The Sun. — London, England, 1856-04-14 00:00:00

( From the 31orniny Post of this day. ) The Government, since peace has been pro claimed, have been defeated twice, and are now underlying a challenge to combat et routrance, from one of the subordinate members of the ex tinct Cabinet of Lord Derby. Parliament and its factions, conceiving -that the country is brought safely into the hiven where it should be, consider that they are now at liberty, and that now is the proper time, to throw into the sea the pilot who managed the business for them in the storm. We wish to do every one, even an opponent, justice, and it is only just to say for the large party who occupy the Opposition benches, that their political conduct throughout the late war has been of a much higher charaCter than that which has here tofore been exhibited by Parliamentary parties in a like position. We have, thank Heaven, had had none of that open advocacy of the cause of the enemies of the country, for the sake of discomfiting the Ministry, which distinguished the Opposition in the days of the Peninsular War. Nor have we been scandalised in this our day by avowed exulta tion, on the part of the politicians out of office, at failures resulting from the operations of adminis trators in office. It is but just to give Mr. Disraeli and those who act with him credit for this. They have been generally discreet, and some times for bearing, and we will not attempt to diminish aught of the honour which may accrue to them therefrom by stopping to inquire for ourselves, or suggest to others, how much of this discretion and forbearance might be attributable to the consciousness of want of cohesion in their own party or of inability. We will not stay to discuss the probability of this ; how ever interesting and attractive its consideration may be, it is a mere matter of party politics, and the present state of public affairs is too critical to spend time upon its entertainment. It is evident that combinations of parties or fac tions in the House of Commons are possible, by which, at any moment, the existing Government can be put in a minority, and from them that it must be evident to every one who has watched with care the temper of Parliament since the proclama tion of peace, that not only has some such combi nation been put on foot, but that it has been al ready put into active movement, and been brought, on more than one occasion, to bear upon the policy and conduct of the representative body. It in fluenced the treatment of the nomination of the Select Committee upon Local Charges upon Ship jug, and carried the Motion of Mr. Cowan against the Government on the militia question. Soine such kind of combination—a combination of the many Derbyites, the few Peelites, and the scat tered Radicals may possibly, whenever it COlll , s on, enable Mr. Baillie to eount for his motion upon 'America, more Ayes than Noes. Houses of Com mons' as they have been co ns tit u t e d s i nce th e Re form Bill, have ever been full of caprice, and the very Abbots of Unreason, nor do they seem to be capable of attaching themselves 'o any Minister, however able, however, successful, or however po pular, for more than two or three years. The Re formed Parliaments have ever been restless and greedy of change, awl the excitement of party strife and it is quite on the cards that, now that they feel themselves safely landed out of the great struggle in the East, they may join a Mr. Baillio, ,or a Mr. Anybody else who will constitute himself a lever for the occasion, to have a heave at the Statesman who has landed them, for no better rea son than that they want a new play and a fresh set of actors on the stage. We trust they will have more consideration and more true sense of the present position of the coun try and its public men. We cannot conceive any thing mere untoward than a defeat of the Govern ment of Lord Palmerston in the present juncture. It could scarcely be expected that Lord Palmer ston, governing through a Parliament elected before the war, and called together under the in fluence of his political opponents, would yield his position without an appeal to the country; it would not be just to the - country that he should do so, and a general election at this moment, with Europe, though declaredly at peace, unsettled from east to west and from north to south, would be-only one degree less hazardous and harmful than an abrupt change of Councillors and of Councils. COMPARATIVE CABINETS. (Prod?, tie Preis) • No divining wand is needed to forte!l the catastrophe 4 ! • of a Cebinet beaten twice in ono week. Peace_ being • proclaimed, the weakness of the Ministry becomes pall)- . - 7 able to all. The progress of events has brought Go vernment into a position which mey be described as status. quo ante " CsialitienS' Whoever examines the . list of the Russell Cabiust, as it stood in 1850, will find . that in representative tone aed official aptitude it was con‘idera,bly superior to the Ministry over which Lord Pelmerston presides. The country, however, was not tatisfled with the old Whig families, and it expired of exhau-tine. The present. Ministry has now I:11 longer the factitious,, suppio-t of a continental war to divert scrutiny from its pretensions, and to 101 l • the dissatisfaction with its dehilty. If Lord John Russell, with his united "great Whig party," was not able to aiminister affairs; how can a psteh work connec• Lion strive against the pressure of the House of Cemmons recovering with peace ite right of free ingtiry ? The prs,eht Gevernment is manifestly weak. both col lectively and individually. As a Csbinet, it represents no policy ; as a ininistry, it has little Speol,l reline ta lent. Its Premier has passed the p, rind when the mind arts adinst itself to urgent calls for vigorous effort. Mr. happily Se.rnindsd the noble viscount of the am bignity of a career in whieh rnany yeees were spent, ere', r the ;tutelage of Lords vertenl- and Castlereiteh. • • • When I Palmer-ton was yeeng he was a dubious • Liletral'in his speeches, and a zealous Tsry ie his v.,tii when he is aged he .is a Preiiiier of a " rat" one „ nection, nhich suspectB Liip of reins "an old Tern" in fa,!Se colours. Though fatalleetecile with his pen and Speech, Lord aJohn Russell weS at least zealous as an administrator ; but the conduct of L'ord Palmer.ten in the Horne-office shows how little the ceuntry can ex pect from nun on education, administrative n•form s or the amendment of the law. .Whether from the levity of his character, or A peculiar incapacity for discerning tieal principles; Lord P;drnersten has never shown that nutral vision inherent in a eroataefing nature. He was never the chosen leader of a'Parliainentary party, and accident alone precipi.:ated • him into the Premiership. The age demands energetic epnlication of sound princi pies. Force and freshness are necessary for the ft. -at inept of the social problems that press for solution ; but iu so cenventiorial a character es that of Lord Palmer , stonit would be vain to leek for profound ideas. To . carpet with opposites, wed to en.l l .;raco nothing heartily, has been the inherent vice of his _flashy system of poll . tics, at once unstahle and uns iund. • ' Next tothe Prernferehip the' office of Lord Chancellor. "_is the most impOrtailt, and iii- that post the Russell Cabinet had the superiority. Nobody ever hinted that Lor I Cotteribana was a failure on the woolsack, and lie - bad great weight with the. profession, while, as a law reformer, he slid not fall Shorter of expectation than the present- keeper of the Great Seal. In the secretariat departments of administrationehe Russell Cabinet, weak • as it was, again had the advantage. As to the Foreign office we, shall allow tie friends of the Earl of Clarendon and of Viscount Paitherston to. decide which - was best " • suited for the post. In both C:Ainets Sir G. Grey filled he office of Herne Secretary, and of late there have been some manifestations that the lively but not nowerfUl barn • net has not so ready an accsss to the ear of fhe house as •• in former times, but his efficiency has been impaired by his want of stamina. In the Colonial -office - it would be absurd to dwell on the decree of intellectual difference between Es,rl_Grey and Mr. La • bouchere. The first had a philosophical intellect, though spoiled by its propensity to crotchets ; but originality •, was - never imputed to the pecsent Secretary for the Colonies. • h the ffiramerilalnpatittnetit, and we are cer s ist !that the c g olfea ues of Sir C. Levis will admit th a t • sir C' 'weed bad more aptitude for the post. In saying • •that we-.do not at all corn t h a n moreinentir C: NVood . e his trai , . sng was more offici a l than that ofhis uredecessoiStttnd his .easly,.expeeience ae.priVata secretarito Earl Grey gave enttensamiliarity with the . .cit e - nt . . . ,eternal city," and in' Wiliest) h*But it is in t 'archaeology, that Sir C. LewiiPsihe'el dissertations on its. d his chief. speciality. literary -critics, will rib,iuttthhaist He is, Without question au e y i t ,. t scholar greatest friends, like his he has not as much weight in, politics applaud Ll 3 learning, but • • • a 4 ia lett . ▪ Colleges' may dispute his budgets. esPitaa„s e - eiii Lord Minto, as a Lord Privy Seal, ;Sas not so reti e • id speech as 'Lord 11 - irro why ; yet we c annot forget Zat z in the:Maynooth Commission, ov er w hi ch Lent sa,„S roVeby presided, portinns of the evidence were pram's. safely disclosed to the Court ef .arid, though Lor • Ilai•rowby is an incarnate cyelnpee !la iii vari,ey of know. ledge, in a long Parliamentary career hiel.,rdship hen never shown emineet talent fer.