The Sun. — London, England, 1855-01-22 00:00:00

ULLIEN'S COiNCERTS.I Ms RJYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT-GARDEN. LAST NIGHT BUT EIGHT. The PRI , GRI3IME for THIS EVENING, Monday, Jan. 22, Will include, Solo, Pianoforte, Les Patineurs, performed by Madame Pleyei ; Air, from Auber's Opera, Emma, and Mollie, sung by Madame Anna Thillon ; Overture, Der Freischutz ; Le Comte Ory ; grand Operatic Selection from La Favorita (first time) ; Violin, on Hungarian Airs, by Herr Fl ost (his last appearance but two : the Adagio from W. 11. Fry's Dramatic Symphony (third time); the Sleigh Polka; the ne Pantomime Quadrille (last time but one) ; Duo Concertante, for Violin and Violoncello, performed by Messrs. V. and G. Collins ; La Prima Donna Valse ; Solo, Oboe, M. Lavigne ; the Review Galop ; and the Grand Allied Armies Quadrille, assisted by the three Bands of her Majesty's Guards; God Have the Queen, Partant pour la Sy re rie, &c. &c. Pues OF Aoarestois. Promenade, Upper Boxes, Amphitheatre Stalls, and Am phitheatre •••••••• • • • • • • . ls. Od. D re ss Circle Private Boxes for Six Persons on the Grand Tier ..... 31s. 6d. Ditto ditto First Tier Ditto Four Persons on the Second Tier l2s. Od. Commence at Eight. Places and Private Boxes may be engaged at the Box-office of the Theatre, and Private Boxes of the principal masiesellers and librarians. BAL MASQUE. M. Jullien begs most respectfully to announce, that in consequence of his provincial engagements, the season will positively terminate Wednesday, Jan. 31. The grand Sal Masque will take place on Friday, February 2, and will be on a scale of unprecedented splen dour. I)RURY-LANE.—Le3see, Mr. E. T. Smith.— Retitle yd Prices ai Moraing Performance every Wedneaday. at Two o'clock. THIS EVENING, JAL 22, will be performed THE ICING'S SEAL. After which, the successful Farm of TUE UNITED SERVICE. To be followed by the entirely original, extraordinary, lite rary, traditionary, comical, gastronomical, and peculiarly cuunary and finioastic domestic grand comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled j CI( AND JILL; or, Harlequin King Mustard and the Four and-Twenty Blackbirds Baked in a Pie. The extensive scenery, en tirely new, by Messrs. Nicholls, Cuthbert, Cooper, Gordon, Wilson, and Moore. The machinery by Messrs. Tucker. The extraordinm y properties, decorations, tri ks, changes, and transformations by Mr. Needham. The choregraphic arrangements by Madame Leese. 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 Dlkwynkyn, 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 Dmains of Dulness .— Misanthropy (Genius of Gloom), Mrs. Belford o . Fog, Drizzle, Taxes, Spleen, Indigestion, Quarter-day (his Ministers of Melancholy), Messrs. E. V. Dent, E. V. Wet, E. V. Load, E. Y. Day, E. V. Weight, and E. V. Bills. Azure Diabolicals in attend ance, Messrs. Croak, Quake, Fret, Fidget, Worry, Flurry, Fame, yex, Groan, Growl, Grumble, and Grizzle. Apparition of Misan thropy on her favourite Nightmare, and Magical Appearance of Good Humour in her Christmas Car. Good Hufnour, Miss Alder ; Lightheart and Sunshine (her Attendants), Misses Honey and Brown; Mrs. Glasse (the original "Cook's Oracle," and the well known adviser of the " First catch your hare," &c,), Miss Eosins 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 ple."—Ancient Nursery Legend. Jack (the interesting hero of the olden story, who went up the hill to fetch, fcc ), afterwards Harlequin, M. Milano ; Jill (the heroine of the adyentnre, in love with Jack), afterwards Columbine, Mdlle. Bolen ; Marmalade (the Fairy Queen of the Preserves), Miss K. Warrington ; Pineapple, Raspberry, Lemon, Cherry, Apple, and Greengage (her Assistants), Misses Clidord, Gower, Johnson, Love, Lunis, and Richardson ; Strawberry, Cranberry, Gooseberry, Cur rant, Apricot, Damson, Quince, &c. (Fancy Preserves), Misses Grace Honey, Ellen Honey, Laurance, Louise, Therese, Charles, King, Sidney, Gordon, Barnes, Emily Barnes, Richardson, Ellast Richard son, Rose, Sidney, Emily Moore, Elizabeth Smith, Ulla Ellis, Rosa Harrison, E. Box, Taylor, Matilda Chenley, Martiney, St. Clare, Evros, John Levines, S. Johnson, and Roberts ; Preserved Ginger their warm ally), Master Pungent; Fruit Blossoms by a Blooming Selection of Coryphies. The Will and the Way—the Talismanic Sixpence—The Change. Grand Ballet. Principal Dancers, Mdlle. 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 and bake." Interior of Jill's Cottage (by Moonlight).—Coal, Mr. Nobbs ; Bundle of Wood, Mr. Halfpenny ; Congreve Box, Mr. Fizzer ; Bellows, Mr. Leathertongue ; Dutch Oven, Mynheer Von Tan ; Rolling Pin, Mr. Smoothpastc ; Gridiron, Sir. De Bar; Frying Pan, Mr. Broadrim ; Soyer's Three-legged Iron Pet, Herr Potluck. Cruet Castle in the Table Cloth Territory (by Moonlight), and Golden Palace of King Mustard.—King Mustard (afterwards Clown), Harry Roleno ; the Empress Vinegar (afterwards Pantaloon), Herr Kohl ; Black Pepper and White Pepper (Sentinels on duty at Cruet Castle), Mr. Husky and Mr. Sneezums ; Sweet Oil, Miss Florence: Cayenne, Mr. Capsi cum ; Harvey's Sauce (attendant in waiting), Mr. Savoury ; the Army of Bests, Messrs. Indian Soy, Curry, Capers, Ketchup, Mushrooms, Garlic, Shalot, Sweet Merbs, Potted Tongue ; Potted Beef, Potted Bloaters, Potted Anchovies, Potted Shrimps, sc.; Horse Radish (from the King's stable), by a Racing Na,.4 dirand Review—Ter rifle Attack upon the Appetite, and Rally 9f the Relishes—Great Progress of Jlll in her Culinary Career. The Abode of Chutnee in the Province of Pickles (by Sunset).—Chutnee (Chief of the Pickles), Mr. Fiery Fact a ; the Pickle Army, Messrs. Onions, Walnut, Gher kins, Cauliflower, Red Cabbage, &c.; Small Jar, Master Piccalilli. Great demand for Pickles and determination of the Deor 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 df Salad.—Magical Union of the Sweets and Sours, and " a Pie" termination of the Loves of Jack and Jill. The Transformation. —Harlequin, M. Milano ; Columbines, Mdlle. Ilo!ino and Miss Ellen Honey; Pantaloon, Mr. Cole ; Sprite, Herr Willikind Moleno ; 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 Shop.—Hairdresser, Mona. Pomade ; Publican, Mr. Billy Williatis ; 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 the reat Rugged Russian Bear—How he IVbinesafter 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 Rise in Porter—An M.T.M.P.—A Patten Lock at 10 o'clock—A. Bona Fide Traveller—Ginger Beer and Gin without ger —A Mill, a Might, a Regular Row, and- Atation-boaso for Two. Great American Baby Show.—Avvival of the Infantry—Sudden Squall—Ma's upon the Eve of Battle—General Attack—Awarding the Prizes—Clown and Pantaloon's Offsprings—The Prettiest Baby in the World—A Model Baby and a Spirit Child—The Wonderful Effects of Dr. De Jongh's Cod Liver Oil—Clown's Great Prize Baby —Fresh Arrival of 300 more Babies—The Judge Confounded - Great Uproar—An Unweleom , Visitor to a Ladies' and Juvenile Party— and Extraordinary case of Suspended Animation by the Ita lian Sprites. Scott's Oyster Shop, Newspaper-office, and Pursell's Biscuit Baking and Confectionery Establishment, Cornhill.