The Express. — London, England, 1853-12-17 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 17, 1853. EUt entire/0. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Ps-NO ►." of .. Tue kapress."sostaistsi the mu miss's ••(;....-tte." piddiebsd Ms" taming sad PTAs, sistdon Uso• tar port. harrtionownts Wtteeded loe "Me Leven; Lemke Ereniog payer. meet be at the tWak asemerbbifirey4 y Two o'clook Co the W of pub:mattes. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tun U+*—lllonung, SO. 3111 . Aftrrisium, 3s. 20.. TO4101•06 —Murals., 3.b. Mk /Memos, 3h. 3Sts. LONDOA; SATURDAL DECEMBER 17. WittLsT the Daily News was yesterday discussing in its columns for Correspondence the lost news of "another split in the Ministry," two of its Govern. went contemporaries were busily engaged in saying what their patrons thought it best to have published about the resignation of Lord PALMERSTON. To-day " the split" is understood to be larger than it was when the Home SECRLT %KVA departure from Downing street was made known by his colleagues to the " safe" journal.. If all that is now stated about Ministerial difficulties be true, then at the very hour when Lord PoLuEsurros's resignation wa-. being " communi cated" to the papers entrusted with the news, it must have been known to those who employed the printed conduit pipes in question that the Marquis of LANspowra also contemplated retirement from the Coalition. But it was apparently thought best to pre-occupy the public car with the news of the resignation of the Home SECRETARY alone, and to point to differences upon the question of Reform as the cause of that resignation be fore any suspicion of the Marquis of LANS DOWNE'S oontemplsted departure from office should be allowed to transpire. The anti-Reform leanings of Lord PALMERSTON would easily be believed, and lees mischief be done, by letting the news first burst upon the town with that twist in it. If a double or treble resignation had been made known at once, and if in the list of departures from the Cabinet the name of the Whig Marquis of LANSDOWNE had been given in company with that of the bellicose Lord PALMERSTON, the public belief would at once have jumped to the conclusion that the Turkish Question, and not the Reform Bill, was the real cause of the split. Hence apparently the general form,—the two channels,—the mode altogether,—in which the intelligence of half the Ministerial diffi culties was yesterday made known. The first mental doubt provoked by the Peelite communications on the subject yesterday, arose over the sentences in which the Ministerial journals asked implicit belief for the allegation that the " split " was all about " Reform." A Cabinet crash does not usually take place about things that are virtually far off. " Reform," though now under discussion in Downing.street, has got a couple of months yet at least before it can be put to the test of the House of Common., whilst another matter also on Ministerial shoulders—is urgent, pressing, vital in its imme diate importance. The Cabinet are known at this moment to be on the horns of a most critical di lemma. They have muddled a great question of foreign policy. They have declared that Russia had, by crossing the Pruth, committed an act of war—they have declared the Turks to be our allies and in the right—they have sent English ships to the Bosphorus, and, having said and done all these things, they have allowed our fleet to be idle whilst the SULTAN'S vessels are being battered and sunk ander their very noses. Such a state of things cannot possibly last. When the " game of cannot-shot" is in full activity slanders-by cannot for ever keep out of the mischief. Something must be done at once. yet those whom move it is are afraid to stir. If they heartily back the Turks they offend Austria and cer tain Court coteries—if they don't help the Tusks they offend still more important people. When they should act they hesitate, and whilst they hesitate they are in danger of being involved—it may be single-handed—in a long and desperate European war. Is not a serape of this sort a much more likely thing to have startled a crafty old politician like the member for Ilverten than any difficulties about Reform? Lord PALMERSTON has not hitherto been very strict about niceties when party and place have stood in the way. His career, if consistent in any Sing, has been very much of the Vicar of Bray Nelsool. His stickling. have not usually been about opinions, but about OEM He began life ea a Tory; he has been Whig, Peelite, and in some things (we say it with pride and great Natio- faction) he lies been a true Radical Re former—the graveyards and the Scotch Hu miliation to wit. He has almost boxed the political compass--sonietimse, as we think, to the right quar ter; sometimes, we are sun, to the wrong one; but generally with great cleverness, very little principle, but almost always with smoses—to Number One. His only real consistency ham been shown in his love of power and place. His antecedents, there fore, surely all go to show that something has in- Scented his resignation more serious to his mind than a pound or two higher or lower in the figure at which the suffrage-qualification should be fixed. He is not at all the man one would expect to see for sake his dearly beloved Downing•street about such trifles as a Five Pound or an Eight Pound Franchise, or even on account of the eternal upset of that useful pocket borough of Hr. RZATIICOTE'S which boasts Lord PALitxusrox as its member—and which the Simone river Ens flows by. Reasons more cogent by far were yesterday believed, and will long bs be lieved, to have influenced him, notwithstanding all that the Times may say to the contrary. The Turco-Russian question will assuredly bear the credit or the blame—whichsoever it may be thought by dif _ _ ferent people to be—of separating Lerd PAUM:SION and the Aur.anzg:r Coalition. After the speculations about—How was it caused? we are met by those about—What does it mean ? What will it lead to ?