The Express. — London, England, 1855-05-10 00:00:00

Vie '.•xpTeMo• TO CORRESPONDENTS. howiksiassia Worm km "TY Lavers,* Liman Emits, mar , awe le at the Ogre, Ibreveriertre. by Two esiosk v. Iby et 'aikidos. NIGH WATIR, AT LONDON BRIDGE. T EN Dar—Morals, SI. Via Afhwsess. N. 13a. Trehoshaer—lishula& SI. 53a...-411thrsoce, ICh. 3,21. LO! DON, THURSDAY, MAY 10. LATEST FROM ABROAD. THE CRIMEA. ARRIVAL OF A PORTION OF THE SAR- DINIAN ARMY. The Times has received the following telegraphic despatch:— " PARIS, TiIIVILSDLY. "The Munitiur says, that advice' from the Crimes, dated the 9th of May, at 10 o'clock a.m., announce the arrival there of Central della Marmors, with 4,006 men of the Piedmontese troops." fAIISSI IN ITALY. THE political events which have during the last fortnight engrossed the attention of all chases of the . _. . " 7 community in Piedmont, are full of interest and instruction. In the midst of the discussion on the Bill for the Reform of Ecclesiastical Abuses, a propeattion of compromise was made between the claims of the laity on the one side and the pretensions of the higher clergy and wealthy monastic orders on the other. The proposal ems• anted from one of the Prelatts, Monsignor CALLA DIANA, a man described u combining a more mini- liatory bearing than some of his brethren are distin guished by, with greater coolness of judgment and cloatnaas of vision than generally characterise the apostolic order in Sardinia, or elsewhere. To a man of this stamp it had gradually grown evident that, in a contest between the oligarchy of high priests and the nation at large, the issue could be neither distant nor doubtful. The prejudices of class and calling could not blind him to the fact, that every day the quesil tion of Church Reform was publicly debated, whe ther in Parliament or in the press, the cause of na- tional independence u opposed to Papal supremacy gained ground; and his sacerdotal leanings could not render the astute Bishop insensible to the loss of , moral and social influence that his :order must incur, if, persisting to the end in opposing all change, they I found themselves finally and utterly defeated. Rome I had threatened in vain. King, Chambers, and people were equally impossible to move by menaces of an interdict. Conspiracy to stir up disaffection among the least educated portions of the community, had proved abortive. What remained but to start some plausible middle term—some Austrian proposal for peace—which might have the effect of confusing the popular perception of the exact points at issue, and of dividing the more flexible from the more staunch friends of the great principle at stake, if not of accomplishing an actual accommodation on terms comparatively satisfactory to the clerical monopolists and jobbers? In a very crafty and plausible speech Monsignor CALLABiANA propounded accordingly certain general propositions, to which like the Four Points, nobody could prima facie object ; and u these held out to the timid and gullible of all shades of opinion a prospect of reasonable reconciliation between the Govern ment and the peril pretre, the Ministry saw that the only safe sad creditable course foe them to pursue was forthwith to resign, and leave the FlovenzioN free to name a Cabinet who might, without loss of in• dividual or collective dignity, carry into effect a com promise to which they could not honourably be parties. _ _ There is, we must my, something very refreaking to us, who are half stifled with the dust of Asia shabbiness and shiftiness, in the candour and earnest. sees which marks the action of constitutional go vernment in more youthful States. M. CAVOUR hes done many things which prove that he is amen made of the right stuff for a chief Minister in a constitutional monarchy ; but no act of his life is in every point of view more creditable to him and to the Libe ral party in Piedmont, than his prompt withdrawal from office the moment he perceived that his sup porton had so far been caught by the specious ears of the wily prelate as to wish for an opportunity of compromising the great controversy at stake. M. CAVOUIt retired, avowedly not with any design of endeavouring to thwart his successor, but with the conviction, that after having recommended so vigor. Gas a measure as what is usually termed the Convent and Benefice Suppeeseiou BiU, and after carry ing it triumphantly so far, he was not the man by whom any half measure could with pro priety or honour be substituted, and that at the instance of one whose political ideas were of a totally opposite stamp. That he Weed wisely and acted well for his country and for his own power and infleenoe, who that has lived in England of late pare and men the wreck of great reputation and of powerful parties, can doubt ? General DIMANDO, a man without the muss depth of cowl► eons or keen sense of pelitioal consistency, was named to succeed him; and conferences were fear diately commenced between the new Minister eetd the Heads of the High Church faction. Great was the excitement out of doors, and deep the pegs emotion. All the nitres, whether melds= or reactionary, were astir : ere inner believing that eonatitutiocalism was a tbs point of breaking down, the latter enjoying by antidpation the dimultkin of the Liberal party, and the restoration of Omer vatimn to power. Everywhere notices ambition was intriguing, selfish timidity shuddering; " and the boldest held hie breath fora time." But the snspeue was brieL Elated with the un looked-for nooses of their first move, the Ultra-Mon- Unlit party became intoxicated and over-sangsinn When General DURAND° required to bar the amount of concession to the principle of program they were willing to make, be was told that a general *doled= of the liability of Church property to be taxed equally with that of the laity, for religiose purposes, would be admitted ; bat that the inaliena bility of seelegeatical revenues must be assured, that no redistribution of such revenues in exclamation et the public exchequer would be recognised; and finally, that the seprome veto of the Vatican, as the protect ing sanction of the Church in Piedmont, meld Dever be abandoned. In a word, all the essential principles of a lay and National policy were set at nought, in the midi= expectation that the Ministry ad in terim