The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-10 00:00:00

TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION WITH CONSTANTINOPLE.
—The following information respecting the Ottoman
Electric Telegraph between Shumla and Constantinop'e
has been forwarded to us for publication :—" The Otto-
man electric telegraph between Shumla and Constanti-
nople is now open for the transmission of private
despatches. Every despatch must be superscribed
' Vole d'Adrianople.' By reason of the breaking of the
line across the Danube, which cannot be remedied until
the return of fine weather, such despatches must all bear
the indication, Gouverneur de Roustchouk.' The
zonal distance from Giurgevo to Shumla is three zones ;
that from Shumla to Adrianople two zones ; and that
from Shumla to Constantinople three zones. The tele-
graphic offices in England will, on sending such
despatches, receive the total charge not only as far as
Giurgevo, but tiraugh to their final destination, not-
withstanding the indication ' Gouverneur de Roust-
chouk,' which is merely intended to insure their trans-
mission across the Danube.—Ottoman Embassy, Lon-
don, April S."
CHIPPENHAM ELECTION.—The election of a represen-
tative for this borough, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of the late Mr. Joseph Neeld, took place yesterday.
There was only one candidate, and the matter created very
little interest. After the usual preliminaries, the Mayor
(Mr. T. A. Fellowes) briefly opened the proceedings. Mr.
.W. Colborne, the late Mayor of the borough, then came
forward, and, after paying a touching tribute to the me-
mory of the late Mr. Neeld, proposed Mr. Robert Parry
Nisbet, of Southbrouni-honse, in the county of Wilts, as
a fit and proper person to represent the borough in_ Pate
liament. The nomination was briefly seconded by Mr.
_Wilson, and, no other candidate appearing, the Mayor
dec'ared Mr. Nisbet duly elected. Mr. Nisbet then ad-
dressed the electors, and, after thanking them for the
high honour conferred upon him, and making a few re-
marks upon local topics, he stated that, although .a Con-
servative, he was willing to support all measures of sound
reform that.might be brought into Parliament, and was
prepared to support any plan that would place the vexed
question of. churchrrrates on a more satisfactory footing.
A. vote of thanks was then given to the Mayor, and
three cheers for the Qieen and the new member, and
the pr ceedings, which did not occupy half an hoer, ter-
minated.
NEW ROCHESTER BRIDGE.—On the conclusion of the
meeting of the bridgewardens at R"cheater Castle. on
Friday last, the wardens held a private meeting at their
usual place, when the subject of the approaching com-
oletion of the new, iron bridge was taken into considera-
tion. Sir. W. Cubitt, the engineer of the works, was
directed to prepare plans and statements for taking down
the old bridge, with the view of their being laid before
the wardens at the next Meeting, on the 15th of May,
for their approval, the wardens being desirous of com-
mencing the taking down of the present bridge on the
same day that the new one will be opened. An opinion
waa„.also, expressed, that the old bridge should be re-
moved as speedily as possible, and it was stated that
there appeared to be little doubt that every part of that
structure would be removed and cleared away by Christ
was next: The bridgewardens have also acceded to the
request made by the inhabitants of Strood and others,
and have given directions for stairs to be erected on the
..s'trood side of the river, which will be of great conveni-
ence to persons having occasion to use the liver. We
understand that the precise day for opening the bridge
has not yet been named ; but there is every reason to
believe that it will take place some time in the last week
in June. There appears to be a pretty general belief
current that his Royal Highness Prince Albert wilt be
present at the ceremony, but the bridgewardens have
not been assured that such will positively be the case.--
-SeittheE'rstern Gazette.
CIVIL SERVICES, No. V.—The estimates for Clii
Services, under the branch " Colonial, Consular, and
Other 11( reign Services," have been printed. . The
amount required for •the year 1856 is stated by the
Treasury to be 320,265/., against 328,3441., last year,
thus showing a decrease of 8,0791. The items include
12,0001. for the support of captured negroes,• 11,050/.
for. the "Suppression of Slave Trade Commissione,"
167,493/. for consuls abroad, and 25,0001. for " extra-
ordinery', expenses Ministers at foreign Courts. The
eccleeia Wel establishment of the British North Ameri•
can provinces figures for 7,3971., including 1,9901., the
salary of the Bi-h rp of Qiebec, and 2,7621. for 'foreign
missionaries of the Society for Propagating • the Gospel.
