The Sun. — London, England, 1855-01-25 00:00:00

ns had be et 1 )NT. Sardinia hiesoo third , ° Oa° im dailge r ;_ e ;nie , j a tu ff s ?lee The e ' D ' w° r. lejecti°n' • 1 9 1 telgrtPoo 0 assaollsi g 1 g 1 G a littct• „tor CV , e d w ho is, 01 0 r . E the ni° o ut fOtior j ) t ii tthd a to a who aro. to ,e st Oe5 r sr!IE""J S ' " ),0 d A.lls 1101 ISt • der ° IC s ail Wed li° the I Tivedh!j, r Iris, Wm' to I° 9 .es wa5„, 0 ,115.,P, )hina atP.l 20 • 351$ p e o , 6 0 ? ,ghat f gip ! , , c . 12; 'coo agg P 4 adv ora e i gelbo „fa , 28th ' f ;b o rules° tie rove ° Jiara - o e. ian retie a Jo aiu raj" ot ) goo' s. .fists 3mp ire. great di range at Jr eclingly °li n that tl's ports. -,00 l ined; 514' 31d fields !I7 9 o f gOP W a tsosp i ;o 'Loudon,iool3 ' uth this o ot ) an the t) ? ;Lit pitlaj ich Wt s 06 0 :.1 ) st We ek " a P7 rirnen t ' $3l l, tiny' ° III di NONPY MARKET (VM3II:ROLAL _LW-TELL fa-ENCE. CITY, TWO o'CLOCK. ectie sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 4 : lll ated at 7,000 bales, including 500 American b li , ell f °r export. The market was rather heavy, 641.„..e5 prices were quite as high, but the quantity 21 - 11 g waBlalgelY increased. The sales comprised ir Araelica,n, 150 Bahia at 6d. to 6- d., 200 to T ian ' at .51d. to 7id , and 500 Surat at 3d. a d • per lb. ,iiin.Railway. Shares were quiet but The 4,, .lettershave of the Great Britain steamer from ti t g e r i r r al ev la io n n a ' s ve been delivered, and quite confirm telegraph as to the heaviness of the large markets. Nevertheless the gold production was th e l' 4114 the Wages were satisfactc ry, considering et a Y lver Price of imports, while the people out of Teeerrsra4s. 210YIent Were so voluntarily, not choosing to e .l :!° tll 7tt l e °lith e the Overland Mail are expected 27th or 28th inst., and the Australian L e , * w ill be to Nov. 25. te:lntlllttl.:B,tgrlyirs,hFunds have been very heavy again f , th e i , l ,th the uncertainty respecting the position o and the sinister rumours of further auziete,reV. difficulties impending, added to the Crite s '', a lit the condition of our troops in the ah oili e ru i l t ; ..,'_a not to be wondered at that prices 9i transfer le not Consols have been 91 to i '3 4. ' and 911 to 911 for account. The_ teeld3"etite. have been 91g. to -4., and the is in 91 -pt t ,' 3 i There have been no trans '. — Mx Sto c k . Exchequer Bills have t ol ,. . inrja. °*) and East India Bonds lls. to 14s. 4 0 a rei tre stock market presents a dull appear- Spanish 3 per hare recededst are e q and 3 . 61. The New De bauttechili) I, and o the Committee's Certificates ....ger ~Cents, 4 Per Cents. remain at 93,. and panis i h n .4exer, are 81-i. No business is recorded i'°r Turkish Bonds. .°"evring are the nominal prices of foreign ."--Grenada Deferred Bonds, 5 to 6 ; Men eeat,° 211; Peruvian, 70 to 72 ; ditto Three ‘,„ ..) 49 to 51 ; Portuguese Four per Cents., lo _ . ' LI 4 ' Russian Five per Cents., 100 to 2 , "Ur.a , d . oetthili.,l\rew I t e a f T r a ed if I pg t C o e n l t 7 s i . ,; Three 89 to 91 ; ditto 5 _ . a n , 3 G - i to 37 ; ' ditto Certificates, 4i to i, I 4 r ve, 4 to 41. t week's railway receipts ascertained up Y are in round figures as under : W...'4111 1855. 1854. 7 - We;' Nem -- ...... £20,527 £ 19,674 ************************ 45,367 47,201 rt( ****************** 10,778 441 **************************** 8,697 10,0608618 ' 4Ecia a ' te . r .. l: ************************************************** 22,872 !2,857 13,182 13,016 1 44 ******** ****************** 11,381 9,303 cbrthern ************************* 17,006 17,380 I..'4llzalligtii,lBll ia:i i i ;a — y .... sh — a — r; ***** operations are lard s e, and the tendency in the quotations i .r e ! , • The French and Colonial undertak ie dive. 411 es th e . 'took It re Is an absence of business. The -411 k fi and the Miscellaneous viL L 8 are rm, 141114 pit particular variation. 1:1 171 ; 138 THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES. I P/Vrel, the Osicial• List. i St et Business dons Ceclat. p;•::... 212 ent r il 'oed .; ...... ................ 91 $ 1 i i I 1 _ ortsols .u . las._ ......... 91'*i 1 i 1 901 I t" Cel it. A Annties 114.15, toZ € ll l 4 lllti es E 4 ; 11 : 4 er i000 . .**•••••• 11 14 zel3 4 4,*kee ot ,„ ,! 91 40k)T'''r Itilf,rith February .................... ................. '....” ..... 47 v.._.. ............................ . _ 13 1) tt o .41.18;••• n a , , RICE , lit:i2l 3i per Cent. - 9 -61 i I Afa i 1 .. %'',2 3 0141,` 4 , Fa, ,_. 130 4 - : - "m 3 p e ,),825 rIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. ,ipeli 130 e ‘ein,) Per Cent Bl i " 43 fo ' 3 l)e " ........ 11. r ~ e t , . .............. 1 Itt o x e z n Ac e Zet. Ott o for Irt, eneferte;i:ti 41 e1ic 041 ,,,,, 4Cco„ iit . ter Cent —l7l 1 11 / 2 - ieb D Pivi 'u"te e Cert. b ; , - 3 / 4 zek m de ncla on the of Coup. not n 41 Po. , 6co 4 - -go, 2 1 e above payable in London. ber 0, 4 ,2 Der gent. 12 Gun — 0 04ga_ bitto:v...e.: ... ....11..i.n. ........... ................................ ICI° WE. Feb A cc aunt , ......................... 421 t IituRzERERTBARTHELEMY' v it liet 1 to the editor .Iktk44l°Wing lotto has been 4, a :-..,. r addressed t,fischave just read, r paper Barthelemy, in your f 0 loft ' "lel moments of the great as remove a . 4 k,10,10. last of to-day, an ae sir 1 411 11 kt . 1 - toald add much, Catholic '4°,r s,„°i_t la accuracies ; - position a therefore, hilletl-%4 lam restrained bY my T was, L‘solvel;2°4Edant of the Pris° but you can understand, . ' n.er. what -1- was published o -" l k 'eti s- by e nothing to do with T annot allow t Pate AZT '''' laat mogments but - c 114%4 -e,l VI% • • ty,i3 tat ion that has b t I had too 4,.%1ie1i p a" 41°11%1 --cuh isoner, (t tha . t of re ilgioo.7,°- 114114 e toc trouble r - 131 on the subjec hi I do not k ' een adroitly words, 4 r at wh . 11 °W if II rth 1 v really used th ese of my first ,i re, .at r im be a e ern- If he spoke , we ll to l ee l lttt n i?sits h e was rt?e?d..thr. new k the man top his ,3 04aci P e t ti to sp eak to tit In 4 tin of religion before gaining the subject %t to r ee ' b-- 'dice my fourth visit it was i . I w ill only tits th Lekated conversations. For Pr" on Sunday ev t , ih . 4' animated co nversation between us him kolit,g.°4 that ofenheetour religion that g ave believe— :Q,:kll)l li e reflect with Voltaire, to lebienfaits qatie i r l gni sur nos jours versa taut c n 0 a .arasic,) I % to , ces jonrs soot finis nous tourme t to ma a %tu t '' , also cite those words he addressed , scaffold, but, 41 th., c 't sn hour bef he ascended the sea own t tati ' *f°111(1 haveore oth eruarantee than my written 11,10111 Y, 1 no the following letter o'clock, the kik 1 - en theater to quote at six _ ewas I I 4 st w h ,,,, AY of his execution, correspondent, h 444,1'',, according to your co ~. Nee- . h %ear P ceasing to beat, my f...*ltt feeia „ensieur l'Abb4,—Beforeyeu all its grat it u de 1 ; 1 ! the afret_4..oenaetcessity of show i ng have evangelically he m eonver" ii::‘11 o :". tue to cares you ni so last days. If my effected by Yet . had been possibleg it m y would y have be t " Believe me, 1 1 1 , " e "'e told .' nothing • . tance. I tiors-e.redlility is you • I believe lt of a proud rem counsels : hti. sieeetet._ . not the result aided by you r is av e ,:fif . dy feirti_?ae all I could, t me, and the moment seeret of 4, ,, , . 4 149 not come to I shall know the i ti Z s ll, I f 1 • In two hours if the future confirms rhol s ess,.,.. anl mistaken, and . before our God, h , it i 11:.'ion, I do not doubt appearing me ''Ykill,,-'lB ,ialinite mere would willingly pardon "-- 4 t his world Y - s, / that , . belief, for I canu t1.44,11d 4 I could share your in religious faith d •th of an other h. , le th e . hour se who take refuge in the hope lnnihi q;,,hil.,lvof death, strength n_s . i g but sternal the th:111,.1e,101_,0 believe in n th this awful mome human eZiett;' ollged to lean at and on . ' le • ' perha ps false, of ph il osop hy, i, 0 4 te z e ate t hanks, and adiea 1 ,, B. _ BARTHELEMY' i t Isztw , t oNe, 22(1 January, 1 855; .11, .. 111,0 t1.0.,...1 ill the morning. to M. ' -t ili i 1 / 4 1 you to express my gratitude telivvi'' kdd t poor BarthelemYt.d_aw phr:. hitb,o," this letter that thtee deceive me, by ! Th esefew phi,e.:ll, th e ' I , or rather sought human pride. ._ elet ter h ad e Wo h IP, t concessions to I doubt not, if n Barthelemy (44 b ee.. , nape disappeared, No, ef'tillot (I' written an hour later. moment ame, at the be eatb , t Idlertdulous ; he charge d all his enemies, and . I f e l ted th: !elk's that he parrione, till the last momenotf th. rern,it.Prlest to remain by h r i e m sted on the lasVotrepthe 4 : 1 tier f e i d 7i tl a a t 4 a distance,sifklnew the reason. unhappy %tittr,,4l4lled religi o usly the last wishes of my e with an zkeht4pk, tfe- Zit s ' - to me, on leaving m i;ray !" I ,iNed wi;1114,11 never forget, " pray, p,reaywho declare d d e , % 'iat h e ~r‘ i!errour, and I trust th , t n he wished to . i f 4 t14 .14 wl rla a Catholic and tha t tet,l 110, f elt f those me • ant one o ~ 0 p at that awful mom opens the gates -` aterhai ~rl,,ea that purify the soul and ilis---4 remain, sir, &e.p L'abb4 ROUX. ch apel /11sep Cadogan-terrace, Jan. 24. -.,.