The Express. — London, England, 1856-02-14 00:00:00

r GENERAL IRON SCREW COLLIER COM PAY —The DI VI DRND for the Half rez erelinf 314 De . motor, USI, as the rise et 10 per nut. _per annum, Is ?Ai AISLE as FRIDAY tee IRA user& ROUJIT J. CLARIS, Botersoary. 7t. Cueshll. 13th FebroorT.lJ3t RELIEF to the KNIMMItABBED.—Mr. WMARSHALL. d i f I. llmr=lirA l ff soy of ort for tbo mifof a tenty tie..., ono, lb anises bi mem aria thVeItiguTIZITOWAV.VIZI, o.t im un iri NM weft. bolos Irma the aeon mit the ow Adol. ini =miatoit sordid Os mad einem. ell& me be PM ete Oxortgso. • V .0%•••••.% Mg! .....180MAI • agintommli toimiel tor "M Baymm,'lmodes ameba mitle etas Offise, lo T martmemt. by Two V yam ika tM imp eirpalillisa. HIGH ICATIE AT LONDON BRIDGI. T MT—Morale& IL Nu Mumma. Ob. ITS. 11mooahow—lionlos. O. Us Altorsoso. U. Mu LONDON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14. To those who follow the wares of American slain with any degree of interest, the news by each no motive mail becomes more negative, and is use to ' be more important. Thane who have not hithertu cared about American stairs must perforce tie ea itterest in them now, as they immediately involve 'our own. The latest tidings are so abeetknt that the brisket sketch of rasa events ems someely eon 'ay an ides of the, extent they war; end the on nexioa of than events with **diplomatic quarrel between Washingeon and Lowden forme a distinct chapter, to be aniderod separately when the present condition of affairs at Washington, in New England, and i lianas is wade clear. At Weehingeon, the greet sufferers are the Pam. DENY and hie Cabinet. The PRESID&ST ie so altered within a few months, and especially within a few weeks, that him old acquaintances scarcely know hiss. Bioptic, woes countenance, his emaciation, and hie low and ruffled spirits, show how he feels his present petition, and the dead-lock to which his party-policy ham brought the action of Congress. filonte such strife mast have occurred sooner or later; bat there can be little doubt that if the PRESIMINT bad adopted the usual course of constitutional rulers—of taking a position above the struggles of parties—the crisis would have been deferred. Instead of this, President Plaice has thought fit to throw himself headlong into the coarse of Southern policy, in order to obtain a refreketico. The South is ashamed of him, and does not attempt to conceal it ; his party is not at present uppermost; be has lost the dignity of irdpartiality, and his not as yet gained party smear ; the disrep. lion of the Union is imminent, as he himself says; and most certainly he will be held responsible, by the present and all Suture generations, if the conatitm tiona. changes which must happen are brought en by a course of Pei sidential action for which there is no precedent. He must be aware by this time that there is no chance of his re-election ; end that if he were sure of another four years at the White House, be has paid very dear for his object. As for Congress —one of the candidates for the Speekership, RICHARDSON, the nominee of the De. mastic party, her retired, only to be succeeded by another candidate on the ease nomination. Mr. Ittcauneon declared that his feelings on retiring were those of " the deepest gloom." as he did not believe that hie retirement would facilitate the choice of a Speaker. la this opiniu he proves to be right. Ica the gloms he oppeare to be wrong—se wreog as Zurepee• newspapers are when they treat "the dead-leek in Coopers" se a failure in the working of Americas institution.. The best pupae all over ibe States are declaring that nothing so sheering has bee. witaessed for many a year as the awe than goad-hewer--the sympathy, sad is some eases the joy—with whisk the people tritons a struggle for a chid pinsipie in theme Congramioual Chambers where the het of territorial auraadiesment hes been se brag pandered to, and the slave-bolding policy has bid its heavy yoke over the seas of whole States new rossived to bear it no longer. From the time of tbe first ballot this winter, Mr. Banns' suppoeters have desiond that it was net the man, bet the principle of true Northern representation, that they were struggling for ; bet as time pause on, it ap pears that the representative sad his supporters im• prove spa acquaistanor, and the prospects of the struggle improve is proportion. Mr. BANKS was before knows to be a very sccomplished pelisses lazy officer, and thereby fitted for the Speaker's chair. His eondoct during the struggle has bees timely and coosistent ; and the North sees that it would have no occasion to be &abused of its repro oestative. The public, meantime, is so far from growing impatient, that it declares it will not burr this uncommonly harmless Cooper to a premature arrangement. There is some expetation that the Senate will maks mine arrangement for originating the Appropriation Bills, that they may be reedy for the ether House to sanction at the (*thou possi ble moment, end public Alters not kept waiting for their salaries loops than cannot be helped. This waiting is their contributiou towards the collective surifloas rendered necessary by a moral and political crisis of the deepest significance. What the signifi cance of that crisis is may be partly jsdgsd of by snob • feet u this. It is just twenty years sines the Southern party mot mdse. to Northern citisens to lynch the Abolitionists in their own streets; and it was does--is Bootee, New York, Philadelphia, sad many slur places ; houses sad public halls being burnt, meetings mobbed, sad iedivideals Wired, or compelled to fly for their lives—far no other offence than publicly declaring their apiaries of chattel slavery. Now, after twenty years of steady and peaceable assertion of the principles of their republic,' the Abolitionists have so far won the day as that the North nominates an Abolitionist for Speaker, and that sowings beads the poll, after nearly two months of a balloting which is net over yet. The Northern easi didate declares that slavery is so intolerable, sod so ruinous to his country, that the dissolution of the Unica (in time for re-coostitutioo) le a lees evil than It s pepusatirm, by its extension to DOW territory, The man who says this, and who takes his stud um the 'eying, heads the poll; and no power or party has as yet proved stroller Gough to overthrow him. A great change this in twenty years! The people are, as we have said, thus far patisat— and sot s few of this pleased. Not so the Paso. DINT. We need say nothing of the Mossy be breed epos the Representatives—addressing