—and here again conjecture has already been, and will still be, busy. Many of Lord PaLatatisroN's friends will be found to declare that it was high feeling for English honour in the Black Sea and on the Danube which led to his resignation. Others will, perhaps, be equally prompt in dieco tering and canvassing the probabilities of his future. :They may look back and remember the way in which he was driven from Downing street, when he held office with the Whigs —may call to mind the ingenious and masterly way in which he tripped up a Ministry from which he had been ejected, and how he subsequently re-installed himself in office, despite the op position of many of his ancient colleagues. Bome of his admirers may even go so far as to hint that courtly distastes, or COBURG in trigues, may have bad something to do with render ing his path in office at times uneven. And, then, what a possible future opens up if a present hasty resignation could lead to Cabinet difficulties, and such a Ministerial re-construction could be brought _ _ about OS should give Lord PALMERSTON the foreign portfolio once more? Or even—who knows?—the Premiership itself ? What a grand revenge would that be'' and what a showy close for a long official career—The Tory ranks are broken—the cajoled and dejected squire, hurry here and there for want of a sufficient leader. Earl DERBY 1. " off the cards " with the gout. lltsao;LI has genius, Lord STANLEY knowledge, but the " gentlemen of England " in topboots and with broad acres, can see no likelihood of success by following either. Some of them, like Mr. Mu. s, are even now talking quite u much re form as the ex-Home Secretary would advocate, and nearly all of them now see the advantages of Free Trade and the hopelessness of Protection. What if the suave, open-spoken, crack tactician of the House of Commons should offer to put himself at their head ; and, pointing to the wretched foreign policy of Lord ABERDEEN, try to get up at once a Free Trade Conservative party with " War against Russia" as a battle-cry ? Less likely castles in the air than this have surely been turned into real solid facts before now. At all events, some of Lord PALMERSTON'S friends think so. But whilst the course of events can alone show what the future of Lord PALMERSTON may be, it seems certain that if an efficient Home Secretary is lost (and may be regretted) the Reform element of the Cabinet becomes all the stronger for his absence. It may offend some that Lord PauterterroN should go out, but it will assuredly gratify very many more. Indeed if anything like a wise and genuine measure of reform is proposed by the Cabinet, and if wise resolves are at last come to on the Eastern difficulty, the Coalition may gain more friends than it loses by the changes just announced. The admirers of Sir James GRAHAM name him for the Home office, and would send SIDNEY HERBERT to fill the vacancy so made at the Admiralty; others again gossip about Sir gEOZGE, GREY as sure to be asked by Lord bout( RUSSELL to enter harness once more,—which he would be nothing loth to do But these speculations are probably most premature. The " split " may spread—beginning with PALMER- Brom it may end with ABERDEEN, and we may again find a Cabinet composed avowedly on the basis of a measure of reform, with one of the authors of the first Reform Bill at its head. Should any such party be found is power, only let them speak plainly and fairly out, and they will have at their backs so large a mass of the intelligent, industrious, and wealth producing people of this practical and progressive nation as will carry them triumphantly forward. War is not wanted—and never was for its own sake, and any opposition that should endeavour to get up a War Ministry would meet only troubles and defeat. We want to keep faith with allies and put back the Autocrat; but this is not to be done by war, for war's own sake, nee by making War the rallying cry of a faction. "My religion is to hate Russia," said the expatriated Bast ; and every lover of freedom sympathised with the veteran patriot and soldier. Every Liberal hates Russia because Russia is the intermit and cruellest of existing Despotisms. Bat hearty Liberals in England don't want to be led by the nose by any artful Russo phobic cry invented for the sake of restoring the Derbyites to power in any new combination or under any new leader. The public at large can well afford to wait the result of Downing-street quarrels with great equa nimity, since on such quarrels the people rather thrive than suffer. By the opposition " bids " of successive candidates for office the national work is gradually advanced, and reforms successively ob tained. The quietude with which the news of a splitting Ministry was yesterday accepted proves that the people understand this. Ministers may squabble, but the national prosperity marches on, with scarcely an additional pulsation of that breeches pocket interest, so truthfully represented by the price of Consols. The resignation, which two of our contemporaries made so much of, had affected the' funds at the close of the market yesterday, exactly SABBATH OBSERVANCE BY ACT OF PARLIAMENT. --•-- By the Act 57 Cleo. LTL, c. 29, sec. 63, all occu piers of dwelling helms, shops, &c., are bound under a penalty during the esetlaaatice of frost or snow, to cause the footway along their houses to be swept once every day, boron 10 o'clock, except on Sundays. The exception is meant to denote reverence for the Sunday, but its only possible erect smut be to hemp people from church by leav• tog the streets impassable. The following caution be been extensively circulated. " Notice is hereby gives, that by an het of the 67 Geo. 3, l c. 29, stet. 63, every occupier of say house, tenement, wash. hones, shop, shed, ocethhouse, stable, chapel, meeting hew, or other publics or private building, in any street, or public place, during the continuance of frost, or after, or during the fall of snow, *hall ones in every day, before 10 o'clock in the forenoon of each day (except Sunday) cause to be swept and cleassed the footway, all along the front, side, or back walls of their respective houses, &e. For every neglect the occupier to forfeit a stun not exceeding ten shillings." THE PROPOSED CHRISTMAS HOLIDA Y. A deputation from the Early Closing Association, assisting of the searetuy sad ether gentlosien, wafted a Merida, but apes the Lard Mayor, at the Mansies-home, apes the subject of the seepensien of business on Monday, the 26th last. The deputation having been introduced by Mr. Sheriff Wire, Yr. Luvrat.t. stated that the deputation had been induced to take the prewat step in consequence of having received nuarrolu communications upon the subject from employers and others. He believed that, in