The Express. — London, England, 1855-04-10 00:00:00

nit !tore gss. "NU Gus/ram - Am ..... ... admegirmumb Istorisi w he . The inglie Lamina Eva* pe, mem Is at the Oise. 10. 110111111 by TIM Olillik sa is if of palsalse. InGH WATZIL AT LONDON DAMON. Tam Dar—learslas, lb. fa ... Memoir. 7b. 41. a. lOatossow—Maratai. MOUTAISID. 114 Me. LONDON. TUESDAY, APRIL 10. LATEST FROM ABROAD. We learn free a reliable source that the British savoy to the Visalia congress is not likely to leave %sena before the 90th, as the definitive answer of the Czar to the points eontaised in Prince Gaeta ba kers despatch is not expected till that loges--DoilY COMPANY'S Tumour z.) NYBORG, iiOIIDAT, Nowt. The Imperious, Regales, and Conflict bays jut anchored here, and are going to coal. The remaining ships of the advanced sq adroit are at Landemona.— Deily News. The Theis publishes la a mond edition a despatch *eon Marseilles, dated thu swain& anneanoing the arrival there of the Clyde, which left Constantinople ea the 29th alt. The following is also given by the Thses : "BALALIAVA, MAC 27. ■ Then was ea arikties an the 24th for two -biere, for berylag the deed. The Rusk= buried 400 am. " Colonel Kelly is a prisoner at fiebutopol, slightly wounded. " Captain Montague is a prisoner, and is not wounded. _ _ "Thar wen &lie slums as Saturday and Moir- day, 94th sad 26th March. " It is hoped that the lire will open this week." .:, ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM. Twet kindle, the ariitocraey need be under e alarm. There is no revolatioaary plot hatching against the permanence of the " order." The popu lar demand to have administrative employment throws open to men who on neither ousel:ion nor dependents of the aristocracy does not sins at the ex anion of the aristocracy from the executive govern ment. The people do not wish to see the aristo any superseded by men of the middle elan bat u ndated with them is the discharge of Acta duties. TM people of England are attached to their mo narchical inatitutioos, and believe that an aristo cracy is indispensable to the maintenance of the Throne. Bat they believe, also, that even a mo saechieal government is strengthened by a liberal Wham of the popular element. They no that the anxious nepotism of that aeration of the ariato away which devotes itself to politics as a profemion, • be. almost succeeded in excluding plebeian competi tion. They trace to this emu the infirmity of pur - goes and imbecility of action which have characterised ear Government throughout the Oriental struggle; and therefore, u the fi rst step to administrative WOOS, they ask to have the aver of civil employ. aunt thrown open to general competition. It is no answer to theme complaints and demands to tell us that Pitaamentary Reform, Municipal Reform, the Emancipation of the Negroes, and the Abolition of the Corn Laws, have been car ried by the inflame of the middle causes, in despite of the strenuous ',fistulae of • • majority of the aristocracy. That the middle classes should have been able to carry these reforms, allows their strength; that the strongest notion of -the aristocracy should have opposed them, shows its want of sound political knowledge, and its imperfect motion of political justice. We have had good legis lative measures passed, becalms the voice of the. middle dames (when they chows to exert them selves) is powerful in the Legislature; we have an —imbecile administrative Government, beanie the --middle classes are unrepresented in the executive councils of the State. We are told that popular or middle clam policy is - left to be carried out by the aristocracy because " we Britons have the weakness of loving a lord; and of contemning our noble selves;" and we are expected to except this as a sufficient reason why no change can or ought to be attempted. We know that this weakness is the cams of the evils complained of ; we —know that the middle classes have themselves to -blame that their "order" is utterly unrepresented in the executive councils of the State ; and it is pre doely for this reason that we are labouring, in con cert with other earnest reformism, to awaken - the middle classes to a moss of the injustice -they are doing to themselves and the nation at large. Their representatives are now admitted -to the Legislators, and the consequence is that -legislation has been greatly improved. Their • mresentatives are still excluded from the executive mato& of the State, and the oossequence is that the conduct of these councils is characterieed by anything -eathw than energy, wisdom, and honesty. Our ex clusively aristocratic administrations do wet " carry -oat popular or middle-class' policy I" they sys tematically thwart and counteract while profaning to anion:* it. An attempt is imbed made to prove that middle clue stetsons' are an impossibility. To this end it is alleged that "men of the middle class, and espe cially the most competent men of that clam, do not greatly devote themselves to public or Parliameatary life, just bemuse it is expen sive and absorbing, never profitable, and often thankless. " Middle-class politicians do -cot lad public Ws more "thankless" than aristocra tical politicises. Middle-class politicises, who have earned the pablis gratitude by real and essential services, generally fled that gratitude cling to them, oven whoa they try it merely by their eccentricities. As.to the expessiveneas of a political career, the middle dames seed not shrink from it on this acemet more than they do from the legal retook& No mu will wisely devote himself to either, who has not fresi some other moans mesas sufficient tamable him to "bids his time," to wait for the coming in of bal ms% Bata large proportion of the middle classes ere ea able to do this as the aristeersey. It is rarely the ebbs sass--the wealthier members of the aris tosrasy—who devote themselves earnestly to politics ea a business ;it is the younger sow, the lack &ads," who desire to earn the mesas of maintaining themselves in the rank they were bore is. Lastly, me to the alleged mprolitableness of a political career, ie the sibesersey led it merefitabler We suspect, il•it did not pay, we shield s o t a n d se ma y of 'urging% it. To the middle slams seek a eerier THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 