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r 1- $ not hare any influence upon your lordship's actions. I then wrote and gave them, in English and Chinese, the follow ing reply to Mr Wade : Ny 11,nr Wade.—We hare received your letters of the 4th, arid I rr.nl the contents of yours to Hangki (who brought it to me). it. order that he might see that the only way of adjusting &ink:titles i• the one which you point out. The llunree, if they are sin c er e in th e i r w i s h for peace, have the means in their own hands of bringing shout a settlement at any moment, and if the destruction of Pekin or uy great calamity ensue, it is the colllo , lWerlCe of their own conduct." October called at note. lie had been up the ' ,hole night, be said,, with the Prince of Kunz. "tsizuast p. :4" the provisions of the treats. of MAR, and the osiveution. The Prince of Kung had determined to both. and to give up the prisoners in three days' time. on the condition that both the allied and the Chinese forces should fall back • few miles, and thin place diutiuce between each other. The prince now incited roe U. write to your lordship to this effect ; and he also wished explanat.iens from me on several rouge in both treaty aid convention, particularly in rers to the resident mini s t er , th e p ayment of indemniet Ise sea the evacuation of the places held by the allied troops. I again pointed out how timeless it wan far Mr to. coottone to write notes to your lonl,hip, and repeated my objection' to being made the medium of proposing tioit our troops should fall beck from any post tioo they now held before or near Pekin. It was equally useless for me, I also said, to dismiss the treaty or cow's . but, in order to gratify the prince, I gave such ex• pLustioo• some print a.O I felt at liberty to make, while on oilier- I merely refer re d him to your lordship. I then wrote • note in Chinese to Mr. V. stating that I had been int.need by the Chinese authorities that they intended to send back the whole of the prisoners on the Atli instant ; that their troops had already been directed to fall back ; and that 1 trusted there would no longer be occasion for ours t.. advance. I also gave Hang.ki, at his particular request. rote, stating, "If Mr. Loeb, myself, and all the other prisoners, are sent back in • proper manlier, the English goverumeut will take no re venge. A, fur au I unilenitanil the present position of affairs, the ftritisli government do not intend to make fresh demands upon the Chinese, if the latter agree, without any exception, to the provisions of the treaty of Igrel, and the promised courention.l dctober 7th. —At daybreak this morning we heard the sound of a cannonade, which Listed fur a few minutes and then ceased. It seemed to come from no considerable di.. Lace, and, as the information couveyed to u., both publicly and secretly. from oar friends in camp, had warned us that an attack might take place at any tune, we thought that this anon! moment had now arrived. .tt a quarter to eight Hang-ki came in to learn from us the rumuing of the firing. He could no longer conceal from us that our army was before Pekin, and ad mined that Yuen-Xing- Yuen—the emperor's ormuner palace —hail been taken by the allied troops yesterday afternoon. The Prince of Kiang, who had been staying there all along, had managed to escape ; but he, lei, had been needy Likes, as he was going out to the *me, yeeterdey after omit. Returning to the city, in the eveming, be fad all the gates closed and the walls manned, and kit only means of getting into the city was by being hauled lapin a basket. He festal that my note, stating that we should be sent out aa the Atli. and the official letter hors Prises sung cover• lag it, could not hate reached the English camp. I told him that, daring the whole time of our confine meat, both in the prison and in the temple, we had never ceased to warn them against the danger of delay, and all that we bad foretold seemed now to be coming to pass. Their only chance of escape lay in the immediate surrender of thew prisoner.. How is that to be done, said Hang-ki, in the face of firing! and how can I now get the authority of Prince Kong for your surrender` Your immediate de um woold also interfere with the interview he intended to give you to-day. The interview, we replied, was of little importune, sod danger to the city, in aim of delay, was imminent We mimed him, therefore, to arrange for our being sent away et once, regardless of whether we had to r out in the face of Are or not, as we were very willing to risk that danger. He left us, pneodstog to return shortly, sad we counted the minutes until Rime became hours, and the day began to weer away. We did not again hear the mood of attack, but deteciol„ Dow and then, some stir, as of the movement .4 troops, in our vicinity, and could observe looks of am own on the fame of our guards and gaolers. We sent to Haerg•krelerest, to inquire about hie movements, bet ell we odd leers hoes his servants was, that after leaving us he had been lowered over the rite wall, and had gone, as they supporod, in quiet of Prince sung. it was unpoesilde to tefl when he would return. We windy "shed for the next morning, and felt sonic relief when so comonade was beard as daylight broke. By seeding to Haag-lei's house we loomed that he had returned home at 3 ma., and would be with as shortly. Ile caner at it, and the glimpse obtained of his counteamice before he had pet an the look he wished to M 04111141, showed con redouble depelka and anxiety. H. explained to in why led sot returoed . " I left pia full of coo mew." he odd, "a• I brew flat the city and your lives were hot► in danger. Had the shy bees aauaulted, the het cry raised by the soldiers would have been 'Away with the foreign penmen.' When I inquired for Prince Kung. I fouud that be was too far off for me to hope to roach hies. I therefor, despatched a note