The Express. — London, England, 1855-01-22 00:00:00

TILE NEW RETURN OF NEWSPAPER STAMPS. The Morn •f newspaper stamps just imbed gives Os hiloriag melts : Tint Quarter. isses4 Qsarter. Daily Mews . . 319,191 348,044 K•faing Ewald . . $05,000 201010 Morning Pot . . 206,000 226,000 Morning Chroniele . . 101,600 186,000 Express . . 177,133 198,389 Globe . . . 176,000 105,011 8.. . . . 160,000 192,000 Standard . . . 103,000 104.000 ik lettc erpreoo. TO CORRESPONDENT& Isesel Wise of "Tie Szproso"osomaktiog OP mate molars • “Oseette.' pobliebut every Tuesday NM FAY, Wen, la time • Ow poet. agoortbeeesto bonded Me "The istwae," Lawton B omb e y a m wow le at tbe Oats, le, iell•OfilMallet. by Two @Week so 11. Sty et pellesedes. ' HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. ' To. DAT—Minim 41t. Ma AMIT•11011. Mi. Ito. Is To.mosaswz-liondos. M. a Ammo% I. lE. LONDON. MONDAY. JANUARY 22. LATEST NEWS FROM ABROAD THE LATE DANISH MINISTRY. CST lIIIIIIANAI (IRA= TIII Z COWAN! VIAL ZA0111.) OP 111 DULY 11111111 IPIINHAGEN, L 1.21. The motion fee the impeachment of the late ministry has bee. rejected in the Volksthing, by 63 votes against 32. The budget pawed the second reading yesterday. It is repeated that Hen Von &heel undertakes definitively the ministry of foreign affairs. (IT SOKILAIWIN &SID =TISK TURIN, SATII&DAY. Her Majesty the Queen Consort of Sardinia died this afternoon, kt one o'clock, of paerperal fever.•—• Deily News. VABNA, Us. 15. The embarkation of the Ottoman troops continues. Several battalions of Egyptian Infantry will leave to-morrow.—Doily News. The Patric uys, the pimp of the Danube, effected some days since by the Muslim, has given ries to a demand for explanations from Prince Ciort ohakoit on the part of the Austrian government ; and that at the NM time orders have been sent to Count Comaini to prevent the Russians from re commencing a campaign upon the Danube. A despatch in the Patrie, headed "The Danube," and dated Hamenicez, Jan. 13, says :—" The staff of the let Russian corps dames is at Molten. Badetaky's regiment of Human hu left for the Crinteso—Daily Ram . Accounts from Berlin state that the Austrian Cabinet, on the 6th and 10th instant, addressed two notes to the German governments, informing them of the discussions which had taken piece in the Con ferences of Vienna.—Daily News. PARIS, SUNDAY. The chief political news to-day is that Prussia, who, notwithstanding her refusal to join the Austrian Alliance with the Western Powers, pretended to have a right, u a great European power, to partici pate in any conference having for its object to modify treaties to which she was a party, has made a protest against the validity of any resolutions which may be come to by the new conference about to be opened at Vienna. The answer to this protest will, in all pro bability, be given by a French army on the Rhine before three months are over. The news from Car away affords small prognostics of pesos. According to the Weimar Gessetie, Count Nesselrode only autho- rised Prince Clortchakoff to accept the four points in the sense attributed to them by the Russian Cabinet, and with way important modifications, especially with regard to the third point, relative to the revision of the treaty of 1841. Both the Prow and the Pistrie of this evening sum up the latest news as being to the effect that the Emperor of Russia is in no dis position to make serious coneessioaa BERLIN. 8•1171DLT. It is mated that in a new note, dated January 14, accompanied by s siantar, Matra renews ha pro position relative to the mobilisation of the Passim and Federal army. Thin question will now be sub mitted to the Frankfort Dist. VIENNA, BartriDLY. Baran de Holler, Marian ambassador at Hanover, is now ransomed to be the new Intarnundo at Con ebuitinople. MADRID, .ILx. 18. The Carta to-day voted, b 7 a lane majority, the Ministerial Bill, fixing at 25,000 the number of soldiers to be called oat this year. The Government lid attacked great importance to this measure, and • Admit had been •pprshended.—Day News. THE INDIA AND CHINA MAILS. A biographic despatch in a second edition of the Nam annotuesse the arrival at Southampton of the l'eninoular and Oriental Company's steam 'kip Wm, with the heavy portion of the above made. • The illustrious deemed, the mead Qum of Seidl*ls tie bee died wields s festal/the, wee a daughter el the late Areldalue Reber of Austria. Her MOIR, wee hers la 1532 sad issue, besides the latest Jut berm, Au Andres, the eldest of whoa wee bent la 180. Lettere Ina Tula, et the 18th, undue& that the death of the late Quwa Dowager bed had aidt ea satereirable offset upea the heath of the Qua Osumi that serious apprebealkaa Were witertalud es to ter neevery. She resolved the Ilawsaleat ea the 18th. .011a1 Boitmo.—According to as casiol Ntsl kaa 0 2 Woods was steer killed se onsets& OMNI ISM DlNlenteT. MUMMA or Tulin AND Giumat.—A letter fries Visas% 14th, is You's Owns of Bulls, mays " • rem' arrived yesterday froze M. do Brusly item Oessiss do*, tits .saute of which erased mesh satieelies, se it shaerst that the Porto wee disposed to follow the ems& otairtria with maid to the sr establiehmest of he former rebleati with the klaidos of Chutes, sad that it would tempt thr treaty of scsaseres draws oat by R. Matra , 'Mato." fresAm, has negilested to attend as it tight tip 44 resign relations and the military power of lawny tiost, and must now offer in consequence ? • In fact, the public has been attending to a great many other things of far less importanse. It has given itself too mach up to sectarian and religuina disputes. It has allowed and encouraged cer. Lain claws to interfere a great deal too much with other classes. It ;has attempted to hasten moral changes that can only come to pass with time. It has obviously neg lected the things it ought to have dons, thiap necessary for its safety, its peace, and its glory; and it has done the things it ought not to have done. There is no want of will in the public, but it ha, been diverted from the causes of national