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The Express.
London, England, 1855-12-27

RETURN OF GENERAL DR LA MARK(

A letter from Turin of the 21st, in the Onside-
timed, says:
4, A great mosation has been caused here by the
annomosment of the immediate return of General
de la Marmon. He left the Crimea on the 18th,
and is to pass some days here before going to Paris.
Although thus far the Piedmonts troops have net
taken a very brilliant part in the war, owto the
mat of eppeetunity, their bearing, ' ow
ealepommlN sed bravery have obtained fat
them- steMes of esteem from all quieten.
the Piedgeontese soldiers haveve enryjoyed
lilmrtisess a rod retation for bra and
eeduresto of fatigue, theme devotedness and Wm
which they displayed in the Crimea are du
he a great pert to the general who commands
them. The general has iespired the whole army
with the greatest acinfidence, and it fully relies is
him not only to lead it in battle, but to it
with all the Bemoans§ of lifer aoeordi be
occupies himself most minutely with all that en-
ema the clothing and food of the soldier. The
reception which General de la Mermen will eittaie
Mrs will therefore be brilliant, and we are Revd
that he should have been able to
is him in the mind, of the MenhaliaUtiler and of
the Emperor Nopeleon. . . The Morris
M. Ratti-Opissoel, and 'all the gentlemen se the
Sardinian Lorna' at Florence, with the mespdee
of the young stfultes, Cavalehini and Cuati, who
an destined for other posts, are at present at Goma,
and are to embark for Florence after Christmas. •
Tuscan legation is also about to be immediately
rsestablished at Turin."
London, England, 1855-12-27

REJOICINGS AT ST. PETERSBURG.

Le Nord publishes the following letter:
" ST. PETERSBURG, Dic. 17..
"Yesterday morning, in the court chapel, and in
all the churches of the capital, a Ti Dnon WU 0111.
heated for the tales of Kars. In the afternoon the
flags taken from the enemy were paraded through
the principal streets attended by an immenss con•
course of people. The news has elated all hearts, foe
there is no one among us who does not know the
political and military importance of this conquest,
which gives us an excellent position in Asia, and ea
excellent base for further operations, renders us mas-
ters of all the country between Brzetonm and the
Persian frontier, covers our frontiers completely,
and sets free from 30,000 to 40,000 men, either to
march against Omer Fuchs, or to move forward.
situation of Omer Pacha is very precarious. We
know what the Black Sea is in winter, and how dry- •
cult an operation is that of re-embarking a body d
London, England, 1855-03-01

SWIITZERLAND.

The canton of Geneva, by the vote of its Grand
Council, has resolved on a complete separation of
church and state, and its committee is preparing s
bill under which the ecclesiastical property belong.
log to the protestant church is to be dibtribated
Ilamong the protestant communes, except that which
has been applied to the establishment of the Bank of
Geneva and the Mortgage Bank. The most active
supporters of this measure have been the catholic',
II whose numbers have of late years greatly increasedia
the canton, thanks to the new laws favouring iman•
gration and settlement.
London, England, 1855-03-01

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LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 1.

LATEST
NEWS FROM ABROAD

[BY CONTIRIXTAL VILLIGLA2P.]
PAMS, TIIIIRSDAL
The iloniteur of to-day contains the following,

"EIIPATORIA, FBI. 21.
" Since the 17th inst. no further attack has been
made by the Russians.
" The defences of the town are in very good order.
" The Russian army has withdrawn with its ar-
tillery in the direction of Simpheropol."

TRIESTE, WZDNZSDAT.

Baron Bruck is expected here to-day.
Intelligence has been received from Constantinople
which states that serious disturbances have taken
place at Aleppo.
The English camp before Sebastopol has been
partly evacuated, and the troops have withdrawn
towards Balaklava.

By the Overland Mail we receive news from
Australia. The disturbances in the gold-fields assume
a serious aspect.

In Melboume martial law has been declared.

An English cavalry regiment from Bombay his
arrived at Cairo on its way to the Crimea.

The Moniteur of yesterday contains the following
despatch :
" CONSTANTINOPLE, Fan. 19.
"General Niel leaves this place to-morrow, on his
return to the Crimea.

"The Asmodee, Aigle, Ulloa, and several mer-
chant steamers, arrived yesterday and the day before
with troops on board, from Africa or France.
1 "The Prince Jer6me, having the Hercule in tow,
has been sighted off the heights of Matapan, when
she was making good way.
"M. de Koller arrived yesterday, and M. de Bruck
embarks to-day for Trieste.
"The situation of our army was excellent as late
u the day before yesterday."—Daily News.

COPENHAGEN, FEB. 28.

To-day, the Landsthing passed on the third read-
ing the bill for effecting an alteration in the funda-
mental law.

The Finance Minister brought in a bill for an ex-
tension of the English railroad to Jutland.—Daily
Nom

NEW ZEALAND.

(MOM T 3

DINT 07 TIN DAILY NEWS.)
PLYMOUTH, WEDNILIDAT.

The Sabrina, barque, which left Auckland October
29, arrived off this port to-day, bound for London.
She brings a cargo of spars, gum, and wool, and
several thousand sovereigns from the Union Bank at
Auckland.

The colony continues to make satisfactory progress.
Artisans of every trade are in great request, es also
domestic servants.

Several extensive purchases of land have been
made, at 10s. per acre, by parties leaving Port Phillip
foe that purpose.
Provisions were very dear, and wages high.
London, England, 1855-03-01

SUPPRESSION OF TRAFFIC IN INTOXICATING

DRINKS.

