The Sun. — London, England, 1855-04-05 00:00:00

This day is Published, in post Bvo., price 7s. 6d., cloth, SOME ACCOUNT of Mrs. CLA.RINDA. SINGLEHEART. By the author of " Mary Powell." With Frontispiece. By the same Author, CHERRY AND VIOLET. In antique. THE OLD CHELSEA BUNTIOUSE. Ditto. CLAUDE THE COLPORTEUR. With Coloured Frontispiece. MADAME PALISSY. Ditto. MARY POWELL. In antique. EDWARD OSBORNE. Uniform. MORE'S HOUSEHOLD. Ditto. Arthur HsU, Virtue, and Co., 25, Paternoster-row. THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Buckstone. ON EASTER MONDAY Win be presented THE SEC HMI AGENT: Principal characters by Mr. Bnckstone and Miss E. Chaplin. To be followed by a new Ballet, in which the Spanish Dancers will appear, entitled THE EVENING FESTIVAL. After which, a new Extravaganza, called TS NEW HAY - NA.ItKET SPRING MEETING, 1855. To aerelude with THE GALICIAN FETE. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. Cumns Kzeis. ON EASTER MONDAY WIII be performed LIVING TOO FAST. To be folowed ty THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Principal erecter by Mr. C. Kean. To conclude with (first time) a Romance, in two acts, entiVed THE MULETEER or TOL.EDO ; cr, Kiag, Quce , i, and Knave. TEIBA.TRE ROYAL ADELPIII, Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. ON EASTER MONDAY W ill b e performed the Drama entitled THE MYSTERIOUS oT RANGE R * To OTconcluEde with A NEW EDITION OF TBE FAIRY TALES O p MHR , GOOSE, with name ous highly-coloured Illustrations. ASTLEY'S ROYAL A3IPIIITIIEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. Mr. William Cooke begs to acknowledge one of the most successful seasons of the Royal Amphitheatre, and announces that on EASTER MONDAY there will be produced an original Equidrama, to be called, THE FIELD AGAINST THE FAVOURITE; developing events of peculiar character and general interest ! Novel SCENES in the CIRCLE, and a variety of amusements, will end their aid to the evening's entertainment. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Acting 3lanaser, r. W. 11. Cooke. Equestrian Director, )17. W. Cooke, Jun. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Under the direction of Miss Rebecca Isaacs. THIS EVENING, The WIZARD of the WORLD will appear in his Magic Saloon, with a variety of amusements. To be followed by THE BARBER OF CADIZ, introducing the Drury-lane Ballet Com; any. HIGH WATKEt AT LONDON BRIDGE. Toy Der —Morning 34 aiiu.after 3 I Evening 49 rnin.aft. 3 To-Mow v - Morning 6 min , After 4 Evening 23 min.tift. 4 g'HL► WEATHER.-8 Orrin., April. 5. THERMOI[ET37I, I 2► THE SHADE. 53—highest since noon yesterday. 37 —lowest this morning and during the night. 56—this day, at noon. BABOMICTIER, 30'11—rising rapidly. WIND, S.W.—Light breeze, and fine, mild, sunshiny weather. tty 3,111, 2_;) LONDON, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1855. One valuable result may at least be anticipated from the visit of M. DROUYN DE L'HUYS t( Vienna. It will bring the system of procrastina tion hitherto adopted to a speedy and unequivocal conclusion. The French statesman will not linger doing nothing, or, what is tantamount thereto, seeing the fancied progress of one day completely annihilated on the following. As the Minister presiding over a very important department, he will not easily consent to any course involving prolonged absence from his official duties. Months, weeks, even days, will not be recklessly wasted, while business, for the efficient discharge whereof he is responsible, is entrusted to others who have quite enough to do in matters in which they themselves are peculiarly concerned. We may also add that the French Minister has not transferred his establishment to the Austrian capital—is not accompanied by wife or children, tutors, governesses, nurses, or servants. He has not resigned himself to the anticipation of a long continued course of diplomacy, during which the labours of the day are to be alleviated by all the domestic enjoyments, all the comforts, which men can hope to obtain during their earthly pil grimages. There is therefore every reason to hope that the specious humbug may be brought to a de cided termination—that the Austrian PENELOPE may decide in favour of some one of her suitors, and at once enter into a Russian or French and English alliance. She is manifestly desirous of selecting the most eligible "parte," but unfortu nately she has not yet materials sufficient to enable her to form a sound judgment on that part of the case ; she therefore temporises with all, and as her feelings are in no degree engaged she can hold out sufficient encouragement to all, to keep up the hopes of her suitors to the requi site point. She is waiting for further intelligence from the Crimea sufficiently decisive to warrant her in putting an end to all the doubts and fears of the rivals, by flinging herself into the arms of the fortunate competitor. Up to this time she has managed. to distribute her favours with strict impartiality ; but France now demands a plain and decided answer to a simple question, and it must be rendered without further coquetry or vacillation. It is ridiculous for Austria to put in argumen tative ple9.s,to attempt to show that she will join the Western Powers heart and hand, because, she asserts, it is her interest to do so. This is a mere petitio principii, a literal begging of the question. The plain and obvious answer is by another inter rogatory—a demand, " Why she has not already done so ?" If it is decidedly for her advantage that the predominance of Russia in the Euxine should be abolished, or at least her power materially limited, so that she can no longer have at her dis posal the mea ns of mischief, why has s h e not joined the Western States in demanding the de struction of Sebastopol as a fortified port ? It is "a standing menace" to the trade of the south and east of Germany, as well as to the integrity of the Ottoman Empire. It commands the mouths of the Danube as completely as the Bos phorus, and while it remains with unabated strength there is no security for that com merce. A li d yet almost the only decided step taken by Austria has been to induce France and England to abstain from pressing for that which can alo ne offer a satisfactory solution of the difficult problem, and enable itself to shake off the incubus by which it has so long been op pressed. The arguments based on her apparen t interests thus fall completely to the ground. If w orth anything, they must be carr i ed to a much gre ater extent, and shculd 2 as we have stated, lead to the most energetic co-operation of Austria, in obtaining the cession or d' isrnantling of Sebas topol. Ther© are, however, so many windings in the devious path of German policy--so many wheels within wheels, that it is impossible to form an accurate opinion as to what is really d„ ired. N.Lany counteracting influences are in operation, for which it is impossible to make adequate allow -1 antes. There are too many unkno wn q uan tities to permit a just solution of the complicated equa tion; we can only judge from actual results—from what has been in place of what ought to have been. Regarding matters in this point of view, we can not avoid being forcibly struck by the past conduct of Austria, and still more by the extra ordinary neutrality o f B e lgium. We might have supposed that the ULYSSES of the House of Saxe Coburg would be the first to array himself (l id o by Aide with the Soyegeignii of France and England ; that his near relationship to the QUEEN and Prince