New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-05-19

Of Capt. Henesge and Of Lord Cecil Eustor
were fully admitted by the assailsnts OF Dir
Lsvard to have been an Infringement Of thu
military rules. Still, as Mr.. Laysrd did not re-
tract his charges against the Administration, ne
was abused in the most ungentlemanly way, ana
in the Clubs his opponents declared that Re ra'
no gerfIfman None of the so called lndePend-
emf Members came TO the rescue OF Mr.. Layard
except Mr.. Otway.
To give you an idea Of the advantages OF the
members OF Parliament here in England and OF
the virtue and independence Of the representa-
tiyes of the people, | mention the icho"lns
facts: When the smoke nuisance act passed.
and all the manufacturers Of London were COM
PEELED 70 consume their own smoke, the glass
works at Southwark ~ere exempted from the
provisions of the BILL the proprietor, Mr.. Apsby
Pellat, being member Of Parliament. His
smoke vas declared not to be nuisance. Again
on Friday--two weeks ago--the Chancellor of
the Exchequer proposed to raise the duty on
Tea Immediately Sd. on the pound, bat on the
sane day-tvo hours before SIR Cornwall Lewis
made his sta,ement-the firm of Mofiat II Co.,
cleared above 100000 pounds of tea from the
docks. and made handsome profit of fro-n
SIS eco 10 .0.G0O in one hour, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer or Mr.. Wilson, the Secretary OF
the Treasury, having probably been leaky. As
an evidence how little Sir Cornwall Lewis cares
for the interests Of the public at large, | cali
your attention To the fact that the duty on sugars
is raised ; slilliugs per hundredweght. Now,
since the smallest coin current IN England IL
the farthinr. the retail dealers would lose I'd
by the huriredweight if they advanced the
price ofthe Teund only enc tarthing; II again they
raise II q laie-penny the consumers are losers
10 the amount of - pence. The great hnancier
might have raised the duty ut once TO / shillings
Sd without INJECTING any great loss on the public,
which in any case will have 70 pay an advance
Of halfpenny ON the pound. Still such con-
siderations. as for instance to ascertain how
much the pablo have really topay without any
advantage to the Treasury, are beyond the reach
Of ,le statesmen Of Lord Palmerston's aristo-
cratic government.
The result Of the Sandman Alliance with
France and England begins to BIO felt at Turin.
Napoleon is the Lord Protector not only OF Eng
land but likewise of the Pope, Snd accordingly
the French Alliance has considerably strength
ened the ultramontane party in Piedmont.
The Ministry, seeing the approaching storm, have
had to resign, and a new administration, less
hostile TO the temporalities of the Roman
Church. is forming. IL Belgium the so-called
Catholic, that is to say Clerical party, has Ike
wise lately displaced the Liberals, aud tho
Pope is now stronger than ever, if his power Is
10 be measured by the way in which his views
and pretensions are favored By the leading pow
or. of Europe. France and Austria, PIEDMONT
and Belgium, as represented by their govern.
nents, are entirely controlled by Rome, anu
England. so long as Lord PalmerstOn must rely
On the Irish vote in Parliament, Is most
friendly to the Pope. the so-called papal aggreS-
sion being altogether forgotten. The late aeci-
dent to Pic None will, Of course, be represented
as a miracle, and bis preservation when the
floor Of the ball in the Monastery of st. Agnese
gave way viii be ascribed to the immediate
agency of the immaculate conception. Cardi-
nal Wiseman leaves England, probably forever.
He is TO sacceed the late Cardinal Angelo Mai,
a, librarian If the Vatican collection OF manu-
scripts.
Broussa the early capital and the burial-pace
of the Ottoman Sultans, severely visited by an
earthquake in the beginning Of the year, has
been entirely destroyed by the recent recur-
renee of the calamity few shocks suiiiced to
overthrow the magnificent mosques which were
the pride of the Turks, and the fact that the
mausoleuns OF the triumphant Sultans, OF
Gilman, Osman, Bayazeed and Achmet are now
in ruins bv the hands of Allah, has impressed
tie Turks with sinister apprehensiOns about
their future. They take the earthquake OF
Broussa for a bad omen, foretelling their down
fall and the end OF their rule.
We have letters from 81. Petersburg in the
Ga.ene Of slesia, which describe the state OF
things in Sevastopol. The Russians suffer much
from diseases; in the hospital on the northern
side. there were 1920 sick in February Of whom
only 2l7 are put down as wounded. Egyptian
opthalmia was epidemic in the army, and typhus
ragged inside of Seyastopol as fearfuly as IN the
allied camp. The garrison is described as high
spirited and ready to sacrifice their lives in the
defense Of the fortress Admiral lstuinin said
several days before his death, q" have put my
"pame on the list Of the dead. | live now only
"by the sufferance of the English and French.
81 know that | cannot survive the siege A
few minutes before the shot killed him, an officer
warned him to leave the dangerous spot,
where he was too much exposed TO the fire
ofthe besiegers. The Admiral answered, " II
sis all the same whether l am killed here