The Express. — London, England, 1855-04-30 00:00:00

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After firing two at the Emperor, he wu about to nee a third, when a gendarme, a Corsican, named Alessandri, struck him with a poniard and seised him. He wu very well droned. Some say a man in a blues, who was with him, was arrested. It is reported that the man says he was rained by the siege of Rome. All the papers published the followi g on Saturday evening, furnished by the police, ana l l n othing else : "At the moment of going to press, we receive news of the cowardly attack committed at half-pest flu to-day against the Emperor's person, while taking his habitual promenade in the Champs Rlyeles. "An Italian fired two pistol ahots at him, which happily took no effect. The Emperor continued his promenade, and went in the evening with the Em press to the Opera Comique, where thole Imperial Majesties were received with the heartiest axle nations.' Alseaandri, in plain clothes, was riding with M. Hinvoy, Commissary of Polio', who habitually fol lows the Emperor in a brougham. He rushed oat of the onside, poniard in hand, at the sound of the drat pistol. The following account of the event is given in yesterday's Moniteur : PARIS, SATURDAY. " This day, about 6 o'cic:lr, the Emperor was riding on horseback in the Champs Epees, accompanied by Count Edouard Noy, one of his aides-doeamp, and by Lieut.-Colonel Valabregue, the Eager Com mandant. When near the Chateau des Flours, a well-dreeeed man approached within a few paces of the Emperor, and fired a pistol at his Majesty. The Emperor was not struck, and, after saluting the per sons who immediately surrounded him, continued at a walk foe the purpose of rejoining the Empress, who was taking a carriage drive in the Bois de Boulogne. On their return their Majesties were greeted on all sides with the warmest and most enthusiastic sheering. "Their Majesties on entering the Tuileries found there—their Imperial Highness.. Prince Jerome Na poleon and Prince Napoleon, the other members of their family, the ambassadors and foreign ministers, the Emperot's ministers, the grand officers and the slicers and the ladies of the houses of their Ma jostle', and a large number of other persons, informed of this event, who had hastened to congratulate their Majesties. "The uremia was immediately arrested by the persons who were near him, and was given up into tie hands of justice. "Let ae thank Providence for saving the life of the Emperor." - The Post hu the following in a second edition : PARIS, MONDAY. The Emperor has received the coogratalatMas of the peat bodies of the State, the corps diplowagique, &o Is his reply to the address of the Senate, he and them verde : There are lives which are bat the instruments of the datums of Providence. So loog u I shall net have folly aisomplisbad my minion, I ran no danger." The Emperor has forbidden any official manifestations, is the Moissror► or otherwise. The sasamis, who is a Dative or Boom, S named Liverani. THE CRIMEA. News from Sebastopol, of the 24th, owning by way of Vienna, states that the fire of the Allies continues, bat with lees vivacity. With the exception of two frigates, the guns of the fleets bays remained silent. An explosion of • mine did great damage to the Russians. KONIGSBERG, Arm. 26. An imperial ukase revives the state of war in the governments of St. Petersburg, Conyland. Livonia. sod Eathonia, which were rendered to civil rale when the allied fleets withdrew from the Baltic in the astumn of MC—Deily News. PIEDMONT. TUBIN G flaeroapay. The Piedwastses Casette 'aye that the change of ministry implies no change in the policy of the Sar dinian Government. General Marmara leaves for the Best this evenisg. TUIttN, Arzn 27. The squaws Mahlon, Chula Albert, Charity, aml Cleopatrahave sailed from Genoa with troops for dm Bret.—D4l4 News. SPAIN. MADRID. Arm 27. The Cedes have coseludsd the diesoesion of the bill relative to the male of chants property. New sell emesptable propolitiola fee a lam have bees made. A bead el 14 .Carliate has made its appeatenee in the province of Borgoe,—Deity News. • ------- ARRIVAL OF LORD 3010 SMELL. sugaraio vpsolit.g.) e (mom tits oowisrogD3lll4 OP T 3 WIT/11.1 DOVISR, SUNDAY NIGHT. Lord and Lady John Russell have just arrived from 04ais, in the Royal Mail steam packet Empress. His lordship left by modal train for ILondon at 10.42 gm. DOVER, SUNDAY Airraarioox. Lard Jobs Rowell arrived at Calais, from Vienna, this diorama. The mail steam packet Empress wee waiting is the roads.sad to mean hls lordship, but, is esesegassas of the Many swell of the sae ao boat mold cross the bar. The nese, *web" waited latil the tide permitted her to go into ohs harbour, whoa she embarked his lordship and mite, sad seamed him to Dover, when a special train was aedered to imam him to London. ARRIVAL OF INVALIDS FROM THE CPT itscrruc :sumsAria (72016 =1 07 TSB DAILY 1471111.) rHAMPTON, 8011D&T., The Victoria steamer has arrived with invalids from the Crimea, and is waiting for instructions as to the place of their disembarkation. There are on board three officers, fifty-one soldiers, and a number of women and children. THE ATTEMPT UPON THE EMPEROR'S LIFE. THAT the Emperor of the Fain= has been shot at, is beyond a doubt—all else is mere vague oonjeo tun. The event appears to lend confirmation to rumours that have been in circulation, for a day or two, of an extensive conspiracy