Consort of the United King dom, as well as the personal obligations which he owes to this country, could have left no doubt on his mind as to the part that he should take ; while, on the other hand, he should be equally desirous of insuring the guarantee of France for the integrity of his own territory, and interposing an insurmountable obstacle to the extension of the Empire to the banks of the Rhine. His neu trality must, therefore, excite grave suspicions as to the motives and intentions of those by whom he could alone be influenced to adopt such a course. Looking to his recent connection with the House of Hapsburg, and the matters which he is known to have deeply at heart, and which can alone be obtained through the intervention of FRANCIS JosEPII, we find additional light cast on the Austrian policy, which goes far to show that ❑o reliance can be reposed in her fidelity. Let us then, at length, get rid of the impediment by which we have so long been obstructed. We believe that M. DROUYN DE L'HI7YS will insist on a categorical reply as to the intentions of Austria —that through his agency the suspense will be terminated, the mists dispersed—and that ere many days have elapsed the Governments will repeat the demand so long put forward by the peoples of France and England, and that the War Cry " Delenda est Sebastopol" will reverberate throughout the length and breadth of both lands, and that without a dissentient or doubtful voice. Russia beforehand, England behindhand, is, we have too great reason to fear, still as ever the case. Is there any invisible drag, or is the pre sent Cabinet as inefficient, or as unable to master the vis inertice of routine, as the old one ? It is, of course, as necessary to keep the Russian Baltic navy in its nautical Newgate as it was last year. It must not be allowed to commit piracy on civil ised coasts. Ice or cowardice must imprison it all the year. We are glad, therefore, to see such a powerful Baltic fleet ready for its work. Russia, however, it is said, has repeated at Cronstadt the ship-sinking policy of Sebastopol. Rather an inglorious way, to be sure, of using a man of-war. The very proposal to an English crew would hazard a mutiny ; they would demand rather to place themselves in the required position, and to let the enemy come and sink them if they could, but they would like to try their broad sides on all comers before letting their gallant ships go to the bottom. Not so, however, the knout-trained gunners of Russia, and beyond all denial their sunken ships beat or balk our ships afloat in a style their guns would never have done. But again Russia is beforehand. Last year when, be it how it will, our Baltic fleet would not attack the forts, there were no ships sunk. This year, when steam gun-boats and floating batteries are all ready, or getting ready, we are a year too late with them. Sunken ships are to be added to sunken rocks, obstructed chan nels to narrow and shallow ones. In the East it is the same story. Russia ahead. Everywhere she is rendering impossible or difficult what might have been practicable had our rulers meant to fight last year. Odessa, now famous as the support of the Danubian army and the reinforcer of the Russian Crimean army, might have been easily demolished last year, or its stores confiscated. Now we learn that forts and earth works are in course of erection which will prove as troublesome to our fleet as some of those at Sebastopol. Every day's delay will increase the sacrifice of life with which the place must be taken. We are informed, also, that Kertch and the other forts on the Sea of Azof are now being • much strengthened, and yet those forts must be mas tered if we are to stop reinforcements from the east into the Crimea. There seems also little-doubt that considerable reinforcements of cavalry and artillery are on their way from the north to Perekop, and that the isthmus is being fortified. We might have sent by this time troops, and stores with them, in sufficient numbers to secure Perekop, to cut the Russian line of communications,# and thus practically to invest Sebastopol. If we had ade quate gun-boats and light vessels near Perekop and in the Sea of Azeff, and adequate troops in the northern part of the Crimea, the Russian army would be starved fur all the Crimea could afford them. But no—there is no need for promptitude and energy. Peace is coining ! Pity it would be to hurt poor Odessa and such places when they are soon to be friendly ports— useless to send out troops soon to be recalled—. and thus Russia, Austria, and Prussia are to be fool this Cabinet as they befooled the last, and a few months hence the alternative will be, a dis graceful Russian and Austrian peace, or a tenfold harder struggle with Russia—Austria looking on and rubbing her hands. Better at once declare Prussia the enemy she is, and blockade her ports as well as those of Russia ; bid Austria fight out her part, or take the consequences ; and demand that Sweden, and Denmark, and Belgium surely, throw off their neutrality. England would rather see a European War than throw away ber millions and her soldiers in waiting on crowned rogues and despots. Let the opponents of Church Rates reverse the conduct of their governments, if they wish for success. We have all been denouncing the too late policy of our aristocratic Cabinets. We must not be too late in our own war. Everything de pends on the number and quality of petitions pre sented before the second reading of Sir W. CLAY'S Bill. The cause is truly a nisi prizes one, for un less all the preparations be vigorously made before the bill comes on for its second reading, that es sential verdict will be lost, or as good as lost. A feeble majority would consign it to a crippling mutilation in committee, or to certain rejection in the House of Bishops. Easter Monday is next week. Every parish vestry should be made a battle-field. Church wardens should be chosen favourable to getting rid of this odious and unpopular part of their office. Petitions should be got ready for the oc casion, and earnestly pressed. Every rate should be resisted. This Easter is indeed the most im portant of all Easters in the Church-rate contest, for, if well used, it would hush the contest for ever. Neighbours would be spared an annual quarrel, and good Churchmen would have an op portunity of showing hereafter that they loved their churches as well as Dissenters do their chapels. All depends now upon the su pp ort furnished \ from without. The Ministry needs p ressure, and ! we belie ve wou ld we l c ome it, as an unanswerable reason for concedin° ' it but ow must come ; they would be e ntire abolition this session. They too glad to be r done with th e b .oroed to accept it, and have ore for ever . S cores o f Liberal members want th e support o f th e i r cons tituents against the selfi s h ecclesiastical difficult to resist. Th..) which they fi n d i t or Whig solicita tionswaverers need a popular demonstration to con vince them on which side their interest lies. Even some High-Church Members, who have an ut ter c ontempt for paltry compulsory exad•l ° l3 s, and axo cOl 15C10115 Of theix Qw4 rtadhaeo4 tg support their Church, may find it pleasant to have, in addition, the plea of political expediency. We repeat, then, let all the friends of religious liberty do their duty during the recess. Let them use Easter better than we fear the managers of the War are using it. Church Rates are doomed. Their defenders know they must surrender ere long. Why should the battle be drawn