The Express. — London, England, 1856-01-03 00:00:00

Ibe expreoo. TO CORRIMONDINTL algumimisaislalmied kw . 4 nis tqnsee'Ldslie !vain paw. mei lie at IN Oiam. 11, Deariewerest. b Tye els* on as dig of pellhadsa. HIGH WATIN AT LONDON BEIDGI. wt-11 Iamb& fen.-.......AltineciONl. lOW Tasousw—tionia& lON Sim .... ilk. ll.` LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 3. A 01181 Council of War is about to be held in Paris to decide what are to be the operation of next campaign. The natio, of this sonveatioe of mili tary sags has been heralded by name rumors which have the appearance of having bra put forth as feelers of the public temper. Thus, for example, it has been alleged in curtain quarters that Marshal Plllll6lll has expressed a decided opinion that it is impossible for the Allies to make a minaret in ad vsnce their actual position is the Crimea with any prospect of decided results ; and that it is abso lutely ascommary to begin anew, with mother bads of operations. This rumour destines to be viewed in connexion with a suggestion that has been still longer afloat and urged with remarkable per- Nastily, though uniformly is an "ear-kissing" steam. We allude to a proposal that in the must ouspaign the Estill sad /heath armies should act entirely apart and indspoadent of sash other; that each should ban allotted to it a @sprats field of action. The perojestm of this stems have all its details filled up ; they have soaped to soh army the locality in which it ought to operate. Aaatolia is assigned to the British, with its Foreign Legions and Turkish Cotangent; the southern Governorate of Rorie to the French. Vegas and undefined hints, which appear to have prossodsd from a knowledge of this scheme, and to be intended to pave the way to its &Gnomon:oat, have appeared in some journals, but we do set reeollest to have soon it explicitly stated, or folly developed in print. Da propounders, however, have bra amidosesly labour ing for some time beck, in private esavartioas, to tolled opinion as to its dram of pplarity. In this way it has remised us hem the most &Arent quarters; at one time from parties intissatoly eon meted with the From& Government; at others importing to ems ham some mysterious Garman Primo, who was topressatod us having gathered a amber of Gomm notabilities around him to disser Its merits, while the world around them Misted they wen entirely engromsd with the pursuits of a hunting party. There can be little doubt that some person or persons entomology sonaested is the peli dal circles of Europe are anxious to Ns the project tried ; and se it may therefore be brought under dim suarion at the approaching Connell of War, Moons be no harm in wasting a few words upon it. In a merely military point of view the scheme is not destitate of a certain plausibility. Then is em ulsifiable difficulty in imparting unity of council and promptitude of motion to as army composed of Me ant natisaalitien the semssados of which are pissed on a footing of priest equality. It is not ha posell• that the Frsaoh and English 'miss world set with mese abet if they were separated, thee they Nan bra hoed to do is sonjuastion The rearm an too obvious to reader it seeeffeery to eater into details on this bead, sues though it were expedient to do so. Again, the fall of Kars has reamed everybody that, if the war is to go on at all, it mast be waged in earnest in Anatolia next campaign. The British army, moan rically inferior to the French, would, with the Otto man fortes, be amply sailinient for that purpose. And then the French army, with its numerous bayonets, would be of itself salami to pronoun the war against Runia in the anthers governments of the empire. But the coosideratioas which nista to the war between the Allis and Ruler are political as well as military. For the honour of England at least it is not enough that the war be brought to a soressful termination; something tangible mast be gained by it for the Liberal oars. In what has been circulated as an authentic make of the proposals which Coast EITUUAZT has been authorised to submit to the Russian Government, the first condition of par is thus worded :--" The relinquishment of the Russian Protectorate over the Danubian Principali ties, and the conditions essential to the securing of a new order of things there." The second condition is said to :—" Osssion of a por tion of Bessarabia, to sash an extent that Ramie would be sot only removed from the Delta of the Danube, bet woad have to give up her entire peados ea that river." And the third :—" Neutrali sation of the Black Bea, without any Remise for t:some ea its coasts; at the months of the Danube, however, there is to be a statics for veer& of war of small burden for the purpose of marine polio." It is unlucky that "the sew order of tamp; for the " sewing " of which Ramie is to relinquish its pro tectorate over the Principalities, in nowhere defined in the outline of the Austrian proposals from which we quote. Ia the numerous Mr exchanged between the Court of Vienna us the one part, and the other German Courts on the other, great Mrs has always been laid on the importance denablingAnstria to take charge of the navigation of the Danube, with a view to German interests. The Austrian army of occupation is the Principalities has made itself quite at home; has, in fact, made such ansagemeats se seem to point to a rather protracted residence in nor provinces. This may be "the new order of things • which the Cabinet at Vienna intend@ should mooed the Russian Protootorato—the permanent occupation of the Principalities by Aus tria. The removal of the Ruda. frontier to a araeiderable distance from the north bank of the Danube, coupled with the maintenance of a naval station at the mouth of that river, while all Barra bermes on the Black flea are to be destroyed, is a very suspicious