prop csior that yea should In given up at iiunw, on coodinou that the ',weir troops sirooki retire from Y uendillog• Yuen, which they tool here to plunder. Al the sam e ti me I received air limitation from Yr. Wade to meet him outside the Tibithing.gate at four o'clock is the afternoon. I west, and we bad a L , ngs ilisemeon. He ilealanded not only the immediate surrewkr of the prisoners, but also one of city gates, and he hooded me this letter, in which you see be *Am the MAN in writing. It is quite int 66 to seem* with sorb demand, and what ore me be eel owlet such tuvutu-Lacts. I reed the WA+ wLa it n.l7ll;the MUMS of the allied oast weeders f deuwteLue the liberatiue of ell the sewn who ina.l ,nted, and the &Wray into their beads of use of the g.t•. of the city ea • promotion spied further act. of perfidy us the part of the Meese. eonkt only tell Ilang•ki that this step was rendered ne. awry by their pr•reioua acts of bed faith, and that the albs could nu rput any trout in them. It war useless to hots. that the *filet! genemls would alter their detenNii•a tt.,u eke° they had euee takes it, nor did I see any merge open to tine Chum. ext.cpt . . At this noaaect the 'sr...pert lwfore na seemed darker thin ewer, but Hagoki after aonie hmitatiou relieved to from our surreal,e by remarking that he Inol sewed with It,. Wade that we should he given tip to-day as already iseurnised, end that we should he sent out at four o'dock W aft. rnouti. rued* to rely upon the assunnioe of any ataadarin, we aaaiously awaited the hour 1111Illed, and could ass that considerable tunenuteao, we. evinced by Hang.ki, who visited se several tunes iu the "mime of Ow At one Sisal he whispered to we , "I am I.rt.'ulvfll maims to get you away f o r re..ffiens that I will tell you eg St some future time, and I will ad wait for the boor in.ined to Neal you off." He was bow inning to rgive w wine niforuilition nape...tins tlie other pruousea l'pwaids of twenty had been taken, he said, but with a view to then sac custody, they hail been divided tato small parties and sent away to different cities Ia the iuterrui. It cull Like sonic day. to get them all back, sad he hod heard that four or tire of them bad sickened and Ord. Thor, iu l'ekiu numbered eight iu all, iaelneire of M.. Lod, hail toys& ; sail we were all to be seat out together. At last. rt two o'clia L. 1:.• told us that all the prisoners ken Leen assembled, it ml ti. t we 1 . 1/111.1 take our departure. We were planed to eovi rid ia rt., without being allowed to see each other, and were ,e.,,i toil by a large party of soldier, awl maniLaii, th.• stim-t., which wore a deserted IAWKI htICC, to t!,. id, w ,.,,t, een g a t e o f the city. 'We woo eta, with thankful heart.•, et (h.* great portals opened, anal than immediately closed behind es, that we were alomly free men, (or our guard, not daring to folios , u. sot of the ens, tad left to ou:salsas the task of finding our way to the allied Map. I WWI% UMW .1.1041 din report, without endeavouring to expreria my grutitushi to .our lonlship for the gnu and etc ~,,, pronining mamma in ullich you waisted, from the first, upia our surrender, and which, under the blessing of Ui• nee Vroraleacea has mainly inutributed to our liberatioo. Nor should I wait to adieus ledge the great debt I abo our to toy fellow.prbeirrer, Mr. Loeb, for the wen,. support I invariably received floor him whenever a wurneut of trial or of Jaeger preempt...l ,teal(.--1 ti. PARILVI. Tor. Rues wrne CUM 4.—Yeuterday tuoritiug be usual order was given, and the salutes in honour of the pea. e were fired at Mt. Jam.% Park, amt uy the Tower guns. This customary crrk.m.Phy is not gone through wad lb, written deepatehe. arrive—although the tulapatua, of • oune. communicate the Dews ht adrauee. Txe VAI 'ANT A I.D1 7 .;;;;;17 . CI .1W N. —The Loril reetenlay inane.' hi, precept for the election of an ahharnieli for the want of Caudlerna, crated by the death • sir Carroll. The election will lake place at the White Hart Tarrru, Abchurch-lane, or Tuesday nest, at 2 o'clock. Mr. Dewily I Wkia ir the only candidate, aud bon the este..., in which Ws gentkinau la held by his kiluw•eitiselim, and his active and useful ezertieto for .o kiss a i nod in the l'ourt of Common Council, there does Wit appear to be the tarot prulwbilty that any OW will ore Forward to olio oe U NIT ED A M.." ATION up S 4 NMN ANT ERA Or GMAT MESTA If. The annual meeting of thia association was eoatissed yeeterday of terio.on is the house of the Ikariely uf Arta, .144 in mitr..et, A.l.lpbi ; Mr. Edwin Chad .6A, wads& 31r. J. 1:. h 4 11, pnucipsl of the Monolith rued Normal Celkge, nil prier ort " The Clams of m ed ia nriemka, on the attests... Teachers." A paper en titled, •• FAllicataos 14.• giv, in our c 0.., )4 , 6 . 6 r war nail at tin. erecting /nestles by Mr. W. A. shields. Voles of %louts aria Oren to the elcorioeu, and sin., co 11. defy el Art. ter the „„,4 tine p„xewtiMP torsaissted. _ . ... 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WL do not regret having hitherto abstained from commenting on a fact which for several day,' e ast has attracted public attention both at home and abroad, and called forth not a few indignant observations from our contemporaries in Paris and eliewhere. We allude to the seizure of Count TELEICI by order of the Saxon Government during his recent visit to Breeden, and his illegal deten tion and transmission to Vienna on the demand of the Government of Austria. We frankly own that we were in charity willing to cling ea long as possible to the belief that some show of explana tion might be made by those who are accused o: perpetrating an act so ineffably base at the Vdding of our apostolic ally. But in their silence they arc self-condemned ; and we can no longer, there ((Pe, hesitate to add our protest to those already ut..eied against one of the most wanton and wic'ced violations of public