The Express. — London, England, 1854-01-11 00:00:00

'Cur ennegili. TO CORRESPONDIINTS. II Mime Mika of The Vs peso," raxWibee be ISM molar" • liretek" Y pa. ehtd every isedey Mese Idells. time be pal. Aenltleilmellee latea lei for . 11be Ewer, * Loan tombs espee. weal be el lbe ClSce, IC. &mu w+beel. brrin O ffal.* o a di* Mg 11 1bWmtlw. ZION WATER At LONDON BRIDGE. for Dav—llorolog. O. Alloommoo, TCWIONBOW—IIotaing, lb. lbs. LONDON, WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 11. Ms. Rossucx, it is currently stated, will, as soon as Parliament meets, call upon Ministers for a categorical explanation of the unpleasant rumours, so widely diffused and so generally credited, respecting the undue interference of the PRINCE CONSORT in the administrative government of this country. Should Mr. Hoist:tea health admit cit his carrying any enebneolotion into effect,he will tbiby de brave and loyal service to the Crown. A math or two ago there wee not in the country a owe popsies chareber than Priem ALUM{ all MIS were loud in their spontaneous pain hiss. Mow steads the matter sow, doh amphisas bass pas abroad that the prudent shlstba bun is with politieswhich chessebeisell (Siff Mawr has r* seed to be the rule of his resid e the more vehement declaim against him; On me onations shake their heads, regret that sea usphoist rumours have gone abroad, hint at as sequences that may ensue &mil the MINIMS 10 well-founded; but no man combehdoes his tlisee. Zealous Ministerialista courtly-aisle thaws he whose estimation to speak evil of disabilities he VMS than any of the seven deadly star-who tullemeille profess to regret that his Royal RON. (he West of due reflection they hope) may bah holm MOM dently in the habit of attending to matters not properly within his province. More blunt speakers beyond the Ministerial circles are broader in their imputation,. The friends of Lord PALMERSTON. during his brief secession from office, availed them selves of these things to hint that both he nosh and former resignations bad been forged ups Maly the meddling of the PRINCE Consoler. Whet • position for the husband of the Quoit to place himself in ! Exposing himself to be Mei the obnoxious personage any reeking highs might seek popularity by systematically ensiling ! As yet the distrustful, and irritable, and unpleasant feel ing excited by this discussion has not spread further, has not absorbed into its vertex seed higher pan and he dearer to the natiswAint yes est ham the wayward and halm bomb el .ps• puler excitement will tabs spa Ma in by bow long this may be the Oft aim poet measures are taken to still the rinbrisit P Mho Sheffield meeting on the Turco-Rumbla quads, me small tact and dexterity were require* to prevent an allusion to this painful topic being embodied in the address to her MAJESTY. It is an ugly story, and to attempt now to hush it up or give it the slip in the approved fashion of Ministers (of all parties) and Parliaments will only make matters worse. Judging by all the precedents before us, it is extremely pro bable that when Mr. ROEBUCK has made his motion or pot his question, the leader of the Hons. of Com mons will rise, in dulcet tones express his unspeakable regret that such a delicate subject should have been touched upon, expatiate on the importance of a cordial confidence between the Sovereign ander people,Pledp his word of honour that the conduct tithe illustrious person alluded to has always been masked with pro found respect for the Constitution, sad coaelede by hoping that the Rouse will see the propriety ef allowing the discussion to drop. Then all the cla ques:re behind and in the immediate vicinity et the Treasury bench will applaud with their whob strength of hands, feet, and lungs ; the modem** Tories, always unwilling to rink a breach with the Court, will nod acquiescence ; the more ferocious of that party will preserve a grim silence. The flew sturdy malcontents may, as usual, feel cowed by the concurrence of the great majority of the House, and may shriek from supporting Mr. Roscoe. In this way the House of Commons indeed may be quieted, but will it be convinced ? And will this stop the toupee or remove the doubts and fears of the people out of doors? " Alas ! Leviathan is nut se tamed." It s right that Ministers and the Court ilea lb made to understand aright the necessities el thein position. The national jealousy has bees round —it cannot be extinguished by courtly or dipb 'natio evasions. The imputations that have gone abroad must be satisfactorily disproved, or good security given that the conduct which has given such just umbrage shall be discontinued for the future. Minister' hold their offices by the tenure of Parlia mentary lama*, and the nation will not tole rate, under any circumstances, the interim& tion of any irresponsible influence—native sr foreign—between those responsible Parliamentary Ministers and their Sovereign. Any Cabinet • that should degrade itself by enduring such unwarrantable interposition, would thereby, though it bad given no other cause of offence, justly lose the confidence of Parliament and the people. This, we Day, would in any circumstances be the consequence of an attempt to establish behind, or beside, the throne a power greater than the throne. But in the present state of public affairs, and regard being had to the party held in suspicion, the tenacity with which Englishmen insist upon a strict adherence to the letter of the Constitution is more essen tial than on ordinary occasions. We are, to all human appearance, on the eve of an im portant struggle. It is indispensable that at such a time the national councils should not only be united, resolute, but thoroughly and exclusively English. Now the party at whom the finger of public suspicion points so ushesitatingly and unani mously is not only not English by birth, but was sedulously trained, at that period of his lib in width the mind is most accessible to lasting impair. h the traditional maxims of those most inveterate continental legitimists, the minor Courts of 4lsee- 1 