The Express. — London, England, 1855-12-19 00:00:00

ripe expreoo. TO CORILISPONDINTS. Isineritra .The Rapress o 'larim ftwaktipsper. 161 =Cr li t Ma. 10. blevierlb7 Two Ode* 4S the My ii pallailim. HIGH WATNII AT LONDON BRIDGI. Dav—ltersistlili. Ms Albinism IN U. TIMMIMEDIF —MIMS& 11. Va. LONDON, WRDNISDAY, DICEJM4I_I4 promotion of the war, bemuse, unfortunately, no. body hes yet given popular fixity and clearness to de the idea implied by the arse, sod ther , Tsfim hope that the other will be brosibt tog close. In a word. Carlton era Nil; b be everywhere started upon f . pretencee b ta i tasts professions of liberality. • &et le in time. They have been often duped before—ft will be their own lau:t if they are doped again. If they are. it will mot them dear. fiAILUEL limand Rogers has been spoken of ever ethos any- WHATIVIB may be-dm reasons why a diembetiesi Indy can remember as " Rogers the poet." It is et Parliament is looked ea with aversima by Gerbils lees as a poet, however, that his name will live than political cliques and coteries, it is certain that • as a patron of literature—probably the last of that gourd belief prevails that such an event cannot be o w e who will in England be called a at ve muss. very long deferred. Oa all sides it is felt that the His life was a remarkable one, from the great age be existing Hues of Commons doSS not represent the stte h me i d oting s a id e d period o f civilisation; and fesIMP or emeietione of the ematrY. Bloated "dm his function was a remarkable one—that of repre wholly different eireunistanete from those which sow m o n th e b r id ge over which lit e rature has wood exist, it no longer answers any real or eland per- from the old condition of patronage to the new one peas of a esastitational assembly. The general else- o f independence. He h oar d 64 tics talk o f the ties of 1862 was a final appeal to the nation regarding town" (recorded by Dr. Adams) on James's Let the principle Da which Ito rommalelal policy Amid ter to Lord Chesterfield; and he lived to an be earned on; and MOO cows sham mainly with t h e i mprovemen t o f a m co py r i g ht law, th e remo val reblemee to the views they Pmfemed arm that of most of the tames ea knowledge, and so vast as important, sad, for the time, all 4 hambiall slam - increase of the Milli peas OD hes maimed the tics. Fat that gentian ease aimed of, no fanatics of patron if awdreackfrasebes. Kepi= ether erased to have without hold spa the Wads could now help an author to fame; and every anther of anything like a majority of its members to form who has anything genuine to say out say it wittiest the Miele of an administration; and to this essential dreaming of any application to a rich man. Samuel het is, in truth, attributable by far the greater Por• Rogers lived through the whole period when the pub tics of the `mammas "aid" sad blundering limbers were the purses, sad withered the complete that bee obamotorieed the madaot of Gommamat moms of Mr. Dickens's plan of independence of the fee the last them years. Homo aroo• the PomibilitY publishers themselves. He was a youth of fifteen or of • Coalition Cabinet. In a Parliament that vividly thereabouts when half ""the town" was KlilidaStd sad mearatel7 /reamed the Formal wishes of the at Dr. Johnen's audacity in saying what he did to nation, sad not merely its Pelletal detal= of a Mollie Lord Chesterfield, and the ether half was delighted matemmeY. a Coalition Military would have how a at the courage of the rebuke. It was not long No thing impossible. Is a Pull/meet which in the tee that the " Letters of Junius" hod beret upon first Ida weal it eat bad performed its only mimics, the political world r and Rogers was quits old sad which thenceforth had neither party the nor enough to undentand the nature of the triumph, asthma pledges to govern or guide its action en any w h en the prosecu ti on o f w oo df a li failed , and th e p rom vital subject, a coalition of Permaal and family into preserved its liberty under the assaults of royal and nets was easy if not inevitabie. Upon the saber ministerial displessare. Hie connexiout in life fixed quest changes and &Mins and trandonsatioas we his attention full oa the paresention of Priestley and mad mot dwell. Enough. that at every stale the other vindicators of liberty of speech; while belay. NOW want of say healthful costrolling pressure in in curious combination with this phase, that kind of the choice of "'lingoes and meaciatee was betrayed. patronage which even the Priestley. of those days Nobody meld tell at any given period upon what accepted as a matter of course :—Dr. Priestley living feadameatal principle the Administration was with Lord Shelbarse, without oaks; sad afterwards, deauda Any one whose medal manatione or Per - hie being provided with an them* by the subserip. soul pliability of disposition rendered him socept- dons of friends, to enable him to carry on his philo abler might do apparently as well as another. Hie sophical researches. Then came the new aspect of antecedents. whatever they might have been, seemed things, when the Bross, the Moores, Campbells, sad absolutely immaterial; and whether be had been g oo ny were the curets of the Murray;, „,._ ll reformer or an aitti're f r maer • °S I admit* foemer , of the Longessns, and the Constables—that curious, the war or its opponent, nicer appears to hays but rather short transition stage when, as Moore mid, hem considered in appointments to dies of the patrons learned perforce, through interest, the either high or low degree. Far from having got taste which had not been formed by education. Those Omagh, at got over, this danginer, became wholly were the days of bookselling monopoly, whoa the fathotakos, quagmire in the natioaal path, we have publisher decided what the reading public should bad within the Mat few weal the most