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- • MEXICAN and SOUTH AMERICAN COMPANY. The whole of the New Shares having been subscribed by the Shareholders, no further applications will be received. HYDE CLARKE, Secretary. • 17, Gracechurch-street, 6th March,lBss. GUILDHALL, ern Menai, 1855. T'ICOMMITTE_E for LETTING the CITY'S LANDS will meet at Guildhall, on Wednesday, the 14th day of March inst., at One o'clock precisely, to recetve Proposals for Leases of a House, No. 18, on the east side of. South-street, Fins bury ; House, No. 2, on the north side of o uch -pa, at the corner of South - street ; and Premises, No. 2e, on north side of South place ; a House, No. 6, City-terrace, Old-street -road ; and Four Houses, Nos. 6,7, and 8, Sycamore-street, and No. 9, Ragged-row, -Old-street. The Premises are to be let for l 25i years (leis three days) from Lady-day nest. F u rther particulars and P lans may be seen, and Forms of Tender Obtained, at the Architect's Office, Guildhall. FERDINAND BRAND, Comptroller. DRURY-LANE.—Losee, Mr. E. T. Smith.— IteduoA Prices as usual. THIS EVENING, Will be performed an adaptation, written empressly for this Theatre by Mr. RE/NOLDSON,, of Meyerbeer's Grand Opera, L'ETOILE DU NORD. Characters by Messrs. Henri Drayton, Williams, Bowler, Leffler, D. Bea!, Miranda, and Blake ; Mrs Henri Drayton, Miss Johnson, Miss E. Arden, and Mdlle. Jenny Baur. Td et - include with THE WATERUAN. Mr. Miranda, Miss Arden. THEATRE ROYAL RAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Backstone. THIS EVENING. Nil be performe I the Comedy of A CURE FOR LOVE. Prin cipal characters by Messrs. Chippendale, Bncltstone, ant E. Vii.- Berg rdiSS E. Charlin, Arts Griffiths, and Mrs. Poynter. After which a new Ballot, entitled THE BULL-FIGHTER. To be followed by THE BALANCE OF COMFORT. To which will be added the new Ballet by the Spanish Dancers, sailed THE GA.LICIAN FETE. To conclude with SHOCKING EVENTS. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. OXFORD-STREET. • Under the Management of Mr. CULULEB Szsx. THIS EVENING, To be followed by THE RIVALS. Principar characters by Messrs. 'W. Lacy, Harley, Meadows, J. Vining, H. Mellon, Addison, and Everett ; Mrs. Winstanley, Mrs. W. Lacy, and Misses Heath and C. Leelereq. After which will be produced a New Grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled, HARLEQUIN BLUE-BEARD; or, The Great Bashawo Harlequin, Mr. Corniack ; Clown, Mr. Haile ; Pantaloon, , Mr. Paul and Columbine, Miss Desborough. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the blanagement of Madame VertriS. THIS EVENING, Will Leperformed TUE COMICAL COUNTESS. Principal eha ?uteri by Mr. C. Mathews and Miss Talbot. To be iollowel by TAKE THAT GIRL AWAY. To conclude with the new Comic Drama, called TO3 MUCH OF A. 000 D THING. Principal characters by Mr. lioxby and Mrs. F. Mathews. Box-office open from 10 until 6. Sole agent for Private Boxes, sfr. Aileron, 15, New-Bond-street. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHL Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new and c riginal Drama, preceded by a Pro logue, and caul JANET PRIDE. To be followed by THE UNKNOWN AND THE BAYADERE. ebaraeters by Messrs. P. Redford and G. Lee; Mimes Woolgar and Keeley, and iddllas. Maraquita and Benoni. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and 'Manager. Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING. Will be presented the new Comedietta, called TIT FOR TAT, in which Messrs. F. Robson, A. Wigan, and Miss Maskell will appear. Followed by A LUCKY FRIDAY. Atter which. a new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE YELLOW DWARF AND THE KING OF THE GOLD MINES. Characters by Mr. F. Robson, Miss Julia St. George, Miss E. Ormonde, Mis 4 Marston, Miss Bromley, and Mrs. Fitzallan. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Under the direction of Miss Rebecca Isaacs. THIS EVENING Will be performed THE MARRIED BACHELOR. Followed by THE VILLAGE NIGHTINGALE Supported by Mr. J. Belford, Miss it. Isaacs, Miss F. Beaumont, &c. After which, the new Operatic Burlesque, entitled, ALONZO THE BRAVE. To conclude with the new Comedietta, entitled CITY FRIENDS ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPIIITLIEATEE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. THIS EVENING, Attraction Extraordinary ! Three Great Battles in ane Spectacle ! those of BALAKLAVA and INK ER MANN being now aided (by the introduction of a Third Act) to the BATTLE of the ALMA, which this week reaches its 122 d representation ! To conclude with Novel SCENES in the CIRCLE, introducinT (first time) Herr Johann Endersohn, le Ell-de-For, and the Entrée do Clown 3la Francaise. Box-Mlles open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Acting Manger. Mr. W. U. Cooke. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke. Jan. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tate DAY —Morning 5 min.nfter 4 Evening 20 (aims& 4 T. loamy Morninf 34 min.after 4 , Evening 51. min.aft. 4 TIM mum: mt.—sus Organ. March. 7. TaRRYOKIITEN, IN TIM SHADIti. 50—highest since noon yesterday. 33—lowest this morning and during the night. 40—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 29'92. wpm, S.E.—Light breeze, and fine, cold, sunshiny weather. Last night was the coldest since the great frost. •=1 ~ f9i. z r 4 , LONDON, WEDNESDAY, ,MARCiI 7, 1855. The anxiously looked-for inquiry into the state of the army, before Sebastopol has actually com menced ; nay, more, it is a fair and bond . fide in vestigation, without any attempt at mystification or concealment. The public are freely admitted; there is no limitation to members-of Parliament, the only effect whereof would be the publication of mutilated and badly-authenticated accounts of the proceedings. Duly-qualified reporters are in at tendance. We therefore may be certain that what has occurred will be accurately detailed and spread throughout the entire country. Should there 131 any erroneous statement it will be im mediately corrected ; and there can be no danger IA vague apprehensions arising from false or ina dequate information. The vast importance of this state of affairs will be duly appreciated by those who understand the nature of the excitement occasioned by even the appearance of mystery how the public curi osity is thereby stimulated, and unwarrantable means too frequently adopted to satisfy the de mand. However stringent might be the regula tions adopted for the purpose of securing secrecy some scraps of information would unquestionably leak out. These would be exaggerated, and mag nified into undue importance. Nor would exag geration be the only evil to be averted. Where "facts" were wanting invention would be resorted to a and topics would be gravely argued, not resting or, the slightest foundation. The attempt at 'Secrecy, more especially a partial secrecy, where every member of the Commons House of Parlia ment was admitted to information denied to the rest of the community, would neutralise the value of, while it would necessarily materially enhance the objections to, the investigation. Fortunately, We have, through the sound and judicious decision of the House of Commons, been enabled to realise the tall a d vantages and to avo id the threatened dangers of the inquiry. Already we have been enlightened by the evidence of two intelligent and trustworthy witnesses, men who possessed ample opp o rtunities for the formation IA a sound opinion, and who had intellect and judgment sufficient to render all the data fully available, to give its full wei g h t to every element in the calculation. The testimony of Mr. G. Dunnas is very Valuable. The honourable gentleman clearly an d distinctly explains that which he actually saw, and of which he was enabled to take a more correct view, from the fact that he was a bystander, a n d not in any way engaged iu the gigantic game. He was an eye-witness-to the deplorable state of the cavalry—" The soil very muddy. The horses standing at their pickets with no rugs on, and totally unprotected from the weather. Appa rently they had very little to eat indeed. Many had recently died. The ground in the vicinity was covered with their dead bodies. At the pickets almost every horse was lying on the ground. In that position some were dead, others dying,!" This is a graphic though deeply 1 3 sinfa . 