proposal. If Ruda is to be allowed no arsenals or fortresses on the Black Ben, neither can Turkey. England could not take upon it to hold the station at the mouth of the Danube without giving rise to an universal clamour, that she had dragged other mations into the war for the par per of extending and soafinting her maritime ascendancy. There remains only one other alternative —the mailrooms of the station must be confided to Austria. It has very moth the appearance of " the new order of thinp " t@ the Principalities contemplated by Austria being the permanent seam slim of those provisos@ to her own dominions. Now, no English Government scald venture to be a party to such an 1117•1111110 M. The distrust and hatred entertained by Englishmen towards Austria are infi nitely more intense than what they bah towards Russia. Englishmen knew that the Walla aims woad be as brutally trainload over by Austria as by Russia; they know that the integrity of the Turkish empire is as mach in danger from the ambition of Austria as of Russia; and they hate the smooth falsehood of Austria. Be loog as an English army remains in the vicinity of the north-west mar of the Black Sea, the English Goverment will have it in its power to prevent the end= of the Princi palities to Amble, end the FAO* people will compel them to do so. Bat if the Preach amertfire Make* to carry on hostilities in that mess, tbe Emperors - MIMI* and Fiume might coneeheven log to terminate the warnpee 4t.r.h en being agreed to; and the *soy ‘lllogbail belief Id a distance, oar Government culd - inly interpose un availing protests after the thing had beams a jail eeeempli. We de not say that the Emperor of the Femecn would play as such a trick, bat he would be strongly tempted to do so. His Fremont position renders it expedient for him to bring the war to a close as speedily u possible, bet at the same time with the eclat attendant on eneesss. A combination with Austria might enable him to inti midate Russia into leaviog the Principalities is the heads of Austria ; and gagged es both the pram and the Ireiens are is France, it would not be guy to enlighten the French people as to the real character of a peace than made, while we ran searosly expect their ruler to be a very &admit champion of popular rights. We hops it is no undue imputation en the Emperor of the Faxscs to say that he is but a mor tal after all, and that it is best not to assail his vir tu with too strong temptatioos. It is better for his own sake that an English army should matinee to co-operate with his in the south of Russia ; it is better that he should not be enoonraged even to propose that he should carry on the war du/le-handed is that region. Orws " by royal command," tragedies, coaled* and fume "by royal command," comarts "by royal command," and sealtillirions kinds of exhibitions "by royal command," are common smash : bat the pub- Hoodoo of a sans= "by royal command" is a ph/no tenon of such rare oseurreseo that the pub& is on the tiptoe of anxiety to know =Dadaist about the man whom the Qum " delighteth to honour." Astoalsiument is loudly expremsd that it is neither archbishop nor bishop, neither madams nor any of the great scolssisatical hierarchy who is thus highly distinguished, but a simple Scotch country clergy mom And then the merman ItuslL Is it duo- Meal, we practical? Is it High Church, Low Church, Dry Mural, or Latitudinarian? What loans': of dairies is it that is so scorptable to Royal ears as to Waco the Qnsin to depart from anal east= ? And it is ecenstking mare than min carlesity which instates thaw questions. The talking °fakes of the Mmersh may have the roost important Mune, over the state of society in the nation. A firm belief that the Court was inclined to Pelvises—a belief encouraged by the tacit minimums, in the principles laid down in Dr. Hoon's famous sermon, by the fa vour Mown to the Bishop of 02701 D, by the leaning towardsTreeterianiem displayed by the majority of the Bishops—was the musks of determining the ten demise of not a few amenget the yomger sleety towards the Passyite doctrines, and of ultimately sending numbers over to the Church of Rms. Even the lay members of the Chunk are not insensible to this inflames, and very properly so. The QUEEN has distinguished herself in all the relations of life. She is a wise monarch, a good wits and mother, an 1 1 accomplished woman. It is impossible not to fool interested in what such a person believes. It is something better than curimity which fills us with desire to know the nature of the religious principle underlying so good and es great a life. It is easy, therefore, to account for the feet that all the world is eager to read Mr. Can's sermon. What, then, an the Clonin's smatiments epos reli gion, if, se we suppose we are warren's' is doing, we may lodge of them by the extraordinary appro bation bestowed upon tbis discourse P They stomach, we ban no beeitation in saying, as to put her at ism with the bigot@ of every religious net. Especially will the High Church party winos: great will be the wrath of the zealots amongst them, still greater the dismay of the trimmers. HENRY of Exam will gala his teeth, CHARLES JAHR/ of LONDON will feel sheepish, and SAMUEL of OXIO/D will set 'boot proving most coaxingly that there is really no great &Hennes betweea Mr. CAIRD'S doctrine and his own. The preacher's deems west to show that in religion " the form Is nothing—the execution is everything." "It is true," he says, "that prayer, holy reading, meditation, the solemaitiee and m elon of the Church, are woman to religion, sad that thus can only be practised apart from the work of secular life." But he denies that these are the whole or the greater part of religion. Like the late Mr. Rosman, of Brighton, sad Mr. Macaws, of Lincoln's inn, he teaches that religion doss not san est in a separation from the world, but in a holy communication with the world. It is comparatively easy to be religions is a aboroh. The so lona Mumma of the plus, and the memo piss, all combine to give a religions tone to the thoughts. And large assohers of perms feeling this, have imagined Hat religion consists is worship aloes. Everything in its place," mys Mr. Cusp, "is the tacit reflection of each uses. • Prayers, mi mosa holy reading,' they will sanely natant to add ' Got); are for Sundays; but week days are for the sobs banner, the real practical affairs of lib.