otrihial rode have to read, sad at what price. Rogers aw that et the contrary; foe have we not seem use of the monopoly virtually destroyed; the greatnem of the highest posts is the state offered IS .1001101011 to a grea t b osses p ae a n a w a y, or reduced t o that of Derbytte, a Pulite, and a Whig. and that within the trade eminence simply, and authors and the public Woos of some ten days ? We are not discus's( the brought has to fare, or certain to be so presently. merits or demerits of any of these offers—that were His own function, all the while. was a mixed one, in superfluous. What we cite the fact to prove is this. accordance with the changes of the time. He was, that lamolleaeilYead fora are wanting in the national in the course of his long life, both client and patron; ounstive, because consisteacy, order, sad purpose are sa d f or a groa t p u t o f it he was b ot h a t once . Hi s warding in the existing Legislature. The Ham of puree was open to the poor author, and his Influence Commons is not predominantly a Whig house or a with the great publishers was at his service, while Coseereatiee house, or a Radical bones—lt le simply be himself sat at put men's tables ass poet and a a bows full of Gebel, intrigUet and anareby, in which wit more even than se a coenoisour in art, and on all WM of party honour is lost and all reproach taioly much mote than as a rich banker. The last of political inconsistency has booms a matter of c h arac ter h e k e pt out of sight as mash as possible. laughter. When, some years since, hie bank was robbed to so The people, we believe, are awakening to a sense enormous an amount by the pillage of a safe that of the danger of such a state of things, and to a clear everybody apposed it must stop payment; and when pareeption of its teal causes. Instead of railing at ft did net atop, and all his great friends testified their the Minister who, like a captain in a wreck, is trying sympathy first, and then their joy, it was a curious to construct a loose raft anyhow, from spars and Irv- thing to observe the old poet's bearing, and to hear meats that can never fit, bat for a time may just the remarks upon it. He was wonderfully reserved, bold together till the storm subsidess, men of all and passed off the whole with a few quiet jokes, sissies and opinions long to see an end of a condition through which was plainly seen his modification at of affairs so perilous and Impregnates. If the war being resognised as a banker. in a sphere where he is to go on, they desire to see earnedness in the hoped he was kaowa as an associate of the great, Government; and they have learnt by experience and the first eortcsoisseer is England. that they cannot have that without earnestness in His was not a case of early determination of the Parliament. And if peace is at hand, they want tune of life. In his early youth, his father one parity and courage in the Parliament as the only evening asked all his boys what they would be. guaraatee foe a vigorous spirit of wise and gradual Sat would not tell unless he might write it down, reform in the councils of the Crowe. In either cam for nobody bat his father to see. What he wrote they are resolved to disown, tad to call for the die- was, " A Unitarian minister." He was destined for minima of, the present make-believe Hues of Com- b as is, however; but hie tom of literature was not me " It Yumaas to ask, of what sort will its sae- thwarted by it. We have seen Moore die in decrepid seem be P To estimate the probabilities of this, we old ; yet did Moore, in his boyhood (when he was mut watch and note the preparations that are fourteen), delight in Rogers's" Plossures of Memory" =Wel is various quarters for the coming struggle. —the poem being then so common as to have found its And met of all , we are bound to bttik% what loom way into schools in class books and collections. de the Tory party mean to parses P They claim to When young Homer came to London to begin his be—probably they are, at Meat in name—the largest career, he found Rogers a member of the Sing of motion in the existing Parliament that can be our Clubs, the intimate of Mackintosh (who was his visually cased or surprised into mustering under J un i or ), scarlet, Sharpe, and others—long gone to see recognised flag. Whenever the Dote of warning the gram as old men—and one, Maltby, who' 4111 be given from Downiurelmet, that tattered and was a twist woods: with himself as to years. The threadbare standard will be once more "furled from last evening that Mackintosh spout in London before the summits of "the Carlton :" what device will it his departure for India was at Rogers's. "Somewhat this time bear f Fifteen years ago, on the eve ot *melancholy ereathews are told it was; and the hod, similar contest of principles " Monopoly" was the then between forty and fifty, most have felt the rally ing•cry of Conservatism—monopoly in fotd, uncertainty of the party rmasembliag, to spend more emmopoly in faith, and monopoly in the geed things web eveaiep as those that were gone. And some et aim But though this was the Plowmen* that were deed before Mackintosh returned; but the host west from mouth to mouth among the ploy, it was lived to tell, half a emitnry afterwards, of the sober seldom if ever board to escape the lila of their madam of that parting convene. It was Rogers wily leaders, Sir BOOM Pear, sad Sir Jars who "blabbed" about the duel between Jeffrey and Gasman bad always some Miff periphrasis is which Moore, and was the cuss of their folly being ren t° kid a n d wrap their fah" iatoutima They doted harmless; and it was be who bailed Moore :it foresaw the diflculties of ales; but to gain it they was he who negotiated a treaty of peace between were willing to let loose at the hustings every laces- then; sad it was at his hum that they met tive to bigotry and faction