many, and in the plausible theories by witichit/ Witt fain school of German Professors have laboured to render those maxims less revolting to common sense and unsophisticated morality. We have ever been among the foremost to acknowledge the many estimable and amiable qualities All Prince ALBERT ; but we never expected that he has been, connected as he is by fancily . could be brought to feel and ant as an Liberal. This is no fault of his; but it is an cable reason for insisting that, so nurtured entangled with family connexions, he should all interference with English politics. . ought to have impressed upon himself conviction—and for a time it was believed to so—that the loyal and chivalrous spirit, the most distinguishing grace of high very life-breath of everything good and him, must be abused if he availed relation to the Sovereign to intrude hies inegularssanner into the national council. rib truth, but one which it is right both 1 Ministers should be given to bow: that tiff the intim Wheat' the interposition ineepeadhie emeellier betimes the liemmiga educated as he ties, he ever English Liber unanswerable and so entang abstain from Above all, it c the convictio have dens so- which is the rank, the vet great within himself of his self in an irre It is a harsh Court and M at no time wi of an itflefol and her Parliamentary Ministers; that mote espe cially all such interposition will not be lanceted when the person interposed is a :sniper bp birth and connexions, and when the nation:llo4ll'em the brink of an arduous strugglpet a a a n, the, eves all, the patios distrusts the beieivektliei may admire the testa, is Prince who kW breathed from childhood the air of Courts tainted by did imaginative servility of GOETHE—who booboo Law. Wasted in early manhood in the aeatisearry er retro grade political principles of the said eirlelleVen and SAVIGNT; and who is a prierimmt tesieler of the family of Conulo. OF ENGLISH LANKFUL 7"T RUSSIANS. 7.140 1 19 111 " B T Mkt Para by the Reggaes et at._ .a. eitehert n*" -mates 14 7tt0 1 8 Z -- Z e s ..latelk and stokers, LATO3I Arnie the military have been called in to settle by force of arms a question between buyers and sellers. At Wigan the labourers rose against the high' primp of money reckoned in labour; at Chace and Exeter they rise spinet the high price of corn reckoned in money. At Wigan they complain of not being able to buy money enough with their labour ; at Crediton and Exeter they complain of not being able to bey corn enough with their coin. In one place money is too dear for the labourer when he wants to bay it; in the other too cheap when be wants to sell it. Of cram he knows nothing of the anomaly, for the labourer In mast instances is too uninstructed to know anything beyond the mere circle in which his own interests are contained. And yet these are the very elements of knowledge that are of the utmost importance to the working man, and to the community of which he is a member, in so far as the peace of the com munity is dependent upon the contentment of the labourer. In the meantime. as be knows nothing about the matter, he becomes diessatented sad detour; and we then, in default of sitereat mein "11 instruction, send down a hoop of schoolmasters, la red coats, carrying with them instruments of edu elation in the shape of sabres and carbines. It seems doubtful, however, at present, whether the Devonshire rioters cared much abed the fights of the matter at issue, and vshetheir they were not a mere rabble of plunderers making use of the plea of high prices as a other for their felonious intentions. At Remin der they broke into the house of a wealthy termer, took away several articles, and helped themselves Ss a quantity of cider. There is nothing visible here bat a love of pillage. There is neither poetical nor any other justice in breaking open a farmer's drawers, or drinking his cider, because a baker sells bread at fid. the loaf. A love of mischief was evi dently mixed up with the other elements of coda don, as it is asserted that the house would have been fired but for the timely arrival of the soldiers. In Exeter, they appear to have acted with a little more regard to logic. Bread was dear. The bakers sold the bread. Therefore the bakers were the came of the dearness. Therefore the , Wien must be made to su ff er. So on Monday ' afternoon these practical resumers proceeded to break open the bakers' shops and took the bread for nothing which they were not able to get at their own prier. Shortly alter, the riot became mo serious, and so ut terly beyond the control of the police, that the Mayor sent off to the barrack for a troop at dragoon. Not, however, until some time after the arrival of the soldiers did the riot cease. In suggesting that the present disturbances have arisen as much from malevolence and mischief as from dishier, there is no attempt to deny that the dearness of bread is the cause which underlies all others. The Mayor expressly declared in a notice, affixed to the walls on Monday, that the riots wean "in consequence of the high price of bread." What we mean to insinuate is that at present the rioters I seem to have reckoned a large number of mere plunderers in their ranks. But there is reason to fear that if the present prices 'matinee, or rise, as may probably be the ow, the disaffection may become more general amongst that class of labourers who under ordinary circumstances would never set themselves in opposi tion to the law. It is ill reasoning with an empty stomach. The Government have never endeavoured to explain to the labourers the cause of high prices, have given them no National Education, and we have to take the consequences. Before the worst of these consequences ar rive, may we not, however, take warning teem the put, and endeavour to diminish the weight of the coming blow, by making amends for our errors? Would it be so difficult a task for good and earnest men to acquire the con fidence of the working classes, and teach them a few plain truths, that would do more to prevent strikes and riots than all the