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London, England, 1855-04-07

MR. GLADSTONE.

CEREBRAL natures—men of mere intellect,
without moral passion, are quite unsuited for
governing mankind. They may theorise pro-
foundly, or spin the subtlest webs of argu-
ment, but they can neither rule Cabinets, nor
control empires. Something more than brains
are required for mastering beings of mixed
elements of life. There must be the pre-
sence of sturdy power, the fascination
of masculine resolve, before numbers of
men will yield to a leader. In the practical
affairs of the world, strength of character is
worth nearly all the other qualities. What
hordes of clever men swarm through the
crowded thoroughfares, and yet how few are
the resolute characters amongst them! The
courage inspired by a vigorous volition is
absolutely necessary before genius can be
constant to its own inspiration. MLRABEAU
well said that "a person without a strong
" character is not a man, but a thing."
No British statesman so thoroughly exem-
plifies these truths as Mr. GLADSTONE. Our
recollection of him goes back to those
early days when the young Oxonian, even
then with a laurelled brow, was an object
of interest to all who saw the honour-
able pride with which his worthy parents
regarded one who has largely justified
their bright anticipations. Of his mere
talents and accomplishments we have never
had a second opinion. His aptitude for sus-
tained reasoning, his copious flow of choice
language, and the supple adroitness with
which he can wind through the mazes of a

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London, England, 1855-04-07

UNITED STATES.

The latest mails from the States bring little news
of interest.

For the expedition to search for Kane, the Secre
tary of the Navy has purchased, at 50,00 X) dols., the
steam-propeller City of Boston. The new light
ship at Philadelphia will go on the expedition as
soon as refitted—probably the Ist of June.

California news of much importance has been re-
ceived in New York. A commercial panic had oc•
curred in San Francisco. Page, Bacon and Co.,
Adams and Co., Wells, Fargo, and Co., Robinson
and Co., and the Miners' Bank of San Francisco
have all suspended. Business of all kinds was com-
pletely dead. During the panic the excitement was
intense, and a rush was made upon every banking
house in San Francisco. The other bankers were
able to sustain themselves, and the panic was sub
siding. There are rumours of heavy failures among
the merchants.

Owing to the scarcity of water but little gold has
been taken from the mines since the last steamer.

WEST INDIES.

The West India mail has arrived, with dates from
Jamaica of the 14th March. She brings on freight
2,601,708 dols. on merchants' account, and 00,0(X)
dols. to pay the Mexican dividends. Jamaica and
the other islands were generally healthy. Some
districts were suffering from drought, while others
with suffering from wet. Yellow fever, to a slight
extent, was felt at St. Thomas's. The Customs'
House in the latter island had been destroyed by
fire, and the damage done was estimated at about
80,000 dols. The books and records were happily
preserved from destruction. Tho riot at Kingston
was entirely suppressed, and Afty persons arrested.
Trade was dull.

THE EARL OF HARROWRY has been appointed
Chancellor of tho Duchy of Lancaster. This, with
Mr. Bouverie's appointment to the Vice-Presidency of
the Board of Trade, and Mr. Brand's acceptance of
the Junior Lordship of the Treasury, leaves but one
office—the Colonial Under-Secretaryship—vacant in
the Administration. Mr. Brand, says the Globe, will
undertake the English department of the Trea-
sury, Lord Monck succeeding Mr. 'ortescue as Irish
Lord.
London, England, 1855-04-07

111.-EXPENDITURE AND R:

Burping Balance beyond the Charge of the Consoli-
dated Fund for the Quarter ended Jan. 6,1835, viz.,

Brest Britain
IralLud 4469,993 3
1469 ,99
_ _

Balance of amount received for Exchequer Bonds ap-
propriated by Parliament to supply services re-
maining in the Exchequer on Jan. 5, 1855 250,468
Net Income received in the Quarter ended March 31,
1855, as shown in Account I.
Amount received in the Quarter ending March 31,
1855, for Exchequer Bonds issued
♦mount of Exchequer Bills (Ways and Means) issued
in the quarter ending March 91, 1855
Amount received in the quarter ending March 31,1855,
in repayment of advances for public works, Sc

407,902
London, England, 1855-04-07

TRUSTEES.

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William Squire Plane, Esq., Gravesend
John Saddington, Esq., Gravesend.
Upwards of 10,000 Policies have been issued. Polishes Issued
for small sums and short periods. Guarantee Fund, 4100,000.
Policies may be effected daily; and Prospectuses, Annual
Reports, Proposal Forms, and all other information, will be
supplied upon application at the Chief Offices, the Branches, or
at any of the numerous Agencies throughout the United King •
Join and Foreign Countries, personally or by letter.
GEORGE CUMMING, Manager.

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London, England, 1855-04-07

GERMANY.

The Conferences closed for a week on Monday
last, when the discussion of the third point was still
unfinished. It is said that the allies proposed to ex-
clude all ships of war indifferently—those of Russia
inclusive—from the Black Sea. The next meeting of
the plenipotentiaries stood adjourned to the 10th inst.
Lord John Russell and M. Drouyn de Lhuys have
declined the King of Prussia's invitation to Berlin.
Several usually well-informed German journals,
quoted in Thursday's Constitution/id, speak of the ap-
proaching accession of Prussia to a friendly co ope-
ration with the Western powers, and of the proba-
bility of Prussia taking part in the Vienna Con-
ferences before their conclusion.

It is rumoured that an ultimatum has been agreed
to at London, with the object of putting Prussia in a
position to declare definitively its intentions.
General Wedel left Berlin on Wednesday toreturn
to Paris.

