The Express. — London, England, 1855-01-19 00:00:00

I 0 ii I 1 11 i 1 1 i lt I I k i I I ' I 1 I I 1 THE NEW RETURN OF NEWSPAPER' STAMPS. ..- ..^ Ty return of nowiligiee ituiP jug lined Sire' tie' IrlMei•i mune 'tint Quarter. &seal Qsartar. Daily Jews . . 319,191 348,044 Kaska. Herald . . 303.000 299•001 Masulag Poet . . 206,009 226.019 Mersin Chreatels . . ICAO 166,500 acprimo . . 117,133 198,399 Globe . . . 175,000 196,011 Sea • • . mow 192,005 'baud . • . 102,000 MOOS Eke eroveoo. TO COARESPONDINTA Ilisma Midas et **TM Regrew^ eermask4 die mew melees NOsalus." le pabillbiel every Turfy awl eight, Ow kr set. liverileemesita Wended ter .11110 i ti r ell . " Lanese Evening ppm Ufa be et am onee. lieeverleeraese. by Two Abet ea at , fte el patilestleis RIOS WALT= AT LONDON BRIDG Day—Niedos, fh. Alisreaus. U Tearvasew—lionies E.s. T UN. LONDON. PRIDAY. JANUARY 19. LATEST NEWS FROM ABROAD COPENHAGEN. x. Is. To-day Use premier gated in the Volkething that the proposed impeachment of the late ministers would, if carried out, only render the working oat of the constitution more Meek, and would form a dangerous precedent. A divieion on the question will take place to-mor row. Bishop Monrad is appointed minister for the control of the popular public schools under the , minister of worship. The ice reaches to the Trekroner battery.--Daily N.ws. THE MEETING AT LEEDS. Tin great meeting at Leeds, on Wednesday, was cue of which the inhabitants of that important esatre of industrial activity may well be proud. The attendance was so numerous that an adjournment to the Cloth Hall Yard was found to be necessary. The extraordinary exertions made by those who call themselves the friends of peace, to convert it into a demonstration in favour of their peculiar views, had been so indefatigable as to excite a strong spirit of opposition. Yet the proceedings of this crowded and heterogeneous assembly were characterized by an ab sence of headstrong passion, and a calm, dispassionate, judicial dignity, that were worthy of a senate. Mr. COBDES was listened to with patience and re spect. He was treated by the speakers op posed to him with that deference which his former great services deserve. But the almost unanimous division against him showed that the judgment of the men of Leeds is not to be biassed or seduced by personal respect or plausible sophistry. They have set a worthy example to the Legislature and the nation at large. They have shown that Englishmen know how to combine unrestricted freedom of discussion with dignified self-respect. If the Russian Government possess any intelligence, they must be taught by the proceedings of Wed aseday, at Leeds, that the English people listen to all before they resolve, but are inflexible in their resolution when once it is taken. The appearance made by Mr. COBDEN is inexpres sibly painful for those who cherish the recollection of what he was when acting as the animating and directing spirit of the Anti-Corn Law League. Then he was inspired by a great idea which he fully comprehended, and which he struggled to realise by a rare mixture of uncompromising firmness, un impaired tact, and unintermittiog good temper. His views were broad and comprehensive; his arguments lucid, honourable, and straightforward. But his Wed nesday's speech was throughout sophistical, shuffling, and low in its moral tone. Speaking of that small section of public opinion which denounces all war in discriminately, Mr. COBDEN said :—" These gentle men themselves have ttempted to press their opinions upon the policy of this country ; and I fault here state that they have been the first to tell me to disavow participation in their doctrines. I have been told by members of the Society of Friends to disavow their opinions, because they knew I should lose all influence, by advocating their opinions, on the public mind.* It is not true that these gentlemen have abstained from pressing their opinions upon the policy of the country. Ad dresses have been circulated by them, sent by post to almost every male adult of the United Kingdoms. We ourselves have received innumerable communics time from them, threatening us with pecuniary loss if we persisted in the course we have pursued with regard to the war. They have desired Mr. COB DEN to disavow their opinions, in order that he might retaia his iuttuence on the public mind, and accom plish their ends for them while pretending to aim at something else. And be has condescended to play their game; endeavouring to persuade the nation to abstain from all war, under all circum stances, while affecting to recognise that some wars might be justifiable. This is shuffling, both on his part and on the part of the Society of Friends. Again, the unvaried tenor of Mr. Con. DIN'S arguments against the war is based upon its being expensive. He fancies that if he can persuade the people that it will cost them much, be has said enough to indite, them to desist from it. He appears to be incapable of conceiving that men can make pecuniary sacrifices for what they conceive to be just and honourable. This is sordid. Lastly, he unscru pulously perverted facts ; and, by mutilated quota tions, attributed to others sentiments and opinions which they never entertained or expressed. This is sophbtiosl. Had Mr. COBDEN retired from public life when the repeal of the Corn-laws was achieved, he would have carried with him the respect of all— even of opponents. He his lingered on the stage only to add one more illustration of the truth, that a man may be a successful agitator and yet totally disqualified for acting es a legislator or statesman. We write in sorrow, not in anger. We write of a man whom we have loved, honoured, labouied for, as we have done for no other. We will endeavour henceforth to recollect only the RICHARD COBDEN of the Anti-Corn-law League, and forget what imperfectly-informed dogmatism and wayward vanity have reduced him to be. We are grateful for the good he has done; we can forget and forgive the evil be has failed to do. Henceforth he is inflames'. We revert to a more pleasing subject—the general tone of the meeting. Mr. BAINES said "He agreed that the attack upon Sebastopol Ned been mode by too small an army, end he thought that the Govern ment ought to have had mare information oa THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 19. 