The Express. — London, England, 1855-01-23 00:00:00

THE NEW RETURN OF NEWSPAPER STAMPS. TM return of newspaper stamps jest isesad gives the tahowies malts: Pint Quarbsr. llama Clearter. 0164 348 . Deily Sews . . 33.181 . Morning Harald . . = 00 1.9 :61. 000 Marsh:, Post . . .. - Morning Chreniala . • , 106,600 Express . . 17 3 3: 198,389 mow . . . 176,000 191,055 • Boa . • . 108,000 192,000 Standard . . . 103.000 101.0011 Ent 45T1M00• TV %Manisa ra. , II arm. .6. • • hem& Sham el Lastresh" seavieSsa the wee *maw. Orseti pahtishisi every Tessday sad Friday alibt, la tins lir posh >'a: latumisel the "Us dapsess.` Leedom teadad paper. nest Iss E tin OM" ld, Illsomiesteset, by Teo eldest se the av el yeti:madam. 810 II WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. To I).T -Mobs, N. Um.— Aelemoxs. q. la. To.o asnir—Manly. N. Um --Monti" U. Us. LONDON. TUESDAY. JANUARY 23. LATEST NEWS FROM ABROAD Tuaszars.) PARIS, Moinus. Yesterday Baron Hubner delivered to the Emperor Napoleon an autograph letter from the Emperor of Aastria. The yearly return of Customs and indirect tax a , shows that 149,337,510 f. have been received in 1864 against 141,807,552 f. in 1863, and 139,883,666 f. in 1852; thus giving an increase of 7,729,958 f. on 1853; and of 9,473,855 f. upon 1852.—Daily News. VIENNA, JA2I. 21. The Vienna cabinet has received despatches from London and Paris announcing the determination of the Western Powers not to relax their military efforts on account of what transpired cm the 7th. A despatch to the same effect has hien transmitted from this court to London and Paris, respecting the military preparations of Austria—Deify News. WARSAW, Lug. 14. Yesterday, the "Wean new year's day, the Ent peror's manifesto was read by the clergy in all the churches—Daily Nom RENEWAL OF BLOCKADE IN THE BLACK BEA. The following telegraphic despatch bee been re. 'sired at the Admiralty from Rear Admiral Sir Sdinund Lyons : " Being informed that considerable consignments of munitions and contraband of war have taken place teo• neutral ports of the Mediterranean to thine of Odessa and Kertch, the Admirals of the English and French squadrons have determined on establishing ea effectual blockade of the principal Russian ports la the BLck Sea, and to notify the strict enforcement of this blockade from the lit of February, 1853. Steps have been taken to *provide for an efficient force being, prior to that date, stationed before the principal ports which are to be blockaded, furnished with due authority for the purpose in the names of the two governments." THE E I'ARY CAMPAIGN. Tus efforts which ought to be made in Parliament toslicit fail and clear explanations from Ministers with reference to the progress and prospects of the war will be much facilitated by something of previous concert among those who int end to question them. The ends of inquiry cannot be more effectively detested than by a simultaneous beret of a multitude of questions, suggested by the peculiar views which every individual member takes of the position of Wain, or the suspicions he may, ea an individual, Mersin. Ministers, if disposed to be reserved, and to withhold full elneidatisns, may find, in the very oultiplicity of questions, an excess for objecting to one end another of them, and thus rais ing secondary irrelevant discussions, in which tins must necessarily be wasted, and really important inquiries evaded. A few well-weighed interrogatories, going right to the root of So evil, will render ell such bush-fighting impoesible, and compel Ministers either to answer directly, explicitly, and fully I or, by refusing to answer, to condemn themselves. Perhaps the beet way of opening the campaign would be to revert to the position in which Parlia mentary action wu left at the close of the short onion before Christmas. Ministers then asked and obtained the sanction of Parliament to the measures which they represented as the most urgently NlClMNiry—as indispensable to enable them to carry as the war with promptitude and vigour. One was the Act by which they have been empowered to mod Militia Regiments to undertake garrison slaty in our dependencies abroad ; the other was the Act empowering them to raise foreign levies, sad bring a limited number of these recruits to Eng land to be organised and trained. What progress have they made, since Parliament adjourned, in availing themselves of the powers vested in them by these Acts ? A oonsiderable number of Militia Regi ments have been embodied for permanent duty, and nveral, it has been announced, are to be sent forth with to the Colonies. Upon what principles have Ministers proceeded in selecting the regiments to be embodied ? On looking over the list, we see regi ments enumerated, which have not, up to the present time, been once assembled for drill and training; and we see some left unenabodied which have been repeatedly ssssmblsd for there purposes!, and have been reported in an ad nimble state of efficiency. To the former slam belong the tar greater part of the Blotch and Irish Militia Regiments. As a specimen of the latter,. we may select the Middlesex Raise. This regiment en lists, we believe, of ten companies, in a high state 111 training ; its arm is that which le the most eliding and most needed in the present war. How sumo it, then, that a regiment so well qualified to resew effective service is left unembodied, while others numerically weaker, and whose men have yet de be made soldiers, are embodied ? Has there been fuourit.