dragoons in the kingdom? Sup posing, occasionally, that our pulpits even, instead of echoing with doctrinal subtleties, which the uneducated man can never grasp, were to be employed for enunciation of some each princi ple as this—that when corn enough is not' grown for the consumption of the whole commu pity, some portion of the community must go with oat, or be contented with a small share—we do set desire to see churches turned into lecture-rooms ter political economists, but woad an occasional re- I mark of this kind be • desecration ? Many a poor man, for want of this very crumb of knowlet has become an incendiary and • thitiL it is not only clergymen who mighil OW • few truths of this nature amongst the oasessotei; all of us, who have a few minutes' Wore, when in contact with working people might Immo sir sionaries in a like cause. There are theelmads of energetic men and women amongst mei& ere only too willing to be employed in defog geed; suppose they were to break ground in this direction P The false notions that are entertained by millions of labourers in this country as to the true' nature of prices are at the present ass'-' meet the cause of intense suffering • and loss. They may at any moment be the oecasica of rapine, and desolation, and murder. There are, it is said, more than 70,000 human beings in Lance lithe who believe that the only reason why they do sot get larger wages is, that their masters capri ciously fix a low price for labour in order to canal themselves at the labourer's expense. Uwe ern thousands of agricultural labourers in Deveiddre who believe that bakers arbitrarily sell their bread at a high prices for their own private emolument. And gert may assert the same in various degrees of every meaty in the kingdom. Here is a mass of smeeldering matter ready to break out into flame on the shortest notice. And it is ourselves who are to Mane for this. We it is who have allowed a large population to grow up either without any instruction A all, or such instruction as will not be of ther+ use to these in their way through the world. We have sown deadly seeds, and we shall, if we mind not, reap a terrible harvest. It should be the' duty of all of us indisideally and collectively to endeavour to operate upon this body of inflammable material, and diminish the dan ger with which it threatens ur. ' Educate your la bourers, and they will not sulk idly in their homes for months together, or endeavour to gain by robbery the bread they should obtain by their labour. THE FATAL. COLLISION Ott THE &STUN COBETTU Basstv.—With the et sestion M Hr. Balms, barometer mbar, of Ilasbhe iris IN Ws at the Bell lon, Thetford, enfinies fres Weds es the Is, and cheat, in a very bad ersalrios the various parties ham by the collision on thin wise still *scrim, are said to be ptogfeoYeg • aeaay pail& sere as. at ti to their state sta rsinsto b y of the esesmay. The impart. perdely yesterday, ws continued for • tine eels MR 11.4 lost the 'vides* being in a very lasespisle OW It BS “IPOMIEKL THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENRI43, JANUARY 11, 1 FROM ABROAD. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. We have neeived tie following telegraphic) dee patch : "PARIS, WIDNUDAT. " The Monitors. data; that a despatch has been re solved boot Coactiosttoeple,lated December 31,which 'coatroom that the Dino has agreed to all the pro peados, ofthe Emir Powers. News has bon re- Nita of a victory gained at Kalafat by the Turkish forms over 30,000 Russians. The fleets entered the Black Res on the 3rd humeri" FRANCE. PARIS, TUESDAY Bynum+. A correspondent writes from the Austro-Turkish frontier : " Many of the Wallaohian militia, which effected their escape from Major Barileanu's corps, have been r►esptured by the Russians and brought back to Irajowa. The rest have succeeded in joining the Turks. The Wallachia° officer who commanded the corps under Barileanu is in prison at Erajowa, and is charged, firstly, with not preventing the desertion' of the men; and, secondly, with having had the boldness to declare that he considered the Bohan as his liege lord, and the Czar as only possessing the rights of a pro teeter, that consequently he did not feel bound to fight foe the second against the first. There are in Little Wallachia a few Greek farmers who sympa thies with Russia, and endeavour to win over the people to the same way of thinking. The peasants have seised some of these, bound them, and delivered I them to the Turks." _ At the Bourse to-day the Three per Cent. Rentes dosed for money at 70.50, and the Foar-and-a-Half ' per Cent. at 99. This bourse has fallen fully 4 per cent. since yesterday. GERMANY. All the continental bourses were telegraphed yes terday as presenting heavy declining markets, espe cially for Austrian and Russian securities. THE WAR. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. The anxiety of the public to be informed of the exact character of the propositions which the Four' Powers were known t o be urging upon the accep tance of the Porte, has favoured the currency of many defective and inaccurate statements on that head. All uncertainty, however, respecting the re commendations of the ambassadors is now removed by the publication, or rather by the authentication, ei the text of the collective note presented by the espesentatives of England, France, Austria, and bait to the Porte. The semi-official Pays and Owl&ikons: publish the document, which is alio given below by our own correspondent at Constant'. maple. As this note, besides disclosing for the mement the drift of French and English diplomacy, Mist prove the turning point of great events, and is evidently destined to become the object of frequent , reference in the history of the Eastern question, we sepoduce it, although its substance has before been given in the Daily News. The extent to which the Porte has adopted the bases of negotiation recommended by the Powers is not yet known. At the date of the last advice, received by telegraph the note was still under discussion at the Porte, and