The Express. — London, England, 1855-03-12 00:00:00

ZILE etPrpISS• TO CORRESPONDENT S. Mvertftrarits Imbeds/ kw "71w Illpreol„" Lowden Valk; yam ask be at lko Mos, 10, loovirio4woo, by Two Viliook ow the fty a paliffismaos. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDOR. TITO DAT—lllaralag, 71. 170 Mem" 7b. 47a. Torsossow —Manias, M. Oa Murree. N. Ulm LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 12. LATEST FROM ABROAD. MANIFESTO OF THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA. We bays rewired the Journal of SI. Pekraburg of the 3rd, which contains the following Manifesto of the Emperor Alexander IL : HET. PETERSBURG, Pis. 18 (MAica 2.) " By the gram, of God, We, Alezaader H., Bop peror sad Autocrat of all the Ragas, hiog of Poland, Ao., &c., " To all oar faithful subjects make known : "In His impenetrable ways it has pleased God to etTike as all with a blow as terrible as it was unex pected. Following a brief but serious illness, which at its close was developed with an unheard of rapi dity, our mach-loved father, the Emperor Nichols' Pavlovitch, has departed life this day, the 18th Feb., (March 2). No luggage can express our grief— which is the grief also of oar faithful subjects. Bub mittiag with resignation to the Impenetrable views of Divine Providence, we seek consolation but in Him, aced wait from Him alone the neesseary aid to enable as to sustain the harden which it has pleased Him to impose upon us. Even as the much-loved father, whom we mourn, consecrated all his efforts, every meant of his life, to the labours and to the cares called for by the well being of his subjects,— We, at this hour so painful, but also so grave and so solemn, in asosadieg our hereditary throne of the Empire of Rosie, of the kingdom of Poland, and of the (hand Duchy of Finland, which are inseparable, take, in the face of the invisible God always see rounding as, the sacred pledge, never to have say other end bat the prosperity of one country. May Providence who has coned us to this high simian, so aid as that, guided and protected by His, we may be skis to strengthen Ramis in the highest degree of power and glory ; that by as may be accomplished the views and the desires of our illustrious prede cessors. Peter, Catherine, Alexander the much-loved, and oar august father of imperishable memory. "By their well-proved seal, by their prayers ar &ldly united with oars before the altars of the Most High, oar dear subjects will come to oar aid. We invite them to do so, oommandiag them to take, at the sure time, the oath of fidelity both to us and to our heir, his Imperial Highness the Cesare witob Orand Duke Nicholas Alexandrovitch. " Given at St. Peterebarg Ithe 18th day of the month of Feb. (Kara 2), of the year of grace 1855, and the gist year of oar reign. (Signed) "ALEXANDER." —Daily Xerox. OFFICIAL BULLETINS OF THE LAST ILL NIBS OF TUB CZAR. A eupplament unordinary of the Jowled of Bt. Pottraftwg of the. 2nd, contains the following bulletins: " suimmur No. tit. os Imo ILLT7I 07 11l KAMM vas =PILO& " Fun. 18 (MAsoz 2) Fool o'Ciciers, •.m. " The diasulty of expestorstim from which His Maijesty the taperer suffered yesterday, Is Mowed yet further, isdisatisg the eitisetiou of the activity of the lung, aid readeriag the state of Hie Majesty very dangerous. " DL Mara; " Bloom, " Da. Hamatiz." " simmrtx so. IT. " Fn. 18 (limiest 2), Nzwa The slate of paralysis of the leap of which His Majesty the Imposer, was *teamed, ecettlaase, as also the eager whisk proceeds frost it. " Da. MAIM, " Eitocius. " Da. HAxasz.z.." IT. psisoaayso, Pas. 18 (1111Aseat ) [No los r asatiosed.] " This morales at half-past three °Week His Majesty the lamer esefeemed and resolved the Holy ikermasitt, Wing penned fall essieleuesses." PARIS, MONDAY. The Monitor of this morning contains the fol lowing: a GOveranumt has received news from the Crimea up to the 4th inst. " Nothing important had happened. The vexations and unpkasent rumours which have circulated about the army in the Crimea are without foundation. "The reports contained is the Timer, injurious to the honour of the French Generals in the Crimea, are false and improbable.• (IT DITIRIATIOSILL TILSOILLPI.) BERLIN, Bosroky, Kum 11. Nowa %dell is empowered to sign the protocol of December 28, on behalf of Prussia, in the agectation that Prussia will then be admitted with out dilliculty to the oonference.—Doily News. ST. PETERSBURG, Manor 1. The first corps of the new " militia of the Empire" (drurchisi) I. to assemble in April, but the govern ment has ordered that, in the meantime, every man shall remain in hie ordinary place of residence, with out uniform and arms, until the order for departure shall be given.—Deily New. THE BLOCKADE OF THE DANUBE (/1011 • SOrPLIMIXT TO 121 Foreign *See, Marsh 10,1866. It in hereby wagtail that the Right Ron. the Rail af Claresdat, her Majesty's principal Secretary of SOW he Foreign Adak% has remised a &meta trees Rem admiral Sir Maud Lyons. 0.0.8., eccamtadlag her Majesty% navel forms la the Black Sea, dated Royal Albeit, Mr liebsatepal, Nth Febraary, 11156, sad addressed to the Leeds Manhattan's OM* Admiralty, massaging that, I. siajnotice with Yiee-Adaital Brut, oessasadieg the ?reach muds= is the Mask Bea, be bad, ea sad fray the 111th of ?showy bet, aimed the blockade of the Deaths, whisk woe established ea sad frees the let dey el Joao, UK eat whisk was Milled is the Lando Gees& of the lidi el Jews, MK sad which has shies boss duly asiatelaed. It le bezel* seeiLid that the ermines of the OW fleets maligned off the menthe of the Do ' welsh loges with eoatrabead of war ' tie many. sod w4l resesie, @tabooed oi the moths of the Di- Ms.is ear lees say wards Wes with emission& of war demised ht the lees et the mew. Buorux.