The Express. — London, England, 1856-12-26 00:00:00

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To.w akow—neralag. IL 53a..........A011110% 10. Tucac is an impression abroad, in circles way well informed on American affairs, that an English Minister will very shortly be appointed to Washing ton. We are disposed to believe that the imprse doe is well founded, and that the English public will very heartily approve of sty such resolution of the Government. A distinguished member of the Hose of Commons has been named as likely to be sent; one whose nomination to the mission would give the people of both countries assurance of the eassestutie and sincerity of the English Cabinet in desiring to restore that simplicity and trathfulnees in the relations of the two States which best befit their common origin, their cosatant intercom', sod their immense commercial dieting& Need we add that the gentleman referred to is Mr. CaSRLEB Viutztta ? Could be be induced to quit the Holm of Commons, which he has OD long adorned, and to occept for a season the mission to Washington, he would carry thither not merely the confidence of the Cabinet, but the confidence ol the country also, and represent the people as well as the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. There are many reasons against further delay In resuming diplomatic relations at Washington. Per • the best of these is that, uno one thinks of England remsiniog permanently without a Minister there, the sooner we send one the better. To prolong the present interval brier no accession to the dignity of this country. Enough has been done to show the United States that we did resent the dismissal of Mr. CRAMPTON. To do more is a ISSN exhibitioa of over unsibility on the part of the Government, which wilt find no reflex in public sentimeat or feel ing. And as Lord CLARINDON carries on the most intimate and friendly intercourse with the Americus Minister at this Civil, sod has actually .eluded. sleep Mr. CRAMPTON'S dismissal, an ispertent treaty With Mr. DALLAS a behalf of the United States Government, there is some inconsistency in longer hesitation in filling up the vacancy at Washington, assured as we are that a assessor to Mr. Coeur= will be cordially and warmly received at that sapitaL No idle punctilio or adherence to formal etiquette aught to be allowed to oppose or procrastinate such ea appointment. It is not to ha expected that the United Stator Government will invite the Cabinet at her XLIISTY to send a new Minister to Washisoln. When they dismissed Mr. Cuomo they expensed • Oros, wish to maintain the ordinary diplaentle relations with this country ; and as Mr. Daudet 01l only remained in London, but actively conwnsidisind with the Government of the United States, no wet of theite is left misapplied. They have a Minister here, treated as baccenre his Goverment aid bb own personal qsaliflations. They require no morol The went is ours. That which they have in Leedom, we have sot in Washington. Now, al though the absence of a Minister that. in no wry diminishes the security of British subjects or of British property in the United States (both bolsi as safe there as they are at hose), still oar Government is left without that confidential and congestive in formation as to the feelings and thoughts of the Govern seat of the United States, ea to the tendencies and esetiments of public men, sad es to the vibrations sad oscillations of popular opinion in the Union, the value of which is nowhere so great as is a country the institutions of which are democratic. The English Cabinet wants also the means and agency of disabusing the minds of the statesmen and legislators of Wash ington of those misapprehessions which lie so much at the bottom of all oar differeaces, of correcting false impressions, of contradicting downright false hoods, and of cultivating those social relation with the principal personages of the Union which ban so useful an inflames ow public unto. If, this. the Representatives of the Crown with Foreign Goyim meats be—es Lord PALMERSTON told the Cocamittee of the Common on official eateries—the eyes, the ears, and the tongues of the Goverment, the absence of an English Minister at Wellington must be a serious inconvenience to the QUEEN'S Orniall and to prolong unnecessarily that absence is irk to injure ourselves. Whit*, however, it is idle to expect that the UniPed Stotts Government will take any formal gaps to melts a new appointment, it is impossible not to tee *at 'hey have made a very conciliatory and hat.d.on.c rilv-oce to the Englioh Government, in Forcbssiog, le re•rquippang at a cost of B,ooot, in sending over to this country, and in presenting to the Qs ZEN, the abandoned Arctic vessel, the Resolute. All this has been done since the dismissal of Mr. CRAMPTON done, too, not merely by the Executive Government of the States, but by the spontaneous action and direction of Congress. The presentation and restoration of the Resolute mast, therefore, be taken as a very signifi cant and hearty manifestation of the desire of the highest authorities of the American Union to main tain good relations with England. In this sines it has been accepted by her MAJESTY and the Government. The QUEEN, alwajs ready to do graciously and gracafally what belongs to R3yalty to advance public interests in this country, has personally received the restored vessel, and has treated its Commander with that combined respect. frauknees, and cordiality which his mission invited. The Government have received Captain Ilearsrent, his officers, and men as public guests during their stay here, sod ordered a ship of war to be placed at their disposal to convey them across the Atlantic. Aud public msnifeetationsot goodwill and friendship to the United States on this occasion have only been restricted by the modesty and dislike of public display of t be gallant sailors who