the definitive answer of the Ottoman go vernment had not been rendered. The strongest pos sible objections continued to be made to the renewal of the treaties which have for years enabled Russia to keep Turkey in perpetual disquietude. The mo ment of final decision on this point would hardly pus over without a crisis at the Porte. Nothing has transpired to connect the mission of We . Belgian Prince de Chimay to the French wort with the Eastern question, and it will be seen by our Paris letter that tthas probably no higher object than the regulation of the commercial relations be• tween Belgium and her Gallic neighbour. The National Gazette of Berlin states that the sailors of the Baltic fleet, who had been sent to their homes, have received orders to return to their posts in March. A letter from Moscow states that the 6th corps crarmee, stationed in that city and neighbourhood, has received orders to march towards the Wallaohian fron tier. The first columns have already put themselves in movement. The Wanderer of Vienna states that Acbmet Pacha has repulsed the Russians at about a mile from Ears, and that he afterwards retired to his winter quarters at =ore. The date of the affair is not given. The Invalids Busse of the Ist inst., states that ac seeding to reports received from Prince Woronzoff, ocumander of the army of the Caucasus, nothing remarkable had taken place on the Turkish Asiatic kootior down to the 16th nit. The rumours of the taking of Kam Baton's, Shef katil, and other places, which, according to several German papers, had fallen into the power of the Russians, were therefore unfounded. CONSTANTINOPLE, Ditc. 26. Although I wrote yesterday by the French packet , for its i,llise, comments to treat for peace, but on con-1 utas dition that the ' ea of bar sovereign rights and the integrity of empire shall be guaranteed both for the the future. This answer, although net ' the interests of the Porte bask I ems Lune° of the manifests ties of the NO% NS yet obtained the sanction of I ass also assured that • Firman will shortly be published accurately defining the privileges of the Crnstian subjects of the empire, as likewise their civil rights. About thirty of the most hotheaded softas have been shipped on board of the transport Porsoud as exiles to Candia. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dsc. 24. The Caradoc went off yesterday at 7 p.m.; and I have reason to think that a messenger arrived about an hour later with telegraphic &watches from Lon don and Paris. My lut ham given you a full and true account of the softa commotion, and still I can well imagine, that it may afford to some of your contemporaries an l ample theme for startling articles on the "revolution' at Onetantinople," " resurrection of the Janissaries; est Oda like. However, you may rest assured that tin tatit went off with all imaginable decorum and preptisty. No insult, no breach of the peace, not a, single outrage is on record. The object, moreover, some think, was praiseworthy and legitimate; and the softy only followed the lead of " the gentlemen of England" in their efforts to unravel ministerial riddles, and to sift the manoeuvres of diplomacy. Lord Palmerston, who, as I frequently observed, the dens terminus and idol of Turkey, will see in this incident nothing more, I feel convinced, than the germs of freedom and popular institutions in the Osmanlee—and which may one day ripen and thrive apace, provided he get fair play in the present struggle. The utmost tranquillity prevails here, and popular excitement ceased altogether on the issue of an ex planatory proclamation. This was the one thing neces sary, as stated in my last, to meet the exigencies of the situation, but which has resulted in the arrest and exile of several students. The corporation of softas is numerically strong, amounting to nearly 40,000 in the capital alone, and with considerable ramifications throughout the empire. This circumstance, in all probability, contributed mainly to the alarms and trepidation universally felt in the Frank quarter at the outset. Besides, by invitation of Lord Redcliffe the diplomatic corps assembled at the British Palace, the BIWA& resi dents had notice to be prepared for every eventuality. Four war steamers were instantly summoned into port—all this naturally increased the alarm, and like an electric shock roused the city of Pera from its propriety and habitual quietude. The French am bassador that morning had gone up to Tberapia, and was discussing with the admiral a dtYetiner e.rquis, when, 10, if I am rightly informed, in came a sinister-lookicg English attacid, breathless and bespattered, as Marmion's steed. The object of his mission having been instantly made known, the general was on his legs in a twinkling. " Mon bateau! mon bateau! Canaille! je les arran gerai. Baricides Torques! ca dolt etre &Ole pour taut." And thus, in lieu of Lord Redcliffe's confer ence, off posted M. Baraguay d'Hilliers straight to the Imperial Palace. On his arrival there he was in formed that the ministers were all assembled in close conference. "Ca m'est egal," responded the "man of-war," and went right in. "Messieurs j'entends y a du desordre, et je viens Tons offrer mes services." No answer. "I 1 n'y a per. sonne qui perle le Francais ici ?" Reschid Pacha then got up, and thanked, in the name of the assembly, the general for his solicitude, but assured him at the same time, that the government had already adopted the measures requisite io the present emergency. DEC. 22. On Monday, 19th inst., a telegraphic dispatch was sent off via' Belgrade, to announce the decision of the National Assembly—the vote of the majority, em powering . the ministry to negotiate on conditions, securing intact the sovereign rights of the Sultan, land providing for the safety and integrity of the em pire. The debate lasted three days, and the Masbata was presented, and received on Tuesday last, 20th inst., the royal sanction. The precise terms of this project are not yet ge nerally known, but they are said to be tair and equitable; and