The Sun. — London, England, 1855-04-06 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL LIATMA.REET. Under the management of Mr. BLICkStOIIe. ON EASTER MONDAY Will be presented THE SECRET AGENT. Principal characters by Mr. Backstone and Miss E. Chaplin. To be followed by VIE Ballet, in which the Spanish Mincers Will appear, entitled EVENING FESTIVAL. After w hieh, a new Extravaganza. called THE NEW HAT WJLEULET SPRING MEETING, 1855. Tb ocrelude with THE GALICIAN FETE. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CHARLES KERN. OAT EASTER MONDAY • Will be performed LIVING TOO FAST, • To be fo'lowed-bl TELE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Principe character by Mr. C. Kean. To conclude with (first time) a Romance, in two acts, entitled E MULETEER OF TOLr.DO ; or, King, Queen, and Knave. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIU. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Direetress, Id.diane Celeste. ON FASTER MONDAY Will be performed the Drama entitled TELE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. Ti c , nc'thle withA NET EDITION OF THE FAIRY TALES OF MOTHER GOOSE, with mime ous highly-coloured Illustrations .RIYAL oLY3trte THEATRE. Lessee and 11.anager. Mr. A. Wigan. ON EASTER MONDAY WM be performed a Comeletta, called LAM FOR L DIE 4. er Vv ige d n, G. yin.ng, H. Cooper, ranvers, ChVacts by Messrs. A. and Miss Cast'eton. be followed by the Fairy Extravaganza, called THE YELLO To W DWARF THE KING OF IHE GOL u MINES. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. fir Willia m Cooke begs to acknowledge one of the most successful ins of the Royal Amphitheatre , a nd announces th at on EAsTER O KAY there will be produced an original Equidrama , to be called, w i t t T ELE FIELD AGAINST fHE FAVOURITE; developing events of ieculiar character and general interest ! Novel SCENES in the CIRCLE, and a variety of amusements, will end their aid to the evening's entertainment. p,ez.office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. wet. Acting Manager. 2c r. W. H. Cooke. Equestrian Director, jitr. W. Cooke, jun. ROTAL STRAND THRATRE. Tjo4er tbe direction of Miss Rebecca Isaacs. TO-MORROW EVENING, The VIZARTr if fheIVORLD will appear in his Magtc Saloon, with & variety of amusements. To be followed by TUE BARBER OF CADIZ, introducing the Drary-lane Ballet Cbmgany. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BBIDON. TEN DAY —Morniaz 6 min.after 4 SveninE 23 alln.aft. 4 To- 40vad V -Morning 39 aiin.aftoT 4 Syeuinii 56 nata.aft. 4 THE WEATHER.—Suar Orrin', April. 6. TaRRMOMETEB, IN THE SRADE.. 56—highest since noon yesterday. 46 —lowest this morning and during the night. 60—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 30'21. WIND, W.S.W.—Light breeze, with fine, warm weather. k a) _ -.P; LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 1855. " Lord JOHN RUSSELL and M. DROUYN DE L'Huys decline the King of Prussia's invitation to Berlin." So it is announced by the telegraph, and we can easily credit the intelligence. It would, indeed, have been strange had it been otherwise, had the representatives of France and England abandoned their important duties at Vienna to dance attendance on the King whose duplicity or vacillation has occasioned so many grave complications, and led to the exclusion of the Prussian Plenipotentiary from the pending conferences. For what purpose could their pre sence now be required at Charlottenburg ; and what serious apprehensions would it not necessarily excite amongst all desirous of obtaiaing a speedy and honourable solution of the existing diffi culties ? Austria might then, indeed, complain, she might well suspect that there was some under hand proceedings on the tapis. The mischief arising from the ostentatious pro menade of Lord JOHN RUSSELL with Prince GouTscaaKoFF would be far exceeded by the friendly visit of the French and English diplo - - matists to the capital of FREDERICK WILLIAM—a visit which could only be regarded as a complete turning of the tables on Austria, the holding of a new Congress, from which her representative would be excluded. No further time need- now be wasted in the exchange of useless courtesies. The season for action has arrived. France requires an immediate and decided answer to her reasonable demands. There can be no more equivocation —no evading the plain alternative. The principle that "those who are not for us are against us " must at once be enunciated, and the German Potentates must choose the side on which to array themselves. The circumstances of the case prohibit neutrality. The Western Powers can guard against open enmity ; but pretended friendship, while render ing covert assistance to the enemy, is far more ' formidable. We cannot permit parties to remain with their forces cn a war footing, ready to step in, and turn the scale of victory at the moment when the belligerents, exhausted by their previous exertions, are placed at the mercy of the by standers. Austria has already entered into solemn en gagements with the Western Powers, has made plausible promises, which she should at once be required to redeem. By the Treaty of the 21 December she engaged to support the Allies, unless a settlement was effected with Russia on the basis of. the Four -Poin's. Russia accepted the conditions as explained by the subsequent Article of the 28th December, and if she now en deavours to wriggl e ou t o f th e responsibility, if s h e shows that she was merely striving to gain time, and had no bona Me intention of making the necessary concession, -then it is incumbent on Austria to show that she has some respect for her plighted faith, and that, like Carthage of old, she shall not become a byeword and a reproach among nations. From the beginning it was obvious that there was but one way in which the Third Point could be carried out, so as to afford security and restore confidence to the nations in the vicinity of the Euxine. Sebastopol was " a standing mena ce " not only to Turkey, but to Europe. As we have already stated, it threatened the Danube as well as the Bosphorus. Bitter experience has proved, beyond the possibility- of doubt, that no reliance can be Pla ce d on the professions of moderation ; that any Power which Russia possessed would be unscrupulously used whenever suitable opportu nity occurred m • The retention of the Crimea by Russia might be reg ar d an extraordinary act of generosity, that as But with Sebastopol could scarc ely be justified. still fortified, it could only be looked on as evidence of insanity, similar to allowing a madm an to kee p a Possession o f a deadly weapon, paroxysm of rage, to be turnedagainst his k eepers on th e first If Russia means fairly, Why sh ould she desire to retain the power of acting unfairly The fortifications of Sebastopol cannot be .requi re d for the protection of her own territories. It is only as the means of aggression that it can be useful , it is ridiculous then to speak of the h onour 0; di gn ity of the CZAR being opposed to the d emo . lition of its forts. As well might the burglar speak of his " dignity " being involved in the surrender of his " jemmy " and his " centre-bit." Besides, Russia has already waived other matters, respecting which but last year she spoke in an equally decided manner. She has since that, time materially abated her pretensions, and there is no more reason to suppose that, if the Western Powers are now firm and decided in their de mands, she will not make the additional conces - fii.)llls reqUirqd• She will make ev ery effort to avoid the unpalatable alternative ; but, when no other course is available, she will swallow her leek, albeit with many wry faces and impotent threats that she will " most horribly avenge " the insult. There is nothing, then, for the Western Powers but the ultimatum —that the forts of Sebastopol be forthwith demolished, and the Russian fleet destroyed or