brought the Resolute over. Here, then, we have evidence on both sides of a desire to he good friends, which would be worthily followed up by filling up the Washington Mission. Bat Mr. FRANKLIN PIERCE, we shall be told, who dlsmissed Mr. Cassnon, is still President of the United States. The relations between States are not personal bat public affairs, to be regulated on public considerations; and if it be on public grounds desirable to resume our ordinary diplomatic relations with the Haired Stites, it weld be both wicked and puerile to allow any weight to the fact that Mr. Preece will remain three months longer in p3wer. Daring those three months there is need of &British Minister at Washington. The important treaty signed in September by Lord CLARENDON and Mr. Deure is about to b 3 submitted to the Senate for ratifica tion, and an opposition to it. ratifioation is threatened. The presence of a British Minis ter at Washington, enjoying opportunities of ex. placation and intercourse with members of the Se nate, might remove may objections and facilitate the ratification of the Treaty. Alterations in the United States Customs tariff, of the greatest im ' portance to several branches of British industry, have also been proposed to Congress. These are surely occasions when a British Minister at Washing ton may be awful, or when his absence may be prejudicial. And they alone would amply justify the immediate appointment and despatch of a nine. sentative of the British Crown. But if we entertain any ill will or dislike of Presi dent PIERCE because of his dismissal of Mr. CRAW,- TON, we have been amply satisfied by the universal condemnation of his general r Jlioy, expensed by his relegation to a private station. All men, even the wildest of his own party, appear to rejoice at the approaching termination of his Presidency. The wiser course is, however, to bear no likes or dislikes as a nation to the promos: of the United States Presidency or Governmest; to be pre pared to fulfil all our duties and obligations, no matter who is President ; and to regulate our inter ment', not by the acceptablenees of isdividuals, but by our own sense of our own interests, Consulting the■ only, the British Government ought to overlook the fact that Mr. Pianos is still Presi dent, and be prepared to meet the Presideoey of Mr. BUCHANAN, by allowing their representative to make himself thoroughly acquainted with men and things at Washington before that gentleman's inauguration in March. Lord Joust Busimm. ones expreared doubts whe ther our present plan of treating diplomacy as a pro feriae, and of excluding from the service of their country in foreign missions, men who had woo for themselves reputation in parliament and public life at home, was a wise one. In these doubte we are disposed to join. The English public in reality knows little or nothing of its Foreign Ministers; it places little or no confidence in men of whom it knows little; and men in high positions who have not the public confidence to rely on, are, in the affairs of this country, deprived of one great element of usefulness. Be this, however, as it may—and it is too large a question to be incidentally dismissed—at Wrobiegtoo, if nowhere else, we require a man bred, braced, and invigorated in the public school of political freedom, net dwarfed and stunted in the private school of esc:et diplomacy. We want a man who has the sense, the spirit, the irrepressible habit of being frank, cordial, same, and truthful; a man who has the courage to form and to express opinions of his own, to correct the misapprehensions and mistakes of the Foreign office—too apt to regard itself as infallible, and to I resign rather than to conduct a policy of which b e disapproves. We want a man whose manners, thoughts, and style of life, and whose peblie position, invite the confidence of those he has to transact business with; and who will disdain to take petty small advantages, or to treat international attain as a great craft or mystery which none but the initiated ma comprehend. In short, we want at Washington one of our best public men, not a diplomatist whose name no one out of the Circumlocution•oMes ever heard of. And how each a want etrald be better I supplied than by Mr. Cileaus VILLIERS it would be difficult to imagine. Vbe Court. WINDSOR, Dso. W. Llentesent-Citneral Sir Colin Campbell arrived yesterday safest:we, sad bid the hoses: of dials( with her 11Witty la the *veal's,. The Quiem sad PrMM, the Priam of Wales, the Primes. Boy■l, the Primmer. Mite sad Helena, the ladies sad gentlemen of the wort, and the domestic howehold. attended Melee s niee this atorsiag la the private sherd of the Conk. The Priam of Umbra wee also at the genies. The Hos. sad wry Bev. the Dam of Wiadem par. fonsed the service sad admlsistered the Holy Bserassat. Sir Celia Campbell lift the Cattle foe Leaden. BIiPIIZSINTAVION OP DUMFRIZUHIII.—By the demise of the Marsala if Qamossbeery, Lad Dramleads, his only or., and repenantative of Dumfries kin is the House of Commons, hes become Marquis sol Qemeseberry Le., la the peerage of Scotland. His lovdelip wee been is 1818, sad was sleeted M.P. for the musty of Dumfries in 1517 withest opposition, es the retirement of Mr. Hope Jobestooe. He was lisle returned, supposed, at the Rommel election of 1862. la the sad of that you be ac cept* the Mike la Comptroller of her Mejesty's benseheld voider the g 88888 meat of the Berl .f AMA's.. Os appeal leg to the ethstit yin aonseqemthe of battles accepted the odic", he was ?lapsed by Sir William Jardine of Applegarth, Bart., who withdrew, however, before the day of eleetios, sad hie lorlship wee foe the thud Use returned. Is all probability his secession to the **rape will reader the recemiestatles of Thrsmfriseshire vacant, though we believe the point hoe sever bees formellv tried whether or net Scottish Peers cars cit is the House of Com mons. Is the avant of a vacancy, however, the 'heti* manse scour for some Ilse. The general impressies, as far so we is to Judge, Is that the former representative of the county, Mr. Hope Johostone, of Anneadals, *gist to be asked ma resew his cthession with the constituency. The only public part e...'sh has rmoretly been taken by Mr. Hope Johnstone is political etrairs has bees le patience to the temporises qs. Eton of education; sad though on this subject he does not go as far IS we amid wish, the views which he *ululated, particularly at a county ineetiog held here in April last, prow that be ia no bigoted adherer to thirgs so they we re, bat is prepared to legislate in brand . ince with the changes which arise is eledititn of the country —Diutafriss Cosner. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING. DECEMBER 28, 1858. PRINCE FRRDHRICX WILLIAM OF PRUSSIA AND LORD COWLEY. The following bit of gossip hat been furnished to the Nord by one of its Pane pendent". !huskleg of the ball which took place at the Toilevier, on the 20th instant, tts writer says lam enabled to communicate to you a Nide incident of this 10:e, about which there is much talk in the diplomatic circles. Yon know it is the the custom at court totes for the ash:Nader/ to harp prate dune even over princes of the blood, if they are not direct belle to the throne. In deference to the Prince of Prussia, his august guest, the Emperor expressed • desire that his Ilighoem might offer his arm to tee Empress, and • preferred a rigout to the ambassadors of Austria, Russia, and England, than they would condescend to yield their right for that evening. Baron Hubner sad Count KN. asleff immediately complied with the wish so euurtsonsly impressed by his Majesty, eemarkirg that the spplioation made to them wes in itself • sufficient recognition of their claims. Lord Cowley, however, did not take the some view : hi refused compliance and withdrew, not heir g able to prevail on his colleagues to do the same; in company with Lady Cowley he left the ball. It is needless to say that by everybody, and 'genially by the other diplomatists pretest on the occasion, this proceeding of the noble lord is regarded as being sal thing but consistent with the rules of propriety and cumin,. It is said—for, as you may easily imagine, this incident has given rise tomaoy calculations— Mut L aid Cowley, who represents the hostility which Lord ' " " Palmerston eatertains towards Prussia, and, above ail, to the future alliance of the royal family of Eonland with that of Primate, has not been sorry to have this opportunity of leakiest towards the illustrious prince, In wham these two families ere to be united, what might be called a &we , atration. It most be confessed that the time and the plane were at all events badly shown." ENTBRTAINMRNTS FOR BOXING DAY. Tc-night the larger part of the population of London will think of litae else but bow best to enjoy itself. Pur veyors of metropolitan antasensents probably never lens their aid to this disposition more powerfully than they have done this year. On the more of variety, at all events, no complaint will be made by the pablie. For the nonviolence of oar readers, we suuserate a few of the leading enter tainments, beginning, according to custom, with the theatres. At the.. we find, with one exception, the old supremacy of pantomime everywhere teetered. _ . _ Drell-leas leads off with the promise of "Simpson mid C 0.," and the new pantomime is called "Bin Sew, Margery Dow." Hot, Dash n, Bigot! Venal, the Brothers Elliott, Mown. Barnes, Tanner, Btleno, Fleawort, Belford, cad ALUTieI, Madame B Arno and Mu Honey ars to appear in it . At the Haymarket the " Honeymoon" will be npre noted ; Masers. Murdock and Buckman and Miss T.lbot sustaining characters. The new pantomime is called " The Babes is the Wood; or Harlequin end the Cruel Uncle ;" sad the perfnmen are Haas. Mlteno, Mears. Mackay and W. Driver, and Mit Fenny Wright. At the Princess's, the celebrated " Corsican Brother.. " will be re-prodneed:folloared by the pastosaies of Ala& die and the Wond.rfal Leap; or Harbionts and the Creel of the Slag;' in whleh Keen. Cressek, Huhu, aad Paulo, and Yea C. Adam tell lappet. At the Olympic the play of "Delicate Ground" will be followed by a sew fairy earraveganna, aped "Young sad ilandscsae," with Ileum F. Robson and J. Dagen ; the Thirlwall, Mrs. Mellott, and Wm Swasboronsh; and Doo dad* with the new farce called "Crinoline." in which Mr Robson will mania the principal character. At the Adelphi, Mauro. Wright, Gerdes, and J. Bland, and Miss Mary Keeley wiU appear ia " Paul Pi y," after which villeins the sew pantomime*, " Mother Slayton ; or, Hai -I.quin Knight of Lose sad the Escheated Wraith'," to be awed by Messrs. Garden, Morelaad, sad La Barr; Methane Celeste, Miss Wyadhas. At Sadist's Wells, under the menesameat of Mr. Phelps, " Venice Preserved " will be presented, sad after it the pantomime, @stilled "The Fisherman and the Genie; or. Harlequin Padmansba and the Enchanted Pahei of the Silva Like." Harlequin, Mr. C. Fenton; Colorable's, Miss C. Sharp; Paatalesa, Mr. IL Naylor ; and Claws, Mr. N. At the Berney the play will be " Beagles," end the sew pantomime, " Hsrlequin and the Seam, Queen ; or King Winter aed the Fairies of the Bilver Willows," with M . (Nome, Beth, Bradbory and the Fills family; Mesdames Marls and Agate. At the Lyceum the play will " William Till," and as original tionikaatios of burlesque and pantomime, entitled Conrad and Madan ; or, Harlequin Cursaltand the Little Fairy at the Bottom of the Sea," is anaouneed. Min Woolgar, Mr. J. L. Toole, and Mr. Barrett, will sansin charm:in in the opening. _ _ _ At ;he &Maud Theatre, " Hubert Maestri," will be per formed, with the pantomime of " Tbe Magic Mistletoe; or Harlequin Humbug and the Shona of London." At the Standard the new comic pantomime " Haekady Piekedy my