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4 . 14 THE INDEX AND TITLEPAGE TO THE THIRD V‘H.UNIE OF " THE PRESS " will be published on Saturday, 'Jaw 12, as a Supplement (gratis) to \O. 111. It is Impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive. Their insertion is often delayed, owing to a press of matter mid when omitted, it is frequently from reasons quite lode pendent of the merits of the communication. We cannot undertake to return communications of which we do not avail ourselves. Ccminunicatious should always be legibly written, and on one side of the paper only. if look it increases the difficulty of finding space for them. Wl.atever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publica tion, but as a guarantee of his good faith. Advertisements sent from the country must be accompanied by a remittance or a reference for payment in town. TERNS OF SUB IOR Ebt Press's: (STA3IrED.) Per Annum .. Half-Yearly .. Quarterly .. .. 11 6 0 .. 0 18 0 .. 0 6 6 Payable in advance. Subscribers are requested to Bend their Orders through their News Agent; if direct to the Office, accompanied by a remit tance. Advertisements also must have areference or remittance. Money Orders to be made payable to Mr. ALFRED iVE, liU, Stran , l. London. - v - tx 1,! rirxig• LONDON, SATURDAY, JAN. 5, 1856. POSTSCRIPT. PROCLAMATION OF GENERAL MOURAVIEFF. THE Invatide Busse publishes a proclamation by General Mouravietf, calling the entire population of Imiritia, (ju►iel, and Mingreha to wage a war of extermination against the enemies of the Cross. • It is this measure which is supposed to have in duced Omer Paella's retreat. Letters from Berlin state that the old Muscovite party have a decided ascendancy in the Russian Cabinet. The rumour that General Mouravieff would re place Prince Gortschakoff in the command of the Crimea is confirmed. Prince Gortschakoff, it was reported, would return to his old command in Bessarabia. The continued direction of large bodies of troops towards Bessarabia by Russia is regardei with un easiness at Vienna. An additional article, according to the Weser Gazette, touching the third point, has been added to the treaty of beeember 2nd, between Austria, France, and Fngland. It does not impose on Austria the obligation of taking part in the war upon the eventual refusal of Russia to accept the thWid point as inter preted by Austria and the allies. King Otho of Greece, according to advices from Trieste, has brdered the construction of one war steamer, and five gun-boats, for the service of the Greek Government. The West India Mail has arrived with accounts from Jamaica of the 11th ult. and 3,150,313 dollars in specie. The news from that island is unim portant. The cholera had broken out at Porto Rico, and yellow fever at Martinique. The sugar crop at Trinidad promised more than the usual average. Gold had been discovered in large quantities in Southern Chili. The insurrection at Bolivia bad been suppressed. --- A CABINET COUNCIL was held on Thursday after• noon at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were—Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Grenville, Earl of liarrowby, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Panmure, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles "Komi, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Ahlerley, the Right lion. M. T. Baines, and the Dake of Argyll. The Council sat two hours and a half. A MEETING OF CABINET MINISTERS was held on Friday at the War Department. Lord Palmerstom Lord Panmure, Lord Clarendon, Lord Granville, Sir Charles Wood, Sir George Grey, Lord Hardinge, and Admiral Lyons were present. The meeting sat three hours. M. Musunus, Minister Plenipotentiary of the Porte at this Court, has been raised by the Sultan to the rank of Ambassador Extriordinari. 11166 V . . •.r*V-..--•.•---• THE PRESS. Vtrsonal. I3AnoN PARKE has not yet been gazetted, from the refusal of the learned baron to accept the title of Lord Ampthill. It is believed that he will take his title from some place in the North of England. THE HON. PETER CAMPBELL SCARLETT, C. 8., now Secretary to her Majesty's Legation at Florence, has been appointed her Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the Emperor of Brazil. JOHN FORSTER, Esc., of the Inner Temple, Barris ter-at-Law, has been appointed Secretary to the Commissioners of Lunacy, on the resignation of It. W. S. Lutwidge, Esq., appointed commissioner. The salary of the secretary is fixed at SOOI. per annum. By the act, the secretary of the commis sioners, if at the time of his appointment a prac tising banister of five years' standing, is eligible to be appointed a commissioner. It was under this clause that Mr. Lutwidg - e, the late secretary, was ap pointed a commissioner on the decease of Mr. Mylne. Mr. Forster was called to the bar of the Inner Temple in 1843 ; he has, therefore, the length of standing requisite to qualify him for promotion to a commissiouership under the clause of the act. The salaries of the commissioners, one of whom is Mr. Proctor (Barry Cornwall) are fixed at 1,500/. a year. LORD Lucan intends publishing a statement, drawn up under his own eye, giving a history of the English cavalry operations in the East during the period of his command, as an answer to the gross misrepresentations and groundless charges" made against him by General Bacon and others. AN IMPERIAL HOTEL COMPANY has been pro jected on the limited liability principle, to occupy the National Gallery, and establish an hotel similar to the " Hotel de Louvre "at Paris. The draught of ' the Act has been deposited at the Private Bill Office. The capital proposed to be raised is 1,000,0001. in 10/. shares. Lonn Pssimunn, it is stated, has directed that the title of " Secretary-at-War " will be no longer used, and that in all future communications and correspon dence his lordship is to be addressed as " Secretary of State for War" ; Mr. Monsell, also, in future moving the ordnance estimates in the house. The position of Mr. Frederick Peel may be considered " singular." BRIGADIER WILLIAM MAYNE, who returned to India in September last to resume the command of the "Hyderabad Contingent," is seriously unwell, and has been compelled to leave India for Egypt durin ° r , the winter. SIR GEORGE GREY, BART., while Out with Mr. Morrell's fox-hounds, at Coleshill, Berks, on Friday week, got a severe fall with his horse, and broke the small bone of his arm just above the wrist. The right lion. baronet had sufficiently recovered on Thursday to be enabled to return to