The Sun. — London, England, 1855-01-05 00:00:00

JIILLIEN'S CONCERTS, MO ROYAL ITALIAN" OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. For One Month only. The PROGRAMME for THIS EVENING, Friday, Jan. 5, will Include Lizt's celebrated Tarantella, on Rossini's Melodies, performed by Madame Pleyel ; the Serenade, Sweet Love Arise, and the new Song, Say Tea, sung by Madame Anna Thillon ; grand Selection from the Opera of Don Giovanni; Overture to Oberon; L'Etoile du Nord Quadrille; the Andante from Beethoven's Symphony in A ; the Valse d'Adlen ; the new Comic Pantomime Quadrille ; Solos, Cornet, Herr Koenig ; Oboe, Mons. Lavigne ; the Atlantic Galop ; and the grand Allied Armies Quadrille, assisted by the three Bands of her Majesty's Guards; God Save the Queen, and Partant pear la Syrie. PRICES OF ADMISSION. Promenade, Upper Boxes, Amphitheatre Stalls, and Am phitheatre ...... ..... Dress Circle reTate Boxes for six Persons on the Grand Tier 3lO. 6d, Ditto ditto First Tier Ditto Four Persons on the Second Tier. l2s. Od Commence at Eight. Places and Private Boxes may be engaged at the Box-office of the Theatre, and Private Boxes of the principal musieselleri and librarians. On Tuesday next the Mendelssohn Festival will take place. M. Jullien begs most respectfully to state that his Concerts will erminate on Friday, February 2, with a Grand Bal Masque, to be given on a scale of unprecedented splendour. DRIIRY-LANE.—Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.— Redue,cl Prices as nsual.—A Morning Performance every Wednesday, at Two o'clock. THIS EVENING, JAN. 5, Will be performed SIMPSON AND CO. Characters by Messrs, Youngs and Belton ; Mrs. Selby, and Misses Arden and Love. After which, TOUCH AND TAKE. To be followed by the entirely original, extraordinary, lite rary, traditionary, comical, gastronomical, and peculiarly culinary and fantastic domestic grand comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled JACK AND JILL; or, Harlequin King Mustard and the Four and-Twenty Blackbirds Baked in a Pie. The extensive scenery, en tirely new, by Messrs. Nicholls, Cuthbert, Cooper, Gordon, Wilson, and Moore. The machinery by Messrs. Tucker. The extraordinar y properties, decorations, tricks, changes, and transformations by Mr. Needham. The choregraphic arr , ngements by Madame Louise. The overture and music composed and selected by J. H. Tully. Leader, Mr. Hayward. The whole of the designs, models .and sketches famished from the studio of Dikwynkyn, who for many weeks past has been personally supervising their execution. The novel grotesque burlesque opening invented and written by E. L. Blanchard and the whole erranged and produced under the immediate superin tendence of, Ur. Edward Stirling. Princip a l I ngre di ents in the Christmas Bill of Fare :—Tho Hall of Hypochondria in the Domains of Dulness.— Misanthropy (Genies of Gloom), Mrs. Raiford. Fog, Drizzle, Taxes, Spleen, Indigestion, Quarter-day (his Ministers of Melancholy) Messrs. E. V. Dent, E. V. W e t , E. V. Load, E. V. Day, E. V. Weight, and E. V. Bills. Azure Diatolicals in attend ance, Messrs. Croak, Quake, Fret, Fidget, Worry, Flurry, Fume, Vex, Groan, Growl, Grumble, and Grizzle. Apparition of Misan thropy on her favourite Nightmare, and Magical Appear ance o f Good Humour in her Christmas Cr . Good Humour, Miss Alder ; Lightheart and Sunshine (her Attendants), Misses Honey and • Brown; Mrs. Glasse (the original " Cook's Oracle," anl the well knowU adviser of the " First catch your hare," Re.) Miss Rosina Collins. The receipt given to make a good pantomime% and its con , eaction accordingly. Cottage of Jill on the borders of Fairyland (by Sunrise), with Enchanted Kitchen, Gardeu, and Region of Preserves "Sing a song of Sixpence, " Pocket full of rye, "Four -and-twenty blackbirds " Baked in a pie."—Acient, Nursery Legend. Jack (the ining hero of the olden story , to fetch, eee, leftswar Harle u* who went up the hill the adventure, in love with Jqackm, 31. Milano ; Jill (the heroine of Bolen° ; Marmalade (the Fairy), afterwards Columbine, Wile. Queen of Preserves), Miss K. Warrington; Pineapple, Eas berry, Lemon , the Cherry, Apple, and Greengage (her Assistauts), Misses Clifford, Gower, Johnson, Love, Lunis, and Richardson; Strawberr rant, Apricot, Damso n, Q uin , Y, Cranberry, Gooseberry, Cur- Honey, Ellen Honey, L ,e, Re. (Fancy Preserves), Misses Grace euranee, Louise, Therese, Charles, Hine Sidney, Gordon, Barnes,E • Ros e , Si dney Re _ Emily Barnes, Richardson, Eliza Richard son, Bardeen Smith , Lille Ellis, Rosa limy Moore, Elizabeth arm • Ev, H• nex, Tayier, Matilda Chenley, Martiney, St. Clare, se, John Levities. S. Johnson, and Roberts ; Preserved Ginger e_ their , _Warm Coy), Master Pungent ; Fruit Blossoms by a Blooming SitPenee—The Change. Grand Ballet. Principal Dancers, Mdlle. Therese and Annie Twe nty Blackbirds, Cushnie, Therese, smith, Sec. The Four-and- Se c . T he , Masters Tweet Tweet, Toot Too, Loodlo Loodle, Hof the Will— " Jill must not a husband take, Till she a pie can make and bake." of Wood, Kr Hale Int erior ofJflPs Cottage ( by Moonlight).—Coal, Mr. Nobbs ; B un dl e ' •PenllY ; Congreve Box, Mr. Fizzer Bellows, Mr. riLeathertongue ; Dutch Oven, Mynheer Von Tan ; Rolling Pin, Mr. !moothpaste ; Gridiron, Mr. De Bar; Frying Pan, Mr. Broadrim ; ,°Yer's Three-legged Iron Pet, Herr Potluck. Cruet Castle in the Table Cloth Territory (by Moonlight), and Golden Palace of King Austard.—King Mustard (afterwards Clown), Harry Boleno ; the Enspress Vinegar (afterwards Pantaloon), Herr Kohl ; Black Pepper and White Pepper (Sentinels on duty at Cruet Castle), Mr. Husky and fir. Sneezums ; Sweet Oil, Miss Florence: Cayenne, Mr. Capsi ennet Harvey's Sauce (attendant in waiting), Mr. Savoury ; the Army of Darts,Zes Messrs. Indian Soy, Curry, Capers, Ketchup, Mushrooms, iShia. Sweet Herbs, Potted Tongue ; Potted Beef, Potted Bloaters, Potted Anchovies, Potted Shrimps, &c. ; Horse Radish , (frol n the' King's stable), by a Racine Na,'. grand Review —Ter "Re Attack upon the Appetite, and Rally of the Relishes—Great Progress of Jill in her Culinary Career. The Abode of Chutnee in the Province of Pickles (by Sunset).—Chntnee (Chief of the Pickles), j ‘ l e , r • Fiery Fact a ; the Pickle Army, Messrs. Onions, W a ln u t, Gher kins, Cauliflower, Red Cabbage, Re.; Small Jar, Master Piccalilli. ur ea! demand for Pi c kl es an d d e t erm i nat i on o f t h e D oor to Stand a Jar. Interior of he Stupendous Salt Mine (by Moonlight). Salt l teek (a bright White Sprite), Herr Willikind Moleno. Immine n t danger of Jill in splitting upon a Rock of Salt—Treachery of Vinegar — resetting the Pall above, and Evaporation of the Saline Stalactite • Columns, disclosing The Emerald Temple of Salad.— Magical Union of the Sweets and Sours, and " a Pie" termination of the ' f ovea of Jack and Jill. The Transformation. -Harlequin, M. Milano-u ; Columbines, Mdlle. Be'eno and Miss Ellen Honey; P antaloon, Mr. Cole; Sprite, Herr Willlkind 3loleno ; Clown, the celebrated Harry Boleno (his first appearance in London for many years) ; Aerial Evolutionists, by the inimitable Italian B rothers. The Turk's Head Public-house and Hairdresser's Sim la — Hairdresser, Mona. Pomade; Publican, Mr. Billy Williams; Customers, Messrs. Rednob, emockface, Owen Swift, Beardless, Whisker Want, Baron Nicholsoh, and Torn Steed; the British Pub lic by themselves; Policeman A. 1, Mr. Vigilant. Approach of tho Groat Rugged Russian Bear—How he Whines after the Porte, which, being rather old, turns out somewhat crusty—A Dose of Turkey Rhubarb—A Done Cossack—Pure Circassian Cream—How one Sham 11l makes all well—The Great Bear turns out a Great Boar s—Russian Attachment to Grease—Clown Cuts his Customer's Hare and afterwards Dresses it a la Soyer—The Great Moustache Move ment—A Close Shave —Clown shows his high attachment to the Pole—Sudden Rise in Porter—An M.T.M.P.---A Patten Lock at 10 o'clock—A Bona Fide Traveller—Ginger Beer and Gin without ger —A Mill, a *Mit, a Regular Row, and Station-house for Two. Great American Baby Show.—Arrival of the Infantry—Sudden Squall—Ma's upon the Eve of Battle—General Attack—Awarding the Prizes—Clown and Pantaloon's Offsprings—The Prettiest Baby in the World—A Model Baby and a Spirit Child—The Wonderful Effects of Dr. De Jongh's Cod Liver Oil—Clown's Great Prize Baby —Fresh Arrival of 300 more Babies—The Judge Confounded--Great Uproar—An Unwelcome Visitor to a Ladies' and Juvenile Party— and Extraordinary case of Suspended Animation by the Ita lian Sprites. Scott's Oyster Shop, Newspaper-office, and Pursell's Biscuit Baking and Confectionery Establishment, Cernhill.