The Express. — London, England, 1855-01-12 00:00:00

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LATEST NEWS FROM ABROAD TURKEY AGAIN INVADED. (IT SIIIKAZINI AND WWII= TNLZONAPD4 The correspondent of the Daily News writes : PARIS, FAIDAT ifontime. The following most important telegraphic despatch has Wese to hand : BRAILOW, JAN. 9. Tlie Russians have crossed the Danube, invaded the Dobendscha, and taken both Tultscha and Babadagh. _ _ 13441 Pasha Mended ToHula as long u possible. CONSTANTINOPLE, JLx. 1. There is no change reported from the camp. Two or three vessels have come into the Bosphorus damaged by an ordinary storm in the Black des. thins, hones, and men, are daily landed at Bops. tons. It is not expected that the active co-operation of the Ottomans there can commence before a week or ten days hence, by which time the French and English will be better prepared than at present. — Daily News. Advices from Vienna state that the belief gains ground that the interpretation given to the four points by the Allies, while it is clear so far as it goes, leaves undetermined essential and inevitable questions, which may give rise to insurmountable difliculties.—Dally News. PARIS. THURSDAY. Lord John Russell has been received by the Em peror in private audience.—Daily News. WARSAW. JAx. 6. General Berg leaves to-morrow for Finland, to or ganise his army for the expected Baltio campaign in the spring. Captain Jefmowitoh has arrived with 10,000 first-rate rifles, made with all the recent improve ments. He bought them in Belgium, having been sent thither especially for that purpose.—Daily News. BERLIN, JAN. 11. The military authorities are in communication with the railway administrations respecting the means available for a speedy concentration of troops, and orderehave been given for adapting goods-carriages for the conveyance of soldiers. The ultimate object of these preparations is unknown. An armed neu trality is spoken of, but only as a transitional expe dient. —Doilg News. The German papers state that Baron Hess has represented to his government that he could not un dertake to operate against the Russians, unless assured of the support of a Prussian army of 100,000 men.—Daily News. Prince Meotchikoff, reporting to the Czar on the 2nd inst., states that nothing of importance had occurred to that date.—Daily News. ATHENS, 7Ax. 3. Admiral de Tinan and the colonels commanding the French and English troops have been received by their Hellenic Majestics.—Daily News. A letter from Constantinople received by the last mail confirms (says the Catulitssamenel) the intelligence that the Russians have abandoned the ground in front of the Quarantine fort, occupied by a small village. The French soldiers hurried in to seise on all they could, cep tables from the gardens, artieln of furniture, and even the doors and windows from the cottages. General Bisot had six windows placed aside to serve in General Cenrobert's dining room, w►en erected. " All that," sari • letter from a French officer, " was done under a sharp fire of musketry, which, however, only wounded two menaligbtly. I saw Captain de ►lsrivanit, of the navy, carrying away with the greatest promotion a window, which he protected with inlisite address with his bo•ly against the balls. Neu his. I saw an artilleryman gathering • salad in ono of the gardens. A ball knocked oat of his hands what be bed 001. lotted ; grumbling at being so treated, he again set about Ids week, and finished it without farther molestation. Such szansples of sang-froid are by no maw rare." ALLIANCE OF SARDINIA WITH THE WESTERN POWERS. It has been already stated in oar columns that the Sardinian government and the governments of England and France, were negotiating • treaty of alliance offensive and defensive. The result is given as follows by the Time* of this day : " We are happy to have it in our power to state that the Sardinian government has signed the proto- col of April last, and thereby joined the alliance of the Western Powers. " This important step is taken in virtue of the fifth article of the Convention between her Maj esty and the Emperor of the French, signed at London on the 10th of April, 1854. The fifth article runs as follows : " Their Majesties the Queen of the United King dom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Emperor of the French will readily admit into their alliance, in order to co-operate for the proposed object, such of the other Powers of Europe as may be desirous of becoming parties to it: " General Dabormida has resigned, and Count ^ , ivour has accepted the office of Minister foe `•• •-" Affairs." ROBERThox.--0 0 , Wedneaday DRAITI OT LOLL. whits at hi. own hove fa this loomed judp woo Wow.. Mob proved fatal.harsh, with an npopimotio w. THE NEGOTIATIONS FOR PEACE. WITS reference to the negotiations strifinna, the indeposdano Bilge, a journal notorious foe lb Russian leanings, remarks :—" It teat Sens that the negotiations about to open Are bet to ieterreit the progress of hostilities in lb Milli. On the contrary, the Western Powers appear determined to push them with increased vigour; and this, in our eptssion, tionstitides the danger of the situation; this is the circumstance most likely to compromise the result of these - negotlatiesas." It seareely rettaire& this acknowledgment from a Russian organ to we. vineo the public of the wisdom of the resolution adopted by the Western Powers not to intermit for a moment •their warlike operations in the Crimea. The chirp of squadron and thunder of millisey ila front of Bebsatopol will not be heard at Vienna; the delicate nerves of