The Express. — London, England, 1855-01-02 00:00:00

THE NEW RETURN OF NEWSPAPER STAMPS. The return of newspaper stamps just issued gives the idiewisi malts: First Quarter. Siscend Quarter. Daily News . . 319,191 348,044 'brain Herald . . 303,000 259,000 Mersin Post . . 206,000 229,000 Illornimg Chronicle. . 102,500 188,000 Express . . 177,133 198,389 Globs . . . 176,000 195,000 Sua . • . 168,000 192,000 liaadard . . . 103,000 104.000 bite exapreoo• TO CORRESPONDENTS. • OPP &lidos of "Tin haproos" sostainag tin use eves's?. "Guns,* is published ovary Tuesday and Friday aipt, is use In pan. Advortisposulistespisd Mr "TL. Eapress," Lanka gossip papa, nun boat UM Odipps le, Ballafia-stran. by Two o'clock as the sag stpablianics. RIOR WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Taw D&T—llloralng, lb. rim Ammon. lb. 114 e. Taalanew—llandas. Vi. 1 Atterasca. 2k. Mr LONDON. TUESDAY. JANUARY 2. • LATEST NEWS FROM ABROAD THE CRIMEA. Russian despatches from the Crimea of the 23rd, show that nothiog important had occurred before Sebastopol to that date. From the 18th November to the 18th December, the Allies had received rein forcements to the extezt of 24,000, including Turk.. The Saint Louis was encountered at Cape Matapan en the 14th, with 1,000 French troops on board. Twenty-five transports, with reinforcements and supplies, had passed Cape Saint Ange in five days with a fair wind. Despatches from Vienna state that Prince God chakoff has urgently pressed Count Bnol to allow a representative of the Germanic Confederation to take part in the further conferences at Vienna. The Governor of Odessa has published a tranquil lising order of the day on the subject of an appre hended visit of the allied fleet.—Daily News. The Patrie publishes the following private telegra phic despatches: RUSSIA. WARSAW, Dec. 30. General Sievers has left for the head-quarters of Radom, pursuant to an Imperial order. His depar ture took place with inch precipitation that he had not even time to take leave of his son. The first corps, and a division of grenadiers, are concentrated between the Vistula, the Nicer, and the Warthe. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, Doc. 31. M. Scheel and the Conot Pinson have refused the portfolio of Foreign Affairs. Galspani quotes a letter from Berlin, dated the 28th ult., which says :—" According to recent ac counts from St. Petersburg, it may be considered as certain that the Emperor of Russia will for the pre sent refuse any ulterior concession. Very cosfiden tial communications have been made in this sense to the Prussian Cabinet." And a despatch from Warsaw, dated the 29th alt., stating that a ukase had been issued, ordering that for the soldiers terming the garrison of Sebastopol, each month's service shall count for a year. THE STATE OF THE ARMY. Emmett newspapers are read in the Crimea. The newspaper is the Englishman's favourite read. ing t especially when he is at a distance from home, and engaged in some tedious operation which leaves him a good deal of unemployed time on his hands. The newspapers which reach the army before Sebes topol are quite as eagerly caught at and devoured as the letters from private friends. It is right, there fore, that the newspapers should express that deep sympathy with the privations and sufferings of our soldiers that is felt by the universal nation, and that they should incessantly urge Government and thegeneral publio tobe indefatigable in their exertions for its relief. The great detail in which the newspapers relate all the perils and adventures of our brave countrymen in the Crimea, their accounts of the efforts made here at home to expedite relief and reinforcements to them, their criticisms of what is done or left undone—all tend to cheer the soldier la the camp by making him feel that the eyes of England are intently fixed upon him, that the hearts of England beat high for him, that the helping arms of England are outstretched towards him. Deeply convinced of the consolation which such manifestations of native sympathy must impart to the soldier, and how it must nerve him to endure privation and brave the perils of battle, we can tolerate many exaggerated statements and inflated expressions among writers and speakers about the army before Sebastopol. But there are limits to all thing,. There has been much of suffering and privation in the ranks of our army that might have been avoided by proper fore thought and more prompt action. But there is also much of this suffering and privation that is impa las from active warfare. The mere fighting is the least arduous part of the soldier's duty. To wait in patience till hie leaders give the word for action, to endure without a murmur all the hardships and pri vatic= be may have to endure till the moment for action arrives—these are as indispensable to suc cess in warfare as valour in the hour of battle. The most provident care cannot ensure to the soldier the same shelter from the inclemency of the weather—the same regular supplies of wholesome and nutritious food—the same gentle and patient &academe in sickness, in the tented field se is be:lacks or billets at home in limo( peace. The most difiloult lesson the young soldier has to learn is patiently to oaths, that which is inevitable, and help himself es be best may. It is, therefore, at the best, mistakes kindness to seek to persuade young soldiers that all the hardships lad privations t o w hich they are entected could, under any circumetanses, have been entirely avoided. And to lay the blame of what's they undergo upon their commanders—unless upon the most full and irrefrsgable evidence of the neglect or incapacity of these commaadees—is to premed direct provocative, to discontent and mutiny in the army. Tike, for example, the exaggerated and inflated ipmesetatione el the dlierganisation and sufferlap lwo 4 • of the army in the Crimea des pobr th illif t after day in the 2timm it dims are! the went of Govern t the aejahMilly sickness and battle ha resitQ - their nuagais by one-half. They are told that the continued slothful ness of Government' will necessarily cause the other half to be carried off in the same manner. They ars told that their Csemsndsr•in-Cbisf has risked —.