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London, England, 1855-02-12 00:00:00

ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE.

Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke.
THIS EVENING,
9Sth Representation of the BATTLE of the ALMA, an announce-
ment which casts into the shade every notice of any contemporaneous
production.
After which, the classic SCEITES in the ARENA, invented and
directed by Mr. William Cooke.
To conclude with the Gran& Equestrian Comic Pantomime of GUL-
LIVER and the LILLIPUTIANS ; or, Harlequin and Britannia.
Rox-oftlee open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W.
West. Acting Manger,', r. W. H. Cooke. Equestrian Director,
mr. W. Cooke iun.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
TIM DAY —Morning 46 mln.after 81 Evening 2S min.aft. 9
To-'Rostov--Morning 11 inin.after 10 Hymnal, 58 alln.aft. 10

THE WEATHER.--thnt Orres, Feb. 11.

TIINNNONITEB, IN 1K SLUE.
34—highest since noon yesterday.
24—lowest this morning and during the night.
35—this day, at noon.
Bkßowwrza, 20.64—falling.
WIND, N.—Light, with very fate frosty weather and
sunshine.

FEBRUARY 12.
35—highest since noon yesterday.
29 —lowest this morning and during the night.
37 —this day at noon.
BAEOMETBII, 29.52.
WIND, N.N.E. —Light, with fine clear sunshiny
weather.

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LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1855.

In the olden time an unsuccessful Commander
was occasionally sacrificed to save a Ministry.
Now we have completely changed our tactics, and
a Ministry may be, aye, and has been sacrificed,
in the vain attempt to avert popular indignation
from an unfortunate Commander. We find the
late Cabinet upset I—Lord ABERDEEN cashiered
the Duke of NEWCASTLE puperseded and Lord
JAN RUSSELL resigned—but Lord RAGLAN still
retains his command in the Crimea—still issues
his directions to a staff eomposed of relatives,
connexions, or aristocratic friends, on whom,
though unsoiled by the dust and toil of
the trenches, he confers promotion for "distinguished
services " passing over those who have borne
the brunt of the encounter which placed a Field-
Marshal's baton within his grasp, and enabled his
toadies to announce, ex cathedr(2, that he would
take a Parliamentary grant of 50,0001. in prefe-
rence to the pension, which would unquestion-
ably be conferred on himself and his successors in
the Peerage, assigning as a reason for this extra-
ordinary moderation (!) that he had only received
A fortune of 10,0001. from his father, the Princely
Duke of BEAUFORT ! It is true that the Duke
had an income of some 80,0001. or 100,0001.
per annum, but, according to the system
that prevailed in " the good old times when
GEORGE the Third was King," that should
be kept without diminution for the fortunate
first-born, while the juniors were left as legacies
to their grateful country, to be provided for out
of the taxes, as a tribute of gratitude to the man
who condescended to accept the highest titles and
to expend some 2,000/. per week on his personal
gratification.
Yes, Lord RAGLAN has hitherto escaped from
official reprimands. He has even been compli-
mented by the Minister who threw up his situa-
tion in the Cabinet rather than aanciion the con-
tinued mismanagement ix the Crimea. But there
are hard-headed personages who are not quite so
easily satisfied—who look a little more closely
into the causes of the deplorable losses and
scarcely less deplorable sufferings of our gallant
troops, 1"1"13.0 cannot quite exonerate the Noble
Lord. An inquiry has been directed by an over-
whelming majority of the popular branch of the
Legislature. No doubt there will be grievous
faults of omission and commission established
against others ; but the shortcomings of Lord
RAGLAN must also be thoroughly investigated,
and the full • extent of his responsibility
ascer-
He cannot be screened, albeit he i,
grand-uncle of
tained. the
son, the brother, the uncle, and
successive Dukes, and closely connected by birth
A numerous and influential
and marriacre with
circle of the highest aristocracy.
It may be said that much of the suffering may
be ascribed to the Quartermaster's and Commissa-
riat Departments. But was not Lord RAGLAN
Commander-in-Chief ? Had he no hand in the
appointments of unknown and untried men to
situations for which they were totally unqualified ?
If these persons were really forced on him, he
should have remonstrated in the. first instance,
and subsequently, when their incapacity was so
painfully manifested, resorted to the absolute
power necessarily placed in his hands. He

