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alt erpregO. - - - - ------- - - - ithiss of "Tin Imam: co/Wobbbg tits sues evriallsyet meristio." sobilind wary Tamils sad rriesy 'iglu. is toms Sevssilissweisimessepl tar "Tr nostor." Luke Essig paps. mai be as us Mks ll•swrissinis, by Tire ea Übe lip al ZIOR WATU AT LONDON DPIDOI. Tins PAT —llllenta& 11. Pirstrains —Monis& 3ba Altair" Ai. 66a. LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 12. Tin sodden appearance of the Prince de Cimi 1T in an extraordinary diplomatic character at Paris — his immediate—we might sbacet say, his instants seens—viait to the Tuileries, and his presentation de letter, whereof rumour alleges all sorts of things, from Sing LLOPOLD to the Emperor of the Fano', °institute the latest of the many evidences Europe has lately had oldie tendency there is in certain quarters to substitute a personal for a constitutional and national policy in the present disturbed sod ember eased relations of {is Continent. No Sovereign can less and to play such a game then the Bing of the Hardman& Hie Hum?' only title to the move- safety el Belgium is the free choice of the Bel gians; they selected him to be Chief Magis trate of the free monarchy they fouuded; England and France recognised and supported him, not to form • new royalty in Europe, bat to throw up the barrier of freedom in what wee thought en important situation of the Conti nent. King LEOPOLD is not, therefore, the represen tative of or at the head of any great European Hopes; he is not the mouthpiece of any separate system or interest; he has no pretensions to interfere eat of the strict sphere of his limited duties—and these simply are to preside over the constitutional government of • very plodding, industrious, and in teresting, but a minor and comparatively unimportant state. Whatever, then, may be the KING'S large experience of the world and of political affairs, there is ample field for its employment in Belgium; and for him to interfere in the general concerns of Europe, to assume any pert is the greater concerns of the leading European monarchies, to try and form alliances and connexions for the purpose of aggrandising the power and influence either of his own family or of his Hones generally, is for his Kum! to repeat that fatal mistake which, is the person of his father in-law, PHILIPPE, suss so signally and, we had hoped, so instructively punished. It will not do for King LEOPOLD to allow his public thoughts or his acts to trespass out of Bel gium ; or to be constitutional in his domestic policy, in order that he may give license to himself in his foreign policy. He, like other monarchs subject to constitutional and Parliamentary influences, has Ministers to advise him; and the Belgian Cabinet, however able and competent to direct the interests asd promote the welfare of Belgium, has no mission to interfere in the general concerns of Europe. Neither, then, has its Sovereign. His relationship to, and his intimacy with, other Courts confer on him no attributes, clothe him with no authority to speak, or act, or write in their name. And it would be intolerable to see a Monarch, whose kingdom may disappear ere the first campaign of a geasr•l weir closes, trying to settle for his own interests a question he has no right to touch. The British public cannot therefore admit of the slightest interference of his Belgian Majesty on their behalf in the Russo-Turkish dispute—it is a question and a matter that does not concern Belgium directly—it is a subject that must be dealt with, se far as they are concerned on British interests alone. England has a Government to express its views and determination; and however earnest and sincere his Belgian Majesty's desires may be, the English people cannot submit to his in any way, or in any degree, or to any extent, acting for them; and the less he interferes in any way the better for Europe, himself, and his family. It is, dowse, quite possible that King LEOPOLD may have committed no such indiscretion, and been guilty of no such impertinence ; and that the mission of the Prince de CHDIAT to Paris may refer simply to the very awkward situation of the commercial relations between France and Belgium, or to the even more delicate and sensitive relations between their courts. All attempts to conclude a new commercial treaty between the two countries have as yet failed, and alter a lapse of more than two years the trading relations of the two countries have become more uncertain and em barrassed that they were when they first differed as to the terms on which they should renew the treaty. This state of things wait naturally, at a time like the present, be a source of great anxiety to the Belgian Government; and it would, perhaps, only be an act of prudence on its part to make, at this juncture, a very serious effort to come to a good •aderstandiog with the French Cabinet. Bat ob viously the Prince de CuIMAT is not the person who could be advantageously selected for that pur pose; and his mission, it can hardly fail to be ob served, is mach Mlle directed to the EMPEROR him self than to the French Government. It is, there fore, no great stretch of imagination to suppose it may relate to the personal situation of King LEOPOLD. On the downf all of Orleaniem and the revival of the Empire in France, the true interests of Wig Lzoroin lay in strict neutrality, in rigid &badness* from all °HMOS and BOURBON intrigues, in 'par swing towards France a loyal and towards the rest of Europe a modest course of policy; and in relying, for the continued existence of the Belgian Monarchy, on its usefulness to the existing balance of peWale t sad an its domestic strength. Probably his Mum= has done all that lay within his power to moderate and repress the flagrant intrigues of the Ouman family, and there is as yet no very great trilliums before the public to show that he wu directly concerned in the Fusion that has lately given such serious annoyance to the Emperor of the ERENCA, --against whom it was of coarse directed as an act of hostility. Two remarks, indeed, lay on the very surface of