The Express. — London, England, 1855-01-11 00:00:00

FRANCE. teams TSI 001111SPORDMIT 07 TIN DAILY laws.) PARIS, WRDSZSDAT Bemires. Ido net expect to give you any news when I say that the ostensible umpteen by Russia of the Four p a ints is but a trick, that peace is not at hand, and tiet at this moment the Csar has as little intention to comply with the requisitions of France and Eng land as they had expectation that their demands weld be listened to. The whole affair is a diplo matic game of chess in which the Western Powers have lost a move, and moreover a more so im portant that they may very likely occupy a ridiculous position in the eyes of the World. What may have been the precise interpre tine of the four points agreed to by the Three Powers a Dee. 28, and recorded in some document which is iodinated to be of less dignity than a protocol, is /sly known to the governments themselves. But this Mob is certain, that the Three Powers (always as persing the bona file of Austria) felt perfectly sure that Russia would not agree to the proposition. whisk they offered to accept. It is not improbable, sad it is, indeed, but too likely, that tho refusal of Roods being by common consent accepted as n fore saw conclusion, Austria may have attenuated the renditions under the pretext of fairness and modera tion, SO SS to render them susceptible of an interpre tation widely different from what the French and E m ilia people understand. If on this point any klachlaselna artifices were used, it is but too pro bible that both the French and English ambassadors at Vienna may have fallen into the trap. M. de souroueley's bead has no better reputation here than d Westmoreland's hes in England. I can wenn you positively that however plausible and even positive the telegraphic despatches appear, not the least expectation is entertained in government circles here that the negotiations for peso. are serious. The Emperor's speech to the Imperial Guard, pro- Dowsed yesterday, in which he tells them they was to go to plant the French flag on the yawl of Sebasto?ol, is at least evidence that the negotiations are not to stop the progress of the war. It is a significant fact that this speech was made on the very day when the telegraphic de monises from Vienna were made public in Paris. It is farther worthy of remark that the Moniteur Isis not contain a . single line, even by way of quo tation, from any English journal, bearing upon the opposed new phase of the situation. And yet if it were true that Russia had really accepted all that the Western Powers demand, the Moniesur would be the first to announce the great news. I have it from • my good source that the French government, without as yet renouncing confidence in Austria's good inten- Seas, looks upon the 111.10CCITTS as an intrigue got up by Prussia and Hume, with the view of sowing daises in the Germanic Confederation. The only Paris journals which this day make any remarks on the news from Vienna, are the Pays and Assembles Nationale, the former in a very few lines, and the latter with some brevity. No positive opi nion, the Assemblee says, can be formed as to the chances for peace, until we shall be acquainted with the pone de depart of the negotiations. Tne Bourse was very firm during great part of the day, and, although there were considerable fluctuations, the Rente closed at G7fr. 93c., with a rise of 20c. There was but little alteration in rail ways. It is understood that the loan is likely to be entirely covered by subscribers under 3001 r., and that nothing would be left for the great capitalists. THE FRENCH OCCUPATION OF ROME. The Monileur of yesterday publishes the following article on this subject : "In deciding that the effective strength of the French troops at Rome should be diminished in pro portion to the degree of eezurity now enjoyed by the pontifical states, the Emperor, in his solicitude for the cause of the church and the Holy See, has consented that until further orders the corps of occu• potion shall not be reduced below 3,300 men. The French ambassador, having been charged with the announcement of this resolution to the Holy Father, has received from Cardinal Antonelli the following letter : Room, Dec. 28, 18.54. Tour Ezeellency has had the goodness, with your seen toiled courtesy, to announce to me by your letter of the 18th inst., the resolution taken by H.H. the Emperor not to reduce, until further orders, the French occupation contain the Postifleal states below 3,500 moo, 3,000 of whom will garrison Rome, and 500 Civita Vecchia. The Holy Father, to whom I have communicated this information, could no,' Ail to appreciate with me this benevolent decision of you. twist sovereign, a decision formed entirely for the purpos If being agreeable to the government of the Holy See, and especially dictated by those sentiments so happily shared by the two governments. At the lame time his Holinen has, liko myself, seen is this resolution a new and peculiar proof of the devotion aid attachment which France has decked to add to so many illustrious and conspicuous acts, which lave rightly caused her to merit la well of the Church, especially in recent times. The Holy Father has accord tasty manifested all his gratitude, and desires the warmest thanks to be expressed to his Majesty. This order I now hal with profound satisfaction in addressing your Excel lency, begging you to convey kindly to his Majesty the en pression of these sentiments. Nor ought I to omit testi fying to your Excellency hew deeply I am grateful for the tatereet you have taken in seconding the benevolent jotter hoes of your sovereign towards the supreme head of the universal church, to which you have shown at all time. and on every oetasion such great devotion. It is therefore with especial satisfaction that I profit by this opportunity of re sewing to your Excellency the assurance of my most dis tinguished consideration. ANTONZLLL GREECE. M. Mavrocordato, acting ad interim as Minister of the Interior at Athens, addressed on the 18th ult., a IFralar to the prefects, in which he says, "The po onion in which the King and his government are placed towards the protecting powers, as far as re- , gads everything connected with their gigantic straggle in the East, traces out to you very clearly the rule of domestic policy which you have to follow. Neutrality, strict neutrality, is the duty and the tratehward of the Government; it is what is at the mme time most in accord with the true interests of Greece, and it is that towards which all the efforts of the Government and the conduct of citizens aught to tend." PIEDMONT. The P4mosta of Turin states that the French loan "eta with great favour among the capitalists of that my. no Dowager Queen of Sardinia has been labour lag tor some days put under a severe illness. Her Linty had been bled five times up to the 6th. DE.NMARK. In most changes in the constitution of the bireeshold are a heavy blow and great discon nemsent to the aristocratic party. M. de Levet:an hisilhond as grand marshal by M. Betting ; M. smillabseg, the advocate, succeeds M. Tillisch as Wait _secretary ; the chamberlains Blucher and amPilliff are dismissed, and General f3choeller is UNA simmiadant of the fortress of Copenhagen. MEILCANTILL SHIPPING.