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rAVAair4 euT.I,T,I - ;d, in pcst xvo., Prise 71. 61, cloth, 50312 ACCOUNT of Mrs. CLARINDA SINGLEHEART. By the author of "Mary Powell." With Frontispiece. By the-atone Author, CHERRY AND VIOLET. In antique. THE OLD CHELSEA BUNHOUSE. Ditto. CLAUDE THE COLPORTEUR. With Coloured Frontispiece. MADAME PALISSY. Ditt•. MARY POWELL. In antique. EDWARD OSBORNE. Uniform. PORE'S HOUSEHOLD. Ditto. Arthur Hall, Virtue, and Co.. 25, Paternoster-row. THEATRE ROW, HAYMARKET. trader the managerr.ent of Mr. Bnckstene, ON EASTER MONDAY Will be presented THE SECRET AGENT. prin c ipal c haracters by Mr. Backstone and Mi ss E . Chaplin. To be followed by a new Ballet, in whi c h the Span ish Dancers Will appear, entitled THE EV ENING FESTIVAL. erecters After which. a new E x t ravaganza, called TEM NEW HAY MARKET SPRING MEETING, 1855. To ccrelude with THE GALICIAN FETE. ROYAL PRINCESS'S TIIICATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. Caaat.ss /Iwo*. ON EASTER MONDAY V7lll be performed LIVING TOO FAST. To be folowed by THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Principal aracter by Mr. C. Kean. To conclude with (first time) a Romance, in two acts, entitled TuE MULRTEER of TUI.O.DO ; or, King, Queen, and Knave. TFIZATRR ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. ON EASTER MONDAY will b. performed the Drama entitled THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER- oiTo c o nclude with A NEW EDITION OF THE FAI RY TALES mciTIIXE: GOOSE, with nume ous highly-coloured Illustrations. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. Mr. William Cooke begs to acknowledge one of the most successful seasons of the Eoyal Amphitheatre, and announces that on EASTER MONDAY there will be produced an original Equidrama, to be called, TfIE FIELD AGAINST THE FAVOURITE ; developing events of peculiar character and general interest i Novel SCENES in the CIRCLE, and a variety of amusements, will end their aid to the evening's entertainment. Bux-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Acting Manager, yr.W. H. Cooke. Equestrian Director, SI:. W. Cooke, jun. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Under the direction of Miss Rebecca Isaacs. THIS EYENLNG, ike WIZARD of the WORLD will appear in his Magic Saloon, With a variety of amusements. To be followed by THE BARBER OF CADIZ, Drury-lane Ballet C onvany, introducing the HIGH WAWA AT LONDON BRIDGE. Ti ng b'AT —Morning 34 niiia.after 3 I Evening 49 min.aft. 3 To•MOnao ► - Morning 6 min After 4 Evening 23 minalt. 4 TIM WRATHICR.—Sun Orna, April. 5. TEIHRMONZTZB, IN THZ SHADE. 53 —highest since noon yesterday. 37—lowest this morning and during the night. 56—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 30'11—rising rapidly. WIND, S.W.--Light breeze, and fine, mild, sunshiny Weather. g 2fl, LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1855. One valuable result may at least be anticipated from the visit of M. DROTTYN DE L'HUYS to Vienna. It will bring the system of procrastina tion hitherto adopted to a speedy and unequivocal conclusion. The French statesman will not linger doing nothing, or, what is tantamount thereto, seeing the fancied progress of one day completely annihilated on the following. As the Minister presiding over a very important department, he will not easily consent to any course involving prolonged absence from his official duties. Months, weeks, even days, will not be recklessly wasted, while business, for the efficient discharge whereof he is responsible, is entrusted to others who have quite enough to do in matters in which they themselves are peculiarly concerned. We may also add that the French Minister has not transferred his establishment to the Austrian ciapital—is not accompanied by wife or children, tutors, governesses, nurses, or servants. He has not resigned himself to the anticipation of a long continued course of diplomacy, during which the labours of the day are to be alleviated by all the domestic enjoyments, all the comforts, which teen can hope to obtain during their earthly pil grimages. There is therefore every reason to hope that the specious humbug may be brought to a de cided termination—that the Austrian PENELOPE may decide in favour of some one of her suitors, and at once enter into a Russian or French and English alliance. She is manifestly desirous of selecting the most eligible "parte," but unfortu nately she has not yet materials sufficient to enable her to form a sound judgment on that • part of the case ; she therefore temporises with all, and as her feelings are in no degree engaged she can hold out sufficient encouragement to all, to keep up the hopes of her suitors to the _requi site point. She is waiting for further intelligence from the Crimea sufficiently decisive to warrant her in putting an end to all the doubts and fears of the rivals, by flinging herself into the arms of the fortunate competitor. Up to this time she has managed to distribute her favours with strict impartiality ; but France now demands a plain and decided answer to a simple question, and it must be rendered without further coquetry or vacillation. It is ridiculous for Austria to put in argumen tative pleas to attempt to show that she will join the Western Powers heart and hand, because, she asserts, it is her interest to do so. This is a mere petitio principii, a literal begging of the question. The plain and obvious answer is by another inter rogatory—a demand, " Why she has not already done so ?" If it is decidedly for her advantage that the predominance of Russia in the Euxine should be abolished, or at least her power materially limited, so that she can no longer have at her dis posal th e means of mischief, why has she not joined the Western States in demanding the de struction of Sebastopol as a fortified port ? It is cc& standing menace" to the trade of the south and east of Germany/ as well as to the i n t egr i ty of the Ottoman Empire. It commands the mouths of the Danube as completely as the Bos phorus, an d while it remains with unabated ntreng there is no security for that thcom merce. .A 34 'et almost the only decided Y been to induce step tak en by Aus t r i a has France and England to abstain from pressing for that which can, al one offer a satisfactory solution of the diffi cu lt problem, and enable itself to shake off the incubus by Which it has so long been op pressed. Th e arguments based on her apparent worth an interests thus fall co mpletely t o th e groun d. If thin the they must be carried to a mach greater extent, and shculd, as we ratio n o f Austria, have s t a t e d, lead to the most energetic co-ope in obtaining the cessio n or dismantlin g of Sebas topol. There are, however, s o many • • i ndings in the devious path of German policy —so many wh ee l s within wheels, that it is impossibl e to form a n accurate opinion as to what is really desired. Many counteracting influences are in operation, for which it is impossible to make adequate allow ances. There are too many unknown quantities to permit a just solution of the complicated equa tion ; we can only judge from actual results—from what has been in place of what ought to have been. Regarding matters iu this point of view, we can not avoid being forcibly struck by the past conduct of Austria, and still more by the extra ordinary neutrality of Belgium. We might have supposed that the Ilia-sus of the House of Saxe Coburg would be the first to array himself! Aide by side with the Sovereign s of France ' - Russia