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s at the eleventh hour, permitted to assign this place of
honour to the 34th—a regiment which, whether justly or
not, enjoys only a moderate reputation amongst the others
now in camp. Later still in the evening preceding the
assault, Sir Goorge discovered that the major commanding
the '23,1 was still laid up with a wound received in the at-
tack on the Quarries, and that the senior captain—an
officer, by the way, of some 18 years' service—would have
charge of the corps during the storming. " Impossible ;
this will never do," said the friend of apoplectic neck fur-
niture, " another regiment, with a field-officer in com-
mand, must be substituted." A message to this effect was
telegraphed to bead-quarters, but Lord Raglan, with a
degree of common sense which was quite unmilitary,
overruled his second's objection, and replied that an officer
of Captain 's length of service, be his rank what it
might, should be quite as fit to lead his regiment into ac-
tion as any field officer in the service, and, accord-
ingly, that no substitution should be made. I merely.
mention these trifles to show the state of un-
certainty and confusion in which our preparations
were till almost within an hour before the assaulting force
marched down towards the scene of its struggle and defeat.
Then another deviation from the original plan of attack
was made, also at the eleventh hour, by General Pelissier,
to which both military sense and common sense agree in
attributing no small share of both the French and our own
failure. Though the bombardment had been kept up vigo-
rously the whole of Sunday, night necessarily compelled a
slackening of the allied fire, and during this respite there
was reason to expect that the Russians would employ them-
selves in making good the injuries done to their batteries
during the day. It was therefore arranged that at day-
break on Monday a terrific fire of shot and shell should be
poured into the Redan and Malakhoff, to render as many
of their guns as possible incapable of mischief. An hour
or so, however, before the combined forces marched from
the camp the French Commander-in-Chief rode over to our
own head-quarters and declared that he could not wait for
this preliminary assault of artillery, as he would have so
many men in his trenches beforo the Malakhoff that there
would be no cover for them ; and, consequently, they
(and we) must attack at daybreak, at all hazards,
and take the chance of findiug' the enemy's guns in
the most favourable...condition in which our bombard-
ment and their owners' subsequent idleness might .have
left them. Of course Lord Raglan • complied, though
forty-nine out of fifty of the subalterns in his carer) would
have foretold the consequences to be expected ; and, ac-
cordingly, soon after the first streaks of sunlight broke over
the horizon the doomed thousands rushed to defeat and
death. _ _

