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Lce of M. Dervanx, Attorney, in Paris, Rue Neitve, St. Merry, No. 19. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, at the Court of Justice of the Department of the Seine, en WEDNESDAY, the 7th day of MAY, 1856. In Eight separate Lots, except by the union of the first four lets, and of the sixth and seventh lots, of the beautiful ESTATE and CHATEAU of THURY HARCOURT, con taining about 246 hectares 96 ares 7 centiares, and of the large Forest of Cinglais, containing about 873 hectares 80 ares (French superficial measure). Ist Lot.—The Castle and Park of Thury Harcourt, the Farm of the Castle, and the Mill of the Meadow, Chalot, and Dependeneres. 2d Lot.—The Wood of Mill Harts/. 3d Lot.—The Farm of Breuil. 4th Lot.—The Farm of Beauvoir. sth Lot.—The Inn of the Green Cross. 6th aid 7th Lots.—The Forest of Cinglais. Bth Lot.—The Estate of Toupendout. The whole lying in the villages of Thury Harcourt, Esson, Crorseller, St. Benin, Plasy, St. Laurens de Condol, Brette ville, Mantiorsen, Cinglais, the districts of Thury Harcourt and Brotteville, chief district of Talorse (Calvados). Total upset price, 812,000f.-Ist Lot, 210,000 f. ; 2d Lot, 85,000 f, ; 3d Lot, 44,0001. ; 4th Lot, 75,009 f. ; sth Lot, B,ooof. ; 6th Lot, 170,000 f. ; 7th Lot, 230,000 f. ; Bth Lot, 10,000 f. Produce.—lst Lot, 7,150 f., not including the reserue ; 2d Lot, about 3,000 f. ; 3d Lot, 2,000 f.; 4th Lot, 3,400 f. ; sth Lot, 500 f.; Gth Lot, 14,000 f.; 7th Lot, about 18,000 f. ; Bth Lot, 700 f, All those revenues are susceptible of consi derable increase. Further information may be obtained from-1. M. Dervaux, attorney, in Paris, Rue Neuve, St. Merry, No. 19, who has the plan of the property and the title deeds ; 2. M. Provent, Rue de Seine, St. Germains, No. 54 ; 3. M. Crevat, Guardes Assevres, No. 18 ; 4. M. Cullerier, Rue de Harlay du Pala r s, No. 20 ; 5. M. Paul, Rue do Cirirseul, No. 6 ; the four gen tlemen aforesaid being attorneys and co-sellers by auction, and living in Paris ; 6. M. Meigner, notary, Rue St. Honore, No. 370 ; 7. M. Guenin, notary, Place de la Concorde, No. 8; 8. M. Thomas, notary, Rue Bleue, No. 17 ; 9. M. Fleuryver, notary, Rue Neuve, St. Augustus, No. 6 ; 10. M. Rigoult avaest, Rue do Lille, No. 101 ; 11. M. Florent Pourian, Rue de la Madeleine, No. 50 ; 12. Au greff de Tribunal Civil; and M. Rabillard, notary, at Thury Harcourt ; 13. M. Lemasne, Manager at the Chateau of Harcourt, and Superintendent of the whole property. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARXET. 'hider the Management of Mr. Buckstone. On EASTER MO 'DAY. THE EVIL GENIUS. Followed by EL GAMBINT.2: 0 ; or, The Mexican Goldseeker. In which PER EA. NENA a 2.1 the Spanish Dancers will appear. To conclude with LEND bIE FIVE SHILLINGS ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STRE ET, Under the Management of Mr. CuAstme UAL ON EASTETt MONDAY A WONDERFUL WOMAN'. After which, FAUST AND MARGUERITE. To conclude with A PRINCE FOR, AN HOUR. TUF.ATRE ROYAL ADELPU!. Proprietor, 31r. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Coles* ON EARTPR MONDAY. DOMESTIC ECONOMY. To be followed by lIRGENP PRIVATE AFFAIRS. To conclude with JACK AND THE BE A.N STALK; or, Harlequin and Mother sloose at Home Again. In which Messr3. 3. Bland, P. Bedford, Madame Celeste, Miss Wyndham, and Miss Jr. Arden will ap?ear. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lasses and Manager, Mr. AVM Wigan. ON EASTER MONDAY, STILL WATERS RUN DEEP. After which will be produce,l a New and doubly-moral, though ex 7,eigvely old, Melolranrotic Fairy Extravaganza, entitled rim DISCREET PREN , JEii; rr, the Three Glass Distal's. In which Meson. Emery, F. Robson, U. Cooper, )Liss Manton, an I Miss klaskoll will appear. ROYAL EtTIIREY THEATRE. Lesctees, Messrs. Shepherd and Cresirick. ON 1 iSrfl MONDAY, Will be performed a new Drama, entitled BOW WE LIVE. Followed by A FAVOURITE BALLET. To conclude with TUFFLEHAESEN; or, The Lawyer's Legend. LOYAL ATILAYM TREATI J U tder the (Erection of Mr: Payne. ItAirER MONDAY, THE LOS r DIAMOND. After which, AN ORP;INAL BALLET. To conclude with an Original Burlesque Extravaganza, called ( OOD QUEEN B Si. ROYAL 3fAitYLEBONTI THEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. Edward Stirling. On EASTER. I'6IONFAY, the 24th of March, 1856, LOST, £30,000. Messrs. Stuart, Belford, Stirling, Carter, Langton; Messds. An derton, Morell, Mars. Brothers Elliott's wonderful performances. GRAND BALLET. Mamselle Agnes, Mr. ant Mrs. llarvey, and Corps de Ballet. Musical Fairy Spectacle, FAIRY FERN FLOWER; or, TIIE GOBLIN MINE. MISS Francis Hughes, Miss Morel!, Mr. Sanders, Mr. J. Bedford and 30 Ladles. Boxes and Stalls, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. EMMA STANLEY'S "SEVEN AGES OF WOMAN." Commencement of the Second Season on EASTER MONDAY. This Lyric Entertainment has been crowned by the unanimous approbation of ALL THE LONDON JOURNALS As the greatest artistical triumph of the day. It constitutes an Opera, Comedy, and Vaudeville. With a host of characters in Correct Cos tumes ; and Songs in SIX DIFFERENT LANGUAGES! Never attempted by any other artiste. Evening performances on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, at 8. Moiming performances on Wednesdays and Saturdays at half•past two, precisely. Admission—Chairs, 3s. ; Centre Seats, 2s. ; Back Seats, ls. SAINT MN TIN'S HALL, Long-acre. HIGH WATER, AT LONDON BRIDGE. TIIIg DAY—Morn. 11 min. aft. 2—Evening 26 min. aft. 2 TA-SIORRGW—Morn. 40 min. aft. 2—Evening 53 min. aft. 2 THE WEATHER-SUN OFFICE, MARCH 21. THERHOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 47 -highest since noon yesterday. 45 -lowest this morning and during the night. 50 -this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30 . 0. WIND, N.—Overcast, and raw dull weather. r il l I i 'l 0, - • .:; 2 , A .1• 4 :: , Q .... - 141 t r _qe-W' , (_Y, - , /'''",: -^. , .27::':*gi. - .p C .. ' . Tit LONDON, FRIDAY, 11IA'RCH 21, 1856. It appears, then, after all—after so much blood, and gold, and hope, and glory, squandered to no purpose, and scattered idly to the winds of heaven—that the terms of this precipitate, and because precipitate, most dreaded and disastrous Peace are actually upon the eve of being formally arranged and ratified. Well, it is only delaying (yet a little later on) the last inevitable day of reckon ing. And when it does come, as come it assur edly will—wee will then be to those upon whom must devolve the infamy of the disgraceful com promise ! Whether it be Minister of State, or anointed SOVEREIGN ! Whether it be captain by sea or by land, Administrator or Diplomatist ! Whether it be a sham patriot, who sacrifices everything to the end that "place " and its covetted " perquisites" may be retained, or some cotton-spinning charlatan of a dema gogue, who depre ca t es th e c h amp i ons hi p of Right and boslavers Might however intrinsi cally and notoriously execrable from its blood guiltiness, solely through a sordid greed of a " penny-wise" gain, grasped at the sacrifice of every noble principle and every heroic sen ti ment ! Sooner or later, to each and all of these, the ex piatory punishment must—be sure of that—co me, in some shape or another, overwhelmingly. Either in lifetime or in deatlitime—either through individual disgrace or through posthumous exe crations. The great struggle upon which it was supposed we had already entered, in very deed, at last—is only, ()Hee again, for an interval postponed. The struggle foretold by the Captive of St. Helena in his prophetic exile—the struggle between despo tism and democracy—the struggle which is ulti mately to leave Europe either Cossack or Repub lican ! Alittle later, and that struggle must come at length in real earnest. GOD alone knows under what perillously disadvantageous circumstances! Of this at least every one among us must rest at this moment perfectly well satisfied, that never cou ld it by possibility have occurred under auspices in every way more