A public meeting, convened by the committee of the
Birmingham Auxiliary to the United Kingdom Alliance for
the Legislative Suppression of the Traffic in all lutoxi-
catirg Drinks, and the admission to which was by ticket,
was held in the Town-hall, Birmingham, on Tuesday even-
ing, when a deputation from the general council attended
to explain the principles and objects of the Alliance. There
was a very large attendance, the hall being densely crowded
in every part by about S,OOO persons. M. I). Ball, EN., the
Recorder, occupied the chair. There were also present
Messrs. R. T. Cadbury, Joseph Sturge, B. Cedbury, J. Cad-
bury, A. Bird, W. Morgan, J. Johnson, J. Barrett, J. R.
Bayee, Rev. W. Landells, and many other friends of the tem-
perance movement. The Rev. J. Bardeley, of Manchester,
Mr. J. Simpson, of Manchester, and Mr. S. Pope, attended
as a deputation. The rising of the chairman was the signal
for a general tumult, and be was scarcely able to
give utterance to half-a-dozen words without interruption.
A resolution affirming that vice and drunkenness exist in
proportion to the number of public houses and the facilities
for obtaining intoxicating drinks, and that the only effectual
remedy for those evils would be found in the suppression of
those fatal facilities, was moved by Mr. R. T.Cadbury with-
out comment.—Mr. J. Simpson seconded the resolution.—
Mr. Bunton, who addressed the meeting from the side
gallery, moved au amendment, " That this meeting views
with indignation the continued attempts that are being
made by the friends of extreme temperance to curtail the
rights, liberties, and comforts of the middle and working
classes, and believes that the hest and surest mode of ele-
vating the people is by giving them a sound and practical
education."—The amendment was seconded by Mr. Watson,
who addressed the meeting from the side gallery.—
The chairman rose to put the propositions to the
meeting, and stated his intention to put the ori-
ginal proposition first, which excited much ditsatis-
faction among the audience who heard his statement.—On
the motion being put, a large livaber of hands were held up
for it, as also tot the amenchnefft, which was afterwards put.
—The Chairman, in announcing his decision, said be was'
clearly of opinion that the original proposition was carried.
—The announc.ment was received with cheering, groans,
hisses, and other discordant noises. In fact, throughout the
, w hole proceedings the hall presented a scene of tumult (ap-
proaching to something of a more serious character) which it
would be impossible to describe ; certainly the like has not
been witnessed in it for years. Not a single speaker was
heard, and, but for the attendance of a strong body of
police, riot might have ensued. Msny of the windows of
the hall were broker), and several fights took place. Several
of the disturbers were taken into custody and brought before
the magistrates yesterday.
London, England, 1855-03-01

EXTRAVAGANT EXPENDITURE IN OUR
GOLD COLONIES.

Tax phrase, "as the old birds sung so the young
ones chirp," expresses proverbially and emphatically
the resemblance which continues from generation to
generation amongst men as well as birds. Family
likenesses are found in morals as in physic,. Oar
cousins across the Atlantic have carried with them
our corruption as well as our energy; and, if their
ships excel ours, their office-holders are at once more
rapacious, more numerous, more thoroughly party
men than ours, and do less, it is said, for their money
than the least efficient of the members of our own
Civil Service. Extravagance has ruined successively
almost every state in Europe, bringing on bankrupt-
cies and convulsions. This terrible vice or habit he.
buss snesseedilly carried to the other hemisphere,'
eael Is Ifielseta and other Australian colonies news
likely to surpass in its effects the worst extravagance
of Europe. Some of our latest accounts from the
Pacific inform us that the police establishments of
Victoria cost 48,3621. per annum, or a tax for police
alone of something more than 31. per head for every
man, woman, and child in the colony. The gaols of
the colony coat 65,0311., or more than 3a. 6d. per
bead; and, besides this, the penal establishments,
stockades, and hulks, as they are called, cost, in-
cluding the coroners (the charge for whom was
10,8081.),189,4001. ; the military, too, puts the colony
to an expense of 142,0951. ; making the charges
for the magistracy and its operations, and the
military and its services, amount to 433,1831.,
for a colony that is not supposed yet to possess more
than 300,000 persons. These sums together make
the rate of taxation for the ordinary duties of police
and defence, in a time of peace and prosperity, about
11. 10s. per bead for every person in the colony. We
do not care to state the matter by pennies and far-
things, because the population is an uncertain num-
ber, but our round statement is within bounds; and
if we bad nothing further to state, we have already
said enough to show that the worst extrava-
gance of the BOURBONS before the Revolution is sur-
pepped by the sober English oa the shores of the
Pacific.

The °harps we bays oopied are from the estimates'
London, England, 1855-03-01

RUSSIAN PREPARATIONS IN THE BALTIC.

Letters from Riga and Revel of the 19th ult. sped
of extraordinary preparations in Finland for the Tic.
Walling of large masses of Russian troops. Abo,
Sweaborg, Helm n gfors, and the other towns which may
Dave to submit to a siege by sea or land are to receive
provisions also for 18 months; the clutracto,s ea.
gaging to deliver the various articles by the 10th
instant.

General Geroffski has been charged with the erg*
nisation of the regiments of Baskin.
The Grand Duke Constantine, Admiral of the
Fleet, has been actively engaged during the last few
weeks in tours of inspection to the various maritime
military establishments, in order to assure hieneelf
personally of their actual state. A grand inspection
was to be made by him on the Ist, of the Tarim a*
rine battalions of the flotillas organised last yearfor
the defence of the aides of the Gulfs of Bothnia and
Finland.
London, England, 1855-03-01

MARKETS.

COTTON.—Livaarooi, V. 28.—The market closed heavily, with.
out any mar►ed decline in prices. The sales were 6,000 bales-500
for export—including 250 Peru= and Ilaranham, at bid. to 6id ;
500 kgyption,: at bid. to 71d.; 700 Burst, at 9d. to lid.; and 100
boa Islands, at Od. to 14.1 d. per lb. Impala since Thursday, 150,000
bales.

CORN. —Broesroa.orr-Tern, Fag. 28.—The supply of grain to this
day's market from the growers was large. Wheat met a good de-
mand at the full prices of this day week. Barley slow vale. Oats
without change. Beans le. to as. per qr. dearer, with a good demand.
Bulling peas in request.
Dtteus, Fae. 27.—There was an increased supply of all desalts.
tions of grain at our Corn Exchange to-day, and the freshet was ex•
trtmely dull. Wheat was 6d., barley dd. to lid., and oats ad. to 6d.
cheaper than on Friday ; and even at these reductions business to
any extent could not be done. :Annan corn very difficult of sale, and
Is. cheaper.

CAME.—Rostrozn, Fie. 2S.—We had at our market to-day a
short supply of stook, and all about the awe price as last week, except
.eat, which is a very heavy terde, and cheaper. Beef. 3s. ed. to
4s. 10d. Mutton, Ss. dd. to 4s. 10d. Veal, Is. 6d. to 46. 6d. Pork,
Ss. 4d. to la Bd.

