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Gallery, ls. The Morning Representations 41114141111417:A__T.sitiliztY, Thursday, and Saturday, at 3 o'clock. *.,,,..._,........1 Y. t 4 N xNOTICE OF DIVIDEND. Q 4.4 IIT OIONrsv Op DEPOSIT ASSURAIVIX AND INVESTMENT AiilSo 0 1 1 is pro t , 11.0 . 3, PALL.XALL EAST, LoNDoN. 'IQ Per c ent, for the RALF-YEARLY INTEREST, at the iiito r , B4. II:. per annum, on Deposit Accounts to 31st Dece , r delivery and payable daily. 116.hities 4, PETER MORRISON, Managing Director. t.I the ifus of Investing Money are requested to examine the c mosi t h ant of Deposit. Pros ectuses and Forms for Opening kilt free on application. I) - 7 ( e object is not yet known in Paris. But the mere 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 &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 wrong 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 (eeartatement) ; and if it desires its language to be heard at Berlin it is in the hop e t o see P russ i a at l eas t g i ve u p a position in which, if it had been happy enough to see its efforts crowned with success, she would not have been to-day." Rl#;2'll w op.--1 0 ) Lt.s siao dux! I s 3d 3Us 01 4a 256 01 - rOd C' 3l is 343 04 r ket, 674 0 , O * q 4 LAI , ( O ART it. / 3 ley, • ** 5 as, *** LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 23, 1855. NO. 19,444.] rrßicE SD. PUBLICATIONS. THE CONDUCT OF THE WAR. condonance will be criminal. We 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 tab late, and when the joists of official mis-statements have been cleared away by the fearful ca tastrophe which any day may new produce, tho 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 of conni vance may be extended from the Government side of the house, so as to include in its desolating sweep the benches now occupied by an opposition, which 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 Times.) Yow ready at all the Libraries, in 3 vols., ANTIPODES; or, the New Existence. A Tale of Real Life. By a Clergyman. Current. . 003 " 003 ° A... .0 oos ens " Antlpodei ; or, the New Existence,' is a story of our own time. We can say truthfully that it is very eloquent and deeply - interesting." —The Critic. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn .PRUSSIAN TACTICS DESCRIBED BY M. DROUYN DE LIWYS. (Front the Daily Ncw•s.) CA? ' tSTABLISFIED 1803. A, 7-":—ONE MILLIO N STERLING. rc t t „, A ll Paid -II and In vested in 180 G. Al E INSURANCE. 4. • 1r p -. a" "tEr.b, Esq , M,p , p.n.s. --chairman. GE wtstt Ewsaxt, Esq.—D eputy Chairman. irt ii ; 4 "'E Carta CLix, Req., 30. P LIFE: ANNUITIES: REV ERS lONS. g ip nbill and Pall Mall, London. riercd by Special Acts of Parliament. LIN iv .......---- ddle Periods 4f.k.t:,.._,Datußcalrl7fEavogroaranbteed from Fifty to Ten Thouland Pounds, ' to he Younger and Mt k li.o Cohargo f or Stamp D uties OR Life Pol'eies. _ -Vtry e kt f FI RE and LIF E Insutance transacted. 7 ,ll,Stef„„°,_ ---with Medical F ees generally paid.Cee qat o ft , Life Tables a) it rla of any of the Agents arious plans,--my be had WILLIAM NEWM ARCH, Secretary. Ilard N. 12. 4 1 , ,d, of 1 1 1 1 : 0 to A n y Oa —Oats, ur6,l,i, 0b5,, 2° 1, 9 01 14 / Pe', 4, oa , ate, bi 6 9 01 2 0 5 x i to provts l i °ll , l lo; n ; voerw,b, v• Aa P , P 3r stone, ik fitter, Pe": liens, Per ei t v 5 6d; d u i , Oil Od [ 6 od bhp eff, ti;4: l , ; n 4 larg e, ) . so, Per g. 17. kinds of t of Prit e i blab, oats ore S S , t et a S' °.. red dittok s 6dO l • 153 °a r t, oiattoo•-• r A OS awn tlie, •desPit63') J . '"eof `` Ll'• ILs~e 6014 . ''' Pl3 l°ll Del! ' 30tiv mot. • aonth 40.1 0- voo o gout ,Oof er ,,, s l; pow, • Dofl t Pat mon. •ride) . font' 0 0 0 7 , 1 uo n ot 1)011 0 ,0 00 3 0 aol, P - oir 3W' •• • • iontb 3 0 ' Do va ri.uo r poYer.'''' ioaw g o utiv YAri' l Pot po- )111 0 ' f ion. ptil3 o. '• nOntl, , B Eft 0 0. Ofe rC fr o o 0 A Cr Frol• f ot• jjArd clou, ..Frog. ••• Frost. ▪ Frot ••• y r og-_;sl windi• ••• Froot“ •: . F ive • Clog, , •'' Fos" Fro t' • 11 9 ,ra „,o E wa "• Fro. , ▪ Fronfo , lisr" fro '"• Fros - ET 06 ,9 • Col ▪ Fros' Fine' liera - 0 11.° 7 ) ::• Ns, cu 11 tum., 4 14 "' 110. • Clou Cle udifi ••• Foggp, "• Clou • •• Fro-- closidP Fros t ' ''• Frot 4 , 00. par l ;o p o rti 4, the 1t ° 1:69, d inves'fo l / the death°, • j as foraterleft 051 a bricklel pfri ise, in T9 ll it of ill-trill) urt, 013 Sl o sl l 9 palge a it kick in 4 ; A t, and .- 1149 :i ir d in a state ion oo As but tIP fo s!ii she wa g Alr °f the iternal ki°4 4 974,4-iizezd 1/4,k00)44 and a i e n l l or' 0 ? 2 1. ;;Tvrel • 11641*. ! ;1;11 - edr t , T 1 0 Hearn, n sox. , the 1 Queen. IGHTSB.• Mat tlie/ wry 1/14°1i—A--- ,1,. PROV IDENT INSTITUTION, 3 4 ON Gr London. utua a AssUrance acechurch-strect on Live's, Annaitieg' Bcc• ChOrtuae, pIaECTORS. kibekt, •AIRJEL HAYHURST LUCAS, Esq. Erkit iory, -CHARLES LUSIIINGToN, Esq. Ifipl atu ~,C a stle, b. Robert Ingham, Esq., M.P. ,14 1,24, 411 1er i h 7ti, Robert Sheppard, E'q. ' gil l ° -IWI eY E 3% E sq• Jonathan Thorp, Esq. 1 44: 1411 tra 1 , ... N. ' William Tyler, Esq. gilpip: 1: --. " Charles Whetham, Esq. lAMI. tkik., 44423 t, IL E, PIS. t M Thomas Hodgkin, M.D. 4 1414 lb t A t t• Eaq TausTEEs. 4 4--. atn, Fay., u ( Samuel IL Lucas, Esq. 4 R ' l'• Charles Lushingten, Esq. _ rk -rqvrn Janson and Co., and Bank of England. ~_ Setterroa ' S ' Ast t ' e 'strt,/. /xo , _ 7- epthnus Davidson, Esq. 'N._ 'fill e -i,f'll4l,l'--Charles Angell, Esq., F.R.S. At ot ; rixi i be r of port of the Directors for 1854:- , 2V 444 die strotahociles issued during the year 553 07.4. 10300 1' 1 1 4 1 %0 PIB4:I°AS thereon .. • •• .• .. ******* •- • • .4 -1 9 ',624 8 8 Lhilieliseee4ll'Sorl the commencement of the institution 17,4, i no, ;1833 .. • • ....... ' ••41 Slal ti,.. / no , ' forc e .....„ . ... • 13,175 it s (itfte rBe - Prom Ice , 4,,„„ rdeducting 433 8 41 14 0 wita, t ail oweci) ,31 ~... 5 9 , .411;1-eraZniinterest• • on- .1;14144'999 i ttek t '•• • •• ...... 44,073 7 7 .£'222,072 13 4 4 1 , 11 11 1 Z 4 1 r 441 to members in abatement of 4„ ' of 1,,..