The Express. — London, England, 1856-02-20 00:00:00

irbe expregist. algeflismabbiZsi tar .11ineRWars71:42Z6 twaing paper, net itpeilleili be et dr Oft% lc Ilosviesrtrest. b Tee Nis* ea Me Ist HIGH WATIK AT LONDON BRIDON. Tim DAT — Morning. h. 10 ‘..........b/terbout. 2b. ➢Da. To.roraow—Yonlag. A. 432 2.........A1tbra05k 3b. 2a. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20. We are surprised to perceive in several quarters a disposition to take an unfavourable view of the state of the national finances. All the details that have yet transpired relative to this important sub ject appear to be of a peculiarly satisfactory cha racter. On the 6th inst. we recapitulated the results presented by a parliamentary paper just published, which professed to give a general view of the public income and expenditure for the whole of 1665. Ao- cording to this statement, Government entered upon the present year with abalanos in band of 3,688,6001. They retained, in addition, authority to issue Ember qaer Bills to the extent of 3,500,0001. There was nothing at all diecoareglng in this position of the Ex chequer. On the contrary, bearing in mind the assurances put forward in ministerial quarters, that arrears of liabilities are not permitted to accu mulate, we consider that the ease and regularity with which the requirements of the war have hitherto been met, are most encouraging. At the commencement of the new year, however, the pecuniary claims upon Government were heavy. The dividends alone represented au aggregate of some six or seven millions, to meet which the Cflaxceeun of the Exenecieut was compelled to apply to the Bank of England to an extent beyond the usual quarterly advances. Au the revenue payments flowed in, Sir G. C. Lewis has been enabled daring the last few weeks to repay to the Bank the bulk of these tem porary loans. But, finding his means still rather , straitened, be has decided upon raising 5,000,0001. in Console, and upon reducing, by mew of a funding of 3,000,0004., the unusually heavy amount of floating debt now outstanding. By these and other messures he calculates that the root of the Examen Bills afloat will be prevented from declining to a dimmest. In this simple statement of fasts these is smaredly so feature of a disquieting character. No one sus doubt fora moment that the (Sty capitalists will en Friday next gin a substantial respoess to the . . . _ Cassenl.ox's appeal for fresh funds. Nor do we missile in the policy of the attempt which is now being made to produce an unsettled feeling is the mossy market by Mysterious warnings as to the ftture requiremesta of Goverment. No doubt Sir 0. C. Linns will want soother Ina this year whether we have peace or war. The only pledge be can give is that no fresh loss "ball be raised until this 6,000,0001. be paid up—i. e., until after the 24th April. The prawn operatic. is merely a temporary arrangesseut, pending the dellberadone of the Paris Coatrooms. If peace be made, the further am required by way of loss will paddy be very small, sad will be raised am terms man more favourahle to the satin then those sow obtainable. Os the other hand, if the aorta of diplomatists .to obtain Ressies ameent to a satisfactory peace prove abortive, the natio* will have the consolation of knowing that the interval has bees usefully sm. played in preparation, and that the army and lest will eater upon the mew campaign in a Mate of noptecedeuted efficiesay. That the Cellist in sown@ relax the exertions necessary for the attainment of this allaissay is all that the nantry will snot from the... Many preens, pos. eddy sot ameated by entirely disisterested motives, express disappointment at the limited mount of the loam& operation now eautemplated. But the judicious and unbiassed declare that Miair ter* are perfectly right in acting thus. Had they eons forward sow for a heavy loss, based upon the assumption that the war will continue throughout the year, they would have laid themselves epos to severe censure. The mossy market would have bees materially aed—se the result of the Coa lmen's may, perhaps, show seedlemly de ranged. Were the raisin of a great war lout immediately followed by the moclusion of pease, Bir 0. C. Lawn, though well pro vided with funds, would not be equally well provided with an answer to a tucks in Parliament Financial Reformers would have good reason to blame him he a wanks waste of the animal amass. In the *vest of pesos being shortly cascaded, sad the mistime war hunks it is to be hoped that the military and naval expediter" of 1866 will be considerably lees than that ef 1866, and that as sash sum as as additional einem million loss will be needed. There will be so Sebastopol to beings, swallowing up day by day thous's& of ponds' worth of shot and shell. Far be It from is to attempt to evade a recognition of tits farther heavy eapeaditere whisk this Reselaa war, eves if it ewe this spring, will yet entail epos se. The satin has at so time Maned barn the berthas, and is perfectly prepared to presents the mated with even greater vigour if our sets's nee prove still rebsotory. Bat whilst strongly ap proviag of the determinant' of Oeveransest to omit so measured hostile preparation, we see se seesesity for the circulation et exaggerated estimates of oar fleaseial liabilities. The credit and ressurese of the sentry are =impaired j and City capitalist' are ready to raise fends far the pat& 'orris, to any extent, the @sly qmsdatt bola; that of forum Should the present premed of peace prove a men absolving view, and should a farther great loan become nosseery, Government may rut amend that it will be Raised with alacrity, sod at prices that would astonish inancien of the olden 'noel. The fast is, the anion leas yet seemly nenises of its own finausial strength, sad of the , immense snout of available wealth which has aces malted during the forty years' pens A Chancellor of the Exchequer used sot apprehend diflicalty in raising loan of any 'magnitude when he witness* the remarkable avidity with which the aresied public bee 'bullied all the stork hitherto °rested. AT length the great Port Nicholas, with its 192 pas, in three tiers, whisk guarded the southern side of Sebastopol herbage., has