the diplomatists sissesbied be that capital will not be disturbed by the din of mar, or their deliberations interrupted. But the Rumba Minister will have a powerful motive for cutting short his rigmarole speeches and protocols, whoa he knows that every minute he spins out by .tbs• enables the Allies to work additional havoc in the Muscovite ranks. The Russian Government and its partisans flattered themselves that they had seine an important point when they once more entangled France and England in negotiations; but their hopes begin to abate since they have seen that these powese can fight and negotiate at the same time. Undoubtedly their resolution so to do " constitutes the danger et the situation ; " but the danger is all for Russia, ad for the cause of national independence and EntifillS tranquillity. The groan wrung from the Russian organ in the Belgian press, by the bellicose propensities of the Western Powers, betrays the arriere-penses with which Russia hu consented to entertain proposals for peace on the basis of the Four Points. Russia still hopes to gain back by diplomacy what it has lost by arms. There is only one way of meeting and foiling its finesse ; and that is to propose, in brief and explicit terms, such conditions of pesos as will give lasting security to Europe against Masao vite aggression, and to call upon the Russian Govern ment to accept or decline them without higgling or chaffering. The CZAR ought to be told in plain unequivocal language—" Remonstrance is in vain; you must do so and so, or the war goes on." Oa this head the weighty words with which an artisb on • The Conduct of the War," in the new amber of the Quarterly Review, is wound up, will be Or cloned by the great body of the nation : Jest as these sheets were befog printed off, we NNW the intelligence that Russia had accepted the Fourieliata If our article had been written with a knowledge of Ws circumstance, we shoed have endeavoured MINIM the same views we have already uprooted, and shoal' we the lea have urged the propriety of some change Ilesthelth set. We believe indeed that there will he greater weelii than ever for vigilance and firmness. We dread the dials• essay of Itensis more thus her arms. We are apprehensive that her suntimion is a device for detaching Austria from the slams, angler parwlysisg our preparations for the 11421 eeratleiwe, goethieles, it is affirmed, are not to be inter. espied ; led we are olarseed lest the geownsisent aimed repeat their firmer snore, and. lulled into foils sour* by the wegetistiwas, should relax Vs their efforts Mpreete aressments against the spring. Any such suspension is air If bees world be the height of folly andfotse economy. The mum weepier, met of preparing for war is vastly less *se that of war itself, and should Russia really yield in ow dr swede, it will only be because we held ourselves in ramli• isms to exact what she refuses. In ignorance of the goose- Ws that will be asked of her, an., the amount of em indemnity which will be required for the expeneli. sere we have incurred, we can give no opiates apes the conditions of puce proposed by our Mt sisters. We trusted them to provide for the conies gouda, of war, and found ourselves deceived. if, taw advantage of the secrecy with which the negotiations Mid Messedreted, they should again disappoint the ressonslois sweetathuis of the public, and assent to inadequate tonn they will not, we venture to predict, be able to withstand the stwinof reprobation which is justly au* to men who, through worlasese msdisempaeity, have betrayed their country. In this warning one important condition to be exacted from the CZAR is touched upon—" the amount of the indemnity which will be required for the expenditure we have incurred." It is not to be endured that the people of France and England should ulti mately pay the expenses of a war forced upon them by the arrogant injustice of the Russian Autocrat. Compelling him to refund our outlay out of his own exehequer will be an act of simple justice, and et the same time our best guarantee against a repent don of the offence. To allow him to escape wither l this mulct would be, on the part of our Government, Woe generosity. It would be to affect being gew gaw at the expense of their own people. It would be to fine the innocent and let the criminal escape scot-free. Russia ought, by every principle of law and equity, ultimately to bear the whole expenses of the war. The cession of the Crimea is as much a sins qua non as the payment of an indemnity by Russia; and the cession of the Aland Isles as the cession of the Crimea. It is taking too narrow • view of the causes and objects of the war, to confine our attention exclusively to the diminution of the power of Russia in the Black See. England, at least, has a more direct and immediate interest in the diminution of the power of Russia in the Baltic. We have a trade to make in the Euxine, but we have a trade to lose in the Baltic. Had not the breaking out of the war cat short the operations required to effect that purpose, Bomar sand would have been made as formidable a fortress as Sebastopol; and assuredly it will be made so, if Russia is allowed to re tain possession of it. Were Bomarmind made the Sebastopol of the Baltic, it would constantly threaten Stockholm in exactly the same way that the latter does Constantinople. Sebastopol, with a strong Russian fleet, made for a time a Russian lake of the Black Sea : Bomarsund, with a strong Russian fleet, would in like manner make a Russian lake of the Baltic. Thee* pen feathers—the Aland Isles and the Crimea—must be plucked from the northern and southern wings of the Russian eagle, or that insatiate bird of prey will soon be flying about again, as mischievous and as great • nuisance as ever. We do not say that the three conditions we have enumerated above are all that can or ought to be exacted from Russia, but our Government should be satisfied with nothing short of them.