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TURKEY. Cisme Till UNCIAL CONNIIIIIPONDNNT Or Tlll DAILY NNW'S IN ANATOLIA (MOM l'lll FRANCE. /RDRNT OP Tit DAILY =WA.) PARIS, SATURDAY ETZPINO. Another admirable diplomatic paper by M. Drooyn de Lhuys has just obtained publicity. In the Inds pevidance Beige of yesterday appears the text of a new diplomatic circular, dated Paris, Jan. 28, ad. dressed to French ministers and agents in Germany. This circular may be considered a reply to the last Prussian dispatch. It explains the true state of the question in very plain language. M. Drocyn de Lheys regrets the differences which exist between the cabinets of Vienna and Berlin—differences so marked that the Berlin cabinet did not think fit to reply directly to the last communication from Vienna. " Prussia," he says, "declare* that she is full of confidence in the sentiments which animate the cabinet of Bt. Petersburg, and that therefore it is heedless to take precautions against chimerical apprehensions. But is it not true that a considerable Russian army menaces the Austrian frontier, that an incident threatens to place Austria and Russia in a state of war P Can it be said that the re establishment of peace is generally thought likely P Is it even certain that the acceptance form- ally made by Prince Gortchakoff is such as it was at first supposed to be r CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. 20. After more than mean mouths' experience of travel through Asiatic Turkey, during which I have ridden ever, in all, considerably more than 3,000 miles of country, I arrived here on the 14th, by the French steamer, from the ccast of Syria. In the course of these wanderings I have passed through regions seldom visited by the European traveller, districts in which the echoes of far off civilisation have been feebly, if ever, heard, and about which singularly little accurate information obtains amongst the pop lar mum at home in England. To myself—and I take for granted my ignorance was not more than avenge—the internal condition of Turkey in Asia was little less unknown than the domestic economy of the Japanese. I had vague notions of barbarous, half independent tribes, who inhabited mountain fastnesses in which the Sultan's authority existed only in name; or who roamed over luxuriant plains in a state of 'ululate simplicity quite refreshing fee • western mind to dwell upon ;but u to the true political and social condition of the sixteen millions of Kurd% Armenians, Jews, Chaldean", Nestorian', Devil Wee. shipper", and orthodox Osmanli', who make up the motley population of the eastern half of this vast empire—from Scutari to Kars, and from Trebizond taßagdad—" I am free to confess" that my igno rance was quite parliamentary. We crossed the Euphrates in one of the large, high primed boats here used for ferrying passengers and merchandise from one bank to the other, and thus passed from Mesopotamia into the great table land of northern Syria. To describe generally the aspect of the country thence to Aleppo, it is sufficient testy that it consists of low undulating hills, and earner intervening valleys, well watered, but with very her trees. Nearly two thirds of the land along our rule was under cultivation, and the wheat and other grains thus raised form, with wool, the staple article* of commerce throughout this extensive and very fer-' tile region. No other town of any importance, either from its size or trade, is now met with on to Aleppo. Miserable conical or flat roofed villages are the only human residences that meet the eye, and these at intervals from each other of seldom lees than twenty, and often above thirty milts j such, at least. was the avenge distance between there which lay along our line of road. With thisgeseral remark, thereture, I may pass on to the afternoon of our seventh day from Diarbekir, when we reached the entrance of the narrow and thickly wooded dell which terminates in the open space whereon stands the goodly city of Aleppo. Though several of the buildings at this side of the town am in a half ruinous state, it needed but a first glance at some of the streets within the walls to convince me that this is the most flourishing Asiatic city I had yet seen. Well filled bazaars, a teeming population, and ap parently an everwhere active trade at once showed me its vast superiority in point of material prosperity, to Erzereen, Van, Tabreez, Mosul, Diarbekir, and all the minor towns it had been my lot to pass through. The present, however, is no opportunity to attempt any detailed description of this half- European and consequently thriving town; enough to say, that is now the great entreisQ of Syria, Mesopotamia and Palestine, furnishing to the retail dealers of all three by far the greater part of their European manufactures and protheses The residence of several foreign consuls in the tow, has served as a check upon pachalistic oppressiesr so that even the Turkish subjects in the place have long enjoyed a degree of immunity from official rapacity which is unknown in most of the other towns in the interior. Being New Year's Day when I arrived, I found it a complete holiday amongst the European and Levantine families of the city; and I am bound to say that during the course of a few visits which I made to some of these, in company with a friend, in the evening, I saw more of female beauty, and of the elegancies of social life, than I had witnessed for nine long months before. I had already heard that the Christian population of Aleppo was noted for both : but I must say that the reality for once surpassed the report. Those only who have been almost entirely debarred for months from the humanizing influence of female society, and been surrounded by all the barbarizing agencies of Asiatic travel, can appreciate the extent of my enjoyment during this one evening at Aleppo. It seemed like emerging from savage life into the amenities sad beauties of a long-lost civilisation. During the few days of my stay in Aleppo I enjoyed the warm and elegant hospitality ofMr. Riddle, the principal English merchant in the place, as partially, also, that of oar consul, Mr. Werry. There can be no discredit in confessing that throughout this short period I thought Ina of Saracens, Tamerlane, and Crusaders than of the present and living objects of interest, which here speak with moat unsettling effect to the eye and the heart of a sensitive traveller. More matter-of-fact considerations, however, asserted their right to suggest a " move on," and on the mumisg 'Amy fourth day in this very pleasant Syrian city I left it for the coast, a hundred and eight miles distant. After a day and greater part of a night's ride over a most execrable road, and in the face of a t t s i o n e l storm, I passed over the classical Orontes, the great Turcomen plain, and entered Antioch. Ruins, filth, and semi-desolation de scribe the present state of this historical town. During the occupation of the place by the Egyptians under Ibrahim Paths, the greater