The Express.
London, England, 1855-02-19 00:00:00

INUIT MO
PAIR.

There seems to be a fatality about dock mango.
mut, or rather dock mismanagement. As an
appendix to your recent articles, I will endeavour to
give you a fair history of that company which MS
to make Paris a commercial port—create a mead
Peel 'raids sight of the Tuileries The beginning
of this raft Map has been singularly unfortunate.
Eves the word "Docks" has undergone the most
aboard interpretations. At the present moment the
most flourishing "docks" of Paris are the wanhame
of a Parisian Moses. This spirited imitator of the
Miseries has happily named his establishment
"Decks de la Toilette!" But even this abuse of the
word—this degradation of the dignity of docks—
may be passed without notice, when we compare the
tailor with the great commercial company that is
September of 1852 obtained from the then President
of the Republic a decree authorising the establish.
meat of the Docks Napoleon. The idea wee new
it flattered Parisian pride. I believe it was even well
calculated to attract hard commercial heads. Your
readers may remember, also, how spiritedly various
journals wrote on the subject. It is obvious that
the then President cordially gave his adhesion
to the scheme, eines he allowed his own name to be
given to it. I believe that the rush for shares was
remarkable ; and the men who were intrusted with
their allotment appear to have been not less remark.
able. A large number of shares were kept book. Of
course they roes to a premium. The statutes of the
society were published. The shares became sensitive,
however, se time wore on, and there was no appear.
&nos of work in progress. But everything was to be
beyond sespieicm, the affair being so nearly related
to the goverent, particular care was to be takes
of the interests of the shareholders. I believe that,
with the intention of keeping everything in MN"
ithe government went so far as to appoint a commie•
sioner charged with the duty of representing the
interests of the shareholders, at the board of directors.
Now all this was done in the autumn of 1852. Is-
-use were the works that were to have been

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY.

NAVAL AND MILITARY;

Military °Sam who have offered themselves, and
have bees noted at the war department, tae service
with the Turkish army, or with irregular levies
attached to the British army during the present
war, are requested to communicate their present ad-
dresses to that department without delay.—War De-
partment, Feb. 17, 1835.

The foregoing notification doubtless applies to the
execution of the new 'military convention jolt made
between the British government and the Sublime
Porte, empowering the former to raise a military
force, not exceeding 20,000 men, from amee.gst the
subjects of the Sultan, to be employed in emanation
with the allied armies of the Bast. Of this
eonveation the Observer of yesterday says :

Bap bam already been taken , sad ocean despatched to
the Tashi& mamas to rain 15,000 men. This form is
to be levied, armed, clothed, fed, and paid by Ragland, and
I entirely under her ommand. It will emistof two divisions
of lefentry, mad a corresponding form of angry and artil-
lery, sad will probably be employed in Asia at the opening
of the campaign. It is sot kneaded to interfere with the
randier discipline of so may of this °Ballarat as shall
happen to be Klamelmaa, who will probably be under the
mazaaad of regimeatal cam of their ova faith and
meatry. h o doabt may Wags alma end saes will be
Morposated with this legion, sad it is not unlikely that
may Christian subjects of the Sultan will be fated fight-
ing La its reeks. The chief direction, however, will be
@attested to British or forage dicers of experiasee, *sleeted
here for the highest comma& Goverment ere Miran
to Mai* fer this service erporieneed dimes wins are not
otherwise employed. It is understood that arrangemets
are fa program by which °Seen who have served is the
Best ladle Company's movie, will be enabled to joie this
form ae better conditions than they were hitherto enabled
to obtain.

ADMIRALTY, FIB. 17.—APPOININEN7L-8
J. Goan (1866) to the Mai:, 8, screw stout e100p,272712
0-
horse pow, et Woolwieb.
Clerk J. W. Hillyaz to the Agssessoa, 91, mew stun
tag ship, of 8004toree pewee, litellterreaeas station.

