The Express. — London, England, 1854-01-07 00:00:00

r, JANUARY 7, 1854. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY ' OM 11 orders of the government, the full complement will not be able to be obtained for several mouths to gfte ervveo%. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Ilload EC aloe o: • • Tao prima." goataiziat ma* twain. 'a "Ciamette," pabliblud *My alsbh In UM Me pus. the Advartamseets Washed for Ewan:" Loden Irwin paper, out be at the oeik Deuvinbair.et, by Two .'Ns *to Op et rehtleetiss. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tin• Dav—Mondsg, I .... 41E16 .....Aftersies. 11. 44a. LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 7. THE ERRORS DI THE TABLE OFFICIAL REVOTIJE . The first step towards amendment is an open and honest confession of a fault, and it affords us much satisfaction to find that the Treasury have the can dour and manhood to admit they are wrong when they find themselves so. The following letter will place our readers in possession of the needful correc tions of the Revenue Table published in our pages yesterday, and in the pages of our contemporaries, from the official document itself: " Sir C. THETZLYAN presents hie compliments to the editor of the Daily News, and encloses a cor rected copy of the Comparative Statement of In crease and Decrease in the Account of the Revenue' Not to the newspapers last night. " The Post Office was returned on the year as a decrease of 18,0001., instead of an increase of 82,0001. —difference, 100,0001. " The Miscellaneous was returned as a decrease of 17,3341., instead of a decrease of 117,3341. —making also a difference of 100,0001., balancing with the above error. " The remainder of the account, including the increase on the year, 1,313,0231., is correct. "Treasury, Jen. 6, 1634." Besides the pleasure that must arise from the receipt of this frank letter of Sir Casaus TBEvE LTAN, the corrections which that letter contains give usarance of the fact that the increase on the na tional reve nue for the put year was no less a sum than one million three hundred and fifteen thousand nine hundred and twenty-five pounds sterling. This increase, we cannot deny ourselves the satisfac tion of repeating, appears, notwithstanding the expected and explained decrease of 341,3291. on the past quarter. The corrected figures, forwarded to as with Sir C. TREVELTAN'S letter, show do following facts: Year ended Jan. 5, 1864. Tacreu•. Decrees. L 232.341 Castes" Emile 213, Stamp. —727 .... £223,976 Tws 50,559 .... Property Tau Poet o 142,868 .... -- Crown 1.6666 117 ,354 Total igillgy MUNN 1,044,137 £341,';23 lotions mil flew INSiimo . 246,024 .... if obsess, 3118,091 .... . _ Total balm £1,667,264 .... £341,329 The esesaal applied to Coe- f 1)•doet seildeand Ireed. exclusive 1 341,329 dicre4,44. el seveasei -- The 'menet applied as aJ-1 " 315.923 f herein ea 111111014 Our Tory contemporaries point with envious de traction to the decrease on the last three months. i trying to ignore the proportionally far greater amount of surplus on the twelve months; and that organ of Russia, the Times, sets up a doleful whine about this being the last surplus we shall see if we dare to risk war by performing our duty. Luckily for our more timid friends we may recall their attention to the fact that the monetary prophecies of the Times are gene rally wrong. That journal not long ago told us all the colonial gold-diggers would be starved to death for want of food, and soon afterwards said we at home should all be ruined by our overtrade with Australia. Rut the diggers have plenty of food, and we have secured a better year's trade than was ever before known since England was England. Let, then, no honest politician be flurried, nor any nervous one be frightened, by the croaking. of so exploded a prophet u he of p.4.,,;,,r,h0u5e-souare. Of course the agents of the great Bully of the North will frighten all whom they can ; but questions of national finance are things to be settled by facts and figures, and not by appeals to the fears of the timid or the cupidity of the dishonest. While England is industrious, intelligent, and politically free, she will be prosperous. Her prosperity is hued on the possession of those very qualities, institutions, and arrangements, which would be impossible if the patron of the Times, CZAR NICHOLAS, could have his own way in the manner the patrons of that journal seek to secure it for him. We have opposed the CZAR because the CZAR committed a burglary on the lands of his neighbour, and is therefore morally guilty of treason against the nations. But if that sin was not enough to have secured our opposition to his aggressions, we should have opposed him because his success would be at once fatal to a large branch of our trade, and eventually dan gerous to the whole of it—to say nothing about the risk to the civilisation of all Western Europe. As to the cost of a war, if our Russian adversary will have us narrow the discussion to that one point, we shall be ready to discuss it fully. It seems to us that when a moral or political duty has to be done, the part of an honest man or an honest nation is to do it. There is a story told of a man who saw his brother drowning in a pool, but stood on the bank lamenting that he could not save him without spoiling his clothes by the water. Since the Times and Lord AB ERDEEN together seem really to have got us to the brink of a war by not allowing proper steps to be taken against the CZAR when the Pruth was first threatened, the twin Mar plots—minister and journalist, Russian both—would now fain frighten as not "to spoil our clothes." All Europe cries shame at the mean and cowardly plea, and none the less loudly for the fact that the sacrifices asked of us are far lees than the friend of the CZAR would have us believe. Yee terday the Times paraded a list of 32 steamers built, and 13 on the stocks nearly ready, as th 3 means of action if war should come. But we have a greater force than this. The Navy List enumerates 673 vessels of war of all classes and denominations us belonging to this country. Where are the others not named by the AIMS? They have all been paid for, are armed or can be armed, and would readily be manned if olScers of the Peu.aw class were put out of power. We can only help