organised against hint. Similar rumours of an attempt to be made upon his life in the event of his coming to this country, were industriously circulated previously to his recent visit. These latter we treated with supreme contempt —as the event has shown—for two sufficient reasons. In the first place, while we knew the real republican , leaders to be incapable of such an act, we also knew that there were desperadoes who disgrace that section of public opinion by their professed adhesion, who were quite capable of such a crime ; but we relied upon their instinct of self-preservation and their knowledge that any such attempt here would deprive them of the only asylum they have in Europe. In the second place these rumours reached us exclusively from the conservative clubs and coteries; they were evidently the result of a desire to intimidate the EMPEROR from visiting England, and to save our ultra-aristocrats from the mortification of seeing him received as the honoured guest of our Sovereign. The rumours respecting an extensively ramified plot against the EMPEROR in France appeared to us to have a somewhat analogous origin. True or false they were circulated for the purpose of deterring him from proceeding to the Crime*. We content that our doubts of the truth of these reports are not altogether dispelled by the recent attemptat assassina tion. That might be the doing of one or two isolated desperadoes. At the same time, it must be confessed that the indefinite postponement of the EMPEROR'S departure for the Crimea lends colour to the belief in an extended conspiracy. One thing is certain, that, whether the attempt to assassinate NAPOLEON 111. be the enterprise of a numerous combination, or of a few reckless individuals, it will be universally re probated by all true Englishmen. Englishmen do not quarrel with men for pertinaciously adhering to their opinions, and have rather a respect foe fair fighting; bat they dnpise and detest assassins. We understand, however, that notwithst tnding the postponement perhaps, we might say, the abandonment of the EMPEROR'S intention to pro- ceed in person to the Crimea—an entire change of the plan of campaign is to be adopted there. The bom bardment and contemplated assault upon Sebastopol are abandoned. According to the version of the London official circles the force on the south side of that stronghold is to be concentrated on the Tchernaya, with a view to watch the Russian army in the field, and seize the first opportunity of striking a blow at them. At the same time an effort is to be made to interrupt the Russian communications in the north of the Crimea. Accord ing to the Parisians there is to be a campaign in Bessarabia. The former report appears to us the more probable. What further combinations are contemplated is yet unknown, but surely the Sea of Azoff will not be left unwatched and unguarded. This change of strategy does not take us by surprise. We have repeatedly maintained that the Russians must first be beaten in :the field before Sebastopol can be in vested, and that the place cannot be taken until it is completely invested.—Daily News. NEWSPAPER COPYRIGHT. Tun discussion on the Newspaper Stamp Bill will be resumed in Committee this evening. In ; so far u concerns those clauses which relate to the conferring and limitation of postal privileges, or the remuneration to be paid for the services of the Post °Sloe, the Bill may be regarded u safe. The only struggle, if any, that is likely to take place in Committee will relate to the question of Copyright, and the provisions by which it is to be enforced. Some of the most respectable of the pro vincial journals mum to have allowed them selves to be carried away by a strange misconception of, or prepouession against, this part of the measure. They appear to an ticipate from it vexatious proceedings to prevent their availing themselves of that very consider able portion of the contents of any journal which by the courtesy of newspapers has hitherto been regarded as common property. Under this head may be classed reports of proceedings in Parliament and the courts of law, and of public meetings, and paragraphs of local interest. It has always been the custom of _ _ _ newspapers freely to give and take such ieformatioo from each other without the trouble of a pedantically serspelous acknowledgment. In the. matters all are so nearly on a footing of equality that the sesegnition of a community of property le ft= has been found to be beat for all. But the can is otherwise with valuable articles of original composition, cad news procured from a distance, through exclusive morose and at great met. The neeknowledged appropriation of these—even the acknowledged appropriation, optimistically and to a great extent--is an injury to any newspaper, and more especially to such newspapers ea are struggling to obtain a position. All journals have a right to be protected in the use of what has cost them labour, skill, and hard money. The public ham an interest in their being so promoted; for unless they are, they cannot continue to be at the same trouble and expense to serve the public; and there will be no chance of new first-olass papers starting up to as. sect principles and defend sections of the epee inanity unrepresented in the existing press. That the privilege of Copyright proposed to be conferred upon newspapers, will be exerted in the unjust and vexation manner which some of our provincial