The Express. — London, England, 1856-01-09 00:00:00

what, thee, are we to attribute the annexation of Finland, the Bahia provinces, Poland and Bessarabia to the empire —to what the repeated attempts to seise on Wallachia and Moldavia?—to !Out the machinations which had in view.** en of Hungary ? "The Russian," hi "Os agiktuAlop sasses in an eminent degree G. organ ,fron , phrenologists have given thirnance of ' adlosivenem. He is passionately wedded to his vilingickarne." Yet in another page we find him smarting, "There is no other country, with the exception of the United States, where the inhabitants will undertake such long journeysby road or river as in Russia." Again : "With 1 1 the exception of the disposition to encroach upon neighbouring Mahometan countries" [such as Fin land, the Baltic provinces, and Poland], " the people feel no interest in foreign politics, and the in tervention in the affairs of Europe excites no sympathy in Russia. Oa the contrary, I found smug the' old Russian party' at Moscow a spirit of hostility to the incessant interference of the CZAR in the polities of the West. In fact, the foreign policy of the late reign wee very much the offspring of the personal character of Nicirol.u." Wherein did the foreign policy of the reign of PirrHoLts differ from that of the reigns of PETER L, CATRIBINE IL, and ALBS ANDER I. ? Were sot the ministers of those maw arch@ Mairrowtores, thuorrs, and Posimearre ? What is the foreign policy of the reign of AMAX DER 11. ? This last question Mr. COBDEN has himself answered. "There is not 'fact or conjecture respecting the finances of Franco that has not been passed in review at Bt. Petersburg,where everything connected with the resources of the Allies in men and mosey is as well known as in Paris or Loudon." Could this information be obtained without the aid of a perma nently organised system of local espionage? And does the maintenance of such :a system look like a want of interest in the polities of Western Europe? As an illustration of Mr. CoBDEN'S aulaisto of the vales of his own authorities, take the following : "I subjoin a detailed secant of the income and expeediture of the Russian Government, which I obtained at St. Petersburg. The accounts are of old date, and for various years ; and although I have uo reason to doubt is the main their correctness, yet I do not offer them as of any statistical value." And yet he expects his readers to accept the inferences be draws from these ontof-date, unreliable documents. He could have got more recent, and more trustworthy amounts is YON RID'S; but then he could not have prelseed them with, " I obtained them at St. Peter.- burg." Bat we must hasten to Mr. COBDEN'S exposition of " what course I should take if I were,without refer ence to the peat, responsible for the policy of the eountry." Mr. CoBDEN'S scheme of a future foreign policy for England has, indeed, no conceivable con nexion with the previous dissertation, but it may be an object of curiosity as the programme of COBDEN the expectant Premier of Great Britain. In the first place, then, Mr. COBDRN "would seek, above all things, to withdraw every British soldier from Russian territory.' The reason he assigns is: " Oar army may now be brought away without far ther loge or discredit. It may not always be so.' Is the second place, " with regard to the terms of a peace I should attach no value whatever to the pro mises of Ramis." In the third plat, he would rely upon a tripartite treaty et Austria with Frame and England to mike dermany the bulwark of Western Europa against Rena= signorina. In the fo;rth place, if he could not prevail upon Austria to enter into such a treaty, he "should be disposed to reconsider his own views on the subject, and doubt whether he had not been led away by an exaggerated alarm." Mr. COBDIN, it is obvious, has studied honest Dogberry to good porpoise. Doriarry. • • • Tel. is year 'largo; you .ball aearrithead ell regrow as ; yea me Is hid every as ataml la Um Priam'. ammo. I 4111111 etc Oxpreflgi. doortiowoonto Wt;o71441;; • lio --- Tiiiww. twig oopor, awl to at the 01800. 11%. DOS' 44004 by Two *'Nook es ths sy W pobboodow. HIGH WATHR AT LONDON BRIDOIL Ton Doo—lforrene, 11. kno Aftersooe. So. MA To-noasow—llernios. 11. US Afternoon. 4k. OA. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9. O► course something most be said about Mr. COBDEN'S Pamphlet s , ISMS', it is Mr. COBDEN'S. Had it beeo anonymous, no one would have deemed it worthy of a remark—no one would have taken the trouble to toil through its forty-eight closely printed pips of irrelevant statistics, self•contradictioos, and cooclastoos which have nothing to do with their premises. But so Mr. COBDEN'S VMS IS on the title page people will talk about it, and will insist upon being told what others think of it. We will attempt to describe it. More we cannot pretend to do. It is one of those rambling, incoherent, misty productions, which convince nobody, and yet cannot be an swered, because they present nothing tangible to lay hold of. Mr. COBDEN begins by declaring that he will leave out of view altogether the objects of the war. "In the following remarks all allusion to the original cause of the war with Russia has been studiously avoided, and I therefore venture to hope that the most strenuous supporters of the war and the most ardent advocates of peace may meet on common ground to discuss the probabilities of the future." It would certainly be convenient for Mr. COBDEN if he could penuade the supporters of the war to agree to this proposal. Ilia aim is to show that