could, if he pleased, have broken through '
the red-tapist trammels. If he did not
do so, under the exciting circumstances of
the case, he was not competent to discharge the
duties of his situation. Every one has heard of
the rough but effective remedy by which PICTON
excited a leading member of the Commissariat
into efficient action, and the significant manner in
which his leader, the Iron Duke, listened to the
complaints of the indignant official. Great suf-
fering was averted from a division of the British
army by the zeal and energy then displayed. But
unfortunately we have neither a PICTON nor a
WELLINGTON in the Crimea. That we have many
brave and gallant soldiers is certain, men deserving
of the highest honours, but they do not possess
independent commands, and while Lord RACLIN
is on the spot, they cannot interfere efficiently.
Even the attempt would he a total contravention
of the " military system."
It is to that system that we owe all our mis-
fortunes. Never did British soldiers more bril-
liantly distinguish themselves than in the Crimea.
They achieved the glorious victory of the Alma
by sturdy and unquailing determination, and
superior physical power. It was the triumph of
the men, not of the generals. Much of the blood-
shed by which the first collision in the Crimea
was so painfully distinguished might have been
averted by more judicious arrangements. The
country, however, will not feel disposed to cri-
ticise too severely the matters connected with
that memorable day.

On the 25th of October, at the battle of Tcher-
naya, we saw our cavalry all but sacrificed to the
overpowering sense of duty that led them to obey
orders, although at the almost certain sacrifice of
their lives. But whose remissness, whose
fatal sense of security, aforded the enemy
the opportunity of attack 1 Who issued
the order, the "unfortunate misconception "
whereof led to the self-immolation of these gallant
men. Again we say Lord RAGLAN. It is upon
his shoulders the responsibility must rest. He
cannot shake off a single particle of the onus.
In like manner at Inkermaz I The surprise,
which so nearly proved fatal, would have been
prevented if proper precautions had been taken.
There was the blot, and that it was not hit may
be attributed to the men, who unflinchingly with-
stood the attack of more than five times their
own numbers, and repelled it with a loss to
their assailants, iu killed and wounded,
exceeding the numbers of the defenders.
We do not mean of the reserve, on whom it ap-
pears to be the fashion to bestow all the rewards,
but of those actually engaged in the fearful en-
pounter.
But the losses in the field have been compara-
tively trifling to those in the sick bed, or at least
to what passed as such. " Plague, pestilence,
and famine," the boasted auxiliaries of the CZAR,
were far more destructive than their sister Furies,
" battle, murder, and sudden death."
Many more perished from disease or want, al-
though within the sight of abundance, than from
the adversary's swords or missiles. We must
discover the real delinquent. There is a prima
facie case against Lord RAGLAN. It is for him to
repel the strong presumption, and transfer it, if
he can, to the actual offenders. It is ridiculous to
say that all these misfortunes have arisen without
any person being in fault. It will be the duty of
Mr. ROBBUCK'S Committee, when appointed, to
dispel the mists and bring the light of truth to
bear on the entire transaction.