So little is ever known of the details of French opera-
tions here, that I can give you few particulars of their i
attack on the Alalakhoff ; but their plan of assault appears
to have consisted in as the work on both flecks tied
the front simultaneously, and with overwhelming numbers
—twenty-five thousand aro said to have been se,tually en-
gaged. In just retribution for the disregard of their gene-
ral to the good to be expected from a short morning's bom-
bardment, they found the redoubt swarming with defen-
dos s, and guns bristling from every embrasure. On them, as
on our own men, showers of grapeand canister were poured
out, literally mowing down whole battalions at a time ;
whilst from along the whole semicircular line of parapet
the crowding riflemen sent volley after volley into their
disordered ranks, that passed through them like a sheet of
molten lead. Three times they gave way, and as often
rallied ; but were finally driven back after a struggle of
some three hours and a half, leaving the space between the
Mamelon and Malakhoff literally covered with the dead
and dying.
With oir own men, the space to be passed over from
our most advanced trenches to the Redan was somewhere
about seven hundred yards, and from the first moment of
their rushing over the parapet towards the point of attack,
they were met by the same awful and annihilating storm
of canister and grape. Many fell within the first dozen of
yards, and thence on to some broken ground about mid-
way, in which the remainder sought cover, the field was
strewed with the slain and wounded. An officer present
in the affair, and who was one of the few who escaped un-
injured, described the fire to me as being perfectly awful
—much more severe, he assured me, than that which
greeted our men at Alma, where he also fought, and re-
ceived a wound. Few of the men ever reached the abattis
in front of the work—none, I believe, ever even saw the
deep ditch which protects its approaches. I have already
mentioned the confusioa which characterised the first
commencement of our movement ; and coupling this with
the murderous preparations made by the enemy, you will
be at no loss to understand that success was most impro-
bable. I shall presently mention what the Russians thought
of our generalship, as repeated in my own hearing by
one of themselves. During the whole affair Lord Raglan
and Sir George Brown were ensconced within our 8-gun
battery ; but though this affos ded a good view of the
scene of the struggle and of the disorder which marked
it, for some reasons unknown to uninitiated spectators
they appeared unable to give any efficient directions
for the correction of our multiplied blunders. When
the whole sad scene was ended, our men struggled back by
every safe avenue to the camp, in a state of dispirited cm-
fusion, well in keeping with the mob-like disorder in which
they had been throughout the assault.
About midnight of Monday I was roused up by the
sound of a terrific cannonade, and sustained musketry fire,
along the whole front from our left to the French right,
and on hastening out to the height in advance of the Vic-
toria Redoubt heard and witnessed what induced me to
believe that a night attack had been made by ourselves
and the French to retrieve the fortune of the day. From
the Malakhoff to the extreme left of the Redan—a space
or abuiat, u ...lie —ahem ...loans or name burst along the
line from the sustained discharges of some two hundred
cannon, whilst musketry filled up the short intervals from
both our own and the enemy's ground. The night was
pitch dark, and as the storm of shells whistled through the
air, nothing could be grander than the fiery parabolas of
these terrible messengers, from battery to redoubt, and
from redoubt back again to battery. I have neither time
nor power to describe the magnificent but awful pyrotech-
nic scene. A badly aimed shell from the Malakhoff passed
tigh over the Mamelon, and fell some sixty yards from
where I stood ; but thou this was safe enough, I
deemed it best to shift my ground, and so reared. A
loud three times three" rote upon the midnight air
from the direction of the Redan ; and as one can never be
mistaken in this peculiar vocal product of British lungs, I
jumped to the pleasant conclusion that the day's stain had
been wiped away, and that the Redan was our own. I
was, however, mistaken, and the explanatton of the whole
affair was this during the night, the French, endeavour-
ing to take advantage of the darkness, had crept out frim
the Mamelon, to recover a number of scaling ladders
which they had been compelled to abandon daring the at-
tack. The Russians perceived them, and opened a smart
fire of grape from the guns of the Malakhoff, which was
replied to by shell from the Mamelon, Almost simulta-
neously, a party of the enemy emerged from the Redan, in
expectation of what they deemed a similar attack to that
attempted by the French, and being perceived by our men
a volley of musketry was poured into them, and chase
given with the bayonet. After a short stand the Russians
turned and fled, and it was at this juncture that the hur-
rahs I have mentioned wore sent after them. After this
the cannonade was kept up for some time from both lines,
in the manner I have remarked.
Next morning thore was hardly a gun fired on either
side ; and about 12 o'clock we hoisted a flag to request the
necessary truce for the burial of our dead. _
TCHORGOUN, JUNE 21.

their fascines, ladders, and hay bags, and therreturnecr
only 12 in number. "Peace to the ashes of thellepartiO',.):.
is now an exclamation- out of place, for the' bla9k- taeV7
hoisted by the Rulsians, a symbol of no quatier?Nriti'ilistflier.
save their remains from the sacrilegious deSeckationofqie
ferocious and semi-barbarous foe.
The 9th and another .iinglish regiment get'
tery, not far from the Br;stion du Mat, au, te.t,
out again. I should be but too happy to be 4.14' to
nounce for a certainty that they effected theiftaaat wtth •
only a small loss, or-that tbey effected it at all. Li -
Last night and this morning the Russians, flusladfl
their bloody victory, attempted to regain 'the Idamelon.
They were repulsed with tremendous loss. Terrible as
our loss and that of our gallant alliesisirtAtese is no real
discouragement ; but there is a want of confidence-4n
whom you will not fail soon to learn.
p.S.—I open this letter to state that on my arrival at
Kamiesh I found that, for the first time, the regular mail •
would not go to-du to Constantinople—the steamer being
otherwise employed.
JUNE 23.
The great object of the allies at present. is to destroy
the Russian fleet, and for that purpose we are erecting
Y. to enable us to bear on
tnielewfiebeatt,teurni elessisnitporsuitniounnsdel irk elthe
protecting guns of the
northern forts.
The Turks, under Omar Pacha and Ruston Pacha, have
gone on an expedition more offensive than defensive, and
of importance. it is probable we shall soon hear somethiug