Sleek Hen; or Harlequin King Winter and Queen Spring," will be given, and "The Miser of Shore - &tab." At Astley's the Chr lamas Hobby Earle will be the eqaestrian pantomime of "Paul Pry on Horebsen, or Harlequin and the Magic Horseshoe." Paul will hare hie vicious horse, kissing horse, sagacious borer, quilt horse, lively horse, end lazy horse; and Mare will drive sight milk-white steed., in a znagnifleent ear of state. Of the vatioas plasst of entertainment sad instruction l opes la the day, we most first same the Crystal Pelee*, sad We seed esl7 imme it. The Royal Colosseum, d'bsay-stroet, Rogent's.pitk, Is also now open as so sabibition of @Mena and art, under Om direction of Dr. Bubb°ifaer. Tim hours ars twelve, ud ssrea in Om evening; and Moo at. conarts, colossi panoramas of London by day and night, and dissolving Mows. The Polytiobak, sada the dirtotloa of Kr. Popper, boo =ado special arroissoments for the oosooo, to gouda it . vorthp of the amastemeil petroesge of the public. Mt. Albert Smith, of Moat Blest, Pimadilly , will give two entertainments,—toot In the afternoon, at Wee; and that is the eveatag, at sight. Mr. W. 8. Woola's olio of Olditiie will be opined in the Poljirephie livi, Kiog William Meet, Charing iron, this sna lag. Kaduna Tswana's Babibitloa. in Baker Wrest, Portman spare, will be open from slava& WI diwk, and tram wean till Ws. GOIMITII TOM Thane will appear at lb. Repeat Gallery. Quedraat, those Uwe% viz.—from Glees. till olio ; tern till an; awl sera till tea Went*. Bank, Its Palmas sad in People, *be ono at the Gnat Globe, Leienteregeare. Two valuable City Rectories which are vacant are is the gift of the Dean sad Chap•e, of Ilk Paul'. Cathedral. Gavot think Bt. Inshore Bedsits'', beams omelet three meths ago by the death of the Rev. B. G. Beckwith, and mach denhe has been 'mastoid that so presented= by yet been aide. The Ohm is the restore of 81. Lawrence Jewry, which town taunt a few days also, by the death el the 11ev. Allation Burgh, 11 A. This benefice is is the gift of Baled College, Oxford, ad the Dean aid Chapter net. Peal's alternately, the La resonation being made by Baled College, who nominated Mr. Burgh in 1815. THE CRYSTAL Pat ucs.—Considering the general desire in Amide amusemeat ad siatartainerat at this fee ice maid, it was hardly to be expend that there would be may visitors at the Crystal Paine yesterday. The directors, ►ewever, provided as eases atirastioa—a vocal aid Instramintal mucert—retaisisg the ordiany price of admiseica. TM remit was that sems thoosaadaMteadad, sad them who did were muck gratified. Ilse Metre neatsliets were the eonapeay's bead, end a stmeg body of Memo &gem nailer the dirsctiou of 2dr. Smythe's. The plum were seketleas from Beettioves, Mendelmam, Slow-rt, Handel, Roolai, end Wiper. The etweerr, as • whole, mat off eamedingly well, and the chorus, "Far sato se a child le bore," and tie Chorus," were gives with areal effect. Au addltioael and use:meted pleasure was afforded to the visitors by the appearsage en the platforms during the longest of the retowned Gettenl Tom Thumb. He was latrodneed by the seani4 less renowned Baratta, amid meads of applause, which were repeatod whoa the Lilliputian General stepped forward, and with much gram wished ell the minspany " • merry Christ mas lad a happy new leer." Till Rev. Ds. LIVINGSTON.—Ws have received the following from a reliable source :—"Ths distinguished pntlesian wUI probably visit his relatives in this town in the course of next seek. A public demonstration Is his homer is contemplated, the arraogemsom for which ere only delayed t,ll his own nut•cms are amertained."—lia mitlos Advertiser. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (raox ova owx PARIS. TiItIIUDAT Erratum. This being Christmas-day, the Bourse and all the public offices are closed. Oa the Swiss question there is no reliable news of importance. You wits have noticed the contradictory telegraphic despatches from Berlin. Very confident hopes that a war will be prevented areentertained here, because the belief prevails that the French Emperor, finding that the Swiss set at nought his interference and that the King of Freida appears more obstinate and unreasonable than ever, is frightened at his own work, and will make great efforts to repair the =is ' take he hiui committed. No less thin 1,800 Swiss residents in Paris have within the last law days, demanded passports to return to Switzerland. The Prince Frederick Wiliam of Perugia is the bearer of an autograph letter from the Emperor Napoleon to the King. The rays announces that the difficulty spoken of by the Constantinople journals as having arisen on the tout of the Black Sea, between some Turkish crews and the Russian authorities of SSoudjak•Kale, is is a fair way of arrangement, "owing to the good un derstanding which exists between the two Powers interested." A Constentinople correspondence in the Univers, dated Dec. 13, gives the following u the condi tions of Face proposed by Lord de Redoliffe to Ferouk•Khan :-1. The Shah to dismiss his present prime minisier. 2. Satisfaction to be given to :he Persian subject on whose account the original differ ence with Mr. Murray took place. 3. To conclude a new treaty of commerce. 4. To admit English consuls in all playa selected by the English government. 6. To pay a war indemnity. 