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LONDON. SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1856.

POSTSCRIPT.

ARRIVAL OF BARON BRUNOW.

Baron Brun ow arrived at Dover from Calais yes-
tsrday morning at nine o'clock.
His Excellency rested at the Ship Hotel, and pro-
seeded t.) town by the twelve o'clock train.

The King of Wurtemburg is expected in Paris
this day. The King will remain eleven days in
Paris.

The tw•o Russian steam-vessels of the line an-
chored at Nicolaieff will shortly leave that port for
the Baltic.

Aali Pacha is expected to leave Paris this day for
London.

Le Nord, on the authority of its Berlin correspon-
dent, states that Baron Brunow will probably be the
Minister of Russia at Vienna, and Count Chrepto-
witch at London.

A meeting of the Conservative members took
place at Lord Derby's private residence on Monday.
Cabinet Councils have been held on Saturday and
Tuesday afternoons during the current week. All
the Ministers present. The Councils sat three hours
and three quarters, and an hour. A private Council
was also held at the Premier's on Sunday afternoon,
and on Monday a meeting of Liberal members took
place at Lord Palmerston's private residence.
A Court of Privy Council was held on Monday at
Buckingham Palace.
The Bishop of Norwich, though slowly regaining
his health, will not attend the confirmation during
the ensuing month. The Bishop of Deny will
officiate for his lordship.
The Earl of Dalhousie left Malta for England in
H.M.S. Tribune on the 20th ult. The ex-Governor-
general may be daily expected.
Willi: ahem Egerton, Esq., formerly the Conserve-
tive member for Chester; Christopher Blackett,Esq.,
ex-M.P. for Newcastle; and Maxwell Fox, Esq., M.P.
for Longford, have died this week. Mr. Egerton had
for some years retired from the representation of
Chester, and Mr. Blackest had for some short time
accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. The death of G.
J. Guthrie, the eminent military surgeon, has also to
be recorded this week.
The health of Mr. Blight is not yet sufficiently
restored to permit him to return to his parliamentary
duties. A "lengthened period" of repose is now
spoken of as necessary to insure the honourable
member's complete restoration to health.
General Wyndham, M.P., was presented, on Thurs-
day, with a handsome whip by a deputation of coach
proprietors, in consideration of his succesful efforts
to obtain a reduction of the stage coach duty.
The ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of
Wellington College has been postponed until the
&rat week in June.
London, England, 1856-05-03

AMERICA.

Intelligence from New York to the 10th ult.
arrived on Monday by the Asia.
In reference to the position of the relations between
the Governments of England and America, a Wash-
ington letter written on the 15th says :

Prtvate accounts assure the Government of a decided
change of opinion in England towards the United States,
shared partially by the Ministry. The Government has
reason to anticipate, in a week or ten days, an answer to
Mr. Marcy's despatch requesting the recal of Mr. Cramp
ton, and to suppose it will contain concessions, though not
fully up to the demands made. This reply was prepared
under Lord Palmerston's supervision, and will be forwarded
to Paris for Lord Clarendon's signature, if the Peace Con.
ference should not have adjourned. These overtures may
produce hesitation and division here, but it is doubtful if
the Administration will abandon the position they have
taken.

General Walker, in his invasion of Costa Rica, has
been totally defeated at Santa Rosa by the Costa
Ricans, and his four hundred troops killed or dis
persed.

AUSTRALIA.

Letters and papers received by the Hellespont and
Beemah, up to the 18th February, state that• the
acting governor of Melbourne, General Macarthur,
had succeeded in forming a Ministry, and was con-
solidating the new Government to the satisfaction
of the greater part of the colonists. His Excellenc3,
it is said, VMS gaining golden opinions by his pru-
dent conduct and determination.

The public meeting convened for the purpose of
getting up a petition from the colonists to the Home
Government, praying for the right to elect their own
governor, had failed, and the subject had fallen to
the ground.

In Sydney the elections under the new act were
being pushed forward. A Ministry was bei.ig at-
tempted to be formed by Mr. Donaldson, in con•
junction with Messrs. M‘Leay, Holroyd, and others.
Sir W. Denison supported Mr. Donaldson.
London, England, 1856-05-03

ADDITIONAL AND TRANSITORY ARTICLE.

The stipulations of the Convention respecting the Straits,
signed this day, shall not be applicable to the vessels of
war employed by the belligerent powers fur the evacuation
by sea of the territories occupied by their armies, but the
said stipulations shall resume their entire effect as soon as
the evacuation shall be terminated.
Done at Paris, the 80th day of the month of ➢larch, hi
the year 18.56.

Mere fAlow the signatures of all tho Plenipo•
tentiariee.]