the Turks at sea, but if these ships were used properly and honestly, we could sweep their invader, Ramis, off every sea on the globe. We meld carry troops from the Bospho• rum, to attack Sebastopol by land, and could batter every Russian fortress on the shores of the Euzine , until they were surrendered to the friends of the Cir camel= SCHMITZ. Whilst a portion of the English am was being handled in this fashion in the East, another portion of it might be mottling matters away no rth at Oronstadt, and perhaps at St. Petersburg. All this might be dew, be it remembered, by ships now utterly idle and useless, bet paid for. Any war in the /Lag by land would doubtless be amply done by CHM PACHA, aided by French regiments. Our Waimea Den the sea, and one coup de-main by by the fleet under Admiral DONDAS months ago would have stopped all likelihood of farther war. Bat if duty still demands that we should strike a heavy blow at the invadin il g Muscovifor ever tes, let us on n eve r fear that oar balances wl vanish L account. It is not by doing what Is right we likely to pt more deeply into debt, bet by doing wl is wrong. If we had been allowed to clit, our di before the Proth was pawed we shealitiot be in danger of the horrors ankabeekinadons of IN The Times argued for the Cis% CIA:Ns. it sik for the etAl still. LATEST PROM ABROAD. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. • (sv ammsama MID smaormit itsbasmarm) FARM , lIAMDAT. The Moniteur of this morning publishes a dame calling into active service all the young solcUirs available under the second patios of the dontingent of the clam of 1862. FRANCIS PLACE. The obituaries have announced the death of s man whose long services to the public require that he should sot be suffered to sink unnoticed into the grave. Mr. Pleas, late of 18, Charing-ate" 11111 Ist many years one of the beat known Ohba Om* ters of the metropolis. Through a bag arm st great activity no man did twee to neve Individuals and the public. He wee the seem li er sad Mead of all who had political injuries to snob& of, or PA all wrongs to redress. Begisming life in a compa ratively humble sphere, he mimed himself to the assoc iate and 00-operator in good weeks be of all the leading political niketners and political philo sophers of the age. He began his ireful public life in 1793, at the age of 21, as Secretary to the Constitutional Association—that body which num bered Horne Tooke and Hardy amongst its members —and he participated at its close in the active opera tions of the Anti-Corn Law League, and in the Penny Postage agitation. He maw the beginning of the Corn-law, and opposed it with all his power, and he lived to see it extinguished in shame. He saw his friends suffer for endeavouring to promote parlia mentary reform, and he lived to see a wider reform of parliament triumphant than they had striven for Few men, perhaps, were uniformly more in advance of the age, and had more than be had the pleasure of seeing the good works be initiated or pro moted at their commencement completely sneessehl. Politics, however, did not exclusively sem his at tention. Every kind of useful invention, every new and valuable machine, found in him a liberal but an understanding critic and a zealous supporter. He was kind, fearlessly sincere, and eminently practical. Like the illustrious Wellington he was an assiduous he- 1 quenter of the Exhibition of 1851, and thoroughly admired it. His friends will no doubt in doe time make the incidents of. his remarkable life known for the encouragement and improvement of civil heroism. In the meantime we content ourselves with saying that he departed from amongst us respected and honoured by a numerous body of acquaintance and friends. IMPORTANT DECLARATION BY THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT. PARIS, FIWAT. The Masiteur of this morning contains a circular addreseed on the 30th of December by the French government to its diplomatic agents. The following is the text of the document referred to : „ Paris, Deo. 30, 1853. u Sir,—The affairs of the east are assuming too tto an aspect to allow me at the very moment circumstances impose new duties on the go lerarallnt of his Imperial Majesty, to omit to remind rad the efforts that we have not ceased to make, is coder to prevent those complications with which Europe is so seriously menaced. "The question of the Holy Places either badly promilini or aroma Rely understood, had emits" the ledess al the cabinet of St. Petersburg; we soden. SM* to allay that anxiety by frank and natr served explorations. It appeared to us that Pawl*. mg infringement of the rights of ost^ a Msemisa of this nature would be awes eatleketertfy lesegkt to an issue, if emmtarad at a distaste from the scene that gave rise to it. Our opinion was not shared by Russia, and Prince Menchikoff received orders to pro- seed to Constantinople. I shall confine my self to simply observing, that if our views had been exclusive, as supposed, that if the vindication of war ancient and incontestable privileges bed set been sustained with so much moderation, the adobe of this Ambassador Extraordinary would have la. gently become the object of a conflict that we have contrived to avoid. " The affair of the Sanctuaries at Jerusalem having been disposed of, and from the testimony even of Count Nesselrode himself, satisfactorily arranged, another difficulty sprung up. Prince Menchikoif demanded guarantees for the maintenance of the privileges of the Greek church. The cabinet of St. Petersburg did not attempt to show, by alleging any particular instance, that these privileges had been violated, and the Porte, on the contrary, solemnly confirmed the religious immunities of his Christian subjects. " Influenced by the desire of arranging a difference which, if it concerned on the one hand the sovereign rights of the Sultan, touched on the other hand the conscience of his Majesty the Emperor Nicholas, the government of his Imperial Majesty, in concert with that of her Britannic Majesty, carefully sought the means of harmonising the interests, at once so deli cate and complex, that were at stake. The cabinet of St. Petersburg cannot have forgotten the seal and the loyalty we displayed in our endeavours to &oom ph* this difficult task; neither can it deny that the resistance