1 picture ; and yet, at that very time, " the harbour was hardly a mile from the eltvalry camp," and " there was a considerabl e u antity of forage at Balaklava at the time. Many bags of bran were standing on the beach when he arrived, and they continued there until lie left. There was also a considerable quantity of hay floating in the harbour ! ! !" And yet in the vicinity of abundance the horses were in such a state that they could not have car ried their riders in a charge. _ that splendid victory, nor even the cold-blooded and malevolent attack on a departed hero, or the implied censure on the EMPEROR himself. All these matters are in such deplorably bad taste that they carry with them their own antidotes, and cannot possibly create any injurious impression in any well-regulated French or English mind. The author must be unequivocally condemned ; but that will be the only effect, so far as the Allies are conserngd. But if authentic, it may afford information to the enemy of a very improper description, may assist the Rus sians, and add to the destruction of his compatriots and their Allies. These are matters for which there can be no excuse, which should expose the author to the deepest censure of every right minded man, whatever be his country. We only hope that the party to whom it has been ascribed may be enabled to exonerate his cha racter from the grave imputations—to show that it is a spurious, unauthorised, and wicked in vention. LATEST NEWS. But this was not all. " The condition of the in fantry was even worse than that of the cavalry. In every respect the clothing, victualling, and lodging was exceedingly scanty, and of the worst description, while the men were kept totally without fuel, although a quantity of timber was floating about in the harbour which might have been col lected with very little trouble, and sent up to the camp, where it would have been very useful." Such were the deplorable facts, and the causes were clearly explained, viz., the many forms re quired by the system of " checks and counter checks"—( pure and unmitigated Red-tapism)—by means whereof the starving cavalry horses (or the starving men) could not get a single belly ful, even if taken to Balaklava. The evidence of Sir DE LACY EvArts was still more important. The gallant Ge neral, by the exercise of prudent fore thought, had been enabled to save the men under his command from a large proportion of the losses sustained by those under less experienced commanders. He showed, too, the inconvenience of many of the re gulations, and exposed the real fountain and origin of all the evils—namely, that " the War was commencel under the delusion that matters ; would be settled without any explosion of gun _ powder, and that there was no necessity for any magazines at all !" This was the ABERDEEN mania. This was the result of allowing that good and excellent Minister to have his own way ; and all the sufferings sustained by our troops may be ascribed to the abdication of its functions by the House of Commons, and their implicit confidence in a Minister not competent to the duties of his position. THE NEWSPAPER STAMP DUTIES BILL. One objection to promotion from the ranks is so often urged, and is evidently so much a matter of feeling on the part of military men, and others, belonging to or connected with the aristocracy o birth or money, that a few remarks on it can hardly be deemed out of place. As it appears to us, these exceedingly sensitive gentlemen have a very dim perception of the nature and requirements of the service. To judge from their indignant tone when the subject of promotion from the ranks is mooted, they seem to imagine that a commission in the. army is meant to he a passport to the drawing-room rather than an introduction to the stern responsi bilities of command. If this notion were cor rect, we should have nothing to say on the subject, but, unfortunately for their feelings, it is not. The art and science of war call for other qualities than those necessary to grace the draw ing-room. They call for a vigorous frame, a manly resolution, an apt intelligence, an ardour of feeling far removed from common place, self-command, and a sounl judgment, speeding rapidly to its conclusions. With most of these the drawing-room will not re luctantly dispense. The polite simper, the easy vacillation, an aptitude for common-place, the subdued yawn, and judgment at second-hand, are better adapted for that meridian. Thus a man may be admirably qualified to serve his country, to fight her battles, and con tribute to her safety and renown, and by no means be welcomed in polite circles. But on whom does this reflect discredit ? Not on the worthy aspi rant for military distinction, but on the circles which shrink from contact with him. it is a striking proof of their worthlessness, of their utter frivolity. Such a man has a patent of no bility such as none of them can lay claim to. Ho is honourable at first hand, generous by in stinct, and chivalrous by every aspiration. Rough he may be ; but the gentleman will be found underneath—capable of cultivation undoubtedly, but the true gentleman after all. Among auto biographies—always interesting—none are more so than those of non-commissioned officers, and commissioned officet s who have risen from the ranks. The true chivalrous feeling, in its gentle ness as well as in its resolution and ardour, pervades them all. The dutiful son, the affectionate brother, the generous friend, and daring but not implacable enemy, stands before us in each, and we daguerreotype his like ness without any consciousness on his part. He has a tale of adventure to tell, and he tells it—his main personal anxiety being to convey the im pression that he has endeavoured to do his duty. What we gather else he had no desire to throw in our way. To talk of men like • these —and the majority of those deemed eligible for promotion would be found such—being unfitted to associate with gentlemen by birth and position is, on the part of the latter, to propagate about as great—we will not say a libel, but—a reproach as could be uttered. An aristocracy that cannot grasp with the hand of good fellowship the hand of a chival rous soldier is an anomaly which the good sense of the people cannot long tolerate. Great excitement has been created amongst our Allies by a pamphlet respecting " The Conduct of the War," not merely from the subject on which it treats, and the amount of information respect ing the most secret councils of the French camp, but from the high rank and position of the alleged author. It purports to be a memorial addressed to the French Government by a General Officer, and it is manifest that the author, must have taken part in the operations which he describes, and of which he so strongly complains. It has, we trust erroneously, been acribed to Prince NAPOLEON, whose views it is said to embody, and whose notorious discontent has found expression in its pages. Such a production might have been justifiable, however erroneous, if submitted only in confidence to the Government. It would be the duty of every officer to state his conscientious impressions to those by whom the evils of which he com plained might be corrected, provided he did not thereby give any information to the common enemy, and stated his facts faiily and without exaggeration. But a general publication of such matters would be highly objectionable—a gross misapplication of the knowledge officially ob ' wiled, and most improvidently and unwarrant ably Communicated. And this, which would at any time b e a ser i ous offence, alike against mili tary discipli ne and the obligations which every man —and the higher his rank the inure imperative these obligations owes to his country. But when the publication had actually been suppressed by order of the Government —when the menrorial had b ee n rejected after due consideration, we cannot imagine an offence of greater magnitude than that of which the author, whoever ho may b e , has been guilty. We shall not now dwell on the inaccurate state ments respecting the English troops•at the Alma —and the attempt to deprive those who so gallantly discharged tbeir duty of tha credit to which they were justly entitled; for THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, 1855, cumstances. Some one said this morning in my presence, she may become a Catherine IL, and you will soon have proofs of it." BOURSE, MAECIT o.