6. To restore Hera , to the Affshans, and to evacuate the Affghanistan terri tory. 7. To undertake to refer all differences with regard to Herat which may arise in future between the Persians and Affghans to the arbitration of Eng- land. The Univers correscondent, who is very hostile to England, and sympathises with Russia, begins his letter by saying that, hard as these terms are, the Shah has no choice but to accept them, the internal state of his kingdom being such as to furnish England with powerful means of acting upon him. But, in a postcript, he notices the statement in the Cons!anti• mop:* Journal that the Shah, fearing assassination by his own subjects, elan alternative had determined to go to war with England. The cogency of the me live stated is, however, doubted; for while the English would be humping him on the south, the Hessians, the correspondent think'', would occupy his tatitory on the north, and then his subjects, irritated by reverses and annoyances, would not be likely to be more tractable than they are now. _ . It apt Airs that M. &tiller was a French officer, although not educated at the Polytechnic School. The Moniteur de e Armee says:—" He went through his military studies in a regimental school, and got forward by the advancement granted to sub-officers. He was captain in the 2nd Regiment of Engineers, and resigned in 1852. A short time after he had ceased to form part of the French army, he left for Asia. M. Bulger was bora in 1821 in the depart- ment of the Bee Rhin." A keeper of a tobacco shop in the Rua Lafayette hu been arrested u a receiver of part of the product of a gold robbery in England. I am not aim whe ther what is ailed the "groat gold robbery" is referred to or not. PRUSSIA AND SWITZERLAND. BERLIN, Du. 24. The Zeit contradicts the rumours of mediation which have been circulated by other journals. It thinks it knows that all mediation relative to the liberation of the prisoner, is impossible, Prussia bay ing demanded their release purely and simply. At present there is no hope of seeing a pacific termina tion of the affair. BERLIN, Dim 26. The Frankfort Journal of yesterday (Wednesday) evenirg gives the following news: "The charg6l d'affaires of America and England have taken the initiative of an arrangement. But this attempt is now said to have failed, because the re presentatives of the other Powers bad not received their instrustione. "For the rest, the President of the Diet has not been present at any conferences of the charges d'Affaires." It has been stated that the Grand Conseil of Berne hu ansaimonsly voted an unlimited credit for com pleting the military preparations of the canton. The following is a report of the debate which preceded the adoption of the resolution: Migy, Vice•Pnsideat of the Bzesative do sot believe it smemary to nitrate on this mission the imam c f September at Neufchatel. At preheat things have arrived at sash a point that diplomatic relations biting. Switzerland and Pramia have been broken off, sad that the Federal Couch his already takes amasses* of the highest ispnaose. It is sot for this mestably—it la not for the sexton of Berme to decide the question of peace or was; the right to do so belongs to the Federal As sembly, which will lust within a few days. Whatever it may decide, we will adhere to; Berne will stand by the whole Confederation. It is on amount of war being penal Me that I cone is the lame of tho Esserative Core Sit to apply for as unlimited wedit, in molar to osenplate the effective force end stores of oar amt. In 'rusting this credit, the (Riad Crewel' of the esaton of Berne will g t,. the Caafederstion the best proof of the active participation which it is determined to Mho to this questios:inbiel; is of general Interest for all Switzerland ; it will show that it is firmly decided to maintain tits rights of thie Confederation against any asteroid eseroachatent. The Federal Assembly bu luminously approved et the arastirse takes ud to be takes by the Federal Caw ail is the affair of Neafahatel ; In as also be smugness. sad let a false ideas of mammy Islam* as. IL Suitor, Military Diteator—The question which we diocese is of argent importance. Prussia hag interrupted her diplomatic relations with ur, and the sews of each dsy Informs tas that she Is actively Gamin ea her warlike pre peratiou against Switzerlsad. The Federal Ceased has directed all the thatoss to keep the three esatingents toady to mash. I believe that we nay await the &clams of the Federal Athembly with full eonfidenas. We shell gam learn all the stops th►t the Federal Commit has takes to maintain peace. We shall even the that it has pie so far es to offer to abandon the trial of the prithain, if the King on his part will comsat to the similes. which Switthrtead must necessarily dossed. But the Kim :ciliates that Switzerland shall relies' the prisoaen without any sort of octuditiont, and thereby admit herself to hs In t►e wrong ; but Switzerland cannot cosiest to that souse. la reading the historyof out country, we use that t►e sitestioa is not new ; it has more thee once arises is the genres of oar history, end our aseestors have traced out to us the path we have to follow. As lee, es it was possible, they preferred wee, to war, bat whoa war was consist, they meet Lathed from It. That le why I also support the applithuoa for as unlimited credit. U. router, Director of Fiances—l must admit here that he the deliberations of the Executive Commit I wished the amount of the credit to be flied, but, ea thole, the unmet, mitt' of the Council, I, without hesitstioo, withdrew my motion. It is trite that the greatest put of the Swiss populatirn would lee with pl the affair peaceably arranged, as situ as piths cote M obtaized honourably, bet ooli on that condition. Daring sight years the new Federal Constitution has existed is pesos aid sal.; partial refiring, sad seen complete changes in the restraints of different cantos', have bees pesee►bly effected. All at ones, a man who long resided in the cantos of Neufchatel, and who by his Omuta is moat estimable and most noble —s man who was the providence of the whole country in which he resided —came, ike a thunderbolt in a serene sky, and precipilated us and hlmmlf into incalculable woe. Bat we are not now oallrd on to diseuce political opinions ; we have to obey Ike appeal of the Confederation. I declare, therefore, that I ant in fawn, of the unanimous adoption of the proposition