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Ede erpreso. • Imre FAltiqe of The Lapeer." eeetraur the same even g 9 *.i ;excite." w publehed sem Teeeday are Friday hash; In tor M post. lihertkaameataiuttluted for Tlit Enna." London Evelio! paper. seat Oa at the I Ore, la, BeitaerleAlreet, ►y Tye o'clost ea the day at pub:a:awe. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tut• DAT —Murnme, I. .. *Memo" Mi. Mo. Iv-ruaamw —Morstag, N. Ha. Attaavos. SO2. LONDON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22. A CABINET COUNCIL is to be held to-day, and the Ministers who should attend it will find ample food for cogitation before going to the Board, if they but glance candidly over the weighty matters demanding settlement at their hands. But the most worthy topic may not have the first thought. As an urgent vexation often gets more attention than a serious duty, there can be little doubt but the primary subject for discussion will be the vacancy at the Home.ullke. When that vacancy first occurred, we named Sir GEORGE GREY as the most probable successor of Lord PALMERSTON, and notwithstanding oar Russian contemporary de clared Lord JOAN Russma. to be the man, yet, np to last night, Sir G. GREY was still declared to be the most probable new Secretary of State. One reason prominently assigned fur the delayed allotment of the Home Secretaryship either to Sir G. GREY, to Lord PANMURE, or to any other candidate, is understood to have been the existence of negotiations for a " patch up" of the recent Cabinet split. Lord PALMERSTON must by this time, it is thought, see that the country have received with most philo sophic indifference his resignation of place. Many were glad to see him at the Home-office ; many more were gratified to find him working as one of a pro gressive—though in some respects slow, and in others foolish and short-sighted—Cabinet. It was grateful to all—with the exception, perhaps, of the Bishop of LONDON and a few tipsy undertakers' men—to see Lord PALmeasron shut up the reeking London graveyards ; and pleasant to thousands to learn that he was busily engaged in an attempt to solve the Great Sewers difficulty. To see him go on again with such practically useful work might be a satisfactory arrangement of the very unwise difference raised by himself with his late colleagues. Lord PALMERSTON as 000 of a working Ministry may be an acceptable fact on many grounds, whilst Lord PALMERSTON out of office and a candidate for a higher independent Ministerial position is very like an absurdity. Such being the case just now, it may happen that the very first topic for Ministerial confabulation this day will be as we have j , ist said—the patching up of the recent If not that, it will of course be one of the urgent duties of the occasion to settle at once who shall go to the Home-office in place of the still obdurate retired official. There are no doubt some grounds on w hich the ret urn of Lord PALMERSTON to office might be regarded with matistketion ; but there are others on which his re appearance in Downing-street would be much more fatal to the Cabinet than his absence from its future councils could in any way be. To find the ex. Secretary again installed, with Lord LAttsnowNEl as his backer, might have no good influence on the coming Reform Biil. Though rumour declares that hopes of future high place induced Lord PAL mtitsioti's resignation, nobody doubts his being Inimical to Reform. Ile never proved himself to be a sincere Reformer, and his return to Downing street, therefore, on any such terms as making the coming Reform Bill less liberal than it might otherwise be, would be long a dead loss to the country, and a dangerous blow to the position of the rest of the Cabinet. Re. garding the present Ministry only in reference to their deeds since they have held place together, they have (with the single but great exception of their Russian policy)obtained on the whole a large amount of popular goodwill Their taxation reforms have as a rule been in the rig& direction, and the courage and success with which they carried out the ad. mirable plan of a tax upon successions gained them a large measure of well-deserved praise. The Duke of Newc.urrix has done good things in the Colonial-office—as witness the Canada Clergy Reserves settlement; Mr. dr-apnoea has done several wise and successful thing*, although not always successful (who ever was ?), as Chancellor of the Exchequer; Sir J.txxs GRAHAM got through Parliament the precautionary plan of a seashore militia; Sir WILUA .10LESWORTTI, as the first of Radical and Ballot-pledged Cabinet Ministers, is re garded as having strengthened in Council all those leanings towards liberality which his colleagues may have evinced ; and, by so doing, has gained • c►aracter in harness which he would be moat unwise to spoil. Indeed, moat of the mem bers of the Ministry have (with the one great exception before mentioned) gained headway in popular opinion. By all that this good opinion may be worth,—and by all the still better opinions they may yet well win,—we would con• jure them to make no absurd sacrifices of principle for the winning back of a man who would never have left them if he had not thought his true interests were in resignation. Many of the Ministers have very much to lose by an unwise arrangement about the Home-office. If • patch-up can be made on terms open and fair, well and good—but do not let the Cabinet to-day forget that Ministers, like other men, may sometimes Pay Too Dear for a Whistle. We began by a reference to the many topics which claim notice at the Council to-day, and—believing that the instant annoyance would be first canvassed— have assumed that the Home-office question would hare priority of attention, and possibly involve in its arrangement some modification of the Reform measure. But other topics suggest themselves in ample variety as claimants for ministerial considera tion. Let us run over a few of them. There is the fixing a day for the Meeting of Parliament " fur business" and for the " AISZKDEEN Explanation." Next,— " What to to be done in the Black Sea ?" This how many of the " dropped Ministerial Bills" of last year shall be resuscitated Next,—" What shall become of Jewish Disabilities ?" Then, " What shall be attempted about Education ?