The Express. — London, England, 1856-03-05 00:00:00

int eX4rtoo. idweetleeelesta Int;;;leiler a iir - i;;;;;TILle Unify/pow, mire be et the Moo, 10, leseerleaireet, by Tiro Vele* co tbe ley of pubtlestloe. BIOS WATIII, AT LONDON BILIDOZ. Ti Dia —Morels, OL 42.. Mises IL IS. To-rosy —Wilds IL JUL....- Afternoon. 23. LONDON, TVEDNESDAY, MARCH 5. THE very secretly of the Plenipotentiaries stsembled at Paris is naturally the source of innumerable ru mours. It is scarcely necessary to put the English public on its guard spinet the inventions of stock jobbers, or of would-b.: important., who give them selves tits of ksowiug more than the rest of the world. All that is really known beyond the" charmed circle" is, that the negotiations at Paris are proceed ing most enc:aragingly and that the sole topics which have eogaged the attention of the Plenipoten tiaries, view the adjustment of the protocol embody ing the proposals which are to serve in lien of a preliminary treaty. are the terms proposed by the Allies under the fifth point. It requires no spirit of divination to feel assured that the °coo patios of the Aland Islands, and the restoration of Yam must be among the most prominent of these terms. The latter is 63 much a matter of course, that we can anticipate no objection to it on the part of Russia. Bat any proposals respecting the Aland blanche that can give oonSdence to Sweden are likely to be keenly contested. The security of Sweden ought, however, to be a aims qua non with the Allies. They have placed that Power in a poul tice of marked antagonism to Runde, and are bound in honour to see that it takes no scathe in eousequence. We directed attention, on a former occasion, to the , well•founded apprehensions entertained in Sweden on this score; and the news which have since reached us, of active preparations to improve the defences of Stockholm, currobirate what we then stated. We repeat that Russia ought, at the very least, to be bound by express stipulations, not only not to re-fortify the Alaod Islinda, but not to construct barracks in them, or take military ooeupation of them in any way. And we hold that the best solu tion of the difficulty would be to insist upon the re stored= of the Aland Islands to Sweden--a cease which, in the present condition of Romig, she would assent to rather than risk a continuance of the war. Ao intelligent and patriotic Swede has drawn our attention to the importance of effecting a change is the frontier line which at present dieides Russia, is the north, from Sweden sad Norway. It is to be hoped that this consideration will not be overlooked in the Conferences. A DISTINGUISHED historical writer could hardly have bees engaged in a more appropriate or graceful teak then that to which Lord STANHOPE applied him self last night io the Hoes, of Lade. We trust we set a dee vales on thaw important contributions to mar historical literwore which the noble lord has fur nished in his own compositions. We are certain that be will not misuoderstand as when we my that the ;oast in which he was engaged last night was by no means the least of the services which he has in this aepeet rendered to his countryman. 'The formation of a gallery of original portraits, consisting of the mat eminent persons commemorated in British history, is one of thaws proposals which, like many other valuable suggestions, is so obvious when aces made that every one wonders it was not made beets. Bash a collection would in the highest and truest seem be a reel Pictorial History of England. It would give new life to our annals. It would personify the Past. In places of that dignified bat somewhat cold abstraction, " Philosophy teashiag by examples," we should have the vivid and glowing reality of History speaking in Portraits. Let any student of the more familiar portion of our shrookles only reflect on the comparative blank they would have been to him in tie total absence of all traditional lineaments of the 'hie arbors is the sense. What would Bluff Hal. have bees to us but for HOLBEIN, or Quails the Finer bet fee Yaw. mita? Is it nothing to know that LAUD was mean end narrow in features as in soul; to see despotism onaosntrated on the pale brow and Srm set lips of Wartwoars ; to read en the rugged lineameets of CaonwEii the spirit of battle and of empire —craft and courage in the lines of the mOsth—rsgue depths et reverie in the inscrutable eye? The sroa who speak to us through their books reveal their naiads more than dx' who are 'slily known to es by their deeds ; and yet what reader of SHAEOPIAZE, or MILTON, Of BACON, does not crave for that additional knowledge of the man which an authentic portrait is Nimble of giving? Any fairly reliable presentment of a great man's features is eagerly accepted by most of es as batter than none at all. Bet an original portrait—an actual transeript from the living fees— is a gratificat ion of a far higher order. It heap back to us the &parted greatness with a reality which nothing else can. The eyes whose glance the artist has mimicked on that canvas gazed tip= it even as we are piing now ; the lip. whom lineaments we trees so curiously have often parted to address the muter of that cunning hand which bee produced their their semblance for our gratideatios. The original portrait is more than a mere mechanic link, it is a spiritual medium, with the past. That these feelings really operate strongly upon all of as none can doubt who have observed die general attractiveness of portraits even in those gal levies that are rich in masterpieces of imaginative art. Is it ail tree r is the child's first question whoa it hears its first story. Those grown children, ass and worsen, so far carry with this into after llfi the feelings of their first estate, that eves la ideal presentments they always reqabe a basis of reality and truth. Nymphs, Fans, Venoms, Madame even, receive frost many the Mee homage.