—The total number of WM which neared inwards with sew it the several pert' the United Kisedesa is ohms iroetbs et the year 1861., %dolma Kingdom in eleven months M the year osooo. ••••—•., o ousechot ow th m e e m w ee c t o ing at Hackney, last evening, which attained, at what point below London these wage might be discharged into it, for • :bort period, some portion sift ea Nis 6th of December, amounted to 120,314 , their spirit between the English and the American govern- per cent. a month interest on money. With common „, ..„. being 11,845,410 toes . The number of ships moots . Although Mr. Tyler was not regarded ea a intelligence, English capital i sts may now come to discharged, with a reasonable hope of its not affecting that but is a highly dilated state. ee , warits durieg the same period was 136,827 too- am stated to have read from the " blue book," that in portion of the river passing th rough M 2 . 494 8.317. Daring the same period to 18.53 the great man. yet his administration was an able one . ; the United . States and invest their . _money, wkerethey ple asel. the metropolis. The "4. That in the distribution of the areas of lituuspeisaa;• things, his evidence before the select committee Mr. Homer had plug chosen is the river Boding at Barking Creek. your engineers have succeeded inequa lising th erereo—sides entered Inwards. 122,74 b : 1005 e,,, and mince he retired to private life, and party aspen- will receive, under any conceivable state of - 11, 1 ,2Lik446; dewed outwards. 136,41 0 : tonnage, 12,486,618. ties have died away, eis now 100 4,1, wou not petition • neat consideration was to form toe sewers on such performed hy each of interception as fat. as i n e% a e unind the interenume between this coca- un iversal reepect,which hag been very much increased hoarding to lend teen u din abi, for foot or five read ai from ea report Tteee ma c!rerke ofgra. meetingbt am s hamed , an American , him ago paw, ardor te SATO as muc as possible under ordinary circumstanon, be discharged in* &silver • lAN& 011163 the member of vessels employed in the i intocountry , her institutions , her oorporatioos, her rail- °. to the one now in power. Mr. more came United Towns the - process that mast entail a Thames. • . ;. '. last (vide Norma, Advertiser, 19th of that month). "5. That, with this view, they have judirt s t • • with that country entered inwards was 9,103, inofeventsimilar to roads, her public stocks, her great commercialo ' lmetus' engine*. . ,••• "own eetwarde,l7,6r/: while during the corresponding the Presidency con an low h' el eb e em b ers i nwar d.. sies, that which carried Mr. Tyler there—the death of Gin, houses, brought so as this, is, and cowered on y select enmities, having quite enough to do with that gives era the accompanying plans and sections. Then, as it Kenvish-town end Camden -town, to Kilburnthy MIK The amber et new colonist Taylor, after he had administered the government for the presence of a ghostly phantom that rises out of by the . lic,n u sed . vic!salie!. Mr. Timothy Maker, and the migt i n tercept found floes al rumps desirable to complete flood water, from an area of seven square Liveglml fear sad nine month& When Mr. Fillmore took the presidential a distant fortress of brick and mortar on the shores of Ilwama Tot allay Inionvnevy, i ri k yltad.=kaii, ike., the intercepting ae fee as the River Lea, before p eon - separated, and carried away to a Nan re ; red haw sstds•i r POf3TBR. tinning the has any further east, and as the menus *Merin the remotest degree interfere • h VS, IhWairo ms .. ..._ llll O chair, he immediately sent for Mr. Webster to re- the Eosin.. It is the work of newspaper - makers, Metropolitan and Provincial Licensed Victuallers' the Lea near Sir George Duekett's Canal might be cam- me t re with thu g l ow di s ui e ~ • Pis " mime his old place, at the head of the State Depart,- speculators in public stooks , and financiers, who grow Mutual Defence Association.-061ces, 104, Fleet- plained of, it would be de sirable to p oint out in what man- leme meg Om %mum ems t rims yea, sad me same moot s when he oontinned until his death, whim rich in proportion only as they impoverish communt- rest, comer of New Bridge -strut, Jan. 10. ser e at the least oars eat, the ending sewers might be " ROBERT FTETEMITION. " Willa/Jr Cvßrrr." • THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 11, I occurred only six mouthsbefore the end of Mr. Fill ; more's term. Mr. Fillmore went ou t o f officewith I the universal respect of the nation, and it was a memof general regret throughout the country that be was not re-nominated, for he would doubtless have been sustained by the people. Bach are the characters and antecedents of these three men; and if they were chosen, they would bear with them the whole dignity of the republic. But their appointment would involve the total abandonment of the Pierce policy. There has been nothing done yet, io a broad and liberal spirit, b 7 this administration, but the President and his cabinet would most likely be com , pelted to yield to the force of public opinion in this I case, if the proposed mediation should meet with general favour in both Houses of Congress. If these three men, however, should be pained by, the country would probably be satisfied with the appointment of Mr. Van Buren Mr. Everett, our former mini s t er t o E ng l an d, an d General CASs, the veteran senator. It is certain that the country would net be satisfied to have any of our present represen tatives abroad, clothed with authority for this busi ness, with the single exception, perhaps, of Mr. Buchanan. One of the most serious embarrassments we are labouring under as a nation, we encounter at the very threahhold of this proposed mediation—the imbecility and unpopularity of the President and his cabinet. Their course towards Europe has added nothing to the weight of the republic in any Euro pean question. It would be necessary to take new men in this business, and men who had in no way incurred odium by any connexion with the present regind. THE COMMERCIAL PANIC IN THE UNITED STATES. The Special Correspondent of the Daily News at New York writes as follows under date of the 27th ult.: The stringency in our money market, which has been gradually increasing, during the last twelve Months, has now risen into a panic; and we are wit nessing a spectacle which is humiliating in the highest degree to every enlightened and intelligent, man. From our origin as a nation we have never been in a state of such universal and florid prosperity. Our resources and our wealth in all departments and in all. directions have long been augmented. We have never before had so vast en amount of specie in the country—we have never before bed such machinery —we have never before had such means of rapid in tercourse between different sections of the country— the wages of labour have never before been so high, nor the materials and means of public and private wealth been so great as within the past year; and yet money is worth 2 or 3 per cent. a month in Wall street this morning. Banks and bankers are crashing in all directions—the savings banks are being run to the verge of