The Express. — London, England, 1855-12-29 00:00:00

ripe expreolo. TO OORRISPONDIXTO. atiltio Weeded iat "me Iftyrimegatides ig Ism ma lo ai tiro Mo. 111. llesvieboaussi. by Two Vi sa es tbio day a yalisitkir ZION WATHI AT LONDON BIUDON. Tii• DAT—NNWo SI. 41. Atisinesa. ft. to. To.accasw—mw•bg. Ilk. 1112..........Attau55e. ft. 4le. LONDON, SATURDAY, Ddb 90• Ws published yesterday a translation dsiamout, 'dramatis an Europese Congress us the best mesas of restoring pone, which appears te have Siattesed all the epidemics of Paris. It bee bees attributed to "high inspiration." M. DILOVYN DE Laura, 11. MALZWIIII. M. donor, the EMPIIOI himself, ham all ben hinted at us having had a finger in the pie. WIN we disposed to attribute this psigieedos to any anther, more or less infloontia/, we Amid rather pros at M. STLYESTRI DZ SACS as the pleasidler, end a sustain meddling Princes se the high hasp'. ratios," than any of the parties who have been eased. Its leanings are Russian, and its language that of a writer familiar with the general ton of the journals of Weston Europe. But we vehe mently suspect that it will ultimately tam oat that it is the prods:don of some namelees pamphleteer, sad that all this guessing at authors is a mere trick of the trade played off by a paling publisher. The peaces for the hostilities seder which Europe in labouring, reemonsaded in the pamphlet, is • Geseral Congress—that is, a Caesium of Europe's Sovereigns. Now, freshly spikier, Europe hoe already had more than enough of such Congresses. They have each and all of them proved to be no thiog man than conspiracies of Legs against their @Okay, is which the gnat Powers sought at the same time to trick the small ones. Their adjestments sibs affairs of Europe have proved sad rickety and eplarmevul affairs : men are sick of the very name, and west to hear no more of them. Who are to compose the Congress P By what preens are they to bring their deliberations to a poetical denims ? Are all the Sovereigns of B•. rope to be represented in it ? Is each to have one vote, or is this privilege to be reserved for the load ing Powers, while batches of the minors club toga then to make up one vote? Or are all to have • mil. tiplicity of votes, the number allotted to esoh being in proportion to that of their subjects, us is the ease with the sloveholding States in the North Antrim UM= ; or in proportion to their wealth, real or pre mised, as is the case in some of oar own vestries and *lslet -stock companies? Are the members of the Gomm to be bound by the vote of a simple maielity ? or is an absolute majority to be required P Two things are certain: That say denies co Europese affairs arrived at by such a Omen, to which England is not a party, will be a mere empty form of words; and that the English people will not allow their Government to bind itself by the deci sion of such a Congress. There an five Govern ments engaged in the war: Russia on the on aide; Francs, England, Sardinia, and Turkey on the other. Three of these are first-clue Powers, two sersoodery ; Ist us assume that England, Franco, and Russia are seek to have one vote; Sardinia and Turkey one between them. Again, Austria and Freesia, es first elms Powers, will lay claim to one vote each; and the Scandinavian States, Holland, Belgian", the Italian States (Sardinia excepted), Switzerland, and all the patty Kings and Grand Dukes of Germany, will be fix having aliquot parts of votes. Austria and Prussia, there can be no doubt, would take part with Russia on all questions of moment. There would, therefore, be three votes on the side of naiad bide pindsoce against three votes on the side of sengllag and aggressive Russia: and the equally bileneed male would be turned by the composite vein dee remaining Powers—most of whom are hopsinsly subjected to Russian influence. Any Beall& Mi nister who should propose that England ellesid consent to hold itself bound by the dead= et a tribunal so composed, would have to Wietbelesegd • storm of popular indignation and execration time pared with which that which broke over the de voted head of poor Lord JOHN Roseau. when he returned from Vienna was a gentle, caressing bream. England's acesseion to the projected Confess is out of the question. That France, Sardinia, or Turkey could be brought to acquiesce in it, appears to be beyond the range of possibility. For Turkey to do so would be to sign her own sentence of erasure from the list of asthma. For Sardinia to do so would be to deliver herself up, bound hand and foot, to the tender anise of Austria and the Court of Rome. For the Emperor of the Elenau to do so would be to seek, like his uncle, to be adopted into the bro. thsehood of the old "legitimate" despotisms; and, like his uncle, to be betrayed and trampled down by them on the first convenient opportunity. But even sup pose these our Allies were to be our-persuaded to leave us in the lurch, and take part with this precious Compress. England's position would not be thereby altered for the worse in the slightest degree. England has entered into the war for the purpose of sessrtiog the independence and integrity of the Ottoman Empire. The object of England in cam seating the straggle, woe cot only to rescue Turkey from the grasp of Rusk, bat to establish, as a recog nised principle of the European law of nations, that hanseforth no European state shall be allowed to exercise sovereign rights within the territory of another, or to deprive another of part of its territory by unprovoked armed aggression. To obtain the resogaition of this principle England has been ender the neesssity of reeogaising the status gee of European Oovernments as legitimate. She Ism been obliged to act in conout—sot only with the French people, with whom her Gordis! sinews is indisooloble—bet with a French valor, whose mean of attaining to aspire, sad whose domestic policy view he attained to it, she