The Express. — London, England, 1856-01-10 00:00:00

r Er' e expreoo. A DMIBMIIIIIti Ult;;;VICT;;; Ir iill Ripro•. "Voile 0,,,b, Palm. art ...t tiff Otis.. 10, Ilemonontrint. by Tv. cede* Oa We diy of patioaatke. MOH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. T" DAI — MonARC Sh. Sft 41. Tareassw—Mainass, 4a. 1ft....--Ahoraire. 4 k. 4116 LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10. Ws will eat rival the audacity of one of our con temporerise. who, a few muthe ago, sot only related how many Amiss generals were present at St. Petersburg at a council of war, hot even detailed the opision delivered by each of them. Bat having smeowly watched the struggle in the Crimea flout the very commencement, having en d...owed es render estreelves masters of the pria tiptoe which have hitherto moderated peat mar menden to victory, and having discussed the actual situation of the opposing forces with men of intellect and of experience, we will venture to adopt that view with respect to the spring aseepeisa whisk appears to be 000siateut not only with Os MINIM of caveman sense, bet with the principles of strategy. The dint, as we hove often said, of the Allies, is Is expel die Russian army from the Crimea. That Ruskin army is enclosed in a triangular psaiesals, oarreunded by the sea, the apex of which is their eel, mesas of retreat. The Allies, on the other hand, have pommies of the whole seaboard, but hitherto they have tailed either to drive the Russians before them, or to obtain pommies of those two roads, which, running through the apex of the triangle, enable the snooty to retries supplies and recruits, and to secure his retreat. Before the southern side of Sebastopol we. taken, the Allies were too weak to operate a diversios during the tine they were carrying on the sins Bat as soon as the southern side was taken • combined attempt • was made to expel the Ressions. Marshal Pews= pushed his outposts to the Upper Belbek Is hope of turning the Mackenzie heights from the south, whilst Guard D'Au.oxvimi, frets Relator* made a faint attempt to bring the Itaseiass to an aeries in the north-west. Neither attempt enseesded. The Maducsie plateau is a position es string that any attempt to carry it would almost certainly fail. And ore the other hand the fosse of General D'Abs Losvmut was es weak that be dared not atha the Russian tee" entrenched as it we. out ma strong ground. Moreover, the country was SO bow rem and destitute of water, that it was impossible Im an army to subsist during any lengthened period. Is may be assumed, therefore, that neither from the southern nor from the western aide of the Crimean peninsula would it be a very possibie task to deka the R 0514112111 from chair position. We are by MO mass, indeed, prepared to admit that Prince GSM MAYO!! Gould not be driven back at a great "serial% but we are prepared to aaintala that there am alb glut reasons to inclose a prudent conneaselse carefully to examine all the auditions of the problem, in order to ascertain whether some other solatkis may sot be possible. Now, es it seems to as, the Busks pukka is sot only assailable, bet if we au to place any faith in the principles of war which have bees laid dews by the greatest plurals, the Crimea peninsula appears to have been created for the very purpose of demonstrating the applioation of them prissiples. Nor, indeed, is it dillicalt to see that if we are tenet* in this, the allied reseals have hitherto acted in direct contravention of almost every one of the fun damental maxims of strategy, and have thus entailed upon their Government' enormous exposes', sad upon their fellow-ountrymen inealenlable eaten. Iwt as npposs the numbers of the wide Oita armies in the spring to mom to 200,000 meo—anfl this is rather under the Government estimate. Of these let 70,000 be left between BoUlm and Be. bestopol to guard the saves miles helms thms two plasm. This twos, which would give 10,00116 e tea would not only be amply evading 60111111111‘ the Hoe of the Tehernaya, and to protest *p.f owns stores aseamulated there, bet wooliNdalleal upon the Basilian@ the necessity of bombs • considerable form along the Mackwasie heights as far se Albat, is order to prevent the possibility of thi Allies gaining pommies el soy portion of theme heights Thsse minty thousand—part of the dtisd Use —might thetehee be essaponed of Waits beam as Ihq maid saly bo required to GAM entrenshed mho. Let the rest, therefore, °misting 0130,000 mon, be transherrod to Korb* or es war to Naffs as my ha found practicable. Ties distance betimes La& mod Arabat is seareely tan English mile& lot ono-bull of the army, with the aid of the fleet, poems Itself of Ambet r let the other half of the army, with the aid of the duet, pram itself of halo. If, is deed, it woe feud impossible to take either of these two places, a saff client fares might be left to mak the pies& and the army might proceed. Now by esosalting the asap it will be head that a groat read leads direct from Has westward towards Biapheropol, the pivot of the Basilian °pseudo's—a Mecum is fact, of 70 miles. The district whisk this read traverses, though billy and intersemed by mimeo. is yet amply supplied with crater ; is addi tion to whisk we may observe that, as the army ad veined eastward, it would by its very program obtain pommies of the innunierebls rich valleys which open dews toward the ma. Advaering from Balk, thew Isso, there would be se desert We that km &pa tiria on the western swie, to stop the villains march of our troops. Iselsoil, it is imporible