-........e.." T4_......0? GREAT BRITAIff 1 11 4 e Gre at , which arrived Vey e l kers ev l.?:tain, iron screw -steamer, ts,g ellt Li v •r er rotn Melbourne on Tuesday, t he 4t that Pool by Capt. Bevis, R.N., Commissariat ay,isbeing sur 4, the . eon, P°rt with view , of chartering her for "" of -" t roops to the C r i mea . Other steamers t v 74. e y ro; and eing BurlB h ay . : been a t t ak th e e n up sa for the conveyance of Z' ' l(3l° -I 'S FOR SPECIAL SERVICE' ot4i, e following Th a" which is meant e ts in India th, ' l.B for Rurpee - rnn special service, 4 Crimea There regiments, n are four infantry The 23d Foot. by laced Ti u z n . d : e ..... r Tile 25th Ring's Own Borderers. The 96th Foot. T he 1 The 98th Foot. o, Kirke* 4" (411 itnYal ilussars have marched from by steam vekij above-mentioned regiments will proceed r , an , to there to receive final orders. to Atarch to Suez, and thence ove .t i ing u t041,;-:l4oB:lariar;wt:rihiler°e'lletbeaY, -tr ng rts will be waiting ' - v,t+s' trig, to their daeTtinaatiofn. At is /lOth epeeted that the 14th Light Dragoons and the T '''''' ,a3(l Regiments of Foot will follow. withdrawal of 4,e,,i'ree preencieq occas ionpd bY the q tl: ( 1 ' - te t , e e the deficiency in thie strength of the armies isr-iT any Ruropeau tr"oopr, the Governmo IN pro ng a large force of irregular cavalry in . the north protection Co the frontier. t of India N.' 6 'FL] the 16th, 11-' to , tict ;(1. ~ (11111. its of SPsin ' a Carlist ins i tkilTshe stella statipg th tra • a to t ' pints, an beo rja e Are a had bee ° 0. laftricet id speedily _dbB . rge, 1 groups 01" t he l o ,ivas for Otit' eo, 11 Plo Dors gat:4..o a cee ) .tints. F s Pt Th tr incidents I 0 , , are bars 10, h er 01 various 1 ' ii 4/4 4 v tor o. gof the 13 040 The on the 180 alui _. Cabrera` to the s w_i . rte/ inclines ati co mm a 41, I doubt it, ''' at • CO.n" I let , ~ C r i k . twit 414; a Black P'• , fo r d Baron o,e, it Cho 0 1 9, r ItO 114 3 3onferrea 019 actiotiel qinister joi, beents 9 a descen. to Pre y migrated% „„ in of ICAO kt2e i 0 0 ' e e - ": of the 9114111 ' ferZ : blo t ° oil 41 am a a i have tlifelood 3p e . ti ing the tj::j Itexl • Y OP eCi teCe /f7 ' \ The the)/ liar k e k: I i '' 4 21 O il / "le? agssigi3 or • 41 Cell ilee A • , ditto 4' local jolltyLlP , t o , 3 tivelf .c 3 ° ;tild ', : 1 of the Alififij - De r 1 0 ,11 i y nest l7io lliti.:l .13,105/ell ;#lOl fP, up to the 44i ' to,,ek I se, and fh t ; t io ' 414 ( laily oc.(tevi, ,Orem 6r to qillt • i :0 44 I N I' °°llto 320 rae9 00 /t_r.igh•GY )J r ) of tbe ilki]ittl ,he 16th ',O e°4.,tocl ogetbef:a 0 q'r(lo,7 ed on WV e 4 t i unable to I , e t f the sea. dory . 1 .10 dowiihtc cont- ains a ; ilta wa are states tl?ia 1 1 4 4 Senate 01 ,:,, epitit that hodPraf 444461 O th© briu .° 1! 841 11 0 ip of PO 'll .] , . ktl z --' ' 1;0p/i V a st, !onstan.,-,s, a , c ei ed to pii t "- ' ?4""‘. ee .0101 A 'q iit 3 1 leaVO ofo r 44 p, this d°ls9i bit, k Prince );‘,il',4ts . toun-t0i4,1 ad stearo.4l i.ei,,,,, Imperial fd . 40 la ke the PI 'll ,,, ko Ise-where/ .2 14.1e,v for so:Boll" bil Dan; l wkkaak ft , Q SHARE MARKETS. TTITS DAY.) RAIL V"A YS. RAMIVATE. Aber Teen ...... Ambg. Nottng. Doe and Eastu. Belfast k Ballymena. Birruing. Wolverh. Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lincsh. & Cheshire Junct Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and Cons. Do., £20..... ..... Blyth &Tyn origina £25 (issd. at .£45,' Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Carmarthen and Car digan Chester dr Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, dr Pass Cornwall cricir Junction Dublin &Belfa.stJunc Dundee Perth drAber deen Junction Do. New East Anglian Eastern Counties...., Eastern Union, A Stock De., B. Stock Do New A East Lancashire Edinburgh & Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles , Edin. PAL & Dundee i Forth & Clyde June. Furness . Do. Extension Glasgow &S. Westem Great Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &West. (Ire. ) Great Western Do. Stour Val. Rai - Gua. Stk Irish South-Eastern. Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds Do. Nom Thirds Lancash. andYorksh. ,Do., Fifths... D 3., Wst. Riding Un Liv.Crsby.&Southpt London & Blackwal Lond. Bright & S.Cst. Lona. and N. Webtn. Do. Fifths D 0.10/. Sh. ,M&8...( Do. Eighths London and S. Westu Do., £5O Do., .£49 Lndndrry& Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Vanch.Sh ef. Linelp Do. f Shares, No. 1 Do., Man. & Lin. Un Nlidland Do. Birmng. & Derby Slidld. G. West. (Ire, ) Do. Half Shares Newcastle & Carlisle Newmkt.BuryExt,en Nwpt. Aberg. &Hrfd Newry & Enniskillen Newry Warrenpoini and Rostrevor Norfolk Northu.Countics Un North British North Devon, No. 1 Do., No. 2 Do., A A Deferred Do., B Guaranteed N. Eastern—Berwicl Do. do. Extension Dodo. G.N.E. Porch Do. Leeds Do. York N - orth London., on . I Dod New £lO N. &S. Wstrn.,llamp stead, and City Jn.. North Staffordshire NTorth Western N. & S. Westrn. Junc. Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton Portsmouth Scottish Central.... Scottish Midland .... ihrewsby. & Herefd Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales . Yrksh. & Riv. Dur Do :twines, Wok. &Wok Stockton & Darlin: ituzkton & Hartlepl. 'Taff Vale . Do. £lO shares. Do. Pref., No. 1 Marilee Haven Docl and Railway Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterfovl&Limerit It West Cornwall West End of Londoi, and Crystal Palace West London Wimbledn &Croydon ,Closing Prices 1 this day. 20 - 203 - ,-- 13 -12 d 16 17 8 7d 94 - 9G 61} -61 i 13 - 14 9 - 11 - - 74 14 - 15 10 -11 i 29 - 31 20 - 22 73 75 56 58 ?d par 19. LOj 68 - 70 89i - 90:1 72 - 74 125 - 127 90 -. 92 66 - 661 60 - 62 74 78 7 9+• 7 9 74t 751 5i di 74 8i .06 - 107 .00i 101 ip d- * p 8i 834 . 846 7il 8 7 25 25 , 7i - 8A 69 3 698 41 - 43 *4l.- i r 1 - - 21 49 51 3a 3A 31 ... 316 8 'lO 1/ -- 1 6} -- 75 t i -- 76', 6/ -- 4+ -- 34 124 -13 t -- 52 -- 64' Par -- ip 0 - it 4$ - 44, 6 - 6i id-iP 31 - 32 96 - 93 61 - 62 8 - 9 45 - 47 12 14 58i 59 28i - 296 35 - 27 3 3} 16 17 3 4} 21 - 23 5a 6a c' --- ... 7 FOREIGN. Antwerp&Rotterdam Belgian Eastn. June. Beziers to Graissessac Bombay, Baroda, and _ _ Cent;•al India,Scrip Central of Italy Demerara Dijon and Besancon.. Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Do. New East Indian Do. Extension Do. 42 p. c. Bds., pay, '57, convertible Do. do. do., '59, do Gd. Tk of Canada.A. is Do. St. Lawrence & Atlantic do. IDo. Cert. of Debon., con. into Stk. till '63 Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do. Gt. Central of France Gt. Indian Peninsula Do. New 5 per cent. Great Luxembourg Constituted Shares Do. Obligations Gt. Western of Cana& Shares Do. Bds., payable's7, with option till '55 Do. do., '62 p. '56 Do. do., '76, p. '6O Do. do., '73, without option Hamilton & Toronto Do. 6 per cent. Lake Const. & Basle Lucca & Pistoja 5 p.c. pref Lyons and Geneva Lyons & Mediterran Madras Do. New Karla Antonia Do. do. New Namur & Liege (pith interest) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France D0.20/.Shs.late Char leroi and Erquelines gum!. 3$ p. c. & red. at 221. dur. SS yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854.... Do. 20/. 3 p. e BdE. (fmy. B. & Ams.Shs.) I NorwegianTrunkPrei saris and Ly0n5.,.... I Ditto Bonds . saris and Orleans.... Paris and R0uen...... ParisCaen & Cherbrg Rouen and Havre Royal Danish Royal Swedish Sambre and Meuse Do. 51 p. cent. Pref Southern of France St. Andrew's and Quebec (A). West Flanders Do 5 per c. Pref Western of France West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden Zealand JOINT-STOP Australasia British Colonial Bank and Loan Company British N. American Chat-W. Bank of Asia Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China Colonial Commercial of Lond English Scottish and Australian Loud. Chart. Bk. 01 Australia Ditto Nen. London al County London Joint Stock Loud. & Westminstei National Provincial of England Do. New National of Ireland New South Wales Oriental Bank of Corporation. Provincial of Ireland' Do. New Royal Australn.Bkg & Gold Imp Co South Australia Union of Australia Do. Nqw Union of London „,. 61 - 0 1 - li par i p ••• P - 21 323 - 33 - 6* 1 - - iP 8 7a —7/ 11 —10 d 89. 91 1k lap par ip d iP 21 2i 21 2i 15i -- 16 97 - 1.00 93 95 2 par 97 100 dis d lip 14d i d i 0 T - 71 ii, ..-: iii 121 - - 12 21a 21 p 46 48 41 43 pm 22 23 id lid 2i 7 —St •.. - ••• - pm 31 d 7 8 p ai ••• ...... • iii 1 ii BANKS. 