„affeire. Like hi s ac : • ootnpliebed father,' Lerd Harr,:w by belongs to " thy: waverer, " the political interest in our domestic ibi which the Premier most cultivates. Lord Mint°, " a t leaSt; was head of the Ellietts,. and kept all the Scotch cousins quiet, besides , pus :.casino what Sir • James Graham would " a short cut" to IV?- burn 'Abbey. We incline, alai, to think that Sir •as Fi first t Lord o f the Admi t l' cis" - - Baring, - .4.seliemore popular with the Navy than • Sir'Phaefelesvieja; Lord, Broeghton (Sir J. C. Hob• ' hoeseyes se n o , atipeate7e • for India ; his successor, • Mr. eVinisinAitlif,"l9 -- a'big l 4-11 reVeCtable. gentleman istiofitfeyegood personitl r isionisenteS.tveenot perceiye 14144411afretreet. faculties for dealing that Ipighti Qs ntal ISt which requird,s in'ore*:te e r4ie,n.thais . r 'The se: given to itlershie e lil eeeeteu Whigs. of.out tnissee Tq l4l,l olllirioriv is manifest iiil46.itni . tern "din ate gFr4 theventve Cabinets. Mr. TaineS left. hisplace' at the P` X9O • h4friiiibne Of the 4lie stezill - =l3 - nerd from eatitt); elupernumeraries N T we tiinitot'faiget that ofta t a e of Chaneellor of ifik pfde4:of Lancaster was held (utider the Russell Minis , ' ;trjo Camlshell, _with abilities great as his ever'y ;and exifetiehS; The I.:feels-lent of the Board of Trade • was Mr. - Laboitcherti who had important connections ; land theOfnee 120*. oceqieds stildeeireeSisseee• foalified its . an._ 'Lord Stanley of electioneering ally tLan ec o nem: oat adm .poatmak,,, ' ter-Geuettal of the 13 ttaseil ( P , 4%zif Was .4 • TEE CONFERENCE. (From as illustrated London News.) _ . quis'ot Clauricarde ; his successor Duke of Ar- ILE -POSITIO I V OF T HE- GoVh.t-LvALEIN,T. eyll, to whose merits as a states:nen justice alone could be rt.ndere-I in one of his Grace's long lectures. Ia the materials of such a Cabinet we do not see "the men" fit for giving to the country "the measures" upon whi3li it ha set its heart. A Whig Cabinet, with two statesmen like Lord John Russell and Earl Grey exclud ed from it, is a political anomaly. The Ministry, there fore, is neither a party Cabinet, nor is it (what was called in the last century)a "broad-bottomed Alministration." It has no hold upon large and powerful. classes of the community. The Peelites on one flank, and the politi cians of Manchester on the other, keep aloof from it, and it has only lived for the last few months upon " the chapter of accidents." Without a policy, distrusted by its nominal followers, such an Administration c anno t stand. The lath-and-plaster edifice, with its varnished stucco, must crumble before the first shock. THE SUPPLE IfENTARY SITTINGS OF For nearly forty years it was a matter of reproach against British statesmen and the British people that they habitually and systematically disregarded foreign politics: The revolutions and insurrections of 1848, and the war which ultimately grew out of them—and which has just been brought to a sudden, if not a satisfactory, conclusion—awakened them both somewhat rudely to a sense of their mistake. It was a misfortune to this coun try,' no less than to the world, that • there was only one or at most two English statesmen in the year 1853, who knew the true relationships of the Continental States towards each other, and towards this country ; or who had studied politics, not alone with reference to the narrow arena of the British Isles, but with reference to the equilibrium of all Europe, and to the general in terests of the civilised world. Are the people and their statesmen wider awake or better informed at the present moment? Is the Peace of Paris—signed, but not yet ratified—worthy of the efforts that have been made to obtain it? And have the Plenipotentiaries, or the Po tentates who pulled the strings of their deliberations, looked even five years before them ? They have done couch for the passing day and its longings for repose ; have they given a thought to the morrow and to the troubles with which it is heaving ? Let us consider for a moment what the war has settled, and what the Peace has left unsettled, that we may be the better enahled to judge both of the War and of the Peace ; and of the state of affairs which has been inau gurated by the Col f renews. At Paris, "all has gone oil merry as a marriage bell." The Russians have shown themselves humble ; the Allies—England alone excepted —have been all smiles and sunshine towards the toe ; an ter has been born to the house of Bonaparte amid the cengratulations of diplomacy ; the disput-s with Turkey bas been adjusted to the apparent satisfaction of all con cerned ; the price of diamonds has risen twenty per cent. in Paris, to the immense delight of the smug jewellers of the Palais Reyal and the Boulevard des 'Wiens ; Paris has given itself a holidgy ; Prussia has hugged herself in the pleasant delusion that even she hes done something towards the restoration of the P.,ace which she prize ; arid the great Czar of all the Russias— sharing the general satisfaction—has announced to his people that the objects of the war are accomplished ; that, the rights of the Christians in Turkey being secured, he has sheathed his sword, and made terms with his opponents upon whom he has thus imposed his own . views and his own course of policy. England and Austria have acquiesced in considering the war a purely Turkish one ; Turkey, of course, had no call to consider it anything else; and Europe, by the intermediation of all who took part in the Cen f,rences, has narrowed the subject to this one issue. On this one issue Peace has been proclaimed. Fr rose, Rus sia, and Prussia are happy; Turkey- is not very much dissatisfied ; Austria is somewhat bewildered ; Great Britain thinks she ought to be happy, but has a mis giving that, somehow or other, things are not so plea sant or so right as her good friends and allies endeavour to persuade her they are ; while gallant little Sardinia boldly proclaims her dissatisfaction, and treats the Peace as of little value and of problematical permanency. Perhaps Lord .Palmerston and Lord Clarendon share the opinions of Count Cavour in this matter ; but on this point the public has no means of judging. All that it knows is the Conferences are yet sitting, and that the postscript of their deliberations, like that of a lady's letter, may perhaps turn out to be more important than the body of their note. To heal a quarrel is a grand and a beneficent work ; but to patch up a difference or a dispute for a day, with out heeding whether it may break out with increased virulence to-morrow or the day after, is a work that merits little praise, either for its wisdom or its benevo lence. We do not assert that the Peace which has just been concluded is unsatisfactory, fur as yet we do not know its terms. The French and the British Govern ments have both proclaimed it to be honourable to all parties and humiliating to none ; and the public must await the authoritative and official promulgation of the treaty before it can deliver its verdict upon the contract to which it has become a party. Yet it is impossible to deny that there is an uneasy feeling in the public mind of this country;—that the pacification is considered to be too sudden and premature to augur a long continu ance - -that having had it i n our power to clothe tee Angel of Peace with Lew garments, white and unsul lied, we have dressed her up in rigs and patches ; that we have put out a fire in the forecastle, and taker, no heed of the leak in the hold ;—that we have been so anxious to bestow mercy and display generosity to a de feated foe, that we have forgotten or neglected to do jus. tele to our friends—that we have driven the robher from the door of Turkey, but have refused to take him int custody; aid that in aeceptin,g Sardinia for an ally ee, have tacitly accepted responsibi:ities towards that Power, and tower l is tee Italy of which she is the hope • and the representative, which we have failed t ex , eot wit's empty pro mace and idle sympathies. This Instinctive feeling on the part of the public may be right or it may be wrong ; but it would be foolish to deny that it exists, or that it will continue to exist, until the tongues of our diplomatist, and Aatesmen are un!oos ened, and the true state of the case made patent to the wit.Oe world. Whi:st continuing to hips that the Peace m- , y de serve ad the favour with which the Frenel have greeted we cannot shut our eyes w_aia-t the deep signifi , caeca of the remonstrances which Sardinia has made en the affairs of Italy ; and