The Express.
London, England, 1855-04-18 00:00:00

THE WAR.

Military lottsve from Vienna warn so that Russia
is putting firth bar utmost strength in the Crimea,
and express doubts whether the real force of the
Csar's army in that peninsula, and of the tarps
marching daily into it, is properly estimated in Eng-
land either by the government or by the pablio.
Mach astonishment is exposed that the English
an expect to obtain moms by negotiation, whoa
their diplomacy is so ill-supported by military activity
at home as well as in the Crimea.

The Vienna Presto of the 14th publishes an article
to show that the proper termination of the war
would be the evacuation of the Crimea by the allies—
France and England henceforth defending Turkey by
see, and Austria holding the Principalities and per-
forming the same service by land. The dugaltsay
Ginetie of the same date publishes an article mock-
ing the failures of the allies in the Crimea, and urg-
ing the states of Germany to rally to Austria, as the
real arbitrator on the affairs of the East.

The laves6dossce of Bromide gives the following 1
as part of a letter from Odessa of the 4th lost.:—
•" At intervals we can distinguish from the heights
three or four of the enemy's war ships in the distance.
This, however, does not hinder our small merchant
vessels making daily pumps to the coasts of the
Crimea and back, carrying provisions for the use of
the Russian array."

The Sardinian steam frigate Costitnzione left
Genoa on the 11th for Constantinople, with part of
the staff of the engineer corps of the Piedmont's.
expedition, and a number of medical officers.

BT. PETBILSBURO, Amu. 5.

Official reports state that 150,000 of the new
militia of the empire have already been organised.
Thcse men are not available, except for the defence
of their own homes.

OUR ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOPOL

maws.)

l 2 DAILY

abiding, withering fear oUtenson, the manse !ero-
sions crueltowards the wounded sad primers, the
same abjec cowardice before* dots:deed resistance
of the smallest body of the enemy ; and present the
sine intrarmenstable difieulties in the way of subor-
dination*, discipline of any sort whatsoever. The
gentlemen who at present grace Ea tore by their
preemies, however, are said to mod their predeces-
sors in the use of their lire-arms I the majority—so
runs the tale—being able to bring down a bare with
a ball while riding at fall gallop. I have not as yet
been witness of any of these proofs of skill, but 1 see
no reason to entertain any doubts upon the matter.
They are all armed either with long gene or
lances; pistols with bashi-basouks are never
wanting. Some have sabres, which are always
thrust between the left thigh and the saddle; the
greater member also "sport" yateghass, the sickle
with which good Mussulmans of the old school reap
the gory harvest of heads on the battle-field, which
in bygone days wrung grim smiles and large
baksheesh from the presiding pasha. The best part
of their equipment is, however, undoubtedly their
lances. They are not the huge, clumsy, iron-shod
poles of European cavalry, which are nodal only in
the shook of a whole line, and are a worthless bard,

KaDIBOI, Aram 2.
This day has again been announced as the one on
which our artillery was to open against Sebastopol.
It has come round, and our artillery has not opened.
There was some cannonading early in the morning,
but nothing unusual, nothing to disturb the tranquil-
lity of the camp. Saturday and Sunday have pawed
with an equal &been°e of events. In fact, nothing
has been going on but an east wind, which set in on
Friday night, and which has kept the camp a-shiver-
ing ever since. It is the more painfully felt from the
heat which preceded it. We must of course be pre-
, pared for • couple of relapses of the kind before we
fairly have achieved summer; but, in spite of all
preparation, these relapses are painful and trying in
more than one respect. To be shaken in our faith in
the existence of clothing ; to fall a prey to the con-
viction that worzteds are a sham and fors a delusion ;
to consider animal heat as a mere vulgar prejudice ;
and to become a sceptic even as to the
heat of fire, is a process of unusual painfulness ;
and yet all this scepticism is forced upon the wretches
who confront the east wind in its native land. Last
year about this time, when first exposed to the east
wind on the shores of the Bosphorus, the impression
on my mind was that never before had I known what
cold was like, and most assuredly the experience of
the last few days has confirmed that impression.
From all I hear my own feelings are shared by the
dwellers in of Bslaklava and the campers out on the
hills. Everyone is shivering, everyone has been
chilled; clothing seems to be of no use, and there is
chattering of teeth even over braziers of glowing
charcoal. Our only and ready consolation II that
this sort of thing cannot last ; that this is the third
day of the infliotion, and that the wind mast soon
change to another quarter. We are fairly out of
March, and April is • spring month even in the
sunny East. And we have already bad more than a
slight taste of the genial warmth of the Crimea. Before
you receive this letter it is likely that those
who now madly gallop over the hills to get up a glow,
or who, wrapped up in furs, bold their shivering
hands over the mocking coals of a brasier, will slowly
toil up the hillside, crying out for shade, or luxu-
riously recline on camp beds, with • sigh now and
then, or a groan or a curse, as the case may be, at the
infernal closeness of a bell tent.

