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TO CORRESPONDENTS. -11 growl Et ISea of "The 1.12:,re.5," eontatairg the Mee eeeateeee "Oar. , e," r publiebeed over; tuerlay sad ridgy night, in tines , for pa:. .111•11fliArl ler blended lier "The Itrywas," birder Evening p:yee, 1111: be at tre Olen 111. Ilenveriemleeet, by Two o'erg on the toy of publieSten. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. T.. DAT—Korstlaig. 3h. Ma Aiteraeon, lb. :Aus. Tor ,outow—Morsiss. SY. 170 Mumma. U. Mom LONDON, TURSDAY. JANUARY 9. LATEST NEWS FROM ABROAD The following telegraphic despatches axe frem oar own correspondents (sr AND BRETIIIII VARNA, JAx. 2. Omer Puha, with Colonels Dien and Simmons and his staff, have embarked for Enpatoria.—Daily News. (DT SODIUM' AND saitisa Tsizoluag ) VIENNA, MONDAY. A conference wu held yesterday. Prince Gortchakoff yesterday announced that, haring consulted the Emperor his muter, he wal l authorised to accept the interpretation of the four guarantees as laid down on the record of the con ference of Dec. 28. He was empowered and prepared at once to negotiate a peace. It was stipulated on the part of the allies that no cessation of hostilities should in the meantime take place.—Daily News. comr.ciell TILSOILiaII.) VIENNA, R -ONDAT. In rinformity with instructions received yesterday, Prince 0 ,rtchakoff unreservedly accepts the Four Points as interpreted by the Allies, and confirms the acceptance in a conference which is held tc-day.— Doily bews. , COMPANY'. TILIORAPH.) VIENNA, MONDAY. Prince Gortchakora declaration at yesterday's Conference having been considered satisfactory, the negotiations for peace will begin so soon as LordWesL moreland and Baron do Boarqueney have received full powers. - (IT SIIRMAZINI AND BRITISH PARIS, TUESDAY MORNING. A telegraphic despatch from Vienna, private but of guaranteed authenticity, announces that Russia having accepted the four propositions of the Allies without reserve, and according to the interpretation of the three powers, Count Buol has invited France and England to proceed to ulterior negotiations for the restoration of peace.—Daily News. BERLIN, SUNDAY. The ministerial Zeit says that Autria cannot be in a position to impose terms of peace without the coocurence of Prussia. The latter power has never positively refused to &mile to the treaty of Dec. 2. News. THE CONFERENCES AT VIENNA. IT appears impossible to doubt that Prince 00111TCHAKOFT has been authorised to enter into negotiations at Vienna on the basis of the four points, as the 3 have been interpreted by the Allies. The telegraphic messages of our own correspondents coin cide, in their announcement of this news, with the telegraphic intimations on the same subject received by our principal morning contemporaries, and a number of the first firms in the City. And yet there is something quite unaccountable in the promptitude with which the CZAR has consented to negotiate on this basis. On the 26th of last August, Count NESSELRODV., in a despatch to Prince OORICIIAXOFF, eharacterieed the four points as "conditions which, if they were to remain as they have been actually sub mitted to as, suppose Russia to be already enfeebled by the exhaustion of a long war, and which, it the force of temporary circumstances forced us to submit to them, so far from assuring to Europe a solid, and especially a durable peace, such es the Austrian Government appears to expect, would only expose that peace to complications without end." And yet on the 7th of January—seven days earlier than was required of it—the Russian Government is said to have profaned its readiness to negotiate on the basis of these conditions. Are we to understand !rem this that Russia is "already enfeebled by the exhaustion of war"? or that it submits to the sew ditions because its acceptance of them cannot lend to 48 a solid and durable peace"? Some recent demon strations in the Court of Prussia may throw a little light on these dark questions. The Austrian Cabinet, we are given to understand, has, within the last few days, forwarded a note to Berlin, calling upon the Prussian Government to mobilise its army, according to the terms of the treaty of the loth of April. This request the Prussian Government has declined to comply with, on the ground that the terms of the treaty do not warrant ft. At the same time orders have been Weld ill strengthen the artillery regiments by the WNW of a new battery of eight guns to each. The KM hes also been heard to declare that he will abide by his neutrality as long as be can; but that, if events shall render it advisable to mobilise hie arpy, he will taut that step solely and exclusively with the view of enabling himself more effeetaally to urge moderation upon both parties. By eoneinting to negotiate on the basis of the four points, the Czas obtains the advantage of confirming the King of Patteets'e faith in his moderation, and renders it probable that • the Prussian army, when mobilised, may be rendered serviceable to Russia. By consenting to enter into nego is ions, which may be broken off at any time, the Czsn gains the advantage of engendering and perpetuating discord between the two great Powers of central Europe. There are circumstances connected with the rela tions between Russia and Austria which rather tend to add probability to this interpretation of the ready consent of the Cabinet of St. Petersburg to negotiate. On the side of Austria there is the well-grounded conviction that it will be exposed, in the event of a breach with Russia, to the