asset approve; and she has bees obliged to keep on terms of civility with the indescribable Cioverastent of Austria. The secession of her pascal Allies to the pojested Coigns would relieve England from the estaeglement of such coonexions. leolated from the moos:she of Europe, she would regain the confidence of all *lasses of Liberals throughout Europe. Our prin. siple of adios is to make the meet en all .s"i"ns d existing circumstances, with a view to proessio the pleat cease of Liberty sad Progressicii Improvement. To this end we have from the be ginning earnestly and unwaveringly supported the policy which the public opinion of England fanged on her ruler., with regard to the present war. We are still prepared resolutely and loyally to penile the mime soon', us long as oar Anise matinee to so operate with as in good faith. Bat if they flail the policy of Eagisad must be adapted to the altered siestawassess in which she will then be Owed; and la advocating the adoption of a bolder, more moor prestieing. and more ludependset liberal policy by ear rulers, we ass confident that we shall have the approbation and support of the people of Ragland. We dross sot se a war carried ea by tbs banded Penis et lamps against us; the boldest sad out hmeterate d thus will shrink boo the idea dame fag Begiaad. But we him thid 7 issibialha of the Bereprait Powers from wide ig i atall stand aloof will sooderata tie 1161181141111111111111 then sad their 'objects—whisk sue day—aad will Mien England from amenity of winking at, and •wads; te *sir oppression,. . `~.-L • _ THE NEW LAW FOR THE INSPECTION OF COAL MINES IN GREAT BRITAIN. The Aot poised in the last magas of Parliament, "To Ass ad the Law for the Inspeotim of Om& /liege is Great Britain." and " with a new to the misty of the persons employed In sub mines," will come iato °peados ea lhaday next, the Slot het. It a=jm hest imperteat provisions, with which all owner s . occupiers , and spats should be *meg y acquainted. The appointment or re moval of an inspector or inspectogs of opal Mass is, by the new AP, vested is "one of her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of Staten" and it Is ordered that "se puma who lima set or practise as a lend Vs or GS a Mawr, viewer, or agent, or salaing or Weer of mime. or arbitrator la say melees of se :n e t between omen of miase, or be la any coal mine or colliery, shall act as an inewegistof coal raises ender this Act." The following "awl rules are required to be ob served in every coal Wee sad colliery by the owner and agent thereof : " 1. An adequate mom! of ventilation shall be asosteatly prodeoed at all collieries, to dilate and Nair bermlus noxious gases, to much an extent se that the working plugs of the pits and lush of such eillieries shall, under ordinary cireametearee, be is a It deft for working. 2. Every shaft Sr pit mil* is oat of we, or tined only as es silt pit, shall be severely fenced. only welime Ind parging pit se shalt shall be properly hossi who oat at Ma. 4. Every working sad peogin pit or shaft, whom the astute& .teats, ander maim eireemetames, see net ash, 'babe securely mesa eit lined. I. Remy main pit oft skit shah be poviiied with sem mover moms el *sailing ' from es bottom a thi drat to the parties, and from the sedges to the bottom d the shaft. 6. A proper Whaler, to show the piths of the load to the pit or shaft, and also an themes break, shall be attached to every machine, wiliest by steam or water power, used for lowering et s ear ablz persons. 7. Every etemboiler shill be with a proper steam page, water-gauge, selstpealve." In addition to the above general rales,spesiel roles are to be established sad observed in seek @oiliery, with the approval of the Segotetery of State, al for the Naha and guide's* of the poem astlag ia the meempuset of sash coal mho or slimy. and el all poises sopisyed ia or obese the ISOM r mist the potholer state mil desomelooese of seised mine, or eall bey. may appear bed seiselatsd to 'pretest at. ; sad sash spiel rales /sr meth V= or colliery, shall be limed by the owner thereof, and forthwith tosialttal ts one of her lbjesty's principal ilemetnehe of Sate; sad each Wee, if not objected to by me fkaretery of State within forty days from the day _upon whieh they are received by him, shall be seta- Wished." There are farther chases in the est asking it lawful for any owner of a coal fie er eolliery, or for the Besretary of State, rpesp bom time to time any amendments of Nash mins requiring the owner of each coal mine, or colliery. to cause the general rules and the special sehet s i e lis i i need oa a board, or printed upon paper, le he thereon ; tomes such board to be ham IN ea pets coospiemes part of the principal dies or ghee of helium of the coal mina or colliery; sad to came to beenppled to all persons employed in a coal mine, or colliery, a copy of such general sod special . roles. The clause as to penalties for limes 'past this act are so importan t to colliery owners, occupiers, and agents , that we give leisure : If, after the Slit Lay of Desseaber, 1836, any coal Rim ar colry be worked, d through tho of the mast thereof special miss sa hare ail Man s established be tie sane, metthyt IS tie providem el this see, et the p meal rates, or the speed meats, sash esal Moe er estuary, by this .at required to be established, have wet bora hung up or Alma, or hate tot, after *Mention or deerwitiom beta reamed or missed as required by this aM. se eel at each parent miss or special rules which aught le be ob served by the maw and primeval arms or viewers et milt coal Wm or eseisey, be asolemed se wQkPy eleislei. by say swell ellsee, meet. se lame, web shall be liable Wpeep, el esseessedbg tee sad aim la ass WIWI et Mb* be not remedied with all reessatible . esseee g — ribinalliee ha writing lbsesstgivea by en impose liWryest tie sent nal el seal mine et edam to a tesehar welly el