of the government. (FILOY ♦ SPECIAL CORHIBPOYIDENT.) BERLIN, Dec. 23. _ . The hope that the affair with Switzerland would end in a mere demonstration is rapidly declining; and well-informed persons declare with consternation that, unless some unforeseen lucky change intervene, war on an extended scale is inevitable. War be. tween Prussia and Switzerland—from the Baltic to the Alpe—from Tilsit to Geneva—a train of gun powder straight through the very heart of Western Europe! Who can say where the confitgration, once lighted, will end ? And a war right along the Protestant tract, doubtless to the secret gratification of the Roman Catholics on the right and lett! A slight glance at the map must reveal the imminent peril to which Prose* without any general sympathy or firm ally, wedged in on all sides by powertnl and I rapacious neighbours, must expose herself by entering on a contest which may so evilly embroil her with parties now dubiously neutral. People here naturally say, " France might have prevented this war if it had chosen to do so. What motives has France for letting the dispute come to a bloody decision ?" In the first place, the dispute with Switzerland forced the King of Freesia, ho bad hitherto stood aloof, to make advances to Louis Napoleon, and to receive from his hands a decoration—the badge of recognition and equality already put on the other heads of legitimacy. The French Emperor's acquiescence in Preemies wishes is, however, not construed here as • result of friendly feeling. He toight,on the contrary, it is thought,rejoice at seeing Prussia involve herself in a war in which she can gain nothing, and must incur ruiaoiri expense; a war leading to an increase of taxation, which must ex. cite no small dissatisfaction in the Prussian Rhenish provinces, where a cordial feeling for Prussian rule had almost obliterated old French sympathies. The Rhenish proviecee, moreover, have a chief Emma of gain in their traffic with Switzerland, and will be the chief direct sufferers from the war. Whatever tends to alienate from Prussia the inhabitants of the left bank of the Rhine must be popular in France. Should Prussia, however, attain the utmost object whichshe can propose to herself—absolute sovereignty over NeurchateLand the withdrawal of that province from the Series Confederacy—she would thereby, too, only promote French purposes. For it must t re membered that in 1816 Neufchatel was incorpc - ated . into the BwissConfederacy at the express d%. , sire of Frani' and Austria, lest the French, to whom such a position on this side of the Jura must be highly desirable, shou:d grasp and keep it, as they might at any time do easily enough. That the Swiss, when pressed by Prussia, will be very open to French influence, is obvious ; and Louis Napolton will certainly employ that influence to- wards repressing the democratic element in Switzer land ; perhaps he may count on making a total revision of the Swiss constitution the condition of a pacificatory intervention. Perhaps he may expect that the approaching danger will lead to the down fall of the reigning democratic party in the Cantonal Governments. In any cue, he will gain the desired control over Switzerland, without the clium of overt aggression. The Swiss mercenaries, too, on whom the security of the Italian courts mainly rests, will have to return home; for it is notorious that every foreign Sovereign, on engaging Swiss troops, hes to sign a treaty obliging him to dismiss them to their homes es soon as the mother country is involved in war. The order, recalling all Swiss who are hound to military duty at home, has already been published. In what predica ment will this put the King of Naples and the Pope? It is presumed that the Cabinet of the Tuileries will contemplate with home complacency the removal of a prop on which the tottering Lenin potentates rested. P.S. The Frankfort Journal brings a dripa.ch of yesterday's date from Berne, stating that the Diple maey there was very active, and had brought the Federal Council to consent to mediatory proposals, which were already on their way to Berlin. The authenticity of this statement is yet to be proved;— the effect of the measure, if true, most be awaited. A letter from Vienna of the 20th, in the Post Gazette of Frankfort, says : Tee cabinet of Vienna has again expressed its regret at the Federal Council of Switsertand sot having complied with the conciliatory demands of Prussia and the Getman Confederation, by setting at liberty the prisoners of Neuf chatel. The Austrian cabinet has *intoned the same coati. meats to Prussia, and hes given it the strongest arsUfaatili that it considers it in the right. The conflict having become aggravated to such a point that the patties have abaude.ed all direct negotiation, the Powers which/armed the Congress of London believe that the moment has arrived for arming ing the affair by taking collective proceeding,. A letter from Berlin of the 21st, in the Journal of Frankfort, says: We can affirm that it is the Intention of the French go. verement to establish a corps of observation on the Swim frontier, at the time that Prussia shall march her expedi tionary corps. It is not correct, 26 has been stated, that Prussia has Seel the let January as a fatal term beyond which she whl no: admit the intervention of a third p serer; she will admit thet intervention to long as the royalists of Neufchatel shall not be tried. When, however, the affair ahall once have bean brought before the tribunals, conciliation will have become Impossible. With the royalists, in fact, Swinerlatiel would also pot on trial the right of Freesia, and, to a certain exteet, the King of Proven him self. That would be an offence which would imperatively call for recourse to arms. The tame Frankfort Journal of the 231 d gives the following from Berne: Nothing is as yet decided, but the hopes of peace license. There