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be informal and irregular were the subject not eihausted by the most complete investigation. Hereafter, my Lord, your own clear sense will see, the Governments we represent might be held to have knowledge of that instrument. This incident closes the Conference; until we are apprised by my Lord that he is prepared with this Charter. [Exeunt, with such politeness, the French and Russian representatives. The Austrian Minister attends the Plenipo. (who is slightly stup(fied) to his carriage, which departs.l PLENIPO. (after a long pause.): Hammond ! I seem to have rather been and done it. Mr. HAbiIIOND: If your Lordship will introduce Magna Charta on all occasions— • PLENIPO. : Well, it can't be helped. Write for it, and tell the coachman to drive to the Hedgehog—where we're stoppieg, I mean. (Exeunt.) THE NEW REVOLUTION. Ran ! ran! ran! U tan ! Vive le rouge et 3 bas le blanc. P aria Chatalt. We are on the eve of a new Revolution. Morning Chronicle. Come ! Muggins and Crooks, and Gubbins and Snooks, Come Brown, Jones, and Robinson, lend us a hand; No Percy or Stanley is found half so manly As up to the standard the tap-rooms demand. TERTES OF Eb e loreso: .. Per Annum .. • • .. 21 6 0 Half-Yearly .. • • •• .. 013 0 Quarterly .. • • • • .. 0 6 6 Payable in advance. Subscribers are requested to send their Orders through thei- News Agent; if direct to the Office, accompanied by a Remit, anode. Money Orders to be made payable to Mr. ALFRED IVE 110, Strand, London. THE LETTER of our valued correspondent from Brussels was safely received. It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive Their insertion is often delayed, uwiug to a press of matter, and when omitted, it is frequently from reasons quite inde pendent of the merits of the commtutioation. 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 long it increases the difficulty of finding space for them. Whatever is intended for insertion must he authenticated by the name end address of the writer, not necessarily for publica tion, but as a guarantee of his good faith. Advertisements sent from the country mast be accompanied by a remittance or a reference for payment in town. SATURDAY, See Goderich unite in our plebeian fight— (Should the "Robinsons' sever from " Joneses" and "Browns?") Hear how he attests that "prosperity' rests On the sinking of nobles and raising of clowns. His wisdom knows well, as they've told us of Tell,' What "powers in the arm of a peasant may sleep ;" And whoe'er may deride, by his caste he'll abide, And old blood from the army sans mercy will sweep. Then support him and win in this " jolly go in" (So the taste of " the people" such matters express), As our fathers erewhile, writes Mr. Carlyle, Put the peers and the King in so awful a mess. Why should democrats toil, as the rank and the file ? Be curtailed in their hours and deprived of their drink? We'll have hodmen parade, each before his brigade, And bold navvies the spade for the bacon shall sink. ield-marshals we'll find each his counter behind, Who, like old Cincinnatus, will hie to the field; And each shopman and clerk in the war shall embark, And the cabbies a crop of field-officers yield. To manage the cares of the head of affairs For glib vestry aspirants we need not look far ; And perhaps we might own that " the Marylebone" Quite as wisely as Herbert had managed the war. on his departure, was very unwilling to see the Russian property occupied by the allies. It is said that he gave up the keys of the Consulate, under protest some time since, and was equally formal in his objections to the occupation of the Embassy. Under the name of the " Snow Dissolver," an in genious contrivance has been invented by a Mr. West, with the view of more speedily clearing the metropolitan streets from the accumulation of ice and snow with which they have lately been so much obstructed. The instrument consists of a large cart, traversed by a horizontal and cylindrical furnace, in which a coke fire is maintained. Snow shovelled into this cart will be rapidly melted, and can be let out by a properly arranged valve into the next gulley hole. The idea is novel and the invention of simple construction, and certainly well timed. The General Screw Steam Shipping Company's fine steamer Mauritius, but just returned from the Crimea with sick and wounded, was almost entirely consumed by fire yesterday morning in the dry dock at Southampton. The fire was discovered at about five o'clock, and by seven all chance of saving the ship was over. The magazines, containing about a quarter of a ton of powder, exploded at ten o'clock, sending up fragments of the burning wreck a great distance into the air. Fortunately no damage has been done of any consequence either to the dock or to the ships surrounding. The Mauritius was fully insured. MAJOR-GENERAL JAMES SIMPSON, the present De puty Adjutant-General, is selected to proceed to the Crimea to take the command of one of the divisions of the British army. General Simpson was recently named as Governor of Portsmouth, and is a Waterloo officer. Ho leaves England for the seat of war the week after next. THE continued frost of the week has given oppor tunity for constant gatherings of skaters on the ornamental waters of the metropolis, where scenes of much interest and some riot are occasionally exhi bited. The ice is now safe nearly everywhere, but some serious cuts and broken limbs have been sus tained by persons who have fallen or been knocked down. On the river much interruption to transit and commerce has been caused by masses of frozen blocks. Above Kingston the surface of the Thames is com pletely frozen over, and all passage by craft impossible; Above Greenwich the river is much covered with ice, and navikation stopped. In many parts of the river below briage the ice has set in so firm between the shore and the vessels moored near mid stream, that the crews walk to and from their vessels. All the labourers along shore are thrown out of employment, and great distress prevails. Southampton Water was on Thursday almost covered with floating ice. The boats in the stream had to be guarded from the ice by hurdles placed at the bows. In Southampton docks scores of mullet were caught with the hand and in hand nets. They floated about by hundreds on the surface alive, but perfectly helpless, being benumbed by the intense cold. GREAT FIRE.