10, 1855. is decidedly ay all the prises are eepressed by the aristocracy.Me aristocracy. are Oil. and overpaid, for their petite serviess ; but sway middle-oleis man who andert•km to terve his esestry is a political °amity tLeapecti* to-de so without hew reward. As Ibleg es this gleam is up held, it will indeed be difficult to allure the meet com petent cases of the middle slam into public life. There can be so mere egregious fallacy than that by which the English public is deluded into acqui escence in exclusive aristocratic rule—the pretext that it is served gratuitously. No man gives his services for nothing, unless those services are so utterly worth lees es to make it woeth nobody's while to pay for don. If a servant—either public or private—is sot paid directly, be will pay himself indirectly. A man, who pays himself indirectly and clandestinely, is pretty sure to overpay himself. There is no balancing accounts with him; for it is impossible to say how much he gets ; and then—the assumption being that he serves gratuitously—be gives himself airs whenever the quality of his work is called in question. Unpaid sinless are the dearest of all. The aristocracy psi= to serve their country gratuitously as illaistsas of state if all the jobs they are onathi by their official positions to perpetrate, in belmlf of themselves, their relations, and de ment% were counted up, it would be found that they are exorbitantly overpaid. The landed mobility and gentry prams to serve their country gratuitously es justices of the pesos ; and they pay themselves by perverting the administration of jastico to @steam the pride and self-will of their clam, and to quarter their hangereon upon the public puree. The purchasers of commission would have us believe that as their professional pay rarely equals in amount the interest they might obtain by lending their money, they, too, serve their country gratuitously. But look ing bask upon our national history, and seeing bow many colonial governorships, tailoring calamities, diplomatic appointments, int., have been obtained by the high-born traffickers in military rank, we are driven to the conclusion that here also unpaid services are the dearest of all. Let an end be put to this delusive system. Let all who serve the pub lie in civil or military capacities be fairly paid ; let each men only be employed as can work efficiently ; and let no more mon be employed than us memory. Such a reform would give us * better army; a better local administra ties of justice; a better executive Government. Ms beginning must be made with the central admi hilmstive Government; for, so long as it is conducted os to sham gratuitous system, officials will uphold *at eyeless in all other departments, if it Itele or to keep themselves in countenance. le pa for this reform at the hands of *MI lAD have been brought up in the system, mid wits profit by it, to folly. The middle clango— urs siesatsd and politically powerful medico of the poills—atast take the task in band if it is ever to be They can do it if they will ; they :11111=4.11hrliainentary and Municipal Reform, the Abolition of Slavery, and the Abolition of the Corn Law, and they an also carry Administrative Reform. The wretched war mismanagement shows that they have not a moment to lose in setting to work. They must shake off their excessive love of lords; and they can do so. Humanists and foreigners laugh, not without reason, at the peer age-worship of the English middle classes; but when Peers outrage the feelings, or encroach on the proprie tary rights of Englishmen, the insult or encroach ment is resented with an energy of which every other European people is incapable. Adminis trative Reform means, in the first place, free acme to the high offices of State for competent men, whatever their birth or connexions. It doss not mean exclusion of worthy Peers, bat it means admission of worthy commoners. It is for the Howe of Commons to effect the reform; and it is for the electors, on the first opportunity, to return a House of Commons that will set earsestly and energetically about it.—Doily News. THE NEWSPAPER STAMP. The memorial of the prophecies of th. Yorkshire motes, which we published last Friday, sup plies mother argument in favour of the plan pro posed by the Csascatt.oa of the EXCHEQUER in reforesce to the Newspaper Stamp. The evidence h the more valuable as it is unintentional. It h dear, when the parties interested cannot agree as to the teems spot which postal privileges ought to be am mild to the press, those terms had better reeds axially as they are at present. And it is prod* for this reams that we have supported the proposal of the CHANCELLOR of the Brom:atria. On Free Trade principles we are bound to approve of the removal of a tax which tends to mocopoly—and the newspaper stamp does so by preventing small capitalists from entering the field as rivals to the proprietors of existing newspapers. Oa prised plea of expediency also we think that the Meister lase acted wisely "in leaving to news papers the same postal privileges es they now ealwe, and in allowing other serials to obtain similar privileges on complying with similar condi tion. The demand of the Thew, that a penny—or eves a halfpenny—should be the maximum, or rather tho only poatal charge upon a newspaper, whatever its weight, and the application of the country newspaper proprietors before alluded to that a halfpenny should confer the privilegeshow the manner is whisk the Casscatioa of the Excavate& would lave bees pressed if he had not laid down a fixed and attain vela We will only observe in passing that neither suggestion seems to be founded enemy principle of equity. Oa the contrary, if any alteration is made, it would seem to be fairer that a sliding scale 'height be established, beginning with a farthing or a half penny on smaller serials, and increasing gradually with the size of the paper, seeking the aid of the Pt:steaks. But to every line, wherever it may be drawn, there may be objections. Whatever period or limit be fixed to confer a privilege--as that of 21 years for the majority of an individual, for instance— must be arbitrary and in some cases apparently un just and inconvenient. We accept, therefore, the existing limit as the best, and think that