CONVENTIONS ANNEXED TO THE TREATY OF PEACE.
I.—Convention between all the European contracting
lowers respecting the Straits of the Dardanelles and
of the Bosphorus.
(Signed at Paris March 80, 1816. Ratification exchanged

at Paris April 27, 1636.)
In the Name of Almighty God.
Art. 1. His Majesty the Sultan, on the one part, declares
that he is firmly resolved to maintain for the future the
principle invariably established as the ancient rule of his
"Pire, and in virtue of which it has at all times been pro-
hibited for the ships of war of foreign powers to enter the
Straits of the Dardanelles and of the Bosphorus, and that,
lk) long as the Porte is at peace, his Majesty will admit no
foreign ship of war into the said Straits.
And their Majesties the queen of the United Kingdom
or Great Britain and Ireland, the Emperor of Austria, the
Emperor of the French, the Icing of Prussia, the Emperor
London, England, 1856-05-03

THE PRESS.

Projects to raise subscriptions to aid a suffering
son of the famed Charles Incledon, and a starving
son of Mozart, have been announ'ed.
The Crystal Palace on Friday next will be the
scene of the inauguration of the monument in honour
of the Crimean heroes, and the peace trophy by the
Baron Marochetti, now being erected in the Palace.
The Queen, Prince Albert, and a distinguished com-
pany will be present on the occasion, with a guard
of honour composed of Crimean soldiers.
London, England, 1856-05-03

BANK OF ENGLAND.

AT Account, invariant to the Act 7th and Rtb Victoria, ear. 22
for the week ending on Saturday, the 2Gth day of April, 1856.

TRAMS DICP&11111NNT.
i
Notes issued .... A 2.1,556,875 Government Debt V 1,015,100
Other Securities .. 3,459,0n0
Gold Coin k Bullion 9,0.4.675
Silver Bullion .... --•

£23,556,67:.

123.556,U73

NANKING DI
Proprietore'Capttaltl4.ss3.(oo,
Rest
Pohl deposit-' 4.008 Mt
Other Deposits 11,036,793
Seven Day S other
6
Rills

Government Seen-

rities (including
Dead WeightAn.i (MVO OM
Other Securities .. 15 97:‘,1,13

Notes 3 63245,
Gold & Silver Coin 641.455

£33,619,182

153,619,182
of National Debt,

' • Inehrlinz Exchequer. Commission(
Suing's Banks, and Dividend Accounts.
London, England, 1856-05-03

THE INDIAN ACCOUNTS.

THE Indian accounts for the year 1854.5,
presented to Parliament in the present ses-
sion, show an estimated deficit of two million
five hundred and forty-three thousand pounds.
Our readers will have been prepared for this,
as it is what we long since predicted would be
the case. The reality, however, will prove
worse than is thus calculated on, for there can
be no doubt that in many instances the esti-
mate of revenue is much too high. We
have gone through the several items care-
fully, and have no hesitation in saying that
the actual receipts will fall short of the
estimated receipts by at least four hundred
and thirty-seven thousand pounds. The real
deficit will thus be close upon three millions
sterling, even if the probable expenditure
should not prove to have been as much under-
estimated as the probable receipts have been
over-estimated—a thing not unfrequently the
ease. If, as is said by the friends of Lord
DALsousix, the whole of his annexations have
pioved most profitable to us, how fearfully
mismanaged our older provinces must have
been by him to exhibit such a result ! If the
gain on the former has been a million
annually, then the loss on the latter must
amount to about four millions yearly, and
they must have been daily more and more de-
tenorating in his hands. Are the advocates
of annexation, per las et nefas, prepared to
adhere to their argument when thus pushed
to its legitimate conclusion ? Will they admit
that the countries held longest by us are the
'est deteriorated and the deepest sunk in
fin
is only
and embarrassment, and
that it only in the new and not yet beg-
guti red districts seized from native princes that
can find revenue enough to cover the costs
of occupation, and Flush aid towards the
general expenses of the Indian Government
as
to enable us to stave off for a time the
bankrupt's fate? If this be so, we would
Indian
simply ask whether a severer satire on our
Government could possibly be exht-
London, England, 1856-05-03

THE PRESS.

the corrector substitutes " hope" for the first
"help." Mr. Singer, as we showed in a previous
article, had proposed " fine." The probabilities, we
think, are in favour of the word we suggested : 1..

To seek thy hap by beneficial help.
Egeon had, at the commencement of the scene, used
" hap" in a precisely similar sense :

In Syracusa was I born ; and wed
Unto a woman happy but for me,
And by me, too, had not our hap been bad.
The word " hope" is altogether inadequate to the
sense, for /Egeon, as he tells us, was himself
" hopeless ;" and if the choice lies between the two
words "hope" and "hap," we believe no Shake-
sperian will hesitate to take the word suggested
by conjecture, rather than the one we are
told we ought to receive on authority,—though
to be sure, if common sense has nothing to do
with the matter, as the reviewer positively asserts,
there can be no objection to making nonsense of the
text of Shakespeare as fast as such " authorities "
as Mr. Collier's corrector can effect it.
London, England, 1856-05-03

DWELLINGS FOR LABOURING CLASSES.