beforehand, England behindiaa nd, is, we have too great reason to fear, still as: ever the case. Is there any invisinie vi is they. pie sent Cabinet as inefficient, or as unable to master the vis inertiae of routine, as the old one ? It is, of course, as necessary to keep the Russian Baltic navy in its nautical Newgate as it was last year. It must not be allowed to commit piracy on civil ised coasts. Ice or cowardice must imprison it all the year. We are glad, therefore, to see such a powerful Baltic fleet ready for its work. Russia, however, it is said, has repeated at Cronstadt the ship-sinking policy of Sebastopol. Rather an inglorious way, to be sure, of using a man of-war. The very proposal to an English crew would hazard a mutiny; they would demand rather to place themselves in the required position, and to let the enemy come and sink them if they could, but they would like to try their broad sides on all corners before letting their gallant ships go to the bottom. Not so, however, the knout-trained gunners of Russia, and beyond all denial their sunken ships beat or balk our ships afloat in a style their guns would never have done. But again Russia is beforehand. Last year when, be it how it will, our Baltic fleet would not attack the forts, there were no ships sunk. This year, when steam gun-boats and floating batteries are all ready, or getting ready, we are a year too late with them. Sunken ships are to be added to sunken rocks, obstructed chan nels to narrow and shallow ones. In the East it is the same story. Russia ahead. Everywhere she is rendering impossible or difficult what might have been practicable had our rulers meant to fight last year. Odessa, now famous as the support of the Danubian army and the reinforcer of the Russian Crimean army, might have been easily demolished last year, or its stores confiscated. Now we learn that forts and earth works are in course of erection which will prove as troublesome to our fleet as some of those at Sebastopol. Every day's delay will increase the sacrifice of life with which the place must be taken. We are informed, also, that Kertch and the other forts on the Sea of Azof are now , being much strengthened, and yet those forts must be mas tered if we are to stop reinforcements from the east into the Crimea. There seems also little doubt that considerable reinforcements of cavalry and artillery are on .:. . their way from th e nor th t o Perekop,tpd that the isthmus is being fortified. We might- have sent by this time troops, and stores' with them, in sufficient numbers to secure Perekop, to cut the Russian line of communications, and thus practically to invest Sebastopol. If we had ade quate gun-boats and light vessels near Perekop and in the Sea of Azoff, and adequate troops in the northern part of the Crimea, the Russian army would be starved for all the Crimea could afford them. But no—there is no need for promptithde and energy. Peace is coming ! Pity it would be to hurt poor Odessa and such places when they are soon to be friendly ports— useless to send out troops soon to be recalled—. and thus Russia, Austria, and Prussia are to be• fool this Cabinet as they befooled the last, and a few months hence the alternative will be, a dis graceful Russian and Austrian peace, or a tenfold harder struggle with Russia —Austria looking on and rubbing her hands. Better at once declare Prussia the enemy she is, and blockade her ports as well as those of Russia ; bid Austria fight out her part, or take the consequences ; and demand that Sweden, and Denmark, and Belgium surely, throw off their neutrality. England would rather see a European War than throw away her millions and her soldiers in waiting on crowned rogues and despots. Let the opponents of Church RatekieVerse the conduct of their governments, if they wish for success. We have all been denouncing the too /ate policy of our aristocratic Cabinets. We must not be too late in our own war. Everything de pends on the number and quality of petitions pre sented before the second reading of Sir W. CLAY'S Bill. The cause is truly a nisi prius one, for un less all the preparations bevigorously made before the bill comes on for its second reading, that es sential verdict will be lost, or as good as lost. A feeble majority would consign it to a crippling mutilation in c omm itt ee, or to certain rejection in the House of Bishops. Easter Monday is next week.. Every parish vestry should be made a battle-field. Church wardens should be chosen favourable to getting rid of this odious and unpopular part of their office. Petitions should be got ready for the oc casion, and earnestly pressed. Every rate should be resisted. This Easter is indeed the most im portant of all Easters in the Church-rate contest, for, if well used, it would hush the contest for Neighbours would be spared an annu a l ele r. quarrel, and good Churchmenherehereafter te would ou l d that have an loved a n op portunity of showing their churches as well as Dissenters do their chapels. All depends now upon the support furnished f rom with ou t . The Ministry needs pressure, and we beli eve would welcome it, as an unanswerable reason for conceding entire abolition this session. They know it must come ; they would be but too glad to be forced to acce pt it, an d done with th e bore have for eve r . Scores of L ib era l against th e selfish ecclesias members want the S upport of their constituents tical ita tions which th ey f i nd it difficult to resist. or Whig solic The waverers need a popular demonstration to con vince them on which side their interest lies. E ven some High-Church Members, who have an otter contempt for paltry compulsory exaction; and aro conscious of th e i r own readiness to support, , and England ; that his near relationship to the QUEEN and Prince Consort of the Unitvd„King dom, as well as the personal obligations wh:itli he owes to this country, could have left no do%bt on his mind as to the part that he should ,take ; while, on the other hand, he should be equally desirous of insuring the guarantee of France for the integrity of his own territory, and interposing an insurmountable obstacle to the extension of the Empire to the banks of the Rhine. His neu trality must, therefore, excite grave suspicions as to the motives and intentions of those by whom he could alone be influenced to adopt such a course. Looking to his recent connection with the House of Hapsburg, and the matters which he is known to have deeply at heart, and which can alone be obtained through the intervention of FRANCIS JOSEPH, we find additional light cast on the Austrian policy, which goes far to show that no reliance can be reposed in her fidelity. Let us then, at length, get rid of the impediment by which we have so long been obstructed. We believe that M. DROUYN DE L'HUYS will insist on a categorical reply as to the intentions of Austria —that through his agency the suspense will be terminated, the mists dispersed—and that ere many days have elapsed the Governments will repeat the demand so long put forward by the peoples of France and England, and that the War Cry " Delenda est Sebastopol" will reverberate throughout the length and breadth of both lands, and that without a dissentient or doubtful voice. THE 9U?, LONDONw THURSDAY PiVIZNING i APRIL 1458, their Church, may find it pleasant to have, in addition, the plea of political expediency. We repeat, then, let all the friends of religious liberty do their duty during the recess. Let them use Easter better than we fear the managers of the War are using