noe monodies ens peas& be molly day dues whisk Ile areas esedause ohm siere mese ; and mom pima ether thee adansuld employed to or atom a seal Was ea mitisny who sets et wilfully ',WWII uay of the @pedal rule minhibbei Mr sash goal aim or miliery shell for every sash dim be lads is a rooky not ow. maim two powedson Is be impeksesd, with or without heed Lebow, in theories...rim Wass of correece for my period not exceeding Mess selesdas meths, or to be promoded maim s.d punished aseeding to the provisions of the est 415 Oes. IV., a 84, intituled As act to mimeo tie pemsr et *aim to determining temptable between nrastees wad sensate The pomades may be recovered in a summary maser - before two justices of the peace, or, in Boot. WI. before the sheriff having iurisdiodon in the peaty or plea where the offence isoomositted. Is reports ere to be laid before parliameat, and new law shall continue until the expiration of five years after the passing of the act. We understand that at most of the collieries io the Worth of England, in Staffordshire, and those in North and South Wales, prompt attention is being aid to the requirements of the sot, in providing seam-preesore gauges, water-gauges, and safety. taw. The excitement with reference to its possible or probable operation is very great. The work ing of a law which promises to diminish the number of fatal accidents, bet which at the same time admits of such an extent of government interference, will require close watching. VW Court. WINDSOR, Dsc. 28. There was no addition to the Royal dinner party lastwasy. The Outs, with the Primus Royal, walked fa 'hollow Park this amain. Prises Albert meat oat Mating. Rot Majosty's royal &grids& to aged aad aniseed poor at Ibis moon Wore diotribatod at Um Alraoary. Wbitaball, la a►o post sad canna wool', ander the dlroctioa of dm Lord Warp of Word, Lord High Almoner, assisted by ibis Boa. Dr. 1•14 Ilab-Alooaor, sad Joespb Iloaby, Esq., flossotary sad Tomas et Use Almoory la OrdWary. _ . . DentateMe hen the Gee;raer of &rim& wen ressived yeeterday at the CaMaid aloe. Despatches for the Governer ell Caaada wore meat last analog hem tko Celesial-ellea. Lord Pearson hu directed (sap the United Service Game) that the title of Beeretur at-War be se lesser wed, sad that is all future seumusisatiose sad eeeteepes• 11411110; bis Lordship is to bo addressed saly as afiesetari of I Mato kr War. Timm &wee,' el yesterday emus, essossess that lisher Gemmel lie Celia Campbell, 0.C.8., somas with tie reek et lAsetaasat•Oeserel is Tarim." is to bare tke Mail task of Omani ia Taskay. W. (Bar. by.) belisie that previously to the departure .1 the King of earth& frau Wiadon itor Moloory woo graigoosly *OWE to present the Xing with ow of dot fleet and now valuable thorough WM Num ia the Royal std is Ilautptos Court, vim. the Flea. Os Christmas Eve Mr. Markt= M.P., ifolivorwl hostage as poetry at the Wakefield Xashaairs' lawitutios. The sell Peeked aye:" The expected refitment d ldr. Bares Puke from the Beset hes eves The te tke MOM this me It oar benne motaboro, Mr. Watson. Q.C., will be elevated to the motet judgeship." The &wee Aspen regrets that the Duke of Deveholire Me set shakes elt tie sleds of hie meet Geld, is ementeesee et whisk kW veep bee sees namely may seaway et I& swim 'widows la 'Comp Tetra. The By. Heaq Hownli.A., his beet intitated Mns Roden of edaweetb, is Norfolk. ea thirteenths i 14 Joke Lew, lin, of Ilplaeonla elledeld. THE EXPER3S, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29, 11355. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE OVERLAND MAIL PT sozzzzars axn Nuts= Tzmozavir,) (zoir oVZ owx 001111111XONDIXT.) MUTE. Sammy. The stammer Bombay arrived in the 29th Dee., in 131 hears, at half-put 3 a.m., from Alexandria on the 23rd Dee. The India Heil left Alexandria on the lied Dee., with intelligent* from Calcutta of the 30th Nov.; Bembay, Deo. 3 ; Shanghai, Nov. 8; Canton, Nov. 13 ; Hoeg Kong, Nov. 16. On the 7th Nov. there wss a collision between the Hindeos and Mohamedans at Oude, in whisk 600 persons were slain. The Hindoos were victorious. The )(Ameba leader was killed. Herat has been taken by the Pagans. Lord Dalhousie returned to Calcutta on the 29th of November. The export of saltpetre is prohibited from India, except to English ports. The markets in India are depressed, and money is wart*. _ _ Freights to Beglead have adraooml. Emblaze at Bombay, 2.111; Calcutta, 2. The Missies has returned from Ara. No treaty hes been siped. Many pirates have bees destroyed on the mast of Chins. At canton tranquillity prevails, but 300 persons are decapitated weekly. Trade in China is doll, without swiped of early Cheap. Exchange at Clanton, 4.10; Shanghai, 6.71. The Pasha of Egypt has rescinded the prohibition of the exportation of wheat and Indian corn. EXI'RFSS FROM PARIS. (MOM ova ores 001111rv.... PARIS, Pima: Brame. The author of the famous pamphlet—much less famous, however, than it was twenty-four hours ago. —now stands confessed. ,His name is M. Charles Duveyrier, an old Saint Simonise sad phalansterian, a journalist, who was attached to the extinct papas, the Globs and Bpogwa, and at one time to the Promo a goalless* who nude a good deal of money (most of which, it is said, he afterwards lost) by organising a new system of advertising, distinguished in news. paper tholes in Paris as the onfoorees Anglaise. He has been unknown to fame of late years, but mew that his name hes soddenly come upon the Vito people at the Bourse recognise him as a epesideler, ad a hanger= of the Credit Mobilier. Whatever may be his merits, it is quite certain that be has no aim to the title of • " Statesman," which he assumes by his anonymous pamphlet. However, he has shown in the affair oon sestemte ability is that art with which hie minis and ketones are (thistly emaciated, namely, the eat 1 advertising ; far his pamphlet has been so tams pail and