79 -- $1 Td :: id 3 - 2id 21h - 22 Dusinvs dons this day. 201 20 25 St. 20 St 25 412 s 20 20 10 10 20 20 20 20 100 20 20 20 20 10 all all 36 = ii; 37 - 39 3`► - 41 66 - 68 7 9 .10 111 THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING-, JANUARY 25, 1855. THE FRENCH LOAN. Varna and Bucharest, so that no time may be lost in the transmission of intelligence from the Crimea, and with various other powers and instructions. —Daily News. We have received the Moniteur• of yesterday. It contains the following article on the success of the loan. The article has a political as well as a financial signification : "The success of the first atternptat anational loan gua ranteed the success of the new appeal which the Emperor recently addressed to the country ; yet the result has ex ceeded every expectation. Never did a people,' as the Minister of Finance observes in his report, ' give to their Sovereign so striking a proof of confidence and devotion.' The Emperor asked France for 500,000,000, the deputies unanimously .voted them, France responded by offering four times the amount, and foreign States, associating themselves to this national manifestation, give it the character of a European manifestation. " Two millards 200 millions of francs were subscribed in 12 days. To judge by the crowds at the last moments, another week would have added considerably to this et.ormous capital. The crowd was so dense at the Trea sury, at the mairies, at the finance receivers', at every place where subscriptions were taken, that a great num ber of persons could not take part in them. Never was such eagerness displayed —and this in the time of war, in the middle of winter, when we have scarcely reco ♦ered from a crisis in the price of food, and without any acts having been resorted to to stimulate the zeal of the subsoribees. Extract from the letter of an officer of H.M.S. In flexible, dated Varna, Jan. 9 : On New Year's-day we left this place for the Crimea with Omer Pacha, accompanied by the commissioners Colonels Simmons and Dieu, Prince Sturdza, and suite. On Wednesday morninghishighness landedat Eupatoria and examined the defences of the place (where there are, I believe, about 10,000 troops, mostly Turks; with 40 guns), and there he left fighting old Iskender Bey, the hero of Karakal. On Thursday morning we started again, and passing through the fleet lying off Kazatch and Kamiesh bays, where the admiral saluted the Pacha, proceeded to Balaklava. The Muchir had intended to examine the coast on the way down, as it was said that the Russians were again in force on the Alma ; but the snow fell heavily and continuously, and pi evented our approaching the land. Immediately after we had anchored at Balaklava Col. Simmons rode up to the front to acquaint Lord Raglan and General Canrobert of the Pacha's arrival, and next day, the sth, his Highness took part in the council of war which was held. (From the Journal de Constantinople.) EUPATORIA, Jan. 3.—A body of 10,000 good Ottoman troops is now at Eupatoria, under the command of Behram Pacha and Teffik Pacha, the son-in-law of Omer landed, having hbea a b ur e at e il ic loenr c y o c n iosn v hs e ieysretesd and f o r f o m aabpo lr aur a Yarns 60 %; tot the y e eci t a t vd e ail C srey o i Pacha. On the 31st of Dec. the battalion of sharpshooters T pil h imn e be t d Ow in n eTnh E i a Ts s been fortified by French and English en gineers, and at this moment can make head against 100,000 Russians. The French, English, and Turks live on very friendly terms together. The military governor of Eupatoria, a good administrator and an excellent officer, M. d'Osincett, whose rank on the staff is that of a cheld'escadron, is indefatigable in bringing everything into a state of order, and he has organised a Tartar police. The Tartars ask for arms, and go out to fight courageously against the Cossacks, whose pickets and outposts can be seen by the town sentries. A few skirmishes §ometimes come off, but the Congreve rockets terrify the enemy and his horses to such a degree, that they dare net venture too near the town, which has now a moat round it. This moat was dug by the Turkish troops under the direction of French engineer officers, both commissioned and non-commissioned. There is no want of provisions, and yet a few merchants would do well if they came to Eupatoria. On the 24th of December last, the Egyptian vessel on shore, a little in front of the French Henri IV., caught fire and burned down to the water's edge. The guns will be saved and all that is in the hold. About fifty seamen, who came from Constantinople on board the Mubhi Surur, are busy at the salvage. The weather has been fine, and the cold is not great—a fortunate thing for the Tartar villagers who have taken refuge in the town and are without provisions. The Tartan are em ployed at digging trenches and on the fortifications ; they are supplied with rations, but Are very greedy, very lazy, and very ignorant. We have in the roadsted the Leander, Captain' the Hon. G. J. Hastings, of the English navy. The French ship Henri IV. has 100 men on board with guns, aid the Russians cannot approach on that side. The cavalry, some 7,000 strong, form a cordon about Eupatoria ; they have artillery with them, and prevent the inhabitants from bringing supplies to the town. Everything is now imported by sea. The roadsted of Eupatoria is bad during the winter, and the landing is difficult on account of the surf. There is also a deficiency of barges and boats for the service. The Tartars break up whatever they can for fuel, and one to List needs keep a good look out, or they would carry away the roofs of the houses and destroy the boats drawn up on the beach. The town is full of mud, and in every street you meet with the dead bodies of animals at every step. The Tartars eat the young horses, and throw the offal into the streets. We are luckily in the winter, or otherwise we should have the plague. Notwithstanding the season, there is a high rate of mortality among the inhabitants ; the prevailing malady is typhus. Troops are sent every day from Varna. The Indiana arrived on the 3d with 1,500 troops and the ferik Mehemet Pacha on board. During the night of the 31st nit. the Niger, a war steamer, arrived also from Sebas topol. It brought no news of importance. They have engaged here 200 Tartar labourers to go and work at Balaklava. The Ottoman Government would do well to settle some of these folks in Bulgaria, for they would form excellent horsemen, and, as military colonists, would cultivate the plains along the bank of the Danube. In consequence of the bad weather on the Ist and 2d of this month, the troops which arrived from Varna could not be landed. On the 3d the weather turned out fine, and the Colombo, after landing its troops on board, will be able to proceed to Balaklava with a hundred sump ter-horses brought from Varna, for the officers of the British army. A few days ago they brought here about 800 Tartar horses, and sent them off to Balaklava. " It is not possible to mistake the significance of this great political event. The object of the loan was known. In his speech at the opening of tue Chambers the Em peror bad loudly declared that it was not to provide for the expenses of France at home, as, since the restoration of order, the revenues of the country amply sufficed for all its wants, but solely to furnish the means for carrying on the war with renewed vigour. It is nevertheless to a financial operation thus clearly defined that not only France and England eagerly associated themselves, but also Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, and even , Germany. " The bril:iant success of this operation is more than a victory—it is the means of gaining victories. If money is the sinew of war, France has just proved that she does not want money, any more t h an s h e d oes so ldi ers ; and that the Emperor can coun t equa ll y upon t h e purse as upon the arms of the citizens. "It would be difficult to exaggerate the bearing of such an event. When a nation has been able to declare through the mouth of its chief that it has in its army and navy nearly 60,000 soldiers, 120,000 horses, and 70,000 sailors embarked on board ship, and offers im mediately four times the amount that it is asked for to carry on the struggle, there is in this combination of strength placed at the service of European right more than one legitimate subject of satisfaction for itself and of future against every eventuality. o E n r fi e d o e n i c u e o for ur its A worst lh da e y s ; there is security for the the military resources of France were never contested. E ver y one k nows th a t soldiers spring up like armed veterans from this heroic soil, but who could have guessed the extent of its finan cial resources? In this respect France herself was ig norant of it ; she only knew herself when she hearkened to that sympathetic voice which had already successfully appealed to her before. The national loan has renewed the prodigies of the universal vote, and it was reserved to him who saved France by enabling her to manifest her sentiments, to reveal to her all the riches she contains within herself. "For it was truly France that quadrupled the last loan. She is proud and thankful for the testimony she has received from neighbouring States ; but in the mass of subscriptions the produce of foreign funds does not exceed the proportions of a sympathetic manifestation. " After the grandeur of the result, what cannot be too much pointed out as an indication of the wealth and future prosperity of the country is the number of small subscribers, and the amount of capital paid into the Treasury at