The Express. — London, England, 1855-02-15 00:00:00

I - T. TO NEW RETURN OF NEWSPAPER STAMPS. The return of newspaper stamps just issued gives the following results : First Quarter. Hefted Quieter. Daily News . 919,191 348,044 Morning Herald . 303,000 299,000 Morning Poet . . 205,000 224,000 Morning Chronicle . 162,600 186,000 Express . . 177,133 198,399 Gies. . . . 176,000 196,000 Sus . . . . 168,000 192,000 Standard . . . 103,000 104,000 Eltz erprefso. TO CORRESPONDENTS. • Mal Zinn dam- Ezprisi.• eostidelait tie amp wallies "Osourer." lo mg Tardsy and friday LW, la ewe IN pot loboolod for 0 Tb. Tayrors; tourism Tondos poser, al =bril lia r rt• OSIO. 10. DOUMlS4trest. by Two olio* Go tie dos of pebilsides. NIGH WATAR AT LONDON BRIDGE. Ty= DAT -Illesles, lb. Illa ift•mos, lb. it. Toacsaaw-Menins. 11. SIM MOMS, 11 Pa LONDON; THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15. LATEST NEWS FROM ABROAD 4 (Jlr 001 4 111XIXTAL TILIGIAPII.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Pis. 6. The 9th Division of the French army leaven to morrow, under its commander, General Brunet, for the Crimea. A fire, which had broken out at the Amens], hes been extinguished after causing Novae damage. Sheeny Puha, formerly Grand Vizier, has died at the age of 90 years. CONSTANTINOPLE, Iris. 4. General Canrobert has sent for the French divi- 1 sion at Daond Pachs, and it is said that vigorous operations are to commence.—Doily News. COMPANY'S ♦u TUN wool.) VIENNA, WIMIZSDAT. Austria, France, and Russia, have declared their readiness to enter upon the negotiations; Lord Westmoreland is at present without instructions. It is said that Prussia takes part in the new Con ferences.—Doily News. DISPATCH FROM ADMIRAL BRUAT. PARIS, MOISDAT. This Nomigour publishes a telegraPhie despatch from Admiral Brost, dated Kamiesch, Feb. 2. 1,350' soldiers and a cargo of provisions had strived, as also ' changes for the fleet and camp articles for the army. Since the 31st January the Russians had recom menced their night ssrties, but hare been vigorously Tertimed- The two Grand Dukes had entered Sebastopol. The roads near Enpatoria, hardened by the frost, bed beams in an excellent condition. The Rooks. had received considerable reinforce ments. Omer Pemba was to leave Varna on the 6th Feb. nary foe the Crimes, accompanied by Colossi' Dien and Bizemees.—Amee. PARIS BOURSE. PARIS, WIDNIBIDAT. Closing prices: —Three per Cent. Rents., for mosey, 68.50; for account, 86.20; ditto Four-end-a-Half per Cents., for money, 95.35. The Three per Cents. hare fallen &beet 1 per cent. since yesterday, and the Four-and-a-Half per Cents., j per cent.—Deily Nom THE COMING CONFERENCE AT VIENNA. Tug USX is augmenting his armies. France and ' England are straining every nerve to forward re inforcements to the Crimea. The Turkish force assembled at Enpatoria will take the field, and the operations of the allied army in front of Sebastopol will be renewed, as soon as the season permits. The ' conference at Vienna—for which Lord Jonn Russell. sets out this day—will, anima we are :soh =Whammed, be confined to a brief and stern question addnesed to Prince 001TCRALOIT, whether his master will, or will not, accept the terms em bodied in the four points, in the sense of the Allies, without equivocation or mental reservation ; and to a declaration, if he answer in the ne gative, or attempt to evade the question, that the war must go on. The British Plenipotentiary proceeds to the Conference—authorised, in the event of war being determined on, to adopt measures to ensure its being waged on a more extended scale. The champions of civilised Europe and the Muscovite confront each other, with their hands an their swords. And what is Prussia doing P Not the KING, but the legislature of Prussia ? Debating by what name the two bodies of which it is composed are to be designated. After a prosy discussion it was decided, by a majority of 156 to 151, that the ci decant " Chambers" were henceforth to be called " Houses"--the House of Lords, and the House of Representatives. But the cmstroversy is not yet ended. Some ingenious and profound thinker has discovered that, inasmuch as some of the 45 members of the Upper " House" are not noble, and hold their seats only daring the pleasure of the LINO, the designation " Howe of Lords "is a misnomer. So the whole question mutt be debated over again. What are the Vow Vixens and Bernirstr•Hottwros--what are the enterprising and intelligent merchants of Konigsberg, Dantsio, Cologne, and other great industrial marts—what are the shrewd bourgeoisie and artisans of Prussia—laying to such egregious trifling,while all Europe is bristling with arms around them ? Were Vow Sum and Btucnr.a now alive, they would declare that the torpor, indecision, and cowardice of those who now beer sway in Prussia exceed that displayed even by the imbecile courtiers and statesmen of 1812. And the present rulers of Previa& are a type of the whole of the present rulers of Germany: they are "knights of the shire aad represent them aIL" The Diet has voted, not that its army shall be mobi. Used, but that it shall be held in readiness for war, The whole wide question of how money is to be raised to defray the expenses of war has yet to come before the Diet; and how interminable are the ded beratious of that body all who have at any time been doomed to watch them know too well. But this is not all. The subtle publicists of Germany h►ve discovered that, although the Federal Aet obliges all the German States to repel any attack made upon one of their number by a foreign Power, it also obliges each and all of them to abstain from Goaded that may provoke such an attack. If Austria, attar THE EXPRESS. THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 15, 1855. the tmesinatioe of the Vienna Congress, declares war 1 against Russia, to what interminable notes and counter-notes, protocols, circular despatches, and alt the pomp and parade of diplomatic feces, will not this piodlibst give occasion P When the Allies look fee Austria to take the field against Russia, they will find it engaged in a paper war with all the