The Sun. — London, England, 1856-01-22 00:00:00

E. H. Banbury, Esq., Chairman of Mr. Denman's Committee. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENDTH, THE BEAUX STRATAGEM. After which the New Comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled THE RUTTRRFLY'S BALL AND TILE GRASSHOPPER'S FEAST; or, Harlequin and the Genius of the Spring. To c - whide with ONLY A HALFPENNY. RIVAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. OXPORD-STREET. Hader the Management of Mr. Mks Les KRAL THIS EVENING, KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. gam Katharine, Mrs. C. Kean; Cardinal Wolsey, Mr. C. Kean. After which, HARLEQUIN AND THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE ; or, the ?airy Paradise and Hanky Panky, the Enchanter. Harlequin. Mr. Corms,ck ; Cl,)wn, Mr. Hallne ; Pantaloon. Mr . P tulo ; and ColuaNne, Miss Caroline Adams. THRATIZE ROYAL ADRLPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Diroctress, Madame Celeste. TUTS EVENING. DOMESTIC ECONOMY. After which, URGENT PRIVATE AFFAIRS. To conclude wit ACK AND THE BEAN STALK; or, liar Levin and Mother (loom at Home Again. which Memo , . J. Bland. P. Bedfbrii. Madame Celeste, Miss ynl4ans, and Min E. Arlen will apaear. ROYtT, SURIZEY THE iTRE. Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswiek. THIS EVENING PARIS IN 1792. To conclude with t . A PRINCE, OF I' : or, FUrlc lain and! lave Shore , ROT .&L ITfitiND TH.F:ATR% Under the direction of Mr. Parne. MIS EVENING. TIM HOLLY TREE Followed by ♦ PLAOVE ON BOTH YOUR HOUSES. After which, NOEMIE ; or, 'rho Foster Sisters. To conclude with NOT TO BE DONE. R3YAL OLYWPIC TREATRR Lessee and lianaTer, Nfr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING. THE JFIALOIJA WIFE. After which will bm produced a New and dlahly-moral. thvagh xceealvely old, Melodramatic Fairy Extravaganza, entitled TII PRINTCEAS; the Three Maui Distan. In which Iktvitara. Erne'v, F. Robson, 11. Coopar, Miss Marston, an 1 Visa Mailtell will appear. I'ATLIdIY'S ROYAL AMPRITHEATRE. Lentee and 'Rana:ref. Mr. Wm. Cook.. FIVE GRIND JUVENILE Nunn' s, by particular desire. TflrS EVENING, A Grand F.Queattlan Comic Panto )11M,, fIARVQUTNI AND KT. GEORGE AND TILE DRAGON; or, the Seven Cham pions of Christendom. A fler which the unequalled Exhilsition of EQITESTRIAN ART In the CIRCLE, Including the performance of 11193 Kate Cook. la leur de rAr&te. The sa4acious Elephants will appear. To conclude with the faithful portraiture of one of the most popular Romances ever written called ROOK WOOD; or, TURPIN'S to YORK. Rox.olice open from Eleven tW Four. Stage Manager. Mr. W. West. v..questrlan lifreetor. W. Cook , . on. EIIGFI WATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE. T flll DAT—Morn. 10 min. aft. 2—Ev.ming 31 min. aft. 2 T )-Moititow—Morn. 52 min. aft. 2'—Evening 8 min aft. 3 THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, JAN. 22. THERNIOMETER, IN THE SEIADE. +54 - hwhest 411101 noon yesterday. 42 -- west this morning and durin the night. 43 -this day et noon. ButoltErv.u. 29 . 46—rising. WM % N.N.E. to N.E. Light, with dull, clld weather, inclining to frost. Heavy rain last evening. tri ) • y s fru./ LONDON, TUESOA r i JANUARY 22, 135 a. If ever there was a time when the welfare and happiness, not only of England but of Europe, required a steady and determined hand to guide the vessel of the State through the shoals and quicksands by which it has been surrounded, it is at this moment. In nautical language, there are "breakers ahead," and it is no ordinary skill and vigilance that will enable us to weather the storm, and to bring the gallant ship, unscathed by the tempest, into a secure haven. We confess that we fear the diplomacy far more than the arms of Russia. In War, although she has many sympa thisers, she has no open and avowed auxiliary. But she has many active abettors in the Council Chamber—and a variety of mysterious influences all operating in her favour, and conducing to trienaphs which she could never achieve by physi cal power, The spirit of " Germanism" which is now, unfortunately, beginning to be but too well understood id this country is rampant on her behalf. Every effort has been made, and we fear will still be made, to save her from the penal consequences of her unconscientious and piratical aggressions to secure her - from the scrape in which she has be en involved without any real humiliation or loos of power, and without giving any adequate guarantee for fitters good conduct. Russia had beeri encouraged by a long course of successful plunder and unexpiated guilt. She was also induced to believe that the pear was actually ripe for the consummation of one of her meatclarling schemes—that she had only to stretch forth her hand to seize the coveted possessio ns of " the Sick Man," to obtain an entry into Con stantinople and complete control over the B oa . phorus and the Dardanelles. She was partly mis led by the position of the Czait's " friend of forty years' standing," " the dear and excellent ABER mils," at the head of the British Government. A very serious misapprehension respecting the in fueace o f M r . COLDEN and his b roa d -b rimmed ceadjutors was another leading cause of error— and the presence of persona in the Cabinet, w h o had grossly insulted th e Emperor of FRANCE, enhanced the delusion. Perhaps there,may have been other causes, that may be developed at some future time, and which are note yet so decidedly dismipate4l as there to which we have above alluded—which have persuaded her that she might still Persevere, with a certainty of eventually, and under the most inau spicious circumstances, obtaining a means of escape from her difficulties wheziever they became overwhelming and irresistible. The forthcoming negotiation, or Conference, offers the last chance of impunity. Should another CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY ELECTION. 46, Chester-square, Jan. 2E, 1856. DIAN. BUNIWAT,—In reply to your letter of yesterday's: date, I am happy to tell you that I am not one of your op ponents, and am not going to stand for the University of Cambridge. The facts are simply these :—On Saturday morning I received the very unexpected information that; some persons of considerable influence at Cambridge, and elsewhere, wished me to come forward as a candidate. I re plied that if they would bring me a requisition sufficiently* weighty to justify my coming forward I would do so. Mr friends, however, soon found that they were too late in tho field ; and that such men as yourself—upon whom, perhaps, they might have counted, if you bad been applied to in the first instance for me—were already actively engaged on one side or the other. I am, therefore, absolved from any obligation to move further in the matter. You will probably be surprised that I should have consented even conditionally to come forward, for I have more work to do than I know how to get through, and there is no one, I ima gine, to whom, personally, a Parliamentary life would be less attractive ; but there are social questions to which, and to the legislation about which, I have of late years given much attention; and it seems to me (perhaps wita the captious ness of a bystander) that these questions are not adequately discussed in Parliament, and that even the voice of one addi tional person who cares about these might be valuable. I felt it, therefore, to be a duty not to reject such an oppor tunity of becoming a Candidate, whatever presumption there might be in seeking to represent a constituency who may justly demand to have the first men in the country as their Representatives. I am thoroughly glad, however, that the burden of contest is not upon my shoulders, but on the far stronger and abler ones of Mr. George Denman, to whom I beg to tender my vote. I remain, my dear Bunbury, ever faithfully yours, ARTHUR HELPS. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee. Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, THE GREAT GUN TRICK. Atter which, HeY DIDDLE DIDDLSeven Ag H es of Man.E; or, arlequin Ring Nonsense and the quarters it is right that the voice of public opi nion should at once unequivocally and irrevocably pronounce against the monstrous suggestion. The propriety, not to say the necessity, of offering additional inducements to the militia to enlist in the regular army, and also of removing existing obstacles to such enlistment, was too obvious not to be generally recognised. The volunteer, on enlistment, found, to his great chagrin and permanent disgust, that one-half of the bounty money, on the faith of receiving which he had enlisted, was withheld' in order to supply him with underclothing and other necessaries of the service, and was not slow in communicating his dear-bought experience to others. The con sequence was, those whom the full bounty would have tempted to volunteer were not to be had for one-half. How such a short-sighted and inequitable policy could ever have been adopted might well excite surprise, were it not that errors of equal magnitude were to be found pervading our entire military system. It is consequently a matter for congratulation that Lord PANNIIIRE has come to the resolution to do away with this forced contribution, and has secured for the volunteer the fulfilment by the State of the bargain into which it has entered ; so that henceforth the sum of 1/. in cash will be handed over to each man when accepted, and the remainder will be credited to his account in the regiment into which he enters. Another hardship—viz., the period in which he had served in the militia counting for nothing on his volunteering into the line—has very pro perly been considered, and it has been ordered that for the future every volunteer above nineteen years of age is to be allowed to reckon one-hay of his militia service after he is eighteen as a part of his service iu the line, in order to entitle him " to pension and any other advantage; such as good conduct pay, &c., belonging to the regular army, provided he shall have completed six months' military service." Both of these cessions are likely to work well and to opeiate as additional inducements to volunteering, however far they may fall short of what is required. Volunteer ing, we may add, will be permitted into any of the regiments of ca►alry, artillery, sappers and miners, foot guards, infantry, and royal marines, where the parties are of the requisite height, and not under eighteen or over thirty years of age, save in certain cases where, on an application to the Inspecting Field Officer of the district, men between twenty-four and thirty-five years of age may be enlisted. The minimum height in the Guards is to be five feet six inches, in the cavalry five feet five and a half inches, and in the infantry of the line five feet four inches—by no means high standards in this country, whatever they may be elsewhere ; but then volunteers aro wanted from the militia regiments in the propor tion of 25 per cent, of their county establishment ; in other words, the militia establishment for the three kingdoms, which consists of one hundred and twenty thousand men, is expected to contribute tb,irty thousanfi volunteers to the regular army! The inducements offered have not, it must be confessed, arrived before they were wanted. State exigencies now and then come between the nobility, when engaged in seldiv playing, and the i n d u l gence of their private inclinations. Thus during the present War the strange anomaly has been presented of commanding officers of mi litia regiments doing their utmost to prevent their men from volunteering into the line. "It was too bad," they seemed to think, " after they had been at the trouble of giving the men a soldierly ap pearance, and were beginning to take pride in commanding theta ) for the recru i ting serjea,nt to ome and run away with their best nen I.t o ben - e campaign be rendered necessary--shoilld the Western Powers show themselves resolved on the vigorous prosecution of the contest—She leTiathan malefactor will have to endure a bitter expiation for her manifold transgressions, and be compelled' permanently to renounce the traditional policy in augurated by Prisn, and continued by CA Till- RINE, by ALRXANDER, and by NICEOL.A.S. An avenging NEMESIS might change the tables, and compel her in turn to give material guarantees— not to Austria, in the rectification of her boundary with Turkey on the line of the Danube, but to Europe, in far more stringent and unwelcome conditions. Under existing circumstances she will struggle for her darling projects—will en deavour to retain the power of doing mischief, and to avoid making any reparation for past atrocities. We regret to say that the opportu nity has been most unwisely afforded. For oven if she new assume the affectation of frankness, and assent to a fair and liberal interpretation of the Austrian Propositions, she will still have ample reason to rejoice at the undue lenity with which she was treated. But if we are tied down within these exceeding narrow limits. If the Fifth Point, by which the power is reserved of " producing in an European interest special conditions over and above the four guarantees," be not pushed to its legitimate results, we have at least the right to expect that there shall be no yielding on any of the matters which are already to a certain extent at least developed. The first symptom of trickery or special pleading should be the signal for break ing off the negotiations, which should never be renewed until Russia come as the humble suitor for peace, on terms so clear and explicit that there could be no possible doubt or difficulty as to their meaning. We have already seen in terpretations attached to documents which the lowest English pettifogger would be ashamed to support. We have seen a thorough disregard of every honourable understanding ; and, judging from past antecedents, and from the notorious perversity of the Muscovite disposition, we can not, and we do not, suppose that there will be a more auspicious result in the present instance. There is but one possible chance of there being so. The Allied Powers must carry on the discussion with inflexible firmness —must not evince the slightest appearance of indecision or yield on even the most trivial point; but, above and beyond all, must urge the vigorous and energetic conduct of the War. /cot only should gigantic preparations be made, for the time when our successes may be fairly followed up in the Crimea, and against Kherson, Nicolaieff, and Odessa, in Bessarabia and in Asia, in the Baltic, and Finland, Courland, Esthonia, and Livonia—but we must strike wherever and whenever there is the opportunity. An armistice in any shape or form would be fatal to the interests of the Western Powers. It would induce Russia aye) and Austria to back out of all their engagementi, and leave the Allies to renew hostilities under the most unfavourable circumstances—all their past triumphs being neutralised, and having the arduous work to commence de novo. It is the " unholy thing" that should be avoided with intense horror —which would inevitably sacrifice the reputation of any statesman who under any circumstances listened to the insidious suggestion. We shall not even for a moment insult either the French or English Governments, by the supposition that they or either of them could be so grievously misled-- hut as the idea has bean thrown out, in German .TH,E SG N k LONDON. TUESDAY EVENING JANUARY 22, 1856. RUSSIA. The Invalide Russe of the 12th contains a report, announcing that at the beginning of September some sharp skirmishes took place between Schamyl's troops and the Russians, under General Kosloffski, in the Upper Kouban, and that the re sult of them was that the Circassians were de feated. It is stated that at that time Schamyl cer tainly intended to support the operations of Omer Pacha, but was prevented by the movements of the Russian general. A letter from Warsaw of the 10th, in the Ham burg Correspondent says :—" The arrangements connected with the reforms to be introduced into the kingdom of Poland, which bad been suspended in consequence of the illness of Prince Paskiewitch, have been resumed. It is said that Poland is to be divided into three governments instead of five, the chief towns being Warsaw, Lublin, and