The Sun. — London, England, 1855-06-14 00:00:00

THE ;,4UN, LON D4IN THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE. 14 1855 PAPERS RELATIVE TO THE CLOSING OF THE CONFERENCES AT VIENNA. PRESENT. For Austria—Count Buol-Schauenstein and Baron Pro kesch-Os ten . For Fratiee —Baron Bourqueney. For Great Britain—The Earl of Westmorland. For Russia—Prince Gortschakoff, and hL. de Titoff. For Turkey—Aali Pasha, and Aarif Effendi. Count Buol opened the meeting by the following words : "In the twelfth Conference I had the honour to express the opinion that the modes of solution calculated to carry completely into effect the third guarantee were not ex hausted, and I claimed especially for Austria the task of looking for means of accommodation. " We have devoted ourselves to the accomplishment of this task with a zeal proportioned to the importance of the interests at stake. I have drawn from onr preceding deli berations the elements of the solution of which I tun about to submit to the consideration of the Conference. In re flecting upon those deliberations, I was convinced that various principles, admitted on all sides, might be con sidered as beyond discussion. Those principles are— " 1. To connect more completely the existence of the Ottoman Empire with the European equilibrium. "2. To establish a just balance of the naval forces of the two States bordering on the Black Sep. " 3. To give a new confirmation to the rule of closing the Straits • reserving always to the Sublime\ Porte the right of calling For the fleets of her allies, whendver she might consider herself menaced. " These bases being obtained from the negotiation, what is the obstacle which has prevented a perfect agreement on the whole of the third guarantee ? "The principal difficulty, I should saythe only one, rests in the refusal of Russia to impose upon herself by Treaty:a one-sided limitation of her naval forces in the Black Sea. But while declaring such an engagement to be an infringe ment on the rights of Sovereignty of the Emperor, the Plenipotentiaries of Russia have not beforehand declined to examine every, proposition relating to the principle of limitation, and they concurred that a stipulation of this nature would not be an, infringement upon honour, from the moment that it became the result of a mutual agree ment between the contracting parties. " With the view of removing this difficulty, one of the French Plenipotentiaries, who no longer assists at our de liberations, has pointed out a scheme which I am happy to reproduce, because it records the sentiments of modera tion which stamped his instructions. " A mutual agreement between the Plenipotentiaries of Russia and the Sublime Porte on the basis of a balance of their respective forces and the subseqtent annexation to the general treaty of an arrangement signed by them on this subject, were proposed by M. Drouyn de Lhuys as a proper means of conciliating all interests and all require ments. _ "This course, dictated as it appearste us by an idea eminently conciliatory, seemed at the same time to be the practical application of a happy expression of the British Plenipotentiary, who also is no longer with us. "In the eyes of England (so he expressed himself) the best conditions, and the only ones which were admissible, would be those which, while being the most conformable to the honour of Russia, should at the same time be suffi cient for the security of Europe, and for preventing a re turn of such complications as that which it is now a ques tion of putting an end to. " It is, therefore, this idea (the honour of which belongs to the French Cabinet) which has served as a basis to the project that I am about tos read, and which, while it is perfectly honourable for all pas ties, unites, in our eyes, all the elements of a satisfactory solution of the third gua rantee." After this preface he read the project, of which a copy is hereto annexed. Having finished reading it, he concluded by thus expressing himself : " Austria I am authorised to declare, would see in the acceptance Of this outline the complete bases of an effec tual and honourable solution for all parties. Always faith ful to the engagements which she has contracted with her allies, faithful to the principles which she has laid down, but being in a position apart from the hostile action which sepa rates the other parties represented here, she has considered it a sacred duty imposed upon herby her exceptionalnosition, to exhaust all means for obtaining a triumph of those princi ples, at the same time putting an end, if possible, to the calamities of a war which has already cost so many noble victims. It is with these feelings that Austria presents this proposition, and recommends it to the serious and friendly consideration as well of her allies as of the Court of Russia." Baron Benrqueney said that as Count Buol's proposition had for its basis a principle so repeatedly and peremp torily rejected by the Plenipotentiaries of Russia, it was for them to speak first on this subject. The Earl of Westmoreland stated that he came to the Conference in pursuance of the invitation of the Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs, but that he finds himself in the same position in which he was placed at the last meeting when he declared that his instructions were ex hausted. ----- Prince Gortschakoff, whilst contesting the opinion of Baron Bourqueney that the proposition of Contit Bnol rests on a principle which has been categorically rejected by the Russian Plenipotentiaries, begs the Plenipotentiary of France to be so good as to speak first. Baron Bourqueney then stated, that as he is pressed to express his opinion, he finds himself compelled to recur to the peremptory and reiterated refusal of the Plenipoten tiaries of Russia to agree to the reduction of their naval forces by treaty, or on a basis discussed in Conference. This refusal had of course left traces and exercised a de cided influence on the instructions with which his Govern ment supplied him with reference to the Conference which would be called by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Austria, for the purpose of making known the means of reconciliation to which he hind declared he would devote himself. As the project proposed by Count Bnol does not completely fulfil the conditions which his former instruc tions point out, he must for his own part declare that the mission of the Conference is exhausted. Prince Gortschakoff stated, thet after the declarations which he has just heat& the Conferences for peace have de facto ceased. He would, therefore, have a right to remain perfectly silent, since to enter into particulars would only be to discuss bases which in tho opinion of Austria aro complete, whilst the Allies consider them insufficient. But he does not wish to take advantage of this right. As the Austrian propositions have already been considered by the Cabinets of Paris and London, he will alio make his Court acquainted with them, reserving for his Court a free and full estimation of them. Nevertheless, he will express his personal opinion, as a mark of respect ' for the Cabinet which has taken so much pains in preparing the project in question. In analysiug it he asserted, in the first place, that this project does not rest on the principle which the Plenipoten tiaries of Russia have invariably "ejected, and will always reject. Proceeding then to the different articles, ho had nothing to object to in the principle laid down in the first. As to the second, the gist of it lies in the direct under standing between the Plenipoteottaiies of Russia and the Sublime Porte, with regard to the counterpoise of their respective naval forces. He does not reject such a eonlbination, maintaining, however, that fixing the number of those forces regards the two Powers directly interested, and that the rights of sove reignty of either would be infringed if other Powers wish3(l to