The Express. — London, England, 1855-01-05 00:00:00

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The Moniteur has the following respeetiag the diversion which Omer Pacha is to tact in the Crimea " We lave made known the resolution of the Sul tan to send to the Crimea, under the orders of Omer raohs, a corps destined to second the operations of our generals in chief, by means of an important diversion in the rear of the Russian army. The news we receive under date of the 25th ult. from Constantinople announces that a ministerial letter, addressed to the Ottoman generalissimo, enjoins him to hasten the embarkation of his troops, and to repair immediately in person to the allied generals, in order to concert with them his future more scents."—Doily News. VIENNA, TEI7IIIIDLY MORNING, JAL 4. Prince Ciortchakoff has had an salience of the Emperor, which lasted an hour and three-quarters, bat his Majesty is not likely to make any concession to Russia. Gourd Osten-Sacken is to act against Ettpatoria with 45,000 men and 80 glum According to telegraphic despatches from French head•cinuters, both armies are preparing to attack the southern part of Sebastopol. —Tyner. Golignani publishes the following private tele graphic despatch, dated Trieste, Jan. 3: " Accounts have been received from Constanti nople to the 25th. At that date a number of wooden homes for the troops had arrived there. Chekib Effendi, Minister of Justice, died on the 24th. The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Napoleon are still there. The Allied armies, suffering from cold, have no irewood. The Allies have taken three Russian guns. Gen. Lipran di still occupies his position near &dollen. Accounts from Trebiaond of the 19th state that the Russians have rued the forts of Bayazid, and are closely watching the frontier of Persia. The heavy falls of mow which have taken place near Kars render it very improbable that hostilities can be resumed until the spring. The Russian garrisons of flehamkoi and Amps will be, it is said, marched to the Crimes." RUSSIA. rAL COMPANY'S ST. PETERSBURG, JAN. 2. A new financial measure is promulgated, raising the import duty on tea brought from China over land 100 per cent., from Jan. 1, 1853.—Daily News. Our correspondent reports, on the 2d, that the storm from which Hamburg had so severely suffered had considerably abated, and the waters were gradually subsiding.—Daily Now,. SPAIN. (IT sLicritc mizeaLPa.) MADRID, :AN. 2. The Finance Minister, in reply to a question, has declared that the projected 8 per cent. tax upon the interior debt will never attach upon the externs' debt, 3 per cent., created in 1841. SOUTH AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE IMPERADOR. DIY lIAQNmO TILIVALAPI.) (fox THI COIIIIIPOWDINT 07 TES DAILY Iliti.) LIVERPOOL, TEVISDAT. This afternoon the South American General Steam Navigation Company's screw steam ship Imperador arrived in the Mersey from the Bnuils, Bm. Her dates are : Rio Janeiro, December 1; Bahia, 8 ; Pernambuco, 9 ; St. Vincent's, 19 ; Madeira, 26 ; and Lisbon, 30. She has brought, besides the mails, 28,0001. in value in specie and diamonds. The Pampero wu at Lisbon on the 29th, and the screw transport Royal Victoria, from Falmouth, put in there on the same date, being short of coal. Buenos Ayr's has been invaded from Santa Fe by troops, under Lajos, Costa, and Lunde, which were totally routed by the Portenos, under the command st General Horns, with the loss of twenty killed, their ammunition, baggage, correspondence, &o. The documents found assert that Urquiza is the instigator of the invasion. Buenos Ayres is under martial law, bat reported quiet and enthusiastic. Business doll. Exchange, 631. Freights from 30s. to 355, From Monte Video we hear that several changes have taken place in the Ministry, caused by the Brazilian influeuos. Trade is dull, and but little produce arriving. Exchange rising, 40t. Freights, 43e. Accounts had reached Monte Video that the rebels Lad been defeated a second time at Buenos Ayres and totally disbanded, and that Costa had taken refuge in the Brazilian steamer Thetis. Exchange at Rio de Janeiro was Eat, 27g. Freights to the Channel, lies. to 60.. At Bahia, the sugar comes forward but slowly. Freights art declining; they are flatted at hem flOs, to Obs. to the Channel. Exehisp closed firmly - at 28. s 1 Theo is bat- little change af t ' 4l 4emsaimbese/ Freights are given nominal at Tt. Chanaell The exchenge, 2& ' Th J fs, • . l r. ..• , .... - • THE WAR AND THE " s ITHEE" NEWSPAPER. - 01rilocestrio cantempararT the Nom put Bath yesterday an opinion respecting the probable ooese queues; of the capture of Bebaitopol, which appears to throw some light on the devious and erratic course it has of late penned while commenting on the war in the Crimea. The following is the par Nip to which WO refer : The occupation of the Bassin capital itself, the sneer sin oils, palaces into barracks, and the retribution upon Bernied of the reuses Iseult' it boa heaped in its day on all the cities that have fallen within its power, could not be a more irritating simnel, tbs. the occoupstlee or &strew titre by the allies of those gigantic batteries raised with such labour end mot for the conquest of the East. The whole railitony pepulatios of Saris would be termed southward in see net Garnet, to overflow and swallow up our ont parativoly email armies. New levies would be snorted, so long as then remained a sue who could stand under arms. No *epees, would be spared so keg as there remained a noble who possessed the wherewithal for a found soot/ilia don. There is nothing the Emperor would sot do to eater mints fres the soil the invaders who insulted nee more than they damaged his power. To be the subject of an silliremise, to feel the pangs of lost unitary, sad the shame of disosattare, certainly would be new to Ramis, and we nay be sure she would russet It to the uttermost of her power. In spite, therefore, of the palpable advantage we should derive at ones from the pommies of Sebastopol, and the endings from Weary to comfort, and from ern• stain jeopardy to something like security, the new holders of the city would flad their berth a warm one, and would hardly have time to tarn round before they found the Rus sian nos more upon then The plain English of this is that England and Francs, in the writer's opinion, are both together unable to cope with Russia. If they strike any heavy blow at that empire—any blow that can be felt —they will only thereby bring down upon their heads "the whole military population of Russia, in one vast current, to overflow and swallow up our compara tively small armies." If we fail now before Sober topol, and when spring comes on in the Baltic, et °ours. we will have to beg pardon of Russia for per to interpose between it and Turkey; and if we succeed for a time we shall only be getting into a worse scrape. Such, at leut, is the opinion of the non. That journal sees no hope for France and England except in their immediate, penitential, unconditional submimion to the CZAR. The Times argues for peace at any price. The public in France or England are not likely to concur in this strange over-estimate of the power of Russia. The public in France or England are not so cowardly, so lost to all sense of justice and self-respect, as to listen to such unmanly counsels. And even the Russian Government is not likely toattribute any great weight to the flattering estimate the Times protease to have made of its power. The Russian Govern ment, though too proud to yield yet, is painfally alive to the fact that the encouragement held oat to it by the Times to attack Turkey, at the outset of the Oriental difficulties, has been a delusion and a snare; and it will not twice be humbugged by " the leading journal of Europe." The English public will recollect the strain in which the writers in the Times were wont to ex press themselves with regard to Russia and Turkey at the time of the MENTCRIKOFF mission, and for a good while afterwards. Day after day we were told in the columns of the Times that the subjugation of Turkey to Russia was an inevitable necessity ; that humanity would derive benefit from the conquest of Turkey by Russia; and that, even though this were not the case, it would be folly on the part of England to put itself out of its way and interfere between the two States. Russia had so long been lying peek that its systematic designs upon Turkey had almost been forgotten in Western Europe. For a long time the duties of European States reciprocally to pretest each other from external aggression had ceased to form a topic of public discussion in England. Oneor two prominent leaders of the Free Trade party had, after its final triumph under Sir ROBERT Pan, be. taken themselves to divert the ennui of idleness, to the occupation of missionaries of the doctrine that this country ought, under all circumstances, to abstain from war. Another party among us had been seized with an unreasoning panic about an invasion from France. Matters standing thus, it was not unnatural that Russian statesmen should have been brought to believe, in the first place, that England would ink tamely on at any aggression they might perpetrate On the empire of the SULTAN; and, in the .used place, that a sincere and cordial alliance between England and France was impossible. In these erroneous notions they were confirmed by the articles in the Times. Baron Bauresow, in addition to his natural sagacity, bad a long experience of England; the Princess LIEVEN, the most dexterous and acute of political agents, has rarely transmitted erroneous information to St. Petersburg; yet even they were misled by the pertinacious iteration of the Tunes. Their representations, backed by the Times, persuaded the CZAR and his Ministers that the time had at last arrived for making another bold and decisive step towards the subjugation of Turkey. In vain did the best informed foreigners remonstrate. If an Eng lishman chanced to say to Count NENSELRODE or the IMPLEOR that the Western Powers would not permit Russia to take such a step, he was told that he had lived too long on the Continent to understand the feelings of his own countrymen ; that the great alleaantile and manufacturing community in England eared only for money-making; and that the rest of the nation was too hostile to France ever to oo =with it. All this, it w repeatedly said by as molt and Count NEBBELRODE, was manifest , from the columns of the Times. It is therefore, in a great measure, to the nines that this country and Europe are indebted for the present war. We have, indeed, said, and we now repeat it, that Ministers, by their re luctance and hesitation to speak boldly out, aided to deepen the impression made by that journal. For this fault their reliance upon Count NRISILRODs may, perhaps, be some extenuation. They knew that the Count's policy of never contradicting his muter secured him at all times 'a willing