is a mention of diplomatic mediation ' and the send. log of agents for that purpose to Berlin. Numerous con ferences have taken place with the resident of the Diet. The following is the circular addressed by the Fe deral Council of Switzerland to each of the deputies of the Federal Assembly Honoured Sir,—We consider it oar duty to convoke the Federal Assembly immediately, tic, for Saturday, the 27th test. You ere therefore invited to repair on that day to the Federal city, and the usual place of meeting, at 10 cm. The sueject of the debate will be—the report sod propositions relating to the of of the canton of Neufchatel. Canal derisg the serious septet and importance of this question. we trust that every member of the serene authority of the Confederation will coasider it a wand duly to be present at the debates of this extreordinny session. In the name of the Federal Council of Swlteerbutd, the President of the Confederation, STORIUTLI. The Frankfort journals publish the following ex tract of the proses verbal of the proceeding. of the Diet relative to the Neufchatel affair : In its sitting of the 18th, the representatives of Austria, Bavaria, and Badge, announced that the stops taki n in the name o f German Confederation had not met with the desired success. The Swiss Federal Council had, in fact, acquainted the Prussian envoy at Berne tint tt c told not eeaseat to the preliminary sad uncosiiti.mal release of the prisonen of Neufchatel, bat that it won sleep prepared to ester into negotiations for a pact flit solution of the question ; the president of the Swise Federal Council communicated this reply to the other diplomatic agents at Berne, and de. eland, moreover, that from the same motives he could not pay attention to the sepeort giv.n to the demands of Prune by the German Confederation, but that he perfectly appreciated the nation nts of good neighbourhood which had dictated this resolution of the Diet; and that, on his side, he eadeaveatei•, as far as it was possible, to ex. Whit similes sentiments is the settlement of the difficulty. After this otimmudisation, the representative of Prussia addressed the Diet. He commenced by ',pressing the gra• titled* of hie g 00000 meat for the unanimous good feeling which its exalted confederates had manifested for its wishes se well in the wording as in the ezeteution sal the resolution of the 9th of November. He then annoneced, while eapresairg regret at netts the disappearance of all hope of the re-establialiment of violated righta by means of oegotu• tines, that Dotting remained for the King but to enforce lalaju‘t demands by callieg out the military lose neva Guy to attain the object d • d, end opening the negntia lions tecesiary fur securing the free movements of these trove. the Prussian repreeentative submitted at the ame Um to the assembly a despatch, in which the Prussian cabinet made known its resolutions to the courts of London, Pars, S,. Petersburg, and Vienna. Trine communion:ices will be owe known t the different governments by their Insertion in the minutes. The tioanimity with whioh the council of the can to. nf Bette voted an unlimited credit for military purposes is observed as something very remarkable in an assembly of two hundred members. The go. moment of the canton do Vaud has intimated to the • ' • • • Ftdersl Ucieerument that, besides the rune battalions due as the Federal contingent from Gnat canton, it will he be to furnish sixteen battalions more, com pletely armed and equipped, and all excellent soldiers. TURKEY AND THE BLACK SEA. (71101 K AN OCCASIONAL COHMESPONDINT.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 15. The captain of a brig, who has arrived here from the Sea of Azad', informs ma that *ince peace was. concluded, bez.wetn that date and the month of October lest, at least a million and a halt clatverts of grain (100 chelverts are equal to Lbout iJ itnprisl quarters) have been conveyed in above one thousand vessels from the port of Tag...nrog alone. The prices, which began after the peeve, in the mouth of May, at 23 rubles (sseigoate) per chetvert, have now risen to Sl roubles 60 kopecks par chetvrrt ; so that many of the speculators hare had to sacrifice immcnse sun sof money in order to tulfil their contrnts. The company of Boubi and CJ., at Timing, which is connected with shareholders all civet Russia, has undertaken grata speculations on a very wen. sive scale. Flat-bottom.-d iron steamboats have been built by this company for the transport of grain upon the Volga and othir 'mere in the interior. These undertakings, together with the iotroduc ion of the forty steam vessels said • o have bra purchased for the navigation of the Black Sea, will probably result in a state of things which will not suit the calculations of some of the geatntrade speculators. The scheme which has just been propose] by the Porte for a line of raiiw , .y between Varna i.tcl Rust chuk is of the more importance upon this account; for when once the easy usk of competing that line of communication shim have been accomplished, end when the grain and (Jitter products of the rich soil of Moldavia and Wall .chia shall no longer he obliged to be brought through the difficult passage of the Salina mouth of the D-uube, but may be carried by railway to Verne, it is evident that all purchases of that kind will be more profitably made at Varna than at any of the Russian ports either of the Black Sea or the Sea of Azoff. _ _ _ Besides this railway, the plans of five other lines of railway have &co laid before the Turk; govern ment for its approval. The first of them is a line from Scutari to Alex endretts, the length of which is 930 kilometres. The second proposed line is from A lexandretta and &kiwis to the Euphrates, the length of it being 270 kilometre.. The third line is from Balis to Bagdad, the distance being 770 kilometres. The fourth line is from Bigdad to