The Express.
London, England, 1855-03-02 00:00:00

LAST NIGHT'S DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF

mained a little longer unrepresented ; and the ex-
plosion at length took place that blew Conservative
resistance to atoms for many a day. Lord PAL-
MERSTON is now in the opposite position,
and his argument is the converse of what it then
was—the subject of reform being in the present
instance the national army instead of the national
representation. He cannot believe that a total change
will be precipitated by the refusal of moderate con-
cessions. He recognises the principle of Lord GODS-
RICH% motion, but will not act upon it. He relies
on what has already been done, just as his
colleagues did in 1828 on the mere disfranchisement
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of Ra;it Retford ; and u they dreamed of thereby
tranquillising the public mind, so now it is imagined
that the fact of one sergeant in each regiment having
been given an ensigncy in acknowledgment of his
merit will reconcile the nation to the continuance
of the system of promotion by purchase in all ranks
of the service.

The noble member for Huddersfield pointed out
very clearly that to take a single individual from the
ranks, and to place him among officers differently
educated, without any hope or prospect of ever being
able

to raise himself further as a commissioned
officer, was no fair trial of the system of fair play
and no favour. Lord Gormatca also, with praise-
worthy firmness, refused to be mollified by Lord
PALMERSTON'S " soft sawder," seeing that his
colleagues held such different language. But we
think Lord GODERICH, in his natural desire to
conciliate support for his proposal, and to
disarm antagonism, seemed disposed to yield
too much, when he said that all he asked

was that such individuals should not here-
after be so few, and that, after they had
obtained their first commission, Government
should continue to keep its eye upon them, in order
to promote them farther whenever they should die-
tiaguish themselves. We fear that, were it possible
to act effectually on this suggestion, it would give
rise to jealousies and enmities that would soon em-
bitter the lives of those in whose favour the plan of
special favour had been devised. In a word, we are
inclined to say that so long as you can only do jus-
tice by way of special grace and bounty, no healthy
spirit of reform can be looked for in the army.

The UNDER-SECRETARY for WAR, in the coarse of
his dreary and inconsistent attempt at a reply, ad-
mitted that the system of purchase and the system
of raising all who deserved commissions from the
ranks were incompatible, and could never be made
really to co-exist. In the French service every step
is open to promotion on the score of merit as well as
the first: hence it works well. Seniority and merit
are formed into a kind of double or alternative claim.
Of the lieutenants, two-thirds become captains by
seniority, and one-third by merit.. Of the captains,
one-half are promoted to the grade above them by
merit, and the other half by seniority—and so on to the
hightst ranks ; merit becoming more, and age less,
influential as the aspirant to command ascends
the ladder of promotion. This is a combina-
tion well worthy of consideration by army reformers
generally; but it is undoubtedly too true that our
system of advancement in the navy is tainted with a
reproach quite as grave as that which it is sought to
wipe away from the military branch of the profession
of arms, although in the navy there is no such thing
as purchase of commissions.
The debate of last night will be read with anxiety
by thousands of every class throughout the land. It
will certainly not satisfy the enthusiastic friends of
justice to our soldiery; nor will it, on the other
hand, set at rest wholly the misgivings of those
whose craft is in danger. But it will do good. It
will set people thinking how the coming change may
be most safely and equitably effected; and it will
prove to the most haughty and overbearing defenders
of the flippant phrase—" gentlemen for the army, and
the army for gentlemen"—that they must expand
their test to conduct, and intelligence, and worth,
nor hope any longer to limit its meaning to birth
and wealth.

It is not by arguments like thee of Lord SET-
MOUB—Who, with his usual pride in facing unpopu-
larity, seems resolved to stand by aristocratic exclu-
sion to the last—that the spirit now enkindled
amongst the thoughtful and disinterested community
at large will be put down. The fact that the British
army is the only one in Europe where commissions
are bought and sold publicly and legally, is worth a
world of doctrinaire dialectics; and the touching
tribute of one witness like Sir Ds LACY Eyelet, to
the worth of the unrewarded soldiery, and the wither-
ing effects of the present military regime, will out-
weigh in every fairly-constituted mind all the
sophistry and unreason that can be enlisted in its
defence. Nevertheless, we must repeat what we
have said already, that it lies with the people mainly
to determine at what pace the question shall ad-
vanes. The instincts of the existing House of Com-
mons are inveterately opposed to any substantial
change; and until the pressure of opinion in the
constituencies shall have been brought steadily to
bear upon sham Liberals and flexible Tories, no man,
or set of men, will be able to force open the gates of
promotion to military merit.—Daily News.

