The Express. — London, England, 1854-01-09 00:00:00

gut erprtos. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Sameri Sawa ev•Tb. lisprew." twoulio.ri the moo *webs'. •Sisablo" is FAWNS awry Isooday sad Friday Wen, is Sas Repo& Mailassatisiatmial kw " Th•livesm,* Issas Zoos*, MM. mole se Os Me, is, lissiosisolroot, by Two dais* as Um eiSslosllloSiss. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tan DaT—r/'lag. 1016 1Q5....... Altamce. T♦Msew—oltWf. Ili. Wm_ ...Aftsmos.lll. Ms. LONDO.V, MONDAY, JANUABY 9. Tun Circular of the French Minister for Foreign Affairs may be frankly admitted to bee very respect able document. Judicious and dignified in its tone, it conveys the assurance that the combined fleets are at last to enter the Black Bee, and that they will not permit any further aggressions by the Russians either on the territory or the flag of Turkey. Con sidering the conventional reserve affected by diplo matists, perhaps nothing more explicit could be expected. And, but for the previous irresolute and procrastinatieg policy of the two Great Western Governments, nothing more explicit could have been wished for. But suspicion once aroused is not easily lulled to sleep, and the remark is heard from many quarters that the creditable missive of M: DROITTN DE LIDITS is after all quite compa tible with lerseverence in the do-nothing policy hitbertet pursued. The fleets are to enter the Black Sea; they are to prevent collisions between the Rus sians end Turks: bat the Turks have been too well warned to expose themselves to another Sinop' blow; the Russians, for want of such a tempting op portunity, will have no great difficulty in abstaining from another attack ; and thus the fleets may enter the Black Sea only to do what they have been doing in the Bosphorus—nothing. Mesawhile the farce of ne gotiating may be carried cia as glibly as ever, although every post from the East brings intelligence of the strain which the Emperor of RUSSIA is putting upon his system of conscription. We do not seen to insinuate that the Western Go vernments will persevere in letting Russia have its own way unopposed. They have (however tardily) taken up a ground from which they cannot recede, and the arrogant obstinacy of the CZAR will leave them no option but to advance farther than they have yet gone, or perhaps are inclined to go. Bat as the old proverbs say, "delays are dangerous," "post accost', cakes :" they are allowing valuable time to escape, and may rue their dilatoriness here after. The Emperor of RUSSIA has blundered into a position, to recede from which would be not merely to confess but to enake himself weaker. On the other hand, if the Western Powers do not avail I themselves of his miscaleolition to make him rash, they will allow him to gain an important step for ward. If by acting on the defensive in the Danubian Principalities, and gaining time by indulging the appetite of western diplomatists for nego tiation, the Emperor of RUSSIA can contrive to retain these provinces for four or five years, the shock thereby given to the cause of liberty and national independence in Europe would be irre trievable. It would confirm the coward legitimates of Germany in their belief that Russia is irresistible. It would disseminate throughout the world—through all ranks of society and all shades of opinion—an obstinate, unassailable faith that in France, through its frequent revolutions, and in England, through the predominance of a mere huckstering temper,—like that which spread a dry-rot through society in the United Provinces, and preceded their overthrow, —the spirit of nationality is extinct, and that both must crouch and cower before the new despotic arbiter of the destinies of nations. To come triumphant out of the present dispute would invest Roria with a prestige that would lay Europe pros trate at her feet. Even for Russia to escape *oath. lam, to evade the punishment her lawless ambition has provoked, would be pregnant with danger. The simple evacuation of the Danubian Principalities by Russia (for • time, and the renewal of old treaties, and the substitution of new ones couched in language carefully weighed lest some unlucky phrase should give umbrage to the great northern Autocrat) would leave the Russian Government with undimi nished strength, and only valid by its re ptiles into a fiercer and more obstinate determination to carry its point at last. Ramis must be taught that its mere phy sical power, however colossal, is unable to com pete with the power of Western civilisation ; and this lemon Russia an only learn by being made to cow maimed and halting oat of the affray. It will beak! that the oust to Francs and England of reed its' it such a lesson would be enormous. Not so great as is supposed: the armaments which them two states will have to keep in readiness for years against any emergency, if Russia is left in a condition to resew the struggle when it will, would ultimately be fur more costly than what is required by prompt and energetic measures to incapacitate Ramie from giving farther trouble. For two Powers possessing such strength on the sea as England and France, the occu pation of St. Petersburg and Moscow from the north, sad of the Crimea from the south, is no such Herculean tads. It is only European Russia they have to deal with; all its vast territory to the east of Orenburg sad the Ural is more an incumbranw than a source of strength; and with the seats of the thoroughly centralised government of Russia in the hands of her enemies, and the lucrative trade of the Baltic and Black Sea withdrawo from its exaction, further re- educe on its part would be impossible. Were this ones effected, they might make their own terms with the Russian Government. The kingdom of Poland— forfeited by the CZAR in consequence of his violation of the conditions upon which it was subjected to the Home of Romasorr —with the addition of the Ukraine, under a national government; the re storation to Turkey of the territory of which Russia has robbed her up to the frontier of the Ukraine ; the restoration of the Crimea to 1 1 Turkey, or its establishment as an independent minor state—a Belgium of the East, under the gus- rantee of the