The Express. — London, England, 1854-01-03 00:00:00

gite erairtoo. vlntahmrannew. , II Wm* MINI et "Tbs Symm s ' onlailiolf the raw fnethses 0 110111%* paillsbed miry Tani. ma Frusy Leis, is Um. So put Almesesistsisimilei • Lair Ityserni pipar, me is at Ur Nish nom le Two eat is the elystilisim 0100 RATIN AT LONDON bailie& tins Day—Maniac Y. Um. Atomism. 0. Pah Timsessimp—Monles, Os— ...iftarawa. Oh Oar LONDON, TUESDAY. JANUARY 3. pregnant shape r' Tint spectacle of the prosperity in England arising from free Trade has not been last epos oar neigh bours, and Cameros! Freedom is becoming gradu ally popular abroad. We saw the other day that Brother JONATHAN intends to baggiest his list of smiths that may pus free of duty into the United States: To-day we chronicle the fact that King Laorow has formally availed himself of the power recently given by the new Belgian law to "suppress the duties oo coal" imported into his dominioos.• • Loots NAPOLEON 0001118 next es the Free Trade levee. His late Dews to permit the importition of raw cotton from (heat Britain and from British possessions in Europe, *maga% it falls short of expectation—for we had been taught to look for the free importation of oottea yarn --is Mother step in the right dimities. It is said, and we believe with great truth, that the/bin:loß is per sonally disposed to go • great deal farther taw* free trade, but that the interests of thane winanggem they derive saves tag, from exesmive datimminentakt co tton, on iron, &c., are powerful 01144 1 telly restralets on his inclination. We nest, brasier, conclude that the disposidoe is not very strew, or his its will, which has erewhile crushed all that shad in his way, would speedily find means to give paid freedom to Frame trade. That he is diabase to promote the prosperity of the people be rules 101111, so farm ,is compatible with the preserved= of his own yowit,' is extremely probable, bat that he km a fall bath in the Amoy of the greet Owl* et freedom of trade to effect all, and sere Olt all, he the tomtit of moiety, that ever etatesmanshipy*lNA is Mired, compatible with the printillhnlill ketc sesdiage of his life. In hot, about * same . time that be was dealing with raw ashes be beam' moths' Dimes, still further regulating the bode et the baker, the miller, and the corn dealer in Perim a step so adverse to freedom, and even so alarming to those engaged in supplying Paris with can, that they have at once stopped their bootless, sad given dirmioas to their .gash here sot to ship the owe which bed been roiled by their orders. Such a eastradietory is not for as a proof that Lome NAPOLEON tit bire, within etrtain limitations, to promote highs of trade, but either that he doss not ander alma it, sr that be dame Dot at present allow it as /mate is Peale leg be should have revoke bon against kb authority. As a social faith, b het, Free Tiede is new not yet fay am' Yry aygemiMod 'War by people or by rules esi we MO 'set mob= the Emperor of the Fames mop ems' ma own CHANCILLOI of the limumvathee parr of the BOARD of Tama he dillisypesieg that there are many branches of What& mill be ma bring to melt greater perks ilea b eilifittione than can the persons, without his bbellibemi elm tarry them on. It is mom lammt aide es linil potemed Free Truism in Eagland con tinually adios contrary to their own pincipies than bled be lkitsrie of the FRENCH becoming a Free Trader yiseemstil Already the Frisch Government, plainly driven by the wants and necessities of the Preach people, have abolished the restrictions os the Importation of Corn and on Navigation. It has from similar motivee lowered the dation on iron and em l. Last week brought u the iseelligeaca that the Beigisa Clam hers had unanimously voted the ~peed= of all duties on coals and the free importation of coals for a limited period, which we now learn that the Rum, has finally sanctioned. In 1847 the government of that country, under a similar necessity to that which has recently led to free trade in corn in Frani', sus pended its duties on corn; the enspensioa was from time to time continued, till they were finally abo lished. The reason fee now suspending the coal duties "ls, that the emsanaption of coals—from the great activity of trade and the increase of people— is so great, that though the production has in creased to a great extent, the article is eighty five per cont. dearer than in 1850. The want of coal is impeding manufactures, stopping trade, and injuring Belgium in that competition to supply other markets which sommements moorage, and which, whether they moorage it or sot, can no more be prevented than the winds as be prevented from blowing. In 1853, then, we have had the in stractive example of France, Belgium, and we may add several States of Italy, abolishing restriations on trade became they stood in the way of supplying the waists of their people. No pence eves dreams of saying, with America and Ragland bribes him, with all Europe, and, indeed, all history open to 'him far information, that a stationary modifies is bees& cial to society. The increase of people sad of wealth is essential to social welfare. Variations of the ma mas giving sometimes short and sometimes abundant harvests, and impeding or encouraging the increase are as much a portion of the ordained coarse of the universe as the motion of the globe ea which they depend. Theshartness of food,therefore, in 1853,which snipe* eke repeal of teeteietioee, is • part of Nature, and restrictimists am compelled to deviate from their system by Nature benelL They are eon- Tiered, not by their fellow-men, but by the haws of the unitises. A regulation which moat he repealed in a bad season, is clearly a law alai& Nettie Con demns, and rwitrictiouiste, in giving up their old faith, only submit to a far higbeepower than the followers of • rival creed. The oats of England in 1842 and in 1846 was in so respect different from the case of Belgium is 1841, and Franco and