- Ina in pl►y P Have the eager wishes of by fee the greater part of the officers and men been regarded—as is whispered in some quarters— consult the convenience of the colonel ? or to enable him to retain certain officers Owe wealth and statue are supposed to give No. Add to the corps, but whose business avocation; • i• 'i lender active envies Again, with mud to the Fel what steps have been taken to 1 German oorteependente t*e has been so otterlytaletnanaWA of it in that country, where numerous ea mama recruit told. Wow. time obtained with ease. And it ia oonfdmtly that little mon than a week ago parties for infoiiiitioa at the Wevoillco were that it had not yet been decided upon which tion of the department the execution -' law should devils's. Th. oireumstas alluded to would seem to indicate. Government bae lees losing time, and idly with the rig imiesioNe which it iosis'ad having piked in its heal. AB *airy into Mies* allegations may sprietiewravor but a narrow maw of the great field of the war management; bat It will be a test of the sincerity and energy (or the want of them) with which Ministers have been urging on military operations since the Parliament met in I/somber. At that time much of their past indolence and inefficiency was condoned, in the hope that the future would make amends. If it shall appear that they have been going to work, sines that time, as languidly and unsystematically as ever—that will prove their premises of amendment to have been hollow or insincere; will demonstrate that, oak. from incapacity or want of goodwill to the week Iht hand, the Ministry, as at present constituted, h incompetent to the great task of carrying on the war. The inquiry neat in order is of * wider scope. It embraces the whole operation of the naval campaign in the Baltic. It is generally understood that Minis ters are seeing to throw the whole blame of its coin partitive Muse on Sir CHARLES Hanna; and that Sir Cassias bitterly complains of having been hampered by injudicious instructions, and of having been inadequately provided and supported from home. It is passible that • searching investigation may show that both parties are in fault. It will be diffi cult to excuse an experienoed commander for having accepted command upon terms that might or must have rendered it impossible for him to perform his duty. And it will be difficult for Ministers to show that they are not reppousible for having employed, and kept in office, an inefficient agent. Lastly, full explanations must be exacted of the causes of the chaotic and anarchical state which appears, throughout the campaign, to have pervaded every department of the army and navy in the Black Sea. It will not be enough for Ministers to show that they have betted orders for all things to be done aright. Have they taken the most ordinary precautions to enforce obedience to their orders ? or have they, satisfied with issuing them, looked apathe tically on. while they were neglected or disobeyed? This is too wide and complicated an inquiry to ad mit of our entering into its details now : but two simple circumstances will serve to illustrate our meaning. In a letter, from an able and respectable military officer of high rank, now before us, it is confidently affirmed that " it is well known that one of the Cabinet Ministers wrote to Scutari to direct a pier to be erected at that place for the landing of the rick, and that it was not done for three months after." A similar negligence in enforcing obedience to orders is said to have resulted in the non•ereotion of a tem porary pier or piers for the embarking of the sick and wounded at Balaklava. And we are also in formed that the military authorities in our army before Sebastopol are prepared to thwart and ob struct the civil engineers sent out to con , struct a railroad from Balaklava to the camp. The apathy with regard to the war, indicated by these simple facts, appears to have pervaded all opera tions, from the greatest to the least. The truth of the allegations on this head, so freely circulated, must be ascertained or disproved; and if it is esta blished, the causer of the offence must be removed. It cannot be too often insisted upon, that, to ensure success, these investigations must be conducted with all the sternness, but with all the calmness, of a judi cial inquiry. TALLEYRANIA favourite maxim, point I de tele, was never more applicable. A random, irregular discharge of questions—every member rush ing forward singly, and without concert, to show how zealous he is- can only perplex and bewilder, and prevent the attainment of any amelioration In the management of the war.—Daily News. hoped, Since then all is gate on pretty well. v thing is arriving from Cooe F inal I n the " soldiers pro mined, and the i are in tolerably comfortable winter clothing, great coats, he. One item, however, is execrable—the boots. I saw five hundred pairs the other day that had just been brought from Constantinople, and for which the government had paid eighteen francs a pair, which, in badness of material, badness of make, badness in every one point of view in which it is possible to look at a boot, surpass anything it has ever been my lot to witness. lam certain they cannot have been made by a boottnaker, as a man trained in the trade weld not by any possible effort so rid himself of habits of long standing as to comet/net anything so hideous and worthless. The leather is about of the thickness and consistency of brown paper, and any man of ordinary strength of arm might drive Ins fist through any one of them in a single blow; u to the shape, I shall only say that they bear every mark of being adapted for any use you ears conceive rather than for a covering for the human foot—they might be taken for purees, water bottles, anything but toots. Happily, however, there is no man is the world more independent of his 'shamus than. the Turkish soldier. When he enters his quarters he kicks it off whatever it may be, and in the house or under covering luxuriates as much in a barefoot as we do in bare heads. He knows how, also, by the aid of a considerable quantity of cord, Bulgarian cloth or flannel, and one or two pieces of buffalo hide, untanned, to swathe up his legs and feet in a manner which baffles description, but which forms a perfect guarantee against both wet and cold. The troops aro all in the highest spirits, are delighted with the new clothing, and are shipped off in great numbers nearly every day for Eupatoria, cheering and singing very gaily, and confident they are sailing to victory, plunder, good pay, and what not. lam certain their morale has n been better. They are pleased at being relieved from their long inaction, and great numbers particularly the