most inveterate hostility of the CZAR. What NICHOLAS regards as simple hostility on the part of France and Eng. laid, he would consider defection and revolt en the part of Austria. On the side of Ruda, at least in the army, there exists the greatest contempt for the military force of Austria. It is their custom to call the Austrians "men in uniform," and not "soldiers." With perhaps the solitary ex ceptions of RIIDIGIR and Ds BERG, there is not a Russian general who does justice to the Austrian army. Here, then, we have great fear on the side of Austria opposed to overweening confidence on the part of Russia. There remains one important point to be noticed in connexion with the two which have just been adverted to. Some ten or twelve months ego Russian agents are known to have been engaged in sounding some of the Magnates of Hungary, with a view to ascertain whether they would be prepared, if the Cz tie were ready to guarantee the indepen dence of their country, to take the Grand Duke Cox- srANTINE for their King. Looking to the relative positions of Russia and Austria, and to the attitude assumed by Prauia, it is evident that Russia will enter upon the renewed negotiations with no inconsiderable advantages. It will require the sternest decision, the most peremp tory language, on the part of France and England, to keep the courage of Austria up to the sticking points and prevent its sneaking out of its half-promises. Kew what guarantee have we that the French and ifiglish Governments will show themselves animated by a spirit of stern decision, and that they will use peremptory language ? There has never been any explicit, official announcement of the interpreta tion put by the Three Powers, parties to the treaty of the tad of December, on the four points. The four points, as at first announced, embrace the discontinuance of Russia's exclu sive protectorate of the Principalities ; the establishment of the free navigation of the Danube ; the revision of the treaty of the 13th July, 1841; and the relinquishment by Russia of its claim to pro tect the SULTAN'S subjects of the Greek rite. Sub sequently France and England have declared that thi revision of the treaty of Kutehuk•Kainardji must be "in the sense of a limitation of the naval power Of Russia in the Black Sea." In this intimation there is an approach to precise and definite meaning which elsewhere we look for in vain. This—the limitation of the naval power of Russia in the Black Sea—is the sheet-anchor of the hopes of the nations of Europe in the present squally and uncertain weather. If the Allied Governments part from it—if conces sions are made to the sensitive vanity of the CzAR on this point—it will be utterly vain to hope for an honourable and lasting peace. Were we sure that the Allies would stand firm on this point, we would regard with utter indifference the renewal of negotiations at Yienna, provided the war continued to be carried on with vigour while they were in progress. We feel convinced that the CZAR has not yet been sufficiently beaten to induce him to accept of this, to him, mortifying condition. But there is something about the language attri buted to the English Cabinet which necessarily in spires misgivings. The readiness of the CZAR to re new negotiations on the very terms which leas than six months ago he pronounced inadmissible throws light oa the confidence with which an approaching peace was talked of in certain City circles on Friday last—a confidence expressly attributed to expressions used by Ministers. Can Ministers expect that the Emperor of Russu will consent to an equalisation of the naval forces of France, England, and Russia in the Euxine ? Or are' they prepared to purchase a peace by departing from that demand P Do they imagine that the lugubrious articles in the Times have intimidated the nation, and rendered it dis gusted with the war, to an extent that will render it happy to have a peace pAcked up on any terms P The present is, perhaps, the most anxious crisis through which we have had to pus since the com mencement of the war; for never before have we ap peared to be drifting so close to the shoals of national Nests. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY THE 'AR. tinder date of Dee. 30 Prince Mentoldkoff writes that nothing important had taken place before Sebas topol. The fire of the allies was feeble, causing the Russians but little damage. The movements of Russian troop ire not rendered less active by anything that is taking place at Vienna. Russian infantry, cavalry, and artillery are steadily advancing towards the Austrian frontier, as well as through Odessa to the Crimea. The whole of the Ist corps of infantry and a division of Grenadiers have been concentrated these ten days on the right bank of the Vistula. The landed proprietors have been called upon to provide immediately provision, and provender. On Saturday it was calculated at Vienna that by the 15th inst. the Austrian army would be in a condition to take the field if required. _ _ . Direct accounts from Warsaw of the lit inst. confirm the hasty departure of Marshal Paskie witsch for St. Petersburg during the night of the 30th ult., and add that the next day the whole per sonnel of his military chancery left for that capital. It was believed at Warsaw that the generalissimo would remain near the Emperor until the question of peace or war was finally decided. In the mean time the military governor, General Count de Rndiger, had been invested with the powers exercised by the marshal in Poland, and assumed