the moment of the operation. Who could have supposed that France could place 400,000,000 f. at the immediate disposal of tho Government, and that without the slightest inconvenience or bar to the general movement of commerce and industry? "The great capitalists also came with an enthusiasm for which praise is due to them to offer a proof of their confidence and adhesion to the Government ; but their concurrence was not necessary, and, as the Minister of Finance observed, they ought to congratulate themselves upen it. If the immediate advantages of the loan fall exclusively to the small subscribers, the great cipi talists find in the unparalleled success of this financial operation, and in the results which it promises, a large compensation. "Nothing tends more to consolidate credit and to give a new impetus to the public wealth than this confi dence i 1 which ht offers to th e G overnment , asked, and thi s l oya lt y o f 700,0 o 0 f 0, t 0 h o is of. nation, more than the Government, which at once returns the excess, so as not to take it out of the current of business. " The total sum of the small subscriptions amounts to figures speak elu -850,000,000f., being 850, 000,000 f. m ore than the sum demanded. It is here especially that quently. On nearly 180,00 0 subscriptions less than 10,000 f. are above 500 f. of Bente ; 170,000 do not ex ceed 500 f., and in this number the smallest ones—those which do not come up to 500 f., and which are the pro duce of the savings of the working classes—represent more than 300,000,000 f. of capital. " Doubtless in this universal display of confidence and patriotism speculation bad its part. But, among those who looked upon the loan as a good speculation, how many of them were moved only by the desire of gain And even in their eagerness to subscribe we must behold another proof in favourof the credit and policy of France. But the agriculturist, the workman, the small capitalist —that is to, say, the immense majority of the subscribers —they are completely strangers to speculation. They beheld in the Jana aatideal duty toh. accomplished, and at the same time an"eppertuntty for safe in at meat of their savings. The Feur-and-a-Half per Cents., which do not offer speculation, counted more than a third of the small subscriptions. Of the 40,000,000 of Rentes taken by the small capitalists, 14,000,000 belong to the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. " The Rentes on the State are part of the public for tune. But, as before 'B9 the soil of France was divided among a small number of large proprietors, so before the first attempt at a national loan the great capitalists were alone called upon to participate in the benefits of the loans. The Emperor desired, as the debts of the State are a charge for all, that the advantages offered by the -Rentes should be accessible to all. The national sub scription will have produced in the Rents a revolution analogous to that of the principles of 'B9 in property. The same consequences will result therefrom : the diffu sic)* of wealth and the enlar,,eemeut of the bases of social order—that is to say, new bonds which will attach the masses to the tranquillity and prosperity of the country:" TDB TURKISH EXPEDITION TO THE CRIMEA. VARNA, Jan. 10.—The winter is dragging its slow length along, and the work of transporting the Turkish army to the Crimea has as yet made but very little pro gress. It is an undoubted fact that intrigues on a large scale are being carried on against Omer Pacha, the prime mover being one of the principal members of i t n h e the o thepresent Ministryandto throw every obstacle in the way of ;th his supporters half the old pachas e modus operandi general and of the ar m y, b y h o ldi ng b ac k sup pli es , m ns,&c., hopi ng h e may, th en come i n f o r the strenuousn yovp recountry,oiny ieffortsen whole load of the blame. This may seem a very asinine scheme in England, where the press is ever on the watch, where the administration is well-organised, po litical honesty the rule, political dishonesty the excep tion, and where every department works more or less under the public eye. But, nevertheless, intrigues of this sort, childish and ridiculous as they may seem, prove m any a man's ruin inTurkey, have brought many a proud head under the sword of the executioner, when a great man's cranium was one of the most acceptable gifts the sovereign could offer to his subjects ; and they are evan now sufficient to consign great talents and brilliant ser vices to obscurity and oblivion. The do wnfal of Omer tchheileefasdwinhgosugbrjaeccet Yarns ofthethoughts and I have little doubt that were PPahlrea'edelsehconversation Y d nelo b 'of y nmtole moment, t' European influence, they would effect it. He has given various causes of offence. He is of giaour origin ; he has been, too successful ; has reached too high a grade ; is too cordial with Europeans ; acts too much by their advice ; is not sufficiently Turkish in his manners ; is not prone to embezzlement, and does not permit it in others when he knows of it ; and is free from one or two darling vices of the Turkish aristocracy, to which I dare not allude more particularly than to state that in England they are punished by transportation for life. As regards the ultimate issue of the delibera tions of this concl ave I entertain no a pprehensions what and beyond a m ere mention t hey deserve no notice. prese nce of so many functionaries here at present Te is v , hee hr'owever, a curious illustration of the Turkish style of doing business. To superintend the embarkation of the troops Omer Pacha had selected M as h ur P ac h a (S ir Stephen Lakeman), wh o was certainl y a man in every way fitted for the work from his sound comm on sense , hi s prac taincdalhtiusrbnuosn fimeisnsd, his English way of looki ng a t thi n gs, habits. Count Koscelki, a P o li s h o ff icer o f speaking Turkish the Turks thoroughly, had been already sent here by Lord Raglan and General Canrobert for the same purpose. These two acting under Omer g fi r ti e e a n t t m ly, er a i n t daVnionwdeilfagtigable industry, Pacha would have been amply sufficient for the work ; but the Constantinople wiseacres seem to have thought otherwise, and hardly a week or even three days now pass that a steam-frigate does not make its appearance in the harbour with a new functionary on board, who lands amidst salutes of 21 guns from the batteries, surrounded by about 50 attendants, and with fully as much baggage as as Omer Pacha's lieutenant on a regiment of infantry. Ismail Pacha arrived the other gneflic4sis absence in the Crimea. This day in this manner, with the view, it is said, of installing thehim spelfapnuet•feadsuaruint gentleman, though a brave man, and perhaps the best of amongst others, b is e h lie fa v i e lin th g a s t ; the Turkish forces an overweening confidence in the Sultan's resources, which leads him to think the Anglo-French alliance per plan for ousting him. unnecessary, h fe i c s ti c y lass i has alone are amply sufficient to deal with the Russians. He is, consequently, by no means disposed to co-operate cordially with Europeans, detests Omer Pacha, and is several a n T d u t r o k Omer Pacha arrived on Monday from the Crimea in the Inflexible. It appears the Allied generals have pro ready to take part in any mised him transports, and he is now about to hasten the embarkation of the army as much as possible. The news from Sebastopol is not very favourable. The houses are st Balaklava, an d a l s o plenty of wood, but it appears that there is no means of transporting them to the camp; consequently the men are often obliged to eat their food raw, and many have died in consequence. Some officers, too, in trying to warm their tents with charcoal have been suffocated. The Turks are now embarking every day. The Hon. Mr. Cadogan arrived here last night ; he has come out, it is said, to establish telegrppbic communication between marched in the direction of Eupatoria, for we no longer I perceive its fires on the neighbouring heights. The Russian General, it is said, intends to attack the Turkish division before it receives reinforcements from the army on the Danube. But no fears are entertained for the security of the place, which has been put in a respectable state of defence by French officers of engineers and artillery. The 12,000 or 14,000 men already landed there are, besides, more than sufficient to repulse the enemy. The reconnaissance made, in the last days of December, by General Bosq ue t, at the head of a considerable force, had for its principal object t o destroy Tchourgoum, and to seize the provi sions collected there by the Russians. The expedition completely succeeded. The village was reduced to ashes, after our troops had removed therefrom all the articles worth carr ying o ff . Th e R uss i ans did not di sp l ay on that occasion the same courage they exhibited on other rencontres. Our Zouaves struck terror into them, and they fled on their approa c h. Th e loss of the enemy was not so serious as it would have been had they offered re sistance. The French returned