welfare or national damage to frivolous and unworthy objects. Session after session, and year after year, has the time of the Parliament, and with that the time of the public and: the wealth of the nation, been wasted on petty, paltry schemes that have no national object—that only serve the purposes of an army of jobbers, and are utterly fruitless of good. If we are to remain free, and if the public is to retain its power over the management of national affairs, it must apply itself more dili gently and more skilfully to the task. It must either submit passively to an oligarchy, or it must make the public reason the all-searching and all-ruling power. We are for the latter as the wise and safe, and, in deed, only course, and consistently with it we must at once require the Parliament, now that it is about I to meet, to lay aside all frivolous things and have the whole military power re-organised, strictly with a view to the public welfare, and no longer exclusively to enrich and flatter a class.—Doily News. the En. 'lazy esymeur„Eir !ogee apd _lady erabam, Sir George Conger, and Major-General Wetherell. Her Majesty's Private Band attended after dinner. The Queen, with the Princess Royal, walked in the Castle girds*. and 810p114 this morning. The Earl of Clarendon introduced the fiazon Minister Mount Ifitstimm) to an audience of her Majesty last evening. Iced fivers and Mr. Granby Gore were in attendance as Lord end Groom in Waiting. The Sason Minister, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl of Clarendon, Sir Janne and Lady Graham, and Major-Gene ral Wetherell, took their departure this forenoon for London. JAN. 21. The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess of Kent, Lady Fenny Howard, Baroness de Speth, and Sir James Clara. Her Majesty's Private Band attended after dinner. The Queen and Prince, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and Prince Alfred, the Ladies mad Gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic household, attended Divine fier. vice this morning in the Private Chapel of the Castle. The Hon. and Very Hey. the Dean of Windsor officiated. A Cabinet Council wu held on Saturday after noon at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The ministers present were the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of Argyll, the Earl of Claren don, Sir George Grey, the Duke of Newcastle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir JIMC4I Graham, Sir Charles Wood, Earl Granville, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, and Sir William Molesworth. The Council sat three hours and a quarter. Lord :ohs Rowell, Lord President of the Council, will give a dinner on Saturday neat, the 27th inst., at his resi dence in Cbesham-place, to the cabinet moisten and the great officers of state of the Queen's household for the pur pose of settling the roll of sheriffs for England and Wales for the present year. _ _ Tne Menialsof Lowdown* arrived in town on Saturday morning from his seat, Bowood Park, Wilts. GOVERNMENT APPOINTMIXTIL—The Queen ban appointed George Mon, Esq., Advocate, to the office of Sheriff of the county of Ross, vacant on the promotion of T. Mackenzie, Esq., to be her Majesty's Solicitor. Ge neral for Scotland.—The Quoin has appointed the Be,. John A. Macrae to the parish and church of Trumisgarry, in the Wand of North Cist, in the presbytery of Skye, vacant by the translation of the Rev. Donald Macdonald to the parish of Alvie.—Alexander Ferguson, Esq., has been appointed to the office of Justice of Peace Clerk in the county of Wigton's, vacant by the death of John Black, Esq.—Observer. THE Fonmos-ovrica.—The Earl of Clarendon hu retaruedu; frOm the Grove, near Wat- ford, liens, for the season. A Queen's messenger was de spatched on Frid►y night, with advices for his Excellency Viscount Stratford de Radcliffe, at Constantinople, and for Field-Marshal Lord Raglan, at the Crimes. The messenger who arrived the same day from the Bast did not bring any despatches from Lord Raglan, but merely from the British embassy at the Turkish capital, and for the Beeretary-at- War and the Fint Lord of the Admiralty. Lord Joln Russell left town on Saturday evening for Pembroke-lodge, Richmond-park. The noble lord souses to town for the meson today. Viscount Palmerston continues at Broadlands, near Roomy, Hants, and was absent from the Cabinet Councils on Saturday and the previous day. The noble viscount and viscountess are expected to arrive to-day at their residence in Piccadilly, from their country seat, Where they bath been entertaining a succession of visitors during the last three weeks. The Right Ron. Sir Charles Wood and the Right Ron. Sidney Herbert have arrived to town for the season. The Right Ron. the Speaker of the House of Com mas will arrive is tows to-day, from Hampshire, for the re-assembling of parliament. The right hon. gentle man will oommenos his parliamentary banquets on Saturday week. The Right Hon. M. T. Baines, M.P., arrived in town lon Saturday, trout Yorkshire. _ - - Viation' it Canning, in tows for the season. has arrived The Lord Chancellor hen presented the Rev. Gil bert Harries to the living of Llandevailog-Vach, is the 'aunty of Brecon and diocese of St. David's ; the Rev. Godfrey Alexander to the vicarage of Woodford, in the county of Northampten and diocese of Peterborough ; the Rev. John Best to the vicarage of Birk-Oswald, in the minty of Cumberlead and diocese of Carlisle ; the Rev. C. Porter, to the vicarage of Raunds, in the county of North ampton and diocese of Peterborough ; and the Rev. Percy Smith to the vicarage of Orbit**, in the county of York and diocese of Ripon.—Obesrver. The pay of the third-class constables of the Metropolitan police is ordered to be rased 2s. a week ; and Lord Palmerston has Siren directions for a new osmium meet of night duty, by which the inborn.' of the force will not be so seven as now. At the meeting of the Royal Geographical Society this evening, the papers to be read are: 1 Geographical Notes taken during a Journey performed in Persia, by Keith E. Abbott, ha Majesty's Coasal at Tehran. Com municated by the Bul of Clarendon. Second series. 