when Weenier begins, and every man is Kt
to his own resources. The lanes of the
Arab is long, light, flexible, and keen. He whirls
it, tarns it, brandishes it over his head like • single
stick, picks a ring off the ground with it at the wildest
gallop, and hurl it with an aim that rarely mimes.
A Turk, matchless with his old curved sabre, rarely
knows how to use a lance ; in the hand of the Arab
it is the queen of wespons for a cavalier. And what
horsemen they are I—these rugged, wild-looking, her
garly savages, with their bare brawny sews,
their naked throats, their indescribable 021116•11110•
Wee, their woe-begone slippers, and old rest, slue"
stirrups! A.y whipper in would tarn up hie nose ladle-
dein if he survived has first outburst of laughter at their
" turn out," but if his life sad limbs depended as hie
outdoing them in horsemanship, I sumps* be mini/
look upon it as a very melancholy and eispierable
business. To see one of these tatter&malion brigands
giving way
.to his animal spirits on a fine morning on
the plain, is certainly pleasant to the eyes of any
admirer of Man the animal, let him deplore ever .o
deeply the neglected state of his morals. From per-
fect repose he starts into a gallop, and traverses
perhaps a hundred yards at the top of his horses
speed, stops with as much rapidity as he started,
wheels in the narrowest circle in which a four legged
beast can wheel, brandishes his lance or loads and
fires his gun—steed and rider, eye, hand and wea-
pon ever moving in the nicest mart. They are
quite a study, these men—not merely for an artist,
but for a humonriet, or moralist, or any one, in fact,
whom human nature in a wild, natanght, untutored
and if you will, uncorrupted state, with its savage
puska", its doubtful virtues, its naive ideas, its blind
faith, its feebleness, its follies, can move to tears or
laughter, or meditation. Everything about the
bashi-banuk, strange u the statement may seem, is
terribly earnest. Life for him is full as al
and as serious as for any missionary amongst can-
nibals, or secretary of a Dorcas society. He robs,
just as a barrister moves for a rule, because it is a
simple and neesseary incident in a proftasion in which
he hasi been brought up, and which he pursues
with ardour and enthusiasm. As to any ideas of the
existence of certain moral laws prohibiting the appro-
priation of other people's property, I do not think
mach a thing ever enters into his head. The grooming
and feeding of his horse, the cleaning of his arms,
the prowling about for his prey, and the flare-
lentiug destruction of his enemies, are to him the
great and leading duties of a life to which
the gentler emotions which pow and flourish
in a more advanced state of civilisation are unknown.
His religious faith is, I imagine, as strong as that of
any devotee of the age. He is an intensely selfish
ruffian, but no one ever preached to him against
selfishness, and in his eyes it is rather a virtue than
a fault. Hatred of infidel', prayers, and ablutions,
form the sum of his doctrine and practice. He volun-
teers to fight the " Mennen," partly from a sense of
religious duty which impels him to cut the throats of
giaours and, plunder their goods, and partly from a
desire of personal gain. But in all this he is no light-
hearted, gay adventurer, flattering himself be is load-
ing a jolly life, and seeing the world : he is • mho%
dignified personage, engaged in the performing of
great duty, and never in the smallest degree disposed
to indulge in pleasantry. He is guilty of de-
bauch—coffee and water are his only beverages,
rice and bread his main diet : in the item of meat he
scarcely goes beyond a fowl; his only friend is
horse ; hie bed on any spot where the night overtakes
him; and his dreams, I suspect, instead of running on
absnt loves, on home, on youth, mostly build up
huge piles of smoking pillaf—put him on a prancing
at, lay at his feet a dead Russian covered with plun-
der, or an oka of Stamboul tobacco, and he wakes re-
freshed and happy:
Attempts to discipline these men an useless. They
must be taken and used as they are, or not at alt.
They do the work of scouts excellently; they would
annoy and alarm the enemy, threaten his convoys,
harass infantry, &c., as well as any Cossacks, but
they can never be prevented from plundering, burn-
ing, slaughtering the wounded, unarmed, defenceless.

