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Dun......... Beans, Ilarr Tick ow Muzsg s9. :‘, Ditto, 11, 19 . tll4l depresBl,,,t e s being 4s to 0,1.0 30 plentiful 0(11 pplies to boa lo —Wb eat, 7251115140,0 36 $ ; oats, , 0 1 . 1 sui a 11 4°" 422. fle e) tities of the follovom o 24 1 22 0 "'" 350 31, 97 10 95 642 600 20. es of till kin d is of bur"' 11 IYAnce of o ' 4l Ogt°' sy. oa 6i I °"..; Oil 6d I 2i oa I oa 2 _ 0 . 4 ' t —JAN' 22. i d Le CIOSO Of the # nurooler Zussell's „. ;outh :aradoc •' ;.. lartlepoo iouth Pees ........... .. . 7annel ~, ..." 3orrpon .... MAIL S of wont eior fi ltti t TfiE lg go .i doe Sposf'so o Frolt ClO ti , "„. Frei" Flee. Fine. spovrj e, 9o l ' Cold, soon' snovf . l:oo' Cold snovt:, • s' Frost Thr , !' s o w , . Clou di •• FroV ** Sgo ll. SOalt. cioul, W tEt b o . ( tf,_ r, e t . ,74 g 3 4 itZ 7 E . Time I hilif:l47 l 7 4ae_r 01 10 I T o or rrora 11414ravese;It(T,end and London— 'o'o'il Ito,c,„11 %rave:n(l Illaekwall or W re , T IE nd and Intermediate Piei el. RETB Itz,!t44.senth, 21. •ii—T.sztrararhosr,tl;e. l'Nor. 13°.tir5444. kook, Terrace Pier, g x iVI I/; BERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC itas, ; Ar e_l B T at 8 O'clock, and Every Night (but Saturday).. tatng ery y, is The A , formnx g 7 DUart jun , pi ecadil e T y f Gal flutrslay, and baturday, at 3 NOTICE •• OF DI • ft A VIDEND. NX OP DEPOSIT turia---O}.TAL ASSIJRA.NC H AND INVESTMENT AS.iO ' The IttuR`HALL EAST, LONDON. rate„. IiNTS for the HALF-YEARLY INTEREST,a e t ee t in he . b et, n. Per cent. per annum, en Deposit Accounts to 31st D ore ready for delivery and payable daily. PETER IsIORRISON, 3fanaging Director. the ratil'arti.s.es,, desirous of Investtng Money are requested to examine de con ' t the bank of Deposit Pros ee.uses and Forms for Opening ... %Islam free i. . • 'P ' ---.„,..........___°1, aPP.letion. ES TAIILISIIED 1803. CAPIT.A.x:—ONE MILLION STERLING. All Pa and Invested in 180 G. Q L id-Up OBE INsuRANcE. FIVE ; 'ws.tx, Esq.—Deputy Chairman. CAaa Giorx, M.P.--Treasarer. LIFE : REVERiIONi. Combill and Pall Afall, Lnnd.n. 'ull'olvertd by Special Acts of Parliament. tlpp. at Rate.'ASITRAS.CES granted from Fifty to Ten Thousand Pounds, ufe. Particularly f4Yourable to the Younger tuid Middle period 1, IS - 0 Char .411 k -/Ne for Stamp Duties oe Life Poreles. rYCIlss of FIRE and LIFE Irmit ane. transmod. rt0%, 0 4 .. Medical Pees ally It the 6.:uses; eS, 9th Life 'f able s genor on various plans,— may ' a 1 or any of the :'?tuts.:'?tuts.be hal NATIOu., ppLoVIDENT INSTITUTION) For, ,48, ~*•rac echurch-strect, Londou.. c utlival Assurance on Lives, Annuities, & • thajr,,, DIRECTORS. ---an—SAMITEE HAYHURST IJITCAS, Esq. —elltit al,._ Johil gi,..„ ~iurma ri— C ll.l.l3.l,ES LUSIIINGTON, Esq. Thoto,' o ,,, (try, ,„ M.P. arm ' , kati, ~.- -t • ) Robert Ingham, Esq., kAlw 44 k illtr'cl7 Robert Shoppard, Esq. iolinard Crone}, stY, Esq. Jonathan Thorp, Esq. Cha j eithar n, Esq, sq. William Tyler, Esq. , ea B in tst. Charles Whetham, Esq• J, t r , 401,„ ~ th 'er 'q n ° 3 t, ILI), F.7., Y S s . Te I lANs. i Thomas Hodgkin, M.D. 11 am t TRUSTEES. k,:vrt In g i,_ ' it . -414XI MS-." 1 1j n n ...' E kl• NI.P. - "°r . s. 1.4 own, Janson, and Co., and Bank of England. Charles l I L i u . s L h u in e g a t s ett, Es E q s:q. C 0...... SOLICITOR. —SeptiMni Davidson, Esq. 43 4 t — ' 4 , , ,, Mfg Ann; tar—Charles Aneell, Esq., .. 1145 ,_ il e- , til° Report of the Directors for 1854 : FALB. 1,302 `li: ~f t:il i i 2", rof policies issued during the year •• * 0 •• 7 . 4 . 0 0 kritutis die min or .. ........ .... £353, l'elltie4,Prenliuros thereon . • „le ~,Tn i ed from the commencement of the inititution roliele—`nTher, 1833 .... _ 17,494 . • - 13,175 4 Waali rieW in force .. .... • • ••• z eiliio, lne °lne From i're 4ba. ,fafterileductiog £33 314 bilt,'"e4lent allowed) .. • .....£177,99 5 9 vestZieYl Interest on in aPital ... . ........ 44,073 7 7 . 2 13 4 j44 °thit p,,, X 222,0 I ren t/ --41rned to members in abatement of A tires ..... ... „ ~.. . . . „ .. 240,131 1 1, 0 8 40 110 tr ,t °f b onuses a ....... io . ......... ;mired ...... 126,564 0 °l eneo P4ll i n clairns by death from the com p,,thti, ... of the Institution th e ''' ventreceipts over the disbursements ht k cr Year ..... e4l°llth •••• • • ' - 44 the e , WILLIAM ` , :"EWMARCII, Secretary. te, Ise It ti to t 4 ) : 11.Lau , t with Variations for all the principal Lit t ritti t.. Quadril. r e e s a : ' Jerome Sol Dieze (first time), Lamotto ; i in Pastel, Lamotte ; Le Diaole d:Argen . t Vatllt,_l4'te'e4) , 11 ,, t' ll i et ; err Le e. R S o ch t otischeMat h . ilde, Ponisseau. I o:kas toZ n Ettler , ""lttii p) Strauss; The ZollaN cs (drst time), 11. Laurent; h o s'l,,, a t 'A . ‘ '' ,,,Lltss n . - ' ' Gallop, Les Ottidr!s, 1 . 1. Laurent. Principal „-- m u , • (Nikon . 41 ' -414 " .."I"' ' vf 13 , rt All information relative to music to eier4Vallaie repository under the orchestra. Doors pen ut 't et half-past.--Admission, One Shang. 1; 311 x 4 L 1 -5 h,•, 4144 A -1 ? ktrr l 'k, NOPT ICON OF SCIENCE , 7 , gr4 l • l l d 4 ,ki the ;•,?icegt e uare —NOVEL ATTRACTIONS. IV' by' - , u 'rgati b; ; Yer. der r i s l q LaMp with accompaniments on r. o lgfi, `"r• Lei,„„ vi r. IV T. Best, ' and the legend of Aladdin ..ei n k , 4 e Cria, -`B,er Bu ' ek'n ' ham— Dioramic Views of . the tYst:l 'll.lrl it e _A ---- p t t ':'millous i i ,g ouniain, one hundred feet high— l''rrait g e'ste tu rn-- CaY -44 tus and the Subaqueous Light in the ~..- - tittl y„ ," ‘oe c, --raorartia of St Pete.rsburg and Moscow, with 'oYag --* 11 Isto r , - " ar X, ich olas—Lejtures on Electricity—Chennstry 14 (Sat d\a And the History of the Bee—Franklin's Arctic Chlictr-,llrday - .aral m a , ie 'Mors open, morning, 12 to 5, even eti 4 bcier i "ee litecll .0, R atf...p s rice. o 10. ' 7 t ' - Admission, Is.; Schools, and 11, DA:rito,.,. ° A.A.L - b „-- 1 1.11.11. PRINCE ALBERT. ll'ils. coIItinum"":"LYTECHNIC INSTITUTION. Th, —.3,Proveznents, increased attractions, fresh decora kkelftkte'r t, i 'l. I V. --aCII 1 11,2 °n ORE MISTRY, NATURAL rmi.osoPßY, t4:-...eet 4 li rm - -", as usua ` l. with the Remarkable Scientltltc b.,/Deritne-r,„ on lv J. li. PEPPER, Esq., of Pro , ressor h i , F" . EPI/ 0 ,,, 8 on the TRANSMISSION of SOUND, illustrated Wea 114 ' A ,IIIV,r 1,- ,A,lcl CONCERT. 44 1 , ('ACt' -" rAV and SPLENDID OPTICAL DIORAMA, from ,„.011 AIN xi o ~- • Y lte,h p, .it rA of the VOYAGES of SINBAD the ,', R 4 , f t, atitifel PHANTASMAGORIA EFFECTS. 41 1r,,,' 1 “Ne• c ," WAP - , ' lt r te, .. '') STEA M ' GUN, which now discharges 200 Palls per ''' 2 ' . ; 4 ! 1 /Zo o , l'-. P`fatiel t .,. e .n, s Now \!usical Game, the POLY-ILkinIONI -LY by the Inon 4 i,, . lit 'Y E S E.N D ST A l, t t , ° ' s 4l p er rackets PACKETS. kkets call at thoGreenhithe and Parflect Piers. rtiota" TERRACE F t the Piers a.s underPncl Oveather permitting FIE, GRAVES'END. SUNDAYS. ...F.. - ;p )°l an reneluirch ee tr t Station to all parts of London `rrhour. BLA.CKWALL, on the arrival of the fo "..s [rein the Fenehurch-street Station. 5,„......._ 10 , ;f . Iv , t i :,,, Ur. Vrl llir 'l , 31/ Fs BLA.CKWALL, on the arrival of the fo _ ~1,,,_ i -- -v----__". f rom the Fenehurch-street Station. ) ,I I) AT ------ i h tl,:)., S------- -------_ SUNDAYS. ki r „-.4 1,-_. ;!, a. ...: 4 1 i - 3 2 i i t —,...... 1 i 1 church 5 ..t g lo , , e Street 1 13 a 8 4 2( ° • - LI 5 4 ,--- 4 !4 T o vr p ro _ 84 1 ,,, v elr a T. Orap e Fore Cabin. rialoon. ,t 2t oA tz , l , l c_P ra e ,, il . l a l :Ti n a , u n d _Lo ndon... . . . . . .. 10d. .. Is., 21. Fore Cabin. 6. 10d. .. ls. wish Bd. .. Os, ;ra. &9 Os, Oh. 3 Six Months, Collectors on bo, IraTesend. 3 7 .05. and the /Ili it4t 4‘..eßp,, MATURITY. - Atibilm.,,` 1-11PI ANIITIE3 OF YOUTH AND 30 '", Priea IT 25., I llustrated with cases; free by post for stamps, kat, Its 6 " :„ V OIT S DEBILITY; say on RPer rrh,, arses, FlYttiptorns, and Cure.— !Yatlthil Inio7ll yreetioai Observations o An n a E s s afer and more "'t, obm„!, k. treatment of the diseases of the Generative tt,,, -,4l llin i -,'.., by the use of the Microscope i n detecdtineffecatnedf eZ vari st l ;• ;),3, Urinary e xamination , the real caus s e oil an ry ta habits, 1 4 , 1 tp;e4.; aectlenftcoMPl.aint, whether arisin from ikr ep ;oia I tlY)e years ' orell,leitiriaeti%efellilnow)dby p the treatment of I °I P ' ia 3 ; which dye ea4de,l, ebia_litY, Local Weakness, Spermatorrhcea, g etica 'remarks, founded Marri a :e . e, with l' pre -141,1 tary hi .I,tientarles on the Physiology of ~..--,...4 practice, thrtu_ 4 tile ants on the evils emanating from empiri cal .an - ' 4 1 ) 0rt..._ - ‘l"lgerella re advocated by various writers rant disorders al • tor n ,. . g t , ,jl7 4MITEL LA'MIIRT, M.D. 144"kin. °1 4 fecri e r 5 ‘ o lt D-E3 QITA R E, LOND . 0 N, . lion, , 4°, Matriculated Member of the UnlvntY o soci f Edi ety n': 111;'tiateeft:i aeletentotbettursoftrthe London Hospital Medical I, altenti C-Potbeearles' hall , London, &c., it•c* r ea ,lbi con- N iii l 'es re 4 irregularities, anti e anti fn, in man. il ch lII N ' n 'l ,• itin ,- 11 tl'c'm certaine2istalsl2,t°lrrepegtilat 114 "O• pre',..