been gtterly destroyed by our Allies. The town proper of Sebastopol hes been completely dessolighed—mareely one steno is sew left epos soother; nor de we despair , of seeing the hope lees night expressed by Lord Hemmen reelhed--the destructio• of the snakes fleet. No doubt, whatever merged. gallaatry gad 'sieges ma perform will he performed by the men usage Bit EDMUND LYONS. It is always dilleak rightly to estimate the vales of a great achievement. The lose labour and the terrible eserilless which have attended oar Crimean °coquets reader the attempt to esti mate their vales peculiarly dilleult. But this at least we know. Coleus the ablest Russian statesmen have all ludicrously miscalculated, Sebastopol was the tiMilli.. I rim, 11Ar Arke, tabDA v ffari IeJS BR UAR, Y 20, 1858. lonmolathe of Bnosian power in the Black Sea. Sebas topol was the fulcrum of that mighty lever. This was the arsenal of her armise—the harbour for her fleet. Twenty yews naively sufficed to famish that anneal and to ante that fleet. Now both fleet and arsenal are nothing. Let us only measure the importance of ow conquest by the importance which the mousy attached to that which we have conquered. Thus may we form some just idea of the blow which the CZAR has sustained. Peace may be the oonsequence of this great doer' I ter to his arms. But, whether it be or not, the Allies have nothing to fear. We speak in no boastful mood. But we regret to observe in some quarters a disposition to disparage oar resources. According to some whimsical persons, England has not strength enough to make her voice heard, or to insist on such terms as may consist with her own honour and dig nity, and therefore with the pesos of the world. We have no aces to distrust Lord CLARENDON. His colleagues are entitled to our confidence. Even if they wanted patriotism, they do not want common sense ; and they must see that the gazette which announces unsatisfactory terms of peace will announce to them the boar of their fall. Bat most aseuredly the country which they represent is quite equal to enforce its demands. For if we may credit the accounts of our army in the Crimea, never was there a finer body of men assembled. Even although a campaign in the Crimea should be deemed inadvisable or too hazardous, the game is still in our hands. Let the field of battle be Asia. Sufficient garrisons migtt easily be left in the Crimea to occupy a considerable body of Russian troops. The troops in the pay of this country amount to 63,000, the Sardinians to at least 16,000, the Turks under Oitut Nan to 32,000: with these 100,000 men alone it is no exaggeration to say that General Motrarvim would find himself in a position by no means enviable. The troops thus assembled would be inured to war and educated by experience. The system of organisation has been brought to something like a working system ; and the eagerness of the men and their leaden to repair past blunders would, no doubt, lead to the happiest results. The conquest of Georgia in a single cism• paign is a result which neither Russia can contest. plate without anxiety, nor England without exulta tion ; and yet it is this result to which, unless peace is concluded, the course of events will most probably lead. Assuredly there is so reason why the Allies, and least of all England, should assume a less lofty tone than becomes her, as one of the Great European Powers. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE TURKS AND (run ors own COMMIPONDIXT) 80 1 JARTM-KALEH, Jas. X Like many another partisan bout, the vaunted vcd-will with which the Circassian were said to I have welcomed the Turkish general and his troops proves, on examination, to be we of those imaginative creations in which fiction and fact are agreeably I blended, in much the same proportion as were bread I and sack in the vinous supper in Eutcheap. By this, however, I do not mean to insinuate that any feelings of loyalty towards the Russians kept them from hailinig the arrival of the Ottoman force with es lively a satisfaction as the despatch writers asserted; for, though nominally subjected, these tribes of the Black Sea are at heart as thoroughly opposed to Muscovite domination as are the Lesghis of Dashes- tan or any of the independent mountaineers of the south. But my own brief personal experience agrees with that of nearly every one of the Eoglish (AIMS who first landed here with Omer Pasha, in proving that of goodwill on the ground of the alleged iden tity of religion, from which so much wu hoped, not a particle exist s; and, failing on this ground, their estimate of the virtues of the Turkish national cha racter in other respects his not been sufficiently favourable to secure it. Of the seventeen principal tribes that comprise the whole Caucuian popula tion, only a very smell minority are sufficiently Mussalmea to have much sympathy in this matter of faith; and, in the absence of such • tie, the confi dence of the remainder—amongst whom these Abe signs may be reckoned—in the disinterestedons of their visitors, is hardly strong enough to induce many displays of a gushingly warm regard. Indeed, laying aside all hyperbole of expression, I hare found the animus of the people, in this neighbourhood at all events, to be very different from what it was represented to be both in print and by report; and I am assured that inland, around Redout-Kaleh, it is still more markedly anti-Turkish. Here, as yet, this evident distrust bears fruit in an almost total stand-off on the part of the surrounding native population, combined with • nearly general refusal to send in supplies, or seen to sell them in the vil lages; but in Miogrelia it has manifested itself in acts of much more positive unfriendliness, and not a few murders have been committed round the out skirts of the camp. In a few instances, dread of the retributive memory of the Russians may operate to produce this unexpected semi-hostility; in others it may be traced, partially or entirely, to outrages com mitted by the Turks themselves • and, in every use, more or lees to feelings of jealousy and mistrust, which Omer Puha has not dissipated --assert to the contrary who may. When the Birder and his troops landed here in October lest, the