1865. NAVAL /ND MILITARY. ArIiZTT, JAL 18.—Paomanoss.--Lierb W. I.os. t p 847); J. Froba•M (1847); H. W. Midge asszisaa. F. Polka (1847), proatotoll to WA rook of mulls& ArPOUlTKlNTS.—Lleotosaato A. lima (IBM) to tk. Penelope. 16, paddle-whoa mat Sigmas of OH h s ew power, at Poolsaiesth ; aad J. B. Grove WHO to thy sue, 90, weer MGM ship of 600 koree-power, at Derear e ere, Adis; Amides* Samosas L W. thews to the Radar Hospital; sad 0. Con to the Dragon, 6. p a dsh.whool Mau frigid', of 660 horseiower, la the Baltic Natal Cadets D. B. Y. Great, to the Hogue, 60, MOW Moos gaud ship, of 460 lecoorpowit, at Perasioath ; J. W. D'Arey, to the Amorist, 47, sorsa atom frigate, of 360 lioree-power, at Perteaoath ; P. De B. Hainan, H. sad W. S. Gorden, to the Delos, SO, mew sties I ship of SOO has-paws:, at Itheerassa. N OF THB 82ND. LIVERPOOL, TZVISDAT. This morning, at helf-peet 11 o'clock, the 82nd, or Prune of Wales's Volanton Enema, under the Lams dist* ornanand of Lieut.-Col. James A. Robertson, arrived from Prince by the Bast Lesseskint Railway. Too men 736 rink and sin, and the odious Wended Kalov Walnut, Captain Marriott, Captain Warren, Captain J. J. Wood, Captain D. G. Collins, Captain Jarvis, Captain Farmer Lieutenant C. N. Biggs, Adjutant Ilarle, Cleartenuistor Clinton, Paymaster ElVenard. - Es. The enthusiastic charge ter of their reception was fully sepal to that which was saaaifested ea the departure of the various other regi ments whisk have left this town for foreign en vie*, and the cordiality with w►lch they were welcomed was in ao degree less. At the railway statism they were met by the mayor (J. A. Tobin, Esq.), Colonel Di Riney, and the other civil and military fanstionaries connected with the various local deportment,. Large crowds of the intiabitaats usembled ea the sesseion to de honour to the deporting soldier, sad no sooner hod they emerged from the statioa that good hearty English chewing was beard on every ad., and u it was taken up by the multitudes at • distance it was replied to by the soldien In the liveliest yammer. For the preseat the 82nd only NWT'S the regi ment at Corfu whisk is destined for active service, end there having recruited, the 82nd will doubtless take a more direct part in the war, and add to the honours which they have already pined at Eoleia, Vittoria, Mulls, Vimiera, Pyre nees, °ethos, and Niagara. Yesterday each man was sup ' plied, through the liberality of Mr. Godfrey, of the Town Council, with warm spiced ale, the morning Wag an ca ' osedingly cold coo. The troops, having been marched to the leading sup, embarked in tugs for conveyance to the steam ship Bahian, for Corfu. The Bettina will sail about noon tiraonow. 81111ERNE88. J'Ax. 18. The Cressy, screw steam line of ettle ship, is to be pet oat of dry dock to-morrow at flood tide, llpoeslble, sad the sew strew steam corvette the Pyladee will be taken into the saes dock for sosapletiag her bettors, etippgriott, to. The Molesting is nearly ready for Saving the Basin—she has intend sows very flee follows .. bluejackets." Ithe is destined for Constantinople, there to resale as a depot for provisioas, stores, to., for the use of the Black Bea fleet. The Russell, now is No. 2 dry dock, has nearly ems pleted her avowing, and will be ready to leave the desitin two or three days from this date. She is ordered to be Stied with all possible despatch. Ref masts, spars, sad rigging are being hastened for her at this yard. The Majestic, screw line of battle ship, remains is No. $ dry dock, repairing machinery connected with the main shaft of the screw propeller. A farther trial of the sea service mortar, weighing over 6 tans, sad throwiag s 13-ineh shell of 2001 be weight with a charge of 201 b of powder, fitted on the principle proposed by Capt. I. Roberts of the Royal Marine Artillery, has taken place at Bhoeburyness, in the presence of several scientific officers connected with the service. The trial has fully established the usefulness of this mortar (fitted as it is) for batteries, trenches, or any land fortifications, aa well as afloat. Twenty rounds were fired most successfully, the former isealcieney of the maul* lashing strap' having been remedied. Forty seconds only were required to load and are each shell; sad ft was found, after twenty rounds, the body of the mortar was not in the least heated by quick firing. The of the garrison here hes re- Mitred orders to prepare barrack &MOMS for 400 newly imbed nen in the Artillery corps. DUBLIN, JAN. 18. The following are the numbers of men and officers who sailed from Queenstown In the Princess Royal, for the Crimea, on the 13th inst. :—.oth Foot : 2 captains, 6 sub• alterns, 2 sergeants, 65 rank and Me. 14th Foot : 1 field officer, 1 captain, 7 subalterns, 4 sergeants, 1 drummer, 135 rank and ale. 391 h Regiment-1 field officer, 2 captains, subalterns, 6 sergeants, 4 drummers, 173 rank and file. Embarked on board the Princess Royal in Engli.nd : Major-General Jones and staff, 4 officers, and 100 men of the Royal Sappers and Miners, and a number of hospital orderlies. HORRIBLE MASSACRE AND BURNING OF A BRITISH SHIP. -.._ _ _ Information has been received of a tragical ow tens oa board t►e British ship Berenice, the master of which (Captain Candy), with his wife, chief mate, and others have been massacred by t►e crew, who after wards set Are to the ship and destroyed her, to prevent detection. The &mice sailed from Shanghai on the 15th of July, 1852, with a cargo of tea for Sydney. Her crew, shipped at Singapore, consisted almost entirely of men from dif ferent parts of Netherland India. During the voyage two of the sailors, believing there was gild to a large amount . • on board, spoke of it to their comrades, and a plan was forthwith concocted for taking porenion of the vessel (thin. near Anger) and assaseisating the Europeans who were on board. The ringleaders, as far as could be proved, were the Smug, or boatsman's mate, known as " Ali.," and seven of his tribe. Mr. Roberts, the mate, was =Ulna to the fore. part of the ship by Ali., where he was instantly murdered. Captain Coady, the commander, who ran to his 'mistime, met with a similar fate ; as also did three seamen, who in terfered to save the captain's life. Ere. Candy war taken from between decks, whither she had flown for refuge, and thrown overboard. A French passenger, name unknown who had joined at Shanghai, was not found on board neither were three Bengalees and Amboyna men who were among the crew. They must either have thrown them .se:ves into theses, or have been thrown overboard by others. This tragical scene completed, the mord threw the bodies overburd, washed away all traces of blood, and then commenced searching for the gold sup vied to be on board. All the money on board, however, consisted of about 100 Snipe and forty Spanish dollen. The pleader was equally divided by Alie, and it was agreed among them to set sail for Tauban, there to abandon the vessel, after having eat fire toit. The ship gaining Tagel, which was taken for Tauban by Alio and his party, eke was set on fin, and they took to the boats. Several were left behind, and were burned in the ruse]. Finding their mistake an pining the heights of Tagil, they were compelled to get rid of most of the plunder by throwing it overboard. They, however, by their plausible story deceived the authorities of the place, who showed them every fooling of companion, and provided them with means. Afterwards the discovery of the wreck of the burnt ship, and the bodies dome of the crew, excited suspicion ; and after a esarahing investigation before the magisterial Moen of the place, the whole of the diabolical affair was elicited by Solle of the inspected eonfusing to the charges brought against them. The riaglesden, nisi in number, were brought to trial la September last, when the entire of t►em were found guilty. rive of the prisoners were sea" tensed to 20 years' banishment, and she °then were axe. Gated on the 13th of last October, in the public square in the principal part of Tagil. The things which during the trial helped to convict the prisoners, were a gold watch and chain, sad some ornaments and clothing belonging to the late captain and his wife. THE LATE Maros Gusaaoon, of the 49th, whose death we recorded come days ago, had been, it appsan by a letter from Major Gabbles A.D.C. to Bir De Lacy Evans, serieasly Imolai sustained a corn poud fracture of the thigh bone hen a splinter of a shell He received it while superintending the construction of the redoubt ow the top of the Knoll, not many days after the battle of 'shorans. In speaking of Mejor Olsabrook to his brother, Sir Di Lacy Evans (to whose division he be longed) nys :—" Many noble and gallant men have, in deed, to sty knowledge, fallen in this war, bat few, I think, who did more true credit to his friends and fatally, or who was more likely,if be had been spared, to attain distiaguished bosons in his profession, then your brother." We regret to notice the death of Rear-Admiral Forbes, which occurred on the 13th in The gallant deceased was younpr Ma of the late General Gordon Forbea r Colow4 of the Rith Rothman. THE WAR. The alerts Gasett• pablights adviets form Berlin stating Hist " in diplomatic circles no dou►rt is enter tained that Mania and Magda will come to an agreement, the latter having taken no positive mi sogamist to enter upon hostilities. In the freedom of the Danube and the cessation of the Rambo protec torate in the Principalities, MIS& has gained the object about which she was really anxious." . . . In agreement with thin iat.l ipnos ars accounts from Weimar, according to which the Austrian goverumenthas signified to the Princes of the Thurin gian States, that after the pacific declarations of Russia it appears advisable not to proofed with the mobilisation of the military contingents of the Germanic state., and that Austria will not, therefore, bring the question before the Diet. The notorious organ of the Russian party at Berlin, the Zr... Zeffsing, proclaims that the belligerents bare effected a compromise. Atter laying great stress upon this last word, it proceeds: The public will do us the justice to say that we are not in the habit of making announce ments without being precisely informed on our subject; and our readers may rely on us implicitly when we say that the account of the recent conference published in the Mkt. is almost entirely false. For instance, nothing was said to Prince Gortchakoff about the destruction of Ismail or the construction of a neutral fortress on the Danube, nor does Russia give up her sovereign rights on the Danube, and much less those she possesses in the Crimea. Thus neither was anything said about the destruction of Sebes topol or the limitation of the number of Russian ships in the Black Sea." • A letter from Bucharest, in the Presse of Vienna, says "the English Consul has remitted to Prince I Stirbey a note, calling upon him to repudiate the Russian protectorate by • public act. The French Consul will send the Hospodar a similar note." Letters from Odessa, of the 6th, state that a hard frost equal to 9 or 10 degrees below the freezing point had succeeded to gusts of wind and falls of snow, which prevailed throughout nearly the entire month of December, and the roads had thus been brought into a fit state for the conveyance of tronpe and monitions of war to Perekop. Enormous masses of breadstuff' were accumulated in the country, without the possibility of effecting sales at the pre sent moment. There was no business doing what ever. The Russian government has established at Theodosia some 'eat hospital, to which the wounded and sick were being sent from the Crimea. The works on the new fortifica tions which are being erected round Odessa on the land side, axe carried on with the greatest pos sible activity. Between ten and twelve hundred workmen are employed on them daily, and great confidence is felt that the space traced out by the military engineers will be completely finished and armed in the course of next February. Every ar rangement has been made for collecting near Perekop an army of reserve eighty thousand strong. The order came from St. Petersburg to make as formidable as possible the position of the isthmus, which it is desired to hold at every cost. A large number of Russian troops now there were forced by the incle mency of the weather to leave the camp they occu pied