According to Mr. JOHN BRIGHT all England is
fast going to the workhouse for want of Russian
corn. The sufferings of our troops in the Crimea are
deplorable enough, but what is the wasting away
of 54,000 soldiers compared with a nation perish-
ing from famine. The honourable member has
now produced his last and crushing argument for
instant peace—" itefor• two years are at an end,
unless Russian corn come into this country, you
will shoot your own citizens in the street."
Such is his prediction. " The population cannot
be prevented from sinking deeper and deeper in
suffering; if into suffering, then into discontent—
and then at length into insubordination." These
are the inevitable consequences of wheat at i'Os.
per quarter, and wheat at 70s. per quarter is the
inevitable consequence of the loss of six millions
of quarters of Russian corn ; therefore, &c.,
Q.E.D.
But this six millions of quarters—we must own
we do not understand it. It is the basis of the
whole argument which terminates in citizen-
shooting ; and therefore we should like to know
the truth of the matter. Mr. BRIGET quotes from
the circular of an eminent friend in the corn trade ;
he gives no name, but we may suppose it was his
brother friend who was one of the Quaker depu-
tation to the CZAR. His friend makes an esti-
mate that Russia exported 6,000,000 quarters of
wheat before the War ; and since Mr. BRIGHT
argues as if all this quantity came to England, we
must suppose his friend to state as much. But
the fact is that for the eleven mouths end-
ing December sth, 1853, that is the year
before the war, we imported altogether but
4,609,414 qrs. of wheat, and last year 3,353,918
qrs. This, of course, disposes of the absurd im-
pression which Mr. BRIGHT'U speech might pro-
duce, as if we really had a less supply this year
than usual by the enormous quantity which he
mentioned. It also settles another point, namely,
that the deficiency of imports is certainly
not equal to the excess of our abundant 1
' harvest. The late harvest at least exceeded those
of ordinary years by more than 1,245,496 qrs.,
which is the difference of imports between the
last eleven months of peace and the same period
of war. Indeed our imports do not seem to be
lessened at all in proportion to the abundance of
the harvest ; and there must be other co-operating
causes, all of which time perhaps alone will reveal.
Indeed it is demonstrable how little the cessa-
tion of Russian supplies can have affected prices
hero. The last returns prior to the War,
which apprise us of the sources of supply
inform us that in the first sine months of 1853,
the last year of peace, w• imported 773,507
qrs. from Russia, and 209,000 qrs. from
Moldavia and Wallachia ; while in 1854 we re-
ceived from Russia 505,000 qrs., and from
Moldavia and Wallachia 118,000 qrs. It
is therefore perfectly clear that Russian
supplies, or the want of them, cannot have
seriously affected our market. Mr. BRIGHT lays
the blame of the whole difference between 50s.
per quarter ani 755. to the War—with what
justice our readers can now judge for them-
selves,
Weniil
ast think that had w• continued
at peace, it would have made a difference of but
a few shillings
quarter at Most. The serious de-
ficiency in the American harvest has probably had
a much greater influence in raising prices than the
Russian War or any other cause whatever. It
should also be remembered that wheat is really
fully 3s. or 4s. per quarter cheaper than it appears
•
in comparison with last year, on account cf the
great difference in quality.
__

As to our commerce generally,
it is noto-
rious that the over-trading of late years j
been so excessire, not only with Australia

but with the United States, that the manu-
facturers in every department must thank
themselves for glutted markets, enormous sacri-
fices, and want of orders. Figures are not pleasant
reading, but let the reader only glance at three
or four facts. From 1846 our exports went on
gradually increasing at the rate of from two to
four millions per annum, but in 1853 they in-
creased in a single year by the almost fabulous
amount of 20,857,0001. 1! In that marvellous
year the increased value of goods sent to the
United States was 7,091,0001., and to Australia
th eir increased val ue actually reached 10,221,0001. I
Surely Mr. BILIGHT and his fellow-spinners and
weavers may, if they will but open their eyes,
see plainly enough the reason for the present de-
pression of trade. It is the ebb of the spring
tide of 1853.

Man-traps and spring-guns I Why should we
not go on in the beneficent task of setting them ?
Have we not prisons—most thriving, carefully
tended, and economical of hospitals—in abund-
ance ? Is any trapped or wounded by these play-
ful machines the worse ? Nay, on the contrary,
are not all infinitely the better for their experi-
ence as patients ? Is not their step mere free,
their head more erect, and the respect of society
for them and their respect for society the greater
on their dismissal ? Are they not thoroughly
cured, and made " better as new ?" Why, then,
should not the blessings of a system so approved
in its results be extended to the utmost ?