On the motion for going into committee on this
bill on Wednesday, Mr. BRADY moved (seconded by
Mr. KENNEDY) that the committee be deferred for
six months.

Sir W. SOMERVILLE, who introduced the measure,
submitted that it was altogether an unexceptionable
measure, and designed merely to secure for the Irish
labourers some better description of habitation than
the wigwams they usually lived in.
Lord Bernard, Sir D. Norreys, Mr. Napier, Mr.
Wilkinson, Mr. Deasy, and Sir R. Ferguson. spoke
in favour of going into committee upon the bill,
which was opposed by Mr. J. O'Connell, Mr. Maguire,
and Mr. Megan.
The amendment was ultimately withdrawn, and
the house went into committee upon the bill, when
the two first clauses were discussed and carried by
large majorities against proposed amendments. The
debate was then suspended, and the house rose.

THE MARRIAGE LAWS.
Lord BROUGHAM, on Monday, introduced a bill to
remedy the evils arising from the abuse of 'he Scotch
law of marriage in those cases in which parties oross
the border for the purpose of being united under
that law. He proposed to make a previous residence
of three weeks in Scotland essential to the validity of
such a marriage. The bill was read a first time.

CHURCH RATES.

Sir G. GREY, on Tuesday, in reply to Sir John
Pakington's appeal to postpone the discussion on Sir
W. Clay's bill until certain returns had been laid on
the table, observed that the Government could nut be
said to have adopted the bill till the clauses which
he (Sir G. Grey) intended to propose were accepted
by the house. He did not know when the returns
could be laid upon the table.
London, England, 1856-05-03

COALITION SCANDALS.

TEMPORARY obstacles still prevent a complete
exposure of the Sadleirites. The newspapers
at Dublin, in the meanwhile, teem with most
curious revelations about " my dear Duke of
NEWCASTLE'S " political friends and intimate
allies. The Nation has commenced a special
discussion of the evidence offered by Mr.
Justice KEOGH before what is known in Par-
liamentary circles as " The Irish Corruption
Committee of 165-1." We desire to set the
Nation right upon one point connected with
ourselves. In the number of April 26th the
Nation expresses its " surprise " that " THE
" PRESS and other Conservative journals are
" silent now."
We can speak only for ourselves, and we can
assure our contemporary that we have not the
least intention of being " silent " about the ap-
pointment of Mr. KEOGH. We showed in an
article of last week how, amongst other preju-
dicial results, the nomination of Mr. Justice
KEOGH had disturbed the equilibrium of the
Judicature in Ireland, and we know that our
proof of two-thirds of the Irish judges having
been nominated by " Liberal" Cabinets has
been received with the attention due to so
significant a statement. Facts of another kind
are gradually being evolved; but the delays of
Chancery investigations and other circum-
I stances for the moment interfere with a
London, England, 1856-05-03

NEW BILLS.

Lord BROUGHAM brought in a bill respecting
Scotch boroughs.
Lord REDESDALE brought in a bill to abolish the
existing exemptions to the operation of the Smoke
Consumption Act.
The b►ll was read a first time.
Their lordships, at six o'clock, adjourned until
to-morrow (Sunday), when the house will attend at
Westminster Abbey to hear Divine service, the day
being appointed for thanksgiving on the conclusion
of peace.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-FRIDAY.
NEW WhIT.

On the motion of Mr. HAyTER, a new writ was
ordered to issue for the borough of Cheltenham, in
the room of Mr. G. C. Berkeley, who had accepted
the Chiltern Hundreds.

THE PEACE.

In reply to Lord W. GRAHAM,
Lord PALMERSTON stated that under the treaty of
peace no prohibition existed against Russia raising
her submerged fleet in the harbour of Sebastopol,
and transferring those or any other vessels of war
she might now possess in the Black Sea into the
Baltic, where there was no limit assigned to her
naval armament:.

To further questions, the Noble Viscount replied
that Russia might rebuild the destroyed forts on the
eastern shores of the Eusine, but was forbidden to
construct naval arsenals anywhere round the coasts
of that sea.
London, England, 1856-03-08

OFFICIAL DESPATCHES.

Lord Panmure received on the 3rd inst. the follow-
ing despatches from Gen. Sir William Cocizington,
K.C.B.:—

Sebastopol, Feb. 16.
I have the honour to acquaint your lordship that a
Russian force, estimated at about 3,000 infantry and
Cossacks, appeared on the morning of the 12th inst., on
the ridge of Hardoubel, above the valley of Baidar, but
retired after a short reconnaissance.