common with the various firms throughout the kingdom, then existed a very general and Kraig desire ea the put of the mercantile mea of Ludas, in the embus wake of commercial life, that the day in question should be observed as a holiday. But there was a fear that, in the absence of an abeelute recommends. tion from his lordship, as chief magistrate, to the effect, thus creating an uadentandisg on the point, the arrangement of closing in the 'metropolis would not be universal, which would probably occasion dissatisfaction to those who did close, besides depriving the employes of those who did not, of the holiday : _ _ _ His Lordship replied that he had received a great many communications and applications both from persons in London and the provinces in favour of the object, and his own 11J11101111 desire was that the day should be observed as • general holiday, so far as the existing law, which mere particularly referred to bailing establishments, allowed. He did not hear what the intentions of the government were in reference to the public officers, but would commu nicate with the Secretary for the Home Department ups the subject. Yesterday the deputation, accompanied by Mr. Sheriff Wire, spin attended at the Mansion-house, when his lordship stated that he was in hourly expectation of a re ply from the Home-office. His lordship then gave it as his official recommendation that Monday the 26th should be kept as a general holiday, adding his belief that in an possible eases it would be so obeerred. TUE BIRMINGHAM CATTLE SHOW.—BIRMINGHAM, FAIDAY.—Tbis cattle show dosed this evening. During the four days the exhibition has been opened, there have visited it about 48,000 persons. The sales of poultry hare exceeded 1,5001., and in the majority of instances enormous - . prices having been gives. Lord Leigh hu accepted the office of president for the earning year, and the entrain. dinary success which has attended the exhibition, is a proof how deserving the present cornea are of the confidence of the subscribers. IMPORTANT TO Ul the question was raised, whetber, in cases were policies made out, "from Liverpool to Now York, and thirty days after arrival, at a premium of 20,. per cent.," the addi tional thirty days constituted the instrument a time policy, and subject to the additional duty of 2s. Gd. The Board of Inked Revenue considered that such policies were entitled le pay the extra duty u time instruments, and caused an tlacement to that effect to be posted in Lloyds last VMS& Since that time the committee of Lloyds have pissed before the Board the opinion of Baron Marten, that the policies in question were not liable to additional duties. The Beard, this week, in a letter to the stimp diatribe's, at this port (0. W. Bischoff, Esq.), states that on a re consideration of the whole subject they are not dii:Pword to press the point of liability to the duty on time policies in the cue referred to.—Liverpool Chronicle. MARIA ANTONIA RAlLWAY.—Traffic for week ending Dec. 1, 11133, 2W. Corresponding week, 1852, 205 L time sines IrDe Court. OSBORNE, Duo. 16. The Earl of Aberdeen and Captain the Hon. J. Denman had the honour of dining with her Majesty yes terday. Lord Aberdeen returned to London to-day. The Hon. Mary Hottest has =weeded the Hon. Lucy Kerr as Maid of Honour in Waiting. The Earl of Aberdeen arrived in town about six o'clock last evening, from Osborne, Isle of Wight. Viscount Palmerston left town on Thur sd ay, for Bowood-park. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Glad stone arrived in town yesterday, from Hagleppark, Stonrbridge. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial office for the Governors of Canada, the West India Islands, and Gibraltar. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yester day, and commenced au appeal from the Court of Arches, "Bo'Wigton v. BelLogien." The lords present were the Dean of the Arches, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Corn wall, the Lords Justices Knight Bruce and Turner, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, Sir J. Partition, sad Sir B. B. Ryan. Her Majesty has, we understand, been pleased to confer upon Mr. Alaric Watts a pension on the civil list of one hundred pounds a year, in consideration of services rendered by him to literature and the fine arts. A pension of similar amount has, it is under stood, been granted to the widow of the Ettrick Shepherd. The 27th, 35th, 82nd, and 90th Regiments are to proceed to the East Indies, to relieve the 25th, 22nd, 96th, and 98th Regiments, which are to return home. The following announcement in last night's Ga zette deserves e special notice —" 27th Foot. Lieut.- Colonel Edward St. Maur, from the Mat Foot, to be Lieut.-Colonel, vice Arthur Augustus Tharlow Cu uynghame, who retires upon half-pay 51st Foot." Is this preparatory to the latter getting upon the staff at head-quartem The Rev. Thomas Hart Francis Penron Davies M.A., has been Rowed to the perpetual curacy of Christ Church, Ramsgate, is the county of Kent, and diocese of Canterbury, vacant by the maim of the Rev. Edward Hoare. The Rev. Smith Churchill Clerk was instituted on the 16th to the Rectory of Boughton, in Norfolk, on the presentation of Sir W,lliem John Henry Browne Ffolkee, of Hillington Hall, Bart. The Rev. Henry Samuel Musgrave Hubert, M.A., was also instituted ea the 16th to the Rectory of sums, in Norfolk, on the presentation of Lord William Powlett. The Rev. John Davies has been licensed to the Perpetual Curacy of St. John's Church, Smallwood, la the parish of Lathery, la the county of Chester. RESIGNATIONS. POLITICAL MOVEMENTS. The Earl of Aberdeen returned to town via South ampton, yoetorday evening, from visiting her Majesty at Osborne. The noble earl reached Downing-street shortly after six o'clock, and was lansedlately waited on by the Duke of Newcastle, who had a short conference with the noble premier. Mr. Gladstone and family arrived at his official riddance is Downing street, yesterday afternoon at four o'clock, from visiting Lord and Lady Lyttalton at liagley-hall, Worces tershire. The Lord President of the Conseil (Earl Granville), who has quite recovered from his slight indisposition, and who, with his countess, is visiting the Earl and Countess Bruce at Savenache Lodge, near Marlborough, Wilts, is expected in town this forenoon in order to attend the wet log of the esbiast. The