Belgium in 1853. The increase of people. and of trade here, which the Government ea* with pleasure, and was &dross of promoting, made the continuance of the system / preldbition which prevailed till 1642 im possible. rt was looompatible with the prosperity Go ~meat wished for—hence many prohibitions were abolished, and many lowered in 1841. From theft re moving barriers, trade, wealth, and papal Won made a fresh start ; sod when the short harveit of 1848 mimed, accompanied 'by the potato rot, the Corn lAIIO were virtually at an end. One of the most powerful Ministers the mantry ever hid, backed by a powerful party, was unable to preserve them. They fell as restrictions in Franco and Bel gium have Men before—the Anti-Corn-law League No; before the laws of the universe, which themes berm of that league had the merit of compreheadiag sooner than their oppootots. And what has bees the result et that wise and well-timed sahmirdelto the lemoim at the book of mature, which, saibia'Abe anspicese the a Asseutroa. seems at Magtla to be ;. in oar school% wad upped by ' • • hare obstinately tried tr ilt. it eat Wire are now ita the twellik leer of ear anittimett. Eleven years serail. , awn have weed lase blind entered time bdil, into the path ef dream; ad ere have avelds• its the A Im? every year slam 1841 has bald a similar tale " borne corroborative teatime:my to the saps riori et freedom over all systems of restriction, homiest well intended, in promoting the wallas and greatness or society." Another mean» is about to enforce a similar les. eon. The progress of trade in 1853 ham made the continuance of a restrietioe on the media; trade im possible. ' A Bill, therefore, is prepared to throw it, Spa; Now, that ie dearly the inevitable deer lame of that Ptespority and program statesmen and people are alike desirous of promoting. Many dour readers will recollect a period anted. Rot to the repeal of oar prohibitive VOW" wham psi whole society was full of aisery—owhea bs were written to poise oat haw pi Wiefa ii =ba most easily checked--and to aim the which the vagabonds of the mitrepilis nightie pa lmated from soignee masts the peopsrty of the thaw trim end the hued—when fewer as parents, w 1 wee sight ha their sodden in llk were at ems RV the kb d tide madames—whoa way mai V I essabyseat wes doled with cesillatee. amtil tits l Offeetilif ad hungry athltitatlis assamil ewerywhlma is thar Sipe straggles appioner liavidsi seal other ad of costae& These wan than mbar eal immeadaems Year by ywz • rim 1841 has that oration of eociety bates improved, isd in 1863 there is fall employment far all•the pimps and parents an now with comparative ease provide for their oarpring, however numetous. With oda. tined increase of population then in sire ream VW all. Bo there is more emploYment M the mune, more means of getting a living and enjaping Bk, than twelve years age. In her genres, in bitter times Ragland is only esrpromed by Amides, or some of her own colonies 1 and the proprity of this old country under Free Trade. ressmelaring some prevalent theories, is one of the mast weeder fel and instructive atrial phenomena to be band la 1 the history of nations. We aunt my one more word—and it is shed Brother Jottermar's practical testimooy to Pail Trade. The Secretary of the Treasury in the United Pmts. in recommending Congress to aboliak duties on a great number of articles, sad le Sits the. on others, is not under any caspi mid dais to that which has influenced the modern =rasps. But his proposal is nevertheless a tedhanny in favour of Free Trade. In the Iliakilisiot is a pethara of revenue. The Omar Ind bottom autpranna while it sakes a pee* /1110 Ole pitying liable On it Mows whit to is wilit a msi the reateilybr tirdlbmider b hod Ives. ling freedom to trill this in Enrage poverty, be *merles wenn, in Maropi sulheiog, distress, and disinfest, is America great modal welfare, great soil progress, and almost universal satisfaction, im press on men the same leads. Freedom for trade is everywhere taught by nature, and not to follow her lessees is metal suicide. Wain( we bear talk of " impassable reads" our imagination plunges*, into rural naiades ea rough uncultivated countries. We recur incontinently to the deserts over which that amiable monarch the Cult Tales, or the communications through the Prairies, scarcely practicable to the Indian or the Trapper. We think of please situated is aU lati tudes, from the Equator to the Pole, from the burn ing desert to the pathless ice-fields ; but we never think of London. An *passable road within six miles of Bt. Pears appears, at fire t sight, some thing too extravagant for the wildest fancy to invent. Nevertheless, if an impassable road means nothing more than a road the difficulties of which, although surmountable by the heroism of a few, appal the determination of the many, we no recommend a dawn streets almost under the shadow of Bt. Pants itself, to the consideration of the adventurous. Just as the Faints bodiea of previous tea• vellum meet the eye of their latest imitator soling his way painfully along the terrible route thus ambit out by their remains, so do the rams bat of horses and men mark th e sweat of La. gii er the dement of Snowhill, or the slippery through the squares. Scores of Londoners been almost as well breind these last few dam as if in army of Ananias' had bean quartered hers, and plaid the debts they incurred in the only coin in whit ll Austria ever does pay its debts—castigation by the stick. The chemists can sanely meet the deemed for 'the supply of opodeltioc, and married ladies are. getting as learned is the emai -1 meet of finites by operating upon their husbands I and either* ea their prothessems in the days of chivalry, the' were se skilled in eurgery as in :t°, sad law as *Bela ibout ointments for lords is about seams for slaegleterad pee lakike.' liseleasky, the difthalties et' the streets in the thud easeiretable meal in the world area