of the Porte to join in the first plan of the transaction which emanated from the conference of Vienna, was not the sole cause of our non-success. " Pending these different negotiations, grave facts I warred : a Russian army crossed the Pruth sad invaded, in the midst of profound peace, two perinea of the Ottoman empire. The squadrons of Praise and England were obliged to approach the Dardeselles, and from that period, had the govern ment of his Imperial Majesty so willed it, his naval brass might have anchored in the waters of Con dentinople. Nevertheless, if he judged it necessary le establish his right, still more was he intent on brew displaying his moderation. The nature ef the relations between Russia and the Sublime Porte had become too abnormal to prevent a state of war from succeeding to one of peace, or rather, to speak more accurately, things maid not but assume their true name, and the ag gression upon the Turkish territory prods.," its m ammary result. This change in the state ef oaks obliged our squadron to make a fresh movement, aid at the request of the Sultan, the French leg ap peared in the Bosphorus simultaneously with that el "Nevertheless, sir, we had not renounced the hope of ea arrangement, and in concert with Austria and Pirtills,4l we already were with England, we conti nued to pursue a pacific object. New proposals, far tbe moons of which we shall not cease to employ oar Ma% have been presented to the Ports by the re plimiltatives of the Four Powers. No treaty concluded with Russia interdicted oar skips of war from navigating the Black Sea. The ttes# of July 13, 1841, by closing, in time of pease, fire passage of the Dardanelles, and that of the Bow Ow" reserved to the Sultan the power of opening them in time of war, and from the day on which his Highness had allowed us free access to the straits, the entrance of the Euxine was legally acquired by as. The same motives, that had so long detained us in the Bay of Beeika detained us likewise in the roadstead of Beikos. The government of his Imperial Majesty sincerely desired to testify to the last those sentiments of friendship which it professes for Russia, and to display in the strongest light to the eyes of the world the responsibility of an aggravation in a state of things, which all its forbearance had not succeeded in modifying. It felt a pleasure too in thinking, in accordance with the most recent de-1 spatches of General Castelbajsc, that the cabinet of St. Petersburg, satisfied with the occupation and which it considered as a surety, would nowhere amine the offensive in the contest it has so unfor tunately commenced with Turkey. It appeared to us sufficient that the presence of our flag in the waters of Constantinople should attest our firm inten tion of protecting this capital against any sudden danger, and we were not desirous that its premature appearance on the coast too near the Russian domi nions should incur the risk of being considered a 15be Court. WINDSOR, lAN. 6. The dinner party_yesterday included the Duchess of Kest, the Lady is Waiting to her Royal Righter, Lady Frailer um the Erl and Countess of Shelburne, the Right Rea. W. E Gladstone, Sir Charles Eastlake, and the Has. Morn Eulteel. Tbe bead of the Scots Fusilier Guards was in attendance la the Castle Melia dinner, sad played the following seleatiee owleeele " ledissed Code" =. mir eeer s =ieen"....—. leisolee Dudes NW" omen, seeable Hes Melesq's pewee heed attended in the awning, sad perfeeseed the tellewl coospositteas : CbsnewL K"eoullesse, "Le he sea Owes" .... tweed. . Mame" The attended by /Jimmies& Jocelyn, dr ar ove oat in a sledge weralsg. The Prime ef Wales, asseepsaled by the Earl and Coun ties of Ifialbarse, followed in a assist sledge. The Hee. Flea Macdonald sad Colonel boaverie were in etteedeose. Prime Albert went out shooting. The Mamie of Lansdowne was unable to obey her Ma jeers sweamods yesterday, from slight indisposition, bat wiU wive te-day. The Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone left the Castle this forams for Lwdon. The Rea. Floraldaodonald and the Hon. Caroline Caven dish have eueeeetect the Hos. Lucy Kerr and the Has. Meg Bulteel, as Maids of Honour in Waiting to her The Bight Hon. Sidney Herbert left town yesterday for Wilton Hones, Sslisbary. Viscount Palmenton has left town for his seat, Broad - lands, Haute. The Chancellor of the Exchequer left town after the Cabinet Council oa Thursday afterooon for Windier Cootie, and returned to Londonintarday. Despatches were sent from the Cobmial•ofilar yesterdey to the Governors of the North Ame ri can Provinces, and also to the Governor of Gibraltar. The embarkation hayhe 2lat sad 63rd velment. for the Cape of Good Hope been onaterameded. THE PRESTON STRIKE AND" THE MAS- TER SPINNERS AND MANUFACTURERS' DE FENCE FUND." The Manchester Guardian says:—At length the masters of the manufacturing districts of Lancashire have assembled and formally recognised the fact that the attempt now beteg made, by the extensive combination of mill and ether workpeople throughout the kingdom, " to subjugate" the masters is succession and detail, has " become a qua tics affecting the interests of the whole trade," and that it consequently becomes " the duty of all parties interested to ce-operate with and support the master spinners and as aanfacturen of Preston, in resisting this organi attar, and to tender them compensation for the pecuniary leases they are incurring, by the pre sent tarn-out of their workpeople." Such is the declaratory resolution unanimously adopted at a numerous and influential meeting of master epistlers and 11110isfseturers, held in Manchester yesterday (Tuesday) emanlog, representing the districts of Manchester and Bel- Ask of Colne, Clitheree, Burnley, Preston, Assaingtos, lesep, Ashton-under-Lyne, Staleybridge, Hyiti fileseop, Booskport, sad Bolton. Nor did the meeting reee Mee, but la a series of practical resolutions, which will be heal at I length in our advertising columns, they settled the gesatios ' of the mode of contribution, pro rats, its Waal prepsoikia, its weekly oeiloetion, and its daratica. The sum awl oak stance of these resolutions may be briefly stated :—A call of lye per oat. ea the total wages of each employer, is to be pee into late the bank named, to the