would be thereby got rid of, and that a Cabinet of retrogrades would consequently be famed opal the HMO. Bat these anticipation ham, happily, bees disappointed. Cieseral DoitanDO and hie Coalition colleagues have indeed been obliged to give way ; oa all hands they were felt to be merely a Miaistry of transition without hold on the country or the Court ; and their abdication after a brief tenure of office has been marked by nothing more significant than a general bum of satisfaction. But instead of Count Rolm and his reactionary friends, M. CAVoUI and his former associates have been reinstated by the Bovereign amid the plaudits of his subjects-it need hardly be said with enhanced credit and power. \Timm' Biunorx has in this trying exigency proved himself to be a truly constitutional King. He has yielded at the right moment to the preponderating opinion of the Chambers, though it involved the ab negation of his individual will; and the result has demonstrated with what trail sagacity he judged the strength of parties and the worth of their pretensions. The Ultra-Montanists have been allowed to show their utter folly and weakness; and the , cause they essayed to retrieve by apostolic trick and treachery has thus been rendered more irretrievably desperate than ever.—Daily News. THE MILITARY DELINQUENTS AT CAN TERBURY. The manner in which the late scandalous pro-' =Magi is the Enniskillen." has been trifled with h mot disivastful to the Horse Guards. The " pribe deal Jokes" played off upon Cornet Beumoerres were disreputable in the extreme. No set of men entitled to the name of gentlemen could have bad recourse to such measures to get rid of a comrade towards whom, , with or without reason, they had contracted a dislike. The conduct of Adjutant WEBSTER in accompanying the duellists to the field, proves him to be utterly disqualified for military command. The violent arrest of Sergeant BRODIE for iislarfering to prevent the commission of a 'grave military offence was utterly unwarrantable. The parties first arraigned were Adjutant WEB BTER and his associates. Their cue ought to have been first tried and decided. The whole investigation, as far u the military authoritits are concerned, has been conducted with so much of secrecy and hugger mugger, that it is not easy to say what has been done. Apparently, however, the original culprits, instead of denying the truth of the charges brought against them, have trumped up counter-charges against Cornet BAUMGARTEN and Sergeant BRODIE. And the officers of the meu (the culprits of course included) appear to have sat in judgment on these charges, and have taken upon them to condemn Cornet BAUMGARTEN, and to have sentenced him to send him self to Coventry. As for the Sergeant, he has twice been placed under arrest, and twice been discharged without trial. The tyranny and utter lawlessness of such proceedings must be palpable to every one who has the spirit of a man ; yet the authorities at the Horse Guards appear to look passively on and allow matters to take their course unchecked. The affair cannot be allowed to rest here ; an impartial, search ing, and open investigation of the whole circum stances of the case, from beginning to end, is required to satisfy the public sense of justice.—Daiiy New. SOCIETY OF ARTS. FRANCE. (ssom ?is 07 TEN DAILY NEWS) PARIS, WEDNESDAY 73•17/114L The day has paned without news, or fresh restore of any kind, relating either to war or diplomacy. M. Walewaki, summoned by telegraph, arrived in Paris lan Monday, and has taken the oath as Minister of Maw* Attire. The Dares bas been very wile, and, in eoesequenos et Se great firmness of railways, the Rents bas ex pelling& a slight improvement, although but little lwism was done. The closing price was Mr. 550., Wag a rise of 13c. Lyons and Mediterranean and Lyons were the favourite railways. The one rose 12fr. 55c., and the other Bfr. 75c. Three or four other lines rose 6fr. A fact has been communicated to me, which goes far to explain how it happens that there is a rapid and enormous rise in the price of meat in Paris con currently with increased supplies of cattle at the great markets of Benue and Poissy. For some weeks past from 1,000 to 1,200 of the best beasts have been purchased weekly in those markets for the account of the government. These beasts have been slaughtered in Paris, and the flesh (the bones being taken out) having been first subjected to a preserv ing process, has been puked up in oases for expor tation to the Crimea. Thus it appears that not the Great Exhibition alone, but the war, and that in a most direct form, has something to do with the high price of provisions. Every visitor to Paris must have observed on the Boulevard, near the corner of the Chaussea d'Antio, and opposite the Rue de la Paix, the sculptured fa9ade of a splendid mansion, built several yards within the line of frontage of the Rue Buse du Rem part, and protected from the street by a range of offices one story high, the flat leaden roof of which serves as a terrace to the drawing-room. This was the envied residence of the rich and fashionable Mar quise d'Osmoud, who died a short time since. Many times while passing by I have wondered what the interior might be of a house whose outward appear. ance indicated taste, comfort, and luxury, such as is rarely met with out of the Faubourg St. Germain. To-day my curiosity was unexpectedly gratified. Over the sumptuous first-floor windows, aseetiated la my mind with ideas of aristocratic privacy, aid suapproaohably select society, I was startled to read is glaring gold letters, the words " Cercle de rExpo &ion." On inquiry I found that a company has taken this house from the executors of the Mar ehioness for the purpose of fitting it up as a club, to which it is expected foreigners coming to Paris foe the Exhibition will neon for the purpose of com paring ideas, in like manner as they will compare the material products of their industry in the Champs Elysees. On being (thanks to the civility of the man aging director) shown over the vast suites of apart ments, I found them nearly as full of workmen as the Palace of Industry itself, and to all appearance it essesil as impossible that the club should be ready fee the reception of members by the 15th as that the Exhibition should open on that