The Express. — London, England, 1853-12-10 00:00:00

it erortgos. TO CORRESPONDENTS. fecmui 16:Itina ease reveler/Ns "Ga - V• " le published every Imeedry awl FrAey night, te tlake fai lideertletereteiseenied ter "The Exprees," leaden Evemag paper, ee., be et Mt Mee, le, Beeeeerie-etmt, by TWO o'closk en the day of pub:iestka. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tun UAt 1014. 14ea Afternaoa. OIL 47m. 34-aJaaow—liaralesg. Ilk. , Managua. Ilk. Os. LONDON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10. advantageous after all, inasmuch as it lin left Turkey and Russia time to show themselses In their true colours. But for these delays, stay the maintainer, of this argument, we might still have beim 4old that Turkey was effete, and incapable of being bolstered , up, and that the CZAR was criitable and reasonable ' in his demands and expectations. Such averments, it is added, have been for ever silenced by the ' logic of facts. Be it so: but this counter balancing good having been attained, no further possible advantage can accrue from longer delays and reiterated procrastinations. France and Eng land, by again allowing themselves to be entangled into sham negotiations in concert with the detected thimble-rigger, Austria, play the game of Russia in so far as they allow the CZAR time to plot new subter fuges for the attainment of his objects,—or at least for escape from retribution. And what is more, they expose the sincerity and good faith of England and France to grave and well-founded suspicions in the eyes of the Porte. Distrust begets disunion, and disunion weakness. It is lamentable to note the infirmity of purpose betrayed by the two government& which ought, in the present coujuneture, without check or hindrance, to dictate the destinies of Europe. At; ti the English nation gets its information of the progress of the Eastern Question from Patin instead of Downing-street; again Imperial Fiance is more open-spoken then Constitutional England; again the Gallic journals instruct the English public, and the latest phase of the Russo affair is shown to us in the columns of the *f ,fr. The substance of this latest announce root. t was given yesterday in a second edition of the Xcws. This morning we publish it in ~:n in another column. There is one sentence in the i'aris Moniteur's top'anation of the signature of the new Pro tocol at Vienna, on the sth ins - ., by the repro rent.ttires of the Four Powers, in which all who have attentively watched the resent progress of v:nts in the East will concur --" It would be presumptuous to consider the Eastern Question as ended: we may still expect to see it pass through =any stages." It is added, indeed, with respect to the possibility of the division of the Powers into two romps, that that " danger has vanished." But the only reason assigned for this opinion is that the Protocol " bears witness to their mttnal resolutions;" and this is not the first protocol that has at tcs'i " les ri-solu'ions COMOSIneII "of France, England. Austria, and Prussic. The notorious Vitnna Note, which the Porte ref.ised to adopt unless with modifications, and which NICHOLAS MSS so ready to accept because, as he frankly con fessed, it would have ensured to him the MENCRI ZOIT demands in all their mons:rous extent, also attested "les rtsolutions commune.," of these powers. Bat when the f4a's interpretation of the Note was LATEST FROM ABROAD. publieLed, the French and English Governments felt it incumbent on them to give it up, and the "resolu tions communes" were blown to the four winds. The same thing may happen with the Prdtocol of the sth of December. It would indeed be premature to say, before the Protocol itself is published in extras°, that the diplomatic representatives of Rigland and France have again (with their eyes opet or shut) walked into the .clf•same trap that was se: for them in the V►cuna Note. We are as yet it possession only of an obbreviatcd statement of the general purport of the Protocol, and no sane man wi.: form a definite opinion tip3n such an abstract. He will insist upon being showed to examine the ipirs.°4 reeks of the . . . document—to winnow, scrutinise , cad weigh them— to ascertain that no double or disputed meaning can possibly lurk under them, before he draws his con ciusiogs. But it mast be confessed that there are suspicious circumstances which ea:it!e this Protocol, even whilst unseen, to bo regarded with distrust. In the first place, it is currenCy reported at Vienna —it ia the common-:own talk —that Russia will Mart no objections to the terms of the Protocol—that indeed Russia ha already been consulted in the matter. This may be no more than the gossip of quidnunes, but the previous experi ence of the Vienna Note ought to teach the necessity of ascertaining that it is so. Again, the Moniteur's account of the basis upon which it is proposed to re. eattiblish peace is far from satisfactory.. The condi tions are to be alike honoorat le to both parties. These are vague words, and may nem anything or nothing. One condition is to be the maintenance of the territorial integrity of the Ottcnian Empire. do far good, but there is only one giarantee that the Four Powers can give—or the Ottoman Government accept —of their bona fide determination to maintain this integrity, and that is to insist upon the witlidmwal of the Russian troops, to the last man, from the Ottoman territory, before the negotiations for peat* are begun. Another condition :a said to be, that the present war can is no =tenor lead to modifications in the state of poseeasiot " which time hes consecrated" in the Etat. It it *Ur. prove that this is a correct description of one of the conditions recommended as a basis of peace, there will be not a shadow of a doubt left that the Protocol which embodies it has been dictated in bad faith. This would be to give to Russia a security for its usurped possessions in Circassia and Georgia— on the frontiers of Turkey and Persia—which recent events have shown .t is not in a condition to assert for hash. I: would be I. place Ravels, in the far East, it a better posi tion than it was before the breaking out of hostili ties. We do not say that the Preto:9% when pub- Felled, will be found to be tainted with the dia. honesty which the brief abstract in the Moniteur leaves an opening to suspect, and which the gossip of Vienna renders still more probable ; but we do say that, for anything that yet appears, the signature of this Protocol by the representatives of the Four Powers his done no more to bring the Eastern ques tion nearer to a termination that the notorious Vienna Note. Let us hope that the publication of the document itself in erten*, wiz: p: e,:e things is a lu light. It *ought never to be left out of v.ew that every rrizotiation to which Austria