied. 3 8th Foot-14 rank and file wounded. 37th Foot-1 rank i.nd tie kited; 3 rank, and file wounded. list Foot-1 drummer. 2 rank and tile, wounded.' 42nd Foot-1 rank and file killed ; 4 rank and the wounded. 441 k. loot-I rank and file killed • 1 rank and file wounded. 4 7 0 Foot' I rank and die killed ; Irani and file wounded. 46th Foot-3 real and file wounded. 49th Foot-7 rank and file wounded. Seth loot-1, 3 rank and file wounded. 95th Foot-9 rank and file wounded. 57111., Foot-4 rank and file wounded. 62nd Foot-2 rank and file wu 63th Foot-1 rank and file killed; 1 rank and file wounded: l t Foot-3 rank and file wounded. 771 k Foot-2 rank and tile killed t ) 6 rank and file wounded. 79th Foot-2 rank and tile wounded. 811b1 Foot-2 rank and file killed. 99th Foot-3 rank and file wounded.) 90th Foo•-1 rank and file wounded. 95th Foot- 2 sergeants, 6 rank and file, wounded. 97th Poot-I rank and die wounded. lit BMW,. lion Rifle Brigade-3 rank and file wounded. 2nd Battalion BAP Brigade-I rank and file killed; 1 sergeant, 10 rank and files wounded. Royal Artillery-1 rank and file. killed ; I rsnk arid 0 1 wounded. Royal Sappers and Miners-2 rank and Ads killed: 1 rank and file woun , ed. Total-20 rank and tile killed; I Aar. 4 sergeants, 1 drummer, 133 rank and tile, wounded. NOMINAL SOITUIN OP OFTIORRE WHO NEER ammo WOUNDED FOOD TM 23110 To .6ril JOLT, 1133, IKCLUIIVL 26th July.-4th Foot—Lieutenant James Paton, Plightl3. 31011111 AL It7l/11 Or PION-0011111/111011KIJOrrit6ll /MD riIYATIS ant 1101 THI 231 D TO Tilt 20711 JULY, 1633, lOCLUIIitt. 21rd July.-17th Foot—Private John Weartby. 44th Fed — Private Jo , has Carter. 24 , 6 Joly.—lst Battalion tat Foot—Private Michael NINO!. • 113th lats.-91th Foot - Private John Jluntiogdol. 39th Foot-7 Corporal WBWo Roan. 77th Foot—Privates Patrick Doyle, i'131411,,