The Express.
London, England, 1855-03-20 00:00:00

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their attention
hospital there,

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wa at Constantia
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Matt the *del/slaty
I It wee only
at Smyrna
there. He
the*, as compared
might be mere it
the next two •
he warned t,
not allow

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report would
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send out wooden
in the hest place.
He believed
pltale in wi
than stout
not, from any
were to be so-

should imitate
lomat& r-

a good 'flea L
time, it would

the transports
ought to b.
Alan wit'

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sad another
most proper

who tied resided
to the diseases pit
then complained
by civil medical
and thought tb
once. Then
ought to be i
be urged
between
at Scutari, -_
endue proportion
cues being
Lion of the
chosen why;
diciously.
given a lists.
tility to the government,.
on the subject - '•4
ululated,
possessed
service of
a matter
from the
intended
home from s_
Mary's, Ch►tham.
hon. gentlemen '
everything •
barracks e-
lle the oo
together.
sir of the
hear from
I made to
had now
I of the hon.
full and free,
were waiting

remnant .
of dimities
and to see
disasters 1
than their
satisfy the
Crimea.

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Mr. Stafford,
the astabli,'
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that purpose.

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the

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those by
which .
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to their
whatever
might ."
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white
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Turkish
was to
changes
point
could 1
should ku.
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down
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la for convalescents thr re. On the 6th of N 3.
(Mr. Stafford) wrote to the War (Ace, calling the eri)rEfi 0*
"ion to the fact that the French had opened a
re also. He had also_preued the subject on the
ere, arid he having &gen the convaleseents there /
ded that a hospital should be established for oar
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Advertisenients Intended for ..11ie Ewa'," Leaden EMIT, mow,
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TO CORRESPONDENTS.
he climate was good and the winter not so severe most re at the Office, le, Rework... Crest, by Two seeitiek On the •
AntilloPi• ; end when he sew how pulmonary eon-
y of "biked"'
railed atCoostantinople he suggested to thegovern-
dvisabllity of opening an hospital at Smyrna; but
r now when the unhealthy weather was coming on
that the government had opened a large hospital HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
True Dsr
II did not blame them for so doing, and he thought y ow_litanail6 oh' Tha''''-'Altarms• 1116 49°4
capered with Scutari, the health of the invalids Murata& 4h. 711 Ahern: . ch. Vin. ca
me improved at Smyrna. He believed that for
sro months It would be better than Scutari; but
l the government that after that they should LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 29. •
w the sick to remain there in great
He hoped, however, that a satisfactory
'ould be received from there from Dr.
Bet be was wire that it would be the best plan to
uldwob eu
id be selected
znor . ien.i ithe
y pLevantti fi .d
wooden houses for hospitals,which could be erected
:pa Irma° e les sr a whicht
hsr and°°LATEST FROM ABROAD.
Private accounts from Odessa lead to the belief $
ed that these huts would be better suited fur hos- —... -__
111 buildings. He hoped the government would
any fake economy, stint the number of hut" which that Prince Gortchakoff is preparing for a grand
roast out • and theought to haprovided to go-
, y
to at least 5,000 men. He would suggest that we • 1 i
state the French system and send home as many Orders have been sent from St. Petersburg to take
e possible. The very fact of their going home bad
ect on their spirits and health. But, at the same the place at any cost. General Pawloffs corps, stand-
veld be necessary to make better arrangements in ing between Eu t •
and S' h I has been
pa ona imp eropo ,
ports in which they were conveyed. The transport
be almost entirely under the control of the medial reinforced by an entire cavalry division sent by way
ith regard to what they thought necessary for the
He had heard, and be hoped it was not only as of Perekop, a park of artillery has followed it, and •
our, that the government meant Osend out a me. heavy convoys of provisions are daily moving along
r to'Eupatoria with the force under 0 11141"
