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fRIJRY-LANE.—Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.— Reduced Prices as usual. THIS EVENING. Will be performed an adaptation, written expressly for th's Theatre by Mr. RreaOLPSON, of Meyerbeer's Grand Opera, L'ETOILE DU NORD. Characters by Messrs. Henri Drayton, Williams, BOWler, Leftist, D. Beal, Miranda, and Blake ; Mrs Henri Drayton, Miss Johnson, Miss E. Arden, and Mdile. Jenny Bann. To conclude with NO SONG, NO SUPPER. THEATRE ROYAL HAYDIARKET. Under the management of Mr. 13uckstone. THIS EVENING, Will be presented THE SECRET AGENT. Principal characters by Mr Backstone and Miss E. Chaplin. After which a new Ballot, entitled THE BULL-FIGHTER. To be followed by THE BA LANCE OF COMFORT. To which will be added the new Ballet by the Spanish Dancer, galled THE GALICIXN FETE. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CHARLES KERN. THIS EVENLY(, win be presented the original adaptation of Casimir Delayigne's Metortoal Play. entitled LOUIS THE ELEVENTH. Frincip tl character by Mr. C. Kean. To conclude with (third time) a new Farce. entitled A CAME OF ROMPS Trinc'pal characters by M ess rss Harley, and Chester : Mrs. Wlnstanley. 3iiises Heath. Murray, C. Leclercq, Daly, and Ternen. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Veetris. TIII3 EVENING, Will be performed A NICE FIRM. Mr. M4Pslter. Idr. Charles Mathews. To be followed by TAKE THAT GIRL AWAY. To conclude with the new Comic Drams, called TO) MUCH OF A GOOD THING. Principal characters by Mr. Roxby and Mrs. F. Mathews. Box-office open from 10 until 6. 8010 agent for Private Boxes, Mr. Allcroft, 15, Now-Bend-street. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHL Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress. Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING. WM be performed a new and original Drama, preceded by a Pro logue, and called JANET PRIDE. After which, BETTY MARTIN. To be tbllowed by THE UNKNOWN AND THE BAYADERE. Characters by Messrs. P. Bedford and G. Lee; Misses Woolgar and Keeley, and Mdlles. Maraquita and Benonl. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING. win be presented the uew Comedietta, called TIT FOR TAT, in which Messrs. F. Robson, A. Wigan, and Miss Maskell will appear. Followed by A LUCKY FRIDAY. Atter which. a new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE YELLOW DWARF AND THE KING OF THE GOLD MINES. Characte rs by Mr. F. Robeon , Miss Julia St. George, Miss E. Ormonde, M ars ton, Miss Bromley, and Mrs. Fitzallan. Mi ss ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. truhr the direction of Miss Rebecca Isaacs. THIS EVENING Will be performed OUR NELLY. Principal character, by Miss Rebecca Isaacs. After which, MIDAS. Midas, Mr. Ba'ford. Followed by THE MARRIED BACHELOR. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. THIS EVENING, Last time but two. The BATTLES of BALARLAVA. INKER MANN, aad the ALMA.I To conclude with the SCENES In the CIRCLE, and the wonderful performance of Herr Endersohn. named Fll-de-Fer, with l'Entree da Clown 3 la Francalse. MONDAY next, the Complimentary Benefit of Mr. WILLIAM COOKE. Timm the Tartar, novel scenes in the Arena, and Herr Endersohn's performance. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. Watt. Acting Manger. 3 r. W. 11. Cooke. Equestrian Director, %r. W. Cooke, jun. GREAT NATIONAL STANDARD THEATRE, SHOREDITC H. Proprietor, Mr. John Douglass. Miss GLYN, the popular Actress, as Cleopatra. Every evening, Wednesday excepted, Shakspeare's ANTONY and CLEOPATRA. Antony by Mr. Henry Marston; Cleopatra, M les Glyn. The play will be produced with new and splendid scenery, dresses, and appointments. To conclude with The SCAPEGRACE of PARIS, by Mrs. R. Hermon On Wednesday, OTHELLO ; Othello, Mr. Henry Marston ; to con clude with the MISTRESS of the MILL. Doors open at six, commence at half-past ex. Boxes, 2s. 6d.; 25., Is. 6d., Is. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE Tyne DAT —Morninx 55 min.after 9 I Evening 47 nain.aft. 10 TaVostow—Monaing34 min.after 11 Evening 0 min.aft. 0 THE WEATEKEL—Sui OTTKM, March, 14. THEEMONETER, IN THE SEADE 49—highest since noon yesterday : 40—lowest this morning and during the night. 45—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 29'71—rising. WIND. S.E.—Light breeze, with dull weather. Two O'CLoot.—Wind, changed to S.W., with fine Weather. gt . tg • - LONDON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1855. Prussia still appears intent on maintaining a vacillating, or rather a deceptive course of policy. Her sole aim is to cast dust into the eyes of those with whom she may be negotiating, by statements and assurances not only without foundation, but altogether contrary to the actual facts. Indeed her duplicity is apparent from the conflicting pro fessions made to the different parties. To the Ministers of the Western Powers she bolds out the strongest hepes that she is prepared forthwith to enter into positive engagements--that she will at length pursue a straightforward and honourable course ; while to those of Russia the promises are equally distinct and unequivocal, that, if peace cannot be restored, a strict neutrality will be maintained. There must be great mendacity and equivocation towards one side or the other ; and, if we consider the antecedents of FRE DERICK WILLIAM since the proclamation of War, we shall be enabled to perceive which party he wishes to bamboozle. We believe that Lord JOHN RUSSELL who, while in Paris, had a prolonged interview with M. Da HATZFELD, the Prussian Ambassador to France, and at Berlin had sundry communications with Baron MANTEUFFEL and the KING himself, found that it was impos sible to place the slightest _ reliance on any pro mise or assertion emanating from Prussian sources, and that the more positive the statement •the greater certainty of its falsehood. The chief object of FREDERICK WILLIAM is to obtain admission for his representative to the ap proaching conferences at Vienna, without con tracting any binding engagements from which he could not subsequently shuffle out. For this he is prepared to incur any amount of discredit, to quibble and equivocate in the most disgraceful manner. We trust, however, that the represen tatives of France and England will remain firm, and decisively and unequivocally reject the insi dious and unwarrantable proposition. It is not merely as an amende to his wounded dignity that FREDERICK WILLIAM SO anxiously desires to participate in the discussions about to be inaugurated. . He naturally feels the loss of influence and position arising from this exclu sion ---and he would gladly avoid the humiliation. But ha also well knows that it is the natural re sultef Ida own indecision—and when he made up his mi n d to . tottow a course not merely so in glorious, bu t so Positively disgraceful, he should submit Phil°BoPhiclly to the inevitable conse quences. Re could not for a moment expect to retain the prestige and influence which he had himself deliberately and wantonly sacrificed. His niost earnest wish, however, is to be enabled to as he formerly helped his help his nephew, is brother is-law to assist Russia, not by boldly and man fully assuming arms in her behalf, but 1, pro. ducing confusion and dissension amongst th ose , to whose councils he might be admitted. 