The Express.
London, England, 1855-02-19 00:00:00

MR. LATARD AND ADMIRAL DUNDAS.

The following correspondence his been published :
" Little Ryder-street, Feb. 17.
My dear Mr. Drummond.—l regret to find, from the
elsismest you wade in the House of Commons, and from
whet you have told me to-day, that certain expressions in a
letter of mine, which wee not intended for publication, but
which wee printed in the Time newspaper, have been mis-
interpreted, and have, therefore, neurally (sued much pain
to Admiral Deeds.. We agree that there are two points
upon which that letter requires explanation. In the
fret place; I stated that Admiral Dundu, in a letter
which I had ma, rejoiced in the sinking of a part of
the Russian fleet. I admit that the letter to which I
alluded does bear the construction whims you now inform
me Admiral Dundee states he intended it to bear, and I
regret that I should have placed any other upon it. Be-
eondly, with regard to any words which may appear to re-
lent upon his personal courage or private character, I beg
distinctly to state that it was far from my intention to rant
upon either, and that I alluded to his professional conduct
as

and to what I considered a Mad-
men to moot responsibility. I am sorry to lean from you
that my words should have bun otherwin oonstrued by
him, and I willingly express my regret that they shouli
have caused him pain. I best you will sawn Admiral
Dundee that such are my eentintente, s►owing him this
latter, of which you may make any other nee you may
think at.

s Bac., an, ran very tray,

" A. H:LAYARD.

" Henry Dnintraoad, Bag., M.P."
"London Hotel, Albemarle•street, Feb.l7.
"My dear Drummond,—After the explanation you hate
reoeived from Mr. Layard, and will& you have forwarded
to me, I have no desire to think more of the matter ►etween
th►t gentleman and myself.

"Your. faithfully,
" J. D. DUNDAB.

" Henry Drummond, Esq., M.P."

Sir James Graham is pufficiently recovered to
attend the Cabinet °pencils at the Foreign-office, instead of
meeting his colleagues as of late in his chamber.
Lord John Russell is still suffering from the effects
of a severe cold. The severity of the symptoms is, how-
ever, subsiding, and his lordship hopes to be able to leave
for Vienna to-morrow (Tuesday).
DEFENCE OF LOANS RAISED BY MR. PITT.—A
paper entitled as follows will be read before the Statistical
Society this evening (19th inst.) On the loans raised by
Mr. Pitt during the ant French war, 1793-1801; with
some statements in defence of the methods et funding
employed." By William Nemesia, Req., ono of the ho.
pray secretaries of the sosiety.
THE SPEAKER'S Mbar2A.—The Right Hon. the
Speaker of the House of Commons gave his second full-
dries parliamentary banquet on Saturday evening last, at
his temporary official residence, in Baton-square. Covers
were laid for 30 guests. The following hon. members were
invited :—Right Hon. Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Stanley,
Right Hen. Lord Nana, Right Hon. Viscount Newport,
Right Hon. C. Forester, Right Hon. Sir John Pakington,
Right Hon. Spenser Walpole, Right Hon. J. W. Henley,
Right Hon. R A. Christopher, Right Hon. Mr. Bamford,
Right Hon. Sir John Trollops, Hon. H. T. Liddell, Hew
Captain Duncombe, R.N. ; General Sir George Berkeley,
IL.O B.; Captain Sir Thomas Herbert, &N., X.C.B. ; Ar
Frederick TWriger, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Colonel Kner, Mr.
Sateson, Mr. ikalford, Cannel Dunne, Mr. Grogan, Mr.
Whitmore, Mr. Krigheley. The following gentlemen were
ppeeev~eennfed :---The Granby, Right Hon. George
lisakes, and Wit Hon. Joseph Napier. The Rev. Mr.
Gender and the lisoretary were present.
We regret t• barn that accounts have been received
of the death, lest week, in Normandy, of Mr. W. F. Camp-
bell, of Way, who repainted for many years Argyllshire m
the Rouse of C._-
Sin 'mix Pomo, M.D., D.C.L , has been
appointed by government Medical Superintendent of the
@MI hospital at Smyrna, for the reception of sick and
wounded from the Crimes. Dr. Barclay, Medical Regis-
trar of Sr. George's Hospital, end Dr. Leered, physician to
the City Infirmary for Diseases of the Cheat, have been
appointed physicians. Mr. Holmes Coots, easistant.surgeon
St. Bartholomew's Hcepitsl. and Mr. Spencer Wells,
wren to the Samaritan Hospital, and lecturer on surgery
,at the School of Medicine adjoining St. George's Hospital,
' have been appointed surgeons to the same hospital. Several
other appointments have bees made, but have not yet been
officially annonneed. Mr. Spencer Wells left Ragland en
Thursday last for Sterns, for the purpose of forwarding
the necessary preliminary arrangsments.—Medical Tuna