—Deily News. LEMY CASE.-COMPROMIS IND FRAUD. WE wish to call attention to two events connected with the administration ofj entice. The first is vol. y well known to most of our readers—it is the dation to mercy by the jury in the cue of the murderer BARTHY.LMIL The second hoe been noticed by very few of us—it is a decision of Alderman SIDNEY'S, that a person is precluded from prosecuting another for embezzlement because the latter had inserted the name of the former u a creditor to the amount of the monies embezzled in his schedule when passing through the Insolvent Court without any objection being made to such loser tioo, or any opposition to the passing of the insolvent. As to BAITIIIILIDIY, the infamous hero of what has been called "the double murder in Warren-street," hie trial for one murder, his conviction, and titer re commendation to mercy, took place this day week ; and we did not notice the cue at the time simply &e -mu the recommendation of the jury seemed so pre• postermady noreeemohle that we could not conceive' its producing any effect. It is said, however, that petition' in. favour 4 the mordant ars being name rawly Blond t we !bailors think it teomenry to 'thrive ti soars the comnben smite them who we anis:his thii; names to such docurasate. Sock ppbeoas .as petition for mercy oa sum woun d s than those - upon which the jury „apteit mbst bring forward such new facts as they have. and until they bars done so we need my nothing. To those who, with no fresh evidenis to Widow, merely add their names to the recommendation of the jury, we have a word or two to say. Those whose only ground for petitioning is that they think all capital punish meat useless or wrong mast use their bast endeavours to get the law altered; but while by the law of England an offence is punishable by death, to mar one who has committed the offence to escape the penalty is to have murdered all those who have paid it. To those who tell us that the culprit i. a foreigner, and that by his nation's laws be would escape death, we my that his offence was committed here, and has come under the cog. alma of our courts, and that by our law death is his due. To those who urge that he is a Frenchman, that we wish to stand well with France, and that therefore he should be pardoned—and we fear there are some such; we say that their ground of action is as insulting to the morality of France as it is de grading to the courage of England. We are to abstain from punishing a most ruffianly assassin because France would look leniently upon his offence! It is rumoured that the verdict was the result of a compromise between the jurymen; the foreigners (who formed half of the jury) refusing to con vict unless the English agreed to a recommendation to mercy. In France we know that juries find • prisoner guilty, but " with extenuating circum stances." But what extenuating circumstances were there in this rose P The ruffian doubtless committed two murders, but he was tried on that one only which admitted of direct and easy proof. He at. tempts to escape after the first murder, jumps over a wall, is seized by two men, draws • pistol from his pocket, and almost before one of his captors has uttered the words, "He will shoot one of us," he does shoot him. He runs away, and, after beating about the head with the pistol another man who seises him, he is finally overpowered. All these men, including the murdered man, swear to the facts. The counsel for the prisoner has pool , tively nothing to say, except that it was unfair that his client was not tried for the other murder, which was rather less easy of proof, and that perhaps the pistol went off by accident ! The case was too clear : even Mr. Justice MAULS could not have said that perhaps Barraminir thought his victim was a thief attempting to rob him, and that so he shot him in self defence. The jury, after three quarters of an hour, were compelled by their consciences, however unwill ingly, to find him guilty, but they recommended him to mercy. We hope that it wu some puzzle-headedness about "extenuating circumstances" that induced the foreign jurymen to do so: if such be the cue, they have a very inadequate appreciation of the in dulgent and anxious carefulness of the English criminal law with regard to the accused. The exa mination and all the other proceedings are carried on upon the well-known maxim of taking for granted the innocence of the prisoner until his guilt is proved. There is no attempt made here to force him to prove himself guilty, as would be the case in any other country in Europe. Had he himself been subjected to any sifting examination, the notion of extenuating circumstances could not have existed for a moment. As it was, his counsel had not a word to say for him, and the Chief Justice could see no loophole for him, and was profoundly astonished at the jury's recommendation, which, though he could not refuse to forward, he did re fuse to sanction. As GEORGE 111, said of a similar culprit, if this man is pardoned, COURVOISIEIt was murdered. The other matter we referred to is simply this. At Guildhall Police Court, on Monday last, WILLIAM HOLMES wu brought before Alderman SIDNEY charged with embezzling 571. belonging to his former employer, Mr. BEN. Rotes. Houtas's defence was that he