( emcees, bat the original portraits of great men m elte a real and hearty interest in all classes of sp a . tater. alike. Lord STAxaciea takes as his inetemse the portrait gallery of Verlaine.; he adght base takes a still sironger example. and referred to that apartment is the gallery of Florence, which is filled with the portraits of the great painters. While Baffselites linger before the " Fornaiiaa " and "Pope Julius,' and pre-Raffeelitee are worshipping at the shrines of CIMABUI sad CIIIITTO, the petrel stream of visitors will often be found face to hoe with the por traits which show how lismatAa himself leeks& In the beauty of his manh oo d, and Trstatt in the in of be age. That such a canary as Lord ..."AN1101.2 propene would be of signal envies to Art as well es t. History is abundantly manifest. Asa more series el , paintings by various hands from the taiga el HURT VII. to the reign of VICTORA, it would poses great' interest to the art student. To the artist engaged is great histories! works it would be et the highest eels' as supply leg a ready means of refereese ea all' (regions imenested with the outs.. sad decoradea of the period span which be was engaged. We quits agree with the views expressed by Lord SE4IIIIOPR as to the best !rode of practically carrying out his pr,posal. Three things are wanted : a gallery in which the pictures destined to form the nucleus of the collection should at ones' be hong; 'body en trusted with the power of selesellel; 'appall% the public funds of the country. ;ft" to the point, Marlborough House, seen tion of the Palace, o r Westmiettehld appear to be the nicht naiifeit • and atiptOpitate receptacle for the infant collection; and we agree with Lord REDEsDALE that it will be better, in the event of • -sew National Gallery being emoted, to allot the present building to the biographical colic°. tioo of England's worthies, than to desecrate the site by erecting • hotel ern it. That there should be a very competent body chosen for the purposes of selec tion is Olbsolutely indispensable to the success of the scheme. A rigid principle of exclusion must be adopted with regard to the portraits of the great obscure. We must not admit into the national col lection the ancestral canvasses that may have a cer- I tain value in the hall of the family mansion. Ent with the so-called Paul Veronese before us, we em pbatically protest against entrusting with • dis cretionary power of selection any body in which Sir CHARLES ELSTLAKE hest preponderating voice. The only point in which we disagree with Lord STAISHOPE is in the financial part of his scheme. 5001. a-year is far too niggardly a sum to ask of the nation for such a purpose as this. Why, we give three Omegas much per annum for a County Court Judge, and twice as much for an Attorney-General at Hong Kong. With this exception, we have not a word to urge against any portion of Lord STANHOPE'S . scheme ; and we are glad to see that the Govetament and the House of Lords gave it the cordial reception it deserved. ) Ulom ebe Court. The Duchess of Bent visited the Queens yesterday, at Buckingham Pekoe. Prince Albert ride on horeetirti, attended by Captain the HO5. Dainty de Roe. The Primo of Walla and Priam Alfred, attended by Mr. Gibbs, visited the British Massaro. _ The Dualism of Kent, attended by Lary Panay Howard and Sir Ger rge Coupe?, arrived in tows yesterdry morning, from her residimee, Prmmore, near Windsor. Her Royal Highaess paid a 'Wit, I. the 'frenetic, to the Thelma of Oloccester, at Gloucester Home, Piccadilly, sad afterwards left het redeem., Clamor RCM!, St. James% on her ts• tura to Fromm. A deputation from the Boer Trod* Society, eassiating of Mr. Bishop, Secretary, Mr. J. Boesch*, Mr. H. Mum, and Mr. 8 Dll-011, had as intoniew with Sir Guide Grey, yes. tardily, at the Hente.oflice. A &potation from the imhabitants of lelloprosa bad en in terview yeaterlay, with the Witt Hoe. W. Cowper, M.P President of the Ontorsl Board of Health, at hie Office, Wititehell The dipatatints consisted of Messrs. Gleam, 0.8. 8. Wiltlerm, Frederick D. Edwards, Maffei°, Atwell, end Lastos. A eepotation from fkoothwick oleo had aa Interview with the President of Site General Booed of Magill, yesterday. The deputation tonsistwl of Mr. Down iag sad Mr. Chance VISIT OF THE KING OF THE BELGIANS. WINDSOR, Tusstur. Her Majesty will entertain the Hing of the Bel l/jaw darts. bla stay la Ragland at Wisdior Cattle. The Wog, it is wanted, 1411 laud is this aseauy es Vl* 17th irtaiet, at which use the Gout wiU arrive haw how Bsektatritss Palos, Mt the Baster wwatioe. Shcray artcr his llojesty's arrival t►. Priories Royal will be claimed la t►. Chapel Repel of 81. Oeorp. atta.teaats have hiss prorated lee his liejosty os the meth aide el the Castle. It is laid that Clammiest will become me of the royal rasideatei attached to this coast. Tbe Kim a the &lea's •ill 1.11/1112 at tin walk wail Mowlay, Um Mitten. Hoe kayo] Mohan' Übe Dodoes of Hoot wAI cootioso W wads at Yrognon-lidgo tatill lb. coast Wiadsor. (runt LAST WIGIIT'S cumin.) OFFICE. FIR. 6.—Notice is ►er•by gives, that h•r X j , a., will bold a levee at Bt. Jaumees Pales*, ea Wodeeettay the 12th of Marsh next, at two e'eleek. DOWNING-MEET, MARCH I.—The Qeeen by been pletsead to eppolat Jesse P. Hollins, Esq., to be auditor of public wisest' for the bland of Barbados. Her }Nosey has also bees pleased is appoint Joha Teaks Lloyd, Beg sad Sir &wad Osborne Ottawa. Bert., to be assa►bare of ON Legislative Camel el Nev Z•alud. MAKE 3. —Tba Queen has bees pleand to present the Rev. Dasald Ilsoklawen is the *bomb sad pariah of Strati., la the ambits ry mad Ws of meant by the dealt of tha Rev. John alsoltiaaoa. INe alabter thoaeo► _ _ _ WHITWIAIIa UMW 3.