The Express. — London, England, 1855-03-14 00:00:00

Thu Queen, attended by Lady Churchill, Idt e j Gametal Deasetie, sad Capella Da Plat, %Meld du Da of Glessesetat yesterday attermems, at Glemeeeter Rotas, ea tbe Dashes@ of Oambeidp, at Du teeldemee la Elt. Jammer Pakaa 1 Priam Albst redo ea horseback la the feessooa, Masud, by Capteis Da Plat. The Prisons Royal sad the Priam. Alice took a drive Is ea opts adage sal bar. Hoe llskislF sad Primes Albert, eseempaai d by the prime of Leinheese, besearid the Obit* Theses with their pirates ht the males. The Rept. asap , LadyClatttill, the Kea. Lacy )tou r thor .111elor•Oeserel Bonnie r sad aortas Da Plte exit •no; • Lady Oterrehill hes eaereeded the Vhaseeleie :0 the Lady la Waiting to her Neje* • The Berl of Listowei sad Ciermel Sr Indira Illseht Had is Ork Os Quon. - sat 01111111111 M Kos. t. 414 ° WNW aWlliPag The Priasess Naisitoiiiiiolipiddasi the Duchess of lan yesterday is isidegion Uses. ♦ depstaties bs tbs litsfaedebirs bosissetare bad set datiniew yesendey with sir Beedeada Hall, Preedsat of *s Omen' Boarded Health, ot Ms ales, Whitehall. TM eirjestatiess wasisted of Messrs. William Mathews, desbbs, Mid Mslas Parkas, iatzedsseel by Mr. Thmsa namely. ALP., sad Kr. G. F. Musts, M.P. • Mr. Jetta Weed sad Mr. Timm had sa isterview with the Obsaaellor of the izeheque yestardsy. Sir •Jeaaader Illysesma had Me m {Rearview wit► the rishe has. gestM AIM at We Wield reeidame is Dowalsomnee. amoral Prime Andrew Clastabikoff died at Ideas. ea tits 27t1t ult. One of the last acts of the Emperor Nicholas was As mom a diamoad ring to a writer Maid Roadiodf, foe e pamphlet 'aside& t , The Truth Moat Meglesd." The naturalist, Ch. de Meyer, 'mown to the alisatile world by his travels among tits Altai llosatalas, ad in the region of tint Gnome, died is the 111 tit alt. IL de Meyer was bees in 1796 at Vitebsk. Is 1169 he :seseaded Mount Wheats. He wee a member el the Im. •perial dasederap er Ramie, end Dimmer of the Bends Cisrdes as et. estinbesg. Th. Emperor end Ewan, of the French opened . the Inhibition of the Maid of Sobootopoi ea Tuesday, the Bth el March, is the &mimed 1141 es, szerated by Mr. Wykl, pographsr to the Clasen sad Prism Albert. Thar Mojeetlea, after remaining as hoar, expreesed their peat atiefeetko to Mr. Wyld. Letters from Betyroat state that the proclamation et the dogma et t►e linmeeelete Commotion had token igloos to that VMS, NA I. ell eyrie, with peat pomp. At !Smoot the eeremsey terminated by s discharge et Are imeeke. The Pasha, set keowieg what was want, seat Le )itost ►mts to rho !ma Crowd to oak if noes of the fail 41 b .Ostepol had arrived. The Emperor Alexander 11. has presented to the . Eerie, the Cadet Corps, mil to the *hoar row Regiments, !the uniforms worn by If {sham L THE SOIREE AT UNIVERSITY COLLBOB. : The @Weals of University Collage last evssiag •411111risteel a lug. sad distiagenhed body of persons ;bona le be !desisted to edneatima sad the pursuits of Minn sad Hunters. Tbs otatmptice of the entertain . Sent wee • happy use. and does Wants nedit to the 'nsittp of the etadeate, whin it Is a proof et their intake 71nII lendeneiee.. Re an_ant awry to see that this—the lee relrle of the Wad—should have seem place in an in- Winne which own its foundation to the czarina of a large ameba of the most Maleness et the.. of our punk at who bar professed liberal opinion. We aro glad that the liberal college, peg mai knee, should have, he Ohs persons of its Madmen, isms ' ward I. (retrain with other institutions protesting the seas edasstioaal Ojeda, altbeenh perhaps following then eat la • &feral met. The students of Univerity lege have shows that the Jove of Mariam, the spirit of toleration, and the aspiration after progress which animated the ands of then who presided at the foundation of the in otltatien, animate then. They have displayed • coat nandable impatiens at beteg stagnant while all around them is soviet. They have invited Is their halls • gnat Ember of the rasa of spark of no day, and have thus identified themselves with the nese of progress, and, by their active sympathy with the reprosentetives of oar highest cultivation, have shown that they are not likely to be mne idle spectators in the great drama of the Satan. The 'standout of the committee of students who originated the wiree wu to brieg together the representatives of the various aGlistsd alleges which 'dente students for the purpose of tattles degrees in the University of London. University College and King's College are the principal of these, but there are others—u the Independents' New College, Stepney College, Manchester College, Hackney College, and Cheskant College. If all these college; cea be brought to act together in union, sonsethieg will be dose towards making the University of London a reality. The colleges of Os fond are In truth the University, sad the same is true of Cambridge. Thia usurpation of the University rights by the ealleges has been productive of enormous evil. Nevertheless it hes bees accompanied by a portion of good. It has generated an writ de co,,ps which adds marvel lamely to the esergetiosetics of the Universities. There le room for hops that the project initiated by the studects of University College will brie' the direordsat elements of the Londe* University into =los, without is• trodneing any of those evils which have does se inuelt to damage the two greet Ilaiverities. The company met last night is the magnificent library of University College. Ms metre tables of the room were coveeed with photographs, Weems, sod other works of art. The reeseses oa cosh aide of the metro wen hong with choice specimens of the produatises of some of oar most selebrated artists. D. Bat" Goodall, and other* coetributed largely, end there were net wonting voluble specimens of the old atestois. • osoesre, in which Benedict, H. EvostrienlitHidgepa.nderiek Chattertos and Lawns were the isetwaimtallies, sad Weiss sati Aureate; Brahma were the orbit* woollies, added to the stow:time of the semis'. Bat the great sad abiding shun to most of the visitors was the bogginess obi& met deafly ailed the hearts of their woes heels. !long intone la the wake of Uterecut sad slims hit her pales quickest& as he looked s m theta gems less% realest with hops, sad Vastly, seaddeady la the