The Express. — London, England, 1855-04-11 00:00:00

gut erpreols. TO CORRESPONDENTS. 41dwartlimmento bite's fed fee . Tbe Camel.," Unties Swaim papw, owe be at the Mee, 10. lbeuverbbeneet. by Two *Wolk ea the ds, a paliltatios. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tim Dair—ltogsla& O. 2in --Animas. 'A ITM lasuissow —Mugalag. 141. Attemon. 1016 Stia. LONDON. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11. LATEST FROM ABROAD. (wr suaxAangs TsLassars.) (T/1011 TSB COWSPOINDSJIT Or TIM DAILY MIMI PAR4B, WiuntssoLT. The Monitewr contains an article in which the military 'midget of the Allied Governments, since the commencement of the expedition to the Crimea, Ss, explained. It is promised, also, that the various phases, motives, and objects of the negotiations shall be made known. THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE. —•— THE internal administration of Turkey may be es corrupt and feeble as people say ; but the Divan can draw up and interpret diplomatic papers with skill at least equal to that of any Christian Cabinet. The ambiguous language in which the terms propounded by the Government of St. Petersburg, at the first Vienna Congress, for the settlement of the Oriental disputer, were expressed, deluded the Ministers of France, England, and Austria ; bat the Divan de tected their subterfuges at once. And the instruc tions given by the Thum to their representative at the present Vienna CJnferenoes are characterised by the utmost firmness and the moat delicate tact. Not a single phrase occurs in them that can compromise one right of the Porte, and not a single phrase that, by indicating distrust, can give umbrage to its Allies. The unaffected, quiet, dignity of this document cannot be =epee% d. If the Ottoman Empire is doomed to fall, as the admiring pulsate of Russia would have us believe, it will fall with the heroic decorum of a CS- as at the base of POMPEY'S statue. AALI PACRA'S instructions prove that the statesmen of Turkey are animated by a high and delicate sense of national dignity that ought to command respect; es the exploits performed by the umy under Oman PACHA —notwithstanding the wretched meaner in which it is officered—prove that the courage and power of eadurance of the Turkish people is un abated. Though we have not hesitated to describe the grasping and lawless ambition of the Russian Government, the dissolute avarice and falsehood of its agents, and the callous tyranny of both, in the plainest words the English language affords, we have omitted no opportunity of doing justice to the natural high qualities of the Russian people or race. Rude though the nation be, and perverted as many of its best kelicgs are, by the influence of a bad government and worse church, we can trace throughout its whole history scintilla tions of kindly dispositions, of daring enterprise, and of indomitable powers of endurance. Our desire for the Russians is to see them divested from dreams of external conquest, and thrown back upon their own resources, to develop the natural wealth of their extended empire, and work out their own emancipation from tyranny and priestess& If the states disks can be placed in safety from the aggres sions of the Muscovite Government, and Poland and Finland rescued from its talone,our prayer for theßus sian nation will be, ego perpetwo. And our feel ings towards Turkey are the same. Widely though its populations differ in character from the Russians, they too have many estimable qualities, which national independence and more frequent intercourse with peoples of the European civilisation cannot fail to develop into excellence. It could be wished that the friends as well as the foes of Turkey showed themselves penetrated with a more sincere conviction of this truth. French and English statesmen profess to be animated by a desire to defend the independence and promote the regene ration of Turkey as a nation; bat it may be doubted whether they adopt the best means to attain these ends. Occasional 'moistens§ • nation may receive from more powerful allies, but to keep it independent, to advance it in civilisation, must in the main be its own doing. It must be ea couraged to work out its own salvation ; if it is to be allowed or obliged to remain passive while others are fighting for it, or trying to drill it into some alien form of civilisation, its case is hopeless. Now it can not fail to strike every one that, throughout the whole of the present troubles, the Turkish Government and people have been eysternatically kept in the back ground. France and England fight for Turkey and negotiate for Turkey. When Russia seeks to gain a point, by hard blows or diplomatic wiles, it thinks of France and England, and scarcely takes Turkey into account. When Austria seeks to temporise— to commit itself to nothing and gain some petty advantage—it is satisfied with bewildering the brains of French and English diplomatists, and coasts upon Turkey following their lead implicitly. The chroniclers of the war, and the commentators upon it, dilate upon the efforts of France and Eng land, and rarely honour Turkey with a passing notice. All this is mainly owing to the imperious manner in which Franca and England take upon thenmelves to act for Turkey, scarcely condescending to observe the external &meant of consulting the views and wishes of their prottige. This is bad policy in more senses than one. It prevents Russia and Austria from recognising Turkey as a member of the great republic of nations. It depresses the spirits of the Turks, deprives them of their self-respect, and effeo tinily deadens that principle of active self-reliance which is indispensable to the very existence of a nation. But the dictatorial manner in which the great &mean Powers presume to interfere in the internal affairs of Tarkry ie more mischievous still. Railed is, perhaps, of all European governments the least disposed to meddle in the domestic concerns of Mbar states; and yet Eog!and is continually in terlines in the most unwarrantable manner in the internal administration of Turkey. There is, for example, a circular addressed by Lord STIATFoItD Da RIDCLUra to the English Consuls in Turkey, on the 20th of last November, and which we this dax present to our readers for the snood time. A copy of it was transmitted to every use of these functionaries, along with oopise of the arsie, in structions, sad sows relating to the four messures adapted shoat that time by the Divan for the im provement of the judicial administration of the Otto man Bolpire, After expatiating on the importance of 48.1 