The French engineers blew up, on the 12th inst., two
portions of the aqueduct which formerly supplied the docks
of Sebastopol.
Some blasting experiments have been made on the walls
of the large barracks, near the dockyard, and the mining
is in progress.
The weather, for some days past, has been showing the
gradual approach of sprin;, and the health of the army
continues excellent.

General Sir Colin Campbell rejoined this army on the
14th instant.

W. J. CODRINOTON, General Commanding.

Sebastopol, Feb 19.
The health of the army remains good, and we have been
enabled lately to continue ball practice and the assembling
of regiments for exercise during the very favorable
weather of the last ten days. On the evening of the 17th,
orders were given for the assembly of the whole infantry of
the English army, in contiguous columns, on the brow of
the plateau ; but fog and drizzling ruin in the night turned
to sleet in the morning, changed the state of the ground,
and sent the thermometer down to 18 deg., and to 9 deg.
last night.
The parade had been, of course, put off; but it would
have shown to us all troops rendered efficient in health
and strength by the care of the Government at home, and
by the exertions and superintendence of the officers com-
manding divisions, brigades, and regiments.
I am quite sure that any of our allies, inclined to be
present, would have been glad to see the efficiency of part
of the army which acts with them.
To-day is a fine clear day of a Canadian winter, thermo-
meter at 1-1 deg., bitterly cold from the strong breeze ; and
this change having come so suddenly, want a caution
may very probably have produced some frost-bites.
We shall be enabled soon to add to the interest taken in
the ball practice with that beautiful arm the Enfield rifle,
by giving a few prizes, subscribed for among ourselves, to
the best shots.
CODRINGTON, General Commanding.
The weekly report of Dr. Hall was also inclosed.
Dr. Hall states the sanitary condition of the army to
be most satisfactory, the rate of mortality being only
15i per thousand men per annum, an average below
that of the Guards while doing duty in London.
London, England, 1856-03-08

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.
Lessee, Mr. ALFRED WIGAN.
On Monday, and during the Week, will be presented the
new Comedy, entitled SPILL WATERS RUN DEEP (as per-
formed before the Queen), in which Mr. and Mrs. A. Wigan.
Mr.G. Vining, Mr. Emery, and Miss Maskell will appear. To
conclude with THE DISCREET PRINCESS: or, the Three
(Hess Distaffs.
London, England, 1856-03-08

FOREIGN MISCELLANEA.

THE DUKE OF SAXE COEUR°, when presented
with a congratulatory address upon a recent occa-
sion, is said to have remarked, in his reply,
that he observed with regret, indifference for consti-
tutional institutions gaining ground in many States,
while every effort was being made to prevent or ob-
struct the action of the people in public affairs. " For
his part (added the duke) he would always act in
harmony with the wishes of his subjects, and succeed
by their aid consolidating the prosperity and the
liberties of his country."

THE CARDINALS OF ROME are said to be strenuously
opposed to a visit to Paris by the Pope. That the
baptismal ceremony of the anticipated heir to the
French Emperor's throne should be performed by
the Pope in person is known to be desired in high
quarters ; but the Pope, it is expected, will get out
of the difficulty by sending a cardinal to represent
him at the ceremony, and consenting himself to
stand godfather.

PROFESSOR EHRENBERG'S MicaoscorE, which did
such good service in producing undeniable proof of
the Simonides' fraud, has been made use of again to
detect the thief that stole a barrel of specie, pur-
loined on one of the Austrian railways. One of a
number of barrels, that should all have contained
coin, was found on arrival at its destination to have
been emptied of its contents, and refilled with sand.
On Professor Ehrenberg being consulted, he sent for
samples of sand fix= all the stations along the
London, England, 1856-03-08

TILE PRESS.

What must be the esprit de corps of a body of troops im-
pressed into the service by the knout? What can such
men do against Frenchmen, every one of whom may live
in old age as a tuarshal of the empire? What can such
men do against the sturdy unyielding troops of ti►e British
army, who will follow their flsg if it goes through a sea of
blood?

FROM THE LOS UO5 (I.IZ ETTE.
Tuesday, March 4.

BANKRUPTS.—Wm. B&NNETT, Margaret-street, Cavendish-
square, victualler—CHAßLES PARIS POOLE, Lawreuce•leue, city,
warehouseman—Join; Timm}, surrey-street, Strand, ale and
porter merchant—SAMSON BRAZIER, Twyford, near Winchester,
bnckmaker CHARLES HYACINTH JOSEPH COYLITS, Cullum-
street, City, merchaut—Joux Mecum, Brook-street, Holborn,
boot manufacturer--THOMAS HILL, City-road, licensed victualler
--CHARLES EDWARD BIRD, Old Broad-street, City,
tucrclsaut—
WILLIAM HOMER, Birmingham, publican —THOMAS JONES,
Shrewsbury, diaper—ROßEßT NEWTON, Birmingham, baker—
EMMY BRISBANE, Birmingham, button matimactiirer—JAMES
BAKER, jun., EXeler, ltueu draper—Taos. WARREN KNIGHT,
Taunton, soinersetshire, grocer—Bonner WELSH, Hu.luersneld,
woolen merchant—NM. SMITH, Bradford, grocer—OAVlD KAY,
Liverpool, ti atr dealer—Jolla TR►yTS and fetus. BURDEN KEN•
SHAW, Shaw, Lancashire, cotton spinuer—HENßY SMITHIES,
JOHN SMIIIIIES, and JAMES SMITHIES. Blackburn, LltlataShire,
iroufouudere—WM. McCoßstlcit, Manchester, builder.
Friday, March 7.