eau. temporaries apprehend, is impossible. At present the worts of law afford ample protection to all kinds of material property. Yet there are only ono of two Instances on record of landed propriotois abusing this to enforce MONDAY Mee — broken ! " twig of no real value from beiges. Public opinion her mailed to pat dews emb pervenions and wresting@ of. the law; and journalists are more amenable to' public) opinion than any other elm of proprietors. The copyright elapses, and the provisions to ia• huge than by moans of a cheap, acosssible, and suer Mediation, and by the conferring upon news.' paper proprietors the privilege of suing along wilb the liability to be sued in the persons of those of their number who are registered, is the most Isperimg pert of the new 3dtagos Chute of the press. Thew boor would be no more than justice even lino change were contemplated in the Stamp Law. The bat 1 proprietary title is that of invention or creation. l The sculptor and painter have a right of property ia the forms and combinations which they asps. The poet has a right of property in his verse, the composer in his music. Such have been the recognised principle of law from the days of the Ho man republic. Is the right of the author (or of the I publisher to whom he transfers it) in his works lees when they are short than when they are long P when they appear in serial publications than when they appear in one volume? Had ADDISON and STEILLI a weaker right of property in their contributions to the " Spectator " than in their " Cato" and " Christian Hero?" Had GOLDSMITH a weaker right of pro perty in his " Citizen of the World," which origi ginally appeared in a newspaper, than in his "Vicar of Wakefield?" The only remuneration obtained by arthits, men of maim*, and men of letters, for their labours, is their right of property in what they produce. We ask no more for them, but we do insist upon this. In like manner the journalist who by discovering exclusive sources d information, by combining more rapid modes of tronentiadon, by expending larger sums of money, contrives to outstrip his competitors, has • right of property in the publication of the intel ligence he communicates, until such time as it can be obtained by any one through other channels. "The labourer is worthy of his hire." The public have no more right to be Nerved gratui- Windy than individual& There is a cant about its being for the interest of the public that "ohil dren of the brain" should be common property. The " public " is a mere word designating an aggregate of individuals, and the whole eannot be served by isjustice to the parts that make it up. It is with surprise, therefore, that we see a laboured and sophistical argument spinet copyright in the Economist—a journal published by a pabordi- nate official under the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE QUER. Mr. JAMES WILSON, luckily, extends the application of his principles so widely as to deprive his sophisms of the power to harm. He applies them to books and inventions in design as well as to news papers. He declares that oar whole legislation upon copyright proceeds upon a false principle and mart be changed; that " the Legislature will have to go back ward instead of forward in its career of granting privi leges." In short Mr. WILSON is the advocate of petty larceny on a wholesale scale. According to him WATT had no right of property in his inventions, SCOTT in his novels, TURNER and WpattE in their paintings. The man of science, the man of letters, and the poet are, according to Mr. WILSON, unplamed bipeds, whose duty it is to submit to be plundered by all. The argument of the Secretary of the Treasury strikes at the root of all property : it goes as far as the French philosopher, who defines private property to mean robbery. Will Ministers, will the dams of our universities and the representatives of our great industrial marts in Parliament sanction such dis gracefully dishonest doctrines ?—Daily News. THE ARISTOCRACY AND THE ARMY. The tbird and fourth volumes of the Duke of Buckingham's " Court and Cabinets of George IIL" which have just appeared, are Lull of instructive and amusing revelations. The extraordinary parallelism which obtains between the period to which these volumes relate (1800.10) calls for notice at our hands, and shall not call in vain. In the meantime we request attention to the following curious exposure of the origin of the aristocratic monopoly of military promotion which now prevails. In 1808 a younger son of the Marquis of Bucking ham was eager to enter the army. His father was averse, but his uncle, Mr. Thomas Grenville In a letter dated 4th September, strongly advocated com pliance with the young man's wishes, and on the following grounds : If I were to pursue the diseursion I should express to you my lean lest you should not have sufficiently dwelt on the changing state of this country, in the sprcuisuons which you entertain on the comparison hotlines the profession of the army and the pursuits of parliament In former times • actlA younger brother with less talents than Georg pre amass might much more easily have looked to amines/xi by dice or SINICOni than he can now hope to do. Indepen meat of the general spirit of reform which has been bred by the changes and revolutions of all the countries of Europe, t. e increased pressure of taxes in latter days has here produced, in the people at large, and in the parliament lee, • eery