on the unexoec , ed complica tions which may thence result in the international rela• tions of those who were lately allies or toe,. • France, fir Naueleonic purpose , , may have views with regard to Ruins with which Protestant England may pcs.itlYy eynipathise, and against which Greek Russia may have nothing to allege ; but against which Austria nety fee: herseq bound to prote,t, even if her protest thou d take the term of Lay th itiand men at Ancona. The desig i s of Sardinia upon Limberly and Venice, while highly agreeable to the It &ails in those provinces and else ;there, may perhaps not be in any de4ree disagreeable to the Emperor of Russia, who can have no great amount of good towards his good friend Francis Just-ph. Great Britain may in like manner be well disposed to punish King Boulha ; but if it be a portion of his pun ishment, as it must, if this country have anything to do with it, to insist upon some degree of constitu tional freedom for the unhappy Sicilians, who de serve it ; and for the equally ill-governed but less unhappy Neapolitans, who seem to have no great desire for freedom—we do not well see bow the Emperor of the French can be a party to the chastisement. We say nothing of Poland, Hungary, or Germany. In flay alone there are ample materials for the disqu',ettide of all Europe, even though the Peace of Paris may, as regards Turkey, be all that the friends of Turkey can desire. It is a mistake to suppose that the War was merely a Turkish one ; and that no other or higher interests were involved in it than those of the Ottoman. Empire. It is possible that all these things have been con-idered ; and that at the supplementary sittings of the Conferences, which are likely to continuo for several days, the affairs both of the Scandinavian and the Italian peninsulas are receiving the earnest attention which they merit, if the Peace is to be as stable as it is said to he honourable. In the mean time let it be noted, as a sign how the wind blows, that, in proportion as Russia - shows herself in• clined to curry favpur with France, Austria endeavours to attach herself more strongly to Great Britain. It is well no doubt to hello when there- is occasion for re joicing, but the British people in this case are not likely to hollo very loudly till they are quite certain that they are out of the wood." IMPROVEMENTS IN FIELD GUNS. Oa Saturday some interesting experiments were tried at Manchegter wittra new brass fielii piece, the in vention,- Of Mr. WfiitWortfr, the well-known tnaci maker. The casting of the inetal had tat n, place at Wool crick, and walot. tbe , ditunsiOus of dioarily used for 21-poiTialer havintr termed a poljgonai spiral bore of 4 inches. Iron shot were used of a form t,rtnul nolygona , iie 1.1 4 4 th 32; b. halls be— inches, an'i that f 48.1,•ul:ders being! 16j iiiches. , ;L I e experime n t s 111 , -n4 -. .t the. Roykl Artai •try remtati,,,h-.1 at Manc'.e,ter, ureter the direction ,)r c:ot. Gfiffie Sir H. Smith • Was on . the grOun ,, , du the gn taer• part of the f _ pair, e . 4ro .11 r: W , stley Ricll4nl , , av=•-rita i)or'. e Nlanc eater ji,,Zt .Fxperimenta at tire. VVoiiis of Mr. rtb h, inel gave his assistance. A• lar.e party Mr. %Vi i it wort dinggeiitl-rxieo were pr.•.sent, .by invitation or . Mr. W. Fairbairri, C E. .„ The folio win g were the extraordinary resu l ts o f the , experiments Charge or Weiiht - va - .ti An g i e Powder. 0 ; 1! : , B , : - iieooill. Range. Experiment 1... 2 oz 2 RI tt 2 ... -30 z 321 b • 45 dg. 423 Yards 2t a " 18 1 ff 3... 3oz 321 b 45 deg' 621 y 4... 3oz - 43tb 45 e g 617 yar is P 3. 5..: Six 48ib As. deg .. 420 yard., -.' a 73 . » 6 ... -60 z 48lb 20 cl, "-Pg y ards 6oo s rdi„ 7... 7 , z 431 b 20 d eg 687 3 ar It - will be seen that the heavie s t c h arge of powder 8 w - ge .)r .a 48Ib kbot, fired at an angle of 45 d egree?, wi ,,,, mly av,i, t .4 frigeg, , and that the distance at which we ball itrti c k, the gre.uad witCri - 35 yards, and the extent of the .0., Q .. tisingiiound would not admit with safety of any in; crease of charge. 'grime ricochet practice followed afterwards, the re- Sults of which appeared to be highly satisfactory to the ! scientific gentlemen present. The muzzle of the gun in t le..e experiments had an elevation of only two and t free degrees. The last experiment was at two degrees elevation,:with a 48i . b. shot, having a charge of 4oz of powder, and-the shot first grazed the earth at a distance / of 83 yards, and n ever rose to a helgEt of more than three to folU feet. - THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY - EVENING, APRIL 14. 1556 aau ivilltLary The review of the fleet at Spithead by the Queen is ordered to take place on the 2,3 d inst. (St. George's-day). Her Majesty will arrive at Gosport from London at 11, and will leave on her return at 5. The following naval aides-de-camp are summoned to attend her Majesty on the occasion :—Admiral Sir W. Parker (first and princi pal), G.C.8., Commander-in-Chief at Devonport ; Capt. Sir B. Walker, K.C.8., Surveyor of the Navy ; Captain the Marquis Townsend ; Capt. Lord G. Paulet, C.B. ; Capt. Lord E. Russell, C.B. ; Capt. H. J. Cudrington, C. 8., of H.M.S. Algiers ; Capt. Sir T. Maitland, C. 8., of H.M.S. Excellent ; Corumodon the lion. F. T. Pel ham, C 8., Captain of the Fleet ; Capt. G. Elliott, of I. M.S. Jame t Watt ; Captain Robert Smart, K.H., ziuperintendent of Pembroke Dockyard. To-morrow evening the Lords of the Admiralty will arrive at Ports mouth, and on Wednesday morning will order the fleet through the evolutions intended to be per formed on the 231. The following ships and vessels were at the anchorage yesterday : Guns. Duke of Wellington, screw Royal George, screw Cenqueror, 5crew........, 101 Exmouth, screw Nile, screw ...... 91 Orion Guns. Trusty, screw Meteor Glatton, screw l4 Forth, screw mortar ship 12 Eurotas Rattler Couflict ~ screw James Watt, screw Caesar, screw Ol Centaur, paddle Algiers, screw Rodney, sailing ship ... 90 Merlin, paddle Majestic, screw £l Basilisk, paddle .... ..... Cressy, screw Colossus, screw SI Gorgon, paddle Brunswick, screw . 81 Driver, paddle Sanspareil, screw ... ..... 71 Heels, paddle Hawke, screw Russ3ll, screw 6O Mohawk Edinburgh, screw Hastings, screw, Hogue, screw Ajax, screw Arrogant, screw Moelnder, sailing ship... 44 Vesuvius Retribution, paddle 22 Sealark Esk, screw 2l Rolla Pearl, screw corvette ... 21 Lightning, paddle ...... Cossack, screw Cruizer, screw Magicieune, paddle Thunder, screw And about 60 gun-boats. The Eurafas, Sparrow hawk, Lizard, Porcupine, and the gun-boats, Lively, Erne, Delight, and Ma.kerel er riveit on Saturday from the eastward ; the Prometheuz arrived in the night from the Thames ; and the Sham cL, B iuncer, Drake, and the Traveller gun-boats yes ter iay. A vat number of excur,ionists visited Portsmouth yes terday by the South- Western and South Coast Railways. Toe following notice has been published by the Port Admiral " NOTICE. " BY COMMAND OF THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF TEE ADMIRALTY. " Steamers, sailing-vessels, and boats are not to attempt to cross the line of the ships of war about to be reviewed on the 234 inst., nor on any account to pass between the columns; nor are they to occupy any part of the man-of war channel between Spithead and St. Helen's during the evolutions. " Steamers are to keep to leeward of the columns or ships in the order of sailing, as their smoke might prevent signals being quickly noticed, thereby causing accident. " Vessels are not on any account to pass to windward of the Royal Yacht if it can be possibly avoided. " Masters of vessels must be aware that the evolutions of so large a number of men-of-war require a considerable space, and they are therefore to steer accordingly, and not close in to interrupt the evolutions. They themselves will alone be answerable should any accident occur. " GEORGE F. SEYMOUR, <<" Vice-Admir a l, an d C ommander-in-Chief. Victory, in Portsmouth harbour. April 9, 1856." Her Majesty's steam troop-ship Megmra, 6, Com mander John 0. Johnson, arrived at Spithead at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon from the Black Sea, Malta, and Gibraltar. She brought home two naval invalids, 30 seamen from the Pride of the Sea, two from the Enterprise, and two from the Red Rover, lost in the Black Sea. The Megmra has been five years in commis-ion; she left Spithead on her last voyage on the 27th of Apri , 1854 ; since then she has been employed exclusively in the Black Sea, and has been, generally speaking, a re 112 trkably healthy vessel. She made the greater part of Vie passage home under canvas, her machinery, boilerr. Sze., being in a very defective state, but she will serve very well for the accommodation of the privileged at the forthcoming review, being a capacious vessel of 1,400 tO The London, 90, Captain W. H. Jervis, was towed by the Confiance and Zephyr from Hamoaze into Ply mouth Sound on Saturday. She is appointed to sail to-day for Spithead, and will probably be ace •mpanieil by the paddle-wheel steam-frigate Vulture, 6, Captain F. H. Grasse. The copper of