decency and of public right for which even Austria and her minions are answerable. Count iLLEKI is a Hungarian gentleman of good family, and once of good fortune, who, for the crime of having loved his country but too well, was driven into exile several years ago by its Imperial oppressors. To say that his sympathies and opinions are not what they fo.ntr-ly were would be to impute to him personal and political dishonour. In common with his many banished countrymen, he has doubtless often sighed for the time when he should be permitted to return to Hungary ; and remembering as we all do the per secutions and humiliations which every man of his race has been subjected to during the last ten year& who was suspected of sufficient intellect or Mailiillelllll to feel his country's degradation, it cannot be thought surprising if expressions have in sneech or writing sornet'mes escaped from him inimical to the janismary rule beneath which Hun pry has groaned. So long, however, as he abstained from any overt act against the dominion of Austria, and so long as he took care not to cross the precincts of her territory, he was justified in colsidering himself safe and free. In Piedmont, Switzerland, Holland, Sweden, France, and Eng land, he had never dreamt of molestation ; for these are independent countries where the unfortu nate men who have been worsted in political strife elsewhere may dwell in security and peace. Count Tetzei seems to have fallen into the error of sup posing that .he minor governments of Germany recognised the same public law of civilization and humanity ; and that, if not animated by the same virtue of self-respect, they would at least evince enough of the vanity of independence to avoid the public acts of kidnappers and informers. Poor illiterate Turkey, that never pretended to be ranked as a land of poeta, philosophers, and states men, had proved a secure place of refuge for Polish and Hungarian refugees, at a period of the greatest exasperation against there on the part of their Imperial pursuers; and any one who had heard the pretensions of German governments to be con sidered independent and enlightened, and their importunate claims to ho considered on that ac count worthy of the protection and support of other and greater states, might well be forgiven if he supposed it impossible that any of them should in the face of day enact the dastardly part which the Porte in 1849 instinctively spurned. Saxony, moreover, pretends to be a constitutional state, having a certain representative form of liberty, and a certain phantom freedom of speech and print ; and Count TILLZKI, having occasion ou ac count of private business to visit Dresden, pro ceeded thither with as little apprehension for his personal safety as he would have felt if about to visit Berne or the Hague. Ho had not been many hours in the Saxon capital when he was surprised by a visit from the police, and informed that he was a prisoner: In reply to his remonstrances . . and denuusla for •specitc statement of the charge against him, he was given to understand that his arrest had been made in compliance with a requisi tion from the Government of Vienna. Urgent re presentations were made on his behalf by persons of station and character to whom he was known at Dresden ; and the Minister, by whose orders he had been seized, was reminded that even were he not a German nobleman, and thereby possessing peculiar privileges which it was not legal to infringe, he could not, in accordance with inter national law, be given up to the Austrian Govern ment without having first been tried and convicted of some specific offence against the public peace by • Saxon tribunal. The Minister hesitated, and communications by telegraph were addressed to Vienna, the purport of which we can be at no loss to imagine. The outrage had been com mitted, but the scandal and shame were yet to come. Could not Austria afford to give her abject dependent time and opportunity for consideration as to what she should do further in the buxinees, or at least for a semblance and make belief of deliberation I The prey had been snared ; any undertaking would be given that it should not escape ; no foreign diplomacy should be allowed to pick the lock of the state prison ; only let servile Saxony be suffered to do its work without openly wearing the badge of the Vienna police, and its fidelity might be absolutely depended on. But the heart of despotism is hardened and its eyes blinded, so that it cannot walk warily in the way of its wickedness. Nothing would satisfy Count Race BERG but that Count Tat axi should be given up ; and given up he accordingly was by the spiritless and shameless Government of the craven King of Ssxosrv. He is now the inmate of some of the dungeons whence so many of his hated race have been led to the scaffold. We do not suppose that such an event is imminent, for the precedents are the other way, and Austria likes to enjoy the protracted misery of her victims, and the repeated pleasure of refusing their release, when faintly and feebly asked for by well-bred diplomatists, before she suffers the final blow to descend. It was so in the case of a still more illustrious Hungarian patriot, Count Lours BATH PANT, a man whom the EMPEROR had acknowledged and consulted with as Prime Minister of Hungary, but whose acts in that capacity he subsequently repudiated, and whose life was the sacrifice Imperial consistency exacted for having been temporarily betrayed into the weakness of confession. Let no man weakly or thoughtlessly say that the kidnapped and be trayed nobleman whom the Saxon Government have thus iniquitously dealt with is in no danger as to life or limb. The Government of Austria must be born again before the imputation of tor ture as a means of extorting political information will cease to cling to it ; and the blood-red roll of Italian and Hungarian victims is too familiar to one