—CLosixa Pnicrs. Cash. fr. c. End of Month. -q per Cents 93 971. 80e. 3 per Cents 7O -- 701. 25c. Credit MehlHer 762 50 Doman Credit Fonder 552 50 AuP,trian Belgian Fives ...... .. Spanish Threes — Piedinontese B7 Home Debt 32i RAILWAYS—FOR CASH. fr. c. fr. c: Orleans 1,203 Lyons . ... 1045 Western .. 670 Rouen Cette 605 Strasburg ' Mediterranean 927 50 Havre 567 Northern PARIS, WEDNESDAY, MARCII T, 8.30 A. M. The Moniteur publishes a despatch, dated Kamiesh, 25th' February, announcing that the Russians appear to have abandoned the positions they held opposite Eupatoria. In their retreat they burned the villages in which they had established themselves. During the night, between the 23d and 24th February, the second corps of the French army carried the important works of counter-approach established by the garrison of Sebastopol, opposite the French works. The loss of the French consisted in some hun dred wounded. VIENNA, TUESDAY. Lord John Russell has been honoured with an audience by the Emperor. BERLIN, TUESDAY, MA cu 6. Advices from St. Petersburg announce that General Adjutant Von Grunewald and Baron Von Lleven have been sent, the former to Berlin, the latter to Vienna, to notify the accession to the throng of the new Emperor. General Rudiger has been ordered from Warsaw to St. Petersburg, to take, it is said, the chief command. The deceased Emperor Nicholas had already recalled Prince Menscliikoff from the Crimea, and given the chief command there to Prince Gort shakoff and the second to General Osten-Sacken. We learn from St. Petersburg, under date of the 6th of March, that Prince Menschikoff had sent the following despatch to his Government : On the night between the 21st and 22d of February, we erected a redoubt on the left flank of the fortifications of Sebastopol. This was done so promptly and unexpectedly that we received no annoyance from the enemy (the Allies.) On the night between the 24th and 25th the enemy (the Allies) attacked the redoubt with con siderable forces. Two regiments repulsed them. The enemy los' 600 men. The mining operations of the Allies have been suspended. Up to the 26th of February nothing new had occurred at Eupatoria. MARSEILLES, TUESDAY EVENING. The Clyde, which left Constantinople on th• th of February, has arrived. Despatches for the Government left at four o'clock. She brings news from Balaklava to the 24th of February. General Sir Colin Campbell made a reconnais sance on Monday (the 19th), which failed, on ac count of the snow. Sickness still prevailed among the troops, but their morale was excellent. The siege operations were advancing. The fire was slack on both sides. The Russians were continually throwing up new fortifications. The railway was progressing. Geueral Canrobert has congratulated Omer Pacha on the affair of Eupatoria. It is believed that with the return of the fine weather Omer Pacha will march against the Rus- sian army. The Turkish troops are full of enthusiasm. Advices from Kamiesh Bay of the 24th of February state that on the previous day the French had destroyed the works round the Mala khoff Tower, but with great loss. [This is evi dently the same attack as that mentioned in Prince Menschikoff's despatch.] THE DANUBE. A letter from Vienna, in the Post Ampt Gazette, s ays The letters from the Lower Danube state that Turkish troops are constantly marching from the interior of Bulgaria on Varna. Omer Paella does not appear to be content with 40,000 men, in order to successfully commence offensive operations. He sends by every courier to demand fresh rein forcements from Ismail Paella, who commands the army of the Danub e , and more particularly insists on the immediate embarkation of the corps of cavalry of Rouraelia. BELGIUM. Belgium is still without a Ministry. M. Del fosse, President of the Chamber of nepresentatilves, has been sent for by the King. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY EVENIVG. The Emperor has countermanded the concert which was to have been given at the Tuileries on Thursday. The Moniteur publishes a notification of the blockade of the ports of the Black Sea and of the Sea of Azoff by the combined fleets. The ports of Eupatoria, Streletzka, Kamiesh, Kazatch, and Balaklava are, however, it is stated, not comprised in the blockade for the present ; but the commerce of those ports remains subjected to all the condi tions and restrictions which have been, or which may be, established by the Commanders of the Allied forces. The Minister of Marine and Colonies has ad dressed the foll Owing report to the Emperor : - "Sire—Vice-Admiral Bruat, during the last few years, has occupied different positions with great distinction ; after having been governor of two colonies, chief of a station, maritime prefect, Commander-in-Chief of the squadron of the Ocean, he is now Commander in-Chief of the squadron of the Mediterranean, which so nobly represents France in the Eastern seas. I have the honour to propose to your Majesty to confer the military me lal on this officer ; the distinction will be in the eyes of Vice-Admiral Bruat a new ao.d precious tes timony of the esteem of the Emperor. I am, &c., "THEODORE DUCOS." An imperial decree carries out the suggestion of the report. The following private telegraphic despatch has just been received : BERLIN, March 6.—. General de Wedell has set off for Paris, carrying with him instructions which will secure the conclusion of the treaty with Prussia. The new Emperor, Alexander 11., pro mises in his manifesto to continue the policy of his father. The Grand Duke Constantine has so lemnly sworn fidelity to his brother. The greatest enthusiasm was manifested at the ceremony. A Paris letter of the 14th, in the Independance of Brussels, says :—" It is positively stated that a telegraphic despatch has been received here, giving a summary of the manifesto which the new Czar is said to have addressed to the Russian I people. In this manifesto, Alexan d e r 11 . declares I that he will follow with filial respect the grand policy of his father, into which he has been for : some years past initiated. There will be therefory no change of system, and hence it is conclud ed that the question of peace cr war remains intrket, and that it is still at Vienna that a solution raust be come to. The Czar is said to have annormced that ho will carry on with the greatest enery the measure of the emancipation of the serfs -andctr taken by his father, and which has hitherto been attended with such happy results. It!, he adds, the measure is slowly carried out it is be cause the interests of the treasury must lee con sidered, and the rights of proprietors re: Tected. Such is the sense of the telgraphic message said to be received. It is said that the new Empress of Russia is a woman quite out of the ordinar y line, and capable of playing a great part in prow )11t cir- AUSTRIA. VI ENNA, March 3.