masters' defence immi weekly, satil the strike be ended ; the first pay. mot to bo Mk on or before Saturday next. The misetbig, dew psis other resolutions providing for the g et pableelles of their determination was adjourned* two elk& ea Unity nest. On that day, in all p ol bi. bility, they will lave received such general 18.11110111111 if approval sad ea-operation from the whole of dill 1116111• manufacturing districts, as will at ace deraceetrato tba utter impossibility of the operatives holding out till Of Preston masters are " subjnated." When this betagnee pretty clear to the operatives themselves it will blank whether they will still pursue, or if their lamina owl idw pates pursue for them, the insane course whir bus.ieegy inflicted upon themselves and their familial se meek saw lug and privation, and which, if persisted in, with snob winter before them, cannot but result in an amount of misery really frightful to contemplate. provocation. "The state of war doubtless rendered a collision b e tween the belligerent parties equally possible by sea as by land ; bat we had been authorised to be lieve that our reserve would have been imitated by Russia, that her admirals would have avoided with like are all opportunity for an en counter, by abstaining from having resort to aggressive measures within those limits, where our squadron would certainly have kept a more active guard, if we could have possibly supposed the Cabi net of St. Petersburg to be animated with different intentions. „ The occurrence at Sinope, Sir, took place con trary to all our expectations, and this deplorable fact 1 1 equally modifies the attitude which it is our desire to maintain. " The accord which was recently accomplished at Vienna between France, Austria, England, and Prussia has established the European character of the difference which exists between Russia and the Porte. The Four Courts have solemnly recognised that the territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire is one of the conditions of their political equilibrium. The occupation of Moldavia and Wallachia constitutes , a formal violation of that integrity, and it cannot be doubted that the chances of war may lead to yet other. " genie months since, Count Nesselrode repre sented the invasion of the Danubian Principalities COLLEOZ OP PRECEPTOZB.—At the examine...- concluded on Thursday, Jan. 6, the following gentlemen pared in Classice-2nd Class: C. H.Tomlinson, A. B. Mac donald ; 3rd Clam : 0. Hedges, C. H. Phillip*, . Graham, W. Chic, J. Coulthard, W. H. J. Cattermole J The lint classical prise of 101. wee awarded to C. H. Temlisson ; the second prise would have fallen to A. B. Macdonald had he not been precluded by being • member of another mai venity. Xathernaties-3rd Claes: J. W. Leary. Freach 2nd Class : A. H. Ease% C. H. Phillips, Edwy Herbert ; 3rd Class: Alfred Condor, Joseph Conirlsard. Garman 2nd,Class : A. H. Zola; 0. Whitelaw ; J. A. Dearlove. Italian-3rd Clam: A. H. Buell. Theory and Practice of Balearic's—let Clue: J. Coulthard ; 2nd Clui :J. W. T.J. Leming, A. B. Machined, G. Whitelaw, A. ig W. IL J. catunsou, W. ors, 0. Hedge% Kirk ; 3rd Clue:Fentiman, JAL Pagisca, W. P elt . Some of the above and several mime gamma examinations in hilusey, geography, Ralph reasatilly OA Scripture history._ DIARIII oi CoaLs Is lioaxsinu.—No fosse I period ie eilMembeeed.when sae\ a enmity fi IS& Weld seat the pewee time. In Leeds dm mated in procuring the will he the wadi if iskabitanta. The Mem see el eteM wad mils sie taken bun the pit send se fty are OW the laapeerize adder the ammity eepedewee helot OM ilree, at the cat el great mew leg tran - &lnelemearg el the washer, deem enerity ie graterjset am them S im keen he the ha mud It In most instants , Imporbeigs, le assize a = L of coals, are compelled te If ha SA, =WNW *air wants by a week, and mmuitimides 6 held.. - .....esensation for what he called our leek , retreat by a ;damn, and u the bechi nen neepaffen. In our turn, we consider that it beinesh• In a t•ineritit they were le frontier. But the affair has biomes our duty to mune for ourselves the extent efthe i ape wee not only 7 farbene having the importance as ef the weerweeethel to whic h we hey° bot h crated to it, but was net calculated to exercise any as a power interested in the existents of Torbay, and ! bad influence on the troops, who are still ant is cousquese if the military paid= already taken mated with the best F r tip by the Russian army. We require a pledge ( it M. Poisjade, Fren agent and Consul-General in Wallachia and Moldavia, had arrived at Constanti noes fart saw gags) which may assure as that peace bill 10 re-established in the Fast, on conditions ee P ie fees Gekte end Odessa. lie had with him which shall net 4aoge the dictributies of the _ the archives of the French minion. The British re - agent and Consul-General in the same Principalities spathe fortes etthe gnat States of Europe. was also daily expected at Constantinople. H.B.M.'s "Tbegevenseeet of his Imperial Majesty and t he ship-of-the-line the Queen, of 116 guns, had arrived govermentof her Britannic Majesty have nose- from Malta, and had anchored before Bechiktach. A quo* decided that their squadrons sha ll enter the large rise had taken place in the price of corn in the Black Sea. The English and French tae were still Bleak Bee, and combine thtir movements in such a at Bekaa manner, as that neither the territory nos the flag of The following more detailed account of the newe l Turkey shall again be the object of an attack by the from Constantinople is taken from the Courrier de naval forces of Ramis. Marseille : that the Vienna note of the 6 th arrived at "The Vice-Admirals Hamelin and Dundu have It is known Constantinople as the 18th, and that Reschid Pasha pro -1 i sessived orders to impart the object of their mission mised to use his influence to get it accepted by the Divan. I 161611 concerned, and we feel a satisfaction in hoping Bat this high dignitary met with the greatest difficulties from the warlike portion of the cabinet who insisted on dig this loyal conduct will prevent conflicts which t h e immediate evacuation of the principa lities. The diple ws odd witness only with deep regret. The govern- natio body seeing the obstacles which atom, resolved to ake • co ll ective