POIITBIIOIITH, Fah. 18.

ne Basilisk, 6, paddle-wheel ateam-eloop, Com-
mander leaser, wring at Spithead this morning trona this
Scotch mast. She comes into buboes to-morrow, to refit
fot the Bahia. _

TER ROYAL ALBERT BEPORB

Said sad Beamptea Casket Clubs Ind • game at anoint s,
the lee, ea Kr. Elliott's large mill-dam at Upper Brampton
Meer, whoa a large ileneeane sesembled to whams the
trawl mart. The capers, width same et the batten and
bird= eat, were (says the bad pone) et the most re-
tinas and nano= deamipties. beim as often of • hen-
naed cad Minns anisette as the perpendicular, whin
mused no anon saserimeat to the spectators, who Indulged
in eke of laagble es men unlap:3sevotee to the tat sad
bells wee penetrate ea the surface. It la sow 18
years elan a similar match was ea the same iromed.
—At Tylaad, between Maidstmee sad Boderater, the saew
drifting frees the Blue Bell and Bexley hills, accumulated
in the send, for upwards of a mile, to the depth of free
Ave to sight or nine foot, completely burying the Tyland
toll-bar, sad, indeed, almost covering the toll-house. On
the following day, a largo number of man were set to
work is re-opening the cutting, the sides of which, when
the snow was thrown up, were, in some plies., m high as
twelve feet. This had a singular and picturesque effect,
and was visited on Sunday by hundreds of penes'.
—Mr. Edward Evan, of Plas-du, a highly respectable
farms, residing is Lianrhardr, Montgomeryshire, was re-
using teen Lleafyllin market on Wednesday evening last,
whoa, la order to We • abort cut home, he went across
tie Solis, a medium snowstorm descending at the time.
It is empesed that he lost the footpath, sad was nearly
Weed la the new. Cries for help were hoard by the Ja-
nine afillarat farmhouse, but, though an immediate
as , south w the sufferer was not discovered. On the
fallowing morning the body was found, not far from the
farmhouse, by some men who went to look after the sheep.
Deceased was in bit 51st year, and was much esteemed.
At Clifton, near Bristol tles thermometer stood some days
ago as low as 12 degrees Fahnateit ; at Leeds, oa Thurs-
day, it fell to 9 degrees, being 19 degrees below the coldest
day in February last year. At Gateshead, on Friday, the
lowest point attained was 7 degrees. At Didsbury, in
Cheshire, on the 16th, the temperature was as low as
4.6 degrees. On the same day, • thermometer in a
garden at Blackmarston, Herefordshire, stood at 4 degrees.
At Banbury, In Oxfordshire, on Saturday, a self-rmlstering
Instrument in an exposed situation at the outskirts of the
town marked 4! degrees. In more sheltered pleas it was
8 degrees to 12 degrees.CAYSlLlDaL—Yerhaps no better proof of the severity of
this seas= could be adduced than the fact that, • few days
ago, a biases was caught alive on the Grantekester-read,
now Cambridge. It wee seen floundering in the snow by •
labouring man, who ran up sad enured it without diffi-
culty. It was a male, and had been a fine bird the mark-
ings being beautifully distinct; but, owing no doubt to the
weather being so severe, it had become my poor—in fact,
was almost starved. What renders this circumstance the
seers remarkable is, that the bittern, though formerly
tiful in the fens, but beans almost extinct—Cam-
Cie (Mid&
.—Daring the week (says the Ludo Mawr% the
din Aire has been frozen over, and affordedgood skating
slow Leeds ; the same may be said of the Wharf.; the
Leeds and Liverpool canal has been sealed up ; and the Ain
and Calder Navigation has been frozen; whilst the ponds
and lakes throughout the district have been co with
in so thick that they have borne sally troops of skaters,
curlers, and others, who have sought amusement on them.
The Aire and Calder Navigation, which has not been dosed
by frost for many years, was hoses over on Thursday night;
but a passage was opened for vessels yesterday morning by
the company's iron screw tug, which plies between Leeds
and Goole every day. The company yesterday, at 9 a.m.,
were delivering goods which left Goole on Thursday after.
noon; the voyage from that port (38 miles) having been
performed in seven hours. The tug, we believe, will na-
tion to run daily, and the canal wilLbe kept open as longasany vessels will move. Some idea may be formed of the
power of this vessel to keep the navigation open, whoa we
state that yesterday she cut her way through ice seven inches,
think, The thermometer was lower on Thursday night than
it bas been known in Leeds for years—no less than 23 de-
grees below the freezing point.
A farmer named Finis, who attended • feast at Black-
banters, Devonshire, • few nights ago, was found next
morning lying on his back dead, in • field. His face, nose,
and eyes were very much eaten by birds, or some kind of
vermin. It is supposed that the deceased, having taken too
much grog, was unable to find his way home, and the night
being intensely sold he was frosen to death. A labourer,
whilst on his way to work at bierrypit Farm, on Dartmoor,
on Monday lest, was found deed in the road—having been
frozen to death.

