The Sun. — London, England, 1855-04-20 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, IFWill be presented THE SECRET AGENT. Principal characters by Mr. Backstops and Miss E. Chaplin, To t►e fullowed by a new Ballet, in which the Spanish Dancer's will appear, entitled THE EVENING FESTIVAL. After which. a new Extravaganza. called THE NEW HAY MARKET SPRING MEETING, 1855. To cerclude with THE GALICIAN FETE. ROYAL PRINCESS'S T fIEATRE, OXFOR D-STREET. Under the Management of Sfrrei THIS* EVENING, KmAm. Will be performed the original adaptation of Casimir Helavigne's Historical Play, entitled LOUIS THE ELEVENTH. Principal character by Mr. C. Kean. To conclude with (10th time) a Romance, in two acts. entitled THE MULETEER OF TOLEDO; or, King, Queen, and Knave. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr, B. w e b e t er .....Directrese, Madame Celeste. THIS EVEZIIIiG, Will be performed the Drama entitled THE MYSTERIOUS STRANGER. TJ conclude with A NEW EDITION OF THE FAIRY TALES OF MOTHER GOOSE, with numerous highly-coloured Illustrations. ROYAL OLYMPIC' THEATRE. Lessee and manager, Mr. A. Wigan; TIIIa EVENING, _ _ Will be performed a Comedletta, called LAW FOR L 4DIES Characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, G. Vining, H. Cooper, Danvers and Miss Cast , etort. After which, RILL OR CURE. Characters by Messrs. Robson, Emery, and F. Vining ; Mrs. A. Wigan and Miss Bromley. To be followed oy the Fairy Extravaganza, called THE YELLOW DWARF AND THE KING OF IHE G}OLi MINES. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke, THIS EVENING. Glorious success ! To commence with an entirely new and original spctacie-drama of harrowin interest, by Mr. Nelson Lee, called, THE FIELD AGAINST THE FAVOURITE ! No Drama for many years has created so great a sensation. The interest is most intense the burning of the stables is most terrific, while the Derby race is most exciting. After which, a Series of Novel SCENES in the CIRCLE, invented by Mr. William Cooke. To conclude with RETURNED FROM THE BALTIC ; or, Jack Ashore. A new Military Act Drop, painted by Fenton, has been added to the Embellishments. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W West. Acting Manager , M r . W. H. Cooke. Equestrian Director. Mr. W. Cooke, Jam ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. ruder the direction of Miss Rebecca Isaacs. THIS EVENING. Will be perfoaned THE CRICKET ON THE HEARTH. Cha racters by Messrs J. Raiford, Rogerson, and Kinloch ; and Miss Re becca Isaacs, Miss Beaumont, and Miss Somers. After which, KING QUEER AND HIS DAUGHTERS THREE. To which will be added a Ballet Divertissement. HIGH WATER AT LONDI iON B 01)(4 Tns DAY -Morning 5 min.after 4 EvPning 24 min. aft. 4 To-Moasow---Morning 41 minoiter 4 Evening 1 min. aft. 5 1:11B WEATHER.--Sms Offurs, April. 20. THISNOKITZB, IN VIZ 1311ADIL 62—highest since neon yesterday. 47—lowest this morning and during the night. 58 —this day, at noon. BARomrrim—Went down to 30'17, now up to 30'28. WIND, N.—Light breeze, with beautiful sunshiny weather—right Royally Imperial ! 1114 c(,;,t) ~;'` r; }' `~~~ §llll. LONDON, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1855. Our anticipations as to the cordiality of the re ception-about to be accorded to the Emperor and Empress of the FRENCH have been fully and com- pletely verified. Every one, from the Peer to . _ the peasant—nay, more, from the SOVEREIGN of the United Kingdom to the humblest inhabitant of the metropolis—have earnestly concurred in the endeavour to render honour to those by whom it had been so richly merited. The rapturous and enthusiastic applause by which the august couple were greeted at every stage of their pro- gress was the more flattering, inasmuch as the English are not a demonstrative people. They must indeed be greatly excited before they can shake off the habitual coolness of their temperament. Our French or Hibernian brethren could be more easily excited to the boiling point, but the feel- ing must come from the very heart of hearts be fore such an exhibition could be produced from the comparatively phlegmatic people of England. Yes, it was emphatically the people of England that on Monday welcomed, and on Thursday ren dered an ovation, seldom, if ever, paralleled in the national annals, to their illustrious guests. It was undoubtedly partially an expression of genuine kindliness to their French brethren, to whom we are united by bonds which, we trust, can never be dissevered ; but by far the greater portion was rendered to the Individual—to the Great Man who has proved himself so worthy of their homage—on the Emperor of the FRENCH, and still more on LOUIS NAPO LEON, the tribute of unanimous applause was be stowed. He held his exalted station by the best possible title—the will of his people, freely ex pressed through the medium of the ballot-box. The suffrages of eight millions of the adult popu lation elevated him to the Imperial Throne, and not one of his numerous constituency has had cause to regret the vote by which the Prince President became the Emperor of the FRENCH. We cannot at this moment omit noticing with pride and gratitude the notice which the Imperial visitor bestowed on The San. While passing our office the EMPEROR " looked steadily, and bowed in the most marked and gracious manner." This open recognition of the justice, which we in variably rendered to his character, his motives, and his policy, was indeed as peculiarly gratify ing to ourselves as it was honourable to the EMPEROR. We were not amongst the fair-weather friends who waited until he conquered fortune, and achieved his destiny. Before he was indued with the Imperial purple—nay, more, before he was elected to the Presidency, we yielded a disinterested support to the Candidate for the votes of the peoplo of France. Single handed we repelled the atrocious calumnies and scarcely less justifiable means by which he was assailed—a,nd we f -el an honest pride in thinking how amply the results have justified, and more than justified, what, at the time, were supposed to be our too sanguine anticipations. A s Candi date and as President we expressed the same opinions and feelings with respect to the Prince Lours NAPOLEON, as we now do towards the mag nanimous E3IPEROR , the only difference being that at first we stood alone ; that others gradu ally gave expression to similar feelings—until at length there is not a single opponent to put for ward a - decided negative, or even to resort to T "hiaPered hint, the shrug, the h um or bah! ""e Petty brands that calumny cloth use !" ' The rat- 11 plaudits,An_ -"'`) 11 th us un animously be . stowed,. Nve i e not 'restricted to the EMPEROR. His lovely d oino She, too, , tii nT . received a fitting share. i ncarnation of a great principle wag the o the EMPEROR against th e :• us protest offered by icheuieu, farce of the heartless contracts usually te rmed riages," - the alliances of banded de " Royal Mar purpose of sustaining their NAPOLEON, the Imperial Reform er Lours dynasPstoits, the afford e d un equivocal proof that he was determined not to sacrifice his affections—the most sacred feelin gs of the heart—to red-tapist formalities. And he met a suitable reward, for he strengthened an d rend ere d permanent the foundations of his throne, gaining the heart and hand of one for whom the Empire of the world might joyfully be surren dered. The Speech of the EMPEROR, at the Guildhall, was worthy o f t h e occasion an d o f the man. The graceful reference to the time when he was a n exile, enjoying, a4hough in a very different mode, the hospitality of the nation, wa' peculiarly appro priate, and the felicitous _allusion to the mutual desire to abolish slavery, and the hopes for the amelioration of all the countries of Europe, ' elicited an enthusiastic response from the whole assembly. It is, indeed, only by unworthy considerations and pitiful rivalries that the union of these great nations are to be dis severed, and these we