Bream, a distance of 660 kilometres. The fifth project is for a railway from Constanti nople to Belgrade, the length of which would be 720 kilometres. These are magnificent schema indeed; but whether capitalirs will be found to perform these gigantic works it remains for the future to prove. From Yenikale, where the captain of this brig stopped and landed to get provisions, he brings word the the Russians are proceeding with two great works of fortification there; one of them being erected upon the Asiatic promontory of Tchetchne, and the other fortiticatinn near Yenikale, eccatructed in such a manner that they will be able to close up the two channels which form the entrance to the Sea of Azoff. Twenty thousand RuHan troops have been col lected, to ha sent to join the army of the etlllCailli. According to the information received here, great activity is now prevailing amongst the Russian troops in Georgia, and the Russian army has now taken up its position en echelon from Baku to Erivan, and all along the neighbourhood of the Persian frontier. A meeting of the Grand Council was held here to day, and lasted until night. Omer Pacha was sent for, and called away from the theatre to attend the council. It appears that the matter under discussion was to determine whether it be expedient to allow the English to occupy a merely strategic point upon Turkish ground, for the coovenienca of their opera tions against Persia; but as the Persian minister declared that Persia would regard any point thus occupied as hostile ground, and would act accordingly, it is very probable that Turkey will decline to grant the English government this favour. Dr. Pompeeti, on his road hither from Kars, met several people, Frenchmen and others, who were in the Persian cervice, on their way to Teheran. In this city, too, we often see Poles and Italians going about with Persian officers, and conversing with them very familiarly; but I believe that none of them have yet entered the Persian service, though several of them intend to do so. The ignorance of a rich Armenian, who suspended from his ceiling such an enormous chandelier, that the concentrated heat of the candles set tire to the wooden ceiling, which was decorated with oil paintings, has just caused the destruction of his own house, and nearly one hundred other houses of his neighbours, in the Run Kapu quarter of this city. The same night, lieu Ajnali Tchetsme, a wealthy Greek was caught in the very act of placing combus tibles at the foundation of a house. Cotortunately he ia under Aurigae protection, and will therefore be handed over, in any case, at the reqeeet of the Russian embsesy. This is the fatal pesiticn in which the Turkish government is placed—that it is unable to execute justice upon etimicale who claim to belong to other nations. To put a stop to the murders and robberies which have now become so frequent, the Turkish govern ,ment has appointed military p. troll to aid in strengthening the heeds of the police, cot only in Pere and Galata, but also in the surrounding dis tricts, where robbery and murder have got so com mon that nobody dares to go out in the streets of an evening. The French captain of gendarmerie re turns to France to-day since the Turkish gendarmerie, projected by Omer Peas, and settled in a quasi organisation six months ago, her not been called into actual being. It is a pity that the government does not organise a rural police system, since even if the military patrols do keep order a little in the streets, it is unsafe to go for only a mile distance out of town. To-day some of the thieves at Arnautkir made their way into the palace of Mr. Wildeobruck, and stole whatever they could get. Yesterday a newly.built steam ship, a twodecker. was to have been launched with great cere mony, and eight o'clock (Turkish time) was the appointed hour; but unluckily it happened that the ship presumed to break loose as early as five o'clock, and thundered down the slips into the harbour. It is very fortunate that no one was killed by it. Mahmoud Ali Pada went immediately to the Sultan to inform him of the accident, but his Majesty came nevertheless tom a visit to the steamship Tettige, and was loyally saluted by the 103 guns with which she is armed. It seems as though a divine curse lay heavy upon the isles of the Archipelago. The other night a powder magazine at Larnacca, in the island of Cyprus, was blown up, and many heal as well SI habitations were destroyed by it. The Journal de Constantinople announces the offi cial mediation of England to effect a reconciliation between Abyssinia and Egypt. The Presse d Orient e•atee that the Shah of Persia is forced by the anti English petty to wage est, that party having menaced him with a change of dynasty and death should he hesitate to engage in hostilities. The Imaurn of Mame, in refusing to pay tribute to Persia for his possessions in the Persian Gulf, in formed the Shah that he (the lmaum) considered him merely as his spiritual bead. Letters from Broome of the 10:h state that silk bad risen considerably in price. THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALI PIES. A letter from Bucharest announces that the Cai macane have received orders to convoke the divans ad hoe, to deliberate on the future organisation and government of Wallachia and Moldavia. The palace of the Caimacan at that place was being arranged for the sittings of the international commiabion. A letter from Munich announces that the King of Bavaria intends making an ezeursim to lieplet end Madrid in the spring. A contract Ins been signed between an eminent Parisian pub:idler anti M Arthur de le Outwore" farmer editor of the Pass, and mow r ember of the Color& of Sate, fur the produttior of a work to six velure", tc be • d " ILFt ty cf the Perlimeutery Mona rc hy of France frqta ISIS to 1852." The sum to br inta to the writer it 13,5 , 13. r., or 60/. the