2. Proposed Expedition to the Somali Country, by Lieut. P. Burton. Baron Forth-Rouen, the French minister at Athens, was on the 10th preps:in to quit Greece. He had an audienes of their Hellenic Majesties to take leave en the 9th, and on the 10th was invited to dine at the pekoe. M. Delft's, the list seorstary of legation, will set as ehargd d'affaires until his seesaw arrives. The funeral of the Queen Dowager of Sardinia was celebrated on the 16th, at Turin, with great pomp. The streets were crowded, and the windows hang with mourning drapery. The ooart has gone into mourning for 180 days. The Princess Paskiewitch, who lin been travelling In Germany, arrived at Berlin on the 16th, where she re mains for • few days, and this proceeds to Warsaw. The Univers jives the Latin text and a translation of the apostolic' letter of the Pope relative to the definition of the Immaculate Coneeption. The whole takes up up wards of eleven columns of the journal. NAVAL AND MILITARY. ADMIRALTY, Lis. 20.—APPOINTIONTIL—B000nd Muter, 0. F. Clementeon (1863) to the Ajax, 60, screw emainship, of 460. horse power, at Eipithead ; and J. Jones (1863), WON Nankin, 60, at Chatham. Colonel James Robertson Cranford, of the Grena dier Guards, is appointed to seemed the late General Da Plat as military oommissioner for Gnat Britain to the head quarters of the Austrian army, and will have the brevet rank of major-general whilst so employed. Brevet-kajor the Hon. W. Boyle, 2let Fusiliers, aide-do-sae* to Sir De Lao' Evans; Captain J. A. Co non', of the 49th, whoa' gallant modest at the attack on Balaklava will be no:Caned; and Captain Maxie, of the 21st Fusiliers, aide-d•-eamp to the Earl of Cardigan, have been appoint ed cap tains in the Coldstream' Guards. _ . . . . . . Two_ captains of Militia have been appointed to sonanissicas in the Guards, without parttime. One of them, Captain Adair, of the Ist Somerset Militia, hes brought with him a number of volunteers, to oath of whom he ghee 101. eat of his own puree. The following officers whose regiments are now solving In the Crimea have retired from the service : Captain Von Strang, 6th Dragoons ; Captain Balguy, 4th Foot; Captain Anstoy, 20th; and Lieut.-Colonel Bld, of the 90th. The Muted Service Gazette announces the ap praechhsg issue of a new werrast, which escorts to ser pents who hay, enlisted sines the let March, 18.13, the addition to their pay, when promoted to that rank, of what ever extra pay they were drawing as corporal, as " good conduct pay," sad that their Pension on discharge will be augmented in like manner. The Secretat7♦t-War his approved of one shilling 1 par day being allowed to staff cases for each soldier servant. DUBLIN, JAx. 20. It is stated that the Northampton Militia, under the eassasad of Liestsaant-Colossl Lord Burghley, is Y to premed to the Mediterranean for duty, h plies of some of the regiments et the Use recently pushed ea to the Orissa. The men have bees Mowed three days to somida whether trip will go er remake. The Kildare Militia have been 'hasped from a Light la. hefty regiment to that of a corps of Rifles, and are now embodying as fast as they ma presage remelts. sI Z 1 441 PAT. POO JANUARY 22. 1858. • sountry, without blowing whylithh. • ' gip Court. IN THE wA i p • ..... : I .2 .,..artant or *Wein ettllions sterligg I .b 1,7 discorPnbra allent h01P 606 1 ' (ra aWINDSOR, Us. 20. plait ,s as Wh atO=infer from this, bat *it the Public, The di nner party yesterday included the Dl:cheat sa Balablows to the csull4 SiM which hse gained great advantage' bi*stowing its of K est , the Seam Minister (Coast Vitathato). the Berl A • " ' ART AND SKILL OF' lomownto up the , M stoke a railroad from AlLlllSlffilliffigie Docks to receive good*, sod 'Pet and stomaitisspate them, are now to be ssot,it is said, to that port, to restive the military stores • and fi remen Fe to be seat Um the London Brigade to watch over the safety of the hospital at Scutari. Mr• matriii, we are told also, is engaged at Patricroft in manufwetnring a monster; wrought-iron gun, to mud a huge shot four or five miles; and Mr. Wiuvworrn is employing his great skill and scientific abilities in constructing improved rifles, to make them more efficacious and mon ordain instruments of dogtrot,- tiom The Emperor of the FILEN= is, moreorer, musing a great floating battery to be built, to carry large guns and be itself invulnerable. This is properly acting on the principle which has lung ago been strenuously insisted on in this journal, without pre suming to suggest its appliance in detail, of bringing all the art and skill of the civilised people of the West of Europe to bear upon the prosecution of the war in the most elloient Manner. Nor can any one suppose, who looks at the pro gress of war in put times, that the application of skill to construct instruments of destruction is un favourable to humanity and civilisation. In propor tion as war has become a contest of ingenuity, in which muses of men are subsidiary as it were to the use of powerful machinery and instruments, the hateful passions of individuals are far less engaged in the contest, and are less exasperated. War be comes in consequence las sanguinary and lees fro. quint. When it is entirely a contest of individual prowess, it is only ended by the death of ace of the combatants; and thus the fights of the Indians end in a general massacre, and are continued from gene ration to generation as long as any of the hostile tribes remain in existence. But when powder, and _ _ great pas, and ships, are employed, the damping of the powder, the disabling of guns, the loss of masts or the choking of a rudder, substitute the wreck of a machine for the destruction of human life, and war changes in a great measure from a massacre to the destruction of wood, stone, and iron. The more effective the instruments the more success will depend on the skill vested in them, and