eyes to warrant us in cherishing any delusion as to the peril of a man unhappily circumstanced as Count Timm is at this hour. Nothing but the indignant voice of Europe can loose his chain. Ur Court. WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec. 2a. There was no addition to the royal dinner party yesterday. The Queen and Prince Consort, with Princess Helena, went out sleighing {in the Park this morning. Princess Alice, Prinoem Louise, and Prince Louis of Hesse, followed in a second sleigh. Major-General Seymour and Colonel Ponsonby attended on horseback. The Prince of Wales went out shooting, attended by dentenant-Colonel Keppel. _ . The Queen and PrinceComart have done Mr. Devick the honour of inspecting the bust e:Aeatol by him of the Duke of Newcastle. DEPARTURE OF ERR COURT FROM WINDSOR. On Wednesday, Use 2nd proximo, her Majesty, the Prism Ooneort, and members of the Royal Family and suite, will take their departure from Windsor Olathe sad proceed to the Isle of Wight, where the Court will slay ten days, and afterwards return to Windsor. Her Majesty will remain here until the 4th of February, when she will proceed to Buckingham Palace for the same. Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to per mit the Horticultural Society to bear henceforward the mimeo( the Royal Horticultural Society. Consequently the Utters alined to the manes of fellows will be P.R.H.S. Instead of F.H.B. . The Duke and Ducheea of Ariall have been un able to meet at Trentham this Christmas, owing to the duchess toeing confined by a severe cold 4 Reeeeastb, Dvm bartonebire. The Earl and Countess of Warwick and family, who came to town a few days idace from Warwick sty, Lam shortly for Torquay. The Earl and Countess of Westmoreland have arrived at their new residence in South Auclley-street, front Apldtorpe Hew, Northamptonshire. . . - Count Jaucourt has left Albert-gate House on a visit to Sir Anthony and Lady de Rothschild, at Mentmore. Lord and Lady Forester have arrived in town from his lordship's hunting-box in Leicestershire. The Dowager Lady Cliutou has returned to the Brunswick Hotel, Jennyn-street, from a Mut to the Earl sad Countess Spencer, at Althorp Park. The President and Council of the Photographic Society have resolved, fa consequence of the arctic state of the weather, to postpone the annual winter *Ulric, which had been previously announced for an early day in January. The reception evenings of the Artists' and Amateurs' Coaversazione for the coming season have been Iliad for February 7, March 7, April 11, and May 9, 1861. During the seven days from January 1 to January 8, the British Museum will be closed, as usual at the beginning of every year. It is rumoured that The Black Domino is to be rehearsed forthwith at the Royal English Opert, Covent Gallen ; and that the rehears is of Paue, which were interrupted a while since, will shortly be resumed. Pre p:mattock too, are being made for The Amber WeteAbh her Majesty's Theatre. The present intensely cold weather is being severely felt by the troops at Colchester, the greatest diffi culty being experienced in maintaining the temperature of the huts to anything like a comfortable degree of warmth. By the aid of a liberal Nubia' iptiou among the officers, the various depota were well supplied with Christmas cheer and plenty of old ale. The proposed reduction of the Indian de. pots to the extent of 100 men per regiment will considerably reduce the streuath of the camp, at present numbering over 2,000 men. It is thought this change will be effected by the suspension of recruiting for the devote after the enrol meet of a strength 100 less than the present number. It is, however, currently reported that Colchester will shortly cease to be a depot station, and that the camp will be occu pied by entire regiments of infantry. A Florence letter of the 22nd aaya :—"The interest in political events and characters is at the present moment completely absorbed in the general sorrow felt in the city of Bouvenuto Celled at the great and audacious robbery perpetrated, late but Monday night or at a very early hour on Tuesday morning, il3 the Sala Dille (lemma, or Hall of the Jewels, in the National Gallery of the Uffizi. A hundred and ninety-one rings, of which many are amongst the most precious known in the world—me the work of Benvenuto eellini ; the head of a warrior, enamelled and set in diamonds; vases ornamented with rubies end diamonds ; the ricldy wrought handle* of other famous lapis lazuli and jasper cups ; the celebrated green cameo, with its ruby setting—a booty, in short, which the °facial journal represents as nut leas than a million of franca in value, but which, it is whispered, may be rated at thrice that sum—all this has disappeared ►t one fell swoop, and as yet no traces of the plunderers have been dis covered" The sale of the late El Hami Paella's stud was commenced at Cairo on the 10th instant, and is continued at intervals of two days. The horses have been selling at amazing prices. Among others a stallion, 15 years of age, and described as having nothing in his favour but a tolera ble pedigree, fetched 730/. Agents went to the sale on the part of the Emperors of Austria and France, the Kings of Wurtemberg, Mazony, and Manbide. No bidden appeared for England ; indeed, it is more than doubtful whether English amateurs would have found anything in the stables to tempt them. A Paris letter says :—"Delegates from the work ing men in Nome parts of England h►ve just come to Paris with the view of organisuig a grand excursion, or visit, to their fellow-workmen in this capitaL It has nothing to do with the volunteer project which so signally failed some short time since ; neither has it any political signification. I am assured it is simply to introduce the English opera. tives to the acquaintance of their Parisian brethren, with a view to mutual improvement and to the advancement of the more friendly feeling which may result from personal ac quaintance. It is proposed that the visit shall take place about Easter or Whimuntide, and that the married MS shall be accompanied by their wives, and the time allowed no more than will enable the strangers to see the curiosities of Paris. Measures are to be taken to provide beforehand every accommodatioo, and prevent the recurrence of the mistakes which signalised the visit of the (*Ow - mists to England. lo this the dotards* will be greatly assisted by the intelligent workmen of the Faubourg, whose aptitude for organisation is well known. With the Parisians who are as yet aware of the plan the excursion seems tot only feasible but popular.