The Express. — London, England, 1855-01-06 00:00:00

VIE NEW RETURN AM OF NEWSPAPER STP& The retire *I aewspipst stamps joid issued gives she issereiiii lash@ : lint QWIST. Snead Omar, Daily Jews . . 319,191 348,044 Morning Herald . . 003,000 200,000 Nosing Pest . . )16,000 220,000 lilerslai Chisel& . . MAO 106,000 itiptili . . 177,133 196,369 Globe . . . 176,000 196,000 Seak . . . 160,000 192,000 'toadied . . . 103,000 104.000 gilt entrefsfs. TO CORKESPONDINTS. aanwei mime kaprar."tatakkatlka makes "Oasatta; Is rallied mei TuN mkt MOM Meth is tills Az ma lahertakaalakteasiat kr .The ittaka," Lieligo Sasaki yam Imo Mat tbsallak 114 lawartadteset, b Tye Abet as Ur kg at palkawk.. SION WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE, Tsai Div—asiams. A. as Aftersaa, 411. U.. Tosounow—Mondak, a. Ha.— Atterasoa. 414. 47a. LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY G. LATEST NEWS FROM ABROAD THE CRIMEA. AND DATTISII VIENNA, F *IDAT. Adrian from Sebastopol state that the Rmaians are taking up a position to the north of the fortress to be ready to repulse an expected attack from that quarter.—Daily News. RUSSIAN ATTACK ON REDOUT-BALE. A letter dated Batoum, Deo. 3, reports that the Russians had made an attack on Redout Bale with a force of 2,000 foot and 300 horse. They were rigorously repulsed by the garrison of the place, supported by 630 men who bad been landed that same morning from the Mansour, a Tunisian steam coarette.—Dally Aiwa. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dic. 23. The Britannia and Trafalgar have left for Eng land. The carp of No. 119 British transport was ►arnt in port. —Times. The following is news of the 28th December, from Weiss, via Csernowits :—" Powerful reinforcements are arriving. There are snow storms, with frost. Two companies of soldiers on their march, and 40 waggon loads of sack men, have been frozen to death. The thermometer (Resumer) is 24 degrees below zero—equivalent to 22.00 Fahrenheit."—Times. Adyices from Berlin, under this date, affirm that Austria has demanded the mobilisation of the Prus sian army, and that she has addressed, in like manner, a note to the Germanic Diet, showing that there is good reason for the mobilisation of half of the federal contingents. It is also said in semi-official quarters, that Proud' will not accede to the Austrian demand. AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA. JAw. 6. Austria has farther declared that, if peso• were net assured by the Ist January, or within • short period from that date, the moment would have come for Prussia to fulfil her engagements. These serge. meats, made in the military treaty of the 20th April, bind Prussia to mobilise 100,000 men in 30 days, and 100,000 more in three weeks afterwards.—Post. Galignani publishes a private telegraphic despatch, dated Vienna, Jan. 3, attd statiog that during the fifteen days which the Allied Powers have granted to Prince Oortchakoff, in order that he may have full instructions from St. Petersburg, the conferences between the Russian Envoy and Count Buol will continue. The same despatch says that the Duke and Duchess of Brabant will take their departure from Vienna on the Bth inst. The Moxitster of this morning announces that M• de Boarqueney, the Minister of France at Vienna, has bean commissioned by the Emperor to deliver the Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honour to the Emperor of Austria. Yesterday, the Council of State met, under the presidency of the Emperor, to consider a bill for cre sting a dotation of the army, to replace military pensions.—Daily News. PARIS, Firm Ay. FRESH REVOLT AND EXECUTION OF BOU-BAGHLA. AND TILIDDAPIL) DAILY NEWS.) (IT Craox 1 PARIS, SATURDAY, JAN. 8 a.x. We have received the following intelligence, under date of Algiers, Deo. 30 : " Bon-Bagbla has again revolted; but the inaur rection has been suppressed, and the rebel has been beheaded." OZILWAN PAm MONZT.--The following daises and amenate of stesey ere ;lately effected by the Pent est he the drealsties •f psper entrees, la Trunk : Hiewden of Sassy, state paper 6,200,190 rind.; sates of the Lripti*Mrsoka Railw, 600,000 dad. ; notes of the Basses Beak, 100,000 rin d,; notes ef the obssanlrs Bank, 300,000 Hod. ; Kingdom of Hassown„ peps gamey of the City of Hanover, nO,OOO rind.; Elsa heel Hews, State paper wham 2 willing of rind .; who It the Osersi Osmniesiel Beak, 200,000 rind. ; Saxe 'Weiser, Saes b a n pMIDEM 190,000 dad. ; Brosswish be wsli o ef o She assent k MAIO Amt.; thae Coburg elate pew, 800,001 rind.; Sale Meiningen, Mato paper. ,000 dad. ; gene ithesherg. ditto, 100,000 rlad.; Ashok, hate, I,Boo,ooorind. • mese of the Deem Beak, 1,400,000 had. ; notes of the Be'rstresi Kteihseer Railway, Twos rind. ; Schwavnibesi Raids:at, Nab pre, MON dal.; Besse ditto, IKON dni , bsweva i tsw ast Abs. the sites of he etiw basks, whisk seem% ne w 10 willies s ears. AnTZAClAL—Lettere frent Astrachan, written eerie is Deseesber, dessethe a semen that had just bees gips there. Verdi'a Hahne sad Badmen meter* to lb. 800 at WIN Med, bee wise ad heir se selreethe se a rah_marita nerston i l wok war's emus boriluant Ma the verde " Beheld Dabs n !" am was three doss sneered. Nobody can persuade. the Bnsians, sap air eenespeadent, that Lord Plumate. h set the sole Whir if the pawn war. caVITAL PALACE, JAN. 11 . 0 -111EILLINO DAY.