—" Up rouse ye then, my merry men, it is our opening day"—A Holster for one and a Lobster for two—A al ussulman and a Man, for a a irtiele—Duty and Custom—A Bride Cake and a Wedding cake — First Edition and Second Edition—Left Out for Want of Room— Press of the Privilege and Privileges of the Press —" Oh, what a rote, arumpus, what a rioting." Baker, Mr. Crusty ; Fishmonger, M r. Settles; Master Newsboy, Christmas-box; Printers, Messrs. TM and Chapel ; Editor, Mr. Cutemdown ; Critic, Cutemup; Pas lentos, Messrs. Trot. Cosey, Strutalong, Lounge, Loiter, and Walk. Vaft; Boardman, Mr. Bobaday. Hosier's Shop and New Wing of ue rset-house.—Here we are—Merry Christmas and a Happy p e e w Tear—High Prices and Low Prices—Manchester Stuff —E on Hand and Handsome etocks--Ford's ~,'"44 Shirts—Reform in the Civil List and Uncivil Treatment of Zee Cler ks — Transfer-day at the Bank , and General Holyday at ""meellet-honeM Stocken ; Shopsnan, Mr. Early bird e --Hosier, r, ' O Y, Master Toddles. Soyer's Marie Kitchen.—Chef de ie ee , Mons. Soyer; Kitchenmaids, Misses Easteaway and eZlangsell; Guardsman, Corporal Longshanks ; Policeman, :iyealeant Podger. Cupboard Lovers—Soyer's Last Soup— stei "s the Knives and Forks?—Boiled and Unbolted Lob- Gone Ileadless Swains—Lobster Patty mad Giblet Soup—Clown Ikeng t° P et--Harlequin Gets well Towelled and afterwards Thee - ``down and Pan•aloon in a Stew—A Regular Broil— to - , e en:lest in such an urquestionable shape, that I will speak (Clown'`ust (SeYer or rather Shakspeare)—Too Many Cooks Spoil the as Broth An nattaia zeThe scene finishes in a very spirited manner. Tableau e s t a t e„. page of the History of England.—Grand Allegorical Allied Ferese.ealloramic Effects, illustrative of the Tr d ium ll plLs b of the e double ea n W ee Young " Allied Army Qua rt e, ~e ` Pertain pet Z' aim " English and French. " God save the Queen, ftetiment Re a ,Yele, and "Rule Britannia." Daughter of the see' inted Rebecca Collins, in whi c h c h ar acter she will sin" e er .D eetein Jatriotie effusion, publi s h e d i n " Bl ac k w ood's Magazine" dier feeeee`,7*.erl written by Corporal John Brown, of the Grena- Balakea n Z t rl the m Nth — CO got some drink for the first time at And drink the "Come all Mt gallanTiritish hearts that love the red and blue, Then 011 the health of those brave lads who made the Russians rue. For the tweet! e lees, let it pass, three times three, end one more, vestibule etit ofdptember eighteen hundred and fifty-fear. , t of the Temple f ' e Patriots. in 1 ray 0 Victery , The Tribute of England to tiectele Scowls Climax, tribtnion et Laurel Wreaths, Gorgenus and na. Terrific with Revolving Columns anti Variegated seene presenting a coup dealieht et the Italian Brothers. The whole at**. Admisaion —sten a never before witnessed on the English upper circle, 3e; • ,g ee , 5 5.; dress circle , 4 dprice, 2s • !ewer gallery , i pri ce Is Gd e. ; Second ,-; second boxes, pit, 2s. ; second price, I °s• at 15 5., 2leea n d 6d.; upper gallery, ed. ; private o c ock. Half performance at 7 ' • newards• Doors open at half-past 6, open daily, from II till 5 o'cice-Price at 9 o'clock. The box-office Chatterton. Notice. —The f under the direction of Mr. Edward preparation, and will shoray e t' are approved and in Pant • Otalllle, by E. L. Blanchard, '' need :—The Grand Christmas cault, Esq.; Two Dramas , by C iT ee• ; a Drama, B d e du N an orL litheg rsin by Dion oure - Meyerbaer's Opera, lee • — ads P • wan Adaptation from and effects; to be succeeded cener r ) ti of p er es, son) of Gluck's Iphigenia. in tian Tatiride. The G n (byr. Drama,Reynold many men in preparation , rand Historical Eg n, will also shortly appear. THEATRE ROYAL HAYMAREET. trndar the management of Mr. lauckstone. THIS EVENING, JAN. 5, Will be performed the Charact Drama s b of TIIE ENIGEITS OF TH E BOUND TABLE. ery Aressrs. Chippendale, Rowe, W. Farren, Compton, and Bucks ; Misses Reynolds and E. Chaplin. Followed by a new grand Christmas Pantomime. entitled LITTLE -110-PP.Epi or, Harlelnin anl the Girl who Lost her Sheep. Little "80-Peep. Was L. hompson ; Harlequin, kir. Chapin° ; Pantaloon, Yr. . fr • B arnes ; Clown, Xr. Appleby ; Columbine, Miss M. Brown. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Manaxerne.ot et Mr. J A N. KEAN. THIS EVENING, JAN. 5. To be followed by THE R tVALs. Printloal char ter by Messrs. W. Lacy, Harley. Meadows, J. Yining, I . lielloaeu ' d ' i and Everett ; Mrs. Wlnstanley, Nira. W. Y. and xiDDCD tie tran ' d C. Leclercq. D. After wlilob will be produced a New Grand Christmas Pantomime entitled, HARLEQUIN BLUE -BE AM; or, The Great Iti,D„„. II arlequin, Mr. Corniack ; Clown, 3)1%1'1111m); Pantaloon. Mr. rata:, and Columbine; Miss Des.borough. ROYAL LTCEUM Under the management of Madame tiestris. Sole Lessee Mr, C: Mathews. Tills EVENING, JAN. 5, Will he performed AGGRAVATING SAM. Principal character by Mr. C. Mathews. Will be produced a new and original Fairy Extravaganza, en titled PRINCE PRETTYPET and THE BUTTERFLY. To be followed by TWO lIF.ADS ARE BETTEI: THAN ONE, Box-office open from 10 until G. Sole agent for Private Boxes. Mr. 4.llcrort, 15, New Bond-street. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Dlrectress, MA.clame Celeste. um EVENING, JAN. 5, W'll be perform d /SOYA FIDE TRAVELLERS. Characters by Messrs. Ri3TlCr, P. Bedford, Keeley, Mrs. Kee'ey, &c. After which, a new grand Eccentric Extravaganza, called ZIG ZAG ; '•r, Travels of Messrs. Danube and Broth. To be followed by THE CAMP AT CFIOBIIAM. To which will be added a new Farce, enttled THE RAILWAY BELLE. ROYAL OLYMPIC TITEt.TRE. Lessee and Mongzer, Mr. A. Wigan. • THIS EVENING, JAN. 5. O NVlribe presented anew Comedietta, u har m aeter i by essrs.Cllled A WIFE'3 JOURNAL. frown, Emery, Harcourt, and Leslie; and crown. andnews ma s koj A:tsr witich, a p '- • DWARF AN D Tit , atr3: Latravag,inza, entiLie , ' d Try. YELLOW MlAsy Mr. F. Robson, L 1"1 `' ' `OLD MlNE'''. mi 4 Ok THE G Marston, Miss Brona-sg e Julia St. Georg 3, 31.1.3 E. Charac •- Ormonde, To conclude with the Irj' and Mrs. Fitzallan. witich Mr. Robson will apps ., ca lled A BLIGETED BEING, in A STLEY'S ROYAL Aut ?HIT it EA T sf Lesse e and Manager, Mr. WlltiatnCook. The. moat varied round of ente r t a i nment in London is to be found at this vast Establishment. 'Tremendous success of the Comic Pantomime! MORNING PERFORMANCE Tw S, Monday *Tteci Wane ;ars. Utb, Monda GRAND y, Jan. 15th, 1855, ea c h commencing at o o' c i ee k : THIS EVENING, And during the week, the splendid Spectacle of TriE BATTLE of THE ALMA 1 With a Classical Series of SCENES in the ARENA! •To conclude with the gorgeous Equestrian Comic Pantomime, Called GULLI VER'S TRAVELS THROUGH THE HORSE ISLANDS ; or, Harlequin and Britannia! Box-olEco open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. ,t cling Manages', Xr. W. U. Cooke. Equstrian Direetcr ALL W. Cooke, jou. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDG3. Tirs DAY —Morning 9 rn!n.after 3 I 'Evening 29 min Aft. 3 tcaPow Mornitg 45 min.:et:a. 3 Evening 3 minatft. 4 1.'2 1 E WEATHER.—Smt Grimm, Jan, 5. TIESNOSERTEB, IN THII SNADIII. 50—highest since noon yesterday. 45 —lowest this morning and during the night. 51—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 30.23. WrivD, W.N.W.