had gone through the Insolvent Court at Exeter, and had entered JONES as creditor for the 571., and that JONES had not opposed his passing. The magistrate said, as the prosecutor did not oppose the prisoner's pestling, that "it was a sort of compro- mise of the matter, and the prisoner's discharge from prison by the Insolvent Court absolved him from any further charge respecting the item of 571. entered in his schedule. If the prosecutor had attended the Insolvent Court and proved that the item of 571. was not a debt but a sum embezzled, that court would have handed the prisoner over to the authorities to be dealt with under the criminal law." To this Mr. HOBLER, who appeared for the prosecution, replied, " that the court at Exeter had no jurisdiction over the prisoner in a cue of felony, so that whatever it might have done could not prejudice the present charge." Alderman SIDNEY, however, stuck to his opinion, and so the prisoner was discharged. Now, in the first place, passing the Insolvent Court does not extinguish a debt ; it only takes away the particular remedy or method of recovering it. Indeed the insolvent before his discharge executes a legal document by which he binds himself to defray his debts whenever he shall have the power, and any of cis creditors can sue for the amount due to them, not as the original debt, but upon this instrument. In the second place, if the debt were extinguished by passing through the court, that fact could make no difference in the matter. The private wrong of not k paying your debts is one thing, the wrong against , society of having committed a fraud is another. If a man picks your pocket of your watch, and you ! recover your watch, the thief owes you nothing, but I he hu not the less committed a theft. We are not i lawyers; but surely common sense would suggest that Alderman SIDNEY is wrong.—Daily Nem. 14116. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12, 1855., SECONDED OFFICERS OF ENGINEER IT has been customary, in time of peace, to allow the officers of the Artillery and Engineers to accept, for a time, civil employment in situations where the duties bear upon or are connected with their prefer don. A twofold end has thus been served : Govern ment has been enabled to avail itself of the services of qualified and highly educated officers in matters not coming strictly within the range of their military duties; and the officers have bad an additional induce ment held out tothem, in the hope of such employment, not only to devote themselves energetically to the study of their profession, bat to extend their labours to the collateral branches of science. To enable an officer to be thus employed, leave of absence for ten years is granted him; during which period, although he rises by seniority in the corps, he continues to draw only the pay of the rank he held upon leaving it (in addition to any civil pay be may receive) till such time as he rejoice for duty. In this state the officer is technically said to be seconded. It has always been understood that in the event of war seconded officers would be required forthwith to join their mpg ; the civil employment being deemed entirely subordinate to their military duties but this has not yet been done in the case of the Royal Engineers. Although serious ' oomplainte bare been made of the want of Engineer officers in , the Crimea, and although it has heal found sassmary in consequence to send e. acme of the juniors, almost before they had comeclets# the 'levier marls of instruction in military 'field works at Chatham, it appears from the Army List that there are at present nine officers of the corps seconded. They are thus apportioned-1 colonel, 3 lieutenant colonels, 4 captains, and 1 second captain. Two of them see abroad as governors, two in London on the Railway Commission, one is inspector of the Welsh roads, two are employed in Dublin, one in the Mau ritius, and cue on special service in Turkey. Now, although it may be conceded that the two governors—Sir W. Rain and Sir W. Dxtusox— ' are in positions where they are quite as useful as they would probably be on ac tive service, the same remark does not apply to the younger officers. The two Railway Commissioners may find opportunities of turning to good account I their practical experience when the Balaklava rail , way is completed; and judging from the reports of our special correspondent in the Crimea an efficient I inspector of roads would be quite a godsend to Lord RAGLAN. The places of the five seconded officers, now at home, could be easily filled from civil life, 1 and probably without any additional expense to the I public. However that might be, it is surely most desirable to secure the services of so many experi -1 snood officers in the legitimate sphere of their duties, L instead of being obliged, as at present, to send out ! very young men, who have all their experience yet I to acquire.