'We might condemn the former policy, but it would at least be straightforward and resolute, while the latter would be degrading and despicable, more befitting a quibbling pettifogger than a Monarch claiming to hold au elevated position in the comity of nations. We cannot for a moment deem it possible that the demand can be acceded to. We should, indeed, entertain a humiliating estimate of the Ministers and Plenipotentiaries of France and England to suppose that the one could propose or the other could consent to negotiate on sob terms. I Wald tho Furasiox 74 . raux jotian, or Mown THE SUN,, LOND O N WEDNESDAY EV_ENING, MARCH 14, 1855 rather attempts to justify, the-course he has pur sued, as being in obedience to the last dictates of his dying father—a point of which he was strongly reminded by the Emperor NICHOLAS at the very l i hour of his dissolution. The message, which might be regarded as coming from the grave, for along with it arrived the tidings of the death of the man who had so long exercised a paramount influence over the mind of his feeble brother-in law, produced an immediate response. Prince CHARLES of Prussia, notorious for his subserviency to Russia, was at once despatched on a mis sion of condolence to the widowed EMPRESS and the new CZAR—bearing, at the same time, an assurance of the inflexible determina tion of the KING to act in accordance with the principles inculcated by his predecessor. If any doubt could exist as to the terms it would be removed by the selection of so determined a partizan as the Prince CHARLES. There is, there fore, an additional and most cogent reason why we should peremptorily reject the proffered inter vention of one so strongly biased in favour of the ing to the hearts of all laymen, whether Church men, Dissenters, or Catholics, than that which shows itself in wounding the feelings of those who mourn for their dead. LATEST NEWS. VIENNA, AlAncH 12. A report is circulated to-day that a battle has been fought before Sebastopol, but without any de cisive results. General Osten-Sacken was wounded, and the French have taken one of the forts. Both sides claim the victory. The Congress will be formally opened on Wed nesday or Thursday. A pacific solution is considered probable. Count Alvelisleben is likely to represent Prussia at the Conference. Prince Gortschakoff had the honour of being received to-day by the Emperor Francis Joseph, to whom he presented the new letters of credence. Belts are both impassable, except with great danger and diflicnity, and we are therefore still without ws from the south. But the Sound is com pletely frozen over, and a lively intercommunica tion with the S vedish coast, extending down as far as Malmo, is daily kept up, by means of carriages, waggons, and sledges. The king is seriously indisposed, and bulletins are issued daily, but I do no t think there is, at the present moment, any immediate cause of appre hension. The public career of JOSEPH HUME was one of those of which the country may be proud. It was energetic, manly, unselfish, and patriotic in an extraordinary degree. It was morally heroic. Having ever admired his zeal in the public ser vice, and especially his unquailing perseverance in pursuit of his righteous aims, under circum stances such as would have deterred most men, it was not until the latter portion of his life the great-heartedness of the man burst upon us. He who had been the jeer of every liveried sycophant of power and. every imperti nent imbecility of rank, who had been hooted, hissel, butted at, and traduced by all who throve 'by or abetted cDrruption. in Church or State through a long course of years, and who had passed jeer, hiss, assault, and slander by with an impassibility that seemed to indicato an almost total absence of sensitiveness, had, it be came known to us, the tastes, percep tions, and feelings, if not the utterance, of the poet. The " JOB HUME" of the lobby, the clubs, the press, and the hustings, had these and persevered. Had these and never betrayed, never bore, indeed, a particle of resentment, but went steadily on his appointed way, and did his work like a man—always at his place, always active, and always conciliating, but resolved. It was his misfortune, so far as fame is concerned, to have cost his country nothing, and to be an economist and a civilian. Had he worn x egimen tals, and never hesitated at an estimate, what an " incarnation of duty" he would have been called ! " JOSEPH HUME, a Memorial," by JOSEPH BURNLEY HUMS, lies before us, and has suggested the preceding remarks. It is written in irregular couplets, after the measure of " L3cksley Hall," and possesses considerable merit, many of the couplets being very graphic, the character hap pily hit off, and the whole pervaded by intense earnestness. But it is more than a poem :itis a tribute of affection paid to the memory of a father by a son, and we advert to it here in sup port of our previous remarks, and in proof of the high moral bearin4 of that father. He who could inspire so much veneration and love, as the memo rial reveals, could be no ordinary man, and must have possessed most of the qualities attributed to him. To his robust frame must have been " Knit a soul of nature's simplest mould, Strong, calm, brave, tender, manly, like some patriarch of old ; And so sincere, that what e'en foes would promise he believed ; And dal so ever and again, how oft so e'er deceived." W►e can believe that --" Evermore unruffled : strife embittered not his mind ; Defeat and scorn could never leave one rankling pang behind." And further, that, "Benevolent himself, in quenchless hope the earth he trod, His being one continued act of thanksgiving to God ; ♦nd thus a long charmed life he lived, that scarce knew check or fall, Successful as but few can be, and happy beyond all." It is melancholy to reflect how inadequately public benefactors are appreciated in their life time, but it is some satisfaction to know that "virtue is its own reward," and that appreciation comes at last ; and we feel confident that among public benefactors a higher plarm than ever will be accorded to him, to whose "Simple soul was given a sturdy common sense That seized what finer talents missed with striking prescience," i.. r h o ina.f.ciaable patriot, JOSEPH HUMS. The Queen has given 501. ont of the Royal bounty to Catherine Wilkinson, of Liverpool, to whom is owing the establishment of baths and vvashhouses for the poor. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge, who wa 3 to have left town for Melton Mowbray, has been compelled to defer her departure until Thursday next, in consequence of not having sufficiently recovered from the cold from which she has been suffering. The Marquis of Hertford has arrived in Berkeley square from the French capital. The Earl of Caledon, whose serious illness during the past time months has caused considerable anxiety to his numerous friends, is now understood to be satisfactorily progressing towards convalescence. The Earl and Countess of Wilton are dispensing their hospitality at Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray, to a distinguished circle. The Hon. Captain Dudley and Lady Elizabeth De Ros, Lord and Lady Newport, Lord Canterbury, &c., are amongst the visitors. The Earl and Countess of Durham are about to visit Paris for a short period. On their return, the noble earl and her ladyship will occupy the mansion, No. 122, Park-lane. The countess's accouchement is expected to take place in the month of June. The Earl and Countess Cowper gave a dinner party last evening, at their residence in Great Stanhope-street. Among the guests were Viscountess Palmerston, the Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Austrian Minister, and the Countess Colloredo, Viscount and Viscountess Sydney, Lord Charles Bruce, the Hon. W. Cowper, M.P., &c. The Earl Fortescue is not expected to return to town until Easter. His lordship is still at Castle Hill, where the family have been since Augu,t. Viscountess Palmerston has cards out for an assembly this evening. The Countess Walewska had a " reception" last evening, at the residence of the French Embassy, Al bert-gate House. Viscount and Viscountess Milton will leave town in the cour.e of the present week for Milton Hall, North amptonshire, where they intend to remain until Easter. Viscount Milton returned to town on Monday, from Yorkshire. THE WOUNDED AT SCUTARI. —An amateur soirée musicale is to be given on Tuesday, March 20, at the Hanover-square Rooms, for the relief of the sick and wounded at Scutari , the proceeds of which are to be pre sented to Miss Nightingale. The tickets are to he ob tained from Miss Bevington, 48, Greek-street, Soho square. MAJOR. NASMYTII.