Great Powers; and the restoration of Finland to Sweden; these arrangements would create an efficient barrier to cheek all future attempts of Ramie to extend her barbarous sway to the west. Ultimately the people of Ruinia would be the great-' 1 est gainers from the erection of such a frontier wall to keep their rulers at home. Since the accession of the House of ROMANOFF to the throne of Russia (in 1613) the country has not derived benefit as un- I mingled from any of its Sovereigns as from the first of the dynasty. And the reason ie, that, elected by the Russians to retrieve them from, anarchy at a time when, defeated and encroached upon by all its neighbours, the Empire was incapable of external aggression, that ruler confined himself exclusively to the improvement of its organisation and I administration. Similar circumstances will probably lead to similar results. And in Russia there is an ample and premixing field for the cultivation of a really intelligent ruler. It has been well remarked by an exiled Russian patriot that the civilisation which dates from PkTElt I'VE Our hes been 00A• fined exclusively to the employe class; that that strange mixture of cleverness, sentimentalism, and corruption, has placed a gulf between the class .i.: s • said the mass of the maim i beekward though the roil Appear, thin are fa "..t t;:- ;14 , -.., :) ~ !.• ' Ott ..:f 7 . ' • 4., ur i them the germs of peculiar and excellent qualities. I The singular success that has attended the pasties among Russian labourers to associate themselves ' companies for carrying on combined Moser, indicates 1 a natural turn fur self-governorost ; Ilei enormous ' fortunes acquired by many who We act been?able to extricate themselves from the fettirs of @Mame ' evince a talent for calculation, ambition, and perm venue.; the passive bravery of the Russian moldier is very great ; and though not to be ranked with the old Greek and Roman, or more recent Teutonic races, still it is clear, from the way in which Finnish, Tartars, and other tribes within the limits of the em pire bavegradually and insensibly becomeßusianised is their habits, that the Russians are naturally one of the dominant races. The real Russian, however, is only to be forted in the central provinces, to which few foreigners have access, and among those who have no connexion with the Government. He is poor, and ha. systematically been kept under. But if the Remise Government, by driving it back into its own proper territories, were compelled to find exercise in developing their resources for the ener- Sell which it ham hitherto wuted in appropriating wMsr mikes than it could cultivate, the growth of nallinned width would in time create a popular , spirit et leispeedsmss t self-exertion teaching self relisme wail pamisally educate the people, and the power Optima and priest would be confined within lam Medd limits. Russia would thus become as soh mei pitiable a neighbour as France, Eng land, ar Ossumny, and would add a new and inte resting variety to the leading peoples of Europe. Russians, equally with Turks, Frenchmen and Englishmen, are interested in putting a check upon the felonious aggressions of the CZAR. trbe Court. WINDSOR, JAN. 7. The dinner party yesterday included the Duchene of lest, the Mertgeis of Lansdowne, the Lady in Waiting to the Dasher ei Kent, Lady Frances Brute, Lady Caro line Berrington, the Earl arid Countess of Shalberse, Col. the line. C. B. Phipps, and Sir Chules Eastlake. The band of the Ist Life Guards attended in the Castle hoer and played the following compoaitiona " &Verne= Jebel" ‘ 117I;r7 Lib Mtrisimader tissue (Opera Cedlita) Duke or Cobotuu Waddell Inewertnow " Ousel t a nliagoetes private band afterwards attended in the mean red pseesneed the following selection : trasimehnlkkallepaWeiber vas Wiojeor" Otto Nicola! Anew= WILMS Ilod fbr e, " lbws= " Weadolesobn ealindinu "mews. endow The Qom re& Boyd Family were unable to leave the Castle tide sesesies whet le the =favourable state of the weather. The Marna of Lansdowne, the Eerl and Counters of Shelburne, and Sir Charles Eastlake left the Castle to-day. JAN. 8. Then was no addition to the royal dinner pasty yester day. The Queen and Prince attended an early service this =.1714is the Private Chapel of the Castle, and received alleeentest, and werealso present at the afternoon ord.& The ladles and gentlemen of the Court and the dewed, lisweeheid attended. The lion. and Rev. G. Wellesley Masted at the services. The SsSailor-General had an interview with A. Chen' cellar dun Exchequer on Saturday at his dicta reeigeoce in DowniateGvet. The Marquis of Lansdowne went to his seat, Bowood. park, ea Saturday, from Windsor Castle. The Chansiellor of the Exchequer gave a dinner on Satur day at his residence in Downing-surest to the following party:—The Hon. and Rev. R. Liddell. the Right Hon. H. ooulbiarn, Sir Alsaander Grant, Sir Freesia Doyle, the Rev. Dr. Wordsworth, Mr. Lichfield, Mr. Bonham, Mr. Henry Taylor, Mr. Timm, and Mr. Arbuthnot. Despatches were received at the Colonial-office oa Satur day treat the Governor of New South Wales. RESIGNATION OF A LORD OF THE TREASURY.— Mr. John Sedleir, M.P., has ceased to be connected with her Majesty's government. Lord Aberdeen has rceived the resignation of hie office as one of the Junior Lords of the Tressary.-06server. APPOINTKENT3.—Mr. Edward Johnstone Manley is appointed Colonial Auditor, Yen Diemen's Land. Mr. John Forster is appointed Accountant of S'ores, Van Dm men's Land. Mr. Francis Smith is appoinled &Senor- General, Van Diemen's Land. Kr. Edward Dl'Dowell is appointed Crown Solicitor, Van Diemen'a Land.— Ob- Sereer. It is stated that Lord Harris, whose period of service as Governor of Trinidad will shortly aspire, has Man offered the Govemonhip of Madras. Captain Charles Elliot, R.N., now Governor of Bermuda, is spoken of as the new Governor of Trinidad. The Rev. IL T. Charles Jenkins, M.A., has been presented to the united rectory and vicarage of Lyminp with Paddlesworth, in the county of Kint sad diocese of Canterbury t patrons, George Thomas Jenkins, of Lin. Inn, and Thos. Henry Hall, of the same place, Rigs. And the Rev. Elehard Edward Formby, M.A., Ku been licensed to the palpates' coney of Hythe, in the same county and diocese ; patron, the Rector of Saltwood, Kent. N THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1854. LATEST FROM ABROAD. RVSSIA AND TURKEY. , • A telegraipltio despatfp, dated boastaatinople, Dec. 20, has WI received, which dates that the com bined fleets have catered the Black Seh. . SPAIN. MT OF THE QUEEN OF BPALN. A balogempleia Mesta from Madrid, of Jan. 6, anonyms draggle lalivery of the Queen of Spain of • Princes. AFRICAN MAIL. -4..