The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-27 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF TIM PUBLIC JOURNALS.

INACTIVITY OF THE ALLIED GENERALS.
(From the Times of this day,)
The last accounts from the Crimea allow us to entertain a
belief that the condition of the troops is materially improved.
The fire of the Russian batteries on the heights of Balaklava
opened on the 13th, but without effect, for the enemy was
routed by the British troops, assisted by a French division ;
and four days later, when the Russians attacked the whole
line of the allies, they were driven back with great loss, and
victory thus marks the opening of the second campaign. We
accept for all they are worth these indications of an improve-
ment in the aspect of our affairs, and we heartily wish that
we could extend these encouraging prognostications to all the
circumstances of our present military position. But neither
the last public despatches from the allied camps nor the private
communications we receive from numerous authentic sources
are of a nature to heighten our confidence, and we cannot but
regard with considerable anxiety the inert haracter of our ope-
rations at a moment which appears to us to be in the highest
degree critical. The object of exposing the troops of the
allied armies to the hardships of a winter passed among the
bleak hills and deep ravines before Sebastopol was to enable
them to take effectual advantage of the first return of the dry
season, and espepially of that interval during which the Rus-
sians must still be cut off from their reinforcements. We aro
unwilling to prejudge the conduct of the allied Generals; we
hope that the successful engagement of the 17th of March
may speedily be followed by more decisive results ; but it is
impossible not to remark that of late all the originality and
enterprise shown in these operations has been on the side of
the Russians, while the French and English armies seem con-
demned by their commanders to remain on the defensive
within their lines. Yet their numbers are reported to be not
far'short of 120,000 men—a force amply sufficient 'to under-
take with success two or three distinct operations of war upon-
a scene of action so contracted as the south of the Crimea, in
presence of an enemy not now superior in numbers, while we
ourselves have abundant means of transport to every part
of the coast. The army at Eupatoria might be so rein-
forced as to enable it to take the field ; an expedition might
be detached on Kaffa, so as to take the Russian positions in
the rear, and destroy their magazines; a strong recounais-
iiatic-Cmight advance to the Belbek, or force the passes -of
Baidar ; or, lastly, the whole strength of the armies might be
concentrated on the siege. It would be presumptuous in us
to attempt to determine which of these courses all the cir-
cumstances of the case render expedient, but we speak from
high military authority when we say that one or more of these
operations must be attempted, unless we are prepared for a
termination of this enterprise hardly less inglorious than that
of the Athenians against Syracuse. The same want of com-
mand which was so fatally perceptible in the arrangements
for the winter encampment of the army, and in all that re-
lated to the stores, the hospitals, and the port of Balaklava,
now begins to manifest itself in the preparations of the army
for'the field; and we learn that our gallant allies, whose
troops are numerous and well prepared for war, view with
great surprise and some discouragement the inactivity of
their own chief.

The prosecution of the siege has for many months been
regarded, with reason, as the primary duty of the army. Tho
approaches directed against the southern side of the town of
Sebastopol have been pushed forward with infinite labour and
perseverance ; batteries have been constructed and armed
with new guns of heavy calibre; and an, immense supply of
projectiles and ammunition has been transported from the
harbours to the front of the lines. The day on which the fire
of the besieging armies would re-open on the place has been
repeatedly named and impatiently expected. Yet it would
seem that some doubts are still entertained of the result of
this attack, and still graver uncertainty prevails as to the pos-
sibility of the asiault by which it was to be followed. The
Russians, on the other side, have displayed extraordinary
energy and skill in extending the defences of the place. No
sooner was one portion of their works menaced by a battery,
though as yet unmasked, than they found means to establish
another redoubt so as to command our guns. The seizure
and fortification of the right bank of the Careening Harbour
is described as au act of singular boldness and judgment on
the part of the enemy, for the troops which hold that
position are separated from their base of operations by
a deep and impassable ravine; yet the attempt to dis-
lodge them from it was unsuccessful, that attempt was
not repeated, and, as this point remains in the hands of the
Russians, it materially interferes with the projected attack on
the Malakhoff ToWer Lord Raglan writes that the besieged
forces are bringing forward their advanced works with great
activity, and that the roads on the northern sidle of the place
are covered with stores of food and munitions of war, which
he cannot intercept. Yet we hear of no attempt from the 23d
of February to the 10th of March to check these formidable
demonstrations, and to avail ourselves of the superiority of
the allied armies. We can only infer that in the opinion of
the council of war the dangers of such an operation outweigh-
its pfobable advantages.
But if the siege operations, properly so called, are reduced
to this inactive condition, the greater is the motive to resort
to other means of attack. If our lines are extensive and diffi-
cult to guard, the concentric lines occupied by the Russians
b yowl our outposts must be bctill =me so, and General
Osten-Sackeu is, moreover, compelled to watch with a consi-
derable part of his army the intrenched position of On Turks
at Eupatoria. Moreover, we now learn that the attack on
Balaklava and our lines has failed. It is stated, pro-
bably with truth, that fresh Russian divisions are attempting
to advance from the Dnieper to Perekop, but that they have
been stopped in their march by the melting of the snow on
the steppes they have to traverse. The country in the Cri-
mea is, on the contrary, already favourable to the movement
of armies, and we have reason to believe that, without mate•
rially weakening the forces required to protect the works, it
would be practicable for General Bosquct to operate with
adVance with a considerable force towards the East. The
moral condition of the army, its confidence in its chiefs, and
in the ultimate success of the enterprise, would be powerfully
revived by a movement of this nature, and the military rea-
sons must be extremely strong which as yet deter the gene-
rals from attempting it. Our political interests at the pre-
sent juncture equally demand some further proof of the un-
abated power of the army to enforce the terms we are
endeavouring to dictate at Vienna, for the language of our
diplomacy and the policy of other nations are of course mate."
holly affected by the attitude of our troops. The troops only
require to be led against the enemy. Their true safety lies•
in their power of attack, and in the hands of a general of
enterprising and original genius the fate of Sebastopol would
be determined outside its walls.