The civil establishment on the Western Coast of Africa
figures for 10,2301., of which 2,000/. is for Sierra Leone,
4,2301 for Gambia, an't 4,0001. for the Gold Coast.
,The
isle of St. Helena cost= tie country a sum of 10,8461 ,
principally for pensions and retired allowances), and•t hat
et Heligoland 9601. The Falkland Islands fieure for
2,901/. For expenses of emigration from this country
14,582/. is required. 3,329/. is deman led for the es
tablishment of a new consulate at Bangkok, in Siam.
under the new treaty, the consul to receive a salary of
1,2001.
RUSSIAN RarmArs.--The prospectus of the first of
the anticipated' Russian railway companies has been put
forth, the line being nue that was about to be introduced
justsbefiree the commencement of the war. It is to he
called the Cemtnercial Railway of Russia, Riga, and
Dunahurg, . and the capital required is 1,600 0001. in
20;00 shares of 100/: each, to be issued at 80. On these
sharee the Russien Government guarantee a mimmu
ititersit of 4 per cent., which to eub-cribers at the price
of 80. will yield -5 per cent: Tho dividends are to he
payable half-yearly in London, St. Petersburg, and
Riga, and the sum proposed to be raised covers a pro-
eision for the payment of interest during construction,
'An additional half per cent is also guaranteed to form a
sinking fund to redeem the shares at par within 56
years. The concession was granted to the committee of
the Riga Exchange, comprising the foreign Ire remits at
that place, by whom all the requisite surveyseind esti-
mates have been procured, and the company are to have
des-lute control both as regards construction and ma-
nagement; • The length of the line will be about 140
inilealrom Riga to Dunabure, where it will j On about
midway thegreat line from St. Petersburg to Warsaw,
now in progress. The chief advantages c mtemplated
are those to be dt rived from its power of tren,p nrting
the produce of the interior and central province to the
port of Rigs during the long period in which the river
navigation is closed by ice ; and a belief is stated in the
prospectus that it roust become the main commercial
trunk line from the north and west of Russia. The lin-
don Board of Directors consists at present of a few mer-
chants lir„o'y connected with Riga, and. Mr. John
Hawkshaw is to be the engineer. The terms
granted furnish an illustration of the determina-
tion of Russia to obtain whatever amount of
aritish capital she may require to promote the
growth of her ports and develope the power and
resources of her territory ; and, as Austria intends
to follow a similar course, and both are likely to he
imitated by all the German and other •continental
States, no forebodings can be too great with regard
to the drain to which, with the progress of specu-
lation, we are likely in a year or two to be exposed.
THE RECENT COLLISION AT GIBRALTAR —ln 7he Sun.
of Tuesday we gave an account from the Gibraltar
Chronicle of March 29, of thecollision between the steam:
ship Mew and the British sailing transport Miedere
The Chronicle of the 31st of March contains the state-
ment made by the master of the Minden relative to the
accident. He describes the weather as being very hazy,
at the t:me. Those on beard did not apprehend any dan-
ger of collision, and he therefore did not think it neces- •
sary to alter the eotirse of the ship, as the vessels woilldt
have passed quite c'ear of each other if they had both.
continued their respective courses ; but within a minute
or t ea) after the master caught sight of the steamer the
latter suddenly altered her course by porting her he'ni,_
which ca.usei herto shoot under the bows of the Minden.-
The,jibboom of the latter, coming in contact with one of
the mests of the steamer Mino, was carried away, and
the bowsprit knocked down the steamer's funnel.. The
stem of the Minden then struck with a severe shock,
azainst the broadiide of the steamer. The master of the
Minden rendered all the assistance be could, and his first
boat had just succeeded in reaching the steam er•when she
-ank, stern foremost, Capt. Marshall proceeds to say: ,
that the boat saved 21 persons, viz., 2 ladies and 2 gen-
tlemen- (passengers) arid 17 of the crew, including the
second engineer, the boats Wain, arid h r second steward.