prowisse of as militias:lei totem. Animist the eimpasy Wien Lord Broonitaa, Mr Edina Byes, Dr. Willinta dal* Ilk Jowls Tyler, PJ Nedra, Morin Yield, 114. Pit foam Heaviside. He. Cementer, Bev. Pubes, Bream (Lag's), T Rymer Jews (Ling's), and natiwai Mbar peeler •Ablblipbbsi In the sine". meld. The mews ewe wouloi lee Moors. The @Weals of the wasp lave a right to ampatalase tbansseves ea a aware which b ealoollied is Mime west issaidelal dhoti. The followiag distinguished pewee have lately visited Mr. Wykll Model el tiss ILartis. la Lsieseter-equere : Lord Jae Rem% Dike et Athol, Merl sad Lady Quo btu Fitsvilitste, Lord Seograve, Lewd Wand. Sit MOS Trnsbaa, Ilk Citadel Lam. II.P, AdWral Lard Leedesbereesk, °semi Bestiack, Om Ini ' 1 14040 r Irides (Cttawa), Lord Willtees North, M.P., Noe best litephuess, Esq., M.P., eeldoser, JAI Abel Smith* t4aatliw - iiik( - 4 - 11' 1 7 a I -. . . WOOmpp, Lady Ilyd. Maw tap 111•110, Lady Katy Butler, Hes. C. Pow wally, Or There, Isliy, 11. P., sad Lady lolly, eh Joseph Balky sad Lady Balm Capella Belau (Crimes), Myer lissaytk, Osioasi disashisa (Crimea), Captain ernes (Criss.). R 4 o b iels o a d tAnx OP huntrunoir.—The 6allow les Ipsys unsnap visited the pf taw" "Tr Wsr"—Os., Hi Orme Ow hipp el Csatwbury, the Marquis et , the OW ed Daewhies sad path the awl el Serip • MI Swim& - Osorkss d Newesse. tMGI.aiS, Jewq.3.l of o•llmasipsm e A s ...... et 'rells, Ote Ibuelels limeal sad , OW Coast* Meatless s•O pail& Opp lied el sod party Constar et, siek,"tbe lad Osmetse e/ ,_ Lord This. Lord sad Lady Haathigashl. Lord tltirm q Lad Keekaple sad amity lad Adolphus Vital slareace oe ;r a mprj A mp doingsliyirg a e r r e party; liedy Ms* aml pmM, , . Loillro poi g ia rt• .ilb He& WeL . Met sal tarty'. Mat KUM, Ilili *IN ek amp Webb • woe, lertiLaTtr Jobs Ash!, the kayos of Urrelmol. =i s orti Orme& sad party, Goma Peas sad pasty, Beaky, _lissdesali, Braes Withal, b. ; Admi ral llazwell, A. S tafford, Bp , 11.1'.,'W. eskeledsid, bit, KZ, Mein emse,Mka W. mg rah mg. limidt, Ls. sea: ght enrols. Advatimalata hamar] foe "n. " Landis Itandag yam oast be at the Odasa, 111. Bea by Tee Oink as Na day at pattliadme. RION WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Too Dat—ilsralog, Aftwarea, IN. Um Toomow—Norelog, Ilb. Na ... Moors; N. On. LONDON, WBDNEBD4I, MARCH 14. LATEST FROM ABROAD. Telegraphic advisee, considered favourable to the prospects of peace, yesterday reached the City from Vienna. Prince Oortchakcif, who has at length re ceived hie powers in des form, had signed a public deenment„ recognising generally the principles which are to serve as the bases of negotiations, and which it will be the business of the Plenipotentiaries to define and apply. Other private advise mew with the above, stating that the foessOstletwl elm proceeding satidactorily.—Daily ]lane. The Visas& papers are informed by telegrepit fat a Manisa army of obrervation is to be etatioved at .Orta Milan, on the high road from Bimpharopol to Perekop, for the purpose of watching the Turks at Enpatoria.—Daily News. M. de Amy states, is the Debsti, that Prince Charles et Prussia, who is to go to St. Petersburg to present the compliments of the Hing, his brother, to the new Emperor, is to explain the King's intentions respecting the dying mesesge of Nicholas on the subject of the relations of Russia and Prussia. The Prince is to assure Alexander that the King, desiring the continuation of peace, is ready to cocaina* the work of mediation, if the new Emperor will continue the policy of the Emperor his father. If be should fail, ha will confine himself to a strict neutrality.—Daily THE LOWER DANUBE AGAIN CLOSED. The Monitair of yesterday gives prominence to the following extract from an Austrian journal : " For some day. past than has been a rumour at Bucharest that the Russians intended to withdraw their permission for the free navigation of the Lower Danube. This rumour has, unfortunately, been fully confirmed. Telegraphic intelligence announces that the commandant of Rent has just prohibited the navigation of the Lower Danube by an official note, and only makes an exception in favour of six or eight vesesla that happen to be present at Oalats. In consequence of the declaration made by his Majesty the (late) Emperor of Russia, in virtue of which Austrian navigation was not to be im peded along the Belearabian west, a great many purchases have been made, and several.% ships chartered for their transport. ha the Russian autho rities had permitted the ships laden with corn to hail, along the coast of Bessarabia, all the merchants, per haps also the diplomatists of every country y well, believed it to be a matter of course that the ships is ballast that were on their way to take in freight were las:Judea in this permission. It seemed so clear to every one that the large ships could not come from Vienna and Pesth in order to take in cargo, bat that they would be obliged, on the contrary, to enter by the Salina month for that purpose, that no one dreamed of a Russian equivocation. However, it is not permitted, so that Austrian commerce and navigation again suffer a detriment, while we hope the peace will indemnify it, seeing that Austria cannot and most assuredly will not submit to such duplicity." jRY AND THE GOVERN MENT. —•-- Ix is but two days slam we announced the fact of Lord Ssarrissaunr's having joined the Adminietra. tion ; we have now the ple;sing duty to perform of announcing that he has quitted it. What a glance at the interior of his ither-in-leves Cabinet may have revealed to his conicientione mind we may peesibly never know. Like CX3AB, he might epito mise his recent proceedings in three weeds, and, in the grand historical style, exelaire—"l came, I saw, I bolted !" The circumstantial insinuation against the political morals of those who sought to I make him one of their fraternity ii, to say the least of it, not Battering. Lord Elatrraslitatv has hitherto preserved his reputation as a purist in public life. The mesas by which he centrived some years ago to turn Mr. Itounrcx out of the representation of Bath have never been indeed thoroughly explained ; but fanaticism had, no doubt, a good deal to do with it; and there were many dispassionate on lookers at the time who said that the malt was mots attributable to cant than