that their followers de- mid booms friends. Bush were his service* sired. An equal duplicity, bet in the sonnies d one kind to literature—ring his dignity shape, seems to be meditated by their sue- of seniority to keep these young wits in moors is the leadership of the Tory party. ardor. He most have been lively in those Best on schemes of resistance to reform at home, and days—" the bachelor," as his same was among his of subserviest alliance with despotism abroad, the Meads, and be never married. Moore names him as chiefs ot the Carlton instruct their meets and akin- arse "of those agreeable rattles who seem to think nimbus to push out in all direetleas, in the disguise life such a treat that they never can get enough of it." " Liberal Conservatives," or "Conservative Ono wooden whether he had had enough of it fifty Liberals." as the case may be. Their general is- years later, when Sydney Smith (one of the agreeable structions are to stick at nothing, as far as vague remise) had long laid dome his, atter having for some generalities go. They are to declare vehemently time told his comrades that he thought life "a very their attachment to "religious liberty I" but it is middling affair," and should not be sorry when he privately andentood that this mesas oily in Italy or had does with it. There was molt to render life Turkey. They are to talk stoutly, nay passionately, agreeable to a man of Rogers's tastes, it must be where the constituency is very radios], abaft the owned. He saw Garrick, and welshed the aides 11110 equal rights of all men to the enjoymeat et leer of every good aster sines. AU the ma..as 11111 hoodoo ; bat this being interpreted is only to be within hie span. He beard the first Teems% ea the tines for a pledge to wags a war of empty "Visor of Wakefield," and read, damp from wards with the America's about slavery ea the the prem. all the Woe that has appeared other side of the seem. They are to give sines from the Banns. the Rdpworths, pledges for the reform of the electoral system, the Batts, the Diadems, and the Thackerays. sad promisee to secure greater liberty of voting; bet As for the poetry, he was ogled at the rapidity with when literally translated this is only intended to whisk the Seeds. Byrom, and Moores poured out bind these political harlequins to vote for Lord their weeks; and even Campbell was too quick for fistarresauar's plan et taking the @affrays by way him,-11e, with all We leisure, sad being always at of"voting papers,' instead el ballet-4i plan which it, producing to the amount of two Be. volumes is reality would make sliest iatisaidatisa and fire- in his whole life. The charge of haste and lames side sonaption more coolie% and irresistible than *teases alleged apiece his "Columbus," la the ever. Filially, the sedate ef the Cultsa have urge Biltieryk Revise, forty years inn, was any co ll.". ..t. 4 6ll.laintra thwilefhem end the virago sapseuting - to him; and so aboard that mw comet THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1855. be sniped Byderf !With of bang the author of it, for the sake of contrast with hie conversational de- ANOTHER VICTORY seriprisa of Rqpre's method of compreitios. Betae bodr3llloo, one der. whether Rimers bad written anYthiall 1 7 - " a colariet."' was the reply— (the oosir being Ms eelobrated epigram on Lord Dudley). • " Only °caplet r unbind Slurry Smith. " Why, what would yogi her P When Rogers produces a cosplet, he goes to bed, and the hanker is tied,—and straw is laid down,—and sank b mods .— and the answer to inquiries is that Mr. Regan is as well as can be expested." Thug, while be was cogitating his few peps of verse, "daily adding couplets," as Moue said, showing a forth coming pools in boards. "bat still making altera tion," he was now and thou ming a whole new world of poetical subject and treatment laid open; and not seldom helping to facilitate the disclosure. Moore always said that he owed to Rogers the idea of " Lalla Rookh." Rogers bad lingered so long over his story of the " Foseari," that Byron did it Bret. to his peat distress but he received the drama with a very good grace. Meantime, be was always sub stantially helping poor poets. Boddie the innumera ble instanose, known only to his intimates, of the attention he bestowed, as well as the money, I. the case of poetical beast-makers, poetical footmen, and other such hopeless sons of the muse, his deeds of munificence towards men of genius were too peat to be concealed. His aids to Moore have been recently made known by the publi cation of Moore's Diaries. It was Rogers who se cured to *abbe the 3,0001. from Murray. which were in jeopardy before. He advanced 1001. to Campbell to purchase a share of the Metropoillass Magnin, and refused security. And he gave thought, took trouble, used influence, and &duo tared advise. This was the endue and the method of the list of the patron of Menthes in England. His celebrated literary breakfasts will not be for gotten during the generation of those who en joyed theta. They became at last painful when the aged man's memory failed while his caus ticity remained. His hold on lib was very strong. He who was an authority on the inci dents of the Hastings' trial, and who was in Fox's MOM when be was dybar—he who saw George 111. a yew maa, sad was growing into manhood when iolmons want ben survived for several Tsars Wig Ns erne by a orb of the construction of the middle of the nineteenth century. His poetry wild scarcely be said to live so long as himself, as it was rather the illustrating with which it was graced than the verse itself that kept his volumes on sale and within view. The elegant* and correctness of his verse are beyond question; but the higher and more substantial qualities of true poetry will hardly be recognised there. It should be remembered that then is a piece of prole writing of his of which Mackintosh said that " Hume could not improve the thoughts nor Addison the language." That gem is the piece on Assaminatioo, in his "Italy." In it may be clearly traced the influence of his early non conformist education. If Rogers is to be judged by his writings, let it be by suck fragments as that little essay; if farther, by his deeds rather than his words. Bo may the world retain the fairest remem brance of the last English Menu" and the only man among us perhaps who has Illustrated in his own person the pavilion at one of patron and of client. OMER PACHA. 