in front of Perekop, and to take up winter quarters for the moment in the town of Armjanks and its adjacent villages. Generals Dannenberg and Read were at Odessa on the 6th ; the former was on the point of setting off for Bt. Petersburg, where he is going to take his new• seat as member of the Upper Council of War; the latter was going to assume the command of the third army corps of infantry. The writer of one of the letters quoted says : There has been a great deal written during the last few months about the bad food given to the Russian soldiers when in the field; permit me, by referring to authentic documents, to re-establish the truth in this matter. Each eoldirrreeeivee daily three ROM= pounds weighs of bread and one pound of beef. A drove of 180 and up to 200 of horned cattle constantly follows every Russian regiment of 4,000 men, in order that they may be used wherever the troops may happen to find the supplies fall short. A cavalry regiment has always in its train, and as a resource, 60 head of horned cattle, which amber the commissariat is specially bound to keep up at all times. The Lithographed Correspondence of Vienna, under date of the 13th inst., has the following paragraph respecting the recent visit of a Russian corps to the Ottoman territory : On the Bth the Russians effected a passage of the Danube near Tultscha. In the darkness of the night they reached the right hank in boats, surprised the Turkish garrison, and caused a great carnage. They then retired, laden with booty, and carrying off their prisoners. Having gained the left bank, they destroyed the head of the bridge. On both sides the lose was heavy, for the Turks, surprised in this manner, defended themselves with all the energy of despair . There was a pasha among the slain, but his name has not transpired. The inhabitants of Tultscha fled into the fields, and did not ratans to their pillaged homes till after the Russians had left. The Byanden-Blatt of Vienna, of the 13th, gives the following from Varna, of the Ist. On the 25th Prince Mentchikoff issue d a general order, which has been also published at Simpheropol and Baktchi- Send. It concludes with these words : "By the help of God and our indomitable force we shall van quish and annihilate our enemies." General Mont rose commands at Perekop, General Korff before Eupatoria, General Pawloff at Simpheropol, and Ge neral Osten-Sacken at Baktchi-Serai. The lut named officer received a reinforcement of 12,000 men on the 28th ult. General Liprandi, who had received orders to advance against the gorge of the Valley of Balaklava, where the Turks are posted, executed the order with success. "We have received," says the Pays, " a letter of the 6th from Constantinople. A column of Riflemen has taken possession of the important position at Camara, near Balaklava, after driving out the Ru► sians who occupied it. The enemy in this affair experienced severe losses, they were completely put to the rout and fled precipitately. burning their forage and tents. The loss of the Russians at Bebop topot and the neighbourhood during the last days at December is estimated at more than 8,000 men. The Indipendance, confirming our original an nouncement, says : Our correspondent at Frankfort, who information is always so exact, confirms not only the fact, that Puma le not disposed to adhere at present to the treaty of Des. S. but also that the Western Powers having made this alk hesion the express condition of her admission to the sea. ferences, the cabinet of Berlin has protested against this resolution. Prussia maintains that is her quality as a greet power, and as one of the parties to the treaty of 1841, she has the right to interfere In negotiations relative to the abolition of that treaty, whatever may be in other respells the resolution she may adopt concerning the treaty d Dec. 2. There the matter rests for the present. subject than they seemed to have pessessed.* Mr. Bunten spoke the universal *enamor the eou• We have not feared to ran the risk of misconstrnelis, k advocating mutual toluanm and national ashy `fie prosecution of tltd *wir. And this $ &NM to the earlier proposals for a change ce mow Auction of Ministry. But time has shown that if the war is to be prosecuted to an honourable and beneficial turnioatice, the risk of a reesestntelloa of the Ministry meat be ran. The same sleet- ighted indifferent spirit, that mud the war to he ementeneed in a triflieg powwow* maser, still previdle ram certain members of the administration. They are dallying with an earnest and perilous nedsetaking. The isdulgeece they have met with his only cos firmed them in theirfoirtionfies. They whet and ob tained permission to raise and organise fcreeign levies, as the readiest manner to obtain eessor.ed soldiers ler immediate service, and within thus few days they had not made up their minds as to the section of the war department upon whick. the carrying that permission into effect should devolve. No effective steps have been taken to imprr,ve the organisation of the army and its auxiliary services. Nay worse, they are looking about for individuals in subordinate stations upon whom they may throw the blame of failure, and thus avert .t from themselves. Yester dey the Thus proceeded to the practical application of its recent pertinacious attacks upon Lord RAGLAN by declaring that " the attempt to shield the general by attacking the Ministers is simply ridiculous f and if well-vouched for reports be true, Sir Camas RAPIN hen been nperseded in the command d the Baltic fleet. In its present state of information, the country will hesitate to case to • final judgment on the questions whether Sir CHAIM Narint has accomplished all that the powers with which he was invested, and the fleet placed under his orders enabled him to do P or whether Lord RAGLAN possesses the goatskin of a Commander-in-Chief, or, as some military authori ties maintain, only those of a General of Division P The country will demand proof of the assertions to the disparagement of these leaders before it credits them; and even when convinced, it will say that these men were selected for command by the Government ; that the former was kept in com mand by the Government throughout the campaign, and that the other is still retained in command. Government is responsible for the deficiencies of the agents by whom it chooses to work, as well as for its own obstinate perseverance in a policy of " mneh to do about nothing." It is not enough that a Minister mean well; if he cannot act well, he is unfit for his office. The Cabinet must be reconstructed, and that by the accession of men who have not, while formerly in office, given the country lamentable proofs of their incapacity. If we have not been so hasty in arriving at this conclusion as others, we will not be the lees unwavering in its assertion now that experience has proved its jostles. If we do not urge it in inflated language, or by per sonal vituperation, we trust that our words will not have the less weight for being free from those ques tionable peouliarities.