trust will never occur. It was also happily remarked that " our two nations are more powerful in the opinions they represent than by the armies and fleets they have at their disposal." Our moral influence is greater than even our physical force. That it m ay ever prove so will be the fervent aspiration of every true-hearted Englishman. To-morrow our august visitors sail from our shores. The recollections of the week will, how ever, remain enshrined on our memories, and our children and children's children will long speak of the first visit of the EMPEROR and EMPRESS, the prestige whereof cannot be impaired by the many successive repetitions to which the English SOVE REIGN and people confidently look forward. In the surpassingly beautiful conclusion to his Life of AGRICOLA, TACITITS, while not objecting to the use of commemorative statues, reminds those who cherished the memory of the noble de- parted that the N irtues of the mind could be really imaged only by their repetition in the life and deeds of the survivors. Ut vultus hominum, ita simulacra vultus imbecilla ac mortalia sunt ; forma meals eterna ; quant tenere et exprimers ; non per alienam materiam et artem, sect tuis ipse moribus, possis. Probably M. KossuTH had this just and soul-stirring idea before him at the Mary lebone meeting in aid of a testimonial to Lord DUDLEY STUART. Nothing could be happier and better-timed thin his appeal to the sur- viving admirers of the Noble Lord to imitate his conduct. Mere sentimental hon- ours to the philanthropy and moral cour- age of the dead are almost worthless memo rials. To desist from feminine regrets, to catch his falling mantle, to breathe a double portion of his spirit, to be roused from merely commending sympathy to efficient action, this is the memorial his departing spirit would have asked ; the me morial which would place his name at the head of one of the holiest movements of the day—a movement which, if taken and successful, would perpetuate through all European History the me mory of all its leaders. Lord DUDLEY STUART can never be forgotten if Poland become once more an independent nation. Long will his name live, indeed, even should the brutal and murder ous policy of NICHOLAS be still permitted to con tinue, and to crush the hopes completely of the civilised victims of Muscovite barbarism. The oppressed do not forget their unsuc cessful friends, and every Polish mother will teach her infant the name of the loved Eng lish nobleman who loved its native country, when despots, and congresses, and Prime Ministers sur rendered it to the ruthlea fangs of incarnate demons. But a nation utterly crushed, of course dies at last; while in one restored, its life must sustain for ever the memory of its restorers. Such a memo rial might Lord DUDLEY STUART'S friends secure him if they will now but imitate his conduct. Otherwise nothing can prevent the same grave covering the memory eventually of both Poland and her most generous friend. It is, indeed, painful to witness, as we now do, the penalties we have incurred by treating him as a philanthropist to be half pitied, instead of a politician to be followed. Our C ASTLEREA GUS, RUSSELLS, and PA MIER STUNS have, by a policy the reverse of Lord DUDLEY STUART'S, plunged us at last into this costly and fatal War. They took counsel only with the interests of despots and courts ; and, with secret diplomacy as their means, they achieved the aggrandisement of insatiable tyrants, to their own confusion now. They blushed as they brought their treaties to the light of Free dom, but they buried in the oblivion of home po litics all their shame for treachery to foreign liberty ; they discouraged Lord DUDLEY and all his coadjutors as mourners, whose sorrows re minded them of connivance at national murder, or as patriots whose voice was exceedingly annoy ing to the delicate ears of their Royal friends— the Lords of Siberia and Spielberg. His Lord ship, on the contrary, consulted only those moral judgments to which right and jus tice are an immutable law, and that tender ness of heart which could not rest while the cries of the oppressed continued to re sound in his hearing. Had the moral courage of philanthropists superseded the timid selfishness of statesmen in 1815 and 1830, Poland would to this day have been the free barrier of Europe, Turkey linassailed, Austria and Hungary recipro cally improving each other, Prussia free, and Sa.xe-Coburg-Gotha, too, independent of Russia and Austria. The brutal NICHOLAS could have been more easily put down iu 1830 than he or his can now. Bat Poland is the touchstcne of the true states man even now. Amid the feverish expectations of tidings from Sebastopol, it is indeed difficult to think steadily of the next great step ; yet it is necessary to do so, and we affirm that success there must render Poland the veritable Fifth Point. The object of Warsaw and Sebastopol is one and the same. Rule, and that barbarian Cossack rule, over Europe. A small number of highly-polished and educated men, but men who do. not understand the western sense of the word honour, aspire, by the terror of hosts of serfs hardly a whit superior to the hordes of Attila or Gerghis Khan, to lord it over the civili cation of the West. In furtherance of this ac cursed project, the Czars have seized successively on Finland, the Baltic Provinces, Lithuania, and Poland, and nothing can permanently stem the debasing tide of savagism and slavery but com pelling it to ebb back on its own steppes, and con= stituting the enfranchised States the protective embankment of Europe. No one, indeed, now doubts this. The policy of France and England, therefore, is to terminate the dangerous Confer ences at once, to declare that the Fifth Point is now an essential, that the War cannot close till Poland and the Baltic Provinces too are free, and, las we have more than once said, till Russia be oorue Russia only. GREAT LOSS OF TH HO E R CRIMEA. SES OH THEIR TVAY TO GLASGOW, APRIL 19. The Glasgow (3 s.), from Marseilles to the Crimea, has put into Zante, with 130 horses dead. No further particulars. CRYSTAL PALACE-MODEL OF SEBASTOPO TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. shall b e much obliged ifyou will inform th e Pubho th at t h e so-called Model of Seba9topol a t the y Model Crystal 'Palace is not executed by me. I am, Mir, your obedient servant, JA-I U I S WYLI), Geographer to the Quell Loicester.squarzen,( April 19, R. H. Prince Albert. 1855. Despatches were sent f ro day t' the the C o l onial-of f ice yester- ) Alnurititm Governors of from g Kon g , C eylon, and the Wintland, formerly private secretary to Ring Otho, but who had been obliged by the minister to his post About a year ba4c, .has restuned his re pigfunc- - . Cons near the king s person. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 20 1855 : VISIT 0 F TTIF. E PE OR, AND EMPRESS TO THE CRYSTAL PALACE. (THIS DAY.) A F'l7 - Y PEFoR SE.B. ST' ;Pot, Cr).2,1- 2111 Ti'EE.