--We understatd that the Cale donian United Service Club entertained thisdistioguished young officer at dinner on Thursday last. There are in England 2,406 brewers, 61,736 vic tuallers, and 44,236 licensed to sell beer. In Scotland, there are 124 brewers, and 13,667 victuallers ; and in Ireland, 101 brewers, and 15,667 victuallers. —Padia mentary Papers. TEE SOIREE AT UNIVERSITY COLLEGE.--The students of University College la-t evening entertained a lar k ,e awl distinguished body of per-ons known to be interested in education and the pursuits of science and literature. The conception of the entertainment was a happy one, and does infinite credit to the energy of the students, while it is a proof of their intellectual tendencies. FATAL ACCIDENT AT TUN ROYAL STANDARD TIM.- TRE, SEIOREDITCEL—On Monday night a fatal accident occurred at this establishment to a stage carpenter, named Thomas Ray, aged 43 years. Deceased, who was in the service of Mr. Douglas, the lessee, was en gaged after the performance in covering over a large piece of looking-glass, in the front entrance hall, when he slipped frora the ladder on which he stood, and fall ing to the floor, a depth of 18 feet, sustained a fracture of the skull, from which he died yesterday morning. The deceased, who was a steady workman, has left a wife and five children unprovided for. RUSSIAN PRODUCE.—The idea that the purchases in the English funds yesterday were consequent upon im proved prospects of peace caused flatness in the markets for Russian produce. Tallow at one time was very dull, but it partially recovered before the close. AIISTRALIA.—The Dawstone and the Kurrajong have arrived from New South Wales, but the amount of gold they bring, if any, remains to he ascertained. The Brilliant, from Geelong, has 85,000 ounces, valued at ' 140,0 00/. MADRAS.—The Nilc (Nisbet) has arrived in the Downs in 86 days from Madras, having touched at the Cape of Good Hope about the 25th of January. Her mails would be received in town to day. PIIICE OF GOLD.- —Tile quotation of gold at Paris is about at par (according to the la 4 tariff), which, at the English Mint price of SI. 17s. 10id. per ounce for stand ard gold, gives an exchange of 25 . 17; and, the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25.12, it follows that gold is about 0.18 per cont. dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from Hamburg the price of gold is 4234 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10)d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex change of 13 . 44 ; and, the exchange at Hamburg on London at short being 13 . 41, it follows that gold is 0 . 18 per cont. dearer in London than in Hamburg. The course of exchange at New York on London fur bills at 60 days' sight is 1091 per cent., and, the par of exchange between E ng l an d an d America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is nominally o'l7 per cent. in favour of England ; and, after making allowance for ' s e s ehonar g r e r s o.t. i) , f tleah tr ev a ues ne ru p .a o t r e t 4B m a s n at d lalt d r :z t en c e n e otfbeinitmerpesoti,tatthieonproei 1 -~~ enemy. On this point Lord Rani RUSSELL cannot hesi tate. His acceptance of the Colonial-office ren dered it indispensable that he should speedily be prepared to discharge its important duties. If a representative of Prussia were admitted, we might rest assured that, not merely days but months, perhaps years, would be wasted in unprofitable discussions, while Russia would be encouraged to continue an obstinate resistance, in the expecta tion of benefits anticipated from the friendly in terference of Prussia ! It will take a long time to lay the demon of intolerance even in this land of boasted light and liberty. Clergymen are fond of ringing changes in our ears on the " mild and tolerant spirit of our Church," and the happy difference in this respect between Protestant and Papal countries. We wish the difference were much plainer. The nation is tolerant to a large extent, but no one can now pretend that the Church of England is the nation, or the nation the ,Church of England. Her clergymen dare not hazard another common wealth, and if they dare, the nation, represented by its Parliament, will not let them. The spirit, , however, which roused the country to overthrow the Church two hundred years ago is by no means dormant in all her present clergy. There are those among them who would, doubtless, rejoice in a Star Chamber, and in slitting noses and clip ping ears, and praising GOD for such sentences in the orthodox ST. LAUD style, if only society would let them. Nothing is plainer than that no class of mortals on earth are more disposed to use power cruelly than ecclesiastics ; and nothing is more obviously the duty of the State than to de prive them of all legal means of annoying those who differ from them. A Czar is not snore re lentless thiaa a bigot. Indeed the bigotry of the majority of modern despots has quite equalled their tyranny. The odious quality is essentially the same, but now it shows itself in the civilian, now in the ecclesiastic. The latter is far the more hateful of the two, since the Great Head of the Church came to unteach men the love of rule and to teach them humility. Our readers were probably many of them led to generalise in this sort yesterday by the report in our columns of another case of burial intole- , rance. It came before one of our metropolitan magistrates at Clerkenwell, Mr. CORRIE. Two Irishmen were summoned for a row, and that on consecrated ground. They or some one non inventus had knocked the book out of s the clergy- M LOA A.a . .. 1......... a, 3,...,1.--z—a 4.1... /.....11. ....r 11..., 1ay.n.i...,• a , and rendered his last services superfluous ; and of course for hustling a Doctor of Divinity, and lay ing profane hands on a holypickaxeand spade, they were taken into custody. The dignity of the law and the dignity of a D.D. demanded no less. But what had the D.D. done ? He had only pitted Anglican and educated bigotry against Popish and illiterate bigotry. He considered the Burial Ser vice of his prayer-book thionly and the indispens able one for every body which sought repose in his churchyard. His Catholic parishioners deemed the service already performel by their own priest the only and the indispensable one, and no doubt feared injury, to the departed from what they held to be an heretical service. The priest had judi ciously advised his people to request the Protestant to abstain from the objectionable service, and if he persisted, to withdraw and leave him with his sexton and clerk. The poor men, however, would fight against a faith when obtruded upon them, even contrary to orders. They did not know that the physical force of law enabled a clergyman to perform over the dead the abhorred service, or they would not have resorted to the physical forte of wild Irish passion. The magistrate considerately gave the repre sentatives of the Church opportunity to behave as their Lord and Master would have done. He sent the Doctor of Divinity to the Lord Bishop of London. He suggested that the bishop might permit the omission of a servico over Catholico which the surviving Catholic relatives deemed a desecration. The civilian could not conceive at first sight why a ceremony should be forced upon people who did not want it, merely because by locality they were obliged to bury in a particular churchyard. The bishop, however, soon rebuked the impious suggestion. It was, ho informed him, a right of the Church to read her service over all bodies interred in her churchyards, and the right must be sustained. The magistrate bowed to the bishop. Not being an ecclesiastic, however, he pitied the ignorance of the poor men, fined them only ss. each, bat prudently threatened that, if the offence were repeated, they must smart for it to the heart's content of Bishops and Doctors of Divinity. Now, we humbly think that while ignorant