^ These are but a few of the dainty dishes to be set forth at the coming St. Stephen's feast, and to which the chief cooks must attend. But not one of these, interesting though it may seem to the nation, and urgent as it may be upon the Cabinet, is fraught with anything like the amount of importance that really attaches to the promised measure of Parliamentary improve. meet. By that it is that the Cabinet collectively, ad Ministers individually, will be judged ; by that they will hang together, or split asunder ; and in exile* proportoas to the way in which the promise is kept about Reform, will te the future good or ill piece of each minister in public estintslion. The public expect a measure free from trick. evasion, or compromise, based upon an in telligent prinaiple, and adapted for expansion to Rauh needs. It is not asked that the coming Bill should be perfect. Even if anybody could decide upon %fiat a perfect Reform Bill would be. any such curial. ) would never be passed by the present House of Commons--nor, it is to he feared, by any other Rouse elected by the existing narrow end iatisidatttl eotpitituencies, and whilst the pre sent system of corruption is in fall swing. But if we do not ask the Cabinet to offer us what is impossible or impracticable, we may at least require that what they do prepare for us shall be prepared in an honest, frank, manly spirit—sound as far aeit goes, and in no way professing to be a final measure. Our great national prosperity has, like our great oaks, been of gradual and stately growth. We do not want to be hasty, but we do want to be sound and sure. As regards corruption, let us have a separate bill plac ing electoral crimes within the reach of the ordinary tribunals of the land ; let us have the cost of punish ing electoral criminals made a penalty upon the guilty, and not, u now, an obstruction to the inno cent. These points secured by a distinct measure, let our New Reform Bill itself be one to widen the basis of popular political power. Let them do this for us, and the Ministry may smile at such " storms in a tea-pot " as that created by the splitting' off any single plaoentan, or the intended opposition of men who seek power, not for the workingout of the de fined wishes of the nation, but for the aggrandise ment of their own political cliques. Let the Cabinet deserve well of the whole country, and they shall not be disappointed of their high reward. Vbe Court. OSBORNE, Drc. 21. ---• Sir James Graham returned to Londonearly this morning. The Court will leave Osborne to-morrow for Windsor The Turkish Minister had an interview with the Earl of Aberdeen yesterday, at his official residesee, in Downing street. A joint deputation of West India merchants and sugar refiners, on the subject of refining of sugar under bond, eon g of Messrs. H. E. Cram, of Glasgow ; Graham Russell, of Glasgow; Alexander M'Ewan, of Glasgow ; Provost Martin, of Greenock, and Robert Blair, of Green ock, accompanied by Mr. John Macgregor, M.P., had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence, in Downing-street. Sir James Graham arrived at his residence, in the Admi ralty, yesterday forenoon, from a visit to the Queen at Or Isle of Wight. The Cathedral Commission met yesterday. Present—the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Marquis of Blandford, the Earl of flarrowby, the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Oxford, Sir John Dodson, Sir John Peones, the Rev. Dr. Hook, the Rev. Dr. Wordsworth, the Rev. Canon Selwyn, the Hon. find Rev. H. Montagu Villiers, and the it.,. Rickard Jones (secretary). It is currently reported that Mr. Disraeli ham pre pared the outlines of • meuure of parliamentary reform. It is now said that Myer-General Wetherell will relieve Maier-General Rowan is the ooraniand of the troops is Canada, and will be succeeded as Deputy Adju tant-General at beadiuuten by Colonel Torres., whose place as Assistant-Qaarter-MsaterDeneral will be filled by ARMY Ratters.—The reserve battalion 12th and the 91st Regiment, me to return borne from the Cape of Good Hope.—The 99th Regiment is also to return to Ear land from Van Diemen's Land —The lst battalion 12th Regiment, and the 46th Regiment will replace the 99th Regiment in Van Dimen's Land.—The service companies 21st Regiment will relieve the 91st Regiment, and the en vies companies 63rd Regiment will relieve the reserve battalion 12th Regiment, at the Cape of Good Hope.—The four regiments intended for service in India are not to be augmented natil the usual time of sending troops to India. The rumination for the King's scholarships, which become annually vacant, took place on Monday, the 19th inst. The scholars elected were—Miss Rosa P. Lytle, and Mr. John Barnett. Miss Rosetta Vinsing was re-elected a scholar (or one year. Mr. John Cheshire was sp. cially commended. Miss Csaaly and Miss Southgate, and Messrs. Watson, Wheeldos, Schroeder, and Mason, were com mended. The Rev. Frederick Thomas Scott, M.A., was yes terday collated to the vicarage of Sinertswold with Col. died, in the county of Kent and diocese of Canterbury, recant by the elision of the Bev. Nathaniel Arthur Garland. The Rey. Maurice W. F. St. John has been in stituted to the vicarage et Framptoa•on-Srvera, Ia the Diocese of Glonoweer and Bristol, vacant by the resign tins of the Bey. George Chute. Patron, B. Winkworth Weer, Raq. HURRICANE IN THE CHANNEL THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 22, 1853. LATEST FROM ABROAD. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. It was announced yesterday in London that the British and French squadrons had entered the Blank Sea. Private telegraphic despatches contradict this statement: it certainly needs confirmation. The Journal of St. Petersburg of Dec. 11 publishes two extraordinary supplements, containing the offi cial reports of Prince Jlenchikoff and General Prince Woronoff on the battles of Sinope and Akal-Tsiche : DISASTERS AND LOSS OF LIFE. LIVERPOOL, WZDNISDAY. During the entire of the 19th a violent hurricane blew from the cut. The .deices to hand this morning re port the following disasters : The mail steamer Elbana broke her shaft while on her voyage from Holyhead to Kingston, with the London mails. After getting the mails transhipped to the Prince Arthur, she bore up under sail, and arrived at Kingston. While in the harbour she came in contact with the skip Fanny, from this port to Africa, which drove into the harbour for safety, carrying away her staucheoeis, ►alwerks, &e. The Darnley, of Cork, ran down the sloop Dahlia, which sunk as well as the