potentates of Germany. _ _ _ With people of this stamp there is only one way of dealing. If Austria should attempt, after the Con ference, to postpone again its declaration of war against Russia, until it shall have come to an under standing with the other States of the Germanic Confederation, Franos and England ought curtly to reply :--,' We can wait no longer. We have done our utmost to secure the active 00-operation of the Government at Vienna. It is the unquestionable right of an independent Government to abstain from participation in any war in which Powers with whom it stands on a friendly footing are involved. But it is quite u unquestionably the right of those Powers to accept the aid of any other allies who may offer." —Daily Nan. tabs beneath each carriage, which cords can be linked together by spring hooks, one end of the chain of weds being under command of the guard, and the other attached to the steam whistle. Now, if Pm, Lords " had the power of hanging all the directors of all the railway companies who, in a month from the present date, had not adopted a perfectly Clicient means of telegraphing from one end to the other of the train, we undertake to say that the thing would be done, and no hanging would take place. We cannot pretend to any practical know ledge on theme matters, bat we saw an apparatus only the other day which, we are told, has not yet been tried. A small pipe of gotta perch* sliding in a metal tube is to be placed under each carriage, its ends being capable, by a neat arrangement, of being quickly and tightly connected with the pipes of the carriages before and behind it. At the guards' end of the connected tubes are a cylinder and piston by which the air may be suddenly compressed; and at the drivers' end, or at any points along the course of the tube are cylinders and pistons with alarum bells, which strike immediately on the first piston being depressed, through any length of tube that is ever likely to be used on railways. Perhaps this appa ratus would not answer at all ; perhaps none of the systems now in use are perfect; but they are better than no system at all. The impossibility of consum ing smoke has been shown to be no impossibility ; the possibility of establishing intercommunication be tween the driven and guards of railway trains ought to be at once demonstrated by rendering it oompuloory.—Doily News. LORD Joirm RUSSELL leaves London this day for Violins to take part in the conferences which are to open in that capital. Yesterday afternoon the noble lord arrived at Windsor Castle at hall-past two o'clock, and immediately afterwards had a lengthened interview with the Queen.—Doily News. Vbe Court. —e— WINDSOR; Mo. 14. There wee no addition to the Rod al dinner party yesterday. liar Majesty sad the Prime, attended by the Ladies and Gondola's in waiting, went last night to as evening party, given by SO:l6am of Kent, at Frogmen Hones. Prince Albert, attended by the Gentlemen in waiting, skated In the Rome Park this forenoon. Several officers of the garrison had the honour of skating with his Royal Highness. Her Msjesty, attended by the Hon. Mary Seymour and the Has. Matilda Feist, trimmed the scene. The Countess of Dysart has succeeded the Marchioness of Ely as Lady in waiting to the Qttewn. ... ... . Lord deTat a / a y sad Mr. Frederick Cavendish have sae• aided Lord Waterpark and Major-General Berkeley Draassoad as the Lord sad Groont in waiting. Her Majesty honoured Mr. Taylor, of Windsor, yester day by inspecting his representation of the Private and State Apartments at Windsor Castle. Lord John Russell arrived at the Castle this afternoon, sad had an audience of her Majesty. A Cabinet Council was held, yesterday afternoon, at the residence of Sir James Graham in the Admi ralty. It was attended by Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville ' the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Lord Penman the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, Sir James Graham, Viscount Canning, and Sir William Molesworth. The Council sat three hours. The Cathedral Commission met at No. 1, New-street, Spring-gardens. oa Tuesday. The Commissioners present were the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Marquis of Bland. ford, M.P , the Earl of Harrowby, the Bishop of Inndos the Bishop of Oxford, the Hon. and Rev. H. M. Yams: Sir John Dodson, the Bar. Dr. Wordsworth, and the Be,. Canon Selwyn. The also held a meeting yesterday, present the Archbishop of Canterbury, and eight other members.. ♦ deputation from the City of London Gas Light and Coke Company had en interview yesterday with the Fred. deat of the Geseral Board of Health at his dial, White- ItalL The deputatioa.cosaisted of Mr. R. A. Gray, the Chair man of the Company, Mews. Tyrrell, soliciton, and Mr. Millar, secretary. Viscount Palmerston pre a dinner to the Cabinet Minis ters last erasing, at his residence in Piccadilly. (From last sight's supplementary (Mugge.) Lord Chamberlain's Offish Feb. 14. Notice is hereby given that the court mourning, which would have terminated to-morrow, will bro proloaged another week for his lets Royal Highness the Dohs of Genoa, brother of his Majesty the Hiss of Sardinia. The court will go out of mourning on Thursday, the 22nd indant. Pantionc Furrn.—His Royal Highness Prince Albert has signified his pleasure that a meeting of the Royal Commitdoesers should talc place In the Palace, at Westminster, on Monday neat, at three o'clock, to receive the report of the exputive and Roane* committee. Tai FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION. The Suisse announces that M. Meyer, of Giten, has been nominated Colonel of the let Regiment of the Foreign Legion. It adds that General Gehbenseda will establish his head quarters at Beeancon. Scsairm.—The Kars correspondent of the Danube writes that Steamyl has made another bold and sueoessful stroke. The Russians bad kedged nearly all their prisoners in Tiflis, and at some time in January (not stated) they ware sent from theses into the interior of Georgia • but ficharayl attacked the convoy on the way, and released the whole of the primers. Homatrii.