Irishmen must be kept from rows, it would have been more creditable to the magistrate to have lectured the bishop and his subordinate in the spirit of his first suggestion. They in our opinion occupy a much more disgraceful position than the Irishmen. We hear everlasting homilies on the liberalising tendency of education, but if such un meaning bigotry as that displayed by these church men is to be the result of it, we may as well shut up our schools. Here are a pair of college-bred gentlemen fighting with illiterate Irishmen over the corpses of poor Catholics, contending as a right for what could not benefit tho dead, while it was revolting, indeed most irritating, to the living ! It is but recently Lord SHAFTESBURY and his friends were declaiming, and justly, against th e S pan i s h i ntolerance which denied a th u e r m iftl -Oground to Protestants ; or, if it gr an t e d refused permission to celebrate publicly the Protestant service. Bigotry enough, to be sure, and the worse, as in all such cases, for in sulting the deep es t and most sacred sorrows of the living. For the latitude of London, however, we t heurnersmO ry we hav e j ust described quite as who could i n enlightened b t h a d i n . k t T h e h e b i i i g l o e n t England thrust a hated religions service on for the dead would in Spain assuredly not have hesitated to consign Protestant bodies to th e stable-yard, or to low-water mark. Our ecclesias tics should know that no bigotry is more revolt- FRANCE. We have received the Moniteu - r of yesterday. It publishes an Imperial decree promulgating the act of acceptation signed at Turin on the 26th of January, 1855, on the accession of his Majesty the King of Sardinia to the convention of the 10th of April, 1854, between France and England, as fol lows : "Napoleon, by the grace of God and the national will, Emperor of the French, &c., have decreed and decree as follows : " Art. 1. His Majesty the King of Sardinia hav ing acceded to the convention concluded at London on the 10th of April, 1854, and our Envoy Extra ordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to his said Majesty having in virtue of our full powers and in our name, accepted the said accession, the respec tive ratifications were exchanged at Turin on the 4th of the present month of March ; and, in con sequence, the said act of acceptation of the accession and the iinilitary convention concluded between France and Great Britain and Sardinia will receive full and entire execution." Up to last night M. de Wedell had not seen M. Drouyn de l'Huys on the subject of his mission nor the Emperor. The first interview was to have taken place yesterday with the Minister, and this day, I believe, with his Majesty. Press of busi ness or some other cause prevented it. That with the Minister was postponed to this day, and the audience of the Emperor till to-morrow. Nothing precise of the instructions the Prussian Envoy has brought with him can as yet be said, further than that he is believed to be entrusted with a letter from the King of Prussia to the Em peror Napoleon. Not only is it still affirmed that the intelligence received from Vienna is of a peaceful kind, but it is added that another letter has been received from the Emperor of Austria, declaratory of the same facilities for establishing peace that have been al ready noticed, and expressive of the hope that the French Government will not let slip the occasion now offered for arriving at such a consummation. It is stated in the Debats, that Prince Charles of Prussia, wko is to go to St. Petersburg to pre sent the compliments of the King, his brother, to the new Emperor, is to explain the King's inten tions respecting the dying message of Nicholas on the subject of the relations of Russia and Prussia. The Prince is to assure Alexander ,that the King, desiring the continuation of peace, is ready to con tinue the work of mediation, if the new Emperor will continue the policy of the Emperor his father. If he should fail, he will confine himself to a strict neutrality. BOURSE, MARcil 13.—CLOSING PRICES. Cash. fr. c. End of Month. 41 per Cents. (ad) 94 75 94f. 753. (ex) 3 per Cents 7O 5 70f. 25c. Credit Mobilier 7i2 50 Roman Credit Foncier — Austrian Belgian Fives ...... .. Spanish Threes Piedmontese B5 50 Home Debt RAILWAYS-FOR CASH. fr. c. fr. c. Orleans 1,205 Lyons ,., 1055 Western 657 50 Rouen Cette Mediterranean 940 Havre 562 50 Northern AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna states that M. de Bruck bas had several audiences of the Emperor. On ac count of the present state of affairs, a greater free dom of action and more extended powers will be granted to him as Finance Minister, than to his pre decessors. The Ministry of Finance is to become completely independent of the other Ministries of the Council of the Empire. It has just been decided that, in consequence of the imminence of war, the militia, which has not been called out for several years, shall be reorganised throughout the whole extent of the Austrian Empire. That body will be reconstituted on a uniform plan, and placed under the superior command of a general officer. General de Kempen, who is now President of the Superior Direction of the Police,isspokenof for this important post ; and that which he vacates will be added to the functions of the Minister of the In terior. All the letters from Vienna agree in stat ing that no war has ever been so popular in Austria as that which is now being prepared against Russia. It is, they say, the general wish of the nation. Since 1813 such an outburst of the national spirit has never been witnessed ; the enthusiasm is uni versal among all classes of the people." RUSSIA. The Journal de St. Petersbourg, of the, 6th, says : "On Saturday last, at half-past one o'clock, the Court, the General Officers, and officers of the Guards, and of the army and navy, and persons of distinction of both sexes, assembled at the Winter Palace to take the oath of allegiance to his Majesty the Emperor and to his Im perial Highness the Cesarwitch Grand Duke, heir ap. parent. After the ceremony all these personages were admitted to the honour of presenting their felicitations to their Imperial Majesties on the occasion of the acces sion of his Majesty the Emperor to the throne." The Official Gazette publishes the order for wearing six months' mourning for the deceased Emperor. An order of the day by the head of the Police of St. Petersburg announces to the inhabitants of the capital that, dating from Monday, February 21 (sth March), all persons, without distinction of rank or condition, are admitted to the Winter Pa lace to pay a last homage to the late Emperor Nicholas 1., of glorious memory, from 8 to 11 a.m., and from 2 to 6 in the afternoon. Major-General Prince Mensehikoff, of the Em peror's suite, Director-General of the Affairs of the Imperial Head-quarters, and of the private equi pages of his Majesty, has been appointed Aide-de- Camp-General of the Emperor, and retains this office. The Danube of Vienna of the Bth states from Odessa that the commandant of the army of the south had caused considerable quantities of spirits and other commodities intended for Austria to be stopped. The measure lately adopted by Russia of declaring the Governments of Minsk, Mehilew, and Chernazoff in a state of siege, and especially of separatibg Chernazoff from the provinces placed under the command of the general-in-chief of the army of the south, is represented by the above paper as a sure sign that the great active army is divided int. t wo p ar t s , ea ch of which is to act in a separate direction. One of these parts, it states, is to be commanded by Prince Gortschakoff, and the other by Prince Paskiewitch. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, MARCH 5. I have already informed you telegraphically of the appointment of a committee of the Volksthing to examine the late ministers previous to bringing in a formal act of impeachment. That committee is composed of the five-and-twenty members most inimical to the former cabinet, aod with Bishop Monrad as President. The princial charge against them was for having illegally, and without the con sent of the chambers, exceeded the budget and ar bitrarily spent money not voted by the Diet. Yesterday the whole of the Volksthing was con vened for the purpose of hearing the report of the committee, and when this was done it was agreed to impeach the late ministers, and make them re sponsible for having exceeded the disbursements fixed by themselves (the Volksthing) in the budget ; and the financial committee of the Volksthing was ordered to extract those sums on which the charge was to be founded. _ _ _ To-day the plenary committee held a sitting, and after long discussion, in which the conduct of the late ministers was defended only by Whither and Colonel Tscherning, it was decided by a large majo rity (the whole house against seven votes) to refuse to recognise the whole of the sums thus arbitrarily spent by the Ministers of War and Marine, with a few trifling exceptions, as well as those paid for the expenses of the Diet and tho purchase of the Post office steamers. ThelDeputy Herr Hage was ordered to bring up the report. A further proposal of impeachment was not made, and the steps to be eventually taken will be left to the decision of the Volksthing when the report is brought up. Although we have had a thaw for several days, these is no alteration in the state of the ice, The MARSEILLES, March I2.—The death of the Em peror Nicholas has caused no relaxation here in the expedition of troops and military stores to the East. On the contrary, there never was more activity displayed in that respect than at the pre• sent moment. The authorities here have received instructions to prepare for the reception of 50,000 men and 8,000 horses, which are to be shipped here and at Toulon for the Crimea. Every effort is being made to provide lodgings for them, without billeting them on the inhabitants. The sick and wounded, which arrive here in vast num bers every week by the steam-packets from Con stantinople, are forwarded as quickly as possible to their respective homes. The mail packet which sailed yesterday for Corsica was crowded with invalids, natives of that island. Th e Z ouaves are despatched to Algeria, with which arrangement they appear not to be dissatisfied. The frost-bitten are carefully attended in the military hospital, and 300 beds are - kept vacant in the civil hospital in case of necessity. The barrack of the Corderie has likewise been fitted up for the reception of mili tary invalids. The port of the Joliette is again crowded with steamers and transports chartered by Government for the conveyance of troops. The British steamers, the City of Mancitestor, the Glasgow, and the French steamers, la France, Bresil, and Byzantin are capable of receiving 4,000 men and a number of horses. The Anaelican clipper Ocean Herald is expected to transport 400 horses. A number of the artillery and engineers of the Im perial Guard are waiting for embarkation, but the hurricane which has prevailed here for the last three days has retarded their . departure ; in fact, the cold is more severe at present than at any pe riod during the winter. _ There appears to be no longer any doubt alt to the Emperor's departure for the East. A letter has been received here by the family of an officer serving in the steam corvette-of-war Primoguet, at present in Toulon, announcing that the captain has received orders to accompany the Imperial yacht, Reine Hort6nse, to Marseilles to receive the Em peror and a portion of the Imperial Guard by the 20th inst. Letters from the French before Sebastopol, and those received by the families of officers, natives of Marseilles, are confined to domestic matters, strict orders having been issued by General Canrobert to all officers to refrain from writing on military sub jects. One of the writers who had au opportu nity of visiting the Allied camps,. among other facts, states that the French army is composed of 60,000 men capable of bearing arms, and the British 8,000. A letter from Toulon, dated this morning, an nounces the arrival there of the steam-frigate Orenoque from Constantinople. The following troops are expected at Toulon to be embarked for tilt Crimea. The division of General Herbillon, consisting of 7,100 men and 800 horses, and a di vision of the Imperial Guard composed of 7,500 men and 1,300 horses. Telegraphic advices considered favourable to the prospects of peace have reached the City from Vienna. Prince Gorts3hakoff, who has at length received his powers in duo form, had signed a public document, recognising generally the princi ples which are to serve as the bases of negotiations, and which it will be the business of the Plenipo tentiaries to define and apply. Other private ad vices concur with the above, stating that the nego tiations are proceeding satisfactorily. THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. We have received Cape papers to the 29th of January inclusive—a month later than those pre viously received. The news now to hand is im portant, inasmuch as it conveys the gratifying in telligence that the frontier was again tranquil, and that all immediate apprehensions of an outbreak were .at an end. The tactics, however, of the Kafiri were difficult to comprehend ; . ,and though every appearance of war had vanished, the colonists were on the alert., and were preparing themselves against all future contingencies. CONVICTION OF MISS DOTIDET.—Miss Doudet was convicted on Monday, before the Tribunal of Correctional Police of Paris, of having voluntarily given blows and inflicted personal injuries on the four daughters of Dr. Marsden, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment, 200 f. fine, and the costs, the maximum, of the penalty. COMMAND OF THE ARMY IN IRELAND.—GeneraI Lord Seaton, G.C.8., arrived at the Royal Hospital on Mon day, and assumed the command of the army in Ireland, in succession to General Sir Edward Blakeuey. ARRIVAL OF LORD CARLISLE.—DUBLIN, Tuesday Morning.—The Earl of Carlisle arrived at Kingstown at 12 o'clock last night, by the Prince Arthur, from Holy head. His Excellency was received on landing by three of the directors of the Dublin and Kingstown Railway, and conducted to the special train which was in waiting to convey him to Dublin. Upon arriving at Westland row, the earl took his seat in one of Lord St. Germans's carriages, and proceeded to the Viceregal lodge. Mr. Horsman, the new Chief Secretary, was prevented from accompanying his Excellency by the pressure of public business ; but it is expected that he will arrive this day, in time to perform the duties of his office at the investi ture of the Lord-Lieutenant. , ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION.—The follow ing distinguished persons have recently visited the diorama of the " Events of the War," viz.:— His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Mar quis of Ely, the Marchioness of Downshire and party, the Earl of Malmesbury, Earl De Grey, the Earl and Countess of Ellesmere, the Countess of Jersey, Earl of Cardigan and party, the Countess Gran ville, the Countess of Kinnoul and party, the Duchess of Montrose and party, the Earl of Shelburne and party, the Countess of Falmouth, the Earl and Countess of Zetland and party, Lord Vivian, Lord and Lady Hunt infield, Lord Gardner, Lord Monteagle and family, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence and party, Lord De Rost, Lady Suffield and party, Lady Colebrooke and party, the Right Hon. Charles Shaw Lefevre and party, the lion. Mrs. Gore and party, Lady Caroline and Captain Maxse and party, Sir G. Wombwell, Sir G. Leith, Sir John Walsh, the Mayor of Liverpool, Major-General Carnegie and party, General Fane and party, Colonels Buckley, Macdonald, Bruce, Michel, &c. ; Admiral Maxwell, A. Stafford, Esq., M.P., W. Seholetield, Esq., M.P., Major Gage, Miss Webb and party, Mr. Ricardo, WYLD'S MODEL OF THE EARTH.