-. Ad ia b o k 4 k b : the dome ; 2,892; eihdoe try mess tisk*, , 474 CAL 1 THE REVENUE.' . Tax Revenue Returns for the last quieter of the I year, which we now publish is dna enstelt, arto•ta tremsly favourable. Let us initial our readeri that from the very beginning of feat year the lest Map don of the tea duty was in operation, which was not the ease the year before; that the second reduction has been in operation through three quarters of 1834, and not in 1863 ; that no new Customs dudes have been imposed, exespt a small addition to the dudes on *agar; sad that. notwithstanding, theCustonserevenne for the last grader has increased by 584,0721. This 's a conArmation of the statements we have continually made that is spite of the war the consumptive power of the people has continued unabated or has Jammed. In hike manner the Excise revenue has increased in the quarter 602,9521.; but in the Excise there has been an increase in the malt duties, which has came into operation in the present quarter. A run is made against the use of intoxicating drinks: the people certainly have not so much money to spare, owing to the dearness of bread; and it is probable that the increase in the Exam; revenue does not exactly come up to the increase expected from the general welfare and the increase in the malt duties. A part of the Excise is yet derived from the objectionable duty on paper, and the scarcity of materials for making it will have tended to depress this branch of the It will be emu that the Stamps have yielded in the quarter 79,4391. more than in the corresponding quarter of 1833-4, though a reduction has been made on the rates, while the duties have been ex tended to more objects. We may at bout infer from the increase that those who extended the duties while they reduced the rates have not been mis taken. In the Taxes there is a reduction of 114,0584 a sign perhaps that those who feel the weight of addi tional taxation, and have the opportunity. are trying to save something in the size of their homes or in the use of other articles liable to taxation. The Property Tax shows an incense of 483,932 k on the quarter, and 1,887,8831. on the year. But it must be remembered that the increased rates have yet scarcely come into operation. They ware dos only, for the half-year, on October 10, and except on public salaries and dividends on which the tax was carefully stopped in July and October. They are only now in come of collection. Such an increase as we have mentioned Is an index to the greater increase which will be shown next quarter. In the Post-offioe revenue there is a decline, no doubt in consequence of the greatly increased ex pense to which that department has lately been subjected for the public service. Differing from every other tax, the Post-office revenue is collected as pay. meet for certain services, which are u essential to the welfare of the community as those performed by railway or steam navigation companies. It is not surprising, therefore, as the services are made more efficient and extensive, that they should cast more, and that a lees net revenue should at present be obtained from them. After deducting the decrease, the net incresse of the revenue on the last quarter is 1,440,6671., which is, we believe, 2,000,0001. more than was anticipated. The net increase on the year is 2,291,3681., and the net increase in the nine months which have elapsed of the financial year commencing on April 6, 1864, is 1,928,3161. ; from which we may fairly anticipate, as the proceeds of the increased rates of the property and income tax will then be collected, a very large increase in the next quarter. The accounts will show the reader that to provide for all the expense of the quarter, including dividends on the debt, &c., an advance by the Bank will be necessity, as is usual at almost every quarter, except when there is a large surplus revenue. But this quarter it will be less than in any quarter of the previous year, 1,619,5341. For this, new deficiency bills will be issued ; but, as they are always redeemed as the revenue accrues, the advance required from the Bank will really be very small, and will be made for a very short period. If we did not look at the expenditure of the quarter and the year, as well as at the income, we should take into consideration only half the @abject, and might fall into grievous mis takes; bat when in addition to finding the revenue on the increase we find that it and the supplies voted are nearly equivalent to the expenditure--that all costs axe defrayed, while nobody is oppressed by taxation and no industry hampered—we have embraced the whole subject, and have great reason to rejoice at the condition of the country. Instead of moaning and whining over our great exertions and decaying trade, we may exult at our prosperity and our power. These returns come appropriately, we think, to rebuke the desponding, gloomy, and exaggerated views in which a contem porary yesterday indulged. The Times, however, is as mistaken in its facts as it is anti-national in its sentiments. The slightest inspection of the Trade Tables would have shown the writer in the Times that, though consumption continues to in crease, the imports do not, u he asserts, increase. Grain is not, as he says, the only exception to this rule. In November the imports of cotton, hemp, linseed, oxen, coffee, dye stuffs, glass, gloves, some metals, some oils, provisions, thrown silk, spices, rum, sugar, tea, colonial timber, dc., increased, but the importations of the bulk of the other articles, including cocoa, wine, brandy, tobacco—mentioned by the Times as if they had increased in impor tation is well as consumption-sad including raw silk, wool, some oils, some metals, some seeds, hides, potatoes, tallow, and grain of all kinds, have fallen off in the month. In the eleven months, how- ever, as