—The Qsses has bees pleased le and William Charles Herr* Iraq.. skid' sae- I &labia 01_ 4 , For,el Beau, sot Caplais Douglas Wi.liesa Pariolk 1 00 8,1 w r, iddpeedad ntpetiateedest of the astropelltait par, tip be the maistaas seamsWenis of polies of AO raveopilia. TM Duke of Eatteleseb, lab dame Id town to attend t►e meat &Was is the Noose of Loris, ►ee Lfe Moeller' Soave for Detiroith Paleee, seer Bdiabargh. T►e Bert of Deikeith, /LP., has else ha Ilteatags Bowe forfors tear of The Duke sad Dachas of Hamilton sod family, wco me roridiog s Nisi, do cot latest' to reams to thh mammy amen tho shoo of time amain ateatli. His Orsol'a spooloos wan la Atlligloa- hoot (ft matt Boaafert Homo) fa rapidly approaohlas templed's. The Marquis sad Moralises. of Cholsmedeley have modest' la toera ter the seams, trim the family Mk Cholsoadeley Cutts, MAUI. The Coast's. of Miasmal sad the Ladies Hay, vb. bays hose geodes the whiter? at Nil% us impacted to rotors to ifampleariteetta Si. attar Bestow. Th. Bat of Beitttoa boo Wt towa for Both. bat will rotors to tit. Jaiaa's-equar• early sett week. Vinessessa Unmake% hafted party for ea today, tits lasuist, is peep:med. Sir Rabat Pail, But., M.P., sad Lady Jana Pee, UV, 114 town ea a esatissital tow, sad! aft, r the Baster bonder. _ _ _ Lad? Orabas sad Miss Chau pare wind is tam tree itstissebrpork, Cutbsaisai. The 1.. viud quassia' volitive s tbs doloo of the MMus., loots ef Windsor grill b. breosbele a SW bees he the ..One of a few weeks, me the ow *V be pet dew' for bowleg before du Muter of the Rona be Ream Term. Sandy. die dog of the Sappers and Miners, who kr o►misr redderable *starlet, for Me *dentures la tbe Crimea, was takes yesterday by bin swear. Lintreat George M. Lerpriere. R.M., to Berkiersheas Prase. r ber Majesty tbe Pere bad previously rut dews &bitter Mr re dog le be broeibt up for in luspertfol. At Bootee, the catty candidates now are Ur. Adams owl Mr. Herbert lovas. Mr. Robert is;tieg, M.P., awl Mr. Jima Midis, have nisi fled their wane la die Cronies et Um Looks add County Bank. awl Ur. J. W. Bursinator km boa oppelatni • twins in tM phiii of Mr. A bill, brewed le by Mr. Apeley Pellatt. to room ell Cie didieelties ead desk, lately eereValsed et with regard to t►e severity ef wowed elieeke bee Jul bees printed. It metals; three abut plevisions, which will sp gareetty um every regeireseet et tire ere. • Dortyy Canto,tlia ant at Lord Camara% 'whin was destroyed by ire ea fateelley, he *et bees otospiefed Ewe thaa den perk eel woo meted et a eget issoNdlss' 6 40,11061. Lied Comers*, tt Y odd, devetod to it al the mew srbich bad etereed darts; b 4 ottocrity ; tad, sie tie tonne co woe but leo 10,0001, tit pootalary lam by tbo aortae will but effigy peat. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE CONFERENCES. e BERr. Teautawilpitaa 4. 1 Vj*the recoil of a d spate from Cot* Orloff, staftsgAbat the ifteliminsplea eR r Deen signyff, approalleg deck been seat to-day bftslegruph twills Cur ILYmbinis X. The Russian Ambassador at Berlin has been imformed of this fact. A cabinet courier, with despatcheefrom Count Orloff, is at this moment passing through Berlin on hie way to fit. Petersburg. THE BAST. I[ARSEILLIB, TIIBIDLI. The preparations for the embarkation of troops for the East are more considerable than was at first said, and are made for 20,000 men. Letters from Constantinople, to the 26th, have been received. The Greeks protest: against the Hatti-Hemaimn relstive to the new reforms. This eat can much discon tent among the Glreeke, and the Turks also are dissa tisfied with it. At Athens the concessions have been received with a feeling of disappointment. Letters from the Crimea speak of sickness u very prevalent. Generals Espinosa. and Vinoy have arrived at Constantinople. . . _ The newsl rom Asia Mioor is that the shooks of the earthquake lasted ten days. Several towns have been destroyed. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (rum ova OWN PARIS, TUZSDAY EVIINUIO. The Emantipalias et Brussels publishes, with • solemn assurance of its authenticity, the following ridiculous speech, as having been mad* by Count Orloff at the Conferences: Pun slut be given to the civilised world. Wears oaf fleieelly great to disregard minor details. It was I who made the treaty of Adrianople, and it is for me to tsar it up. We swept the rectification of the limits proposed fcr Bessaratde end the Asiatic ptovinors; we adhere to the condition that we ere not to rebuild any fortress at Ikassr read, sad we desks that the Ahead Islands stall no longer be messeisg to anybody. Tura is so dieenity shoat Nieolsleff, sad we will give up Kers. wittost ;any camps. Batton, to oar old and *neatest ally the Salton. The Etnesscipation adds that this generous las page produced a profound sensation, that the signa tures were allied forthwith, and that the plenipo tentiaries squeezed cash othee's hands and separated in the most friendly meaner. Both the laves dance and lissoncipatime announced that the Era paror's speech would speak of pesos as a certainty. I mast add that the faith of the general public in pease I. in so wise shaken by these exposures of false newmoongers. Many politicians profess to know that everything is entirely arranged between the Governments, and that any apparent difllculties ate raised as a blind, in order that the people who take an interest in the objects of the war say not sup pose that their rulers give way too easily. It is worthy of sots that, although the Meatewr hes so frequently protested that it was the only official joernal, the notes in the Peps and Petrie were undoubted communiques. The Constitstiolegeet, which has reason to °papists of ill treatment, Nati rically alludes to this insossisteney by eposkieg of these evening papers as H ministerial journals," whereas hitherto the Coustitutiosueet itself has been amidst= the principal government paper. n. Bourse opened very heavily. The great fea ture of the mersent is the enormous am of money employed in carrying over amounts. It is estimated that more than 200 millions of francs have beau em ployed for this purpose, of which 72 millions have been advanced by the Credit . Mobilise alone, and the rest by Rothschild, and other private companies. As mach as 12 per cent. has been charged on the Rent., and from 30 to 40 per oent. on Mobilise and railway shares. The high rates obstinately charged for reports, notwithstanding the immense amount of ready each brought into the market, proves