withdrawn from the Black Sea. No confidence could be placed in the promise of limit ing the naval power of Russia so long as the impregnable fortifications and well-stored arsenal remained. Vessels of war would speedily fill the convenient port, vessels which would not be heard of until they sailed forth bristling with arms, and manned with disciplined seamen, trained in the Baltic, and transferred to the Euxine, ready to inflict an irreparable blow when least expected. After what has occurred it would be a childish credulity which would rest contented with any promise of Russia which it might at any future period be her interest to violate. It would be an equally solemn mockery to speak of the construction of naval stations at Sinope or Varna, or both. What would our eco nomists say when, after peace had nominally bean restored, and otir over-burdened taxpayers were demanding relief from the war imposts, when the Income Tax was again reduced, if the Chancellor of the Exchequer brought forward an estimate for some twenty or thirty millions of pounds ster ling for the construction of the intended for tifications at Sinope ? How would the main tenance of an adequate fleet in the Euxine be provided for ? and what would be the natural feelings if the destruction of the incipient fortress and the sacrifice of our fellow-subjects should stamp the blood-stained bay with a notoriety more infamous, a massacre more sanguinary, than that by which it has already been disgraced ? the victims being Englishmen, not Turks ! How would the blind credulity that rendered such a thing possible be execrated, and what indelible shame would rest through all future ages on the names of those responsible for the calamity ! Even if the Western Powers were contented to incur the enormous pecuniary outlay, and the perpetual expenses rendered necessary from the too sensi tive regard for the AUTOCRAT'S dignity, the arrangement would be impracticable, inasmuch as there could be no security during the protracted interval between the commencement and comple tion of the forts at Sinope and Varna. Once more, then, we repeat the watchword, that should be stereotyped in every British journal—that will find an echo in every French and English heart until the important problem is solved, " DELENDA EST SEVASTOPOL !" The sword so reluctantly drawn cannot be restored to its scabbard until the indispensable sacrifice is accomplished, and security for a permanent peace duly perfected. Already we have reminded those pre-cccupied by the warlike incidents transpiring in the Crimea that occurrences of considerable public import have been simultaneously taking place elsewhere than before the batteries and earthworks of Sebas topol. Besides Sebastopol, as we recently re marked, other cities have been beleaguered. Besides the Crimea, other foreign States have been invaded. There have been other, if lesser, contests than the one waged by the Allies against Russia. There have been other would-be spolia tors no less flagitious, and we rejoice to add no less unsuccessful, than the AUTOCRAT. A few sentences may not be amiss in the way of cursory elucidation. It will, thereupon, be perceptible at a glance how little in all this we have spoken at random, and how very far our words have been from those of merely empty antithesis or flippant exagge ration. A retrospective survey of the principal events of any significance which have been recorded, during 1854-5, in our own columns and in those of our contemporaries—indicates rather glaringly, among other facts, the somewhat curious one that a great Democracy has striven to emulate a great Despotism by its lawless attempts at territorial aggrandisement. If the Russian Autocracy has endeavoured, per fas aut nefas, to absorb among its other possessions the whole of the long-coveted Danubian Principalities—the American Republic has hungered and thirsted after Cuba, after the Sandwich Islands, after " this, that, and the other," among the insular tidbits, whether a Cuba or a Sandwich, both in the Southern and in the West Indian Archipelago. Scarcely had the Japanese been brought to their senses by the formidable maritime expediti6n sent against them by the Government at Washington, when another expedition of a different character, a genuine filli bustering expedition was "on the cards" for the seizure of the brightest jewel in the Crown of Spain—in the event, that is, of the Cabinet of Madrid showing itself inconveniently disinclined t) sell the gem in a villanously huckstering fashion far certain .millions of dollars—for a don ester of so many hundreds of thousands of " thanks"—for a—consideration ! The nefarious design was only the other day inopportunely blurted out, in the hearing of whoever listed, by the little Congress of Plenipotentiaries ga thered together on the margin of Europe in the persons of the United States' Representatives at the Courts of St. James's, the Escurial, and the Tuileries. So inopportunely did these wiseacre Ambassadors let the cat out of the bag in this particular instance, that we may presume the pro jected capture of Cuba by Congress is to be shelved at least for a while, if it has not thereby in con-. sequence been permanently abandoned. For the rest of-tha world, besides Spain .and America, are now, by reas o n o f th at astonishing betise on the part of the Envoys of Yankeedoodledum, awake to the whole value and bearing of the enterprise. Beyond which it is uncertain as yet how far any such design would be countenanced by the newly elected Congress, agitated as it is in its earlier sit tings by its redoubtable muster of raw Know-No things and ripe Locofocos, muchlesshow any scheme so disgraceful as the bartering of Cuba for gold could be encouraged by the still immature Cortes, guided in its constitutional labours by the pa triotic influence of ESPARTERO. Moreover, in addition to the baulked scheme for the seizure of Cuba, there have been divers others of a scarcely less grasping kind cherished in the core of the bosom, in the heart of hearts of the great United States Democracy. The American Republic, as herein.before mention ed, has for a considerable time past looked askance upon the yearned-for group of the Sandwich Islands, with an eye to their wholesale acquisition. It.appears, however, by recent advices from the other side of the At- t aken plac e i n th e n egot t a lantic th a t a ra ther anno . yi t n io g ni hi f t o c r h t h h a e s ir s a u n d n d e e x n a ly .. and not by any means morally pre tpiacZeuiaMr:anwhile, diplomatic intrigues of this Pwoosrsleklas inseenebaareszter, have in those quarters of the l: popund---bylar and accompanied rather plentifully by ki Political m ovements of a very different uproarious didarbances and sang uinary revolutions. Ly nc h -lave ribly than ev er throughout California. Insur rection nourished more ter rection has devastated Peru--ehi li b eing more or less agitated up to the present moment by the still unsettled question as . to the presidency. The interne , :it le war which has, dur ing many months past, rage 1 uninterruptedly over Mexico—good and evil for .;une fluctuating capri ciously between the rebel troops and the forces of the Republican Governm( a it —appears at length to be happily approaching -the period of its ter mination—if we may at lea st be permitted so to conjecture from the recent - return of SANTA ANNA to the capital, after the gel llant old veteran had effectually routed the insurzents near Marenes and driven ALVAREZ to the wavessity of a precipitate retreat, crippled by a desperate conflict, and dis pirited by an overwhelmilag sense of the fullness of his discomfiture. Possibly, by the way, tile interruption to which we have already referred as having closes for a the negotiations set on foot by the Government at Washington for the annexa,tion of the Sandwich Islands to the territories already comprised with in