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-•-• -. 62 The Letter relating to M. ibisarti, French Under-Minister of Public instruction, is unavoidably postponed. It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive. Their insertion is often delayed, owing to a press of matter and when omitted, it is frequently from reasons quite iude pendent of the merits of the communication. We cannot undertake to return communications of which we do not avail ourselves. Communications should always be legibly written, and on one side of the paper only. If lona it increases the difficulty of finding space for them. Whatever 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. TERMS OF FOR •t:be Vreofs: _ (STAMPED.) Per Annnm Half-Yearly Quarterly .. .. t 1 6 0 .. 0 19 0 .. 0 8 6 Payable in advance. Subscribers are requested to send their Orders through their News Agent; if direct to the Office, accompanied by a remit- Vince. Advertisements also must have a reference or remittance. Money Orders to be made payable to Mr. ALFRED IVE, 110, Stray y . London. Vio 20) rog. LONDON, SATURDAY, JAN. 19, 1856. POSTSCRIPT. We are in possession of some autlwntic details, not yet placed before the public, connected with the acceptance by Russia of the Austrian proposals. The journey of Baron Seebach, the Minister of Saxony at the Court of Paris, to St. Petersburg, has excited much speculation. On his return to Paris, M. Seebach brought back from the Cabinet of St. Petersburg an unqualified acceptance of the Allied Propositions, on condition that France and England would treat directly with Russia, and not through Austria. This proposition was favorably regarded by the French Government. The Cabinet Council on Wednesday last was held to deliberate upon it, when we have reason to believe Lords Palmerston and Clarendon insisted, against the opinions of the majority of the Cabinet, on the Seebach proposition being rejected, as in their opinion another campaign was desirable. The astonishment of these states men at the acceptance by Russia of the Austrian propositions, atter their rejection of the Seebach overture, may be imagined. A telegraphic despatch from Berlin, dated Thurs day night, states: — Yesterday, at two o'clock, Count Nesse'rode and Count Valentine Esterhazy, signed, at St. Petersburg, a protocol containing the conditions proposed by the allies, as the formulation of the preliminaries of peace. A despatch from Berlin of Thursday states : It is officially known that in consequence of the attitude of Austria, and her pressure at St. Petersburg, Russia revoked on the ovening of the 16th her resolution of the 12th, and has accepted the whole of the alliel propositions pure et simple. Conferences at Paris or Brussels are ex. petted shortly. From Dresden a telegraphic despatch of Thursday states : The Dresdcner Zeitung says that Russia has accepted, without reserve, the whole of the conditions propounded by the allies through the medium of Austria. Advices from St. Petersburg, vii Berlin, state that General Luders will take the supreme command in the Crimea, and that Prince Gortschakoff will suc•• ceed Prince Paskiewitch as Stadtholder (Viceroy ) of Poland. General Kotzebue, hitherto head of the staff in the Crimea, is appointed to the command of the sth Infantry Corps. Accounts from Constantinople of the 7th state that the Generalissimo (Omer Pacha) was concen trating his forces at Usurgette. An English war steamer has received orders to proceed from Sinope to Soukam-Balch to bring Omer Pacha to Constantinople. At Kertch an attack was expected from the Russsians. THE PRESS. The influence of Russia at Teheran, at the date of the latest advices, was increasing in a manner to excite uneasiness. The Hon. A. C. Murray left Teheran on the oth December. A despatch from Turin on the 16th states that the bill for a loan of thirty millions of francs was that day adopted by the Chamber of Deputies by a majo rity of 109 to 28. Letters from Madrid, Jan. 16, state that the Government has announced to the Cortes the nomi nation of M. Escosura as Minister of the Interior ; of M. Lujan as Minister of Public Works ; and of M. Arias Uria as Minister of Justice. The Gazette of last night publishes a recent Bel gian law, regulating the importation and exportation of certain articles. Cereals, farinaceous articles, and cattle are admitted duty free ; while exportation of the two former is forbidden. A French Imperial decree (regulates the import duties upon prepared hides. A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the Foreign-office. A Cabinet Council was also held on Wednesday at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Granville, the Earl of Harrowby, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. M. T. Baines, and the Duke of Argyll. The council sat three hours. His Excellency the Hon. P. C. Scarlett, Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Brazil, will leave this country in the course of the ensuing month, to enter on his diplomatic functions. Sir Thomas Mitchell, Surveyor-General of New South Wales, died on the sth of October last year, aged 6-1. His vacancy has not yet been filled. Mr. Phinn, it is reported, will succeed Mr. Ser geant Adams, as Chairman of the Middlesex Sessions. Mr. W. J. Broderip, F.R.S., who has for the lengthened period of thirty-four years discharged the duties of police magistrate at the Thames and Westminster Courts, has retired, owing to declining health. Mr. Paynter, of the Wandsworth and Ham mersmith Courts, will succeed him at Westminster, and Mr. Dayman—who was called in 1829, and has been many years practising upon the Western Circuit —will fill the vacancy thus caused. Mr. Roebuck, M.P., has undertaken to present the petition of the Civil Servants of the Crown since 1829, praying to be put upon an equality with their fellow-servants as regards the scale of superannua tion, and the abolition of the oppressive tax upon salaries. Mr. Woolrych was elected Clerk to the Metro politan Board of