we all fervently hope, if so, that it may be crowned with prompt and complete success. However, if it be again attempted to bully and im pose on Turkey . conditions incompatible with her ho nour and her interests, all will end, I fear, not in smoke, but in a convulsion, whose shock will be felt eventually all over Europe. This at least is my opinion, my firm conviction and calculation of pro babilities. On the evening of the 20th inst., the day on which, as above mentioned, the decision of the National Asembly had been confirmed by the royal signature—a rumour having been circulated that the government had precipitately signed a treaty of peace, it produced great discontent and gave rise to a popular demonstration such as that expected, you recollect, at the Courban Bairam, and with precisely similar effects. Thus, the Tiger, Mogador, Inflexible, and Gomer were summoned from their station at Beycos, into port, with a view to the preservation of order, and being prepared for every eventuality. The diplomatic corps assembled at the British palace, to discuss the gravity of the ',situa tion, and a council of the ministers, under the presidency of the Sultan, was held also at the Imperial Felice. In short there was a remue-menage all over the place—dire events, and a hat of spectral images, were readily conjured up by the vivid imaginations in the Frank district. I felt most anxious to proceed to the reported scene of sedition ; but a friend with a red cap and distin ' pair of moustaches--advantages I cannot ... .. I , - gnished . _ _ the traria, cannot allow the vessel to leave Tri este bout myseh— _..e. ea me from that trouble, and the without addressing yon a few more limes, in order to following us his account of the affair, of which, transmit to you the note of the ambassadon, which no doubt, you will hear a variety of exaggerated has only been partially accepted by the Porte : versions. He repaired to Sultan Mehemet , and there The sadeel ambassador of —, in word with observed about a thousand aortas, some armed, it is gro the representativesof —, has the honour to make known true to*. Sublime Ports that the governments of the F our quietly ' assembled in different ups, discussing the act, of the government. Having inquired p ower , hay i ng si ai mom to believe that his Majesty t h e from some_ the . cense . of this manifestation, ..., he learned that their only object was to dighw Ell " .ll 7:b f ro a r gi m 4 ay asse as se aidaradas i rella tiw i l th ,7 l , .ofaithaien frets know for what reasons, and on what con ditions, the government had precipitately con ed** bees bees the mmospenla et it, and knowing, more- elude a treaty of peace—that they had already eves, MIR UM desiesselime et bli Imperial Majesty, that he made every effort, and were still ready to sacrifice only ilefiege es assameesit a perfect equality of rights and their all in defence of the national dignity and isissaaliss waled by the Sultan and his ancestors to the honour. Oneida sammuoittes, subjects of the Sublime Porte ; This then is the sum total of the affair up to the Awl the Wilms Porte, en its side, replying to that de• present date, and which might have been prevented elenilm, by the declaration that it regards it as being for altogether, bad the government thought of pub ill hussar to *3"n" to nrsintain the said ri g hts and im- lishing, without delay, in the Moniteur, the amities, and that it is constantly disposed to put an end decision of the National Assembly, which is to the differences which have arisen between the two em- unfortunately far different and far off from a treaty pine ; of peace. The utmost tranquillity prevails here ; The negotiations which are to follow shall be hued— not a single outrage has been committed, although lit. On the evacuation of the Principalities as promptly it has been deemed necessary to arrest some supposed es possible. leaders and instigators of this popular movement. 2nd. On the renewal of the old treaties. With regard to the intentions of the Allied Powers, 3rd. Oa the communication of the &nuns relative to and their present plan of adjustment, after so many the spiritual advantages granted by the Sublime Porte to failures, it is really impossible to hazard a conjeo all its non-Mussulman subjects, a communication, which tare. Now • is the time to settle definitively this when made to the Power', shall be accompanied by snit- eternal and perplexing Eastern question. Turkey able assurances given to each of them. merits all their sympathy and support, if we may The arrangement already made to complete the accord credit the authority of the veteran and the ablest relative to the Holy Places end to the religious establish- statesman in Europe. She has progressed gradually meets at Jerusalem shall be dellaiti , sly adopted. The within these last thirty years, ever since the destruc- Porte shall declare to the representatives of the Four tion of the Janissaries, and more so than any other Powers that it is ready to name a plenipotentiary, to state under similar circumstances—harmed from establish an armistice, and to associate on the bases above- within and without by the perpetual machine- Illenrioned with the concurrence of the Power% and in • Lions of a powerful enemy. All she now demands neutral ally, to be hereafter agreed apes. is fair play, a fair trial, an interval of re- The declarations mid* by the Powers in the preamble of pose and security, to reform her institutions, develop the treaty of the 13th July, 1841, shall be solemnly con- h - ,r immense resources, and to be admitted on her own firmed by the same Powers in the interest of the inde• merits as an efficient member of the European confe peedeace sad the integrity of the Ottoman Empire and deration. that of the European count. The return of Riza Pacha to power has been hailed And she Sublime Poets oa its side shall declare, in the by all as a favourable omen at the present crisis. lie tame iistereet, Its dna reeehtk° to Ins " agentdensi, is unquestionably, as I before stated, one of the ablest