jealous and jonsrult suspicion of grim and simehrebertfe. Mr Banksa's committee is much more popu lar than many people mope e it to be, and I am very much Mistaken if the temper of the times will not be such as to mane regulations very unfavourable to those views, which spree to be forward in your hopes respecting George's provision in life, arising Irons any parliamentary pursuits, and from those particular objects which are to supply the plate of • regular profusion. The army, on the other bond, is increasing in estimation, ofic. The plain English of this is, young men of good families cannot now hope . to obtain sinecure.' by sit ting and voting with ministers in parliament for a few years. Let us try to secure the army for them. Upon what terms it was proposed that these scions of aristocracy should enter the army will appear from another letter written by the same Mr. T. Grenville to the same Marquis of Buckingham, on the Ist of August, respecting the prospects of their nephew, Lord Ebrington. The situation of a volunteer is often very irksome and awkward, both fee the volunteer and the army which he halm ; and, on the other land, it does not seem to be pro OT to accord with his rank and age to join a march *: sogiaseat in the capacity of cornet or ensign; Doti( he amid be adopted as a supernumerary aide-de-camp by any of dlialosaing general cams, melt her be nor we can see anyobg ea dim to his taking • half-pay commission for the mere par =enabling him to be given eat to orders as an aide p, if that appointment could be obtained for him. Oa di brad your influence with Sir A. Wellesley has 00111/11111 is wan perhaps comment to ensure to Ebrington the sfts ad, which he is so aesirous of obtaining. With this view, WA Grenville has given his a letter to Colonel Gov " Ire is the origin of the system of the monopoly of staff appointments and high rank in the army by young and inexperienced noblemen, to the exclaims sifar n beian veterans, described by one of its inventors. civil sinecures were snatched from the ariato ow they began to job the army. The army is abut to be snatched from their grasp: what public pastures will they next fall back upon P—Doily News. RELIOIOUI LlEnaTY.—The Liberation of Religion Society announce a meeting, to be held at Finsbury Chapel, en Wednesday night, at which special pro minence is to be given to two questions now before parliament—the abolition of church rates, and the movement for repealing the Meynooth Act. Mr. Morley is to preside, and several members of the House of Commons are to be present. TR ABOLITION or CHURCH-BATILL-00 Saturday Me W. Clay's bill to abolish ebareli•retas in Ragland and pale r swept wader locol acts, wee printed. It eastalas letka s siermes. Charefewerdeas may receive Voluntary cos tar the purpose of the parochial church. roy alist is to be made ke tiratbirds of the eittiap (and the merry may be mewed we a debt), and the other third to be tree sluing. The preamble states that church-rates have Ise seas pose teemed In be made at collect d la many perishes, and blether pnehise,where levied, they have given nee to lidgedes MI a feeling. Six Paden Awe arrived at Lyons on the 24th by the railway from Marseilles, attended by their streams. They were Ask win wane, and atfasaild loath atten tion. ING, APRIL 30, 1855. got court. The Prism of Leininpn took leave of the Qum ea Saturday morniag, and quitted Buckingham Palace, of his rehire to the Continent. The Bu Duchess of Kent visited Princes tbe 'of Hoboslobe Laagenberg ea Saturday at ckingham Paseo. Prime Arthur end the Prime's's Helena sad Loulesi fool a drive in an open carriage sad four. The Gamin, accompanied by Prince Arthur, the Princess of liebealobe Langenburg, and the Princesses Adelaide amd Feeders of flokenlohe, took a drive in the 'turnout kem apes leaden sad four. Lord Chubs Flom end Mew General tie Hoe. Charles Grey, attended on bombs*. Priam Albert rode out on horseback, attended by 04 Seymour. Her Majesty and Priam Albert, accompanied by the Princess of ilehenlohe Langenbing and Princess Adelaide of Holissieke, beamed the Royal Italian Opera with their geneses in the evening. The royal suite consisted of the Coasts. of Desert, the Hem. Blesser Stanley, the Hes. Bastries Byag, lard Tabley, Lord Charles Fair vey,esiMlL Seymour. Talsiety the Chum and Prince Albert, the Prince of Wiles, the Princess Royal, Priam Alfred, tte Prawns Ales, the Deane of Heat, :the Prisons of }Wheal*, Lempaberg, the Prince's Adelaide and Prince Victor of Heisaleis attended Diviae Service la the Privies Chapel of Buckingham Palace. The Han. sad Veep Be,. the Deans( Windsor officiated, and administered the Keg Sairamest. The ladies and gentlemen of the coon sal the deem* household also attended the service. The MAIM of Kest visited the Duchess of Glessesia en Saturday at Gloucester Home. ♦ Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-office, Down ing•street. en Saturday afternoon. The Minister present were :—Visimmint Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Lord reassure, the Chan miler of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Bight Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Sir Williams Molitsworth, Viscount Canning, and the Bail of Harrowby. The Council at four hours. A deputation from the General Assembly of the Preaby teriaa Church in Ireland bad an interview with Viscount Pahamtar on Saturday. The deputation cionsisted of the Rev. David Hamilton (Moderator), the Rev. H. W. Moly sew, D.D., the Rev. Henry Cooke, D.D., LL.D., Rev. Robert Wilson, D.D., Rev. John Edgar, D.D., Mr. Wilson Kennedy, and Mr. S. M. Greer. The deputation was accom panied by Lord Naas, the Hon. Henry Corry, M.P., the Hon. Colonel Maxwell, M.P., Sir Edmund Hayes, M.P., Sir Robert Ferguson, M.P., Sir Charles Coots, M.P., Cap tain Jones, M.P, Captain Pekenham, M.P., Mr. Thomas Samson, M.P., Hon. Col. Cole, M.P., Mr. Vance, M.P., Mr. Kirk, M.P, Mr. Grogan, M.P., Sir William V , M.P., Mr. Cairns, M.r., Mr. Burrows., M.P., Mr. Richardson, M P., Lord land Hamilton, M.P., Mr. Pol lard-Urquhart, M.P. George Forster, M.P., Captain Archdall, M.P., and /dr. Hans Hamilton, M.P. A deputation from the Canongate, accompanied by Mr. Cowan, M.P., and Yr. Murray Dunlop, M.P., had as in terview with Sir William Molesworth on Saturday at the office of works and public buildings, Whitehall. The depu tation consisted of Baron Bailie Lewis, of Canongate, Mr. Beattie, of Canongate, and Mr. Fraser, W.S. of Edin burgh. A deputation, on the subject of the Metropolis Local Management Bill, had an Interview with the President of the Omni Board of Health, at his office, Whitehall, on Saturday. The deputation consisted of—Fron•Camberwell (deputation from the vestry) : Mr. Thos. Ruston (church. warden), Mr. Alban Fisher (overseer), Messrs. William Howard, Washington Lyon, Joseph Constable, James Thornhill, Archibald Kintrea, and George William Mars den (vestry clerk). From the Peckham and Camberwell New Trost : Maus. Richard Hawkins, Samuel Straker, Archibald Khania, and Joseph Lilley (clerk). The depu tation from Lambeth consisted of Messrs. F. Doniton, J. Grady, C. Ream., S. Hodgson, J. W. Stratton, J. L. loam H. Alterman, J. Knight, and the Vestry Clerk. A deputation on the part of the Commissioners of the River West, on the subject of the Sunderland Dock Bill, had en interview with the Right Hon. E. P. Bouverie, on Saturday, at the Board of Trade. The deputation con elated of Mr. Simpson, Mr. Alderman Allison, Mr. Morton, Mr. Balmoral Williamson, Mr. W. R. Robinson, Mr. Meik, Mr. Abernethy, and Mr. J. S. Robinson. The de putation was introduced by Mr. Henry Fenwick, M.P. - • The Cathedral Commission tint at 1, New-street, Spring. gardens, on Saturday. The Coninissionen present were the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Orford, the Hon. and Rev. H. M. Villien, Sir John Patteson, Rev. Dr. Wordsworth, Rev. Canon Selwyn, and Mr. Henry Kinpcote (secretary). APPOINTMENTB.—The Queen has appointed the Rev. Dr. Stevenson to the parish of Lad7klrk, in the Pres bytery of Churnside. Mr. John Whiffler is appointed first class clerk; Mr. H. W. R. Walker, acting first-close clerk; Mr. JOG Matson, second clam clerk; Mr. S. W. Burton, sating second-class clerk ; and Mr. Thomas Denton, third clam clerk, in the accountant-general's department of the Admiralty, Somerset Rouse. Mr. C. E. S. Cooke is ap pointed third-class clerk in the Admiralty, Whitehall. Mr. A. B. Stuart is appointed luting wooed-elan clerk in the transport department of the Admiralty, Somerset Houe.— Otlseroe►. Lord Penman) attended the Cabinet Council Saturday afternoon. The drawings made by the Royal Family for the bessilt of the Patriotic Fund will be exhibited at Orford Neely, to-morrow, and Wednesday. The Lord Chamberlain has issued cards for a state %all at Buckingham Palace on the 9th proximo. Her Weeny has invited • brilliant circle to a juvenile ball as Tuesday. Earl Granville, though getting better, is still sat tiring, and is quit* unable to luta his house. The absence of Sir James Graham from the House a Commons has been occasioned by a severe attack of goat. The right hon. baronet, who, with Lady Graham sad daughters, went to Netherby to pass the Raster holidays, Wm there assailedby gout, through which he bas been confined to his room for a fortnight. Sir Junes and Lady Graham oaf family are expected to arrive in town to-day from Hotherby for the season. The Marchioness of Tweeddale, after a brief 'ajar= in town, has left for Yuan House, Haddington• shire. Her ladyship, while in town, received letters from the Nat of war, which announced the wound of her son, Lord John Hay, not to be serious, and that there was every prospect of the gallant young nobleman soon resuming his duties. The government of Saxe-Coburg Gotha has just promulgated the law of succession for the Daby. It is to , the and, that in ease the Molar duke should die with oat leaving direct heirs, the sucosseion shall pen to Priam Albert and his descendants, but that the reigning King of Ragland and the heir presumptive to the throne of Reglad shall be excluded. It is farther enacted, that If, when the succession shall become vaeant, time shall be as descendant qualified to sasesed, other than the King eel we presumptive of Ragland, the King and heir flail be bound to cense the dahlia to be administered by a geventor, until a desesselat qualified to succeed shall have attained his majority. The swap of the heir presumptive to the duchies is Bred from his majority a s 18,000 fiorins (about 1,8000 a year. According to this cereugement, upon the death of the reigning duke, who has as a M, Prince Alfred would beame the heir preeump Moo s Prince Albert immediately succeeding. Us annual ball at Paris, in aid of the British Oballtable Fund, has been fixed for the 15th May. It wi:l mks place es usual at the Judos d'Hiver, under the patron