Egyptians, are filled with the ides: that once arrived in the Crimea they will be taken into English pay, and consequently find their pockets full of guineas and their knapsacks crammed with Gabs and tobiooo, in an incredibly short space of time. The fact is, Omer Pacha is taking with him the beet of his troops, both cavalry and infantry, the former in considerable force, and under the command of Sir Stephen Darman. I refrain, for obvious reasons, from giving any details as to numbers, and artillery, Brc., but I must say it will be the largest, bast equipped, and best led army that Turkey has ewer seat to a foreign soil since the long gone days et her glory. All the foreign officers in the Turkish service will be of the expedition : the troops are full of ardour. Omer Puha has a great reputation at stake, a greater still to achieve; and, altogether, I see every reason to believe that the army of the Danube will show themselves worthy to fight side by side with the heroes of Alma and Inkermano. Omer Puha arrived here on Saturday, and was received as usual with a salute of nineteen guns. The authorities, home and foreign, went out to meet him, and accompanied him to his quarters. On Sun day he started for the Crimea in the Nubia, with Colonel Simmons, to concert doubtless with Lord Raglan and General Canrobert upon a plan of opera tions, and inspect the Turkish position at Eupatoria. Until his return nothing will be known, and even conjectures would be melees. From the large Turkish force which is being now daily disembarked at Rape toris, the Russians doubtless have been led to expect a movement on their rear, and it is pretty confidently stated here that Mentchikoff has taken up his old position on the Alma, so as to prevent any Junction hy that road between the Turkish and the Anglo- French armies. I have this on tolerably good au thority, and place considerable, though necessarily not absolute, reliance on it myself. The work of embarkation goes on u yet very slowly, owing to the refusal of the English and French to allot more than two steamers for the work, and it is al leged that the sailing vessels are no longer able to keep the sea. This display of stinginess as regards the steamers can be accounted for in no other way than by supposing that the allied leaders consi der the coming or going of the Turkish troops of very little importance, and their aid of no great value; but this is a piece of presumption the folly of which is demonstrated by everything which has occurred on the Danube during the last eighteen months. The affair of Balaklava, about which there has been so muoh talk, is just what might have been expected from men led as the Turks were, placed es they were, fed and treated as they were. I am afraid they lead the lives of dogs, and very unfortu nate ones, in the Crimea, if I may judge from the conduct of the French here at Varna, and from the het that great numbers have desert ed to the Ru shee at Sebastopol—a step which all who know the Tube know they would never take if their suf. helm were not very great indeed. It is a serious instance of the injustice and fickleness of some portion of the public, that though the French have had their batteries carried and their guns spiked three times in the very centre of their ft l / 2 not a word is said. The Turks are vile beyond Eiseman because three hundred were driven out of redoubts two miles from their supports. Here the greatest ill-feeling prevails between them and the French, whose conduct towards them has certainly been anything but conciliatory, or even civil. For a long time past a man has hardly been able to make his appearance in the street with a fez en his bead without being obliged to endure a shower of insults, poured upon him by every French soldier whom he meets. The result his been a series of rows, more or less serious, which reached their cul minating point a few days before my arrival, when a party of drunken Frenchmen attacked some Turkish cavalry soldiers—drove them into the stable where their horses were feeding, and then set fire to the building, and burnt twenty horses and a large quantity of forage. It was only owing to the heroic exertions of Lieutenant M'Bean, an English officer, that the Turks escaped with their lives, and the Pacha has consequently recommended hi mi to his government for the decoration of the medjidia. Hardly a week passes in which riots do not occur, in which both parties use their sidearms freely, and between them contribute a very fair quota of wounded to the hospitals, and which are invariably followed by an exchange of notes between the pasha and the French commandant, the correspondence seldom having any better effect than that of convincing each of theta that the right is all on his aide and the wrong all on the other. Some stringent measures have, however, been taken lately, such as the closing of all wineshops and cabarets at seven o'clock in the evening, and the result has been a greater amount of quiet, and a lees amount of disturbance and scan daL But there is one unfortunate consequence of all this ill-feeling which no polioe measures could either remedy or prevent, and that is, a deep and cordial detestation of the French in the minds of all classes of the population. A Turk can now hardly speak of a Frenchman without spitting out, the greatest mark of hostility he can show. This is certainly greatly to be regretted; but it is so notorious, and so com monlya talked of here, that I see no reason why I pass it over in silence. All this is to be ascribed in great part, I think, to the intolerance of foreign usages And maandee based upon high ideas of their own superiority by which our allies, with all their good humour and *lug, are unquestionably distinguished. For this, if for this only, they never - hale been, and never will be, great or suceessiful colonisers ; they have not the good hummed iadelputie, the half pitying, bell contemptuous hidifferenne with which Englishoieti treat the weakness*. and oddities of races which they look upon de istleris to heir owe. It will take many , . I The Odessa Correspondent of the