The Express. — London, England, 1855-12-31 00:00:00

i piiMINNIM r i ., , 1 ~ I t I. ;.! i,_l fit , Oxpreoo. TO CORRISPONDINTS. MhereaMiab WINO/ Me 1111111•1 0 ," Wafts Imam pepw, meet ~N et tee OM" Beeeire by Two Oink se the dee et eliemn. SIGH WATIS AT LONDON lIIILDOS. Ts Dar—Sindag, 76. Is.........Aftaressa. T. MIL Twoosamr—iiiiede, 716 5iii.........A115en50. 416 14s. LONDON, MONDAY, DEMIBER 31. Taw is a very prevalent misomeption that requires to be corrected. People are continually =Wag and speaking about oar Minister for War. The truth is, that there is as Minister for War at moat, bat merely a very meritorious first clerk at the head of the War Department. The friends and admirers of Lord PAHNIIRE cannot find fang age strong 'sough to express their admiration of his unremitting industry. This praise has bees well earned. The Roble lord is punctual in his atteadance at his cure; he labours from morning till night; not a letter addressed to him remains unread or un acknowledged; he overhauls all accounts. The time and exertion devoted by Lord Panama to the public business is enormous. But what comes of it? Nothing, or worse than nothing. By every mail from the Crimea we receive additional proofs of this. The huts for the winter shelter of the soldiers have been forwarded without the felt to °over them; the soosequem is that they are not water-tight. On the 9th of the present December one regiment we mild name had got only two huts erected, and others were as badly off. The Land Transport Carps, we are given to understand, has just bees broken up; the reason assigned is, that having been left without the necessary means of conveyance it mild not have been moved nine mile' into the interior. We hear daily of transport vessels remaining for inconceivable lengths of time anchored off Balaklava, be cam the owners gain by every additional day they ars out. Leave of demos from the Crimea "on urgent private affairs," is more lavishly granted than ever. Turning to the departments under the War Office at home, we find numerous changes, bat no improvements. New modes of registry and book-keeping are introduced, which, without en suring clearer views of what business has been trans acted, pusele and perplex the clerks. Deserving officials in the central departments are appointed to provincial charges, and vice versa ; that is, men are removed from positions with the duties of which they are familiar, to paillasse where they have even the formal routine to learn. All this is the cons,- gems of having at the head of the War Depart ment a man who insists upon doing himself what he alight to leave his subordinates to do, and thus leaves himself no time to superintend the working of the whole machinery, and spar those who are indolent, while he checks those who err—in other words, of having a mere first clerk in lien of a Minister for War. Any psrsoa acquainted with Lord l'atoruaz's antecedents can easily account for this. He has at tained to his present position amply in virtue of his seniority in the ranks of hie party. Before he inherited his title and estates, Lord Pam= me— tros eiremetams most honourable to him—a very poor man. His party felt themselves bound to do something for hiss, and ha was early placed in lucra tive subordinate offices. not so much from any be lief that he was competent to discharge their duties, as from a knowledge that he needed the salaries attached to them. Being found to possess • great amount of plodding industry, and sufficient intelligence for the transaction of ordinary bagfuls is ordinary times, he was promoted from one appoint ment to another according as offices fell vacant; and thus by degrees he reached a position which, in con formity to the etiquette of party, is understood to give sea of a certain rank an irresistible claim to the Tory highest Awe, simply because they have filled in eacoession a number of others of lees, importance, sad have been a certain number of years in the public service. Lord PAZIKII7II became in this moaner Minister for War, without either the grasp of intellect, the versatility of mamma, or the power of causing hie views and aims to be weveght oat by others, which are the real qualificatioss of a statesman. A man of his calibre would have proved but an indifferent Minister for War, even in the met pacific and easy-going times. Bat the office has been thrust upon lard Folsom—or Lord PAIMUILZ has been thrust upon the offico—at a crisis when it is necessary to carry on an arduous war, at a great dis tance, and at the same time reform the whole of our military organisation, which has been allowed to lapse into a state of most disgraceful inefficiency. For this Lord PANKIIILE is not to blame. He is what nature and the training of circumstances have made him. That he should have no suspicion of his own deficiencies is a amemary osamoquenoe of these deficiencies. As he has not one statesman-like quality about him, he is of necessity incapable of understanding what is re quired in a statesman. When the office of Minister for War was offered to him he naturally accepted it, believing that he could discharge hie duties as well se another. Thy responsibility for Lord Paxson's shortcomings rests upon those who, knowing what be is, placed him where he is. gpt Court. WINDSOR, D.O. 29 The Earl of Clarendon and Colonel Sisals (Cold stream' Gouda), late Military Beeretary to the Com aaader•tn•Cbiet is the Crimea, arrived yeeterday afternoon. ea a lilt to bra Majesty. The limn potty ladaded the Dachau or Heat, the Prisms Royal, Primo