that the man of the speculators, feeling certain of peace, are madly buying in the hope of a rise, hat at the same time it shows that the great capitalists are doubtful= the subject, and prefer to accept awry at the expense of the public to investing money in securities on their own amount. The Route to-day was mesh Limes= at one time, but it after wards recovered for speculative account. The closing prices were 720. sad 731 r. 45e., there being a fall of 450. for c.sh, and a rise of 150. for secant. Credit Mobilise rose Sir. for ash, and 230. for amount. There wu a rise of 401 r. in the Bt. &Rabat and Grenoble Railway. Lyons and Mediterranean roes 20k., and Northam 7fr. 60o.; Orleans and Lyons fell 10fr. each. In other French lines them was little alto:edam. • Austrians were in regnant, at a rise of 2fr. No. The Victor Emmanuel was also • great favourite, end rose 16fr. The Cowers aseetabled to-day for the fourth time, sad sat (oar hoar& (nail ANoTazit, PARIS, kONDAT. By the senators and deputise the Emperor's speech today was greatly applauded. The reseal opinion here is that Napoleon 111. has spoken me he ought to have done, in a manner worthy the chief of a great satiric The passage which moat streak those who heard it was that in which he said: °Attitudes& woo digniti le fin die onierences. et series Agil► mint wets, le fast, soft t tire, de noweas Ilpes, soil i tenths la main l smiz w warlike e twee avows loyalement cambiums:* It is hot'Msgr. bat neither is it pacific. It becomes the .ltuatloo and the 'poker that is all. The Emperor sent the loopy of its spieeis to the priatee's this .ruing, at 9 ettleek. Oa settle, the wookbeet, he made sa me:ow eareatimis on it. Oar financial world is for the momeat frightened by the Emperor's Window to I th e Coatings, expecting, as it bad been led te do, the formal annoneassiwit of per* by the Emperor. The artiste in the Indeposilosee Bel" purporting to be a telegraphic despatch from Paris, and annoweing that "pease was is feet made,* is a mystery : eo message of that nature was seat off from the telegraph odes hare. This feet has been mow. tamped is the worse of the inquiries ordered. The French goverumeat, as you are aware, exercises a supervision over telegraphic memagee, and would not have allowed the tranamission of sash statements as those made is the killpendsolor. WEST INDIA MAILS. (sT mann !SLIMLY'S ) • (most ova oirx oousuroximis.) SOV?RLMPTON. WSMISIDAY KOSSISO. The Pa;;eahu arrived with the West India Sad WSW& sa i ls. Amongst her cargo is ipso% to the value of 1,095,978 dollars. It consists of 694,168 dollars is aver, 601,810 dollars is gold and gold W. Then, i. ae went of say specie on board on want of Mexican dividends. The acting onset at St. Thew, brother of the late amyl. is dead. Lame atilt tie Oseitriss M Pledge, bed a nap e,. et his issollssee eta Reads ustessakes rseidnwe at •Ibertleta. AN se bean issabin of tb. Climatic body, sad • wiry WNW Oils of the lumbers of the wiseorwy, snood Id whim et the sassiest. The smile of agertmets mews egos ow Me sopasiee was tastefully ligiosd up. • ream was anapest hr refrositweela. The Bishop et Lowden his est bad a Mapes, as enewassly Ada. 'The Ada rev. matte is, if saythioi, better, being able le tobeeewatawil sewage slew. It is tweed shot ids lawlehlp will he usable swim Naomi es sae I wave dodge*, his opessgela. `Admiral Fenshawe was alit. Theme in the Bee oven. Me Ambles joaroalo SEUOIIIIO9 that "to order to myna the toigutliiy• whisk royal ha guy pans of Iltuutaty," authority has boa glom to dr husitiakio 4113- i - .;i, - 1b; of is Kkorka, to Moody's ..Mw kw idiom sod wkan be skimm;. THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 5. 1856. OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. (!EOM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT.) . I CAMP, SEBASTOPOL, Pas. 2; The monotony of life in the camps has Opt ( been disturbed sines the last mail left. There hes not been one Oast worth recording. The' time ;Is occu pied by the troops in parades, drills, route-merchieg, roaduending, and the ordinary military duties. The officers find amusement for their leisure hours in private theatricals, billiards, there being a few tables in the several butters, or in such sports as paper hunt/hand oceasionally, by way of variety, in a dog hunt. The arrival of the mail from England is the great incident which all look forward to with most interest; and from which, when its budget of letters and newspapers is delivered, most derive matter for reflection, discussion, or cur ' miss. Fortunately the mails have been delivered , ' with greet regularity of late. Yesterday, the 21st, the mail steamer arrived at Bezatob, exactly to its time, and the bags were distributed the same evening. The latent newspapers bore date of February 9. If there has been monotony of occupation, the weather has afforded en example of sufficient variety. The last English mail which left the Crimea was made up on the morn ing of the 19th inst. The cold, which had come on suddenly the day before, with a ohmage in the direction of the wind from west to north, was then continuing, and did not again take its departure until yesterday. At 7 a.m., of the 19th, the mercury in the thermometer stood at 5 deg. F. on the high ground of the plateau. The frost continued intense throughout the whole of that day, although there was scarcely any wind, and a bright sus was shining through a cloudless atmosphere. Everyone was glad to resort to furs, and all the warmer clothing which they could conveniently wear. Early in the morning of the 20th the thermome ter indicated 11 deg. F., but later in the day the wind, whisk at first blew freshly from the north, veered round to the westward, and the temperature became milder. Thetterind returned to the north the same afternoon; but, on the follow ing morning, the 21st, soddenly mane from the quarter directly opposite, and, as usual, the frost at once disappeared. T he wind is now (Friday evening) blowing strongly . from the south, and the cloudy aspect