* Now Mr. CAIRO, preaching from Romans xii. 11, " Not slothful in busineos, fervent in spirit, serving the Laic," proclaims that this is totally wrong. Religion, according to the Scripture dootrin, he tells us, is not so mush a ditty as something that has to do with all ducks; not a tax to be paid periodically and got rid of at all other times, but a sesame all-pervading tribute to His who is not only the soy object of religious worship, but the sad one very life and being. He doss sot mean that religious talk is to be tie only sevens boo that we mast Stinks fa—that purely religions objeets are the only objests that should employ our attention. Per from It. He doss not, is fast, son ins with theology. All he marts is, that if religion is of the immense geeerally ascribed to it, you masa ban it baled yea as Seaday, shut up is the skunk with year prayer books. He believes 1 that the spirit of religion may eater hate every action itemise man sad man, without the fors et religion being visible at all. Still sere, he says that the world is the true school is which to learn religion. A man may lean navigation to his closet, bat he will never be a sailor until he goes through the pes tles& work of a sesaisa's life. He say study lasi.' for ever, but be will never be a soldier until he has acquired habits of coolness, wars" discipline, address, sapid sombisaties, is steal service. Jest so he may be devout in the church, end stu dious in the closet, but to live well he mast be up and doing in the world. The world is the plats to learn and practise religion, to show whether you area Christian. "Away," he exclaims, " with the notion that ministers and devotees may be religious, but that a religious and holy life is impracticable in the rough and busy world. Nay, rather, believe me, that is the prover sane, the peculiar aid appropriate field for religion-the piss in which to prove that piety is not a dream of Sundays and solitary honeys that it esa bear the light of day; that it ma wear will amidst the rough jostling', the bard straggles, the coarse antsts of common life—the plum, in 0110 word. to prove how poseibis it is fee a man to be at ones mot 'WM'S in business' sad fervent in spirit. serving the Lona.' • Such a doctrine us this is us diarist from that held Ilmimum THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 3, 1856. by estrous High-Churchman as from that held by Pa ritaa& The hour bans that religion is so distinct it Su" that it in skid, ap ix( shawls§ ceresieles I the lattachellevr that the Ise - ets,sinfal that you mast even be talking rel 4. glom tiseitor think ghat the women duties tig gib may igt mode holy • by the spirit of millsis t toting inieneibly, bet none the lees open Go men who perform them. A doctrine like that et Ns. Calule cuts the grosnd ham beneath the feet - 4- mere theologian. Theologian doctrines ham Ode value, but by limiting themselves to these as Ilmt whole of religion, MOD booms mere contromenielins animated with what Mauttcreox called the wont of all hatreds, the qinm theolo g ietan. Breve Kama Lonna treasured a dogma as highly as the greatest doctor of the Church, but he thought it no sin to lead a jovial hied of life, which would confound the mere formalist of the runt day. Has the Qua= chosen to show her satisfaction with this sermon by a proceeding so far out of the usual come, in order to teach charity to the mem bers of all the countless denominations into which her empire is divided P Does she mean to say, Your &gum are precious to yourselves no doubt, bat de act make them weapons of warfare ? Diffenut as your beliefs an, you are yet members of the same mighty nation. Tom will convince the world that your belief is something better than a men notion, if it Leff emcee your conduct one to another. Do not split up the nation into hostile parties, because you cannot believe the manse doctrines. If your religion cannot sanctify the world, it is nought.' Whether such wee the intention of her ?damn it is impossible to say. Whatever was her intuition, we are quite sun that the publication " by eon sand" of this sermon cannot but have a beneficial Whet. Wig court. WINDSOR, am!. 2. Priam Albert with the Duke of Cambridge, ao impaled by Priam Load of LeWagon, Prises Edward of few Weimar, sod the Doke of Neweeoebe, mot oat aboselog yesterday. TM irises of *ales sad Prime Alfred mat to Looks sad visited the Duchess of Olommtor, at Glaassater Houle. Theis Bent Hishaeom afterwuds attended Mr. Faraday's lasture, at the Royal lastitstios. TM - Maser party iseladsd the Dashes' of Rant, the Primer Royal, the Dabs of Caasbridp, Priam Braes' of Leiniagsa, the Daks of Nswoostis, Lady Fumy Howard, she Harasses de Spa* lb, Res. Mary Seymour, the Right Hos. H. Laboushors, Mr. ad Lady NUMMI BMWs, 84 Osage Casper, mad Colossi Tyrwhiti. TM band ORM 2M We Gauda played dazing dims,. The fellowisg bad SU emu of ressiviag lavitatiess the musisal psribemeass of Joseph," shish took plass is the miming : Prism Edward of Haze Weimar, the Mika Minister sad Madame Vaa de Weyer, ths Rev. Issi mid Lady Wriedaseley Russ% Mho R. sad Mr. Mem" this Ladies Murray, the Rev. Charism 0. Goadised, dm Rm. Seymour 14svW*, the Be,. Frederick Arm, Calessi the Ha. J. Liadmy (Cosmandiag Meer, las Bat- Miss Gressdis Guards), ad