Numerous ether eases of lass of life are also reported
in the provincial papers, caused by exposure to the 'entity
of the weather.

Similar amounts reach as from abroad.

Ix PAnts.—At midnight (16th and 16th) the ther-
mometer of M. Chevalier stood at 4 ddeebg 8•l0tha below
zero centigrade (23 1 3 F.) ; at six o'dosk this mors-
ing (16th) at 8 deg. 3-10tha C. (17 F.), mid at noon 3
{•loths (24 F.).
The late heavy falls of mow have caused consi-
derable delay in the trail% on the Western Railway.
The train which left Paris on Thursday Mind
at Chartres half an hoar after its usual time, and Ins•
mediately started for Le Mans. It had not, however, pro-
'aided more than two leagues when it was brought to a
stand-mill by the mass of snow which had drifted on to the
line to a considerable depth, and was compelled to make all
speed back to Chartres, feariag that it might be regularly
blocked up. A train which left Le Mans the mme clay for
Chartres wee stopped about half way, and, the passengers
compelled to per the night in the carriages. An Jemmies
number of workmen, with a detachment of the 3rd Chas-

seers to assist them, were sent to the spot. but the violence
of the wind was such as to impede their effectual operations.
The circulation between Pans and Chartres has been pretty
well maintained, but beyond the latter place it has been
very difficult and irregular ; and, from the present appear-
ance of the weather, it is uncertain when the circalation on
the line will be properly re-established.
A letter from Warsaw, of the 6th, says that the thermo-
meter stood at 20 degrees of Reamer below sere (13.30
Fahrenheit below), which circumstance, added to the dear-
uses of provisions and the went of occupation for the work-
ing classes, had caused great suffering.
A letter from Elsinore, in Denmark, of the Bth, says
During the last twelve years we have not lad such a
rigorous winter as the present one. AU the northern part
of the Sound is almost frozen over • there only remains
open in feet a very narrow passage, which intends in nearly
a straight line from Elsinore to the mouth of the port of
lielsingborg. A number of Swedish permute have already
brought, in wheelbarrows and handcarts, provisions for sale
is the market of Elsinore. If the cold should increase, the
is in the Sound will aeon be thick enough to bear heavily-
laden vehicles. Our port and that of Hehingborg are
crowded with vowels which have arrived in the last few
days; they cannot continue their voyage until the ice shall
break up, and, according to all appearance., that will take
plum later than usual."

PETWOUTII. BUNDAT.—III 001110411111109 of the continu-
ance of the easterly gales a very large number of merchant
vessels remain in the Bound. It is supposed there cannot
be less than 360 ships bare, waiting to go up the channel,
sod some of them are large East India and other traders.
The cold continua intense, and to is found in this neigh-
bourhood seven and eight inches thick, a circumstance
without parallel daring the last 16 or 20 years.

mums& 4KONG THB HORSES OF THE ARMY
IN 2-" ii;

At a meeting of the Royal Agricultural Society of
Inglaud, bald at the society's home, Hanover•equare, on
Saturday last, Mr. Fisher Hobbs in the chair, it was stated
that a commusisatioa had been ramrod from the French

government, requesting the aid et the Royal Agricultural
Society in investigating the mature of a disease which had
made its appear's°, among the tittle in the Crimea, and
that the council had instructed Professor Simonds, as the
veterinary inspector of the society, to place himself in im-
mediate towassuaiestion with M. Herbert, the Ceaml-