of the sky gives indication of rain. It has been made known that the extreme penalty is to be paid to-marrow by the unhappy criminal who a few weeks ago mesa the death of a wounded comrade in the lines of the 77th Regiment. He is to be hanged at an early hoar of the morning, near the Woroesoff-road, where it skirts the encampment of the Light Division. A detachment of officers and men from each regiment is to attend. The Rev. Mr. Wallace is the chaplain appointed to read the funeral service. The murderer, who is a mere youth, attri butes hie fearful offence against the laws of God aced man to a vicious caner spleinatieally pursued from childhood upwards, but more immediately to the mad dening effects of recent indalgenos la admit spirits. A large number of invalids of the artillery, and from several divisions of infantry, embarked to-day on board the Andes sesear.treseport at Baisksva for England. Among the invalid inswingers is Lieut. Macey, of the 19th Regiment, whose Goaded aid sufferings at the assault on the Rahn attracted so nub notice at the time in England. Russian pm and stores are constantly coming down from the front for shipment. The French are also actively employed in removing their trophies of the war from the town to within the lines at Bamleach. The large desk from the main street of Sebaidepel. bearing the oaken mom a Bemis*, Loudes t " ha been carried to the Fresh hied-quarto& It is isiontood that the naval monument, which forms so issegionai ea object and highly ornaments the terrain sear the spot where Fort Nicholas stood. will not be disturbed, as it was erected to eemmunerate individual pl. lantry. We hops that the same respect will be paid to the monuments which we shall leave behind us in the Crimes. — "Tileiriir a talk of the .Commander of the Forces holdiog the review which was to have taken place on the 18th instant. to soserew afternoon. should the weather prove Aivearable. THE BALTIC. mow ova ow imaaneronsiorr.) KIEL. Maim 1. The Impala:se, Capt. It. B. Watson, CB., arrived here about 1 *look this morning, the POWs, and Falcon having gone to Eisieore, when they will be followed by the Barrier and Demos, while the Baryalam, it io expels& will maw here and join the Imperious. It is most probable. however, that the Import's's, will proceed almost bastediately towards the Roseau coast, that the emienres adopted for the meintenanee of the likekade may Do carried on ander the pommel orders of Captain Watson, who Km the command of the squadron, and with this view they are nbw lading the_ requisite supply of male, so that no detention may wow. HAMBURG, Mame 2. It now appears that oar saltpetre and sulphur merchants were needlessly thrown into a state of alarm by the appeases. of her Ma( 's steamer Prometheus in the Elbe. The panic subsided when it became generally known that she was not sent over to look oat far contraband of' war, but to carry over recruits for the German Legion to Heligoland. The arrival of the sampandes and the parser et the ship at Heathers wee emseested with the receiving of a liege sum k specie, the amount of bills drawn by the t at Heligoland as the go. verument at home, fee the payment of the Gorman Legion, whom pay wsija armee The demand for billsoe Landon as still eery great, sad the ezehaage madame to rise _ _ - 0;a - ber . firiTtrip to Helirland the Prometheus took over more than 80 minute, and as many oa her esmod voyage. A great espy of these have been bresght up to different trades, and a great want of artisans is begiosios to be seriously felt in the coast district of Hanover, pordeolarly for the trades of takes and shoemakers. inittTiriman the inilmeities here gave themselves Ideal of trouble to eat* some one in the am of re endting for England, %order to make an example of him. Great suspicion was entertained that th. stew ards el the steamer Heligoland. whisk plies tegtlar:y biomes. that island and this poet, were engaged in enlisting reorsits, and their pews were asserdiegly seised and (assured, bat without the expected result. l The genet. has new published its decrees in this matter. Meows. Diesetdorf and Co., the shipbrokers of the steamer, are fined 200 dollars, " not from their implication being proved, but breams there is reales to suppose that they most have reaped sees prow May edvantip from it Mr. Sieger, the chief steward, is fined 150 dollars for the Ism reason, and the second steward 100 dollen, besides whisk several other penes' moneeted with the steamer, or is the =o a t of the owners, Messrs. Clailaffrey, are fined in t OMB of from 26 to 100 dollars each. PIEDMONT. The Opasime of Turin of the ht, in a hiding attithoessileis it attain that the fifth point, now weer lbsisaisa foe the establishment of pew, will noshes far insane tuned= than was supposed • hetedslit heel, and that the question of the balance of Eneps will be brought foeward in addition to the stn dillisulty. In that saes, it =steads, the state ef Ita/y will nest particularly engross the st eatite of the plenipstestleeies, and espesially the comities of the Rowse States by forties troops. u Freese," It says, "has daring that oteepathe con stant' had to stnigle, not only spinet the Papal sdwiaiateatam, but Austrian pretseeisas Amnia posemn the Iww ha rdaYeeedea pentane: she Las Panne, Modem, sad Twiny wider her de re let her keep pommies of the Boum gtatt eu. but a sheet time letsgsr, and she will attempt to web that pommies poneessat. This the repels. menthes enenbled at Paris will menial, net lees 01 0 2 IC. . OFFICIAL DESPATCHES RESPECTING THE FALL OF KARS. This morning ban been issued a bulky blot-book of 366 peg", °envied rf " papers relative to the military affahe in Asiatic Turkey and the defence and espitalation of Kam." • The documents commence with a letter by the Earl of Clarendon, dated Foreign-;(flee, August 2, 1864, to Lieut.