4813 ,1,12111 Z (11OM 0111 i 1111111 WILDNOIDA.T. By adviors from Oonatantiaople, juot received. we learn that, after a battle, Omer Puha had taken pos. semi= of /Chou', which is iive-ands-half leagues from Lahti,. Hs found in the place twelve thousand furs. He had pushed on to the beaks of the Rion, and had made preparations to attack lota. A SWEDISH ALLIANCE. LLIIIIIITITID 3T 003 111•301010 Dic. 18. The Bias has Wiled a treaty with Inland and Franca. The two allied Powers guarantee the territorial integrity of Sweden, and the latter engages not to alienate any part of its territory to Russia. The high contracting parties engage to eommani eatsq mutually and resiprosally, all prepositions aiming from Russia. From other soothes we bare that the above treaty will appear almost directly in the Paris Moniteser. It is rumoured in well-informed quarters that an offensive treaty, stipulating for active 00-opelation in the spring, exists, but is not to be published at present. THE NEW RUSSIAN LOAN. The journal de &. Adersbeorp, of the 11th, pub lishes the following Imperial skies relative to the new Busies loan. It is addressed to the Minister of FineDOM " Te provide fee the extraordinary memos which astral eirstuastesess Impose opus the mammy of the Empire, we have authorised you, ecsaformably to year propositica, to easelsde, through the medium of the mnautereial home of our beaker, Coansiller Berea Stieglite, of Bt. Petersburg, a loan of fifty millions of silver feeble*, ea the sonditioas ectufismod by as, mad we seder you asseguently to make the bloats' arnageassate " 1. Tbb loan is to Do isemibed ea the ledger (growl tifve) of the gable debt el Ruda as the sixth loan at 6 per mat. " 2. For this lean Rohe shall be hinted of the Imperial Cosualeska of the eiskiag load (asetriptiosse) to the bearer ; rash sets to be fee 600 silver roubles. " 3. Thh strip will beer ea manual 'merest of 6 per mat., dating from the let Gf Omaha of the monad year. To seek note 20 soaps.. will be Washed, on the mesas taloa of which, the Later's' due will be paid to the ants• pendia, time. "4. The mama et this laterest will be made for seek lialf-year due, from the lse April to the Ist Jew, gad from the 1K of October to the Ist Diessaber, and there will he paid for sash wipes at Bt. Petersburg, by the Commission' of the Slaking Food, 12 roubles 60 tomes silver, or else Wealth the medium of the beakers, litiegUts and Ca, 23 axias 00 mum of the Netherleads, or 26 marks 10 eshalbsp 11 phuniags of the Hamburg Baal. " 6. Oa the expiration of the lest tea years of the loan, sew mums will be issued for the swig then is eirmilatior int Court. OSBORNE, Dm le. Tin Marchloam of Ely has asecesdsd Lady Mao. asaaid as Lady to Waitiag t. lon Majesty. A Cabinet Connell was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-aloe. The ministers peewit were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chanoellor, the . Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Granville, the Earl of Harrowby. Sir Georp Grey, the Earl of Clarendon. Mr. Score. tart' Labonebete, Lord humus, the Chascellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderlq, the Right Hoc. M. T. Baines, and the Duke of Argyll. The Council eat two hours and a halt "6 The fdaklag (essortisossense of this loss will eon. menus la 1838, sad for this objet a 'pedal feed will be as totally dirtiest iron the other low, mad which will Nees each year two per out. of the awaisal *aphid of ths boa. This stalls( laid. which will homage (roes the Interests Woos, disposaSle by the rdusptbs of scrip, will be employed to bey up the scrip et the sunset rats (ow caws) as keg as it dose ass rise above its nominal vales, that is to say. above par. After 20 years, sanely. datlag front 1876, the Goverameat reserves to Itself the right of ming the seep of this loamy which may thus be is oircelatioe, at the rats of Its amiss' vase. [The Meisel is steed by the proper head of his Majesty the Braparor.) ALEXANDER. "lit. Petersinug, Nov. 28,1865. " Transience approved, " NESBELRODII, Chancellor of the Empire." Oohed Babiao, V.P.E.8., Treasurer et the Britbh As 'Wades, Kr. Jetta P. Omelet, F.H.8., Charm= of the Hew Committee, sad Mr. Jolla Welsh, of Kew Obser vatory. a deputation from the British Aiseelatiaa, hid ea isterview wM the Right Hew dir Beejesala Hall vistas day at the Wise of l'ablis Washe s is Whitehall-Flaw, es the natter of the Observatory at Hew. PAltili BOURSE. A &pasties frets the City, pupating Anitbieldoierket. had sit isterview with the Chamonix if the liselogner yesterday, at his aka' residence, is Dowsing•strat. The deputation eossistad et Mr. H. L Taylor (Chairs's), Mr Deputy Hicks, Mr. Deputy Obberd, Mr. De Jenny, Mr. Perkiss, the City Desseabresser, sad the City Architect. A depstation tram the parish et All Basta, Poplar, PM. &tag a She Bev. T. T. Basely (iteetor), Mr. H. W. Hill ' (Overseer), Mama. Edward Celestas, Jibs Carter, aid Blond X. nisei (Vestanses). asd Mr. Charles C. Cady (Vestry Clerk), trawled busisses yesterdey at UN Rowe Oaf.. The depstaties wee istrodseed by Lord Robert Oravesce. M.P., end Mt. Merles IL Dales, M.P. The Ilarq w ;/ laaadowas has salmi is ova boa TUMIDLY EVIXLIIIO. visit to Lord Aslibueton, at the Grasp. • deputation from the pada .1 et. Marys. Battersea