portion of the walls were pulled down and turned to use in other structures, so that you now enter the city through heaps of ruins, and find, when you have done so, that the interior of the place is in deed entire or undilapidated, but nothing more. The Orontes rolls its rapid stream close past the town ; and a background of lofty and precipitous racks, crowned with the ruins of what were once fortifications, gives to it, when seen from the northern bank of the river, a sufficiently picturesque appearance; but except this, Turkish misrule and oppression have deprived i of every other feature of outward attraction. Miserable and tumble-down se the place seemed, however, I tememhered that it had once been a flourishing nursery of our faith, and that centuries later it had witnessed many a fleece struggle between Saracen and Crusader, in the contests for mastery between the Crescent and the Cross. Chequered, nevertheless, as has been its history, and often as it has passed from the hands of one conqueror inte those of another, I question if Persian, Roman, Greek, Saracen, or Crusader, ever reduced it to estate of ruin and desolation like that to which it has fallen under the Turks: but in this decadence it stands not alone; the same blighting causes which bate !educed it to its present state have worked similar results not in one, but in all parts of the empire. From Antioch o Alexandretta is rather more than thirty miles ; and as the last ten of these lay over a steep and rugged mountain ridge, on which a blinding snow storm was raging as we crossed it, jaded in body but glad at heart was I when we reached the other side, and, after half-an-hour's wading through swamps, drew up before the door of the English consular agency. Of this miserable village, where for more than six months in the year twtethards of the inhabitants are victims to fever and ague, I need oily remark that it chiefly consists of a wretched collection of wooden huts at the extreme oath esatern extremity of the bay of Scanderoon. As the port of Aleppo it is of some importance, bat otherwise of none. Here I was detained two days for a steamer, owing to the tempestuous state of the weather; bat on the morning of the second day a French nail-boat from Egypt came in, and as board of her I started that evening for Constantino ple. Next morning we touched at Mendes, the port of Tarsu., and on the afternoon of the day following at Rhodes, which now, alas! contains but sadly few memorials of the soldier-monks of St. John. Theses to Smyrna, the city of figs and raisins, occupied two days more; and the same again hither, including shoe calls at Mitylene, the Dardanelles, and Gal hPoli—making a total of six days and nights from the coast of Syria. The Bonne has been exceedingly good. The Rents, supported by considerable purchases by influential ' parties, rose 26c., closing at 68.45. A large business was done in railways. Several lines which have hitherto been neglected were in great request; Southern, for example, rose 17.50. A new combina tion was spoken of, assigning to this company the execution of a part of the P 1 renean network of rail way. Lyons and Mediterranean were also asked for, and experienced a rapid rite of 10f. A consequence of the above movement was, that many holders in the lines that have been in favour during the week realised their profits, in order to invest in those which to-day were so buoyant. This accounts for a fall of 10f. in the Orleans, and U. in the St. Germain line. Lyons and Grand Central fell U. each. It we. very currently reported that Prussia and Austria I were on the point of coming to en understanding, and the rise on the bourses of Vienna, Berlin, and Frankfort wee attributed to this circumstance. The Minister of Foreign Affairs has received from Lead Cowley the following communication : Konsieur le Ministre,—l have the honour to transmit to yam a:ceiling the annexed copy of an address, in which the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Canada offer conjointly to the Quota their congratulations a the mod. lithe victory gained by the allied armies at the Alin% tad atipooo their intenUm of contributing to the outboonla old of the widows and orphans of the sol diers muldSMlNli i , both English and French, who have NW Ili OD prim struggle. A sum of 20,0001. having low In mat to Loofas by the government of oMinda, to be d Tided equally between the ewe nations, 1 ego Merged to request your Eloellency to inform me of the giftless of the government of the Emperor relative to the moM of transmitting the 10,0006. (250,000 f.) which hrlong to Praaee.—l am, &c., COWLIT. Imissar7 30. The above letter is followed in the Moniteur by the address above alluded to, signed by the Presidents or the Legislative Council and the Legislative Assembly of Canada. The Prussian general, Count de Wedell, ()bused with a special mission to Napoleon lIL, has arrived in Paris. At Brussels he had an interview with M. Usedom. PARIS, SUNDAY EVININO. The Moisdestr publishes an Imperial letter to M. Magne, hitherto Minister of Agriculture, Commerce, and Public Works, appointing him Minister of Finance, in the room of M. Binean, who retires on account of ill health. The Mohigeur also publishes the following account of Prince Napoleon's reception by the Emperor: 1 Oa the day after his arrival at Paris his Imperial High ness Prince Napoleon wa received by the Emperor. His Majesty, embroiling the Prince, could sot antral his emo tion at witaessiag the very greet change in the Prince's fa turs. The Prises, who was Ili is Constantinople when the army departed for the Crimes, forgot his sufferings is order to put himself ►t the head of his division, and the world know, the glorious part he took in the battles of the dims sad of Inkermann. The state of his health, seriously affected by fatigue, would not, however, have prevented his remaining is the camp if the assault of Sebastopol had set been necessarily postponed. Informed by the °moral ia-Chief that the period for snaking it bad been pat off, sad to longer Davies in view the only prospect eapable of sustaining bins, the Prince was sompelled I. leave for Coastantineple, where he indulged the hope of a recovery, which might permit him to retain speedily to t►e Crimea. In this hope, he has been diappoiated. Doctor Levy, chief physician of the army, has written to the Emperor that a longer stay in the Hut would infalliby be attended with results fatal is the Prince, and his Majesty immediately ordered his Imperial Highness tis return to Paris. The affectionate retreption given by his Majesty, sad the expressions of sympathy bestowed on the Priem, will assuage the regret be feels at having been obliged to se parate himself from an army, where hie conduct has oared for hi. the palm of everyone that witnessed it. All the Walden, the presidents of the grand corps of state, the great offleers of the crown, and the principal functionaries ►ate ►uteard to present t►emseltu Sad oier 1 t►eir ►orase tole Imperial Highs's' on the