a slight inspection of the tables will show, the imports of all animals except oxen, of cocoa, some dye stuffs, flax, hemp, fruits, hides, tallow, tobacco, wine, cotton, wool, fro g have declined in 1864. There are not increased quantit i es, th erefore . . ultimately to be paid for, as the Times tries to frighten es by saying, but of many things greatly diminished quantities. The lime., too, is ignorant —though it says at the beginning of its leader that the imports flow in months after the transactions from which they arise —that, as the rule, most of our imports are paid for before they come, and that by our exports credit is given to our customers. The imports are more likely, therefore, to be payments of debt than something lent as for which we shall have to pay hereafter. Though the declared value of our exports has diminished in the last month, as compared to the corresponding mouth of 1853, it must be remembered that lest year, in November, the gold fever was at its height, and that the value of the exports then exceeded the value of the exports in the corresponding month of 1852 by 1,595,7301. But even in 1862 the gold fever had began, and the declared vales of the exports in that math exceeded the value in the corresponding month of 1861 by nearly a million, actually 844,8141. Thus the falling off in the declared value of exports in the eleventh month of 1854 is very small, as com pared to the eleventh month of 1862, while the value of exports in Nov., 1864, exceeds that of 1851 by half a million. There is no justification in facts for the gloomy sentimentalism in which the Times indulges. Of late, that journal has habitually disregarded facts, and, as in this instance, aimed only at expressing vulgar and flashy seniill•Otality by string writing. What the Count Colloredo, the Austrian Minister, had an btu view with the Eul of Clarendon yesterday at the Foreign aloe. The Lord Chancellor will receive the Judges, Queen's Counsel, &c., on Thureday next, the first day of Hilary Turn, at his lordship's residence in Upper Brook-street, at 12 o'clock. A deputation from the Manchester Commercial Associa tion had as interview with the Earl of Clarendon peter. day at the Foreign-dace on the subject of the Customs duties at Shanghai. The deputation emulated of Miens. Leopold MU, Hobert Smith, R. J. Farbridge, and Hugh Fleming (Secretary) ; and from the Chamber of Commerce Messrs. Finlay, Worthhsgton, and Ashton; and from Shanghai Messrs. Kay and Grey. . _ Despatches for thr Governors of the North American Colonies were sent last mains from the Colonial-dam The %ohms of Sutherland, accompanied by the Deka and Duchess of Argyll, ham boaoared the Turkish Exhibition with their visit, and seemed much pleased. The museum has also bees visited and approved of by the Marchioness of Duwashire and the Duke of Wellington. The Princess of Prussia is suffering at Cobhate from a slight attack of erysipelas, bat it ie hoped that she will completely recover in a few days. • The Prince and Princess Caridja, accompanied by their eon, a captain in the Ottoman lonise, have arrived at Berlin, on their way to the Hague where the Prince wi ll reside u Ottoman Envoy Euradinery to the Nether lands Court. All three have been welcomed by numerous friends. The Duke and Duchess of Wellington, who have been receiving a low saint friends and relatives at Strath. ileidsage daring the put fortnight, are 'spa:tat to return 1 to town at the close of the ensuing week. _ Lord Wodehoure, Under-S;orehu7 of State for the Foreign Department, will remain in town daring the recess. Letters from Darmstadt report that Log Louis of Bavaria wen visited ea the 30th with a fainting di. Recovering cemoiousear he expressed the conviction that his end drew n i tit, received the Lord's supper, sent for his friends and dred at hand, and realised km self to death. Oa the 31st be was .till in great danger. At Munich, prayers have been offered for his recovery, and all the festivities of the season have been postponed. A telegraphic despatch he from Mulch states that on the 2nd reisaised very ill. ARRIVAL OP THE BOXIIOL—The Poulain:Mr and Oriental oempany'a Mem packet Basins, Captain Potts Admiralty t, Lieutenant Charleston, R.N. arrived at Son with the India and Ch ina mails. Her dame an: Dee. 10; Malta, 26th; Gibral tar, 70th. The Rusin, Wisp 417 peseengere, amongst whom are Major Goma! Btaiell, Colonel Gough, L ie utenant the Hon. J. Colbourn% Ca Majendie, Commander R.N.; Lieutenant lfeaaMy RI. ; Lieutenant Baird, RN. Ships seen ocapsios with ihstiog as voyage : Dee. 25. if Cape Bon, a Imp mew chip UMW bine ; hit, screw transport (1U), sad mow sesmse, visewu ; Jan. 1, mew tramper% sekarws; ta, eaissaur Natal Move. nuts of her Meiertyle ships: Off Pentelaria, Curlew; at Malta, DIA. 25. Osplen and Seam a n; at Gibraltar, Die. 80, EWA asslo3cqpa. limistipplied out ol the het Insoles tor the Quarter t _I 4 i nitie s W WI = d Oerber ai rl i e s ye GI 1264,670, the Iletpluo ahareed to:th; aittk 4 : Feed hce the meld (hurter, elidlerty applied t2,193,912 Ibl gybed to Supply Itildese in the Quarter add kaarmy 6, 1639: 00 el the OounOdafad Fund P6,732,746 Owlet Fachepter Heeds 43 09,960 Oat at Zzabooseellills Chose at the Oneeildated Fund for the Quarter ended 13,390,226 feeeeral f i a r, eln.: et ON Poratenest Debt £3,807,996 Tersdralle Debt. 673,212 Lime et Deishesy Bill 6O Ile Clidi lit 011er Choose en Oneelleated Fund 367,756 Mennen tor Mks Works, &0. ..« 196,047 a 1,143,166 Ilikete et Antenut received for Ezelequer B.M. appro. rit i rlilivait iglb ra t t° Bu eli r im ' remaijg2l 230,6 16=Dalmee hoptel On ot the Oterolidated err the theerler mild January 3,1659, do. : Orest Mak Irani ...... 