Right Hon. Sidney Herbert corneal, town this morning from Wilton-bola', near Salisbur), to meet his colleagues in odes. Lord John Russell also comes to town to-day, to assist in the deliberations of his political friends in the cabinet, from Pembroke Lodge, Richmond, where the noble lord has been sojourning since his return from Osborne. The Duke of Amp is s ennamed to attend the Cabinet Council this afternoon. His gran, with the Duchess of Argyll, and the Duke and Dueling of Sutherland, had removed from Trentham, to visit the Marquis and Mu chionem of Stafford, at Littleshall, Shropshire. The Right Hon. Sir James Graham returned to hi s oMcial residence at the Admiralty on Thursday, from Grimsby, Yorkshire, having been absent from town only 24 hours. The Lord Chancellor, the Right Hon. Sir William Moles worth, and the Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood have been staying in town for some days past. Viscount Palmerston, accompanied by her ladyship, left town as Thursday, to meet the distinguished circle visiting the Marquis of Lansdowne, at Bowood, Wilts. The noble viscount returns to Carlton-gardens this afternoon (he bad intended to stay there until Tuesday nest), and early in the ensuing week his lordship quits London for Broadlanda, his seat near Romaey, Hants. Tit, 11111i10:1111 - 8 . 01 LANSDOWNII.—It is said that the noble naarquiaNeill not be in town to-day, to join the meet ing of the Cabinet. CABINS? COUNClL.—lmmediately after the Earl of Aberdeen left tows on Thursday, on a visit to the Queen, suanntonses were issued for a Cabinet Council (or thin after noon, at the Foreign-office, in Downing-street. The meet lag is announced for one o'clock. FRIDAY, MIDNIOUT. The Berl of Aberdeen has given audiences to several of his colleynres in the cabinet at present in town. Late in the evening, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exche quer, and two other members of the cabinet, assembled at Sir James Graham's official residence, at the Admiralty, and were in eassultation until after 12 o'clock. The Tory journal, The Press, says: The withdrawal, at this moment especially, of the most eminent member of the administration, without whose pre. since the cabinet could never originally have been formed, and to whom the ministry are indebted for the only degree of public confidence which they ever perused, has pro. <Woad a prolonno sensation. It ie Itadentood that this step was taken by Lord Palmerton with the concurrence and approbation of the Marquis of Lansdowne, and of the prin cipal members of the old whig party. Lord Palmarskia is now on a visit to the noble marquis at Bowood, to which seat he repaired after bevies sent in the resignation of his °Moe to the Prime Minister, in order that it might be for. may laid before her Majesty. Lord Aberdeen left town for Osborne for that purpose on Thursday, and returned, we believe, this (Friday) night. A Cabinet Council is summoned for to-sorrow (Saturday, this day). LIVERPOOL, FaiDAY.—The merchants on 'Change were startled this morning by the announcement by tele. graph that Lord Palmerston had resigned aloe in the cabinet, and that his resignation had been accepted. At any time the retirement of a cabinet minister so suddenly, is sufficient to cause considerable excitement and specula tion u to the causes ; but at the present period, when the Eastern question h.,s assumed an alarming character, the retirement of so prominent a person as the noble lord is looked upon with anxiety as to the future. The motive of his lordship's step, as given by the Times, is looked upon with distrust, and the feeling is generally prevalent that differences upon the Russian and Turkish dispute have had more effect upon his retirement than any misunderstanding on the new Reform Bill. An opinion 1 1 prevails, and is largely shared in by the mercantile body here, that his lordship's retirement at the present time is only the prelude to his shortly entering upon office la a new ministry. SURREY ARCIIB.OI.OGICAL SOCIETY.—A Meeting of the council of this society was held on Thursday lut, Mr. W. D. Bruce in the chair. After the minutes of the last meeting had been read and confirmed, Mr. Geo. B.• Webb presented a list of fifty-six candidates for admission, amongst whom were the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rev. W. H. Pearson, Guildford; Rev. A. Mangles, Woking; Rev. F. P. &lapel. . Mr. %V. Cubit?, Mr. G. Steinman, lAA.; Mr. Ralph Lindsay, F.S.A ; Mr. W. F. G. Farmer, Mr. Nunsuch Park, &c , &c. This important i society, the object of which is the elucidation of the very interesting antiquities of the county of Surrey, has already enrolled as many as 400 of the nobility and gentry of the county among its member'. The Duke of Norfolk bee an apted the office of pr. eident, and among the vice-presidents are the Earls of Lovelace and Ellesmere, Viscount Down, the Bishop of Wincluster, Sir William Melenworth, M.P., Sir Charles Sullivan, Sir W. J. Hylton Joni& M.P. Sir Gs*. Pollock, 0.C.8 , Mr. 11. Drummond, M.P., Mr.W. J. Evelyn, M.P., Mr. T. Somers Cocks, M.P., and Mr. J. W. Freshtield M.P. DEATH OF TILE DOWAGER LADY HOWDEN.—The Dowager Lady Howden, mother of his Excellency the Bri tish Minister at Madrid, dud at St. Leonard's-on-Sea, on the 13th inst., after a severe illness. LATEST FROM ABROAD. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dsc. 6. On Saturday, the 3rd, a steamer, the Meseeri Vakri, arrived from Buyuker6 with intelligence that a Turkish steamer bad reached that point in a very disabled state, and with news of a serious conflict with the Russian fleet. The Russians, with seven 3-decked ships and ten frigates, four of them steamers, appeared in the roads of Sinope, on the 30th ult., and attacked the Turkish naval division, greatly inferior in the size and num ber of its ships, and destroyed nearly aU, after a murderous combat. The Russians lost two of their largest vessels. A detachment from the Turkish and English fleets was to go out yesterday and make a reconnoissance. PARIS, FRIDAY ERVING. Closing prices at the Bourse :—Three per Cent. Rentes, 74.83; Four-and-a-Ralf per Cents., 101.10 Bank shares, 2,940. These prices show a trifling rally, amounting only to 6c. to 10c. compared with the final rates of yesterday. The telegraphic announcement of Lord Palmer ston's secession from the English government caused considerable excitement here. Various and op posite views were taken of the event, but all parties refused to disconnect it with the Eastern question. By some it was regarded as a pledge of a peaceful and inactive British policy in the East while others were inclined to think that the prospect of meeting of Lord Palmerston in opposition would decide the Aberdeen Cabinet to act with increased energy as a measure of self-defence. GERMANY. Tho cue of the Prussian Deputy Aldenhoven, prosecuted by order of the government for a speech reflecting upon the Minister of the Interior, came on on the 12th, before the High Court of Appeal. The court held that for words spoken in the chamber members are responsible only to the chamber itself. THE BRAZIL MAILS. ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT WESTERN. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) The Great Western arrived at Southampton this morning. Her data are : Rio de Janeiro, Nov. 15; Buenos Ayres, Nov. 1. In Rio the national bank had been established, and the fifteen directors chosen ; amongst them were Mr. George Grave, an English man, and Mr. Emery, a Frenchman. All the rest were Portuguese at Brazilians. The Pernambucana, one of the Teasels of the Bra zilian Steam Packet Company, was wrecked near St. Katherine's on Oot.ll, and upwards of4o passen gers were drowned. Those who were saved were were indebted for their lives to a black sailor, who performed unparalleled deeds of heroism. The shipwrecked paimengers were brought to Rio in a steamer, and a large sum was subscribed to assist them, the Emperor and Empress of Brazil heading the list. A statue of the black sailor is to be placed on the Exchange, and his portrait sent to England. From Monte Video we learn that, through the va cillating conduct of the Brazilian minister, the Colo rado', with Pacheo at their head, had returned to power, and Gero hai taken refuge on board a French hip of war. At Buenos Ayres Badia had been executed for po litical offences in 1840. Other prisoners were to be brought to triaL Exchange on London at Rio, 271 to 27!. From the Argentine Republic there is little news of interest. At Buenos Ayres business was dull. The new ministry has net yet announced any de finite programme of policy. The highest rate of Exchange on England during the week has been 68s. 6d. per ounce ; the lowest, 68'. THE PENINSULAR MAILS (DS ELECTRIC TZLICIELPIL) SOUTHAMPTON, SATtrADAT. The Iberia arrived here this afternoon with the Peninsular mail. She left Lisbon on the 11th inst. All quiet at Lisbon, and everything going on as usual. THE WAR. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, DLO. 2. We continue to receive bulletins detailing new successes in Asia. Schamyl is rendering most effi cient co-operation to the Ottoman forces. As soon as the old Imaum found that serious obstinate war between Russia and Turkey was a certainty he collected 16,000 men and 20 guns. His lieutenant, Denial Bey, was entrusted with 3,000 men and four guns, the Naih Emir with 5,000 men u a reserve, and Abdlinl Ghamar with 2,500. &bawl himself attacked the fortress of Zahkatala, while Denial Bey assaulted Khaketty, a strong position commanding an important military road through the mountains. Zabkatala fell after a most sanguinary battle, which lasted six-and thirty hours. The Russians fought most despe rately, and when they were unable longer to hold the place, they spiked their guns, broke the spokes of their ammunition carriages, and burnt their barracks. Schamyl next turned his arms against Lignay, where he again was conqueror, and drove the Russians in the direction of Tiflis. At Khsgetty Daniel Bey encountered a stout resistance, which endured for several days, but in the end the place fell into his hands. After this Schamyl took four other for tresses from the Russians, among them Dachten. He then divided his little army into three corps, the strongest of which marched upon Tiflis; the second, led by Denial Bey, marched against Skir wan, and the two other leaders remained at the head of the third division, which was ap pointed a reserve. Prince Woronsow sent off despatch after despatch for help. At last General Orlianoff, with great difficulty, got together 15,000 men, with which to come to his superior's aid. We are expecting further particulars respecting subse quent operations. Denial Bey has attacked the second Russian division on the river Mohacz, and taken the fortress of Messer by storm. General Dolgornki marched against him in vain. Schamyl Naib attacked and defeated him. On the shores of the Black Sea another Turkish corps has taken the fortress of Seffo, about five miles from Schefkatil. The Russians lost 400 men and 200 escaped. A letter from Trebiaond, dated Nov. 24, gives fur ther particulars :—A Turkish steamer arrived here on the morning of the 19th, on its way back from Batoum, bringing news that on the 13th of this month the Turks attacked the small outpost called Seffo, about five miles distant from Chevketil to the north, and occupied by a Russian garrison of about 700 men. An engagement ensued, in which the Russians lost 400 men ; the rest were driven to flight, and the place was occupied by the Turks. Letters from Kars say that a force composed of 16,000 Turks is marching on;G humri (Alexandropol), and that they have on their way taken possession of several Rus sian villages, and that preparations for an eager ment were being set on foot on both aides. The day before yesterday an express arrived here, ad dressed to the Governor from Batoum, announcing I that seven Russian ships of war, three of which were steamers, had landed 4,2:10 men at about an hour and a half distant from Chevketil, on the coast, and that they were marching on that place. The Turkish troops went to meet them, and after an en gagement, which lasted several hours, the Russians retreated, leaving from 400 to 500 dead on the field. They succeeded in gaining their boats, leaving one cannon and other arms in the hands of the Turks. On gaining the Russian ships they set sail and made off. The little Turkish squadron, composed of three frigates and a steamer, which were directed to the coast of Circassia, have succeeded in landing ammu nition there; they then returned to Sinope. A small Turkish steamer has, as you perhaps already know, been captured by a Russian squadron in the waters of Ineboli, the Medjari