(From the Special Correspondent of the liforning Post.)
CAMP BEFORE SEBA.STOPOL, JUNE 20.
They say we are preparing again for another attempt ;
but that cannot be until we receive more powder from
Malta, unless we drain ourselves of the little we have.
Shot and shell we have in abundance. Scarcely a shot
can be heard during the day. For two nights past can-
nonading and musketry have been very brisk. Yester-
day a flag of trace was hoisted, but it was some time be-
fore the enemy answered it; but at last it was hoisted for
the burial of the dead, from four till seven p.m. The
heat of the weather had caused some awful sights in the
dead and the mangled limbs of the poor fellows. Our loss
is great—no less than 17 officers, I hear. Colonel Yea, I
understand, the enemy had completely stripped. The
whole of the troops are still stationed on the heights. The
Guards are still encamped on the ground in rear of the Third
Division. The French Imperial Guard are likewise bivou-
asked on the right,as before the assault,frOm which circum-
stance we anticipate that another trial will begiven. A Rus-
sian mechanic from the town came over this morning, and tells
us that the firing, at the time of the assault, and during
the day previous, killed and wounded about half the gar-
rison. A scarcity of water is beginning to be felt,on the
heights, more especially near the regiments, from the over-
crowded state of so small a piece of ground. The wounded
of both French and English are being sent on board ship
as rapidly as posSible. ' The wounded suffer greatly this
weather. The Simla, screw-steamer, has made a very
rapid passage, having left Southamptun on the 3d instant,
and arrived here on the 18th early, with lt.jillcers, 250
men, and 290 horses of the Royal Horse Ar=,ry. The
Cormorant has also arrived with 6 officers, 53 men, and 59
ho.ses of the 17th Lancers. _ _ _

Cholera cases in the Gaaras are of less frequency since
their removal up to the front. In the Royal Artillery,
five and six daily is about the average.
I can hear no news as to when the place will be attempted
again.

JUNE 22.

Everything still remains very quiet. Another trial will
be made on the town from this side. Every exertion is now
being made in the transport of shot, shell, and powder,
immense quantities of which have been transported up
these last few days by rail. Some fresh arrivals have
come into harbour, which puts plenty at our disposil. No
tiring scarcely takes place during the day. At night, as
usual, when works are in progress, the tisual quantity of
shells are to be seen flying iu the air from both sides. We
have commenced a now battery in the new ground obtained
the other night near the Cemetery, close to the Dockyard
Creek, which it will command ; but the enemy have per-
ceived our intentions, and have traced, and last night
commenced, another strong work to enfilade it. But it has
not stopped our progress, so that, in course of time, we
may expect to hear nightly attacks being made on this new
piece of work by us. for it will be impossible to hold the
present ground, or battery, if they are allowed to erect
this battery, without its being taken or destroyed. The
other night the enemy set the houses on fire in that neigh-
bourhood, which burnt fiercely, for the purposes, it is sup-
posed, of giving them a better opportunity to resist us,
and to deprive us of any shelter. The French are throw-
ing up, close to Careening Bay and on the flank of the
Mamelon, a very large battery, which will, when com-
pleted, be mounted with the heaviest guns and mortars.
But they are so exposed to the enemy's fire that the works
cannot progress with that rapidity one would like to see ;
but the French seem determined to master all obstacles to
obtain their end, which is said to be of extreme utility,
for this battery will command the shipping (in conjunc-
tion with the one now making in the Cemetery) ; it
rakes the Careening Bay, and also the main harbour,
down to Fort Constantine, so that if the Allies can but
secure these two batteries in operation, we may yet have
good hopes. But even if we continue as we now are, in a
very short time the enemy will have destroyed both town
and shipping. Another three weeks must elapse ere any-
thing can be dono or attempted.
General Estcourt has had an attack of cholera, and Lord
Burghersh has been very severely indisposed. Cholera is
on the decline. The First Division will remain to do duty
in front for a time.

JuNa 23.

A sharp attack was made by the enemy last night, but
it was easily repulsed.
Lient.-General Pennefather, C. 8., proceeds to England
for the recovery of hie health.
Major the Hon. A. Cathcart, Deputy Adjutant-General,
Light Division, and Captain the Hon. T. Hutchinson, 13th
Light Dragoons, are indisposed, and proceed to Scutari.
The weather continues very hot.
The 71st are dill at Kertch, throwing up works.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.