out session after session because their opponents do not unite for one general decisive assault ? If the country now performs its part, every Liberal M.P. will place his name, and place it aright, on the division lists of the second reading. The Govern ment will contribute its weight, and the majority will be one which the GLADSTONES and PARING TONS will not venture to tamper with in com mittee, nor the Upper House to ignore. Let all remember, too, that a first reading is not a final victory. The same victory was achieved last year, and then, as now, by a majority of two to one, though in a smaller house. Wo have had our Church-rate Alma ; we must now learn wisdom from the Crimea, and summon ali our forces to the assault at once. Every one who can contribute practical sug gestions for the reform of the Civil Service, de serves the thanks of the public. Amongst the most practical which we have seen are many con tained in a pamphlet just issued, " Our Govern ment Offices" (Ridgway). The `author proposes not a revolution, but a reform, and thinks he sees the way from the present officials to bring unity, or der, and efficiency out of disconnection, confu sion, and inefficiency. He writes with evidently experimental knowledge of the subject, and since a .thorough rout out of the Augean Stable is, in the utter absence of any political HERCULES, im practicable, his proposals are made deserving of public attmtion. Our governing classes may be well assured that less than he proposes will never satisfy the demands of an aroused nation, and that, unless thus much be conceded, very much more will soon be required, and no denial taken. We have row men of the stamp of Messrs. LIND SAY, LAING, and PETO amongst our representa tives, and the days of the " PETER DICKS" are numbered ; either they :oust turn themselves into something better, or be turned out for some thing better. We will not go on paying millions a-year for officials to trip it to Greenwich in busi ness hours, or stand gossiping over the Times with their backs to the fire, while a respectable mer chant must go away with his account unsettled. Oar author attributes the deficiencies of the civil service to the fact that its members are placed under " a system where they have few honours, few rewards, and little fear of penalties for want of zeal or ability." They know that their situations are practically permanent, and if the pay be low, and the promotion slow, yet they are in for life. "Every man, when he enters the civil service thinks he has got a safe berth." If he attends from ten till four, and does not disobey orders, he is secure against dismissal. We all know that these statements are simple facts, and certainly any system which must prove more fatal to energy and the development of ability can hardly be conceived. The three gentlemen we have just mentioned, or the wealthy heads of any four large commercial establishments, would have been sent by it long ago into the Bankruptcy Court, instead of the House of Commons. In remedying all this our author begins with the conciliatory proposal of using all the present staff ; no man is to be dismissed unless, perhaps, incurably idle or incompetent ; he would merely winnow, sift, and sort the present materials, and by altering their prospects, responsibilities, and super vision, would bring all the latent and varied talent to light, employ it where it is most wanted, and leave the ordinary minds for ordinary and routine work. Unity in the service is the first thing. Instead of a number of independent departments he would make the whole service so far one, that all the ability should be available anywhere, and capacity for one department showing itself in another should be on system transferred to the former. The first thing to be done, and here every man of business will thoroughly concur with the author, is to make the " chiefs of departments responsible for the efficiency of their departments." He would dismiss every man from a chief post, however great his merits in other respects, who could not make his clerks do their duty. The dismissal of 'a few weuld encourage the others to sacrifice with out weakness bad clerks. It follows, of course, that considerable powers of promotion, and dis missal, and of other rewards and punishments must be placed in the hands of the chiefs of de partments. Unless the head of an office could make his authority felt very much as the princi pals in a commercial firm can do, lie could nut be held responsible for the conduct of the office. The author does not enter very minutely into detail, but quite sufficiently se to show the thorough practicability of his plan, all his minor arrangements being directed to obtain ing a faithful record of the ability and zeal of the servants of the public, and of insuring them pro motion and pay in proportion. There is really nothing proposed which Lord PALMERSTON could not set in motion to-morrow, while, to say the least, the improvement must soon be great and conspicuous. There is one fault which he has not noticed al. most peculiar to Government offices—we mean official impudence. With many honourable excep tions there are not a set of clerks throughout the kingdom so rude, unaccommad ating,an.d "snobbish' as those in the pay of the State. Men of busi ness require their subordinates to treat their cus tomers with respect, and to facilitate the tram action of business to them. Railway companies, and even omnibus proprietors, would dismiss an uncivil servant after the second offence. The PETER DICKS of the Government offices, however, send you about perplexed from one office to another ; and when, after all your bewilderment in lobbies and corridors, you have opened the right door, ten to one but you have to wait the convenience of the idle, or to be snubbed, and told, "We do not give information," by some puppy of the desk. Nothing disgusts the pub lhirceam4 more the i t t h h e tahheszenef who a e a p t p a r t e h n e t p d u i s b p l e i c sit ion to oblige. You must pay them money ; you must go through their forms ; you cannot go to a competing office ; they are thorough monopolists of the business you have to transact, and like most monopolists they do not care for your. The public will reasonably think that when persons go to pay money for the public service they ought to lie treated civilly; that every neces sary denial ought to be in courteous terms, and all information possible afforded ; but they find it too commonly the very reverse. The next remedy for all ail ill-behaviour, this looking upon the nation's customers as if they disturbed the repose of its servants, is, to punish it ; and one step towards doing so would be to require each clerk to give his card to any one who asked for it, b n o book," a keep s in a prominent place a " complaint , done by railway companies. If incivility stood in the way of promotion, or were visited with a o decided censure, we should hear no more of it , j THE SUN, LON_DON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 5, 1855, COURT CIRCULAR. Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Seymour, went yesterday morning to the Wellington Barracks for the purpose of inspecting the drafts of the three regiments of Guards under orders-for immediate embarkation to the Crimea. The Prince remained nearly one hour in the barracks. The troops were then marched to Bucking ham Palace, and were formed in the Grand Quadrangle, where they marched past the Queen, who was accompa nied by the elder Royal Family and the Duke of Cam bridge, the Prince and Princess Augustu3 of Saxe Co burg, the Prince of Leiningen, and Prince Ernest of Leiningen. _ The Prince and Princess Augustus of Saxe Coburg took leave of her Majesty yesterday and quitted Buck ingham Palace, on their return to Claremont. The Queen mad Prince Albert left Buckingham Palace at five minutes past 3 o'clock in the afternoon for Wind sor Castle. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prince Alfred, Prince Arthur, ,the Princesses Alice, Helena, and LGui,a, Prince Leopold, and the Prince of Leiningen, and were attended by the Duchess of Atholl, Lady Caroline Barrington, Hon. Caroline Cavendish, Hon. Flora Macdonald, Earl Somers, Colonel the Hon. .C. Phipps, the Hon. Mortimer Sackville West, Lord Charles Fitzroy, Colonel Seymour, the Master of the Household, and Mr. Gibbs. The Queen and the Prince were attended to their car riage by the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of BreadalbAnP ' Lord George Lennox, and C o l one l th e Hon. A. N. Hood. The royal party occupied seven carriages, and was escorted by a detachment of Carbineers to the Padding. ton terminus of the Great Western Railway. WINDSOR, APRIL 4. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, with the Royal Family and Prince of Leining,en, attended by the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, arrived at the Castle soon after four o'clock this afternoon from London. The Duchess of Kent arrived today at her residence, Frogmore House, from town. Lieutenant EdwardC. Sim was presented to the Queen at the Levee on the 26th ult., by the Inspector General of Fortifications. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, and Sir George Conper, left her residence, Clarence House, St. James's, forarrogrnore, yesterday. Lady Annaltvls..Dawson has succeeded Lady Fanny Howard as th e : in Waiting to the Duchess of Kent. `l. Prince Ernest of Leiningen left Clarence House, St. James's, yesterday afternoon, for Portsmouth. A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign•office, Downing-street, yesterday afternoon, The Ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chanctllor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of Argyll, Sir Gecrge Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Vernon Smith, Sir William Molesworth, Viscount Canning, and the Earl of Harrowby. A deputation of Yorkshire newspaper proprietors from Leeds had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex chequer yesterday at his official residence in Downing street, for the purpose of laying before him their unani mous views in favour of a halfpenny stamp on newspapers to free the post, and of a halfpenny stamped cover to entitle unstamped copies of registered newspapers to a single transmission through the post. The deputation consisted of Mr. Edward Baines, of the Leeds Mercury, Mr. Kemplay, of the Leeds lvtelligencer, Mr. Alfred E. Hargrove, of the York Herald, Mr. Leader, of the Sheffield Independent, and Mr. J. V. Walker, of the Halifax Guardian. The Right Hon. E. P. Bouverie, Vice-President of the Board of Trade, left town yesterday for Kilmarnock. Despatches were received at the Colonial•ofce yester day from, the Governor of Canada, and also from the Governor of Gibraltar. Despatches were sent yester day to the Governors of the Australian Colonies. Sir Benjamin and Lady Hall have left L6ndon for Llanover, near Abergavenny, where they will pass the Easter holidays. The Earl of Cardigan arrived in Portman-square on Monday, from visiting the Duke of Rutland, at Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire. The Earl of Cardigan has consented to preside at the forthcoming anniversary dinner of the Yorkshire So ciety. Many gentlemen, we understand, have already signified their intention to be present in compliment to the noble lord. Sir Charles Fitzroy, K.C.8., late Governor-General of Australia, has arrive' at Farrance's Hotel, Belgrave street. Miss But dett, Coutts is in Suffolk for a few days visit ing a relative. Mr. John Border, of Parliament-street, secretary t o 25 of the English bishops, died at his residence at Nor wood on Tuesday. _ . On the 22d ult. 170 cases of cholera were reported at St. Petersburg. The sittings of the Germanic Diet will be resumed on the 12th. General Tories, the Peruvian Minister to this coun try, arrived yesterday at Southampton in the Tyne, and proceeded to Silva's Hotel. A nctice was issued from the General Post-office yes terday, ordering all country Post- - aces to be closed on Good Fridays and Christmas-days, the same as on Sun days--that is to say, 24t. 10 o'clock in the forenoon. N•, money orders are to be granted or paid on those days, and only one delivery of letters is to be made. The following clergymen have been appointed chap lains for the seat of war under the auspices of the So ciety for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts : —the Rev. John Eicreet, M.A., curate of Camden Town Chapel, St. Pancras ; the Rev. James Wallace, M.A., curate of Littlebury; the Rev. Wm. Sykes, M.A., late curate of Ingoldesthorpe, Norfolk ; and the Rev. J. d'Arcv Preston, M.A., curate of Kz-ndworth. . . CAPTAIN ALATIIEWS.—Captain Mathews, late of the Great Britain steamer, has been appointed Lloyd's agent in Melbourne. Captain Mathews and his family will leave in the White Star for Melbourne, and will carry with him the high regards which his conduct as a entleman and a sailor of many years has universally secured him.—Liverpool .itandard. DEATH OF THE AUTHORESS OF "JANE ERE."—We regret to announce the death of Mrs. Nicol, formerly eliss Bront4, who, under the nom de plume of Currer Bell, established a lasting reputation by th e p u bli ca ti on of "Jane Eyre." We have two other novels from her pen, "Shirley," and " Vilette," and all are especially distinguished fo'r great power of conception and vigorous portrayal of character. The unfortunate lady, who was the last survivor of a family of six, died on Saturday last, at her father's house, at Haworth, Yorkshire.— Manchester Guardian. DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—WiIIiam Dunn, Esq., the respected treasurer and secretary of this theatre, died at his residence, Crown Hill, Norwood, Surrey, last even ing. Mr. Dunn was fifty-six years an officer in this establishment, and no person was more respected by the committee and gentlemen, as also by the various lessee=. His death will be a great loss to the management and the committee. METROPOLITAN SEWERS COMMISSION. -A special gene ral court of the commissioners was held yesterday at the Court-house, Greek-street, to allow deficiencies, hear summonses and appeals, make improvement rates, re ceive presentments of nuisances and other routine busi ness. The Court sat some hours, but no point of the slightest public interest arose. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.-LIVERPOOL, April 3. —The ?Teat will case, the Earl of Sefton v. Hopwood, was ar gued at length by Sir F. Thesiger. At six o'clock the court rose. The case was resumed yesterday and again adjourned. OXFORD CIRCUIT.—GLOCESTER, April 4.