so adroitly attributed to an " august p., that at this moment, when the imposture has jait been detected in Paris, it forms, I am quits cer tain, the principal topics of political discussion in every capital in Europe. I must, however, notwith standing the discredit into which the pamphet his very justly fallen, express my belief is the common report that it was written to order. I am far from saying by the orders of the Emperor, on whose behalf I know it will be repudiated in the strongest manner possible. Bat I have no doubt that it was written and pub lished in coanivance with a minister whose leanings' to the doctrines of the pesos party are well known. The Cosseitutionna alone, of all the Paris press, dose not condescend to notice the existence of this opus es& All the other morning papers, wanting their cos, treat it with a certain degree of revenue, and promise to return to the subject after con sideratke. The Theme emphatically pronounces the thing to be well worthy of all the atten tion it has excited. The sensi.official Pays, while professing to be struck by the " grand and generous idea' developed is the pamphlet, and expressing a general admiration of Congresses, and • faith in their power to settle differences between states, gives some very good meow why, for all practical purposes, it is idle to discuss the question of a Congress at present. The Pays inquires whether a Congress is possible, when no understanding is come to with Russia as to the basis of peace ? What would be the subjects to be dimmed? The Aus trian propositions ? But it must at least be first known whether the Czar accepts them, as preliminaries to negotiation. A Congress evi dently supposes an armistice. Is an armistice pos sible, unless Russia adhere to our demands? If she do adhere, what is the use of a Coupes@ ? True (the Pays proceeds) the author taken very extended views, and speaks of nothing less than the re-edifica tion of the European equilibrium upon new baaes. l But is Europe prepared, is she disposed for this re. edification. Are we sure that Germany, that Aus tria even—our ally, Austria—or that (above all) Rune, who hesitates about the simple neu tralisation of the Black Sea, will be able to agree upon the constitution of a new corder of things in Europe? Again on this point, wham would the deliheratioss commence ? Beyond the Eastern question where is the equilibrium disturbed, and where is it to be re-established 1 1 These are grave gondola and arduous problems, of which the solu tion and even the (dungeon appear to us still un ripe. When in 1816 Europe constituted a solemn Congress, all) the questions to be considered were already proposed, and all the situations were evident. France was beaten, and it was against France that the Congress of Vienna fixed and regulated the ter► citadel organisation of Europe. When a Congress maatiosed the independence of the United States, that independence existed de facto. Is the present state of things in any respect similar ? A 01111. gross, we (Pays) repeat, suggests points of dimismlea well defied—a cartes community of views beim= the Powers: who can affirm that that exists ?--a prior understanding on the basis of a peace between the belligerents : who in certain that the answer of the Car will commits that understanding This view of the laspraetisability of the idea of a Cis gram is the more remarkable as coming from th e p er , which, I. the ewe breath, declares itself a partisan of the system of settling international disputes by arbitration instead of by bloody struggles. Bo Sat, lin fact, to put the best construction upon it, the ples-1 I I Bible verbiage of the pamphlet is lodised to es sib, lof the cuckoo cry of the Peace Society, " Arbitration iasteed of war." This seseiag's Press, says : If tbs ides of a Cowes. hod bola breaded la Lades, elms aped% is hos sad maim sad amass 'abater, sad cassemestly dizsets sad abeam Nevus .I palish es meld ►ats ealarstsed it. Bat that tie idea et a Megrims abseil be feat weeniest is Paris, wawa spa is bet it Was mail kat to tbs laussasity el gess, pones set amps busies. The Prom thou pressed& le ropoiste .stood soisaios M. Emil. a. Cilirrsifo did palsirostaal artiola abost the itatositios d Gibsaliar • the first stop to missed pass At de Bourse the pamphlet was at a great dis-1 rly all day, sad the Bents went down bat just at the slow a rumour was started peed' tomorrow would be an mho of the and that an armistice of three maths proclaimed almost inuesdiatsly ! BS synClis of the ogees de change, and another ----...1 broker, made same very large pareissess, urn the strength of which sad the rumours the Read rose sdo. in a few minutes, &dug at 84h. Us., with a rise of fla from yesterday. Daring this midden reactior Credit ffoMllee and railways were aL in demand, bat thsre was not time for them to roomer the fall of the day. Credit Mobilier fell 12k. KS. Railways were, on the whole, lower, bat Orissa rose 7fr. 600., and two or three other lines from 2fr. 50a to bk. Yesterday's Monitor contsios a report in which Marshal Vainest places before the Emperor va rious eigretiess fir the organisation of the Imperial Gaud urea a kers basis. In an imperial decree the xesemmereadoos of the Minister of State are Wind Mbe carried into effect. The Imperial Guard tot the future will be composed of two divisions of hilltrary, , on of 18 and the other of 17 battalions; a division of cavalry, utobsdiag 37 squadrons ; two re giments of artillery ; two companies of engineers; sad a squadron of waggon drivers. Fear of the hitches established by Imperial de cree for feeding all applicants at reduced prices, at the expense of the state, aided by contributions from the Emperor and Empress, were opened yesterday. I shall take an early opportunity of visiting these establishments. In the meantime I subjoin the m ama of the opening day from the Government Men: The sheep kitabisa