day. However, lam assured that all has been nicely calculated, and that the empty rooms whose lofty proportions and taste , ful ornamentation I was permitted to admire, will be filled with luxurious furniture before three or tour days are over. If the scheme be executed according to the programme, Englishmen coming to Paris need no longer sigh, as many now do, after the comforts of the Athecreum, the Union, or the Reform. Hi therto there has been no such thing in Paris as a club, in the Pall-mall sense of the term. There en gorgeous saloons called "circles," where people meet to talk and play cards, and where, by putting down their names beforehand, a certain number of mem bers mey dine together in a formal way. Bat that peseliat combination of the independence of a coffee room with the luxury of. palace and the comfort and economy of a home, which Londoners have invented in the course of the present century under the name of a " club," is as yet unknown here. A good club is very much wanted. When the first charm of novelty in over, it takes many years before an Eng lishman can reconcile himsell to tk• the Icalevards. He cannot take his ease on the little rush-bottomed chair of the cafe. He is always afraid of upsetting the small round table on which he ass find no room to spread out his newspaper, and be stains his shirt from the drippings of the c offee cup which the waiters will fill to running over. The rattling of the dominoes and the incessant chatter of the habitues jar upon his nerves. He endures this sort of existence, but he enjoys it not. That feeling of contentment which he remembers at the anticipa tion of a " pleasant evening " after a good dinner, is a stranger to his bosom when be sets his foot on the threshold of a café. To Englishmen in Paris, the Hotel Osmond, should it be permanentlyestablished as a club, will be a precious boon. The only luxury which the managers do not promise at the commence ment is that of exclusiveness. There is no ballotting box, and, as far as I can understand, the subscription money will require no other passport to the treasury box than a respectable proposer and seconder. The amount of the subscription, although not large, eresidering the expensive character of the dab, will probably prevent it from being over. run by excessive numbers. 200 fr. is the tariff for the entire period of the Exhibition, 100 fr. for two months, 60fr. foe one month, and 40fr. for a fortnight. There are in what is called the "little hotel" at the end of the garden a certain number of bedrooms, in which it is proposed to accommodate members of the club temporarily while they i may be looking for lodgings. In the garden, which s a great futon of the place, dining tables will be laid when the weather is fine. A detachment of one hundred naval gunners ar rived at Havre yesterday from Toulon, on their way to Cherbourg, where they are to be placed on bola the floating batteries and gun-boats of the Baltic het. A detachment of 500 had previously been sent Ibis Toilet to different ports; and there still remain 1,400 rims at Toulon. ThiTalny. line-of-battle ship, left Toulon on the eth fate Onstantinople, with troops, provisions, and ammunition for the army of the East. The paper read before the society last evenieg wee "On the manufacture of steel, as curial en in this aid l athes countries." The lecturer, Mr. Cgainze kaNDIIIBO74, commenced by I ; observing that steel was produced by two processes. The first and earliest method is by working pig-iron in a far. nate until the carbon it contains is reduced from 4 to 1 per cent. The second method is to heat wrought-iron in bars (which contain little or no carbon) in contact with some , carbonaceous matter, until it has abeorbed that quantity of , carbon which may be required for hard or soft steel pur poses. The three kinds of steel now manufactured an— , firstly, natural or raw steel, made from crude iron, as ob tained from the blast furnace ; secondly, cemented ot con verted steel, produced by the carbonisation of wrought-iron; thirdly, east steel obtained by the fusion of natural or cemented steeL The lecturer then entered iato a detailed description of the mode of manufacture of steel, and stated that a quar ter of a century back it was a question whether wood could be used as a feel in the furnaces for manufacturing steel. He Itinteelf had arrived at a practical solution of the ques tion. During his residence in Carinthia he made use of a farms, in which wood was the only fuel employed. The process had not become general, although it had been adopted n several plum in Sweden and Austria. The various kinds of steel were theft adverted to. These were natural steel, Paal steel, cemented or converted steel, cut steel, and puddled steel. The manufactere of them different kinds of metal occupied a great portion of the lecture, but it would be impossible to give an adequate description of the pro . segues without the aid of diagrams. The lecturer concluded by giving some interesting statistical details concerning the , manufacture of steel in wins couatries, of which the fol lowing is a rename : Trams pc:ducts 14,934 tau, amp value cl g IMAM 0 0 ' Prowls ~ 4,413 tar, a 170,514 0 0 Magid, 13,017 tar, 311,473 0 0 111,100 0 0 UalladStatair„ 10,000 tor, 1 Eagiaad „ 40,000 taw, ~1 ,470,000 0 0 Sash I. the entreat of the manufacturing power of the steelicoducing countries : it stows the esniiant position of Instead, in both weight and vela,. This can only SAN from the prsetisal skill sad sciestifis knowledge which we keve brought to bear upon its sesnufacture and the active energywhich hes enabled es to produe• s teel suitable for every perms in the arts. The superiority not only enables our measfeeturen to maintain the high position they now bold, but to income it yet farther, Mr we daily see out pro dastioa of that ezpiaidlerb not only to supply the weals of oar hose iseaufeetares, but also for the continent of Europe, se well as the United Buda of Awwries sad Cariedit PRENSLY SOCIETIES BILL, AND STAMP DUTIES ON BUILDING SOCIETY MORTGAGES. ----- Accounts from Asia apnoea°, that Mehemet Warsif Puha had advanced on Kars at the head of his Staff Letters from Trebiaond, of the 25th, state that the Milan of X.ltiva, who bad been committing depreda tions on the Persian territory, had been raptured, and, with 27 of his followers, beheaded at Teheran. It is also mentioned that Persia would declare in favour of the Porte immediately after the arrival at Teheran of the French and English Eavoys. TO THI IDITOI OF TRI DLILT wows. 811,—Another attempt to injure institutions gon adal with the istteft• ial dames Ms snoseeded is the 1 Home of Cowmen& The 39th okras (slab sepals ea szaapties his stamp dada es all to Owosso of ' buddies sesisties duly esgel we PUMA a majority of B :4 4thit 11 . Whet are the -Sales a thus seawies doing that es Willy see these digs labs gam ? Kr. ems d air 11.P.'s, vigesesdy egging it, se he does that hos a wants to miff waking mes, but tisheNk' , dil _ _set sessssi. Kr. Wass soatended against lik. Islieleielft sassimest,:asi dodsred " that building issisaa j4 at iatielloi to await the peer were us& he dee speechless to the hijary of ?the reams." 