The Sun.
London, England, 1855-03-01 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING MARCH 1, 1855.

DRIIRY-LANE.—Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.—
Redo:A Prices as usual.

THIS EVENING,

Will be performed an adaptation, written expressly for this
Theatre by Mr. Itzurotnsox, of Meyerbeer's Grand Opera,
LZTOILE DU NORD.
To conclude with YOUTH, LOVE, AND FOLLY.

THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKBT.
Under the management of Mr. Buckstone
THIS EVENING.

Wid be performed the Comedy of ♦ CURE FOR LOVE. Prin-
cipal characters by Messrs. Chippendale, Buckstone, and E. Vi:-
liers ; Miss E. Chaplin, Mrs. Griffiths, and Mrs. Poynter.
After which a new Ballot, entitled THE BULL-FIGHTER.
To be followed by THE BALANCE OF COMFORT.
To conclude with a new Ballet by the Spanish Dancers, called
THE GALICIAN FETE.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. CHARLES KEAN.
THIS EVENING,

Will be presented the original adaptation of Casimir belavlgne'a
Historical Play, entitled LOUIS THE ELEVENTH. Principal
character by Mr. C. Kean.
After which will he produced a New Grand Christmas Pantomime.
entitled, HARLEQUIN BLUE-BEARD; or, The Great Bashaw.
Harlequin, Mr. Cormack ; Clown, Mr. Huline ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ;
tint Columbine, DlLss Des borough.

ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE.
Uhler the Management of Madame Yestrii.
THIS EVENING,

Will be performed THE GAME OF SPECULATION. Principal
character by Mr. C. Mathews.
To be followed by (10th time) a new Comic Drama, called TO)
MUCH OF A GOOD THING.
After which will be produced the new and original Fairy Extra-
vaganza, entitled PRINCE PRETTYPET and THE BUTTERFLY.
Box-office open from 10 until 6.
Sole agent for Private Boxes, Mr. Alleroft, 15, New-Bond-street.

THEATRE ROYAL ADELP [II.

Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste.

THIS EVENING,
R 11l be performed a new and rrlginal Drama, preceded by a Pro-
logue, and called JANET PRIDE.

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To be foVowed by THE UNKNOWN' AND 711 E BATA DEBE.
Characters by Messrs. P. Bedford and G Lee ; Misses Woolgar ant
Keeley, and Mdlles. Maraquita and Benori.

ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE.

Lessee and I.`fara4er, Mr. A. Wigan.
THIS EVENING,

Will he precented the new enmedietta, call& TIT FOR TAT,
Which Messrs. F. Robson, A. Wigan, and Miss .Haskell will appTar.
Followed by A LUCKY FRIDAY.
A ler which, r. new Fairy Extravaganza. entitled VIP. YELLOW
DWARF
As TILE KING CF THE GOLD MINES. Characters
by `J.. F. tteb.on, Itis Julia F't. Geo-ge, Mist E. Ormonde,
Marton, Miss Bromley, And Mrs. Fitzallan.

ROYAL STRAND TfLiATRF..

ilnler the directron of Misi Mebeua

THIS EVENING

Will be performed a new Comedietta, entaled CITY FRIEN-Dl.
After which, the new Operatic lturiesque, entitled, AT.ONZO TT!
BRAVE.

To conclude with the popular Barletta, OUR NE:.LY. rrinclp:
character, Miss Rebecca Isaacs.

ASTLEk'S AMPIIIIMEATIZE.

Lessee and Manager, Mr. Win. Cooke.

THIS EVENING,
The RATTLE of B kLAKLAVA ard cf INK 'it \IAN N., a lded,
a Third Act, to the successful Spectacter the BAT fLE of the A A,
which this week reaches its 116th representation ! The addition
emhraces the ever-memorable charge of the British Cavalry, anti
also those tre,nendous ban,l-hi-h and encounte: a which cliaractersed
the atove engagements.

After Mob, and to conelode with, a select and prolong-d Series 01
SCENES in the CIRCLE, invented by Mr. Wiu. ooke.

110 x-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W
Wain. Acting Manger, A r. W. H. Cooke. Equestrian Direct)r
Mr. %V. Co, ke, jun.