the CHAN CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER has been liberal in not restricting it to that which existed up to the abolition of the advertisement duty, as the reason foe taking off the supplement stamp will now caw to exist. The suggestion of adopting a stamped envelope, to be used for the transmission of centupled papers, opens the door to vast inconvenience ; whereas the marked distinction which will exist between stamped and an stamped papers will prevent that contagion which would otherwise arias in the different issues. Bach can will know whether be desires a paper for his own reading or to share it with a distant friend, and be will be able distinctly to give his order. If an vs stamped paper might be transmitted through the Post-offloe at the ease price as a stamped one there wield in effect be no differmeo, and the prep tical malt would be that all papers would be un stomped, with a corresponding hindrance to their eirmalatioa. The cheap paper is designed especially for local circulation, and he that as p will be requisite, and &Way by head will be easy ; bat at greater &teases we much doubt whether distribution can be Anted at a lower average sharp than Id. pee paper. If it can, it is stomp that some entseprisieg• publisher doss not attempt it now, last alul of charg ing Id. extra for all the Lowden =want mere at tbo Wenn to white they are now sent by pareeL But while availing the abolition of the news gaper stamp and the meatus sow before the House, wi:do so co the assumption that a cheap and cosy means of enforcing oopyright will be granted. If this just demand be not conceded--a demand which newspapers are now entitled to urge, but which ought to be irresistible when a cheap political press I. legal ised—we should prefer that the newspaper law should remain unaltered. We know, our persoeal difficulties —the took before us. We do not fear competition ; and if we did, we should disdain to allow mere private oondderations to prevent our advocating principles which are true and immutable. But it would be quite consistent with these feelings to object to a measure tainted with injustice, and to refuse co ope ration with those who would disgrace the name of Free Trade by making it ancillary to barefaced robbery.—Daily News. gut Court. _......._ WINDSOR, Aram 9. The Clem and Prime Albert, aecearpealed by the Primo of Lining's, walked in the Row Park this noniag. The fear older sanners of the royal family rods on horse back. The younpr royal children took their sainstand exercise. A deputation, consisting of the Right Hoe. the Lord Mayor, tin Right Hon. Jinn Stuart Wortley, M.P., Re nfrew of London, Mr. Alderman Sidney, and Mr. Alder man Win, had ea interview with Sir °nip Gny on Saturday, at the Rocareffico. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. OF THE WIPOROR OP FIANCE TO TWO QUOIN. - - Yesterday a special court, which was most numer ously attended, was held, for the purpose of onsidaieg what steps should be takes by the arporatioa for the put pose of testifying their respect for the Emperor of the Freak, on his appending visit to her Majesty. The discoed= we. conducted with aimed doors. The following resolutions were mutinously greed to, I amid enthusiastic cheering : " That it be referred to a committee now to be appointed, to make the requisite arrangemeata for the pravatation of the edam in the GentikalL" " That a somata be now appointed, mating of the ' Lord Mayor, the aldermen now meat, sad rte ossanwase from each ward." " That an eatertalemeat suitable to the digalty of this City be provided en the etweeloo, at the daildhall, to which his Imperial Modesty the Emperor and the Elapses of the Preach be requited to honour this City with their , presages." " That the Eight Honourable the Lord Mayor, the Re ardor, and the likerilfe, attended by the Remembranosr! do welt apes his Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the Praia, ad humbly request him, is the acme of this coact, that he and the Impress will mask, to honour them with their royal preemies at an eatertalatant is the Guild. hall of this City ca the Nokia of the presentation of the address." "That it be referred to the said committee to take the proper measures for conducting the entertainment, for Silas up the Gaildhall, and to report from time to time to this court if necessary." ♦ awake*, composed of the Lord Mayor, the aldermen I present, and a econuoater from each ward, was immediately ' formed, and they retired at once to an mikado; room and sommeaesd their labours. o The wart then adjourned. Her Majesty, it is said, placed apartments at WiVillat for twisty persons at the disposal of the Eva peror sad Emma of the French, bat their Imperial Ma- Meths will sot avail themselves of the entire latitade thus impiously offered them. The Emperor will be anon• pealed by the Dale de Beessao, Grand Chamberlain, M.M. Fleury, de T0'14.4;808, sad Edgar Noy ; Menial Valliant will also assompsey the Chief of the State. The salts of the Empress is ...posed of Priaesee d'Eesliag, Madames de lioutesello sad de Malaret, of Coast Timber de la Pagerie, Greed Master of the Household; sad of Rana de Pierre, Mester of the Horse. . .. . A letter from Paris nays : "A religious ceremony tool plan list rimier (Good Friday) in the chapel of the Tuileries. A few miasma before the smoke cow mesced the Emperor sod Empress Neared habited in black—the Empress wore the Spanish =stelae. Except at **senses thi *error and Empress remained kneeling &trim the service, which ►sited about an hoar." His Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland left town this morning for Dublin, accompanied by his private chaplain, the Rev. Walter Crete ; his private secre tary, Major Pormeaby ; the Bon. Min Lucille' ; and Mr. Charles William Granted, M.P., sad the Han. Mrs. 0m- M. Upon arriving this evening at Siolybeed, his Break limey and suite will paw the night there, messing over to the Irish coast by spacial beat to-morrow morning. His Kcal {army will eater the Irish capital in state, at half-past two the same day (Wednesday). The name of the Rev. Dr. Stanford is removed from the list of the Vise-regal Chaplain, some person bevies canumtalested to Lord Carlisle that the rev. gentle man had been dismissed as Chaplain to the