5464.068 ••••••• 464.068 THE CIVIL BERVICE.—Mr. Frannie Roar lias been appointed mulattos examiner, in the Audit-office, Somerset-bonne, vice Bidwell, resigned. Mr. George Mood eon Ma been appointed mmeyor-general of tonnage, under the Merchant Shipping Age. 1864, In Leaden. Mr. F. Dalin has been appointed dueoghlansa Ile the surveyor. general of tonnage, in Diadem 11r. I. Paxton has been appointed to be landing wetter in London. Mr. A. Angelo has been appointed desk for general business in London. Mr. W. EL rhstilme bks been appointed clerk in the Comptroller of AoreMete, Loudon Docks. Mr. W. C. Meeleas, whale pee from the controllership at Dover to the milesionalp at Tram we announced last week, has endassod elteedeas with Mr. Ferris the collector at Portsmouth. Mr. Robert Marc has been promoted from the mould to the lest dem efsearchers at Leith. Mr. Peter IL SWIM hes bees promoted from the third clue to the MONA 11.211 de searchers at Leith. Mr. Valentine Selght beim promoted from the fourth to the third elms of megehen at Leith. Mr. F. A. Galledy, clerk at Corfu, her been appointed depot, ordnance storekeeper at Malta. Vile rem. Messrs. Mlithell and Baker have been &WM , ' tommaterishills at Um Tower. A clerkship is Ivaseat et _ dwwier Gaseste. • _ COLIMOSI CRf TIM SCOTTISH CENTRAL. RAILWAY. —An natertemeb slabs of an express and goods train occurred at the Larbert Junction of the Scottish Central Railway, on the Swift of Tuesday, about five o'clock. A fast paigsw, er aqwees train, wee reseeding is the oodles* Mogi= b Malaga% ma a pea train was at the ease See es Ife Iha geksg the merge direction. The meal dam* Opal was displayed to the ap =peer, which, stately, seems not to has = a ern or attended to, end the danger was Lambast before the engine was seemed or the basks applied le the sprees train which eengetrestly sea Leto i lie Will train with such 'fora that Wyse geode trucks were actually shivered to pieces, and piled up a mars, wreck uges the line, the tender of the sires Sig, with the grime el the col lides, thrown of the lies. t h asesher WS se saddest of a fatal character took piss. Ws learn SS a Ns. Dunes, belonging so Larbert, salved some foreleg, thou 6 not serious ones ; and that the guard, eased Andrew Beaks, gOOd deal bruised. The passengers, WI re coarse we a was a deal frightened, and were Jolted eensid bl; by the sadder shock II the goilbiOn.—Girisgws D rug Yea , tootir.: THE WAR. MANIFESTO OF THE CZAR. ' In an extraordinary supplement of the Journal de Polersbourg of the 28th December we find the following document : " By the grace of God, we, Nicholas the First, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Rossi's, &a, &c., &c., make known : " The causes of the war, that which luta, are well understood by our beloved Russia. The country knows that neither ambitious views, nor the desire of obtaining new advantages to which we had no right, were the motives for those acts and circum stances that have unexpectedly resulted in the ex isting straggle. We had solely in view the safe guard of the solemnly roognised immunities of the orthodox church and of oar co-religionists in the East. But certain governments, attributing to us in terested and secret intentions that were far from our thoughts, have complicated the solution of the ques tion, and have finished by forming an alliance hostile to Russia. " After having proclaimed as their object the safety of tie Ottoman empire, they wage open war against us—not in Turkey, but within the limits of our own realm, directing their blows on such points as are more or lees accessible to them—in the Baltic, the White Sea, the Black Sea, the Crimes, and even on the tar distant coasts of the Pacific Ocean. Thanks to the Most Bigh,both in our troops and in all classes of our subjects, they everywhere meet with intrepid opponents, animated by their love for us and for their country ; and, to our consolation in these troublous circumstances, amid the calamities inseparable from war, we are constantly witnessing brilliant examples and proofs of this feeling, as well as of the courage that it inspires. " Such are the defeats more than once inflicted on the eaemy's troops on the other side of the Caucasus, notwithstanding a great disparity of force. Such was the unequal conflict sustained with success by the defenders of the coasts of Finland, of the convent of Solovetsky, and of the port of Petropanlovsky in Kamchatka. Such, above all, is the heroic de fence of Sebastopol, signalised by so many ex ploits of invincible courage and indefatigable activity, as to be admired and done justice to by our enemies themselves. " Beholding, with humble gratitude towards God, the toils, the bravery, the self-denial of our forms both by land and sea, and also the general outburst of de. votion that animates all ranks of the empire, we ven ture to recognise therein the pledge and augury of a happier future. "Penetrated with our duty as a Christian, we cannot desire a prolonged effusion of blood, and cer tainly we shall not reject any offers and conditions of peace, if they are compatible with the dignity of our empire and the interests of our well-beloved subjects. But another and not less sacred duty commands us, in this obstinate struggle, to keep ourselves prepared for efforts and sacrifices proportioned to the means of action directed against us. " Russians ! my faithful children ! you are accus tomed to spare nothing when called by Providence to a great and holy work—neither :your