to explain hew Oeseral Waimea., with his 14,000 or 20,000 was. how Imaged to bold the country about Arlie, ud the... I. hie rear to the Ranks headquar ters, maltose the reentry possessed maidenble m eows& The allied army haviag advansed Mai the reed is gentles shoat forty miles, would SSW epos a very smog position, named the Ker&tle-Bazar, as which the allied pascals sight rest their left wing. With this se a pivot they would gradeally 'demo, by wheeling round their right aatilthey had es endangered the einamasi. caries between the Roesiaes and their lieu of retreat that the Bossism would be compelled in selfwiefsme either to begin the attack, or elm to deans it and to nooks • dub marsh for Pushup. By the muses the Allies would oefey the essemoue advantage of "Odag a defemilve battle en their own ground, whilst the Russians woad he aempilled to moms the seesaws. By this seiestile memsent every objeet is attained, for the Iteseiens am driven eat of the Orion, and that at the melba midge mortise --at the pries, we may say, of me battle of the Tammy& fee ws quake whether the gowns' sotion which the movement we have Whited preoappome would be more sangaisery that that at the Traktir Bridge. The ammo, suggeoted is emisteut with prissiple. Acasediag to Naretwore,ths great ehiset eta essomeder ought to be to act upon the semaanise dons of his adversary without andangeriag hi. own. Thus the ISmrsaoi himself ad off the *net a the 4 , 4\ THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1856. Resoluta at Jena, and yet maintained hie oomumal-' cations with the Danube on the south and with Prams towards the west. In the Crimes, indeed, the Russians have been compelled • by eireumstseep to occupy their present position became their 4)1411 I was to defend Sebastopol ; but essaredly Lase mama why the principles if strategy iaaP plicable to the owe. It le Ade" there near whilst the right of the allied shay posted near the Salgir (the largest river in the Crimea) would gra dually clam up the road to Parekop and the Tahonger road, the only way in which the allied communi cations could be interrupted would be by a flank march of the Russians to the mouth of the Hara-Su Bazar, or by a direct attack in front. The dangers of a flank march are proverbial sinoe the days of Salamanca and Austerlitz, and the perils of a fair fight in the open field are perils which the Allies have hitherto courted in vain; but should the move meat we have indicated mooted, it is hardly neces sary to point oat that, as in the eme of General MACK, the Russian army most be either taken or annihilated. TO TER 3DITOIL Bm—A physiciiii,Vrio;nTiTesd not name, was the other day suddenly summoned to the bedside of a goothiman who was thought to be us reireinit. On arriving at the house he hand two other medical attendants, who had been unable to grapple, to their own satisfaction, with the hemi symptoms which the patient exhibited, and were therefore de sirous of a third opium. My friend found the pa cket in great pain, hie face swell's, his eyes forced out in horrible convexity, and glaring with an unna tural brightness. The first idea this spectacle 'initiated was poison --an idea previously entertained by the practitioners already in act/adobes. A consultation took place, sod antidotes for vegetable poison being adminis tered, it wee agreed that a strict investigation should at once be set on foot. It was ascertained that the patient had been in the habit of drinking ash-leaf tea —the only beverage of which the rest of the family did sot usually partake—and some of it was pro deeed. The family medical attendant incautiously drank halt a wine-glass of it, and was very noon seized with symptoms similar to those under which the patient laboured, and which were sow discovered to resemble the usual results of belladonna. Testa for that poison were immediately applied with soo ore, mad then powerful remedies given, both to the original patient and to the now one, for that special ponce. After a severe struggle, both podiums gra dually recovered. It appeared that the ash-leaves bad been applied far at a herbalist's shop, which the plarrician visited i endow asking for some more ash-leaves, a paper bag weepredemd from a eerier. It was without label orally MONS of estiogslider the sentents from those of the husdrad dist paper begs that were lying about. He Inisissi whether his paths& had hem supplied from thst Iwo and was answered In the alliterative. He fro m the leaves, and famed them to be leaves of the hsilsilsnua phial Pubes atomism sontot be too strongly drawn to this feet, and thrillers I am desirous of publishing it in your widely simulated solemn& In this country herb-shops are universally kept by persons in no way qualified to deal with the dangerous and deadly of many of the drugs they aell. It fortu nately that, in the peeesat instanos,the Yin good circumstances, and was, therefore, able to ware the best molisal treatment in the ppeaassm memner i but I wish it enighWeAlly to he eisr. that Iherbehops ahomd in pose sediesde. and that hose are Maly the medidess of the peer, taken and odmiais tssod sad Igneemtly. Ia sash mess it is impemilde to detect mistakes. Deaths my esear—and I venture to add do salwr.