North Dublin workhouse, for poselytking tendencies. The Governor-General of India has raised the salary of Dr. O'Shauglinessy, the superintendent of electric telegraphs in ladle, to 3,6001. per sawas. The doctor has bma informed that t►e Menem has been given, not only • aska3wledgmeat of kis valuable services, bat because, bad he Itemised at the Mist, his salary would have been higher then that whisk be has hitherto received as taper ialsedent of alestrietelsgraphs. Layard, M.P., has delivered an interesting lec tors es Nineveh, in the Bast Church, Aberdeen. Dr. Cumming announces a course of eight lectures on "Prophesy as applicable to the present times," to be delivered la the metropolis. The first is to treat of "the end of the wield." The members of the Art-Union bold their annual meeting in the Haymarket Theatre en the 34th. In a postscript to a Fast-day sermon just published by the Bev. Mr. /haw, that godless= complains of She unauthorised pablketion of his Wares sad memos& These are pirated, collected, sad made into a book, and be km had the meetiAsatioa of seeing a new volume announced as by ►iss, wit► a tide he never authosised nor heard of, in a way he mall not eoutrol, and with a view to profits in which he had as share. _ The pliant Captain Vicars, who fell in resisting the late sortie of the Russians, wee the brother of Lady Rayleigh, and his loss (rye the Clialaufwal Mimi* bee carried into the noble family at Terling the pangs of private sorrow, in which the eoeaty deeply sympathies,. Lord Erroll observes that his wound, described hy the TialoB as " comparatively trifling," was so serious shall .4 the .ad of four months he had boss redued to a seats MIMS debility. For the last two months, however, he MB been Derwin with his regiment at the depot, ready at emp moment to return to more active sal= when called ups, though still unable to bald a pea or wield a sword. A letter from Sebastopol states that (inn. Ostas. Seeks. has ordered all females to quit the town. The Onsd Dubs Nicholas, it is added, has given sash wawa a sum of m 00.,. The intention is attributed to the Emperor Alex seder of yields( Finland—and Helaine= I. particular— Wen the ensasseaseseat of operetta= in the Rallis. The Commissariat alms serving in the CritMs hies addressed a letter to Commissary Guess' Fader, he dre peepose of Wag tssasseitted to Lord Namara, In whisk they complain of °Maio remarks mode in the Reese Commas ea the 19th of February b 7 Lord Pahasseten, unil whisk they Interpret as haply's' that they ass set of the stem of sesiety ogled " gentlessea," sad whist' plainly stew them of having been " wanting is =pad% energy, inedlipaes, and in the emirate and slalom perfonnaeos ag esty." Coaulading that as a body, the °Hears of the Chimmimarlat do belong to the "gentry." they add " if we have act acquitted ourselves to the satisfaction of our sups tiers we lay= inquiry Ist* oar sesduct." A committee, asmposed of members of the Churl Presseteat Deimos IMIM7, Evaltrylival Mane% National Ask r I mama Mika° I, Om, have convened ea " sore. W e mid= of preeletemte " on the seldeed of lisyseeth, Se TWA, nest st Vas frelosama's :MEAL URY. . THE BALTIC FLEET. THE DOWNS, MONDAY. At 6 a.m. the signal was made to the fleet to get steam up, and shorten in their cables, which was at Does obeyed r and at ten minutes to six the signal to weigh was made ; the Nile led the van, and the other ships in succession followed in two lines; the weather was rainy, sad we could not discern the fleet very far, but I now trust they have left this year to add more glories to the annals of English history. The correct and service-like manner in which every signal Mahon made since the departure of Admiral Duodu from Portsmouth, shows the determination with which he intends carrying out his orders. ELSINOILB, Aram 3. The wind hoe been at B.E. for the last three des., and has brought a great deal of kw through the Sound to the northward, but the passage between this and the Groands is still closed. Four Means frigates of the eying squadron arrived and anchored is the Roads, April ht., at aeon, but were °Nigel to return is the afternoon, some with loss of as amber and chain. Five sail, via., the Arro gant, Elk, Tartar, Archer, and Desperate, came in again yesterday, and the Swedish side of the Bound being clear of la, they proceeded up to Landsmen'. Four of the above squadron have arrived in the Belt. NYBORG, Aria, 3. Yesterday the Belt vas full of los. A large steam frigate, supposed to be H.M. steamer Imperieuse, was seen to the north of Roscoe yesterday ; she subsequently stood to the North, and has probably anchored off ReGnaesszt. PORTSMOUTH, Aran. 9. Is oonoexioe with the visit of the Emperor and Empress of the French to this many, the Commanderin- Chief at this port, Vice-Admiral of the Bed Sir Thomas , Jolla Callow, is to hoist his flag on board the Neptune. 120, sailing ship, Captain Hutton, sad proceed in her to the Downs, sad pay the naval honours on the occasion of the imperial visit. It is expected that a squadron will mom posy the Neptune to the Downs. There are aboat twenty two men of war at this port, but these are mostly, being steamers, donated for immediate warlike operations. There are, however, In addition to the Neptune at Spithead, the sailing ships St. George, 120, Captain Byres; Calcutta, 84, Captain Stopford; and Powerful, 84, Captain Mamie, on particular envie*, which would forma fine rural gaud of honour of thumb's*. It is repeated hero to-day that the Baltic fleet, under Rear Admiral Derides, will Wee the Downs on Wedges day for Kiel Bay, in which we they would not be avail able to do the hosanna of the reseption. Admiral Diodes has his flag ma board the Nile, 91, screw, Colrain Mundy; the Doke of Wellington requiring repaint that will take a week to effect A large another of artificen are at work es her at Spithead. The vessel, the Americas emigrant ship George Hurlbut, whisk so clumsily got into collision l with the Duke, is also is harbour, having her still greater injuries repaired. The screw steam transport Alma arrived in harbour from Liverpool last night, to embark troops for the Rest. She has two detachments ea board from Ireland, and receive* here, we believe, 900 of the Guards. They were telegraphed to arrive down