—Light breeze, with very fine sunshiny weather. Q4l LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1855. "They manage these things better in 1 1 :anee." So it WaS in the days of LAWRENCE STERNE, and so it is at the present time. Our theory seems per fection itself, but unfortunately the practice ifi very defective, owing chiefly to red-tapism or ridicu lous adherence to " precedent," without consider ing whether that precedent be beneficial or other wise. At present it would seem as if no information were to be doled out in any matter where there has not been a pitched battle, and a long and deplorable catalogue of killed and wounded. The accounts of the sanguinary contest at the Alma, of the flank movement at Balaklava, and of the Russian attacks en the British lines - at Inkerman on the 25th of October, and subsequently on the sth November, were published ; but we hear nothing of the progress or prospects of the siege at other times. Unless there is something on which to hang a laudatory notice of some of the generals or their respective staffs the public anxiety is totally disregarded, and we are allowed to glean our information from French or Russian sources, and to decide for ourselves on the amount of con fidence to be placed. Fortunately our Allies are better informed. LOUIS NAPOLEON does not consider it essential, or even judicious, to keep his people in the dark. He does not shroud that which may be communi cated without the slightest prejudice to the pub lic service under a flimsy veil of official reserve. He is sufficiently clear-sighted to perceive the advantages of publicity. Thus, frequently when the public mind is agitated by the highly-coloured statements of Prince MENSClllKOFF—statements that have been carefully revised and corrected at St. Petersburg before publication —we have been relieved by the despatches of General CANRODEP.T, which furnish mere authentic versions of the true state of affairs—our own General maintaining a total and unbroken silence, or, what is far more probable, Ministers withhold ingthe trustworthy intelligence they have received. But why, or wherefore, nobody is able to con , . ceive. They do it, because such has been the practice, and cling to the abuse, because it has become "an aged vice—a grey iniquity." The despatch of General CA.NRODERT, which will be found in another part of this day's impression, is a very satisfactory document. It is true that it details no exciting events, no fierce encounters, calculated " to harrow up the soul" or make the blood curdle in the veins ; but it simply and truly narrates the existing state of affairs, and affords fair data to persons desirous of judging for themselves. Thus we learn that, although the bad weather had continued with rare and short inter vals of improvement, the Allied Armies, never theless, contrived as much as possible to encircle the place with their trenches, and that all the siege operations become perfect and solid, not withstanding the rainy season, which renders the transport very difficult. This is a perfect answer to the croakers who are prophesying the total destruction of the Allied Force; and the decided triumph of the Russian arms. It shows that although matters have not proceeded quite so rapidly as we "who live at home at ease" had anticipated, there is yet no cause for despair, and the solution of the difficulty may be nearer at hand than has been supposed in England. Although we should not on that account relax our exertions in any re spect, it is yet satisfactory' to learn that there are strong hopes of our gallant fellows extricating themselves and overcoming all obstacles, even before the completion of the arrangements for their relief on which we hare so tardily entered. The strong testimony borne to the excellent re lations and perfect cordiality " between the two armies," and the brief but graphic account of the interchange of good offices the English providing for the transport of the cavalry, while the French have lent their mules for tine conveyance of the sick, and ammunition—is pee . uliarly cheering. The bonds by whichthe two nations are united will thus become indissoluble, for they will be founded on mutual esteem and respect. France and England may henceforward exclaim. " Quis separabit ?'' It will be far beyond Russian wiles to create dis sensions or heartburnings between those whose future friendship will be aa. remarkable and en during, as it will be far more reasonable, than their former disputes and dis trust. For the other points we refer to this highly interesting docuthent. It - will be seen that there are almost daily, or rather .o ightly, sorties, which are invariably repulsed, and'. frequently with con siderable loss to the garris an ; while the various reconnaissances made show tlat the great body o f the Russian army has beien withdrawn, whil e those that remain are merely pickets observing, from a distance, the rroceedings of the besieging troops. From this we ma' hope that sometking will speedily be effe3ted with respect to Sebastopol. It is probably the con tinued landing of the Turkish troops at Eupatoria, which has led to the withdrawal of the Russian forces from the vicinity of the Siege. They are, perhaps, striving to make f;onie great point, but we hope that it will merely - prove a coup manque, doing more injury to themselves than to those against 'whom their efforts are directed. In .lette r to a morni,ag contemporary, Mr. EDWARD eguilig,R h states some plain and incon_ testable facts *hi e of ingeni ous plausibilitie 3 °I l etely demolish all the Messrs. BRIGHT and COBDEN. This sta te ment indeed, but an and is, therefore, entitled33tnorsathrietcrmeclit tract from the Journat of -a te statistical Society, terested witness. Mr. of a disin have found the blue book • ay ver 'Y likely made to veil our thoughts, somewhat s, written in „ e , but there is no moans of dis:tortin g the b to which we allude. The first bundle of facts 4e, .A 5 contained in the sentence that Russia has extended her territory in sixty-four y ears SEVEN HUNDRED 32Liana::::1;a1.71 MILES, on an average, in ever!!! direction ! Here are the four leading particulars :—Her encroach ments have advanced her frcaitier towards Berlin, Dresden, Munich,- Vienna, and Paris, about 700 m iles ! towards Constantinople about 500 miles! towards Stockholm 630 miles ! towards Teheran 1,000 miles! Nothing seeras to stop her but the frozen sea and the desert ; nor oven these, indeed, borders of China and Kamskatscha can a a t s te the st. Yet this is the insatiable DAtion•murderer whom c'ur great Free Traders would ;leave to PROVIDENCE. I n their view it is no part of -the system of PROVI DEIcE that v i o l ence s h ou ld . "be resisted by force, and th a t society should disc riri. the convicted vii lain. Did these reasoners ever master that text book of liberal English education, BUTLER'S Analogy ? With him we must believe that in stinctive resistance to wrong is one of the provi dential punishments of crime ; and further, that if we arc too indolent or selfish to make the re quisite sacrifices for maintaining the order of society, greater eventual suffering is the inevitable result. Now, beyond all doubt, if any man had murdered as many individuals as Russia has mur dered nations even the Quakers would be ashamed to petition for his life; but had he only, before and behind, right and left, appropriated his neighbours' property in this style, JOHN BRIGHT himself would think it time to put on the handcuffs, to tear off his disguises, and to restore him to his individuality in soli tary confinement. He would not venture to excuse his last felony or burglary because his own cotton-mill or his own mansion was untouched ; 1 or because it had been perpetrated on some indi vidual who was not religious in Mr. BRIGHT'S way, or not administering his property so well as Mr. BRIGHT was doing. Possibly the villain might prove a CANNON, and half-kill the police man who arrested him, yet Mr. BRIGHT would be willing, we presume, to incur tkat hazard, and maintain that the burglar must be put down, or that cotton-mills and mansions would be useless. We profess ourselves utterly incompetent to dis cern the want of appropriateness, when the same principle is applied to the community of nations. PROVIDENCE takes no more care of burglars than of conquerors, and knows no dif ference between them but that of degree ; and if we may piously or supinely leave the latter to PROVIDENCE, SO we may the former. Here is a nation, sixty-four years ago, number ing but fifteen millions of people, swelled now, and chiefly by absorbing more civilised countries, to some sixty millions ! A nation which has so unblushingly mingled confessed fraud and 'open violence for the sake of acquisition that it is equally impossible to be on our guard against either ; a nation of slave-conquerors, which has spread the bane of her serfdom over every terri tory she has absorbed ; an insatiable military po lypus, which has made each successive growth the preparation for further extensions. She robs Persia, and locates her troops en route for India. She seizes the Crimea, and builds, not a port and dockyards to civilise the Asiatic coasts and her own people by commerce, but a fortress and navy which could at any time crush Constantinople. She receives, at the Treaty of Vienna, the 'Go vernment of Poland as an independent State. She provokes it by unheard-of barbarities to rise; and then, is the face of Holy-Alliance treaties, swallows and attempts to digest it, and Warsaw and other fortresses are forthwith put in array against Germany. By fraud and violence com