—" Up rouse ye then, my merry men, it is our opening day"—A Holster for one • nil a Lobster for two—A Mussulman and a Man for a Muscle--Duty and Custom - A Bride Cake and a Wedding Cake— First Edition and Second Edition—Left Out for Want of Ro:'in - Press of the Privilege an-I Privileges of the Press -"Oh, whet a row, arumpus, what a rioting." Raker, Mr. Crusty; Fishmonger, 11r. Scales; Maetcr Newsboy, Christmas-box; Printers, Messrs. Typo :lad Chapel : Editor, Mr. Cutemdown ; Critic, Cutemup; Pas sengers, Messrs. Trot, Cosey, Strutalong, Lounge, Loiter, and Walk about; Boardman, Mr. Bobaday. Hosier's Shop and New Wing of Somerset-house.—Here we are—Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year - High Prices and Low Prices—Manchester Stuff—Eng lish Corn forters.—Stocke on Hand and Handsome Stocks—Ford's Eureka Shirts—Reform in the Civil List and Uncivil Treatment of the Clerks—Transfer-day at the Bank, and General Holyday at Somerset-house.--Hosier, Mr. Stocken ; Shopman. Mr. Early bird ; Boy, Master Toddles. Soyer's Magic Kitchen.—Chef de Cuisine, Mons. Soyer; Kitchenmaids, Misses Basteaway and Drippingsell ; Guardsman, C or poral Longshanks ; Policeman, Sergeant Podger. Cupboard Lovers—Soyer's Last Soap - Where's the Knives and Forks?—Boiled and Unboiled Lob sters—lleadiess Swains—Lobster Patty asd Giblet Soup—Clown Gone all to Pot—Harlequin Gets Well Towelled and afterwards Mangled.—Clown and Pantaloon in a Stew—A Regular Broil-- Thou comest in such an unquestionable shape, that I will speak to thee (Soyer, or rather Shakspeare)--Teo Many Cooks Spell the (Clown's) Broth—The scene finishes In a very spirited manner An Illuminated Page of the History of England.—Grand Allevorical Tableau with Panoramic Effects, Illustrative of the Triumphs of the Allied Forces. Yonng Jullien's " Allied Army Quadrille," by the doable bands of the English and French. "God save the Queen," " Partant pour la Syria," ani " Rule Britannia." Daughter of the Regiment, Miss Rebecca Collins, in which character she will sine the spirited patriotic effusion, published in "Blackwood's Magazine" for December, and written by Corporal John Brown, of the Grena dier Guards, when the men gist some drink for the first time at Balaklava, Sept. 28th : "Come all you gallant British hearts that love the red and blue, And drink the health of those brave lads who made the Russians rue. Then fill the glass, and let it pass, three times three, and one more, For the twentieth of September, eighteen hundred and fifty-foir." Vestibule of the Temple of Victory. The Tribute of England to the Brave Patriots. Distribution of Laurel Wreaths, Gorgeous and Electric Scenic Climax, with Revolving Columns and Variegated Illuminations. Terrine Flight of the Italian Brothers. The whole scene presenting a coup d'ceil never before witnessed on the English stage. Admission :—Stalls, ss. ; dress circle, 45.; second price, 25.; upper circle, Zs.; second riles, Is. 6d. ; pit, 2s. ; second price, Is.; lower gallery, Is. ; second price, fd. ; 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 box-orrice open daily, from 11 till 5 o'clock, under the direction of Mr. Edward Chatterton. Notice.—The following pieces are approved and in preparation, and will shortly he prndnced :—Tke Grand Christmas Pantomime, by E. L. Illanchanl, Esq. ; a Drama, by Dion Bourci cault, Esq. ; Two Dramas, by A. Harris, Esq.; an Adaptation from Meyerbeer's Opera, L'Etoile du Nord, with 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 f lan Drama, many months in preparation, will also shortly appear. THEATRE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Buckstone 12113 EVENING, Jew. 22, Will be performed PAWL PRY. Followed by the new grand Christmas Pantomime. entitled LITTLE. 80-PEEP; or, harlequin and the Girl who Lost her Sheep. Little Ito-Peep, ltiLss L. Thompson; Harlequin, Mr. Chapin° ; Pantaloon, Mr. W. Barnes; Clown, Mr. Appleby; Columbine, Miss M. Brown. ROYAL PRINCESS'S TLIEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CuAnn Klux. THIS EVENING, JAN. 22, Will be presented the original adaptation of Casimir DelaTigne's Illstorical Play, entitled LOUIS THE ELEVENTH. Principal .'eha'lleter by Mr. C. Kean. After Which will be produced a New Grand Christmas Pantomime. Val ed. HARLEQUIN BLUE-BEARD; or, The Great Bashaw; 'uin, Mr. Cormack; Clown, Mr. Milne ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; dielll mbine, Mies De.sborough. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. tinder the Management of Madame Vestris.. Tills EVENING, JAN. 22, Will b‘ ' 15"te ' rn le 4 ACIORAy iTPTG SAN/. Principal character by Mr. C. M athews. - After vaganza, en which win be preclacei the new and original ' Fairy Fxtra titled PRINCE PRETTYPET and TIIE BUTTERFLY To be followed by TW O READA ARE BETTER TITAN ONE. Box-oface open from 10 until Solo agent for Private Bose& Mr. Salcroft, 15, New Bond-street. TITIEkTaM ROYAL. ADELPIII, Proprietor, Mr. B. Webot er. — Dlreetr•, A , lia . iarne celesta. TIIIS EVENING, JA N . 22. Will be performed the Drama entitled Viz mirSTER.IOUS STHANGER. f o ll o wed by the new Eccentric Extravaganza, taua 7. elO- ZAICIo be ;or,• ritvel.i of Measrs Danube and Truth. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Cute DAY —Morning 46 min.after 4 Evening 10 mln.aft. 5 To-'..ions.ow -Morning 33 min.after 5 Evening 54 inin•aft. 5 TILE WFATHER.—Suit Oman, Jan. 21.' THERMOMETER, IN THIS SHADE • 36 highest since noon yesterday. 28 —lowest this morning and during the night. 30—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 29'81—now up to 29'97. WrNn, E.S.E.—Blowing strong, with fine, cold, sun shiny, frosty weather. Another fall of snow in the night. JANUARY 22. 32 —highest since noon yesterday. 28 —lowest this morning and during the night. 35 —this day at noon. BAROMETER, down to 29.78—new up to 29'87. WIND, S.W.—Light breeze and foggy. More snow in the night, with bitter frost. il g,O . J;-5, ROYA L OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Mr:lager, Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING. JAN. 22, vIII Ie presenteil the Hely Coir.edietta, celled TIT FOR TAT, hi widen 3fessrs. F. Robson, A. Wigan, and Miss Maskell will applar. A:ter whi,h, a nrw Fain' Extrtirrui,anza. entitled THE YELLOW j'w ANO T N ILE R r, THE GOLD MINES . Characters TY.".• ""hww, Sirs .7117ia St. Geo - we , Miss F. Ormonde, Ise ;Eton, MIRA Ilretelry, and Mrs. Fit zallan. e s r elude with A W I FE'...; JOURNAL. • ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manner, Mr. 'Wm. Cooke. THIS DAY, MONDAY, at Two o'clock, a MORNING FEE FORMAN CE. The BATTLE of the ALMA and the Scenes in the Circle. TIT IS EVENING, Fourteenth week, the suceess'ul Equidrama, the BATTLE of the ALMA, with its graphic picture of war. After which, the unrivalled SCENES in the CIRCLE, Invented and arranged by Mr. William Cooke. To conclude with the new Comic Pantomime called GULLIVER and the LILLIPUTIA.NS ; or, Harlequin and Isritanala. B oa - office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mf r . W West. Acting Manger, Mr. W. 11. Cooke. Equestrian Director Mr. W. Cooke, Jun. LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 1855. No man can assume the appearance of amiability better than the CZAR whenever it may suit his purpose so to do. He thoroughly understands the art of cajolery, and can wheedle men of all ranks and positions--from. the " Angel of Peace" to a member of. the Peace Society, or a German Grand Duke to a democratic Yankee slave-ovnter. He knows the effect of a word of praise distributed in due season, and does not spare his approval, nor, we believe, other. no less potent influences, when he has any object to achieve. The Grand Dukes of