to coerce Russia is a difficult and dangerous undertaking. This nobody denies; though few think it quite so difficult and dangerous as Mr. COBDEN pro fesses to do. Now the only valid reason men can have for engaging in any dangerous or difficult enterprise Is the importance of the ohjectssonglit to be attained. When Mr. COBDEN, therefore, invites the supporters of the war to leave its objects out of consideration, hecoolly invites them to take part in a one-sided de bate, is which he shall be at liberty to bring forward all his arguments and they shall not be allowed to stare theirs. With singular inconsequence, Mr. COBDEN, after declaring that he will leave out of view the objects of the war, proceeds to declare in the very next page that "the war entered into by Frame and England must be carried on without intermission until peace is concluded with Turkey." This axiom be follows up by what is meant to be a demonstration that France and Ragland cannot compel Russia to make peace with Turkey. What is this but to argue that the war ought to be abandoned became its ob ject is unattainable P And this is what Mr. COBDEN calls "'tediously avoiding all allusion to the original cause of the war." The attempt to demonstrate that the object of the war is anattaio- able is quite worthy of this dagrant inconsistency. Mr. Coupe" maintains that Russia cannot be com pelled to come to terms, "oleos by the occupation of Its metropolis or the blockade of its ports. Its nestro polis, be maintains, is unassailable, because "the example and fate of NAPOLEON will for ever forbid an invasion of the interior of Russia," and " Peters burg stands twenty miles above Cronstadt, on a shallow river." The blockade of its ports, Mr. COBDEN declare, Will be perfectly inefficient. because the protectionist policy of Russia has »adored it in dependent of .a-borne commerce. Before making this assertion Mr. COBDEN ought to have taken the trouble to inquire what proportion the Customs duties of Russia bear to the whole revalue of the empire, and what proportion the Customs duties levied in the ports bear to the whole revenue derived from Customs duties. On this point be maintains a prudent silence. It is not without a resson that he shirks this important part of the ques tion. He assumes that Russia eau protract the struggle indefinitely, because it growl more than enough of food to provision its armies. He leaves eat of view, that even in Russia money meet be paid he munitions of war, for the transport of soldiers and military stores, and for other purposes; and that to this sod the government meet have mosey as well sa earn and beeves. Is she dozen pages whisk Mr. COIDIIK devotes to a dissertate. as the protestiosist polity of Rosela and Re Items! Moe—which might net be altogether valveless in a discussion os commercial policy, but w►ich is rendered isepplicable to the question of war or pesos by the uppremions we have poiated out—e passers seem tee e►srseterWie to be passed ever without notice. Anodise to sem writers who kayo published remarks ea Russia, he says, sneer hotly :—" Theo gunman have. I doubt sot, tra velled locger sod further is Hasse than toyed,. My ally advantage has been, that I hod possibly as eye and ear more ores to the sommersial mousiest' sad the economical resources of the °poetry." Mr. Comes likes to I.st down an antagonist. when de bating about any lanais motry, by declaring he has seen it with his own eyes. la this he reminds , of • Scotch humorist of oar aequintaase, who on the strength of his baring sus mused the Tweed, sod spent half-an-hue in Eaglasol, took upon him to lay down the law on all questions re garding English prossuciatios. What our deceased friend did is jest Mr. CenDIN is continually doing is bed earnest. He has visited several foreign coun tries, bat has not resided is any one keg enough to know it from personal observation. His dying visit to Russia was cassias] enough. Hodes not musk or uuderetaad yes wed of the language. His departure from Berlin was telegvapbed to St. Petensbarg. He was taken possession of at the frontier by a govern. meet °Meal amounted to receive him ; and passed from the hands done °Seel to another, like a baled goods, till he left the onstly. He saw nothing but what they were pleased be .boded see ; everything he was told wee interpreted to him by them. He spent one foreman at the fair of Nisbasi•Nevgerod, and re mained in sash of the other please he visited a esere speeding Writ of time. He prooseded straight from the Preemies frostier to Moscow sad Niebaet- Novgorod, and theses to St. Petersburg. In sheet, he saw as Enoch of Russia, and had as good oppoetu. aides of making observations while is it, as Lord MACAMET and ►is snits esioyed in ChM ea their mission to Patio. Asd ea the strength of this he presumes to pass off his plentiful leek of ksowledge on the public u irrefragable wisdom. Mr. CODDIN hit proud' to dismal ea the patriotism and love of country of the Rushee, sad the ds•ssse of Rusk. He seareely shakos as esorrties that is sot sestradiated by well-ksown fasts, or by himself in ems sabseqnset page, or that doss net rest upon confessedly un reliable evidence. "Then is no greater &leeks in the world than t►at which attributes to the Hes sian people a desire toover-ran and occupy, like Ste Cloths and Hese. any pert of Waters Europa." To I West Next sad Nnt t Dp Richard Cehics, MP. Luau ISMS Ridgway. ISM. 2nal MARA. Bat if 'a will sot stead i Do/berry. Wby, thee take so sots of his, bet let Mu go; sad preseetly call eke rest of the water together, sad (beak trod yes ere rid of