--ammest the humbler Mese% of which we hem making, awd the origin of whisk, if thoroughly Mustigated, ' might be traced to some poisonous herb ha& from a herh-shop Ia lams, and I believe all over the continent, no mesa Co allowed to sell herbs who le not duly quell led to de se by previous study of medical botany. Every lerlosellw is bound to undergo an maim tine, mmd emeat apes. Wm without a licence and certified's@ of his abElity to dispense vegetable medi cines with salleisat accuracy and care to prevent disaster. lime a law is more hortatively called for in this osentry dim I vesture to assert, air perms out of M espesielly in the direly populated disteists, when medicol quackery aad MANI sarntitise take disastrous effect ars the wedding eisessmaidely through the 'medium of herbs sad berbelbas, Finally, I de blip that amidst the storm of profes sional *quibble whisb always arise whomever medi ates is legislated for, the important and dangerous Blowy enjoyed by ignorant herbalists to pare the publis by assidemt will, in the next bill for regale dog tbe rmdesef ssedicins, be ellestually abated, if aot abods—l OMEGA. MN _6otltl. WINDSOR, JAS. 9. Esti sad Comatose Granville arrived yesterday sitiesses as s visit to boy Majesty. Tie disbar party iselodsi the Dulles of Kos; Us Prisms Royal, the Cent If lisadan, Rol owl Comatose 011111VIUS. the &Wm Misistsr ad Noars vas Is Weyer, Lady P...y Rework Bosses de Bps*, Colossi the Mau. J. sot Lady Serail Lb..y, sod Capella lkssaßs. TM bead et tbe sad Life Chords played der*/ Aimee. The ChMIS'S private bead Ohl!Mt& perleraied La As Comide. • leritaliew, eessisdag of Mr. Hewes, Mr. Whaleley, Mr. IlLestlegt, M.P.. Mr. Teatimes, Mr. Jude. sad Mr. Lawrie, bell so Interview with the Wen Hem. Bis Beejeania Hill yesterday, at the OMee el Wort, la relatics to the pre med reed semi Bt. Jaasseeliark. TM Deans it Yet, ataladad by Lady Faaay Howard lad Sr Oasis Gam snivel I. Landes yesterday mania. tram Mr riaidaraa, Frrissere. Ha Bevil Hier. saes retsrsed by the Great Wasters Railway is the atterseen, Deopeienee ben the Gemmed Heligoland were /1111101 yeestedeg at the Cedesiel-eSse. THE COUNCIL OF WAR AT PARIS. PARIS, VizaxisnAT lITIVINII. 11 rag. The Doke at Canabeidas has arrived at the Tail*. risg. Oteateal La Manages bag arrived, sad is at Mourices Hotel. Othse wises of tits scatagil ban tikowias mashed Part. TM Dyke et Ilsesissstsr has Need the Decals isi Catiedli•lirmlesse. bees Lust eiest Cads. The Mastitis el Hattiorti is stipseted in town at the der of the peek. tram Pads. The Earl of Weieseelearl lies tabs the awoke is Cassrlish•sqsan, Ismorly the sisilisas sr dm Issi Vissoust Battaart, 1 The Coast de Flambe (aye the Easessapsslion el Ikestah) is ft mad' stoat a hrtaight fa Upland. The D.k. of Basaket was remained at a private aadiemea as Ileaday, by Lap loarsig. at Loam. W. (Iforteigy Pad) lose .o dine in stating, with relismoss to the rammued dash .1 Indy Ilakaberosib, whisk ww aamseased a liaw days we fa ow path omen pandaew. that the hail, of hat ladyship MVO 10111014 loam lam bet. awed Damns.. Deessabst 10. Hie Iwaliawey the Amnion Moister enter- Wined a hip pasty ef the Cows Diplematigns at Mawr, lam swaleg, at hh nsidsses fa Uppw Harlay-samst. In nsply to mend 1101100peedinete respeetiag Wil liam ralmos, she passes aessnad al warder, babe ea sr tiwiliSMl yesedOsear, we (Lamm) wa wavy w tap Was, shoe undsagaiag Ws yeadsasisad «bawl= at Is liambe lownes Ilsepllal. la whisk institatlea ha nod tam ap peinemnil of beasowswee. he was admdtiell a member at the Limbs Oillage el lbw= ea the lith et Amy" 1840. _ • LATEST INTELLIGENCE. TEXT OF THE PROPOSITIONS f____ SUBMITTED TO RUSSIA. • [it. Daly Nan publishes the folievlag is ileetsti Edifice] The hedependance Belge publishes the following as the text of the propositions submitted to Bassi& by Count Beterhszy "1.-THE DAN SIAM PIINCIPALITIM " Complete abolition of the Rani= protectorate. The Danubian Principalities shall receive an organi nation conformed to their wishes, their neesseitiee, 1 sad their interests ; sad this new cepniaation, respecting which the population itself shall be con united, shall be recognised by the contracting Powers and sanctioned by the Behan as emanating from his Sovereign initiative. No State shall be able under any pretext whatsoever, under any form of Proton tont., to intermeddle is the questions of the internal administration of the Principalities. The latter will adopt a definite permanent system called for by their geographical position, and no obetaele shall be interposed to prevent them from fortifying, as they ethane, is self-defence their territory against all foreign aggression. “ In exchange for the strong places sad territory occupied by the Allied Arran, Ramie amnesty to a reotificatisa of her frontier with European Turkey. She will leave the envirous of Chotyai [in Bear 'this], follow the line of the heights stretching is a sontli.eset direction, and terminate at Lake Salysk. The plan of this rectification shall be definitively regulated by general treaty, and the oonoeded ter. rilory shall return to the Principalities and the sus► rainty of the Porte. "IL—Taz DANIISZ. "The freedom of the Danube and of the months of the river shall be elleacionsly assured by the Widnes* of Raropean international law, in which the con tracting Power, shall be eqsally represented t exempt ing the private positions of lords of the soil on the banks, which will be regulated upon the principles established respecting river navigation by the treaty of the Congress of Vienna. each of the contracting Powers shall have the right to station one or two light vessels at the months of the river, in order to insure the anemia of the regulations relative to the kudos of the Danube. um.