THE VOTE UPON LORD GIODEIUCH'S
MOTION.

Among the usual supporters of the Coalition
Ministry who voted last evening in favour of the
above motion were : Hon. E. P. Bouverie, R. Currie,
E. Elliott, R. M. Mines, F. C. Russell, and E. Strutt.
There were a few Conservatives also, viz. :—E. Ball,
J. B. Moore, Sir A. T. Campbell, G. °toenail, and H.
Gwyn. Mr. Dillwya, who took the Who and his
seat for Swamies few hours before, was amongst the
minority.
The Liberals who voted against the motion, in-
cluded—R. A. Adair, C. L. G. Berkeley, J. Brother-
ton, Viscount Gallstone, Lord Robert Groevenor,
Sir B. 11all, G. Hanley, Sir Wm. Moteamorth,
B. Ricardo, and R. B. Roche. The Peelites voted in
a body against the motion. No vote was given by
Mr. Disraeli, but Sir John Pakington was amongst
the " Nose."

COMMONS.

AT length the serious &octagon of the subject of
Army Reform has begun in Parliament. When will
it end ? The stone once set a-rolling, who will pre-
tend to stop its course ? The vie inertia of Govern-
ment is great, but greater in the long run will be
found the power of public opinion. At what rate
Government will be moved in the direction of con-
cession must depend on the people themselves.
Lord Gooratica's motion may be designated as the
modest preface to the case which Parliament will
soon be forced to hear—ay, and to heed, too—on
behalf of the gallantry of the middle and working
cams of the nation. In times past, while men of
all ranks have been called on to shed their blood
la defence of country, those who belated to the pri-
vileged order were alone rewarded. Is more recent
days, the heart of monopoly appears to have gra-
dually waxed faint, and, silently and patronisingly,
maps of justice have been flung out, in the hope of
appeasing or stilling the demand of general right.
As happened in the am of Commercial Reform, we
had amendment in the tariff profeeeedly brought
forward without the least idea of abandoning the
emential principle of the old system, and Canada
Corn Bills supported with emphasis by the
etanchest advocates of Protection. A still

TRIAL OF MDLLIL DOUDET.

THE VERDICT.
PALRIS. WRDNIIIIDAT.
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Ia the Court of the Seine this dq th; presidia( jadp
sunned up very strongly against the prisoner The Jury
Mind tar 26 valuta, and then brought la a verdict of
NOT GUILTY.
Dr. Ilarodea is decreed to pay the costs, which will be

sore striking illustration may be derived front
the history of Electoral Reform. In 1828, the
meant Pam= and Mr. Rusiresorr, believing that
the days of the close boroughs were drawing to an
sad, proposed to let off the gathering steam by en.
hanchieing Birmingham and Manchester. They
Idled to marina their (*Soignee and their party,
however, that the stem was getting up on the Bab.
Jest. Sir Roarer Pm and Lord LYNDHURST aide
way with their warnings ; the great towns t

*sernone'
lidlle. Daudet is detained in prima, to be tried on the
minor etneeet for pastel ill-elege, before the Tribneal
of Comedies! Polies.
La haseesee essiation, geserally one et disapprobation
sad astoniebetest, was oecesioued in the owl by the delivery
of the vadiet.

FOSMON 07 NAVAL AssISTANT-Stl7.ollo2lB.—The
sludeste of St. Bartholomew's Hospital bell s esesting ea
Wednesday, ia seennuings with the sale beepiesle, st
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sand anielieSensesens wars earlisinseS sendseasd. sod
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ens noversnient our expenses to the plies at trbtalt
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W give s &slid owes."

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 2, 1855.

THE ARMY IN THE CRIMEA.

(PIOY TEE SPECIAL

DAILY

iup by the transport', and bought 23 pairs of high
Rona leather boot", as " gift to the best men of his
Imumpany. Nothing can be more kind and creditable
than this act of liberality; but it must be confessed
it is a pity that there was occasion for it. The Bth
Hussar", too, are very badly off for boat.g, in spite of
the vast quantities sent out. I understand that a good
Imany of the men cannot appear at muster, but are
I confined to their tents, because they have no boots to
'stand in.

x3WS.)