a khan. And lastly, in the fifth plate, " I would ird risk the life of an Ragbeano, or spend another shilling, far the bonen triumph of extorting pacific pledges from the Roads' Government; and having cos* to thin determination, then would no longer be any Outside to peace." Usder this head Mr. CODDIN adds that, "whilst attaching no value to the limitation of the number of Religion ships, exclusively," he would try to penned. France and Eaglasd to redoes their naval establishments at the close of the war, although (or because—it does not clearly opium which) there appears to ►ee rowing desire in the United States to , ioerease their navy. Believing it impassible to per- wade or compel one State to diminish ita naval form, Mr. OnDax would try his head upon three or four. Really it would be sheer west, of Him to throw away a word in the way of criticism on the foreign policy of Mr. Premier COBDZN. CM frOtirt. WINDSOR, JAR. 8. The dinner party yesterday ioeluded &Dse hese ef Kest, the Coast et Pleaders, Samos de Bp.th, sod Cassis de Baritone. TM bead et the Orrabadier Guards played dariai dinar. Met Majesty' private bead alterwarde per/armed fa the Castle. Primo Albert, atoompaalrd by As Coast of Plarodoto, weal at a►ssllsg Ws a boning. Tie Prism of Wales sod Prior ARM weal to Leaden sad atergoil Ms. rusday's lepton at tbo R.ysl lsuti• laths. TM Primate Holm tad Leaks dm. oat is as spas autiago. Mr. Walluoida, Coasol Gourd for dm Ropublis of Como 34.., bad sa iatorviow with the god of Cloroodos yesterday. _ ♦ motion of the Pizzas' Committee of the Boyd Cosa ssieslon ler the lishibitise of 18i1 was held yesterday at the Privy Coaodl•eses. There we ~aunt Berl Gomel& (eliainsaa), 511 William Cabin, Mr. Cenhon, Q.C., Mr. T. P. Gibson, sod Mr. Baps Mow* (reerstary) ; Mr. H. B. Williams, floansial °Mese, woo also moist. Despetakes Iran the Gowen*, of Malta were resolved yesterday at lb. Colesial-elles. THE COUNCIL OF WAR. DOVIR, His Boyd Highness tbs Dabs of Cambridge, N oma Airey, sad Admiral Lyons, arrived hem by the' boat train at 10.40 this morning, and immediately sailed kr Calm ; ea mats for Par* is her Majesty's steamer Vivid. FORZION-0/71C& Doc. 3.—The Qom has ben preelassiy pieesod M appoint Jamas Brat, log , saw her Illapetra sessal at Ersteesae, te b. het Majesty. easeel at Dassastas.—D... 31. The Quotes has boo prwriersalp plowed to @mist Moles Wilthnr. 3.q.. sew bat ifeleety's ewe) et Armfuls*. to be bet lfaleare assisl at Islay.— lan. & The Quota boa has. pissed te approve ef Mr. Jobs Edward Myles as soon' at Limped km the avatars el _ _ OireaD Ux mistime* !twin gene &tweed W Ss dirt We beiheekp= ha. le Hate to be Wee& termed et the am eiewlee. by the 11 1111•4111 1 be Osford. lb, Me r lir. Olsdeater we ere es res sa eisqualler ratnallsdea to ear eats rest. are. es to se re baesuesbis breast Is sersrasi, is rarer wirer asalsisme4rarbli Cliesever. His Rettenseey the LaiLieeteelat dined with ' the Illbeeeles Cu* 010 lest THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 8, 1856. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. PUBLIC OPINION AT ST. PETERSBURG. The Jaime& dee Debate of this...ramping emitaine adriase from Bt. Bethirebureol the Sid. After men tintinglhat Count Esterftfty's first interim took plaoe the 28th nit., an dot en the 27th, as has beer Mated, the Detests amasses:— " Two days later—that is to say the 30th—M. Re terhesy had a second interview WilthL de Neseelrode, with whom he remained closeted more than an hour. Our correspondents write that this conference was com pletely takes to with mutual recrimination, and that the special and preens object of the mission of th Austrian Minister was not raised. On January tle anxiety at Bt. Petersburg was great; the war party and the pease party were engaged in an obsti nate contest, each seeking to obtain domination in the Council of the Empire. M. de Neseelrode seemed to incline to • pacific solution ; Privy Councillor &unwise, amebae of the Senate, the most important personage of the Min istry of Foreign Affairs after the minister him self, was foe war. That which gives strength to the war party is the fact that it contains the greatest names of the old Muscovite nobility, while the nobi lity of the provinces called German, belong, for the most part, to the pease party. Moreover the war party is seconded by the ineenant lotion of the clergy. At Moscow the bellicose opinion has undivided sway ; it dominates also in the provinces; at St. Petersburg the pacific opt. ', neon reigns in society, bat it is in the mino rity amongst the same. This division exists around the Emperor, and even In the midst of the Imperial family. The Elapses mother desires the end of the war, and lases no occasion for recommend ing peace; the missing Empress inclines more to the side of war. The Emperor has not declared himself ; 1 it is believed that he hesitates before the immense responsibility of the decision which is expected from him." [rho following appeared la tbe grottos p/rtios of our yesterday's isapressiew:] Viols ooz OWN CON.I.IIIIVADE3II7.) BERLIN, Tv y. Accounts from IR. Petersburg state that the Rus sian reply to the Austrian pesos proposals has been sent off, and say arrive at Vienna by the 13th or 14th of January. RELATIONS BETWEEN PRUSSIA AND GREAT BRITAIN. The Correspondence du Monk, of the 6th, est- I tains the following: BillitLlN, J 434 4. _ It has often been mid that the relating of no Cabinet of Berlin with the Cabinet of the Tuileries on iamb sum estidietory than those maintained with the Cabinet of St. lames's. Beastly a fact has mmund, whisk