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duties corresponding to the privileges which were conferred upon them. That was the object with which the commission was appointed. With regard to the conveyance of the mails from London to Dublin, they were at that moment considering arrangements by which the mails might be accelerated. The acceleration would take place chiefly between Holyhead and Kingston. With regard to the Dublin Post•oflice, the com mission which sat on the subject a short time ago recoil:L a:tended that it should remain an independent establishment. The recommendations which came from the great towns were attended to as far as possible. With regard to the remunera tion of the district letter-carriers, he admitted that it was small ; but in considering that subject it should be recollected that they must be guided by the general remuneration of labour in the district. (Hear.) . In reply to Mr. MACARTNE', Mr. WILSON said that the new post boxes would enable persona to post letters for themorning mails at any hour, as it wag intended that every ning a postman should go round and collect letters. The vote was then agreed to, and the house resumed. BURIAL-GROUND (SCOTLAND) BILL. This bill was read a second time. The other orders were then disposed of, and the house ad journed at one o'clock. DRIIRY-LANE.—Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.- BedaDA Prices as usual. TIIIS EVENING, Will perform ROB ROY. Bob Roy, Mr. Mead ; Bashleigh, Mr. Felton; Francis Osl•a: dlston, Mr. Bowler ; Bane Nicoll Janie, Mr. A. Young° ; Diane Vernon, Miss E. Arden; Helen Macgregor, Mrs. by. TO conclude with TUE ARTFIL DODGE. THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, Will be presented TIIF. SECRET AGEN r. Principal characters by Mr Blackstone and 3llss E. Chaplin. Senora Perea Nena and Senor Marcos Diaz will appear in a new Ballet, UN. A NOCHE DE FIESTA EN SEVILLA. To be followed by THE BALANCE OF COMFORT. After which MAKE YOUR WILLS. ROYAL PRINCESS'S TLIEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CaAui.Es BEAN. TIIIS EVENING, Will be perform , d LIVING TOO FAST. WWI be presented FAUST AND MARGUERITE. Principal charactera by Messrs. C. Kean, David Fisher, Raymond, Cathcart, and Saker ; Mrs. Winstanley, Misses C. Leclercq, Daly, and K. Terry. . To 'be followed by (ith time) a new Farce, entltled A CA.M.E OF ROMPS Principal cbaracter3 by Messrs. Marley and Chester Mrs. Vflnitanley, Misses Heath, Murray, C. Leclercq, Daly, and Tcf ROYAL LYCEUM TffEATRE• Under the Management of Madame YeetriS. TIII3 EVENING. Will be performed TAKE THAT Q 113.1. AWAY. To be tollowei by A COZY COUPLE. To conclude with the new Comic Drams, called TOI MUCH OF A GOOD THING. Principal characters by Mr. Roxby and Mrs. F. Mathews. Box-office open from 10 until 6. sole agent for Private Boxes, Mr. Alleroft, 15. New-Uond-street. TII.EATRE ROYAL ADELPIIL Proprietor, 2.:r. B. Webater.—Directress, Madame Celeste. TILES EVEITING, Win 9 o pert-rned a n 'w and rr:ginal Drama, preceded by a Fro lope, and called .JANET PRIDE. After which, I'LL TELL TOUR WIFE. To conclude with THE FETE OF NATIONS. R')Y AL OLYMPIe THEATIIE. Los.ee and idenagsr, Mr. A. Wigan. TTII3 EVENING, Wilt he presented the new Comodietta, called TIT FOR TAT, In Which Messrs. F. Robson, A. Wigan, and Miss Maskell will apptar. Followed by A LUCKY FRIDAY. After which, a new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled TILE YELLOW DWARF AND THE KING CF TIIE GOLD MINES. Characters Ty Mr. F. Robson, MLs Julia St. George, Miss E. Ormonde, M 153 Marston, Miss Bromiry, and Mrs. Fitzallan. ASTLEY'3 ROYAL. AMPIIITIIEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. THIS EVENING, The Grand Eqnestrian Spectacle called TIMOUR TILE TARTAR. Also, a novel series of SCENES in the CIRCLE The performance of lierr Endersohn, la Fil-do-Fer, with YEntree du Clown a la Francalse. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. Wilt. Acting Manger, Nr. W. 11. Cooke. Equestrian Director, Sr. W. C°°" ROTAL STRAND THEATRE. Under the direction of Miss Rebecca Isaacs. THIS EVENING Will be pnrfermed TILE CRICKET ON THE BEA.ATII. Cha racters by Messrs J. lialford, Rogerson, and Kinloch ; and Miss Re becca Isaac', Miss Beaumont, and Miss Somers. To be followed by THE PET OF THE PUBLIC. To conclude with CITY FRIENDS. GREAT NATIONAL STANDARD THEATRE, SHOREDITCH. Propr:otor, Mr. John Douglass. _ . - - • This Magnificent Theatre, unrivalled in splendour, In elegance, and harmony of effect, capable of containing 5,000 persons, is open every evening. Miss GLYN', the popular Shakspearian Actress, will appear every evening (Wednesday excepted) in her unrivalled personation of CLEOPATRA. ANTONY by hi r. Henry Marston, of Sadlers Wells Theatre. _ The ecenery, dresses, and appointments, from the best authorities, art gorgeous and appropriate. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE_ Tina DAT —Morning22 min.siter 3 I Evening 39 min.eft. 3 To. 4 snow -Morning 57 tnin.after 3 1 Evening 17 inin.eft. 4 WISATEENB..—Svai Owes, March. 20. EINIINONNTILB, IN TUN SEAnn 55—highest sinco noon yesterday. 40—lowest this morning and during the night. 54—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 29.89. WIND, S.E.—Light breeze, with very tine, mild, sun shiny weather. • 4 ,j, a G§a i nt " "" LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1855. Yesterday we took occasion to comment upon the extraordinary contrast, visible at a glance, between the prisons of the last and those of the present century. A contrast, indeed, of squalor and splendour—of chaotic confusion and systema tic arrangement—of all that is pestilential and all that is salubrious —of everything calculated to vitiate still further those already sufficiently de graded and demoralised, and everything, on the other hand, which might be reasonably expected to be productive, sooner or later, even among the more hardened class of criminals, of a gradual and moderate, and in some instances, compara tively speaking, a rapid and thorough reformation. The difference, in truth, between the two systems, is the difference between light and darkness, be tween wisdom and folly, or, rather let us say, be tween ignorance that will not be taught, and knowledge perpetually extended by expe rience. The judicious application of the results of this experience is precisely what has effected all these miraculous changes for the better in the national distribution of correctives, in the way of expiatory and reformatory punishment. Through its medium—through the medium of this whole some and absolutely essential experience—we have been enabled to bring about those modifica tions of the Criminal Code which, while they have tended, and that, moreover, very considerably, to ameliorate the unhappy, and hitherto almost hopeless, condition of our felons, affords us, at the same time, a reasonable prospect of arriving be fore long at a yet more benign and efficacious reorganisation of this most difficult and moment ous division of our vast and complicated system of jurisprudence. raltar, and the remaining 600 to Western Aus tralia : the rest of the formidable sum total (9,227), that is no less than 560 being pardoned —29 on medical grounds, 276 under Order of License, 252 freely, and 3 conditionally. The expenditure consequent upon all which during the past twelvemonths, as recorded in the esti , mates for 1854-5, reached the enormous total of just 218,9591.