bined she seizes Finland and the Aland Isles ; im mediately she makes Sweaborg and Bomarsund into Seloastopols for the conquest of Sweden aid Denmark. Everywhere the story is the same— the most unprovoked seizure of nations which were doing her no wrong, except, perhaps, that they spared her CZARS, even the great CZAR him self, when they might have led them captive. Gratitude these varnished savages want a word for. We desist, however, from the endless topic of Russian villany. The politician who canfiot perceive that it is now or never, - cost us what it may, is beyond our power to reason with. We have not learned all our political logic in the counting-house and the till. The following quo tation ought to settle the question :—" The ac quisitions of Russia from Sweden, equal the re mainder of Sweden ; from Poland equal the Aus trian empire ; from European Turkey equal Prussia, exclusive of the Rhenish provinces ; from Asiatic Turkey equal the small German States, Rhenish Prussia, Holland, and Belgium ; from Persia equal England ; from Tartary equal Eu ropean Turkey, Greece, Italy, and Spain. The total acquisitions of Russia in 64 years equal her whole European Empire before that time !" THE OVERLAND MAIL SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam ship Euxine, with the heavy portion of the Eas India, China, and Mediterranean mails, has jus t arrived. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 5, 1855: ADMIRAL DUNDAS'S FAREWELL TO THE BLACK SEA FLEET. The following is the address of Admiral Dundas upon quitting the command of the Black Sea fleet: (General Memorandum.) Her Majesty's ship Britannia in the Bosphorus, 22d December, 1854. My term of service, as Commander-in-Chief, in the Mediterranean and Black Seas having drawn to a close, I am about to return to England and give up the com mand of this fleet. During the past year many trying circumstances have occurred—pestilence in its most aggravated form, action with the enemy against land defences such as ships hardly ever encountered, and a tempest of the most awful violence. In all those events the good conduct and gallantry of the fleet have been evinced and proved. In taking an affectionate leave of the officers, seamen, and marines of the fleet, I can hereafter experience no higher gratification than Vile assurance that they pre serve their high character for discipline, enterprise, and devotion to our Sovereign and country. J. W. D. DUND" Vice-Admiral, Cora mander-in-Chief. To the Admirals, Captains, Commanders, Officers, Seamen, and Marines of the Fleet in the Mediterranean and Black Sea, THE SULTAN AND THE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE. The Journal de Constantinople of the 24th Dec. contains the following account of the visit paid by the Sultan to his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge : His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, whose health is better, left the Hotel d'Angleteere on Monday last, to take up his residence at the palace of the British Embassy at Pera. On Friday last his Imperial Majesty the Sultan, ac companied by his ordinary suite, proceeded to the palace of the embassy, to visit his royal highness. The Sultan was received at the entrance of the palace by Lord Strat ford de Redcliffe and the whole personnel of the British Legation in full uniform, and by the Duke of Cambridge, who waited at the head of the grand staircase. Introduced into the chief saloon, the Sultan entered mo-t affably into conversation with the duke. Lord Stratford de ReckHo and M. Etienne Pisani, first drago man of the embassy, were present at this interview, and as the noble ambassador remained standing, his Majesty graciously requested him to be seated. After the inter v;ew, which lasted 20 minutes, and in which the Sultan. expressed to the duke his sentiments of friendship and sympathy for Queen Victoria and the English people, and his satisfaction at the improvement in the duke's health, his Majesty then visited Lady Stratford, who, with her e daughters, was in the ball-room, and conversed with them in the most friendly manner. The duke accompanied the Sultan half-way down the g a l l a d nd re s t ialr a c eti as t e us , , when rle the Sultan insisted he should go lin'turther. Lord Stratford and the other members of hule. • d his Majesty to the great vesti _on accom pan ied . Etienne Pisani accompanied his Majesty to the paa aes gates, where the Sultan mounted his horse ragan. I has b: O n A a LI - D d S r e . /he following ; P e:: h a ---- 7" 6 " ----19. contem porary :-- Sir,—llaving been in Canad a at the p iod a by Sir F. B. Head, in his forcible lettereor improved ssed to a means of communication between Balakl:v and Sebas topol, permit me to offer an additional argument o - behalf of a plank road. I allude to the facility which it would afford for marching troops from the point of dis embarkation to the camp. A railway will in no measure facilitate this important operation, and the plank road will .nearly equal its ad vantages in other particulars. As every hour is of importance in rendering the means of transport between the port and the trenches commen surate with its requirements, that which can be the most readily carried into effect should be adopted as tho moat valuable,—l am, Sir, yours obediently, "TUTOR. COURT CIRCITLAR. WINDSOR, J. 4. The dinner party yesterday included her Royal High ness the Duchess of Kent, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Earl and C oun t ess Granville, Lady F ann y Howard, ' Baroness de Speth, and Lieutenant-General Sir George Bowles. The band of the Royal Horse Guards played during dinner, and her Majesty's private band afterwards. The Queen and Prince walked in the grounds ad jacent to the Castle this morning. The Hon. Eleanor Stanley and the Hon. Beatrice Byng have succeeded the Hon. Flora Macdonald and the Hon. Caroline Cavendish as Maids of Honour in Waiting. The 'Earl of Aberdeen arrived at the Castle yesterday afternoon, and left Windsor this morning for London. The Earl and Countess Granville and Lient.-General Sir G. Bowles have also taken their departure to-day. The Earl of Aberdeen arrived in town yesterday, from a visit to the Queen. De,spatchos for the Governors of Australia were sent last evening from the Colonial Office. DR U 1 THEATRE. The brilliant auguries of success held out to the en terprising lessee on his "opening night," bid fair to exceed his most sanguine expectations. Last evening the theatre was again densely crowded in every part. The pantomime of Jack and Jill increases in attraction each night of its representation. This is not to be won dered at, for, without doubt, it is one of the best things of the kind ever produced in London. Great prepara tions, we hear, are being made for the production of the Egyptian drama, which is announced, as being in active rehearsal, but, taking the crowded state of the theatre last night into calculation, the pantomime will of itself prove a sufficient attraction at least till Easter. THE GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION. We have seldom witnessed an exhibition or entertain ment more agreeable and instructive than that which the diorama of Messrs. Grieves and Telbin, now pre• sented to the public at this gallery, affords us. It opened with the new year, and is in every way worthy of the events it unassumingly, but most successfully, seeks to portray. It is, so far as the mind can fairly form a judgment from the accounts transmitted to us from the seat of war, whether through " the Sun Pictures " of our " Special Correspondent," or the more official de spatches of the great leader of the British army, a happy pictorial illustration of the mighty deeds and soul ' absorbing incidents that crowd the sanguinary drama, upon whose last act the curtain has not yet fallen in the Crimea. The artists follow the steps of the Allied army from its departure from Varna to its arrival before the walls of Sebastopol, and its investment of that stronghold of the Czar ; at the same time faithfully embodying, with the poetry of life itself, the heart-thrilling scenes by "flood and field" that fill up the brief chronicle of our deeds of arms in the East. The proprietors have very judiciously selected as their lecturer Mr. Stocqueler, gentleman who seems to possess a very intimate know ledge of military affairs, with an apt and felicitous power of expression in explhining the technical terms used in the science of war ; and it was not the least amusing part of the