The Sun. — London, England, 1855-01-09 00:00:00

JIILLIEN'S CONCEytTs. 5. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GABDEN. LAST WEEK BET TWO. THE MENDELSSOHN FESTIVAL —THIS EVENING. FIRST AMARA/4CE OH MISS DOLBY. The Mendelssohn Festival will take place THIS EVENING (Tnes day), Jan. 9, on w hi c h occasion the first part of the co ncert will consist•of the following works of that great composer :—The Sym phonyjn A, known as the Italian Symphony (the complete work) ; Grand Concerto in G minor (the complete work), for the Pianoforte, performed by Madame Pieyel ; Overture to " Son and Stranger" (first time) ; the Grand Concerto in E, for the Violin, performed by Herr Ernst; the Wedding March from " Midsummer Night's Dream "and the Lied, " The First Violet," sung by Miss Dolby (her first appear ance). second part will be miscellaneous, and include the g rand AllTheied Armies Quadrille (last time bu t four), assisted by the three Ban ds of her Majesty's Guards; the new Comic Pantomime Qua lle the Moldavian Scot tische; Solo, Oboe, from Bellinrs Opera, 4.La Sonnambula," by Lavigne ; the Atlantic GalopSave thes e Queen, Partant pour la Syrie , and the Song, " Over the Sea," by Mliss Dolby. PRICS3 OF ADMISSION. Promenade, Upper Boxes, Amphitheatre Stalls, and Am. phith e atre .• • • ....... ..... • • • • • • •• . .... • • • • • • . .. .... Is 2s. . 0,1. D re ss Circle ................ . ,l. private Boxes for Six Persons on the Grand Tier • 3ls. 6d. Ditto ditto First Tier .. • 2ls. Od. Ditto Four Persons on the S e c ond Tier. l2s 01. Commence at Eight. Places and Private Boxes may be engaged at the Bea-office of the Theatre, and Private Boxes of the principal musicsellers and librarians. M. Jullien begs most respectfully to state that his Concerts will terminate on Friday, Febru try 2, with a Grand Bal Masque, to be given on a scale of unprecedented splendour. DIWRY-LANE.—Le3see, Mr. E. T. Smith.— Redue.t Prices WS lI3Ual.—A Morning Performance every Wednesday, at'Two o'clock. THIS EVENING, JAN. 9, serin be performed THE REGENT. Characters by Messrs. T. Mead, Belton, Younge, and Worrell ; Misses Marriott, Arden, Love and Johnson, and Mrs. Selby. To be followed by the entirely original, extraordinary, lite rary, traditionary, comical, gastronomical, and peculiarly culinary and fantastic domestic grand comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled JACK AND JILL; or, Harlequin King Mustard and the Four and -Twenty Blackbirds Baked In a Pie. The extensive scenery, en tirely new, by essrs. Nicholls, Cuthbert, Cooper, Gordon, Wilson, and Moore. 'I% machinery by Messrs. Tucker. The extraordinaly properties, decorations, tricks, changes, and transformations by Mr. .Needham. The choregraphic arrangements by Madame Louise. The overture and music composed and selected by J. H. Tully. Leader, Mr. Hayward. The whole of the designs, models . and sketches furnished from the studio of Dikwynkyn, who for many weeks past has been personally supervising their execution. The novel grotesque burlesque opening invented and written by E. L. Blanchard ; and the whole arranged and produced under the Immediate superin tendence of Mr. Edward Stirling. Principal Ingredients in the Christmas Bill of Fare :—The Hall of Hypochondria in the Domains of Dulness. —Misanthropy (Genius of Gloom), Mrs. Halford. Fog, Drizzle, Taxes, Spleen, Indigestion, Quarter-day (his Ministers of Melancholy), Messrs. E. V. Dent, E. V. Wet, E. V. Load, E. V. pay, E. V. Weight, and E. V. Bills. Azure Diabolicals in attend ance, Messrs. Croak, Quake, Fret, Fidget, Worry, Flurry, Fume, Vex, Groan, Growl, Grumble, and Grizzle. Apparition of Misan, thropy on her favourite Nightmare, and Magical Appearance of Good Humour in her Christmas Car. Good Humour, Miss Alder ; Lightheart and Sunshine (her Attendants), Misses Honey and Brown; Mrs. (Masse (the original "Cock's Oracle," and the well known adviser of the "First catch your hare," &c.), Miss Rosina Collins. The receipt given to make a good pantomime, and its con coction accordingly. Cottage of Jill on the borders of Fairyland (by Sunrise), with Enchanted Kitchen, Garden, and Region of Preserves "Sing a song of Sixpence, "Pocket full of rye, "Four-and-twenty blackbirds, "Baked in a pie."—Ancient Nursery Legend. Jack (the interesting hero of the olden story, who went up the hill to fetch, &e.), afterwards Harlequin, M. Milano ; Jill (the heroine of the adventure, in love with Jack), afterwards Columbine, Mdlle. Bolen ; Marmalade (the Fairy Queen of the Preserves), Miss K. Warrington ; Pineapple, Raspberry, Lemon , Che rr y , Apple, and Greengage (her Assistants), Misses Clifford, Gower, Johnson, Love, lamis, and Richardson ; Strawberry , Cranberry, Gooseberry, Cur rant, Apricot, Damson, Quince, Bcc. (Fancy Preserves), Misses Grace Honey, Ellen Honey, Laurance. Louise, Therese, Charles, King, Sidney, Gordon. Barnes, Emily Barnes, Richardson , Eliz a Richard son, Rose, Sidney , Emily Moore. Elizabeth Smith, Lille Ellis, Rosa Harrison, E. Box, Tayjer, Matilda Chenley, blartiney, St. Clare, ,ns, John Levines, S. Johnso, and Roberts ; Preserved Ginger their warm ally), Master Pungent; Fruit Blossoms by a Blooming Selection -They The Will and the Way—the Talismanitdllac sixpence — Change. Grand Ballet. Principal Dancers, Therese and Annie Cushnie, Therese, Smith, &c. The Four-and- Twenty Blackbirds, Masters Tweet Tweet, Toot Too, Loodle Loodle, &C. The Reading of the Will— " Jill must not a husband take, Till she a pie can make find bake." Interior of Jill's Cottage (by Moonlight). —Coal, Mr. Nobbs ; Bundle of Wood, Mr. Halfpenny ; Concreve Box, Mr. Fizzer ; Bellows, Mr. Leathertongue ; Dutch Oven, Mynheer Von Tan ; Rolling Pin, Mr. Smoothpaste ; Gridiron, Mr. De Bar; Frying Pan, Mr. Broadrim ; Soyer's Three-legged Iron Pet, Kerr Potluck. Cruet Castle in the T a ble Cloth Territory (by Moonlight), and Golden Palace of King Mustard. —King Mustard (afterwards Clown), Harry Boleno ; the Empress Vinegar (afterwards Pantaloon), Herr Kohl ; Black Pepper and White Pepper (Sentinels on duty at Cruet Castle), Mr. Husky and Mr. Sneezums ; Sweet 011, Miss Florence: Cayenne, Mr. Capsi cum; Harvey's Sauce (attendant in waiting), Mr. Savoury ; the Army of Zests, Messrs. Indian Soy, Curry, Capers, Ketchup, Mushrooms, Garlic, Shelot, Sweet Herbs, Potted Tongue ; Potted Beef, Potted Bloaters, Potted Anchovies, Potted Shrimps, &c.; Horse Radish (from the King's stable), by a Racing Nes. Grand Review—Ter rifle Attack upon the Appetite, and Rally of the Relishes—Great Progress of Jill in her Culinary Career. The Abode of Chutnee in the Province of Pickles (by Sunset).—Chutnee (Chief of the Pickles), Dt r. Fiery Faci s ; the Pickle Army, Messrs. Onions, Walnut, Gher kins, Cauliflower, Red Cabbage, toe.; Small Jar, Master piccalilli. Great demand for Pickles and determination of the Door to Stand a Jar. Interior of he Stupendous Salt Mine (by Moonlight).—Salt Rock (a bright White Sprite), Herr Willikind Moleno. Imminent danger of Jill in splitting upon a Rock of Salt— Treachery of Vinegar --Upsetting the Pail above, and Evaporation of the Saline Stalactite Columns, disclosing The Emerald Temple of Salad.—Magleal Union of the Sweets and Sours. and " a Pie" termination of the Loves of Jack and Jill. The Traneformation. —Harlequin, M. Milano; Columbines, Mdlle. Bo'enowand _Miss Ellen Honey; Pantaloon, Mr. Cole ; Sprite, Herr Willikind Stolen° ; Clown, the celebrated Harry Boleno (his first appearance in London for many years) ; Aerial Evolutionists, by the inimitable Italian Brothers. The Turk's Head Public-house and Hairdresser's Shep.—Hairdresser, Mons. Pomade ; Publican, Mr. Billy Williams ; Customers, Messrs. Rednob, Smockface, Owen Swift, Beardless, Whisker Want, Baron Nicholson, and Tom Steed; the British Pub lic by themselves; Policeman Al, Mr. Vigilant. Approach of tho oreat Rugged Russian Bear—How he Whines after the Porte, which, being rather old, turns out somewhat crusty—A Dose of Turkey Rhubarb—A Don-e Cossack—Pure Circassian Cream—How one Sham 11l makes all well—The Great Bear turns out a Great Boar --Russian Attachment to Grease—Clown Cuts his Customer's Hare and afterwards Dresses it a la Soyer—The Great Moustache Move ment—A Close Shave —Clown shows his high attachment to the Pole—Sudden Wee in Porter—An M.T.M.P.—A Patten Lo-k at 10 o'clock—A Bona Fide Traveller—Ginger Beer and Gin without ger —A Mill, a /light, a Regular Row, and Station-house for Two. Great American Baby Show.—Arrival of the Infantry—Sadden Squell—Ma's upon the Eve of 11 tale—General Attack—Awarding the Prizes—Clown and Pantaloon's Offsprings—The Prettiest Baby in the World—A Model Baby and a Spirit Child The Wonderful Effects of Dr. De Joneh'm Cod Liver Oil—Clown's Great Prize Bahy —Fresh Arrival of 310 more Baines—The Judge Confounded • Great Uproar—An Unwelcome Visitor to a Ladles and Juvenile Party— and Extraordinary case of Suspended Animation by the Ita lian Sprites. Sena's Oyster Shop, Neweneper-otllce, and Purcell's Biscuit Baking and Confectionery Esteb'ishment, Cornh:ll.