- -Mary Ann Bryant was charged with feloniously throwing a child named Hannah Selman into the water, with intent to murder her. The prisoner pleaded guilty to the charge. The particulars of this distressing case will be in the re elPection of our readers, having been fully detailed in The Sun of Saturday last. Mr. Baron Martin said he bad no alternative, and must direct that sentence of death be recorded against the prisoner ; but his lordship intimated that the sentence would not be executed. Sentence of death was recorded accordingly. R HSitITImA E ND CI A RC IT U o I tori T, me. foN .r o b s i T s,s , ,as A a pi an action ct 4 io .. : Zi a nE t s th v e . rogistered proprietors of the Daily News, for the publi cation of a libel in that journal. Mr. E. James, Q.C., appeared for the plaintiff, and said that the only object he had in view was the vindication of his character, and, as the defendants had Admitted that the article which was the subject of complaint had been ingested through in advertence, and that there was no ground for any im putation upon the plaintiff, he would consent to a no minal verdict that would carry costs. A verdict for 5 guineas was then taken for the plaintiff. DEATII AT SCUTARI.—The following letter (says the Nottingham Journal) has been received by the friends of a young man named Wainright, a native of Not tingham :—" General Hospital, Scutari, Feb. 27, 1855. Mr. Wainwright,—l write to acquaint you with the death of your son Frederick, not only because I believe you would rather know the worst than be kept in sus pense, but more particularly because I am able to tell you things of his last sickness, which it will be a con solation for you to hear. His disease was diarrhoea. He walked into the ward on his arrival, and seemed in good spirits, though looking very thin. I remember remarking to an old soldier who was assisting him, that the lad kept up his spirits, and he answered very heartily, ' Yes, he is fit for a soldier.' The doctor said that his chance of recovery was nourishing food. He was tried with this. I know that lam writing to a parent, so I cannot speak too minutely. On the last day of his life he took two eggs beaten up with brandy, two gills of port wine, and a quantity of beef tea. He bore his acute sufferings very uncom plainingly. I felt much drawn towards him by the pa tience and meekness he exhibited, as well as by his affec tionate disposition. He was quite aware of the near approach of death. He told me one evening that I should not, he believed, see him in the morning. I said, ' I think not, Wainright.' I observed that for a moment ho looked distressed, and I asked if he wished to live ? He said, 'Yes, a little longer.' What for ?' I said. He at once, poor boy, began to compare earthly and heavenly things, and ended by remarking, You may well say what for.' He told me that he felt confident his dear moiler was in heaven, and he often, from words which fell from him, appeared to be dwelling upon the thought of their meeting. He knew nothing of his brother. Your last letter was read to him en the morn ing of his death. I feel quite happy with respect to poor Frederick. I trust that he has entered into his rest, —Youre sincerely, MARGARET, of the Devonport sistera of Mercy,' LATEST NEWS. THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. VIENNA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4. According to reliable advices from Balaklava of the 29th of March, the regular operations were to commence on the 3d of April. BERLIN, WEDNESDAY. General Wedell has set out to return to Paris. Lord John Russell and M. Drouyn de l'Huys decline the King of Prussia's invitation to Berlin. The following is Prince Gortschakoff's account of the sortie of the 23d March : In the night from the 22d to the 23d March, we made a powerful sortie from Sebastopol, in order to prevent the enemy continuing his ap proaches on the lunette Kamschatka. The affair terminated in our favour, and the works constructed by the French within the last few days were destroyed. The loss on both sides was considerable, but the enemy's was greater than ours. We have taken two French officers, an English colonel, and an English captain, prisoners. The telegraph wire between Varna and Giur gevo is complete, but the apparatus has not yet arrived. The telegraph between Semlin and Alexinitz, in Servia—a distance of about 170 English miles—will be opened in a few days. The British Government has a bad reputation for forethought, and people here offer to bet that no fire-engines have been sent out Jto the wooden town at Balaklava. THE BALTIC FLEET. DOVER, THURSDAY, 11.15 A.m. The Baltic fleet is in sight, and will pass Dover at about 1 p.m. The weather is very fine, with a light easterly breeze. FRANCE. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The reception of the news from Marseilles rela tive to the sortie on the 22d, has caused great ex citement, as it is looked upon as "the beginning of the end." I have nothing of particular interest to communicate to-day, further than I have heard it reported that the misiion of M. Drouyn de l'Huys, or rather the uttimatum, sent by him, is the destruc tion of the forts of Sebastopol. His instructions are further to insist that the erection of forts at Varna and Sinope would but be a source of trouble instead of a solid counterbalance to the power of Russia in the Euxine. Ido not vouch for the ac curacy of this information, but it is the talk in well informed circles, and I send it you. The following is from a letter dated Paris, yesterday, 6 p.m. : The telegraphic despatch from General Canro bert, published in the Moniteur of to-day, has given rise to a good deal of comment ; and, owing to the interval between the occurrence of the facts and the date of the despatch announcing them—at least seven days—has excited some suspicion that the Government has received intelligence which it does not like to publish. If any additional facts are known people will have it that there can be only one reason for not giving them, namely— that they are of an unpleasant kind. The despatch is as follows ; " BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, MARCH 29. "In a sortie, which the enemy made in the night of the 22d against our works in front of the Ma lakhoff Tower, they were vigorously repulsed, and had 2,000 men killed or wounded. Our losses do not exceed 600 men." Unable to account satisfactorily for the delay of General Canrobert in transmitting this intelligence, it is suggested that the IT4oniteur has made a mis take, and that the 9 should be 6, or that it should be " Constantinople, 29," and not "Sebastopol ;" but the Constitutionnel, that must have had its information from the Foreign-office, also speaks of news of the 29th from Sehastapol of the same na , Lure, but adds that the French " remained mas ters of the position taken by them." Of this last fact the Moniteur says nothing. News from Se bastopol we could have of the 29th by Varna, but the despatch from Marseilles gives only intelligence from Constantinople of the 26th. It is possible that the Government is keeping in reserve, and, by way of a bonne bouche, some fact of astounding success—perhaps the realisation of the rumour of Sunday last. Such as the present one is, I rather think that the utmost will be made of it before the country, and I should not be surprised ' if it were the subject of a good deal of triumph, and given as an indisputable proof that, if we wished it, we could take Sebastopol whenever we please ; and that, if we do not take it, it is because we do not wish it. Something may be made of it at the Conference. ' Being in the vein of criticism, I cannot help noticing the mutilation which the despatch of Lord Raglan, dated Sebastopol, the 20th, suffers in the Illoniteur's fourth page, as if it was desirable to keep it out of sight. This is particularly cruel so far as tie noble lord's despatches are concerned, for they are never over bulky. The greater part of the second paragraph, which speaks of the heavy fire of musketry, and the fear of " considerable loss" ihaving been sustained by " our Allies," is omitted. In the third paragraph the words " but the fire to which I have above alluded was so continuous," are also left out. These omissions, having reference to the injury inflicted on the French, have been noticed generally, and would explain, if they do not justify,,the suspicion that there is something—good or bad—which does not meet the public eye. Taking the facts as given in the Moniteur, the affair must have been a sangui nary one, considering the numbers probably en gaged. The loss is equal to, if it does not exceed; that of Eupatoria, where there were upwards of 50,000 men engaged. The following private telegraphic despatches have been received to-day : MARSEILLES, April 4.