ogees number of ladles of rank. Oa account of the influx of obblos attracted by the 'inhibition, it is expected to prove Oft sir unusual splendour. ig Meer of the Minister of War, the gallery of 001111 Tad of all the fortified plans in Francs at the Be•ei dssllewslides will be open to the public during the whole antkusece of the Universal Exhibition. Fereigisers will be admitted on presenting tbeirporeporta, and than persons who may not be provided with them may obtain tickets oa applioation either to the Minder of War or the general director of the Diplit des Fortifteations. _ _ _ In a pamphlet published at Berlin, and pretending to seal-oSietal origin, it is said that of the battle of the Alm sad the nisrob of Prises Yeatehtkoff to Baktobi Semi, the whole garrison of Sebastopol 'misted of just four battalions sad the body of somata* ; at that time also noes of the preset outworks added, with the eseeptioa of the well of the tows. FRANCE. 01 TRIO DAILY emu ) PARIS, SATURDAY BYWORD. That which I reported yesterday as a rumour, I state today from private information u a hot. The (7111011 TIN Emperor, owing to unforeseen circumstances, has re teamed the idea of going to the Crimea at the be ginning of next month. You will have inferred, as the public has done here, from the adjournment to May 16 of the opening of the Universal Exhibition, that his Majesty's departure would be at least post poned. It is not, however, to be supposed that the impossibility of completing the arrangements in the interior of the Palace of Industry by the day origi nally fixed, can have weighed a feather's weight in balancing any such great question relating to the war, as the moment of the Emperor's assumption of the chief command of the allied armies. So long as the original determination that the Exhibition should be opened on the let of May was adhered to, the Em peror was prepared to inaugurate an incomplete speotaele, on the ground that engagements affecting dee MOW interests of the civilised world, called him hence a few days afterwards. If his Majesty, as I believe he will do (although it is not officially so stated), opens the Exhibition is person on the 15th, the reason is that events occurring before Sebastopol have necessitated a change in his plans for carrying the war. I now proceed, not without much hesitation on account of its extreme gravity, to communicate the intelligence on this subject which has reached me from an excellent private source. Ido not guarantee the absolute truth of all that lam about to state. It is probable that in any account of what has but recently passed in the state councils, and which can only be related by hearsay, there will be inaccuracies and exaggerations; but, subject to this cautionary remark, I believe the main facts of the following narrative to be true : The fire of the Allied batteries has entirely ceased . The General commanding the French artillery hes written to the Emperor to this effect :—" Sire,—l promised to keep up the bombardment during 14 days. I have done so. My task is accomplished. We have not reduced the place,and are not in a condition to at tempt the assault. It only remains fat us to withdraw our troops in good order. Our guns, from protracted firing, are completely unserviceable. We must leave them as old iron in the possession of the enemy." Orders have been sent to raise the siege of Sebas topol. The plan of operations will be completely changed. A campaign in Bessarabia will be com menced with an immense army in the beginning of June. Fresh levies to an enormous extent will be made in France. The reinforcements likely to be sent to the theatre of war are estimated by hundreds of thousands ; and it is not doubted that a new loan of eight hundred millions will be effected in the course of the summer. General Canrobert is recalled. The order for his recall was despatched by telegraph this day. According to the authority from which I derive the above momentous information, the Emperor is still fully determined to place himself at the head of the armies allied against Russia, and this I fully be lieve to be the case. I must mention, however, the existance of a very prevalent opinion, that hie Majesty feels it necessary not to quit Paris for two main reasons—first, because he is thoroughly dis appointed by Austria; and, secondly, because of grave difficulties with regard to the conduct of the internal government during his absence. With regard to Austria doubt is at an end. She will be false to her engagements, and will thereby fulfil the expectations of all who knew her best. 1 am enabled to assure you of the very important fact that M. Thouvenel, the political director at the Ministry of Foreign:Affairs, has this day resigned his office. The reason is, that M. Drouyn de Lhuys having entirely failed to obtain any satisfactory pledge. from the court of Vienna, M. Thouvenel, who has a high diplomatic reputation, and has since the commencement of the Eastern difficulty been a warm partisan of the Austrian alliance, has acquired the conviction that his policy must be reversed. A ministerial council was held at the Tuileries to-day, and protracted till a late hour. The discussion was stormy. Marshal Prince Jerome advances pretensions to be absolute regent in the event of the Emperor's absence trom France, and to make all such decrees as the Emperor himself might make. The ministers refuse to hold office on such conditions, and insist upon a council