respostiag a =asserts' addressed to Sir Beajusia Ball, fee a pier by the New Bridge, ia Betterasisark, had IS later view with the Biala Ilea. Dearest yesterday at the Oahe at Pubis Work.. Th. deputation .soviets,' of the Bey S. S. fashions (Vicar of Battersea), Mr. W. H. Wilma (Clearehwareloa). lily. G. Citediria (Vasty Clerk), sad Mr. W. Woods. Despatches were resolved yesterday at the Colonial Moe, hoot the Goverson et the Wet India beads. At the Bowes the effect of the news of the day was slight. The little confidence felt in the prospect of peace was made Isis by the fall in Consols. A rim, however, of 86c. was effected in the Rents, which closed at 64fr. 90c. Credit Mobilise rose 251 r. It was reported that this society had all but concluded an Austrian loss. Railways were higher, but not very active. Lyons and Mediterranean rose lOrr. AFRICAN MAILS. (ram ova OW of Colabridp University lioa gives Bogies tbst Prises Album's gold Sista for the eon regessest et leglieb pastry will be gives this year to is resident undergraduate se shell easpess the best pees .. Laeber at thu Dist at Weems." A new church building effort in relation to the metropolis is la pragrer, Lord Robert Grasseere brag the Eerie( spirit The list of saberiptleas sammeare adds t►e CIrOWS. 10,0001.; t►e Delis of BelGrd. 10,000 L; the Marquis of Westminster, 10,0001. The attire let, wiles the vales of the sites eel promised ebereltee ere rocketed op, mares s Wel of men then 00.0001. The object is to sailor 600.0001., sod to band 100 obarelor, _ _ _ - . Hu Excelleery the Ambassador of France and the Coastase de Pessisray yesterday reedited at dimmer Viewed* sad Viacesetees Palmerstee, the Swedish ter sad the Onstage Raelmehild. the Postgame Meister, sad Madame Lamed* the Danish }Roister and Madame Oakdale. the Countess of Teakerville, the Camases wed Mademoiselle de Flabealt, the Rid of Westmorland, Lady WIIILm Remell, Si, Roderick Mezeitissa, Dr. Ferioros, sad Hr. Norma Mazdesald. The Marquis of Lanedewass bee arrived in town. fres a visit to Lard Arbbartast, at the Group. The Hari and Countess of Hardwick. and the Ladles Yorke have arrived at Dimas Park, ea a 'hit t. the Bari et Cardissa. PLYMOUTH, tvzsokt. The Candace, African mail steamer, arrived this morning, bringing mail% 2,000 os. of gold, 15 pas sengers, and general eargo. Her dates ere—Fernando Po, Nov. 5; Caps Cornet, 13; Gorse, 27; and Madeira, Deo. 8. The Ethiops bad strived at Liberia, Nov. 18, all well. Mr. Taylor, the engineer of the Candies, lost his life through that ship miming in contact with H.M.S. Ferret. Capt. Seymour Daum sad do* Hon. Mrs. Doan bays lilt tows to Ida the petty meembled at Deese Perk. ASIATIC TUItILEY. The Breslau Gazette publishes a letter from Bt. Petersburg, containing extracts from the Oman and the Tutiser Blade, both published at Tiflis, relative to the lisp of Kars. The writer says that early in No vember the blockaded garrison volatitariiy sumo dered 16 Russian prisoners and one allow, obvionely for the purpose of diminishing the comber of months to be fed, although at the risk of exposing the ex tremity of their 'sedition. Hs then praises the happy audacity of General Bsselow's advance upon the Dross Degh, which so " impasse on the Turkish commander, Vely Pasha, that he abandoned the hope of relieving the 'aniline. It would have tees, he says, very easy to relieve Kars soon after the 29th of September, bat the attempt was deferred until Houravieff had had time to re cruit his army. The St. Petersburg correspoudent, who necessarily writes in ignorance of the fall of Kars, coaeludee thus : Biteeid Yen, however, be sespellet to earteadar, the eaterpties of Oast Pasha will have falls, to the pound. Own' Mearavieff win set have earned say great re ams, bat the moral east ea the Turkish army sad its foreiga oaken, so helplessly abeadated by the eathwities at Cenetestieepts, will be Imams. That army, however, say take to itself meet fee haw*, held the Russia. army of Asia la sheik estn a senses when It mast sawed the fartbse presseetke sifts pans. A sets sal ordisatioe will be kid ow Sunday, at the Obspel Royal, Whiteho(, at 11 e'elest, by the Bishop Th e jonasin arrived at Marasillss tbls Serwsislf, 'of C°101"0, who will lads" M tM Lordlm P o f briogleg advises from the Crimes to the kb. Loodeo. The following appears in yesterday's Ifonifeur -- Tin Rev. Michael Angels Atkisson, MA., bus .• Ti le Might*? of War has reseivoil, *mesh hts bees iatatstod t. the maw, ef Fskoshsia, t t Norhlk, Nosy the Ilteleter ef Pectiga Affairs, the nu of 1.0004., ea the prsonnotisa dais Mester, Fellows, sad thheisre tM Imeildi of • ball d by Cowls de Chsbeasat. of Triaity Older. eandirlans. Consul of Frame et if= (11setselis), saa sh e e i epee Otte of ladlvidosh,--tho whole heist Winded foe This remise Mr. J. L Blackwell will Inters at g o wieseled el the Pm& sissy of the Crimes. Els the Bader of Artois ,4 Tin Pawns Peonies et the Ina Essonesey. Sis Chests. Rothe= sad sll the oimahors of ladettil of Groot Brltela with Memo, to that el ethos Casolog,_ sad Fsalsilloel Sesssessesi allowed awn this wouatties." Joseph Glynn, Zig, 1.R.5., sin paw. ' MIMI= •• • ••• 1 •1•0• 4 7 he ••• seldisre, so oseratiog snit °Basal awl snivstissft. The Monte , of Wu Mr. Z. Drummers swab is wised by Le Nord, hos hogged kis ILIMMWsew Finks AMID. as soon saps VS Para le NM tkus vilbabo . • DESPATCH FROM OEI (11/1011 LAST X OLSITTS War Department, Deo. I& Lord Penmen has this day received a despatch Sind its enclogerse, of which the following are copies, leldsimed to his lordship by General Sir Williams Gsdringtoo, R.C.B. Sebastopol, Dee. 4. My Lord s —The new continue to fire occasion ally, sod sometimes heavily, on parte of the town. Wray met have expended a coosiderable quantity of edemble ammunition without causing us any less or Imessemiswoe. The enclosed Casualty Return is the SW dOs sort I have had occasion to report to your It may seem unimportant to refer to the state of roads and weather bare, but their condition affects the essential communications and well-toeing of the army. The winter broke upon us suddenly on the 26th and 27th with snow, and has varied with gales and rain ; and a very deep state of the ground has damaged all communications. Constant presence of labourers and constant atten tion are requisite, and are being given to the road, which, from a peculiarity of moil and condition, was worked into boles, bat which is, and will ou tings to be, of the greatest service to the army and its supplies.