-72,012/. for the officers, prin cipal and subordinate, under the head " Salaries," and 146,9471. for the prisoners, &c., under that of " Maintenance." It is especially worthy of remark, moreover, that a perceptible increase is observable in the expense incurred in keeping of our convicts during the year last past as oompared with its immediate predecessor ! During 1853-4, the victualling charge per head, it must be remembered, was 71. Is. 10d., while in 1854-5 it has reached 81. 19s. ; that of clothing, which, in 1853-4, came to 21. 13s. 10d., has risen in 1854-5 to 21. 19s. 5d.: that of additional ex penses of prisoners " ors liberation" has suddenly expanded from the petty item of 4s. 2d. per head, as it was in 1853-4, to as much as 15s. 3d. during the past twelve months. An increase, in other words, in a single year of very nearly 1/. per head for the victualling of prisoners, of a quarter of that sum for their clothing, and of more than 300 per cent. for the casual expenses of their travelling when liberated I Altogether, in short, the cost of each felon which was, in 185 3-4, estimated at the average of 231. 145., has been enhanced in A mount during 1854-5 to a sum of no less than 261. 3s. 10d. Remembering the magnitude of the disbursements previously required fo - r the maintenance upon an adequate scale of our vast i penal establishments in the United Kingdom, the very appreciable increase of expenditure here noticed, cannot, we conceive, but be in some mea -1 sure deprecated. Nevertheless it should not on lany account be overlooked, that three among the more important of these same establishments have been the scene of labours very far indeed from being unremunerative. It has been reasonably calculated, in fact, that the value of the convict labour for the year 1854-5, in connection with the Hulks alone, has been actually as much as 19,6511.—that in connection with the Portland breakwater, & - c., it has been not less than 28,2111.—that iu connection with the Portsmouth dockyard, &c., it has absolutely exceeded the amount of 31,0001. Altogether yielding an im portant total of just 78,9201. as the produce of this judicious application upon public works of the thews and sinews, the skill and in dustry, the capacities and energies of our adult criminal population. While, therefore, we cannot but regret the very observable increase of expenditure alcove noticed, we cannot in reason charge with anything like undiscriminating extravagance those who have been intrusted with the supervision of our convict prisons with a view to the further regulation of their discipline, and the more effectual organisa tion of their general management. It is impos sible for us tot to lament the extension implied by that increase of still further comforts than those already vouchsafed to that dread army of from 9,000 to 10,000 felons now annually incarcerated in our penal establishments. Contrasting, as it cannot fail to do, somewhat invidiously, and, let us add, somewhat unreasonably, with the parsimony evinced towards pauperism as contradistin guished from crime, although that same pau perism would seem in reality to be about the most heinous offence that could well be perpetrated against the well-to-do masses of our vast and nourishing community. Nevertheless, despite all this, it would be wholly unjustifiable, as already intimated, to charge with a culpably negligent prodigality those who have been empowered by the Executive to regulate this important and responsible department of the national admi nistration. maintain cleanliness in our own persons, but that we should interest ourselves in securing that first condition of a moral and civilised existence for our fellow-creatures. We had reason to be ashamed before our MAKER that we had not attended more to the physical wants of our poorer brethren. And we might reasonably ask the Divine blessing on any considerate attempts to better their condition, and to remove the cala mity through the means appointed by the CREATOR himself. Prayer without such practical repent ance were mere impiety. Happily for the country at large, they have now for some time past approved themselves men emi nently well qualified to conduct the delicate and difficult affairs of the office entrusted to their keeping, and by their continued evidence of adroit ness, judgment, and discrimination, have justified to the full the confidence reposed in them by many successive leaders of her MAJESTY'S Government. If visible and tangible testimony of this were needed, it would be discoverable on the instant in the annual reports submitted to the Home Secre tary by the distinguished Surveyor-General of Prisons, and presented in substantial blue-books, session after session, by command of her MAJESTY, to both Houses of the Imperial Legislature. The latest of these masterly digests of all that has been effected within the past twelve months under his own immediate guidance and supervision (with a view to the amelioration of the criminal system generally, and throught that, ultimately, of course, to the comprehensive reorganisation of the entire Criminal Code of Great Britain), reflects upon Colonel JEZB the honour due not only to a success ful and experienced administrator, but to an untir ing and practical philanthropist. It might be re garded as the honourable and sufficient crown of his protracted labours, but that we aro fain to anticipate their continuance yet fur ther, until some of his more cherished projects of improvement shall have been completely realised, until the fabric his energy and application have been chiefly instrumental in building up shall have become permanently and triumphantly con solidated. That fabric must necessarily be re garded as yet, so to speak, in sections, and in a manner piecemeal. After this fashion we our selves propose to scrutinise it with a more than ordinary degree of care and elaboration. But, viewed from the height of experience already attained, examined comprehensively by th e light of the Report hero furnished to Par liament, and through Parliament to the entire population—a Report as lucid: inlarrangement as it is earnest and luminous in exposition —we can not but recognise at once the symmetry of its arrangement, and the amplitude of its dimensions, no less than the solidity, depth, and breadth of its stalwart foundations. Colonel JEBB has, for tunately, proved himself to be no favourer of pet theories—of fantastic crotchets—of idle and in discriminate experiments. Ho has tampered, with a rational amount of caution, no common degree of daring as an innovator. In his capacity as Surveyor-General of Prisons he has displayed hardly less courage as a reformer than skill as an t administrator, and benevolence as a philanthropist. is l a t b h o e r i m o u e s e cal and df energetic lils toil ni s tribute tra t n. due to Already, we repeat, it is satisfactory to know that while undoubtedly yet " more remains to do," much bas oven now been accomplished in the Way of reforms in our penal discipline—reforms most of them as humane as they have been un doubtedly daring and comprehensive. It has not been, however, quite inexpensively, as already intimated in our remarks of yesterday, that we have attained our present elevated an d b ene fi cen t pitch of improvement. As maybe readily enough