auditor in the Ms; end that by yielding and biding his time he was almost always able to bring round his Sovereign to his own views. But Ministers ought to have known that Cana NEBSELRODE will thus smoothly obstinate only when he believed that his Imperial Master's freak or crotchet of the hour was dan gerous or impracticable. And in the dispute mind by the MISTCRIXOFT mission Count Neaszranlen hatless convinced by the Times that nothing could gems& England to go to war for Turkey, or to net is anssit with France. He saw neither difficulty INN MOW to gratifying the Imperial whim, and-he frena the powerful, silent, and indirect ern which he had so often practised with SlMmess. - _ To the obstinate pen istanee of the Times in ib false statements and fallacious arguments respecting the Oriental Question, when hostilities might yet have been averted, this oonntry owes that it is at war. And now we fled the Times endeavouring to intimidate the country into a cowardly and igno- I THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 1855. of the into which we how bees plunged by its own shameless mendacity. Now, at ..410 1 / 4 oatoolitupr. *Om Obblesbusg mha mion sabOlta and spoliation. Now, so at h • the nem coolants the adoption of Inland wadoh most tint degrade the na• ► eyes of the world r and then expose it to s and outrages from all pouters that w7ald not fail to involve nu in wars woe compli oatid Una ofinfraltely USW &attics that tits M ad can pond* lmh—D4 New& Polk* tioiNe THE QUEEN AND OUR WOUNDED SOLDIERS IN THE EAST. The following letter, addressed by hoe Majesty to Mr. Sidney Herbert, will delight all, and surprise no one s_ _ a WINDIOS CASTLE, Dao. 6, 1854. " Would you tell Mrs. Herbert that I begged she would let me see frequently the accounts ate receives from Miss Nightingale or Mrs. Bracebridge,u I hoar no details of the wounded, tho' I see so many from officers, die., about the battle-field, and naturally the former must interest me more than any one. " Let Mrs. Harbert also know that I wish Miss Nightingale and the ladies would tell these poor noble wounded and sick men that No ONE takes a warmer interest, or feels more for their sufferings, or admires their courage and heroism won, than their Queen. Day and night she thinks of her beloved troops. So does the Prince. " Beg Mrs. Herbert to communicate these my words to those ladies, u I know that our sympathy is much valued by these noble fellows. (Signed) " VicTonta.“ COMPARATIVE TAXATION OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. The wrongs of Ireland were sung by the great " Agitator " for forty years; but the song is tuneless from the lips of thou who share his blood and bear his name; and the wrongs themselves seem now happily to be of the things that are past away. Religious animosities even seem gradually dying out, in spite of Tablets and Lucius, ; and as the Irish soldier enters the ranks of the Welch or Scotch Fusiliers, making a happy confusion or rather fusion of races, and gives his willing mind as he has ever given his brave heart and his strong arm to gain glory for the now really United King dom, so the Irish priest joins in loving brotherhood with the English chaplain in administering conso lation to the sick and dying on the fields of Balaklava and Inkermann. Occasionally, however, some reference is still made to the old " wrongs," and though the subject is now, we imagine, a bore, even to the Irish members themselves, yet we venture to draw attention to a parliamentary paper lately kneed, which was intended to show how Ireland bad been unfairly treated with regard to taxation and loans as compared with Great Britain. The paper, of which we gave a short maim a few days ago, was moved for by Mr. John O'Connell in August last. We select from it the lifidlowing statistical details. First, with regard to the taxes repealed, reduced, and imposed in the two countries respectively, we find that during the nine years from 1845 to 1853 inclusive the gross amount of reduction in the Customs has been 7,888,3971. in Great Britain; and 500,6611.inlreland; the Custom duties imposed during the same years amount in Great Britain to 12,8224, and in Ireland to 6,5611. We cull a few of the more important articles on which the duties have berm reduced or repealed. On sugar and molasses the !reduction amounts in Great Britain to 3,656,4651.; is Ireland, to 316,4361. On foreign spirits, in Great Britain, to 416,8831. ; in Ireland, to 7,9081. On Bri tish spirits, in Great Britain, to 170,7154 ; in Ireland to 7,3714 On tea,in Great Britain, to 846,6121. ; in Ireland, to 122,2661. On coffee, in Great Britain, to 145,1291.; in Ireland, to 4,0321. The reduced, re pealed, and imposed taxes in the two countries re spectively which come under the head of Inland Revenue, and include excise, stamps, assessed taxes, and property and income tax, are distributed as fol lows. The gross amount of reduction on these taxes in Great Britain stands at 6,662,3001. In Ireland, at 61,0001.; the amountof increased taxation being in the former country, 1,324,2701., and in the latter 774,0001. Among the taxes thus repealed, that on glass amounted in the last year of its existence to 843,2931. in Great Britain, and 6,6591. in Ireland; that on bricks to 462,7651. in Great Britain only; that on soap to 1,397,6681. in Great Britain only ; that on windows to 1,879,3541. in Great Britain only. The reduced taxes consist of stamps on bonds, convey ances, attorneys' certificates, newspaper