Ernest of Leiaingen, the Belgic Wainer and Madam, Van de Weyer, Lady Panay Howud, Lady Allred Paget, the Rut of Clarendon, Sir Gouge Cowper, Bit Jamas Clark, Mr. sad Lady 'roam Bailie, sad Colansl Steels. TM bead of the Grenadier °suds played dans( dinner. TM followiag had the bosom of Ming invited after Caner :—Lady Corollas Buriagtes, Major Gmerel Hoe. Charier sad Mrs. Grey, Colossi lies. C. B. sad Mrs. Phipps, Colossi sad Ledy Emily Seymour, the PtOTOli 0 1 Ilea, Mr. Beaker, awl Mr. Gibbs. ♦ assiell pees:masa took plate is the ~snug. Her Majesty's primate baud was is atteadaarn, soder the &maim of Mr. Anderson. Prises Albert, semayealed by Prime Essen of Wain- sea, went eat sleeting this isomiag. TM Pauses Royal sad Primes Alin, Prime Arthur mad the Prfaesesse Helms sad Louisa, drove oat fa ems amines. The When et Wass sad Prises Alfred west to Laudon this themes, sad attested Mr. Paredey's lecture, st the Royal Institution. Sir Omsk* Resthim, mildest of the Royal Andes', •d Mr. ialibt. ismetary, bad au audience of hoe Majesty. The Berl et Clareades sad Colonel Busk (Coldstream Grads) have left Ms Castle. Titers 11111 so adolltkat to the royal disaor party. Suoomr, Dec. 30. The a.r.a sad Prima Minded divine molar this morales. I. the pinto shape' oldie Castle. Dawatebee frees Ow Chwastee et the AuWelles Odisise 1 owl New Logue. eel ere beta the Genesee et Hello- Ind. were nosiest% ow lets/day et the CoketaLuelet. 1 THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVEN: to. FRANCE. OP NAPOLEON 111. TO THE .1-1 IMPERIAL OUARD. (120 W Ous ows which is the great staple of news for the moment' appears to be going on with well-sustained activity. The lint of the despatches to which I have above alluded mys it is thought in Berlin that although Prussia does not adopt the Austrian propoitions, she will "do Ong" at St. Petersburg in favour of PARIS, SATURDAY SYMIIXO. It has been my lot to record—in that hurried way in which alone a correspondent who punts an excit ing day amidst crowds which set at nought all pre vious celsulatiou about locomotion, can jot down We (PROM TUTBILDAT'S MOSITZOIL) hapneffeas but just in time for post—many aMe it The edema emery of the troops returning from the Bast Paris. But in all my experience I have never wen has elated erne of those 'Jiang spectacles which Flues the heart of the metropolis set beating as it has been had not beheld sines the glorious days of the first empire, today. Although there are not now within the and which will lean an imperishable remembranes in the walls of Paris that vest agglomeration of foreigners hearts of thus who wen its heroes and spectator. All classes of the population took part in this patriotic which were attracted by the Queen's visit, festival. The whole city flocked to acclaim is the name of the Great Exhibition, and summer weather, 1 Frame o u r victorious soldiers as they passed along. The the crowd not only on the Boulevards, but I streets, the boulevards, end the open places through in all the streets leading to them, was greater which the troops had to laugh, and all the neigh than ent er occasion of her Majesty's visit. All the butriag streets, were adorned with significative era streets we alive at daybreak , either with troops or bless, sad every story of the houses was decked oat with the national colours, united with the flags National Guards marching to their stations, or with of Zeeland, Turkey, and Sardinia, as if to show that the the population bent upon procuring a good place. allied soldiers who have participated in the dangers and the glary of ear army ought to have their share of the public Within my own knowledge there are n umbers of people who do not habitually go to the national retinae. anniversary fetes, who did not see Queen Victoria, Several triumphal arches had been reared along the line and who, in short, make an ostentatious profession of of the Boulevards. AU the theatres had magnificently deco staying at home, who did violence to their usages, rated their huts. At the eatrance of the Boulevard Beseunarehais, ou the and set out this morning at an early hour to see the Place de la Bastille, • gigantic triumphal arch, sannosated entry into Paris of the heroes who have, by by two Geese with outstretched wings and b ers—. To y • laurel the risk of their lives for mor e than a en isms, bore this inscription in large Sol dea lett year past in the Crimea, sustained and enhanced the the glory Mae Army of the Rut." reputation of the French army. It was impossible Oa the upper put of the arch there shone also in letters of gold the name of Sebastopol, and cm each side those of to walk along the Boulevards, vast as they um the vineries obtained in the East—Alma, Inter:nun, Thoumands who proposed to themselves to go to the Traktir, Malakhuff, Nitride, Soutar* mbar —and Bastille were compelled, after useless efforts accord- above them the names of the corps whisk distinguished ing to their bump of obstinacy, to take up a position themnlves in this illustrious campaign : infantry, Chamfers, and wait to see the procession peas. All the flags Bowes, Voltiguirs, °maiden, Artillery, Engineers. that were exhibited on the occasion of the Queen's At half-past 11 all the troops returning from the Crimea, the Imperial Guard and the division of the line, were drawn visit were put in requisition. But more in quarters us is battle array on the Place de la Bastille, under the far remote from the line of the Boulevards, flags mamma of his Excellency Marshal Magnin. ordered for the occasion were