dictate to them on this subject. He agrees to article 3. He finds that articles 4 and 5 are based upon article 2 of the Russian counter-project, which left his highness the Sultan sovereign judge of the question of deciding whe ther it would be, or not, compatible with his interests ex ceptionally to open the straits. In conclusion, he finds in the general principles of Count Buol's project, the bases of a possible solution of the third guarantee. M. de Titoff participates in the ()Pinion of his colleague ; and without having anything to add to the personal con siderations put forward by the letter, he associates him self fully with his official declaration of his wish to submit the plan of arrangement proposed by the Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs to the examination and decision of his Court. Aali Pasha declares that the project of a direct under standing between the Sublime Porte and Russia was based, as were all the other systems discussed within the Cqnfer ence, upon the principle of limitation. The reiterated and categorical rejection of this principle on the part of the Plenipotentiariee of Russia having led to the abandon ment of every plan of this nature, his colleague and himself did not consider that they should call for instructions of their Covirt coi this same project; and they are, conse quently, iu the Sadie position as the Plenipotentiaries of France and Great Britain. Aarif Effendi concurred in this view. Baron Prokesch maintains that the Plenipotentiaries of Russia do not absolutely reject the principle of liniitation that their objections apply rather to the forni under whidh it ticiuld lie applied. The Plenipotentiaries or RUB sia having declared themselves ready to submit the Arts trian,propOsition to their Court, he expresses the hope that theal: The much l c e ph n France and Great Britain will do nits to hind themselves on this subject. l lo e Pu n 6 i tt po t t il e ira n t ii ri a d r e i d es of Frana and Groat Britain de- Count Baal, while seeing with satisfaction that tite Plenipotentiaries of [tussle Will submit his proposition to their Courts, thinks he need not answer the observations made upon it by Prince Gortschakoff, since he himself only attached to them the value of personal impressions. He adds that be is, moreover, too just not to acknowledge that the declarations of the Plenipotentiaries of France and Great Britain rendered it in fact difficult for Prince Gortsehakoff to enter into a deeper discussion. I() finally. declaresthatthe Plenipotentiaries of the maritime Powers having them selves declared the Conferences to be closed, have relieved him from a painful duty, the accomplishment of which would have been imposed on him, by his position. Whilst thanking the Plenipotentiaries for having assembled at his invitation to bring the Conferences to a suitable conclu sion, he declares that Austria has no further proposition to make ; that she will, nevertheless, be always ready, espe cially if it were in the interest of peace, to transmit to the belligerent Powers the overtures which one or the otherof them might have occasion to address to him. Baron Bourqueney again resumes, in order to define the respective positions. He maintains that after all that had passed in the Conferences, his Government hsd perfectly the right of considering every project founded on theprinciple oflimitation as decidedlyrejected by the Pleni potentiaries of Russia ; it could not,conseq uently,in trochee a contrary proviso in the instructions with which it had furnished its Plenipotentiaries for a closing Conference. It has been confirmed in this- conviction by the circular of Count Nesselrode, giving an opinion on the whole beating of the Conferences, and authorising from that moment the belief that the Cabinet of St. Petersburg itself consider them as closed. He finally observes to Prince Gortschakoff that the Austrian project is founded on the principle of li mitation in its strictest expression. The Earl of Westmoreland declares that after the catege. rical rejectionof the principle of limitation, his Government no longer saw any advantage in continuing the delibera tions. It considered the preceding Conferences as closed. His full powers being exhausted, he had nothing more to say, except that he will submit to the consideration of his Government the protocol of this day's Conference. Prince Gortschakoff, in answer to M. de Bourqueney, again maintains that both in and out of the Conferences, and at all times when the question was mooted, he had constantly declared that all limitation of forces which might be sought to be imposed on Russia would be regarded by her Plenipotentiaries as an infringement on the sovereign rights of their master, and an insurmountable obstacle to I peace ; that he had invariably remained faithful to this principle, and that he again establishes it in this closing Conference ; that, moreover, he challenges the members of the Conference who have the protocols in their hands, and more particularly the plenipotentiary of France, to find in those acts a single principle or a single word which is not in accordance with that which he now affirms; that Count Buol having said in his introductory discourse that 1 the Cabinet of Vienna had applied itself to find a solution equally honourable for all parties , he has only gathered admitted frop the second Article the idea which alone is of a nature to offer a basis of negotiation for Powers who respect themselves, that is to say, the combination to S ti AR,E Mi l -R.KETS LINES LRASED AT FIXED RENTALS. ;THIS D A F.) 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Ilk 01 : a aii e're a i no . . 14 n. - 381 2 all Portland Iron . ..... ...... a - 3 2 P 1 bo. i le la i of Ireland ••• --- ••• vi 1 . 11 , : 4 u i ::, , .. ,, , , ,, a , A .3 ... - 11. l'°° l 2 Sll:CritAMailUStralßsteinainfeS:i: 11., = - 74 2 4 a ": A Gold ' t 1 / Ditto New • -I - 2 1/ .• - .......... .. 3 / 4 25 all South Austral. Land 38 - t. e l i ~ ...r iii „ ~, ,I rrilia ..... ,CI ,! , 1 , I all Subms.r. Tel Scrip... -- "" . i;.i :) 0, lie u l 1 41+x:ilia._ 74 - 76 1 ". y rt i 0 ti 0 7 r id.z.d ..... ... . . 8 -- 9 1 1 201 . all xr Do tt . st ß i e l ls . t&re! i l i ... .. 6a ., 12. . ~,....- li •• ••• ...7.,,, ... 294 03 281 Van Dienien'a Lan; iii "" 1 T.!" 133 1M PE N lAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at n o'clock. The following bills were read a third time and passed: — Bognor Railway ; Gateshead Quays and Improvements; Great Northern London Cemetery ; Halifax Gas. The England and Ireland Improved Communication Bill was considered, and ordered to be read a third time. PETITIONS. Petitions were presented by Mr. F. Scully, from vari ous parts of Tipperary, in favour of the Tenants' Com pensation Bill ; by Mr. Cowan, several petitions from Edinburgh, against the Maynooth grant ; a large num ber of petitions were presented by various members, in favour of and against the Lord Advocate's Education Bill. METROPOLIS LOCAL MANAGEMENT BILL. Sir B. HALL said he wished to postpone the further consideration of this bill, which was'fixed for to-day, to Tuesday next, and then to resume it on every Tuesday and Thursday morning till the bill was disposed of. The motion was agreed to. SCOTCH EDUCATION BILL. The house having gone into committee en this bill, Lord ELCHO rose to ask the noble lord at the head of the Government a question with reference to the working of the measure.. The question he wished to ask was how, in the event of the bill passing, it was the in tention of the Government to administer the Privy Council grants for education among the various sects in Scotland? Lord • PALMERSTON said this bill, if passed, would, he apprehended, make provision for those schools by rates. Of course the object of the Government was to diffuse education, and there was not the slightest wish to withhold assistance from those schools, and the Government