-'ucoa More misery t - cla ss _, tnre de,..4„, at all stages of Life, t.rian. c':„, P peru , sal Is tt?l'4lari;',,,(ll.!a2e kno - Ai to modern pathologists . in Youth, degrade degradation blis'llphysi,l-ceeoluMended to Persons entertaining secret vl hazarded "litlltl'i happi n n ' ll tioll, and who are conscious of h_ man being is 1, P s d. Ms, and privileges to wh ich every h u man doubts of Itrt,;" ' . ' , sol t I ',tip, thOly r ,,, are rl, •ei Of re .cesBary thatall men should blow that tli ie without the ,Int vi rsonal ,„„ Management which cannot be violated ma t,,,,,,,,eydk3, 1,-,--- Penalties, and wen wisdom and regret s ucc allies ar,dee t.in,•,‘t mconsideratc s elf - fnaul.ence, how these Pen -__. ths t ' i t Z`v ti l : a ' '. 4 . hew tile sting ef their b bltterness may be remove!! O tr. 'ore 1,. vll and its consequences may be avoided, and above alio latzi-Zrri,.oltrisely anY degree of physical inatraity or funetion rs al tiZl.l4,:.l, ;4 . 6 `,._ :t i r oh e r zt ic t ti h a s , t : h u ri e te t s) l t tn oulf el eae y ye a ar id dse o lb f lec s ae ci nte en een c og e ffia ca gped nn u o ni t nu a :m ppl ex T %litir,44tely which ha t tt lith'i!, B . wh o ; I 'lt too generally confided to the care of ignoran a tens cu i y ve s . lititpieti. pret,,,nestigreat injury on those who are induced to place gou t erg, btill (71. ti l e iTl 4 ; . I ').41,4C1ee,°,;: 23...D-tlerrUYGo2teber-robvnrd;, price 2i, of: Messrs. Piper, r free by post for Nr d..l:„ t4 MPs to 'el.-MDare; Mann, 39, C li o anu rnhi a l 3- 1: 063, Oxford - street ; ~,et IlLare 411 Y address from the Author's residence, 37, 8ed ...44 t i , -.. . , es f or ~ --' 41414 t. -v/1341tatiOn daily from Eleven'. till Two, and from fARKETS. ' D—JA.I.r. 19. . part of the WIT ly moderate, fina on tho better 10 barleys we re f 011.1 with little b Date, per qr ....dge .. 1 Peas, Partri", ! gi 13oiling ••I t • tne e a . •• • ...... •• •• ...... ...... 117,669 6 0 „,,..„...... GO th e • r be fast ~ Pital stock of the Institution to 1,092,166 98" tile ent frolt to ,) o.lp.444tietion.;,lvalrieleoAtiof surplus profits made up to Nov. 20, 1852 ig—de'P4 d reib n" ' a ce rd ' ' ' ~, _ from 6to 89 per cent. on the original amoun , I ,k . h ats s ci a t (l be i:„ 1151 g to the age of the member and the time thi 1 trolli ; p ree •75 per " '°ree ; and the bonu•es ranged in like manner toads 1 I pod o, 1,, , _ edin,... cent. on the amount of premiums received durim il Post - I pig' et 4-.. Dr0,;;....ve year.. D s eh 41 sal h union. * -•• ~ - ..m.., tee," -rotight ...... ...._____. ...--- - 0 0e twee a of ung, ho , 0 iorwardfew of the members at tilt ... P oats from , to ~ tit su rp ,,._ r n the 10th instant, to change the period o lay •• • erPe ' Illa tb t 4 e ther a quinquennial to triennial, was nega• ...• • • Li° tre ose , . „thr - to. re minded, - "'Deet a „,,p vrennums became due on the Ist January • S••• 4tb - " 8 WV AeY must be paid within 30 days of that time ha . 1 ,.• Ofa,.. .. other information may be obtained on applica. ail o' l - '`.....„...... 1 - mo --.". .... 50 ~ * t '5 •• ...• „ref a til JOSEPH MARSH, Secretary. ...... •• '''' .. ••• • ' • iv,/ i kiroli k l. 41 1. W Sers 'and 16 TROWSERS REDUCED TO 14s. month - l'' ; d o t t y iii •t ut ,. . w aistcoat, 2 ss. • Coat, Waistcoat, and Trow. 30 of nt. Do• - kgs lit. - . l_ sh run ,:o , order from Scotch ' Tweeds, all Wool, and of mon. 50,4. , ".•et, N.1 .,...... 11 3: B. BENJAMIN, Merchant Tailor, 74, a naonth . : l e c u l er7: o ,,6 4 perfect fit guaranteed, • • • • 4.,0t" - .., MO;ith•• -- t pv ALLS O ,,p, 3 month•• n r i l 00 tit aa - ,-- 1- g C to? 1,, nig 4 Poelau EAST INDIA PALE ALE, tt o ,,, and t 3. Y ordered for SCUTARI, recommended by BARON s Addr 4 " and" 'post e • o month Sol l e% e ge . Cask 'effluent members of the medical profession, 'Pah ''ll 11(18 4 st,„ ; • Alsh ilthiv., Gallons and upwards), imperial measure. be/ ' - "---...,......1 ....„.„ '.1.0 ad0ti ".T01N, PARKER, and CO., Beer Merchants &Frit SOllOO, ;I' rnontl SO ~„ ,Iti Ix o - b ----__ ____ orr --gi g Or nln le i ,to' ; - ;i t . N obs ,„ - ° 1 110.,, z ' ~,s-• -.ZB (to be hereafter called the &28 oft ,nOO5 ~ of mo n : ;yet ' 4 44,,, b •ref '" Getttl ‘ -'I4M .'N'l s '" '1• "). —The Committee, climposed of a numbet „, 4 '44,, w a :nies for ettlen, having re.organised the Club, and i 3 0 , 7 0;5 1 41 , trins„;,,•t th e held „ s i ts government, a General Meeting of the 3 , ••• • • • '-' 0 03 ' , O ii' wit h 0r1),,," the 10th inst., when Mr. Lefroy, the legal ,27 ofIn• 6° AO aklbaill'talttt4l4• t it le of cheatsted he had examined and was fully , 3 01., , Of tai txt •bt, o4 a e kse Or present proprietor, and that he had of Iron' B° od o ;iii L l ation.n• L k irro n ,, a ,nd a copy of the rules to Sir Fitzroy Kelly, ; Friday 5 11 ~,' rere aut ille tt Laehi; o l..ln a very clear scat as to the non-liability , 3 wont. , poie r• l •of . owi ox r ee oar -, 4 tees mg being perfectly isfied with the expla- •• • • ~," cotit„tlie fakeryh.," ° a. o ,, aha a s to the future carrying on of the Club with month. - itiV" / — , tlis 0:-.. vantage to the members, came to the fol. of moll. o f' eer ''," the l b ? the en , r , s 4 tl a . D fmoOtll D-°0,..r.3., .1 1 1(I t h - ` 1 Prep ar -u n ,,Qt eo ' full approves and confirms the measures of al °n f lolyite . , iltk re ore th e 4. by th Or the reorganisation of the L tub, and that Y• • 1.* •• 500t,. 11 :41 , `, ,°ll 4l eriage n ;, e eting t'''.. approved by Sir Fitzroy Kelly, and now 27 0' I l e ; 500t , ',,,,V 1 - s eu , t th e aff . 1 1te , a ' is ` adopted as those which shall control its 3 mon. lora tle w b il e g is of irs of 0 ith ••• • i ~/ I,- Paid fPinion tithe Club being satisfactorily explained, the Dover ' th,"'e:)l. 0 the ~. 4 L the subscriptions for the current year may of men. 40 11 'lltt h ' - ` o l)riet. , k.,,... 5 ..bank e obtai n r • ion / 40„, , 3 / 4 , %1 1 f 1 i ,ig to e t r!, e 3 , it,..gt e t. i . th tr e e r .t at the Club, or at Messrs. Hop- th et ~ ~, ~,on, D .; lij o ver ••• : be 4 rae„.,. Present rul e . '. it ot necessary that a candidate '°l"2c-h.)8001,° • ,14 '""er of atlY other Club f Mont latioas? , 4 CAPEL A. CUR WOOD, lion. Sec. sisii ) •• \ Do ver . 1 trk, iyaon •,_, i tt " ' N- r" a lio frovt. bou Al b 8 .44 -o vDiy ? - A grNO, ARGYLL ROO MS.— ean ~ ot ° tr ott. ls " °g : Or, 0). Whig Sins: • , 2d, IP-55.—Duting the course of this week i i tt iO l t:itet ta .c Will be plaved by Laurent's Orchestra :—Over. 1 ship.' '1, 0 41, ‘ , et : , , .auber ... The lllgbianders (first time) 11. 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While we ask the question we almost hoar it objected on this side and on that, that such a question can never be asked in any Parliamentary or noticeable form ; that nobody will think worth asking what almost everybody is prepared to answer one way ; that, supposing the question to be decided substantially and in effect, it will be by the gradual decision of the time, warping our habits elowly and imperceptibly to peace or to war ; that, in all probability, England will always remain what she is, prepared eottally for peace and for war, though perhaps somewhat hindered in the prosecution of war by her con stitutional ideas and mercantile habits. Indeed, it is always probable that nothing decisive will be done, and that we shall go on clothe what we have done before. Ia answer to all these very netural objections, we must repeat our strong persuasion that the question is virtually asked, and to a very great extent, be decided this very session. What if the qncetion be not asked at all in any manner what ever, literal or virtual, and everything relating to the war ho permitted to go on as it has done before,—that will itself be a decision,—perhaps a final decision,—that Eng land is henceforth not to be a military Power. It is quite evident that on the present system we cannot wage war, and it is sheer extravagance and downright murder to pre tend to do so. It is demonstrated beyond a shadow of doubt that such is the dead lock of authorities and de partments, such the complication of forms, such the intru sion of foreign and injurious influences in every part and step of our military administration, that we cannot cope with the elements themselves, much less with a respectable foe. It is quite evident that we can no more wage war to any effect than the " Train Bands" under a staff of John Gilpins, or any other mock militia. The immense material and pompous or ganisation of war, which cost us some twenty millions a year, aro a delusion and a snare, simply because we don't possess the mode of workin g them to any effect. After half a century of the most expensive and elaborate susten tation and improvement, our military system has at last been set to work. It has been about a twelvemonth at work, and during that twelvemonth has been urged, and encouraged, and warned, and assisted, and corrected, and chided, and resuscitated iu every possible way. Nor is there any reason to suppose that it would have fared better in other possible hands. Yet the result is failure, failure, failure—a perpetually descending bathos of non-per formance, confusion, delay, perplexity, impotence, and whatever ends in nothing. The system is found as im possible to work as a ship that will not obey its rudder, or anengine that cannot be get into motion • or a figure of bones ateriltteeersee MO which we cannot breathe the breath of life. The dead lock is absolute, final, inevitable, and desperate, from Whitehall to the camp before Sebas topol. The Minister of War, the Commander-in-Chief at home, the Commander-in-Chief in the Crimea, down to the purveyor of stores at Scutari, and the miserable lad, dozing, hungry, naked, and frost-bitten in the trench, are all equally dummies. They can do nothing. They are mere blocks in the inanimate