—Yesterday evening, at half past 8 it was known here that the Emperor Nicholas had ceased to be, and extraordinary was the sensation which the news produced. No reliable in formation as to the cause of his death has yet reached this city, but the Russians attached to the Embassy relate that his Majesty died of Lungen-Lahinung (literally, suspension of the action of the lungs.) "If the Czar died a natural death," says an experienced statesman, " and his eldest son Alex ander succeeds him, peace will certainly soon be concluded ; if, on the contrary, • there has been a palace revolution, and the Grand Duke Constan tine should succeed to the throne, a general war is almost inevitable." Information, both valuable and interesting, has this morninc , been acquired at various excellent sources, And theb essence of it will now be communicated. The Vienna Congress cannot hold its sittings for some time to come, as Prince Gortschakoff and M. de Titoff will natu rally require fresh powers from their new Sove reign before they can act as his representatives. As has been above observed, the Grand Duke Alexander is most pacifically inclined, but mot so his brother Constantine, who is here very generally considered as the principal cause of the calamities which have recently fallen on Europe. By the death of the Czar, both the Emperor Francis Joseph and the King of Prussia have acquired greater freedom of action, and if his successor does not voluntarily consent to make the concessions considered necessary for the future welfare and security of Europe, he will be forced to do so by those very Powers which have hitherto exhibited such an extreme disinclination to proceed offen sively against Russia. A letter from Vienna of the Ist, in Spener's Gazette of Berlin, says :—" The Prussian Ambas sador, Count Arnim, has not, up to this time, re ceived any communication which can lead him to suppose that Prussia will send a plenipotentiary to the approaching conferences. On the other hand, Lord Westmoreland to-day received despatchesfrom Berlin, informing him that the negotiations rela tive to a separate treaty between Prussia and the Western Powers, which were going on between Mr. Hammond, the English Under-Secretary of State, and M. de Manteuffel, had not up to the evening of the 28th led to any result. Lord Westmoreland made known this despatch to Count Buol this morning." THE MEDITERRANEAN. MALTA, Feb. 28.—A Council of War had been lately held, at which Omer Paella, who had left Eupatoria expressly, was also present, when the modus operandi against the enemy was finally de termined upon. This is to attack the enemy in the field (Liprandi's force), and in the event of suc cess, of which little doubt existed, to invest Sebas topol before attacking it. The Russian force is thought to be nearly 150,000, and that of the Allies not far short of that number, the English alone being sadly reduced by disease. The weather was fine, and the health of the troops rapidly improving. The army of General Canrobert was in good health. Steamers were constantly leaving the Crimea to embark fresh troops, both English and French. In matters of local news there is nothing to report. We have had no arrivals of troops from the westward ; but from the eastward wounded and sick officers are continually passing through en, route to England. The latest arrivals are as follows :-25th, by the Melita, screw steamer, Lieut. Stokes, R.E. ; Lieut. Phillipps ; Lieut.-Col. White, Dragoon Guards ; Lieut. Hall, Coldstream Guards; Major Bethune, 9th Regt. ; Capt. Dixon, 30th Regt.; Capt. Micklethwaite, 44th Regt.; Ma jor Vesey and Captain Foam, 46th Regt.; Captain Fitzroy, 68th Light Infantry ; .Captains Gloster, Haldy, Walton, Lieut. Grant, Ensiga Whitler ; Surgeons Mitchel, Mulock, Stewart, and Darcy— regiments not reported. Captain Kilvington, 62d Regiment, who was lately employed as an aide-de-camp to Lieutenant- General Fergusson, commanding the troops, but who accompanied his regiment to the East when it left Malta, died on Sunday last on board the Meliht screw-steamer, as she was entering pert, from the effects of dysentery he had contracted in the East. He was buried on the following day quite privately, in the cemetery at Florian. Lieutenant Hanford, a young and promising officer of the 23d Foot, who had but recently arrived in Malta with a detachment of his regiment by the transport steamer Croons, died on Saturday even ing of a low typhoid fever, with which he was at tacked on board. He was buried on the following day in the cemetery of the Campo Santo a place consecrated for the reception of the bodies of the Roman Catholic community, of which he was a j inember. SPAIN. - A telegraphic despatch from Madrid, dated the sth inst., states that the Cortes have conceded the Almanza Railway to M. Salamanca. Marshal Espartero has addressed the following speech to the officers of the National Guard who came to congratulate him on the occasion of his fete : " I thank you with all my heart and soul for the congratulations which you address to me, on the part of the always heroic National Guard of Madrid. I rely on its efforts and on those of the whole na tion, that together we may consolidate for ever the liberty and the happiness of our country and the constitutional throne of our Queen. In order to attain this object so dear to us—and I say us because I also am a national guard—we will devote ourselves with con stant zeal to the preservation of public order and obedi ence to the laws, which the nation, in the exercise of its sovereignty, has votod ; and if the enemies of our hap piness dare to excite disturbance, we shall know how to confound and to chaotise them. National Guards, I rely on your affection—rely always on mine, and on my highest consideration and esteem." Letters from several parts of Germany inform us that the Cabinets of Berlin and Vienna are severally treating with the secondary states of Europe with opposite ends. The Prussian Go vernment is in communication with Holland, Den mark, Sweden, and other states, endeavouring to engage them to neutrality in the present war, while that of Austria is—or rather was until Fri day last—trying to secure the adhesion of the same states to the treaty of Dec. 2. The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa states that preparations are being made r.t Constantinople for the organisation of a military hospital for the Pied m ontese troops. The medical staff and the Sisters of Charity that are to minister there were to leave Getroa in a few days. Co urcillor Meysenburg, of the Vienna Foreign office, is appointed to act as protocolist of the Vienna Confwence, a position similar to that which Gentz occupi , sd. at the Vienna Congress of 1815. M. Mey senburg .is spoken of as a man of keen and perspi caciousintellect, and great political knowledge. Baron de Prokesch presented to the Diet of Frankfort, c n the 3d, Count de Rocheberg, as his temporary svccessor to the post of Austrian Envoy. The powers of the new Imperial representative were at once admitted, auci he was, in addition, unanimously appointed to take M. de Prokesch's place in all the committees of which that gentle man formed part. A letter from Corfu of the 24th' ult. says :---- 44 A regiment of militia is expected h ere to take the place of the 48th line, ordered to UK% Crimea. The Impel actor steam transport has arri\Ted here from England, with 950 soldiers on board to reinforce the garrisons of the lonian Isles." A letter from Odessa of the ISth February states tlint the town is well prepared for an attack. on the part of the Allies ; it is full of soldiers, and there in not a point on the coast where cannon .have not been mounted." SOCIETY of ARTS.