Lady Bank Liadaay, Mimi Marlyn (Gammas's 0M sr, 2ad Life Guards), Nisei the Him. C. 11. sad Mn. Phipps, Mn. and Miss Ralbaret, Ml. Emily% Captais Bayer (23rd Royal Welsh Pidisse), Major-Oeueral the Rau. C. sad Mr.. Grey, Wm Clive, Lady Nary Hood, Mks 1101, Lady Cuolias Eambstos, Lady Emily Haymow, Lady, KW, aad Mr. Cooper, 11r. Gibbs, sad Mr. Glover. The gem, the Prise., seit the diem empaay, eatered St. George's Hill stbelf-pest 9 o'Coek. The BAT. R. Taylor (New Lesland) mad a New Zeelaad chief had ma faterview with Mr. Berintszy Labaaoheav yesterday at the Coloalal-odles. Sir 01;ercie Grey 'Maud yesterday at the Rosareffiss. ♦ daystatios boa this Aborigisse Protestiaa Seeley bad as isteroiew yesterday with Mr. facirstssy Labsesiews. Tbs dapetatias scsaisted of Timms Hodgkin, 11i.D., Kr. R. N. Fowler, Ray. C. B. Gribble, Rev. R. Richards, Ns. Conn Has Reabery, Mr. Richard Smith, Jas., Mr. L. A. Chaise- TOTIPOW, Kr. Jobs Mayfield, Mr. °serge L. Neighbosr, sad ldr. Preach R. Fox. The Doke d Richmond hie left But Loam for the pupoes of paselat a her days with his (sally at Goodwood. His grass Is expeated to Mara to Brightest esirly ant week. The Disks .f D.,oarhita is still et his natio* rosidowee is Kamp Tows, bat, In essesq•asse of haying Wes ladispoood with a sold, his grates hes sees ao sosspeay this Giuliano's. We see happy to lean that the sable duke Is slakiag of the sass of the esid.—Brithiss Goats. The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield have a largo party areablad at Broth, Park. gong the isocayasy us the Countess Howe sad Lady Adokids Canon, the Countess of °lsmail sad Lady Margaret Butler, t►s Earl of Wilton, the Berl of Basta., Lord Cava:dish, Lord Bargharsh, Has. Jallsa Pau, Col. the Hos. Ceeil Foresaw, Col. the Has. Janes Ihodoaald, Mr. sad Lady Sophia Des Vass, Lead Hwy Hydra Leases, Yr. sad Mrs. Job. Suably, Ka Halghtley,it Thomas and Lady Greeley, Mr. Balkoley. sad Mks Asses. The Earl of Stanford hem taken the Quota eountry, lately bunted b 7 Sir Dishard Batton. His lordship will rondo at Kane lisvb•sr. Lord and Lady Eloho have taken their departure but tM IS. Ontrp's Hatal. TM Hoe. Amaral' sod 1447 Harriet Vernon, sal Kr. Hari Drummond sad Lady Louise, have oho lit Ms mans oriabliskmont. We is glad to observe that Sir George Gray was raSaisatly rommend from the effects of his meat severe essideat to attend at the Hem-edlee yesterday. The Earl sad Count's@ of Stamford have had a large party of Meads staylag at their beautiful se►t, Es rine Hall, Staffordshire. His lordship sad party have ben enjoying Said sports, sad have killed as unmediated gunny of gun Ia fear days, 2,113 be►d were killed. Ths spormaa have lima us fa amber, mad ban Mined ■ dergyma—tbe Rev. C. Jima. Pc( Worooderatire Chroisick) understand that a Nutrimental allisan is arranged, sad will shortly tat. glass, batman the Left Zell, Carson, dasibtar of lb. Earl Row. sail Liestamat-Colesol & N. F. Kiapeote, of Kalamai Pork, Giesossterohlre. WI (ticoisissari) have good roams to halloos that it is the iatestiet et Govetemeat M iabeitsh sae Bawd a Filmy, wldalk die st SiMusk, with isms Beetlisil. The lienetne Aesdemiese of the Edinburgh Uni versity bar reef to Dr. Aiken the sou of 2604 a par. r a erring allowarta. from fait at their Mortal. The ;dewy of the Bearotery to the, aoatadulooors la Loewy (t►e appoiatasst ►ast palmed OS Mr. 'aka Forster) is Bud by the 8 a 9 VW, e. 126, s. 9, at 8001. per SUISS. By the 18 417 Vie., s. 98, e. 39, the Ocaretery of the Caaai•siaasn, if at the time of his appoiataeat s walking banister of five years' staadlag, Is eligible te be apostate& a souniesieser. It was loader this dame that Mr. LaMar, the late secretary, was 'ordinal a esanas skater sa ties deems of Mr. Mylas. Mr. Paster Wa/ sidled te the bar of the loan Temple he 1843 ; he has, therein", far more that the length of standing regulate to qualify Ida for promotion to • wauaissionership alder t►e sinus of the ass. The salaries of the eoricainioaers, use of whoa Is Mr. Proctor (better haunt to the public by his pude peesdoava of Bury Carswell) an axed at LOOM a FOOL _ _ _ _ Baron Parke bu not bean peened, and Uwe are deebte whether he will take the title of Lord itapthllL It le believed he w ill take hie title boa eon e plugs is the North of Eaglaad. The Condo° brought to Mangan Sir E. Lyons, of time Isglish lost is ths Mask Ms, 'Ntbolat• mad Omer* de la Marnere, didon form is Um It* The dawn of Man the ant day tee Peril; tea ham prsessis r Tssisy,.sed of r*. Preach capita The Cassia, Is i aM, is Is await the nears et them aliens it suer, *es had Is Pair, when the Rey* Albert will be is realises. *UM W. WSW Blasi Iles. A frisk departure of pilgrims for females and the ash Lead will take place at Mareelltee towards eke sad of February. About the awe period another earews, firmed la G.e_.ap, wUI NU hoe ?Aims ter the isms dosiiosiism INTELLIGENCE. OF OMER PAORE. The Vienna itildery Gamete publishes' the 6/. lowing: " It is probably no kegs, doubted by any sae *ea, our ocesespoadeat at Trebisoad was well Informed when be wrote -thet-Ower-Pamba bad not ter weeks lost eight oi the Pattie coast, and that he had not advanced further than the 'Small town of Chopl, on the right beak of the small river bearing the Name name. Render Paella, it is true, advanced along the excellent road that rune to Abesha, bat did not ven ture further than Toheniteelisle. He only did this for the purpose of aseertalning Vieth,: or no the Russians, under the .