4orroait, Pc B. :S.—Trade was slow to-day. The beet qualities of
beet and mutton brought rather more money. Veal BOW at lower
rates. Supplies were light. Beef made from 2s. to 4s. 10d. Mutton,
Is. led. to de. Veal, Se. 1 d. to Ss. Poch, M. 4d. to 4s. Gd. per atone
of elbs., Woking the offal.

POTATOES.—The following were the prises of potatoes yesterday
at the market established at the King'werom Railway Terrotnus :
Scotch reds, per ton, 100 s. to Wis.; Scotch Regents, 1004. to 1204.;
York Regents, i ss. to 1305.; Lineolnshire Regents, 1004. to 1305.;
lledfirdt hire Regents, 110 s. to 1405. Supplies larger; trade rather
better. Total weight received this week, 1,809 ions.

AMERICAN MARKETS.—Nzw Yozz, FEB. 12
Tee rates of Interest on demand money, loan•, and of discount on
prime short paper are (nit 1 per cent. cheaper than last week, say 6
par sent, on tie Ent, and 7 to d per cent. on the last. On second.
dem arms the enewunts are still very irregular. Foreign exchange,
intim! net active, Is in moderate demand, and the qaotations oa
Imen a ern ens steady, at 109} to 109 S. The cotton market has
bees ss.ptetely unsettled by the tenor of the European news, and
pilros ira inclining downward. The markets tar breadstuff@ r•
London, England, 1855-03-01

THIS DAY.—Two o'CLom

The English stock market remains firm, and prices
are quoted at a further rise of 1 per cent. Console
have been dealt in at 911 to :. and are now quoted
91: to I for the Bth inst., and 911 for money. The
Three per Cents. Reduced have been dealt in at
91: to I; the New Three per Cents. at 91: to 92 ;
Exchequer Bills (June) at 6s. to 91. prem.; and
India Bonds at 11s. to 14s. prem.
Foreign stocks are firm. Turkish has advanced to
761 to t. Russian Five per Cents. are quoted 96 to
98 ex div.; nish Deferred Three per Cents., 17:
to 18; and • , 201 to 211. Paulin Four-
London, England, 1855-03-01

PIEDMONT.

In its sitting of the 23rd, the Chamber of Deputies
at Turin having resumed the debate on the Convents
Suppression Bill, rejected the amendment of M. Ito.
becchi, tending to the total suppression of all con•
vents, an amendment which bad been opposed by
the President of the Council, the Minister of Justice,
and the reporter of the committee, on the ground
that the bill went far enough u it stood. The dis-
cussion of the articles was to be continued in the
following sitting.
London, England, 1855-03-01

Without elluge.

CITY COMMISSION OF SEWERS.—Yesterday a court
was held for the despatch of public business ; Mr. Deputy
Peacock occupied the chair. A communication was read
from the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for
Trade, stating that the French government were desirous of
having exhibited, at the approaching international exhibi-
tion, plans or models illustrating the sanitary works of our
large cities, and requesting the chief clerk to bring the
subject before the cemmissioners, with a view to obtain
their opinion as to whether they would be willing to ex-
hibit a selection of such works as might illustrate the metro-
politan sewerage. The Engineer said it would take two
months to get up plans, &c., of the huger sewers, because
they must be done handsomely. The expense would be
some hundreds, and three or four persons must be engaged
to assist. Deputy Aitcheson —And what advantage should
we derive from it? The Engineer—lt would be no ad-
vantage to us, but it would be to Paris end other large
towns. Deputy Bower said it would be a benefit to
humanity to send to the exhibition whatever they could
in connexion with the subject, as it was said there was a'
great deficiency of sewerage in Paris and the large towns
of France. Atter some further discussion, the Engineer
was directed to ascertain what the Metropolitan Commis-
'loners were doing in the matter and to report thereon.

PEACE MEETING AT MANCH-WM—A meeting,
convened by private circular, was held at the offices of the
Peace Society, Newall'e-buildings, Manchester, at seven
o'clock on Tuesday evening, " to consider the general policy
and the commercial and social effects of the present war.'
The circular bore the signatures of Mears. Geo. Wilson,
IL H. Gregg, Thos. Thomason, Wm. Rawson, Edmund
Ashworth, W. B. Watkins, Wm. Harvey, Wm. Bickhams
and Sir Elksoah Armitage, and, in addition to these gen,
tiemen, about 70 to 80 others were present. No resolution-
were proposed, the chairman explaining the object of the
meeting to be "to prepare the public mmd for the conclu-
sion of the negotiations." The speakers, besides the chair-
man, were Mr. R. H. Gregg, who argued that Russia could
net give &material guarantee, and that the fall of Sebastopol
would be a hindrance to peace; by Mr. Thee. Thomason,
of Bolton ; and by Mr. B. Ashworth. of Tartan. The latter
gentleman expressed a fervent hope that "we should be
satisfied with the war successes already gained."

Hitherto a letter sent from Edininrg h toPleet-etreet,
Loudon, upwuds of 400 miles distant, OM calzz spoof ; but
if that letter was afterwards redirected *ea Pieet.Cnet to
Hackney, another charge of a penny was aerie. This charge
has now been abolished. Letters »disused by the Post.
office authorities from any plea in a postal dietricttreo
ean
redeiother place in the same district us not liable to
rates of postage.
London, England, 1855-03-01

POOR LAW.

Mr. BAINES moved that the following be the select com-
mittee epos poor removal : Mr. Baines, Sir John Trollops,
Mr. Ingham, Mr. Liddell, Mr. Locke King, Mr. Dunlop,
Lord Moho, Mr. Stirling, Mr. Archibald Hustle, Mr. Alex.
Hestia, Mr. George Alexander Hamilton, Sir Robert Fer-
guson, Mr. John Ball, Mr. Maguire, and Mr. De Fen.
On the motion of Mr. BAIN'S, the following Mums
were ordered :—Pour-law medical damn ; eosin of gene-
ra order of the Poor-law Board, dated the 15th day of
February, 1855, vegetating the tenure of office b poor-law
medical ufficen in Eoglstol and Wales, and of the MOW.
pan, iog circular letter, addressed to the several beards of
guardians.
UNION OF BENEFICES.