the lees war will be- come a great carnage. We cannot agree therefore with Mr. Baia= in deploring, from a love of peace and respect for humanity, that the great skill of Mr. NABMITH, Mr. WinTwowra, and Mr. FAntsmate should not be employed in rendering our weapons of war efficient and destructive. Like the inventor of gunpowder, they will save human life. Let the public, therefore, bestow honour, and not die. approbation, on these gentlemen ; and we, who have contended that the ministers should act on this principle, must record our approval of their present , proceeding, though it be tardy. We are not informed, indeed, how Mr. NAIIITTies great gun is to be employed; but we cooties. to Mine, notwithstanding the erection of the great fleatleg battery at Cherbourg, that the smaller the easels can be made to carry such a great gun con tingently with strength, and the flatter their floors emmistently with stability, the better. The instru ment et assault should offer as small a mark to the maw es possible, while it brings to bear on him the greatest possible power of each projectile conditions the very reverse of our great three-decked ships with lofty masts and wide-spread sails such u it has hitherto pleased the Admiralty, in subservi ence to old routine, chiefly to employ. Their supine ness in applying the skill of oar people to the prosecution of the war, though it may have Mr, Itirtear's approbation, is contrary to the national honour and to the cause of humanity. The more efficiently the war is conducted, the more the mecha nical power and knowledge of our people are brought to bear on its operations, the shorter time it will last, and the lees destructive it will be of life and social prosperity. The generous instincts of the people, which led them in the first instance to press for the most vigorous prosecution of the war, and for call ing into activity all the destructive power of the nation, was at once more nationally advantageous and more promotive of humanity than the cold reasoning of our diplomatists and the half-and-half measures of our Ministers. Their indifference, their negligence, their want of seal, may be explained by their ignorance of the feelings and the power of the society they pretend to govern; but, both on the score of humanity and of the national glory, they are wholly immutable. Not only will the country demand an account from them of its noble army wasted and its wasted treasures, but civilisation will reproach them with having unnecessarily pro tracted all the horrors of war, and shed in vain tor rents of human blood. For the mismanagement of the war, however, neither the Ministers nor the Generals are exclu sively to blame. That the former have been ignorant, carelese,and Lemke almost beyond example, in carrying t ea is now, we believe, a general opinion, and had either Mr. COBDEN or Mr. Biuntrr confined his con &Undies to them, and not assailed the people or the pram, he would have received almost unanimous sup port. They have neither comprehended the vest extent of the pewee they had to wield, nor applied the best portion of it they have called into exercise efficiently. Acting from a mere conservative love of routine, they failed to perceive bow completely the whole military power of the empire, from the Government and the people being now identical, might be directed against an enemy, and with ample forces at their command, they sent 39,000 men to do the work of 60,000, when, to make the matter quite certain, they should have sent 100,000. The small force, too, they sent was unprovided with many, and indeed post, of the materials of war, and for this they are deeply to blame, and must be made to answer. That the generals, including the Com mander-in-Chief at home—who is surely responsible foe providing all the materials for any Lora sent into the isid—have misdirected the exertions of the brave asersited to their command is now the opinion of filierlellipetent military judges. They are charged Ida Ed only neglecting all ordinary military preclu des% but with placing their troops in localities which Jilt own authorities pronounced peetilential,and with kiln at least carelessly sported with the lives of lb* hoops. Bat admitting the errors and lamentable abestennings both of Ministers and generals, the pubs is not wholly blameless. It does not follow out its own principles. It esta blishes properly and justly a control over' the Ministers; it insists, as in reason it ought, on its supremacy over all classes, cliques, sects, and little minorities, of the whole united nation ; but it suffers a few persons amongst the worst informed of the whole to monopolies the administration of affairs. It interferes with them now and then, to convince them of its supremacy, but not enough to guide them, and s make them walk by its knowledge and its will. It regulates or calls on them to regulate publicohouses, merchant ships, factories, cabs, and other minute portions of industrial society; it calls on them to provide education for the multitude and punishment for criminals; but it leaves them, uncontrolled amis. interbred with, to deal as they MN with the Willa! powsmand the fogyism relations of the State. HOMO the public finds itself unable to thread the mei* ill diplomacy involved in a great war, and finds the mili- "THE FOUR POINTS." In the present state of the negotiations it may not be uninteresting to our readers to place in juxta position the interpretation of the so-called " four points" u understood by the Western Powers and Russia respectively. They are u follows : STATION, RUSSIAN INTRAPRZTATION, IN TRZ AS 111P1ISSID IN TRII PROTOCOL OP AUGUST 8, NOT, or NOTIRIII 8, 1864. 1864. 