The Express. — London, England, 1854-01-02 00:00:00

'date eroveoo. '- TO CORILISPONDIIITS. Ailiseadilase islia•••.' as row by •Kirstte," is pulg.aord awry Tuesday mg Fria/ fit. r Um lir 'M. 111wiftsmestsistencled for "TY Txpriew" lamas Swam ppm ma be et to OS" 19, Ilerferiimeset. by Tin AWL ea the ed pabliaisa. MOH WATIN, AT LONDON BIIDGI. Dar—Usesim 4A. .... .-Aftsrassa. Ms. lawassions—Sondsg. Ib. Va. LONDON. MONDAY, JANUARY 2. Tae necessity of watching closely the movements of Anemia in the Bslik Moines daily mom apparent. Is.. coop is evideetly projected is that quarter spied the spring. Emissaries ham bees despatched to England tied America with a vknr to obtain the mesas of Mareming the statism of the Beide fleets a despatch has at the sem time bees transmitted from St. Petersburg to Stockholm. shalt hu had • the elbat of iodising King Oscan to musedel the higher departments of the Ministry of War, sad to invite his Diet to appoint s joint Committee et the Sala te reseire an inverteat sod eoaldsstial is.. amilidea At Balla, tale tip movements both . 111Boomodc and Swabs ow groderady 11814 it is • mthethlooll diat a segethithe ins both orned be • Immo flamlistomwith a view to a low drive ' ma defensive in the event of a gland war: sit the. • Ihrtilleations es the Sound an Wag strengthatel *oda doubtless has two °bigots is view in Vie rye: to pat itself in a condition to strike allow • Suet the allies of Turkey if a chases aches; Ralii te advance the eberiebsd project of extend • leg Its territory to the ocean. The Beandioavian irreth.h is and Ins been coveted by Ramie as mask as the loads between the Bask lift owl the Adriatic, sad equal oars has bees takes, dim* sad addiessly to east her toils around it. lo tiN Swedes was compelled to cede Palma to Raabe sad sloop with it ionise to the north sad the Ailed Wes to the loath. The ademeed pod of the De► mien aegis lid army was thus boseght within the ilielisee of toothy ain Beglith Mho froth the asAM mot. sni nut moth mire from tlarroalinli learßy • booty cambia Whose the Cowie ietenbuqg mid Stoshheda to ills 9 lirreks math wen ormigroi from ail duties is the Norwegian gals moth of Trams, and now the whole of that omits derives its entire sup plies at grain froth the Rosales ports es the White Bea. from tired. aloe. Ming sod taint weedy yearly esessomi the North Cape in nambsre nat• equal to the width. The armaeree of Ittwels, as has been remarked by Mr. Outruns, b edways subordinated to its polities ; and this birth Bogert thee to a fret orentrosed by Mr. WINN* his tsar ha Swedes. connected with the commesid May meleded in 1838 between that country and Bari; I. this treaty it is remarkable that moat the titles el his Majesty the ENTZIIOI4 the term l(fritior de Semi" which it seems nese of the old imprial titles, is changed to Ihatessontr sb Nero*. This change is not of the mare of an mis sies, or uninteatioesi change of one term he mother by clerical oversight or error ; fee is the Swedish ratification the old title of Herilisr de Norver is ret..ined. Being intentional, it must have a meaning. The title of lieritier de Noraigs is derived from the intermarriages of the Dukes of 1101.11TEIN•SCULESWI0 into the impede) fendly of Ram'a." In a note Mr. LAING bib " This alteration does not appear is the treaty itself, bat in the ratification of it, signed by the Emperor NICROIAL at TOplits, 23rd July, 1838. The titles of Lord of Armenia and Georgia are assumed in the same set. Nose who have watched the uniforms policy by which Russia has for more than a century hem encroaching upon her soil/hams on all sides can doubt the Mips of the Cita upon the Sandi madam Penissaa. With a Sent indnitely superior to that of Sweden, and a rendezvous for his ships and snake within a few hours' sail of the Swedish capital; with the power of starving the north of Norway by stopping its supplies of food; with a dormant claim to the Norwegian throne ready to be brought into play; NICHOLAB counts upon being able at any time to bend to his purposes a King who is an eyesore to all the old Monarchies of Europe, The am of BenstartYrrz, by a mother sprung, like der husband, from the middle classes, has °open . Mold in his owe perms marked alights from the Legitimate Sovereigns of Europe. Whet in 1837 he masts the tour of Germany, he was received at the different Courts with scarcely common civility ; in 1821 the Royal Family of Prima rejected his over tures for a matrimonial alliance; when the Ex-King of Swedes, Gummi IV., died, all the old Legiti mate Courts were ostentatious in their assumption of mourning for him. Rude, there can be little doubt, is availing itself at this moment of all these circumstances to wheedle and bully the King of Swat:fax, with a view to gain him in the first instance to @observe its views against Reg lad and France, and in the second to increase its inflame* over the governmeet of the Scandinavian pinion* witk a view to its ultimate incorporation with the empire. Russia counts also upon its mesa ducy in the councils of the royal family of Den mark, and the not very remote prospect of an oppor tunity to claim the succession to that throne. Russia, Sweden, and Denmark command the Baltic; for the emeriti's* power of Russia singly is as nothing. The memo of Russian intrigues in the north, therefore, while it would materially.antharram England in any war in which we might be engaged, is pregnant with obstructions to our commerce with the Baltic, un less the right steps were taken at the right time. Our best, our only sure, reliance for counteracting and defeating these intrigess Sinusoidal:66ly cultiva ting the goodwill born* by the Scandinavian peoples to England. Policy dictates, of course, a friendly and conciliating deportment towards their monarchs; but the sorest guarantee for the good faith and friendly offices of these monarchs will be found in their consciousness that to ally themeless with Russia spinet England and France will alienate and irri tate their subjects. The Suedes especially are natu rally and necessarily hostile to Eassia—the lost of Finland they still consider the deepest wound ever indicted ea their country. And no wonder : though the extension of railroads sad meals is gradually facilitating the intercourse between Stockholm and the western districts of Scandiaavia, that capital still derives its supplies of provisioss and firewood almost exclusively from Fisland. The Mae of these - Finland in the at 230,0001. not exceeding Rasa retains threatens the capital fleets, but can see the aims of they are averse to dosidnatiou ; as a Norwegians, are - to a despot and Norway on if the former aloe., would population of ,1845 that of id Norway sad are dependent and the out- r i articles received in Stockholm keen Pie course of one year has been estimated i . sterliog, the population of the city eel k. 81,000 souk. So long, therefore. al RI the Grand Delay, it not only threatens of Sweden every moment with its Sou starve it at any time. The Swedes see Rues; es • more civilised pimple thri t 1 . the prospect of falliog under Re &elk 1 i free people they, and still memo for lier averse to the prospect of being snliesled ism. Yet a contest between Sweden and the one hand, and Russia nit the slim, U were left to beer the brunt of the battle I he meet limpid. In 1849 the total p i I Sweden did not exceed 3,433,808 ; in 1 I Norway was may 1,328,471. The north at; Stockholm, it will be kept in mind, am for their supplies of food upon Roofs; c pqp6 el the Russian fleets and smiles is within a few Uwe' mil of Stockholm, which') is bat weakly forti dei. To repel a Russian fleet, the Vag of atropin edy 10 ships of the line, 20 frigides and smaller wok 12 war steamers, andmdffibilia boas of di* 1111119111 k navy; 2 frlgatEualler yank 6 ime etekkist. and 138 gnu 4 4111Ithe nisi= navy. The 13 • nig nubbin 114,013 ass of all arms; the Romagna, 23,484—in all 167,011. Bat of these, not men than 21.000, if ummy, ere permanently under arms; the reminds, midis of various kis& of militia. It may dawn additional light on the •defensive arrange ments of Strolling to notice the time it would take to concentrate its troops upon throe principal points, with a view to resist an invader. It would take 81 days (or 33 days by forced marches) to concentrate the whole Swedish army at Stock holm ; three-fourths of it weld be drawn together in 29 days (or in 16 by toned marches). It would take 83 days (or 41 by forced marches) to concentrate it at Christiaastadt, on the southern coast ; and 78 days Ow 39 by forced marches) to concentrate is at Weendrileg. within 40 miles of the coast, at Gotten burg. From the mountainous nature of the nanny, man more time would be required to being the Nor "vim sestiesset into play. It is obvious, there hi% Aid retailed kingdom subject to King OSCAR are nos ipm We than Turkey to cape single-heeded with Ramie. And yet, unless the Baltic is to bestir a ROSSiall lake, they must be encouraged to resist the encroachments of the Cue, and supported in didr resistance. This is especially the interest of Ertgisi4 bat that of our ally Frans is next. if nand it be inferior. Though Sweden and Norway be nor- 1 equal to a contest with Russia, they would yet be invaluable allies in a straggle to preserve the liberty of the navigation et the Baltic, both from their local position sad the valour aid skill of their land and ma foram An English fleet, or a combined French and English fleet, weld not only guard them from Russian invssios, bat strike the first blow at the insi dious aggressor, sad restore to Sweden the territory of which it has bee. robbed, whose inhabitants still retain a kindly feeling to their old fellow-citizens. At present any naval operations in the Baltic are impossible, but it is to be hoped that the English Government will embrace the earliest opportnaity afforded by the breaking up of the ice to be on their guard in the Baltic as circumstances may require. They can and ought to be prepared to act before Russia. We say this, not merely with reference to the unprepared state of the Russian Baltic fleet, but ' to the process by which the ice in that sea breaks up. ' It Ant begin to break ap and disperse in the parts ' nearest the ocean; the meeting of the waves from the North Sea is a main agent; and hence the Western I Baltic will be free from ice. and open to the fleets of ' England and France, while the ships of Russia still ' continue ice-bound in its Eastern recesses. At Stile, on the west side of the island of Oothland, and at I Capelehamn, on the east, there are harbours with depth of water (it is understood) for ships of war s ' and a naval form, each as England and France swald I easily fit out. would, if stationed there, command • the Gulfs of Bothnia 'and Finland, lock up the Bus . sin navy as in a pond, secure the free navigation of the Baltic, and be in readiness for any ulterior cope- I rations that might be rendered necessary by the aggressions of the Czaa. LATEST FROM ABROAD, 111AlfA ikND TURICtIr. ; I Si • NtliViAll29l AND implant easmusit.) ONSTANTINOPLE, Di.. ll Mil Packs ash Atha* Pacbs have catered Waist. Tire*lsa Psis*ONE* the Ilan have ast iskseddialiii Sea. D. Midi - bane item modiirarViisaa, which data that die Grand Divamodmt three days' di:a brades, bad detsmathei yea osoriting prepaddith of the 'Cleans Otollooloo ooljoit to do amilitjoos that the Daaallas Pre. visors 1111-411611111111161 d, and that the iadepthimse sad integrity ef the Ottoman Empire be secured. PIEDMONT. TURIN, Dia. $O. Bans disturbances have taken plats at Aosta, but seder was promptly restored, without the employ. men of force. AMERICA. gbe C .... _ourt. _ WINDSOR, Dac. 31. The dinner party yesterday iaeladed the Duke of Oembridge, the Berl and Counter Orinville ' the Marquis I si t aws beroorn, Lady Har ri et Hamilton, Lady Beath': Lord and Lady John Rama, Lord Raglan, mg the Elm. James Macioaeld, in waiting to the Duke of OHHlgallA !be beal ef the lit Life Guards attended in the Castle 111= . 11=r, awl the following pieces: OldriaL °maw SA (Opera Casada) Duce al Sara Coteau,. ifskit-41morealearses* Massy. Ildsedes—ins Martyrs per. Roam . 