is a party ought to be retched with suspicion, in so far u the dispute be t wren Turkey and Russia is conoernee. Every day Small facts are transpiring which elbow that Austria I ea been, and tontinue, to be, the subservient tool end accomplice of Ramis. We need go no further In search of an example, than the note of Count liziatutonr. to the Prince of SEPAL , ., dated St. -Petersburg, the 17th of July (0. S.), and published in our columns this day. This note intimates 13 the Prince that a /tusaian I,gact has been despatched to take his Government -.o task for the pablicatioa of certain acts, and that h. ipld his coun sellors ago riposted " to repair the par., and to bring about for theft native land a more N. ire and salu- Lary Arturo than that which wee promiled them by It few agents of little respectar,:.:ty revoln tluaary propagandists—and their aural: faction. Count Niasatitonit speaks dictator.a.ly :n his seas. came, under whose " protectorate " he declares Berrie stands ; and he farther intilliatei that " the intelligence upon which the Ranier Government is acting has been obtained from akin: 'onrush and has tat( ly arrived from Vienna;" and also that " the imperial Austrian Court entirely cot ear* in these oar views." Here we have Austria in Juno and Jul) of the present yetis. Eh the jaitaal and spy of 4tussis inflow's; and since t.hat erne we have seen tlse ensesqueasse of the interference .).t. :he CZAR and die Austrian vassal in Hervian affairs, ,t the mistinder standings between that principality cud the Porte, ' end the mastering of an Austrlar army of ob cervatten on the Persian finctier. A.:Era is theater. 4-01 of Ramie. It is not, indeed, to le feared that rhallow artifices of Austria can ultimately delude fxglatd and France, but in tics meantime those s-tif.ces gain time for 11':,9:11, set t.rt. therefore, 4) be deprecated. True. it her. toon said with coneiderabin plausibility, that the French and EDO& alaggishneen so much complained of hem been THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 10, 1853. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. Inslependlenee Beige pablishes the following : • = • ' BUCHAREST, Nun 28. This morning the official journal of thislown con- tains a notification by General Gortechakoff to the Administrative Council, relative to the nomination of General Badberg as extraordinary commissioner and plenipotentiary of the Czar in these principalities. The following is the document: TO TNT ADMINISTRATIVII COUNCIL OF WALLACHIA. His Majesty the Emperor, my august master, having given his assent to the voluntary resignation effected by the Hceoodsrs of Wallachia and Moldavia, has deigned le caside their functions, under my superior order, te General Bedbug, with the powers and attributions uses eery te unite is his hands the superior administration of the two Prinelyalities, and in **auction with the local Divans, to watch over the progress of interior affairs, civil and jddicial, the welfare of the population, and the wanted the Imperial army. At the same time the acting Councillor of State, Shalt chunky, has been nominated Vice-President of the Adati. aistrative Council of Wallachia. We are assured that the most active members of dm administrative council (those of the Stirbey petty) will be invited to give in their resignation. - The German Journal of Frankfort has a Berlin letter of the Stb, in which mention having been made of the fact that England, France, Austria, and Prussia have addressed a note to the Porte, inviting it to make known the conditions on which the Sultan would be disposed to negotiate for peace, the negotia tions to be directed bthe belligerent powers them selves, it is added, " Th e cabinet of St. Petersburg has a cceded to this project of arrangement." The Post Amps: Gazette, of Frankfort, under date of Vienna 4th, says A letter from Bucharest of the 26th ult., announces that the Russians were making preparations for going into winter quarters. The Turks maintain themselves in the island of Swards before Giurgevo. The differences which have arisen between the Ottoman Porte and Beryls still cause uneasiness. It is thought that the Turks will insist on being permitted to cross that Princi pality." The Cologne Gazette states from Munich that the Austrian government not only requires that the Germanic Diet should observe neutrality on the Eastern question, but that the mode of neutrality shall be such as to meet the views of Austria. There have, says the Cologne Gazette, been for some time past secret negotiations on this subject between the Austrian, Saxon, and Bavarian cabinets. The Constitutionnel has an article intended to show that Austria will be led by interest to hold with the other powers of Europe when the time comes for choosing practically between them and Russia: The policy of the Austrian government is much more free than the advocates of the Riunian cause appear to be lieve. The interest of Austria is manife.t. Let us admit the hypothesis of the annexation of Moldo-Wallachia to Rusin • the Austrian ravines of Transylvania, which is also in habited by Will 'would be from that moment at the discretion of the Russians ; and the Hungarian ter ritory would not be out of the reach of an Mrs. sloe. But, we are told, M case the cabinet of St. Peters bare should think itself able to effect these conquests, it would not fail to interest Astarte in them, by some se maks of territory in Brenta or Sonia. In our eyes, this pretended escernpues woad be a cause of sethanmemesit for the Aestrien geyesesessa. She has elemp oi l i ts enough sieves under ler dembadon ; and to add and &winks to the Pelee, the Croats, and the Ethentlems, who form almost the half other total population, waddle to Menem et pleasure the diScalties of the etheilnielne• time, whisk we the greater from the fact ef the ffinenien Massa% wherever it is met with, offering a greater held te Florian utile—to that formidable instrument of propa ganda, sailed Panalavism. Let us admit that Ramis does not think fee the moment of conquering, and contents her self with the raging protectorship which she demands, the danger MU maly have changed in form. It was under this peeitut of religion, it will be remembered, that Ruda meddled in the affairs of Poland. Austria contains a great number of people who profess the lame religion as the Ruslans—the Wallachia= of Transylvania and Hangary, the Serviette of the Banat and Syrmia, and the Ruthinians of Galicia. If the Cur were to be recv aised as the official protector of the peoples of the Eastern communion in the Ottoman empire, he would, by that single fact, acquire ever the populations of the same com munion in Austria the most powerful means of action. How, then, can it be admitted that Austria could now lend the hand to pretensions