- The following of the nobility and gentry have lately visited Mr. Wyld's " Model of the Earth," Leicester-square :—Lord John Russell, M.P., the Duke of Atholl, Earl and Lady Char lotte Fitz william, Lord Seagrave, Lord Ward, Sir C. Trevelyan, Sir C. Lemon M.P., Admiral Dund as , L or d Londesbo roug h, G enera i Bentinck (Crimea), General Torrens (Crimea), Major Evelyn (Crimea), Sir W. Nor ris, M.P., Robert Stevenson, Esq., M.P., Engi neer ; John A. Smith, E sq ., M.P., Si r Roderick Impey Mur chison, F.R.G.S., Marchioness of Downshire, General Westbropp, Lady Hyde Clive, Lady Glengall, Lady Mary Butler, Hon. C. Ponsonby, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, M,P., and Lady Kelly, Sir Joseph Bailey and Lady Bailey, Captain Baynes (Crimea), Major Nasmyth (Crimea), Colonel Gambier (Crimea), and Captain Crosse (Crimea). CITY or LONDON THEATRE.—This well-conducted es .tablishment has made a most extraordinary hit by the production of a novel and instructive drama, entitled Money and Misery. The effects are powerful in the extreme. The delicate daughter of a noble lord is driven, with her infant child, from the roof of her cruel parent to wander on a desolate heath amidst a fearful snow storm, where she and the child perish. Years after the spirit of the mother appears to the repentant father. The supernatural appearance of the mother and child is admirably managed. Description would fall short of the - excellence of this heart-stirring drama. It was written by the late Mr. John Wilkins, and may be ranked among his best productions. The theatre is nightly crowded to witness it ; and, although it has run six weeks, the attraction is unabated. We strongly advise a visit to this theatre. AN ILL-GOTTEN HOARD.--Yesterday several prosecu tions were prefrred before Mr. Serjeant Adams, at the Middlesex Sessions, by the parish authorities of St. Luke, Old-street, against keepers of disorderly houses, in Hatfield-street. The parties charged were John Newton, 43 ; Eliza Hopkins, 43 ; Harriet Young, 60 ; and Sarah Gordon, 53. The two first-named pri soners lived together as man and wife, and kept the house, No. 2, Hatfield-street, described as a brothel of the worst description. The prisoners Young and Gordon kept the house, No. 3, adjoining, which was also proved to be an establishment of a most infamous kind. The principal persons concerned in it was one Ann 'Robinson, now in Newgate on a like charge. When the two prisoners, who acted as servants to Robinson, we re arres t e d, an d the house searched, two watcher, some clothes, and Bank Stock certificates to the amount of 1,0651., in the name of Ann Robinson. were taken possession of by the police. The Assistant-Judge sentenced Hopkins, Newton, and Young each to six months' hard labour, and Gordon to throe months, she having been a sort of servant under Young. EXECUTION OF THOMAS MUNRO. CAEISLE, March 13.—Thomas Munro,• who was convicted at the Carlisle assizes for the murder of Isaac Turner, was executed here this day at twelve o'clock. THE IRON TRADIC.—Since our last notice the prices of iron have considerably declined, and a downward ten dency still prevails, notwithstanding the general demand has shown symptoms of some slight improvement, and much less. despondency marks the accounts from our Fao4 ipportaut oxpott taark,t-g-the United State,. THE IVIEDI rE RRANEAN. CALIFORNIA. SAN FRANCIStO, Jan. 31.—For the last fortnigh t the market has been remarkably dull, owing chiefly to the scarcity of gold dust, caused by the long continuance of dry Weather. The importations have, however, been light, Which has enabled the merchants to avoid forcing sales at a sacrifice. Grain and flour had lately risen considerably, owing to a dreaded scarcity from a short crop of California produce in the coming season ; but the demand from the interior has been so limited that prices have receded. The same may be said of sugar and rice, while English manufactures are in no better condition. In fact, English mercan tile business is much neglected and badly arranged in this place. There is au absence of forecast and of intelligent enterprise, which keeps it in a sluggish jog-trot routine that produces few good 'results. For instance, the goods sent out arelimited to assortments supposed to meet the taste and supply the consumption of California ; and, as this con sumption is over-estimated, the market is generally overstocked with unsaleable merchandise to such an extent as to force the consignees to re-ship Eng lish goods to other markets—a measure which gene rally ends iu loss—while the trade with Mexico is entirely neglected. Now, the Mexican business in English goods, carried on with Litna and Valparaiso, has for many years been the best and most highly prized by English merchants on the Pacific coast ; and a groat portion of it could be diverted to Cali fornia if the English houses would only receive suitable assortments. The Mexicans desire this di version, and are anxious to see it effected. Mexican buyers would much rather come to San Francisco than go to Linea or Valparaiso to make their pur chases, from the greater proximity of the former place to the coast towns of Mexico, and from the greater facilities of intercourse afforded by the steamers and sailing craft plying along the coasts of the two countries. Besides, we already take some of their produce, and the Mexicans have in San Francisco an unfailing market for their silver dollars and gold ounces, both of which command a premium at all times. Our trade with China being far greater than that of any other place on the Pa cific, Mexican dollars are always in demand for remittance to China, and the operations of our local mint take so much gold dust out of the market that all sorts of coin will have to bo remitted to Europe and other countries to pay for our imports, for, except a few hides and some other insignificant articles, we have n o thi ng e l se t o export . As a proof that my views are not imaginary, I may mention that several Mexican merchants have already come here with money iu hand to make purchases, who have gone away disappointed at not finding the suitable assortments. This Mexican business is one, too, in which the Americans cannot rival us, as all conversant with it know. They cannot compete in prints and other fabrics of this sort, either in quality or cheapness, with the English manufacturer. An English house, giving the necessary attention to this business, could not fail of success. There have been fewer transactions in exchange for this mail than usual, partly owing to the supply of gold dust being so limited that the bankers could not procure a sufficient quantity to remit to meet their bills, and partly from the distrust engendered by the many recent failures of American banks on the Atlantic side. The price of gold dust is $l7 400., and very little offered for sale, as the greater part now goes to the Mint to be coin e d. Th e rem itt ances by this steamer are made up partly by gold coin in lieu of " dust" to meet bankers' draughts. Her Majesty's ship of war Pique is still in port. We have not had any tidings of the rest of the squadron since I last wrote. The new Admiral has gone to Valparaiso from Panama. The French corvette Moselle sailed hence on the 23d for Tahiti. The State Legislature is in session. The most notable measures in progress are :—" A Bill for the Suppression of Gambling ;" one for the construc tion of an immigrant-roa from the valley of the Sacramento to the Eastern boundary of the State ; an attempt to introduce the " Maine LiqUor Law," which I am quite sure will be abortive ; an act increasing the capitation tax of $5 each now paid by all foreigners 'arriving seawards to $2O a-head in the case of the Mongolian race, with the view of checking the Chinese immigration ; an act to amend the Consti tution ; and one of the oddest pieces of legislation I ever heard of—viz., an act to authorise married women to convey real estate in their own names. This novel bill