them as Members while there was DO HOW. Having done this, he still cannot nit. Hs has seat a seeped Her ease, on the plea that the state of Keane is nth that something nest be done to save the country fres Asoutiweek of civil war. The Representatives made a ft - eat outcry about this i mpos i t i on of a mooed Yew y 'e, meaiiik-e, and net a f ew o f them suet have felt that t Zey were the heelers el Haase. as you by 'ease is waiting for Rims as Speaker as by man ai m , adios. Bat the PUSIDIIIT got kis wimp p ana l i zted, and this yeses' of his els oda. If s mene t a d ;Sawn saansged as a tent. tory—that is, under federal rule, with freedom to gowns itself is muokipal strain; and the PIUIDINT desires to make it prematurely a State—that is, to shirk the business, and make Kansas govern itself altogether. How this proposition may be veseiyed by the House when it is at length constituted, there is no saying. The probability seems to be that before that happens, different measures may be required for Kaoras—a putting down of civil war. This is evidently the PRESIDENT'S IipprERVASIOO ; and hence his impatience in knocking a seconii time at the doors of the House, before it is ready to hear him. The first sad most obvious oossiderrAion in regard to his scheme for Senses is, that },afore Kansas can be permitted to be come prematurely a State, she mast show that she desires it—ai id that before she can be required to become a Stale at all, she mast be under the ordinary eonditioes of liberty to arrange her own affairs, °wording to her own views, and without moles label- How far such is the present condition of Sat' is., a very brief exhibition of her ease will slaw. Vrarra the Missouri Osenpromine was repealed, the Son ch was assured (out of Commas) that the North mi ght be irresistible in its claim and purpose to .ople Nebraska, but that Kansas should be peopled rocs the South. There was a rune, as was foreseen, between the slave drivers of the South, with their human cattle, and the immigrants from the North ; and it appears that free labour won the day. Slave property was, however, perfectly safe in the new set tlement—safer than it will ever be again. The free settlers (those called Abolitionism in the second Message) chose their governor, as it was a matter of course for the majority to do. Governor REEDER, thus choose, was of course disliked by the slaveholders, with whom President Praaci has openly sided throughout. He removed Menial, picking a quarrel with him on grounds which are universally understood to have no validity, and ap pointing Governer SHANNON, who is obeyed as the officer appointed by the federal power, while de spised by all parties for his weakness, and his vacil lation among contending forces. In order to prevent the establishment of free labour in Kansas, a little army, whose newspaper name is Border-Ruffians, entered the territory from the neighbouring State of Missouri, formed a camp not very far from the town of Lawrence, determined, as they declared," to clean all oat"—to clear the territory of the free settlers who constitute its proper populatioo. This band of in vaders was led and commanded by ATCHISON, who had been the Speaker of the Senate and Vice- President of the United States. This is one remarkable feature of the ease. Another is that, when these invaders are remonstrated with for overriding the rights of the inhabitants, and this endangering the Union, they seem always to have the same reply ready : D—n the Union !' So often has this reply been made that the PRESIDENT is exposed to the taunt that if he fears " Disunion," b• must first send home these invaders : and the' representation seems to have procured at last some discountenance of the Border• Ruffians. Bat it wee very long incoming. The inhabitants of Lawrence declared their Nadi lens to obey all the lawful requisitions of the Clintral Government, and all federal oaken duly monad ; bat they were resolved to protect their elective righ.s, and all tiler constitutional liberties. The ?demur' band drew near to besiege Lawrence, with the avowed intention of destroying the public build ings, lynching (some by the gallows and so., by the sow-hide and tar.kettlo) the principal Mimeo, cad of sending away the rest. The most sone:Monde was General POMEROY, the agent of the Northers Emigrant Aid Society. This gentleman has anspol to the noTth, but he was within an Judi of his lit,. The invaders planted spouts everywhere round Law raise, and searobod send disarmed every man who passed. Not a few lost parse and watch, •s well is pistols. A musts-rosposted Mises, Mr. Emus, was murdered on the road; and this concentrated sad roused the spirit of the free settlers. From that boar, and not before, slave property becalm mats is Karma. The tree settlers had been willing N leaf ethers alone if others Ist than alms. Now Om eiserly sew that the reel qualm wee whether Liu sea should be • fres state, self-governed under the constitution, or a slave state, overruled by Misses& Twelve hundred Minns of Lawrence leagued them salvos to immortalise Bsisaa's memory in the estab lishment of their liberties. Moreover, it has mime biome known that the wives sad mothers of the citizens also formed a Maim, pledging thiamine to aid their husbands and brothers in war, as they had supported the cause in peace. All refused to leave the town when the invaders appealed. , Sam practised rids and pistol shostiog ; ems animated the workers at the redoubts ; sad two relieved General ROBINSON'S approbraisos of a scarcity et powder and perennials imps. I(oow ing where a moony settler had stowed away certain kegs of powder sod a store of cartridges, these ladies went in their smeary carriage. They loaded them solves with powder, in pillow-cams, so ►eavily that they won rata into their waggon, whore oo luggage was visible but a work basket. As they ex piated, they were stopped, and the carriage looked into; bet they were not detained, as men would have boss. When things had gone thus far, the Paz sumo; who bed proceeded sours way towards grant ing Governor finamon's request far United States troops to set against the citizens, pew slimed. Governor Stumm ads advances to the free settlers, and agreed to what be called " a trosty• with them; sad the Missouri intruders were ordered to brook op their amp sad Wpm The weather was too bad for camp life, and they retired. This, are rumours of their having returned and sommitlal new violation, sad nobody doubts their rubies le upon the balletebozes, as before, when the Mira elections mum take place. The hoe settlers are preparing for self-defame. The Southern States are sandbag troops of emigrants, with their companies of slaves, sad the North amperages irami grouts to go to lamas with their free labour in their own limbs, sad their love and purpose of freedom is their hearts and minds. There will be the battl► Said of the osnatitatioa, according to President Fisica'. apprehensions. Marsh is near; he dodo Banns lapsed his manspessat, and he propane that lams shall be prematurely required to manage bend?. This may be all very well, bat something mast he dome first. The PRISIDENT and Coupon mast protect the territory in the exercise of *leotard rights. The inhabitants mast first be ambled to sham their own °Moon; then it will be for them to say whether they think they are starting fair, and whether they desire and choose to take oars of them selves. Till then, the PRESIDENT cannot property shirk his chirp. And sow, if air readers have read thou fa.