Mecklenburgh-Strelitz and Mecklenburgh-Schwerin are at present the subjects of enthusiastic laudation on account of " their noble attitude"—evinced through their representative, M. D'Orammr—at the Germanic Diet. This "noble attitude" was one of complete isolation. It was striving to impress on the Diet the policy of abstention, so that the AUTOCRAT might act as he thought proper, without any danger of producing collective:action on the part of Germany. This is what he has been striv ing to inculcate on every other nation—what he endeavoured to impress on the Western Powers, on Austria, and others, All he wanted was to deal with the Turks first—to be permitted to establish himself at Constantinople in the first instance, and then to dispose of the other Powers in detail. The Western Nations, however, did not per ceive the " nobility" of such an "attitude." They did not appreciate the benefit of being " the last" to be devoured. Nor could they remain quiescent during the intended triumph of might over right—the unconscientious absorption of the territories of an independent Sovereign into the overgrown dominions of the would-be Dictator of Europe—the master of the world, if he could get at America—to subjugate those whom he now flatters to the top of their bent. Austria, too, has, it appears, excited his wrath by her accession to the treaty of the 2d December, which was apparently just known at St. Peters burg at the time, and was possibly the cause of this laudatory proclamation. It would signify little how greatly he exalted his creatures and relatives —both being completely under his thumb, and the son of one of these puppets being married to his own daughter. But these compliments have an ulterior motive—the shaft is intended to reach a little further than the mark at which it is ap parently aimed. There is a covert blow against Austria when he speaks of " the complications which the Cabinet of Vienna labours more and more to accumulate." There is also, and pro bably the chief subject of the letter, a hint to CliequotP to behave himself, la-which ease he might also receive the coveted distinction of the Imperial praise. It also shows the duplicity and insincerity of the CZAR in affecting a readiness to conclude a peace on the terms demanded by the Allies. If such were his real intention he would not at the moment have put forward such a manifesto. The two Grand Dukes would have been satisfied with his thanks at a later period, or in another form. But he could not, in such case, have insinuated that Germanic interference might " force out of the existing war a struggle that shall involve the whole of Europe." It is well that our Ministers and diplomatists should understand this proclamation in its true light, so as to avoid the deceptive language that may probably be indulged in at the Conferences in Vienna, to which Prussia so urgently seeks admission. The representatives of the kingdom meet on Tuesday, and therefore the select of Manchester met last Friday. It is their settled practice now, a habit coitracted in the thriving days of the League, to apprise the country and the Ministry of Manchester politics just in time for the coming sessions. Mr. MILNER. GIBSON was the lion of the meeting, not only as senior member, but as being a fresh speaker; his fellow-member and Mr. Comoro - , the Manchester nominee for the West Riding, having already fully expressed their ♦iews. This time there was no row. The ad mission was by ticket, and the meeting seemed disposed to applaud the leading speakers. Mr. GIBSON is, of course, a politician of much wider range of view thaw the great Leaguers; yet it was evident that he was not a little influenced by the company in which he found himself. On the great question of the day he did not rise above a Rus- SELL interpretation of the Four Points. Mr. GIBSON first briefly confessed the Parliamen • tary sins of last session. They were sins of omission. Amongst these ho did not number the dropping of the Reform Bill—that he considered wise. But they did not pass a Bribery Bill without depriving it of all its efficacy, they did not pass a Jewish Emancipation Bill, they left London with but three members, they refused the ballot, refused to abolish church rates aid ecclesiastical courts, they spent their time in not-doing; indeed as Mr. G. expresses it, the " session was an abortion." One promise he gave for next session, that the Newspaper Stamp Duty is to be abolished, and those of our readers who do not need the services of the post for their newspaper, are not to pay for them. If Mr. G. speaks from knowledge, this may account for certain terrific onslaughts on the Cabinet by a journal which not long ago treated them as the SoLomaNs of the day, though now apparently anxious to annihilate them before the budget is announced. The war, however, was of necessity the grand topic. The best the speaker could say for his peace-at-any-price colleagues was, that even Lord PALmEnsToN was credibly reported to have em ployed paid agency to spread the same views of English policy through the press of the 'United States and that of France and Italy. If one was guilty of luring Russia into the Principalities, by publishin g the aversion of England to war, so was the other. Perhaps the WrKoFF be the subject of a Parliamentary agency ni9,y question to the Home Secretary. Wh a t aver answer he (rives it will have no bearing on the mer i ts of the case. More to the purpose was Mr. GIBSON'S attack on the "balance of power" theory ; it involved, he considered, two fallacies—first, that particular territories should be governed to all time by par ticular dynasties, without regard to the wishes of the people ; se condly, that by informing a power like Turkey that you would help him whenever he got into trouble, you relieved him from the only proper means of strengthening his own king dom, and securing his independence, that is, a sound system of policy at home. Now it is certain that, cursed as our aristocratic Cabinet may be with the love of dynasties, Eng land has no affection for them. We believe that there is not a dynasty, except that of the SULTAN, East of the Rhine, which all England would not rejoice to see packed off to the Antipodes to morrow ; not a village in the country where some one would not be found to pay for ringing the bells if Berlin, Vienna, Rome, Naples, ttc., were clean swept of Hohenzollerns, Hapsburgs, Popes, and Bourbons for ever. Even our Cabinet is compelled to ally itself with a novas homo in the Imperial sense. The balance of power now contended for by the nations of France and Eng land is that which is threatened by the barbarian Tartar dynasty ; there is not a people of Europe which has spirit enough to sigh for liberty, that does not pray for the success of the Allies. All " the suppressed nationalities " feel that Russia is the great suppressor, and the right arm of other suppressors. Assuredly it is not in accordance with the wishes of all peoples that the ROMANOFF dynasty should drag Turkey into his own scale. In regard to preventing the SULTAN'S relying on social reform for increased strength, admitting the general correctness of Mr. GrnsoN's principle, yet the fact is that the SULTAN and the best of Tur key's leaders are earnestly desirous to strengthen the kingdom in this very way, that they have made great advances, that those advances are the object of loathing and dread at St. Petersburg, and