the limits of thelTuited States' dominion, may be attributable, in some measure, to the influence of a new, and yet more remarkable, political intrigue, which seems to have suddenly sprung into exist ence in California, the promoters of the said in trigue being numbered among the more daring and lawless of the free and easy citizens of San Francisco. The enterprise alluded to being nothing less in short than the organisation of another United States, having its shores washed not chiefly by the waters of the Atlantic, but principally by those of the Pacific. The formation, in other words, of a Great Western Republic, including among its various States, besides the otherwise coveted group of Sandwich Islands, the fair and fertile fields of Senora, together with these a slice or two carved by the dagger of intrigue or by the sword of conquest, from the already hacked, and hewed, and partially dismembered regions of Mexico, and, as the heart and centre of the whole motley confederacy, the as-yet-separate but soon to-be-bnited states of Oregon and California. An agreeable prospect for all the contiguous territories of the North American Continent ! A picture almost as alluring nowadays to the less civilised among the gold-seeking Citizens of the World as that which very lately flashed and faded with the blended brilliancy and evanescence of a dissolving view before the dazzled and bewildered senses of the z diggeri of Ballarat ! So that day-dreams of new-born and robust democracies have re cently, in effect, been indulged in by some simultaneously in the gold fields of Califor nia and the auriferous wilds of Australasia. A cursory glance at what has been here briefly but suggestively enumerated will be sufficient, we conceive, to show that 'Westwards and South wards there have been, and still are visible :con temporaneously with the War in the Crimea, any thing rather than indications in States of internal quietude or of international tranquillity. The bombardment of Greytown constitutes by no means the only transatlantic companion picture to that of Bomarsund, or that of Odessa, or that of Sebastopol. California, Mexico, Chili, Victoria, and Yankeeland, have each contributed their quota to the uproar, and bloodshed—the " bub ble, bubble, toil and trouble" making up the hell broth of war concocted during 1854-5 by the De mon of Discord, designated by Lord BYRON, pic turesquely enough, as "Red Battle," but known more correctly nowadays as Red-Tape Diplo macy. Additional glances elsewhere than in the direction of America, will demonstrate no less distinctly and disastrously that that Gob lin of Mischief has been busy in yet more remote and scattered possessions—in the African and Asiatic Continents, no less than in the European, the American, and the Australian. If the public were n)t thoroughly persuaded that Lord LUCAN is a highly meritorious but much injured officer, a perusal of the pamphlet just issued, containing a report of his Lordship's speech in the House of Lords in extenso, a plan of the locality in which the fatal Light Cavalry charge at Balaklava was made, and an Appendix, in which the arguments of those who defended his Lordship's recall are met, must go far to insure that result. Ample grounds, we are of opinion, will be found in the pamphlet for the belief that, after having proved himself a skilful and gallant general— after having routed 3,500 of the enemy with a force of 700 men, his Lordship was compelled, through misconception and blunders on the part of others higher in' command, to order a charge of which he did not approve, and which was followed by the most deplorable results, and that when an attempt was afterwards but too successfully made to fix the odium of the charge upon him, he was deprived of the opportunity of vindicating himself by a technical objection at once untenable and absurd ; and to this conviction, we are persuaded, will be added a feeling of pleasure at the energy and perseverance displayed by his Lordship in his defence against apparently overwhelming odds. THE SUN - , LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING. ° APRIL 6 1855, MAP OF T h M CRIMEA. Mes . irs.lby and Sons, litho;raphen, Holborn have issued a new map, 21 feet by 4, of the seat of wai in the Crimea, compiled and drawn by W. Lawrie. The camps and works of the respective nations, the railway, and the principal roads, have each their distill.> tive colour, so that they may be recognised at a glance, A view of Sebastopol, and another of Balaklava from the sea, are given, together with two sketches, one of the Black Sea and the countries adjacent, and the other of Eupatoria, with a view of that town from the inner anchorage. The map, which is brought out at a low price, is quite apropos at the present time, and will doubtless command an extensive sale. COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, APRIL 5. The Qneen and Prince, accompanied by the Prince of %Vales, Prince Alfred, and the Prince of Leiningen, walked in the i;lome-park this morning. the Princess Royal and Princess Alice rode in the Riding-house. The Princess Helena ana Louisa and Prince Arthur took a carriage drive. and we T re he is c a t u ts e t d om o a n ry m -R o o n y d a Ft l y M a i n n d or T ß u o c u sd n a t y ies to an t d he Ga a t g e ed A meritorious poor in the various parishes and districts in and round London, at the Almonry, in Whitehall, under the direction of the Lord High Almoner and Sub- Almoner. The recipients included numerous cases of blindness, and other infirmities. The Ancient and Royal Charities of Maunday Thurs day were distributed yesterday to 36 aged men and 36 aged women, with the usual formalities, in Whitehall Chapel. The number of each sex corresponds with the age of her Majesty. The Right Hon. Edward Eforsman- has left town for Ashby St. Leger, for the holidays. Despatches were received at the Colonial -office yester day from the Governors of the West India Islands. Despatches were sent to the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope and the Governor of Gibraltar. THE FAMILY CABINET. Premier, Viscount Palme r on to the I.Tu der Secretary of the Home Department. President of the Council, Earl Granville. —Related to the Privy Seal, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, and Chan cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster. Privy Seal, Duke of Argyll.—Related to the Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland, the Lord President, and the Chancellor of the Duchy. Home Secretary, Sir George Grey.—Related t o th e First Lord of the Admiralty and the Chancellor of the Duchy, Foreign Secretary, Elrl of Clarendon.—Relatel to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Colonial Secretary, Lord J. Russell.—Related to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir C. Wood.—Related to the Home Secretar.r. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir G. C. Lewis.—Re lated to the Foreign Secretary and the Colonial Secre tary. Chancellor of the Duchy, Earl of Harrowby.—Re lated to the Lord President, Lord Privy Seal, and the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, Earl of Carlisle.—Re lated to the President of the Council, Privy Seal, and the Chancellor of the Duchy,—Moritiny iforcad. DEPARTURE OF DR. KENT-GRAND MASONIC DEMONSTRATION. The subject of the following memoir is the son of Mr. Kent, of Ridley-hall, near this city, and brother in-law of Dr. Emerton, of Hanwell College Middlesex. (Front the Adelaide Observer, Dec. 20.) "And you, farewell, whose merits claim Justly that highest badge to wear."