The Empress-Mother of Russia will visit Berlin in
June. Prince Charles of Prussia has lett St.
Petersburg for Moscow.
The death of the Princess Charlotte of Meiningen,
eldest daughter of Prince Albert of Prussia, took
place immediately after her accouchement. She
was born on the 21st June, 1831, and married Prince
George of Saxe Meiningen in May, 1850. '1 he
deceased princess has bad three children, the second
of which, a prince, died a few days ago.
It is supposed in political circles at Vienna that the
mission of Field-Marshal Degenfold to London re-
lates to a loan of sixty millions of florins, which the
new Finance Minister, Baron de Bruck, has, it is said,
proposed to contract abroad. The Weser Gazette, in
mentioning the subject, states that to this sum will
be added another of twenty millions, to be employed
in withdrawing from circulation the paper-money
issued by the Bank.
London, England, 1855-04-07

428,1110.230

i 25,510,230

BANKING DZPARTIIZNT.

Proprietors'Capitalll4,ssB,ooo Government Seen-
Rest
Public Deposits• 5,384,894 DeadWeightAn.i 411,591,0137
Other Deposits 10,992,629 Other Securities .. 14,091,941
seven Day & other Note■ 9,021,920
Hills

/35,390,45 / A 35,390,225
* Including Exchequer, Savings Banks, Commissioners of
National Debt, and Dividend Accounts.

The foregoing return, when compared with that of the preceding
week, ending March 24, exhibits the tollowina changes: In the
Public Deposits DECREASE of A 154,863
Other Deposits
Notes Issued
Do. Reserved DECREASE of 107,190
Seven-day Bills INCREASE of
Coin and Bullion
Government Securities ..
Other Securities DECREASE of

The Rest
Tie amount of active circulation In Notes 818,488,310
Do. in Seven-day and other Bills 8643,312

Coin and Bullion in both Departments

Per Cent.
5
5

FOREIGN FUNDS.

Brazilian
Danish
Dtoh. (Ex 12 Guil 1
French

Do.
Do. Bank Stock

70f 116 c
94t 72c
2996 f.
40i

Tuesd.l
99 idl

621
70f 15c
94f 50e
3000 f.

Wed. i
19 id]

Mexican 3
Peruvian 44
Portuguese 4
Russian 6
Spanish 3
Turkish Sorip(Ace )6

Thurs.
991 xd
102
621
70( o
04(15c
3000 f.

62} i
70f 20e

14:60c
3000 i.
20j

177,120
4,03.3

19,354,622
.5,20;,,527

Friday.

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TURKEY.

Constantinople letters of the 29th ult. have been
received. A slight shock of earthquake had been
experienced in that city on the 22nd.
The Sultan has contributed 300,000 piastres to the
relief of the town of Broussa. _

The Porte has ordered a levy of troops in Syria.
All the allied vessels lying at anchor in the Bos-
phorus were ordered on the 20th to leave imme-
diately for the Crimea.
The works for the establishment of the camp for
40,000 men as a corps of reserve, which had been
marked out near the Turkish capital, were being
carried out rapidly. The Piedmontese troops, as
well as two new French regiments of African Chas-
seurs, which were expected from Algiers, would, it is
said, form part of this camp. Preparations on the

THE PRESS.

most extensive and brilliant scale continued to be
made at Constantinople for the reception of the Em-
peror and Empress of the French, and it is said that
in the event of his Alikjesty going to the East, the
Sultan will proceed with him to the Crimea.
London, England, 1855-04-07

SHARES.

The quotations of Railway Stock and Shares were
dull during the early party of the week, but showed
signs of recovery after the announcement of the
reduced rate of discounts by the Bank. The
weekly returns of traffic continue to improve as the
weather becomes fine, and the speculators appear in
better heart.

BRITISIEraSSP-Ttlhiii s:Prices.
o itplrasTpir.
• Ilya& itaseiVll6 s. Friday,
3 per Cent. Con ....
Dittofor Accoun /9 r
3 per Cents Redu
3 per Cents ...
Long Annuities .. ..\
Bank Stook, 7 per Q
225 °
India Stook, 104 e tfirk,it r. _
iczoli. Bills, 24d. per e
em 5 3- 4- 9 6
India Bonds, (1,0001.).... 13 ( 14 11
London, England, 1855-04-07

TROOPS FROM INDIA.

The first of the transports with troops from Bombay
for the Crimea left on the 10th of January, and
reached Suez on the Bth of February, occupying
twenty-nine days on the way. The last of the 10th
Hussars having been despatched, steamers and
transports left Bombay on the 24th of January to
carry the 12th Lancers from Mangalore, and the men
were expected to be embarked and ready for sea by
the 10th of March, reaching Suez on the 14th of
April, and Constantinople, at the rate assigned, about
the 7th of May, or about a month later than by the
Cape. The Bombay Times says the orders for the
troops through Egypt reached India early in Novem•
ber, and considering the immense amount of tonnage
at this season always at command, every man that
could have been spared might have been embarked
by New Year's day, and ninety days on the voyage
to Gibraltar would have greatly exceeded the average
of time taken. With steamers in readiness there to
receive them on the Ist of March, the whole of the
troops might have been in the Crimea by the Ist of
April. The horses despatshed through Egypt are
undersized for home service, they are unfitted for the
climate of the Crimea, and will have cost the country
2001. a piece by the time they reach their destination.
No blame attaches to any one in India for these
blunders; the orders from home were peremptory.
London, England, 1855-04-07

THE PRESS.

BANK OF ENGLAND.

Aa Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. SS
for the week ending on Saturday, the Slat day of March, 1858.

lyßUi PEPAHTIMNT.
Notes Issued .... .U 8,310,230 Government Debt £11,016,100
Other Securities .. 3,984,000
Gold Coinßßullion 14,b10.2.50
Silver Bullion

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London, England, 1855-04-07

RUSSIA.