'Well, sir, thus ? Why. amp the paw ma's mortgage to lay held of the gas s*. says lir. Wilson. In Binainghant we have 8,000 sambas a them societies, sad I aver it to be ay ess •• ' victies that there are sot fi fty of thew " wealthy speculatege co that a moat will be done to 7,960 ant-working as, for the purpose of easing 601 Is this right? Wean struggling, sir. to become swum of mu " home." We are battling with digitate's, and fight goad obstacles hnimerable. None but ourselves know the depriatioss we undergo and has undergoes to keep up our payments to the.. societies, sad Kr. Wilson feels dialoged to cheek aderta. *see Will yes use your alums to aid us to resist the wa des. 89th 1111111•9 P—a dame that is hats to the agate of the bill, but disastrous to the pnakkat =sallow sr head log sesieties. You have IS may smosins hiss est saw eels ; pray be go agam._ dial ad your mast to all than , maths so iweely peat= the boas to voted the Slaw. Ne date is to be lat. A few deg% smi the bill I will become les t _ tat what is to be dose meet be dose quiekly.—Yameilm JAL TAYLOR, jun. Birmingham. Mg. THE BALTIC. HAMBURG, ILer 8. The Aland Islands are denuded of Raman troops. Several English ships have already arrived before &sdhamm, near Labia. The blockading the Golf of Finland, ham Hangoe Head to Dorsett, mammal ea the 28th alt. ; Naha of which has ben eves to the Danish Goverameat. SOLDIER/I' FRIEND AND ARMY SCRIPTUILI BILDIII/' 80417/WlT.—Yesteriay evening the assivareary meeting of this moiety was held ia the large room of Baster Hall, Lad Robert Gewgaw presldlag. From tke report ft append that the moiety bad bees some ran is mist. =Zed that it was only during the post 70111 that it had soy winged Imps& It win Yurour, at the young thee is a pullini mist esupsudively admit milieu those. its sash is owe solar= a ably nd mien wal is e, the Ha& TR withla the past year it hod her sad Ism susbered twenty la Begin& ant ewes is Ile I. hoes state of debt it had seesuid to the Mhavisg a balsam o pted,u SAW Is the huhu' The report wee ado sod the aloft Issa sub agents* seined by suseeldoupiant and diedegabited stsubsase the hdry. Ramos Taooes.—On Satarday a parliamentary paper, MIMI hr by Mr. Budissk, M.Y., was as pablidied, of the sun of iseney assully upended la payouts of foreign beeps employed is the nuke of the Caned Miami= hoe the year MN is 1814 Weledu. Ia the lad year, the amines voted esasenttM to 21,314, sad the easiest sated ern m 41. Th. affray bet mu ween the military and militia in Cork von renewed on Moeda, sight, sad aural of the I I sensed deem 'Wired O wasidoes end bly. They were, pined under Nino however, Malay by tin lken Tax Ifsw aas Baz.—Tho petition from the isbehltiole of this teens pm*" foe a repeal of the New Bur 1" aliallallEspivirde of 26,000 eigseteres bee bees howeeleil * 3 $ e Ilsedlea. Beg., XX., kir peessiellea be the of Cas* Nossufle Overiien. • Buz ox MASRlAolll.—Yesterdm • bill is the Sego of Ostesteas wee Fisted, to muse *hats pith the esseehodut of the Cast of Cherteey, to sake Meats sesibleale *dr teal sad isteesal *tau es The Ms lees pupated by Ms llalh* ▪ lls WNW% es heesislies THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 10, 1855. OUR ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOPOL (Mit TO lITICIAL 3111,111.) OP TES DAILY CAMP ABOVE SEBASTOPOL, Aram 23. The enemy, expelled from the two large title pits in front of our advanced works on Frenchman's-hill, is busily occupied in forming another obstacle to our advance toward the Ram, which threatens to be of a rather formidable character. It consists of an irregular work, at present only fitted for the cover of a body of riflemen, but not improbably intended to be snood with guns of position, in case time and cir ca:sultanas should permit. 4is made la as to be connected by a covered way with other works in rear. The site of an old quarry has been taken ad vantage of in its construction, and both the excava tions themselves and the loose stones scattered about have been turned to account by the Russian engineers and workmen. The quarry alluded to is placed on the slope of the Redan-hilt, below the line of abattie which stretches across it. It is about three hundred yards in front of the :soot advanced trench of the zigzag which has been prolonged from the left of our advanced work, or second parallel, on Frenchman's-hill. The slope of the land on which the quarry rests dips down on the left, towards the left ravine; in front, towards the shallow part of the middle ravine, near its termi nation, where it divides Frenchman's and the Redau hills from each other. The heaps of stones and earth which have been thrown out in excavating the quarry, and which lie spread out in heaps for a widedistanes round, have long afforded cover for the Russian riflemen, who from this situation have fired upon our troops in the advanced works with tolerable security. The general form of the new work is that of a I crescent, and it is placed across the upper part of 1 the quarry. It does not consist of a single line of 1 work, but is composed of a series of smaller crescentic ' walls, each not unlike in shape an ordinary rifle-pit, joined together at the free extremities of their arcs. The parapets appear to be solid, and high. A covered way leads on the left down towards the left ravine, and there appears to he also another line of commu• nicatim, more in rear, towards