matter if *milt. No ninths peen walks out uleal be is compelled. His path, if he is obliged le egoism out, tenses day by day more dasgsrsus by the' slippery marten of the engrain now. The miseries of the wretched tattle as they toil sing, sad noreicsally tall from avant or exhaustion, earl to his discomfort. Accidents, small and great. to mad and beast must yesterday have been very numerous, for scarcely a street was fees from them. JOHNSON, when he asked,. Who world lease tuthethed Hiberela's lead, Or change the roelu of Scotland for the &read ? eimmented some of the various miseries of a town line: Bees goalies, repine, theideat, sosepire ; ~. • AO neer a id** rages, sow a arc . lii kget,„ hewer*, to mention what a bard frost aid *kit falls of snow could do in the way of causing inconvenience. Malice, and rapine,and rabble, and fire, may be found elsewhere than in Loedoo. Bat nowhere does a frost rage more desperately than is the metropolis. A road, made over the 1101161110 NAM and rough surface of the ground :11se, emery, presents few difficidties to the traveller. In London we lay down smooth sue faces the the reception of the snow when it falls, which the ice almost terns into a sheet of glare. The difficulties and danger thus presented to pedestrians in this crowded City are enhanced by the egret prodaced upon the proprietors of hack ney 'carriages. On Sunday evening there was scarcely a cab to be had for love or money. Tim; green had withdrawn them, dreading the pot atilt, &nage thiuhorses might receive. Omnibuses were few and lir between fur the same reason. Is there never to be any remedy for this state of 'thin/sin a city with two millions and a halt of inha bitants Pi We say in a city, because there may be reasons idolised foe the impassibility of clearing away large maims of snow in roads running through 1 *nutrias thialy populated. We can nada:steed, for instance, how it is that there is no s anuestnication betweea Aix-1n Chapelle and Coloiss at the present moment. But a road passing through a district the population of which may be .pc clearing away every . asseranlated in front of the liaise of every me who had at performed the ernedeli bleicelf. In the event of their being obliged Is aroma this cake for the owner of a home they &mid be empowered to levy a small sum safilsiont Is aver the expense. A shilling a base would probably do it all, and no man would be asked to pep the shilling who, by himself or his servants, elms& the nuisance from his own door. If sane sash aviation as this were adopted It amid be seesemy, of coarse, that means *aid be devised Ix reimming the operation more emegistay than is the ass at remit, whim it is entraied to the heads et mall boys with broom had* and broken shovels. A little discus sion amongst peal:dial men would soon lead to a solution of the dillieulty of remov ing snow frest the pavemsets at last. That lying in the read would present more obstacles, balsas we imagism that might tot very ally be got over. In the meandme, me obvious means of Worming the " passibility" et certain roads would be to " rough" the roads as wall as the homes. A taw man with "picks," in the most dangerous pales, and provided with sand or gravel, might res ew such places comparatively say of transit. The otherities at Chelsea have, it seems, ordered cab le& of mad to be laid daily on the roads and pavement' of the principal thoroughfares in their pariah. Why do not other localities go and de likewise? Assuredly, the present winter ought 'bile the lest in which any portion of the mimeos bight to be endured. It is disgraceful that the Lobe lis"' d the &hest city in the world should be dam Oaths their houses to incur dangers nintibr, &Übangi at equal in amount, to those in ' tamed on tbs &rim Odom Vbe court. WINDSOR, J. 2 Prince Albert, with the Prime of Wales, Prince and the Duke of Cambridge, skated ea the tee i■ the Home park, this foremoa. Her Modesty yes also pre sent. TM band of the lit Life Goads played on t►e in. The Doke of Cambridge, the Mamie of Abeners, sad the Ladies Harriet and Beatriz Hamilton, left the Castle, this afternoon, ter Lembo. A deputation, awaisting_ot Dr. Witness, president, Dr. *William sad Mr. Tooker. honorary seersteries of the Brdmisiveall Befdety, had an interview with the Sari o w 4 wstrosAberdeen, yeetorday, at his °tidal rename, in Do TM Duke ot t. Newsastis Massed to Loodea, yesterday, bon Ids seat, Clumbewpark. Meas. Despatches wire received at this tlslealsl else, yeeterday, hoe, the Governors of Ceylon, Hoeg Moog, and Malta ; ' aid also from the Lord High Comasbanww it the lonian bias& The Karl of 'glints , . is a:pseud to arrive Ms weak at his measioa is Bt. Jeassesuquare, from Satiates Castle. Is essemesenos of the death of his lassesta sestabsos, the sable earl is Mathis( up his establishment. The Duke of Beaufort has left tows for Badminton. At the seat amid kis gram is to solicit as audience of her Ma jesty, uke to delive m r op r . ineigais of the Batten o ors by the Mos d his `ba the The Marquis and Marehloases of Loadoaderry, who have arrived at Wyayard Castle, from Mount Stewart, are re. miring a few seism Meads. The Bart aged Commas Granville arrived I. Brutes street on Saturday, from a visit to hue Majesty at Wisdaor Castle. Lord and Lady lam Roswell have rmarsed to Pembroke Ledge. Richmond, from visitiog her Majesty at Windsor Crib. The Duchess Dowager of Cleveland-Mr arrived at Raley Castle, as a visit to Ms Duke andMashme of Cleveland, who sit surrounded by a family alsakW-- The Duke of Argyll &mired im few IS Saturday from Thulium. • Alexander von Humboldt kr Way given to the world, through his publieher, Cotta, the 'NI v01..M of his minor writings, antalning the gloggiffen and physics' phenomena. It is derlistateit to Luria ra Beek whoa he cells " the Wooled istretigror ot satire, east the greater pewee of tie ags," r a little saosareat of a friewithip sever disturbed fa/sixty years. Tin LONDON AND