schooner Victoria, which bad also been in contact, in Kingston harbour. The crews of both Trends were saved. The schooner Sligo, et Penzance, laden with China clay and block tin, drove oa shore about nine miles north of Wexford, and remained high on the beach. The crew were saved. A ship reported to be the Agnes, of New York, with cargo and about 150 passengers, was also driven on shore in t►e south bay, near Wexford, and remained on the rocks. It was expected should the weather moderate, the cargo would be saved. The Caravanna, Ponsonby, from Santanda to Liverpool, went ashen near Blackwater, and went to pieces in • few minutes, all on board having perished. The schooner CatOilat, Pope, from Cornwall to Liverpool, was taken into Dunmore, Waterford, by the pilot cutter Emma, with loss of mainmast. The Portuguese schooner Porto Novo, from Terceira to Liverpool, ran ashore at Bally oaken, having mistaken the light (or that of the Old Head of Kinsale, and went to pieces. The crew were saved• The Chatham, from Liverpool to Savannah, struck on the I bar at Droghed► at low water. Her masts were cut away, but at the last accounts she was breaking up very fast. One man and a boy came ashore, but the latter almost imme diately afterwards died, and it is feared that the remainder of the crew have met with a watery grave, from the perilous position in which the ship was placed, and the fury of the gale at the time. The Pollock, hence to Apalachicola, put into Queenstown, with a cargo of coal and salt, with eight of her crew disabled, the mainmast head and bowsprit sprung, and min and mizentopmuta, &c., gone. LOSS OF THE HUMBOLDT. This vessel, the loss of which was announced on Monday last, was a powerful steamer nearly 1,400 tons burthen, and was connected with the line of steam•vessels running between Havre and New York. She was com manded by Captain J. D. Lines, who appears to be wholly eaonerated from blame is the loss of the ship. She arrived of the entrance of Halite: Harbour from Southampton, en the looming of the 6th of the present mouth. She had bum 12 days out only from England, and getting short aim& Captain Lines bore up for the harbour to obtain fuel, and on arriving off it heaved to furs pilot, who shortly Game on board and undertook to take her into the harbour without delay. A dense fog prevailed shortly after, but he persisted in going on, and in attempting to make the harbour ran the vessel on to a formidable reef of rocks, knows as the 1 Sisters, near Lambrsi Light. It was about 6 o'clock at the tint*, and although she was not making more than four knots per hour, the shock was most severe. She was im mediately backed off, the pilot supposing she had not nis i Mined any injury, but on sounding the pumps it was found necessary fur the safety of the passengers •o run her ashore near Portuguese Cove, situate shout 12 miles from Halifax. By the aid of several small steamers, which were sent to her assistrum, the whole of the passengers and crew were taken olio safety, together with most of their baggage and lug gage. Very little of her cargo, however, which was said to have been worth 300,0001., was ►aved, and towards night the sea broke completely over her. By the last accounts it seems that her machinery had sunk through her ►ottom and:the vessel was a total wreck. Captain Lines is stated to have bud an interest in the vessel to the extent of 10,0001., and unfortunately he was not insured. THE NIARYLEBONE INQUIRY. Yesterday, the inquiry wu again resumed by Mr. Austen. Mr. Edward Joseph, a surgeon, had vaccinated Walsh's child, and had seen it the day belme it died, in order to ascertain if the operation had been successful. The child then appeared to be quite well. lied .Iterwsrds made a post "wriest exami nation of it. The body presented no appearance of emaci ation; and the stomach was nearly full of milk. Witness considered that the child hail dud from asphyxia or suffix cation, most probably occasioned by it having been toe well wrapped up. The inquiry was adjouraed till to-morrow. NAVAL 0 AAAAA lONS AT IDIOM Yesterday (November 28 U.S.) in the evening his Majesty received the following report from Aids de-Camp General Prince Menehikoff " The ("den of your Imperial Majesty have been executed in the most brilliant manner by the fleet of the Black Sea. The first Turkish squadron which dared to present itself in battle was destroyet on the 18th of this month by Viet• Admiral Nalthimoff. The Turkish admiral, Osman Pecks, who commended it, was wounded, made prisoner, and brought to Sebastopol. "The enemy was in the roads of Sinop', where, sustained by the land batteries, he accepted battle. We destroyed seven of his frigates, a sloop, two corvettes, a steamer, and several transports. He only saved a steamer, which escaped through its speed. " The squadron, it appears, wu that which had been armed to seise Sukhum•Kali, and carry aid to the moun taineers (of the Caucasus). " We lost a subaltern sake; and 33 radon killed and 230 wounded. " I have not yet received written details; Aide-de-Camp Lieut.• Colonel Skolkoff, the bearer of this report, will be able to give many particulars." For this brilliant feat of arms, his majesty the Emperor has deigned to confer the following distinctions and reopen pewee : to Vice-Admiral Nakhirneff, the Order of St. George of the secoad clue ; to G I Korniloff, the Grand Cram of the second clue of the Order of St. Vladimir; to Rear-Admiral Novosselski, the Order of St. George of the third class ; to Rear-Admiral Parnphiluff, the Order of St. Vladimir of the third clam; to Captains 'Homily and tf, commanders if the vessels Le Paris and Rotialoff, the rank of Rear-Admiral ; to Captains Bars novski and Yerosayseheff, commanders of L'lmperatrios Marie and Le Grand Dec Constantin, the grade of Cap- Olin of the first rank ; to Lieutenants Boadistchelf Spitsyne, Von Kers, and Von Stoffregan, commanders of the frigates Koulevtcha and Kargoel, and of the steamers Odessa and Chmoome,the grade of Captains of the eecoad rack ; to Cap. tainKoutroff,ounntanding the Tri-Sviati alia, the order of St. Vladimir of the third class; to Captain Protopopoff, com mending the steamer Crime*, the order of St. Anne of the second class ; to Lient.