the chief command of the first and second corps d'armee, and of the division of grenadiers now stationed in the kingdom. ODESSA, Dsc. 21. General Schabelski, who command; the 2nd cavalry reserve corps, returned here on the 18th, and attended the divine service and ceremonial on St. Nicholas's day, in honour of the Emperor. The service way held in the Preobrascheneki cathedral, at 10 in the morning. The archbishop delivered a die. course, which he concluded with a prayer for the long life of the monarch. As he ceased pray ing, the guns were heard booming from the coast batteries. The prelate observed that all true subjects saw in their master the elect of God, in whose hands are placed the destinies not merely of Russia, but of the whole world. He also reminded his hearers that Russia once stood as a barrier to shield the West from the inundation of the East, and would now prove the same firm barrier against the flood coining from an opposite direction. The Russian almanackw, he said, would have now to insert the names of Sebastopol and the Crimea by the side of Borodino and Moscow. Such, throughout, was the character of the prelate's sermon. On the same day General Annenkov gave a full-dress banquet at Madame Narischkin's, and in the evening there was a ball in the Exchange Hall. Trade is paralysed. The enemy's steamers are every now and then visible from the town, and we all know what is going on in the Crimea, but rejoicings are ordered. Thus the theatre is opened this evening, and we have an illumination. According to the Vienna Sokleen Freund, all the Turkish troops are to be at Eupatoria by the 6th of this month; and as soon es they have had time to get into order the operations against Simpheropol will commence. In the same paper we also read th►t the Russians intended to make a grand attack on the 18th on the new redoubt which the English had constructed . and armed with twenty four 32- pounders. The guns of this redoubt or block-house completely command the Sailors' Suburb and the harbour. A Russian corps of 8,000 men still occu pies ► strong position near Traktir. On the 20th of December Admirals Lyons and Bruit took the command of the allied fleets. Achmet Puha, the Turkish admiral, gives great satisfaction to his government. The Press of Vienna of the 4th says that the Prussian ambassador, after the receipt of a despatch from Berlin yesterday, had two confidential inter views with Count Buol and the ambassadors of the Western Powers. The object of these interviews is said to be the accession of Prussia to the treaty of the tad December, but they have not yet led to any decisive results. _ _ _ The same journal adds: "A letter from Bucharest states that 2,000 Turks of the garrison of that place left on the 2nd for Ibrail, and only a small detach ment of Turkish troops now remtin in that city. Prince Stirbey is now equiping an auxiliary corps of 10,000 Wallachians to support the Turks in their operations against the Russians. Count Coronini has left Bucharest for Jassy." You are doubtless aware, writes a esrrespondent of the Independence Beige, that after the withdrawal of the two allied fleets from the Baltic in November last, and when all danger of an attack on their part had disappeared, the two divisions of troops, with the two regiments of the Imperial Guard, concentrated, dying the campaign, under the com mand of General de Berg, between Riga and Revel, had re-entered Poland, on en order from St. Petersburg, thus leaving those two important cities in a completely defence less position. We learn to-day that another and more numerous corps than the first will be shortly formed with the reserve battalions, and usembled in spring, on the same point, to preterit Revel and Riga against au attack cf the allied fleets, should they re-appear in the Bottle. Gene. nide Berg having been since appointed Governor. General and Commander of the army in Finland, the Emperor, by a rescript of the 26th of December last, has invested with the command of the Baltic army the Lieutenant General of Cavalry BIOWTA 1., who will thus have under his orders the different divisions of troops quartered in Livonia and , Courland. By the same rescript, General Grabbe I. was named Military Governor of the province of Etiolia and Revel, and General Manikin Neustrijeff Commander of this last tows. The Infantry General Petkul is to resume his former post in the Department of War: Ine Court. OSBORNE, JAN. 8. There has been no addition to the Royal dinner party at Osborne. Tte Court will return to-morrow (Tuesday) afternoon to Windsor Castle. Lord and Lady John Russell left London yesterday for Paris. _ _ _ - --- The Chasesllor of the Earhetiner and Mrs. Gladstone ar rived in town yesterday, from liawarden Castle, Chester. The Rev. Francis Coalman Royds, M.A., has been instituted to the rectory of Coddingtor, in the county of Chester, void by death of Rev. Thomas Boydell. rattans, the Dena sad Chapter of Chester. Value 2621., with a holm. _ _ _ ----- Vice-Admiral Deana Dundee, the late Commander is-Chief of the Black Bee fleet, nig be expected in London tin about three weeks. . Professor Liss, the sculptor of the "Amazon; his been appointed president of the Society for the Advent* of Att. _ _ _ _ . . -- --- We regret to hear that Martin's oelebrated picture of " Belshasaar's Feast" was irruoverably injured by • late railway accident. Tie health of King Louis of Bavaria is not yet re established, but it appears that it bu unsibly improved. The symptoms of his malady have diminished, and his strength is gradually returning. Prince Lucien Bonaparte arrived at Dover on Sunday afternoon from Wail. The Prince left Dover for London by the evening exprou train. Dummow FuTcH.