1i11 ., " .... . . .., ..... , ItlfteM'ege li t i t; was ... t e diums : in the ma meergaike=4. its Headeeoka. ye.. „... .. emaag _Ohs to she pm weft distributed is the Otani it Medea Coale Ws norang. The M s" tsarina eameimbed a alien ON am lama 'withal in Wiadme eal Man pear. At 10 o'clock the Queen wed Prlftem, amenipseled mar i f : royal children, the Duke ef Omalidepa the .a Maroon, the Earl sad Osandenelibmaggs, Lady sad Lady Ikatriz Basil len,ciall sehnied by the ekne Unread Ontlemen la Weide& left the Cades sod peneedled a the gallery of the Rifts SAW to witness the dlearilattlas, whin took plan wake the eeperlatimmlnee el aim stogy of Windsor sad Cletrer, the How. sod Bev. O. Wey, dogmatist daphla te die Queen, mad she Winn of the poor. The ells emensted ef Jena ef mustrempertissed le the names imillesh red dealer &Wed emus the members et des Cathie. Cab eitallislesi man pee pateengo ef her /ftesay. all amnion !widths emerwary te their eontriba tie" with the 'Ulnae clods W the eames'e assay. Omen awe else ikerftele. at the bean et the pew people. Mame Albeit, with the Dalieef Ummeteldaa enerapened iy Merl fume end ae m Mif in Abtreste, afterwards ma all almatl t ab ettewisd the Hoe. Deily de Bee see the Ise. Jean ne DM mad Oman= fkaavilio, Lord and Lady Jolla Iftwedl e se e Lead Pasha left the Lifts to-day. TY Q had • Amur party this day. The esapeay issiedell the Damao el Hen, the Duke of Cabe s s.the N=s.st Abseeeen. the Wise Harriet awl &lawn the Ley ha Waiting to the Dubow of Kest, the Hareem de lip" Or Jmes Clerk, and the Hoe. Juan lileeftweeld. The bad of tbe Seam Fusilier Ovards attended daring itcr omi etliieyed the following pies: astintlen—"Le MU" —...—...—.. ...... ..... =te ...in ?rime 1161: - ..... - .allll Cleigi 0,1161.16....... Hot Majesty had afterwards as evesiag party at which win gassant Lady Caroline and Mies Barriagwe, Lady Fame am" Lady Limbed' de Roe, the Bul el Mount Chutes, Lard James Many, Coloitel the Hoa. Charles sad Mn. 0P1L 4 011111161 tha Hon. C. B. sad Miss Phipps, Sir thilt7, and Kina Comer, and Mr. J. H. Farquhar dßattens. SIM Twain Oturde. The G o aeen's prim* hand etwaled the evening party. M ai 1 Priam Albert Ms Sessdna of skating this after nem. A harp al the tams of the garrisoe men primal. and the af Me avert. TM Qum, stssadad bide ladies in waiting, 'ad seem. pealed by the Dale oftlandiship sad the visitors staying at the Oldie, wintered thetteMak • The bead et Me Baste ted IMr 011111411 played ea the Lee 1 dean the doe bar Meanly ale peelesi. JAN. 1. The (beta add Primo, the Pelage of Wales. thefrisee — Royal. the Prisms ANN. the Redoes of Kent, and the Duke of Coat ad Miss Ad yurdesee of the th i s sad the deems* adesead Alias service this mossiest& the -geftde ddt of the Code. The Marquis of Abereere, sal the Ladles Harriet sad Beatrix Estailtoe, 'Na m at the asevisc The Res. gad Rev. G. Wellesley Colonel 'immesh' ham seeeeedett Lord Alfred Paget as Egeerry is Waiting to the Qaess% sad Lista:Col. F. day ' ewer Grows is Weida', bee waeseeded Captaia the Hoe. Dudley de Roe is atteadeaes toe Prises Albert. The Lord Chasmlier of Ireland bed an iaterview with tits But of Lbwleen es &duds', at his odleiel residence is DJeraleiretnit. Despatches for the Governing M the West India Colonies were sent maleeordey from the Colonial- adios. Earl Spew is appointed Lord High Steward of her Majesty's twatehMC la the room of the Duke of Nor. folk, who reslgas the appointment on accoant ofiseraised health. TUE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2, 1854. journal publishes another helbotin of a trifling en crt which is said te base taken place on the it near Brims, an the eve of the battle of Akel-Teitise, and in which, asearding to this bulletin, the ilium the part of the Moans was insignificant, being 111111 ell to eight traNdeL The Turks, on the seatreiry, are sod to hate lost 200 in killed and wooed* and 99 *sense& The Zseetids Anise, of the fist, publishes the Miming resent of the Eupora of Romig ad dressed to the - Grand Doke Ooestantine Nioolaie- • witch : Tit ear well-beloved sou the event Duke Coastantia• Nissidewiteb,—After heyieg ser s eg4 deputy of the eldellatell el the Mediae, sad is with Weeders the wipes elfleor lo the oesedge.it has bee& plea. stag os modem fre a s i = e uredzes u radlaig ell the bout et d that yes have thee reeyeadoi to the = a we *mod fa you. The import sat week of drawing op tegetri for the service of the Medea with whisk yea have been dreg* her be.. wow Willa by yea with seessrliable sows, es toollied es te by oar eirs.dle•easep, Dermal Prises Neweittlielr. Bevies Ulm des* his shosose the directly& of the Ministry el Lidazifiltri• WV swaged is a very short spore et M Mot • eiosilletebie recietrioa in the elpeeossof the illsgeelibeil of the Oemeheed Ali doss faete,bygkfig pitmen le crer it. petered beset, give yeti a right loses - tali= dealer iloiloses, to Isetiosay of which we mere you Pright Goad Cross of the Ist Class of the Order of St. ef whisk wu hireyrith lead you the insignia, le weer them eseseiliog to the statutes. We teat by seathadog to act with the ears seal yes will beim the bosh of the administration confided to per ID ro 411.11181 dopes of perfects**, sad render yourself wertly.sibould eiromeloosos require it, of leading our fleets to smoke huh glory erilmil s the seemies of the country. NICHOLAS. - 71` - ' _ . St. Petembers, Dee. The Loyd of Yietina, of the 26th, says "A letter hem Odeon, of the 15th, states that Sheffi Khan, lotorly Charge d'Affaires of the Shah of Persia at the British Court, had arrived in that town on his way to Teheran, where be was received with great distinction. He will probably continue his voyage es board a Russian steamer. The Russian cplonel, M. de Kewalewski, has left for Montenegro, having been charged on the part of the Czar to present Prince Gallo with some cues and other church or- Bement'. According to letters from Semlin, of the flith, the Danube is fall of drift ice beyond Widdin. Loners from Gttaro state that the Turks are in t...sin their army sf observation on the frontiers et almo Monten al egro de , but the troops forming this corps are st lRa The note published on Friday in the Moniteur is followed in the Patric by the remark that "in enmeshing to negotiate on the bases laid down by . Os kit mete of the Four Powers, the Ottoman go