The time that elapsed from the collision to the sinking
of the steamer did not exceed ten minutes. The b
remained for three-suarterg of an hour near the spot in
the hope of saving to re lives, the ship being hove to all
the time' with her main and wizen topsails aback and
her head to the northward ; the hearings of Tarifa light
it the time of the collision being W. and by N., Europa
light hearing Isl.E..and by. E. half E. The ship inintedi-
ately began to fire.guns, anal continued to do so at in-
terval; for an hour, firing 27 reunds in all, and burning
blue lights and rockets in the hope of getting assistance.
At 4-axe. the boats returned with the persirron saved,
and they had every assistance rendered them on board
the Minden. They informed Captain Marshall that the
steamer had altogether 109 souls on board, the engineer
at the same time remarking that he hart received no or
dere to-stop the engines, but that he stopped them him-
self after the collision Obis own accord.
THE NIGHTINGALE FUND. —The total sum subscribed
up to the present: time. to this fund, intended as a re-
cord of national. gratitude to Miss Nightingale for the
invaluable services rendered by her to the sick and
wounded of the British forces
‘during the recent war,
and raised to enable her to establish an institution fir

' the moral law. The fact is, the Opposition well
know that a wrong was accidentally done to the
Jew by the wording of the oath, and the spirit of
religious persecution is so strong in them, that
they must persist in perpetuating that wrong at
whatever expense to their moral and legislatorial
character. The majority obtained in favour of
the bill, it is to be hoped, will teach them that the
period is gone by, in this kingdom at least, for
religious persecution, if recent events have failed
to convince them this is not a time for the
perpetuation of causes of immorality, which need-
less oaths undoubtedly are.

Our readers will have seen in The Sun of yeti•
terday that the Liverpool Financial Reform Assc-
ciation has taken up vigorously the report, on
which we commented the other day, of a dowry
of 70,000/. per annum for the Princess Royal,
on her marriage with the Prince of Prussia. Iu
an address whidi every constituency in the king-
dom ought to read, they exhibit the, extravagance
of the proposal in its right light. We are glad
they have done so. If public opinion display
itself as may be expected, a question asked by
some successor to Mr. Hum; "in his place in
Parliament," will receive the reply that
the report is a report merely, having no
foundation whatever. If no stir be made A e
shall assuredly have a repetition pretty nearly of
the 100,0001. a-year to Queen Anntarns. It is
really very unwise in our Ministers to teach
and cherish avarice in the Royal Family. Why
should they_ compel the nation to regard
the young creatures as so many burdens, and
prompt the remark, on the death of each,
"So much saved to the country 1" Mode-
rato incomes for each no one grudges. The Royal
Dukes of GEORGE 111. bad, if we remember right,
about 20,0001. each—a comfortable living, in all
conscience, for those who neither toil nor spin.
But as to the Princesses, we trust the nation will
refuse to maintain them abroad. Prussia has
surely pocketed enough at the cost of this country
by her transit trade with the enemy, in addition
to her millions saved, like Austria, by her cowar-
dice or despotism, refusing to fight in the interest
of Europe. If our young Princes want German
wives, as very likely they will, we wonder how
much the Duke, or Margrave, or Landgrave, or
Count, or nobody knows what, will allow his
daughter ? We take it, England will have to
maintain both, and perhaps give the husband a
sinecure Colonelcy, intended for the reward of
special services, or a Marshal's baton, for service
in the field of deer-stalking. Let Prussia do
WO must do, if against the wish of England she
will have our. Princess Royal.

The Chancellor of the Ekchequer's Bill to pre-
vent our insuring in French offices is now pub-
lished, as our readers will have already seen. Sir
COR'NEWALL LEWIS, no doubt, thinks he has ex-
tinguished French insurance here as completely
as he thinks he has the regal history of Rome.
