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LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17.

LATEST
NEWS FROM ABROAD

(sT cox/warm. TzLzokarz.)
ST. PETERSBURG, FZIDAY.
Prince Mentohikoff reports from Sebastopol on
the Bth inst.:

"The general situation is unchanged. We csinti.'

nue to disturb the besiegers. Deserters affirm that
the French are guarding the trenches, on account of
the great losses of the English army."—Daily News.

Rita Pacha, who is to take part in the apprcach-
ing conferenen at Vienna, landed at Trieste cm
Thareday.—Daily News.

PARIS BOURSE.

PARIS, Funky.

Closing prices :—Threo per Cent. Rent's, for money,
66.20; for amount, 66.20; ditto Four-and•a-Half per,
Cents., for money, 93. Bank shame, 2,970. The
Fran& funds hays rallied I per ant.—Daily News.

aghast, era seeps, fres death by Schwa of
adds Comitheleiat authorities taltsows.'
But If ever there wee a time when the voles of the
publio ought to make itself heard la secants not to
be mistaken, that time is the present. Do any still
doubt the necessity and urgency of the CMS P Let
them read the speech of the new War Minister, in
reply to that of Lied Farintemonotr; and if
they be not convinced, neither would they be
persuaded. though the thousands of victims
that have perished at Balakiava and Scutari
rose in accusation from the grave. We did not expect
anything eloquent or original from Lord PAULI:TIM
and, so far, we have not bean disappointed.
Tams and commonplace in conception and expres-
sion, there is nothing to divert attention in this
miserable address from its purport and tenor. So
much, perhaps, the better, considering what that
teem and purport seems to have been. The successor
of the Duke of Hawaii= appears to be oppressed
with a sense of the injuatigs that removed his
Grace to make way for himself. Lord PANMURE may
very possibly bring the. public to concur
in that opinion; but if he does, it had our-
tainly been better for both that the Ministerial
combination, of which he is the sole distinguishing
feature of novelty, had never been born. His drat
impression, on entering his °Bee, was that his pride.
oeseor had been grossly maligned; and every day,
as he proceeds to knock on the bead proposals for
reforms of less or greater magnitude, the charitable
conviction that his noble Mend has in the main done
all that say man could be expected to do, grows
epos hint

- And is this what the country expected to be told
after all that has occurred within the last three
weeks? Lord Passim's, however, leaves us is no
doubt as to the complete continuity of the system
which he is resolved to preserve as far as in him lies.
Something wholly vague and unintelligible was said
by him, indeed, of a plan to be hereafter considered
for concentrating departmental authority under one
head; but he took can to guard himself against any
implied obligation to produce eves that item of im-
provement until after there shall be cause for believing
that the Crimean expedition has been restored to a sa-
tisfactory condition. This was the first object he pro-
fessed to have in view ; and for its attainment he
produced a series of homoeopathic prescriptions whose
enumeration would provoke men to rub their eyes
or laugh at their pompous inanity, were not the case
in hand too desperate and too terrible to suffer any
other feeliop to find place than those of the most
painful and grave description.

A summary of the saving zneunres may be easily
given. Sir Joint BOZOOTNE has been recalled, and Sir
HANEY JONES (whose career is IN administrator
terminated so unhappily for himself and the public
four or five years ago in Ireland) is sent out in a
somewhat ill-defined but dictatorial capacity as
General Commissioner of Commissariat. Of the two,

we bare no hesitation in saying that Sir lons ROB, 1
nontz is the abler and by far the more reliable man. I
But the War Department being resolved to throw
no more JONANI of quality to the whale, thinks it I
knowing, we presume, to tacrifioe the most
dutin-
gusbed individuals of the secondary rank ; in the
persneakm, doubtless, that public opinion, like
other hated monsters, will swallow blindly
anything that is thrown to it. Not a word 41
breathed of Lord RAOLAN being recalled, or of Lord
Lunar being superseded; but rumour tells us of
Generals AIRE? and EBTOOURT having been Bain-
moned to return to England, with one or two more of
minor note. By way of substitute for a real inquiry
by a Parlianientasy committee into the ignorance,
impotence, end iniquitous jobbing to which oar
gallant army has been sacrificed, Lord EOM=
informed the Peers that he bad made choice of a
special commissioner of inquiry, the mention of
whose name would at once command public confi-
dence, and hush all anxious fears. But when,
after this ponderous flourish, their lordships
heard the name of Bic Jonze
there was no expression of approval such as
the noble BECRETAILY manifestly anticipated. The
Lords did not burst out laughing as the unmannerly.
Commons did, when just about the same moment
Lord Peunarrox hazarded the historical compa-
rison of himself to RICHARD IL, as he went forth
to beard the mutinous people headed by War TILER.
The Peers are in no merrymaking mood just now.
Many of them begin to think that they are drifting
towards the rapids, aid they like not the imper-
turbable stolidity of those who pretend to be holding
the helm and plying the preservative oars. They
begin to feel that for the crazy craft, freighted with
the golden store of privilege, and perquisite, and
patronage, there is no longer any preservative power
in official men.

But there is to be yet another special oommissioner
—namely, one selected by the War Minister from the
General Board of Health. That he will have an
abundant field for inquiry cannot be disputed; and
that hie reports on the state of the Hospitals at Scutari
and Smyrna, and into the Causes of Mortality in the
camp at Sebastopol, will form a curious addition to
medical misses when published some :twelvemonths
hence, we do not care to deny. Bat what is this
sanitary commissioner to do, when begets to Balaklava,
to save a few of those who may be still surviving there?
Of this we are told nothing; only Lord PAIIMUILE
says he has written a despatch to Lord RAGLAN,
authorising him to open negotiations with the,
SULTAN he embodying a Corps of Scavengers, who
are to be ready to, sleep the hills and gorges of Bala-
klava, as soon as the thaw sets in. A very good
thing, to be. ppro, this. Scavenging Brigade will be
when it isorgenimed ; bat, as oompying th• promi-
nent plan essigned to it In the new War Minister•.
programa, bf army reform, we an hardly trust
ourselves to designate it as we think it deserves.
The nesinatica of General SIMPSON to the
newly-created °Mee of Chief of the Staff is pro-
bably the best that has yet been made; and the
promise that steps will be taken to provide floating
hospitals, to bear the wounded cc the sick back,
week by week, to England, is one that we hope to
see fulfilled. But, es a programme of Army Reform,
Lord Pexmitiz's speech will be read with no other
feelings by the community at large than those of
bitter disappointment and dismay.—Daily Non.

LAST IaOHTS DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF
COMMONS.