131111 WATER AT LONDON BRIDO
Tyill DAT —Morning42 znin.lftel 32 1 Evening 7 min.sf'.. I
To-loamy -Morning 2$ min.s.fter 1 1 Evening 48 lialri.m.rt. 1

THE WEATHER.—Sun Ornos, March. 1.
THIBMONNTBB, IN THB SHADE.
'sl—highest since noon yesterday.
43—lowest this morning and during the night.
51—this (lay, at noon.

BAROMETER, 20'63.
WIND, Variable from W. to W.N.W.—Fine sunshiny
weather.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1855.

Aristocracy is doubly answerable for the ruin
of our, noble army ; and we must have yet an-
othercommittee of inquiry. Its Commissariat blun-
ders, ludicrous in number and kind but for their
fatal consequences, stand visibly prominent as the
proximate cause. Die an army must which could
not get food enough to eat, clothes to wear, huts
in winter to shelter them, fresh meat to keep off
the scurvy, and roasted coffee as a cheering stimu-
lant ; and die horses must with neither corn nor
hay for their food, nor even horse-cloths, not to
say stables, to protect them. But the commis-
sariat is not all, nor the disputed questions of ge-
neralship. The country must not forget other
delinquencies quite as grave. There is some dan-
ger lest the proximate causes of Balaklava horrors
should absorb the indignation of the country.
We charge the late Cabinet with crimes against
the army and the nation greater in reality than
all our Commissariat failures ; greater because not
less fatal, and committed knowingly and inten-
tionally. We fully acquit the Duke of NEW-
CASTLE, on the other hand, of anything but in-
competency to oust, or force to obedience, a
swarm of obstructive or idle officials ; he assuredly
did not mean to starve our men. Nor did his
chief mean anything particular in adhering to
military routine, and in not taking on himself to
subvert with a Stroke of bis pen the system of
half a century, trusting to Parliamentary indem-
nity for resolutely promoting merit and efficiency,
and letting wealth and connexion take its chance
with the rest.

Far otherwise i 3 it with aristocratic foreign
policy. In that, what they did they meant to do.
It was the designed policy of Lord ABERDEEN and
his colleagues, which has sent more English sol-
diers to the hospitals or to their graves than the
deadly seven miles from Balaklava to the camp.
That murderous foreign policy, we use the epi-
thet advisedly, will be continued under pure
Whiggism, and with renovated strength unless the
nation interferes. We may safely leave Mr. Rol.=
BUCK now to his patriotic task; he will do it, and
do it as becomes Mr. ROEBUCK. Let the nation
now attack the master culprit. Let another
committee investigate the secret, or shall we say
dark, work which Lord CLARENDON has done for
the Cabinet and the Coburgs. There is a field
for inquiry here which imperatively calls for the
most unsparing scrutiny. It may be hard to
Come at the truth. Ministers will clamour more
loudly against a Parliamentary Committee to
run4okage its diplomatic papers than even against
the. elm for scrutinising another branch of the
Executive. But it is even more needed. Why
should Lord CLARENDON, on behalf of Court and
Cabinet, be allowed to do work which will not
bear the light ? 11,T, ha v©
with that deadly ve wanted no negotiations
enemy to liberty, Austria, which
all England and the world might not know. It
has become the fashion to bopraise Lord CLAREN-
DON'S Austrian achievements so loudly that one
may well believe the noise has been raised.
to
bully down investigation by anticipation. wo
have not a ,vord to say personally against that truly
excellent nobleman, but his secret public policy
is the policy of his Cabinet and his order, and we
arraign it by its results as the cause, and the
curse, and the bane of the War.
It was our foreign policy which waited on
Austria till everything was too late--too late to de-
clare war—too late to send our navy into the Black
Sea and our troops to the Danube—too late,
above all, to sail for the Crimea. There was in

it,.indeed, a most scandalous deference to Russia,
even after open acts of aggression on her part,
all tending to the same result ; but the base
draggling after Austrian procrastination, and sub-
. serviency to Austrian purposes—this has been
continued longer—nay, down to this very hour.
what has been the cause of it all ; We