Radom. The g )vernors are to unite the civil and military powers, and are to remain subordinate to the Go vernor-General of the Kingdom. The finance department is to depend altogether on that cf St. Petersburg." TURKEY. A letter from Constantinople of the 7th, in the Gazette dv, Midi, says :—" A deputation of Pro testants waited the other day on the Minister of Foreign Affairs, and after thanking him for the liberty accorded to the exercise of their worship, and for the kindness they have always received from the Turkish authorities, complained that the Turkish government did not allow sufficient facili ties for making proselytes amongst the population, and they demanded that the Sultan should do some thing more for them, namely, issue a proclamation recommending them to his subjects. If thi s s t ep had only be e n t a k e n isolatedly by some fanatic s it m i ght be laughed at, but it is part of a system which comes from a higher soure,, and the deputation were only simple machines in the matter. As may be supposed, Fuad Pacha received them with his ordinary affa bility, but naturally without according them any thing. The order of the Sultan to send young students to Europe has been published, and soon the young men will leave. Divers decrees are being prepared to extend the number of places to which Christians can be admitted. One of them is to admit Christians in common with Turks into the military schools, where they will befed, clothed, and instructed at the ooat of the government s and on leaving will be admitted as officers of thel , .rmy. To the medical school they have been admitted for some years past, and a great portion of the military surgeons of Turkey are Christians. The scheriff of Mecca, Abdul Mouctalet, who is the cause of the sanguinary disorders which have lately taken place in that holy city, has been dismissed, and the Scheriff Binvan nominated in his place. This latter was a few days past conducted in great pomp to the Porte to rece i ve investiture. lle is said to possess great influence over the Arabs." KINBOUEN. A letter from Kinbourn of the sth instant an nounces the arrival in that fortress of the French General of Artillery Le Bceuf. The General had visited the fortifications of the place and the means of defence afforded by the flotilla, and pronounced the place to be in a condition to repel successfully any attack of the enemy. According to the re port of deserters, an attack was to be made on the 6th. The Russians, they stated, had concentrated 16,000 or 18,000 men at Oczakoff, and had as sembled another corps close to the isthmus of Kinbourn, so as to attack simultaueously on two points. The first was to cross over on the ice, with twenty pieces of artillery, while the other was to attack in front. In the night of the 3d two English armed boats proceeded to reconnoitre the coast of the Isthmus, on the Black Sea sid e , b u t after exch ang i ng a ew shots with the Cossacks, they returned without having been able to ascer tain the position or force of the enemy. In the morning of the sth, General Le Bceuf proceeded in the Milan steamer on a reconnaissance in the game direction, but without discovering any large body of troops. On the 4th the Phleaeton explored the coast of Oczakoff, and perceived no hostile move ment. The garrison and flotilla, however, were on the qui vine, and well prepared, and determined to give the assailants a warm reception. On the sth a funeral service was celebrated in honour of Admiral Bruat, on board the Vautour, on which the Superior Commander of the Station, M. Paris, had hoisted his flag. ITALY. - - A letter from Rome of the 10th, in the Piemonte of Turin, says :—." In consequence of the late edict of the Cardinal-Vicar for the observance of Sundays and holidays, the police were actively engaged last Sunday in visiting houses where people were suspected of being at work. Some were arrested and fined. Several gentlemen sus pected of having bought something on that day were stopped in the streets and searched to ascer tain the truth. Yesterday two men, convicted of having murdered the turnkey of the prison Delle Terme, suffered the extreme penalty of the law. They were conducted long before daylight to the place of execution in a close carriage surrounded by gendarmes. Count de Rayneval, the French Minister, who has been seriously ill for some days past, is now recovering." SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 16th have arrived. In the Cortes on that day, the Royal decrees ap pointing M. de la Escosura, M. Lujan, and M. Arias Uria to the Ministries of the Interior, Public Works, and Justice, were read ; after which the Duke do la Victoria, ascending the tribune, said that the modification in the Cabinet which had just been effected was caused by motives of delicacy. The Epoca says that the Credit Mobilier Company intends to propose to exe cute the Northern Railway. The accounts of the inundations are deplorable. At Se ville several streets were under water, as well as the environs. The bakers of the city had been unable to make bread, owing to the want of fuel, and the ornamental trees in the promenades had consequently to be cut down and given to them. To preserve order it was necessary to keep strong detachments of the national guard stationed in front of the Town-hall, and to have strong patrols parading the streets. In the environs of the city considerable losses of corn had taken place, and several persons had lost their lives. Owing to the inundations, the last accounts from the city only came down to the 9th, and at that date the Gua dalquivir was still rising. At Cordova also serious disasters have occurred. PORTUGAL. LIVERPOOL, JAN. 21. The Minho steamer brings letters of the 16th nst. The weather has again become so very stormy that further damage is expected to ships navigating off the coast of Portugal. Public prayers are or dered to be offered in the churches for a cessation of rain, which has already produced much distress. The Peninsular'and Oriental Company's new steamer Pera, with the English mails for Alexan dria, expects to get her machinery made good in time to get away from this port about the 18th inst. The delay of several mails from Spain, attributed to the state of the roads, has g iven rise to re ports of disturbances in Madrid, which are held to be greatly exaggerated. It is even reported that a republic had been proclaimed, and, although it is not believed, it is satisfactory to say that the Por tuguese seem lade likely at present to imitate the Spaniards in any political movement likely to dis turb the Peninsula. The English steamer Arabian has just come into port from Alexandria and Malta for coals, bound for Liverpool, and the French steamer Louise, from Greenock, also for coal -4, going to Marseilles. An English bark, name as yet unknown, got on shore this morning below Belern Tower, and has just been towed off; all saved, by a Portuguese steamer-of-war. Foreign Ships-of-War in Port.