* for the protection of public property. The Pre.t dent, for prudential reasons, was opposed to such a ineasuse. It was understood that Kansas would shortly be admitted into the Union. It was rumoured that Senator Douglas would de clare in the Senate that it was the duty of the Pre &Wort to resist secession by f orce. . .. . The Louisiana Legislative had passed a bill for electing delegates to the Southern Convention. The Peruvian Congress had granted extraordi nary powers to the President for carrying on the war against Bolivia. Castilla was to raise 30,000 men. The steamer North Star, from Aspinwall, had arrived at New York with 1,000,000 dollars in treasure. Advices had been received from Ran Francisco to the let inst. The news was unimportant.M The markets were dull. NEW YORK, Dec. h. Financial affairs are improving, more especially as foreign exchange, in which a large Janine*. has beein s o r it Commercial bills on London are quoted lo2i to 103 i. Money is more plentiful. Stocks are lower. Illinois scrip, 581 ; New York Central, 72; ; Erie, 28i. The cotton market is steady ; sales to-day, 2,800 bales ; middling Up land, 10c. Flour—State and Western descriptions show a declining tendency. Wheat is steady. Corn and pork dull. Lrtl, whiskey, and rice firm. Sugar and coffee steady. Freights for cotton to Liverpool, 9.32 d. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE SIEGE OF GAETA The Turin correspondent of the Nord of to-day writes :—" It is perfectly correct that Russia, Austria, and Prussia have urged the Emperor of the French to keep his fleet before Gaeta ; but, on the other band, it should be added that the Cabinet of St. James' has issued a vigorously written note, reminding the French minister that the presence of Admiral Barbier de Tinan has the character of a veritable intervention. I know, from a good source, that the Emperor will withdraw his fleet. A delay of a few days is the result of the pressure which has been exer cised on French policy—a pressure, however, which will not divert that policy from the course which the Emperor has traced for it." KING FRANCIS IL AND HIS EXILED TROOPS. The Gazette de Gaeta publishes the following order of the day, addressed by King Francis 11. to the Neapolitan troops now upon the Pontifical territory : Soldiers ! Separated from you by the force of events, my affection will ever be with you. The remembrance of your fatigues during the last eight months, and of your glorious exploits, will never be effaced from my mind. I am compelled to disband provisionally the corps to which you belong. I have the firm belief that vary soon you will le re-united, perhaps to fight again, and increase the glory of the Neapolitan troops. You carry medals on your breasts which attest your bravery, and which recall the combat' in which you have given so many proofs of your valour. You are about to return for the present to your firesides, where you will find your companions who, in fighting valiantly in 1848 and 1849, gained the medals of Fidelity and those of Sicily and of Rome. Unite yourselves with them, and you will be respected and honoured like them by all good and honest citizens. A day will certainly come in which you will take up again the arms you now carry for the defence of your country, your family, and your pro. perty. (Signed) FitaNcois. THE SAXON 00' AND COUNT A letter from Dresden of the 26th says :—" It was perfectly well known to the police that M. Teleki came to Dresden to see an Hungarian family. This family was pro vided with a regular Austrian passport, and the police in giving the carte de sejovr to M. Teleki knew perfectly well to whom they gave it. They left him alone for some days, hoping that he would oompromise himself by some poli tical move. Disappointed in this, they arrested him. The Hungarian family was subjected to the most minute search. They refused to allow M Teleki to see them again before leaving, but permitted him to write. In his letter the count said that lie had done all he could to persuade the Saxon government to postpone the extradition, feeling confident that his friends at Vienna would obtain from the Austrian government itself per mission to leave the country. The police would not defer the extradition a single day, alleging that they had the most formal orders from Vienna." PESTH, Dre. 27. The general oongregatiou of the city of Pesth has resolved upon making representations to the Court Chancellor to obtain the release of Count Laslimlaus Teleki, or if this be not possible, to have bitn tried by the Hungarian tribunals. ITALY AND HUNGARY. There is at present a most active and extensive system of recruiting for Hungary going on in Naples, under the direction of Hungarian officers, who have either remained in or come to Naples for this special purpose. Almost all the officers of the late Garibaldian army who have enlisted are promoted a step in this Hun garian corps. Generals Turr and Eber, who are both at Milan, are likewise actively engaged in recruiting for Hungary. Milan indeed may be con sidered as the Hungarian head-quarters, but both the Neapolitan and Milanese recruits receive instructions to repair to Constantinople as the common