setablieud fads the patronage of their Majesties for the distribatko of food ham pekoe havej oetameaced operations, fear haw °posed simaltaasously—ono la the 6th At roaliesomest, at 13, Roe Corbesu ; two is the Bth, 9, Rae Leash St. As tobso, and 77, Rao de Remaly; and me in the 12th, 10, Rao de Pootoiso. The Meister of the Interior sad the Prefect of the Pollee, en the day of the imagaratioa, Melted these useful eatablhhmente, aad examined with tho meat minute attendee all the details of instal- Wks sad organised... They tasted the food, the quality sad preperatioa of which they de clared to be emellont, mad Mind with the fall pervasion that the institution would realise, for the benefit of the working Manse, all the 'apostatises of their Majesties. Oa leaving they thaaked the &sten of Bt. Visitant do Peal for the sail sad este with which they bad emented the missies confided to them. M. Klein, ex adp of tho Tribunal of Commerce, Mimed the Pretest of Pollee the co-operation of his practical experisam. which was 'aptly accepted. The people appeared to welcome with gratitude this new beaMit:seaferred os them by their Majesties, and their Gammas to purchase was such, that Ia two of the kiteheas all the food that bad been prepared was sold la en exceedingly short time. Other establishments of the sass kind will be opmed in sacessaloa, and is a short time Um whole of Paris will be provided with them. Yesterday evening, at the model "Cheap Dock." butter was made in the presence of the public from the cream that had not been sold in the day, and sold at ones to the bystanders. It is announced that this operation will be repeated every afternoon. The founder of the establishment observes that a double advantage accrues to the public by this system— purchasers of butter are sure to have it fresh, and no stale milk is left for sale the next day; The marriage of Mlle. Cruvelli, whose real name it appears is Craven, with Baron Vigier, son of Count' Vigisr, °:-Peer of France, has been posted up at the Maki* of the Ist Arrondissement. SWEDEN AND TEE ALLIED POWERS. The INd4poidases Bake gives credence to the statement that a circular has been Weed by the Swedish government setting forth the motives which led to the late defensive treaty with England and France. The Brussels journal has even heard that the language employed In the document denotes a remarkable change in Sweden's relations with Russia, and is of so marked a character as to justify the belief that in the spring she will engage energetically in the war. THE BALTIC. (TROY OUR OWN KIEL:Dec. 26. We have already had a return of mild weather, and frost and snow have quite disappeared. The upper portion of this bay, which was a few days ago so completely frozen over that the ordinary winter sledge ferry had superseded the one generally oars *4 by boats between the opposite sides, is now se far open spin that the mail steamer which arrived from Copenhagen this morning bad no dal e:thy in reaching her usual berth in the harbour, and the regular communication between the continent and the Danish islands has sew sequently been re-established. It eau imareely yet be expected that the navigation should not again be interrupted, but as it is always maddened a sure sign of the open parts of the upper Baltic being open when the bays hire are free from ice, there k good ground to believe that the intereouree at the Prussian as well as the Swedish ports with those of Russia will at this time be carried on without any impediment, and indeed we already know that in some quarters this is actually the ease, several vessels having arrived both at Bolderaa and Peet Baltic with cargoes for Rip and Revel, whisk had fee one time been watching their opportunity vim the Isiah and French cruisers should have Wt the asset. A double temptation is at present offered for such enterprises, for sot only do those engaged in them derive large profits from their las s of salt and other comforts and aseesearies, C r t t ry have an almost equal advantage from the eery favourable conditions on which they ars granted the privilege of exporting rye and linseed, of which the stocks in Russian ports are very large, and of which, as the general exportation is prohibited, the proprietors are glad to find any opportunity of die- Pods& RAISING OF TEE BLOCKADE IN THB BALTIC. Lest night's Gazette oentaine the following: ' 4 Yereige-ollies, Dee. 28, 1856. " It is hereby settled. that th; Bight Hoe. the Loui of Claresdoe, H. 0.. bee Majetty's Priaeipl Seentary of State tee Foreign Affairs, bee received frau the Lords Cessiale , Moans of the Admiralty. se odds& etassossiestise, stating that it opposes by a report Ire: Itearadasirel Balms. dated . H.11.i eteast.veseel Retribetiett. Oepeekages, Dee. 12, 1855: that the Worked* et ell poete, reads, have, sad week., belosgisg to the sassy to the Belt* was *ethyl' raised ea the 10th Wet." A PUNISHABLE 017231011 AT LTollll.—The Tri bunal of Corrostioad hese a Lew" ea Wwisesirtr a l se ad • publio-howtokreper, amed David. et the Owls for booing estisged taigas by attereleig • maid .r th e Virgin to his dog's seek, sad *akin the salad ran about the streets with it ea two mewl days. The rola, who "is s noted red repaidiee• sad aeoislist, sad who wore a pointed Tyrolean hat eft 0111111111.11187 Wain sad ea iNIMIENI red "roost," wee .-lensed them maths' isyrieoaseat sad 800 f. Au. Tax LATE Flail AT 80171.001111.—A kilter from ite;isyss;rlie;:arys Tb. ;11ing — bee701 lis.Begmerds awl, is Is ham. was rouse ia the nibs el hie bend: jeat bona mamma la Ike peewees of sewed plasm se Ike beak nen% telbway beak and santrialublezz mid* it antelope, haw beta esmayieSely asoloyed ; ars dried up sad A.M. sae emu •••o= o / served with albalty. Ti. gold sad eels@ see bat the bp la Walk they will eintakira hoe heal dTttatr eatieely I:esteemed." ODNIMINICATION 1111411:111 1111 (:LTD* AND NSW Tean.