ruin—capitalists are hoarding up their money—merchants are failing—labourers by the ten thousand are thrown out of employment— and assembling in tumultuous meetings in the parks; our manufactures, of almost every grade and descrip tion, are being closed, and a general paralysis bee spread over the world of business—in a word, we are suffering a commercial panic. It has been brought about by the newspapers. There is no other cause that can be assigned for it; nor will any other cause ever be discovered. Con. fideoce has been destroyed, by the " hue and cry" that has been raised by men who look no deeper than the surface, and who transfer to journalism nothing but the lights and shadows that play upon the top of every passing wave of opinion. There is now a general up•rising of public feeling and public sentiment against this state of things. The press of the United States is in the hands of the people, as every free press is, and always will be, in the hands of its readers. A large number of men have, for a long time, felt that it is disgraceful to the country to allow our public tranquillity and prosperity to be disturbed by such incidents of the hour as the siege of Sebastopol, the number of spindles running in Manchester, the closing Gl* cutlery establishments in Sheffield, and the price of consols in London. The conductors of the American press will have to make a declaration of independence shortly to remedy this evil, as our fathers once made one to remedy other evils in 1776. The old chestnut woman in the street announces to us—with just as much gravity as the Governor of the Bank of England does to a depira tion from Downing-street—that " by the last arrivals the important information has been received that the chestnutcrop is short in Italy,and the south of France," consequently foreign chestnuts are no longer seen in the market, and Yankee chestnuts have manifested most alarming symptoms of insubordination, particu larly if you roast them without cutting a hole in their shells. It is a lamentable fact that we have allowed ourselves to be "drifted about by every wind of doctrine," sent out from our newspapers ; and the money market of the United States is suffer ing to-day, thiough sheer panic, all the worst symp toms of the Asiatic cholera ; or, to reverse the image, the unmixed horrors of a hopeless constipation. A moment's reflection will satisfy any intelligent man that the present state of Europe, so far from being a sufficient came to disturb our pecuniary affairs, ought directly to inspire an increased degree of confidence and prosperity. The British go vernment finding itself unable to get at home all its supplies in this Eastern emergency sends over to Massachusetts large orders for Yankee shoes, and to the North American Gutta Percha Company of New York similar orders for soldiers' blankets. In a large number of departments of sup ply the contractors and commissioners of Great Bri tain are sending orders by every steamer to the United States. Not an American ship has yet been interrupted for an hour in any foreign voyage, the march of our commerce, and the progress of our in tercourse with foreign nations, have not been sub jected to the slightest impediment; and yet the American newspapers keep the public mind in con stout suspense, waiting for "the fall of Sebastopol." These gentlemen must take broad and comprehensive views of public affairs. In the foregoing paragraphs I have merely deli neated to you a state of feeling which hardly yet exists, but it will be apparent enough in a few weeks that the American people are determined to settle this question once for all, and ascertain whether they are to have their business disturbed at home and all their vast resources paralysed by this two-cent. panic. The newspapers have gone on this tack long enough, and they will be obliged to take another. In a short time you need not be astonished if you learn that we have suddenly shot the gulf, and struck upon solid ground—that we an enjoying an unprecedented degree of pecuniary prosperity. I have insisted in my correspondesse hitherto to the Daily News that there was no suilH cient reason for the monetary apprehensions whidr have been felt by our capitalists. I have pointedomt the causes which have been laid hold of to inflame , the public apprehension ; the short crop, which has not been short enough to do any actual harm, although the necessaries of life are now at famine prices ; the prevalence almost everywhere during the past summer and autumn of disease and contagion ; the extensive and desolating conflagrations that have visited so many American cities ; the afflictions which have rained down upon our merchant gale that were whitening the seas. But it will not be forgotten that I have from the beginning insisted , upon the fact that no serious apprehension ought to be entertained or could be entertained by intelligent ' men in regard to the future. It was due to that vise body of Englishmen who hold American securities to state this fact. It was due to our own people to have it known that Western Railroad securities, which were selling for 40 cents. on the dollar in Wall-street, and that could not be given away in London, have all come up with their dividends of from 8 to 20 per cent. per annum during these last six months of confisgra dons, cholera, yellow fever, panic, alarm, and two cent. a month interest on money. With common /7 . ! 7/ (I PP: 3 : '0:".4 ties. Suck is the difference between journalism and business as they should be and as they are. The Californian steamer is in with a million and a half of gold on freight, and half a million in the bands of passengers. The shipments of specie abroad have ceased, and our mines were more bountiful returns than now. Prosperity is dif fusing itscorencopeian blessings over the length and breadth of the land. We are suffering only under a newspaper panic. THE UNITED STATES. (PROPOSED MEDIATION OF THE UNITED STATES BETWEEN THE ALLIED POWERS AND RUSSIA. 0101111 Tll HPICIAL COKSZIPONDZXT OP THZ DAILY maws NEW YORK. Die. 27. The subject of authorising the President of the United States to offer the friendly mediation of our government, with a hope of termin sting the difficul ties between Russia and the Allied Powers, has again been brought up in Congress, and it is likely to receive serious attention. When the idea was first suggested it met with little or no favour, but it has been the subject of considerable discussion, and the press of the United States has pretty generally cow witted itself in its defence; and if we can judge from present appearances, there is a stfong probability that if our mediation were likely to be acceptable to the contending parties, it would be offered with the ut most degree of sincerity. The time was, when in our weakness as a nation we rejoiced that any Euro pean government recognised us as an independent people, but that period has gone by. W e no l onger thank the most powerful states of the Old World for paying us just indemnities for spoliation. upon our commerce in put times. The same courtesy is now expected by the American Republic from the govern inents of Europe which they extend to each other; ' and if the United States be what European. now, on