develop its administrative g e t s*, aid the internal me- men I have met in Turkey. Ile entered the Seraglio iterations which may satisfy the waits and the just expo- as page daring the last Russian war, when the late tuitions of Its milieu of all slams. . Sultan was residing at Therapia. He must have Blissi by sash et the leer Amebas sedan. been then about sixteen years of age, and managed, .Yens, Dee. 12, 1853. nevertheless, to play hie cards with radii and sagacity, The reply of the Porte was conceived nearly in amidst the continual agitation and perplexities of a the following tame t—Turkey, moved by a regezd court life. He advanced gradually to the rat of _ Of the it -—V.aI We 81 s frigate was gartered, and the eneliases. _ awith* spat aambesaf-th•Agese, were ...._ .by the Rumbas. They wines taken to sad thighs transpereed to Moms. Al engilasehrieese the Ruffians ef effiesewthey neseitreated as ocisalln Russian anew that is moat shaustally, being kept in strict confinement and with the allowance el 8, copecks silver, or 3d. per Eau. Os their arrival at Odessa the consul-general cogusented the facts to the authorities there, and re quired that the chief engineer, at least, should be treated as an officer and a gentleman, but to all hie remonstrances the authorities turned a deaf ear, and it wee said intended to march them all 80 miles into the interior on foot. The: consul-general has reported this case to our ambassador at St. Petersburg whose remonstrances have been most energetic, but it would appear that they have met with as little respect as those of the consul-general. Were the authorities to acknowledge the rank of the officers, it would cost them twice 81 copecks, or the lugs sum of sixpence per diem : hence one reason far auk atrocious conduct; but another is the inalevoisese of Prince Menschikoff, whose mind is so constituted as to be incapable of generous actions, and who evi dently feels a singular pleasure in venting his spleen against the English for having thwarted his objects. The chief engineer in question is the chief engi neer of the Pacha of Egypt's dockyard at Alexan drine, well known to many of the officers of her Ma jesty's steam-vessels and to those of the Peninsular and Oriental Company, for the facilities he was always ready to afford where assistance was required in cases of derangement of machinery, &o. Now, when it is considered that within a fur days of the time when the chances of an us equal war threw these unfortunate gentlemen into the power of the Russians, a Rumba frigate was actually being repaired by ILK HA engineers, and that shamefully, too, in one of her Majesty's dockyards ; such conduct in return is, to say the least of it, most dastardly, and shows that l the Russian authorities in executing the piratical de of their master carry out their work in the true spirit of the profession, and, as usual, wreak a miss- Table revenge on their unfortunate prisoners. But have not these men been betrayed into their ieent dilemma by the English government? When language is used over and over again, sub as " that her, Majesty's ministers intend to maintain the independence of Turkey intact sad in all its integrity," was it not reasonable for these gentlemen, officers in the service of a eassesin of the Sultan, to suppose when they left the Egyptian waters with his fleet last August that their remaining in that service would meet the approval of their own government, and that a part of the sup port to be rendered towards the maintenance of the integrity of Turkey was not that an English fleet should look on at the operation of the Turkish fleet being sunk and destroyed by a superior force of the enemy? Is not the fleet to be considered ea Weird part of a nation ? and until December, UMW wadi any Englishman have believed that his government could have held the language they have and then allow an English fleet to lie quietly by while that of her ally was destroyed? int Court. WINDSOR, JAN.IO. The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess of Hint, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Lady in Waiting to the Roche's of Heat, Lady Caroline Barrington, Lady El iz a. bath Grey, the Right Hon. H. and Lady Mary Labouchere, and Sir George Coulter. The band of the First Life Guards attended in the Castle during dinner and performed the following compositions: Overtare—" Feet" tvalare—. 4 La nemitive" ..... SIMMS* Terretto—" Prophets" Gahm .. .. ... Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended in the evening, and played ilinfonia—. Brehm" Alley* eat trio, Enrols fewer., &keno, Trio, and Marl* Beethoven The Queen walked in the Home-park this morning. Prince Albeit went out shooting. The Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and younger members of the Royal Family took their usual exercise. Earl Spencer strived from London to-day, had an au dience of her Majesty, sad received his wand of Ales on being appointed Lord Steward of the Household. His Lordship remains on a visit. The Earl of Mulgrave, Viscount and Viseguntess Sydney, sad Lord and Lady Bloomfield, have been Invited, and are szpeeted this afternoon. A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-office, Downiug-street, yesterday afternoon. The ministers present were the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Rus sell, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Viscount Palmerstoa, the Earl of Clarendon, the Duke of New castle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, and Sir William Molesworth. The Council sat four hours. The Greek Minister transacted banana yesterday at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The Earl of Aberdeen arrived in town yesterday morning to attend the Cabinet Comma. The noble earl returned to Windsor Castle in the everting. The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived in tows yesterday morning from his seat, Bowood-park, Wilts. Viscount Palmerston arrived in town yesterday morning, to 'attend the Cabinet Council, from his seat, Broadlands, Hants. The Right