Colore Gazette writes, on the 7th inst. :—" To my former information respecting the movements of troops towards the Crimea, I can now add from an undoubted source that eighteen battalions have already passed the gate of Perekop. I had also mentioned that masses of cavalry were moving in the same direction. In fact, besides the reserves of the 10th division, which had assembled at Kiew, 6,000 horsemen from the Ukraine are on their march towards the Crimea. Here every preparation is being made to undertake a second and more skilful enterprise against the , allies." The Vienna Presu publishes a telegraphio despatch announcing the signature, by Reschid Paths and the ambassadors of the Allied Powers, of some diplo matic document, the object of which is to regulate the future relations of the Danubian Principalities. FRANCE. ON 7U DAILY usws.) PARIS, MONDAY SIIINING. Letters from Bucharest state that the late Russian invasion of the Dobrutecha was effected, not, as it has been said, by General Laden, but by General Pawloff, the commandant of one of the divisions of Luders' army. According to these accounts the Danube was crossed on January 8 by 3,000 Russians —rather a large " detachment." The general tenor of the news is very warlike. The government journals proclaim that no hopes are entertained of a pacific solution from the Vienna negotiations. One letter says that for several days put the Austrian minister has ceased to confer with Prince Gortchakoff, feeling that no result is likely to . grow out of the ostensible acceptance of the four points. The military negotiations between France, Eng land, and Austria, are said to be actively going on at Vienna. There was a report at Berlin on the 19th that the treaty of alliance, offensive and defen sive, had been actually signed; but this must be premature. The article in the London Tunes, touching the si tuation of the English army in the Crimea, was con sidered at the London Stook Exchange itself as being written in order to precipitate the ministerial crisis which has been talked of as probable for some time past, and had but little effect upon Consols. At the Bourse the two quotations arrived from Lon don with a fall of only. The Reate, after gra dully falling, with but little reaction, closed at the lowest price of the day, 87fr. 80c., being a fall of 900. Credit Mobilier rose sfr. Railways were in fair demand at the opening, but with the exception of Caen and Cherbourg, which rose 17fr. 50c., almost all the lines fell in the coarse of the day ; the fall was from 2fr. 50c. to Mr. It was announced that the negotiations of the Grand Central Company with government for the Nevers line had not led to any result, and that the general meeting advertised for to-morrow had been postponed. In consequence Grand Central shares, which at first were greatly inquired for, fell of,. The Siecle has a highly laudatory article on the late adhesion of Piedmont to the Western alliance. The Siecle " would rather that the Italian contingent should have been added to the French troops than placed under the orders of Lord Raglan, not assuredly that it would find amongst them braver soldiers than in the English army, for whom our admiration in 'ceases every day on account of the sufferings which they have so nobly supported; but the similitude of organisation of arms, of character and of lan page, drew, it seemed to us, the Piedmontese army closer to our own. There are no soldiers in Europe who so much resemble the French soldiers. The infantry of the Sardinian army, with the ex emption of some details in the uniform, would be easily taken for oar infantry soldiers, and as to their bersaglieri they are the equivalent reproduction of oar Chasseurs de Vincennes—and to say that is not te pay them a small compliment. Piedmontese and Punch united would, we doubt not, live, manoeuvre sad combat together, as the soldiers of one and the ease army. Of that we have a guarantee, if one be asesseary, in the most glorious bases of our modern history. It will not be forgotten, for example, how at Austerlitz the Piedmontese sharpshooters and therms behaved; and we may also call to mind that metier regiment of the same country, the 111th of the Has, was one of those which the Emperor Napoleon seat against the famous redoubts of Semo novski in the most critical moment of the battle of Moscow." Criox Taz The reasons suggested by the Sleds why the Piedmontese contingent is to be attached to the English army rather than to the French one are the numerical interiority of the English troops. Were the Piedmontese forces united to the French, the disproportion between the forces of the two Western Powers would be still more marked, and a certain disadvantage might result from it in the general con duct of the war. It is not intended, besides, that the Piedmontese troops shall be incorporated with the English army ; they are to be merely placed under the supreme command of Lord Raglan, remaining at the same time a perfectly distinct corps, preserving their own nationality, and directed by their own officers. The Piedmontese government 1111., in fact, taken especial care to clearly characterise its inde pendence by not consenting to accept any subsidy from England. If, therefore, Piedmont thinks fit to engage in the war, she does so under her national colours, and at her own expense. All that the Allied Powers are to do in return is to facilitate the loan which she will require for keeping up her army in the Crimes. Mr. Mason ' the American minister, who has been lately tedisposed, is now in a fair way of recovery. The Moniteur gives the following account of the presentation to the Emperor of the flags taken at Tooggourt :—" The Minister of War, yesterday pre seated to the Emperor the Arab deputation, charged to present to his Majesty the flags taken from the enemy in the recent expedition of Tonggourt. One of these flags is stained with the blood of the intrepid soldier, who, after a hand-to-hand conflict, rue oeeded in wresting this trophy from the Arab who carried it. The Emperor presented the Cross of the Legion of Honour to Lieutenant