-- (11T ILICTRIC TILZORAPHa The Forerunner, Captain Barnwell, arrived at Plymouth on Sunday afternoon, at three o'clock, with mails, &c., from the Coast of Africa. She left the Camdroone, Nov. 20th ; Lips, Dec. 6th; Cape Coast Castle, 7th; Liberia, 13th; Sierra Leone, 20th; Bathurst, 24th; Home, 24th; Teneriffe, 29th; and Madeira, the lit of January. Her mails ere bat small. She brings six passengers, and a full cargo of palm oil, elephants' tusks, ebony, camwood, seeds, &c., 2,220 ounces of gold dust, and two boxes of specie. She has had a very rough passage home from Teneriffe, has expe- rienced a succession of gates,:and has shipped many heavy seas. She has, however, kept her time throughout, and arrived at Plymouth shout six hours before the expiry of her mail time. Besides her mails, she brought seven large boxes of despatches for the Admiralty. Amongst the casualties reported by this arrival is the murder of Mr. Carr, emend master of the Myr midon, who had gone on shore at Kalzabae, one of the Boma islands, to spear fish. He was set upon by the natives and shot. The daughter of Commodore Bruce had been married to Lieutenant Alexander, the ceremony having been performed by the Rev. Dr. Vidal, bishop. The bishop and Mrs. Vidal left for England in the Volcano, in consequence of the state of Mrs. Vidal's health. The new King of Lagos had paid a visit of respect to Commodore Bruce, accompanied by many Abeeo kutan Chiefs, but affitirs were, if possible, in a worse state than stated at the departure of the last mail. Kcesiki was doing his utmost to subvert the legiti- mate authority, and was reported to have about 10,000 men behind the town, and threatening to lattack it. • The Polyphemus and Ferret were at Lagos, and the Penelope and Teazer at Sierra Leone, on the 14th of November. Antelope, Myrmidon, and Britomart had left Sierra Leone for Kanzabac. The colony was in a prosperous condition. The Volcano was at Madeira, on her voyage home, on the Ist intt. AMERICA. (BY ILICTOIC TELZORAPN.) ARRIVAL OF THE STEAM-SHI (PROP MIL OWN CORRESPDXIM LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. This morning the Royal Mail steam-ship Asia, Captain Lott, arrived in the Mersey with the usual snails from the United States and British North Anerica. The Asia sailed from New York on the 28th ult., and has brought besides the mails, about 60 passengers and 350,000 dollars in specie on freight. The United States Mail steam-ship Pacific, from hence, arrived at New York on the 27th alt. New York had again suffered from a most destruc tive tire on the 27th. A gale of wind had swept across the scene, and tour Iwarehouses, and the anise Great Republic, White Squall, and Joseph Walker, bad been destroyed, causing a loss of above a million dollars, of which about two-thirds was insured. California dates to the 7th Dec. had been received by way of New Orleans. The steamer Winfield Scott had been wrecked and the mails lost. The passengers, however, were saved. Business at New York was dull, and stocks de pressed, owing to the Pacific's news. Money, how. ever, continued tolerably plentiful. The market for breasted was very active, conse quent on the news from England, and an advance in prices bad taken place. Large transactions were reported at the following figures :—Western Canal flour, 7 dole. 30c. to 7 dole. 620. per barrel, steady; Southern wheat, 1 dol. 88e. to I dol. 90c. per bushel; ditto wheat, 1 dol. 72c. to 1 dol. 74c. per fifilbs.; In dian corn, round yellow, 700. to 72c. per bushel, steady, for new. Stocks of breadstuff, were small, owing to the ekes of the inland navigation. Provisions still continued in a languid condition. The cotton market is reported brisk, with a good average amount of business doing. Prices have slightly advanced, as will be seen by the following quotations :—New Orleans and Mobile mid. fair to fair, 12c. to 121 c. per lb.; Uplands, 11c. to 111 c. per lb. Freights had somewhat declined since last report. Ezchange on London was quoted at 1091 to 1091, but not well sustained at those figures; Paris, 5.131 to 5.17; Hamburg, 37 to 371; Bremeo, 791 to 80. At New Orleans, on the 24th, cottod was steady under the America's advice,. The decrease in the receipts at all the southern ports had reached 621,000 bales as compared with the same period last year. -Ten ministers of religion in Sunderland received, on C nistmareve, a present of I In. goose oath, from some anonymous donor. Throe of them had previously resolved a sovereign each from moo an. 'mown friend.—Nsweestle Guardian. One day lately a rural clergyman, most anxious to testify his approval of glad aroduet, invited all the children of a national school to *NC his lady ea the vicarage, and naive from her gracious band a gift suitable to the Christmas mason. The children were strictly enjoined to appear in their best robes, and neat and clean. Accordingly, when the monshig arrived, they all presented themselves in high impoetatioa, and each child remived the present of a Ash, of that deo. eription which did not give satisfaation. Ono of the young and innocent creators*, violating all the Mande of good order, cried oat, " Oh! it's only a red heertan I " " my dear," responded the *salable lady, " it's a Yarmouth bloater! "—Backe Adentwor. _ _ DEPARTURE OF THE AMERICAN MAILS: On Saturday afternoon, _about 3 o'clock, the British and North American Royal Mail steamship Niagara, Captain John Leitch, sailed from the Mersey for Boston and Halite:, with the usual mails for the United States and British pm sessions in North America, about 60 passengers, end a gene ral cargo of merchandise on freight. THE OVERLAND ROUTE TO MELBOURNE.