- Colonel Williams, informing him of his appointment as commissioner at the head-quarters of the Tarkieh army in Asia. Letters to and from Lord Stratford de Radcliffe, and to and from Colonel Williams, tot • low, treating of the gallant colonel's interview with and instructions from Lord Realm ; certain losses of the Turks; Colonel Williams's corrp'aiete of the eta's of thing. at Er- german, and the measures urgently requested by him; eommenicrtions with the Parte as to supplies for tl e army ; stets of the defences and bospitali at Kiiri at the date of the Commissioner's arrival; his review of the Turkish troops there, and attempted measures for improving the state tf the army, punishment of fraudulent and intriguing Pachar, &c. As early as the Bth of December, 18.54, Colonel Williams writes from Erse r min to Lord Stratford de Red cliffs, complaining bitterly of the silence with which his 1' rdsbip has treated him, deigning ao answer to no less than fifty-four deep etches sent to him since the comelie st user's arrival at Kars, end of the delay in attending to his requests. "Having,' Coloael Williams writes, "made this appeal to your lordship in the name of Her Mejeity's government, it is my deity to state distinctly that 1 shell not be able to give such i ttelli fiance to my super[ re se is etiolate,' 'memory Cr them to be masters of, that I Fluff fail to preserve the power which I have (enaided) seised, and !ha! I shall consequently not succeed in shielding the veep+ from starvation without my demands are complied with. If they be not, the dissolution of this army and the fall of Asia Minor cell inevitably tol -1 ow, end a golden or portuoity be lost." Toe Earl e f Claren don, receiving a copy of the foregoing, writes to Lord Burst ford (Jen. 6, 1866) a Utter espreesive of the great regret of her Majesty's Government, and adding, "Your Excel lency will understand that her Majesty's Government re quire to be furnished with a fall and det►iled report of every thing which baa paned between her Majesty's Embassy and the Porte respecting the army at Hats in complicate with the instractimis that so frequently, but in vain, hrve been ad &send to year Excellency." Despatches trom Lord Strat ford to the Earl of Clarendon, both anticip►tory of, and r plying to, the foregoing, (Halal= any intention of disres pect to Colonel Williams; explain the cultism complained of as having " originated in my musty nit to occasion disappointment by announcing measures which might or not be carried into area," and attribute the neglect on the part of his lordship to apply in writing for the formal recognition from the Turkish government of General Williams is an inadvertency. Colonel Williams continues in comtent correspondence with Lord S r,tford and the Earl of Clarendon, urging various measures upon the Turkish government, setting forth the rineneful neglect of the army, leading; to desertion and discouragement. "No time," he writes as far beck se January 10 la t year, "is to be lest; whiter is gliding away from us, aid our disci plined and Intelligent enemy Is as fully 'wire as I am of the destitute sod disorganised ewe of the army which lies op• posits to him." Lord Stratford complains to the Earl of Clarendon, under date of February 19, of the tone of General Williams' com municatioas, and of his treatment of the Turkish oaken. splogising for the Turkish gwernment, and asking how fee he (Lord Stratford) must insist on obedience t r the com missioner's demands"witsout reference to say doabts enter- tallied of their espeditmey either by the Porte or by me." On July 16, last year, General Simpson frrwerls a deripsteh detailing the particalars of a Coaferenes, attended by General Mosier, Geseral Ls Humors, Vice Admiral Sir B. Lyons, Vice Admiral Brost, R,sr Memel Stewart, and Gemmel Simpson, at which Omer Pacha endeavoured to induces theta to send a tortion of ths troops from the Crimea and tramport them to Asia. His aromests halal; to produce any effect, the Turkish gene ral ansottailed his istentios of prooesding Constantinople to cousalt with his government, sad General Bimproa begs Lord Strati, ri "to me your powerful inflame is MIS oar opinion to prevail over that of his highnen, for grist public interests are at stake, and i onions consequences might result from his success." The considerations eorMaitted by Omer Pecks are then given. They show that at that date the Turkish goners' was fully &WM of the witted rosition of Hare. The corrsepouderos then turns ' upon Omer Pacha's ezpeditlea to Asia, urged by the British government, but oppossa, at first, by Franey. The expedition which wu Sadly agreed upon will be in the re mikados of the reader. Meanwhile, as despatches are vassiag to and fro between the British goveromeat sad the Porte, sad our ambassador and the Porte, sni 011 f goverment and our embassador; General Williams writes (September 1, 11166), "No barley; scarcely any forage. Cavalry reduced to walking skeletons, and sent out of garrison; ertillery hones soon the same. How will the field-ohms be moved after that ? The apathy of superior damn is quite distressing. We can boll out two months more. What is being done for the relief the army 1" On Sept. 29 he describes the victory over Mourevieff. "I em so fatigued," he writes to L• rd Cla rendon in a second despatch an this event, "that I can scarcely hold my pen, bat I em sue your lordship will par don the scrawl." Coagratulatioas, honours, and premien of reward are allowing from Coastantioople. "The seg. looted garrison of Hers," writes Earl Clarendon (Nov. 21) t Lori Stratford, " will at least bare toe satamtion of kai.w- Meg t►at their sufferings troubled the sleep and re ;ore of the Turkish miaisten—(this is in illusion to an address from' these functionaries to the troops at Han)—who, in default of all ordinary measures of relief, tar their safety sad OSICOSI." Oa ()weber 12, Omani Williams urges upon Burl Clarendon that " recreant:scions may be instantly made to General Omer to act with vigour and decision against Georgia, o berwim, in spits of our brilliant vistmy, we must ultimately fall into the mem) 's hands." Os October 2111 d, he says—. We heard yesterday, of the expedition to &einem under Sells