that the SULTAN needs the support of generous treatment by civilised powers to enable him to counter-work the plots of Mussulman Tories and of degraded Greeks, egged on by the hypocritical tyrant of the North. Mr. GIBSON, and in this Mr. COBDEN after wards concurred, seems to think that the terms of peace are so far settled and accepted by Russia that they are practically beyond recall ; and that even the capture of Sebastopol would have no effect upon them. We suppose him to mean that nothing would be rescued from the grasp of Russia even if we gained that city. Lord JOHN RUSSELL has given forth the dictum that _Russia is to loss nothing, not a single acre of stolen territory. Oh 1 the age of petty statesmen ! Well, aristocracy and its pet despots may yet find that they have only delayed the inevitable explosion which will vindicate the rights of the long town-trodden. The hon. member is not distrustful of the sincerity of Russia. Nor are we. We believe her to beper fectly sincere in purposing to lie and cheat through thick and thin. She means to accept all that suits her of the Four Points, be it nothing, little, or much ; be it to gain a little time, or to ride over all England on the shoulders of Lord JOHN RUSSELL. Mr. G. is thankful Odessa was spared ; so should we have been if mercy to savages had not resulted in carnage to our troops. The men who planned the expedition to Sebastopol were madmen to leave the stores and military facilities of Odessa. On the whole, the Manchester meet ' ing will not do so much for peace as the Leeds meeting. It will rather tend to encourage the great disturber of the peace. It was, however, but a ticket meeting, and the leaders did not even there venture on a resolution. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1855. his felon hand one of his fellow-creatures was re- I morselessly dispatched, " unhouselled and unan nealed, no reckoning made, with all his imperfec tions on his head," to his dread account ; and if a second was permitted a brief hour of grace, BARTHELEMY was not to thank for it. The mur der was pitiless. Had escape been practicable at the cost of a dozen lives, there is every reason to believe he would have taken them. If hanging, therefore, for murder be right and politic, BAR. THELEMY was rightly and properly hanged. We, however, have grave doubts as to the existence of the right, and are confident, if it do exist, of the impolicy of exercising it. We do not intend to enter en the Scriptural question. All we will say in relation to the alleged right of inflicting death is, that it seems inconsistent with the spirit of the Christian dispensation. In hanging a man for murder, are we not doing with him precisely what he did with his victim, and for doing which we punish him—that is, violently depriving him of life--a striking anomaly I Homicide, the righteous avenger of murder ! Of the impolicy of the punishment of death we are thoroughly satisfied. It does not meet the exigency for which it is set apart. Society finds no safeguard in it from felonious violence or secret contrived mur der. The scaffold is a failure. Not only, however, does it not accomplish the end for which it was designed, but it also does much evil. It is a demo ralising spectacle, in that it tends to confound right and wrong in men's minds by misdirecting sympa thy and mitigating the reprobation with which the crime of murder should be regarded. Before con viction, the murderer is looked upon with horror lsy all; after conviction, provided he gives signs of penitence, with dangerous sympathyby most. The brand of CAIN is forgotten—he is regarded by many solely as a fellow Christian, fit for, and about to be launched into a blissful eternity. He is more pitied than his victim, or than his crime is reprobated. It is demoralising, also. In the lesson of disregard for human life and physical suffering it teaches the uneducated masses. Veneration for a thing so sacred as human life cannot, surely, but be diminished by taking it with whatever circumstance as a punish ment. Far better, we submit, would it be to set the convict apart in confinement from his fellows, and there leave him, if penitent, to the stings of conscience, and if impenitent to the retributive justice of his MAKER. In the latter case, it seems horrible in mere mortals to hurry his unprepared soul before its Judge. The be lief, by the impulsive masses, that " the avenging sprite" in his lone cell points its accusing fingers at the convicted murderer by day and glares over his sleepless pillow by night throughout, it may be, a long course of years, would do more, in our opinion, to render murder repulsive, and to deter from its perpetration in the hour of tempta tion, than the present brief shameful exposure and physical agony. The gallows is cut of date, and should be put aside. {Although we cannot concur in the concluding observations of our respected correspondent, we gladly give insertion to his views, knowing that they are participated in by many excellent and well-disposed men. We feel that truth must ever be promoted by discussion—that the greater pub licity given to various opinions, the greater pro bability of sound conclusions being arrived at. We have not hesitated to declare that capital punishment cannot be altogether abolished. That there are cases in which society is bound to avenge the death of any of its members, by the solemn execution of the wilful and deliberate murderer. This bein g so, we may rest on the admission that "if hanging for murder be right and politic, BARTHELEMY was rightly and properly hanged." The only difficulty in the case aroso from the grave mistake of trying him for the murder of poor CHARLES COLLARD, in place of that of Mr—Aloone, which would have brought all the facts to light, and opened every possible line of defence to the unfortunate criminal.— ED. SUN.] LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. PIEDMONT AND PRUSSIA. The revolting baseness of Prussia appears to have reached its maximum. There she stands, one moment holding up her coward hands begging the honour of admission to the Vienna Confe rences, the next letting them fall with unsparing cruelty upon Polish refugees from the relentless Russian conscription. She implores and entreats the Allies to let her in, if it be but up the back stairs, into the conference room, while at the same time she sends back the unfortunate Polish conscripts to the knout and to military exile in a Russian army. By the last accounts it appears that poor Polish peasants, labourers, between the ages of 18 and 25, fled into Prussia to escape the horrors of the CZAR'S service ; the brutal wretch of Berlin orders them to be arrested as deserters ! and delivered up to the Russian authorities. This is the Monarch who would place himself amongst the arbitrators ! A man who denies our luckless Cabinet a single Prussian for a soldier, but who takes care that Russia shall not lose a single re cruit if he can help it. It really serves the Ger manisers of Downing-street right ; they would not have Poles for their allies, they preferred any hazards and losses to it, and now Prussia joins to drag the poor unwilling Polish peasants into the army of the Czar, while she snubs the authors of the Foreign Enlistment Bill. Aberdeenism has its reward ; we should be glad of it, did it not involve our unfortunate army. Well, now, will they make up for it with Pied montese T Here