—Daily News. 1 FRANCE. DZIMINT OP TEI DAILY EERIE.) PARIS, TIIIIBSDAY DISKING. The Monitour de r Armes announces that the army of the East is about to be newly organised. It will consist of two corps dramas and a corps of reserve. The two corps will be commanded by General Bos quet and General Pelimier. The latter general, now in Algeria, where he has greatly distin guished himself, has been ordered to the Crimea to assume his new command. I understand that tke full complement of each corps (Parma is in tended to be 40,000 men. General Canrobert will continue to be the commander-in-chief. There are reports that he is likely to be made a Marshal of France, but I think it improbable that this dignity will be conferred upon him before the taking of Sebastopol. Lord Raglan's promotion during the course of the present campaign can hardly be con. sidered a parallel case, Canrobert being a very young general. General Niel, who just been himself at the siege of Bomarsnnd , and has ust been appointed an aide-de-oampto theEmperor,leftParis last evening for the Crimea. Some people infer from this circumstance that if the war continue the- Emperor will go there himself. However far-fetched this inference may be, it is certain that the French Emperor has long been preparing himself for the assumption of the supreme command of an army in the field in certain con tingencies. Brigadier-General Mayran is promoted to the rank of general of division, and appointed to succeed Ge neral Bosquet in the post vacant by the promotion of the latter to a higher command. The Sentinells of Toulon, of the Bth, says The Milan left yesterday with 200 men of the 14th regi ment. The Tonnerre has also left, having on board a number of wooden barracks for the army of the Crimes. 1,000 men belonging to the 14th regiment ' have marched into the arsenal to-day, to embark on board the Duperre line-of-battle ship.' Admiral Hamelin has arrived in Paris. The applications for the new loan are so numerous that it is probable the demands will exceed very greatly, if not double, the five hundred millions. ' Although the precise state of the negotiations at Vienna is somewhat mysterious, I believe I may state with certainty that the instruct ions sent to the French and English ambassadors at Vienna are that peace will not be made until Sebastopol is taken or sur renders. At the Bourse the opinion that peace was at hand was much less in favour, notwithstanding a tele graphic announcement that Vienna Metallics had again risen considerably. The Rents fell 83c., closing at 137 fr. 100. Railways and all other securities were also much lower. A recent letter from Sebastopol states that the General of Division Morris, the commander-in-chief ' of the French cavalry in the Crimea, bad left Baidar ' at the head of several battalions and squadrons, for the purpose of making a reconnaissance as far as Yalta, following the Corniche road. ITALY. FESTIVAL IN HONOUR OF THE MADONNA. (FROM Tl 3 THE DILTLY BENS.) NAPLES, JAx. 2. The city ham, for the last week, been turned upside dowa is getting up . a fete and proces• non in honour of "Maria Vergine." The streets and purlieus of Naples have been cleaned out as they never have been since the halcyon days when our beloved (big) brother, the Emperor of all the Russian, condescended to visit this humble rein of absolutism. Whether, as then, coachmen were ordered to put en round hats and long-tailed coats, and Lazzaroni to imprison their unaccustomed feet in leather, I know not; but everything was done to give the external aspects of decency to the city. The king it appears went on foot from his palace to the church of Gam Vecchio, whence this extra ordinary procession started. The cardinal, bishops, and clergy led the van—then came the gigantic doll like image of the Madonna, followed immediately behind by His Majesty, supported by generals on either side. The Hereditary Prince, supported by his two uncles, then followed—the younger sons of the King succeeded—then came a line of royal car riages, and the whole was closed by cavalry and a train of artillery. In this way the procession made the round of old Naples, returning, after four hours walking, to the spot from which they had started. Her Majesty and a large assemblage of the court were at the windows of the palace, and all Naples was out to witness this distinguished act of royal devotion. His Majesty was so much overcome by his feelings that he was frequently seen to wipe away the tears which rolled down his pions cheeks. Would that but one tear had fallen for Poerio and hundreds of others who at this hospitable season are pining within dungeon wall.. What is the meaning of all this? I asked of a sharp looking man, who had been a curious spectator, "Why, sir," was the reply, " two religions had a lite' with the Pope as to whe ther the Madonna was immaculate or not, and now his holiness has decided that all 'religions' are to believe in her immaculate conception." So important an event was not likely . to be passed over in Naples, and hence the great religious demonstration which has just been made. To the man of thinking mind it cannot but be matter of surprise that the 19th century has been chosen for so broad an assertion of Papal infallibility, and on a dogma which has for so many centuries been permitted to repose in uncer tainty. dome incredulous minds, too, are apt to think that the decision of the Pope was imperfect, in enamel as it did not establish the immaculate concep tion of all the ancestry of the Madonna. Those who know Naples, however, will not be so much surprised at the puerilities practised here. I believe that there is quite as much koavishness as folly in them, andthat, like the "panem et circenses"for the Romans, these are provided to amuse and to divert public attention from political refleetioes. In fact, the great effort is here to emasculate the public mind and reduce it to complete subjection to the priesthood, and so long as that subjection continues, there are no hopes for the reformation or resurrection of Italy. What an insult is it to the best interests of man, that whilst Europe is shaken to her foundations, by the mighty political events of the day, the whole of the south of Italy is drivelling about subjects which ought to have slumbered under the cobwebs of antiquity! On the 