The Sun. — London, England, 1856-01-11 00:00:00

THE SU N, TO ARRIVE THE - SAME- organisation, respecting which ' the population EVENING. snpplied to any STATION on the EASTERN COUNTIES RAlLWAY,'Carriage Fre e , ey CLAYTON a n d SON. itself will be consulted, shall be recognised General Newspaper and Advertising Agents, 265, Strand. London. by the contracting Powers, and sanctioned by the SULTAN, as emanating from his sovereign initia tive !" From whence, then, are they to proceed ? Not from the population, for it is only to be con sulted, or, in other words, compelled, to give in its adhesion to anything which the Austrian military despotism now in operation pleases to dictate. Nor is it from the contracting, i. e., the Allied Powers. They are only to recognise it after the population has been consulted —and the SULTAN is placed in the same category, for he is only to sanction it " as emanating from his Sovereign ins tiative." We thus find that it is Austria, and Austria only, that is to dictate the terms which the population is to be con sulted on, the Allies to recognise, and the SULTAN to sanction. Verily, our Governmeit can have profited little by past experience if it has assented to vague stipulations, of which such formidable use may be made at some future THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. TIII3 EVENING, THE GREAT GUN TRICK. After which, 8a Y DIDDLE DIDDLE ; or, Harlequin Eing Nonsense and the Seven Ages of Man, THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMA.RKET. Under the Management of Mr. Backstolle. • THIS EVENING, THE LITTLE TREASURE. After which the New Comic Christmai Pantomime, entitled THE BUTTERFLY'S BALL AND THE GRASSHOPPER'S FE&ST; or, Harlequin and the Genius of the Spring. To conclade with ONLY A HALFPENNY. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OIFORD-STREET. Under the Management of &r. Camila' Klux. THUS EVENING, KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. Queen Katharine. Mrs. C. Kean; Cardinal Wolsey, Mrs. C. K, After which, nAHLEQUIN A.ND TEIF: MUD AN THE MAGNE ; or, the Fairy Paradisa and Hanky Panky, the Enchanter. Harlequin, Mr. Cormack Chwn, %fr. Huline; Pantaloon, Mr Paula: and Colurn',lno, Miss Caroline Adams. time. On the Second Point it will be seen that there is A reservation in favour of the river-bordering, or riveraine States, which, it is stated, " shall be regulated upon the principles established by the Act of the Congress of Vienna as regards the navi 4ation of rivers." Here, again, everything is just as Austria wishes ; and the concession to each of the contracting Powers to keep one or two small vessels stationed at the mouth of the river can scarcely control the supreme authority which Austria would exercise in its own right, and as the occupier of the Turkish river-bordering THEATRR ROYAL ADELPHT. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, 3adame Celeste. THIS EVENTNO. DOMEirre ECONOMY. After which, URGENT PRIVATE AFFAIRS. To conclude with JACK AND THE BE &Y STALK ; or, Harlequin and Mother Goole at Home Again. 111 which Me;gra. J. Bland, P. Redflifq, Madame Celeste. Miss Wyndham, and Miss E Arden will ap)ear. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswick. territories. The Third Point permits the question respect ing the naval force for the coast service to be settled exclusively by Russia and Turkey. This principle of depriving Turkey of the coun oil and advice of her faithful Allies was espe cially repudiated during the late Conferences at Vienna, as well as by the representatives of Turkey as by those of the Western Powers. The Fourth Point seems scarcely lass obnoxious to the sovereign rights and privileges of the SUL TAN than those attempted to be usurped by Russia, snd which led to the War. But all the objections that may be definitively urged are far less than those that arise .vith respect to the vagueness and indecisive character of the propositions which can only lead to interminable and, in all human probability, abortive discussions, and negotiations. We are therefore justified in warn ing the nation not to be deceived by such illusory proceedings, but promptly and peremptorily to insist on the energetic and vigorous prosecution of the War until Russia shall voluntarily sue for terms far more onerous than those which she already so contumeliously rejected, giving at the :Arne time satisfactory security or " material guarantees " for their duo observance, and an ample indemnity for the pecuniary losses occa sioned by her unwarranted and unconscientious aggression. TIIIS EVENING PARIS IN 1792. To conclude with A. PRINCE OF P Ens ; or, Harlelutn and lane Shore. rOYAL RTRA.ND THEATRE,, lJnder the direction of Mr: Payne. THIS EVENING, THE HOLLY TREE INN'. After which, HOW IS IT DONE? To conclude with RARLEQUIN BLACK-EYED SUE; or, All in the Downs and Davy Jones's Locker. R')YAL OLY'APIC THEATRE. Lessee and lfana , ;er, Mr. Alfred Wigan. TUI3 EVENING. THE JEA.LOITI WIFE. Characters by 'Messrs A. Wien, G. Vining, Emery, Leslie, Dan , ♦era, Mrs. Stir'lnc:, and Miss Marston. After which will he prorbico.l a New and deuhiy•moral, though excessively old, Melodramatic Fairy Extravaganza., entitled THE DISCREET PRINCESS; o - , the Three Glass Distaffs. In which Messrs. Emery, F. Robson, IL Cooper, Mi 43 Marston, and Miss Ilaskell will appear. What is become of *Tons BRIGHT, Esq., M.P., and his war with the Game Laws ? Never had champion a better cause; never did Quaker engage in a more bloodless war ; never had pug nacity more worthy antagonists than the game preservers of St. Stephen's. They would have died game ; soma of them would almost have died for game. We should have thought our bellicose philanthropist would have fought such a battle as perseveringly as WILBERFORCE that of Slavery, and VILLIERS that of the Corn Laws. His retreat really half accounts for the BRIGHT and COBDEN policy of " What Next, and Next ?" He had mustered his forces, he had encamped his committee before the enemy, he had fired away I question and answer in right handsome style, he had launched two formidable reports at his oppo nents, all promised well to a determined annual assailant, when, lo ! as friend COBDEN advises, he withdrew his forces entirely, he spent not one shilling more of his English money in the fray ; the farmers were his Germans, and if they whom it most nearly concerned did not see fit to join the attack en masse he would fight no more, not lie. The game might eat up all their corn if it would, and Russian serfs and American slaves might make good the difference—but