propitious for the in terests of humanity than those which are uow being rapidly dissipated " into thin air" by the incon ceivable fatuity or the ineffaceable guilt of the Western Governments. Never in the history of the two countries had England and France a more precious or more glorious opportunity. Never was a "gift of the gods" more wilfully and in famously sacrificed. We are already standing at the goal—the ball is at our feet—and we are for dividing it, like an orange at desert, among the guests assembled round the table of the Paris Conferences I Poland is again left to groan and bleed un avenged under the weight of the triple despotism of the three great robber conspirators. Tur key, in spite of all her gallant self-abne gation of late years, is abandoned anew to the infectious influences of that con tiguous tyranny which may in truth at Itst reduce it to the condition of the sick man whose possessions are to be the spolia °pima of a better-timed, and, consequently, more successful Muscovite Invasion. Italy is to behold once more fading away from view the cherished day-dream of her long and vainly-looked-for re generation. Finland is still to remain the appan age of the Imperial Spoliator of so many adjacent kingdoms—that all-absorbing Government of St. Petersburg, whose acquisitions have simultane ously enlarged the limits of its awful empire with the same appalling rapidity, to the east, and to the west, to the north, and to the south. Eating like a gangrene at once far into Asia, and far into Europe. Extending its conquests by hun dreds of miles, indiscriminately, in all imaginable directions, like radii from a centre, overshadow ing the Moslem, crippling Persia, disabling Sweden, paralysing the German Confederacy, reducing the African triumphs of France to utter insignificance by sheer force of contrast, more than counterbalancing in the old world the in fluence consequent in the new upon the rapid political growth of America, advancing with gigantic strides upon the confines of China and of Tar tary, and while accomplishing all this in obedience to the recorded mandate of PETER, misnamed the Great, threatening in regard to • England the perpetuity of her remote and magnificent empire in Hindostan ! Such is the dread power which the Allies are now insanely upon the eve of restoring to its original puissance —without extorting from it, first of all, the severest guarantees that the crimes of the House of RO3IANOFF are not to be at once multiplied in number and enhanced in enormity. " HEAVEN helps those who help them selves." Are the Allies acting in reverent obedi ence to that most wise and holy suggestion ? So i'ar from doing so, are they not, by their criminal haste, to arrange the preliminaries of a disgrace- Cul peace, are they not, on the contrary, adopting the most certain course that could well be chosen for playing out wholly, in his own favour, the ter rible game of their most wily and most implacable antagonist ? Than this, surely nothing could by possibility be more perverse, or in every way more insensate. It is a crime—this deplorable lynastic compromise—which will have (we repeat it) sooner or later to be very frightfully expiated. But the hour for that inevitable expiation cannot, of course, at the present juncture, be even dimly conjectured. It will remain to be struck in ElzavEN's good time, at the fiat of an infinitely just and overruling PROVIDENCE. The strict secresy to be observed with respec t ' to the proceedings of the Parisian Conferences will be very distasteful to the British people. We are, it appears, to know the result, but not the mode in which it has been arrived at. We may learn, when too late, to do more than enter a useless protest to the final arrangements, but not the parts taken by the different Plenipoten tiaries. We cannot ascertain who have remained faithful to their trusts, or by whom these trusts have been abandoned or violated. This is unfair to all parties. It is doubly so to Lord OLA.REN , DON who must be the chief sufferer from the use less mystery. It may be very agreeable to the i despotic Powers, who think that peoples should have no voice in the management of their own concerns—that the enunciation of the will of their rulers is all that is necessary, and that their only part is to hearand to obey. But the slavish doctrine is not suited to the atmosphere of Great Britain. Here secret diplomacy is regarded as an unmiti gated evil, which can only be tolerated so long as it is absolutely indispensable ; and any stipulation to the above effect would be not only unconstitu tional, but absolutely invalid. Ours is happily a limited monarchy. No Plenipotentiary selected solely by the Crown could control or restrict the sovereign rights of the people, or refuse the information required by their chosen representatives. The attempt to ex tend the so-called prerogatives of the Crown might be attended with very serious consequences, and lead to very mischievous consequences, which cannot be too earnestly deprecated on all sides. No American Statesman would dare to enter into such An arrangement ; and, notwithstanding the positive assertions to the contrary, we still in dulge in the hope, that one who has hitherto en joyed the confidence and respect of the British people would not stultify himself by going so far beyond the limits of his constitutional powers. Lord CLARENDON has unquestionably had a difficult card to play. He has to contend against a variety of sinister influences both at home and abroad. He has witnessed the political self immolation of one with whom he was long united, and who recklessly sacrificed the high reputation he once enjoyed. Ho should therefore have care fully avoided the obvious danger, and even had he the power—which we positively deny—have refused to leave the slightest peg whereon to hang a doxbt. Englishmen are apt to conceive that where there is silence there is guilt, and that fearless and laudable conduct will not shun the light or seek for concealment. No one should be better aware of these facts than the Foreign Secretary, and although absent from the House he must have seen that the Peers have on a very recent occasion shown themselves firmly resolved to resist any undue extension of the Royal Pre rogatives. The attempt at secresy would, there fore, be perfectly futile, and could it succeed would be exceedingly unwise and impolitic ox the part of the Crown and of the Minister. The only thing that could preserve the parties concerned from the odium that must otherwise fall on them would be the full and complete pub lication of all the papers relating to the negotia tiens. Hints that the British Plenipotentiary had " boldly asserted the determination of his country to obtain complete guarantees and satis- factory assurances" will not suffice. There must proofs on the be clear, intelligible, a n d decisive point. We must be enabled to maturely consider weigh every argument adduced—to and carefully perceive exactly the positions taken up, and the causes that led to their abandonment. Discover those, if any, too whom praise may fairly be ac- corded, and the others who should boar the full burden of the responsibility of the untoward re sult. If the PALMERSTON Government hopes to retain the confidence of the nation, it can only be by casting aside all disguise, and provicg beyond the possibility of dispute that they have acted a \.. 1.. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 21, 1856. truly English part, and only yielded to the force of adverse and irresistible circumstances. It is als) due to our Allies that not only the truth, but the whole truth, should be known. As we have already stated there are unpleasant impressions abroad, and nothing can be worse than silence under such circumstances. The most "damning fact" could not so greatly damage their interests as the " doubts and fears " that must attend protracted secrecy. We trust, then, that one of the first acts of the British Parliament, after the announcement of the terms of the Treaty, will be to insist on the full publication of all the negotiations, that have taken place at Paris or elsewhere, in which Bri tish diplomatists have taken a part. If we had not pretty nigh exhausted our stock of wonder over official management we would certainly express a good deal of surprise at the postal intercourse by steam between this country and Australia having been suffered to be sus pended, and that for a period of seventeen months. Had the colony in question been a poor colony, and the traffic between it and the mother country so small as to be an object of indiffe rence, this suspension might have been ac counted for in a satisfactory manner. Such, however, is notoriously not the case. Of all the colonies under British sway none is more pro mising nor more valuable than Australia ; and when we say valuable we don't mean in prospectu, but valuable at the present time. Why, our commerce with Australia is of the first class in point of magnitude. In 1853, according to a Parliamentary return, she took more from us than America, previously our largest customer, 1 1 had done on an average of seven years, 1847 to 1852—that average being little more than 13 millions, and the amount of British imports into Australia in the above year exceeding fourteen millions and a half ! It is with a colony like this that " tricks of office" must be played, with a trade like this unnecessary delay in the trans mission of correspondence has been hazarded. During a critical period, and while a regular postal service was carried on with America and the West Indies, letters from Australia could not reach us on an average in less than 93i days, the outward mails to Melbourne having an advantage of nine days. A strange mode of promoting our commercial interests truly. Under such circumstances, it is gratifying to find the General Association for the Australian Colonies taking the matter into consideration, and forwarding the result in the shape of a memorial ,o the Treasury, in which, after pointing out the injurious effects of the present system, they recom mend the adoption of a new - route, by which 2,338 miles would b 3 saved, as compared. with every other, and the employment of first-class vessels with adequate steam power and well-tested speed for the performance of the voyage. The route recommended is that by Suez and the island of Diego Garcia (the largest of the Chazo group in the Indian Ocean) to Melbourne—the island to be used as a coaling depot. For this purpose, and as a halfway-house of call, it appears to be well adapted, being a British dependency, lying about halfway between the straits of B3,belmandel at the Red Sea, and the south-western promontory of the continent of Australia, and possessing a capacious harbour, easy of access in all weathers, and com pletely landlocked. The superiority of this route not only over those via the Cape, and via Aden, Ceylon, and Singapore, but also over the Panama route, is sufficiently apparent on the table ap pended to the memorial, the distances and periods of passage laid down in which are given on the authority of the Hydrographer Royal. The first, or Cape route, is 13,367 miles in length, and occupies a period of 80 days. The second, or Ceylon route, involves a distance of 11,521 miles, and a passage of 64 days. The third, or Panama, a distance of 12,686 miles, and nearly a 57 days' passage, while that recommended by the Association is not more than 10,348 miles inlongth, and can be traversed in 44 days, nearly a fortnight less than by the Panama route, and one-half the time at pre sent occupied. Of these ten thousand miles odd nearly one-tenth will be accomplished by rail, viz., the distance between Dover and Marseilles, and between Cairo and Suez, tke remainder of the calculation as to time being based on a speed of ten miles an hour being maintained between Suez ani Melbourne, a rate decidedly below the average now achieved by steam navigation. Even on the score of expense every facility is offered, the colonies having volunteered most liberal contributions to carry out a scheme in which they feel themselves deeply interested. Victoria alone has voted 50,000/. per annum for the purpose, and thereis every reason to believe the remaining colonieswillcontribute in likeproportion. Thus the Government are offered every induce ment to proceed with the undertaking ; notwith- standing which we regret to learn they propose to refer the question to Australia, apparently in different to the additional inconvenience and delay such a step must occasion. It would redound more to their credit, and be productive of great advantage to this country as well as to Australia, if they set the line to work without a moment's unnecessary delay. Unfortunately such conside- rations have generally but little weight with men in office, and we have therefore no great confi dence of an exception being forthcoming in the present instance. The time, however, is not far distant, and the race of officials do their best to hasten it, when our Australian colonies will not submit to be thus trifled with and victimised by Imperial incompetency and indifference. THE FUND.—The sum of 300/. has been forwarded from Bath to the London committee. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge left town yesterday morning, for Windsor Castle, to attend the confirmation of the Princess Royal. His Royal High ness returned to town in the afternoon. His Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar went to Windsor Castle yesterday, to be present at the confirmation of the Princess Royal. The Prince re turned to London after the ceremony. The Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl Granville. and Viscount Palmerston returned to town from Windsor Castle yesterday afternoon. THE - SADLEIII, FORGERIES.—DUBLIN, Thur . Pday.—lt has transpired that forgeries, in the shape of promissory notes to the amount of 25,0001., have been committed by the late John Sadleir on Mr. Dargan. THE ENSUING EASTER TER3l.—The customary notices for "eighty-five" attorneys to be admitted in Easter Term have been given, they having passed their exam'. nation. DEATH OF CAPTAIN IRVINE.--Captain Chas. Cham berlayne Irvine (retired under her Majesty's order in council of the 10th of August, 1340) died on the 18th in4ant, in Upper Albany-street, Regent's-park, in the 85th year of his age. DEATH OF COMMANDER PATTERSO7. —Commander William Patterson (1847) (on the retired list) died on the 16th inst. at Plymouth, aged 75 years. This officer entered the navy July 1, 1804, al first-class volunteer on board the Monmouth, 64, Captain George Hart, bear ing the flag in Yarmouth Roads of R ear -Ad m i ra l T hos. M'acnamara Russell. CANADA COMPANY.—The general court of proprietors, Mr. Cnarles Franks, governor, in the chair, was held yesterday, for the purpose of electing a governor, three other directors, and an auditor. The consideration of a motio❑ for a retiring allowance to Mr. John Perry, the secretary of the company (4001. per annum), was carried. The comparative statement of transactions, from Ist Jan. to 29th Feb , was as follows :—Land sold, 1856, 477 acres, at 3s. 10d. (average) ; 1855, 685 acres, at 265. sd. (average.) Land leased, 1856, 2,176 acres, at•46s. 2d. ; 1855, 5,759 acres, at 31s. Bd. ; to tal, 1856, 2,653 acres, at 435. 6d . ; 1855, 6,444 acres, at 30s. 10d. Leases converted to freeholds, 1856, 21,702 acres, at 15'. 