We are not talking of steel-traps and air-
guns, instruments admired and beloved of
yore by country squires and the proprietors
of cockney villas, sacred to the memory of
sixpence worth of mignionette seed, and four
and sixpence worth of eighteenpenny shrubs,
developed in painted flower-pots, candle-boxes
and wash-pails—though the admiring reader may
be excused if he thinks so. These things are
old-fashioned and obsolete, and quite out of the
pale of recommendation in refined society. The
squire nowadays must rely fer the protection of
his grounds and his wild poultry or game, on
the stalwart arm and holly or other grained
bludgeon of his keeper, and the vigilant eye and
ready truncheon of the rural police—the cockney
on the yelping of his house-dog and the non est
inventus genius and pervading protection of the
metropolitan and the horse patrol. The squire-
led parson of the parish, and the most orthodox
of antiquated village spinsters have alike at the
present nay the courage to denounce such instru-
ments as wicked and oruel. Their day must
needs be over.

No, the springer and lethal tubes we speak of
are Lilliputian enactments, owing their existence
to Westminster. Enactments which affix to
offences the most slight a punishment in its effects
the most cruel and deadly. Enactments which
consign to the pestilent atmosphere, morally speak-
ing, of Coldbaths Prison and Newgate, childhood,
youth, and manhood, with the ruddy flow of
moral health and pride swelling in their veins,
and prompt on occasion to raise the crimson to
their foreheads. These are the man-traps
and spring-guns we speak , of. These are
in a large measure the cause why we have so
many police and gaolers, so much prison accom-
modation and magisterial business, and so little of
childlike simplicity in the children of our large
cities. Incapable, apparently, of comprehensive
legislation—(that legislation, we mean, which goes
to the root of existing evils, and eradicates them
most effectually, by planting seeds of moral recti-
tude in their place)—the termination of every
vista leading to reform and redemption seems in
the legislatorial eye to be the gates of a prison.
In an age, with so few exceptions, of little states-
men, " cabined, cribbed, confined" in spirit, this
faith in prisons is, perhaps, after all, not to be
wondered at. The fact is, we trust too much to
members of Parliament. We are not enough our
own statesmen. We don't recognise as we ought
the fact that enlightened public opinion is or
ought to be in effect the Preinier and the Cabinet
of the country. In short, the truth must come
out. We have been dwarfing morally in our aims
and the scope of our aspirations, while we hare
been expanding materially. We have bridged
our valleys and straits, levelled our mountains,
and girdled the earth with electric firo ; but we have
done but little in the way of moral elevation. We
have the best of moral codes, but a feeble inspi-
ration, a desultory will, and a will-o'-the-wisp
benevolence. We can see the immorality of break-
ing a pane in our neighbour's window, but are
stone blind to the evil we commit in sending our
thoughtless youth to prison (there to strike up an
acquaintance with felons), because they cannot
expiate the irregularity of their volition in cur-
rent coin of the realm. And what we sow in
folly, we reap in anxiety, injury, and cost.
The boyish culprit thus imprisoned in default
and pupilled in dishonesty " comes," we have
the authority of the able and enlightened Chaplain
of Newgate for it, " a second time to prison, is
sent to a refuge" (we don't lack benevolence ;
what we want is judicious beneficence), " appren-
ticed, quarrels with his master, who will not ]et
him go to plays, shoots his master, and, finally, is
executed at the Old Bailey." So with the sweep
who dares to slip his muzzle, to the consequent
disturbance of aristocratic ears ; from his
first imprisonment may be dated the commence-
ment of his training as au expert and daring
burglar. Better far that the whip should be
entrusted to the hands of the exasperated dealer
in sindries, or the distracted Sir F.i►NCIFUL
FLUTTIfit, than that we should have to lament
over results like these