A ukase of the Emperor Alexander, just pub-
lished, grants fresh privileges to the tradesmen and
manufacturers established at Sebastopol, Eupatoria,
and Yalta. It permits them to exercise their callings
in all the other towns of the Crimea, and releases
them from the payment of certain corporatioa dues
during the continuance of the war.
The Berlin National reports from Finland that
the harbours of Abo, llelsingfors, and all the hex.
bours from Wyburg to Tomes, are being stopped
up so as to thoroughly obstruct the navigation.
The death of Prince Menschikoff, which has been
asserted, denied, and reasserted, is now confirmed.
His decease took place at Perekop on the 17th of
March, arising from mortification in one of his legs
caused by a wound of long standing.
The Patrie contains a letter from St. Petersburg,
dated March 18. The writer says, it is remarkable
how liberal the Government is just now about news-
papers. The Charivari, Punch, and all the London
and Paris papers, are distributed, and may be seen in
the cafes of St. Petersburg. The language of the
European press towards Russia, it was supposed,
would create an increased hatred among the Musco-
vites towards France and England. The nobles,
according to this writer, are animated with much
devotion towards the new Emperor. They are
making, however, immense sacrifices of men and
money. Prince Cheremelieff is reported to have
given 2,750,000 f., and 20,000 serfs, provided with
clothing, to the State. They are to be conveyed to
the Danube also at the expense of the Prince.
Another noble, Prince Yousoupoff, has given thou-
sands of roubles and men. I)emidoff and Yakowoloff
have also contributed very largely towards carrying
on the war. The whole military internal force had
left for different points of frontier defence. Fortifi-
cations of every sort have been erected about St.
Petersburg and Cronstadt. A telegraph is in
course of construction between St. Petersburg, Riga,
and Abo.

The war has taken quite a religious character, and
no occasion is lost to address the serfs, with a view
of exciting Church enthusiasm anti hatred.

The Government does not any longer pay the
soldiers or the sailors. The whole resources of the
country are consumed in finding arms, powder, black
bread, and spirits. In another year, if things go on
in this way, Russia will be ruined in a financial point
of view.
London, England, 1855-04-07

APRIL 7, 1855.

the field of battle, the letters that have since reached us
have revealed a grave circumstance which it is important
to make known. We have learned that at the battle of
Inkermann, English soldiers, who were considered
wounded and incapable of taking part in the combat, fired
on our troops, when the latter had passed in pursuit of the
enemy. Our soldiers thus struck by balls from a hand
they thought disarmed, may, in the heat of the combat,
have given way to sanguinary reprisals. Humanity blames
them severely, but were they not, to a certain extent, ex-
cited by an enemy who certainly could not be considered
as being without defence, since he was able to make a
murderous use of his atoms? War is subjected to laws
which must be maintained. One of them deserves special
mention—lt is that the enemy, at the moment he lays
down his arms, cannot make use of them to kill the man
who has spared his life. It is with regret that we hear of
the example of an English officer who, while with one
hand he held out his sword to a Russian sub-officer, with
the other drew a pistol from his belt and laid him dead at
his feet. If such acts as these characterise the fury of the
straggle, they are also sufficient to account for the sad
effects to which they have led. In reperusing attentively
the minutes annexed to your letter of the 4th January, you
will remark that in the majority of the cases there mentioned
the reprisals exercised by the English soldiers were very
sanguinary. Far from entertaining any idea of vengeance,
we confine ourselves to observing that it would be equally
desirable for both armies that the laws of humanity should
be rigorously observed on the field of battle. Prince Mans-
chikoff, as far as he is concerned, has fully fulfilled the
duties which the authority of his command and the for-
mally expressed wishes of the Emperor imposed on him.
We rely with the same confidence on the honourable feel-
ings of the chief of the English army. Ido not hesitate to
express this confidence in returning to you, M. le Baron,
the documents which you have had the kindness to com-
municate to me. I have not failed to make them known
to Prince Menschikoff, requesting him to seriously consider
the evidence which they contain, in order that he may con-
tribute by all the means in his power to give to the pre-
sent contest that character of moderation which should
never be lost sight of by two nations who have an esteem
for each other, although engaged in a war to which we
should be happy to promptly put an end, if the conciliatory
intentions of the Government of her Britannic Majesty
responded to our own.—Accept, dsc., NESSELRODE.
London, England, 1855-04-14

THE PRESS.

Our own loss amounts to—killed or dead of their wounds,
13 officers and 169 men ; wounded, 1.2, officers and 361
men ; missing, 2 officers and 54 men.
We have news of the two missing officers ; the 7 are in
the hands of the enemy. One of them, M. de Crecy, Cap-
tain-Adjutant-Major of the 3rd Zouaves, has had an arm
amputated, and has received other wounds ; his health is,
however, satisfactory. This officer greatly distinguished
himself in the glorious combat of the night of the 22nd of
March. The other, Captain Malafaye, of the 82nd, has re-
ceived two or three wounds, which are not dangerous.
I have nothing to add to the details which I have already
given you of this engagement, which is really on a great
scale. You will certainly appreciate the merit of troops
who knew thus how to defend incomplete trenches.
I bring under your special notice two officers who have
rendered many services already, and who have again distin-
guished themselves in this brilliant engagement. General
d'Autemarre and Colonel 3iimin of the Ist Zonaves. This
latter, wounded by two stones and a musket-shot, fought
like a lion.