Tidjaret, with a cargo on board worth 150,000 piastres. The Montenegrins, who were lately menacing the Turkish provinces in their neighbourhood, and to whom, it will be recollected, a very important part in the actual war was assigned by the German journals, appear now to be quarrelling amongst themselves. The project of their alliance with Servia has broken down, as was probable from the first, and now the 21iests Gazette announces that Peter Petrowitch, uncle of the reigning Vladika, has lied down to the Austrian town and port of Cattaro, in the Adriatic, having been detected in a conspiracy against his nephew. The Vladika, it is said, has a large party against him. The following announcement, signed by General Iljinske was posted on the Exchange, at Odessa, on the 6th inst.: "The fleet of his Majesty the Emperor, under the command of Vioe-Admiral Nachimow, has encoun tered in the Black Sea a Turkish and Egyptian fleet, consisting of 18 ships—two deckers, tri4ates, corvettes, together with two steamers of 500 horse power, and two others of 300 horse power. After a long engagement, the following Turkish ships have been destroyed or captured :—One of 64 guns, name unknown; one of 60 guns, ditto; one of 52 guns, Nezrami Effendi; one of 50 guns, Ahmet Ali ; one of 46 guns, Nazim Fessim ; one of 22 guns, Fessi Mahmoud. Steamers :—Two of 20 guns each ; two transports; 1 do. British transport. The engage ment took place near Sinope. Five thousand Turks Ihave been killed, and many taken prisoners. Osman Paella, who was wounded, has also been taken pri soner. Several officers, both English and French, were on board the Turkish fleet." Just about the time when the flotilla of Osman Pacha was sustaining the fire of the Russian fleet, the two admirals of the French and English squad rons were being entertained by Mahmoud, the Capon dan Puha, on board his flag-ship. The Turkish Grand Admiral made a speech in Turkish, which was immediately rendered into French by one of the interpreters of the Porte, and of which the following is a version : Allow me to give "The health, of her Majesty the Queen of England, and of the Emperor of the French." Oa so important a day as this, on which I can assemble together on board the Bag-ship of the Turkish navy the two admirals of the French and British squadrons, it is needless for me to express to you the ; enenal sympathy which I feel. I wi'l but express the gratitude and thankfulness by which his Imperial Majesty's counsellors are pene trated for the numerous marks of friendship and assist ance given by the two great Western Powers. The inde pendence and integrity of the Ottoman empire are the basis upon which repose the equilibrium of Europe and the peace of the world. That peace, which is so precious, and which all states were entitled to consider durable, has been violently disturbed, in spite of all the efforts of the Ottoman government. Turkey, strong in her own good right, repulses the unjust aggression which has been directed against her. Your presence, admirals, at Constautiaople is an example and a support to us; and if destiny decides that we are to march side by side, all our efforts will tend to merit your esteem and praise. The sentiment. which I express are shared by all the subjects of his Imperial Ma jesty, and I am happy in being on this day the organ for interpreting the wishes formed throughout the empire for the august allies of the sultan, their Majesties the Emperor of the French and t h e Queen of Great Britain. _ _ The Sultan's health was then drunk by the British and French admirals. The Journal of Constantinople subjects the Russian manifesto to a very severe criticism. The low and offensive designation employed by the Czar to characterise the Sultan's manifesto—" une procla mation remplie d'accusations mensongeres "—meets the answer which it deserves. To the charge that Turkey has welcomed the revolutionaries of all Europe to its camp, the writer replies : " We look in the Imperial ranks for these revolutionaries, and look in vain • the y . are not to be found. The object of these c harges is well known. It is hoped that where such assertions find credit, some sympathies will be alienated from the ri. hteous cause of Turkey. This mode of warfare is not honourable. The whole world, however, knows that the Sultan's army con sists of his subjects. But, is it fitting that they should talk indignantly of revolutionists who them selves trample all right under foot P" The Paris Union says : We an assured that Admirals Dundu and Hamelin, when they learnt that the Turkish squadron was about to sail for the Black Sea, warned the Ottoman government of the risk it ran, and told them that the squadron could not resist the Russian vessels for a single hour. The event has justified the expectations of the French and English Ad mirals. The loos of the Turks in the &nape roads is esti mated at 6,000 or 7,000 men, and 20,000,000 of francs. Narvik Pacha, it is said, cannot effect his loan under 8 per cent., and the Divan's limit is 6 per cent. A rumour was circulated yesterday that a dispatch bad arrived from St. Petersburg, announcing that the Emperor of Russia wu disposed to send a plenipotentiary to Vienna to treat for peace. Should this fact be true, it cannot relate to any answer to the protocol signed on December sth by the four Powers, for we believe aware in a position to know that this protocol has not . yet been o ffi cially consrnunicated to the Emperor of Ragusa. The:Vienna conference proposed in the first instance to give Turkey an opportunity of making known the auditions on which she would treat for peace. FRANCE. PARIS, TILVIUSDAT EVNNIXO. The advice. received here from Constantinople tend to confirm the earlier reports of Turkish sue ceases by land in Asia and on the coast of the Black Sea. It Is believed that by this time the Turks will kave opened a communication with Schamyl, who is evidently co-operating with the Ottoman general. A body of Caucasians have marched down upon Suchnm Kale, while Schamyl, with his Tchetchens and Leaghis, attacks Prince Woronzow in the rear. Everybody is asking whether it can be that the two governments, which, as we have been often told, can any day give the law to Muscovite ambition, I will fulfil the prophecies which come teeming . from the German press, and basely desert Turkey just as she proves herself most worthy of allies. If