here from Load°n to-day, but this order has been countermaaded, the Alma requiring some short time to fill up with coal, &e. They are now expected down to- morrow. The Great Britain, screw transport, is filling up with mid; she moires emu 800 toss to complete her. She is alongside the yard coaling ; the Alma is aletimide the coal balk is the harboar. The Greet Britain takes oat, it is reported, 1,400 troops, Moladieg militia, to the Mediter- raglan. The Adelaide, sailing transport, arrived at Bpithead this morning, to embark stores, &c., for the Crimea. Admiral Baperiatesdent W. F. Martin shifted his flag from bine to white at the mimes of the 81. Vincent, 103, at 8 o'clock this morning, on promotion by death vacancy. The court martial which was yesterday to have investigated, at Portinioatb, the lass of the Tiger did not meet, oa seeciant of the absence of two material witnesses. DUBLIN, Aran. 9. The Royal Mail steam Alp Arabia, now employed as a cavalry transport ship, mind off Kingstown on Satur day night, bat did not enter the harbour eta yesterday (Sunday) morning , when she embarked 7 3 horses and 87 mon of the 17th Lanmre. She had previously embarked at Liverpool 117 horses sad 18 mos of the 4th Dragoons, and 47 men of the Bth Buss,.. She also takes out Colonel McMahon, of the 6th Dragoon Clued& The Arabia sailed from Kingstown at 6 p.m., vociferously cheered by crowds I of spectators, who, notwithstanding the race, collected in numben on the jetty. The troops appeared in excellent health and spirits. The Devonshire steamer, from London, arrived at the North Wall at 6 p.m. vistaed y, having oa board one *meant and 14,0 U privates, Irish soldier., belonging to dif ferent infantry regiments at present in the Crimea. They all sahibit anmiatsasble evidence of the present struggle, the attire party, with the exeeptioa of one man, having beat wounded severely in the lege, in addition to other wounds on several parts of their Wdies. A party of the Polies received the gallant fellows, and conducted them to Kre. O'Brien's Hotel, at the North Wall, where,• pursuaat to the generous &entities of the Karl of Carlisle, • comfort able dinner was immediately provided for them. They appeared to be deeply sensible of the hospitable treatment they esperieneed. To-day they will go (after receiving breakfast sad dinner) to the liigger's-bush Barracks, from whence, la a few days, they will be forwarded bee et ez penes to their respective districts. The 3rd Buffs expect to send oat a strong draft W the Crimea is a few days. The 16th depot leaves Battsvant =Tuesday for Tenehal. The depot 3rd Bath, from Kinsale, septet to retiree the , 16th is Buttavant ; and it is expected that the South Cork , Militia will replan the Erd Buffs in Kinesis. The Sled ' (Meson's) depot ere expected thusly in Cork lamembe boos Waterbed. On Thursday 470 men of the 2nd Somerset Militia, sta tioned at Cork, demanded their discharge, the time fur which they were booed to serve bevies expired, and on the following day they proceeded by steamer to Bristol, 40 of the weather having however agreed to re-enlist, and having Italy returned horse en furlough. These mem, says a Cork paper, have had to [pay their owe expenses of return, and were not allowed to rotate any article of regimental cloth ing wept those which they had paid foe. Numbers of them were to be seen yesterday walking about the streets bare headed, pie' to the drapers' shops to purchase ceps. The departure of suck a lure number of mat has greatly weak ened the strength of the regiment, whisk I. now redacted to little over 600, including the 171 reunite who arrived on the Ist inst. The County of Dublin Militia lave contributed 160 picked men to the Hop within some few days past, and the minima is fast recruiting its full strength. It is under stood that it will shortly be moved to Portsmouth. Notile,tions to the t ff. a that prop gals are required or an ad‘itirnal Ordinate contrast for t+ • comp cn the Carnet of Kildare. have b en Pined from the office of the Commanding Evil Engineer is belled. The present tenders are to be for the sappy of thirteen hundred and eighteen cent-iron stoves for °San' and soldiers' rooms; elates hot thins for the °Seen' mess kitchens ; and three hundred and twenty-eight east-iron trucks, with eighteen Inaered yards burg of iron rails, for the purpose of re- emeleg sal of wiry damnation from the vicinity of the W'l'M lest gyms agenially, will doubtless be found of the Meisel pastal value during the summer smiths, in with& the eagainpment is to be held; and it is an eneourag ag do le am that the Lathering* at home are above taking belea hem the matters of sanitary precaution which were se Inn sad es weemilingly urged on the attention of oar Weft aIIOUL Weed, at Limerick, has, it is understood, been the Board of Ordnance for a parade ground Tr • tis minima ADMIRALTY, P.79u. 9. PROMOTION. Com mander J. Boehm (180), promoted to the rank of captain. Arpoutrltab es.—Captain J. Balm, to the Melamps% 42 store ship, at Sheerness. Lieutenant M. R. Pubsll (1862), to the Exmouth, 90, MOW steam ship, of 400 hone power, at Davenport, for ser ving fat, Lark, 2, gm boat. Magee J. Milton (1866), to the Childers, 12, at Chatham. Amiteat Surgeons H. M.Donnell (1864), to the Light ning, peddle wheel stem vessel, of 100 hone power, at Wergild& i and A. Fisher (1861), 3L.D., to the /Uptake, 120, fin peetienlar sonless. Acting Snead Muter. 