Society, doubtless, must be protected as
far as possible, in reason, from annoyance,
but society may be protected to its loss ;
and as the price of security from annoyance
have diminished immunity from rapine and vio-
lence. To the long list of offences by enactment
we have added, and are perpetually adding new
ones. It is only of late years ringing of door
bells, shaking a mat, stealing a turnip, an egg, a
penny under circumstances of great temptation by
a mere child, trundling an iron hoop, getting
drunk, &c., have been numbered on it, and there
can be no question have been " fertile sources of
mischief by reason of imprisonment." They have
produced, we are told, a fresh supply of persons
ruined in character by imprisonment, aid stimu-
lated to crime by felonious associates, with whom
they became acquainted in prison, by want also,
and the consequent increase of temptation. We
have been overstepping the mark in this direction,
and demonstrating a deplorable ignorance of
human nature in connection with the repression
of crime. What we have now to do is to look
round us and endeavour to discover some means
to spare a first imprisonment. Among these edu-
cation, by example, no less than by precept and
rote, will assuredly occupy a prominent place.
To be successful in the repression of crime we
must be humane as well as vigorous and firm ;
and the constant setting of moral man-traps and
spring-guns nearer and nearer the beaten track
of life is palpably cruel. If, however, this is not
to be__if we are not to retrace our steps—let us
be consistent—let us develops the principle at
issue to the uttermost—let ua 11.4111 sumptuary

laws, and let it be enacted that none but an aris-
tocrat or person of the highest respectability be
permitted to don a "wrap rascal" on pain of

.mprisonment.

ARRIVAL OF THE SCREW-STEAM SHIP

DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

PLYMOUTH, MONDAY MORNING.

The screw steam-ship Duke of Wellington
arrived in Plymouth Sound at ten o'clock this
morning.

THE FOREIGN LEGION.

Certain propositions have been made by a French
Company to raise in France a legion for the service of
the English Government. It appears that the company
engages to supply from 10,000 to 25,000 men within the
shortest possible time, half the number that may be
agreed upon to be ready in 15 days at the utmost. In
order to effect that undertaking it requires that it shall
be permitted to recruit in France, or in neutral coun-
tries, men who have been liberated from military service
and on whom otherwise their Governments have no
special claim. In that class would necessarily be com-
prised those young men who in drawing for the conscrip-
tion have drawn lucky numbers, the sons of widows, the
brothers of those who are engaged in the army, soldiers
who have already completed their period of military
servitude and who cannot, in virtue of the existing law,
be again called upon for the army, in short, all who
according to the recent law of emigration, are in the
free enjoyment of the right to quit France for America
or any other part of the world they please. It is stated
that the English Government is disposed to entertain the
propositions of the Company, and only 20191t3 to enter on
its execution, the assent of the French Government ; and
excellent relations now existing between the two Powers,
and seeing that the ca use is one in which both are
equally interested, no great difficulty on that point is
anticipated. The company offers, moreover, to equip
the men if desired. It is affirmed that the French Go-
vernment will not offer any objection in the event of a
demand being made to it officially.

We regret to announce the death of Lady Harriet
Elliot, youngest daughter of the Earl of Minto, and
sister of Lady John Russell. Ear ladyship died on Fri-
day morning, after a protracted illness, at the Hotel
Maurice, in Paris.
The Right Hon. Sir James Graham, Barb., is, we are
happy to learn, much better, and should no unfavour-
able change, which is not anticipated, take place, will
be enabled to resume his Parliamentary duties next
week. On inquiry yesterday at the Admiralty the
right hon. baronet was said to be ping on favourably,
and able to transact business several hours during the
day.
DEATH OF LORD FRIDRRIOR MONTAGUR.—The families
of the Duke of Manchester, Viscount and Viscountess
Mandeville, Lord and Lady Olivia Ossulstoa, Lady
Olivia Sparrow, and others of distinction, have been
placed in mourning by the demise of the above young
nobleman, who died at Sydney, New South Wales, on
the 29th of October last. His lordship was third son of
the Duke of Manchester, by his first marriage, and was
born on the sth of October, 1828.i_