—Chevalier and Madame de Chatelaia have claimed the Dasunow Flitch; and a L accad raise will be adjudged to them by Mr. Ainsworth. A Nzw Rumex RIFLE CORPS.—A private letter from St. Petersburg states that the crown ants have offered the Emperor Nichelu a eontingent of 60,000 men, who are to be employed u sharpshooters. Among them are to be all the ermine hunters, who are estimated at 20,000. These are said to be skarn] marksmen, who pan their whole lives on the banks of the find or the Oby, in the ohne of the fors, the beaver, and the ermine. It is blown that this ani mal can ooly be aimed at from a con siderable distance, and mast be hit in the nose to avoid injgring the skin. The whole of these hunters, so the let ter says, ars to be immediately organised end sent to the Crimea. They are to be armed with the Maid rile. _ _ PATRIOTIC FUND.—Three hundred and twenty eve pounds hays been 'Aosta for the Fettled' Fand at Darlastsa, neer Birraingbem—We ate requested to state that the sus 01101 , advertised by the Royal Cormissieners as sal fivesOcesirk leak. " W. E. Millar, 10g.," was the womb et penises asesart, awl was is addition %gibed ealwerfpllea of Fabsestli. PRUSSIA. The Zeit. of Berlin—the especial organ of the Minister Mantenffel —notices and confirms the state ment that Austria has demanded the mobilisation of the military forces wherewith by the convention of April 20,1854, Prussia and the Germanic confedera tion engaged to aid her in a certain case. The ministerial paper is careful to add that this case is an attack on Austria in her own positions. Thus whether in her own territories or in the Principalities, 4' Austria," says the Zeit., " founds her claim on the alleged threatening movements of troops in Russian Poland, and also OR certain dislocations of troops in Podolia and Volbynia." Having thus stated the Austrian demand, the ministerial journal proceeds at great length to dispute its validity, and concludes: I " The demand of Austria being founded neither in right nor in fact, it is very reasonable to expect that it will not be complied with at Berlin." The Official Prussian Correspondence, in an article lon the Czar's manifesto, affirms that his Imperial Majesty's determination there expressed, to maintain a defensive position, renders the participation of Germany in the war "a very remote contingency." The Court writer concludes by saying," But however that may be, the Imperial manifesto leaves no doubt as to the Emperor's disposition to hold out the head Ito Pose, and we can only wish that this desire may be sciraowledged and appreciated by all parties." At a levee held on the morning of New Year's Day, at his palace in Coblenz, the Prince of Prussia I told the assembled officers that various portions of the army were already fully prepared for war, and it might easily happen that very soon the whole of the army might be called to arms. "Should that be so, he would repeat to them what he bad said to them last year: it was for the King to point out to them towards which side they were to front, and on which side they were to fight ; it was for the army to think only how it could best preserve and increase its glory and honour. To attain this end every nerve , JANUARY 9, wre isey might the .ae batty UM." BELT IN, JAS. 6. Our has refused to entartahi any terms aesommodation except on the consi!&* that Prussia be admitted to the conferences at Vienna. This was so palpably an offer to take Prussia.under bls protestioc, that its rejection was immediate, and ft is said that M. Muteaffel has written to St. PeAssebarg that Prussia is quite able to vindicate her position ea a European Power. bed, even in their trial on ITHE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL. (*sox las spicua, O THZ DAILY news.) Dee. 17.—N0 change of importance has occurred since I last wrote, In the relative position of the hostile forces. The preparations for a vigorous demonstration are advancing, though slowly, on account of the continued unpropitious weather. The 13-inch mortars have been brought up, and are now lying in the left artillery park, ready to be placed in position as soon as a favourable opportunity shall occur. By their aide are also the long 32-pounders, from which, on account of the accuracy of their fire, good execution is expected. During the last two days and nights heavy rain has fallen incessantly. The weather is a matter of very serious importance in many respects. The roads become so impassable after a fall of rain of any duration, that not only the progress of the siege operations is interrupted, from the difficulty of transporting guns or ammunition, but even the troops suffer in their supply of rations. When I speak of roads I use a wrong term, for literally there is now no road between the camp before Sebastopol and Balaklava, excepting the road now in course of construction, and which as yet only extends as far as the cavalry camp. Over the remaining part of the way each vehicle and passenger takes its own direo tion across the undulating hills which constitute the surface of the plateau occupied by the allied armies. Tie labour of bringing up the guns and mortars has been very great, and it has required a great number of our weakened horses to perform the task. The salient from the low ground near Balaklava, the snecemive undulations of the plateau, and the pecu liarly tenacious and