moves that Prusia's Mations with Mislead loan musk to be desired. It upon that the Bari ofClarsina km had at Leaden en latarvew with Count do Berastorf, the Prussian Ambas sador, la 'thin the role of Preen in the Easters question has been diseaseseL Tree Earl of Clarendon, in Ms mimicker, spoke in no sysinsal tams of the asstrallty of Prussia ; he emplaned that Prussia coatintas to *end large viand. tits of war material to Russia, sad that the Prussias go. vsnmett, a tolerating this state of things, Inds a head to the enemy of Prams sad lagiaaL The Bari of Claris dot, monover, esproasel his surprise that superior seen Ono Prussian army should have swilsted at the Idte or- poised by the Bonn Ambassador at Berlin la celebrities of the sarrauder of Kan, end that the mess of Bus had been used after she taking of that forums as • wig main at • it., at Bulls, as U the Using had alined • glaring vinery for Ms arms of Prussia. Ens it ',ag hast soatiated the Earl of Clanadm, wore not to en ia all those faats so luny demonstrations in (anti of Ruda. It onld sot &end obsetwing the add- Wean with which Pities sestina her morel so-operatin. &mind will bad itself than competed to take some minas and seen haste ansamess, If the 'shiest et Delia doss set see It to cbasgs its attitude. The ambassador of Prussia has add/sand to kis government a noildsatial &spank entainiag a very detailed menu of this latervisw. This down arrived at the time li. de Mansura was at Lamm, but be retuned be Berlin lamediately ea hosing of Cant Bentsterfra donatek. TM swell of minium assembled wider the presidency et the KM, at Charlottes. berg, sad the commtaleations made by the Bul of Clam des to the Priest's ambassador at Leaden wore swan discusred. Although the dedications of Eng land have pinned • maraud impreeims hire, it does not i.e. that Pruden will make my attempts to prevent the mossares somplalned of by the Eaglish Eine tn. It is believed that there is • amnion of the eventual Mocked@ of no Preens parts in the Bads. The rumour of the possible omeastratica of the Preen army epos the aline ha. mad* a samatien, sad it has been suggested to interdict the ciretlatioa la Prussia of the Gotten steam hosirg, whin lint published tits report. It is knows kers, teem no beet Mims, that Sweden is preparing for partisipation is the great sweats of which the shone of the Baltic will be the theatre fa the appronshiag epriag. re. armaisonts of Sweden and Norway en bong paned forward with peat energy. PRESENTATION OF THE GRAND CROSS OF THE LEGION OF HONOUR TO THE SULTAN. CONSTANTINOPLE, Esc. 31. The event of the last few days is the imposing g ceremony which took place at the Imperial Palace on Saturday, when M. de Thouvenel, escorted by all the members of the French Embassy, presented to the Schen the star in diamonds, together with the other insignia, of the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour. This in the first time that a Sultan has ever ac cepted a foreign decoration, although numerous attempts have been made at different times to indium him to receive one. All the mieiaters, grand dignitaries, and military Perim, were present on Saturday, and it was is their praises that the French Ambassador promated the theoretion and the autograph letter from the Rope me. To the remarks of the Amboandor, the Sultan made the following reply : I look apes time precious lasigala, sot wily ea a seem& of the private friewalehlp or his Illejoity the Emperor, my august ally, towards myself, bet alas OS sae of t►e gross resoles el the amenable elbows whisk le destined to con solidate for evn the frissally Mallet' wad& existed of old between' the two supine. low the more trashed ►y Ms mark of meld is the part of ►is itejesty, tor du mese that it fa the tnt remain digerati.. wide\ I hero resolved, sad that I resoles It Sem the Leads of se datiagniebed as sabeseeder. I lawny hope that my wastwalag 'forts to .an Ilse MMus., of all my ettitieste will Do weewsed with tbe dosind weessor, sad that my impart, boosoforetk too of the members of the groat Esrey*** family, will prove to the satire sal verse that it is worthy to easupy ow iseportwat plain is the .mthly et the "Waked madame. Turkey will sever forgot the gnome eloriaree whlsh boo ..bl. Anise have leeposeti epee tkowweives la seder that this great ad hap malt I I may be 'babied. I mll writs at ems te tm Emmet ho Mani N. .y thanks, bit I oak yrs aim. M. Ambommitm, to ammlat him with my metimmts. THE CRIMEA. The Mariteur of this =ruing publishes a dispatch free Marshal Pelkeler, of the 28th Des., magma leg that the volunteers of OSUMI d'Autesaine m -1011641 a coup de mein against the Rossiene, es the night of the 26th of Diestaber. It sunned to 18 Russians killed and 18 made priimusers, and 20 Cassocks mad 30 muskets ta r tared. No Preach won either killod or wounded. DASHING CAVALRY ENCOUNTER NEAR ILERTCH. ._. • i"( • alOll OVA OWN 00111BPONDINT.) , t • HERTCH, Dec. 22. At little more than an hoor's nodes beforehand, I learn that a steamer is just on the IMO of starting for Constantinople, and as our lately established weekly postal communisation with Sebastopol is in no way to be depended on, I sine this unexpected opportu nity of sending you the following brief account of a recent " brush " between ourselves and the enemy— in preference to taking my chance of the French mail-boat, which should leave Fort Paul on Monday. My recent letters will have sufficiently apprised you of the state of our forage supplies, and of the ex tent to which we have latterly been dependent for them upon the surrounding country; I