—By the Simois we have received accounts from Constantinople to the 26th ult. All the Allied vessels which had been at anchor in the Bosphorus have been recalled to the Crimea, and were preparing to start. All the troops encamped round the Bay of Kamiesh had been also ordered to take up a position nearer to Sebastopol. Letters from Balaklava of the 20th announce that the health of the troops had much improved. The English army had been rein -forced. The news of the death of Prince Mens chikoff is confirmed ; it took place at Perekop on the 17th, from a wound in his leg, which had mortified. The Austrian army of observation is about to draw nearer to the Pruth and the Danube. The departures of merchant vessels from Constan tinople for the mouths of the Danube were very rare, in consequence of the uncertainty which pre vails as to the intentions of the Russian authorities. Further shocks of earthquake were felt at Broussa on the 22d, but they were not so violent as before, although sufficiently so to create great alarm. The English General Williams, who is invested with full powers by the Sultan, continues his i nquiries into the disorders of the staff of the Turkish army of Asia. Several colonels are to be prosecuted, and severe discipline among the troops will be reestablished. The Turkish Government of Mossoul, having re ceived reinforcements, has retaken the town of Zabo from the Kurd insurgents. The Ottoman Porte has ordered a levy of troops in Syria. Ac counts from Athens state that King Otho is pre paring a palace for the Emperor Napoleon. The banditti continue their outrages throughout the whole of the country, and pillage in every direc. tion." (SECOND DESPATCH.) MARSEILLES, 4th.—The Simois steam-packet has just arrived with accounts from Constantinople to the 26th. Aali Pacha, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, was to leave on the 25th for Vienna. Rizza Pacha, Turkish Minister of War, had resumed his functions. Mustapha Pacha, ex-Grand-Visir and father of Vely Pacha, ex-Ambassador to the French Government, has been exiled. (The des patch concludes with the account of the affair of the night of the 22d, published in the Moniteur to-day.) MADRID, 3d.—Lord Howden, the British am bassador at this court, has addressed to the journals a mumlugeAtion oppo§itio4 to the AllauteriAl declarations, relative to the violent measures adopted against the Protestants of Seville. Tile Spanish Government will, it is said, make a com plaint to the English Government on the subject. A letter from Frankfort, in the Patric, says— " The dissension which exists between Austria and Prussia on the Eastern question, instead of be coming smoothed down, appears every day to be come more aggravated. The recent note of the 16th of M. de Manteuffel is not regarded here in a sense favourable to the policy of Prussia. It ap pears to have widened the line of demarcation existing between that power and Austria. How ever that may be, a serious misunderstanding between the two first powers of Germany at a mo ment when events may render the assembling of all the military forces of the Confederation neces sary, cannot but tend to neutralise the results which that assembling might produce on the desti nies of a great part of Europ. It may be easily seen that the armaments which were ordered in the sitting of the Diet, on the Bth February, are, in general, carried on with much less activity than when they were first decided on. The petty states take advantage of circumstances to postpone as long as possible the period when their contingents must be fully armed. The mobilisation of the federal army, which Austria so strongly urged only about a month ago, now appears indefinitely postponed. At several of the late sittings here the question was not even alluded to." It is generally remarked (says a letter from Vienna) that Count Esterhazy, the Austrian en voy, isolates himself in a very marked manner from all the official receptions ; he no longer makes his appearance in the salons of our statesmen, and no one here would be astonished at hearing that the Austrian Government had granted him an unlimited leave of absence. Prince Jerome and his son Prince Napoleon paid a visit yesterday to the interesting plan of Sebas topol in relief by Mr. Wyld. They requested to have a private view. They arrived at half-past 1 o'clock, and remained till past 5. During this long visit the Prince pointed out to his father the scenes of the combats of Inkermann and Bala klava, and explained in detail the positions of the Allies and the progress of the works, which are, it appears, up to the latest date. Both Princes ap peared much pleased with the execution of the plan. The Courrier de Marseille of the 4th inst. says : —" It appears that fresh orders detain, for the present, the battalions of voltigeurs of the guard at Marseilles and Avignon. It is the Ist regiment of these fine troops which is in this city waiting for embarkation. As to the foot chasseurs and the two battalions of gendarmes of the guard their de parture has been momentarily countermanded, and they remain in Paris." BOURSE, AP aiL 4.—CLOSING PRICES. Cash. fr. c. End of Mouth. 4i per Certs 94 IA 94f. 50c. 3 per Cer Ls 69 80 70f. 20c. Credit Mobilier Bl7 50 Roman Credit Foncier 540 Austrian Belgian Fives 9si— Spanish Threes — Piedmontese — Home Debt 3li RAILWAYS- . ZOR CASH. fr. c. fr. c Orleans - Lyons 1072 50 Western 665 -- Rouen - Cette - Strasburg . - Meaiterranean 995 -- Havre 571 25 Northern . 877 50 Ctherburg RUSSIA. The Archbishop of Odessa, following up the ap peal of the Holy Synod, has issued an incendiary "pastoral." Except as another illustration of the means by which the Czars, through the priesthood, educate their subjects to become fit instruments of their ambition, the document is in no way remark able. According to the pastoral, Russia stands alone in Europe, the single witness to the truth, the centre of the one true Church, existing abso lutely among the nations, placed above them all, and responsible to none but god, her special pro tector. The Emperor of Russia on the 24th ult. reviewed the sth and 6th battalions of Grenadiers, who are to proceed to the scene of war, and expressed to General Rudiger his satisfaction at the efficiency of those troops. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, April 2.