he, JOHN BRIGHT, was not going to waste his vocal ammunition on worthless tenauts-at-will. But JOHN BR IGHT did then forget what COBDEN and BRIGHT do now forget, that our farmers dare no more wag a tongue against the game-preserving Cz Ira than the German Courts dare remonstrate even with the CZAR of despots. Farmers and German despots well know the penalty they must pay for calling their souls their own. It was not kind, then, of MT. BRIGHT, it really was not, to leave game-law foes on the Northern side and the Mackenzie heights of a Parliamentary majo rity, and bid the farmers to dislodge them if they could. He knew that farmers could not return one man of their class to Parliament. We were reminded of Mr. BRIGIT and his shirking the annual campaign we had looked for by the last of many game law cases which have from time to time appeared in The Sun. There has been no lack of such cases ever since Mr. BRIGHT beat his retreat. Now a keeper killed or dreadfully wounded—now an aristocrat shot— and times beyond number, far more, we may be assured, than ever meet the public eye, some poor Wight sent to the treadmill for a game-law offence, on evidence which would certainly not hang a dog—unless, indeed, the dog on trial were a poor man's lurcluer. The tendency of the game laws to turn rustic 3 into criminals and magistrates into village despots has always been thought by huraane men, their most flagrant evil—the OLIO which should; have kept Mr. BRIGHT to his work, whether thee farmers would do their part or not. On Thu rs day we gave a notable illustra tion of what game -law magistrates could do, and how readily, in a transport of rage over the body of a dead pheasant, they could incarcerate a half witted farmer's cr sow-boy. Sir GEORGE GREY did not this time interfere to vindicate the laws of evidence or the r. fights of common sense, so Lord LONDRSBOROMISII g •enerously and justly did duty for the Home S, scretary ; his five-pound-note serving the poor lad's reputation quite as well as a missive fro rn the Home Office could do, and serving his p ocket much better. HENRY HOILE, a lad somewhat deficient in in tellect, was charg ed with having a killedpheasant belonging—(Qy. Was the ownership proved ?)—to the Hon. Membc • for Dover, Mr. E. It. RICE. A keeper heard a 1 ~ un fired, went to the place, saw the lad on a foo! ,path on the land of the lad's master, wild the lai 1, on being questioned, said he was shooting rooks. Next morning the keeper found a pheasant dead in the cover, within shot of the footpath- .—it Wai lying on the ground not con- cealed in aty Wa3 *. The keeper watched and saw the def e Ddant firs tat 11 a.m., next at 3 p.m., Pass jeer, but notice the bi r d. Ho then went up and charged him with shooting, it. The poor • • lad denied it—then admitted that he shot at , e pheasants to scare them away. Ho did •ot intend to kill it. He only shot at them with Jte , nes , A magistrate, with the handle Sir to his ASTLR'rS ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooks. THIS EVENING, The popular and Interesting Spectacle de Roman, called ROOK WOOD; or, TURPEN't4 RIDE to YORK. Wondrous adventures, narrow escapes, leap of a five-barred gate, death of the mare Black Bess ! After which the SCENEg In the ARENA. To conclude with a Grand F:incstrian Comic Pantomime, called HARLKQUEN AND ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON, or the Seven Champlon3 •f Chrletendom. ko , c•ortlce open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, SI- vv. Cooke, sun. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. TRIB DAT—Morn. 11 min. aft. 4—Evening 34 min. aft. 4 TA-MORROW—Morn. 57 min. aft. 4 —Evening 21 mia. aft. 5 THE WEATHER-SUN OFFICE, JAN. 11. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 42 - highest since noon yesterday. 35 —lowest this morning and during the night. 36 -Wm day at noon. BAROMETER, 29.90 -a sudden rise; WiNtr, N. to N.N.E.—Light, with fine, cold, frosty weather. c )t - _ AM. ~~~ ~, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1856. In our impression of yesterday we extracted from the Independance Beige what it states to be " the text of the propositions submitted to Russia by Count ESTERHAZY." The journal in question should be a good authority on all questions re lating either to Austria or Russia. Although it may not be regarded as a Muscovite organ, like Le Nord, it has still so palpable a leaning to the Russian side of the question—its political glasses have so manifestly been manufactured at St. Petersburg —that we may fairly assume that it will receive early and authentic intelligence from that quarter, to say nothing of its sources of informa tion from Vienna or Berlin. There is also a vraisemblance about the matter that induces us to yield an easy credence. The propositions thus communicated are exactly what we might have anticipated from Austria—looking in some slight degree to the interests of Europe, but with micro scopic power to its own peculiar advantage—if, Indeed, they are intended ever to come into actual operation, or to do more than form a basis for renewed negotiation s as abortive as those which have long since been consigned to " the tomb of all the Capulets." It will, indeed, be obvious to the most superfi cial reader that they are far less precise, and offer much greater opportunities for quibbling than the articles or points communicated by the Plenipo tentiaries of England, France, and Austria to Prince GORTSCHAKOFF on the 28th of December, 1854. Indeed the sense and meaning of the new propositions are virtually the same as those for warded to St. Petersburg more than twelve months since, and which were accepted by the then CZAR, but flagrantly disregarded by his suc cessor. There is but one important difference, and that, as we have already remarked, when commenting on the substance of the so-called ultimatum, is en tirely for the benefit of Austria, who probably hopes to convert her temporary occupation into a perpetual possession. She desires the rectification of the Russian frontier with Turkey in Europe, or, in other words, with the Danubian Principali ties, which she anticipates making her own. For that she is willing to give up—what ?