-11. Tool, who was felled is by the Lai el dr Heisler to tem a sew &Woe% bas retard w thierlake that lee. Ha &tiered to hid majesty, his ssid, loot the Left is wee io $ parties to arum the direstire of rake s aye bavise the isejority ia the drain& . . • . • Would of course wish page of flatteries and Malta must always be left to the taste of the writer, whoever he may be; but the public documents of a civilised nation ought to be couched in the language of ordinary civility, and the more difficult It may be to tame down the style savage still in vogue at the Admiralty the more credit will attach to whoever is able to introduce habits of decency and propriety in its oorrespon denoe. A rumour has gained a certain amount of circula tion, which we sincerely trust may prove destitute of foundation, namely, the a design is entertained of appointing the Hon. 0101011 Bum, eon of Lord ENFIELD, Ceder Secretary for the Colonies. Nume rous and varied as the jobs perpetrated already by the present Government have been, we are compelled in common charity to believe them incapable of this crowning insult to the worth, intelligence, and talent of the House of Commons. The young gentleman whose name is unluckily associated with this story, may be, for anything we know, a promising cadet of the noble house to which he belongs ; but to place him without experience or service, or even having served a political apprenticeship of any kind name able, in a poet of responsibility and trust like that of the Colonial department, would be simply to trifle with the greatest interests, and to outrage the soberest feelings of the community at large.—Daily News. 12, the inhptiaa order to allop ly to cambia* respect to the East& /Silesian Gazetti, staff own made and rejected. writes from the Crimes, under njithe b.—. Lest night we raised a emend in advance of that we had already made an iiiiitlimihrttlieations. The enemy endeavoured Lbepsie ear watillo, but did not succeed. Nothing Fittest W Mos plass before Bupatoria.' Ad. Frisks., Ilibentopol of the 3rd inst., trans rttedonfi Vats elate that nothing of importance id tabs plum dime the affair on the night of the $l4 The Cologne Gazette coutaine a letter from Odessa, which states that the as pect of the place was quite melancholy. All the inhabitants, whose fortunes permitted them, were quitting the town for the inte rior of the Granby, as a bombardment by the allied A letter from Turin of the 6th, in the Corriere Mercantile of GOMA, states that the departure of the Piedmontese contingent, which was to embark for the Crimea about the middle of this month, hes been postponed until the settlement of certain matters now under consideration at London and Paris. In • those dia . a very serious will be thrown out d vast numbers of t of employment. at in consequence signalising to the - comparatively . their lives by these lamentable °amities. A telegraphic message has just arrived from Bois-le-Due, to the effect that ea* of the dams in the neighbourhood hu given way, end that others are expected to give way, and that a treat part of the city is entirely under water. (yam as FRANCE. GIDENT OP TIE DAILY NNWI.) PARIS, SATURDAY EVENING. This morning the Emperor reviewed, in the court yard of the Tuileries, the 9th and 32nd regiments of the line, which are under orders to leave for the Crimea immediately. The troops, in heavy marching order, with Marshal Megnan and General Roguet, commanding the first infantry division, at their head, presented arms to his Majesty at one o'clock. The Empress witnessed the spectacle from the balcony. After the inspection a large number of officers, non commissioned officers, and soldiers, were called to the front, to receive the cross of the Legion of Honour from his Majesty's own hand. All the officers of the two regiments are invited to dine at the imperial table either to-day or to-morrow. To-morrow the Emperor will review some regiments of the imperial guard about to depart for the theatre of war. The French army of occupation at Rome will not, immediately at host, be reduced to the extent that has been reported. The Pope has requested that at least a force of 3,600 men may still be left there, and the French government has consented. The Aus trian forces in the Roman dates will also be main tained for the present at nearly their actual strength. in consequence of as apprehension that Mazzini's party in Lombardy and Romagna are watching for an opportunity to rise. There were considerable fluctuations to-day in the Rent*. It opened at 69.80 c.,15 c. lower than yester day's last price. For a time there was a brisk market, stunt rose:to 69.90 c. But the heavy fall of 1 in Console produced a feeling of discouragement, and the Rents dropped for the close to the opening price —69.80.3. Bank of France rose sf. A good deal of business was done in railways during the first hour, and although they fell in the afternoon, the latest prior were in most instances from 2.50 to sf. higher than yesterday. Orleans rose 8.75. - - Lay John Russell landed yesterday at Callas, on bet way to Vienna, to join her husband. Their Majesties have sent to the Ministers of War and Marine a sum of 10,000 E, to be distributed to the mothers, widows, sisters, and orphans of the soldiers and sailors who were lost in the &militate. Mdlle. Doudet's affair is still pending. The evi dence for the prosecution was finished to-day. The witnesses are the same that appeared in the anise ooart, and they merely repeat their evidence. The trial will not be over till Tuesday or Wednesday. The Municipal Council of Paris has just voted a sum of six millions for the indemnity to be granted to the bakers in order to maintain the price of bread at 400. the two pound loaf, expressing at the same time its wish that this subveotion may cease on the Ist April next, when the abundance of work and the affluence of foreigners into Paris will render it no longer necessary. This arrangement of keeping down the price of bread is said to have already cost the city 40 millions. The Mit! states that a company of French and Belgian capitalists has