which, in a political as in a religious point of view, eouldenly have painful results for her fu ture ? No ; this government better understands interne ' tiveal equity, and has a more Just sentiment of its interests. THE NEW PROTOCOL PARIS, FRIDAY ETINING. The Munitrim contains the following official ar ticle : "On the llth of May last we said that if the question raised at Constantinople by M. le Prince Menchikoff should lead to complications, these would become a question of general politics, in which the other Powers which signed the treaty of July 13, 1841, together with France, would find themselves engaged, and by the same right. Events hays justi fied our anticipations; that recognition of mutual obligations between the great cabinets, which in oar view must result from common interests and.respect for the same principles in the case supposed, has now become a fact. " The intimate union of the government of the Emperor with the government of her Britannic Majesty had already given assurance to all minds ; still there remained doubts as to the attitude which the other powers would take up at the commence- meat of a war which they had sincerely endeavoured to prevent, but the theatre of which, front the very nature of things, might extend itself. "To avert this peril, to concert a common action, and to bind up the interests of Europe more com pactly, the Emperor has employed his most perse vering efforts. This loyal policy has gained its t. poin " It would be presumptuous to regard the Eastern Question as ended. We may still expect to see it pass through different phases, but the agreement strongly professed (haut•inent arou.) by Austria and Pruasia with the Cabinets of Paris and London suffices henceforth to calm the in quietude. which for the last six months has kept Europe in suspense. The real danger of the situation consisted in the possibility that the Powers might be divided into two camps: this danger has vanished. _ " The same views the same wishes— animate France, England, Austria, and Prussia, and a protocol, signed at Vienn,► on the bth of this month, in a conference at which the representa tives of the Four Powers assisted, bears witness to their mutual resolutions. "To re-establish peace between Russia and the Sublime Porte upon conditions honourable for both parties, and to maintain the territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire, the independent existence of which within the limits laid down by treaties has become one of the conditions of European equili- brium—such Is the twofold rad -which the Four Powers propose to pursue together. To lay down as a primal fact that in no ease can the present war bring about modifications in the state of possession which time has consecrated in the East, is to restrict the field, and to bring back (its to be hoped) the difference which has arisen between the cabinet of St. Petersburg and the Sublime Porte to a point which will permit European diplomacy to exercise an efficacious action, and to re-establish a solid peace between Russia and the Ottoman Empire under a collective guarantee." A summary of the foregoing appeared in our impression yesterday. The assurances contained in the foregoing article have been exceedingly well received at the bourse, where a rise of lf. 60c. in the Three per Cents., and of lf. 10c. in the Four-and-a-Half per Cents., took place. Closing pr:ces :—Four-and-a-Half per Cent. Rent" 102.10; ditto Three per Cants., 76 ex div. Bank Shares, 2,915. As the article of the bfoli;teur fixes the date and character of the protocol, the following note reports the action taken thereupon by the repiesentatived of the Powers : _ . - - VIENNA, Ere. 5. This evening the representatives of Engian4 . _ _ Freese, sad Prussia, with the Ateetrian minister, join in sending s special meesenges to stantinopie. The PowireACtmot propose any esrleht. form or terms of arrangement to Turkey,.sitherdia on a former occasion. Bat they'express regret at' the existence of hostilities, undertake to assure the Porte that Russia is inclined to negotiate, coal; dandy trust that Turkey is animated by the same spirit, and request to be informed upon what terms the Porte is ready to treat for a peace. The ambas sadors then intimate that, in the opinion of the four cabinets, it is desirable that an armistice be imme diately concluded, and that it would give them great satisfaction to learn that the Porte is willing to name a plenipotentiary, to meet another to be appointed by the Emperor of Russia, in some neutral city. I suppose that the ambassadors huve not assumed the Czar's inclination to treat without sufficient grounds, bat nothing is known of it here by the public or the press. A VESSEL al:Nk sr Silk MOUTH 0? THE THaur.s.—Yestnday morning the Glide, Falter, from Hartlepool, arrived in the rive:, by which vessel informs two was received of the total loss. of the brig Eleanor, Magus, of South Shields. The Eleeerdt was from Shields, for London, coal laden, and pride the Shears beacon on Tuesday Mahe. about 9 o'clock, when she came into violent eollisios with tbe General :atria= Navigation Company's ship Waterwitch, bound from London for Hal!. The force of concussion was .o great that it was found the Eleanor was sinking fast ; anti the crew bad barely time to get their boat out sad leave the srssel. when she sank, and at was with difficulty that :he crew escaped being drawn into the vortex caused by the sinking shir , The Olide also re ports that she was in cal:is:on with the abovemientioned steam ship the vault evenics. 4ustained some damage to herttopsidee. The night was thick, with little wind, so that it is possible the lights Jf either vessel were not ots served in sufficient time to prevent the accident. A italhafsab &11htift..—WC have been informed of a city railraad project which is to be propoted by some Brooklyn aad New lot:: capitalist, in the event cousolida lion shall be consummated. which will be decidedly in ad vance of aey *theme in that tine hitherto suggested any. where. The plan is to organize •oompar.y.with a heavy capital, and obtsia from the anthorlties of the consolidated city by the payment of a b..pvy bonus, the right to lei down railroad tracks in any street they may think proper. The ltenth.ve obtainei. it is propose.! ,ser the COnlloli dvel City with a n.:": as it wer of :Arcade, so as to render the •..meibw>v .nt:reiy artiCes. The charge for riding over the to ,d for any distance, long or short, to be three oents for each passesger, with a rednetioa for those who desire to commute Collfaff. SERVIA. A few days ago we had to speak of the strenuous protests and complaints of injuries made by the Prince and Senate of Servia against Russia, and recorded in formal documents. The end was that Servia being the weaker went to the