Illeftervs, and the aiiisty of the British Go verment to me them firmly sad hwasla7 =Med tato sleet, Lord IlvaArsoun DI EOCWIII thus exbbets oar eameder authorities is the Levant To the esemplhhotent of We pied (Meet. I peceive that per watchful atteaties, emei the salmis* ej pew etch may be weesdally eseledre. The Terklak aathod• n ~5.: i %I ties, on whom, is tA • first HISUIRCe. defUlfll4 Mil faithful aufereement of the measures is question, have some tradi threat prejadinse teevereome, and many adverse istersals to withstand, is the IPUTCUS of their duty. At a distant* Ileac the seat of govarnammt, they saturally eland in wed . ef , , support, adasuitiou, and eneouragegirent: nor in tho pireaMit moat iceboats mid eeedisl state's! ottrelations withtarkey, ears olds of this kind ducted to them 'frees a better source than from yea and your colleagues elsewhere--; situated, as no doubt yes are, by the spirit of that alliance which holds the too countries together in close co-operative solos. I ought, however, to remind you that the most friendly interference is thou matters which immediately wooers the internal affairs of the empire, re quire to be condueted with prudence, and a jut respect fur rights of sovereign or of local jurisdiction. Your vigilance may be 'remised, your advice may be gine, the Magog/a eves of ruseastraue may be used, without transgressing the limits of propriety; and, is ease of failure, sour reprasessintions fo the GOOMMIPtig ei howls, end also to the Emboss, hero, will afford Mat preyed of redress, which, though more fleetest, may not on that account to of las osr taus eject. The issuing of such instructions by the English Minister at Constantinople was a more extreme mea sure of interference between the Ottoman Govern ment and its subjects than even Russia attempted. Russia claimed only a protectorate of the SULTAN'S subjects of the Greek rite: Lord STLTIVILD DE HEDCLITFE asserted a protectorate of the SULTAN'S subjects of every race and creed. In virtue of his own pelf arrogated authority, he established courts of appeal throughout the Turkish Empire, whose decrees were to be enforced with "certain effect" by the English Government or the English Embassy. Such conduct on the part of the English Government seems to warrant similar Goaded on the part of every Government which has oonsnls in Tur key. It dethrones the SULTAN, and establishes in his stead an anomalous and ausrchisal rule of five or six Powers, independent of each other, guided by dif ferent principles of policy. It perpetuates a state of latent antagonism or hostility among these Powers; it subjects the inhabitants of the Ottoman Empire to Governments imperfectly acrainted with their social mediae°, opinions, or sentiments ; it prevents the introduction of an honest and efficient system of Go vernment into Turkey ; it perpetuates the moral abasement of the races inhabitiug the Ottoman Em pire ; it converts our Levantine consuls into spies and irresponsible prefects of a foreign Government ; it crushes that independence, and nips in the bud that promise of future civilisation in Turkey for which our rulers pretend to be fighting.—Daily IVews. THE EXPEEBB, WEDNES.pg. THE STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE USUR- PATION IN TURKEY. [The following is Lord Stratford de Radeliffe's circular to the English consuls in the Levant, corn , muted ea in the Daily Naar.] . -- __ ___. Therapia, Nov. 20, 1854. Bi&,—Within the lut few months four important n:resorts emanating from the Turkish goveroment, and calculated, if enforced with suitable energy, to produce • large amount of benefit to this empire, either by their immediate or by their eventr.al con sequences, have been communiceted by command of the Porte to her Majesty's embassy. By the first of these measures a signal improvement has been introduced into the procedure of criminal jurisdiction throughout the Ottoman empire. New securities have been given to the protection of inno cence, and for the disoovery of guilt, in trials of that description, and above all the testimony of witnesses, to whatever class of the Sultan's subjects they may belong, has been thereby placed on a footing of per fect equality. The emend is directed against the disorders and arts of creel violence but too frequently perpetrated by irregular soldiers in the Porte • service, or by un employed individuals. abandoned to the indulgence of their passions, and addicted to plunder and san guinary crime. The third hu established the removal of every kind of restriction attached of late to the free ex portation of grain from the ports of Turkey. The fourth, and not the least beneficial, is a com plete interdiction of the traffic in slaves from Georgia and Circassia. As her Majesty's government have taken a deep interest in the adoption of these measures, they can not but feel an earnest desire to have them carried seriously and permanently into effect, to the end that their salutary results may be thoroughly realised, l oot only for purposes of general humanity, but also for the welfare and improvement of an empire whose preservation in a right spirit is now the' leading principle of European policy. To the accomplishment of this grand object I conceive that your watchful attention, and the exercise of your unbiassed influence, may be essentially conducive. The Turkish authori ties, on whom, in the first instance, devolves the faithful enforcement of the measures in ques tion, have some traditional prejudices to over come, and many adverse interests to withstand in the execution of their duty. At a distance from the seat of government they naturally stand is need of sup port, admonitioo, and encouragement; nor, in the present most intimate and cordial state of our rela tions with Turkey, can aids of this kind descend to them from a better source than from you and your colleagues elsewhere, animated, as, no doubt, you are, by the spirit of that alliance which holds the two countries together in close co-operative maim. I ought, however, to remind you that the most friendly interference is those matters which immediately con cern the internal affairs of the empire, require to be conducted with prudence and a just respect for the rights of sovereign or of local jurisdiction. Your vigilance may be exercised, your advice may be given, the language of remonstrance even may be used, without transgressing the limits of propriety ; and, in case of failure, your representations to the go verement at home and also to the embassy here, will afford that prospect of redress which, though more distant, may not, on that account, be of lees certain effect. Copies of the &mans, instructions, and notes re. luting to the four measures respectively aro en closed herewith, u well in the original Turkish, u in English or French translation. They would have been sent to you at an earlier period had not some obstacles, difficult to remove in • moment, been ocouioned by incidents on which it is not ueoessary to dwell. Although the measures themselves are already known to you and to the public at large, the present circular will reach you at • time when some expe rience of their working will enable you to act at once with practical judgment and efficacy in furtherance of their enforcement.