Constant d'Yen ville, the first French officer who entered Touggonrt, ea also to Ahmed Ben Amraoul, asharpehower of the battalion of Constantine. This native, who was wounded in 18.51, in Kabylia, took two of the flags from the Cheikh of Touggonrt. Two othes Arabs, Khalet Ben Dir, a soldier of the 3rd regiment of Bpahis, and Ahmed Ben Zuursour ' a soldier of the gown of the Solaria, received the military medal from the hands of hie Majesty. Each of them had taken a flag from the Chad!' A welder from the Minister of Commerce was on I Saturday posted up at the Corn Market in Paris. It is addressed to' the prefects, and announces that the Minister of War has placed at the disposal of the farmers a certain number of soldiers who under stand threshing, in order that the different oorn markets may be more abundantly and promptly asp plied. In the Champs Elysees yesterday, an elegant sledge, drawn by two large doge, was driven up and down several times, and attracted great attention. The dogs have bees breeght from the Crimea by an oftioer on sick leave. They have long ears like the Danish dog, and a sharp mauls. They carry the head high, have large eyes full of fire, and seem very intelligent. One of them is a male and the other a tamale—the former is almost entirely white, and the letter hes large brown spots, '1.4 _'Prussia ought, In the first place, to be molded by a previous understanding so to the Unit& pies @flatting the eventual conditions of the convention is ansentilon at the present moment. If this assisting* become molly necessary, Prussia would be ready to give It before the delay Seed. Prussia, besides, does not whit to change the character of her obligations. tits has not bound herself to Austria excepting by a treaty purely defensive. Besides this, the thro great German Powers ought, in the first place, to sae efforts in common to obtain the adhesion of Ueda the four points of guarantee, and in order to do that it would be necessary that Prussia should participate in the delleitive regulation of the basis of the peace. Prussia adds, that whether the question be to consolidate the equi librium of Europe, or to modify the treaties which she has signed, her right to participate in the coaferences on the subjects of these matters is derived and belongs to her, not, from her adhesion to such er such a particular convention, bat from her rank es a groat Power. The King of Prussia k resesquady determined to maintain that right. He will mot resod, in order to have it recognised, before any danger er egeileee , and the sacrifices in which he knows that hie people will support him with all the energy of pa ! Worthies. Having thus sketched the Prussian case, as exhibited by M. Menteuffel, IL. Drouyn de Lhitys thus proceeds to ex press the santiments of his goverumnot : " The French government hes to observe that there are in this statement two kinds of ideas—one concerning the relations of Prussia and Austria, and the other relating to the situations of Prussia in Europe. France will not make any reference to the former, which belongs only to the Ger manic Confederation; but alto the second, she is disposed to speak distinctly. France does not deny the rank of Prussia as a grand power—the French cabinet itself has often, during the last two years, reminded Prussia of the obligations involved in that rank which she puts forward with so just a pride. Rut the quality of great power is a permanent matter, and cannot be abandoned one day, because of its bnrdeas, to be resumed the day after, for the sake of its conveniences. Its rights end its duties are cor relative, and cannot be separated. "There are no reasons for supposing that England and Austria take a view of these things different from that of Austria; but be that as it may, it is very certain that France will not admit that a power may of its own will hold Itself aloof from great events while they are taking place, and not maintain its pretension to regulate their consequences. The gains of a war ate only for those who have carried on that war, and the advantages derivable from the present war—advantages essentially moral—will be the right to participate in the deliberations which are uadertakeu in the interest of Europe for the reiteration of peace. What has Prussia done to have a right to such participation ? She has refused to proclaim her neutra lity—a very honourable course no doubt—but on what aide is she, and on what aide will she act, if the war continues ? No one can say. " Can Prussia complain of the great confidence which Francs accords to Austria? The °unclad of the latter power and that of Prussia are widely different. "Russia evacuates the Principalities by a movement which she declares to be purely strategical. Prussia at once de clares herself satisfied, whilst Austria immediately there upon exchanges the notes of the Bth of August. Prince Gortchakoff adheres on Nov. 28 to the four points, Prussia flatters herself that she has attained the object of her efforts ; whilst Austria, en the contrary, signs the treaty of Dec. 2 with the Western Powers. On Jan. 7 the ambas sador of Russia accepts the interpretation of the Allied Posers. Prussia, completely satisfied, sends a refusal to Austria to fulfil her military engagements resulting from the treaty of April 20 ; Austria, on the contrary, writes the next day to her allies that the re-establishment of peace not having been assured, she has to propose to combine with them her military plans, in ezecutioa of Art. 5 of the treaty of Dec. 2. " Will Prussia pretend that Austria finds in the alliance advantages which she could not enjoy ? If so, what are they ? Since she proposes to make a Prussian treaty by the side of the Austrian one, she ought certainly to signify the precise signification of that proposition. Is that the object of M. Usedom's visit to London ? The mission of that diplomatist has been carefully invested with so much seeresy and so many confidential forms that, to the present time, the secret has act come to the knowledge of the French cabinet. But the mare pains are taken for conualmeat the more will be used for