viennum4 gives proof of a spirit of concilivion and mauls to herself more than ever the sympath ies of Merepes." This is trifling with and mvstilying the If by " the last note of the Pour Powers" labia the short collective note published by the Delete, and adopted as authentic by the lifoniteter, then it contains no bases for negotiation. If the identical instructions to the ambassadors are referred to, then the document containing them only mentions that the Porte is to treat directly with Russia, and is not to be asked to grant anything which it has already refused. The Powers are already aware, whether they have received formal notilisados of the fact or not, that Russia will not oesatiato em the terms which they propose. As. cardiegly the Pairs** gloomily concludes the article feet quoted with the poor faint hope that "in pro moor of what is takirg place, Russia will not per severe in her disastrous course ; and we are mere than ever convinced that, if the difficulty is to toms day settled by force of arms, the war will be *sow scribed within the limits of the country where It 'weeks out." The Press, asks, respecting the agreement of the Porte with the Powers, whether this accord would have been a perfect one, unless it bad been a forced one. It is the consequence, says the Paris journal, of the refusal by which the two ambassadors of France and England set aside the demand for assistance which was made to them on the sth December, by Reschid Puha. As the order was not immediately given for the two squadrons to enter the Black Sea, and to demand satisfaction at Sebastopol for the dims. tor at Sinope, the Divan could not do anything bat what it has done—reply by an assent to the dons of the conference of Vienna, and thus Cr ii :o the four mediating Powers the responsibility of the osoolosiou, whatever it might be. The &sok which is reported to receive intelli gence from the Ottoman Embassy, says that the ex pressions_emloyed in the Nonitzur speak for them selves. Hid the Powers been able to deduce the slightest probability of a diplomatic arrangement of the subject from the explanations given by Turkey, the Monireur would not have failed to let the public know of it, especially at this moment, just as the year is closing, and everybody is looking with anxious curiosity into the future. The only thing which is implied by this little official note is, that there is a perfect accord between the Four Powers relative to the solution which the Eastern question may obtain. We road in the Union: Either we us very much deceived, or the note published t i ill the s M"i ad titt ur ii "ye m t b.el s ubj e ctl gt is o f f set Eas t* tre r Tm i gt e rent: of the paths. ilk monueur certainly tells us that a per fect takes at Constantinople - between the aeon sad the ; but whet it does not say, and what the pahais very &sawu to know, is the Hass of the row laths op* te in commas, end the conditions in yids* en kin Mk the Porte may honourably concur for the rs. of peace. if we compare this veiled kw et* more clear and quasi-belkixise tons of the we are led to interpret the news of the Mora- Om s isas tranquillising bumf% Yes neither compromised the diplomatiata nor us ewe regewoho few prudence. The lowtOglio of Malta of the 21st publishes, bat without attaching any credit to it, a letter from Co.. stantinople of the 15th, stating that, in the night at the 14th, a Russian *hilt'. of war having on board materials for destroying by fire the combined fleets in the Ikerberoa, had been perceived from the forts, and trot spew, NA that the crew had then attempted to throw these materials overboard, but were prevented from doing" and made prisoners. There cannot be any truth Is this statement, which bears indeed impro bability on the face of it, for none of the Constanti nople letters of the 15th, which have reached Paris, mention such a circumstaaos, and the accounts of the 18th from Constantinople, which have been received by telegraph, are equally silent as to this pretended event. a ; breaks oat." . the Czar !" They have no to express the 'ammo con- Ay hold the opinion exprireed Jrie that Russia is to be beaten ,contest by a kind of de " ingest force." This phrase seems oath wrong as unmeaning. It is a Urn brain. Russia is drunk with the oeseciousnees of brute force, which is indeed a con jemptible thing compared with that which can create itilrd Ws, work oat a free constitution, and secure es e sings of constitutional government. But the work of Russia is more elementary. Great Britain did the fighting which secured her territorial limits and so oared :to national independence =ay generations since. Russia has hers still to do, and for doing it her armies stand her in a thousand times better stead than acres of newspapers or thousands of parliamentary orator. Yon with your refined ideas may say, "How much better were it that the Czar should develop the im mense resources which Ramie possesses in her bound less and fertile fields, her forests, her mines, and her lakes." All that is very true, but that is nothing to the point. The Russian idea is fixed ; extension of territory towards the Mediterranean is its ob ject, and nothing will prevent its realisation bet fleets and armies. This is the simple truth, sod the sooner the governments and people of England and France, believe it the more straightforward, business like, and intelligible will the Eastern policy of the two natives become. Depend upon it, that however the cabinets of the two countries may find it answer their purpose to talk of the duplicity of the Czar, he has not misled them in this case, but they have il fully deceived themselves. He is, after all, a man et simple character, easy to be understood by all who have eyes to see. His plan was unfolded before all Europe last spring : he has hitherto executed it with success for no other reason than that he has executed it with patient steadfastness and a firm resolve. It is false that there has been perfidy on his part. He is, and has been, neither better nor worse than the Menchi koff note, or the Vienna note read in the Nearelrode sense, and the accusations of double dealing Eloootoi against him will