—l am, dro., (Signed) 81111.11TFORD DE RIDCLIFFE. Tar Boairrr or Airs.—" The Miami Indus- Ws. el Great Britain" will fern the sub** at dimwits at the weekly amass of the ileelety edges this (W'edaseday) eveatag. Kr. Robert Haat, FAA., keeper et raising re. ends, wits reed the paper latrodeetery to thediesession. Oa Friday the 84;cred Harmonic Society will per form DOA et Buter-Hell, and on Wodeesday nowt the wee marls will De perforated at Bt. Ilertia's-lell. ander the dinettes of Kr. John Balkh. The mead perfumes, lel the licesieh la aid of the feeds of the Royal Society of Unasked, taker piece ea the 23rd. TeX 'RAIL - AND THE ROAD.—(From a Cone )—Apallesties wee guide to the Leeds of the of Lad Aberdare's govenesoent to permit semi woes Wee et the rate of ewe pony pee mile to be talkie& of the sem se railway tastes, but wee refused, time web mmeponeet ere prohibited. Their lord ships it sprees lesieiOm Mere wee any eisailarity between travelling by Moen vied by * rood, to Wass the sump. ties being miandell be the vial. Tbe rell bee sabered it to meek ea awesese eiesemt that kr soma by tin duties paid lave bees 21 mg teat. hes Iles had by est et panla mmo. aid Ns ',foamed eiemplien emmented reran tly to M:11 et dm trbile nel insommose levied cat lately lbws melee bete act alp fee end redeem, bet ell he °LAMM AND BOUM RAILWAY. 1112 week ending April 7,1811, &WU. 10e. 7d.; week,lBd 6,904.95. 44. Degrees, in 11366, ibxil v =. 94. Kilmarnook stooplatimiee la the eoneepead• fail week of kW pee. 5 . Court. WINDEQR, Aram...l9. The dialer party yesterday eluded the Pripet et Leheingen„ Colonel the Mon. C. 8., Mr*, and Mita Phiste, and Colonel Danzig, the etoramandiag eMeer of the Nth Regiateet. The Baad of the 94th Regiment pinged aeries dinner, and her Majesty's Private Band afterwards. The Queen and the Prints of Leioingen drove oat in an open carnage yesterday afternoon. Prices AU art accom panied on honebacm. The Equerries in Waiting were in attendance. The Lord Chancellor will receive the Judos, Queen's Counsel, Itc., on Monday next. the Hut day of Raster Terse, at hie lordship's residenee in Upper Brook•street, at twelve o'clock. PRESENTATION OF TRE BLUE-COAT SCHOOL TO THE LORD MAYOR. In accordance with annual customs, the only ez eeption having °emend dialog the last mayoralty, the boys of Christ's Hospital, 800 In number. were yesterdayl preseeted to the Lord Mayor sad the Lady Mayoress, at the Maasion-house. Mere than ordinary interest attached to the ceremony in courtinenee of the announcement that his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the new president of the institution, would be present; and the attendance was, therefore, notnerou beyond precedent. At about one o'clock the boys took their places in the &yolks Hall, in the form of three side, of a square, leaving the upper part of the roost fer the platform. At a quarter put one, the sound of mule and the hurrahs of t►e populace outside notified the snivel of the Duke of Cam bridge. His Royal Highness wu revived at the entrance to the building by a detachment of the City of London Militia, the band cf which played the National Anthem. After the gusts had partaken of an elegant dnisinor a Is fourchatte, the Lord Mayor, the Lady Mayoress, and the Duke of Cambridge, led the way to the Egyptian Mill, where they were greeted with a hearty bunt of cheers from the Juvenile anditny. His Royal Highness and his civic host and hostess having taken their seats, the boys sang s' God Save the Queen," with a piano aocomuniment, and afterwards the 100th Psalms, to the tune of the Old Hundredth. The LORD MAYOR then addressed the boys as follows: is first magistrate of the City of ',rden, it is wilt peculiar pleasure that I address you, to express bow ratified I. feel at receiving you in this ancient, this time-honoured city, which I am proud to say has brought up, from year to year, young men of genius and talent. Connected as you are with an Institution which has been so great an instrument of education, it is to me a source of great pride to welcome you on this occasion. Thos. of you who Dave attained to those honours which have issued in your being sent to the univer sity as examples of perseverance and of constant applica tion to study, go forth with distinctions which, I trust, will be crowned with God's blessing ; while the younger branches of this noble institut'on have one presiding over them who, I am sure, feels gratified at hearing of their progress, and will encourage them in their future efforts. Many of you, I doubt not, will feel desirous of entering that field in which his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge basset so bright ea example, and has won for himself such high honour. In conclusion, I give you all a hearty welcome, and I sincerely hope that God's blessing will rest upon you. . . Several rounds of applause followed the finalisation of this brief address. The company, headed by the royal duke, the Lord Mayor, and the Lady Mayoreu, then retired to an ad- joining apartment, where the boys, each of whom wore on his breast a label, inscribed, I. Ile is risen," an allusion, of course, to the great event commemorated by the Easter _ _ Beeson, were sucteuively marched to the front of the Lady Mayoress, who, Ws Royal Highness being seated at her side, F rearittrd to them money gifts, in aorurdanos with a pre determined scale, namely, IL to each of the Grecians—boys why, having won the highest prises, are about to enter ens of the univenities--half-a-crown to the mon•toss, and one shilling to ..11 the rest. After receiving these presenti the pupil rimed to the head of the entracte stairs, where they partook of wine and buns preparatory to making their exit. On hie departure as oa his arrival, the Royal Duke who had honoured the occasion with his presence, was greeted with hearty plaudits. The inhabitants of Windsor, in public meeting as sembled, have