just been formed for the con struction of a direct railway from Lille to Brussels, by Tourney. _ _ PARIS, SUNDAY EVINI/40. The journals announce that the Imperial yacht, the Reins Hortense, has received orders to put to sea from Toulon. lam enabled to state that she is under orders to proceed to Trieste. The inference is that the Emperor will embark for the East at that port, and will pay a visit to the Emperor of Austria on his way. I do not think the departure from Paris will be delayed beyond the 22nd instant. It is said that at a meeting of the members of the bureaux of the Corps Legislatif the Count de Morny enquired whether the house would prefer a prolonga tion of the present sittings or a prorogation. Opinions were nearly equally divided. The deputies for the departments near Paris are for a prorogation, but those representing distant constituencies would find it more convenient to remain in Paris, and re ceive their pay, than to go into the country and re turn again in May or June. The fact of this question having been raised is one among many other circum stances which go to prove that the Emperor has not abandoned his journey to the Crimea. It was stated sometime since, that as no effective legislation could go on during the Emperor's absence, a prorogation was probable. Should the prolongation of the ses sion be decided upon, it will amount to the same thing. Although the house may not formally be prorogued, its sittings for business purposes will be practically suspended till the Emperor's return. A letter from Vienna of March 8 shows that the manifesto of the Emperor Alexander IL has produced the same impression in that capital as in Paris and London. The Austrian army received immediate orders to march to the frontiers. The instant the news arrived at Vienna an orderly officer, Major K—, was sent to Bt. Petersburg with despatches for the Archduke William, and warier' were also sent to the armies of Transylvania and Galicia. It is stated in a well informed quarter that the Arch duke William was recommended to be very reserved in his communications, and that he might be ex pected to return to Vienna very shortly. It results from this intelligence, that the manifesto did away with the hopes momentarily entertained at Vienna that the Archduke, while paying a visit of condo lence, might at the same time usefully suggest to the new Cesar terms of place. The Gasogle des Posies says that the first letter written by Alexander H. was addressed to his uncle, the King of Prussia, and that he begged his Majesty M the most friendly and confident manner to afford him his counsels andsupport under the grave complications of the time." The following telegraphic despatches have been re wired to-day : Wsassw, Boxcar, MARCH 11. The Csar Alexander 11. has jest made public is an order of the day addressed to the army, the last words of the late Emperor : " I thank my faithful guard who saved Russia is 1826, and whose seadeet has ever been the seam ; 1 also thank my army and ay fleet. " I pray God to perpetuate among my soldien that bravery and good feeling which mune the internal sera /iv and the external fore. of the empire. " Then, wee to the enemies who attack Rusts. " If the condition of all my subjects ham sot been amelio rated so much as I could have wished, the reason is that I could not do more for them." MARCH 11. A deepsteh from Kisehenew, dated March 3, stew that an order of the day of the Buena s announcs that the Austrian troops wIU very soon Meanie Inwards the extras' treatise, and invites the purism of eb intrese of Chemin to give thew a wars reception. The lieenkea inagannes are to be transported to the ot►er beak el tie Dniester. A very extraordinary rumour has beet 'motioned to me in so many quarters that I think it right to notice it, although I am very incredulous about its authenticity. It is said that General Foley, one of the most hopeful young generals in the French net% vice, a notorious fire-eater in Alba, and the man who, when Otho of Gomm thought to raise his king dom in favour of Russia, pacilloated the wintry in four and twenty hours, has been carrying on a tree- _... 1J . .... THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EIWIR, MARCH \ Y n a , 4 ' \ E WAR. DJ AND TAR ,PEER4OF. who! ' ' V tinia . t . b d e s . r sa t 'l • 11:11/ ) # the.. Ai., ir . —...-- - • I limn added toe Callit i . ,or fav . are •' to k• 41 , • 0/0 " rrgcll:l ►l j * ri ' Mention th the Purkeii ' -in •:' ma to alt . • 4. sulkily of l' to 'an armistice, in ort 11. • time seriously are Ckteellor 4 ink mandatsOf "m I I Ware eseadmd F" intereak 'empire with respect 1 Lordtuktmrt*, it most with a li - of 'Atoms. WM - libeler o f queettee; One journal, the sues . an thilteringly adhered to the only " private and con fi dential" comm • tion nobody th at the proposition has been made an y which his administration has would of coarse wish to interfere. _ Its chequered Priaeollhateigkolf writes from the 1858 q , 4* 4 • • lliiitedth a tali* inedetible power. taints the sonsfteen will be of woe : 4 4 character; a vs* ipan of land will Uow of *titivation fot many the, and vi dae - t Waring men will own out of cattle have drowned, but I, Fas stales ters of the ezoellent precautions used in sig people the moment of positive danger, a. tsodee , few of our fellow.creatared have lost ne Court. The Queen hold a privy cannon at three o'clock oo Saturday aft•rnoon at Buskingham Palace. It was attended by Priam Albert ; Earl °naval., Lord Pawkiest ; Vis °oust Palmsratos, Fint Lord of the Treasury ; the Earl of Clarendos, Secretary of Stata for Foreign Affairs; Lord Panniers Secretary of State for War • Si, Charles Wood, First Lo r d of the Admiralty; the B4litt Has. E. Vernal Smith, President of the Board of Control; Viscount Canniag, Partmaster-Ciensral ; Earl Spenser, Lord Steward; the Marquis of Bresdalbana, Lord Chamberlain; and the Duke of Wellington, Master of the