—" the strong places and territories occupied by the Allied Armies." Nothing is to be surrendered within the power of Austria to accede, but she is excessively liberal on all points that have been ac quired by thousands of French and English lives, and millions of French and English treasure, and she takes especial care not to complicate the issues by any reference to the Asiatic frontiers of Turkey or the Muscovite encroachments in any direction save that o f th e Danube. Kars is a lt oge th er ignored—and Russia may, for aught that Austria cares, possibly hold permanent possession thereof, and obtain an ample equivalent in Asia for what she surrenders in Bessarabia. Nor is there any allusion to the Baltic, or stipulation against acts of aggression against the Scandinavian kingdoms, or the establishment of " standing menaces " against their integrity or security. So far as can be collected from the text above set forth, Austria remain s t rue to the selfish policy which 'with her is as cc traditional' as that of augression Russia. She cares for Austria, and Austria 1 only—and all o th er matters, albeit of "Eu ropean I interest," a re t o t a ll y di sregarded. The Danubian Principalities are "to receive an organisation conformable to their wishes, to their wants, to their interests ; and this new Tll Pi SALW, Lo. no 14, vft ii)..4.* - I.E -- ii Aii i N (4. JANU A. It name—Slß B. BRIDGES—here intervened to save the honour of the tenant- Your master, no doubt, told you to shoot the rooks." Poor HARRY HOILE here let out a world of wit in weakness, " But there is a terrible many of them other birds, and I was told to drive all birds off the land." All birds. To be sure—farmer HARVEY suffered ten times more from Mr. RICE'S pheasants than from all the rooks for twenty miles round. Poor HARRY'S little wit was set upon saving his master's crop. He well knew that every grain these preserved vermin scratched up and eat—(for vermin they were to the farmer) lost his master one hundred grains next August. HARRY treated all the vermin alike therefore. HARRY thought it too bad, that when wheat was 80s. a quarter, and bread a shilling the quartern loaf, " them other birds," worse than the rooks, should not share the fate of rooks. Well, such was all the evidence. The Bench " consulted " " considered the case clearly proved against him" —" ordered him to pay 1/. and 17s. 61. costs, or ONE MONTH'S IMPRISONMENT WITH HARD LABOUR ! Poor HARRY—" I have no money but what I work for." Sir B. BRIDGES—" It will b© a very good warning for you." Poor HARRY--" Will you allow me any time?" Chairman—" No." Poor HARRY—" I have got 10s." Chairman—" That won't do." Poor HARRY was accordingly taken to prison ! Probably at the rate of his wages the month's imprisonment and hard labour were not very dif ferent to a fine which would have half starved him fur six months ; but starvation and liberty were the choice of a half-witted English lad. What shall wo say for the heartless abuse of jus tice for the sake of a cock pheasant by a Bench of English Magistrates ? Lord LONDFABOROUGH, to his infinite credit, did something more than burn with indignation for the reputation of the county magistracy, and for a wrong which surpassed the worst tales of rural Turkish justice. He sent poor HA.RItY a 51. note. Never since five-pound notes were invented was one better used. It goes far to redeem the character of the order—Comity Magi strate. Not, however, to redeem the character of that particular Bench—one of whose number could not rest without venting his mortification in a letter of cur-like insolence to his Lordship, which, of course, his Lordship will preserve as a curiosity. Will Mr. BRIGHT return to his old battle with those country justices and the game laws, and leave that with Russia to us ? It will be better than wanting us also to strike our flag. The fact that in this country the extremest ignorance and poverty are to be found daily and hourly alongside of the highest civilisation and luxury to which humanity has, as yet, attained, is too apparent to escape the observation of any intelligent Englishman, and presents too startling an anomaly not to stimulate him now aid then to reflection. He has but to perambulate the lanes and alleys of our cities, to cast a hasty glance at the miserable, crowded, and unwholesome tenements of the poor, and pass from thence to our aristocratic squares, and on to our crowded thoroughfares, to feel convinced that the regions of darkness are hardly farther from the regions of light than is the lowest poverty from the heaven of the social scale. Yet how much after suck a tour remains to be revealed ? What a depth of ignorance, depravity, and woe, what a height of intelligence, benevolence, and enjoy ment confront his eye in the pages of the daily and weekly press. Reports of inquests held by the coroner, of the police-office, of the Courts of Assize, of the gaol and of the peni tentiary, we find alongside reports of festive proceedings of the meetings of philanthropic institutions, of deeds of charity and mercy, of scholastic triumph; and of the results of scientific application directed to the promotion of the natio nal welfare ; alongside of advertisements, also, in which invention offers luxury to enjoyment, com fort to suffering, and the mitigation of toil to the over-burdened who can pay for it. No won der, then, that in dealing with the subject of Ragged Schools, a veteran Statesman like Lord J. RUSSELL should draw attention to an anomaly so patent and so deplorable, and throw out some suggestions in order to its mitigation. The wonder would have been had he not done so. Having noticed the greater attention bestowed of late years than formerly on educational subject', and the progress made both in the quality and accessability of the means of material comfort, so that we were now enabled with small means to obtain clothing and furniture which might have been envied by the richest of the land three or four centuries ago, we find him speaking after this fashion :—" Yet in the midst of this age of civilisation, and in a country proud, and justly proud, of what the labour, the skill, the ingenuity, and the science of man had accomplished, we found that in the midst of society—in London, close by the dwellings of the highest and noblest of the land, in the cities where our great manu factures flourished, and in the townssupplied with every convenience of life—that there were per sons in the lowest class of society, and, in a country which traded with the countries of the whole world, knowing nothing of geography (would that were all !); in a country boasting o: its history and constitution, knowing nothing of that history and constitution ; but more than all, in a country where the light of the Gospel was spread around, knowing nothing of the truth of religion, and to whom the name of GOD and of CHRIST was unknown." Having established the truth of his assertions by a