After witnessing the brave, bat fruitless assault upon the
Malakhoff and Redan on the morning of the 18th, at day-
break, I rejoined the Turks on the plateau above the vil-
lage of Upon, on the other side of the 'Tchernaya, iu a
north-easterly direction from Balaklava. They had quitted
their position close to Lord Raglan's head-quarters early
on the 17th, with—so ran the tale—the full intention of
making a final movement in advance in concert with the
Piedmontese and two divisions of the French. They took
no tents with them, except some half dozen for the use of
the pachas and other dignitaries. Everybody under that
rank was obliged to content himself with such covering as
could be afforded by the "arch of heaven," end, in fact, but
for the rather heavy dew of the nights, no one could desire
better. Upoo was occupied, a few shots were exchanged
with some hundred Greek volunteers and Donski Cossacks
—the only Russian troops to be seen, and the night of the
17th was passed on the plateau above the village. In the
afternoon of the following day, Omer Pasha received the
news of the failure of the attacks on the Malakhoff and the
Redan, and the same evening retired two miles, and took
up his position on another plateau above Koutchka. This
retrograde movement was said to be caused partly by the
check received by the allies, anti partly by some vague
fears of being " cut off," though what they were founded
on I could never clearly ascertain. There were certainly no
Russians in the vicinity beyond the Greek volunteers, and
the army might have marched right to Bakshi-Serai
without hindrance.
The plain above Koutchka was covered with brush-
wood, and in default of tents the soldiers cut off leafy
branches, and in a few hours had constructed a whole town
of summer-houses, which formed an admirable protec-
tion from the burning heat of the sun, as well as
from the night. In this sort of work the Turkish soldiers
display no small amount of skill and ingenuity. The bowers
of this sort which they constructed for the pachas might
grace any English garden.
Valley of Baidar, 12 miles south-east of Balaklava, June
22.—The movement of the troops commenced about 1
o'clock this morning ; by 5 the last battalion had descended
from the heights above Koutchka, and was wending its
way along the Woronzoff road towards Baidar. This,
though not exactly " advancing backward," is something
rather like it. It is certainly a step towards fighting, as
there are Russian troops in this quarter, but it is not a
step towards anything decisive as the general objects of
the war. No movement that is not directed against Situ-
pheropol can very seriously affect the Russians.
We do not expect to move to-morrow, but for the day
after I cannot answer. Our outposts are on near Baidar.
The Piedmoutese, who crossed the Tcheraaya at the same
time as Omer Pacha, and were likewise encamped near
Tchorgoun, were also to have marched to-day, but, as yet,
we have seen nothing of them. They are still suffering
1 from cholera. There is some talk of Bosquet's division
acting in conjunction with the Turks.

(Front the Report of the Registrar-General.)

in the week that ended last Saturday the deaths of
1,273 persons, of whom 669 were males and 604 females,
were registered in London. The return shows an increase
on that of the previous week, when the number was
1,075. This result is not caused by an increased mor-
tality, but by an influx into the registers (which is usual
at the end of a quarter) of cases returned by coroners,
which have accumulated during previous weeks. In the
table of causes of death these cases are chiefly found
under the several heads that compose the class of deaths
by "violence." This class comprises 158 deaths. in the
present return, against 53 in the preceding week.
In the corresponding weeks of the ten previous years
the average number of deaths was 1,023, and with the
same rate of mortality which then prevailed, in the popu-
lation as now existing, the number would be 1,125. The
excess of the present return above the corrected average
is 148 ; and the comparison is admissible, because the
corresponding weeks having occurred at or near the end
of a quarter, they were subject for the most part to the
same irregularity which has been mentioned above.
Last week the deaths from zymotic diseases were 212,
whilst the corrected average is 249. Of that number 24
were caused by small-pox, 39 by scarlatina, 36 by hoop-
ing•cough, 43 by typhus, and only 9by measles. The
only disease in this class which manifests any tendency
to ineeOase is diarrhoea, and the numbers from it aro
still inconsiderable. Iu the last four weeks diarrhoea
was fatal in 16, 17, 25, and 33 cases.

Last week the births of 879 boys and 853 girls, in all
1,732 children, were registered in London. In the ten
corresponding weeks of the years 1845-54 the average
number was 1,484.

The reading of the ',ammeter at the Royal Observa-
tory, Greenwich, rose to 30.25 in. by the morning of
Wednesday, which was the highest reading in the week.
The mean reading was above 30 in. on every day till
Friday, and the mean of the week was 30'048 in. The
mean temperature of the week was 63 deg., which is 1.8
deg. above the average of the same week in 38 years.
The mean temperature was above the average on every
day after Monday ; and on Wednesday when it was 66'8
deg. it was 5.6 deg. above the average. On that day
the highest temperature of the week occurred, and was
80'5 deg. ; the lowest occurred on Monday, and was
471 deg. The highest reading of a thermometer in the
sun was 105 deg. on Saturday. The mean dew point
temperature of the week was 621 deg., and the differ-
once between this and the mean temperature of the air
was 10.1 deg. The temperature of the water of the
Thames was 62'4 deg. No rain fell in the week.

1

(From the Special Correspondent of the Morning Herald. )
BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, JUNE 19, 2 F•3l*
In the hope that this hastily-penned letter will resell
you in time, I have ridden down to Kamiesch, the Fronch
station, with it, tho post from that port leaving some hours
after the ono from Balaklava, at which I posted inY pre-
ceding letter early this morning.
Tho British and French troops are furious,---,o;elanucah
stronger expression, if possible, might be e
the way in which the storming party on
oth,onitireida,n —andt
Malakholf batteries were treated. The tir; on the regi-
ments chiefly composing the storming Pa 11,:hlan
—a truly heroic party—were shot dno,wrynLeinuur deep, like
dogs, whilst thousands of their wtueci—lite , panting like I
lions for the contest, were prevehose rally prevented
and forbidden—giving any aido.
Rifles. regiments were the
57th and the 33d, aided by. th
a very iniu-
As I said before, they advanc t four deep
dicious arrangement under all circumstances, for.' they
should have been allowed, to get to their gaol on a more
extended plan, and depend upon it British soldiers would
have come to the
moremark underthan any difficulties. Those
decimated, and all through
re-
giments have been _
. No real effort,
„pported
not beingin fact, at aiding
them
was made. Terrible is the responsibility—searching, minute,
and fearless must be the investigation. Sixty sailors of the
/Oval Brigade volunteered to go with the storming party
=4l 4°-irux to the heroin 19119wh 1 Off they west with

