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so— - Office of M. Dervaux, Attorney, in Paris, Rue Neuve, St. Merry, No. 19. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, at the Court of Justice of the Departmelt of the Seine, on WEDNESDAY, the 7th day of MAY, 1856. In Eight separate Lots, except by the union of the first, four lots, and of the sixth and seventh lots, of the beautifu I 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, Chalet, and Dependeneres. 2d Lot.—The Wood of Mill Hartre. 3d Lot.—The Farm of Breuil. 4th Lot.—The Farm. of Beauvoir. sth Lot.—The Inn of the Green Cross. 6th aad 7th Lots.—The Forest of Cinglais. Bth Lot.—The Estate of Toupendeut. The whole lying in the villages of Thury Harcourt, Eason, Crorseller, St. Benin, Play, St. Laurens de Condel, Brette- Mantiersen Cinglais, the districts of Thury Harcou rt a nd Bretteville, chief district of Talorse (Calvados). T o tal upset price, 812,000 1 .—15 t Lot, 210,000 f. ; 2d Lot Lot, sth , 85,0001, ; 3 d Lot, 44,000 1 . ; 4th Lot, 75,000 1 . ; I,ooof. ; Gth Lot, 170,000 f. ; 7th Lot, 230,000. ; Bth Lot, 10,000 1 . Produce.-Ist Lot, 7,1501., not including the reserue ;2d Lot, about 3,000 f. ; 3d Lot , 2,000 f. ; 4th Lot, 3,400 f. ; sth Lot, .600 f.; 6th Lot, 14 , 000 f. ; 7 th Lot, about 18,000 f. Bth Lot, 7001. 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. Culle rier, Rue de Harla y du Palars, No. 20 ; ' 5. M. Paul, Rue de Chlrseul, 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. Gu.enin, 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 de Lille, No. 101; 11. M. Florent Pourian, Rue de is. 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. HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. HulotOne. On EASTER MOSDAY, THE EVIL GENIUS. Followed by EL GAMBU3U 0 ; or, The Mexican Goldseeker. In which PERE& NENA and the Spanish Dancers will appear. To conclude with • LEND ME FIVE SHILLINGS ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET, Under the Management of Mr. Cruxura KRAL ON EASTER MONDAY A WONDERFUL WOMAN. After which. FAUST AND MARGUERITE. To conclude with A PRINCE FOR AN HOUR. TEIRATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Dlrectress. Madame Celeste, ON EASTER MONDAY. DOMESTIC ECONOMY. To to followed by URGENT' PRIVATE AFFAIRS. To conclude with JACK AND THE BE kN STALK; or, Harlequin and Mother GOO3O at Home Atrata. In which Messrs. J. Bland, P. Bedford, Madame Celeste, Mu Wyndham, and Miss E. Arden will apaear. ROYAL OLY \IPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager. Mr. Alfr.4 Wigan. ON EASTER MONDAY. STILL WATERS RU DEEP. After which will be produced a New and donbly-moral, though excessively old, Melodramatic Fairy Extravaganza, entitled Tag INSCIREZT PRENJE4i , ' ; o the Three Glass Distaffs. in which Messrs. Emery, F. Robson, U. Cooper, Ifiss Marston, and Miss Haskell will appear. BOYA.T. SLT3REY THIIATRE. Lessees, Messrs. ShepheM and Creswiek. ON EAST R MONDAY, be performed a new Drama, entitled BOW WE LIVE. Followed by A FAVOURITE BALLET. To conclude with TUFFLEHAUSEN; or, The Lawyer's Legend. ROYAL STUMM TIIEATEE. Erider the direction of Mr; Payne. ON EA , 3YER MONDAY, THE LOSE DIAMOND. After whin, AN ORIGLNAL BALLET. To conclude with an Original Burlesque Extravaganza, called t OOD QUEEN B SS. ROYAL MARYLEBONE TrIEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. Edward Stirling. On EASTER 3101%MAX, the 24th of March, 1856, LOST, 230,000. Messrs. Stuart, Belford, Stirling, Carter, Langton; Messls. An Berton, Morell, Mars. Brothers Elliott's wonderful performances. GRAND BALLET. 3rasnselle Agnes, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey, and Corps do Ballet. Musical Fairy Spectacle, FAIRY FERN FLOWER; or, THE GOBLIN MINE. Miss Francis Hughes, Miss Morel!, slr. Sanders, Mr. J. Bedford and 80 Ladies. Boxes and Stalls, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; Gallery, 6d. E\IMA STSNLEY'S "SEVEN AGES OF WOMAN." Commencement of the Second Season on E ASTER MONDAY. This Lyric Entertainment has been crowned by the unanimous approbation of ALT, THE LONDON JOURNALS As the greitest artTstlelt;inMPhoftieda;;. It constitutes an Opera. Comedy, and Vaudeville. With a host of characters in Correct Cos tomes ; and Songs in SIX DIFFERENT LANGUAGES! Never attempted by any other artiste. Evening performances on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays, at 8. Morning performances on Wednesdays and Saturdays at half-past two, precisely. Admission—Chairs, 3s. ; Centre Seats, 25.; Back Seats, Is. SAINT MAR ClN'd HILL, Long-acre. MGR WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY—Morn. 11. min. aft, '2 —Evening 26 min. aft. 2 TorMonnow—Morn. 40 min. aft. 2 —Evening 53 min. aft. 2 THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, 31ARcli 21. TIIRRNIOHETEN, IN TRY SEIADB. 47- highest since noon yesterday. -!ovirost this morning and during the night. 