reference to th• reports of the chaplains of gaols and inspectors of prisons, we find him casting about for the cause of a state of things like this. The poverty of the lower classes ? Yes, in their poverty he finds a clue to their ignorance --a poverty which is the result of excessive competition, and which de prives them of the means of doing more than ob tain enough for their daily sustenance—a poverty and a competition which, in his opinion, no law nor the adoption of any socialistic theory could remedy, but which in ours good legislation might greatly mitigate. Having arrived at this conclu sion, hardly worthy of an enlightened Statesman, wo come to his Bernier resort ; and that is, fur- nishing tho lower classes with such means of educa- tion, that their children need - not grow up in a state of ignorance so gross and deplorabl9, but should be put in the way of obtaining, by intelli- gent labour, something more than is necessary for bare sustenance. These means were offered to a Large extent in ragged and industrial schools, which could not be toogenerally or generously supported— schools calculated to improve society, not by means of vague speculation, "but by that plain, practical, patient dilly work which GOD had ordained to be the lot of man, and by which alone they might hope such amelioration - might be effected." Efficient, if not adequate means, doubtless, and such as we also sincerely wish were more gene rally offered ; means, too, which should not, as his Lordship suggests, be suffered to be made available for any other classes than those by whom they are most needed, and were especially designed. LATEST NE WS. THE COUNCIL OF WAR AT PARIS. PARIS, FRIDAY. The Moniteur of this day publishes the follow. ing : "A Council of War met to-day at the Tuileries. The Emperor presided. The Council is composed of the Emperor, the Prince Jerome Napoleon, the Duke of Cambridge, Prince Napoleon, Lord Cowley, Sir Edmund Lyons, Admiral Dundas, Sir Richd. Airey, Sir Harry Jones, General La Mar mora, Marshal Valliant, Count Walewski, General Canroltert, General Bosquet, General Niel, Gene ral Martimquey, Admiral Hamelin, Admiral Jarier de la Graviere, and Admiral Penaud. "The Council is not commissioned to arrange the plan of the approaching campaign, nor to deliberate on the political considerations which might cause one plan to be preferred to another. Its object is to enlighten the allied Governments as to the various military combinations which can be adopted, to foresee all eventualities, and to determine their exigencies. Formed for the greater part of experienced Generals, who have almost all taken a glorious part in the operations; accomplished in the East and in the Baltic, the Council of War can only give advice, which will have been deeply weighed, and furnish proposals, eminently useful for the best employment of the land and sea forces which the Western Powers are preparing. BANK OF FRANCE. PARIS, JAN. 11, 8 A.M. The Moniteur publishes the return of the con dition of the Bank of France and the branch banks up to Thursday, the 10th of January : Active.—Coin and bullion, 81,184,345 f. 260. ; coins in the branch banks, 118,426,113 f. ; bills due yesterday to be paid to-day, 638,424 f. 22c.; portfolio of Paris, of which 86,060,607 f. 77c. come from the branch banks, 235,755,409 f. 97c. ; portfolio of branch bills on the place, 21 0,939,492 f. ; advanced on bullion and moneys, 3,089,000 f. ; advanced on bul- lion and moneys in the branch banks, 1,661,700 f. ; advanced on French public securities, 40,802,236 f. 10c. ; advanced on French public securities in the branch banks, 6,773,250 f.; advanced on rail way shares and bonds 34,210,300 f. ; advanced on railway shares and bonds in the branch banks, 11,145,600 f. ; dis count of Treasury bonds to the Treasury, 40,000,000 f. ; advanced to the State on the treaty of the 30th June, 1848, 60,000,000 f. ; rentes of the reserve bank and its branches, ex bank, 12,980,750 f. 14c. ; rentes, disposable funds, 52,188,783 f. 88c. ; hotel and furniture of the Bank, 4,000,000 f. ; property (immeubles)l of the Bank and branch banks, 5,055,095 f. ; expenses of the administration of the Bank and branch banks, 108,863 f. 93c. ; various, 1,610,142 f. 33c. Total, 920,570,505 ft 83c. Passsive.—Capital of the Bank, 91,250, 000 f. ; reserve of the Bank and braitohes, ex-b Inks, 12,980,750 f. 14c. ; reserve imrnobiliere (fired re serves) of the Bank, 4,000,000 f. ; bills to bearer in circulation of the Rink, 512,432,000 f. ; bills to bearer in circulation of tlie branch banks, 95,505,5501. ; bills and orders payable at Paris and in the branch banks, 5,490,698 f. 98c.; bills (receipts) payable at sight, at Paris and in the branch banks, 4,089,108 f.; Treasury account current creditor (crediteur) 51,372,584 f. 70c. ; current accounts of Paris, 106,806,255 f. 86c. ; current accounts in the branch establishments, 23,888,1141. ; dividends due, 4,217,121 f. ; various discounts and interest at Paris and in tho branch establishments, 2,815,713 f. ; commission on deposits, 4,353 95c. ; re-discounts during the last half-year at Paris and in the branch establishments, 1,738,733 f. 2c. ; dishonoured bills, 7,521 f. 82c. ; sundries, 3,972,000 f.. 40c. Total, 920,570,505 f. 83c. Examined and certified by the vouchers. The Governor of the Bank of France, Count d'ARGOUT. BERLIN, JAN. 9. According to the Gazette de Koenigsberg, Russia has declined the mediation of Austria, and accepts that of Saxony. It is stated from Vienna that Count Nesselrode has declared that the proposi tions of the 22d Dec. presented no absolute cha racter, and that Russia. admitted modifications. FRANCE. PARIS., THURSDAY EVENING. Orders have been given to make preparations at Rouen for the immediate arrival of a very large quantity of gunpowder from the manufactory of the Bouchet, in order to forward it without delay to Brest and Cherbourg,. INTot less than 110,000 tons are to be sent to the former port, and 224,000 to the latter. THE DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE AT WINDSOR CA STLE. (From the Court Newsaan) WINDSOR, THURSDAY. A dramatic performance took p;aco this evening, in St. George's Hall. The pieces selected were Mr. Chas. Dance's comic drama, entitled A IVonderfgl IVonzait, and Mr. Ozenford's farce of Only a halfpenny. The following was the programme : .4 Wonderful Woniag. The Marquis de Frontignac Mr. David Fisher. Viscount de Millefleurs Mr. G. Everett. Rodolph (a young painter) Crepin (a cobbler) Tailor Servan• l ,s f Mr. Brazier. 