all occasions, denominate us—one of the great powers of the earth-Lit cannot very well be conceived why a congress of European ambissadors or princes should assemble to adjust the affairs of continental nations, without inviting our country to participate in their deliberations. The New York Courier and Inquirer, which, on great questions, frequently reflects, with singular felicity, the public opinion of the American people, in advocating the mediation, uses the following language : American interests also invoke this mediation. The COM.. monity of nations is such at the present day that the crippled industry of one necessarily injures the industry of all. War involves a vast expenditure o► money in an en productive form : this reduces capital, consequently curtails labour, contracts production, and checks commerce, and thus works en evil which is felt to the extremities of the commercial world. It is true that the parties who are lot mediately engaged in the contest have to bear the 101111 , bulk of the burden, and that they are proportionably dragged down in the wile of statiAss. But the American must indeed be possessed of a sordid soul who could I..uk with complacency upon the direful scourge of European war, because it tends to weaken the great PURM of Europe, and thus give his own country the precedence. The great ness of this republic is to come from its own native strength, from its own expansive, exuberant, irrepressible principle el growth. It seeks to prevail by deserts of i.s own, cot mis• fortunes of another. There vvvvv need be one drop of blood in its path to glory. Its poliey from the bsginaiog has been peace with aU the world, and it can sesame no nobler !unction than that of a minister of peace among the ustione The performance of such a part must add to our iulluence and Wrests our fame. International law calls for each an offer. We belong to the great family of nations, and have a mighty influence, for the exercise of which we are responsible before Ood and man. More than • hundred years ago Vette], the great ',pounder of the principles of nature; law, as ap plied to the conduct of states and sovereigns, declared that "it frequently happens that two nations, though equally tired of the war, do nevertheless continue it merely from • fear of making the first advances to an accom modation, as these might be imputed to weakness ;• or they persist in it front animosity, and contrary to their real interest. On such occasions, some com mon friends of the parties effectually interpose, by offering themselves as mediators. There cannot be a more benefi cent office, and more becoming a great prince, than that of reconciling two nations at war, and thus putting a atop to the effusion of human blood; it is the irdispensable duty of those who haws the means of performing it with succeu. In regard to this efficacy of such efforts the same high au thority says—" Mediation, in which a common friend in terposes his good offices, frequently proves efficacious in engaging the contending parties to meet tech other hall way—to come to a good understanding—to enter into an agreement or compromise respecting their rights, and, it the question relates to an injury, to offer and accept • i.e. sonsble satisfaction." If these were truth; a hundred years ago, how much more ought they to be recognised at this period of time, when the enormity of war and the obliga tions of justice and humanity are so much more widely appreciated. - - The desire for mediation has taken strong hold of the commercial and religious classes in all our large towns. The following memorial on the subject is being extensively signed in New York: To the Honourable the Senate and House of Represents. tives, in Congress assembled. The uttlenigned citizens of New York respectfully re present to your honourable bodies that they view with deep concern the bloody war now raging in the Crimea between Russia on the one hand, and Turkey, Franc., aad England on the other ; a war that has already been attended with a fearful waste of life and treasure, and which. unless speedily ended, threatens to involve the whole of Europe, and to retard the civilisation and commerce of the world. It has occurred to your memorialisu, is view of the friendly relations existing between the United States and each of the contending powers, of the mutual interest of all parts of christendom in the common welfare, and of the high position of this country among the nations of the earth, that, while adhering to our established policy of avoiding all impertinent iottrvention in foreign affairs and all entangling alliances, this country might with great pro- priety impartially tender its friendly mediation to the four belligerents, in the hope of staying the slaughter of their gallant armies and restoring if possible the blessings of peace. Your memorialists do, therefore, respectfully and ear needy entreat your honourable bodies to take the subject into your instant end serious consideration ; and if no con stitutienal or other sufficient objection shall appear thereto, to express, in such terms as to your wisdom shall seem meet, the desire of this nation for the reinstatement of the peace of Europe, and to proffer, in such manner and to such extent as shall be found convenient, oar friendly mediation to that rad. _ _ _ _ _ Tim petition has already been signed by a large number of our most influential citizens. From present appearances it seems highly pro bable that the President will shortly be authorised by Congress to offer the friendly mediation of our government, in which came most likely three spacial ambassadors will be appointed. This has been the practice of our government whenever occasions of great moment arose for international deliberations. It has already been suggested that the choice might, with great propriety, fall upon the three ex- Presidents—Mr. Van Buren, who is new in Europe ; Mr. Fillmore, who was the predecessor of General Pierce ; and Mr. Tyler, who succeeded Gene ral Harrison. These appointments would doubt. Ima meet with general approbation, for they would be made without distinction of party, and it would certainly be the highest compliment we could pay to the belligerent powers, to choose three citizens who have enjoyed the supreme honours of the Republic, and all of whom most of necessity be familiar with European affairs. Under their admi nistrations each one was brought into direct and friendly intercourse with all the sovereigns and most of the illustrious ministers and statesmen of Europe. Mr. Van Buren has been distinguished for his profound knowledge of international law ; as Secretary of State at Washington, he displayed great ability; and he wee known to master every European question as it came up. He has also resided several years abroad, in familiar intercourse with public men of distinction. In addition to all this he is a man of polish and culture; and being now upwards of seventy years of age, but still in the fall maturity of his powers, and removed long ago from the political arena of party strife at home, it is thought that a better appointment could not be made. Mr. Tyler became president in consequence of the death of Gen. Harrison, who lived only