—At the ordinary weekly meeting of the Society of Arts this (Wednesday) evening the paper to be read is on "The Sewage of London ; .;!s composition and value as a fertiliser." By Mr. J. B. Lawes. Colonel Challoner is to preside. An animated discussion on this interesting question may fairly be an ticipated. Among the most startling wonders in connection with electricity is the announcement that M. Bonelli, of Turin, Las invented a new electric telegraph, by which trains in motion on a railway are enabled to cornmuni ' cate with each other at all rates of velocity, and, at the same time, with the telegraphic stations on the line ; while the latter are, at the same time, able to communi cate with the trains. It is added that M. Bonelli is in possession of a system of telegraphic communication by which wires are entirely dispensed with.—Athenceuni. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—In your remarks on the Newspaper Stamp Duties Bill, you observe that the reasons advanced by the newspaper proprietors against the measure go too far in stating " that the bill proposes to remove all the securities against libel, or offences against public order and morality," inasmuch as the libel laws would still remain in force. As one of the framers of those reasons, I beg to point out that the penalties for libel are no securities against the commission of the offence. The securities referred to are the provisions by which the proprietors, printers, and publishers of every newspaper are required to be regis tered, bonds with sureties given, and copies of every publication delivered at the Stamp-office. Sweep away all these requirements, as proposed by the bill, and what protection remains for the public against the foulest at tacks upon institutions and individuals by convicted par ties putting forward men of straw, or by persons of no reputation or responsibility ? When we see that the most active promoters of this movement are connected with publications, at present happily obscure, but of which, to use the words of one of your contemporaries, the Postmaster-General is to be Colporteur•in-chief—disseminating principles alike op posed to religion and to the rights of property—l leave you to judge whether we have not just grounds for ap prehension of a measure which, as they themselves an nounce, will be forthwith made use of " to scatter broad cast through the length and breadth of the land, at public expense," their pestilential doctrines.—l am, Sir, your I obedient servant, A COUNTRY NEWSPAPER PROPRIETOR. PRE MARCO .POLO AND THE KENT, TO. THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—ln reference to a letter that appeared in your issue of to-day from the owners of the celebrated ship Marco Polo, I would not trouble you with any remark, for, as has been observed, the difference of a day is of little importance in such a voyage with sailing vessels ; but, as there are some heavy bets on the two ships in Melbourne, I must request you, in justice to those who have staked their money on the Kent, to place the facts on both sides in your journal. Messrs. Baines and Co. state that the Marco Polo was off Tuscar Point on Mon day, the 26th of February, at noon, and was in the Mersey on Wednesday evening, and her gold delivered at the Bank of England on Friday. The Kent was abreast of Plymouth before noon on Sun day, the 25th, and would have larded her mails there at that date had not the weather been so very thick. On Monday at noon (when the Marco Polo was off Tuscar) tb• Kent was abreast of Brighton, and hove to that after noon in a dense fog off Beach, landed mails and passer • gars at 9 o'clock on Tuesday morning at Hastings, was reported in London early on that day, and the news of the riots at Ballarat, brought by the Kent, was in The Sun on Wednesday morning—that is, before the Marco Polo in the Mersey; and the Kent, when abreast of Hastings, was nearer London (the place where the mails were to be delivered), and had come a greater distance on the run from Port Philip than the Marco Polo when in the Mersey. Let the public judge as they may of the sailing quali ties of the two shipi, there is no doubt the owners of the Marco Polo themselves will bear away the palm for " fast sailing." Writing from Liverpool, on the 2d inst., Messrs. James Baines and Co. say " the Kent was only coming up the Thames to-day," whereas she was actually in the East India Docks on the evening of the Ist. They add, " Her gold will not be at the Bank until to morrow at the soonest," whereas it was actually in the Bullion-office when their letter was written, it having been delivered there the morning of the 2d, the same day as that from the Marco Polo. I think, from the foregoing, I am justified in saying that, for vivid imagi• nation and rash assertion, Messrs. James Baines and Co. fairly distance your obedient servant, G. COLEMAN, Commander of the ship Kent. 156, Leadenhall-street, March 6. THE ELIIPEEOR ALEXANDER'S FIRST DESPATCH. A letter from Berlin of the 3d says : " The first despatch by which the Emperor Alexander 11. announced to the Kin , his accession to the throne arrived here at six o'clock lai.t evening. A second des patch arrived this day at twelve, announcing that the garrison of St. Petersburg had taken the oath of Utility, and that the great dignitaries of the Empire had presented their homage to the new Emperor. Prince Charles of Prussia and the Grand Duchess Dowager Alexandrine of Mecklenburg are to leave this evening at eleven o'clock fi.r Saint Petursburg. The Prince of Prussia intended to go there, but his physician has not thought right to a Ithorise hint to make the journey. The Prince Royal of Wurtemburg, and his wife, the Grand Duchess Olga, daughter of the Emperor Nicholas, are also to go to St. Petersburg ; they have both arrived here this day from Stuttgardt. It is said that a few days before his death the Emperor of Russia succeeded in effecting a complete re conciliation between his two elder sons. The last words pronounced by his Majesty were in French, and were addressed to the Empress Tell Frederick (the King of Prussia), said he, to continue to remain attached to Russia as he has hitherto been, and never to forget the wishes of his father.' " COURT CIRCULAR. Her Majesty and Prince Alberthonoured the Olympic Theatre with their presence yesterday evening. The Royal suite consisted of the Viscountess Canning, the Hon. Mary Bulteel, Earl Somers, Major-General Bou verie, and Captain Du Plat. Prince Albert rode on horseback in the forenoon, at tended by Captain Du Plat. Prince Eruct of Leiningen left Buckingham Palace yesterday morning, for Portsmouth. Prince Nicholas of Nassau 'visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday, in Buckingham Palace. The Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Ho ward and Baroness de Speth, visited the Duchess of Gloucester last evening, at Gloucester House. A deputation from the Society for Printing and Dis tributing Books for the Use of the Poor Blind through out the United Kingdom had an interview with Earl Granville yesterday, at the Council-office. The deputa tation consisted of Mr. Tubbs, Mr. Sterry, Mr. War• uer, Rev. B. G. Johns, Mr. Sambrooke, and Mr, Howell. The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived in town yesterday from Radnor. A deputation, connected with the anthracite coal dis trict in South Wales, consisting of the Earl of Cawdor, Viscount Endyn, M.P., Mr. David Morris, M.P., Mr. Win. Moline James, Q.C., and Mr. Edward Loder, had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday, at the Home-office, for the purpose of calling his attention to the Smoke Nuisance Act, the third clause of which was so worded as not to afford the slightest protection to such of the public as were desirous to use a smokeless fuel, and urging that the act should be amended ac cordingly. Despatches were received at the Colonial-office yester day, from the Governors of the West India Islands. The Countess Walewska had a " reception" last evening, at the residence of the French Embassy,Albert gate House. His Serene Highness Prince Nicholas of Nassau honoured the r6-union with his presence. The Marquis of Granby has returned to town from the Duke of Rutland's Belvoir Castle, where his grace ha 3 arrived from his seat, Stanton Woodhouse, Derbyshire.. . _ _ _ _ . The Earl of Gifford has arrived at the Duke of Wellington's, Upper Belgrave-street, from the Marquis of Tweeddale's, Yester House, near Haddington, N. 8., and entered on his duties as private secretary to the new Minister of War, Lord Panmure. DINNER AT TUE MANSION Housx TO TUB GARRICIE CLUB.