those transactions; first, that love of intrigue is irrepressible in the Oamers family ; secondly, that the objects of LEOPOLD aim rather more at the advancement of COBURG than of Oanr.k• s interests. And it is in the latter direction the King of the BELGIANS has committed his most serious error. It was, no doubt, very proper in the KING at his age to lose no time in marrying the Duke Dl BRABANT; but as that Prince had never 1114.110 Princess to whom he has lately been allied, his naa► riage with an Austrian Archduchess was olearly mg affair of State policy, however happy it may prove to individuals. Now, situated as Belgium is as a scarcely settled kingdom, with the empire restored in France and attacked by the Fusionist policy, an alliance be tween the Royal Family of Belgium springing from a Revolution, and having no foundation but popular choice, with a Monarchy that still clings to divine right, with the most despotic and yet the weakest of the great European Powers, with the State that had given just cause of offence to every people enjoying free institutions, and to England especially, with tool of Russia, at a time when the bad become only too apparent— is scarcely one that Europe can ranee, there is no onasehocat, IL • ally and the tool • of Rank La 4 ;5:" . .. "•-• is SC Iliad to ri ar, :11 sir" • X THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY it has given deep and anions offence. At a time when the relations of the two connixisis *Fe unsettled and embarrassed, it has exhibited a:ii/e• ference for a German commix, for eft OA "'dm out court connexion foe a co n nexion 'Outland ne cesurily detest an/lodinate the yeast state of things in France, and which only submits to it ai a matter of necessity. It is regarded as an attempt to make Brussels German, instead of French—to turn beck the stream of events, and make "Belgium" ones awn "the Austrian Nethseleada • And what to ns is the most movokhig pet et the smatter is, that it tends to cast doubts on the abesettyst the Egli& alliance with France, to create sespielme that the English Government looks ea the dim system of Europe as the safer reed to lam on—to beget a per simian that it regards the French Empire with suspicion. The hue interests of the English people are the same with the tree interests of the French people. France and England should ever be allies, and whatever state intrigues tend to weaken the friendly feeling of one to the other is treason against both. Nor, if report be true, is this personal policy of King Lnorow about to stop here. Other marriages of other C 081.1103 are understood to be in prepara tion. In a few mouths the young King of Ponvu oaL will have reached (or, in still fewer, may attain) his majority, and be, too, will want a consort. Now, there is a plan on foot for an alliance between the bead of the House of BILACIANZA and the Princess CIIARLOITE of Belgium, which, if completed, will make the monarchy of Portugal doubly COBURG. This is carrying the joke too far. It is not for the in terests of Europe(still less for the interests of England) to see any petty house shooting out its ramifications into every old Monarchy, no matter how offensive to good taste and the healthy rules by which marriages are usually governed. To have given a Comma King to Queen Dose MARIA might suMos in Portu gal, without now forcing a Coauao Queen on Don PEDRO. At all events, the world must know that in such contemplated alliances England has no concern, that she views them with as much disgust as the rest of Europe can do, and that all the influence she seeks in human affairs and policy is that derivable from her true greatness—not from alliances of this sort. Tun more we learn respecting the mutiny a board the ship commanded by Sir FLEETWOOD PEL LEW, and the more exact our information respecting the circumstances said to have preceded that dis graceful outbreak, the more thoroughly are we satis fied that the case cannot be allowed to pass by with- 1 out the fullest investigation and the moat ample justice being done towards all par ties concerned. Sir FLEETWOOD PELLEW ought to be at once recalled, that he may be questionest respecting the exact character of the punishments' inflicted by him on the crew entrusted to hies *lna He should be required to state distinctly his views respecting the discipline of a British man-of-war, and his evidence might then be printed for the information of the public, and the guidance of his brother officers—against following his plans. It is most probable that his views, clearly stated, could well be published under the novel title of " The Art and Mystery of exciting Mutiny at Sea." Looking at the whole cams by the little light which the discipline of a ship of-war has allowed to find its way from China to England, we must say that the rebellion against the constituted authorities on board Admiral PELLEsres ship seems only explicable upon the theory that the discipline on board that vessel had been illegally severe. Despotic as the powers are (and necessarily despotic), delegated to the commander of a ship-ol war at sea, that despotism has yet its limits. It is not • despotism like that of the CZAR, extending freely over the lives and limbs of those under its sway. Admiral PELLEW on his own quarter-deck may feel himself to be literally " monarch of all he surveys"—and may under that feeling indulge cer tain of his passions in • way utterly destructiverce the comfort of his crew, and ultimately of the disei plias of his ship. But even a Sir FLarrwoop PaLtew may be wrong. There is a legal and an illegal es well as • wise and an unwise discipline, and we must think, till the contrary is established, that Admiral PELLEW has acted not only in • foolish and a cruel, but also in an illegal manner. On no other ground can we explain to ourselves the possibility of such a mutiny as the one that has disgraced the English Admiral's flag in the Chinese waters. On the double ground et pansy and of justice, then, we emphatically madded the Admiralty should call upon Sir FLEETWOOD Plume le return to England at once for the purpose elf , dissliag