Hons. Mr. Edward Manama, Chief Seentary for Ireland, was, by oommand :of the Qasea, swore of her Majesty's most Hostauuble Privy Comma, sad took his seat at the board. The Hon. William Bethune was the Clerk of the Conseil in Waiting. The Esrl of Carlisle had an sadism* of the fames previous to the council, mad took lease of her Majesty oa promodiag to Ireland. Her Majesty afterwards gem maliemes to the Earl of Clareades, Vainest Pahnerema, Berl Ornstein', sad ;surd Psamme. The Queea wee atteaded by Viscount Dais lamig, Comptroller of the Homehold, Earl Somenfaimil in Waidag. and Colonel the Hoa. A. N. Hood. Oraiscis Waiting. Tito krisooot Royal sad the Prisons Alice took impostriaa auras i• Ike ridiarsohool. Her Majesty bad a dinner party in the rrealag. The .Nay banded the Busbies of Lent, the Prime of Lanigan, the Duchess of 'averse's, M. Mooed* (the Brazilian Minister), Earl Spencer, Lady Panay !lewd, the Hues= de Staab, the Earl and Countess of Malmo. her,, Vincent and Viscountess Sydney, Colonel the Hon. B. Besse (the Grenadier Guards), Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. H. Pere, (Grenadier Guards), the Bight Hon. Sir Williass and Lady Moloswerth, the Right Has. Sir Charles and Ledy Mary Wood, the Right Hon. Sir John Pakingtou, and Count Henekel (Pruden Legation). The band of the 111 Life Guards attended, and played in the Pa lace during dinner. TM Prince of !wining= arrived at beaky:bast Palace, at hall-pact tau o'clock ea Friday alibi, from tbs Catatinest, cei a visit to the Qaties. Yesterday the Queen and Prises Albert, the Priaes of Wales, the Princess Royal, Prime Alfred, and the Princess Alice, the Ladies and Gentlama of the Court, and t►e dogteeth household, attended Divine Berries, in the Private Chapel of Buckingham Palau. The Bee. aad Very Rev. the Dena of Whasor officiated. The Prism* of Leiniagen also attended the service. A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-office. Downing-street, on Saturday afternoon. The minis ters present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Let downs, the Duke of Argyll, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hoe. Vernon Smith, Sir William Molseworth, and Viscount Canning. The Council eat two hours. A deputation front the Institute of British Architects had an interview on Saturday with Sir Benjeasin Hall, Presi dent of the Gesteral Board of Health, at his .tee, White hall. The deputation consisted of Mr. B. Poway, V.P., Messrs. J. J. Books, and O. C. Nelson, hen. socrstarias, and Mr. H. L. Donaldson, Ma. solicitor. Big Oafs( lardlei, the Rev. Williams Acworth, sad Mr. Illiegrogor, M.P., immolated isteisees ea Friday at the Hase-eldee, is reforms S. the diabase of the Themes dlarelaes. Her Majesty, Prince Albert, sod the youthful members of the Royal Family, leave Deskieghue Paler*, eeeerding to present seraniesset, ea Thursday soot, kr Caboose, for a bets[ sojourn at the royal loathe redeem. The Court, it le WA, ea pass the Bros mese at Wiarker Castle. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE. The soirfe which the students of University Col lege give to-morrow evening to the members of the University of London is • new event in the annals of that institution, and not without significance. Invi tations have been sent to the professors and students of the other affiliated colleges which are situated in the metropolis, viz., to King's College, Independents' Newer, Stepney College, Manchester Coll ege , College, and Cheehunt College. The invi. tatioas include the senate and graduates of the Uni versity, and the professors of University College. Tickets have also been sent to the country affiliated colleges. Lord Brougham is expected to be present. Drawings have been contributed by artists, whose names will be posted up. A selection of music will be performed, under the direction of Benedict. The Earl of Bhaftesbar7 is appointed Chancellor of tho Duolq of Lomooator. Admiral H. Eden has entered on his duties as a Lord Commiesiessr of the Admiralty ; Mr. Wolter Dru mmed will be ►io private meretary. The 11•21 of Carlisle loam GrosTsoor-place today on roods to Doldis, to mooed Ilia Soil of et. Owasso as Lord Liortosaat. The Right Hon. the Speaker gave his sixth annual parliamentary dinner at Saturday last. The followiag menses were K the sompany :—Lord William Powlett, Lord Lavabo, Nriesannt Cenloresse, Hon. Ohm. Howard, His. Job Illese, Hem A. Kinnard, Sir Georg, Paella, Mr Herbert Madera, 84 Henry Davie, Mr. (Ilya. Col. Talks Greene, Kr. Henry Drnannoad, Mr. Lewis Rieardo Mr. Hatt, Col. Gilpin, Kr. Bray°, Mr. Bolt, Mr. Somme: Casks, Yr. Marshall, Kr. Bulkeley Hashes, Mr. William LosikArt, Kr. Neill, Mr. anima, Kr. Mandy, Kr. Smith Child. Captain Ponaonby, of the Grenadier Guards, is appointed aide-dooemp to Lionteamt-General Sir George C B . rown. X.C.8., commanding quo Light Divialo s la tie rimea Th. damming states that Mr. Henry Reeve has beta appointed Mimeo( the Linitergh Review, ia the room of air G. C. Lewis, Chansons, of the limingaer. A letter from Berlin, at the 7th, sanotusaas that on that day the Prises de Plots, President of the Pint Chamber, had beta streak with apoplexy, sad lay ia great dfafifir• Panriaitarr.