The army of support (Russian) is still in the same position
Prince Gortschakoff has taken the chief command wielded.
ad interim by General Osten-Sacken. Tartar communica-
tions confirm the death of Prince Menschikoff, which took
place when he was on the point of leaving the Crimea.
I have to announce a sad misfortune. The steamer
Edinburgh, one of the largest English transports ( for
horses ), chartered by your Administration, while on her
way to Varna to take in the remainder of the horses of the
4th Hussars, mules and artillery horses, got aground north
of Baltschik, and was lost, with two vessels she had in tow
for the same destination. No lives were lost in this ship
wreck, which occured on the 15th of March.
The health of the troops is satisfactory ; their morale
was never better.

CAN ROBERT.
London, England, 1855-04-14

MR. LAYARD AT ABERDEEN.

MR. LAYARD, M.P., was installed on Thursday as
Lord Rector of the Aberdeen Marischal College and
University. In his address, after alluding to the
value to public men of such testimonies of approba-
tion, Mr. Layiud proceeded to the general subject of
the influence of education upon the national cha-
racter. Tested by present emergencies, its defects
became apparent :
We have received a terrible warning. Let it not be
thrown away upon us. Day after day have I of late listened,
as a member of the committee appointed to inquire into the
condition of our army in the Crimea, to the most sicken-
ing and heart-rending tale that human suffering ever fur-
nished—one too much calculated to lower us, not only in
our own estimation, but in that of the world. I cannot
allude to it without a glow of indignation anti a blush of
shame. To what are we to attribute the grievous misfor-
tunes which it discloses ? Are Englishmen less honest,
less humane, less generous, less intelligent, less fruitful in
resources than we once were ? Surely nut : we see no
proof of it in private enterprise, or in the relations of pri-
vate life. How, then, have we been plunged into this abyss
of national disgrace ? Why, with our immense mercantile
means and experience, have our stone miscarried? Why
have our brave countrymen been allowed to die untended
and uncared for? Why have our gallant soldiers been left
to perish from want and by the sword, in default of
common precautions? Why have the unparalleled re-
sources of this great country been put forth almost in vain ?
It is because men who engage in the service of the State
are taught to look upon themselves as mere machines, or
rather as forming part of a machine, and do not feel a true
sense of individual responsibility because a vicious
system enables them to shelter themselves behind empty
forms—because they can shift from their own consciences
a burden which, it would appear to me, it would be intoler-
able to a sensitive and right-feeling man to bear, unless he
could persuade himself that his own free action and inde-
pendence were completely controlled.
On the same day Mr. Layard christened the
splendid new clipper Schomberg, a handsome three-
decker, built for• the Black Ball Line of Australian
packets. Twenty thousand persons were present.
At the dijeuner which followed the launch, Mr.
Layard again spoke, and proposed " Success to the
Schomberg and the Black Bail Company, represented
by Mr. Thomas M. Mackay."
London, England, 1855-04-14

DISBANDMENT OF THE MILITIA.

A GREAT disaster has occurred. The whole of
the embodied Militia of England and Wales,
consisting of seventy-two regiments and forty
thousand men, has suddenly become disor-
ganised. The men are returning home in
crowds, and the regiments are reduced to
skeletons. The force which is thus disbanding
has been two years in formation, and was
beginning to be of the greatest use in perform-
ing home duties and in supplying volunteers
to the army in the Crimea. It was the only
part of the Militia that has had any previous
training, as the Scotch and Irish quotas are
only just in course of organisation. The regi-
ments that have been reduced most are the
flower of the force, the strongest in numbers,
and the most highly disciplined. The dis-
bandment occurs at a time when the weakness
of our army and the losses before Sebastopol
render every man of the utmost value. At
such a moment the misfortune is irreparable.
By this time every one understands the
blunder which has rendered it necessary to
reattest the men who were enlisted previous
to the 12th of May, 1854. The act under
which they enlisted made them only liable to
fifty-six days' training, and public faith re-
quired that they should be allowed to return
home at the end of that period, unless they
entered into a new engagement and accepted
the altered service. Has public faith been
kept? At first sight people think that it has.
The men have all been sent home what more
can be asked? But have they all been sent
home at the end of the fifty-six days ? Have
not many of them been kept up one, two, three,
and four months beyond ? If so, faith has
been broken. During November and Decem-

West Norfolk

Northumberland
Ist Somerset
2nd Stafford.
Suffolk
Sussex
Wn-
-Ist
2nd

em only liable to r.aat Dior:out
West Norfolk
public faith re-
Northumberland
tllowed to return Ist Somerset
riod, unless they 2nd Stafford 2OO ..
Lent and accepted 3rd Stafford 2OO .. 450
public faith been west Suffolk
think that it. has. Suffolk Artillery
Sussex
tome ; what more Worcester 3OO .. 400
to
all been sent Ist West York 4OO .. 150
six days? Have 2nd Warwick
tp one, two, three, EMBODIED IN 1855. ..
II
If so, faith has Berkshire — .. 100
tuber and Decem- Ist Cheshire l4O .. 818
London, England, 1855-04-14

BRITISH FU
OFFIC

per Cent. Consols
Ditto for Account
$ per Cents Reduced
3 per Cents
Long Annuities
Bank Stock, 7 per Cent
India stook, 10e per Cut.
Exch. Bills, lid. per diem
India Bonds, (1,000 I.)
London, England, 1855-04-14

Obituarg.