-Col. Skolkoff, the rank of Colonel and the title of Aide-de-Camp of the Emperor ; to the superior ofilcen of each vessel the order of St. Vladimir of the first clam, with the rosette ; and to the crews ten deco rations of the military order per company, and a year's pay to all the sailors who took part in the engagement. FROM TER TERRIER FRONTIER AND TER THANIII•CAUCASIAN 11.1010 N. 1 A brilliant affair of M,for•Oeoeral Von Brunner near Atakhour oa the Bth of November, was only the prelude of greateueems attending the Russian arms. His Majesty the Emperor has to-day received the report from the Aide-de-Camp General Prince Woronsoff, of • decisive victory gained on the 14th of November, near Akal-Taiebe, by 74 battalions of the 13th division of infantry with 14 field pieces, 9 sotniu of Cossacks, and 17 softiies of militia over the Turkish corps-d'ermie of Ferik Puha, 18,000 strong. In this memorable battle the Russian troops were commanded by Lieutenant-General Prince Andros nikoff, whose original report, transmitted to his Majesty the Emperor by Prince Woronoff, is here brought to the knowledge of the public: . _ " Copy of the Report of Andronnikoff, the common the Caucasus, dated Nov. 15, 1853. " Raving arrived on the 12th of November at Akal- Taiche, I proceeded to reconoitre the enemy's position, and ascertained that he occupied an inaccessible terrain, extesd ing from the town of Ab as far as to flouplise. Moreover, the position was fortified by • great number of epoideaserste and batteries. •fieeenl Prince of the corps of " The situation of the town and district of Akel-Tsiche rendered it necessary to act in a decisive manner, the more so u I Marred that the enemy was receiving rein forcements, and expected more from Ardsgsn, Adjar, and Kan. Oa the 14th, before the dawn, I caused a column of four battalions of infantry, with 14 guns, to file off, to attack the front of the enemy near Lower Soupliss ; and another column of three battalions and a half, with three pieces of artillery, nine amnia' of Cossacks, twelve sotnias of the militia of Tiflis and Gori, three &maim of Guide and volunteers, and a detachment of noble volunteers, was directed towards the enemy's left flank along the river Poskhofi-Tchai. " The combat was commenced by the artillery, the fire of which wee kept up without interruption, and with the same vivacity at all points until half-past ll in the morn ing. The obstinacy with which the enemy defended his posit:on demonstrated the necessity of a.saulting it, and terminating the combat with the bayonet, although it was strengthened both by nature and art, and notwithstanding the depth of the Poskoff4stitsi. iThe enemy defended himeell most desperately in his entrenchments, in the houses, in the gardens, and on every point offering the lust chance of making resistance. Under the Are of the enemy's grapeshot and the discharge of his musketry, our infantry tressed the river, the water reaching up to their armpits, end spring to the assault, with such impetuosity and so much compactness, that notwithstanding all his obstinacy the nosy was obliged to give way. The first backward step was the commencement both of the defeat of the Turks and of their total rout. At Soupliss we took from the enemy WIN guns, and near the hamlet of Pamateh, three other pieces. The streets, the gardens, and the road from Soupliss to Pamatch, were strewed with the enemy's slain, " While the principal position war the scenes of a hand to-hand conflict on the right beak of the Poskoft-Tsithai, another combat took place on the left bank. " On this side of the river about ten in the morcing • strong corps of the enemy composed of infantry and cavalry was seen haateaing to the succour of the Turks by the heights of Abas-Touman. Six utilise of Cossacks were sent to oppose this detachment, and at two o'clock in the afternoon an engagement took place. In order to support the Cossacks a platoon from the mountain battery No 1, and two field pieces taken from the Turks were posted on the right bank of the I'oskoff•Tachai, to play upon the Turkish auxiliary detachment. These six sotnias of Cossacks were reinforced by a detachment of noble volunteers, sent from Soupliss, precipitated themselves upon the enemy, defeated and completely overthrew them. More than 200 killed of the enemy remained on the field ; the rest fled, bat were unable to join the principal corps. The combat ended at sunset ; the enemy had entirely disappeared. I cannot help considering this combat as one of the most extraordinary, and, I might say, unprecedented feat of arms. A strong cannonade of five hours' duration, • violent fire of grape and musketry, lasting two hours, and finally. combat, with sword and bayonet, for four hours, and during a pursuit on the mountains, and over broken ground, could not be sustained with honour, but by the valour and iso..efstigable intrepidity of Russian troops, and prove that there exists no obstacle for warrior animated by the Orthodox Faith, who at the voice of the august monarch have taken arms for religion, sovereign, and country. Nur can there be obs sales for an army which repeats the words of its monarch, ' /n ie Doesine speravi ; non confunsiar in etc:woes " I shall have the honour to transmit to your Highness details of the brilliant exploits of the troops which were entrusted to me as soon as tame shall permit. " So far as I have been able to ascertain at present, our lose in this combat, so hot, so embittered, which was pro longed from the riving to the settii.g sun, consists of one °filar and 39 soldiers killed, and 179 soldiers, with six officers of all grades wounded. Among our wounded are Major.Gelieral Freitag (slightly), Lieutenant-Colonel of the Staff Freigang, and Lieutenant Colonel Vieskoff, of he 21st Regiment ot Dvn Cossacks. At pr. sent the loss of he Cowlicks, the artiatry, sad of the militia has not been ascertained. " The loss to the enemy mast have been very consider• able. They left more than a thousand bodies on the field, 20 men of the regular infantry, cavalry, and artillery hive been taken prisoner., awl are now in the for ress. Among others are a Noll,h, a Karmader. During the battle ten pieces of field artillery, two parks of artillery, several flags and standards, and an immense store of provisions, with t h e enemy's a wn, have falba into our hands. " I cannot sufficiently express to your highness my grati tude to the generals who commanded under my orders, to the officers of all gr.d,a, And to all the troops who have participated in this affair." For this brilliant victory his Majesty has deigned to con• fer on Lient.