Nabs, and I have requested Mr. Brant to ie. that general on his arrival in &imam, to urge on Ma my hopes that he would use the most eaergetie means to sucnier the garrison." A variety rf der/watches fr tan Lard Stratford fallow, detailing the verious st pi he has taken, and which call from the Berl of Clarendon, oa Der. 7, the remark that "bar Majesty's government entirely ap- Foy, the steps which you have taken with a view to the relief of Merv" Os November 19 Ccniul Brent, narestiog to Lord !Bra trd the coatents cf a note be has received from °antral Williams, adds (writing from EMMONS) I ask from your Bacellency, is the Ken army to be allowed to perish ? Is nothing te be dose to Mime ft ? for all that the Porte has lately dare is quite invefficieet for the purpose. I have before pointed out that Omer Pieha•s army should have been directed on Kars by way of Era r.um, and not os Grim& ; and had that bees dare, Kars might long since have bees raved. I now fear it most surrender, and to confer honours on its gallant defenders while they are lift to perish is a cruel so:km and ac indelible disgrace to the Turkish aorrnment, as well as to those of the Allied Powers." Oa December 19 the Earl of Clarendon transmits a despatch lom Lieur-C 1 flinsarras to Lord Cowley, requesting his «salieney while Itoinwanicatiog this t 3 Vie French government to " point out the danger to which the army of Omer Pacha h now ex pend sad the argent sorority for the formation of en army of reserve. The Emperor and Marsh Vaillauthaveloag bus aware of the great importance attacked by her hivjery's ' , Tinniest to the relief of Kan, and ins disastrous news whisk has loseetly arrived proves that their apt rabaaaka a s as to he probable fail were bat too well-founded." We may state that the British °overman were for moist rold foreounis by way cf Trebisosd, but the Feeseb and the Porte, la Meer of a diversion on the side of Redout- Laois. _ _ Nov. 24, Rensal Brant attribstee ell the deeper to " the apathy of the Porte, and the climates sad imbecility of Miss Pasha," sad the same resist receives, ceder date of Nov. 19, a note from Omura! Williams me follows —" Leeds Clareadon sad Ratcliffe th.t the Resales' rimy is batted now, end takes ao omits either of Omer or ffellm Parkes. They sunset have acted al they might to bare dose. We divide oar bread with the starving t .was. people. No salmi feed for seven weeks. 1 kill karma is my stable sandy, and mad the seem to the heeplal, which 1 sew very erowded. We eca held eat and try to retreat over the moan- Was, th Olti. Have previsions seat la that direction ere the lilth day after Nal date We shall carry three days' Weak with as." Oa November 27, Osumi Kmety beemffst le Brweream t►e dilemmas sews of the surrender. Is a despetelt dated Die. 22, the Bari of Cluesoos bi focals lbeemesseeal Williams that theekorasseat have observed with the utrooet admirntim his whole proceed• fogs, and are hcp NI that en 811A:cation which had been msde to the Russian government f. r an exchange will be successful. Lord Clarendon instructs Lord Stratford (Dec. 28) to woke a signal example of Selina Paths. The permission of the Fret ch goveratn, nt to the departure of the Egyptian iniattry at Eupatori i fir Trobizond, was gained, but at too lace a period for the object in view. In a panfidly interesting &vetch dated from the Ras. elan ramp, November 29, General Williams communicates to the Barl of Clarendon the reh of the surrender, pre facicg it with there remarks-.—" From the varnse de snatches In eyoher which I have aid d to your lordship through Mr. Brant, she intelligence which I have now the misfortune to announce most hays been especmd by your lorisbip. I bad r, c.ived direct pima's., of succour from Selina Pacha ; and Omer Pschs's operations, until I knew that his movements were directed toward. Souks= Hsieh, bad buoyed roe up in my determination to hold oat to the hot moment; this intelligence from the generalissimo reached me on t*.c. 21th instant, by the same poet which brought me posit,ve news from Mr. Brant of the indisposition or inability of Brlim Pacha to advance further thee Iteumi-Keny " The remaining domments include a stAtement drawn up by Brigadier-General Mansfield, and an abstract con.piled by Coast Pisani from Lord Stratford de Redoliffe's coma pondenoe, inhibiting together the series of incidents which bate taken plan between the Turkish authorities, her Ma. jetty's embassy, and the British commiesioner at Kan, from the autumn of 1864. This abstract is divided into three parte, viz. :—Fint Epoch—From the arrival of General Williams to the departure of Vomit Paella. Second Epoch—From the departure of Vomit Pubs is the commencemeat of the siege. Third Epoch—daring the siege. There is ahro a memorandum by Brigadieraeneral Man!ficld, on the measures tiken fox the relief cf Hare since his arrival at Constantinople. The*. documcnts will attract much public attent on, and will be much dimmed, but our spice will not allow ea tc-day to enter upon their contents SERIOUS AFFAIR AT MADAGASCAR. An outrage, which the government of Madagascar will doubtless be called upon to expiate dearly, has been committed at Madagascar. We find the facto thus stated in the Certucen, a French journal of the island of Mauritius: Bight Frenchmen, one of them N. d'Arvoy, formerly French tonna in the Mauritius, who had been residing almost a year in the Bay of Vavatonbe, working a coal mine belonging to a coropeny, and a great number of Baca. laves in their service, were attacked in the night of the 19th of October by from 1,500 to 2,000 Hour, the regular troops of the Queen of Madsgaecsr, and, with the exception of one Frenchman, were harbatoce4 murdered and mutilated. The establishment which they occupied was sacked, and 100 workmen, who had unapt d the massacre, were, together with the Frenchman, made prisoners, sad carried off to •Emyrne. Five pieces of cannon,. quantity of muskets, and some geniptwder were espturcd by the suailanta. The ma. teed damage done smog, ted to between 