Nona-WWITERN RAILWAT Comeau: have demeaning es adoptieg a system of quer• tlntelly eentrnet dame, bemires theprunipal towns upon flu. tiro trim lor)-t .1 : AUSTRIA. Theridlile IPTsense• OEN& of the 26th ,ultidio, state" 111114itiatim* ditqatebse from Coostantinople brouciiitiatlf sons h. llith, but to the 16th of the mute month that ea intelligence from the 16th to the 27th had arched there. Up to the period in questioa the conlined AGMs had not quitted their anchorage before Coestantinopie. That paper ofikially declares also, that pot only the Russian ambaesedor Brunnow bad not quitted Londoe, bat that Austria "knew of no political rendre that could induce the departure of hie Excellency from the Court of St. James's. Oa Sunday In Vilma& it WO/ currently stated, on the authority of 'a tejegraplda die* elt, that the Turks bad again beaten the Ramis= oit the Danube. In OMMentinoph some riototul 0466ust is said to have been exhibited by certain theological students, enraged at the Won't proceedings of the Sultan. The inset:to (if any such occurred) is said to have been quickly suppreseed. The " tolerant" conduct 1 oomplained of seems to have been the repetition by the Sultan of his former statemest, that be had no I objection to Pesos being arranged by the Four Powers if the tsar _ would at oboe retire from the Principelities. sublime demotion and num- aad bet force lass to Turkey by this oils of piastres. city received into _Jig them with soli assurance from the not finished, t might spread Vice-Admiral Austrian consul, reesivad,and occurred, 'for when - thought he was dealing with one tor the expedition of the Caucasus, so that thus the innocent have suffered for the guilty: Now this letter was repetitious. His thanks were unquestionably due to the Amadeu consul, who had so disinterestedly played the spy ; but no note was needed from the man who had just given so decided a proof of his !miss a good variant of his master, Nicholas. Russia tstMe a seeprise in war, and had a right to do so ; so likewise Austria, as the spy, did but act up to her accustomed part; but the great responsibility, the blood of these victims, falls entirely on France and England, for these powers it was who introduced carekasness and over•confdence into the breasts of the Musselmen, by their insisting sometimes on as armistice, some times on a slight military act, and by their continually asserting the pretended assurances given them by the Csar, such as that he would not act on the offen sive—that he would make no aggression. This must hays been, then, a mere stratagem to lull the Turks withal, so that he might strike a terrible blow, humble them, demoralise them, and induce them to consent to such arrangements as he may be pleased to dictate. Such is, I think, the opinion of all Europe, and public opinion will condemn the English and French cabinets. As for Turkey, the only dejected people here are the weak-minded and the timid; the hulk of the nation is indignant, and is arming for new combats, more arduous than those that have already taken place. The cabinet sits daily, and the people in the streets are armed. At the moment when the French ship the Mogador weighed anchor to leave Sinope, an Austrian vessel belonging to Lloyd's company left the same pert for Sebastopol. The French captain,on reaching Coastantiiiople, made his report, but the French and English ambassadors entreated the ministers of the Porte to offer no impediment to the free navigation of Austrian yawls in the Black Sea. Do they then wish Russia to come and bombard the Turkish harbours one after the other? for it has been well asoertained and asserted by the passengers and crews of these Lloyd's ships that these vessels when at sea have stopped to order to speak Russian ones, have delivered and received on board parcels, have even received Russian officers, who disguised and armed with Aus trian passports have thus visited the Turkish ports and taken plans of them. Letters from Vienna an nounce that Russia already is in treaty with Austria for the transport of munitions and military supplies by rail from Cracow and on the paved roads from Cilia' to Cheroiatze and to Groove, that she may thus accelerate the march of her troops from Warsaw to the Prath. Perhaps Austria would even take the troops as well, for would not that be quite in harmony with the neutrality she keeps with equal loyalty to wards Turkey, as she did towards Prussia in the Polish affair of 1830 and 1831 ? " The Catastrophe of Sinope brought about the demand from the Porte, requesting to know from the French and English ambassadors, what part they meant to act with their fleets in the Bosphorus? The answer from both was the same, " That in case the Turkish coast should be attacked by the Russians, if their communications were impeded then they (the ambassadors) would urge their governments to authorise their giving efficient aid to the Ottoman Empire. In the meantime they have promised to send again two steamers to fetch the wounded from Sinope. The sailors of England and France are to be made nurses of then, and their ships turned into hospitals; and such then is the fruit of this alliance. It is affirmed that Lord Radcliffe has been so indig nant at the conduct of his cabinet, that he has demanded his recall in case the same policy be any longer maintained, which he considers full of double dealing. This decision he is said to have communi cated to many. As for General Baraguay, after a loud warlike flourish, he too assumed a low discourag ing tone, using even threats. " A courier from Teheran brings the news that Russia has forced tie Shah to conclude with her an offensive and defensive alliance, which she has princi pally obtained by forgiving Persia her debt of six mil lions, and also by . promising to conquer for her Affghanistan. Russia wishes Persia to declare war against Turkey, and it is a manifest attack against the English possessions in India. The Porte, wish• ing