—The bill for abolishing the duties on flour and the tonnage dues hag been introduced in the Legislative Chamber of the Netherlands. The loss of the Treasury. which will amount to Bye millions of guilders, will be partially compensated by an increase of the property tax. and the excise on sugar and spirits. M. Boui.E.—The sate American minister at the Spanish court is now In London, on Ms way to tke United States. A SMART SHOCK OP EARTHQUAKE We felt at Trieste on Um 9th instant, et 4 a.a. Vasome, Fr.a. 7.—ln order to provide moans of subsistence for the destitute, 5,860 labourers have conti nued to be employed during the present iselement must on the railways i• progress in the prosiness of Lombardy sag Voile*, sad sloop the Tyrolees Ham Mime Catharine Hayes has arrived at Calcutta. The late amateur performance at the Bt. James Theatre, is aid KO, Qimasas Army Fund, has leadam saesesatal twat no area ad S 7& 18s. 4d. las bass h over So the somilles of the had. UNGRACIOUSLY ACCORDED. Tan Gazette of last Friday announced the promotion of Assistant Surgeon Wiieox, of the 7th Hussars, to the surgeoncy of the Bth Dragoons. It may be romans bored that Lard RAGLAN, in his despatch after the battle of Inkermann, thus alluded to the services of this officer :—" His Royal Highness speaks also in the highest terms of the spirited exertions of Assio. tanteßurgeon Wunos, of the 7th Hums, who at a critical moment rallied a few men, which enabled them to bold the ground till rainforest]." It is a ques tion which the public may fairly ask, how it happens that Dr. Wu,sox did not sooner get his promotion, and when it was at length granted, why it was done in such a shabby way. When promotions were lavished upon the staff, and included officers who had not even been under fire, it rarely was not too much to expect that one who had so distinguished himself as to be specially mentioned in the General's despatch should have been included. When pro motions for " distinguished services in the field" were being facetted, it was not too much to hope that among them should be found the name of that officer who by his gallantry had saved a General of Division, and that general the cousin of our SOVEREIGN, from being taken prisoner. It has been alleged that the Head of the Medical Department refused to recommend Dr. Wtt.ifox for promotion, as the service he had rendered, however meritorious, was not professional; while the COM MANDER-IN-CHIEF would not interfere unless upon a recommendation from the Dixecroa-Cextrinta. ; thus verifying the old adage, "Between two stools," Bto. This conduct of the two Chiefs, however, afforded to the Doke of CAMBRIDGE an opportunity of showing that he has been endowed by nature with more of generous sentiment. The officer whom he brought so favourably under the notice of Lord RAGLAN, and whom he personally thanked at the head of his regiment for his gallant assistance, was not to be thus passed over without reward. Accord ingly, one of the first acts of his Royal Highnemb after his arrival in this country, was to take the necessary steps to obtain Dr. WILSON'S promo fin. That it was done shabbily—that he was shuffled from the 7th to the Bth Dregoons, without any allusion to his "distinguished service in the field"—is far from creditable to the military authori ties; but for this the Duke of CAMBRIDGE is cer tainly not responsible. We have seen in the course of the present war how eagerly every opportunity has been taken advantage of to throw blame on the Medical Department of the army, even when the fault lay clearly with only moor two individuals; it could certainly have been gratifying had as mach anxiety been displayed to reward a gallant deed performed by an officer of that useful and neesseary, though much neglected, branch of the service,— Daily News. 01? ACCIDENTS ON RAIL WAYS. WE have often said, and we still think, that if the Government had entered into a contract with any respectable engineering flan for the capture of Sebastopol we should have had to congratulate the glestry long ere this on the taking of that fortress. •i lineation this to show that it is not from our low of the power or intelligence of our engineers wen amplain of them for the scandalous neglect 1 1111,1111 by the railwayoonspanies in not having adopted MOO good practical means of communication between the guards and driven of railway trains. It is not intelligence in the engineers, bat desire on the part of the directors, that is wanting to this end. To produce this desire in the directors some such stimu lus as the dread of competition is necessary; and competition on any line of railway there is practically none, except perhaps to a slight extent in the matters of comparative ehespnees and the rapidity and ha gummy of their journeys. Not that even competition always produces excellence; for really habit seems often to fix the limit of excellence as well as of price ; witness the obstinate resistance of omnibuses to adopt the very simple means by which passengers communicate with the conductor, which have for yoga been adopted on the Continent. In England we have been contented in order to "an the bother" of any apparatus, however simple, to scream, and poke the conductor. It is really the public themselves who are to blame for not insisting: upon some arrangement being made for enabling the pea to telegraph to the driver; and the reason why the public have not insisted upon it, is because dams is at the bottom of the English character a very culpable disregard for life and limb which, in the United States, we see exaggerated into utter recklessness. As long as the main object of any un dertaking—and in railways this is speed—is attained people seem to care very little about, or at any rate to take very little can to guard against, accidents. In the Report to the Board of Trade on Accidents on Railways during 1854, we find that 223 persons have been killed and 453 wounded. Of the 95 accidents which came under the cognisance of the Board, 85 were specially reported on ; and of thee° only 22 could not have been guarded against. It appears, also, that a circular