system that answers no other purpose than to make us flatter ourselves we are prepared to go to war, when wo certainly are not. They constitute a scarecrow, which has long ceased to frighten our foes, and only deceives those who maintain it. Nov, if this session, in the face of the utter wreck of this fabric, the thorough detection of this imposture, the absolute collapse of this stage giant, suffers the thing to go on, and votes supplies and all the rest of it as heretofore, then we say it virtually, and perhaps finally, resolves that England henceforth shall net be a military power. We have been accused of personal feelings in our remarks on the war, and of reflecting on this or that officer maliciously or wantonly. The tenour of our complaint, however, has been entirely against the system, and, under that system, we really believe the ablest Minister will be likely to find himself crushed and disabled. The promised reform in the War Ministry, that cost a break in the last session and 17,0001. a year, simply relieved the Minister of War of the care of fifty colonies, and so far was a great and positive advantage ; but it loft all the complications, all the divided, co-ordinate, and con flicting authorities of the existing system . unchanged ; it left the Duke of Newcastle incapable of giving an order which he might, en the best grounds, believe to be abso lutely necessary for the salvation of an army ; it left him recoiling not so much from the responsibility of decisions as from the trouble and uncertainty that attended their execution. When this is the case with the man most re sponsible for the administration of the war, and vulgarly supposed to be really and entirely responsible, what must be the case with a multitude of other officers industriously subordinateanclpowerless ? It is the object of the system to destroy freedom of action, and the spirit engendered by the system is to do as little as possible, and even to know as little as possible. That is the language alike of the officers in the field and the functionaries at home. Wo are only too fully persuaded that at the approaching day of trial, when all who hare been so unfortunate as to share the re sponsibility of this enterprise will be called to a searching and terrible account, they will all be well able to defend themselves. They will all be able to point out that they had not the authority that the occasion required, that their delays wore necessary, that they could only indicate wishes when commands were to be given, and might begin a measure, but could net carry it out ; that they were thus necessarily dependent on chance and caprice, and the chances went against them. Could we think the system possible, wo should have adopted a more severe line as to the conduct of individuals. Nay, men who have been present for months in the Crimes have been under the belief that we were only too apt to screen individuals for the sake of our correspondent. In point of fact, we have not censured them as they seamed to deserve, because we well knew that the system was one under which they could not do their duty. But the prepossession most fatal to the hope of a right decision, and most conducive to the wrong decision of leaving things as they are, is the idea that there is really no such alternative as that of being a military power or not ; and that a country like ours, mainly addicted to peaceful pursuits, may without any violent change, or any institutions very discordant from its general policy, con duct at least a defensive war with respectable success. Now all experience, and especially that of the present ego, is dead against this prepossession, which is simply a piece of English narrow-mindedness. War is war, and cannot be made anything else than war. It will not be reduced to a system of ledgers, memoranda, desks, stores, uniforms, and other dead or dormant affairs, such as may answer, possibly, for a domestic institution. In our own times every Power worth anything in war is an expressly mili tary Power, under an Emperor, who is, in fact, the head of the army, as his very name denotes. Not one of the Emperors now reigning in Europe is either a coastitutienal Sovereign or the legitimate heir to his throne. One chief of one military bureau out of a dozen is no snatch for the man who can say, "Sic vo?o, sic jubeo, stet pro ration ro!untas." Of course, we are not demanding the creation of a military despotism, but we are demanding that with out which military success, and even the preservation of an army in the field, is impossible —one undivided respon sibility. Do wo object to the creation of such an office ? Well and good. The objection is reasonable enough. It would be peculiarly reasonable in the 'sleuth of a Bright, and perhaps of a Cobden. But let us be consistent. Let us give up war altogether. Let us take rank as a commer cial nation. Let us settle as the Dutch, the Venetians, and some other ancient military Powers have done, and become the humble spectators of our neighbours' quarrels. It is possible we may be the happier, nay, even the better for it ; that is, if our neighbours will let us alone. If they will not let us alone, then we must enjoy what hap piness they choose to leave us—what morality or religion they choose to prescribe or encourage. If we are still too proud for this, and wish to keep up with the first - rank, then we must not mince the matter. We must have a proper military organisation, with sufficient unity and power, and sufficient adaptation to its purpose in all other respects, to make us a match for our imperial Allies and antagonist. tion of the department the execution of the law should de volve. The circumstances above alluded to would seem to indicate that the Govoroment has been losing time, and idly dallying with the very instruments which it insisted upon having placed into its Land. Au inquiry- into the truth of these allegations may appear to cover but a nar row corner of the groat fi e ld o f th e war managemen t ; b u t itwill be a test of the Fincerity and energy (er the want of them) with which Ministers have been urging on military operations since the Parliament met in December. At that time much of their past indolence and inefficiency was condoned, in the hope that the future would make monde. if it shall appear that they have been going to work since time, as languilly and unsystematically as ever—thatwill prove their proiniFzs of amendment to have been hollow or insincere; tisill demonstrate that, either from incapacity or want of goodwill to the work in hand, the Ministry, Os at present constituted, is incompetent to the great task of carrying on the war. The inquiry next in order is of wider scope. It embraces the whole operations of the naval campaign in the Baltic. It is generally understood that Ministers are seeking to throw the whole blame of its comparative failure on Sir Charles Napier; and that Sir Charles bitterly complains of having been hampered by injudicious instructions, and of having been inadequately provided an d supp o rt e d f ro m home. It is possible that a searc hi ng i nves ti ga ti on may show that both pasties ar e i n f au lt . I t w ill b e diffi cu lt to excuse an experienced commander for having accepted command upon terms that might or must have rendered it impossible for him to perform his duty. And it will be difficult for Ministers to show that they are not respon sible for having employed, and kept in office, an ineffi cient agent. Lastly, full explanations must be exacted of the causes of the chaotic and anarchical state which appears, through. out the campaign, to have pervaded every department of the army and navy in the Black Sea. It will not be enough for Ministers to show that they have issued orders for all things to be done aright. Rave they taken the most ordi nary precautions to enforce obedience to their orders ? or have they, satisfied with fantail than, looked apatheti cally on, while they were neglected or disobeyed? This is too wide and complicated an inquiry to admit of our details our meaning. In a letterlsstrate now; but t wo s i m pl e circum stancesfrom an able and respectable military officer of high rank, entering now before us, it is confidently a ffi rme d th a t " i t i s we ll w i i n ll t into serveit s t d o e known that one of the Cabinet Ministers wrote to Scutari to direct a pier to be erected at that place for the landing of the sick, and that it was not done for three months after." A similar negligenc e in enforcing obedience to orders is said to have resulted in the non-erection of a tem porary pier or piers for the embarking of the sick and wounded at Balaklava. And we are also informed that the military authorities in our army before Sebastopol are prepared to thwart and obstruct the civil engineers sent out td construct a railroad from Balaklava to the camp. The apathy with regard to the war, indicated by these simple facts, appears to have pervaded all orferations, from the g reatest to the least. The truth o f the allegations on this head; so freely circulated, must be ascertained or dis proved ; and if it is established, the causer of the offence must bo removed. It cannot be too often insisted upon, that, to ensure suc cess, these investigations must be conducted with all the sternness, but with all the calmness,of a j u di c i a l i nqu i ry. ,a rrlar di sc h arge o f eguxiip, point de zcle, was never T moreall e y a r p a p u l d i ' e s a