resolnd to give the most hearty sod cordial reception to the Emperor and Empress of the French, at their visit t her Majesty. A subieriptioa has been entered into, and a clmmittee appointed to carry out the objects of the meeting. It has also been determined to have a public dinner at the Town-hell, oa the day of presenting the address to the imperial visitors. _ It is believed that the movements of the Emperor land Empress of the French, after their arrival at Windsor on Monday, will be as follows :—At Buckingham Palace, on Tuesday, the Emperor will receive thesovps dalomatiya sad the address of the Corporation of London, returning to Windsor to take part in a grand banquet and ball. On Wednesday the Queen will confer upon him the Order of the Clatter. On Thursday, her Majesty and the Imperial visitors will proceed in state to the Opera ; sad on Friday, the same distinguished circle will visit the Crystal Palace. Oa Saturday, the Emperor and Empress will, it is thought, return to France. It is not unlikely, however, that on one of the days mentioned the Emperor will partake of civic hospitality, on the cassias of receiving the freedom of the City, and it is confidently stated in the Cambridge papers that the Emperor, accompanied by Prince Albert, will visit Cambridge. Orders, it is said, have been given at Caine College, the residence of the Oise-Chancellor, to snake ample preparation for the reception of the Royal vistas. It seems that on the occasion of the visit of the Emperor and Empress of the French to the Crystal Palace, the public will be 'Waded from the building itself whle their Majesties are making their inspection, but is their pro gram the latter will present themselves on the balcony In the people assembled in the gardens. Season ticket.holdere will be admitted to the interior during luncheon in the Queen's apartments, and Her Majesty and her august elation will then pass down the entire length of the Palace to the plies of exit behind the Pomp/lien Court. We (Post) understand the Emperor of the French has offered 1,000 guineas, open to Great Britain end Im bue, for a perfect broke charger for the Empress. He must be thorough. bred, quiet with troops, and stand fire. The Emperor and Empress honoured the French Opera with their presence on Monday evening, to witness the performance of the Ptophile. Prince Jerome Napoleon attended divine service at the Invalides on Eater Seeday. After the mess (says Geligsafts) kis Imperial Highness prayed for some time at the tomb of the Emperor. The Doke and Duchess of Sutherland left London yesterday alienate for Clanks, Bactiogbasastsire. The Countess of Ashbernham gave birth to a son on Eater Sunday, at Ashburnhana-place, Same:. The Earl and Countess Ore; have returned to town afar a brief tour. APRIL 11, 1855.. lART-CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE PATRIOTIC FUND AT THE GALLSR T, 121, PALL-HALLA We have much pleasure in noticing for the fourth time this meet praiseworthy endettaking. It seems aeew easy to repeat that the fends that are being rated at this , Gallery are exelusively for the benefit of the widows and trephine of Akers who perish by disuse or by the sword of the seamy in the war with Rusts. Owing to the admirable fettleg which aalmates the public in all matters unneeded with the struggle, the unlettaking in question had not bus set on foot many days before the committee were enebled to pay 7001. as a first instalment into the tette of " The Patriotic Fend" at Westminster; and it is gratifying to learn that a large sum has sloes accumulated. W• feel bound to say that this large mdleetion of works of art by amateurs im proves epee satiesintanoe. Of course the contributions from the member of the Royal family excite the greatest inter est. The Prisms Royal's composition and drawing of a soldier's wife lading her wounded husband on the field of battle has already realised two hundred guineas, and upwards of three hundred persons have subscribed a guinea each for fac-similes of the dismiss in chrome lilbeffrviby- We mentioned Miss F ' poetical illustrations of " the wreath" which her Majesty purchased when she visited the gallery a few days since, as the gem of the exhibition; but there are ether gems, as all who have an eye for art and who inspect the contributions, must acknowledge to be such. They are designated in the catalogue as those of " a lady of title " (we cannot resist lilting the veil. end revealing the name of the Marchioness of Waterford), and those of the Ladies Augusta and Honoria Cadogan. We do not remember to have seen anything mon simply, and, at the same time, more grandly conceived. than the " Disciples sleeping," by the former of these three ladies, whose productions, whether we consider the matimeet which they embody, or the style in which they are executed, take very high rank indeed ea works of art. The " Musician," the " Setae from Auld Robin Gray," the " Camaldolese Monk," " St. John's Bve"—all original compositions by this lady—will be looked upon with the greatest in by every true appreciator of artistic genies. The Ladies Cadogan, to judge from the very graceful contribulloos which they have made, appear to be gifted with the same poetical feel ing. A composition by the former lady, repro eenting a dance of fairies by moonlight, would make a very fine picture, were the latter painted in a manner to correspond with the loftiness sad delicacy of feeling with which this sketch is conceived. Depth of thought, truth fulness, sad high poetical feeling, characterise the composi tion of " the Pillar of Fire," by the Lady Honoria. These lady amateurs are evidently inspired with a true and dig nified view of art. We recommend particular attention to a series of masterly sketches by the Rev. J. L. Petit ; to Captaia loglefield's, R.N., very elaborate and clever draw- tog if " the Flagship of Don Alphonso de Oman, die- muted the god of September, 1668, in the gale of wind which scattered the Spanish Armada ;" to Miss Houlten'al druriogs, particularly to that lady's clearly coloured, mei I spiritedly executed, " Portrait of C. Wilson. Etq.;" is a collection of drawings by Miss Blake, more espeohig that lady's very pleasing illustration of " Rest by the Way side;" to a very boldly coloured sketch of "Trees in the Isle of Wight," by Miss Pell ; and to some very effective drawings by Mr. D'Rgville. With these brief notices of the very interesting works we have pointed out, we must, for the present, conclude. The connoisseur who will give himself the pleasure of examining those we have pointed out will find