is a noble little State emulating our political and ecclesiastical liberty ; growing in constitutional freedom, and putting the clergy into their proper place ; a State sympathising, therefore, with our antagonism to Russian despot ism and preponderance ;—she offers us 15,000 men, as many as we could have hoped, at the least to scrape together from all the continent. Will not this do for a Foreign Legion ? There it is ready for work ; drilled and officered, and will cost no more than the proposed mercenaries. Piedmont needs only the money ; why not, then, offer at once to take this contingent into our pay ? In mercy, and for economy's sake, let them be provided with every necessary and comfort, cost what it may. They night promptly contribute their part to the complete investment of Sebasto pol, or to cutting the Russian line of operations, or to defending the besiegers from molestation in their work. The wisdom of Parliament will soon be brought to bear on this and every question connected with the war. We only hope it will tolerate no onger the incapacity which kas half ruined our own army, sought to replenish it by mercenaries, refused a Polish Legion, and does nothing with a Piedmontese one. [FROM A CORRESPONDENT.] Another saint in the Oalendar of Newgate ! another star in the firmament of crime ! Dull and leaden-eyed dawned the morning of this bitter winter's day when, from his guarded cell, a shiver ing wretch was led, in solemn procession, to a well-worn scaffold in front of the Old Bailey, and there, before ignorant and curious, or brutal thousands, had a rope put about his neck and was deliberately strangled like a soulless dog. It is now evening, and amid the bones of kindred felons he lies, in mere obstruction, a half frozen corpse. Why is this ? Justice, we will be told, has been done on a murderer—the claims of society have been vindicated. Is it so ? Let us think the matter over for a moment. Was BARTHELEMY guilty of the offence fur which lie suffered ? and, if so, was his life the sacrifice which ought to have been offered in ex piation ? To the first question we must unhesi tatingly reply in the affirmative. There can be no doubt of his guilt. If ever desperado wickedly im brued his hands in human blood, 13.ARTIIELEMY did that l If ever murderer deserved banging he did. By TO THE RDITO3 OP THE lIIIIX. Sut,—l am instructed by the Board of Directors to inform you that the accounts for the past half-year having been this day submitted to them, they have decided upon recommending the payment of a dividend for the half year of 31. 4s. per cent, on the Consolidated Stock of the company, making the total dividend for the year 1854 to amount to 5. per cent.—l am, sir, your obedient servt., FRED. SLIGHT, Secy. Secretary's Office, London, 20th Jan., 1851. THE LATE MB. MERLE. It is with sincere regret that we announce the death of Mr. Merle, the foreign editor of Galignani's Mes senger, which occurred on Friday morning at his house, in the Rue Chauveau Lagarde, Paris, after an illness of three or four days. He was the Nestor of English journalists in Paris. Many years ago he was editor of the Courier, and subsequently, we believe of other journals in London. He was also for a long while the London correspondent of the Journal des Debits. For more than a quarter of a oentary he has been attached to Galignani, and during the same period he was the Paris correspondent of the Globe. He was one of the very few men in the world who could speak and write the French and English languages equally well. He had great conversational powers, an extraordinary memory, and a sound political judgment. His nails I was a perfect museum of anecdote, and he was ever the best authority on the subject of the " latest news " of the hour. His appearance in Qalignani's little conver sation chamber was always the signal for a rush from the reading-room adjoining. There, surrounded by numerous friends of /adonis nations, who put down their newspapers to liste n t o th e resu lt of his morning's reading, his fine Ciceronian countenance might be seen suffused with good hsmour, while for a few moments he playfully parried the eager questions addressed to him in various accents and languages. When silence was obtained he was wont in silvery tones and fluent speech to give a succinct, and invariably accurate, account of the most important intelligence arrived by the morning mails from different parts of - the world, and to add his own opinion of the bearing of the new facts upon the political situation. Ho was as good a listener as a talker, always lending a candid ear to every suggestion, and treating opinions adverse to his own with good natured deference and respect. Mr. Merle was greatly esteemed by all who knew him, and his loss will be re gretted by a large circle of friends both in France and England. Among his personal friends were Lord Pal natrston and General Sir De Lacy Evans, both of whom sought interviews with him when they were lately in Paris.—Daily News. CABINET COUNCIL.-2 Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office, Downing street. The ministers present were the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Duke of Argyll , t h e Earl of Claren don, Sir George Grey, the Duke of Newcastle, the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, Sir Charles Wood, Earl Granville, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, and Sir William Molesworth. The Council sat three hours and a quarter. Lord John R usse ll, Lord President of the Council, will give a dinn er on Saturday next, the 27 th inst., at his residence in Ch es harn-Place, to the Cabinet Ministers and the great officers of state of the Queen's household for the purpose of settling the roll of sheriffs for England and Wales for the present year. The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived in town on Satur day morning front his seat, Bowood Park, Wilts. Lord John Russell left town on Saturday evening for Pembroke-ledge, Richmond -park. The noble lord comes to town for the season to-day. Viscount Palmerston continues at Broadlands, near Rotusey, Hants, and was absentfrom the Cabinet Coun cils on Saturday and the previous day. The noble vis count and viscountess are expected to arrive to-day at their residence in Piccadilly, from their country seat, where they have been entertaining a succession of vi sitors durinc , the last three weeks. The Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood and the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert have arrived in town for the season. The Right Hon. tha Speaker of the House of Com mons will arrive in town to-day, from Hampshire, for the re-assernbling of parliament. The right hon. gen tlememan will commence his Parliamentary banquets on Saturday week. The Right Hon. M. T. Baines, MX., arrived in town on Saturday, from Yorkshire. LATEST NEWS. The following telegraphic despatches have been received : " BERLIN, SUNDAY, JAN. 21. " A despatch from Warsaw, dated 21st of January, states that under date of the 12th of January Prince Menschikoff announces that since the Bth no change had taken place at Sebastopol. He states that the siege operations of the Allies made no progress, aid that the fire of their bat teries caused very little damage to the fortifica tions." " VIENNA, SATURDAY, JAN. 20. " It is reported that the Turkish troops under Omar Pasha will soon march from Eupatoria, under the protection of the fleets, towards the Alma and the Belbeck." The Vienna Presse publishes the following : " CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. 