it. Church Rates are doomed. Their defenders know they must surrender ere long. Why should the battle be drawn out session after session because their opponents do not unite for one general decisive assault ? If the country now performs its part, every Liberal M.P. will place his name, and place it aright, on the division lists of the second reading. The Govern. ment will contribute its weight, and the majority will be one which the GLADSTONES and PARING TONS will not venture to tamper with in com mittee, nor the "Upper House to ignore. Let all remember, too, that a first reading is not a final victory. The same victory was achieved last year, and then, as now, by a majority of two to one, though in a smaller house. We have had our Church-rate Alma ; we must now learn wisdom from the Crimea, and summon ali our forces to the assault at once. Every one who can contribute practical sug gestions for the reform of the Civil Service, de serves the thanks of the public. Amongst the most practical which we have seen are many con tained in a pamphlet just issued, " Our Govern ment Offices" (Ridgway). The author proposes not a revolution, but a reform, and thinks he sees the way from the present officials to bring unity, or der, and efficiency out of disconnection, confu sion, and inefficiency. He writes with evidently experimental knowledge of the subject, and since a thorough rout out of the Augeari Stable is, in the utter absence of any political HERCULES, im practicable, his proposals are made deserving of public attention. Our governing classes may be well assured that less than he proposes will never satisfy the demands of an aroused nation, and that, unless thus much be conceded, very much more will soon be required, and no denial taken. We have row men of the stamp of Messrs. LIND SAY, LAING, and PETO amongst our representa tives, and the days of the " PETER DICKS " are numbered ; either they must turn themselves into something better, or be turned out for some thing better. We will not go on paying millions a-year for officials to trip it to Greenwich in busi ness hours, or stand gossiping over the Times with their backs to the fire, while a respectable mer chant must go away with his account unsettled. Our author attributes the deficiencies of the civil service to the fact that its members are placed under " a system where they have few honours, few rewards, and little fear of penalties for want of zeal or ability." They know that , their situations are practically permanent, and if , the pay be low, and the promotion slow, yet they are in for life. "Every man, when he enters the civil service thinks he has got a safe berth." If he attends from ten till four, and does not disobey orders, he is secure against dismissal. We all know that these statements are simple facts, and certainly any system which must prove more fatal to energy and the development of ability can hardly be conceived. The three gentlemen we have just mentioned, or the wealthy heads of any four large commercial establishments, would have been sent by it long ago into the Bankruptcy Court, instead of the House of Commons. In remedying all this our author begins with the conciliatory proposal of using all the present staff ; no man is to be dismissed unless, perhaps, incurably idle or incompetent ; he would merely winnow, sift, and sort the present materials, and by altering their prospects, responsibilities, and super vision, would bring all the latent and varied talent to light, employ it where it is most wanted, and leave the ordinary minds for ordinary and routine work. Unity in the service is the first thing. Instead of a number of independent departments he would make the whole service so far one, that all the ability should be available anywhere, and capacity for one department showing itself in another should be on system transferred to the former. The I first thing to be done, and here every man of business will thoroughly concur with the author, is to make the " chiefs of departments responsible for the efficiency of their departments." He would dismiss every man from a chief post, ho never great his merits in other respects, who could not make his clerks do their duty. The dismissal of a few would encourage the others to sacrifice with out weakness bad clerks. It follows, of course, that considerable powers of promotion, and dis missal, and of other rewards and punishments must be placed in the hands of the chiefs of de partments. Unless the head of an office could make his authority felt very much as the princi pals in a commercial firm can do, he could not be held responsible for the conduct of the office. The author does not enter very minutely into detail, but quite sufficiently se to show the thorough practicability of his plan, all his minor arrangements being directed to obtain ing a faithful record of the ability and zeal of the servants of the public, and of insuring them pro motion and pay in proportion. There is wily nothing proposed which Lord PALMERSTON could not set in motion to-morrow, while, to say the least, the improvement must soon be great and conspicuous. There is one fault which he has not noticed al. most peculiar to Government offices—we mean official impudence. With many honourable excep tions there are not a set of clerks throughout the kingdom so rude, unaccommodating, and "snobbish' as those in the pay of the State. Men of busi ness require their subordinates to treat their cus tomers with respect, and to facilitate the trans action of business to them. Railway companies, and even omnibus proprietors, would dismiss an uncivil servant after the second offence. The PETER DICKS of the Government offices, however, send you about perplexed from one office to another ; and when, after all your bewilderment in lobbies and corridors, you have opened the right d oor , t en to one but you have to wait the convenience of th e idl e, or to b e snubbed, and told, "We do not give information," by some with the men. who ea t th e pu b l i c Puppy of th e d es k . Nothing disgusts the pub lbircealndotrhean the h abs ence of any app aren t dispo sition to oblige. You must pay them money ; you must go through their forms ; you cannot go to a comp cling office ; they are thorough monopolists of the business you have to transact, and like most mono p olists they do not care for you. The public will reasonably think that when persons go to pay rut )ney for the public service they ought to be trey ted civilly; that every neces sary denial ought tot ,0 in courteous terms, and all information possible ad Forded ; but they find it too commonly the very rE verse. The next remedy for all this ill-behaviour, this looking upon the nation's customers as if ti i‘ 3y disturbed the repose of its and one step towards • servants, is, to pr inish it , doing so would b e to require each clerk to give t ' his card to any or ie who asked for 1 1 and to keep in a prominent pl ace a " complaint book" as is done by ra il way compan i es . If incivility stood in the way of -prymotion, or were visited with decided censur, 33 we should hear no more of it. 1 COURT CIRCULAR. Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Seymour, went yesterday morning to the Wellingto❑ Barracks for the purpose of inspecting the drafts of the three regiments of Guards under orders for immediate embarkation to the Crimea. The Prince remained nearly one hour in the barracks. The troops were then marched to Bucking ham Palace, and were formed in the Grand Quadrangle, where they marched past the Queen, who was accompa nied by the elder Royal Family and the Duke of Cam bridge, the Prince and Princess Angustn3 of Saxe Co burg, the Prince of Leiningen, and Prince Ernest of Leiningen. The — Prince and Princess Augustus of Saxe Coburg took leave of her Majesty yesterday and quitted Buck ingham Palace, on their return to Claremont. The Queen and Prince Albert left Buckingham Palace at five minutes past 3 o'clock in the afternoon for Wind sor Castle. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, Prince Arthur, the Princesses Alice, Helena, and LGui-a, Prince Leopold, and the Prince of Leiningen, and were attended by the Duchess of Athol], Lady Caroline Barrington, Hon. Caroline Cavendish, Hon. Flora Macdonald, Earl Somers, Colonel the Hon. C. Phipps, the Hon. Mortimer Sackville West, Lord Charles Fitzroy, Colonel Seymour, the Master of the H , iusehold, and Mr. Gibbs. The Queen and the Prince were attended to their car riage by the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Breadalbane, Lord George Lennox, and Colonel the lion. A. N. Hood. The royal party occupied seven carriages, and was escorted by a detachment of Carbineers to the Padding ton terminus of the Great Western Railway. WINDSOR, APRIL 4. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, with the Royal Family and Princo of Leiningen, attended by the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, arrived at the Castle soon after four o'clock this afternoon from London. The Duchess of Kent arrived to-day at her residence, Frogmore House, from town. Lieutenant Edward C. Sim was presented to the Queen at the Levee on the 26th ult., by the Inspector General of Fortifications, The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, and Sir George Couper, left her residence, Clarence House, St. James's, for Frogmore, yesterday. Lady Anna Maria Dawson has succeeded Lady Fanny Howard as the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Kent. Prince Ernest of Leiningen left Clarence House, s James's, yesterday afternoon, for Portsmouth. A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign•ofce, Downing-street, yesterday afternoon, The Ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Vernon Smith, Sir William Molesworth, Viscount Canning, and the Earl of Harrowby. A deputation of Yorkshire newspaper proprietors from Leeds had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex chequer yesterday at his official residence in Downing street, for the purpose of laying before him their unani mous views in favour of a halfpenny stamp on newspapers to free the poet, and of a halfpenny stamped cover to entitle unstamped copies of registered newspapers to a single transmission through the post. The deputation consisted of Mr. Edward Baines, of the Leeds Mercury, Mr. Kemplay, of the Leeds lntelligencer, Mr. Alfred E. Hargrove, of the York Herald, Mr. Leader, of the Sheffield Independent, and Mr. J. V. Walker, of the Halifax Guardian. The Right Hon. E. P. Bouverie, Vice-President of the Board of Trade, left town yesterday for Kilmarnock. Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yester day from the Governor of Canada, and also from the Governor of Gibraltar. Despatches were sent yester day to the Governors of the Australian Colonies. Sir Benjamin and Lady Hall have left London for Llanover, near Abergavenny, where they will pass the Easter holidays. The Earl of Cardigan arrived in Portman-square on Monday, from visiting the Duke of Rutland, at Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire. The Earl of Cardigan has consented to preside at the forthcoming anniversary dinner of the Yorkshire So ciety. Many gentlemen, we understand, have already signified their intention to be present in compliment to the noble lord. • Sir Charles Fitzroy, K.C.8., late Governor-General of Australia, has arrived at Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave• street. Miss Bus dat Coutts is in Suffolk for a few days visit inn, a relative. Mr. John Burder, of Parliament•street, secretary to 25 of the English bishops, died at his residence at Nor wood on Tuesday. On the 22d ult. 170 cases of cholera were reported at St. Petersburg. The sittings of the Germanic Diet will be resumed on the 12th. General Tories, the Peruvian Minister to this coun try, arrived yesterday at SouthamptOn in the Tyne, and proceeded to Silva's Hotel. _ A notice wai issued from the General Post-office yes terday, ordering all country Post-offices to be closed on Good Fridays and Christmas-days, the same as on Sun days—that is to say, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. No money orders are to be granted or paid on those days, and enly one delivery of letters is to be made. The following clergymen have been appointed chap lains for the seat of war under the auspices of the So ciety for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts : —the Rev. John Escreet, M.A., curate of Camden Town Chapel, St. Pancras ; the Rev. James Wallace, M.A., curate of Littlebuiy; the Rev. Wm. Sykes, M.A., late curate of Ingoldesthorpe, Norfolk ; and the Rev. J. d'Arcy Preston, DMA., curate of Kenilworth. C A P TA IN MATHEWS.—Captain Mathews, late of the Great Britain steamer, has been appointed Lloyd's agent in Melbourne. Captain Mathews and his family will leave in the White Star for Melbourne, and will carry with him the high regards which his conduct as a gentleman and a sailor of many years has universally secured him. —Liverpool ,!tandard. DEATH OF THE AUTHORESS OF " JANE EYRE."—We regret to announce the death of Mrs. Nicol, formerly Miss Bront4, who, under the nom, de plume of Currer Bell, established a lasting reputation by the publication of "Jane Eyre." We have two other novels from her pen, "Shirley," and " Vilette," and all are especially distinguished for great power of conception and vigorous portrayal of character. The unfortunate lady, who was the last survivor of a family of six, died on Saturday last, at her father's house, at Haworth, Yorkshire.— Manchester Guardian. DRURY-LANE TLIEATRE.—WiIIiam Dunn, Esq., the respected treasurer and secretary of thi s th ea t re , di e d at his residence, Crown Hill, Norwood, Surrey, last even ing. Mr. Dunn was fifty-six years an officer in this establishment, and no person was more respected by the committee and gentlemen, as also by the various lessees. His death will be a great loss to the management and the committee. METROPOLITAN SEWERS COMMISSION. —A special gene ral court of the commissioners was held yesterday at the Court-house, Greek-street, to allow deficiencies, hear summonses and appeals, make improvement rates, re ceive presentments of nuisances and other routine busi ness. The Court sat some hours, but no point of the slightest public interest arose. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LIVERPOOL, April 3.—The great will case, the Earl of Sefton v. Hopwood, was ar gued at length by Sir F. Thesiger. At six o'clock the court rose. The case was resumed yesterday and again adjourned. OXFORD CIRCUIT. —GLOCESTER, April 4.- -Mary Ann Bryant was charged with feloniously throwing a child named Hannah Selman into the water, with intent to murder her. The prisoner pleaded guilty to the charge. The particulars of this distressing case will be in the re collection of our readers, having been fully detailed in The Sun of Saturday last. Mr. Baron Martin said he had no alternative, and must direct that sentence of death be recorded against the prisoner ; but his lordship intimated that the sentenos would not be executed. Sentence of death was recorded accordingly. HOME CIRCUIT, KINGSTON, April 4.