supplements, receipts, articles of clerkship, life insurance poli cies, and of the hackney carriage duty. The chief of the taxes imposed or increased are the duty on spirits, which amounts in Scotland to 320,0001., and in Ireland to 270,0001. ; the house tax, which amounts to 720,0001. in Great Britain only; the pro perty and income tax, which is increased by 250,0001. in Great Britain, and amounts to 500,0001. in Ireland; and the successioa tax, the' receipts from which cannot be ascertained but which is estimated to produce when in fall operation 2,000,0001. per annum. All the above are the gross amounts. The net balance of taxes repealed and 'reduced is 11,980,3751. in Great Britain and 551,1001. ion Ireland; the increased taxation in Greet Britain stands at 254,2701.; in Ireland at 730,0604, without taking into the calculation the succession duty. The return of the revenue and expenditure in the two countries respectively since 1844, is too exten sive to give in full ; taking the year 1854, however, we find that the income paid into the exchequer in Great Britain was 50,311,8954, while the expendi ture issued from the exchequer was 46,279,7761.; in Ireland the amount paid in was 4,118,4491., and the expenditure 4,895,0621. As to remittances of public money, to and from the British and Irish Exchequers respectively, those from the British to the Irish before 1847 amounted to 8,431,2744, since which year there have been none; while the remittances from the Irish to the British before 1847 were 27,335,4531., since that year 1,300,0001. The balance, therefore, of monies pass ing from the Irish to the British exchequer (leaving mad consideration the loans raised in Great Britain for Ireland), amounts to 20,204,1781. - As to loan., grants, &c., to the two countries, it appears that the sums advanced by the Public Works Loan Commissioners, for works in Great Britain, from 1817 to 1853, amount to 8,671,1851., of which 6,506,6161. has been repaid, and of the remainder it is expected that 300,8051. will never be paid; and this sum is put down as "loss by insufficient security." The difference, however, between the interest which the government paid (averaging about 3 per cent.) and received (averaging 41 per cent.) yielded a profit far beyond the loss by bad debts. Loans advanced oat of the Consolidated Fund for works in Great Britain, under special acts of parliament, amount to 1,004,2041. ; grants under special acts to 1,921,6614; and sums voted in sdpply to 5,690,9531. The sums advanced for works in Ireland by the Public Works Commission between the years 1828 and 1853 amount to 3,419,1801., of which 741,4964 has been repaid, and of the re mainder 1,447,9341. is not expected to be paid, and is set down as loss. Some of these loans have also produced a profit. but half a million was advanced far the Midland Great Western Railway at only 31 per mint., and nearly a million and a half for work houses, upon which no interest was payable for ten years. Sinai the Union the whole of the advances by way of loans to Ireland for public woke, churches, police, &c.,amonnt to 9,792,5891.. on which 2,728,8411. has been paid for principal and in terest, auf4,542,9321. has been remitted by acts of parliament. The grants for public work during the last ten years amount to 876,7904, the grants under special acts to 51042,4001., and the sum voted in supply and remitted to 7,498,1631. SHE WAR. A letter in the Prim, dated Sebastopol, Decalther 21, has the following f—m The English are mesh lees &dimmed is their siege works than we are. :Our brays allies are serving a hard apprenticeship, and the harder because the climate renders the transport of materiel very difficult. Besides, their officers and sobliers.are not cared for as onraare. They want tor almost everything. Their magnificent regiments are in a deplorable state. Their house die off fast, and their artillery is at this moment drawn by French horses and mules. It is most afflicting to see robust intrepid soldiers suffer as they do." Oar correspondent at Berlin transmits a summary of an imperial manifesto, which has been issued at St. Petersburg. It contains the following passages : " Our duty as a Christian forbids us to desire a further shedding of blood, and certainly we will not reject any propositions and conditions of peace, pro vided they be compatible with the dignity of oar empire and the welfare of our subjects. But another and a no less sacred duty bids us, in this obstinate struggle, to exert every effort and prepare for every sacrifice which the greatness of the means of attack brought against us demands. We will all, if neon eery, show a bolb.front to our enemies, with sword in hand and the cross in our hearts." FFICIAL DESPATCH FROM THE ALLIED CAMP. Marshal Vaillent, French Minister of War, has received the following report, dated Dec. 22, 18.54, from General Canrobert : " Monsieur is Marchal,—The bad weather has been prolonged until now, with rare and brief inter vale of improvement; nevertheless we continue as much as possible the work of enclosing the place with our trenches, and although the rains make the movement of vehicles difficult, all the siege works are growing to completeness and consolidation. "The two armies reciprocally assist each other. To the English army I am indebted for the convey ance, by water, of nearly all the cavalry at my dis posal in the Crimea, and on my part I have placed at Lord Raglan's disposal sumpter horses for