with 40 prisoners and 50 horses, having had only 4 killed and 10 wounded, two of whom were officers. All our troops, as well as the Turks, are now comfortably hutted. The same can not, unfortunately, be said of the English. Their huts are still at Balaklava, and the bad state of the reads pre vent them from transporting them to their camp. Th, trenches, on the other hand, are literally under water, and the siege operations are consequently suspended for the present. In the evening of the 3d a strong i division of Cossasks made its appearance n the vicinity of Balaklava. The Russian Generals, no doubt, intended to draw thither a part of our force, for, on the following morning, they sallied out of the batteries of the Garden, and attacked the French lines. Their attempt, however, was unsuccessful. They were quickly repulsed, and vigorously driven back into the place. Omar Pasha, accompanied by Mustapha Pasha and some English and Fi ench officers, arrived on the sth at the head-quarters of the Allies, where he was enthusi astically received. After a visit paid by the Turkish Generalissimo to Lord Raglan and General Canrobei t, a council of war, at which AdmiralLyonsand Bruat assisted, sat for several hours. As you may suppose, the result of that conferen ce was h e ld secret. However, from what transpired, it is believed by the superior officers that Omer Pasha, at th e h ea d of an army of at least 50,000 men, reinforced by an Anglo-French division, will operate, toward the close of the month, to the north of Sebastopol, keeping in check the Russian troops rest ing on Simpheropel and the reserves which may arrive from the interior of Russia. Prince Menschikoff appears determined not to risk any general affair. Perhaps his army is still uncler the impression of its defeat at Inkerman, or he relies on the effects of the inclemency of the season on our soldiers. This l as t opinion is evidently entertained by the Russian General, who is reported to have said—' Our troops may rest ; Generals January, February, and March will fight their battles far better than they could.' These are in reality the auxiliaries on which the Russians always most confidently rely, for it is to them they are indebted for their most decisive successes. But thank God 1 the situation of the allied armies is such that they can bear without any great inconvenience the inclemency of a climate to which they are now inured, and it is little probable that the Russians themselves are in so favour. able a condition. Moreover, under existing circum stances, eight days of fine weather may totally change the aspect of affairs. At the request of Lord Raglan our intendance pl ace d 10 , 000 c l oaks with hoods at the , disposal of the English army, which, consequently, now wears the French uniform." 1 10s. 20 MINES. A g,ua Fria ...... 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The Queen and Prince walked in the Home-park this morning. The prince of Wales and Prince Alfred enjoyed the diversion of skating. The Princess Royal and younger Royal children took their usual exercise. Major-General Simpson arrived yesterday afternoon, had the honour of dining with her Majesty, and re turned this afternoon. A deputation had an interview yesterday with Sir B, Hall, President of the General Board of Health, at his office, Whitehall, from the District Surveyors ap pointed under the Metropolitan 'landings Act. The deputation was introduced by Mr. Thomas Alcock, M.P., and consisted of the following !gentlemen :—Pro fessor Donaldson, South Kensington District ; Mr. Pownall, St. George, and St. Giles's, Bloomsbury ; Mr. Gutch, Paddington ; Mr. Kendall, St. Martin's-in-the- Fields, and St. Anne's, Soho ; Mr. Godwin, South Islington ; and Mr. Hesketh, Bermondsey. A deputation from the Paddington vestry had also an interview yesterday with Sir Benjamin Hall at the office of the General Board of Health, Whitehall. The depu tation consisted of Mr. Churchwarden Baylis, Messrs. Kemshead, Burslem, and Lambert Jones, and Lieut.- General Peter De la Motte, attended by Mr. Frederick Aveling, vestry clerk. The Belgian Chargd d'Affaires bad an interview yes terday with the Earl of Clarendon at the Foreign-office. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial office from the Governors of the West India colonies. MARKET NEWS--(T11.18 DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the week er'ed Jan. 25, 1855, made up from the Returns of the Inspectors in ft o di ffereot Cities and Towns in England and Wales per Imperial Quarter. WREAT. BARLEY. ( OATS. RYE. BRANS. PEAS. 72e 2d 33s 7 , 1 26. 111 , 45s 34 453 71 j 42s Od THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGE. • WHEAT. t PARLEY. OATS. RYE. BEANS. 1 PiAl. 73s Id J .. .. 34s Id_ ... 27s 7d } 46s 7d 47s td 45s 6d QUANTITIES OF GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK. Wheat, 77,711; Barley, 99,917 ; Oats, 18,967 ; Rye, 180; Beans, 4,910; Peas, 1,772 quarters. MEAT MARKETS. NEWCIATE AND LEADENHALL.— The general demand ruled steady, at full prices. Beef, from 3s Od to 4s 6d ; Mutton, 3s 2d to 4s 4d ; Veal, 4s 4d to 5s 4d ; Pork, 3s Od to 4s 4d per 81bs, by the carcase. SOUTHALL, Jan. 24.—We had a moderate demand for stock to-day, as follows :—Beef, from 3s ed to 4s Bd. ; Mut ton, 3s 4d to 4s 101 ; Veal, 4s 4d to 5s Od ; Pork, 3a 2d to 48 6d per Blbs, to sink the offals. ROMFORD, Jan. 24.—Beasts sold readily, on higher terms. Most other kinds of stock were a slow sale. Beef, from 3s 6d to 5s Od ; Mutton, 35 4d to 5s Od ; Veal, 45 4d to 5s 2d ; Pork, 3s 2d to 484 d per 811)5. Quarter old Store Pigs, 205 to 275 each. HAY MARKETS. EimrrurrEtn.—Meadow hay, 2/ 15sio 4/ 15s Od ; clover ditto, 3/ Os to 5/15s ; and straw, 114 a to 1/ 10s per load ; A. moderate supply_akd a steady trade. CIIMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 3/ Os to Si Os ; clover ditto, 3/ 103 to 5/ 15s ; and straw, 1/ 5s to 1/ lls per load. Trade firm. WHITECHAREL.—Meadow hay, 2115 s to 41155; clover ditto, 31 5s to 51 16s ; and straw, 11 ls to 1110 s per load. Supply good and trade dull. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DI Y.) LONDON, Jan. 25.—Wind and weather this day at noon, light North-Easterly breeze, and fine weather ;•it is thawing slowly. DOVER, Jan. 24.—Wind, E.N.E. Arrived—Caroline Agnes, from St. Helena. PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 24.—Wind, N.N.E. Arrived— Jenny Lind, from Rio Janeiro, for Gothenburg; Robert Dickson, Gothenburg, for Melbourne ; London, London, and sailed for New York ; Stag, London, for Swan River. COWES, Jan. 24.—Wind, E. Arrived—Charles Ross, from Canton, for Hainburgh. PLYMOUTH, Jan. 24.—Wind, E. Arrived—Ethiope, from London, for the West Coast of Africa. LOWESTOFT, Jan. 24.—The Maria, of and from Sunder land to London, has been assisted in here leaky, having been on Scroby Sand. YARMOUTH, Jan. 24.—The Resolution (brig) of and for Southampton, from Sunderland, went on shore at Wen terton last night ; crow saved. TftiEsTE, Jan. 24. (Per Elec. Tel.)---The Nene Valley, from London to Portland Bay, is stranded at Cape North umberland. The Young Australian (s) is also lost there. MELBOURNE, Oct. W.—The Brahmin, from London to Sydney, N.S.W., was wrecked on King's Island (west coast), May 25 ; tho master, first and second officers, two men, and four passengers, drowned; twenty-four of the crew and passengers saved. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Thursday Morning. Wind, N. Arrived—Jersey, from New Orleans ; Bahia, from St. Michael's ; Caroline and Pollux, Seville ; Walmer, Ham burgh ; Admiral Piet Hein, Amsterdam ; Actif, Ostend. Sailed—Lucy Thompson, for New York ; Repeater, Smyrna. _ _ QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 23. Wind, N. Arrived—Peeping Tom, from Prince Edward's Island; Speranza, Kerteh. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Thursday, 9.50 Sal. Wind, N.W. ; tide, 2, 1 , hour's ebb ; weather fine. Arrived, Jan. 25—Anna Margarotha, from Nykobing; Magnet (s), Rotterdam. Sailed—Kestrel, for Malta ; City of Rotterdam (s), for Dunkirk ; Sir E. Banks (s), Calais ; Soho (s), Havre. DEAL, Thursday, 9.25 a.m. Wind, N.N.W ; weather, modorate. Passed—Her Majesty's steamer Cossack, from Ports mouth, for Leith. Passed—Rpnechan, for Mobile. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. The Ariadne, Boston to the East Indies, Dec. 9, lat. 3 S., long. 31 W. The Adriatic, Cardiff to New Orleans, Dec. 25. The Hole in the Wall, E. 15 miles. The Moses 'Wheeler, 14ndon to Chili, Nor. 29, lat. 3 S., long. 32 W. The Havannah, Nov. 27, lat. 14, long. 35. The Ocean Steed, Calcutta to Boston, Dec. 27, lat. 26, long. 67. The Warner, Callao to London, Dec. 26, lat. 41 N., long. 23 W. Tho Waban (American ship), Calcutta to London, Nov. 28, lat. 30 S., long. 34 E. ; Sent (ship), Mauritius to Cape of Good Hope, same day. The Emmeline (schooner), Coringa to London, Nov. 30, lat. 33 S., long. 32 W. The Highlander (barque), Calcutta to London, Dec. 2 lat. 34 S., long. 27 E. The Robert Peel (French ship), Deo. 18, lat. 6 N., long. [ 24 W. CRYSTAL PALACE ' ---• WEDNESDAY. SHILLING DAY.