9d. ; 1855, 31,727 acres, at 15s. 2.1. Re ceipts in Canada to ditto, 1856, 28,7801. ; 1855, 43,7091. The report, after a short discussion, was agreed to, and the directors and auditor were elected. CONFIRMATION OF THE PRINCESS ROYAL. WINDSOR, THURSDAY. The Confirmation of the Princess Royal took place this day in the private chapel at Windsor Castle. "The Archbishop of Canterbury ; the Bishop of Oxford, Lord High Almener ; the Bishop of Chester, Clerk of the Closet ; the Dean of Windsor, Resident Chaplain to the Queen ; the Rev.' Lord Wriothesley Russell, Deputy Clerk of the Closet in Waiting ; and the Rev. 11. J. Elli son, Vicar of Windsor ; took their seats within the rails of the communion-table shortly before 12 o'clock. The ministers and other company invited to witness the ceremony assembled in the Green Drawing-room at a quarter before 12 o'clock, the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting on the Queen and the Royal Family assembling in the corridor. The company were then conducted to seats in the chapel. About 12 o'clock the Princess Royal entered the chapel with her father, the Prince Consort, who placed her in a chair in front of the communion table. The Queen and the King of the Belgians followed, together with the rest of the royal and illustrious personages. The King of the Belgians, the godfather of the Prin cess Royal, was conducted to a seat near the Princess, under the pulpit, and in a line with the King were the Duchess of. Kent, godmother of the Princess Royal, the Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Mary of Cambridge, the Duke of Cambridge, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, Prince Ernest of Leiningen, and Prince Victor of Ho henlohe. The Queen was seated opposite to the King of the Bel gians; while Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Alice, Prince Alfred, Princess Helena, and the Princess Louisa, occupied seats opposite to the other members of the Royal Family. The great officers of state and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting took their seats immediately behind the Royal Family. The remainder of the company invited were placed in pews on either side of the chapel. The Princess Royal wore a rich white silk glace gown, with five flounces pinked, the body richly trimmed with white ribbon and Mechliu lace. The King of the Belgians, the Prince Consort, and the Duke of Cambridge appeared in the Windsor uniform, and each wore the Riband, Badge, and Star of the Most Noble Order of the Garter. The Gentlemen of the Queen's and the Prince Con sort's household wore the Windsor uniform, the members of Orders of Knighthood wearing theirrespective The ceremony commenced by a hymn, sung by the gentlemen and boys of the Royal Chapel of St. George. Mr. W. G. Cusins, the organist of her Majesty's Private Chapel, presided at the organ. The Bishop of Oxford read the Preface, and the Arch bishop of Canterbury performed the ceremony, and con cluded the service, the Princess kneeling before his Grace. The Archbishop at the close delivered an exhortation, and part of the 263 th hymn was then sung by the choir. The ceremony being ended, the Queen and the King of the Belgians. the Princess Royal, and the Prince Con sort, with the Royal Family, quitted the Chapel, and en tered the Green Drawing-room, where her Majesty re ceived the congratulations of the distinguished company present. The following were the royal and distinguished per sons present : The Queen, the King of the Belgians, Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, the Princess Royal, the Duchess of Cambridge, the Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cambridge, the Princess Alice, the Princess Mary of Cambridge, Prince Alfred, Prince Edward of Saxe Wei mar, the Princess Helena, Prince Ernest of Leiningen, the Princess Louisa, Prince Victor of Hohenlohe Lang enburg, the Most Rev. Dr. Sumner, Archbishop of Can terbury ; Earl Granville, Lord President of the Privy Council ; the Duchess of Sutherland, Mistress of the Robes ; Monsieur Van de Weyer, Belgian Minister, and Madame Van de Weyer; Earl Spencer, K.G., Lord Steward; the Marquis of Breadalbane ; Lord Chamber. lain ; the Duke cf Wellington, Master of the Horse ; the Marquis of Abercorn, K.G., Groom of the Stole to the Prince Creosote; ; the Marquis of Lansdowne, K.G., the Earl of Aberdeen, K.G. ; Viscount Palmerston, G.C.8., First Lord of the Treasury; the Right Hon. Sir George Grey, G.C.8., Secretary of State for the Home Department ; the Countess of Desert, Lady in Waiting to the Quee❑ ; the Hon. Flora Mac donald and the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, Maids of Honour ; Lady Caroline Barrington, Lady Superintend ent ; Lord Camoys, the Lord in Waiting to the Queen ; Lieut.-Colonel F. Cavendish, Groom in Waiting to the Queen ; Major-General Buckley, Equerry in Waiting to the Queen ; Viscount Torrington, Lord in Waiting to the Prince ; Col. Francis Seymour, Groom in Waiting to the Prince ; Capt. the Hon. Dudley de Ros, Equerry in Waiting to the Prince ; Lady Fanny Howard, the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Kent; Lady Geor gians Bathurst, Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Cam bridge ; Baroness de Speth ; Lady Caroline Murray, of the household of the Duchess of Gloucester ; the Bishop of Oxford, Lord High Almoner ; the Bishop of Chester, Clerk of the Closet ; the Dean of Windsor, Resident Chaplainito the Queen ; Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell, Deputy-Clerk of the Closet in Waiting ; the Rev. H. J. Eliison, Vicar of Windsor ; the Dowager Lady Lyttleton, General Sir Robert and Lady Gardi ner, Colonel the Hon. C. 8., Mrs., and Miss Phipps, Major-General the Hon. Charles Grey, Mrs. Grey, and Miss Barrington, Sir James Clark, Col. the Hon. Alex ander N. Ilood and Lady Mary Hood, Colonel and Lady Emily Seymour, Sir George Couper, Equerry to the Duchess of Kent, and Lady Couper ; Major Purves, Equerry to the Duchess of Cambridge ; Colonel Tyr whitt, Equerry to the Duke of Cambridge ; Colonel de Moerkerke, Captain Prisso and Dr. Ricken, the Gentle men in Waiting on the King of the Belgians ; Mr. Gibbs, Mr. Becker, Mr. Glover, Miss litildyard, Madame Roliande, Mdlle. Illhardt, and the Master of the Household. Luncheon was served to the royal family in the white room, and to the general company in the dining-room. The Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess M ar y, an d the Duke of Camb r id ge took of the Queen and the Prince in the afternoon, the Dachess and the Princess Mary proceeding to Kew, and the Duke returning to London. Prince El ward of Saxe Weimar and Prince Victor of Hohenlohe also took leave and quitted the Castle. The Ministers, Officers of State, and other visitors in vited to attend the ceremony, took their departure. The dinner party in the evening included the King of the Belgians, the Duchess of Kent, his Serene High ness Prince Ernest of Leiningen, Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, M. Van de Weyer, the Belgian Minister, and Col. de Moerkerke, Capt. Prisse and Dr. Fticken (in attendance on the King of the Belgians). The Queen had a dinner party yesterday (Wednesday) evening. The company included the King of the Bel gians, the Duchess of Kent, the Princess Mary and the Duke of Cambridge, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, Prince Ernest of Leiningen and Prince Victor of Hohen lohe, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Duchess of Sutherland, the Earl of Aberdeen, Viscount Palmerston, Lady Fanny Upward, Lady Georgiana Bathurst, Baro ness de Speth, Sir J. Clark, Col. de Moerkerke, Capt. Prisse and Dr. Ricken (in waiting on the King of the Belgians), Major Purves, and Col. Tyrwhitt. Her Majesty's Royal Minor Bounties and Gate Alms were distributed on Friday and Saturday in the past week, and on Mondayand Tuesday last, to the usual num ber of aged and meritorious poor in th• various parishes and districts in and round London, at the Almonry, at Whitehall, under the direction of the Lord High Almo ner, assisted by the Sub-Almoner. The recipients in cluded numerous cases of blindness and other infirmities, and bad been recommended by the clergy of the various parishes. LATEST NEWS. BERLIN, MARCH 19. Letters from St. Petersburg announce that after the conclusion of peace, conferences will be held to examine and discuss plans of reform in com mercial policy. The journey of the Emperor into Poland is postponed until after his coronation. There are indications of a bad feeling between Russia and Austria. CONSTANTINOPLE, MARCH 18. Yesterday the guns of the French and allied batteries, military as well as naval, announced to Constantinople the happy event of the accouche- ment of the Empress and of the birth of a Prince. All the vessels in port were decked with flags. MADRID, MARCH 19. A slight disturbance has taken place at Lorca, but the movement was not of any importance, Differences of opinion continue to exist among the democratic party. The Statutes of the Credit Mobilier Company will soon be officially ap- proved of. OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. (From the Times Correspondent of this day.) CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, March 3.