—Her Majesty's ship St. George, Captain Eyre. French steamers Newton and Gassendi. THE NIGHTINGALE FUND. The following order has been issued to the army n the Crimea by General Codrington GENERAL AFTER ORDER. Head Quarters, Sehastopol, Jan. 1, 1856. The Commander of the F.,rces has received, by order of Field-Marshal Viscount Hardinge, a copy of resolu tions ac4reed to at a public np.etieg in Llndon. They have reference to Miss Nightingale and those ladies who were with her in the hospitals of this army. The resolutions were in substance : " That the noble exertions of Miss Nightingale and her associates in the hospitals of the East, and the in valuable services rendered by them to the sick and wounded of the British forces, demand the grateful re cognition of the British people. " That, as she does not wish to accept any tribute for her own personal advantage, funds be raised to enable her to establish an institution for the training, suste nance, and protection of nurses and hospital attendants. "That all classes be invited to contribute." Field-Marshal Viscount Hardinge has wished that all ranks of the army be afforded the opportunity of contri buting towards this fund. This can easily be done by company officers being requested to read this order to non-commissioned officers and men, and to take upon r themselves the honourable trouble of collecting whatever is given by them freely and of their own accord. There would b e no va l ue i n an y such offering from the army were it not free and spontaneous. Last year, instead of the Christmas we hav e now passed in ab un d ance , in health, and in Krength, we bad difficulties, we had sickness, we had sad mortality. It was during these days of trial that our wounded and our suffering comrades were helped by th e exert i ons and the devoted earnestness of Miss Nightingale and the ladies who accompanied her. All must have heard, many of this army must have then seen, have known, have benefited by, their kind ness and care in Our hospitals ; for they flinched not from their high duty in the midst of sufferings difficult to be relieved, and of pain impossible to prevent. It is to do honour to such disinterested good that we are asked to assist ; and the money will be devoted to the continuance of these benefits to others, by which we ourselves have well profited. The commander of the forces will give to this fund ono day's pay, on the 6th January, 1856 ; and generals of divisions and heads of departments will be good enough to faeilitate any similar voluntary contributions from officers, non - commissioned officers, and men. The amount to be general, by division staff, by regiments, and by departments, to be received by paymasters, and notified to the military secretary —By order. (Signed) C. A. WINDHAM, Chief of the Staff. Twelfth-day was appointed for the collection to be made throughout the whole army. The amounts are to be collected in hard cash, which will be paid into the commissariat chest, and a bill for the money will be given on the Horn Treasury. The following committee in the Crimea now re ceives and remits subscriptions to England : Attjor-General Lord W. Paulet, C.B. Colonel Wilbraham,' C. B. Staff Surgeon Dr. Hadlpy. Captain Jasper Hall, A.D.C. Rev. E. Parker. Asst.-Com.-General R. Routh. H. Whiffin, Esq., Ordnance Paymaster. THE BOILER EXPLOSION AT LEA BROOK.--The ifl2 quest on the bodies of the men, Michael Gannon, Ed wd. Powell, and Wm. Hubbard, who were killed by the late explosion of a boiler at Lea Brook, Staffordshire, took place yesterday before Mr. Hinchcliffe, coroner. An other man, James Hickman, has died since the adjourn ment on Wednesday, making 5 deaths from the accident. Mr. Brough, a Government inspector of mines, was pre sent, and questioned the witnesses with a view to elicit the cause of the accident. Amon , the facts it was stated by a witness that at the time when the boiler exploded there wa4 a pressure of 351 b. per inch upon it, which the witness said was an extraordinary weight. The inquiry was not concluded when our report was scat off • A RUSSIAN VI - ATV OF RUSSIA'S 1 SUBMISSION. The Nord publishes the following article : " Will it still be pretended that Russia is the ' make bate' of Europe ; that it is Russia that wished for war ? It i> scarcely 43 hours since we said that Russia, listen ing to the unanimous wishes of Europe—which, anxious, ; timid, and foreseeing terrible calamities in the prolonga tion of the war implored peace from her—would not turn a deaf ear to that plaintive voice of humanity, and would make sacrifices with the most noble self-denial. We said so frankly, convinced that we were right, and we have not been deceived. But we should be deceiv ing our readers, and showing ourselves unworthy of the confidence with which we always sought to inspire them, should we pretend that Russia only accepted the propo- ; sitions of peace made to her to please Europe. "It is not for us to develope this argument, for it would not satisfy us, and, thank Heaven, we are inde pendent enough to say what we think. Truly, a Power like Russia should never lose sight of the wishes and interests of Europe. She ought to know, at a pinob, I how to sacrifice her welfare to the happiness of ethers. But there is a limit to all things, even to generosity, even to self-denial. Who would believe it, even if we state it, that Russia has just sacrificed her interests to those of Europe, and that she has shown herself more European than Russian? No one. And we ourselves —we own it—we would not believe it. "We shall therefore be more sincere, and we shall be ; the more readily believed when we say that Russia only accepted the propositions made to her because it was her interest to do so, because she ought to do so ; and we will say why. " Every impartial, loyal, and just-minded man must own that since the commencement of the war Russia was always desirous of peace, and that it always slipped through her fingers because she was never allowed to conclude it. This time she found herself in more ad vantageous conditions to obtain her object. After the heroic defence of Sebastopol the efforts of her adversa ries to seize upon the Crimea failed before the immense obstacles opposed to them by the Russians, and in Asia, where she took the offensive, she achieved a great suc cess by the capture of Kars. " In this position, and still in her full vigour, Russia could await, yet desire peace. She herself made the first propositions, and when those of the allies reached her through the medium of Austria she did not hesitate to accept them, for, with a trifling difference, they were nearly the same which had received her assent at the Vienna conferences. One point only presented itself , for the first time, and seemed to have been purpc,sely la sei ted to prevent once more the work of peace. "Already, on her first refusal, which, however, was not a categorical refusal, Austria evinced an inclination to break off her relations with Russia, and to increase the complications of the war, while at London men ex ulted at beholding Russia once more fall into the snare. She might, in fact, find the whole of Europe arrayed against her, which the force of circumstances and a com plication of insidious engagements would have reduced, even against its will, t 9 that hard extremity. It was here that the real enemies of Russia laid wait for her; it is for this result that England laboured. Russia has upset their calculations, and she has done well. "But we maintain that it was her duty to do so on another ground, which refers to the future—a word which a great power must never lose sight of in its most grave resolutions. What, is, in fact, the real cause of the war ? What is the motive of this general universal mistrust into which the very friends of Russia have been _ driven ? The cause is that which all the most solemn de clarations of Russia have not been able to annul, and which would always have existed as long as no positive and, so to say, material proof has been brought forward to contradict it ; it is th© idea that the dream of the am bition of Russia was the conquest of Constantinople. However absurd, ridiculous, contrary to the most patent facts was such a misconception, nevertheless it was so widely spread—it had struck such deep root in public opinion —that it would always have been an immense and most disadvantageous obstacle to Russia. Her ad versaries, therefore, put a syllogism to her, which, al though coning from an enemy, had, nevertheless, a certain value. "If you are sincere (they said) in your protestations not to wish to seize upon Turkey, why not at one blow demolish that terrible supposition, which, rightfully or wrongfully, will always be suspended over your head, by ceding to the Porte a small tract of land which brings you in nothing, and which is of no possible use to you except for the invasion of the Ottoman empire ! The ' day upon which you make that material concession all Europe will believe that you do not follow the dreams of aggrandisement attributed to you ; it will do store—it will own that it was in error. " faith to Russia has just given this mat er i a l p roo f of goEOV, Europe, and in giving it she exclaims, 'Do believe me now !' • " Russia has therefore destroyed at one blow the im mense distrust which exists on all sides against her, and the snare about to be again laid for her too great suscep- tibility by the hatred of those who regard the present war less as a political than as a national one." their country, as they called it"--ts if the militia were got up for their diversion, and was not looked to as the beet nursery for the regular army, from whence the trained recruit could alone be obtained. This anomaly, we are happy to state, is to exist no longer. Officers commanding militia regiments are strictly enjoined to afford " every facility to the volunteering of their men ; and in case they should refuse to discharge any private who shall be desirous of volunteering, they will transmit their reasons in writing for such refusal to the General commanding the dis trict for reference to head-quarters." The msthe tical commanders in the force have nothing for it but obedience or resignation. The need for volunteers is too great for Lord PANMuRE not to be in earnest, and the ornamental will have to give place to the useful. THE WAR COUNCIL. DOVER, TUESDAY, 6.10 A.M. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, General de la Marmora, General Airey, Sir Harry Jones, Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, and Admiral Dundas, arrived at Dover, on their return from the Council of War at Paris, in the Admiralty steam-yacht Vivid, Captain Smithett, at 5 this morning, and proceeded direct to London by the express mail train at 5.36 a.m. THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. TO THE EDITOR OP THE SUN. SIR,—In page 24 of the paper of observations pub lished by the Committee of Investigation of the Eastern Counties Railway, I find myself described, under the head of " Hackney Wick Branches," as engineer to the contractors for those branches, and as having in that capacity suggested the use of a portion of the Eastern Counties line to those contractors for a sum of 2501. I never was engineer to any contractors on this or any other occasion. I was engineer to the Eastern Counties Railway, and as such I always advised the board of directors for their interests. In the instance referred to they acted on my advice, and the result was that they saved between 3,0001. and 4,010/. Had they not acted as I advised them, they must have incurred the above expense in the purchase of land to appropriate as soil for the execution of these branches, en which there was no excavation whatever. The imputation that these branches were improperly per mitted to be converted into a receptacle for the con- tractors' diggings is, therefore, wholly erroneous. I regret that the committee did not apply to me for information on this subject, but have made this inaccu rate representation without evidence from any party concerned. As extensive circulation has been given to the state ment throughout the country, I ask the favour of being permitted to contradict it in your columns.—l have the honour to be, your obedient servant, GEO. P. BIDDER. 24, Great George-street, Westminster, January 21, 1856. THE WEATHER IN THE CRIMEA. METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS TAKEN AT THE OBSERVATORY, TURKISH CONTINGENT. Corrected Reading of Barom e t er . `i: 0 - U 9 a.m. 3 p.m. 9 p.m. Barom. Attached Barom. ATtitiearcmhed Barom. Attached _—___ ----- ___ Therm__ deg. deg. deg. 22 30'378 30 31'438 31 30'388 29 23 30'498 30 30'470 29 30'502 29 24 30'367 31 30 518 31'5 SO 766 27 to 25 30 , 118 30 30 . 348 31 30 278 29 26 30'226 29 30'144 32 30 154 29 27 30'174 31 30'124 32 30'184 31'5 28 30'290 30'5 30'270 31 30'328 31 5 Mean 30'336 30'2 30 330 31 38'866 2784 i Thermometer. .4 Three -1 Lowest tion of Remarks. A 9 a.m. 3 p.m. 9 p.m. Tempe. Wind. rature. --- ----- de4. deg. deg. deg. 22 24 28 25 19 N Overcast 23 24 23 22 16 N E Cloudy 24 19'5 26 23 14 N Clear 25 17 23 18 12'5 S E Clear 26 17 27 18 14 N E Foggy :47 23'5 25 27 14 N Cloudy 28 26 27 28 22 N W Foggy; evening, __ _ slight thaw -- Mean, 21.5 25 . 5 23 14.2 A. R. IRVINE, Acting Staff Surgeon, Ordnance Department, in Charge of Observatory. Kertch, Dec. 29, 1855. Cornelius O'Brien, Esq., M.P. for Clare, arrived at Limerick on Friday, from his beautiful seat at Bircbfield, and left for Dublin. COURT CIRCULAR. WENDSOR, JAN. 21. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accGmpanied by the Count of Flanders, went out shooting this morning. Viscount Palmerston left the Castle in the forenoon, and the Rev. Dr. Philpott took his departure for Cam bridge. His Royal Highness the Count of Flanders, attended by Captain Burnelle, left Windsor by a special train of the South-Western Railway, at 3 o'clock in the after noon, for London, en route fur Brussols. The Earl and Countess of Stamford and Warrington left town, yesterday, for Paris. Viscount Palmerston returned to town, yesterday, from a visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. The Viscountess Palmerston went to St. Leonards-on-Sea on Saturday last, to visit the Viscountess Jocelyn. Her ladyship returns to town at the close of the week. Lady Macdonald was safely delivered of a daughter yesterday, at the family mansion in Berkeley-square. Lieut.-Colonel Edwin Wodehouse, C. 8., Royal Artil lery, has arrived in London from the Crimea. Mr. and Mrs. Hornby have left Edwards's Private Hotel, in George-street, for the continent. Mr. J. Wilkes has arrived at the same establishment. It was rumoured in Pai is yesterday, that M. de Morny will be the Plenipotentiary for France at the coming Conferences, supposing them to be held abroad. M. du Morny is, it is said, desirous of peace at any price. M. Falloux will shortly publish his history of the two last Assemblies i❑ France—the Constituent and the Legislative. Mr. S. Warren, Q.C., is to be the Conservative can didate to fill the vacancy at Midhurst, of Mr. Walpole, who retires. Orders have been received at Pembroke-yard from the Admiralty to prepare a set of drawings of the Victor Emmanuel (late Repulse) for his Majesty the King of Sardinia. Lieut.-Colonel Edwin Wodehouse, C. 8., Royal Artil lery, has arrived in London from the Crimea. A marriage was celebrated at Kamiesh a few weeks sine. The Address in the Commons will be moved by the Hon. G. H. C. Byng, M.P., for Tavistock, an d secon d e d by Mr. W. E. Baxter, 111,P. for Montrose. In the Bernese Oberland, especially on the St. Go thard route, the temperature is just now extraordinarily mild. The snow melts and falls in heavy avalanches. It is said that Sir J. Dean Paul and Mr. Strahan, the convict bankers, are busily employed in prison, the for mer at tailoring, and the latter at chairmaking. His Excellency the Ambassador of France and the Countess Persigny have issued cards for a dinner party on Thursday next. The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry, who have been staying for some time at Nice, are now on their way to Rome, where they purpose remaining until the spring. The noble marquis and ber ladyship have it in contemplation to visit the Crimea and Sebastopol be fore returning to England. The Earl and Countess of Clarendon arrived in town yesterday, from the Grove. The funeral of the Hon. Mrs. Villiers took place at Watford at the close of last week. The Earl and Countess of Erroll have arrived in Eaton-place, at the residence of Mr. James Duff, M.P., from Scotland. The Earl of Munster has taken a mansion at Rutland gate. The Lord President of the Council, Earl Granville, as leader of the Ministerial party in the House of Lords, gives a full-dress banquet on the 30th, to which the fol lowing peers are invited : —The Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Argyll, the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Clarendon, the Earl of Hat.