.
BANK fIUPTS.—TnowAs COOPER, Wootton, Isle of Wight,
farmer and brickmaker—Buiros K ENRICK, Irampwn, Lincoln-
shire, shipowner—JAMES BARKER, Brixton, builder—NEWLY
ATKINSON, LOW', Lincolnshire, miller—GEono E BARKER,
Henry-street, Kenningum.lane, Surrey, contractor—GEOßOE
PENN Et.t., Stoke-upon-Trent, grocer.
London, England, 1856-03-08

.LATIONS BETWEEN ENGLAND AND
PERSIA.

. Lorain), on Monday, calling attention to our
ilations with Persia, recapitulated the incidents which
led to the departure of Mr. Murray from Teheran,
the consequent breach of official intercourse with
Court of the Shah. He pointed out that Mr.
Lurray's ultimatum having been rejected by the
'ersian Government, we had resols,ed to support
Itintatum by an expedition to Bushire. Now,
opinion we had neither right nor justice on our
In the first place, Mr. Murray bad no busi-
to protect Mirza lashim, or to demand his
from the Shah, who had an undoubted right to
Le her as his relative; and, in the second place,
had no tight or authority, in the face of the treaty
which stipulates that we should be permitted
send agents only to Teheran and Bushire, to des-
•h Mirza as an agent to Shiraz. In our support of
!array we had taken the first step in a war with
Persia—a step v. hich would lose us our high character
the East for justice and honesty, increase the
iudice to our interests in Asia occasioned by the
91 Kars, assist the efforts of Russia to embroil us
the Central Asian States, and for the future
r Persia wholly into the arms of Russia. In
-Alston, Mr. Layard entreated the house and the
Government not to j.rosecute this miserable quarrel,
Tally as there were means for both parties to
honourably out of it.
Lord PALMERSTON thought the course pursued by
Layard was not calculated to promote the
.tal interests. The custom of persecuted intli-
tuals taking sanctuary at a foreign mission was
nversally recognised, and had been specially ac-
miesced in by the Persian Government. Tins was
case of Slirza Hashim, when Mr. Murray, finding
?ersian Government had an ill feeling towards
Mirza Hashim, thought it desirable to move him
'where, and accordingly proposed to send him
shraz, where this country for a long time had an
t for the transaction of commercial affairs, and
had been acknowledged as such by the Persian
Government. The Persian Government said that if
lirza Hashim quitted the British mission, ho should
amediately arrested ; against this Mr. Murray pro-
tested, contending that Mirza was under the protec-
tion of the British Government on his way to and at
Shiraz as much as if he remained at Teheran. Whilst
negotiations were going on, the Persian Government
!ized his wife, who was hot, as had been stated, a
sire of the royal family of Persia' but a relation
one of the many wives of the Shah. Mr. Murray
inanded that the wite should be given up to the
.t.ind either at Teheran or Shiraz. That demand
e rise to a correspondence, in the course of which
me very improper letters were written by the Per-
Aan Minister, being couched in insulting and unbe-
coming terms. Mr. Murray then made demands
London, England, 1856-03-08

THE PRESS.

rent lines of railway that the specie had passed, and
by means of his microscope identified the station
from which tae interpolated sand must have been
taken. The station once fixed upon, it was not diffi-
cult to bit upon the culprit in the small number of
employes on duty these.
PRINCE PASKIEWITCH has left a fortune of seventy
millions of Polish florins, of which he bequeathed
thirty millions, principally landed property, to his
son Theodore, and twenty millions to each of his
daughters, the Princess Wolkonska and the Princess
Lebanon Rotowoska. He has left nothing to his
widow, as, in addition to her own private fortune, she
will enjoy a pension for her life of 30,000 silver
roubles as the widow of a governor of Poland.
THE AUSTRIAN ARMY has just received special
orders from its commander. in-chief, "not to eat
meat on Fridays, nor on the last three days of
Passion Week, strictly to keep the ordinances of the
Church as to diet, and to attend confession." This
result of the Concordat has produced the greatest
sensation in the army, which the avowed intention
of the Vienna Horse Guards to establish monthly
certificates of confession for each officer and his
men has not contributed to allay.
THE MEMBERS OF THE CONFERENCES were present
at the opening of the French Legislative Session on
Monday. Generals Canrobert and Bosquet took the
oath. The former wore the uniform of a general ;
the latter the dress of a senator. When the name
of Marshal Pelissier was called, a voice replied,
"Absent on the service of the Emperor."
A SERIOUS DISTURBANCE, threatening the safety of
the Jews in Constantinople, lately took place at Stain-
houl. A woman lost her child, and for some reason
or other a Jew was suspected of stealing the infant.
All the old bigoted hatred of the race broke out in a
moment; their quarter was besieged, they were
hunted down, hooted, pelted, and their lives
threatened for,a short time, when the authorities
interfered.