on:ado& of die morn. The Moniteur has the following respecting the negotiations to which public expectation has been directed : " some foreign Journals have published a rumour that one or more special commissioners would be sent to Vienna in order to take part in the negotia tions which might possibly be opened (guipourraient s'ouvrir) in that city. " The Emperor is too well satisfied with the ser vices rendered by the Baron de Bourqueney, not to place entirely in him the can of representing his policy under all eventualities." I call your attention to an article by M. Grinier de Quesagnac in the Constiisigionnel, which seems to me, not indeed with reference to the fleeting topics of the hour, but as a symptom of what may be looked for in time coining, to challenge deep reflec tion. The article is a reply to one in the Sink (to which I have not time to-day to refer more particu larly), calling on the government to redeem the promise made by the Emperor at the commencement of his reign, and to grant a larger mea sure of political liberty. The Siecle accurately re cords the fact. In a speech made by Louis Napoleon shortly after the coup d'etat he did state that the constitution he proposed to frame was one which appeared to him appropriate to the then condition of France, but that be hoped at a later period it might serve as the basis of a wise and solid system of liberty. _ . . M. Oranier de Cairagnao to-day violently repudiates the Siecle's proposition. He does not, for he could not, deny the Emperor's promise, but he is careful sot to admit it, and dwells with unction upon the manifest advantages of arbitrary power, sanc tioned, of course, by an overwhelming num ber of ballot balls. But what I particularly wish to remark to-day is, that he affirms " that the esteem and affection of the English aristocracy has been gained to French institutions, since the work ing of them bee been made manifest." He also re presents the maladministration of the war depart ment in England, which, after patient long suffer ing, the English parliament has condemned, as the result of the liberty of the press and the freedom of speech in the House of Commons. I have long felt that the alliance between the French and English people, which, from all I can observe, is day by day more consolidated, must ultimately tend to au assimilation between the political institutions of the two countries. The French will not for any length of time accept the doctrine that the English are tit for freedom and they are not. Meanwhile it is very remarkable that the principal French government writer hints at the assimilation as likely to be brought about is a reverse way. No doubt that section of the English aristo cracy which looks upon public office as a part of their birthright, is under a considerable tempt- MORTALITY AT TSB MUM! HOSPITAL@ IN Yr folloerhogjahsfal gasman is published by a Freneb contemporary. as time satbssity of a eorreepo..dest at Constsetisople The difference, ia feat, between the deaths in the toe battens is saorisoae. Is the French hot:flash there s °sly one death oat of 271 awe, whilst is tke English boesitale there is oat sat ON." THE ErPRM, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 5, 1855. ation when it oontemplates the temporary, smooth working of coup d feat principles. I am under no apprehension that these will really be applied to Ragland. But I think it by no means chimerical that individual members of the aristocracy to whom M. Oranier de Casaagnac refers may delude themselves with the idea that some attempt in that direction is feasible. VALE AND THE EASTERN STRUGGLE. The Moulton- to-day contains the ministerial modi fication which I informed you had been decided upon. M. goober, the new minister of Pahlie Works, was unknown to the political world before the revolution of 1848. He was previously a mere provincial &deo mite, but at the same time • very distinguished one. He was the leader of the bar at the Imperial Court of Rouen, and his name was famous throughout the Puyde Dome as a first-rate counsellor. He was elected for that department as member of the Constituent Assembly, where he took his seat among the conservatives who accepted the republic as afast accompli, without having much confidence in it. He soon obtained • respectable position in the house is a debater on legal questions, possessing great fluency, clearness of style, and profound legal knowledge He was a member of the committee that in 1849 framed the new constitution of the Council of State. Very early in the history of the republic of 1848, he gravitated to the party which received the appel lation of the " party of order." He was a member of the club in the Rue de Poitiers. As Minister of Justice or Minister of Public Instruction, he was in office almost continually from 1849 to within a few weeks of the coup dela. He was a member of Leon Faucher's ministry, which was dis missed in November, 1851, when Louis Napoleon, cherishing projects net to be communicated to any of his counsellors, formed the provisional " Tho rigny " ministry, which held office but for • few days. After Deo. 2he at muse rallied, and was ap pointed a member of the Consultative Commission. Since that time he has been continually in office. He is of course reproached by those who refuse ob stinately to see in popular adhesion and public pros perity the justification of the coup tretat with tergi versation; but be is universally admitted to be one of the most capable servants of Napoleon I IL THE PARIS UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION. (litOY TILI IPZCZLL OF TIM DAILY 34/1118). PARIS, FIB. 2. THE BUILDING. I passed some hours yesterday in the Palsis de l'luditstrie. For this privilege lam indebted to pri iate influence, and in no way to the attention of the imperial commission. The building is not yet finished; on the contrary, much remains to be done. There is still a vest network of scaffolding covering the sculpture and the inlaid marble of the principal entrance; the grand stair cases, which stretch away to the right and left, just ' within this entranoe, are still blocked op with timber —the steps hardly formed yet. On advancing into the building, the visitor is arrested by carpenters at I work laying the flooring, a labour which does not appear to be pushed with much vigour. Standing in the noble hall, spanned by arches much more graceful than those which cover the Palace of Syden ham, the visitor is now able to judge of the pro- bable effect this vast and well-proportioned space will present to the eye next May. At the two ex tremities are galleries of scaffolding where the workmen are engaged patting in the great painted windows. It is impossible to judge of the effect these works of art will add to the general design, but already the deep blue of the ground, against which the figures stand, with the pale green steps upon which they are grouped threat ening the absence of that pervading red tint which should have characterised the de sign—are unfavourable glimpses. I