reply, Coburgism—Coburgism, finding a prompt
conductor of its instinctive impulses in the leaning
of Whig and Peelite Ministers to Austrian abso-
lutism, and to Austrian domination over the
lands of KOSSUTH and MAZZIIIII. The Coburgs
are bound up with Austria, and not unconnected
with Russia, too. The Coburgs dread another
1848, and Austria could not survive it. To cut
the Austrian connection—to leave her to her-
self, and all the other bantams who crow
and strut under her protection and that of
Russia—to shift for themselves also—why,
it might be the precursor of nations obtain-
ing their liberty or their political rights, and of
the little Dukes, &c., &c., &c., who now furnish
wives or husbands for the Sovereigns of other
and more important kingdoms, to think them-
sel►es well off if they occupied the social position
of our Chairmen of Quarter Sessions.
From all this has resulted that unpardonable
sin of our foreign counsels, the rejection of Polish
aid. That policy reeks with English blood. We
refused to attack Russia in what is now confessed
to be her weakest point, and left her legions at
liberty for the Crimea. We refused the aid of
seventeen millions of a brave people, the just ene-
mies of Russia, and were made to bid for a legion
of mercenaries instead. We even refused the
Porte, our ally, leave to raise a Polish legion in
his own defence at the penalty of forfeiting our
aid ! We refused a volunteer band of Poles to
attract from Sebastopol their fellow-countrymen
who are made to serve the guns against us—a
band prepared to head the assault of that vainly-
beleaguered fortress. We repeat that torrents of
Euglish blood have flowed already because Poland
has been spurned ; and more will yet flow. A
merciless Polish conscription has swelled the army
of Russia this winter, and the men who might
have been using in our defence are practising the
Minis rifle or forced into the artillery, which aro
soon to furnish more orphans and widows for our
charity. Tho Commissariat has slain its thou-
sands ; but aristocracy, Coburg, and Austrian
cmtempt of Poland has slain its ten thousands.
But for this the Commissariat would have bad
but little time to starve our troops. Poles, if
invited, from the first, would have placed Seim.-
topol in our hands, before Balaklava, "nicer-Man,
the seven miles, the too late supplies, anftWe un-
regulated harbour had sacrificed our men.

We have only to add that we see no symptoms
under the new Whig Ministry of a better policy.
The country itself must speak out. It must tell
the Ministry that one Polane_ is worth ten Aus-
trias. It must demand that we strike a blow
through Poland by employing our Baltic fleet to
land an army at Riga ; that we invite Louts
NAPOLEON to furnish men, and we will do our
part with ships ; that we will have the Polish flag
hoisted, and Poles substituted for mercenaries.
A bove all, that we shall hold them guilty of the
blood of our soldiers if they delay any longer to
save that blood by justice to Poland.

Mr. LAYARD, in his address to his constituents
at Aylesbury, made some very important state-
ments. He fully confirms, from personal know-
ledge be it remembered, Lord SHAFTESBURY'S
statements early in the present contest, that the
real cause of the CZAR'S attempt upon Turkey
was the liberal course pursued by the SULTAN
towards his Christian population, and fear lest, as
their liberties increased he should lose all chance
of possessing himself of the rich provinces he had
so long coveted.
Another statement, made with the conviction
that he should " hold it to his dying day," was
that a bold front at first would have saved us
from war altogether, but that the Peelites in the
Cabinet were quite opposed to Lord PALMERSTON
and Lord JOHN RUSSELL regarding Russian do-
mination ; and that, therefore, to Lord ABER-
DEEN, and the clique who have now left office,
we owe all the sufferings at home and in the
Crimea incident to the War. Let Messrs.
COBDEN and BRIGHT know now whom they
are to attack, and let them remember that
even now it is the poltroonery which cla-
mours for peace, and the least possible demands
which will prolong the War, the bloodshed, and
the waste of money.
Another statement is that Mr. LAYARD was
only last Friday offered by Lord PALMERSTON the
Under-Secretaryship of War—that he accepted
it, but that it was withdrawn for important
reasons, and he was offered the same post in re-
gard to the Colonies. Mr. LAYARD most properly
declined that as he had done the Ordnance, be-
cause he was not particularly acquainted with
those matters. For the other post Mr. LAYARD
was the one man whom the nation wanted. What
could bo the important reasons ? Was Mr. F.
PEEL of such importance, a man utterly unac-
quainted with the department, and without a
single gift of nature to qualify him for it ? We
cannot comprehend the infatuation which leaves
out of his proper place the man who assuredly
would have seen the nation's business done.