A ItuzisiAN COMMISSION, now sitting at St. Peters.
burg, has lately had several new war discoveries and
inventions brought before it. Amongst others a Mr.
Pahl produced a liquid substance capable of burning
on the surface of the water, and with which he pro-
poses to set an enemy's ships on fire, and another
which ignites of itself by being set free in the open
air if the temperature be above 15 deg. (66 deg. of
Fahrenheit). Both were declared as not practical.
being easily put out by wind or waves. Then there
were several projects for building ships to sail under
water, a new invention for destroying enemy's ships
submitted by a Dutchman of the name of Tetterode,
and finally a plan for fixing submarine palisades by
a Mr. Dade. Some of these were rejected as im-
practicable, and others ordered to be further con-
sidered.
London, England, 1856-03-08

SIMEON'S LIFE.

--—---- - - - -
Reduced to 55., Third Edition, one thick vol. poet Bvo., cloth,
with Portriiit and Facsimile.

I‘,l EMOIRS ottheiriWCiillas SIMEON,
M.A., late Senior Fellow of King's College, and Minister
of Trinity Church, Cambridge ; containing his Autoblogi aphy,
together with Selections fron. his Writings and Correspondence.
Edited by the Rev. WILLIAM CARUS, MA., Fellow and
Senior Dean of Trinity College, and Minister of Trinity Church,
Cambridge.
London : T. HATCRARD, 187, Piccadilly.
London, England, 1856-03-08

THE PRESS.

Of the cavalry in the Crimea, four regiments of
six hundred and eight guns are off Eupatoria, three
of eight hundred and eight guns at Perekop, and fif-
teen regiments of dragoons anti Cossacks distributed
between Eupatoria and Kertch.
Two divisions of grenadiers are supposed to be near
Eupatoria. Also Black Sea Cossacks (infantry) and
militia at Arabat, Kaffa. &c. The distribution of the
whole Russian army out of the Crimea has also been
stated to me :—First corps d'armee, Ismail ; second ditto,
Nicolaieff; fifth ditto, Ukraine ; sixth ditto, Nicolaieff;
Guards and Grenadiers less the two divisions of the latter
supposed to be at Eupatoria, if they are there, Poland and
army of the north. At Stavropol there are believed to be
22,000 men; at Kutais 24,000, under Beboutoff; Moura-
vieft's army is estimated at 100,000 men. The sources
from which these statistics are derived being within the
Crimea, I am disposed to rely more upon that part of them
which relates to the Crimean army than to the Russian
army in general, and I doubt Mouravieff having 100,000
men, although in that number are included all the Trans-
causasian garrisons and troops, regular and it regular. This,
however, does not pretend to be more than an approxima
tive estimate. Some of the troops stated to be at Nicolaieff
are probably at Odessa —Times cor., Feb. 18th.
London, England, 1856-03-08

Vrott6ings zn Varlianunt.

THE PRELI3IINARIES OF PEACE.
DISRAELI, 013 Monday, rose and said :
, public statement has been made today of the utmost
iportance, and perhaps the noble lord will allow me to
.sk him a question relative to it, without having given him
previous notice, which, however, under the circumstances
perhaps scarcely be necessary. It has been stated
ly th.it the preliminaries of peace have been signed
saris, and it would be satisfactory, I am sure, to the
if the noble lord would assure us of that fact ; and,
cannot, it would still be of advantage if we could have
iuf,rmation from the noble lord as to what is the
state of affairs in that respect.
Lord PALMERSTON replied :