—1 have more than once had to remark that there is a much larger proportion of sickness in the Land Transport Corps than in the rest of the army. lam not ac quainted with the exact number of men in the corps, but, taking it at 7,000, which is probably rather over than under the mark, the amount of sickness must have been very considerable for there to be, as there was a short time ago, a difference of nearly, or quite, one per cent. in th e average mor tality of the wholel army according as the Land Transport was included or excluded. The mortality of the army has been 4 per cent., and of the army including the Land Transport Corps 5 per cent., or thereabouts. It is evident that, owing to the na ture of their duties, the Land Transport men are likely to be less healthy at this season than the sol diers of infantry regiments. The latter have little to do, except take care of themselves. Their turn of guard comes once in 15 or 20 days. They have a pleasant and healthful amount of exercise ; when put upon fatigue duty they by no means exhaust themselves by the violence of their exertions. The Land Transport men, on the other hand, have con stant and hard work, and, no matter how bitter the cold, how heavy the rain, it must be done, for the supply of the army depends upon it. In the worst weather you see them following their toil some vocation, going down to Balaklava for stores, into the Man for wood, across to Kazatch for something else. They are particularly liable to frost-bite when harnessing, driving, and riding, and often wet through for hours together, or plunged to their knees in mud while extricating their carts from some piece of deep ground. Strong, hardy men are required to hear up against such exposures and fatigue. Unfortunately, little pains appear to have been taken to secure such. One is struck by the youth and apparently feeble frames of many of the Land Transport men one meats in camp and on the roads, and it is well known to the surgeons that a bad c l ass o f men (b a d as regards their pysical strength an d con di t i on) has otained admittance into the corps—men who would not be accepted as recruits in an infantry regiment of the line. Mere lads, of weakly consti tution, are doing wo r k which would tax the strength and powers of endurance of robust adults—at tempting to do it, I should rather say, for most of them soon sicken under the effort. I know of in stances of recruits of this class, who, having come out in November and December, hi.ve been nearly the whole time in hospital, and are now at Scutari, whence they will very probably be invalided home. Other causes concur to fill the hospitals with men belonging to this branch of the service. The sites of some of the camps are ill-chosen and difficult to drain ; in others the drainage has not been suffi ciently attended to ; heaps of manure are allowed to accumulate ; some of the huts are overcrowded and insufficiently ventilated. Considering the short time that has elapsed since the new organisa tion of the corps commenced, great progress has certainly been made, and can have been achieved only by zealous and constant exertion on the part of Colonel Wetherall and his officers ; but the ut most exertions of the best officers, most desirous to get their own corps into good working condition, must be unavailing to correct the original bad qua lity of the recruits, the evil of which, while the army is stationary here, is trifling compared to what it might become on the march or in the field. Most serious results might ensue in a campaign from an ill-manned Land Transport, sickened by dozens daily. This matter of recruits should be looked to at home. As regards required improve ment of ventilation, drainage, removal of manure, &c., these points will doubtless be attended to as soon as possible by the Director-General of the corps and the commandants of divisions. The Land Transport Corps will probably be among the last to leave the Crimea, should peace be made ; and it is not too much to suppose that, in any case, it will be here all spring, and perhaps part of the summer. The sun has already acquired considerable power, and a very few weeks, or even days, may bring on weather in which the evils of crowded huts, damp, and dung-heaps will be far more sensibly felt than in the present com paratively wintry season. Every effort should be made to guard against fever, which otherwise will assuredly supervene. Accounts from Kertch from trustworthy and im partial sources are highly satisfactory. Healthy as this army has been during the winter, the Turkish Contingent has far surpassed it in that important particular, and this is attributed mainly to the great sobriety of the men. They have been hard worked ; the amount of fortification they have thrown up is described to me by eye-witnesses as quite surprising ; but not a man was invalided in three months, and up to the end of 1855 the average of sickness was barely 1 per cent. There has been no cholera at all. During the last three months of 1855 there were but 92 deaths ix the Contingent, which is upwards of 16,000 men strong, exclusively of the cavalry and of the depots on the Bosphorus. This year scurvy has appeared among the Turks, attributable to an insufficient supply of vegetables, lime juice, &c., but although widely spread, it is not severe, and measures were promptly taken on the discovery of its existence to give the men the sort of food the deficiency of which had brought it on. Among the British troops at Kertch there has been no scurvy. The Contin gent's hospitals are very good, and the Turks have the most perfect confidence in their English doctors—a confidence dating from last summer, when the cholera was among them at Bujukdere camp. The soldiers of the Contingent are generally large, muscular, robust men ; their temperance is remarkable. They are contented, docile, and seem to like their officers. There are about 150 Turkish cavalry at Kertch, whose appearance is good and their condition efficient. It is well known that in the unfortunate skirmish in which Major Sherwood lost his life they behaved most gallantly against very superior numbers. Not withstanding all the calumnies that have been propagated against the Turkish Contingent, its General, and its officers, there can be no question that the experiment, as far as it has yet gone, has been completely success ful. And there can hardly be a doubt that if they had to take the field these 16,000 Turks, well led, would fight as gallantly as did their countrymen at Silistria and Kars. Including English officers of the Contingent, clerks, servants, the detachment of the 10th Hussars, ckc., there is a Protestant congregation at Kertch of about 500 souls. Service is performed in the of t mentioned building, which was a ladies' school, and is now a cavalry barrack. By way of experiment, it was once performed in the Kertcb. Cathedral. Tho Russian priest's permission was asked, and be made not the slightest difficulty, and attended him self, as did a large number of the inhabitants, to witness the service. The building, however, was not found convenient, and the barracks were re turned to. The Russian priest is an amiable and enlightened man, and his heart was won by the esta blishment by the Rev. Mr. Boudier, who for two months officiated as chaplain at Kertch, of a school fur the Russian children. The expenses of this