lion. Sidney Herbert arrived in town yester day, from Wilton-house. near Salisbury. Despatches were received at the Colonial-ollice yesterday from the Governor of ....mad.. A deputation from the Protestant Alliance bad an Inter. view with the Earl of Clarendon en Monday at the Foreign dace to present a memorial agreed to at a public meeting of that body lately held on the subject of religious liberty of British protestant' in foreign c 4latries. The deputation consisted of the Earl of Shaftesbury. the Hon. A. Kinnaird, M.P., Mr. T. Chambers, M.P., Sir J. D. Peal, Bart., Hoa. Captain Maude, Captain J. Trotter, Admiral Vernon Har court, General Whiles, Mr. T. L. Donaldson, Mr. T. O'Malley. Q.C. Rev. Dr. Cumming, Mr. J. Cook Evens , Rev. W. Chilies", Rev. Dr. Thomson, Mr. J. Brag's, Mr. J. C. Bigg. Rev. Dr. Dinner, Rev. T. Nolan, Mr. J. Hallam, Mr. R. J. Snaps, Rev.W. C. Rule, Mr. J. Shim., Mr. R. B. Seeley, Mr. John Macgregor, and Captain Gibers'. ALGIERS. The Algiers journals give details of a decided advantage pined, oa December 21, by Si-Haman, an Arab chief in the service of France, over the insurgent popula tions in the neighbourhood of Ouargla. Learning that some dissension had arisen amongst the hostile chiefs, be conceived that a good opportunity presented itself of strik ing a decisive blow amongst them. In eonsequence he tent 'word of his intention to the French military commandant, filiamemilds Buell, quartered at Gereville, and this latter Maas p kie column in movement to support the Arab weep, mossesary. Si. Hanes, on arriving at Mimics, learn ed that the Cheriff, who was at the head of the insurgents, was absent in another direction, and, in consequence, he proceeded at once against the encampment of the hostile tribes, then left comparatively defenceless. The Cheriff, however, soon beard of Si-liamea's intention, sad en deavoured to intercept his passage. A combat issued, which would appear to have been • warm one, as Si- Hams% finding his men shaken by the attack of the enemy, and half inclined to fiy, caused them to dismount from their horses, and fight hand-to-band with the Chuff 's troops. in the end, the victory declared against the in surgent tribes, who took to light, and Si. Hamsa receives the seme day the submission of a con siderable number of these populations. One of the prin cipal chiefs of the Cheriff, named EI-Hadj-Taytb.al - Mahidi, was killed in the action, and another, Ben-Naeer-bea-Clsora, was badly wounded with • ball in the lower pert of the stomach. Si-Hamsa has taunt en immense booty, consisting of 1,000 camels, and a largo Rua ber of sheep. The Governor-General, on bearing of this encase, ordered the column of Ossunandent Vkisensome• sistiog of 600 infantry, 160 to cavalry, i Marsh horsemen, to advisee from 81-lisle, to still farther subpart Eh-Hames, and dhouloil dm diems in ammand of the oolumai of Biskra sad reseed& sled to sit the Weirs& troops, should any necessity arise fee *sir &sing so. " Thus," says the Algiers journals, in igl i s a a aessuotof these operations, • the capture at teertestse gloriously the easerks of 1863, as that WINO had terminated that of leis!." • OMSOOW AND 60811h-WitaiS Ith/LWAI Trate ter the week maw; Sas. 7,11 M. 4.1. 1 C°""rsi wiskt iney Wan Ili benne is 1864, fa. 641. chief chamberlain, which he occupied with distinc. Lion till the death of Sultan Mahnioud, and then entered the service of the present monarch, with the rank of pacha, and mushir of the imperial palace. Subsequently, in addition to these functions, he was promoted to the poet of Seraskier, and contributed in that capacity for many years to the organisation and present excellence of the Turkish army. Itiza thus possessed an enormous amount of favour, influence, and power for a very long interval—perhaps such as before vested in any ono individual—and it is generally acknowledged that no act of tyranny or oppression has ever been laid to his charge. Apti Puha has been dismissed, as was long anti cipated, and Ahmet Pasha named Seraskier of Anatolia. I have received the following letter from Armenia: ERZEROUM, Dsc. 3. A friend of mine has just arrived hue from Tabriz, in ten days, and gives me statements which I regard as very interesting in the present state of affairs. I transmit them to you accordingly, such as they are. I wrote to you that our charge d'affaires had taken down his arms and broken off his communications with the Shah. Persia is positively in a league with Russia ; the govern ment has issued orders for t►e army to be formed in four corps of 30.000 men each. One corps is destined for Kiwi, one for Kirmanshab, whence it may march upon Bagdad, a third is located in Bushier, bot the fourth in Herat. Per haps these two are intended to intimidate our Queen ? Russia, by way of compensation, promises to Persia the two provinces of Sulimenia and Bagdad, the cession of her ald debt amounting to fifty thousand totnauns (shout 250,000!.). Moreover she supplies her with arms, munition, and more money. . The Turkish ambassador at Teheran will withdraw, and take the route of Bagdad. Our charge d'affairea was to leave Teheran on the Itith of November, but it appears the Shah is endeavouriag to de tain him, in order to gain time, that his own complaints may reach London before those of our diplomatist can get there. Five Persian regiments; with 20 pieces of cannon are already in Khoi. All these preparatives of Persia against Turkey are for the most part nominal, since the Shah will never be able to keep a good army an foot. The treasury is exhausted, the administration infamous, the soldiers wretchedly bad, and certainly not disposed to fight against the Turks. Well informed persons are of opinion that 20,1100 Turkish regulars would suffice, provided they were commanded by good generals, to bring Persia to her leases, and impose on her such conditions as she pleased. Let us, however, examine the army of Kars. I think I mentioned to you before that the entire corps had crossed the Arpa Chai, had invaded the Russian territory, and blockaded after a fssbioa