cash. Since thin the noble lord has chiefly devoted himself to what are tingly deseminated social questions, and to those of a pariah) character. His thoughts have been divided between manures for limiting the hoar, of labour and the agitation BR the diseadownerst of Maynooth. His refusal of °Mos Bahr Sir ROBERT Pair, is as wall known es the gnaw& he eseigned for it, namely, that be telibeiseld do mere to advasei his hvoirits (Nate eat olden that in it. What there appeared to hiss is the eowpositios of the present Cabinet that ledlifew be think 'differently regerdisg•a mat in it, we de net undertake precisely to die. Bat the fact is' oertdk that, when asked, a ow& • ids, to join the administration, be candidly repaid that be was not aware of any reason why ; ought ins ; plainly implying thereby the. he 'apposed -UM PALITERBTON to have toss a. aka* hi the many orthodox proferidono at Tothari - jifilikkoard htm mks, sod that of emu Lord oinzioroxii Gorsea , mat would to.thodiacted Jo gashoiny thereto. Un oonosoled was Lord Buorrionnthfo cosotornadoo, and 1•110•••••••••••• Iry wm , by so mesas inarticulate his 'lstria, at being botanist] that in plain English the thing sitsuldlot do—why; ise ooald set far the-iii eof him lesegiss. The poidtion was Whyter ewe. He had been wooed, and Was seedy to be wan t, when in the 'say' sat of yWding, the gay deceive , turned upon his but, mad left him is the pitiable yet =pitied psi OC of as elderly Waal who has been openly pet: When, never theless, the artful melt renewed bit amain car, the heart of the Berl milted again bier 1 it I na the easy of others that had W r af!thief be r twice thew ; all wen forgotten sal, forgiven, Chanseller of the.Doehy be nail Two oenturies.egs a certain Afielif Morn had filled the Ow of Chanetlits. • Yard - • - - _ SHAFTES3I7IIIT Wu, indeed, mins his ismendait iu everything bat the maw. Ho was 414 bid bat subtle and elapsed an Loci*. .14 AO of all JOHI4 DRYDE'S matchlem praise,•iistoey push& writing him down a most accomplished scoundrel. Courtier and demagogue by turns, he vas as ready to plot with the Puritan aa to pueesste is the Oiseles awns. lovalaslie he hill voistee re v amps sad withetiag Wages, be was deli by the LYsi l i oto breed* Emend to the vs:. rui* to the sooomplishament of their designs; for, ao popularity of their own, they were reedy to take his into joint-Meek, and to bray oat his half-anarchic name to the country, to duals and delude the crowd. Nothing, as we have said, an be more unlike than the perfidious AISLES of the Restorstion and the punctilious and pedantic) man of oar time. And yet, in the confu sion of some men's ideas, it is perhaps sot impos sible that some fantastical resemblance may have seemed to exist under the faint phadow of a Be this as it say, we know that among the datterere of all work who wait upon the nod of power, Lord 118srrisatrat's adhesion to the govern ment was wade the theme of no ordinary exultation, especially on the ground that his name might be need conveniently in certain constituencies at the ensuing elections, and would serve as short-hand for philanthropic sympathies combined with evangelical tendencies, antagonises to democracy, under the plea d aversion to American slavery,—" short time," and "No Popery I" And for a ministry thinking of a diesolutioa of Parliament, without being able to think of a political programme on which to go to tineetveley, there was—let us own it—something liffileitfel in catching, just in time for use, a man who fe in himself a walking eneyelopeedia of clap-traps At for the hustings. What these worthies will say, now that the political Dr. Dislomeare has driven away, taking with him hie whole boxful of quack medicines, we shall not venture to conjecture. To be serious, however, though it is certainly diffi cult, under the circumstance*, we think it credit able to Lord SHAFTIODUZY to have resigned so soon. He wasevidently under the impression, when invited to join the Administration, that he would be left free to speak and vote, as had hitherto been his watt, upon all questions social, religions, and political. The notion never entered his head of betraying his followers, by the abandonment of the peculiar tenets of whisk he is so conspicuous a champion ; and he seems to have considered it wholly impossible that any thirteen noblemen and gentlemen in England should have harboured the idea of tempting him to do so. He felt satisfied that they meant him fair, and that it would rather be takes by the world as a good sign of them then a bad sign of him, that they had solicited his countenanoe and aid. How little he understood the real motives of those he had to deal with, is now sufficiently plain. They did not want the bark of the dog, but his skin. They had no objection to certain reminiscences of hie pestopinions, provided that for the future he would consent to endorse theirs. The name Of SHAFTESBURY on their bills might occa sionally be useful, but he was to have no power to draw political cheques, or issue in the nem of the `Arm any promissory notes. That would never do, they thought, and so they told him; whereupon the Earl indignantly withdrew. Thus we are as far u 'TOT from having a Chancellor of the Duchy. How the county palatine will be able to sustain the pri vation, we shriek from the painful task of investi gating. Will no gentleman in the House of Com- mono come to the relief of the Piums Mumma, and propose that the mock Chancellorship should be pat into =omission, as the real Chancellorship has often been ? In these expensive times, it would be a graceful act of economy on the pert of the peerage; for it is needless to say that, among the numerous individuals to whom it has recently been offered, none have belonged to the vulgar classes of the oommunity.—Daily News. PORTSMOUTH ELROTION. The polling for this borough commenced at eight o'clock yosterday (Tuesday) morning, and dosed at four, with the subjoined results, Lord Kouck cossaaacing with a eonaiderable majority, which was maintained throughout the day. There are about 3,200 good voters i• the borough, so that it will be 'sou that a largo somber did not record their vet«. ... . _ . Monet. Oacelee. 9 o'clock ll 6 12 o'clock. 