recoil on the heads of those who, six months ago, hypocritically praised him for con cessions never made and moderation never exhibited, and now take revenge on Lim for the failure of their own plans. The Czar is an ambitious tyrant and a ruthless destroyer, but he is too proud not to be consistent even in violence and wrong. Dm. 18. I believe the only military movement in Finland is, that 6,000 sailors have been sent from Petersburg to HeWasters, to man the ships that are lying there. Recruiting, however, is going on briskly, but not in the usual compulsory manner of Russia, as Finland is free from that system for a period fifty years after the anneratios. No one can be surprised that Russia replaces the Finnish regiments by Russian. The former are employed in Russia—perhaps against the Turks. FRANCE. PARIS, Surma EVININO. The Parisians have gaily . endeavoured to make the best of a very unpromising New Year's Day. The year begins with commercial languor, finan cial uneasiness, dearness amounting to scarcity, and the prospect of a general war. In all human probability the present month will see trade dis tressed, the funds lower, provisions dearer, and war declared. There is no more remarkable feature of the present situation than the unanimity with which the people, who any time these last six months have been always ready to swear that the Eastern question would certainly be settled by diplomacy, now throw up their cards. However, the population turned out today in winter clothing— last winter's in more than the average number of instances—to pay new year's visits and buy etrennes. The difficulty of locomotion in the streets was a type of the apprehended troubles of the coming year. The weather was in that worst of all states, neither frost nor thaw. The snow, which tell copiously during the night and at intervals, this morning, forms in the crowded streets a damp unwholesome conglomeration of sandy mud, while, in the open places and gardens, it does not melt, and is not frozen. Carriages get along even slower than pedestrians, but those who ride are at least protected from thecatarrh-provoking influence of a pavement which not even vulcanized caoutchouc can defy. Still, the boulevards are crowded, but it is remarked that bombance d bon marche is the fashion this . year, and toys at two or three sous are in great demand, while those that cost a shilling are neglected. The French have within living memory had so much better experience of bad times, that they smell them afar off, and practice prudential economy to an extent of which Londoners have no idea. The booths are as nu merous, perhaps more so, than usual, but it is feared that many of them will not pay their expenses. The receptions at the Tuileries were rather " triste," so far as may be judged from the exterior aspect of the palace during the day. Owing, pre bulgy, to the disagreeable weather, there was not a greater crowd to witness the arrivals than may be seen any morning at an ordinary inspection of troops. Several splendid carriages (very new by the way) with those rich liveries and gorgeous armorial bearings which the elite of the old French nobility refrained from sporting in 1848, and for a long time afterwards, were seen driving through the snow in the Court of the Place du Carroussel. But the nume rous embroidered officials, officers of the na- tional guard, &c., &c., who usually go to court on foot, were fain to protect their precious uniforms from the snow by rusty cloaks and other indescrib able garments which did not challenge admiration in a state procession. The Monileur does not contain the expected list of new princes and dukes.' In the way of New Year's promotion there is nothing in it but the appointment of General of Brigade Cone to the rank of General of Division, the promotion of half a dozen colonels to the rank of general, and a long list of military promotions and concessions of the medal endowed with the proceeds of the confiscation of the Orleans property. Unusual efforts are being made to alleviate the distress of the poor during this inclement season. The Prefectof Police has recommended thegrooers and other tradesmen to discontinue their usual Christmas boxes, and give a proportionate sum of money to the poor. In many shops placards are exhibited, an nouncing that in pursuance of this intimation Christ mu boxes will not this year be given. The bakers of Paris will give 400,000 lbs. of bread to the poor in lieu of Christmas boxes. The Christmas boxes in tended to be suppressed are wages of corruption of the very worst kind. According to the established habits of Paris the family butcher bribes the domestic servant to shut her eyes to short weight, and the grocer pays, at the end of the year, an agent who does her utmost to force the employer who trusts her to consume adulterated merchandize. The interest of the tradesmen is unfortunately so entangled with the vicious system that the present ostensible aboli- Ition of Christmas boxes will probably operate upon most of them as a tax for the poor, and they will continue to bribe the servants of their customers. The Northern railway, at the instigation of Baron Rothschild, will give 400,0001b5. of bread to the dif ferent towns through which the line runs, to be die. tributed during the months of January, February and March. ''''.