Ma. Wu.r.um N. Dunn died at Not wood on the
3rd inst., at the age of seventy-three, having been
born the day the Royal George was sunk. For the
long term of fifty-eight years Mr. Dunn had been
associated with Drury-lane Theatre, having at fifteen
been placed by Mr. Sheridan, his first friend, as
assistant-clerk in the office of the theatre, where he
remained till he became treasurer, and filled until
his death the office of secretary to the proprietors
constituted under the act of Parliament. By Mr.
Sheridan, at whose house he at one time lived, he was
often employed as private amanuensis, and was thus
made known to some of the political celebrities of the
day, and, in his vocation, to all the authors, actors,
and artists of that period. Ho had never seen
Garrick act, but he had known familiarly those who
had lived and acted with him. He had known
Suett, Quick, the Kembles, John and Charles Ban-
nister, Mrs. Siddons, Mrs. Jordan, Miss Pope, Irish
Johnstone, his great friend and fellow-fisherman
when they resorted to the Itchin, on the banks of
which he was born : and, of course, he knew all
about more modern artists, such as Munden, the
elder Kean, and Mathews. He had a store of stories
of Mr. Sheridan (whose memory he loved), of Cole-
man, Holcroft, Morton, and other bygone dramatic
writers, and, with close powers of observation
and the aid of an unimpaired memory, it may well
be imagined how racy were the anecdotes he related.
Mr. Dunn possessed without pretension a cultivated
taste for literature and art; he aimed not at being a
wit, but his quiet, quaint humour and gentle plea-
santry will long be remembered by a large circle of
friends. He had lived for half a century amid a class
peculiarly irascible, and never made an enemy. Mr.
Dunn was a remarkable man, if for no other than for
this reason, that having lived for nearly sixty years in
every sense behind the scenes of a theatre, where all
is unreal, he preserved a character eminently truth-
ful and simple-hearted. . _ .

THE OLDEST ADMIRAL. IN THE NAVY, Admiral
Buckle, died at his residence at Bath, on Sunday
last, at the advanced age of eighty-five. He had
been upwards of sixty years in the service, and had
seen much service during the last war.

ettitsiastical.
London, England, 1855-04-14

Denbighshire
Devon Artillery
Hereford
sth Lancashire
3rd Middlesex -- • • 136
Radnor Rifles
If we omit those regiments which onif
figure in one of the columns, and add up the
numbers of the remainder, we find that in
twenty-six regiments 4,833 were reattested,
and 6,868 returned home. Of course the
recruits since the 12th May are not included.
It is worthy of remark that the regiments
which have been longest embodied present
the 14mallest number of attestations, and the
largest average of discharges. The regiments
which have been embodied for the shortest
time give the contrary result. The inference
is that we lose a larger proportion of the must
valuable men.
Could the loss have been prevented? To a
very great extent undoubtedly it could ; by
taking proper measures at the proper time.
Last spring the Militia was full of enthusiasm.
Wo heard of nothing but volunteering for
embodiment. At that time, had they been
asked to reattest, there would have been no
difficulty in obtaining all the best men.
The numerical loss is great, but it is not all.
The total disorganisation of the regiments is
a worse evil. The remaining men are un-
settled, and many of them discontented. The
officers are thoroughly disheartened. The
morale of the service is gone. It is a disaster
unknown in the previous history of England.
London, England, 1855-04-14

What is the consequence? Are the men
likely to go home contented, satisfied that
they have been treated with justice ? The
nation is deluding itself with the idea that
they will. It imagines that the national faith
has been signally vindicated, and that the
Militia will be more popular than ever. But
is this probable ? Of these 33,500 is there a
man who will not go home persuaded that he
has been kept out longer than he ought ; that
he has been detained wrongfully ; and that
public faith has been broken ? Will ho not
warn his friends against exposing themselves
to similar treatment? These men do not view
their release as a boon or a favour, but as an
extorted right. There had been a great deal
of discontent; now it is justified. The result
is, a victory over their officers and the Go-
vernment. But it is a great blow to the
militia service, and will long be remembered
in the country.
What is the numerical loss? In the absence
of a Parliamentary return our information is
imperfect. We have collected the following
particulars from the public journals, and nearly
the whole of them from the Times and tho
Morning Poxt. Blanks are left where informa-
tion is deficient :
EMBODIED FROM MAY TO SEPTEMBER•
Name of Regiment. Reattested. Returned Homo
Essex Rides l9l .. 399
Third West Yoik
Monmouthshire
South Devonshire
let Somerset
Hampshire
Cambridgeshire
4th Middlesex — 61)
2nd Somerset
EMBODIED IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER.
let Devonshire
South Durham
West Essex
North Gloucester
Hampshire Artillery
West Kent
2nd Lancashire

East Norfolk
London, England, 1855-04-14

APRIL 14, 1855.

A CARD.

HER Majesty's Ministers beg to return thanks to the " fashionable
audience " which went to listen to Sir Robert Peel lecturing on poetry
at Marylebone.
Her Majesty's servants, willing to profit by the example of the
Right Honourable Baronet, purpose to lecture on subjects on which
they are each individually as much at home and as well informed (if
they may say as much without arrogance) as the Honourable Member
for Tamworth is upon poetry.
The lectures will be given in the following order; and, except
where expressly stated otherwise, the locus in quo will be the Adult
Reformatory Institution, Westminster :
London, England, 1855-04-14

APRIL 14, 1855.

Vetrogolitan ratites.

(Reported exclusively for "Ms Passe.")