provides that these lucky ladies can " convey joint or separate property iu the absence" of their lords, provided the unfortunate " husband has been absent from the State one year prior to such conveyance." If this law will not bind hus bands to their wives apronstrings, it will, at all events, have the effect of preventing long "absence." The promoter must be either a confirmed old bachelor, who has determined never " to pass the Rubicon," or an advocate of the " rights of the strong-minded." The country is suffering dreadfully from the want of rain. The grass has scarcely sprouted yet in most places, and in the interior the frosts have nipped and dried up all that had appeared, leaving nothing for the cattle to feed upon. Tee miners are idle in such districts as are not supplied with artificial means for the conveyance of water to the diggings. This month has been rife in crime of all sorts, —murders, duels, robberies, burglaries, assaults with deadly weapons, . larceny, rape, and other minor offences, such as forgeries, petty larceny, and the like, far too numerous to mention ; and January has been particularly distinguished by a recurrence to Lynch law in various parts of the country. During the month nine men have been put to death by the " people ;" one at Los Angeles, one at So nora, one at Mariposa, one. at lowa-hill, one at Volcano, one at Salmon-creek ; and three at the same time at Turner's-ferry, on the river San Joa quin. All these cases, except the three last men tioned, were for murders committed in rows, and on very slight provocation in the worst case, and in some cases without provocation. Some of the murders were committed for the purposes of rob bery. The case at Los Angeles was the most notable :—An American named Brown was found guilty, after a legal trial, of murder, and con demned to be hung on the same clay with a Cali fornian, also legally condemned for murder. Brown's execution was ordered by the Supreme Court of the S-ate to be stayed on an appeal, on the ground of a flaw in the indictment, which would probably have given him a new trial. The people, however, determined that both criminals should have even-handed justice meted out to them, and after the Californian was executed by the constituted authorities a mob broke open the ' prison and hanged Brown. The Mayor, after he had performed his part at the legal execution of the Californian, resigned his office, to enable him " consistently to assist in his private capacity" in I the Lynching of B rown . At l ast accounts h e was a candidate for his former office with every prospect of success. No doubt Brown was guilty, and, as Los Angeles has long been the scene of murders and • other horrible crimes, the people deter mined to make a salutary example by an act of stern impartiality. The three men hanged at Tur ner's-ferry were guilty of cattle-stealing, a crime which has of late been carried to such au extent as to have required a striking example to put a stop to it. There are several horse-stealers in custody, who were rescued from mobs just as they were pre paring to execute summary justice upon them. Some little time back a batch of prisoners con fined to the ' State prison for long terms and for life escaped, and laid a great part of the country from Contra Costa to Monterey under contribution, robbing and plundering and shooting and wound ing as they went along. Several of them were shot down in the chase that ensued. Many were wounded, and some were taken, but a few, pro bably seven or eight, escaped the pursuit ; and now and again we see it announced that they leave their marks in several places. The other day a miner " succeeded in killing one," and some one else " succeeded in wounding another." The press speaks of the proceedings as if it were relating a bear-hunt. Contributions towards the Patriotic Fund are being made in San Francisco, and I hope they will eome to something considerable. A most horrible accident accurred at Sacramento the other day by the blowing up of one of the river steamers plying between Marysville and that city, in consequence of her racing against an oppo sition boat. I regret to learn that an English gen tleman, a Mr. Nicholson, from Manchester, lately arrived in this country, is among the sufferers. He has had his leg broken in three plates, report says. Below is a short notice of the accident, from the California Chronicle : " A keen competition has for some time been con ducted on our interior waters between the California Steam Navigation Company and various independent companies. Running between the vessels of the rival lines naturally ensued, and the steamers have been driven to excessive speed. The general press pre dicted that some dreadful calamity would soon result from such culpable management, and the public awaited the same in frar and trembling. It Las come at last. On the 27th inst. the steamer Pearl, belonging to the Californian Steam Navigation Company, and plying between Marysville and Sacramento, was blown to pieces by an explosion of her boiler. This happened a few hundred yards below the confluence of the American and Sacramento rivers, as the vessel was nearing the levee at Scrarnento city. There were 122 persona on board at the time, including the crew ; of these nearly GO are known either to hav e been kiled by the explosion, rr drowned by being thrown into the water. Nearl y 30 more have been wounded, some very severely. Only 20 have enepell Urti.o4llrod. 1119 romixtcler tiZe - _ _ _ and it is feared that most of them have lieeuk scene at Sacramento, where the dead bodies', 00 them in fragments, were laid out in the 64,1;60 the most horrihle charact,r. The euginee r °del who escaped uninjured, has been appa° captain and mate were both killed." —• MILITARY CONVENTION , ,SARDINIA. (Front the Moniteur.) His Majesty the King of Sardinia having yr the treaty of alliance concluded and signed s lo.; on the 10th of April, 1854, between their of Emperor of the French and the Queen of A l yst ol ; Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, an d 1.1 gaged to concert, when requisite, with their 49 jesties for the purpose of proceeding, in e i r„ f° , ll ,,l l° the second article of the treaty of April .1-o, elusion of those arrangements of detail %chichi* gulate the employment of his land and naval No which are to determine the conditions and tbelogi of their co-operation with those of France i ln so 4 Britain, their Majesties the Emperor of Greatthe 1,0 the Queen of the United Kingdom of No and Ireland, and the King of Sardinia. , consequence, resolved on concludigof tary convention for the purpose etrt log the conditior‘s and the mode o f t he r osi fon of the Sardinian troops with those of Ytmit Great Britain, and have named thereto for potentiaries : h His Majesty the Emperor of the French, t-e Guiche, &Q. ; Her Majesty the Queen of the United No Great Britain and Ir e l an d James Hudson, theta And his Majesty th e King of Sardinia, Camille de Cavour, &c. ; A to eoth Who, having mutually coramunicateu fornif is their full powers, f o und t o b e i n good a nd due j drawn up and signed the follovvlng articles : rdit i jc ;i Article I. His Maj es ty th e King' 4 ,, Sti giakjo furnish for the requir e me n t s o f the war 3 " A y e bil!;41, f fifteen thousand men, organiser]ititn, r " . 0 v - 1 forming two divisions a n d one brigacie of the command of a Sardinian general. . o ftbe,.., Art. 11. Immediately after the excllaug i i i be WI cations of the present convention, stepb`v i ss ; ;',ool l _, l ," the formation of this corps and the org.