1 Mr. Warren. Madame Hortense Bertrand (a rich widow) . Cecile (her niece)... Maid .. . Miss Heath. Miss M. Ternan. Miss Collins. Only a Halfpenny. Mr. Stanley Jones Mr. Buckstone. Mr. Fitzroy Plantagenet Henrietta Miss Swanborough. Bridget (late Miss Ellen Chaplin). Director ... Mr. Charles Kean. Assistant Director The theatre arranged and scenery painted by Mr. Thomas Grieve. About eight o'clock her Majesty and his Royal High ness Prince Albert, accompanied by their Royal High- TI , !FiRel4 the Duchess of Kent, the Princess Royal, the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Alice, tlie junior members of the Royal family, and the Count of Flanders, and also by the Earl and Countess Granville, the Austrian Minister, the Marchioness of Hastings and Captain Yelverton, Lady Fanny Howard, the Baroness de Speth, the Right Hon. the Speaker and Mrs. L.,fevre, the Right lion. Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood, the Right Hon. Sir Benjamin Hall, the Right Hon. Spencer and Mrs. Walpole, Rear-Admiral W. A. B. Hamilton, Sir George Couper, and Captain Burnelle, entered the hall, attended by the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, when the performance imme diately commenced. The Queen's private band was stationed in the hall in front of the stage. M. AND MADAME GOLDSCHMILT'S CONCERTS. A miscellaneous concert, the first of a series, was given last night at the Hanover•square ROOllO, by M. and Madame Goldschmidt. It not only served to ex hibit the vocal powers of the Swedish Nightingale in a variety of styles, but also to introduce her husband as a pianist to the British public. There was an admirable orchestra composed of the most eminent players, and the whole concert was exceedingly well got up, under the direction of Mr. Benedict. There was an eager de mand for tickets, notwithstanding the high rates of ad mission ; but care was taken to limit the issue Sc, as to prevent an uncomfortable crowd. Through the provident care of Mr. Mitchell, admir ably seconded by the indefatigable exertions of his acting manager, Mr. Ninarno, although the room was com pletely full, there was not the slightest confusion, and the arrangements were in every respect carried out to the entire satisfaction and comfort of the visitors. The concert began with Cherubini's overture to Medea, and Jenny Lind then sang the Preghiera from the Freischutz, " Rend ob die Wolke," one of the most beau tiful and expressive things in the whole opera. It was given with that intense earnestness of feeling which is peculiar to her, and its effect, aided by the beautiful vio loncello accompaniment of Piatti, was exquisite. Herr Reichardt then sung the aria " Constanze," from Mozart's II Seraglio, very beautifully. M. Otto Gold- Fehmidt next performed Beethoven's fourth Concerts in G major, and showed himself to ba a fine performer. He gave a pure and correct reading of the text, and played with a firm hand and brilliant finger. He was snore successful in the hold and forcible passages than in those phrases of eantibile melody which demand a legato touch and a vocal quality of tone. Madame Goldschmidt con cluded the first part of the concert by singing the scena " Ah, !Me fideli " from Bellini'e Beatrice di Tenda ; a composition of little merit. Into the aria, "Ma la sole," a rondo of a very ordinary kind, she threw a thousand charms of expression and effect which were wholly her own ; but she might easily have selected something more worthy of her powers. The second part began with Mendelssohn's Capriccio in B minor, which M. Goldschmidt executed with great power and brilliancy. Mine. Guldschrnidt's next vocal performance was of a singular description ; some of Chopin's mazourkas, arranged for the voice by her hus band. Chopin's pianoforte pieces are of such excessive difficulty, and in so peculiar a style, that hardly any one but himself has ever been able to do them justice even on the instrument for which they were written. A very different and immeasurably greater pleasure was given by the Scotch ballad, "John Anderson, my jo," which she sang with the most enchanting beauty, simplicity, and feeling, and at the same time with thorough nation ality of character. She concluded with a Swedish me lody, " The Echo Song," which she used to sing when she was here before. It is quite a musical curiosity, one of the strangest and wildest things imaginable —a singular mixture of grotesqueness and beauty. We need scarcely add that the fair singer was received with all the accustomed enthusiasm, and that M. Gold schmidt's reception likewise was most cordial. Exeter Hall will be the scene of Madame Gold schmidt'e next appearance, on the 21st inst., and a Second Miscellaneous Concert will he held at the Hano ver-square Rooms, on Friday, the 25th of January. The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter are recaiving a distinguished circle at Burghley House, near Stain for,l, The mortal remains of the late Venerable Marquis of Ailesbury are to be interred in the family vault at the parish church of Great Bedwin, Wilts, to-morrow fore nson. The Earl of Wilton has arrived in town from visiting the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield at Bretby Park, Derbyshire. The Earl of Romney is staying at Mote Park, his seat near Maidstone, having recently returned there from Scotland. The Earl Ca Logan and the Ladles Augusta and Ho noria Cadogan have arrived at Nice to pass the winter. The Earl of Lousdale has arrived in town from Low ther Castle, Cumberland. The Earl and Countess of Arundel and Surrey, who have been staying in town during the sojourn of Admi ral Sir Edmund Lyons in London, have returned to their seat in Berkshire. The Lord President of the Council and the Countess Granville will come to town to-day from Windsor Castle from a visit to her Majesty. Earl Granville, Lord President, has issued invitations to dinner, on the 29th instant, to the Ministers and Officers of State, for the purpose of settling the Roll of Sheriffs for the present year. The Earl and Countess of Bessborough have arr ived in town from the noble earl's seat in Ireland. The Earl and Countess Spencer have been passing the festive season at Althorp Hall, Northamptonshire, sur rounded by a select circle. The noble earl will come to town for the meeting of Parliament. The Countess of Cottenharn has come to town from a tour of visits. Viscount Palmerston will arrive in town this morn ing, from Broadlands, Hants, in order to attend the Cabinet Council. The Lord Chancellor, accompanied by Lady Clem worth, arrived in town yesterday, from his seat in Kent. The noble and learned lord received the judges, and the leading members of the bar, this forenoon, at break fast, it being the first day of term, after which his lord ship and learned guests proceeded in procession to open the courts of law. Lord and Lady John Russell and family arrived early in the week at his lordship's seat, near Stroud, Glouces tershire, from visiting the Duke and Duchess of Bedford at Woburn Abbey, Beds. Lord Ernest Bruce has left town for Tottenham Park, near Marlborough, Wilts. The Right Ron. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and Mrs. Gladstone come to town the week after next from Sir Stephen Glynne's seat, Ilawarden Castle, Flintshire, for the meeting of Parliament. The Hon. William Bathurst has left town for Wake field Lodge, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Grafton. A motion was brought before the Town Council of Manchester to put down baby perambulating. It was negatived without a division. At the adjourned inquest held on the body of Ensign Macdonald, one of the missing engineers, the jury re turned a verdict of " Found drowned." A deputation from Billingsgate-market, consisting of Mr. James Palmer (chairman), Mr. John Robertson (secretary), Messrs. James Laby, Samuel Hewett, Win. Butcher, and Benjamin Long, all salesmen, and deputed by the market to wait o❑ the Honourable the Board of Trade, bed a❑ interview, yesterday, with Lord Stanley of Alderley and the Right Hon. R. Lowe, at the office of the Board of Trade, to solicit the interference of the B iard of Trade against the Corporation of the City of Loudon, and to prevent further exactions on the sales men. The Corporation have heightened the price of stalls 100 per cent, The Hon. Mr. Fisher, attorney-general (premier), and the Hon. Mr. Robertson, member of the Legislative Counca of the province of New Brunswick, had au in terview with Mr. Secretary Labouchere, yesterday, at the Colonial-office, on the subject of railways in New' Brunswick. Sir A. Perrier, Mr. Trines, and Mr. Archibald had interviews, yesterday, with Mr. Secretary Labouchere.. THE RECTORY OP MAWGAN, IN CORNWALL.—This de sirable piece of church preferment, worth 9001. a year, has been presented by Mrs. Trevelyan, on the part of the patron, to the Rev. Charles Noel Mann, brother of the late incumbent. Mr. Peter Benson Maxwell, of the English common law bar, has been appointed to the vacant recordership of Penang. The salary is, we believe, 2,0001. a year, with a chance of ultimate promotion to the bench of the superior courts in India. The worshipful the recorder of this borough, Wm. Carpenter Rowe, Esq., has been appointed Lord Chief Justice of Ceylon, and will, we understand, prior to leaving England, have the honour of knighthood core ferred on him by her Majesty.—PlyineutA Mail. opened with a slight improvement in consequence of a report that counter-propositions had been made by Russia, but apprehensions of the Bank return, which will be published to-morrow, afterwards caused a retrograde movement, and Threes receded from 63f. 25c. to 62f. 900. Railway Shares offered. Closing prices. - Cub. fr. e. 17ad of Mentz-, , 4 per Cents 9l 25 —f. -c. 1 por Cents 62 75 62 90 Now Loan 63 76 Bank Bhares 3150 Roman Credit Mobilier 1220 Austrian Belgian Fives — Spanish Threes Piedmontese B6 Home Debt ......... RAILWAYS-FOB CABS. fr. c. --- o Or!qatis ........ ..... . . 1115 Western Vomi t s rn Lyons ... ..... 11editerrane an 1222 s') Grand, Central 555 Lyons Geneva 662 50 Teste • • . -- Cette AUSTRIA. PRUSSIA. BERLIN, JAN. 9. There are reports in town to-day that the King will not confine himself to a mere general advocacy of peace in St. Petersburg, but will rather seek to find a middle path between the so-called Austrian proposals and the scheme proposed in Count Nes kielrode's circular of the 22d ult. Count Nessel rode is understood to have already declared that the views therein expressed are by no means in tended to be unbendingly positive, but that, on the contrary, Russia would be willing to agree to mo difications' provided th e y did no t d e p a rt too far from that basis. A private letter from Altona mentions that the Danish Government has now lost all hopes of bring ing anything like a conference together on the sub ject of the Sound Dues. The mission of Colonel von Manteuffel to Vienna is assumed by various parties to have various diffe rent objects in addition to the mere formal delivery of the King's letter. According to some he is to agree with Austria as to terms of a joint motion to be made shortly at the Diet on the subject of an altered position to be assumed by Germany on the Russian question ; according to others Prussia being alarmed at the prospect of widely-extended operations in the Baltic this summer, is apply ing to Austria through him for an assurance of the same support, in case she should be attacked there, as Prussia had guaranteed to Austria in case she should be attacked in the Principalities. The Duke of Cambridge during his stay in Paris will reside at the Palace of the Tuileries, and Ad miral Lyons at the British Embassy. The triumphal entry into Paris of the two bat talions of the 50th and of the three battalions of the 39th lately returned from the Crimea took place on Wednesday. Geneial Niel, aide-de-camp to the Emperor, and who had directed the works of attack at the siege of Sebastopol, proceeded to the Place de la Bastille to meet these bravo troops, as did a battalion of the voltigeurs of the guards, who had formed part of the same division as the 39th and 50th in the Crimea. At half-past eleven o'clock, on General Niel having, with several officers of the Imperial household, placed him self at the head of the troops, the column moved from the Place do la Bastille, an d, pro ceeding along the bouleva r d s rece i ve d j us t as cor dial a welcome from the inhabitantsof Paris as their companions in arms had done on the 29th of Decembhr. The houses were everywhere dressed out, and cheering, crowns of laurel, and waving of handkerchiefs greeted the new-comers along the whole line of march. The column proceeded down the Rue de la Paix, across the PlaceVendome, and thence, without stopping, to the Place du Carrou sel, and through the triumphal arch into the court of the Tuileries, where, after being received by Marshal Magnan and his staff, they ranged them selves in a single line. At one o'clock the drums beat a salute, and the Emperor entered the court ........