CORN-EXCHANGE—A very moderate supply of English
Wheat has been received up to our market this week, coastwise
and by laud carriage. The demand, however, has been rather
inactive, at unaltered quotations. Foreign wheat—the imports
of which have been very limited—has changed hands slowly, on
former terms. Floating cargoes have been held at full curren-
cies. The barley trade has continued flat; yet there have been
no sellers on lower terms. In the value of malt we have no
change to notice. The oat trade, owing to the increased sup-
plies on the market, has ruled heavy, at a decline of from 8d to
Is per quarter. Beaus have sold slowly, at barely late rates.
White peas have given way Is to 2s per quarter; but grey and
maple qualities have realised former terms. The sale for flour
has continued dull; and there has been an increase in the im-
portations from the Continent anti the United States.
ENGLISH—Wheat. Essex and Kent white, 71r to 834; red,
83s to 70s; Norfolk and Lincoln red,62s to CBs. Malting barley,
81s to 35s ; grinding ditto, 28a to 30s ; distilling, 29s to 31s-
Malt, 134 s to Its. Feed oats, 24s to 28s ; potato, 285 to 30.-
Rye, 42s to 445. Tick beans, 374 to 41s ; pigeon, 39s to 435.
Grey peas, 34s to 37s ; maple, ads to 39s ; white boilers, 40s to
41s per quarter. Town-made tlour,Bl3 to 83s; country marks,
48s to 55s per 11801bs.
London, England, 1855-04-14

SHARES

are generally lower, in consequence of the decline
in Consols. Business continues to be comparatively
limited.

FOREIGN.

The Foreign Market continues dull and depressed.
Turkish have been done at 76f 77ex. div. in the course
of the week, but fell to-day as low as 75 to i.

THE FLOATING TONNAGE of the Western world, or
the whole civilised world, excluding only China and
the East, is computed to consist of nearly 138,000
vessels of 14,500,000 tons. Of all these vessels more
than three-fourths belong to the civilised countries
of the West out of the Mediterranean and to the
United States. The number of seamen in all these
vessels is supposed to be somewhat more than
800,000, and including the Eastern and other States,
of the maritime population of which we have no ac-
counts, there must be at least a million of persons
engaged at sea, and generally on the ocean.
THE CIVIL SERVICE ESTIMATES were printed OR
Thursday. Those for the principal Government
offices—Houses of Parliament, Treasury, Secretaries
of States' departments, &c., amount to 1,315,3901.
The sum for the last year was 1,423,1881., so that
there is a decrease in the expenditure of 106,7961.
In the estimate for public works and buildings, &c.,
there is a decrease of 89,0691., as compared with
1854, the sum for last year being 815,8291., and for
this year 746,760/. A separate return shows that the
sum to be voted for public' education amouuts alto-
gether to 381,9211.
London, England, 1855-04-14

THE BRITISH BENEFICENT
INSTITUTION, founded for the purpose of affording Per-
manent Incomes of 301. per annum to the Widows and Unmar-
ried Orphan Daughters of Officers in the Army, Navy, Clergymen,
and others who have moved in a superior station in Society.—
The next ELECTION will take place at the offices, on Wednes•
day, the 16th of May, when two annuitants will be placed on the
funds.
Annual subscription, one guinea; life ditto, 10 guineas.
Every information can be obtained of the Secretary, at the
offices, from 10 till 4.—Offices, 69, Lincoln's-inn-fields.

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The FIRST PART, price Cs., large folio, consisting of
THREE NATURE-PRINTED ILLUSTRATIONS, with De-
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••• This Work will be issued Monthly, and the Second Part
will be published on the lit of May.
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London, England, 1855-04-14

ST. PAUL'S, KNIGHTSBRIDGE.

THE election of churchwarden for the various
metropolitan parishes took 'Alice on Wednesday.
In none, however, were the proceedings marked by
my features of general interest, except in the dis-
trict of St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, where Mr. Wes-
terton was brought forward for re-election, and many
severe censures passed at a crowded vestry meeting
on the conduct of the incumbent, the Rev. Mr.
Liddell, who occupied the chair as a matter of
right.
Mr. Westerton was re-elected without opposition,
after some stormy passages, and in reply to some
questions stated that, although about 1,0001.
annually was collected at the offertory, little went
to the poor, it being absorbed chiefly in carry-
ing out the Romish practices.
During the proceedings the following resolution
was put by Colonel VEREKER, and carried before the
meeting broke up :
Some doubt having been intimated by the Bishop of
London, in a letter addressed to Mr. Westerton in May
last, whether the mode of celebrating divine worship by
the Hon. anti Rev. R. Liddell and his curate, in the church
of St. l'aul and the chapel of St. Barnabas, is or is not
highly offensive to the majority of church people in the
district, we, the petitioners in vestry assembled, avail our-
selves of this opportunity to express our opinion, in the
most emphatic and unqualified terms, that the mode of
celebrating divine worship by the Hon. and Rev. R.
Liddell and his curate at St. Paul and St. Barnabas, is
highly offensive, and ought forthwith to be discontinued,
and that a committal be appointed to carry out that
object.

THE MARRIAGE OF CHARLES SCHRIEBIR ESQ.,
fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, with Lady
Charlotte Elizabeth Guest, widow of the late Sir
John Guest, Bart., M.P., and only daughter of the
late Earl of Lindsey, was solemnised on Tuesday, by
special licence, at the parish church of St Mart►n-
in-the Fields. Her ladyship is well known for the
zeal which she has evinced in the improvement of the
social condition of the workmen employed at the
I)owlais Ironworks. She is the mother of a large
family, and the bridegroom (who has been tutor to
the eldest son) is her junior by sixteen years.
TRIALS for breach of promise of marriage have
hitherto been almost unknown in France, but the
Imperial Court of Nismes has just declared that the
non-execution of promise gives a right to damages.
THE HONOLULU CABINET is tbus constructed :
Her Royal Highness the Princess Victoria Kama-
malu, to be Kuhina Nui, or Prhne Minister ;
L. Lee, to be Chancellor of the Kingdom; Keoni
Aur (John Young), Minister of the Interior; Robert
Crichton Wyllie, Minister of Foreign Relations ;
Elisha H. Allen, Minister of Finance ;
Ilicherd
Armstrong, Minister of Public Instruction.
London, England, 1855-04-14