Mr. FREWEN obtained leave to bring in a bill to altar
and amend two sets of her preeiat Majesty, so fuss relates
M the anion of benelims, and fur the better amnia, the re-
sidual of the clergy, and also to promote the building of
church,. aad chapels in certain eases.
London, England, 1855-03-06

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.

Anglnes, from London for Melbourne, Oct. 9, lat. 5 N., lon. 24 W.
Ant (0. 1.), from Belfast for Melbourne, Oct. 22, lat. 4 N., los. 23 VI,
Cbarles Kerr, Thompson, from Cardiff for Adel de, 33 days oA
0.39 N., lon. 28.40 W.
Huron (brig), from Glasgow for Adelaide, Jan. 5, lat. 2.18 N., lea.
22.29 W.
Jeml :der (?), from Sydney, Non. 13, lat. 1 8., lon. 89 E.
Moje•tic, from Calcutta for London, Fes. 14, lat. 2f.22 N., 1011.
89.30 W.
Priam, from Glasgow for Melbourne, Jan. 4, lat. f, N., lon. 29 W.
Paterson (a.). from Greenock for Port PhUlip, Feb. 23, teL 44.2914.,
lon. 14.21 W.

NEWSPAPERS FOR THE Ctw&&.—ln Janney last
(soya the Hertford Mercury) we published an ioterrstiog
letter, written by a young soldier in the Crimea to his
mother, to whom he wrote in terms of great affection, en-
closing her 2/. as a Christmas gift, and asking her ti for'
ward an illustrated newspaper. The letter, with some
comments of our own, was copied into the Daily New,
where it attracted the attention of the Dowager Lady Molt-
sou, who wrote to us making some inquiries about William
Bradley and his family, nod adding that she should te
" most glad to send an illustrated newspaper, or anything
eke, to a soldier who wrote inch a letter to lila mother."
We furnished the required information ; and we have sine*
received a second letter from Lady Monson, requesting na
to " inform William Bradley's mother" that she had for-
warded to him by private hand a small box containing
"two small Dutch cheeses, some tobacco and pipes, two
bottles of gin, some German sausages, some writing Paper,
awl a box of strong peppermint lozenges." Lady Wawa
added that a newspaper shall be occasionally sent to
William Bradley ; and she hes permitted us to mention her
unostentatious kindness, "to show that gooduees and
b y meet nut alone with general but with individual
sympathy."
[Advertisement.):— HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND
PILIA *AGAIN SUCCISEIWL CURING A BAD Lvo.—Mr. E. Waaoisol
Dylite Mines, Mactlyniletb, Mates that a friend of his, in Finish"
antlered for two years with a dreadful bad leg, which deft• d dic efforts
of several persons to cure, notwithstanding various r. medics were
tried. lie endured excruciating pain for )several months. and when
paying him u ilsit he recommended him to use tioilordy'.ototniem
end Pills, from the effects of which a change for the ceder was
quickly produced, and ultimately his leg was soundly cured. tte
now eildys excellent health. Mr. Williams will satisfy any party°
the truth of this statement-3°W by all dealers in medicine, and a
Professor Hollewat's Establishments, 244, Strand, London; and W
Maiden.l.ne, New York.
London, England, 1855-03-06

MINCING•LANE.-THIS DAY.

St/GAIL—The public sa/es are going off steadiPy, but the
imp° ►olding for rather higher prices a portiou has
been bought in. The refined market firm, without alter-
ation in prices; brown lumps, 425. ad. ; grocery, 43r. to
49e.

COFFEE.—About 1,500 bags native Ceylon sold by privet*
contract at 465. 61., which was a slight advance. The pub..
lie sale of plantation Ceylon is going off at very full prices.
TEA.—A large amount of bupineu was done yesterday is
common congou at , and also in fine new congest, at
high pricer.
Rica.-2,500 bags of good white Bengal sold at 13.. 6d.
to 14.. 6d.; a few lots 15.., which showed a decline of fully
3d. 5,000 hags Machu were offend and bought in at 134.6 ff.
Rost.—The market remains inactive.
COTTON.—No salts of importance reported.
London, England, 1855-03-06

'G, MARCH 6, I*.

-
Herm= add *teas a outdo degree tree, that when they
ll= test et n ggetieular qualifintion Se a pertisulor
t they lake sere sox. So apply a test tint
TrileV'—pEcable So aer/blr metployesent, add that If they
• man wbit was required only to be a good moldier pass
renomination tit would fit himi; for theprofessional'
thkaod, h
lhonainalll wall be tak:erszroonr. furtsher porn:ordinal they.
ebeall be saddled that the Meer hod kept himself up in
11.1111./I"fie of hielnktilia. Re believed that the coot-
of qoalitrei irons made a good general was one of
Most linage diet estinned.la the moral end Intellectual
=“giits. It weenantel more likely one that they
s pot many mere sass who were fit to be good
dallenten then a muss rein ensil essamand great armies and
tehobal all the foresight amosesery for the proper perform-
ing, ei the duties attached to that situation. At the
ease time, it wee rosy' important that their of icon
should keep up and make 'program in their profession,
end if those slamiaatioas that had been alluded to were ex-
aminations that were intended to be tests of military know-
ledge, he thanykt it very desirable that that test should not
*oily to amend nee first entrains into the service, but
ollare should know that, unless they kept their minds
going, and perfected themselves in those matters which
were essential to the proper performance of their duties,
they would not again get that promotion which they were
desirous to obtain.
After a few words from Col. Knox,
Mr. RICH said, after the declarations made by govern-
ment, which were satisfactory in many respects, he would
not press the motion.
The motion was then withdrawn, and the house went into
committee.
ORDNANCE ESTIMATES.
The Ordnance estimates were brought forward by Mr.
Morrenti.
A prolonged discussion took place respecting the new
government manufactory for small arms at Enfield.
Mr. MUNTZ opposed the grant of money for that pur-
pose, and carried the question to a division, when the vote
(of 1,402,0001) for ordnance sines, dn., was proposed.
There appeared—
For the vote
Against it
Several other votes were agreed to, and et a quarter to
one o'clock the house resumed.
The report of the Committee of Supply was brought up
and agreed to.
NEWSPAPER POSTAGE AND STAMP DUTIES
BILL.