Looking at his bill we will not deny that it is well
'calculated to prevent open agency on behalf of a
foreign company. All that the surplusage of
legal phraseology and heavy penalties can do Sir
CORNEWALL LEWIS has done. Any person in any
manner negotiating, &c., Vic., the insurance is to
be considered an agent for a foreign company,
and must be licensed, under a penalty of 1001.
per day ! Every insurance also, wherever the
policy or note be issued and signed, or if there bt
uo, policy at all, must pay the policy stamp and the
duty of cent. per cent., or of one hundred and fifty
Per cent.! Surely the net has not a single hole
in it—much less, to use Lord ELDON'S phrase, can
a coach-and-ix be. driven through the Act.
Yet we are confident that very little ingenuity
will suffice to evade it extensively. Nothing for-
bids, or can well forbid, adVertising a French
office in the English papers, and direct correspon-
dence on the part of the insurer with the French
There is no person appointed to receive
the duty from insurers, nor could each insurer be
required to bring the duty to Somerset-house or
the Stamp.office. No person need act as an agent
in obtaining the proposal for insurance. It could
be made so full in its particulars that wrong de-
scription would be impossible; and as wilful mis-
description renders a policy void, the insurer
would not venture on fraud of that kind ; the
cheapness of the insurance, and the penalty in
case of fire would secure correct proposals. In
cases of fire, it would be no difficulty whatever
to have reliable valuers of losses in every locality,
and the bill does not, and cannot, make a valuer
an agent for insuring. Direct communication with
France is now as easy as between English towns,
and will frustrate all attempts to maintain
exorbitant duties.

His Royal Hig,hne:s Prince Albert honoured the Cri
mean Exhibition, 121, Pall-Mall, with a visit yesterday.'
Sir James Duke was on duty at the Old. Bailey Ses
shins till 5 o'clock, and reached tho houSe just too late
to vote in favour of Mr. Gibson's bill.
The Attorney-General for Ireland was re elected for
Ennis on Tuesday without opposition.
Mr. William Evans, late M.P. for Deibyibire, died,
at hi 3 residence, Allestree-hall, Derbyshire, after a short
illness, at about four o'clock last Tuesday morning.
A new college is to be erected, at a cost of 30,000/.
Ltandaff, for female orphans of the clergy, in connec-
tion pith Hord's Charity.
The Hon. Leslie Melville, one of the directors of the
East India C ,mpany; died on the evening of the 8,,h,
after a sudden attack of paralysis. ThiS ()Vent places
another seat in the direction of the disposal of
Crown.—Smith arid-Davis- 0, erland" Mail.
THE BAND IN KENSINGTON GARDENS::—Orders have
been is-ued by the aurnor;ties at the ET-rse Guards that
Vie band of the Royal florse Guards Blue shall play on
Sunday next in Ken,ington Gardens from 4 till 6, wea-
ther permitting. A Land will play on each succeeding
Sunday, and the time of the performance will probably
vary as the ,3,-asM allvandes..
THE EMBASSY AT CONSTANTINOPLE.—We have the
nest grounds for stating that there is no truth in rumours
whieti have lately been current, to the eft ct that Sir
Edmund Lions is aoeit to replace Lord Stratford de
Redeliff!,, as Br;ti-h Amliasstelor at Constantinople.
Sir Edmund has gone to the Mediterranean for the
purine of .r,,suming his command. Lord Stratford,
there is no reason to doubt, will retain his post.- -
Morning Post.
The g.:;11 brought by the Red Jacket on Tuesday is
understeed to amount to 443,0001., instead ~f 402,7001.,
as stated. There was .aliktrtetween 20,0001 aid 40,0001.
in the hands of passengers. The whole will be taken to
the Bank of England, and the arrival is opportune, the
sums wilhdrawn for transmission to the East during the
last week or two having been very heavy.
EAST INDIA-NOUSE. —Ye terday a Court of Directors
was 'held at the
.East India-house, when the. thanks .cf
he COurt were voted unanimously to Mr. Elliot Mac-
naghten, c !airman, and colonel William Henry Sakes,
depot:, -c iairruan, for their great. application and atten-
tion to the affairs of the East India Company during the
past y, ar.