spot of rendezvous. Almost the whole of Eber'a brigade has enlisted for Hungary. This is likewise the case with the battalion formerly be longing to Tures division commanded by Major Tanara. The corps of Garibaldi's Guides remaina at Naples, where it would seem that Colonel Missuri awaits the orders and, at the fitting moment, the arrival of Garibaldi. The general recruiting fora Hungarian campaign, likely to take place at a very early period, is openly carried on. AUSTRIA. VIENNA, FRIDAY EVENING. An autograph letter of the Emperor, dated the 21st inst., and addressed to the President of the Imperial Chancery Court for Transylvania, orders the immediate organisation of the Chancery and also of the "Gubernitun" for the same province. The RADIO letter also orders the assembling of a conference of the most eminent persons from the various classes of the different nationalities and re ligious oonfessions, to deliberate on the early organi sation of the Transylvanian Diet. The privileges of this Diet are to be determined according to the ancient public rights of the citizens, but within the limit prescribed by the Imperial Diploma of the 20th October. The said conference will also make propositions in reference to the re-establishment of the fornier administrative divisions of 'Transylvania and of the (Aloes of Lord-Lieutenants (Obergeepaune) and Chief Captains (Obereapitan) of the counties. It will also discuss the re-establishment of the offices of superior Royal Judges (Oberkouigsrichter), of the Smirkler, and of the Saxon legal and adminis trative authorities (Sachsen-Stiihle). SPAIN. MADRID, Dan. 27. The Epoe« asserts that the Moors are making groat efforts to collect the necessary funds for the payment of the second instalment of the in demnity. Extensive inundations have taken place in Spain, causing great devastation. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dir. 22. . . . The Jeddah claims have been deflni - v - ely setiled. They are to be paid in full in Turkish Consols at 53. The Grand Vizier's report on the Rotunelian mission has been published. . . . . The Vizier dc:clares that the complaints were exaggerated. Tho Christians, he says, are not ex ceptionably oppressed, but the Groek clergy are much to blame. A commission of inquiry, under the presidency of Ethem-Paoha, is to be named for Asia Minor. The money market is still depressed. THE UNITED STATES. RESIGNATION OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE. LONDONDERRY, FRIDAY Emawc. The Montreal Doesa Companv'e steamer Cana dian, Captaiu Graham, from Portland (Maine) o n tha 15th mat., has arrived, and landed all her m ail,,. The strainer North Briton, from Liverpool, had arrived out. _ _ _ Mr. Cass had resigned the Secretaryship of State. The event created a profound sensation. General Scott had expressed his opinion that it was necessary to send reinforcements to Carolina, (LATEST BY TELEGRAPH.) NEW YORK Dec. 15. Mr. Daniel S. Dickenson, of New York, will probably seeceed Mr. Case as Secretary of State. Many of the Southern members of Congress have signed a manifesto declaring that the day of com promise has passed, and that nothing can avert %aces/lion. President Buchanan has issued a proclamation appointing the 4th of January next as a day of humiliation and prayer. The steamers City of Washingtou,and Saxonia sailed to-day for Europe, but took n o specie. The stock market remains dull, and the following are the latest quotations :—lllinois Central, 534 ; Erie 25i ,• New York Central , 711. All other markets are unchanged. NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 14. The cotton market is unchanied. The sake of the week amount to 57,000 bales ; receipts during the same period, 62,000 bales. QUEENSTOWN, SATURDAY. The Liverpool, New York, and Philadelphia Company's steamer City of Washington, from New York on the 15th, has arrived. Silo brings the American mail. She experienced continuous strong gales with heavy sea during the pasaagel She passed the Etna on the 17th inst. The Vigo, from Liverpool, had arrived out. The news by the City of Washington has been anticipated. LIVERPOOL, Bsrmumv. The Royal Mail steam ship America, which loft Liverpool to-day for Halifax and Boston, took 162,6031. in specie. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (fox ous ow comoposourr.) PARIS, FRIDAY EVERDIO. I am happy to announce that it iv M. de Per signy's intention to give a favourable answer for New Year's-day to all the applications for permis sion to start new journals which have been ad dressed to the ministry of the interior since his accession to office. M. Emile 011ivier's paper may therefore be expected to appear. I believe there is no doubt that M. Thouvenel bas written a diplomatic note to Austria in favour of Count Teleki. The Patric announces, for the second time, that the Viceroy of Egypt is about to make a pilgrimage to Mecca, but I have reason to believe that the news is unfounded. The Bourse continues to be much depressed. The heavy fall in the Rente yesterday has been followed by the further fall to-day of 20c. for cash and 25e. for aooount, the latest price in each case being 67fr. 75c. In other mecuritiee,which hitherto, in consequence of the little business doing, have been less affected than the Route, the fall was more serious than it has been for a long while. Mobilier fell 121 r. 50c. The Orleans Railway fell Bfr. 75c. ; Northern, 7fr. 50c. ; Lyons, fffr. 25c. ; Western, Mr. ; Southern, 3fr. 75c ; and Eastern, 2fr. 50e. The Mires Bank shares were much depreciated. The rumours about the Ottoman loan and the parties concerned in it, are, to say the least, quite as unfavourable as ever. No credit is attached to a paragraph in the Conatitstientiel denying in general tenna the interference of government with a certain prosecution. Last evening the thaw was decided, and the night was as mild as in summer ; a soft south wind