the suburb of small houseawhich are thickly spread between tho earth works of the Redan and the barrack battery. A trenah is also being carried on from that part of the new work which faces our right. The position of this work is itself commanding, and it is not im probable that it is protected by some of the guns on the Malakhoff or Mamelon hills. The guns of the Redan cannot be sufficiently depressed to be brought to bear on it. Oar zigzag, which is bearing to wards the Redan, will ere long have reached the lowest level of Frenchman's-hill on the left, and will then have to mount the rising ground in front. Before this can be done, however, the quarry must be " crowned," or the enemy within would almost Lek down into our trenches. The men who took the rifle-pits a few nights since will not fail to take this also when the time comes ; but the somewhat steep ascent of the hill, and the close proximity to other works in rear, will make the undertaking more arduous. It must be accomplished nevertheless, for the existence of the work will materially impede our progress, and would be still more detrimental if permitted to be armed and converted into a battery. The enemy appear to have everywhere repaired the damage which was done to their works by the late fire from our batteries. On our side, it having been made evident that neither the proximity, no. the weight of metal, was sufficient to accomplish the desired object of silencing the hostile works, vigorous steps are being taken to remedy the deficiencies. Heavy guns, which were in the batteries of the first parallel, are being removed into the advanced work. Other batteries are being thrown up still farther in front. Batteries which at the first bombardment were armed with 24-pounders, replace:. at the late a.. by 32-pounders, will now be wholly armed with 68-pounders. The late fire has shown, too, where other batteries were required, mud 110010 of thoo:o see already completed and armed, while others are in progress. The French have also thrown up a new battery on the right, and have added generally to the power of their works. As to the events going on around us, away from this south-western angle of the peninsula to which we are for the present limited, very little is known in camp beyond mere rumours. It is stated that when Omer Dacha arrived at Eupatoria, he found, on making a recoonaissanoe, all the re ports which had reached him respecting the strength of the enemy in that direction greatly exaggerated. For almost all the details of transactions on the shores of the Black Bee, even at so short a distance as Eupatoria, how ever, we depend equally with the people in England on the published letters of correspondents ;—the only difference being that the public at home are in pos session of the facts of such occurrences about a fort night before we are. The incidents connected with the siege operations ham hardly been of sufficient interest during the last week to call for a daily register of them. On the evening of the 24th instant a very sharp and prolonged musketry fire on the left announced that the French were hotly engaged with the enemy. It was sustained for nearly two hours, between ten and twelve o'clock, and seemed to be subsequently renewed about 2 a.m. According to the reports of the French this fire was the result of an attack against some Russian ambuscades immediately in front of the Flagstaff Bastion. After a sharp con test the French drove back the enemy with great slaughter, and obtained possession of the rifle pits: but subsequently the Russians returned in over powering force, and compelled the parties holding the pits to fall back again upon their own Hum The next night the Russians contrived to raise two other ambuscades in this situation—one on each side of those which previously existed. On the night of the 26th the Russians made a sortie against the French on the right, but were prevented from doing any inj ury to the works, and, moreover, su ff ered severely on the occasion. New arrangements have been made with the Russian commander-in-chief respecting short traces for the purpose of burying the dead in front of the respective lines. The plan for some time past has been the following: When the truce was asked for on either side, and agreed to, • certain time was fixed at which it wee to commence, and its duration defined. Notice was also given on both aides along the whole lines, so that there might be a total alma tion of firing from all the batteries during the period of trims. This is now changed, and for the future there will be no necessity of commu nication on the subject. A flag of truce will be hoisted at 12 o'clock opposite to whatever position it may be necessary to bury dead. Each party will bury the bodies nearest to them, whether belonging to their own nation or that of the enemy, and no communication is to be permitted to take place be tween the hostile troops while thus employed. The performance of them last rites at any one point is not to prevent the firing from being continued in other directions along the lines. As soon as the burials are completed, the white flag will be lowered, and the truce be at an end. The Field-Marshal commanding the forces has greeted a gratuity of 6L each to Privates Samuel Evans, James Callaghan, and Thomas Keating, three eddies of the 19th Regime's!, for gallant conduct before the enemy. The two former of these soldiers were reported by Major-General Jones, commanding the Engineers, as having particularly dada gebild themselves by their opolneas and courage, Midis sossenatbresures in face of the enemy. • report was made respeetipg . Private Thomas It*• for his bravery in remaining at a poet in Are edemas& works, on the occasion of an dam ea the night el the 13th instant, although the ether enables on each side of him unne cessaril y re Bled We the Thegratuity was granted at • susamini at General Sir George Brown, esisisMilmg the Light Division. Oat minslties have been very few during the Malt. Ring : of the Royal Ea&oers, who wee enaniel sa the night of the 17th imftat, died In the owing of the 22nd. He was meek esteemed for phis worth sad amiable qualities, as well as foe bin sionthle attainments, and a large number of diem from all sap Waded Ma flan& Major Gordon, R.E., has sufficiently recovered from