to give more unity of purpose to the military operations in Asia, has offered the chief command to His Excellency Mehmed Reuudi Pacha, the General issimo of the Guards, but this high functionary has declined the appointment, alleging the weak state of his health. Hostilities both in Asia and Europe have been stopped by the snows and frosts. The armies on both sides have gone into winter quarters. "The Capudan Pacha has demanded to be tried, together with the admirals and the gunners, by the Grand Council, where he may disprove the calumnies levelled swat him by certain members of the diplomatic body. "Prince Gregory Koudova, son of the ex-hospodar of Moldavia, left Jsssy, for foreign travel. He went luia Vienna to Trieste, came on here, and offered his services to the Porte as his sovereign. They have been accepted, and he will repair to the camp of Omer Pacha with the rank of general of brigade. He is a man of bravery and merit ; his conduct is very different from that of Barbo Stirbey, who was made a brigadier, two years ago, in the Turkish army, but wise it from coming to assume the post assigned Ma i as hie duty required, first prostrated himself to the Ressism, and then, like a fugitive, took wing for some European capital. News from Perim leads us to hope hese, that he will find the money required for the loan." • 1 - ••,.. et. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENT • UARY 3, 1854. , f - r• 4;40- • repast °brooklet se our trade for IBM in the II to the 81111 M 00thia in - ..41) ABRnr . s. shape of mercantile eirealars from must the ' N 4 I WM empire. Their lanes.* is uniform. T V has I f; ars of 13 . 411111 1 :4 1 B UM. etreek wie tihielefoisrege, betanThe ia : t ; o nb T i u ii haboen.estistated at 80, million. been °se of great prosperity. In mewl , ewe BRUSSELS, MONDAIt.I 1 COman inhabitants, lithe city rte . I a RTj terniptioes we bars to iassessat ' 'Out L 40,91 thi s 1111gresse has given the royektimix- t hisses the .7M:tending thi petal hymn, es it were, of • • • . ' '1 97 tho in both chambers, authorising ea , en d theY the mural qoarreL That interline, indeed, with the prosperity**mender, that a building, not lea law which " all aalin. • • at - - the goverment to rodeos or entirely suspend the cot be set on Ere, mince then it able of the cotton and the woollen trade', with the this kind, bet it has false into obelnues leareeTen Mini to the Christian quarter of the town. ' price of pima erthe ire . whet - is eTeeiTailtees.i!. 17:4=7. tbledatos bees pleeesi li rdtres the tenths,- "Braila wrote a letter to the Am clogs instals; but otherwise the progress from the Why, thsmikoeld paellher be Br I h en uti es ong e rne k ag ese ti men ) ki n far the i n f or mation n ee begianiag to the and st this year Miters losisehltb Mks 1111FWiliiiillisir -- eirilWinf further edit*. It is asereelj osseasary to add that Piedelf” ,the misfortune that had sh•a•s Every vow sines 184111 has told a similar upon clearing away teary_ ve!lige Or mow do " mei i s ea , e lb aportanco f or En e m a. armour the Turkish . neet he the dealing with the on* destined for the BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, FIIDAT. Parties residing in this capital, and intimately con nected with Sweden, "Know nothing whatever" of the " order " given by Russia to that kingdom, to close its ports to British and French vessels. That polite, not to say diplomatic mode of expression, must be interpreted into a declaration that the statement that such an "order," or even such a hint has been given, is totally unfounded. Even if one or the other emanated from St. Petersburg , it would be neither obeyed nor taken by the Swedish government. It is asserted in well-informed circles—deriving information direct from Constantinople—that what ever willingness may be manifested by the Porte to second the views of certain Po were, with reference to the holding of an European congress, it (the Porte) will insist on certain conditions, and make certain reserves, of a nature to render—in the present tem per of mind of the Emperor Nicholas—a pacific so lution of the Eastern question impossible. In the diplomatic circles of this capital all hope of such a solution is definitively abandoned. There is no great secresy observed on that score, and, consequently, there is no great indiscretion in saying as much. ITALY. In the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies of Pied mont on the 27th December, M. Benownpagni read a speech appropriate to the occasion, terminating with these words : At this moment, when our difficult labours are on the point of ountsezeing, I outsider it my duty as a good citizen to empress a wish which we all mut feel. May your Lehman redound to the glory and prosperity of the crown resting on the head of a monarch venerated by his people and admired by the whole civilised world, bath on amount of the valour which ha ha. displayed on the battleAleld in combating for Italian independence, end on account of his chivalrous sense of honour. May your labours tend to the prosperity and glory of this kingdom, inhabited by a gene. tons people, and affording a safe sqltun to all who hops for the welfare of Italy, and who suffer for her onu s May your inbuilt' tend to the honour and glory of that standard which waves in this ►all, and which is to all of the symbol of a sainted memory and of a sacred duty. These words were received with the loudest ap• plow. MUSIC. SOCIETY OP OP BRITISH MUSICIAN& This society's third chamber oonoert of the sumo took lase last night, at the remits in Bernerootreet. The as usual, consisted chieffy et compo sition. a t ce the society. The perhrman i f trms AUL waft .in 0 minor, for Woolard, =mid gielsweelle, by Dr. Charles Waal. Aged by Itpons. Ese4isioosishester Wasiak% mil Oust. It WS pluming works.deil.d on the swim et the obis, Noliool, in the oymuestrisel eonstrutkin et the movements, the smooth imilodv, sod the dear dm plicity of