—The distance between London and Melbourne via Dover, Mar seilles, Egypt, Ceyloo, King George's Sound, and Adelaide is 10,765 miles. Reekoaiag the sea voyage to be performed at the rate of 10 nautical mike an hoar, and allowing for remeneble stoppages for traaa-shipments or embarking and disetabarkihg and other purposes at Malta, Alexandria, Cairo, Sues, Aden, Point de Gall*, King George's Sound, and Adelaide, the distance between Loudest and Melbourne could be performed In 46 days 6 boors. EMIGRATION FROM THE PORT OF SOUTHAMPTON. During the last year 26 vessels let the port of Southamp ton bound for Australia, with governmeat emigrants. The tonnage of time vessels was 27,702. The number of emigrants they took out equalled 9,661 statute adults. The number of passengers which landed at the port of South ampton during 1863 from India, China, Australia, Cape of Good Sam She Levant, Wet Intim, Brasd, liver Plate, Mama MIMI% Channel Jabs% and Ham, Gamma to 26.046. The limbs of pasionpa os tons" mldok watt Ismael with *sue t wound Tra warn at airaverd BeltianAlean isalr ralmin naran deparien sermaa one lenliesil nab. ran Mist miniennesseniwint pis eralipa are pion anamild Is • FRANCE. PARIS, Etownii The .fl_feroipier certain' a decree - Bakerd flees, whim& was created, or, more prettied cormetness, promised The.Serideare.alm contains the to tions and eprlatenents in the Legion The Marquis Target, Ambassador - a Grand - Officer ; the Chevalier de . Georges, Minister at thi "Irrisals, to hi a Commander; and Count Alfieri de Brossard, Secretary of Legation at Begot', to be a Chevalier. The compliment paid at this moment to the Mar quis Turgot is understood to be a testimony of sym pathy in relation to his recent deeL In the present state of the Eastern question there is considerable significance in the publication by the Moniteur of an article from the Austrian Lloyd's, written in a spirit evidently hostile to France and England, and affirming that the Emperor of Austria declared to the Czar at Olmntz, that in case of the difference between Russia and Turkey leading to an European war, he would pursue no other policy than that traced by the general interest of Germany. The italics are the Moniteur's. This is but the first of a series of articles from the same journal which the Monitor proposes to publish, on account, as it Mys, of the great importance of the part which Austria is celled upon to play in the affairs of the East, and of the great influence which the Vienna Lloyd's exercises upon public opinion in Germany. It is obvious from this demonstration of the Moniteur that the French government has small hopes of the support of Austria after warahnll have been declared. You will have seen in some of the English journals of yesterday a confirmation of the intelligence I sent you three or four days ago, that Louis Napoleon had met a very peremptory requisition to the court of Vienna to declare itself unequivocally on one aide or the other. The greater part of the German papers that have fetched Paris te-day declare in the most positive manner that the Czar unflinchingly adheres to his ambitions designs. The Viscountess de Cambronne, widow of the ce lebrated general of that name, has just died at Nantes. A letter from Eisenach, of Jan. 2, in the Journal de Franefort, says that tbe Duchess of Orleans had had a narrow escape on New Year's Day, while taking an airing in a sledge. Owing to apart of the breaking the horses took fright, ran away, l e: nia dtre sledge was overturned. The Duchess was not hurt, but very much frightened, because she has met with several accidents in travelling within a very short space of time. PARIS, EATUADLY EVENING. The Mositesr of this morning publishes a decree calling into active service all the young soldiers available under the second portion of the contingent of the class of 1862. The number of this force is variously estimated at 45,000 to 50,000. Although this decree is substantially an augmentation of the effective force of the army by 40,000 men, it has not produced any great sensation. Whatever effect it might have had upon the Bourse was " discounted" yesterday ; and after the persistent reports that 100,000 men, and even more, were about to be raised immediately, this moderate, practical, and, in every respect prudent measure, is rather a relief to the public mind than otherwise. At the same time it is not forgotten that the premature discharge of the clam; of 1846 was put forward as a reason w the government could better afford to thorny on public works. Tho public works are still to go on, and the anticipated economy will (to a great extent) not be real' w& All this adds to the apprehension of a financial crisis, for which cau tious observers have long been prepa red. At the Bourse there was a slight re-action after the panic of yesterday. The re-action has indeed been greater than appears, from a comparison of the official quotations; for long after the close of business yesterday the brokers' offices were crowded with clients, who offered all kinds of securities at prices considerably below the lowest of the day. This morning, however, the newsmongers circulated re ports that favourable intelligence had been received from Constantinople and St. Petersburg. The Sultan, it was said, was not averse from an armistice. ; and it was very confidently asserted that the Czar had expressed himself not disinclined to send a pleni potentiary to the Conference, provided Berlin was fixed as the place of meeting. I have heard nothing in any quarter worthy of confidence to confirm these reports, and I believe them to be mere inventions. Another story of less importance, which whether tree or not, keeps probability in view, is that M. Kisseled4 who was reported to be going off in a hurry to Brussels. " on leave of absence," now gives out that he shall at all events remain till the Czar', answer to the despatches, sent by M. de Reizet, shall have been re ceived. Realisation of the large profits made by the bears this week had probably more to do with the rise than any of the above news. The Rente opened at 70.70, rose to 70.75, and, after declining to 70.15, closed at 70.80, with a rise of 60c. from yesterday. The momentary fall was