—.Daily News. Vbe Court, WINDSOR, JAw. 18. The Earl of Cardigan and Viscount Harding, had the honour of dining with her Idsjeity yesterday. The band of the Royal Hors, Guards played during dinner, and her Majesty's private band after. _ . The Qum and Prince walked in the Home P.rk this morning. _ _ . The Earl of Cardigan and Viscount Hardinge left Wind sor this forenoon for London. The Earl of Aberdeen and Sir Jame and Lady Graham have been invited, and are 'unsalted ibis afternoon. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office. The ministers present were the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Argyll, Viscount Palmer ston, the Earl of Clarendon, Sir George Grey, the Duke of Newcastle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, Sir Charles Wood, Earl Gran ville, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, and Sir Wil liam Molesworth. The Council sat three hours. A deputation from the Bermondsey Leather Manufac turers' Society, had an interview yeeterdey with the _ _ dent of the (General Board of Health, at his dace, White hall. The deputation consisted of Mtesre. J. B. Bevington, M. Sharp, B. Smith, F. Hepburn, W. Palmer, add fieorge Matthews, and they were accompanied by Mr. J. Sharp and Mr. George H. Burnell, C. 8., Hon. Sec. Viscount Palmerston arrived in London yesterday from his mat, Breadlands, Hants, for the purpose of attending the Cabinet Council. The Earl of Aberdeen and Sir James GraLan left town last evening for Windsor Castle. Mr. Divett, DI P., the chairman, and Mr. Miller, the manager of the South Australian Company, with Mr. Sed don:* (solicitor), had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday in the Colonial-once. Her Royal Highness the Countess of Trspini was os the 7th happily delivered at Naples of a princess, who 1 has received the same of Marla Theresa. LAUNCH OF HER MAJESTY'S NEW STEAM YACHT. Her Majesty's magnificent new steam yacht the Victoria and Albert, to complete which every artisan of the establishment has of late been employed from daylight until ten o'clock at night, was launched at Pembroke on Tota -1 day last, the 16th inst. In the construction of this vessel the aid of ell the talent of the Surveyor's dep►rtment has been employed ; and, judging heat her appearance, it may truly be said with every pordble success. Her bow is a perfect wedge, her run clan and beautiful, and her whole model such tato ensure the pietist speed. She has been built upon the diagonal plea, sad is ooluoqueatly exceedingly strong, though not of heavy souttling. Her frame timbers, cut from the lightest wood compatible with the reqeisite strength, an not, as in onus= ewes, placed some distance apart, but in immediate contact with each other, firmly bolted and dowelled together, forming one entire mass from stem to stenspoet. Ti these a diagonal course of planking is se curely nailed. This is covered with a coating of oiled thick paper, and then there is another planking running in an oppoeite diagonal direction. Oa this there is a layer of thick felt, and then a final planking fore and aft. These are all bolted together and clinched inside and out, so that any movement of a portion without disturbing the whole fabric is impossible. The whole space from the paidle boxes aft is devoted to the anossroodetion of royalty. On the upper deck there is s large dining-room 24 ft. by 17 ft., glazed ell round, sad in the roof a camera obscure is fixed, affording a picture of all that Is passing around. There are also two glued alcoves from which an uninterrupted view is obtained of the surrounded scenery. Oa the second deck are the royal apartments, the bulkheads and ceilings of which ere all lined with thick felt, so that neither found nor moisture can penetrate. The state cabin is 21 feet by 17, and the royal bed chamber 19 by 14, with a drooling room at each end. The cabins are thoroughly ventilated by means of pipes parsing up through the ship's sides, and ter minating at the gunwale upon deck. The launch took plant about four o'clock, and was at- Waded by a very large concourse of spectators. The °m ammy of naming was performed by Lady Milford. A handsome little tool sheet, lined with crimson velvet, sad containing a chisel and mallet, was presented to her lady ship, with whisk she severed the cord that released the superinsumbest mess, sad the yacht at once most enceess fully rushed into the waters of the haven. The following are some of her prinsipel Matadors : Length over all, 340 feet; ditto between the perpendiculars, 300 ft. ; ditto of keel for tonnage, 275 ft. ; breadth extreme, 40 ft. 3 in. ; ditto for tonnage, 40 ft. ; ditto moulded, 39 ft. ; depth of hold, 24 ft. ; berthas, 2,942 tons; power, 600 hone ; diameter of piddle wheels, 31 ft. ; dimension of paddles, 11 ft. 8 ia. by 5 ft. 6 is. ; diameter of cylinder, 7 ft.; stroke of pietas rod, 3ft. 6il. THE NEGOTIATIONS AT VIENNA. The statements made in the following article, which appears in the journal de Pre:Wort, will be found worthy of serious attention : Bhotil4 the instructions which Prince Gortchakoff has re ceived by the electric telegraph from Bt. Petersburg lead to sallow negotiations for peace, it is to the efforts which Austria has exerted with the Western Powers that such a result will be due : it is the treaty of Dec. 2 that supplied her with the means, and enabled her to make use of them. Surely it is no small triumph to Austrian diplomacy