wealth, the fruit of long years of toil, nor your lives—not your own blood, nor the blood of your children. The noble ardour that has inflamed your hearts from the first hour of the war will not be extinguished, happen what may, and your feelings are those also of your Sovereign. " We all, Monarch and subjects, if it be necessary —echoing the words of the Emperor Alexander, in a year of like trial, the sword in our hands and the Cross in our hearts—know how to face the ranks of our enemies for the defence of the most precious gifts of this world, the security and the honour of our country. " (liven at Oatchina, the 14th day of the month of December, in the year of grace, 18H, and the 30th of our reign. (Signed) "NICHOLAS." The As‘gebury Gazette, adding one more to the already numerous accounts of the conference at Vienna on the 28th, remarks on the result of that day's proceedings : Prince Gorteltaitoff immediately sent off a courier to St. Petersburg to convey the interpretation of the three powers, and to demand further instruetioos. This does not be token peace; the Prince was already empowered and in structed to enter into negotiations upon such en interpreta tion of the four points as Russia could consider fair and natural. Insomuch as be has not taken this course, we are to infer that be considers the interpretation violent and un air, end therefore object. to go further until be receives new instructions. Meanwhile we hear that the claims of the three powers have in reality been much toned down in the process of interpretation, a result which is to be attri buted to the efforts of the Austrian Minister. A letter front Vienna of the 30th ult., in the same journal, says: The cernoentrauon of the 4th army in Gailicia will only take place in the course of the month of January. It has for object to echelon the troops along the high roads of that province, in order to dispose of them for all the operations required. It may be affirmed, from good sources, that there are from 180,000 to 190,000 men and 60,000 horses in Galicia and the Bukowins. Lately there were 48,000 men in the neighbourhood of Cracow, 40,000 near Lemberg, 30,000 in the countries between these two pieces, and 70,000 in Eastern Galliaa and the Bukowina. The force of the 3rd army, nearly altogether in Transylvania, is from 130,000 to 140,000 men, without reckoning the 40,000 men of Count Coronini, in the Principalities. The army of opera tion, commanded by Baron de Rees, consequently mounts to nearly 360,000 men, without reckoning the reserve, and 100,000 horses. It is, therefore, evident that Austria has prepared herself for the eventuality of mating war on Russia, without the aid of the Germanic Confederation. The following, under date of Vienna, Jan. 5, ap pears in the Prone of Vienna : " Prince Stirbey ie raising an auxiliary corps of 10,000 Wallachians, to assist the Turks against the Russians." A letter from Cracow, 30th ult., in the National Gazette of Berlin, says: The Cue of to day states that it can affirm, on good authority, and on the faith of letters from St. Petersburg, that the departure of the Austrian ambassador from that city war fixed for tke 3rd January. The Emperor Nicholas rejects all concessions which differ from theme contained in the note of the Count de Nemelrode of the 28th November, and has decided to continue the war with vigour. A Constantinople letter of the 25th ult., in the Semaphore of Marseilles, say.: For a month past attempts have been snaking to organise a mixed police at Pere and Goleta. A commisaion, of which Captain de Courvilla and M. Pottier, side-de-camp of Manuel Lugeol, Colonel Lord Paulet, and 3d. Chabert, *dragoman of the British Legation, are members, has been instituted for this purpose, but as yet without result. It is time, however, to come to a decision, for if the Anglo- French soldiers and sailors sometimes sommit excesses for the repression of which the Turkish police is inefficient, they an generally the object, and frequently the victims, of nocturnal attempts at assassination. Oa Thursday night last, for instance, two French soldiers and an English sol dier, were seriously wounded with knives by some men, who are supposed to be Italians. The Constitutionnel says : We have spoken on the authority of a despatch from Odessa of the 26th alt., of an intended attack on Balsklava by General Liprandi. Liam from the Crimea of the 22nd received yesterday in Paris state, that in fact some move ments of the Russian general had led to the supposition that an attack was intended for the 20th ; bat a reconnais sance showed that General Liprendi, far from undertaking anything serious on that posit, was remaining behind en trenched forts on the road to Bimpheropol, sad that he had not 8,000 mea in his advanced posts along the Belbeck. It was not supposed that there would be anything serious for some time. The roads were impracticable, particularly for heavy artillery and ammunition. Ow soldiers are organ. bring themselves as well as they can for passing the winter. They have, above all, adopted the system of excavations in the ground covered over either with teats or with roofs of wood, or brushwood plastered over with mud mixed up 'with straw. In that way they are protected from the wind. Already our Zoltan, have made similar retreats for their friends the Scotch. It is a continual exchange of good offices. Wiaterelothiag and provisions arrive in abundance for our soldiers. They have received tobacco and cigars, and have had distributed to them fresh meat, bacon, wine, brandy, and coffee. Wooden shoo are expected, which will be