think I have before noticed the remarkable greenness of the glue with which the roof of the Palace is glazed. Now, as this green is the framework of these painted windows, surely a pale red background, or one of red violet, with a warm orange tint upon the steps that occupy the foreground, would have produced an effect more harmonious than that at present in course of development. Again, the blue background appears to me to both opaque and patchy. I have already noticed the commodious staircases by which the noble galleries are reached. These are now chastely ornamented, and lead to a corridor or landing place, the root of which is also lightly , sculptured. The visitor will pass hence, through high doors, into the galleries. The grave de fect of the building is the darkness of the ground floor space under the galleries, except that part of it which borders the great hall. In vain have , large square holes been pierced in the galley) , floors , at intervals ; the space underneath remains, even , now, too shady. The degree of gloom that will per vade the parts of the exhibition situated upon the ground floor near the outer walls, when stalls obstruct the light that faintly reaches them from the ' 1 great ball, I do not pretend to determine; but I am certain that the managers of space will do well to , arrange small articles along the . ground which lies between the columns of the great halls and the walls. That the general effect of the exhibition will far surpass that of ours, in its artistic qualities, is, I think, generally allowed. The greys are plea t sandy relieved by the colours of the great windows and by bright bits of painted tracery bordering the 1 outer edges of the galleries. I saw no signs of the r activity of exhibitors. Nothing has, apparently, reached the building; and while the flooring is up, and the scaffolding is not cleared from the principal ' entrance, exhibitors do well to withhold their con tributions. The 'Feat machinery gallery, fast ap proaching completion, stretches its wonderful length • along the banks of the Seine, like &dusky snake—its , leaden surface looking cold and dull on these winter days. I should not close my present remarks on the building, however, without adding a few particulars to a former description of the exterior. The bright . colour of the stone walls—closely resembling that , of a Bath brick—was wearying to the eye. It had no richness, afforded little light and shade to the I design. Not that the architecture is in any way remarkable, save for the lozenges, across which the names of French industrial towns are scrawled. But relief was wanted to the monotony of the walls, an this has been given by painting the railings before , the windows a dark chocolate colour pointed with gold. The effect is extremely pleasing. There are, however, in the illustrious names carved upon the ' back of the building, some strange associations. • Roger Bacon, for instance, figures between Henry i &denim and Turgot ; then follow Straduarius, t Oberkampf, Franklin, Montgolfler, Reaumur, itc. It might be proper to strike illustrious names into the stone walls of a building like the Falai. del'lndustrie, • but it would have been well to place them lin happier juxtaposition. This is a repetition of i the ludicrous row of names scrawled upon the walls , of the St. Geneviive Library, and which has pro bably. provoked more blasphemous jokes than many more important mistakes. A nation like the French, keenly alive to the ludicrous, maybe potently swayed r by a blunder. (MOM 11111 CO/1/111.01101 14T 01 123 DAILY naves.) ROME, Lac W. Two thousand years ago the youth of Britain furnished hardy recruits to the Roman legions. The time is now come for the compliment to be returned; and, if no objection were made by the government of his holiness, the Papal States would send a respectable contingent to the foreign legion serving under the British banner. An army of 16,000 men, inured to the fatigues of campaigning, and hardened into a contempt of danger by their prolonged struggle against the overwhelming forces of Austria, France, Spain, and Naples, was disbanded on the surrender of Rome and the restoration of the Papal govern ment. Being mostly republicans, very few of these soldiers have re-enlisted under the banner of the Keys; but the intention of the British govern went to form a subsidiary force on the Continent was no sooner known than numbers of young men presented themselves at the British consulate in this city, most anxious to learn whether their services could be accepted. As Mr. Freeborn has hitherto received no instructions, that I am aware of, with respect to this matter, he has, of course, been usable to satisfy the military aspirations of these volunteers, who are chiefly officers and soldiers of the army of 1849; but it is most certain that the nine feeling prevails, to a much stronger degree, in the northern provinces, whither most of the disbanded soldiers re turned after the siege of Rome, and there would be no difficulty in getting two or three battalions in as many weeks, organic. d, officered, and ready for em barkation at Ancona, a most advantageous port, from its comparative proximity to the scene of action. Whether Pio Nono would approve of thus contri buting to the crusade against Nicholas, even with the , spiritual enticement of eventually overthrowing the Greek schism, is a more doubtful question. Per haps the danger of compromising his neutrality might be more than.compensated by the advantage of getting so many of his quondam rebellious subjects safely oat of the state. Tne Roman States also afford an opportunity of purchasing horses and provisions at advantageous rates. The horses are extremely hardy, and although, perhaps, not well adapted for cavalry service, would answer admirably for the conveyance of stores, without requiring so much attendance as more valuable English hones; and, by embarking them at Ancona, the length of the sea voyage, so trying to equine equanimity, woald be diminished by considerably more than half. Our allies, the French, have already laid the provisions under contribution; having purchased and salted lags quantities of hogs in the Roman market, to send to their army in the East. AUSTRIAN ITALY. A letter from Milan, of the 23rd alt., in the Ger man Journal of Frankfort says: One evening last week a commissary of polios presented himself in the Casino Nobili, which is f►equented by Aus tria* *Meer', and asked one of the officers to place at his disposal twenty men to arrest a band of conspirator., wbo were at the moment assembled in a neighbouring house. At the heed of the men be went to the house, and called out for the doors to be opened ; but no reply being returned, be caused them to be beaten open by the but ends of the muskets. About twenty persons were arrested. At the same time a number of papers and documents were seised ; they proved that a secret society of about sixty persons existed, and that it had prepared a plan of insurrection. Amongst the members