was sent from the Board to different railway companies, calling their attention to the necessity of making provision " for enforcing the means of constant communication tween all the servants to whom the safety of the passengers in any train is entrusted." Abstreste of the replies of the railway companies are given in the Report. Ont of 46 companies, 18, learning a lesson from "my Lords," in true official style, "acknowledge the receipt of the circular. ° Most of the remainder will investigate, or are investi gating, or will adopt what certain other railways adopt, or have tried the clearing-hones plan, and found it not to answer, &c. Nine companies have ordered the adoption of, or have already adopted plans to effect the object, and these plans are the rope and whistle, rope and bell, or foot-boards for the guards to walk along. The Cockermouth and Worthington Com pany say that no communication can be effected by means of machinery. The South Western give a full description of their plan—a cord running through a THE PORT OF LONDON AND THE DOCK COMPANIES. Yesterday afternoon, a meeting of gentlemen inte rested la the prowediage of the Aaessiotioa for the Prows tioa of the Trade of the Port of Leedom against Dock Mesa poly wee held at the Ship Timm, Water-Lae; Mr. W. J. HALL is the chair. _ _ _ Mr. F. 811/11.12 moved the adoption of the following Krim of reeolotioes : . " That the attempt now made by the public dock soul pantie of London to procure the repeal of the exempting dense of their former acts is a direct breech of faith with the public, and • clear violation of the express conditions on which their powers of incorporation were conceded to there, as well as of the prescriptive, customary, and cam men-law rights of the traders of the free port of Leadoa. " That it is the opinion of this meeting that it is the duty of the Board of Trade, as charged with the protection and promotion of the true interests of the commerce and shipping of this country, actively to interpose on behalf of the public is resisting thee, enematheasets on the privi loges of the port; and that the Board et Admilalty are also allied upon, me conosrraton of th e rums, and of the mines of tha Crown, In the intends of the sommunity, to de the same against the contemplated tizacticas of the dock companies. " That • deputation from this meeting be appointed to wait spoil the President of the Board of Trade and the ile 7its to the Admiralty, to communicate and *atone the =window, and to solicit their indaenee in *ppm the k companies' bills; that the members for the metropolitan districts and home counties, and also for the <plethora, be requested to accompany the deputation." The motion, after having been seconded by Mr. Smith, and arried unan support imously. ed by lb. Cooper and Mr. Ni hobos, was c On the motion •f Mr. PILLOW, it was resolved: " That the resolutions should be advertised i n th e d a ily 3• Enc,.." lat. DIDN'T SMITH (the secretary) stated that the OM meat wee being supported by all the principal warehonee men sad that petitions 'gamin the dock bills had been signed by the coalowners, the hop merchants, the tanners, and the merchants of Mincing-lane. This termiaated the proftedings. The following is a copy of the letter of Lord John Russell referred to by the chairman: I " Lord John Russell presents his compliments to Mr. ahoy Smith, and as he leaves Ragland on Thursday, on a special 'Weston to Vienna, he regrets extremely that he will not be able to receive the deputation oa Friday next. "Pembroke-lodge, Feb. 13." WINDSOR ELECTION. The moodoolioa of Oinaidatee for the borough of Windom OM 911110111111111AMila at whisk has becomes meant by ehe todipation of Lord Marks Wellesley, took plasm pellerday merniag. Great excitement existed, and a coa ted was emposeed, when, • few bean before the awake deg, the Meads of Mr. Hope announced that he bad redgmed hie pretensions to represent the borough. The MOW (J. Clod., Req.) opened the proleediap in the Guild at 12 o'clock ; he adverted to the lamentable mass ptteV, whl y th , = he a d l i w nti d eed tbs tl t te th r:wir o ation of Lo selatesyllard pithy of all the electors would follow kin is his retire ment. (Cheers.) Mr. Baanonotron, a county magiarate. said he had Omsk in proposing • patlemaa who would have bees remand an • former oeses, had it not been for the endue Waimea gawked by the Derby government. There week be a* omission for him to enumerate the qualifica tions ciiMr. Ricardo, as he had (MO through the town for the ledsO• of raPkiakg kis political principles, which be W awl to be those of the great majority of tha electors of the bonnet. (Hear, beer.) Mr. MINTON to seconding the nominati o n of Mr. Ricardo, referred to a taunt whisk had bees thrown out splast the party to whisk he belonged, that they did wet appreciate the aristocracy. That taunt was of imperious just now, whoa a very strong movement is oppesitios the asistackey was apparent. He bad nie bode !ism to saying that the aristocracy of Ragland was the best oebts ll the world, and that the country could not help sp preelatlag when they know how many of its members, with printed, fortunes, bad braved danger at the esancia's mouth boa motives of the purest patriotism. (Hear, beer.) Appreeistiou of the aristocracy, however, suggested no Mien why the people of this country should not struggle for the removal of the many abuses which unhappily an iseed. (Hear, bear.) No ether candidate having been proposed, The MAYOR declared Samson Ricardo, Req., duly elected. Mr. RICARDO, on owning forward, was greeted with loud applause. Ho said he had come iato the town of Windsor is aatisipetion sic struggle, but was happy to and that he had bees engoi in a peaceful contest. It was his duty to thank the doiftrs for the handsome meaner in whirl they bad necked him, and for the unanimous way in which they bad ethemled his election. He had. already stated to most of the siestas individually what were his political principles, sod now that they bad done hint the high homier of elsetki his es their representative all he souk do would be te madeekur to carry out those principles