wall, and was compelled to sacrifice the enlightened Oaraschnin, convicted of being too much a Serb and too little a Russ. The letter written by M. Nesselrode imme diately after these events, has just turned up. It affords a glimpse of the manner iu which Russia understands the nationality and autonomy' which she pretends to guarantee to the Christian princi pality. The prolessions of confidence in the reac tionary.disposition of Prince Alexander are diplomatic by y and nothing more. Were they not, the letter never been written. He (K. Porton, a special Russian commissioner sent into Serra) has been further instruCted, my prinse, to express to you the deep 'sorrow which we hit at the intelligence of the discontent and disquiet which ban been manifested in larva, and which have led to disusiontetween the people and their gamesmen; especially aim that time when the government adopted such counsel, apckpublished son which are in ao wise riamicilable with public opinion, and oaly casualties the present se well es the future of the lead. News from Waal sources has lately arrived from Vienna which perfectly confirms those unpleasant reports, but does not miasmal the hot that your highness, as well as the greater part of the cams who share with yen the caned the administration, is at the present time sensible-of the danger of those seductions by which they allowed them selves to be carried away ; and that they sow sincerely wish tot . repair the past, sad to bring abort for their native land a more NOM end salutary future than that which was pu reed them by a few &goats of 'little respectability—revo lutionary prepegaadesto—and their small faction. If, my rearm, you are animated with this coavietioh, the Toppoetuaty is a ff orded you to receivefrom our ete a few salutary suggestions. Ise , know, my Prince, better this any one else, that Rasta ham never demanded of Sonia and her government . • easeiffde or service of any kind, and will also never make mist • deniaad; but we cannot sufliciently repeat that the Yji yho; by the treaties existing bower& him and therrte . . knareitteed to SITTia the political independence other adulates which she enjoys, cannot allow that Syria should, under the protectorate of the Emperor, be came the pleat of 'useably he the tevolutioeary exiles from Wier metes, and the mutant Muth of agitation and liwiitissi lawless, and thereby Matra, a disadmintags Oa its gun subjects, and give Clan et satiety to asigbboar ' ictstatea The imperial Austrian Court entirely concur in these oar views. That smart is• as anxious for the welfare of Serves as we aso. Of this, M. de llayerhoffer, by his re cent coaununicationomnat have convinced you. (Signed) NSISILRODE. It will be seep front this that the Russian cabinet aspires completely to dirtit and control the Servian government, and to appoint its ministers. , bEßiiii. -4- PRUSSIA. The Prussian Correspondence states that numbers of Poles, subjects of Russia, had escaped across the frontier into Prussia from dread of the military. con scription. The Prussian government had, however, given them up to their Russian muters, the Carr not permitting free emigration. _ _ BERLIN, Dzc. 6. The high tory Kreu: Zeituny was confiscated last night. The same misfortune overtook the "CO:la ments" of Victor Hugo. General Radowitz is so far convalescent that his physicians permit him to receive the visits of friends. The King is to visit him in a day or two. The Turn-unions are again the objects of police attentions. On the 2nd instant domiciliary visits were made at Sweinfutt and at Wursburg. Sir Alexander Malet leaves his diplomatic post at Frankfort to-day to travel in Italy. It is said he will not return to Frankfort. The Brothers Grimm have brought out the seventh part of their" Worter buche," the work is now carried on as far as the tiord " Bestrafen." An important feature in the internal state of Prussian politics is the re-assembling of the First Chamber in its old form, in spite of the passing of a law for its re-organisation. The organisation of the First Chamber formed one of the prineital points of debate during the revision of the charter. The government proposals were, in the main, accepted. ' Rut before the arrangement, as provided for the charter, came into operation, the government pro posed, in 18.11, a new arrangement, which was re jected. In spite of this, the government convoked last year the provisional First Chamber, and suc ceeded in passing a bill to the effect " that the First Chamber shall be composed of the royal princes, the chiefs of the mediatised houses which formerly be. longed to the states of the German empire, and of such hereditary peers and peers for life as the crown may be pleased to nominate." But the crown has not yet been pleased to nominate any peers at all. It is reported that the chiefs of the mediatised houses re fuse to take mats and swear to a constitution which, as they say, gives no sufficient guaranty for the maintenance of their vested rights and privilnges. Hence we may expect to be told, that the First Chamber, as constituted by law, cannot be brought into operation, till a thorough remodelling of the Second Chamber shall have brought it back to the principles of the old Germanic states, which were representatives, not of the people, but of privileged classes. The so-called constitution, after having been octroyed, revised, super-revised, will thus have to pass throug h a hyper-super-revision. And i even then it s a question whetheir the First Chamber will be allowed to take effect on the basis at present ordained. It is a question, whether the Finegan crown, by installing Peers by right, and creating hereditary and life peers, will entrust to the aristocracy a power, which may become inconvenient for a government essen tially bureaucratic. By doing so, moreover, the government:would definitively sanction and stabilitate the constitution, which, Pam prone to think, it will avoid doing as long as possible. As long as the first sisalser is kept in a provisional, unconstitutional, almost illegal state, the whole constitution is provi sional, incomplete, abortive, and may, on the acces sion of the next sovereign, or on any other suitable essasion, be swept away. The advocates of the old =say that a constitutional government and par tary control is very good in an island like Great Britain, where there is no standing army ; but in a continental state, where, as 'a, protection from foreign invasion, half a million of bayonets must be always kept at the dis real of the executive, parliamentary control is impracticable. While, on the other hand, it is plain that such a mere mockery of parliamentary co-ope ration, as an all-powerful government will admit, a convocation of privileged interests and plecemen, who bow and subscribe to