-Gensral Prince Maim:ikon" the order of St. George, of the third class, sad TlTiolli recomposes to all the puerile. Five decorations of the military order for every company of infantry, and a proportionate amber of the same decorations for the notnias of Cossacks and militia, and to the artillery. The following is the text of Menchikoff's despatch, as given inthe Journal of St. Petersburg : .._ Hier, 28 Nevtosbre, dens la soirée, 8. 14. l'Empereur a Teo le rapport snivent de l'aide de camp Weird Prises Menehikeff : " Les ordres de Vote NOME Imperial. ont ite int-cute. de la maniere la phis brillante par la Botts de la Mer Noire. La premiire escadre tarsus, qui a oei a. presenter sit com bat, a ite de trait., le 18 de re mob, pule Vice-Anita Nab binsoff. L'Arairal Tun, Osman Paella, qui la commandait, a iti Masi, fait prison/fain et amine u Sibastopol. " L'ennemi itait dams la rade de Sinop., oa, soutenu par les batteries de tern, it a accepti la bataille. Nous lui evens ditruit 7 frigates, 1 sloop, 2 corvette., on steamer et pluaieun biltiments de transport. ll ne lid est rate qu'un steamer, qui is vitas. de ea march. a souse. " Grits escsdre a qu'il paralt, cells qui aysit ite armee pour s'emparer de Soukhoum et dormer la main our Montagnards (du Caucase). " NOW aeons perdu tio °Meier subaltern. et 33 matelots Uri. et 230 blesses. .. Je n'ai pu encore de &tails ecrits ; mw mon aide de camp le lieutenant•colonel /Wolkoff, portent de ce rapport, palms en dormer beattoonp de vice you x." Pour ee brillitat fait Warm's, 8. M. l'Emperent a daigne waterer las distinctions at rilaoutpenaes Au Vim-Amiral Nakhimoff, chef de la 5 division de la Sous, l'Ordre de Saint-Georges de la 2 clue'. A raid. de camp general Korniloff, la grand. molt de 2 Blame de l'Ordre de Saint-Vladimir. Au contra-amiral Novossilsky, c►arg6 du cornsaandement de la 4 division de la flotte, l'Ordre de Saint• George; de la 3 clues. At contra-amiral Pamphdoff, l'ordrs de Saint Vladimir de la troitaraii dam. Ana eapitaines de Valenti de premier rang Istomine, commandant du enemas le Paris, et Kouznetsoff, eom• mandant du vainest' le Rotialaff, le grade de coot»-amiral • Aux capitainea de vaisseau de second rang Baranovsky, commandant du "simian l'lmperatrice Marie, m Yiromys chaff, commandant du valises's' le Grand-Duo Constantin le grade de capitaine de vaiseeau de premier rang. Lax Boudistelleff, commandant de la frigate la Koulevtchs, Spitsyne, commandant de la Witte le }Lagoa!, de Kern, commandant du .tamer l'Odessa, et de Stoffregen, commandant du steamer la Chersonese, le grade de capitaine de vaisseau de 2 rang. Au Lieutenant oMreno, premier adjudint de la.Aclivision de la Botta, le grade de capitaine•lieutenant. Au ospitaine de VlliSlelln de 1 rang du 32 equipage de Sotto Koutroff, commandant du 'simian le Tri Bviatitalia, l'ordre de Saint• Vladimir de la 3 clam'. An capitaino de ?Mama de 2 rang Protopopoff, com mandant dr steamer la Crimie, VOrdro do Saint• Anne de la 2 claw. Au lieutenant-colonel !Wolkoff, aide di camp as cite! d'itat major gen6ral de la marine, le grade de colonel et le titre Weide de camp de l'Empereur. Ass offleiers euperieure de ebaqur vainest% l'Ordre de Saiet.Vladimir de la 4 Ouse avec la rosette, et au: &jai pages : 10 decorations de l'Ordre militaire par compagnie, et rum mate de sold. 3 tom lee matelots qui oat prim part au combat. THE WAR. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. The Russian bulletins published in another column supply the dates which were needed to distinguish the battle delivered by General Andronnikoff, at Akal-Taiche (or Akiska), from previous engagements in the same vicinity, accounts of which have been received via Constantinople. These latter, which come down to the 19th ult., left the town of Akal-Tsiche in possession of a Turkish corps, which invested the citadel held by • Russian force. The Russian de spatches, which we now publish, relate to a battle which was fought on the 26th of November (or the 14th November, according to the Russian calendar) M■king allowance for the proverbial exaggeration op Russian bulletins, it would appear that General An. dronnikoff was able to relieve the fortress of AkaL Tsiche, after a conflict which must have been severe. The loss of the Turkish general in killed amounted, ac- i cording to the report of his enemy, to 1,000, and not to 4,000, u was first stated by a contemporary. What the Russian loss was we may probably never know, for General Andronnikoff's return of 39 killed, when brought into comparison with his description of the formidable position and murderous fire of the Turks, becomes preposterous. The mail from Constantinople will probably place us in pos session of another and very different account of the battle of Akal-Tsiche. It will not be forgotten, that according to the St. Petersburg accounts of the affair at Oltenitza, the Turks were on that occasion de. tested and driven into the Danube. Another battle, as Russian despatches again say, has been fought at Ougusli, in Asia. The date assigned is the 2nd of December (20th of Novem ber, Russian calendar.) The report reads very much like that from Akal-Teiche. It is alleged that Prince Rebutoff defeated the Turkish Seraskier on the Turkish territory, taking twenty-four cannon, the whole Turkish camp and material of war. The Seraskier retreated in great disorder to Kars. Advices from Bu charest of the 17th announce that an action had taken place at Matechin (opposite Ibnila ) It comes out that the Russians could not succeed. They made a reconnoissoce with two steamers, five gun-boats, and four battalions of rifle men, and it is said destroyed the Turkish batteries below Matschin. The firing was sharp. The Rus sians lost ten killed and several cart-loads of wounded. It is reasserted, we cannot say confirmed, that Persia has declared war with Turkey. Indeed, adviccs from Bucharest of the 17th, state that Persia has offered, through Prince Woronzoff, 30,000 troops to Russia, and demanded a Russian general. Letters from Constantinople, of the Bth instant state that the Porte has refuse d to accede to an ar mistice, but was willing to join the conference. It is also ilffirmed that the British and French squadrons muld enter the Black Sea on or about the 10th. After the declarat ions which have transpired engaging the two governments to conform their policy to that of Austria, the entry of the fleets would be an event of secondary importance. There is, however, every reason to