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.
NUMBER. OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED

IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JUNE 30
Zymotic Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases .. 220
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses ......... 138
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ............... 72
Diseases of the Lungs and other Oros of
Respiration ....................................... 137
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion . ...... ........................ 70
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. ........ .................. 6
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations
Premature Birth and Debility
Atrophy 45
Old Age
5udden........................................................ 50
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance ....... 153
Causes not specified ....................................... 42

DEATHS mu zilest
Itszs . .
p. .........
n.g....1.v.e.: 1,273
3317natthh:
Deaths i
Enumerated. „,0 in corre.
/851.
west Districts ...... 376,427 .... of
214 1854. Week.
North Districts ....•• 490,396 ..
Central Districts 393,256 ...... 233
East Districts 485,522
320
328
South Districts ...... 616,635

Totals ......... 2,362,236
Males....
Fell?.ales

1,290

1,273
669
604

BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.
Males 879
Females 853

Total 1,732

A deputation from the Irish maltsters, consisting of
Mr. Codd, Mr. Fottrell, and Mr. Sinnott (attended by
Mr. Bryden, Parliamentary agent), had an interview
with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his
official residence in Downing-street, on the subject of the
Excise Duties Bill. The deputation was accompanies
by the following members of Parliament :—Mr. George,
Mr. Beamish, Mr. Esmonde, Colonel Taylor, Mr. Vanes,
Mr. Alexander, Mr. 0 Connell, Mr. Burrows, Mr. L.
Montgomery, Mr Grogan, Mr. Brady, Mr. O'Flaherty,
Mr. Sullivan, and Mr. Tristram Kennedy.
A. deputation of the Stage Carriage Committee had
also an interview with the right hon. baronet on the
subject of the present duties on stage carriages. The
deputation consisted of Mr. It. Hartley, Mr. J. Barber,
[
Mr. Geo. Chancellor, Mr. A. Lines, Mr. Douglas, and
Au. J. E. prkaeld (wrotary.)
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WIATHER..—goer OTIKJ, July 4.
TIIIIIVONITZE, IN THIS SNADN.
°-11tllest eines noon yesterday.
63 lowest this mornin,, and during the night.
72 —thls ft?, st noon.
BAROMETER, 30.2
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The 1141150 of Commons has !promptly 'and Ilse,
Iresponded to the Iloyal. Message; i ii -' •
rally , . , , ._ -: espeo :4,,,,..
carried, granti
the family of the late Lord 11.4.G!,#..!rt A..reit,iiiis,.
tion ivss' last night unanimously
a pension. of 1,000/. per annum to the widow of
Marshal, and 2,0001.
the deceased Field- Per
annum to his son and successor in the peerage
and the next surviving heir male of that son. We
do not complain of the grant .to the widow, or
that to the on of the deceased Veterark,..,bUt we
certatioly think to the next heir male of. RieriAßD
.:_
11"!IY Lord ItA GLAN 13 CarrYi lig the Matter a little
too ‘4k- :k. l many highly .uteri-
-%..luany--,-a as, too Inat
' -
mous infiLit
---re have perished by disease, or fell
when face 1,64ue
• with the foe, but, with the ex-
and penurious .
cePtiell
of
a—se;111;: rious pension doled
out to their- Nvi4No.
ca""call it a prov'-,dud a paltry gratuity, we
their sons shall attain for their children, until
daughters ti tb,--c
be , .married,- majority, and their
casOeen thPug4 of their lift:tilih,4‘ng has in any
Not even: the purchase ~,..... - -ti representatives.
, • itwftey e .- .
ing the commissions, xrs4kled in obtain-
which led.- t '* '
deaths, has been returned to. th:tiaheflt,„l:iremature
lies to enable them to maintain th —‘ll4g &Mi."
whiCh they were entitled by the raaliZiStis to
of the deceased husbands and fatbe aid.
iv Jae"
;
only on those of high blood and aria No'
ra—ti°'ll,,,,t l':.
nexions that such favours are bestow; T.
brave subaltern, even the diStinguished. field
officer, will obtain no such recognition of his ser-
vices ! , It is obvious, therefore, that the pension
to the heir male of RICHARD HENRY LoRD
RAGLAN is an, offering rather to the dignity of the
Peerage than to the distinguts" hed services of the
lamOted Commander-in-Chief.