the effects of his wounds to be able to leave for a short cruise in order to re-establish his general health. Captain Owen and Lieutenant Baynes, of the Royal Engineers, both dangerously wounded on the night of the 19th inst., when the rifle pits before Frenchman's-hill were taken, are reported to be making favourable p Mr. Fenton, the cell rated photographer, and his assistant have been actively employed in front of late. His duties in the British Museum will compel him to leave the Crimea in about three weeks, but such have been his zeal and energy, in spite of winter weather and occasionally of Russian missiles, that he will carry with him about eight hundred views of Sebastopol and its vicinity. They will no doubt be highly prized in England for their accuracy and beauty. The plates are of large size, and in some of them every window of the larger buildings in the town can be counted. Among the most interesting will be a panoramic sun-picture of the town and its fortifications, with the distant hills, taken from the old Russian redoubt, or, as it has been called since General Sir George Cathcart was buried there, " Cathcart's Hill," in front of the Fourth Division. On the 26th instant, in the afternoon, General Canrobert reviewed the second corps d'armes and the corps de reserve, under the command of General Bosquet. As this body of the French army com prehends four divisions, or 24 regiments, without =eluding the artillery, the troops assembled could not have been less in number than 35,000 men ; taking into account the battalions which were absent OS duty in observation along the flank, or in the trenches. The day was tine, and an immense concourse of British officers and other spec tators were present. Having rode along the lines of each regiment, and inspected them carefully, the officers were called together and General Canrobert made an address to them. He praised the condition and bearing of the troops, and alluded to the trials of the past winter, expressing Ids :satisfaction that they had endured them so bravely. He regretted that his occupations prevented i him from seeing his comrades in arms so often as he wished. Is speaking of the prolonged siege, he said : "If we knock at the door, and get no answer, we tap at the window ; and, if we can't get admiesion by the one, we contrive to get in by the other.* In a few days—fifteen or so, he added-60,000 more com rades will have arrived in the Crimea, when active operations may be expected on all sides. He desired the officers to repeat his remarks to the troops; and then, having taken up a favourable position, all the regiments marched past in pad divisions. The Artillery followed, and sdiesfly the cavalry were passed in review. Ire in marching past, was preceded by the Muds and drums of all the regiments composing it ; and the combined effect produced by this mass of musicians, nearly 400 in number, was very grand and spirit stirring. The little vivandieres followed the bands, and attracted general attention from their neat l and trim attire and uniform among the English sol diers. The easy active movement and the picturesque costumes of the regiments of &naves and Indigeues were particularly admired. But it was in the mass that the spectacle was more especially fine and im posing. General Canrobert appeared in robust health, and seemed to scrutinise each regiment as it passed very minutely. The following day he was to review the troops of the Imperial Guard and Gen. Peliesier's corps d'armee. Yesterday, the 27th inst., Lord Stratford de Red cliffe, who has arrived in the Crimea, was expected to visit the camp, and some of the divisions in front were under arms to receive him, but his lordship did not arrive. It was understood that he was detained too long at Balaklava, and was consequently com pelled to defer his visit. The weather has continued very fine and mild. On the night between the 25th and 26th inst. there was heavy rain, which lasted for five or six hours. The health of the troops in front continues favour able. There appears to be more fever among the regiments in the neighbourhood of Balaklava. The cavalry had races again at Karani yesterday, bat they were thinly attended. LICATIfit FROM AN ttiIV4LISEE OFFICER NOW A PRISONER IN RUSSIA. Mr. Wm. Bates, jun., of Old Trafford, has for warded to the Manchester Examiner the annexed copy of • letter received from his consist, Lieutenant John Chadwick, of the 17th Lancers, to whom brother, Captain James Chadwick, of Gosport, the original was addressed. Lieutenant Chadwick and Lieutenant Clown, of Brough• ton, were the two officers made prisonen at the celebrated Light Cavalry Charge at Balaklava, on the 17th of October last: _ _ • " Karkoff, April 2, 1855. "My dear James,—l have deferred from day to day, sod from week to work, writing to you, in the hope of having some definite news to give you as to what is likely to be done with me and the other omen, prisoners. AU we know, however, is, that we are to be sent to Rioisan,about 100 Tonto from Koacow, where, I suppose, we shall remain until we are a:changed, which I sincerely hope will be this summer. We left Sinipheropol on the 20th of January, and arrived hire on the 16th of last month, so that you may imagine that we su ff ered some little inconvenienc e during that long march at such a time of the year. The distance was something over 700 vents (a vent is two-thirds of an English mile). We have a little more than that die. tenon yet to traverse, bat the Oovernor-G 1 here has very kindly allowed as to remain a little to recruit ourselves, and until the weather gets a little better for travelling; besides which, we have been given to understand that the present Emperor has given an order that we are to travel alone with post.hones, and not is the same manner as we came here—day by day, with English, French, and Turkish soldiers, prisoners, and Russian convicts on their way to Siberia. "It would be quit* useless for me to attempt to describe to you what we suffered on our journey here ; I could not do it Bufilos it to tell you, that Iwu impious enough to wish often that I had met the sues fate as my poor mare did at Balaklays. lam in company with Capt. rnmpton, 60th Bee. ; Lieut. Duff, 23rd ; Lieut. Clones, Bth Human ; and a Mr. Cerrew, who was master of the