THE NEWSPAPER STAMP BILL.
( From the Times of this day.)
It is the fate of every question discussed in the House of
Commons, however simple it may be, however 'practical, to
branch into numerous issues. Every member has his own
view, which may or may not he a purely theoretical or fanci-
ful way of treating the subject. Mr. Deedes selected his
financial bearings of the Newspaper Stamp Bill, and he im-
plored the house to pause before it sacrificed 200,0001. a-year
without being sure of an equivalent. Certainly, that is a
large sum of money. On Mr. Lindsay's estimate it is a tenth
of what has been wasted in the idle detentions and frivolous •
use of the transports engaged since the beginning of the war.
But, after all, the fate of this bill had to be decided on grounds
more peculiar to itself, for the real question is' how to do jus-
tice to the Press, how to encourage its freedom and enter-
prises, and how to render it the greatest possible convenience
to the public. It was natural that we should ourselves take
a simple view of the matter, and that we should recommend
hon. members to regard it as plainly and practically as they
could before they finally settled the position of the Press, the
most public-spirited and the best managed institution in iese
realms. Let hon. 'members take the bill as it stands, let them
suppose it to be the law of the land, and then fellow its ope-
ration Awe will not say upon ourselves, but upon every paper
whatever that does its work well, and thereby attains a cer-
tain amount of success, and they will see that as soon as the
paper has succeeded so far as to'give more news and to con-
tain more advertisements than its contemporaries, it is
immediately weighted and hindered in the competition,
in order to give all the " torpidV and " slow coaches,"
and broken-winded -jades a better chance with it. That
is the case as the law now stands, and it is no slight
argument against the bill in ,its present state that,
while it pretends to a permanent settlement of the
question, it perpetuates an injustice. But it will be seen fur-
ther, that in the event of the London newspapers finding it
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by the Manchester Pickpocket,. the Bury Appropriator, the
Birmingham Plunderer, the Liverpool Thief, the Glasgow
Burglar, the Paisley Pilferer, or the Edinburgh Pirate,
and the incl,ustrious population of the north will bask in the
light of satellites that borrow all our light and give none in
return. Can any member of the House of Commons deny
that this is the certain result of the bill in its present form I
Can any member say thst any London newspaper could stand
such continual depreciations upon as substance and curtail-
ment of its circulation ? Can any member say that we are
not justified in requiring 'Buell a measure to be ponsiderably
qualified ?
The question, then, as we take it, concerns the very prac-
ticability of a great newspaper, which by dint of exertion,
expenditure, organisation, and a lengthened experience, shall
command the very first intelligence from all parts of the
world, and offer such comments upon it as the
public may think it worth while to read. That there
should be a newspaper or newspapers of this class
is certainly more important to the public than even the
200,000/. a year which was the object of Mr. Deedes' and Sir
F. Baring's patriotic solicitudes. We think it, too, rather
more important than that the Attorney-General should be re-
leased from the trouble of ascertaining what constitutes a
newspaper: Sir B. Lytton has earned our thanks by the very
handsome testimony he has given to the conduct of this paper,
and to the integrity, candour, and courage of its writers. He
avows that he would desire nb more lasting memorial of the
existing British civilisation than a file of the Times. But,
perhaps, he has presumed too much on the supposed impossi-
bility of suppressing public opinion. After all, public opi-
nion is not a plant of universal growth. It does not flourish
in all climes, and has not long flourished in this. It has been
much more hardy since the appearance of our first number,
or, to speak ih general terms, since the commencement of
this century; and nobody can pretend to say that public opi-
nion, as it now exists in this country, is not intimately asso-
ciated with the existence and prosperity of its most powerful
organs. It is all very well to suppose the existence of a
thing as a sort of abstract idea in the mind of the people, or
as a general feeling, apart from any acts or institutions. But
it might so happen that when hon. members had en the one
hand, shut the Times out of the post, and on the other ex-
posed their Gulliver, bound hand and foot, to the attacks of
some thousand Lilliputian depredators, they might some day
miss the stern, independent, and incorruptible organ of
their opinions. Among a crowd of newspapers thoroughly
representing with infallible and appreciable accuracy the
opinion of Lord This or the Duke of That, of the Count*,
Gentlemen or the Manufacturers, of the Independents
or the Latter-day Saints, of the Manchester Econo-
mists or the Crotchet-work Knitters, they might live
to ask in vain for a journal that represented no school, and
that did not cultivate a mock consistency by perpetually
dishing up afresh the articles of the previous day.
As if to illustrate the animus with which this subject is ap-
proached in some quarters of the house, there were two dis-
tinct efforts made last night to divest the press of its anony-
mous character. Sir B. Lytton is for adopting the example