whatever the executive pcoposes, can acquire neither respect nor confidence with the people, who fare much better when the go- vernment has to act uncontrolled, and, therefore, on its own full responsibility. A constitution, which the people are to posses. under awe of a great army, is worse than none at all. Incapable of curbing the acts of government, it weakens the moral restraint, which no civilised govern ment can avoid feeling when acting entirely on its own responsibility. In a word, continental nations must be made to understand, that they cannot achieve the blessing of popular self government as isag as they are ready, on the first summons, to marsh against each other and cut each other'. threats ; for as long as they entertain this propen sity, they cannot dispense with the large standing armies, which make them poor and keep them is subjection. How long it may take to overcome the national antipathies among continental nations, it is difficult to say. But it I. easy to prove, that, u long as they exist, there can be neither general wealth nor popular freedom there. It is, perhaps, a just dispensation of Providence, that people, who so little respect the lives and property of fellew-crea tures, who happen to live on the other side of a river or a mountain, should be excluded from the acquire ment of liberty and wealth, till they shall have learnt that these highest blessings must be based on feelings of he— !humanity. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY EVENIXO. The Revue et Gazette dee heaters announces that Mdlle. Rachel has sent from St. Petersburg her resignation as a member of the Theatre Francais. Dearth' giti:attrugldian mean to pass the remainder of her days in Russia? Happily for the hopes of the theatrical public the rulers of the principal French theatre require that a notice of resignation, to be valid, must be renewed at the end of six months. Perhaps before that time Mdlle. Rachel may exercise the lady's privilege of changing her mind. M. Alexandre Dumas is about to try another tour de force. He has written the following cha racteristic and amusing letter to M. Arsine Houssaye, the director of the Theatre Fl•aticais : Monday, December 5. My Dear Director,—l appreciate the delicacy of feeling which prompts you u a manager, and above all, as • friend, to hesitate to advise me to write a third comedy for the Theatre Franuis. But I promised myself, in case my second piece should be stopped, like my first, to write a third, and I have the habit of keeping my word with my self above all others. Be so good, therefore, as to give me • reading of a comedy in five acts for Saturday, the 17th instant. Only, sines I cannot again venture to meddle with " La Jeuneue"of Kings, I will go • step lower in the ladder and will pass to" La Jeunesse," of courtiers. My new piece will be entitled "La Jeunesse de Lauda." Of I course, not wishing to ruin you, I will arrange so that the costumes and decorations prepared for La Jeunesse de Louis XIV." will de for the play. Should this third piece be prohibited, like the others, I do not engage myself anew, either towards the public or myself. But I trust it will not be thus. Number three pleases the gods of anti quity, says the Latin proverb. I hope it may be so with the modern gods. Tout a vow *x , P.S. Should I be ready before Saturday I will let you know. I hope they will not say I blight this also from Brussels. SPAIN. A Madrid letter of the 3rd says : Queen Isabella performs daily pilgrimages to one or other of the e.hurches of the capital, having undertaken to visit nine of them in the course of nine days—a duty she always performs when the time of her delivery approaches. Mar shal Narvaes is mid to have declared to his political friends, on leaving Ars4usz for Lois, that it was his intention not to return to Marici until the Queen should require his ser vices. The senate was yesterday wholly taken up with the speech of the Duke de &vu on the railway question. This day the minister of public works replied to the arguments brought forward by that distinguished orator of the oppo sition, and at post hour Count della Ville was left speak ing in [avow of the conelusieas of the minority of the com mission. There is a general imireasion that the ministry will come off vistericuta. It is expected that the new bill on the liberty of the press will be brought in before the middle of the *oath. ITALY. The Pot Ampt Garotte of Frankfort states from Vienna that new arrests have taken place in various towns .of l o ombardy, particularly at Brescia, Berga mo, and Chmo, and that several carriages fall of state prisoners arrived at Milan on the 22nd ult., mostly belonging to noble families, or to the commercial clams. ROUGE ES NOIR.—On Friday night last the counting-room attached to Mr. Deans' coach-works and painting :shop, Haddington, was broken Into by forcing open a back window. Holes were needy cut by the depre dator in the bottoms of two drawers of a writing-table, doubtless in the smirch for money, which' happily proved unsuccessful. One of the drawers contained a small paper parcel of vermillion, which the thief evidently cut through when lying under the table, allowing —es was conjectured —the colour to fall upon his face and hands. Nest morning the county police were informed of the burglary ; and, upon dune visiting the house of a man named Campbell, a chimesy-sweep, the grotesque appearance of his face and clothes, by this novel admixture of red and black, at once fastened suspicion upon him. He was immediately taken into custody, and is now in Haddiogton gaol *waiting his trial.—Edimburgh Courant. GAROTTE ROBBERIES.—Two robberies of this nature occurred in Newcastle on the night of the 3rd inst. In the first instance a pitman, named Rolfe, had been in- , deiced to accompany three men, one of whom he knew, to the Wall Knoll, in search of his c mills. No sooner had he entered into the dark narrow street than the forcible application of the open hand to the throat almost strangu lated him, and deprived him of consciousness. When he ! recovered his watch was gone, his pocket, containing his 1 , money, was completely torn off, and his broken watch guard hanging round hie neck. The three men were captured shortly titer, identified by Rolfe, and committed 12r trial at the aseizes. The see red robbery took piece et the head of the Causey Hank, on the road leading to New Bridge street. Mrs. Macgregor, the person who was robbed, was going home at wee o'clock on Saturday night, with two baskets on her arm, one containing her keys and the other the money 'whit& she had that day taken in her business. She was treated in the manner usually adopted by the “gero.teen," and deprived of all power of resistance or capability of shouting for aid. Fortunately, there was some as/titmice not far off, and, in the haste the thieves made to get away, they only carried off the basket with the hunch of keys. One man was taken soon after, but Mrs. Macgregor was unable to swear to him as one of the persons who had committed the robbery upon ker. He was conse quently remanded.