one month after his inauguration. During his term, which consequently listed three years and eleven months, he encountered violent opposition from ultra man at all parties, but he had a successful administno tion. Daniel Webster had been originally appointed Secretary of State by General Harrison, and after his death the secretary continued for a large portion of Mr. Tyler's term at the head of the Foreign Department. During • this period the Ash burton Treaty was negotiated in the most friendly English and the American - Mr. THE CASE OF ARCHDEACON DENISON. VERDICT OF THE COMMISSIONERS. CLIP/EDON, WRDNZIDAY. The Commission in tbis inquiry resumed its sk its!' tbis afternoon at Wawa's II sal Hotel, Clevadon. The attendance was by ao mesas so numerous as en the preced ing days. Dr. Haggard having sta , ed that the Commhsioners were now prepared to declare their opinion, Bishop Cu, read the following : The Commissioners, after due consideration of the depo sitions taken before them, and of certain printed sermons, numbered 1,2, and 3, sad at the documents annexed, de. dare their unanimous opinion-- Fint, that as respects the preaching and publication, or making known and public the above sermons by the Vat the Archdeacon of Taunton within the diocese of Bath and Wells, there are sufficient printefaci• grounds for institut ing further proceedings. Secondly, the Commissioners, having carefully examined the aforesaid sermons and the charges specified in this com mission, declare their unanimous opinion that the propoei lion of the yen. areluleacron, that b all who come to the Lord's Table, and Xi those who eat and drink worthily, and to those who eat and drink unworthily, the body and blood of Christ are given ; and that by all who come to the Lord's table, by those who eat and drink worthily, and by those who eat and drink unworthily,the body and blood of Christ are re ceived, is directly contrary or repugnant to the doctrine of the Church of England, and especially to the articles of reli gion ; and that the doctrine, as set forth in the aforesaid sermons with reference to the real presence et the holy eueltarist, are unsupported Ity the articles taken in their literal and grammatical sense, are contrary to the doctrines and teaching of the Church of England, and have a very dangerous tendency. - -.- The Commissioner are, therefore, of opinion —secondly that there is sufficient prima facie ground for instituting further proceedings. The Cemmissioners at the same time think it due to the ble the archdeacon to state that, in the sermons under consideration, he has expressed his fall assent and consent to the articles of religion, and that he has, ex amino, con 'imbed the doctrines of the church of Rome, and particu larly of the Roman doctrine of transubstantiation. Bishop Carr added that the 'commissioners haying fully considered the subject, and now delivered their opinion, begged to state that the commission was now closed, and that copies of their decision woald be given to either party if they should wish it, on application to Mr. George Bor chelt, of lloctors'-commons, who officiated u registrar during the ioqxiry. . , Dr. Phillimore wu not in attendance to-day, being, we were informed, engaged in the Admiralty Court. Dr. Bayford was present, on the part of the promoter of the suit. The whole proceedings were concluded in lees than a quarter of an hour. THE CASE OF POISONING AT FINCHLEY. Yesterday the jury, empanelled to inquire into the circumstances attending the death of Mr. John Southgate, re-assembled at Finchley, before Mr. Wekley, the coroner. The jury haying answered to their names, Mr. John Niel!, chemist and druggist. and also a member of the College of Surgeons, deposed that he kept an open establishment, st 14,5, Aldersgate.street. Believed the packet produced came from his shop. Received a letter on the 18th December, dated the same day, and signed " John White," notifying that there was reason to believe Mr. Southgate had died through taking oxalic acid from a packet marked " Niell—purified Epsom salts," acd cau tioning him (witness) not to sell any more, if be bad any wicked up. Treated that letter as a hoax. Did not reply to it, but handed it to Chalmers, his assistant, who said he knew nothing about it. Saw the drawer about two hours after he got the letter, and it was then nearly full of Epsom salts. The drawer which contained Epsom salts made up was a very large compartment under the counter, and con tained other drugs. rhe drawer containing loose Epsom salts was behiad the counter. Chalmers told him there were no packages of salts made up when Ansdell cams, and that he weighed them out of the drawer. Oxalic acid was always some in a bottle on the top shelf, and the larger quantity was invariably kept in a cupboard in the library. Both his assistants agreed with him iu regarding the letter of Mr. White as a hoax, and that the alleged mistake could not possibly have take place. The parcel of oxalic acid produced originaily contained 2lhs., and was received from the wholesale druggist on the 13th December. There was oily halrawounce in stock at the time, and the quantity sold could be traced to a nicety. The Coroner-1 now ask you, did not Cope say to Chalmers, " You took them o r it rom the wrong parcel" Witness-1 never heard anything of the sort. We never looked upon it as a mistake, and therefor* he could not have said so. William Chalmers sworn—Deposed that he had been eight years in the chemist and druggist trade. Remembered Anwl,ll calling for tour doses of El4Olll salts. There were no packets due up, so he bad to take them front a drawer. (The one produced) It contained salts. lie had filled it that morning, by emptying the remaiader of a 281 b. parctl into the drawer. Was sure the four parcels contained salts. Coroner—Are the parcels done up by you ? Witness—l cannot swear that the packet produced was dose up by me, I do not believe it was ; certainly one end is not my folding. I never seal an end in the way that is done. After Mr. Austin called on Tuesday, Dr. Nsell told me not to sell any more salts out of the drawer, but I said I would, as I knew it was all right. I sold 2 or 31b. before we got notice of this case. There have been no fresh salts put into the drawer since the 16th December. I had only half an ounce of oxalic acid in the shop on the 13th, and ordered 21b. from Mr. Whyman, who happened to call. Ile sent it in on the same day, with invoice produced. A gen tleman bought an ounce on the same day, and I was obliged to fetch the parcel to supply him, as there was not sufficient in the bottle. I a ft erwards filled the bottle, and returned the parcel to the library ; it was labelled on the end. I had served salts to other perstns on the same day that I served Anadell. Mr. Cope was recalled, and said that be could not dis tinguish, even with a microscope, the difference between osalic acid and Biome salts. The Coroner—We appear to get mon and more mystified —it will be well to hear Professor Taylor's opinion as to the contents of the unanalysed package. Professor Taylor then cut open the paper which had contained the substance found in the bed-room of deceased, and proceeded to test the properties of