—" Up rouse ye then, my merry men, it is our opening day" —A Hoister for one and a Lobster for two—A Mscsulwan and a Man for a Muscle—Duty and Castorn—A Bride Cake and a Weddins cake— First Editi , n and Second Edition—Left Out for Want of Room Press of the Priv lege ant Privileges of the Press—" Oh. what a row, a rumpus, what a rioting." Raker, Mr. Crusty; Fishmonger, Mr. Scales; Master Newsboy, Christmas-box; Printers. Messrs. Typo and chapel Editor, Mr. Cutemdown ; Critic, Cutemnp ; Pas sengers, Messrs. Trot, cosev, Strntalong, Lounge, Loiter, and Walk about; Boardman, Mr. Bobaday. Hosier's Shop and New Wing of S.merset-house.—Here we are—Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year —High Prices and Low Prices—Manchester Stuff —Eng lish Comforters—stocks on hand and Handsome Stoeks—Ford's Eureka Shirts--Reform in the Civil List and Uncivil Treatment of the Clerks—Transfer-day at the Bank, and General Hnlyd ay at eomerset-house.—Hosier, Mr. Stocken ; Shopman, Mr. Early bird; Boy, Master Toddles. Soyer's Manic Kitchen.—Chef de Cuisine, Mons. Royer; Kitchenmaids Misses Basteaway and Drippingsell Guardsman, Corporal Longshanks ; Policeman, Sergeant Podger. Cupboard Lovers—SoY er's Un Last Soup - tyro re's the Knive s and Forks ?—Bollsd and Unbolled Lob sters—Headless Swains—Lobster Patty ar Giblet Soup—Clown Gone all to Pot—Harle qu i n Gets well Mangled—Clown and Pantaloon Towelled and afterwards -rt a Stew—A Regular Broil— Thou comest in such an unenestionablesa to thee (Soyer, or rather Shakspeare) - -Te:Many Cooks Spell the (Clown's) Broth—The scene finishes in a spirited Manner An Illuminated Page of the History of England.—Grand Quadrille,"rluphs of the Tableau with Panoramic Effects, of the eGTrand Allemrical Allied Forces. Young .Tullien's "Allied Army double bands of the English and French. "God save the by the 4 ` Parlant pour is Syrie," and "Rule Britannia." Daughter of Regiment, Miss Rebecca Collins. in which character she will f s t l l 4 the spirited patriotic effusion, published in "lliackwood's Magazine" for Decem' , er, and written by Corporal John Brown, of the Grena dier Guards, when the men ,got some drink for the first tine at Balaklava, Sept. 2gth : " Come all you gallant British hearts that love the red and blue, And drink the health of those brave lads who made the Russlansrne. Then fill the glass, and let it pass, three times three, sod one more. For the twentieth of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-four Vestibule of the Temple of Victory. The Tribute of England to the Brace Patriots. Distribution of Laurel Wreaths, Gorgeous and Electric Scenic climax. with Revolving Columns and Variegated Terrific Flight of the Italian Brothers. The whole scene presenting a coup d'ceit never before witnessed on the English stage. Admission :—Stalls, 55.; dress circle, 4s. ; second price, Is.; upper circle, 3s: ; second price, is. 6 d.; pit. 2 s. ; second p rice, Is ; lower gallery, Is.; second price, ed. ; upper gallery, 6d.; private boxes, 10s. 6d., 155., 215., and upwards. Doors open at half-past 6, Performance at 7 o'clock. Half-price at 9 o'clock. The hox.offlce open daily, from II till 5 o'clock, under the direction of Mr. Edward Chatterton. Notice.—The following pi ces are approved and in Preparation, and will shortly be produced : —The Grand Christmas Pantomime, by E. L. Blanchard, Esq. ; a Drama, by Dion Bowel canit, Esq.; Two Dramas, by A. Harris, Esq. ; an Adaptation from Meyerbaer's Opera, L'Etolle du N4ll,Zwith new scenery. properties, and effects ; to be succeeded by an English version (by Mr. Reynold son) of Gluck's Iphigenia in Tauride. The Grand Historical Egyp tian Drama, many months in preparation, will alto shortly appear. TILE LITRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. lacckstone. THIS EVENING. JAN. 9, Wlll be performed BOX AND (:):V. Characters by Messrs Buck tone and Compton ; and Miss Woulds. Yollowedby anew grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled LITTLE 80-PEEP; nr, Harlequin and the Girl who Lot her Sheep. Little Ito-Peep, bliss L.l hompson ; Harlequin Mr. Chapin° ; Pantaloon, Mr. W. Barn es; C lown, Mr. Appleby ; Columbine, tif!ss M. Brews. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. Under the Management of Mr. Cakatrace KEAN. THIS EVENING, JA N . 9 , Will be performed THE aIIORS character by Mr. C. K ean . IC AN BROTHERS. P r i nc i pa l After which will be produced a New Grand Christmas Pantomime. entitled, HARLEQUIN BLUE-BEARD; or, The Great Bashaw, Harlequin, Mr. Cormack ; Clown, Mr. Hullne ; Pantaloon. Mr. Paulo ; and Columbine, Miss Desborough. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the management of Madame Vegtrls. Sole Lessee air C. Mathews. THIS EVENING, JAN. 9, _ _ _ Will be performed AGGRAVATING SAM. Principal character by Mr. C. Mathews. tag produced a new and original Fairy Extravaganza, en titled PRINCE PRETTYPET and THE BUTTERFLY. To be followed by TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE. Box-office open from 10 until 6. Sole agent for Private Boxes, Mr. Alicroft, 15, New Bond-street. TIIE.&TRE ROYAL ADELPTU. Proprietor, 3fr. B. Webster.—Dlreetress, Madame Celesta. THIS EVENING. JAN. 9. prig be performed the Drama cntitled TILE MYSTERIOUS, STR kNGER. liter which, a new grand Eccentric Extravaganza, called ZIG ZAG ; or, Travels cf Messrs. Danube and Pruth. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEkTRR. Lessee and Manager. Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING, JAN. 9 Winbe present& a new Co medietta, calledHarcoA WIFE'S J Le OUß sile; NAL. and Characters by Messrs. Brown , Em er y , urt, and 311.4 • i 'rciwn. and Miss Maskell. Auer which, a new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE YELLOW Lr%w,kp.p AND T HE KING of' THE GOLD MINE :, Charac misstvinr; F. R. b3on , Miss J o ll a Ft. Ceorg'e, Miss E. Ormcncle, To conelo o r.h Farce, ecalled A BLIGHTED B EING, In t romley. and Mrs. F ltzallan. which Mr. Robson will ar,pear. A ATLEN'S ROYAL AMP:WV - IRA v ": . Lessee and M anager, Ur. William Coes°. The most varied round of entertainment in London is to be found at this vast Establishment. Tremendous success of the Condo Pantomime ! A MORNING PERFORMANCE this MONDAY, at Two o'clock, and on Monday, the trith. The new Comic Pantomime and the Scenes of the Circle. Eleventh Week of the BATTLE of the ALMA! whi c h w ill he acted every evening with its glorious and vivid re presentation of the Battle-110 d. Attei which the unrivalled SCENES In the CIRCLE I -To cOnclude with the new Comic Pantomime (stamp by the e 4 approbation oi the p u bli c an d the pre ss ). called GULLI the LILLIPUTIANS ; or, Harlequin and Britannia! VAR Bos.-office open front Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. to, West. Acting 'Manager, Mr. W. H. Cooke. Egnetnriall Direet4r, Mr. W. CQOILe, )ttu. FRENdfi LOAN.—The Public are informed that arrangements have been made by our house to receive application; for any amount of Stock in the above Lean, producim 30 francs er mpre per annum in Three per Cents, or 45 francappli s le Four-and-a -Half per Cents . Deposit 10 per cent., payable ou cation. Exchange 25 francs for the £ sterling. 20, Lombard - street. SC W ARZSCHILD and CO. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. THIS DAY —Morning 28 min.sfter 5 Evening ening 47 min. et. 5 To-Moscow—Morning 7 rnin.after 6 ' 26 min.sft. 6 THE WEATHER.—SuI Owe', Jan. 9. T HERMOILETEB, IN THE SHADE. 51—highest since noon yesterday. 47—lowest this morning and during the night. 