We are quite aware that there is ample pre-
cedent for the grant. But we live in a reforming
age, and. we are not contented_ servilely to follow
" vicious precedents " -merely bicause it is the ,

ordinary routine. We wish to act in accordance
with justice rather than feeling. We deeply sym-
pathise with the bereaved family, but there are
others of less exalted rank, whose sufferings have
been as acute, and grievous losses comparatively
as serious as that of the noble mourners. Their
ittle worlds are also rendered desolate, but the
pangs are not less intense because not endured
beneath a coronet.

As we have already stated, we cordially concur
in the pension to Lady RAGLAN, and should not
have objected had it been even more liberal. Any
comment that we may
make
di-
rected against her Ladyship, butintendedthisereo
thereon
i is
nroatt rather
to show that others should be as fairly dealt with.
In her case there is no degrading stipulation
against subsequent nuptials—no clause that if
she should contract a second marriage she shall
forfeit the provision made by a grateful country !
whose fortunes have been ab-
But young widows,
sorbed in pwrchasing promotion for their dearly-
loved husbands, are not thus treated; and should
they again form matrimonial alliances their names
are erased from the pension list. They must thus
live on, in compulsory celibacy, a species of
" /ay nuns," such as might gladden the hearts
of the Bishop of EXETER or the Puseyite
members of the Anglican Church, but not con-
sidered quite so laudable by those who deem mar-
riage an honourable institution, from which none
should permanently he excluded. If, however,
Lord PANMURE should be allowed to carry out
his crotchet, and to convert the army into a
species of military priesthood, there will not be
much use for controversy respecting the mode of
granting widow's pensions—for of course the rule
rigidly applied to private soldiers must speedily
be extended to officers—and red coats will no
longer have charms in the eyes of the fair sex,
when it is well known that the wearers must
necessarily continue bachelors.

In like manner we do not object to the grant
to RICHARD HENRY Lord RAGLAN, although it
may demand greater consideration. The Noble
Lord is now in the prime of life. He is engaged
in the diplomatic service of his country—and
there he may receive lucrative appointments that
would enable him to support the rank to which
he is entitled in right of his deceased father. But
the sons of all other officers lose their claim as
soon as they attain the age of 21 years. It is
considered that they should not traffic on the fame
of their progenitors, but should seek fortune by
their own exertions. But everything is different
to the fortunate inheritor of a Peerage. He can_
not be bound by such vulgar rules, but must have
a special arrangement on his own account.
We can, however, see no justification for the
grant to the heir male of the present Lord RAG-
LAN. The time has gone by when aristocratic
paupers could be permanently saddled on the
country. We have now no perpetual pen-
sions, and we think that it is time to abolish
the bad practice of 'grants for two or three
generations. If a person holding a lucrative
public situation died without making provi-
sion for his family we should hear enough
of his imprudence, dr,c.; but in the case of a noble-
man who has from the very beginning to the end
tf his career hold lucrative appointments, we are
told that it wzs "the disinterestedness of his char-
acter that occasioned the failure ;" and the public
are, in consequence of what may be termed by
persons fond of calling things by their right names,
" the lack of prudence of Lord RAGLAN," to make
a handsome provision for a child unborn. We
do not think this course by any means calculated
to make the gulf between the patricians and ple-
beians less impassable than heretofore.
But we need not compare the grants now about
to be conferred with that of inferior officers, how-
We may ask, What was
uho cionquerur 01 1 el.dc-1 Vrnizt,
recognition was there of the inestimable services
of the Hero of Meeanee and Hyderabad ? The
widow of Sir CHARLES NArreit received nothing.
His heirs male were unthought of by the liberal
Parliament of Great Britain ! And yet we fancy
that the most ardent admirer of the late Lord
RAGLAN will not venture to compare the military
services of that Gallant Commander to those of
him second only to the iron Duke—the man unani-
mously called from his retirement by the popular
voice in what was supposed to be the hour of
trial and peril. We do not, as we have stated,
object to some portions of the present grant,
although we must say that it contrasts strangely
with the indifference and neglect exhibited to-
wards the family of the late General Sir CHARLES
JAMES NAPIRR, the consolidater and defender of
'he Anglo-Indian Empire.

ever meritorious.