of the society are six persons who are in the service of the government, and on that account they will have to expiate severely their criminal enterprise. It is not yet known whither or not the plot has other ra mifications. A letter from Milan, of the 28th ult., in the Opinions of Turin, states that several political arrests have been effected at Como, especially among the lower orders. A conspiracy is obscurely hinted at es being the muse of these arrests, but nothing certain has been as yet ascertained on the point. The same letter states that when Marshal Badetaky heard of the death of Queen Maria Adelaide of Sardinia, he hunt into tears, baying known her from her infancy. SPAIN. Marshal Espartero, in accord with the council of ministers, has addressed a circular to the governors of provinces, to impress on them the necessity of maintaining order, of observing regularity in the collection of the taxes, and of enforcing due observ ance of the laws : He says,—The state of alarm and uneasiness which, under various pretexts, is excited in Dome towns of the Peninsula by the enemies of true liberty, and at a moment when the Constituent C rtes see unceasingly occupied in making • liberal—nay• very liberal oonstitution, which, in securing and determi king the rights of Spaniards, will clearly specify their obligatLns, has seriously attracted the attention of the government of her Majesty, over which I have the honour to preside, and has given rise to a suspicion that the enemies of our political regeneration, powerless to oppose our principles openly, are making use of malevolent means, in order to disturb the tranquillity of which we stand so much in need for the establishment of the funds mental law of the state. One of the means of the govern men', without which it cannot provide for the wants of the state, is the regular collection of the public taxes. Their, collection bu suffered delays which tend to revolution. This 1 evil must be remedied. The Queen of Naples was safely delivered of a prisms oa the 21st sit. ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICAN MAIL. The Bacchante, African mail steamer, Captain Dring, arrived in Portsmouth harbour late on Satur , day evening. Her dates homeward are, Fernando Po, Nov. 29th; Camaroons, 30th; Old Calabar, Dec. 2nd; Bonny, 4th; Lagos, 9th; Aeon, 1 lth ; Cape Coast Castle,l3th; Sierra Leone, Jan. 2nd ; Bathurst, 11th; Govee, 12th; Teneriffe, 20th; Madeira, 24th. She had a slow and unpleasant passage home. She brought mails, general cargo, 3,000 ounces of gold dust, and 11 passengers, amongst whom was Captain Reginald, J. J. G. Macdonald, R.N., the nephew of the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe. The steam ship Pleiad, from the Niger, was at Fernando Po, and about to sail for England. The Scourge, Commodore Adams, had left Lagos for Fernando Po and the coast. Her Majesty's ship Dol phin was at Cape Coast Castle. ThoPromethens was at Sierra Leone. The Britomart had sailed, and the Ferret was cruising off Lagos. Captain Macdonald comes home on promotion. The Pleiad, with Dr. Baikie, had made a rat her successful exploration of 118 days in the Rivers Kurra and Tahadda, without any loos of life—a thing unprecedented in Niger voyaging. The geographical and political results satisfactory, but not much success in a commercial point of view. Dr. Baikie came horns in Bacchante. No intelligence of Drs. Barth and VogeL COMMISSIONS GIVEN TO SERGEANTS. The following pneral order has been issued from Lord Raglan's beattquartars, announcing the astnes of those brave men whose " deeds of arms," sines the 20th of September lest, bur* recommended teem for promotton from non-commissioned °Seers to ensigns and cornets. It is u follows : " oingesAL ozram. Jan. 18 "I accordance with the inetractiois coostianed in the Letter from the General Commanding•in-Chief, of the 14th December, 1864, which was published in the General Orders of the 28th ult., the Commander of the Forces has the satisfaction of appointing provisionally, and pending her Majesty's plessure, the under-mentioned sergeants of the 'cavalry and the line, as cornets or ensigns, each in bis own regiment. All commi.sions to bear date 6tb November. Red Wham 4th Drsi.Gets.- flerg..BlM. Prim 6th Ilr.l Gds.- j . Fla. gerald Ist Dragoono-SsmAlolor 1.10 6th Ih'orono -9rtg.-MaJor Hat 4th Urrp.-841g..liaj..thisthapl Bth Drys.-derg.-Majlistrlmm 11th Dry..-Bmg.llE MlMit 13th Drags.- Sal. -11 MOW Mb Dia/IL-Berg: Dorm Ist not—Qurra.4arg. arm 4th Foot- Quartermnster4lsrst. namides 7th Foot -016noi-Itsset. annett 17th Foot-Wm.-Ms* Us 19th Foot -isseenat Anita, 20'h Foot-Oolser-Bert.Osnett7 21st Foot berg.-raj Tsuiden Tith loot-fisrg.-1111Mor noshes 34t0 Foot- Quorm.-berg. Moue 33141 Foot-Quartermaster-Sere. Thompson fah not —Charterm.horo. i 447 50th Poet —nsvg..llalor Evans flat Foot—Ssorgesst naird 41nd Pout—tisnr..bisJor Lawvon 46th rost—derglicir Whitten 47tb Poot—Berg.- Young 49th Poot—esvg.-11 Mickey Setb Fuot--Ilsrg..lisor lamb 65tb Poot—Qmrsir.-34cg. Scott 57th Fort—Osiimr4erg. Orme 620 Prat—PoirmAsrg. Prim 6 , rd Prot—lriAlbdor Matson 69tb Foot—lken..ll4. Thompson 77th not —llsromon MLietet 79th Foot—QoomnAlorg. WOW , 8111 Poot—Qoaretaksg. Grier 93rdYoot—Glisordlorg. Gordon 95th Foot —AsalorgAdoi. Poston 97th Foot - Quartormsoimategt- lisamand - : Battn. Bile Brigant—earg.. Nape Mager THE CAMP RAILWAY. ---par Paris contemporaries publish a letter from Constantinople of the 22nd ult., n which, after dwelling on the wealth of comforts and conveniences accumulated there, the writer says : " If the railway were terminated all would soon be distributed and set up in 48 hours. Unfortunately, the railway meets with unexpected obstacles. Between 600 and 800 Croatians were engaged to work at it. Every needful measure was taken—they DUBLIN. Faa. 3. had their passports en regk, and had even received Twenty-five volunteers from the Royal North advances of money. Bet on the day fixed for the Down Rifle Regiment of Militia having come forward for departure no one presented himself. It is impossible the 3rd Buffs, under the superintendence of Lieutenant to conjecture the secret motive of this desertion en Hoe : who has been at Newtownards for the p u rp o s e o f ra crip volunteers, proceeded on Tuesday hy railway, wider Witt. m charge of a sergeant of the Buffs, from Newtowcards to CIVIL HOSPITALS FOR THE ARMT.—The gover- S ewry , t o j o i n th e i r new cor p s . non of St Bartholomew's Hospital have, with extreme lan I Oa Wednesday evening 133 men of the 92nd High rality, placed 40 medical and 40 surgical hefls at the free binders arrived at Cork from Dublin, end were to have disposal of government for the use of the sick and wounded proceeded yesterday to Gravesend, where they will embark from the Crimea. The authorities at tit. Thomas's have for Gibraltar to join their regiment, which is under orders also offered hospital acoommodation to the government. Mr. for the Crimea early in spring. Drafts from ether nee Arnott has not accepted the ales of chief surgeon to the • menu ere hourly expected in Cork from the depots of hospital at Smyrna. It i s ex p ec t e d th at government will Fermoy, Templemore, and Bin. It is understood that 100 apply to al' our large boapitas to assist in the formation of artillery horses will arrive in Queenstown for embarkation • staff both of medical men, dressers, and nurses.