entertainment to witness the avidity with which the fairportion of the audience seemed determined to tree_ sure up the warlike information he imparted. The lecturer produced diagrams of bastions, and their curtains, pa7a pets, gabions, redans, and redoubt; and lucidly ex plained their several uses, interspering, his narrative with several pleasing anecdotes. There is an exquisite delivery of touch, and a finish in the whole performance far superior to productions gotten up for ephemeral ex istence. The arrival and landing at Katarinta Bay, the Battle of the Alma, the Flank Movement in the Forest, and the Battle of Balaklava—with the splendid and suc cessful Charge of the Heavy Cavalry, and the less for tunate, but sublimely heroic, headlong dash of the Light Dragoons, are all charmingly portrayed. In the fore ground of this picture is seen the gallant Earl of Cardi gan, mounted on his War-horse of goodly Northampton blood, high in mid-air, impelled by a noble and impetu ous daring, taking at a bound as he would a common fence or gun carriage, and with uplifted arm, is about to cut his way through the gunners who are serving their deadly instruments of war. This figure, however, is irepoetic from its coarseness, and it is quite wanting in identity. The house was very well attended, and the exhibition drew forth the marked and decided approval of the audience. THE PRUSSIAN DESPATCH. The following is a translation of the text of the Prussian despatch of the 19th December, addressed to the Prussian Envoys at Paris and London, of which a summary has already appeared in our columns : " BERLIN, DEC. 19, 1854. "Monsieur le Comte, —As I have had the honour of informing your Excellency by telegraph, it was on the evening of the 16th inst., that the envoys of France, England, and Austria came to communicate to me offi cially the treaty which their Governments signed on the 2d of Decmber at Vienna, and to express to me, con formably to Article VI., the desire of seeing Prussia adhere to it. I lost no time in submitting that impor tant communication to the King, our august master. His Majesty fully appreciates its great importance, and in making it the subject of a conscientious examination he has been guided by the sincere desire of associating himself, as much as his convictions and the interests of his country permit him, to the common work of the re establishment of general peace on just and durable bases. " It is with satisfaction that the King saw the proto cols of Vienna referred to. His Majesty continues to regard them as the expression of the concert of the four Pewers, and attaches a particular price to everything which is of a nature to imitate (constater) the duration of that accordance. It is true that Prussia did not par ticipate in the exchange of the notes of the Bth Au gust; the Government of the King did not think it ad visable in the then general situation of things to bind himself in that respect by any engagement whatever ; but the language which, at various times, he has held at St. Petersburg, and which has not remained without effect, proves that be endeavoured to assure a practical value to the guarantees formulated at Vienna, by in ducing the Imperial Russian Cabinet to adopt them. " While on the one hand the diplomatic concurrence of Prussia is then already acquired to the efforts of the other Powers to fix the bases of a general peace, her transactions with Austria prove no less, on the other, that the Cabinet of the King, penetrated with the grav ity of the interests compromised by a prolongation of the menacing attitude of Russia, has, within the limit of certain eventualities, engaged even its military co operation. " Under all these respects the analogous attitude be tween Prussia and the Powers who signed ; the treaty of the 2d of December already exists, and the King, our august master, is too far from being under any illusion on the incalculable dangers with which the ulterior. unchaining of warlike passions would threaten all Europe, not to be disposed to cement, in the inte rest of a prompt and equitable peace and the real equilibrium it is destined to guarantee, by new stipulations, an accordance the pacific weight of which would be called upon to exercise a salutary and decisive influence. " Looking upon the treaty of the 2d of December in this point of view, and recognising with satisfaction that it contains the elements of the above indicated nature, the King, our August Master, has, moreover, found in most of its articles the impression, most natural it is true, of its special destination, that is to say, of an entente between the Western Powers and Austria. It would follow—ani certainly the justness .of this observa• tion will not, escape the just observation of the three Courts who signed the Treaty—that Prussia, to adhere eventually to the general tendency of that tansaction, and to some of its particular stipulations, does not find herself in a position (en mesure) to accede to a treaty already concluded, but rather to conclude, if re quired (s'i/ y a lieu), an analogous arrangement on her part. " With this object, and to fix clearly his eventual de cisions, our august Master has thought fit again to put the question to himself, what sort of interpretation is to be given to the four points agreed upon in the month of August as the base of the negotiation be tween the Cabinets of Paris, London, and Vienna, mentioned by them in their Treaty, supported by Prussia at St. Petersburg, and now adopted, with out reserve, and in primitive draft, by Russia. It is evident that the interpretation is destined to form, so to say, a centre round which all measures to arrive at the re-establishment of general peace will turn, and from which, whether diplomatic or military, they will borrow their real character. " Moreover, the King, our August Master, appreciates the high importance of the step taken by the Cabinets who signed the treaty of 2d December by inviting Prussia to adhere thereto, and the more desirous his Majesty is to respond to the sentiments which dictated that measure, the more reason have we to hope that con fidential explanations of the interpretation of the four guarantees will enable us to judge of the bearing of the engagements we should have to contract. " Consequently, the King charges you, Monsieur to Comte, to speak in this sense to M. Drouyn de l'Huys (Lord Clarendon), giving toyour language that character of frankness and abandon which is the best proof of a sincere wish of coming to an understanding.—l am, &c. " DE MANTEUFFEL." DEPARTURE OP THE COURT FOR OSBORNE.—IIer Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by the Princess Royal and his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, left Windsor Castle visTitheed Duchess this morning, and pr ocee d e d by th e G rea t- Western and South-Western Railways to O s bo rne . Th e augus t p ar ty was attended by a p or ti on on l y o f t h e rzya l house h o ld . the u ° hes Gallery of S of ut h t c h r o l a Br It is u n d erstood her Majesty will return to Windsor Castle on M onday next. ndiatish Schoolind the Duchess uchoef Art, ssof Argyll Pall Mall, yesterday. The Earl of Aberdeen arrived in town yesterday, from a visit to the Qaeen at Windsor Castle. LATEST NEWS. THE CRIMEA. The following telegraphic despatch has been received from Vienna : VIENNA, JAN. 4 Prince Gortschakoff has had an audience o the Emperor, which lasted an hour and three. quarters, but his Majesty is not likely to make any concession to Russia. General Osten-Sacken is to act against Eupa. toria with 45,000 men and 80 guns. According to telegraphic despatches from French head-quarters both armies are preparing to attack the southern part of Sebastopol. ST. PETERSBURG, JAN. 2 A new financial measure is promulgated, raising the import duty on tea brought from China over• land 100 per cent., from Jan. 1, 1855. The following telegraphic despatch was receivcd in Paris last night : TRIESTE, JAN. 3, Accounts have been received from Constanti-. nople to the 25th. Chekib Effendi, Minister of Justice, died on the 24th. Admirals Dundas and Hamelin have returned. The Allied armies, suffering from cold, have no firewood. The Allies have taken three Russian guns. General Liprandi still occupies his position neat Balaklava. Accounts from Trebizond of the 19th state that the Russians have raised the forts of Bayazid, and are closely watching the frontier of Persia. The heavy falls of snow which have taken place near Kars render it very improbable that hostili