—On Saturday the Lord Mayor gave a grand ban quet to the members of the Garrick Club. Amongst the company were the American Minister, Lord Wm. Lennox, the Hon. and Rev. Fitzroy Stanhope, the Chief B .ron, Mr. Stansfield, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Maclise, Mr. Thackeray, Mr. Douglas Jerrold, Mr. M. Lemon, Mr. Albert Scc. _ • The repent that his Majesty the Emperor of the French bad st.rougly protested, upon the occasion of his late interview with Lord Clarendon, against the course taken by the English Government in yielding the Sebas topol ingu 7 r,v, turned 'out, upon examination, to be a matted, got up for Stock-Exchange purposes, and utterly unworthy of belief. M. Outrey, Paymaster-General of the Army of the East, has arrived at Marseilles, from Algiers, and is to embark f or C ons t an ti no pl e i n the next pacl;et.. The two war battalions of the 10th Regiment of In fantry, 1,600 men strong, are to march from Lille for Metz on the 7th instant. The war squadron of the Bth Regiment of Hussars ' also quartered at Lille„ have like wise been ord ere d to Metz. ---;-= AUSTRALIA THE RIOTS AT BALLARAT—LOSS OF LIFE. We have afivices from Melbourne bringirig fur- ther and important intelligence of the fatal dis orders at the gold fields. In the Melbourne Morn ing Herald of Dcc. 5, we read : " A Government Gazette Extraordinary was issued yesterday morning, in which his Excellency the Lieute nant-Governor proclaims martial law within the district of Buninyong, to be in full force from and after twelve at noon on Wednesday, the cth of December inst. ; but it is especially declared, that no sentence of death shall be car ried into execution without his Excellency's express con sent. It is further proclaimed that no arms, ammunition, munitions of war, food, or supplies shall be brought within the district of Buninyong, after the said 6th of December, without his Excellency's consent." A second Gazette Extra ordinary was issued in Le afternoon, as under : " Notice—Recent events at the mines at Ballarat render it necessary fur all true subjects of the Queen, and all strangers who have received hospitality and protection under her flag, to assist in preserving social order and maintaining. the supremacy of the law. The question now agitated by the disaffected is not whether All enactment can he amended or ought to be repealed, but whether the law is or i; net to be administered in the name of her Majesty. Anarchy and confusion must ensue unless those who cling to the institutions and the soil of their adopted country step promptly forward. His excellency relies upon the loyalty and sound feeling of the colonists. All faithful subjects and all strangers who have had equal rights ex tended to them, are therefore called upon to enrol them selves, and be prepared to assemble at such places as may be appointed by the civic authorities in Melbourne and Geelong, and by the magistrates in the several towns of the colony. " CHAS. HoTUAM. " Melbourne, Dec. 4, 1851." About four o'clock en Sunday morning the mill tart surrounded the camp formed by the armed diggers at Eureka, in which there were about 200 men. A body of mounted troopers fired over the heads of the diggers, and then the troops poured in repeated volleys, which were returned by the dig gers. After firing for about ten minutes the insur gents pulled down their banner—the Southern Cross—and surrendered. The troops immediately ceased firing, and took their prisoners. 123 pri soners were taken, and about 26 killed. I myself counted 21 dead bodies, all dead from gun-shot wounds. A large number of tents in the vicinity of the battle-field were burned. The casualties on the part of the camp are :-1 private of the 12th, 2 ditto of the 40th, killed ; Captain Wise, dangerously wounded ; Lieutenant Paul, severely ditto ; about 30 rank and file wounded. At the time of my leaving (two p.m. yesterday), a large number of persons had been arrested ; among others, Mr. Seekamp, of the Ballarat Times. The correspondent of the Argus tic rites : " BALLARAT, Dec. 3.—At four this morning (Sunday) the troopers advanced on the right of the Warraneep Gully, and another division on the left of the Eureka line, encompassing the camp of the diggers. A shout was raised, and after a sharp firing of about twenty minutes the troopers called to the soldiers, who were advancing, that it was all over. The camp of the diggers was con structed of piles of slabs collected from the neighbouring holes. "The following is the official return of killed and wounded : " BALLARA.T, Dec. 3,1854.-1 have the honour to inform you that the casualties on the part of the military are one private of the 12th Regiment killed, two privates of the 40th killed. Captain - Wise, 40th, is dangerously wounded; Lieutenant Paul, 12th, seriously wounded. Several privates of the 40th and 12th more or less wounded. No official return has yet been mad*, but the correspondent of the Argus can have it to-morrow by applying at the camp. 125 prisoners made, but the casualties on the part of the insurgents are not known.—l have the honour to be, sir, your most obedient servant, ROBT. REDE, Resident Commissioner.' " In the case of Captain Wise amputation is considered necessary, he having received two wounds in the leg. Nearly all the ringleaders are taken. Fifteen are lying dead in the Eureka camp. Sixteen are dangerously wounded. A German has received five different wounds. The Eureka camp, as well as the stores and tents in the neighbourhood, have been burnt to the ground. The London Hotel is the chief repository for the dead and wounded. The troopers swept the diggings, and are making several captures now at the moment of writing. " 10 a.m.—Several waggons containing wounded and confiscated property have passed on the way to the camp. At present every one is as if stunned, and but few are to be seen about. The flag of the diggers, ' The Southern Cross,' as well as the ' Union Jack,' which they hoisted underneath, were captured by the foot police." TEE FUNERAL OF M. DUPONT. The funeral of M. Dupont (do l'Eure) took place on the 4th at Rouge-Perrier, the village which he inha bited. Among the numerous friends of the deceased who were present, General Cavaignac, MM. Marie, Sdnart, Carnet, Gamier-Pages, Goudchaux,Faulabelle, all names of celebrity under the last Republic, were particularly remarked. The towns of Neubourg, Louviers, Bernay, Harcourt, Beaumont, Conches, Brienne, Evreux, and many other places, had sent deputations to the funeral, which, in other respects, was extremely simple. The body of the deceased ex-President of the Provisional Go vernment was conveyed in procession to Neubourg, his birthplace, where an immense crowd had assembled to witness the ceremony, the solemnity of which, we are happy to say, was not interrupted by any po!itical demon stration. The simplicity with which the funeral was conducted was in accordance with the wishes of the de ceased, as expressed in the following letter addressed to his children : "My dear children,—l have always led a simple life, and I wish to quit the world without pomp or ostentation. I request you to have me interred in the cemetery of Neubourg, where nay friend, M. Ozanne, the notary, has obtained a perpetual concession of the ground which is to receive my remains. I request the persons present at my funeral to abstain from making any public speech or extraordinary manifestation. I desire that no other inscription be placed on my tomb than that which is to contain my family and Chri-tian names, the date and place of my birth, and the date and place of my death. This inscription is