expectation was all but general that from Anapa to Fort Bt. Nicholas, and from the Enna to Bltirvan, every tribe which had maintained the enema struggle for liberty ever I since the treaty of '29 gave a colouring of legitimacy to Russian claims, or which, though beaten into ap parent submission, still cherished hatred of the op pressor, would fly to arms as one man and lend their aid to the great Turkish chief in sweeping away every trace of Muscovite power from Caucasian soil. The uninformed and the over-sanguine were toed in their predictions of Minn given back to the Shah, of Georgia recoostituted an independent principality, and of Cireamia restored to the enjoyment of its primitive patriarchal freedom. To be sure, it is as yet premature to assert that these vest hopes are all to prove delusive ' • but it may be mo destly remarked that, though nearly four months have now gone by, the first step towards their fulfil ment has yet to he taken: Schamyl bee not struck one 00-operative blow, and the active goodwill of the population generally still remains to be secured. This latter feet and its inconvenient consequenoes have limited my excursions interiorwards from this point to • much narrower circle than I had expected; so much so, indeed, that though I leave spared neither effort nor reasonable expense, I have found it utterly impracticable to penetrate farther than a short day's journey from Bookkum-Kalish. Of the people themselves, it would be premature to speak generally from the few hundreds of them which my rambles have brought under my eye; bet so far es an opinion can be formed of the whole from such samples, I would say that, beyond all comparison, the men are physically far superior to the women, much as foreign ignorance has extolled the beauty of these latter over those of Western Europe. Tall, fair complexioned, broad-shouldered, and proportioned the Apollo Belvidere, thee@ men, with their dark blue eyes, and feet that would All with envy the 21hborn dandy ever booted by Hay. are, taken 1t all, the finest specimens of manly beauty I have over sees. Is sestrast, tee, with the slouching amble of the Turk% their erect, elastic gait seems aimed the periled's of graseftl movement, and hu ssies alndraltly with the aggregate of the other ensellemes of firm and femme which Judaea Blemealmsk k selseting from amongst them people his aside of the human race. Of the "lades" —as illempean =Shoelace persists in calling them— Ig=ifer my own sake, and for that of choking popular notices of the West, that I have not as yet saes one whose beauty would honestly war rant the remotest approach to a horde It would be may to let the imagination via wld de scribing seen ideal charms of foes and limb as pre scriptive fancy bestows on the Circassian girl; but, Wens the remoter Interior possess nymphs of another and mare celestial maid than those who meet the traveller's eye along the sera, such hyperbole of praise may bo awarded with_peater justice to claimants muck nearer home. There ie. Wee& * natural gracefulness about these Caucasian maids which a western education might develop into an elegance that would contrast favourably with the artilloiel gloss of mere conventional refinement; bat, for the bewildering beauty that dazzles the eye and carries the heart by • mop der:eel, you mays"' man of it on a fine aria( 'hereon in Rotten-row and the Drive than I have been able to catch sight of here daring three isdustriose weeks. Lest it should be inferred from this admission' of non-sacesse is this respect that the rusk mentioned hie arisen in any degree from the retiring bashfainess of the sex, I may add that it is only the married women—and of them the ugliest are, min Turkey, ever the readiest to , hide their shams fr om the stranger's eye--who wear the veil; thesingle and unsold may be looked at till the goner is outset. I flume beginning to pen down some hatmeatery ~. I learn that the cotanmading Parka has aft an order forbidding all persons essassted any way with the army to stray= i ths limits l of the town, icseeasequesee of the ends/ of a Oilman* yesterday by a Turkish soldier, and of the &elated intention of the dead mask fellow villagers to take life for life. About a festal& ago a Turkish military doctor ventured out aloes noose ample of miles into the country, to the neighbour of a village I have frequently visited since, and was found deed on the road side the next morning, with seven different dagger wounds in his body, but without being rifled of anything—a proof that other motives than thaw of robbery had actuated his mur derers. This second unfortunate incident. and the implacable feeling of revenge which it has excited, furnish another unhappily opportune illustration of the ill-will of the native population towards our Allies, and so far confirms what I have remarked on that head. I may jolt add pseudo. of the report that the Sirdar islands the removal forthwith of nearly all his troops from thin coast to Trabisood, leavieg only a small occupying force lime sad at Radom- Hash, with the view of making &mous his base of °piratical in early spring. Experience has thus taught Mai to fall back se what would have bees his wise palsy at first. TURKEY: CONSTANTINOPLE, Fax. 7. (MON 001 OWN 00/1/000NDINT.) As announced in my last, notwithstanding the weather, which was rather lase favourable, the Sultan melted at the French ambeasadoe's bell, which Mooed our carnival festivities. I have not dme, nor do I consider it requisite, to my mach on this subject, which you will And exactly detailed in the Journal ds Consfaalisop/e. The Balton, escorted by his own guard and mount ing • splendid Arab charger, richly eaparisoned, reached the French embassy at half-past seven, and having has. conducted to private apartments, had as opportudty et esamesing in French with M. Thos. ne Court. - The Qom and Uses Albert went yesterday waning to Weehrieh, M leaped the treelike *notated at SebaelleyeL Her Majesty sad klo Bay el Highness, with the Oesstase it Desert, the Hoe. Beattie, Byig, Mejer-thastel Deem& ' awl Cepa& Du Plat, left Dasklegltue Palm* ehertly heSere les o'clock, Is two eaniesee-ead-fear, sad ea arming at the Boyd Anted clewed the ewes, sew- tare, sad