believe that the announcement is prema ture. The Austrian ambassador at Constantineple has picked another quarrel with the Divan. The Journal de C'onelanlinople published a note alleging, what was already notorious, that Russia permitted the Lloyd's steamboats to run from Constantinople to Odessa in order to take advantage of them to obtain secret information of what is passing in Turkey. M. de Bruck, who is personally interested in the Aus trian Lloyd Company, was offended at this article. He demanded explanations of the Divan, and not findiu•g them satisfactory, he gave orders to the com pany to suspend their voyages between Constanti nople and Odessa. He demanded, at the same time, immediate payment of all that the government owed for the transport of troops and stores by those boats. The European merchants at Constantinople have re quested that the boats shall resume their service for the conveyance of provisions from Odessa to Con stantinople. M. de Bruck casts all the blame on the Divan, for having, under existing circumstances, suffered the government journal to describe the Austrian Lloyd Company as acting tho part of a Russian spy. The Pohe Anyt Gazelle of Frankfort, under date of 16th, says :—" According to the last accounts from Bucharest, General Anrep is appointed commander in-chief in Lesser Wallachia. He has brought con siderable reinforcements from Krajowa, but it does not appear that he has receiviol any orders to attack the Turks near Kalafat, as had been stated, although it is true that the Russians have latterly made con siderable preparations for offensive operations. The corps of General Osten Sicken is concentrated at Frigourit. The Russian garrisons of Oalatz and lbrail have been considerably increased. Two thou sand men and 12 pieces of artillery belonging to :hei above corps remain at Jassy. The main body of the army of General Luders is, it is said, at Hirsova." The Dresden Journal contains a letter from Vienna of the 14th, wkich says :—" The Turks have made from Kalafet an excursion within three leagues of Krajowa, and took away the forage which the Rus- sians had in store there. They returned home with the Russians in their custody who had been placed as guards over the forage. It was only two days after that Gen. Fischback heard of the matter." The Wanderer of Vienna has the following letter from the frontier of Turkey, 9th:—" Everything announces the approach of serious events. All the commercial relations between the capital and the towns, in the south and west, are interrupted, and in tke villages of Lesser Wallachia the peasants are for bidden to leave their dwellings under pain of death. General Danneberg arrived at Bucharest on the god. There aro constant skirmishes along the line of the Danube. The Turks fight with enthusiasm. Not a single Turkish prisoner has yet been seen at Bucha rest." The Journal de Franefort, in a letter from Con stantinople, says:—" M. Baltazzi, who some time since made an advance to the Porte of 33 millions of piastres on the tribute to be received from Egypt, has also furnished 10,000 pieces of cloth, and all the wives of the employes in the war department have been set to work to convert it into cloaks for the troops. A large building has been converted into a workshop for the purpose. The females of the harems are similarly occupied, although they are not very ex pert at needlework." Letters from Constantinople, received via Vienna, state that on the 13th November Achmet Pasha,' chief of the general staff of the Turkish army in Asia, advanced against Alezandropel, and took pos session of the village of Baindir, which is a little to the south of the fortress. On the 14th, at 1 o'clock, the Russians made • sally, and attacked the Turks with great vigour. The battle lasted until three hours after sunset, but, notwithstanding the despe rate efforts of the Russians, they were repulsed, and obliged to return to the fortress. During the night the Russians were busily engaged in carrying off their slain ; but still the Turks found 200 dead bodies, 20 chests and waggons, and many dead horses in the morning. Soon after this battle Abdi Pacha arrived with reinforcements and a large train of artillery, and the siege of Alexandropol began in due form. Ali Mu Pacha, who is in the neigh bourhood of Achalzich, has taken possession of six of the neighbouring districts, in which, at the request of the people, Turkish governors have been appointed. On the 19th Nov. a Russian squadron, consisting of four steamers and four frigates, landed troops and attacked St. Nichols& The affair lasted from 10 o'clock till 2, when the Russians retreated. A steamer and a frigate were much damaged by the guns of the fort, and the latter were obliged to be taken in tow. In order to lighten her, the troops which she had on board got into a large boat, which was hit by a shot and sunk, with all the men, as she was about to put off to another vessel. Letters from Bucharest, under date of the 12th inst., state that the latest dispositions of the Russians warrant the supposition that a grand coup is intended to be executed on the Greek festival day of St. Nicholas (18th inst.), for the purpose of dislodging the Turks at Kalafat. According to Russian ac counts from Bucharest, of the Bth inst., we learn that the number of Russian troops at Krajova, Slatina, and the villages between Kalafat and Krajova, now amount to 30,000 men, chiefly belonging to General Dasnenberg's corps. The Pairie states that all foreign merchant vessels in the Black Sea going to ports of the Ottoman em pire are, by order of the Russian government, to be subjected to search. This follows immediately and necessarily from the government order which we yesterday reported from St. Petersburg. No sane Czar could issue such an order until he had satisfied himself that the Black Sea was a Russian lake. Very recently, the Phoebe, an iron merchant vessel, which was on her way from Constautinople to Samsoun and Trebizond, was hailed by some Russian vessels, but three shots were fired at her before she could be induced to bring to. After she had been overhauled she was allowed to proceed on her voyage. FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY EVENING. The Moniteur, which condescended to quote the Vienna protocol (given in the Daily News of Tues day) from the Debats, without a word of comment, repeats the instructions to the ambassadors of the Year Powers at Constantinople, as