of France, by compelling a signature to every article or other
communication to a newspaper, . lie cannot have, given ten
minutes to the previous question----what an article in a news-
paper really is. It is, necessai'ily more or less the result of
private discussion, in which people become acquainted with
one another's views, and, to a certain extent, 'modify the ex-
pression of their own, with a view to a' combined and, as
much as possible, harmonious result. The name of Thomp-
son or Smith at the foot of an article which the said Thomp-
son or Smith would write probably in a very different style,
or more probably would not publish at all, but for their com-
bination in a newspaper, would convey an untruth. Of
course, when M. Kossuth, or Sir B. Lytton, or Mr. Douglas
Jerrold, or anybody else, gives his name as the editor and
writer, we understand it•to be a weekly pamphlet or speech,
and we read it accordingly as we listen to our Sunday ser-
mon. In the case of the ordinary British newspaper it is
stelciently understood-that there is a certain centre of cbm-
munication open to all parties, that letters of advice arid in-
formation pour in upon the editor, that he is the medium
of communication to the writers, who have to thank him
for suggestions which he, under these circumstances;
alone can give, and that, at least, they avoid so much
singularity or personality of opinion as to impair the
general effect, and shut out the other contributors. Sir B.
Lytton wishes to destroy, this, system, which, indeed, is the
essence of British journalism, and substitute the egotistical
speculations of certain, known,• or more probably •unknown,
writers. Mr. Drummond stets to aim at the same conclu-
sion, when he very unwarrantably obtrudes ou the house
some names which he may..possibly have heard or read some-
where in some gossip/Sing' correspondence as connected with
this paper. Mr. Drummond happily is not himself a repre-
sentative of public opinion, or even common sense, though he
may be of a certain eccentric humour and mysterious spiri-
tuality ;. so his suggestions on this point and his opinions as
to the position of the British press will be received only at
their proper value. The house, however, will do well to ob-
serve that there does exist a desire in some quarters to de-
stroy newspapers as organs of public' opinion, and degrade
them into the vehicles of Messrs. A. B. and C. It knows too
well the necessity of a free public opinion to its own existence
to sacrifice that foundation to Pie indulgence of an idle curi-
_osity. '