—BuuNs. Saturday having been fixed on for Dr. Kent to go on board the Antelope steamer, an invitation appeared in the papers, addressed to all Frse and Accepted Masons, to join in a farewell demonstration to their provincial Grand Master on the occasion of his departure for the mother country. Shortly after 2 o'clock a considerable number of the officers and brothers of the various lodges assembled at the Masonic-ball, North -terrace. When the room was nearly full, a deputation proceeded for Dr. Kent in a chariot drawn by eight'horses, all iron greys, most spirited animals, and beautifully matched. This imposing turn-out, with its postilions in scarlet and gold, and other brilliant appointments, attracted gene ral notice. On the arrival of Dr. Kent at the Masonic Hall, the Grand Lodge was opened in due form by the Deputy Provincial Grand Master, Brother Lazar, and the di4pensation appointing him to act during the ab sence of the P. G. M. was no, t by the Prov. Grand Sec , Brother Dr. Moore. The Prov. Grand Master, Dr. Kent, then presented the patent of authority (granted to him by the Earl of Zetland, Grand Master of Eng land) to Brother Lazar, who in a short but appropriate address acknowledged the honour that had been con ferred upon him. The Prov. Grand Master then took leave of the Grind Lodge in an affecting speech, and the Leckie was closed according to ancient usage. While those proceedings engaged attention within the lodes, numerous vehicles arrived with brothers anxious to join the procession. Tnis concourse, together with the strains of a brass band, attracted a considerahle crowd outside of the Masonic Hall, and several ladies secured seats under the ornate verandah which shades the front of the building. When the door of the lodge-room was thrown open and Dr. Kent appeared, escorted by the principal officers in the regalia, several persons pressed forward, anxious to grasp the hand, to breathe a parting word, or catch a nod of recognition from one who seemed to have enjoyed the rare good fortune of living many years among them with universal respect, and whose de parture was looked upon by all with regret. As the worthy P. G. Master proceeded to his seat in the chariot, he was saluted with masonic honours by the Craft. When they subsided he arose, and taking off his bat, he bade farewell to all his friends present who were not Freemasons. This courteous act elicited a round eif cheers in reply. The procession started along North-ter race in an easterly direction until it reached King Wil liam street, when it turned into Hindley-street. At the top of Hindley-street the cavalcade paused for a few moments, where the ;eat arrangement of the procession was effected, and it proceeded rapidly to the Port, being loudly cheered at various points throughout the journey. When the cortege arrived at the Port, the harbour pre eented a most animated appearance. Nearly all the ves sels were decorated with flags, and several displayed the "hieroglyphics bright," which none but craftsmen understand, and as the leading carriages of the proces sion drew up in front of the Britannia hotel, some of the ships fired a salute. A double line was formed by brothers from the carriages to the entrance of the hotel, and the Prov. Grand Master Kent was met on alight ing by Brother Leon, the W.M. of tile Lodge of Unity, with several of 'his officers, who escorted him to the lodge-room, where the ceremony of leave-taking was the most impressive. The procession again formed and pro ceeded to the steam-tug which was hoarded by all the Brethren, who seemed determined not to part from their respected President until the last moment. On the sig nal to start being given, the air was rent with cheerings from the shore, and the deep booming of guns from the saluting battery below the Company's Bridge. On boarding the Antelope, the party proceeded to the sa loon, which presented a most imposing appearance, as nearly two hundred Masons, in their rich regalia occu pied it. D.P.G.M. Lazar proposed the farewell toast in a brief but impressive spee .h ; it was received with an unmistakeable manifestation of sincerity, and was re sponded to by P.G.M. Kent, who was deeply affected, in an eloquent reply. He acknowledged for himself and his family the great honour conferred upon him by the craft in that public demonstration ; he referred regretfully to the suspension of the intercourse that had evoked such kindly feelings, and declared that " Strong memory on his heart shall write Those happy scenes when far awa'." Ile then bade " a heart-warm fond adieu" to every brother present, and they, wishing him all prosperity, -ook their leave. On their landing, the cavalcade re formed and returned to town, where it arrived safely about ten o'clock. THE EARL OF ANTRIM—We are glad to learn that the Earl of Antrim, who lately sustained a severe acci dent, is progressing rapidly and favourably to con valescence. A meeting of the shareholders of the Demerara Rail way will be held on the 20th. The half-yearly dividend on the shares of the Bank of Australasia, together with a bonus of 563. per share, will he paid on and after the 17th inst. The specie brotio:ht yesterday by the West India -teamer amounted to the unprecedented total of 560,0001., chi€-fly in silver. A. considerable portion of this arrival will most probably be sent. to Hamhimz and Amsterlam, where it will tend to maintain the satisfa - Itery state of the exchanges. HOLIDAYS AT THE LAW AND E OFFlCES.—Yes tetchy ne several ortices of the Common Law Courts were clos , d until Wednesday for the E aster recess. The offices •f the Equity Com is will not re-open before Thursday. THE WEST INDIA MAIL.—THE TAY.—Tnis vessel 'eft Southampton yesterday afternoon at one o'clock with the West India mail, her machinery having been put in order. THE EAST INDIA AND CHINA MAlL.—Southampton, Thur-day.---The steam-ship Euxine, of the Peninsular and Oriental Company, Captain John Weeks, arrived with the heavy portion of the above mail this day at, two o ' c l oc k p.m. Her dates of sailing were :—Alexandria, March 23 ; Malta, 27 ; Gibraltar, 31. The pa-sengPrs by the Euxine numbered 123 ; and on freight, 29 boxes of gold dust, the value of which was not stated in the .hip's manifest ; 6 cases of opium, 120 bales of silk, 130 cases of shawls, 18 cases of gum, 10 cases of silk, 31 case; of date', several cases of Malta stone-work, 179 packages of general merchandise, and 36 packages of bag,gage. - THE OUTWARD MAILS.—G ERALT AR, March 27. — Yesterday the weather still continued very tempestuous, the wind blowin; strox“, with a heavy swell on the sea. The commander of the Indus, steam packet, which ar rived about ten o'clock, with the mails from Southamp ton, not deeming her anchorage in the bay to be cafe, crossed over to Algeciras roadstead shortly after land ing the 'nada destined for this place, and there rode out the storm in perfect safety. The weather having mode rated during the night, the Indus came over shortly after o clock this morning, and began to coal, preparatory to proceeding on her voyage to Malta and Alexandria. She left at one p.m. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following gen tlemen having undergone the necessary examinations for he diploma were admitted members of the college at the meeting of the Court of Exami ners on th e 4th inst.: —Messrs. 'William Greave Johnson, Clapham ; Charles James Devonshire, Hampton Court ; Freeman James Eaton, Army ; James Faweus, North Shields ; William Henry Salter, West Bromwich, near Birmingham ; W. El. C mk, Wordsley, near Stourbridge, Worcestershire ; Charles Browne, North-terrace, Camberwell ; Andrew K. Rickards, Army ; Ja.mes Walter Cavanagh, Army ; Robert Henry Si.wyer, Guildford-street, Russell-square; William Pylle Hugoe, Truro, Cornwall ; John Storey, North Shields ; Charles Rice Williams, Birmingham ; Joseph Evans Smith, Kensington ; Neil B. Baillie, Montague-place, Poplar. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON.—The cotncl, at their session on Satarday last, appointed to the Pro fessorship of Arabic in the college, Dr. William Wright, of Edinburgh, editor of the "Travels of Ibn-Jubair," in Arabic. Applications for the Profes orship of Hindos tani were reserved far further consideration. Leave of absence for a year was granted to Professor Parkes, M.D., nom:mated as superintendent of a civil hospital about to be established near Constantinople by the Go. vernment. Offers were received from the Baron de Goldsmi of prizes of 251. for the session of 1856 for ach of the four following ci:stes—Geology, Hebrew, Civil Engineering, and Analytical Chemistry ' • and of the sum of 3001. for the h os pit a l, con ditional on the dinner collection, then amounting to 1,4001., being raised to 1,7001. by other contributions. CREMORNE.—These gardens will be opened to the public this day (Good Friday) for promenade, and on Monday for amusements. Although the severe winter has made sad havoc among the shrubs and ornamental trees, with which these grounds abound, we understand that increased energy and strength will have repaired the injury done, and that in natural and artistic beauties this popular resort will put forward increased claims to public patronage. In the hotel department many im provements have been made, and the coffee, dining, and refreshment rooms have been completely redecorated. THE ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—At the monthly general meeting, held yesterday at the Society's House in Hanover-square, Robert Hudson, Esq., F.R.S., in the chair, Lord Saltoun, Sir Richard Sutton, Bart., Hon. Frederick Byron, and Messrs. J. G. Cole and E. Browne, were elected Fellows of the Society; and the Hon. E. S. Russell, Mrs. Baker, Miss Fearn, and Messrs. C. B eevor , E . A . D arw i n , an d C. Sullivan were proposed as candidates for the fellowship. The report of the council announced several births in the menagerie, including another eland (boseLyltus orcas). This is the sixth fawn which has been produced since the herd bequeathed by the late Earl of Derby arrived in the gardens at the end of 1851. The rapidity with which these noble antelopes increase, their capability of enduring the E: glirl climate, and the large size which they will attain in this country are now sufficiently proved, and the only conditions required for their com plete acclimatisation in Europe are time and suitable DISASTROUSACCIDENT—DUBLIN t Thursday E vening. Accounts have reached Dublin of a melancholy acci dent, resulting in the loss of four lives, which occurred yesterday morning on Lough Gonna, between the coun ties of Cavan and Longford. A boat, in which was a party of eight gentlemen, was by some mismanagement upset, and four of their number drowned. Their names are—Mr. John Dopping, stipendiary magistrate for the county of Cavan ; Lieut. Levin, of the revenue pclice ; and Messrs. Fox and White, both in the Longford Militia ; the former is the son of the county member,. the latter the son of Colonel White, Lieutenant of the county of Longford. The remainder of the party were with some difficulty rescued irons the fate of their com panions, LATEST NEWS. CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 26. Ali Pasha leaves on the 29th, via Trieste. He will be at Vienna on the 6th or 7th of April. For the last few days we have had very fine weather. The wind is still in the south. Our men-of-war and transports coming from the Medi terranean arrive rapidly, and continue their jour ney to the Crimea. The French having agreed with the Ottoman Government to construct in two years a barrack capable of receiving 20,000 men, have had a building belonging to the University ceded to them for seven years. The health of the troops in Anatolia has im proved since a favourable change has taken place in the weather. Letters from Athens of the 30thult. state that a band of brigands had attacked a convoy carry ing money belonging to the State, and took pm:- session of the treasure. Two vessels, with some allied troops on board, have been despatched in order to repress these outrages. THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 23. The enemy have' either become desperate or have been inspirited and- encouraged by their re pent encounters with the French on our right. Their guns are nearly silent day and night, but they have not been retired. Every embrasure is armed ; , the muzzle of the gun is -visible under the screen of cloth which is hung across from gabion to gabion. Their sorties are made night after night, in greater force and with more confidence on each occasion. Last night, indeed, they received "a Ee vere check, but it was not until they had got up to our second parallel on the left, or 'Green-hill at tack, had got into our mortar battery on the right attack, and had inflicted a severe loss en our allies on the right towards Inkerman. Iu the affair of last night, the particulars of which will be found below, we had seven officers killed, wounded, and ;taken prisoners, and about 100 men put hors de combat or carried into Sebastopol. The French, it is believed, loSt between 300 and 400 men and 15 officers killed, wounded, and missing. On the other hand, the enemy muet have suffered a loss of 600 or 700 men, although they succeeded in con cealing the severity of their loss by carrying off their dead and wounded as usual. Still, the num ber of dead bodies lying along the front of our trenches proves that they received a heavy loss. The bodies of 12 men and of one officer remain in the trenches of our left attack. The bill sides below the Round Tower and the Mamelon are covered with their dead, mingled with the bodies of the French. The corpse of a Z9uave officer is distinguishable on the slope, close up to the abattis of the Round Tower, where the gallant soldier fell as he led on his men in pursuit of the Russians. No flag of truce has been sent iu from either side to demand permission to bury the dead. They are lying about among the gabions which have been knocked down in front of the French sap towards the rifle pits in great numbers. Looking at any of the in accurate maps which have been published of the position, there will still be, nevertheless, two mounds indicated to the east of the Round Tower. The first of these is " The Mamelon." On the second the Russians have erected a work on the spot from which the French were repulsed in their attempt to dislodge the enemy. The rifle pits which have been so hardly contested are in front of the Mamelon. Three of them are still occupied by the Russians, and three of them now belong to the French ; but the latter were obliged to aban don them for a time last night during the first rush of the enemy. The enemy have already opened guns from the Mamelon, which they direct against the French approaches towards the pits, and we may expect that the work east of it will soon be armed also. Its fire will enfilade a portion of our lines, and the Mamelon will be able to direct from one flank an awkward fire on the flank of our right attack. The Rassian'engineers have displayed con summate ability in their works, and it is well for us their artillerymen are not as expert as th ose w h o place them in the batteries. Conscious of the strength they have gained by the possession of those 'positions, and of the advantages they have secured in defending the town, the Rus sians appear determined to make the most of their new attack. The Mamelon is exposed to the fire of the guns in the right of our right at tack and to the fire of the second French redoubt over Inkerman, and every two or three minutes a shot or shell is thrown into the work, but the enemy maintain their ground; though the desert ers inform us that they lose 100 men every 24 hours within the parapets of Mamelon. The prac tice of our artillerymen is splendid. Scarcely a shot fails in striking the top of the parapet just at the right place, and a black pillar of loose earth shoots up into the air from the work after every discharge from oui guns ; but the Russians hold it still, and they are determined to keep their hold as long as they