is a manner width be trusted would give general satisfaction in the hoseugh. (Hear, hear.) He was a friend to pniltlgel peeposs, to th e education of the people, and indeed to every measure tending to improve the moral, end intellectual condition of the working classes s ort eatatry. (Load cheers.) All those =mitres he week support to the best of his ability ; but at pre emie the country wel sonipied with the consideration of a still paver gaieties—that seanected with the war. All he would say was, that he believed that the ministry which had been now formed wee the only practicable ministry under the existing eiresuestanem of the country, and he be lieved that ministers would sorry out measures of import ance, by mem of which they would secure the comfort and success of our troops in the Crimes, and would carefully watch for the time when an honourable and permanent race could be secured. (Cheers.) A general peace in Europe was most important for the mercantile interests in this country, and when it could be honourably obtained, be (Mr. RicsAo) would be oas of its most earnest suppo r t ers . (Cheers.) He would say so more, exeept that his canstitu eats would find him as good a friend to the local interests of the borough as they could have desired. (Cheers.) Oa the motion of Mr. KARIM, seconded by Sir J. M. Domes, 11..C.8., a vote of thanks was unanimously aw seeded to the Mayor, who briefly acknowledged the emu- Omni As then we me wales% end no peat gall therefore for cheating is Anew steno sandidees sod bootleg another, the tree end killopeadinet siestas annsed themselves at the due et the youssediep by indulging in rounds of applause Is berm ei *add - favourites. Amongst those whom maim wee pleillissatly mentioaed and vigorously amni a ressebm Mem* the Qom L , rd Palmerston, Mr. Ilissage, the mow mrsabor, lir John Mille, Doyle, end Col, Challoaer. Rarazerommox or ma Warr Itintrro.—We saderstand that la the wrest of a dissolution of parliament the Right Bea. Saha Puke: K.P . - for ilhalleld, will be a answesse sa d body of aimless to Z umilli blme% es Me of Me yes of the Wert Mktg la lito TOM ei Mi. ONiea, whom views on the qualm of the war have madoesd Mu unpopular mongol a may Imp peaks of eke eammemlty.—Shelleld TIMM. VACANT Ocazirums.--71were are now vacant five eateseleiesoia, use TM Tudllsia, Se th and 44th Reilment e , tad SIM sides, mad ht battalion Bier Briinde. GENERAL SIR DE LACY EVANS. Yesterday, pursuant to a resolution of the vestry of Maryiebone, the leading glemben of that body attended by appointment at the residence of General Sir De Lacy Buse, in Bryanstonoquare, for the purpose of presenting a esapatulatery addrese to the gallant general en hie safe return to Zealand. Among those present we noticed the following :—Mr. J. A. Nioholay, Mr. Whitmore, Mr. Harlow*, Mr. Gilbert, Dr. Boyer, Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Field, Mr. Roden, Mr. Anderson, Mr. Abbe, Mr. Bridgman, Mr. lidiagtm, Mr Hickman, Mr. Underwood, Act., Minded by Mr. W. B. Greenwell, the vestry Week. J. A. Moamar, Bog haviag formally introduced the various gentlemen, prefaced the reading of the address with a few remarks eulogistic of the recent distinguished services cad admirable bravery of the gallsat penal who, be said, they all trusted, would yet receive the reward to which hi s services to his country long age entitled him. (Rear, hear.) The address having been read by Mr. Gresswall, General Sir Da Lacy Evuos said he could assure the junkmen assembled that he felt mere hosoured than he had suilkient power or oratory to express at the reception of so kind an expression of the feelings sad opinions of the representatives of what might truly be called • great city, although WWl:ally described by another nun, con taining • popalation of 160,000 inhabitants. He ►elievd that the present honer wee conferred apes him rather in referanto the position he held as • soldier than sea mem• her of the legislature or an orator. Not having any pre. tension Os be the latter, he hoped. however inadequately he night be able to give Internee to his sentiments, they would not believe he was the leas sincere in thanking them in ths heaps: they had done him. They had very properly alluded to the events of the war and the present campaign. He could ware them it was not only a most important, but at the same time the most arduous, it had been his (the gallant general's) lot to be engaged in throughout his military career. He looked upon the pre sent contest as one of a more momentous character even than the peat war in which England was engaged after the French revolution. There never was so serious a con flict between the nations of Europe as at present. He had himself for many years anticipated the event, and now they had arrived at the crisis. There could be no doubt upon one point—namely, the earnest and suited desire of the people of Western Europe to see this great and important contest curled oat properly and energetically. (Hear, hear.) He (Sir De Laoy Evans) did not desire to touch upon political questions, bat at the same time be must say he had lamented to see • man as Prime Minister, who, although he bore a most unexceptionable shunter in other respects, wee wholly and entirely unqualified to perform the duties of that °Zoe so as to ensure • proper and suer ptio conduct of the war. (Hear, hear.) It was, there fore, with no small amount of gratification that he found a neap of government had taken place. He was not on e of those who thought that any very great advantage would be obtained by the removal of the war minister. He thought amongst his class there wee to be found very few batter men than the Duke of Newcastle, who had, to his (the patent general's) opinion, been somewhat vie- Ulnae& They had, however, now at the head of the government one whose energy was well known, and one to whom he thought it would be the duty of the parliament sad the public to give their nut cordial rapport. (Hear, hear.) In the course of the remarks which had been made, the services which the British army had received from their gallant allies the Preae► had been referred