to be cancetved in the following terms : Here lies Jacques Charles Dupont (de l'Eure), born at Neubourg, on the 27th of February, 1767, died at . . on the . . "DUPONT DE L'EURE, THE LAND TRA tZ SPORT CORPS. Early this morning the last batch of volunteers for the Land Transport Corps left London for Bristol, via the Great Western Railway. On the men arriving opposite Buckingham Palace they were draw' , up for the inspec tion of her Majesty and Prince Albert, and having given I,everal hearty cheen, proceeded on their march. On their arriving at Bristol they will undergo the necessary drilling to fit them for the important duties they will have to perform, and this having been completed, they will leave England on the 10th of April, as at present arranged, for the Crimea. Captain Mayne has removed his head-quarters from the Wellington Arms, in the Waterloo•road, to Nor wich, for the purpose of beating up recruits in the Eastern counties—the services of persons used to agricul tural pursuits and management of horses being required. The rapidity with which the London list was filled while the recruiting quarters were held at Mr. Pace's, may be imagined when we inform our readers that in 17 days the number, amounting to 450 men, was completed, the Aervices of many eager volunteers having to be decline('. Capt. Mayne may well feel proud of the success of his exertions. THE FRIENDS OF POLAND. A meeting of the friends of the reconstitution of Poland as an independent State was held on Monday evening, in the Manchester Town-hall, when there was' a very crowded attendance. Mr. William Martin presided. Mr. J. A. TURNER moved a resolution expressive of sympathy with the Polish nation, and desiring the resto ration of that country to independence. (Loud cheers.) Mr. A. WATKIN seconded the resolution, which was carried unanimously . The Rev. Dr. VAUGHAN moved the adoption of a peti- tion to Parliament in favour of the reconstitetion of In doing so he spoke at great length upon all circumstances connected with the war against Russia, and, in conclusion, said the restoration of Poland would be the rearing up of a great rampart between Russia and Turkey on one side, and of the Western European nations on the other, and both Austria and Prussia, might be made to see that it was their interest that it should be so. The petition was agreed to unanimously. Mr. GOULD moved an expression of sympathy for Poland, together with the copy of an address to Prince Adam Czartoryski, of which the following is a copy :—, " The three great principles of humanity, justice, and freedom are identified with the problem of the re-esta blishment of the independence of Poland, and its solution becomes daily of greater importance to the interests of Europe. We conterophte with poignant grief the events of the past which have a reference to the melancholy fate of Poland. Her dismemberment reflects a discredit upon the spirit of the times, but we chiefly deplore the indiffer ence with which Great Britain beheld the consummation of that act of spoliation. However, we are inclined to ascribe that apathy more to the want of proper knowledge of foreign affairs than to the influence of unfriendly feel ing. We are now anxious to make, a compensation for what we consider to have been a grave political error, by the manifestation of our sympathy and a desire to support the claims of Poland to her national independence. Under the influence of such sentiments we address your highness, hoping that our sympathy, now conveyed in words to you and to your fellow-exiles, may be soon writte❑ by deeds, which will realise your wi4hes and vindicate the rights of nations.' Mr. J. GREGORY seconded the motion, which was adopted with ehe(r:, M. ZABI then addressed the meeting in favour of the reconstitution of Poland. The meeting separated with a vote of thanks to the chairman. LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.—The Thue Jackst, Captain Underwood, sailed this morning for Melbourne, with the March mails for Australia, 60 cabin and 160 inter mediate passengers, and a fair cargo of merchandise on freight. The screw steam transport, Great Britain, Captain Gray, embarked yesterday about 120 men be longing to the Royal Horse Artillery, and will sail to morrow for Queenstown, where she will fill up her com plement of men and horses. The screw steamer, Etna, Captain Miller, embarked a number of horses to-day, and will leave to-morrow for Balaklava, MR. ROEBUCK'S COMMITTEE ( From, the Tinges of this daZi.) tbe It has been declared by more than one oracict bat Committee of Inquiry would be utterly abo rtt t monstrous sham, a delusion, a mockery, and air t o useless for all practical purposes, and a good o f ' den!. se d of that sort. There have been only two day. &hell 7, only two witnesses have been examined, but are in a condition to speak more confidently, and t ' boo practical purpose, of the faults of the war than et, bbd for the five months that have elapsed since the 6 61 210 ral misgiving. We don't mean that any discoccu o et beeen made, anything disclosed that was Det_L r ' n t fact° suspected before ; but we have many lEnPn rl "Mseil,° / exactly, circumstantially, and authoritatively 7.000. that we may reason upon them without baying s fiegel rity or our motives impugned. It has also been oe tl very confidently that a Committee of 1110100 offend our Allies and assist the enemy. veythingor Sir De Lacy Evans or Mr. Dtindas saying But, 5° slot could annoy the French, damage the alliance, ° w s ot lighten the Czar, we are now in a condition teshlopevi all these apprehensions are groan ill P~ of annoying or inconveniencing our Allies, th e ib e ee,, habil thank us for throwing a little" light en bes terav of the campaign, and showing us how we 1333,1 10, charge our part in the Alliance. Without dropping a word that would o ffend II ;0 or infringe the most jealous military etique t° ' ip! Lacy Evans appears to us to have indicated tit%eo pal errors of the campaign and the appro pr iate r 7( Or The first of these errors in order of time appropriate i s 0 014 ilj poi tance is, that the organisation of our a rca " On adapted for peace than for war—that is raorbeer for checking extravagance, slacknev, a a'd et to s tortl of personal authority, than for promoting ice 11 2, and thstsv, and efficiency necessary to success in wa,, l ;',.; s bound to say that, as far as the evidence nr.,"feonfr goes, Lord Raglan was not fairly used. -Pt., NI; army without proper transport, so that "wOOll,ll i n a Ce te , b at Pasha asked for assistance he was not give it. He left, indeed, 5,000 horses and lad i s at Varna, but they belonged to officers,anfos appropriated them a , " for the general nen (' v 4000 w as he had the right of doing, he bad veitb take them, nor forage to give them, lio r 4 1O 01 1 , w . harness them to. Again, Lord Reglai l ° te ll adequate powers to sustain his proper reblL' - 0 1 council of war, and to fulfill what was rear i P to OSA expected of ILin. Having an armY e c l ti 7s.ool the French on his arrival at the south °, 4 ' and having a much finer fleet to nn t si "„kl sr, Os thing was more natural than that be " ° ,71 1 0 1 ,10 divide the labour, and, in consideration doet,ff''' port of Balaklava, to protect the right f i rvap?: defeated and then flying foe. For his lordAhleoo7 out this undertaking he ought to have beelfels,o speak, to draw on the Minister at hale ' o c ebt 4 o. men and so much material. He ought tolnloofilipt at his disposal with as much certainty bank. He ought to have been able to rec„°shei'bibli arriving at such a day or at such intervals, rgoi in anticipation of his actual wants than sh r ke s o' them. He ought to have had such ati tilt- _ s 9 Commissariat at his own head-quarters ns ht - 010. - 0 10 all the resources of the Bosphorus And,: l- 0 - 141 0 2 1 In a word, whatever is necessary to the ; d ot ,eir army he ought to have had the suren t 'l O O4 l means of obtaining from one place or 111 _ 1° ,1 dtkei lt he should only have to give the word, tit 7- 1 1 ,„' would be forthcoming or tke work tinS a l . 