would be disposed to give the most favour able consideration to the claims of such schools, whether in towns or in the country, which were not in such a flourishing condition as would enable them to do as much good as they wished for their own schools. (Hear.) Mr. HADFIELD then moved as an amendment that the words in the preamble, 16th line, page 1, after the words "Holy Scriptures," and the words in the 17th, 13th, and 19th lines, and the words in the 20th line, preceding the words " And whereas," be left out, and tbat the following words be substituted, viz., " ought not to he conducted at the expense of any of her Majesty's subjects who conscientiously object to the principles taught, or to compulsory taxation for the teaching religion, or to the reading of the Scriptures, in, any public school." Mr. L. HEYWOOD seconded the amendment. Mr. BALL opposed the amendment, believing that, if it was carried, it would act most detrimentally on the education of the country. The LORD ADVOCATE did not concur with those who thought that taxes should be levied for the purpose of religious education. Mr. A. PELLATT supported the amendment, con sidering that the parties for whose benefit the bill was introduced ought not to be allowed to tax the whole community. Mr. F. SCOTT opposed the amendment, because it was in his opinion inoperative and ineffective, and he hoped the hon. member would withdraw it. After a few words from Mr. A. HASTIE, Mr. MACGUIRE said that the Roman Catholics of Ireland were as much in favour of education as any class of her Majesty's subjects, but they objected to being taxed for the advantages of other religions. Mr. DE VERE stated that after the intimation that had been given by the noble lord at the head of the Go vernment, he should withdraw his opposition to the clause. Mr. HADFIELD having replied, the house divided upon his amendment, when there appeared— For the amendment Against it Majority for the amendment —l6l The amendment was consequently lost. Mr. C. BRUCE moved to introduce words for the purpose of declaring that the Christian religion should be taught in the schools. The LORD ADVOCATE considered the amendment of the hon. member totally unnecessary, as the bill, as it at present existed, provided for all the objections of the hon. member. After some observations from Mr. SCOTT and Sir G. GREY, the committee divided, when there appeared— For the amendment Against it Majority against the amendment 37 The amendment was consequently lost. [LEFT SITTING.] LAW INTELLIGENCE (THIS DAY). QUEEN'S BENCH. (Sittings at Westminster in Nisi Prius before Mr. Justice Erie and a special jury.) BELBY AND ANOTHER V. ENGLAND. Mr. Chambers, Q.C., and Mr. Quain, were for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Hill, Q.C., and Mr. Pigott, for the defendant. This was an action brought by the plaintiffs against the defendant for the recovery of 8301. The plaintiffs are the Birmingham Patent Iron and Brass-tubing Company, having a branch establishment in London, and the defen dant a locomotive engine mal,ufacturer, carrying on busi ness at Hatcham Works, New Cross. The so in sought to be recovered was 8301., but the plaintiff pleaded a set-off for two sums of 4901. and 289/. 13s. 9d., and had paid the difference into Court. The question for the consi deration of the jury was whether the sums above stated which Mr. England advanced to Mr. Johns, one of the partners, but who had since left the firm, was for the benefit of the firm or Mr. Johns only. The trial had not concluded when our despatch left. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.- (THIS DAY.) The Judges were occupied in the Old Court the whole of the morning disposing of several unimportant cases. NEW COURT. (Before the Recorder.) Charles William Winehelsea e even, 33, clerk, a well dressed gentleman!y-loOking man, surrendered to take his trial upon several indictments for stealing orders for the payment of the several sums upon the 20th of April 301. 168., upon the Ist of June 2011. 17s. 61, and upon the Bth of June 471. 15s. sd. To this as well as other indictments forming the sub stance of other charges, the prisoner pleaded not guilty. Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, Mr. Bodkin, and Mr. Robin son were for the prosecution ; and Mr. Perry, kr. Sleigh, and Mr. Poland were for the defence. The charges proceeded with this day were those for the sums first mentioned, and the circumstances giving rise to the prosecution were these :—The prosecutors in this case are the directors of the Deposit and General Life Assurance Society, and the prisoner had up to the commencement of the circumstances connected with these proceedings been the secretary of the company. He served the company in August, 1852, when it was quite in its infancy, and was to be paid a salary of 400/, a year, and the house in Bridge street, Blackfriars, belonging to the company, to reside in. The prisoner, from the redommendations with which he came to them was placed at once in the confidence of the directors, and that confidence was so much increased from the zeal which he eihibited that they increased his salary to dOdt., and placed so much confidence in him that a great many of his proceedings in connection with their company were not looked into so strictly as they would otherwise have been: Matters went on in this way until the 2ad of july iii last year, when, from something which came to the knowledge of the dittttors, the prisoner was questioned about a ehetitle given to him upon the 20th of April, And also several others given hiiti about the same time, some of which were given him to pay for policies which they (the company) re3erved in the Heine dounties' office. These sums the prisoner, instead of applying to the uses for which they were given him, paid, them over tohis own bankers, and from time to tithe, tiutil the explanation took place, had appropriated the moneys which he continued tl receive upon behalf of the company to paying matters which he had not paid at the time and with the money given him for that purpose, and received by him in his capacity as secretary. When the prisoner was questioned by the Board, he at once said he bad ap propriated the moneys, hut not with any intent to defraud the company. He was then requested to resign, which he did, and subsequently became the secretary of another society i upon the Same principles. He then be came an nselvni, and in his schedule he brought the Patlnny prosecuting this case indebted to him in a large amount. The company opposed him, and fresh instances of his defalcations coming to light--after then a warrant for the prisoner's apprehension—and after a great many remands prisoner was committed for trial. The first witness was under examination when we went to press, and unleis the case for the prosecution fails it is likely to occupy the Court at least two days, it being a most complicated one of account, and a ques tion of the power given to the prisoner to deal with the names of the company. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) MEAT MARKETS. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. — The trade ruled steady, as follows :--Beef, from 3s 2d to 4s 2d. ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 10d ; lamb, 5s 2d to 6s 2d ; Veal, 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; Pork, as 4d to 4s 4d per 81bs, by the carcase. SOVTEIALL, June 13.—The show of stock was moderate, and the demand ruled steady,..as follows :—Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 4d; Mutton, 3s 8d to os Od; Lamb, 5s Od to 6s 2d ; Veal, 3s 10(1 to 4s 8d ; Pork, 3s Gd to 4s 2d per 81bs, to sink the offals. RONFORD, June 13.