—Wiraus v. SMITH AND ANOTHER.—This was an action against the registered proprietors of the Daily News, for the publi cation of a libel in that journal. Mr. E. James, Q.C., appeared for the plaintiff, and said that the only object he had in view was the vindication of his character, and, as the defendants had admitted that the article which was the subject of complaint had been inserted through in advertence, and that there was no ground for any im putation upon the plaintiff, he would consent to a no minal verdict that would carry costs. A verdict for 5 guineas was then taken for the plaintiff. DEATH AT SCUTARI.—The following letter (says the Nottingham Journal) has been received by the friends of a young man named Wainright, a native of Not tingham :—" General Hospital, Scutari, Feb. 27, 1855. Mr. Wainwright,—l write to acquaint you with the death of your son Frederick, not only because I believe you would rather know the worst than be kept in sus pense, but more particularly because I am able to tell you things of his last sickness, which it will be a con solation for you to hea r . His disease was diarrhoea. He walked into the ward on his arrival, and seemed in good spirits, though looking very thin. I iemember ' remarking to an old soldier who was assistinehim, that the lad kept up his spirits, and he answered very heartily, 'Yes, he is fit for a soldier.' The doctor said that his chance of recovery was nourishing food. He was tried with this. I know that lam writing to a parent, so I cannot speak too minutely. On the last day of his life he took two eggs beaten up with brandy, two gills of port wine, and a quantity of beef tea. He bore his acute sufferings very uncom plainingly. I felt much drawn towards him by the pa tience and meekness he exhibited, as well as by his affec tionate disposition, lie was quite aware of the near approach of death. He told me one evening that I should not, he believed, see him in the morning. I said, I think not, Wainright.' I observed that for a moment he looked distressed, and I asked if he wished to live ? He said, 'Yes, a little longer.' What for ?' I said. He at once, poor boy, began to compare earthly and heavenly things, and ended by remarking, You may well say what for.' He told me that he felt confident his dear mother was in heaven, and he often, from words which fell from him, appeared to be dwelling upon the thought of their meeting. He knew nothing of his brother. Your last letter was read to him on the morn ing of his death. I feel quite happy with respect to poor Frederick. I trust that 'be has entered into his rest.'—Yours sincerely, MARGARET ; of the Devonport Sisters of Mercy." LATEST NEWS. THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. VIENNA, W - EDNESDAY, APRIL 4. According to reliable advices from Balaklava of the 29th of March, the regular operations were to commence on the 3d of April. BERLIN, WEDNESDAY. General Wedell has set out to return to Paris. LordiJohn Russell and M. Drouyn de I'Huys decline the King of Prussia's invitation to Berlin. The following is Prince Gortschakoff's account of the sortie of the 23d March : In the night from the 22d to the 23d March, we made a powerful sortie from Sebastopol, in order to prevent the enemy continuing his ap proaches on the hinette Kamschatka. The affair terminated in our favour, and the works constructed by the French within the last few days were destroyed. The loss on both sides was considerable, but the enemy's was greater than ours. We have taken two French officers, an English colonel, and an English captain, prisoners. The telegraph wire between Varna and Giur gevo is complete, but the apparatus has not yet arrived. The telegraph between Semlin and A lexinitz, in Servia—a distance of about 170 English miles—will be opened in a few clayq_ The British Government has a bad reputation for forethought, and people here offer to bat that no fire-engines have been sent out d to the wooden town at Balaklava. THE BALTIC FLEET. DOVER, THURSDAY, 11.15 A.M. The Baltic fleet is in sight, and will pass Dover at about 1 p.m. The weather is very fine, with a light easterly breeze. FRANCE. FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The reception of the news from Marseilles rela tive to the sortie on the 22d, has caused great ex citement, as it is looked upon as "the beginning of the end." I have nothing of particular interest to communicate to-day, further than I have heard it reported that the mission of M. Drouyn de I'Huys, or rather the ultimates n sent by him, is the destruc tion of the forts of Sebastopol. His instructions are further to insist that the erection of forts at Varna and Sinope would but be a source of trouble instead of a solid counterbalance to the power of Russia in the Euxine. Ido not vouch for the ac curacy of this information, but it is the talk in well informed circles, and I send it you. The following is from a letter dated Paris, yesterday, 6 p.m. : _ _ - The telegraphic despatch from General Canro bert, published in the Moniteur of to-day, has given rise to a good deal of comment ; and, owing to the interval between the occurrence of the facts and the date of the despatch announcing them—at least seven days—has excited some suspicion that the Government has received intelligence which it does not like to publish. If any additional facts are known people will have it that there can be only one reason for not giving them, namely— that they are of an unpleasant kind. The despatch is as follows : :" BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, MARCH 29. "In a sortie, which th.© enemy made in the night of the 22d against our works in front of the Ma lakhoff Tower, they were vigorously repulsed, and had 2,000 men killed or wounded. Our losses do not exceed 600 men." unabio to account satisfactorily for the delay of General Canrobert in transmitting this intelligence, it is suggested that the Aronitettr has made - a mis take, and that the 9 should be 6, or that it should be "Constantinople, 29," and not " Sebastopol ;" but the Constitutionnel, that must have had its infatuation from the Fore ign-office, also speaks of news of the 29th from Sebastopol of the same na ture, but adds that the French "remained mas ters of the position taken by them." Of this last fact the Moniteur says ne , thing. News from Se bastopol we could have of the 29th by Varna, but the despatch from Marseilles gives only intelligence from Constantinople of the 26th. It is possible that the Government is keeping in reserve, and, by way of a bonne bouch s, some fact of astounding success—perhaps the rei tii sation of the rumour of Sunday last. Such as the present one is, I rather think that the utmost will be made of it before the country, and I should not be surprised if it were the subject of ,a good deal of triumph, and given as an indisputable proof that, if we wished it, we could take !Sebastopol whenever we please ; and that, if we de not take it, it is because we do not wish it. Soiree ithing may be made of it at the Conference. ' Being in the vein of criticism, I cannot help noticing the mutilation Which the despatch of Lord Raglan, dated Sebastopol, the 20th, suffers in the Moniteur's fourth page as if it was desirable to keep it out of sight. This; is particularly cruel so far as the noble lord's despartches are concerned, for they are never over bulky . The greater part of the second paragraph, which s ;peaks of the heavy fire of musketry, and the few • of " consid.erable loss" having been sustained by " oair Allies," is omitted. In the third paragro,pll the words " but the fire to which I have abcrve alluded was Iso continuous," are also left out. T 'hese omissions, having reference to the injury in flitted on the French, have been noticed general, ky, and would explain, if they do not justify, the ; suspicion that there is something—good or bad—l• rhich does not meet the public eye. Taking the fa cts as given in the Moniteur, the affair must have been a sangui nary one, considering the number d probably en, gaged. The loss is equal to, if it d oes not exceed, that of Eupatoria, where there wi ;re upwards of 50,000 men engaged. The following private telegrs ,phis despatches have been received to-day : MARSEILLES, April 4.