711111iN Al 0011 The Western Powers will Do eostsatad : 1. I 1 the Protectorate 1. The protectorate of the hitherto exercised by Russia Principalities on the Danube ever the principalities of to be exercised in inters by Moldavia, Wallachia, and the Five Powers collectively, Smola ceases, and if in under the same conditions as future the privileges and those stipulated in their fa. immunities granted by the your by our treaties with Salts= to these their depen- Turkey. diaries be pissed under the collective guarantee of the powers by means of a special treaty with the Sublime Porte. _ 2. If the navigation of the 2. Freedom of the naviga- Danube be treed from all tion of the Danube, already hindrances at its month. and 'Meting de fie», the Nettie the principles set forth is thin of which was never cos he act of the Congress of templated by Russia. Vienna be duly sated upon and applied in this case. 3. If the treaty of July 13, 3. Revision of the treaty 1841, undergo a »vision, of 1841. Russia will not ob. with the sanction of all the ject to the abolition of the , untrusting parties, for the treaty, if Turkey, u the stem better re-establishment of the mostly interested, consents to balance of power in Barone, the alteration. and for the purpose of re stricting the power of Russia • in the Black Sea. 4. If Russia gives up her 4. Joint guarantees for the claim of exercising an official civil and religious liberty of protectorate over the subjects the Christian population of of the Porte, to whatever re- the Ottoman Empire, with• Sem they may belong, pro- out any distinction of yell- Tided that France, Austria, gime, to he given by the Five Great Britain, Prussia, sad Powers collectively. Buda do not mutually agree to take the initiative to ob tain from the Sultan the eon &naafi= sad due observes.e of the liberty of conscience of all the different Christian churches in the dominions of Turkey, and in the common interest of their co•r *Hem lets to profit by the liberal in tentions so disinterestedly expressed by H. M. the Sul tan, bat without lessening the dignity and independence of his throne. THE LATE MR. MERLE. It is with sincere regret that we announce the death of Mr. Merle, the foreign editor of Ofslignanes iferomper, which occurred on Friday morning at his house, in the Rue Clutuveau Lagards, Paris, after an illness of three or four days. He was the Nestor of =journalists in Pans. Many years ago he was I the °wrier and subsequently, we believe, of other journals in London. He wu also for a long while the London correspondent of the Journal des Mbar. Per more than a quarter of a century he has been attached to Galismani, and during the same period he wee the Paris correspondent of the Glob*. He wu one of the very few men in the world who could speak and write the French and English languages equally well He had great conversational powers, an extraordinary memory, and a sound political judg ment. His mind was a perfect museum of anecdote, and he was ever the best autho rity on the subject of the " latest news" of the hour. His appearance in Gagmen's little conversation chamber was always the sig nal for a rush from the reading-room adjoin. big. There, surrounded by numerous friends of various - nations who put down their newspapers to listen to the r esult of his morning's reading, hie fine Ciceronian countenance might be nen suffused with Good humour, while for a few moments he play fully parried he segos quetUne addressed to him in various accents and languages. When silence was obtained he was wont in silvery tones and fluent speech to give a nosinet, and invariably &operate, account of the most important intelligence arrived by the morning mails from different parts of the world, and to add his own opinion of the bearing of the new facts upon the political situation. He wu as good a listener as a talker, always lending a candid ear to every suggestion, and treating opinions adverse to his own with good-natured deference and respect. Mr. Merle was greatly esteemed by all who knew his, and his loss will lie regretted by a large circle of Mends both in France and England. Among his preonal friends were Lord Palmerston and General lir De Lacy Evans, both of whom sought interviews with him when they were lately in Park—Daily Nam LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND BOOTH COAST RAIL TAT. —On Saturday the board of directors of this railway, the accounts for the past half year having been sub mitted to them, decided upon recommending the payment of a dividend for the half year of N. 4s. per cent. on the consolidated stock of the company, making the total dividend for the year 1864 amount to 6} per cent. Two Corner Guinn!.—H rumour has been cur mat dining the week that lonia Gilbert, fen. who was 1 earyieted at oar Quarter Session upon several indictment' for filmdom', receiving stolen oil, is to be brought before the bush upon a sham of murder. The nurser is bend ups a seemanaiestien made by his fellow mirk% Davey, to the govsracr of the gaol and the visiting Artless, input fag to Gilbert more than one charge of isfantidde. At present the imputed's nets entirely upon Devers vamp pmbid statement, bat we learn that the matter will uuderp invedigution by the polies.—Bristol Ilerary. s•ii OF TEI DAUM 31111111.) PARIS, SUNDAY Ryas's°. A retrospective publication, in the Constitutionnel, r a deepetob, dated Ist April, 1811, in which the Duke of Bassano, the then Minister for Foreign Affairs of Napoleon L, recapitulated the tergiversa tions of Prussian policy from 1792 to 1813, and con cluded by announcing that the French government had given the Prussian ambansdor at Paris his pass ports, has been very much remarked to-day. The (mom rice belief that the remise itation of this document is a semi-offioial intimation that a breach with Prussia is expected occasioned a fall of several centimes on the Little Bourse. In its preface to the quotation, _ says: This document is astonishingly applicable to present cir cumstances, so faithfully does it foreshadow the vacillating policy of the Berlin cabinet with regard to the Eastern question. The concluding part of the Basseno despatch, thus asserted to be a type of what is at hand at this hour, is as follows: A power whose treatise are only conditional cannot be a useful mediator. It guarantees nothing. It is but a cause of discord, and can never be the bulwark of any