exhibited. I menders, Immeass crowds were oollemd at the windows, on the for Instance, as within my own knowledge, the Rue Iftee-pumnsats, and in all the neighbouring streets. is l'Arcole, the Rue St. Sebastian, and the Place •♦dukes line was termed along the whole extent of the Maubent. Two triumphal arches were erected, march, Ism the Tuileries to the Bastille, by the national oars on the Plus de la Bastille, and the other near the guard ea Ms right, and by the infantry of the army of the Best, the guards of Paris, and the Sums Pompien on Porte St. Martin. The Emperor, on horseback, fol. the left. The Polytechnic School and the battalion of Saint lowed by his Staff, and escorted by the Cent Gerdes Cyr proleaged the line in the Rue Saint Antoine. end the Guides, passed along the Boulevards, and On the Place Voteless, the depots ef the Imperial Guard arrived on the Place de la Bastille at about a q uarter were formed by battalions in sues, flung the hotel ef the past 12 o'clock. There around the column of July, Minium of Justice. Ilimilod (and this is a fact to be noticed by the way) The Emperor, on horseback, in the uniform of a lieut.- rural, left the Tuileries at half-past eleven, in order to II the couronnes usually seen around it, were drawn peened to the Place de in Bastille through the streets of up the following troops, who, pursuant to orders, Rind', Castiglione, La Pair, and the line of the same into Paris by the Lyons railway early boulevards. this morning, from the country quarters i n His Majesty was accompanied by his Imperial Highness which they have been provisionally stationed : Prince Napoleon and the whole of his military household. the 20th, 39th, 60th (the regiment particularly Their Excellencies Marshal Valliant, the minister of war, distinguished at the taking of the Malakhoff), and Manhel Baragoay d'Hillien ; Clung Cambers, and General Niel, the Emperor's aidude-ouip ; General Oi the line, the foot Chaumont of the Imperial Guard, d'Hutpoul, General IJrieb, the Generals Renault, do the Zoete*, of the Guard, the two Regiments of Osartigis, Soh/limn, de Ladmirault, °robots, Dramas, %MINIM the Artillery of the Guard, the two re- Repsad, d'Oraisoe, Dennis, de Bosrjclly, and several Orland Grenadien, and the regiment of Gender- ether generals, amongst whom were observed some officers 111111111 of the Gaard. The Emperor, who was co- et the allied armies, also accompanied his Majesty. eempanied by Nines Napoleon, pronounced, on The Imperial cortege was preceded by the band and • his arrival on the Place de la Bastille, the following squadron of the regiment of the Guides, commanded by ColonelFieury. Immediately behind same a platoon of speech : the Cent Gerdes, next the orderly officers of the Emperor, • Soldiers—l come to meet you, as formerly the and then the Emperor, a few paces in advance of his Roman Senate went to the gates of Rom e to meet its brilliant staff. The cortege was closed by the squadron of the Nat-Os:dm victorious legions. I come to tell you that you have followed by • equine of the erainesien of the guard, deserved well of your country. and by a platoon of the Paris Hone Guards. Nothing can give an idea of the grandeur and beauty of " My emotion is great, for the happiness of seeing the spectacle presented by the Place de Is Bastille and the you again is mingled with painful regret. for those Boulevard, at the moment when the Emperor, followed by who are no more—and with bitter d isa pp ointment hie brilliant cortege, arrived before the soldiers of the army of the East. that I was prevented front leading you myself to His Majesty was received with one immense peal of battle. acclamation, in which were mingled the shoats of the army and those from the crowds of the spectators. "Soldier of the Guard, as well as soldiers of the The Emperor, after having slowly passed along the ranks line, you are welcome. of the Infantry of the Line, of the Imperial Gaud, sad the "yon, all of you, represent that army of the East Artillery, stationed himself in the midst of the troop, formed into • half-drele, and addressed them in the follow whose courage and perseverance have ones more ill s- ing terms: trend our eagles, and re-conquered for France the Bolden) I—Je viens as-devant de vans, comae aatrefois rank that is due to her. le Senn Romain allait sax pates de Rome andevant de see legions viaterieuses. Je visas von dire qua sous eves hies " Your country, attentive to all that is passing in nitrite de la patrie. pride, that the But, receives you with all the more Mon emotion rat grand' , ear an bonb eur de mu rev* like measures your deeds by the obstina te resistance se milent de douloureux regrets pour cent qui ne sent pies. et an prefond chagrin de n'avoir pu moi-me me sous conduits the sarily an combat. "I have recalled you, notwithstanding that the &Idles de la garde comma soldats de la ligne, 'oyez lee bienvenns. War is not over, because it is just to relieve in Vous reptesentes Was tette armee d'Orient dent le °Da til* turn the regiments which have most suffered. rage et la peen venue eat de nouveau Wolin nos signs et Thus every man will be able to claim his share of glory, and the country which keeps up an army of re should now be in France a numerous army, inured b war, end ready to march wherever it may be rat qui ary. d' Preserve, then, scrupulously, your warlike ha- reconquis 6la France le rang qui lent sat d e. La paten, attentive i tout a qui s'amomplit en O rient, vons acoueille avert d'autant plus d'orgueil Wells unsure roe efforts I la