%°' -- he Administrative services,* in order digit la?' start as soon as possible. ofd Art. 111. In execu ti on o f th e Ist er-isar Ai sent convention, the army corps of hisge.l6:4:l.o of Sardinia will be composed of infantrYt artillery, proportionate to its effective streNisiio_arir Art. IV. His Majesty the King of S3 r ha l 0 10 :0 1 to maintain the expeditionary corps to " A — r igaiP' fifteen thousand men by the successive and patch of the necess"ry reinforcements. n oir Art. V. The Sardini a n G overn ment ifim • vision its troops. Oi t t i The high contracting parties will conue rt o securing to the Sardinian army and for fe" , 4,4 0 provisioning of its magazines. f the;io Art. VI. Their M a j es ty' s th e E m peror and the Queen of the Unit e d Ki n gdom of and Ireland guarantee the integrity of the t a fll l Majesty the King of S ar di n i a , - and eilg sl j n isti.,' them against all attack during the cow - . , 1 ;01#' present war. Art. VII. The present convention sbal ii i ° AO" and the ratifications shall be exchanged at jji- O as possible. Or r In faith where o f th e respective leeiP teri et t P O e l signed it, and affixed to it the seals of thei r- Done at Turin this 26th day of Janus' . of grace 1855. 0 -cit , GLTICHE. JAMES HUDSON'. . p a viOtt * Transport service a nd commissariats'. ALEXANDER 11. if - 0 af ij f a i BRUSSELS, MARCH 12. All eyes are r i f o r Vienne, where it is supposed the temper of . to ed will first be made k nown . M ean while, e le 09, has yet been done there, a tt em pt s are ode o re his probable intentions from the few acts t „,,ii to which it is possible to attach any sig il _,,o44 , that the text of the Czar' s manifesto bag am i s or'? are complaining of th e v er y un f a i r manne r 4 0 Konigsberg abstract of th a t d oc ument W i t) iil Although some particular names and Pli raw-. n -Or a ll in the summary, and calculated to mske lb : or tki are also to be found in the manifesto, it is rev ; ori tain that this measure of verbal accurscireisil' counterbalanced by the compiler's d ic ,_ he _ general teuour of the document whic h ;Off, to epitomise. There appears to be nothing ' el sUP festo itself fairly looked at to entitle it to be 110 it ' i 4: fiance to Europe, or to modify the sittiatiot, A d at the death a Nicholas. Another oltiee,! ° ,tsr:" .l is the probable influence of the Czars 0 , 5- n reSi k or policy of the Empire. There is a general O f r or s e' ..y Alexander is a good easy, m a n , and On o , te r " have peace. It is well, how e v e r, to reei cie b e ir e il , eaiy men are those lea s t a bl e t o impress t to he of on contemporary events, and most likel,poted away by the current. The policy of Ell'eis‘ l e pe t vet to be invented. Alexander, like everfthes" l I .just now, has his work b e fo re him. Tbi o 70 . ; di England saw a set of Ministers whe. s , e oti t tieli i , of peace "drifted towards w a r," and 00', 3 ensf — f, es' supposing him to be the peace-loving ~ ile r i c y r ) sented in some quarters, be sub tto 0 -" vs t circumstances ? I must here, Iro je a c •ever , . eb d s :i r d, o . f or j SOUS ahe have good opportunit , es of P I gte t o re 0 0 ° ander 11. differ from tile o ililar e sti") : oOf - _,l !inn in the west chiefly upo n ' the state ol-131 10 -Cli kri t he Y vbe 'O4 two travellers. Alexander has not coarseness of his next brother, bt , l , tbOS. 0 14 him say that he has judgment an a fir :01; with the inspiration of a great calis c lii th''' d el an amount of energy which will astshi'Aevi ~. whom, as with his brother Constantine,.'norete synonymous with weakness. Remark h it3 :4o o on the 2d of March ; the proclamation hi se f - the start ; Count Rudiger,. the fi rst soldier 0 4 ell eit i called to the side of the new Sovereigih h ' ig e jtisi with that high military command which T e ted,oill resigning; and Luders also, another ceg n eall a appointed to an important command. T ile- er the two generals just mentioned has heenh ii el l be as a triumph of the German or peace Pii r v„ibei r pointment of Rudiger, especially if it be t re d; s t ~fit 1 0 1 also the war ministry, may signify sirnplY g " - u ser' i i ; e t will not be hindered, like his father, by old the piii judice from employing the first soldiers of hi o i ' although of German race, in the war te: / ev 1 7 0 01# 1 J succeeded. No one acquainted with the Tire std ger will deny that at present none of the °le o , Menschtkoff or Gortschakoff, has shoseh 6 rtbe 11 ,10 rd or successful results such as he exhibited lc? litil j Poland, for instance, in 1831, when be si : o or.ri gress of the victorious Janowski, and turodigerOforj victory in favour of the Russian arms. Be r th . or feels a concern proportioned to his merit fi - oi tif l i d reputation of Russia, and it can hardly be e e ip the Emperor has recalled him from t be li z ee / vernment of Warsaw , and a share in the j e pt . A/ Poland, without intending to employ hi° t ' il m o ,_ n i il r e y or indirectly, in the war. These are a'" pr - ero tines suggested by the intelligence of a lit , Ord They are not offered as decisive of the i n l e t 110 new Czar, or as predictions of a chat,. tf .d i" 1 :0 formed under powerful influences. T m t b el e _ l 9- 0 1 $ 4 fulfil their purpose if they show tha t .. - hiee l i are, in their pi esent incompleteness, cali' -- 0 0 '' interpretation, and thus place the publi c against premature conclusions. _ os, THE LOWER DANUBE AGO /. 0 0 :00 1) / 0 The Afoniteur of yesterday jo -, the following extract from aAustriw" '001;‘, 0 • AI " For some days past there haq be e , to Y' Bucharest that the Russians intend,'" ftLoe their permission for the free navigati e lfi Vv- r at Danube. This rumour has, unfortunl"-;004 r o , confirmed. Telegraphic intelligence ep- ble: i the commandant of Reni bas .04 P a r°9 i ll navigat:on of the Lower Danube j bf 16 n - 0 6 1, 6 %0%1 and only makes an exception in fs °-- t r efc4ll4t: eight vessels that happen to be presents': Whi o tir consequence of the declaration made by, !li t ck h r i (late) Emperor of Russia, in virtue o f navigation was not to be impeded * LG.- 10 1 :4'4 arabian coast, a great man y - p urcbl! , r ON made, and se ieral ships chartered for tlee-o the A F An the Russian authorities had pert5it.,205469,14 laden with corn to sail along the coast tic: the merchants, perhaps also the diplon3Ll 4 fe e country as well, believed it to be a me - , 01 1 t fro the ships in ballast th a t were on the ir "It r - o t r o si freight were included in this permiesO n , elcil f e j bf .clear to every one that the large ebiP e t"„ 0 - te, e 6 from Vienna and Pesth in order to tek e ; ll that they would be obliged, on the contilo'oediittva the Sulina mouth for that purpose, that ne,,,tpei",ol% of a Russian equivocation. However, it is not 'lf „ f ee d d r so that Austrian commerce and navige t : ` l l - 10 0- d il l i" a detriment, while we hope the peace sc' fa jlf " secJing that Austria cannot and most a$ submit to such duplicity." CITY COURT OF SVO The Commissioners ---- Pi— -1 Guilavi„ Per° assembled at _ .. j to Peacock in the chair. - dr - d' 4 EXTERNAL REFLECTORS. app 0 4 . I, Mr. Hawkins, of Knight Ridenstrette ~."8e „h t ° answer the complaint of the inspector, tbt' 4 . o 1/% 3 ' e . , 113 , r,,moved an external reflector, in cotePlir is 0 iPI order of the Court. The defendant. 0 " ° , 1 c1 13 ,11' ti s ' ber of the Court of Common Council, s i %o OP, a r n efl n e o c y t a o i r n w e a o s r sinocio)lnavceendieanseetotoecctabseiee i ict * va 111 V I ; pu blic , i i ) o brol. witted that, in a case in which no reasonabeeourtlol4, could be presume( l , the lute-position oft h e . were "t , o n: j t ec b t e time,tpoutthfeorob.aserdrv.anAgeeetnoetfhrae;isiya,mbee e to enforce the order, Several members of the Court 1-Jc: e : in :lt o f Messrs. Waterlow, and disclaimed all t oo 0 ° i f ( defendant as to the cor oration. It Wl ° t ,l tli ci 0 0P the Court that reflectors Pshould be removevw,e I) order must be obeyed, notwithbtnnding th e o fd Parlament of the case before the Lord t hat the e " , The Chairman—The Court decides 0 1 " ti 0 must be immediately obeyed. ,00 e r n ie d :, Complaints having b ee n made that, ill :i f . 0 90F 7 the City, the gas lamps were inaderrisU et,. orders were issued that the Commissiolleripirg ' Police 49144 be commilioeted with Bois !"-; __ __, kc,l he klo 1 40 • 1 / 4 ;iOl 1 . 141 Pep, 1 4~ r, , i~ 1 \