the counterplot. It does not display Milk originality of thought, but evinces tun, reilossesst, sod feeling. aossint's romance, " Arpa gentil," t was i r e sung by Mies Mement, with Mr. • o accompaniment on the harp.. Mr. Henry I . l4aFes wog , " Sleep, heart of mine, time s e i t: esedingly well snag by Mr. Perrart proved tire. It is by no means on. of Mr. Huth happiest efforts. Mr. 0. lake's punning. "Deem the Dream that's sweetest,* wee ouch acre ansesestal. It was remarkably well wog by Mize ldasent, Mrs. Noble, Mr. and Mr. Feetorl, and was loudly encored ; a weil-surited ooupliddlit, he it is a very pure and graceful puce of With veal harmony. A MB. Sonata in P for the piano sad violin composed by Mr. Henry Ouse, . ., and played by Mr. W. boned sad Mr. &Odin, was ands applauded. It is a clever . oonapodtiw the "ph, movement especially, which is brilliants," vlgw but the author afterwards Pala toe - and We es quaint and earldom style is width lisolbaiss lon .pt to indulge—a ityl• which, in Beethons's ova VOSS is theraderistio, but in an imitator is mush anted. The ' execution, moreover, was far Inn psi, 'masterly , in the schen* and last maw meat, in w the violin part is excessively dillesk. The woad part began with what was cart** the shier hence of the concert, a quartet in B miner ter the piano, violin, viola. and violoncello, cosspand by Mr. Charles E. Stephens, who played ti. Ow Tpal part, and was aocompanted by Meson. Was.., Veslake and Oust. This quartet, tissaidi • tot a perfe ct, is a very remarkable wok. From beginning to end it shows a bold ad anginal genius, but still the genius of a yes* odd, not yet sobered and ,partied by. ticasselidtpiond • it deka eisernero, s ymeastryourl. above all, danyislig. It is too seassdni whitish% NI every pot le Ina boy sod , nossiosa—this Bs a vast of qvissa mad 1 ra ps. WWI bard. ippidiMpflialsoratioo, every movement ,wonld hail t as sander. Bat tbess are Wits with which, in a yeses eniptur, we an aver disposed to quarrel. Whsardny from ardour of tompotsason and axaberanso 4 Pr id l t s a l , they are my to oorreet thenuttitio in Pod time ' Brea with dine Tanks, btr. Stsphons ism usirdasod a work of meek interest, mad will dassrobnp d the great endow with whisk it wan neutral 1 A short hut beitadtul a lleoadistue," by Mr. Deceit Phillips, was the suds by the same four waists we hide *heady s tead. Mr. Land's po• %MU "Wh en l alt r uT iblistiliA ssensde " ;Trial:7 by as rani by Mr. Balsam ; and a trio by Ries for harp sod two pianofortes, performed by MOMS Tied, W. Holies, and Mellish terminated an exceedingly good .midst. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. The columns of the Minotaur have given publicity to the following paregtsph: The lest aeresats received free► Coestantinoplo sanottece . that the Mesa wee la perfect mooted with the represents tine of Pram, Bugles& Austria. mid Prussia en the coo dittoes ea whisk the Porte may honourably maw to the rersisliklmiest el pease. Thin 1103111 rmirelly considered in Paris, under the asiersellisse perfectly insignilloant. If, as is incet probe*, ill insertion was intended to inspire confidence and imipsommerce to weather Old Yeses day, when more Min fall due than on any other day of the year in was, the attempt was a failure, for the Bourse ha erably. If the Moniker could have stated *A rill to the effor:s 6 c=emacy at Guestentirepie. a y peace was the an aseisemsna meal have been of Importance it it had accompanied the emertioli gshowing the opinion to be well isseederL is, the feeling produced in the 'drib of dams de flattered themselves it was in the paw it tho alintlewr to oommunicate any good mew% h sae of =taunt rather than otherwise. Nothing is communicated to the public bleed that was already known. It is mall shahrt lhtr aisle who hope fora peaceable solution of as &item =to be told that Turkey is agreed with the cowers upon the terms of an " imenrable • pas% when we know from other hush that the Gear is leer disposed thin ever to seem* to any tam honourable for us and oar ally. The semplate haled= of Russia which would result deaths maks of the Four Powers, were it beady and add% also savants to nothing when we reetambir that two or bar are only united tot helm a prepagtiou, and sal Is oh roe its sooeptaath The Poet della Garne t hair date of Vienna, No, my. : —" Aessase m dohs& esseunts received Neu the frontier et Mantenern, the Viadika bee adhand a letter to his uncle Petrowioh, in which be justifles his esedect, and declares that he never had any intendss at attempting his life. He begs him to return into the principality, and to again emit him with his counsels. It is said that G. Petrovich has confined himself to replying ver sa = fist the letter is not au/Relent, and that he net return to Montenegro unless his nephew _adopted some more satisfactory measure, and demands that the first step to be taken by the Vladika Shill be the dismissal from him court of certain persons who are hostile to him." The Emperor has addressed the following letter to Prince Woronoff, dated the 113th Prince Michael Bentenowitsch,—Tbe beaks far-Was of the Ottoman Porte against the diarist pima seder your administratioa were masifested Is time elms of last mer, by the ameekkge deelereell Wage as the Traw l:lanced= henthe. wed Ty moan. fee ihe peemetlea et sewn eneopktle neueinhosie. Under a.s *ear Mesh yea Ma So the dmelelmeetas nemeses kr tieew Odra tithe heel. eat lir the separdes of de. heeds lbw. Mb Mos arlostliktog ahemAi shwa g to year ike Thee weep et tae Casemer lin =ailk die s i k the Lashio. , linerb:=24lM wa lk = Transkoubealse tribes, hew peneetet thew hen seikerating with the Turks. Tour able maestro en the frostier of Ask , have been crowned with a aeries of brilliant vie. tones. Tee glitious somber of 1401 — Illivember, user Beyaedurg, wes the prelude of the debate of the Turks, on the 18th of the same Oda. at AM& bout, the 28th before Akbal-Tsiche, and the Id en