right. The finger of Providence is stamped upon the event, of this winter. These 'vette have been brought about is order to unmask false friends, and to point out the tine ones, and Providence bee given his Imperial Majesty sufficient power to assure the triumph of the one, end to chastise the ether. In terminating, M. le Baron, my relations with you, I am happy to have to convey to you his Mejeety's satisfaction with your conduct during the period of your residence here. His Majesty pities you as a soldier and a man of honour for having been forced to sign the declaration you have trans; netted to me. I have the honour to forward the passports you ask for. It is very generally believed to-day that Prussia will avail herself of the refusal of the Western Powers to admit her to take part in the Vienna con ferences without adhering to the treaty of Dec. 2 as a pretext for openly oakum common cause with the M. Pierre Dufaure, Count de Montmirail, a re tired cavalry officer, formerly aide-de-camp to the Duke de Nemours, was yesterday convicted on the charge of having circulated false news at the Bourse, and spoken against the Emperor. He was sentenced to six months imprisonment and a fine of 600 k. A curious instance of the universal popularity of the loan is given in a country paper. At Tarbes, in the south of France, out of 100,0001 r. received as deposits, two-thirds of the payments were made in old French and Spanish coins, which bad long dis appeared from circulation, and must have been hoarded for many years. A more striking proof of confidence in the government on the part of the lower classes could not be afforded. The Papal Bull on the Immaculate Conception, althoug published in several journals, has not yet been o daily proclaimed in France. As I observed in a former letter the consent of the Council of Stab is first requisite. Although some members of that body are individually opposed to the innovation:it is pretty certain that the French government is not at the moment disposed to incur the hostility of the Church of Rome to the extent of refusing to recog nise the new dogma. The consent of the Council of State is not doubtful. But the Emperor is deter mined to maintain to the full extent the prerogatives of the civil power secured by his uncle's concordat. Mgr.Salenis,the Bishop of Amiens,bas, it is reported, made great efforts to withdraw the present Bull from the consideration of the Council of State altogether, but the attempt has failed. The Abbe de Bonllerie, a son of the minister of the household of Charles X., is likely to be the new Bishop of Carcassone. The Muniteur announces the discovery of a new comet : 0,1 Sunday last, January 14th, Id Dien, a gentleman at tacked to the Imperial Observatory, discovered a telescopic comet in the constellation of the Scorpion, two degrees and a half to the south of the star decants. In the they state of the b he was only able to estimate the position of the comet approximatively as follows; Right ascension, 2261 deg. ; Austral declension, 27 digs. On Thursday morning, Jae. 18th, at lio. 28m. 265. mean time the position was: Right ascension, 222 deg. 32 min. 1 see.; Austral declension, 27 deg. 34 min. Up to the present time no tail has been discovered, but the comet presents several luminous points. PARIS, SATIMINLY EVIININO. The Bourse was somewhat affeeted at the opening by the news of the protest of Prussia against her exclusion front the Vienna conference. The rents opened with a fall of 300., and during the first quarter of an hour went down 13c. lower still. Bat the quantity of money thrown upon the market for investment, in consequence of the immense success of the loan, soon produced its effect. The reduction to the extent of 1 per cent. in the interest of treasury bills was felt to be a measure likely to act favourably on the rents, which at present price offers a mash better interest than government securities. The kit in the early part of the day was soon effaced. The Three per Cents. closed at yesterday's prices for account, and with a rise of 150. for cash. The rail ways were almost all better. Western jumped up 17.30 ; St. Germain and Rotten and Havre rose I 10f. ; Grand Central, 8 ; Lyons and Southern, 6f. each; and other lines 2 or 31. To-day, for the first time this:winter, there has been a heavy fall of snow in Paris. It commenced this morning about nine o'clock, and continued for several hours without intermission. The journals of the departments of the east announce that much snow has fallen there. At Strasburg, there was a heavy fall on Monday and the following days, and at ten o'clock on Wednesday morning the thermome ter was at 10 deg. centigrade (14 deg. Fahrenheit). The frost commenced on Tuesday night at Lille, and was preceded by a heavy fall of snow. The farmers in the neighbourhood are much pleased with this circumstance. When the ground is well covered with snow, and a sharp frost comes on, the plants are protected, the insects are destroyed, and a too early germination checked. Accounts from the Pyrenees also state that the weather is very severe there. By a decision of the Minister of Finance the in terest on Treasury Bonds is fixed as follows from the 20th inst. :-3 per cent. per annum for bonds of from three to five months date; 31 per cent. for those of from six to eleven months ; and 4 per cent. for those of one year. This is a reduction of per cent. A letter from London in the Monsieur says: Since the opening of hostilities up to the Ist inst. the total number of the enemy's vessels captured by English cruisers is 92. Out of this number 40, measuring thgether 11,124 tons, have been coadentned and sold as enemy's pro- perty, and with their cargoes have produced a sum of 1,986,730 fr. If to this sum be added the amount of the sale of eight vessels at Memel, it will make a total of 2,047,300 fr. Of the 40 vessels sold in England, the largest lassoing 600 tons, and the smallest 71 tons. The largest soma produced by one ship and cargo was 249.830 fr., and the Smallest B,ooofr. The