resistance °pinata de reused. dsc hundred thousand men is interested that the Jo you, ai nipples, unglue la guns no wit pas terminee , pares go% eat juste de remplacer i Isar tour lea regiments oat le plus souffert. Chaco% purrs wind ell e r p rude * ea pert de gloire, et le pay' , qui entretiest a ir cent mill* sme mildew, a intiii: a co veil y alt maintenant en France use a r m ee nombreuse et mourn, vete i se porter oil le buds bits, improve upon the experience you have l'exige. acquired. Hold yourselves in readiness to respond, Gerdes done soignensennat les habitudes de la guerre, if need be, to my call. But , on this d a y , for g et the fortifies-vous dens l'experienes acc l aims ; tines-moos carets i repoadre, sill le taut, ii mon appal ; suben es jour, °oblige trials of a soldier's life, thank God for having spina lee epreuwle ede vie du 'oldie, remercies Dieu de vans you, and march proudly amidst your brothers in emir eparpes, et marches Unseat as milieu de vos hires arms and your fellow citizens, whose plaudits await (Vannes et de vas ocuitoyens, Boat leaacclamations vent attendant. you." These noble words, pronounced with an energetic anent, Immediately afterwards, his Majesty returned at a -and in a voice that was heard as far as the remotest ranks, trot to the Place Vendome, where the defile was to caused a profound sensation emu the soldiers, as they will take place. The troops then followed thro u g h the do throughout France. They were received with thrice repeated shoute of " Vim l'Brepereur." lines of infantry and National Guard drawn up on His Majesty, followed by his cortege, returned by the Use either side of the way. Marshal Magnen, as ooze- of the Boalivards and the Rue de 1. Pair, and with his mandant of the Army of Paris, headed Staff took up his station on the Place Vendome, in front of the cortege. At a short interval behind the column before the Hotel of the Minister of Justice. him, and at the head of another staff, appeared At the foot of the column, mingled with soldiers of the General Canrobert, who was received throughout the Allied forces, were ranged some of the old and glorious whole line of march with the most oaths:sin:tie 1 veterans of the ancient Imperial armies. Her Majesty the Empress, accompanied by the ladies and cheers. These he repeatedly acknowledged In a very officers of her household, stationed herself in the great bal roomful manner, sometimes kissing his hand to the cony of the hotel, to witness the defiling of the troops. ladies, who waved their handkerchiefs trout the win -1 Their Imperial Highness the Prince Jerome Napoleon down, and sometimes taking off his general's cap. 1 and the Princess Matilda, theit Flightiness the Prince and The wounded of every regiment, in undress uniform, the Friona Murat, Prince Joachim Murat, the Princess marched behind the bands of their corps. The Camerate, their Enellencies the Grand Chamberlain and tattered colours of the 50th Regiment, which played the Grand Master of the Ceremonies, the Ministers, the Presidents of the Legislative Corps and of the Conseil of a distignished part in the taking of the Malik- State, the Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Humor, and hoff Tower, were particularly remarked. The Martinmas, Deo. 30. the Governor of the Invalid's witnessed the review from colours of the 97th of the line were also observed to held in Paris. The the apartments of the Chancery, as did also their Emel- S r Edmund L is coming, it is said, to France, to be torn. The Zosayes were received by the ale - Wen part in the „ m a of ‘,„ to be fleet will be left te knees the A m bassadon et England and Turkey, the Sar dinian Minister, Lady Cowley, and the Marchioness of don with extraordinary enthusiasm. These sporting command ad interim of the English troops, for the most part Parisians, were recognised Admiral Freemsatle. Villamarina. Individually by hundreds, and they often ran out of The troops of the Army of the East marched from the Admiral Stewart's squadron, which was at Smyrna, left • place of the Bastille, after the imperial cortege, and in the the ranks to embrace their friends. As they permed on the 16th ter "mar. The C tentrosople Journal, which gives news Omer following order :—A division of the line, composed of the and itaabl y a rising I lalong to the air of "La Csaquette du Pere Bugeaud." a hettalion of Chanson 1-Pied, a regiment of Pasha of Dee. 6, says that at that date the Online um 20th, 60th, and 97th Regiments; the Imperial Guard, con their jaunty, devil-me-care bearing electrified the ,„„„, encamped i , the aide the river 51,5, Zane's, two regiments of Light Infantry, Artillery and spectators. The Imperial Guard, though well re- to advance, is consequence or the overflowing of the swam. 00iVad, was less cheered. At the Place Vendome Awarding to the same lomat, the army of Eresroam will Engineers' two re g iment. of Grea laier e , reg i men t et band, and by a troop of widen without the Emperor drew up, and placed h imself be brought 11 1 1 to agrOgg e l mult- gendarmerie. Each of these regiments was headed by its under the balcony of the Ministry of Justice, lisesuao, Dec. 30. arms. but covered l It has bees deemed that political came which by the re- with gleans wounds, whi c h e x a m& i n a marked murex in which the was waiting to see the troo p s cent Royal ordenaanee are,withdraera from' the cognisance tea P atel:lnc ' en ' o f the " ctitini * populace, who thronged the streets, the boulevards, file Peer- Her Majesty shed teen abundantly ee of a