—Netrcork Cleronick. Zpe court. --41,- OSBORNE, Dec. 9. The Queen and Prince, accompanied by tho Dubai of Brabant, drove out yesterday morning. The Hoe. D. do Hoe attendee on horseback. The Hon. Lucy Hen has succeeded the Hon. Mary Seymour as Braid of Honour in Waiting. I,ord John Russell returned to London this morning. A Deputation from the Deputies of the Three Denomina tions of Protestant Dissenters had an interview with the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday, at his official residence in Downing-street, on the subject of the abolition of church rates. The deputation consisted of Mr. Apidey Follett, M.P., Mr. Pewtress, Mr. J. Remington Mills, Mr. Alder• man and Sheriff Wire, Mr. Samuel Morley, Mr. Eb. Clarke, Mr. R. H. Terrell, and Mr. William Reddome. Colonel Sabine (general secretary), end Mr. J. P. Gusiot (chairman of Kew committee of the British Association) bed an interview with Sir William hiolesworth yesterday at the Office of Works and Public Buildings, in White hall-place. The Commissioner for Inquiring into the State of the Coreoration of the City of London sat yesterday at the of residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Down ing-street. Present: The Right Hon. IL Laboueltere, Sir J. Pattason, and G. Cornwall Lewis, Esq. Sir De Lacy Evans, M.P., 81r Joba V. Shelley, M.P.. and • deputation had an interview yesterday with Sir William Molesworth. Despitebes were seat yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Governors of the North American Provinces. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council at rider day. The Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall gave judg ment on an appeal from Canada, " Barnhart v. Green shields." An appeal from the Consistory Court of York, "Rowley v. Rowley," was heard. The lords present were I the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleu. the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, and Sir E. Ryan. THE DUKE AND DUCHESS OF SAXE-COBURG GOTHA were placed in great danger on the 3rd instant. The duke was driving hie consort from the palace near Coburg, when the wheel of the carnage passed over a large stone and he was thrown out, losing hold of the reins. The frightened hones ran away with the carriage down a hiU, and brought the vehicle into violent collision with a poet. The carriage was completely destroyed, yet the duchess, who was in it, was not in the least hurt. The duke es caped with a sprained foot. THE EARL OF DERBY is entertaining a shooting party at Knowsley. The following is given by the Liverpool Chronicle as the result of a day's park shooting on Wed nesday : —Lord Malmesbury shot 13 pheasants, 6 harts, and 98 rabbits; Lord Anson, 13 pheasants, 6 bares. and 165 rabbits; Lord Osanlston, 20 pheasants, 8 hares, and 181 rabbits; lion. Colonel Stanley, 7 pheasants, 4 hares, and 160 rabbits; the Hon. Mr. Talhot, 9 pheasants, 6 hares, and 219 rabbits. The earl was present, but not sufficiently recovered from his recent indisposition to join in the sport. THE REV. EDWARD MORTIMER CLIESOLD, 8.A., has been instituted to the Rectory of Wrentham in Suffolk, on the presentation of Sir Edward Sherlock Gooch, of Renscre-hall, in the said county, hart. LETTERS FOR THE ARCTIC SHIPS. ADMIRALTY, DEC. 9, 1833.—Letters for officers, seamen, and marines serving in the undermentioned ship, will be in time to be forwarded, if sent to the Admiralty on or before the 15th inst.: Her Majesty's ships Enterprise, Rattlesnake, and Plover. SANITARY CONDITION OF THE METROPOLIS. DEPUTATION FROM ST.JAMES', WESTMINSTER. Yesterday a deputation from the Paving Board of St. James', Westminster, waited upon Sir William Moles worth, at the office of Woods and Forests, for the purpose of station the views of the commissioners with reference to the sanitary state of the metropolis, and the impediments thrown in the way of reform by the present state of our legislature. The deputation consisted of Sir D. L. Evans, M.P., Sir J. Shelley, M.P., Hon. F. Byng, Messrs. Crane, Nelson, Brown:Wilks, ()met, Geesin, Watkins, Fozley„ Green, Clark, Duff, Miles, ffic., and Mr. York, clerk to the Mr. lincon addressed Sir W. Molesworth on the part of the commissioners, and called attention to a report which he held in his h►nd, and which he stated had been pre pared by the St. James' Paving Board, in answer to a circular issued by the Board of Health. The Commissioners of Paving and other parish authorities were most anxious to comply with the requisitions of the Board of Health, but were so hampered by the contradictions and inefficiency of different acts of parliament, that they had at last deter mined to lay the matter before the Chief Commissioner of Woods and Forests, who was also ex officio presi dent of the Board of Health. Having enlarged on the necessity of an abundant water supply, and of an improved system of drainage, Mr. Nelson concluded by stating emphatically that all exertions in either direction would be nugatory, unless the necessary operations and outlay of funds were placed under effective local control, a sentiment which was heartily cheered by the whole of the deputation. Sir W. MOLiiIIVOIITIL said that if he understood the deputation aright, their object was to impress upon him the necessity of bringing in a more effectual measure for the removal of nuisances ; such as slaughter-houses, and the carrying on of trades iojurious to health. They wished also to have the law amended with respect to underground dwellings, and to introduce amendments into the Metropo litan Buildings Act. (Hear, hear.) He could only say that three were all matters the importance of which was acknow ledged, and that they were engaging the anaious attention of government, especially of the Home-offi.e. He could not state distinctly what measures were in contemplation. Per sonally he agreed in the greater portion of Mr. Nelson's observations, and there was no doubt but that the inquiries now taking plate most lead to important changes in the municipal institutions of the metropolis. Under such cir cumstances, the question of municipalities far the metro politan boroughs must become most important, and, indi vidually, his opinion was in favour of their establishment. (Cheers.) Of course he could not speak for his colleagues, as the subject had not se 'yet come under their collective consideration, but there was no doubt that the whole subject must dozily be reviewed. The deputation then withdrew. THE SMITHFIELD CATTLE SHOW.