can. The defence of the place is conducted on a new principle, and we shall be se verely tried, with our present numbers, in doing the work cut out for us. • WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21 (after post-day). Sir John. Burgoyne-left the camp to-day and pro ceeded to Kamiesh, where he took a passage by the mail steanler, on his way to England. The following tribute to Sir John Ourgoyne from the Conimander-in-C.hief appears in orders to night : " GENERAL AFTER ORDER. • "Head-Quarters before Sebastopol, March '2l. " Lieutenant-General Sir John Burgoyne, G.C.8., having been recalled to England for the purpose of re suming tbo duties of the important situation of Inspector- General of the Fortiiicat'ons, the Commander of the Fel cas cannot allow him to leave this army without bearing tes timony to the eminent services he has rendered, Lord Raglan begs the Lieutenant-General to accept his warmest acknowledgments, and takes this opportunity of assuring him that his exertions are uniiersally appreciated, and that be is received by all with the highest respect and regard. " By order. "J. SIMPSON, Chief of the Staff." It will he observed that the orders are now signed by General Simpson, and that the name of the Adjutant-General, Estcourt, is no longer ap pended to them. It is the Chief of the Staff who waits on Lord Raglan each day to ascertain' his wishes and to receive orders, and lie communicates those orders to the Quartermaster and Adjutant- General, and sees that they are duly executed. General Simpson is very active for his years, and walks as well as most men. He has been on foot in all directions about the camp. Major-General Jones possesses activity and energy, and it is trusted that these two appointments will contribute to the improvement of the social and internal economy of the army, and to the accomplishment of the objects of this expedition. As yet the lines of our batteries remain very nearly identical with those from which we opened fire on the 17th of October. The news of Prince Menschikoff's death is geue rally believed. It will be strange if it is true, for the hand of Heaven will then have removed at the very crisis of this bloody struggle the two men from whose evil passions and ambition it originated. The Russians consider this war as Prince Menschi koff's doing. He mainly created the defences of Sebastopol, and never ceased his exertions to make it what it is from the time he became Governor of the Crimea till he was removed from the conduct of the defence. THURSDAY, MARCH 22. The contest for the rifle-pits terminatede forin the this forts morning, amid a blaze of fire from h pale light of dawn, in favour of the t French, who now occupy three of the pits, and direct a sharp fusillade against the Mamelon. Round Tower . from the sandbags. The Russian riflemen arein The e he in of the pits still ; two seem to be unoccupied. enemy have also placed riflemen the ame on and the now work on the right, and a gun from Gordon's trenches and one from the French redoubt on the right are constantly engaged in firing round shot and she'll into the former place throughout the day to reduce the fire and impede the men in their works. Our two service mortars fire seldom, but surely; their range is very great. One shell yesterday evening went far over and beyond the Round Tower and burst among the buildings in the rear of it. Another burst through the roof of one of the public buildings, and it instantly collapsed into a cloud of dust and. rubbish. There are all kinds of absurd stories afloat to-day; with which you pro bably have met in some phase or other ore this through the electric telegraph, to the effect that there has been a mutiny in Sebastopol, that a Rus sian general marching his troops down to the city has been assassinated by them, and that Prince Gort schakoff has informed the army in the Crimea that he is to be supported by an Austrian corps to drive the allies out of the country, We hear that Gene- ral-Admiral Istomine has been killed in the town while superintending the works of the Mamelon, and that the enemy want generals. A Polish sol dier who has deserted gives information that there is plenty of ammunition, but that the gunners have been ordered not to fire. He says, the Russians don't care fo'r French or Euglish, but would rather attack the former than the latter. Provisions are plentiful in the town according tohis account, but the garrison are in great fear, and have very few hours in bed. The men are kept constantly em ployed on the works, in the batteries, or in the trenches and sorties. For the last half hour—it is now 10.45 p.m.—a furious fight has been raging all along our front. To a person standing on Cathcart's-hill in front of the 4th Division th e whole of the Russian linei are revealed in successive glimpses by bursts of red flame, and the bright starlike flashes of mus ketry, twinkling all over the black expanse be tween us and the town for three or four miles in length, show that a fierce contest is going on before the trenches of the Allies. Shells, each marked by a distinctive point of fire where the fuse is burning, describe their terribl e curves i n th e a i r an d seem to-mingle with the stars, and fiery rockets with long trails of dropping sparks rush like comets through the air. Above all the pale crescent moon is shining from a deep blue sky, covered with the constellations of he wen. The roar of the cannon, the hissing of the shells, the intermittent growl of the musketry, the wild scream of the rockets, and the whizzing of the round shot form a horrid concert. It is curious to note the eagerness of the men on such occasions ; they swarm out of their tents to the lines in front, and watch the progress of the fight as far they can make it out with the deepest interest, and their whispered comments are most amusing— " That's a lively shell from the French." " Mosso° is getting his bellyful." " I wish they'd 10 us go at that, and we'd not waste so much pewder," &e. The-flashes of the cannon mark pretty distinctly the flowings and ebbings of the tide of war. If the Russian guns are thundering away we may be sure their men are falling back. If our guns are more •briskly served than usual, we are either covering an attack in the pits or are protecting the withdrawal of the allies. Most of the generals on nights like these come out to the front and watch the fight; and the officers form in little greups on all the elevated knolls before the camps. It is now 11.15 p.m., but the conflict is still going on. No - one kuows what it is about. To-morrow I hope to be able to learn something about it, but the difficulty-of ascertaining the particulars of at tacks like these is utterly incredible. We know the particulars of the fight. Between 11 and 12. o'clock last night columns of Russian infantry came suddenly upon the men in our ad vanced trenches, and rushed in upon them on the right-with the bayonet ere we were quite prepared to receive them. When they were first dis cerned they were close at hand, and, on being challenged, they replied with the universal shibbo leth " Bono Franciz." In another moment they were bayonetting our men, who had barely time to . snatch their arms and defend themselves. Taken at a great disadvautap, and pressed by superior numbers, our men met the assault with undaunted courage, and drove the Russians out at the point of the bayonet after a smart fire. The Russians, pursued by our shot, retired under cover of our batteries. • The attack seems to have been general along the line. At half-past 8 o'clock last night the French batteries began to shell the town, while their rockets were poured every five minutes in streams into the place. At 10 o'clock our sentries in ad vance of Chapman's attack gave notice _that the Russians were assembling in force in front of the works. The 20th, 21st, and the 57th Regiments were in the trenches on