—By the y Simois we have received accounts from Constantinople to the 26th ult. All the Allied vessels w hick had been at anchor in the Bosphorus have 1 Jean recalled to the Crimea, and were preparing 'to start. All the troops encamped round the B: iy of Kamieeh had been also ordered to take up a , position nearer to Sebastopol_ Lottors from Ba, laklava of the 20th announce that the health of th a troops had much improved. The English an: 'Ly had been rein forced. The news of the deg ,th of Prince Mens chikoff is confirmed ; it took p lace at Perekop on the 17th, from a wound in . his leg, which had mortified. The Austrian am iy of observation is about to draw nearer to the Pr uth and the Danube. The departures of merchant vi )ssels from Constan tinople for the mouths of the Danube were very , rare, in consequence of the ui scertainty which pre vails as to the intentions of th( i Russian authorities. Further shocks of earthquake , were felt at Broussa on the 22d, but they were ni 3t so viol ent as before, although sufficiently so to cre ate great alarm. The English General Williams, wb ois invested w ith full powersby the Sultan, confirm rlshisinqiiiries into the disorders of the staff of the eurkish esrmy of Asia. Several colonels are to be prosecuted, and severe discipline among the troops i will be Ire-established. The Turkish Government • of Mossoul, having re ceived reinforcements, hat 3 retaken the town of Zabo from the Kurd ins , elves tts. The Ottoman Porte has ordered a levy tre ops in Syria. Ac counts from Athens state that King Otho is pre paring a palace for the Empers Napoleon. The banditti continue their outrage tt; throughout the ; whole of the country, and pith I ge in every direc. tion." (SECOND DESPA.TC ;H.) MARSEMES, 4th.—The ?is steam-packet has just arrived with accounts fro) n Constantinople to the 26th. .A.ali Pacha, the 1 1 .11inister of Foreign Affairs, was to leave or. th e 2 1 i.th for Vienna. Rizza Picha, Turkiish Minister of Ni rar, had resumed his functions. 111ustapna Pacha, ex-Grand-Visir and father of V ely Pacha, ex-A mbassador to the French Gov( 3rnzent, has been exiled. (The des patch conch- ides with the accom it of the affair of the night of the 22d, published in the Moniteur to-day.) MADRID f 3d.—Lord. Howden, the British am bassador r ht this court, has addresi;ed to the journals a commu- AicatiQn in opposition to the Ministerial declarations, relative to the violent vets r t)t., adopted against the Protestants of Seville. The Spanish Government will, it is said, make a com plaint to the English Government on the subject. A letter from Frankfort, in the Patric, says— " The dissension which exists between Austria and. Prussia on the Eastern question, instead of be coming smoothed down, appears every day to be come more aggravated. The recent note of the 16th of M. de Manteuffel is not regarded here in a sense favourable to the policy of Prussia. It ap pears to have widened the line of demarcation existing between that power and Austria. How ever that may be, a serious misunderstanding between the two first powers of Germany at a mo ment when events may render the assembling of all the military forces of the Confederation neces sary, cannot but tend to neutralise the results which that assembling might produce on the desti nies of a great partof Europ?. It maybe easily seen that the armaments which were ordered in the sitting of the Diet, on the Bth February, are, in general, carried on with much less activity than when they were first decided on. The petty states take advantage of circumstances to postpone as long as possible the period when their contingents must be fully armed. The mobilisation of the federal army, which Austria so strongly urged only about a month ago, now appears indefinitely postponed. At several of the late sittings here the question was not even alluded to." It is generally remarked (says a letter from Vienna) that Count Esterhazy, the Austrian en voy, isolates himself in a very marked manner from all the official receptions ; he no longer makes his appearance in the salons of our statesmen, and no one here would be astonished at hearing that the Austrian Government had granted him an unlimited leave of absence. Prince Jerome and his son Prince Napoleon paid a visit yesterday to the interesting plan of Sebas topol in relief by Mr. Wyld. They requested to have a private view. They arrived at half-past 1 o'clock, and remained till past 5. During this long visit the Prince pointed out to his father the scenes of the combats of Inkermann and Bala klava, and explained in detail the positions of the Allies and the progress of the works, which are, it appears, up to the latest date. Both Princes ap peared much pleased with the execution of the plan. The Courrier de Marseille of the 4th inst. says : —" It appears that fresh orders detain, for the present. the battalions of valtiffeurs of the guard at Marseilles and Avignon. It is the Ist regiment of these fine troops which is in this city waiting for embarkation. As to the foot chasseurs and the two battalions of gendarmes of the guard their de parture has been momentarily countermanded, and they remain in Paris." BOURSE, APRIL 4.—CLOSING PRICES. Cash. fr. c. End of Month. 4?i, per Cer ts 94 10 941. 50e. 3 per Cents 69 80 70f. 20c. Credit Mobilier Bl7 50 Roman Credit Foncier 540 Austrian Belgian Five 5........ 95i— Spanish Threes Piedmontese — Home Debt RAILWAYS-FOR CASH. fr. C. fr. c Orleans - Lyons ,... 1072 50 Western 665 -- Rouen - Cate 630 -- Strasburg - Mediterranean 993 -- Havre 571 25 Northern RUSSIA. The Archbishop of Odessa, following up the ap peal of the Holy Synod, has issued an incendiary "pastoral." Except as another illustration of the means by which the Czars, through the priesthood, educate their subjects to become fit instruments of their ambition, the document is in no way remark able. According to the pastoral, Russia stands alone in Europe, the single witness to the truth, the centre of the one true Church, existing abso lutely among the nations, placed above them all, and responsible to none but god, her special pro tector. The Emperor of Russia on the 24th ult, reviewed the sth and 6th battalions of Grenadiers, who are to proceed to the scene of war, and expressed to General Rudiger his satisfaction at the efficiency of those troops. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, April 2.