- rJwby, Earl Spencer, the Earl of Beseborough, the Mar quis of Breadalbane, Viscount Sydney, Lord Stanley of Alderley, Lord Pantnure, Lord Foley, Lord Wodehouse, and the mover and seconder of the address upon the Royal Speech. Viscount Palmerston gives a full-dress Parliamentary baoquet on the 30th inst. to the following :—The Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir G. Grey, the Right Hon. Henry Labouehere, the Right Hon. M. T. Baines, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Sir C. Wood, the Secretary for Ireland, the Right Hon. W. F. Cowper, Sir Benjamin Hall, the Right Hon. R. Love, the Right Hon. E. P. Rouverie, the Right Hon. the Earl of Mulgrave, Lord t E. Bruce, Lord Alfred Paget, Viscount Duncan, Vis count Drumlanrig, the Hon. H. Brand, Sir Maurice F. Berkeley, the Right Hon. G. H. H4yter, the Attorney- General, the Solicitor-General, the Lord Advocate, the Judge-Advocate, Mr. F. Peel, Mr. Osborne, Mr. Mon sell, Mr. J. Wilson, and the mover and seconder of the address to the Royal Speech. Despatches from the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope, the Gambia, Sierra Leone, and the Gold Coast, were received, yesterday, at the Colonial-office. DeePatchest from the Governors of Australia and Malta were sent last evening, from the Colonial-office. .Mrae.Ristori is expected to pe r f orm f or 10 n i g ht d a t Vlinua . in the course of ensuing month. Her return to tha Lama, Paris, may be looked for early in March. 1 The arrangements on the Egyptian railroad give great satisfaction. The railway carriages are very superior, each one cost 4001. The Egyptian Transit Administra tion realised a profit of 75,0001. last year, and the sum is likely to increase when the railway is made use of for the conveyance of Egyptian produce from the in terior. THE num.—Liverpool, Jan. 21.—Owing to the re arrangement of the sailings from New York and Boston for this port, consequent on the return to the old system of despatching the Collins' boats bi-monthly and the Cunard steamers weekly, as before the commencement of the war, no mail will be received at this port until Sunday or Monday next, when the ';'anada, from Boston, will be due. A mail will, however, be brought by the Ara go, due at Southampton on Wednesday or Thursday. AUSTIALIADT MAILS, via SINGAPORE.—At Sydney, advertisements have been issued by the Government for tenders for conveyance of the mails between Sydney and Singapore, via Torres Straits, and the contract is to be entered into from month to month. According to the evidence of Captain Towns, the communication pro posed could be accomplished at the expense of 30,0001. per annum, without reckoning the postage. The vote of the legislature is only 25,0001., but we presume if something in excess of that sum should be absolutely necessary it will not be refused by the Government, or grudged by the future Legislature.—Arratralian and New 2'ealand Gazette. At a meeting of shareholders of the London and Ea,t ern Banking Corporation, yesterday, the directors de clared a dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. for the half year ending the 31st Dec. last, and notified that the business of the corporation will be removed from their present premises at 36, King William-street, to their new house at 27, Cannon-street, just purchased from the General Screw Steam Navigation Company. Sr. KATHARINE'S DOCK COMPANY.—The half-yearly meeting of this company took place yesterday, Mr. J. W. Cater in the chair, when a dividend at the rate of 4 per cent. per annum was declared, and the report was received as satisfactory. A. proposal to increase the distribution to 2f per cent. for the half-year, owing to the development of business, and the large total of the reserve, now 88,8001., although meeting the approval of several of the proprietors, was not generally supported, it being explained both by the chairman and Mr. Glyn that the prospect of competition and other contingencies rendered caution for the present necessary. FRANCE AND THE UNITED STATES.—The French flag was re-hoisted on the consular establishment at San Francisco on the 30th of November, the differences with the local government which led, the consul lately to strike it having been adjusted. The band of the Ameri can commodore, Meloine, played French national airs on the occasion, and the flag was also saluted by the commodore with 21 gums. On the following day the French consul dined on board the American frigate. THE LATE SIR W. MOLESWORTIL—Lady Moles worth, replying to an address of condolence from the tenautry of the late Sir William, observes—" My feeble pen can but inadequately express all I feel—all that is due to hint who is taken from us. But another, who, from his great talents and noble nature, is no mean judge, has borne testimony to his sterling worth. Lord Palmerston, in the letter he has addressed to me on the occasion of the sad blow befalling me, made use of the following words :—' For singleness of mind, honesty of purpose, clearness of judgment, faithfulness of conduct, courage in difficulties, and equanimity in success he never was surpassed ; and deeply must any nation lament the premature loss of such a man ; for voids so created are not easily replaced.' Such words from such a man prove how justly the kind friends I address have formed their opinion." THE SHIPWRECKED MARINERS' SOCIETY.—We learn that this society has just received from the corporation of the Trinity House a gift of 501., and from the East India Company their annual donation of 251. ; also that it has received notice of a legacy of 1001. left to it by the late Miss Elizabeth Herbet. The value of the service rendered to our marine population by this institution may be judged of by the fact, that on Friday last it dis tributed-5001. among the widows of drowned seamen and fishermen ; and it is only lately that it made a disburse ment of 5001. in one week, to relieve the distress caused among mariners and their families by the fearful ship wrecks on our coasts in the beginning of November. MORE ROBBERIES ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAIL WAY.—SOMe short time since this journal announced that a series of robberies bad been committed in the carriages of the Great Western Railway Company, by some person or persons unknown, by removing the first class carriage seat completely ; and although a hand some reward was offered by the company, the thieves have not yet been discovered ; and last night informa -1 tion was given to the police that, at various times and places, on the same line, a very large number of first class carriage curtains, made of brown silk, had been stolen. The company, and also Mr. Collard, the superintendent of the railway police, believe that th e robberie s t oo k p l ace at stations on the line where car riages are kept in reserve. 51. reward is offered for the apprehension of the guilty persons. COFFEE AND EATING HOUSE-KEEPER'S ASSOCIATION. —The half -yearly meeting of this association was held last evening at the Freemason's Tavern, Great Queen street—Mr. Baker, the president in the chair. The minutes of the last meeting having been confirmed, Mr. Rogers, the secretary, read the report, which called attention to the fact that a small debt was due to the treasurer, but the committee considered that by no means discouraging, inasmuch as a sum of 2001. had been recently placed to the society't account at the National Debt•office, which left a trifling balance in hand to meet such emergencies. At the last general meeting t WO additional pensioners had been placed on the fonds—those facts gave sufficient reason for the present ba!aece against the half-yearly audit. The committee also reminded the subscribers and friends of fhe hitherto prosperous condition of the institution. The prevent amount of the funds of the society was 3,220/. Bs. 7d., ( and the committee anticipated that, on the occasion of the annual dinner, which will shortly take place, that amount will be increased. The attention of the meet ing was called to an application for the benefits of the institution on behalf of the widow of an old subscriber. The committee returned thanks for the support given at their late annual ball, which had been a source of profit to the funds. The financial statement showed the re ceipts to amount to 104/. 9s. Bd. for the past half-year, leaving a balance due to the treasurer as above-men tioned. Mr. Kirton moved, and Mr. Chislett seconded, the adoption of the report, which was agreed to nem, con. The election of one pensioner then took place, as recommended by the committee. Some other business of a formal nature having been transacted, a vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceedings. EXTRAORDINARY DISAPPEARANCE OF A GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL.—A greatisensation has been created at the Office of Works by the disappearance of one of the' prin- cipal officials, under very distressing circumstances. It appears that the individual in question left the office on Monday evening about six o'clock, and arrived at home at ten, and left his house again at two o'clock in the morning, from which time to the present no trace of him has been ascertained. A letter was received by his mother without date or address, merely stating that he was well, but without giving any clue to his whereabouts or his reason for absenting himself. From the state ments of his friends, it appears that he has for some time been in a very excited and nervous state, and they are very apprehensive that his mind has become affected. On the same day that he left, a clerk in the Office of Woods and Forests,- there is every reason to believe, destroyed himself, and this painful occurrence may pro bably have operated prejudicially on the mind of the gentleman in question, already, perhaps, in a diseased state. As it is, the police throughout the kingdom are using every exertion to find out what has become o him. JENNY LIND AND' in WORKING MEN OF LIVERPOOL. —A short time ago, during her recent visit to Liver. pool, the working men of this town got up a memorial to Madame Goldschmidt (Jenny Lind), in which, after expressing their high admiration of her great talents, and the pleasure they would experience in bearing them exercised, the/ pointed out that, owing to the necessa rily high prices charged for admission to her concerts, none of the working classes could enjoy the privilege of being delighted, like their richer brethren, by her won derfut vocalism: - They begged her, therefore, to consent to give a concert for the working classes solely, at prices which would not debar the most humble from participating in the rich treat of hearing her "hea ven-born " voice, and they respectfully suggested, in case of her approval of their request, that the en tertainment should take plaCe in the Concert-ball, Lord Nelson-street, as being the peculiar locale of the cheap and popular concerts in this town. The memorial was duly presented, and the fair cantatrice has, with her usual good nature, accorded the boon asked, but conditionally on measures being taken to secure the ad mission to the concert of members of the working classes only. Madame Lind also intimated an objection to sing at the Lord Nelson-street hall, and suggested that St. George's-hall might easily be obtained for the purpose. She also expressed a desire that the price of admission should not be lower than 2s. 6d. The ar rangement, it is said, is in course of being carried out, and the concert will probably take place in a week or two at St. George's-ball, It is to be hoped that those who are not really of the " working classes " will have too much good taste and proper feeling to attempt to take advantage of Madame Goldschmidt's kindness, to' the exclusion of those for whom it is very generously intended. —Liverpool Journal. NEW PUBLIC APPOINTMENTS.—A return to an order of the House of Commons was on Saturday published of all new places created and appointments made since the 9th of April, 1848, with the salaries of each, &c. It appears that in England 2,775 appointments have been so created, with salaries amounting to 427.4801. ; in Scotland 11, with salaries of 5,8451. ; and in Ireland 167, with salaries of 54436/. —making an aggregata total for the united kingdom of 487,4021. It should be ob served that the greater number of the new offices have been in substitution for other offices revised or discon tinued, and that in some cases additions have been made to offices in consequence of the war with Russia. In England the following is the list of some of the offices and departments—viz., in the Adjutant-General's office, 2 offices ; in the Admiralty and Naval departments, 48 ; in the Army and Ordnance (Medical Department), 4 ; in the Audit-office, 24 ; in the Board of Trade, 31 ; in the Charity Commission, 34 ; in the Colonial Land and Emigration-office, 24 ; in the Colonial-office, 1 ; in the Commander-in-Chiefs office, 2 ; in the Commissariat, 1 ; in the Committee of Council on Education, 84 ; in the Customs, 1,054 ; in the Directors of Convict Prisons, 376 ;in the Foreign-office, 74 ;in the Board of Health, 17.; in the Horne-office, 74 ; in the Inland Revenue, 3n ;in the National Debt-office, 3; in the Ordnance, 117 ; in the Post-office, 340 ; in the Stationary-o ffice, 6 ; in the Treasury, 3 ; in the War Department, 27 ; in the War-office, 88 in the Woods and Forests, 10 ; and in the Works and Public Buildings, 54, besides sonic others. LATEST NE WS. BERLIN, JAN. 20. It is said that before the opening of the Con ferences, the Western Powers will demand from Prussia that she shall adopt the propositions ac cepted by Russia, and guarantee for her co-opera tion in case peace should not result from the Con ferences. The most strenuous efforts will be made by Prussia to obtain a participation in the ren(nred. Conferences. Count Benkendorff will bring the confideut,4l communication from the Czar, consequent on th© altered position of affairs. British steamers are narrowly watching all vessels in the Baltic supposed to be laden with arms or munitions of war. A letter has just been received from Vienna, from a well-informed source, stating that Austria is of opinion that Russia has a right to retain all her fortified places on the different coasts of the Black Sea. If such should prove to be the case it is feared that a serious difference of opinion will arise between the allies. Russia, it is said, has been obliged to promise not to have arsenals in the Black Sea, because they would supply her with the means of aggression, but her forts are necessary for the defence of her territory. FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY. The Emperor and Empress yesterday received several foreigners of distinction, who were pre sented by the Apostolic Nuncio, the ministers of Austria, Bavaria, Wurtemberg, and Mecklenburg- Schwerin. His Excellency the British Ambassador presented to their Majesties Sir William, Lady, and the Miss es Cl ay , G eneral Derville, and Lieut.- Colonel Airey. The Emperor yesterday gave a private audience to M. d'Olozaga, the Spanish Minister, recently re turned to Paris from Spain. The Moniteur contains a decree for organising the artillery of the Imperial Guard. Instructions have been sent by the Minister of War to the generals commanding military divisions and sub-divisions for.the distribution of the Eng lish medal in military men of all ranks who have taken part in the campaign of the Crimea, and who are now in France. The following telegraphic despatches have been received in Paris : " MARSEILLES, Jan. 20.—The Jourdain, steam-packet has just arrived, with news from Constantinople to the 10th. General Bazine had returned to Sebastopol. The accounts from the Crimea are to the 6th. The cannonade from the northern forts was still kept up. The weather continued very cold. An expedition into Georgia under General Campbell wai seriously talked of. General Williams is still at Tiflis." " 11IARSEILLES, Jan. 20, Evening. —The accounts from Constantinople state that General Mouravieff, after having destroyed the advanced works of Kars, had left a garrison of 1,000 men in that place, well provisioned, and ordered the main body of his army to march on Gumri. There are at Trebizond a force of 15,000 Turks and Egyptians, the greater part of whom are on their way to the relief of Erzeroum. These troops en dure the most severe privations, and more particularly suffer from the bad state of the roads, which are much encumbered with snow. At Kinbourn the sea is frozen to a distance of two leagues ' • the gun-boats which are froz en u p w ill , i n case of need, act as detached forts round the citadel. The rupture of relations between Persia and England is confirmed. The Shah declined the mediation of France the moment he heard of the fall of Kars. The English Minister, on his side, refused to make any concessions, and has left Teheran with all the English legation. He arrived on the 6th December at at Kious, near Mossoul. The Prince of Servia has dismissed -the editor of a Servian journal for having pub lithed an article extracted from the Northern Bee of St. Petersburg." " VIENNA, Jan. 19.