adhesive character of the mud have been severe obstacles to overcome. Our French allies are now lending us assistance in bringing up the heavy ammunition. Many of the regiments in camp are living truly . " from hand to mouth," and have to send in large parties daily to carry out the provisions of salt pork and biscuit. The condition of these men after their seven miles' march into the town, frequently drenched through, aad many of them having been up the night before in the trenches, is lamentable in the extreme; and it is difficult to understand how they contrive to accomplish the journey back with their loads. No wonder that the hospitals are full. There has been great absence of forethought in not having stored up depots of provisions in camp, and in not having pro vided better means for the care and protection of the very limited number of bat animals attached to the army. The officers' private bat animals have never been brought up yet, and no one seems to know where they are. There seems to be no doubt they have left Varna. Were they with their owners they might be turned to very valuable account now. An arrangement has at last been made for shoe ing the public horses in the possession of regi ments, but the way in which it is to be done affords a curious illustration of the manner in which things intended for one branch of the service are appro priated by other departments. In addition to the ambulance waggons sent out to the army in thoElst for the conveyance of the wounded, were several store waggons, store carts, and one or two forge carts. These were organised to form part of the ambu lance establishment, and a pamphlet was published under the superintendence of Mr. Guthrie and others to explain their coatents and uses. One only of these store waggons and one of the forge carts found their way to the Crimea, and they have remained at head quarter.. Now that, driven to extremity, it is found that the bat animals abso lutely require more attention than they have hitherto had, a public nee is discovered for the forge cart. By general order the commissariat are desired to issue Turkish shoes and nails to the regi ments requiring them for their bat horses. The shoeing is to be done at the ambulance forge at head-quarters. Fuel is also to be issued to the troops, and we hear of wooden houses, and warm greatcoats and other clothing coming; but how they are all to be taken up to the camp remains to be seen. The 90th and 34th regiments marched up to the °amp on the 13th instant. They have been attached for the present to the Light Division, whose numbers have been greatly diminished by sickness. The 89th has also arrived, and is to bo attached to the Third Division. The Russians have been using of late a 13-inch shell against Frenchman's Hill. Considering the enormous weight of the metal, and the amount of the exploding powder, together with the accuracy of range the artillerymen have obtained, it is weuderful that the discharge should have done so little mis chief. I have only heard of two cases of injury inflicted by it, and yet the ground where it falls is torn up into deep pits. In one case, it exploded near a sailor, and the poor fellow was literally blown away, for scarcely any portion of him remained on the spot where he had been stand ing. The Russians for a long timo abstained from the use of this mortar, and by some it has been sup posed that the notice by the correspondent of the Times of the execution done by "Whistling Dick" has been the cause of his services being returned. I know not what foundation there is for the supposition. The last few days the Russians have been directing a very heavy fire against a redoubt which is being made on Frenchman's Hill, in front of the camp of the Light Division. This positiou has been frequently spoken of sabring the weakest part of the camp, now that that of the extreme right has been covered. There, indeed, assurance has been made doubly sere, both by entrenchments and armed re doubts in front, as well as by strong re inforcements from the French being placed in rear of the tad Division. When the redoubt in front of the Light Division is completed, and con nected with the breastworks lately made across the left and middle ravines, that position will also be secured, but hitherto it has been open to attack. It can only have been from the supposition that there were protecting works which could not be seen that the Russians have not hitherto made some attempt in this direction, especially at the same time that the engagement f the sth November was fought at In kerman, as there was nothing in the nature of the ground to prevent them from bringing up a strong body of troops with artillery. They appear to have discovered the weakness of this part of the line now, and there have been frequent alarms in the Light Division camp in consequence. On the 15th a very strong force was observed approaching towards the middle ravine, for the purpose apparently of recon noitring. The Light Division was quickly under arms, end some of the regiments advanced, but no result ensued beyond a slight skirmishing with some of the enemy's riflemen and our advanced pickets. There has been an inquiry into an alleged want of medical care and treatment—especially in respect to the number of orderlies employed — afforded to a large number of sick troops placed on board the Avon. The result has been a very severe reprimand in general orders by the commander of the forces directed against First-Class Staff Surgeon Dr. Lawson, who is ordered to be removed