General of !ranee in London, and to tarnish him with
every information he possessed that might aid the French
government in their inquiry. Professor Simonds sow&
ingly waited upon the Consul-General, and with his sanc-
tion prepared • list of questions to be forwarded to the
several veterinary surgeons now with their regiments in the
Crimea ; and the society believe that upon answers being
obtained, such an amount of information will be powered on
this subject as cannot fail, when acted upon, to be of essen-
tial service in effecting the desired object. In a report
presented et the same meeting by the Royal Veterinary
College, to the council, allusion was made in the following
terms to the importance of the matter :—" It is to be
remembered that the history of these spisotie affections
r shows that whoa once they here taken root in any of the
countries of Europe, they have spread with greater or lesser
rapidity over the whole continent, destroying the cattle by
thousands in their coarse. It is this circumstance, added to
the fact of the existence of the disease in Turkey, which has
mated so much solicitude on the part of the French
government, and the governors cannot but feel equally
anxious in the matter, seeing that if the cattle in France or
Gummy should be effected, our own would ere tong fall
victims to the direful pest from the importations of animals
which exists." . . .

Great interest is now attaching itself to 'the above sub-
ject, sad the Royal Agricultural Society intend to make
a very strict investigation into all mitten relating to it.

Cnnmi Pei...cu.—We understand that it is pro-
posed to add a court, containing illustrations of Indian
manners, arts, and manufactures, to the collections at the
Crystal Palace. A nucleus for such a court already exists,
in a Mile of fee-eimile copies of the remarkable fresco
paintings of the Ajunta eaves, which were made for the
But India Company, and have been lent by them to the
Palau, where they are exhibited in the gallery OM the
Assyrian Court- In addition to these, many smaller articles
bare ►een presented and lent to the company ; and arrange-
meats are being made for their display, as soon as a sum•
dent number have been collected to form an exhibition of
interest. It is notorious that an immense number of admi-
rable specimens of Indian wares and manufactures exists in
private hands throughout this country; and there can be
as doubt that the ownen of such thin p would willbtgly
lend them for exhibition at Sydenham, if they wen made
aware of the lateations of the company.

CARY BUSINESS OF THE
WEEK.

--•—.
Mownar, Fin. 19.
Ozanne or Tax DAY.—Supply—casamittes; Newts.
paper, dn., Postage and Stamp Duties—committee there-
upon; Savings Beaks and Friendly Societies Investments
Bill—eseond reading; Supply—report; Fain and Markets
(Ireland) Bill--second reading ; Ways and Meens—com-
mittee Conerlidated Fund (2,000,0001) Bill—second
reeding.
NOTIOIII OP Marion.--Sir Fatacie BASING—To ask
the government whether they have any objection to lay
epos the table of the house the letters of Lord Replan to
the Doke of Neweastle, complaining of the information
given in the papers, and the letter of the Doke of Newcastle
to the newspapers incemesquisee.
Mr. DLlthr Saratoga—To ask questions of the Prost.
dent of the Board of Control respecting the connezioa of
the editor of the .Flriend of Media with the government, and
the facilities givers to that gentleman above other news-
paper editors in Calcutta. And also, at whet period of the
session the. President of the Board of Control prepense to
bring Is his Indian budget this year.
Mr. Danumonn—To ask the First Lord of the Trustily
whether he will ley on the table of the Lenge the report of
the Commissioners appointed to try Sir James Brooke ; and,
at the same time, a copy of the secret instructions sent out
by the Earl of Clarendon to the same eommimioners.
Mr. Wareow--To ask the Prime Minister, or the Under
Secretary of the War Department, what measures have
been taken or are in progress for the removal of the con-
valescents, or the patients capable of removal, in the boel4-
tals at Scutari or in the Crimes, to England, or to some
of oar Mediterranean colonies, for the perfect restoration
of their health.
Mr. lioasratt —To ask the First Lord of the Treasury,
whether instructions have been sent, or are intended to be
sent, to her Mejesty's Superintendent of Trade in China, to
cancel the bonds taken on British trade at Shanghai, be-
tween the 9th of February and 12th July, 1864 ; with other
questions relating to the disputes arising out of the derange-
silent of fiscal and other authority by the civil war in China.
Also whether the Queen's government intend to compel
the Chinese government to observe treaties in the levying
of customs duties.