Among the flying rumours in the latter half of last
week was the rumour of an expedition against the
Russian position in the plain. This morning has,
indeed, shown some activity in that direction, but it
is the activity of defence rather than of attack. Our
men are throwing up some advanced intrenchments
a good distance out in the plain, and our pickets are
doubled and part of the troops under arms to repel
the Russians, in cue they should think proper to
interfere with our proceedings. Up to this hour (two
p.m.) they have shown no inclination for doing so.
In my opinion, it is their object not to provoke us into
hostilities on the Balaklava front, for in spite of all that
is said about the large number of Russians hid be-
hind the hills, I do not believe that they are in
sufficient force, either to attack us or to defend their
positions against an attempt of ours to take them.
My opinion ia founded on the losses which the Rus-
sian army hu suffered in the course of the winter,
which losw have not been made up by the arrival of
fresh troops from the interior. Deducting the troops
detached against Omer Pacha from the 80,000 eM-
oient troops which may have existed at &kWh&
anal and Simpheropol, and in the lines of Balaklava
—deducting also the daily wear and tear of Sebasto-
pol, for disease is at work there, and the Russian
sorties are made at a loss of an average of 600 per
'reek, I do not believe that we have above 20,000
men before us in Bahaism plain. This
opinion is confirmed by the ready manner
I. which the Russians have fallen back on
those rare occasions when we or the French made
a sortie into the plain. They were not in force to
contest the ground. There is a rumour, too, and has
been for some time past, of large reinforcements that
were expected by our enemies having failed them,
owing to a military revolt at Nicolajeff. If this be
really the case—and the confirmation of the report
bas, I understand, come to very high quarters--then
the Russians must be cramped for men, and will not
do aught to provoke us into operations, which they
must assuredly pray to Heaven to delay until they
are in a fitter condition to meet them.

The fortifications still °Dadaist) to arise on every
side ; nothing is to be seen but redoubts. The soldiers
are getting quite sick of this eternal digging. One
aptly remarked to his captain the other day, who was
" wigging " him for not paring off a oountersoarp in
better style—" I don't know anything about this. If
the Russians are to be fought by Labia. (redoubts),
why wets we not taught to dig, instead of being
drilled with musket' r
Mechlin Packs has given in his resignation as
chef-d'etat-major, and goes away today. This has
occurred in ooesequenos of a quarrel with Omer
Pasha. Finding, it appears, that everyone was
laughing at him, and that no one paid any
attention to his orders, he wrote the generalissimo •
rather insolent letter, asking permission to join Ismail
Pasha at Shumla. This led to a terrific uproar, which
has ended in the way I have described. This is now
the fifth paella whom death or a squabble has re-
moved from the scene of action sines the landing of
the Turks in the Crimes. With the exception of
young Tefwik Paoha, Omer Paella's nephew, and
young T.fwik Paoha, omev Packs's aephew, sod
Selim Paths, the loss of the others is rather a matter
for rejoicing than for regret.
The Commander-in-Chief has long been announcing
his intention, and, for aught I know, honestly en-
deavouring to weed the bad men out of the army. I
would he had made greater progress. Too many still
flourish like green bay treas. Zaffir Pasha succeeds
Muchlias as chef-d'stat-major.
The Russians have bees burning villages in the
neighbourhood for the last two or three days. One
is on fire u I write. Report eays also that they are
filling up the well

(mom TAI

FRANCE.

or us DAUM NZIM.)

PAILS, TIMADAY Evaxnra

It appears by the Mositarr that the bombardment
of Sebastopol has come:wooed in muse. The pos-
tal terms in which the official journal states that the
Allies have obtained an advantage are sot very en-
couraging, bat lam happy to state that a private
telegraphic despatch front a respectable source affirms
that a breach has been made.

All the new, of to-day caner= the sombre re-
presentations made in my recent letter respecting the
attitude of Austria. A despatch (not publiebed),
dated Vienna, this day, bee been shown to me, which
states that in the last Conference the Austrian Pleni-
potentiary plainly said that the propositions of the
Western Powers went too far, and that Austria
could not follow their policy.