50 this day at noon. BAROMETER, .0. WIND, N.—Overeast, and raw dull weather. c- A 17(1 .0 ) (t §ant - LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH 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—woe 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 deprecates the championship of Right and beslavers Might however intrinsi. tally 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 sentiment ! Sooner or later, to each and all of these, the ex piatory punishment must--be sure of that—come, in some shape or another, overwhelmingly. Either in lifetime or in deathtime—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--i s only, Nice 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 could it by possibility have occurred under aus pi ces i n every way more propitious for the in terests of humanity than those which axe now being , rapidly dissipated "into thin air" by the incon ceivable fatuity cr 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 1 • Poland is again loft 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 last reduoe it to the condition of the sick man whose possessions are to be the spolia opiina 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 Tartary, 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 Hi ndos tan ! 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 far from doing so, are they not, by their criminal haste, to arrange the preliminaries of a disgrace ful 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 dynastic 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 HEAVEN'S good time, at the fiat of an infinitely just and overruling PROVIDENCE. The strict secresy to be observed with respect 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 L )rd CLAREN DON who must be the chief sufferer from the use less mystery. It may be very agreeable to the despotic Powers, who think that peoples should have no voice in the management of t'seir own concerns—that the enunciation of the will of their rulers is all that is necessary, and that their only part is tohearand to obey. But theslavish 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 1 0 y the Crown could control tor 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 sidr,s. No American Statesman would dare to enter into such An arrangemant ; and, notwithstanding the positive assertions to the contrary, we still in dulge in the hope, that one who has hitherto en joyed the oonfidence 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. He 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 doubt. Englishmen are apt to conceive ghat 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 on 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 tions. Hints that the British Plenipotentiary h a d " boldly asserted the determination of his country to obtain complet e guarantees and satis factory assurances" will not s u ffi ce. There must be clear, intelligible, and decisive proofs on the point. We must be enabled to maturely consider and carefully weigh every argument adduced—to perceive exactly the positions taken up, a n d th e causes that led to their abandonment. Discover those, if any, to whom praise may fairly be ac corded, and the others who should bear 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 pozsibility of dispute that they have acted a THE SIJN, 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 offieial 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 b een a poor colony, I 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 tie colonies under British sway none is more pro mising nor more valuable than Australia ; and when we say valuable we don't mean in prospeetu, 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 eur largest customer, 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. Daring 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 93-i days, the outward mails to Melbourne having an advantage of nine days. A strange mode of promoting our commercial interests truly. Under such circumstance; it is gratifying to find the General Association for the Australian Colonies taking the matter into consideration, and forwarding the resalt in the shape of a memorial to 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 be 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 Chita° 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 Babelmandel at the Red Sea, and the south-western promontory of tlie continent of Australia, and possessing a eapaeAo us harbour, easy of access in all weathers, aud com pletely landlocked. The superiority of this route not only over those via the Cape, and via Aden, Ceylon, and Singapore, but also aver 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 5'7 days' passage, while that recommended, by the Association is not more than 10,348 man in length, 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, the