The second reading of tills 1;11;as postponed until Friday.
TEA DUTIES DECLINE SUSPENSION BILL.
This bill was read a mooed War.
MUTINY BILL.
This bill pulsed through committee.
PURCHASERS' PROTECTION AGAINST JUDG-
MENTS.

This bill was read a second rims.
SECRETARIES AND UNDER-SECRETARIES OF

STATE BILL.
This bill was read a second time.
ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS BILL.
This bill pawed through committee.
Some unoppos,d returns were ordered, and the house
adjourned at tire minutes after one o'clock.
London, England, 1855-03-06

LONDON WEEKLY DOCK It ETUll3lB.—MAarn 3.
I Imported. Delivered. Pr. Stock. 1354.

OW At, W. Indla e
Mauritius
Bengal atdadras
Foreign
kbrraz, W.I e
Mocha
Ceylon
COOOa,W.I

16,000
6,6 0
1,000

2,210
18,000
7,800
19,000
_1

11 600 0,900
114 600 75,000
82,000 161,000
2;2,0',..0 1188,000
393 420
8,908 12,500
41,000 78,000
3,100 9,890

Both W. India c

730
2.00

101
1,400

—iirelS 1 3:221
16,000 6,100

COTTON.—Livelroot, Yawn s.—The market closed with great
exitement, and prices of American qualities from Md. to Sd. per
lb. are 4d. and other qualities below " good " id. per lb. dearer.
Surat has also advanced id. per lb. since Friday. All other sorts
were without change. The salts estimated to-day at 20,000 bales
comprising 12,000 Americans (2,00 by exporters and 5,000 on specu-
lation); 300 Pernarn and Staranham. Gd. to old.; 150 Bahia, Sid. to
61d.; SOO Egyptian, at Sid. to dd.; 4,000 Bond, at 9d. to 4id.
(1,0 0 for export, and 2,000 on speculation); and 6.) Sea Wanda is
to 2s. Sd, par lb.

COALS.—Losmor, Mawr s.—Davimon's Weat Hartley, ;
Howard's West dude, Netherton, 18s. 6d.; Lonmidge's West
Hartley, 18s.; Ravemworth West Hartley, 18s. ; Tsnfleld Moor,
17a. ; Walker Primrose, 16s. 6d.; West Hartley Ctsy'e, 17e.;
Wylsm, 195.; Walls End Belmont, 195.; Walls Lad Haswell, 225.;
Cowpeo,
London, England, 1855-03-06

THE NEW RETURN OF NEWSPAPER
STAMPS.
The return of newspaper stamps just issued gives
the following results:
Pint Quarter. Second Quarter.
Daily News . 319,191 346,044
Morning Herald . 303,000 299,000
Morning Poet . . 205,000 226,000
Morning Chronicle . 162,500 186,000
Express . . 177,133 198,369
Globe . . . 176,000 196,000
Sun . . . . 168,000 192,000
Standard . . . 103,000 104,000
London, England, 1855-03-06

REPORTED DEATH OF THE GRAND DUKE

MICHAEL

(BS SIIBUABIN3 TILZORAPH.)

VIENNA, Mowomr.

News is transmitted from Varna that the Grand
Dake Michael, brother of the new Czar, has been
killed before Sebastopol.—Doily News.

SERIOUS ILLNESS OF THE KING OF
DENMARK.
(BY lIIIIINARINB AND BRITISH TELEGRAM)
COPENHAGEN, MONDAY.

The King is seriously ill ; the symptoms are alarm-
ing. The bulletins say that the cough is violent and
fever severe, with great restlevsnefs.
The Committee of the Volkething has resolved not
to admit the excess illegally charged on the national
budget by the late cabinet fur military, naval, and
other purposes. The ex-ministers are to be im•
peached.—Daily News.

The following appears in the Moniteur of yester-
day :

.
i, On Sunday, the Emperor, after visiting the
camps of Wimereux and Honvault, left Boulogne
for Paris, where his Majesty arrived at seven
o'clock."

TURIN, MARCH 4.

The ratifications of the treaties of alliance between
France, England, and Sardinia, were ex hanged this
day at one o'clock.—Daily News.

STUTTGART, MARCH 1

In its sitting of to-day, the Chamber of Deputies
voted by a large majority the three millions of florins
demanded by the Minister of War, inserting formally
into the law their request that the country should
adhere closely to the policy of Austria.—Daily News.
London, England, 1855-03-06

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.—OXFORD, Menn 5.
The commission was opened on Saturday afternoon by
Lord Chief Justice Campbell, who arrived in this city about
four o'clock in the afternoon, the other judge, Mr. Baron
Martin, being detained by assize business at Reading, and
did not reach Oxford until Sunday evening.
On Sunday morning Lord Campbell, accompanied by the
Vice-Chancellor and the High Sheriff, attended divine. ser-
vice at the University church, when an appropriate and
impressive sermon wu preached by the Hon. and Rev. H.
Villiers, M.A., Rector of Bloomsbury, London, and brother
to the Rail of Clarendon.
The bovines' of the Haire commenced this morning at 11
o'clock, Lord Campbell presiding in the crown court. and
Baron Martin in the nisi prime court. Lord Campbell ad-
drewed the grand jury, and congratulated them on their
large attendance, the lightness of the calendar, and the
euperio• accommodation provided for the judges in the new
lodgings, which, he said, were a credit to the county.
The grand jury have found a true bill against the Rev.
Dr. Giles, charged with having solemnised ' ge at an
uncanonical hour, before eight o'clock in the morning, and
having falsified the register. The cue comes on to-morrow
morning at nine o'clock.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.-LEICESTER, MARCH 5.
Mr. Justice Coleridge opened the commission for the
county and borough of Leicester, on Saturday morning, and
then proceeded to try the borough prisoners.

LAT* RAILWAY COLLISIONS AT TN' KNIGHTON
JUNCTION.