discovery. All, however, that the French Cabinet knows of that mission is that Prussia hu been en deavouring to p the Allies from carrying the war to the most vulnerable point of Russia, and to interdict the passage of their troops across Germany. What did she offer in compensation ? She offered to place a 'corps d'arnsde on the frontier of Poland—that is to say, that Prussia with one head should turn aside the sword of the Allied Powers, and with the other hand cover the Russians with a buckler. One would, in truth, 'imagine t►at M. d'Usedom had several treaties In his portfolio, and that he produced at London by mistake that which he ought to have brought forward at St. Petersburg. " The French government is very far from wishing to wound the feelings of Prussia. It is in a loyal effasien of feeling that it expresses itself Illus. It wishes that its words should be listened to at Berlin, in order to make Prussia escape from a situation in which it should have been happy not to see her if its previous efforts bad suc ceeded." neoesaity for it arises, by virtue of 'e, and consequently all Mathes Le to a proper undentandiag ea contracting parties. be a doubt now, however, that t h e mobilisation Is actually at band, in co o prospect of ro - atablishing th e • term now very near, and ht. the geld on her eastern Nutt er very short time, her forces, ei n ; strike a vigorous blow at the appearance at the Uppe r pi sti l,. .res far leas time than Is reqnhig, concentration of a Prussian arty fulfilment of Prussia's engsge mai i Austria from ell 't u sks , under such circumstances, sores rusea should have in readiness the military forces required for the purpose of commondsfenee, Baron Hem is decidedly of opinion that the moment hes arrived when Prussia should commence the mobiliestias of a part of her army according to the treaty. He d ezum that our forces stationed on the eastern frontier will net seem, until joined by the 100,000 Prussian troops, f or enabling him to commence the contest with the prospe c t,. certainty of success. (Mit der Asissieht au f ei min Sehtceren £rfolg den Rampf aufnehenenete tonnen.) A more detailed discussion of the arrangement to be made on this head ought therefore to be commenced with. out delay. We are also ready to send again and at once* this purpose a military commissioner to Berlin. In the opinion of the Ordnance-blaster Baron Rem, le ease these negotiations should be conducted not inertly ea the basis of the April treaty, but also on that of Promia's secession to the treaty of alliance of December 2, the ed. !active force of Prussia's contingent, as stipulated is the military convention of April 29, would suffice foe tits present, and nothing further would be imperative save the immediate and simultaneous mobilisation of this swi mb force of 200,000 men, which can be concentrated at Post and Breslau. With respect further to any military measures On the put of the Band, we indulge in the hope, that Prussia wpl be willing to co-operate with us at the diet for promptly and vigorously calling out what was agreed on the 20th of April, should form the minimum of the Diet's contingent. Assuredly all the governments composing the Diet will evince the greatest readiness in taking this step, when they IWO the two great powers setting them the example by placing their own armies on a war footing commensurate with the occasion. Together with the armies of Austria and Prude, by virtue of the stipulations mentioned, the remaining states shall hold the half of their contingents ready for action. In so far as it is applicable in the present instance, either four separate halt army-corm could be formed, each with its own commander, to be noel. nated according to the provisions of the military federal statute, whilst each contingent half could be joined later by its remaining half, so as, it required, to bring the four army corps to their full normal strength; or two combined and complete corps--a South German and a North German— could be formed. In either case these federal corps would have to effect a junction simultaneously with that of the Austrian and Prussian armies. The forms to be used in calling out and concentrating the federal troops may be left to the option of the governments concerned and the deliberations of the military committee. All that in this respect need be attended to would be to take care that no delay ensued through the difficulties, perhaps, that might attend the mobilisation of the half contingents respecting the formation of the smaller bodies of troops in particular, since the chief object of the masers is to have the federal troops ready for action, and in the strength prescribed. The individual governments should not be fettered while promoting this object, and after the precedeit of partial levies on former occasions, the troop' soonest ready would have to receive the route. The federal adjustment of the burtheas by subsequent services, sr by the payment of their equivalent to the diet could be settled ►fterwards. Should Prnuia's accession to the alliance of Dec. 2 take place later, the two Powers would doubtless be induced at the same time to extend their joint motion in the Dist to the calling onto( the whole grand contingent of the federal army, in order to give to the military position of the entire Germanic confederation a greater force, stringently needs eery fur the offensive. Your Excellency will easily conceive, that it u of imme diate and practical importance for Austria to be speedily and fully made acquainted with Prussia's intentions relative to the points I have been dwelling upon. Out (nether measures in • military sense, and espe cially with respect to our sending • military commiuoner to Berlin and instructions to Frankfort are connected with the reply of the Prussian government to the present note. In communicating this note therefore to the President of the Ministry, your Excellency will express to him the very great value we set on receiving information as speedily se possible, and it is to he hoped in the sense desired, with regard to Prussia's views and resolutions