6th of January a much more imports& rat will be performed—the Hereditary Prince will be declared l et age en Vs reaching his 18th birthday, and in ne ance of the whole army, ea the Campo, will be in vested with the insignia of generalissimo of the army. Little is known of the education of the future sovereign, but it may well be presumed that it has been of a screwing character. His disposi tion is, however, said to be good, and mach is hoped for from the son of a princess who was so univer sally beloved, and whose memory often calls the tears into the eyes of the poor people. If I cannot speak of political re forms, I can at all events of great moral reforms which confirm the acknowledged title of Naples to the odour of sanctity. The reform of which I speak may be considered as a pendant to the green trowser movement amongst the Ballerine. The Journal des Demoiselles, highly popular amongst the ladies of Naples, as might be inferred from its title, is pro hibited from being issued until certain alterations have been made in thefvurini. The drawings with the Parisian fashions were considered too prurient for the highly moral population of Parthenope. Ao , cordingly pions hands are employed to lengthen the upper part of the dress, and short sleeves are brought down to the elbow. The mode of making the shapes is also abstracted, so that ladies and mantas. makers W are au asespoir and may get up a demonstration. The figurins, I hear, however, are daubed in so im perfect a manner, that the fashions can be detected underneath. Still no one will now take in the Journal, and it bids fair to die of inanition. This is another of the recent puerilities practised in Naples. There are few people here this winter, and of those who have arrived the majority are Americans. The King . and Queen pass the Ariaja daily, and on arriving at the Strada Nuova the King mounts on horseback. Aa event has taken place which has put all the foreigners on the qui vice. A third orifice has been formed in Vesuvius. It is near the top of the cone, and the opening is so clean that the strata of the mountain may be seen to a considerable depth. Much caution is now required in the ascent, as this orifice is in the path which visitors have been in the habit of taking. The old guides are predicting an eruption, but without sufficient ressan, as many think. The exchange on London, I am happy to say, has risen three points, it being now 56. TUSCANY. Sir H. Lytton Bnlwer had an audience of the Grand Doke of Tuscany on the sth, to deliver his letters of recall as ambassador to that court. On the same day, the Marquis of Normanby was received by the Grand Duke. in order to present his creden tials as new British ambassador to the Court of Tuscany THE RECENT EARTHQUAKE AT NICE. TO TH3 EDITOR 07 THE AULT NEWS. NICE, JAN. O. SIR,—Yon will have heard by the newspapers the severe shocks of an earthquake we have had—four in all. I am thankful to say they did no harm to the house we were is, or indeed any great deal of damage in the town, but the fright of the inhabi tants was dreadful, expecting every moment their houses falling in, and crushing them. They rushed out half frantic in their night dresses, or anything they could find to cover themselves. One man, his wife, and child, got to the Hotel des Etrangers with only a slight covering, and more dead than alive with terror; their room ceiling had fallen down. I was awoke by hearing the jug and basin rattle, my bed shaking under me, and a noise like the door loudly banging to. Michel said "he we. awoke with the house shaking much, and the bells ringing." The Place Victor, the Boulevards, and the sea shore were crowded with people, numbers with only their night clothes, or a blanket to cover them. The following night but few persons went to bed, some slept in their carriages, and the Place, &c., was again crowded, as it is when they have fireworks. Many people are ill from fright and cold. At Ventimillo they say the mountain has opened, the. fire issued out, and that it is now impassable. The other day the air was so hot we could hardly bear it; from the mountains, too, that were covered with snow. There was another slight trembling felt at Nice yesterday morning. It is also stated here that much damage has been done at Rome, and that St. Peter's has been greatly injured. It is ascribed by many to a tremendous eruption of Mount Vesuvius, which has just broken ont. L. S. ARRIVALS AT MALTA. Letters from Malta of Jan. 6 state that the Neptune had arrived in the port of Lavalette with the 72nd regiment of Highlanders, which had come to relieve the 14th Foot. The latter regiment will sail for the East in the Emeu on the 9th. On the Sth there arrived in the Britannia with Admiral Dandas, seve ral sick and wounded officers, and 571 sick and wounded soldiers; 37 women and 38 children were also on board the vessel. On the same day the Gorgon arrived with a detachment of the 2nd battalion of Rifles, and stores and ammuni tion for the fleet. The Duke of Cambridge, who arrived by the Tamar, on the Gth, was accom pa nied by his aides de-camp and his physician. He was expected to remain for some time in Malta on sick leave. Admiral Dundee, on arriving in the island, refused the honours that were offered him. He left for England, via Marseilles, by the Vectis. The Trafalgar and Bellerophon were expected every moment, on their way to England. GERMANY. It is stated that, in consequence of the alleged ac ceptance by the Czar of the four conditions as inter preted by the allies, a congress will meet at Vienna about the let of February. The Frendenblatt (Vienna) says