—Our market was firm, and the quotations were well supported. Beef, from 3s 2d to 4s 6d; Mutton, 3s 8d to 5s 2d; Lamb, 5s 4d to 63 2d ; Veal, 3s 10d to 4s 8d ; Pork, 3s 4d to 4s 2d per Blbs. Quarter old Store Pigs, 22s to 26s each. • HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 3/ Os to 5/ 103 Od ; clover ditto, 3l 5s to 6110 s ; and Straw, 1/ 3s to 1/ 9s per load. Trade firm. CIIMBEELAND. Meadow hay, 3/ 3s to 51 103; clover ditto, 3/ 3s to 61 6s ; and straw, 1/ 4s to 1/ 103 per load. Both hay and straw sold steadily, at full prices. WHITICOHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 3/ Os to 51 10s; clover ditto, 31 5s to 61 10s ; and straw, 11 3s to 11 Os per load. A. firm market. COURT OF 13A.NERUPTOY-YERTERDA.Y.-IN RE MONTI. —The bankrupt, who was a sculptor in Great Marl borough-street, passed his last examination without op position. • carry out a counterpoise of forces by the direct under standing and the mutual consent of the parties interested. Baron Bourqueney observes to him, that it is neverthe less indisputable that the proposition made by M. Drouyn de Lhuys in the eleventh Conference, to the effect " that the Plenipotentiaries of Russia and the Porte should come to some understanding with each other, in the presence of the Conference, on basis of counterpois of their respective forces, which basis should be recorded in an arrangement which they should mutually sign, and which, annexed to the Treaty, should have the same value and the same force," had been rejected. Prince Gortschakoff reminds M. de Bourqueney that he will find in the Protocol of the sitting to which he refers the proof that his objections did not bear on the idea it self a direct understanding, but on the method so little feasible in which it was proposed to carry it out. After some observations of Prince Gortchakoff, made with a view of modifying the impression produced on Baron Bourqueney by the circular cf the Chancellor of the Em pire of Russia, the meeting was broken up. (Signed) BUOL-SCHAUENSTEIN. PROKESCH-OSTEN. GORTSCHAKOFF. BOURQUENEY. TITOFF. . WESTMORLAND. AALI. AARIF. Inclosure. Annex to Protocol No. 14. (Translation.) Article 1. The High Contracting 'Parties wishing that the Sublime Porte should participate in the advantages of the system estab'ished by public law between the diffe rent States of Europe, engage themselves severally to re• spect the independence and territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire, guarantee together the strict observance of this engagement, and will in consequence consider every act or event which should be of a nature to infringe on it as a question of European interest. Tf a misunderstanding should arise between the Porte and one of the Contracting Powers, those two States, be fore having recourse to the employment of force, should place the other Powers in a position to prevent the ex tremity by pacific means. Art. 2. The Russian Plenipotentiaries, and those of the Sublime Porte, will propose by common agreement to the Conference the equal amount of the effective naval forces which the two sea-bordering Powers will keep up in the Black Sea, and which shall not exceed the actual number of Russian ships afloat in that sea. The arrangement which they shall have made between themselves in this respect shall form an integral part of the General Treaty. There shall likewise be inserted in the Treaty the means upon which the same Plenipotentiaries shall have agreel, with the view of controlling the exact and constant obser vance of the stipulations of the present Article. Art. 3. The rule of closing the Straits of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles, sanctioned by the Treaty of July 13, 1841, shall remain in force, with the exceptions stipulated in the following Article. • Art. 4. Each of the Contracting Parties which has no establishment in the Black Sea shall be authorised by a fir man of his Highness to send into and to station in that sea two frigates or ships of less force. At. 5. If] case (which God forbid 1) the Sultan should be threatened with an attack, he reserves to himself the right of opening the Straits to all the naval forces of his allies. INAUGURATION OF THE METROPO LITAN CATTLE MARKET. VISIT OF PRINCE ALBERT. Sir G. GREY, her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department, having issued his notice in accordance with the terms of the Metropolitan Cattle Market bill, passed in 1851, for the opening of this market and slaughter-houses on Friday next, the 15th, yesterday was appointed for the inaugural ceremony. Smithfield, as a market for the sale of cattle and horses, has ceased to exist—has become one of the byegones of the age, but the historical associations connected with the spot are so great, that whilst it has been shorn of this pm tion of its notoriety, the stirring events of past ages connected with it are too indelibly marked on the memory ever to be forgotten. Although Smithfield has been used as a market from time immemorial, the first traces of a charter connected with it are only to be found in the year 1327, in the first year of the reign of Edward 111., and the extent of the market, so far as it can be ascertained, was 4 acres, 2 roods, and 35 perches. As the population of this great city increased, and the requirements of more extensive market accommo dation were needed, the Corporation of London made ad ditions, at their own expense, by the purchase of property adjoining, until it became that vast area we now have it, extending over 6 acres and 15 perches, and even now too small for the growing wants of the metropolis. The movement originated for the removal of a cattle market froth the centre of so large a place as modern London is a matter of history, and so notorious as not to require recapitulation on the present occasion. The Legislature in August, 1851, passed the act for the erection of these markets, on which a committee was appointed by the Corporation of the city of London, H. L. Taylor, Esq., being appointed chairman, with powers to select a site most suitable for the purposes of a market on an ex tensive scale. After much time and attee tion, the com mittee selected Copenhagen-fields, in the neighbourhood of Islington, and situate between that place and Camden town, as the best that could be found, which they recom mended to Mr. Walpole, the then Secretary of State, for his approval, and whose consent was obtained July 29,1852. The markets, which extend over an area of 75 acres of ground were, on the assent of the Secretary of State being so obtained, immediately commenced under the superin tendence of he city architeet,J. B. Bunning, Esq., F R.S., a gentleman of known reputation, and whose abilities eminently fitted him for the efficient discharge of Bur'''. onerous duties as the works in question naturally imposed, and the whole of the works have been constructed since the above period. The site of the new market proper is an equal-sided rectangle, having a fall from the west corner to t he south, east, an d north corners, and includes an area of about 15 acres, of which one acre is devoted to the pig market, and an equal area to the calf market. In the centre of the market aro erected shops and banking-houses, over which is a lofty clock tower, not yet completed, but which, when finished, will have a market bell. Accommodation is pro vided for 34,980 sheep in 1,749 pens, with a reserve for considerable extension ; and 13,232 feet of rail, for the tying of 6,616 bullOcks. The calf market. will accommo date 1,425 calves, and the pig-market 900 pigs. Lairage is provided for 3,000 bullocks and 8,160 sheep. There are four depots for hay, and slaughter-house accommodation to a considerable extent. There aro five public-houses— the Black Bull, the Lion, the Lamb, the White Horse, and the Butchers' Arms. There are also nearly completed two large hotels, with shops underneath the principal rooms. Betseeete these Mr. B. Elgington, the eminent tent builder and rick-cloth manufacturer, erected a spacious marquee, capable of accommodating 1,700 parsons. This tent, which was 163 feet long by 80 feet wide, was most tastefully fitted up both externally and