attributed to Console coming per cent. lower ; but, on reflection, it was considered that this decline was less than might have been expected after the heavy fall here. The railways recovered in great measure from yesterday's depression, not however to anything like the full extent. Orleans rose 15f., Northern 12.50, Sires bong 12.60, Lyons 15; but Rouen fell 15, Rotten and Havre 5f., and Dijon to Besancon 20f. Bank of Pasha fell 11ha Petrie, under the head of "Latest news," assess, on account of its great importance, if true, a report given in several German newspapers that Proemial*. decided to remain in a position of armed neutrality, and to place its entire military force on a war footing as soon as possible. . reseel refusal 2,000,00044-_ The National Gazette, of Berlin, sets this down as a typographical error. Even the paper scheme of , the army, to which the real effective strength can never beer a relation of proximity, shows no such fres es those. The corps of the guards, the corps the six corps of the aetive army, the first oar se ll =god cavalry of the reserve, and the sew 71=ii all eleven corps, are composed of 366 htewatcy, 460 squadrons of regular and 14 afhvegulac eavalry, and 996 pieces of artillery. Tams, amain to the written list, the army ready Is take the field is 488,000 men and 996 pieces of artillery. The first levy gives 98,000 men, with 192 gime of cannon ; the second levy, 115,000 men and pieces of artillery. Total, 699,000 men and 1,4011 pieces of artillery. In adding the army des tined*, local purposes—that is to say, the army of Oreabarg, the army of Finland, the army of Sib& via, which, however, could not spare • man—and the swerves, which are put down at 315,000 men inl the returns, we should have in point of fact, an ef fective of a million of men with 1,800 guns. All l the corps of Cossacks form an army of 93,200 ca valry, and 33,000 infantry, with 224 cannon ; 60,000 of them and 110 guns could be employed in a European war. It will be seen that we are a long way from two millions. The Trieste Gazette publishes a letter from Kill joys of Dec. 30, stating that the Wallachian pea santry have risen in insurrection along the Danube, from Kalafat to Tamil, extending as far as the Aluta that they are partly supported by Wallachian irregulars, and that the Russian minor officials have been everywhere turned out. The known character lof the inhabitants of the district mentioned, favour the credibility of the report, the people of Lesser Wallachia being not only more strongly attached to the Porte, but also mote courageous and enterprising than any other portion of their countrymen. According to a despatch from Groove of the sth, published in the Austrian Correspontlens of Friday, two battalions of Russians, under General Belgarde, were attacked on the 31st ultimo, at Osestan, by some Turkish cavalry from Kalafat. The Turks were re pulsed, leaving several dead and prisoners behind. Malta, Dec. 29. Caradoe arrived at 4 p.m., having left Con stantinople on the 25th . She is the bearer of a despatch which report says is peaceable. Itetribution, Fury, and Inflexible were, at the re• quest of the ambassador, sent to Constantinople, to assist in quelling any riot which might take place in consequence of the war party going out of the coun cil and the peace party becoming strongest. Agamemnon arrived on the 24th at Besika Bay ; the London and Queen a few days before. The marines have been landed for exercise at the Sultan's valley. Mr. Milner Gibson has arrived from the lonian Islas, and proceeds on by France to England. Colombo (Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer) arrived on the 28th at Malta, and Vectis on the 29th, and proceeded on at 5 p.m. same day. BERVIA. The Augsburg Gazette published • letter about a month ago, _in which the Prim* of Servia was declared to have written to the Sultan, stating that he should preserve a neutral attitude between the two belligerent parties. The Journal do Constanti- nople, of Dec. 19, declares this letter to be a fabrication. BELGRADE., DEC. 17.—T0-day the official gazette that appears here, called the Nocine, announced" by authority," that the best understanding prevails be tween the Servian government and the Porte. The Novine says: "In consequence of a large Turkish force being collected on the Bosnian frontier, some malicious reports were set afloat, to the effect that Servia and its government had incurred the displeasure of the Sublime Porte, and that the Turkish troops were destined to invade the Servian territory." How utterly devoid such reports are of truth, is evident even from the missive of the Grand Vizier to the Mushasis Izzet Pacha, the true contents of which were communi cated by the latter to our government. Tho purport of it may be briefly stated thus, that the troops ft om Bosnia occupied the Vissegrad fortresses and other forts along the Servian boundary solely for the pur pose of protecting it. We hope, therefore, these false reports will be now sufficiently refuted. Besides, the Commandant Izzet Pacha received the command to assure our Prince and government of the Sublime Porte's best wishes, and to express the wish that this favourable regard may be shared by Servia and her government. The news that Izzet Pacha, the commandant of Belgrade, was dead, is now known to have been without foundation. absolute siddeltistj i r to order every Russian vessel tqrsturn into& pan port, and in cue of refusal td employ force. Al no doubt can be entertained of "" 2/1"IING• th e szactitud* of - lbese instructions, a declaration of a otrnislog the war of Russia against France and England is more o'• to stook who probable than a speedy race between Russia and don Des, 27th. T o b y .. im fah o r ar g o r lin ' our The New Peelliio4l747.lii B lately annottued the K . " mobilisation of the Entire Russian army, adding that at Madrid, n' the mums would enable the Czar to dispose of e cunt Lumps, 2,000,000 o f s wi m ,. - ILLUSTRATIONS OF CHURCH ABUSES The Rectory of Redbridge, near New Romney, has become value by the promotion of the Her. F. Scott. It is wee* 1001. a year, and is in the gift of the Archbishop of Caaterbury.