that, despite the warlike passions excited by events in the Crimea, it has succeeded in obtaining from the cabinets of Paris and London a favourable ear to the proposals for pesos made by Austria, and that they should have declared themselves still ready to negotiate on the bases fixed last August, but rejected at that time by Russia. Before commencing the negotiations of pesos the three allies naturally had to some to an undentanding about a common interpretation of the four points. Although Prince Gortehakoff, to whom it was oonununioated on the 28th of December by the representatives of the three potion, wy not provided with sufficient full powers for sampling er rejecting it, the telegraphic instructions he has received from St. Petersburg prove nevertheless that, is the inter potation decided on between the three powers, the bounds of moderation have not been transgressed. A fact which shows how deeply them powers must have been convinced that this interpretation would prove swept. able to the court of Russia is the circumstance that they postponed the opening of the deliberations upon which, awarding to the fifth article in the treaty of Deo. 2, they were to enter as to t►e fitting means for attaining the object of that treaty, until after the expiration of the term granted to Prince Gortehskoff to obtain further intructions. We must, nevertheless, expect that the interpretation of the four points, as agreed upon by the parties contracting the treaty of December, will not be considered definitive, nor be regarded us a fixed form, beyond which the pa rest's' springing out of the said points cannot go. If the three powers had shaped out such a perms:lent form, the, would have stated us much from the first or before the ne gotiations of peace, in which, besides Russia, Turkey, that to say, the belligerent powers have also to take part. Will they succeed in restoring peace? It would be rub to form any supposition on the subject. What appears eer tain, however, is, that the Western Powers, if they seriously desire peace, will have to give up their first inten tion of reducing the Russian naval power in the Black Sea by a treaty, in other word., with the ointment of Russia, nor will they be able to demand an indemnity for the expenses of the war, for Russia by granting it would acknowledge her self vanquished. We believe the Western Powers will be seriously desirous of peace, so soon as they can retire with honour from before Sebastopol, an enterprise begun with out mature reflection. Au advantage obtaineckby the Anglo- French in the Crimea would facilitate the work of peace. Will the peace endure ? Russia has answered this ques tion beforehand in her note of Aug. 26, wherein she ex presses herself us follows on the four points—" which, if a transitory pressure could ever constrain her to retie herself to, far from insuring to Europe, as the Austrian government seems to believe, a solid, and especially a lsstiag pesee,would only serve to render that peace liable to perpetual eatangle• silents." THE ALLIANCE WITH PIEDMONT. The 'Mats publishes, from the pen of M. S. de Sacy, the following statement respecting the conven tion betwoom PEISOGO, England, and Piedmont: It has been stated, and some journals have repeated the statement, that the Cabinets of Paris and London asked that of Piedmont to accede to the treaty of December 2. They are mistaken ; there never was any question of Piedmont's direct intervention in the alliance recently concluded by France, Austria, and Great Britain. Such an overture could not have been made to the Cabinet of Turin, and this Cabinet could not have accepted ft. We do not find in the treaty of December 2 any gene ral reservation like that which is inserted in the convention of April 10. The reservation contained in the 6th article of the December treaty is specially meant for Prussia, and rightly so, since this treaty is represented as being in consequence of the protocols laid down on the 9th of April and the 23rd of May, and of the notes on the Bth of August, which express the idea and the intentions common to the four courts redreeented at the conference of Vienna. Besides, the susceptibility of Piedmont would have been alarmed, if a direct alliance with Austria had been proposed to her. The accession to the convention signed at London on the 10th of April, gives rise to no embarrassment. In the main, the result is the same. By acceding to the conven tion of April 10, Piedmont has contracted an alliance with France and Great Britain, and has engaged like them to keep up, according to the necessities of the war, to be esti mated by joint agreement, sufficient forces for meeting the exigencies of the case. On their side, France and Great Britain, wishing to tes tify their satisfaction to Piedmont, have promised to lend her their good offices, and to continue for her their benevolent mediation with the Cabinet of Vienna, in order to obtain from the latter the release of the sequestrated estates. The Cabinets of London and Paris will to this end represent and urge the good service which the Pied mottne government has continuously rendered to the cause of order for more than five years past, by using with as much skill as moderation its undoubted influence over all Italy ; an influence justly ac quired by its generous devotion to Italian nationality. They will remind Austria that the Piedmontese govern ment has alway_s behaved with as much prudence as loyalty, and that it would be wrong to impute to it any ambitious designs or revolutionary tendencies, since it contests, ener getically, against the fatal ideas dispersed around it. At Turin, we are told, they depend greatly on these favourable dispositions of the two courts ; they find in them precious advantages for the present sir cumstances ; they think the government will find in the support of its allies a great strength, which will assist it in surmounting the obstacles of every kind now op posed to it by its enemies, and in overcoming the resistance of extreme parties, which, is kept up and excited by the . . . . . . active malevolence of a mall number of foreign minlaii The treaty of January 10 will be followed by • military convention, determining the quality, nuur hers, and destination of the