to. He looked upon it as a most fortunate eirounstance, the alliance which had taken place between the governments and the people of Frans and this sentry. It wee true that some time back the extraordinary pinions of affairs and parties in France did not tally with the constitutional and liberal feelings of the English people; but as to the ended sad general Amster of the sovereign of that state, in eonnezioa with tto alliance with England and the donduct of the present war, the most upright, noble, and judicious course had been pursued towards this country. (Hear.) With regard to the Fnneh army, he must say that he never witnessed anything in his life which exhibited so great an amount of generous feeling, cordial kindness, and, he might add, brotherly affection, as was exhibited on the part of the French army towards their British allies, from the °Man of the highest rank down to the private soldiers of every class and grade. It was quite extraordinary to And so much kindness of feeling from those with whom we had been for so many years in deadly Conflict. (Hear, hear.) Our brave army had certainly incurred some very losses, and some, perhaps, which might have been avoided ; but it was to be hoped that, with the return of more genial weather, and the addition of necessary com forts to the soldiers of this country—it was to be hoped that our army would be rescued from many of the sufferings they had endured. With the reinforcements the French army were receiving, and those which the small military resources of this country could send out, he hoped and be lieved that our army would be on a bet.er footing, and that the anxieties of the public would speedily be relieved as to their safety and success. He (Sir De Lacy Evans) did hope—and he had no doubt, from the feelings which had been so strongly indicated, that the people of England and France would me that no unsatisfactory peace was patched up, which might in a few years again lead to a still more severe contest. He again said that nothing could exceed the gallant and loyal conduct of the French army, and he looked upon it as a most fortunate circumstance that in this great contest England was united with France. They had referred to his (dir De Lacy Evans's) attempts to introduce reforms in the militia system. He bad done nth the House of Commons under lees favourable circumstances than he might have now to contend with, and he should certainly repeat the attempt. (Hen.) After referring to the ire policy of making seniority the test of promotion, the gallant general said the deputation had alluded to the reward he ought to receive for his services. He had had but little either from the presen t or preceding governments, and he was pleased to receive such a deputation as the present, as he felt augured they bad a wonderful effect upon the feelings of the army. The only reward he requ•red for himself was the highest reward a man could receive—the approbation of his fellow-citisens. (Hear.) The deputation then retired. LORD BROUGHAM'S BILL FOR THE SPEEDY TRIAL OF OFFENDERS. Lord Brougham's new bill for the speedy trial of offenders has just been printed. It contains 16 clauses, and recite, that in order i n c er t a i n cases to ensure the morel speedy trial of offenders, and to avoid the evils of their long imprisonment previously to trial, it is expedient to allow of such offenders being proceeded against in a more summary manner than is now by law provided. In simple larceny cease, where the same is not attended with aggravation or iielenee to property or the person, or not corn. milted by a servant, and where the offender shall not be charged with having been previously convicted of larceny, the justice in petty sessions, or one magistrate in a metropolitan police court, may proceed under this set, or may send the offenders to trial if they elect to be tried by an Indictment. They are to be cautioned as to what they say, and their imprisonment is not to exceed three months with or without, hard labour, Proceedings under this act are t o b e a b ar to other proceedings. One justice may remand and take ball. Witnesses may be summoned, and if they refuse to attend, a warrant may be issued to compel their attendance. An allowance for costs, expenses, and com pensation may be made to the extent of 401. is each case. The same is to be paid out of the county rate, and a provi sion is made with respect to boroughs. All convictions under the act are to be returned to the quarter sessions, and the clerk of the pesos is to transmit to the Secretary of State a monthly return of the names, offences, and punishments mentioned in the conviction, and such other particulars as may from time to time be required. Proceedings against persons acting under the act are to be commenced within three mouths. This bill is not to affect the Juvenile Offen ders Act, or to extend to Soothed or Ireland. In a schedule annexed to the measure is a form of conviction to be adopted for offences to be tried under the new law. The bill is waiting to be read a second time la the House of Lords. ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. A very full meeting of this society was held on Monday evening; Rear-Admiral Bitchy, F.H.8., Ho., in the chair. _ The papers read were : 1. On the Sources of the Puma, a great Tributary of the Amason. By Mr. Clement R. Markham, F.R.O.S. 2. Report on the Arrival of the Chadds Expedition, under Dr. Beate, R.N. ;" communicated by the E ar l o f Clarendon. The general results of the expedition are :- 1. 260 miles of new river examined, and the identity of the Chadda and Blau established. 2. The navigability of the river during the rainy season ascertained. 3. Several new tribes discovered, the friendly disposition of the natives proved, and the resources of the countries in quired into. 4. Positions of former charts corrected, and new places laid down from numerous utronongeal ob servations. 6. Materials for a complete chart of the rivers have been collected, and also for a map of the surrensd log regions. 6. Much information has been gathered con cerning the various countries visited, and the periods striae and fall of the rivers anomaly noted. 