% .4.4. .. D. soloist anangentent of des dilimisso between '"Dreat, is ihe _Nelt Cae med Peorsta." words strong atraTs: "A private letter from Row- tempt is *Ai • row d the annseumes that *llltmily tif Mr. in some new" Thant dCloglisli share giA4ru at the in pm pre. ' Coast had just arrived in that Own..eons/ration on adr.i.hosSasill Teas himself about to Of Persia and ' to them sot so 19. r i lthls godly as soon as hi. God inetrustions. phantom of tb a s o Id! expected about the 15th of Deo., should consciousness c bass arrived. temptible thin' The /moat de St. PeercalAtary .of. As 22ud.his a parliaments, w segtolossito Sootaining a very bong relent from th e blessings . c • emassil Asikaaikoff of the battle ofAlealiabielte, bat work of Russia it MINIM* t development of ths drat report of the the fighting . wl thick IMO ices fi i that affair. It contains no new fact, ouesditsnsuon deli- sad hi is inetely c aused by a number of in- Russia has bet 6. fansidrtbb issideatt of . that . battle. The same stand her in a ARRIVAL OF THE SCREW STEAMER ANDES. (Yawl ova owl( coma' LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY. At anon to-day the Cunard screw steamship Andes, Capt. Edwin Moodie, arrived in the Mersey, from New York, which port she left on the 17th inst. By this arrival we have all that is important, politically and commercially, up to the date of her sailing. _ . The Royal Mail steam-ship Asia, from hence, on the 3rd, arrived at New York on the 16th alt. Advioes had been received from Mexico, an. mooning that Santa Anna had been declared Dictator for ten years. The general impression had been that he would have declared himself Emperor; but this is looked upon as only the intermediate stage. At New York a great deal of excitement had arisen of a religious nature. Street preaching seems to have been at the root of the discord. The aggrieved parties are the Roman eatholies, who are indignant at the proteetants for having adopted a system of street preachings against the doctrines of the Rupiah church. The Mayor, conceiving such practices had a tendency to disturb the public peace, had issued a proclamation against street preaching. Binds the sailing of the Europa business had not been so good ea previously reported. The discount stock market is reported to have been dull and , declining. The cotton market at New York was quiet, and business only to a moderate extent had been trans acted. Prices, however, were quite steady. The following are the quotations :—New Orleans and Mobile, mid. fair to fair, llic. to 121 e.; Uplands, 110. The receipt of the Asia's news had caused a de pression in the market for breadstuft4 which, how ever, had been recovered, and the market closed firm at previous rates, owing to decreasing receipts conse quent on the stoppage to navigation by the inereasiag severity of winter. The provision market had become dill, and lower prices had to be submitted to in transactions. There is no change to report in freighta. The asking rates were : to London, tobacco, 80s. per hhd. ; flour, 4.. 9d. per barrel; grain, is. 4d. per bushel ; turpentine, Bs. per 280 lbs. ; beef, Be. per tierce. To Liverpool, cotton, 3-18 d. per lb.; flour, 31. Bd. per barrel; grain, 12d. to 121 d. per bushel; beef, Bs. per tierce. In the market for Exchange there were but few sale% wit► quotatioas on London at 1091 to 108 f. THE WAR. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. Accounts have been received at Constantinople from Kars, of the bth December. The two Turkish corps d'armee, which were lately opersting respec tively against Gnarl and Achalzich, have been com pelled to retire within the Ottoman frontier. Abdi Pasha, who held the supreme command in Asia, has been recalled. His successor was not designated on the 19th. The latest letters from the Black Sea state that an epidemic very common in the Crimea, arising from the malaria, is now prevalent at Sebastopol. Letters from Malta of the 27th state that a Sardi nian steamer coming from the Bosphorus bad an chored in the port to take in coal, and had brought the following news Hassam Packs, the present commander of the Egyptian squadron, was about to be appointed to the command of the entire Turco-Egyptian fleet. Eamon Pasha, who enjoys a well-merited reputation, was, it is said, opposed from the first to the expedition of the convoy destroyed at Sinop, and had offered to escort them to Trebisoud with six Egyptian sail of the line. The Indus, which arrived at Southampton from Alexandria on Saturday, brings word that there are steamers daily expected from Constantinople to take away more troops which the Fiche is collect ing, to the number of 12,000 or 15,n00, in addition to there already sent. Public feeling is very great against the Russians. On the 20th a company of Wallachian militia seized their newly appointed Russian officers, beat them soundly, and then deserted with five of them to Habitat. The Czar possessing; full liberty of action in the Black Bea has been reinforcing the army of the Caucasus. Letters from Georgia state this force is to be raised to 190,000 men with 216 guns. Mesn while, as we learn from Constantinople, the Sultan is compelled by recent naval lames to forward both reinforcements and munitions to Hers and Erzeroun by land. The Black flea is now, to all intents, a Russian lake. It appears that this state of things ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 8 (20). is approved of by our ambassador at Constantinople The scheme upon which England, France, Am se the presence of the fleets in the Black Sea was tria, and Prussia agreed at Vienna, on the 23rd ult. not „poly refused alter the massacre of Sinope, but (Dec. 5), has been generally known here for several several days before that event Lord Stratford de (lays, and has created great astonishment, especially Radcliffe advised the Porte not to attempt to open a among the English residents. It seems that, after communication with its Asiatic possemions by sea. all, England and France are anxious that the dif- A letter/rest Malta of !!tit gins in the Pattie, ferences existing between Russia and Turkey should states that the Zeglish owners et the two ships sunk be settled by , direct negotiation between the belli at Sinop hied amanded esmossisation from the gerents. This is what ilse Czar has always insisted Russian go.