BALAKLAVA, Fn. 16.
For the last few days the weather has been ex-
tremely mild, and a strong sirocco, sometimes squally,
but always hot and dry, has effectually dried the
ground, and done more for the roads than a fortnight
of dry weather of the usual kind. The phenomenon
is useful and curious, bat far from agreeable. In the '1
hospitals it has given an impetus to fever, which be-
fore
made but slow and covert progress. Even those
who are to be in good health suffer from
loss of sleep, digestion, and appetite, from healed
blood, drynessof the skin, and an excess of thirst.
The sirocco, unlike the hot, humid winds at Malta,
absorbs the moisture of bodies u well as that of the
ground, and affects even the strongest with a striate
feeling of best and discomfort. To the superfield
observer it would appear as if winter were over, and
summer, with all its beats, fast approaching. But
there is no sun. The sky is cloudless, and wears a dull
leaden hue, with here and there a rownish streak in
the west. The air, as it rushes along, now steadily
and again with violent gusts, which remind us of the
hurricane of November, is as the hot breath from a
furnace, and of the same temperature at midnight
and at the noon of day. Small gnats are carried
along by the hot wind, and bright yellow flowers
have sprung up among the aromatic herbs that
cover the mountains. In spite of the gusts and
squalls of die wind the sea appears calm, seen from
the rocks, and it is with a heavy lazy swell that
what waves there are break against Balaklava bluff
land the rocky base of Cape Fiolente.
I The army, who are new to these vagaries of the
season, regard them with some astonishment, and a
food deal of pleasure. If the sirocco dies a natural
death, stifled by its own heat and baue-
fal breath, without being followed by ano-
ther week of rains, the ground will be
in excellent condition for the movements of
troops and the manoeuvres of artillery. That hot
wind, stealing a march upon the season, will have
ripened the time for action. In that case, if the
Russians fail to attack us, they will not pin anything
by their forbearance, for the allied armies will attack
them. Indeed, the French plan of investing the
north side of Sebastopol is impracticable, without a
previous engagement in the plain. The northern
aide is separated from our entrenched camp by a sys-
tem of deep ravines, and by the Tehernaya river. It is
disconnected from and out of the line of our defences
as prescribed by the nature of the ground, and our
communication with a corps detached on that service
would be at once difficult and precarious, while
that corps, isolated for the time being, would be ex-
posed to the attacks of the Russian army. The general
opinion is that the investment of the north side will
take place only after the allied armies have punished
the Russians, and compelled them to seek the protec-
tion of their entrenched camp at Baktchi Sergi. That (FROM AN OFFICER OF THE LIGHT DIVISION.)
sition, tolerably strong by nature, has been still fur-
ther strengthened by the skill of the Russian en- CAMP ABOVE SEBASTOPOL, Fee. 11.
gineen It is protected by cannon of very heavy
calibre, brought from Sebastopol within the last few The wind is blowing in strong gusts from the
N.W., there is a driving storm of sleet and snow,
months. To do the Russians justice, they do not allow and my canvas residence is not the most agreeable,
difficulties to stand in the way ofeafety. It is neces- but I will write you a line for to-morrow s mail. I
say to confine the Russian army in this entrenched have been looking out for another letter from you, but
position, and it is doubtful whether more is intended for neither got one from home nor from yourself this mail.
the present. Much depends on considerations fami- We have papers to the 26th. At last the country seems
liar only to the commanders of the two armies. A aroused, and every one here is expecting that Lord
good deal will also depend upon the state of the Raglan and the Quartermaster-General(who everyone
weather, and the temper and condition of the enemy says is an utter failure) at least will have to leave.
whom we shall find in the plain. The great recon- Ido not think we should lose if the head of the
saissance in force, which I mentioned in my last let- medical department, Dr. Hall, and the Adjutant-
tees, is expected every day, and doubtless the Ras- General Estcourt, cum multi* ails, went too. How-
mans expect it also. The movement is not spouts- ever, the railroad is getting on fast. To-day (Sun-
neous, but forced upon us by the circumstances, of day) Lord Raglan offered to allow the navvies a day
which the Russian generals are as good judges as and a quarter's wages if they would work, but they
we are. Oar intentions cannot be a secret to them. would not. They agreed to go on if be would give
But the time to carry our plans into execution is a them double pay ; but Lord Raglan would not do
secret, and that secret belongs to General Canrobert, this, and consequently all is at a stand-still until to-
who intends surprising the enemy, not by the move- morrow. The road is made for some distance out
went but by the period and mode of making IL Those of Balahlses' and the sleepers are down; by to-
who do not actually take part in the adventure will morrow evening it is expected that a mile of rails
know the event only by the distant thunders of the will be laid, and by the end of the week file miles.
battle, which will most likely be heard from Kaman The rails are now laid down from the wharf to the
on our right wing, and the banks of the Tehernaya on middle of what was a short time since, before
our left. All this is on the supposition that the enemy do the shopkeepers were turned out, the principal corn-
not attack us before we make our movement in ad- mercial street of Balaklava. A stationary engine at
vance. If the sirocco holds on, and the ground the top of the
billsb the verge of the plateau, will draw
remains dry, the next mail, or that which follows it, up the trucks wire rope ; and the loads once on
will at length bring.you news of actions and events. the plateau itself, half the difficulty of moving them
We have no positive information of what has hap- to the front is over. What a valuable achievement
pened at Eupatoris. The last rumour which floats this will bet
about the camp is that of a battle between the Rule The Russians are either jealous of our going into
sians and Omer Pacha's troops. It is said that the Balaklava so freely by the side of the Woronzoff
Russians were defeated. This, though very likely to road, part of which has been used of late, or elms
be true, is mere amnion, derived frem unreli- determined to prevent any more reconnaissances
able sources, and mouthed about with sublime in- toward the Baidary district; for they are now in con-
difference as to whether or not it is believable or be- sidenble numbers, and busily at work erecting a new
1 isthe Another rumour, which amuses the camp, battery on the crest of the !unjust below the village
is the return home of the Earl of Lncan, the expres- of Kaman—or rather where the village was, for it
sion of whose wishes, it is said, have been antici- was destroyed some time since. The high road
leading to the valley of Raider in this direc-
pated, by his being relieved from the command of the
tion, and by this route General passes in
commanding
cavalry. The next few days will give us certainty u