-. ma ft they will bear In mind that by M Abolitiosisin " the Pmainzin maws the inhabitants of Hansom tire'v know the praise upset of the American erten. OUR RELATIONS WITH AMERICA. Usaterow •Thaiag—aa On into Comadttas q Supply—Mr. Blobs& will sill oho Westin of Uwe How tear relations with the Usited Mato..( Amadei. .ad Nano In the predasties or all eerreeposiasee with the gc veraaaat them diael, relative W the eesdatt of Mr. Crew ea. oe Court. The Queen, with the Princess Re* and the Princess Aliso, took egeestri►a exorcise la the riding wheel attached ti liackieghata Palace yesterday teeming. Priam Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wake sad Priam Alfred, sad attended by Captain Da Plat mad Mr. 03,bbc, visited the British lattitetion, is Pell-mall, and etetward: the Architectural Ezbibitioa, ia Suffolk-street. _ _ - . The Duch Is of Cambridge sad the Prams Wary sad the Duke of Cambridge visited her Majeaty is the attar- ZOOS. Count Bj artutjerDa, Chamberlain to the Sing of Sweden, at the aukienee at Buckingham Palaces on Tuesday, invested Prince Albert with i the Order of the Seraphim, by eonsensad of the King of Sweden. The Queen had a dinner party last evening. The com pany included the Priecees /loyal, the Duchies of Bather ' land, the Swedish Minister and Barmen de Hoebschild, the Earl and Countess of Bemborougb, Le Comte de Bjornalerna, Lord Cowley, Lord and Lady Wodebonse, and Major-General Wylde. The band of the Be)ta Fishier Garde wu he attendance at tne Maw, and performed during dinner. A Cabinet Council mai held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office, Downing.street. The Ministers present were :—Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chan cellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Leuedowne, the Earl of Harrowby, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R.Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alder ley, the Right Hon. M. T. Baines, and the Duke of Argyll. The council eat two hours and a half. A deputation of the Directors of the London, Maccbester, and F. reign Waretoom Comp toy, Limited, attended by Mr. John Meekrell, solimta t, the comply, had an inter view with the Right Hot.. Robert Lew. 'sandal, at the Board of Trade. The &palatine consisted of Mr. J.ha Coatekar (chairman), Mr. George Laishley, sod Mr William Hopkins Hoy lend. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Island R.- venue, end Mr. Pre.sly, had en interview with the Cbaccef Iry of the Bubequer yesterday. Sir Aleaander Spear mu Ea I also an interview with the right bon. baronet, at hie official residence in Dowsing -street. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sot yestsr ' day in the Council Chamber. The appeal Irons Malts, "Frisiose v. Tegliaferro" (part hesre) was concluded, and Judgment given by the Chaneellor of the Duchy of Cornwall• The 1. Ms pretreat were, the Chaec Mot of the Ducky of Cornwell, Sir J. Panama, 81r William Mauls, and Sir E. Ryan. The Counter Granville a rewind" last evening, at the family reaction in Brittorvatmet. The Duchess of Cambridge, the Paean Mary, and the Doke of Caw. kei'ge were present. Previous to the reception the Earl Granville sett .taised the following distitgoished party a: dieter :—His En el'euty the American Minister, the Duke el Argyll, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Ea l o! CAten kam, the Eul of Devon, the Earl of Clifford, M.P., Viscount Madero/at, M.P., Lord Lillord, Lord Keane, Lord Milford, Lord Piltimore, Lord Truro, Lord Churchill, Count Sty. releakt, S r Joseph Pazton, M.P., Sir David Diodes, the Right Hon. B. Eliot, M.P., Ceptain Peel, ft.N., sod Dr. Loshirgton. Sir Fitzroy Kelly entertained at dinner, on Tuesday evening, at his mission is Piccadilly, his Excellency le Turkish ambesesdor sad Madame blissieree, the Lord Me) or sad the Lady Mayorsse, the Doke of Williegton, the Mar quis sad March'osess of Salisbury, the Earl of Str .dbeeke, Lord sad Lady William P..wlett, Vice-Ad mli al Sir Elwood Lyons, Lord Stanley, M.P., Lord Brougham, Lord Camp bell sad Lady Strathedse, the IlisUip of Easter cad Min Phi/potts, 81iSo1ert Peel, Mr. Warms, M.P., tie. The Duchess of Sutherland has arrived at Stafford Sous from Trer tt am, ober.: the Duke led the younger benches of their Orso• a' f .isily are 'till staying. _ _ _ The Berl of Chesterfield bee left the St. George'. Hotel for Bratby Palt, near Bartoz-m-Tres.. Lord and Lady Huntioglield hare left the St. Merges Hotel for their test, &mawsboa Hall, Break. Lid Adolphas Fits°'arenas is gisd sally regaining strength, and bail bens able daring the last few days to take eesssienal swine drives._ Lord Halide: ILP.. is greatly improved in health, and is able to attend to hie duties I. the Roves cf Com mons for the Ant time siaes bin elastics fir Aberdeenshire la 1564. The Right Hon. 8. H. Walpole has issued an address ti the legate of the travessity of Cambridge, is shish he says:—" Is motptiog the trust whisk has thus beim coolletal to me, I *moot bat Hal a deep—l had shoat said as ethrwalatiog—seas a the arduous duties and grace zwpossibilities whisk sash a Cathodes out seas tardy 'otiose on as. Nor is that fetal in any way dila sighed by twain is Nand the data/tasked writs or my late lasnosts4 friend, Kr. Goulbsrs, whoa now, by year ' kiodsess, Isa Galled spa to summed. It will be my aim sad object to somata kim is the censtost awake which he unieen•ly paid to the affairs of the Uastrity ; and, although I us ameba to bring it your aid that large experience, trial ability, sad pssetisol issofolams, which h• employed is your somas darirg twisty years, I wi.l