ties can be resumed until the spring. The Russian garrisons of Schamkoi and Anapa will be, it is said, marched to the Crimea. At Athens, on the 29th, rumours were again current of the resignation of the Ministers of Justice and Marine. OFFICIAL DESPATCH FROM THE ALLIED CAMP. Marshal Vaillant, French Minister of War, has received the following report, dated Dec. 22, 1854, from General Canrobert : " Monsieur le Marechal—The bad weather has been prolonged until now, with rare and brief in tervals of improvement ; nevertheless we contimie as much as possible the work of enclosing the ple4n with our trenches, and although the rains make tlhe movement of vehicles difficult, all the siege worl:s are growing to completeness and consolidation. " The two armies reciprocally assist each other. To the English army I am indebted for the convey ance, by water, of nearly all the cavalry at my dis posal in the Crimea, and on my part I have plat ecl at Lord Raglan's disposal sumpter horses for re moving his sick to Balaklava, and teams for Ca e conveyance of his supplies. These exchanges coal tribute to keep up excellent relations and perfect cordiality between the two armies. " Hardly a night passes in which our advanced works are not attacked in a sortie of the enemy. .These attempts generally cost the assailants dear. Yesterday, at 2 o'clock in the morning, the Russians, after making a sortie against the third parallel rof the English, who vigorously repulsed them, made a similar demonstration against the centre and left of our works. Received with a very lively and well-directed fire, they retired before our soldiers, who pursued them with the bayonet. The enein y left a great number of dead upon the field. "In order to render the protection of the trenches more efficient, I have organised a corps. of volunteers whose peculiar duty it is to reconnoi ti the approaches to our works during the night. This institution completes that of the sharpshooters (francs-tireurs) organised at the commencement of the siege, and who do duty by day in our trenclie themseli'es. They have already done a great det )1 of harm to the enemy. " As I have already announced to you, tear works now extend to the bottom of the Quaranti; ie bay. The enemy shows that he is not inattentive to our progress on that side, and his guns hot ly dispute the ground with us, where we are oblige~ 1, as we are nearly everywhere, to dig into the soli ;d rock. But our progress is not the less real, and remain in possession. "I have already informed you that the enemy la; is withdrawn his left, and evacuated those points in tl he valley of Balaklava, where we had previously ses m him in large masses. The day before yesterd:a y, wishing to ascertain the situation he had taken - up in that direction, I sent out a force consisting cif . a cavalry brigade, under the command of Genen al d'Allonville, to reconnoitre as far as the village of Tchourgouna. Behind the village of Kamara th. ey fell in with a few hundred sharpshooters, who re they drove back into the ravines. Some groups:. of cavalry, accompanied by their artillery, and a fR w battalions of infantry appeared on the flanks of tl ie party making the reconnaissance, but they did n of attempt to offer any opposition to the operation of the latter, which was most successfully executed. "At the same time, 1,000 foot soldiers, Higl s landers and Zouaves, left Balaklava to the riot it of our positions, and explored the heights that e x tend towards the valley of Baidari. They only met a post of Cossacks. "In fine, I think that on the left bank of Vie Tohernaya the enemy has only a few soldiers pos ti id to observe ourpositions at a distance. A moven' e:nt has evidently been produced in the Russian am ay, the probable cause of which is the debarkation of t he Turkish troops still going on at Eupatoria. Isl it)11 soon receive positive information on this head. " Although the number of the sick has sligh.ftly increased, in consequence of the constant danapn.tiss in which we live, the sanitary state of the army is satisfactory, and the moral spirit of the troops. is perfect. " Although the soldiers have been heavily in convenienced by the rains, there has yet been ;no cold weather ; the snow, which for a long time p ast has covered the tops of the mountains in the in terier, has not appeared on the hill-plain we occupy, and the thermometer has not once fallen below ze These g eneral conditions are i m p rove d b y the c;ai e we take of our soldiers ; anal, thanks to the pru dent foresight of the Emperor and his Government:, the army enjoys a relative degree of comfort the .t makes it gaily support with a light heart its fatigues. " The number of the sick in our military hospit a le at Constantinople amounts to 3,794, of whom 1,'i.*37 are wounded. Out of this total, 266 are Russians. I have established a convalescent depot in tb e Crimea, near the Bay of Karatch. Here the men who leave the army ambulances, and who only re- - quire a little repose before they return to their duty, will have their recovery promoted. This measure will diminish our draughts to Constarh tinople. "H. I. H. Prince Napoleon, still detained :IA Constantinople by the illness that c ompelled hag to leave the Crimea, wished to come and rejoin us.. I was bound to oppose this return, which comprc inised the health of the Prince. "Accept, &c., The General - in - Chief, (Signed) " CANROBERT." TURKEY. A letter from Constantinople, dated Dec. 25, says :—" General Canrobert and Field-Marshal Lord Raglan had demanded, you are aware, of the Porte that Omer Pacha should head the reinforce-. ments conveyed to the seat of war, with a view of: operating a diversion on the right flank of the Russian army. To this the Porte assented neces sarily without hesitation, and transmitted to the Serdar the requisite orders to thi3 effect. Omer Pacha, however, to the utter astonishment of all, refused to conform to the instructions of his Go vernment, founding his objections on positive in formation from the camp respecting the critical. position of the Allied armies, and his reluctance to take part in an enterprise likely to result in abso lute failure, and finally demanded permission to return to the capital and confer with the Grand Vizier on this important subject. On the re ceipt of this a stoundin g intelligence th e G ran d Council assembled at once, and, in pur suance of a resolution unanimously adopted, orders have been transmitted requiring the Turkish Generalissimo to proceed forthwith to Sebastopol at the head of his contingent, and there to expose to the commanders-in-chief of the allied armies his motives and opinions —the Porte being no longer in a position to modify a resolution which had been adopted in common with thQm. These stringent orders were yesterday forwarded to Omer Pacha, and which, it is hoped, will finally terminate this painful little episode. The Journal de Constantinople of the 24th of December says : "According to the latest news from the Crimea, the siege works had been advanced so far that direct com munication had become impossible between the garrison of Sebastopol and the division of the Russian army in the vicinity of Rdaklava. That division was in want of provisions, and was with difficulty supplied by the town, which could only send by roundabout paths along the coast." THE MANIFESTO OF THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS. An extraordinary supplement of the Journal de St. Petersboarg of the 16th (28th) December, brings us the following document : " By the Grace of God, We, Nicholas the First, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias, &c., &c., &c., make known:— " The causes of the war, that still lasts, are well understood by our beloved Russia. The country knows that neither ambitious views, nor the desire of obtaining new advantages to which we had no right, were the motives for those acts and circum stances that have unexpectedly resulted in the ex isting struggle. We had solely in view the safeguard of the solemnly recognised immunities of the Ortho dox Church, and of our co-religionists in the East. But certain Governments, attributing to us in terested and secret intentions that were far from our thoughts, have complicated the solution of the question, and have finished by forming a hostile alliance against Russia. " After having proclaimed as their object the safety of the Ottoman empire, they have waged open war against us, not in Turkey, but within the limits of our own realm, directing their blows