internally, the flags of England, France, and Turkey being most artisti cally displayed. At the west end of the tent a dais was erected, on which was a very elegant chair of state, where his Royal Highness Prince Albert (who at all times evinces so much interest in the promotion of agriculture) received the Corporation address. The importance of the event was commemorated in that liberal and magnificent style for which the Corporation of London are so justly celebrated, The Corporation verywisely deciding that the ceremony should be conducted in the presence of those for whose immediate benefit the markets have been erected, sent invitations to upwards of a thou sand persons connected with the breeding and feeding of cattle, butchers, dealers, and others. Precisely at 12 o'clock the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Sir F. Moon (who looked remarkably well after his recent visit to Paris) Accompanied by the City Remembrancer, the Sheriffs, the Recorder, Aldermen, Common Council. men, and other officers connected with the Corporation, arrived' on the ground and was enthusiastically received, and itraceeded to examine the arrangements of the day, of which he expressed himself highly satisfied. With that punctuality for whioh the Royal family are so noted, his Royal Highnese, accompanied with his suite, arrived at the north-west entrance gate of the Market, at one o'clock, where he was mat by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, H. L. Taylor, Esq., the Chairman of the Committee, the various members of the Committee, and other gentlemen, and was received most enthusiastically by the numerous concourse assembled, the band playing the National Anthem. The Lord Mayor then entered his Royal Highness's car riage, and accompanied him round the extensive grounds, the slaughter-houses, &0., which were examined by his Royal Highness, who expressed his admiration at the admirable manner in which the whole had been arranged and carried out. The survey of the vast area and inspection of the various buildings occupied his Royal Highness nearly an hour, it being two o'clock before he returned to the pavilion. On entering the pavilion, his Royal Highness was again enthusiastically cheered, and was conducted to the dais, whore the town-clerk read, in the presence of the Lord Mayor and the civic functionaries, the following address' to his Royal Highness : TO MS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT, &C. " May it please your Royal Highness,—we, her Ma jesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lord Mayor, Alder men, and Commissioners of the City of London, in Common Council assembled, desire, by the warmest expression of our gratitude, to testify to your Royal Highness the value which we attribute to your gracious presence on this occa sion. " The proceedings of this day are of deep interest and importance to the great community of the metropolis and to the country at large. " These costly and extensive works have been under taken by the Corporation of the City of London, in defe rence to the suggestions of the national Legislature, and under a strong sense of the responsibility accompanying the powers and the means confided to them by their fellow citizens. " If the transfer of the City Metropolitan Market to the new and spacious locality shall be successful, it will not only have removed all ground of complaint arising from the character of its ancient site, but will also have confer red essential benefit on the population of this vast capital, as well as on those important branches of withonational in dustry which are concerned in supplying food. the increasing masses of its inhabitants, and the countless numbers who frequent it. " In the happiness and prosperity of all classes of her Majesty's subjects, your Royal Highness has always evinced the warmest and moat active interest, and we know no thing more likely to secure success to this great undertak ing than the sanction and encouragement afforded in its inauguration by the illustrious Consort of the Queen. " We, therefore, humbly rejoice in the opportunity thus given us of welcoming your Royal Highness on this spot, of expressing our heartfelt gratitude for your Royal High ness's attendance, and of manifesting anew our affectionate and respectful attachment to the perso n and famil y of the beloved Sovereign of these realms.' His ROYAL HIGHNESS replied in the following terms : " My Lord Mayor and gentlemen, accept the expression of my hearty thank 3 for y o ur kind welcome and for the gratifying assurance of your loyal and affectionate attach ment to the Queen and her family. " I have been much pleased by the opportunity which your kind invitatisn has afforded me of seeing and ad miring this great work which you this day open, to the public —a work which not only deserves admiration in itself on account of the excellence of the arrangements and the magnificence of the design, but which will I trust be found eminently conducive to the comfort and health of the city of London. • " That its success will be commensurate with the spirit in which it has been undertaken and carried out, I cannot doubt. A certain dislocation of habits and interests must inevitably attend the removal of the great city mar ket on the site it has occupied for so many centuries, and this may possibly retard for the moment the fullest development of be undertaking. But any opposition arising from such causes will soon cease, and the farmers will doubtless soon learn to appreciate the boon thus conferred upon them by the landed corporation in the increased facility which will be afforded to them for the transaction of their business, and the comparative security with which they will be enabled to bring up and display their valuable stock in thi s G reat New Cattle Market. " His Royal Highness and suite then partook of an ele gant cold collation (supplied by Messrs. Staples, of the Albion, in their usual excellent style). The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor presided, and was sup ported on his right by Prince Albert, and among the dis tinguished eouipiny present were—Sir George Grey, Home Secretary, Sir Cornewall Lewis, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Marquis of Abercorn, Marquis of Breadal bane, Earl Spencer, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Belgian, Bavarian, Sicilian, American, and Prussian Ministers, Viscount Monck, Viscount Duncannon, Rear-Admiral Berkeley, Duke of Newcastle, Marquis of Salisbury, Mar quis of Westminster, Earl of Macclesfield, Earl of Yar borough, Lord Redesdale, Lord Berners, Lord Southamp ton; Lord Feversham, Lord Portman, Lord Wenlock, &c. The LORD MAYOR, in appropriate language, proposed the "health of the Queen,"—(cheers)—followed,by that of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and the other members of the Royal family. (Applause.) His ROYAL HIGHNESS, in rising to acknowledge the toast, was again most enthusiasticallyreceived. He said— My Lord Mayor and gentlemen,—For the very kind and flattering manner in which you have received this toast I most sincerely thank yon. I assure you it has given me great pleasure at being able to accept the kind invitation of the Lord Mayor, and to be present at the opening of this splendid and useful work—(cheers)—and I beg to assure you that the oftener the Lord M...yor will invite me to similar ceremonies the better I shall be pleased. (Renewed cheers.) Such works can only be undertaken by public bodies and carried out with success by public spirit —(loud cheers)—and I hail the present instance as an earnest of your (the Corporation's) determination to ac cept the duties which your position has imposed on you, and as success in all things depends on the manner in which it is undertaken and carried out, I beg to propose " the health of the Lord Mayor and Corporation of London." (Cheers.) His Royal Highness and the other distinguished visitors then retired, and the proceedings terminated. Tho weather, which at the commencement of the day was rather unpropitious, as the morning advanced cleared off, and the sun, which shone out at intervals, continued to do so till the termination of the proceedings. During the morning the bands of the boys of the Cale donian Asylum, the boys from Chelsea Hospital, and the Foundling Society were in attendance, and played various airs and pieces of music in a very masterly manner. The proceedings terminated about five minutes to three o'clock. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. ( From the Times of this day. ) Through a strange omission in some quarter or another we have not had the opportunity of giving' till now a most in teresting, though very short, speech by Prince Albert at the annual dinner of the Trinity Corporation last Saturday. " Brevity is the soul of wit," and his Royal Highness has put more point into an address that cannot have taken three minutes to utter than some of our Parliamentary orators can accomplish in two hours. The Princejudiciously confined him self to one topic, and that a topic of the greatest importance. He compared the operation of a constitutional and of a des potic Government at war with each other. The comparison indeed is forced upon us by the facts, and is very striking. There cannot be a more singular contrast. On the one hand we see a profound policy, which we may suspect, but cannot ascribe to Russia, till the Czar himself blabs it out, and puts the world on its guard. We see unknown and infinite accu mulations of stores as if by the hands of Genii, or from the subterranean workshops of the Titans and Cyclops. We see myriads of armed men suddenly presenting theraselves through the morning mist, whence and how convoyed no man can tell. We see a vast fortress garrisoned by men whom we once despised, but showing not only the desper , te courage of fanaticism, but the inspirations of genius and the depth of a groat system. The conduct of the war on the part of our foes is subjected to no canvass, and has not even the benefit of an historian. A few scanty notices in the Invalide Russe are all that posterity will read of the heroism and the talents of great armies. From that field of glory every ray of light is concentrated on one mind. Ono man has to endure all the uncertainties, all the suspenses, all the mistakes, and all the disappointments of the awful conflict. On our side everything is the contrary. Virtually, the whole British public fill the amphitheatre, and surround all the arena of the war. We hear and see everything; we discuss the programme ; we Icanvass the behaviour and the plans of the generals ; we criti cise, wo condemn, and, what is more, we inform, we advise. We care not who listens. It is the British people that carries on the war, and they will have it in their own hands. Such is the comparison which the Prince makes, more briefly and more tersely than we have done, between the character and position of the two parties in the present war, and he draws the very proper conclusion that we ought to show great con- Isideration for the Government which has to carry on war under such manifest difficulties—that is, a public against a secret power, which is much as if a being of common mortal mould had to wage a desperate battle with an invisible demon. Such comparisons force themselves on the mind, and sug gest so many reflections, that the power of making them is a great help to the understanding. An Englishman might be at a Joss to describe the conduct of the war by his own coun try, and a Russian might see little that was distinctive or worth particular notice in the military administration of his own Government. But place these two things side by side and they instantly become the measure and test of one another. We see, then, what neither the Englishman nor the Russian alone does, and we immediately arrive at a high degree of negative knowledge. We see at once, for example, that Rus sia has not newspapers, in our sense of the word ; it has not " correspondents ;" it has not public committees of inquiry, changes of the Ministry, debates on negotiations for peace, and discussions before the eyes and in the hearing of the whole world as to the best mode of carrying on the war, the proper , objects of that war, and the terms we might possibly accept 'from the foe. This is, perhaps, only negative knowledge, for, after all, it does not give us the true rationale of either side in the comparison. But it is an immense help to what may be called the infirmity of human knowledge to have such a contrast, and to make one side the foil of the other. Plutarch's Parallels has been a favourite book with thousands in every age who would otherwise have cared little to explore the several characters compared. What perhaps I is not always observed, but which impartslhe principal charm to these contrasts, is that the imagination assists at the pro cess, and gives a sort of dramatic affinity and likeness to the two subjects of the comparison. We put them in one an other's place, to see what they would do with a transposi tion of cirenmstances. We imagine, in this case, the Emperor of Russia harassed, anticipated, compelled to change his Mi nisters, defend his policy, announce his plans, define his ob- I jects, and lay down his principles, by the public opinion of his subjects. On the ether hand, we imagine the British Cabinet wielding immense armies with an unlimited power of conscription, with privileged eecresy, and an utter absence of responsibility. The purely dramatic parallel wll satisfy few minds. It will tempt them to that more particular study of each side, which is necessary to a just and useful comparison. It is true that we may learn something from the contrast, but so also may the Czar. It is true that constitutional government is tried iu these days, but so, also, is despotic. Publicity has its dangers, but, if it occasionally helps a foe, it is neces sary to a friend. Commissaries, Quartermasters, Generals will not tell the truth either to War Ministers or to Empe rors ; so, while the British authorities at home are learning the approach and progress of their disasters in the newspaper", the Russi m Government only discovers them too late even for mitigation. In this country grand schemes of po/fey are *divulged, ventilated, condemned, and possibly prevented. In Russia they run their course to actual catastrophes. An im mense secresy protects the designs and the administration of Russia, but it protects those desig ns t o th e ruin and death of . their author, and that administration to its final breakdown. The Emperor does not even know the strength or the weakness of his own army, and learns only to distrust all returns with no other warrant than that of his own servants. It is true that our councils of war are very public, and our loyalty candid ; it is true that wo expose our omen sores to the eyes of all the world ; but to that publicity alone WO owe the correction of our errors, the present suffi ciency of olk armies and their supplies, and even, perhaps, the defeat of Russian diplomacy. Possibly to her own in scrutable policy a vd impenetrable secresy Russia now owes that she has not oue slip afloat in the Black Sea, nor more than one fortress still in her hands. In this country it is, indeed, rather the whole people' that carries on war than the Sovereign or the Parliament. Thus far, that people need not be ashamed to compare its performances with those of its Im perial antagonist. Even by tho te?t of success the people wages war better than the despot. But success is not the only test, for failure also is an hour of trial. We have already turned our failures to good account. Will the Czar, like us, have either the necessaryknowledge or the means to profit by his failures, to reform either his policy or his administration ? (From the Morning Herald of this