11. J. R. Pouch, to the Home% 60, screw stems ship, at Sheerness ; and E. Colborae, to the Hawke, 80, mew steam ship, et Shosenem The detachments of the Foot Guards, numbering about 1,100 meo, for some time under °Men for foreign *melee, were to hem left town yesterday saarniss for ego barkatioa for Malta and the Crimes. C•owde splinted at many of the points at which they would pose bar their way to the South-Western terminus, but It bused out that the departure was postponed to this day. Two hundreds' the Tower Hamlets Light Infantry I arrived ia Wooled* genius yesterday (Monday), and 200 more, with the safari Wed et the Regiment, are to arrive to-day to do duty is garden. GoVersissat hes perekseed the Granville, of 800 Mae, for IAIOOI. The Gresrifle wee built in 1164. et Mod ample, by Wise esd Gardiner, sad has only image ere trip to Rallsa. Ms wee esii as aseesat et the eel abase' of freKsts improving to Begles4l, bees= the Base Govern r.est mews to meow the metreets for tresepeete in the 1 stud, m Bleak Bea, liars, est lON preferrisg to empl the sod demoy Ito own ships is eseveyias THE MUTSU BANQUET AT THE MANSION - . HOUSE. --o-- Tho civia hcepitalitin for the season were prim ps:4ml, laseguremil yesterday evening by • maeniflorat banquet in the WOO Hall, to whisk a meets more than ordinary istane(wis attached, iaresequenee of his Royal Highness the Dike of Cambridge being one of the Invited guests. The more emphatically to mark the City's appre- , of the high reek sad ;table claims of its illustrious ear, the Lord Mayor had invoked the ruler of the Zs* Limbs Militia to line the struts from Temple-bar to ,lbsiss the lienelemelhouse, and form a guard of honour in the vestibule el Me latter. The appearanes of this truly ore st itutional /fees was highly er dibble, and evoked a warm I I compliment hem Ma Duke of Cambridge on his arrival et the Massiewhiude. His Royal Higheess looked re markably well, although consiaerably bragged with his recent exposure to all sorts of weather, and had grown much stouter since his campaign. He was loudly cheered se he alighted from his carriage by an immense crowd, and within the hail was repeatedly obliged to acknowledge the enthusiastic cheers of the com pany. Nearly all the cabinet ministers had received and had accepted invitations, bat from some unexplained ruse net one of them appeared at the dinner except the Chan cellor of the Exchequer. The foreign ministers, however, mustered in considerable fora, sad the general company was more than usually numerous and distinguished. On the removal of the cloth, Hie Unman. gave, in secretion, "The Qum, Priam Albert, sad the rest of the royal family," with a few brief but appropriate observations, and the toasts having been duly respelled to, His Loarimir next proceeded to give," His Roy! High s= the Dabs of Cambridge," a prince, he said, sot more remarkable for his royal blood and lineage. than for the dis tinguished manner in which he had fulfilled all the relations of We. (Hear, hear.) His Royal Highness came of a race renowned for their' daring, bat by his own iadomita- Me courage in the field he bad shed new lustre as their reputation. (Cheers.) His Royal Highness had now returned to his native country, and had brought with him, in addition to the reputation of a gallant soldier, the men valuable character of the soldier's friend. (Loud deers.) Always foremost in the fight, his Royal Highness bed, the moment the fight was over, fugetting his own fatigue, only thought of the oomforts of those over whom he was Our in command, and who had been stimulated to deeds of daring by his example. (Loud cheers.) He (the Lord Mayor) rejoiced at the presence of him Royal High nem, as affording him an opportunity of testifying to the City's reeoguition of his Royal Highness's merits, to which he must not forgot to add his patronage of their numerous charitable institutions—a duty which he inherited from his I illustrious father. (Hear, hear.) He begged, then, with out farther preface, to give "His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge." (Loud cheers.) The Duke of Mumma—My Lord Mayor, my Lords, Ladies, and Goatlaussa—lit has at all times been to ate re source of the plow pinion awl satisfaction to be allowed to pay mg impose to the chief magistrate of this great city, and to only the hospitality of the Mansion-hoarse; but on no remiss has my gratification been greater than ,on the present, when, with his lordship's permission, I find myseit addressing so distinguished an auNenos as I now see around re. lam amply grateful for, I may say the enthusiastic meaner in which I have bra meet ved, not only in this hall, but when coming through the streets of your city. (Loud cheers.) Sines I last had the honour of addressing the citizens of London I have witnessed many various scenes, and passed through much excitement. Sometimes I have experieneerd satisfaction, sometimes tasted glory, but sometimes had a share in events of the most painful and heartrending description (Hear, hear.) But I can assure you that after all these changes, whether agree able, honourable, painful, or disastrous, there is nothing which is the rues of mere pleasure to me, or which is considered to be • grater reward by me, and those who were engaged along with me, than that on our return to our native country we should receive the hearty welcome sad kind consideration of the dimes of London, and the general population of this great country. (Loud cheers.) I Bat when I find myself placed in this honourable and proud position, I sox myself this qualm—How have I obtained this positron ? As for myself, I have done nothing more I than my duty, but I feel that those over whom I have had the honour and satisfaction of being placed in command, have nobly conducted themselves, and in short achieved all the glary. (Loud chases.) A. general placed Ifa high entrasod has indeed no easy task, but when supported as I have been by such men r the Errs sad soldiers of the first division, or any ether division of the British army, he feels assured in the cousciessues that that indomitable spirit to which your lordship has so hap pily alluded pervades every rank, from the highest to the lowest in his command, that it will not fail him in the hour et peril, but that the borer of the country must always be safe in such heals. (Load cheers.) Bet, in addition to having men rider my command such as I have described, I have also bad the advantage of acting with allies with whom it has always been my greatest pride and pleasure to be associated. (Load cheers.) I see near me a gallant ad miral with whom I was associated in the Modifier ranee', and I sal glad to have the opportunity of assuring him sad his Gauntry that one of the greatest sources of satisfaction to me has been inky association with the French army in the Crimea. (Loud cheers.) That gnat alliance, so happily cemented, sad which, thank God, is growing more intimate from day to day, will soon receive a new impulse from the arrival in this country of that great and illustrious man who now roles over a aeighbouring and mighty nation. (Loud cheers.) May that alliance