on such points as were more or less accessible to them—in the Baltic, the White Sea, the Black Sea, in the Crimea, and even on the far distant coasts of the Pacific Ocean. Thanks to the Most High, both in our troops and in all classes of our subjects, they everywhere meet with intrepid opponents, ani mated by their love for us and for their country ; and, to our consolation in these troublesome cir cumstances, amidst the calamities inseparable from war, we are constantly witnessing brilliant examples and proofs of this feeling, as well as of the courage that it inspires. " Such are the defeats more than once inflicted on the enemy'q troops on the other side of the Cau casus, notwithstanding a great disparity of force. Such was the unequal conflict sustained with suc cess by the defenders of the coasts of Finland, of the Convent of Solovetsky, and of the port of Pe tropaulovski in. Kamschatka. Such, above all, is the heroic defence of Sebastopol, signalised by so many exploits of invincible courage, and of inde fatigable activity, as to be admired and done justice to by our enemies themselves. " Beholding, with humble gratitude towards God, the toils, the bravery, the self-denial of our forces both by land and sea, and also the general outburst of devotion that animates all ranks of the empire, we venture to recognise therein the pledge and augury of a happier future. " Penet - rated with our duty as a Christian, we cannot desire a prolonged effusion of blood, and certainly we shall not repulse any offers and con ditions of peace that are compatible with the dignity of our empire and the interests of our well-beloved subjects. But another and not less sacred duty commands us, in this obstinate struggle, to keep ourselves prepared for efforts and sacririces propor tioned to the means of action directed against us. " Russians ! my faithful children ! you are ac customed to spare nothing when called by Provi dence to a great and holy work—neither your wealth, the fruit of long years of toil, nor your lives —nor your own blood, nor the blood of your children. The noble ardour that has inflamed your hearts from the first hour of the war will not be extinguished, happen what may; and your feelings are those also of your Sovereign. " We all, Monarch and subjects, if it be ncees sary—echoing the words of the Emperor Alexander, in a year of like trial, the sword in our hands and the Cross in our hearts—know how to face the ranks of our enemies, for the defence of the most precious gifts of this world, the security and the honour of our country. " Given at Gatchina, the fourteenth day of the month of December, in the year of grace 1854, and the thirtieth of our reign. (Signed) " NICHOLAS.' FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. The Government has received the following telegraphic despatch : " The French Charge d'Affaires to the Minister of Foreign Affairs. " PERA, Dec. 27.—General Canrobert writes me under date of the 25th We shall soon be ready to resume the offensive ; we aro strengthen ing ourselves more rapidly and more solidly than th enemy can do. We are full of confidence.' " The Moniteur says :—" We have already made known the resolution come to by the Sultan to send to the Crimea, under the orders of Omer Pacha, a corps destined to second the operations of our Generals-in-Chief by means of an important diver sion on the rear of the Russian army. The ac counts which have reached us from Constantinople, under date of the 25th ult., announce that a Vizi rial letter addressed to the Ottoman Generalissimo enjoins on him to hasten the embarkation of his troops, and to go immediately in person to the allied Generals in order to concert with them as to his movements." We also read in the Moniteur :—" A recent act has strongly evinced the close union whichlthe treaty of the 2d of December has established be tween France, England, and Austria. Prince Gortschakoff having expressed his desire to enter on negotiations on the basis of the four gua rantees, the three Courts came to an understand ing to address to the Russian Plenipotentiary an identical note, which proves the perfect solidarity of their interests, and the complete accordance of their views." The Emperor is somewhat indisposed. It is re ported that he has a slight attack of the gout. The Empress works daily at the preparation of lint for the army. Visitors to her apartments re ceive as a matter of course a piece of old linen, from which they are expected to make lint. M. de Tallyrand-Perigord, Duke de Dino, for merly an officer in the French navy, and also au officer on the staff of the Sardinian army, has re ceived permission from the Emperor to join the army of the East, and place himself at the disposal of General Canrobert. The Minister of Marine has received from Syd ney, under date of 22d September, accounts from filo corvette La Constantine, commanded by Cap tain Tardy de Moutravel. That officer announces that he has sent home three specimens of coal, which is found in great abundance at New Cale donia, and which will be of thehighest importance to that colony, as coal is generally very scarce in Australasia. The Moniteur says :—" Since the Eastern ques tion has changed itself into a formidable war, the Sublime Porte has made great sacrifices to furnish to its troops all that was necessary for them. It will be understood that the brave army of the Gene ralissimo, Omer Pacha, has not been neglected ; and it has shown itself before the Russians in a manner which has procured it the well-merited sympathies of all Europe. Reports have been lately circulated at Constantinople that the army of the Danube was in want of things the most urgent for them, whereas, on the contrary, Ri za 'Paella has incessantly occupied himself in provid ing supplies of every kind necessary for the army, and in sending to Varna provisions, ammunition, winter clothing, and indeed every thi ng t h at was indispensable. Precise orders were at the same time given for their being sent to the Generalissimo, Omer Paella." The Constitutionnet says : " We have spoken, on the authority of a despatch rom Odessa of the 25th ult., of an intended attack on Balaklava by General Liprandi. Letters from the Crimea of the 22d, received yesterday in Paris, state that, in fact, some movements of the Russian general had led to the supposition that an attack was intended for the 20th. But a reconnaissance showed that General Li. prandi, far from undertaking anything serious on that point, was remaining behind entrenched forts on the road to Simpheropol, and that he had not 8,000 men in his ad vanced posts along the Belbeck. It was not supposed that there would be anything serious for some time. The roads were impracticable, particularly for heavy artil lery and ammunition. Our soldiers are organising themselves as well as they can for passing the winter. They have above all adopted the system of excavations in the grou n d covered over either with tents or with roofs of wood, or brushwood plastered over with mud mixed up with straw. In that way they are pro tected from the wind. Already our Zouaves have made i similar retreats f or th e i r f r i en ds the Scotch. It s a ma firma' excha nge o f goo d o ffi ces . Winter clothing and pro visions arrive in abundance for our soldiers. They have received t o b acco an d c i ga rs, and have had distributed to them fresh meat, bacon, wine, brandy, and coffee. Wooden shoes are expected, which will be exceedingly welcome. The officers have received sheepskin coats, and the soldiers are allowed similar ones for the trenches. The Russians, on their side, neglect nothing to fortify them ] selves in their positions. Everything is in preparation for a great struggle. The Turkish corps, which is ar. riving at Eupatoria, is sent by divisions of 4,000 toefl °r 5,000 men. F renc h cava l ry i s a l so b e i ng expected fr° „, 7, E,)urgas. It is a camp :Aga, perhap, more than aO4 which is in preparation." . BOURSE, JAN. 4.—CLosnr4 PRICES. Cash. tr. c. End of month. .0 per Cents 9l 75 —f. —c. 3 per Cents 65 70 65 95 SO Credit M o bili e: 747 50. Roman Credit Fonder — Aust r i an - Belgian Fives Piedmontese h Debt Threes (xd) 3634 RAILWAYS—FOR CASH. ff. Jr. c. 991 Cis .. Orleans 1,150 Lyons ' 9 B s' Western... ............ 628 75 Rouen 780' Cotte 585 Strasburg . .......... 