578 4 o'clock 14478 Xs}corky for Lord lionck The deckyard sod other establishments gave those of their men who are electors two hours to record their votes. It is usual to give half a holiday on snob ostasions, but the ezigesteies of the public service would sot permit of this at the present time. At the (Alleluia of the poll Lord Mos& thanked the electors he the mildews they had displayed in himself and the government of Lord Palmerston by retuning him by so everwhelmieg a ineierity, sad be plumbed that that an tidotes should meet with every return on his part. Nearly one half of the apses of the Journal do St. Petoriboray, of Kant 6, takes up pith a report of the deflate is the Hew of Cassese, in which 84 Jess Graham, Kr. Gittletose, sad Kr. Sidney Herbert, stated dub waves for risitties Lord Peletentaa's Misietry. Belgium. is still wiiiont a Cabinet.• The latest @c oonskin that K. Theo: bad had an sadism of the King. Prussia, it in said, still objects to the condition required by the Wellies Powers, that if she takes part ID the conformer/ at TIAN% she mast undertake to pane emigre seeenres wind Soda should the negotiations fail . Oa Moaday nut WI Lyndhurst will call the attention of the House of lA* to the position of Freesia with reforest, ta,the appreilhiss negetiotions at 'MUSS. Pays Cioniv.—Kilnie letter in the hidepend sea 13•190 has the folloirimm—A. The Sams et the 32. d of the line, reviewed by the Swim ea Saturday, dined the sae evening at the T.l ssisi, the Emperor and Empress ea*Shang SIMS with addirthibbtlity. -Is the mune of the evening the Ithipres eddreenag herself to as *deer *till very yams, sad learn's' fres Ms that ha had already posed through several sempaigne is Mika, seated Is intimate that lee sight have to undergo one mall sere arduous is the Crinel. The ofdeer replied that all he regretted in leaving was, his inability to avail himself of an invitation width he had resolved to a mirth at the,Tuileries as the 17th. ' Keel the invitation ;• replied th► Empress, rno :shell give that bill at Cm sernithd/olkind shall finite the ladies of the Soltaa to it.' althihm ame.• gods( roafssed, railed the Emma lledisthellolle: nisi, benioniag still diessaserted by the thighter moiled by his esborteasseek addled the Eth remeligs themenl.' Upos that there was teeth laughter ; bett * Mims remarked, This time you have sot to Serrod=, for very soon he will to Ybut enesumader— thi " The Rev. B. Melville, 8.D., bee bees cakielly dotted to Mood before the HOMO of Commons at Pt. MS wet's, Westminster, cs the 21st lost., the day ~gored fie &general feet. Ii the Home of Conmens to-morrow evening lir. wil gilkatio a d treatyprivate n Palmesstes whether it is to:, in his ids between imam oath Amens, and if is whether * Mare of sash treaty is known se and approved of by the goverammt." 11 . / Cireiwki. noticing the Harm* report. says thee all it veepostateht" that a slight lairevasacet sight le MOM fa-this department nod a trilliag esthetics Is 11/ 1 / 1 * el the =Ss queelion—how the Pronetaat people 'of ht,get_ yikot. psemition with this Popith Wig saYeEnt takenteti."' '• ' 'torn, Prime Albert, sod the Genet =, erceetiaii. h meted that tar viling a AO se Airier Reaphol le see the 1101 0 . age dallitteee fees 8 *oleos Emden fee the Babb. aLati*tit 'M aterjrht4blemerxol. irwicobtalatiVe ilia; et largeasfiriss. desseniaes eta emansaity el book wan. CIMITAL PAL&CL ONE SHILLING DAY. — Twig, Wank 13. Alstlidone oa paymad, 763 1 (WO Wolin 1,081. ,tr :i ZUTT , '1 •'7 THB EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH xispun . NUT FRANCE. mourning will extend over six mouths, commencing March 2, the changes being made every six weeks. Letters Iron Bt. Pt tereburg state that the body has been exposed In a lighted chapel in the palace. I The face was uncovered, and the exposure was to last until the 16th. INDISIT OP TES DOLT laws.) lAMB, Toutua Evinctiro. The acme to-day has beau brilliant. The Rants, altar touching 70fr. 330., closed at 70fr. tio., with a rise 41116 e. All securities, without axception, roes coed derably. Credit Mobilier improved 10fr. The Or land railway rose 17fr. 60o.; Southern, 13fr. 60e. Northern, Mr. 76c., and other lines from 3fr. to 7fr. The Austrian railway rose 12fr. 500., in consequence of an announcement that MM. Pereira and Mired, who have had a quarrel, had been reoonolled, and that , the latter capitalist had marls a larp invest/mat is the security. A letter from Corsica states that the body of Cap tain Nu, the Commander of the unfortunate Similbutte, had been found. Forty other corpses had beau washed ashore, bat nous of them had bee, rampaged. (nog ?is I THE FREE NAVIGATION OF THE DANUBE. TO Tan EDITOR Or THI DAILY KIWI. VIENNA, Pus 28. Sin,—lt is well known that the free navigation of the Lower Danube and into the Black Sea, is one of the Four Points on which are to be based the nego tiations for pease. The interpretation of this point put open it by the Allies is, that " in order to give the free navigation of the Danube the full develop dent of which it is capable, it will be desirable to liberate the part of that river below the spot where the banks belong jointly to the two states from the existing territorial sovereignty, as stipulated in Art. lIL of the Peace of Adrianople. At all events, the free navigation of the Danube could not be me sidered as ensured, unless placed under the control of a amnia joint commission, clothed with the needful authority and power to remove all the obstructions, present or inhere, existing at the mouth of that river." It is natural to suppose that Austria, as the pasty most directly interested, will endeavour to for herself a preponderating influence in this eeensissioe, as she has all along pat the question of the free navigation into the foreground of the Oriental conflict,which shows how much importance she attaches to it. Indeed, it is a great question whether Austria would put herself forward with so mach energy with respect to the flee la it alcation of the Rhine, the abolition of the dues, or the restriction of the Bound dues, widsb, after all, are certainly more European quer iimagenerally, and in which the states of Germany Isms more direct interest. But we are willing to 'daft that Austria, from her geographical position, and from her capital, and so many other of her prin cipal cities being situated on the Danube, has a =aleinterest