It is rather a curious coincidence that the
Legislature has just been strangely at cross pur-
poses in its Sunday law-making. The Upper
House, instigated by the Bishops, has, in all pro-
bability, succeeded in keeping down free preaching
on the Sunday. The Freedom of Worship Bill
is interred in the grave of a select committee. For
one year fines and imprisonments await the
Churchman who ventures to expound the Word
of Gon to more than twenty persons beyond his
Own family in his own house. The people must
not be attracted by any zealous, hearty, plain-
'speaking neighbour, who can tell them, not in the
dialect of Cam or Isis, but in their own tongue, the
:wonderful works of GOD.. But though not lawful to
-attract, it was to be lawful to coerce. The people's
rouse, obedient to aLord, have been on the verge
shutting them out of every; place. but the
thinking
ro -inking they must then attend public
:11b To do the House of COmmons justice, i
they thoUght the repeal of the disgraceful statute
referred
to se notoriously demanded by the
comuloa !one of the times that they consented
without a single objection ; a degree of
to it
iberality 80.
that_..theY
he.Yona... conception of the. Spiri-
tual Lords'
" smuggling ' the
galled it
bill through. the. Heim% i" 0
The Lords, therefore,
put - the' bill on'tire- file , 'they
some day. 'Thelook to it
P. eacherc cannot attract
the people- are' to -be:
against those who oin a little longer protected
. Meantime the House
of Commons was as near as
possible coin-
polling the, people, as far as in it
IaYI to go to
the churches of their " appoi ted
teachers."
n
Luckily Hyde-park beat the House of C
01.1110008.
' Coercion, veiled as a holiday-maker,. was too easily
detected. Lord GROSVENOR fled into the country,
and returned to withdraw his Bill.

There are, we fear, scores of honourable and
noble legislators who have not yet learned the
alphabet of religious liberty, or rather we might
say the alphabet of religion itself. What can be
more rudimental or more plain to all unperverted
!binds than that human laws might only to deal
Ili% sins against man ? Of course a sin against
°llt.fellow_man is also a sin against his MAKER ;
but `ti •
is not for that reason that we are autho-
rised td,visit, the offence with our physical punish-
manta, Nv
etilPiluish theft, not because it is for-
bidden by
society
but because .tetx or the two commandments,
coexist. wo a and. tolerated theft could not
Atheism or s not, °'l the other hand, punish
ceptitis
oongidered, they wrong a') because, in themselves
ins they may be to nc:. Tall, however displeas-
Now, why oa, 8'34 &arch f Hearts.
nnot our Eftits:- or 9
lastits see and act 1

on this plainest of distinctions ? Suppose it
were a sin for poor people to buy and sell their
Sunday necessaries on Sunday morning, the sin
is exclusively against GOD, not against man. Sup-
pose it to be a very wicked thing to preach or
pray with more than twenty of your neighbours,
it is surely no one against man. It is a purely
ecclesiastical sin, and hurts no man as a member
of society. Let the religious bodies to which
the supposed delinquents belong punish them
if they like with all the excommunications and
anathemas which the sins of Sunday selling, and
Sunday preaching to more than twenty deserve ;
but, in the name of all common sense, let civil
penalties have nothing to do with the matter.
The time is gone by for delivering over heretics to
the " secular arm " for the good of their souls.
And really, the Act which Bishops seek to preserve,
and the bill which Lord GROSVENOR tried to pass are
but remnants of the old style of conversion and
persecution. Impatient Churchmen cannot abide the
results of teaching an d persuasion; and proud Church-
men cannot bear their spiritual rule to be invaded
by the " unauthorised." Free Trade is, however,
bezoming the universal principle in every depart-
ment. It is seen that protection, and bounties,
and penalties to defend the favoured, are as
adverse to religious as to commercial success.
Lord STANLEY is surely rather a statesman with
his eyes open to the signs of the times than a
mere political prophet, when he affirms that all
things are tending to Voluntaryism ; that is, to
complete Free Trade in Religion. Nothing will
help forward that consummation more rapidly
thanfresh legislative coercion in religious matters.