day.) We cannot help recurring to the absolute necessity of some independent member of the House of Commons moving for the secret despatches now openly acknowledged to have been sent to the admirals in command of our fleets in the Baltic and Black Seas, whereby instructions, superseding, and di rectly contrary to those which were professed to contain the intentions of the Ministry, were conveyed, and of necessity acted on. Be it remembered, that these secret despatches being of a nature which the admirals were bound to conceal, but to obey, directly put an end to Cabinet and Ministerial responsi bility, the very names of which become a mockery while a system is allowed to exist by which Ministers can profess one object, then positively prohibit its being carried out, and throw the whole onus upon the unfortunate officer in com mand, by recalling him as a scapegoat at the end of the cam. paign, and refusing him an inquiry, The public must now take care of itself, and declare its opinion so determinately, that independent members ap. pointed to investigate shall not find that they have screened the i ut G e o ci v a e u r Government volunteered ü b t y e e ‘ d b u t r o ki n carry g the out inquiry our r e they ader s w m e u r est r ap o • mhoastve member that this present Government is composed who were colleagues in the Cabinet with those of men ac knowledged themselves as implicat e d in lle w se ho dan gerous maciinations, and as we ca nno t suppose that indivi- dual members of any Government would dare to act in the manner in which Sir James Graham is supposed, on good grounds,otter Lord have rd joahuctediumoit isllatlutel wh- mv y rd necessary akaer§rOn as ar ce O r t not participes criminis, as everything would lead an Eippose must absolutely be the case. We have unmistakeable evidence of the fact that the prin ciples which governed Lord Aberdeen's Cabinet are still in the ascendant, and that while professing to make war against Russia, our armies are wilfully paralysed and rendered non effective. How else are we to interpret the following facts? That the whole effective strength of the British army in the Crimea at this the crisis of its fate, amounts to about 24,000 men. This force being without a reserve of any kind. That the cavalry is so weak as to bo almost totally ineffi cient—while regiments and detachments, which have been months under orders, are waiting, 'in the middle of June, for t r ansports, which are still in B a l a kl ava H ar b our, orders having just been despatched to send them home, if not want ing there. " inexplicable " neglect t o d th es e tr m oy il ed itia fu f r oiLe y ha been by s efficient purpose, and no measure of any kind even announced for its restoration. That the army from wa nt of ba ggage - cattic at this moment t7l l l a y t is as immoveable, nearly, as it was at Varna. We believe it could not possibly move 25 miles from the coast without risk, nay, certainty, of being left without supplies. Surely all these things, after the warnings of last year, can not be accidents. We 'so*, therefore, that in order to get at the delinquencies of the men now in power, we must investigate the proceed ings of those w h os e crimes they have connived at. Bring the mischief home to Sir James Graham and we get the e n ti re o f r they were not C a binet in a net, fo , and Lord Aberdeen's could not, be ignorant of the course adopt ed b y their col s • es Now we beg to point out to whoever — i f an y one have the " the cat," that make this motion for „ courage —is to it will n o t d o t o a sh. for the papers fro m the Gav(...rument in a printed form. We tell the pe o p le that the admirals them selves sh ou ld b e ca lled upon to furnish the originals or printed copies for the authenticity of which they will them selves vouch. Be it kept in mind that the person more di rectly implicated in these transactions is the great " letter opener," and the hero of the singularly-dated document in the "great Mott case," while the person whose complicity we wish to establish is the same who gave to the public Burnes' resumes of Lord Auckland's despatches, as the an swers of the dead diplomatist to the very documents so set forth as containing his opipions. Now, we ask, are we not justified in demanding that the secret despatches should' be vouched for by the admirals? That the documents exist no one entertains a doubt, because the admirals have both declared their willingness to produce them if called , n so to do by the proper authorities—their production is one case having been avoided by refusing a court-martial to Admiral Napier—in another by Mr. Roebuck and Mr. Layard—we take them as representatives of the committee which they managed—refusing to allow Admiral Dundas to read the originals, when questioned as to his con duct with regard to Odssa. We should have thought that Mr. Layard, at least, would have been anxious to give the man he had accused of misconduct an opportunity of clearing himself, but such would appear not to have been the view taken by the honourable member for Aylesbury. _ We are earnest upon the subject of these despatches, because we believe, except through their means, we shall neverairive exceptat the real causes of our disgraceful failures and neglects i: the la't year, whereby our fleets were baffled in Vac Baltic, and our armies starved by Liprandi in the Crimea. We hope the public have had enough of purposed mi sman _ agement, and are anxious to probe its iniquity to the bottom, and that they will do so in spite of the aid afforded to Govern ment by independent members, who denounce Ministers as traitors on Tuesday, and vote confidence in them on Thurs day, while they thrust themselves forward as leaders of in quiries for the purpose of refusing the only evidence of delin quency on which full reliance can be placed. We hope the nation will force an inquiry into this matter. (Front the Morning Chronicle of this day.) Drury Lane Theatre was last evening the scene of proceed ings such as this metropolis has not witnessed during the last ten years. Since the great meetings of the Anti-Corn-Law League, there has not been such a gathering for a political purpose as that which last night filled boxes, pit, and galle ries of our National Theatre. The Association for the fur therance of Administrative Reform held, not their first public meeting, but their first organized meeting—the commence ment, we presume, of a series—for the propagation of their views among the great bulk of the people. It was satis factory to see so full an attendance, and that the occupants of the platform, as well as those who could not personally attend, but who snit letters of sympathy and co-operation, were of so respectable and influential a class. Mr. Morley, the chairman, may be said personally to em body and represent that characteristic of this Association which distinguishes it from any preceding organisation of a similar kind. It is important not to lose sight of the fact, that this new movement is commenced, not in the interests of a class or of individuals, but in these of the whole community. Its detractors have not dared to insinuate that its promoters are actuated by personal motives. or that they have in view the promotion of persona/ interests. It was originated by gentlemen who have some thing more profitable, if not more important, to attend to than political agitation ; and their having left their counting houses to take part in it is the best proof at once of their own sincerity and of the integrity of their objects. Mr. Morley had already, on the occasion of the first meeting in the City, explained the reasons which led gentlemen in his position thus to step forward in the van of a great national movement. It was not in the nature of things that he could add much to the arguments he had already brought forward, in vindication of the course taken by the commercial classes• They have stepped out of the circle of the pursuits which best become them and are most agreeable td them, in order to vindicate the right 'of their fellow-citizens, and their own, to a more honest and rational system of administrative government than that into which the old vigorous practice of the country has degenerated. Their position plaes them above all snspicieu as to the motives by which they may have been actuated. Indeed, it will have been remarked, that the opponents of administrative reform have never dared to insinuate that these gentlemen have any other object in view than the public good. Reearded with rsference to these considerations, the . speech of Mr. Morley will be read with an interest over. and above that which would naturally be excited by his forcible and sensible remarks on the general question at issue. The other chief speakers—Mr. Layard, M.P., Mr. Lindsay, M.P., Mr. Tite, M.P., and Mr. Otway, M.P.