The grand jury ignored the bill against Joseph Pickering,
the driver of the down train, charged with the manslaughter
of Esther Cunningham Robinson (the widow of a clergyman
of Edinburgh), who was killed in a collision which took
place at the Knighton Junction of the Leicester and Burton
with the Midland Railways, in Novi mbar last. Another
collision, under precisely similar circumstances, was re-
ported in the Daily News of Wednesday last. The grand
jury recommended that the land lying between the two
les at the junction should be levelled.
In the case of Cornelius Asher, • herb doctor, who was
charged with the wilful murder of Elisabeth Fletcher, on
the 13th of February, by causing her death in attempting
to procure almartios, the grand jury ignored the bill for
wilful murder, but brought in one for manslaughter. The
defending counsel, Mr. O'Brien, applied for the cue to be
traversed to next assizes, on the ground that the public ex-
citement in the matter was so great that the prisoner would
not be able to obtain • fair trial. His lordship refused the
application, but granted that the case should be tried
by a county jury.
London, England, 1855-03-06

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

CASUALTIES.
(ET (ET ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

FALMOUTH, MONDAY.

Pat in, Harvey, from Shields for Aquinas, lost bulwarks,
boats, galley, water casks, and coppers. Last Tuesday,
lat. 46, lon. 8, fell in with the barque Syren, of South
Shields, abandoned, only two feet water ua her hold, had lost
bowsprit.

LIVERPOOL SHIPS AT FOREIGN Poste.—Enterprise,
Constantine, Universe, City of Brooklyn, Driver, Excelsior,
and Benjamin Adams, at New York; Serafina, at Manilla ;
Liberia, at St. John's, N. 8.; Frank Pierce, and Superior,
at Boston ; Isabella, Superior, Queen, and Margaret, at
Havre ; Wyoming and Nonpareil, at Pbiladelphia ; Bott(11.
lator, and Madras, at New Orleans; Veins, at Constantin-
ople; Imperador (s.s.), at Gibraltar.
London, England, 1855-09-08

ROME.

A letter from Rome, of the 28th ult., says As
the Pope was a few days ago taking a walk near the
Cavaleg¢ierl•gate, he met a number of convicts who
were being conveyed to the bagnes at Civita Vecchia;
they were tightly bound, and thrust into a narrow
cart, and, it was evident, suffered greatly from the
jolting of the vehicle. The Pope wu much affected,
and he cried out to a priest who accompanied him—
, What! Is that the way in which prisoners ere con-
veyed P' The day after his Hollows gave orders that
cellular vans, like these used in France and England,
should be constructed for the conveyance of pri-
soners."
London, England, 1855-09-08

METROPOLIS LOCAL MANAGEMENT ACT.

ST. MARTIN't3.IN-TIIE-FIELDS. Yesterday Mr.
Baugh Allen, one of the assessors appointed by Sir Geo.
Grey under the Metropolitan Local Management Aet,
attended at the Vestry-hall, for the purpose of carrying out
the provisions of the act. The churchwardens and overseers,
with Mr. peepedleld, the vestry clerk, Mr. Cobbett, Mr.
Daltoe,Mr. Lsbror,and the leading ratepayers of the parish
attended to afford every information. The vestry clerk
read the resolutions passed at the vestry meeting on Thurs-
day, and also handed to the teamed assessor the report of
the committee suggestieg the manner in which the parish
should be divided into three watch, to be called the west,
north, and south wards, consisting of 12 representatives
for each. Aft r consulting the statistical account of the
number of ratepayers and rateable property Meech district,
the assessor approved of the scheme recommended by the
committee, but made variout alterations in the boundaries.
The election of vestrymen fur each ward will not take place
until November.

ST GILLS IN THE FIELDS AND ST. GEORGE, BLOOIIa-
BURT.—Yeattrday Arthur John Wood, Esq., attended at
the Vestry Clerk's.‘ ffice for a similar uurpose. The vestry
clerk, churchwardens, and overseers (but only two or three
panshionew) were present. It appeared there was consi-
derable doubt whether there was a sufficient number of rate-
payers in the united parishes to autoonse the assessor in
dividing the parish into wards. The learned assessor had
to go through each district, a work of no ordinary labour.
The final decision was adjourned.
-

LAMBITH.—Yf sterday Mr. W. D. Cooper attended at the
Vest.y• hall of St. Mary, for the purpose of dividing the
parish into wards. The parish will be divided into bight
wards, consisting of 120 vestrymen. The wards will consist
of the Lower sod Upper Marsh Wsrds, Bishop's Liberty,
Prince's Liberty, Vauxhall Ward, Stairwell Ward, Brix-
ton and Norwood Ward. The representation by vestrymen
will be apportioned according to the number of rated house-.
holders in each ward. The returns not being complete, the
final assignment and division were adjourned until the 18th
inst. The number of assesausents throughout the entire
pariah are 23,709, and the gross rateable value of the pro-
petty, 491,6611.
London, England, 1855-09-08

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING,

SHARE LISTS—THIS DAY.
Two °Twos.
The railway sham market to-day is rural)
steady. Midland stock is rather firmer, at aq to
ex. die.; and Caledonians at MI to but Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire stook has declined to to I.
London and North-Western is quoted 94 to t; Grist
Western, 66 to 3 ex die.; tlontb-Itastarns, 171 to 18

ex die.; and Great Northern', 211 to 22 ei iii.
French shares are generally steady, bat Centrals
and Eastern of France are rather flatter. Antwerp
and Rotterdam shares show more steadiness.
London, England, 1855-09-08

TURKEY.

" Every year," says the Press. d'Orient, "each
Massimo!' family sacrifices on or two sheep at the
fete of the Courban-Baimm. That custom has just
afforded the population of Constantinople an occasion
of giving a proof of patriotism ; for the government,
having charged the Imam in each of the quarters to
recommend the inhabitants to give the sheepskins
for the use of the troops in the approachinz winter,
not less than 60,000 of them were collected on the
second day of the fete at the bridge of Galata."
London, England, 1855-09-08

TALLOW.