the French cavalry, took his troops when he made
to the fortunes of Omer Pada and the noble earl.
the reconnaissance about a month since. I suppose
You see, we live in the future and for the future,
the Russian battery will be about two-and-a-half or
I rather than in the present,too, nt, though the present, three miles from our nearest work. I wish we had a
does most assuredly wear a brighter aspect than the
Lancaster or a 13-inch in position, just to give them
pest. It gives one a feeling of pleasure and comfort,
a surprise now and then. They are plainly visible,
seen during the prevalence of hot winds, to see our
working away like bees in a hive.
men in warm and comfortable clothing though
late, not too late, for, however early the spring, we Feb. It froze •very severely last night, but this
shall have cold nights and mornings in plenty, morning the wind has got round to the south-west,
to take the shine out of those staring, big and it is now thawing. The plain is covered with
fur coats, and make them worth the wear. mud. The melted snow does not penetrate into
But these coats—how painfully they must affect the ground and lies everywhere in small puddles. Fifty
martinets—if any such antediluvian animals still pairs of long boots have been issued to each regiment,
survive in the array! What the troops have gained and they are found very. beneficial both in keeping
in comfort, they have lost in uniformity ; and the out the wet and also in maintaining an equable warmth
coats they wear, as they come from all quarters, so about the legs and ankles. A vessel with officers'
they are of all colours lengths, and fashions, from winter clothing—the Black Prince—is in harbour at
the plain white sheepskin to the brown-red of the Balaklava, and I presume the cargo will be issued
Hungarian coat—from the fur jacket to the fur tear. non. Huts are slowly springing up here and there.
tout, reaching down considerably below the knee. A regiment in this division has contrived to pt up
The sight of a scarlet coat is almost unheard of in and have ready for occupation no less than eight of
the camp; and that brilliant colour, being unusual, these houses. ',,lt all depends on the number of
startles the beholden, and makes them stare. And public horses in possession of the regiment. Some',
oh! if the admirers of the kilt and the brawn/ regiments have been fortunate in receiving their bat-
knees of the Hieland laddie could bat see our Scots horses from Varna safely, other regiments lost many
regiments! I guess they would look at the chicks there; some have secured a goodly number of stray,
with unco' marvel, and hardly acknowledge them horses; some have had left to them for public use
as countrymen. I myself, weakened by disease, horses which were the property of officers gone away
must confess to a feeling of astonishment, and on sink or other leave of absence; and so, in various
even terror, when, a few days ago, alter a length- ways, the means of transport he become very dif-
ened absence, lode into the Highlanders' camp
ferent in amount udifferent regiments. Upon these
on the heights. For some moments I was doubtful means have for some time past depended the supplies,
for that regiment which had most horses could bring
whether I had not missed my way, and got into a
Russian encampment, for the sentries I passed up most rations, most fonge, fuel, clothing, wood for
stood bold upright, with a composure which seemed huts, and stores of all sorts. This will perhaps in
almost Scythian their faces half hid by fur ceps and some measure account for the various desenptions of
beards and mou'etachios, their bodies wrapt in sheep-
our condition in camp in published letters from the
skin coats reaching down to the knees, and their
Crimea bearing the same date. For some days past
the sick have been sent to Balaklava by the private
legs encased in stout boots of Russia leather, whose
upper extremity disappeared
beneath the ample resources of each regiment. The officers who were
folds of their coats. lit:lapped, bearded men, sending in their horses to Balaklava for supplies,d
swathed in sheepskins and stuck in high boots, stood as well as the company halt horses, have carrie
at the doors of the huts, or stooped over the camp them in. This plan has greatly relieved the
fires ; and so outlandish and truly Russian was the camp. hospitals, but the number of sick N-
icene that I could not but fancy I had fallen into matting is still very great. Since the rations have
the hands of the Muscovite, and dim visions of a improved, however, there his been a general
tour to Kiew, with my hands tied to the mane of a improvement in the condition of the men. The
horse, flitted disagreeably before my eyes. Oh ! how cones, after all that has been written, has at last been
anxiously did I look for &plumed cap, a kilter a pair issued in the routed state, but not ground. This is
of naked loge—not even Etty in his boldest aspire- one point gained. No fuel is issued, and the men
dons felt so morbid a hankering after the nude. Nor have now to go so far on the right for it that it has
did I regain my composure until from one of the become very dangerous. One man of the Second
hut, then aims the ahem tones of a bagpipe, Division last week had his head blown away by a per-
squeaking out the familiar and singularly appro. tion of a shell while gathering some bush fee fuel,
„nuts tuna of a Should mild acquaintance be forgot p e and two others were wounded. The labour of dig-
Certainly not, VI can help it. With these words, ging up the roots--the best kind of fuel to be got—
end a hearty liming on the pipes, I pushed my Is very great Many of the phikaxes are bent and
Voss forwaide awl traversed the encampment, with their handles broken at this work. Wouldyou believe
lismuisuenmeation of safety which none but those it--up to this date no means have been established
Owed hem the fear of &Russian prim= oan appreciate. for repairing these necessary implements when in-
ns blib stoat boots served out to some of the jived! If the tools in present= of a regiment are
1 seems* sae excellent, and will a hundred-fold broken in part--a handle or so merely wanted—they
egg admit, by preserving the health and increes- must be thrown aside, ooadenned by proper antho-
Wes the wearers. On the other hand, rity, and new implements obtained on requisition.
ensue of dm foots sent out are bitterly corn- Complicated as our system is, it is certainly not an
slid of, luaus the leather is bad, and breaks economical one.
taw a flartedight's wear, because they are not high I can't tell you word day the newbatteries will open
lossih, ar.d because the fest are too small, so that —various days are named, but no reliance is to be
these who wear them do not march, bat limp. Of suck placed on these rumours. Many guns hues been
fealty materials and make are the boots served out now mounted me the right, and great qv/entities of
to the Grenadier Guards, who have refined much shot and shell are ready for use. A day bee bean
from. want of proper protection to their feet, that named for theanault, bat I do not Wince& maid
the private liberality GI the Aeon had to be ex-, it. We alkali not take Sebastopol br, =auk mire
erted to keep the men efficient One officer, Captain Various rumours are going about. Ore is that Gene-
A. Kitchell, searched all the private storm brought rah Brown—who is win up here with Admiral