* ...... ...... . , .... 240, 1 3 1 U 8 ;NI ~,7,41:15es added • to ........ a . 5 ............. 126,564 0 0 11 4%ent °P l ms by death from the com toe or ree ,the institution 147:43. ..4tB over the disbursements is 117,669 6 0 41% I fie .. ••" • • • ..... •• • • ..... ••• ' • • 166 9 8 " ' at„ .. . la st , tapital stock of the Institution to 1,092, ItleiZtioejl',visnriloo of surplus profits made up to Nov. 20, 1852, Z>ll: 4l s, itee o „ ecl roM 6 to 89 per cent. on the original Po so s. bee, ti ; , :cg to the age of the member and the time ' the ,p i.,,,..55 forc e ; and the b onuses range d in like manner ,1141,41.47:64hposittil'ereee3.enati:son the amount of premiums received daring 411.444141 ti I ht fb ni' dby few of the members at the ono% 4 Profits from tl fig4ll•lleld on the lajth ins a tantto change the period of ke rnenlberB Vile quinquennial to triennial, was nega- January t4i _reeundea tre:rinemusittit:s became dth d i a n e 3 e o a da t Ps e o l t a t t hat time, Ikittlili2e q, o ther Other information may wl be obtained on applica• .1%54.. 16 kk T 3T R . 3na w`," SERS REDUCED TO 14s. , 111 5 . to ...stcoat, 22s ; Coat, Waistcoat, and Trow ,..'uttuti, order f rom Scotch Tweeds, all Wool, and , b, B ENJAMIN, ➢lerchant Tailor, 74 Perfect fit guaranteed. JOSEPH 3IARSII, Secretary. k lit kil) illtit4,Petik,..., AST INDIA PALE ALE, gi d , l tle . ; ‘ , 4 4 tli n e 'r e ° o ` st e oiti ed i for SCUTARI, recommended by BARON ,i, pqii:_,, , ask s NI !lent members of the medical profession, all..kangAlthpe Gallons and upwards), imperial measure. [ -1 te "dot; l‘ti li, P.A-RKER, and CO., Beer Merchants, 111IXn --..„...... l'aba ble'le4 -4 1311 ,,, eLjj l4 ll ) 13 (to be hereafter called the ,t 14,,;", rii"..." a elm.,„ —T he Committee, composed of a number , 4 „‘lser - .,,Yrat lir: for t - 'ea. having re-organised the Club, and ~..'istiee..',this t Lat on ; government, a General Meeting of the '''' *lib .41, th -sq.elitte-'e 10th inst., when Mr. Lefroy, the legal Ad h _. Nu m "_ titl e op stated he had examined and was fully m e izotui,4 l tp e ati,i thg, R i on. ers. o hs , . Present proprietor, and that he had id 'ha xi'aan„ e oPy of the rules to Sir Fitzroy . y r ereas,l l • gUaraiii••esti4--,:ery clear opinion as to the non liability 'rill re ce Mfort a n ,., as t s ,", e ,'ng perfectly satisfied with the eard* '.... solutions. l'' adv ell 'oe future carrying on of the Club with i ikecilia,at this .lifeet-:- t "Re to the members, came to the fo • 4 rta7 t he coml4g for . 1 4 b et a Prepa re .billet for th:DAroyes and confirms L Te b. measures kir, e re the ~,, h rn ' r eorganisation of th %1 14 4 0 ' ,, eeti ng 107.,,, " PPr0Y0d by Sir Fitzroy Kelly, and now Iti tlo n lig ilT e • nt ;" ;18 0 .- ' 4e Pt'a— as those which shall control its t i L it la of 0 I rs of th I ttt7 (4l (l t Piel ° ll that ClUb being satisfactorily explained, the 1..._ ka o th e pro the s ubseriptlons for the current year may ‘l4,:k 1:11 ,;.bap tbie °,b troelailear i g n e c y n t - otherr '; e t t cli us g 4,14 • -nets 3 -41 ed eithor at the. Ci b or at Messrs. Hon riaet, r ent rul e . Club. LAPEL that a candidate CAPEL A. CURWOOD, Hon. Sec. N 11 h74) . 17. 3 , CASINO, ARGYLL ROOMS W . e --- :k iv Nt - . 0 an. 22d, 1055.—During the course es of ra th :_ is ove c i. N . usic Will be played by Laur rß ent's i O m r e ep t ti.; 41 1. 40 k n er : The Iligh o la h n . der o s r Lti t ; t ve t nnovu ll n . g. L . a p ur e e n n , t z ; it 11/4tmeett7irsariT c time), liosisio; Le Carnav h ld p e ricip i al ate ), , lin. atlr ( ent with Var:t i t a ti t o h n , s ide lo r r st.tt al iin l e t ) time), Lamotte ; 4 hqC l l4 4 drilles • with Sol Dieze 404 t),)&4-`°l Le Rot du Pastel, Lam?tte (ll ,• B rs f e .a nis D s i e a t o u l . e d'Argent iolkas ta.ridlie,s, (tiz.,,t,„__. i'' Schottische, i lt liet i l e li tit,'",,,Tle), Strauss; The Zouaves_(_ti 11. Laurent; Principal t it tli : ,4 1 : t fl th ,F . ' qallop, Les Guides, 1 . 1. Laurent. _,,,,, 4%4 10, 11° 1 ,: 1 ,, c e 0 1, u 0 rt 5it AllunindfeorrinthaetieornelrleelsaAv.e. t p o e m or u s slc pe t n o 'A' 't - 1 , 3.7t 3 , ' Admission, One Shilling. RYA p N .,„ Aladdi7lNJ) ARV, ''''; -°1 OP T ICON OF SCIENCE gra nn a the -elee ster snn ATTRACTIONS. 4 b ' l cl org an b ' l - 3' 31 rINI W PI v er fui . L a u r in . /o — : ( ; C vi l t r : L accompaniments on i, the 0, -e loest er . „" • T. Best, and the legend of Al e a . d t d h it ,r'tt' s D, !'aleit--L„,,utlekingliam Dioramie Views ' C'l/4,,„_;Maltiteoiitril6kes,:rTnoll:ndl, th t e ain su o a n g e hundred feet high— y'ltttrill'hitellie ez ar7ir L ti" a• of S ° t u . li Peters ' b bur u g e r s . . and Moscow, with Light in the ki,-4e:ttirdatNist");lt---tirsi.A,,,iutTeasiTisteeertyureefs the E it l e e e c — tr F ic r it a y n —C khh h ,s em A i r s e t t r i y e - ''eti %Il); lo z e,,epTeAl agie • Doors onen, morning, 12 to 5, even , ttait.prie7eto 10. Admission, Is.; Schools, and ~, __ It C3 YA l'4Tllel\T 11 .. e I, p n , .It.ll. PRINCE ALBERT. flo ps -o'ittna,46-IATECIINIC INSTITUTION. V' Lte —l4°vernents, increased attractions, fresh decors -4,lteiiTtilts , tito:;,ty, rakfics,-11 ,lIEMISTRY, NATURAL PlOLO s T e P n l t l it T e , 43'40petqted oil aA b y ll sual i ; with the s : I.em ot a gro a fes e sor Wheat ttjlltAtl,y4(ile" th x e cl 'i ltiairMlSSlON of SOUND, illustrated '‘"l4't°itslll4--"L,,,WeaCincisg, Polt,fZitl- p e m OPTICAL DIORAMA, from k i tli: / 'itli p e ,, , 'lliT VOYAGES of SINBAD the lii l 'llifk" the iWt.,1.41 PH ANTASMAGORIA EFFECTS. k 4 te, a% aT t.4 ! l . t q:1 4 11 (413}1. , Which now discharges 200 Balls per -Nklierd(l44'B Ne w Mns'cal ciArre, the POLY-lIARMONI - 'Y b 3, the Inventor. 0 0;1, SEND STAR -kk2 Packet P CKET S. ‘ 4 4 e a n S Can Pat the Greenhltho and Turdeet Piers. Pitosittli.e Piers as underlined (weather permitting vAtitA.CE PIER, GRAVESEID. ft:l., the Pi ers " rtsT in l ln3 ,l (weather permitting lt tl3U l' %it RICE 14 1 En it e , r a e . I.l7 w E e St ID. p vi tt , • qi-------____ ---- SUNDAYS. 