7. The general desire of the Retina to open trade and to receive instruction has been ascertained. 8. The existence and extent of slavery have been examined. 9. A favourable report can be made of the climate, as little sickness showed itself, end not a single life wu lest. The Pleiad entered frem the sea on the 12th July ' and visiting, among other places, Ab 6 end Iddi, reached the continuos on the 4th August, and on the 18th the town of Digbo, the furthest point of Allen and Oldfield in 1833. After this, the principal countries reached were Mitshi, Re mota, and some Faith provinces, and also a very barbar ous rue named Bkibal. The expedition commenced the descent on the 30th of September, with a felling river, and arrived again at Fernando Po on the 7th November, after an absence of fear months, of which 118 days were spent in the R win and Chadda. 3. Account' bun the Central African Mission, by Dr. Vogel : ocammtniceted by the Earl of Clarendon. From Dr. Vogel's paper it wu understood that while Dr. Barth was to have started from Timbuctoo to proceed via Sokoto, to meet Dr. Baal and the Chadds expedition, Dr. Vogel, with the Sappers and Miners, was to have proceeded from Huta in the month of Jane for the same purpose, bat nothing had been beard of them by Dr. Bathie. After some observations from Sir George Seymour, Mr. M'Oregor Laird, Mr. Dalton, Captain °swell, and Mr. An. demon, the MOWN' adjourned to the 26th inst. THE COMMISSIONERS AT VIENNA.—Lord John Russell will probably perform his journey by way both of Paris and of Berlin. It is said that M. Their, who was for many years Ruda& Ambassador at Constantinople, will be . . by the Coax to act with Prince Giortehakoff. THE COMIAir D OP THE FEDERAL ARYY.—The fed•pendanes Bilge states that if the Diet decides to pet the whole Federal army on a war footing, Austria will lea?* the appointment of a oonunander-ia-chief to that body, Prussia, by not joining in the alliance for war, being of wane ineligible. Bat if that army is not organised, Austria will of her own accord assume the command of her own troops, and of the troops of those states which voluntarily join bar. ADMIRAL DIINDAB —YesterdayViee-Admiral Dun du visited the Admiralty, and had a lengthened interview with Sir James Graham and the other members of the board. There is a report that the admiral hu called upon Mr. Layard for a retraetation of the accusation of cowardice made against him In the letter "from the maintop of the Agamemnon," sad that in the wrier of the demand not being yielded to, the admiral will proceed by a criminal infoneatien. _ RUMOURED CHANCES IN COMMAND.—The Scots. maw, of yesterday, says:—" Lord Raglan will, we have some reason to believe, return home immediately, though under what circumstances, i. e., what degree of compulsion, may be disputed. Lord Lucan, the commander of the cavalry, and who is supposed to be chiefly blameable for the mad and diaastroua chugs of the Light Cavalry at 13slaklava, will certainly be recalled ; and there are grounds for saying that the letter of recall was despatched from London on Tuesday last week. Several of the superior officers in th e departments of the Qeartermuter General and the Com missariat have, we thick we may state, been also removed from their commands and ordered home. Sir Charles Napier, we bear, is about to publish a letter he addressed some time ago to Lord. Aberdeen ; but it is the opinion of those who have bad opportunity ofjudgicg, that the Ad_ miral, though he may cause some annoyance by using pri vate letters from Sir James Graham, will oply farther damage his own position." 1 - GENERAL REPORT.—General Niel, aide d* camp to the Emperor of the French, Las writhe. to the Emperor an account of his inspection of the lines before Se bastopol, and of the state of the army. These letters state that the situation, on the whole, was good ; the state of the works favourable ; the French army as w ell u could be ex pected ander the edretunitanese • and the English army hotter them he had expected from ; preview scoeunts. THE WAR. The Gazette de &less; and the Gazette d'4 1198 . bourg assert positively that Naples is about to accede to the Western alliance. The Gazette 4 Verona considers the news very probable. Portugal, it aka says, is about to join the alliance ; it could famish 12,000 men. The Sreuz Zeitung states, on the con. teary, that Portugal has positively declined active participation in the alliance. We believe that at present all that can be positively affirmed is that the Allies are seeking to unite all the secondary state. of the continent in a general European coalition again s t Russia, and that the work is making steady program. "The Swedish government," says the Patrie, a i s continuing its military preparation!. The Hereditary Prince displays the greatest activity in everything connected with improvements to be introduced into the army." "The majority of the States of the Germania Confederation," says the Patrie, " are m a ki ng rangements for putting their contingents on a war footing. Their number of homes is nearly every. where completed. In Hanover and the Duchy of Nassau the recruits are ordered to join their rt. spective corps in the course of the present month. It is expected that Ha nover will prohibit the exportation of horses." The Warsaw correspondent of the Journal 4 Fraiscfort wr.tes, that it will be next to imposaikk for the Czar to levy a war contribution, as the re. sources of the proprietors of land have been all but cut off by the prohibition to export grain. Deprived of their natural market, the corn producers have been compelled to sell their corn for the use of the army at prices far below its value. The Nuremberg Correspondent, by publishing the text of the resolution lately adopted by the Germania Diet, clears up the uncertainty of meaning hitherto attaching to the Knegsbereitschaft, or maims foe war lately ordered by that body. The following is the resolution : That the governmenta be invited to place the principal contingents, as flied by the rewind military constitution of the Confederation, on