from the position he previously held of principal medical officer at Balaklava. Dr. Hall, the chief of the medical staff of the army, is also strongly animadverted , upon in the same orders, and it is difficult to under stand how he can continue to hold such a position with the reflections east upon him of inatteutieo, to the duties of his offtese 50,,. m last AT ST. PEZEREIBIIRG, Lord John Russell's declara tion in Pull' moot that the allies were contest to leave Rues a , resat sad powerful state has been adopted as the rointia of a popular political song, the inscription of whish 11..." I) how soar are the grapes." ; • . . ^ ' TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLB, Die. 21. The Sultan's brother-in-law, the ex-Grand Vizier Mehemet Ali Pasha, has been condemned by_ a Mar belts of the grknd council to restore to the Treasury 76,000 pia a r r ee—,‘ bribe which, it appears, had been accepted during t i _Ne interminable judicial Inquiry set on foot respeetit'R, the affairs of Djezaerin, the A rmen i an banker. 14 ithout at all attempting to comment on the nettle 's of this sentence, I shill merely remark that it auk proves that there is a firm determination on the part of the government to carry , Nut rigorously the enact ments of the Tanzimat, and y , 'lt an end for evermore to venality and peculation. Thi s , y en are aware , has been the fatal source of incalculable evils and disasters . `rein the ear li e s t times, the real obstiele to progress, and to all that is great, noble, and patriotic In the general ad minuitration of this empire. As regards the special instance under consideration , aln unable to say whether or no the proceedings hays beencm" ducted with the same scrupulous attention, and whe ther the evidence was such as is required in British court of law. Jealousy and animosities am‘ og the great functionaries are well known to exist to ,a fearful extent in this country , and all I can say 1. la extenuation of this particular act of the condemnet. " let him who is innocent throw the first stone." _ Mehemet Ali Pacha is now " fallen from his high estate," perhaps ruined irrevocably, and there is very little chance of his being entrusted again with any of those important posts which he had occupied with zeal and ability at various intervals. One tact, however, I am bound to mention as highly creditable to him, and which will prove some consolation in his retirement—that he has ever been a friend to the British and British alliance, a deadly enemy to Rus sia, and that he was a principal instrument in urging the Sultan to a declaration of war. He was invariably on the very best terms with our ex-charge d'affaires, General Rose, and quite of his opinion at the very outset of this question, in respect to the vital importance of bringing up our fleet from Malta almost immediately on the arrival of Prince Mentchikoff at Constantinople. General Rose, you are aware, is attached to the staff of General Canrobert, and as he had been one of the most popular of her Majesty's representatives at Constantinople, we have all learned with the highest satisfaction from French officers that there is not a braver soldier in the whole army. He looks, it is said, with the same coolness and complacency out of the embrasures, as he used to surrey from the British palace windows the mean gambols of his Arab stud—his splendid children of the desert. General Rose is a great horse fancier, and thus, although he has miraculously escaped with but a slight scratch in the late battles, we may consider him to have been wounded in a vital pare, for two of his beautiful chargers were killed under him, and a third severely wounded by a am-, ket ball. THE QUEEN'S THANKS TO THE ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. The following despatch from his Orace the Doke of Neweutle, Minister at War, has been published in General Orders, and read to the troops serving in the Crimea: " War Department, Nov. 20, 1854. "My Lord,—l have the honour to acknowledge the re ceipt of your lordship's despatcher, Nos. 83 and 84, of the 18th and 23rd of October. " I have submitted to the Queen the interesting reports with which your lordship has furnished me in these de spatches of the commencement and subsequent progress of those vast operations in which the allied armies and fleets of her Majesty and of the Emperor of the French, in conjunction with those of the Sultan, are engaged against the rtronghold of their common enemy ; and I am corn, mended by ber Majesty to express to your lordship, and, through you, to the army under your command, the high satisfaction with which she has received the intelli gence, no less of the very effective manner in which the fire of the allied batteries was opened, than of the energy and determination with which that fire was subsequently sestnined. The un fortunate occurrence of the explosion of a magazine in one of the French batteries, which took place at an early stage of the operations, most doubtless have prevented any imme diate effect of a decisive nature bring produced on the enemy's works; but her Majesty rejoices to find that the energetic and persevering effort' of the French commander enabled him to overcome the temporary check which thi' disaster appears to have imp..aed upon the exertions of the forces under his command. " Her Majesty is fully sensible of the motive. which induced your lordship to secure tho co•operatioa of the com bined fleets in the attack upon the enemy's works at the mouth of the harbour, simultaueously with the fire