- their lives without neessmity, and makes no effort to amend what io defective in the administration of the army; that he looks Wily on, in callous indiffer ence, while they are perbhing from the consequences of his neglect. They are told that he is incapable of command ; that he bee nurreended himself by an inefficient staff; that one general of division is no soldier; that the engineer effioer who conducts the siege operations is ignorant of his profession. They are told that this is the opinion of all military men at home, and of their owe regimental offioers. What effects us Inch representations—reiterated day after day, urged with all the vehemence of impassioned language and imaginative illustration—calculated to produce upon men smarting under privations, exposed to the inolemeneies of the weather, impatient under the slow progress of a protracted siege? The Times i► now systematically holding up our generals in the Crimea as objects for mutinous violenos, in the same manner that it some time ago held up the bakers as objects for mob viblenoe. It is systemati cally goading the army to mutiny. The immediate object of the Times—to make political capital out of the army's sufferings--coay safely be laughed to scorn. To say that its diatribes convey any available information to the enemy, or contribute to raise his spirits, is simply absurd. But there is a serious danger that its incessant depredation of the military talents of our commanders, and its frequent imputation of a callous disregard on their part to the sufferings of the soldier, may some day undermine that spirit of discipline and subordination which is the pre eminent distinction of the British army, and lead to some disastrous mutinous outbreak. It is right that the reel condition of the army should be kept before the eyes of the nation; it is right that the actions and characters of those to whom its command has been delegated should be fearlessly scrutinised. But this is not to be done, with any prospect of hematite' results, by turgid appeals to the unreasoning positions of multitudes, armed or unarmed, upon no better authority than fragmentary and often inconsistent information derived from men who see only part, and write under the excitement of suffer ing. The Legislature is the place in which these inquiries can be instituted and carried on with most effect. It is to be hoped that by the time Parliament re-assembles Sir Da LACY Everts wiU be sufficiently reoffered to take part in its deliberations. We are not of those who think the political the brightest side of Sir CIIARLEB Nernit's character; yet we could wish that some one of the eonstituencies, which are at present unrepresented, would send him to participate in these discuisions. The voices of experienced warriors, who hare been eye-witnesses of passing events, is much needed to promote a satisfactory solution of the doubts and difficulties which prevail. Above all, Ministers, if they have any regard for their own honour and usefulness, will be liberal in imparting all information that can throw light on the knotty questions that are sure to be raised. Until such complete and re liable information as can be obtained from morose such as we have indicated is in our possession, the public ought to suspend its judgment of individual conduct and capacities. Such caution is simple justice, and is perfectly compatible with the most strenuous efforts to assuage the sufferings of our soldiers, and ensure the energetic promotion of the war.—Doily News. N HOW THEY MANAGE MATTERS IN CHESTER CATHEDRAL. TO TEN ZDITOE OP Till DAILY NSW. BlR,—With what unction must our ecclesiastical dignitaries regard the axiom of the apoetle, that "If any provide not for his own and specially for those of his own house, he bath denied the faith, and is won than an infidel." There is so danger of the faith being denial in this respect in the good city of Chester, where orthodoxy is exemplified by a very scrupulous adherence to the letter of the precept. The cathedral staff of Chester consists of the dean, tofu canoes, and four minor canons. The dew (Dr. Anne) can, in his old age, look with unalloyed satisfaction upon the constitution of his ecclesiastical family circle, mu tilating, as it does, of two sone-in-law, the Rev. 0. B. Blom field sad the Rev. Temple Hillyard, whom he can enume rate as two on of the four omen, a brother-in-law of one his mons-ia-law among the minor canons ; his mete at his recently taken living of Doddleston, another of the minor aeons; the family being appropriately waited apes by the verger, who was, and is, the dew's butler. So matters stood until last Friday, when a chapter being held, the very rev. dean had another opportunity of establishing an additional proof of his regard for the apostolic doctrine. The Chapter of Chester, it appear, have tne right of presentation to eleven pieces of church preferment, and the practice hitherto, almost universally, has given the refuel on a vacancy, to the clerical staff of the cathedral— in other words, the dean and anon take the best livings according to seniority, and what is not worth their &captain, has boss permitted to devolve on the minor cants. The rectory of Coddington fell in a few weeks ago by the death of a gentleman who had been a minor canon; and the general hope and expectation was. that a minor omen would be hie seamen. Public attention was directed to the Rev. W. Harrison, sad (the precentor) the Rev. Mr. Thailand. Particular sympathy was exhibited toward the latter, from circentstaaces well known and ap preciated in this locality. But on Friday last, at a chapter this held (the convening whored had been kept a profound secret frees all bat its members), the rater, et Coddington was esafernd epee the ally. Mr. Boyds, a very young man recently ordained, bet who erjoyed the preferential nem. meadatio• of being son-in-law of the Be'. Canon whe also is sokia-law of the dean. To the disappointment felt at Bk. Thailand sot obtaining the promatim, is added surprise at the senior minor canoe, Mr. Harrison being nosed over. It is rumoured that the pretension of the latter were shelved by his owa 'easiness°, ; sad that anadry daises for which he has bees stickliag ter way pen pest. as kis right is anther capacity, have Jut been greeted to him. These have ben withheld and pertlasei only misted ter • long time, bat they were senkrred upon him just previous to the late Map ter. lam nlnetent to mew year imam bet than partieskre do really evince se mesh diplesaatie dexterity, and are looked apes with such admiration ia this eity, that it is • pity they should not re, min a man extended renown by appearing is your co• lawns.