exceediagly welcome. The officers have received sheep skin coats, and the soldiers are allowed similar ones for the trenches. The Russians, on their side, neglect nothing to fortify themselves in their positions. Everything is in pre paratron for a great straggle. The Turkish corps, which is anteing at Bupatoria, is sent by divisions of 4,000 men or 6,000 men. French cavalry is also belkg expected from Bourgu. It is a campaign, perhaps, more than a siege which is in preparation. The same journal adds : In addition to the news which we receive by our letters from the Crimea, we learn from Constantinople that the Turks have already had a serious engagemeat with the Cossack' in the neighbourhood of Booster's', bat all that h yet known of the affair is that the Turks pat the C en ows*, entirely to the rout and took from them 600 horses, me of which were sent to the bead-quarters of the Allies. Omee Pseha was expected at Varna on the 23rd. The reek bad conveyed the first body of Turkish troop, to the Crime, had returned to take on board the remainder as they arrived. There bas been lately a slight return of the choke', which appears to have exclusively attacked the y e ars . soldiers who had recently arrived. Th e malady was-alea on the decline, and in fifteen days had oaly made 200 vie, time. What most prevail are affections of dysentery, will* attack the English more than the French, bat notwith stand's( the number of sick the mortality was not mai. &treble. Prince Napoleon was recovering slowly. R e h e t bad frequent returns of irritation of the digestive organ which retarded his convalescence. It was thought that be persisted in his intention of returning to the Crimea. Captain Roux, one of his sides-de-camp, who had been mat on a special mission to General Canrobezt, returned to Constantinople on this 26th. ~~ THE EXPRESS. SATURDAY MINING, JANUARY 6, 1855. ...s se sApaiefertane—the redaction RI *RI .-60esw in trade regard aa an advaatage ► lee' an aware that snow of the exports of 1863 .Its a parties of the nstional wealth thrown away, and the raerWprodsnee in exporters will sneers all elegem grpoter profits, and, in the end. more employ. mint.—Doily Naos. pews r THE REVENUE. :. ... No. L—AN ABSTRACT OF THE NET PRO DUCE OF THE REVENUE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, in the year and quarters sada January 6,1564 and 11166. STATE AND PROSPECTS OF THE WAR. IN General CANZOBUYS despatch, which we published yesterday, the withdrawal of the Russians from the left bank of the Tammy& is attributed, mojocturally, to " the debarkation of Turkish troops still going on at Enpatoria." A telegraphic despatch' from Vienna which we publish today, and which probably emus originally from Odessa, speaks of a concentration of the Russian forces on ihe - north side of Sebastopol, with a view to repel an expected attack from that quarter. Them concurring statements would seem to indicate that one object for which Turkish troops have been drafted to the Crimea from the army of the Danube has been to en. able the Allies to complete the investment of Sebastopol. In the approaching completion of this operation have probably originated the confident assertions which have been put in circula tion respecting a determination to storm the place without longer delay. Circumstances do indeed appear to foreshadow the near approach of such a dreadful struggle, but under more favourable auspices than some croakers would have us believe. Orirs PAULA Seems at one time to have turned restive; but it would be hard on the Turkish Generaliasinto not to tolerate his being unreasonable at times as well as his neighbours. And our latest reliable accounts from Constantinople represent the great body of French and ilnglish officers as noway' despondent— as looking forward to a "tough job," bat one which they feel confident they can accomplish. The City was visited yesterday by a report that , an early conclusion of pesos is certain. Our in formants, we have had occasion to learn by expo• Hence, have Seen/ to know what is intended and hoped by men high in office. On the present 00M1- Men we most, however, be excused for remaining in the belief that "the wish has been father to the thought." The intelligence received from St. Peters burg by the best-informed Greek houses is that the EMPEROR is obstinate to do or suffer the utmost. This, it is true, may be a blind ; but it is consistent with the character of Nicriotss, and with the clang of preparation which resounds from the interior of Russia. The most infallible means whereby the French and English Governments can accelerate the return of peace is steadily to banish it at present from all their mlculations.—Daily News. ine Court. REMOVAL OF THE COURT TO OSBORNE. (lead the alert Oirieler.) Wl/68011, JAL 6. The Queen and Prince Albert, with the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice, attended by ths Vimountess Canning, Major-General the Hoe. Charles Grey, Colonel F. H. Seymour, and the Master of the Hoiesehild left Windsor I by a special train at tea minutia past nine o'clock this morn. Mg for Osborse. A. Guard of Honour of the Royal Beek's Militia was on duty with the Band of the Regiment at the railway station, and :waived her Majesty with the usual honours. The dinner party yesterday Included the Duchess of Kent. Lady Fanny Howard, and the Hes. Mary Seymour. (110 X OUZ OWN PORTSMOUTH, hx. IL Her Majesty, Prises Albert, the Royal Chilieen,atdthe Court, arrived at Clarence Yard, by train, at seven minutes past Eleven this moraisg, en route to Osborne Howe. Her Majesty was received by a guard of