strive, at any rate, to make up for this defideacy by devot ing ay elf to the promotion of your aterests, which, M ay opiitoti, sr* closely idestified with the beat interests of the Gantry. Tether amebas of tie &sato who have ho nourod me with their support is this secosion, I beg to re past my oast heartfelt gratitude. To (less who have op pried as I cm traly say that their coons, sad kinds's; seta is the midst of • c tntiestod amass, will not easily be forgotten. To ese and an I say, therefore, add, that it will be to me the grostast pleathro, as it nnquestioaably is lay bounden duty, ti do say best to sustain the welfare of tar emus= Troia nit!, to resist is its improsamst, to asistain its offisiessy, gad to promote, u far as lies is my power, its mamma prosp erity." _ A latter from Malta of the 7th lays, "The (}o. Tenor tar added to the @snivel fettivitios by giving the nasal canna halt mad supper at the old palace of Va'etta to upwards of 1,600 person.. It ninth(' all the MN of the llead, as well as the naval sad mailitory oilcan sow etat'oaed hen. Asseaset then were his lizoolloary Out rat Rood sad Lady, Marquis One t, Bans sad B. roans &Theme, &gun Toiliferro Tarantella, !taros de P.ro, eir 1. sad Lady Penaefether, Adsirel Renown Stewart, Sir W. mad Lai, Oteray, Mrs. Gesersi Baraard sad Mies Henan, t►e Deem ary to the Governor, the Kn. Victor Moulton, Gemara' Buena, The billiard. worn by eons of the Melees ladle were of innenee value, end deans( was k, p: op esti a late hoer. The Italiaa Operate crowded every even ts( to hear the prima dolma Bigaera Peripa, from the Open of Ina Cede, Naples; she would he a great tont- Nun to Mr. Lamb y's employ If he opens ber Mikjory's ?Matra, or to Mr. Ors at Oovnt Gann; her age does net seined twesty, sad her staging sad swiss ere ant-rite." The aitau;ii wowatry reowtiair of the British Mad sties for the Adossicinaoat of &Waco is Aged to at Chslwahasa ia the mak wanorielag Amelia 6, sad treparstioas sn bliss nada ia the crusty of Olouwatiw, la order to give a A tag roarioe to this loaned body. Lord Joao liaistli, who ass Ltaly t•ksa up his residence is the sweaty. aids this sawkistai, sad • oabooriptioo b boa out-red tan to defray the asossoary sizpsams. TIN sub aseptic& list is hswisd by Marl Pitshsrdiar, food Housecoat of this amity, with • dosatioa of 501. ; sad uses. the other sabreribins sat Lord Bailiwick (400, Ral Dodo, Lord do &mum Lord J. Ranell, Bad &shunt, it* Bishop sir Gloossolor mad Bristol, Mr. Baked, M.P., Mr. !WHAM, M.P., fo. The otoothers of the Graphic Society hold a cow- L ceesseitese lost 'Yentas at Usiversity Callep, la Gower , atoll. 7Mrooerwor.bs,UWtly lighted, and the wdla ware adonis& with seetribetiess both waders and antique. from the suaabers of the society. Crest 'statist was ea rthed by sone eriglaal sketches by Gainsbontegb. As am- Lashed etching of Rees Boalwer's greet picture the " Ho-se Pas." aisirable is the drawls., she. ed ch ad, hew sweatial was Wear to brim oat the fell sussing of the a•tist. Goa of the gess el the sweats. was a marvel less portrait of Heresy, the phystalas, by Ilbscat. A seethes of visitors thronged the r asass, who testified the greatest admiration of the mimes works of art brought to ...ether by the seelety. 2ty the death of the Bishop of Culls* the Imo erles :'t Hestia and Kirkby Leasdale la the owlet, of used, el Despised in the °mat, of Cwaberiaad, 1 a. 4 d F oi. ..se semi Outwit la the entity of Lasssetss, I time boss dit ossl tram the dice's* of Chaster, of which th.y unwise . g i ...aeoll part, sad are sow smashed to and isolated is that a t.:viigo Mr. maim B. watt arse yesterday sleeted chief servered i. Perseess. as . 4101 . •Tebe.• Tii.E Ifal'ltZtob. THURSDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 14, 1858. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (PION OVA OWN 001111111.0 DDDDD .) PARIS, WOOS/SOLT EVININO. Baron Brunow arrived at the hotel of the Rueeian embassy in the Faubourg St. Honore at a quarter to eleven yesterday evening. The crowd assembled to see the Russian plenipotentiary wu so great that a strong body of eergens de villa wu sent for to keep a clear space in front of the house. The other pleni potentiary, Count Orloff, is expected on Saturday. M. de Buol and Count Cavour were to have set out respectively from Vienna and Turin this morning. By the end of the week all the plenipotentiaries will doubtless be here, with the exception of Aali Pasha, who, unless be should have an extraordinarily quick passage from Constan tinople, cannot arrive before the 21st or 22nd. There is no chance of the Congress being opened so early u a London government journal anticipated two days ago. Instead of Monday, the 18th, the , Head of next week" is now spoken of as the pro bob!. time for the commencement of business. How- ever, unless any event, such as people here will not allow the possibility of, should occur to bring the negotiations to an abrupt close, it is still thought that the conclusion of peace will be announced in the Emperor's speech on the 3rd March. Count Cavour Las engaged apartments at the Hotel du Louvre, where, as you already know, Lord Clarendon will lodge. It is quite decided that the Congress will be held in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The Salon des Anibaseadeura adjoin. ing Count Walewski's study, is being pre pared for that purpose. A table and a set of arm chairs have been made expressly by a famous cabinet siker of the Faubourg St. Antoine. And anent this, I have just heard a very curious story. Origi nally eleven of these arm-chairs were ordered. Then, when it was decided that Sardinia should have two representatives instead of one, a twelfth was com manded. But now two more have been ordered, and nobody knows who is to sit in them. Is not Prussia after all to be logged in by her Austrian and Russian friends? The report that M. de Manteuffel was coming to Paris is, lam usury& untrue. Made ?dowdier will rotors to Berlin this week. The Bourse has varied very little. The Rents was sot so firm at the close u at the openieg, and gave way ultimately a few pentium. THE BAST. WIDNIMIDLY. The Diseeageriss pocket the Vatican brings sews frem Constantinople to the Stb. Kabresli Mehemed Pasha ham been appointed Grand Vizier ad interim during the absence of Atli Pacha. The Sultan honoured the fancy balls of Lord de Redclt& and of M. de Th 1 with his presence. The Ottoman government has added 2,000 men to the Anglo nrkish Contingent. The Press. d'Orient announce that the Tyeiphone has kit with Russian prisoners for Odessa, there to be