--The Ina NOM sleueddp, lidiabersk. CeiV asir Cr a niag. mina hew Orme*. tor New York. y. Ilds is the bra steamer that has sailed to ; l ow York treat the Otpie for seem this. The reviler Mao eansiaalsollea between Ikesa lawn who stepped b 7 the tallies le, Skeet els maths age, be swiss a. gown seattat inimplet et the mew ► Owner. libegair, wide is etill eases la that wile& THE ANGLO.TURKISH 020111 001 03X Dso. 2. The recent establishment of a weekly mail semis between, Sebastopol and this, afforded see an owf lenity, some eight &ye ago, of running up hither feseathe former plass to gather for your readout some information is to the condition and esquieyment of General Vivian's force eines its transform* bun the gibs= above Boyukdere. I reckoned:that a wore love dimes 'tight be profitably taken from the dell inactivity of the everlasting " heights," whisk as not heights, where one's ingenuity was racked, aril attar mail, even to exhanatioo, to eztraet from the monotonous routine of roadmaking and hut build ing subject-matter for a readable paragraph ; and the smolt has been in no way disappointing. Of the two out-stations of Fort Paul and Yeniluile,it h detest to say that the former is a naturally strong soar point, about four miles down the bay, at pre sent garrisoned by the French, whose senior officer is is command—sad two regiments of the Contingent, by the united labour of whom, under a French engi neer, the position has been so fortified as to render it impregnable by any force the enemy could bring against it, some of its defending redoubts on the top of the old Roman tumuli being regular Malakhoffs In their way. Yen ikale, on the opposite northers horn of the bay, though quits as strongly entrenched by the Contingent engineers, and posKesing, in addi tion, en old Omens fort, which has been turned to gad ohm% Is yet, on its land aide, by far the weak est of the three positions, and would need all the aid the off-lying gunboats could render it, in case of a sufficiently strong and well-directed attack. Cat off, as it might easily be, from any relief from Leta, en ancaulting force of 20,000 men, well supported by heavy field artillery, would give its garrison, of one fourth that number, quite enough to do to hold their ground. The troops now holding Yenikale are the Sword Division of the Contingent, commanded by General Neil, a picket of the 71st Highlanders, and a few Royal Artillerymen ; all of whom will be under house or hat shelter before these lines reach London. Hitherto the Contingent has dragged on the slow rums of its costly existence, without rendering much public account of either the time or the mosey spent in its formation, and it may, therefor% be worth while to supply the payers of double imams. tax at home with some information as to how the public cash has been laid out. I pretend to no knowledge of the number of millions of pounds sterling expended, but I have endeavoured to make what use I here could of my eyes and ears to learn sleuthing as to the fighting value of the brie, and of the manner in which the du ties of its various departments are carried out. Long before the troops left Buyukdere, the news papers gave expression to more thm one complaint of extravagance and inefficiency in its administra tion ; and so far as my own personal opportunities of knowing anything on the point enabled me to judge, the strongest of such charges went in no way beyond the facts. Time was grossly wasted, money spent as lavishly as if the Chancellor of the Exche quer had possessed Fortin:etas wishing-oap, and a general laxity indulged in by all ranks, from the " gallant, gay " chief down to the youngest adju tant in the force, that will," long keep their memory' green " in the minds of husbands and wives on the Bosphorus. However, after more than six months of this state of things, the pleasant but costly pic-nic on the wooded heights of Yelikoi was broken up towards the end of October, and the foram was finally transferred Dither. With a remissness that augured badly . for the foresight of those in command under other circumstances, no steps whatever appear to have been taken to ascertain the actual resources of the place in the shape of supplies for men and animals; and accordingly, when the cavalry arrived, l after knocking about in bad weather in the Black Sea for more than a fortnight, the discovery was for the first time made that Kertch itself and its neigh bourhood could not supply the necessary forage. The men and horses were therefore re-embarked, and, after another two weeks' cruise, landed whence they had come. Oa a par with, or even worse than, this, was the utter neglect of ammunition for the infantry, who, I am credibly assured, l had only some ten ball-cartridges a man for more than four days after they reached the place; at the end of which interval supplies tardily arrived in steamers that had left the Bosphorus more than teal days after the last of the railing ships that conveyed the troops themselves. Why a reasonable quantity of ammunition was not taken in the latter vessels seems strange to civilian judgments, though, perhaps —like so many mysterious eccentricities practised by our Generals elsewhere—the fact may, for aught common intellects can understand, be an instance of high military wisdom. Soon after General Vivian's arrival, his force was augmented by 9,000 additional infantry, who bad been here from the time of the first expedition, under the command of Mehemet Pasha, by whom hey were given over, with all their officers up to the grade of bimbashi ; and nearly immediately atter—in the beginning of last month—a Orman ar rived from Constantinople, conferring on the two se nior English officers of each regiment the respective ranks of Kaimakan and Idiralksi (lieutenant-colonel and colonel) in the service of the Porte—a judicious measure, which has tended not • little to reconcile both officers and