need not, therefor*, repeat that nearly the whole of the hay straw, and green forage consumed by the small ca valry force with us, as well as by the Land Transport animals and private chargers, has been brought in from villages within a ride of about eight miles from Kedah and Yesikali ; nor need I add to what I have already written on the neglect of our "authorities " to lay in an ample store on the first arrival of the force here, as might most easily have been done. Thanks, however, to this last piece of official inertness and want of foresight, the abundance which was then available has dwindled down to a degree of scantiness which promisee asythisg but "high living" for the quadrupeds of the Contingent daring the coming three mouths; for, in inverse proportion to our neglect has bees the activity of the enemy in destroying everything they could lay hands on, that might supply fodder for a goat. However, be the degree of blame properly arising out of our chiers early default in this matter what it may, attempts to make up for it before the last pound weight of forage has been burned or otherwise destroyed by the Cossacks, have lately increased in frequency, and on ow of them wends an infantry foraging party was despatched a few days ago from Knish to bring in a quantity of hay and straw from a pleas Galled the Spanish Farm, about five miles from the town. Parties of the enemy's Coesscks had for some days been prowling about the neighbourhood, with the view of seizing any opportu nity that might offer to set fire to the forage in ques tion, but wisely kept at a safe distance up till the daylight of the 16th inst. On the morning of that day, however, mattered twos and threes of them made a nearer appearance; and Major *Do nald, commands the Turkish cavalry, detachment accompanying the force, went out with his party of eighty Lancers to beat them off and reconnoitre. After riding some couple of miles in a westerly direction, he fell in with the Russian videttes, who retired as his party approached; bat, very quickly after, numerous small bodies of the eassny's regular cavalry galloped into view from dif knot direction, and uniting, made a faros of about 400 dragoons. This unexpected discovery left no option but to fall back on the farm, and this Major M'Doaald aesordingly attempted to do, but the Rus sian horemosn gave rapid these, and with their long pieces kept up a galling fire, to which the short carbines of the pursued could make no effective reply. Better mounted, too, they succeeded in satflankiog our men, and by this threatened to make prisoners of the whole. The moment was twitted ; but Major McDonald, with a mange above praise, resolved to imitate the despe rate bravery of the 10th Hussars, some months ago, under nearly similar circumstances, and to out his way through, or fall in the attempt. Forming his little squadron, therefore, he dashed forward at their head against the gleaming barrier of hostile sabres, and, being admirably supported by his men, hewed open a way for nearly the whole, with a cost to the Russians of some twenty killed and wounded. Bat the enemy speedily recovered from their confusion, gave renewed chase, with a flying fire as before, and again turned the flank of the hard premed Turks sad their British leader. The escape which had bees hoped for from the first desperate effort now seemed impossible; but, with a heroism even greater than before, Major *Donald deter mined to make one more blow for the lives and free dom of his party. Pulling up for a moment he hastily formed and again rushed mitre a termagainst the enemy. A linos hand-to-hand fight then took place, and after some twenty minutes of es despe rate sabering and lands-thrusting as the present war has yet seen, the heroic flootchman and forty of his little band again out a passage through—laving, I deeply regret to say, poor Captain Sherrard, his second in command, and as many more dead and dying in the enemy's hands. Some minutes elapsed before the well mauled Russians could renew the pursuit, and this short interval sufficed to give oar men headway enough to render further chase hope less: still the enemy pressed on, and only gave up the gum within a mile of the camp oat side the town, about three o'clock in the afternoon. On the following day a flag of truce wee sent oat h.= Bench, when it was ascertained that poor Sher rard and five men had been killed, whilst the whole of the remaining thirty-five were very badly wounded. Since then no further collision has taken plate, the infantry party at the Farm having been permitted to come in without any attempt at molestation. To this hasty narrative of one of the most dashing cavalry encounters, on a small seals, of which the Crimea has yet been the mese, I have no time to add a commenting remark. It proves, however, be yond doubt, that our soldiers possess the tree " metal," and that under such leaders as Major M'Doadd they will not disappoint the general hope when their day of action arrives. THE WAR IN ASIA. (mow Tax Neutral:a.) ERZEROIIM, D2O. 12. The Ranks army toot up its position at Kars last Monday, the 3rd of December. The troops have been quartered in the town, and a small division of about 2,000 ms, cossisting of earache and Irregular Kurds, hes beer left at Bohanly Dagb, where it occupies the fortilloatioas greeted is the mouth of hue last by Oeseral Maaravieff. Yeai Keni, a vil lage erne Afty-fonr miles from &mom, on the road to Uri, is likewise occupied by the Russians,l who have gollegted there large stores of wheat, flour, I sad barley. It appears that the Rossi= postal is apprehen sin of Solis Pasha's sowing to attack Hers, for he hes mmentrated all his forms at that spot, and has left at Alexandra* only a week garrison, hardly strong enough to do the duties of the shade,. The Turkish forms, under the orders of &lira Pasha, are still *seam* in the mountains of Del.