—sand of General Begration Muharski, and reinforced by the troops of General Brunner, had taken up a position in Levine sad Intyri on the left bank of that river. Ravin done this, Omer Paoha decided on retreating to Redont Lash and Anaklea. It having at the same time become known that the Russian commander intended sending to Mingrelia all the troops collected in the fluvial districts of the mountains near Gori, so that they may sot on the offensive, the Turkish Admiral, Ahmet Pasha, received orders to place all the dis posable Turkish and Egyptian steamers at Omer Fiche's service. It is possible that a reemberkation of the troops is to be made. " Mostapha Paella has, in a similar way, retreated to Batoum, in order to pass the winter in that un healthy meet station. As we cannot suppose Omar Pasha means to persist in wintering where he is at present, seeing that b• is exposed to the danger of being attacked by the Russians, and unable to make any great residues, Anaklea and Rollout Hsieh being only assail forts, it is highly probable that the entire Turkish army will be beosg►t to the Rounieliaa harbours, and stationed there in winter quarters. The Russians too will do no more than garrison Kars, and will not advance oa the offensive in the wide radios between the Western and the Eastern Euphrates. General Mouravieff has detached one division to Aohalkaisk and Achalsik, whilst another division has assorted the captured garrison of Hue to Tiflis. The Nelms, and a few superior cams, will be transferred to Moscow; the remain ing often, with the ma, will probably have to pass the winter in the government of Tiflis.' EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (MOW OWL OWN OONANSPONDINIT.) YARN, incoaraszAv Xviornte. The Newlnds circular is conansed by public opt. lion u a refusal et the Austria. propositions. It is true that this dconmeat bean data Deo. 22, and woe mow (neatly pained before the arrival of Count Baterbasy at S. Petersburg, bat the general belief is that the 1 1 Russian Government, knowing what was coming, resolved to tusks a diplomatic diversion, by taking the initiative of proposition wholly incompatible with those which it has been agreed to call the Austrian ultimatum. This, then, is the form in which the emigre answers (which, I. spite of the vapouring about the distinct I I " yes' or "no," whisk it was said the Austrian cate gorical questions would bring oat, you most have expected) are now given. The Bourse. spied upon by the great all in London, has been very gloomy indeed. The Bente was a drag throughout the day, and fell lfr., closing at 63fr. 30e. The Bank of Francs, with a the of 20fe., waa the ally exception to the general depre ciation of all semeities. Credit Mobilise fell 25fe. The railway settlement wee adjourned till to-morrow. Quotations wen materially lower in some lines. Lyons fall 12fr. 600. and Grand Central 7fr. 600. Holiday bating been kept yeeterday, wording to wagon at the newspaper offices, there an no manias papers to-day, with the exceptioa of the Moatear, which merely contains the formal official news of the reeeptimm. The Emperor said to the Neapolitan ambassador at the New Year's reception yesterday, " I regret that oar relations are not es good as they used to be.' Madame Barret, wife of the French ambassador in Belgium, has arrived in Paris, in consequence, we regret to learn, of the ambosador, who is here on a visit, baying fallen ill. The principal feature in the Ifoodeour of today is an acorns of the reception by the Emperor of the diplomatic sops, the Grand Crosse of the legion of Honour, the Senate, Corps Legislatif, and Council of State, of generale, admirals, and functionaries, to present their easigratolatione as customary on New Year's-day. THE WAR IN ASIA. The Journal de Cosuisnetimple affirms that the garrison of Braman animate to 16,000 men, and that the Egyptian contingent will raise that number to 27,000, while other corps sent there from different points will place the Turkish forces at 36,000 men. In addition, the Impartial de Snsynw of the Bth De cember states that &swoon is abundantly supplied with provisions, and pommies an excellent artillery. THE CAVALRY ENGAGEMENT NEAR HERTCH. The Journal ck Clestaistesople has the following : HERTCD, Dso. 19. Too sown at °fan no snaky of no AoinTarksh Con tinent *sly a &Amongst of Ifo Same ronisollgon as a yardeW N es moon of tissonl Violas Tliosoeng Of age of flis ingslusost, efts/ to go noW oi x o tto bey posoling bon the in at no otitis% Ildt no ging, min tba son mod Cassis ShanresL Tin lOW Won. sot /sake IMO * provisions Is no ulsOlgaselsol of dm Ent awasa ostragn vest tomb*, boo no onsen. Y Mono obis Ilay Inge d 11, 01y areas aaitasaaad mad alluded b a hued sdM& their amber.. Captain @leafage& schwa& a retreat, bat they were °bilged te eat thole way thrash the ewe ef the Gamey. The Toilet' way Os the yoke et their Wet est the =ea e lin 7U. threw then. WWI de *dr woke red heehe hula Captain fibeeiteed. obi was oseepiseses by Ms MOM senora, fell 0•111 it the AIL Hie death did wet slack the ardour of the gehligge. wire Ilesehe el& issued fury. Twenty-dee sae eseigi is eiViks their well theregh gad is esseplag. The resalable leweeehea.edlefee aid rablan, either died l os the es were takes presume The Cass has written every complimentary letter of thanks to General Mearavisfl, and also sent hint the decoration of the order of St. George, 2ad class, which is held in rare esteem in Ruda, as an acknowledg ment of his great services before Han. OS the 28th alt. Prises Gortehakolf me a read laneK at Visions la lissom: of Ys Bona de Hasa, vim Wam raaaYsd Übe SOIS year of lie wary late tea mow. Anise the rowel idiom wb ware pumas et Ode lame was Omits Wfiiisiew, Napa. &kV* Grauer, Wisp • Walmodis,Rearwits ; and Berea Signals, lens , The druid Deka Nicholas haa left Bt. foe the loath, WI his empeolty es floneadtr-ht _ &gluon. Lieut. General Leakage dirties ohs of Israllaitise at Odom, if kaiak( Akkorraaa, Lilts, tai tb gilds of Boolusbie. Gwent Data Atte the sans Am& ass la Poirra ; sad Sawa* Tacloban Is at Croasialft Wads at bases aro Wag astlooly soastraslad la ?Waal, Illlilllllll Ili Wan. 