average may be taken at 49,628 k. Oat of the 40 vessels, 28 were laden with salt, six with wine, two with corn, two with tar and mast wood, two with coffee, ens with molasses, and 11 were in ballast. Of the other vessels captured up to the above date, nine have been given up, end 30 are still awaiting the decision of the Admiralty Court. Of those taken in the Black Sea, six are at Malta. We read in the Monitewr : The Emperor, on the proposition of the Minister of Nal and Marine, has ordered that all donations either in money or in kind for the troops is the East shall be devoted with out distinction to the army and the fleet; that the gifts is money shall be converted into articles, according to the special designation of bis Mejesty; that all objects of sea gumption and others shall be sent, as soon as poseible, t. Marseilles, to be deposited in a warehouse, be classified es much as porsible according to their nature, and then suit to Constantinople, where the military intendant, specially appointed in that city, shall give orders for their reception ; that the distribution of the donations shall be made in the Crimea between the land and sea forces, according to an understanding come to between General Canrobert and Admiral Bruit; end finally, that the articles intended for the use of the sick shall be divided among the hospital establishments at Constantinople and in the Crimea. Mr. Hogg, the English chemist in the Rue Castig lione, has received the following letter front Marshal Valiant: Bir,—l gratefully accept the two hundred bottles of cod liver oil which you have kindly offered for the hospitals of the army of the But, and I deepiTfeel this mark of your sympathy for our brave soldiers. You can send them to the Intendance Militaire, let Division, 60, Rue de Vemeal, from whence they will be forwarded to their destination. Accept, ear, the expression of my thsnks and duty perfect consideration. The Marshal, Minister of War, Vnuart. The Monusur publishes the following notice rela tive to the haw " AA the subscriptions of 560 f. of mate and under of themselves exceed the Ave Madre(' millions, ordeal have been given by the Minicar of Finance, both in Paris sad the departments, to proceed immediately to the enu re reimbursements of the deposits 'Meted on amount of ab, seriptione superior to 6001. of rests. This reimberesineue will be effected at the various places of subecripti on — nautely. in the departments, at the o ffi ces of the R ece i vers-Gene:it of Finance, and at Paris at the Treasury, Rue de Rival. After the liquidation of tke loan amongst the subscribers of 600 f. of mate and under, the issue of mtificates and the r e . inibarsemente to be effected will take place to the wi no named in the provisional receipts, or to their repress a t, Lives. Powers given for this 'surpass mutt be drawn up ca a sheet of stamped paper of ak., and the.signstnre mutt be legiffised by the mayor. Forms of the printed and staraps4 daperses for o f such poyrers.aref Fin anc deposi e te ." d at Paris with the ma. dirges CREASE OF THE FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION. We lately gave, from the Cologne Gaulle, the se. - port that Col. Ocheenbein wu entering the French service as general of brigade. A Paris correspoudsad of the Irspesdance Beige thus describes the cit., oumstances under which this step has been taken. We are informed that the accuracy of the statement may be relied on. The Swiss federal constitution is opposed to any sad in military capitulations with foreign governments, and the federal law forbids enlistments nude on the Swill territory (without, however, assigning any punishment for illegal acts of the kind), but there are ways of overcoming this difficulty. The Preach government has decided on in creasing its existing foreign legion, which now onside of two regiments. It has bun resolved to form two others, composed entirely of Swiss. These legions will form tea brigades, each of which will be placed under the omitted of a Swiss general. Mr. Ocksenbein of Berne will cow. mend one, and Mr. Ritter of St. Oalt is clawed to commend the other ; both are federal colonels. It will be rememb ere d that at the recent re-election of the federal council, by coalition of ultra-radicals, Mr. Ocbsenbein was set la id. , whilst his six colleagues were re-elected. This result, es. tirely unexpected by Mr. Ochsenhein, wounded him deeply. He, the former leader of free corps, one of the commanders - in the war of the Bunderbund, president of the Diet in 1848, might justly consider himself the founder of the new order of things in Switzerland, and he has just been re ' jected. Mr. Ochsenbein is without private (Alone, sad he bas resolved to enter the military service of Franco with the rank of a general of brigade. He will be a valuable . acquisition. His military end general knowledge is este'- , sive and minute, and his character is exalted and fall of dignity. Whether Mr. Ritter will accept the post offered ' to him is not at presdnt certainly known. • We read in the Suisse of Berne: The news is confirmed that Colonel Ochsenbrin hu beat offered the rank of General of Brigade in the French army, and it is certain that he has accepted it. It uppears that France proposes to considerably increase the number of troops admitted iato her service by the law on the Foreign Legion, and to give the command of them to M. Oahu bein. This will explain his promotion to the rank of LENDING MONEY TO THE EMPEROR. The Journal du Loiret relates the following incident oonneeted with the loan, and which took place at Odessa: —" A countryman presented himself to M. de Nem, the receiver, with a bag containing 1,000 f., and throwing it en the table, said, ' That is for the Emperor.' Yon mean for the loan,' said M. de Noury. ' Not at all,' replied the countryman. 