exhortation to the Sultan to comply with Meat of the Emperor, I repeat, has but ate aim, that e? wialies of the conference of Vienna. Abdul biedjld, of contributing to bring about a rapprochement be- showed the most favourable dispositions; but, feeling t e e ' tween the two belligerent parties upon honourable responsibility he would assume in presence of his people t a g iUniswtrhyrbeshromulduesnteotd have v: e li a b y tai o rl. sane. conditions; and if circumstances compel him to take of his precautions against formidable eventualities, he pre- hours to have time to convoke the great National Cone serves the confidence that the cabinet of Bt. Peter*. :IL This t ee L leil of wls e em e rati m le i t ni ; su i n t r , of ia o e mptt r e i e n ti ci of burg, which tea given so many proofs of its wisdom, ulemas, of the proteseors of the chief mosques, of rhe high P f t r r o e c d tio an nzieLl active service en. and of tho se w l l s io have re will not expose Europe, at present scarcely recovered from convulsions. to trials from which the high intel- Constantinople. Y ' The t h e elitirations an d th;op7eem:asse7ntb7yt ligence of its sovereigns has preserved it through so were most animated; they lasted two days, and ended by the adoption of the following resolution : The Porte will many years. accept the collective note of the Four Powers; it will "I authoens you to read this despatch to M. nominate a plenipotentiary to treat for peace in any town "(Signed) DitOUTN DE Laura." except Vienna ;it will accept the declaration of the Four Powers, that the evacuation of the Principalities shall be considered as a condition sine gra non ef the negotiations, and that the war shall not change the territorial situation of Turkey. The Porte declares at the same time that it will not renew the treaties which existed before the war between it and Russia." This latter part ' of the resolution led to long conferences between the ambassadors and Rearaid Praha. Thin minister declared that the Divan will not on any account maintain the treaties of Adrianople and of Kainardji. The representatives of the four powers have not seen in this objection an obstacle to a definitive arrangement, inasmuch as the war having annulled of full right all old conventions, the confer's'!" will have to draw up • general treaty embracing political and commeroial questions which shall assure the security II the two countries. The ambassadors, whose efforts had considerably modified the ;dispositions of the Porte, suit sir on the 21st • steamer to Trieste with orders to transmit by telegraph to Paris, London, and Vienna, information of the new concessions made by the Porte to the great interests of European peace. But if the counsels of moderation have travailed in the highest circles, the irritation of pablie opinion is extreme. This effervescence has been further increased by rumours which have been =trent as to the probability of a pacific arrang•ment with Russia. By a measure of prudence, and in order to prevent any attempt at disorder, the Divan came to an understanding with the ambassadors to bring up imposing forces to Constantinople. Accordingly on the 21st Dec. three Ottoman steam frigates and a division of the combined fleet, left Belem for the capital. The same journal gives the following explanation of the capture of a Russian vessel in the Bosphorus, which was at first supposed to be a fire ship sent against the English and French fleets: In the night of the 25th December, a Russian war schooner, driven by • tempest, entered the Bosphorus, and was captured by Col. Moustafa Bey, commander of the for tress of Anadoli Kayak. The commander of the Russian schooner threw his guns and ammunition into the sea, in order to cause it to be believed that his vessel was a mer chantman. Several papers, written in Russia, were found on board the vessel, which bear the name of Aloupka (a village belonging to Prince Woronsoff, in the Crimea). The Aloupka had on board the captain (Commander Davidoff), three officers, and 30 men. All these persons have been sent to the fortress of Kayak, to undergo the quarantine to which all arrivals from Russia are subjected, on account of the cholera. The Aloupka now bears the Ottoman flag, and has been manned by sailers sent by the Admiralty. Letters of 30th Nov. from Persia had reached Constantinople. They state that the Persian govern ment was said to have given way before the energy displayed by the English charge d'affaires, and had accorded all the satisfaction which he had demanded of it ; that the former relations had been resumed ; that the Turkish ambassador had succeeded in regain ing his influence; and that, at least for the present, the projects of Russia had failed. The Journal des Debate, in giving this news, states that it cannot guarantee the truth of it. The Lithographic Correspondence of Vienna an nounces that the Chersoithes steamer arrived on the 11th December at Odessa with 300 Turkish prisoners on board. The whole number of prisoners at that place was 800, and an exchange was expected promptly to take place. We read in the Austrian Correspondence of Jan. 1, RUSSIA AND TURKEY. Accounts from Constantinople to the 25th tilt. by the Caradoe have arrived. It results from these accounts that the substantive bases of a settlement between Russia and Tar key which were inscribed in the Vienna protocol of Dec. 5, are not recognised by the Porte; and what seems stranger still, they do not appear to have been recommended by the ambassadors. The armistice is already out of the question, and even the represen tatives of the Powers seem to have admitted that the renewal of the mischievous treaties of Kainardji and Adrianople is not to be thought of. In the letter which we published last week from oar own correspondent at Constantinople, it was stated that when the Vienna note and protocol ar rived at that capital, the ambassadors there were I busy with a project which it was probable the Porte I would accept. It will be remembered, too, that a week yesterday the Moniteur announced that the ambas sadors and the Divan were agreed upon the terms on which Turkey ought to accept peace. It appears now tolerably certain that the common understand ing so loosely affirmed by the Moniteur had re ference to this first form of the