jury, shall be tried by a special sections! the judges The and the windows, raised the most enthusiastic acclamations she saw the warriors, fresh from their hardships, of the C our t of App a l. march before her. It is a very remarkable fact that A telegraphic despatch from Berlin, dated yester- as each of the regiments parsed by. Crowns of laurel were showered down from every quarter. The officers and col the restaurateurs and wine sellers on the boulevards day, states that Colonel de Mantenifel, who was diem were also demand with it as they defiled before the neither did nor and to do any business to speak of waiting for the King's orders, was expected to start E m p er or. throughout the day. The vast multitudes were so immediately for Vienna, with the King of Prussia's His Excellency Marshal Merman, surrounded by • n e- interested with the stirring sight out of doors, that answer to the autograph letter of the Emperor o f roes staff • marched at the head of the column. .... hw sought for refreshment, and those who did were Austria. Another despatch, received very late fig s Geaeral Quinine, formerly meamanderin chief of the told in many instances that the kitchen was shut up, evening, states that Colonel Manteu ff el le ft Bee- Army sf the East, was at the head of the division of infea that all the servants were at the windows, and that lin at twelve o'clock this day, but that "" o' the lee, with General Foray, wh°lltat been appointed sosamastlar of that di divis ion. nothing was to be had. he is going to Dresden, and will proceed to General m an ekard ( w ho in tit was wounded • Crime.) The entire garrison of Perim, including the Crimean Vienna afterwards. Thus the dance of diplomatists, somasuded a brigade MUG line. Gomel Bowed de Salat•Jeaa•d'Aasdly sad ow e d Melllset mareked at the head of the Gaud. The first brigade was ioassanded by General /kakis.. All these troop were preceded by the scholars of the Polytechnic School and the battalion of the school of po. Cp, having at its head the divisional general, Mo ut , wallas& i• the East. Having passed before their Majesties, whom they sah,t 4 d with their seehunations, the soholan of the Polrtethaie &hoof sad of Bt. Cyr ranged theruelves on the right i m lift of the Emperor, upon the Place Vendome, where th e troops of the army of the Eut defiled in the order vim they had observed throw/host their progress frets the Place de la Bastille. All the troops se they planed before their Majesties no the sir with the moat animated viva.. The soldier, way their shakos, Drying, " Vivo l'Empereur ! Vive trios !" The companies of wounded soldiers (who excited the vivid sympathy of their Majesties) were not the lout ardent in their manifestations. Who could coatereplats ' • " without inezpvissible emotion thou glorious legion a s ti t " defiled before the Emperor, at the foot of the immortal column, and, so to speak, under the eye of him who rot. mounts it ? Alter passing before the Emperor, the troops manned their march through the Rues de Castiglione and Rireu, whence, by the nearest routes, they proceeded to th.i, barracks. The defiling occupied two boon and a half. At its eaa• elution the Emperor and Empress returned to the Tailed*, amidst the liveliest aeclaniatione. At night a put umber of the house of private pumas in. illuminated. The populace, mixed with the soldiers, thronged tis boulevards and the streets as on the occasion of great as. tional Wm. NEWS FROM THE EAST. Intelligence was received yesterday in Paris np to the 20th instant. M. Callimaki had been appointed Ambassador to Vienna. M. Mauro, of the English Embassy, had been raised to the rank of Ambassador, The Intermincio had paid a visit to the Vizier. The President of the Tanzimat has been made Minister of Foreign Affairs. Erzeroum has base provisioned, as a preparation for resisting an attack. A despatch from another quarter states that the Russian General was preparing to blockade Erre. roam, and that with this view he had already mooed a Russian corpe to advance as far as Hassan•Kale. SWITZERLAND. The Feuille, Federate a Swiss journal, publishes the project of a treaty of commerce between the Swim Confederation and England, stipulating for perfect reciprocity between the two nations as regards liberty of residence, exemption from national charges, sad the enjoyment of all the rights conceded to the most favoured nations. A government message ream. mends the federal Assembly to adopt this conventioe. LATEST INTEMAIORME• - EU/381A4 A dispatch from St. PetersbareeiMived at Ti.tm berg, states that Prince Meesehiked ha been re instated ia the Empwer's favour, sad appointed Goversor-Cleseral of &outwit, with all the mole resets of the exessaader-ia-Chit in time of war. The St. Petersburg jountals of the 22nd instant just received, repeat aced warm the intelligence, which we were the first to publish in Loudon oe Friday last. The Invalids Ryas. says, wider date of the Bth (20th) of December, Aided.- Camp General Prime Gortchakoff has sent the fol- lowing . 