be of long duration, and may such • friendship be cemented between England and Frames as is necessary to secure the pear of the world. (Hear, boar.) My lord, on my own behalf, and on that of the bravo sad gallant moss with whom I have had the honour to act, allow me again to thank you and this com pany for the manner in which my health has been received. (Loud cheers.) The LORD MATON nest gave. the "Calved naval and military union of England sad France,' associating with the toast the rates of Admiral De Chabaance, Bit George Falba, and Admiral Ryder Barton. Sir One. Pomona briefly returned thanks for the 'mili tary weir. The Vicomte Di CIABAJIIIIS, who spoke excellent &Pleb, returned thanks for the French naval service, at the same time vouching for the friendly feeling of the Preach navy for its kindred serer in England. (Cheers.) The same feeling existed between the two armies, sad was, if possible, atroapor, bears it was stimulated by enure action, COULMIOSI duties, mutual assistance, mutual esteem, and the great hardship which both bad suffered together. (Loud cheers.) Built ape so solid a foundries, be trusted that the friendship of the two services, and of the two esantries, would be of the most lasting and imperishable Mender. (Loud cheers.) The war had, it was true, per dased great calamities, but it had presented ems gratifying spectacle, and that was the soldiers sad sailors of Reseed sad France fighting side by side seder the rase leg sad in the same just and righteous quarrel. (Hear, hear.) Admiral Rises Sarni briefly returned thanks for the British navy, bat expressed his regret that two proposals he had made—re to lead the allied fleets into Sebastopol, and another to ham the Russian fleet—had net been entertained by our prenteent. The Loma Idavoi gave, with one or two observations, "Her Modesty's Ministers." coupling with it the name of the Chancellor of the Briterner. The Cauttemoi of the Excizania, in returning thanks, said that the illustrious duke who bad recently ad dressed VIM ' had attributed much of his success to the diens sad men by whom he was supported. In the same 1 way did her Majesty's ministers derive strength from the support they received from the great ammonities of this ectuntry, mess he new saw represented in that hall, car sunities estehested for their industry, wealth, and power. leek support was in some sort a sharing el the respesibility of public affairs, and • sure way of triaging them to a successful termination. It was rip by the aid of well-agar public confiders that minis. teen swill ips out with their difikult task, and that coafideace Waft mew especially necessary is the office which he had Malimour to 111. He felt that the confidence of the public Wahl only be retained by • faithful observance of all the government engsgemsate, by a strenuous upholding of the labile 'edit, and by faithfully fulfilling all these pecuniary Miliffildets, epos the du discharge of which, after all, the rave sad borer of this country so greatly depended. After assimplisent to the Duke of Carabridin for his permed share al iMobattl• of Inkerniana, the right hon. gentleman or defied by again thanking the company for their emutsay in *Wm the toast. The next toast was " The foreign ministers," the Turkish minister bliss salted on to return thanks. M. Manaus returned thanks for the diplomatic corps, sad especially for the sympathetic feeling everywhere es. hibited towards Tartly. He wee glad to We the Ofpeas Unity of doing so in the premium of au illastotto t hk e who's valour in the tiald had woo the admiration dike whole Turkish army. (Cheers.) _ _ The Duke of CAMIIIIDOI gave the "Health of th e Lord Mayor," which be did with the greatest pimento, foe two reasons; first, because it was always a pl aaaaaa to him to propose the health of the chief magistrate of the city or London; and, secondly, because the present Lord Maym was L • gentleman with whom be bad been a long tilos acquainted, and for whoa Its had • high respect and esteem. (Hear, heat.) His lordship 111. t only worthily supported the traditional hospitality of t h e city of London, bat was also the efficient patroa of its notnerons and valuable charities. (Loud cheers.) - _ . The Loan Rivea felt deeply grateful, both foe the manner in which his health had been proposed and the way in which it had been received, and the pleases* wu enhanced by the presence of many without whose aid l ie should never have attained his present position. (li ss4 hear.) H. trusted he should always do his duty, so ss te retain the respect and sateen of his fellowships, (Cheers.) Rio lordship, before sitting down, gave "Tits Church, and the Right Rev. Preacher of the /lonic( Sermon." The Bishop of Oxvo&D briefly returned thanks, Mak i that the length , of the morning sermon must eompea to t t for the brevity of the evening speech. He thought ho could not hatter improve the occasion than by impressi og upon the company, in this time of war, and conerguestly unusual vicissitude, the urgent necessity of attending to i g their charities. (Hear, hear.) Oae or two other touts were then disposed of, gee a s company adjourned to the drawing•room. THE SICK AND WOUNDED AT THE HILL. TART HOSPITAL, PORTSMOUTH. A large number of sick and wounded troops trod the Bast ars now quartered at the Military Hospital, it Portsmouth, and the inhabitants of the borough hare dis. played great kindness and sympathy towards them. L ugo quantities of clothing, comforts, inzuriee, &c., had pound in front the first, but it being at length found the the is. discriminate ass of sores of these by the patients less et. ' tended with injury rather th►n benefit, neutralising td dietary regulations and medical treatment of the hospital (Asia's, the following garrison order has been issued by the liesttsnant.governor, Major General Breton : " In noosequence of the inconvenience and trussing, which attend the visits of gentlemen and other plum at the General Hospital, the Major-General is obliged is establish, as a rule, that no one be admitted nein* Am in uniform, or with the written sanction of the priacipti medical officio . , and accompanied by a medical officer, or gm hospital sergeant, or the ward muter. All ours resin of food or clothing intended for the sick must he gins through the principal medical Aker. " (Hy order) FRILDIRICT. MAITLAND, "Lieutenant-Colonel and Town-Majot." 