concerning the mobilisation on the part of the German powers. Receive, &c., (Signed) COUNT BUOL. The following is the answer of the Prussian Cabinet to the foregoing. It is in the form of in structions forwarded by M. Manteuffel to Count Arnim, Prussian ambassador at Vienna : BERLIN, JAN. 5. Your Excellency will find enclosed a copy of a note addressed on the 24th December, 1864, to Count Esterhaly, in which the Imperial Austrian Cabinet mare cheely defines the military measures which, in its opinion, Prussia and the other German governments ought to take in virtue of the treaty of April :20, and of the additional article of the 26th November. Count Buol very justly remarks that it it necessary the contending parties should come to an under- standing in respect to the exigency which presents itself, and on which the of sey of the conditional military oblige. tions into which Prussia has entered depend,. As your Excellency will readily conceive, his Majesty has from the same point of view uninterruptedly directed hi, attention to the course of events, and long before this matter was brought forward, in the way dons in tho despatch of December 24, his Majesty had conscientiously taken into consideration the obligations which he bad taken on himself. It does not appear to be my duty now to eater more fully into the dispositions made by his Majesty the King, dispositions arising ae well from • regard to the in terests of his country and people, u from the undeviating attention which he has paid to the gravity of the cireuni stances, in order with noiseless progress to effect an in. creased preparation for war and a more speedy development of force. By the measures taken, larger bodies of troops can be ready for action within a much shorter period than that conditionally appointed in the military convention of April 20, and we might therefore suppose that we should in some degree be able to tranquillise Count Buol in regard to the heavy blow of the Russian military force on . the Austrian empire, could we share his opinion that Russia entertained the idea of proceeding aggressively. However, after having dispassionately examined the g I state of affairs, we should be obliged to do violence to oar own conviction before we could arrive at the concha. aion that Russia will assume the offensive if she is not attacked. I have more than once had occasion to direct your excellency to make such confidential communications to the imperial Austrian cabinet as in our opinion would most positively refute any such supposition. Besides, oar intelligens* respecting the movements of the Russian troops is by ao means of a nature to justify the apprehen aims alluded to. I attach the greater importance to what has above been said, as it appears to be the object of a put of the pose to lead public opinion astray in this matter. Is deed, the meat conduct of Russia, in respect to the elides vows made to bring about negotiations for peace, is of such a nature, that it would be difliealt for a dispassionate Ws not to remark her sincere wish to come to an understandiag Russia has unreservedly accepted the four points as they were proposed to her. After the conclusion of the treaty of Deo. 2, she not only did not retract her acceptation, but she gave a fresh instance of her readiness to conclude a peace by granting faller powers to Plaice Gortehakoff. ilia .idefeety the King has the satisfactory consciousness of hair lag always so employed his penonal and diplomatic influence at St. Petersburg, that the Imperial Russian cabinet should ,declare itself ready to treat on the basis of the four points, although this basis of peace goes beyond that which the two contracting powers (Prussia and Austria) had consi dered the object of their alliance, when the treaty of the 20th of April was concluded. A.eonfidential conference has already been held, in order more nearly to specify the four points- We do not lunar the result of that conference, and because we do not :now it, and as long as we do not know it, we shall tansider it an imperative duty to take the simple and lisw:mistakeable conditions of the treaty, u our inviolable , ( rule of action, and keep tke circle of our obligations free from any extension which we cannot clearly overlook. It respest to the military matters, witich are pointed put to us . • ' --veg e\ THE EXPRESS. TUESDAY •'o— i: 'N JANUARY 23, 185% i t tix,...-. ; _ . d tk --.--___ lest . * 4 • 6 I % l e _ ~' - Wasp - unfavourable ha on ' fir ' 4 :1`• I 'liti`• •:.. %'' ,' ' 'r ' '• e i;7_ oferleponiT at u; r ks and the 11 i on int 7 BB4AffetACTXCEI DEBCRIBED lose operatio• as soon as Um woe . . , 14 .1Roup DE LHUYB. ao ths tr st t i o Pe l l ) : ti o ! o u ne t. til t : U : o l7 o ' J / t •:/. . 111Ir t t y tt 'ilbort . 1 4 0,, , i sit ' l . .. •.-, 1 ---040-0--- - T o - Goa , abe oil best possible terms •.. this point between the contra t o . ".... 1 THE a WM•A PE ~ .9* TO one. hey alre;latill "Bono Johnny,' in the ey t! ' lWe (DailkNewi ) k;so the satisfaction of giving ti= There can hardly be ade earliest inwiirmate &the claim lately put forward necessity for ibis mobilisation g. • . 6 ' '- • ': • Esi • 6! ,7 0 • . ' the Terktaadt between them and the French • utmost coraiality prevails. i s b y Prussia to shire in the settlement of the great tLere @ball be no certain pi '' ' 0110 Y TIN ersatz. Dill/DUN coeasApaSsur or ram have been Daum news.) The whole of Mehemet Puha'. division is Sqropean quarrel, from the dangers of which she Itsusral passe by the end of a Thsk rest a _thajoas ff _ aue it s Daisy P,achak Atiactrafullselaaf_2ll_lllWzretensiona M. Awn-before the expleocor _ . ___ ___ _ . t o , co il e d Drouin de Lhuys has Just replied in a despatch to iries: , d:drc:;o7, ,,,...... n:trzi ir:rvpopraq iy ifilitiss ---- --- - , , . ' I 7;i4,ICA; - Jax. 3: - - • Masher IOW )111/1 . 1 . 