-SLAG[ BEA "This sea shall be opened to sterehant vessels t closed to alp of war. Coesequatly naval arsenals shall neither be sweated nor preserved. The protection of the seeniesrelal anal saddles laureate at all nations shall be amend in the respective ports in the Black Bea by the of institutes conformed to internationial law and anoint usages in this matter. The two nowise powers mattrally sogegs to keep up may the number of light meals, of a stipalated erne* neesseary fee the coasting menial. This denintles, nessinded separately between the two Power% slain germ a pert ea an appendix et the enamel treaty after having bssa approved of by the mistreating perties. This separate sonvattion shall neither be annulled nor modified without tie ammo of the subscribers to the general treaty. The dein dee straits shall admit an exception la favour of tim stationary vessels mentioned in the primate NW& N N.—Cauimic SMUTS 01 TEI PORT& • The insanities of the Itsyah subjoins of the Porte shall be established without injury to the in depend's,' or the dignity of the Sultan's crown. Bose deliberatioos are taking place between Austria, Francs, Great britais, and Sublime Porta, to . order to assure to the Christian ',bleats of the Salton their religions and political rights, and Russia shall be invited, on the onelssion of prase, to associate herself with thew. ii V.—Tho bolliproat powers mum the rights which below to them to goodoos, is the interest of Bosom sous special oostlitioos bookies the foot parsatsss.• The madaeatal joaraale Melia* to the opinion that Karin hae Misted the above propoutioas, bat, at the same time, bee made overture• for farther liege dation. DESPATCH FROM PRINCE GORTCHAILM THE CAVALRY ENGAGEMENT NEAR BERME. The becaiide Rem of lan. 1 publishes en extract from Prince Gortehakoff 's journal, extending froze Dee. 6to Des. 16. The only points of interest are the pertionlers of an excursion node by a Russian caw at night into a portion of the city of Sebas topol occupied by the Allies, end the following se coast of the engsgeonsat with Anglo-Tarkish ca valry near Lorick (deeceibed by our own correspond ent in a letter printed in yesterday's Express): As mgormost of osystry ink plan is Ms 16th, um Kassel, bemoan brown of Ms AnglaTooldols beim sad ammo Commas of SIM oomblmosi roglimat of Tollsomomoolm. Tim commander of Ibis reglimai, Lieut.-Wesel !Waal harts. leaned Met a &thalami of Tarkieb Gantry MI left Kerte& for the pupate of foraging fa tb direr*. of the villages of Dore and Nebo Beim ordered Emir' Tolstoi to tabs sixty Ceareke of kis sotais, sad wet.► then, mates the latter Ism to be at the was tbso sap. ported by all Mats of Iformteal-Bbelest. =ripa TIMM, esiessusisi s stress sgsadres et rope lar Turkish amity sou Ratak fell bask slowly spes the village tlestemellhea, eitehregles sheet eel* the mammy. At the letter pies' he wesJeised by the amok et Irseemiel libelist, hot the two eseablasi ask lalmise is smooch to the soney, they eestbssol a Mira stop by step, thus estielsi the Tyke, Is a .Mawr saw, a distaste et men the■ eight vents. At Ski jeastun Liestesast•Oelesel bievieg the village et £z 1. with the net of ►M males, sheered Mussel' la the dimes's, sad Brigs TIMM mid the Iressesol-ilholset, wiliest Mapping estil he sum up, threw themselves tospitsemly apes the enemy's olsedies, the letter &Aloe hewer/ le met them Tb. Maks bums Wiwi; the Turks heght QIN TS. gemsly, bet is. MM. saemy's Alma beim weeaded, ewe, hem the Add of buds, serl eb Basilek same oem smadies the mewirea bent grievously weeaded by • phosi Met hem liatigu Tokeral, sM baying bees wade prl seam, the meow took M eight. Wavle( two is hag as the Lid sad sighty-twe weeaded. Lina,Celeasl Mask' sirloin at this moment, puma the gamey op to the rankles K lisgher (tea masts hem Lerters), awl took fee mere prisms's. Ws led ks this alhir es. sersemasis shawl Whim kale& sal aim Oemeeks mamba. OMER PACRAIS RETREAT. WZDIIMBOLY. Medal reports hom Maeda mamas, that Omar Pasha has rotmatsd with his Mho army to Rsdost K. His troop Wired mph fres the iseleueent w... they. Our detachments, laelediag the Hippsllea militia, greatly hasped the rear el the Torkhih army. The Nemo Military Ossedie leans from its aoe napoadaat at Redoat Lad' that the Talks there an usable to aosesaisatt► with Swaim' Kaiak by had. The reigaisi Duke of Ileze•Ceberg-Oothe has eseepted the Presideasy ef ea lesasatiea he the relief d Wend emedieme eai wises. QUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. (MOM OCR SPECIAL CAMP, SEBASTOPOL, Dia 28. TYe• is very little of interest to eanmunicate from this put of the seat of war by the present mail. In addition to the coatirmation of the former intelligence respecting the fall of Kars, we now bear that the Russian forces have archived to intercept Omer Pacha's communications with the coast. The Otto• man Generalissimo is said to be in difficulties, unable to advance, or to fall back, without great hacud, and to have applied to the Allies for assistance. There was a rumour yesterday in camp that • fora WS about to be detached to Asia for the purpose of is having the Turkish troops; but to-day we hear that the only troops likely to be sent with this object, arg i l a portion of the Turkish Contingent, previously des- 1 I tined to 00-operats in that quarter. The weather has continued very mild since the last mail left, until to-day, when the frost has again been severe. Chriatinse-day, like that of last year, was bright, dry, and sunny, with an atmosphere as re uplendeat as it was exhilarating. In all parts of the c►mp, from the head-quarters of the Commander-in- Chief to the ►uts of the private soldiers, Christmas parties