At least one decisive measure has of late been taken
for the improvement of Ba'Alava. Colonel Harding
has achieved what his predecessors never attempted—
he has abolished the abominations of the Turkish
hospitals, and compelled oar diseased and dirty pro-
tiges to establish their hospitals in wooden houses,
which have been constructed for them on the hills.
The pestholes in which these miserable Turks were
laid up to die are doomed to destruction, and all the
houses which the former commandants very unwisely
gave up to the hospital service of the Turks, are to be
pulled down, with a view of eradicating the infection
which is ingrained in each piece of timber, and which
steams up from the gory pools in the yard. This is
certainly a step in the nght direction. But it is to
be hoped that Colonel Harding will not atop there.
The burials in Balaklava valley and on the mountain
side mast cease. It is bad enough that there are
already above 5,000 corpses of Christians and Turks
buried in this narrow valley. Public privies must be
built, and measures be taken to keep them in order.
At present the whole of Balaklava is one vast privy
for the thousands that daily come to the depot. The
mangy and ownerless dogs and hors at run about
—displaying their starvation and Magatiog their
diseases—must be put out of the way somehow. Sen-
tries must be placed over the few wells that remain
to prevent the Turks from washing their soiled clothes
in the water which others are to drink ; walls must
be built round the wells to prevent the rains flooding
them with the liquefied abominations that cover the
ground. In short, immediate and energetic measures
must be taken to temper the pestilence which is cer-
tain to break out during the first weeks of warm
weather. Cannot the Board of Health spare us a
plenipotentiary to undertake the sanitary reform of
Balaklava ? A little timely precaution would save
many lives and prevent a deal of misery. Let the
government look to it in time. The sanitary
measures, which would be all in all in February and
March, will be of little avail in April and May. And
I predict that unites great improvements take plans
soon, our own indifference and carelessness will effect
what the Russians never could do. It will drive es
out of Balaklava, or bury us under the mountains of
abominations which we have heaped up in this place.
The mismanagement of the newspaper department
of the Poet-office is as scandalous as ever, and all
because the officers in charge are still in want of
responsible sorters. I mean to publish and republish
that grievance until it is remedied.