—l have, dtc., W. J. CODRINGTON, General Commanding. P.B. I beg leave also to forward the weekly report of Dr. Hall, the prineipal medical officer, by which your Lordship will perceive that the general state of health of the army continues favourable. W. J. CODRINGTON, To Lord Panmnre, Bro. General Commanding. Nominal Biters of Committee on lot Dseember, 1865.- 7th Foot: Captain Lord R. Browne, slightly wounded, by bunting of a shall in Babootopol. Head.quarten Cusp, Crimea, Dee. C Bir,—l am glad to be able to point out a annalistic, of the favourable state of the health of the army. The weather has been boisterow, wet, cold, and change able, which has occasioned an issessee of catarrhal affectious, and added some ores of catarrhal ophthalmia to oar list; bat the admissions under this bead have decreased meetly ea* half dariag the present week, and it is to be hoped, by ow, and removal of those labouring under the complaint to the sioesserry, that the dimes will not sztaad. There has ben a decrease in the number of admiadous from fever, but an increase of mortality, walked chiefly to the Land Trausport Corp. as 14 oat of the 19 deaths that occurred daring the week Cup., plan is that branch of the service dose. This corps has a heavier sick list than any divine& of the army, which is not to be wondered at, as stay of the Europa's, have recently arrived in the coaa try, and are sot yet acclimated, and the matins beer fudge, and the vicissitudes of weather like that which we sow have, bat ill. The followiag show the ratios of sickness and mortality during the week: Par seat. The &dairies* to strength have ►.m 2.01 Deaths to strength O-07 lhelasive of Load Transport 0 01 Sisk to well_ 606 Rudman of wouads sad iajariss 490 11. HALL, Isepector-Geoend of Hospitals. Gomel Sir Codrisgtos, K.O 8., DESPATCHES FROM SIR EDMUND LYONS. ADMIRALTY, Dzo. 14. Despatches, of which the following are copies, have been received from Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, Bart., 0.C.8., Commander-in-Chief of her Majesty's ships and vessels in the Mediterranean and Black Sea : Royal Albert. }Watch Bay. Dee. 1. Sir,—l request that you will lay before the Lords Commiseioners of the Admiralty the enclosed copy of a letter front Captain Sherard Osborn, of the Yaw vius, dated the 24th ultimo, informing me that as the formation of ice had commenced in the Sea of Azoff, and se he had been informed by both M. (lope/Mush, the Austrian merchant, charged with the shipment of wen in Austrian vessels, and by the Iturdaa as thorkis at Mariaupol, that all chance of neutral yew eels obtaining cargoes this year was at an end, he had withdrawn to Kertoh with the squadron under his orders, after assuring himself that no merchant vessels remained in that sea. I have so frequently had occasion to bring the merits of Captain Osborn under their Lordships' Do dos, that it is perhaps unnecessary, on the present occasion, that I should say more than that he hes maintained his high character up to the close of the i service upon which he was employed for six months. and he brings under my favourable nodes the gal lent and zealous support he has received, from first to last, from the officers and men under his orders.— I am, &A, (Signed) EDMUND LYONS, Rear -Admiral and Commander-in-Chief. The Secretary of the Admiralty, London. Vooaviso. off ICorteb, Nov. M. Bir,—Being now, in accordance with your instroo dons. on my road to rejoin your flag, I have the honour to report the close of operations in the Sea of Asoff, and the proceedings of the squadron In that sea subsequent to my last letter, dated off Oheisk, 7th November, 1856. On the 7th, I received your in structions, with notices relative to neutrals quitting the Bea of Areff on the 20th November, 1866. The weather became most severe , and I mild only succeed in serviog the notices upon the authorities, on shore at MarianpoL Bat on the Bth November, 1865, the shipping anchored off Marisupol were duly warned, and on the 9th those off Taganrog likewise. A gale et extreme violence from the eastward blew continually from that date until the 18th November. I then immediately served a notice upon the neutral shipping in Berdiansk. Mere, from Mr. Gopcevitch, as well as previously at Taganrog and Marianpol, we learnt that the Russian authorities had kept the neutrals in quaran tine ever since their arrival, and that the likelihood et aercee belag presarfd was almost at an end. A Enesian eager at Martaupol laughed at the idea ofl the neutrals believing they would get wheat this year, and told Commander Kennedy, whom I sent in there with a flag of truce, that the neutrals mast stay the winter. Under these circumstances, looking to your wishes and instructions upon the subject, it became a cause of great anxiety . for me lest, by the sudden oom meseetnent of winter, or intentionally, the neutral verge should fail to quit the sea on the 20th No vember, 1863. I, therefore, as the ice had begun to make and the temperature to fall rapidly alter the 13th, despatched all the squadron to Bench except the Ardent, Snake, and Clinker, and with them proceeded up the Gulf of Loll. We arrived off Mariaspol on the 19th and