the Calcutta, 84, Captain W. K. Hall, having been examined and repaired, she was taken out of the basin dock at Devonport on Saturday. Her crew got up lower yards and topmasts, and pointed topgal lantmasts the same day. The crew of tho screw steam-chip Centurion, 81, Cap tain W. J. Williams, at Keyham, bent sails on Saturday. She will be taken out of dock to-day, and vviil go into Plymouth Sound to-morrow. The Widgeon and Myrtle paddle-wheel steam-vessel, arrived at Sheerness on Saturday, each having a new mortar vessel in tow, from the river Thames. The new mortar vessels Nos. 46 and 47, built by Messrs. Harvey, o' Ip-wich, now fitting at Sheerness, are ordered to be hastened, to enable them to be gio ready for joining the sepradron at Spithead. Considerable improvement, are being made at Sheer ness to make the e ork hops complete in every respect for the preParation of ereau-engine machinery similar to that tornierly executed at the Woolwich f.ctory. Two wooden mortar vessels, Nits. 53 arid 54, of mueli more formidable drinensi ins than those hitherto breuele to Wootwieh, were on Friday t,wed up from the factory of Messrs. Brigge, of Sunderland, by the Eagle tug-boat, and were forwarded thence on the following day te Sheerness, to be roasted and ringed for service. The 18 inch mortar, landed at Wodwich Arsenal a few days ae , from Liverpool, is to be de-patched to-day to Shoehery• ness, to be submitted to a series of experiments, it.beioe the intention of the authorities of the proof departmenf to put the Nova Sc tia iron of which the mortar is cast to a then - nigh test. The steam-tug Monkey, 130-horse power, Secone!- Maeter G. Syndercombe, arrived at Woolwich on Satur day morning from Sheerness, bringing 70 supereurne raries of the fleet. These were immediately distributed on board the gun-boats Procris, Spanker, Grappler, and Thrasher, which soon afterwards left for Greenhithe. These vessels are all stored and equipped for three months' service, and are to join the squaaron at Ports mouth. The paddle-wheel steam-vessel Kite, 3, 170 horse power, having undergone thorough repairs, is again in perfect. service order. She has been commissioned by Second Master Alfred Joseph Veitch temporarily, and is to pro ceed to Portsmouth. Her Majesty's freight ship Emma Eugenie, Captain M'Clelland, arrived at the new pier off Woolwich arsenal on Friday evening, with No. 3 company sth battalion of the Roeal Artillery under the command of Capt. Hilt aid Lieut. Strange. They were medically attended by S t aff - Assistant-Surgeon J. A. Laing, and consisted of 56 non - commissioned officers and gueuers, 12 women, and 19 children. The Emma Eugenie likewise brought home seven invalids of the 36th and 16.. h regiments, who pro ceeded on Saturday to Fort Pitt barracks at ChaVa,!‘ under the command of Capt. Hill and Dr. Laing. She sailed front Jamaica on the Bth of Feb , and experienced heavy gales for some days at the commencement of her voyage, the wind veering from the south-west to north east, occasioning heavy squalls,- which continued until the 19th. She arrived on the 29th of March at Kinsale, and eailed on the sth of April for Woolwich. Ne casu attics occurred during the voyage, with the exception of the death of one woman from consumption. One birth likewise took place. The steamer Antelope was on Saturday morning paid off at WoolwiCh Dockyard. Two more gun beats will be launched by Mr. J. Laird from his Birkenhead building yard on Saturday next. The following appoiameets were made on Saturday at the Admiralty : —John -Parley, to be assistant-pay master to the Seuspareil ; A. Whrffin, to be assistant paymaster to the Hawke ; T. J. T., Wood, to be assist ant-paymaster to the Osprey ; F. Woods, to be assistant paymaster to the Alacrity. On Saturday last, an inspection of the several depots udder orders r einbuketion to join the heard-quarters of their respective regiments took place at Chatham. by Col. Jervis, commandant of the provisional battalion. The depots ,if the following regiments appeared on the raradegrou d— z., the sth Northumberland Fu i ere, ureter the cisnithand of Capt. W. Lyons ; the 12th Regi merit, the , ienot of which is ureter thee minand of Brevets meijor F, G. Handev the 26th Cameronians, under the command of Capt. W. Mosse ; the t. nniler ta • eour.e.ead .14:eue Ai s and the 40th anc Regime n t s , i n c h arge of Cat. J. teell: Tie men 1.45 th a,,- p din their n ew uniform and w e r e i n heavy marching order. Th - A . fith Fusiliers will embark for the Manrititee the 37th Reg:rneht for Ceylon, and the 45th for the Cape of" Good Hope. On Saturday afternoon the whole of the troopa.belnng in, to the Rossi Engin eers ' esablishrnent at Chath am, underthe direction of C,t. Seedha S., were engaged in operations it a highly ieteresting ewe acter. Th, experiments took place at the practising groued corinectel with the Royal Eeeiireere, nearetlie.Caeernete Barrack=; St. Mary's, and were . cenductect wiLdi the .view of show ing in wh a t manner maeses, of troops can defend them selves when opposed t an enemy in the field. Excava- Ilops had been wade, and earthworks thrown up by the troops belonging to the It,,yal Sappers and Mi ners to illustrate the various mod e s of . defence when e ngag ,-d in an open or enemy's country. Several excavation 'had also been made far the purpose of showing the utf e lity and advantage of rifle-pits. During the siege opera tions Berne mines, which had been prepared to illustrate the practical working of the experiments, were fired in a successful manner, the force of she explosions scatterin g the earthworks and the balks of timber with which they heel been covered. The troops belonging to the Sappers and Miners engaged in the siege works were under the direction of Captain Fitzroy Somerset - , R. E. The following circular memorandum has been issued by the horse Guards, dated April 7 . , . ”.As boys authorised .to be enlisted fo r th e cavalryand infrantry of the line are entitled to a 'free• kit,' under l t a he st,pftois e t i o e n b e e o f u t n h d e e r r t y o a o l d w a t r h r a a t n t t o h f e t h b e o u 2 n 2 t d y e o f fJ2a uf. 2aBr.y, formerly allowed for their equipment, with necessaries is discontinued."- Via Galwa ailit MILITIA. y ia about 600 Oxon ,Tic ge oow _ mend or Lieut.-C,)'. the Earn of Clancarty, embarked at Liverpo , il on saturday for Galway iii the screw stEaw ship Awe:4, which, after dt , eml.arkiog them at Dublin, will proceed t, the Crimea to bring hone troops. The Alps also sailed for the Crimea from Liverpool on Sa. turday. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. CLERKENWELL. TEE ILLEGAL TRAFFIC IN YOUNO WOMEN FROM 11A3IRURGII.—A. respectably dressed young woman, of the name of Johanna Duver ger, was placed at the bar before Mr. Currie, charged with stealing four cab() shirts, the property of Mr. F. A. Bauer, a professor of music, residing at No. 6, Fea therstone-buildings, Holborn. Mr. Parry, instructed by Mr. Shaen, the solicitor of the Ass , ciate Institution for Improving, and Enforcing the Laws for the Protection of Women, attended for the de fence. The prisoner in this case is a native of Hamburgh, whence she came in Au ; met last from the house of her parents, who are respectable tradespeople, to take the position of general servant in the house of, as she be lieved, a Mrs. Bauer, of No. 6, Featherstone-buildings, Holborn. The place had been procured for her through a servants' office in Haniburgb, kept by a Mr. and Mrs. Lutseus. She carnerextremely well provided with clothes, and with various little articles of personal ornament. When she came to the place she found that her mistress had been a Mrs. Bauer, but had married again, a man named Kratsman', and was keeping a lodging-house, having a grown-up son (the prosecutor) living with them. The wages she was to receive was 6s. per month. From the time of the prisoner's arrival she has never received any wages at all, and whenever she has asked for them her mistress has told her to go out in the streets and see gentlemen, and get money from them. This has several times been done, and the girl has, when thus sent out, passed the evening at the house of a German acquaint. ance, and she declared that she bas never had improper connection with any one. From time to time Kratsman has sent her to pawn a number of her personal orna ments, ineluding a brooch, a pair of ear-rings, a ring, a gold locket, a silver r • icil-case, &c., arid she has handed the money thus obtained to Mrs. Kratsman. Soon after she came, the step-son, Mr. Bauer, sail he would teach her English if she would sleep with him, but this she always refused to do. He has at various times an to a fortnight ago repeated these solicitations. Ab iut six weeks ago a gentleman, with his wife and family, came to lodge+) the house, and very soon after wards the prisoner spoke to the lady's private maid, and also to the lady's daughter, begging to be relieved from • her position, and at different times mentioned the facts above detailed, almost all of which were known to the lady prior to Friday last. On that