tither gables captured la the Crimea sad et Demarettad. Th. closes afterwards bimmlode the esulitoe: a somber et weaseled edema remedy retained 1•1•11•84 hem she seat at wer. licalWo;tia;rtho Primo tetanal to Boobloghaa Palace at oso o'clock. Tee Prime of Wake sad Priam Alfred Melted Gilead Celea mearafeeter, et revolvers, et Theme leak. liar WOW/ bed a dimmer party la the emeiag. The sew yea, Marled the Femme Royal, the !nub Animator sad OSSIMIS el Pareigay, tee liammeries Illadeter and Casettes Halms /Gel ammo" Berl mad Oeuseses Gras Mao, lbe ldaelale sad Manhandles of Absoisms sag Lady Lemke Yiesemat sad Vtareeatme larbago, the Right Rm. ele mem Graham, Mejur-Otemel Ilk Cleary Heller sad Majer-Geeeral Cater (Damao, Goosed ito And! ry). Tte bead of the Beets Faaltlmdarie mttmdea to the puma sad played dariag (Wage. • sabot cotutsl was Uhl yeah rday afterassa at ths Forsissaliss, Dolaisipstrest. mock ei the minister, win plattat with dm satepaaa *Me Isst of Clarsodea. The masa oat two havossad • A dipaistisa of Ms dialmstaS i rillasslisstor Cesuser- Ameslasha bad ea Mamba with Lord Beasley of Al- Wisp dad ths Mahe Ilea RAM Lowe. usterday, at tfre Issue d! isk. Tin deuAllian ovulated of Mr. S. jee du, Mr. J. H. De MW. William Huang, Mr. liam GM, Mr. R. J l a te rbrides, sad Mr. Hunk nuns (eserstar as y. • • &pties. eawelatiai of Kum Again Pallet; M P. ; R. D. Whiteside, Day, Stab, Pater, Rymer, (fray, Weigatinaa, Busses, sad B. E. Warwick, had aa lat.,- Mew yesterday with the Rion Hos, Z. P. ilinnerie et the oase of doe Peer Law Board, Wallahs& at thik ntdsst of the stolid= of poor fromorake, sad the equalisation el the poor-rain • deratatios from tics minors of licothead, evasietieg of Lard Gederich, M.P. ; Mr. Dusea, M.P.; Mr. Haiti. (Paisley), MP. Mr. Cranford, M.P. ; Mr. Meedusid,of Airdrie ; Mr. Muir, of ambush* • Mr. (Madan ; Ms. finerissa ; sad Mr. Hodges, r ; M s, butane at the Hesscaffres yesterday. VISIT OF HER MAJESTY TO WOOLWICH ARSENAL. Yesterday rarer, her Majesty, aatesepallied by Prier Albert sad a party of ladles, sad attended sir by Lord Penner% Welted the Arra at Wool wish, ter the were bespestiag the replies hesught teen flebatepol, by re linwpfrelea. The Medial *est which arrested *err aka et the loyal party van fleldvire with, • bell eleelt dr at the ruts. It Is perested, be. the pun ier pears el the bell Is thews. ties Sr bar ass ear* b, • slot tram se ZyIW pleas jar se le we diorama. The of the bare wee thereby detteeed le lash a rare r theirs bell raid net sere eat. The Royal ratty baby repel siert thrt-vertere r an hear, warmed te *we t se le *Week by the erne rate r they sum. The ipard of brater, whir was famished by the Aril AttiUry. esseired el or septais, two Iterates*. Ni mirror, and 100 @agnate sad dryer, ender the annul ef lartessat Ward J. W. Desevnle. The first Loves of the sows was bold this day, sal was wet sursoworsty surmise. TM Bari at Wilt. Us bum astartsistin a die. tlaguisbed party at M.ltoa Membray. The Kargais of Claarharitio. Uri !crow, sad Lard Ovum, bay* loom moss Mt garb a the noble Earl. room tsss Paws Was has imbed cards for sm arembly es ILterday rears. Major-Ova. Beckley. )12., and Lady Catherine Trakley have weird at their reeldere la Beath Audit,- street, bra New Hell, seerliebery. Fa " Campbell's Lives el the Lord Chumsllan." will be tour the tellowleg very guided opiates of the sere sothr r t> the rlght of the green te greet life peerage,:—" The errs eseldely (rye Lent Campbell) might peat a pomp far life; sad I. more lasesases ibis prerogative night be retelly rereleed." *r.—sss Note, veL 7. pay 683, Ws et Lrd Lies." Gsligwani is requested to state that Lady Cowley will have a* seirie as Thursday (te-merrear). Beet.-Colossi Blase, Military Secretary to the Committee formed is the map at tho agile. fee the tier pass of col , ctimir the esteerlytions of the 'Wine to the ifigistiogar Food, tromosim. so tho malt of voloatary ia- Mvidval aerie's. the assmat of 4.1951. 15e. ed. shoed), received. ° hi." be *Merest, pla;ely Wiest= the sat. weal hoes( et radial* width salmis amseg the Imp espied le the Crimea fee the we bastlierd apoe—tbe relief administered t*—tbeeseslves sod their sesiradee, at the ported ef *et, gamiest 'Mader, by the shilfal ar reseemesto, lb. eaweariag somtrat pommel atiessioe of my. iiiihtioyahe and the °thee Wise sesselatut with hie." BM Jobs theddert, li., D.C.L. late Chief Instils el Melts, sad Jedgo et the Admiralty Cowl of that , wood. died es Saturday lost, is him SSA year, ma kb mei dose% Bromsnos-.gear.. At is =war g of the law astrisd- eat Son etr, tr, ea Woodsy onand, Lint Bressben took eserita N seetteese the dopester' of the darned, win had boss salted sin kinatlf by Unbends dam elnaleade trindakip slat n nee lull a dateryk donde& Sir deka &oddest, den bb aninnoet, published tie In t venue d a valuable work is national Grinner, liana( the nem( whine solleishod. Ho was die are time pre pride, d • Jeered send the Noe Tram Berea de Meadereirwas, who nesse& Great de Liewaldela at the Swedish Uprise, lee arrived la Peas. DESPATCH FROM GENERAL LUDERS. The Invalids Russo of the 14th publishes the first game despatch of the new Rua= commander-in- Thief in th; %ham It Jo as follows : Itztmet from the joareal of military operations tram mimed by Abit-ie-eamp Gemmel Loden, Commander ie-Chief of the anoy of the Booth, sod of the troops is the littweea Janua7 1 sad January 28, nothing reasarta hie recurred to the Crimea. Oar Willer, has continued Its Ire with MONS% especially spirt the enemy's amp es the Fedaklaine hills. The Allies have fortified the bay of Hardee* sad on the 20th summated erecting two re doubts, intended to eons the ford upon the Tokenism end awes eatbaakinents ■ear the flakbarasia-Golovka hill. These work. ham bees harraamd by lb. Ere of the artillery, and of the skirmirbeis from the north aide. Oa Jam. 24 ths eaemy's trap. attempted to erect as embenkmeat am the Gnome tower, but the corre:tneu of the Ma of our earabineers compelled them to retire. Sone iongaifiesat skirmishes between the outposts have co.:land upoo our left Sauk. Oa the 26th two of the enemy. companies, with a divialoa of cavalry, left the vil lage of Bags for the pan leadlag by tto valley of the Baidu upon the Markoar ;onto—attacked the cravat of is outpost, hat after as hour's arias fell back upon Oar konatii. Actorßog to smut. hoz Espatotia, the Tatkislt cavalry Is to gnat treat of tongs. BERLIN, Fn. 19. The Emperor Alexander has approved the budget of Maritime Courts. But it is remarked that the courts established in the Baltio ports, the White Bea, the Caspian, and the Eastern Osman, are alone spoken. of. The Maritime Courts of the Black Bea and the Bea of Asolf an no longer mentioned in the budgets. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (710 X 0171 OWN PARIS, TVISDAY Z/11311.110. The telegraphic despatch announcing the arrival of Count Orloff at Brussels wu erroneous. The to legraphics agency explains that the word" Brussels" wee substituted for "Berlin" by a clerked error. Ths telegraph hes taken great liberties with Count Or loff's name, for, whereas his arrival at Berlin was announced several days ago, the fact is that he only got there yesterday. A de spatch says that he was to leave Berlin yes terday evening on his way to Paris, but I kern this evening that a telsgrephie despatch, not yet mad* public, has been received, stating that the Coast met with an accident on the railway shortly Wore the train is which he travailed reached Berlin. I infer that he must have been at least slightly hurt, became the Preach goverment has inquired by telegraph, whether, in coasequence of the acci dent, he would be unable to proceed to Paris, os as to :arrive by the 21st. An answer has been received to the effect that he will be here by that time. So that the 23rd may still (subject to the contingency of any delay in the ar rival of Atli Pasha) be onsidered as the opening day for the Conferences. Au the Plenipotentiaries who have already ar rived in Paris were present last evening at the re ception given by Count Walama The evening papers say that the Turkish Ambassador was of the party, but if former intelligeuce be menet, he must be at this moment at Marseilles, awaiting the arrival of his oo.edjetcr &ali Paella. I am told—but although the news reaches me from a good source I feel very incredulous about it—that the question of admitting the public preen to the Conferences is actually ander consideration. It is maid in official °kolas, that after the prelim'. aeries of peace shall be ideal, Austria will propose that Prim& shall be admitted to the Con. Amos& Frame, it is said, will not be very hostile to ;the modem, bat will probably stipulate as a con dition that some ancendoss will be made to Sadists. . _ At the Boerne this awning there Twas ;strotig tendency toe the ries, owing to a despatch from Lon don stating that the new lout, announced by the Chamellor of the Exchequer, was only Ire millions, besides three fathoms of Exchequer Bills, to be con solidated. But the spirit' of ipeoulators were consi derably damped when it was known by a subsequent despatch that another loan of sixteen millions was mmaidered /Maim The Realm after opening at 73fr. ells., closed heavily at 73tr. 25c., with a fall of the day of Sc. Credit Mobilier fell Ur., end Credit Fonder 2fr. 50e. In railways them was a good deal of factaation. Austrians were at on. time in great &mead, owing to a letter published in the Monitor, statiag that new mese ekes had been made to the imospeades byi goyim• Mud. French railways left off, on the whole, higher- he Bops today paned ea hear is isepeethig the apartment• is the Tuileries whieh bate beta pre pared for her acesasheneat. - Hoary Heim, foe at the most selebrated, perhaps the most eekbrated, el seders Germ' posts, died on the 17th, at his masses, No. 3, Ilse Matignon, Perla, where he has lived Is, the last eight years, a martyr to paralysis. He wee only 47 years el sp. PRESENTATION OF THE TIARIES. Meterdayie ifoniteur Katsina the hawing no seaseeseat: The Sepses, resolved ea Nosier several of the plseL pomaded's to the Csaisname width an .boat to be *peed at Pada Nis Ethellimy the Clest yes Beef Behthesstois, Mahar of Facets Afars sad of his Majesty the Barrer of Austria's litheeltald ; hie Iseellthey the Caul de Caviar. Pawkiest of the thesadlet Misisses, sad Misfits! ef the Mather of his Majesty the =LB of Sudisia ; sad his Isoallasey the Bens d. Brasov, lathy Eateasedb wry asii Walter rthoipeblthisry of his Majesty the lisposer el Al the Russirr—wore Istoodathd moth steely to the Illaspeseo by his Esetlissey the Osumi Masts: .f the Covessisies Gnat But wee !re seated by Beres Vas Rohner, Zany lithrieedisary sod Ministn Plesipstestisty of his Isparta! sad Royal Ape tolfe Majesty. Coast Caviar by the Ilsrquis Pa de Vil lanelle ',Esrey Eztroordiathy sad Minister Pleuipatesthry of b's Serdialas Mainly; sad Maths de Brakes by his Rtheliessy the thread Mater of the Ceremesies. HI Ithallearr the Osut Waesehl. Mthither-thenthry of Mats for the IN pantheist of Foreign Altair% asieted at these preseatatioss. THE INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. (11T I:L=1111 CIMOM OVA aim r, WIDNINIDAT MOINCITO. The lionise ham just arrived, with the heavy pcw ties of two walla hen ladle mid es t ben Mee. She left Illelta es 'ha leth feet. TM Pere wee le leave Naha se the lltb. Her ladle have ono hoes la eta &Woo, but hoe peatesgen niaelaed is her. nom, was a largo Number of awa-edwar at Yalta whom the Blaine lett. TIM audio Universe& Atkins's& dates very peskier!? that Y. de Braurr will tot retain W Freakier; bat. at am oroieleerea of a treaty of pew; trill risme ha framer hoods= at the Cain of It. Jeare'a venal, and it appears that the young sovereign has made great progress, and expresses himself with considerable Annoy in that language. His Majesty remained altogether about three hours, and seemed to enjoy the pleasures of this fete quite as much as the fancy ball at our own embassy ; for both were equally interesting and novel spectacles. All went off, as may be imagined, with unusual gaiety and animation; but as regards the respective merits sad brilliancy of the French and English fifes, I am really unable to decide, and to which to give a preference. With respect to our heave and amiable allies, there were certainly two days for preparation, and bat a few hours in our own esse—and