Oar market has fluctuated considerabl this week. On
Wednesday there was a sudden &dean** oils. per cwt., and
58i. was freely paid for delivery in October and December,
and there were no selbn over at the prim on the analog
of that day, and it was digicolt to bay tallow on the spot at
58e. Yesterday the market was quieter again, and declined
31. in all petitions. To-day we have been steady, and
prices are mach the tame as yesterday. The principal fea-
ture of the week has been an attire demand from tb• trade,
but we do not find quite so much doing for exportation as
last week. Our closing prime are : Y. C. on the spot, New,
57e. 6d. to 68s. (No 1853 tallow offering) ; Sept., 675. 61. ;
Oat. and Dee , 675. 61. buyers ; Nov. and Dec., 575. 9d. ;
Dm. and lan., 685.; separate monthly deliveries, 580. to 3d.
The public sales consisted of 953 casks, of which 768 sold.—
From ;Atesen...Bmith and Charles's Circular of Friday
evemisg.

BUTTER —Conn, SNP?. 7.—(By English end Irish
liopotio Tsiesnsoh.)—Firsts, 186, 99..; seconds, 846,
965.; thirds, 632, 881.; fourths, 81, 8.55.; filth., 12, 765.
nulls, 60s.
•

COAL&—Lodport, Bin. 7 —Rodbeogh Main Traitor,
16r. 64.; North Pony Hartley, 19..; Portlaad West Hartley,
1191 ; Taadeld Moor, 16s. 6d.; Taellold Moor Bates, 16s. 6d.;
Writ Ri4lag Harthq, 12s. 6d.; Wylas, 19e. 64.; Wane Bad
Hilda. 204. 6d. ; Will. Bard Belmont, 22.. ; Walls Bud
Fesswellgatio, 22..; Walls Bad Laralttea, 235.; Walls
Bad Meatus,. 204. 9d.; Walls Bad North Hatton, 224. 9d.;
Walls Bed Rasters Hatton, 226. 91.; Walls Bad Stawara's,
111.1.• Walle Bed Corso% 225. 6d.; Walls Bed Hey*
Hall, 21s. ; Walls Bad Hellos, 21e. 6d.; Walls Bad
Ti... Walls Bad Whitworth, ; Dorroatirstor
Bartlq.l9.. 91.
London, England, 1855-09-08

(Stamped ld. Additional.) [TWOPENC E.

UNITED ORDERS PROVIDENT SOCIETY.

Last evening, the seventh jubilee of the restorstion
Of the ancient gatehouse of St. John's Priory, at Clerken •
well, was celebrated by the dinner of the United Orders*
Provident Society, whielt took place in the old ball above
the gateway, a locality which is associated with the history
of the early crusader*, more than seven centuries ago ; and
which:has sines acquired another interest, as the house where
Garrick made hi. hist essay as 'nectar, and Johnson some of
his first mays as en author, while it was occupied by the
printer, Edward Cave. Upon the present occasion, the
premises being now known as the Old 'murales& Tavern,
dinner was provided for about 60 gentlemen, their chair-
man being Mr. Arthur Seratchley, F.llB A , the consulting
actuary of the United Orders Provident Society. He was
supported on his right by Sir Samuel Hancock, Eton of the
Royal Yeomen of the Guard, and by Mr. John Wentworth;
on his left by Mr. Effingham Wilson and Mr. Horace St.
John. _ _

After the customary loyal touts, the CHAIRMAN proposed
" The antiquities and antiquaries of Great Britain, and the
historicist and literary as uciations of St. John's Gate."
This was responded to by Mr. Horses St. Jo 13•, who oh-
served that it was a great inducement to the men of this age
to do well in their generation, that they migot emulate the
renown of their predreeesors, the knights of fit. John of
Jerusalem. The next Oast which the chairmen gave WM
that of the " Provident Societies of Greet Britain." wishful
111001 p, eapesially to the new one, the United Onion Pro-
vident s4ipty." He enlarged upon the ebenaber and
objects of this society, which now bad braneher established,
be said, in the moat important towns of Great Britain. There
was no lack of friendly encirties in this kingdom, in which,
be believed, upwards of 33,000 such institutions existed, or
bad extetrd, within a short period. He was followed
by Mr. Edward Wyrall, the secretary, and mush informa-
tion wee given about the society's objects and plane. The
company enjoyed for the rest, a very convivial and agree-
able meeting.
London, England, 1855-09-08

DENMARK.

A letter from Berlin of the 4th, in the Cologne
Gazette, ssys :—" Austria is said to hare offered her
mediation to Denmark, in her difference with the
United States. Doubts are entertained here as to
whether the United States will consent to the oom•
promise which Denmark Intends proposing, of lower-
ing the Sound duties generally. but Prussia would be
quite disposed to accept it. The son of the Prince of
Prussia, Prince Frederick William, bus left for Ostend
to-day ; be
for the of the Princess L willmattraintil all hie family return to
Berlin. Louisa with
the Pane Itegetat of Ades"

. THE WAR IN ASIA.

The Jean& de Constardissopls states that the
Russians have destroyed all the crops, and committed
other devastations in the province of Armenia. The
nomad Hurd families have left for the south, and a
great number of Armenians have followed the Rus-
sians into Eris's& The Russians are circulating pro-
clamations in the Armenian language, in which they
promise all Armenians who will emigrate into
Georgia their protection, exemption from all taxes
for ten years, concessions of laud, and exemption from
military service for 25 years.
A letter from Varna, of the 26th ult., states that
Abdi Pacha had arrived there, as commissioner of the
Porte, to superintend the embarkation of Turkish
troops for Asia. These troops are to be disembarked
at different places on the Asiatic coast, and are to be
concentrated at Eatonm. A good many deserters
from the Russians in the Crimea have arrived at
Yarns, and most of them showed a desire to enter
the corps of Turkish Cossacks which Sadig Pacha is
organising.
London, England, 1855-09-08