morning the prisoner came down about seven o'clock, as usual, and went into the front parlour to clean the room. Toe prosecutor was there, and as soon as he saw her he began abusing her fir having complained of him to the lodgers, and for having written against him home to her mother; and he ultimately struck her with his fist and with his open hand on her face. The lady and her da•ghter both heard the scuffle, and the girl rushed up stairs to them for protection, with the marks of the blow distinctly on her face. The maid servant also heard the scuffle, and saw the mark of the blow. From that time the lady kindly took the girl under her protection, acid on the afternoon mentioned the circumstances of the case to her husband, who at once put it into Mr. Shaen's hands ; and he on behalf of the Associate Institution for Im proving the Laws for the Protection of Women took the matter up. On Saturday Mr. Shaen took out a sum mons against Mr. Bauer for the assault, and the case was heard before Mr. Corrie on Tue,clay, when, after a ram bling defence, in which Mr. Bauer cross-examined the prisoner and the witnesses at great length, the magis irate suggested that the case should stand over gene rally to give Mr. Shaen the opportunity of making fur ther inquiries as to the girl, it being alleged that her complaints had already been inquired into, and found to be unfounded by the Hamburgh court, Mr. Shaen also stair g that they would in the meantime take charge of the girl. On Thursday, as this gentleman and his family were leaving their lodgings the girl was given in charge by Mr. Bauer and Mr. Kratsman, on a charge of stealing and pawning shirts. She was taken off to the station-house, where she was kept all night. Before she went, however, an offer was made to her to withdraw the charge of robbery, if she would withdraw the charge against Mr. Bauer, which she declined to do. The case was gone into on Friday, and then adjourned until Saturday, when the first witness called was— F. A. Bauer, who stated that he was a professor of music. The prisoner was in his father's service up to Friday week. There were a good many shirts of his missing, and from information received he rent to the shop of Mr. Ward, a pawnbroker, in Holborn, and saw four shirts, pawned at different times, which he identi fled as his property. Ile had never sent her to pawn a single shirt at any time. Cross-examined by Mr. Parry—lt was not until after the charge of assault had been preferred against me that I made a search, and ascertained that the prisoner had stolen my shirts. I do not know how many times a week I have seat her to the pawnbroker's. Not so many as 30 or 40. I may have sent her two or three times with shirts. Ido not know whether Mrs. Krats man evrr sent her to pawn shirts. The prisoner's wages were to be 3/. 12- , . a-year. I do not consider that too much for a young woman aged 21. I was charged at this court on Tuesday with slapping her in the face. She al-„ charged me with taking i,:decent liberties with ,er. Ido not know that when the girl has asked for her wages she has not received them. She was to stop io our service for 12 months, to repay us the money we Advanced for her pAssagi over. lam _a professor of and have fetched things from the pawnbroker's which I have sent the prisoner to pawn. Mrs. Emily Schiel identified two of the shirts pro •luced as her property. She never gave the prisoner or any other person li env to pawn them. She had never sent the prisoner at all for her. Cross-examined by Mr. Ri,ry—tier husband was con• victed a shoo t time since for forgery, and was sentenced to penal servitude. An agAstant to Nir. Ward, the pawnbroker, produced the shirts, but said be should not like to swear who awned them, for the may; niel to fetch things pawned oy the prisoner, and the prisoner has redeemed goods pa wnedby the prosecutor. Mr. C.rrie said he would discharge the prisoner, and in .0 doing he could not help saying that the lady had be. Ifived very kindly in the matter, and in a way that was to be expected from an English gentlewoman. knVRATIMMMPNT.I SIGHT AND 111/ARINO. SPECTACLES, POWERFUL TELESCOPES, OPERA, RACE AND PERSPECTIVE GLASSES. —Messrs. S. and t 3. Solomons, opticians, 39, Albemarle street, Piccadilly. Observe opposite the York Hotel. Ky tier Majesty's Rce al Letters Patent for valuable and :xtraordinary improvements in the most powerful and brilliant Telescopes, Camp, Racecourse, Opera, and Per spective Glasses, to know the distances of objects viewed through them—of great importance to the army, navy, ind others. 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Barry du Barry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London ; Fortnum, Mason, and CO., Purveyors to her Majesty, Piccadilly; also at 60, Grace church-street; 33d an d . 451 , St ran d ; 4 , Cheapside ; 68, Cernhill • 49, Bishop sga t e - s t ree t ; 55, Chithig-Orslai 54, Upper iskultrest ; 63 swl 150, OsfordArtet, '::_ •.:.: 7 ::. ~.;..7.: :=, E=:-:-.:, ~: TIIE MILITARY BOARD INQUIRY. [A. part of the following appeared in onr impression of Saturday :—] The Board of general officers resumed their sittings this morning at the usual hour, at the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. The examination of Col. Lowe by Col. Tulloch Wal continued.—He considered it perfectly possible, seeing that shelter would be required for the horses, that can vass, &c., might have been obtained a month earlier than the period when the huts were erected, and would have been a wise precaution. When his men had tools and materials they showed much ingenuity in providing shelter for the horses. The number of available men for the work during December varied from Ito 20. In the beginning of December it had not been decided where the camp ;:hould be situated, but ha was unable to say when it was decided on. The horses were shifted every opportunity the ground admit ted of. The want of men and the transport of material re tarded the progress of the work more than the want of tools. He was unable , to say that carpenters might have been obtained from the shipping at Balaklava to supply the want of men.to erect the stabling. His stabling was completed about the end of Feb. or the beginning of March. He was unable to say now how many horses he had alive in November, but when his stables were completed he had but 39 horses alive. He gave a re turn in the Crimea, and he should think the number alive in November was from 130 to 150 ; his was the last stabling completed from want of wood. Colonel Tulloch then proceeded to put to the witness a question similar to that which had been put to the pre vious witnesses he had called in reference to the para graph in the report relative to the want of promptitude or ingenuity in providing shelter for the horses, the same as that adopted by the , Sappers and Miners at Bala klava. Lord Lucan objected to the question. It was not o n ly a leading question, but it was particularly calling half a-dozen selected witnesses to over-ride the Court in giving their opinion on the whole matter. Ultimately the question was put. Col. L-Ave said, in reply, that he had never seen the horses of the Sappers and Miners at 134laklava, and he declined expressing any opinion on it, not having con sidered it in relation to the paragraph quoted. Col. Tulloch put the question to the witness again, on which Lord Lucan objected, saying the witness had answered it twice. The witness retired, Lord Lucan having declined to cross examine him then. By the Judge-Advocate-General—Did Lord Lucan frequently visit your camp ? Col. Lowe—Yes. Judge-Advocate-General—What passed on those oc casions ? Col. Lowe—He made inquiries relative to the state of the officers, men, and horses, and he examined the work that had been done. Tne witness then retired. General Beatson, Commander of the Bashi-Bazonks, was next called and examined by Col. Tulloch. He said that be landed in the Crimea about the Ist October, with General Scarlett's heavy brigade, and remained there till the end of November. The horses from the time they landed to the time he left the Crimea were in a very bad state. He did not think it was practicable to place the horses under temporary shelter on the plateau near Lord Raglan's quarters, from the uncer tainty there was of their remaining there. Lord Lucan and General Searlett wished to remove the cavalry to a better spot about three hundred yards in the rear, but it was not done. It was owing to that uncertainty that the reason why the horses were not earlier got under shelter was attributable. The best description of shelter must depend on the nature of the materials at hand. Digging trenches and throwing up earth around the horses, he was unable to say whether such were practicable in the Crimea. He saw none whilst he was there. It was the practice of the Bashi Barouke, when in a country where there was wood, to construct temporary shelter with the branches of trees, but, of course, could not construct any where there were no triges. It was not desirable to expose Eeglish horses for so long a time, and in such weather as that