—___ on horseback, accompanied by Marshals Vaillant SCANDINAVIA.. and Magnan, Generals Caurobert, Bosquet, Foray, The following is a translation of the circular ad and Espinasse, Col. Fleury, the aides-de-camp and dressed by Baron Stierneld, the Swedish Minister orderly officers of his Majesty, and a detachment of of Foreign Affairs, on the 18th ult , to all Swedish the Cent Gardes. envoys, resp ec ti ng the recent treaty . with the The Emperor was received with loud shouts of Western ,_ Powers " Vire l'Empereur !" and on the Empress a pp ear - ~s rmy last letter bears date of ing on the balcony, repeated cries of " Vive l'ltn- "The dis as t rous struggle which still continues between peratrice !" arose. His Majesty rode along the Russia and the Western 'Powers has been in its orig i n as line, addressing the officers and men in most eulo- in its development the source of the most serious reflec gistic language, amidst tremend o u s c h eer i ng f rom stiternuggt,l)e the Gov ernmen t o f th e Ki ng . Th e more the the soldiers, and then, on his placing himself in 2ained in ex t en t the nearer the i nconven i ences : front of the Pavillon de l'Horloge, the troops filed of war approach our shores, the more h a d we t o con ,off before him, his Majesty saluting frequently, eider the dan gers it m i g ht bring upon ourselves. From the Empress waving her hankerchief, and the men the commencouiert of hostilities the King openly de ei'leering loudly as they passed. The whole pro- ciared th e li ne o f ac ti on h o i n t en d ed to fol l ow, an d c aedino.s terminated at h a lf-p as t one. A vast during Majesty never th e course o f now near l y two years h i s crowffilled the streets and the Place du Carrousel thenever deviated therefrom, for he had carefully weighed political circun2s . tances,. and recognised . that in to witness the passage of the troops, and every- terests and tranquillity of his kingdoms indicated the line thing passed off in the greatest order. of conduct which, in concert with his august neighbour BOURSE, JAN. 10, Two o'clock.—Tho market the King of Denmark, he had adopted, and hitherto THE PRINCIPALITIES. " We have spoken," says the Presse d'Orient, t , of the construction of a road between Rassova and Kustendje, to facilitate the communications of the Danube with the Black Sea without passing by the mouths of the river. The works have been completed and the road is now practicable. The engineers who had como to superintend the opera tions are about to return to Franco. This under taking has given rise to interesting medical obser vations as to climate. The soil of the Dobrudscha, which has been represented as impregnated with deleterious miasma, has not been fatal to one of the 300 workmen who have been employed by the engineers. This is a fact worthy of remark, parti cularly when we bear in mind the effects frequently produced by works of this kind, in the most fa voured countries, when opened for the first time. It must be mentioned, however, that the men em ployed were Moldavians and Wallachians, all vigorous, sober, and well inured to fatigue." VIENNA, Jan. 7.—Yesterday evening the Cabi net Messenger, who on the 30th December was sent by Count Valentine Esterhazy from St. Petersburg, had not reached this city. It would be mere waste of time to indulge in conjectures concerning the reply which the Austrian Minister will receive from Count Nesselrode, but it may be observed that the Russian embassy, from Prince Gortschakoff down to his youngest attache, is of opinion that hostilities will recommence as soon as the weather permits. There is a report in circulation which must be mentioned, although no guarantee can be given for its correctness. It is, that if Russia should reject the new propositions, Austria will co-ope rate with the Western Powers in wresting, from the enemy that part of Bessarabia of which men tion has been made in more than one of my recent letters—" if the Bend will promise to give its support to Austria in case she should be attacked in Gallicia." A second on dit is, that in the spring France will concentrate an army of 150,000 men somewhere in the neighbourhood of the Rhine, and England blockade the Prussian ports of Stettin, Stralsund, and Dautzic. The Boersenhalle contains the following in a let ter from Vienna of the sth :—" A conference took place yesterday at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which lasted several hours, and at which Count Buol, Count Arnim, and Colonel de Manteuffel were present. Later in the day, Count Buol had a long conversation with Baron de Bourqueney"' A letter from Vienna of the 6th, in the Constita tionnel, says :—"The ostensible object of the jour ney of Colonel de Manteuffel to Vienna was, as I have already said, to bring to the Emperor an au tograph letter from the King of Prussia. But for that purpose a simple Cabinet courier would have been sufficient, as Count Arnim, the Prussian re presentative at this Court, could have delivered the letter as well as Colonel do Manteuffel. It is, however, important to know that it has been agreed on between Austria and the Western Powers, that if the reply of Russia be such as to preclude all hopes of the prompt re-establishment of peace, the Court of Vienna will not confine itself to the recal of its Ambassador from St. Petersburg, but will, without delay, deliberate in common with the Allies on the most efficacious means for obtaining the object of their alliance, as set forth in Art. 5 of the treaty of 2d December. This is the answer which may be made to those who ask what the recall of Count d'Esterhazy will lead to. Prus sia wishes at any price to prevent an open rupture between Austria and Russia. She feels convinced that on the day when Germany shall learn that Prince Gortschakoff has demanded his passports, there will be, from the banks of the Vistula to those of the Rhine, and from the shores of the Baltic to those of the Adriatic, such an outbust of public opinion that no governeient will be able to confine itself within the bounds of neutrality. In order to impede the progress of the Cabinet of Vienna, the same gathe is now resorted to which was attempted in the months of November and December, 1834. As soon as the Court of Russia was sure that Austria was about to sign a treaty of alliance with France and England, Count de Nesselrode sent to Baron de Budberg the famous despatch of the 6th November, which bears a strik ing analogy to the recent circular note of 221 ult. Then, as now, Russia accepted iu principle the pro positions for peace of the Western Powers, taking care at the same time to surround them with re strictions which essentially weakened their charac