The tollowieg deep; toile, ban been received to-
day by diffsnnt agencies :

" ViiirsA, Assn. 17.

" The Preaulesibiati of today mawiwoos fist SU Roam
Warsaw' lathed wswedsy, sad that dare are mons to
Sanwa that Baas all maks as ossoweloa arsehlai Iho
natation a bor pewee in tits Slash Sea."
" \Tatum, Aram 17.
" • warier twat St. Poesesbarg strived yesterday
make with bosh lannaleas be tho Rumba Ploonotew
Sissies. It Is loped that togoorrow (Rodaesday) SW Na-
gano* via bat a fads& 4 wlasi taw Mad Pobat

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 18, 1855.

b diseased. Yesterday, for the drat thee, the it sprees
teak a earrisp airbag."

"Tanen, Aram 17.
" A letter from Arta (Lower Albania), dated April 5,
data that see Greek soldiers baying deserted and ad-
vanced into the Turkish territory, Achamt Pasha had
marcliod against them with a battalion of infantry sad
two pieces of mountain Isaac.."

It is probable that both M. Dronyn do Lhays and
Lord John Russell will leave Vienna on Friday.
I understand that the protocols will be headed as
reeolutions of a Congress," and not a w Confer-
ence."

The Bourse was greatly inclined to rise this morn-
ing, owing to the announcement in the Moniteur that
the bombardment of Sebastopol had been commenced.
But the tendency of speculation received a rude
check by the telegraphic announcement of a further
fall of in Consols. People hesitated to believe in
this great decline, and thought there must be some
mistake in the despatch, but a second mis-
sive from London reporting Console at 89t,
j, with • further fall of I, left little
room for doubt. The fall was explained here in this
way. There was a rise of yesterday, in conse-
quence of an article in the 611 obi stating that the
loan would be sixteen millions repayable in thirty
annuities. But it was afterwards known that the
bankers had decided, is their interview with the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, that the loan should be
negotiated not in Annuities, but in Console. It was,
therefore, expected that the monied interest would
continue to depress the market in order to obtain the
loan at a cheap rate, and that a continued fall may be
looked for until the completion of the affair. The
Bents, although kept down by the above circum-
stances, 'hewed considerable buoyancy. But little
business was done, but the last quotation, 88fr. 80c.,
was only 6c. lower than yesterday. Most of the
railways rose lfr. or 2fr. Bank of Frame roes 10ft.

SPAIN.

MADRID, AralL 16.

The grand review paired yesterday by the Duke
of Victoria was magnificent, 25,000 men were in
line. The troops cried, " Viva the Queen," " Vivie
Espartero," " Viva Liberty." M. Oksags will leave
for Paris en Friday.

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to a higher sphere of light, es if to indicate that the purity
.of Lis life and sentiments disqualified hint for a longer
s:raggle with the selfishness of toe wield. (Loud cheers.)
1,011 resolution was put to the molting, and unanimosidy -
Mooted:
Mr. mammy proposed the neat resolutionwail, which wail
as follows 'Thai the courageous sad unflinching advo-
cacy of Lord Duality Sigart,ever eatended to the feeble sad
oppressed, whether victims of domestic injustice or a foreign
tyranny, as well as the incessant labours and judicious
liberality which he constantly employed in ameliorating the
condition of the poorer classes, have not merely endeared his
recollection to our memory, bat has contributed to raise the
character of the order to which be belonged, to strengthen
the faith of the people in public men, and to maintain the
icetitutions of this country." He dwelt at some length on
the noble lord's private worth and unrestricted liberality,
and characterised him as an enlightened statesman and as
unswerving patriot.
Mr. NICoLAT, Is semedin the resolution, said he had
been for many years with Mtn noble lied, sad had
been the constant witness of his gessreaky, kkodaese, suet
many virtues. He wee so esauses lord, Ban astaristeent.
be lett his order and associated himself with the people.
The working classes found bias a friend, and the pone a
generous patron.
M. Mutant's rose to support the resolution, and was
greeted with load applause. Be said that the patriotiem of
Lord Dudley Stuart and the benefits he had conferred spat
this country had been adverted to by ease of the spoken
who had weeded him, but it would not be proper on his
put to pursue that subject. Met there was owe part of tho
resolution which bad a close ramose* to himself,
and to that he would briefly address hinuelf.
They had s. en that an animal, b nattiest in-
stinct, very often perceived a physical danger which
no human pbilesophy could as*. Jut so mankind was en-
dowed by the Creator with natural instinct of a higher order,
and some men marked out from the rest saw the results of