deliberations, and I had no relation to the Vienna note. The New Pres sian Gazette asserts that the four ambassadors were leo well satisfied of the superiority of their scheme, drawn up on the spot, that they dad not take that of Vienna as the basis of their further proceedings. It now seems likely that this statement may be correct. The Grand Council which assembled on the 17th to deliberate on the new propositions of arrangement drawn up by the Conference of Vienna on the sth, and presented by the ambassadors of the Four Powers, was unable to come to a decision on that day, and it met again the following day. Atter re meaning in deliberation to the evening, it came to the conclusion (as is already known by telegraph) that the Porte ought to negotiate, if there was a chance of obtaining honourable conditions. Accord ing to the Pays, the bases on which the Council has consented to mat are, the evacuation of the Princi palities, and the guarantee of the Powers against any new invasion of a like kind, and a new treaty regu lating the relations between the Porte and Itussia. A letter in the Constitutionnel says on the subject : An arrangement on such bases cannot fail to be advan tageous and honourable to Turkey in every respect, and it would have been madness on her part to have refused it. But will the Emperor of Russia accept it ? All the question lies there. Is we of refusal, the French and English ca binets will assume the responsibility of the grave complies. does which must arise, and the Turks think themselves entitled to count on something elm than a mere moral co operation on their part. General Benignly M'Hilliers has diselayed in this negotiation a straightforward frankness which has gained him the esteem and confidence of the Turkish ministers, and it is principally to him that the suc cos of it must be ascribed. Other lettere agree in stating that little hope was entertained of the new negotiations leading to any satisfactory result. Our own correspondent at Constantinople writes: "My anticipations, as announced to you long since, respeeding the return of Riza Pacha to power, have been realised, and he was nominated on Saturday bat to the post of Capitan Pasha His predecessor, I need scarcely add, is in utter disgrace. His nets bails bin loudly condemned by public opinion, and g am will isrsunudderscotouontithheassubbeejecnt sitting fttinudgieial for t i w n o - ' Grand awesessively, to deliberate on the last project of t drawn up as you are aware, by the four representatives of the great Powers. It will again assemble to-day, and deliver, it is supposed, a final answer, in which case, the Chaptal will immediately start for Marseilles. "The precise terms of this project have not, as yet, transpired. It is, however, rumoured that they are equitable, and that, contrary to what was first appre hended, all treaties existing between Russia and the Porte have been annulled for ever, and hence forth, by the act of war. My own opinion, however, is, that the Turk will be condemned to pay the pots ceases, as has been invariably the case, right or wrong, in all his squabbles. The European arbiters M his fate have long since pronounced him unworthy of a fair award. " Adviots from the British and French consuls at Trebizond reached Constantinople on the 15th inst. and mention an encounter between the Turkish and ltaarian forces at Akiska, in which the latter were victorious. My letters, however, of the same date, do not mention any decided advantage obtained on either side. The Turks, however, as you are aware, have retired to winter quarters, and quitted their position in that locality. The determination of the Divan to re-open negotia tions led to the disturbances which have already been mentioned by telegraph. The government, to pacify the people, issued the following notification in a sup -1 plernent to the Turkish journal DjerictiLliateediss. 1 It is dated the 21 st of Itebi-ul-ewel (21st Dec.): The powerful allies have made known to the Sublime Porte the pacific intentions which the court of Russia IMO to testify, and also impelling the Imperial govern- Meant in that path they have demanded what its intentions wise on the subject. In consequence, on the 17th and Ott of the present month, the affair was submitted to the deliberations of the Grand Council, convoked immediately be that purple, and composed of all the Ministers, Viziers, Ulemas, military Pachas of the tamp and navy, and other dig nitaries of the empire. It unanimously decided on replying that, sines the Sublime Porte has commenced hostilities to protect its rights and the integrity of its states, it will not reject • pesos calculated to guarantee them both in the present sad for the future. A felon confirmative of this pedalo* has jest been drawn up by the Cheik-ul-Islam, and an imperial order has been published to that effect. Com munication :of what' precedes has been made to the repro. sentatives of the Four Powers. The affair at this moment only bears en a simple demand and answer. The ques tion is not now of peace, and even an armistice has not been established. The state of war continues, and despatches cusuounciag what has just taken place have been sent to the palms, and to the generals of the armies of Reumelia and Anatolia, in order that the course of the military move ments may not be interfered with. The object of the pre sent notification is to make this decision known to all the world. To this notification is appended the following : The above-mentioned decision having bairn come to izaani mously, cessformably to the glorious millstone of the Fetes, emanating from the sacred law, any One Tito shall allow himself to speak against the foregoing, shall be considered to have spoken against • decision come to unanimously, and be immediately subjected to the penalties which will have bees incurred for this fact. We announce this provision to ' you for your information. On the 24th tranquillity was perfectly re•eata. blished. A certain number of the persons arrested had been sent to Candle (Crete), and the others had been released with a warning not to be concerned is any more disturbances. The official news which the Porte had reeked edi the du nt of its troops at Akiska, in Georgia, ware wadi he. lamentable than had been expected from the first reports. The