referred to. He bad heard the description of the state of the horses from wet, mud, and frost, and he thought the same objection was applicable to the cavalry not digging trenches, from the uncertainty of their remaining where they were, and the laborious nature of the work re• quiring a good supply of tools. He certainly would not have placed his own horses under canvass on the pla teau, because the first gale of wind might have blown the canvass off, and the horses have been injured thereby more than if they had stood in the open air. By Lord Lucan—He left the camp shortly after the storm of the 14th November. No officer to his know ledge placed his own horses under canvass on the plateau; it would not have been judicious to have hutted the horses on the plateau. Lord Lucan—On the part of the heavy brigade with which you most lived in the Crimea, was there any want of promptitude shown in providing shelter for the horses ? Gen. Beatson—l think every officer was anxious to take all possible care of the horses. , Lord Lucan—To what do you attribute the bad con dition of the horses on landing in the Crimea General Beatson----I attribute it to the want of proper arrangement being made for the foraging of the cavalry before they left Varna. Colonel Griffiths was recalled—On the 3,1 December, when at Kadikoi, his horses were, generally speaking, in pretty good order. There were some very weak. The horses stood at their picquets till about the 3.1 of Jan. before any of them were under cover. No orders were given to shelter them till the 16th Dec., and the delay that occurred after that was from want of men and tools. The number of available raen employed in providing shelter depended on the amount of commis eariat duty required of them. On an average they were from 70 to 75 men. He thought sail cloth covering and spars, if both had been there, could have been put up for shelter in four days. In December he lost 28 horses, and in January 51 hones, and at the end of January he had only about one-third of the horses that left England alive. He suggested to General Scarlett that application should be made for carpenters on board the fleet in Balak'a ia harbour. All he could say was, that he didn't get them. He thought that, under the circumstances, the cavalry did their best in providing temporary shelter for their horses ; but should they be called on for another cam paign, no doubt they would improve on their past expe rience. When he was at Bilaklava he saw a canvas covered stable, but he took no notice of it. He never went into it, nor made any inquiries about it, and it was only when he saw the Commissioners' report that he was aware the stables belonged to the Sappers and Miners. The Sappers and Miners situated at Balaklava had greater facilities (and the men were much less worked than the cavalry) for erecting temporary shelter than the cavalry had at Kadikoi. Major Thompson wa9" recalled and examined by the Judge-Advocate-General relative to his former statement of digging a drain for his horses, and he W 39 asked to explain how it was the mortality amongst his horses after that was greater than in other regiments. The witness said he could only account for it from the .sth Dragoons having a larger number of horses and fewer men to look after them than /toy other regiment in the Crimea. Having explained some other points, Mr. Robert Rawlingson—Was engineering member of the commission, and was so employed from April to July. He was wounded in June. He had made him self acquainted with the geological formation of the Crimea, and, speaking as a civilian, if he bad had fifty mei at his command with appropriate tools he should have found no difficulty in providing temporary -helter for the hOrses in any part of the Crimea. No one could conceive, without experience, the effect the weather had on the ground, transforming it into a thick mud in a very short space of time. That part of the country near - Malton, in Yorkshire, and down to the- sea,_ very much resembled Kadikoi ; other parts partook of the oolitaformation,. and required tools to work it. In . other places the earth could be thrown up to make earthworks for the protection of the cattle. Shelter, under the direction of a railway con tractor, 'and proper materials, could have been provided at the rate of two men per horse, in two days. There were many places in the plateau, near Lord Rag lan's, where sites might have been selected where the regiments might have been well sheltered. He had seen, for weeks together, wretched-looking ani ma's knee d ee p in mud, with no nose bag, and the forage thrown on theonud,nine-tenths of which wa- , trod dc-n into the mud before they could eat it. If there had been an abundance of sail cloth, and other materials, 100 horses, allowing two men to a horse, might have been sheltered in a week. Our army did not appear to have paid that attention to the sheltering of the horses aq the French did, and the Sardinians, the first moment they arrived in the country. He cpuld only speak as a civilian, and not as a military man before the enemy, but he considered that no railway con tractor w i t h tiaterialp_O hand would have lint op. - t, elate th tneounite r Lee Lior.,es tfiAL we lost, and from the same causes. Lord Lucan—Did you see any of the cavalry horses of our allies under cover ? Mr. Rawlingson—l am not aware that I did. I might have seen them, but I paid no attention to them. Lord Lucan—When the Sardinian army came into the field had they any field duties to perform, and at what period of the year did they arrive in the Crimea ? Mr. Rawliegson—l cannot remember the period of the year when they arrived in tile Crimea, nor can I say anything about their field dutie4. In reply to another question from Lord Lucan the witness said that his remarks, as to the state and condi tion of the horses, had no reference to the manner in which the horses had been fed. He meant by compar ing the loves of a railway contractor to refer to the ex posure of horses to wet and cold. Mr. Bracebridge, who had been engaged in the Crimea, entered into a detailed et itement of the quan tity of spare sails there was on board the ships in the harbour of Balaklava, and said he was of opinion that had the sails been laid over the horses' backs during the hal weather, the mortality amongst them would have been less, and also that linseed at ss. per bushel could have been procured a. Constantinople for mixing with the barley given to the horses, so as to have increased the forage supplies. Major-General S r Richard Airey was the next witness called, and examined by Col. Tulloch—l understand that upon the 8.. h of November you issued orders to L rd Lucan to provide shelter for his horses, and on the 12th you renewed those orders ?—I think it was about those dates. I presume that when an order is issued, emanating from so high an authority, it is understood that the officer to whom it is addressed has the means of obey ing it ?—Certainly, to a great extent. When you issued such an order I presume you knew or had the means of knowing what number of men Lord Lucan was likely to have available for the purpose of providing shelter—what number were employed upon the indispensable duties of the camp -and, in fact, whe ther it was practicable for his Lordship to carry the order into execution ? —When Lord Raglan desired me to c )nvey these orders to Lord Lucan the cavalry had just got on to their new ground, and as we had written to Constantinople and were expecting to receive materials for the shelter of the horses a letter was sent to the office:. commandiss the cavalry to make cinch preparations as he could for their shelter meanwhile. To my mind, it was quite evident that the only preparations which the cavalry could make were in tracing the ground, turning to account such lab Air and such intrenching tools as they had at their disposal, excavating a little, and getting the ground level, so as to be prepared for the uprights and wood we expected every day from Constantinople. At that time bad the ultimate site of the cavalry camp been fixed upon ?--No. Then, of course, the men could neither have been digging the ground nor preparing uprights t—When I say the cavalry were not established upon their ultimate ground the Board should understand that it was not at all sure that it might riot have been their ultimate wit tion. The fact is, lam placed here in rather a peculiar position. -I was in close conference with the Commander in -Chief, and knew everything that was going on between him and the Commanders-in-Chief of the allied armies. There were various transactions between those person, which it would not be convenient to mention here. I will only say that their conferences were continual. There was a partioular reason, which I won't now state, why the cavalry were upon the ground to which Col. Tuiloch is now alluding. It appesys that Lord Lucan was written to an i desired to make temporary shelter as well as be could for his horses. Probably it might have been in tended only to suggest that the earth should be embanked a little, and some temporary protection provided in this way. At th's time, I repeat, it was by no means certain whether or not the cavalry would have to remain on the plateau ; it depended on a variety of contingencies connected with the reinforcements both of the French and Turkish army. But how was Lord Lucan to make temporary shelter before the wood arrived ? What was he to do without materials ?