—l ant, Mr, your obedient servant, SCRIITATOB Clbasta, Dee. 2Y,1864. ORDER OF MERIT. i f THE WAR. "MOD ♦ nail= CORIMPONDOOT OF VIZ DAILY MOWS.) CONSTANTINOPLE, Dsc. 20. The extraordinary activity which now prevails in every depahment of the military service gives great plausibility to the widely circulated report that Russia is secretly and quietly concentrating her forces and determined to bring affairs in the Crimes to an immediate issue. It is said that the Czar has sent the most pressing and imperative orders to Prince Mentchikoff to again attempt to force the British lines, whilst Admiral Nachimoff with the newly re armed line of battle ships, is at the same time to quit the port, sail to the northward, and bombard Eupa toria, in which he will be supported on the land side by the troops under Prince Oortchakoff, who has lately received considerable reinforcements, and whose orders are to make himself master of the place a tort Frit. When this movement has been success fully effected, the whole of the Russian forces will move to the south, concentrate themselves under Fort Constantine, and attack the Allied. To neutralise this dangerous plan by taking the initia tive, is now the great problem to be solved by the Allies, and the extraordinarily active service of mounted couriers seen galloping every day between this city and Varna gives certainly credence to the supposition that some step of very great importance is being prepared and on the eve of being taken. Amongst other things, it is determined to retain, under all circumstances. the important but hitherto rather neglected position of Eupatoris. It is aller d that the possibility of continuing to hold that place depends in a great measure on the success of a scheme emanating from no less a personage than the Em peror Napoleon himself. The particulars of this new plan of operation are, of course, kept secret by those military men acquainted with it, but from what has leaked out in conversation, I believe that your readers will find the following a pretty correct general outline : Immediately after the receipt of the reinforce ments now on their way to the Crimea from England and France, the bombardment of Sebastopol will be recommenced with greater energy than even at first. On the day after the French will storm the place, whilst the British and Ottoman forces will attack Mentchikoffs troops. The Turks under Omer Pacha, who will by that time have landed at Eupatoria, will simultaneously attack the Russian positions at Sim pheropol, whilst another division of the Turkish ex pedition, landing at Kopery, will at once march to the northward, and make itself rduter of the Isth mus of Perekop. After the storming of Sebastopol, General Canrobert and Lord Raglan will march towards Baktchi-Sena, to obtain possession of that important position, leaving sufficient troops to invest the northern forts, and cut off all communication with the Russian army in the field, and then join Omer Pacha in the neighbourhood of Simpheropol, where the decisive struggle will take place. The latest despatchesfrom both Paris and London are said to finish with the words Sebastopol shall and must be taken." On the Danube and on the Pruth the war is to be of a purely defensive character. It is not yet exactly known whether Omer Pacha will accept the command of the Turkish expedition to the Crimea. The Birder entertains great fears of losing his independence by doing so, and in a de spatch to the Sultan has stipulated his being invested with two votes in all councils of war, so u not to be outvoted by Lord Raglan and General Canrobert. If this delicate question cannot be settled in a manner satisfactory to all part i es, the supreme command will be offered to Lmnl Pacha. Human Pasha and several Polish officers of the army of Anatolia, have arrived here from Trebizond in the steamer London. General Guyon (Churchid Pasha) is expected to arrive here shortly, in order to answer the complaints brought against him. Other ships lately arrived from Trcbizind have brought several European officers and surgeons on the sick list, as well as a number of deserters, who are to be incorporated in the ranks of the Turkish army of the Crimea, to learn discipline and bravery. (PROM Tllll OP TM! DAISY NEWS.) E2CTIESS TUESDAY EYZNING , JANUARY 2 , 185 g. g NEW PRUSSIAN NOTE. The ladependance of Brussels publishes the follow ing analysis of the note dated Des. 19, which was addressed by the Prussian cabinet to its envoys at London and Puis. The despatch commences by a reference to the agreement of Prussia with the point of view taken up by the Western Powers, and appeals, in proof thereof, to the diplomatic documents which Prussia has signed in common with the other powers. The provisions of the treaty of Dec. 2 are declared to be, as to their substantial contents, in harmony with the Prussian me. It is further said that Prussia, in co nsideration of the menacing attitude of Rusk, which Prussia was the first to recognise, had even promised her military co-operation within certain limits. It fur ther contains the remark that Prussia had facilitated the conclusion of a peace by obtaining from Russia the acceptance of the four guarantees. The despatch dwells without uperity on the treaty be tween Austria and the Western Powers, but it results from the document taken as a whole that Prussia considers herself unable for the moment to sign the treaty in its present form. The author of this analysis, who dates from Berlin, remarks that the tendency to maintain neutrality as long as possible prevails at Berlin, but that M. Man teuffel is for immediate adhesion. The expectation that Prussia will before long join the allies is encou raged in most of the organs of the German press. TO TU IDITOI OP Til DULY NSW& Sm.