Parks had been attacked in the following : "At the departure of the courier on the 19th from C o nstantinople, the note of the conference of Dec. 5 had arrived. The Turkish ambassador at Vienna, to whom the documents of the sth had been communicated, had also forwarded them to the Porte. These documents, as well as the previous negotiations of the representatives of the Great IPowers, have made the beet impression. The grand council has resolved to give full power to the minis ters to enter into the negotiations for peace, on the condition that the Principalities should be evacuated, that the independence and integrity of the. empire, and the sovereignty of the Sultan should be com pletely guaranteed. The change of ministers goes hand in hand with this turn of affairs; Biz' Pacha is made Grand Admiral.; Hall Pacha a Minister without a Portfolio." The Patrie publishes the following from a corre spondent writing from Bucharest : " Russia has replied to the last propositions of peace made to her by a display of additional forces and by extraordinary war measures. " In accordance with instructions received from St. 'Petersburg, the invading army now in the Danubian provinces, and which does not surpass the number of 80,000 men, is to be immediately raised to the foil effective strength of 240,000 men. " Large numbers of general officers, recently ap• pointed to commands in this army, have just arron4 I land have entered on their duties. The following is the list of such appointments :—General of the stag e commander in chief, general of artillery, aide-de-eF of the Emperor, Prince Gortschakoff 11. ; brigade major,Lieut.-Gen. Kotzebue 11. ; chief of the par of I artillery, Lieut.-General Lazareff-Stanitsheff; chief I of the engineers, Lieut.-General Lcechner ; commis sary general, Major-General Tikanovski ; civil governor of Wallachia and Moldavia, lieut.-general and aide - de-camp of the Emperor, Bud berg. The 4th army corps, entirely destined for Moldavia, is placed under the command of the general of infantry, Dannenberg. It is composed Of the 10th division of intantry, commanded by Lieut.-General Soimonoff, and its effective strength will be 16,000 men. Of the 11th division of infantry, commanded by Lieut.-Gen. Pawloff 1., and to be of the same strength. Of the 12th division of infantry, commanded by Lient.-General Liprandy, and to be of the same strength. Of the 4th division of light cavalry, under the command of Lieut.-General Count Nirod 1., and to be 6,000 strong. Moreover, there are to be 3 brigades of horse artillery with IGO pieces of cannon and a strength of 7,440 men. The 3th army corps, distributed at Odessa, on the Pruth, in Wal lachia and Moldavia. Commander, the General of Infantry, Aide-de-camp . of the Emperor. It is eon-! ' posed of the 13th division of Foot, commanded by Lieut.-General Obroutcheff 11. At the date of the last 1 news, this division had just received orders to proceed to the Caucasus. Of the 14th division of Infantry ,l commanded by Lieut.-General Moller 11. Of the 13th division of Infantry, commanded by Lieut.-General Marine I. These 3 divisions are to contain collectively a force of 16,000 men. Of the sth division of Light Horse, commanded be Lieutenant-General von Fisch- I .bash, and to have a strength of 6,000 mew. Of three brigades of foot artillery, and one brigade I let horse artillery. The 3rd army corps, Commander 1 0eneral of Cavalry, aide-de-camp of the Emperor, the I Baron Osten Sackers, officially appointed to this pat only a few days ago, replacing the General of Cavalry Baron Ofenber 1., who has leave of absence on account of illness and wounds. This army corps, at present the most incomplete of them all, is to be composed of the 7th, Bth, and 9th divisions of Infantry, of the 3rd division of Light Cavalry, of four brocades of Artillery, and of 14 Cossack regiments, besides three reserve divisions that are to be detached from the army of reserve. " These forces, in obedience to orders just received from St. Petersburg, are to be raised to 240,000 men. Bat the difficulties of recruiting and organising such a force are so great, that in spite of Ukases and the come. " Be that as it may, these demonstrations are of grant significancy, mace they plaiuly show the true intentions of Russia, and meant by her to be a defiancer A letter front the Turkish frontier, dated Dec, 20, is given in the Debate. The writer says : " That portion of the corps of Osten Sacken, which is intended to act in the principalities, has numerous difficulties to overcome in its march, before it can I reach its destination. It is chiefly on leaving Fosk. shani that the roads become impassable. Since the arrival of Baron Budberg, the Boyards, who had withdrawn after the departure of Stirbey, are now returning." A second letter from Kalish, Dec. 27, says: " Recent private intelligence from St. Petersburg announces, that the exportation of horses will shortly be prohibited." The Augsburg Gazette, Jan. 2, contains the follow. ing letter from the Polish frontier : Pa If Russia were disposed to accept peace upon conditions not altogether advantageous to her, she would not call out all her disposable forces to assur e her anomie. All the forces (recruits and troops of the line) are now on their march to the south or south-east, but their destination is not exactly known. "We announced recently an expedition of the Czar against the Khan of K hive. We now know that it did actually set out. The Emperor of Russia is not ignorant that he is his sole enemy in Asia. Russia fears the continental powers. England alone, with her preponderating naval power, is an obstacle to the success of Russia's gigantic projects. The struggle between these two powers has become inevitable—it will come sooner or later; but the Czar will not be able to sustain his part, or be a match for them by sea. Consequently he will be compelled to direct his attacks against Southern Asia. " Some years ago the Czar endeavoured to send an army corps to Khiva. The object was not so much to humiliate the Khan as to see whether he could in this way frighten Persia and Affghanistan ; but the attempt was a failure. "Since then other means have been silently pre. r; an alliance has been concluded with the ah of Persia. Not only the Cossacks of the little Kirghis