horn the batterits ou the laud side. The aid which, so far as they were enabled to render it, was thus afforded by the naval, to the exertions of the land forces, is highly appreciated by bcr Majesty; and I am further commanded to express the gra tification with which her Majesty has received the intelli gence communicated by you of the able and gallant assist. ance afforded by the sailors from the fleet, under the corn. mend of Captain Lushington and Captain Peel, in the land batteries. " Her Majesty deeply sympathises with those who, during the progress of the operations which form the subject of your present despatches, have been wounded in the service of their country, and has received with sincere sorrow your report of the loss of those of her gallant soldiers and sailors who have been killed. It is impossible that operations of such great magnitude and difficulty, more especii:ly when tho vast resources of the enemy, and his powerful means of resistance, aro taken into consideration, should be unat tended by loss ; and her Majesty cannot bat rejoice that' under the continued exposure t•a the incessant fire of an enemy vastly superior in numbers, to which her Circa, both naval and military, have been subjected, that loss, during the period included in the returns of casualties en closed in your despatches, is not so great as might have been anticipated.—l have the honour to be, my lord, your lordship's most obedient bumble servant, "NEWCASTLE. " Field Manhel the Lord RaglaL, G.C.8., &c., ttc." The foregoing despatch, although dated later than the Duke of Newcastle's despatch Fhich we published on Christmas-day, relates, as will have been observed, to ope rations in the Crimea anterior to those there gracefully com mended. The following have also been pnbtiebed in General Orden : Extract from a letter of the Duke of Neweartle to Lord Raglan, dated November 21, 1864 " I take the present opportunity to assure your lordship of the satisfaction with which I have reosived the testimony borne by Major-General Sir Colin Campbell in his re port enclosed in your despatch of the 28th of October, to the assistance rendered by the Royal Marine Artillery and Royal Marine!, in opposing the advance of the enemy's ca;alry in the action ieforo 13alaklava of the 25th of that month." " War Department, Nov. 23, 1854. "My Lord,-1 Dave the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your lordship's despsteb, No. 94, of the 31st of October, which reached me on the 17th instant. " I have lost no time in submitting to the Queen the names of those officers whom Lieutenant• General the Earl of Lucas considers ae entitled to be specially mentioned for their service in the action of the 25th of October in front of Balaklava, and whom your lordship commends to my notice; and I have received her Majesty's commands to desire that your lordship will convey to each of the officers in question the high approbation with which her Majesty has viewed their valour and excellent conduct in that action.—l have the honour to be, my lord, your lord ship's most obedient and humble servant, .. -. Niswcsem " Field Marshal the Lord Raglan, G.C.8., tte." THE ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOPOL. GENERAL ORDERS. By the following general order it was announced that fuel and lights were to be finned to the army is the East : " General Order. "Head Quarters, before Sebastopol, Deo. 4, 1854. 1 " No. 2.—The Commissary-General will issue at the stores at Balaklava osrtaia quantities of patent fuel and charcoal, as also lights, for the use of the troops." When, however, the fuel was nut for, none was issued, because the scale at which It was to be issued had sot, been determined upen. After the lapse of sisa — Zy.,,. this weighty matter has been considered, and th is to be the proportion in which it is actlnni i4 l7 distributed : " General Order. " Head Quarters, befoie Sebastopol, Det vo w ' "No. I.—At the recommendation of a b oard of lA, assembled to consider the sobjeet, th e coankawiti: forces direct, that fuel shall be Wald to thet a ", 41 Crimea on the following scale : RATION !RR DITAL—POEL. Colonel General on the Staff 28 officers 4O StClass .aff Sergeee, Fuel Adjutant General and Stuff 5urg e0n ,. ...... Quarter Muter Gene- C1ue., ,,,,, sal Deputy Adjt. General aeon ...... . .. and Deputy Quake Purveyor to th e ii,.".• t Muter General l6 pitals Deo. Ass. Adjt. Gen. and Medical C ler ic„ .... 1 .. " Deputy Ass. Quarter Dispenser of Mae. General .... Military Secretary l6 Commie. B tOTNOtep t ' L ' Aide de Camp Brigade Major Chaplain to the Forces 16 Printers, and IN: Deputy Judge Advo- seugere ....... este IG Commie. doletem ;;: 4 1 Provost Marshal Commissary General Deputy Commissary Go moral Assist. Commissary Ge neral .. Deputy Ass. Comma sary General Inspector General of ' Hospitals D e, 'nay Inspect. General 16 CATALRY, ROYAL AO' LERY, AND 1741,Ant1.: Field °liken All other rank, '''''''' Staff Setaeant ' N. C. Olieees, and File ........ LORD RAGLAN AND THE MEDICAL STAFF. The followi.n General Order hoe b een in* Lord Raglan. Hoed-Qum ten beret a Sebastopol, Dee. 13, 4 34, sick anti woundeon Wi r 4 It basin,/ been Ti presented to the C ommandeerd of Forces that the 297 . steain•ship Avon, unde'r orders to proceed t, s had not received that care and attention to which h i , were entitled, the Commander 01 the Fereel dirtet4; court of inquiry to meet oa board that ship on Sonde Dec. 2. The court, of which Col. Cameron, Und Ilighi i was president. after making a person. ii lenience or I A ship, and receiving evidence, has made its report t o Commander of the Forces. . The report takes notice of several defie. nem the opinion of toe court, might with due care Inv/Wu, medied. . _ The report particularly draws the attention of the C A mender of the Forces to the want of a autlic,ent nib medical men and hospital attendant, for the serritu etc sick and wcunded on board. . _ The report futther states that this deficiency of vattl , e men and attendants was known to Dr. Liweon,themio menical officer at B.lsklava, but that he took no ski have it supplied. In this opinion, after a careful perusal of the eridna the Commander of the Fore s fully concurs. Lord Raillan has rem with pain and sorrow the spat land want of interest which Dr. Law..ou as 'pm by the evidence with respect both to the due care sad t! sufficient supply of what was requisite for the minim it well-doing of the suffering own wro were placed es tau the Avon, and he is compelled to visit such coed= v: the severest censure. . . . The Inspector-General of Hospitals will take immetle steps to relieve Dr. Lawson fr,m his present charge. The Commander of the Forces is unable to exonerate Hall, the loepoctor Genes al of Hospitals, from all blaze this matter, se it was Li • duly, sitl.eo by iersoul is tion or by the to porn' of his subo , dinates, to have sea Mined that the ship was furnished with everything new for the comfort of the many rick and wounded oa to which the public service could by any possibility (Signed) J. B. B. Hermosa, Adjutant-Omni FRANCE. (PROM TUE COI YENT OF TUB lAILT Nfl PARIS, MONDAY EITNIII The great question of to-day is the real vale the Vienna despatches, announcing a conference tween Prince Gortchakoff and the ambassadore the Three Powers. Oue of these says that them ing had taken place to decide upon the twerp tion of the four points. According to the other, four ambassadors had resolved that the points should constitute the basis of pa negotiations. The same thing is eride alluded to in both despatches. Neither of 11 when attentively considered convey any definite formation. Russia has ever been ready to din and has repeatedly professed to accept the four in as a point de depart for negotiation. If the is despatch is to be taken literally the conference simply conceded what Russia has all along des This, in the present state of affairs, is not an admix supposition. It requires something more authl than an anonymous Vienna despatch to villa believe that the Three Powers can have yicldei iota of the terms so solemnly announced to the v within the last few days. The Bourse was in a state of extraordinary tion to-day, in consequence of a widely spread ru that some very good news bad been reetio London. A ridiculous canard, frequently rein was that a third edition of the Tunes of Satt announced the taking of Sebastopol. The Miser despatches from Vienna, although, in the opini the reflecting, certain to be explained away t thing, bear upon the fare of them intelli of unexpected negotiations for peace. more than all this vague news, the pa fact of a rise of 1 per cent. in 0 had a great iffect upon the market. The Rent lir. 30c., closing at the highest. price of the day, All the railways were from sfr. to 10fr. Lyons and Mediterranean rose 20fr.; Credit Her rose 12fr. 50c. Almost the only security fell was tho Bank of France, which declined It was stated at the Bourse that the Euglisl scriptious to the loan amounted already to 30 Hone, or 5 dills of the whole amount. This stati although repeated in the Pram, and mentioned veral quarters, I cannot but think a great cvgge However, the general impression to-day is tb loan subscriptions aro going on swimmingly. Credit Mobilier, I am told, has subscribed millions, Rothscbilds for a similar amount, s Company of Agents de Change on the Pails for 1,254,000 fr. of Rente, representing a cal 27,268,f:251n The two new streets which will soon be ola the public, one between the Rue des Capon the Rue Hence St. Augustin, and the other b the Rues Bergdre and Richer are, it is said.' the names of Alma and Inkcrmann. The navigation between Rouen and Paris had been interrupted in consequence of the Ti the Seine, is again open, the river having fal.i than 70 centimetres during the last four days SPAIN. MADRID, J In the sitting of the Cortes to-day General nell stated that the number of muskets servo the National Guard was little less than 100,0 answer to a question, M. Santa Cruz, the Me the Interior, stated that there had been a r Teruel on the subject of the octroi duties, i order was soon restored. Espartero, in i! and energetic speech, declared the conru government, that the enemies of order were enemies of liberty. He was tho:oughly rep combat them all, under whatever musk the shelter themselves; and he confidently reek the support of the Cortes, the National Gu army, and the entire nation. This speee'ar applauded. The Marquis de Tal,eiering where the disorders alluded to had take M. Seats Cruz replied that, on the et the entry dues, there had been at Valencia, Grenada, and in a sine lity of Albacete, in which latter phi had been cries of " Vire Charles V." Bat, pression of the tax in question had depri rioters of their pretext, and at this moment lity was everywhere re-established. A not then carried unanimously approving Espartero's speech, and assuring the govern the support of the Cortes. During the disc the third article of the Octroi Duties Bill, M. ' took an opportunity of declaring that itt?' would be able to meet all its obligations if it ill