& Berm. There is no fear of the enemy's attempting Dour a coup is mein against Erzerount : the exhaus tion of his troops and the state of the roads forbid it. DENMARK. T VaIDAT iftNlllo. A royal proclamation jest pa Mined dames that the Xiars inniage with th. Count= Dane/ Mall ever remain marina* sad be se beeribed I. the state aindem •••,. p••• • EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (71011 0171 OWN 00111OPONDI1T.) PARIS, TuIIDAT EYININO. The following despatch, received at one o'clock this afternoon, had a momentary influence upon the Bourse: DRESDEN, MONDAY EVENING. The Journal de Dreads, which has jut appeared, pub lishes a correspondence from Berlin which contains the fol lowing: "Telegraphic despatches from tit. Petersburg, worthy of all credit, say that. the state of the negotiations for peace at Bt. Petersburg is not altogether unfavourable to an under standing, and that is particular a complete and formal re pudiation of the propositions communicated oa the part of Austria by Count Etterhazy is not to be feared." This despatch produced a slight rise in the Rente, but the confidence engendered by it was extremely shortened. It, in fact, merely holds out a shadowy hope that the Russian answer is not such as to preclude all possibility of further negotiation. In other words, it confirms the idea that Rossi& will send an evasive, inattadot a straightforward answer, but it in no respect counteracts the now universal opinion than the terms proposed by the Western Powers through Austria are in substance, and for all practical purposes, re jected. The Rents, after being quoted at 83fr. 20c., ' soon gays way, and closed at 82fr. 85c., with a fall on the day of 25u. Credit Mobilier fell 20fr. Railways were all from 2k. 600. to 6fr. lower. The announced soirée at the Tails ries last night was, after all, a grand ball. Some 6,000 people were present. All the recently returned Crimean Gene- rals Wen very conspicuous at this fete. Generals Canrobert, Mellinet, Boequet, and Blanchard ap peared in their full marching uniform. The Em peror gave his arm to General Baguet, and walked up and down with him for a long time. lam told that his Majesty said, "General, you must get quite well es soon as possible, for I want to fight side by side with you in the next campaign." No doubt seems to be entertained that the Emperor means in the spring to indemnify him self for the disappointment which he expressed in hie speech on the Platte de la Bastille at not having been able to command an army in person. Bat, whether his Majesty means to go to the north or to the Crimea is still a question which is discussed. M. David (d'Angers) the celebrated sculptor, died on Sunday at the age of sixty-five, and was buried to-day at Pere La Chaise. He was no relation to the famous painter of his name of the First Empire, although he was very generally supposed to be one. In fact he was his pupil, and married his niece. M. David (d'Angers) executed the frieze of the Pantheon, and may be said to be tke inventor of the colossal style of sculpture in Franco. His busts of Chattunbriand and Lord Byron are well known. He wee the author of the monuments:of General Foy and Marshal St. Cyr, in Pere la Chaise ; of the statue of Dr. Larrey, in Val de Gram, and of that Philopetnen, in the Tuileries. In politics he was an ardent republican, and he never wavered in his faith in the principle of self-govern ment. He was a representative of the people in the Assembly which was violently dissolved on Dec. 2, 1861. His name appeared in one of the earliest lists of the proscribed. He took refuge at Brussels; was permitted to return to France two or three years since, but his exile had given a blow to his health from which he neral to-day an extraordinary crowd of eminent men in the artistic, literary, and political world attended. Among the followers were the poet Be ranger, General Cavaiguac, and MM. Villemain, Etex, Goudohaux, Martin (de Strasbourg), Carnot, Cambon, Marie, Vaulabelle, Guinard, le Comte de Niewerkerke, Manin (the late President of the Re public of Venice), Gervais (de Caen), Jules Simon, Ferdinand do Luteyrie, Barrens, jeans, Lime, Dont, Ravin, Henri Lecture, Cremieux, Betide, Charles Thomas, &c. The pall bearers were alter nately General Cevaignao, MM. Carnet, Gond chasm, Ambridge Thomas, Leon Halevey, Henri Le mke, and several pupils of the deceased. M. Leon Halevey pronounced a funeral oration over the grave. On leaving the cemetry Berazger was surrounded by a number of artists and students, who embraced him and almost carried him in their arms. Moved by this ovation, the venerable lyric poet embraced one of their number in the name of all the French youth. I am sorry to add that after this ebullition of feeling many insets were made. SPAIN. Letters from Barcelona announce that there have been fresh disorders there. A workman employed in M. Rose's factory having been discharged, a mob of a hundred naiad operatives attacked the hones sad did great damage. Some pistol shots were tired, but happily without effect. The arrival of some troops restored order. Several of the rioters are arrested, and will be tried by oourt.martiaL PIEDMONT. TURIN, JAW. 6.