-,_ s- The desamsdasts allege that on ; he has said be will neither recognise nor tolerate their vessels were statiened in a remote part of the the intervention of any power on earth between him harbour, that the legit& flag was floating at their self and his eternal enemy the ruler of the Mahn mainmasts, mad that the Hessian ships of war wil- sedans in Europe. He his allowed more liberty in tally 11 red ups them. this respect to Austria than to any other power, and Ale suid ier ken Oseutentinople of the 16th, steeds yet to what extent did he allow the young Emperor that Porte hie pal:ilia a eiroass ordering the to intervene P Simply to this: he allowed the Ana- T autheeities whit may daring the delay ao- trim internunciu to lie the medium through which eased has relatiess with Itmelia. miernat vessels he communicated his demands to the Sultan to obeerve a emaisteei seeded. nod even reader when Menchikoff and Oseroff were withdrawn. them Minion Mama t :rtiollhe calls . As for the others he has always said he A parate letter Ommtanthiektle of the 18th should be happy to learn that they were using their says Beat the Divan, la hewn, at the memory of the influence with the Porte—mind—to induce it to Torkbeieptates whim vein* were blows op at accept his demands, and so restore peace. The Czar = e rn ordered that seek d three seresttes sow has never tolerated the intervention, or even the in the most shall be named attar see of intercession, of France and England, and mark the those brave Wise. result—France and England give way. Oltenitza his The Poet Ihelpt Gazette contains a letter from been fought, Sinope suffered, and every nerve of Mims et thong' ' , width esys—The Terks have not Turkey strained, and now the Porte may meet its eissiated the hind claims, as is proved by the embittered enemy face to face, and make what ,it Ailey from Bucharest. terms it may . . . Tar Noses says in a P. 8.: "we are amend that The Russians, of course, are jubilant. They read a despot& from Constantinople of the 19th, an- the news of Biceps and Achalsich, and exclaim, MINISTERIAL MOVEMENTS. Lord Palmerstoo, who remained during lut wee at Us so. Becalmed'. Hots, sad was taint - ors aet prav out at ea Pain Ommall laid bLbueltaleety w Thor day, at Windsor lire Mediate telapas tic NMI* of belay or bummer albmilem' to Mho to moot la mi leagues at a Oiliest eammilMbe bit bald in Ids 1114- skies rirosespeuse t>< semi), odd& k appelatodi ate Tis► day, at tot Tao Daka e m= ll. Sr i t i = sloo absent from time Privy tofu ea Saturday. •• Lord °naafi= Prosidamt) retuned to Louisa oa Saturday hem Maim lode. Tko Oaks or Num& (Osissial Secretary) las Um *spas at kis seat, lumber helm, Notts : he is emporia Is aura way. Ws (lbw Ai Wood (Posepow ar lko 11111 6 V) Mao Mon to s Ludas today Om sal e Hall, Dasseelar. Tim Baal of Madam Sir J. (imbue, Mr. Oladstmis, Load 0/seesdaa. Us Lord Olusellor, sad Mr. & aukrt, aroma; Luisa. • Itmadi Memel M Parairek• Lod" Risk; and Park, as ildorday, from Walser /samba. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, THURSDAY. The Constantinople correspondent of the Indepen dance Beige, writing on the 13th inst., states that the Porte was told that the protocol of the Sth inst. of the Vienna conference would be certainly the last attempt made at pacification; and that if Russia re ' fused its adherence to it, the Western Powers would consider themselves justified in declaring war. The same correspondent states that a secret treaty of alliance, offensive and defensive, between Russia and Persia, has been concluded. The Ottoman and British representatives had quitted Teheran. The generals of the Turkish army have evacuated the Russian territory in Asia, except the Fort St. Nicholas, which they still retain, and where Selim Pacha has strongly fortified himself. The writer adds that at the battle of Akattsche the losses of the respective combatants ..re about equal. ITALY. ROUE, Mg. The harangue delivered by the Pope in the secret eonsiatory of the 19th has Lot yet been published. It principally refers to the state of ecclesiastical ' matters in Piedmont. On the 22nd inst. his Holiness, in public consie tory, conferred the scarlet hat upon the new cardi nals, Brunetti and Pecci, who were duly embraced by the supreme Pontiff himself and the whole Sacred College, the lengthy ceremony being profitably em ployed meanwhile by the consuitorial advocate,Couut Filipponi, in perorating the cause of a future saint, Marianna degli Angell, of the order of barefooted Carmelite nuns. After the mysterious shutting and opening of the cardinals' mouths, which so much surprises unitiated spectators, they were appointed by his Holiness to divers sacred congregations. Amongst the distinguished assistants at the cere mony was Prince Frederick Willium of Prussia, who arrived in Rome on the evening of the 20th, and paid his respects at the Vatican on the following morning. The new cardinals had their hats brought them by Monsignor Stella in the evening, and ap peered considerably moved whilst replying to his complimentary address. Two more additions are speedily to be made to the Sacred College, in the persona of Monsignor Ma nus:4 whose career has hitherto been entirely a legal 0015 Mid Monsignor Medici, the Pope's major domo. Olathe 21st inst., the somewhat novel ceremony of Masaarating an English abbot was performed by Curliest Wiseman, at the church of St. Gregory. Cr. Birder, the abbot elect, abandoned the church of Ragland about eight years ago, and entered the new Trappist monastery of St. Bernard, in Leicestershire, where he rendered himself so acceptable to his brethren, that at the end of three years they elected him their superior. The provincial-general of the order, however, would not ratify the election, on account of the short time the doctor had served in the monkish ranks, and be was therefore obliged to content himself for four ra_is more with the secondary dignity of prior. On ‘Valmesday, Cardinal Wiseman installed him in his llsll rank, and Dr. ,as abbot of St. Bernard's, with shaven crown and rmelite gown, paraded up and down the church between two Italian bishops, all with their croziers before them, whilst a full choir thundered out au impressive "Te Another English Trappist monk took part in the ceremony, acting as the cardinal's ceacon, his powtr fel frame and thoroughly Anglo-Saxon features, in combination with the monkish garb, reminding one irresistibly of the Friar Tuck class of anchorites who in our early ballads and traditions. Dr. Mau g preached upon the occasion. The republican poisoners arrested on the lath Au pet, and the fusionists subsequently imprisoned, have by their reciprocal recriminations eff..ctually served the cause of the government, and ruined each other, their plans, persons, and proposed time of action being all discovered by