The Press.
London, England, 1855-02-24 00:00:00

Enter, hastily, Mr. FREDERICK PEEL (dishevelled).

ALL (start up) : Fred. Peel, in a hurry, and his hair out of order !
Then there is a row !
Mr. F. PEEL: Roebuck sticks to his committee, and Palmerston
saps we must give way.
Lord ABERDEEN : Ha! ha! ha!
Duke of NEWCASTLE : Hee, hee, hee.
Mr. GLADSTONE (incensed): You may laugh. Cantabit
we have places to lose. Graham, a word. Sidney, come here.

(Thep whhper. For the molt, see the papers on Saturday morning, Feb. 24.)

But

FEBRUARY 24, 1855.

Court ad lastian.

The Queen, who remains at Buckingham Palace
for the season, has driven out in a sledge several
times during the week. Prince Albert, also, has
frequently gone out skating.
On Tuesday and Thursday parties of invalids from
the Grenadier and Coldstream Regiments of Guards,
wounded at Alma, Inkermann, or during the siege
operations before Sebastopol, were inspected by the
Queen in Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty,
attended by the lieutenant-colonels of the regiments,
questioned every soldier about his wounds, and after-
wards received from the surgeon-majors reports of
the state of the invalids.

The Queen gave a splendid entertainment yester-
day (Friday) at Buckingham Palace, to his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge, General Sir De
Lacy Evans, the Earl of Cardigan, &c., on their
return from serving with the British army in the
Crimea.

The Queen visited the Olympia Theatre on Tues-
day evening.
The Speaker gave his second parliamentary dinner
on Saturday last. The following gentlemen were
present :—Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Stan-
ley, Lord Naas, Viscount Newport, C. Forester, Sir
J. Pakington, Spencer Walpole, J. W. Henley, R. A.
Christopher, Mr. Beresford, Sir John Trollope, Hon.
H. T. Liddell, Hon. Captain Duncombe,
General Sir George Berkeley, K.C.8., Captain Sir
Thomas Herbert, R.N., K.C.8., Sir Frederick
Thesiger, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Colonel Knox, Mr. Bate-
son, Mr. Stafford, Colonel Dunne, Mr. Grogan, Mr.
Whitmore, Mr. Knightley, the Rev. Mr. Gamier, and
the Secretary.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston gave a grand
entertainment to his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge on Saturday evening, at the noble Pre
mier's new residence in Piccadilly. After the ban-
quet Lady Palmerston held an evening reception.
The Countess Walewski gave a ball on Tuesday
evening at the residence of the French Embassy,
Albert-gate House.
A matrimonial alliance is said to have been
arranged to take place between the Earl of Munster
and his cousin, Miss Kennedy Erskine, eldest daugh-
ter of the Lady Augusta Gordon Halyburton
Erskine.

Cabinet Councils have been held almost daily
during the past week. On Wednesday the Council
was attended for the last time by Mr. Gladstone, Sir
J. Graham, and Mr. Sidney Herbert.
Lord John Russell left London early on Tuesday
morning and arrived the same night in Paris, where,
on Wednesday, he had a long interview with M.
Drouyn de Lhuys. It was expected that the noble
lord would proceed to Berlin yesterday (Friday), and
remain a few days in that capital. Apartments are
already in preparation for his reception at the British
Embassy in Vienna.
His Excellency Baron Von Usedom, on a mission
from the Court of Berlin, and Madame Von Usedom,
arrived in London last week from the continent, after
a detention at Brussels, arising from indisposition.
His Excellency had an interview of the Earl of Cla-
rendon on Saturday at the Foreign-office.

THE ORDNANCE ESTIMATES for the ensuing finan
cial year amount to 7,808,0421., being an increase of
1,821,3801. on those of the present year. The prin-
cipal increase is under the head of " Ordnance
Stores for Land and Sea Service," which amounts to
1,033,0001. The increase upon the pay and allow-
ances of 22,348 officers and men of the Ordnance
Corps is 103,0001., and there is precisely the same
increase under the head "Commissariat and Barrack
Supplies for her Majesty's Forces, great coats for the
army, and clothing for the militia."
THE MEDALS AND CLASPS for the heroes of the
Crimea, which are being executed under the direc-
tion of Mr. B. Wyon, will shortly be finished. The
clasps will bear the name of the battle in which
every man was engaged. There will be a clasp for
Balaklava.

THE NEW TRANSPORT BOARD will be composed of
a naval officer as chairman, and a merchant captain
and an army officer as ccmmissioners. The Admi-
ralty will have no difficulty in finding naval officers
both able and willing to undertake the duties in
question. In connection with the office of chairman
of this new board, observes the Chronicle, two names
are mentioned, either of which would insure a sue
cessful result of its labours. Captain Lean, who for
the last twenty years has been at the head of the
emigration service, is one of the rumoured candidates
for the honourable position, and Commander Gilmore
is the second. Commander Gilmore distinguished
himself during the last war in the Baltic, and also
in the American war. Both officers possess the re-
quisite energy, practical experience, and ability
required to fill with justice to the country that im-
portant post.