Works, after a severe contest, yesterday. Colonel Fraser has resigned the office of Go vernor of the House of Correction at Wegttninster, he having been selected to be chief officer of the Berkshire constabulary now forming. The chief warder is to act as governor pro tem. A REPUBLICAN POLITICAL MOVEMENT, of some ex tent, has lately been discovered in France. MM. Cusin, Legendre, and Duchesne, have been arrested, and are at present au secret in the Mazes. The police are extremely active, for the movement is be lieved to have extended itself widely in the pro vinces. M. BREKNIER has been refused permission by the King of Naples to export corn, but is allowed to pur chase and export bullocks for the use of the French commissariat. in the East. OFFICIAL DELINQUENTS of high rank in Russia will, it is said, be shortly exposed and degraded. Letters from St. Petersburg state that the Minister of War has laid before the Emperor " a judgment pronounced by a council of war, which, when it is published, will excite as much sensation as the pecu lations of Politowski did, who had embezzled 1,000,000 roubles from the funds of the Invalides." The par ties affected are seven members and the president of a tribunal of commerce in the south. They are understood to have made very free with the State treasury, as well as the funds of the tribunal itself. PRINCE GHIKA has forwarded to the Sultan his decided resolution not to continue in his post of Hospodar longer than the period fixed for the office in the treaty of Balta Liman. According to this stipulation, his t3rm of office will expire next May. SATURDAY, (From_a Correspondent.) PARIS, Thursday Evening. Rants is in a state of the wildest excitement. It would be impossible to depict the scene which ensued when, at midday, an atfiche appeared at the Bourse notifying that Russia had accepted, "purrs et simples," the propositions of the allies. It may be truly said that never has there been so universal a feeling of delight among all classes as is expressed by the citizens of Paris ; and I believe that in this instance it will be discovered that " Paris c'est la France." The event is as yet so new, and the ex citement caused by it so tempestuous, that people have thought of little or nothing beyond the fact-- the great Pact—that we have Peace. To-morrow, doubtless, the terms will be scanned, and the seer:: ficas made by Russia minutely examined. As to their nature and extent there will, of course, be various opinions; but upon one point all must be agreed—namely, that the mighty war has been waged for the last twenty months, that that contest has cost the three great powers engaged in it mil• lions of treasure, and torrents of their best and noblest blood. The first campaign succeeded in ejecting the Russians from the principalities, and es tablishing in their place the Austrians ; that a second campaign has terminated in a peace from which neither of the three great powers derive any advantage than must arise from the consciousness of handsomely rewarding the policy which has characterised Austria from the commencement of the struggle. " Avec le nouvelle frontiere, c'est l'Autriche qui gagnera." "La cession de la Bessara bia ne regarde que l'Autriche." Such have been the phrases in every one's mouth for the last two days when it was supposed that this was the hitch in the negotiations. Virtue has its own reward, and if for nothing else, at least for her marvellous success, Austria deserves all praise. "Mail on revient toujours," we must not complain, we have peace, that most inestimable of blessings, peace, restored to us. At another less ex citing moment considerable attention would have been bestowed upon an article which appeared in the Moniteur containing a lasting censure on the Senate, and which has led to M. Drouyn de Lhuys resigning his Senatorship. His resignation was not accepted; but he has sent it in again, and the result is not known. But this and everything else is merged in the one great fact of Peace ! M. DE NDIADD, the Professor of Literature at the Sarbonne, was subjected to a second charivari. The students, who appear somewhat incensed against the learned professor for an alleged change in his political opinions, refused to hear him, and a riot ensued, which ended in some forty students being taken into custody. A further disturbance was threatened, but preventive measures were taken by the authorities. THE PRESIDENCY OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES at St. Petersburg will, it is said, be probably filled by a woman. Count Ouveroff has lately retired, and, besides two male candidates—M. Noroff, Minister of Public Instruction, ani Baron Kroff—the Grand Duchess Helen is a competitor. The Grand Duchess Maria is already president of the Academy of Fine Arts. Once hc.fore, in the days of Catherine the . Second, a woman, the Princess Dashkoff, was ar pointed to the office now sought by the Grand Duchess Helen. THE BEDFORD-ROW MURDER.—The inquest upon the body of Mr. Waugh was opened yesterday morning at the St. Andrew's workhouse, Gray's Inn. lane, before Mr. Watley. Mr. Wren, the surgeon who examined the body, deposed to the cause of death being from a pistol-shot right through the heart. The ball had passed through the left side of the right ventricle, through the right side of the left auricle, and again through the pericardium, when the trace was lost in the cellular tissue behind the heart. After some hours' search, the ball was found lodged in the right groin. The evidence of Mr. Whitefield who witnessed the whole affair and first seized the prisoner, was being taken, when the jury suggested that the presence of the prisoner for identification would be desirable. No orders having been issued to that effect by the authorities, the inquest was ad journed till Monday next. At the close of the pro ceedings, Mr. Mitchell, a former partner of Mr. Waugh, banded a statement to the coroner, entirely exculpating the late Mr. Waugh from any legal ill-treatment of the prisoner.