Mr. Cum./roan—To ask the Secretary of State for the
Home Depanment • question respecting the new Recorder-
ship at Brighten.
Mr. NZWDZOATN—To ask the Tinder Secretary of State
for the War, whether steps have been taken to provide the
army in the East with clothing suitable for a spring or
summer campaign, and to replace the tents worn out or
destroyed daring the present winter.
Mr. Non—To ask whether it is the intention of govern-
ment to give to those soldiers of the British Army in the
Crimea, who may survive, new kits, and such necessary
articles as hare been lost or rendered wholly unserviceable.
Mr. 111241.1 r Goan LANOTON—To ask the President of
the Board of Trade, whether it is the intention of the
government to introduce soy bill in accordance with
the report of the commissioners appointed to inquire into
local charges upon shipping.
Mr. 1111NRY BIRXELIT—To ask the Secretary of State
for the Home Department, whether it be the intention of
g eat to repeal the act paced last session for the regu-
lation of the eels of beer on the Sabbath.
Mr. °zonal; Dump/a—To ask the Pint Lied of the
Admiralty a question respecting the letters of officers of the
transport service in the Black Sea.
Mr. 1111ADLAY —To ask the Chancellor of the Exche-
quer, whether the government have determined upon the
adoption of a system of decimal coinage of which a two-
shilling piece shill form one of the competent parts.
Mr.EWART—To ask for returns respecting capital punish-
ment in Scotland.
Mx.Mactunenv—To move for copies of all correspondence
between the Irish government and the officers of her Ma-
jetty's treasury in eionnesioa with the selection and appoint-
ment of directors of convict prisons in Ireland ; and returns
of services, &c., of certain officers appointed.
Mr. ALCOOL—Returns of lieutenants of the royal navy
promoted to rank of commander since the let day of Ja-
nuary, 1853, up to the present time, with particulars of their
naval career; and similar returns of lieutenants of the
royal navy made lieutenants since the Ist day of January,
1840, who have d afloat at least two years; also return
of the number of soldiers in the infantry, cavalry, artillery,
and marines respectively, who have purchased their dis-
charges during the last ten years.
Mr. LOCKS/LINO —Return of the total number of officers
and men in the army who have been sent to the seat of war
in the Crimes. Like return of the killed ; of the wounded ;
of the wounded who have since died ; of those who have
been invalided ; of those who have recovered and returned
to their duty ; of those who have died from sickness ; of
thole who are invalided up to the latest date ; end of the
efficient officers and men, to the latest date, distinguishing
in each, cavalry, infantry, artillery, sappers and ruiners,
as well as officers, noncommissioned officers' and men. Anti
return of the total number of horses which have heat sent

out to the mat of war ; total number killed ; total number
dead from other causes ; and total number affective, up to
the latest. data. _ . _