—are equally above the ordinary stereotyed insinuations of politic al parti sans against any public men who may come forward to fur ther salutary reforms. In former cases of great public agita tions, it has often happened that the leaders had previously been unknown men, and that they were open to the sugges tion of making the topic of their platform eloquence a lever of their ambition. Such charges cannot be applied to the hon. members of the House of Commons who addressed the audi ence from the stage of Drury-lane Theatre last evening. Mr. Layard is a man whose fame is already universal. Elected to the House of Commons mainly on account of that reputation, his co-operation has already been courted by successive Go vernments. If his ardour in the cause of reform has some• times led him into errors, that is a fate which ho shares with some of the most distinguished and influential statesmen of the day. He has already shown a disposition to guard against a repetition of the mistakes into which he had been led by a natural indignation at systematic misgovernment; and a strong reaction of public feeling in his favour has been the consequence of the attempts recently made in the House of Commons to browbeat him and put him down. It will be seen that in the course of his speech last evening he gracefully alluded to the parliamentary scenes in which he has latterly been a chief actor ; and that, while he renews his protestation that he is determined to persevere with the great question which he has taken in hand, he has endeavoured to set him self right with public opinion, on the only point where his enemies had any advantage. Mr. Lindsay's speech will amply repay a most careful peru sal. The honourable gentleman speaks with a thorough prac tical knowledge of his subject. There are few men in England c2rtainly not one in the House of Commons—more capable of exposing the incredible apathy and wilful misconduct of the officials of the Government in the departments whereon the success of the war so mainly depends. The incidents brought forward by Mr. Lindsay will be found stated at length in the report of the proceedings of the meeting. They are all supported by documentary evidence, and they all bear directly on the painful position in which this country has so recently found itself placed. Surely, charges such as those preferred by the honourable member—complaints not vague, but specific, and sustained by demonstrable proofs—call for an equally specific reply on the part of the Government. It is very convenient, no doubt, to the delinquent heads of departments to be able to hide their cul pable and noxious neglect under the blaze of our recent suce cusses in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azoff, but the public' owe it to the memory of those brave men who were sacrificed last winter not thus to "let bygone be bygones." They are bound to institute a searching inquiry into the past, in order that a repetition of those evils may be guarded against in future; and it is here that the evidence and the advocacy of gentlemen like Mr. Lindsay become of so much value. Mr. Tite appeared before the meeting as the representative of the first great triumph of Administrative Reform. It was certainly one of the most remarkable events of the kind on record, that a gentleman of no striking political antecedents, and who was personally unknown to the electors, should have succeeded iu carrying wi h him the sympathies of a constitu ency so numerous, so intelligent, and so favoured in the talents of past representatives, as that of the city of Bath. Mr. Tito would be the last to assume, or to permit it to be assumed that any personal merit of his own could possibly have led to such a result. He rightly regards it as a conse quence of the overpowering importance and influence of the cause with which his n ame h as b een assoc i a t e d. In Mr. Ot way the association has a valuable ally. The honourable member has taken under his care one particular branch of the public service in which " Administrative Reform " is more especially required. To his Parliamentary laurels he is evi dently destined to add the more exciting and grateful tri umphs of the platform. Upon the whole, this meeting will form an appropriate pro logue to the discussion appointed for to-morrow evening. Mr. Layard pledges himself to bring forward the subject ; nor will he shrink from the very strong terms in which he had previ ously couched his resolution. The amendment of Sir Bnlwer Lytton is now before the public. Mr. 'Layard proposes to call on the house to resolve :—" That this house views with deep and increasing concern the state of the nation, and is of opinion that the manner in which merit and efficiency have been sacrificed, in public appointments, to party and family influence, and to a blind adherence to routine, has given rise to great misfortunes, and threatens to bring discredit upon the national character, and to involve the country in grave disasters." The Tory chief will not go the length of this re trospective condemnation, but proposes to substitute for Mr. Layard's proposal a resolution to the effect—" That this h ou se recommends to the earliest attention of her Majesty's Mi n i s ters the necessity of a careful revision of our v ar i ous official establishments, with a view to` simplify and f ac ili tate the transaction of public business, and, by instituting judici ous teete of merit, as well as by remov i ng obstructions to its fair promotion and legitimate rewards, to secure to the ser vices of the State the largest proportion of the etZerry and in telligence for which the people of this country are distin guished." e. Between ed. these two the H ouse of Commons will have io de eidl They will probably d o so with the aid of the light gnh afforded by this very important meeting of the Adminie' 4ll4- tive Reform Association, The grand wat n w a o i r r k s.of 7 • day, par extraor le d r i of London and the E correspondent writes ersailles played on Mon e, in honour of the Lord Mayor INFERNAL _ 1 English dep utation. AAm Rk . IN-- AT oRBASTOPOL.—A French Sebas topol : " Five d ~ tiring from a ays ago some soldiers who were re tiring on the 2d inst ., from befare a barricade whi ch they bad b een attack ing dropped upon their knees to take advantage of the inequalities of the ground. One of them in so doing broke a small glass tube. He looked at it and made a sign to his corporal ; they searched fur ther, and found a series of those tubes, filled with some substance of a very pale yellow colour. The specimens were carried to the camp, when our engineers examining them found that the substance was a mix ture of fulminating powder, phosphorous, and saltpetre Other soldiers were next sent, and they following the course of the tubes, found that they led to wooden boxes buried about six inches in the ground. One of these boxes was removed and found to contain flasks of explo sive materials. In all forty-four of these boles were f o und, and connected by MUM of tubes," 4