the substance found is the fulds ; the result showed the presence of a small qaantity of sulphate of magnesia or Epsom salts. A small portion taken from the bulk of the package, which had been hitherto sealed up by the coroner was similarly tested, and Professor Taylor stated that there certainly was the mere trace of sulphate of magnesia. (Sensation.) The coroner remarked that it was quite clear that had Epsom salts been in a drawer before oxalic acid hadj been I placed there, there would be just the trace of it in the analysis. Coroner (to Professor Taylor)—ls your opinion already expressed at all changed by the results of this examination ? Professor Taylor—Not in the least. lam of opinion that the whole of the oxalic acid and the box should be analysed. The court was here cleared for some time, during which the jury consulted. Upon strangers being re-admitted, The Coroner said that as it was the desire of the jury to have the coatents of all the packets analysed, the inquiry would be sgain adjourned. He regretted that the evidence had not been more clear and conclusive. The inquiry was adjourned for a fortnight. NORTHERN DRAINAGE OF THE METROPOLIS. --.- The subjoined abstracts of reports upon the northern drainage of the metropolis, by Mr. John Roe, Ur. J. W. Basalgette, Sir W. Cubitt, and Mr. R. Stephenson, have been recently made to the Metropolitan Sewers Com mission. At the present moment they possess especial in terest, sad on Tuesday next they will form an interesting subject fur discussion in connexion with a motion in opposi tion to them, made by Mr. Thwaite, at the last court held at the office in Greek-street, Soho. MR. ROE'S REPORT. "TO TEN HON. TNT NITROPOLITAN CO3 6ZWERS. Tite•hill, Egham, Surrey, Oct. 23,1854. " Gentlemen, —ln accordance with your request, as stated by your secretary, in his letter received the 18th inst., I have the honour to lay before you my plan, sections, estimates, and suggestions in respect of the portion of the intercepting drainage of the metropolis called the ' Northern Dr . ainage. 'la itrming a plan for intercepting the sewage of that portion of the metropolis situate on the north side of the river Thames the following considerations appear desirable : " 1. As to an ultimata use of the sewage for irrigation, or by obtaining the solid portion for manure. Then, if neither of they desirable objects could at present be ' London' CHARACTERISTICS OF THE RUSSIAN ARMY. (From the Constilueienueel.) The battles of the Alma and Inkermano, and the siege cf Sebestop A, have enabled us to study the RUIIIIIII army employed in the Crimea. Although this army is partly composed of troops from the Daaube and the Cau• cases, it is clumsy, not easily handled, and manoeuvres badly in presence of an enterprising enemy. Its generals always place it for bivouack, as ia the field of battle, in great masses, and they do not know how to deploy it after an a tack, nor when to make it resist in a thin line. The Russian infantry is very badly armed. Same companies only have carbines made at Liege; the mus• kets, only recently transformed, badly kept, and with butt-ends in white wood, do not last long in a campaign. This infantry will never attain the level of the French infantry, which is really the first in the world for making war in woody or hilly count/ire, where the general-in-chief I a great deal to the initiative of the soldiers and to the chiefs of corps and battalions. In the defensive, the preference mist be given to the English infantry, who, under the fire of the enemy, rest immovable as a rampart. In a level and exposed country our infantry will have to modify its manner of combatting, and to re sume its old one. This consists in employing compact or thin order (&pais on mince), bat it can only be employed with i ntelligent and experienced troops. Its auperiority in arms and intelligence will, however, always give to our infantry the advantage over the Russian infantry, which will always lose half its value when obliged to change its place rapidly. On the Alma, entire Russian battalions took to flight, in surprise at the Zotiaves' way of fighting, they having advanced on them in large bodies, deployed, haling taken advantage of all the accidents of the ground to shelter themselves and to rally, and having made against the masses a terrible use of the peculiar arms confided to their skill. At Inkermana, in the upper part of the battle field, and on the line of the English, the Russian infantry bravely attacked the enemy, but did not know how to deploy its masses so as to bring more muskets Into play, and when the French attacked their left flank entire battalions tid not know how to change their position. The first tanks bravely resisted, but the following ranks fired in presenting arms. Surprised afterwards by the sharp attack of the Chalmers d'Afriqae, masses of men, instead of effecting their retreat by the crests of the hills, descended slowly to the lower parts of the ground and the ravines, where they allowed themselves to be crushed almost without defence by from 1,000 to 1,200 French. The English have so well understood the advantages which troops would have in I attacking either artillery or masses of infantry, ia woody or Hilly countries, whilst preserving the order deployed by the first line, that at Inkermana they did not employ the order I in columns, which caused them to lose so great a number of men on the Alma. On the Alma, the Russian cavalry was worse than timid, not a charge did it attempt. At Inkermann, the nature of the ground prevented it from taking part in the affair. At Balaklava, it did not dare to await the charge of two squadrons of Chasseurs d'Afriqae. The famous Cossacks have, in fact, never attempted, oven in the plain, to carry off our advanced posts, or the marauders who pass our lines; but it is said that this cavalry is but little esteemed, even in Russia. As a set off to this, the Russians really possess a great superiority both ov. r the French and the English, and especially over the French, in their artillery. The Emperor Nicholas, in, no doubt, the expectation of a war against all the nations of the south of Europe, occupied himself a good deal with that arm, which has made great progress since the wars at the beginning of the century. The cannon are of a large calibre, the carriages and caissons well mode and easily oved ; the artillerymen are brave and accustomed to their service ; the officers know perfectly well how to choose offen sive and defensive positions; they occupy them with bold ness, hold them a long time, and know how to leave them without leaving their guns. You will now understand why we are still before the walls of Sebastopol, and why that place would coat us to much blood if we were to snake an assault before its unextisguished batteries. But we hope that the town will der in consequence of the difficulty it is under of obtaining supplies of provisions, or that we shall obtain its keys by giving a grand battle to the army in the field. The stores of ammunition in Sebastopol are in exhanstible, and as the investment is not complete, the gar rison can be relieved and increased every cloy. Without being initiated ia the secrets of the generals-in-chief, every