remainder of the calculation e.s to time being based on a spee-a of ten miles an hour lsaing maintained loetween Suez ae; Melbourne, a rate kecide .4 ' iy below the average now achieved by steam navi ga ti on . Even on the score of exp ense every f ac i l i ty is offered, the o'jtonies having volunteered most liberal 00 7atributions to carry out a scheme in which they feel themselves deeply interested., Victoria alone has voted 50,0001. per annum for the purpose, and there is every reason to believe the remaining colonies will con tribute in like proportion. Thus the Government are offered every induce tuent 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 face of officials do their best to hasten it, wh'en our Australian colonies will not submit tq ise thus trifled with and victimised by Imperial incompetency and indifference. THE NIOHTINGALE FUND.—The sum 'of 3001. has been forwarded from Bath to the London committee. His Royal Highness the Duke af Cambridge left town yesterday morning, for Win :,sor Castle, to attend the `,:ss Royal. His R o y a l High nc e o n s s fir r e e i t a n t r i t o l e n d o t f n t t h o e wn c the afternoon. His Serene Highn:,se Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar went to Windsor f. iastle yesterday, to be present at the confirmation (Ji the Princess Royal. The Prince re turned to London after the ceremony. The l qarquis of Lansd owne , the Earl Granville. and Visc;ruut Palmerston returned to town from Windsor Castle yesterday afternoon. THE SADLEIR FORGEEIES.—DDISLIN, Thursday.—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 TERM,—The customary notices for "eighty-five" attorneys to be admitted in Easter Term base been given, they having passed their exam'. nation. DEATH OF CAPTAIN IRVlNE.—Captain Chas. Chem berlayne Irvine (retired under her Majesty's order in council of the 10th of August, 1840) died on the 14th in,ta;it, in Upper Albany-street, Regent's -park, the 85 . ,„11 year of his age. DEATH Of CONSIANDER PATTERSO/C.—C than doe William P a tt erson (1847) ( on the retired list died on the 16th inst. at Ply mou th, age d 7 5 years. This officer entered the navy J u ly 1, 1804 , as first-clr4„olunteer board the Mon mou th, 64, Captain Geotge Hart, bear ing the flag in Y armou th R oa d s of R . .v4r-Adrniral Thos. r. Ru sse ll. CANADA CouoANY.--The general o'ourt of proprietors, Mr. Charles Franks, governor, in the chair, was held yesterday, for the purpose of ele'Jting a governor, three other directors, and an audito.r. The consideration of a motion for a retiring allowance to Mr. John Perry, the secretary of the company (4001. per annum), was carried. The compatative statement of transactions, from Ist Jan. to 2Ala 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 465. 2d. ; 1355, 5,759 acres, at 31s. Bd. ; to tal, 1856, 2,G53 acres, at 439. 6d. ; 1855, 6,444 acres, a'; 30s. 10d. Leases converted to freeholds, 1856, 21,702 acres, at 15s. 9d. ; 1855, 31,727 acres, at 15s. 2d. Re ceipts in Canada to ditto, 1856, 28,7801. ; 1855, 48,709/.1 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 plan this day in the private'chapel at Windsor Castle. The Archbishop of Canterbury ; the Bishop of Oxford, Lord High Almcner ; the Bishop of Chester, Clerk of the Closet ; the Dean of Windsor, Resident Chaplain to the Queen • the Rev. Lo r d Wriothesley Russell, Deputy Clerk of the Closet in Waiting ; and the Rev. H. 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 ccrridor. 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 Leiuingen, 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 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 Mechlin 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 their respective insignia. 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 ifishop of Canterbury p!rformed the ceremony, and con , eluded the service, the Princess kneeling before his Grace. The Archbishop, at the close delivered an exhortation, and parr of the 268th 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 E iward 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, Archbisbop'of Can terbury ; Earl Granville, Lord President of the Privy Council ' • the Duches s o f S u th er l an d , Mi strebs 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 Consort ; 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 Queen ; the Hon. Flora Mac donald and the lion. Caroline Cavendish, Maids of Honour ; Lady Caroline Barrington, Lady Superintend ent ; Lord Camoys, the Lord in Waiting to the Queen ; Lieut.