— Admission at the doors, 599 ; admission by season tickets, 160. Total, 750. THE EXPENSE OF CONVICTS.—A Parliamentery blue book hai just been published, from which it appears that the cost of convicts in 1853-4 was 7,2541., and in 1854-5 8,3591. The high price of provisions was ono cause of the increase. EXTRAORDINARY PRESENT.—It is said that Lord Aberdeen is to -have the vacant Garter. About as fit ting a present as knee-buckles to a Highlander. Seeing that the.Prernier has not a leg to stand upon, what will he do with a Garter t--Punch. AUSTRALIA ROYAL MAIL STEAM COMPANY.—At a meeting of this company, held yesterday afternoon, the report was unanimously adopted. The chairman (Mr. W. Malins) explained that the accounts had been brought into a more satisfacto r y position, the liabilities having bees reduced and the assets increased. The employment of the steamers in the transport service is producing a considerable profit, and under those circumstances it was thought.the directors might recommend a distribution. It was therefore resolve d that a p a y ment of 104 per share shall be made to t he p ro p rietors, and a fur ther sum aofsle°ttlemwielilAitwiisthexthil eted' be divided before Ju ne , w h en Admiralty shall have been effected. 1 In answer to questions it was mentioned that the amount of liabilities is about 39,000/., and that the tangible assets reach 58,000/ i rre spective of several large it ems , the actual position of which cannot yet be clearly ascer -1 taMed, WHAT IT WILL COST PRUSSIA TO GO TO WAR. BERLIN, Jan. 22.—Preparatory to any debate that may arise in the Second Chamber on the sub ject of the additional 25 per cent. being levied on the income tax and octroi, to meet the interest of the loan issued last year by this Government for war purposes, a memorial has been distributed among the Deputies, setting forth what has been already done in this respect, what the military preparations have cost, and what they will continue to cost only to keep up the state of preparedness for war (Kriegsbereitschaft). The memorial runs as follows : "I❑ view of the general state of politics and of the circumstance that all the other great Powers of Europe have most extensively developed their military resources, it could not remain matter of doubt that Prussia would also be obliged to take measures to bring the various parts of her army into a condition which would facilitate its passing into a state of actual war, and increase its preparedness for that state, without entailing on the land the expenses of a mobilisation earlier than was in evitable. "In all armies it is first the procuring and then the training of the horses that hinders and delays their be coming prepared. Although the Prussian army is in the fortunate position,. that the full war complement of horses can be certainly provided in the country itself, and their supply is regulated by law, it can nevertheless not be denied that in the case of its being got ready for war the great number of untrained horses would act as a great hindrance. To *brute these in conveniences it will be requisite in all cases, where there is time for preliminary preparations, to begin with the augmentation of the horses that will be wanted to boy taken into action, and therefore stand. in need of peculiar training, as in the cavalry and artillery ; and then to take care that, either by limiting the retirement of men who have served their time, or by early calling out those who are destined to replace them at the various arms may be provided with a full complement of men. ."In addition to the above-mentioned preparations, it was necessary to bear in mind the important circum stances that possibly the necessity of increasing the field artillery might supervene, seeing that a fe w years back the five six-pou n d er foot b a tt er i es of ea ch regiment of artillery were each reduced by one foe the purpose of obtaining, as it was then thought ne cessary, an increased strength for the peace footing of the other batteries and the artillery of the fortifi cations. Therefore, to avoid being obliged to weaken the reserve stores for the purpose of strengthening the field artillery up to the former extent, it was necessary to arrange for replacing the batteries that had been re duced, and putting them on the war footing. " It was also imperatively necessary on the breaking out of war between the neighbouring Great Powers to make preparations for strengthening certain points on the frontier, and to order some of the fortresses to be got into a state of preparedness, both as regards their forti fications and their armament of artillery. " The immense number of guns now used in war, of large calibre and of long range, has made it necessary to supply the fortresses with 25-pound and 450-pound cannon, for firing shells, so as to enable them to meet any attack with similar guns, and at the same time to supply the siege train with similar pieces. " Confcrmably to the above, the following arrange ments have been made, and carried out, one after the other since the mouth of July:— " I. Every cavalry regiment of the standing army has been put on the full war footing. "2. Every battery of the nine artillery regiments has had its complement of men and horses fully made up. "3. The recruits of all arms levied this year for ser vice next spring were already ranged in the ranks, in the beginning of October of the last year. "4. The leaves of absence usually issued for the win ter have this time not been given. " 5. The cavalry and artillery have only disposed of such horses as were not worth their fodder, and - the late purchases are borne on the books as supernumeraries. " 6. The artillery, inclusive of the fortification compa nies of two regiments, has not parted with the men who had served only their full time. " 7. The men necessary for grooming and training the newly•purchased horses have been retained in the service. " 8. In two divisions of pioneers, the men who had served out their time have not been suffered toleave their re g iments, and the recruits are consequently borne on the rolls as supernumeraries. "9. The erection of a fifth 6-pound foot battery for each of the nine regiments of artillery has been pre pared for, so that the field artillery may, in case of need, be properly strengthened, and without weakening the reserve stock. "10. The reserve stores of ammunition for light per cussion fire-arms are being increased in proportion to the gradual introduction of this weapon into the army. " 11. The smiths'cornpanies of the artilleryhave been put on full war footing, inclusive of the infantry com manded to their service, so as to enable the artillery works to meet the demands that may be made on them. " 12. For the purpose of securing the frontier the preparations that seemed necessary have been made, and the fortresses in question have seen strengthened in their fortifications and armaments. "13. i3teps have been taken to supply the fortresses with a number of 25-pound and 50-pound cannon for firing shells, and to prepare for a supply of t'nese species of artillery to the siege trains. "The extraordinary expenses which h l a Bth v se : aaccrued t tn : the ton Admi d nistration p o f t o the h e A rm close f of rom, 4,135,724 thalers. Of this sum, 2,419,029 thalers were for outiaoyvsereandde aobnocveeftohreaulls,uwalhmiliclittb;eycbuurdregnett amountsmo nthly expense rs to 434,058 thalers." WINE DTIT , IES.—The C a di z papers g i ve an * won't of Mr. Oliveira 's visit to that city in connexion with this subject, and intimate the deep interest which all the great houses at Jeres and Port St. Mary's take in the question. The honourable gentleman, it seems, has made a complete survey .of the various establishments, and been most favourably received ; added to which the leading commercial houses of Cadiz are beginning to view the principles of free trade with some favour even as regards a reduction of the Spanish tariff. Mr. Oliveira is expected home early in February, when he will bring forward his motion on the wine duties.. Owing to the cold, the building of the small. chateau for the Empress, near Bayonne, which is called. the Villa ' Eug4nie has had to be suspended ; but materials con tinue to be conveyed there, and the cutting and prepa ration of stones is carried on with activity.--Galignani. SAVINGS'-BANKB.--The bill of the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the re-arrangement of the funds of the savings'-banks and the creation of a "State Deposit Account" of 24,000,0001, in place of. certain amounts of stock to be cancelled, is to be proceeded with to-mor row evening. The promised Government measure on the law of partnership is to be intr:oduced,by the Presi dent of the Board of Trade on Monday. THE LATE CROYDON RAILWAY AcetEmm The directors of the South-Eastern Railway have awarded the sum of in/. to Miss Dobrfae, of Ashford, who sus tained some injury on the. occa sion. The lady's claim for compensation was 5001.