the two governments mean to act honestly, they have chosen a moat unfortunate way of showing their intentions, for the Vienna protocol has rendered them every where suspected. The Debuts, in noticing the news and rumours relative to affairs in the East, says: The telegraphic dispatches which reach us from England or from Germany rather tend to lessen the importance and the eclat of the success just obtained by the Russians at Sinope. The superiority of the force which the Odessa bulletin itself admits, when it says that the Russian squadron, composed of six sail of the line, had to do with seven Turkish frigates, may have been greater than has been stated ; and it would, moreover, appear that the Russian squadron has suffered in this engagement such damages as clearly prove that the Turks bravely defended ' themselves, and give reason to believe that when equally matched, the Ottoman navy could to a certain point well contend with the Russian. This is a point which must not be lost sight of, for in reality only a very small portion of the naval force of Turkey has been destroyed. The 13 sail of the line, completely armed, which she has in the Bosphorus, the division of frigates which has just re turned there under Muchaver Pacha, and the steam frigates are intact. On the other hand, it would also ap tearel:sreoettb probable tthroaytetcpt.number been so of me T w u t r i k at ish ersg ves; ra h sa , id t o have that in the number may have been included some vessels unfit for service, which are to be found in the naval ports of all nations. Nothing, however, can be positively known of this action until we have read and compared the official bulletins of both parties, for, up to this time, all we know is front the telegraphic despatches. We will not uy so much of the accounts which have reached us from Asia. Electric despatches announce to us that the Turks are said to have obtained important successes throughout the whole line of their operations from Batoum in the west to Erivan in the east. They are said to have taken several fortresses from the RuinianP, and among them that of Zakata which will allow them to assist the insurgents of the Da gheetan and also Schamyl, who, on his own side, is reported to have gained considerable advantages over the Russians. Russian Armenia is also said to be iu full insurrection, and Georgia in a state of great agitation. Such are the reports which reach us, and which we give without in any way guaranteeing their correctness. It is also positively stated that the impression produced at Constantinople en the Turks by the news of the battle of Siuope is rho known in Europe by telegraphic despatch. It is said to have been very great, and it is even said that the ambassadors and the French and English admirals immediately met in order to consult as to the line of conduct they were to adopt under these circumstances. It is given out positively that the Zollverein will not renew the treaty with Belgium, which spires this year, to the disappointment of King Leopold, who counted on his alliance with Austria for an increase of influence with the German powers, while the contrary has happened. Belgium exports largely yt to a q uest i on would la th e to Russia steam machinery and iron rails for oat and there has sprung up in Germany some prejadi e , against the King of the Beigians, wh ose i nterebte are too mixed up with Russia—a po wer v i ewed with dislike by all true Germans. A letter from Brussels states, that at th e I sat l sitting of the Chemist!. of Representatives, t he f l'b r l o in m is N te i r . o of rba Fi n n , an t h ce at de th cl e ar g ed ov , e i r n nm re e p a l course of the session bring in a bill for the admix. sion of foreign coals free of duty. The Emperor presided yesterday morning at half past ten, at the Tuileries, at a Council of Ministers, At half-put three his Majesty drove out in a coupe, accompanied by Colonel de Beville, and went to the Elysie to visit the works. In the evening their Majesties went to the Theatre of the V ar ie t e s. 'The weather has again set in very cold, X a le _ valcer's thermometer at six o'clock this morning stood at 5.7 below zero centigrade (21.2-3 Fahrenheit). At about three o'clock in the afternoon snow began to fall, and continued throughout the evening. The Monitelr, which hitherto has translated al most all the important articles of the English paper s on the Eastern question, does not to-day transcribe single line from the article of the Times, which has made so great a sensation, or from any other English paper. The two government journals, the Pap and Constitationntl, as will be seen from the extracts I give below, carp at the warlike tone of the Times. All this is not accidental. 1 greatly fear that the news I sent you the day before yesterday is but too true, and that a resolution has been taken to " improve" the disaster of Sioope by pressing s disgraceful peace upon the Turk. A private tele graphic despatch arrived here last night, announcing that Constantinople was in a state of excitement approaching to insurrection, and that the ambassadors had ordered the entire fleets to sail for the Black Sea without a moment's delay. This despatch is not printed by any Paris journal to-day, and I ace informed the papers have been prohibited from publishing it. 1 believe this story to be exaggerated, and that, in point of fact, only a steamer from each fleet has been sent to make in. quiries. I must further say that, according to a statement in which I have considerable confidence, the result of the Cabinet Council held yesterday waa the reverse of warlike. At the Bourse, the celebrated Vines article, which was yesterday only known to the comparatively few persona who read or receive information from the readers of the English papers, produced a still greater effect to-day, being translated in all the French journals. The Threes opened 60c. lower than yesterday, but in the couree of the day they improved, and after a temporary ,reaction closd at nearly the highest price of the day, viz. 74f. The., being still a fall of 40c. The railways were firmer than the rente; still St. Germain fell 10f., Orleans, 15f.; Rouen, 10f. ; Northern, 2f. 50c. Lyons and Mediterranean improved 3f., and a few other lines from lf. to 3f. Bank of France rose 10L All the journals comment upon the Times article of Tuesday. The Debars says : The news