THE HEALTH OP MR. HUMS.—We stated on Saturday
that the health of Mr. Joseph Hume had of late been
so much irepaired as to cause very great uneasiness to
his family and friends. We have since leant that the
member for Montrose has not been attacked by any par-
ticular malady, but that he is suffering from a general
break up of the constitution. Physically he is exceed-
ingly prostrated, but his mind is tranquil, and even, we
are assured, exceedingly cheerful.—Morning Advertiser.
MARRIAGE OF PRINCE DANlLo.—Prince Daniel of
Montenegro was married at Cettinye, the capital village
of the Principality, en the 24th of last month. After
the dinner of ceremony was over Baron Mamula, the
Commander inDalmatia, who:was the Prince's "witness,"
proposed the health of the Emperor, which was received
with cheers. The bride was obliged to ride on horse-
back from Cattaro to Clettinye, as the snow rendered the
road impassable for all kinds of vehicles. The proces-
sion was led by 240 Montenegrins, who fired their car-
bines until their store of powder was exhausted ; the
flag-bearer followed, and then the bride, with her six
body-guards. The Bishop and General Baron Mamula,
with their suites, brought up the rear.
STRENGTH OF THE AUSTRIAN ARMY.—The strength
of the Austrian armies is as follows :—The Ist army,
67,600 men, with 144 guns; the 2d, with 121,000 men,
and 186 guns ; the 3d, 286,000 men, with 252 guns ; the
4th 119,800 men with 54 guns. The total, without the
reserves, is 594,600 men, with 536 guns. A reserve
army, including borderers, of 100,000 or 150,000 men
could be raised within two or three months.
PARISIAN RIIMOURS.—Rumours in abundance were
afloat in Paris to-day (Saturday). One is that Eupa-
toria has been attacked and taken by the Russians ;
another that a general sortie was made by the Russians
against the French lines, and that Generals Canrobert
and Bosquet were wounded.
The official Gazetta di Verona, in its number of Feb-
ruary 2, says :—" Perhaps the Sardinian flag will not
flutter alone in the camp of the Allies. Another Italian
State may give its colours to the wind."
Tom- Barry, the clown, has arrived in Melbourne, to
fulfil an engagement catered into with the lessee of the
" Amphitheatre."
Earl Fortescue has resigned the colonelcy of the First
Devon Militia Regiment, which is now stationed at
Exeter, but which is under orders for NewpDrt, Mon-
mouthshire. The noble earl will be succeeded by his
son, the Hon. J. Fortescue, the late lieutenant-colonel.
An order issued by the Commissioners of Police
was promulgated on Saturday, and read to the summon-
ing officers at the various public offices, to the effect
that they are not on any account to recommend solici-
tors to the persons whom they have in their custody, or
any body else.

MINISTERS AT FOREIGN COURTS' EXTRAORDINARY
EXPBISES.—On Saturday a Parliamentary paper was
issued showing that 8,0001. is required to make good
the deficiency of tha ♦ote of last session for extraordi-
nary expenses of Foreign Ministers for the year ending
the 31st March next.