Culloden transport, which was wrecked near Eupatoria on the 14th November. He, poor fellow, a few days before we reached here, became idiotic, and is now in hospital. He is nearly well now, but weak. Of twelve men of the 17th Lancers who were taken prisoners on the same day that I was, flu only are living. Corporal Hall and private Jester, at Sint pheropol, the former having bad his leg tikes' off, the latter hie arm; private Wightman, left sick at Alezandrioeki on the way here ; and private Marshall is here. Private ll'AUister bee gone on for his destination. The seven dead are privates Hanison, Ellis, Toting, Kirk, Edge, Brown, and Sharp. The two latter started quite well from Sim pheropel, but &edam the journey. I wish you would write to Taylor, the riding master, at the depot, in order that he may clause their friends to be written to I know nothing, of Gonne, thorn the state of affairs with regiments at home, but hope you will give me in your nut letter all the news you era, bearing in mind, of course, your letter will be read, aad not tomb me if it 'eatable anything ob *datable. " With beet love, &e., believe me, my dear James, ever your meet affectionate brother, " Joint Ceussericx." The following is a copy of a letter addressed to the father of a youth sassed Bern, a native of Bandon, Bed fordshire, who has died in the Crimes, by a comrade. De mised wrote to his father after the battle of Inkennann, stating that be bad been wounded, and hid himself in some bashes, which the enemy pared and repassed several times without observing him. Be died at length of fever and of his wound :—" DMZ 81r,—I beg pardaa In making et free in writing to you. I have Walled your son's last wish in sending you this—it is the pine of leather he est oat of his boot where the ball treat in. I got wounded beside him at Inkerniann. Be was 'Meg nearly wee. when be took a fever and the wound gut eons. I sea somi c _theegb he bad all the skill of a way Ism doctor, be emit art recover. But it must be a senstiatisit to you that De departed this life a true elided's- Be was praying and leveling is God to the very lame, and le alba spoke to me of bis peee aY father. He Bead in the same tent as I did, mad wee Moved by all that knew him, foe he was • kiatreemeade. sal his loss I deeply deplore. I humbly beg year pendia he not paying the post of this letter bat I canon get stumps, and they I will not take money. shall be they Ea py if you will answer them few hues.—Yours y, Private Hinny But Liv, Pint. Battalion Rifthßrigade Company."— Beres Musty Prom EXTRAORDINARY COLLISION AT BILL—BNIII.De, . ILLY irliTlitilki; ir8111711071 ;108 en engaged hood: gsdn late • wet Waage «...r babies, will* took ileeebetweea two . veloolo, shoat tos Lib agog the bob, ea Saturday A howiembe sew hems, es Atelie, labs with for Cosolowlimeb, boti • Nair brig,: the Tibiae% bit wez hackie b, Ihe &bosom Vie. Uri wore biting wllli • leadbe idol, WAIF.. wassi gew l sone limy eiroiriwtmee, the lieftee was brevet* te the aselbeeet, eel us late the i Zii i rith tremaiese boob Beth tomb milbeei sob • sod 1 / 1 Ili elute wore oseepiele weeks. If it bees rem* maths/ they otuotlavo week iastiatly, Ms with the oil el otesooheale they wer i Art nee isto poet. The easoat et dereese b shoot Beth Tom* ere disabusing. It le bead that the anowint at the Ado hat get worms, hy at las wpm biting loos essiiestly *sok la the bio me& PROTOCOLS OF THE VIENNA At a quarter-put three this morning we (Daily News) received " Papers Relating to the Negotiation. at Vienna on the Eastern Question ; presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of her Majesty! They fill 90 folios, and consist of the presented by the Plenipotentiaries of England, France, and Austria, to Prince Gcrtschakoff, on the 28th of Dec, 1864, and thirteen protocols of con• As early as April 17, u the paper No. 10 shows, Prince Ciortchakoff declared that Russia would not consent to the strength of her navy being restricted to any fixed number, either by treaty or in any other manner ; and to this principle the Russian plenipo tentiaries have throughout adhered. The protocol No. 13, being the record of the last conference, held on the 26th of April, after Lord John Russell had left Vienna, will be found below: Present.—For Austria: Couot Buol-Schauenstein and .Baron Prokeaah•Oateo. For Franca: M. Drouyn do Lhuya and Baron do Bourqueney. For Great Braga: The Bari of Westmorland. For linasia: Prince Gortohakoff and M. de Titoff. For Turkey : Aali Paoha sad Uri/ Count Buol opens the meeting by saying that he in- vited the members of the Conference to sesuable et the request of the Russian pleuipoteutio they have communications to make. who declP.rail that Prince Oortcbakoff wishes to establish the fact that it was the Russian plenipotent tries who, in the twelfth confer ence, recorded in the protocol the lut proposition tending to the solution of the third priaeiple, and that it is again they who new submit new plans with the same object. Before developing them, he think. it his duty to recur to en aasertion of the Franca Minister for Foreign Aff►irs, re corded in the twelfth protocol, stating " that Russia is un willing to give the Ottoman Empire any sort of g tee, and that as for the one contained in Ar t icle 1, and adopted in the eleventh conference, Russia redress it to a mere chimera, since even en case a Turkish province were in laded by one of the contracting powers, Russia, according to the interpretation of Prince Gortchakeff, will confine herself to the exercise of her good offices." He remarked that the Russian plenipotentiaries have, in common with the other members of the conference, NlRO tioned the principle of making the Sublime Porte partici pate in the advantages of the European concert, and of placing her under the safeguard of the public law of Europe. And lastly, they have engaged, in the name of their court, to respect the independence and the territorial integrity of the Ottcns in empire. Can these engagements be charac terised as chimera? One of the reasons for which he do- dined an active territorial guarantee of the Ottoman em pire arises from this difficuzy of precisely defining its limits. The territorial guarantee once stipulated, would it not be necessary to extend it to the most distant points—u, for