51—this day, at noon. BAHOINI ETRE, 30'40. WIND, westerly—Light breeze, with extraordinary fine weather. ~~ 1 _~ ~y VitQ 1111, LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1855. he telegraphic despatch of yesterday has already made the heart of half England quail. "The CZAR consents to negotiate on the Allies' interpretation of the Four Points." But a voice from the trenches of Sebastopol rings by anticipa tion in every ear—" Never ! never ! let negotia tion he thought of till Sebastopol be stormed or evacuated." Our country sympathises with the feelings of its soldiers, and it dreads the German and philo-despot leanings of the upper half of the Coalition. It distrusts above all things the peace making Capacities, as well as tendencies, of the leaders of the Cabinet. It foresees nothing but a lame and miserable issue of such a war ; one to be puffed off, however, partly as a glorious and satisfactory result, and partly as a humane and Christian one. We suppose on any plan of carry ing on the War a time of negotiation is to arrive. To us it seems a hopeless thing. Russia can only be dealt with by dictation. Negotiation with her is odious to the thoughts of any Englishman. Who 'thinks of negotiation with a convicted liar or swindler, unless by getting his title-deeds into your solicitor's boxes, or bonds, to double the amount is danger, from honest and responsible men ? Negotiation with Russia reminds us in stantly of the SEYMOUR correspondence, and the MENECHIKOFF mission, and the NESSELRODE mis sives of last spring ; and we turn sick at the thought of interminable jugglery, fraud, lying, and hypocrisy, and cannot, if we would, believe one word of a Czar, because it is his word. The old nursery lines will stick indelibly in our memory, that " Liars we can never trust, Though they may speak the word that's true ;" 4 are as applicable to lying Czars as to lying children—indeed more so. There is, of course, every probability that NICHOLAS is only seeking to gain time, to slacken the vigour of the Allies, and to keep Austria out of the field, till, as Count KEA SINSKI has shown, he might, aided by Polish and Hungarian hatred to Austria, march victorious to Olmutz and Vienna. Austrian Generals, as he well knows, will stop him by no Silistrias, or Almas, or Inker mans ; her German regiments are but formal, heavy-backed bullies, good at cutting down an unarmed Englishman, or at hanging or shooting patriot prisoners caught for them by the Russians ; but we believe they are no match at all for the Russians of the Inkerman, and had they been there would have been pitched by them into the sea. FRANCIS-JOSEPII, young as he is, knows this, and he, too, never meant to go to War with Russia, and we believe never will. Indeed this last " fourteen days' " extension, and the reply from St. Petersburg, reveal an understanding amongst parties which we suspected from the first. Austria could indeed, in an hour, be omnipotent against Russia. She has but to pronounce the words—au independent Polish kingdom, its old free constitution for Hungary, and a constitution for Lombardy, and Russia would not, and could not, move a soldier against her. But aHA PSBURG, sprung from the dregs of superstition, of imbecility, and imperiousness, would rather, like his ances tors, see Europe involved in a Thirty Years' War than part. with one grain of civil and religious despotism. Austria, therefore, unwilling to forego the power of sending patriots into Spielberg, or— into Eternity, yet conscious of inability to cope with troops who at least do not mind shedding their blood for their master, clings to peace to the uttermost, although Russia gains by it more strength against her than she against Russia. Austria ! What a name for a miserable medley of timidity and assumption, of cruelty to the helpless, and obsequiousness to the strong, of would-be mili tary greatness, and the basest military performance. Oh, to think of England and France pitted in diplomacy against such Governments as those of Austria and Russia, and with Prussia to whisper through the telegraph. England may well quail at the sight. But how can the War be concluded now, if jus tice be done only respecting those parts to which it has already extended ? Will Russia consent to re nounce for ever the Aland Isles and all rever sionary interest in Denmark ? Will she consent to a Circassia free down to the water's edge ? to a Crimea wrested from her as a guarantee for Tur key 7 and to depart from Ismail and the mouths of the Danube ? Will she consent, moreover, to pay us the costs to which she has put us ? Even our Cabinet can hardly think to keep their places one session after a Treaty which does not include these things. It would go hard with Mr. BRIGIIT himself to ' prove that less than this would not issue in greater blood-shedding a few years hence than has taken place already. It was, we think, altogether an error to let any terms further go from the Allies, directly or indirectly. Their business was to fight till NICHOLAS would proffer terms, or ask for them. Why is it more humbling to the aggressor to ask for mercy than to those who chastise him to intimate that they find it such hard work that they would rather he should make a sulky defiant apology, and they will let him off ? It is a delicate matter to rely on the penitent pro fessions of a convicted criminal ; but to rely on the hardened manifestos of a convicted liar and hypocrite, or, at least in the face of them to babble about any us childish folly. lisrhy, Four Points whatever, seems to man who will, put his own interpretatiox on. the very m the Vienna. Net as soon as suits his Purpose put his own inter pretation on the I\llied i nterpretations of the Four Points ! There is but one ri • ght key to the interpretation —it is Poland. Scarcely had the trial of EautANtrzr. BARTIII LEMY been brought to a conclusion, and the earnest recommendation by the jury of that cri minal to the favourable consideration of the Crown been promulgated, than another sangui nary outrate was perpetrated by a foreigner bearing a remarkable similarity in all its details to the former offence. If any distinction could be drawn it should be in favour of the convicted murderer. The original intention of ENIMLNUEL BA.RTIIELEMY is to a certain extent involved in m ystery. There can be no possible do u bt or of —IT IGI BURANELLI. I n difficulty as to that L ue of the course adopted on behalf o f the A cannot positively assert th a t the convict now under sent ence of death coolly cons prosecution _7- - • ' and deliberately planned the murder of Mr, MOO' RE, or whether the fatal occurrence arose fi• one , a sudden quarrel ; but we do know, on the co oat conclusive evidence, even on that of the la st murderer himself, that he had resolved on the ati :ocious acts which he afterwards too successfully cal Tied into operation. Besides, even if the worst construction should be adopted respecting the fearful transaction in whi :eh BARTHELEMY was concerned, it could not be said, that he had planned more than one murder, or decided. on sacrificing a second victim. That he was properly convicted of the murder of poor COLL. %RD is beyond the possibility of dispute. There was not, in fact, " the slightest peg whereon to hs .ng a doubt." His reckless and criminal condu ct led to the sudden death of a British sub ject aa% the moment when he was acting in the faithful and courageous discharge of his duty to his QUVEN and country. But against him BAR THELEMY had •no peculiar animosity. He had never seen him before, was, in fact, ignorant of his existence until the very moment when he was about bringing it to a sanguinary conclusion. BURANELLI, however, meditated at least a double murder. We say at least, because, notwithstand ing the fact of the picture and the letters pre pared for Mrs. WILLIAMSON, there seems to be some reason to suppose that she also might have perished had not the door of her bed-chamber been fastened, and the policeman arrived before she had given admission to the murderer, There is no necessity, however, for imputing greater cri minality to the wretched man than he has already candidly acknowledged, Another deplorable feature in the recent tragedy is the time and place selected for its per petration. It was on the Sabbath morning that BURANELLI carried his atrocious designs into execution. When the nation was preparing for prayer and thanksgiving he was wreaking his diabolical vengeance on those against whom he had taken offence. His chief victim was sleeping peacefully at the moment when the deadly bullet, discharged from a pistol resting against his head, passed through his skull. Ho had no chance of , defending himself—no possibility of offering an explanation that might have appeased the would be assassin. There could be no sudden outbreak of passion arising from anything that then oc curred. The other sufferer was also at rest, and the noise of the shot that killed her husband was the first intimation that Mrs. LAMBERT received of her impending danger. The place too, in a public thoroughfare, situate in the very heart of the metropolis, where the murderer could have no possible hope of escaping without detection, add, if possible, additional horror to the harrowing de tails. Indeed, in all its peculiar features, we have never heard of an outrage more appalling, more calculated to disturb the confi dence which every man feels in the sanctity of his own dwelling than that committed by LUIG BURANELLI, and for which, if he survive the desperate attempt against his own life, he will have to answer before the criminal tribunals of that country whose hospitality he has abused, and whose most irrevocable law—a law prescribed by the Divine as well as by every human code— he has violated. It does not by any means miti gate his guilt that he attempted to add suicide to his other crimes, or that, on detection, he turned the deadly weapon with which he was armed, and with which he had just shed the blood of a fel low-creature, against his own life. !TIE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1855. GENERAL CANROBERT AND THE BRITISH OFFICERS. The following testimony to the ability of the British officers attached to General Canrobert's staff is borne by that distinguished officer : "Head-Quarters before Sebastopol, Oct. 24, 1854. "My Lord,--I have the honour to address to you, in the terms required by military regulations, a document, of which the object is to certify the circumstances under which Brigadier• General Hugh Rose, her Britannic Ma jesty's Commissioner at the head-quarters of the French army, was wounded in its ranks. "Allow me to add to this officialattestation, the expres sion of the high esteem which that general officer, Major Claremont, and Major Foley, have acquired among us by their bravery, the uprightness of their characters, and the services which they have rendered. " The British army could not be more worthily repre sented in Use Allied army.