still, I am proud to record that in point of taste, elegance, splendour, sumptuous hospitality, a variety of every imaginable luxury, abundance of all good things, the choicest wines pleno rim, within the reach of all and each for mere asking—we have no MGM to regret our appearance on this auspicious oocssion. In short, as I had already occasion to notice, Lord Redcliffe's skill in the arts of representa tion, and, above all, his princely liberality when he does " the thing," has never been surpassed and rarely equalled at Coostantinople. Apropos of the quarantine question, to which I had occasion to refer in former communications, and the frequent sanitary infractions of our British traders, I have to mention that the Egliaton steamer, under the command of Captain Thompson, arrived at Smyrna on the 13th alt., without passport or patente de sante. Accordingly, the regulations had to be applied, as is always the ease under such circum stances, and two guardians were put on board till the expiration of the vessel's term. The captain, how ever, on the second day, in utter disregard of the sanitary laws, came on shore, and on the fol lowing morning dismissed the guardians and quitted port, insalutato hospite, without even deigning to pay the reckoning, amounting to not more than a few shillings. This, you will admit, is a grave offence in all countries, and, had it happened in some continental ports, would have entailed, according to the existing laws, the incarceration of the offender during the term of twenty years. But this is not all: the British con sul sent his dragoman to the Health office, protesting that he had no power to enforce the regulations, the ship being under Admiralty orders; and this is a further proof how little our authorities in general trouble themselves in regard to the laws and regu lations providing for the safety of the public health. Finally, the Health Administration, in reporting this case to the central board of the capital, remarks : "We report this circumstance merely as in duty bound, but have preferred no complaint to the British Consul, being utterly convinced by expe rience of the hopelessness of obtaining in such mat ters the smallest excuse or redress from that func tionary." OF FORT NICHOLAS. (710111 LAST MOAT'S OAZITTZ.) WAR DEPARTMENT, FIB 19. Lord Namur* has received a despatch, of which the followiag is a oopy, addressed to bia lordship by General Sir William Codrington,K.C.B.: Fzz. 4. My Lord,—Manbal Pslimier informed me, a few days ago, that this day Fort Nicholas would be destroyed, and he mat *gala to say that at 1 o'clock p.m. the mines for this purpose would be Ind. Tbs 4.11 OM lite whole hullo., is well obtained from the interior slope of the itedan-bill, and from other points within the Ruselist Ilan. The day wee nagailkeatly clear : every kicky on the opposite side could be sees, every working party watched. every soldkr that was budging in the sea ; oceea Goal shot and shell were sent from the seamy to the Karabelnais and the town, bat other ein nothing disturbed the maul appear awe of quiet, almost of desolation. Oa our (the south) aide, we looked down en the large ruin, d barracks Ia front, on the loner creek of the dock yard, the quay, and the rossalas of Fort Paul, the ;neon. inlet free the harbour on our left, beyond which stand the roofless buildings of Behest'psl itself. There 1113 is the well-remembered loog Ike of pointed arches, the casemate. of the Interior of Fort Nieholas, of which the embrasures In double liar pointed to seaward and away from us. It juts oat lute the harbour built on au inter Wogs, of land; Feet Coestan'ine forming a Caller bat more outward defame Sec the sea appreesh ea the north. Tbe sewn sad feeling et expectation wen of great in t not, for eanbest tangible pad of power end use.. was to take plea, sad 106,000 Itin of powder were in the several I ann. At the hoar aused, a bent of snake, clitek and till*, tolled icon one left of the ►.ildtag ; It was fshowed by muftis; the heavy Gonad arrived, the stma were shot late the ar sad Isis the sea; the esplostoes of the extreme right end the entre angled at lit•le hitt reel into sae drift lag tined, which veiled the distraction bine. The light if the eau pined beautifully on tie men of smoke, of wkkh the !alter part ler nag sod heavily oft its risk.. The breeze paadag It away over the manias of the lowa, skewed t►at a low line of nia .as ell that reasoned of the prides( Fort Nicholas, and one ataudiag ammo of the harbour lay boned under in water.. The state of the docks has bee* given in detail in ay lettere. They ere •ll destroyed, whilst the eart► sat rased fag lien Y ebakea 1.10 auks: basin, dock., init-en of broken granite, sapetaas, gates, beams of iron, and of thabt r, Si, tumbled lido .are liar of deetnetioa. I ban, ote., W. J. Coaiworox, Geaerel Coroateadiag. The Lord Posen, de. &e. THE POLYPHEMUS. ADMIRALTY, Pis. 20. The following intelligence has this day been re ceived from Commander Fred. P. Warren, of her Majesty's late sloop Polyphemus, dated Tigard, Feb. 13: • I have not been able up to the present date to forward to their Lordships a correct list of each men as have lost their lives. Eight bodies have, how ever, been found and interred. Those which have been identified are the remains of Mr. Herbert, master; Thos. Maltase, boatswain's mate; Samuel Pearce, boy first clam; John Reynolds, captain after guard; and Henry Forbes. captain forecastle." THR SHIP MARIA. (710 K 001 LISBON, Fai 9. Information has been received here by private hand that the Maria. Capt. J. H. Rumen, of Liverptol, has been wrecked oa the esast of Algarve, near Lagos, where she now lies. The hall still holds together, although the tim bers ere inatewkat 'drained sad open. la two or three days, shield t►e weather continue fine, the whole of the estgo will perhaps be discharged, sad these is a proba bility of the vessel Wog saved, sad seat t) Vii:a Nova de Netball°. M. Yvon, the painter, the author of a well-known pict,re, representleg a same of the retreat of Mantua Ney from Real a, ha.; bees commtia'oaed by the Mieister of State to go to the Cr4ea, to make studies for &grand p c tare of the tattles of Vet Malahoff. _ _ The Epics,. of