The Press.
London, England, 1855-07-07 00:00:00

TICKETS OF LEAVE.

Lord Sr. LEONARDS, on Monday, brought before
the Lords the mischief which had arisen from the
employment of these tickets, contending that the
system had altogether failed. He found special
fault with the Government for having released
several convicts in December and January last, when
the nights were long and employment difficult to
obtain. The system could only be made a good one
by employing the men on public works.
Earl GRANVILLE denied that the experiment bad
failed. We were too apt to lay hole of exceptional
cases, and to forget the others, of which little was
heard. Out of one hundred released convicts eighty
or ninety per cent. werA gaining an honest and
industrious livelihood. This he stated on the
authority of Colonel Jebb, one of the prison in-
epee tors.

The LORD CHANCELLOR observed that by far the
greater number of the men released were sentenced
to transportation for seven rears, and very few,
indeed for more than ten, and would, therefore, have
been turned loose upon society either way, without
the checks established by tickets of leave.

A noble lord had suggested that these men
should be permitted to enlist in the army, against
which the Duke of CAMBRIDGE protested, as calcu-
lated to lower the standard of military honour.

AFTER sixteen years' service Mr. Justice Maule
has retired from the Bench of the Common Pleas,
on account of his failing health. The Lord Chan-
cellor has nominated as his successor Mr. J. S.
Willes, of the Home Circuit. This gentleman was
called to the bar in June, 1840, and is thus of fifteen
years' st ►n ling. is only a stuff gown, is
about forty-two years old, and is very little known
out of the profession. The Freeman's Journal, re-
ferring to the appointment, says :—" Mr. Willes,
Q.C., who has the reputation of being one of the
ablest and soundest lawyers at the English bar, is
son of the late Dr. Willes, of Cork, and was educated
in Trinity College, Dublin. He will be the second
Irishman who, within the last few years, has
been elevated to the English bench, the other
being Mr. Baron Martin, son•in-law of Chief Baron
Pollock."

CONSIDERkELE ANNOYANCE has been caused among
many firms in Mincing lane and its neighbourhood
by the refusal of the Post-office authorities to grant
merchants and brokers license to use the stamp upon
their " circulars," upon payment of the fee of ss. de-
manded by the recent regulations. This most useful
class of commercial publications has been allowed
postal privileges for years past, and the withdrawal
of them would be attended with great inconvenience,
especially in the case of circulars addressed to
foreign parts and to the colonies. A memorial on
the subject was addressed to the Postmaster-General,
signed by a large number of first-class firms, and an
official promise has been given that the obnoxious
restrictions are to be abolished.

AT a court of proprietors of the South Sea Com-
pany, held on Wednesday, a dividend of 14 per cent.
for the half-year was declared. The amount of the
half-year's balance in hand was stated to be
28,1061. Os. 4d. The distribution of the assets of the
corporation commenced on Thursday, the proprietors
receiving 1151. for every 1001. of stork. The re-
mainder of the assets will be distributed within
six months.

THE PRESS.

THE WAR.

Since the operations of the 18th, described in full
detail in the despatches given below, nothing of im-
portance is announced to have occured in the Crimea.
The latest advices which have been published either
in London or Paris are conveyed by the following
telegraphic message from General Simpson :
Crimea, July 4, 1855, 6.34) p.m.
Nothing of importance has occurred since my last. The
French works on the right are going on well. The health
of General Eyre is re-established.

General Pelissier had announced on the previous
day (July 3), in a despatch published in the Moni-
teur,

The last duties have just been paid to Lord Raglan by
the two armies with all the pomp which circumstances per-
mitted.

Our works progress satisfactorily.
The health of the troops has improved.
With regard to the failure of the attack on the
Malakoff Tower, General Pelissier expresses himself
thus in a letter to a friend:—" Je suis parfaitement
de I'avis de Lord Raglan—nous avons mule pour
mieux sauter."
Prince Gortschakoff writes from the Crimea on June
27, that from the 19th to the evening of the 27th
nothing important had taken place. The ftre of the
allies against Sebastopol, he says, is weak. " The
enemy is making new approaches towards us, but
we are preparing to defend our positions vigorously."

The Frenulenblatt of Vienna states from the Criniea
that Prince Gortschakoff has sent for 24,000 men
more, and that he has reinforced General Liprandi's
corps with another division.
The Russian official account of the assault on the
Malakoff Tower and the Great Redan has been pub-
lished. The opening bombardment of the allied
forces on the 17th ult. is described to have been most
murderous, and as never before equalled in the
history of man. The Russian troops were well pro-
tected, but the loss they sustained is admitted to have
been considerable. On the morning of the 18th the
attack was renewed by a cannonade, the fierceness of
which passed all belief. Though four hundred
pieces of cannon poured forth their iron hail from
the Russian works, and made fearful gaps among the
allied forces, the latter are acknowledged to have
" marched onward, rushing furiously up to the breast-
works, where they were met hand to hand by the
brave Russian garrison. For seven long hours a
struggle with the bayonet continued without inter-
ruption ; all other weapons were laid aside, and artil-
lery on both sides were as if struck dumb by the
horrible tragedy before them. At length the enemy
was driven back, and forced to take refuge in his
trenches, with the loss of six hundred prisoners."
The Russian loss is estimated at about three thousand,
and that of the allies at double that number.

Acc'bunts from the Crimea, of the 29t1? of June,
received in Vienna, state that the allies had received
fresh reinforcements.

The Journal de Constantinople announces that
Keite'a had been completely dismantled. The Circas-
mans had destroyed the remaining fortifications of
Anapa and followed the Russians in their retreat.
An attack on Eupatoria was expected at the date
of last letters from Constantinople. Thirty thousand
Russian infantry had joined the large cavalry force
before that place.
Large reinforcements for the Crimea are now
leaving France, preceded by a considerable number
of officers of high rank, to take the places of those
who have fallen in the recent engagements.