in the free navigation of that river a r ay other European state ; and it is, therefore, natural that she should sidearm to give the qua tion a breeder basis than it perhaps deserves, and, in bet, to make it a German question. There can be no doubt that the Danube, at its source, and for a very great part of its course, is a purely German river ; but as the upper part is not navigable, it is not of so much importance to coin- I WOO as the central and lower parts of any of the ether German rivers that flow into the Baltic and North Bea. The importance of the Danube for Austria commences where it is no longer a German river, and therefore the abolition of the impediments at its mouth makes it well worth her while to stake largely en the result. But whether the trade of Germany, as such, can expect any great development and extension from being placed under the guardianship of Austria is a question that still remains to be solved. At all events, nothing has hitherto transpired to indicate that such would be the case. Only very lately the exclusive steam navigation of the Danube below Vienna, which was always a monopoly in the hands of a private company, has by a new charter been extended for a period of thirty years, thereby excluding, as a matter of course, the competition or ships of any other nation. Can it then be expected that if Austria get practically possession of the whole course of the river, she will allow other nations to participate in the navigation ? It is ex traordinary that Austria, in the treaty she signed with Russia for the free navigation of the Selina mouth of the Danube—the only navigable channel of the delta, as all the others have long since been allowed to be choked up with sand—never took any steps to carry into effect the stipulations agreed to. By virtue of the peace of Adrianople Russia obtained possession of the right bank of the Sulina channel, and it was only on the 22nd September, 1840, that Atistria signed the convention at St. Petersburg with Russia for the period of ten years. The fifth article of this treaty, which relates to the navigation of the Danube, is worded thus : " The Imperial Russian government engages itself to begin as soon as possible the works necessary to put a stop to the increasing accumulation of sand in the Selina chime, and to make it navigable in such a manner that it shall in future offer no more ob struction to the passim of vessels entering and leaving the Danube. These works shall be resumed and continued as often as necessary to prevent fresh ob structions taking place, and as long as the season of the year and the state of the weather permit them to be carried on." It must here be specially observed that Austria signed this treaty not only for her own merchant ships, but for those of all other nations at peace with Russia and at liberty to navigate the Black Sea. This latter right, as is well known,has been extended by the Porte from time to time by different treaties and declarations, and is now accorded to the merchant vessels of all nations in relations of peace and amity with Turkey. Bat it is likewise well known what little practical ad vantlige malted from this treaty. Years elapsed before Russia took any steps at all to fulfil her engagements, and when she did, they were so imperfect and with out regular plan that it was evident she was not in earnest. We first heard that a steam dredging machine was being constructed ; the next year, that it had arrived ; very shortly after it broke down, and was sent round to Odessa to be repaired. The next season—very late in the summer—it arrived again, but, somehow or other, could not or would not work; and thus the time passed, the sandbanks increased, and the foreign merchant ships went to Odessa for cargoes of corn, and the exportation of grain from that city rose, whilst that of the cities on the Danube fell off in proportion. If Austria ever made any re presentations at all on the subject to the Russian go vernment, they most have been very feeble, or they would have led to some energetic measures. When the treaty expired, in 1850, the mouth of the Danube was in a worse state than ever. The ships could only cross the bar by discharging half their cargoes into lighters, and then reshipping them on the other side, a process attended with great expense, loss of time, and danger, tor =ay a lighter with cargo was sunk, and many a vessel capsized by a sudden squall, and not being sufficiently ballasted at the moment. In the treaty of 1840 with Russia, Austria had agreed to the payment of certain dues, to be levied on' merchant ships paining the Salina channel, as a just equivalent for keeping it clear of impediments, and the Russians did not fail to claim the payment, though, as I have said before, they did nothing for it ; and moreover, these duties, levied at Galatz and Braila, ought to be made on account of the Moldavian go vernment. These charges were ruinously high, as many of your English shipowners can testify. They are as follows :—Anchorage, 20 piastres, the sanitary gaerdian put on board 15 p.; for the quarantine esta blishment, iip.; fora copy of the regulations, teenage, 3 kreasen of convention-money per ton for disehargiog and loading, and 2 kr., if only one of these operations be performed. Oa the expiration of the treaty in 1850 Austria intend into negotiations with Russia for a renewal of It, but as the latter rammed to give any guarantees for the doe fulfilment of the stipulations. the treaty died a natural death, particularly as the political keine of European affairs was ausansing a rather threatening aspect, and the Austrian statesmen for.. saw that complications might arise which was eventually lead to a settlement of the question in a very different manner. But in the meantime the mouth RUSSIA. of the Danube became more and more obstructed. • , 51 feet of water on the bar, which ng was tantamount to a complete interruption of the We via' tit' die journal de St. Petersbourg.' of and not nitre the mime!. of the year 1853 there wee Mai I Oa greedy lasto at half-pest vie p.m., the Coeet l is navigation between the Black Sea and the Danube.' PloseaL__, seems lhaddson the ard,,,ast Of the This state of things could not be otherwise than ""` gag a:, " zw iro l- desirable to Russia, as it tended to raise the import aledr.......l.llater Pekes se sea *a oath to eiet7 on the Black Bea, the and to th e hair. his / am id H i ghs ". b e ante of Odessa and the other ports err of Adrianople, had Gem i T age Gessaawt saugag teit. to serw tte heasur es comm a prese y ating at a a n n d d, o o a n i th atz e , o w th h er ich h , a si n n ti ce , t th t) e rm pe t a t o! the trade o f maim te. Is asssesfsa aaldrakiliStri°,l°.,....