ON a calm review of the events of the last two
years, it is impossible to avoid the conclusion
that England has within that period declined
in a very marked degree in material power and
moral force. She no longer holds that proud
place in the estimation of Europe which was
universally conceded to her previous to the
Ministry of Lord ABERDEEN. Her policy has
been timid and her government uncertain.
The mind of her people has been distracted
by continual contradiction... If animated to
war one day, it has been soothed to peace the
next. The vast resources of the country have
in the same year been hoarded with a niggard
hand, and lavished with scandalous profusion;
our finance has been a system of make-shifts ;
and our attempts at military organisation a
series of blunders. In every department of
our Administration there has been sloth, error,
or corruption. We are now in the second, if
it may not be called the third year of the war,
with the remnant of our fine army before Se-
bastopol, confessedly unequal to the work it
has to perform, and with no reserve to
strengthen it. Even our Legislature has ex-
posed itself to contempt by acquiescing in a
series of intrigues which restored to office
men whom it had previously declared to be
unworthy its confidence.
Are we at the commencement of a period
of national degradation, or are we merely suf-
fering from one of those political derange-
ments to which every State is occasionally
liable ? If the latter is the case, the remedy
is in our own hands. But if our people be
wanting in public spirit—if they have neither
the sagacity to perceive, nor energy to escape
from the false position in which they are
placed by that anomalous state of parties
which has lately prevailed—we must regard
the past as an indication of the future, and
expect further weakness and failure in the
Executive, till a storm arises to overthrow or
purify our political system.
We are not surprised that the Whig party,
however weak in real support. and contempti-
ble in abilities, should cling to power so long
as they find that there is no stronger party to
dispute their sway. The Government of
England is a rich prize for the few families
which now possess it. They can afford to cast
some crumbs from their table to the humble
waiters on their bounty. It is to• much to
expect that they will acknowledge their own
incapacity, and refuse offices and emoluments
which are actually thrust upon them. It is
the result of the apathy or disunion of the
Conservatives that the painful spectacle is
presented of a Ministry without capacity or
confidence, and of the continuance of a system
of misgovernment which irritates the people,
weakens the foundations of the State, and ex-
poses our aristocracy to a storm of undeserved

reproach.
By the theory of our Constitution the Con-
servative party should have succeeded to
power on the fall of the Coalition, but that
unhappy division of Conservative interests
London, England, 1855-04-14

An Account, pursuant to the Aot 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 89
for the week eudiug on Saturday, the 7th day of April,lBB6.
198 UL DiIkiIiTNICNT. . _

Notes issued .... 12e3,392,300

A28,392,54)0

BANKING DI
Proprietors'C spits] Z 14,553,000
Rest
Public Deposits* 6,008,895
Other Deposits
4even Day & other
Bills

Government Debt 211,015,100
Other Securities .. 2,984,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 14,392,200
Silver Bullion ....

:PARINI/IT.

A 28,322,500

Government Seou-
London, England, 1855-04-14

362

we do not think that the Muleteer of Toledo will re-
main very long at the Princess's.
OLymric.—The comodietta Law for Ladies, and
the farce Kill or Cure, were both revived at this
theatre on Monday night. In the first Mr. Wigan
was very amusing and professional as Percy Twizzel-
ton the barrister, endeavouring to get up evidence
for a divorce case ; and in the second, as Brown the
landlord, Mr. Robson, with his versatile talent,
invested the character with such fresh interest, and
worked up the points with such skill, as to prove in
a singular degree his power of originality. He was
admirably supported also by Mrs. Wigan, whose
acting is beyond praise. For the Easter extrava-
ganza we have still The Yellow Dwarf, which so far
retains its hold upon the public that it is nightly re-
ceived by a crowded house with as much applause
and as thorough an appreciation as ever.
London, England, 1855-04-14

THE PRESS•

day pamphlets, an agricultural magazine, closet helps and
revival miscellanies ; " Joyce's Practical Arithmetic," the
" History of William, or the Converted ltomanist," the
" History of the Converted Murderer," or the driest and
dustiest ecclesiastical writings of the 17th and 18th cen-
turies. Suppose this conglomeration to be interspersed
with an occasional cake of soap, an occasional tobacco-pipe,
an occasional box of lozenges, an occasional ball of string,
solitary diamonds, which redeem the heap in some measure.
Happily there is another side to the picture. Extensive,
as well as various, contributions have been received from
Messrs. Constable; from the stock, if not by the sole gift,
of Mr. J. H. Parker, of Oxford and West Strand ; and
various other parties. The chief fault to be found with
supplies, ample in quantity—if quantity were the only
consideration—is that they are nut, as a rule, adapted to
the level of the average English soldier. What that level
is shall not now be discussed. The donors, however dis-
tressed at such a statement, may congratulate themselves
that there is, perhaps, no less probability here of the books
being used to advantage than there was in the place from
which they came.-7'imes Correspondence.
London, England, 1855-04-14

THE PRESS.

This day is published, in post Svo., 101. ed.,
AHISTORY OF MODERN ITALY, from
the First French Revolution to the Yea: IS:O. By
RICHARD HEBER WRIGHTSON.
." This history is as valuable as it was necessary. If any one
wishes to know what Italy is now he will find the information in
these pages."—Daily News.
London : RICHARD BENTLEY, Publisher in Ordinary to her

Majesty.

Now ready, Second Edition (to which is now that added a Life
of Milton), in 2 vols., 125.,
EMOIRS OF CELEBRATED
1.11. CHARACTERS. By ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE.
Author of " History of the Girondists."
London : RICHARD llaurLev, Publisher In Ordinary to her

MAjesty.
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THE PRESS.