up the very serious difficulties in which he les 'evolved both himself and the service to whke be belongs. There are, of course, log-books and othee diciiments that would assist such an inquiry as the MIS width the mutiny on board the Winchester res• ass needful. Bat logs are not enough—we woad them= also. Sir FLEETWOOD PELLEW Would be sure of justice—at least more gentle in its operation than that he seems to have inflicted upon the unhappy backs of the luckless seamen under his command. He, whether guilty or guiltless, would in Enema at lest get fair-play, whatever be may have roads- NM to others in China and elsewhere. Bat to aisland he should be brought instanter, to explain •justify his own conduct, and to describe that Ans. Let him bring back as a part of his baggage the fall list of the punishments he has inflicted an his crews, with the offences for which those punish• meats have been awarded, and the mode of inquiry or trial pursued previous to such award. Of course, all such particulars have been carefully noted down in black and white, according to the rules of the ser vie& and will form some of the plainest evidence in lhorsur of the Admiral, if he is right, and the most sitioLctory proofs of his guilt if he be wrong. No beisarsble man avoids inquiry and explanation when he Isis himself charged with an offence, and that Sir IhnelftwooD Pirt.i,Ew is so charged we think, suffi ciently gown by the fact of the mutiny. Every nietiscons seaman had his grievance or he would not have run the great risks of mutiny, and the sooner we know what the grievances were and how they were dealt with the better for justice and for the welfare of the English Navy. If the Admiralty wish to prove themselves equal to the needs of so important a use, let them undo the mischief done when the Duke of Norritument- LAND sent the present Naval Commander to China, by calling gir Fleetwood Pence home at once to explain his proceedings, and to show that he inflicted no illegal punishments. MORE ABOUT THE ENGLISH ENGINE NOW IN THE HANDS OF THE RUSSIA --- We laid before our readers yesterday an account of the treatment received by some English engineers made prisoters by the Russians. By some further particulars received from our correspondent we now find that our account was not nearly so bad as the case warranted. It appears that the Parma Bahari, a small Egyptian frigate, was on her voyage from Yarns to Sinope, when she was fired into by a Rus sian frigate of much larger size, and, after an obsti nate defence of four hours and • half, when her captain and all * officers were either killed or wooded, elle struck her colours. Mr. Bell, the chief sagiassr, was suit for by the Admiral. Korail4l aaZ reheated by biaa to take charge of thi nail to thimispols mg is Ina added Vet t if be woo b asto mu the seesseity of g a eo Pi reMn promise mile bp ma Aided vide: the narrated ; lot Ora the alb of the lON were Lid before the Imperial edibles. it lave bean expected that, kr the beam of the ipecac immediate °Edon wadi be empatehei kr the reline of the whole of the primula Windowed yesterday to the repair of the Russian hsr dockyards, which the Cur W the 1111dillity to require of Lord Aberdeen. Rat Ist the peddle observe how the fact was published to 1 1:082. of Russia , namely . di That while the dare not send one ship into the Black Sea, we eider them to receive our ship? into the very beside of their dockyards, and the miserable islanders esp." This is the language in which England is held up before the Russian serfs. LATEST FROM ABROAD. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. -4-- VIENNA, WarmssnA-r. Telegraphic despatches from Hermaanstadt an nounce that a serious engagement has taken place at or in the vicinity of Kalafat. Cars were arriving at Brajova filled with the wounded. Krajoya is placed in a state of siege, and the commandant has threatened to visit with the severest punishment all who shall disseminate disquieting reports. As the victory is not ascribed to the Russians, it is supposed here that they have again been beaten. It is be lieved that the Russians were the attacking force, as, a day or two before the arrival of the wounded, the public were officially admonished, without appa rent motive, to keep perfectly quiet and not to be unduly- conarned at anything which might take place. "ADT, J*x. 8. According to accounts from Bucharest of the 4th • Turkish squadron drove in the Russian outposts at Ballescht-Cetate, a village on the high road between Halafat and Krajova. A Russian battalion came up, and a combat ensued in which each side suffered severely. It was universally believed that this would prove only the prelude to more serious ,encounters. di in taking her there, he should be is- f my Ntilt lik A rrty. Bi diS of gr i : so n4erdan 1 *deal in seas tibi imbed to bat l k amin' in - the har a rbe assb,--the wonder en‘ kusugsw , that die hajnot inn bii at us, Intteed, or, d Mr. 3111. obt • Was as pealed. Shim ealkopasen sad via demi* into , , oonflaesent with the as .., i allowed hise,—Priese the saw a° l kw at Oleos miss net-the silghteg. via • geambe sada by kie slighaL It mg ha o nu& do effect the Maw of a do ie IWO la wedareleadlbegulweipiyiat kiliort- go EGYPT. JAN. 3. Some feeling has been manifested against the go- vernment, by reason of the order issued by the conaul•genersl to the French officers, requiring them to quit the Egyptian service. The French steamer Salamander has foundered. Wheat was very firm, Saida especially, at 103. Cotton was firm and animated. Exchange on Lon don, 99. PORTUGAL LISBON, JAN. 2. It is stated that the young Bing is about to marry 1 his Coburg cousin, the Princess Charlotte of Belgium. Lisbon is perfectly quiet, and is likely to be, u long as the British squadron remains in the Tagus. GERMANY. VIENNA, TUESDAY. Closing prices at the Bourse : Austrian Five per Cent. Metallics, 91 9-16. Exchange on London, 11.53. Bank Share; 1,316. The funds are rather better, but the distrust of the bourse is indicated by the further rise in the exchange. BERLIN, TUZIDAT. Russian Stock has again fallen 1 per cent. FRANKFORT, TIIIIIDAT. Austrian Stock has experienced a farther fall of 11 et. cent. SPAIN. PARIS, TittlidDh.T MOZNINO. A telegraphic despatch from Madrid, of the Bth inst., announces the death of the new-born Princes,. Ire Court. WINDSOR, hoc. n. The dinner party yesterday included the Dachas of Kent, the Earl of Aberdeen, Earl Spencer, the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess afßout, the Baroness de Speth, the Berketlisligrava. Vbarent and Vac Juntas Sydney, and Urgent Lady Bloemiteld. The Bari of the Seib Fusilier Guards attended in the Castle duke asuman m il i paped the followina selection "IA sm amaimmle lim delirated to her reatiehma r n wan% ei = QUO .