the Mak beak of the Arpatebei. The thirty-wen pieta l o r bp, a ds mem the we wara the lop et Miss nwhislea this ken he meaty, weary to the brewery et the sop plant saw your command—namely, the Celleedld ewes, tie 18th division of infantry, the Coesselta, and the militia. It is spatially to your szperissee, sad to the greet Arouses with which you animated the keeps pissed Cider your eiders, that I owe such a favourable esmesessemest of the sew page. I beg of yen as this oesaides w =peer to then my sincere rethink, and my oenvletles het to their tasider operations, they will, with the aid et Clod, sow thansehen with new glory, which will shed lustre on you sad ea Ike Russian arms. I remain for ever and invariably y affectionate, Thosorre. A letter from Vienna of the 23rd mender a rumour, which, it says, has gained credit, that the Austrian Government contemplates a newsmen,' the capitalists of the empire, for a loan, set autusi ing 40 or 60 millions of florins, to be pea et by annual instalments, with prises to the lest isuMbere drawn. A new loan had been talked °Gast summer, and twii Austrian functionaries had been sent to Lon don for the purpose of negotiating it, but no arrange. meat was entered into. A valued correspondent, writing from Conetan• tinople, Dee. 19, tip : " The English and French vessels sent into the Black Sea for ascertaining on the spot the precise foots respecting the late disaster, returned here on the 10th inst. I send yorrthe sthennme of their report. Two frigates, ten brigs, and other vessels of the Turkish fleet have been burned or sunk. Hus sein Psalm, one of the Pachss in oommasd of the flotilla, has been killed; the other, Osman Paths, has been taken prisoner with 126 officers and sailors. The Ramis= took with them such se were not wounded, leaving those that were to their fate. In this they have not imitated the conduct of t‘ - st Turks, who brought the wounded Russians from Chefkletil to Constantinople, where they are humanely taken care of. The Turkish quarter of Sinope was set on fire, and the inhabitants fled to the mountains. This feat of arms was performed by Vice-Admiral Koroiloff, who in command of 40 sail, among which were S three-deckers, 8 frigates, and six steamers, surprised and attacked the Ottoman flotilla in the harbour. The Russians were informed at Sebeatopol by the captain of one of the Austrian Lloyd's steamers, not only where the Turkish flotilla lay, but that it had only 2 war steamers, that the town was without garrison or means of defence, and that neither the seamen nor the inhabitants sus peted an attack. Vic -Admiral Korsika has acted boldly and vigorously• He is the old enemy of the Turks, for hr it was wit() came with Prince Witold huff to see and stud% the Turkish fleet. The Russian navy has shown what it could have does, in MO of need, to the English and Fresh seamen, if their timorous commanders had ventured to cope with it ; but the Turks defended themselves at least with in trepidity. Husain Facia, when one of his ships I took fire, mounted another, and again another. Wounded in the bled, opt into the sea, be wee HIM by a second shot. An cs tt, homed in by Remiss ship, sent i tre l w ea on with the enespiss of 40 mon, who reamed to quit him, and this lbw tip his ship. This episode was not devoid et bunk dads. Oman Pasha algae FRANCE. PAItIB, MONDAT EVINING. The Eastern news in the English journals of Sa to:day, which did not arrivs here till too late to be generally known on that day, have now produced a very serious effect on the Bourse. The truth of the report that the Czar had positively refused to treat with the Four Powers was not doubted. The re verses said to have been suffered by the Turks in Asia were used as an argument that the warlike in tervention of Prance and England must be immedi ate and serious. There is no confirmation of the intelli- Fence that the difference between England and Persia is arranged. Under these influences the downward movement assumed the proportions of a panic. The rente fell lfr. 20c., closing at 72f. 10e. Credit Mobilier declined 33fr. 75c., and several railways fell as much as 30fr. In comparing the state of the Bourse at the end of 1853 with the end of last year, it will be found that while the funds have greatly declined railways have improved. Orleans, Strasbourg, St. Germain, sod Rouen are all 100 fr. and upwards higher than they were a year ago, and among the other lines there is scarcely one materially lower. The Three per Cents., on the other hand, have fallen from 81-82 to 73-74 (on this day, Jan. 2, they are down to nearly 72). The railways have been kept up by continually-increasing receipts, while the fundholder, whose income remains fixed, has borne the brunt of e rumours of war, the bad harvestoindthe premature winter. A private letter from Malta, of Dec. 28th, states that the contractors for the supply of coal to the English fleet at several points in the Black Sea have received notice that they will be required to execute their orders within a very short delay. The depots for the coal contracted for are at Sinope, Trebizonde, and Varna. The Petrie says that letters from Erzeroum of Dec. sth, announce that a serious misunderstanding had arisen between the governor of Tauritz and the English consul of that town, in which there is a considerable English population. This difficulty was considered to result from what had passed at Teheran between the British minister and the Shah of Persia's government. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY NIGHT, The Sultan has arrived with the Peninsular Mails. Her dates are—Lisbon, 29th; Gibraltar, 25th De. cember. On the 24th ult., the Briti,h squadron in the Tagus weighed anchor by two's, with a W.N.W. breeze and a strong ebb tide. The St. Jean I.YAcre was ordered by . the admire to shift from the centre of the river, to give a clearer space for the squadron to work out. Close to the south side the Desperate lost the wind and missed stays, fell athwart the hawse of the St. Jean d'Acre, going through the water at the rats of five knots, Both vessels got their steam up, and succeeded in clearing in about three hours, with a loss of jib and flying boom to the St. Jean d'Acre and mainmast to Desperate. A court of inquiry acquitted the captain of all blame. At Lisbon there has been an extraordinary session of the Cortes, at which the King Regent's speech was delivered. Slave ships are now fitting out at Oporto in the most open and barefaced manner. Exchange 54; discount of banknotes, 2j. THE C t PE AND MAURITIUS. The Bosphorus, Captain Maynar I, arrived at Ply mouth on Sunday night with mails from India and the Cape. She left Calcutta, Oct. 15 ; Madras, Oct. 20 ; Point de Galle, Oct. 24 ; Mauritius, Nov. 6 ; arrived at Cape of Good Hope, Nov.lB, and left 21st; St. Helena, Nov. 29 ; Ascension, Dec. 3 ; St. Vincent, Dec. 12; Corunna, Dec. 27. Her mails are in charge of Lieut. Griffiths. She has a cargo of silk and indigo, and addressed packages, and many pas- 'engem. On the Ist November the Bosphorus broke her main shaft, and has not since been able to work her steam at full power ; notwithstanding this, she was in time up to her departure from St. Vincent. On the 18th of December she was only six days from Plymouth, but since that date she has encoun tered a succession of strong northerly winds and two gales. On the 26th she was obliged to run for Co runa' for coals. The Nerbudda had gone for a month's cruise in the Mozambique. The Barracouta arrived at the Cape. Nov. 18, on which day the Simoom left with the Rifle Brigade for England. Troop vessels are at Simon's Bay waiting to convey the 43rd, 74th, and 12th Lancer,, to Madras. o:neral Cathcart speaks hopefully of the future state of the border. The new state of things is accepted by the Kaffirs. The colonists are not pleased at the prospect of the withdrawal of the troops. Preparations for the withdrawal of British authority from Orange Ricer are in progress. There is still much disease amongst horned cattle in Cape Colony. From Mauritius we learn that the crops are good, and that • French steamer had been put on to carry mails and passengers between that place and Bourbon. _ . - .„,..—. The Propontis arrived at Calcutta Oct. 28. Her captain has been dismissed, and the chief officer of the Bosphorus has taken the command. THE PRESTON STRIKE. PRESTON, Mosvity. The predictions of the delegates have been fully realised by the largely increased contributions received from the various distric's at the meeting of the central committee held yesterday at the Temperance Hall, in this town. It had been intimated that the income of the weavers' com mittee would this week reach 3,0001. ; the fund placed at their disposal to-day actually race, ds 3.2001. This aug mented income enables the committee to advance the pay of the unemployed weavers from es. to 61. 64. per head, and to reserve a balance in hand. The other chests of opera tives are to receive a proportionate addition to their week's pay. All the districts sent in enlarged subscriptions, but the chief contributors were the people of Blackburn, who furnished 1,0001. The "New Yeas's Gift " (as the increase of pay is designated) afforded matter for congratulation to the speakers at an open air meeting held in the °muted at noon to-day. After some encouraging remarks upon the subject by the chairman, Mr. L•ato, MI. Hansen said he observed that the statement he had made on a former occasion with respect to the Earl of Wilton had called forth a letter in contradiction. All he (the speaker) had to say in reply wait, that he received his information upon good authority, and et present he sow no reason to retract his statement. Referring to the week's income, Mr. Brown remarked that it bad been shown to the millowners of Preston that the delegates spoke the truth, and that Gee. Cowell was a true prophet. Souse time ago Mr. Cowell promised that 9,000/. would be forthcoming for the relief of the operatives of Preston, and this week ihey had more than that sum. He (the speaker) anticipated that before three weeks more were over the committee would be able to raise the wages of the hands permanently. Mr. Gao. Cowntr. commenced his address by wishing those present a happy new year. He hoped that before another year had rolled away this question would be settled, and their (the delegates') occupation would be gone. If any of their leaders were desirous that the present state of attain should continue those were men who ought not to be trusted. Fur his own part, he longed to see the time when the multitude now without employment should re same work, providing they could do so on terms honourable to themselves and honourable to their employers. He did not wish to gain a victory over the employers. All be desired was, that justice should be done to the operatives and that was, that they *holed receive a fair day's wage ler • fair day's work. Inquiries had been made respecting the promised comparison between the Preston prices and those of Blackburn and other towns. In reply, he begged to say that the document was in course of preparation, and would be issued as soon as possible. Mr. CitiaTRAIL (of Oldham) advistd his bearers net to purchase those newspapers which were adverse to the factory workers' interests. The meeting was also addressed by Mr. STEVENSON, of Huntley, and Mr. 011.11011 kW, of Great Harwood. A. resolution was unan i mou sly passed, pledging the meeting to persevere in this straggle. As usual, the proceedings terminated with cheers for the ten per cent. PROPOSED NEW RAILWAY DOCKS.—AII extensive wet dock, of 23 acres, in connexion with the various lines convergin bark g at Newcastle, is proposed to be constructed on the north bor of the Tyne, with a deep water entrance of 23 feeL A. similar wet dock is also proposed to be este bibbed in oonnezion with the midways et ktaryport. verl dice able wire