-Colonel F. Cav-endish, Groom in Waiting to the Queen ; Major-General Buckley, Equerry in Waiting to the Queen ; Viscount Torrington, Lord in Waiting to the Prince ; Col. Frantis Seymour, Groom in W a iti ng to the Prince ; C a pt. th e Hon. Dudley de Ros, Equerry in Waiting to the Prince ; Lady Fanny Howard, the Lady in Waiting ti the Duchess of Kent ; Lady Geor giana Bathurst, Lady in Waiting to the Du c h ess o f Cam bridge ; Baron ess d e Sp e th ; 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 Chaplaibito the Queen ; Rev. Lord Wriothesley Russell, Deputy-Clerk of the Closet in Waiting ; the Rev. H. J. Ellison, Vicar of Windsor • the Dowager Lady Lyttleton, G e n era l Si r R o b ert and Lady Gardi ner, Colonel the Hon. C. 8., Mrs., and Miss Phippe, Major-General the Hon. Charles Grey, Mrs. Grey, and Miss Barrington, Sir James Clark, Col, the Hon. Alex ander N. Hood and Lady Mary Hood, C , .lonel 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. vrhitt, Equerry to the Duke of Cambridge ; Colonel de kloerkerke, Captain Prisse and Dr. Ricken, the Gentls. men in Waiting on tho Kinv, of the Belgians ; Mr, Gibbs, Mr. Becker, Mr. Glover, Miss Mild,yezd, Madame Rollande, Mdlle. Illhardt, and the allster of the Household. . • Luncheon was served to the royal fatally in the white room, and to the general company in the dining-room. The Duchess of Cambridge, the Princess Mary, and the Duke of Cambridge took leave of the Queen and tae Prince in the afternoon, the Duchess and the Princess Mary proceeding to Kew, and the Duke returning to London. Prince E I 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 cere:,, ony, took their departure. The dinner part; of the Be.lgis, the rouchess of Kent, Serene Itir.h. ness , Ernest of Leiningen, y anny Reward, I3a dims de Speth, M. VAU Weyer. the Belgian in the evening included . o, kir Minister, and Col, de kteerkerke, Capt. Prisse and Dr. Ricken (in attendance on the King of the Belgia'is). The Queen had a dinner party yesterday (Wednesday) evening. The company ine.ncled the King of the B-. - gins, the Duchess of Kent, the Princess Mary- and the Duke of Cambridge, Prince ward of ake Weimar, Prince Ernest o f L P ; .airtiZo-fsnit rrttlUe Victor of Hoben "le, the .A- "`.;clishop of Oanterbury, the Duchess of ill Lad—i -the Earl of Ab er d een , Vi scount P a l merston, Sut he r ar :i t'snny Howard, Lady Georgiana Bathurst, taro ',fess de Speth, Sir J. Clark, Col. de Moerkerke, Capt. Prigs° 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 the various parishes and districts. in and rotted London, at the Almonry, at Whitehall, under the direction of the Lord High Almo ner, assisted ley the Sub-Almoner. The recipients in cluded numerous cases of blindness and other infirmities, and had 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 aro 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 accouehe ment of the Empress and of the birth of a Prince. All the vessels in port wore 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 SERASTOPOL, March 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 whole 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 Redan for wood, across to Kasatch 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 bear tip 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 meets 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 physical strength and condition) has obtained 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, aredoing work which would tat the strength and powers of endurance rt: robust adults—at tempting to do it, I ebottla rather say,•for most of them soon sicken tinder the effort. I know of in stances of recruits of this class, who, having come out in. November and December, have been nearly the whole time in hospital s and are now at Scutari, whence they will very probably be invalided home. Other causes toncur 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 mufti • ciently attended to ; heaps of manure are allowed ym s t t he i b fl eet i e c he ni that pmthsl has sde 00 :• ,n e a a i mp i n t s i ede l ti cats sinceaeecnicl :hga tvr Consideri ng the to accumulate ; s ome o f t h e b aits are overcrowded organisa tionesaehnrodtrat en t i f n l i e p en rog a r c e h s i s ev h e a d s only by zealous and constant exertion on the part of Colonel Wallet-an And his officers ; but the ut most exertions of the best officers, most desirous to get theft 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 bore, 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- manne d L and Transport, sickened by dozens thiiy. This matter of recruits should be 10 :iced to at home. As rends required improve ' ment of ventilation, drainage, removal of manure, Am, these points will doubtless be attended to as soon as possible by the Director-General of the corps and the comreanclants 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 iu 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 i n 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 mouths, 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 in 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, dr.o., but although widely spread, it is not seveze, and measures were promptly taken on the discovery