found all the neutrals had sailed for Kertch, and on the 20th I sighted Taganrog and found the roads 1 empty, all the vessels that were there having likewise left. The ice already extended on either hand some miles from the shore, the Don appeared to be frown, and every indication of winter having set in, in that neighbourhood, was apparent. At Mariaupol the river or harbour was froses,and mush ice lined the coast as far down as Bielosarai Light house; the temperature at mid-day as low as 29 degrees Fahrenheit. From thence I separated the squadron so as to examine the whole coast from Genitchi to Yenikale Lighthouse, most minutely, and not a single boat of the smallest description was to be seen. In surrendering into your hands the prominent I poeltioe in which you have been pleased to employ me far the last five months, that of senior officer of a detached squadron, allow me, air, to wpm's. most respectfully, my deep sense of the honour you con ferred upon me, and the grateful recollection of the unvarying kindness, confidence and consideration I have experienced at your hands; without it I feel I never should, as I trust I have, succeeded in carrying out your views and instructions. Next to that let me again remind you that my anxiety to execute your plans has ever been an easy task, supported as I have ever been by the gallant and zealous exertions of every officer and man eerviog in the squadron; I know not, how nfilegently to express my approbation of their conduct. And it is sot the leas pleasing part of my duty to assure you of the kindly co-operation I have ever received from the officers of the French navy serving is the sea of Asa. Among those more especially knows to me. I feel justi fi ed in emendating Lieute nant Clout, commanding the Brandon; Liestesaut La 'whetter Fulton ; and Lieutenant Vidal, et the Catos.—l h ave, &a, ((Signed) 8. Ossout. RearAdairal Bir Edmund Lyons, Bart, &a, G.C.B. NAVAL AND MILITARY. AnumALTT, Du. 18 .—Appourrinurre—c aft . =soder J. F. C. Hamilton (185.5) to the Calcutta, 84, Portementla. _ _ Ifouteiaat 0 W. Carter (1865) to the Adel, 9, an sw steam sloop, of 60 horse power, at Davenport. Naval Cadets F. R. B. Yorke to the Colon', SO, s ent steams►ip, of 400 horn power, at Portsmoat►; sod C. a . W. to t►e Duke of Welliogtoa, 131, mew eyaata►ils of 700-bores power, is the Baltic. PLYMOUTH. Dec. It The Vulture and Bury&lue arrived from the Hew s to-day. maths Camelot .ad Amebas from Portsmouth. LIVERPOOL, Doc. 18. The Canard steam transport Niagara, egg. ilbasams, embarked the 4th Royal Lancashire Militia, dui afternoon, and will sail toatight for Kiogetown. This reu. sent has for emus time been stationed at Berwick, Unaided for the camp a the Curregh. The men nth * / by the London and North Western Railway, end prne ss u ut through the principal streets of the town amompaulouk the brass band of the regiment. They us steal N A strong looking, but are generally of a low stature. The torso transport, Cleopatra, Cept. Pates, just A . turned from the Crimea, is now in the Graving Desk, bu n overhauled, and when repaired will 'login enter the new pones:sloe. DUBLIN, Dn. 18. This learning the mew line-of-battle ship the Edinburgh, 80 gums arrived from the Bahia, aid en. tired Kingstown bar boir. Orders have been received at Pembroke dockyscd, from the Admiralty for the oonstruction of fear more N. boats by the let of March. These boats are to be 100 fest in length, 22 feet in width, and 6i feet in depth, and shoat 200 toss burden, and their draught will be very slight, The Flying Fish despatch gunboat is the first of thaw an building to be seat afloat. Paoli of the captains selected to command the inn bat sad nsortar-boat flotilla for the sissies yees's 'impairs will bays a linaotbattis ship armed *afloat, u a store asd depot ship, attached to his squadron. Her Majesty's ship Rattlesnake Commander Hilary Trollops, arrived t o Portland Raids on Monday, 'hi 66 days from Rio Janeiro. Her Majesty's screw steam line-of-battle ship Color, 60 guns, for Cork, was spoken with on the 10th instant, is lat. 61.18 N., lon. 7.50 W. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Dic.lB. The Lord Lientenut will arrive at the Viceregal Lodge, Phoenix Park, on Thursday next, from Eng. land. The following note was received here yids:- day from his Excellency. It is written to a venerable Roman catholic priest of this city, the Very Rev. Dr. Yore ' who has given his library of over 2,000 volumes to be "raffled" for the support of a charitable insti. tution for the deaf and dumb: _ December 16,1866. Dear sad Very Rey. have nes with singled ad miration and regret that you propose to part with peg library is ts-balf of the deaf Sod dumb poor. I have bagged Mr. Williams to forward 104 to yea, which I should be sped tq bays laid out upon the raffia.—l have the keen to he your very faitbfal servant, CAZLISLI. The people of Drogheda, Balbriggan, sad other localities along the north-eastern coast, have sat about renewing their efforts to procure the construe. tion of a harbour of refuge on that very dangerous portion of the Irish coast. A numerous and inflow tial meeting of merchants, shipowners, and others, has just been held at Drogheda, and a resolutioa requesting Mr. *Cann, M.P. for that tows, to in troduce the subject in parliament next session, was unanimously adopted. The greater number of the vessels lost on that coast belonged, it was ointsrud, to English and Scotch ports, so that it is incumbsst on the maritime bodies of the three countries to bring their united influence to bear on the question. REALTH OP LONDON. The effect of the cold weather nastily experienced is sow written very legibly in the mortuary registers. The deaths registered in Lando's, which in the previou weak were 1.099, rose last week to 1,271; and it may he stated that the rate of mortality