re moving his sick to Balaklava, and teams for the conveyance of his supplies. These exchanges contri bute to keep up excellent relations and perfect cordiality between the two armies. "Hardly a night passes in which our advanced works are not attacked in a sortie of the enemy. These attempts generally cost the assailants dear. Yesterday, at 2 o'clock in the morning, the Russians, after making a sortie against the third parallel of the English, who vigorously repulsed them, made a similar demonstration against the centre and left of our works. Received with a very lively and well- directed fire, they retired before our soldiers, who pursued them with the bayonet. The enemy left a great number of dead upon the field. " In order to render the protection of the trenches more efficient, I have organised a carps of volunteers whose peculiar duty it is to reconnoitre the approiches to our works during the night. This institution completes that of the sharpshooters (francs tireurs) organised at the commencement of the siege, and who do duty by day in our trenches themselves. They have already done a great deal of harm to the enemy. As I have already announced to you, our works now extend to the bottom of the Quarantine bay. The enemy shows that he is not inattentive to our progress on that side, and his gnus hotly dispute the ground with us, where we are obliged, as we are nearly everywhere, to dig into the solid rock. But our progress is not the less real, and we remain in pos session. " I have already informed you that the enemy has withdrawn his left, and evacuated those points in the valley of Balaklava where we had previously - sen him in large masses. The day before yesterday, wishing to ascertain the situation he had taken op in that direction, I sent out a force consisting of a cavalry brigade, under the command of General d'Allonville, to reconnoitre as far as the village of Tchourgouna. Behind the villiage of Namara they fell in with a few hundred sharpshooters, whom they drove back into the ravines. Some groups of cavalry, accom panied by their artillery, and a few battalions of infantry appeared on the flanks of the party making the reconnaissance, but they did not attempt to offer any opposition to the operation of the latter, which was most successfully executed. "At the same time, I,ooofoot soldiers, Highlanders and Zouaves, left Balsklava to the right of our positions, and explored the heights that extend towards the valley of Beide:L. They only met a post of Cossacks. "In fine, I think that on the left bank of the Tchernaya the enemy has only a few soldiers posted to observe our positions at a distance. A movement has evidently been produced in the Russian army. the probable cause of which is the debarkation of the Turkish troops still going on at Eupatoria. I shall soon receive positive information on this head. "Although the number of the sick has slightly increased, in consequence of the constant dampness in which we live, the sanitary state of the army is satisfactory, and the moral spirit of the troops is perfect. "Although the soldiers have been heavily incon venienced by the rains, there has yet been no cold weather; the snow, which for a long time past has covered the tops of the mountains in the interior, has not appeared on the hill-plain we occupy, and the thermometer has not once fallen below zero. These general conditions are improved by the care we take of our soldiers; and, thanks to the prudent foresight of the Emperor and his government, the army enjoys a relative degree of comfort that makes it gaily support with a light heart its fatigues. "The number of the sick in our military hospitals at Constantinople amounts to 3,794, of whom 1,337 are wounded. Out of this total, 266 are Russian,. I have established a convalescent depot in the Crimea, near the Bay of Laratch. Here the men who leave the army ambulances, and who only require a little repose before they return to their duty, will have their recovery promoted. This measure will diminish our draughts to Constantinople. "H. L H. Prince Napoleon, still detained at Con stantinople by the illness that compelled him to leave the Crimea, wished to come and rejoin us. I was bound to oppose this return, which compromied the health of the Prinos. " Accept, Bco., The General-in•chief, (Signed) " CANROBERT." THE VIENNA The ilimileur of yesterday says a recent event has brought out into relief the intimate union that the treaty of Deo. 2 has established between France, England, and Austria. Prises Gortechakoff having expressed a desire to enter into negotiations on the basis of the four gua rantees, the three courts consulted together for the purpose of addressing to the Russian plenipotentiary an identical answer that proves the perfect unity of their interests and the complete harmony of their views. TUMMY. (MOW TIN 001122SPOODENT OP TWO DAILY 1113WO.) cosrrezamorui, Dao. $5. General Caambert and Field-Marshal Lord Rag lan had demanded, you are aware, of the Porte that Omer Pasha should head the re- inforoements conveyed to the seat of war, with a view of operating a diversion on the right flank of the Russian army. To this the Porte as seated neceusrily without hesitation, and transmitted to the finder the requisite orders to this effect. Omer Puha, however, to the utter astonishment of all,refused to conform to the instructioesof his govern ment, founding his objections on positive information from the camp respecting the critical position