'of thej `lSt PIININISULAR MAILS. (By =num =mai LPN.) SOUTHAMPTON. TII7IIIIDAT. The Sultan has arrrived with the Peninsula mails, lite left Lisbon on the Ileth alt. Her Majesty's ship St. George was at Lisbon. The Alma, with the Indian mail, left Gibraltar on the 116th alt. btabasp at Lisbon 012 London, thirty days, 841 ; ninety days, Mt. A ries of 2 per cent. took place on all kinds of stock on the reception of the news regard ing the arrangements made by the Minister of Finance with the bondholders in England. CORM 00S OWN LISBON, Dia. 24. The British minister, Henry Howard, Esq., had his first audience of the King on the 19th inst. in the Paler* of Neeessidades, at half-past one in the after noon. There were present the Cardinal Patriarch, the principal *Seers of the roy?1 household, the gentle men of the Chamber, the ministers and councillors of State, and other personages whom it is customary to invite to like solemnities. Mr. Howard delivered his credentials to the King, and spate - es follows—in the French language : " have the hewer to deliver to your Majesty the letter . by whielk her Majesty the Queen, my gracious sovereign, has mieslissfed to auredit me Majesty, in the quality of Envoy-Extraor dinary and Minister-PluipeMatiary. 4 1. presenting this ropliener toyou Majesty, lass instrested to convey the asseaunee of the high esteem sad Walks which the Quest bears to the person of your Majesty, u well u of her great desire to con solidate more and more the ancient friendship sad alliance, so happily subsisting between the two crowns. "111• Qum, in hardly wishing the happiness of your Majesty and the Royal family, forms at the same time sincere hero for the growth and develop ment, under the mut seopiess of your Majesty, of the prosperity and the resenrees of Pgrtagal, in which her Majesty will ever hel agree& interest. " For myself, dr% the *jest Milky efforts will be to Ifelfll the minionwkkwhiei the Qum has charged me in rech miner as to 'merit the twolloissee and hinders of your 11= i ; Hie replied a. follows : P llonsir r ar tui r attach the highert pm- Bible estimation to the anarences which you give me in the name of the 'Awes, your august sovereign, of the sentiments of kiadnen and friendship towards myself and the Royal family, and of the wishes she hems - ft the prosperity of my kingdom. "In begging you to represent to her Majesty my due tion, I am bound to add that it is my hesrtblt intention to strengthen mars and more the bonds of friendship, happily subsisting between the two people, united as they are by interest, and above all by a similarity of institutions. It is an end that I shall think it a duty to keep is view, the more so se the past sad peessat of the two countries holds out such grenade el omeeneepneet. " The essidense whit& the Qom, year Post sev, has repeal fa yes. Needles le Mnne, is 'mg to yea the honernehle minks of rare. seating her goverament, sanest MI in being a guarantee of my sonsidoestien end 's erantense." The 'trams Salton arrived ken Southampton on the illted inst., is the evening. The cense of her , denudes was the gales she 'mastered akar the coast I sad on the 21st she pit bask to rim at 10 a.m., and remained until 6 le the efinenoon, when the weather became more manic% The state that the misw steamer Havana had re ill egi e rt Vigo, with the ion of 160 soldiers frees shelties, and 10 Raglhhinen of the crew. Mb news easy he received with reserve. The Raphael., Pullarton, from Genoa for London, pat in for repairs on the 90th bet. THE GUARDS. TO TUX EDITOR. ihe,—The edvesetai of the Guards and their peti tion to the Queen. heel Mosel Wood downwards, have in strong esentions without proofs, and the Military AMMO/ gem se far as to state, sot y, that the bid Awe of the Gude always perebees thole semeheleas as such ; and eoessquently meet and doom each =asides atlas. The Guards' Moms, in their Memorial, also left out the field (deers of the Line who obtained that rank (lieutenant-colonel and colonel) without purchase, on the very singular plea that there IVY no such thing as promotion without purchase in the Guards, and therefore it was not possible to compare the two services in that respect. The en closed calculations are, I venture to believe, most sere re ; and your readers will disco ver ken them that oat of 80 field officers now serving in sews battalions (regincenta, as compared with the Line) et Genesis, there are 41 who have had the great good &educe to obtain their present rank without purchase !—I am, &e l INFANTRY. Jan. 2, 18458. )11T 01 0111111111 Mass. Thomas Weal Jana Caudal W. Tbantaw 1 Chain MAIM, 1 Edward Wpm! 1 H Ma e l w. "Mama CMOS 1 &Wad 1 Miami Brain Sidaity Conway 1 Charles Maitland 1 Lord Arthur Hay . 1 Ham Nostra/a 1 Hoary Postosby 1 Total without purahaai l3 IND 01 COLDITIIAX 0011130. Fred. Maas Upton Gorton Drummed 1 Lord Frederick Pala Chula Lygott Cooks Jamas Hakett 1 Dudley Calton 1 Lord Aug. Fitzroy Arthur Staplawy 1 Jana Aim 1 Charles Burdett 1 Primal Nowdigate William Doukas 1 Canna Stray 1 Lord &meant' Hon. Arthur Hardiago Total without palms 15 Tan on MIMI= IMMO. George Mogan' 1 Edwud Walkoo William RIM" 1 Nene Padyse Rosen Mosees. Frederiek Itelikeasea 1 Henry Hepburn Francis liamirtb 1 Hrs. Mirkini obarterie Freida Imikinglici 1 Luabert M Hon. StraZ a rsc a titra egy 1 nitrirk Paget 1 Total without pasoltart.... 13 PIILZ OPPICLIS. Groaddier °duds 34 Coldstream Gouda Fusilier Guards 23 Total rzomoTtn WITMOOT PORCH/MI. Onasdier Guards l3 Coldstream Ouuda l6 Fusilier Gaud, l3 Total That is to say, eas eat of rem two Geld asses l Gadolinium sub bettalies of the Guards equal to ens re , sheens of tUreotry of the ilao, it this ippon PM Is seem reginestilhere ere 41 leid ions whs Mw ointoined that task of $ Miser without pooohnee; sod that Yee 106 reptueote of du ( the battalions of let Foot ' sad Ile Ma Corps se regimes% Om an 176 Bold steers of theoese task es those Is the , of whom 120 have *Maimed that teak without parlhase. It will be found, humor. so ealeolatios, that if seven remelts give 41 lieht seem without parasol, the 106 ruirosate of the ' Limo, if they really were sa that ropsolity with the Curds whlol b the prayer of the Guards' would give epees.' of MO field diem without pavans ea the jut el th P. 72 e Lkes. . 