94 t t I ' - ` 0 ---- 11 . GA 4. . . 1 . C..,3 p 4 t , 4 1 . ) 1 ~, ~ ..„ I ..„.._., rt, n i •q ll ti I 2 ' P 4 e ----I--- , ...._ 1 814 .... , _ 1, 1;' 1 , 1 111, 1tr„1,,,, 1 "ts r,.. • I -w -uot,_ -urn 1 .,_ ------ Mtr....Or kiV o n _ e r hUrCh-Street Station to all parts •f London 10,4; trkrt u r : Br IN 4.4° from i.'ll.ll%W.iietLtjuLre'll°-Tistrteh,etaStats,ll.lll°.t thce fo ~h t ' 4 43. No . t .7 . SUNDAYS. 4 1 . tz ill i.. 0 , 4 ... h i 0 0 4 t church e , t 1 : ,.. til I . 10 ---. 2 c. Street 'I• 8 8 f , 214 , • -., cz, c , L. 1. 0 fA --- , ----- -- —.-- -.—. --.--- 11 .... __ -...— t 3 C't tro k:11,%,_ 41 1% „_ 11 11 , e 1 ,,„„ .11r,74 6.7 1 1 d . - .7. , 4 an,i ... _ _ Fore Cabin. Saloon. Load Fore Cabin. swoon. . . .. Is. wall or on. 10d Woolwich Bd. .. Os. 10d. L termediate Piers & 6d. .. Os. Bd. ave Month., 5.. Os.; Six Months, 31. Os. ; be had of the Collectors on board the Terrace Pier, Gravesend. tu: . _......... ts s ,l 4 fito rttv 4111 ftted I'll'llt NIITIES YOUTH AND MATURITY. , -, Prie t 2,..: Ai /t s illustrated with cases; free by post for 30 4.. I,_ v. ~ ti stamps, DEBILITY; . t ,,q'trll o Z e atlao s , C r " NINICI NvittsanaPtoms, and Cure.—An Essay on Spar -0114,7n, ~- khloqe ofractical Observations on a safer and more a'es,, 4 l4f s " } :Ltaih ed s's• treatment of the diseases of the Genera 11 2,5 r Vh,,Tuit b v ,'Y the use of the Microscope in detecting and tl4-'141 , - 71 47' Of cogriz.nna-,,'' e xamination, the real cause l a .t nd effect of 41tes,t,,ecide,t, Plamt, whether arising fromary founded klt ~,%111) Years, ea iMate, followed by practical remarks, . aki t rltlt d enbilit7, ePerienee in the treatment of Impuissance, am 01110:'-'0Uari, °eel Weakne, Physiology &c• TOwme" k o h .4' hirta ntarles on the of Marriage, with pre ala Portete en the evils emanating from empirical fgeron. disorders remedies advocated by various writers on practice, 401.... '3, SAMDPL LA'MERT, M.D. b ett) °l), tedi.„_ /) P 0 R ' 14 14, 4 "3 1 , k 1 1 - ` 4 1.0 iw - - " - SQUARE, LONDON, Iqqis_tio ~,,,,—atrietuated Member of the University of Edin , 'ea 7 o r r eb ni , s ' e naber of the London Hospital Medical Society, eniftleg-'14.0,i-`ecaries' Hall, London, &c, & °• Th 4 , th , retrsit i ,_et of this treatise is to point out --e fearfulde ace con ksoitV, 're pro'O',,,f_i_rfirci certain habits, irregularities. a 9 .. ma w . atts 44 ) retr isttil `,'" .sea., More misery in Youth . , degrad ton In auy s141:: l a::eay a t all stages of Life, than, perhaps, 41 4 ' DII. 7 r elease ,,, ,n own to modern pathologists. 4 ile ss r &Leal 0 0 -4n encled t o e ntertaining secret douba o Its perusal is f __ e P rsons e , . Nl ti f . d. .Lappi s , ess. ~ an i who are conscious of having hazarded i ' M atolu amid privileges to which every human being is 4 llr l'l ea Of tel l 'leech!, ,1/1g ~ ,,Per3o 2l.lB arY thatall men should know, alt , ., 4 ,eysZ:'evou s ~''' Management which cannot be violated without 4 . - ot -.., of iii,..vertalties, and when wisdom and regret succeed that there are thrlll,44tgs,t., ,nsiderate S elf - indulgence how these penalties der th e the v5.11.411(..)W the sting of their bitterness may be removed, Zis:"ltge s T r r o a se4r 2o ` l 4 , . ‘ `; iLs consequences may be avoided, and above all, Ar.„Aoti l , I n to w h 4,_any de of ts4l,es, 4:' has for 4 the ice ti,.... Physical infirmity or functional , 4 „,. 4 --4.4e1Y aid of science cannot apply a cure. attkar,.Zan.be4ill tylialtre,:nl-o-a•ie.a,o_f years been engaged . In . an extensive 41 1 ,7, wi,,, ..ee.n t oo ‘-' 1 ificse delicate complaints, which have I,l;,,,theh'alliet g.i.,”.'PTallY confided to the care of ignorant - L totic v ovaTtonsi on i., -Ili al,' on those who are induced to place ti1i74,_:.79t114 e iPT LIT I . May be price 2s, of Messrs. Piper, tthe as„..ele,...;'r:', had,l'aternoster-ro Hannay, 63, Oxford-street ; 4i 4 t10 4r - e r 4l to ssis„Maare; Alann, 39' Cornhill ; or free by post for (11, h 0,,. • .' address from the ' Author's residence, 37, Bed ‘till ir Par co 6ht, n3Qhfitlon daily from __ E:even' till Two, and from . ',J. -••••ts 1 - Wirf;" Pati , * l ' C ESBrant -.------ , . Lularly fa ‘ ed from Fifty to Ten Thousand Pounds, us ,. 1.2. Teti ~ 1,,.._ vourable to the Younger and Middle periods Mid ' C4 61 0 01 / tver °Ch ar"o for bto anY OP y cl ass 0 1, ~, stamp Duties OR I ife Pol'cies ' IR E ant LIFE insut ' ance traussicted. /1 ts 6,1, k i li t t eNtases Medical Fe es generally paid. 5 Ott t ° f latb el , - ' kld of e I ables, on various plans -may be had 631b5 P e ' t oat any of the Agents. ' Whe' s ' oa eel; 69 4 WILLIAt NEWM ARCH, ' a bi s ,, te, 20s 01 r At°X AL Secretary. p od to. ....., 4 PrOViSiOntilito p .. ROVIDENT INSTITUTION, ;d ; v °2^l ' Di t i f or .„„..,,,, Gracec hurch-street, London. -nUal Assurance on Lives, .Annuitict &c. Aon, P e o r 1b, 12 1 ,0 t hilro u DIaECTORS. D 11--kkerr, per s t 1 1 e 'r Ph , , ph„, ePtity ••••,,EL HAYHURST LUCAS, Esq. ()utt er ' r•sro l9 ''7 41141 bury, -CHARLES LUSHINGTON, Esq. liens, r - ' VL._ pestl e N. a au k or . ,- `3llll .N. Robert Ingham, Esq., M.P. 2s 6 4 o ° 0; 4, 44 'ti mer er em it Robert Sheppard, Esq. 1 Od to to tautleY, E " 4 1. 40 egai 4 SCO oark;' , ~,.8 1 . eq. Jonathan Thorp, Esq. ' William Tyler, Esq. il r cw" s il , ' ' Charles Whetham, Esq. •• 6 ggSt o d/ ' a T Oa ; e 1 It '. Co ,9a ; 2 1 b co ii. : 44 4 sqUest, ILb. l'irrstofAns. rk, lasg e, ;0 1 ,, , koe t ,tellhia t ~ '' P .L.S. t Thomas Hodgkin, M.D. 1et3.5101 per ,-; ‘,.• 11,4 44 Z a2tar , o, atat . TrtusTgas. .11 4strzitt _ ..,4i,lBcqreioWn ~ .r' liasatkl., R.?, I Samuel H. Lucas, Esq. 1, Charles Lushington, Esq. , Janson, and Co., and Bank of England. A N. 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B ENJAMIN, Merchant Tailor, 74, eolith** fa.' 1 . .., 0 , Perfect fit guaranteed. aontt , •• ; 4 , 41 101P : - 1.41 A,, id I tli 4 e ul)P' S 3°°' Bold a l'eelally ~, EAST INDIA PALE ALE, i month ~, tti tldtb ---•eredr 1,,t14,'s kei n e roost e or SCUTARI, recommended by BARON t p ' : 1 i. p 4 :4 - esks (lareht members of the medical profession, ~ B,F, .pa . . ell.kan Althtsi,ll,ons and upwards), imperial measure. ' ll * *. aoci 1 14 adon. Au lN, PARKER, and CO., Beer Merchants, f mord; - . , ~,• I i , coo pip ...