—Lieutenant-General von We dell returned here yesterday afternoon from Paris, and proceeded at once to wait on the King at Charlottenburg. It is, of course, too early as yet to learn anything of what has resulted from his mission in the French capital, or of what fresh steps may be taken here. The first four vessels of the flying squadron, under the command of Commodore Watson, ar rived at Elsinore on Sunday afternoon. The harbour at Kiel is still covered with ice ; the only point at which the water is open is at the in flux of the Schentine. Prince Charles of Prussia is expected back from Russia by Easter. The last Petersburg papers mention the arrival there of Prince Christian of Denmark, heir presaniptive to the Danish throne, as well as Prince Friedrich of Hessen, and Prince `Wilhelm of Baden. It is understood that the Em peror Alexander 11. has sent King Friedrich 'Wil helm a cast taken from the face of the deceased Em peror. The story of the physician, Dr. Mandt, hav ing been obliged to quit Russia to evade popular aversion, is stated to be without foundation. BERLIN, April I.—Profound stillness reigns here in political circles, as though the great European events going on elsewhere must here succumb to the practice of the Evangelical Church in Prussia, which observes the coming Pas sion week as die stille Woche, the quiet week. The statements current here of an approximation of the two chief Powers of Germany I have shown you in a former letter to be based upon very insufficient grounds. The official announcement to this Court of the birth of an Archduchess has, however, been followed by a letter of congratulation from the King to be presented to the Emperor, his nephew, by Count Arnim, in Vienna ; but the observance o f these usual formalities has nothing to do with the reconciliation of either king, minister, or army with the tactics of Austria. The Royal Family, .which has been staying at Potsdam in perfect retirement,. ever since the death of the Emperor Nicholas, has just been afflicted by the news of the death of the young Hereditary Prince of Saxe Meiningen, a .daughter of Prince Albrecht of Prussia, and niece of the King and Queen. The news arrived here late on Friday evening from Meiningen, where the Princess had died that same afternoon in childbed, apparently in consequence of an attack of influenza. She was in her 23d year. A letter from Hamburg, of the 31st ult., says— " According to accounts from Copenhagen of the 28th, the nine war steamers, forming the advanced guard of the English fleet, were daily expected there. It was apprehended that, immediately on re-entering the Bal tic, the English would chase and capture the merchant men laden with merchandise for Russian ports. This apprehension is the more justified, as a certain number of those vessels are detained by the ice in different har bours, but particularly at Travemunde, where several bound for PRussia are now lying, after vain endeavours to extricate themselves from the ice, The parties in terested in the trade with the north are in hopes that the English war vessels, experiencing similar obstacles to their progress through the Belt, which is still ob structed by the ice, will be sufficiently delayed to enable the merchantmen to put to sea and reach their destination without running the risk of being captured Since the opening of the navigation, our great victualling establishments have already shipped 5,000 tons of salt beet and pork for the consumption of tha English fleet. You are aware that last autumn the Admiralty con tracted here for the supply, in spring, of a considerable quantity of The contractors have received from England the most pressing orders to place at the dis posal of the fleet, as speedily as possible, all the provi sions they undertook to furnish. Fresh cargoes of wooden huts, and other materials for the establishment of a camp have arrived from England at Heligoland, which would seem to indicate that the English have not given up the intention of opening in that island offices for re cruiting their army. The Hanoverian Government, near which that English possession is situate, will not oppose those enlistments. nis last Government continues, notwithstanding the remonstrances of the other states of the Germanic Confederation, to allow the free export of horses from its territory. England, in return for those favours, raises no objection t o th e collection of the St a d e duty, which Hanover levies, to the great detriment of the maritime commerce of all nations, on vessels passing in the Elbe, near its shores. Horses, for the remount of the cavalry and artillery, are still in great demand in the different States of Germany. At our last fair there were buyers from nearly every country in Europe, who paid for cavalry •horses as highas 800 f. The breeders obtained from 1,100 f: to 1,206 f. for carriage horses." A letter from Berlin says :—" The death of the Princess Charlotte of Meiningen, eldest daughter of Prince Albert of Prussia " (which we men tioned yesterday), took place immediately after her accouchement. She was born on the 21st June, 1831, and married Prince George of Saxe- Meiningen, in May, 1850. Prince Albert, who was at Dresden at the time, immediately left for Meiningen with the Prince and Princess, the brother and sister of the deceased. She has had three children, the second of which, a prince, died a few days ago." The followingis stated to be the text of the letter written by Lord John Russell, while at Berlin, to Dr. Philippson, in Magdeburg, in acknowledgment of an address presented to his Lordship, thanking him for his exertions in the cause of Jewish email , el , )atiOtt, ut thvai Vienna : " BERLIN, March 1. "Sir,—lt is with feelings of gratification that I have received the address you have presented to me. He!' Britannic Majesty's Government will be assiduously solicitous to procure that the Jewish as well as the Cline' tian subjects of his Highness the Sultan shall obtain the benefit of equal rights and impartial adtninistrati?e• I beg to express to you my thanks for the flattering terms in which you have alluded to my endeavours to abolish the civil disabilities of the Israelites of the - United Kingdom. " I have the honour to be, eze." An order has just been published at Dresden, forbidding the exportation of arms and amnall nition of every description. Letters from Genoa announce that the staff of the Piedmontese army has embarked for Constair tinople by the Vatican steamer. WEST INDIA MAILS. The Royal West India mail packet Tyne, Car" thin Valler, and Admiralty Agent Lieutenant Jolo l Brown, R.N., arrived at Southampton yesterdY , with the West India, Mexican, and Pacific m ails• Dates of sailing :—Vera Cruz, March 6 ; Tamplof 4 ; Havannah, 12 ; Greytown, 5 ; Chagres, 10 ; Panama, 8 ; Carthagena, 12 ; Jamaica, 14 ; De merara, 12 ; Trinidad, 13 ; St. Kitts, 17 • Barba does, 14 ; St. Lucia, 15 ; Antigua, 16 ; St. Vin' cent, 14 ; Martinique, 15 ; Guadaloupe, 16 ; Ore' nada, 13 ; Jacmcl, 15 ; Porto Rico, 19 ; Dominica, 16 ; St. Thomas, 20 ; La Guayra, 15 ; Tortelas 18. The Tyne brings 88 passengers ; among whom are General Tories the Peruvian Mi n i s t er ; Lieu" tenant Colonel Hill, Ist West India Regiment; Captain Hancock, R.N. ; Lieutenant Howard, R.N. ; Mr. Lynch, staff assistant surgeon ; Mr. Adams, Ordnance clerk ; Mr. Austin, clerk of works. Captai n Stokes, a passenger, died March 26. The freight on board includes specie to the amount of 52,786,758, the largest quantity 0 f specie hitherto brought to Southampton in one ship, of which' $90,000 are on account of Mexican divi dends. The West India Islands are generally healthly but the, planterq want rain. Exchange at Jamaica-90 days, 1 percent. prem.; 63 days, 1i per cent. prem. Merchants' Bills, i n oer cent. discount. O n N ew Y ork, GO days, at to 21 2 per cent. The political news is unimportant. The attempts to raise contributions in Jamaica in aid of the