comprehended, we con ceive, when two or three particulars of some signi ficance are borne for an instant i n considerati on . When it is rememb ered, for exam p le, that in th e management of our eight great penal establish, ments in lingland--Brixton, Dartmoor, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth, Parkhurst, an d Pentonville—nearly a thousand (960) officers, namely, 156 principal officers, and 804 subordi nate officers, are required for the ordinary exigen cies of administration. Nor can this number be regarded as in any respect disproportioned to the number of convicts requiring to be guarded and disciplined under their supervision —recollecting , for instance, that these miserable beings ranged during the last year to a terrible total of from ?1,00040 10,000 collectively ! Viz., 9,227 in all Apply this rule honestly next Wednesday; and what will be our duty ? We must humble our selves for our political sins. They are the direct, the evident cause of all the calamities which we regard as a providential rebuke. They are strictly providential in this sense, that:the Author of all cause and effect has appointed an inevitable con nection between political jobbery and selfishness, and national misfortunes. Soldiers die of fatigue, of hunger, of wretched medical arrangements, of pestilence, and sailors perish by hundreds in a gale. But some persons who should have known Hier overworked them, did not get proper food to there, mismanaged the medical department, took them where the pestilence was certain to visit them, and obstinately kept vessels where a gale must wreck them. But how came these persons to be in charge of these things ? How was it that fitting men were not found ? No answer can be returned but one ; we have a system of appointing to all places which are directly or indirectly in the hands of the Government, designed to favour the class who bring up all their children as gentlemen, and then throw all but the eldest sou upon the public for a maintenance. This is emphatically the cause why officials are too numerous for their work, actually obstructing one another ; and also the cause that favour, connexion, and wealth ex- dude the competent and the industrious from the public service. We have, therefore, to humble ourselves that we have tolerated an aristocracy in grasping exclusively the supreme management, and, as a corollary, filling the army and the civil service with officers and officials who have almost sacrificed 'an army. If we are not too courtly to the higher powers to confess the real truth before our MAKER, this is the sin which we have to confess. Political sermons are hateful enough—political prayers are worse—but worse still are prayers which "dissemble and cloak" our real sins through fear or favour of our fellow-mortals, however high their rank. This is with us a grave reason for objecting to the appointment of the day. It is impossible to be truthful without appearing politi cal—impossible to appear political without marring the character of a religious service. To us, in deed, the purely political delinquencies—such as sacrificing Polish aid and justice to Poland to seeking the alliance of unrighteous and cruel Austria—and many other connected misdeeds which we will net name, are equally appropriate subjects of humiliation. In a word, the political and administrative causes of all our calamities are so clear, and so clearly due to the criminal selfish ness of our aristocracy, that unless we mock the ALMIGHTY the national humiliation will be humi liation for the national tolerance of aristocratic selfishness. We begin to entertain a better hope of the labours of the grand inquest sitting at West minster baying a practical termination. "The sys tem" has already been exhibited in its true aspect, as negatively worthless and positively mischievous. Further progress is being made ; individual offenders and incompetents are having their cul pability and incompetency more and more clearly ' demonstrated. The great Incompetent himself is being stripped of his borrowed plumes, and the public begin to see how much of the horrible dis. aster which have signalised the Crimean Campaign is owing to the incapacity of the Commander-in- Chief. True to his instincts, our contemporary the Morning Post, who loves a Lord, flies to the rescue. Nothing, he is of opinion, can be more useless or in worse taste than the course pursued by the Committee. They actually ask plain home ques tions, and these with a bias, more especially that mauvais sujet of the aristocracy, the incorrigible Mr. LAYARD. Will it be believed that this gen tleman asked General EVANS on the second day of the examination the following question :—" You don't think that, because these things (Mackin tosh cloaks) were not adopted in the Peninsula, they should not have been used in this campaign Suppose a man walked from here to Charing cross in the wet without a Mackintosh, when he might have had one, would it be any excuse if he said that he did so forty years ago ?" (Laughter.) Answer—" No, I don't exactly think it would." (Increased merriment.) Really the Post must not expect much sympathy in a complaint like this. The only bias the public will trace in it is one for eliciting what it wants from the inquiry, viz.—truth. And certainly it is not without the scope of the inquiry, but an important part of it, to ascertain whether Lord RAGLAN and others are behind the age. " What," our contemporary goes on to inquire, " What must the question have been which could have brought answers like these :" " I was six months in the camp, and two months in the Crimea. I never saw Lord RAGLAN in my life. I have seen the Quartermaster-General and Adjutant-General, but never in camp. I never saw any member of Lord RAGLAN'S staff in the hospitals ?" What sort of questions ?, Why, plain, pertinent, common-sense questions, without which the inquiry would be an impudent mockery. A case that can be endangered by questions like these must bo an exceedingly bad one. And that such is the nature of Lord RAGLAN'S case we are more thoroughly convinced than ever. We doubted his capacity while others were fastening, as it now turns out, the blame belonging to him on the shoulders of others ; and now we are thoroughly convinced of his want of it. A good Secretary to the DVSS he may have been in his day, but that no more made him a good general than being brought up a groom would make him a horse. The Post cannot successfully defend him—the case is too strong ; hence its subterfuges, which will prove unavailing. To spare one man it cannot be longer permitted that others should be blamed. Even with reference to the unfortunate Light Cavalry charge at Ba laklava, a perusal of the debate in the House of Lords last night will show the noble client of the Post was the party to blame. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston have issued cards of invitation for a grand banquet to their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and Princess 11l ary, on Saturday next. The Earl of Aberdeen, it is understood, will shortly leave England for Egypt, in order to see his son, Lord Haddo. The Earl of Hopetoun, Master of the Hunt, will en tertain a large party of sporting noblemen and gentle men at his seat in Northamptonshire, during tho ap proaching. race meeting. Lord Panmure has taken, for the season, the mansion, No. 23, Zelgrave-square, occupied until recently by Sir Charles Wood. On Wednesday obedient subjects of her MA JBSTY will assemble for h um ili at i on an d prayer. No doubt, as individ ua l s and as a nation, we may a l w ays find ground for thos e duties in our own acts, and in their consequ ences too, Without li s tening for a moment to the f ana ti c i sm which i n terprets trying public events as a r e b u k e for s.ncouragement to Popery, endowing Mayn oo th 'lid the like, we ma y g enerally perceive some de! iinquency of which the calamity that afflicts us i s the appointed rebuke. When, for instance, the cholera was rife, the places and persons whi c h gave it origin in each locality plainly indicated the will of rnovinzNot that we should not only The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone still occupies the official resi lexica of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Right Hon. Sir James Graham and family leave the official residence at the Admiralty next week. The Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood and Lady Mary Wood will go to the Admiralty immediately after Easter. Sir H. Bulger has arrived in Paris. Mr. LayarA bas fixed Thursday, sth April, as the day for his installation as Lord Rector of Marischal College, Aberdeen. The Argo screw steamer, which arrived on Friday from Australia, has already been takoa up by the Eng lish Government for the conveyance of cavalry. Brigadier Mayne has resigned his appointment in the command of the Turkish contingent. The reason given is that "an officer of the British service who has never seen a battle, has never had to do with irregular horse, or with any horse but a crack English regiment in bar racks, has been appointed bo the senior command to that of the gallant colonel" THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 20, 1855, MON J4 Y Al A RKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLmENCE. CITY, TWO o'CLOCK. The cotton market at Liverpool closed yesterday with an improved appearance. The sales were esti mated at 20,000 bales (including 2,000 American for export), comprising 300 Perna and Maranham. at 54d. to 6/d., 1,500 Egyptian at s&d. to Bd., 4,000 Surat at 3d. to 4d., (1,000 export), 120 Sea Islands 104 d. to 2s. Old. per lb. There were taken on speculation, 2,500 American, 500 Egyp tian, and 1,000 Surat. Railway Shares were steady, but firm. The exports of bullion by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's vessel, which left Southampton this day, were 52,0001., nearly all to Bombay. The Committee of Mexican Bondholders have . received from the Mexican financial agency here the following statement, dated the 16th inst., on the state of tho conversion : Three per Cent. Bonds issued— Letter A, No. 1 to 25,948 Letter B, No. 1 to 8,93 G Letter C, No. 1 to 8,392 Letter D, No. 1 to 8,388 Capital £10,227,200 Five per Cent. Bonds not yet presented for con version— 45 Letter A 13 Letter B 8 Letter C 12 Letter D £4,500 1,950 2,000 6,000 Capital £14,450 The English Funds have been fiat, and subjected to a sudden reaction of no less than I per cent., Consols having opened at 93 and 934 tor transfer, and been since quoted 94 1 . The prices for account have been 931, and with a sudden fall to 92 a , though now 92/ The rumours current to ex plain the reaction are various. One version is that Lord John Russell is about to return home, and another that the Emperor of the French has left for the Crimea, but there is no means yet of ascertaining the precise grounds of the decline which proves the sensitiveness of the market. The New 21 per Cents. have been done at 78.:1. Exchequer Bills have been done at Gs. to Bs., and India Bonds at 11s. premium. East India Stook has realised 2251, and Bank Stock 216 for account. Fore,iga securities. have been very inactive. Turkish Bonds are fairly maintained, however, being 80 to 81. Spanish Pcruvan, &c., are nominal. Russian 41 per Cents. have been dealt in at 90. Dutch 4 per Cents. are biloya.nt at 94k to A-, owing to a purchase of 200,0031. by Government being authorised by the States General of Holland. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 5 to 6 ; Mexi can, 20 to 201 ; ; Peruvian, 'lO to 71 ; ditto Three per Cents., 5u to 50! 2 ; Port uguese Four per Cents., 42 to 44 ; Jtussian Five pilf Cents., 99 to 101 ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 89 to 91 ; Spanish New Deferred, .1N to 18T;- ; ditto Three per Cents., 3(4 to 371- ; ditto Certificates, 4i to 5; ditto Passive, 4 to O. The Railway Share Market is weak, but the sales have been very limited. The transactions have been principally in Eastern Counties, Great Northern, Great Western, Lancashire and York shire, and Brighton. The Foreign lines have been dull. In the Colonial Mines not much is doing, but the United Mexican are ag:Lin in demand at ad vanced rates. The Joint-Stock Bank Shares have been at previous rates. Perlin Waterworks are now quoted with 11 more paid up. Peninsular and Oriental Steam are firmer. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.-CLOSING PRICES. t Brom the (*mat li,t. i Bultnexx don• 3 per Cent, Conqols Annuities . 93 2i fi New 22 per Cent. Annuities 78 India stock India Bonds, £lOOO .........„ Bank Stock for Account 2lO Consols for Account, April 934 23 Exchequer Bills, 24d. 21000 w 6 8 9 2500 6 9 Small 6 9 Exchequer Bonds 1858, 3} per Cent. 99; PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Basilian Bonds, 5 per Cent lO2l 11 Greek Bonds ss Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £ St lOO Russian Bonds, 4!:, per Cent furkish Bonds, ( per cent Ditto for the Account Boa 80 # 79/ 808 Ditto Small Venezuela Bonds, 34 per Cent. 23 Dividends on the above payable in London. French Routes, 3 per Cent. Ditto Scrip unteh Exchange, 2 per Cont. 12 Guil 63 Ditto 4 per Cont. Cortifieate3 THREE O'CLOCK. Consols 92a Ditto, April Account . . 92t ~o whoru were disposed of during the year : 15k, having been removed by death ; 4 having `,escaped ; 45 having been distri- • blitoa am4lg lunitie asylum, county gaols, cl-prconlictal reformatory establishments ; yoo -1141 *rinela shipped off, 100 of those to Gib 1 . LATEST NEWS. SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. MARSEILLES, TUESDAY MORNIXG. The Cannel, with dates from Constantinople of the Bth, has arrived. The Government de spatches left at 10 o'clock. By this arrival we have dates from Balaklava to the 6th. Tho weather was fine and mild. A bright moon impeded operations by night. The French had not renewed their attack on the Russian works near the Malakhoff Tower. There were 8,000 Russians at Tchorgoum. The Russians were advancing towards Inkerman, and were constructing new batteries. The English position is well fortified. At a Council of War, held on the 4th, it was resolved to recommence active operations. General Burgoyne remains in the Crimea at the request of Lord Raglan. A continual fire was kept up between the French and Russians. The health of the troops is satisfactory. The Russians are said to have received rein forcements. THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA. VIENNA, MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 19. The third conference was held this day. The discussion on the first point continued. The proceedings make a satisfactory progress. The Russian circular of the 10th of March strengthens the hopes of