men to the authority of "infidel" commanders. Besides this assignment of brevet Turkish rank to the regimental officers, the various Brigadiers Major-General.. and the Lieutenant- General Brigadier, have also been named, respectively, lino, ferns, and mushir, pashas. The only class of English military officers attached to the force to whom no Turkish rank has been given, are the adjutants; and out of this excep tional withholdment of a brevet grade has arisen a source of complaint and difficulty to which I shall presently have occasion to refer. Thus, on the Ist of November, General Vivian found himself at the head of nearly seventeen thou sand men of all arms, made up, as I have said, of two divisions of infantry, under Mejor•Generals Cun ningham and Neil. three batteries of artillery, under the command of Brigadier Hall, and a most efficient English engineer corps under Major Stokes, besides having the auxiliary presence of a strong squadron of the 10th Hussars, the whole of the 71st High landers, and some 1,800 Pruett. Afloat, he was supported by a strong flotilla of watmeamers, under the command of Capt. Hall, of the Miranda, who has from the first been most indefatigable in the landing of stores and materiel, both at Fort Paul—beyond which the large vessels oannot come—and at Kertch ; indeed, the untiring energy whish both officers and men of the Miranda have displayed in this service is spoken of by every one here in terms of the highest praise. Unprovided with proper lighterage, and aided by only one steam-tog, the boats of this ship have performed an amount of labour that deserves more than the feeble reward of public mention in the columns of a newspaper. At the head of his:medioal Ottlmt the General was further fortonate enough ergentleman in every way qualified by energy, experience, and high professional skill, for the new and by no means easy serves called into existenee by the formation of this corps-1 refer to Dr. McPherson, the Inspector General of Hospitals to the Contingent, sad as officer to whose indefatigable energy and gnat mom I am able to bear the testimony of a perfectly impartial eye-witness. Dr. Wl'llsracte Amid ready to kis band tballasisa bospitat in the tows, a large sad sonmesdione bad tag that essresly needed an alteration to maks It all that could be desin4 Loft, wall-ventilated, and supplied with all the requiem fixed fittings, it is. gaited only the furniture of beds, medicines, sad the nasal minor moveables to supply ready assommods ties for nearly 500 Quintet. The Inspsotor•Genstal bad taken care to come provided with hospital states in &bandanas ; and, accordingly, in less than a week after the troops landed in tench, the sesause as pia tt e s " worde ar iewi th c o y t e d f f r o „e kola . th e re cepti on a l o t a y a d e t et as man y h ma ly s alia. its Unties; for at the present time only sliest NO patients, or father leas than one per osataithrnbals ,strength et the corps, are on the doctors' books, sad nen of this small number many are suffering from irooid I !salt, 1 &mg pa ew contracted long before they entered bd. Ensh Well y. fed well clothed, and compelled to obese% proper sanitary habits, the men Sr. all but entirely free from sickness. Having more than once bef eee bad occasion to animadvert on the error of Gwe n t Vivian's not enforcing the study of Turkish —et least, to the extent of acquiring a conversational facility in the use of it amongst his officers, I am g l a d to be able to give Dr. M•Pbenon credit for recog. siting the especial necessity of such a knowled ge amongst the members of his staff, and of making it a cardinal condition of promotion. The result is, WA there are few of the whole medical corps who can. not make, at all events, the most usual inquiries of their patients in intelligible Turkish ; whilst some are able to speak it ins manner that loaves littls to be desired for the fall discharge of their medical duties. Little or nothing is here known of the whereabouts of the nearest Russians. On Sunday week an alarm was raised throughout the town and camp " that the Philistines were upon us," and a general turiKat of the troops took place; when it was for the first tim e discovered that the men's cartridge-pouches wore main all bet empty l However, bullock and mule sorts were hurried off to Fort Paul for supplies, and returned some three hours afterwards to find that the enemy had not come on. The commandant of one battery of artillery assured me that hie men possessed just a single pistol-cartridge saoh—a fact which, though in itself of no importance—inasmuch as when artillerymen re quire the aid of their pistols, the game may be fairly considered lost—was illustrative of the amount of forethought doing duty at head-quarters. As it was, the alarm bad ()masted in the appearance of a few Cossacks, whom the frightened optics of some outlying Tar tar villagers magnified into a column of twenty thousand Russian regulars. On the strength of the Tartars' statement, our own and the Fren c h pickets—without waiting to see for themselves— fell back upon the town, and so confirmed the fears of everybody generally, and of the Commander-in-Chief in particular. Fortu nately, however, the enemy kept away ; and thanks to concentrating movements incident on their appearance, the Cossacks succeeded in destroying a vast quantity of forage in the neighbourhood, and in sweeping away several droves of bullocks belonging to natives under contract with the Commissariat. Since then, they have made another foray during the night into some villages within three miles of Hertel, and run a muck amongst the female pop's. tion of those which have at any time furnished sup plies, or otherwise aided the enemies of the Czar. Dsc. 6. I open my parcel to say that, owing to the non arrival of the French steamer from Lamina, the mail which should have left this on the morning of the 3rd