••••••••• Dime nathoWy. Bondi's. tumid ~um "i" . aeattirg " Her ilejorre Private Band afterwards was in tarrdaaa ia the mains, and performed the followiag ems pesidams Llamas de Chyme. Poultio 11 1 .5 1 4—A 6 8M Whom. trio—Motte ere emarrisiem trim, hautbois elerlasa o lsems ea 01/4 NM& IMirien Istred MMus% rade, end m P M SPAT. The Qom's sad Priam waked in the Home•perk and slopes this morning. His Boyd Highness afterwards rode out on horseback, attested by Lord George Lannon. The Earl of fiberdesa mad Earl Spencer left the Cute today for London. The Lord Chancellor mil Lady Cranworth, the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbary, the Ear l and Countess of Derby, and Lady Emma Stanley, Viscount Jocelyn, Lord and Lady Bloomfield, and Major.Cleuerel Sir George Bowles, ban bun invited, and an ezported this afternoon. Viscount Palmerton left town on Tuesday 'wooing. after the Cabins! Council, for his mat, Broadlands, Hants. The Earl of Aberdeen returned to London, yesterday, from Windsor Castle. His Excellency Mo. American Minister has removed to No. 66, Hartstritet, Cavendish-►quen. ARRIVAL_ OP TUE CITY OF LONDON STFAXER.— Yesterday the Oriental Company's chartered steam packet Citi of London, Captain John Cargill, arrived at South ampton, and landed her mails. Her dates are—Coastanti apple, 17th December, 1853 ; Smyrna, 22nd ; Malta, 26th ; Gibraltar, 2nd January, 1664; Lisboa, 6th ditto. The steamer brings the following passengers:—Mr. Weston, Mr. Crabb, and nine deck passengers. The combined fleet was lying at the mouth of the Black Sea ; at Constanti nople the following vessels:—Her Majesty's steam-ships Retribution and Tiger and her Majesty's ship Queen, one Austrian frigate, and two French steamers ; at Smyrna, one French frigate and brigantine of war, and the screw steamer Teneriffe ; at Gibraltar, her Majesty's ship Vesuvius; at Lisbon, Admiral Corry's fleet, and screw steamer Lady Eglinton, from the Brasil. The City of London called at Lisboa for coils. All was quiet in that capital, but it was rumoured on shore that the quietude was chiefly attributable to the presence of the British fleet In the capital. The ordinary session of the Cortes was opened on the 2nd bin. by the King Regent in person, who delivered a epee* reviewing the ionise sad domestic relations of the ausitry, and indicating the probable souse of legislative meths, bat containing nothing worthy of especial notice. DEPARTULZ OP TUE AMMUCAN MAlLL—Tinter day thresean the 17alead BUM mail atseneohip Atlantic, Captain Ws; leek bat dignetar• from tiro Massy he New Tech with the anal nab be the United States, Canada, Nevi ileetia, New Ilzialev e ra‘kltilalt A ch t and a lerie beige on 'G, JANUARY 12, :THE WAS. . RUS4A AND TURRET , The Petrie says: " Our private letters are to the 28th ult. From the 20th to the above det62 Tag violent gusts of wind from the S.W. and thiNX have succeeded each other without latsrmittsion in the Bosphorus and the Black Sea, but the pilots an nounced a change of weather by the Ist or 2nd inst.' News was received at Constantinople on the 27th that the Turks had had new successes in Asia as well as in Europe. It appears that the inhabitants of the almadjak of Paskhoff-Tchai and those of the Sanijak I Tchaldijr, on whom the Russians thought they could entirely depend, have jest publicly declared for the Sultan. Letters from Bucharest of the 4th state that the Romaine have placed a park of artillery, consisting of 100 guns of the largest calibre, at Giurgevo, and a similar one of 120 guns at Galatz. The entrench ments at Baohsrest are vigorously carded on both north and south of the city. A noossebsence hes been made of all the Wands ea the Danube fres Wats to Laken& The itreise sista prochdin boldly that thelrmosea asso ri z a will never son give up poessmien of The Gomm spedsny that email oleos of its *Mb IN* knees the beiges et Illssi% disoseeSumeses the ids Ad the teens of pease proposed Is*, Pests by the Iles Pswer4 and which we are now isthenesd the Porte las asserted, will be admitted by the tsar. The Y'rardefort Post Ga.lette says, under dais Vienna, Jan. 6 : Tin genera is is that the propositions and condi tions made by tie Direr will be subjected to modifications, as in their preeN sour eta ffiterj stud no thaws of being wreed to by the BONY. It is positively stated that news ham be Petersburg that the Czar would not asespaffile eels of the sonferenee of Vienna of the 6th ult. is its memo hem. The Fonds slisial sentenisation respesting the entrance el the fleets is* the Black te e s one tared how little vales are the most amortises respecting Eastern arils width Earepthrcugh Vienna. On Stodgy the estrum of the fleets into the Black Sea was telegraphed to one ot our contemporaries, and again on Tuesday to aneoher, the 30th ult. being given as the date of the occurrence. We have now the testimony of the Austrian government (in the Oert. Correspondent) that on the let inst. the fleets were in Beicos Bay, and that of the French government in the Mont teur) stating that the entry was not effected until the 3rd inst. General Prim, Count de Reuss, who has left Con stantinople, went on the 19th ult., accompanied by his suite, a ndi by Captain Rhodes, of the English army, to the Sultan, to take his leave. He, on that occasion, addressed the Sultan as follows : Sir—About to leave for Spain, in order to give an ac count to my gracious Sovereign of the minion which