himself on the track of other works of meat. We have mentioned some of the gems of We Exhibition el Works of Art. We cannot resist briefly alluding to a natural curiosity, in the way of art, lately contributed, with true patriotic feeling, to this collection, via: an oil painting of his hone, by a self-taught cabman of the name of Jones. The knight of the whip is also an amateur of the pencil; "Anch'io sono smears dells belle arti," says Cabby, and straightway indulges his taste hi art with a view to gratify the best feelings of ►uman nature. There are so many and such a variety of idea suggested by the sight of Cab men Jones's painting of his horse, that we feel the ineonve Risotto of being limited in our space. In this gallery we are surrounded by the works of the mighty, the titled, the f d and the eared for, and here we have to acknow ledge the plenum by right of the work of one whose fate i► ►ad, born as be is to rough it night and day, often exposed to " the pelting and pitiless storm," eat off even in his call ing from theta ha serves, bat with whom he now Gods him self closely linked, united to them through the iifluenes of one common sentiment, and the exercise of one common talent. One tooth of nature makes the whole world Ma. And here Art, the child of Nature, is performing the lame kindly oaks. But there are other ideas flowing from the consideration of this subject which are aloof an encouraging nature—a cabman who devotes a portion of his spare time to the cultivation of the art of drawing, is most probably humane to his beast, and himself a sober, well-conducted man, a pattern to his fellow-cabman. We know it does not necessarily follow that because a man is au amateur artist he is a pattern of goodness and humanity. Still there is every probability that each an amateur as this is so; and the chances are immensely in favour of the horns driven by such a man, who himself would no doubt fare better than may of his rivals on the stand could it be publicly known he was Cabman Jones, the worthy art•contributor to the Patriotic Fund. Brighton appears to be well filled with fashionable*. Amoapt the arrivals annoonoed in the Brighton Gwirdion of this day, we observe the Earl of Ripon, Lord Melgnad, Sir F. and Lady Bathurst, the Duchess of Manchester, Viscount Malden, Mr. Vernon Smith, M.P., M. Tricoupi (the Greek Minister). Mr. Sergeant Kioglake, Sir Erskine Perry, M.P., Mr. reins, M.P., Mr. Booker, M.P., Mr. Minns, M.P., stc. The Speaker of the Moans of Commons and family, and Mr. °regent, M.P., and Mrs Oregon have eopged apartments at the Norfolk Hotel. The subscriptions in Glasgow towards the ;Royal Patriotic Fend amount to the handsome sum of 44,7691. 3s. ltd. The late John Murray, Fag., merchant, London, has left the whole of hie fortune, said to be little short of 9,0001.--sabiect to life interest in favour of his widow and nine—to the Free School in Maeda,. The Bury Post, announcing the death, in her 92nd year, of the widow of Admiral Sir Charles Cotton, Bart., obaerves—" The deceased lady's health had been breaking for a long period ; but she had lately been worn down, as it were, by the shacks of the news of the deaths of her own nephew, and the husband of her niece, in the Crimea, with the departure of two of her grandsons—eons of Lady King—for the seat of war. Her ladyship was thy wife, daughter, granddaughter, sitter, and mother-in-law of admirals." The North British Daily Mail says that Mr. Baater, who has succeeded the late Mr. Hume in the re presentation of the Montrose burghs, has not taken any active share in business for same time, bevies been engaged in travelling on the continent and in Amain. During the winter ►e lectured to various mechanics' Institutes of the country on the institutions of the United States, and The marriage of Charles Sohrieber, Req., fellow of his views on this subject have made their appearance in a Trinity College, Cambridge, with the Right Hon. Lady small vellum. Charlotte Elisabeth Guest, widow of Um late Sir John J. The Duke of Devonshire daily entertains a bril l:kat, Bert., sad only daughter of the late Earl of llt.nt circle of fashion at his 11112414 D in Kemp -town. We Lhideey, was solemnised yesterday, by special &mew, at ars glad to leant that his Grace's health continue* to lm the parish skunk of St. Martin-la-the-Fields. Her lady- p rove , ship le well blows for the seal Watch ski has "agog ia We are glad to state that favourable accounts have the isi r masal of the NSW elledita" of the workmen been received from Paris of the health of Mr. Blacken, employed at the Dawlak Iron-works. She is the mother of Y.P. a large family, and the bridegroom (Who has beam Ulu to It is probable that the pecuniary irregularities in the ddeet sea) k her healer by 16 years. which the Hon. F. J. B. Villiers has taken part-traasao- General Sir John Burgoyne, 0.C.8., arrived at time lavolving over 100,0001.-will shortly be made the Visas& ea Saturday. subject of legal proceedings. We (Scottish Record) hear that Mammal boo° Bulletins of the cholera still appear in the Journal seriously ulertablad' they have sot f° * al al flat de St. Poterabourv. Oa the 29th alt., there WOTO 188 eases already adopted sad soled apes, the proposal to divide the is that city . deli" the chair of Natural History la Edinburgh U a i- Rossini is seriously ill-a species of ape only too cushy. prevalent and dangerousin Tummy, la feared. The Minister of War at Turin has granted a stun Count Potocki, brother-in-law of the Austrian of MN. to the sub-llestesants of Infantry, mot to the at our Court, is sow lleutessats of 'shaky and sub. Hostesses of Cavalry sad ''-'—reigus ee Italy 0 , 10 7 101 n. of oes ; a 7 - " , ezeo ; s4 7`m ia l: k z ...,Artalm. , ..4loor,•w,;l6 4 . 4p „ bu linitiaga be to ir i i ..Can t .ll.ll.4p i .,....Anallar,2 : Iwo to them ) ham friendly feelings of the new Cm. He sopossTios• to W s.y , - , 5 1 4 ,74' n - n - n rporttheen . is said to have awed himself of the neutrality of Tunny end Naples. pesos of their eatlt On Monday the Rev. Basal Robert Carter, 8.D., Great didn't, has been mused in Lombardy by Fellow .1 Emmanuel College, Cambridge, was issafteted s e the late laaagatioas tho mom of B ro mb ee s, to geffelk, es the F annon Monday's sitting of the Vienna Conference scarcely K the Mann, Fallon, sad Ilehelara of fete College. lasted one hear. It affeede Ike much pleasure to learn that Abe Letters frona Constantinople speak of approaching health o f Lord Haddo b oo t on e e mo b k o p eon a by floe reforms is the Ottoman Empire, Wain an to astesish the 'Umtata of Egypt as to easmusp the ezpostatles that Drs wield . It is rag that the ararlarr equality of . 