—Accept, &c., " Lord Raglan, &c." " CANROBEIIT. ROW THE CRIMEAN ROMANCES OF THE " TIM.ES" ARE RELISHED IN THE ARMY. An officer in the Guards writes to a military friend at home, as follows : " The army are perfectly furious with the exaggera tions and misrepresentations of the Times. Don't be lieve what it says, for all is false. I and a good many men are home-sick ; but we don't want to come away. We would none of us do anything but remain here till we have beaten the Russians. The Times correspondent has been sent off with a flea in his ear for insolence to Lord Raglan. I met him the other day, and told him we were all glad of it, and that he ought to be ashamed of himself."—Daily News. COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, MONDAY. There bas been no addition to the Royal dinner party at Osborne. The Court will return to-morrow (Tuesday) afternoon to Windsor Castle. Lord and Lady John Russell left London yesterday for Paris. The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Gladstone arrived in town yesterday from Hawarden Castle, Chester. The Duke of Somerset continues in rather a pre carious state at Somerset House, Park-lane. The noble and venerable duke, who has long suffered from in different health, which has caused his grace to reside in London nearly throughout the year for the benefit of superior medical advice, has reached his 75th year. Lord and Lady John Russell left Che;ham-place yesterday for the French capital, in consequence of the illness of one of the Misses Elliot, a sister of Lady John Russell, awl are expected to return to London in about ten days. The Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress gave their first state dinner yesterday to the gentlemen connected with his lordship's household, and a select party of friends. Covers were laid for sixty. Mr. Butt, M.P., has returned to Leeson-street, Dub lin, from London. The Hon. Major Maxwell, who has recently arrived from the Crimea, is at present staying at the Bilton Hotel, Dublin. Sir George Chetwynd, Bart., and Lady Ch ar l o tt e Chetwynd have left th e Bilt on otel for Hillsborough Castle, on a visit to the Marquis and Marchioness of Downshire. On New Year's-Day Captain Vendaleur entertained all his tenantry at Ballynamona, in this county. Th e banquet was excellent ; musie and mirth were the order of the day.—Limerick Chronicle. MB. BENBOW, M.P.—We are desired to contradict the report of the death of Mr. Benbow, M.P. for Dudley, which has gained currency during the last two or three days. Mr. Benbow, we are informed, is in excellent health. NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY.—The Hon. E. Petre has resigned his situation of superintendent of locomotives on the North British Railway.—Berwick Warder. At St. Petersburg, Lord John Russell's declaration in Parliament, that the Allies were content to leave Russia a great and powerful state, has been adopted as the re frain of a popular political song, the inscription of which is—"O how sour are the grapes." PRICES IN AUSTRALIA.—Mr. Mark Sill, an emigrant from the north of England, writing from Australia, says : --" I took the other day a load of vegetables to Everythin g from 4ro here; ii Mel bourne, and sold them for 131., which will show you that market stuff is very dear in this country. About a are also very high ; labouring fortnight previously I took a load, and made 141. of it. butter as. 6d. day, women cooks aa-year." each, fresh per pound, milk is. per quart. Wages to 451, 'ne men are getting 103. per MARYLEBONE VESTRY. PAROCHIAL ASSESSMENT. ItgOtyPOSED REVISION OF THE very lengthy discussion took place MEASURES. —A on the adjourned de bate, on Saturday, respectin g the the parochial assessment, by proposed alteration in forming the rates on the and W,itwas house duty as a basis, contended, would be the means of fairly e qua li s i ng the rating throughout the parish on a Bound and proper parochial footing. Afte r a debate of over t wo hours' duration r the subject was put to a show of hands, when the ori ginal motion for the assessment to have the house tax as its basis was carried by a small majority. Several amendments condemnatory of the proposed c h ange were I afterwards moved and lost. The vestry then adjourned. _ LATEST NEWS. The following telegraphic despatches have been received at Vienna : " VIENNA, MONDAY EVENING, JAN. 8. " The official Austrian Correspondent confirms the telegraphic despatches of yesterday and to day, and announces that if the French and Eng lish Cabinets approve of what has occurred, nego tiations for the conclusion of a solid peace wil soon commence. " Private intelligence says that hostilities will not, for the present, be suspended." " VARNA, JAN. 4. " Omer Pasha has left for Euptoria." " ODESSA, DEC. 24. " Reserve troops are being sent from Bessa rabia and Cherson to the Crimea. " In consequence of rainy weather there bas or some days been a dearth of supplies at Sc.. bastopol." PARIS, TUESDAY. A telegraphic despatch from Vienna, private but of guaranteed authenticity, announces that Russia having accepted the four propositions of the Allies without reserve, and according to the interpretation of the three Powers, Count Buol has invited France and England to proceed to ulterior negotiations for the restoration of peace. VIENNA, TUESDAY, JAN. 9. Prince Gortschakoff's declaration at yesterday's Conference having been considered satisfactory, the negotiations for peace will soon begin, as Lord Westmoreland and Baron de Bourqueney have received full powers. ST. PETERSBURG, VIA BERLIN. Under date of December 30 a despatch from Prince Menschikoff has been received. Nothing of any importance had taken place before Sebas topol, and the fire of the Allies was feebly sus tained. CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 28. The wreck of the Hempsyche (No. 119 trans port), which was destroyed by fire, has been sold. The greater part of the Government stores on board were burnt. FRANKFORT, JAN. 8. Prussia gave her reply on the sth t o th e re quisition of Austria. She, for the present, re fuses to mobilise her army, and is joined i n thi s refusal by Bavaria, Vtirurtembur g , an d S axony. The resolution of Hanover is doubtful. The States of the third order are more favourable to and the Western Powers. the views of Austria MADRID, JAN. G. M. Sevillanno will present his budget to the Cortes on Monday or Tuesday. In the Ministerial bill nothing is said of a tax upon the Eight per Cent. Debt. The payment of arrears will begin on the 15th ; and that of the Coupons of Decem ber 31 will be made as promptly as possible. THE CRIMEA. BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, DEC. 23. Nothing of especial interest has taken placo here since my last. Considerable reinforcements have arrived at Cape Kamiesh to the French army, and our Ally must now have in the Crimea a force not below 70,000 men. We have had no further arrivals at Balaklava since my letter of the lith, but detachments of the 4th, 24th, 38th, and 44th are known to be on their way. In camp both officers and men are anxious for the recommencement of operations, which each in dividual hopes will be decisive. Such is the reck less despondency engendered by the late rain, and the discomfort attendant upon it, that an order for immediate assault, though it might prove the last day for thousands, would be obeyed with grateful alacrity by the army. A few days of fine bright weather will, however, rid the troops of many hardships, and permit the opening of the campaign. On the 19th the French cavalry mustered in con siderable force, and took the road to Balaklava. Considerable excitement was created in camp at its appearance, and the object it had in view. The movement turned out later to have been a strong reconnaissance in the direction of the plain lately occupied by Liprandi. We accompanied with our eyes the movements