of its existence to give the men the sort of food th e d e fi c i enc y o f which had brought it on. Among the British troops et 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 RO 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 ofthe 10 th Hussars, &c., there is a Protestant congregation at Kertch of about 500 souls. Service is performed in the oft mentioned building, which was a ladies' school, and is now a cavalry barrack: By way of experiment, it was once performed in the Kertch Cathedral. The Russian priest's permission was asked, and he 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 bythe esta blishment by the Rev. Mr. Bendier, who for two months officiated as chaplain at Kertch, of a school for 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 deatli of a most amiable young man and gallant officer—Major George Ranken, of the Royal Engi neers, 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 the As follows :—A mine having failed to explode, and some minutes having elapsed Major Ranken sent his men to a distance and him selt 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 he had completed his perilous 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 large 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, legs than five mouth'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 he is not expected to live. It was reporteaincaiitpiiia another, conference was about to take place at Traktir-bridge, and the British subaltern had his 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 meeting will take place on the subject of the armis tice. The Russians, having taken copy of our pro positions ou 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 Wetherell and Mackenzie are about to proceed to England. Their departure. is under stood to be occasioned by the digchsiien 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 211 b. to 3001 b. of powder. _ _ MARCH 4. Snow, rain, and wind all night. A very dirty morning. M-4 RCIE 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 ssow continued to fall at intervals (luring the whole of Wednesday, agreeably varied by sharp hail. The camp presented the old winter picture, dingy huts and grey tents rising out of the 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. Commissariatofficers 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 lesst, 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 were enclosed 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, 1 1 whose director, Colonel Wetherall, is to leave for England on Saturday. We hear that Colonel M`Murdo is coming out. Mules are arriving from Sinope 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 form 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 aun, and rivers of mud for roads. Such are Crimean caprices. A large number of boxes, containing voluntary contributions of books, games, &sc., 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 theinost 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 Nrammars, 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. Ilayter and Howell for the use of the army. People should understand that soldiers are as great epicures in their literary tastes as any other cass, and that if they are to be tempted to prefer a boot to idleness or dissipation it must-be by offering them something pleasing to their palate. No reason able person can expect to rouse a feeble appetite into vigour by placing before the patient dry and unpalatable fool. Hay and horsebeans would he about as reascn ible an oar to a convalescent as Greek Grammars, stale Directories, and Italian Pharmacopecias 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 est of the 14th of November, 1854. It is to be 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 boom broke away and fractured the captain's leg in two places. The latest report is that the Third and Fourth Divisions are to move down to Inkerman and the Tchernaya to relieve the French, who suffer gt eatly from sickness. The mortality in the French army 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 iu three days 570 men died. There may be exaggera tion in this, but it is certain that the number of sick is very large, and that the French Commissariat is badly off. This severe and fickle weather must he trying to an army which is chiefly under can vass, and, as I believe, insufficiently rationed. MARCH 8. We have had a bitter cold night, and the e arth is iron-bound with frost. The mail due on Thurs day has not yet arrived. TURKEY. CONgTANTINOPLE, March 10.