•6l•l6•4 of been thriving, and those ports visited by vessels of and tee ishatitteats el ths es I this web all Pisan On the Aa seer o r th T t b r d ab tint — nt all nations. There Lund bef oo oreha rme n ot towhees miles ties* true the dais em errossseisg Obi sth) ear, t coat Russia no trouble or = of omission and, moreover, yor t , deem*a el slim et esediess t will be 7 contrary, it was rather a Se *a Talmo, Utensil elb Mau 0-IWled a than ocannimies of which she wee guilty, and it was is Msa w e sng. sad two sad ix la the doses% te en i old i ng ! wa if pim p l y that she succeeded tee het rips le the *St Ide MOM! Um lieefeeter th row ing th e rested part of the trade into the 1!< starless onseey. The ear journal publishes at D3Ok• length the to- ben believe that the true state of affairs was not =leave to the order in which the monist- mita to 1 4 da tr ms tio Ws Nig= is to be wOrIL unktl 9 Wit St- Potaroborg, to in reply tn g mirk ds o the merchants of Odessa. Still there is In the "Latest News" of the Petrie, we read the Whirl', relative to the ' yin Cuba : Oar Milne state that the e a stare is Cabe bed deter , =lasi be IMIMMIAIMPO the Goverser-Geserel to the theatre. It Ilia ioessEed M &re spat him from a box opposite his atm Then the pas wee to have beta put oat, sad toe Lleateeset verear Gemmel Illesiesoo, end the ether alines el the smite of Gesertal Cassia, were to hays bees despaisheL The casspirelses, whore number is estimated at tee or Wes %Messed, were abeadestly provided with arse, ammunitien. and A FNMA showman, the Aboe Laborde, has pub lished a pamphht which makes a great noise in the religious world, entitled " A Memorandum of the Opponents of the New of the Immaculate Con ception, and of the Ineffable ROL" The author, im modishly on his arrival at Rome, in November last, presented a petition to the Pope sgainat what he tersarthe " profane novelties"intended to be enforced upon the Church. The only answer made by his Holiness was a summons to attend the fkgrotaria, and there, in a dark chamber, he received from a monk the order to leave Rowe immediately. He did not obey. Shortly afterwards the " Lieutenant of the Police of Cana:mos" made an incursion into his lodgings, and seized the copies of his petition, and also a pamphlet entitled " The Immaculate Con ception not a Dogma of Faith." A few days later the Lieutenant of Polite renewed the order that he should leave the country. M. Laborde replied that he would not attempt to resist physical force, that be had come to Rome to do hie utmost to avert what appeared to him a great calamity for the Church, and he protested against the violence with which be was menaced. Ultimately, and after being compelled to appear before the Inquisition, he was conducted by gendarmes to Civita Vecchia, and there pat on board a vowel bound for France. The Abbe gives a flat contradiction to the story that Item. " was drunk with joy" when the new dogma was proclaimed. He saw nothing like enthusiasm anywhere. He con cludes that the Pope's decree is void, because, &copra log to the laws of the Catholic Church, the dogma ought not to have been promulgated without the authority el a General Council, in which all bishops might have been finely heard without being exposed to permeation. Mdlle. Doudit has been convicted of the minor charge brought against her before the Tribunal of Correctional Police, and has been sentenced to two years' imprisonment, 200 fr. fine, and the costs. ALEXANDER 11. BRUSSELS, Masten 12. All eyes an now directed to Vienna, where it is supposed the temper of the new Czar will first be made known. Meanwhile, since nothing has yet been done there, attempts are made to deduce his probable intentions from the few acts of Alexander to which it is possible to attach any signification. Now that the text of the Czar's manifesto has arrived, people are complaining of the very unfair manner in which the Konigsberg abstract of that document was draws up. Although some particular names and phrases contained in the summary, and calculated to rhake an impression, are also to be found in the manifesto, it is neve rtheless certain that this mea sure of verbal accuracy is more than counter balanced by the compiler's disregard of the general tenor of the document which he undertook to epitomise. There appears to be nothing in the manifesto itself fairly looked at to entitle it to be called a defiance to Europe or to modify the situation am it stood at the death of Nicholas. Another object of speculation is the probable influence of the Czar's character on the policy of the Empire. There is a general impression that Alexander is a good easy man, and therefore we shall have peace. It is well, how ever, to remember that, good easy men are those lent able to impress their character on contemporary events, and most likely to be carried away by the current. The policy of Russia is not a thing yet to be invented. Alexander, like every Czar possible just now, has his work before him. This time last year England saw • set of ministers whose talk wee all of peace " drifted towards war," and may not Alexander, supposing him to be the peace loving monarch represented in some quarters, be subject to a similar force of circumstances? I must here, bo*ever, observe that persons who have good opportunities of judging of Alexander 11. differ from the popular estimate formed of him in the west chiefly upon the statements of one or two tra vellers. Alexander has not the violence and coarse- nese of his next brother, but those who know him say that he has judgment and firmness, and, with the inspiration of a great cause, may display an amount of energy which will astonish those with whom, as with his brother Constantine, refinement is ' synonymous with weakness. Remark his prompti tude on the 2nd of March ; the pro clamation issued on the instant; Count /tn. diger, the first soldier