ble. favourite A r m a nd cna i ques tions—every member rushingf orward singly, and without concert, to show how zealous he IS—can only perplex and bewilder, and prevent the attainment of any amelioration in the management of the war. (From, the Morning Herald.) the tr u th mus t come out. Misrepresentation has reached it s li mits. Confes sionsand public anxiety has -naeshseamnbilnetsentshiitsy that the of incompetency on the part of the Duke of New castle, and lady-like but false statistics on the part of Mr. Sidney Herbert, have lost their novelty- Ignorance in the War Minister will no longer serve the purpose of an ex cuse, but will b e t a ken as an aggravati on of the offence; while the assertions of the Secretary at War are now so much distrusted that proof of all he says must be unflinch ingly required. The public are now aware that there are two things which must be looked to with regard to the state of affairs in the East, and they will demand pnnisnment for the past as well as security for the future. The destruction of our army, the betrayal and quasi ruin of our ally, the utter waste of time, of lives, of money, are all things which no effort of man can recall ' • but all those things must llp sifted, examined, searched into, in the first place, that the guilty and the guilty alone may be punished; and, secondly, that by acquiring a knowledge of the means by which such events became possible, we may be enabled to make provision against their future re currence. An effort has been made to shift responsibility from those who are more obviously guilty to the seTeral subor dinate departments, and to assert that all things were duly ordered, but that the orders were not obeyed. The ques tion, therefore, naturally suggests itself, " Why wet() they not obeyed ?" and the immediate answer is, " That the authority and power to enforce obedience did not exist." If this bo so wo say, then, that the great event of the session of 1854—the appointment of a War Minister—was a delusion practised on the public, a falsehood and a fraud. Surely no man can be so forgetful or so ignorant as not to know that the reaava pat f—rward to justify the ap pointment was the strong necessity of procuring uniformity of action in all the dop irtments, and that to obtain it a supreme authority was indispensable. Certain are we that the public so understood it, and that Parliament voted 17,0001. a :roam for eh. ...penises sf the new office), upon the distinct understanding that the War Miminter should ha.vo the power of compelling obedience to hie commands. Either the power exists, or it does not. If it exists, what must we think of the possessor of the authority who did not compel obedience ? And if it do not, can we con ceive anything more criminal than the pretence of under taltiug duties which the Minister knew he had not the moans of performing, even if ho had capacity to understand the measures necessary to be taken ? We wish the duke a safe doLveranco from the dilemma. As far, however, ai the nation is concerned, it matters little which may be the truth ; for even if the power did exist, it was in hands totally incompetent to use it ; the thunderbolts of Jupiter himself would become innocuous in the feeble grasp of an infant. We believe, however, that the Treasury will be found upon examination to have been the real clog ; and an anec dote was yesterday current ia . the City, whi c h m i g ht go far to illustrate this position if investigated. A merchant was stated to have taken to Balaklava a vessel loaded with articles of the first r necessity for the tr oops , a ll muc h ',ranted at the time. That seeing the d ee p di s t ress o f our noble soldiery, this man, in the true spirit of patriotic Henality, offered the whole to our commissariat without reserving any profit; and that the offor, being by them declined, was subsequently made to General Caurobert, and at once accepted. at ow, if this statement be true, and we have heard it from more than one reliable quarter, the question at once arises—why were those articles of the first necessity re fused by the commissariat of a starving army ? And we think that any one at all acquainted with our system will answ er, that the commissariat were under the necessity of applying in every instance to the Treasury, and well knew that the myths of that department would answer, through their oracle, "that my lords were not aware" of the necessity of the purchase. Inquiry into these matters, as we have said before, i s to be made regarding " by gones," as warnings for the future. But we are threatened with results not yet we hope concluded, and which, although not so vital to the safety of our army, aro yet of enormous importance to the honour of England ; we allude to the impending negotiations for peace. Englishmen will, perhaps, hardly believe that we are now at the eleventh hour entreating and supplicating the Czar to ac cept the Vienna note—for such in substance and fact is the meaning of the four points—and this we are doing without the smallest consideration for the fact, that we have since the period when that note was rejected sacri ficed the finest army that ever left England, and expended enormous sums of tomalley in the vain.attempt to bring the Czar to reason. The whole object, however, is to try by any means to rescue the great offenders—the Aberdeenites and Nicholas—from the punishment which the wickedness of the one and the treason of 'the other have so justly earned. Is that object to be attained 1 The English na tion must answer the question, and they should remember, in making their reply, that the four points are the Vienna note in a new shape—that no peace can be safe which does not provide for the destruction o f S e b astopo l , nor honour able which does not secure an indemnity for the Sultan, even if the Allies are simple-minded enough to pay the enormous expenses which they have incurred, and must yet meet, without exacting remuneration from the Czar. These are the very lightest conditions which England and her Allies should impose upenßus e ia r , and these are conditions which never can be proposed decoded to as long as the Coaliti , a rem ains i n office. The great object of putting out the wre t c h e d c li que which goes by that name is to prevent them, by means of 41 difficulties from which their successors may fin d it impossible t o ex t r i ca t e the country, with due regard t o i ts honour. that misused, goe fromet in volving the nation have so scand a l ous ly which they A means by whi c h it ap- The ejection of Lord Aberd ee n must be sp ee dil y , if we wish to save our army, now atte nuated to th e l as t d egree; We can hardly believe that any 'Tian even the most sanguine, expects that an assault will ! tts be made upon pears an d here possible s l i e b t l eustO suggest effeet t batitopol at present. The loss h would be enormous ; and, exposed to the fire of the nort ern forts, the Allies could not retain the town a single hour. the object. o n ly We have, therefore, to su gg est— humiliating, deeply humiliating, as the course must .bp—to entreat o f our gal lant and high-minded Allies to anklai Off our hands such a trenches portion of the duties of th e es as may enable our them at afuture the day. The mus t perceive necessity of this measure; their poor soldiers to survive,in order to assist and so highly do we estimat e chivalrous hi g h f ee li ng , that we are convinced the Emperor and his generals would at once accede to the demand. hope has at last This would allow our over-worked and half-starved which surrounds the her troops to be sent dcwn by divisions . in 'succession to "Bala while the army con tinuesk a rrived,l a a, toe iareceivetohatvheeacifetwhiinlagy w e h . r i e e f s h e tr we we still stgoilled believefeedin food g ee t d o i r h s e o s t eu t r o h, re es ilf t rite h hut e onh i u r deg e hti exhausted h otn a h els utterlyst ei.tl chaotic u s p t n r a e al strength ; isn q ui bla h aob : leo period so gained, the communications between the har bour an d t h e lines might be made practicable, perhaps th e railway comp l ete d , and on the return of our soldiers the Fre nc h would find their reward in the gratitude and affection which their noble conduct would have excited in the ir Allies. We protest we feel ashame d.and grieved to a degree we can hardly express, when we find Ourselves comp e lled to make such a suggestion ; but an y humiliation is better than the heartless sacrifice of the noble and gallant fellows whom the Coalition have betrayed. The nation, how ever, will remember that for t his, as for other degrade"- Radical colleagues. To return to the meeting of Parliament. We wish in conclusion, to address a few words to th e l ea d ers of the op position upon the course which circum s t ances imperatively require at their hands. The nation is now thoroughly awake, and will expect adieu from those in whom it may require to repose con ' fidence, The days fa forbearam aro gowit by ; fwthor condonance will be criminal. Wo well know how terrible a sacrifice of self would be required to undertake the task of rescuing the nation and army from the fearful plight in which incompetency and treachery have involved them, but it must be made. Moreover, if action is now post poned, it will come too late, and when the mists of official mis-statements have been cleared away by the fearful ca tastrophe which any day may now produce, the wrath of England