—Ddiip paper. What says the History of Heat ? That the sketch of Redbridge has keg been in ruins, the population being 251, and the titbits 881.65. ed. What say persons upon the spot ? That, besides the tithe, there is glebe ; that ditty has not been performed since 1846, whoa the Rev. F. Scott was ladected. The poor complain there are so charities. Rastbridp is one of the New Romney clerical petrestesom. One service in odes years-7001. paid to the clergy in that period—no church -22 parishionan ! Yet, mark! The archbishop will again pigment, a service like that at Hope All Saints, will again be shiftily performed, and the fortunate sumeseor of the Rev. F. Scott may then imitate the incumbent of the nest parish, Orgarswick (so church there either), and absent himself for 24 years, nine month•, and two days, should be so long live, or fail to obtain a still mom scandalous sine ctn.—Dow CAromick. For years post the parish chiral of South Hsieh has been supplied by the Rev. 0. Young, bat by some menu at other the rev. gentleman was not very popular : the slam all left—there mu as clerk—and the congregation way become so small that on Masterday last there was only ono women and tyro or three children present. The mats stated tbat if he meld get la to bear him he would son_ tinge his ministrations, but it wm impossible for him to some again to each a congregation, he should therefore m aga pro ten. ,Vicar Macdonald then gave seders that another of his curare. (Kr. Marty, who serves Marlborough Church, a quiet and inoffensive mu), after he had done duty at his own church twice in the day, should preach at South Bulb at five °Walk in the afternoon. Vas pa rishioners bad no objection to the man, bat ths time was isseemesisst, as they boded, cattle to attend to, sad other secsarary matters. They therefore represented the ease to the vicar, wins changed the time to half-past 12 in the morning, at the same time giving them a alga:Scant hint Ithat if they were not pleased with that he should send them back their old puma as e pusithment for theft insabordi. nation. This wm a cheap from bad to wens, far that was their dieser boor—and the attraction of the church was not suflitient to compensate for the toes of a good hot dinner. The consequence was that on Sunday last then was not one present when the minister arrived; he therefore, without mach ceremony, returned to Marlborough. The parishioners feel annoyed at the manner in which they are treated. They contend, as they are regular in the poritent of their tithes, that they ought to have preaching at the regular time. The churchwordens intend to bring the matter before the Vial. lation Court at its neat meeting. Fortunately for the villagers, there is a respectable dissenting chapel about half • mile from Knish, where they now attend.— Western it Tian. Darnarrri CONVICTION.—On Saturday, at the Judge's Chambers, as application was made for the die charge of the prisoner Curial., wh., was committed fortwo Jan for ionise tndeaeet boaks and immoral publications, Om the ground of an error in the 0011111Cti02. Baron Martin, oi • aablig Awn.. aniruntenis in support of the discharge, made an order for the release of the prisoner. The public ought to be informed by whose carelessness this prisoner has enured a legal escape. THE MARLBOROUGH, which left Plymouth recently for Australia, was spoken with in the Bay of Biscay, all well ow board. 8a EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON, M.P., hes now samed the Mtn inst. as the day on which he will be able to visit Leeds, and la emordasee with Ms saw visisses, the swat mires of the Leeds Meditate? lw 'Oaths awl Uterary esseaty, at which he is to prods* Imo Men Susi to take Sees on that dam THE BALTIC POWERS. The Colo"; Gazette of the 6th inst. contains a communication made to it from Berlin of the 3rd, and which we give here entire :—" The various states along the Baltic feel how necessary it is for them to familiarise themselves with the probability of a war between England and Russia. Negotiations have therefore taken place between Denmark, Swe den, and Prank respecting the right of the neutral tag. The same governments in 1780 concluded an ' armed neutrality' with Russia for the protection of the neutral thig, with the view of resisting the unnatural interpretations that the belligerent powers gave to their idea of contraband in war, and of a blockaded harbour. In the year 1800 this was followed up by a treaty between the same states respecting the second ' armed neutrality,' in which the principles as laid down in 1780 were ex tended. According to these laws free navigation is the right of neutral ships along the coasts and to the ports of the belligerent powers. The property of the subjects of the latter when in neutral vessels is free, with the exception of what is contraband in war. Only goods specified by treaty are to be considered such ; a harbour is only then blockaded, into which the entrance can actually be prevented by ships of war there stationed. The assurance of the officer in command of the convoy obviates a search. As mat ters are at present Denmark, Sweden, and Prussia appear to contemplate the renewal of these treaties as far as concerns themselves." ITALY. PIEDMONT. The Intendant-General of the province of Ivrea, in a proclamation dated from Aosta, 30th ult., announces that by the bravery of the troops, the insurgents of the , communes of Champorcea and Ponte Basso in the I valley of Aosta have been dispersed and have laid down their arms. Upwards of 200 have been made prisoners. The proclamation closes with the follow mg words: "Inhabitants of the province of Ivrea. From the bottom of the valley of Aosta, I invite you to raise with me the national cry :—The Constitu tion for ever. The King forever." According to a letter in the Corriere Mercantile of Genoa, the num !bee of insurgents at Verres amounted to a thousand. I They had occupied that place, and forced the autho rities to yield obedience to them, threatening vio -1 fence in case of resistance. They . caused the arms of the national guard to be given up to them, tore down the Bag of the Constitution, and after subjecting it to all kinds of indignities, burnt it, crying, "Down with