Houston btewart from Malta, and is expected daily—
and General Boequet, will take their division. %mast
General Liprandi, while Omer Pacha and the French
troops with him will act on the north. I doubt if this
is not all surmise. Our men are not in a fit state for
marching yet. Good clothing, good food, and a
Imonth's fine weather, may repair munch of the mischief
that has been done by previous neglect and mis-
management, and may restore to us some of the inva-
lids we have sent away, and who are now scattered
over the Mediterranean and &gun seas, and on the
shores of the Bosphorus. The ordinary returns given
of our " strength" in the field, as it I. called, are very
deceptive.
I have just heard that the officers are to pay for
the winter clothing sent from England 7 guineas for
fur coat, 4 guineas for long boots, &c. I can hardly
believe it, yet my authority is the Quartermaster of
the 7th Fusiliers. I know I shall not get them at that
rate. The season is too far advanced, and do with
what I have already been using.

(11101 t TIN

FRANCE.

//DINT OP TEN DAILY 3111111.)
PARIS, TILOPSDAY EVENING.

The Emperor left yesterday for St. Omer. He
arrived safely at half-past seven last night, and this
substantially is all that is yet known in Paris con-
cerning his journey. Up to half-past three this
afternoon, no one, not even the Empress, had received
intelligence of any speech or manifesto. His Majesty
is expected to return to Paris to-morrow. There are
people about the court who say now that after all he
will not go to the Crimea. I have been told con-
fidently that the Prince Napoleon has been
heard to say that he has changed his
mind in consequence of the serious state of affairs at
Berlin, but that the preparations for the journey ge
on, in order not to discourage the army. Notwith-
standing these rumours, I still believe in the voyage.
There are, no doubt, generally two kinds of truth

current at the Tuileries, the official truth of the hour
and the real truth (la verde vrqie), but at the present
moment I think the Prince Napoleon is quite as little
likely to know the latter for certain u anybody else.
It seems to me most unlikely that the Emperor would
have allowed the public to understand thoroughly
tl at he intended to go, and then have it said that
any ministers or foreign powers had made him change
his purpose.
M. de Wedel left Paris for Berlin last night, to ask,
as it is said, for fresh instructions.
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At Bordeaux, on Feb. 24, eighteen individuals of
the working class, who met at a dinner to celebrate
the anniversary of the revolution of 1848, were found
out by the police in the midst of their festival, and
were all •ed, together with the landlord of the
coffee-house where they were dining.
At the Bourse the Rente, after opening at yester-
day's price, dropped to 66fr. 20c., closing with a fall
of 20c. The Rouen railway fell 15fr. In the other
lines there was no sensible change.