and a blur moonlit sky so beguiled the senses that people were standing about i► their gardens at midnight and almost expecting to hear the night ingales. But this morning, about 10 o'clock, the wind chopped round to the north-east, and it is again freezing hard. The streets are in such a bad state from the frozen "slush," left by the thaw, that carriages can only get along at a foot-pace. Professor Becquerel, of the Institute, has slipped down iu the Jardin des Plantes, and fractured his thigh. He is going on well. The discrepancy in the accounts of the sale of Prince Soltikoff's museum is now cleared up. It appears that the Emperor only purchased his speci mens of ancient arms of Europe for the mere trifle of 10,0001. sterling. The bulk of the collection, including the Eastern anus, and a vast assemblage of works of art, has become the property of Baron &there, wbo proposes, it is said, selling them by auction about the month of April. PARIS I THUMSDAT ETIVINO. It is hoped that on the let January the Emperor will announce the conclusion of commercial treaties with Prussia and Belgium. There was a serious fall at the Bourse to-day, which is attributed partly to the decline of in Conwda partly to very sinister rumours about the affairs of an eminent financier, and partly, perhaps principally, to the disappointing news that the en trance fee of If., which was thought as good as abolished, is, after all, to be maintained. The Route fell 443. for cash and 35c. for account, closing at 67.06 and 08. Mobilier fell 10f. The Orleans Railway fell 5f.; Southern, 3.76 ; Northern and Lyons, 2.50 each ; and Eastern, 1.25. Western was without change. I hear that M. Alex. Dumas will ho obliged to give up his Naples journal, the INAlipetedente, and that he is coining back to Paris very shortly. M. de Saint Lige, one of the oldest ineiiibers of the staff of the Deliats, is just dead, at the age of 73. He was an old soldier, and his speciidite was to write military articles in time of war. His de scriptions of the campaign iu the Crimea will be freshly remembered. Snowballing in the Tuileries gardens was carried on to such an extent on Christmas-day that it be came necessary to send for troops to protect the public. A parcel of young scamps systematically assailed every well-dreesed person, particularly holies who wore bonnets worth spoiling. One young man, supposed to be an Englishman, used his cane iu self-defence, and • regular row was the consequence. Many bear-skin caps belonging to grenadier guards who came to restore order were seen rolling about in the Wow. The troops were unarmed and could do little, but ultimately a body of sergeuts de vile cleared the gardims and arrested several of the snowbaLlens. To-day there is a cold, disagreeable thaw, and the streets are in a horrible state, notwithstanding the great and praiseworthy eiertiona of the tallies. The Lake Windermere is, says the Kendal Mer rum now frozen over, and number of skaters may daily he seen plying their healthy and invigorating amusement ou the glassy surface of the beautiful lake. ABOLITIOK OF PASSPORTS. The French passport system ceases u regard. British travellers on Tuesday next. The effect (say. path) of this wife and liberal measure of the Emperrr of the French must be highly beneficial to both ortintri,,, p ar , titularly France. The South Eastern, the Brighton, t!.. South Western, and Great Western Companies will, it I, reasonable to suppose, derive immediate benefit iron, and hereafter, when the London, Malmo, and Dor. r f;.,.. is finished. the benefit will also extend in a great t ,, the company owning that railway. The Minister of the Interior has addressed the followi ng circular to the prefects : " Monsieur to PrEfet—The Emperor, so made known by notice inserted in the Moniker of the 16th Mg- its decided that from the Ist January next, and by recipr, , ,, the subjects of the Queen of Great Britain and coming into France, will be admitted to circulate ou the territory of the empire without passports. I request you i•, consequence to give the nice:emery instructions, that English subjects may be received in France on the simple declaration of their nationality. Such among th,... as shall desire to be provided with a voucher wl will allow them to claim the advantages which ate corded to foreigners provided with passports for visiting tie public buildings, will only have to present to the spr i d ageut at the frontier a visiting cant, on which that will affix the stamp of the administration ; or they may pm. vide themselves with a special card, which will be deliven .l to them on application by the prefect of police. 1 re.ic,,t you, Monsieur le Prifet, to cause these instructions to t o published in the form of the annexed notice, which you will take care to have posted up in the porta and the ditf.•rent points of entry on the territory-. Accept, &a., "F. Di Pamitcxy." THE PEACE WITH CHINA. Yesterday the Lord Mayor received the subjoinei communication from Lord Elgin, under date of Pekin, Nov. 1. At that time Mr. Cubitt had not assumed the offioe of chief magistrate, a circumstance which will account for rho letter being addressed to him in his capacity of a member of parliament, and as • private friend of the noble earl : "Pekin, Nov. 1, 1860. "My dear sir,—As you took an interest in my mission to China, you may be pleased to hear from me that 1 ita actually at Pekin, and that peace is concluded letweeo Greet Britain and this country. China is now opened up to Christianity and commerce, and if foreigners, both autho. rides and private individuals, conduct themselves towards the people of the country with consideration and fairway, hope that all the advantages gained by the British treaty of 1+4514, and supplemented by the British convention of 1860, will be retained, whatever dynastic changes take plan in the empire. " I hope soon to see you in London, and am