—Then is a general Isaias Amid that we skald hare ea salad neritfer ear assessminiesedelleine sad rases 'Mien, esd Isr the esassgsaillag grades fa the san e away le the Trask S of Essiaat, bat soberly a law saggesead ea raided is the Nastier. llirillea le re to se tad by misaillig as inlitatice whist we already passe, the Wails Ilse Massey has owl y to mate a =gads in an Wilkie the kaolin of width w appeepristed to the Miaiers of the country, who NOS is called " respires of tbe Beth." This rank night be restricted to the wasonssisliesed alien ; mad oaly to the.. as diatiagaished for Nadu" es far mange. DIIGALD DALOBTTY. Desks of Derwentwata, Da. 30, MC Elf restricted to soldiers and sailors the order would tot be ea adequate eastsrart to the Logics of iloaras. Lad to bring ama in at the fag sad of an 'misting order is a ashordinats opacity like " Servitors" at Oxford, Is 6 questionable way of payieg Maas to aerit.—Ba. D.N.] kTS!AL PALACE, lAN. I. 881Lzare DAT.— AANINNE at the doom, 1,796 ; eisimini by masa , 197 ; fetal, 1,953. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dap : 18. It is to be hoped that the authorities here will take some means for the protection of our men-of-warsmen while on shore, otherwise I fear something very fear ful will be the result. There are now a great many vessels—in fact, I believe all the sailing vessels from the fleet—lying here, or within a few miles. Occa sionally these men get leave of absence, and, when on shore, scarcely a day passes without some serious disturbance. Many of the men have been stabbed by the Greeks, and I fear many More will share the same fate unless something is done to cheek these rows. There are a number of low drinking shops kept by the Greeks in and about Gaeta, where they sell the worst description of intoxicating beve rages. These fellows entice the sailors in, getting them to drink till they become in a state of helpless intoxication. They are then turned out into the; street, these rascals having taken care to clear their pockets first of all their money. The consequence is that when they come to their senses, they accuse the man of having robbed them; this he indignantly denies; however Jack is not to be pat off in that way, so away he goes and rolled§ a number of his companions and they make a cearfel assault upon the house, breaking the win dows and trying to force the doors. The Greeks watch their opportunity and sally out in large num bers with clubs and knives, and make a furious attack on the sailors. The consequence is that these men being unprovided with any weapons are literally mowed down, and when on the ground three or four of these cowardly ruffians set upon one man : last Sunday night there were three of these men killed just oppoaite to the house in which I was. A repre sentation of the fact was made to the consul here by some civilians ; but whether he has reported to the ad mind of the port I am not aware. There is scarcely . a day passes without a similar disturbance. It is said, and I believe with some truth, that these fellows drug the drink in order to afford them a better opportunity to rob their victims. Another instance of this kind occurred on Saturday lest. A sailor from the Britannia came on shore and went into one of these low Greek houses. He was a man described as being a most sober steady fellow. After he had been there a short time and partaken of two or three glasses of grog he fell down dead. His companions arriving, sown* naturally arose that he had been poisoned ; one of the officers of the ship came, and the Greeks were taken into custody by the Turkish police. Everybody thought under such circumstances there would be a post neortem exami nation; but this morning I learntthat, instead of such being the case, they merely buried the man without any inquiry whatever. One very suspicious fact wee that the man had received a month s pay the day before. and on marching his pickets not a shil ling was to be found. Vises or similar affairs are almost of daily occurrence. If the men are to be allowed leave there ought undoubtedly be some means adopted for securing their safety from these fellows while on shore. It may be said that if a man gets intoxicated he must pay the penalty of his folly; but one would imagine that it would be very easy to have a patrol of half English and half French in the streets to preserve order when these men were on shore, and this would ope rate es a safeguard against the designs of these harpies, and protect the men; as to isplacing any reliance on the Turkish police, thatout of the question. If they were to take a man into custody charged with any offence, no matter how serioss the charges are, he would be at large in a few cloys. I have beard several instances, from captains of miffing, tran9orts, of the men, after having been on shore, coming off to the vessels in a state of insensibility evidently produced by drugging. Tax FOIIIION LEGION.—The Swabian Memory intro that is Baia, Holland, sad Hamburg, depots for receiving volution for the Foreiga Loess whieh balsa& is about to raise, are to be established ander the dined= of loglish °Moan. Bach valuation, it adds, is to remiss 26h. oa entering sad 300 fr. wham he shall haw joined his regiment. He is also, it rays, to receive lo nub tea. 1 liquor, 'to, so be likes. THE CONFERENCE OF THE 28ta ULTIMO. A contest is going on respecting the accuracy and the importance ot the telegraphic despatches which last week announced a con ferenoe of the three allied powers at Vienna, at which tjie Russian Envoy was present The objection to the news appears to be the difficulty of supposing any communication between the repre sentatives of states mutually at war, and neither of whom has made direct advances to the other. This difficulty however may be too much insisted on ; espe cially when it is remembered how many fictions the diplomatic art has at command, and by virtue of which the Russian Minister might be both present and absent from the same conference. The Independence, of Brussels, says " The announcement is perfectly correct. Prince Gortschakoff was with M. de Bour gummy, Lord Westmoreland, and Count Bnol, although some incredulous journals represent the last mentioned as having been the intermediary be tween representatives of the Western Powers and the representative of Russia, who, according to these authorities, did not attend the British ,Legation. If we are well informed, and we believe we are, the business of the conference was to come to an under standing respecting the interpretation of the four guarantees, but after a long discussion Prince Gort chakoff found himself unable to agree with the representatives of the three powers. It was then agreed that the Prince should refer to his govern ment, and that a delay of a fortnight should be granted, so