she deigned to confer on me, my first duty is to take leave of your Imperial Majesty, and to receive your sovereign orders. Permit ms at the units time, sire, to ad dress to your Imperial Majesty my most sincere thanks for having permitted me, as well as the officers under my orders, to be present at the operations of your valiant army of Roumelia—whereby I have been able to appreciate all the brilliant qualities of the Ottoman soldier. In all the marches and in all the labours of a campaign, I have ens him indefatigable ; in privations and suffenags of all kinds I have men him resigned ; and I have seen him brave and enthusiastic when, fa theme& name of your Imperial Ma jesty, he light mains the enemies of his country. The illustrious captain to when year Majesty ham deigned to confide your army of the Dasabs,by , his iateligeoce,his sett vity, and his sang Avid is ate meessat of dallier is worthy, sire, in my humblejadaisest, to coasmai sash soldiers as yours. I leave with Use bops of reasstsisa is the spring. Then your imperial Majesty will be at tbe head of your brave armies, sad we skill have the h to witness the glorious triumphs of your imps , for Oat alone knows, sire, all that your soldiers wr be espies et doing on the day of battle, when they slug be eissaasiel by your imperial Majesty. Reschid Pacha, in the name of the Sultan, said that his Majesty had heard with satisfaction the judgment of General Prim as to the good qualities of his soldiers of the army of Roumelia, and his fa vourable opinion of his General-in-Chief, Omer Pacha. His Imperial Majesty, he added, was much pleased with the conduct of the general and his officers whilst they were • ith t he army—of which he had been informed by official reports by his aide-de-camp, Moustapha:Bey. Finally, his Majesty charged the general to express to Queen Isabella his sentiments of friendship for her, and to tell her that he was most grateful for, and would never for get, the kindness she had shown him in sending him a mission composed of such distinguish 4 officers. The Constantinople correspondent of the Vienna Lloyd, represents the Sultan and Reschid Paths as equally apprehensive of the unpopularity which was to be exp ected upon the adoption of a concessive policy. The picture, which is perhaps soemeihst overcharged, is thus rawn : " The Sultan did not venture, se was said *NM be the elite on the 22nd ult., to repair on the law ing day to the Divan, in order to anemias, emerge* resolunons; there, in fact, he did not even dare—on that day, which was Friday, the Sabbath of Mussel men—to rowed as usual, amidst the thunder of cannon and the hurrahs of foreign war crews, to the mosque of Tophana, but performed his prayers in profound quiet at the mosque of Beshiktash, close to his own residence. It was not the t3eraskier, as was expected, that tendered his resig nation, but Reschid Pasha. It was not accepted however. The last named Pacha is still residing in the palace contiguous to the residence of the Sultan, and to which he had fled for refuge from his own in Stamboul, taking with him all his family. he Sultan's residence—the Pekoe of Teheragan—la not in Stamboul itself, but in the opposite and most remote quarter of Constantinople, called Beshiktash. The Isaacs that Reschid is now inhabiting belongs to the Sultan, who when he was heir apparent used to hold his court there. Reschid is a relation of the Sultan's, for his eon is betrothed to a princess." We'extract the following from a letter written in Wallachia on the 27th ult. the contents of which were communicated to the Medical Weekly Gaulle of Vienna by . a surgeon attached to the Russian army in the Principalities. "Out of the 124,000 men that complete our effect ive strength, there are more than 11,000 freebooters, sick, and stragglers. If any of the soldiers fall ill, they are most of them soon despatched by typhus, dysentery, cholera, inflammation of the lungs, scurvy, or mortification. It is a fact, that illnesses which else where assume generally a benignant form, take a malignant form here; thus, persons who are not at all dangerously . wounded, as soon as they enter the hospital soon sink and die. Our greatest calamities and our most grievous sufferings are to be ascribed not merely to the influence of this climate, but to the horrid dwellings, the destructive bisouacks near the Danube, and the rapid decay of the soldiers' shoes on this ground.. Notwithstanding all these adverse I casualties, the spirit of our troops is excellent. The con centration of picked troops, of artillery and cavalry corps, of hospital stores, the depots of arms, harms, and baggage, the implements of pioneers and pon toneers, collected at six different poets along the Danube between Oalatz and Giurgin, lastly the strict I watch and ward maintained at all these posts, as likewise the constant presence of superior officers at ithe principal stations--all this leads to the convic tion that we are destined to march the moment the Danube is frozen hard enough to permit the crossing. A reinforcement of 44,000 men for thisdistrict has been promised, and they axe to arrive in January next, without redaction of number. At our last occupa tion of Bulgaria and Roumelia the line to Shumla was the main road : we kept along the river Timok on the Servian frontier, relying on rapport from Varna. The same plan appears to be now adopted." SPAIN.