of the allied amnia, and his reluctance to take part in an enterprise likely to result in absolute failure, and finally demanded permission to return to the capital and confer with the Grand Vizier on this important subject. On the receipt of this utounding intelli gence the Grand Council assembled at once, and, in pursuance of a resolution unanimously adopted, or ders have been transmitted requiring the Turkish Generalissimo to proceed forthwith to Sebastopol at the head of his ozmingsnt, and there to expose to the oommanderrin-chief of the allied armies his mo- Lives and opinions —the Porte being no longer in a position to modify a resolution which had been adopted in common with them. These stringent or den were yesterday forwarded to Omer Puha, and which, it is hoped, will finally terminate this painful little episode. General Montebello, despatched, you are aware, by the French Emperor on a special minion to the camp, returned home by the Pharamond mail steamer on the 21st inst., with important despatches and information from the seat of war. During that, officer's stay at Constantinople Prince Napoleon had kept his apartments; but on the day subsequent to his departure felt sufficiently well to visit his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, and join also in the evening the dinner party at the French Palace. The ultimate intentions of the Prince are not yet known, nor whether, in compliance with the solicitations of the French Emperor, his Im perial Highness may not feel disposed to return and resume his functions at the seat of war. A monastery at Balaklays, in this contingency, had been furnished with every requisite, and destined for the recep tion of the Prince and his staff, by which he would have been placed during the winter months alto gether beyond the reach of accidents. However, if report says true, the Prince has again applied for leave of absence, on the plea of ill health; and in case of obtaining the Emperor's assent, is resolved to return home. This determination, it is to be hoped, will in nowise damp the ardour of our brave and indefatigable allies, nor affect in the least the issue of this glorious enterprise. Add lustre to their arms, or speed their soaring eagles in the flight, is impossible, and still Napoleon in the camp—that name alone is a bulwark, the war-cry, and watchword dear to every soldier—the sum of all that is great and glorious in military traditions. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, it is also reported, is about to return home in a few days. Two of his aides-de-camp, Lord Paulet and Captain Clifton, are still at Missiri'. hotel ; but the Prince and Major Macdonald, in consequence of the Sul tan's visit having been announced, were under the necessity of shifting their quarters to the British Palace. This ceremony accordingly took place in the afternoon of the 23rd inst. I have not yet learned the full particulars, but all is said to have come off precisely in the same manner as on the late occasion of the Sultan's visit to the French prince. His Majesty, moreover, according to my informa tion, complimented highly the royal duke on his heroic valour displayed throughout the campaign, and which had been the admiration of the whole army, and expressed with great feeling his gratitude to Divine Providence for the prince's miraculous escape in the late action. The huts destined for our army are daily passing up in British transports. The engineers also destined to construct the railway from Bahaism, to Sebastopol have also begun to arrive. I saw one of them, Mr. Campbell, who started for the Crimea the day after his arrival here, and told me that they had with them all the materi als and requisites for spee dily effecting that object. The cholera is happily on the decline, and seven deaths during the week was the sum total of the re port at the last sitting, 20th inst., of the Council of Health. Among the victims, lam sorry to say, is a son of Mr. David Glavany, an old and opulent French merchant of this city, esteemed and respected by all cloves. AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna, of the 28th lilt, in the Con dit:Wont:el, says: The movement of troops towards the Russian frontier con tinues. dome companies of pioneers, who recently arrived from Italy, leave this day for Gallicia. All the generale who were on leave at Vienna are immediately to leave for the army. The affair of the suspension of the Lloyd journal is not yet over. This day, M. R. Warrens had an audience of his filsjesty, to whom he presented a memorandum, which is said to be a masterpiece of justice and clearness. M. Warrens, who has rendered such great service to the state, has not lost confidence in the reappearance of his sup. pressed journal. It is true that the other journals this day mention a warning given to the Mate Gasefte, because it bad published some lines is favour of the Lloyd; but that is perhaps a mann justified by the tone of those words I rather than a symptom that the Lloyd has been definitively judged. THE TURKISH ARMY IN BULGARIA. The Moniker has the following remarks respect ing the co-operation of the Porte in the war : Since the Eastern questioa has led to a formidable war, the Sublime Porte has made groat sacrifices in order to supply his troops with what they require. It is undentoed that the brave army of Omer niche, their chief, has not bees neglected, and this is why they have displayed in face ,of the Russians a gallantry that has won for them the just sympathy of entire Eu rope. Some persons of late have thought proper to spread abroad the rumour that the army of the Danube was in the greatest and most pressing want; never theless his Excellency Elsa Pasha has never ceased occu pying himself with all possible activity in providing every kind of provision necessary for the army, and be sends to Varna on all occasions provisions, ammunition, winter clothes, and whatever in abort is indispensable. Very pre cise orders are at the same time given to the proper parties for their being forwarded without delay to his Excellency the Generalissimo, Omer Paths. Caoarranr.