Alexandropol; thst 13 Russian battalions, with 16 pieces of cannon, had fought with a Turkish division having 42 pieces of cannon, in which en- counter the Russians lost 60 men and 13 horses. The Turks lost 15 men, baides 56 badly wounded among their regular troops; what the loss may have been among their irregular ones has not been ascertained. Neither party gained an inch of ground, and during the night the Russians returned into Alexamlrepol. On the 30th of Nov. the Turkish army evacuated the Russian territory, and matched through liars for taking up its winter quarters. It is said that all the inhabitants of the Shuragbel have abandoned their villages, which were in part sacked by hordes of irregular Koords. The heads of the Russians slain in the fight were carried about the battle-field and paraded in Kars. Several European medical men have arrived here from the army. They relate that the commie sariat of the army is in a deplorable state, the soldiers with out pay and short of food. All the army surgeons complain of ttcir treatment, and say that they were threatened with the bastinado and put under arrest. I am, believer, con vinced that there is great exaggeration in this statement, for it is hardly a mouth ago that I myself was on the spot, and I saw there enormous stores in granaries and countless armaments. I cannot picture to myself how such abundant supplies could so quickly have disappeared and have been followed by such scarcity. They surely state this as some • extenuation for their conduct, that cannot be deemed praise worthy. That which appears true and to admit of no con tradiction, is the inefficiency of the chiefs, which every one , complains loudly of. ' Four pieces of a battering train arrived here from Baybout, and were sent on to-day to Ardahau ; the other thirteen will be here in a few days, ar.d will be sent on to Kan. It fa said that the Russians have 19,000 regular troops in (Gamri) Alexandropol. Serri Pacha arrived here yesterday from Coapoli, and will start for Kan in two or three days. GERMANY. Some of the Prussian papers have been in the habit of publishing the statements of their correspon dents respecting the movements of the Russian army both within the empire and in the Principalities. The Czar has expressed the wish that the govern ment may put a stop to this practice, and there is little doubt that the cabinet which has so lately inter fered with the press to stifle the discussion of Russian affairs, will be ready to oblige the Muscovite by the suppression of ueefui facts. The Vienna Lloyd of Jan. 4 contains an article, in which we read : The belief that the present moment is favourable to Ruuia for a war of conquest, because it could count upon the support of Austria, is a chimera. Austria has not abandoned the policy which its most distinguished men have followed for the last 40 years with so much energy and talent. Heaven be praised, the school of Metternich is not yet extinct. At the battle of Bavaria° not a single Austrian cannon was painted against the interest of Austria, though France and England fired against themselves. Austria has no motive for denying and abandoning is 1144 its policy of 1827. Before site cm take such a resolution, it is not probable that Russia can succeed in a war of con quest against Turkey. -• • • • - - For some time past a certain degree of animosity has prevailed amongst the soldiers of a Hungarian regiment in garrison at Vienna against their sub officers. A few days since, while a party of the men were drinking in the canteen of the barracks a quarrel began with a sub-officer, which soon came to blows, in which the latter was killed. SWEDEN. The Fothes Rut (a Stockholm journal) of the 24th ult. says that the proceedings of the " secret " com mittee of the Diet are no longer secrets. The King had laid before the committee numerous notes ex changed with the great European Powers, amounting to not less than 25 from A to Z, the result of which is that his Russian neighbour bad begun by making several demands, moat offensive to Sweden, in case war should break out in the Baltic or its neighbour hood; that the government has declined these requi sitions in the most precise terms; that it has at the same time made communications on this sub ject to England, France, Prussia, and Austria; and that it has finally obtained the satisfactory result, that perfect neutrality should be a guarantee, in case of war, to the united kingdoms (i. e., to Sweden and Norway). But France, England, and Prussia stipulated as one condition that the said united kingdoms should keep a sufficient force, so as to be able to maintain and of themselves defend that neu trality, in case of need. In short, the reason why his Majesty judged it right to convoke a secret com mittee for establishing an intercourse between him self and his States-General in this conjuncture, was to obtain, in compliance with these expressed wishes of England, France, and Prussia, the consent of the Diet for raising next spring, if circumstances re quired it, about 600,000 rix doilars bauco upon the extraordinary credits reclaimed during a certain number of years for completing the defence of the country. It is further said that the entire policy pursued by the government on this question, as likewise the energy it has displayed in defending the indepen dence of the united kingdoms, has given great satis faction to all the members of the committee. SPAIN. The Madrid Gazette, of the 4th, contains a notifi cation from the Minister of the Interior, forbilding the circulation of a manifesto drawn up by the editors of the opposition papers, complaining that theT have not sufficient liberty allowed to express their opinions. LE. II t be d bado quail io and coot the r foam Lane taw' to ( 11 weal larg! of 1 with plea beM throe thert neer sum diets whit etiqt had I coot but his.. him Fro rear ineD Any sere Chit Bat had four idea of t Oval the' , and at fl gen Arai a ki can feel nee the Ins the and err' wit tru int ext lac, nal of la to tal Pa Pr 1 03 ea ma is hlr ha he ie ht ta hb a 1 1 1 1