—AII extraordinary Gazette was published at Madrid on the sth, announcing the birth, at hal6pest ten o'clock that morning, of a Princess to the Queen, and that her Majesty and the child were going on well. A decree, dated the 3rd, calls the 25,000 men forming the sontingent of the present year into active service. The Goatee Meths that the negotiation of Treunry Bills is the month of De oembyr last, took pleas at 8 per cent. with private persons, sad at 8 per cent. with the Bank of San Fernando. The Espana remarks that at present three Spanish embeesiee were vacant, those of Washington, Mezleo, and Berlin. bat has spec! to ivis t u a e minis. u murk's ltussia. event of :lovCri. Affair s , It minis- rhich is •fortress r with deprive, Rends. Inge the to works case of efending much to that a present and the ninil,will Commis. the Hol- a for Lis intimate and St. tact and srtaia in. in which 1 collision [NA. ,IL. iticipation Iras, Ilse. /5 S; Hong Dee, 6 1, Nov. 20. B.dta/Ay Burmah to is warlike abroad in bief styled is to leave •ge force, rrection is different Lao at Ths. and, and it nhabitants honorary i has been on on the Le country. nominated def named Pegu, has nd byriata. against as O to admit confreres, ate of dip nue!l the g Prince." Goung of Pegs, that e followers, ned, and in brother of s son and is afflicted d as she boats; the pportunity, tore, where is gave in. our of the that a corn- obbers is in probability or hung. be given Leember in L.• the reports e in a most foundation _ Csacoits now guidance of tat a portion nary had under the (blockading e built a tort • ecting this og the land 1, thus effee. g their very duct. The its off their Pcshawnr. of which he the bri- permitted a :ommand of he Alf4hans ten took up needed in re• efore he was .• by a bullet. to has ma• en men, not sbees. The one' Cotton s ' all descrip- powder had tribes, it is were reduced being nearly me has con- d the tribes of the pass writing the on has been not the tribe t inaccessible mmauded by 'a 22nd Foot, fisting of the red men of hundred of of the 6Oth and fifty of nate the outer .854. , BELGIUM. BELGIAN RHLATIONS WITH FRANC = E. BRUSSELS, To DAY. • It is no longer a state secret that serious differ ences of opinion have sprun g up lately between the Crown and some of the more influential members of the cabinet, and that those differences are of a to bring about shortly a ministerial moditlea- Hisss, r i e slthough in the council held the other day a temporary arrangement was effected. It may be stated that France has of late attempted, and not unsuccessfully, to exercise a considerable " pressure from without " on the Belgian government, not to say the Belgian court, by treating with remarkable and remarked coolness all the overtures respecting renewal of the lately-expired commercial treaty. In fact, the negotiations on that subject ars at present ) totally suspended, and since the visit of King Leopold to England the French government has become, in other respects, very reserved in its relations with this eountry. Row far the explanations to be given rims wee by the Prince de Chimay to Louis Napoleon, or which may be contained in King Leopold's autograph letter, will be deemed sa tisfactory, remains to be seen. It appears that it ie rumoured in Paris that the ob ject of the Prince de Chimay's mission has refit.. once to a European mediation in the affairs of the East. The present relations between France and Belgium, however, are not of a nature to allow of any propositions of that kind emanating from the latter. The main point for it just now is to set its own house in order with reference to its powerful neighbour, and not to go out of its way to settle the quarrel between Russia and Turkey. It is not altogether improbable that the Prince de Chimay's temporary mission may be shortly con verted into a permanent one, and that he will replace M. Rogier as Belgian ambassador at the French court. That will depend, however, on the success of his present mission. The Indepetulance contradicts the report that the mission of the Prince de Clumsy has anything to do with:the Eastern question. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. Whether thefleets have really entered the Black Sea or not is, on this 11th of January, as much a moot question as ever in Paris. Yesterday, on the faith of positive intelligence front London, it was taken for granted that they had entered on Dec. 30. This is now contradicted by two separate despatches, one stating that on the let they were detained in the Bosphorus by bad weather, and a second published by the Parris , according to which the actual date of their entry was January 3. But all private tele graphic information on this subject must now be re puted unworthy of credit, and the Moniker remains silent. There is nothing either in the Moniker to confirm the fact of • signal victory having been gained by the Turks at Kalafat against 30,000 Rus sians, although this is said by the Constitutionnet to be part of the news brought by the Chaptal. I this morning sect you a telegraphic despatch in which among other things I mentioned the two latter facts. The clerks at the telegraph office refused to transmit the despatch without the visa of the Minis ter of the Interior, on the ground that they had lately been called over the coals for transmitting "false news." My messenger thereupon took the despatch to the Minister, who gave his visa without hesitation, but I fear it would be too much to say that he thereby vouched for the truth of the intelligence. As to the reported victory at Kalafat, the news, if true, might have reached this many days since through Vienna, but it is to be observed that the line of coin municition is in the possession of the Russians, who would do all in their power to suppress accounts un favourable to themselves as long as possible. With regard to the reported entry of the fleets, there is uo plausible reason why the Moniker, after publishing M. Drouyn de Lhuys' last circular, should abstain from communicating the very earliest informa tion that the orders therein stated to have been issued had been executed. In this very number, the official Journal, in an article upon the corn question, insists with much emphasis upon the duty of government to tell the whole truth to the public. It is undeniable, however, that this sound doctrine is not always acted up to. The curt announcement of to-day that the Porte has accepted "all" the propositions of the Four Powers was probably intended to support the Bourse, but it commands no confidence, because it is felt that the whole truth is not told. The public did not require to be informed by the Moni tetsr that the Ottoman government had consented to treat for peace npoa honourable terms. But, although the reception given by the Porte to the propositions of the