—A new battery has been effected on the north side of Cronstadt A merchant there, of the name o tOsterow, whose house was required to be pulled down to make room, has presented to the battery the picture of the St. Nicholas," in s silver frame, in com memoration of the Emperor's coming thither to trace out the lines of the foundation. The German Universal Gaulle hu the following issuing anecdote, stated to have occurred before Sebasto pol. The French having remarked an unusual activity among the garrison of the Quarantine Fort, were anxious to know the cause of it, and for that purpose determined to get hold of some Russian sentinel at the outposts. But that sus no easy matter, the sentinels being usually on the alert, and ta king good can to keep out of danger. At last, a Roney') offered to furnish the article in question. That very night, a watchful ldneoovite heard a rustling among the bushes. He cried, " Who goes there ?" bit the only answer be received was a grunt. Thinks he to himself, " This is wine fat pig that has deserted from the ' enemy. Bless me, if I (*mild only get held of it, and smuggle it into the fort, se that our officers may not lay hold of it i" With this view, he returns the grunt, the conversation be comes interesting to both parties, and at last the wetly Russian sees the object of his desires approach. He lays down hie musket to seise it, but, oh horror, the tisechereiu beast turns the tables upon him, throws him down, and gags him in no time, then, with a low whistle, he calls Ave Bourse to his aid, who can off his Tidies to the Preach camp in triumph. THE BELLar Turritona..—We ere requested to state that the execution of the tablet to the insuary of the late Lieutenant Ballot hae been each retarded by the illness end death of the to coat it, lout that it will now shortly be finished, in the Natal Massage of the Loam, end that a emu est apart for him brother has been placed in the funds by the Masurtr.— Galignwel. FRANCE. 1773147 07 TIN WALT 77,4 PARIS, Tausso Enna% A paragraph in the Moniteur, stating that Prie st Gortehakoff, having demanded t o enter upon ale. Cations on the basis of the four points, the 'A m Powers had oome to an understanding and addiele s i to the Ansi= Ambassador an identical answer," i e important, not only u confirming the report that do three courts were agreed upon the interpretation the four guarantees, but also as an official announce. meat that the Russian Ambassador has asked to tra it upon the basis of those conditions. The Rents wu very firm today, and nee 30e. closing at 85fr. 90c. Other securities were still b e t* supported. The news of the definitive signature ti the railway treaty between Austria and the Pree e k capitalists caused a rise in the Credit Mobilier 17fr. 80c. Many of the railways rose considerably. St. Germain, 15fr.; Orleans, 12fr. 50c. ; and Lyon. 15fr. All were higher, and a brisk business vee done. (11011 1111 The Court of Chartres has sentenced a man to g month's imprisonment for the rather singular offence of having informed some of his neighbours in the night time that a sedition. movement was project e d, It is rep orted , i and I sincerely h o p e with baths that a bill s now before the Council of State, re. quiring magistrates of the first instance to decid e within twenty-four hours after the erred et any individual whether there is any spedd e charge against him, and whether there are legal grounds for detaining him in prison to me side: that charge. If this be true, the Emperor. government will be entitled to the high praise d having effected the most important legal reform that France has seen. Such a measure would remedy crying grievance, which has s t ruc k every in. partial observer of French institutions under every regime. It would, in fact, be a French habeas corpus act. Tyrannical laws may be i n time modified or repealed, but so long as the habits of the country sanction indefinite imprisonment upon a charge which may never be publicly investigated, there will never be any security for individual liberty. If the provisional government had thought more of this great subject when they possessed absolute power in 1848, many of their friends would have hid cum to be grateful to them in later times. The Minister of Marine has received from Sydney, under date of 22nd September, accounts from the corvette La Constantine, commanded by Captain Tardy de Montravel. That officer announces that he has seat home three specimens of coal, which is found in great abundance in New Caledonia, and which will be of the highest importance to that co. lony, Si coal is generally very scarce in Australasia. The office of Grand Almoner, which was sup. pressed in 1830, is likely to be revived in the person of Cardinal Dupont, Archbishop of Bourges. Sixty thousand francs a year, and a palace to live in, are