were assembled, and the usual fare of the sea son abounded. It is satisfactory, too, to be able to say that, although there was plenty of merriment, there appeared to be very little SIMS ; for in the various camps there was lees noise, and less evidence of intoxication, than occurred on several omissions a math or six weeks ego. The rations issued to the men continue to be exoel lent in quality and sufficient in quantity. The advantages which have accrued from the atten tion paid to this subject, as well as to the clothing, are nowhere more apparent than in the appearance presented by the greater number of the recruits and young soldiers, sent to reinforce the older regiments in the muss tithe autumn. Thies young men are not only, as a general rule, in robust health, but are rapidly gaining sturdy frames and vigorous constitu tions, which will oasis them, on the return of spring, to be no trifling opponents in the face of the enemy. They feel the benefit of escaping from the crowded towns to which many of them have been habituated in England; and now that the duties are light, diet and shelter good, they have scarcely anything hostile to health to contend against, but the mischief arising from the temptations to intoxication. It is to be deplored that so little recreation is to be got by the men, excepting what is &and in the canteen. The regimental hospitals are nowhere crowded. and what sick there are are repotted to be suffering only from snob ailments as are usually met with at this season in England. It is stated in camp that some Russian and Sar dinian pickets came into collision on the evening of the 26th instant, but the particulars we not known. The enemy is apparently very busy in the Maoksnitie heights. increasing the defames. A large body of troop ma be seen to be working at the sammit of the ridge, near to which the main road leaves the Tobernaya valley, and winds to ascend toward Mad:se:Ws farm. They seem to be throw ing up a square redoubt in this potation. There ham not been any sleekening of the tin from the north side. On CheihLaarday and evening the discharge d shot and shell was remarkably ootatintione. No gas 'nosed fire from the math side. The Russians are closely watched, for is some of the bays across the roadstead a large number of rafts and small boat@ can be NM lying alongside the shore. They may be curious to and out why the Fneek batteries have ceased their fire. Should they come across for the rupees of discovering, they will find a fitting reception. DESPATCHES PROW GENERAL ER W. CODEINGTON AND LIEUT..OEN. VIVIAN. WAIL DIMILRTMENT, JAN. 9. Lord Penmen has this day received two despatches, of which the following are copies, eddrewed to his lordship by O.IIIIMI 8w W. Codriegton, 1LC.11., and Lieutenant-Om& Vivian : Sebastopol. Deo. 27. My Lord,—Your lordship km referred is amoral despatches to dmakenesse la this array. Reports of all sorts ems to have hem simulated, statements read,desoriptiess made, until it was apparently be lieved that this army was composed of drunkards, and immersed in riot and vise. I took the efezpreedeg arpeUetreagly to year that ity Me wosM prove set to be the truth. laow state, in aneflanation of thin opinion. that returns are is my pommies from every regiment of all ours of denalcsunses tried by Cast Martial, as well as those settled at the nemesia orderly rooms 'for three months.' It was daring this time that larrears of field allowance, awe than 21. each man, wore received sa back pay, besides 10,000 men re ceiving additional working pay ; and yet the result is that, including artillery, sappers, and infantry, the number of crimes of dcentiens (and than an many more than the sews drunk) is a little above ono man in two days pre company, estimated at 100 mu. No doubt there are may fasilitise in all this. epos' sad crowded camps, for 11111111 MB MU to get is with out being men. isy _de oa t and map observation. Bat Bopp', we Mails es INN, the assunt of these numbers—whish arie takes from Atoka ratans --and I awed - tbs army will bear s comparison with many towns, =ay villager, many populations of Groat Britain. It is easy to give—it is 'fumy to read—a minute, a ludicrous, or even a filthy description of a drunken man, and it seems seized upon as the tips of the whole. The fathers, and mothers, and wives, and sisters in England, are fully persuaded we do nothing bet drink, and the good character of the army is for gotten in a few sketches from nature. That such need not be the case with those who know anything shoat the matter, will, I think , be proved by the statement now m ade to your lord ship.—l ham, Sta. W. J. CODRINOTON, Guard Commanding. The Lord Peasant, &o. Headquiten, Kirsch, Dee. 21. My Leed,—l have with meth regret to report to you the death of Captain R. 8. Sherwood, of the cavalry of this force. This sneer was engaged to a skirmish. that took place on the 16th instant, between a debeehment of sir cavalry and a party of Beesiaa wally his gal lantry in this affair was most esneyieues, as is re ported to me by the came who summeded the de taameaL Captain Sherwood wee severely mended, and was earried off by the Rnesiams; and, as I have since learnt, died en the 79th from his wounds. Tduipio;; war as and promg run calor. li s reams to believe that the treatment he resolved from the Hessians wee met humane and ecesiderate. —I have, Ste., R. J. H. VIVIAN, Lieut.-General, Commending Turkish Contingent. The Right. Has. the Seeretery of State, War Deportment. • Fe dentsesbur, Oneber. sad November. DENMARK. The Pea pablishee the Mewing despatch t " HAMBURG, Jai. 9. 