The present systen of promotion in the Army
will this evening be brought under the considera-
tion of the House of Commons. It has long since
been decisively and unequivocally condemned by
the people ; it only requires that the popular
branch of the Legislature should adopt a similar
view to lead to a speedy and vast amelioration.
The question, and none will deny its vital im-
portance, lies in a nutshell. It is—" By what
means can we render our troops most efficient
and obtain the highest qualifications, not only in
officers, but also in soldiers ?" This is the impor-
tant problem to be answered ; and, although some
differences of opinion may exist as to the most
eligible mode of attaining the object, there can
be but lit'rde, if any, doubt that the prevailing prac-
tice is, in every respect, the worst that could pos-
sibly be adepted—that any alteration must be an
improvement.

Far be it from us to assert that we have no
many highly meritorious and distinguished officers,
who have paid heavily for every step'; who, per-
haps, could not be surpassed by any men in the
performance of their arduous duties. It is not,
however, in consequence, but rather in spite, of

these baneful regulations that such men have
proved their worth. They would have succeeded
under any system. The true military spirit—the
chivalric disposition that induces a man to relin-
quish the enjoyment of inglorious ease, and " to
Seek the bubble reputation even at the cannon's
mouth," would still exist, and prompt the aspi-
rant to enter on a course of honourablo competi-
tion,
and meet the rivalry of all, without excep-
tion—not merely those who possess the accidents
of birth or moue
services were worth teekiu g
3T. Really useful men, whose
after, would not be
possibility of being jostled
deterred because of the
on the course by plebeian oPPonents. On the
contrary, it would only stimulate them to more
active exertion, rendering them 017011 more com-
petent,
of service-in
emergency.
epeetrlainaiy)s, no ot the world
Tilerteoism,
where 6( venality" is openly tolerated—where a
situation, carrying with it the discharge of ardu-
ous and responsible duties, can be openly bought
or sold. It would be laughed to scorn in

any other country in the civilised world,
and in any other department in the Bri-
tish service the mere attempt would be re-
garded as a high crime and misdemeanour. What
would be said if the qualification for the Judicial
Bench was the possession and readiness to hand
over some 20,000/. or 30,000/. Would
equal confidence then be reposed in the
justice and impartiality of the Learned Judges of
the land ? Far from it. It would naturally be
thought that the men who purchased would be
disposed to turn their opportunities to the best
advantage, and to seek the most speedy and
efficacious means of recouping themselves the
money that they had previously disbursed.
In the naval, engineer, and military departments,
as well as in the East India Company's service, the
practice is utterly ignored ; while in the "eivilcle-
partments" the offer of money for promotion would
be regarded as a total disqualification, if it did
not lead to the prosecution of the party by whom
it was tendered. Why, then, should it be tole-
' rated in a single branch. Similar effects would
in each case follow from similar causes. If it be
justifiable in ono case, it should be in all. If, on
the other hand, the system works well in the
army, why should it not be extended to all
branches of the public service ?
But it is not merely in relation to officers that
the matter must be regarded : we must also
consider its influence on the private soldiers. If
promotion were invariably bestowed on merit, if
any deserving man might hope to rise, a far bet-
ter class of recruits would come forward—men
sufficiently educated to hold the commissions they
might possibly earn, and who would have the
strongest motive to good conduct a motive
far more powerful than the "fear" of punishment.
Educate—don't flog the soldier. Once convince
him that the unexceptionable discharge of duty
will be properly recognised, and you :et once dis-
pose of the vexata quastio of military punishments.
The " cat " may be abolished, the military prison
and the black hole rarely resorted to—even extra
drills, or parading so many hours per diem, in
heavy marching order, will scarcely be wanting.
Love is always a more powerful instrument
than fear, and, as we have stated, the
hope of reward than the dread of punish-
ment. There are many RICHARD DOUBLEDICKS
in the British Army, and many more would enter
if it were once credited that unflinching bravery,
and invariable steadiness and good conduct,
would lead to the promotion of the party.
Even if the system of purchasing Commis-
sions produced better officers than that of promo-
tion by merit, it should still be abolished for the
sake of the effect on the private soldier.

We earnestly invite attention to the letter
from " Medicus," which will be found in ano-
ther part of our impression. The gallant
officer, who writes from the camp before
Sebastopol, and who has, therefore, had the best
possible opportunities of forming an accurate
judgment on the subject, traces a considerable
portion of the mortality that has thinned
our ranks to four causcs—namely,
Ist. "Insufficient shelter when off duty."
2d. "Irregularity in the rationing."