GENERAL SIR Da LACY EVANS.—On Saturday night
a meeting of the non-commissioned officers and privates
who were attached to the British Auxiliary Legion, that
fought under Sir De Lacy Evans in the Spanish war,
assembled at the Ship Tavern, Wardeur-street, Soho,
'for the purpose of expressing their admiration of the
services recently rendered by the gallant general in the
Crimea, and their regret that he was unable, through
ill-health, to carry out the glorious triumphs that he had
attained at Alma, Balaklava, and Inkerman ; and to
adopt an address or presentation to hire. Serjeant W.
A. Cuff was appointed chairman, and the proceedings
were characterised by good feeling and unanimity.
MR. LAYARD AND THE MINISTRY.—It has been stated
in all the public journals that Mr. Layard, the member
for Aylesbury, is to be the Under Secretary-at-War.
There is a substratum of truth in the statement ; but it
is not accurate. It was intended, we believe, that Mr.
Layard should receive that appointment, but, at the
eleventh hour, an obstacle WM interposed from a quarter
unconnected with the Ministry, and wholly unexpected.
It is possible that this obstacle may be removed in a few
weeks, or even earlier, and that Mr. Layard may after
all receive the appointment ; but he is not yet the
Under Secretary-at-War. We are in possession of the
facts, but we are not at liberty to publish them. Suffice
it to say, in general terms, that they are not uncon-
nected with what the hon. gentleman wrote home to the
Times, whoa in the Crimea.—Morning Advertiser.
THE NEW WAR DEPARTMENT.—The two cabinet
offices of Secretary of State for War and Secretary at
War are now combined, and entrusted to the ex-
' perienced direction of Lord Panmure, who holds both
offices, and directs both departments, until the legis-
lature shall be able to mature a plan for the consolida-
tion of the whole of the military system. In holding
those two offices it is scarcely necessary to add that
Lord Panmure will receive only the salary of one.
The only other appointment decided upon is that of
Mr. Frederick Peel, who removes from the Under-
Secretaryship of the Colonial to that of the War
Department. To him will be entrusted the financial
business of-the department, which he will conduct in the
office in Whitehall lately occupied by Mr. Sidney Her-
bert. He will prepare the estimates for Parliament,
and answer in the House of Commons for the War-office,
where the general business will be conducted under the
able superintendence of Mr. Hawes. It is highly
complimentary to Mr. Peel that his business habits have
pointed him out at such a moment for selection to this
important duty.—Observer.
SVICIDE.—On Saturday morning considerable sensa-
tion was created in the neighbourhood of the Strand, in
consequence of a general report that a gentleman had
committed a most determined suicide at the Strand
Shooting Gallery, 399, Strand. The deceased, Charles
Procter, Esq., had been staying at Oliver's Hotel, and
went to the gallery for the assumed purpose of shooting
at the target. He, however, in a most determined
manner blew oat his brains with a pistol. He pat the
point of the barrel behind the right ear, and then fired
it off. The report drew several persons to the spot, and
the deceased was discovered with his head shattered in
a shocking manner. The body was removed to Charing.
cross Hospital.
awA. MODELS FOR Tiail PARIS EXHIBITION.—Mr.
Montanari, to whom a medal was awarded in 1851 for
the Mexican, &c., wax models displayed at the Great
Exhibition Ahas recently completed a selection which he
has been solicited to transmit to the approaching exhibi-
tion in Paris. Prior to being sent off they have been on
private view at the studio iu Charles-street, Soho-square.
The most attractive are the Mexican greupes, which dis-
play a landowner with family and servants, all mounted
on mules and travelling. Though the figures are in
miniature, they are made to scale, thefeatures admirably
portrayed, and, together with the costume, harness,
portmanteaus, and other baggage, are entirely executed
in wax. In these, as well as in the figures of the Mexi-
can and North American Indians—particularly that of
Osceala, the great chief—the muscular development and
general anatomical outline, as well as the expression of
each countenance, give them a life-like appearance, and
will doubtless render them highly attractive to our con-
tinental neighbours. In addition to these the artist has
ewxietchutthe w
executed ahesplle of splendid
dhgnroeuypaei,
family,rei.ire seated in a senting her Majesty,
drawing-
room, the dresses being made by Madame Montanari,
the wife of the artist. The hair of each figure is beau-
tifully
arranged ; and with regard to this it may be ob-
served that in these, and all the figures, the elaborate
process of inserting each single hair separately into the
wax is adopted in lieu of employing perukes, &c. in the
ordinary way. The whole collection exhibits the great
care, patience, and artistic skill with which it has been
got up.