—Yesterday the show closed—the number of visitors during the four days having been considerably over 100,000. It is • re markable fact, however, that not • single robbery has been committed, or • single accident taken place. Sir 11. Ver ney's " monster" oil, which, wonderful as it may seem, has really survived the innumerable pinches and pokes it has received from its multitude of admirers, has been bought by Mr. Cooper, of Mill-street, Macclesfield. The animals are to be removed to-day. WILL THIS BE ALLOWED BY THE SECRETARY OF STATS I—The burials is St. PINSCrSB and St. Giles-in-the- Fields continue in increased numbers. On Sundays the scene is one of sue► bustle (if we may use such a word in reference to funerals) as would surprise many ; and this has to go on vet M Old St. Pancru for about • year longer, and we do not know how long in St. Giles-in-the-Fields. It is true that a public notice his lately been d on the authorities of Old St. Pancras forbidding interments in used ground ; but then the sexton nes ingeniously disco vered a morsel of " virgin soil" which he is proceeding to use up in a scientific , that is to say, pile coffin upon coffin, and side by side, until they nearly reach the surface, in fact, to turn the " virgin soil" (if virgin soil it be) into a poisonous mass such as is the remainder of this grave yard.—Correspondent of " The Buitde►." SUDDEN DEATH IN MANCHESTER.— Yesterday morning, whilst Mr. John Phillips, van of Alderman Phil lips, of Old Trafford, Manchester, was sitting at breakfast with the family, he suddenly fell from his chair and ex pired before medical aid could be called in. Mr. Phillip' had recently returned from a tour in Egypt end other parts of the East, where he had been the fellow•traveller of Sir John Potter, and had complained of rheumatic pains in the chest, but with this exception had been in good health to the moment of his death. It was thought he had died from some disease of the bout._ ---- - BRITISH OFFICERS IN TURKEY.—The following officers have quitted England for Constantinople, intending to proceed thence to the. Danube, to be spectators, at least, of the operations carrying on by the rival armies of Russia and Turkey. Colonel Robert Cannon, MC., of Charles 111. and of the Ist and 2nd classes of St. Ferdinand; Major Forbes, 4th Regiment of Madras Light Cavalry; Captain Lake, Madras Engineers; Captain Rigby, Bombay infantry ; Captain Balfour Ogilvy, halt-pay Madras Army ; Lieutenant Green, of the Bombay Army, late Commanding Scinde Irregular Hone; Lieutenant Anderson, Bombay Artillery ; Captain Twopenny, of her Majesty's Service; and L'eutenant Edam, late of the Austrian Cavalry. These ! oflleers will be followed by Lieutenant Colonel Kent m Murree. Lieutenant Colonel Matson, of the Bengal Army, has already joined Omer Pacha's Army. These gen tlemen proceed to Turkey with introductions from Lord Clarendon and the Turkish Embassy, but with no decided ezprctations of employment. Should time course of events, Ihowever, clinpel England to take an active part in the contest, they will, we dare say, gladly render service to the Sultan. Meanwhile they are merely to be regarded as visitors to the asap.—Untied Service Goette, THE DENSE FOOS AT M.4NCHESTER, LOSS OF LIFE. Manchester had a temporary relief on Thursday from the dense fogs which had covered the town on Tues. day and Wednesday. The atmosphere was far from clear ma Thursday. but in a majority of the shops and places of business the inhabitants could see sufficiently to enable them to dispense with gas lights from about 10 a.m. to dusk. A drizzling rain fell during the greater portion of this in. terval, but disagreeable as wet weather always is, it was a great relief to have such a change. As night set in a dens, fog again began to overspread the town. People travel. ling out from the centre of the city towards the south met it along Oxford-road and London-road, like a thick cloud of steamy vapour, and its progress might be traced almost with exactitude on questioning people leaving their places of business for their residences la the parts of the suburbs indicated by the two roads named. People walking up Oxford-road, who had left the centre of the city at seven, entered the cloud at All Saints Church ; thou who left at a quarter past seven met it half way between the church and the river Medlock; and others leaving at half-past seven in the evening encountered it on the Medlock Bridge ; and so on. By soon after eight it had overspread the whole area between the Medlock and the Irwell, and the principal portions of the town were enveloped in it. It was a singular thing, standing on the verge of the thick, disgusting mass of vapour, to watch the progress of pedestrians and vehicles emerging from or entering into it. The latter were lost to sight in the course of • few yards, whilst looking northwards the course of others could be traced with the aid of the streets lamps for hundreds of yards. All t'.e incidents, lu dicrous and serious, of the preceding nights were re-enacted under cover of this extraordinary fog. Many people lost their way; children were met in the streets weeping, and i■ great distress, after unsealing attempts to find their homes—though some of them were not many yards from their own doors when so discovered. " Unpro tected females" were in some cases almost frantic, and after successfully finding their way to omnibuses going in the right direction, were often in such alarm for several Luau after as to cry out repeatedly to their fellow pameagers for protection. " Patent safety cabs " were no longer safe even for their drivers, who had to dismount [tom their seats behind, and take a seat on the horse's back ' or lead him by the bridle. Oan.bus.•s travelling in strings, on the principle of " follow my leader," were fre quently brought to a sudden halt, with the usual amount of scolding and swearing, on finding that the foremost had run their hones up against a church or some other public building at the sudden turns of their route, or bad I got upon a footpath. Yesterday morning found the town still covered with the fog, which continued more or less dense throughout the day. No serious accidents were heard of within the city as resulting from the fog, but several persons lost their lives in the neighbourhood by walking into canals. On Tuesday evening, Mary Cheadle, aged 26, and Elizabeth Whittle, aged 20, living at Little Lever, between Manchester and Bolton, left a cotton fac tory at which they had been working, at l'restolee, about six o'clock, but never reached their homes. Suspicion was excited that owing to the density of the fog they had lost their way, and on searching the Bolton and Bury canal their bodies were discovered in the water. When taken out they had evidently been dead some hours. The