exchanged against allied pi 6onere. The news from the Crimea, which is to the 31st of January, announces that the Allies have undermined Fort St. Nicholas. Five English regiments are pre- paring to return to England; 3,000 infantry, with two batteries of artillery, have been sent to Kertch. The Egyptians have left Eupatoria for Varna. An manta from Varna, up to the 30th of January, state that a fire had broken out there, but had been extin guished by the French troops. General Coronini had returned to Bucharest. The thaw had corstneneed is the Danube, end the breaking up of the ice was shortly expected. News from Kinburn states that reinforcements had arrived, and that alTwaa quiet. Intelligence from Tiflis of the 12th of January an nounces that Oenerala William and Vault Priebe had been greatly filed by the authorities and the Inhabitants of the town. According to letters from Trebisoad of the 9th ult. the English were seeking on the coast for a point where 25,000 men could be landed. Admiral 'antitumor hes mired here (blarseillse). At Athens the Order of the Saviour was conferred upon him. A letter from Vienna of the 9th in the Post Amps Gantt., says:—" We lure that immediately after the sews of peace reached the Crimea, several of the advanoed poets were removed, in order to prevent any chance of collision, while waiting for a regular armistice. The news of the maples's* by Russia has disegreeablyeurprised the tradesmen at Kamiesch, who will scarcely have time to get rid of their merchandise. It is, however, said that a part of the supplies will be removed to Bannon on account of the English. Troops continue to assemble at Trebisond, and reinforonnents are being regularly sent off to Er:mu& Ow Pubs displays great activity in reorganizing the Turkish army of Asia, 'tad is renewing relations with the mountaineers. Segdidi, the residence of the Princess Dadian, in Mingrelia, has jut been totally destroyed by fine The Russians and the Turks accuse each other of having been the cause of the coeflagration." GREECE. It appears that M. Xmas, the Greek Consul at Smyrna, of whose arrest we were lately informed by the Greek Monitair, stands charged with having ocostructed in the very home of the consulate a ma nufactory of base ode, the operatiocs of which are said to have been carried cm by M. Xenos and his ems I The two amused await a sentence at Athens. A second scandal, not less outrageous, is a topic of conversation ►t Athens. A tam:dimity attached to the Greek ernbisey at Constantinople, entrusted with the direction of commercial affairs, is accused of having fraudulently authorised the oommeros of grain with the Russian ports of the Danube and of the Black Sea coder the Greek flag! This personage is aboat to be pat on his trial The brigands who had captured Capt. Bertend have fallen into the hands of the authorities. Five were killed, and the rest (of whom four were wounded) are prim:nen, Admiral Beet Willman: had arrived in the Pines& The King has decreed the making of a road from Athos@ to Corinth. Wo read in a letter from Pgris in L.IVo d .4 Although .either Pnwsl► ■er the Dermal(' Diet will op, wetly be reprosestod Is the Coaferawer, there will be a eettsia amber of Gorses dipleauttiete 'nee■t la Paris dada( dee regress of the segetiatioaa. elLaoaget ethers, M. as Biewareit-Ilebettaltassew, repretwatative of Premiss at the Diet, wise will s►ortly b law: Those diplomatists will be 'Woolly, if list eilleally, esissoltod, sad will be kept ass forma with the progress of Ma asmotistiems."_ _ _ The late trial of tire digests of the Beek Poly lambskins made kerma the bet that IL Ifloul wee sea- Measly greeted with the my "Tide donned' V' • Two oderairise ! " It seeds that while ell tides the emitting reverasest el Flame, a "MN OSIPIUMeg. "Cam yea es. plait' to se the morality tif the mop il'efer f" N. Medi thee proceeded Pt justify the reap geed by eademoeriag te establish a system of doable seentity, sae I. severe_ meet del see Le iatilelileak. Neese tte biscuit 0 7 . the @seised, "TM tae monk :« I" THE UNITED STATES. ARRIVAL OF THE BALTIC. LIVERPOOL, WZDNESDAT. Thum afternoon the United States mail steam ship Baltic, Captain Comstock, arrived in the Mersey from New York with advice. to the 2nd instant, 83 passengers, and 35,000 dollars in specie on freight. The United States mail steamer Union, from Havre and Southampton for New York, had put into Hali fax on the Ist for a supply of coal. The peace news taken out by the Arabia was be neficially affecting mercantile affairs, although the receipt of the news was too recent to predict the extent. The New York Herake is very reluctant to believe in the tidings. Alexander 11. (it says , is not in • position which would justify his acceptance of the new conditions sought to be imposed on him. The financial resources of his empire are still unim paired, and his military strength has suffered no ma terial diminution. His arms have, on the contrary, reaped a rich harvest of glory in the contest thus far. Again, it by no means follows that because he has consented to treat on the basis of those condi tions he means to accept them in their present sense. and so on. The advice. by the Baltic report that the House of Representatives was still without a Speaker. The same attempts, sa heretofore noticed, to com plete an election by plurality vote had failed. The following is the latest telegraph from Washington on this subject:—" Mr. Aiken, Democrat, of South Carolina, came to day within four votes of being elected Speaker. Much agitation prevails on the subject to-night. The Democrats assert that Mr. Aiken will be elected by • majority to-morrow. The friends of Mr. Backs remain firm. He is pro mised 108 votes tomorrow. It is rumoured that Mr. Aiken is an Irishman by birth, which may de prive him of Know-Nothing support. Messrs. Whitney, Wheeler, Bayard Clark, Valk, and Wil liams, of New York, Broom and Fuller, of Pennsyl vania, all ' Twelfth Section' Know-Nothings, voted for Mr. Aiken. Mr. Banks, or another, will probably be elected to-morrow. Mr. Mai accepts the mission to England, and will depart with all possible speed to London. After the adjournment of the Senate, on the 31st ult., an executive session was held to consider the nomination of Mr. Dallas as minister to England. It was proposed to confirm the nomination without delay ; but, on a motion of Mr. Clayton, who wishes to ascertain the views of the nominee on questions of foreign policy, the subject was referred to the appro priate committee. It is said Mr. Buchanan will leave London on the 12th of