honour from the Royal Marines with the band of the corps, and by the usual officials, including the Commander-in-Chief, Vim-Admiral Sir T. J. Cochrane, K.C.8., Major-General, Sir Frederick Sniith,K.H., Acting Lieutenant-Governor; Arefral Superin tendent Martin ; Captain Smith, Superintendent of Clarence Yard; Captains the Hon. Joseph Heiman and Crispin, of the Victoria and Albert; Meters. Davies and Pinhore, of Clarence Yazd, and the staff and flag officers of the port and garrison. The customary royal salutes were fired by the Victory, St. Vincent, and Illustrious, in harbour; by the garrison from the sainting platform, and subsequently by the Duke of Wellington, 131, lying at Spithead. Her Majesty immediately embarked on board the Fairy, tender to the Royal yacht, which was lying 'kali& the Clsrenee-yard Jetty, and went out of harbour, passing close to the Dake of Wellington, whose crew manned yards, sad cheered her Majesty most heartily. The Duke was dressed it colours, whilst the ships in ►arbour had mast-head ea- Atins dying. After a ileamant run through Spithead, the morning being beautifully fine, her Majesty arrived at Osborne House at a quarter to 1 o'clock. The stay of the Court at Osborne is only expected to be for a few days. The crew of the royal yacht, Victoria and Albert, embark on board the Lucifer steamer te-day, and proceed to-mer row to Pembroke, to bring round the new royal yacht. 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No. lII.—AN ACCOUNT SHOWING REVENUE AND OTHER RECEII Quarter ended January 6, 1855 ; the the use, and the Charge of the Coneolidat the odd Quarter, together with the Bus fidelity upon each Charge. aii= Salmi bored the amp 0( the Consolidated to, UM, vie.: ilia BOSE —.— Vilma Babas el nnatruedvad kw Inhequer Banda W Pee Sam& Is Ow* Servbee, In • t 1114,888 L IM :11 anu lll.llll Ili 0860 Mr 111, ISM Netbamersualesdb be Quarter coded January 3,1865, MO OM iS MINIMA L Aninunt renhell In tin Quarter ending birusy 6, 1835, br libbefor blab bastett. 1,449,849 Aaositel lashavier BO (Supply) blued In theQuartar esasig karma 6, 1665 665,590 Among reggiesil kr as Quarter debug January 5, 1655, ill ripisaset Advances for Public Wort', he 415,920 13=1 1 =tbe Deficiency nyen th e merge of the •-••••••....r. Fond In Greet Britain, end ioe win& Ex. ebeque Vila (Dedoiency) will be Want. 1,519,534 r' § I i 4 .... .:' Y I h .t. f g ie . .1 11 gl 3111116 - 21/C1 P. 2 l;j g .g X I , .5. ' ,_,•-• -. X X Pi. f SF.EIREES q P. ,1 Pxii 4 ij Is 5. k z I tilitr,=EF. r• 1 - 1. - le 4 0 . 1 ... •-. ? . .IAscAPAS.P.P.FF If 11§EitEl P. A . 1E.17..?JAP r: A le ' VD ESEI36II - ii P No. U. INCREASE and DECREASE in the Quarter and Year ended January 6, 1855; and in the nine months of the Financial Year,: from April 6, 1861, to January 6, 1866, as compered with the corresponding periods of the preceding year. :plai of the ------ -- Fun( for or De- RUSSIA. (PlOll ♦ CORLIPAPONDINT OP Till DAILY travel ANOTHER NEW FINANCIAL MEASURE. ST. PETERSBURG, Die 2.5. As a general rale, the Russian journals are strictly prohibited from publishing any personal news about any of the members of the imperial family. In all cues of births, deaths, and marriages, it is the Czar himself who acquaints his loving subjects with the news by means of a manifesto to the nation. Under these circumstances, it is not to be wondered at that the newspapers here have not dared to say a word about the alarming illness of the Empress; but to. day it has slipped out for the first time in rather a startling manner. In communicating the fact of the arrival, the day before yesterday, of the Grand Dukes Nicholas and Michael from the army in the Crimea, " on a visit to their sick mother," it goes on to add, " the health of the Empress is improyingr from which it appears that she is still unwelL It is privately circulated here, in well-informed circles, that her illness is more a disease of the mind than the body, and mainly brought on from her intense anxiety to prevent a rupture between the Czar and King Cliquot. Another new financial measure just published will confirm my former statement of the desperate state of the Russian treasury, and show to what straits the Czar is put to find money for carrying on the war. It appears in the shape of an imperial ukase, and levies an annual tax of 500 silver roubles (nearly 801.) on all manufactories of tobacco and cigars, and in order to restrict such fabrications from being car. tied on u hitherto in private houses for their domestic consumption, a tax of 300 silver roubles is imposed on such private establishments. It must be gratify. Mg to the Russians to get an official insight into the mysteries of their government exchequer from the following preamble to the ukase :—" In consequence of the imperative necessity of improving our finances in the present critical state of affairs by imposing new taxes on our liege subjects, we, Nicholas," &c. The Cologne Gazette says : Hitherto Ruasia hu brought on the theatre of war only the third of her army. In fact, Russia has placed in line the 3rd, 4th, sth, and 6th infantry corps of the active army, with the corps of dragoons of the reserve and the corps of the Caucasus. The let and 2nd corps of infantry, the two corps of cavalry of the reserve, the corps of the guards and of the grenadiers, have not appeared hitherto on the theatre of war; she keeps them to oppose Austria, and tonne besides an army of reserve of 300,000 men, commanded by General Tcheodayeff. In the spring there will appear on the line of operations an army subdivided into sin principal parts; the army of the North