3d. " Want of clothing." And
4th. "Almost incessant duty and consequent

exposure."

The latter cause, as he justly remarks,
arises from the three former; for it is the num-
ber of men who have been placed hors de combat,
and disqualified for duty, that has occasioned such
intolerable demands on those still competent to

mount guard.
1 The Quartermaster-General's and Commissariat
Departments are those mainly respon9ible for
these deplorable evils. The delinquents must,
however, speedily be visited with retribu-
tive justice. They cannot hope to escape
with importunity from the consequences of the
fearful calamities they have occasioned by
their apathy and indifference. It is not necessary
to impute more direst criminality, for "the ne-
glect of an appointed duty, whereby a fellow-
creature meets his death," renders the offender
liable to a convictionfor manslaughter. How much
greater, then, is the guilt of those to whose culpable
carelessness the deaths, not of two or three, but
of hundreds, aye, thousands, of their country-
men may be directly traced, and the suffer-
ings and broken health of a still larger
number, to say nothing of the lamentable conse-
quences of their misconduct on the honour and
interests of the entire nation ? Verily they have
much occasion for, and most assuredly they shall
meet with suitable recompense, whether for good
or evil, the results of the pending investigation
will tell.

ARRIVAL OF LORD LUCAN.

DOVER, THURSDAY MOINING.

Lord Limn has just arrived from the Crimea,
and has proceeded to London by the 9.15 train.

SUN-OFFICE, HALF-PAST Two.
The Earl of Lucan and aide-de-camp arrived in
London this day by the 1.15 p.m. train of the
South-Eastern Railway from Dover. Ho has the
appearance of hard toil and thought.

ASSISTANT-SURGZONS IN THE NAVY.

A numerously-attended and influential meeting of the
students of St. Bartholomew's Hospital was held yester-
day at the Albion Hotel, Aldersgate-street, when the
following resolutions were unanimously carried, besides
several others :

"That this mooting views with deep regret the want of
sufficient medical aid in the naval servico : that in the
opinion of this meeting such want is owing to tho present
Admiralty regulations, so unjust to the assistant-surgeons,
and so derogatory to the medical profession. _

" Thoughunwilling to throw any obstacle is the way of
supplying that deficiency, this meeting resolves not to ac-
cept employment under the Admiralty whilo such regula-
tions continue in force."

THE SPEAKER'S LEVEES. - The Right Hon. the
Speaker will hold his levees at 89, Eaton-square, at ten
o'clock p.m., on the evenings of Saturday, March 10,
and Saturday, March 17.
The Marquis of Winchester has arrived in town from
Amport House, near Andover, Hants.
The Countess Colloredo has issued cards for an as-
sembly at Chandos House, on Wednesday next. Her
ladyship's afternoon receptions have ceased for the pre-
rent.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Cholmondeley will
arrive at their mansion, on Carlton-house-terrace, this
day, from Cholmondeley Castle.
The Marquis of Ailesbury arrived in Grosvenor-square
on Thursday last, from Tottenham Park, Wilts.
The Earl and Countess of Wilton, and Lady Catherine
Grey Egerton, and Viscount Grey de Wilton, leave
town this morning for Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray.
Lady Elisabeth Dc Ros remains in town.
TAE HON. W. O. STANLEY, M.P.— We aro sorry to
hear that our honourable member has been confined at
Penrhos from a bad attack of ague, which has pre-
♦ented his being in London at the present period.—
Chester Chronicle.

The Earl and Countess of Abergavenny are entertain-
ing a distinguished circle of friends at Eridge Castle.
The noble earl and countess shortly go to Birling Manor
for some weeks, and are not expected to return to town
until May.

The Marquis and Marchioness of Breadalbane, who
are at present at Taymouth Castle, return to London for
the season, on Wednesday next. His lordship's esta-
blishment has been for some days io Park-lane, preparing
for the reception of the family.—Eclinturyli, Courant.
SOCIETY or ARTS.—A paper was read at the rooms
of this society last night by Professor John Wilson,
F.8.5.E., on the Iron Industry of the United States.
Earl Granville was in the chair.
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COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen held a Court and Privy Council at three
o'clock yesterday afternoon at Buckingham Palace.
At the Court, General De la Marmora, Commander-
in-Chief of the Sardinian Contingent with the Allied
Armies, was presented to her Majesty at an audience by
the Earl of Clarendon, K.G., the Queen's Principal
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by
Major-General the Hon. Sir Edward Cost, K.C.H.,
her Majesty's Master of the Ceremonies. The General
was accompanied by the Marquis d'Azeglio, Sardinian
Minister.