KING 803f13A AND HIS INSULTS TO ENGLAND.--We
read in a letter from Naples :—" The French Minister's
ball will take place on the
.14th inst., and the ,King
has signified his intention to. be present, having de-
clined so to honour the ball of the British Minister,
Sir William Temple. • The contrast in the. mode of
treating the several legations is but too significant of
the Royal feeling—he fears and respects the one country,
whilst the other he has been permitted too long to insult
by a
.series of little grievances and annoyances. The
French Minister, M..Brenier, regards this as rather a
diplomatic triumph,. and not a little plumes himself
upcn it."

TURKEY.
CONSTANTINOPLE, March 31.—The commercial
world-of Galata is just now thrown into a state of
considerable excitement by a rather curious lawsuit
-between an
_English merchant and an Austrian
banking &in.. 13Oth parties are reckoned among
the most respectable houses of this place, and they
have been for years connected in• business. Only
lately they transacted together some very exten-
sive business as contractors for the French army,
and it is from this latter business that the lawsuit
has arisen. Ttiey! undertook last year to supply
cattle and lost a great many by epidemic. This
year the English house alone concluded under
very favourable terms a contract with the
French lutendance to ,furnish several thousand
,heads of - Cattle:: per-1.. month, and has in
consequence •of it at this present moment
.a claim for 24,0001. upon the- French Con-
missariat. Now the Austrian firm comes forward
with a bill for 1,000,000 piasters, and asks on the
Strength of it the sequestration of the 24,0001.
The English heuse raises the objection that the
bill was only one .:for aecommothtion, which can
.be easily seen from the accounts current between

the training, sustenance, and protection of nurses and
hospital att,ndarit,A, is very little, if at all, short. of
30,0001. The more recent contributions include 1,8721.
from M. and Madame Goldschmidt-Lind ; 8001. from
the citiz'ns of Mancheater ; 6501. from Oxford ; 4001..
from E linburgh.; 300/. from Bath ; 2551. odd from'Bol:
ton ; 111/. from 'Winchester ; -3361., a further remittance
front the British army in the Crimea ; and 1741. from
the officers, chaplains, and soldiers statimed at Scutari..
The-commiltee for managing the fund acknowledge with
much gratification tho contributions of a large number,
of the clergy of various denominations, the aid they have-
received, and are receiving, from British 'ambassadors
and consuls in various parts of the world ; and refer with
pleasure to the large sums contributed by the army at
home and abroad. A letter from Lord William Paulet, ,J
which conveyed the subscriptocs from the Crimea, bears
testimony to the ready and hearty manner with which
the whole army there had responded to . the''appear
made to it on behalf of.the objects of the fund ; andhe
adds that, judging from. the amount subscribed by
the several divisions and departments, the committee
of which he is the chairman have reason to believe that
every officer and !soldier had contributed a .day's pay
towards it ; and they feel that the unanimity and wit•
lingness with which these contributions had been made
afford the strongest testimony. both to the value.of the.
services which Missi gightingaNs has rendered to the
army, and to the appreciation in which those services
are held by those iti. whose behalf they were undertaken.
The committee are also .in communication with the au-
thorities.in the colonies, from many of whom they have
received offers of co-operation, and they especially direct
attection to de;restilts already obtained from the ag-
gregate of sm=all subseriftions collected throughout the
kingdom,

THE LATE BOILER EXPLOSION IN PORTSMOUTH DOCK
YARD.--The coroner's inquest upon the bodies has been
thrice tuijournEd, and again postponed till this evening.