LATEST NEWS.

THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL.

VARNA, FEB. 4.

Thirty thousand Ottoman troops have landed
atlEupatoria. Others are on their march for this
port, and will be embarked for Eupatoria as they
arrive. No new event has occurred before
Sebastopol.

TURIN, SUNDAY, FMB. 11.

The Duke of Genoa, brother to the :King, ex-
pired last night, aged 32. The Duke had been
ailing for some time past, and survived the deaths
of his royal mother and his sister-in-Law but a
few weeks.

The treaty between Sardinia, France, :and Great
Britain has been adopted by a majority of 41
'votes. The numbers were-101 for, and 60

against that measure.

FEB.i 10.
VIENNA, SATURDAY,
Prussia, it is reported, has concluded a separate
treaty with France and England.
Intelligence from Constantinople of the Ist
states that two adjutants, Dumoure and Glan-
dons, have been despatched from Varna to Con-
stantinople, to hasten the embarkation of the
Turkish and Allied troops to the Crimea.
The Russians are preparing attacks on all the
Allied positions.

PARIS, SUNDAY.

The Minister of Marine and of the Colonies has
received the following telegraphic despatch from
Vice-Admiral Bruat

" MONTEBELLO, PORT OF KAMIESEE,
JAN. 30.

"The Commander-in-Chief asks me to give him
30 new guns from the fleet and 15,000 rounds of
ammunition, in addition to the 32,000 already
demanded.

" The Duperre has just cast anchor in the port
of Kamiesh ; she bring 950 military passengers,
32 huts, 1,000 shells, and 320 barrels of gun-
powder.
" The Panama brings 160 passengers and ma-
terials for the army (tools and camp requisites)."
The Emperor of the French has conferred
the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour on
Vely Pasha, the Turkish Ambassador at Paris.

CONSTANTINOPLE, FEB. 1.
Two-thirds of the Turkish army have disem-
barked at Eupatoria.
The Russians are encamped partly in the vil-
lages of Alma and Belbeck, and partly at Sirnphe-
ropol and the environs.
General Ulrich, with the Guards, set off for
Crimea on the 30th January.
The Egyptain reinforcements have arrived
from Alexandria in the Tagus. During the night
the artillery of Sebastopol fires incessantly.
The Allies reply during the day by the tirail-
leurs, who kill a number of the Russian artillery-
men.

One thousand sick of the English army disem-
barked ou the 31st at Constantinople.
General Osten-Saoken asked for an interview
with General Canrobert. The staff of the two
generals remained at a distance during the-inter-

view.

The Divan has communicated to the ambassa-
dors of the Allied Powers several propositions for
reform in the civil service.

M. de Bruck, now,Austrian Internuncio here,
has definitively accepted the appointment of Mi-
nister of Finance, and will shortly leave for
Vienna.

ST. PETERSBURG, FEB. 3.

The Journal de St. Petersbourg contains an ad-
dress by the Czar to the Heiman of the Don Cos-
sacks, expressing his confidence that they will
fight courageously for the church, the throne, and
the country.

MARSEILLES, SUNDAY.

By the Valetta, arrived this morning, we learn
that the telegraph had announced the arrival of
the first detachment of the 10th Hussars at Suez,

from India.

IPERA, FEB. 4.

Izzet Pacha is appointed Governor of Kurdis-
tan. Forces will be furnished him from Con-
stantinople and Aleppo.

ALEXANDRIA, FEB. 5.
The Viceroy of Egypt has abolished Customs
duties except at Suez.

COPENHAGEN, SUNDAY.

The Volksthing has resolved itself into a com-
mittee to inquire into the abuses committed by
the late Ministers, in order to give them an op-
portunity of explaining their conduct.

The French Goverment has received news
from Yarna to the 6th. Omer Pacha had left
for Bourges, to inspect the cavalry and magazines.
After that inspection he will embark definitively
for Bupatoria.