44 Oa the 4th (16th) of December two sotnes of I Careeks of the Black Sea defeated, near Bert* a strong squadron of the Anglo.Tarkish cavalry of Guaira Vivian. In this affair the commander of the squadron, an English carer, and forty -wen 111111, were lied* Osman. " Elsewhere, all goes on well in the Crimea." The Jossmal do M. Peterabotirg announces with mach aereniony that the Self Out Mouth, This Pondj, Abbas Eon Ambaseador Extraordinary of the Shah of Persia, had an audience of the Emperor on the 18th inst. The members of the Ambassador's suds were afterwards presented to his Majesty. THE PROPOSALS FOR PEACE. The following telegraphic despatch has been re wised front Vienna: " VIENNA, SoRDAY. "The day before yesterday Count Buol communi cated the teems of Pesos to Prince Gortehakoff. "By the condos of so much of the territory of Bessarabia as is unwary to secure to all nations the fns navigation of the Danube, is meant the cession of that part of Bessarabia which lies between the fortress of Chotyn on the north, the Salt Lake Sigh on the south, and the Pruth on the west. ." Three weeks from the day of delivery is the time allowed for consideration. " The foregoing is authentic." AMERICA. (Is skassrto Tusomos.) 0101 t ova OWN COPUSFOIDII LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. By the British and North Aminion Royal Mail steamer America, Captain William Minims, which arrived in the river this morning, we have advice. from Boston to the 19th, and from Halifax to the 1 21st. She brings 133 passengers, and 308,480 dollars in specie. She pawed the Asia. Dec. 19, off Boston. The Baltic arrived at New York on the 13th. No Speaker had been elected , when the America mailed ; consequently no rummage had been delivered. The following was the result of the sixty-fourth vets on the thirteenth day after the mooting : Ds* 108 ; rtiehudion, 73 ; Faller, 38; Lester, 2 ; Meson. Harrison, Winslow, Williams, and Orr, 1 eeeh. It is necessary to a choice that then should be 112 votes. Mr. Thorington then offered a mole dm for the election of a Speaker by plurality, pend ing which the House adjourned. The New York Herald states that the President will recommend in his Message the purchase of the rights and possessions of the Hudson Bay Company • the north-west coast of the continent. These sights and possessions are exercised and held within des territory of Oregon, a large portion of which lermsrly belonged to the old Pacific Fur Company. The Washington correspondent of theisame journal, inking on the 16th inst., says : Thertegidete, with wash earasetame, soured s member et emenes lent everting that he should have two seweges 111 Vassal% to flipper epos Its orgesisatioa, f lag that Ilaufgioal mallip, prepared for the °patios of the seldom, w ig and Misr alterations, is consequesse of the Intel- Ilgliatmasolil lila Swope by the Bela& The Piedisit of the United States has issued two peoclamaline against the Nicaragua busters, ma tbe other announcing that Newfound. had has emilied with the provisions of the Reci procity Treaty with the British North American proviness,sal will hereafter participate in its benefits. Amman burn Hams represent that the inhabir tants et that territory, to the number of 3,000 lass, are said to be already in the field to pat down the mama et law sad order, and a violent collision la Wild be lotessa the belligerents. Hannah shim to the 10th instant report the health :of the Mud good and the sugar market active. Freights were dull. AdViC4B from Vera Cm to the Bth, and Mexico to the bth instant, have been received. A conspiracy het bees discovered, the object of it being to mike General Urugs President. Neagh, Padre Miranda, and Colonel Assello have been arrested for being concerned in the affair, which bad caused great excitement. Colonel Roble' had been appointed to succeed Senor Almonte as Minister at Washing. ton. It was meowed that Commosiort would retire fees the Ministry. The church was opposed to the existing government, and things generally were in great confusion. Money at New York was extremely abundant call, and foe large amounts a few negotiations had ' lakes place at within a fraction of 7 per cent. First- am paper is still difficult to negotiate under 10 to 12 par met. The stock market continues active, without im- Want change, and prices are well unstained. The business in exchange has not been large. Beakers are asking 9 per cent. for sterling and i for France, bat at these rates the transactions are very I limited. First-class sterling, drawn by leading bosses on Baring, Brothers, bare been sold at 81, per smut. Cotton is without change in prices. Flour is easier for inferior and common grades, •life salsa of all kinds were moderate. There was mien Mai in wheat, while prime favoured pur itans& bias corn is In fair demand at 840. to 950. for I sew sized yellow ; and white at 970. to 9910. for Widens mid from store and delivered. Perk was dull, with moderate sales, and at rather easier Beer ta lh heavy, without chimp of moment in prime, while lard was firm. Segue were firmer. Freighte.—There was a fair amount of engage. meats of grain to Liverpool. Rama were rather easier. To London and the Continent they con , tinned firm. (lT RRIOTRIO TILBORAPII.) (711011 OUR OWN 001111IPORD1I SOUTHAMPTON, MOWDLT. The Amorloan mail packet Unto' has arrived, with dates up to the lath instant. She beings no mails. No speaker had been skated by Congress, and the , President's mussy had consequently not been do- I livered. The General Post-adloe =timid= 6110600115 d ou &tariff the arrival et nab ben** hastrber *see by the Anentiss n6O prket the Dania 11 1 Ksy, els , his Asehlead. Rangoon Sydney. Leelebte, Luanne% ' Hoban Tows, Melbeterse, and Watimutown. SWEDEN. A telegraphic despatch from Stockholm, dated yes. terday, states that a Royal decree has authorised the importation into Sweden of foreign iron, and also of stuffs and made up clothes. Swedish iron is declared free of export duty. CREDIT MOBILIER IN SPAIN. According to a despatch from Madrid, yesterday, in Paris, the parliamentary committee charged to draw up the report on the bill for the creation of s " General Credit Society" in Spain is unanimously in favour of the project. It is thought that the report will be presented at the beginning of next week. It is very probable that it will be approved of by tie Cortee. The health of General O'Donnell amino to improve. THE PEACE RUMOURS. The foreign papers publish the following announce• meats : Vintrren, Bac. 27.