—Ths Rs,. Richard Nicholson, A.M., te the perpetual Gamy et St. Mark, Lower Boom, mar tie City of Brietel, vaime by tbe cmiee of the Am l. R. Woodier . Patem,lho /bebop of Gloomier sad Bristol. .Totalteit a :r.ms 1121.1..,a5.: ..t 'AFFAIRS AT ST. On Saturday last reports were current in London that serious dlAurbanoss had broken out at St. Pe totems. The interdict laid on the telegraph by the Russian Government, while it encourages speculation as to the probable state of the Russian capital, makes it impossible either to verify or refute the rumours in question. If, as we do not expect, it should prove that order doss not reign at St. Petersburg, it will doubtless be oar duty shortly to record occurrences which the word distarbanee would but feebly represent. The Continental papers contain notices of the course of events only to the 3rd. "According to letters from Bt. Petersburg," says the Weser Casette, " the population of St. Peters burg cannot accustom themselves to the idea that it is the Grand Duke Alexander and not the Grand Duke Constantine, who has succeeded his father; and they invoke the ulnae of Peter the Great of the 6th February, 1722, which confer on the Emperor the right of nominating his successor. It was in virtue of ukase that Peter appointed Catherine I. to snowed him. " Accounts from St. Petersburg," says the Gazette de Avow, " speak of remonstranoes which are said to We been ' aissd to the new Czar by the body of noblesagainstthe arming of theatre. It is well known that this measure, comprised in the general arma ment or4sted b the Emperor Nicholas , had not met with any oppo sition. If, as it is said, its execution now meets with any remonstranoss on the part of the nobility, it is doubtless because the resolution of emancipating the serfs having been long attributed to the heir presumptive, now become Emperor, it is feared that the arming of that class will be a good step towards that object." AUSTRIAN DESPATCH ON MOBILISATION. The Monitnrr of yesterday publishes the following 'balm, addressed by the Aeries& pvereaseat to Its envoys at the Omen Coates, is eoesnassee of t►e vete passed by the Dist e• Bth of Febreary : " Visaaa, Fob. 16, 1866. "Oar previous oosmanicatione will have left . you no room to doubt that the Imperial government has seen with satisfaction the federal resolution of the fith hist, which de creed that the entire principal ocatisment of the federal array should ha so prepared as to be able to Numb and enter tato skies within the span of (heal days after in vitations Issued to the respective prunments. In fact, we see in this federal resolution as event of the greatest Im portance, were it even solely became we have thereby for innately escaped, for the moment, from the scission which the questioe of the military preparations on the part of the Osman Diet threatened to introdnee. " Considered in itself this moieties' appears to as, more over, to be a very natural sanctum*, of these conaidera lions to which the present state of things give rise, and to meet the indispensable neeemity, on the pin of the federal may, of being fully prepared to take up any strategical position whatever without loss of time. It le true that we have not been able to agree with the reasons on which the salted committees of the Diet based the proposition which bee now become a federal resolution. It will be understood, in fact, that we cannot admit our adhesion to have, in the eyes of the Western Powers, the appearance of a demon stration directed against either side ; bat th e Germanic eentederation itself, which in this question is no loopy placed esolasive►y on the ground traced out by the federal act, baton that by the albinos of April 20, mid the subsequent resolutions appended thereto, has already taken, according to Our ocavistion, far too determined an attitude for the supposition that the motives of the measure it haa just decreed are solely derived from the general threatening u pset of European affairs. " Neverthelem, we think we ean admit with certainty that those motives, insuffteient in our eyes, will fled their *effective in the real end legal state of the question, and especially in the Ratan of the relations with those rowan to whom we are allied by a alma treaty. "Your lizselleney will have the goodness to regulate your language on the subject of the federal solution in question, is assordatee with these indieatioiss. The inints diets execution, as sawmills as possible, of this resolution is now assuredly as affair of hamar for Germany ; and we have not the slightest doubt but that all the federal govern orate will with equal seal suditavom to give weight oa their side to the measure so resolved as, and to contribute by their auxiliary efforts to the rad, that the military can. stitation of Germany may prove itself adequate and fall the task that has devolved ea the confederation is Its qua lity of a great power. " In m fez as Arleta is coosownsd, his Majesty the Em peror has immediately mad* the necessary anangements, in order that, within the torn of Alma days as timed upon for rendering an amount of the swarm taken by the several governments, tiro Westin strength of the entire army &a erially on a war-footiag, and plamd ander the orders of the Ordnance-Master Baron Her, may be oonunnaisated to the Diet, whereby it may be also shown that the military preparations of Austria far surpass the amount decreed by the Diet. " It is seemly seastary for u to formally expressos this subject oar ewtietbs that the oompkte inadmissibility of the proposition made during the vote by the representative of Prude, not supported by any other government, to the effect that the Owing of troops on • war footing niust take place within the limits of the federal territory, has not escaped the appreeiation of the German governments, the said proposition completely lasing sight of the tact that the measure now adopted by the Diet is only a sonsequenee of previous resolutions, &wording to which the comma de fence with whisk the Confederation hes charged itself, in . _ eonsidnation of the daagen which threaten finnan inte rests, is not only to protect the Gerona federal territory, bat also all the territory of Austria and of Prussia, sad ens our position la the Principalities. There will be no impropriety In your Bacellerhay connunieatiag this despatch confi dentially to the ',constant. Accept, st.e., "8u0r.." LORD PA Anon= peer has Lord SHAFTESBURY, the appointed to the sinners Duchy of Lancaster. La owned, has thus far unfalteringly 6. intelligible principle by which his administration has yet bees marked—the principle, namely, of peerage monopoly. His ambition seems to be, to