The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone had an audience,
and delivered to her Majesty the seal of Chancellor of
the Exchequer.
Sir James Graham had an audience on resigning office
as First Lord of the Admiralty.
The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert had an audience, and
delivered to the Queen the seal of office of one of her
Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State.
Mr. Richard Graves Mac Donnell, C. 8., governor-in-
Chief of South Australia, was presented to the Queen by
Sir George Grey, one of her Majesty's Principal Secre-
taries of State, when the Queen was graciously pleased
to confer the honour of knighthood upon him.
The Privy Council was attended by his Royal High-
ness Prince Albert, Earl Granville, Duke of Argyll,
Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Palmerston, Sir G. Grey,
Earl of Clarendon, Lrrd Panmure, the Right Hon. R.
Vernon Smith, Earl of Carlisle, Sir Charles Wood, Sir W.
Molesworth, Viscount Canning, Earl Spencer, Duke of
Wellington, the Marquis of Abercorn, and Lord Ernest
Bruce (officiating for the Lord Chamberlain).
Her Majesty in Council was pleased to declare the
Right Hon. George, Earl of Carlisle, K.G., Lord-
Lieutenant of Ireland.

Sir George Cornewall Lewis, Bart., was, by command
of her Majesty, sworn of her Majesty's Most Honourable
Privy Council, and the seal of Chancellor of the Exche-
quer was by the Queen delivered to the right hon.
baronet.

Her Majesty baying been pleased to appoint the
Right Hon. Montagu, Rtrl of Abingdon, to be Lord-
Lieutenant of Berkshire, his lordship took the custo-
mary oaths. _ _

Ify command of the Queen, a proclamation was ordered
to be issued, appointing Wednesday, the 21st inst., to
to be observed as a Day of Fast and Humiliation.
An amended warrant was sanctioned at the Council,
appointing Mr. Charles John Tottenham, M.P., instead
of M. Charles Ponkonby Tottenham, M.P., to be
Sheriff for Merionet4shire for the present year.
The Hon. 'William Bathurst was the Clerk of the
Council in Waiting.
Sir Charles Wood had an audience of her Majesty and
kissed hands on being appointed First Lord of the Ad-
miralty.
The Right Hon. It, Vernon Smith had an audience of
the Queen, and kissed bands on being appointed Presi-
dent of the Board of Control for the Affairs of India.

Tile Queen gave attliencis to Viscount Palmerston,
Earl Granville, and Lord Panmure.
Her Idjesty 17.4 i attended by the Earl of Mulgrave,
Trtasurer of the household, Lord Seaton, Gold Stick in
Waiting, Earl Simiers, Lord in Waiting, and Colonel
the Hun. A. N. Hood, Groom in Waiting.

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February.

Balaklava.

LATEST NEWS.

THE CRIMEA.

THE ATTACK ON EUPATORIA.
VIENNA, WEDNESDAY.

The attack on Eupatoria on the 17th was a

erious affair.

The Russians, with 80 guns, made several

vigorous attacks.

They left 428 men on the field, and carried off

many wounded.

The Turks lost 80 killed. &lint Pasha, the
Egyptian Commander, was killed, and one of the
Turkish generals wounded.

The Russians bivouacked during a bitterly cold

night on the way to Simpheropol, or, rather, on

the way to Sak.

PARIS, THURSDAY, 8.30 A.K.

The Moniteur confirms the news of the defeat
of the Russians at Eupatoria, on the 17th of

The Vienna Presse publishes advices from Con-
stantinople of the 19th of February to the follow-

ing effect :

A Russian corps has appeared in the vicinity of

General Niel returns to the camp.
General Williams reorganises the camp at Kars.
Another detachment of Turkish cavalry has

been sent from Varna.

An official article in the Oest. Correspondent
says that a general basis has already been formed
for securing the integrity of Turkey, for ptevent-
ing the future en croa chm en ts of individual Powers,
and for maintaining the privileges of all the
Christian suljects .of the Porte without interfering
with the rights of the Sultan.