11 the sub' wimp wa s M ibis to mows I. by p e a mostin dsti, Jaw of the Empire, Mseeu essa est Clisinfeee of en nets, la*, ease of ant asstle.-liention &mkt. Is nee* to be plodelnilL NAVAL AND MILITARY. 'ADMISSION OF OFFICERS INTO THE ROYAL NAVY FROM THE MERCANTILE MARINE. The following further notice relative to the admis sion of officers into the Royal Navy from the mercantile marine has been issued by the Admiralty : " Admiralty, March 26,1865. " With reference to the circular order of the 14th March, 1866, inviting officers from the mercantile martin LS nffir themselves fur the appointment of acting second raastcr is the royal navy, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty ere pleased to direct that such candidates WI do not peewee the full qualifications preacrihed by Admiralty Circular, No. 68, of 17th November, 1849, published in the Quarterly Navy List, shall undergo a preliminary examination before the hydregrapber of the Admiralty and two masters, previ ous to receiving an acting appointment; such preliminary examination to be subject to the ilual rumination that would be required before confirmation to the rank of second master. Copy of what is required of those candidates who may present themselves fort zamination before the hydro grapber of the Admiralty is enclosed." GENERAL ORDER. Head-QuarteigleitTregangtopor,2.6th Marsh, 1656. At a general court•msrtial assem►led at Camp before Sebastopol on the 14th day of March, 1855, by order of Field Marshal Lord Raglan, G.C.8., Commander of the Forces, and continued by adjournment to 16th of March, of which Col. Scott Iteignolds, C. 8., 18th Royal Irish Regi ment, wax president, Lieutenant A. M. Richards, 77th Re giment, was tried upon the following t. fignoh.—" For conduct unbecoming the character of an officer and a gentleman, in having, is eamp before Sebas topol. on or about the 19:h of, February, 1855, deliberately and wilfully stated to a regimental court of enquiry that a certain paper writing, then produced to the court of en quiry, was not in his handwriting, be well knowing the said statement to be false," of which charge the court found the prisoner guilty. SENTENCE —The court having found the prisoner guilty of the charge preferred against him, does now adjudge bin, the prisoner, Lieutenant Arthur hlautice Richards, 77th Regiment, to be dismissed her Majesty's service. (Signed) W. G. ROMAINE, Deputy Judge-Advocate. T. SCOTT RZIONOLDR, Colonel 18th Regt., President. Approved and confirmed. 16:h Marsh, 1856. In consequence of that which accompanies the proceed lop, I will recommend that Mr. Richards be allowed to re ceive the value of his cou mission. (sign.a) RAGLAN. SOUTHAMPTON, Aram 10. The order for the General Screw Company's steamer Argo to proceed from Southampton to Poramouth, to convey detachments of cavalry from the latter place to Scutari, was countermanded to-day. The Argo is to take oat from Southampton to the Crimea, a field battery of artillery complete. consisting of 213 artillerymen, with officer., and 190 artillery horses. These men and horses form two troops. Captain Millman's troop arrived to-day, and embarked on board the Argo, and Captain Gibbon's troop will arrive at midnight to-night, and will embark early to-morrow morning. Refreshment has been provided on board the Argo for the men of Captain Gibbon's troop as soon as they reach Southampton. The heroes will be stalled in a capital cattle shed in the Southampton docks. The Argo will, it is expected, leave Southampton to-morrow afternoon. PORTSMOUTH, Aran. 10. The Dunbar, sailing transport, Captain Scott, arrived at Spithead this morning from the Black Sea. She left the Bosphorus on the 24th of January, having on board 460 sick and wounded troops from the British hosuitals there, who were sent away owing to these hospitals being overcrowded. They were all landed at Corfu, with the el ception of four who die :on tho passsge. The Dunbar left Corfu for this port on the 16th of February, having on board Colonel Buchanan. Royal Artillery, lady, and four children; Lieut. Moore, 34th Regt.; Quartermaster Ander son, 48th Regt., and three children; and the following ladies whose husbands have gone with their regiments from Corfu to the Crimea :—Mrs. Baleomb, and four children; Mrs. Grace, and three children; Mrs. Wrey, and two chil dren ; Mrs. Walker, and four children; and Mrs. Rowan, and three children. The Dunbar also brings home 162 in valids from the regiments gone from Corfu to the seat of war; and 163 women and 288 children whose husbands and fathers have also gone to the same destination. The Dun. bar has made a good passage home ; she called at Gibraltar, wtere she remained some days, leaving again for this port on the 28th of February. The Vengeance, 84, Captain Lord Edward Russell, left Gibraltar two days before the Dunbar. DUBLIN, AFRIL 10. A detachment of commissariat drivers, consisting of 48 drivers, • superintendent, sod two sub.superinten , dents, arrived in Cork on Saturday evening, to await the arrival of &transport to convey them to the Crimea. As many more were expected to arrive yesterday. Recruiting for the three regiments of Cork militia is at present proceeding with great activity, but the number of men daily volunteering into the line still keep the regiments below their standard. The Cork Examiner says: "As an example of the success which has attended the exertions of the recruiting agents in Cork, it may be stated that one sergeant in the Cork Artillery has himself had upwards of fifty recruits attested within the last month, independently, of course, of the recruits obtained by the other sergeants and corporals of the same regiment." ADMIRALTY, APRIL 10.—PROMOTION: Second Mester G. 8. Aldrich, (1847), promoted to the rook of Muter. APPOINTMENTB.