-(TH iS 0A .) The Committee re-assembled this morning at the usual hour. Sir Charles Trevelyan was again recalled, and his exa mination was resumed by Lord Seymour. His evidence ww, as before, of a desultory character, and comprised the reading of a number of official reports, and corre spondence of various kinds, relative to the Commissariat Department. In reference to fuel, he stated that, when This morning, shortly after eleven o'clock, her Ma jesty and Prince Albert, and their illustrious guests, the Emperor and Empress of the French, left Buckingbam Palace for the Crystal Palace, at Norwood. The royal party travelled in an open landau. The Empress was seated beside the Queen ; the Emperor and Prince Albert occupied the seat opposite. From the appearance of their Majesties this morning they seemed to have suffered very little from the fatigues of yesterday, and as they emergsd from the Palace gates into the park, the appearance of the crowd seemed to add to the animated conversation that was going on between her Majesty and the Empress. On this occasion the Royal party were attired in the ordinary costumes of private life. The carriage conveying the illustrious party was fol lowed by sixteen other open carriages, containin the Royal suite, A small party of Carabineers, not above twenty, escorted the Royal cortege, which, as it drove through THE PARK, it was known that the army would winter in the Crimea, I the Commissariat Department engaged to supply fuel, and Commissary-General Filder took the necessary measures for procuring a good supply from Con stantinople and other places. He also managed to obtain a supply of charcoal, which was stored up at Balaklava ; but it esuld not be conveyed thence to the camp owing to the deficiencies in the transport department. This latter defect, combined with the bad state of the weather and the roads, pre vented the conveyance of hay and straw. He had been informed that there was no want of either of these articles at Balaklava from the 21st to the 30th November. With regard to the Spanish mules which were not brought over to the East in December last, they were not detained entirely on account of the defective transport service, but because Commissary-General Filder had no pressing necessity for them. The great difficuly, in his opinion, connected with the army was the want of a commissariat establishment at home, but be thought that the great division and sub-division of duty in that department in the field interfered with the discipline of the army. He (witness) had the executive management of this depart ment at home, under the direction, however, of the Minister for War. had a very brilliant and imposing appearance. The crowd that lined the centre mall was, upon this occa- sion, very great, and as the carriage drove along one continual cheer was kept up, which seemed highly to delight their Imperial Majesties. LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.) BANKRUPTCY COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque.) IN RE TEALE AND SMITH. These bankrupts were described as of Wimpole•street and Hol!and•street, Blackfriars, house decorators, &c. An application was now made by the bankrupt Teale for an adjournment, to enable him to go to Balaklava to carry out an engagement he could enter into if he could do so without subjecting himself to the censure of this court. The accounts were not yet filed, the t►me , r doing so not having expired, but they were in a f r ward state of preparation by Mr. Robertson, Moorgate -treet ; the bankrupt therefore asked for leave to file the accounts and a long adjournment, so that he intAt comply with the regulations of the court when he came up. The solicitor to the assig •iees asked bankrupt whether he was going for tlii oenefit of his creditors ? If the application was grantees he ought to be laid tinder conditions to set as►de some portion of his profit for the creditors ; then there could ne no objection. H is H o nour said that if there was no other objection he application might be granted, but he should not at tach any conditions, and if the bankrupt was an honour ibis man no doubt he would devote some portion of any surplus to their benefit. An adjournment for 12 months was then granted. (Before Mr. Commissioner Evans.) IN RE LINFORRD AND CO. These bankrupts were de, , cribed as licensed victuallers, at the Horns Tavern, Lawrence-lane, City, and to-day wai appointed for consideration of their certificates. The Solicitor to the assignees said they were desirous of making certain inquiries before the case was gone into, and therefore wished for an adjournment. His Honour granted an adjournment for one week. A PPREHEENSION OF TIIREE CHAR TISTS FOR ISSUING SEDITIOUS HAND BILLS. This day, at half-past one, James Bligh, 5, Blucher's buildings, Greenwich, John Lodge, of 5, Little Mid dlesex-street, Kingsland, and Harris Evans, of Robert-street, Sydney-street, Mile-end, were charged before 'Mr. Alderman Wire, at the Man sion-house, with having during the Imperial pro gress through the City, distributed hand-bills calculated to cause a breach of the public peace, the same bills not having any printer's name attached. Ernest Jones, the Chartist barrister, appeared for the accused. The defendant Bligh, a respectable-looking mechanic, was first placed at the bar. City Pohoe-constable 594 stated that yesterday morning he was upon duty in Cheapside, when some gentlemen ca'led his attention to the defendant, who war distributing bills, of which they (the gentlemen) held ,orne in their hands, and upon the witness going, towards Bread street be saw the detendant,with a crowd round him, giving away hand-bills, of which the follow ing is a copy : 'ENGLAND'S DISGRACE.—THE REAL DAY OF HUMILIATION. THE NEW LOAN. This morning at 10 the leading capitalists at tended at the Treasury to bid for the new loan, and among those present were Baron Lionel and Meyer Rothschild, Baron James Rothschild, of Paris, Sir Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, Mr. T. A. Hankey, Mr. James Capel, Mr. David Stern, Mr. Laurence Cazenove, Mr. L. Cohen, Mr. B. B. Williams, and others. The Premier arrived shortly before the hour appointed, and soon afterwards entered the Trea sury Chamber. The Chancellor then stated the purpose for which they were assembled, and after some observations from Mr. Capel as to the footing upon which the annuity was to be placed, Baron Rothschild passed a letter to the Chan cellor containing the tender, and it appearing that no other party offered, the communication was at once read by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, who previously placed on the table the sealed letter con taining the minimum. The letter was as follows : " London, 20th April, 1855. " Sir,—ln conformity with the public notice issued by the Treasury, we have the honour of submitting the fol lowing offer for the loan of sixteen millions. We agree to take the whole of the sixteen millions 3 per cent. Consolidated Annuities, with dividend from the sth January last at par, payable in in stalments at the periods stated in the said notice, upon receiving for each 1001., an annuity of 14s. 6d. (say four teen shillings and sixpence) terminable in 30 years, to commence from the sth inst., payable half-yearly, and we are accordingly ready with the required deposit on the same.— We remain, sir, very respectfully, your obe dient servants, "N. M. ROTHSCHILDS, AND SONS. "To the Chancellor of the Exchequer." The terms of the contract were then read, and were in conformity with the proposals originally submitted by the Government. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said that, as the terms were above his minimum, it would be unnecessary to open his sealed letter, and the tender was accepted. The proceedin 4s then terminated. TILE FLEETS AT DOVER. DOVER, THIIRSDAY,.IO P.M. The English fleet has been compelled to weigh anchor in consequence of the strong easterly winds which sprang up. rendering the exposed anchorage in the roads un safe. The Vice-Admiral, with the large ship , , has pro ceeded to Spithead, and the remainder of the fleet to the Downs. It will no doubt be all assembled in Dover Roads by Saturday, with perhaps the imp , irtar t ion of the Duke of Wellington, 131. and St. George, 120, to do honour to the Emperor and Empress on their departure. Admiral Cbabannes crossed over from Calais this morning, and saluted the Port. The salute was retarned from the Drop Redoubt on the heights, with 15 guns. The Admiral afterwards proceeded by the 12 o'clock train to Windsor. It is exceedingly gratifying to observe the entente cordiale that subsists between the French . and English naval services. E iglish naval and military officers may be observed daily visiting the French ships of-war in the Roads and harbour, and it is needless to say they re received with every demonstration of co:rtesy Lnd cordial good-will by our gallant allies. SICKNESS IN THE CRI3IEA, 1839. [Extracted from the Times newspaper, of Sept. 25, 1839.] " Accounts from Constantinople state that the Rus sian troops in Sebastopol and its neighbourhood were sadly suffering from illne. s, particularly from the ophthalrnin, which presented all the appearance of the Egyptian disease. " Upwards of 7,000 sick were lying in the hospitals." An accident of a serious nature occurred to Lord Stan• hope, son of the Earl of Chesterfield, yesterday mornin g . His lordship, a lieutenant in the Royal Horse Guards, was mounted on it spirited charger ; when in St. Paul's _ _ churchyard, opposite Mr. Fred. Goodyear's, his horse slipped on the side, and fell on its rider, breaking his leg. Lord Stanhop, wa- immediately carried into Mr. Goodyear's house, where the greatest attention was promptly paid. Mr. Smith, surgeon, of Bow-lane, was at once summoned to his assistance, and set the fracture. After remaining about two hours his lordship was con• veyed to his barracks at Regent's-park. EAST INDIA COMPANY'S CIVIL SERVICE.