the constitution ! The King for ever !" They visited all the shops, and took what they could conveniently lay their hands on. On the approach of the troops, they retired to Cha tillon, where the Syndic, the Intendant of Aosta, the judge, and officer in command of the carabiniers, went out to meet them, and furnished them with 1 what tilt,' wanted, in order to prevent their sacking the town. They accepted, and promised to do no harm, but soon after respected nothing. At St. Vin cent, the national guard was disarmed, and the dili gence for Chatillon was stopped. At Ciombavaa their number had swelled to two thousand. They took the read to Aosta, always pursued by the troops. Men were constantly joining them from the moun. tains, until the troops dispetsed them. "The retrograde conspiracy," says the Genes Corriere Mercantile, of the 2nd instant, "has erten. sive ramifications. We have seen it at work at Alexandria, where the Mayor was obliged to issue a proclamation, declaring that the Government had no intention of increasing the duly on salt. At Casale, • popular demonstration took place on the 40th, A mob congregated under the windows of the Deputy Mellona, crying ' Down with him.' They then re paired to the house of M. Montiglio, who was his competitor at the last election, and gave him three cheers. No act of violence was committed. The instigators of those disturbances do not belong to the town. _ . RUSSIA AND TURKEY. Letters from Constantinople of the 25th of Decem ber state that some engagements had taken place on the Danube, which had resulted in advantage, on the Turkish side. The first of these occurred near Kalafat. 400 waggons sent to bring forage, escorted by 300 men, were met at six leagues from Kalafat, by a numerous troop of Cossacks. A conflict ensued, and the Russian. were routed. Opposite Sistow there bad also been a rencontre between the redifs, who had crossed the Danube, and • con siderable mass of Cossacks. The latter were put to flight, leaving several of their party on the field, and ten prisoners in the hands of the Turks. Two Rumen gun-boats, part of a flotilla escorted by a steamer, had been sunk by a fire frog the fort of luktche, and the steamer compelled to retire. This, it will be remembered, is the fort which the Russians pretended they had destroyed in the beginning of the war. In Asia, according to the Constantinople journals, the position of the Turk ' lab arms ie far from being so bad se the Russian bulletins make out. In Ana tolia, the Ottoman army besieging Akiska has taken Auger sad Djernik—positiona commanding the defiles of that important fortress. They had besides diverted the streams which supply the town, with water. It was expected from an. moment to another that Akiska mast surrender aiilas the wee-' ther should compel the Turks to rape the siege. In another part of Asia Bchamyi hettlaken the town and fortress of Zactal, while bit lieutenant, Daniel Bey, had made himself muter of Kalletti. After this achievement Daniel Bey continued his march towards Chirvan. A private letter from Alexandria, of Deft 2i; says " That when the Pacha of Egypt heard of tli'e affair of Sinope, he immediately ordered six frigates, five corvettes, and two brigs V: be armed in order to replies the vessels lost by the Turkish fleet" The New Pretrial: Gazette, a stout champion of the Ruske sans, in speaking of the note of the foqr ambassadors, which has been accepted by the Porte, says :—." The neleetheconference of Vienna has not prevented Buds from displaying all her military power ; she sorfsfaly will not now disarm in presence of the very stsligent instructions which the admiral. and the 1111•1116811 English and French squadrons have resehod keen their respective governments. ,likes ts at first contented themselves SO 7feiirbg a l ine of demarcation on the Black Asa, which Amid not be passed either by Turkish or Iteriaa vessele v aad even this c mdition Russia has neCallewed 4* be imposed on her. But now, it is saiivia the lastrections of the French and English 'Moab, that Soy are to proceed immediately Into the Mask Sea, there to exercise the exclusive and ROMAN STATES. ROME, Dec. 2R. Yesterday being the festival of John the Baptist, and therefore the Pope's nameday, General Farina, the Minister of Arms, General Braschi, and the silken of the papal troops stationed in the capital, waited upon hie Holiness, in the Great-hall at tie Vatican, adjoining Raphael's Stance, to present :her :11tegratulations and good wishes. As aeon as the Pope had seated himself upon the throne prepared foe him, the minister made a speech, tending to show the difficulty of his own position, and the exertions he had made to discharge hie duty. The financial part of his department ho stated to have found in the utmost confusion, consequent upon the state of the army in 1818 and 1849,-but he trusted to have broughtup past accounts satisfactorily, which, together with the estimates for the ensuing year, when passed under the revision of the financial council of State, would be subjected to the approbation of His Holi sm. He dwelt complacently upon the improve. ments he had effected in the clothing, discipline, and instruction of the troops, and concluded by protesting his and their unalterable fidelity to the apostolic government, and attachment and veneration for the reigning pontiff. His Holiness, who is by no means wanting in what is familiarly termed the gift of the gab, replied fluently to the minister's address, by thanking him and the assembled officers for their good wishes, and assuring them in return of his Sovereign benevolence towards them, of which he had recently given them a proof, as well as of the entire trust he placed In the whole army, by request. ing the evacuation of many cities and fortresses in his dominions, hitherto garrisoned by foreign troops, and now entrusted to the sole keeping of the Papal forces. His Holiness was sure that be should not have to repent of this mark of his confidence, but that the tranquillity and welfare of the public would be equally dear to his own as they could be to f oeign soldiers; and he reminded the officers that although the blood and lives of honourable soldiers should be