of the empire, called to the side of the new Sovereign, and entrusted with that high militag command which his Majesty was resigning ; and Laden also, another neglected general, appointed to an important command. The nomination of the two generals just mentioned has been held up at Berlin u a triumph of the German or peace party; bat the appointment of Rudiger, especially if it be true that he takes also the war ministry, may signify simply that Alexander will not be hindered, like his father, by old Muscovite pre judice hem employing the first soldiers of the empire, =if German rue, in the war to which he has No one asnerioned with the career of Redly' WM deny that 'at present none of the Slave gestate, Mentcliikadr, or Gereshakoff, has shown stranosseletalent or suessefal malts such as he ex hibited In the wee with Poland, for instance, in 1831, when he stayed the progress of the viotonoss Janowski ? and turned the tide of victory in favour of the Rosman arms. Rudiger, of course, feels a con cern proportioned to his mer it for the military repu tation of Russia, and it out hardly be supposed that the Emperor has recalled him from the military go vernment of Wainaw, and a ahem in the lieutenancy of Poland, without intending to employ his talents directly, or indirectly, in the war. These are a few considerations suggested by the intelligence of the past week. They are not offered as decisive of the intentions of the new Czar, or as predictions of a cha rade, yet to be formed under powerful influences. They will rather fulfil their purpose if they . show that the same facts are, in their present incom pleteness, mole of o pposite interpretation, and time place the pelltile on its guard against premature conclusion. -14, 1855. • of Sir Hamilton Seymour's, is Feb., 1853, the Czar observed : " You are quite right. It was intended to ruin the Danubian ports in order to raise Odessa. policy; Th atis t ris h e thwere s o l r e o o se co: fort. r t . both B ut Ido ,sed not l wil approvegive of ordersthe to remove the obstructions in the Salina mouth of the Danube." To give your readers a proof of th e fears enter. tained by Russia of the competition of Galata and Braila, I may mention here that although the freight to England was generally from 2sh. to 3sh. per quarter higher than from Odessa—in consequence of the time and expense of crossing the bar, as mentioned above —the export of grain from those ports nu much more considerable than that from Odessa. Is the year 1851, Galata and Braila exported no less than 8,588,824 tachetwerts of grain, and Odessa only 4,830,484. But in the year 1853, when the navigation of the Salina bar was all bat alma, and ships were sometimes delayed for six and eight weeks in discharging their cargoes into lighters, cr ossing the bar, and re-ship ping them, these proport ions were reversed, and the exports of °slate and Braila fell to 4,813,000 tschet werte, while those of Odessa rose to 15,482,000. In 1851 no less than 55 German vessels arrived in the Danubian parts, viz.: 23 Prussian, 10 Mecklenburg, 9 Oldenburg, 8 Hanseatic, and 5 Hanoverian. In 1853 there were but four Prussian, and not one of the other flags was seen. S. A. THE ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOPOL. MR. ROEBUCK'S COMMITTEE. Yesterday the seventh sittiog of the committee was occupied chiefly In the examination of witnesses of co par ticular note, but who were practically engaged in the variou departments connected with the artillery and trans port service. It was expected that either the Duke of Newcastle or Lord Cardigan would have been examined, and ender that mistaken expectation there was the usual gathering of the public. illery, was t-heCoal:rwteerel witnessSt likaisexiaanptarextela.pttdnaoasidlointtibonede,HahnotnetfirArtoo p at Varna. They to Heel the enemy. While in Bulgaria he bad sufficient supplies for his horses and men, and the two commissariat officers attached to his troop attended to them efficiently. They suffered from cholera, dysentery, and fever. The number of troops is his company amounted to 189, and six or eight died while he was in Bulgaria. He bad • proper medical staff attached to his:troop, and one assistant-surgeon, but be add not obtain sufficient supplies of medicine, which were carried in wooden cases, coveted with cow's hide, ea peek-saddle ponies. The oases were three feet six lushes, made on purpose to carry on pack-saddler. The amount of ammunition he carried was 223 guns, and his troops were attached to the light cavalry brigade, com manded by Lord Cardigan. When he left Bulgaria the sick were sent on to Scutari. The horses aad guns were conveyed on ship board by lighters, and then slung into the holds of the vessels. The horses were put in on the Hull plan, and he only lost one of them. When h e la n d e d i n t h e Crimea he had 212: horses, including officers' chargers, and pack horses; sad 189 ones. The troops were landed in English lighten, and no accident took place. Encamped on the beach dies to the sea, end under the command of Captain Maude, and Le was engaged in several small affairs before encamping tefore Sebastopol on the heights, where he excavated a road, and before the third week in February the whole of his men were betted, baring been set to work to erect buts and stables. He considered the erection of the huts and stables saved the lives of the horses andpen, but before that they were not fit for service. He lost 70 out of 170 hones, and their deaths were caused oy exertions in getting up the siege train. He was never two or three days at a time in want of forage for the horses, bet the horses sometimes only got one feed of corn from eight to ten, which was insufficient for hones engaged is the hard work of a siege train. The siege manful, were taken up by harness horses and store carte. The army were relying on the foot and horse artillery entirely for taking up the siege materials, and to the overwork caused by it was to be attributed the great morta lity that occurred among the hones. In fine weather the troops were g e 117 in good health, but out of the whole number of 165, 26 were in the hospital. 