Mr. Wan—Address for return of the names of all per-
sons employed in the diplomatic service as ambassadors,
envoys, ministers, charges d'affaires, secretaries of embassy
or secretaries of legation, paid attaches or unpaid attaches,
and the countries where so employed ; stating the period of
absence of each officer in each year, during the last tea
years from his poet. Also, return of the rules and regula-
tions under which each candidate for the diplomatic service
is now admitted to the profession, and the names of those
candidates who have passed an examination previous to
having entered the diplomatic service.
Sir J. YovNo—Bill to amend the laws concerning the
burial of the dead in Ireland.
Sir J. YOUNG—BiII to amend the laws in force for the
relief of the destitute poor in Ireland.
Mr. Giotto' Samosas—Return of the number of quar-
ters of wheat, flour, and all other kinds of grain, imported
into Ireland, from the Ist day of July, 1863, to the 31st day
of December, 1864, inclusive. And similar returns of grain
and flour imported into Great Britain from Ireland.
Colonel Duxes—Return of the names of officers who
volunteered from the Artillery and Rogineer corps, and
cadets who had passed at Woolwich (for sionsmismins Ise
these corps), to the regiments of the line ; and the names
of those who were subsequenly employed on the staff of the
army at home or abroad.
Mr. SOTHERON—Report from Board of Trade upon the
private bills for harbours, docks, navigation., dtc., in con-
formity with the practice in force with respect to railway
, bills.
Mr. Pmts.—Army Estimates (in Committee of Supply).
ahousicL.Lse oonanoefwtshpeapEexr,cnasno.7pnos—talngecoanmdmitstoistagno;
client to repeal the exemption of newspapers from postage
tbduld.t7ser.h,oetloilemove the following resolutioh. : that it is expo-
duty ; end to charge on newspapers and printed books and
papers transmitted by poet rates of postage not exceeding
one penny for every four ounces in weight, and for say
fractional part of four ounces; that it is expedient to alter
and amend the laws rel iting to the stamp duties on news-
papers, the printing and publishing of newspapers, and re-
gistration and airing securities in connexion therewith,
and the regulation of the duties of postage on printed
Men.
Tonsillar, Fla. 20.
NOTICIIM or NOTIONII.—M7. JOHN BALL—To ask the
Secretary of the Treasury, whether the conduct of the
person or persons responsible for having issued unreasted
coffee to the teSops is the Crimea during the present winter
has been followed by hi. censure or dismissal.
"-' Tenants' Compensation (Ireland)
Mr. ossjssat •
Bill.
Mr. Ot.rrszak—To move that the house resolve itself
into a committee of the whole house, with a view to the
reduction of the wine duty.
Lord GODEHICH—That it is the opinion of this honeethat
the present system of promotion in the army, under which
non-commissioned officers rarely attain to the rank of
commissioned officer,-and scarcely ever to that of field officer,
is injurious to the public service, and unjust to the private
soldiers of the army.
Mr. 801111IION—That this house will not allow say
public bill to be roan a second time alter the lit day of
Jody, without special leave ; that this hone will not allow
any bill sonatinas an set about to expire to be read a se-
cond time after Easter without special leave; that orders
of the day have precedence of motion. on every day of the
week after Whitsuntide.
Mr. Exi.Larr —Select committee to inquire :into the
operatics of the various burial acts and proprietary cemete-
ries, and into the regulation of the Home-office for con-
ducting interments in burial grounds, under the burial sets
16 and 16 Vic., e. 83, and 16 and 17 Vie., ci. 134, and other
related matters.
Mr. DUNLOP—Dwelling houses (Scotland) Bill.
Mr. J. G. Patmaxoas—Bill for the appointment of
public prosecutors.
Sir DANHAN N ,—Grand Juries (Ireland) Bill.
Mr. Pines—Judge. (Ireland), detailed return of..
Mr. CoLLtan—To call the attention of the house to the
state of our trade with Russia; and to move for a return
of the Russian exports from Archangel to this country
during the present year.
Mr. HIXILY Biennium—That an humble address be
presented to her Majesty, praying that an inquiry ma be
instituted into the conduct of Lieutenant-General Lord
Lunn, for ordering a charge of the Light Cavalry at the
Battle of Bastian.
Mr. M'MasoN—Bill to assimilate the law as to the sea
coast end inland fisheries of Ireland to that of England.
Sir Enna HALPORD—BiII to restrain stoppages from
wages in the hosiery manufacture.
Captain AnctinaLL—Address for detailed return of
the names of all officers of her Majesty's army who have
been promoted for distinguished services since the com-
mencement of the war in the Crimea.
Mr. Raanwc—Return of the regulation price for the
purchase of a commission in the line and in • cavalry
regiment; of the regulation price for the purchase of each
subsequent stop in the service; of the annual pay of Regi-
mental officers of all grades: whether any, and, if any,
what portion of the money paid by an officer on the pur-
chase of his commission is returned to his representatives in
the event of kis death either in action or under other cir-
cumstances; whether the whole of the money paid by an
officer for his commissions is sacrificed by him when he
attains the rank of major-general ; of the annual pay of a
major-general and of other officers of higher grade ; and of
the number of commandos. given away since the Ist day of
January, 1863, and the rules and practices in force concern-
ing4o:= siesissimiens, and whether an officer to whom
a is era is by tthe he rules of the service entitled
ital his seese kir readoeiew price.
WIDIPAIDAY. MOIL li.
01D1111 OP TEI DAT.--Psbiki Weir's' sad Museum
ill—matmittee; Jisissoess Bemoval sad Diseases Proves.

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