become the champion and paymaster-general of his order. None but lords, or their family trustees and nominees, are permitted bj him to have any share in the govern ment of the country. Distrusting the court and despising the people, he seeks to strengthen himself ' in Parliament, which, u now constituted, represents the predominance and power of the landed clue, and represents adequately and efficiently no other in the State. The Pnamint wishes to make sure, if pos sible, of a majority in the Upper House first: he believes it will be all the more way to secure a majority in the Lower House afterwards. No one understands better than the veteran viscount the mechanism of the whispering-galleries that con neat the two. No Wizard of the North, whose pro- fessional character depends upon his skill in telling fortunes by shuffling and marking a particular peek of cards, manifests more contempt for the incredulity of the vulgar, than his lordship does for the prognos tics of the public and the press, that he will sot make sure of a majority of adherents in the Commons by securing a majority of their owners in the Lords. We suppose the dullest comprehension begins now to understand why it was that in December, 1863, Lad Par.mmurron suddenly quitted the Coalition, rather than agree to any proposal for materially diminishing the number of nomination boroughs. His friends always said that, by consenting to serve under Lord ABEZDZIN, he had secured to himself the reversion of the Premiership. But what would the realisation of such a hope avail, if the implements of the legislative necromancy, in which he is so profound an adept, were in the meantime broken or destroyed P Lord Palmer:nos determined, at all hazards, to preserve rotten boroughs ; he left the Cabinet on the question, and refused to return until Lord Joint Rowan had been persuaded so to mutilate his intended Reform Bill that when, soon afterwards, it was produced people shook their heeds, and refused to give it any hearty support. Lord PALMERSTON has his reward— he is Prime Minister. The parches. and sale of seats go on as before ; we have neither a pledge to sup port any principle of progress, nor a premise to carry any question of administrative reform however argent. The Lords are delighted, while the people are angry; bat the Pamir= can afford to laugh with the Lords, and to laugh at the People. We deem it our duty to direct attention to the work ing of the system as it exists, and as it is strikingly illustrated in all that is taking place from day to day before our eyes, because we desire to see a more practical use than heretofore made of each electoral power as the industrious choose do possess. That power is indeed limited—'ore limited than people in general are disposed to believe. But for that very reason are should be taken that none of it is thrown away, or permissively alienated to the use of those who are banded together in a standing conspiracy against its extension, or its application to the at tainment of any substantial improvement in Church or State on which the people have set their hearts. Does any one suppose, for example, that it the Honer of Comm *obtained 200, ay, or even 100, members sincerely anxious to obtain justice for the soldiery, it would be possible for any minister, how ever strong in the confidence and support of those interested in the maintenance of military wrong, to obtain vote after vote of millions of money for army expenditure, without a single attempt being made to enforce stipulations for Army Reform P Looking at the business transacted at Westminster during the last three weeks; the enormous sums granted for clothing, pay, and military stores; and the feeble expressions given to the national expectation that by this time some plan for the regeneration of our army should have been promulgated by those in authority, or if not, forced upon them—one can readily understand how these nobles in person and nobles in proxy should grow incurably sceptical as to the sincerity of popular sympathy or popular self-respeet. They find the House of Commons to be a matchless reaping machine, whereby, in the course of a few hours, they can gather in and appropriate as they please the fruits of a nation's slow and dili gent industry. Is it not written, „ One soweth and another reapstle? All that is asked or desired by the many whose industry creates the wealth thus annually reaped by their tax-masters is, that those who risked their lives and shed their blood in defence of the prolific field should not be basely cheated of their legitimate recompense and reward. But though this is forcibly and faithfully said out of doors, it is but indistinctly and indecisively echoed within. The great majority there take neither thought nor trouble about it. Whose fault is this? Of the Cabinet of Lords, or of the popular constituencies that have sent to Parliament men nominated for them by the jobbing clubs of Pall-mall, instead of choosing for themselves men of their own order, capable of express ing their thoughts and feelings P Assuredly the fault Use, in too many instances, with the latter. Let us hips that whenever opportunity shall arias for re unsidedag the choice they have made, the electoral Wise throughout the kingdom will recall these Wags to mind, and in their future selection of repre sentatives act otherwise than they have hitherto done. For the present things are likely to go on with segard to the filling up of the subordinate posts of lbe Government pretty much as they began. Mr. IRSDIRICK Pau having been found peculiarly in sulted to the Under Secretaryship of War, to which he was transferred in defiance of all meson elms, and warning from a department whose ides hi had performed respectably. is once more feeds massiing orders. Instead of falling back, beemever. epee the Colonial-ofiloe, he is now directed to halt half-way at the Board of Trade. Wooers' he can be expected to know