will be terrible, and in the anger of an outraged people we may find that unless the Conservatives adopt some decisive course, and that soon, the charge •f conni vance may be extended fi om the Government side of the house, so as to include iu its desolating sweep the benches now occupied by an opposition, which v ill then be con sidered to have utterly failed in its duty to a betrayed country and a sacrificed army. To the nation we say — "Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen." (Prom the Daily News.) The efforts which ought to be made in Parliament to elicit full and clear explanations from Ministers with re ferenoa to the progress and prospects of the war will be much facilitated by something of previous concert among those who intend to question them. The ends of inquiry cannot be more effectively defeated than by a simultaneous burst of a multitude of questions, suggested by the pecu liar views which every individual' member takes of the position of affairs, or the suspicions he may, as an iadi vidnal, entertain. Ministers, if disposed to be reserved, and to withhold full elucidations, may find, in the very multiplicity of questions, an excuse for objecting to one and another of them, and thus raising secondary irrelevant discussions, in which time must necessarily be wasted, and really important inquiries evaded. A few well-weighed interrogatories, going right to the root of the evil, will render all such bush-fighting impossible, and compel Ministers either to answer directly, explicitly, and fully ; or, by refusing to answer, to condemn themselves. Perhaps the best way of opening the campaign would be to revert to the position in which Parliamentary action was left at theclose of the short session before Christmas. Minis ters then asked and obtained the sanction of Parliament to the measures which they represented as the most ur gently necessary —as indispensable to enabl e th em t o carr y on the war with promptitude and vigour. One was the Act by which they have been empowered to send Militia regiments to undertake garrison duty in our dependencies abroad ; the other was the Act empowering thorn to raise foreign levies, and bring a limited number of these re cruits to England to be organised and trained. What pro gress have they made, since Parliament adjourned, in avail ing themselves of the powers vested in them by these Acts ? A considerable number of Militia regiments have been em bodied for permanent daty, and several, it has been principles have Mi n i s t ers proceeded in selecting the an nounced, are tcebe sent forthwith to the colonies. Up on regiments to be embodied ? On looking over the list, we see regiments enumerated which have not, up to the pre sent time, been once assembled for drill and training; and we see some left unembodied which have been repeatedly assembled for these purposes, and have been reported in an admirable state of efficiency. To the former class be long the far greater part of the Scotch and Irish Militia regiments. As a specimen of the latter, we may select the Middlesex Rifles. This regiment consists, we believe, of ten companies, in a high state of training; its arm is that which is the most efficient and most needed in the present war. How comes it, then, that a regiment so well quali fied to render effective service i 3 left unembodied, while others numerically weaker, and whose men have yet to be made soldiers, are embodied ? Has there been favouritism in play ? Have the eager wishes of by far the greater part of the officers and man been disregarded —as is whispered in some quarters—to consult the convenience of the colo nel ? or to enable him to retain certain officers whose wealth and status are supposed to give an eclat to the corps, but whose business avocations would ronder active service inconvenient to them ? Again, with regard to the Foreign Enlistment Act, what steps have been taken to give effect to it? Our Ger man correspondents. write us, that the business has been so utterly mismanaged that nothing can come of it in that country, where numerous respectable and zealous recruits could at one time have been obtained with ease. ' And it is confidently affirmed that little more than a week ago parties applying for information at the War -office were informed that it had not yet boon decided upon which see- T 11.3 BAS r ERN QUESTION. We have already published an analysis of the despatch of the sth January, addressed by M. do Mauteuffel, the Prussian Minister, to Count d'Arnim, the Prussian Envoy at Vienna, explaining tho reasons why Prussia refused to fulfil the mili tary engagements she had entered into with Austria in virtue of the treaty of the 20th April and of the additional article annexed thereto. We are now enabled to give the text of that despatch in ex tense, as also the text of a despatch addressed by Count Buol, the Austrian Minister of Foreign Affairs, under date of the 14th of January, to the Austrian Envoys at the different Courts of Ger many, and the important despatch of M. Drouyn de L'Huys on the same subject. Translation of Instructions forwarded by Baron Manteuffel to Count Arnim on the sth of January, 1855 : " Your Excellency will find enclosed a copy of a note addressed on the 24th Dec., 1354, to Count Esterhazy, in which the Imperial Austrian Cabinet more closely de fines the military measures which, in its opinion, Prussia and the other German Governments ought to take in virtue of the treaty of April 20th, and of the additional article of the 26th Nov. Count Buol very justly re marks that it is necessary the contending parties should come to an understanding in respect to the exigency which presents itself, and on which the efficacy of the conditional military obligations into which Prussia has entered depends. As your Excellency will readily con ceive, his Majesty has from the same point of viewlunin terruptedly directed his attention to the course of events, and long before this matter was brought forward, in the way done in the despatch of December 24, his Majesty had conscientiously taken into consideration the obli gations which he had taken on himself. It does not appear to be my duty now to enter more fully into the dispositions made by his Majesty the King, dispositions arising as well from a regard to the interests of his country and people, as from the un deviating"attention which he has paid to the gravity of the circumstances, in order with noiseless progress to effect an increased preparation for war and a more speedy development of force. By the measures taken, larger bodies of troops can be ready for action within a much shorter period than that conditionally appointed in the Military Convention of April 20, and we might there fore suppose that we should in some degree be able to tranquilise Count Buol in regard to the heavy blow of the Russian military force on the Austrian Empire, could we share his opinion that Russia entertained the idea of proceeding aggressively. " However, after having dispassionately examined the general state of affairs, we should be obliged to do violence to our own conviction before we could arrive at the con clusion that Russia will assume the offensive if she is not attacked. I have more than once had occasion to direct your Excellency to make such confidential communica tions to the Imperial Austrian Cabinet as in our opinion would most positively refute any such supposition. Besides; our intelligence respecting the movements of the Russian troops is by no means of a nature to justify the apprehen sions alluded to. I attach the greater importance to what has above been said, as it appears to be the object of a part of the press to lead public opinion astray in this matter. Indeed, the recent conduct of Russia, in respect to the endeavours made to bring about negotiations for peace, is of such a nature, that it would bo difficult for a dispassionate observer not to remark her sincere wish to come to an understanding. Russia has unreservedly accepted the four points as they were proposed to her. After tke conclusion of the Treaty of December 2, she not only did not retract her acceptation, but she gave a fresh instance of her readiness to conclude a peace by granting fuller powers to Prince G-ortschakeff. His Majesty the King Lae the satisfactory conscious ness of having always so employed his personal and diplomatic influence at St. Petersburg, that tho im perial Russian Cabinet should declare itself ready to treat on the basis of the four points, a'though this of peace gncs that which ;Ale Lev., contracting Powers (Russia. and Austria) had con sidered the object of their alliance, when the treaty of April 20th was concluded. A confidential conference has already been held, in order more nearly to specify the four points. We do not know the result of that cralfa runes, and because we do not know it, And as long as we do not know it, we shall con sidqr it an imperative duty to take the simple and unmistakeable conditions of the treaty, as our inviolalle rule of action, and keep the circle of our obligations free front any extension which we cannot clearly overlook. In respect to the military matters, which aro pointed out to us as duties, we shall hold fast to the leading and fundamental principles of the April treaty, which also find their expression at the clone of the Military Convention, inasmuch as the ob ject of mutual assistance is stated to be the warding off of an attack. Even the