land forces which Piedmont has to furnish and keep up. Ws convention will shortly be signed, the Dues of it being nearly settled. Piedmontese troops will be sent to the Crimea ; they will be conveyed thither by France and England, at their joint expense; their departure will take place directly after the exchange of the ratifications; they will form • carps of 15,000 at least, and 20,000 at most, the command of which will be given to a Piedwntese GeneraL The expeditionary corps will be stationed in a camp apart, though on its arrival it will be placed under the superior command of Lord Raglan. The treaty of Turin was signed by M. de Cavour, who is the Minister of Finance and President of the Council. He was invested for this occasion with the functions of a Minister of Foreign Affairs, in place of Gen. Dabormida, whose resignation the King considered it right to accept. Much sensation has boon raised by the retirement of the general, who for several years conducted with dis tinction that very important and difficult department of Foreign Affairs. Nothing, however, was more simple. A. we op:planed further back, the quarrel that took place between the cabinets of Vienna and Turin, on account of the sequestrated estates, was the chief obstacle to Pied ' mont's adhesion. M. Dabormida had maintained his country's rights with much vigour and perseverance; he, • • ' • did ;cot Wish to make any concession to Austria, and he had successfully pleaded the cause of his government before Europe in his memorandum of 1863, still remembered by statesmen. 31. Debar mida was therefore personally engaged, and deeply too, in that contest, and be thought it did not become him to sign the treaty that unites, for one and the pate object and cause, the efforts of Piedmont to those of Austria, e n d to those of France and England. This feeling of delie sey which no one can blame, dictated the conduct of X D s ; bormida, who retired, although he unreservedly appre es t the conditions of the treaty of alliance. The ff. tirement of M. Dabormida would be a subject of regret to the friends of Piedmont, if the hope use not enter. tained of seeing him soon return to the councils of the government. It is said that General de la blarmora, t Minister of War, will be appointed to command the ez. peditionary corps to the Bast. In that case t►e we portfolio might be given to General Daborraida. M e e wontedly the King could not entrust it to firmer or tare s worthy hands. PRUSSIA. OP Pl 3 DAILY NEWS.) BERLIN, Jen. It. The Weal Prussian Correspondence denies that Prussia hs' proposed to the other Zolverein States to prohibit the exportation of oorn, potatoes, and other proetek k us; and gives the public to understand that the proposal was made by the government of another state, and that the question was still under discussion. It makes, however, very little difference f rom whom the proposal emanated : and we sincerely hope that the Prowden . government, which has of late given proofs of its WW I io lot more in accordance with the principles of free trade, will be warned is time of the dangerous which cannot fall to follow from inch narrow-winded policy. (rzo* THE AUSTRLA. (PARR TRZ CORZINIPORDZIT or TER DAILY NZWII.) CIiACOW, JAN. IS. A deeply unfavourable sensation wits crested in this city on its being known that the Russia. go vernment bait, by a new decree, totally prohibited the exportation from the kingdom of Poland of wheat and every other article of consumption not previously yyrrooh~iikited. It is scarcely necessary to add, that the *hole provisos of Gallicia and Austrian which were hitherto almost totally dependent on Poland for their supplies of corn, will be reduced by this new decree to a state bordering upon famine. Several hundred waggons which were loaded with corn, and on their way from Poland to this city, were stopped by the Russian custom-holm autho rities on the frontier, and confiscated. The prime of wheat and other provisions have, in consequence,l risen to a most fabulous height, which can only be paid by the more wealthy asoses, whilst the poorer inhabitants are nearly abandoned to famine and de spair. It is to be hoped that the Austrian gov.ern meat will take active steps to counteract the misery staring us in the face. FRANCE. (PRos MN OW 283 DAILY tows) PARIS, THUMB/A Rvaxise. We must wait for some days before the whole truth concerning the recent invasion of the Dobrutscha by the Russians can be known. The weight of tale. graphic testimony is now in favour of the hypeth ee k that they have completely evacuated the territory. Nevertheless, with the full knowledge of the most recent news, M. Grimier de Cusagnee, th e f e , vonrite mouthpiece of the French government ft great occasions, publishes in the Constitutions,: a leading article, in which he treats it as a question yet doubtful whether the affair of the Dobruteth a may not yet be so serious as to make it import,. dye upon Austria, under the provisions of the treaty of the 14th June, to declare war upon Russia a 1 once. According to the Debate, the military campfire between Piedmont and the Western Powers is yet to be signed, the treaty of December 10 hay. ing left for future settlement the number and destination of the Piedmontese contingent. This statement may perhaps explain a rumour current here, which I did not think sufficiently probable to be worth alluding to, that the announcement of Piedmont having agreed to furnish 15,000 men ern premature. It admits that this force is agreed to be sent to the Crimea, and that it will ba placed under the supreme command of Lord Raglin, so that any further convention that may be necessary is merely a matter of form. The official announcement in the 411oxiteur show ing that the prodigious amount of subscriptions to the loan (2 milliards, 175 million) had, surpassed even the most sanguine anticipations, prodned a great effect at the opening of the Bourse. The Rents was first quoted at 6W. 90c., being a rise of lfr. 10c. It was well-known that no great mi. (allot would get any of the loan, but it was not suspected that the subscriptions of 500 fr. Route would be reduced to from 290 fr. to 300 tr. The WV tainty that an immense number of small investments must be made by parties who sold out