------ . usof n air l 0 ts 5 " . •........,.............._,............+.. of 111 00 * 4 j '. li . obi 110 11 A , °l.Ala r n • r '° ,: 4 41td "4 4 '''' ettp '''' (to be hereafter called the r•• - • • • ••• tuc aevr ' 4(l 0 -) .-T ryoler ' , bet% Ni. e ntles, he Committee, composed of a number y..., • • • 1,. 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"n° - Ina xi"auile - - e° Py of the rules to Sir Fitzroy Kelly, . ..... • 4 ,,,an 0* eased gliareat‘ttiti,„B Vry clear opinion as to the non-liability of month set ~.• tatse?mfon a „ e ,, 4 Eta t s , .' 4l B perfectly satisfied with the expiat- or Won' p o vi . ,, , " h + tution s; -- t way, t4 , 41 0 future carrying on of the Club with )f mont/ Bout Eby the ' Meet' 'Age to the members, came to the rot- , at mot ../ , coi nl 4g fell, y ..... • ;010::;0 . btro prepare..billet for thapProves and confirms the measures 27 of i n . 3oattili ',"rt , r e the ' Y the n , -e [Fitzroy r eorganisatio the l. lub. and that I ,Ztt th,"Meni ~,.• oe ar ,. 4by ri 02 14° . n .. i ' lle 'll'atia'' eetin' ' ' aP P r oN' d Sir Kelly, and now ~,,r .- , ti , tit a i , als o Opted as those which shall control its no „,._ •• ' s et rs of of 0.6. m- lI tt; a i d to P ih ni°s that ue t e b l Ub being satisfactorily explained, the e ,„ e p ro ,„, e s ubseriptlons for the curtest year may 3 mo nt 60 .,- 0 ,' , .hanT b 1 obtar uct ' s r•" i r ino r• o o : v l ar •v i er . •,.., , 8g l 0 3i.:::leidt rufous at the- Club, or at Messrs. 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FAILURE IN THE IRON TRADE.—We regret to have to state that the furnaces, two in number, of Messrs. Turiff and Sharp, at New Cumnock, were blown out on Friday last, the firm having been compelled to suspend payment. The outlays connected with these works have been very large, some six or seven miles of railway, to be traversed by locomotives, having been made for the purpose of bringing the mine to the works ; and another line of railway, over difficult ground, having been made to connect it with the Glasgow and South- Western Railway. By this suspension a large number of workmen have been thrown out of employment, tem porarily at least. We have not heard particulars of tin , liabilities of the firm, or the prospects as re.ards th t settlement of their affair:, —Glasgow Daly DIaFl, The session that virtually opens to-day will decide one of the most important questions that can arise in the his tory of a people. That question is neither more nor less than this, Whether England is henceforth to be a mili tary Power ? While we ask the question we almost hear 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 pieparod 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 slowly and imperceptibly to peace or to war ; that, in all probability, England will always remain what she is, prepared equally 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 doing what we have done before. In answer to all these very tural objections, we must repeat our strong persuasion that the question is virtually asked, and will, to a very great extent, be decided this very session. What if the question be not asked at all in any manner what ever, literal or virtual, and everything relating to the war be 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 sh eer ex t ravagance an d d o wn r i g ht mu r de r 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, are a delusion and a snare, simply because we don't possess the mode of working 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, :Ina ...reeled, and chided, and resuscitated in 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 -fermance, confision, 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 an engine that cannot be get into motion • or a figure of bones and sinews, into 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 we certainly are not. They constitute a scarecrow, which has long ceased to frighten our foes, and only deceives those who maintain it. Now, 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 an 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 left all the complications, all the divided, co-ordinats, and con flicting authorities of the existing system unchanged ; it left the Duke of Newcastle incapable of giving an order which he might, on 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 subordinate andpowerless ? 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. We are only too fully persuaded that at the approaching day of trial, when all who have 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 were 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, we should have adopted a more severe line as to the conduct of individuals. Nay, men who have been present for months in the Crimea 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 seemed 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 age, 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 constitutional Sovereign or the legitimate heir to his throne. One chief of one military bureau out of a dozen is no match for the man who can say, "Sic role, sic jubeo, stet pro rations toluntas." 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 we object to the creation of such an office ? Well and good. The objection is reasonable enough. It would be peculiarly reasonable in the mouth 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 'natter. 