THE PRESS.

olitual and Stunk

THE Candidate steam-ship, with an immense cargo
of railway materials, horses, and men for the Crimea,
arrived at Gibraltar early on the morning of the 6th
inst., after a rapid passage of six and a half days
from London. The Pioneer (Crimean Army Fund
steamer), and the Peninsular, with Government stores,
both of which left London two days earlier than the
Candidate, also arrived shortly after the latter vessel.
The weather had been most boisterous, and the
Candidate was hove-to off Cape Finisterre for twenty
hours, otherwise her passage would have been the
fastest on record.

REAR-ADMIRAL PLUMRIDOE has been appointed
superintendent of Devonport Dockyard, vice Sey-
mour, appointed second in command of the Baltic

CARDIGANSHIRE BOROUGHS.--Mr. Lloyd Davies is
at present the only candidate for the Cardiganshire
Boroughs. There appears, however, to be no doubt

of a contest.

IT is understood that officers of the East India
Company's army now on furlough in this country, and
also those that have retired from that army but are
fit for duty, will, on tendering their services at the
proper department at the East India-house, be re-
commended to Her Majesty's Government for
employment abroad during the war with Russia.
MAJOR-GENERAL BENTINCI will resume his com-
mand in the Crimea early next month. The cavalry,
it is reported, will be placed under the command of
Major-General Scarlett.
CLUB RUMOURS are current to the effect that the
Hon. Captain Gordon, son to Lord Aberdeen, would
shortly cease to be Deputy Quartermaster-General in
the East. _ _ _

THE EARL OF CARDIGAN having been elected an
honorary member of the Senior United Service Club
a few days 'since, was entertained at dinner on Tues-
day evening at the Club-house, by a select circle of
the leading members. About twenty gentlemen were
present. General Chatterton presided. The dinner
was strictly private, and no speeches were made.
ON Monday Major-General Sir Frederick Smith,
R.E., traced out the lines of huts at Aldershot for
the encampment of 20,000 men, which are expected
to be up and serviceable in the course of the ensuing
month. One of the principal features in this vast
structure, it is said, will be a model hospital.
MR. CHARLES B. KNOWLES, nephew to Mr. Sheridan
Knowles, has been gazetted to an Ensigncy without
purchase, in the 77th Foot.
ALTHOUGH the " navvies " only landed at Bala-
klava on the 29th ult., by the 9th inst. they had
made no less than three miles of the temporary road.
The entire railway to the camp was expected to be
completed in six weeks.
THE entire amount required, according to the esti-
mates now completed, for the army, navy, transport,
and ordnance services during the ensuing financial
year is 37,427,0001. This exceeds the expenditure on
the same departments last year by 10,273,0001.
Nevertheless it is stated that the Government will
experience no financial pressure until after Easter.
AN OPEN IRON BRIDGE is to be constructed On

the Rhine. The site appropriated for the bridge
lies between the square known as the Frankenplatz,
in Cologne, and the present wharf close to the rail-
road terminus at Deutz. The height of the arches
will be more than sufficient to admit of the steamers
passing.
ADvicss FROM PESTH announce the death of
Count Joseph Teleky, which took place on the 16th
instant. A few days before the event he was en-
gaged in writing his historical work on the Era of
the Hunyades.
THE TELEGRAPH LINE between Melbourne and
Geelong, according to the last advices, was being
pushed on with considerable vigour, and it was
expected the communication would be complete
early in November. The line between Geelong and
the Heads was also to be finished about the latter
end of November.
THE coining of the new copper pieces having the
effigy of the Emperor is proceeding with great acti-
vity in the seven mints of France. At Paris, where
the coining commenced towards the end of 1852,
nearly 5,000,000 f. worth of sons have been already
struck off; at Strasburg, Lyons, Rouen, and Lille,
where it began about the middle of 1853, 8,000,000 f.
worth have been coined ; and at Marseilles and
Bordeaux, where it also commenced in 1853, the
value coined is about 3,000,000 f. These 16,000,000 f.
form about one-third of the total amount of copper
money required for all France, and it is calculated
that the other two-thirds will be struck off by the
end of 1856. By that time the old copper coin,
which is by no means of a handsome appearance,
will have been nearly all withdrawn from circu-
lation.
THE BILL FOR THE SCINDE RAILWAY was read for
the first time in the House of Commons on Wednes•
day, and was endorsed by Sir Herbert Maddock, Mr.
Laing, Mr. Pinney, and the Hon. John Elliot.