21 tlis:
32

Annuities, expiring in January, 1860, 3t, 3 13-16.
Three-and-a-Ralf per Cent. Exchequer Bonds,
payable in 1858, 1001; ditto, 1859, 1001. Long
Annuities, expiring in January, 1860 (shut), 4.
Exchequer Bunt!. were last quoted 1001 to;. The
March Exchequer Dills were dealt in at 10s. to 14s.
prem., and the Juno at 105. to 13s. prem.
The transfer boas are now shut for the various
government stocks upon which the half-yearly divi-
dends fall doe on the 10th Oct.
The foreign stock market was steady. Turkish
Six per Cents. stele quiet, and closed at 93 to 1. The
scrip of the New Four per Cent. Guaranteed loan we.
more inquired for, and advanced to 11 to 11
prem. French scrip left off 2 to 21 prem. Spanish
Bonds were in demand, and better.
In response to the higher quotations reported 1=
the Continent, abet influenced by the rise in the
rates of money on this side, the foreign exchanges
this afternoon were generally rather better. The
t rates are annexed, viz. :—On Paris, at short,
25.10 to 171; ditto, three months, 25.40 to 421 ; Am-
sterdam short, 11.161 to 1; ditto, three months, 11.18
to 1; lismborg, 13.81 to 81; Frankfort, 1181 tot;
Vienna, 11.30 to 32; and Trieste, 11.32 to 34.
Notwithstanding the improved appearance of the
foreign exchanges, the demand for gold for exporta-
tion continued tc.day, and some additional parcels
were taken from the Bank.
LONDON COURSE OF EXCIIA.NOE.—Sarr. 7.

----- - -
litlls and M. Mew.
Time. Priem es negotiated this day.
Amsterdam per C S Months 118. 181erv.... 111. la4stv.
Ditto
Rotterdam
Antwerp
Bramela „ „ • Stsfr. 350. .. 2611. Mite.
Henthers and Altona ,„, lhoes. bead. IStnes. 41mak.
ea. Petersburg per ruble ~ 351 ... 331
Paris ........
Ditto „ 3 Months 25tr. 10e. ... 25tr. 1210. •
Marseilles
Pranktoraon.the-Mainerm £lO :11216 kr. ... 11846. hr.
Vienna (efteeties) per 4: , 116. 30kr. ... 118.Mkr.
:, Triage
Madrid
Calls
50 pence ... 501 pear(
Bilbao .l OP 50 perm ... 19 pone
Bareekrea
fiia
lietir
lit PI 50 pence ... 19 peso,
' Wearer
Leghorn Or 291 r. 90e. ... 2,1 r. 93e.
It
Ornoe ,, „ 151 r. 15c. ...151r. SON
Naples per e ...t . 141 penes ... 11 pence
Pa.errne par cti..e . 1221 pence .. 1321 pmts
31.erion „ „ 162 pesos ... 1321 mare
Liebtm.........per militi`,ldayi nate 53 panes .. 63 pence
°mete
New Yak re, dirsgaht 16 seem .. 14 penes
Lie Janeiro
London, England, 1855-09-08

DESPATCH FROM GENERAL PELISSIER.

(ai SUBNARINR ♦ND BRITISH TILBOILMI.)
(PROM OUR OWN CORRISTONDB/IT.)
PARIS, SATURDAY MOANING.
The following despatch has been received from
General Pelissier, dated Sebastopol, Sept. tl :
" A vast fire, caused by our shells, seised the
Russian vessel Marian lag night. The flames
illuminated all the camps.
" The Marian was a two-decked vessel, anchored
in the bay of Sebastopol. The fire was caused by a
shell from the right attack."

DESPATCH FROM PRINCE GORTCHAHOFF.

BERLIN, Sart. 7.
Prince Ourtchakoff, writing on the 4th, at 11
o'clock at night, says :
"The situation before Sebastopol is unchanged.
The enemy's fire as before. His approach is con-
stantly retarded by the fire of our batteries.'

tSTRUCTION OF PETROPAITLOVSKI AND
FLIGHT OF THE ENTIRE GARRISON.

SOUTHAMPTON. SATURDAY.

The following intelligence has just arrived:
"The allied Beets, consisting of eight ships and
steamers, arrived off Petropaulovski on the 16th
May, with the intention of attacking it.
" The whole of the garrison had made their maps
in the Russian frigates Aurora and Divine, having
availed themselves of a dense fog on the 17th of
April, and eluding the British frigates Barreconta
' and Encounter, which for a long time had been
blockading the fort.
"The place has been completely destroyed, and 61
guns taken.

"The Allied fleets have sailed for the Amoor
river, to which the garrison of Petropanlovski have
fled."

PERSIA.

A treaty of alliance and of ootomerce was concluded
on the 12th of July between France and Persia, and
the ntifications were given to the Minister of France
on the 14th.
London, England, 1855-09-08

THE PRINCIPALITIES.

A letter from Vienna of the 2nd ways:—" We learn
from Galata that the Russians are making in great
haste preparations on the Danube to resist an attack
of the allies ; and they have reinforced their Bantu
on the river by several gunboats from Ismail. They
are Mated to have received important reinforcements
from Bessarabia. Great astonishment had been caused
at Galata by the news that the Russians had with.
drawn the permission which they recently gave to
export corn freely from the ports of the Danube ;
bat the fact is, that so many contradictory state-
ments are made on the subject, that the exact truth
cannot be ascertained."

PERSIA.

Letters from Teheran announce the snivel in that
city of M. Bouree, French Plenipotentiary to the
Court of Persia. He was admitted to a private audience
on the sth of July, in which he presented his creden-
tials to the Bohah,with whom he afterwards had a long
conversation.

AMERICA.

(ET ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
(PEON OUR OWN CORRISPONDINT.)
SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING.

The Union, which left New York on the 25th tilt.
qea arrived. She repute that the yellow fever still
rages in Virginia.
Cotton is flat. Flour unchanged. Corn is firm.
Coffee active.

There was more doing in freights for Liverpool and
London, at stiffer rates.
Telegraphic communication was opened between
Halifax and Cape Breton.
Exchange on London, 1091 to 110.
London, England, 1855-09-08

SARDINIA.

TURIN, Barr. 7.

The Sardinian Legation accredited to Tuscany has
been recalled on account of difficulties arising out of
the Nomination of a certain attaché.

ACQUITTAL OF THE LLXEMBOURO RAIL-
WAY DIRECTORS.

BRUSSELS, FRIDAY.

The Tribunal Correctionnel has acquitted the Di-
rectors
of the Luxembourg Railway of the charge of
embezzlement. John Ashwell, u being already pro-
scribed; William Maguey and John Muterman, be-
cause offence not sufficiently proven by evidence.