11. " The French are unremittingly pushirg forward their batteries. The capture of a Russian redoubt is confirmed. " During the last two days there has been a tremendous fall of snow in the Crimea. "It is said that Lord Stratford de Redeliffe will soon pay a short visit to London. " Baron Koller has been definitively appointed Austrian Minister at Constantinople. "Four Frenchmen and seven Englishmen hare been found stabbed in the streets of Galata. "The perpetrators are organised bands of Greeks and Armenians, who hare been traced. "Itedschid Pacha is very unwell, and has been obliged, by indisposition, to receive foreign diplo matists at home. Important negotiations are going on. BERLIN, JAN". 20. Austria, in a note, accompanied by a circular dated the 14th January, renews her proposition relative to the question of placing the Prussian and Federal armies on a war footing. This ques tion is now to be submitted to th• Diet at Frankfort. The following private telegraphic despatches was received in Paris last night : TOULON, 19th. The Aigle steam-transport arrived here to day with 50 Russian prisoners on board. She left Icamiesch on the 3d. VARNA, 151 u. The embarkation of the Ottoman troops con tinues. Several battalions of Egyptian infantry, will leave to-morrow. MADRID, 18Tir. The Cortes in its sitting of to-day adopted a resolution of great importance, and on which it was expected that the Ministry would have bean defeated. The Cortes hare Toted by a large ma jority the Government Bill, fixing at 25,000 the number of soldiers who are to be called out this year. A private telegraphic despatch from Madrid, of the 20th instant, announces, that in the sitting of the 19th a vote of censure on the Ministry was proposed. After a speech by Espartero, the Cortes rejected the proposition by a majority of 138 against 62. DEATH OF THE QUEEN OF SARDINIA. We have received a telegraphic despatch from our correspondent at Turin, dated the 20th of January, announcing the death, on that evening, of Queen Marie Adelaide, wife of King Victor Emmanuel. The Queen was in her 33d year, having been barn on the 3d of June, 1822. Her late Majesty was the daughter of the Archduke Rainer, of Austria. The last accounts from the Crimea state that General Canrobert had, in virtue of the power vested in him by the Emperor, promoted six captains to the rank of chefs de bataillon. Ac cording to the usual custom observed at Constan tinople, the brevets of the decorations accorded by the Sultan to the French army have been inclosed in a bag of white satin. They have been delivered to M. Schaffer, the first Dragoman of the French Embassy, who is to forward them to General Canrobert. The Patrie says, the passage of the Danube, effected some days since by the Russians, has given rise to a demand for explanations from Prince Gertachakoff, on the part of the Austrian Government; and that at the same time orders have been sent to Count Coronini to prevent the Russians from recommencing a campaign upon the Danube. A despatch in the Patrie, headed " The Danube," and dated Kamenicez, Jan. 13, says —" The staff of the Ist Russian corps d'artnee is at Moltan. Radetzky's regiment of Hussars has left for the Crimea. RAILWAYS-FOR CASH. fr. c. ft. e. Orleans l,lBO Lyons lO4O Western 675 Rouen 1032 50 Cette Mediterranean: 902 50 Havro 560 Northern THE PRINCIPALITIES. A letter from Bucharest of the 4th, in the Con stitutionnel, says : " Count Coronini left this morning very suddenly for Jassy. It is said that he will be absent about three weeks. Some journals have spoken of pro scriptions which have been directed against a num ber of persons in the Wallachian Principality. There is much exaggeration in these accounts. The truth is that two persons have been compelled to quit the country temporarily, Col. Salomon and an old Greak Consular agent at Kraiowa. The former car ried arms against the Turks during the campaign of last winter, and he is accused of having, at the head of a band of Cosacks, committed cruelties and exactions in Lesser Wallachia. The latter has been pointed out as an emissary of Russia, and it has been proved that he had always been in communication with the enemy. Omer Pacha had besides demanded the expulsion of the Logothete, Manuel Floresco, who, on the demand of Prince Gortschakoff, had been delegated by the provisional administration for the service of the supplies to the Russian army, and who has just arrived here after haying fulfilled his mission. The Hospodar, how ever, showed himself less severe and eventually convinced Omer Pacha that only Floresco had yielded to the pressure of circumstances, and that it would be unjust to banish him. The Hospodar has recently, with the authorisation of the Porte, issued several decrees dismissing military and civil functionaries who had been appointed by the Rus sians. The Russians and Greeks who can furnish securities for their good conduct are permitted to remain in the Principalities, but all foreigners, particularly those who formed part of the Rou mano-Greco-Sclavonian legion have been expelled. Considerable reforms have been introduced into the quarantine regulations, by which more order will be established, and a considerable saving to the treasury effected. A Moldavian company has just farmed for five years the customs' duties of the Principalities for 200,000 ducats a-year." (The ducat is about 10f.) TURKEY. We extract the following from the Journal da Constantinople of the Bth :—The great activity of Omer Pacha and his experience in warlike opera tions cause it to be supposed that, towards the 25th or 30th of this month, the corps d'armee , of 35,000 men will be disembarked in the Crimea with all the necessary artillery. On the other hand, Riza, Pacha, Mi4ister of War, displays the greatest zeal in preparing for the approaching departure of eleven thousand men, amongst whom is a magni ficent regiment of cuirassiers, sent by Said Pacha, Viceroy of Egypt, and of the troops of the province of Tunis who are still at Con stantinople. With these different farces and the Ottoman division of 12,000 men which is in the Crimea under the orders of Osman Pacha, Omer Pacha will towards the end of January be at the head of an army of 60,000 men. Letters from the Crimea also inform us that portable telegraph are established on all the points occupied by the allied armies, and that the English engineers are com mencing their operations at Balaklava for establish ing the railway to the camps. By these means all communications between the chiefs and the armies, and the points of disembarkation, will be rapid, and that will be a great advantage for the opera tions. For some time past, eight Ottoman steamers, which compose the fleet to be commanded in the Black Sea by Ahmed Pacha, have not ceased to transport to Varna and Baltschick winter effects and provisions for the corps d'arra6e of the Danube which is about to proceed to the Crimea. These equipments and supplies being terminated, Ahmed Pacha is to leave on Monday with two of those steamers for Samsoun, where he will give his orders ; and there the six other steamers are to join him. After receiving their coal, the steamers are to proceed to the Crimea under the command of Ahmed Pacha, whose conduct is worthy of all