that he might be able to receive from St. Petersburg the reply to his demand of further in structions. The conference having been held on the 28th of December, the term allowed will expire about the 12th of January. It is thus certain that no decision will be taken before that date, although the treaty of December 2 fixed the let of January as the term at which new resolutions should be taken." We have seen a published account of the protocol of the conference of the 28th, in which it is alleged that "it will have the effect of making that treaty offensive se well as defensive ; and it may be con sidered certain that it will be followed up by the announcement of the Austrian army having taken the field as the active ally of the Western Powers." We believe this announcement to be decidedly pre mature. The interpretation of the four points, as now fixed by the three powers, must, of course, be an important factor in the decision to be taken by Aus tria, but we believe that other elements at present wanting must coexist with it before it can be affirmed that Austria is about to take the field. AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna, of the 27th ult., in the Poet Gazette, of Frankfort, says: "If indications be not deoeitful, - .Prince Gortchakoff is making preparations for departure; at least we are assured that he has dismissed his steward, and has caused the rich fur. niters which he had recently purchased, to be valued by an auctioneer in order to be immediately sold. These news are, however, in complete contradiction with the gaiety which the Prince displays.". The Cologne Gazette contains a letter from Vienna, of December 27, which says "All the officers on leave of absence have received orders to rejoin the army of Gallicia. The 3rd Regiment of artillery has received orders to leave this for Wilkie on the 3rd of January. Baron de Hess is to proceed on January 10 to Lemberg, to assume definitively the command of the army. He is to be accompanied by General Letang. It has been decided that an army of reserve of 40,000 men shall be formed in Moravia, with its head-quarters at Olmutz, and for the last week troops from Italy , have been on their way for that destination.' We learn from Vienna that the line of electric telegraphic from that capital to Jassy is completed, and that despatches would be forwarded from the lit inst. THE PRINCIPALITIES. The Gaulle de Spew announces the dismissal of Prince Stirbey, hospodar of Wallachia, " on account of his Russian sympathies." THE AFFAIR AT PETROPAULOWSKI. We have been favoured by the Admiralty with the following : No. 19. President, at San Francisco, Nov. 15, 1854. Siv,—As a sequel to Captain Sir Frederick Nicolson's letter of the l9th September last, addressed to me, the duplicate of which was forwarded hence on the 16th ult., I beg to transmit lists pf the names of the seamen end ma rines belonging to her Majesty's ships who were killed at Petropaulowski, or who have sines died of their wounds.— I am, air, (Signed) CHLRIIIA PREDBRICL, Commodore. Ralph Osborne, Req., M.P., Admiralty. President, San Francisco, Nov. 14, 1854. Return of officers, women, and marines belonging to her Majesty's ship President, who were killed, or have died since from wounds received in the attack on Petropaulowski. Officer.—Captain Charles A. Parker, Royal Marines. Seamen.—Jams Ariell, able seaman; James Callaghan, ditto; David Stedman, ditto; John Leask, ordinary; Richard Tamil, ditto, George Darren', ditto. Marines. —Richard' Turrell, private ; John Seines, ditto ; Francis Russell, ditto ; George Henderson, ditto ; Robert Woodard., ditto. (Signed) RICHARD BORRIDOZ, Captain. List of men late belonging to 11.11.8. Pique, who were killed, sad who have shim died of wounds received in the operations against the batten's and town of Petropaulowski, Kamteckatka, on the 4th September, 1854 : Joseph Batt, muter et arms; W. H. Garland, 2nd C. ord. ; Daniel Davey, A. 8., died on board from wounds on 13th September; James Alfred, captain foretop; Charles Browne, ohne C. Browne 11 'Dermot, leading seaman, died on board from wounds on October 15; Noah Yates, sail. maker's sew, ditto on September 7; Thomas Morri son (1), ord. ; Joseph Hatch, ..b. • James Thirl. well, a.b. ; Joseph Down ord.• Jam.. 'Marks, boy let class. Royal Mariaes—L;naaa' Rave, sergeant; John Carter, sergeant; Joseph Jackson, private; Henry Jeffries, private, died on board from wounds on 6th September ; Thomas Heyman._ private ; William Came, private, died from wounds en 15th October. List of persons belonging to her Majesty's ship Virago killed b during operations, and since died from their wom : _ Killed at retropealowsti, September 4, 1864—George Tee, Meter ; Henry Fowler, gasser, R.m.A g r a e ms ; Thomas Marlyn, private, R ii. , &Celan; George Julier, muter, 1t.11.A., died on 14th September; Suaaal Ser geant,ki dam stoker, died 14th October. BALI 01 • RtrealAN Pain AT LAITEL—Lama, 30.—Ponnant to the decision of the High Court of Admiralty, the sale by public auction of the Atlantic (linesian prise) took play yesterday afternoon is the custom-house of this port. Atm , a pretty smart oempeti. don the Atlantis was knocked down to • Leith bean for the sum et 2,2401. The effeets of then of the said vessel ware also sold is the NMI manna. Tb. sale was eamdarded bb,yldr. David Thom, Leith, broker to the High Coat of Admiralty, and by Wm. Psth, (jingo's., E mu OHIO* Of S,lt. COstafal, Leith. FRANCE. • -~- 1 . Ono* 711 101 vans u'iwel PARIS, MosnAT Birsin.NG. The Moniteur, as is customary on New-year's n:•7, is nearly filled with lists of appointments and pro motions in the Legion of Honour. The Moniteur de iztrnsee publishes a very large number of promo tions in the army. The official receptions took place at the Tuileries, according to the programme in the Moniteur of yesterday. The Emperor and Em press received the constituted bodies of the state, and the officers oil the Imperial Guard, the army of Paris, and the National Guard, in the Salle du Tronea. After the reception most of the court visitors went to the Palals Royal to leave their cards upon Marshal Prince Jerome. For many hours the neighbourhood of the Tuileries and Louvre was crowded with officers and persons in rich offi cial uniforms going to or coming from the palaces. The whole of Paris to-day, including the banlieue, presented the