of this body of cavalry, which, passing along the plain where the heroic cavalry charge of the 25th November took place, advanced towards the village of Kamara and the redoubt No. 1, taken from the Turks that same fatal day. No opposition had been offered to the advance of the cavalry until the whole brigade had disappeared below the ridge of the hills beyond Kamara, and then a heavy musketry fire was heard. Great anxiety reigned in the camp, fears being expressed that a strong ambush might have been prepared by the enemy. The cavalry, unsupported by artillery as it was, might in that case have been exposed to considerable danger of being cut entirely to pieces. Fortunately for the column, the only opposition offered to its progress was from a few hundred rifle men and skirmishers,who weredispersed after a slight resistance. From what we learn, the reconnaissance was satisfactory in this respect, that it is cor rectly ascertained that Liprandi and the greater portion of his corps had quitted his former position on the Tchernaya, and that Balaklava is no longer menaced. Probably the north side of the town is considered endangered by the presumed advance of the Turks under Omer Pacha, and that Liprandi has been entrusted with its defence. On the 20th a sad occurrence took place, which would almost show that the fatal surprise of Inker man has not sufficed to caution our pickets against neglect of duty ; for to no other circumstance can we ascribe the disaster of that night. At midnight a strong column of Russians ad vanced, without being perceived, upon a portion of the trenches guarded by the 50th Regiment, and took the latter completely by surprise. Severe loss was inflicted upon the regiment before the attack could be met. Reinforced by the 38th Regiment, the 50th succeeded in repulsing the enemy, and caused him a considerable loss. Our casualties of the night were 43 killed and wounded, and 17 taken prisoners. Amongst the killed we regret to say were Major Moller, Lieutenant Clarke, and another officer whose name I am not acquainted with. These unfortunate officers all belonged to the 50th. The accounts we have from Eupatoria are cheer ing. That important basis of operations is now completely defended by redoubts and batteries, and the south side of the town, formerly iisfested by Cossacks, is now perfectly free. We trust we shall soon be in the receipt of supplies of fresh meat and provender, now that the prospects of Eupatoria are se much brighter. Fresh vegetables are likewise most desirable in the present tendency to scurvy which has manifested itself among the troops. Both cattle and vegetables abound near Eupatoria ; and now that the country is clear of Cossacks, we may shortly expect a supply. The French, I hear, are constructing an aqueduct near Kamiesh Bay, which will provide the ships with fresh water when completed. They have like wise erected new batteries mounting 70 heavy pieces. _ _ _ On the 19th a column of Highlanders and Zou ayes advanced over the hills to make a reconnais sance on the point where the French cavalry could not proceed. Beyond a few mounted Cossacks, no trace of the enemy was perceived. The health of the army has not improved, and we fear that until the appearance of fine weather we dare not expect an amelioration. TURKEY. CONSTANTINOPLE, DEC. 28. The Turks are greatly exasperated at the behaviour of the crews of the British and French ships lying at anchor here. 'or the last few days there have been rumours of plots over at Stamboul, revolutionary movements, Aie. The Turks are the last people to be successful at such proceedings, and not the slightest fear of any rising of the Mussulman popu. lation need be apprehended, though they are justly outraged at the behaviour of the British and French crews. Scarcely a night passes without one or two :ailors being found murdered at Galata, and some c,f the Turkish guards have been seriously hurt. Several taverns and coffee-houses have been pulled down by the tars at Galata, and a good many Greeks have bad their heads broken. Jack, however, invariably gets the worst of it, being drunk. Sir George Brown arrived here yesterday from the Crimea. Captain Brock, our late governor at Eupatoria, has arrived here. 10,000 Turks had landed at Eupatoria when he left, and Omer Pacha was ex pected there with an army of 30,000 men, with which he would march upon Simpheropel, thus causing a diversion in favour of the Allies at Sebas topol. The Robert Lowe sails this evening for the Crimea with detachments of the 4th, 24th, 38th, and 44th Regiments on board, and also stores and ammunition. The day before yesterday the British transport, No. 119 (the Chapman, laden with coals and stores), took fire in the Bosphorus, off Scutari. Though every exertion was made, it was found im possible to save her. Prince Napoleon is still here, indisposed ; as also his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge. The latter will proceed to England shortly, it is said, and return in the spring to rejoin the army. The Sultan's brother-in-law, the ex-Grand Vizier Mehemet Ali Paella, has been condemned by a Maz balta of the grand council to restore to the Treasury 75,000 piastres—a bribe which, it appears, had been accepted during the interminable judicial in quiry set on foot respecting the affairs of Djezaerlu, the Armenian banker. Mehemet Ali Paella is now "fallen from his high estate," perhaps ruined irrevocably, and there is very little chance of his being entrusted again with any of those important postswhich lie had occupied with zeal and ability at various intervals. One fact, however, which will prove some consolation in his retirement is that he has ever been a friend to the British and British alliance, a deadly enemy to Russia, and that he was a principal instrument in urging the Sultan to a declaration of war. He was invariably on the very best terms with our ex charge d'affaires, General Rose,• and quite of his opinion at the very outset of this question, in re spect to the vital importance of bringing up our fleet from Malta almost immediately on the arrival of Prince Menschikoff at Constantinople. RUSSIA. THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS A SAINT ! The Post Ampt Gazette of Frankfort publishes the following letter from Kragujewaez, in Servia, dated the 26th ult. " Prince Alexander is endeavouring to free himself from panslavistical influences, and to draw closer to Austria. But on the other hand the panslavists re double their efforts to thwart the tendency of the Court, and the last fete of St. Nicholas furnished an excellent occasion for the display of their zeal. The clergy, in their sermons, declared clearly that the fete did not con cern merely the deceased saint, but at the same time his living namesake now on the throne ; they endeavoured to show that the martyrdom for the orthodox faith and the contest for the Greek Church were still far from being near their termination; and they added that all who fought and suffered for that church should be ender the particular protection of the mother of God and of St. Nicholas. At private meetings and in the liquor-shops toasts were proposed to the Czar, and a crowd of villagers, in returning home, raised a song composed to the memory of a Montenegrin hero, in which are these expressions By the oath which you have taken at the foot of the altar, by the victory which your friend Bazado has c tused you to obtain, he conjures you not to repose your head on cushions of silk, and not to empty cups of gold, and not to enjoy the love of woman, until from that sword, which has already destroyed thousands of unbelievers, there shall flow on his tomb at Serajevo the blood of thousands on thousands of Osmanlis.' The same demonstrations took place at Semendria ; and at Prebno they went the length of de claring the Czar Nicholas to be the saint of the day resuscitated." ODESSA. ODESSA, Dec. 21.