her with that under General Cannon.s
That wari; the same route. General Read, lately acting as
per and humane proceeding. He hoped that some Commander-in-Chief at Georgia, is to take the tom-
sent would be made (pr consulting the physicians
resided long and practised in the East with regard mend of this special army.—Daily News.
leases peculiar to the climate. The hon. gentleman
'planted of the way in which the offers of service
medical men had been treated by the War-office, The Moniteur of yesterday states that the Viceroy
ight the effect would be to discourage their assist-
Chore was now a civil hospital at Smyrna, which of Egypt has remitted to the Bank of France the
' •
be in the hands of • most trustworthy person, and
td that an injurious rivalry might spring up funds necessary for paying the first coupon of the
that hospital and the military hospital Turkish
loan, due April 10, 1855.
an, unless care was taken to prevent en
proportion of the worst and most hopeless
ing given to either one or the other. In the setae- (iv INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH VIA THE RAOUL)
be person in authority at Scutari, a man should be
rho would attend to that point and deal with it ju-
t.He had put all these questions, of which he had
listto the honourable gentleman, in no spirit of hos- The Volksthing has unanimously passed a bill to
the government, and he had been in communication impeach all the former Minister', and has directed .
subject with Mr. Hawes, with whom he was ae-
I, and he could only say that all the information he proceedings to commence immediately.—Daily News.
I relating to the hospitals should be freely at the
of the Warce -offi. He would now allude to
er nearer hems. He was sorry to hear
he honourable gentleman that it was not THE NEWSPAPER STAMP.
I to remove the sick soldiers who came _....
om the Crimea from the Casemate Barracks at St. FOR the sake of the public quite u much as of
Chatham. Since be received that answer from the
batmen he hod bun there, and he could say that ourselves, we are unfeignedly rejoiced that the quest-
hog bad been dons by the authorities to make the don of the Newspaper Stamp is at length about to
'comfortable, and the soldiers certainty liked them, be
tonstruetion of the building enabled them to be all We certainlyregarded it •
settled.
r. But the ventilation was so bad, and the confined that, in these days of commercial freedom, we should
se night was so impure, that he should be glad to be subjected to restrictions from which every other
ma the hon. gentleman that arrangements had been
to remove the men from these barracks. He
class in the community is exempt. No one ever
ow come to the conclusion of his inquiries imagined that newspaper proprietors were a set of
hon. gentleman, and he hoped that he would be es
d free in his answers. Persons all over the country • - -111 who undertook—no matter whether
uh'l ItnthrOfs. te
siting with the deepest interest to know how the at a considerable loss to themselves—to furnish the
meat was arranging for the preservation of the public with a very valuable commodity. A news- I
at of our army, and preparing to meet the new class
we
which the change of season would bring with it, paper is a commercial speculation. We invest a
NW
whether they had gained experience from the large amount of capital in the undertaking,
rs which had occurred, and were better prepared
lair predecessors with matured plans which would and we expect to reap a certain amount of I
the country and save the reaniat of our army is the profit. We profess to supply our readers every
a. (Hear. hear.) morning with a picture of the world around them.
F. PEEL replied upon all the points presented by
Cafford, describing the condition of the camp hospitals, At no small outlay of money, we employ active and
tablishments at Balaklays, Scutari, and Smyrna, as intelligent correspondents in every quarter of the
s that of the transports employed in conveying tire
I soldiers. The number of the sick, though ding. if Ourlabour never ceases. When other men
lobe.
i lately, still remained very high, but their state and Dave done their day's work, all is life and activity
sent had undergone much amelioration from the ar- within the office of a morning journal. A Member
menu recently made by order of the government for
urpose.
of Parliament rambles through a dreary speech at .
i
count PALMERSTON said there could be no duty night,
and wakes to find himself an orator. An
incumbent upon the government than to take effectual
ins for the recovery end care of those brave and event takes place at a distance of a thousand miles, •
it men who had either suffered in actual conflict with and, by means of the electric telegraph, we inform
remy, or whose constitutions had been impaired by the