a peaceful issue of the deliberations. The Oesterreickische Corresponduz publishes ad• vices, via Odessa, from the Criniea to the 11th of March. They say that the weather was wet, the roads totally impracticable, and that nothing new had occurred. MONDAY MORNING. Intelligence from Constantinople, vici Trieste, states that General Pelissier had advanced against the heights occupied by the Russians to the rear of Balaklava. Nothing further was known. The Austrian Internnncio has had repeated in terviews with Ali Pacha. The Conde de Montemolin, the Infant Don Sebastian, and the Count and Countess of Cham bord, assisted at the funeral of Dm Carlos, which took place at Trieste on the 16th inst. COPENHAGEN, MONDAY. The Volksthing has unanimously passed a bill to impeach all the 'former Minsters, and has directed proceedings to commence innnediately. Intelligence from Turin. states that a levy of 500 sailors will be shortly made. FRANCE PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. Everything is exceedingly dull here which does not bear reference to the Vienna Conferences. The merest rumour of what is clone or what is expected to happen is watched for with the most feverish anxiety. i.Peace is desired by all the sensible men inAlio kingdom, yet notwithstanding, peace ap pears to be by no means popular with the masses. The war spirit of the country has been evoked, and nothing short of the humiliation of Russia, in the capture or surrender of Sebastopol, will satisfy the Parisian bourgeoisie. The Moniteur announces that conformably to the stipulations of the loan negotiated by Turkey in Paris and London, in April last, the Viceroy of Egypt has remitted to the Bank of France the funds necessary for the payment of the first coupon, falling due on the 10th April next. Much apprehension is expressed of the danger the allied armies will be exposed to from pestilence when the hot weather sets in. The thousands, of horses that have died and been left to rot on the earth, the innumerable corpses which are only covered by earth a few inches in depth, the putrid matter and the abominations of every kind with which the air is infected, and the air poisoned, justify the fears that pestilence may still continue the work of cholena. Recent letters from the French camp point to that danger very strongly. Quantities: of lime have boon sent from Constanti nople, but it is doubted that it will be sufficient to effect the object desired. _ _ Prince Mjnschikoff is lying ill at Simpheropol. BOURSE, Trance 19.—CL09ING PRICES. Cash. fr. c. Ent of Month. 44 per Cents.(xd) 94 75 91f. 753. 3 per Cents 69 53 70f. 10c. Credit Mobilier 770 Roman Credit Fancier 5lO Austrian Belgian Fives 94 Spanish Threes 37 Piedmontese B5 50 Home Dobt — RAILWAYS-I'on CASH. fr. C. fr. c. Orleans Western 650 Rouon Cette Mediterranean 955 Havre ' 565 -- Northern THE VIENNA CONFERENCES VIENNA, MARCH 16. Yesterday's conference lasted upwards of four hours. Count Buol's opening speech dwelt chiefly upon the main objects and aim of the present ne gotiations. It has not transpired whether any of the other pleuipotentaries mado a special reply thereto. Prince Paul E3terhazy to the members of the dinner given yesterday by There was a grand Con ference, at which an of them appeared, except the Ru s sian plenipotentiaries, who were prevented from attending. We learn that there are not to be more than three Conferences in the week ; and that the second sitting will be hold to-morrow. EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, MARCH 10. The Hindostan, from Calcutta, arrived at Suez only on the 7th, in consequence of having to give assistance to transports with troops from Bombay, and having to retrace her way to Aden to urge the authorities there to send steamers to help them through the straits of. Bab el Mandeb. The 10th Hussars are now, with the exception of 70 men, in Egypt, aw a iti ng further orders to pro ceed to the Crimea. Th e y h av e boon comfortably located at Cairo for some weeks, and are now on their way down to Alexandria, probably intending to grace with their presence the great fetes Said Pasha intends to give during the next three days on the site where he intends to form a new town, at the fork of the Nile. Four steamers and four large sailing vessels were necessary to bring this ex pensesregi- ment, attending th e i r p assage through Egypt will all b borne consisting b by the Viceroy ; and the value of the of 650 sabres, to Suez. The water alone consum e d on crossing the desert is enormous, as the whole of it has to be conveyed on camels' backs from Cairo, and the troops used it without discretion, and wasted it as if they were marching on the banks of a river instead of through an arid desert of 84 miles. The Viceroy is at the barrage, making great pre parations for his public festivities, at which all who wish to attend will be welcome and gratuitously entertained. Most of the population are flocking there, and it is expected that great confusion will prevail where there are so many thousands brought together. Prices of produce are falling fast, and there will be heavy losses sustained by speculators. Wheat is now at 38s. per quarter ; beans, 28s. Exchange on London keeps up at 99 piastres per Nun , ' sterling in consequence of the rarity of good bills. Privat e accoun t s f r om Odessa lead to the belief that Prin ce G or t sc h a koff is preparing for a grand attack on Omer Pacha's position at Eupatoria. Orders have been sent from St. Petersburg to take the place at any cost. General Pawlofi's corps, standing between Eupatoria and Simpheropol, has been reinforced by an entire cavalry division sent by way of Perekop, a park of artillery has followed it, and heavy convoys of provisions are daily moving along the same route. General Read, lately acting as Commander-in-Chief at Georgia, is to take the command of this special army. BRAZILS AND THE PLATE. The Royal Mail packet Great Western, Captain Bevis—Admiralty agent, Lieut. E. P. Fugo, R.N. —arrived at Southampton yesterday with the South American mails. Intelligence - riar i;en received at Rio by the United States steam-frigate Susquehannah, that Lieutenant Farmer, marine officer of her Ma jesty's ship Dido, had been stabbed by one of the crew of that ship and since died of the wound. The Susquebannah also reports that a large armed Russian ship had eluded the blockading squadron, and made its escape from Petropaulovski. The frigates Diana and Aurora were still there, dis mantled. _ _ Rio Dr. JANEIRO, Feb. 14.—8 y the Rifleman, just arrived from Monte Video, we learn that the dispute between the Brazilian and Paraguayan Go vernments had not been adjusted. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DIY.) LONDON, March 20.—Wind and weather this day at noon, E. ; light breeze, and fine. PORTSMOUTH, March 19.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Nia gara, from London, for Callao. SOUTHAMPTON, March 19.—Wind, W. Arrived—Great Western (s.), from the Brazils. FALMOUTH, March 19.—Wind, W. Arrived—War Hawk, from Monte Video. PLYMOUTH, March 19.—Wind, S. Arrived— Gelatin, from Hartlepool, for Havannah. TORBAY, March 19.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—John Pink, from London, for Trinidad ; Janet Bolbado, do., for Badaklava. HuLL, March 19.—Wind, Arrived--Hero, from Monte Video. CARDIFF, March 11—Wind, W. Sailed—Sarah Ilinkts, for Savannah. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTOY, Tuesday Morning. The Royal Mail steamer Parana, with the West India and Pacific mails, is just signalled. _ _ _ LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Morning. Wind, S.E. Arrived—Mary Hannah, from Africa; Faith, Matanzas; Lochmaben Castle, Mobile ; Jessie Miller, Charleston. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISII TELEGRAIII.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday, 9.42 a.m. Wind, W. ; tide, first hour's flood ; fine. Arrived—City of Rotterdam (s.), Dunkirk. Sailed Swift, for Balaklava ; Panther (s.), Boulogne. DEAL, Tuesday, 9.21 a.m. Wind, calm. Anchored—Pere Lancelot, from London, for Nantes. Passed—Swallow, from Hartlepool, for Southampton. Sailed—Ballarat, for Melbourne. COUNTRY 41AER EPS. CHELMSFORD—MARcH 16. We have toreporiiO:claian inpi;;eLint iu the whoat trade of 2s to 3s per qr. on the beet wheats, with a good business at that advance. Indian corn same as last week. Wheat, white, old, per s. R. I s. ig. qr. 56 81 1 Oats, per qr .27 38 new.... 56 81 I Peas, Partridge 36 40 rod, old 52 75 White 38 41 new.... 52 75 Boiling 42 40 Barley 27 31 Dun 34 37 Chevalier 27 35 Beans, Tick 37 43 Grinding . 23 10 Harrow tioks 43 45 Malt Chevalier 70 74 Ditto, new... 35 37 COLCHESTER-MARCH 17. A small supply of wheat ; farmers demanded much higher prices than buyers were disposed to give, and only a limited business resulted, at 2s per qr. over last week's rates. Barley was is per qr. dearer. Beans and peas with• out change in value. Prices to-daywere as follow :—Wheat, white, 70s to 76s ; red, 61s to 703 ; barley, 30s to 34s ; oats, 25s to 30s ; beans Mazagan, 36s to 38s ; middle and small, 40s to 44s ; peas, white, 44s to 46s ; grey, 36s to 40s. COAL lIARBE Prices of Coal per ton at t' U.—Mancrz 19. he close of the market. &o. 5. d. Carr's Hartley l7 6 Davison's West Hartley 1.7 6 Hasting's Hartley l7 6 Holywell Howard's West Hartley Netherton 17 6 Walker Primrose l6 0 Wylam 20 0 Wallsend, &c. Whanicliffe l6 0 s. cl. Hetton 2O • Haswell 20 0 South Ilettou 19 3 Hough Hall 17 3 South Kelloo 17 3 Cowpen 17 6 Eden Main 18 0 Lambton l9 0 Stewart's 20 0 Yesterday 400 wooden hospitals, for field service in the Crimea, as also 2,000 bedsteads and bedding, were shipped on board the transports at Deptford, for con ves a,nce to Balaklava. The temporary huts for the encampment of 20,000 men on Aldershott-heath are ordered to bo ready for the troops on the Ist of April. The nearest station to the camp is Farnborough. The total number of transports taken up by Govern ment for the conveyance of cavalry to the Crimea is 21, with a meast.rement of 14,700 tons. They are all to be ready to embark in 21 days from this date. Colonel Shirley, commandant of the cavalry of the Turkish contingent, has arrived in Dublin. Lieutenant-General John Duffy, C. 8., Colonel of the Bth (King's) Regiment, died on ;Saturday, at his resi dence in Jermyu-street. He entered the army in 1795; from which time to 1813 ho was actively employed in the West Indies, expedition to Holland, in the East Indies, in Egypt, the siege of Copenhagen, and in the Peninsula. there are now two culonelcies, the Bth and the 80th, vacant. On the 27th of February, the strength of the British army in the Crimea (non•commissioned officers and men), inclusive of marines, ambulance, and mounted staff Corp, was 27.057. The actlial number of sink was on that dcv 17,628, of whom 5,309 were in camp, an 3 12,324 at Scutari, or otherwise absent. The number of horses of the cavalry and Artillery was on the 7th 1,974, on the 2? , 1 1,803, and on the 27th 1,617,--Post. SUARE M (TRI• B Ail. RAILWAYS. .A.beruleen. mbg. Nottrg. Bost and Eastn. Junct.-.. Belfast & Ballymena. Birming. Wolverh. Ilirkenlul. fr . .nesit. Choslc;.re Juliet...... Do. Chest,. & Birk., £5O and 225 Cons. Do., £2O. Biyth &Tynlorigina £25 (issd. at £45 ; Bristol and Exeter... Caledonian Carmarthen and Car digan Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, 131ack, & Past , Conme.ll Crieff junction Dublin&BelfastJunc. Dundee PorthaAber Been Junction Do. New East Anglian-- Eastern Counties Eastern Union, A Stock De., B. Stock Do., New A. East Lancashire Edinburgh et Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles Edin.Prth iitDundct Forth & Clyde June Furness Do. Extrusion Glasgow & S. Weston Groat Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock fit. Sth. .k,rlVeut.(lre, t - hc, , at Woz tnra Do. Stour Val. Rai' Gua. Stk Irish South-Eastern Latteastor w Carlisle Do., Thirds Do. No w Thirds _ Laneash.andYorksli Do., Fifth. D's., Wst. Riding Ur. Liv.ersby.:!;,Southpt London & 131s.ekwal Lord, Brigid S.Cst Loud. anti Wet Do. Fifcl:3 Do.lo/.5h.,11&71 Do. Eighths Londoi ncUS. Westr; Do., £5) Do., £49 f ainqrry. a ol oral n, i,aduarry. Aanch.Sllef rAuel, Do. No. Do., Lin. Un Ifidiand )o. Birning.l): T.)er1); ; G, \Vest. (1 rf • - . Do, Half Shares N - owcastle k Cafdpie. .i . owinkt.BuryExteii Nwpt.Aborg, &Hrtl levary & Ennislci tiowry Warrenpoint and Rostrevor `Tor folk Yortim.Counties Un lorth British . Forth Devon, No. Do., No. 2 _ )0., A Deferred Do., B Guaranteed Y. Eastern—Bendel Do. do. Extension .. Do.do. Purob Do. Lonig Do. York north London Do. Now £lO N.Br,S.Wstrn.,llainp. steal, and City Jn., North Staffordshire North Western..,,.,, & S. Westrn.Junc tinucaton, Hinckley and Leicester `Word, Worcester,& Wolverhampton Portsmouth Licottislt Central Scottish Midland Shrewsby. & Hercfd Shropshiro, Union south Devon :South Eastern South Wales 4. Yrksh. & Riv. Due Do. Staines, Wok ,UIVo - . Stockton & 3twakton & Hartlepl Taff Vale Do. £lO shares. Do. Prof., No. Thames Haven Doel=. and Railway Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkcnni Waterford&Limoriei. West Cornwall. West End of London' and Crystal Palace West London Wimbledn & Croydon all 1141 s. ARK ETS. DAY.) TAYS. Closing Prices tkis day. Ensinen done this day. 20 -21 i - 4.1 81 -- 8i 13i -12 A i 6 - 17 74 - 64(1 89 - 91 - 644 - 101 , - 11 34 - 2i tii - 6i 11 - 15 tlg -11 i 23 - 30 20 - 22 72 74 57 59 2d par 2J 21 ••• '''"- • 70 - 72 87j -88 i 70 - 72 123 - 125 91 -93 65 65j 59 - 61 70 - 73 6 - 7 6 7 6 76. 74- 8h 97 991 100 id 4 1 d 1 83 84 81 . 8 li 61 211 -24 i 8 - 8i 63A - 70 11 - 43 11 - 9 1i - 24 48 - BO 31 N 29 3) 7 9 5 7 72 - 73 7 6*(l 41 3* 124 13 49 50 49 50' d par 4g 4g 54 61 1 d ar 29 - 31 100 - 102 64 - 66 45 - 47 12i - 13 604 - 61. 28 - 29 4 - 2 2 - 1 3 . a 1-- - 38 4i - 16 161; 34 - 4i 22 - '24 5i - 6i ..• --. •• 6 --- 7 FOREIGN. Antvrarpdtßotterdam Belgian Eastn. June. Beziers to Graissessac Bombay, Paroda, and Central India. Scrip Central bf Italy Demerara Dijon and. Be Fain on Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Do. New East Indian Do, Es:;ension Do.4a p. c. Bds., pay '57, convertible Do. do. do., '59, do Gd. Tk of CanadaA is Do. St. Lawrence & Atlantic do. Do. Cert. of Dobon., con. into Stk. till V Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do. Gt. Central of France Gt. Indian Peninsula Do. Now 5 per cent Great Luacrnbonr; Constituted Shares Do. Obligations Gt. Western of Canad Shares Do. Bds., payable's7, with option till '55 Do. do., '62, p. '56 Do. do., '76, p. '60.. Do. do., '73, without option Hamilton & Toronto Do. 6 per cent. Lake ()oust. '& Basle Lucca Ss Pistoj a 5 p.c pref Lyons and Genova Lyons ck Mediterran, Jdras Do. New Aaria Antonia Do. do. Now Namur & Liege (with interest) Do. (es interest) Northern of France. D 0.20/. Shs.late Char leroi and Erquelines guar. 3j p. c. & red at 22A1. dur. 88 yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854 Do. 201. 