Patriotic Fund appear to have gene rally resulted in failure. governor Woclehouse had met the Combined Court of Demerara, and stated that he would dis courage all further immigration at the expense of the colony until he found a debt of nearly 400,0 t" dols. liquidated, and the colony in a position t° pay for future liabilities. The public support the Governor, but the planters are organising an er position, and talk of refusing the supplies unless immigration is included in the estimates. Trade in Demerara is dull ; freights continue a t fair rates. The cane fields look well, and everr where there is the cheering indication of a "large crop. The barque Assam, Captain Fleming, from the Clyde for Port of Spain, was swept on the rocks ill the second Bocas, on the Island of Monos, on the 28th Feb., and lost. From Mexico we learn the President, Santa Anna, left the city of M ex i co on t h e 24th 0 , February, but his p ro j ec t s were not w ell known. It was thought that he had gone to the southern part of the republic, as commande r of his troops, to fight G enera l Al varez, the ch i e f of the revolution in the state of Acapulco. The last news received in Vera Cruz, by a tele; graphic despatch, say s th a t S anta Anna had rile" the general Moreno (of the party of Alvarez). Santa Anna, it is affirmed, made 1,500 prisoners, amongst whom was Moreno himself, whom be ill standy shot. But all this requires confirmation. Business was very dull. At Valparaiso, the political world is quiet, ever , ' thing going on as it has for the last few m onths* The railroad from Valparaiso to Santiago Pr. 4 3 ". gresses but slowly. Trade is rather slack. British coal sold at 11 dols. per ton on hoard. The novr English admiral, Bruce, arrived from England 'VO the United States of America on the Gth inst. 131 the steamer Lima. He was to leave Valparaiso again in the President on the 24th inst., for Callao and the Sandwich Islands, where he will meet the remaining ships of his squadron and the French ships, which are to accompany him to reduce tile Russian ports of the North Pacific. General Castilla is now in full possession of power throughout the whole republic of Peru, and is already actively employed in making great changes. The country throughout is quiet. Gene ral Echenique had left for the United States. In Costa Rica everything is quiet. The gather ing of the coffee crop has been retarded by heavY rains, which have caused much injury to the crop. In Nicaragua, the President (Chamorro) has gained decisive advantages over the insurgents , headed by Castillion ; the attack took place about the 17th February outside Granada, and the revo lutionists were driven back to Massaya, they attempted to make good their pohition, bu t were entirely ruuted, and pursued as far as their head-quarters at the city of Leon. What took place there is not known. The Government party . captured a considerable number of small arn ls l three or four guns, and a quantity of ammunitio n. The loss of the men on the part of Castillon 10 ,! about 700—on the Gov ernment s i de comparatively none. Of the 700, 150 had their throats cut iu one of the churches in Massaya. The revolutionary leaders are at loggerheads. It is said that the English consul at Realejo de manded poSsession of Dr. Davis (an American- Filibuster), and that h e was g i ven up to him. -` will be remembered. he is the murderer of Mr. Ed vi s Higman, an Englishman, f ormer l y an offine f of R.M.S.P.C., and a member of the masoni° fraternity. Davis shot him in the forehead in th e presence of his wife, and while pretending to or brace him, making th e remar k at t h e time, "e would as soon shoot his own father as Ned." In c :, Higman was keeping a hotel a t Vi rg i n B a y, 0- Lake Nicaragua. In Greytown the people are anxiously waiting the action of the British Government regarding their claims. There is no business doing, and O f little money they had has bee s a b sor b e d i s ing temporary houses of the poorest description. A fire broke out at St. Thomas's on the ult., and consumed property in the stores of Will more and Co., Main-st ree t, t o t h e amount ° 80,000 dollars. Her Majesty's ship Boscawen (flag) and Medea , at Antigua • Vestal, Espi eg l e , Arab, Argus, Blif zard, north - coast of Cuba ; Devastation, Greg " town ; Eurydice, Calypso, at Bermuda ; Scorpia' Bahama Channel ; Imaum, Port Royal • Wolve c i rine, - Windward Chan ne l ; M ar i ner, Wi n d w ar Islands ; Daring, San Domingo. On the 29th ult., the liner Tage arrived at Algiers, , from Constantinople, to take o n b oar d th e 1 4th b atta lt of foot Chasseurs, and co nve y it t o t h e Crimea. The 7th battalion of the same arm was a l so t o em b ar k I°t the East, in the steam corvette Phlegeton and Laplac e ; and the commercial steamer Byza n ti n was l oa di ng mule for the army. . A letter from Cherbouro. of thA I.t in.t., wnnounee° that the screw liner Austerlitz would put to sea on 01° 2d or 3d. Two battalions of the 2d Regiment of Grenadiers e a f the Imperial Guard a rr i ve d a t M arseilles on the 2d, a n left the next morning for Toulon. The latest advices from the Crimea are of the 24th ' The operations against the new Russian works near the Malakhoff Tower were continued.. Nothing is said of th e destruction of th e F renc h wor k s on the 23d, althoug h ' the affair is mentioned. The Freinden Platt learns tbe,i " the commander of the French cavalry division, Geye r* d'Allonville, is lying in a state of delirium." The Pltare de la Loire announces that the constree" tion of the six gun-boats, in the dockyard of M. Guiber tl at Nantes, was proceedi ng w ith all possible activitP The swell in the river had somewhat retarded the works; but it was expected th a t one o f t h e b oats wou ld 12 , launched in the course o f a f or t n i g h t, and the f i ve o ther' shortly afterwards. An immense number of merchant vessels chartered the French Government are now loading at Marseille materiel of war, horses, mules, and troops for the aria in the Crimea. Th e sa ili ng frigate Constitution and t he transp-,rt co rve tt e C aravane h ave a l so arrive d there to from Toulon for the same obj ec t. Th e steam - pa cke , of the Levant li ne , th e France, Norinandie, Assyv e ,!, &c., have been put into requisitio n , an d are a b o ut wi t- l - 0 sail with ammunition and hors es f or t h e E as t. large English steamer Colombo, which reached last vi - ea from Malta, is now loading fur the same destination, f o r the packet Eunbrate left Marseilles, on th e 2d, 0 Constantinople, with a detachment f 250 Engine er a company of the 32d of the line, and ammunition. THE MILITARY HOSPITAL AT SAIYRNA.—The tial, of Smyrna, of the 22 , 1 ult., says : --" We are hal; to be able to ann ounce t h at the san i tary state of try. English milita r y h osp i ta l esta b l i shed in this city is t satisfactory. The fever which had prevailed there 1, some time p as t h as much di m i n i s h e d . The num b er of sfoe. diers in it i s 900, of whom 586 are still unwell, and t he .. 0,1 mainder c onva l escent. Th e d ea th s s i nce the f i rst a rr o lv, have b een 104 . T he me di ca l staff is compose d ; be physician-in-chief, 3 physicians of the Ist and 6 of Cl 2,1 cla ss , 5 surgeons o f th e I s t and 11 of the 2d the and 4 a p o th ecarie s. We h ave b e f ore announce.," boo arrival f rom E n gland of seve ra l D ame d e Ch ar it4. ladies, to the number of 20, as well as 26 nurse',loo under the direction of a Mrs. Coote. Th e re are also men to wait on the sick and wounded,"