the public of the fact within a few hours of its occur-
tire incident to service. (Hear, hear.) •He could - • ~.,
s the house that his noble friend at the head of the rence. whatever be the subjects which occupy the 1
Department felt this to be one of the most important public mind, we furnish faithful comments, and con-
s which he had to perform. Besides the different .
are which had been detailed by his hon. friend, he tribute, in no small degree, to the formation of public
i Penmen) had already sent out three very
.distin- opinion. In return for these benefits, which, in
led civilians, who had made it their study to mowed-
pursuit indeed of private gain, we conferred upon
all the circumstances connected with sanitary arrange-
ia. Those gentlemen were, Dr. Sutherland, Dr. Gavin, the community, we have hitherto, as every one knows,
had filled a similar office in the West Indies, and Mr. been called upon to pay a tax in the shape of a
linson, the civil engineer. They were all gentlemen
to highest attainments with regard to the subjects to stamp duty.
h their attention was to be directed. The specific object This impost is now, we trust, to be abolished.
which they had gone out was precisely one of those 1 I
era to which the honourable gentleman (Mr. Stafford) Last night the House of Commons agreed to the
adverted, namely, those arrangements of hospitals, bar- resolutions proposed the other day by the CHANCEL-
1, and transports, upon which depended the questions
LOH o
:lines' or of health. (Hear, hear.) The purpose for f the EXCHEQUER, whose object is to
11 they hideous out was to examine all the hospitals at give unfettered action to the press of this country:
ari, Constantinople, Selektive, and the camp, and to If these resolutionsproprietors
become law, the of •
•
cat such measures as might be essential for placing '•
e buildings in • condition best suited for the object to public journals will henceforth enjoy the same ad-
di they were devoted. He (the noble viscount) had eantages, no greater and no less than persons en-
telf written to Sir Stratford Canning, Lord William
let, and Lord Raglan, recommending those gentlemen gag
gaged in any other commercial pursuit. The principle
'fir particular care and protection, and desiring that of the proposed measure has already been sanctioned
Over they might point out as necessary for the sick .,....W• All class journals—all journals, that is,
ht at once be carried into effect; and that, in spite of by ......--
professional jealousy. or any prolesaiooal obstacles, which are purely literary or professional, and do not . )
lever they recommended should be forthwith done. contain any article of public news—are already exempt
at, hear.) Whether it depended upon the ~
the stamp except in that portion of their 1
kish government or upon our own service, no obstacle from
to be placed in the way of effecting such circulation which is transmitted through the Poet- '
ages in the arrangements as those gentlemen might
office In other words, they enjoy all the privileges
it out as neeessary. (Hear.) He (Lord Palmerston) - •
Id only hope that when these distinguished gentlemen of the law, and do not suffer from its restrictions.
aid have arrived at the different stations—should have Thus it is that Punch, the Atheneum, and several
mined these places, and should have pointed out the
~
weekly ' Isold in Lowden and lse-
urns s, are
ages, which they thought necessary, a great improve- other 3O
at would take place in the health of those persons who where, at the cost of a penny Ices than when they are
re the objects of their care. (Cheers.) transmitted through the Post. According to the pro- •
1 •
lot. KNOX suggested that some rule should be laid
en in the first instance as to wounds that should be bind. posed law, all public journals will be placed in the
in reference to the pensioa allowed on account of them. same position. Aportion of their circulation will be
.resent it war not an uncommon circumstance for an
while that portion
war returned as seriously or dangerously wounded, but unites:aped, which passes through
to recovered by the aid of a good constitution to here- the Post-office will come under the provisions of the
ied the necessary certificate by the board of examination
which is now about to be partially re-
re to entitle him to the rate of pension in proportion to the
stamp law,
tun of those wounds. While other officers who were peeled. We do not think that any serious opposition
turned as slightly wounded obtained • higher rate of pen•
can be raised against this bill. The only objection
n if it happened that when they attended for examination
for
• appeared probably from the weakness of their coati- urged last night
was by Sir FRANcts BARING, who