—Mselicai to the Crimea. Her Majesty's screw steam transport ship Times and Gristle. I will arrive in Queenstown neat week, for the purpose of THE Dime AND DUCHESS OP BRABANT returned embarking troops for the seat of war. Her Majesty's screw to Venice on the 23rii ult., from their excursion to Milan, steam ship Cesar, 400 horse power, Captain John Robb, left and embarked on the 28th for Egypt. Their R o y a l Hi g h. Plymouth Sound co Monday, and arrived in Queenstown aessee intend to go as far es t h e cataract . o f th e Nile, an d on Tuesday evening. She has on board 150 begs of bread return thictigh Palestine and Syria. for the Crimea. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Frs. 3 There has been a tremendous fall of snow since last evening, the ground being covered to a depth rarely equalled in this part of the empire, and cer tainly not witnessed here for some years past. What with the snow and the ministerial crisis, there is a complete stagnation of business. A remarkable cue, which has occupied the Irish Court of Chancery every day for the last fortnight, and in which nearly all the leading counsel of the Irish bar have made l ong speeches, is, it is thought, about to he settled by a compromise, the Lord Chan cellor having postponed giving judgmeot until Tuesday next, for the pu r p ose o f giving the parties an opportunity of arranging. I allude to the case of •"Handcock against Delacour or D e b urgo ," in which, i ndependent of the large property that is at stake, the character of an Irish nobleman, who has filled a most prominent place in the political world, is involved. Counsel for the petitioner have indulged, with extreme latitude, in the most serious charges against the nobleman in question, who, it has been broadly stated, is the father of the respondent, a minor, while the respondent's mother is alleg e d t o have been a Mrs. Handcock, who was separated from her hus band, the petitioner in the cause being a brother of that husband. On the part of the respondent, nothing was stated as to his parentage, but he claimed under a deed by which the property was secured to him, Mr. and Mrs. Handcock, with their three daughters, being all dead, and the latter having, it is alleged, suffered greatly through their mother's neglect for some time previous to their death. The lovers of scandal will, of course, be greatly disap pointed by any arrangement which would render the judgment of the court unnecessary. The Nation informs us that some new complica tions have arisen between Bishop Waste of Ossory and his priests. It appears that the complaint against the bishop for bridling the political enthusiasm of his clergy having been brought to Rome by Mr. Lucas and those associated with him, the ecclesias tical advocate to whom the proceedings there were entrusted lately required the immediate presence at Rome of Father Keeffe, the priest whom the bishop prohibited from attending the Callan tenant right meeting. Father Keeffe waited on the bishop to obtain the necessary leave of absence, which the bishop, we are told by the Nation, peremptorily re fused. Father Keeffe produced the letter requiring his attendance, but his superior, after inspecting the document, said it was not an fficial summons, and, until one in the proper form were produced, he would not allow him to depart out of the diocese. l This, obeffres the Nation, amounts to an absolute Prohibition on the part of Dr. Walshe to have the appeal carried to Reme, as a formal summons would be issued to the respondent, but not to the appellant, which Father Keeffe is; and thus the affair is brought to a " dead lock." NAVAL AND MILITARY. CiF.NEBAL SIR DE LACY EVANB.—We are informed the lieutenant governorship of Chelsea Hospital, vacant by the death of General Sir A. F. Barnard, was offi-red to the gallant member for Westminster, but was declined. ADMIRALTY, FEB. 3.—PROMOTIONS.—Minteer Assistant J. Milton (1818), promoted to the rank of muter. Arronermertre.—Captsin G. T. Gordon (1848), to the ' Victory, 101, flag-ship, st Spithead. Commonctsrs T. Brewer (1852), and J. 0. Bathunt (1E53), to be agents for transports an the Black Sea. Lieutenants T. 11. B. Fel lowes (1852), sod T. M. 8. Puny (1850), to be additional lieutenants of the Royal Albert, 121, screw steam skip, of 600. horn-power, Medi terranean Station. Muter J. 8. Hill (ISO), to the Pessbitoke, 60, screw stem ship, at rung:teeth. _ . . _ Surgeorli W. Smith to the Ariel, 9, screw steam ship, of 60 horse-power, at Portsmouth; H. Liddell (1841), to the Waterloo, 120, flag-ship, at Sheerciris; and J. Vaughan, (1841), to the Cressy, 80, screw steamship, of 400 horse power, at Sheerness. Psymsaters J. B. Andrews (1846), to the Hastings, 60, screw steam ship, at Portsmouth; C. W. Belts (1864), to the Pembroke ; G. F. C. Bateman (1847), to the Arrogant, 46, screw steam frigate, of 360 horse-power, at P ortsmouth; G. A Lance (1844), to the Cornwallis, 60, screw steam ship, at Dsvonport ; S H. 1.. Gila (1846), to the Hawke, 60, screw steam ship, at Sheerness; J. B Broomall (1846), to the Russell, 60, screw steam ship, at Sheerness ; and H. Johnston (1851), to the Centaur, 6, paddle wheel steam frigate, of 640 bons power, at Portsmouth. Assistant Surgeons G. T. Jones (1861), to the Conway, 14, flag ship, at Cork; R. Sproule (1861), M.D to the Orion, 91, screw steam ship, of 600 horse-power, at Sheer nem ; J. W. Slight (1846), to the Dee, 4, paddle wheel steam troop Alp, of 200 horse-power, at Chatham ; and H. F. Cullen (1840), M.D., to the St. Vincent, 102, guard ship of ordinary. at Portsmouth. Clerks I. Wagstaff, to the Hastings ; and B. J. Giles, to the Pembroke. Naval Cadet W. P. Barrow, to the Odin, 16, paddle wheel steam frigate, of 560 bons-power, at Woolwich. Clerk's Assistant lt. W. Parish, to the Ronalave, irot, scrim steam store ship, of 700 horse-power, at Portsmouth. PORTSMOUTH, FM 4. The sick and wounded soldiers brought home in the steam ship Mauritius from the East will be landed to morrow morning at 7 o'clock, and forwarded to Chatham by railway. They were to have been conveyed round to that port in the ship, but yesterday morning the crew re futed to navigate her round, as they contended that their engagement was at an end on reach ing port in England. The Horse Guards had there fore to he communicated with, and the result is the arrangement already mentioned. As soon as the vessel got alongside the dockyard yesterday afternoon, the hospital cues were at once landed, and conveyed to the military hoe. pital in this garrison on litters, te... They were 12 in number . The women end children also who have had a passage given to them from the