house and the country are well aware that certain
articles were proposed a' me time ago by Austria. with the
—.it of France and England, as conditions which were
serve as the foundation fur a treaty of peace between
belligerents. Those articles were at first accepted by
with a reservation, but afterwards, that not being
. to by Austria, they wet a accepted unconditionally.
acceptance was what is called in diplomatic language
acceptance pure et simple. Those articles were after-
recorded in a protocol at Vienna, which was signed
plenipotentiaries of England, France, and Austria—
rather think the instructions of the Turkish plenipo-
ntiary did not arrive in time. When the conference met
Paris, it was agreed that in the protocol of the first meet-
this previous protocol, simply recording those articles,
-maid be inserted as part of the proceedings of that ilay's
eonference. and that it shou d be declared that the protocol
'Vienna and the articles accepted by Russia should have
force and value of a preliminary treaty of peace, and
, without going through the ordinary form of a separate
simivary treaty, the plenipotentiaries should at once
proceed to discuss the other questions on which the de-
finite treaty would turn. That is the precise state of the
-kr. In one sense, a preliminary treaty has been signed,
is to say, those articles have been recorded as having
force, value, and virtue of a preliminary treaty. No
in the ordinary form, signed by the plenipoten-
, to be ratified by sovereigns, hat been signed, but
substantially a preliminary treaty has been signed.
Mr. DISRAELI: When?
Lord PALMERSTON :It was last week. I forget the
' day. Very recently.
London, England, 1856-03-08

THE PRESS.

Lord PALMERSTON thought the course Lord John
Russell had adopted, of submitting these resolutions
to the house, was the best he could have chosen ;
they would meet with the utmost attention, and he
hoped this attempt would be attended with better
success than others. Difficulties attended the addi-
tion of moral and religious to intellectual instruc-
tion ; but, if this was not done, nothing was done,
and be hoped means would be found of overcoming
those difficulties.

Lord J. RUSSELL made a brief general reply, pro
posing to withdraw his resolutions„ and to move in-
stead a resolution that the house would on Thursday,
the 10th of April, resolve itself into a committee to
consider the state of the public education.
This proposition was agreed to, and the resolu-
tions were for the present withdrawn.
London, England, 1856-03-08

WEST INDIES.

The West Indian mails, with dates from Jamaica
to the 11th Feu., arrived on Wednesday.
There was no news of importance from the island.
Another battle had been fought between the Domini-
cans and Haytiens, in which the latter were totally
beaten.
AUSTRALIA.

By the arrival of the James Baines we have intelli-
gence from Melbourne up to the 28th of November.
Reports from the gold diggings were satisfactory.
Three nuggets of 220, 240, and 730 ounces had been
found on the Alma and on Daisy Hill. Quartz
crushing was being pushed on with great activity.
Sir Chatles Hotham, on the 23rd of November, had
opened the Legislative Council, and proclaimed the
new Constitution. In his address to the council,
Sir Charles, alluding to the financial condition of the
colony, said that he trusted he was justified in
assuming that the colony at the end of the year
would be nearly free from debt.
Labour was in fair demand.
London, England, 1856-03-08

TEETH.— By her Majesty's Royal Letters
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enabled to properly perform the important operation of mastica-
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long complained of impossible.--This to public speakers is in-
valuable.

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the Royal Family, No. 13, OLD BURLINGTON-SIREET,
BOND-STREET.
London, England, 1856-03-08

DENMARK.

The opening of the session of the Supreme Coun-
cil of the Kingdom of Denmark took place at Copen-
hagen on the Ist instant, with the usual ceremony.
The Hereditary Prince and the whole Court accom-
panied the King, who made a speech on the occasion.
After thanking tha Almighty for the maintenance of
peace, the King expressed the hope that Providence
would continue to preserve the country from the
evils of war. Tfie speech concluded with the
announcement that no important project would be
brought forward in the present session, but that an
eNtraordinary session would be convoked sh(ttly.
The reasons for the acquittal of the Danish Minis-
ters are thus stated :—The legality of the res( lution
relative to the armaments is not contested ; the
accusation of high treason being therefore un-
founded, the tribunal is not called upon to decide on
the utility of the armaments.

226

GREECE.

A change of Ministry has occurred at Athens. M.
Rizo Rangabe is appointed Minister for Foreign
Affairs. M. Skalistires replaces M. Potlis in the
Ministry of Justice.
WEST INDIES AND AMERICA.

Intelligence from New York to the 21st ult. has
been received this week.