—The prospee. tus which has been issued of the preliminary exarnina• tion (to take place in July, though the list of candidates will be closed on the Ist of May) comprises only such subjects as those with which any graduate of the uni versities may fairly be supposed to be conversant. Toe duties that devolve upon a civil servant of the East India Company comprise a most extensive sphere of action —the administration of the laws, the financial dis position and regulation of the revenues, and the im provement of the moral and phy , ical condition of the people. Much has been said of late in favour of the dis tribution of appointments by merit, as tested by exami nations, over the ordinary course of patronage. These important posts have hitherto been in the exclusive pa tronaize of the Court of Directors. THE CHINA PEA.—Experiments are about to he made in several departments of France t naturalise a species of pea pecu.iar to China, which yields both oil and flour. The oil scarcely differs from that of colza or rapeseed, and the Chinese use it largely in their culinary prepara tions. The flsur is made into a paste, which, after hav ing been left to ferment, is seasoned with oil, pepper, salt, or other ingredients. It becomes, in a few days, of a brownish colour, and posses-es excellent digestive qua lities. So prepared, it is rather dear, but the poorer classes merely fry the paste in oil, and it is sold to them in slices in the markets The preparations of the nil a d paste of the pea in question is a branch of' indristry in several provinces ; but it is at Ning-Po, capital of Cite- Kiang, that it is chiefly carried on. Every year, in fact, thousands of junks, freighted with the piste and nii, leave Nine-pe for the different poets of the Celestial Em pire.—Ga/iejnani. FoLSESToNE IMPROVEMENT BILL.--Yesterday a Par liamentary paper was printed containing a copy of the Admiralty report on the Folkestone Improvement 13;11. It appears that the objects of the bill are to extend the limits of the borough, to enable the corporation to con struct a market-house, to make new streets, and other improvements. The Lords of the Admiralty call the attention of Parliament to clauses in the bill to levy coal dues, and, in failure of payment, the vessel, tackle, &c., to be detained. "Their lordships are of opinion that duties so collected would operate as a tax on shippirg for the benefit of the town, improvements, and that the collector of customs, or other officer in her Majesty's service, should not be employed in such a service ; that no duties on coal or merchandise whatever should be col teeter] at Folkestone until the same have been landed, and that municipal dues, which the commissioners may think proper to demand, shall only be payable by the importers or purchasers, and that no detention of vessels, or interference with them, be sanctioned on ac c-oint of town revenue." SOUTHAMPTON, April 19.—The new shears which have for some months past been in the course of erection to supply those which were destroyed by the accident last year are now neerly completed, and will be tested in the course of afc .v days. Their proof strength is 50 tons. They consist of three immense sticks of yel low pine, the two front legs being 88 feet long and 3, inches in diameter, strengthened by iron hoops placed at a distance of nine feet from each other. Tile back leg measures 102 feet in length, and 33 inches in diameter, and is strengthened at the top by what are called " fishing pieces," so as to make it uni form throughout. Each of the sticks or legs.is the pro duction of a single tree. The plan of these shears differs materially from that usually adopted, inasmuch as a weight can be lifted from a vessel 30 feet from the dock wall and deposited on the quay, whereas ordinary shears are only capable of lifting great weights with out being . able to carry them them ashore. This addi tional facility is afforded by the third leg, which forming a triangle, Is made to traverse in and out from the dock quay. The machinery connected can be worked either by hand or steam, a small steam-engine and house having been erected adjacent to tho position of intrusted tlwhole placed erail , executed r oak n d b te b hin y g e am the shears. This grea t a ddi t i on t o th e port was designed aed w of Seaward Seaward and Cape!, time Messrs.undertimb the Ferguson, of wsuperintend ence of Mr. A. Giles, the Dock Company's engineer. This is another proof that the Southampton Dock Corte pany do not spare either trouble or expense in making their appliances for the use of the marine world as per fect as possible. THE MARINE SOCIETY'S DINNER. —The annual festival of the Marine Society was celebrated on Wed nesday evening at the London Tavern. Sir Charles Wood, M. P., First Lord of the Admiralty, was to have presided, but the right hon. gentleman's detention at. Windsor rendered it impossible for him to do so. The chair was accordingly taken by Admiral Thornton, supported by Captain J. Shepherd, Deputy-Master of the Trinity-house ; Captain Richards, Captain ET. T. Austin, Captain T. P. Cla,ke, Mr. Sykes Thornton, Mr., Astell, Mr. R. Grant, &c. :r e proposing the toast of the evening the gallant chairman stated that 99 years had elapsed since the in - s'itution of the Marine Society, with a view of rescuing from misery and reclaiming as many as possible of tie class of reelected youths ft om idleness and infamy ; and that during that period 90,000 persons had been rescued, through the medium of the society, from destitution, degradation, and crime. The annual report shows that total of 590, in a ddition b d he to those already on ear t e 21 were sent to the Royal Navy, 40 during the year 1854 460 boys were received, making a socie ty's ship, Of these Society" was The toast of " Prosp erit y to the Marined and subscr ip t io ns were raise drunk With all the honou rs, to the Indian N av y , and 394 into the merchant service. to the amount of about 250/. In the course of the e vening nd fifes, and a the boys were introduced with their drum s cheering Time g ave their accustomed sal vo of hearty musical arrangements were u nder the direction of Mr. G. Gen_ge, whose selection wa s ver y a p propriate to _ occasion, on account of its nautical c haracter.. Mr e . Genge was assisted by Mr. Perrin, Mr. Sboubrid Mr. ge, t_h Sreythson, and Masters Williams anti Smythson. The , . _ - toastmaster was Mr. Higgs. WESTMINSTER BRIDGE. The crowd here, when it became known that her Ma jesty intended to pass that way on her journey to the Crystal Palace, rivalled that assembled on Monday. Loud and frequent cries of " Vive l'Empereur" were vociferated, which called forth tremendous cheering. The only noticeable circumstance that occurred in the line of road from here to the Elephant and Castle was that occasioned by the imposing display at Astley's Royal Amphitheatre. The front of the building was decorated from the portico to the summit with inagnifl oent flags. At one side