that Prussia ad heres to the treaty of the 2nd of December. RUSSIA. his. 10. Letters from St. Petersburg announce numerous promotions in the navy. General Schulguine, the military governor-general, died on lan. 2 of an acute asthma. The cholera is on the increase. THE AZTECS AND EARTHMEN. Our old friends the Aztecs have returned to town after a provincial tour, during which the public curiosity respecting them has been fully maintained. They are very little altered in appearance. The girl has grown one or two inches bet the boy seems u if he had reached his maturity some time since. In their present visit to the metropolis they are accompanied by another extremely interesting pair of pigmies, the Earthmen from South Africa, a little ex ceeding the Aztecs in stature, but with an intelligence which indicates a mach higher place in the human family. These latter children are graceful and well formes, speak English tolerabl A y, and have been taught to sing anu way on the' Piano. crowded audience witnessed the united exhibition ast evening in Lei:ester-square, and seemed highly de lighted with both groups. The Aztecs have improved in health and strength, and can articulate a few English words, but do not give mach promise of further in tellectual development. Their guardian, Mr. Morris, gives the audience the Iximayan story which wu published in the Doily News on their first appear ance, bat prudently avoids pledging himself to its authenticity. With much fairness and candour, he states the circumstances under wbieh the Aztecs came under his guardianship, the tale he received with them, and the autho rities that exist in support of it, thus leaving the audience to believe or disbelieve, according to the standard of their credulity. This much is certain, that whatever may have been the previous history of these children, they are a most extraordinary variety of the human race and well worthy of a visit from all who taka an interest in ethnological investi gations. The history of the little earthmen is little less singular, but in support of it Mr. Morris calls up a number of witnesses all living in London. In order to extend the exhibition to the usual term of an evening entertainment, a miscellaneous concert is gives, in which Mr. By. Smith sings some excellent songs in a very superior style, and a second Mr. Morris plays with great taste and expression on the musical glasses. Taken all together the exhibition is exceedingly well worthy of a visit. ARRIVAL OP THE AVON PROM THE E.t.a. —The Royal Mail steam -ship Avon has arrived at Southampton, bringing about 200 invalids and wounded soldiers and officers from the British army in the East. It is expected that she will be at once ordered to Portsmouth to dimm bark. THE ROYAL WEST INDIA MAIL STEAMER AVON le expected shortly at Southampton from she Black Sea. Zbe Court. WINDSOR, JAN. 11. The dinner party yesterday included the Dachas of Kent, the Marquis and Marchioness of Abetters, ch i , Ladies Harriet and Louisa Hamilton, the Earl of anted*, Vimeennt Torrington, Lady Fancy Howard, Baroness dit Spelt, Sir George Cooper, and Major-General Wylde. The Band of the Itval Horse Guards played dodge dinner. Her Msjesty's Private Band performed aft*. wards. The Queen, with the Princess Alice, walked ic Ik e grounds adjacent to the Castle this morn ing. Prince Albert, attended by Major-General the Bak Charles Grey, Colonel the Ron. C. B. Phipps, and Coles. ' F. H. Seymour, left Windsor for London by a special trek of the Great Western Railway, at Ave minutes put 10 o'clock. The Prince drove to the Exhibition of the Photographis Society, afterwards visited the Duchess of. Gloucester s Gloucester Rouse, and returned to the Culls at half•pe s t one o'clock. Tho Earl of Clarendon accompanied his Royal High's. to London. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office. The ministers present We re the Earl of Aberdeen, the Lord Chancellor, th e Duke of Argyll, Viscount Palmerston, the Earl of Clarendon, Sir George Grey, the Duke of Newcastle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, and Sir William Moleeworth. The council sat throe hours. The Sardinian Minister transacted business yeaterday g the Foreign-office. Viscount Palmerston arrived in town yesterday kali, seat, Broadlauds, Harts, for the purpose of attending tip, Cabinet Council held at the Foreign-office. Despatches from the Governor of the Cape of Good llope were received yesterday at the Colonial-office. The hidleisi Committee of the Privy Council eat yester day, and heard a petition for a prolongation of Lows's patent (gas). The Lords present were the Dean of tla Arch.. Court, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and Sir Edward Ryan. NAVAL AND MILITARY. ADMIRALTY, JAN. 11, J. E. Erskine (1838) to the Orion, 80, screw steamship, m Chatham. Commanders E. H. Gunnell, to the Albion, 90, in the Black Sea, and C. P. Coles to the Rodney, 90, Mediter ranean station. Masters J. H. Allard (1851), to the Himalaya screw steam-ship, at Portsmouth, and H. P. J. Simpson, to the Desperate, 8, screw steam-sloop, of 409-horse power, et Hull. Second Muter W. H. Bradley, to the Himalaya. Acting Clerk F. L. B. Bedwell to the Perseverance, troop ship, at Woolwich. The Merlin, peddle-wheel steam•vessel, of 312 horse power, having been thoroughly refitted at Deptford sad completed for service at sea at Woolwich, has been eon missioced by Captain B. J. Sulivan, who commanded the Lightning, steam-vessel, when serving in laying down buoys in the Baltic last summer. The officers and crew of the Lightning have been turned over to the Merlin. The