Mediterranean, their husbands or !ethers having been sent up from Gibral- tar, &e., to the Crimea, were also landed and turn to tem. porary barracks till they can be sent to their respective homes. Admiral Superintendent Martin and the officers of the wriest' wets in attendance in the dockyard to me to the requisite arrangements being made. The Mauritius reports that little hope is enter tained of the peddle-wheel sloep Heels, of six guns, Commander Hawker, being got off the shore at Gibraltar, where she struck on the night of the 22nd of January, in a fog, after returning from a cruise. She has all her gum overboard, her mists cot sway, and is full of water. Her officers and crew had left her. A Sardinian emigrant ship had also been totally wrecked, by mistaking the lights of the Heels for shore lights, and eight or ten emigrants had been drowned. The Pembroke, 72, converted into a screw ship of 60 guns, was taken out of dock yesterday; and the Hastings, of the same clam, will come out to-morrow. These two vessels, as also the Russell, Hawke, and Cornwallis, 60 IMO screw ships, have been commissioned, the appointments being published is the Daily News of yesterday. There are already four other of these 60 gun screws in commis- sion :—The Blenheim, Ajax, Hogue, and Edinburgh, so that a very powerful squadron of them will be available for the Baltic In the Spring. The Jades Watt, 91, screw, Captain Elliott, was moved into the fitting basin yesterday. The tkindien, convict-ship, sailed for Gibraltar yesterday with convicts. ___ ..__ .._.... The Charlotte Jane, tranv3rt, we% towed into harbour to-day to embark a draft of the 69th for the West Indies. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 4. The Duke of Wellington, 131, Captain Gordon, is expected at this port fro& Portsmouth, to be docked and make good defects. The Vulture, Captain Glasse, is ex pected at this port, from Cromarty, to refit The Basepa reil, 70, is to eosin here from the Black Sea; she is to be refitted with all expedition. The Rosamond, which arrived on Thursday from Scotland, came into harbour to be fumi gated and to refit. The Exmouth, 90, will go out of har bour to morrow, and will proceed to sea on Wedne.day and Thursday to y her engines. Her ere, will be paid an advance of wages next week. The Esk arrived yesterday from the Esetern ports ; she is to come into harbour to make good some defects. ILab) inteittuence. COURT OF QUREITBBENCIL-FEB. 3. ISTVPOS AT NM P lll l4-3170111• WAD CAMPUS!. AND • IPMCIAL /cm THI ROBIN (ON THU PROSICOTION OT •LITAXXXX H'OI•CH Y ALLXTXI) O.COTLI—IXDICTYIXT roarasallllYA Tne Attorney General, Mr. Temple, and Mr. lincidleston conducted the prorogation ; Mr. Edwin Jesus and Mr. Hawkins represented the defendant. This was an indictment preferred against Ignatius Feuds Coyle by Alexander M Geschy Align', formerly an officer in the army, for perjury alleged to have been conifeltted by the defendant, who was a material witness in a permeation institsted by Cartels Robert Blair Kennedy against the present prosecutor. his brother, James Holder AlWylie, and Thomas Hopping Buchanan D'Arcy, since deceased, who had both likewise held commissions in her Alsj.sty'a service, for a conspiracy to defraud him of the s um of 7,3001. The charge sgainat the Aflame was that Mr. James Holder Alleyne had made a bet of 7,3001. with Captain Kennedy, that an American mare, known in America as " Fanny Jenks," but by him called Pigeon, would trot a certain number of miles in a given time, and that the mare having become lame and totally unable to trot the match, the pro w/motor was induced by the false representation of Mr. Alexander hPoeathy Alleyne, at the instance of hie brother, to pay over to the latter the total amount of the wager in 4stestion. The Alleynes and D'Arcy were tried before Lord Campbell and • special jury of Middlesex, on the Ist and 2nd of December, 1851, and were ell fund guilty. They were immediately sentenced, James Holder Alleys* to two years, Alexander M'Oeachy Alleyne to air months, and D'Arcy to one year's imprison ment in the House of Correction. The Alleyne* brought a writ of error to set aside the sentence, and there being no joinder the writ of error was allowed. That, however, was subsequently set aside on the ground of collusion. They had also indicted Captain Kennedy, Mr. Newton, his attorney, and Coyle, for a conspiracy to defraud them of 6,6004, and bad indicted Coyle separately fur perjury. Tani wan the pre sent indictment—the others were abandoned. The perjury assigned was that Coyle had sworn on the trial of the Alleyne and D'Arcy that he was present at a conversation between Js. Holder Alleyne and his brother Alexander, at the Plough Hotel, Cheltenham, on the 29:h of Nov.. 1646, when the former said toe mare was lame, and said to his brother, " You must go to Hull and see Kennedy ;" whereas it was alleged that Alexander McGeachy Alleyne was not in Chel tenham at the period in question. The defendant pleaded not guiity. The AttornerG 1 having stated the case for the pro secution, calle d the following evideoce : Alexander hlcOmehy Alkyls° examined by Mr. Huddle. iton—l am the prosecutor of this indictment. I was cap tain in the 7th Dragoon Guards. 1 exchanged into the 89M Regiment, and went to Canada early in 1844. I re turned to this country in 1846. 1 went to Cheltenham on the let of November. My mother Wei residing there. Holler was there occasionally. Hs lived in lodgings there. He kept hunters there. On the 16th of November I went to Newport Pagn.ll races. I there met D'Arey: he was an officer of the 89th Regiment, which was then (pat tered at Hull. Kennedy was in the same regiment. returned to Cheltenham from Newport Pagnell on the 21st of November, and remained there till the 27th with my mother. On the 27th I went to Bath, to see Mr. Caldicott an old friend of our family. He got me my commission. I remained at Mr. Caldieott's, 6, Laura-place, Bath, until the 3rd of December. I stayed at hie house from the 27th of November till the 3rd of December. 