BIRTHS.
FOWELL—On the 29th ult., at Westhay-house, Dorset, the
wife of Captain Fowell, R.N., of a daughter.
HEN DERSON—Ou the 10th ult., at Port Royal, Jamaica, the
wife of Commodore Henderson, of a son.
JERVIS—On the et/ instant, at Withington-hall, Cheshire, the
wife of the Hon. Carnegie R. J. Jervis, of a son.
PEARSON—On the Bth instant, in Chester.terraee, Regent's-
park, the lion. Lady Pearson, of a daughter.
RUSSELL—On the oth instant, at Carlton-house-terrace, the
Hon. Mrs. Russell, of a son.
KARRIAGES.

COLES—LEDGE—On the 12th instant at Bramdean Church,
Hants, Mojoi -General Wm. Cowper Coles, to Hoaora Augusta,
daughter of the Hon. and Rev. Augustus George Legge.
DUFF—DUNLOP—Do the 4th instant, at Edinburgh, Major
Duff, to Jane, daughter of the late Man C. Dunlop, Esq.
HOM FRAY—ELDERTON—On the 25th of January last, at the
Cathedral, Melbourne, Rosa Richards Homiray, Esq., to
Agnes Elizabeth Jeanette, daughter of Charles F. Elder
too, Esq.
MURCHISON—TRAVERS—On the 7th of December last, at
Auckland, New Zealand, Kenneth Robert Murchison, Esq.,
Lieut. H.M. 68th Regt., to Harriet Isabella, daughter of the
late Major Travers. K.H., Ride Brigade.
SCHREIBER—GUEST—On the 10th instant, at St. Martin's-
in-the-Fields, Charles Schreiber, Esq., Fellow of Trinity
College, Cambridge, to the Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Quest,
widow of the late Sir John J. Guest, Bart, M.P.
DEATHS.

BAKER—On the 22nd of December last, at Wellington, New
Zealand, Major Richard liaker, son of Win. Baker, EN., of
Chester-terrace, Regent's-park.
BUCKLE—On the Bth instant, at Bath, Admiral Buckle,
aged 85.
GORDON—On the 9.rd instant, at Ruplestown-park, county
Carlow, Harriet Elizabeth, relict of Cdlonel Charles Edward
Gordon, of the Royal Artillery, aged 60.
LISLE—On the 9th instant, at Exeter, the Lady Lisle, of
Kenton, Devon.
NOT lIDGE—On the Rth instant, at East Hanningtleld, Essex,
Lieut.-Colonel J. B. Nottidge, aged 61.
SIMPSON—On the 9th instant, Captain W. 1). Simpson, late of
the 51st (or King's Own) Regt. of Light Infantry, aged 69.
STEPHENS—On the 3rd Instant, in St. James's-place, St.
James's, Major John Morse Stephens, Royal Artillery, aged GS.
TOLSON—On the 17th ult., at Kensington, Major Richard
Henry Tolson, formerly of the 2nd Regt. of Life Guards,
aged 78.
VICARS—On the 29rd ult., In the trenches before Sebastopol,
whilst repulsing a sortie of the enemy, Capt. Medley Shaftoe
Vicars, 97th Regt., aged 28.
London, England, 1855-04-14

THE NORTHERN STATION FOR THE FOREIGN

LEGION.
The steamer Hamburg, Captain King, arrived at
Heligoland on the Ist inst. from London, with Lieut.
Edwards of the Engineers on board, accompanied by
some sappers and miners and the materials of the
wooden huts to be erected on that island for the
accommodation of the Foreign Legion. This arrival,
it is stated, caused the governor, Sir John Hind-
marsh, considerable surprise and embarrassment, as
he had received no previous intimation of their
coming, and consequently made no preparations, nor
was he able to fix on a locality for the erection of the
barracks. He had, therefore, to write home first for
instructions, which came in due time, and the bar-
racks are now put up. A good many recruits had
volunteered for the Foreign Legion to be formed in
the island, but they could not be accepted till the
huts were ready for their reception.
ENGLISH DONATIONS TO THE ARMY.

. The heterogeneous character of the charitable consign-
ments forwarded to the British army in the East has just
been displayed, in the packages of books sent out to the
care of the chaplain at Balaklava. Almost invariably, there
is first to be noticed the absence of any inventory or de-
scription either inside or outside the boxes which arrive.
There is nothing to be done but to probe them to the bot-
tom, to separate the chaff from the wheat, to arrange the
contents as far as is practicable in a limited space, and to
pursue endless trains of thoughts upon the sundry cha-
racteristics which accompany English benevolence no less
than English courage. Never had the scripture text, that
that it is more blessed to give than to receive, a more com-
plete exemplification than in the provision of literature for
the soldiers in camp or hospital, and the blessedness of
giving that which it costs nothing to part with, or which it
is positive gain to be rid of, must sometimes, one should
think, have been the incentive to the gift. Suppose a
clergyman to be really in earnest ,and indefatigable about
his work, who is wanted in a dozen places at once, but
who must, nolena volena, go through the colluvies of ephe-
meral or solid publications which have been showered
upon him, both in order to get at what is valuable and-to
have space in his own dwelling. Suppose, then, snch a
selection as follows, greeting his disappointed eyes :
" Zeluco," a religious novel of 1789, three odd volumes of
" Don Quixote," an ancient and very dirty copy of
‘. Virgil," a description of Mr. Coke's seat at Holkham,
a " Guide to the Isle of Man," a " Guide a Londres "
two copies in no doubt excellent French; the Methodists
Magazine for 1802; the Fourth Annual Report of the
London Horacepathic Hospital, one of Carlyle a Latter