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. (From, the Daily New.) The efforts which ought to be made in Parliament to elicit full and clear explanations from Ministers with re fer enoe 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 ho may, as an indi vidual, 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 he 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 tbe close 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 enable them to carry 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 them to raise foreign levies, and b r i ng a li m it e d num b er o f th ese 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 duty, and several, it has been an nounced, are to be sent forthwith to the colonies. Upon what principles have Ministers proceeded in selecting the 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 loft 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 is 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 men 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 avocationg would render 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 sgo parties applying for information at the War -office were informed that it lsacl not yet been 4lccidV 4 l upon Which sec. tion of the department the execution of the law should de volve. The circumstances above alluded to would seem to indicate that the Government has been losing time, and idly dallying with the very instruments which it insisted upon having placed into its hand. An inquiry into the truth of these allegations may appear to cover but a nar row corner of the great field of the war management ; but it will bo a test of tho sincerity and energy (or 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 amends. If it shall appear that they have been going to work since time, as I.lnguilly and unsystematically as ever—that will prove their promises of amendment to have been hollow or insincere; will demonstrate that, either from incapacity or want of goodwill to the work in hand, the Ministry, as 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 ha inbeen inadequately provided an d sup p or ted from home. It is possible that a searching investigation may show that both parties are in fault. It will be difficult 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 Sas. It will not be enough for Ministers to show that they have issued orders for all, things to be done aright. Have they taken the most ordi nary precautions to enforce obedience to their orders ? or have they, satisfied with issuing them, looked apatheti cally on, while they were neglected or disobeyed ? This is too wide and complicated an inquiry to admit of our entering into its details now Lbut two simple circum stances will serve to illustrate our pleating. In a letter, from an able and respectable m il itary officer of high rank , now before WI, it is connctently affirmed that "it is well kilo wn 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 negligence in enforcing obedience to orders is said to have resulted in the non-erection of a tem porary pier or piers for the emharking of the sick and wounded at Balaklava. And we are also informed that the military authorities in our army before S e b as t o p o l are prepared to thwart and obstruct the civil en g i neers sen t out to construct a railroad from Balaklava t o th e camp . The apathy with regard to the war, indic a t e d b y th ese have pervad e d a ll operations, from The truth o f th e allegations on this greatests head, so freely circulated, must be ascertai ne d or dis proved; and if it is established, the causer of the offence must be 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 indicial inquiry. Talleyrand's favourite maxim, point de zete, was never more applicable. A random irregular discharge of ques tions—every member rushing forward 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. (Front the Morning Herald.) Parliament re-assembles this day, and public anxiety has,deepened to such an intensity that the truth must come out. Misrepresentation has reached its limits. Confes sions 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 purpo se of an ex cuse, but will be taken as an aggravation of the offence • while the assertions of the Secretary at Par are no w 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 Punisnment 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 be sifted, examined , s earched ' into, in the first place, that the guilty and the g uilt y alone may be punished ; and, secondly, that by a cquiring a k now l e d ge 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 several 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 were they , not obeyed ?" and the immediate answer is, That the authority and power to enforce obedience did not exist." If this be so we 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 bo so forgetful or so ignorant as not to know that the reason put forward to justify the ap pointment was the strong necessity of procuring uniformity of action in all the departments, and that to obtain it a supreme authority was indisp ensable. Certain are we that the public understoo d it, and that Parliament. " voted 17,0001. a yews" far tha arpsews..-af :the new office, upon the diltinct - underetending that the' War Minister eheveld have the power of oompelling obedience to his commands. Either tho 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 taking duties which the Minister knew he had not the means of performing, even if he had capacity to understand the measures necessary to be taken ? We wish the duke a safe deliverance from the dilemm a . As far, however, as 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 as p o f an infant. in n p W o t n h ee feeblebelieve, gr however, that the Tr easury w ill b e f oun d examination to have been the real clog ; and an anec dote was yesterday current in the City, which might go far to illustrate this position if investigated. A merchant was stated to have taken to Bala.klaya a vessel loaded with articles of the first necessity for the troops, all much wanted at the time. That seeing the deep distress of our noble soldiery, this man, in the true spirit of patriotic lib3rality, offered the w hole to our commissariat withaut re serving any profit ; a n d t h at the offer, being by them anddeclined,t Now, if this statement be true, and we have