February. The follow ing sketch of Mr. Dallas appears in a New York journal: The subject of the sketth, our newly-appointed minister to Hoglend, was born in Philadelphia, in the year 1792, and is coasequently now in his 61th year. His father was Ales seder James Dallas, a native of Ireland, who emigrated in early life to this country, and subecwatly became Secu lar, of the Treasury and Secretary at War, in which goats he rendered eminent services to his adopted country. The &selfish family from which ear new minister is desoended is reify bigh y connected, and has from time to time been brought int) prominent notice by the literary and ecientilic ' talent' of its members. B.r Ge rte Dallas, whose political writings were so highly appreciated by William Pitt, end hit brother, Sir Rebut Della', Chief Justice of the Uom• men Pleas, were amongst its most diseinguiethed erne - meat, bliss Dallas the Mintster's aunt, married Cap. .a.a Byre is, of 'be liogitsh navy, and was molter of the present and 'moth L erd Byron. His dint burlier rose to the rank of etmco lore in the American navy, sad his yourg-at was the lase Judge Dallas, of Pitt burg. Mr. Dulls himself entered the civil ureic* o: the country at a very early ;lewd of life, acting as prIVVe eccietary to Albeit Genet aintl e missi en of the latter to Russ,. On his 11 owe be appl,ed himself CI tee study of the law, and In return for bit eees vices tendered to General Jackson w,,, stonly after the erection of the latter, appointed District atte rney of the United Stabs for the awe 01 Penn rylvania. In 1831 he w.s chosen United Ft des &fluor by the Pennsylvania Leg:stature; and in 1837, on the election of Mr. Vu Buren to the Tendency, he we.a appointed minister to the c.tter: of St. Pe homburg. In 1839 be w as 'resald flow h a minion, at his own request ; and ail years afterwaras, having received the n , miaation of the demo cratic party, he was elected Via -Prasidest of the United Suttee, and teok the ca t s of (Moe on the 4th of bisr:l, 1846. Sines the exptratiem of his term as Vioe-Prisielent, Mr. Dallas has resided In the ety of Philadelphia, and ap plied himself 6(8.1 to the practice of his peofeesioe. The whole of his career has been marked by a thorough and consistent democracy and an unsullied integrity of charac ter, both in public and private life. THE CENTRAL AMERICAN QUESTION. SPIRCII 07 HON. U. IL ONWARD. In the sitting of the Senate of the United State,. held on the filet of January, the Hoe. W. H. Boogied deli. wed a speech in which, alter discussing the several points in dispute between Eogland sod America. he said : r. I have thus leeched the **rebellion that the American positius sr, jut, and the American demands are right. The final questun is a prettied ore—Wr at ought the United Butte sow t t dot I vas now only slat c i at some of the eireenutivices which affect the question. I regret that in soy ewe it'involves a poesibility of war. Although I believe war sometimes justifiable, I regard it always, ne vertheless, as a eatasity and an evil. I do not agree with either those who suppose it eoutrihi.tes to national prosperity, or those who regard it as • ealut,ry discipline of sta es. lt there'ore, deeply deplore soy war with acy nation, ' and more than ray other, a war with Great Britain. That vwer no longer arms aline. Its wield% and infs. eats easily ic•ures &lie.. Nur in such a contest should we he unaided. The adjacent American states at least would oc- treats with us. It would therefore be a Fermi war, and ooniocinently mire 'suasively injurious and widely demoralising than any other in which we could be engaged. It would, moreover, renew and practically perpetuate en alienation botwesn two fraternal states, on w one COMMIS guider c t (only ousted through the r concord) the &drain. leg maims largely depend. I deprecate a war, moreover, because it can be avoided, unless there shall be fault on betty sides, or on clue side ; and therefore in ore tease It would be an *stemmas, oriellict. Notwithstanding the occasional occurrence of mis,ppuhensions and irritations, the world is yet wide enough for both nations, and for all nations. We sr* the centre of one system—au American one; Gnat Britain is the untie of another—en European ono Almost in spite of ourselves, we are steadily extend ing and increasing our control over those continent,. Not withstanding her tenacity, she is e. 'want!y loaiort her dominion here. Ttie is within the order of nature. It wee to,- three hundred years the business of European nations to crisis*, disciple', and educate American nation,. It is now the humilities of these rations to govern themrelves. The decline of European power ten pro tinily beg n with the fall of Canada out of the c introl of France in 1763. It hoe steadily continued until now only r me relics, possessing little vitality, remain. Without say war on cur part, Greet Britain will wisely withdraw end disapp•or from this h-soisphe rei within a quarter of a century—at least, w thin belt • century. War sight hasten, bet might ales delay It. I regret, alto, shot a war, if it mast come, mast also proba bly c one car with the y rest c tefiet that now eciavultivs Europe. The British sdinioistratioa has lug bees un'aiiliful to the oases cf free insttetious is Europe, and the French empire is. In my eyes, a hateful wserpstien. Nerartbeleis, both i f these administrations ere temporary and prat dimity ephemeral, while the Russian empire is an ob stinate and portentous reality. I scup.. the oracular expo piton of the first Napoleon ; and believing that Europe moot he soon either Republican or Cosesek, 1 ricognise beneath the monarchic .1 mask of the silos, the Western tisfens con tending agatost en advancing deep item. Although no duly and no propriety requires as to intervene on their side, should be very unwilling to engage my solitary In a rots hinaWn gluiest them. I regret, al o, the sad oonditios of the Central American States, which seem, to render them as incapable of 'poetise by oar Intervention, as the French people were, whin la 1799, they demanded a like interposi tion, in halftime tr. of our precedent treaties of commerce end &Alma. Nevertheless. a war with Great Bri an is now among the possible solut on. of the present embarrassment. We ceria'nll can look for me moderation on bee part here after, if we overlook her persistent refusal to foI6l this, the most solemn' and imp ortant of all oar international eogsge. meets. It wi 1 he as idle dream to nipple* ourselves free sad safe if we leave her to waylay us on all sides of oar Isthmus