the left attack, and they were, to a certain extent, prepared for the assault of the enemy. About the same time the French on the right of our right attack, which is separated from the left attack by a deep ravine, were assailed by masses of the enemy. As our allies were hardly pressed, orders, were given to advance the troops in a portion of the trenches, consisting of a part of the Light Division, to their support. On the left attack the Russians, advancing with impetuosity through a weak part of the defence, turned the third parallel, and took it in reverse. They killed and wounded some of our men, and had advanced to the second parallel, when our cover ing party and the men in the trenches of the bat teries came down upon them and drove them over the works after a sharp conflict. The 20th Regi ment lost 2 men killed, 6 wounded badly, and 3 missing. The 57th lost 3 killed, 4 wounded, and 18 missing. The 21st lost 3 killed, 5 wounded, and 1 missing. These are the returns so far as I can ascertain: the truth at an early hour this morn ing, but it is probable that some of the missing men will turn up, as these regiments have not yet come out of the trenches. On the right the attack was more serious and sudden. Our men had been ordered out to the support of the French from one part of their lines, and while they were away, the Russians came up to the flank of the works, and took them in reverse, so that they had to fight their way back to get to their position. The gallant old 7th Fusiliers had to run the gauntlet of a large body of the enemy whom they drove back a la fourchette. 'One brave, young fellow, Dr. Caven dish Brown, of the 7th, spas killed. Two or three musket balls passed through his body. The 34th Regiment had an enormous force to con tend against, and as their brave Colonel Kelly was leading them on, he was shot down, and carried off by the enemy. His dead body was found outside the trenches this morning. The 77th behaved most gallantly, and the 97th proved themselves worthy of their position in the glorious old Light Division. In the midst of the fight Major Gordon of the Royal Engineers displayed that cool courage and presence of mind which never forsake him. With a little switch in his hand ho encouraged the men to defend the trenches, and standing up on the top of the parapet, all unarmed as he was, be hurled down stones on the Russians. He was s truck by a ball which passed through the lower part of his arm, and, from the same or from a different musket, at, the same time,he received a bullet through the shou'd'r. We are all rejoiced that he is not dangerously wounded, and that the army will not long be de prived of his services. After an hour's fight the enemy were driven back, but we have to deplore the loss of the following officers, killed, wounded, or missing.—Colonel Kelly, 34th Regiment, killed ; Lieutenant Jardan, 97th Regiment, killed ; Cap tain Cavendish Brown, 7th, killed ; Lieutenant Vicars, 97th Regiment, wounded ; Captain Mon tague, Royal Engineers, missing ; and Major Gor don; Royal Engineers, wounded. MA RcH 19. Two Greek or Albanian chiefs, in full costume, who seem to have led on the Russians last night, were among the killed. The town was set on fire about 1 a.m. this morning in two places towards the west ; a part of it—at least one large house-7 was burning till 12 o'clock to-day. THE CRIMEA. According to Russian letters from the Crimea, Prince Gortschakoff has expressed his high ap proval of the works constructed in front of the Malakhoff Tower. The prince, whose specialite is the artillery, immediately gave orders to treble the number of workmen employed thereon, marked out positions for new works, and ordered up - a re inforcement of troops to cover the position. The Prince stayed only two days in Sebastopol. He is said to be greatly irritated at finding his last year's acquaintance, Omer Paella, on the territory of " Holy Russia." His first care, it is understood, will be to purge the soil of the "pagans" of his earlier proclamations. From Odessa, 'Warsaw, and Vienna, we have ad vices, all speaking of the immense efforts which Russia is makine , to oppose an overwhelming force to the armies of the allies in the Crimea. Without permitting ourselves to be misled by the figures which the German journals produce, reproduce, and confase, we must still admit that the evidence abundantly shows that the Russians are augmenting their armies by new arrivals, to which the reinforce ments of the allies bear but a feeble proportion. The best troops, and some of the best generals of Russia, are at this moment in the Crimea. FRANCE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. BERLIN, 4th.—There is a report here that an ultimatum has been drawn up in London, in order to compel Prussia to declare with precision the line of policy which she intends to pursue. MADRID, 4th.---The Cortes is still engaged in discussing the amendments on the bill relating to the national guard. The sitting wilt probably ter minate at a very late hour, but it is thought that all the amendments will be rejected. Tranquillity prevails everywhere. The Spanish Government has insisted on the re call of Lord Howden. _ "It is positively stated," says the Constitu tionnel, "that the formation of the divisions of reserve composed of picked companies from the third battalions will not take place, in consequence of its having been decided to form a fourth bat talion to each regiment of infantry. This fourth battalion, commanded by the major, will be formed with the sth and 6th companies of the Ist and 2d battalions, and the sth company of the 3d battalion. The three war battalions will each have six companies of 150 men, making an effective strength of 900, and in deducting thoso detached in hospital, will he 600 men strong in the field. The creation of these one hundred fresh d e p o t battalions, cleitiucti more particularly for the drilling of recruits, previously to their being sent to the battalions in active service, will only re quire the additional nomination of an adjutant major, a physician, an adjutant, and a drunk , major." The 131loa steam-frigate left Toulon on Tuesday for Civita Vecchia, to embark men and horses for the Crimea. Th e Lucifer steam-advice-boat sib° sailed from Toulon on Tuesday, with troops for the East. BOURSE, APRIL S.—CLOSING PRIORS. , Cash. fr. c. End of Month. . 4i per Cents 94 15 —f. —c. 3 per Cents 63 80 70f. 5c., 84 Credit Mobilier BlO Roman ..... Credit Foncier 540 Austrian -- Belgian Fives ..... ... Spanish Threes ..4 . 1 , Piedmontese B9 Home D e bt 3l RAILWAYS-10R CASH. fr. C. Orleans eis Western 665 Rouen Cate 636 25 Strasburg . Mediterranean lO 0 Havre -- Northern .. . BBO 1 --- Cherburg --- AUSTRIA. - ------- The Wanderer of Vienna of the 31st ult., 5a9. 5 :, "We are assured with respect t o th e third pol l ' that the Allies persist in desiring to confine the Russians to the Black Sea, and in r eserving t°' themselves the power of passing through the Da r ,: danelles and the Bosphorus when they please. A. letter from Vienna of the same date, in tb, ° Bieslau. Gazette, bays :—" It is certain that tn e Western Powers have not taken into consideratio n , the proposition of Prince Gortschakoff on the thin a point. Immediately after the sixth conference, the Prince sent off a telegraphic despatch to St. Peters' burg, calling, it is said, for a modification of hislir structions. • It is certain, besides, that Princ e Gortschakeff is employing great efforts to Ous e Prussia to.be admitted to the Conferences." VIENNA, April I.