Four Powers has now lost most of its interest owing to the certainty that whatever those Lions may be the Czar will not listen totali would have been to throw some desirable light on the present state of the question, had the Moniteur ex plained what it is that the Porte has accepted. The only version hitherto made public of the proposition of the Powers is one com prising the moat objectionable clause that the old treaties are to be renewed. Ac cording to all the authentic intelligence from Con stantinople, the Porte was resolved to insist upon its just right to hold these treaties abrogated by the war, and to have its relations with Russia placed upon a new footing. The probability is that the announcement of the Moniteur is only true in this sense, that the ambassadors at Constanti nople have adopted modifications suggested by the Porte to the original propositions of the Four Powers. But if so, the announcement is not straightforward. If otherwise, there must have been recently a more radical change in the councils of the Divan than the public are prepared to credit. At the Bourse but little importance was attached to the paragraph in the Moniteur. It was considered as a warlike symptom rather than otherwise, the object of it being supposed to be to represent the Emperor of Russia more entirely in the wrong. The rente opened 20c. lower than yesterday, but after some slight fluctuations, closed at 70fr. 55c., with a rise of Sc. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. fell 30c. Railways varied but slightly, ofr. being nearly the limit of a rise or fall. _ _ PARIS. TUESDAY EVENINO, The news from London of the actual entry of the fleets into the Black Sea, although so fully expected (and although so false) produced a considerable effect upon the bourse. After many fluctuations the rente closed at 70f.50c., with a fall of 50c. from yesterday, and at nearly the lowest price of the day. Bank of France experienced the very serious fall of 501. All the railways without exception were lower, but the fall in no case exceeded 10f. In case, after all, it should be found absolutely necessary to send troops to the Principalities, I un derstand the Zonave regiments in Africa would be selected for that service, as being best adapted to the climate and the nature of the warfare. I hear nothing to confirm the rumours which have lately been circulated, not only here, but (as it appears by the papers received to-day) in London, that the Emperor of Russia is disposed to meet the overtures for peace in a reasonable spirit. GERMANY. Through the Correspondent the Austrian govern ment proclaims anew, at this important juncture, its fixed intention to remain neutral in the affairs of the East, because it is on friendly terms with all the Powers which are parties to the struggle. The Cologne Gazelle publishes the followisg tele graphic despatch : BERLIN, JAN. 9. To-day the Second Chamber met in a secret sitting to deliberate on the communication from government relative to the acquisition by Prussia of a military port in the North Sea. The Berlin journals contain long accounts of the faneral of General Radowitz. The ceremony was conducted with almost regal pomp. At Berlin, on the 4th, before the body was sent to Erfurt for inter ment, there was • religious service in the church of the garrison, at which the King was present. His Majesty approached the coffin, and prayed in a low voice, after which he kissed on the forehead ' sons of the demand, two of whom are officers WATZEIVILD AND KILKENNY RAILWAY. — TrEek return for the week ',ding Jew. 7, 1861:-1761.4 de. ed. • 09 wiles open). Corresponding week, 1863, 641. 61. 34: Prussian army, and who were standing nem (13 Mali epos). van. \ .... n a low mountain fastnesses is aescrioca as gum. .---- the four Having achieved the object for which they had It ire in the out, the force proceeded to their camp, but ihcir doh. fear the culties then were redoubled, for the peculiar species of warfare in which these Lill tribes DENMARK. Letters from Berlin speak of a difference that has sprung . up in the Danish ministry, wi t h respect to the O riental question. The majority, who deealetl.s represent the public feeling of the country, &deist(' a junction with England. The President of the minis. ten, on the other hand, bad insisted upon Denmark's adherence to her old terms of amity with Russia. It is thought extremely probable, in the event of hostilities breaking out, that Count ReeentlovCri minil would become the Minister of Foreign m a i n. The coast defences set on foot by the Danish minis try are mostly confined to Alsen, whi c h i s to be metamorphosed into an island-fortress as strong as possible. Concurrently with this, Denmark is endeavouring to deprive, as far as in her lies, the fortress of fiend s . burg of all its strategetical importance, because the 18,000 troops absolutely required to man the works could no longer be maintained. Besides, in case of a war, Danish egotism is satisfied with defending itself, without heeding the Duchies. Letters from Holstein of the 4th inst. are much to the same effect. One correspondent says that a Danish ministerial crisis is at hand; the present Minister of Foreign Affairs will resign, and the Minister for Holstein, Count Reventlov-Criminil,will be his successor. Mr. Scheel, the Itoyal COMMiI• sioner in the Holstein Diet, will then enter the Hol stein Ministry. The Count's qualifications for Lis office are said to rest partly upon his intimate acquaintance with the Courts of Vienna and St. Petersburg, partly also upon his uncommon tact and the flexible dexterity of his character. Certain in dividuals regard this as essential for a post in which the occupant will have carefully to avoid all collision with either party. INDIA AND CHINA. THE OVERLAND MAIL. We have received our despatches in and of the Overland Mail. The dates are :—Calcatta, Dec. 6; Madras, liEc. [0; Shanghai, Nov. 19; Amoy, Nov. 18; Hong Kong, Nov. 27 ; Singapore, Dec. 4 ; Penang, Dee. 0 Galle, Dec. 13; Bombay, Dec. 14 ; Burmah, Nor. 20. The following is the summary of the h •.nib Times : We are in