-13e might perhaps have embanked the earth, intrenched the ground, and have thrown up such tem porary shelter as he best could. • Was it not more especi illy your province to know whether Lord Lucan's men had or had not a sufficient quantity of intrenching tools to enable them to work ? Certainly, it was my province to know, and certainly I did know that they were very badly off for intrenching tools of all descriptions. The reasons were very apparent. We were at that time engaged in breaking ground for a siege of enormous magnitude, fir which we were not well prepared, and it was with the utmost difficulty that we got the engineers to spare us the tools for the regi ments. The regulations, it should be known, afford a very limited allowance ; I think the allowance is five pickaxes for a whole regiment, but I believe I have Issued as many as 46 pickaxes to one battalion of the army in the course of sor 6 weeks. The trenching tools of the English army are notoriously bad. Then, again, the English soldier does not pay for these tools, unless he is found in the act of wantonly destroying them, and the cimsequence is that he uses them prover bially ill. All the regiments in the army were, until a very la.e period indeed, extremely badly off for intrench ing tools. If Lord Lucan had no materials and no intreoching tools, how could be provide shelter as you directed ?-- You mistake when you suppose that the cavalry had no intrei:ching tools. They were very badly off for them, but I did not say they had none. It having been stated to Sir John M'Ned and my self, in the evidence of Col. Gordon, that Lord Lucan bad been ordered to make temporary stables on the Sth and 12th of Nov., had we not goo 1 reason to point out that there was "a want of prompitude or ingenuity" when we found those stables were only completed in the middle of Feb., or three months after the issue of the order? Lord Lucan objected to the question. It was not within the province of the witness to pronounce a gene ral opinion of that nature. This was the blainess of the Board—not of the witnesses. Col. Tulloch looked upon this question as a most im portant one, both for the Board, the commissioners, and the country, and pressed for permission to put it. The Judge-Advocwe announced that no decision would be given upon the point by the Board until their ❑ext meeting. The Court then, at 4 o'clock, adjourned until Monday. THE DEATH OF FIVE CHILDREN FROM SITARVATION. An inquest Wa 3 held at the Town Hs,'•l, C3rdiff, on Tuesday last, on the body of Ellen Welsh, aged two years. The Coroner informed the jury that he held this in. quest in consequence of a communication from Mr. Paine, respecting the death of five children under cir cumst;.nces so extraordinary as to call fur strict investi gation. It appeared from the evidence adduced, that John Welsh, an Irish labourer, arrived hi this country with his wife and seven children, shortly b. , fore last Christ mas ; and about five weeks since he deserted his unfor tunate family, leaving them wholly destitute, in a miser able lodging-house, 24, Litt!e Frederick -street. The family at this time consisted of Margaret Welsh, the de serted wife, a girl of 16 years of age, a boy of 13, a boy of 9, a girl of 7, twin , (hay and girl) of 4 years, andSa girl of 2 years ; and their oniy means of subsistence was ss. per week earned by the eldo.t girl, and an occasional or at the most 2s. per week, earned by the mother by picking potatoes landed from the vessels, as her time was much occupied with the younger children. Such a sum was, of course, too little to provide food for a family of eight persons at the present rate of provisions. From a fe.ding of shame she did not apply to the relieving officer until last, Monday week, when he gave her an order for medical assistance, and some necessaries for the ' children. Mr. Paine attended with his usual prompti tude, but found that the boy, aged 13, had already died ; and from the symptoms described had evidently been labouring under an attack of hooping-cough. The ema ciated state of the other four children induced inquiry, and he found that they were not suffering from any disease, but from actual want of food. The relieving officer, under his direction, furnished the sufferers with wine and other necessaries, but the aid had come too late, and one by one the four younger children dropped off. One of the twinS, a girl, aged 4 years, died on Thursday ; Bessy, aged 7 year., died on Friday ; the twin boy died on Sunday ; and Ellen, aged 2 years, on Monday. Mr. Paine made a post-mortem examination of two of the bodies on his own responsi;illity, and the result clearly showed that death had been produced en tirely by the exhaustion consequent upon a want of pro per sustenance. Hannah Allen, the landlady of the lodging-house, said that Margaret Welsh had done all in her power f r the children, and suffered hunger herself rather than de prive them of the little food she bad to give, but she manifested the most extraordinary reluctance to apply for relief. In the words of the witness, •' She had not the courage' to go to the relieving officer." The Coroner remarked that it was very much to be regretted that the poor woman had not made application for relief in time; but it would only aggravate her misery to return a verdict of censure. The Jury concurred in this view, and several of them expressed their opinion that there was no blame attribut able to any of the officers of the union, as the relief afforded was ample and w as promptly given, Mr. Paine ' s exe rtions especially having been most praiseworthy. They returned a verdict. "Died from exhaustion, pro duced by want of proper sustenance." Monmouth Merlin. • [ADVERTISEMENT.]-only to be known to be valued.—Dr. Roberts's celeb ra t e d o i ntment, called the " Poor M an ' s Friend," is confidently recommended to the public as an un failing remedy for - wounds of every description, a certain cure of ulcerated sore legs, if of twenty years' standing, cuts, burns, s . .Alds, bruises, chilblains, scorbutic eruptions, and Pimples in the f ace , sore and inflamed eyes, sore heads, can cerous humours, <ix., and is a specific for those afflicting eruptions that sometimes follow vaccination. Sold in pots, at is. 1 1. and 2s. 9d, each.—Also his " Pilule Antiscro• phuh," confirmed by more than forty years experience to be, without exception, ono of the best alterative medicines ever compounded for purifying the blood and assis ing nature in all her operations ; hence they are useful in scrofula, scorbutic complaints, glandular swellings, particularly those of the neck, &c. They form a mild and superior family aperient. that may be taken at all times without confinement or change of diet. Sold in boxes, at Is. 10., 2s• 9 ' l , 4s. 61, 1113., and 225. each.—Sold wholesale by the proprietors, Beach and Barnieott, at their dispensary , Bridport; by the London houses ; retail .by all respectable medicine vendors in the United Kingdom. Observe.—No medicine sold under the above names can possibly be genuine, unless " Beach ant Barnieott, late, Dr. Roberts, Briclport," 13 ellgrEtycd sat printed on tho Stltipalfaed to each bvr. , • • - Co y MARKET-ArRiL 11. HADDINGTON CORN BIA7e. 48i Od 44+ Od 40 Od : , 78 sold 212 - , 0.d 319 sold Ilb sold WHEAT. RAMAT OATS. First 7Bs Od 45s Od 32s 6d Second 73s 7d 41s 74 / 29s 6d Third.. 67s 6d 36s Od 1 26s 6d Total quantity of wheat in market, 409 qrs., barley ~ 3 6 qrs., oats : ,; 350 qrs., PP beans ~ 111 qrs., _ _ AVERAGES PER V4PIENIAL QUARTER. Wheat, 3/. 13 7 8-12ths 1 Barley, ...2/. 1 7 6.ltabs Oats, ... 11. 4 6 1-14ths I Beans, 21. 4 0 11-1261 ll IP DALKEITII GRAIN MARKET-APBIL 10 . Qrs. Best. Current. Inferior 266 Wheat 76s 6d oos Od 032 Oats 32s 4d. o os Od . 23- id 296 Barley 44s Otl oos Od 65 Peas & beans 47s Od O OB Od ABE LIDEEN-Armi, 11. 40$ Od Potato oats ...25s Od to 26s Od Common oats —s Od t o 25 s Od 401bs per bush* Bere 3 ,s Od to .5s 6d I m `"cks Barley 35 s Od t o 35 s 6d fuu Wheat, red (spring)sBs Od to 64s Od 1621bs white 01 to 70s Od Oatmeal 19s Od to 20s Od per boll. Flour 55s Od to 56s Od per sack. PROVISION MARKET. Beef, per lb 5d to 8d Butter, p lb. oslod to is 0 1 Mutton, per lb 6d to 8d Eggs, p doz. Os 5d to Os 6. 1 Veal, per 1b...... 6d to Os 9d Hens, p pair 3a Od to 3s 6 4 Pork, per 5t...5s 31 to 5s 61 Chickens,do.2s Od to 1, 6 3 Salmon, per lb ......Os to Os Ducks, do., 2s Od to 2s 6.1 Grouse, per brace.....Os to Os Ducklings,doOs Od t A .O, , 01 Tallow, p stone, 3591 to -Is 01 Turkeys, each4s Od t o 5., 04 Potatoes, pr peck, 6d to 74 Geese, do., Os Od to Os 0.1 Rabbits, each 9d to 104. Butter for exportation (present cure) per cwt.