3 p. c Eds (fmy. B. & Ams. Shs.) Nor wegianTrunkPref Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans.... Paris and Rouon ParisCaen & Cherbrg. Rouen andHavre..... Royal Danish Royal Swedish ISambro and Mouse Do. 5„ p. cent. Prof Southern of Franco St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) West Flanders Do 5 per c. Prof , Western of France , Wept. of Switzerland, Wiesbaden Zealand JOINT-STOI stra la sin British Colonial Ban and Loan Company British N. Amoricar Chartd, Lank of Asia Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & 15 Colonial !O Commercial of Loud .8 English Scottish and Australian .11 Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australia 5 Ditto New London and County. London Joiut Stock, Loud. Wortininste National Provincit of Eagland Do. N©w National of Ireland New South Waif l Oriental Bank of Corporation. i'rovincial of Ireland Do. .7-'ll./ P.,0yP.1 Soiith Union of F, tastrulia 430. New Union of London „, 8 -Si 1 - 14 - 2} par —4p 2 - 33 - 331 - , 9 - 8 9i 8i 4S -• 501 88 90 I par Qp 2; - • 3 2i 3 -- 96 - 98 95 -- 97 101 - 103 92 94 19 - 194 98 -- 100- Ais 2ip par lip li lip 6i -- 7i iii = iii 121 - 124 84 -9.1 21/ - 21ip 47 49 40 42 . m p 21A —22 A ld par 2i lid 8 ••• - ••• •.. - pm i - 4 51 - 6ip mi = iii BANKS. 82 -- 81 ••• ••• ld—id 3 2id 20i -- 211 }d iP 33 - ii 39 - 41 3 14 - - 40 64 - 66 7 - 9 MI ,ki; iii 2?, 10- 88/ i 8 / x d 70 124 / 65i i 5 60 / 7G a 6 8 71 08 7i 8 991 831 i 69t 42 73f 2 i 2 i pm 171 i i 15. f f 21 201 4k 5 ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOPOL 00317 MITTEE --(THIS DAY.) The committee reassembled this morning at the usual be er ' The first witness called was Dr. Andrew Smith. _ 4 , 8 In reply to Mr. Ellice, he stated that he entered the sieers;_. of the army in the year 1815. He had had considerte sax' perience as army surgeon, and in medical hospitals- ,„ the staff surgeon of the Ist-class before he was appointed be • lie Medical Board in 1835. His salary was 1 , 2001. per annumobief, had an assistant at 500/, per annum. The Commander -in the at and the oard of Ordnce were hinitvt. Smith's) Secretary immediate War, superiors, B and he receive na d fr om the eO l parate and independent directions from ea ch of these cities, He proposed all medical appointments to the fa ' ti _ t ref . ritics, but to no Civil authority. He selected the nam e e the officers for promotion from confidential reports, and gay „ eir preference to such as had the most recommendations 11,1,Leiy. favour, and recommended them for promotion aceore.les4S4 Their removal from station to station abroad also origin''' . in himself. sebe Mr. Ellice—ls any distinction made between oleos' bao enter the service with high qualifications a nd those wile passed the necessary examinations only this D Ex r. am Sm in i a t t h io — n Oh co l n y t e in s u ,ee ed rt i % i nly e ; every distinct Lion is rit ' kingdom were under his superintegnadne.:Teoen. h T ° ll sP ere it3lWals . ee, illo e n r e e a it Fort Pitt, another at Dublin, and another at Cork. 7, 00 ; no hospital in Scotland. He had the Power efl {senk it medical officers in colonial hospitals but he did: not ea advisable to exercise any positive authority he neigliy.; - It eeir them because he was unacquainted to a great extent Isis regard to local circumstances. He bad notmuch author it y with bbie the Queen's troops in India, except that he was in the habit him of receiving reports from them. Reports w ere made eedicoi from all medical hospitals under the Cro wn. All medical stores:were supplied on requisitions to him from the :Steels ; or localauthorityat garrison, or general, orbtarack NISI' „el and these requisitions were approved by the officer s °l o ped mend. in the case of colonial hospitals.. They wer e 1114- to regiments in a somewhat similar manner. • emforl s Mr. Ellice—How are stores of clothingand medical es supplied to the purveyor of an hospital? g as l nW Dr. Smith—Formerly, in the year 1830, rethee s„ veyor in chief, who purchased everything, and ms re i s v i ca ble for its supply ; but since then the duty had d el° e s 0 5 the Ordnance department. The ordering of these stores leer wo understood) was involved in much confusion. 0 40 department claimed the authority, and he thought it _dot to be vested in himself; in fact there was a pe rpetua l be ha d of authority on the subject, and had been e ver since,,, be pie been at the Medical Board, and long before then. Secretary sent Secretary of State for War holds the office of State and at War. th ° at Mr. Ellice—At what period were th e intentions of t ao t vernment to send out a military expedition to the F l ' s communicated to you ? Dr. Smith—lu February Lest year. 1 1 03 ao Mr. Ellice—What directions were . e to Yon to necessary prepamtLns, and by whom ? 4 . be Cote; Dr. Smith—l roc: Wei a communniestion from, e ' to see' mender-in-Chief stating that the Government intends' so the 10;000 men to Malta, and directing me to nr evide pil t ha l necessaries requisite in the medical department. mai l es' was necessary for him to do was to complete the..,,,ree arrangements by appointing additional assistant eyes to each regiment, which before had but one, and be' OW to ing the number of staff assistant-surgeons. Then t i re d fe r , provide .a supply of medicines and all articles rer, edit' s hospital furniture, utensils, bedding, &c., as well e ' e forc e ; comforts in proportion to the probable wants of s e n e e l r etact He issued an order the day afterwards to the ue,',„ sto ic s druggist contractors, and in eight days afterwards ha Set were delivered. Thentensils, furniture, and bedding he c lot 4 by requisition to the -Board of Orduauce, wile" P r° the t was to supply theme • ee see Mr. Ellice —Did 'yOu. consider it your duty,e,peel these articles were actually provided and safely s'ar A so, the Dr. Smith .rep'iecl, that ho had no authority to e ea t o persons in his office were from day to day despateehea t Tower, in order to ascertain the progress whi c : o re °Ye made. No invoice of any of the goods "101 to him, nor yet a bill of lading l l° f s t° „ l ` -5 the slightest power or control over the shis;ping °` t e lle tb e T e : furnished by the Ordnance. He had only to sees es ytls" requisition of what was wanted, and they took e v t ee e e , - , else out of his hands. He received an intimation it 009 suing month that an additional force of probable' "; etS l , B ll would, in all probability, be despatched to the s e ! 