of the battle of Sinope seems to have produced a great sensation in England—a sensation manifested in the newspapers by very virulent and warlike articles. We have to notice an unanimity of opinion on the subject, to which we are little accustomed. To see the Ti , nes speaking like the Daily Nemo or the Morning Port may well sur prise us—but such is the fact. After having from the very commencement of this difficult Eastern question done so much to tranquillise opinion in its country, and to persuade the English government to let Russia do as she would at Constantinople, the grave and powerful organ of the City now raises a war cry, and in its salsa goes so far uto express a hope that, on the news of the affair of Sinope reaching theta, the ambinsidors and ad. mirals, using the powers conferred upon them by their instructions, will have instantly taken such measures as that the orders which cannot fail to be sent them by their governments may be found, by anticipation, in course of execution. We' cannot understand this excessive ardour succeeding so much hesitation. • • The Times should try to know a little better what it really wants, and should learn to accept the natural consequences with a good grace. When, for months together, it has used language which, to a certain extent, may have encouraged Routs in this de• plorable enterprise, it should at least show a little less ill temper at a result which it has itself, perhaps, not a little contributed to bring about. The Sieele says: • • • "• " " From the ariicle of the Times, which we publish in another c3lumn, it might almost be thought that this jour nal renounces the policy of Lord Aberdeen for that of Lord Palmerston. What is beyond doubt is this, that public opinion in England so audibly threatens a storm against Russia, Russian adherents, and Russian dapes, that the Times, which is not certainly very timid, trims its sails to obey an irresi-tible wind. • As to the other English journals we need not say in what tone they speak. Their language, if used in any other counts, than England, would certainly be pounced upon as " tend ing to excite hatred and contempt of the goyernment." The Pays says : The Times appreciates the affair of Sinope, in respect to the attitude it may impose upon the allies of Turkey, with an extreme vivacity. The English journal in the article in question assumes a warlike tone, contrasting strangely with its balsas of moderation and reserve. We reproduce the most importart passages, but we think it right to add that is our opinion, before speaking in such a decided manner, it is well and fitting to wait till more precise information shall explain the circumstances and real importance of the battle of Sinope. The Consiitutionnel says : The Times, which heretofore—and of late more especially —has treated the question of an active intervention in the East with much reserve, today assumes a decidedly warlike attitude in speaking of the duties which the affair of Siaope may impose upon France and England. Perhaps it would have been more prudent to wait for the more complete account of this unfortunate collision, which cannot fail to arrive by the packet which left Constantinople on the sth. The recent disaster in the Calais harbour is so serious that a million and a half of francs must, it is said, be expended in repairs, and the works are not likely to be finished in less than three years. Since the return of Mr. Oliveira, M.P., from Bordeaux, where he was so well received, he has been engaged at Paris in seeing persons of in fluence and consideration, who can give him in formation and assistance. On Monday, M. Drouyn de Lhuys, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, gave Mr. Oliveira a reception, when his Excellency ,assured him of the desire felt by the French govera ment to adopt and extend the principles of a reduced tariff, as shown by the commencement made with iron and coal; and which it was the sincere wish of the government to apply to other articles; but his Ercelkney dwelt with .Ibree upon the moral support that would be imparted to their efforts, i f it was shown that in Englund the same spirit was erineed towards the productions of France,espeeially her wines. On Tuesday, Mr. Oliveira had an interview with M. Ducos, Minister of Marine, who expressed opi nions equally favourable to the extension of the prin ciples of reduction lately adopted by the French government. Mr. Oliveira also had the opportunity of discussing the question in its fiscal relations with the very able Inspector-General of Customs, M. Greterin; and he also had a reception by the Minis ter of Commerce. Mr. Oliveira was presented to their Imperial Majesties last night at the Tuileries, by Lord Cowley. In the night of December 3rd and 4th the dili gence between Pertius and Avignon was stopped when in the environs of the latter place, by two armed men , who robbed the passengers of 3,500 fr. BELGIUM. —.— BRUSSELS, WrvxmAy, It is asserted in a well informed quarter that the French government, which had placed full confi dence in the declaration of the Russian Ambassador in Vienna, that the Russian army and fleet would not act in any way on the offensive, is so indignant at its attack on a portion of the Turkish fleet at Sinope, that it has sent an energetic note on the subject to the cabinet of St. James's. ITALY_ NAPLES, DEC. S. It has been known for some time past that consi derable discontent exists in the Neapolitan army. By some it was said to arise from jealousy of the Swiss, who number now nearly 12,000, and receive double the pay of Neapolitans. Be the causes what they may., it is certain that within the last few days several military arrests have taken place, chiefly amongst non-commissioned officers of infantry regi ments. Gold money is said to have been found on their persons, and many have spoken openly with disrespect of the government and King in the wine shops. Amongst the Swiss, too, there are many re cruits who fought in the revolutionary armirs of Is4S, so that much alarm is felt should the events of Europe affect this country. The Neapolitan government has refused a British subject to enter the kingdom, for no other reason, as far as I can learn, than that of having identified himself with political exiles in Paris and London. Mr find Iran one TCBSI whir beca been boar TRI am trod T eal bou bat Me goi on his :Ws ex bei bu wli