1 COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL AND LOSS OP A LARGE AMERICAN SCREW STEAMS& LIVERPOOL, MONDAY Dioaxmo. I regret to report the total loss of the fine UM mew steamship North Carolina, from Philadelphia for this port, by a collision in the Channel. The antortuate steams? was of 1,300 tons burden, and bad been rectally completed at Philadelphia. She left that port for Lbw pool on the 4th of February tut, but put back ore the with the blades of her propeller broken, and having sprug a leak. She had encountered very severe gales, and shipped heavy seas. Having undergone the necessary repairs, she sailed again ander the command of Captain Washingtra Symms@ on the 21st alt., and had progressed very Gnu ably antil her snivel in the Channel, when yesterday nee* ing, at half-put 1 o'clock, she was run into by the ship Robert, Captaia Stagg, which left Liverpool for New Or- leans on the sth instant, about 30 miles west of Teske light. The ship struck her on the port side forward dab. foreriggiog, causing her to fill immediately, and she auk in about ten minutes. The captain and 21 of the crew we taken on board the Robert, and brought back to this Fat this morning. The remainder, 11 men, were seen is the boats alongside another ship at daylight. Beyond the he of her catwatekthe Robert sustained little or no damage. In connection with the recent Turf defalcation, the n S"th iro ifi r ca ßochu n .E"ims tly a li teru, d oe d G n aliite e to of is tu t o li e b i:H i r o v e n es o . fr F kl — bl ran bay : ow: T c: hstlu h hisp e J lopepo . g o ! rids n id tl e V iTha e d g m gar l ym i te s e:re a.tanp, 7 is.d, r esad 4 :l P e . whom, at the general election in 1852, the late lamented:Er. dismayße rns!on tua w amongrdawas sacrificed . evening e n e g T Tory r it w A a supporters m a y da titian' had been appointed at a certain pink pothoues re presenting the Tory purists, to wait on the bon. gontlersoa and mill upon him to resign his seat. Everything had boss arranged for the departure of the ' deputation' to Lonrho, when it occurred to one of them, more 'spacious the, the rest, that the difficulty was where to find him, and this re mark taking every one by surprise, the deputation' broke up in disgust. However, rumour with her thousand toupee has been at work, and it is stated, coif deafly, that Er. Villiers has hinted to certain parties his lineation of imme diately retiring from Parliament and resigning his seat foe Rochester." There will bee meeting of the choirs of St. Pasl's, Westminster Abbey, Canterbury, Cambridge, Caroni, Windsor, and the gentlemen of her Majesty's Chapel Royal, at Ewa, on Tuesday cent, for the purpose of performing several anthems of the great composers of our cathedral music. The meeting is for the benefit of the Choir Bray violent Fend. Mr. F.. P. Bouverie has been re-elected for the I Kilmarnock burghs without opposition. la the COOS of a speech to his constituents, he observed that in hie opium the source of the disasters which have happened to as army in the East lies in the fact that we have not had thecae plicated machinery of an army at work since the war of de French Revolution. "We had to put it in action at oast and, until we tried, we did not know where the week pew lay ; we did not know whether it would break dolt a whether Kwould work." Speaking against the nowspipa stamp, the honourable gentleman remarked:—" I met say that of all the marvellous things which this sr MI produced I wonder at nothing more than that ear derful thing, a newspaper. Take one of our great London morning papers—you find recorded then the events which have taken place in every corner of the ; you find not only this, bet you find the wants of every nes detailed by means of advertisements. You find statewide that have been made and opinions offered by the best sod wisest heads in the country. You find there the eritier of the most profound thinkers of the day ; and all this psb lished every twenty-four hours, and circulated ovate length and breadth of the country. I look upon tha so no mesa advantage , and I think that the pater libeffl and freedom that we can give to a system which yields earl vast results even when restricted, the greater would be Me boon to the community at large." A letter from Hamburg in the itsdependaner and" asserts that the Allies will find in Finland 100,000 Beim troops, under the command of General De Berg, ready oppose them, and that a force still more considerable WI operate, under the command of General De Sievers, yid any attempt at disembarkation at Courland and Livoaia If the necessary funds can be raised, it seems ex tras-1y probable that the nest annual galleried of th e Royal Agricultural Society will be held at Chelmsford. Trials for breach of promise of marriage hors hitherto been alined anknown in France, but the Imperial Court of Niemes has just declared that the non-szecatiosd a promise gives a right to damages. Dr. Mandt, the physician who attended the Cat Nicholas in his last Linos, has published a dreamt:sada ac count of the closing wanes of the monarch's life. "It ten minutes past three," says the doctor, "he aikido. after I had mentioned the came of his father confeem4 ' Mast I then die t' I answered, ' Yes, sire.' Note so* of his face moved, not the least quickening of pulsed* ' How,' said he, can you find the owing* thus to doom r to death ; to tell me so to my fate " First,' said I, hf so doing, I fulfil a promise made to yea a year and s hog ago:; the moment of which you then spoke to me, aim ! leo some; moreover, I thus fulfil a duty to tha Emperor. Too have several hours to live; you are in full poseadoe your faculties, aid can direct them at your will—at teat I believe so. Lastly, sire, I love you, and this le sot 0 ° moment to ooaoeal the truth, which I smears you ma ear to hear. His reastaaaaso Imams serene, and be et out his hand. 'ilia; ' I thaak you!' Stich was the VP peror." Company,TlN blwi long v are is :_ th N e w . n ß e .uk direc wor t t o b rs , zsg of theta e ß ele . Hoary Pundit!, Esq., Joshua Lockwood, Bats Margetson, Bog., C. Mention, Esq.. Edward Virarner,Bsee K.P., Carats fd. Shattloworth,, sad Colonel io - r - iii-