—General La Marmora leaves to morrow for Paris, where he is to assist at the mili tary conferences which are to be held in that city. General Chamial, sent on a special mission by the King of the Belgians, was received on the 4th by his Majesty, and leaves to-morrow. A bill was presented on the 4th to the Chamber of 'Deputies of Turin, to make the following reductions in the customs tariff, via :—Raw caoutchonc and grata perch', per 100 kilogrammes, 21. 60c.; manu factured ditto, 5r.; cast-iron chairs for rails, 50c.: rails, lf.; iron in cylindrical bars of from 6 to 12 millimetres, 2f. ; pig lead, 60c. ; tin ditto, if.; zinc of tiff fusion, lf.; copper ditto, lf. AUSTRIA. BiILIN, Jaw. 13.—An aide-de-camp of the Emperor of Austria arrived at Dresden to-day, charged with a minion to the German courts. DESPATCH FROM GENERAL CODRINGTON. (710 X LAJIT NIOUT . II O•ZIITTI.") WAR DEPART /I ENT,)AW. 8. Lord Palmate has this day received a despatch, of which the following is • copy, addressed to his Lordship by General Sir William Codrington, K-C.B, Sebastopol, Dec. 25. My Lord,—Notwithstanding the recent severe weather, the thermometer a few nights ago having folks nearly to sero, the general state of health of the army has continued good. The roads are in fair working order ; and though the efficiency of the loco ' motive engines was impaired by the frost, the damage has been made good. The final operations on the docks have been Dome what delayed on our side by the influx of water, and by the trotting of pumps. The fire from the forts on the northern aide of the harbour continues, and it is at times heavy ; but the eassalties, I am happy to say, are few. There has been no movement of importance on the part of the enemy in our neighbourhood of late. A detachment of French troops surprised a Cossack post near Teilion, a few days ago, killing several men, and taking the rest prisoners. The general drill of the arm makes good progress. I have, &c., W. J. CODRINGTON, The Lord Panniers, &c. General Commanding. A FACT TOR MIL IlAcomAT.—Dr. Lashisgtos must is the kdotitalty Cain, yesterday, that 40 goat, ego M 1144400044110 s woos vitalist to Ito very ship whisk bosoglit Mika 111. to We 'natty. THE BALTIC. COPENHAGEN, his. 2. Although the blockade of the Russian porta has been virtually raised by the return home of the allied fleets, and officially by the announcement in the Gatelte, it is incomprehensible why the govern ments did not leave a couple of feat-sailing steamers to watch any suspicious-looking vessels, and search them for contraband of war. For this piece of—it l appears almost wilful—negligence, the Russians may I be grateful, as it enables them to obt ain a seasonable supply of arms, if not ammunition, from the United States. Long before the return home of the fleets, a large and deeptl i ;iden three-masted clipper, un d er th e American , arrived here from Boston, and anchored in the deep water of the so-called Hume, outside the Trekroner Battery. The ship is called the Wolga, and the commander (Captain Holm) is a native of Copenhagen, and well acquainted with the navigation of the Baltic. Whether he has become naturalised in the United States, and thus obtained a right to com mand a vessel under the flag of the republic, and whether the ship's papers are in order, and would pa l s master with the lieutenant of the Driver, who lut year so keenly overhauled the Sammy Appl e . too, after landing her revolvers at Baltish Port, is more than I can say. Thus much, however, is certain, that the Wolga had bee n lying . hers for more than a month under very suspicious circumstances, for the captain had always some diflerent excuse for remaining at anchor. One day he was waiting for orders, on another the wind was foul. At one time he was short of water, at another fresh provisions, and latterly that he wu afraid of the ice. A few days ago, however, he weighed anchor dar ing the thaw sod sailed up the Baltic, and a vessel arrived here from Boroholm reports having exchanged signals with her off that island. It is generally stated here as a well-known fact that she has arms and am munition on board, which being contraband of war would have been liable to confiscation, although the blockade of the %Nolan ports has been abandoned toe the wilder. According to a telegraphic despatch received here by one of the foreign embassies, a Russian vessel, loaded with salt, which was in the act of leaving the harbour of Elsinore last spring when the arrival of the advanced squadron in the Sound was signalled from the Castle of Kronsborg, and remained quietly at Elsinore ever since, had taken advantage of the decided thew that has set in, and the absence of British cruisers, to sail to a Russian port; and there l in no reason to doubt that many other Russian yea. 'eels which have found • safe refuge in different Scandinavian ports will now be enabled to return home. I therefore repeat the question, why were not • couple of fast steamers left here during the winter P A few days ago a couple of brokendown English gunboats arrived here from the Baltic under canna, and proceeded. As they held no communication with the shore, it was impossible to ascertain their names, but it was nederstood they had been left at Bornholm to repair damages, and that they were the very last ships in the Baltic. RUSSIA. BERLIN, JAN. 8. Letters have been received at St. Petersburg from Odessa, announcing that the cold there is something extraordinary. The harbOars of Odessa, Taganrog, Marianpol, Rostof, and all the months of rivers are completely frown over. Generals Osten-Sicken, Lipraudi, and Kotzebue have arrived at Odessa, to hold a council of war. Ina