—A destructive fire broke out last night, between ten and eleven o'clock, in the steam saw-mills of Messrs. Routledge and Co., 4i Holland✓ street, Blackfriars-road. A great quantity of timber in stacks was kept on the premises, and, as the wind was high, the flames spread rapidly till all the stacks formed one magnificent conflagration, which illu minated to a considerable extent the whole tnetrc polls. The fire continued to rage fiercely till after [ four o'clock. THE PRESS. THE VIENNA CONGRESS. A despatch from Vienna received yesterday states that the diplomatic proceedings which are shortly to open in that capital will take the form not of a mere conference, but of a regular Congress. France as well as England sends a special representative. M. Titoff, who was for many years Russian Ambas sador at Constantinople, will be commissioned by the Czar to act with Prince Gortschakoff. Lord John Russell, who was to have left town for Vienna this (Saturday) evening, is suffering from indisposition, by which his departure will be de layed for some days. At the earliest moment that his health permits the noble lord will proceed upon his mission. As at present arranged, it is probable that he will visit Paris and Berlin. At the latter place he will enter into communication with the Prussian Court. It is a singular fact, that the father of Mr. Hammond, who accompanies the noble lord upon this occasion, was sent, in 1796, by Mr. Pitt upon a similar mission to Berlin-the object then being to persuade Prussia to assume an atti tude of armed neutrality. The mail steamer which left Constantinople on the sth inst. arrived at Trieste on Thursday. Riza Pacha, who will represent the Porte in the ap proaching Congress, was a passenger on board the vessel. A Cabinet Council will be held this afternoon. Sir Francis Baring has been appointed to the Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster, in succes sion to Lord Granville. The Secretaryship to the Board of Control is not yet filled up. The Right Hon. Henry Fitzroy resigns the office of Under Secretary for the Home Department. No appointment in his place has been yet made, nor has any successor been named to Mr. Peel as Colonial Under-Secretary. The Globe states on authority that Mr. Monsell has been induced to carry out the intentions he ex pressed in the month of December last, of resigning his office at the Board of Ordnance, solely from pri vate and personal reasons. The changes about to take place in the War Department will have the effect of causing considerable alterations in the Ordnance, involving the abolition of some of the higher offices. Pending this arrangement, it is not probable that the Clerkship of the Ordnance, vacated by Mr. Monsell, will be filled up. The King of Naples on the 4th inst. presided at a Cabinet Council, at which the question of Naples joining the treaty between the Western powers and Turkey was discussed. The Russian Minister, Count Orloff, has left, with his Chancellerie, for Caserta. The Metz journals state that orders have been given to the officers of engineers to prepare a piece of ground in the neighbourhood for a camp of 100,000 men. Preparations, it is said, are being made at the Palace Stanislaw at Nancy for the reception of the Emperor Napoleon. The Vienna Presse of Thursday states that the English are retiring from the siege lines before Sebastopol, and are, with the French guard, to form the reserve at Balaklava. Khosrew Pacha, formerly Grand Vizier and founder of the Turkish regular army, has died in Constanti nople at the age of 90 years. The Russian Embassy in Constantinople has been taken by the French as a military hospital. This is said to be a contravention of warlike etiquette; but was matter of necessity, no other place being dis coverable for the French sick. M. de Bruck, the Austrian Intamincio, to the protection of' whose pre decessor the Embassy was confided by litenschikoff ytt :1 rtggi+ LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1855, POSTSCRIPT. BY CONTINENTAL TELEGRAPH. Paris, Friday morning. The Moniteur contains this day the following : Foreign journals have published injurious reports respecting the discipline of the army in the Crimea. These reports are without foundation ; the discipline of the army has never been disturbed; on the con trary, the troops have never ceased to show their entire devotion and obedience to their chiefs. The funds opened at an advance of nearly a quarter per cent. on closing prices of last night. At one o'clock Three per Cent. Rentea were quoted 66.15, and, after having risen to 66.50, they closed at 66.20. On the Bourse, the early departure of the Emperor for the army was •till spoken of, and it is considered as certain that in this case the Empress will be Re gent. Vienna, Thursday evening. The Earl of Westmoreland has had several con ferences lately with Count Buol. It is confidently stated that they had for object to settle the conditions of a loan of fifteen millions sterling, which the Aus• trian Government wishes to contract with the guarantee of England. The loan is to bo brought out in the London market. The funds experienced to day a sudden fall. The rate of exchange on London rose from 12.24 to X 2,58„ and 5 per cent. metalliques fell 4 per cent., Ind *eft quoted at closing 81 f.