(From the Daily News of this day.)
The question of the newspaper stamp has at length under-
gone a full discussion in the House of Commons. Last night,
the point at issue was not so mach the propriety of abolishing
the stamp; as that of bringing forward the subject at all until
the Chancellor of the Exchequer has made his financial state-
ment. The British public is certainly a strange mixture of
liberality and churlishness. We throw away millions, and
make as much fuss about a few thousand pounds a year as if
the national treasury were empty. We are almost ashamed
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knowledged justice for the sole reason that it might cost the
country something short of 200,00 o:. a-year. What happened
only last night ? The Government has lately concluded an
alliance with the King of Sardinia—the conditions being that
the Sardinian Government is to send out an army of 15,000
men to the Crimea, and that we are-to advance a million a-
'year for the expenses that will be incurred. Some objection
indeed was made to lending a large sum of money, which may
possibly never be repaid, and the Tories, to do them justice,
protested against what looks very like a return to the perni-
cious policy of subsidies. But the thing was done without a
murmur.' It was quite pleasant ti witness the alacrity with
which our representatives voted away a million of next year's
taxes, No sooner had,this been done than Mr. Deedes rose
and objected gravely to the immediate abolition of the news-
paper stamp, lest the Chancellor might not be able to spare a
fifth part of that sum from the revenue. Poor Sir Francis
Baring was -petrified at the irregularity of the proceeding.
There are some men, we suppose, who are so attached to the
" established order," that they would sooner see the country
go to wrack and ruin than
.sanction the slightest change in
official routine. Once, too, when Sir Francis held a subordi-
nate position in the Government, an indiscretion of this kind
happened to lead to some rather serious consequences. The
memory of this disaster has haunted him ever since. It has
pursued him through life as the insect pursued 10, and has
now driven him into a course of policy which simply contra-
dicts every previous act of his political history.
So much for the financial side of 'the question. It is ex-
tremely doubtful whether the revenue will not benefit, in-
stead of suffer, from the change in the stamp law. But we
think it perfectly monstrous to allow any considerations of
-probable loss to interfere with the enactment of a law
whose justice is so obvious. Sir Lytton Bulwer, in
a speech of- surpassing eloquence, had the honesty
and the courage, to desert his party banner, and
to stand forth as the champion of an unfettered press. It is
positively ludicrous to read the whining complaints put forth
from week to week by persons who seem to think that the
character of the British press depends upon the payment of
a penny to the revenue for'every copy that is sold. It is the
old story. As it was very properly put by more than one
speaker last night, every man wants protection for himself,
-and denies-it to his neighbour. Talk of inconsistency ? Why
here are a score of papers that a few years ago were hunting
protection to the death, and triumphing over its final anni-
hilation, now beseeching the House' of Commons to defend
them against competition. No. Let us make a clean breast
of it at once. As public journalists, we perform great ser-
vices, we gather an enormous mass of information, and pre-
tend to instruct our neighbours, but we still are human,.
fallible, and inconsistent. We must refer our readers to the
admirable speech of Sir Lytton Bulwer for a crushing reply
to what we can only call the trash that has been uttered as
to the possible deterioration of the press in ease the new bill
should pass into law. Why should the press deteriorate ?
The most probable result of Sir Coruewall measure
will be that instead of one class of dolly awn. wp shall
nave ewo, ana rue rice will ray the more expensive one,
while the poor will have a supply equal to their demand.
Statesmen must have a low opinion of the intellectual condi-
tion of their countrymen if they think that persons who have
been accustomed to daily journals, conducted as most of them
are at present, will be content with an inferior 'article ; and
the masses, as they are called, must be in a lamentable con-
dition if every cheap thing that is sold must perforce be also
" nasty." No paper that fails to furnish news will live for a
single day. There will be class journals of every kind, but
any journal professing to do what the morning papers do
now must be conducted as they are, or die. All we ask is,
that no legislation shall stand between us and the public,
The price of our commodity will be regulated as easily as the
price of corn was on the abolition of the duty. For ourselves
we really don't want the few pennyworths of daily protection
that we are supposed to derive from the existing law. We
wish to be in the same position as other merchants, and to
make our own bargain with our customers, whether they be
the public or the Government. As for the cheap and pira-
tical newspapers with which we are threatened, the Attor-
ney-General last night expressed his opinion that the exist-
ing law of copyright is sufficiently strong to protect us
against any injury of that kind. But if these hopes should
turn out to be false, the same House of Commons which has
decided to give full freedom to the press can surely enact a
new law to meet any emergency that may arise.2We do not
think that, so long as the British press maintains its present
character, or, rather, grows with the growth, of years, ex-
panding and advancing with the resources and demands o f
the country, any man of sense will wish,to destroy its power,.
We have no desire to encroach upon the duties of our-rulers,
except, indeed, so far as the greatest statesman is he who
most faithfully expounds the public opinion of his time. We
have our own work to perform, and are by no means anxious
to do more than to collect information from every quarter of
the globe, and to pursue it with faithful comments. Let the
public judge of us by our works. We are very certain that
iu our case, as in • the case of every other' department of
human labour, our success will be in proportion to our effi-
ciency. The House of Commons has now, by a considerable
majority, acknowledged the principle' for which we contend,
and it is to be hoped that not many days will elapse before
the press is set free from those restrictions which have hither-
to done so much to thwart its legitimate infuence, and have
at least made that the privilege of the few which ought to be
the possession of the many.

NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELL.TGENCZ

The fleet at Spithead was augmented in force yesterday by
the arrival of the Colossus, 81, Captain Robinson, from
Devouport ; and the Centaur, 6, paddle-frigate Captain
,
Clifford, from Portsmouth harbour. Signal was made by the
Commander-in-Chief yesterday morning, at 7 o'clock, for all
the ships to unmoor, in order to take up new berths, and at
half-past 10 Vice-Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane went out in
the Fire Queen tender and hoisted his flag on board the Nep-
tune, 120, Captain Hutton, which ship immediately weighed,
in tow oftthe Bulldog paddle-sloop, and took up her appointed
position. The remainder of the fleet took up their berths in
succession ; the St. George, 120, towed by the Dragon paddle-
frigate ; and the Calcutta, 84, by the Driver, paddle-sloop.
Sir Thomas Cochrane rehoisted his flag on the Fire Queen at
half-past 2, and returned to Portsmouth. The fleet is now
spread over a large length of water, in two lines, starboard
and port, with an outer line formed by the paddle-steamers.
The lines are moored N.W. by W., and S.E. by E„ the ships
ranged two cables' length apart, and the lines one cable's
length between. The flag-ships Duke of Wellington and
Exmouth appear the centre ships open with Portsmouth har-
bour. Two paddle steamers (one at each extremity) are
moored at either end of the line-of-battle ships, forming an
advance guard—the Dragon half a mile N.W. by W. from the
Neptune, and the Odin half a mile N.W. by W. from the St.
George.
The James Watt, Hastings, and Pembroke are still in har-
bour; meanwhile the Colossus has moored in the place of the
Hastings.
A letter from the advanced squadron of the Baltic fleet,
dated the Downs, 24th inst., says—
" We, the advanced squadron, are under orders, received
this afternoon, net to quit this anchorage until the wind shifts
to the southward; it is now blowing from the north, with
occasional showers of sleet. The glass is beginning to rise,
and I think it likely we shall leave in a day or two. We had
rather a rough passage round, the wind having freshened soon
after our departure from Spithead, and by the time we had
reached Beachey-head it blew a strong gale from the east,
accompanied with thick mist and rain. The three large fri-
rimaedbeogilersoa,'" elyeap gtatihnestEituyalus, which used' averaging 44 knots
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it. The Arrogant steamed well also, and if the Imperieuse
had been enabled to use all her power (which, from a trifling
accident to ono of her boilers, she could not) it would have
been a good opportunity for testing the relative steaming
power of two of the finest frigates in the world—viz.' the
Imperieuse and the Euryalus. The Imperieuse, Euryalus,
and Arrogant anchored about 5 p.m. on Wednesday, the Con-
flict about half-past 3. The Esk arrived the following morn-
ing, and the Archer anchored this morning.

The Orion, 91, screw, Captain Erskine, is still lying up the
River Medway, but is expected down to Sheerness on Wed-
nesday next, when she will take in her powder, coals, &c.
Sunday last the victualling department at Sheerness was
busily employed shipping provisions for her. We hear she is
short-handed, but 300, it is said, are ready for her at Ports-
mouth.

The Horatio, screw, the Hon. Captain Cochrane, is still in
No. 3 dry dock, Sheerness. A number of mechanics are
working at her early and late. When completed, she will
mount two of Nasmyth's patent guns, the diameter of the
breach of which is 3 ft. 3 in. • at the muzzle, 2 ft. 7i in., and
carries a shot 3101 b. solid. The space between the foremost
and mainmast is cut away—viz., 11 in. in breadth. These
guns are suspended by two chains; the rollers of the car-
riages upon which they travel will be some distance above the
upper deck. In consequence of their being suspended by
these chains, little or no stiff iu comes upon the dock when

fired off. In addition to these monster pieces she will carry
two long guns or pivots on the upper deck, 95 cwt. each, or
681 b. shot, and two howitzers.