1 91. ~.,-... to. 4 , ,Rarr, - .0.. , r t h e __ • • • UM& TB yto take the Ber.voifitu.narnquassita We dndaborrMairwthistarto,z7totheohh. which is • applying Oa the arrival-of Mune Paola- Use, who, es 1 19 04 . I l a m me d telegraphed to you from Bucharest, was sent .down to The Kral. Zeil l", which superintend the embarkation of the troops, on tlndin eg g , . . nothing readiinohey, nO provitions, no cloth' the iteeetee ßEßLlN ee , : s r. 20. , h en, i . inportant pouits is more . accurate than one pub- the & m i en mu requires is for the equipment and 00130241 mined last evening by some of our oontemporaries : on tif the he set off to Constan t inople, and during a weeks ' stay ices a b ove there so effectually roundthe authorities to amu an_ n t n e unces that the communication made by Prince tro I hakoff to Count Bnol, on the 6th instant, only M. de Lima 00131a11110411 by rerapirclating the arguments 100,000 strong. If the fulfilm that the of their doty, that he got them to expend a large ridges hic k to accept absolutely those of the Four employed by /I. Manteuffel. Frauds, he mays, refugee to to assist In defending .i and food, and seat up a fresh coin- . ly dallying saga in "Aing eOliellg a orth Osman, but, cants which directly affect Austrian and German mobilise bee army — firstly , bemuse the attach of Rada is to be realised, it becomes, ti &tad u pon r iallielle , t. to h e . mll ......-- III ; of ..„.... w,„orais but, _ interests, the acceptance of the others being of a upon Austria is by no means Imminent ; and emiondly, be- urgent every day that Prussia same the assistance of Prussia ought. in the tint oho,. to milir,,,.. n...... .....z..,, ..._ ~ 10 the troth natrin ...' k0n.... hope d , ism ' then all o ir;oin ". • on 'n pretty g '..i711: qualified and conditional character. 'NOTICES OF MOTIONS AND ORDERS OF THE DAY, WRICE NOW STEED IN THE ORDER BOON OE TER ROM 01 COMMONS. TOXIDAY, JAIL 23. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. Sir B. BALL—BiII to alter sad amend the Fulls Health Act. to alter and amend the Nuisances Be. moral Act. Mr. M. 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Mr. MAcattennr —Select committee to inquire into the present system of rewarding all persons in the civil service of the Crown on their retirement from office, and the necessity of continuing the abatements on socount of the Superannu ation rand. - WIDNUDAY, JAN. 31. ORDERS OF THE DAY, Jedguento lei;e7;t7o7a, Boiscopal sad Capitals: &tans, second reading ; /Writs (Inland) Act Annastnent; Bills ; second reading. TIVINDAT. Fl 3. 1. NOTICE OF NOTION. 111 r. liffrwoorc=iiiift; eats.dsad allot aa sot weld ia the 6th sod 6th loan of the Nip of Lag {Wililaa the Fourth, so fir as mitts@ te amiss= witida eartega of the devise of 'natty art Treldbilall la &ripen,. _ _ - - 11Pzmialso. 2. ORDIIRS L nut DAT. Jurors and 'arise (IMAM) mend mak* ; Jaren sad Juries (ballad) N 0.% saisimilreadiag ; Psis sad Narksts (Ireland); Bills; esasal rosikain NOTIOI OF ]LOTION. Sir B. Hoz&-11111 for tb. WM, local maasgemeet of tb. metropolis. WIIIII2IIDAT, FRB. 7. ORDBE OF THIt DAY. Public Landes sad Museum DUI ; sewed reales. THE HONOURABLE AmmaißY ComPArry.—Th• ofileen of Ms corps entertained, en Saturday last, Major Rey thorns Bead, X.P. for Abingdon. with a onspnou nen dinner, at their beed-qaarten, Finsbury. Melee Reed has bees neesdy appointed to take the active duties et the regiment, is orangutan of Lienteoolessi names eftil melees bslag required at the Roresodiee. Major Reed has already nadeocepayainabk saggeetitso far the altera tion of the uniform et thongs, and bee otnatitated ter the shako the new pattern bearskin sap, end npreaesd hie istodkoll to offer homelier* to the government the sorting of tba meant. Both .flan sad Ms Ire anxious ter duty, sad this aaseaseeseat has therefore bees resolved that eathualatea. Meier Heed, ea his health being pro peed by the sealer Myer , Barnard (who is about to w l ir eire i d ii made Waited aid appropriate reply, Gad me sogreaket4. THE GERMAN COURTS AND THE ALLIES. We (Daily News) publish today a series of letters, which will place in an unusually clear light the rela tions of the two leading Germanic powers to each other and to the war. It will be seen that Austria has taken a step implying a certain degree of deci sion, by calling upon the states of Germany to mobi lise their armies after encountering a refusal of the same request from Prussia. We give first the note by which the Austrian pre mier originally made that request of the Berlin cabinet, after it had declined to accede to the alliance of December 2nd : VIENNA, Digo. 24. if. le Comte,—The Imperial government is induced, by the additional article of November 26 and the resolution of the Diet founded upon it, taken on the 9th Instant, not only to come to an understand ing anew with the Prussian court, respecting the mili tary arrangements required by the position of the two German great powers, but also to give the imperial ambas sador, who is president of the Dist, the necessary Instruc tions to co-operate in carrying Into effect the said resolution of the august assembly. In order, however, to raise the dismission of this subject at Berlin, the Imperial government has waited for the answer of the Pruden Cabinet to the official communication of the alliance, contracted on the tad of December; for it is clear that Prumia's adherence or non-adherence to that treaty will *thee her to modify the military mesenres she will have to take. It was ear earnest wish to be enabled to resume with Prue' our deli. berations for the joint military preparations of Austria, ?ramie, and the entire Germanic Confederation on a line of ) exact political equality. But since the declaration of the Berlin Cabinet, now lying before us, postpones a decision on this subject, we are limited foe the prawn% is our nego tiations for the ortilirrent of the German powers to retain merely that basis tkat wee already founded by the alliance of Aril 20, and the resolutions of the Diet on the 9th last. Awarding t'., the srd article of the treaty, and the tad paragraph "A the military convention annexed to it, Prussia has eweioally engaged to mobilise 100,000 men within 30 daps. and again to place another 100,000 men oa its eastero., frOKtier within three weeks after placing in readinev, the formes body of troops. This sasargait i 1 to w, 4 . into