little or nothing of the questions waiting for somebody to bring them for ward in Parliament on behalf of that department; and this is precisely the reason, apparently, why Mr. FREDERICK PEIL is to be made Vies-President at this particular period of the esseion. As for his elder brother, having made within a month the grand toy of the principal departments of the State, and bad • look at the Ordnance, India Board, and Colonise, in rapid succession, Sir ROBE= has by the latest ao counts arrived at the Admiralty, of which it is proposed to make him one of the on-nautical Lords. We do not see why he should not have been sent there at first, or why be should not form as creditable a cypher at the right hand of that most demonstrative of executive deno minators, Sir Camila Woon, as any one else whose name might have been drawn in the lottery of small civil sinsenres. Bat as a young gentleman of aspiring mind is always glad to have something useful given him to do, we would urged that Sir ROBERT Pm might beneficially to the public menial devote his ollsial leisure to the reformation of the Admiralty style of correspondence. When addressing persons subordinate rank it would perhaps be deemed too 411611111 an innovation if it were proposed that a epriekling et Down= civility should in future be employed i bsi we venters to iabmlt that * HOLLAND. ROTTERDAM, Maxca 7. Accounts from the provinces of °Gelderland and North Brabant state that in coosequenos of the driving ice of the rivers having fixed itself in various points into barricades, a vat quantity of territory lies now entirely under water. As many as seventy villages are submerged; and when it is considered that the inhabitants of these villages are mostly of the very poorest clam, some idea may be forma of the great distress that prevails, and will for a long time prevail, among them. Since 1820 such inunda tions have not been known in Holland. At Arnheim, enormous dams have been constructed in all haste, to prevent the entire town being sub The Rhenish railway will, it is apprehended, bu. potable. In the village of Veenendaal the water covers the tops of the houses, most of which will be left undermined and in ruins. In most places, however, the water has simply overflowed the dams, which have hitherto misted the prwsu re of the accumulated waters. In those distt &add the damage matinee to be so limited, the cooseqesnoss will be but temporary ; but in some Ness the dams are broken, and the water has bunt into the adjoining t Ignoble ooreea p ondenoe wwit------Tte y inenem die Crimea, and is now on hi s way home to I? under arreit. The rumour circulated by a London weekly journal of a battle lost before Sebastopol, and the death of Lord Raglan, is altogether discredited. At the Little Sunday Bourse the Rents rose 500. THE UNITED STATES. LIVERPOOL, BATVIDAY. The Asia, British and North American royal we steam-ship, Captain Lott, arrived in the Mersey this evening, with dates from New York to the 270 4 Boston to the 28th ult., and H a lif ax to the Ist inst. She brought 95 passengers, and 528,620 dole specie. The Washington ailed from New York to tbi 24th, for Southampton and Bremen. The Royal mail steam ship Canada, from heap ok the 17th ult., was passed by the Baltic cia the id inst. 300 miles from Boston, making for that port. An interesting scene oocnrred in the (United States Senate on the 26th ult. The sword which General Jackson wore through all his campei the , which, while on his death bed, he presented to his friend and companion in arms, the late General Arm strong, was presented to Congress. General Clue, h, presenting the weapon, delivered an eloquent eulogy upon the public services and private virtues of the gallant hero of New Orleans. Mr. Bell followed in a similar strain, and at the conclusion of his remarks offered a joint resolution accepting the sword, and thanking the family of the late General Arm strong for the gift. It passed unanimously. In the House of Representatives the amendments reducing the tariff rates were adopted by a vote of 126 to 82. Subsequently, the bill was ordered to a third reading, by a majority of 50. By this bill the duties on all articles imported into the country, with some few exceptions, are reduced 20 per cent. A prohibitory liquor law was passed in the Dela. ware House of Delegates on the 19th nit. by a vote of eleven to ten. The Marquis Taglisearne, Chargé d'Affaires from Sardinia to the American government, had an inter view with Mayor Wood on the 22nd, in relation to the alleged convicts who are expected there by the Sardinian frigate Des Genes. In the course of his conference upon this subject he informed the Mayor that the passengers were not convicts, bet political exiles, who had become obnoxious and dangerous to the government in consequence of their revolutionary and republican principles, and that the gove rnment , in self-defence, was oblig e d to send them i n t o ex il e . This, he stated, was their true character; and if it should prove correct there will be neopposition made to their landing; but their true character will first be subjected to investigation. A verdict had been rendered in the United - States District Court, which is of very great importance to importers of wool. Wool abeorbe moisture at sea, and necessarily becomes heavier by the damp, and on its arrival at New York it is liable to duty on the weight, without reference to its actual weight when shipped and invoiced in England. By the arrival of the steam ship George Law, later iniers tad been received from the following points:— San Francisco, Feb. 1; Oregon, Jan. 30; Acapulco, Feb. 6; Panama, Feb. 15; Aspinwall, Feb. 16; Bogota, N.C., Jan. 16; Valparaiso, Jan. 15; Callao, Jan. 20. By the explosion of the boilers of the steamboat Pearl, on the Sacramento River, betwees : forty and fifty persons were killed, while many others were maimed and crippled for the remainder of &sir lives. The