--,Sentisk , 00414 30 20 1 1 40 5 St. 25 61i i 1 131 13 14i a 11 i 90} x n 734 2 x n 125 6 an 90/ 2 66i i 106 100/ i 1 691 70 69a 3 59 a 8i 15i 15 211 i 35,} 67 6 7} 6i 25 THE ENGLISH ARMY BEFORE SEBAS TOPOL. The Pays yesterday entered the lists relative to the state of the English troops before Sebastopol. It does not deny that much suffering has been en dured by the English army, but at the same time it affirms that the accounts given are greatly exag gerated. The following are its observations : "We are at the same time astonished and distressed at the attitude lately assumed by a part, and unfortunately an influential part, of the English press. For some time past it has been uttering cries of distress, which at pre tent resemble those of despair. If we may believe its affirmations and fts letters, the English army in the, Crimea may be considered as utterly lost ; there can scarcely remain 20,000 valid men out of the 53,000 men who formed the contingent of Eng land in the allied army ; the remainder have perished miserably, those who have escaped the Russian shot having fallen victims to disease and to the defective state of the military organisation. Such is the sad and melancholy picture which the English journals draw of the situation of the British army in the Crimea. Every day a voice is raised in the ranks of the London press, exclaiming, like Cmsar---‘ Yarns, restore me my legions l" Every day a new article arouses public opi nion against the Ministry, on whom the responsibility of all these disasters is thrown. Is this violent pole mic free from exaggeration I We must be permitted to doubt it. We certainly will not say that the English army has not suffered very severely since its landing on the coasts of the Crimea ; but, thank God, there is a great difference between that and the total de struction of which the English journals speak. We also in our turn receive accounts of the situation of the allies before Sebastopol, and never has it been men tioned in them that the English army was devastated and weakenad as it is represented to be by the English journals. If Lord Raglan were reduced, as they affirm, to have only 2,000 men under his command can it be be believed that he would so sacrifice them to the last man, and would not be the first to raise a cry of grief and despair ? If the state of the English troops was so frightful, would not our generals and our sol diers hasten to their assistance with the ardour of that generous sympathy which now unites the two nations These same letters, which draw such a me lancholy picture of the distress of the British troops, re present the French army as admirably organised, and abundantly supplied with provisions and stores of every kind necessary for the comfort and health of tho soldier. They affirm, and all our own information con firms the statement, that the health of the French troops is as satisfactory as it is possible to desire ; and they are very warm in their commendations on the ()icier, regularity, and minute foresight which distinguish our military commissariat. Can it be believed that, with this relative comfort, our soldiers would nut have been happy to allow our brave Allies to profit by it To think otherwise would be to do injustice to the devotedness of our army. Every man among them would, if necessary, share his bread and his blanket with our heroic brethren in arms ; there is not one who would not have submitted to the sacrifice with that feeling of joy at doing good which, we are proud to say, is one of tho distinctive traits of the French national character. At Balaklava and at Inkerman we saved the English army, when attacked by an over whelming number of the enemy ; we should not now hesitate to prove to it that our fraternal feeling does not exist only on the field of battle, but that it is even stronger in the camps and in the intimate relations of the two armies. All these consi derations render us very suspicious of the truth of the melancholy letters with which the English press has been filled for some time past. But even should these let ters be of better authority than we are disposed to attach to them—is that, we may ask, a sufficient motive for ex citing the public, for alarming families, for declaring all compromised, and for attacking the English Government with a violence which resembles passion? Such an attitude is wanting in patriotism, and is not worthy of a powerful nation. A. great nation ought to support the vicissitudes, and even the misfortunes of war with more calmness and sang froid. England has for the last 40 years expressed the strongest antipathy for the sys tem of standing armies. She has devoted all her active force to works of industry and to the all-absorbing activity of her manufactures. The war which has now surprised Europe has found England neither organised nor ready for the struggle. Soldiers and armies are not formed in a moment. Thanks to our military system, and to that glorious Algeria which is such an excellent school for our soldiers, the French army is always ready to enter the field, and it carries with it that courage which is calm even in its fullest ardour, which cad only be acquired by the practice and exercise of arms. This ought to be a serious lesson for England. Experience has now shown her that her old generale were right in calling loudly for the permanent establish ment of a respectable mil itar y force. Such is the funda mental fault which is called reform. This is the essen tial fact which ought to engage the attention of Parlia ment much more than a struggle against a Ministry, or the exaggerated recitals of anonymous correspondents of the press." The Courrier de Marseille, of the 23d inst., pub lishes the following letter, dated before Sebastopol, the 7th inst. : " The weather has been frightful for some days, snow having fallen without intermission during 24 hours. But this was not the greatest inconvenience we had to endure. The sun appearing converted that snow into liquid kilud, which now covers our camp, and renders all the roads impassable. To wards evening the cold again sets in, which is endur able in our cantonments, but extremely painful to the mon on duty in the trenches. It appears certain that a great portion of the corps of Liprandi has STATE OF THE ARMY IN :THZ CRIMEA. It is far from clear to our minds how a committee of the House of Commons can institute a satisfactory in quiry into the condition of the English army before Se bastopol. All the best witnesses are on the spot, and the available evidence is contradictory. Neither, for the same reason, can " the conduct of those departments whose duty it was to supply the wants of that army," be fairly judged at present. Still, Mr. Roebuck's motion can hardly be termed premature or ill-timed ; for it will, at all events, give rise to an instructive dis cussion, and help to clear the public mind of a variety of errors and prejudices, which might other wise hurry our representatives into hasty and mis chievous conclusions, A contemporary who has laboured but too successfully to degrade our mili• tary character in the eyes of foreign nations, says that the expedition of 1854 may as well be dismissed wholly from our active speculations, and that we have merely to address ourselves "to future wars ; to the campaign of 1855, and to the Sort of auspices under which we are to connive at the departure of another 50,000 men to the East." This style of writing at such a crisis is fool ish as well as wrong. According to the last accounts, Lord Raglan had more than than 28,000 men of all arms fit for service, and the crowded state of his hospitals is owing to a succession of hard-fought actions, like Alma, Balaklava and Inkerman, as well as to the effects of the climate and the inevitable hardships of a winter campaign. The proportional number of sick we repeat is much smaller than that which existed in the Duke of Wellington's army a few months before, he took Badajos by assault with the less of 6,000 of his bravest troops, and won the battle o f S a l amanca. Ia October, 1811, he had 25,000 men in h osp i tal, of whom 19,000 were British soldiers, inoluding (as stated in his despatches) the whole of the recruits last arrived from England. To what extent General Canrobert's army has suffered from the prevalent diseases of the Crimea, is involved in mystery ; but from occasional indications we should infer that the French have not been totally exempt from hardship, exposure,*and disease. The " special corre spondent" whose gloomy pictures of English privation as contrasted with French abundance have saddened thousands of English homes, has been unconsciously lured, by the temptation of telling a good story, into me• lations that cannot be reconciled with his more studied accounts. In a letter published yesterday, he states that " the instant a cart with provisions or spirits breaks down, it is plundered by our active friends the Eouaves;" and, he adds, that one of these worthies broke out as fol• lows, in conversation with an English officer, who was expatiating on the disagreeables of camp life in the Cri• men in winter time—" C'est vrai, mon ami ! En diet, nous eprouvons beaucoup de misere. Regardea moi—prenaier basson du 3me