tion to be is a bad state of health. He thought too some contended that, in this day, it was unwise to
;proved arrangement should be made for greeting pensions' I
r wounds to non-commissioned officers also. throw away any portion o
f the public revenue. But
Captain DtiNCOMBE urged the necessity of making what, after all, will this loss amount to? Why,
se provision for the comfort of the wounded on board the vets the CHANCELLOR of the R —XCIIEQUER estimated
ro vessels to which the hon. gentleman (Mr. Peel) had e il
laded. He ales ezpremed an opinion that Scutari was not it at not more than 200,0001. a year ! Not a quarter
i unhealthy place. se much as has been wasted by our Government during
i
Captain JOCELYN PERCY said • few words, which
ere inaudible in the gallery. He was understood to cow months by gross miemanagement. Here
the last two
lain of the want of medical officers in the British army in we are engaged in a gigantic war, for the conduct of ,
to Crimea as compared with the French. which we vote million after million with as little
After a few words in esplanation from Mr. Pau.,
Mr. KINNAIRD, referring to the deficiency of chap- thought as children throw pebbles into the sea, and '
$
ins in our forces and at the hospitals, inquired whether ..__ w..
ow r BANC'S BARING gravely argues that to abolish I 11
sy provision had been made to send oat an additional !, ,I"
an unjust tax of less than a quarter of a
umber ?
Mr. PEEL Intimated that additional cliaplai" were million a year is not to be thought of for
bout to be 'entrust to the hospitals at Scutari and Smyrna ; .
one moment. It would appear as it newspaper pro-
red with regard to the army generally, the subject of pro-
idiog additional chaplains would be considered. prie • tors paid no other tax, or as if they inflicted some
SUPPLY. special wrong on the community, for which they de-
The house having resolved itself into committee, special punishment. If the demands of
A vote of 1,638,0001. for the expenses of the Post-office served some
was proposed, and agreed to, after considerable discussion war require greater sacrifices than we have hitherto
ipon the Irish branch of the postal service. made, let us know it at once, and we will bear our
The house then resumed.
BURIAL GROUND (SCOTLAND) BILL. share. But let us not be the victims of injustice,
This bill was read a second time. for the sake of a few paltry thousands, and a still more
The other orders were then disposed of, and the house
paltry precedent. If the thing that is be wrong, let
idjourned at one o'clock.
it be done away at once. We have laid the greater
stress upon this objection, became Sir FRANCIS ,
POSTAL PRIVILEGES OF NEWSPAPERS. BARING appeared to find a considerable number
oon .
f
----of the 0 .ti.
the ranks pposi
supporters among
TO TEI EDITOR or TEI DAILY NEWS. Once for all, we earnestly protest against this
SIR,—I anxiously desire to see the newspaper question being turned into one of party.
stamp abolished, but I have no objection to give newspapers It concerns not the House of Commons a
the benefit of espyright--for justice is justice.
whit more than the community at large. No man
we neednot trouble ourselves about those
But on the principle of justice, why is as much postage to .
be paid by those who take in your little Express as by those of sense, in these i
who take the DAN News? Government an
the Poet- Press, and
• days, objects to the freedom of the
office need not be afraid of the trouble el dailies is small who thick that injury
sums, in order to be just, and exacting only one halfpenny talligent expression of
for papers of the weight of the Express. apprehend is done by the full and in.
If any
public opinion. persona
that the partial abolition of the newspaper
I az:
Mate"
ta
haws
the abolition
of the
stamp as Ican a p will inundate the country with publications of
et
it,
hut
I believe
a -sal and
' - have
bebeno have charged—
One halfpenny for 4 os.; Penny, 3 es.; and halfpenny,
a& additional 2 tie I am, &c., tertain no such fears. What the public
will still prefer to pa
. f celor a good
- • 3ournal con-
KNOWLIIDGI-SPREADER. paper, and we are ... . liapi . g • I
I (We hear much of whet the newspopen, or rather wiz: tae . - • ". those already
taining original .. . ,
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mei
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1 one newspaper wants, with reference to the postal pri -I_,ablishea. 14 •' s
, hire of aewspapeas. We publish the above ea an indica- ww• ..: , .—•
While WO are so .J • L . idUANCELLOR 1
i 1 lion of what the public want, a • • oonsiderat3ea which we .141 >3- ~,, ii.
g humbly massive le Owl entitled. W
ems MMIHSOIL. Fof the ElcEsquo ••I, , • • lob he pro.
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