—Lieutenant-General von We dell returned here yesterday afternoon from Paris, and proceeded at once to wait on the King at Charlottenburg. It is, of course, too early as yet to learn anything of what has resulted from his mission in the French capital, or of what fresh steps may be taken here. The first four vessels of the flying squadron, under the command of Commodore Watson, ar rived at Elsinore on Sunday afternoon. The harbour at Kiel is stilL covered with ice; the only point at which the water is open is at the in flux of the Schentine. Prince Charles of Prussia is expected back from Russia by Easter. The last Petersburg papers mention the arrival there of Prince Christian of Denmark, heir presumptive to the Danish throne, as well as Prince Friedrich of Hessen, and Prince Wilhelm of Baden. It is understood that the Em peror Alexander 11. has sent King Friedrich Wil helm a cast taken from the face of the deceased Em peror. The story of the physician, Dr. Maria, hav ing been obliged to quit Russia to evade popular aversion, is stated to be without foundation. BERLIN, April I.—Profound stillness reigns here in political circles, as though the great European events going on elsewhere must here succumb to the practice of the Evangelical Church in Prussia, which observes the coining Pas sion week as die stille Woche, the quiet week. The statements current here of an approximation of the two chief Powers of Germany I have shown you in a former letter to be based upon very insufficient grounds. The official announcement to this Court of the birth of an Archduchess has, however, been followed by a letter of congratulatiOn from the King, to be presented to the Emperor, his nephew, by Count Arnim, in Vienna ; but the observance of these usual formalities has nothing to do with the reconciliation of either king, minister, or army with the tactics of Austria. The Royal Family, which has been staying at Potsdam in perfect retirement, ever since the death of the Emperor Nicholas, has just been afflicted by the news of the death' of the young Hereditary Prince of Saxe Meiningen, a daughter of Prince Albrecht of Prussia, and niece of the King and Queen. The news arrived here late on Friday evening from Meiningen, where the Princess had died that same afternoon in childbed, apparently in consequence of an attack of influenza. She was in her 23d year. A letter from Hamburg, of the 31st ult., says— " According to accounts from Copenhagen of the 28th, the nine war steamers, forming the advanced guard of the English fleet, were daily expected there. It was apprehended that, immediately on re-entering the Bal tic, the English would chase and capture the merchant men laden with merchandise for Russian ports. This apprehension is the more justified, as a certain number of those vessels are detained by the ice in different har bours, but particularly at Travemunde, where several bound for 'Russia are now lying, after vain endeavours to extricate themselves from the ice. The parties in terested in the trade with the north are in hopes that the English war vessels, experiencing similar obstacles to their progress through the Belt, which is still ob structed by the ice, will be sufficiently delayed to enable the merchantmen to put to sea and reach their de.tination without running the risk of being captured Since the opening of the navigation, our great victualling establishments have already shipped 5,000 tons of salt beef and pork for the consumption of the English fleet. You are aware that last autumn the Admiralty con tracted here for the supply, in spring, of a considerable quantity of meat. The contractors have received from England the most pressing orders to place at the d;s -pOSSII of the fleet, as speedily as possible, all the provi sions they undertook to furnish. Fresh cargoes of wooden huts, and other materials for the establishment of a camp have arrived from England at Heligoland, which would seem to indicate that the English have not given up the intention of opening in that island offices for re cruiting' their army. The HanoVerian Government, near which that English possession is situate, will not oppose those enlistments. Las last Government continues, notwithstanding the remonstrances of the other states of the Germanic Confederation, to allow the free export of horses from its territory. England, in return for those favours, raises no objection to the collection of the Stad e duty, which Hanover levies, to the great detriment of the maritime commerce of all nations, on vessels passing in the Elbe, near its shores. Horses, for the remount of the cavalry and artillery, are still in great demand in the different States of Germany. At our last fair there were buyers from nearly every country in Europe, who paid for cavalry horses as high as 800 f. Th e breeders obtained from I,IOW, to 1,200 f. for carriage horses." A letter from Berlin says The death of the Princess Charlotte of Meiningen, eldest daughter of Prince Albert of Prussia" (which we men ti .ned yesterday), took place immediately after her accouchement. She was born on the 21st June, 1831, and married Prince George of Saxe- Meiningen, in May, 1850. Prince Albert, who was at Dresden at the time, immediately left for Meiningen with the Prince and Princess, the brother and sister of the deceased. She has had three children, the second of which, a prince, died a few days ago." The following is stated to be tho text of the letter written by Lord John Russell, wlaile at Berlin, to Dr. Philippsen, in Magdeburg, in acknowledgment of an address presented to his Lordship, thanking himfor his exertions ill the calm of Jew ish egQ4n - , cipation, and soliciting his continuation of them 3t Vienna : "BERLIN, Marcil 1 . " Sir,—lt is with feelings of gratification that r bee received the address you have presented to me. Britannic Majesty's Government will be assiatiol is ll solicitous to procure that the Jewish as well as the Cl tian subjects of his Highness the Sultan shall oh taro the benefit of equal rights and impartial administrati os. I beg to express to you my thanks for the flatter rng terms in which you have alluded to my endeavours if: abolish the civil disabilities of the liraelites of the Uri*" Kingdom. _ _ "I have the hopour to be, &c." An order has just been published at Dresdto) forbidding the exportation of arms and analll nition of every description. Letters from Genoa announce that the Staff the Piedmontese army has embarked for Coat" - tinople by the Vaticau s steamer. WEST INDIA MAILS. The Royal West India mail packet Tyne, OW tail Valler ' and Admiralty Agent Lieutenant Jo b° Brown, R.N., arrived at Southampton yesterdah with the West India, Mexic a n, a nd P a cific. irlel °. Dates of sailing :—Vera Cruz, March 6 ; Tan)P;`l 4 ; Havannah, 12 ; Greytown, 5 ; Chagre , s, 1 ". Panama, 8 ; Carthagena, 12 ; Jamaica, 14 ; De merara, 12 ; Trinidad, 13 ; St. Kitts, 17 : does, 14 ; St. Lucia, 15 ; Antigua, 16 ; St. Grp ' cent, 14 • Martinique, 15 ; Guadaloupe, 16 ; "ry nada, 13; Jacmel, 15.; Porto Rico, 19 ; Dominica' 16•6; St. Thomas, 20 ; La Guayra, 15 ; Torto la) 1 The 'Tyne brings 88 passengers • among wbo are General Tories the Peruvian Mi n i s t e r ; Lieu; tenant Colonel Hill, Ist West India Regim es .' Hancock, R.N. ; Lieutenant Hower"' R.N. ; Mr. Lynch, staff assistant surgeon ; O r i Adams, Ordnance clerk ; Mr. Austin, clerk ° II works. Captain Stokes, a p assenger , died Mar c 26. The freight on board includes specie to the amount of $2,786,758, the largest q uantity specie hitherto brought to Southampton in one shi f t?' of which $90,000 tire ou account of Mexican dill" dends. The West India Islands are generally healthy but the planters want rain. Eichange at Jamaica-90 days, 1 percent. Prel 63 days, 11. per cent. prem. Merchants' Bil ls, per cent. discount. On New York, 60 days) at to 2 per cent. The political news is unimportant. aide