eulogium since the Ottoman squadron has operated in the Black Sea. RUSSIA. A. letter from St. Petersburg, 9th, in the Con stitutionnel, says :—" The Czar received, just before the arrival of Prince Paskiewitsch, the in terpretation of the Four Points sent off by Prince Gortschakoff, and Count Nesselrode immediately sent an order by telegraph to Prince Gortschakoff to enter on the discussion of the Four Points.' It must not, however, be imagined that from that circumstance they are accepted. Even supposing that negotiations are possible, the discussion of the details is full of difficulties, and should even the representative of Russia at Vienna accept any stipulation, his Government would use no ceremony in repudiating, if it thought fit, what he had done. The Minister, acting as Secretary of State of the Kingdom of Poland, has just received orders to transmit to the Government of the country a decree which extends the prohi bition of the export of rye, barley, oats, and pulse, to wheat, and all other alimentary sub . stances, the export of which to Austria had re mained free up to this time. All the sailors belonging to the flotilla of row-boats, which had been formed for the defence of the coasts, have been ordered to hold themselves in readiness for the month of March. The Minister of War has re ceived from the Grand Duchy of Finland reports announcing the complete success of the new bat talions of Chasseurs, the formation of which was prepared last year by the establishment of military schools at Abo, Carleby, and Helsingfors. In ad- ' dition to these battalions of Chasseurs, !our new ones are spoken of, which are to be ready for ser vice in the spring. Tne majority of them still use for their exercises muskets manufactured in Russia, but they are to be provided with Belgian carbines, similar to those furnished to the riflemen of the Imperial family." Mo j { '~~~ { i The following important paragl letter dated the 7th inst. :—" To in matiou respecting the movement; wards the Crimea, I can now ad, doubted source that eighteen ba already passed the gate of Perekr mentioned that masses of cavalry the same direction. In fact, besid of the 10th division, which had ass( 6,000 horsemen from the Ukrain march towards the Crimea. Here tion is being made to undertake a s , skilful enterprise against the Allies. BELGIUM. BRUSSELS, Jan. 21.—This city calamity yesterday in the dest Theatre Royal de la Monnaie by remains of this splendid erection b blackened walls. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, 18th.--The First M: Oared to the Volksthing, that the rected . against the members of t, would be an obstacle to the accor important to establish relative to th, M. Mourad has been appointed to aniination into the affair of the late A MERICA. 40 41 ) LIVERPOOL, The steamer Atlantic has arrived, bring pe ligence from New York to the 10th just' not any specie on freight. The screw steamer Glasgow, from the 011416 t1 reached New York on the 6th inst. The steamer Asia, from Liverpool, t/f o ri Ud i :t Boston ou the 4th inst. ; the Clyde, frunl iro f! arrived at New York on the sth ; the Ci A t .4lo chester, from Liverpool, arrived at POI' the 5th. 3 t N e i The Star of th e W est h a d arr ived ai f ob from San J uan w ith advices from Cali .1 9th of Decemb er , an d 801,000 Mining affairs we re sa ti-factory. Neal The North Star had a l so reac hed -. u L e h - ye advices from San Francisco to the 16th The J. L. Stephens had l o ft that pay ee $ amount of specie on freight. A e el been experienced at Aspinwall. peee l Carthagena advices to tie 1 4 tii n a his nounce the total defeat of Me1°,,. :4 ; - vs.s Bogota. General Th omas Hent e lo . Mendoza mortally ;woundea• primoner. From Peru we learn that a battl e fought between the forces under Elias vincial troops under Moran. The Govern' were defeated, and Aloran was captured At New York busine ss con ti n ued dul l were indications of an early revival. The mone markets were a shade e asi , better suppl y of capital offering. The rs per cent. on first class s e curities, tho u g i ally it was done at 10. The statements banks as to the amount of bullion highly favourable. Ex c hange was qu o to 1071. Stocks were more buoyant, with a ei demand for cott on f or export, aid a Ji g The market had c on ti nue d firm, but with in prices. Flour and meal were dull. Grain O S Iron was quiet. Freights to England were a shade fir° 04 L ~,,i ;;7t!i 14 4 ,, a red, as ti) It . 41 ole 2D p . v. netreorf stlit3l,6,2;ceL ; a s wkaitiiel, . The M' it 11181)41 ous e to the ren in the C o l continuo -" g 6,0 ye. 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BERLIN, Jan. 19. —Lord Bloomfield had the honour of being received by the King on Wednes day, in private audience, for the purpose of deliver ing to his Majesty a letter in reply to that conveyed by M. d'Usedom to Qneen Victoria. In the Second Chamber on the 17th the Minister of Finance applied for permission to continue to levy an additional 25 per cent. en all inland taxa tion (for the purpose of meeting the interest on the 30,000,000 thalers voted last session for war purposes) up till April, 1856, a n d f or p owers t o continue to draw on the not yet exhausted 30,000,000 during the present yaar. These applica tions were referred to a committee. On the report of the committee on the Budget being brought up the House passed the first two items as recommended therein—viz., Land-tax, 10,084,182 thalers (1,512,6271.) with the rider, " the House ex p ec t s th a t th e Government, if pos sible in the present, but at any rate in the next ensuing sessi on , w ill b r ing in the law promised in the charter for the repeal of all exemptions from land-ta x " (thi s i s an a ttack on many =eruptive but invidious immunities from taxation enjoyed by the old Tory nobility, and was as such resented byHerr von Gerlach); and2d, Income-tax, 2, 9280 i of (439,2001.) This item contains the additionot per cent, for war purposes to the usual amber the Income-tax, 2,344,000 thalers, and i t 9 0 0 pected that an interesting debate wouldW C . 0 0 on this point, seeing that the whole 25 P er o 10 additional taxation has been levied eyer 10 0, August, although the whole amount of tie , 30,000,000 has not been taken up. The the' Minister, however, referred the HO' ple explan ttion which would be give mittee, on his application for the ci tion of 25 per cent. mentioned abov The Austrian Minister at the Con. Baron von Koller, was recalled from 13th inst. ; whether permanently ground is not known. The Baron 11 , given up his apartments there. try is expected at the Court of Haut Princess Paskiewitsch is expec shortly on her return to Warsaw fro Germany. Prince Paskiewitsch react burg on the 4th inst. Persons who have applied at the . in Stuttgard, with the desire of ente: lish military service, have bees under the present more pacific cons curestances, no definitive answer them. A motion now lies before Frankfort, on the ground of the . the Federal Constitution, for prob listment of German subjects in oth6 military service. It is said that Aus 4 this motion. Is far as I can judge of enlisting Germans in English only the very faintest hopes of succ( entertained. Our Consul-General in Hamburg , is understood to have left there abo, for Vienna on Government business. lenel was formerly British Consul-Ge: via, and subsequently in Alexandrir elude that he is required to assist ledge and experience in unravellil difficulties of Turkish sovereignty uistratiou in tho Principalities. ODESSA. FRANCE. PARIS, SUNDAY.