—Lieutenant W. F. Johnson (1655), to the Orion, in, screw steam-ship, of 600 horss•power, at Chatham. _ Muter J. R. Fittock (1827), to the Fiagard, 42, at Wool wich. Clerk C. K. Foulkes, to the Childen, 12, at Chatham. THE FIRST WARWICKSHIRE, in pursuance of a circular letter from the War Department, dated the 27th ult., which contained instructions that all the militia men ' enrolled prior to the 12th of May last had an opportunity of returning to their home., after having served &Voile days, until their next period of training, upwards of 3410 men left. and returned their clothes during the past week. About 120 volunteered to remain, aad received 20s. each, and were sworn in under the new act. Since then many others have returned from the country, sad enrolled them selves a-fresh, for the purpose of doing duty with the regi ment. There are now abut 400 privates in the regiment, a great many of whom have been allowed two or three werks to visit their friends ; and it is expected, from the:number of recruits constantly coming io, that in the course of a month or so the regiment will have attained its usual strength. A majority of the men belonging to the 2nd Regi ment of tbo Warwickshire Militia, who took advantage of their 66 days' service having terminated, have returned to the regiment, and many more are expected. The men of the tad Warwickshire, in this respect, have shown a good example to other regiments, and when marching orders are received for Aldershot they will probality be 600 strong. The regiment has its fall complement of field offleseis, cap tains, and lieutenants, and is only wanting five ensigns to make this portion of the corps complete. The conduct of the men while in training has been of the most praise worthy description; and it is expected that this regiment will be among the first to march to the new encampment, but the precise time of its departure is not yet known. OUR SOLDIERS IN TUE STOCKS.—" Who put my men in the stocks ? " will to the natural exclamation of Queen Victoria when she hears tnat, in consequence el no substitute being provided for the leathern instruments with which our soldiers were formerly throttled, they are to be choked off with the old leather stocks from which, some months ago, common sense and humanity succeeded in re lessiog them. Newspaper reports inform us that Sir George Brown bad scarcely returned from Malta before he issued an order for seising every man under his command by the throat and cheektng his respiration with that leathern' apparatu., which may perhaps stifle the voice of complaint, though they will not be able to bow their seeks in submis sion to the decree of their general. Considering that they have already pretty stiff work in the Crimea, it is too bad to make their work still stiffer by the stocks, which have been already once discarded, and are now resumed with a sort of neck or nothing recklessness on the part of the authorities, who have not 'lmpeded in suggesting some more agreeable ties by which to bind oar men to the ser vice of their country.—Purtels. THE WAR. --- 11.-- A letter from Kamiesch of the 25th ult., in th e Noniteur de la Flotte, says :—" It is General Parole. who commands the part of Sebastopol known by th s name of Karbielna, or the Faubourg of the Marine, He has under his command five regiments of in, fantry, et company of engineers, and 2,000 Greek s , General Zalwking, an officer of reputation among Russians, serves under him. Our rockets have ow sinned rather considerable damage to the town; o he of them fell on the house of Mentchikoff and killed two orderlies, and another of them set fire to a 'rasa . steamboat. \Ve have received favourable Weil gence from the coast of Circassia. It appears that the, Russians have decidedly com mence d the evae tt ett es . of Soudjak, not however without being harassed by the Circassian., who are said to hove ta k en an dime and some soldiers prisoners. The forces assembled./ Kertch are under the orders of the Hettnan Chi; moutoff. They are principally composed of Cop e s From 30 to 40 vessels have been sunk in the Channel of_Kertch, and to the east of the Quarantine port, i n order to prevent our steamers from approaching th e place. There are at this moment at Kertch three war steamers, the Molode'z, the Birltz, and the Col. ahida, and also three armed sailing transports, bet none of them have had the poli'eness to come oat and have a brush with the Fulton or Highflyee, which are cruising off the port. There are also there a number of small merchant vessels and feu steamers. A letter from Varna, in the Danube of Vienna, aye:—" Omer Pacha undertook, on the 23rd Marth, a reconnaissance in force against the kursian poy, tiona in front of Eupatoria, and a rather sharp encounter between the advanced posts took pla ce , This combat would probably have become a geared engagement had not Prince Got tchakoff given orders to retreat." Letters from Toulon state that the number of troop embarked at that port for the East since the 26th of February amounts to 14,717 men, and the vessel s d all kinds cmp!oyed to transport them to 21. Ths Charlemagne alone took 1,206. ODESSA, Msacat 20. Governor-General Annenkoff left yesterday * Kberson. 11e is charged with the commissariat and tram. port, of all the troops under the command of Prise l Oortchalto4f. Captain Baron Oateo•Seern weed gat* day with despatches from St. Petersburg. He mat Prise Gortehekoff at Nicolr iew, end delivered his despatches% him, and the general at once left for Perekop. &tu n from Eapatoria state skirmishes were taking platm eemy day round that place. In the affair of the 9th the RI& sians had 800 men put has de combat. One regimsat If dragoons had 93 men killed, and 114 banes killed. The following is an extract of a letter from a lab I geon, dated Camp before Sebastopol, March 23: • • • I was up till hall-past three this MM. ing with wounded Frenchmen. The Z ;staves will 1 0311 be exterminated at the rate they are losing meo. These night attacks are horrid offsirs; there are always mistaless: lug night the French on the left of their advanced works es& took Russians foe English, and the English on the extreme right thought the Russians were French. Some fellows of the 97th, who brought in poor Captaia Vicars (since deed) would insist in telling me that the French bed fired iate our troops; the Russian dead in our trench is of coursetise strongest reply. A number of Greeks and Armenia's fought with the Russians last sight. The French killed& Greek officer whom they declare to be 7 feet high—a giant. There is now lying dead is our trench an officer, suppled. at first to be a Runian, but his papers show him to be a Greek. Re had 35 gold pieces on his person. The deal on the Mamelon hill are nearly as thick for about the four& of an acre as they were at Inkermann. We have sorties and skirmishes eve y night, and I am kept constantly 011 iht qui me, Wag so near to the Mamelon attack. INSTRUCTIONS OF THE OTTOMAN PLENIPOTENTIARY A r VIENNA. The Pays gives es follows the text of the inetrute Dons with which the Ottoman government has fora• nished its ambassador at Vienna, as to his conduct in the Conference : As moon as your Excellency announced that Prince Gad elsakoff, in the name of his government, had accepted the four g tee