establishment are defrayed out of a fund raised by rates levied on canteenmen and certain classes of shopkeepers, and the favourable impression it has made upon the people is remarkable. The good understanding between the English chaplain and the Russian priest was perfect, and when the former left, about a month ago, the latter presented him with a bell, having their names inscribed on it, which now swings in the little wooden belfry of the church of the Second Division, where its owner does duty. These are pleasing and humanising incidents in the history of a war which abounds in bloody and desperate episodes. It is with the sincerest regret that I record the death of a most amiable young man and gallant IRELAND. DUBLIN, THURSDAY MORNING. THE I'ORTARLINGTON ESTATES. A residue of the vast estates of the Earl of Portarling ton, situate in the Queen's county, is to be sold by order of the Court in Henrietta -street on Tuesday the 27th of May next. The net rental of the lands to be disposed of is close upon 1,2001. a-year. The agency of this property it was that, in familiar phrase, first put the late John Sadleir upon his legs, and transferred him from a quar ter sessions attorney to a magnate among Irish land agents. How well he discharged the trust reposed in him may one day or another be brought to light among other revelations connected with his marvellous career in Ireland. The termination of the agency upon the estates being brought into the Encumbered Court was at the time a heavy pecuniary loss to Mr. Sadleir, but, as after events proved, it was not long before he attained a still higher position than a mere agent, and a much wider field for the scope of his ill-applied abilities. THE IRISH JUDICIAL BENCH. • The grand jury of the county of Galway have pre sented their address to the Lord Chief Justice Lefroy. Irrespective of the compliment thus paid on a circuit with which his lordship has no professional connection, the address is remarkable, as containing the signatures of no less than 11 Roman Catholic gentlemen, including the two county representatives and one of the borough members, Mr. Anthony O'Flaherty. THE 'UNITED SERVICE CLUB. The Lord-Lieutenant honoured this club with a visit on Wednesday. Upon entering the coffee-room his Ex cellency observed Lieut. (Redan) Massy, of the 19th Regiment, who has just arrived from the Crimea, and is now quite a military lion in Dublin. Lord Carlisle con versed with the young officer in his usual affable man ner, and expressed a warm interest in his progress to wards recovery from the wounds recsived on the me morable Bth of Sept., 1855. GREAT GLOBE, LEICESTER -SQUARE.-At the Globe valuable information is continually furnished to the public. Last year we could watch the siege operations on the plateau of Sebastopol ; and Cronstadt and &rya borg were made familiar to all our stay at-homes ; and on Easter Monday the visitor can travel from England to the Crimea. A. large diorama has been painted by Mr. Marshall, and the route out and home will be through the most picturesque and interesting capitals of Europe. Amongst the views are those of Hamburg, Berlin, Dresden, Prague, Ratisbon, Vienna, Pesth, Buda, and the line of the Danube, to Balaklava and Constantinople. The home route will be up the Ad riatic to Rome, Venice, the Lago Maggiore, across the Alps by Monte Rosa, the galleries of Isella and Gondo, Interlachen, the Jungfrau, Geneva, and up the Rhine to Cologne and Dover. The collection of Russian arms, dresses, pictures, and trophies, the military gallery of the armies of Europe, thernodels of the siege works of Sebastopol, Sweaborg, Cronstadt, and the Baltic, will he made doubly interesting by the pictorial representa tions of the new diorama ; whilst the greet Model of the Earth, serves not only to show the special spots of in terest, but the world itself in relation to the great events of our age. offieer—Major George Ranken, of the Royal Engi /leers, who was killed in the zealous discharge of his duty at the explosion of the White Buildings on Thursday evening last. The accident occurred at the south-western corner of the edifice, and has been related to me as follows :—A mine having failed to explode, and some minutes having elapsed Major Ranken sent his men to a distance and him self entered the place to renew the train, scattering loose powder over it. From the position in which his corpse was found it is supposed that be had completed his periletn task and was about getting through a window when the explosion took place and the building fell in. His arm was broken, and there were injuries to the skull and spine which must have occasioned instant death. Army Works Corps men dug for his body until midnight on Thursday ; they were then relieved by Sappers. The body was not extracted until past 8 o'clock on Friday morning. The unfortunate officer was buried yesterday, with military honours, at the Engineers' Cemetery, Left Attach. He was fol lowed to the grave by General Eyre, commanding the Third Division ; by Colonel Lloyd, command ing the Royal Engineers ; and by a largo number of officers of his own corps and of other arms. Major Ranken, as you will doubtless remember, commanded the ladder party in the attack on the Redan. He was a most promising officer, a great favourite with his comrades, and his loss is de plored by all who knew him. It was hard to have escaped the murderous fire of the Bth of October only to die, less than five month's later, crushed beneath a shattered wall. If peace be now definitively made, Major Ranken will, perhaps, have the melancholy distinction of being the last Englishman killed in the Crimea. The last Frenchman killed here, up to this date, fell in a duel. Two French officers, who have gone through the whole war unwounded, quarrelled the other day and fought with sabres ; one was killed, and the other was so badly hurt that be is not expected to live. It was reported in camp that another conference was about to take place at Traktir-bridge ' and the British subaltern had hi s spurs polished and his baggager's shoes looked to, in anticipation of the pleasant gallop over the valley of the Tchernaya, which on Friday last was enjoyed but by a very select few. Yesterday the belief was strong that the meet was for this morning, but such proved not the case ; and, indeed, it is possible that no other muting will take place on the subject of the armis tice. The Russians, having taken copy of our pro positions on Friday, have sent in counter-proposi tions ; and, perhaps, the matter may be arranged by writing. Meanwhile, a General After-order issued last night forbids firing on the Russians. Yesterday, a lovely afternoon, a large number of officers rode down to the Tchernaya, a short dis tance from Sebastopol, and had much confabulation with the enemy. Some joking went on, and some shillings were thrown over to Russian soldiers. I suppose we shall end by becoming the best friends of our recent deadly foes. Colonels Wetherall and Mackenzie are about to proceed to England. Their departure is under stood to be occasioned by the discussion to which Sir John M'Neill's report has given rise. The White Buildings destroyed on Thursday were very extensive. One side of the square was 1,200 feet long, the other 600. Altogether about 1,800 feet of wall were blown down. Six bombproof powder-magazines behind the clock tower were destroyed. I am assured there were no less than 374 mines, the charges varying in quantity from 21 A 1b. to 300 lb. of powder. MARCH 4. Snow, rain, and wind all night. A very dirty morning. MARCH 7. The week has been as eventless as the weather has been detestable. Sunday was so bright and pleasant a day that people forgot last year's expe rience, flattered themselves winter had departed, and formed pleasant projects of rides to Baidar and Urkusta, of rambles to the Tchernaya to talk to the Russians, of wandering in French Sebasto pol. All these small Crimean castles quickly crumbled. The heavy rain on Monday made most abominable roads on