heard it f ro m more than one reliable quarter, the question a t once a once was accepted. subsequently made t o G enera l C anro b er t, ar i ses —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 answer, that the commissariat were under the necessity of applying in every instance to th e T reasury, and well k n ew that the myths of that depa r t men t wou ld answer, through their oracle, "that nay lord s were no t aware " o f the necessity of the purchase. Inquiry into these matters, as we h av e said before, is to b made regarding " by gones," as warnings for the future.e But we are threatened with results not yet we hope concluded, and which, although not so vital to the safety of our army, are yet of enormous importance to the honour of England; we allude and sup p li cating the Czar to ac to the impendi n g ne g otiation s for peace. Englishmen will, perhaps , hardl y believe that we are now at the whole gre a to offenders—the Aberdeenites n substance and fact is th e meaning of the four Points —and this we are doing without the sm allest consid eration for the fact, that we have since the per iod when th at note was rejected sacri ecleepvte the nth Vienna hour n entreating ote fo r such sacri ficed the finest arm y that ever l eft England, and expended enormou s sums of money in the vai n a tt emp t t o b r i ng th e Cuary means to , however, is to try by a and Nicholas —from the p unish ment which the wickedness of the one and the treason of the other have so justly ea rned. Is that object to be attained ? The English na zre asc to n. rescue The the na tion must answer the question, and they should remember, in making their reply, that the four points aro the Vienna note in a new shape—that no peace can be safe which does not provide for the destruction of Sebastopol, 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 upon Ru ss i a, and these are conditions which never can be proposed or acceded to as long as the Coalitirn remains in office. The great object of putting out the wretched clique which goes by that name is to prevent them, by means of that secret diplomacy wh ich the y ha y , no scandalously misused, from involving the nation in difficulties from which their successors may find it impossible to extricate the country, with due regard to its honour. The ejection of Lord Aberdeen must be speedily, if we wish to save our army, now attenuated to the last degree; and here let us suggest the only means by which it ap pears possible to effect that object. We can hardly believe that any man, even the most sanguine, expects that an assault will be made upon Se bastopol at present. The loss would be enormous ; and, exposed to the fire of the northern forts, the Allies could not retain the town a single hour. a. We have, therefore, t o suggest—humiliating, t____ bilmiliating, deeply humiliating, as the course must be—to entreat of our gal lant and high-minded Allies to take off our hands such a portion of the duties of the trenches as may enable our poor soldiers to survive, in order to assist them at a future day. They must perceive the necessity of this measure ; and so highly do we estimate their chivalro highfeeling, that we areionvinced the Emperor and us hie generals would at once accede to the demand. This would allow our over-worked and half-starved troops to be sent clown by divisions in succession to Bala, Ive klava, to receive the clothing which 3. hope has at last arrived, and to have a few days' rest and good feeding to restore their exhausted strength; for see still believe food is to be found in the chaotic limbo which surrounds the har bour, although utterly unavailable while the army con tinues in the trenches. During the period so gained, the communications between the harbour and the lines might be made practicable, perhaps the railway Completed, and on the return of our soldiers the French, would find their reward in the gratitude and affection which their noble conduct would have excited in their Alli es . We protest we feel ashamed and e-iL'IN ed to a degree we can hardly express, w h en we find ourselves compelled to make such a suggestion; but any humiliation is better than the heartless sacrifice of the noble and gallant fellows whom the Coalition have b etra y ed. The nation, how ever, will remember that for this, as for other degrada tions, they aro indebted to the Peelitea and their Whig- Radical colleagues. To return to the meeting of Parliam en t. W e w i s h in conclusion, to address a few words to the loaders of the op position upon the course which circumstances imperatively require at their hands. The nation is now thoroughly awake, and will expect action from those in whom it may require to repose con fidence, Tho dap for forbearamo aro gone b y ; further THE EASTERN QUESTION. Wo have already published an analysis of the despatch of the sth January, addressed by M. de Manteuffel, the Prussian Minister, to Count d'Arnim, the Prussian Envoy at Vienna, explaining the reasons why Prussia refused to f ilfil 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 tenso, 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., 1854, 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 Row 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 positivelyrefuteany 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 be 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 the 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 Gortschakoff. His Majesty the King Las the satisfactory conscious ness of having always so employed his personal and diplomatic influence at St. Petersburg, that the Im perial Russian Cabinet should declare itself ready to treat on the basis of the four points, aahough this basis of peace goes beyond that which the two contracting Powers (Russia and Austria) bad 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 cnnf<rsno., and because wo do not know it, anti an long ate w. do not know it, wo shall c n sidar it an imperative duty t o t a k e the 33/m7%e and