to take part in the loan, gave a great stimulus to business. There was, however, a reaction in the afternoon and the Rents closed at d9fr. 35c., with a rise of only 6*. Bank of France rose 25fr. Railways upon the whole rather lower. General de Hicard, first aide-de-camp to Prince Jerome, and Dr. Hutin, first Physician to the Hotel des Invatides, lett Paris yesterday morning for Mar seines, to await the arrival of Prince Napoleon from Constantinople. The English evening papers and letters had not been received up to six o'clock. The weather has suddenly become intensely cold, and no doubt the Channel is rough. Last night at twelve o'clock the thermometer of M. Chevalier stood at 7 B.loths Centigrade (18 Fah renheit), and at six o'clock this morning at 9 deg. Cent. (151 F.) At noon to-day the glass had a little risen, being at 6 5-10 the Cent. (20 1-3 F.) THE NEW FRENCH LOAN. The following, which we Sad in the Monileur of yesterday, is the report to the Emperor from M. Baroche (acting as Minister of Finance in the ab• thence of M. Bineau), on the result of the subscription to the loan : Sire—ln execution of the decision come to by your Majesty, the public subscription for the loan of 500 millions, was opened throughout the whole of the empire on the 3rd inst., and closed un the 14th. lam happy to be able to in form your Majesty that the hopes entertained have been exceeded, as tne total sum of the sobscriptione received amounts to 2,175 millions of francs, 177,000 persons having taken part in the subscription. The accounts from Algeria, Corsica, and these of the proceedings of the last days of the allotted period in some distant departments, will add still more to the amount just named, and to the number of subscribers. A subsequent report will make known the definitive results'. The following is the manner in which the above sum of 2,176 millions is divided In Rentes between the two stocks: 83 millions in Three per Cents., and 18 millions in the Four-and-a-Halt per Cents The departments have furnished 126,000 subacriben whose subscriptions amount in capital to 777 millions. At Paris there are 51,000 subs scribes, for a capital of 1,398 millions. In the subscrip tions received at Paris are included those which have some from abroad and which amount for England to a capital of 150 millions, an., to an equal sum for the different countries of Europe, such as Germany, Belgium, Switzer land, &c. Your Majesty will see with just satisfaction this sympathetic co-cperation given to France by foreign capi talists. The subscriptions of 500 fr. of Itente and under represent in Three per Cents. 26 millions and in Four-sad a-Half per Cents. 13 mil lone, and thus form a capital of 836 millions, which exceeds by 336 millions the amuuat of the loan. Conformably to Art. 5 of the decree of the 31st December last, they will themselves alone absorb the whole of the loan, and be even obliged to undergo, above 10fr. of Reim, a proportional reduction of from 40 to 42 per cent. All subscriptions above 5001 r. of Rente will, therefore, be null and void. Such is the rule laid down by the decree which your Majesty approved of, and which fixed beforehand the conditions of the subscription. It is doubtless to be regretted that the praiseworthy 'wetness of so many subscribers should be without result for them, sad that they cannot take part in the loan; but the event which disappoints their hopes will be attended ' with such happy effects on the general prosperity of the country, that they will submit without c =plaint to a rep- L lation which they had accepted beforehand. I have taken the neeeesary measures to assure that the capital which they have deposited shall be immediately returned to them; and • on the other hand, I will accelerate as much as possible the • a gements baying for object the reduction to be made , in the subaceiptions below 500 francs of Itente, as , well as the exchange f the promional receipts for certiB - c .tes of the loan. Sire, the subscription to the loan of 1835 on the conditions on which it has been opened, and ' the proportions it has acquired, not only constitutes a sues I easefully accomplished financial operation, but becomes a political event of the highest importance, and one unpreoe • dented in the annals of nations. Never has such a mani festation of force and wealth taken place in any country; has a people given to its sovereign such a striking 1 mpraootiofnofwchoinchfidoenncceemaoarde ratifies s d t u he eegs.lorliotus n is nationalpa fresh a:c li l ey s.- . followed by your Majesty. I am, &c., J. BAROCHIL SPAIN. THE NEW CONSTITUTION. The following are the principal bases of the new oonetitution proposed for Spain : Art. 1. All the public powers emanate hem the nation in which the sovereignty materially resides. To the nation consequently and exclusively belongs the right of establish ing its fundamental law.. The nation takes on itself the obligation of maintaining and protecting public worship, aid the ministers of the eatholic aeligion, which Spaniards profess. Nevertheless, no Spaniard and no foreigner can be civilly prosecuted an account of his opinions, provided he does not manifest them by public acts contrary to religion. No Spiciest can be detained, sent to a prison or torn from his home, nor can his house be searched, save in the case and according to the forms prescribed by the laws. No Spaniard can be proceeded against or condemned, save by the competent judge or tribunal, by virtue of laws made before the alleged crime, and in the form they prescribe. Capital punishment cannot be awarded to crimes purely political. The penalty of confiscation shall never be adjudged on estate, real or personal, and no Spaniard shall be de• prived of his property, unless for some reason justified by the COl2llllOll weal, and then only upon equitable in• demnity. Should the safety of the state require, under estraordi sat7 circumstances, the temporary suspension, throughout the entire monarchy or partially, of the disposition con• tamed in the article, when it is declared that no Spaniard can be arrested, or sent to prison, or torn from his dwelling, such suspension shall be determined by a law. I Tbis shall Om be a Gip hos The, dMI eons Klll whe eh* Cor boa Old At tat I