aspect of a fair. The most out of the way streets were almost as crowded as the Boulevards. Oa every vacant space where room could be found for a stall, without manifest obstruction to circulation, vendors of gingerbread, oranges, toys, and articles for &rouses, were plying their trade. When looking at the countless stalls, it seemed impossible to believe that a tithe of the articles exposed to view could ever be sold; but, on the other hand, contemplating the ever-flowing streams of human beings, the mind was lost in wonder at the idea that "such legions of people could find:all they wanted within the nrszow space enclosed by the wall of Paris. The extreme mildness of the weather induced the entire popula tion, with:rare exceptions, to turn out to enjoy the holiday. The Press. says the stall-keepers have sold more than they did by this time last year, and that the manufacturers of toys have been obliged to engage extra hands. A new landing-place is now being made on the Seine for the reception of goods sent to the Great Exhibition. It is reported that, to facilitate the transit of packages arriving by railway, a special line of rails will be laid down from the Batignolles station of the railway round Paris, to communicate with the Palace of Industry by the route of the exterior Boulevards and the Champs Elyseed The Chambre Syndicale of the agents de change of the Bourse of Paris has given 18,000 fr. to the subscription which is being raised for the Eastern army. The subscription at Bordeaux for the purchase of tobacco, cigars, and other articles for the allied armies in the Crimea, now exceeds 40,000 fr., and in addition the committee have received from different persons 4,000 bottles of old Bordeaux wine for the military ' hospitals. Mr. Scott, the British consul at Bordeaux, haring communicated to his government the fact of the Bordeaux subscription being applied equally to the English and French armies, has received a letter from Lord Clarendon, in which he states that the British government appreciate, in the strongest possible manner, this fresh testimony of sympathy and friendship. It has already been stated by a private telegra phic despatch that a shock of earthquake had been felt at Marseilles. The Courrier de Marseille of the 30th ult. givrs the following account of it : "In the night of the 28th we felt a shock of earth quake, the oscillations of which were renewed three times in the space of two minutes. In the higher quarters of the city they were more sensi bly felt than in the other parts—the doors and win dows were violently shaken, and the furniture in the rooms was moved about; the kitchen utensils were for some moments violently agitated, and in many of the houses the clocks were stopped. The emotion caused by this phenomenon did not last long, and the alarm felt at first soon wore off." The earthquake, which took place at Marseilles on the 29th ult., was also felt in the country around. The shock, which came from north to south, lasted about three seconds. A letter from Trieste states that a great many of the wooden houses which have been made in Styria for the English army in the East were sent off from that port on the 27th nit. A letter from Odessa, of the 19th ult., in a Vienna journal, says: "The 9th division of infantry, under the command of General Popoff, has this day received orders to proceed by forced marches to the Crimea. Tho 7th and Bth divisions left yesterday. It is con sidered probable that the sth and 6th divisions will arrive at Odessa also for the same destination." PARIS, SUNDAY EVINING. It is rumoured that General Montebello, on his return from hie special mission to the Crimea, will be made a senator, and appointed ambassador to Madrid in place of M. Turgot, whose health is not restored. A French officer who came from Constantinople by the last mail told me a story from Sebastopol which, though at first suggestive of a smile, leaves a deeper and better impression behind. In the beginning of the campaign some officers of the guards invited several officers of General Boequet's division to dins at their mesa. The French officers sent a deputation to de cline the invitation in the most delicate and friendly terms possible. Most of them they said had little or nothing beyond their pay to live upon ; they could not return hospitality in the same style that they knew it would be offered to them, and they felt certain that English officers would understand their scruples and not press them to accept civilities which some at least among their number might feel as laying them under the weight of an obligation. They would eagerly seize every occasion to grasp the hand of an English officer, would be delighted to join in a promenade and a cigar, bat upon the whole thought it best to abstain from entering upon a course of dinner giving. Against such an excuse of course no remonstrance could be made, and the English officer' merely expressed their regret that they could not see so much of their comrades in arms as they had hoped to do. But after the battle of Inkermann the English mess in question had lost their plate and china, their cellar, their potted meats, hams, preserves, and other luxuries, and, owing to commissariat difficulties but too notorious, found it difficult to procure the most ordinary rations. When these misfortunes became known in the camp the French deputation of officers renewed their visit, and said, with comic good humour, that since the fortune of war had removed the inequalities which originally constituted their only objection to an interchange of feeding, they hoped the English officers would condescend to take pot lack with them. This epirituel invitation was natu rally accepted, and the delightful fraternity which prevails between the two services was thus cemented by another link. THE NEW FRENCH LOAN.