of regency. Although this is a serious diffi cnity, I do not doubt that the Emperor would find means to get over it, if nothing else stood in the way of his designs. The attitude of Austria is something much more serious. It may very well be that the Imperial generalissimo will find a more important theatre for the first unfolding of his warlike flag, than a distant Russian province. A decree of the Emperor promotes to the rank of general of division General Bizot, of the Engineers, who was lately eo severely wounded before Sebas topol. The Bourse opened heavily, under the impression of the telegraphic accounts of Mr. Layard's motion ; but Consols coming per cent. higher, the Rente was quoted at better prices, although little besiness was done throughout the day. The final quotation was 68.60, being a rise of 200. Orleans Railway rose 7.50, and most of the other lines from 1.50 to 2.50. Mdlle. Dondet has appealed to the Court of Casea tion. An English company has applied for the conces sion of a permanent bridge over the Rhine, at Mentz, and at the same time that of a railway from Ascher fenhorg to Mentz, and from Monts to Biogen. The following private telegraphic despatch has been received : "Berlin, April 27.--Glen. Ciortchakoff sends from Sebastopol, under date of the 22nd, a despatch in which he states that after' twelve days of severe bombard ment, the allied armies, seeing that their efforts were unavailing, had slackened their fire, which had be come very weak at the date of the despatch. Our losses,' adds Gen. Elortehakoff, have been diminished in proportion. Nothing of importance has taken place in any other part of the C ri mes.'" PIEDMONT. Further telegraphic despatches from Turin confirm the fact of Count Cavour's resignation, and connect it, as was feared would be the case, with the opposition to the Convents Bill. A despatch of the 26th inst. says: The Senate, at its sitting of to-day, adjourned the discus sion on the bill relative to the connects, in consequence of a proposition for paying a sum of 900,000 fr. a year to the elergy, the 1 allowance to whom will no longer figure in the budget. The next despatch, dated the 27th, makes it pro bable that the proposition was likely to be carried. It reads : In consequence of the plegettioa relative to the allocation for the clergy presents& to the Senate by the bishops, the ministry give in their naiveties, whisA was aeoeg o tl ig h s i the Wag ; ant IL Duval% Iliskase et War wra Ib/ bit Maiuty wil W losorawsl sew Osi ;net. CAMP ANECDOTES AND SCRAPS. CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, APRIL 9. In the French camp the most fabulous report s about General Canrobert are in circulation. It affirmed that before leaving Paris he consulted g pupil of the celebrated soothsayer, Mdlle. Lenormand, who set his horoscope, and prophesied that he would attain the supreme command of the army, but that. like Nelson—he would fall in the moment of victory. This is said to be the reason of hie delaying, e s l on , as possible, the decisive moment of th e storming a Sebastopol. In consequence of the general's hating called the trenches "the graves of the garrison a Sebastopol," in one of his despatches, he has acquir e d the nickname of the " gravedigger" (fussoye ur ) ; whilst they (the French soldiers) call L or d B egin, in consequence of the great attention he pays to the state of the atmosphere, with more aptitude thaa respect, ranemoscope ' or the meteorologi s t. The nocturnal combats that now take place shame every night have not yet lost any of th e i r murderous characteristics. Whichever party commences these bloody feuds, whether French or Russians, they always end in a hand-toland combat of life and death. Prisoner, are never made, nor do they ask for or give any quarter. The " Greek banditti," es the French term the Albanians, who ate formed into a corps of irregulars, under the commaed of some Greek nobles settled in the Crimes, have adopted the Albanian costume, and the corps is further reinforced by the Greeks of the former Cri. mean militia, and are used by the Russians for the same duty as that of the Zouaves and the baahi. bazooka, namely, to be in the most advanced eed dangerous positions, without obtaining much glory. The Russians have learned the necessity of econo• miming the lives of their regular troops, and these ir regulars are therefore placed in the van of the info. try about the Malakhoff position, performing the duty of tirailleurs. They evince a supreme disregard of life, and generally throw away their muskets after the first discharge or two, and then, drawing their yatagbans, rush in and close with their antagonist'. It is generally asserted that before these combats they are regularly primed with opium, which would account for their frantic yells and msniac deport men t. It is further stated that they are instigated to seek certain death by their priests, who um them that the souls of all those who volunteer imam. diately assume a fresh human appearance, and that they are born again as counts and princes. THE MEDITERRANEAN. MALTA, APRIL 2L At 4 p.m. yesterday, the Alma, Peninsular and Brien. tal Com any's steamer, arrived with the detachments of the Guards, and proceeded oa this afternoon. The Great Britain arrived this day with East Kent Militia, and detachments; in fact, we have a constant snow sion of Fretich and English transports with troops, It is to be hoped that the most energetic