After observing that the negotiations for peace
being under favourable auspices, the Oest. Cor7e-
spondem announces the proximate arrival of one
of the most distinguished statesmen of Turkey, of
M. de Titoff, and of Lord John Russell. It adds,
that Baron de Bourqueney, the French Ambas-
sador, enjoys the full confidence of his Sovereign,
and is, moreover, so well versed in Oriental affairs
that he
.is not likely to have an Adlatus. It also
announces that Baron Prckesch will attend the
COD feren ces.

The Austrian, Corresponden::, in announcing
the expectation of Lord John Russell's. arrival to-

morrow, expresses sanguine hopes of peace.

The news from Balaklava in camp states that

the navvies on board the Australia had been

guilty of a serious riot and insubordination,

VIENNA, MARCH 1.
Baron do Bruck is expected here to-morrow.
The Congress will be opened in four days' time.
The Porte will be represented by a distinguished
dignitary besides Arif Effendi.
Mons. de Titoff and Prince Gortschakoff will
represent Russia in the Congress ; Lord John
-Russell and the Earl of Westmoreland, England ;
but M. de Bourqueney alone as yet represents

France.
For Austria M. de Buol and Baron de Prokesch.

Osten will appear.
All Powers thus testify an earnest desire to re-
store peace. Full justice has been done to military
honour on all sides. A satisfactory basis for ne-
gotiations is now established, and the Congress

will commence under promising auspices.
Correspondence from Constantinople of the 19th
states that serious riots had taken place in Aleppo.
A Russian corps had re-appeared before Bala-
klava on the 13th. Sickness was still causing

ravages in the armies.
Fresh reinforcements were daily arriving there.

COPENHAGEN, FEB. 28.

To-day, the Landsthing, passed on the third
reading the bill for effecting an alteration in the
fundamental law.

The Finance Minister brought in a bill for an
extension of the English railroad to Jutland.

FRANCE.

PARIS, WEDNESDAY.
The Emperor set out to-day at one o'clock, for
the camp at St. Omer. It is raid that he will
return in two days.
A hundred of his Majesty's horses were to arrive
at Lyons yesterday, as well as a strong detachment
of the Imperial Guard.
The .Moniteur of yesterday (Wednesday) con-
tains no official intelligence of interest.
The figure-head of the Semillante and the log-
book of that frigate have been washed ashore near
Cape Bonifacie. Only one corpse of the many
hundreds that perished has been discovered.
The French budget of 1856 has just been pre-
sented to the Legislative Corps. The receipts and
expenditure of the coming year are as follow :

"The budget of receipts of 1856 amounts, according
to calculation, to 1,602,066,972 f., or about 36 millions
more than that of 1855. This increase is obtained, not-
withstanding a rather larger diminution in the extraor-
dinary receipts arising f. om railway undertakings, re-
ceipts which exceeded 37 millions in 1855, and which,
according to the calculations of 1856, scarcely reach 3
millions.

" lhe principal causes of this increase are :-1. The
calculation of the produce of the indirect contributions ;
2. The new resource arising from the authorisation to
sell forests of the State to the amount of 15 millions ;
and 3, from again raising to the tariff laid down by the
law of 22 Frimaire An 7, certain registration dues
which were reduced in 1850.
"The budget of expenses for, the year 1856 amounts,
according to the estimates of the Government, to
1,597,926,486 fr.—that is, to a sum greater by
35,000,000 fr. than the estimates of the year 1855. The
augmentation of expenses in the department of War,
and in those of Finance and the Interior, are the prin-
cipal causes of this increase."

forced. In the account given a few days since of
the strength of the Austrian army no mention was
made of the 16 regiments of gens d'armes, which
are composed of the elite of the Austrian army. It
may be observed that General von Kempen has
brought the corps to the very highest state of
efficiency.
Such incorrect reports have been in circulation
relative to the conspiracy in Northern Italy that
the Official Gazette of Verona has considered it ne-
cessary to declare that no one has been arrested in
that city on account of political agitation. The
lately discovered conspiracy was confined to Lom-
bardy and the Roman " legations." Agreeably -to
the wish recently expressed by his Majesty the
Emperor, the wealthier classes make donations to
the poor. Some of the bankers of this city have
already contributed very considerable sums.