of the royal arms over the el,- trance the flags of England were placed, the tricolour of la belle Franc: being fixed in the centre. At the corners of the building immense tricoloured flags al ,o fkated, the whole forming a most tasteful display, and one seemed to please highly the Royal party: The Qui-ien, we imagine], from her action and gesture, directed the attention of the Empress to the theatre, which ua. gratefully acknowledged by Mr. William Cooke, the pr tprietor, who bowed his ackno.vledgetneuts to the illustrious pari.y as tl,ey passed. At the Eiephant and Ca•tie, when it became known that the M.yal party 'would pass that way, an immense crowd assetub`ed, and here again 'owl cheermg and cries " Vive l'Empereur" 4 were given, amidst che wav .. in; of hats and handkerchiefs. The line of route then taken was along the Walworth-road, across Cam berwell-green, from thence up the Dulwich private road to the Crystal Palace. ARRIVAL AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE. At about half-past twelve the Royal party entered the Palace, where they were received by the Chairman, S. Laing, EAq., Sir Joseph Paxton, and a whole host of officials. - Yesterday we imagined that it would be impossiblt to produce a scene that would even hear comparison with that at the Guildhall at the moment their Imperial Majes ties entered. Our opinion is now altogether different ; the scene presented on the Enperer an I Empress of the French entering the Crystal Palace exceeded it by far. We shall not attempt a detailed description, that will be better imagined than described. Our readers must therefore imagine the sun streaming in tempered bril liance along the entire length of the crystalline struc ture, showing boldly forth its harmonious proportions, and lighting up with prismatic hues the coun tenances of a gay and happy throng that lined the courts and galleries, and contributed greatly by the variety of the costumes to the picturesqueness of the scene. Add to this aq intense commotion along the whole line, repeated waving of handkerchiefs, and involun- tary swaying of bonnets, while the band poured forth its stirring strains, and the organ its melodious notes, by way of heralding the approach of the Queen and her Imperial guests, and you have materials enough to suggest a scene we feel it impossible to describe. Her Maje:ties and her Imperial visitors having com pleted their private inspection retired for a short period, and again appeared and proceeded through the entire length of the building. The It.yal party on arriving at the central transept seemed to be highly delighted, and they remained he. e for some time listening to the performance of music by ,he magnificent band of the establiNhment. Their Majestys then left the building, and having re , entered their carriages returned to Buckingham Palace. FREE ScHOOLs BILL.—In addition to the Education Bills of Sir.). Pakington and Lord J. Ru- , sell, we have now a bill "to establb=h Ye- , Schools in England and Wales," brought in by Mr. Milner Gibson, Mr.Cobdeti, arid Mr. Headlatn. It contains 27 clauses. the object of the bill are to e:tabltsh in every " school.di-trict" formed under the act : 1. Day-schools for the instruction o f children above six years of age, in reading, writing, grammar, aritho etic, book-keeping, geography, and history, common things, u efu_ knowledge generaly, and needlework (in the ca- , e of girls), and in addibon to this there will be inculcated a strict regard to the moral %Tittles ; 2. Evening schools for the instruction i f pri son-, above tt-n vcars of age, where the same instructo,n ill be aft'. trded as in the foregoing schools ; 3. Infant -chools for children under six years of age ; and 4 In Austria' schools for the in truc , ,ion of "young poor per sons.' without legal means of subsiste..ce, in the above mentioned branches of moral and intellectual Culture, and in industrial occupations. In there last school food and shelter will be supplied to the pupils. No dis tinctive doctrinal religion is to he taught in any of tiles, schools, but certain hours in every week are to be set apart for voluntary religious instruction. Admission to schools 1,2, and 3 will lie free to persons of the are and class required who are resident in the district (excepting . deaf, dumb, and Llind persons, lunatic's, and criminals), and admission to industrial schools will be obtained by an order from a justice of peace. The general adminis tration and superintendence of the schools are to be con ducted by a " board," to be styled "The Board of Public Instruction," to consist of a president, appointed by the Queen and the Secretary of State. This board is em powered to appoint inspectors of schools, and required to report annually. The act will he locally executed by the formation of "school districts" by the said board ; but, if a majority of the ratepayers object to the act taking effect, it will be postponed for two years, and so on. If the ratepayers approve the act they will proceed to elect a " school committee," half of whom will retire annually. The number of the com mittee will be fixed by the board. The committee will be a corporation for certain purposes, and will have power to establish within their "district" such and so many schools as they may think requisite, to erect schoel buildings, to purchase sites for the same, to borrow money, to app , sot teachers and officers, and to employ visitors, sze. Existing schools may be converted into free schools under this act. The funds required by the committee for the carrying out of the act will be acquired by the l e vy of a "school-rate" on all persons rated to the relief of the poor within the district, with the right of appeal to the Quarter Sessions. The " board" is em powered to establish normal schools for the training of masters, mistresses, and teachers under this act. BRUTALLY ILL-TREATING A GIRL.—The Tribunal of Correctional Police on Tuesday tried a woman named Lemhre, communal school-mittress at Puteaux, and her husband, for having brutally ill-treated her dauelittr. It was proved that she had made a constant practice of beating the child in a savage manne r with rods and whips, and of preventing her from having sufficient food. One of the witnesses gave a curious explanation of the woman's cruelty :—" She told me," said she, " that when enciente she was struck with terror on seeing in a church a picture representing a sa i nt covered with the skin of a wild animal, and that the consequence was that her child when horn was covered with hair! This caused her to dislike the child. Btu," added the witness with great naiveté, "I must state one thing in the roman's favour—and that is, that when her husband, finding that the child was covered with hair, proposed to have her exh , bited fur money as a curiosity, and with that view caused her to be shaved three times in or ler t r make the hair thicker she would not bear of anything of the kind !" Ti. Tribunal sentsriced the woman to six months' impriso I ch n io e Tu7 n ti ia t i it tip; and eihN, eNe rv 2 C s ßa,o f l) r fine dLu. UNWHOLESOME hut, as there was no eviden s on t: aeainst the ma n , he was acquitted. :Monday, 4 03 E n a ,r, e T a iy) u tw lf hi n fe T ra l e O c N ai . s — re. hTEeh:aiesrtdEe Easterby si v e i local butcher, was charged with having unwhols•ainie meat in his possessioe. The defenda .t pleaded t ,at the meat seized (seal in a very bad state) was fuund wire , examined not in a fit state to he sold for hu•nan and lie had kept is to he chopped up as food fur pig•. Nlis Travis, the sitting magistrate, after investing th , ease, sail that, under all the circumstances, he thought the meat was intended for 13 , 11 e, and he thought it a v•-ty culpable and gross case. He then fined the defenda lye. and costs, and added that, in regard to the way in which the defendant had intended to use the meat, he should order inquiry to be made, and should then see if the law would nut prevent