Sir 0. Trinelyan—Yes; eithortinates were to be obtained
tba East, bat skin was a moll 'umber of stomkeepen
end Tba fatbaattraotee were to be selooted
from etas w were coseereant matt"' In the Medi-
terenean sad the Best. The Arm OOP (*bob by the bow
raltharith st hems was to direct the co.lll64lll7lilistral at
Malta to propose a small amber of Malt". Car" and males
tole sad em, to be eh Towards increased is; Dumber b the
troop brag ordered to the Dardanelles. They also
Mesabi Omminnemy Smith, is charge at Corfu, 40 rbilb,a.
abate with the ambassador sad consuls at Constan..`"ln
to appoint subeedisates snevereant with the Bast, to c0r:421
fishmeal's of sissy kind, to famish a basis for subseques:
posseedinperw the &apply of the army; and he afterwards
sessieed Itherwriess from Mr. Commissary Filder to enter
lath all neeemery oontraets. Commissary Smith reached
Osaslealfaopie en 12th March, and wee employed six weeks
pier te the snivel of the troops in extensive preparations,
Issemmaalcatiag with the ambassador and consuls, and &f-
-ilth merehants at Yana and the Dardanelles, from whom he
resolved cordial assistance. He acquired in a short space of
time a large fund of information 'entice to the flll9lllKt. of
the country. He assured from the ambassador of the
Turkish gremotneut the great barracks at Scutari, with its
magunes, and others au the Asiatic side, and another in
the Turkish dockyard. He went over to Gall poll, sad
*seared a magasina there, and he arranged for • large
storehouse on the Dardanelles. He entered into contracts for
the Supply of the troops to arrive at Gallipoli, and returned
to Constantinople and entered into contracts for the supoly
of the 10,000 mops. The contracts came tato operation
immediately on the troops arriving, sad worked extremely
well, so that from the first there was no deficiency is the
commissariat, and Commissary Filder reported that on
his snivel at Constantinople he found the troops were
being supplied with es great regularity as they were at
Cltobliam There wee no want of interpreters, and Com-
missary Smith engaged several young men of the lonian
Islands wall acquainted with the languages of the Best
for this purpose. Mr. Filder, on striving at Constantinople,
found all the arrangements for the supply of provisions to
the troops that were there and those expected there to fall
operation. A land treuspert envies either arrived at Gal-
lipoli with the troops, or before they went there. Almag
these were the Maltese earta, to which he had already re-
hand ; bat they were few is number : he believed only 20.
At that time, however, it was not known to what quarter
the troop. would he sent. Mr. Filder arrived at Conetan
tiaople on the fad April. That gentleman was 64 years
of age, but though so far advanced in life, the government
considered him an efficient servant. He had been with the
army during the whole of the Peninsular woe, and had sub-
sequently been • commitment officer at several important
military stations abroad. The War Department de-
liberately selected him to accompany the army to
the Bast, as being their beat commissariat officer,
and in consideration of kis tried and approved ser-
vices. There wee one aasistanvoonimiseary geasral with
seek division of the army, and a deputy assistant or an ex-
perienced commissariat clerk to each brigade of infantry
On the 31st March the whole commissariat force amounted
to 44 persons, and it was increased to 49 on the 6th June,
when the army was at Varna. This number, however,
did not include subordinates, whom Mr. Filder had full
power to engage on the spot. Before Mr. Felder left Con-
stantinople, and before the army went to Verna, he sent to
Malta for 200 mule carts; he also sent hoots directions to
the authorities to obtain 600 melee in Spain ; he procured
300 males at Malta ; and all the mules that could be had at
Smyrna A* obtained there. Mr. Filder reckoned that
3,000 maths of the country, and 6,000 mules would be ne-
ossony, sea transport service for the army when in Bulgaria,
then modelling of 26,000 men. Just before the
army left Varna for the Crimea, the commissariat transport
servos, in Mr. Rider's estimation, was sufficient to move
provisions tot them for 13 days proepeetively, provided each
soldier carried three days' rations with him, as was usual.
Me. Filder never reported to the goveromeat that the tram-
ps, service was deficient or otherwise.
To Lord Seymour—The commissariat was in nowise
Is blame if there was my deficiency of tents, hoessolethe,
nosebags, and things of that sort for the army. It
was the duty of the quartermaster-general to provide stores
ef that deocriptioa, to keep t,imself acquainted with the
quantity of such stores is band from time to time, and to
have them margined as occasion required ; it was no part of
the duty of the commissariat to provide stores of that kind.
All that the Commissariat Deportment had to do was to
hold those stores as storekeepers for the quartermaster-
general. Previous to the expedition leaving England, it
was thought desirable that the troops should, as far eel
possible, have the same description of diet as they bad been
sesseterned to at home, and supplies of porter, aurae,
men, tee, and other articles wet* furnished to the trooos
before they arrived at Yarns ; but subsequently, the sugar
and coffee, and also the tea, but to a less ex-
tent, begun to be consumed so rapidly, that the
Commander-in-Chief deemed it right to order that those
articles should be issued at fixed rations. At that time the