a war footing; so that it may be equipped, armed, and ready to take the field, according m Art. 36 of the revised constitution, within the period of a fortnight. In order to attain this end, the following sures shall be taken : To fill up the ranks of the troops that are to be plated at a war footing. To pnrel;se all the horses necessary for the impede aforesaid, in order to have them traintd and accostonted to service. To purchase stores and supplies, and all sash other things as it might be difficult to procure at the moment of need. To make all the necessary preparations for the establish ment of the administrative, sanitary, and other services which are not organised in time of peace. To come to an andentanding with regard to the oem. mend, and the common and respective positions of the mixed corps &armee. And to give notice of the execution of the said mums within the shortest period possible, but at the latest within a fortnight. The Journal de St. Petersbourg of the 6th instant contains a report from Prince Mentchikoff to the 28th, in which he speaks of some shells of prodigiouS magnitude, thrown from the French trenches into Sebastopol, bat states that they did no harm. FRANCE. (PIOX TI3 OP TED DAILY Jaws.) PARIS, TUESDAY EVIINING. It is now said that when the Emperor leaves Paris to take the command of the army of the Rhine the compliment will be paid to the Empress of appoint ing her Regent of the Empire ; but that Count de Moray will be made President of the Council of Regency, and of course will have the real conduct of the government. An important change in the command of the army of the Cnmea, which has been often talked of before, is now authoritatively announced. That army will be immediately divided into two corps d'armee, the command of one of which will be given to Oa neral Peliasier, and the other to General Baguet. This cheap, although not equivalent to the deposi tion of General Canrobert from his command in chief, will very materially diminish the importance of his present position. The Gazette de Lyon states that when news arrived by the famous Tatar of the fall of Sebastopol, orders were instantly sent to Lyons by firms of Paris, to manufacture at once a large quantity of pocket•handkerchiefs, giving a " View of the Cap tare of Sebastopol." Although the looms were worked night and day, the handkerchiefs could not be completed before the news turned out to be false. Since then they have remained on hand ! Now, however, says the Gazette, the travellers of the Paris firms are proposing the pocket-handkerchiefs for sale to provincial dealers, in order that they may be able to offer them to their customers the moment the news of the capture of the town shall have arrived. A prospectus has been in circulation for some days for a pleasure trip to Sebastopol at the com mencement of the spring season. The travellers are to start from Paris and proceed to Ma:seines, thence to Constantinople, next to the Crimea, after wards to Egypt, and, finally, home by Algeria. The vessel fixed on for the tour to the East is the Isabella steam pleasure yacht, under the neutral colours of Tu. piny : The charge for each person is to be 12,000 f. The trip is to last three months, and only ten passengers are to be taken. The Moniteur de la Flaile announces that on the pressing demand of General Canrobert, the Minister of Marine has authorised the three companies of Marine Artillery, which are at present stationed at the Piisens, to be sent to the Crimea. Colonel Storks (the son of Mr. Sergeant Storks) left Paris last night for Marseilles, to embark for Smyrna, where he is commissioned by the English govern ment to organise a military , hospital. He was accompanied by an aide-de-camp, and two surgeons. Seventy English surgeons, selected in London, are about to follow to perform the service of the new hospital, under the colonel's orders. The Duchess of Berri left Parma on the Bth for Venice. Count Melchior de Polignac, formerly governor of the Chateau of Fontainebleau, has just died in that town. He was the last surviving brother of Prince Pohgnac, the too celebrated minister of Charles X. The Pays, in alluding to the circumstance of the Emperor Napoleon having conferred the grand cross of the Legion of Honour on the Turkish ambassador, says : This high distinction is a testimony of justly merited sympathy and esteem. His Excellency Vcly Dacha has worthily represented his country at the court of France. His amenity and conciliatory spirit have not a little contri buted to strengthen the friendly relations which will hence forth unite the Ottoman Empire to the Western Powers. Vely Pacha is shortly to leave Paris, to enter on the new function to which be has been summoned by his sovereign, but the crowd which on Saturday a tt en d e d his brilliant ball must have proved to him how sincere and sympathetic are the feelings of esteem which he leaves amongst us. The Mayor of Toulon has received a telegraphic despatch from Count de Kerviguen, member of the Legislative Corps, informing him that a treaty has Wt been signed between the Minister of Public orks and the Lyons to the Mediterranean Railway Company, for the execution of the line from Toulon to Marseilles. The government agrees to give that company 30 millions, payable in 12 equal annuities, for executing the works on the line. The line is tobe opened to the public by May 1, 1859. A sale of cotton, recently imported from Algeria, took place the day before yesterday, at Havre. There were a great number of manufacturers present, and the sale went off with great spirit. The Courrier du Havre gives the following account of the sale : “Fourteen bales from the province of Algiers, which resemble in length of fibre, fineness, and colour the American Bea Island cotton, were knocked down at from 2f. 40c. to 3f. 40c. per lb.; and 32 bales of the same quality, from the province of Oran, sold at from 2f. 35c. to 4f. 50o." SHIPPING IN THE TYNE.—The Tyas still remains tall of shipping. Then are above 1,000 ship+ in port, the greater proportion of which are coal-laden. Some of them lave been waiting for a " na tide" a month.