—At the Opera, last evening, the Emperor was received with loud demonstrations of joy, on the occasion of the hopes entertained of peace." BOURSE, Jan. 21.—The following are the last quotations : Cash. fr. e. End of Month. 4i per Cents 94 —f. -- a. 3 per Cents 67 37 67 70 New Loan 63 10 Bank shares 3250 Roman Credit Mobilier 1432 50 Austrian Belgian Fives. ..... .. Spanish Threes Yiedruoutes( (5) RAILWAYS—YOB CASH. tr. c. Othoans llB5 Western 783 75 Northern ... 895 Strasburg Lyons • - ... 1177 50 New Ditto 775 Slediterranean 1295 Grand Central 539 L‘7ons Geneva 7OO Test() Catte AUSTRIA. The Austrian, Gazette of the 17th says :—" The news of peace was known during the course of last night in the highest circles of the capital. The Emperor announced it himself in the course of the evening at the Court ball. His Majesty spoke of the despatch to Colonel Manteuffel, and testified to him the satisfaction he felt at seeing the last differences which had subsisted between Austria and Prussia disappear. This morning the English, French, Belgian, Danish, and Hanoverian ambas sadors assembled at the residence of Count Buol and had a long conference with him, the object of which is said to have been the conclusion of an ar mistice. Couriers were afterwards sent off to Ber lin, London, and St. Petersburg. Count de Stake!. berg, the Russian military plenipotentiary, accom panied by Prince Gortschakoff, had an audience of Count Buol in the course of the morning. The impression produced at Vienna by the Rus sian acceptance was so much the greater that it was unexpected. It is said in diplomatic circles that it was the personal opinion of the Emperor Alex ander which, at a Grand Council held at St. Petersburg, turned the scales in favour of the ac ceptance. The decision of the Emperor of Russia is said to have been partly founded on reports which had reached him on the previous day rela tive to the state of the army. It is said that the Allies will not demand any further territorial con cessions from Russia, or any indemnity for the expenses of the war ; and that Russia has received formal assurances on these points. It is also rumoured that the Conferences of Vienna will not bo resumed, but that Russia will demand the for mation of a congress, to be held in one of the small German capitals, or in Paris." B AI?0N 'NEER ACII AND VIE CZAR. A Paris letter in the Independence Belge con tains the following : Although the result M. Seebach had in view in his visit to St. Petersburg is now in a good way of being realised, some details respecting Ws diplomatist's interview with the Emperor Alexander will not perhaps be uninterest ing. M. Seebach was extremely intimate with the Empe ror Nicholas, and the Emperor Alexander witnessed when very young the friendship which his father main tained with that statesman. The latter was received at the palace immediately after his arrival at St. Petersburg, which city he had not visited for many years. On seeing him the Emperor exclaimed, " What grave events have passed since we last saw each other !" and then threw himself into his visitor's arms. Hie Majesty for some time showed much emotion, and spoke of his father, his childhood, and of the calmer times when he had known M. Seebach. In speak• ing of his 'ather tears ran down his cheeks. But recovering himself with a dignity truly imperial, ho observed, "But we have to speak of more serious matters. Ab, you are not come hoping to weaken rue ?" The Emperor then expressed himself with great clear ness upon the reasons which rendered the establishment of peace desirable, but also upon his duties as the sove reign of Russia, and the difficulties and exigencies of the situation. "My noblesse," said he, "are not prepared to bow the bead. I do not deceive myself upon the gravity of the events in the Crimea, nor upon, the pos sible results of an attack in the Baltic ; but, believe me, whatever may be the situation, and whatever may be likely to arrive, it is much more difficult for me at this moment to make peace than to continue the war. I en counter in deciding for war ten times less resistance amongst my noblesse and my people." CO EVES, ISLE OF WIGHT.—Jan. 21. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) COWES CASTLE. --The members of the Royal Yacht Squdron have appointed a committee to report to the general meeting of the members in May next, as to the extent to which the castle will have to be enlarged to suit it for the requirements of the squadron. G. Bentinck, Esq., E. N. Harvey, Esq., and W. B. Pon son b y , E sq., have, with thei r architect, Mr. Thos. Hellyer, of Ryde, made a minute survey of the premises for this purpose. We hope that in the extensive additions which must be made to the building, its castellated character will be kept up. Aloag FREEHOLDERS.—The National Freehold Land Society have this week offered another of their estatesin the Isle of Wight to their members, in 82 lots, varying in size from half an acre to 6 acres. Twelve have been already taken, containing 21 acres, at a cost of 1,1651. It is situated at Gurnard, about one mile from West Cowes, and commands most extensive and beautiful view,. VALUABLE CARGO.—One of the ships now lying in Cowes Roads (the City of Mobile, from New York to Cowes, for orders) has upwards of 2,000 tons of corn on board. She measures 1,800 tons, and draws 22 ft. 6 in. of water. A DANE JENNY GOLDSCHMIDT-LIND. Madame Jenny Lind sang the soprano part in "Elijah" for th e secon d ti me l as t night, and with all that extraordinary power and beauty which we have already described, It is scarcely necessary to add that she was enthusiastically applauded. The con tralto, tenor, and second soprano parts were en t rusted, as on e previous occasion, to Miss Dolby, M r . / jockey, and Miss Messent, who discharged their various duties zealously and successfully. The only solo piece redo manded was the air "0 ! rest in the Lord," beautifully rendered by Miss Dolby. The other encore was elicited by the trio " Lilt thine eyes," exquisitely sung by Ma dame Jenny Lind, Miss Messent, and Mi ss Dolby. The part of the Prophet was admirably supported by Mr. Weiss, and Mr. Benedict conducted the orchestra with quite full. great skill and energy. The hall was NORTH LONDON OR UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL. —During the past week the committee have received the following generous contributions :—Miss Jane Mor ris, 521. 10s.; Charles Morris, E sq. 1051.; Lewis Cubit, Esq., 311. 10s.; Francis Morg an , Loss OF THREE LIVERPOOL SUITS. --LIVERPOOL, Jan, 91.—The Horizon, anew Ames lean built vessel, belong. ing to Messrs. Moult, English, and Brandon, oltbis port, has become a total wreck on Arklow Bank. She sailed on Thursday last for New Orleans with a full cargo. On the 18th inst. she struck on the bank, and became a total wreck in a short time. The loss is estimated at 15,0001., but it is believed she is insured to her full value in America. The crew escaped. The Mary Green, belonging to the Liverpool and Philadelphia line of packets, was abandoned in a sinking sailedstateonfrtohme this6th inst., iu lat. 51N . and long. 17 W. She port, on the 23d ult., for Philadelphia with a full cargo. The crew were picked up by the Sacsuga, and landed at Falmouth. The schooner Nabs, of Liverpool, was lost on the 16th inst. bet ween Penzance and St. Michael's Mount, having encountered severe gales from thosonthward. The crew were saved. ver wee on to 7 The earl app' day' tion an a brat bold The ence a tot olosin The ♦ours Baltic per so .Tll.O 6 4PPe4 ! Ern i ;;M , 3 Per CI terd ay sPened B Danish be erie namely 103, the exel The f i; " 5 ; Por Cents., 3 Per C ( eertifiei w . 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