given by that journal, but accompanies the quotation with an ex traordinary " boutade," which causes much amuse ment. It says :—" We reproduce the instructions published by the Journal des Debuts, and which, essording to that journal, have been addressed to the representatives of the Four Powers at Constantinople. We have not to explain ourselves as to the correct ion of diplomatic documents thus given up to pub licity. If they are false, it is a culpable manoeuvre ; and if they are true, it is an unpardonable indiscre tion. The government has taken measures to pre vent the recurrence of such facts." The government, voider whose strict superintendence every line re importance in the .Iloniteur is published, I certainly knows whether the Debate despatch is true sr false. It might be replied to the Moniteur," If it be false, your republication of it is a culpable manoeuvre ; if it be true, the expression of your scruples is ridiculous affectation." Of course it is not to be doubted that the publication in the Debats is literally correct, and under present circumstances it is a fair subject for congratulation that the French government is ashamed to own it. The Pa ys, in commenting upon these instructions, takes pains to show that they do not imply a suis qua non on the part of the Pour Powers that Turkey should concur to an armistice. It understands that notwithstanding the pressing solicitations of the ambassadors. Turkey may well hesitate to consent to an immediate suspension of hostilities. All that this semi-official organ of the French government now insists upon is that Turkey cannot reasonably refuse to send a plenipotentiary to an European Conference. In this surmise the Pays is probably right. Throughout the whole course of the affair from the beginutng the Porte, while firm upon every . essential point, has shown itself to be no stickler tor form. It !ft 63:7 means probable—unless the events consequent upon the affair of Sinope should have made the instructions when they arrive at Constantinople wholly inappli cable to their existing state of circumstances—that Turkey will insist upon the prosecution of the war at all events, and positively refuse to name the terms upon which she would make peace. On the con trary, judging from the expressed opinions of subjects of the Sultan here who are in a good position to form &judgment as to the reception which these instruc tions are likely to meet with, I can predict with much confidence that the Porte will not refuse to ne gotiate. But I can with equal confidence express the belief that she will not consent to an armistice, and will not propose any of those disgraceful conditions of peace which alone stand any chance of acceptance by Russia. I understand the government has to-day received a despatch to the effect that the Turks had been tho roughly routed at Kalafat and driven across the Danube. News to this effect was, I perceive, circu lated esterday in England, but not believed. Up to a late hour this evening the Turkish embassy here had no knowledge of any such event. The receipt of the intelligence by the government is not even presumptive evidence of its truth, for the French agents of course send the rumours they hear, although they may turn out to be Russian fabrications. The Bourse was considerably better to-day. The unmeaning despatch Iran Vienna, quoting I.ord Redefine as an authority that the Porte was disposed to negotiate, was thought an event of importance by some speculators. The confirmation of the " instruc tions" given in the Minds, implied by their repro duction in the Mondeur, also had a favourable effect, many people thinking that the pressure put upon Turkey will be so great that she cannot refuse to make peace upon any terms. The Threes closed at nearly the highest price of the day, with a rise of 40c. Credit Mobilier was in favour, and rose 7f. .7)41e. ; but the upward movement was repressed by a rumcrir that this society was about to take the Turkish loan. Most of the railways rose a franc or two. With respect to the real history of the paragraph in the liviate.er, two stories are current. Some say it is but part of a " comedy"—to use a favourite French idiom—and that the government chose the /),,,, i t, a medium for making a communication to the public the responsibility of which it was not desirous for the moment to assume ; but a more accredited ve t . sion is that M. Bourqueney, who is a great friend of M. Guizot, gave these state papers to him, and friend of his took them to the For my own i.orri..eor to b e part, wrfec Itlb;ligeevneutihnee.indliFhrtii,omn "measures' ralludesto point, 1 fancy, to the better preservation of state secrets, and not to any extraordinary severities against the journals that may publish them when they ooze out. The Academy of Sciences met yesterday, to elect a Perpetual Secretary in place of the late Si. Arago. The candidates were MM. Elie de Beamnont, Charles Duple, the brother of the eminent ex-President of the Legislative Assembly, Lame, Pouillet, and, s ena ,. mont. At the first ballot, there were .5 votes. N. Elie de Beaumont had 19; NI. Dupin, lil ; NI. La to ,.., 8 ; and M. Pouillet, i ; M. Senarmont, 1 ; and there was 1 blank vote. The required majority being 27, there was a second ballot. The votes were 51. Elie de Beaumont had 29 ; M. Dupin, 17 ; N. l'ouil let, 5; M. Lame, 1 ; and M. Senarmont, 1. NI. Elie de Beaumont was therefore declared to be elected, subject to the approbation of the Emperor. I believe there is no doubt whatever that M. Leverrier will be the successor of M. Arago at the Observatory. The Emperor has appointed the Prince Napoleon, President of the Commission of the Universal Exhi. bition, to be opened in the Crystal Palace now build. ing in the Champs Elysees, in 185.5. The members of this commission are not yet chosen. There are a great many candidates. The new Bonapartist club the " Globe," was inau gurated by a grand dinner, General liar, the presi dent, in the chair. M. Belmontet, the eminent ex member of the 10th of December society, proposed as a toast the " Imperial dynasty," which he chi racterised as " the buckler of the present, and the lever of the future." A history of the Roman republic of Big, written by M. Marche!, of Caloi, has been interdicted by the standing committee on " colportage,“ on the ground that it contains several libels on the Prince of Canino. M. Marchal is now a political prisoner. It is said