—General Schabelski, who com mands the 2d cavalry reserve corps, returned here on the 18th, and attended the divine service and ceremonial on St. Nicholas's day in honour of the Emperor. The service was held in the Preo braschenski cathedral, at 10 in the morning. The Archbishop delivered a discourse, which he con cluded with a prayer for the long life of the monarch. As he ceased praying, the guns were heard booming from the coast batteries. The prelate observed that all true subjects saw in their master the elect of God, in whose hands are placed the destinies not merely of Russia, but of the whole world. He also reminded his ,hearers that Russia once stood as a barrier to shield the West from the inundation of the East, and would now prove the same firm barrier against the flood coming from an opposite direction. The Russian almanacs, he said, would have now to insert the names of Sebastopol and the Crimea by the side of Borodino and Moscow. Such, through out, was the character of the prelate's sermon. On the same day General Annenkov gave a full-dress banquet at Madame Narischkin's, and in the even ing there was a ball in the Exchange Hall. Trade is paralysed. The enemy's steamers are every now and then visible from the town, and we all know what is going on in the Crimea; but re joicings are ordered. Thus the theatre is opened this evening, and we have an illumination. THE PRINCIPALITIES. The Press of Vienna, of the 4th, says :—" A letter from Bucharest states that 2,000 Turks of the garrison of that place left on the 2d for Ibrail, and only a small detachment of Turkish troops now remain in that city." This letter also mentions the same circumstance that we published a day or two ago, viz., that Prince Stirbey is now equipping an auxiliary corps of 10,000 Wallachians to support the Turks in their operations against the Russians. Count Coronini has left Bucharest for Jassy. FRAN CE. PARIS, MONDAY EVENING. A report has been current to-day and yesterday that the south side of Sebastopol has been assaulted and taken by the allied forces, but on application in quarters likely to be well informed there appears to be no ground for the rumour. To this report is i n general attributed the rise which took place at the Bourse to-day, but it is more probably owing to the corresponding rise which has taken place in London, and which is known to be the consequence of the settlement of the Ministerial difficulties which for some days past have been the general subject of conversation. At all events, the effect of the im proved prospects, combined with the rise of the English funds, has had a very cheering effect here, and the despondency which was_ becoming rather general at the end of the week has given way to cheerfulness and improved confidence. The Austrian Government has summoned Prus sia to fulfil the engagements contained in the third article of the treaty of April last, by which it bound itself to mobilize 100,000 men at once, and 100,000 men within three weeks from the period of its being summoned to do so. It is thought that this sum mons will force Prussia to declare herself one way or the other, and the general belief is that the King of Prussia will refuse. A rumour is prevalent here at present, which I mention because it has been spoken of pretty freely in some of the higher political circles, rather than because it has any real basis to rest upon. It relates to a project for making the Archduke Louis, brother of the Emperor Francis Joseph, King of Poland. The Archduke Louis is at present at Lemberg, in Gallicia. The Moniteur contains no confirmation of the telegraphic despatches received yesterday, which stated that Prince Gortschakoff had accepted, without reserve, the four propositions. The Count de Hatzfoldt, the Prussian Minister, had an audience of the Emperor yesterday to de liver a letter, notifying the marriage of Prince Frederic Charles-Nicholas of Prussia with the Princess Mary Anne of Anhault-Dessau. BOURSE, JAN. B . —CLOSING PRICES. Cash, fr. c. End of Month. 4i per Cents — —91 f. 50c. 3 per Cents 66 50 65 80 Credit Mobilier(ad) 740 -- Roman ............... Credit Foncier — Austrian (ad) Bl Belgian Fives. ..... .. Spanish Threes (ad) 36i Piedmontese — Home Debt 33 RAILWAYS—FOR CASH. fr. e. tr. e. Orleans 1,160 Lyons ..........•• . ~. 1010 Western... Rouen 1005 Cette Strasburg Mediterranean 875 Havre 540 Northern AUSTRIA. The Cologne Gazette publishes a telegraphic de spatch, dated Vienna, '7th January, noon, an nouncing •that on the previous da y , the Gth, a Convention was concluded between Colonel Man teuffel, the Prussian Envoy Extraordinary at Vienna, and Prince Gortschakoff, according to which Russia had engaged herself towards Prussia not to attack Austria. This requires confirmation. The Prussian Ambassador, after the receipt of a despatch from Berlin on the 3d, had two confidential interviews with Count Buol and the ambassadors of the Western Powers. The object of these interviews is said to be the accession of Prussia to the treaty of the 2d December, but they have not yet led to any decisive results: Oa Saturday it was calculated at Vienna thativ the 15th inst. the Austrian army would be in a condition to take the field if required. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, Sunday.—The ministerial Zeit says that Austria cannot be in a position to impose terms of peace without the concurrence of Prussia. The latter power has never positively refused to accede to the treaty of Dec. 2. The Correspondence Bureau has the following Austrian communique : "In Vienna it is most distinctly denied that the Aus trian Minister in St. Petersburg has already received orders, if the answer to the now valid interpretation of the four guarantees be not unconditionally compliant, to demand his passports. There has been no such in struction issued, and it is to be expected that a recal of the Austrian Minister from St. Petersburg will not take place, until the conference of the three Representatives in Vienna shall have pronounced the expected Russian answer to be insufficient." PIEDMONT. TURIN, Jan. 4.—The galleries of the Chamber of Deputies were crowded to-day, in the expectation that the great debate on the Convent Suppression Bill would come off, but they ,were soon vacated when Count Cavour announced the postponement of the discussion till Monday, January 8. The better opinion is that the exertions of the Court of Rome have not materially changed the King's de termination. There is no doubt of a majority in the Lower House, although the Opposition will be formidable as well as violent. The question is, what will he the fate of the measure in the Senate. If the members of that body were to vote according to their wishes, there could be no doubt of its re jection. But the crisis is so grave as to involve possibly the very existence of their order, should they persist in playing the part of obstruetives. SPAIN . We have received the Madrid journals of the 3d. The Gazette publishes the text of the declaration made by General Espartero in the Cortes on the preceding day ; it as as follows : " Gentlemen,—l am about to speak to the nation'legi timately represented in this place. The idol I adore has been, and always will be, the liberty of my country. To consolidate it on a firm and indestructible basis I shall be ready to sacrifice my life, and, what is worth still more, my reputation. But, gentlemen, without obedience to the laws, and without the preservation of public order, liberty is impossible. (Applause). I will em ploy all ray efforts to preserve it. I count on you, on your enlightenment, your talents, and your virtues; I count also on the national guard ; I count on the army; I count on the entire nation. With such powerful sup port, if any men should attempt to violate the laws, or to trouble public order—whether they call themselves anarchists, or proselytes of despotism—on them will fall the sword of the law, and if they should escape they will fly covered with confusion and opprobrium. Our country will thus be purified, and liberty will be for ever established." In the Cortes, on the 3d, the report of a committee in favour of the bill authorising the Government to levy taxes from the Ist inst. was presented. Some opposition was made to the report, but after some discussion it was ordered to be received. A letter from Kamiesh, 17th ult., in the Mo niteur dg 'la Flotte, states that Lieut. de Las Cases remains in charge of the Henri IV., with a de tachment of seamen, in addition to part of the crew of that vessel, who are on shore at Eupatoria, to man the guns which had been landed there. A decree of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, in the Monitore of Florence of the 3d, creates a civil• governor of Leghorn, with the attributions of a prefect ; and a military govern& with the attribu tions and title of chief commandant of the city and coast. CheValier Ronchivecchi, the present commandant of Leghorn, is provisionally entrusted with the functions of civil governor. THE CZAR'S MANIFESTO. A letter from St. Petersburg of the 29th ult., in the Constitutio;nnel, says : " The manifesto, which you must now be acquainted with, was published almost simultaneously in all parts of the Empire. The Government had taken measures to have a great number pulled off at the Imperial printing office, and the Czar having affixed his signature to it on the 26th at Gatschina, the document was on its way the next day to be distributed in the most distant provinces. It was published in the capital immediately after the ar rival of General Panin from Gatschina. You can easily imagine with What lively anxiety that manifesto was received. Since the beginning of the present crisis the Czar has always affected in his public manifestoes to speak somewhat as a prophet, taking care to