obligations which Prussia took on herself in the additional Article of November 20, 1854, bear this defensive character, although they confessedly go beyond the fundamental principles of the treaty of April. They (the obligations) are besides in separably connected with the pre-supposition of a mu tual endeavour to procure the acceptance of the four poi/as. It is selfevident that there cannot be any mu tual common action as long as Prussia has no share in the interpretation of those points, and exercises no influ ence on the same. Tie right to such participation, in as far as it regards definitive artrangements which, though made with the declared intention of maintaining the balance of power in Europe, change the whole of the international re lations of Europe, and seem to modify treaties which Prus sia has also signed—this privilege Prussia does not found on her being a sharer in any stipulation connected with the present Eastern complication, but on her quality of a great European power, which, by its own well won right, has participated in the treaties that regulate the legal state of things in Europe. The assurance need hardly be given that his Majesty the King will, with the utmost tenacity, cling to this view of things, and in order to maintain it, should it be in danger of being disputed, he will not shrink from sacrifices and dangers which his faithful subjects will share iu with their well-tested re signation, and with the whole force and perseverance which arise from true patriotism. It is least of all ne cessary to give such an assurance to his Majesty the Emperor Francis Joseph, the illustrious relative and ally of the King. Neither need it be given to the Sovereigns and the leading statesmen of the other States, as, in spite of divergent views and interests, Prussia reckons with confidence on their just appreciation of her claims, and is willing to procure their recognition (gnerkennung) of the same by means of explanation and mutual agree ment (vcreinberung). " From the foregoing remarks on the principles which actuate the King in respect to his own military attitude, your Excellency will readily perceive that his most gra cious Majesty does not consider himself called on to take the initiative in the German Confederation in re spect to an immediate arrangement for the preparation of war of each separate contingent. The draft which PM specially recommended by us and Austria to the Bond as a fitting basis is positively established, both by the proposition of the committee and by the resolution which was taken by the Bund on the 9th, but Prussia, from consideration for her other German allies, believes herself bound not formally to return to the same, as by so doing she would an ticipate the duties of the Military Commission. On the other hand, it is self-understood that the Royal Mili tary Plenipotentiary will always be furnished with the necessary instructions for demanding the activity of the Military Commission on the basis of that part of the Federal Constitution which makes provision for war, and also for bringing the matter to a conclusion in a proper way. By thus acting according to the Federal Consti tution, those objections will be best removed which, as we confess, present themselves to the proposals of the Austrian Cabinet, as intimated in its despatch of the 24th of the last month. " Your Excellency will be pleased to make to Count Buol a written communication of the present instruc• Lions. "Accept, &c." DESPATCH OP COUNT BUOL. "VIENNA, Jan. 14. "After the resolution taken by the German Confede ration on the 9th of December, we considered it our bounden duty directly confidentially to confer with the Royal Court of Prussia on the subject of the practical result to be derived from the decision of the Band. " The instructions which were given to our Minister at Berlin to this effect, your -- has learned by my communication of the 2Gth of December. It iw evident from the reply now received, of which I have the honour to enclose a copy, that tho views of the Cabinets of Vienna and Berlin do not coincide iu Come essential points. " The whole Confederation acknowledged the threat ening state of affairs ; but Prussia questions the cor rectness of the decision of the Bund, on the ground of the reiterated assurance of Russia, for which there is no guarantee, that she will confine lirself to the defence of her own territory. We neither undervalue such a pro mise given by a Power involved in the war, nor the effect which it may possibly have on its limitation ; but no binding, no securing quality which could exercise any positive influence on the execution of the resolution taken by the German Confederation can be attributed either by the German Governments or by Austria to a promise which has been accepted by no one. If proof were necessary that Russia herself does not believe that it (the promise) can be made subservient to the necessi ties 94 her pOili4OPtit Mild At this Yerl moment r PRICE SD. be found in the conduct of Russia towards Turkey on the right bank of the Danube. " Even if we do not refuse to share in the hopes which Europe attaches to the concessions recently made by Russia at the conference held on the 7th, the object to be attained is still too distant—the opinions ns to the practical accomplishment and the application of the four preliminary points may differ in such manifold ways, and the chances of war may exercise so much influence —for the Imperial Court to yield to the hope that in the preliminary results which havb already been obtained, it has in hand a sure guarantee that peace will really be restored. " We appeal to the good sense of the German Go vernment,, and demand whether they can deceive them selves by fancying that the situation of affairs has mail now lost anything of that threatening ch;-racter which the Bond itself recognised. His Majesty the Emperor, our illustrious inaAcr, considers it necessary to remain in a state ctf complete preparation for all contingencies, arid the apprtaching negotiations for peace will there fore, as long as the certainty of a favourable result is wanting, neither exercise any. influence on the military measures of Austria, nor can they, in the opinion of the Emperor, he allowed to interfere with the engagements entered into with his Majesty's German Allies for the attlinment of common (mutual) objects. Such an atti tude can but serve the interests of peace, and increase the chances of a favourable issue to the negotiations. " It is our most firm conviction that our German Allies ought also now to place the whole of Germany in a position calculated to command respect. It appears to us that the interests of the German nation and its Princes urgently require that Germany should, as well as ourselves, be sufficiently prepared for all possible con tingencies. Whatever expression may in future be given to the resolutions of the Bund in its quality of a politi cal power, we must again propose that whatever is re quisite for the development of the military force may be cared fer without delay. . _ "You will readily conceive that, entertaining such opinions, we could not otherwise reply to the communi cation of the Prussian Cabinet respecting the armaments of Russia and the German Bund than by these instruc tions to Count Esterbazy, of which a copy is annexed. " The Imperial Presidia' Minister to the Bund will accordingly propose to the respective Committees that a motion be made in the Piet that at least one-half of the several contingents shall be made mobile, unless the opinion should prevail that it would be more advisable to place the whole of the Federal Array in readiness for operations. The question whether, in the first case, two combined army corps or one complete corps should be formed, which the second half of the contingent would have to follow in case of need, as well as other matters of a like nature, ought to be made the subject of consultations whi c h s h ou ld b e h e ld as speed i ly as pos sible, and of resolutions on the part of the authorities of the Bund. " The election of a Federal Commander-in-Chief will also be necessary, in order that the union of the different parts of the Federal army may, agreeably to the Act of Confederation, be united under one command. We are therefore of opinion that the Diet should immediately occupy itself with this matter, and take the necessary steps for electing a Commander.in-Chief of the Military Forces of the Build, while in the several States the necessary measures should be taken for placing the Federal Corps prepared for war at the disposal of the Commander who is to be elected. "Your will communicate these instructions, as well as the documents which accompany there, to the Courts of, &c., and request them to have the kindness to make known to us the resolutions to which this commu nication may give rise, as also the instructions which they may be pleased to give to their representatives at Frankfort, in order that they may co-operate in the ac complishment of the important duty which the organ (the Bund) of the will of the whole of Germany has to fulfil.