'lt is for the Emperor, I with to assist bin in carrying en the war against that Nicholas ; I lead him my money, and I am sure he will return it to me safely! Will you have 3 per Cents. or 4i ?' was the neat question, to which the answer was, I know nothing about per Cents., I tell you it is for the Emperor. Take my 1,000 f., give me a receipt, and that is enough.' This is net by any means a solitary instance ; a great number of the peasantry, partial. larly in the southern and western departments of France, being fully impressed with the idea that they were lending their latently to the Emperor himself, and not to the state. GERMANY. 'RUSSIAN SHIPWRIGHTS ENGAGED FOR FRENCH DOCKYARDS. (711.011 THII CORNS/NOM/1W! OP TEM DAILT NEWS.) STETTIN, JAN. 16. The immense naval preparations going on in the French dockyards have not only absorbed the labour of all the available ship carpenters in the country, but render it desirable to obtain further assistance from abroad. Under these the French government have turned their attention to the pria opal shipbuilding ports in the Baltic, with the view of engaging carpenters and other mechanics see. viceable in ship building. Upwards of sixty men of this description hays been engaged at this port alone, and a still greater number at Danzig, Konigsberg, and Memel. The conditions are very liberal : the men iret a free passage to Havre, with 2 dollars a day for expenses, and their wages are sf. a day. They are also to be sent back to their respective homes at the, expense of the French government, when their services are no longer required. It appears from the shipping lists received from the different ports in the Baltic that few or any of them have reason to complain of a falling off of their trade in consequence of the war. At Memel the number of ships arrived during the year amounted to 1,766, against only 984 in 1863, and 740 in 1852. Konigsberg (Pillars) shows an increase of about 140 vessels (1,166 in 1854, against 1,009 the previous year). The arrivals atjDanzig were 1,504 last year, against 1,360 the previous one, but the exportation of produce—particularly grain—has materially fallen off, the quantity of wheat exported being only 225,000 quarters against 485,000 quarters in 1853, and 470,000 quarters the previous year. Lubeck's trade had increased a trifle, from 1,018 ships in 1853 to 1,063 last year. And, lastly, our own local trade has also slightly improved, the number of ships arrived at Swine , milnde iu 1854 being 1,976 against 1822 in 1853, and only 1,665 the preceding year. A letter from Hanover, in the Cologne Gazette, states that, on the evening of the 15th, Baron de Koller, the Austrian minister at that court, took his departure for Vienna, being summoned there by a telegraphic despatch from his government. 'lhe Indepessdance publishes the following despatch addressed by Count Nesselrode to Baron Budberg, and dated the 14th of December, referring to the language of M. d'Oertsen, the representative of the Duchies of Mecklenburg at the Germanic Diet : "The Emperor," says Count Neaselrode, " is aware of Ote observations made by the plenipotentiary of the twe (!rend-Dual Courts of Mecklenburg at the Diet of Frank lint, on the various occasions on which that assembly has Mss milled es to consider the Bute,. question. lAsg ism, at the sitting of Ohs 24th of July, when tLg on the treaty of the 20th of April, X. trOertsen declared that the two Courts he had the bower to represent, while witnessing with pleasure the pig understanding established between the cabinets of Vienna and Berlin, could not but observe that the accession of the German Confederation to this treaty of alliance offeitsive and defensive, was neither in sooordinos with the spirit of the Federal Fact, nor with the position assigned to Germany as • European rower ; and that it would e'en ontstep the limits laid down in the 47th article of the lut treaty of Vienna, as regarded a possible co-operation, and that on that mould his august principals could not think of he the secession. Faithful to this reasoning. the Plenipotentiary abstained from voting on the Ynt essisiss, when the Diet was called on to decide on the additional article of the 26th of Noveinber. " It is to be regretted, Monsieur le Baron, t►at the able observations of M. d'Oertsen did not prevail on the Federal Assembly. They would have shielded Germany from the complications which the cabinet of Vienna labours more and snore to usamulate. You know that our august mu ter has always carefully avoided any interference with the questions submitted to the Diet, and which are its own ex elusive concern. But hie Imperial Majesty canard deny himself the satisfaction of evincing to the two grand dual clans how much he appreciates their noble attitude to wards a policy that, under the pretext of insuring the return of peace, tends to force out of the existing war a straggle that shall involve the whole of Europe. " Be pleased to make known this testimony of our august master's interest to their Royal Highnesses in whatever way you think best.—Roceive, sto., &o." It may not be amiss to note that one of the Grand Dukes of Mecklenburg, whose policy Count Newt- . rode finds so sage and appropriate, has a son mar ried to a daughter of the Cssr, and living at St. Petersburg as a member of the imperial family. Roms.—A letter from Rome of the 10th, in the Univers, the especial organ of Popery militant, says " Count Robert de Pralorino, representative of Piedmont to the Holy See, left this plum upwude of a fortnight back. His departure was given out as simple leave of absence, but the well-known sentiments of this minister lead to the belief that it will terminate in his resignation, should the Piedmon tees government not stop short in the course which it is par suing. For, in feet, what Christian man could represent at the court of Rome such a policy, and ren der himself the organ and accomplice of sail flagrant violations of the rights of the church What man of honour could aid in theepeliation proposed by the Sardinian government to its parliament t The Pope, in his address of December 9, timated that grave measures are in preparation by the oly ess against the station and accomplices of these wen legions nsupetions."