-REGULATIONS OF THE ISSUE. PARIB, Dic. 31, 1854. The President of the Council of State, charged provisionally with the Ministry of Finance, orders, in els. cuti,si of the imperial decree of this day ' as follows: Art. 1. From the 3rd to the 14th of January, 1856, in clusively, Sunday, the 7th, being comprehended therein, the public will be admitted to subscribe to the loan of five hundred millions authorised by the law of Dee. 31, 1864. The subscription offices will be :—For Paris and the de partment of the Seine, at the central cash office of the treasury ; at the central receiving office of the Seine, Native des Mithurins St., Nn. 38; at the office of deposits and consiguations, Lille Bt., No. 2; at the mayoralties of the twelve wards. For other departments than that of the Seine, in all the chief places of every department and ward, at the respective dime of the general and private collectors of taxes. They will be opened on the 3rd of January at 9 a.m. and will close on the 14th of January at 6 p.m. Art. 2. The subscribers will have the option between the rents of Four-and a-Half per Cent. (created March 14, 1862) and the Three per Cents. Art. The rents of Four-and-a-Hall per Cent. will be issued at the rate of 92f., with interest from Sept. 22, 1864; that is to say, that in eigegiog to pay into the Treasury the sum of 92f. at the periods 'Waisted in the 6th article following, the nabeeriber will receive a rents of 4f. 600., which, aseerflintending the delays granted for the payment of the stateeriptinn, will commence running without &duo tion,Yreen the laid of September, 1864. The rents of Three per Cent. will be braid at the te of 86 fr. 26 e., with in terest dating teen Doe. 12. 1864. Art. 4. Ma _b. _s will be admitted save for 10 frame of rests awl Cite multiples of 10 frame. Art. 6. If the meant of the subscriptions exceeds the sum of five hastened millions, they will be subjected to a propordasal Modes. Nevertheless, those subscriptions not exceeding 600 Imo of nate shall undergo no redaction, save in so far as they skate may eloped the sant alive hun dred Wiliam The subscribers whose demand may be re. • daeed will regliTe 111111Wiistely after the liquidation, the rt, imbursemisit of the eorrespesding put ofsaablneuthboareyipptireonfoir:(asoustheaunlybeinhowthetaftetoornedeezinitheineadan7H legit as a prepayment, in which ease they would be ag ain ; on the sums so prepaid by anticipation, they from the of actual payment in cub, disco unt at f our per cent, 7 Art. 6. The subscriptions will have to be paid in la hi :—Onateuth on subscribing and the rennieder ie7i; s;tcal instalments, payable on the 7th o f every ras a % aL• )(sub 7, 1866, to August 7, 1 866, both days inclers es Zoe armory will be bound to receive the prepayments en a tendered with discount at 4 per eine for all 'liberries*. not greater than 1,000 francs of note; the same din% h a y s demount may be hereafter panted to sabseripean above the ems last named. Fur the subscriptions of IA franceof rents and under the p re p ayments may be sleds an, time of subscribing, with right of diesount from the day o f actual payment`, but this diacount net be settled Intl the delivery of t h e l oan certificates. The pre-papaw' s, fce the same subscriptions, will be then embed, dating h as this last period. They Gannet be made, save for the entire amount of one or morelinstalments. Art. 7.—There will be delivered to the esbnriber. Dft vhdenal receipt , which immediat e ly a f ter the closing Oen subscription and the allotment of each person's share yal be changed for a loan certificate. This certificate will In made oat for the holder or bearer, as desired. Art. 8. The loan-certificates will be changed foe km:rip. Wes of rent* as soon as the last instalment shall hare hen paid up. The holders of certificates exceeding the MR of I,ooof. of rente will he able to demand partial inscription determined by the instalment of each term, and for the sin corresponding to each of such payments, the first tenth re. mining always in reserve as • guarantee to the timer, until the payment of the entire amount. Art. 9. In ease of arrears with any instalment, the debtor will become responsible for interest to the treasury at 5 pee cent., to date from the eighth day after the instalment (sea due, without any previous notice of the liability being aces. . In default of payment when a term expires, a month's grace being given, to date from the day when payment eum due, the entire amount of the certificate may be caned for, and the Minister of Finance may cause it to be sold to the h' hest bidder, for the benefit of ta e p u b l i c treasury. one at Paris the 31st of December, 1834. J. BAROCRI. Report of the President of the Senate, in the name of the Committee charged with examining the law authorising the Finance Minister to contract a loan of 500 millions. 1 Gentlemen,—When, last year, the invasion of the Otto. man territory occasioned the rupture of that peace which was so dear to the interests of civilised ahtions, France had not a moment's unemansu about the superiority of hse arms; but she did not expect that one single campaign could conduct her to the end of a difficult and remote am. Victory, in fact, has shown herself true to the Itig cg Zurich and Moscow. Yet Russia, notwithstanding the reverses of her diplomatists and armies, seems as if she wished to turn a deaf ear to the remonstrances of Europe, and to the warnings held out by Bomanund, the Alms, and Inkermann. Gentlemen, you have heard the very firm words of the Emperor; they have caused to vibrate the heart of the country, which thinks it hu done nothing so long as any ' thing remains for it to do. Great events therefore are preparing for 1845. The greatest of all would be, doubtless, that a pacific Wench, might spring out of this European movement, in which the idea of peace is dominant amid the din of combats. Bid, if there be a sure way rf obtaining it, it is by oar strength being put forth on a par with our right, and by every oaa knowing in the second as well as in the first hour that France can expect everything from her soldiers, her wealth, and her credit. In a few months our armies have already gained by eon. quest imperishable palm,. They have survived the epi demic and the tempest, surmounted the fatigues and hard. ships, and braved the inequality of numbers. Their con. stancy has been sublime, end by their i rres i s tibl e va l our, they have struck with astonishment and almost admiration our very enemy himself. France is proud of such children; she Zepends on her brave eons, who from their very first battle have shown themselves the rivals of the grand army, those veterans of a hundred fights. She depends also on her 'Dineen. At the beginning of last session, we congratulated our. selves on our union with England. This was only brought about by the wisdom of the two governments, and the good sense of the