and &weft: -
THE SANITARY COMMISSION SOIL SCUTARI.—Two
of the Medical Deicers appointed to form part of the Sant.
easy Commission about to be sent out by government to in-
quire into the condition of the Hospital at Scutari, are (says
tie Timms) Dr. Gavin and Dr. Southwood Smith.
LORD OODERICH.—The limiderefreld Examiner
ma, of the noble representative of that borough :—" From
the refusal of his lordship to act with the new ministry, we
may gather that it does not stand very high in his estima-
tion. The country need' the services of industrious, con.
seientioue, and able men, and we hope the time is not far
distant when a government shell be composed of each ; in
that case we feel sure Lord Goderich woull feel it his duty
to accept of office, and tabs an active part in the hastnusbi•
and arduous labours of statesmanship."
POLICE FOR AUSTRALIA. —We (North British
Mail) uodentand it to be the intention of government to
send out immediately to Australia a very strong detachment
of efficient police, to be raised from the various polies forces
over the country. A communication was received yesterday
by the polio, authorities of Glasgow Co the subject ; and we
learn that to enterprising young officers very encouraging
tame wil4 lr• offered.

WAR.
GERIIANY.
lamingllMib Nepecting the military forte
*MUD maws@ eomledmmtion will be found interest-
ing at thiolimmuht
The Did his IV a vote the expense adertained to be
aseessary foe Oa military protection of the general inn-
Inste of the nemlsibration • and the different states condi-
beste to the fend gesordini to an adopted tariff. The pro
portion paid by each state necessarily varies according to
its financial rewards :—For Austria, it is 324 f. 33c.
for every- 1,000 f.; for Prussia, 268 f. 48e. per I,ooof. ;
Bavaria, 118 f. le.; Wurtemburg, 46f. 26e.; Saxony,
39f. 77c.; and it descends for the different states until it
falls as low as 79e., 66c., 47e., and even 165., for the petty
principalities of &homburg-Lippe, Hesse Homburg,Hohen-
sollern-Heckingen, Lichtenstein, btu. The Federal army is
formed by contingents ; that is, each state supplies a body of
equinely-organised troops, and not of recruits. The ordi-
nary dontingent, find at ene-hundredth of the population,
is required to be ready to march within four weeks after a
vote of 'mobilisation. A reserve equal to three-hundredths
of the population, and a :supplement of a sixth hundredth,
treated by decision of the 10th March, 1851, hap also to be
kept up. A simple contingent, including the garrisons of
the federal fortresses, amounts to 303,493 men, and the
yearn and supplement to 161,767 au : total, 455,260. This
force is divided into ten corps eremites ; Austria supplies
three of them, consisting of six divisions and 47,411 men;
Prussia three, of six divisions, and 39,742 men ; Ba-
varia one, forming two divisions of 17,800 men ; Wurtem-
burg, Baden, and the Grand Duchy of Hesse, one, consist-
Mg of three divisions, that of Wurtensburg being of 6,977
men, that of Baden 6,000, and that of Heed 3,098 ; Saxony,
Electoral Hesse, and Nassau, form one corps, consisting of
two divisions, one of which is composed of 6,000 men, sup-
plied by Saxony, another division of 2,839 men supplied by
Electoral Hesse, and the third of 2,019 by Nassau. The
10th sore d'arode is formed by six petty dates and the
three Hasse towns, and consists of three divisions. In ad-
dition, the free city of Frankfort and 18 other petty states
equip a division of reserve, consisting of 13 battalions, and
in case of war this force is almost entirely employed In de-
fame of fortresses. In the federal army the cavalry is
wonted for a seventh of the total effective, the light in-
fantry for a twentieth, the sappers and minim and pontoon
train for a huadredth, and the artillery at the nits
of two guns for 1,000 men-30 men, including drivers and
workmen, being calculated for each piece. Each state has
besides in reserve at least one gun per 1,000 men of the con-
tingent, In order to be able to fill up any void immediately.
Thus the total artillery is 894 pieces-300 of them in rie•
serve ; and then is besides a siege train of 200 guns, re-
quiring for its service 200 bombardiers, 650 gunners, 1,760
drivers, workmen, and cartridge-makers. The number of
artillery horses k 9,600, and 14,400 can be taken by regul-
ation. Austria and Prussia supply a large pontoon train,
and each of the other corps d'arrnes keep pontoons for
paring rivers 400 feet wide. The sappers and miners are
only supplied by the states in which a corps of them is
maintained in tide of peace. Each division of the army
consists of two brigades, and each brigade of two
regiments. The minimum of a regiment of in-
fantry consists of two battalions of eight hundred
men each, and of a regiment of cavalry of 4 squadrons of
150 men each. These regiments are commanded by officers
nominated by their sovereigns; the corps (Vannes by gene-
rals alto designated by the sovereigns, if their contingent
forms a corps d'annte; but when a contingent is what is
called mixed, and that it consists of I contingents, the
different states come to an understanding to nominate a
general, and in ease they cannot ape* the Diet does so.
The generals choose the officers of their staff. In time of
peace there is no g e and the federal authori-y
is concentrated for purely military matters in a military
commission consisting of six members, one for Austria, one
for Prussia, one for 13•Thtill, and one for each of the suited
cone. The commission is charged with the control
and surveillance of the federal contingents, the
inspection of the fortified places of the confederation,
and of the garrisons of such place+. It ascertains that all
prescriptions are executed • and, if needier!, as was done
last year, delegates inspectors-general, possessed of the full
powers f the Dist, to verify the state of the troops and ma-
teriel of the federal army, from the drilling of Twain no to
the state dale arms. There are two sorts of war materiel
—one, consisting of a stock which each power is
obliged to have in reserve for the troops which it sends, and
the other, of general stores collected at a common expense
in federal arsenals for the use of the army when collected.
The arsenals always contain then stores-60,000,000 ball
eartridges for infantry, 3,000,000 for cavalry, 60,000 car-
tridges for field howitzers, 160,000 for guns of six, 60,000
for gnu of 12, and for the siege train 100,000 cannon balls,
25,000 balls for howitzers, and 60,000 shells for mortars.
In addition to the inspections, the Confederate States, on
the Ist January of each year, communicate to the Diet an
exact and: detailed account of the personnel and au
inventory of the materiel. When circumstances re-
quire it, the Diet may order that the federal army shall be
plated on a war footing, in order to be promptly ready for
action. This is done to avoid the expenses of immediate
mobilisation, which are very heavy for the petty states.
When a vote of the Diet orders the mobilisation, the federal
army at once completes its organisation, and becomes at
once only one army. To that effect, the vote for the mobi-
lisation is always accompanied by the appointment of the
general-in-chief, on whom every care then devolves. The
Diet also nominates the lieutenant-general. who is to re-
place him when absent. The powers of the g I•in chief
are immense, as he alone decides on all the plans of opera-
tion, which he can modify as be pleases; but he is bound
to always set them forth in writing, in order that, in case
of death, there be neither delay nor hesitation in earning
out the operations commenced. He can sign all swat-
tions of arms, but in order to be valid they must receive the
approbation of the Diet. He has the right of judging by
summary procedure all individuals forming part of the
army, and even the inhabitants of the country in which
their army may be quartered ; he has the nomination of all
his principal 011/011111; and he is responsible only to the Diet,
who can have him brought, for faults committed, before a
council of war, presided over by a field-marshal, and con-
sisting of six general officers. In fine, it may be affirmed
that the federal forties must be considered rather as an army
of resistance than one of invasion. Being composed prin-
cipally of young soldiers from the German dates, through
economy, keeping as few man as possible en active service,
and as many as possible in the reserve, it is essentially
wanting in unity and experience, and is, consequently to a
certain extent feeble, in offensive operations. But the
various governments are careful to keep up their stores and
supplies on a most liberal scale, so that in case of a cheek
they could quickly repair their losses.