Locust, steam-vessel, Lieutenant Commander George F. Day, has been ordered to be paid down to-day at Woolwich. The Sinbsd and the Drake, 13-inch mortar-Trunk, have returned to Woolwich from Shoebaryness to have some alterations made and the decks covered with lead. Captain Travers's company, sth Battalion, Royal Artil lery, at present stationed at Leith Fort, and Captain Haw kins's company, 7th Battalion, stationed at Dublin, hay. been ordered to return to head-quarters at Woolwica mediately, for the purpose of being filled up and placed in • state of readiness to embark far the Crimea. The addi. tion of these two companies to those previously preparing for foreign service, make 11 field batteries and companies under orders for the seat of war in the Eut. It bas been definitively announced by a recent official despatch from the British government, that the head•quar• tars of the troops in Canada are to be forthwith removed to and permanently located at Quebo'. PORTSMOUTH, Jaw.ll. The crew of the Duke of Wellington, 131, screw steam ship, Captain Gordon, were paid up wages to-day. The Ajax, 60, screw-ship, Captain Warden, bent sails this morning. She is now ready for sea. The Hastings and Pembroke, 72 gun ships, that have been in dock, being converted into screw ships, to carry 60 guinea* will have the necessary alterations effected by the end of this month. They will, it is expected, with the four or five other ships of the same character undergoing • similar conversion at other dockyards, form a very suitable and useful addition to the class of vessels best adapted for service in the ensuing operations in the Baltic. The Dragon, 6, paddle sloop, did not get away from Spit head for Pembroke (having the crew of the Victoria and Albert on board, for the purpose of bringing her Majesty's new yacht round to this port) tilt this morning. I The Lively, lighter, went out to the Dragon yesterday afternoon, and brought into harbour the luggage of Rear- Admiral Chad., which the Dragon had brought from Leith, on Admiral Chads' hauling down his flag front the &din burgh, 60, screw ship, on hi. return frtm the Baltic. The Marley Hill, No. 169 steam transport, basing filled up with another cargo of wooden buts, had her compasses adjusted to-day prior to sailing for its Crimta. There are about sixty more huts to be sent out to complete the ori ginal number ; but, ac..ording to recent accounts from the Crimea, they will hardly be required, as the army appears to have provided themselves with wooden houses before any had arrived from England. The following gentlemen have passed yesterday and to day at the Royal Naval College in this dockyard : For Naval Cadets :—M . J. E. Pringle, D. E. IL Grant, H. B. Gordon, H. li'lnroy, J. W. D'Arcy, R. de R. Hawkey. For Muters' Assistants :—A. Carr, P. Rees. For Clerks' Assistants :—P. P. Rouse, W. P. Taylor, R. Hill, R. \V. Parish, E. S. Lean, H. J. Harvey, J. G. Frank lyn, H. F. Johnstone, R K. H MARSEILLES, JAL 9. The Jura, transport, took on board to-day 38 officers and 1,190 troops. This ship also takes out a large supply of planks and • considerable quantity of ordnance for the army before Sebastopol. DUBLIN, SAN. 11. The following is an authentic list of the officers who sailed for the Crimea on Saturday last on board H.M.S. St. Jean d'Acre from Queenstown, vie. 17th Regiment: Major Arthur lowry Cole ; Captain D. L. Colthunt; Lieutenants J. A. Caulfield, W. D. Tompsolli and W. H. J. Dishrowe ; Ensigns 0. S. Butler and J. 0. Travers; Assistant-Surgeon W. M. Gibaut. 30th Regi ment Captain W. J. Robertson and Lieutenant E. N. Sill. ' 33rd Regiment: Captain H. D. Ellis ; Ensigns C. W. Willis and A. E. W. Ellis. 41st BAgiment Captain C. P. Bertram ; Lieutenants W M'C. Lambert and H. J. Nowlin. 47th Regiment: Captain Chas. Elgee. 49th Regiment: Ensign T. F. Euateoe. 65th Regiment : Lieutenant James Hannay. 67th Regiment: Captain W. E. Brown; Lieu tenants J. C. Ingham and J. C. Ashwin. 63rd Regiment: Lieutenants E J. Hunt and C. A. Hand. Medical Staff: Acting Assistant Surgeon T. G. Creuy. The Princess Royal, transport, is hourly expected to arrive at Queenstown, for the conveyance of troops to the Crimes. The depttit of the 26th (Cameronian) Regiment, row sts tioned at Newoastle•npon-Tyne, will shortly be passed over to Belfast; and upon their arrival the depot of the 92nd Highlanders will embark at Belfast (where they are now stationed) for Glasgow, en route to Edinburgh. Every exertion is being made to re•constitate the cavalry force on service, and recruiting for the heavy 024- valry has been particularly brisk during the last few weeks, the ard Dragoon Guards being employed in getting men for the sth Dragoon Guards, the 7th Dragoon Guards for the Inniskillens, the fat Dragoon Guards in Edinburgh for the Soot. Greys, and the Queen's Bays at Dundalk for the 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards. The Newbridge Barracks (cavalry depot) and the Royal Barracks, Dublin, are de scribed as quite full ; and Naas, Carlow, and Navan are spoken of as shortly lobe occupied by cavalry preparing for the Reit. MACPHERSON OF CLIINY.—This Highland chief tain has addressed a letter to the public prints, giving th e most unqualified contradiction to the report that his !nib whe is commencing his military career in the 42nd High. lenders, wu about to sell out rather than face the dangers of a campaign in the Crimea. —North British .......-•-•• ANA The viewed meat of . e e i l t p h e e c r " Europe 1 uric , ~ area a i er Rh 1 , unite an ever an imm Ana e /ha Carat P m.' 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