oppression and dangerous pvernments more clearly and
more wisely then all the wisdom of wily politicians and all
the secrecy of canning diplomatists enabled them to detect.
Ton lir ter class were sometime disposed to think that emote
directly affecting the freedm and national existence of a
particular people did not necessarily influence the condition
of other nations, and whits they saw Poland struck out from
' the list of the living, Hungary prostrate by • lawless com-
bination of despots and by the bottle holders of despots, fair
Italy reduced to a mere geographical name, or Germany in
the Herodian condition of ministering to princesses—they
thought that those and similar matins did not affect the
condition and the security either of England, Prance, or
the rest. Them miserable votaries of • mi.erable expediency
shrugged their shoulders with indifference, being tin-
der the influence of • self-conceited coml. nee, exclaiming
" What are these things to us ? We are not our brother's
keeper." (Hem, hear.) There was a immunity in nations,
and liberty was the common good of the great human
family. Wh that received any detriment, a shock
wee given to every member of that family, and the liberty
of every one became less is amount, or deficient In security.
(Hear, hear.) However isolated nations might appear,
there were always two principles struggling in every poli-
tical storm—namely, freedom End oppression—and what
was gained by one principle was lost by the Ether. Hence
they saw that wb gallant people had fallen down
victims to oppression, the agony of their falling brethren
etruek like a thunderbolt at the heart of good men. Directly

a nation fell, a shoat of indignation anise from tie beet
WI of hanisaity,a yell of horror from the noblest of human
hearts, because a sense of the immanent danger was brought
, home to the instinct of self-preservation. There was a

saiventl cry of sympathy and horror at the tidings
if the fall of Poland and Hungary; for the danger
resulting therefrom was not one of ordinary dimensions.
There was an agglomeration of slumbering lava in the womb
of that vrlcanc—(hear, bear)—and the cry that had been
rZed at the tall of those nations was a cry attested by in-
spired prophecy. How slow was the progress of the logic
of events ? The steps of history completely Willed the ex-
pee.stions of the measurers by the yard. Poland and Hun-
pry fell, and because the heavens did not break down
Instantly—because the stars did not fall from their eau-
termed spheres, sad because the earth centinued to go round,
the horror subsided and uni 1 sympathy went away. He
did not complain of that, for such was the nature of man.
Those who fell under the weight of great via ional misfor-
tunes were pitied for a while, then were looked upon
with indifference and forgotten won; sometimes more
than forgotten, shunned like a burden and avoided as a
nuisance. (Cheers.) But whilst such as experience
attested the general weaknem of human nature, a bountiful
Providence chose some spatial instruments, and the men so
selected were raised above the ordinary level of man's
nobility. In thou few exalted characters we saw our nature
redeemed—our nature consolidated with the noblest piaci-
plea. In such men there would be no weariness from watch-
ing, no relaxation on account of disappointments,no exhaus-
Soo In consequence of frustrated hopes. With thou few cha-
rumen success did not excuse crime. (Hear.) They had not
two eats of measures—one for ragged robbers in the high-
way, and another for robbers set over them 'in purple—one
punishment for a briber at a borough election, and another
for a royal robber wit., might obtain the sympathy of a na-
tion. Those few characters knew that morality was not
excluded from politics; they bad companion for the safer-
tueate, sympathy for the suffering, sad a sentiment of fra-
ternity towards all who were oppressed. (Hear, hear.)
With such characters those were not passing emotions
caused by sudden emergencies but principles of their whole
lives. In them, to use the words of Bt. Paul, they,lived,and
moved, and had their being. One of the noblest and purest
of thou characters was the man whose memory they had
that night assembled to boomer. No man had
bees more conspicuous for his virtues than Lord
Dudley Blurt. There was no man in whom pub-
lic and private virtues were more nobly blended with
unpretending modesty and unostentatious sincerity. He
had been the colleague of their excellent chairman (Bit. B.
Hall), and never could he have a better. The gentlemen of
Ilas7lebone had been his constituents, and never had their
dace been better placed. (Hear, hoar.) Many of
thou present bad associated with him in his patriotic and
philanthropic exertions. All those circumstances were high
and weighty claims upon them to honour his memory—high
and weighty claims up re them to evince towards him their
public and private gratitude. Alas that all that was left to
Sum now was to pay veneration to his memory. He would
sake his feeble means to any exertion that might be made
to do honour to his name; but, in his humble opinion,
there was a. better means of doing honour to his memory
thus by raising statues and the like. Of him they might
say with the poet--