town, and attend at the Home office. The 11ev. Mr. hemming, who incurred some odium last suniner in consequence of committing two la bourolt to Chelmsford Gaol for leaving their work, has been presented with it handsome piece of plate by 183 of his sympathising friends and neighbours. A rense of the acrimony with which the rev. gentle man was treated, for the discharge of what he, of course, considered his duty, has doubtless been the cause of the testimonial in question. It does not follow that an action which is unpopular is always unjust : and, at all events, it seems that Mr. Hem ming has a large h and of both friends and acquaint , ances who are willing to vindicate his conduct. THE MARRIAGE OF M. ALEXANDER PHILIPFSCO and the second daughter of the Princess Enphrosine •Ghilts, has been declared void by the Bishop of Bucharest, for the reason that the brother of Alex ander had married the elder sister of the lady; the two brothers thus marrying the two sisters. The priest who celebrated the second marriage has been de graded, and the bishop has called for a criminal pro secution against Alexander Philipesco and his wife. No law exists in Wallachia against such a marriage. The Emperor Napoleon, at the reception of the corps diplomatique on Tuesday, expressed him self rather strongly to the Neapolitan Ambas sador upon the policy of his master. "Se desire," concluded the Emperor, " que Is politique du Roi de Naples soit cette armee plus franche, plus sincere, dans son interet meme." Count Nesselt•ode on the 27th ult. received Count Esterhazy on his return to St. Petersburg, charged with the special communication from the Court of Vienna. M. de Nessolrode is reported to have listened attentively to the propositions of Count Esterhazy, without showing the slightest emotion or once interrupting the Austrian Minister. At the conclusion of Count Esterhazy's address, M. de Nes selrode confined himself to the simple remark—" I will take the orders or the Emperor," and boived the Austrian Minister out, MP= SATURDAY, 6lettion citttiligtutt. HEREFORD.—Thomas Evans, Esq., of Sufton court, is about to be solicited to become a candidate for the representation of this city, should a vacancy occur. TAvisTocx.—Mr. S. Carter, elected, but unseated for the want for qualification, at the last general elec tion, will contest the representati. 41 again. Mr. 3. I'. Trelawney, of Kensington, has issued an address to the electors, stating that household suffrage, vote by ballot, economy and efficiency in the administration of departments, unsectarian education and complete equality of religious communions in the eye of the law, are the watchwords of his political creed. The Austrian army in the principalities is to ho reduced to a " peace footing." The men of the Border Battalions have already left Bucharest to re turn to their homes. Baron Seebach's mission to St. Petersburg is re garded by the German papers as the result of an un derstanding between Vienna, Dresden, and Munich, that Austria, in making the propositions, should not, in case of refusal by Russia, be left in so awkl‘ard a position as to compel her to terminate her friendly relations with that Court. The Grand Duke Nicholas has left St. Petersburg for the south, in his capacity as commander-in•chief of the engineers. Lieutenant-Colonel Lackner directs the works of the fortifications at Odessa, Nicolaieff, Akkermar, Kilia, and the whole of Bessa• rabic. General Dohn fills the same functions in Poland; anti General Todtleben is at Cronstadtt Works of defence are being actively constructed in Finland, and especially at Warsaw. M. trehnier, the lately appointed French Minister at Naples, in his first interview with the King, re quested an audience on important business. His Majesty declined, and bowed M. Brennier out. It is significant that the Imperial steamer which brought M. Brennier to Naples lies yet in the Bay awaiting his orders. TFIE OBSERVANCE OF MARRIAGE as a sacred bond by a people to whom Christianity was unknown is striking. From it was derived the pure and lofty character of the ancient Roman nation. At Rome, it was not by clever and fascinating courtesans, such as Aspasia and Thais, but by wives and mothers —such as Lucretia and Volumnia of the legends, such as Cornelia, the mother of the Gracchi, in actual history—that noble wishes and heroic thought were inspired into the hearts of the men. The chastity and frugality of the women found an answer in the temperance and self•devotion of the men. This is the more rettatitable, since by Roman law married women had no personal rights—they were subject to their husbands as absolutely as if they had been slaves.—Lidden's History of Rome. STABILITY OF TREATIES.—The foundation of tho stability of every treaty is the mutual advantage of the parties. It is a just remark of the Florentine Secretary, that even after the most unequal contest, no peace between nations can ever be solid by which one gains much more than the other. If the one gains much real good, and the other only obtains safety from total ruin, the peace will be broken either by the former, as soon as her power is recruited enough to complete the work of conquest, or by the latter, as soon as she has breathed a little, and can hope to regain her lost ground. All such foolish treaties are rather conventions of truce than of peace. They were one great means of conquest used by the Romans ; they are rendered less frequent in modern times by the principles of the balancing systeM.—Lord Brougham's contributions to the " Edinburgh Review." Txtruasti PLuNDERFII9.—A tragedy took place two nights ago. Some Greeks—two men and two women —lived in a hut near the railroad, and also within a couple of hundred yards of a troop of artillery. The people were honest and quiet enough, taking n washing and earning money by various kinds cf work. Two nights since some Turkish soldiers went down to the hut, murdered the two men after a ve hement struggle, and clove the head of one of the women open to her throat; the other woman they stabbed in three places, and left for dead. The y then ransacked the house and found lOU in money —what enormous sums are made by the hangers-(n of the camp!—and escaped. All next day the muti lated woman lay, the only living thing amidst such ghastly death, and the day after it occurred to ha neighbours to inquire why none of them had been seen on the previous day. The survivor is now in hospital, and has intimated that the murderers were Turkish soldiers, and that site conld identify them.— Mrs. Duberly's Journal.