Madrid, says that since the tavola. toe of July there have beet not fewer Van 22 cabinet ',busters ;—r wisely, is the Presidency of the Coate 1,1 (111spartero) ; I. the Miallstry of War, 1 (O'Donnell); Mieletry of Marine, 2 ; Publ c Wor4s, 3 ; Foreign Ada rs, 3; Inter or, 3; Jost ce, 4; and Finance, 3. T. Press* cr Orient publishes s letter from Adria sopls of the 31st Joinery, which states that Sawih Path, bar bees 'oftener la his post of saw po.crnor of that c ty. He twig retied h's adoiaistrat'on by certari acts of jest ce, which were cot s tiered by the Turks a goof mass for the Glen. A letter from Rome of the 14th, in the °mete de Leon, say" A great 'skeet of coavenation here is t'.c masers oa to the Roo La Catholic rel eol of t' e Rev. Dr. 01 it as, of the University of °idol.i, who pabl ely aMarel Protestant sa in the ehcreh of Jes t on the brit day of Lc , t. Dr. 01 'has hat very shortly before oilleatel in the Hoe eh ch , rch of the Porta del Papolo, sad h cosier' os has elle tat the a rcat r se.- sat 03 that it seers t" , e co•sotcrpart of that of the Rev. Dr Wilberforce, brother of the Dsop of 0 .for The Rev. Dr Nowaaa has 1 ft ttis c ty to Totowa to Dkblia." NEW ASPECTS OF THE SLAVE QUESTION IN THE UNITED STATES. (nom ors SPICLAI NEW YORK, Fla. 6, After a struggle of nine weeks the anti-slavery party, as I predicted in the beginning, have been triumphant in the election of their candidate, Mr. Banks, of Massachusetts. Never did a captain, a general, or any other leader, hold a column of sap porters so long together, with so little of defection, treachery, faint-heartedness, or misgiving. The triumph is the greater, because it is the first triumph the anti-slavery party has bad in the national Con gress. It is the first time that any man has filled the Speaker's chair with any sympathy for the muss of anti-slavery. It marks a crisis in the history of the country, probably of far greater significance than may be seen in it by the masses at the present moment. We have been told from the beginning that any attempt by Congress to interfere with the rights of the South in the matter of slavery, particularly with its extension, would sound the tocsin of a disaolu. lion of the Union. Twenty years ago Southern se• nators and representatives declared that the first abolitionist sent to Congress from the North would be lynched; and yet they have been sent there, and they have not been disturbed. Legislatures and Conventions in Southern states have voted and re solved, and re.resolved that, under such and such a state of thing's, they should go out of the Union ; and yet such and such a state of things has repeatedly come, and they have not gone out. Southern men seemed to be unanimous on one point—that if the time ever came that an antislavery man should be elected Speaker, Congress would be dissolved and all the Southern members go home; and yet an anti slavery man hu been elected, and all the pro-slavery champions put up against him rush to his seat the instant the vote is declared, and escort him with all the honours to the chair. There is deep meaning in all this. It would seem to indicate, lit, that the South has become conscious at last that it has pressed the North too far, and the only way to save itselt now is to yield ; 2nd, that the whole country is satisfied that Mr. Banks will makean able, an impartial, and an upright Speaker ; 3rd, that as far as we have received news from the South, very little dissatistaction is expressed at the election of Mr. Banks. Even the principal organs of General Pierce, who fought against him ferociously, have suddenly changed their tone, and on the whole they do not seem to regard his triumph as foreboding any pun'. cider disaster; while from the whole North come back the boom of cannon and shouts of congratulation over the triumph. A party of gentlemen, stand. ing high ia public and private lite, when the news reached Boston on Saturday evening, chartered a rail. way train to proceed to Waltham, to congratulate Mr. Banks's lady upon the triumph of her husband, and 103 cannon, the number of his votes, were fired on the occasion. While the Northern anti-slavers are yet in the full flush of triumph, news has been received from Kansas which can scarcely fail to goad them to immediate action. It was believed that no more scenes of vita. lends and brutal outrage would be perpetrated in that territory; but no sooner had General Pierce's second message reached Kansas, than tho Border Ruffians of Missouri again invaded the territory, per. pstrating act' of violence and assassination unpreos. dented in the whole previous history of the Anglo. Saxon race. The Free State men in Kansas had, in the exercise of their vested rights, called an election on the lath, the day fixed by the new constitution ; but in consideration of the repeated threats made by their Missouri neighbours, their leaders had decided several days beforehand that it ' would be hazardous to their lives and property to hold an election on that day, and they agreed to postpone it to Thursday, two days later, and then vote as privately as possible. The polls were opened at the house of Mr. iiiinard. The Missouri ruffians, armed to the teeth, posted themselves near the spot, and sent the following note to the judges of the election : You will bold your place an hour tr two, and we'll call to me you all upon any terms you may demand. and take your ballot box. B 6. Norris. What followed I give you in the words of one of our most reliable journals: In jest ,Loeb ea bow; nearly 70 of the bloodthirety rebels OM, up wfthfa SO rods of tine incr, and halted. One of the party woe thou beard teem "He area d be d—d it be wee afraid to go.. and rode eat from the Net, panda, war the home. Moe la the home min them sasaUsat sash weihke intentious, rusiwd out with their ud sod gave thaw, when the whale party tea es feet as poesible, and they was allowed to estop heck to the poetry, without being and epos. The Free Stab or renisheed at Minard's until they ropmeed all the danger was amend about 2 o'clock at night, a kir. Sparks and his ota started kw home. When merits Damon's grog-shop, they were semnanded to bait, but not obeying, they sere tired spa by seversibus