—The chief political news to day is that Prussia, who, notwithstanding her refusal to join the Austrian Alliance with the Western Powers, pretended to have a right, as a great European power, to participate in any con ference having for its object to modify treaties to which she was a party, has made a protest against the validity of any resolutions which may be come to by the new conference about to be opened at Vienna. The answer to this protest will, in all probability, be given by a French army on the Rhine before three months are over. The news from Germany affords small prognostics of peace. According to the Weimar Gazette, Count Nesselrode only authorised Prince Gorts chakoff to accept the four points in the sense attributed to then by the Russian Cabinet, and with very important modifications, espeoially with regard to the third point, relative to the re , vision of the treaty of 1841. Both the Presse and the Patric of this evening sum up the latest news as being to the effect that the Emperor of Russia is in no disposition to make serious concessions. The following private telegraphic despatches are given in the French papers : TatEsTE, 18th.—According to news from Con stantinople of the Bth, General Canrobert has given orders to suspend, for a time, the despatch of further reinforcements, in order to avoid over crowding the camp. ATHENS, 12th.—The Allies will shortly quit Greece, leaving only small detachments at the Piraeus. We read in the Moniteur :—" The Emperor on the propositio of the Minister of War and Marine, has ordered that all donations either in money or in kind for the troops in the East shall be devoted without distinction to the army and the fleet ; that the gifts in miDney shall be converted into articles, according to t he s pecial designation of his Majesty ; that all objects ' of consumption and others shall be sent, as soon as possible, to Marseilles to be de posited in a warehouse, be classified as much as possible according to their nature, and then sent to Constantinople, where the military intendent, specially appointed in that city, shall give or ders for their reception ; that the distribution of the donations shall be made in the Crimea be tween the land and sea forces, according to an un derstanding come to between General Canrobert and Admiral Brunt; and finally, that the articles intended for the use of the sick shall be divided among the hospital establishments at Constanti nople and in the Crimea." The Moniteur publishes two Imperial decrees, one ordering that alcohol distilled in Corsica from the daffodils, cactus figs, aid other plant; shall be admitted free of duty on the French continent, under the formalities prescribed by the law of May 6, 1841 ; and the other, fixing the import duties on certain articles as follows :—Juniper berries, daffodil bulbs, and cactus figs, by French vessels and by land, free ; by foreign vessels lf. 10c. the 100 kilogrammes (the present duty).—Tabl e f ru it, other than those mentioned in the tariff—Exotic. By French vessels, free; by foreign vessels, 4f. the 100 kilog. Nati ve —B y F renc h vessels, free ; by foreign vessels, 2f. the 100 kilog. By a decision of the Minister of Finance, the in terest on Treasury Bonds is fixed as follows from the 20th iust. :-3 per cent. per annum for bonds of from three to five months' date ; 31 per cent. for those of from six to eleven months ; and 4 per cent. for those of one year. The Emperor and the Empress were present last evening at the Vaudeville Theatre. Their Majes ties were most warmly greeted both at their entry and their departure. The Momiteur publishes a first list of the sums paid into the caisse of the Ministry of War in fa vour of the army of the East. It amounts to 264,222 f. 450. BOURSE, JAN. 20.—CLOSING PRICES. Cash. fr. c. End of Month. 4i per Cents 95 25 94fr. 75c. 3 per Cents 6B 70 68f. 70c. Credit Mobilier 747 50 Roman Credit Foncior 535 Austrian Belgian Fives ...... .. Spanish Threes — Piedmontese B7 Home Debt INDIA AND CHINA (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAF SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY, 11 ' The Peninsular and Oriental ColnP f , l3 ' ship Indus, Captain Joy, has just arrlf port with the heavy portion of the abO A GENERAL ORDER BY MENSCHIKOFF. The Russian Naval Magazine contain minable list of honorary recompenses officers of the Russian navy for conduct in defence of Finland ports, lovski, and above all, of Sebastopo l • are given of Prince Menschikoff's praise of individuals who have perfoi acts at the latter place—and these are The Magazine gives the following published by Prince Mensehikeff soon battle of Inkerman : " Bivouac (?) under the Northern Sebastopol, Nov. 10. " Our Lord and Emperor, whose whole b' with us, does net cease to address his " reign words to us. He ordered me to the troops entrusted to my command the script, dated the 31st of October : „wit " 'I trust in the merc y o f G o d '— which has been commenced will be gleri°' lished ! The heroic steadfastness of our in( men, the dauntless defenders of Sebastoi happy. The Lord will recompense them for unexampled deeds of valour 1 I knew my as early as 1821. I was eyewitness that impossible for them, and I am rejoiced to anticipations have been corroborated, and comparable warriors now conduct the have ever done by sea and by land. " 'Tell them all that their old Wl always valued them highly, is proud of then' them all as his dear and well-loved children' my sons will arrive in time to take part l° ; is preparing (that is, in the anticipated and defeat of the allies at Inkerman.) will prove worthy of their mission. them to my troops as a proof of MI confidence. May their presence replac e And so may God all-merciful protect you, "You know," resumes Prin ce M e nschik' defeat), " that the sons of your Czar a r , e i You have seen that they have behaved hke soldiers' in the midst of the enemy's fire. SY ; will not justify the confidence of our Emperor', represent him his sons, so dear to him a rid all' e # answer to all the graciousness of the Czar dauntless and steadfast adherence until e fis holy obligations due to our Czar, faith, 3 0.7 We will fulfil them ! This order is to b e troops, companies, squadrons, and batteriefc•oo (Signed) "PRINCE MO S T O SHIPWRECK OF A LONDON AND ITAUBVI a 11 , f MARGATE, Jan. 20.—About 9 o'clock til l 00 barque was seen running in from the No r it 1 jack at her fore (the signal for a pilot), 310 water. The wind was blowing a s trong g Th e east, with a tremendous sea running. „ D P' little to the west of the Tongue Light, pd , mis-stayed, and wont on the Margate P s ,s , minutes a tremendous sea broke over bef; t or spray clearing away it was seen her ° P a to gene, and immediately a ft er there apPo re Lep' plete break-up, a n d ever y soul on board P e n i e t unfortunate v esse l t urne d out to b e the J 35 Glasgow, Capt. M`Millan, a London a ° oo o trader, with a genera l cargo. At the l og schooner Reform , of London, with suPP, s Crimea, mis-stayed, and came on the ga ll i o t, miles from the town, but by immediate ass this port she was got off. a tr l 9 The Univers gives the Latin text an. - t he „t 1 the apostolic letter of the Pope relative t°, o o of the Immaculate Conception. The upwards of eleven columns of the journal.