ore perenntua.

In his opinion the best means of doing honour to his memory
was to imitate his example. He might be equalled, but
she weld never be surpassed. He was present
at a meeting having a similar object in view
a few days ago. He osier d to be excused
for confessing frankly that the satisfaction he derived on
that occasion had not been without a tinge of !sorrowful me-
lons:heir. It forced itself upon his mind that few at that
meeting who united in paying a tribute of praise and admi-
ration to the memory of the man when he was deed, were
found united with him in the glorious objects which, when
living, he permed. (Hear, bear.) If all those who desired
to pay • tribute of respect and admiration to the memory of
Lord Dudley Stuart bad supported him in his exertions,
and had assisted him in his efforts to throw the weight of
England into the male of national justice, bow different
the condition of Europe would have been now—bow differ-
ent the condition of Hoglandirelf would have been at this
moment ! (Cheer) Those events which east a gloom of
mourning over thousands of British hearts were )terrible
evidence that hie entisingphilentbropy towards the suffer-
ing, and his persevering a tuition to the cause of oppressed
nationalities, would have been • better and wiser
policy than that which presided, and still pre-
sided, over the destinies of the world. (dear, hear.)
That was not an occasion for dwelling upon public events,
but he was • plain, frank man, and therefore he claimed
permission to say that if those stirring events were not suffi-
cient to inspire all admirers of Lord Dudley Stuart to use
all their exertions in that line of policy with which the noble
lord had been identified for the last 26 years, then he must
confer that any monument raised to hie memory would
form • strange contrast to the contemporary history of the
British empire. Considering the noble nature of his heart
and the peculiar leaning of his philanthropy, he thought
that something in the way of public charity would be more
appropriate than a statue. Whether it were an institution
for the blind, as Sir B. Hall bad suggested, or an asylum
for poor refugees in sickness and disnese—anything to do
good for those to whom he was a father during his life,
would prove more acceptable to his immortal spirit, .h:ch
might then be hovering over that assembly, than • statue,
which the living pared by, and fer which the dead did not
care. M. Kossuth concluded by expressing his hearty con-
currence in the resolution, which was agreed to.
Mr. Dern proposed the following resolution r—" That
this sn, sting is profoundly impressed with the conviction
that services so rare, disiaterested. and patriotic, eminently
deserve to be commemorated by a becoming public testimo-
nisi ; and that, for the purpose of co operating with
,the
committee already formed in order to carry this object into
effect, the following ntlemen be appointed a committee
for the borough of aryiebone :—Sir B. Hall, M.P , Lord
Ebringtoo, DI.P , William Ewen, Esq., M.P. Captain
Probyn, Mean. J. Forster, J. B. Kirby. H. Ferrer, C.
George, W. D. Cooper, D. Stockton, J. M'Evely, G.
Poland. M. Michell, J. Whitmore, J. A. Nieholay, W. S.
Burton, P. H. Bridgman, E. Hodges, C. Hickman, P.
Graham."
Mr. E. BODONI seconded the resolution, which wee
agreed to.
• handsome subseription was then entered into, the right
has. chairman heeding it with 60 guineas.
A vote of thanks having been awarded to Sir B. Hell,
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