—Accept the assurance of my perfect esteem, "COUNT BUOL." Baron Manteufiel's despatch of the sth January was communicated by the Berlin Cabinet to the Governments of London and Paris. A letter from Frankfort, dated the 19th instant, states, that although the Diet has not yet been called upon to pronounce itself upon the demand of Austria and the refusal of Prussia, the question has nevertheless led to some animated discussions between the lead ing members of the Diet. An incident has occurred which has added considerably to the excitement which already existed. M. Drouyn do Lhuys, namely, sent a reply to the Russian communica tion. This reply is not so much addressed to the notification of refusal by Prussia to call out its con tingent, as to the pretension formally expressed by that Power to maintain its place in the con ferences that aro to bo held at Vienna on the bases accepted by Prince Crortschakoff. The reply of the Fr-elm - 1 Government, in a p‘lrenaptnry t•n(1. explicit manner, and ix terms which admit of no doubt that it is the expression of opinion of En;,;land and Austria also, denies the right of Prussia to take part in the Conferences, unless she joins the treaty of the 2d of December. The following is a correct analysis, almost a 're)•- batittb copy, of the despatch of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs : " The Cabinet of Paris estab/ial,ff that Prussia ex plains her refusal to mobolise her army:-Ist, Because she does not believe in the imminence of en attack upon Austria by Russia ; 2dk', Because the support which she would have to give ought to be preceded by au entente between the contracting parties upon the feasibility of carr3ing out the eventual conventions. Prussia adds, moreover, that there can be the less objection to suspend the execution thereof, because if it was really necessary to place the Prussian army upon a war foot ing, it could be done within the period fixed upon. The Prussian Government, therefore, is resolved not to change the character of its obligations. The additional article may have extended them ; but it has not modified their nature, and Prussia only engaged herself towards Austria to & defensive alliance. The two great German Powers, moreover, ought to unite their efforts to obtain the adhesion of Russia to the four points specified in the notes of the Bth August, and it would be necessary for the realisation of that community of action that Prussia herself should participate in the definition of those first bases of a future peace. " As regards the acts, the object of which would le either to consolidate the balance of power in Europe, or to modify existing treaties, and which Prussia had signed, her right to participate therein does not depend upon this or that accidental stipulation ; it is due to the rank she holds in the world. King Frederick William, to maintain it, will not be deterred by dangers and sacrifices, which the nation would share with as much devotion and energy as patriotism. " Another despatch from. M. do Manteuffel (the above is the analysis of that of the sth of January) brings out in more prominent relief the principal points where Prussia establishes that, the more she entrenches herself behind the strict interpretation of her engagements by the resistance to the pretension made to extend them against her will, the more, on the contrary, will she be disposed to enlarge them by means of negotiation, pro vided her position and her dignity as a great Power are respected. `` The Cabinet of Paris beholds in the expose given in M. do Manteuffel's despatches two distinct orders of ideas ; the one special to the relations of the Prussian Government with the Court of Vienna, the other con cerning the ensemble of its position in Europe. "On the first point, France is resolved not to inter fere in questions which exclusively concern the German Confederation ; on the second, the Cabinet of Paris is willing to explain itself. " The Cabinet of Paris does not pretend to contest to Prussia the rank she holds. Nay more, during the last two years it has often reminded her of the obli g ations of that high rank of which she is so justly proud. But it feels it a duty to observe that the quality of great power is permanent—it cannot be cast off when it im plies onerods duties, and be resumed when it only offers advantages. Privileges and duties of this importance are absolutely correlative. The one is inseparable from the other. It is not to be supposed that Eng land and Austria take a different view of the case from France. But so much is certain, that France will never allow that a power which, from its own free will, took no part in the great events which are taking place in the world shall afterwards maintain a claim to regulate the consequences thereof. The advan tagespee. arising from the war are only for thpebtep e i ll i ig a e t r in e o tit , in powers. And the advantages of the present (essentially of e ma l ar a o t r he al advantages)interestsof consi st Europe in i n the th r e ig r h eg t o Prussia has not done anything as yet for that object. She has refused to proclaim her neutrality. That reso lution does her honour. But, in reality, on what side is she ! If hostilities continue, will she be with or against the Allied Powers ? This is what no one can tell. Can Prussia reproach Francs for her confidence in Austria I The lines of conduct have been so different. By a movement which she declares purely a strategio one, Russia evacuates the Principalities ; Prussia imme diately declares herself satisfied, whilst Austria, on the very morrow of the day upon which that evacuation is communicated to her, exchanges the notes of the Bth of August with France and England. On the 23111 of No vember Prince Gortschakoff announces the adhesion of his Court to the four points ; Prussia congratulates herself in having obtained the object of her efforts ; while Austria signs the treaty of alliance of the 2d De cember with the Western Powers. On the 7th January Russia accepts the interpretation of the four guarantees ; Prussia, fancying the success of her policy complete, re jects the appreciation made by Austria of the treaty of the 20th of April, and refuses to call out her contingent; whilst Austria spontaneously hastens to recognise that the case provided for Art. 5 of the treaty of the 24l of December is realised; that the re-establi liment of peace is not assured, and offers to combine her plans of mili tary operations with the Allied Powers. " Is there a wish of maintaining that Austria finds in the alliance of the 2d of December advantages not shared by Prussia ? What are they ? This observation of Prussia doubtless does not imply an assent ; but yet, as a proposition is made to conclude a Prussian treaty, he side the Austrian treaty, it would be well to explanithe exact meaning of the proposition. Was that the object of M. d'Usedom's mission to Lout:: That mission rii wars viruped up in so pinch Y 4 " z_ f " ~--s object is not yet known in Paris. But the more endeavours were made to conceal it, the more were made to discover it. All that has been discovered is that Prussia exerted all her efforts to prevent the Allies from waging the war upon the vulnerable point of the enemy, and to prevent the passage of their troops through Germany. What did she offer as a compensation ? To place a corps d'armee on the Polish frontier; that is to say, that Prussia with one hand would turn aside the sword of the Allied Powers, and with the other cover Russia as with a shield. Might one not be authorised to suppose that M. d'Usedom had different treaties in his portfolio, and took out by mis take the wrosg one at London—that which was to have been produced at St. Petersburg ? "The French Government has not the intention, you may be assured, of hurting the feelings of Prussia. It expresses itself thus in a loyal and sincere expression (cpanchement) ; rind if it desires its language to be beard at Berli❑ it is in the hope to see Prussia at least give up a pcsitiou in which, if it had been happy enough to see its efforts crowned with success, she would not have been to-day." PRUSSIAN TACTICS DESCRIBED BY M. DJWULV DE LIWYS. ( From the Daily News.) We had recently the satisfaction of giving the earliest intelligence of the claim lately put forward by Prussia to share in the settlement of the great European quarrel from the dangers of which she has kept carefully aloof. To these pretensions Dl. Drouyn de Lhuys has just re plied in a despatch to the Marquis de Moustier, French dance Be i ge an an a ly s i s o f this deTatch, which in some ambassador a t B er l in. We borrow from the Indepen important points is more accurate than one pub li s h e d last evening by some of our contemporaries : M. de Lbuys commences by recapitulating the arguments employed by M. Manteuffel. Prussia, he says, refuses to mobilise her army—firstly, because the attack of Russia upon Austria is by no means imminent; and secondly, be cause the assistance of Prussia ought, in the first place, to be preceded by a previous understanding as to the timeli ness of putting the eventual conditions of the convention in execution at the present moment. If this assistance became really necessary, Prussia would be ready to give it before the delay fixed. Prussia, besides, does not wish to change the character of her Obligations. She has not bound herself to Austria excepting by a treaty purely de fensive. Besides this, the two great German Powers ought, in the first place, to make efforts in common to ob tain the adhesion of Russia to the four points of guarantee, and in order to do that it would be necessary that Prussia should participate in the definitive regulation of the basis of the peace. Prussia adds, that whether the question be to consolidate the equilibrium