receipt of intelligence from Burnish to the 21st nit., which tends to confirm the warlike reports which have been recently bruited abroad in reference to Pegu. It is alleged that a chief styled Meng-Dat-Meng, (or the Fighting Prince) is to leave Ave on the 20tis instant with a large force, and that on the same date an insurrection is to break out simultaneously in the different towns and districts of Pcgu. A chief is also at Tha- rawaddy with 10,000 men under his command, and it is reported, and seems believed in by the inhabitants of the country, that he has received the honorary title of the "Nine Golden Umbrellas," and has been appointed governor in futuro of Rangoon on the faith of hie promises to drive us out of the country. Governors in embryo have likewise been nominated to Tonghoo and Martaban, and a robber chief named Moung Byo, at present in the vicinity of Pegu, has been appointed governor of that province and byriare. This worthy is to commence operations against us as soon as the plains become dry enough to admit of his doing so, and, in common with his confreres, is to keep the country in as great a state of dip organisation and tumult as possible tinto the arrival at Rangoon of the "Fighting Prince." He, last month, sent word to the Gonna of a village about twenty miles distant from:Pegu, that he required his presence, and that of all his followers, at his head-quarters ; a refusal was returned, and in consequence the village was entered, the brother of the Goung was decapitated, while his son and heir was speared in the presence of his afflicted mother, whom the wretches spared as she was pretty, and took prisoner to their boats; the lady, however, having found an opportunity, jumped overboard and swam to the shore, where she laid herself until next day, when she gave in formation to the authorities, and had four of the party arrested. We are glad to learn that a com bined attack on the rest of this band of robbers is in contemplation, when there seems every probability that they will either be shot or burg. As to the amount of credence to be given to the rumours of a war in December in Burmah, if we are to judge from the reports which reach us, the country appears to be in a most distressing state, and there seems some foundation for supposing that the different bands of Dacoits now pillaging on every side are under the guidance of some able hand, who keeps himself quiet. From the North West weave informed that a portion of the force alluded to in oar last summary had marched from Peshawar to Muttannee, under the command of Col. Cotton, for the purpose of blockading the Afresdies in the Khohat Pass while we built a tort at Bazeed Khel. The object in erecting this fart is to prevent the A freedies cultivating the land at the base of the bills without permission, thus effec. tually subjugating the tribe by rendering their very existence dependent on their good conduct. The blockade which is now maintained cuts off their communication with either Kohat or Peshawar. A skirmish took place, the particulars of which are, that Captain Coke, who commands the bri gade, blockaded one end of the pass, and permitted a body of Bungoosh Affghans, under the command of Shere Khan, to attack the Koetul. The Atiffiaus were beaten off, and Captain Coke then took up three of his own companies, and succeeded in re pulsing his antagonists, not however before he was himself wounded slightly in the face by a buliet. The Koetul still !email), in the pos.sess:‘ a of the Afreedies, and Captain Coke has ma• tared a plan for its reduction by his own men, cot wishing again to trust to the Bungooshees. The mountain train left Peshawur for Celonel Cotto:ts camp on the 21st ultimo, and teals of all descrip tions and one hundred barrels of gunpowder had been despatched for its use. The hill tribes, it is stated, had surrendered ; their supplies were reduced to forty-five maunds of grain, and thus being nearly starved they came in. Sir John Lawrence has coa sented to remove the blockade, provided the tribes agree to our holding military possession of the pais and to our building forts in it. Since writing the above we find that a gallant operation has txea planned and suceesfully carried out against the tribe of the " Borees" who reside in an almost inaccessible valley in the pan. The force is now commanded by Colonel Boileau who has rejoined H. M.'s 22nd Foot, and, on the 29th ultimo, a party consisting of the Mountain (mule) train, four hundred men of Her Majesty's 22nd Regiment, two hundred of the 20th Regiment N. 1., four hundred of the nOth or Goorka Regiment, and four hundred and fifty of the Guide Corps, proceeded to penetrate the outer range of hills, at two points, distant shout a mile and a half from each other. The Guidi s pushed on with the intention of taking the enemy in flank, and this manoeuvre was so successful, that on the main body of the force entering the Amhergush pass, they found it abandoned, although the burning embers and half rested Indian corn which were found, proved that the enemy bad made a most precipitate retreat. The force on de• ploying from the Amhergush l'ass re-united and shortly after came to three villages of the Boras situated at the foot of some precipitous crag! , , which, before the villages could be invaded. became necessary to gain possession of. The duty devolved upon the Goorkas and Guides, who, ird on by Lieutenants Hodson and Turner, effected the capture in gallant style, driving the enemy from crag to crag, and keeping them at bay from 11 in the morning until 3 in the afternoon. Every inch of the ground was disputed by the Afreedeer , and Lieut. Turner especially has distinguished hut. self. The three villages were afterwards bunt; the want of gunpowder, which unfortunately Nvis in charge of the Sappers who had fallen in the rear, and had received orders to stand fast at the Shergush Pass, alone prevented s number of small towers being blown up. fhe chief commissioner witnessed the operations, and the scene which tho burning villages presented in the mountain fastnesses is described as grand and solemn , the.