—To-morrow the Conferene e will meet .again.; but, as M. DrOuyn de l'Huys prObably be here on Weduesday next, it .is under; stood that The discussions, till his arrival any ?s it embrace very essential poi n t o f diffeiwii is also very natural' that Baron Bourqueney, th e present single representative o f F rance , should de cline the .responsibility of ente r i ng i n t o matters 01 difficulty at the present moment, so to speak, wbe!, the French Minister for Foreign Aff a i rs i s about t enter the conferences in order to take an import part in their deliberations. Under these circtinr stances, we are almost warranted in supposing that: until M. Drouyn de l'Huys has arrived, the mos t important considerations will remain in suspens e ' There has been same gossiping in our c ity about tb e probability of Sir Henry bytton Ilulwer beings:l s° expeCted here, in the capacity of a special plenll 3°- tentiary, either to replace Lord John Russell at th e Conferences, because it is rumoured that his lord ship cannot possibly prolong his stay here after th e Easter holidays, or to act as an additional ad /cans. In authentic quarters nothing whatever is kno wn of an intention on the part of her Majesty's G ° ' vernment to send out Sir Henry Lytton Bulvfer.! and as regards Lord John's protracted stay in th is city, there can be no doubt that his lordship, b O4 : - ever anxious to return home, will certainly reinal°' at his present important post until his mission is fully completed—that is, until the bases for the ; conclusion of a treaty of peace have been agreeVf by the Conference, or until the Conference is solved, and the present negotiations aro entirely broken off. Many different versions are given of a specs h which Baron Bruck is said to have addressed to A deputation of the Bank a few days since ; but the truth of the . matter is, that the Finance Moister said little more than that he should be unable t ° 'e make any fixed plans for improving the financ es, and with them the currency, un til it b eca me clea r e whether peace was t o be concluded or war continued. The able statesman expressed Di' conviction that, if Austria escaped without -Wil f9 her finances would be in order in a very few ru rt 7 Baron Bruck now inhabits a magnificent suite ' 0 ; apartments in the " Old Mi n t," w hi c h w as 011 ," the residence of Prince E ugene of 5av0y2,..',,1; 1 famous contemporary of the first Duke of Nis." borough. Cardinal Schwarzenberg, the Princl Archbishop of Prague, and the Archbishop ° la Vienna are still at Rome endeavouring to se,t t t the terms of the Concordat with his Holiness, " 0 it is believed that the Papal chair demands ru° l. than this Government is willing to grant. DENMARK. A letter from Hamburg, of the 30th uit., "The Folksthing of Denmark, in its sitting of yes' terday, voted by 94 vote s t o 1 th e secon d an d la?, reading of the impeachment of the ex-Ministers' A. letter from Odessa, of the 29th ult., i n 01 6 Ost Deustche Post, says :—" Since yesterday masses of troops have been marching without interruption towards the Crimea. The number of these rein' forcements is estimated at 20,000 men and eigh t batteries of artillery. All these troops aro unde r the command of General Sattles, and will arri ve beforp Eupatoria about the 14th April." We read in the Opinioite of Turin, of the 2 - 1 ! that General Durand° had entered upon his dutie c i act Minister of War on the preceding day, a n n f that General Frati has assumed the command ,7 0 the reserve brigade of the expeditionary anni, his stead. General Durand o h as b een raised to the rank of Senator of the kingdom. A r umour': current at Turin that, in consequence of the co n is elusion of the treaty of alliance, Count Cavotir to be invested with the Order of the Bath. in The Piemonte of Turin, of the 2d, states that, o f consequence of a Minist er i a l or d er , the brigade s ,i the expeditionary arm y are immediately to assen3u'o; at Turin, Genoa, Al essan d r i a , an d V erce lli, 1 3t ;t4 viously to their c oncen t ra ti on e ith er a t L a Sp°lb or Genoa for embarkation. • BANK OF ENGLAND-REDUCTION °ll THE BATE OF DISCOUNT. --._ 0 0 THURSDAY EVENING—The Bank of England 13 ,1 1 reduced their rate if discount from 5 per cent., at vil 3i v e r it had stood since the 3d o f A ugus t l ast , t o 4i P cnt. olt '['he measure was fully anticipated, an d its_effeot s the stock-market has been very slight. Some per° ° b e had fancied that during the existence cf w ar , an d with t o immediate prospect of a loan, no reduction would o t trade, whatever might be the influx of money, tip these were a small minority, and th e genera l Ptiw ; ,g fe!t reliance that the sound s y s t em of lett;o.- the rate be guided by the de man d , i nstea d of " 0 , deavouring to adopt it to th eoret i cal cont i nge nc'e e , would still be followed. According to the Gazette Le turns last published, th e s i mu l taneous i nfluence of "g favourable state of th e f ore i gn exchanges dor'- of the pest month or two, and of the rapid contracti° ll ,,,lG business, has caused the unemp l oyed no t es of the P3-tf, to reach a higher poi n t th an at any period since 312:i 1853, when the rate o f di scount was as low as 3i red cent. and Consols were nearly at par. The stecl‘ bullion now held is a l so greater than at any ti m e dot, the past year, and th ere i s every prospect of it s incre 3 a If, under these circum s t ances, t h e Bank had delayed their present step, their proprietors must have 10oltlic, next halfyear for a dimini s h e d dividend, and the pu b o f would have had to complain of an artificial caO e t be pressure being kept up at a time when, owing 0 4 .0, natural tendency of events to p ro d uce excessive caujo-ir the exercise of every legiti ma t e me th o d o f i nsp i r ing e fidenco is most desirable.—Times. SAILING OF THE ROYAL MAIL Sit MARCO POLO. er This vessel started yesterday foren oon f rom the g — a ir sey on her fifth voyage to Melbourne, under the %ill mand of Captain Clarke. She carries the April ei j or from this country to th e A ustralian colonies (wh i c h - 01 owners engage to deliv er i n 65 days), 520 passevqo and upwards of 800 tons of merchandise on board. 5 ,'°,0 her arrival in port, th e M arco P olo has had severs.';-, provements introduced in order to increase the, ;Id torts of her passengers; amongst others, a well-ven t V hospital, and a new and improved cooking range. _.„01) carries, in addition t o h er regu l ar stores, a fine cow, 30 sheep, 30 pigs, 30 dozen of fowls, and a " 0 0 , supply of ratbits, h ares , an d every description of 004 For the entertainment and amusement of her poserlldf fl her owners have p rov id e d a f i rst-rate instrumental ee a printing machine (by which a newspaper will be Pr i titi on board), whil e th e surgeon of the ship (who is cfror an adept in the photographic art) has a com plete aP; 0 11 ratus, by which h e can t a k e lik enesses of passenge rs 06 views of anything of interest on the passage. 4 e o Marco Polo was t owe d t o sea b y th e steamers De"" and Dreadnought at 11 a.m. STATE OF TRADE. the MANCHESTER, April s.—Th e d eman d f or yarns ttheon home and export a ccount, cont i nues good, A rise from the lowest prices may be averaged at inl i li ar er per lb. In some i ns t ances yarns are nearly Ad. ass es s than at the commencement of last month. The bus: yd, in cloths is less active, but there is a steady dern" nf e' sufficient to enable sellers to realise the full inciff:fof znent in prices noted on Tuesday. The dernanno o shirtings an d j aconets suited to the India mar ket benefittod mo re th an mos t o th er f a b r i cs. Th e be cloths, w hi c h have been most in demand for Tur'" are not only less saleable, but are declining in val ue t ibl° NOTTINGHAM, April s.—There has been a parcel :l oo improvement in the lace trade this week, but still t o o cannot be said to be more than half what is usually e pt at this season of the year. In the hosiery deP3141:130014 the home trade has become m ore ac ti ve , a fey s io o American orders having been received. The impre B , foe gains ground among manufacturers generally thinocl) weather alone(which now appears t o h ave c owmen requinitt to otioaniato trausaotions into notiTitY,