of Europe, or to modify the treaties which she has signed, her right to participate in the conferences on the subjects of these matters is derived and belongs to her, not from her adhesion to such or such a particular convention, but from her rank as a great Power. The King of Prussia is consequently determined to maintain that right. He will not recoil, in order to have it recognised, before any danger or sacrifices, and the sacrifices in which ho knows that his people will support him with all the energy of patriotism. Having thus sketch e d th e P russ i an case, as exhi b ite d b y M. Mantuffel, Drouyn de Lhuys thus proceeds to ex• press the sentiments of his Government : "The French Government has to observe that there are in this statement two kinds of ideas—one concerning the relations of Prussia and Austria, and the other relating to the situations of Prussia in Europe. France will not make any reference to the former, which belongs only to the Ger manic Confederation ; but as to the second, she is disposed to speak distinctly. France does not deny the rank of Prussia as a grand Power—the French Cabinet itself has often, during the last two years ' reminded Prussia of the obligati ons i nvo l ve d i n that rank which she puts forward with so just a pride. But the quality of a great power is a permanent matter, and cannot be abandoned one day, because of its burdens, to bo resumed the day after, for the sake of its conveniences. Its rights and its duties are correlative, and cannot be separate d . " There are no reasons for supposing that England and Prussia take a view of these things different from that of Austria ; but be that as it may, it is very certain that France will not admit that a power may of its own will hold itself aloof from great events while they are taking place, and not maintain its pretension to regulate their consequences. Tho gains of a war are only for those who have carried on that war, and the advantages derivable from the present war—advantages essentially moral—will be the right to participate in the deliberations which are undertaken in the interest of Europe for the restoration of peace. What has Prussia done to have a right to such participation ? She has refused to proclaim her neutra lity—a very honourable course no doubt—but on what side is she, and on what side will she act, if the war con tinues ? No one can say. Can Prussia complain of the great confidence which France accords to Austria ? Thos conduct of the latter power and that of Prussia are widely different. " Russia evacuates the Principalities by a movement which sho declares to be purely strategical. Prussia at once declares herself satisfied, whilst Austria immediately thereupon exchanges the notes of the Bth of August. Prince Gortschakoff adheres on Nov. 28 to the four points , Prussia flatters herself that she has obtained the object of her efforts; whilst Austria, on the contary, signs the treaty of Dec. 2 with the Western Powers. On Jan. 7 the ambas sador of Russia accepts the interpretation of the Allied Powers. Prussia, completely satisfied, send s a r e f usa l t o Austria to fulfil her military engagements resulting from the treaty of April 20 ; Austria, on the contrary, writes the next day to her allies that the re-establishment of peace not having been assured, she has to propose to com bine with them her military plans; in execution of Art. 5 of the treaty of Dec. 2. " Will Prussia pretend that Austria finds in the alliance advantages which she could not enjoy? If so, what are they : ;3inee 5110 proposes to make a Prussian trenty by the side of the Austrian one, she ought certainly to signify the precise signification of that proposition. Is that the object of M. Usoclom's visit to London ? Tho mission of that diplomatist has been carefully invested with so much secrecy ands() many confidential forms that, to the present time, the secret has not come to the knowledge of the French Cabinet. " But the more pains arc taken for concealment the more will be used for discovery. All, however, that the French Cabinet knows of that mission is that Prussia has been ens dearouring to psovent the Allies from carrying the war to the most vulnerable point of Russia, and to interdict the passage of their t roops across Germany. What did she offer in compensati on ? Sh e o ff ered to pines a corps p arntec on the frontier of Poland—that is to say, that Pruss4a with one hand should turn aside the sword of the Allied Powers, and with the other cover the Russians with a buckler. Ono would, in truth, imagine that M. d'Usedoia had several treaties in his portfolio, and that ho produced at London by mistake that which ho ought to have brought forward at St. Petersburg. " The French Government is very far from wishing to wound the feelings of Prussia. It is in a loyal effusion of feeling that it expresses itself thus. It wishes that its words should ho listened to at Berlin, in order to make Prussia escape from a situation in which it should have been happy not to see her if its previous efforts had suc ceeded." PRUSSIAN SYSTEM OF TERGITERSATION.. The Constitutionnel publishes a curious letter written at the time of Napoleon 1., by the Duke de Bassano,and. dated April 1, 1813, to Baron de Krusemark, the Prus sian Minister at Paris, in answer to a note from that gentleman, announcing that "the King of Prussia VMS about to unite his armies to those of the Emperor Alex ander." The communication of the Duke do Bassano points out the numerous instances in which Prussia, ho declares, had violated the engagements which the had entered into with France. Thus, in 1792, when France was agitated at home and abload, Prussia, thinking the position of France exceedingly tottering, declared war against her. Three years after, when France seemed on the point of triumphing. over the coalesced powers, Prussia abandoned her allies and passed over to the side of the Convention, and was the first of the great powers that recognised the Republic. Four years after that period, France having experi enced the vicissitudes of war—battles having been lost in Italy and Switzerland, and the republic being me naced both in the north and the south—Prussia again changed her views, and declared against France; But some years after, when the English were driven out of Holland, and the Russians beaten at Zurich, Prussia again became the ally of France. In 1805 Austria armed, and Russia having joined her, Prussia signed a treaty in which she spoke of the eternal hatred which she bore to France. But the battle of Austerlitz having been gained by the French troops, Prussia at once abjured her former engagement and proves; faithless to her new allies, as she had been pre viously to her others. The year after, Prussia being convulsed by the action of ultra-liberal opinions, which she was unable to master or direct, endeavoured to find. a resource in hostilities, and declared war OR France. Being completely worsted, Prussia had to sign the treaty o f Tilsit. In 1811 the preparations of Russia menaced Europe with a new war, and as Prussia, from her geo graphical position, could not remain an indifferent spec. tator of events, she solicited the alliance of France in the most abject terms. Napoleon 1., remembering the former treachery of that power, hesitated long, but at last, hoping that Prussia was made wiser by experience, consented to the proposal of alliance ; but then, as be. fore, Prussia broke her engagement. In fact, she was then, as always, the letter declares, a subject of constant disunion. THE INDIA AND CHINA MAILS.--SOUTHAMPTON, Monday.—By the arrival of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Indus, Capt. John Soy, with the h ea vy portion of the India and China mails, we have dates from Alexandria, Jan. 8 ; Malta, 12 ; Gibraltar, 16. The Indus has on board 44 first class passengers, and 9 chil dren, among whom are Lady Fitzclarence and the Hon. Miss Fitzclarence, Captain Williams, &c. There are also 16 second class and other passengers. The body of Lord Frederick Fitzclarenco has been conveyed to England by this steamer, aring her homeward voyage the Indus on the 13th . , observed the screw steam - ship Sovereign steering '., and on the 17th the screw steatutri Taurus, steering S.E., the Orontes, bound to Alexandria, and her Majesty's screw s team-ship Princess Royal, steering south-east. Iltr Majesty's ships a t Malta were—the Britannia, Tiafalg ar, Ne ptune, St. George, and screw-steamers Jura a nd Im peratrice. At Gibraltar were the screw -Bteatner Hosperus and h er Ma jesty's ships Iff:cla and Retribu tion . The latter vessel is bound to England w ith invalided t roops from the Black Sea. At Gibr altar the latest rates of exchange are iinutol for bills on L ondon, 90 days, at 51 I ; Parlay 5f I ) ihi•ar-eilles M. 43c. On the Bth inst., the British t.co.; ~ , y Gibraltar schooner Ada put into in a leaky state, also tlie Nautilus, with mainmast sprung, bulwarks carried awa y, and other damages. The British brig Rufus got ashore off Ragged Staff during the night of the 12th inst., and became full of water. The Indus brings on freight 13 packages of specie, value $129,470, also 277 boxes of oranges, 223 bales and 137 cases of silk, and sundry general merchandise. The rate of exchange from Paris continues with an improving tendency. At Hamburg and Amsterdam the quotations were also firm, money at the former city i being obtaixAblQ at from; to k per cent, -•