0 l ej° took the requisite steps, as before, for pro f the quantity of medicines, stores, and medical comorte,:hooe, it Mr. Ellice—When you heard that, in all liktosideresi army would be despatched to Turkey, did T ee th e l , necessary to ascertain the nature of the c limass etro et' diseases of the country, and their best mode of tre e t ee C° l: r Dr. Smith, in reply, stated that he represented t e em s(' ge;l mander-in-Chief that as then were inorant on n ot , jet , a staff consisting of the m se se n or medical o fficers ell e , T as° to the army, accompanied by an engineering officer_lo4l a sketch of every place in which it was probable 110 ° w ee ef 10 be located, should be despatched to Turkey in aV 3° _,,,,or A army to make observations in these respects and tO !Sicots him. " The medical officers were sent out, ance with his instructions ; but no officer of engiet pa t he wailed them. Those medical officers report ed ' er e 0 f i c , • the matter, and he issued instructions to the offic __A , army generally founded upon that report. With ore:icier oe the establishment of any hospitals, he did not ese tllto right to interfere with that beyond abettergivin adoS,"Aded subject. He thought these things were .eoi t i tP; the discretion of those who were on the spot , guide did • 0 0 0 5 and and o le : co o; circumstances or emergencies of the localitY. ~,(ea to think it advisable that medicines should be Pan v et o . spot, because they could be got better at home , r al io cc 5 0 depended upon. As to the stares, as plied them, he could not say whether they medicineswere tee home or" bought on the spot. Some of the knee, were Mit, instead of being delivered at Santa" , b a ble to 0 about from port to port. He might no doubt what eatis certain when these stores were despatched and r of them arrived at their destination O cer° the soot froo Mr. Ellice—Was authority confided to any officer or ot 0 . 0 0 to purchase a supply of articles which had not been s . lig if r e. home, or had not arrived, but which were pro° r quired ? fro Dr. Smith—Yes; the purveyor, he believed, W I r- ° 6 purchase such articles, but he thought there was s ello tee understanding as to the authority cif the purveyor. i;ecti veyor thought he was not compelled to obey t lle of the medical board ; but he was supreme in his ° Yri Vio mont. He (Dr. Smith) ffic 1•38 obliged to"aPPes l t° ° t es oe to have this mistake rectified. see es Mr. Ellice —Do you think that if there had been ,/ , with proper authority, at Scutari, he might 11'0 everything at Constantinople necessary for tile S iC ' es he n taxi, without depending upon a supply of articl from England? Dr. Smith—l have some difficulty in answe rin : s th t hc,w l ; e r tion, because I am not sufficiently acquainted ov lif 62° f lity ; but from the evidence given by the Time' re CO IO6- before this committee, I apprehend there would difficulty in the matter. • . 0 the '6O O Examination continued—He had no authority] ele oto to interfere in the improvement of the hospit al Ace, ortljo at Scutari, of its sanitary condition, or of its medi c cos w ; requirements. Ho thought sufficient power ' c . o . : ite, the ambassador to supply whatever Wa s rag - remedy these defects. Mr. Ellice—Mr. Macdonald, the Tunes esnnT l 4 0 1 , 1 ` iie e 6 his evidence before this committee, has state d ... l ' esr t eete waited upon you for letters of introductio n, efir the object of his mission to the East, you told hi a t Coe ee 0 0° was everything that was required in the ho s P itals tinople and Scutari; Will you inform the I „oil/ what ground you were justified in that asserti",°, for roof , ' Dr. Smith—l had no reports in my posses i l° le tte t tlief mo in asserting anything else. I had received-, vo th e ( or • the medical authorities there, which led me h ell ee e. lare had everything they required ; and I was aw 3.- tites of stores of all kinds had been sent ti pg: In reply to a series of questions from Mr. P, A bec Dr. Smith said that the want of bedding a u ; - 0 g1iL,74 0 t it mentioned by Mr. Stafford and Mr. Macdonala 6,trtirvi;elo been provided by the purveyor, who had full a 4 ... ;t0 t )/ purchase any articles of necessity. The pure e Y d ictsg; t b e t4 before said, conceived that he ought not to be 10,1 i r the medical officers, and he supposed that it W I. : 1 1 conflict that the neglect complained of a fe ° e to ° ff s ' ee ,l l officers were afraid of pushing their a,uthonsr.o choes et he (Dr. Smith) had been the medical officer would have compelled the purveyor to were required. Whether the medical otne er „jell l ' ' 'solL lie e e tb or not, the commander of the forces there ees7 / . the.eitl oo P ut had t he" . O ro suspected that it was from no want of car e t, o ° o o that this neglect • occurred, but from an 1111-1 . 1 .0 1 b ice t4r e the part of those concerned. That titniditiile greA were attributable to the system, and led to por cr ets lamities. The purveyor was not a medical ofg ee t i e Sc ot e? „ , appointed by witness. He was appointed I °). o ideP le ire / to at War. Dr. Hall was the head of the me",, o boFP l ee i t in the East and authority over the whole of - Ls wer e toe! , eluding Balaklava. He believed that reea es e r eee e f ee b'L s ; send a supply of what was required to th e arc h. or es 1 4 was ascertained that there was to be a flank In ie,el 5 ,„100 i 0 self had taken means to see that a depot of w e f f e ll Is „ i'l' established at Scutari, and he wrote to P r dri e d 11 1: 1 4. it) him that anything he required might be obta l ',e Scs er or " stores were consigned to the chief commiseserie-ers'el."lp f ° commissary would deliver them either to tin e .`" ripel e ri, medical department.• t S e° Mr. Ellice—Well then if Dr. Hall „ D V s - to medicines in the Crimea, to whom could he of co efts,. cc, as you had informed him ? Meer , tbe Dr. Smith—To the principal medical ee t . by p er whom the stores ought to be delivered ' to e e ,g missary. entle ti j itt7 o Mr. Ellice—But supposing they We— b ye, ee - fro' veyor, would he have obeyed the orders of„actiens 0 . by what you say of his jealousy of 1 . 1 t "eV medical department, and given them u 12., ,, COtedneo of b e. Dr. Smith—l presume ho would. oe t i o er de eer ° fused to give up stores his refusal to ober,. co os o is medical officers, he believed, only appliea toe' penditure of money was concerned. of at' Mr. Ellice—At the time the war brok e - s f r eses o e et ig e the army a sufficient medical staff fora tim ,„ re st Pr e ,„ % Pr)" Dr. Smith—l think not. There was 3 „ r iriCe ill 0 " the officers, who had returned home front 1 5 ' to Ob'' je station, in consequence of his being unabl e eri'' P re l f to fill their places. e e of o ' l Mr. Ellice—Do you think that the exis t er l;red I ° 00 • partments to whom you had to appeal Int elf ie o with the efficient discharge of your duty lo o_, 0 3 t oe Dr. Smith—Very seriously. If there t a d so oll ° e t department with authority, I could ha ve bo ced ee f th: t ip in stea d ° poe'" th e half the time, and with half the labour, have had only to correspond with that 0 0e I w as r e t : t t eoe four. I should have known to wh om whe re cooe' tic and the public would have known uPr ero si in - ab blame of any failure that might have 0 "" t he 0 4 with the medical department. errs 1° 50 , 0 tl i° By Mr. Layard—When he saw the re R ais e t t , to o prints relative to the state of the hose , dry to I " i ler` Constantinople, he did not think it neeesee l iS ce ort s ne rd medical officers to ascertain whether tilos" and to what extent. , four ° The committee adjourned shortly he ' el Thursday at twelve. BER2/ 18 ' e ; cif° of or A. SON. t , tb On the 17th inst., at Loughborough-Psrj" Charles Bird, Esq. o ,jof h ON A DAIVIITO. gos On the 18th inst., the wi fe of EOM' Esq., of Sydenham. - On the 15th inst., 11149omIasENDaili313' tht.e India-road, Poplar, aged 87. es, of On the 12th rest. Mr. Mr. Samuel Jay e Cleb t nu , Is Conduit-street, aged 56. 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