Zouavesl lb•iei du Con servatoire, force d'arracher bu bole de la terre pour me faire de la soupe." We must be excused for attaching more importance to a passing illustration of this kind than to the stereotyped recognition from head-quarters of the " wisdom and foresight" of the Emperor. At the same time it stands to reason that the French with their arbitrary form of Government and their mili tary habits are superior to the English in camp arrange ments ; and circumstances have given them an addi tional advantage, inasmuch as they have hitherto had comparatively little either of the hard fighting or the hard work. All the worst suffering of the English troops may be traced to their overtasked and consequently ex hausted state, which is owing to their inadequacy, in respect of numbers, to perform the excessive duties that have been imposed upon them. When they first disembarked, they formed rather more than half of the expeditionary armament, and they occu pied a corresponding position. They now constitute less than one-third, yet they hold the same extent of ground as if they still outnumbered their allies. If we assist the French with ships to bring their rein forcements, they may surely assist us with horses and carriages to tring up our guns, huts, and stores. There is no degradation in such an interchange of services ; and nothing is more lowering, either to nations or indi viduals, than to persevere in a ruinous course in the vain hope of keeping up appearances. Do what we will, we hall never be able to keep pace with Imperial Allies, who can bring respectively half a million of disciplined soldiers into the field. An outcry, however, has been raised against the Government for reducing Great Britain to the hu miliating necessity of playing a secondary part in the war, as if they should, or could, have had fifty or sixty thousand seasoned troops always ready by way of a reserve for such an emergency. Yet if the writers and orators who are most clamorous in pressing the charge would only be candid enough to consult their own personal recollections, they must acknowledge that no suspicion cf the rashness of the I expedition, or of the inadequacy of our resources, broke upon them till after the affairs of Balaklava and Inker man. A Cassandra-like voice might have been heard at rare intervals, but both of the allied nations were looking forward to a speedy and easy triumph, and the famous allusion to les amides avis shows to what extent the delusion prevailed in the highest and best-informed quarters in France. So long as it lasted, we do not believe that the people would have submitted to the sacrifices which must have been demanded be fore making the required addition to our regular forces and our establishments, and we are, quite sure that it was morally and physically impos'sible to raise or expand these to the required pitch within the allotted time. All the most trustworthy authorities are of one mind on this subject. Sir Do Lacy, Evans reminded the Folkestone deputation that Great Britain had never yet been able to do herself justice as a military power till the third campaign. Sir Reward Douglas praises the " wonderful promptitude" of the Govern ment in fitting out the expedition, but says that its failure, should it fail, will be attributable to deficiencies which " could not be provided at the eleventh hour by any administrative talent on the part of this new de partment of war." Sir Archibald Alison thus prefaces his recapitulation of the difficulties with which the Duke of Wellington had to struggle:— "Though the contest had now continued nearly eighteen years, the English Go vernment were still, thanks to our insular situation and invincible navy, mere novices is the art of military war fare. and the subordinate functionaries in every depart meat required literally to be taught their several duties in the presence of the enemy. There is nothing sur prising in this ; it is the natural result of the peculiar circumstances, unassailable power, nautical habits, po pulist Government, and commercial character of the people of England. In peace they invariably relax the sinews of war ; no amount of experience can persuade them to take any antecedent measures either to avert disaster or to insure success. They constantly expect that, without the least previous preparation, and with greatly inferior numbers, their armies, newly raised, uninstructed, and inexperienced, are to vanquish their enemies in every encounter." . . • "It is in vain to ascribe these unhappy arrangements to the fact of any particular body of men then entrusted with the reins of Government ; they obviously arise from general causes, for they characterise equally the first years of every contest in British history." De they not characterise equally every prolonged con test on a foreign soil, in which the British troops were not led by a heaven-born general, a Marlborough or a Wellington ! Can anything short of moral courage, iron strength of will, patient endurance, and fertility of re source, amounting to genius, counterbalance . or compen sate for the disadvantages created by parliamentary jealousy or economy, and by constitutional or depart mental checks We think not ; and the House of Com mons will not extricate itself from its embarrassments, although it may soothe the national pride or gratify the spleen of a faction, by holding the Commander-in-Chief or the Secretary of War answerable for not controlling , the elements, or for not revolutionising in three months the most cherished institutions and ingrained habits of their countrymen. — Morning Chronicle. THE RETRIBUTION. The Retribution steam-frigate, Captain Tatham, steamed into Portsmouth harbour yesterday morning, and ranged alongside the dockyard jetty at 11 o'clock to disembark her wounded and invalid soldiers. Vice- Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane, the Commander-in- Chief, was present on the jetty when the ship was lashed alongside, The military authorities were also promptly on the alert, and Brigade-Major Dalgetty and Towr.. Major Maitland ; also fatigue parties from the Rifle Brigade and Hampshire, Infantry Militia, commanded by Ensign J. P. C. Glyn of the former, and Major Robbins awl Lieutenant Valentine of the latter. Lieu tenant-Colonel Clinton, of the Hants Militia, was also presen t, and assisted in directing the movements.of the soeheolffipleeesr s s m to t t r h e e q e c i a r e r careful t l e a h n e d r s i n . g T o f h e those . fatigue parties. Nothing could e xcee d th e a tt en ti on paid o who w by er t e he s miral Superintendent's Flag-Lieutenant, Mr, Waddilove, was present at the disembarkation, which commenced immediately the 'vessel got moored. A number of vans were at the spot, and received all those who were able to be 'conveyed to their sick quarters by those moans— about forty in number. All wera out of the ship by a quarter-past twelve o'clock, and the body of the deceased John Thompson, if the 19th, was removed from the ship in a shell, covered with the union jack. The most urgent cases have 11001 taken to the garrison hospital, and the rest are berthed in the new auxiliary hospital adjacent to the Milldain ; all are receiv ing the utmost attention of the medical staff. The Retribution has come home with a temporary rudder, a temporary mizenmast, and only her own foremast stand ing. When struck by the sea, in the awful gale of the 14th of November, at Balaklava, such was the violence of the gale that one of her heavy upper deok guns was rent 4 ' !lying right aft and carrying everybody with it, but happily killing none. She was also struck by light ning, which shivered her foretopsailyard ; she at the same time carried away her rudder. • She threw her upper deck guns overboard to lighten her top-hamper, and lost her mainmast at Sebastopolin the bombardment of the 17th of October, when several of her beams. were smashed ; the mainmast went right through the upper deck, main deck, and into the engine-room, where it luckily rested. She has done her share of work in the ar with cShe wa Black Sea during the present w indeed, the first Britis h ship of war which edit. entered the s, Black Sea. Her services therein, and at Batourn, Varna, the Sulina mouth of the Danube, alo ng . the Circassian coast, i n ma king prizes (13),11 - •01131Instion with the French steamer Descartes and our own Niger, after the firing on the flag of truce at Odessa; also her expedition with the Sidon to destroy the forts at the entrance to the Danube, and her participation in the bombardment of Odessa and other services have been appreciated , She must now have a thorough repair. Her officers and ship's company have brought home abundance of small trophies from the Black Sea and other places, and Lieu tenant O'Reilly some most artistically executed draw ings of the places she has visited and the service she has participated in. She went into Portsmouth harbour with her figurehead dressed , in a sailors white hat, with numerous streamers of ribands, dre., and excites' rituals attention. 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