The Press.
London, England, 1855-02-10 00:00:00

THE GREEN COFFEE.

The continu;tri;siieOiCoffeeberii es green and
unusable, notwithstanding the incessant remons-
trances and the ministerial assurancei on the sub-
ject, is stated in a letter of January 22, from the
camp. The writer says :

We are astounded, on reading our papers, to tlnd that
our authorities in Londou believed on the 22nd of I )ecember
that the coffee issued to the men is or was roasted before
it was given out ! Who has hoaxed them so cruelly ?
Around every tent there is even yet a fair sprinkling of
green berries trampled into the mud, which the men could
not roast. There is, however, some attempt made out here
to roast toffee at last. Mr. Murdoch, chief engineer of the
Sanspareil, has mounted some iron oil-casks, and adapted
them very ingeniously for roasting coffee ; and they have
just come into play at lialaklava. Ido not believe that at
the time the statement referred to was made, one ounce of
roasted cuffeee had ever been issued from any commissariat
store to any soldier in the Crimea.

CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE HOSPITALS.
A letter from Constantinople, dated January 29th,
says :
The weather here has been for many days as warm and
cheerful as spring ; but yesterday the cold and rain re-
turned. Heavy, incessant showers have once more over-
spread with mu.l the drying street, and driven back to
their homes the unfortunate Perotes, who were expecting
a little liberty, after three months' confinement in their
narrow and comfortless dwelling. For about a week the
city was delivered from the intense cold and the biting
north winds which made Constantinople as full of coughs
as London at the same season, and filled the hospital
tents of the Crimea with nearly double the usual number
of sick. During ten days the mortality in the camp before
Sebastopol and in the hospital at Scutari diminished con-
siderably. The deaths in the Crimea were not more than
from twenty-five to thirty a day, while the daily loss in the
hospital here was hardly more than half of what it was in
the earlier period of the month. The cold strikes down
the dysenteric patients like a thunderbolt, for the poor
fellows are thoroughly weakened by long suffering, and
cannot bear its deadening effects. Within the last two or
three days the increasing dampness has again raised the
mortality at Scutari. On the 27th the burials were
seventy, and a still higher number were interred the day
before. Up to the present moment we have no very late
news from the camp ; but it is to be feared that
corresponding increase of sickness will have taken place
there, since the malady seems to follow the same laws in
both places.
REINFORCEMENTS.

On Saturday, the :17th, arrived the fine screw
steam-ship St. Jean d'Aere, of 101 guns, with up-
wards of Out) troops, drafts from the 17th, 30th,
33rd, 41st, 47th, 49th, 50th, 55th, 58th, 83rd, and
08th Regiments. Lord Rokeby and Major-General
Barnard are among the passengers, and will at once
proceed to the Crimea to enter upon their respective
commands. This fine vessel will be a most useful
addition to the fleet of Sir E. Lyons, and it is to be
hoped that the able admiral will shortly have a suffi-
cient force of screw line-of-battle ships to enable
him to carry out any plan of assault with which his
courage and genius may inspire him. In the
opinion of many men of experience, it is, after all,
to a combined land and sea attack that the fall of
Sebastopol will be due, or, at least, that such an
attack promptly executed would save the thousands
of lives which must he sacrificed during a long
siege and in a desperate assault.

AN ORDER from the Lords of the Admiralty has
been received at Portsmouth and other dockyards
for the whole of the ships now under repair or refit
which formed part of the Baltic fleet of 1854 to be
expedited in their refitment., as they are required to
be ready for service by the end of February, and to
as,emble in the Downs by the first week in March,
where it is deemed probable the fleet will be in-
spected by the limperor and Empress of the
French, en route from France to England to visit
Queen Victoria. Rear-Admiral Martin, Superinten-
dent of Portsmouth Dockyard, is reported to be the
intended commander-in-chief of this fleet, and Rear-
Admiral Michael Seymour second in command.
THE officers of the General Post office in London,
including the letter carriers and messengers, have
subscribed 4801. N. 10d. in aid of the Royal Patriotic
Fund.

SATURDAY,

jortign ant (tolonial 3nttiligtnte.

FRANCE.

The Emperor gave a grand ball, the first of the
season, at the Tuileries, on Thursday. A grand
dinner, it is said, is in contemplation, to come off at
the Palais Royal, at which all the members of the
Bonaparte family are to meet.
The day after his arrival in Paris Prince Napoleon
was received by the Emperor in a most cordial
manner. All the Ministry and the principal funs.
tionaries of State have felicitated his Imperial High-
ness on his return.

The French Court has gone into mourning for
three weelN on account of the deaths of the Queen
Dowager and the reigning Queen of Sardinia.
The Paris journals contain an order of the day
from General Canrobert, acknowledging the bravery
of the troops engaged in repelling the Russian sortie
of the lbth ult., with the promotions and decorations
in consequence thereof.
The formation of three corps d'arrnie—one for the
Baltic, a corps of observation in the north of France,
and a third corps for Austria—is considered almost
certain among military circles in I'aris.

The Zottaves in camp before Sebastopol are in
great delight at the high honour paid them by the
Emperor. He has ordered that forty picked men
out of each company shall be selected to form a body,
to be called " Zouaves of the Imperial Guard," and
the regiments are to be eligible henceforth to serve
in France.

The Moniteur publishes the address of Vice
Admiral Bruat to the French fleet, in communi.
eating the thanks of the British Parliament for its
great assistance in the transport and landing of the
allied forces on the coast of the Crimea, and during
the siege of Sebastopol.
The Emperor has promoted Captain Jehenne, of
the Henri IV., to the rank of Rear Admiral for
his brilliant services. Rear• Admiral Fourichon has
been appointed to the command of the two naval
divisions on the west coast of America and the
Pacific. Rear• Admiral Jehenne replaces Admiral
Fourichon as commandant at Brest.

The appointment of M. Magne, hitherto Minister
of Agriculture, Commerce, and Public Works, as
Minister of Finance, in the room of M. Bineau, who
retires on account of ill-health, has been officially
announced in the Moniteur.

The last returns of the Bank of France are looked
on as highly satisfactory, showing that the war has
not checked commercial affairs, as the discount
accommodation both in city and country has
considerably exceeded that afforded the previous.
year.
Gold medals have been given to a number of per-
sons, among whom are several Sisters of Charity, for
their zeal and devotedness during the late visitation
of the cholera.