—Baron Koenneritz, the Salon ea• baseador at this court, having been called to Dresden by telegraph, has left for that capital. Colonel de Mentraffel arrives this evening from Berlin. Bemoan of pews cir• Witte. DIEMEN, DEC. 27.—Baron Seibaoh, Saxon minister is Paris, and son-in-law of M. de Nesselrode, who is stoat to proceed to St. Petersburg, is to throw some light on the state of affairs, and recommend moderation to the Banns government, which regards the nentrelisation of the Sleet Sea differently from the western powers. OMER PAULA'S ARMY. The Patrie publishes a letter frora Constantinople of the 18th inst., in which it is said : " As misfortunes never come singly, the rumour ii current among the public that Omer Puha, on sp. preaching Kutais, encountered unexpected obstacle, which rendered an attack on that city almost imp* Bible. It is said to be defended by a numerous . ger• riven, while at the game time a con siderable sexual corps keeps the field, and threatens to fall on Omu Pacha's small force." Other accounts from Constantinople agree pith the earlier intelligence by way of St. Petersburg, that the Turkish general had fallen back en Refloat Knish. GERMANY. King George of Hanover has just abolished by jury for political oftenoes in his dominions by he mere decree. 'Lie. on account of published irtln,l l are also withdrawn from the cognisance of pins. This sovoreign, the public is aware, is the weal loon of our late Duke of Cumberland. The King of Sweden has conferred the order of the Seraphim on Count Walewski, tke French Minister el Foreign Affairs: The Emperor of Russia has bestowed the ceder of St. George of the second Cass on General Mouraveiff. 'bile Lieutenant Koreakoff, who was the bearer of the nowt the tall of Kers to his Majesty, has been raised to the mai of captain and appointed aide-de-camp to the Emperor. Mine. 0. Sand has just had a comedy arcePtt the a a t the F'asc'ia, entitled L'lrrisolu. W hen read before committee, the numbers were equal—four favourable, fast against—in which case, it seems, the liberality of the reply Sons gives the decision in favour of the author. M. Scribe proposes to lay aside the pen hellos li ed I for thirty years so much to the delight of thousands; totbe bet we (Golielnani) must, in truth, add h e has worn it t d LA stump.' Fie promises one more comedy , to be oil Derniere Piece. The Porte St. Martin is preparing the o,estee Euripides for representation, translated from the Omsk W Alexandre Dumas. The teagedy is to be produced will minutest attention t• the accessories of the Athenian ersol in costumes and furniture, and Al. Clesinger, the 00 0 has modelled the groups in clay to be imitated by the ellen* A letter from Milan, in the Opinions of Turin, WE " The concordat just concluded between Austria and Os Holy See has not met with favour here. For some air past the words ' Down with t he concordat,' sad simX sentiments, ham limn chalked upon the walls of the std' bishop's pages by nnknowa hands, and are wawa le fil l as they are wiped off y the polies." Russian NErs.— b " Letters from the Crimea," egi the Saha Public of Lyons "have often spoken of t he ton which the Russian soldiers ' used in their D ies , is ord.?, take some of their opponents prisoners. o '''. 1 01 twiner p pC° liberated from service, who has resum ed hit , Hon of a silk weaer, wishing a day or two beck to ror. comrades in the workshop an example of the mode of S ploying these articles, one of which he had beonght 1 from Sebastopol, threw the net suddenly ever b workman who had his back turned. This latter, being ; I 'M tht !!: stridently drawn from his balance, fell heavily cm and broke his leg. The consternation of tbe scarcely be imagined, and, abr.' all, of the triad nu foe experiments. A collection was immediately made ab: injured man, and, as the fracture is a simple ma, d." ill effects Om a period of tweed inaction ire sprigto RV, DECEMBIR, 31, 1856. Rt troop, hu received a gratuity of E., with whialu at the moment I write, they aro regaling them" Niue. PARIS, flown.: BYINDIO. After my letter of last night was posted, Paris was illuminated, and the illuminations were more were and more brilliant than any that I have ever seen.—Not only the Boulevards and the great streets, but numberless little courts, alleys, and out-of-the-way places were resplend ent with light. In the gnarlier* of the Cite and the Faubourg St. Antoine lanterns were exhibited in profusion. One house on the Qui Napoleon was so illumined from the ground-floor to the roof, as to attract attention on both sides of the river. I happened, however, acci dentally to witness in one very important quarter of this metropolis a striking contrast to the general aspect. At eight o'clock last evening I had occasion to pass from one end to the other of the Rue du Bee, that exceedingly long street extending from the Pont Royal to the Rue de Sevres, and cut ting in its course the most fashionable streets of the Faubourg St. Germain—vie., the Rues de rUniversite, de Lille, St. Dominique, Bt. Germain, V a renne, et Babylon . All along