APPOINTMENTS.
Lieutenants.—James W. Vaughan (1848), recently serving
in the Britannia, 120, flag-ship in the Black Sea, to the James
Watt, 91, screw, at Portsmouth ; Joseph H. Macryatt (1852),
to the Hawke, 60, screw, at Sheerness, for service in the
Clinker, tender; Henry J. Grant (1846), from the Cressy, to
the Colossus, 80, screw, at Portsmouth, for service in the
Dapper, tender • Francis T. Hamilton (1848), from the St.
George, to the Pembroke, 60, screw, at Spithead, for service,
in the Grinder, tender ; William H. Trnscott (1853), from
the Powerful, to the Hastings, 80, screw, at Spithead, for
service in the Jasper, tender. .
Assistant Surgeon.—Henry G. Ruby (1854) has been con-
firmed in the Bulldog, 6, steam-sloop, at Devonport.
Clerks.—Henry ad (1850), from the Neptune, to the
Cesar, 91, screw, at Davenport ;,Adolphus D. Albutanson,
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to the Duke of Wellington, ~' flag-ship, at Portsmouth;
Edward A. Bumston, to the estic, 81, serew, at Sheerness.
Acting Clerk.—Allen F. 'n, to the Geyser, 6, steam-
sloop, M Portsmouth.

Temporary Clerk.—W. R. Watson, to tho Exmouth, 90,
screw, at Devonport.
Naval Cadet.—E. C. Dramniond, to the Jamea Watt.

MILIT.&RY.
It is not intended for the Present to send out the detach-
ments that have been told off from the Household Brigade
of Infantry to reinforce the service battalions in the Crimea.
Those men beloaoing to the Ist battalion of the Grenadier
Guards who volunteered for 'active service will, until re-
qnired, do garrison duty at the Tower and Royal Mint, and
the men belonging to the Coldstreams and Scots Fusiliers
will continue to do the duty at the Royal Palace and West-
end. ' Detachments for infantry regiments of the line before
Sebastopol will be the first to embark for the seat of war,
viz.

Ist Royals (Ist battalion)
3d Buffs,
7th Royal Fusiliers,
18th Royal Irish,
19th Foot,
21st Royal North British Fusiliers,
23d Royal Welsh Fnsiliers,
33d (Duke of Wellington's Own),
42d Highlanders,
Nth Foot,
55th Foot,
• 68th Durham Light. Infantry (2d battalion)
71st Highlanders (2d battalion,)
88th Connaught Rangers,
93d Highlanders, and the Ist and 2d battalions of the Rifle
Brigade.

The following regiments will proceed to the Crimea as soon
as relieved by regiments of Militia, vit. :-
2d Battalion Ist Royals, from Cephalonia.
31st Foot, from Corfu.
48th ditto, from Corfu.
66th ditto, from Gibraltar.
72d Light Infantry, from Malta.
82d Foot, from Corfu.
92d ditto, from Gibraltar.
'The 94th Foot is to be held in readiness for embarkation.
The cavalry draughts for the Crimea will proceed during
the ensuing month. It is estimated that the horse transports
already in the service, exclusive oC those employed in the con-
veyance of artillery, are capable of transporting 3,080 horses
and nearly 5,000 men.

The invalids from the seat of war who arrived at Ports-
mouth last week in the Alps steamer were located in the old
hospital until yesterday, when they left for Chatham invalid
depot, with the exception of six, who were taken to the gar-
rison new hospital.

Assistant-Surgeon W. Mac Andrew, M.D., from the 96th
Foot, has been promoted a►s Staff-Surgeon of the second class,
Tice Delmege, promoted.

PARLIAMENTARY bIVISION.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MAncH 26.
NEWSPAPER STAMP DUTIES BILL.

Motion made, and question proposed, "That the bill be
new read a second time." Amendment proposed, to
leave out the word " now," and at the end of the ques-
tion to add the words "upon Monday thke3Oth day of
April next." Question put, " That the word now'
stand part of the question."—The house divided : Ayes
215, Noes 161.