Pearl was racing, at the time of the ad • plosion, with an opposition boat. The miners were anticipating a rich harvest at the setting-in of the rainy season, which had already commenced. A week's steady rain, it was thought, would add mil lions to the products of the placers. The criminal record presents an unusual number of atrocities. The steamer brings upwards of 1,100,000 dollars in gold dust. Business was exceedingly dull, but a revival was confidently looked for with the commencement of the rainy season. The news from Acapulco is important The pro gress of the revolutionists is so rapid and suooemfel as to warrant the belief that the career of Santa Anna is very near its termination. New Granada remained perfectly tranquil. The directors of the Panama Railroad and their friends were busy making arrange ments to inaugurate the road. Judge Bowlin, United States Minister to New Granada, was to deliver an address on the occasion. The battle of La Palma resulted in the expulsion of Echinique and the elevation of Castilla to the Pre- sidency. Castilla has decreed the liberation of all slaves in,Pero who did not take up arms in the cause of his unsuccessful opponent, pledging the govern ment to indemnify their owners within five years. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Naw Yoga, Flo. 27. The stock market exhibita more firmness. The demand for State loans is fully sustained, under the reception of resent orders from London, and also from the domestic market. There are evident signs that solid State loans will improve in value for some weeks to come. The Indiana banks are now becoming reinstated again, and will require all the floating secturitieeot that state. Foreign exchange wes is fair demand to-day. We quote London at 1091 to 1091; Paris, 6.111 to 6.131; Amsterdam, 411 to 411 ; Ramberg. P6l to 364 ; Bremen, 791. We hear if 600,000 dots. es 800,000 dots. engaged for the steamer Asia, from Boston to Liverpool, on Wednesday. The stock of all descriptions of cotton is very light for the moon, and as spinners are bare of stock, foreign advises do not exercise their legitimate influence on value. Liver pool advice' of the 9th inst., per Baltic, were received hue en the 21st inst., noting sales of the week 35,880 bales, im- port 13,704 bales, continued dullness in Liverpool and Man chester, quotations of the preceding week maintained for all grades, and " Fair" Uplands advanced Id. There was a good demand for floe for horns use this morning, and prices of better grades had an upward ten denT. We riots common to good brands of State flour at 8.18 doh. to 8 621 dole. ; favourite brands, 8.50 dole. to to 8. 21 doh:; Western, mixed, 8 811 dole. to 8 871 doh.; Michigan and Indiina, straight do., 9 dole. to 9.121 dole.; fancy brands. 9.121 dole. to 9.28 dole.: Ohio, common to good brands, 8.931 dole. to 9.121 dole. ; fancy brands, 925 dole. to 9.371 ; extra brands, 9.26 dole. to 10.75 dole.; Michigan ' and Indiana,extra do., 9.371 dole. to 9.75 dole.; Genesee, fusty brands, 9.60 deli. to 10.76 dole. ; extra brands, 10.871 dole. to 12 dole.; Canada, in bond, 9 dole. Southern flour, 8.76 dole. to 9 dole. for mixed to straight brands ; 9.121 doh. to 9.371 dole. for favourite ; and 9.311 dole. to 10.37 doh. for fancy end extra. Aye flour is firm at 6.26 doh. to 7.26 dole. Con meal: 4.371 dots. for Jersey ; Brandywine, 4.75 deb tor bbl,.; and puncheons, 21.60 dole. cub. Prime wheat is scarce, and held at high rates ; 700 bushels inferior mothers red sold at 166 dole. Barley is held at 124 e. to 126 e. Pitman; TO Lormog.- Wheat, ed. to eid. ; corn, 6d. to 61d. ; flour, ls. 10d. to 2a. ; rosin, 2s. 3d. ; turpentine, 2e. 3d. to ls. Bd. ; dead weight, 225. ed. to 26e. ; measure ment, 16e. to 20m. ; beef, tierces, 3.. 6d. to 4s. ; pork, Mgt, 2a. 9d. to 3e. 3d. AUSTRALIA. LIVERPOOL, &kV:WAY. The White Star clipper-ship Arabian, Captain Bannetyne, arrived at this port early this morning teas Melbourne, which she left on the 18th December. ---• The news brought by the Arabian is a fortnight later than that previously to hand, but it is not of much general im portance. It will be seen by the subjoined letter that the storm at the diggings ha s Mown over and tranquillity re doted : "Ballarat, December 14, 18.54. " An almost perfect calmness bee succeeded the steno in the political atmosphere here ; yet the clouds hang darkly overhead, and are heavily charged with electricity. No movement in camp or gold field—the soldiers lolling abut in the shady places, and the government hones on their legs tied up to stakes, and exposed to the scorching rays of the sun. It is reported that all the officials, with one or two exceptions, have resigned previous to being di missed, but it is probable that nothing in this respect will be derided until after the arrival of the new communion, which is ex pected here in a few days. " The speech of the new Colonial Secretary has gives great satisfaction, as well as the manner of the Lieutenaat 4aoventor, in paying such marked attention to the deputa tion from the diggers of Bendigo, and the prospective repeal of the unjust licenee•tax is taken as a popular triumph. In fact, this law le ispractieable as well as harm ing ; one half of the diggers sever paid the tax, and the other half never will again, as it is doomed to be throws oat of the legbisdro semen. " primmer that down by the military, or rather by the polies, ea ths rorissing of the 4th, lies dangerously ill in the asap, sad away frestille swam of brutality enacted on that oalweasiate swedes an seising to light, whisk will afford water for bereediallem. " The magnates of the maw de not stir oat se yet smog the diggers, who are left to nide their own claims and die onto' without say iiderpedlits ea the part of the authori ties. One of these watts ii anal gentlemen de clares he should like to see the Marie eafreaehised equalir with the sedition meow hears km been to rale over.