—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 concentrate 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 vet nment granted privileges to a few houses who geve 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 a Government establishment, and to afford the greatest possible facilities for native capital to have lan interest in it. I alluded some time ago to the large amount of dead capital in Turkey which could be thus made profitable. The death of Halil Pasha, the Sultan's brother-in-law, which took place Imt, week, may serve as a proof of this. He 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 - of piastres in ready money alone ; and yet Haiti Pasha was more anxious than any other Turk not to let his money lie idle, as one may see from the circumstance that his 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 Rote melia, 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 wholesale system of enaction 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 he 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. Ail the papers were ready when his powerful protectors succeeded in having him ap pointed to the governship of Routnelia which put practically an end to the inquiry arid enabled him to follow up his former disreputable career. What is the use of proclaiming every year that corrupt officials will be punished if the Government itsMprotects the offenders in the face of the most glaring facts ? It is a simple mockery. Examples 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 a better situation than before. A. 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 biought dew' misery on a 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 ; - eerily, 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, everybody 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 peg, 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. Wnen they saw that they could not escape they alongsi le the Vestal—a steamer lately bought by the Thessalian Mining Company—and, leaving bale and b)at lehind, they scrambled on board. The Turkish gu, , rd was soon after them, but when they tried to get up, one of the fugitives took up a trioken grindstone and threw it down into the bcat, 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 some Turkish soldiers, who had threatened to kill them, and asked the chief officer to assist them. The latter, although he knew nothing of what had hap pened, thought the thing rather suspicious at that hour of the night (aiont 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 lowered, got into it, and went off. The chief officer of the Vestal having got rid of the intruders, aid 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 come 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 are likewise expected. The two Crimean mails arrived at the same time. The last mail was detained toy 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, ILA., for the purpose. The accident has been caused by a yes sel's anchor. I wrote in my last that Ismail Pasha (of Kalafat 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 IRELAND. DUBLIN, THIIRSDAY BtreRNING. THE PORTARLINGTON 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 Efeeriettri-street on Tuesday the 27th of May next. The net rental of the lands to be disposed of is olese upon 1,200/. a-year. The agency of this property it was that, i n f am i llea- phrase, first put the late John Sadleir upo n hi s t ter sessions -* p , g ..ctorney to a magnate among I r i s h l an d and transferred him from a uar ahg; entg • How well he discharged the trust reposed in 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. (Reoan) Massy, of the 19th Regiment, who has jnst 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 reelived 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 Swea 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, krague, Ratisbon, Vienna, Pestb, Buda, and the line of the Danube, to Balaklava and Constantinople. The home route will be up the Ad- riatic to Rome, Venice, the Lag o Maggiore, across the Alps by M onte Rosa, the gall eries of Iselin and Gond°, Interlachen, the Jungfrau, C leneva, and up the Rhine to Cologne and Dover. The cc illection of Russian arms, dresses, pictures, and trophies, t. 'IC military gallery of the armies of Europe, the models of the siege works of Sebastopol, Sweaborg, Cronstadt, an d the Baltic, will be wade doubly interesting by the pic, orial representa tions of the Eel , / diorama ; whilst the g meat Model of the Earth, serves not only to show the spc tercet, but the world itself in relation to 17 1 i t , 'IA spots of in tercet, events of our age. et‘ 'florally as NI not shrink fr, e njoyed a in man, eapabh I Ctriety is ati sional and e of znakino. the army of . Which was it Omer Pas Noted here go before he The Frenc their hospita M. Eau& pospitais, a letter Velissier, in t i ne, lime-j xrench hosp „_ ca, 3 Cents Neer Cents.: i t Shares . .obili l'iL llll Fivez ( (1)1 t!e14118 orth eni ••:• • . 44 .10 n,„ • etjl ........ A letter 1 : 2 '"1/ Gazett n ag coinrue e: ti4l. as Rgea litu r gaugerin uear. It L'aeed Olt P • , ° I the 15t1 Th e c I ta ; t es th h do ers lon e a theme ~~„ ~:~ ~. s.•