pewsgee, from our Atlantic region to the Pa ilk States. Nor do I fear a war, bavirg justice and high Sate necessity on our side. We outnumber to pc pulatiou of the ddtioh I•lands. Their dip ndenct.s de tree'. from hulloed 1 of leading at., noth. Although we have leis realised wealth, we have infinitely greater resources thin thou of Great Britain; and our revenues, or eirible of largo increase, are prec•ieelly free. Our recruiting ground is ample, as Great Britain well knows, for she has tried to enter it clea r deotisely. If there were any deficiency of native roluoteurs, Greet Britain herself, es well as other Europea . sunless, has supplied us with this element of war. We have a corps of mil Cory officers unequalled, and we have the fouadetinns of as effe.tive navy, that can speedily he built up and put Is sattion. In view of the cireumstences, it seems to me wise to adhere to our demands, a id yet to east en Groat Brits's di.tiactly the responsibility of deciding upon pease or war. Bose wculi advise se to propose I arbitration. Bat I thick we have pouf that point sir .ady. It mid imply doubt of the rightfalnesi of the posits= ea which we bass fleeted to stand, as *laments eat of pessesaioe. Bach Indecision weal I he equivalest tit &hese minuet. Beady., I do sot know where we could lied ea impartial umpire in Vie primes% disturbed peaditioa of Europe, I do net Wok OM Great Britain will eboose a ruort to war. Her go‘ernotest, hardly lest than our own, is a popular one. This ecuttoveray prows out of a curries of her own se mieistration. A war would embarrass her prosperous industrial system, arid could bring to her in return DO adequate advantace, even if s h e were successful. My counsel thern.re is • rr tee to Greg Britain that we shall interfere to prevent her exercise of dominion in South America, if it stool nut he disco ung ue d within out year, and also that authority be cc w givi o tithe President to execute that delayed punose. Grist Brit,* may reconsider—may propose to us • reference, nr some other amicable adjustment. I would be ready to hrgr om d to go tr the very verge of accrtomodatioft. But this disposition. I think, ought not t, anima os to in activity. If the wisdom of Congress shall approve this course then the intervening time can be well and wisely improv.d. No sairseious nation will ever hazard all ' its foreign dominion or influence, ur the int. grit, of its ter ' ritory, without bringing all its Dower into rank. A nation that strikes for minticentsl supreme I must at One ' render itself relf-iustaining and indepewlent. Bsfi re wet ' expire Callfirois and Oregon to the boards of a war with the Stain real s ower in tar world, we meat at lent begin what has been too long del eyed already, the cc nitructios of railroads inn the western borders of the Mississippi *Mao to oar p ate on the Pacific A& ough toe c introverryirlsea on the alines of the Caribbean Be., yet the field of contest will rcw, u hereof, re, lie north cf the St. Lawrence. Canada mint be conquered against her will. Sb. cannot refuse if you tender her inns zatinn on just terms, with indemnity for the struggle e may expect wit Great Britain. I h.ve thus expressed my pinions with frankness. But lam not tenantillt 01 them 11. I irim he equal frank- new and the brAidt at patriotism on all sides of this chamber, mid in ail parts of the country. If these shall be fully rect. eised, this day sill inaugurate a air and impor ant and peacefal triumph over the ancient eoloatsl jolizy of Europa, l honourable to 01111 t lves, aid &aspic:out to all nations. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW TURK, Paul, eat. The teledraphio 'ivied' from Eur..pe to day to the 191 alt., s 4 Hainan, were made knowu early this morning, and acted promptly upon the male,. Before tbe rowing of the fiat board, there were eateusim few:inaction. In Lem and Reading elutes and id other stew itieo. at a large advance on the closing prima of yesterday. The tine in Collards up to the Intl; was fully 1 per cent. above then. lue. last reported. Thu we eannider as alertly the beginning of a the following the Brat indications of pence between Russia and the shied power,. Its effect upon our own market is already a decided one, but this will be more strongly marked in tun mune of the neat three or four week.. . . . . . - The leading bankers put up thvir rate of eschange on Ikadon to 1062 to lest. The actual business done at either rate, for ready money, was Lot large, u, culler in the dry, first-elata douibern sad Canada billo. with City nodoesemant, were supplied in con=iderabLa suns at 11011 to !081 to lUSg. On Pula, no change was crude. We beard of Southern at 3.25 and City drawn 5.24 to 3•21.1 ; the extremes , 325 to 5.20. Th e mail will he o heavier one for the Baltic tainorrow than by the paeketfroin Boston. . • 115eat;;ei whichprevious to the news was ronicitotte acemensoodaueg to borrowers for the amount of Wetness climate oat. Md. , of bank, was 'sty today at 7 per cont. on call, and 3 or 10 per cent. fur diveounts. The gums offatlng 4 n temporary loan are oil the itiefeSkO. Tb. Sub-Trearn, y thsbut 'amen*. yesterday and to-day were largely in advance of the Customs dimes pawl .o. The 5 alifornia bullion by the het atiliTal has Men malty essayed for returns in mitt. The bullion brokers are wi, hoot ortlf rs fur export. Con - mt.—The eMea from the 28th mt. td 31st McNeely amounted to 8,254, bales, Including 4,000 US transit, on the taste of Sie.. to 90. for middling New Orleans Lee on board, freight ta 11.16, and IfYe. to Inc. for low middling to middling Mobile, freight 9-16 to ; lower grades in proportion. For parcele on the spot the rates curing the name peri d were In some Meatiest rather in favour of the buyer not however sufficient to authonae ant change in quotations adviemeleth ult„ stitch were en [Le buts of 91e. for maid. ng Cplaad, :ad 9Xe, for muldllog (frit:Av. The market ad :uncoil on the Araboa's dykes lc. and 4c. for grades negine from good middling to reidoling fair, and Ic. to ie. on the lower qualities. We estimate the felts at 8,300 bales, a large portion of which in transit at 81,c. to 31c. for low mid. diiog to muldiing, and 9, to 91c. for middang to Sully middling Mobile and New Orleans, freisitt 9.16 d. to 11.1dd.; ordinary to go od ordinary grades ranged from 7/c. to etc I , l.ol:a.