this street, which Contains some of the best shops in Paris, there were not, I really believe, more than forty or fifty dim kelps, and these, seen two or three at a time at rare Werra" in private windows, looked sad in their im potent t efforts to ape rejoicing. As I looked right and left ;along the wide expanse of the fashionable streets I have condoned, which lead into the Rue du BOA, those " silent streets of the Faubourg St. Germain," as Macaulay calls them, I did not observe anythin rn g approachinj to an illumination except at the gove ment offices, the police barracks, and the omnibus stations. lam not prepared to account for this phe nomenon, which is certainly very remarkable. The most obvious explanation is that the quarter of the Faubourg St. Germain is Legitimist, and abstains systematically from anything calcu lated to enhance the prestige of the Imperial regime. Can it be possible that the fear to offend their aristocratic customers can have extinguished the patriotism of all the shopkeepers in the Rue du Bas? At all events, the French Government may oppose the darkness of the Faubourg St. Germain to those who say that public illuminations are always made by order of the police, because the police is as powerful there as elsewhere in Paris. Possibly it may be thought that the indifference of the Faubourg St. Germain, on an occasion which deeply stirs the national heart, may be more prejudicial to the legitimists than to anybody else, and therefore the police may have pur posely let them go their own way. It is certain, and I only mention the fact that you may know the whole troth, that the demonstrations of enthusiasm made spontaneously for the most part in the populous parts of Paris were stimulated by the police. The prefect of polioe called in person on many people to ask them to illuminate, and police agents were very active in intimating that lampioas were expected to be ex hibited. I have reoeivedfrom a captain who presided at the head of his company yesterday, at the dinner given by the Emperor to the troops to celebrate the day, the following bill of fare of the entertainment in his barracks:—Soup, bouilli beef, a leg of mutton, and fibs. of potatoes to every eight men, Gruyere cheese, half a bottle of white and half a bottle of red wine. After this repast each soldier bad ten sees in money to take his coffee and brandy sat of barracks. I believe the same system was not precisely followed in all the divisions. Some soldiers had, I know, a new piece of 2fr. given them to spend le they like. Many were seen dining upon fowl and other len:Au in eating.houses. At all event.. thee* win great rejoicings in the balls at the Bar- Mass. Most of the troops received leave till ten Alai, and many were out nearly all night. At the Belem of Mars, Venus, and the Isle d'Amour, the Zonaves danced the " cancan" with an entrain which delighted all the beholders. Their conduct was ge. solidly admirable. The Siete says that amidst the cries of " Vive la Ups!" "Vive la Garde!" "Vive la France!" "Vivo rAugleterre !" which were heard along the long line of the Boulevards yesterday, there were" if our ears did not deceive us, many cries in favour of liberty." That the &ode should take the liberty of Paying this, is in itself almost a political event. As to the fact of any such cries having been uttered, I am very incredulous. I lay no stress on the fact of my not having heard them, because along that line of procession, some three miles in length, and so closely packed with people that locomotion was next to impossible, much may have passed that no individual could have taken account of, either of his own knowledge, or from the information of his friends. But of this lam sure that no one could have cried " Vivo la Liberte " within the hearing of a policeman without being immediately arrested as • demagogue. It is, however, within my knowledge that many who would have said " Vivo la liberte had it been safe to do so, cried " Vive Is Ligne " with an emphasis which was understood. It was also re marked that Vive la France," a cry which cannot be excepted to as seditious, but which, nevertheless, is not orthodox, was very frequently raised. The Debate says : In receiving the 'oldies of the Crimes, all Paris said with the Emperor, " Yes are welcome." The spectacle on the Boulevards was grand and moving in the extreme, and is all the counties crowds assembled to see the conquerors sad the wounded peN along, there was not a heart that did not best with a mingled feeling of pride and sadness. For the jest time in their lives the present generation took part is ens of these berets and sombre fits familiar to our fathers, sad which seems in our eyes like an historical rensialsonse. We have all seen reviews; bat whet a difference he. tersen a review sad the seen of yesterday ! The tattered esteem the weather-bates fees, the war equipments, sad the leen features of the soldiers, and the cohorts of sail. I heel sad wounded men marching at the bud of sun I battalion, revealed in characters of iron and fire the moan leg, the glory, sad the solemn reality of war. There was, sea could be bet one feeliag at sack a sipbt. This was one el the days in the life of a people in which it is permitted is all uTheto ba t one oneh.art al i a telegraphicandeie vole..pfstches have been received to-day : peaoe. The Indipesdance mays that M. de Maupas is about to publish a pamphlet on the coup, deaf of Dem 2, and the events that followed. • • • • , t • • a d it t. , r a id he in yet Ad Olt m• ree• the red .4,