327 to Mediterrane an 50 0 ' 1 Northern RUSSIA. The Journal of St. Petersburg, of the 22d 14/ publishes the following bulletin : "The last report f rom Prince Menschikoff. f 13th, contains nothing remarkable of the o perations,' fore Sebastopol. From the Bth the fi r e of the el l batteries has be en as f ee b le as it was before, and hi° „ occasioned us any loss. Although the enemy contint, his trench-works on his left flank, he cannot, from D e li annoyed by our sharpshooters, who are advantagn„° u % placed in advanced posts, push forward his lines in but extends them to the left. On our side, the defendersty strengthen themselves, ang sorties are made ' during hh , night. On the night of The 10th, amongst other*, midshipman, Pitoff, w ith 20 men of the fleet, takingsgi vantage of the darkne ss , carr i e d f rom one of our re dnuL two howitzers, and after having enfiladed with ow' r , successful shots the French trenches, where men Tl O . Ol at work at th e momen t , returned to the redou b t Wo m , A , having experienced any loss." The 'Cologne Gazette says Hitherto P i lo t has brou g ht on th e t h eatre of war only the thiribe her army. I n f ac t , R uss i a has placed in l i ne 3d, 4th, sth, and 6th infantry corps of the ac`l 4 l army, with the corps of dragoons of the reinj and the c orps o f the Caucasus. The Ist fulto corps of infantry, the two corps of cavalry of reserve, the corps of the guard and of the g o t (Hers have not appeared hitherto on the theatt e r o war ; she keeps th e m t o oppose A us t r i a, an d fob besides an army of reserve of 300,000 men, 6 1,4 mauded by Gener a l T c h eo d aye ff . I n the sPr.4 there will appear on the line of operations au aTi l subdivided into 6 principal parts : the North t il l, Baltic provinc es , th e arm y o f th e W est in Poi7o the army of the Dniester and Danube ; that ~'"O 4 say, the army o f th e S out h o f P r i nce Gortscliny the army of the Crimea of Prince MenschikA army of reserve of Tcheodayeff, and the DO/ the Caucasus of General Mountieff." THE BALTIC. A new battery has been effected on the I l d °l side of Cronstadt. A merchant there, of the s i of Osterow, whose house was required to be P down to make room, has presented to the ba the picture of the " miracle-working St. Nich'i in a silver f rame , i n commemorat i on of the S/0 ror's coming thith er t o t race ou t t h e lines of foundation. SPAIN. We have received in due course the journals of the 30th ult., but their content,B tO destitute of int eres t. I n t h e s i tting of the Go on that day, the discussion was on the Octroi m i The article of the bill declaring that meanti be found in the budget to supply any deficit Octroi duties was adopted. DENMARK. O ll The new Ministry aro said to have resolvrtte maintaihing the system of policy observed blo o o , former Cabinet as regards the Eastern qu a ,, It is believ e d i n C open h agen that the King 15 t0 this on the present Ministry, on their con2inbip' office, as a sine qua non ; and it was only (3° pte understanding that M. de Scheel Plessen cons_°, o o to leave his po s t o f envoy at Stockholm to °;ti the portfolio of th e Mi n i s t ry f or Foreign Aff°l Copenhagen. Very little credit must be given to ruraVe, pretended negotiations between the Dani s "o9 vernment and the two Western Powers, li t iofr the latter are urging on us to join the 093 of Nothing is k nown i n the official circles hero ° such pressing invitations. A letter from Vienna states that the teleg r o ti - F ir communication from the A us t r i an f ron tier 4t tb ° charest is to be extended to Varna, a nd i 7. e d works for this purpose will co l ! spring. When thi s s h a ll have been effee menoo teu , 0 36 can be received at Vienna from the Crineeb hours. The Independarice Beige takes upon itself t_ o _ that England approv es o f th e separate treatlnf between France and A us t r i a f or secur i ng the tegrity of the Italian poss ess i ons o f th e l atter po:o The Presse of this evening, however, expreese; i i opinion that the report of such a treaty ha been signed should be received with mistruA vis o i A letter from Rom e , 29th u lt ., i n the MO, f O,l states the Bishop o f L e M ans d i ed on tha t I;r ti i, the palace of the Q u i r i na l. H e retained hieopti lectual faculties t o th e l ast moment. The vi who bad visited the prelate only a s h or t tine of fore his death, c h arge d the Cardinal SecretV State with the direction of the funeral. The will be conveyed to Le Mans for interment. Reports from Hamburg state that the 11 0 4 from which that pl ace so severe l y suffered __,o"id 2d. inst. had consid era bly a b a t e d , and the "" were gradually subsiding. Kir L _mg .ewis of Bavaria had another sev° l9 i, long fainting fit on the 30th at Darmstadt,gok the case was regarded as dangerous, his lAA received the holy sacraments. The Prince and Princess Caradja, acconV by their son, a captain in the Ottoman service' " arrived at Berlin on their way to the Hague, v t it the Prince will re s id e as Ott oman Envoy Ss/ dinary to the Netherlands Court. All three been welcomed here by numerous friends. 5 11 According to letters of the 25th ult. frev A F Petersburg, the tw o G ran d Duke, who quittS . 0 0 bastopol on the 15th, reached St. Petersbsof the 23d, to the infinite joy of the Empress),A health and spirit s were greatly benefited joy of again embracing her sous. It is °WO . : that they will return ere long t o th e Crimes' tati'; accounts of the health o f th e E mpress ar e more satisfactory. A mar k e d i mproveme nt taken place within the last few days. „ p otP, It is contemplated by th e P russ i an War ilotle merit to do away, by d egrees, w i t h all six-P,c ) to tr,l foot batteries att ac h e d t o corps d' armee, and o'l place them with improved model 12-pounders' will require a n a dditi on o f f our 12-pounder v*-0, ries, or 32 pi eces t o eac h o f t h e nine corpsifl artillery department thinks that the reduced,T e tb i and length o f th e new mo d e l guns will enA"', pieces to be work e d w ith s i x i nstea d of e i g ht be THE BRAZILS. LIVERPOOL, JAN- The mail steamer Imperador has arrived, Ok 0 p accounts from Rio Janeiro of Dec. 1 ; 4 , Dec. 6 ; Pernambuco, Dec. 9 ; St. Vi neen t'o, - , 19 ; and Lisbon, Dec. 30. She brought dittr a i ljo o ' valued at 25,8201., and a s ma ll amount of 1)"" on freight. Buenos Ayres letters of Nov. 12 state tbLY invading force, commanded by Generale P - , h 1)1 1 and Costa, had been totally routed on the 7 " 4 - o#l Buenos Ayrean troops under General 1 1 °' . 1 ) , About 20 men were killed on each side. The %ill bad a large number wounded, and lost all " baggage, correspondence, dlc. tl Ol From the documents taken it appeared o l d Urquiza was the instigator of the invasion. ill° also implicate a large number of the residents l " o o l city, and several arrests had been made. G 0 0 00 ment, it was said, would take p ossess i on of 0 Fe. Troops had been despatched to reinforce , ral Hornos and to garriso n S an Ni co l as a nd sario. Buenos Ayres was under martial lair' o f everything was quiet. A no th er despatclifoad later date, announ ces th a t th e re b e l s had sillidetl, another defeat, and had been totally disbar , t e General Costa was re p or t e d to h ave t a k en ra' on board the Brazilian steamer Thetis. 011 Bussiness very dull, the markets bei ng quite of imports, and exports very scarce, fo! Exchange quoted at 655. In freights, 35 0 • 0 1 f salt hides ; 30s. for tallow, and 255. to 30s. for and wool. o'l At Montevideo nothing of particular interest i 'ol oc curred up to the 15th o f N ovem b er. Tra de; flat. Exchange, 401- ; freights low and sca b dead weight, 40s. ; h a i r an d wool, 30s. to 35 5 ' o , From Rio J ane i ro t h ere is no political B o a ' to interest. Fo ur war steamers had been ordere d the River Pl a t e . C o ff ee had declined 50 to 10°,'-i0 Exchange fl a t a t 27 5 to 27g. Freights, owl" to excessive arrivals, had declined 5 8 . _ na niel 535., 11 04 the Channel to London and Li ver pool 44 to Havre 70f. td At Bahia sugar was advancing. Brown, 4 13° 9 13s. 3d. to 15 s . Id. ; an d w hi te, 16s. lid. t/i°,lol Bd. Cotton neg l ec t e d, an d pr i ces nominal. L'" fa ( firm. Hides in request, at 6 3-ths to 6 4.50 10? dry ; and 5 1-sth to 51 f or d ry salted. Excb;alit° firm ; but little business was done at 28d. ; fr e l 0 declining ; rates, to the Channel, 60s. to 65 5 ' ' ' Liverpool, 455. de r d The import-m ar k e t at Pernambuco waEl,n-stOr stocked. Expo r t s were to a fa i r extent. v" I '. ' Tin g ti 41 abl e e 141°14 ° P▪ 041 t ▪ o m e' be te Nt tb Au' i t / a cot ' t o ' f , go 111 eut G ebel t he C Well 11 P • by +,BOO Ai at „ a aid 01 th e Of 44