such an abominable use of it as feeding pigs with it. He thought the defence a most abominable and barefaced one. The defence in reality was, that Easterby did not intend to poison the public in one way, but did in another. This case, observes the Eastern Counties Herald, reveals another of the myste ries of the butchering business, viz., the .ceding of pigs with nauseous, disgusting, and unwholesome food. We want the public at large, and especially the humbler elassee, not to be tempted into the purchase of cheap, filthy, putrid carrion ; and if there are any means by which we can secure that the food we are liable to eat should have been fed on wholesome ; food, let thorn be adopted without hesitation. " LOUIS NAPOLEON, " The murderer, the oath-breaker, the destroyer ot the French and Italian Republics, who bribed tlp soldiers to massacre the peaceful citizens upon th. Boulevards, exiled the best men of France, and pave his way to power with the corpses of unoffensive me. , women, and children, is coming to England. English owe do your duty. "The truth of these accusations iz proved by the Times Olvonicle, and Advertiser of Dee '5l, and Jan. '52." Defendant had another man with him, who made lac pe. He (witeess) seized the defendant, who in ,,ntly endeavo ned to get rid of the bills, but witness prevented him, and, upon Ids being taken to the statiot .nri searched, a large bundle of other bills and print. papers, ad of an inflammatory and libellous character Nere found upon him. A great number of perscns ha• the bills, and they ail said it "was a great shame. Alter a few remarks from Mr. Ernest Jones, who ear he had been quite recently instructed, he agreed to th, suggestion of the alderman that the defendant should I.e remanded for a week. The bail put in was an artificial flower maker, living Spitalfields, whose name and appearance bespoke him ,o be an Italian. The Alderman here said that he should adopt a similar course with the other defendants. TRE RUVIOURED ATTEMPT UPON THE LIFE OF THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON. The idle rumour, which unfortunately gained con siderable circulation yesterday evening, to the effect that an attempt had been made upon the life of the Emperor of the French, whilst on his way to Buckingham-palace, after his visit to the Guildhall, turned out upon inquiry to be entirely without foundation. The report originated in a very simple and harmless circumstance. As the royal carriage was passing under the triumphal arch on Constitution-hill, a middle-aged person, apparently a foreigner, stepped towards it, and endeavoured to throw a letter of some kind in at the window. As the nature of the act was not understood at the moment, he was at once seized and given into custody. He was conveyed to the King-street police-statica, where, after being de tained a short time, a messenger was despatched from the palace, with an intimation that the document con tained nothing offensive, and that it was, consequently, the Emperor's wish that the man should be discharged. This considerate request was accordingly immediately complied with. The individual in question, who is a Frenchman, gave his name as John Pellex, and described himself as a doctor of medicine. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE EAST LANCASHIRE RAIL WAY.—About 9 o'clock on Tuesday evening a labouring nan, named Peter Burke, attempted to cross the East Lancashire Railway, at the Bacup station, to take some supper to one of the company's servants who was a feb low-lodger, and who was then engaged in shunting some -arriaes which were attached to an engine by a tail r.pe. It was quite dark, and Burke, being unable ti es the rope, became entangled with it in some way, wa brown proitrate across the rails, and the engine imme diately passed over his legs. One limb was completely amputated, and the other so mangled that it was impos -able to do anything ter restore it. Several medical gee tlemen were sent for, and Dr. Harrison, the medics. •;fficer of the company, proceeded from Manchester, by. special train, hut they c , nld render no a , sistance to the uni.rtunate man, who died the f 'Bowing mornng Re was a married man, and has left one child. CREMORNE GARDENS. Notwithstanding tke early neriod of the season, the fete last night, in honour of Vie visit of the Einneror and Empress, was most attractive TLe principal novelty in the decorations was the 'rum, F. ench Arch„ which is now nearly completed. On one side are the portraits of the Queen, the Emperor, and the Sultan, surmounted by the motto, " Union is strength." On the other sioe are the arms of England, France, and Turkey, alai the motto, " God protect the right." The programme of the entertainments included some excellent dancing on the tight rope by two children. In the theatre the wonderful performance of the Russelli family was warmly applauded. This was followed by the new ballet. In the course of the evening the visi tors were amused with the performance of the dogs and monkeys, and the entertai nmen t s conc l u d e d w ith a dis play of fireworks.. The boys of the Duke of York's Sehool,,accompanied by their band, were present, arid formed an additional attraction. The gardens were well attended. On every side are to be seen preparations making for the regular opening of the summer season, which will take place on Whit Monday. On that slay the new Firework Temple, which is rapidly advancing to c3mpletion, will be exhibited for the first time. = aAI 1 1.1 THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. PARIS, APRIL 20. Gen. Canrobert writes on the 14th that the superiority of the artillery of the Allies was be- coming more and more certain. Our troops are now masters of many strong positions on the enemy's left. We are approaching the place sensibly. EIIPATORIA, APRIL 5. The Allies have demanded 20,000 men to be sent down to Sebastopol—it is imagined fur the assault. The embarkation begins to-day. 0111 C r Pasha goes to-morrow. VIENNA, THURSDAY EvEisaNct, APRIL 19. The Weiner Zeitung publishes the following:— " CRIMEA, APRIL 14. " During the night of the 13th the left attack of the allies obtained considerable advantage over the Russians. " The Russians were twice dislodged from a strongly-fortified position, which remained in the hand 3 of the French. " The possession of this position enabled the allies to fortify the summit of the mountain glens (ravines ?), which is of great importance." " CONSTANTINOPLE, APRIL 10. "A despatch from Mehmed A.Ai announces thai he has slain 1,400 Kurds, taken 500 prisoners, and occupied their strongest positions. "Sinope and Rhodes are to be fortified." (From. the Times Special Correspondept ) CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, APRIL 7. The bombardment will, is said, begin on vionday morning. It is nearly a month since we were assured everything wars ready, but it a,!;- pears now that everything will not be ready til Monday next. There has been a conference of Admirals and Generals at Lorl Raglan's quar ters, at which the Fteld-Marsb.al, General Can robert, Sir Edmund Lyons, and Admiral Brua' assisted. It is rumoured throughout the fleet tha they are to open fire on the forts as soon as tilt bombardment begins, not, indeed, with the idea of going close in, breaking the booms, or burstin: through the barrier of sunken ships, but to draw off the artillerymen from the batteries, and distrac the attention of the enemy. A. number of French, and some few English vessels, ha ye been despatched up the coast northwards, and it; is universally ex ,ected that a portion of the Turkish army of Eupa toria, will be detached to effect formidable diver sion on the north side of Sebastopol, at the very crisis of the conflict. There is little doubt but that the reports which have been circulated respecting the Withdrawal of a considerable portion of the Turkish army from Eupatoria, which has now been placed in an excellent state odefence, are correct ; but it is not so easy to determine whether they will be landed on the north or on the south side of Sebastopol. To act with promptitude and effect oh the day of the bombardment, the Turks, if landed on the north side, must disembark at or near the Belbek, the approaches to which are commanded by the enemy's new forts and mu.d redoubts. Their presence there would paralyse the army over the Tchernaya, and prevent any offensive demonstra- tion against our flank or rear. On the other hand, their presence at Balaklava would liberate the Eng lish and French troops which guard the heights, and enable them to move to the front, should there be any necessity for their services, in the event of :,he enemy's fire being so far reduced as to render an assault advisable. No doubt, Omer Pasha per fectly understands the capacity of his troops and the objects of the expedition, and if his usual good fortune attends him he will contribute materially to the glory of the day. Col. Simmonds, R.E., 'arrived from Eupatoria a few days ago with de -patches from the Turkish Generalissimo, and he has since returned with very important communi- Ja,tions from the allied Generals in connection with the movements of the troops under his Highness', command. There is no positive certainty that the bombardment will begin on Monday, the 9th of Xpril, but the engineers and artillery officers be ieve it is the day. It is said we should have , pened fire, or that we were ready to do so, yester !ay morning, but that Lord Raglan did not wish to naugurate Good Friday by salvoes of artillery and iy a sanguinary bombardment. On the other ihe circumstance of our being still sendin k , ip shot, shell, and mortars does not seem quit, , onsistent with the statement that the Genera!, vere prepared to bombard before to-day. TUESDAY, April 3. _ Tile Allies have sustained a grievous loss in th , bath of M. St. Laurent, commandant of Frenc' llngineers, in the right attack. He was mortally vounded by a rifle ball on Monday, as he was o►: [nty in the French battery over Inkerman I.ctive, able, a►,d energetic, possessed of an eaten ive knowledge of his profesAion, to which he was Roroughly devoted, M. St. Laurent had rendered •ssential services to the Allied forces during thk Ater period of the siege, and was esteemed and -espected by his brethren iu both the English and French armies. He was buried yesterday, and hi , remains were followed by a concourse of French ►nd English officers. One of the most important works over Tnkerman bears his name, - and he did nuch to place that portion of our attack and ee fence in a most efficient state. - This morning one working party effected a very difficult operation with entire success, and without loss of life. They connected the advanced parallels of the two, attacks by a trench without losing a single man, though they were close to the enemy's riflemen, and were exposed to round shot, shells, and grape from the batteries. The uncertain light of the moon prevented the Russians firing with accuracy; but as they brought down two field-pieces into their advanced works to play on our working party with grape, one of our 9-pounder field-pieces was ordered into the advanced trench to reply to them,' and our single gun speedily silenced their . . two pieces. At dawn they fired with great accu racy, and we lost two Sappers, and a few men killed and wounded. WEDNESDAY, April 4. Captain Bainbrigge, R.P., was killed yesterday (Tuesday) in the trenches. As he was talking to one of the Sappers employed in the works a shell came towards them from one of the enemy's• bat teries ; they both saw it, and the soldier went to one side of a traverse and Captain Bainbrigge to the other. The shell fell just at his feet and ex ploded before he could throw himself down ; blow ing his body to atoms. The unfortunate officer only arrived a fortnight ago from Ceylon. Captain Armit,R.E., was contused by a fragment of a shell, but is doing well. Colonel Simmonds, who arrived here with des patches from Omer Pasha to the Allied Generals, iias returned with important despatches to the Turkish General. . . _ A Russian officer of rank took a minute survey Balaklava - from Canrobert's-hill on- Tuesday. tie was attended by about 200 Cossacks, and soon Ifter his departure a body of men appeared on the ridge which runs down from Kamata to Can robert's-hill, and set to work throwing up some works which appear to be intended as a trench. ks the ,works are on the. further side of the Adge, it is not easy to ascertain their character, bui it is probable that they merely form a trench for the protection of infantry in case the Russians find :.heniselves in sufficient .force to resist any recoil laissance we mar make,, or to enable them to cheek pursu:t, should they make another attempt on Balitklava arid be forced to retire. _ We have lately been receiving a quantity of wild :tattle, trapped on the hill-sides of Aiia, and when they are let loose, after the sea voyage, they general ly create a good deal of unwholesome excitement by charging in every direction through and about Btlakla,va, and by taking to the heights and but tin.; every man they meet.. In a little affair of this , iind the other day one of the Provost-Marsh:lX,, men fired at an infuriated bull and missed it, bu' :Shot a soldier who was in chase through the leg This bull knocked down men like ninepins, and cleared the alleys and !plays ; nor did he succumb till he had been the object of a smart fusillade, and had been made " a pincushion for bayonets," as was observed by an Hibernian bystander. Three Croats have died of the wounds received in the affray of the week before last, and there are others in a bad way in hospital. Osinau Aga, the head man, who is accused of having taken an active part in the pistolling work, " shammed " fever and got into hospital, where ho became sick of the very malady he simulated, and is maw dangerously ill. The Land Transport Corps is working extremely , well, and I have not heard any complaint what ever agaist the mode in wined the service is eaxxied Q ur, C, , 101;41 so lac been attended with complete success. the that the commissary officers attached to different divisions have to do is to send ai requisition for so many horses and mules,.Sat at the appointed hour they are in readiuesg ibe .$ the commissary-office at Balaklava. There 'to commissary officer attached to the divisi on race _ them, and directs the loading of the necessary which are carried out to camp, and the non-coull sloped officer in charge of the animals brings back to the stables at Balaklava in the even 4. with a written receipt for the stores. The steT e d in question are large wooden sheds, er ec , e . on the hill side towards Kadikoi. The 13 201 , 1 'id went and direction of the railway has been es over over to Col. M'Murdo, who has appointee' officer to manage each terminus. April 5 .„' ‘1 THURSDAY, It was expected that our batteries would 0 1 3 ,Z fire to-day, but it was soon ascertained that ore hopes of the impatient people were once doomed to disappointment. A number of outelu` crowded up to the front to see the proceedil4sB; and it was some time before they could be Pg.o suaded that " the affair was not coming fthe However, there was a divisional inspection tier, Light and Second Divisions in heavy marching or ti er . They did not muster very strongly ; in fact, it To not be forgotten that nearly 17,000 sick reellrfa been sent away from this army since we eat "ices before Sebastopol. The Russians amused theois?,oo by shelling the camp again to-day, but they harm. Yesterday, when there was a large cro t i o French and English, including some of th e eta * , front of the picket-house near the Mortar B att the Russians suddenly threw a shell whici'tet right into the midst of the group. The grv - o cl part of the assembly threw themselves down ;id, rolled away on the gr.uni as fast as tbey . c° t inti At last the shell bust with a loud reP o n.g w olt one of the fragments struck and wout.dedst RT, sentry about fifty yards off. Then the crow d up and ran away. L , KI horses broke 1 0 ° 3 . 