4" /ReWeee Wesel Weed nor Ponssoby were over out of the tlelied Inesplea before they attained their present rank. Where shall we look fora deli laser of infautry eau say the sane t THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. LETTER OP MR. BALL, M.P. Mr. B. Bel, M.P., hag published the following The serious ilium of Mr. Love, th e chairman of sh. Eastern Counties Railway Committ ee of levestigation, will same some delay in the publication of the committee's re joinder to Mr. Weddiagton's artful and elaborate " Answer" to their report. In the mesatime, however, I, as an indi ldual member of the eonsenittee, am unwilling to allow say further time to elapse without giving my most emphatic as. wanes to the thereholdan and the public that, with the ezeoptiamof a few and unimportant matters, the late chair. saaa's " Answer" has completely failed to remove the ea favourolle views of his conduct entertained by th e semniNtee. The ehareateristice of the " Answer " mats •allsrefully examined, will be found to be the ezteene ingencity with which every transatkos whisk weed not hear explanation is avoided oe =ewe. No man ean judge of this extent to which the sale who dem not go carefully, not oily through thg memmittee's repast, bat also through the evidence which hem the appendix to ft. However laborious this may be, I would entreat every shareholder who regards the value of his to undertake this task, and carefully compere Mr. 'a answer—the production of three week'. deliberate isneestlem—with the evidence given by him Ware the sessmfttee when the opportunity for preparation and spatial pleading was wanting; and frank and straight forward answers upon points upon which there was no need of time to answer truly were alone rehired . l would per. titularly instants (although the transaction is a minor one in point of amount) the appropriation of the Tilbury shares as a specimen of Mr. Waddington's cool way of slurring over a tremsaatien quite inezeusable in the eyes of say upright man. His argument, as far as it goes, appean to be that, because 1,091 of thu shares could not be divided at the rate of 1 in 7, therefore as other principle of division was to be attempted, but that they were to be appropriated by the feu Raritan Counties directors who formed th e cam. mitten leanno t, of wins, do more in this letter than indicate the leading features division and sophistry which charac terise this " Answer ; " and therefore will only beg the aharitholden' particular attention to Mr. Waddington's 'Walnut (pp. 67 to 72 of his answer) in reply to the coca mittee's report upon goods having been purchased from 10 to 20, 30, and 40 per mat. above their value, and upon goods untouched having bun sold for old stores. Let this part of the so , called " Answer" be carefully perused, and then let it be said whether the charge is fairly met. I adhere most fully to the eommittu'e report on this head. So, again, in referees* to the coal contrast, and Mr. Ouch's participation therein, the agreement as to rolling stock with Kr. Gooch (which Mr. Waddington, it seen " disapproved," and yet a before hinted his disapproval to the shareholders), and many other matters. Let the " Answer "on these heads be most carefully scrutinised in regard not only to what it says, but to what it does not say. One weed upon the mat important point of all, for it is that to which all other inqithise ultimately tend—rise., the increase of capital, and the alleged proportionate in. , crease of revenue. Mr. Waddington says (page 77 of " Answer ") that with an increase of capital of 1,213,0001, he has increased the ne by 460,0001., or 374 per out. It is really surprising to me that the ingenuity which has been displayed In other parts of the " Answer" should have so signally deserted its author, as appears to have been We emu here. The reunite Increwd by 460.0001. pee annum by as increase of capital of 1,213,0004 and that sum upended only upon some small lime and upon rolling stock ! But in the same page of the " Answer " it appears that we are work ing 226 additional miles of railway. And where is the usual of the capital upended upon makiag these 221 m il es ? How many millions mast be added on this ursine to the modest million and • quarter which Mr. Waddington claims as the limit of his increased expendi ture ? The fallacy is too obvious; the misstatement too glaring. These Beans, however, will Mau for its Donee lion—viz., the whole capital of the Eastern Counties Com psay, ea appears by • statement furnished to me by Mr. Owen, the secretary, and certified by Mr. Reeves, the auditor, is now 18,748,0181. If an increase of 1,213,0001. capital had predused 460,0001. of as according to the assertions of the " Answer," the entire revenue in the same proportion should be 7,030,6061. Ts. 4d., whereas by the last report signed by Mr. Waddington it is 1,234,0181. oily. But it would almost be an affront to any man of ordinary iataiisimes to point out the fallacies and contradictions to be boil In the "Answer," under the head of " capital." Mr. Waildthiton rays, " Tour annual revenue alone is 37} per cent VIIS year outlay." Not one word of distinction botulism the wader outlays for different purposcs and at different tines. The obvious import of the edited* to any reader is, that the held , upon the total outlay, is of dtheitheimi 37k per mad, Mat batter apparent answer to the outcry l themenlfiess Bat them MOM the unfortunate