'sfraer whatever, in reason, ought to have been - r see l S neral landed with a comparatively small''''9r of the greatest military power in the A° boo' ' moo': f f or r f o ele m llayt h io o e m nms e pc . luo l tyo t e rn ad u fbr st be considered thathti . fi soia - f eet t t' bythe conquerors gr eatca_p tai o n f s too Roman general was an autocrat where', f en or' d could send to the nearest port, demenuo, or h yti; destroy the town, with every man, wn° 3 io o l ",s, in it, if they were withheld. In these d . „%r pee : or if suhntitute for this military despotism , °Arb gular supplies, and, above all, un lirul.,,.tn",4o,rifr„i dit. By these peaceful means Lord head-quarters before Sebastopol, ought ; ' as full a power of supplying all the 1 and position as if he had been Omar . had no such power, that he was liable u ni . e Thotr,, jrl appointment, and that he did not fee l r D ire responsibility, is owing to the constitutienroO„t which gives power to the departmen t ' s the General. On the other hand, it cannot be de ed r c,-o „, roi fl i knew so well the state of the British 1 " -- 0 0 0 ,,iva sation of all its departments, and the P his hold on its resources, as Lord P4 l ,,, n reelr . slot sidering, then, how little right hi baPlik e ier P oet) quate reinforcements and supplies in'en - j rtf certainly did make an engagement bey e fulfil in dividing the labour of the " 0r 1:,,f1°07,,0 General Canrobert. It is true, or ri b- L b or o; true, that at the time of the division_;ects r t y were nearly equal, and in some n i .„ superior. That General Canrobert ,Sf e rt/ 011- """i ' ' to such a division, so utterly disprvr f lig en tl fee!) standing army of the two countrrh r r r a -ti YT' u i in him, for though he knew 6 his own country, he need not knoff , 1 ; f °s : e e :Y cannot be charged with slackness in the t sti r ) the siege. They have pushed their nearer than ours ; they have bad to r e r,„ opres9 very murderous sorties ; and they 11 , / :, subterranean warfare from wbioh sve" -e II If they hate not been quits so forward al OA deficienciestli at might be as because u ia s e o te e y l f t e r l e rE e acne:ls7lB 'lris4 4 °s' „„ to A r her army in not keeping its nnra ber -`l,llon But surely Lord Raglaiiought to - us I? could not expert reinforcements nume r° ,„ o rli ," ! enough to maintain such a share of the 7,,, b A ' „ A assume]. Upon every question bearii4 r - if, ,\ he was not only very much better lot 0 0,09 \ Duke of Newcastle last summer, but ' l° 4o il ' best-informed man in all England, or 10 p ep been, at the time when -the Duk e „ °f .jefi i iiite reading for honours at Oxford. . 18 -9 °- 8 0 0 '42 matters stood, he certainly committeu 6"„fifilerti pledging us to an equal share in the lah o o 7ol l o i ior o He ought to have proposed an arraug• o i,el l , accordance with the respective chaioctlevifil! Allies. On the strength of our suPP l Y„d* i 4 4, part of the ships-of-war, the naval trauo t ever else was in our power, he ough ebb / for the French taking the larger btj ti works, if not at once, at least as soon , i 4B A t , ot hof the two armies should begin to show' oi a , If Lord Raglan had a right to e'r_.,,' "4'l eto li earlier, and more regular reinforceme7o,„, t 1 up the original equality with the Frearei r A ll 00.00 tempting to exercise this right, he W°slo:,,beri authorities at home, that is a rnatt' er idtil I him or his friends. But, whosever 1 1 , 0 ..., , i / can no longer be a doubt that the die?, is 5 1 0 0 vision of labour has lost half our o°.oll' , and damaged our military character. ~,„t f o ie, Lacy Evans reneated his conviction n ~(0. V, deficiency in the supplies of clothes, fiS l on Vrl r, have produced the sickness, cliseaseterop 00:, army, had not the troops been r ef 0 e 0 ' .A' s f,, V. tr trenches. It was the fatigue of the 60,4°0,41 injurious. From the first the worf' i sr' , KJ was entirely beyond their numeric: ile: jii e i overwork during the nights w i ' the 0 4, main cause of the suffering of „, 0 11,g 0 0 14 was as great an error as an uncec e :, tr";d A Y - 0 superior forces, a forced march ''',00117,1000, in good condition, or any ot her Dee ;0 0 ,11 0 , The question of the responsibilitt , at j s o ff s ol i Raglan and the War Administiliticd pv 0 00 they denied what he demanded o° l f 40 0 :00,0 expect, he can easily exonerate hi 01 1, 0 0);$ 0 11 0 /0 For the rest, the evidence of Sir 1) ,, e 000, ib l ko o/ 1 0, useful. He tells us that the exPe" . se ol 'olw - e° ° Ari Varna, was not really prepared for [ 0 .0 ste 0 05$ evidently prevailed that all would 1 7 0 lie Oiler explosion of powder. As there We i d t ioloiS - fof there were no arrangements for cur! , 0 - sitikojeVbee, for transporting them by sea, for m e ° ,,, ,,i 4 . ir, los it er ° them, or giving them sufficient M , fecui e e:,o l l ing was very deficient, and the i i , be o tiPd , the last 40 years in this respects t elil°',o /1 ilt to . wholly disregarded. The miiiing o pit o otir l iAdd bad ; the whole Commi-,sarilt V e r. 0 isel c oill - ' Der f inadequate everywhere—at See ;no s -e f i gle 0 r opu' Crlmea. There were no prepor° l l : - „fs r il , h9 die," , 01/0 1 laklava,. A thousand men cou/a P- ic 7, etc 0 1 , 0 1 to the camp in ten days, but, owiTo-ittl:Ay 174 o' ci of siege work undertaken by the, vor",„.dit,i; Ili f a i could be spared for it—at leas e d aio' nt eed The orderlies at Scutari were '''' g iee o " 0 0 1 10' army, and drank up the port wi ° ,/tref e ,,t r i OW tieuts. For further details we tiff with '7 itself. It only agrees too clesrif r Y published or wrLtten about ) 44'1 5 leo ° de,/ ~,,i ouic,P 56 03 ,A rj i ll fry BERLIN, MARCH 3.—A e--- of t he Ge sr- ° 'oo o . i tween Baron Patow, membe r f tbe, f oal f V fo fi and Captain Count Schlieffen/ P h fell . it elj je ka ' VI quence of some expressions wh i l e SO P . ' b o:4 in a recent debate, and whi ch the itr° 3l isc ri , dared to be an offence to ~ hie P 00,, 0 ,10;:j , having subsequently declared ' l ine d hi to re o joi r da nothing to retract, it was dete74-1, d° I:04,000ov the regiment, to one of whom 00010 0 1,,,j r this officer, Count Schlieffeh,l., oti os e f tion. The parties consequer;;ibich ' 4,0 five shots, one of the last ° . • P r , a Patow slightly in the c alf........„ es t e riof. A lac i (101 1 :,i. LORD Mayon's COURT. -L e _..., 0 e, W l _o l7 ' sil l presented to the Court of Ald r7 o ii ttoP f # /i 6 t io fo i o ,, sh::ned by Mr. Joseph Call ew ! c barg e ° Lig tiol_ n a 'f Mayor's Court, relative to Gel'. rteyoo.3eflrecirk, the Clerk of the Seals, gr. cou rt O r tlir' ef l t # V,. ally seal, and requesting the ileg.e(l) the of 0041t4,1 to him of Gs. BJ., being O s 3 1 , charge .01A OA( tween his lawful fee and the gir 13,d lirti_t;oCefo Plill, sail that the subject which 1 , 1 1; e:3 i r ei t i i ?: - Io te; o 1ri l ~; notee of the court wa4 E h ! sur e iii , i o etli d r: 0 0 11 ) s!audin; the smallness a t to Scvy:su iii" co ma.iy powers of attorney wentb rze ``ere sou,-the I, , tiou.rial seals, and:iif cl.e, c . 5 0 1 the P e e d i° l lo o r. it was male to the prejucuce3_ re f e rr A t ,/, to the fees. The petition w' 3 IV ci c ' 4 / I , 10 0 o go A o , Purposes Committee. G o AT P jCit A tie 1 INSTITUTION 0: _,_. fre ric . _, a10 e .... gFr.eral monthly ineetin,,r .A,J,reonovd_ctrtetiltai, 1 vice-przsident in the dial , tr, 0% ,„0r1'0., v o trs j do . l 3 ) . i i e c l h ec a t r e d d Arnnedmrbeewrss,oijtobb_ enibv,ilsgTrycziisobetsc.l3,:jr:SlFl,o:4 F.TZ.C.S., Henry I3radbilala 0.0...,iij, 36( Pe,,, ,00 John Dickinson, F.R..,.. s _ iciar no 11 1 1 .11 0 10 . F.S.A., Rev. Georg Jj : g.lo. , Th e P op :_ f , James, Q.C., Robert L ee, ellei !J. Lyons, Mr, B. Macrory, P AfGrigor, and Leopold admitted. members of ;1111;1! siti.toroti, fp, at 0 ,t,to\lll .ity4 14 .1