instance, Tunis and Aden—and to make any attack directed against either of those territoriee by one of the contracting powers • cams btlli t Ile declines giving so extended a meaning to the engagement he takes, on the plea that the blood of Russia belongs to Russia alone. This does not, however, mean that Russia will confine herself ex clusively to good offices. The independence of the Sublime Ports is not only the interest of Europe, but also that of Russia. If it were menaced, Russia would not be the last to defend it; but she reserves to herself the right of judg when the ewe occurs, whether or not it be necessary to employ her material resources. Adverting to the special object of terday's conference, he states that the plan proposed by the Russian plenipotentia ries had for its object not only to resolve the difficulties of the present, but also to surround the independence of the Porte with guarantees for the future ; however, that &spas plan had been declined, especially on account of its rating on a principle contrary to a sovereign right of the Porte, the maintenance of which she deems necessary for her in dependence, be sought the solution in a different plan. He reads the Articles 1 and 2, of which copy is hereto annexed, eke one giving a new confirmation to the principle of closing the Straits ; the other, leaving the Sublime Porte heri supreme judge of the oases in which the interest of her security would require exceptions to that principle, and its which she should deem it requisite to summon, according to eireemstanoes, either the flute of the Western Powers, or that of Russia. In answer to Prince Gortchakoff, M. Drouyu de Limp maintains the words quoted by the former. He again states, that France engages to respect not only the inde pendence and territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire, but also to enforce their observance; wh Russia de clines contraction this second engagement. As for the Re gent' of Tunis, to which Prince Oortebak ,ff has alluded, he, for his own part, finds no difficulty in extending to that country the engagement to which he is ready to subscribe. With reference to the new propositions of the Russian plenipotentiaries, he has already declared, in the lest con ference, that his instructions were exhausted, since Rusin had rejected the limitation in every form whatsoever. He applies the same declaration to the present propositions. With this reserve he observed, that these prepositions tend so little to the cessation of Russian preponderance in the Black Sea, that they even provide for the contingency of the I preponderating fleet becoming Baron Bourqueney entirely concurred, in every point, in the opinion of U. Drouyn de Lhuys. Lord Westmoreland recurs to the declaration made by Lord John Russell in the last conference, to the effect that the instructions of the plenipotentiaries of Great Britain were ezhansted. With regard to the establishment of Aden, of which men tion had been made, he states that his government hu in no way . violated their treaties with the Sublime Porte concern alitce Gortchakoff answered, that in speaking of Aden, he had no intention of making recriminations with regard to the past, but only to instance a hypothetical case, calculated to show the extreme consequeooss to which the territorial guarantee of the Ottoman Empire would, in certain cases, lead. M. de Titoff adds to the statement of his colleague, the expression of his hope that the conference will acknowledge that the obstacles to an understanding do not emanate from the plenipotentiaries of Russia, who, far from confining themselves to any exclusive system, now proposes plan on a new basis, whilst the plenipotenti • of Prance and Great Britain declare that their instructions are exhausted. Aali Pasha and Aarif Effendi state that their instructions neither admit of their givieg their adhesion to the proposi tions of the Russian plenipotentiaries, nor of their giving an opinion in this matter, and that they find themselves in precisely the same situation as the plenipotentiaries of the allied powers. Count Buol addresses himself to the new Russian pro posal. He sees with satisfaction that is article 1 the prin ciple of closing bad been substituted for that of opening, which had previously been proposed. He thinks that article 2, which reserves for the Sultan the power of even tually calling to his assistance foreign fleets, and of opening the Straits as an exception, is susceptible of a practical ap plication. The proposition appears to him to admit of dis cussion ; it contains elements of which Austria will end's your to avail herself for an understanding ; bat in the rough state in which it still is, he cannot consider it as a solution. nor even as a basis for a solution. Baron Proksoch says that since there is a disparity in tin respective positions of the powers it will be di to carry out the principle of reciprocity on which Article 2 is based. Nobody will suspect Austria of wishing to impair the independence or the territorial integrity of Turkey. When the maritime powers, in concert with Russia, agreed to the emancipation of Greece, they derived no territorial aggrandisement from it. On the other band, Russia in a senes of wars with the Ottoman empire, during a century. deprived her of province after province. The nurse punned by her in 1863 was judged by the powers who signed the protocols as pregnant witk imminent danger to the Sublime Porte and to Europe. Against thus dangers they are at present endeavouring to provide. Their respective positions not being equal, it is not for Russia to seek parentees; she is not in want of them, either for herself, for she Bads them is her own power, or for the Sublime Porte , who does not regain any ea bit side : but it is right that the allied powen @Muhl ask Russia for puritan's M the interest of the Peet% sal whin the recurrence of the dangers which bow best the NAM of such serious disturbance and of such oneenline MMus to Europe. la a restisal point of view, he thinks that the Retain feet, in eider eventually to give effectual asaisianee to the Sublime Porte, must possess considerable strength. Article 2 would therefore tend to perpetuate • danger which it is our object to put an end to. 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