An inquest was held yesterday, at Hadar, by the county
Coroner, Lonf,croft, Esq., and a respectable body of
jurymen. The ?acts were clearly stated. It was proved
to evidence that the safety-valves were in proper order ;
that the gauge cocks had previously to the accident been
tested. The driver (Edwards) stated that he was at a
loss to account for the deplorable result, at which time
he was within, a few ,feet of the boiler. This man has
been in the service nearly eight years, bears a most
excellent character, and has always been accustomed to
high-pressure engines. The coroner, in summing up,
delivered an intpresOve address to the jury,. after which
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As the cas(CP.l likween an English and Austrian
subject, the usual custom of the place, which fol-
lows French law in this respect, admits the seques-
tration, and the English Consul-General has, at
The request of the plaintiff, locked up the 24,0001.
until the question has been decided.
This morning the sound of 101 guns announced
to us that peace had been signed. As the end of
irmistice approached rumours of t'ao racst dif-
fereut nature began to' circulate—n)w that the
armistice hail been,prOlonged---then that the news
of the actual conclusion of peace had arrived—and
again that unforeieen but not insurmountable dif-
ficUlties having arisen the war would be continued,
as well as the negotiations, The ealuto this Dm-

TIIE SUN, LONDON, TIICPSDAY EVENING, APRIL 10, 18

LATEST' NEWS.

OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. -
• (Front the Times Correspondent.) •
' CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, MARCH 28.
The occupations of au army during a cessation of
hostilities differ but little from those of our mili-
tary training-schools at Aldershott or the Curragh,
and, but for the vicinity of our enemy, the traces
of the late protracted conflict, and the severity of
the Crimean spring, there would be little to dis-
tinguish this vast camp of English, French, and
Sardinians from the ordinary standing camps which
are more comnionly seen upon the continent thau
among ourselves. All the open spaces on the pla-
teau arc covered every morning with our battalions
at drill or exercise. The day that is not fora di-
visionallitspection is sure to. be devoted either to
brigade or regimental drill, and there is no-doubt
but that the British army is now fast assuming
that rigidity and regularity which our. military
men so ..much :admire, but which in this war at
least hai on no occasion been of service to us.
The Light Division, broken in two almost by
tied' abstraction' of the ' 77th and 88th at the
Alma, charged . the. Russian batteriee under the
very nose of SireGearge Brown in such formation
arid-order as would have insured every officer and
man weeks of extra drill from that eallantollieer in
peace time.- The 30th, 55 li; and 95th of EVans's
Divisiore.wete also speedily deprived of their orderly
formation: At Inkerman.the regiments were broken
up and fought man by man or in little groups, meet-
ing the;Surge of -the Russians by so-many shifting
points of-steel and fire ;- and in the attacks on the
Redan there was no formation at all, from the time
the men left the. treliChes till they returned, and
the place was attacked by a brave and devoted
armed mob. -S unte considerations connected with
these matters Might tempt our chiefs to consider
whethet weer 'drill might not be submitted- to some
modificationS No military man dares to propose
the revision of our -mead books, hut there is- not
one of them who could not point out kaults and ab-
surdities in them. •
TUESDAY.—As yet I have trimly seen two Russian
• officers across-the Tchernaya, and that was yesterday
at the races ; but it is affirmed that one or two have
ridden into Balaklava, and that some others have
been taken to liarniesh and entertained by
French officers, greatly to the anger of the Marshal.
The Russians do not disguise their joy. at the pro-
spects of peace, and, indeed, they must have suf-
fered enormously iu the siege. They say that the
shot of the allies sometimes struck their boats full
of men, crossing from the north side, and sunk
them, and they take pride in relating the horrors
of the siege. Some of them will never be known-.
Mr. Deane, the diver, has, however, larOught
others to light. Close by the ruins 'of Fort Paul,
whence the bridge started to the north side, he dis-
covered, at the bottom of the harbour, a battery
of field-artillery, horses, men, and all entangled
in the harness, and with their skeletons just hang:
ing together in the network of leather. He has
fished up five field-pieces and two howitzers. They
are filled with mud, but they can soon be made fit
for Woolwich. The wood of the carriages has been
utterly destroyed by. the teredo navalis, or what-
ever it is which lives on such hard fare or in such
hard quarters.as the best old oak affords. On the
skeleton of one of the horses there were the bones
of a driver held together by the rags of his uniform,
and with his foot still in the stirrup.