1 did not leave Bath all that time. On the 3rd 1 returned to Cheltenham. I dig not see Coyle during that time. I did not know him up to that time. To the beet of my recollection. I first met him at Leamington meet in 1847. On the 6th Dec. 1 went to Hull and strived in time for messa I went in consequence of a note I received from D'Arcy, being an invitation from Kennedy, with whom I was on terms of the greatest in timacy. We were at Sandhurst together, and were in the same regiment, and in Canada together. When I mat down to Hull I had heard of the bet which my brother had made with Kennedy. It was on the 26th of October, 1846, when I arrived from Canada. My brother called at my lodgings, 14, Sr. James's-place, and told me of the bet. He paid he had purchased • mare in America called " Fanny Jenks." I had seen the mare at Cheltenham before I went to Hull. When I was at Hull, Kennedy came int my roomwhilo I was dressing, and mentioned the bet which he had made with my brother, and asked me my op nion about it. I toll him I thought it was an ma-Naively injudicious bet, end that the amount was too great for either of them to lose—that it looked as if they wanted to ruin one another. At this he laughed and Rind the amount was nothing com pared with what he had been accustomed to bet lately, for on the St. Leger, which was run in September previous, he had won 4,0001., nearly two of it from the Hon. Captain Saville, of the Royal Artillery, for which he had got into a great row, having been reprimanded by the Commander-in- Chief. I then told him nevertheless the amount was too great for him to risk,and solemnly advised him to reduce the amount of the wager, for he had bet so many 'hiltless in Canada as he had lately bet pounds. I then told him, from what I had heard from my brother, the mare wee a most dangerous animal for him to stand to lose so much no ; for he had told me she had in America trotted 101 miles in 9 hours 29 minutea and 29 seconds; and I told him that a mare which could do that would be very likely to trot 17 miles in an hour ; that I myself had seen her trot early in November, end that she had performed to my perfect satisfaction. I again strongly advised him to reduce the amount of the wager. He then said he thought it was all a parcel of American lies, and that eves if the mare could perform the match, he was perfectly confident that my brother, Holder Alleyne, could not drive her to make her do it. " How ever," he said, " I'll think over what you say." There the conversation dropped. I had no other conversation with Kennedy about the mare except that he occasionally joked about her. This conversation did not take place at the sug gestion of my brother. I had no interest directly or indirectly in that mare or match. I first heard that Kennedy had ',sift the money about the 30th of December or the begin ning of January. A sum of 5001. was subsequently given me by my brother. My brother, after he had won this match, having a great deal of money, offered to give me and my broth, r Joseph 6001. each, and I further asked him to lead me 5001. to boy some hunters, which I promised to re pay him in a month or so. I repaid him in the April follow ing. I was not present at any conversation in which Holder Alleyne communicated to Coyle the lameness of the mare. I never was oresent at any conversation when Holder said in Coyle's presence, " You must go to Hull and see Ken nedy." My brother said so to me. I him say to Coyle that if the mare had not got lame, he would have won more than Coyle did on the Derby cad St. Leger. I never heard him say the mare, after trotting on the Tewketbary.road, had come home dead lame, and if she could not trot the match, he would go over :o Kennedy and make the best compromise. After I knew Coyle, I lent him several thousand pounds. On the 12th of August, 1849, I lent him 2001. That was the first transaction I ever had with him. I took Coyle before the magistrates for forgery about February, 1861. The charge was not pro ceeded with in consequence of the interestaton of his wife and a letter which he wrote to me praying my forgiveness. That letter was produced at the trial at the Old Bailey. An indictment was afterwards preferred by me against Coyle at the Central Criminal Court in consequence of rumours which I traced as emanating from him. He was tried in October and convicted. Cross-examined by Mr. Edwin Jima—Before I preferred this indi"tatent against Coyle I bad been indicted for cheat ing Mr. Kennedy of 7,30 0 . I knew that Coyle's 1111114 was en th e hack of the indictment against ate when I indicted him. Coyle appeared at the police court two or three times. I know he did more than once. Mr. James—The bill on the indictment against the two Alleynes was found in May. Cross-examination eentinued—The Indictment against Coyle for forgery was found in July, I think. My brother told me that the American mare wee called Fanny Jenks. It was the same mare as the mare at Cheltenham. Illy brother calied her Pigeon, and I sometimes did. On m oath, I knew nothing of the match with Kennedy, for I was in America at the time. When I went to Hull nay brother told me the mare was slightly lame. I was in a gig with my brother on the Tewkesbury•road When the mar* performed to my satisfaction, it was between the Ist of November and the 18th. When I went to Bath on the 27th, I went with the knowlege that the more war slightly lame. My brother told me that between the 21st and the 27th. I was nearly aboy lathe time. I was only 21. I know that my brother lent D'Arey 1,0001, and that my brother Joseph was given 5001. It was in consequence of having been paid the money that we received these some. I cannot swear it was out of the money he had won. After be won the match he promised to give me 6001., and I unfortunately accepted it. I went vs Bath on the 27th. I left Cheltenham about two o'clock, and arrived at Bath in time for dinner. I was tried and convicted on an indictment before Lord Campbtll and a special jury in 1851. I was not in court during the trial. I took the advice of those who were capable of advising me, and went away. I did not hear any of the evidence at that trial. I went to Calais. My brother met me there the next day. On my return is December I paid Kennedy 1,500/. to compromise a Chancery suit against the Patent Cooperage Company, in which I had a large in terest. Kennedy took the Chancery proceedings that he might have, if I may nee the term, a parches' over us. My mother gave me the money. I went before the grand jury on the 3rd of April, 1854. I did not swear in set terms that Kennedy and Newton had conspired to obtain the 1,5001. to compromise the indiement. I swore that these pencils were conspiring to force me into the payment of 5,5001 Idy brother paid 4,0001. I paid 1,5001. I preferred the bill of indictment against Captain Kennedy after he had gone to India. It fell to the ground because Kennedy did not surrender. I indicted Kennedy, Coyle, and New• ton, for conspiracy, and preferred a separate indictment again. - Newton. I never gave any instructions that the indictment aglitist Kennedy and Newton should be aban doned. My professional man told me it would have been impossible to convict Newton in Kennedy's absence. I have been ahroad since the rale was argued. I came over here to surrender, and to give evidence against Coyle; and so did my brother. I came from 12, Abingdon-place this mornicg on purpose to surrender. The officer why holds the warrants against this witness and his brother here stepped forward. They bad not be , o ex-rated'. I may have said in the con versation with Kennedy, which war takes down by the short band writer, that I taw Coyle in Cheltenham in 1848 or 1549. To the beet of my recollection I did not say that my brother had then given him a cheque for 375/. I said it was at Holder's lodgings the. he gave Coyle the cheque, dated November 30, 1816. I said to Kennedy that Holder gave Coyle& cheque at his own lodgings. I stated exactly A