will not be despatched till to-metrow, win the Pomone, French frigate, soils for Sebastopol. The mail steamer from the latter place to Constaati nople will thus be missed, and as extra week's delay arise in the forwarding of the begs from this. With this break-down in the very mead week of its este blishment, the winter postal service to Latch pea mime to be most doubtfully saint. RUSSIA. PLAN OF NEXT YEAR'S CAMPAIGN. (PROM A COSILVIPONDENT.) MOSCOW, Dec. 20. It was amusing enough for an impartial observer to witness the excitement that prevailed in this Lucien capital of Muscovy on the receipt of the /made with General Monravieff's despatches about the Inc. render of Kan : for the inhabitants of this city, is 'their ignorance, firmly believe their favourite Mon. ravieff—who belongs to the old Muscovite party— to have achieved a moat brilliant victory and covered himselt with glory, and cannot see the difference be. tween taking a fortress by storm and waiting pas lively at a distance till the garrison are obliged to surrender for want of food. The Muscovite, or war, party are loud in expressing their enthusiasm and extoding the present Emperor's foresight and saga city at superseding Count Woronoff and giving the supreme command of the army in the Caucasus to General Mouravieff, from whom they expect great things. Their great object is now no other then to get him the command of the army in the Crimes, nee Prince Clortchakoff, and to effect this various intrigue are being spun and different important influents celled into play, which have their ramification at Bt. Petersburg amongst the very highest psr magas in the empire. In spite of the flaming . Imperial "Orden of the day," es industriously spread by the Northern Bee, and praising the state of the army in the Crimea, it is so secret here that the Czir was most deeply affected at what he saw with his own eyes, and on his return here expressed hie astonishment that after the im mense losses they had sustained, and the almost in aredible privations to which the survivors were ex. lased, there should be any army left at all. The grand council of generals lately convoked at St. Petersburg under the personal presidency of the Emperor have settled the principles on which the forthcoming campaign shall be carried on. St Peters bwrg and Moscow are to be fortified, and, together with Warsaw, will form the three first-class fortresses of the empire. General Todtlebeu has arrived bars, sad, notwithstanding . the extreme rigour of the weather—the frost having set in here with all the pro. werbial violence of a Russian winter—may be sera every day, accompanied by his stiff of enginessoll wrapped up in bean' skins, surveying the ground end fixing the poles to designate the line of circeimvalle• Lion, which will be commenced on the breaking up al the frost. Besides this, other fixed principles of strategy have bees agreed on foe the prosecution of the war, thoegh it meet be confessed that as it Mao essentially adobe; sive war on the part of the Russians, all them pleas mpy be completely upset, or at all eats greatly modified, by any change in the system of at tack on the part of the Western Powers. It is fall/ expected in Russia that next year the principal seat of the war will be transferred to the north, and the greatest exertions are making for an efficient defence. For the safety of Cronstadt and Releingfors no fears are entertained, as the experience of the last two years has shown that the enemy are not able wildlife much damage ; nor is it feared that even if the &ell are increased by a couple of hundred steam gunboats they could take either of these strongholds engem with the cceoperatices of a numerous and will appointed army on shore. The system of tactics ro solved on by the great council of war may be summed op se follows:—The fortification of St. P s tersbarg, Itessew, Kiew, Warsaw, and Nicholaieff; secondly, the concentrateoa of few bat imposing armies; ands thirdly, the abandonment of all the m inor places/ 90. that Liebeu, Riga, and even Odessa, will be depr ivn of regular garrisons, and left to their fate and the tender mercy of the enemy. The cold is so severe that several sentinels hen beet found frozen to death in their sentry-box" although they are relieved every half-hour. - ----- On the 4th of this month there were 50 cued a Odors at St. Petersburg, notwithstanding the coldnusei the ursatber. The gaming-honeee of Aix-lee•Bains, in Sn lo l (says the Union), have last been suppressed. It is Is ter sequence of an order of the day motive of the council growl of the provincial division that the Ministry has put ea oil to this source of irentorahty, and this muss of rain te many families. A letter from Cease, in the Monitor, WV " IL di Baumbeek has just bees ward Envoy Binsme• dimly and Meister Plenipotentiary to as Ella* NoPaliten. The Idea of the Elmer, in raising his ler* . at Pule to this rank of a mission of the fint amebas* dared as an evident mark of his wish to be egremble tho . Emperor Napoleon." MONO/dila TO ALEIERI.—The committee fOllOOl many yeses ace at Asti, for the purpose of getherioll otb" scripting' towards a monument to Alfieri, have colletlia stun sufficient fir their object. THE WEATHER IN THE BALTlC.—Lubsek, Dec. 2 5 . —A thaw set is the 24th December, which still ccer en Urines, and the scow end ice are disappearing fest.---010" Dec. 25.—A complete thaw ha set in sins the 24th Derear. bee., sad still oontiones.—Hembing, Deo. 26. e MOWN have broken away from the firm ice and efu".. down the river, there is consequently a large. soresslstios of drift is in the fairway o ff Breashausen.--Clabin • Dec. 26.—A motherly wind and continued thaw menu.•• ' the fairway in this roidstead clear of lee, but it has eonsiderably ea the math side of the Elbe. wm..... The Wes' Bloc go from 964 v alue Tbo of the ate No riod pow to 0 del eon q2l be b 7 ste so 11 th in