Several English officers have lately visited Alge-
ciras and St. Roque (Spain), to purchase horses for
the East. Upwards of 300 Andalusian horses were
brought to them in one day, which wore purchased at
high prices.

We resd in the

:—" We have reason

to believe that despatches have been received from
the Crimea to the 7th. The weather continued fine.
Extensive preparations for an attack were being
made."

TURKEY.

(nom ♦ orscua.

LILSPONDINT OP THI DAILY 1131110
CONSTANTINOPLE, Fax 6.

Foreign example and the pressure of current neces-
sities have infused a zeal and activity into nearly
every department of the Turkish administration that
are not the least of the evidences the last twelve-
month has brought to light es to what the Osmanli
character is capable of under higher influences and
another system of government Not only is every
workshop in Tophand and along the shores of the
Golden Horn turning out its materiel for the war
with a rapidity that would not discredit Woolwich
itself, but to every branch of the war executive of
which I can glean intelligence the same well-
directed and resultfal energy is being dis-
played. Nor is this patriotic activity ono-
lined to the public offices and workshops.
Suggested, doubtless, by the philanthropic exertions
of our own public, a general subscription has here,
too, been set on foot, and with the proceeds—which
have up to the present time been far from
contemptible—warm woollen and fur clothing has
been purchased, and is at present being made up by the
ladies of nearly every harem in Stamboul for their
own troops in the Crimes. I have seen very
extravagant accounts of the patriotic and self-
sacrificing zeal which is said to fill the breasts of the
Turkish population all over the empire ; but I am
bound to say that although my own personal
knowledge enables me to contradict the report so far
as it concerns most of the provinces, a large
modicum of that spirit does appear to animate
the " true believers " of the capital, and
is now manifesting itself in efforts which
merit considerable praise. In all justice, let
the Turks get credit for the few good qualities which
five hundred years of despotism and misrule have yet
left uncrashed in their national character.

If the Turks, however, are active, what shall be
said of the French? Activity is no word for the
ceaseless and all-pervading energy with which they
are providing for all present and possible demands
for animate and inanimate supplies. To enumerate
the countless agencies they have here at work, to
meet every contingency that the necessities of the
war may give rise to, would in itself fill a column of
your space: while not one letter nor ten would be
sufficient to describe in detail the admirable complete.
nese and efficiency of every one of their departments.
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