the beam and Sparks wee his wt. or another gentleman, returned to leinarers, and then they ems killing Sports, as be beard there threaten to doss wbaa be as leaving. Kr. Brown thin started at ones with 13 man to ants. Spathe. Be Mond me aggeeedea party in a little ravine. • Ebert Delense AIM the read. Brown at once demanded the ennwir d dpedn Be we told be wad not there, and that they in sans at him. Brows replied that they were renealie darlds. al ordered his to oxk their They did se, nmi woe don Mai dews tato men the ravine upon t pieces. hem, Mem l ei est vid e * "Here d id s—dna s tubfir!" Brown them ldea t. end he eo. Having ned Wm ADM, Dirges ea Ms party merned about to return, and when stout ttewssoottyy ,m air u _ da dank wen toed epos by the larger party, when the, YM iMMy Mama die les It wits bright moonlight. sod es* pear tbs elm Mose me plain b ot h denims. When loth bad tired sae or two ands, they ran in opposite dire. tins, to kg leases or beret that were teat by, from white they bep er. tj a lbe Wag be some dine. One led, but Id yews aid, Is pay, ked alee dote with • Sharp rifle, sad nary tins be kid Ina say. " nem bow de yes like that, boys?* at lar gram were Ina snag the illiessina. sal Br, nts peaty R. land to Mai been. They tenial till after brash:bet Yd. day morning. alba waseft dot lager was ever, Drown. Smirks and her as Des iiinr. derted :or their Imes la lesvessameit. Mrs ends nen •as et taity. um !My men arm eadiald apes tees. stet a Seems aped den bis by sal arida the eine le gra art ea Oa name. at by Se laterenis dam et die ender alma Mom in was peemended ante in as he banal would oity nedt la the dab then alloo they w takes Mthent User reabiase heck to fades to the radinee at ore ol the bash . : . _ . lllted Dees. Th ey were all reamed acme Brows. t wen Wier le an as a ha erne Irks. end lane dawn ge7rir w ieste dna to bine it vas the Brown Who slits ear alai lien Howie e Aran. Part at their eempsay west a fierr Mr. IMMlMming be would net well by the side of h u d g M trig were Mr Ilan* Brows wen head it tin awe aba neat imamM thoweig their fists in his Mad sailing bin di want of area eeaae. at which the net of EOM kind he are nu lartewaraly lootest. Mr. received intelligent. that wen ka anger MOIL times to nide ids borae, ese ride •la reds Pon as hones eta he beard Me sismand irembabied hate halt." On leeldng Tan; be no barn aces ea Wank. arras ids. sena non briar no later altermas Um, be pot sport to his bares as bawls: • very Ile ems he me seen leaving them et • test rats They fired wpm Idea memo Omsk bat without amt. He was Mowed Mont two man, who be evaded his puma by riding .31M• a steep pry tiptoe into • trim nod is tray ea lie in Lawmen, by gay aide while yam intim& Was ids pea= yenned they stopped at ble Muse, aad wen sleet to aster is ea ireat masa, wino they was met at Me den by iss yds as hopt than at bay for some minutess ea i dray allowed be at nen to later by tar slag up to her *Mr miss. god remaking that they add at mid bra say Mbar tban is inith the berme ter lbeegers Mies Übe bull their *Mb whits they smacked the been, bet liadisansidas nip son lard joined the party at Dunes. ••- - • • Brows wee guarded through the da-, Friday, by the party who took him. Armee them wee one J. C. Posey. who scud • prominent part beta Phillp tees tarred sad bathered. Charles Duns, who was intim awed tamp when laminas vas beaded, sad was taken priers: ea ehe bet day sad refired the abbot treatmeat kola umy and whoa he Wee lierseml me of our petals pm him a mgmble 'ember b puma br me be of to ham lost in hie swan; • Dr. IL es Warm who was also in the Atebisce camp, and ether, of lib eherestar. They made no charges spinet Brown, only that he had rent en Monday, and bed run as a esnaidste to tbit nal legislature. They IbleMesed him with banking; and it was at this staved their prosselbes that the first express from Learsaworth started be lawrsaskFrid.yoight. It was tow publicly immortal& some of the Wag et Dmisca's the day previous hid taken effect OM of the Pre.elmerymea aimed Ceok, a Missourian, wee shot in the Oblate, sad has Albeit& hannlothers were wounded. Oa oat side arse some Weald beset the sou of Yr. Sparks * before nomads who wee *OW wielded Is the am. aid on the bead. el The babbleediessmad tomes. the fleadt.l s> irit d the tarlas road riMirm and they swore vengeance upon Brown. They pre. peed themetwes with ropes and other implements, for hanging. ad shot NOMA• Frklay they arranged naiad bins exit. Same of their paprimbeemmad to lyeeh W es a compromise. rather than begry him - Sig ins at cam approved. when Wa rabble amuse opus him bit Wade, bay Mitres and club., Menke. cluifillinge en rbeila baba marderbe him by inches. Ile immettately be. iligliliesenelilen ben the ham blow. upon his head, sad fell. WOMB reareerei b pert sae attempted to :be sod escape, but so friend Arai le ebb lib ead they repeated their berstly outrage till he slosed likeeeir am opine.. But be was still ghee. and. wine bi headges for the liberty of Kamm colt, they r o ughly I .Mead ha. a" ism. " I" into a engem s t a nding near, ofI;UL Ate was the ewer sad dime ten mike to he house of am of the parry. Meet et t hee were shamefully chunk by this time, sad tad. t o ld r wis ßarte h u b eill Aire, they zujasicied.thet4nyeolenwetierack. tide =taw" m mesh :t ei o t" wa bryanthilsy.dsgrit greas e, Ires th g :o h % mile Mamt A meet amieb'e and devoted wife met tilm at the dame ash. wee threein M upon the Boor, but human mons we. drip. its Yet made. OM trod to lean of him the cam. of so beam. leg Is si Lla• aft knr t i d f a er Mas e e tb i:ti t t de t."be wia lliad a nilbad dsm oT 7 r: l t y y p e i r r t t e. inn ehe th i a hi*,, r u sti sfi t i r r h Wth ai l:a tr :wc:h: a . T .l , :l •7 :l l ; . :,. ::: .. ....... 7.. .. " 7 "at .bia ourwe I history hears us neon'. For never boner do I remember as It stsmewhers • pee* professing to enj .7 I ho bleetirde of a republican grnernment bye out into tech rece• and tortured to death their pelt ismears taken In .rar ! It is Manta s pared. L So gluing sa MIA will do move than all that bee o correct heretofore. to s i n t h e ' mph. the. boar Meads and mesa, the calamity of our enemies. r I! 1 i~~