in the Baltic provinces, the army of the West in Poland, the army of the Dneister sad Danube, that is to say, the army of the South of Prince Gortchakoff, the army of the Crimea of Prince Meotchikoff, the army of re serve of Tcbeodayeff, and the army of the Caucasus of Ge neral Montavieff. TURKEY AND GREECE. The idoniteur of yesterday announces that the governments of Turkey and Greece are on the point of concluding a treaty of commerce and a convention for the suppression of brigandage, which has • o often led to conflicts between the two states. AUSTRIA. MOW ♦ CORRESPONDENT OP TEE DAILY NEWS.) CRACOW, Dic. 29. The position of Austria towards Russia is becoming every day more threatening; and, if the signs do not deceive, It would appear that active hostilities are on the eve of breaking out. The whole of our first in fantry corps and a division of the Grenadiers have already taken up their position on the right bank of the Vistula. The commissariat have taken the need ful steps for the due victualling of the troops, and orders have been given to the landed proprietors to furnish the necessary amounts of provisions for the men and horses in nature. General Sievers, the head of the infantry corps, who has been for some time on a visit at Warsaw, was obliged to quit that capital, by the special orders of the Emperor of Aus tria, in such a hurry, that he had not time even to take leave of his sou. Notwithstanding the threatening aspect of the Continent—says the Czas, whose Russian tendencies, however, are well known—the Polish securities have not fallen. However, it is impartial enough to add that the scarcity of metallic currency has reached a great height, and is becoming daily more severely felt in private life. The Cans publishes a letter from Poland, in which it is asserted that the military power of Russia has been greatly underrated, and that in the spring it will have no lees than six sepa rate armies all completely organised, and ready to act wherever their services are required. PRUSSIAN DESPATCH. The following is a translation of the text of the Prussian despatch of the 19th December, addressed to the Prussian Envoys at Paris and London, of which a summary has already appeared in our columns : " BERLIN, Dec. 19, 1854. " Monsieur le Comte—As I have had the honour of in forming your Excellency by telegraph, it was on the evening of the 16th instant that the Envoys of France, England, and Ass came to communicate to me olfichlly the treaty which governments signed on the 2nd of t v De cember , icons and to express to me, conform ably to Art. VI., the desire of seeing Prussia adhere to it. I lost no time in submitting that important communication to the King, our august master. His Majesty fully appreciates its great importance, and in making it the subject of a conscientious examination he has been guided by the sincere desire of associating himself, as much as his convictions and the interests of his country permit him, to the common work of re-establishing a general peace on just and durable bases. "It is with satisfaction that the King saw the protocols of Vienna referred to. His Majesty continues to regard them as the expression of the concert of the Four rewire, and attaches a particular value to everything which is of • nature to confirm the duration of that accord. It is true that Prussia did not participate in the exchange of the notes of the Oth August, the government of the King did not think it advisable, in the then general situation of things, to bind himself in that respect by any engagement whatever, but the language which, at various times, he has held at St. Petersburg, and which has not remained without effect, proves that he has endeavoured to assure a practical value to the guarantees drawn up at Vienne, by inducing the imperial Russian cabinet to adopt them. ' While en the one band the diplomatic concurrence of Prussia is then already acquired to the efforts of the other powers to fix the bases of a general peace, her transactions with Austria prove no lea, on the other, that the cabinet of the King, penetrated with the gravity of the interests com pomised by a prolongation of the menacing attitude of Ruuia, has, within the limit of certain eventualities, en gaged oven its military co-operation. " Under all these respects the analogous attitude between Prussia and the Powers who signed the treaty of the tad of December already exists, and the King, our august master, is too far from being under any illusion as to the incalculable dangers with which the ulterior unchaining of warlike passions would threaten all Europe, not to be db.' pesed to cement, in the interest of a prompt and equitable police, and the real equilibrium it is destined to guarantee, by new stipulations, as accordance the pacific weight of which would be called upon to exercise • salutary and dad- Ore influence. " Looking upon the treaty of the 2nd of December in this point of view, and recognising with utisfaction that it contains the elements of the above nature indicated, the King, our august muter, has, moreover, found in most of its articles the impression, most natural, it is tine, of its special destination, that is to say, of an entente between the Western Pewees and Austria. It would fol- low—and certainly the justness of this observation will not escape the equitable observation of the three courts who signed the treaty—that Prussia, to adhere eventually to the general tendency of that transaction, and to acme of its particular stipulations, does not find herself in a position ea swore) to accede to a treaty a 'ready concluded, ba I