points, with the interpretation assigned to them by the three Power', it was notified to your Etat lency, by order of his Imperial Majesty, that you should at tend the conferences about to be opened, but that yea should discuss the questions raised merely ad referendum. The conditions of the future peace are is fact of too vital importance fur the Sublime Porte to permit of their being decided without the greatest circumspection and the ma tweet reflections on our part. It will only be after a long end minute examination of those conditions and the gals• tions of right connected with them, as likewise of the ele ments of their practical application—it will only be when everything shall have been concerted with our allies, that our plecipote ntiary at Vienna can be furaisbed with precise and definite instructions. Nevertheless, as it is requisite that your Excellency should have a few mind instructions, to which you can adapt your language so the occasion may require, we impart to you the following general indications. When the time .ball have arrived for giving a complete definition of the four articles, and drawing up a plan for a treaty of peace, the Sublime Porte bowing the iedispetabh right to be heard both on the principles that coustitets its basis and on their practical consequences, it is iedispecuble that this plan should be submitted to our considentiel before it shall be proposed to Russia for her acceptance, sad that we should first discuss it with the Allied Powers, with the view of 'eig at one combo. resolution. ' This mode of proceeding is too natural to admit of a doubt., respecting the adhesion of tie representative ci those Powers on this subject. Nevertheless, by way of additional precaution, and to obviate any future mirsader standing or difficulty, your Excellency will on this point enter into formal explanations with Count Hued, Lord Westmoreland. and Baron Bourqueney, end you will transmit to us the result. Let us now proceed to the four articles above mentioned. In the first it would be incurnbent,w hen abolishiegßitedie protectorate over Wallachia and Moldavia, that the rights granted by the Porte to these two Principalities, as also to Sergio, should be established in one organic law, and plated under the pearantee of the great Powers. On this wide there are numerous other important observations to be weds, which deserve the attention of the allies. In the first plisse they should not be left under the erroneous impression. which appears to exist, that a real protectorate has ever been granted to Russia by virtue of treaties concerning the Danubian provinces. All that results from those Inane mat be reduced to an assurance give n to Russia, that the institutions established in these provinces should be 'wake modified nor destroyed. But under the pretext of neigh bourhood and similarity of religion, Russia, as is will known, without the slightest respect for existing Mints. ti ons,and by. preatpervenion of engagementa,aought merely to gain her own ends, end satisfy her own private interests, as the conduct of theßussian consuls, in arrogating adefede sovereignty at Jassy and Bucharest, has at ell times proved. It is therefore meet that the guarantee of the Powers shield be dearly defined and explained, so that, without at all interfering with the internal condition end administratioa of the Principalities, it may confine itself appropriately to securing their privileges from destruction, and their existing institutions from encroachment. It is equally essential to ------ . .. APPEAL OP THE HOLY SYNOD.—The Hamburg constitute the prerogatives of the princes governing these April 1 the appeal of the Holy Synod, relative to the forma. New contains a letter from Warsaw, which stems that o n previews', so that they may not indirectly trench upon the Hon of the militia throughout the Raman empire, was read sovere i g n ri g hts from the pulpit in all the church., of that city. At the rights of the Porte.. por the rest, further end more special instructions will be sent to your Excellency on cathedral, in order to impart more solemnity to the act, the this litivcsand point. governor and principal functionaries, civil and military, With respect to the second article, concerning the guidon were present. of the Danube, Russia, by her assumption of rights apper- HA/toy - Mt.—A letter from Hanover of the 6th, in • tabling to the Sublime Porte on various fluvial points of the the Cetorie Giteeite, says :—" The mien of the committee of the Diet on the internal 'Bain of Germany, and which river, has given rise to numerous and serious difficulties as has proposed to invest the old nobility with ire eminent to i e free navigation. It will be necessary for us to explain rights for the composition of our First Chamber, and of on oar side our observations repeating the menus of both whist they had been deprived by the revolution of 1848, safeguarding the navigation of the Danube and mind& has caused the greatest agitation throughout the country, int to tact theri g hts of the Sublime Porte along the banks The inhabitants, who considered that the privih gee of the -- nobles bad been for ever abolished, are quite inn ewe 0 1, of this river. consternation at the present revival." . The third article relates to the revision of the treaty of THE PkINCIPALITIEL—The Wanderer at Vienna July 13, 1841, with the view of connecting the mistime of of the 6th says:—" Toe Comes General of Frisco and the Ottoman empire more closely with the equilibrium of England, who hays returned to Bucharestatter.a prolonged Rum* by putting au end to the predominance of Russia in absence, hoisted their Sege on. the 26th ult., and thus indl- - ' • eated in official intend bestow sty le that the diplomatic relations between the Blan k Sea. The S u bli m e for the display those powers and the government of Wadeable *ere re- Porte, g of sincere friendebip which the great powers grateful eetaluished." ing on her in this matter, approves of the material mean s ARRIVAL OP THE RUSSIAN PEIPE Situ.—Yee- by which these powers are desirous of virtually terminating linter the Realm ".. 81 ffillior captured off ffotroPooloilkt tlith Belgian preponderance. But it is at the same tine the by the Penile squadron, on-its approaetrto attack 'Mt let- date of the Sublime Porte to take good heed that the mi dmost, arrived in the river Themes Is •cheyg• of a navel - - don of the treaty of 18 41 be not couched in terms c a p able officer end weir, pat on board by ter ffirkkesty's ship President. . Of infringing en Re rights of sovereignty in the Bosphorus . . .. I