—so 4 to 106 1 Eggs, wholesale price, per dozen —d to 6 RETAIL PRICES. Flour, 141 b —s Od to 3s Od Barley flour,l4lb.Os to N Oil Oatmeal Os Od to 2s Od „ dust, Os tooilo 4 Beremeal ....0s Od to 1 s 10d per lb 2d to 20 Peasemeal... Os Od t o 2 s 1 d Sids, B4 4-Ib. 10af...8d. I 2-Ib. 10af...4d. Cheese, per imperial stone, 4s to 4. 6d . . DUBLIN —APRIL 8. Tho market to-day was again extremely dull for semi description of grain except'prime wheat, which was rather scarce and wanted. In a few instances a trifling advsno was realised on t his article, but we do not alter our general currency from Tuesday. Indian corn scarcely saleable. - - - White wheat, 381 Od to 42s ; red ditto, 35a Oct to 39 , 0* barley, 14s Od to 193 Od ; oats, 11s Od to 14s Od ; rapesee —s Oct to —s Oct per brl ; oatmeal, 14s Od to 15s 6d ; bakers flour, 21s Od to 273 Od per cwt ; Indian corn, 30s Od to 32s 04 per 480 lbs. SEABORNE MAILS. (N signifies that the mails are sent from the General Post ale' -y the night—and M by the morning--despateh.) Day Whitll Made Lit I Prom iv ha. Irma; COUNTRIEft. in General Post- Port dne is Office, London.* -- --.—..._ —...—..—..... Dispatcher... Envlttiad. ttnerica(byltrit.pack .1 , Every Friday .... Li verpool .., Akni i 1 1, kmerice. (by United St: packet) .... •.....N .....• •• • • Liverpool America (by U. Stater . packet) .......... - li •• ..• • • Seutkamptor. testralia (via South ampton) ..........31 •••••• ••• • • • • Southampto.. - Jltto (via illarseilles) N ••••••;•• •• • Dover . - Ditto (via Cape of Good Hope) .......... ..NI .. 00000 •••• • -.• U.ccerti(ff &trice (West Coast)..Nl 23 d of the mouth . Ply Mouth .. kiexandria..........1.1 8 , 9, 24, & 30 of to. D over .... k1exandria..........21 4t13 & 20th of moo. Southampton) - Bahamas ...........151; 1 7th of the mont! Seuthamptcll ilelgium ...........N.Daily— •• —..— • • Dover ...... Daly Brazil ..............31 9th of the month.. Southampton , April 16. BuenosAyres•• •• •• • .31 9th of the month.. S out h ampton April 1 6 Capeut Good Hope -.N Various port Uncertalll Cape of Good Hope ..N Cape de Verde ......1‘ 9th of the month Southampton Ceylon (see India) Ceylon.. ..........N c hum! m u .... ~..i. Mon.,VVed.,lcFrid. Southamptor. Ta.Th.Sat N• 1 2d & 17th of Mont' Southampto China ... . Once a month.... 8,13,1 8,23,/b2an t . , Dover .... _ April 20 o C o o n n a s ta ta n n il i n n o o p p l l e e ....:: ... ,-. , . 4th 3c 20th of mon soothe/Ds°r. Cont. of Europe M 4k Twice daily ...... D over ..... Twiceda lli •., Egypt (Bee India) France ...... _2l ,k. , i Twice daily...• • Dover .... . Tivicadalli libraltar .... __ m 1,7, 17, 20, 27 if or. Southampto• 3reece (see India) 'lreytown .......... pd :2nd & 17th of mon Southampton Ilamburgh ..........N ;Tuesday & Frldo3 London ..... ilavannah .........„ NI ;.2nd of the mom': Southampton May 2 Holland .......... —fn :Day—. ..... •.. D0ver.. ..... Daily Honduras.... ...... 1( 1 117ta lithe month. Southampton 16thotoo talta (viaSoutharnpt.)y 14th x 20th of moo. Plymouth .• 4 & 20 in India (via Marseille:UM 9th&2sth of month Dover .... ) toniar. Wes (see India) l, 17, & 27 of mm. Dover...." Ireland ........M & N I rwice daily ••• • • • Holy he a d .. iTyricedani Li5b.m.............. b:l 7 . 9. 17, & 27 of it.. Southampton. April 17 %faielra ............yl9th of the mono Southampto, Madeira ............ :• 23d of month •... Liverpool ... Malta (see Indict) Malta . . Mauritius (see India) Mauritius ...... . J .,114th of the _montl , Mexico ...........m)2nd of the month.. Sonthamptan.April 16 Na.)ies • .. „ ~ „ ...i. s thl s th 2s thofmon. Dover ...... tiev Granada ......h 124& 17th of month Southampto, • New Zea1and.........'. .1/7 private sip .. Various port Uncertain Papal States .• ......1„ ith 15th2htholmon. Dover .... .. Peninsula :...... yTth 1 7 tii27oofmon . Southampton p" ...............v ad & 27th of mon.'Southampton P.,....1 Natal ..........N .37 private ship... Various port, Uncertain 8 oily ~........ ....,,- sthlsth2sthorm)n, Dover .. •• . Tnicany ........ :...1 s thlth2 s thofmoti. Dover ...... Vaneznele ..... ....3 Id 17 th °latent , Southanaptei 1&16 Ma Van Diemen's L:nd fie kustralia) ...... . . W a r r n d l e . ~. iad & 17th o I niontl sontherepte i , 1 i &14 moo When any of these dates fall on a Sunday, the mails e lM epatched on the following day. with the exception of the In tit (• * outhampton),and the Malta. both of which will be deepeteAtd t preceding day. SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, .A.Prar, 12. STOCK EXCHANGE.-The market has been dull today, and prices aro unchanged. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 88i i—Manchester' Sheffield, and Li nco l ns hi re, 29—Mid -1 mds, 74 i 1 1 - --London and North-Western, 10! 1} I — * North British, B B—South Eastern, 211 k—Great Western of Canada, 261. BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 12. STOOK EXCHANGE.—This market was doing a dull business to-day, and prices were steady. Midlands were done at 73i 74i—London and North Westerns closed at 10 14—Bristol and Birmingbams, 136—Oxford and Wor• coster Pref., 7#—Old Birmingham Canals, 92. DUBLIN, AruL 12. STOCK EXCHANGE.—Three per Cent. Consols, 92j Ditto for Account, Bth of May, 93 21—Ditto, for new Ac. count, Bth of Aptil, 0 New 3 per Cent. Stock, 934 - -Ditto, for Account, Bth of April, o—New 3 per Cent. Reduced, 91—Hibernian Bank, 31—Royal Bank, Ili-- Great Southern and Western, 524 52—Dublin and Belfast Junction, 44,--Ditto, for Account, 44—Dublin and Wicklow, si. [ADVERTISEMENT I—Holloway's Ointments and Pills otlioieo t Remedies for Seorbotic Affections.—Mr. Forster Ker, druvgist, of Manchester, states, in a letter to Fro. lessor Holloway, that a gentleman with whom he is ac quainted suff,:red dreadfully from an eruption on the face. His chin bad become so much inflamed and swollen that to shave was impossible ; but by the appli. cation of Holloway's ointment, and taking Holloway's pills at the same time, a perfect cure has been effected, and it is gratifying to state that every vestige of the scorbutic eruption has entirely disappeared.—Sold by all medicine vendors, at Professor Holloway's Establi-h -!Dents, 244, Strand, London, and 80, Maiden-lane, New York ; by A. Stamps, Constantinople ; A. Guidich Smyrna ; and E. Muir, Malta. POLICE EXPENSES AND THE CONSOLIDATED FUND.—' The following important passage occurs in the quarterly report of Captain G. Black, chief constable for Norfolk, presented at the quarteeoessions held for that connty on Friday :—"I have to inform the Court that the Com missioners of her Majesty's Treasury have now objected to pay any expenses, that may be incurred prior to the committal of a prisoner for trial at the assizes, upon the ground that no such charge is admissible in the account of sums to be repaid from the consolidated fund for cri minal prosecutions. Those expenses consist almost ex. c usively of the police charges for the apprehension, con veyance, lodging, and maintenance of prisoners upon th-ir arrest and during remand. The actual expenditure will, therefore, have to fall in a great measure upon the rates of the county." BIRTHS. OP & SON. On the 12th inst., at 84, Westbourne-park Villas, Hyde park, the wife of W. H. P. Goore, Esq. On the sth February, at Moultan, in the Panjaub, India, tho wife of Sir Edward Campbell, Bart., Captain H.3l.'s 60th Rifles—twins. OP ♦ DAUGHTPIL On the 11th inst., at Langley-park, the Marchioness of Chandos. On the 10th inst., at Ridlington, the wife of the Rev. John W. Flavell. MARRIED. On the 10th inst., at St. 1414-k's Kennington, John Robinson, Esq., of K enn i ng t on, to Juliana , the yosingest daughter of the Rev. Dr. Barber, of South Lambeth. On the 10th inst., at St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate-witbin, Mr. Ji hu Martin, of the Old Artillery Ground, silk manu facturer, to M ar y A nu D ay, the only daughter of Mr. W. Davis, f Spitalfields. DIED. O❑ the 12th inst., at 25, Park-road, Stoke Newington , Archibald Hudson, Esq., aged 36. On the 11th inst., at Greenham Lodge, Major-General Guy Carleton Coffin, R.A., aged 74. Oa the 12th inst., Betsy, wifo of Mr. Walter Tong°, 176, Strand. On the 12th inst., at New Broad-street, Isabella Ann, wife of Mr. R. Stapleton, and only daughter of the late .Mr. William Clarke, bookseller, 21, Finch-lane, Cornhill, aged 36. — On the 12th inst., at SG, Bloomfield-terrace, Paddington Mrs. Marianne Russell Shackell, widow of the late Mr. 11 Shackell, of Tokenhonse-yard, London, so li c it or, aged 5 4 On the 10th inst., at Percy Cottage, Haveretock-hil Charles Mogridge, aged 36. On the 11th inst., at Forest-hill, Mrs. Gardener, aged 71. 1 LONDON: Printed and Published by MITSDO YOUNG , of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Slsos Offiee, Nn. 112 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy,' kg . No cower of Iditickeeezi ILI:PU (4 7o 1856., ..7 ;,3 I Wien Parlit ratio uncle ~'.8: C' CLI of Ap Heusi porat attem Ape are (14 e'cloc ....... rr - Lil des, i PAN' instm Dal by tb Fot s: TravE Ludg, the la Pal Bonu Th, Its Prot Foi New fih~ Wand Th, main on th ducts Wt other whtel Lowe is ter Th the b the S being meet Frofi whin] paid THAIS Ell abov toget the I