4 4 The Denieh geverusest. la a eirerder addressed to the various &reps= States, mews tlis &mime tic, in virtu el whisk it pulite in sostinufng its position as a mural Power, and &ethics to adroit that it is baud La any way by the treaty eouladed an the Kist of Number between Sweden and the Western POIPOW THB TURKISH ARMY IN ASIA MINOR. TREBIZOND, Dec. 22. ' Our Turkish friends in this city are just beginning to believe that Kars% no longer the property of the Ottoman empire. For a long time after the news of its surrender was fully confirmed they shook their heads, gave that peculiar smack of the lips which can after great practice be imitated but never described, and declared the ill-omened intelligence to be the work of the unbelievers. Among the most obstinately incredulous was Bossier hishomet Fiche, the new governor of Trebizond, but he has lately been con vinced by incontrovertible evidence. He happened to be at the house of the English consul when Dr. Saudwith, lately on the staff of General Williams, entered. Dr. Ssndwith is the first arrival here from the ill-fated ci'y. His liberty having been given to him by General Monravieff in consequence of the great kindness and attention he had paid to the wounded Russians after the snoomsful repulse, he lett Kars on its being sur rendered, and crossed the country to Mitotic°, whence a steamer brought him here. On the way he lost all that he possessed, and very nearly his life, in a snow drift, in which his servant, a Turk, unfortunately met his death. He managed to enlist the sympathies of a native, who furnished him with some clothes, which gave him an appearance highly picturesque, if not pleasant. It will be very interesting to learn—and the ques tion is one which must very soon be answered—why Kars was left for six months in • state of siege un assisted, whilst Selim Paths lay at Erzeroam, bat a few days' march, with a large force, constantly pro mising but never affording help. Back apparently strange movements have been made in the present war, that one does not care to peae • hasty judgment upon one who is considered • highly competent gene ral ; but still the question naturally forces itself upon every one, Why did not Omer Pada, when he brought his army from the Crimea, land it at Trebi zond, and thence by way of Erzeroum lend a timely aid to a city crying so long for "relief"? Why should he have chosen the vague and nucertain course of a chance diversion by disembarking at Boukkom Kaleh and advancing in the direction of Tiflis ? Until the last few days it was scarcely possible to imagine, from the placid appearance of this town, that a bloody war was raging at a few hours' distance. An occasional transport arriving from Redoubt Kaleb, and lying lazily in the bay till such time as the au thorities would quietly charge it with provisions, or perhaps a Turkish man-of-war, without any guns, dawdling at its anchorage because the captain's &ima ms& prognosticated a storm on the following day, was the oily evidence of the existence of a large army in the neighbourhood. But times are changed. Now that Kars is lost troops are appearing daily in niasses—just as I remember observing, with some imminent, 6,000 Turks arrive in hot haste at the scene of action of the " Tchernaya" exactly as the last shot was fired. The Colombo mane in a few days since with Egyptian troop, from Espatoria, and was followed by the Simoom, the Tynemouth, and some others, all with crowded decks from the same place. The Simoom left again to-day, to bring a further reinforcement. At the present moment num vessels are in the bay pitching and tossing about, for the weather is rough and a heavy swell is rolling in shore. Unfortunately this is mealy the worst season for landing here, and now it is often to be accomplished only with some amount of danger. I saw yesterday two soldiers heavily laden with knapsack and musket, whilst being shifted from one boat to another, suddenly dis appear in the water se a huge swelling wave sepa rated the two boats. Luckily they were seised hold of es they reappeared, and thus escaped with a severs drenching. The destination of these troops is at present un known. The lateness of the season, and the conse quent depth of snow lying on the roads between Erseroem end Hare, render it highly improbable that any attempt will be made to regain the latter place this year. There is no doubt, however, that early next spring the campaign will commence with an attack upon Ears, and the mast reasonable conclusion is that t he se troops, and more which are expected daily, will winter at Trebixond and in the neigh bouring towns, so is to be on the spot to take ad vantage of the breaking of the weather. It is rumoured about the town that no lees than 30,000 seen will be accumulated here in the war,' of a few days. If so, considerable energy will be required to till so many =oaths, as we are by no means over stocked with provisions. The country around has been tolerably well drained to supply the Allies in the Crimes. The price of all kinds of food is high, and there is great distress among the poorer inhabitants. The experiment made by the British government to introduce into the Turkish army something like humanity in their treatment of the sick and wouoded is now being tried here. Mr. Farqnhar, the Acting In speetoeof Hospitals, arrived here from Soukkum Kaleb in the beginning of November, charged by Omer Paella with the immediate preparation of a hospital. He has at present with him only a small portion of