Tuesday ; then round went the wind and down went the quicksilver, snow fell in abundance, and at eight o'clock on Wednesday morning the thermometer stood at 12 deg. Fahren heit. It is difficult to estimate the exact depth of snow on this elevated plateau, because the wind drifts it, but there cannot have been less than 12 inches, and in some places men sank up to their thighs ; and the s bow continued to fall at intervals during the whole of Wednesday, agreeably varied by sharp hail. The camp presented the old winter picture, dingy huts and grey tents r i s i ng ou t o f th e dazzingly white surface. The glare was blinding, paths and landmarks were obliterated, and even familiar spots were difficult to find. None rode or walked more than they could help, and there was much plunging into ditches and stumbling into holes. The day, however, was really pleasant, com pared with yesterday, which brought a gale from the south and a rapid thaw, with all their agree able concomitants in the camp before Sebastopol. The wind was at times so violent that it seemed miraculous the tents and,huts should resist, and not be swept away and unroofed ; .and the rain fell in torrents, quickly divesting the earth of its white mantle, and leaving, in lieu thereof, the customary brown surface of heavy mud. Great dismay in the Crimean Jockey Club ; spring meetings postponed sine die. The customary duties of the camp became more toilsome than usual. Fatigue parties slipped and staggered through the deep greasy clay under the load of the daily rations. Huge pieces of timber for fireword—fragments of masts from the Redan, which might have served for the biggest of the big ships now submerged in Sebastopol harbour —were borne away from stores to camp on the shoulders of 20 or 25 men, walking two abreast. Unfortunate Land Transport mules and ponies struggled desperately to escape the lash, and drag the heavily-loaded cart through the slough, which each moment deepened. Commissariat officers and others having quill-work to do shut themselves in their quarters and toiled at states and accounts ; all drills and parade being, of course, put a stop to by the weather, regimental officers sat by stove and chimney, heaping maledictions on the rain and the far-niente, talking what is commonly called " shop," and labouring earnestly to produce the desired de gree of blackness in the bowl of clay or meerschaum pipe. Leaks, previously unsuspected revealed them selves under the pressure of the deluge ; there was much swabbing of hut-floors, and horses shook their ears and looked dismal as the heavy drops oozed through the ill joined stable roofs and soaked through their blankets. For that day, at least, the general order prohibiting gossip with the Rus sians across the Tchernaya was unnecessary. On Sunday and Monday there had been considerable intercourse of that kind, knives and pipes were bought as relics of the Crimean campaign, and coin, of the respective countries w ere enc l ose d in balls of earth and exchanged across the river. Indeed, there was every appearance that, if a stop was not put to the growing amity, Cossacks would be coming over to dine in camp, and English paying visits to the North Forts, or Mackenzie plateau. The wet, raw cold of the thaw seemed to throw a damp even on the imagination, and there was scarcely a well concocted fiction current to raise a laugh or rouse interest, save one, to the effect that the Third Di vision was immediately to embark for Asia—rather an improbable tale, considering the armistice and the incomplete state of the Land Transport Corps, whose director, Colonel Wetherall, is to leave for England on Saturday. We hear that Colone M'Murdo is coming out. Mules are arriving from Sinopo and elsewhere for the use of this corps. To-day there is another change in this most in constant climate. All last night the wind howled furiously, and the rain fell in torrents. Towards morning the wind again shifted ; the rain became snow, and the plateau is once more white. It is now about noon ; the thermometer stands at 22 deg., but the frost has not lasted long enough to farm more than a thin crisp upper crust, through which the foot sinks into fathomless mud. It is quite possible that to-morrow may bring us balmy breezes, a brilliant sun, and rivers of mud for roads. Such are Crimean caprices. A large number of boxes, containing voluntary contributions of books, games, &e., intended for the instruction and amusement of this army, have lately been received from England. They include a vast collection of excellent and valuable books, and, thanks to the generous donors, every division has now a good and daily increasing library. Through the exertions of Miss Nightingale a con siderable quantity of school materials—such as maps and slates—has been supplied to the schools ; but it is desirable that well-meaning persons in England should reflect as to the probable utility of what they send out. Some of the boxes recently received have been filled with the most inconceiv able rubbish, fit only to ‘;be burnt. Persons in possession of a stock of waste paper might surely get rid of it at home, without incurring the trouble and putting Government to the expense of sending it to be destroyed in the Crimea. ' Old Evangelical Magazines, Directories 40 years of age, Italian Pharmacopceias dated 1806, venerable Greek Grammars, a collection of manuscript Italian exercises in young ladies' handwriting, missionary periodicals half a century old, form, incredible as it may appear, no inconsiderable portion of recent literary shipments to the Crimea. Such absurdity needs no comment, and it is to be accounted for only by the supposition that servants have been told to seek forgotten rubbish, long lost sight of in garrets, to pack it in boxes, and forward it to Messrs. Hay ter and Howell for the use of the army. People should understand that soldiers are as great epicures in their literary tastes as any other class, and that if they are to be tempted to prefer a boot to idleness or dissipation it must be by offering theta something pleasing to their palate. No reason able person can expect to rouse a feeble appetite into vigour by placing before the patient dif and unpalatable food. Hay and horsebeans would be about as reasonable an offer to a convalescent as Greek Grammars, stale Directories, and haling Pharmacopoeias to soldiers. 10 p.m.:—Last night's gale seems generally con• sidered, by persons who have been out here since the first landing in the Crimea, as violent as any that has been experienced since the disastrous tem' rest of the 14th of November, 1854. It is to he feared that we shall shortly hear of wrecks and misfortunes at sea. A cattle-ship came into Balaklava to-day with half its cargo dead from the pitching and rolling of the vessel. The booth broke away and fractured the captain's leg in twe places. The latest report is that the Third and Fourth Divisions aro to more down to Inkerman and the Tohernaya to relieve the French, who suffer gioatlf from sickness. The mortality in the French arms is said to amount to 170 men a-day, and, although the exact number cannot be positively ascertained/ there is strong reason to believe that the above statement is near the truth. lam assured that io three days 570 men died. There may be exaggera' tion in this, but it is certai❑ that the number of sick is very large, and that the French Commissariat is badly off. This severe and fickle weather m ust he trying to an army which is chiefly under can' vacs, and, as I believe, insufficiently rationed. _ MARCH 8. We have had a bitter cold night, anTtheotitl is iron-bound with frost. The mail due on Thurs' day has not yet arrived. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, March lO.