AYES-215.
Acton, J. Freestun, Col.
Adair, It. Gardner, R.
Adair, It, Gibson, T
Alcock, T. Gladstone, W.
Anderson, Sir J. Glyn, G.
Baines. Rt. Hon. 3.f. Gordon, A.
Ball, J. Gower, F.
Barnes, T Graham Sir J.
Baxter, W. Greenag, G.
Beaumont, W. Greene, John
Bell, J. Gregson, S.
Bellew, T. Greville, Col. F.
Berkeley, Admiral Grey, Sir G.
Berkeley, C. Grey, It,
Bethell, Sir R. Grosvenor, Ld. R.
Biggs, W. Grosvenor, Earl
Bland,lL. H. Hadfield, G.
Bonham-Carter,3 Hall, Sir B.
Bouverie, llon. E. P. Mulkey, T.
Bewyer, G. Ilastie, Alex. •
Brady, S. Hastie, Archd.
Brand, H. B. W. 'Heactlam. T.
Heard, J.
Brockman, E.D. E ervey, Lord A.
Brotherton, J. Heywood, J.
Brown, IL Heyworth, L.
Bruce, Lord E. Higgins, G. 0.
Buckley, Gen. Hogg, Sir J. W.
Burke, Sir T. Horsman, E.
Byng, G. Howard, C.
Cardwell, E. Howard, Lord
Cavendish, G. Hudson, G.
Challis, T. Ratchins, E.
Chaplin, W. Hutt, W.
Cheetham. -.lngham, R.
Clay, Sir W., Bt. Jackson, W.
Clifford, Col. H. M. Johnstone, Sir J.
Clinton, Lord R. Keating, R.,
Cobden, 114. Kennedy, T.
Cockburn, Sir A. J. E. Keogh, W.
Cowan, C. • Kershaw, 3.
Cowper, VV. F. Kinnaird, A.
Craufurd, E. IL J. Kirk, W.
Crook, J. Lang ton, H. G.
Crossley, F. Laslett, W.
Currie, Raikes Layard, A. H.
Daghwood, Sir G. H. Lee, W.
Davies, D. A. S. Lewis, Sir G. C.
Dent, J Locke, J.
Da Tem, S. Lowe, R.
Diliwyn, L. Luce, T.
Drumlanrig, Via. Lytton, Sir G.
Duff, G. Mackinnon, W. A.
Duff, J. M`Cann, J.
Duffy, C. G. Macgregor, John
Bake, Sir J. Marsuire, J.
Duncan, Viscouat Mangles, R. D.
Duncan, G. Marjorlbanks, D.
Dundas, F. Matheson, A.
Dunlop, A. Matheson, Sir J.
Ehrington, Viscount Iliall,llE.
Elliot, J. Milligan, R.
Ewart, W. Milnes, R.
Fenwick, H. Mitchell, T.
Ferguson, J. Molesworth, Sir W.
FitzOerald, Sir J. Monek, Viscount
FtzGerald, J. Mon creiff, J.
Foley, J. Moot% , G.
Forster, C. Mestyn, T.
Forster, J. Mowatt, F.
Fortescne, C. Murrough, J.
Fox, W. North, F.
NOES-161.

O'Brien, P.
O'Connell, D.
Oliveira, B.
Osborne, R.
Ossul sten, Lord
Paget, Lord A.
Palmerston, Visa.
Pechell. Sir G.
Peel, Sir R.
Peel, F.
Pellatt, A.
Percy, J.
Perry, Sir T.
Phillimore, B. J.
Mon, T.
Pigott, F.
Pilkington, J.

Pollard-Urquhart, W.
Portman, W.

Power, N.
nice, Sir R.
Pritchard, J.

Ramsden, Sir J.

Ricardo, O.
Ricardo, S.
Richardson, J.
Robartes, T.
Roche, E.
Roebuck, J.
Russell, F. C.
Russell, F. W.
Scholefield, W.
&obeli, Capt. G.
Scrope, G.
&ally, V.
Seymour, H.
Feymonr, W. D.
Shelley, Sir J.
Sheridan, R.
Smith, J. B.
Smith, M.
Smith, R.
Stafford, Marquis
Stanley, Lord
Stephensdn, It.
Stirling, W.
Strutt, E.
Swift, R.
Tancred. H.
Thompson, G.
Thornely, T.
Thornhill, W.
Traill, G.
-Uxbridge, Earl
Villiers, C.
Walmaley, Sir J.
Waiter, J.
Warner, 'B
Whatman, J.
Wickham, H. W.
Wilkinson, W.
Willcox, B.
Williams, W.
Wilson, J.
Winnington, Sir T.
Wood, Sir C.
Wortley, J. S.
yvill, M.