represented by this number el deaths is, at least, equal to the average for this edema{ period of the year. Sues the snood week of November, wean the deaths were below 1,000, and the mean tempera. lure was 41 deg., the returns exhibit an increase of 300 deaths, sad the weekly temperature has declined to 32 7 dog. Then were registered last week 627 males and 644 females/ Of these, without distinction of sex, 674 died seder tweet, years of age, 162 at twenty years and under forty, 241 Wife from forty to duty years of age, 202 sixty yos . old and law then eighty ; and instead of 33 octagenerians who died in the previous week, 60 died last week. A waste died in the Greenwich workhouse at the great see of 101. Last week the births of 781 boys and 791 girls, is e 111,672 children, were registered a London. In the ten COMM Finding weeks of the years 1846-64 the average Inaba was 1,440. There wee a sew moon ea Sanday (the 9th). The biotite reading of the barometer was 30 07 ie. at the end of the week; sad this man was 29.874 in. The mien temperenre of the week was 32 7 deg., which is 7 6 deg. below the average of the same week in 38 years. Thelma tempers. lute wee 11.6 deg. below the average on Sunday. 8 2 deg, below it on Monday, cad 10 2 deg , 11 deg., and 13 deg. be. low It on the three 'allowing days. On Friday it begsa rise, and on Saturday It was 44 deg. above the average. Th► mesa temperature of Thum:ley was only 27.2 deg , that of Saturday was 44 2 dig. The lowest temperature of the week occurred on the former day, when the thermosets fell to 21'3 deg. The highest tempenture in the week is. caned on the latter day, and was 48 deg. The meth dew. point temperature of toe week was 311 deg., and the difference between that and the mean temperature of the air was only 1 deg._ The mean temperature of the water el the Thames was 37 2 deg. The water was coldest on the day ow which the air was warmest. The wind, which it fint was in the north, blew afterwards from the eouth•wst till the end of the week, when it turned to north•west. ' The air was quiet. Snow fell on Monday; some rain sad sleet ea Friday. THE BILLETING SYSTEM. Last evening an adjourned meeting of the Balled victuallers of the parish of Bt. Paolo was held at deer Prince of Wake T ..... , Harwood•street, Hampsteadoode for the purpose of °soldering the beet mesas of relieves( the trade of the great tan imposed on them by the resin system of billetios. Mr. Daum Parrix was called to the chair, sad la opening the proceedings said he thought, considering the twin assent of taus taken from the trade, that et duet the of all taset—the present system of billeting • = rest to ba atones abolished. There was as increase la the t tax, and altogether the licensed lictualler food it a diScalt matter to rise the price of the articles he had he MU. He should leave it to the meeting to 'dope the bet' iseesares too. away with an evil which more or lessprsesed apes the whole trade. Mt. Bursa, of the Prime of Wales, said that it appeared to him that a deputation would be the best means of gam ing oat the objects of the meeting. There were gentlemen in the trade who bed moot strenuously ends dto de away with the polecat obnoxious system of billeting. Be meant foremost on the list Mr. J. J. Homer, of Rakish whose Do-operation would be most valoble to the thaw The CIIAllllAillt said, in the trot of the meetieg adopt tog the wane suggested, be should like to know whether_ it would be better to wait oa Lotd Power* or upon lit George Grey, the Home Secretary. The SICIUITAZT said that the Bristol Depilation bail i waited upon Lcrd Pansthre, and from his lordship's kind , lineation and courteous behaviour to those gentlemen be , should advise that the deputation from their district welt i upon the same alienator. Mr. Clothrros described the hardships impowd nine kb e' fellowousdeusen by the present law, and stated that be Ind had man billeted upon him that had caused him an nooses t espouse. As their grieve's:es bad been eloquently descanted y upon at other places, by men far more capable of dust ii fr th an himself, he should not trouble the meeting wilti" " details of the many instances which had come ender his ova It lotto Oith fact be, however, meet mention, that it hell b' *Alt his 61. 7n 6d. In three months. He hoped a thinehlik to , reformation fa the system complained of would take ebni 1 o f only for th e interests of the trade, but for the wont welfare of the men, who were obliged to 11 1 1 about after their sergeants for the purpose of Odor 'S a lodgisg. 21 Mr. WEASTOX said when to had a men billeted open u• him ha eleathd his house and ordered the man to bed. / 1 a v, kind hie bedroom smelling strongly of tobsceo, sad Ds l'• , @pomade' to the rasa he said, with an oath, he would de se • is liked. He afterwards saw the man's offing., and sal • !! ton be boons civil. Mr. BASSIST remarked that if say further illmtranit wore wanted to show the hardships under which the Oil ri laboured, he sold say that it Wit his last year Oil v, than 121. He wished to know, after all that led both end et the verities meetings whether the licensed ; vidlopall ", had not shows an enormous pecuniary leas, to say anhird u ) abort the excessive domestic loosveniesce. at It wee thus moved and weaseled and uassinewoo --1 1 212. Uri nried that a memoriel be drawn up for presentatio te t Passion Mr. Bu tats then proposed, in a speech of roe lesgtbe that Lord Bbringto. M.P., be requested to giro his t • as.. at the presentation of the memorial. Tide was soseaded by Mr. Watasessr and anted. • you 'lambs to Ibsabakmadisal tie ' ii•Xe l 1 Tt• MOW& 0 04 ( rlffse gawks Ibrsis 10011•3 Wilkie MP" simian Pim a ' at CI Maul aliewo Mr. 91 04 r he masa that 94 bias. Mr. sesos4 awl b teat TM dor mail Ks. tempi "pew lira Nom bard Irni.l ills mt Dori Ili& po t 4 Moo Ms Mo Lea aiis ON Or