wind up his addresses with some passage from the Bible. This time it is an expression of the Emperor Alexander's which has been selected. In the prevision of events analogous to those at the beginning of the present cen tury, the Czar says to his people Europe cannot reach me ; I will accept only such conditions as suit me. If Europe refuses to do as I want, the fate of arms will decide.' This language is so much the more remarkable that the Czar has used it at the very moment when the accession of Austria to the Western alliance seemed calculated to produce a certain effect on his resolutions. Can the Cabinet of Gatschina still flatter itself with the belief that the last act of its old ally has the character of a purely defensive alliance ? The Menschikeffs, the Dolgoroukie and others continue to affirm that Russia cannot in any case haire lost the fruit of four extraordi nary levies aril of so many sacrifices in men and money ; they maintain that conditions dangerous to the grandeur and power of the empire cannot be accepted, when the armies raised for its defence have not even been sub jected to a check. All the efforts made have, on the con trary, in view the continuation of the war in the most en ergetic manner. From the little poor boxes before the images of the saints on the bridges of the capital, where the passers-by are invited to place their offerings for the war, to the products of industry, such as the Schtschclogeff cigars, called after the young cornet of Odessa, all is done to keep up the public enthusiasm in favour of the war. But it must be declared that many persons have very different ideas when once they have returned to their own homes. The health of the Empress is a little im proved. The court nevertheless does not i , eem likely to be transferred to the winter palace. The Grand Duke Constantine has just shown to his two brothers, who arrived from the Crimea, all the changes which he has lately introduced. The dukes have visited together the dockyards, arsenals, and new fortifications on the shore of the Gulf of Finland. The two grand dukes, in their turn, have given him sketches of the battle of In kerman, of the siege works, and of the battered houses in Sebastopol. That town now only contains the gar rison and the poorest portion of the inhabitants. About 1,200 families have left it. M. Brok, the Minister of Finance, has just obtained the Imperial signature to an ordonnance augmenting the price of salt in Siberia and the Caucasus. This day, the official tariffs of salt in the southern and south-western provinces are published." PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF THE ELECTRIC LIGHT. Following out the hint recently given by our hebdo madal contemporary the Builder, and also published in the columns of this journal, Dr. Watson, of the Electric Power Light and Colour Company, has entered into ar rangements with the Government authorities for apply ing this novel agency in aid of the operations now in progress for the erection of the new bridge at West minster. The advancement of the works being con+in gent on the state of the tide, they have consequently often to be prosecuted after dark ; and hence the im portance of pressing any improved lighting appliance afforded by scientific discovery into the service of such an enterprise. The experiment had been tried at the Surrey-side abutment of the bridge. The lighting appara tus used, which was computed to possess illuminating power equal to that of 72 Argand burners, or of nearly 1,000 wax.candles, was stationed on the river's brink, so ai to threw its rays upon a working stop fixed some 200 feet or upwards out into the stream, and upon which, it being low tide at the time, a body of workmen, 45 in number, were "engaged in pile-driving by means of eight ponderous " monkey" hammers. Chappuis's re flector was used on the occasion, and the electric bat tery for supplying the necessary power, and which W,4i; fitted with six dozen cells, was posted on the Middlesex shore, or at a distance of 2,000 feet. The experiment, we are glad to state, proved eminently successful in ac complishing its object. The light diffused over the working stage was of an intense and yet agreeable bril liancy, far exceeding the lustre of the brightest moon light, but resembling the moon's mild and cheerful rt. diance. The workmen seemed to be greatly facilitated in their various occupations by its aid ; and we should think that after once tasting the advantage of so superior an illuminating agent, they would be very loth to have to revert to the " darkness visible," as well as the noxious fumes of the ordinary duck lamps, filled with naphtha, to which they ,have heretofore been accus tomed. It is but right to add that the new light was subject to a transcient and occasional flickering, but it was so slight as to cause the least perceptible inconve nience to the men ; and, besides this defect, which is traceable to the fluctuation of the electrical powei, is considered to be inseparable from the operation of so subtle an agent. The light appeared to be fully as manageable as gas, to extinguish it or turn it on being but the work of a moment. We learn that it is intened to place the electric light on both banks of the river, and also on the crown of the central arch of Westmin ster-bridge as the works going on there proceed. The patentee has contracted to light Chelsea-bridge by the same means, commencing from next week - and we un derstand that Mr. Whitmarsh, of Paris, has obtained the permission of-the Emperor of the French to fix one of these brilliant illuminators at the Rond Pont, to light up the grand avenue of the Champs Elys6es during the forthcoming . " Exposition Industeielle" in that gay ca pital. Dr. Watson undertakes to furnish this improved light at the lowest cost of gas, his great gain being derived from his mode of utilising the residuary pro ducts of the battery in making colours. SILVER.—The bar silver brought by the last West India steamer bas been sold at 61d. per ounce, being a decline of id. Nothing has yet been done vial the AleZiCAll dollars, ' • THE BUR.RICANE AND INUNDATION" AT BAMBURG. ~. DESTRUCTION OF SHIPPING AND GREAT LOSS OF LIFE. til HAMBURG, Jan.- 4.—The most heartrending aeo uri f of the devastations caused by. the hurricane and flood° the Ist January are beginning to pour in from evert quarter, and go to prove th a t th e i r di sas t r ous effects a re of nearly if not of equal magnitude to the memorablee storm of 1825. As far as I ha ve l earn ed at present, thir hurricane appears to h ave swe pt w ith equa l force 0. the wide di s t r i c t f rom th e D u t c h coas t up to Lubee lc. How far it went up the Baltic remains to be ascertained' In all the numerous islands of the Elbe the embank', ments which su rroun d th em , and which are raised se! kept in order at a h great annual expense, were br olroi through in many places and the land laid u nder , water. The b a thi ng i s l an d o f Wangeroog, of f the coast of Oldenburg, has suffered very co nsidtrab l i c i The bathing est a bli s h ment, the school-house, 3, a several private d we lli ngs are - completely wa",ei. away. The church was preserve d , b ut t h e ebur 1, yard was so furrowed up by the waves that the CO have been disinterred and are thrown about in all diced tions. The lighthouse escaped. The following out war d bound ships were caught in tbe ll gale at the mouth o f t h e Elb e, an d have returne d to tb port dismasted and o th erw i se d amage d . —M erca tor ( I . ) ' Smith, for Leith ; S o phi e , W ease l s , f or P anama : 111°Y zone, Captain Ilinrichsen, for Rio Janeiro ; Catbaris* Captain Claussen, for Guayaquil ; Robert and Le oi6 ./ Captain Hansen, for E ng l an d ; an d L u d om ill a , CaP t ; t o Sohst, for Singapore, Whampoa, and Hong Kong. b 5, Hamburg full ship, Ge orge C ann i ng, C ap t a i n Jail f from New York to this p or t, was l os t a t th e u lo °4ll the Elbe. She cleared out f rom N ew Y or k o n the ° O , December. Of the fate of the passengers and crew li e f thing is known yet, but there is no doubt of the 1004 the vessel from a number of th e s hip' s p a pers b o o r picked up on the coast. This v esse l b e l o ngs t° . 