8 00 , were let go and scampered off in all direetl° , and as the few officers who had nerve remain and enjoy the discomfiture of the runa vi t 4 were enjoyinz tha joke, down came another Pula into the very centre of them. The bol lest, not stand this, and in a few minutes not a Boo' c° ti he seen near the ground. The Military Seere,•oo lost his cap, owing to the eccentric evolwite, of his frightened quadruped, but he speed il la covered it, and that was the only loss eau'. h o rs the two shells, excepting the poor fellow Put de combat for the time. and It wasa lovely day, though somewhat ligli„ t in s ' the idlers off duty employed their leisure h o '" tho gazing listlessly at the endless duel betvvee ll rye Allied batteries and the Russian works froya mounds in rear of the trenches. SATtrO o f A strong party of the Guards, consisting ter nd t` "e available men of the brigade, and ral s , g to, about 450 men, were ordered to be in readnch.,, go up to the front to-day to work in the trend ot' They will be taken up on the mules and Pn. °he) the Land Transport Corps, and will be carriea.,, • to their camp outside Balaklava by the railono, , The ravages of the small-pox in the fleet bee:' not decreased. The St. Jean d'Acre la! s •A of obliged to go into quarantine, and has lanne" s uidi . crew near Kamiesh, with many cases of theP,.„ s eo among them. Several men-of-war have putrfroil to cruise for a time. The Triton went roun d i• il ia Balaklava to Kamiesh to the fleet to-daY , '? 4 o' a vessel laden with opal for the use of the 01— ships. 10 We have now nearly completed our fourth Ili, lel. It is within 60 yards of the rifle pits of thq er o, signs, and it will speedily be armed with enllAir which will make the pits too hot to hold the e ' o r . men. A battery has been thrown up for %el l press purpose of clearing the grou nd of pits in et ed , of the Redan and Round Tower, and it is 03 0 0 4 " to open this evening. The enemy, having fit ' • out the value of the Mamelon, are 1 working 4 111, . night and day, though they must su ffer glr,' from our fire. There was some notion that th e et . sians, who have been very busy towards P 111 ;0 - lately, would attack Balaklava this morning= fer' ! the weather was certainly what they Pre if,9l such enterprises—very dark and foggy ; bu t, 0 0/1 ' such intention existed on the part of the F e l e ti o •l they changed their minds. Our outlying P„,.' 0 0 0 1 the plain observed some movements of the i gia ties , i towards morning. The Russian working /iota', over the Tchernaya, close to their intrenehe'-'d t belf are busily engaged in making gabione, V ko i and are distinctly visible from ICa u ' o niict, Balaklava every night. One of the men his his " by the railway accident yesterday has 0 has 0 4 0 amputated, and is doing well. The d cla' i ld a c °l cleare up, but all the forenoon we black sea fog. ~,l ie 00: 4 ; ° Steam-ships arrived in Balaklava-+l''.. l - o i £11 , „7 '. the 'Dinning, and the Killingworth • her -inp e Na' ship Triton, Lieutenant Fletcher, towing' t - 44 , 0 10 1 rnondsbury, laden with shot and hell; the n s fif , and the Severn, with convalescents from Sc li. Brandon, &c. 00 4 The harbour is now tolerably clear; indeed A tif '. are fewer ships in it than I remember for ::01 months past. Sickness is diminishing. ins te : v olt sending down 1,200 men a-week to Scutari , W" despatch, on an average, 250. EUPATORIA. . a - 1 i „ r ii EITP ATORIA I AP i•'l th y', There is no change in our position, excePt b yo ts' ince the affair with the Bashi:Bazonks, vrbi; le ttel know from my last letter, the Russian vi f til e rave retired to the ridge on the other side °_6 o ll ~reek, and. the valley which forms the contin ua l of ~, , f it. They left only a few men in the villg o r Mamai, the scene of the fight with the ur i K ies, Razonks. They have even abandoned th°,..o o er . The day before yesterday the Bashi-Bazo o° 0 int again towards the village of Marna l ' i , e Russians were, however, on the alert ; t' l men in the village fell back towards their rel i ef, , and three squadrons of regular Russian ° a d 0 with a host of Cossacks before th e m, apPe al e d tJ • the ridge. Some of the Bashi-B azo uks ente r ,10 village, but nothing whatever was founa' 0/ 4 timer Piisha had given the o r der not to l e-„ the to engagement, the Bashi-B azou ks skirting; tjt‘ valley leading to the creek drew slowly to right, followed by the skirmishers of the ersicle. who were parallel to them on the other,riA Several of the Bashi-Bazouk i s passe d the f o e without being molested ; and the whole re b to the town. , AP0.,1, Since last night the whole state of affairs hs' a tjoik altered. It seems to be taking another direct There was to have been a reconnaissance thio ing, but it was countermand e d. A French st 0f".„ 0 3 , 4 ' arrived late last night, bringing despatches f0r..., 4 0- Pasha, in consequence of which several rf;no')/ got the order to hold themselves real, 05 embarked in the evening They are all o ft:4 troops. In the forenoon five French intt tlre,. steamers came in, who are destined to ta - ge de . j . " to their destination, which of course is kel 3 ' l - 04 1i0s,g' [ but there can be no doubt that something ;-",,i, Ar A l must soon take place. An order of the (6 4 0,,v, issued to the troops destined to sail. 11 1 ,111, 1 ' d - . 1 Marshal expressed his hope that they ""„I r a i l ' i honour to the Ottoman army, as the eye o ,4ok, ' rope will be fixed upon them, and that the - 10 li il, himself will be among them, and share with ..i weal and woe. , of. This-order of the day was received by Lu c !, o f 0 with enthusiasm. They seemed to be proud t oP A P confidence placed in them, and b e gan V i se their preparations with as much j o y as if 01/ a li going to a feast ; but in the forenoon the vilicy# ' • came so strong and the se a so hi g h that all • embarking was given up. 4 , ,A ' AY1 1 . 1 , 11 'er The expedition whi c h was so su dd e nly ( r ' upon yesterday seem s t o b e assum i ng l a rger W I , tions. A considerably gr ea t er num ber of h t I. have got orders to sail than was at first tholigoej, Colonel Simmonds, who went yesterbi, o oo7, immediately after the a rr i va l o f th e French ni sr ho O r to Kamiesh has returned this morning. tit t e e remained high the wh o l e d ay , so that no C PI g 1 71 Lion could take placeS , but numbers of tro o Po' dready on the beach, ready if any change ()cc ; 47 4 • Two other French men-of-war came in to-dsJ,o,,' tined likewise to t a k e t roops , A n E ng lish s 'i o stl! arrived with d es p a t c h es , an d went o ff again - diately. , FRANCE. c o p o We have received th e M oniteur of y f,O 0 ester It publishes long ext rac t s f rom the 0 ,„"".,,0' journals of the recepti on g i ven to th e ir Majesties, and the following short article : , !. n e s "On Tuesday night there was a grand ball at " t he attended by the elite of English society. r _ t „ ta ° o 4 " •‘ Shortly before th e rev i ew o f t h e Q ueen 's „. 0 0 Lord Mayor and Aldermen were admitted a ro se r - d el , ence of the E m p eror an d E mpress w i th an el:1'1.-1:04 the city of Landon to invite their Majesties to pa on Ti.ursclay. tocf "On W e d nes d a y morn i ng t h e E mperor took e 'rti d i walk in the park with Queen Victoria, At foer re e, the Emperor received the Order of the Garter inPh di of the Mi n i s t ers , K n i g h ts o f t h e O rder, and 1:14 0 ,0 1 ; taries of th e C rown . ee "The enthusiasm of the people is on the s ow The means of transport b e t ween L on d on an cl o jai no longer suffice. Every co rres p o nd enc e Wu .. SI" , 4 ing that nothing equals the enthusiasm of the e l ## for their Majesties." tele We have received the f o ll o Wi ng private o y phic despatches : o A ii;a7ntig (evening).—The uinary battle, ar.ad W 41 " . , st),ValrciNAa, 0