horde, formerly placed under Russian supre macy, are fully armed, but also those of the great horde, and who have remained free to this hour. At this moment Russia is concentrating her attention on Sweden, where the influence of England is visible." The Lithographed Correspondence of Vienna (Dec. 29) announces that the steamer Chersoneaus arrived at Odessa on the 11th December with 300 Turkish prisoners. The number of prisoners at Odessa amounted to 800, and a mutual exchange was anticipated. A private letter from Odessa of the 14th ult., says that the camp formed about the end of last summer at Woznesenek, five leagues off that city, had just been broken up on account of the severe cold. The troops composing it, together with the reinforce ments lately arrived, have been distributed in the cities of Ismail, Sebastopol, and Odessa itself, where the corn granaries have been fitted up as barracks. The National Gazette of Prussia has the following from Warsaw of the 30th ult.: The news of the mobilisation of the Russian army is al ready old ; the question is to complete the cadre, and the MOILIIITC has been carried into execution. Six corps of the Russian samy hays been mobilised. It is alio intended to complete the reserves. The army intended for local objects has received its complement. Neither the first nor the Se cond levy has yet been called out, which would certainly have been done if it bad been intended to mobilise the whole of the Russian army. It has been remarked that all the affairs which the Russians have regarded as victories for them have been announced in pompous bulletins, and fol lowed by public prayers in the churches; but no mention has yet been made of what took place at Oltenitna, and all that is known of it is from the skilfully drawn-up bulletin , of Prince Gortschakoff. FRANCE. PARIS. FRIDAY Evexixo Although M. Dronyn de Lbuy's circular published in the .21/oisiteur of this morning is exceedingly moderate in its tone, and although it discloses no fact not already pretty well known to the public, the official confirmation of a state of things closely bordering upon war produced a very great effect at the Bourse. The passage speaking of the maritime occupation of the Black Sea by France and England as a " pledge" by way of re• peisal for the seizure of the Danubian Pro vinces by Russia was very much remarked. It was thought that the fact of the publication of this document by the Moniteur indicated pretty clearly that no favourable answer was to be expected from the Emperor of Russia. The Three per Cents. fell lfr. 40c., closing at 70fr.—the lowest price of the day. lam assured that bargains were even done at 69fr. and a fraction, but 70fr. is the lowest official quotation. This price is by far the lowest that has been seen since the proclamation of the empire. Bank of France was not quoted. Credit Mobilier fell -10 fr. In railways the fall was very heavy. St. Germain fell 35fr.; Orleans, 30fr.; Rouen, 30fr. ; Northern, 30fr.; Strasbourg, 22fr. 50c.; Western, 17fr. 50c. The Pattie, in its "Latest News," says:—" It is announced that the second half of the class of ie. cruits for 1852 is about to be called to join the ranks. This measure is rendered necessary by the necessity, under present circumstances, of filling up the cold caused by the discharge of the men whose period of ' service expired on Dec. 31st last." This, divested of the technical verbiage of the War-office, is a notice of an augmentation of the army. The Putrie denies tke truth of the statement in the Sieele that Austria and Prussia had officially announced their intention to withdraw from the Vienna Conference. If I remember rightly, the Steele did not use the word "officially." The legitimist journals, the Assemblje and Coin, finding the Russian cause so bad that they can no longer openly support it, have elaborate leading ar ticles, in which they endeavour to show that France has no interest in the independence of Turkey, and that the only effect of the success of the IN esters Powers in a war with Russia would be to augment the preponderance of the English navy to the prej dice of France. The Union, in addition to the above argument, makes an appeal to religious prejudices, and appears much shocked that France, a Catholic power, should make common cause with the Turk. All this plead ing deceives nobody. That France may have a: some no very distant day, internal matters to seme between herself and Louis Napoleon is very likel;. But a holy alliance between the Czar and the Count de Chambord is of all unlikely things the one that least promises to command any appreciable amount of public opinion. Both the English mails arrived to-day about the usual time. The thaw appears divided. We have a mild south wind, but there arc still large masses of ice floating in the Seine. The weather is exceed ingly unhealthy. The drains and water-pipes are choked up, and in the neighbourhood of the Northern Railway station the bad smell from the slaughter : houses is overpowering. The Independance Beige, of Thursday, say° it announced erroneously that the Prince Chimay was going to Paris without any mission. The M , of Brussels states that he is charged to deliver a letter from King Leopold to Napoleon 111. Dr. Jules Guvot, in obedience to a telegraphic summons, has left Paris for Madrid to attend the Marquis de Turgot. BELGIUM. —..— BRUSSELS, THrISTIO. The great topic of the day in this city is the mis sion of the Prince de Chimay to the trench court. charged with the deliver y . of an autograph letar from king Leopold td Louis Napoleon. All kind s of comments are afloat, and they have not a little con• tributed to the downward tendency of the funds on the Brussels bourse this afternoon. It is believed that ministers do not approve of the mission,and ;ha: it has, more or less directly, reference to the Eastern question. That mission is very severely censured by the Obserrateur and other jour nals, chiefly on the. ground that the Prince de Chimay is, accordin; to their opinion, a decided lionaparist, having beeoze. some time ago, one of the prop r i e tors of a puma: which lauds the Emperor to the skies. The Friocc is, moreover, one of the leaders of the clerical or re• actionist party of this country. 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