unmistakeable conditions of the treaty, as our inviolable rule of action, and keep the circle of our obligations free from any extension which we cannot clearly overlook. In respect to the military matters, which are 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 close 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 points. It is self-evident 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. Tic right to such participation, in as far as it regards definitive arrrangements 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 in 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 (gncrkennung) of the same by means of explanation and mutual agree ment (vcreinbarung). " 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 was specially recommended by us and Austria to the Bund 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 if 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 tions. "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 Bend. The instructions which were given to cur Minister at Berlin to this effect, your -- has learned by my communication of the 2Gth of December. It is evident from the reply now receivel, of which I have the honour to enclose a copy, that the views of the Cabinets of Vienna and Berlin do not coincide in eoeie essential points. "The whole Confederation acknowledged the threat ening state of affairs ; but Prussia questions the cor reetne:s 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 herself 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 of her militv: posi;ion,it coulti at this very moment 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 as to the practical accomplishment and the application of the four preliminary points may differ in such manifold nays, 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 have 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 vernintait;, and demand whether they can deceive them selves by fancying that the situation of affairs has until row lost anything of that threatening cl -- ,racter which the Build itself recognised. His Majesty the Emperor, our illustrious master, considers it necessary to remain in a state of complete preparation for all contingencies, and the approaching negottatiens for peace will there fore, as lung 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 attainment 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 Blind 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 fee 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 instruo tions to Count Esterhazy, of which a copy is annexed. " The Imperial Presidial 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 wall as other matters of a like nature, ought to be made the subject of consultations which should bo held as speedily 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.ie-Chief of the Military Forces of the Bund, 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 them, 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 Mantouffel'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 of the Diet. An incident has occurred which has added considerably to the excitement which already existed. M. Drouyn de 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 are to be held at Vienna on the bases accepted by Prince Gortschakoff. The reply of the French Government, in a peremptory and explicit manner, and in terms which admit of no doubt that it is the expression of opinion of England 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 ver batim, copy, of the despatch of the French Minister of Foreign Affairs : " The Cabinet •f Parig establishes that Prussia ex plains her refusal to niobolise her army:-Ist, Because she does not believe in the imminence of nn attack upon Austria by Russia ; Because the support which she would have to give ought to be preceded by an entente between the contracting parties upon the feasibility of carrying out the eventual conventions. Prussia adds, moreover, that then; 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 a 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. ii 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. de 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 expog given in M. de 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 sho holds. Nay more, during the last two years it has often reminded her of the obligations of that high rank cf 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 onerous 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 aro taking place in the world shall afterwards maintain a claim to regulate the consequences thereof. The advan tages arising from the war are only for the belligerent powers. And the advantages of the present (essentially moral advantages) consist in the right of participation, in the interests of Europe, in the regulations of peace. 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 Franco for her confidence in Austria I The lines of conduct have been so different. By a movement which she declares purely a strategic one, Russia evacuates the Principalities ; Prussia imme diately declares herself satisfied, whilst Austria, on the very morrow of the d a y upon w hi c h t h at evacua tion is communicated to her, exchanges the notes of the Bth of August with France and England. On the 28th 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 Russ' e 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 2d of December is realised; that the re-establi:hment 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, be side the Austrian treaty, it would be well to explain the exact meaning of the proposition. Was that the object of \I. d'Usedom's mission to London ? That mission . . was wrapped up in go ;Audi znysierY that its rea l We had recently the satisfaction of giving the earliest intelligence of the claim lately put tomer' by Prussia to share is the settlement of the great European quarrel from the dangers of which she has kept carefully aloof. To these pretensions Drouyn de Lliuys has