70,000 and 80,000 piastres (350,000 f. to 400,000 L). The Queen of Madam. car, Rusavalo, on receiving this news of the massage and rapture, assembled the people of her capital, and had read to them the deeps' ch of the general who cimmanded the expedition, after which she caused /even guts to be fired in honour of what she called the 'ivory gained by her invin. tibia troops over the French. The Bay of Vavatoube and all the north-west part of Madagascar is represented by the Ceram to be French territory—it belongs to France not • only in virtue of her ancient claims on Madagascar, but in virtue of a recent concession of the ex-King of Need Be, who held it de facto. Moreover, a fort which formed part of the establishment destroyed was built with the sanction of the French government and under a promise of its protection, and two of the ' five guns captured were supplied by the French fri gate Brigs,. FASTING IN IRS AUSTRIAN ARMY. Veda Gazette publishes a remarkable document•. a geoerel trier by the commander-io•chief of the Austrian army, giving direeiens for the obiervacce of the fasts of the church by the troops of the sap r-. This imeovation is Suet er resul. of the Concordat. The caransander-in-chief says that the rules are promulcated at the thetas°, of the Vicar Apostolic. The tint regola•ion forbids the generals, superior officers, and members of the gem ral staff to est meat on Fridays, and the lest three days of the Holy Week. The woad extends the ranee prohibition is the men from the r rgeaot-major downwarcs ; the third bide officers tad men observe the °Hiner eel of the church as to their dist en slate' days ; the fourth cajoles attend ance on the Eater confession. In the fifth it is intimated that the venerable bislthp ezpects the gratitude of the faith ful for the indulgence be has shows in them Lenten regula. Coss, tad hopes it will be rewarded by their (request attendance at divine service end coofetsion. Veto says that this order bee Traduced the greatest sensation in the army, which has never before received orders respecting the ob servance of lant in this form. It is said to be the 'steeliest of the Austrian goverume►t to introduce the use of certilie sate of confusion into the army, end each officer will have to show that he hes c mimed at least °see in six weeks. FREEMASONRY IN SWITZERLAND. A rather carious discussion has just taken place In the Grand Council of Geneva. The principal points of It are thus explained : " The Council cf State on the demand of the members of the amnia Mee of the Tempe, preented a bill for grant ing a geatatteue concession to that order of a piece t (ground for seeming a chapel. The applioat ion was founded oa the fact that freemaionry wat a creed as well as any ether, an freemasons recognised tha existence of Got and the immortality of the soul, and were bound to the practice of every virtue. Gent rel Dufour °puma the but, and denied that a Nicest society could be desigsated as a creed. M. Camperio protosed that the bill should be referred to a committee, all the question was not to play on the • ' creed,' but to justly appreciate the claims of the petitioutre. This proposition was opyoted by M. Pieta, who said that the application was not made e 7 the mejority of the freemasons of Geners but by a diseentient minority. M. Fez; meowed the bill and the tr 'position of its being sent to a c inmate.. He maintained the opi' tea that freemaconsv was a creed, and one of the purest kind, ►s it allowed ail oplaions to meet as friends on the same creund. As ti the dvsidencs whisk had been spoken of, it wee to: worthy of totice, es the same fee alto took place among prove t stt •. Hr remarked also that freemasonry is officially fee, poised in may coun tries; and that in France a great o igniter! of the Crow* is at the head of the order." Atter some further diecussion, the Grand Council dee cited that the bill should be sent to a committee compteed tf MM. Autran, Foam, Dufour, tderoa 4, end Duval. The Queen of Bavaria is so unwell that the Nett Prussia% Gazette pi:Nights daily tioreties on the state of her health. A letter from Bt. Petersburg, in the Cologne 9autt. says Pekes Paskiewitch, who km left • fortune of 71) millions of Pelee Amine (tee fl rin is 69 centimes) hu be. quest-tied se Maws :-30 minions, yrineipally landed pro potty, tr his son Theodore, and 20 millions to sash of his slaughters, the Princess Wo`komka and the Priasses Leba non itotosoMs. He has left totting to h's widow, es, is sclai iee to her own private fortune, she wit krjey s peoeoll for her life of 30,000 elver roubles as the widow of s gover nor of Pi land." In its number of the 26th ult., the Journal of St. Poterstnerg publishes al Irrperial reemipt, addressed to Gesarel de Sievers, commander of the carps of the Sallie s In which that officer is warmly thanked for showing solici tude for We troops, maintaining at the mass time a strict Mean in Vie supine's, and taking the most efficacious awls for defending the provinces confided to hies against the aggrentions of the enemy. All the members of the Conferences were present at the °seamen( the French legislative amine on Monday. Generals Canrohert and Nosiest took the <with. The for- Mar wore the salient o' a I , the latter the dress og • senator. When the tame of Marshal Pelisaiir was called a voles replied " Absent on the service of the Emperor." The spectacle at the French Court on Sunday instep was Oise o' the eamt animated which bee ban given at the Tuileries. 'the guests assembled at sins o'clock In the Gallery of Diana, at one aide of whieh a little Ventre had been impravised. Immediately aft. their Majesties, accompanied by the Frit:errs Mathilde, Priam Napoleon, and the Counter Montjo, had latent the mile, the certain role, and Areal, the cmaedias, ap pawed in a comic piece. The midi nee, especially the piste alpotentlaries, laughed heartily throughout, and seirsel I erpsdialy Maimed by the itaita , iniss of actors at the sitar theatres, given by Brassier, the comedian at the Palate Roy d.