140 were effective men, but that was quite insufficient to man the horse artillery. The roads between the camp and Bea kless were knee-deep in mud, but they were well supplied by the oommiesariat while there. In the middle of the road there was a deep gullyhole. He did not knew that any bones were let in it, but no steps were taken to fill it up. The men had fresh meat three or four times a week. Se broke out. They had no vegetables, but latterly ties, from about the middle of January. The men of the horse artillery received clothing at various periods in De cember, January, and February. The rest of the artillery received a great quantity. It was in the shape of extra clothing. The con.missariat was under Mr. Commissary- General Fdder. He considered his traps were sufficiently clothed when he left, as they bad received more from home. In January they bad received a waterproof coat, fur cap, chamois leather waistcoat, pilot coat, 2 pain of soaks, and a pair of woollen gloves. He attributed the etabillity of the Turkish tents to the tent-poles being formed of youngg saplings, whereas the English tents were poles in two pieces, in oaken. He thought that the latter would be better if thicker and of stronger materials. The bones fell off so rapidly • rem the excessive labour that the harness ceased to fit them. Each of his men bad a waterproof sheet to lie on, sod the had not the same amount of work. As regsrdsd the supply of clothes to the troops, he might UMW that early is November each man and non-commis- AMMO' riser received one pair of boots, a Jersey shirt, and a tongs sap. In December each man and non-commissioned officer received a full dress jacket, an undress one, a pair of tremors, boots, end gloves. In January each man and non commissioned officer received a waterproof Cording cost; sad at the end of January, just before he left, each man sad non-commissioned officer received a far cap, a woollen comforter, two Jersey shirts, socks, and gloves, as the infantry bad, and to this he attributed the compara tive freedom of his ourps from sickness. He had not a angle case of sidewise at Deena. He attributed some of the difficulties of the commissariat to the great storm, the roads were so bad and the losers so great. He did not think the tools were of good quality, and was president on a com mission in the Crimea appointed to inquire into their effi ciency, and he condemned them all but the pickaxes, especially condemning the spades, lies , and billhooks. He reported to the general of artillery. His men were five eights out of the seven on duty. He bad no complaint to make as to diet, and his men wen probably better off as to work than the rat of the army were. He was nearly one hoar on one mouton without ammunition at Balsklava, his hones being employed in bringing up the siege train. Mr. Joseph Crows, correspondent of the illudrated News, said he went out as an amateur, and arrived in the Crimea on 25th September. He had many opportunities of seeing the men in the camp, chiefly among the second division. On 13th September be went down to Balsklava, sod resided there while in the Crimea. He bed frequent ;opportunities of seeing the state of the troops, and they appeared to him to be suffering very much from mud about them and their tents. The sanitary condition of the troops was bad ; and there were a number of sick that could not find rosin in the hospitals, which wen in a very crowded state. Huts were made for their additionsl accommodation. He lived on board the Treat while at &lonian. He visited the cavalry and artillery amps. The cavalry were suffering from want of hay, but se attempts were made to obtain it from the Trent. There were heaps of planks and stone" on the quay at Balaklave, and begs of bran, the contents of which were injured. Saw no officers on the quay keeping order, but two mounted orderlies of the staff corps were en deavouring to keep order. Balsklava was knee deep in mad, and there was no particular convenience for lauding. Was with the camp at the battle of lokermann, and the hospital tents were very much crowded, Tbe:two paddle boats of the Treat were lying at the wharf nine or ten days without being unleaded, for want of persons to do it. The egesee of the transports would not have refused to do this if pillar it, and if the officers had called on them to do so. gomasissaries generally received representations' on IMO subjects in silence. He supposed the forage on board the Trent had not been landed because the commissariat had not the MUM. Some bay met by the Trent to Balsklava went twies back to Varna, and there being no depots at 73a lakleve it was left es beard. The 250 trusses of hay would occupy a considerable spate, bat it did not prevent the car riage of mos and hones, though it might have made way for fresh consignments. The offensive died" generated sick ness on beard. The burial grounds of the English and Turks were very mobs end wet, and smelt very nub. He was ten months in Bulgaria, sud large gqnttities of straw and barley aught have been obsiaed for the troops there. Vegetables were notdepoh quarters) Belaklava. At Kruniesch Harbour (t h e Bs r l:klevs. There then was far greater regularity than at go in at were oaken to preserve order. Any could-one house he liked. but fresh made t at er w a s a in tnd en a d t Balsklava at one time, and occupy what to"foreassupilpylissobmigtainhatbhlive been French tamed out ; and it was said they eery, all the people were to turn the nouns into store oases. h He had were -a 100 and 130 sick brought d own at one time without -4 into (Laughter.) When he wee lut there, how . ever, in Febru- NM 100 and 130 ISCS orouipas the chimes of being received into the hcepitel at Balaklaea. Bosse of the sick remained four boon on the groludirith. out being removed. The state of the roads was not such as to enable the ambulances to get over the road,. nevi was a heap of hay at the French qte i nch •Illy 36 feet blab, and there was sas lat ,4 " , 7 1 V11 • r and barley ; bat be did not know why • Apt trevided sn equally oompveh . om i t . He foiled wooden quays at Kami •If ffr.r.r and there was a hard road • 12 ` 4 4 "Irk. . . ; Franck wasters. It was ''.1 04 ":" i s had beer. made before, Mid %be • '3O - • u- plift was broader at lkansimeli . 111 .• Captain Kellett, in command k. • 4,650 • OP. tons, a screw, said that althouillat • • efrtirol d l= meat, it vms before the prope=tlit Ogitilat Stoat Nivliation Q ai fgathrWs