the police, wits are delighted that the oedoubtable conspiracy s hould have had such a result. His Holiness, on occasion of the Christmas festivities, has ordered that some of the least culpable individuals, that is to say those against whom no shadow of accusation can be brought, be set at liberty. A few persons have consequently bees thrust out of the cells wherein they have passed the last four months in undeserved and unrequited suffering. Catenacci, the revealer of the whole con spiracy, who was set at liberty as the price of his treachery, has not enjoyed it long, for he died of asthma at his sister's house a few days ago, after an ineffectual attempt to destroy himself. The government has jur. taken a beneficial step by prohibiting those sharks, the money changers, tram speculating in copper money, and charging an in creasing per eentag3 upon it in exchange for paper. The public will in future be accommodated with cop per, gratis, at the treasury. Exchange on London, 487. The sbirri have succeeded in catching three well armed brigands who frequented the road between Civita Vecchia and Rome. They had in their pos session some of the property abstracted from the Misses Ireland's carriage some days ago, and are supposed to have taken part in the stopping of a Bolognese countess's equipage near Rome, at Attlee NAPLES, Dec. 24. Trav"ersa. More arrests have taken place within the last few days, both in the army and amongst civilians. It is said the military arrests have something to do with Murat, but in all probability it will turn out that the army spies (for there are Lome half dozen to each regiment) have got up the story with the hope of ob taining money and promotions. I need scarcely tell you that the Bing of Naples and his friends are Russian, and the official journal, for the first time, has mentioned the war in the East by publishing the late naval affair. In case of war Naples may be called upon to declare herself; in which case she will play the game of Austria—nomi nally join the western powers, but in reality remain at the commands of Russia. Neapolitan Fives, 1094 ; Sicilian Fives, 102. Ex change en London, MB, and falling. SPAIN. The Madrid journals ot the 25th ult. state that the Queen had presided at a Cabinet Council, but the Count de San Luis had not been able to attend it, and no :Isolations of any importance were come to. Her Majesty continued to manifest great interest in the health of the President of the Council : he was still continuing to get better. The Marquis de Turgot was going on well, but it was not considered likely that he could attend the ceremony of the presentation of the newborn child of her Majesty, and it had been settled that the First Secretary of Legation should attend in his place. The Duchess and Duke de Montpensier had held a reception of all the diplo matic body, the grandees, the chiefs of the army, the magistracy, the senators, and a number of persons of distinction. The Memorial des Pyrjnees publishes the follow log letter from Madrid, 23rd, mentioning another project of duel : Another duel has been talked of, which was to have taken place between the English and Austrian ambassadors, but the death of the mother of Lord Howden, which hu just taken place, has compelled the pstpontment of the inten tion, if it ever existed. The autboritie•, besides, have beea sufficiently warned, and will doubtless prevent such a meet ing. It will probably be the same with an affair of a similar kiad which was to have taken place, it is said, between two consuls et Santander. One would be tempted to believe that duels in Spain, between se, a who ought less than any others to octant) an example, will become in some measure epidemic. AFFGHANISTAN. The Scind News, of November 8, states that the report of Persia having lost one of her quondam adherents in the Sirdar of Ilerat, who has goae over to the chiefs of Cabool and Orguny, is not correct, but that Mina Wally Khan, Vukeel to the Shah of Persia, was expected with letters and presents for the Dost of Cabool. Re bad also lett< rs from bis master Shah Nussoaroodeen Shah, liaig of Persia, said to be of the most friendly description, and pointing out the blessing of peace, and the danger of per mitting the late incursions into the !lent territurie!, trusting that such would in future be prevented. The Vukeel is reported to have left Cabool with favourable replies to his master's letters. A LONG STRIKE.—The celebrated strike at the new Houses of Parliament lasted eight month, and cost the union it is said 3,000/. in sterling money, and the men 10 0001' in lost labour, and was productive of no good ' whatever, but, on the contrary, an incalculable amount of evil. Such a strike, we hope, will never occur again in London. It opened a breach between employen and work men, and especially between foremen and journeymen, which ten years of uninterrupted prosperity have been scarcely sufficient to heal. We wish the working classes in the north of England, who are now pursuing a similar course with much greater recklebsness of consequences. would take a lesson from the histoty of this unhappy feud. And let us give them another - note 01 wor.ing. During the 1 20 years of its existence the Masons' Union, we are credibly informed, has spent upwards of 100,0001.; but their wages have remained at the same uninterrupted level—Builder. THE LONDON NECROPOLIS COM PAN Y.—The ground purchased by this company, and destined, we dont' not, to bloom, the metropolitan necropolis, is situate at Woking, in Surrey, about 21 miles from the Waterloo Station, this distance being just what it ought to be under such circum stances. In area it consists of 2,200 acres, which has been purchased at a cost of 251. per acre only. It appears, more over, that since their purchase a valuable and almost un limited supply of the finest brick earth has been disgorged on the property, which must materially diminish the ea pease of the requisite buildings, as well as enhance the pro fits of the shareholden.—Mining Journal. IT MR. In tl " Carol the and .. The feeling Ilbosph self eta peopled The the rea the 1 Dick Be Feld folio bars Pre . &di tar ha lib MI ISO Pei