thing causes us to believe that they are wailing the arrival of the reinforcements which are on their way, in order to resume the attacks which, so to speak, have bees suspended sincu the day ut the battle of lattermost. We shall have in the French and English trenches at least 300 pieces, Iwhich will open their fire, and it is more than probable that in the meantime the army of observation will destroy in a battle the noel= army in the field. LETTERS FOR THE TRANSPORT SERVICE IN TURKEY AND THE BLACK SEA. General Poet-office, Jan., 1855. In accordance with the provisions of a Treasury Warrant, the postage upon a letter, not exceeding halt an ounce in weight, posted in thi United Kingdom, addressed to any seaman serving on beard a transport employed by her Majesty's government in Turkey or the Black Sea, or fare/faded by any such seaman, addressed to the United Kingdom, conveyed by direct packet (which term includes a ship of war, or any vessel employed by, or in the service of, her Majesty) or rid Malta, but without passing through France, bus been reduced to one penny. To entitle such letters to conveyance at this reduced rate, however, the fol lowing regulations must be awned :—let, the penny must be paid at the time the letter is posted ; 2nd, it must be stated in the direction of the letter that the person to whom it is addressed, or by whom it is sent, is a seaman serving on board a transport ; 3rd, when the letter is from a sea man serving on board a transport the officnr having the command must sign his name, and specify the ship to which the seaman belongs; 4th, the letter must not eaceed half an-ounce in weight; sth, the letter mast relate entirely to the private concerns of the seaman. The foregoing particulars must be given in the following form: "From A. II , Seamen on board the Treareport (Here the direction of the letter moat be inserted ) C.D. Captain or other Commanding Officer Tramped ship " To A. 8., seaman on board!hs Transport— (Here the direction of the letter Divot be tinished.)" Upon letters sent to a seaman serving on board a trans port, if the postage of one penny be not pre-paid in t h e United Kingdom, the letters cannot be forwarded, but will be returned to the writers. Letters sent by seamen, upon which the penny bee not been prelaid, will be liable to a chugs of 2d. each on de leery; but to enable seamen to pay the postage of their letters in advance, they will be permitted to use postage 'temps, which may be obtained from the Posunuters other Majesty's forces in Turkey. Letters addressed to, or seat by, officers serving on board transports, when forwarded by direct packet or old Malta, will be liable to a postage of lid. the half ounce, which postage, upon letters sent from the United Kingdom, must also be paid in sienna. It must be distinctly understood that the reduction of postage here authorised applies exclusively to letters sent by the direct sea roots between this country and Turkey, and Oat letters sent via Franee will be chargeable with the following rates of postage, viz. : Not exceeding or., le. Exceeding cis. and not exceeding oz , 2s. Exceeding I oz. and not exceeding oz., 3e. Exceeding oz. and not esteeediNg 111 ox., Exceeding os. and not exceeding If ox , Cse. and so on, increasing one !shilling for each quarter ounce. RoWLAND RILL, Secretary. 1 THE HACKNEY MEETING OF LICENSED VICTUALLERS. TO TEN lIIDITOR OP TEI DAILY NTIIII. Su4—There is au iasecuraey iu your report of my hut • which 185 S► .1 J i tenneeted, so as to deliver the awn: at Bow - Maki luta towage manure works could be formed, Of the line Carried forward to Barking -creek. " With respect to this, a model is in preparation end nearly complete, abowieg what can be done ; acid, as it le . intended to exemplify other matters connected with the main dealings, I shall feel pleasure in showing it to yon fee your information. ' "Another matter for consideratioa was that, as the pas. sage of the fool Norge into the Serpentine has always boon objectionable, it will be well to provide entirely for freeing that water from such pollution. The outlet sewer acme Hyde Park, hereafter described, would effect this as well as relieve the Ranelagh sewer. With respect to using the water for irrigation, there are portions of meadow land ironed the. metropolis which might be irrigated by the sewage water without having re. acne to pumping. Although there is no doubt as to the value of sewage water for irrigation, yet the use and benefit of It are not generally so well understood as to induce persons to make an outlay on that account, and when the time ar rives (as I doubt not it will) when the sewage of every town and place will be eagerly sought after, it will be requt site for some legislative enactment to be made to facilitate the passage through lands intervening between the source of supply end the locality the owner of which may desire to use the liquid manure. My opinion is that, although but • portion of the sewage of the metropolis could be applied in irrigation, yet that such portion would ultimately produce a considerable ee . " As to solid manure, there are several method, proposed for collecting the solid portion of the sewage. Bach has its merits, and although, in regard to the solid portion of the sewage, there is a greater a p at hy on the part of the nubile generally than towards its use by irrigation, and, although it will take some time to give it a lull trial on different lands, yet that its collection will ultimately remunerate those engaged in the matter I do not in the least doubt. " In the case of the metropolitan sewage, as parties ap pear anxious to speculate in collecting the solid, it would be well, before you carry any intercepting sewer beyond the Lea, if you, as conservators for the public, should ask such parties on what terms and in what manner they would enuage to manufacture the sewage of the metropolis (or any portion thereof), and at what time they would propose to make ample payment to the commissioners for the use of the sewage. " When the late Mr. Forster was preparing his plan for intercepting the sewage, I procured for hint en offer for purifying the sewage at the Isle of D.igs, and I think it probable that the same person would renew the offer at this time, if communicated with. This locality is eminently suitable for collecting the solid manure ; a great portion of the surface drainage can readily be kept separate from the house drainage ; and I consider that, if the commissioners do not agree to any offer that may be made, they should them selves cause works to be formed, and arrange with some owner or owners of land to give the solid manure a fair trial, which proceeding would prove a great boon ti the country as well as the metropolis, as the proceeding, of the metropolis, on many points, are looked alas an authority for similar things being done in provincial places. " When Mr. Forster received directions to prepare hie plea for the n irtbern drainage, he wrote to me to ask as to the fall of rain on the several days in a year. I sent him the result for a year in which more than an average fall of rain had taken place. This was as follows ; —Of the rainy days there were 30 in which a quarter of