A new French Loan of 750,000,000 francs, or
30,000,0001. sterling, is about to be contracted.
That it will be readily obtained is beyond the
possibility of doubt. The brave and high-minded
people of France, who but a few months since
freely tendered their chosen ruler 1,700,000,000
francs, or 08,000,000/. sterling more than he then
required, will not now hang back or betray the
confidence reposed in their patriotism and libe-
rality. The EMPEROR has happily shaken off the
intolerable incubus of " red-tapist financialism."
He requires no middlemen to interfere between
him and his people, and extract enormous profits
out of the pockets of both parties. He has estab-
lished a precedent for himself which has met with
unexampled success, and, of course, he will not
now abandon it, to return into the beaten course.
Nor is this the only pecuniary sacrifice which
France is required to make, and which she will
doubtless freely and willingly offer at the shrines
of her military honour and her rights as a great
nation, and as the champicn of right against
might, the chivalric defender of the injured party
against a powerful and unscrupulous aggressor.
She will also increase the tax on railways ; which,
in place of 10 per cent. on their gross receipts,
will henceforward be called on to contribute 20
per cent. The additional impost will not, how-
ever, fall on the Companies. The amount will
be added to the fares, so that every traveller will
directly contribute to the expenses of the War
and the maintenance of the glory of France. All
the indirect imposts, with the exception of those
on tobacco and salt, are also to be increased 10
per cent., and it is said that there will be some-
thing very analogous to a property tax.
In these extraordinary efforts the EMPEROR
affords new proofs of the sincerity of his deter-
mination to bring the War to a speedy
conclusion, by conquering an honourable
and enduring peace. His eagle glance
clearly perceives the futility of petty efforts, the
folly of the "penny-wise-and-pound-foolish po-
licy." Every shilling now saved on the GLAD-
STONE principle of " starving the War" and send-
' ing out forces sufficient barely to maintain, but
..,,t to improve, our position, would render indis-
pensable the future expenditure of not one but
of many pounds, and by far the most economical
course for posterity, putting the interests of the
existing generation out of the question, would be
at once to raise fifty or even a hundred millions
sterling, and thus, by unanswerable evidence,
prove that we were bent on making sacrifices
worthy of the noble cause in which we are en-
gaged
with our august coadjutor, and certain to
produce immediate success. Such a course would
strike terror into the heart of the Northern Auto-
crat, and teach the despot of Vienna the propriety
and prudence of remaining faithful to his promises,
according to their spirit, as well as to the letter.
It would foster and sustain our own resources for
greater exertions, should they become essential,
and it would restore England to the pinnacle on
which she had once established herself. But the
finances of France are directed by the master
mind of NAPOLEON ; those of England, by the
pettifogging intellect of Sir CORNEWALL LEWIS.
The former bursts through all red-tapist fetters,
while the latter suffers himself to be inextricably
involved in their meshes, and by making unrea-
sonable demands at too early a stage of the pro-
ceedings strives to damp the spirit of the people
and to reduce their power.
This is a painful contrast, and it is our own
fault if we permit matters to remain in their pre-
sent state. If Ministers will turn over a new
leaf—if they will fairly second the efforts of our
Ally, and speak out as boldly respecting the better
and more determined conduct of the War, well !
Under such circumstances, and with adequate gua-
rantees for the lue redemption of their pledges, we
should willingly allow byegones to be byegones,
and accord a complete amnesty for the past, in
the hope of a sounder and more honourable policy
for the future. But if not—if Coburgism and
Germanism are still to be in the ascendant, more
decided measures will be required, and there must
be a sweeping change in the representation—a,
change that will not merely be the infusion of
new blood into the House of Commons and the
Ministry, but the exclusion of all who have not
justified the confidence heretofore reposed in
them, and acted in accordance with the dignity
and true interests of the country.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—Their Royal
Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary, and er.
High
Royal Highness the Hereditary Grand Duchess of Meek
lenburg-Strelitz, honoured the performance at the Royal
Highnesses
s h
Italian Opera with their presence last evening. In the
suite of their Royal Highnesses were Lady Suffield, Lord
Dufferin Major Home Purves, and Baron Luhe.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's new steamer
Alhambra arrived at Southampton on Monday. She will
be placed on the Peninsular mail line immediately that
she is approved of by the Government.
1 THE NEw FRENCH LOAN.—The official notification of
the public pG(uac;oc.r7iThna
the French loan for the full amount of 30,000,0001.
caused the English funds to open with dullness yester-
day morning ; but an active demand for stock on the
subsequently caused a decided im-
provement.
paahrPotontoicaf
etoquthoetaltiaosnt
taorfia)go,ldwhaitchP, aartisthies
English Mint price of 31. 17s. 104 d. per ounce for stand-
ard gold, gives an exchange of 25.17 ; and, the exchange
at Paris on London at short being 25.05, it follows that
gold is about 0.48 per cent, dearer in Paris than in Lon-
don. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is
4264 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of
31, 17s. 10,id. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex-
change of 13•51 ; and, the exchange at Efambnrg on
London at short being 13'54, it follows that gold is 0 06
per cent, dearer in Hamburg than in London. The
course of exchange at New York on London for bills at
60 days' sight is 1101 per cent. ; and, the par of ex-
chan,e between Et gland and America being 109 23-40
in favour of England; and, after making allow-
per cent.
per cent., it follows that the exchange is nominally 0.67
rate ti .e present impartation
leaves a small profit on the
United Statm
anon for charges of transport and difference of interest,
of gold from the