meanwhile, " Yours very truly, "EVAN AND KINCARDINE. "Mr. Alderman Cubitt, M.P., London." The following letter has also been addressed by Lord John Russell, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, to the Lord Mayor: _ _ _ "Yoreigu-ollice, Dec. 27, IQ). "My lord,—l have the honour to soquaint you that Mr. Loch, private secretary to the Earl of Elgin and Kin. audine, arrived at the Foreign.offire this evening at 7 o'clock, with despatches from his lordship, enclosing a convention putting an end to hostilities with China, signed on the 24th of October last by his lordship with the pleni• poteutiary of the Emperor of China. " I have the honour to be, my lord, your lordship's most obedient humble servant, "J. BussuL " The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor." Following an ancient custom, the Lord Mayor, on the receipt of this communication, caused a copy of it to be posted on the Mansioo•house, where, though its interest had been anticipated by the newspaper press, hundreds of people paused to read it dyeing the day. LAUNCH OF TIM WARRIOR.-(THIS DAY.) Thia afternoon the Warrior, the first armour. plated steam frigate in the possession of Great Britain, will be launched by Lady Pakiugton, from the yard of the Thames Iron Company, BlackwalL Her diniermions are :—Extreme length over all, 420 ft. ; ditto, breadth, 58ft ; depth from spar deck to keel, 41ft. Gin. Her teenage is no less than 6,177 tons, bulldoze' measure. meet. The engines have just been completed by MOMITA. Penn and Sons. They are of 1,250 nominal horse power, end are probably the most magnificent specimens of machinery that ever left even Mr. Penn's celebrated works. Probably the largest forginp that have ever been at tempted (not even excepting those for the Great Eastern) were required for the building of the Warrior. The "nose" or beak of the ship is one immense slab of iron 30 feet loin, by no leas than 10 inches thick, and weighs nearly 20 tons. The heel-post, in which the outer bearing of the screw rests, is one piece of the finest forged iron, without the slightest flaw of any kind, and weighing upwards of 44 tone. The armament of this magnificent man-of-war is rat yet entirely decided upon, but there is little doubt that it 41 consist of 36 68-pounder %cwt. guns on the nazis deck, 10 Armstrong 70-pounders on the spar deck, and two pivot Armstrong 100-pounders, one forward and one aft, making 48 in all. With only ten broadside guns on an upper deck of 400 feet, there is, of course, a space of nearly 80 feet between each gun. Therefore, without in the least exposing the men or crowding the " quarters," tke upper deck armament can be doubled at any time. On her trial no more guns than those we have mentioned will be placed; but if the result of her first cruise is such as to show she can carry them easily, the number of broadside upper-deck 70-pounders will be increased from 10 to 20—all, of course, breech-leaders. The masts and spats of the Warrior sill be very light—merely those of an onlivary frigate, with the admirable exception that the eressjack or mizen-yard will be done away with, and the vessel rigged as a barque. Such are the general outlines of the superb vessel whali will this day, we trust, be safely afloat on the Timone!. Once at her moorings in the Victoria Dock, the work of putting on the remainder of the plates will go rapidly for ward, and at the same time Messrs. Penn will proceed mutt fitting in the machinery. She is expected to ba ready by the end of April to go round to Portsmouth melee steam tar be rigged. Bytom rigging she will be tested at the meaured mile, and when complete for sea make her first trial .-roise 'crow the Bay of Biscay about the middle of July nett. COLLISION ON THE ORRENIVICH RAILWAY. Thia (Saturday) morning em alarming e-likiou occurred on the line of railway between Giveueich sud Deptford, by which several of the paasengers were wont or less injured. It appear, that the first train, whit toms Greenwich terminus for London at 7.25, had po. raided as far as Deptford•creek, when it was met by an engine travelling on the same line of mils, awl wbah had been d espatched from the Bricklayers' Ants stwti.a for the purpose of being in readiness to start with the second train from Greenwich. Before the driver tither of the train or the single engine could blacken their sired a fearful collision took place, the necupsins o f the carriages were thrown from their seals, one of whom a. , f afterwards removed with a severe cut acres; the fordead. the guard of the train, John Varney, also re eking injuries about the chest and other parts of the 1.4, that he was obliged to be reltiovetl to his where he at present remains under .o• tendance. Both the drivers and stokers narrowly ea,ned with their lives, the force of tie) te.llision w lowst completely doubling up the engines, and reialenwi them altogether unfit for fiervice. It that the engine travelling from the Bricklayer.' .inns station, and which was the cause of the ."•ewm'nro, ess before its usual time in approaching Giceuwieli, .lu , l not to have pawed the Deptford ■tatiom until after it ur• train had left; but this is a matter which will strictly inquired into by the railway otti. THE LATE CoLLISION ON THE NI I I oI.A S t. I: %II a %%. —Since the collision which took on Mond... led ..a the Midland railway, near to the Nottot:ho , twoen the Derby Mill Leicester trent*, one of the ...Ow-, named William Lyle, who was in the emple) ef the ~ ,e • pany's contractor for loading timber, has dad el ewraiou of the brain. An Mimed Le, leen held rho bedv, cud the jury returned a VelAiltst " J Death." The jury, also from the .' l u r e A.l, ..,.• sidered that on btouto rested with the • .4111.1., .1.11 Hmamach as the driver of the Leie,...t, • flail' u pp..0..1 have need every exertion to stop 4, time, hl': vented from doing so owing to the dipper) ht.ilt..l i!,. rails. I I i