an inch fell; 10 in which half an inch fell; 2 in which three-quarters of an iiieh fell ; mid 2in which one inch fell. It was decided to provide for pasting what would come from a quarter of an inch in 21 hours, or, 0•63 per acre per minute, and to allow flood water,from greater falls to pass to the river. " With regard to the sewage water, I h the noticed in many sewers the run of water in day and night, and in one instance I noticed, on a locality where there were abut 31,000 inhabitants to the square mile. and found that the run of water in the sewer was about 29 gallons ler day to each individual; and having noticed for o length of time the:irregularity with which; his pa , eed to the se were, I dr cided upon providing sewsge capacity for rather more than that quantity in •deition to the capacity required for the quarter of an iuch of rain ; being together one cubic foot per acre per minute." PROPOSED NEW LINES OP SEWAGE. Mr. Roe proposes a new line, to be called t 11;" Northern high level" or " Hackney - b ro o k line." In this instance it is intended to "provide for the whole of the surface drain age as well as for the sewage." He suggests that this line " should commence at the entrance to Tufnel park, or Up; er Holloway, with a sewer 6 feet by 6 feet diameter, and passing thence to and clung the fields to llighbury-vale and Stoke Newington." The line he deumninates the "Middle level line" is suggested to commence opposite the church in Higb-s'reet, Kensington; thence continued to and along Hyde-park, where it will relieve the font drainage coming from the Bayswater and Acton sewer; thence its course is along Piccadilly, receiving, by connecting junc [MOP, the sewage from the King's Scholars' Pond and Regent-street sewers ; thence by SL James's square, Orange-street, the Strand, Fetter-lane to Holborn ; thence by West-street, Smithfield, Chiswell-street, and Fins bury-square to Curtain-road, where it would receive the Old-street-road branch. Its course is then along Church-street to Bethnal-green, thence under the Regent's Canal to near the Lea, where it would receive the sewage from the Old Ford and Rosemary-lane branch, and a Ii tle further the sewage from the Hackney-brook line ; then passing under the Lea and other streams to the outlet at Barking-creek." The " Old-street branch line" he pro poses "should commence at the river Fleet sewer near the House of Correction, Coldbath-field., paw ing by Wilming ton-square, St. John -street, Old-street, to the junction with the main hue in Curtain-road." The " Old Ford and Rose mary-lane branch" is suggested "ts commence in Water lane, Fleet-etreet, and to pass along Cannon-street, Rose mary-lane, New-road, Back-road, White Horse-street, to the World's -end. Stepney ; thence across Mile-end-road and under the Regent's Canal above the leek, near Mile-end road bridge ; thence by Bearbinder-lane to its junction with the main line." He further suggests that the " Low level line should commence near to ChAnea hospital, to the Victoria• Street sewer, along Whitehall, Cnaring-cross, the Strand, New Bridge-street; thence to and along Cannon street, Bastcheap, &c., to the Commercial-road; then parallel with the Limehouse cut, to and under the Lea and the West Ham Railway, a little beyond which the pumping station is proposed to be formed. The sewer into which the water is to be raised hu its course in nearly a direct line to where it will meet the gravitating line near the Barking road, sad then runs parallel therewith to the proposed re servoir." Re states that " 4,190 acres would drain into this line, if the Isle of Dogs drained into it, but of these many acres might be reversed to the gravitating line." He proposes "that the pumping station on the low level sewer should be 32 feet below the sewer proposed to convey the water to the reservoir, with engines of about 450-horse power." The it to be "60 feet in width, the waters to be delivered at the turn of the tide. Storing capacity of reservoir to be 7,000,000 cubic feet of water?' ESTIMATED COOT OF THE WORKS. Northern high level line, 6,66321. ; middle level gravitat ing line and branches (including land and relief for the Fleet and Itanelagb), 220,1041. ; main low level line (in cluding ditto), 167,8501. ; extension of gravitating lines to Barking Creek, &c., 167,6001. ; pumj log-engines, engine houses, pumps, &c., 68,0001. ; total, 690,0861. ; estimated coat of sewers required to bring Acton, Iloddesden Green, &c.. waters to Bayswater, 62,9951 ; grand total, 753,0411. The report is signed " John Roe," and thus proposes to effect a saving of 602,0001. per annum over the engineer's plans. Mr. Bazalgette reports upon Mr. Roe's scheme, which ho states to be " unfit to accomplish that which is proposed," inasmuch as it is alleged ;that the data from which that gentleman has worked is incorrect and the estimates imper fect. The proposed sewage littet Mr. Besalgette describes as being " complicated and circuitous ;" the curves are said to be of " short radii, retarding the flow of the sewage," and " calculated to create deposit in the sewers ;" such curve., it being further said, having been " carefully avoided by the engineers to the commission in their plan as being serious objections to their efficiency." ♦BSTRACT OF THE JOINT REPORT OP SIR W. mini' AND 3111. B. lITZPILLNBON ON MN. ROWS SCURNII. The report of Messrs. Cubitt and Stephenson as criers.° occupied 30 pages of closely written manuscript. It will be here sufficient, however, to state that ls,th gentlemen are opposed to Mr. Roe's scheme, end that they distinctly ap prove of the intercepting spit , m with the following proviso: —They say : " In giving our recommendation in favour of an inter cepting system, we must be distinctly understood as coup ling with the approval of the system the condition that the lines of sewers which have to perform the duties now so imperfectly performed by the Thames must not be stinted in their dimensions with the view of saving money for the moment, as we are thoroughly convinced that if, with this view, they are reduced in dimensions below those sug gested by your engineers, and approved of by us in our for mer reports, nothing but disappointment awaits you and the public. We have, we trust, put the: question before you (the commissioners) in such a manner that you may form • correct judgment of the consequences that must inevitably follow the adoption of dimensions incompetent to deal wit's the ordinarily occurring heavy rain fells, and enable you to appreciate clearly the advantages of a copious power of dis charge." In closing their report the consulting engineers thus eon: clu beg to recapitulate the conclusions we have come to, namely : .1. That the design of interception proposed by your engineer, engineer, Mr. Bssalgette, and Mr. Haywood, the engineer of the City Commissioners of Sewers, is better calculated t►an any other to effect the object. 2. That the dimensions they have fixed upon for their sewers are not larger than are absolutely required to clear the Thames generally, throughout the year of pollution. " 3. That even with these dimensions, the Thames will, occasiouslly, during very heavy storms, still be liable to have discharged for -