—For a wf Mt past the market bas been quiet, with only moderate retail demand tot the au tale. The Arebia'a news this more. lug la• unsettled priors, and not ent.ugh was done to glee •Ma exprerion to the trade. The decline I. .bout 12b to 250. on the lower and medium grade-of Mote. Southern and Cutaditu part impated In the butanes, without mks of any importance. Our quotatums are. therefore, almost nominal Common to choice mid common extra State 7 data, 75c. to 3 dole.; mixed to gond Michigan, [Wane, Ohio, I Am, 7 dole. 75c. too dole. 25a. ; Canadian, s dole. to 9 data, 50n; &ahem, 8 cola. tOc. to 9 dots. 50c. fur mime:oil to Meow lie brand& Nye four Is dull and lower. Corn meal has also declined, and sells 3, 3 9981 . 87 0 7,1 Jersey. The export ism this port from let to 35th January was:—wheat guest : 1336, 135,7 it b 610.; 1855,15,1:3 Obis. Cum.-112e ansacflons of ke wet have been light, and priced ' without o wage, e %met that Meet the receip of die new • .be trade has been dult and peas unsettl. d sod lower. The suck of goad wheat to Otani:king re.alcod, and boldest have shown mime emcees, Out would now accept a few mots ler. The ea, ors, from this port from Mt to [lsth January : —lrk, wheat, bush , le, 5e7,7.2; cern, Mabel; 249,123. 1055, wheat, both Is, 20,780; corn, bushels, 381,534. rumen to Europe are dull. We quota -To Liverpoil—Cotton, pout bike, per IR, 3-16 to 7- 17,1-; g 'or. per barrel, 2e. ed. lire Neer Ina a, I Wit.' cod Evqorrer. in sett sera to the foreign dry gcods truer, publubea the Molex" : Ibe imps tallow , of My goods are again bowel) in ea° re, compere! witb t h e year 15Z; and "boot eqo Ito the. norm,. qualm:, • w Ith which the coutry eta inundated two tears ago. it rtquirte very litt.e foresight to pet. cave, nod argument to ermonstrate, that the whole cutmarclal community must till the incurrum nee anoint! (tom each tonsure importation,. Our lean tramp: Wend. are polling the cool our our eyes, while our wool grower. sod cotton manufacturers an wuung their whalers°, tor Use want of aels quite protection. Our merctoust. are in many Instruct pay Mg i per net. per math far leant, solely an conatquesee of the recentve treportattow from abroad: and the market I. kept ins disturbed omdition produced by btu; paymeata toe European labour. 1 his to an evil that cornets itsely se It did twelve month" ago. but In the pconwtaie eery trader natio, whatber he has overeraded or not. THE MEDITERRANEAN. MALTA, Fen U. The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Compaay's ship Per., Captain Soy, arrived here at 1 o'clock p.m., this day, from Alesandris,which port she left at noon on the 3rd. She experienced fine weather during the passages which etc performed in 73 h urr, imaging 112-10 knots, fair steaming On her Ravage to Alexandria from this her speed was the use, sod she ran In m Gibralter to that port in 6 days 3 Inure, making one of the fastest panne, ion record. On her arrival at Alexandria the pissengen, I who 1 ad c..me in her from England, presetted to Captain Soy, the officers and engineer', a at-ongly worded letter, entreating their admita• . ioa at the moat seamanlike and able m in which she had beet brought through the severe weather eke encountered during the first part of her passage ; and strafing their warmest thanks hr the ettent'on which ►ed been p.id on every occasee to their comfort and w ibis. The Pere brings 'aural pas sengers who hrd strived in the Malta from Bombay ; and the &mine and Vivi., both of which ships were signalled daring the night of the 3rd and morning of the 4th, will bring the India mail end passergin which bad arrived at Sure by t►e Bombay on the 2nd inst. . The railroad from Alexandria to Cairo is found ti be I great comfort and convenience by the psis. ngers, who now perform the dieter ce, 132 miles, in an egreteils seven hours, whilst by the old route 36 hours up and 20 hours down were g e consumed in its accomplishment. The railway is commented across the Desert, sod when corn' Wed, the overland route will have nothing kit to make it as comfortable.. travelling can sour be ezpectld to b:come. It has been remarked that a significant illustration of the c' amts. which revolutions work in political affairs, will be afforled in the Conferences at which Count Orloff, the is Comte trued of the Emperor Niel' , Iw, will tit, and over which Count Walewski, Polish emigre, formerly aids ds•eamp of the dictator of Poland and chargé d'affaires at Londos of the Polish Revolution rf 1830—tc-lay a Minister of the French empire —may preMde ! We read in the Gatetle de l'ienne :—" The faithfn Austrian people have the pleasing task to imply ra of Al mighty God in pious prsysrs the happy issue of an event which will be a new tie for the imperial fam•ly, and a r.ew and worthy pleegt of the mod loyoae hetes fee the august dynasty, a. well so fur the Gauntries united under the blessed sceptre of the hoes* of Hapsburg. !Salim.' of hearts hroug out the emir ire, scent- Lune I to ref/ail the dervish.' of the august imps vial house as their own, will joytally unite iu exprasing an ardent desire that God In his mercy will pr test our gracious East r.es, and sustain her in her present per'eet state of health." A letter from Hamburg, of the 9:b, in Le Nord, has the fallowing :—'• The Dutch vessel the Adelaide, fuming from Leghorn, hes eivered our port, laden with works in the marble of Curare, sculptured by the first masters of Italy, and destined for the grand altar of the chat eh of Si. Isaac, at Bt. Petersburg. These rich ornaments Sr. valued at sew sot lees than 1,200,000 francs. If you add to these the little orassawits, gold and silver encrustation', &L, wh cb will set off the works of the Italian masters, you will have some idea of this monuments' altar. The church of St. Isaac, which is being constructed on the Vacs of th►t name, and where atseds also the monument of Peter the Great, was commented in 1814, under the reign of Alexander I. ; the wt rite were actively cnntinned during the reign of Nicholas 1., and it is believed t ,at they will be camplete I and the building be inaugurated under Alexander 11. It is not sayiog too much to state that this church will he one of the richest and grandest in Earn* All the exterior is ecwittructed is the g ey marble t f Fin land, and the intuit'. in the white warble of Carara• This monument of the piety et the Curl hu already cost 64,000,000 silver rouble, and it is estisa•ed that et lust 11,000,000 more will be required." Two Jesuit churches are, it is .iid, about to be erected in Vienna. Admiral tilt Edmund Lyons, 0.C.H., will leave the Earl of Arundel's early in tie ensuing . eek to resume the texamaad of the Ilediterreoeen fleet. CIATOTAL PALACL—STIILLING DAT, FEB. 13.... /Amiabl' ta plummet, 415; ditto by loam tickets, 132; total, 677.