the Papal government lately requested a par don for him, but that the offence given by the allu sions in this work to a member of the Bonaparte family was so great, that the Emperor declined to grant it. The Echo ,le /a Lye states that the police of Aire (Pas-de-Calais), a few days since, di.covered written on the window shutters of the establishment of Ursuline Nuns in that place the words—" Ledru- Rollin, du pain—Napol/2on, du baton—Pillage which they effaced. Fifteen men appeared a few days ago before the Court of Assizes of the Gard, under the charge of having been engaged in a plot ag , tinst the safety of the State. After seven days' hearing, the jury brought in a verdict of " Not Guilty." Engineers are engaged in making the surveys for a line of railway round Paris, but at a distance of 100 kilometres (GO miles) from the capital, so as to form a communication with all the great lines which start from it. Orleans, Chartres, Evreux, Amiens, Epernay, Montereau, Sens, and Auxerre, will come into this new line. I learn from a good source that government is quite determined that this line shall be made. The following is the text of the judgment of the court-martial at Mezit*.rea, in the affair of Captain Laporte :—" The President presented two questions —first, is Captain Laporte guilty of having killed General de Brigade Count de Neuilly ? secondly, did the accused commit this act (ce llieurtre) in legiti mate defence? The Council, on the first question, declares unanimously that the accused is guilty ; on the second question, by the majority of four votes to three, that the accused acted in the case of legitimate defence. In consequence, the council, by a majority of four to three, acquits Captain Laporte of the accu sation brought against him ; and orders that lie shall be immediately set at liberty, and be sent to his corps to continue his service. ' PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. Two telegraphic despatches, one from Vienna and the other from Trieste, speak of another battle gained by the Russians at Ozouski, iu Asia, on the Ist of December. No official confirmation of this event has hitherto arrived in Paris. Several German papers arrived to day continue to speak of a great battle having been fought at Kalafat, but they give the victory to the Turks, and not to the Russians, and speak of the latter hav ing lost 4,000. If there be any truth in this affair, which was bruited in London three days ago—it is extraordinary that the news should nat yet have reached this in some authentic shape. M. de Penton, the Russian diplomatist, who was said a day or two since to be designated eventu ally as the Plenipotentiary to be sent by the Czar to the proposed Congress, is, according to this day's ad ' vices, going on a mission to the Shah of Persia. It is stated in a private letter from Vienna of the ISth that Count Valentine listerhazy, the new Austrian Ambassador to St. Petersburg, is to go immediately to 'his post to support negotiations relative to the last note of the four Powers. The Bourse to-day was greatly excited and depressed by two pieces of political news. The entry of the fleets into the Black Sea, although there was little doubt of the fact among the well informed yesterday, is now thought to be confirmed beyond controversy, and the effect upon the public mind is very great. I But the report from England, that General Baraguay d'Hillicrs opposed the proposal of Admiral Wades to send the fleets forward at once when the news of the disaster of Sinope arrived, has produced a deep and painful sensation. The story adds force to the rumours already too prevalent, that the so much vaur,ted good understanding between France and England is in danger of being broken, and has perhaps never been sincere. Both the official telegraphic despatches placarded at the Bourse gave the day'Fl price of Con sols one-eighth higher, but it was said late in the afternoon that a sudden fall of i , per cent. had taken place. Under these influence, the Threes fell 50c., and the Four per Cents. 1 fr. Bank of Fran _e de clined 20fr. The railways were all very heavy. Many of the principal lines fell front 7fr. to 10fr. I bear it said that the Moitileur to-morrow will contain either a denial or an explanation of the course imputed to General Baraguay d'Hilliers. The Emperor presided yesterday at a Council of Ministers. All the members of the Cabinet were present. Another Council was hell to-day. The cabinet ministers who have lately arrogated to themselves the title of " Monseigneur," besides the designation " Excellency," find themselves taken down a peg by the following note in the Moniteur this morning: "It is by error that sonic persona have applied to the high functionaries of the State the title of Monseigneur.' This title belongs only to the French princes and to the princes of the family of the Emperor." In consequence of the high price of provisions, the Minister of the Interior has ordered the prefects to make such a monthly allowance to all the govern ment clerks under their orders, whose salaries are small, as will enable them and their families to con sume their usual quantity of bread without taxing their incomes more severely than when bread is at an average price. In many departments of the state a special addition of 10 per cent. has been made to the salaries of all married officials, and bonuses of diffi•rent amounts have been awarded to the un married in the subordinate ranks of the civil service. ITALY. TURIN, Dec. 19. The legislative session was opened to-day. The King delivered a speech, which was warmly ap plauded. His Majesty congratulated the Piecinion tese nation on its political sagacity, and recom mended the parliament to encourage that spirit of union, by the aid of which the government might find force sufficient to maintain intact the dignity of the country, and preserve the noble principle of national independeace from any insult. His Majesty concluded as billows •• Have confidence in me, and by our union we will crown the grand edifice raised by the hands of my father, and which mine will defend and preserve. - Ihe royal speech was received with enthusiasm, and the King on his passage was hailed with the warmest acclamations by the people. M. Ittennier, director at the ministry of foreign affairs in France, and having the rank of minister plenipotentiary, and who is now here, was intsent a: the royal sitting in :he diplomatic tribune.