his Staff, consisting of Messes. Sozzled, Pout, and Ed sell, surgeons ; Mews. Balding and Skinner, dressers ; and Mr. Smith, dispenser. The remainder are either in the field with Omer Pacha or at Sinop*, where another hospital is being established. The quaran tine establishment, which during war time is no burger tenanted, was chosen, and workmen were im mediately instructed to make the necessary altera tions and repairs. The absence of anything like scientific workmen in this city is so complete that the English doctors, waiving for the time their professional capacities, acted as architects, sur veyors, builders, &c. Whilst one devoted his energies to the erection of a bath-hones, aoothn superintended with a vigilant eye the con version of magazines into wards for the sick ; a third, the arrangement of huge boilers with their furnaces ; a fourth, the preparation of bedding, &o. With this infusion of British energy the works pro. grassed marvellously, to the great astonishment of all true believers, and in less than a month, when some three hundred Tunisians arrived front Batonm, they found a hospital prepared for their receptioc,rough ilia true, but much more comfortable than anything they had ever seen before. The coed ition of these poor fellows was perfectly appalling. The Turkish soldiers are wonderfully smart when screwed with their Arabic friends. At first sight they looked like mere bundles of brown dirty rags, and then forcibly reminded one of the starving inhabitants of some villages in the south-west of Ireland as seen during the last famine. A Tunisian officer informed me that of more than 10,000 of these troops who were at Branum in the early part of summer, less than 3,000 are now alive ; the remainder have fallen victims to ague, fever, and d ysen tery. On the 2nd of this month the Stella arrived from Constantinople with Turkish troops on board, en route for Erzerosen. Cholera had appeared amongst them, and twenty or thirty cases were immediately ad mitted into the hospitaL Fortunately the disease did not spread in the town. A few days since an other batch of sick Tunisians, about four hundred in number, arrived from Batoueo, so that the medical staff have now, I think, no reason to complain of want of employment. News from the front, which is however not recent, on account of the late tempestuous weather having stopped communication, describes Omer Pacha as in full retreat upon Sough-idi on the Ingour, and the road* between that place and Redoubt Hsieh are said to be Winked up with wow. If this be true the expedition is of course over for the winter, and if the relief of Lire was its object, it has turned oat an utter failure. Report mays that Omer Nobs, with a portion of his array, is likely to winter hers. Tho Loudon oorroopoodoot of Le Nord to bine tattle. to that journal as analysis of the toms epos which tle Allies ate ready to make posse (SIIIM IS smother seisms) states that the doesneat itself was is hie hash fo► a shut tisas, sad that he was allowed to take a espy of it. ~ Oa the first representation of a new pies* by hi. Almada Dame, at the Pert* St. Martin, ea Saturday evoniag, the Meade of *at prolific slather pave him a W eald's.* ovation, sad erieepelled bias to or.. upon the Map to niters the patilleutiea of the audiesee. The Ililonia of Milan, of the 29th ult., states that the provisions of tin Conardat wan applied be be lint tins at 11111•• •• trio prnediag day. whoa Um jailbird authorities referred a ten, la whisk • ptiest yes esunned. M the iodise elf the Asehbiehep. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (11011 001 OWN COIIISPONDINN.) PARIS, WIDNISDLT EVENING, A supplemental triumphal entry into Paris of troops returning from the war in the Crimea took place to-day. The 39th and 50th regiments of the line (both of which took a distinguished part in the capture of Sebastopol), and a battalion of voltigeurs of the Guard, assembled this morning at tea o'clock on the Place de la Bastille. There they were met by General Niel, the well-known director *1 th e engineering operations before Sebastopol, who was selected by the Emperor for this honour. There was nothing like the ceremony observed on Saturday week, the number of troops being comparatively so small, and, of course, there was not so great a crowd. But the fraternisation of the people with the army was even more conspicuous than on the former grand occasion, for there being no troops to line the way, and but few sergens de villa to interfere with individual action, the Fati. bourg St. Antoine youth, in their cape and blouses, marched along, not only side by aide, bat in many cases intermingled with the troops. Greetings be. tween relations and friends were frequent. Most of the soldiers carried laurels in their hands or on their bayonets, and frequently the gamins and the soldiers struck up songs together along the line of =reit. The Emperor reviewed the regiments in the Place du Carousel. The Empress, accompanied by her ladies, appeared in the balcony of the Pavillon de Pliorloge. At the Bourse there has .been a farther fall which is attributed principally to the great decline in Con. sole. The Bente fell 15c., closing at 62fr. 70c. Credit Mobilier and Bank of France fell 6fr. each. Rail. ways were again all lower, Lyons and Geneva fell 12fr. 50c.; other lines from 2fr. 60c. to 6fr. This evening's Pattie says it is informed by " high personage" in the diplomatic world at Bet. lie f that the news of the King of Prussia having sent an autograph letter to the Czar, although antra when first promulgated, was " only premature," and is true now. The Patrie's correspondent af firms in the most positive manner that the King of Frugal* has very recently written a letter to the Emperor Alexander, advising him in the strongest terms not to deceive the hopes of the friends of pesos, and to accept the Austrian propositions. It is, how. ever, remarked—sod this is a very important obssr. vation—that the Prussian Ambeisader at St. Pe. terebarg hu cot by any personal efforts supported the advice in his Sovereign's letter, so much u was desired at Vienna. "A certain degree of rearm evidently studied, was remarked in his demeanour." When a statement like this is the strongest that the pesos party can put forward, you may judge of its value. Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, Regent of the Bank of France, has gone to Constantinople in the Borysthene. The persons who were arrested at the funeral of M. David (d'Angers) have been set at liberty. They were all students, and their only offence wu that of cryieg " Vin la Liberte." The fact of this cry having been attend is openly stets(' in the Wele of this morning. The Emperor has decided that a certain number of representations at the Orand Opera shall be given foe the entertainment of the troops returned from the Crimea. The first of these performances will take place on Saturday next, when Jovita will be given, with the overture to the Muette, and a cantata sang by ffirleymard. The non•commisssioned officers and soldiers are to be seated in the pit, the amphitheatre stalls, and the third and fourth rows of boxes, whilst the orchestra stalls will be reserved for the officers, The performance is to common°e each night at • quarter to eight, and will terminate before half-pset ten. The Borsenhalle of Hamburg publishes a despatch announcing that M. Fontes, Finance Minister of Portugal, has concluded a loan in Paris of 1,600,000 fr. LIFE AT ROME. (mow ova OWN !DINT.) ROMS, Din. 31. Rome has received an enormous influx of visitors: the hotels are overflowing; the churches, galleries, and antiquities are besieged by indefatigable lion. hunters, whilst fox-hunters from the three kingdoms (cliactos a ens gout) scour the Ceram/nit and maks the welkin mug with their joyous taUy-ho! The Piffentri have done serenading the Madonna, to the great relief of such irritable persons as are averse to the strains of the bagpipe at five o'clock in the morn. lug, and the more elaborate performers belonging to the French and Roman military bands are curds• ing their musical talents under the windows of their respective officers, to elicit the largesse customary at this period. A perfect furor attended the opening of the theatrical carnival season on the 26th inst., and the ticket office of the Apollo Theatre was assailed by such a mob of ferocious dilettanti, many of whom had been waiting around the doors since six o'clock in the morning, that several persons were severely injured in their frantic struggles to obtain the precious piece of pasteboard. On the evening of the first performance, the Governor of Rome, or as he is now denominated according to the new ministerial nomenclature, the Director of Police, a prelate of course, made his state entry into the opera-house, escorted by gendarme, firemen, and torchbearers, and his appearance in the official box was the signal for the opera, the Troratore, to commence. After the second act the ancient cite , tom was revived, of sending refreshments at the governor's expense to the occupants of the second and third tiers of boxes, which are usually taken foe the season by the timbre/odors and nobility. At the same moment all the box doors were thrown open, and a hundred and forty servants appeared, two at each box, bearing ices, biscuits, and wax candles. The effect was extremely brilliant, and the reverend prelate was much lauded for his liberality. Apropos of prelates, Monsignor Antinori, one of the auditors of the Sacra Roots tribunal. has, with his Holiness's permission, doffed the prelatical garb to enter the holy state of matrimony. Although not actually in holy orders, it is very rare to see en ecclesiastical functionary of such high rank abandon celibacy. Amongst the arrivals at Civita Vecchia on &Om. day, the 29th, by the Marseilles boat, was Sir John Carmichael. His state of health was so bad that he was with difficulty conveyed on shorn, and expired at the hotel during the night. It is singular that this is the fourth baronet who has only survived by a few months his accession to the family title. 1 THE POLITICAL AFFAIRS OF THE UNITED 8 FATES. (FROM MR NEW YORK, Du. 26. Let see first explain briefly the romans why om Congress has not yet organised, and proceeded to business. We are a strange people. We must be strange people, or Englishmen would comprehend as better. It certainly seems strange that a new Con. gems, composed (in its popular branch) of 234 dele gate., freshly elected by the people, should come together, and strive, writhe, and struggle for three weeks without being able to elect a Speaker. The reuses are obvious. We are pacing through a poli tical revolution. It is attended by no bloodshed—it is marked by no comp d'aat—it is hardly a period of general political excitement. But it is, theirs, • period that will be marked for ever in our political annale--• revolution that is working deep in ths hearts of the American people. Other nations may not, and do not understand it—but e• know it, and feel it ; and we trace its progree from day to day, and hour to hour. I will rapidly r