just re plied in a despatch to the Marquis de Moustier, French ambassador at Berlin. We borrow from the indepen dance Begc an analysis of this despatch, which in some important points is more accurate than one published last evening by some of our contemporaries : M. do Llmys 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 bo 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 bo to consolidate the equilibrium of Europe, or to modify the treaties which she has signed, her right to participate in tho 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 h e k nows t h at his people will support him with all tho energy of patriotism. Having thus sketched th e P russ i an case, as exhibited by. M. Mantuffel, M. Drouyn do Lhnys 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—ono ()oncoming 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 dons not deny the rank of Prussia as a grand Power—the French Cabinet itself had often, during tho last two years, reminded Prussia of the obligations involved in that rank which she puts forward with so just a pride. But the quality of a groat power is a permanent matter, and cannot be abandoned one day, because of its burdens, to be resumed the day after, for the sake of its conveniences. Its rights and its duties are correlative, and cannot be separated. " There aro 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. The 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 aro 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? The conduct of the latter power and that of Prussia are widely different. " Russia evacuates the Principalities by a movement which she 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 natters 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, sends a refusal to Austria to fulfil her military engagements resulting from the treaty of April 20 ; Austria, on the contrary, writ es 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 ! Since she proposes to make a Prussian treaty by the side of the Austrian one, she ought certainly to signify the precise signification of that proposition. Is that the object of M. Usedom's visit to Loudon ? The mission of that diplomatist has been carefully invested with so much secresy andso 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 en g sir most ~,,,nt i lt,io n hpelep e rrnaz u tsfurra l ot e e acrossops A point . e G e f u Russia, carrying uayn.,i tlov What interdict a t t he d i w cl a rst shethe passage of d'arntee on of Sli , e ola e o il i e_red tha t t o is pla to ce . : 7, ccm Prussia with one hand should turn aside the sword of the Allied Powers, and with the other cover the Russians with a buckler. One would, in truth, imagine that M. d'Usedom had several treaties in his portfolio, and that ho produced at London by mistake that which he ought to have brought forward at St. Petersburg. " The French Government is very far from wishing to wound the feelings of Prussia. It is iu a loyal effusion of feeling that it expresses itself thus. It wishes that its words should be 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 SYSTEJI OP TERGI VERSA TION. 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 was about to unite his armies to those of the Emperor Alex ander." The communication of the Duke de Bassano points out the numerous instances in which Prussia, he declares, had violated the engagements which she had entered into with France. Thus, in 1792, when France was agitated at home and abroad, 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 proved faithless to her new allies, as she had been pre viously to her other.. The year after, Prussia being convulsed by the action of ultra-liberal opinions, which she was unable to master or direct, endeavoured to find resource in hostilities, and declared war on France. Being completely worsted, Prussia had to sign the treaty of Tilsit. In 1811 tie preparations of Russia menaced Europe with a new war, and as P russ i a , f rom h er 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 MAILIL—SOUTTIAMPTON,. Monday.— By the arrival of the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship Indus, Capt. John Soy, with the heavy portion of the India and China mails, we have dates from Alexandria, Jan. 8 ; Malta, 12 ; Gibraltar, 18. The Indus has on board 44 first class passengers, and 9 chit. dren, among whom are Lady Fitzclarence and the Hon. Miss Fitzclareace, Captain Williams, &c. There are also 16 second class and other passengers. The body of Lord Frederick Fitzelarence has been conveyed to England by this steamer. During her homeward voyage the Indus on the 13th inst.., observed the screw steam -ship Sovereign steering N.W., and on the 17th the screw steamirs Taurus, steering S.E., the Orontes, . bound to Alexandria, and her Majesty's screw steam-ship Princess Royal, steering south-east. llcr Majesty Malta were—the Britannia, Trafalgar, Neptune, St. 's ships at George, and screw-steamers Jura and Imperatrico. At Gibraltar were the screw-steamer lissperud and her al jesty's ships Ilecla and Retribution. The latter vesse is bound to England with invalided troops from the Black Sea. At Gibraltar the latest rates of exchange are quoted for bills on London, DO days, at 5 1i ; Paris, sf. 40c; Marseilles, 0• .. 43c . On the Bth i ns t., t h e B r i t i sh schoo ne r . Ada put into Gibraltar in a leaky state, also the Nautilus , w ith mainmast spru ng , b u l war k s carr i e d R ag ged Staff d ur i ng t h e n i g h t o f t h e 12 t h away, and other damages. Th e B r i t i s h b r i g R u f us got last., an became became full of water. The. Indus brings on freight 13 packages of specie, value $129,470, also 277 boxes of oranges, 228 bal es an d 137 cases of silk, and sundry general merchandise. The rate of exchange from Paris continues with an improving tendency. At Hamburg and Amsterdany. 4 the quotations were also firm, money at the former city:] : '[. being obtainable p e t from 2 to Yi P er cent, • ~;*- - : fi n* G-tr A Fic *147