letter dated St. Petersburg, Dec. 29, we read: Before the allies left the Oulf of Finland the Ragan Beet sent out isolated steamers along the coast to establish communications between different points. On the 14th November a squadron consisting of the steamers Oremoieb sobi, Wlsdimir, and Cbabri, towing three transports and a pilot boat, left Cronstedt; after not fewer than four days' navigation they arrived in the roadstead of lielaingfon; they remained thole fear days, and then retarded to Cronstedt. On the 28th November two of the allied vmsels were seta for the last time off lielaingfors, at nearly twelve miles from the fortress of fihreaborg. They soon proceeded to the south west, end shortly after the Russian steamer Count Vnat' chonko was able to enter the port. On the 4tb December the coasts became covered with ice, and on the Bth the telegraphic service wee impended on all the line of the northern coast. A letter from Hamburg, of the 3rd, in the Incle pendant*, of Brunels, says : The means of communication by Taal being now easy, in sonsequesee of the snow and frost, • number of pieces of ' cannon of • long range, recently cast at St. Petersburg with ' all the latest improvements, have already been received at Revel, Rigs, and other places along the coast. It is intended to construct near those two places new batteries on the coast, seeable of matching the artillery of the allied vessel' the experience of the last campaign having proved that English sad French guns were able to reach the furthest works of the Russians, whilst the balls of those of the latter fell into the 66a, and the shills of their mortars burst without doing any harm to the enemy. The able engineer Jacobi, to whom the Russian government is indebted for the invention of the submarine infernal machines which, by exploding an der the Raniouth in July last, nearly caused the death of the English Admiral Seymour, has been for some months past entrusted by the High Admiral, the Grand Duke Con stantine, with the direction of the works in the imperial foundries, and he sends out daily new siege guns. In these operation', • number of old bronze cannons which had become useless, owing to the progress made in the coasnuc non of engines of destruction, have been employed. Wine from the principal merchants in the Russian ports of the Black fie• say that in g I no confidence is placed is the rumours of poem which had been current is December, end that the coaviotion was general that in the spring the war would be continued by Russia with extreme vigour. Nag preparations for defence are being made throughout the country on • formidable scale, in order to specs* the extraordinary means of attack which it is known the silks are preparing on their side. It le generally believed at Revel and Riga that, on the opening of the navigation, a numerous Anglo-French army will be disembarked in the !Line provinces, and will advance simultaneously on the two sides of the Galt BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, JAN. 7.—The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have r. eeived, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, • copy of a despatch from her Majesty's nett and consnl.general is Egypt, repotting that the Viceroy of that country has revoked the decree prohibiting the export of graia from the Egeptiandominioss.—Gosette. BOARD OP TRADE, WHITEHALL, JAN. B.—The Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade ad Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affeita, a copy of a note addressed by Covet Wale saki to her Majesty's ambassador at Paris, stating that, in eonsequeoce of • representation from her Majesty's isoirstursisat, toe French government has consented to &now British passenger steamers, which are by law obliged 50 carry • cannon and twelve charges of powder for mating signals, to ester sad quit French ports without depositing on shore the powder sarriod.—Gotetta. FATAL ACClDENT.—Yesterday' an inquest was held at Reading on the body of William Goulder, need who met with his death under somewhat shinnies. Citell61•1110“.. TIN, deceased was in the employ of Mr. Heniosham, fell. monger, et Cavershave, and en Saturday he went to Marlow waits horse and cart, us his master's business. On hi..gy he took up two men who were on their way to Bath. They left Twylord about six is the evening; it was thee raining hard, and very dark. The cart travelled along at a penile pato until it resebeid the bridge enweiog the line of the Great Wasters Railway, a short distance from the lane leading to Rolm. Park, SOODinir, the seat of Mr. R. Palmer, M.P. °milder, noshie to see the road, allowed the horse to be uncontrolled, and the result 75 1 that it drove the cart up against a large stone projecting from one of the sides of the railway bridge. The commie. owing to the slow pace at which the animal wee some. s' IT slightly shook the meals the cart, and caused Goulder to drop has whip. He said be must get down for it, rifle alighting he stepped on the parapet of the bridge; thinking it was the step of the cart, he to. k another leap, end than the unfortunate man fell on the line of railway, a distance of fall forty feet Item the parapet. The men is the cut ofw hetree d man st o r l ange t re Ici a t c h h the road, them.aridthe sudden thedrien aid however.(diospara two gentlemen who came by in a chai.e, with less" attu a hCl i a ta avi id w z liaa . h e al s' i e as d r n i d o s fou n d r e . ,7w A l A c e c i' e l r i g d e:hl y e l " t e .i dn died t d olt i a eh t Lequarter r a i l, " a n dpa gracing an b u hour t a 11-4,