always at the disposition of their govern. ment, be demanded no blood from them, but merely their duty, discipline, aod fidelity. After t his discourse, the minister kissed the Pope's hand, and his example was followed by the officers as they defiled before the throne. General Farina begged his Holiness to admire the appearance of the officers of the chasseur battalion, organised in imitation of the French Chas woes de Vincennes, or. which his Holiness, concur ring in eulogising the officers' uniforms, requested the minister to give orders that they should always wear it, instead of appearing so frequently about the city, whilst off duty, in plain clothes. The exertions now being made to overthrow the ministers, and their hitherto successful exertions to keep their places are the most interesting topic of the day. The chief attacks made upon them are di rected against the financial department, and result from the unavoidable revelations made before the financial council of state, a monstrum horremlung which stinks in the nostrils of Cardinal Antonelli and his whole cabinet. The council suspended its sittings for some dare lately, in consequence of the Finance Minister, signor Galli, having kept back a part of the accounts he was bound to produce ; and Cardinal Savelli, president of the financial council, bitterly ac cused Signor Galli of mismanagement and pecula tient', in the council of ministers held twice last week in the presence of tho Pope himself. The cardinal especially . complained of the trickeries by which the substitution of silver for the paper still in circulation had been eluded, and asked the minis ter what be and his emp/o0 had done with all Rothe. child's silver and gold, since nothing was paid by him except in paper, and a poor widow, whom he (the cardinal) could name, going to the Treasury to receive a bitting monthly pension to which she was entitled, amounting to three scudi and a half (135.), not only was refused the silver she ought to have received, but was insulted into the bargain, by the employes handing her a fifty seudi note and request ing her to give him change. Galli, as most prudent in such a case, ignored the whole transaction, and declared that he and his employes had paid away gold and silver as long as they had any to pay. These energetic denunciations of the Cardinal had at any rate the good effect of rousing the Pope to a painful consciousness of what was going on, and he forthwith ordered the minister of police to call together the money-changers, and make them deposit all the copper money they had hoarded, with strict injunctions not to buy or sell it in future under penalty of fifty scudi fine, the closing of their shops, and five years of the galleys for their own persons. This to begin with, and to check the growing murmurs of the poor people. As for the more serious evil of the unextinguishable (as it appear . , to be) paper currency, his Holi ness is said to be as firmly resolved, as is consistent with his character, to do away with it at once and for ever—to "strike occe, and strike no more"—if he can, which is an V many folks think will be too strong for him. However that may be, it is certain that he has the measure much at heart, and on the day before yesterday, whilst going to the Sixtino Chapel, where the whole court was assembled and Cardinal Morichioi waiting at the altar to say mass, the Pope stopped to take Cardinal Marini (who is president of the commission for the extinction of the paper money) into an adjoining chamber, where he had a conversation of some length with him, and requested his eminence to come to his apartments together with 'Cardinal Antonelli immediately after Signor Jacobini, Minister of Commerce, complains to the Pope that Galli and some of his compeers have brought in 13,000 barrels of Spanish wine without his knowledge and without paying duty, but Galli, when called before the Pope, adroitly insinuates that Jacobini's indignation only arises from the probability of his own Gentian° wine falling in the market, and upholds that the introduction of good foreign wine in the present scarcity is a real service to the publk. Thus do our ministers work, and thus is the poor Pope torn between the contending factions. GERMANY. The Prussian the mercantile world respecting the compulsory acceptance of Aus trian banknotes in lieu of silver by the foreign creditor. The Austrian debtor, relying on the im perial proclamation of June 2, 1848, although he may have specially agreed to pay with honest silver, coolly presents these Austrian assignats at their nominal value as liquidation of his debt. The credi tor, who loses 20 per cent. by the transaction, bade no redress at an Austrian tribunal, although he produces the written agreement, which expressly stipulated that: he was to be paid for his goods with metallic and not paper money. The Prussian pub lic, to which we beg to add the English public, are both recommended to use the greatest caution is their acceptance of any Austrian oills of exchange, especially if they contain a promise to pay with coin, since the creditor cannot enforce his claim, is sure to lose 20 per cent., or he may find these assignats can only be cubed at all by a still more ruinaus sa crifice. SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE ELECTION.—Lord Paget has been presecuting his canvass vigorously throu3bout the week notwithstanding the unfavourable state of the weather; he has visited every important district in the division, ►nd has addressed the electors several times. In his speech at Willenhall be distinctly and emphatio►lll repudiated t. fluidity " either as regarded free-trade or reform; he avowed himself in favour of an extension of the free-trade principle to the fullest extent, and ci further reforms in cur f ermentstive system. The canvass its so favourable as to place the return of his lordship almost beyond a doubt. SPORTING WITHOUT A LICENSE.—The Monniout's •Air► Merlin relates that an engine-driver on the Western Valleys Railway Lined a fine woodcock a few days ago with a pine of coke. The Carina Octobe and The and hr qnan 16s. The smite ngit No pal 1,00 01 . 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