question, why, with this unszamplied Indere of revenue and enormous percentage upon outlay, usa a dividend at 2; per cant., sad that pertly made up out of capital, hsi alone paid ? Contradiction and argument ars wasted upon such state. meats. The necessity which Mr. Waddingtoa has doubt less felt of justifying to the company his ill-advised appoint ment with a high salary by ezhitilting to the shareholders a fallecions show of present prosperity, the future being left =cared for, has probably lid, In great measure, to this reek leaner of assertion, as well as to that expenditure upon divi dends at the expense of the permanent way which has caused the safety of travelling on the Eastern Counties Railway to be at this moment untruly questiined is some quarters; sad which, by Mr. Waddington's own adminion, rumble to be provided for out ef future income to the extent of at least 100,0001. Is coacluslon, I have only to say that no member of the committee ever entertained the slightest personal animosity to Mr. Waddington, or was actuated by any feeling but that of an earnest desire to do his duty to the shareholdus- For this purpose they considered that • fall and fair publics, don of their evidence and a plain straightforward report. without attempt at artifice or display, would suffice ; and I sate more command the evidence to the earnest considera tion of the shareholders. EDWARD Eau.. Eastern Counties Station, Jan. 2. RUMILI2I EBTIMATE OP via WAR.—Le Nord pub• Hahn as article profeniag to est forth the " real and abso• lute results obtained by the allies after two years of war,' in which neither the capture of Sebastopol nor the destroo non of the Auden Black Sea fleet is mentioned. "It would be difacult," according to this authority, " to decide whether, upon the whole review of the two years' war, the advantage belongs to Benda or to the allies." The Hamburg Correspondent states that in canoe. games of orders transmitted from Bt. Petersburg, Vomit Pubs, General Williams, and six of the other pubes taken prisoaan at Han, will be taken to Moscow, and thence to St. Petersburg. The other °facers and the soldiers will remain for the winter, part at Tiflis, and the rest in the fortified places la the Caucasus. The Journal de Constantinople states that the Turkish Government his resolved to send a number of young men to Paris to study governmental admieistration, In arldition to those who are sent to nuke their military studies ; and that twelve have been already &aerial to be sent—four of them to study foreign affairs, four flame, and four agriculture and commerce. HANGING AT BURIN/IN.—The Mnehie has been hangings few spies. On riding through the bestar the other day—writes a correspondent—l found one strung up et the Gergi-kspi, er Oeorge's•gato. He war suspended only a few yards from the ground, with his hands tied behind him, and then fastened to the ghettos of a shop at his back, to prevent the body from swinging. The Osmanli Swett or the said shop tuck it very quietly. Ile was sitting croselegged on his counter, smoking his chihonque. and staring at the carps' u apathetically ss possible. It wet slung from his roof, too, like a sign, and, if it bad really been so, he could not have t►ken it more as a matter of court. The man we. an Armenian, and was to lieu received aeo piutres (something less than 41) in return fot his information. GENERAL KMETT'S ESCAPE FROM KARL—A letter from E•zaroom of the 11th inst says, "Our first maws of the probable fall of Kass reached us throrgh that fine old soldier General Kmety. Riding in hot baste, he reached this on the afternoon of the 28th alt. The intelli gence he brought i.insoly amounted to tbie—that the provi sions being all but exhausted, General Williams had lent his aide-de-camp, Major Teesdale. to Idoiaravieff, to propose the opening of negotiation. Knsety's own case was a dimwits one. Be had been formally sentenced to death by the Antrim Government, and had no mercy to aspect at the hands of tke Russians. Thin being at this pass, he waited on G I Wil- Itama, and besought him to accept his resig nation, and allow him to cut his way through the enemy's lines. Ilia sword, he said, was now of no further nee, and he would rather blow his brains out than became a prisoner et discretion. Williams, feeling how little he could do for hint if it sane to the wont, allowed him to leave which he did that very night, aecomoanied by Gene ral Kalman and an escort of trusty Kurds. Kalman, as an officer who had held high rank in the antigens& Ten lutioaary army, was in the UM predicament as himself. The Ramona soldien on the move at night recognise each other by a peculiar low, long whistle ; and, imitatiog this, the adventurous little party succeeded in passing tame of their petrels. At last, however, they were recognised, charged, and dispersed, but nestle' at a place of rendez vous pretrimmly Axed apes, continued their journey till Hey ragweed this without further accident." A Fara AT Barsems.—The extensive es!ablishe meet of M. Pineville, the greet mighte•builder at Brumes, was on Sunday lest transformed into gaily decorated uloom for the reception of more than 7,000 persons who were pre ant at a grand fete given by M. Penwell to his workmen and their families on the occasion of big receiving the Order of Leopold for his @rectal at the Exhibition of Fair. Among the distinguished persons present to witness this Interesting Geese were Ceuot Vilain XIV., Mi n ister of Foreign Affairs ' and his two denerhten ; the ether &lead Minieters; the principal municipal authorities; the celeste of the genitals; the principal nt eau facturen of the city, Ed frmhments in abundance were provided, and the evening passed off with the greatest hilarity—dancing, fa which the move aristocratic portion of the company joined,havieg been kept up until a late hoer. I