—This is A time Of respite for the Turkish Government. The open' ing of the conferences has rivetted public attention, and party spirit is, if not silent, at least less active than usual ; it is gathering strength and waiting for the result of the conferences. Meanwhile the Ministry is employing its time in councils and dis cussions about the establishment of a bank. I told you in one of my former letters that there are nu merous projects proposed daily. With such a large field for commercial enterprise as Turkey will offer after the war, the greater the number of private banks, the more rapidly her re' sources will be developed. But the first step in Turkey, as well as in every other country which is only beginning to develope its material resources, is to cancentrate all its efforts by creating a na tional establishment of this kind. This is, I think, the object of the councils and discussions held at present. Several of the leading merchants and bankers have been summoned by the Minister of Finance to give their opinion on the subject. The chief danger to be incurred in the creation of such an establishment is, that it might become a good job for the benefit of a few individuals, like the attempt made some years ago when the Go' veinment granted privileges to a few houses who gave only their names and shared the profits, while the whole expenses and risks were borne by the Government. The object of this bank was to keep the rate of exchange down, and, like all such forced financial operations, it ended in failure. The only safeguard against this danger is to make such a bank of credit a national and not s Government establishment, and to afford the greatest possible facilities for native capital to have an interest in it. I alluded some time ago to the large amount of dead capital in Turkey whieb could be thus made profitable. The death of Bali' Pasha, the Sultan's brother-in-law, which took place last week, may serve as a proof of this. Ele had been repeatedly employed in high offices, espe' cially as Minister of Marine, which affords, per haps more than any other post, facilities for mak ing a fortune, and he has left behind him 18 mil -1 ons of piastres in ready money alone ; and yet Hall Pasha was more anxious than any other Turk not to let his money lie idle, as one may see from the circumstan ce th a t hi s daily revenue front houses in Galata and landed property is valued at 9,000 piastres. I told you in my last of the endeavours made by the English and, I hear, by the French Ambassa dor also, to get Omer Pasha, the Governor of Row tuella, removed from his post on the charge of pecu lation. I have since inquired into the antecedents of this gentleman, which throw a curious light on the administrative system of Turkey. He was recently governor of the province of Kurdistan, where, together with the Defterdar, he pursued 6 wholesale system of exaction and robbery, which did at least as much as Russian intrigue to drive the Kurds into open rebellion against the Porte. In spite of the powerful protection which be enjoyed at Constantinople he was recalled, as well as the Defterdar and Arz Odassi. The highest tribunal took steps to prosecute him for his mis' conduct. All the papers were ready when his powerful protectors succeeded in having him ap pointed to the governship of Roumelia which put practically an end to the inquiry and enabled hint to follow up his former disreputable career. What is the use of proclaiming every year that corrupt officials will be punished if the Government itself protects the offenders in the face of the most glaring facts ? It is a simple mockery. E x amples are required, and not in the usual style, when men convicted of having committed the grossest abuses are sent for a short time into some pleasant spot ;n the Archipelago, or to the baths of Broussa, until the storm has blown over, and then are recalled and placed in 4 better situation than before. JA criminal who is guilty of murder has a chance even now to be condemned to death or to rot in prison, but the Pasha who has brought dews. misery on whole province, and caused, as in the case of Omer Pasha, the deaths of hundreds, is sure to escape. In all things the Turks go into extremes. For merly too many heads were cut off ; now there are too few ; verily, if one sees the consequences of this system of false and interested philanthropy, one would be inclined to wish back the times when pashas' heads were no uncommon sight on the gates of the seraglio, and dishonest bakers ran a fair chance of having their ears nailed to their own doors. The divided command which seems to follow the Eastern war like an evil genius makes itself felt in the smallest things as well as in the largest. The port of Constantinople forms no exception. What with a Turkish harbour-master, several admirals, and as many military authorities, every - body does as he likes. That the police regulations of the port are, under these circumstances, wretched need scarcely be mentioned. Lately a gang of sailors have begun to avail themselves of this state of things, and carried off systematically bales and cases from the quays. Three nights ago three of the ging, having taken away from the Custom house quay a bale of goods, tried to carry it off in a boat, which was likewise not theirs. They were, however, seen by the Turkish guard and pursued. When they saw that they could not escape they w, n alongsi le the Vestal—a steamer lately bought try the Theesalian Mining Company—and, leaving bale and biat lehind, they scrambled .on board. The Turkish gu rd was soon after them, but when they tried to wet up, one of the fugitives took up a l roken grindstone and threw it down into the beat, killing one of the Turkish boatmen. The chief officer of the steamer, who heard the noise, came on deck, with the steward, both armed with revolvers, and asked the intruders what they wanted. They pretended to be pursued by s ome Turkish soldiers, who had threatened to kill them, and asked the chief officer to assist them. The latter, although he knew nothi ng o f w h at h a d hap pened, thought the thing rather suspicious at that hour of the night (about 11 o'clock), and ordered them to be gone, threatening to shoot them if they refused. At this the fugitives ran up on the paddle boxes, whence they jumped on board another steamer alongside, and thence to a third—the Austrian Lloyd steamer ; there they found a boat low end, got into it, and went off. The chief officer of the Vestal having got rid of the intruders, and not hearing any further noise, went down to his cabin, and it was only next day that the whole thing was explained, when he was summoned to give his evidence, and was informed that a Turkish boatman had been killed. The strangest thing seems to be that the companions of the killed man did not attempt to come on board the steamer ; they were afraid as it was an English steamer. This is just the curse of the separate juris diction in the port. The Turkish guard is afraid to interfere, in order not to came in collision with the foreign authorities. A great movement of troops has taken place here lately. Several thousand men have passed through from Malta, and all the convalescents have been sent up likewise from Scutari, so that the Crimean army has got a considerable addition. A regiment of Bashi-Bazouks has arrived here from Adrianople ; four others from Shumla aro likewise expected. The two Crimean mails arrived at the same time. The last mail was detained by bad weather at Kamiesh. The telegraphic wire across to Scutari has been broken lately ; the necessary orders have been, however, given for its reparation, and a boat put at the disposal of Capt. Spurvey, R.A., for the purpose. The accident has been caused by a yes e'6 anchor. I wrote in my last that Ismail Pasha (of Ralafat celebrity) has been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the army of Anatolia. General Kmety will ac; company him; it is, I think, not yet decided whe ther as Chef d'Etat Major or as commander of a a division. The choice is very good. Ismail Pasha is one of the few Turkish commanders who is morally not shrin enjoyed man, ea ' Jimety i sional at Hof makii - the arm} which NT Omer pected h go before The F thei r hoe M. 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