same night a youth named Samu•l Undley, aged 16, the driver of a boat horse on the Ashton canal at Droyladen, near Manchester, was lost on the canal owing to the fog. Ile had been taking an empty boat along the canal, and was seen with the horse on his return, near the Jockey- bridge. Soon afterwards the horse was discovered much wet, having been in the canal, es wu supposed. No tidings being obtained of Lindlei, after he had been seen near the bridge, the canal was dragged, and his dead body was found. A man named Warmby, who dragged the canal the same night, said the fog was so thick that he had difficulty is finding the side of the canal without walking in himself. Inquests on the bodies were held on Thursday by Mr. G. 0. Rutter, county droner, when verdict; were of course returned that these unfortunate people lost their lives accidentally. On the canal between Whaley-bridge and Manchester the same night, two men walked into the water at different points owing to the fog. One of them stepped into a lock, but was saved by a boat hook being held out to him, but not until he had been much exhausted by cold, and his struggles to sustain his hold upon the boat hook whilst the lock was emptied. The other man was also fortunate enough to be reacted. SIX FIRES IN ONE NIGHT. - • - The firemen of the Brigade and West of England offices were engaged the whole of Thursday night and Friday morning, there being during that period no fewer than six fires in various parts of the metropolis. One of them, occasioned by some unknown cause, broke out on the premises of Messrs. Medworth and Harris, carvers, Little Howland-street, Tottenham-court-1-OA. In spite of every exertion the flames extended to the adjoining premises of Mr. Geo. Collier, proprietor of the Ball's Head Tavern ; but by dint of great perseverance the fire was eventually extinguished. The sufferers were insured in the Sun and Pbmaix Fire Offices. The second fire took place on the premises of Measre.',Chapman and Co., linen drapers, Nos. 91 and 92, Uaion-street, B (rough. It was caused by the carelessness of a bey, who placed a lighted candle upon some of the stock in the etc sod-floor ware house, and set it in a blaze. The loss was comiderable, • and the owners were insured in the Legal and Commercial Fire Office. The next fire happened in the premises of Mr. A. Levy, looking-glass manufacturer, No. 47, Crispin-street, Spitaltields, and was else occasioned by the spark of • lighted candle falling upon the stick. Mr. Levy, whose loss was great, was insured in the Sun Fires office. About the same time another fire broke out in the extensive range of premises belongiag to Mr. H. M. Brown, sugar refiner, in the Back-road, Shadwell. Here, too, tke disaster was caused by • spark from a candle, which set the charcoal-house in flames. The whole of that portion of the promises in which the fire commenced was burned out, be sides which the roof of retort house adjoining was much damaged. The property was insured in the Imperial, Globe, and Legal and Commercial Fire-offices. The next fire Wok place in the premises of the National Provident Institution, No. 48, Gracechurch-street, City. It arose from making • fire on the hearth. The fire Was happily 00nfinect to the second floor. Another outbreak took plate in the premises of Mr. Coleman, schoolmaster, 8, Wood street, Spitalfields. The inmates, in order to escape, were obliged to make their way over the roof. The engine at tended, but the fire was not extinguished until the base ment was destroyed. Last night a fire broke oat in the extensive promisee of Mr. Field, the printer's-ink manu facturer and lamp-black maker, Belle-isle, Battle-bridge, but It was subdued before much damage was done. UNITED SERVICE INSTITUTION. --•-- Captain Garnet Man, Professor of Fortification. at the Royal Military College, gave the first of a course of lecturek.on the subject of the science he professes lest evening in the theatre of the United Service Institution. He commenced by remarking that the knowledge of torn . ficatiens was, in consequence of the technicalities by which it was surrounded, confined almost exclusively to military engineers. He proposed to popularise the subject by sub stituting for the orditiory ground pl Sr., by which it was usually illustrated dissolving views of the different 'modes of fortifying cities and strong places adopted in ancient and modern time,. The art of fortification, he observed, conduced to the peace of nations, and, while the other arts of war tended to des truction, fortification conduced to the preservation of human life; and, in the present state of Europe. the money expended in fortifications, and in maintaining armies, should be regarded as a sort of assurance premium paid by the nation for its safety. He t7:en proceeded to trace the art historically from those ancient times when fortifications were confined to the simple stockades raised by the hunters and shepherds for their protection, to the first attempts at regular fortifications by means of stone walls by the Assyrians and other nation- , of antiquity. Troy, which was thus defended, he said held out ten years against the whole power of Greece ; but tile strongest modern fortifioation must fall within a month. it' the siege were conducted according to military rule. The lecture, which appeared to give great satisfaction to a large audience, was illustrated by a number of dissolving views, illustrating the progress of the art, Among which were representations of an ancient mountain fortification in Al bania, the City of Nineveh, Tyre, Syracuse, the wall of Udine, Jerusalem, and other celebrated fortified places of the earlier ages, the strongholds of the Gauls and Britain. In conclusion,.fire gallant captain stated thst the next three or four lectures would be, like the present, purely of a histori cal character, and about the fifth or sixth he would com mence the description and illustration of the modern prac tice. CROYDON NEW LITERARY AND Sf•TE.NTITIC hTITI:TION.—This institution ' established last year, pro. gre-sea favourabl Since the let of u pwards of 200 persons have become memb re, the whole, above 300 An interesting lecture on " Popar superstitions" was delivered on Monday evening last by Dlr. Joseph Simpron, librarian of the lelington Lit,niry Society, and the Rev. Dr. Wilson, late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and Desn of the College of Preceptors, is about to lecture on The Pyramids of Egypt." INDIAN ARMS FOR THE TOWER 01 2 LORPON.- Several cases have arrived from India. eonclrnidio tbs. East India Company, containing arms intended to he de posited in the armoury of the Tower L'noon, and the necessary arrangements have ben mad: , with the govern ment authorities for their adminicn for the intended purpose.