Nothing up to that date had ben heard of the
Pacific. The tone of the American press upon the
difference with England was very pacific. All idea
of a war with England had passed away.
Mr. Dallas, the new Minister at London, was to
leave for England on the sth inst. Affairs in Mexico
were as distracted as ever. The insurrection against
Comonfort was gaining ground.
INDIA, CHINA, AND EGYPT.
The letters and despatches by the late Indian mail
give an account of the different preparations made
to secure the annexat►on of Oude. Sixteen thousand
men were collected at Cawnpore by the 24th January,
and in a few days were to march direct on Oude. No
real resistance was anticipated. The King was to be
dismissed with a pension of one lac of rupees a month
(120,0001. a year.) Major-General Outram as Chief
Commissioner, will be assisted b 3 Mr. Gubbins and
Mr. Ommaney as Finance and Judicial Commis-
sioners, and Mr. Couper as Secretary. Lord Can-
ning had arrived at Bombay on the 28th Jan., and
would leave for Calcutta in the second week of
February.
From China the intelligence is of little interest.
The rebellion was not making much head. Admiral
Stirling bad organised au admirable and efficient
system of convoy for traders in the China Seas which
promised to destroy piracy.
At Alexandria preparations were being pushed on
for laying down the land electric telegraph to Suez
and the submarine telegraph to Constantinople. In
the Red Sea great disturbances had taken place at
Jeddah and throughout the whole province of Temen,
owing to the suppression of the slave trade by the
Sultan. Upwards of 30,000 Arabs were in arms
against the Turks, had captured Loheia and other
seacoast towns, and in all probability the province of
Temen would throw off its allegiance to the Sultan.
Two English steamers have been despatched from
Bombay to protect English and French interests,
and reinforcements were about to be despatched at
once to Aden.
London, England, 1856-03-08

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IRISH CROWN PROSECUTIONS.

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swindling bankers, suic►des, great forgeries,
fearful fires, it is not likely that they can have
yet forgotten the dreadful murder in Cavan of
Miss HINDS, dragged off her car last November
in open daylight, and brutally murdered. It
was one of the most atrocious crimes ever
committed by men upon a hapless woman.
So barbarous was it, that there was one cry of
horror from all sides of Ireland.

In attempting to bring to justice parties
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for the delays, we cannot say at present. The
facts are these :—About three weeks since, it
was stated in the public prints that " the
" ATTORNEY-GENERAL for IRELAND would spe-
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acuteness or research.

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Cavan, application was made by Messrs.
JOHNSTON arid DOWSE (counsel for the
accused) to put off the trial of the (alleged)
murderers to the next assizes. The prisoners
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THE PRESS.

lit the solicitation of his confidential friend,
EDMUND O'FLAIIERTY. When the Coalition
Cabinet was formed, it was arranged with the
Whigs that did *hole ificeregal department
in Ireland should be #eelites. Lord St. GER-
MANS, hie Chief Secretary (Sir JOHN Youxu),
the Atte'rney-Oeteral tr. BREWSTER), and
the Solieiter-Getteral ( r. WILLIAM KEOGH),
were, the'refore, all " Fiettlites." As a matter of
routinel it pensioned a*th'uncelloi (Mr. BRADY);
was again made the highest Equity Judge in
Ireland, taking the post by routine. Mr.
BRADY was the only legal Whig in the Vicere
gal train. On the fall of the l'eelites, Mr.
BREWSTER retired with his connection. How
did Mr. WILLIAM KEOGH act then ?
Never before, as far as we are informed, had
he ever spoken, or written, or given his sup-
port to the Whigs. " Until the demands of
"the people of Ireland are conceded, so help
"me God, I never will take office." Such had
been his oath at Cork in 1851; and at Athlone,
in the next year, he had declared that though
all of his party (his " party "!) crossed the
House to the Whigs, he would not do so, and
yet, though he had accepted pecuniary obliga-
tions from the Peelites, Mr. WILLIAM KEOGH
declined to follow the example of Mr. BREW-
STER, and he vaulted into the vacant Attorney-
Generalship, hoping that his conduct would
escape notice under the public excitement
about the Crimean campaign !
But that can not, and ought not, be the
case. The purity of the ermine is concerned
here, for Mr. WILLIAM KEOGH 1S a presumptive
candidate for a seat in the Irish Judicature.
The honour of the Queen's Executive is at
stake. We put it to the gentlemen of Eng-
land to say what opinion should be enter-
tained of such a career as Mr. WILLIAM KEOGH
has passed through? We shall use no dis-
paraging appellations upon this occasion.
The only epithet we need apply to the Attor-
ney-General is his own name—Mr. WILLIAM
KEOGH.

Here, then, is the case, and now is the time
that a constitutional stand must be made
against the audacity of the Irish Malcon-
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"to shine, but to sell." English politics turn
upon facts, and the " hard facts " in this case
can be piled to mountain height over Nlr.
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honour of the Executive, the fair fame of Par-
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Parliament desires to he mobbed by malcon-
tents from Ireland, the case of Mr. WILLIAM
KEOGH must be grappled and dealt with, not
according to the technicalities of statutes, but
by the law stamped from the hand of Omnipo-
tence itself upon the hearts of all honest men.
London, England, 1856-03-08

THE BLOCKADE OF THE BALTIC.

H.M.S. .Im*rieuse, Capt. R. B. Watson, arrived at
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Falcon have gone to Elsinore, where they will be
followed by the Harrier and Dragon. The Euryalus
was expected at Kiel.
Intelligence from St. Petersburg, vii Berlin, states
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Grand Duke Constantine, has ordered all the buoys
and landmarks in the Baltic to be removed, and all
the lighthouses to be extinguished.
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