two peoples A strong brotherly concord hu been now formed in the East by the outpouring in common of most precious blood. and by sharing the same trials sad the same glories. This is why—it the moment when the Emperor so nobly expressed at the Imperial sitting the national gratitude for the sentiments of the English parliament, for the co-operation of the in trepid armies of Great Britain, and for the skill of their illustrious chiefs—unanimous acclamations burst forth with enthusiasm, and yours were not the least fervid. Those acclamations which we confirm here, in the maturity of our reflections, will resound ob the otter side of the Channel, they will be re-echoed also by the future, in order to mark the fundamental regeneration of modern policy, and one of the meet striking characteristic* of the Emperor's reign. Another alliance, equally memorable on account of its date and spirit, has just been contracted with Austria, sod by it the old league of the north is broken up. This am. ante, foreseen since the opening of last eeuion, and in a manner predicted by an august and profonud thought, astonishes Russia and her partisans. The still surviving antipathies of 1815 do not comprehend how a great power, long friendly, can cause its foreign policy to be based on the free appreciation of its legitimate interests, and no longer on a dread of the French Revolution. But it has not escaped the sagacity of the Emperor of Austria that many things have been changed in the world by the accession of Napoleon the Third ; that the imperial throne has risen again, not on the ruins of social principles, but for the triumph of those ideas that render states stable end prosperous; and that the moment had come for repudiating traditions henceforth captious and superannuated, and for confiding in a power that loyally maintains the equilibrium of Europe and the peace of nations. Everything is linked in policy ; the return to order through the 2nd of December was destined irrevocably to bring after it in its train the return to truth in our international relations. Such, gentlemen, is the state of the foreign affairs of the country. In order to preserve its advantages, in order to meet the necessities of the war and shorten its duration by the energy of the means, the Legislative Corps has voted a law authorising the government to contract a loan of OM millions, and the Emperor has indicated the mode to wh!ch he gave the preference. Now, gentlemen, the constitution only requires of you one thing, to wit : if there is in this law anything that entrenches on the great principles of which you are the guardians, enclosed in this narrow circle from which you might wish to issue In order to give Imre:- premien to your sentimeat', you will remember the limit of your attributes, and you will confine yourselves to answering with uosnitnity that nothing better could be done, whether for the honour of France, that is destined to come forth via- Unions from this contest of justice against ambition, or for the consolidation of the imperial throne, the basis of the constitution, or for the Emperor himself, to whom we are indebted for the power of waging a political and not e revolutionary war, for the alliance of the two greatest civo Used nations in Europe, and for bringing to the Europese concert the authority of a government powerful from as principle, its force, and its sincerity. This loan will have besides another result for the stability of the imperial instigations. After the three elections, that have glorified the name of the Emperor, after the national subscription, which not long since so patriotically responded to its appeal, there will be in this new proof a fifth and ir:o lama sanction ; and no assent will have been wanting to the political establishment that you have assisted in founding, nor the reit d suffrages of the people, nor the continued support of those interests most at stake in the developmeat of the public wealth. In consequence, your committee propose to you to de clan that tie Senate does not oppose the promulgation of the law. SPAIN. M. Collado, the Finance Minister, has resigned, in consequence, as a private telegraphic despatch says, "of the octroi question having been decided contrary to his opinion." This despatch, io the present state of our information, requires elucidation. It is al- ready known that on the 27th Ministers obtained a majority of 12 against M. Sanchez Silva's motion. If M. Collado had resigned is consequence of the small ness of that majority, the latest despatch should have been worded differently. It is possible that another motion made on the 28th by the opposition may have been successful. M. Sevillano, one of the most eminent bankers of Madrid, has been appointed to succeed M. Coiled°. THE WORKING-CLASSES AND THE WAIL—The following resolution was passed at a meeting of the working classes sad seamen of South Shields, held on Thursday last: nit this meeting, believing the present war with Russia to be a just and necessary war, urge upon her Majesty's ministers to conduct it with vigour and determination, and without compromise, believing such a line of policy to be the most effective to produce a solid and satisfactory peace ; and we resolve to the best of our ability to assist in the sap port of the widows and orphans of the brave fellows who have fallen and may fall in the battle, or who may die in the execution of their duty, by subscribing to the Royal Patriotic Fund. But at the same time this meeting cannot bat empress its surprise that, whilst full and adequate go. vieamental provision exists far the widows and orphans of casters who may fall in their sountry's service, that ne stailar fund is provided for the widows and orphans of sot. dimes and sailors, and trusts that speeds steps will be taken to remedy so palpable an injustice ; and that this medulla of opinion that the only safe and effectual guarantee for the pew of Europe and the establishmvat of Civil and re liffinnn liberty on the continent, are thO restoration of Polish Independence and the extension to the oppreseed and clown - trodden peoples of the cop . :mint of these great rights of humanity, liberty of Went, and liberty of ocascienne; and does protest against cr e r government binding the 11th people to maintain either Austrian or any Wag milt ; tar, denPotisin tlitir present oppressive WWI - . - I