measures will be token for the reinforcements being harriedca to the seat of war. It was gratifying to see Colond Stephenson and Captain Asilty, of the Scots Fusi lier Guards, who were so badly wounded at the Alms, and still looking weak trom their wounds, hasten• ing back to share in the dangers of the campaign. It is said that they have both taken active and most successful personal measures in the recruiting of their regiment. These are the sort of men we require for officers. The Sutlej, with artillery under Captain Williams, arrived this evening, sad will proceed on to the Crimea immediately. It is reported that the Great Britain will land her troops here to-morrow, and then proceed to France for French troops; and they say they will pack 3,000 on board. The Simla, it is reported, is en route here from Constantinople, with 1,000 Russian prisoners, which she is to convey on. THE LOWER DANUBE. A letter in the Monsieur, dated April 10, from Bucharest, says : - • - " some forty merchant vessels, under various flags, have arrived at Ibraila. All of them are in ballot, except one, which has a cargo of colonial provisions. At Ismail the Russian authorities detained them for several days, and it was not without difficulty that they °Wined leave to ascend the river u far as Ibraila. Fearful of being seized on their Tema to Ismail they abstain from taking in cargo. Theis are also at Galata more than a hundred merchant• men is the same predicament." THE BALTIC BLOCKADE. (PIIOM A SECOND SUPPLEMENT TO THE " GAZETTE" 01 FRIDAY LAST.) [The following notification is substituted for the one psle lishnd in the Supplement to the Gazette dated April Ti, 1865. j FOREIGN OFFICE, APRIL 27. NOTIPICATION.—II is hereby notified, that her Majesty . ' overnment bet received information from Capt►in Wet. ...As, R.N., commanding a squadrin of her Majesty's ellipsis the Baltic, dated, Her Majesty's ship Imperiease, of Libau, 19th April, 1855," to the effect, that on and from Ms nit, day of April, 1855, and in the name of her Majesty at of her ally, his Majesty Napoleon 111., Emperor of the French, the Russian Port of Litmus, on the coat of Caat• land, was placed in a state of strct blockade by a compost force of her Majesty's ships and veuels ; ►ud that as al from the 19th April, 1855, all Russian ports, roads, hem% sad Cr.. ks, from latitude 55 deg. 64 min. north, longitude 21 deg 6 min. east, to the Filsand Lighthouse, in llama 58 deg. 25 ma. north, longitude 21 deg. 50 min. lest (ia• eluding especially the ports of Sakenbaua, Windsu, ad the entrance to the Gulf of Riga), were also placed in a stets of strict blockade, by a competent feria ; and it is befell notified, that all the measures authorised by the laws of m• tione, and the respective treaties between her Majesty ad her Allies with the different neutral Powers, will be adopted and executed wish respect to all vessels which may attempt to violate the said blockade. THE CRIMEAN ARMY FUND. We print the following extract from the letter of an Artilleryman engaged in the right attack before Seto topol, by request of a gentleman who guarantees authenticity, and thinks the facts should be made pada. Our correspondent says : " If you should wish it, I can send you all particular , Is reference to the name and position of the writer, who 51 true man and good soldier. The extract will show tlc public how their bounty is distributed amongst the gals; fellows for whom the gifts were intended." The Artilleryman writes : " We had some of what is called the Crimea Army served out to us the other day, and such a serve oat fol never saw—it deserves to be published in the neeggelf• Our company is composed of 110 men and 7 officers, a& for the company, we got 20 gallons of porter, 30 Rs. °I butter, 30 lbs. of cheese, 30 lbs. of ingar, 30 lbs. of tw lbs. of candles, 8 bottles of brandy, 1 cue of preserold vegetables, and 3 tins of preserved game; now, out of tbio, the officers took the lion's share, they took the brandy,* vegetables, the game, the halt of the porter, half of the butter, the same of the cheese, the tea, and sugar, tui t none of the candles, among seven of them; and the ft mvinder was divided amongst the 110 of us; also 30 lbs• of bacon, of which they took the half, so I leave In to guess at their se." BALTIC NAVIGATION.—ROSTOCK, APRIL 24.--1111 upper parts of the Baltic are not yet free f rom ice. ea Lem is the only Russian port at present seceesible. 1 L ice in this nrigbbeurhood has entirely disappeared, 14 harbour at precust will not admit vessels of more thu I2i to 13 feet water. The loon of the Crams is thus reported o by tbe Corriere Mercenitle of Genoa :—" She left Genoa st a.m., and in about an hour after her provi sion of coal leo found to be on fi re, and after 1 vain e fforts to get tl,' conflagration under, the steamer was broug ht barb Fruchioan, which she reached sliest noon. Everybedl' remained on board wu saved ; but three or four sell who threw themselves into the sea have not bees ;Mud..., since. The captain and crew did their duty minfa y .,_n. were aided as much as possible by the soldiers OA DOM bet tin 287 in number, belonging to the engineer corps 1 110 commissariat. The Pedestrian, a large sailieg trek or" was in tow of the Cronus, but she returned safe to being s terwards taken in tow by the Nubia Mown: CRYSTAL PAL.km—Frvis SHILLING DAY.-8811* M D A T, APRIL 28. Admons on payntail 6 69 I s —ins sewn &kw, MU; total, tat I