TELLERS
Hayter, W.
Mulgrave, Earl of

Adderley,-C. Frewen, C. Naas, Lord
Archdall, M. Fuller, A Newark, Viscount
Ark wright, G. Galwey, Sir W. Newdegate, C.
Bagge, W. Galway, Viscount. Newport, Visco t,
Bailey, Sir J. Gilpin, Col. H. North, Col. J.
Baillie, H. uladstone, Capt. J. Northcote, Sir S.
Ball, E. Gooch, Sir E. Oakes, J.
Bankes, Rt Hon G. Graham, Lord W. Packe, C.
Baring, T. • Granby, Marquis o f Pakington, Sir J.
Barrington, Viscount Greaves, E. Palmer, Robert
Barrow, W. Grogan, Edward Parker, R.
Bective, Earl Guinness, R. Peel, Gen.
Bennet, Capt P. Gurney, I. Pennant, Col. E.
ltentlnck, G. Gwyn, li. Philipps, J.
Beresford, Rt. Hn. W. Hale, R. Robertson, P.
Blackburn, P. Halford, Sir H. Ron. P.
Bramley-Moore, J. Harmer, Sir J. Itu,hout, Col. G.
Brams:on, T. W. Ilarcourt, Col. F. Satidurs, G.
Bruce, C. Hardinge, Hon. C. Scott, F.
Buck, L. W. Hawkins, W. Seymour, Lord
Ruck, G. Hencage, Geo. 11. Sihthorp, Col.
Burroughes, H. Henley, J. Smijth, Sir W.
Cairns, H. Herbert, Sir T. Smith, W.
Campbell, Sir A. Hilyard, R. C. Smith, Abel
Cameo, Sir J. Hollord, R. Smollett, A.
Coyle'', E. Hotham, Lord Sotheron, T.
Child, Smith It ton, S. Spooner, R.
Cholmondeley, Lord Jolliffe, Sir W. Stafford, A.
Christie, Samnel Janes, Capt. T. Stuart, W.
Clinton, Lord C. P. P. Kelly. Sir F. Thesiger, Sir F.
Clive, R. Kendall, N. • Tollemache, J.
Cobhold, J. C. Ker, D, Trollope, Sir J.
Cocks, T. S. Knatchbull, W. Tyler, Sir G.
Codrincton, Sir C. W Knox, Col. B. W. Vance, J.
Cole, II A Knox, W. S. Vansittart, G.
Corry, H. T. L. Labouchere,ntllon.ll Verner, Sir W.
Cuhitt, Vir, Laffan, CApt . R. Vernon, G.
Disraeli, B. Lancton, W. Vernon, L.
Duckworth, Sir J. T. Legh, G. C. Vivian, J. E.
Duncombe, Hon. A. Lennox, Lord A. F. Vyvyan, Sir R.
Dunne, Col. Leslie, C. P. Waddington, D.
Du Pre, C. Liddell, H. G. Waddington, H.
East, Sir J. Lushingtoll, C. Wa'cott, Admiral
Egerton, Sir F. Macartney, G. Walpole, S.
Egerton, E. C. Macgregor, Jas. Walsh, Sir J.
E I mley, Vis. Matins, it. Whitmore, H.
Emlyn, Vis. Massey,W. Wig,ram, Loftus T.
Evelyn, W. Kasterman, J. Woodd, B.
Fellowes, E. Meux, Sir H. Wyndham, Gen.
Filiner, Sir E. Michell, W. Wynn, Lieut.-Col.
Fitzgerald, W. Montgomery, Sir G. Yorke, E.
Floyer, J. Moody, C.
Follett, B. Mowbray, J.
Forester, Col. Mullings, J.
Franklyn, CL Mundy, W.

TELLERS
Dedeß, W.
Baring, Sir F.

PAIRS.
FOR GOVERNMENT. AGAINST GOVERNMENT.
Mr. H. Berkeley Sir J. Bignold
Mr. T. Duncombo Mr. Freshfield
Mr. W. Brown Colonel Boldero
Mr. Marshall Sir G. Berkeley
Mr. Wrightson Sir H. Maddock
Sir J. Paxton Mr. Morgan
Lord Jermyn Mr. Bateson
Mr. J. A. Smith Hon. 0. Duncombe
Colonel K. Tynte Sir H. Willoughby
Mr. Butler General Arbuthnott
Major Reed Mr. Mackie
Mr. Tomline Mr. H. Baring
Mr. Grenfell Sir E. Dering
Mr. Steel Mr. F. French!
Mr. Coffin Lord Chelsea
Mr. M. Sutton Lord G. Manners
Lord Dungarvan Hon. C. Hanbury

SHOCKING IGNORANCE.—At the Bottisham Petty
Sessions the other day a youth, whose vocation is to
gather dung from off the roads, was charged with helping
himself pretty freely from a farmer's manure heap, when
the following colloquy took place :—Magistrate—" Do
you know the Lord's prayer ?" Boy—" Noa I" Magis-
trate—" Where do boys go to who tell a lie ?" Boy—
" Don't know." Magistrate—" Where does a good boy
go to ?" Boy--" Home, as soon as he has filled his bar-
k ro w l "—lpswich, Express.