The Candia'.has arrived with Captain Gardiner's
troop of Royal- Horse Artillery • but they have
been ordered not to land for the present. The
mail has arrived, and it is rumoured that the ar-:
mistice has been extended to the 10th of April.
WEDNESDAY.--" Returns" are the order of the
day. One which has been ordered, of the names of
all officers who have been present with their regi-
ments without leaving_the Crimea since the 14th..
of September, :1854 (Old Fort), to March 20, 1856,
has excited an immense amount of hope and con-
jeeture among the very few lucky men whose names
will appear in it.
There was a review of about 40 French batta-
lions and of two regiments of Cuirassiers to-day
behind the Feduikhine heights on the plains .of.
Balaklava. The whole of the army of the Tcher-
naya was under arms, and presented a very meg
nificent spectacle. The Marshal and a large staff.
of Generals and many of the English and Sardinian
sniff were on the" ground, and, notwithstanding
the coldness of the day, many spectators watched
the evolutions of the troops and the charges of the
cavalry for several hours.
THURSDAY.-Last eight the performances at the
Fusilier Theatre, Light Division, were attended
by Sir W.: Cedrington, and went off with great
success. There was the usual drill of several. bri-
gades of the English army to-day, in spite of the
extreme cold. The French surgeons are visiting
our hospitals, and are said to be loud in
praises of our arrangements. I regret to. state
that Miss Nightingale has received a slight
injury from the upsetting of a vehicle, in which,
with other sisters, she was coming up to the front
from Balaklava. Her back is hurt, and she is at
present at the -Castle Hospital. We all hope for
her speedy and complete recovery. Col. M'Murdo,
of the Land Transport Corps, has arrived, and is
busied with the arrangement of his' department,
which the news of peace has in some degree pa-
ralysed. The soldiers are going back to their regi-
ments in some cases. What is to become of the
non-commissioned officers who have received com-
missions from the line which have not yet been
confirmed at home ? But, above all, how will
those deserving officers who have received the
brevent rank of Major in the Army for their ser-
vice in the corps be treated ?
FRIDAY.—The north wind continued to blew
throughout the night up till eight o'clock this
morning, and at six a.m. the thermometer was
down to 12 deg. Fahrenheit. Soon afterwards a
change took plaee, and the thermometer rose to 24
deg. The conduct of the north wind is the more
provoking ; that we have a bright sun daily, and
between them both one must be very tough or very
clever to escape some species of catarrh. The un-
fortunate erocuses, snowdrops, and other bulbs
which have shot up their buds to greet the warm
sun have received rude welcome and scant en•
oouragemcnt from the cold aid nipping air. •.
About 11 o'clock a.m. a strong division of the
Russian army appeared on the parade ground above
the heights of Inkerman, on the north side, and
were engaged for a couple of hours in performing
the ordinary manoeuvres' of a field-day; within
sight of them the 2d Brigade of the Light Division.
was occupied in a similar manner ; and all that
flash and show of glittering arms were the more
pleasing to the spectator that they heralded n&
bloodshed and augured no coming battle. tell,
Rumours of peace fly swiftly through the camp,
and the extension of the armistice to the 10th of
April is regarded as its certain preliminary. All
thoughts are turned towards *ma, but it cannot
be denied that the sudden prospect of peace -has
.given a rude shook to those eager soldiers who ree
„garded the armistice but as a breathing-time given
to the enemy; and to those newly-c: ea el departe
ments which, forced to an exuberant development
`in the hotbed of•our necessities, will now possibly
'be deprived of theme isure f evour and encourage-
ment which the Civility, devotion, sincerity, and
:zeal of those who organised and adopted them have.
Aniquestionably entitled them to expect.
SA TURD.A.IS'.—TIie -weather has again changed.
The thermometers which fell 18 degrees last night,
has risen this morning to 30 degrees, with a light
Southerly breeze and`cloticly sky.. The Brigadiers
have taken advantage of the weather, and the
various brigades are now drilling on the plateau
overlooking the Tchernaya.