spoken of as the emoluments of this office. Queen Femme is expected in Paris in the spring to visit the Great Exhibition. The venerable Bishop of Le Mans, who went to Rome to vote the dogma of the Immaculate Concep. tion, died in the Quirinal Palace on Dec. 29. SPAIN. The following is the text of the octroi bill : Art. 1. From the let of January, 1865, the tax of Coe. sumos and the gate dues are suppressed throughout the Pe. nissula and the adjacent islands, as far as concerns the part ' received by the state. Art. 2. If after making the retrenchments that the pub. lie service may permit in the budget of expenses for 1851, a deficit results in it compared with that of the receipt s , the law of the budget will establish the real and effective mum necessary to cover such deficit. Art. 3. The government is authorise(' to obtain a credit to the amount that may be necessary to cover the deficit resulting from the suppression of the tax of Con. sumac and of the gate dues, from the Ist of Jan. nest until the law of the budget be put into execution, the said credit not to exceed 40,000,000 reale (400,0001.) Art. 4. The government is also authorised to issue bonds of the Three per Cent. Consolidated Debt to the nominal amount of 120,000,000 reale, of which there shall be dem. sited in the Spanish Bank of San Fernand. the sum that may be necessary to guarantee that which shall be raised in virtue of the authorisation granted in the previous article. These bond. cannot be applied to any other purpose. Art. 6. The sum the government may receive in vittesof this authorisation shall be paid with the resources voted is the law of the budget ; but ,if, on the let day of July, 1855, the lenders should be either wholly or partly unpaid, a sat. ficient amount of the bonds deposited as guarantee shall be sold to reimburse those creditors, and the remaining bon3 shall be publicly cancelled. (PROM THE HOLLAND: OP THE DAILY NEWS.) ROTTERDAM, JAN. 2. " After this comes the deluge." Here we are, for the second time in twenty-four hours, almost knee deep in water, with a north-west wind blowing great guns, and dashing up the water of the sea into the caught that intersect the town, submerging our streets, and making traffic impossible otherwise than by boats, cabs, or pickback. It has not the slightest respect for persons or places, this water. The greater part of our " respectables," indeed, live in &men ?wizen, that is, in houses separated from the street level by means of a staircase, thus, they are exempted in a great measure, from this impertinent intruder. But woe to ground-floor premises, for in spite of flood planks and besome, it makes its way, oozing up from underground, or through the chinks or porosities of the foundation, impregnating, in its muddy revelry the carpets, paper hangings, and furniture, sweeping through coal-cellars, and filling the wine-cellars, gurgling through warehouses, and soaking the wares; turning out of doors, bed and baggage, the poorer inhabitants, whose only home perchance is a room or two on the ground floor, or compelling them to make a sort of Noah's Ark of their table, on which to huddle themselves, and their more spoilable effects, till the wind drops and the water sinks into its legitimate channels. Fortu nately for Admiral Ensile, he is now out of office, and his portfolio of marine is gone a begging ; other wise we should be hearing one of their sagacious High Mightinesees of the States-General proposing a vote of want of confidence in the minister, for eo far neglecting his duty as to suffer the element com mitted to his special charge to intrude into the de partment of the Minister of the Interior. Fortunately he has escaped this ordeal through having resigned a few days beforehand, overwhelmed by the difficulties he had to encounter in defending himself against a similarly vexatious accusation. Some months ago a government war steamer was despatched to Japan, and her commander was in structed to treat with the Japanese government for an extension of the commercial privileges now for so many years accorded by that jealous government to Holland. Letters have lately arrived from the com mander of this vessel, by which it appears that important concessions of a very favourable character have been granted by the court of Japan to the court of the Netherlands. FILIBUSTERISM IN SANTO DOMINGO. (ram AN OCCASIONAL CORRNSP NIIISJ OP THE DAILY SANTO DOMINGO, DEc. The treaty between the Dominican Republic and the United States, was, on the sth of December, unanimously rejected by the Dominican Congmig. American aggrandisement has therefore found an unexpected shock dealt by the insignificant Sister Republic," as the American commissioner calls her. She has taught a lesson to the great model republic, which the latter will not so easily forget. The third clause, that denied equal rights to the Dominic" citizens, whether white er of colour, on their arrival in the slave-holding states of the Union, has been the calms that the treaty was thrown out. There were other reasons of minor con sequence ; but the determination of the repre sentatives of the Dominican people that no such disgraceful injustice as the people in Sout h Carolina dealt to Pereira, a man of colour and s British subject, should betel any of their fellow- citizens incited them to a man; hence this was the rock on which Mr. Cazneau'a diplomacy split. The American plenipotentiary has last all lug equanimity. He sent on the 4th of Decembse