1 enterprising countryman, M r . Sl oman , th e ovrs e. b; the unfortunate iron steamer, Helen Sloman, lost On d b i voyage to New York two years ago, and commesd e t his the same C a pt. J aco b s . H owever, as a se t off t ° D 'f heavy loss, it will be a consolation to Mr. s l ° ll ot friends in England to know that he has just sold a D o steamer, lately launched in Scotland, to the British :fi ht verement, with a cl e a r p ro fit o f 10,0001 . , an d the ril `po of taking her back at the end of the year if she it!gel longer wanted by Government for the transport serAi at half her cost price, making an estimated total P of 30,000/. to° The English schooner Stat e ly, C ap t a i n Whiting' f Of Harwich to Bremen, was tot a lly l os t a t the 1301,1 the Elbe, near Neuwerk ; crew save d an d arrives; Cuxhaven. The English b arque M ax i m , o f Sti le tb. the ships Johannes and Helene, Captain Boelr,;0; Nayade, Captain Deneke ; and Johannes, Capt. l' il eyft the Italian brig Ruggiero, and the Danish barque iio Eduard, are stranded near Gluckstadt. The M o o barque Lady Raffles, Capt. Marienberg, is gone to hr near Bremerhafen, in th e W eser , an d i s ex pe L ted t ° o 4 come a wreck. The British steamers Rob ft° l ,dil Leipzie put back, and w ere f or t una t e enoug h to t r `iot Cuxhaven before the gale r eac h e d it s c li max ; the f ° t ef with everything swept clean off her decks, the ' 9 ' with loss of her paddle-boxes. e a Some remarkable cases which occurred will se' )3 give your readers an idea of the fury of the storO we ra the neighbouring village of Ham the congregation i c e° assembled in the church (on New Year's-day ser sc i,il, , performed in all the churches in Germany), and "0 0 , the clergyman was in the middle of his sermon, 14 G er of wind took off the whole roof, and swept it to s o , siderable distance, dashing the beams to f ra gments . , 0 1 it reached the ground. Singularly enough the ro v i o te) taken off so clean that not a single person in the ° was injured. 1 5 104 When the embankment of the island of Wilbel,vieg gave way and the water rushed in with overs'berotes? force, three fishermen's cottages, with all their i n tbe till° were floated away, and left hi g h , and dry, whe° al e receded, at a distance of t wo m il es f rom their ,-, AO I locality. S ome of' the inhabitants of Wrlhe';lo s4 were not so fortu na t e , an d severa l li ves h av e bee; pro', whilst the d es t ruc ti on o f h ouses, cattle, and WI- to perty is very considerable. toi ls ' ' P.S. The crew and passengers of the unf° r a o fP 4 ( George Canning are all lost. The former consiste-ovt\i, men, the latter of 135 persons. The cargo 15 ,. PI insured here (250,000 marks banco) and partly 1 /' York (100,000 dollars). FATAL SHIPWRECKS. --,--- 0 ' By the arrival of the General Steam Navigatio n 5 ,jg pany's mail steamer John Bull in the river yesle'or, from Hamburg, we are apprised of a lamentable 601 fatal shipwreck—that of the George Canning, a 613e8,0 ' of 700 tons burden, one of the Hamburg and .Nolc t il packets, with every one on board. It took pla ne . its / mouth of the Elbe, duri ng an a wful storm which /1.001 that coast on New Year' s Day. The storm hr°ll3ences: on the evening previous, from the N.W., with *1°,00: and such destruction as it occasioned along O le o 0 1 :o has not been witnessed for the last 20 years. h fte cc l o accompanied with a remarkably high tide, wh ic G r o r p r ' the banks of the Elbe, and the whole of the I°, "pl c , o & of the towns of Hamburg, Cuxhaven, and all °";,jsro7,l' situate near the river were under water to II desc r ,7,o degree, and the extent of property deatroyeu a ' itio" a to be enormous. The unfortunate h'n ' 4-e g•P' ° lost on the south side of the entrtM s o :' I'l 00 e , VIP' what is called the Scearhorn (a sand similar tet`'.. r l'i lin at the mouth of the river Thames). Sh e apP e P,,,p l oni Lloyd's list to have sailed from New York for 1- I `',',lls ll ' on the 3d of December, with a cargo of s undrY,n le 'pfl ° dice, and, it is reported, above 50 passengers. 1 0 0 favourable run across, and arrived off Heligolaii e, evening of the 31st of December, air well, when t b4l t burst of the gale compelled her captain (Mr. .1 -o° o f heave to, and await a more favourable opportunity 0 ning into the Elbe. It was then about 9 p.m. , ,`,, Jo next that vas seen of her was by the crew of t' ft li „Bullsteamer, on her outward passage to Hambu r g i i, after midnight, when she appeared to be lying " 4 l = five miles SSW. of Heligol an d, un d er close reefe sail, foretopsails, and ma i n spencer , on her Pnr„t ti r 0 1 , intending, as the crew o f th e J o h n B u ll stesn o t'' posed, to keep off till daylight, and then to nink s „,,,,i, river. The gale w as rag i ng f r i g htf u lly a t the t•''''1 ) 1 1 :, • it was doubtful whether the John Bull would be ' j o% take the harbour, for owing to the cloud of sP r3Y o ol was lashed up by the tremendous sea, it was DO, o t possible to discern the light-vessel at the entraneveir river. Neither could the pilots get off from t b , e li J tion to come on board. She, however, fprtuno' into the right track, and steamed on safely Cuxhaven. For hours, up to nine o'clock that ° ; 01 the storm continued with . great fury ; several so'V j were lying in the river were driven ashore and iv et One vessel, a brig, belonging to London, in balls 00' blown at the top of the high tide over the bank river into a field. Another English vessel, a 6C fri t , the Stately, Captain Whiting, from London co' . ii i, with a cargo of tar oil, was totally lost near IA and upwards of 60 vessels lost their anchors. ,3),, was seen of the George Canning after spoken ,;' the John Bull steamer, and her melancholy ,' 3 4 first brought to light on Tuesday morning '' } „ p ,l quantity of wreck being washed up near Cuxho Y ili the name of the vessel on the fragments ; and ~e ' : the day a tin box, with the whole of the Ge°r'' l l ) Ding's papers therein, was found on the beach', 7 r o:: ‘ , portions of her cabins, sundry merchandise, ind li) ,i i', shoes, shoe-nails, passengers' baggage, &c., "`,' l fi is little doubt that the vessel must have quic l 'l6 l :, to pieces, and that all belonging to her, about p a sons in number, perished. Pilots have since g n °,oA to discover the wreck, but have been unable so S Y, consequence of the heavy sea still running. 1 bodies have been washed ashore. i THE FRENCH ARMY IN ALOE The French Minister of War has receive d General Pelissier, Governor-General of AV' interim, the following letter : " Monsieur le Marechal,—ln the evening of er, December I received from Blida tbe following te l desptch " Captain Camatte announces to me, that 13°i,dPi was killed yesterday evening by the Caid L 0 ,4 Tamzalt, in consequence of a coup-de-main wlo'i r Pil tempted on his district, and which failed. 7 4 , 1 was beheaded on the spot. I shall write to yoti l)J this evening.' " This despatch came from Aumale, and the of the road has greatly retard e d th e arr i va l of t '" mentioned in it. " I have received to-day, however, some det B death of Bou-Barla, which are very clear. foil " This agitator formed a plan to attack tbo to ol house-of Caid L a khd ar , an d, f o ll owe d by two if eo l cO i only and s i x t y f oo t so ldi ers , we ll arme d, he rt 4 into the Valley of l'Oued Sahel. In order t°, 0 0, 1 his movem e nt f rom being observed, his arfi P a vantage of the irregularities of the groat , thickness of the brushwood. , "The Caid Lakhdar, constantly on his guaro..h,6;4 on horseback with his troops at the first di9rhoto,.. musketry on the keepers of his flocks, crossed v' o f ri and in spite of the rapidity of the movemeooat oft Bar'la in retreat, he overtook him at the_.,friiiVj first advanced forts of the mountain of Beni X, e ori Having lost all confidence in his horse, which 4 1 fatigued, Bou-Bar'la dismounted, with the in to making his way on foot over the rough and roo-',',l which lay before him. He was not sufficientlii for however, in dismounting, for scarcely had he r i b jsr, i the ground when he was surrounded by Leif, his horsemen, and he was struck by the card "The death of Bou-Bar'la is a happy circ u „ which I hope will lead to the submission of th• Beni Mellikench. a th: o i 11 "Besides the steps which he took some 113 01 to gain the protection of the superior contro',.c Dra el Mizan, Bou,Bar'la addressed himself sq to Anmale, to Setiff, and to Si-hen-Ali-Che rl n t them at the same time not to give any accelld f proceedings. This ma n n er of acting to o 0 ) think that the sole object of this fanatic wa s o e r letters, by means of which he could still contio posh upon the people. He was foiled in thi f3 to ry employed by the greater number of the itol 3 ° s l id had preceded him, as I had forbidden any rep hi , given to hi s lett ers . rt - "Reduced to resort to expedients to suPP 43 es e9 , , ratter of cherif (or prophet), and even to P i a IJ a a' existence, he resolved to make attacks on C°' l r and the Beni_Abbes ; that of the 26th Decerov last. "Accept, Monsieur le Marcella], ttc'f„Oiite (Signed) "Nan itit/ I Governor•Ooneral of Algeria Ps'' ...,.,,.... 40 The sa l eyfi raated te am anC kis fi rm , !,50 0 ' old . to 1 6 Surat a t to 2 3 . i d. at higher Upon -S9rs. taqs ''r t " h , 5 to Th e Rail th:11 eases r ep are a e bett or , rho For t c'ilit•s toc ° l "traliatl qs.tt 4 4 Liitt c ;A , 4lp ro t ot , 3/ 0 - b aY dit t ll o ttB tl ll 3? 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