The attempts to raise contributions in ja l2l ni , in aid of the Patriotic Fund appear to have g e '" rally resulted in failure. ed Governor Wodehouse had met the Comb.lo. Court of Demerara, and stated that he would d l o f courage all further immigration a t the exp_ n ona e n ap the colony until he found a debt of nearly 4-utvi o dols. liquidated, and the colony in a position the or pay for future liabilities. The public suppt n , Governor, but the planters are organising position, and talk of refusing the supplies o ° immigration is included in the estimates. a t Trade in Demerara is dull ;' freights contin uo fair rates. The cane fields look well, a nd every' where there is the cheering indication of crop. be The barque Assam, Captain Fleming, fr° llll. o Clyde for Port of Spain, was swept on the rock 5,.30 the second Bocas, on the Island of Mono, on 28th Feb. and lost. From Mexico we learn the President, Stilt6of Anna, left the city of Mexico on the %t o il February, but his projects were net ;to known. It was thought that he had g°l3"der the southern part of the republic, as comor.:f o f of his troops, to fight General Alvarez, the e DI the revolution in the state of Acapulco. tel last news received in Vera Cruz, by et graphic despatch, says that Santa Anna bau the general Moreno (of the party of Alvar e r ; Santa Anna, it is affirmed, made 1,500 prise ne ; n : , amongst whom was Moreno himself, whom stantly shot. But all this requires confirmatio a• Business was very dull. e vert' At Valparaiso, the political world is quiet , bs , thing going on as it has for the last few molivro, The railroad from Valparaiso to Santiago P, i j i gresses but slowly. Trade is rather slack . Br '' coal sold at 11 dols. per ton on board. Thew eo English admiral, Bruce, arrived from Engla n by the United States of America on the 6th inst. the steamer Lima. He was to leave Valparais° again in the President on the 24th inst., for Calla and the Sandwich Islands, where he will meet t he remaining ships of his squadron and the Frenc h ships, which are to accompany him to reduce t'" h Russian ports of the North Pacific. General Castilla is now in full possession eI power throughout the whole republic of Peru, and is already actively employed in making great changes. The country throughout is quiet. Gear ral Echenique had left for the United States. In Costa Rica everything is quiet. The gather' ing of the coffee crop has been retarded by hea -c l rains, which have caused much injury to the °roll% In Nicaragua, the President (Chamorro) ba' gained decisive advantages over the insurgent' headed by Castillion ; the attack took p'ace t' abe ti „, the 17th February:outside Granada, and the rev r v e lutionists were driven back to Massaya, w h i , e o t they attempted to make good their pot-ition , ,:' ir were entirely routed, and pursued as far as t', e n ic head-quarters at the city of Leon. What qi place there is not known . . The Government Pa r s captured a considerable number of small t r f l o o ' . three or four guns, and a quantity of ammulliv",,, - 0 The loss of the men on the part of Castilla about 700—on the Government side cornparativ.ein none. Of the 700, 150 had their throats 01'4 one of the churches in Massaya. The revolutions " leaders are at loggerheads. .0-ar It is said that the En g li s h consu l at Rea 4 ,. - ,.00 manded possession of D r . D av i s (an Awe — Filibuster), and that he was given up to blol'o. will be remembered be i s th e mur d er er of Mr. l oce r Higman, an Englishman, formerly an ° ale of R.M.S.P.C., and a mem ber of the mss the fraternity. Davis shot him in the forehead Inpr presence of his wife, and w hil e pretending t O ce he brace him, making the remark at the, time, gr• would as soon shoot his own father as Ned." o n Higman was keeping a hotel at Virgin 8a3 5 Lake Nicaragua. • itiag In Greytown the people are anxiously Nya j og the action of the British Government reg ai t i t ha their claims. There is no business doing, au ill' little money they had has been absorbed in. f t ,. ing temporary houses of the poorest descriP tl° oo A fire broke out at St. Thomas's on tke, ti bit. ult., and consumed property is the stores of 4 o f more and Co., Main-street, to the 03 0 80,000 dollars. Her Majesty's ship Boscawen (flag) .and Modem at Antigua Vestal, Espiegle, 4rab, Argilavrer zard, north-coast of Cuba ; Devastation/ town ; Eurydice, Calypso, at Bermuda ; Bahama Channel ; Imaum, Port Royal ;. ' dw ata rine, Windward Channel ; Mariner, Wil a Islands ; Daring, San Domingo. lgi er* On the 29th ult., the liner Tage arrived a t - A from Constantinople, to take on board the 14th batteo6 of foot Chasseurs, and convey it to the Crimea- for 7th battalion of the same arm was also to en , , r b er lace" the East, in the steam corvette Phlegeton and l'el:001es and the commercial steamer Byzantin was loading for the army. 00 11 ; A letter from Cherbourg, of the Ist inst., aet l o n ~, that the screw liner Austerlitz would put to so 2d or 3d. to pf Two battalions of the 2d Regiment of Grenat i d e the Imperial Guard arrived a t M arse ill es on the left the next morning for Toulon. 20/3' The latest advices fr o m th e C r i mea are of th e r the The operations against the. new Russian works e A e - ftb° Mato khoff Tower wore continued. Nothing is 6111 14 7:L4 b l destruction of the French works on the 23d, a"'„ - o ° 0,1 1) the affair is mentioned. The Fremden Platt lear,„l" p l oy' " the commander of the French cavalry division, u d'Allonville, is lying in a state of delirium." The Phare de la Loire announces that the o ","ibet" tion of the six gun-boats, in the dockyard of 14 .": 1 015 4 , at Nantes, wah proceeding with all possible a" l or",„‘"" The swell in the river had somewhat retarded the but it was expected that one of the boats w eti o ther launched in the course of a fortnight, and the fi ve shortly afterw ar d s . BS An immense nu n ter of merchant vessels cbartere.ollll the French G overnment are now loading NW ° si rtN A materiel of wa r , h orses , mu l es , an d troo ps for th e d in the Crimea. The sailing frigate C o nstitutiov i roef i : transport corvette Caravane have also arri" - 10 14e. from Toulon for the same object. The steal:01% 1 0 0 of the Levant line, the Fra nce , N orman die, - 48° " tn &c., have been put into requisiti on , an d are er - Til sail with ammunition and hors es f or the . 35 1 v(e e. j large English steamer . Colombo, w hi c h r eached lae , 11, 1) f from Malta, is now loading for th e same destina ti V, the packet Euphrate left Marseilles, on the . 0 00' Constantinople, with a detachment of 250 11 ; g i on , a company of the 32d of the line, and ammu,u h tiotri THE MILITARY 1103PITAL AT SDITRNA.."'" t",.." 6 harm tial, of Smyrna, of the 22d ult , says : —" W ei/. of 'ff to be able to announce that ult., sanitary state• ire", or English military hospital established in this eitY he re satisfactory. The fever which bad prevailed t o f ee o , some time past has much diminished. The nuMbSrthe diem in it is 900, of whom 586 are still unwell, an 0 0 4 1 tnainder convalescent. The deaths since the fire e l 0 1 6 have been 104. The medical staff is ce m Pfi of slab 2d 3 physicians of the Ist and o d elPio 2d class, 5 surgeons of the let and 11 of the 'l e a t oo and 4 apothecaries. We have before see° l 4. 0: 0 1 arrival from England of several Dame de Char' eh 00 ladies, to the number of 20, as well as 26 13111101 under the direction of a Mrs. Coote. There are men to wait on the biek and wounded...".