ter and bearing, Austria not having considered such an acceptance as serious, took no notice of it, and, in spite of all the efforts used by Russia to prevent it, signed the treaty of the 2d December, and thus ratified her alliance with France and and England. A few days after Prince Gorts chakoff received orders from St. Petersburg to accept purely and simply the four bases which were to serve as the starting point for nego tiations fur peace. Prussia, by the organ of Col. de Manteuffel, wishes at the present moment to persuade the Austrian Cabinet that it should not regard the circular note of th© 22d December as the final word of Russia, leaving it, on the con trary, to be supposed that the Court of St. Peters burg would be disposed to larger concessions, if Germany would also exercise an equitable pressure on the Western Powers, in order to bring about a reconciliation between the belligerent parties without wounding the susceptibility of B USsia. In other words, the Court of Berlin returns to the singular idea of imposing the mediation of Germany both on the Western Powers and on Russia, in order to give peace to Europe. It is needless for me to say that the Court of Vienna does not reject such a proposition less peremptorily now than she did a few months ago, when the Cabinet of Berlin made it the object of a first overture, as I men tioned at the time. There is every reason to believe that the mission of Col. de Manteuffel is connected with a serious plan of acting by surprise, in order to divide Ger many at the moment when the secondary states were disposed to join Austria in order to form a compact faisceau destin e d t o over p ower Muscovite obstinacy. maintained. But, while observing the regulations of a strict neutrality, the King could not do otherwise than consult the lessons of the past, and apply them with wise foresight to the future interests of his king doms, the safety of which is his first duty and the object of his most arileot wisbes " STIERNELD." THE BRAZILS. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING. The Royal ntil Company's steamship Tay, Cap tain Revett, with the Brazilian and River Plate wails, has arrived. The Tay's dates are, Buenos Ayres, Dec. 2d ; Rio de Janeiro, 15th ; Pernambuco, 21st ; Ma deira, 3d ; Lisbon, 7th. She brings 46 passengers, 28,7421. in specie, some jewellery, and the usual cargo. At Buenos Ayres and Montevideo matters were very unsettled. Cholera had disappeared at Rio. The coffee market was active ; prices in sugar had advanced. Exchange, 28. At Pernambuco a few cases of cholera had ap peared. Exchange, 27i to 28. RUMOURED DEATH OF MR SERGEANT ADAMS.—A. ruomur was prevalent this morning amongst the mem bers of the legal profession at Westminster Hall that Mr Sergeant Adams, Assistant Judge at the Middlesex S seine , died last night. HILIARY TERM. —This Day. —This being the first day of Term, the Lord Chancellor, according to custom, re ceived the Judges, Queen's Council, and Sergeants -at law, at breakfast this morning, at his lordship's private re.idence. Nothing of any consequence occurred in any of the law courts up to the time of our going to press. Lord Eglinton was on Tuesday afternoon robbed of twenty 51. notes as ho was leaving the National Bank in Edinburgh. Taamgs ESPLANADE AND RAILWAY.—The plans and model of this scheme, which includes the embankment of the Thames, the elearage of the sewage of London, a direct road for carriages and pedestrians on the north side of the river between London-bridge and Westmic ster, a railway throughout the same route, and a con. nection on the Surrey Aida between the South-Weste rtt and South-Easti4n railw•iys, were submitted to Prince Albert, in presence of the Count of Flanders and Col. Seymour, at Windsor Castle, on Tuesday, by the projec tor, Mr. Wieland, who had the honour of explaining the details to his Royal Highness. On the following day they were inspected by Sir Benjamin Hall, at his offices in Whitehall-place. ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following MGM* biers of the college were admitted to the Fellowship at a meeting of the Council, on the 10th lest. --Messrs. Richard Robert Madden, Rathmines, Dublin ; William Slyman, Newton, Montgomeryshire ; Charles Holding, New Bridge-street ; John Otley, Maidstone ; John Parsons, Bridgewater ; John Robinson Wells, Russell place, Fitzroy -square ; Charles Maynard Frost, Lad brookequa.re ; William Dalla Husband, York ; Arthur Martin h Beckett, Sydney ; Richard Forester Wells, Artilierteplace ; John Henry Rogers, East Grinstead Alfred Smee, Finsbury-circus ; Henry Halkyard, Old• ham ; Valentine Welshman Blake, Birmingham ; Henry John Brown, Wilmington -square ; Edward 'Telford, Hammersmith ; Henry Ashley, Nottinghill ; John Crouch Christophers' York-street, Portman square ; and Willi am Henry Scales, Madras Army. At the same meeting of the Council, Mr. John Atcherley, of Liverpool, a Licentiate of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, was admitted ad curacy; member of the allege, THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY IN IRELAND. —We observe in the last list of patrons and general committee of this successful socie y the following names of noble men and gentlemen connected with Ireland :—The Earl of Bective, M.P., the Hon. Robert Bourke (brother of Lord Naas), R. Burrowes, Esq., M.P., H. Bruen, E sq ., M.P., R. S. G u i nness , E sq., M.P., G. A. Hamilton, Esq., M.P., Hon. J. Pierce Maxwell, M.P., Hugh Lyons Montgomery, Esq., M.P., J. Montgomery, E q., county Down ; the Count de Salis, Colonel Taylor, M.P., and Thomas Verner Esq., B e lf ast. I t appears from a recent rep or t of Mr.i Gruneisen, the secretary, that investors from Ireland are increasing rapidly ; and that the executive committee, although unsuccessful as yet in obtaining an eligible building site near a town or railroad station, are on the anxious look out, and are actually negotiating to make their first purchase in Ireland. THE MATFEN MURDER. —MORPETH, Thursday.—John Simm, one of the men now incustody at the county gaol here, charged with the murder of the old woman, Mrs. Dorothy B,iwicke. at Waterloo, near Matfen, in October last, has made a lengthened statement to the governor of the prison, implicating the other two men. Nothing is as yet officially known further than this as to the con tents of the statement. It has been taken down in writing, but has not yet been submitted to the commit ting magistrates. Simm, it appears, is a native of Ala wick, and bad been assisting in harvest operations about Matfen at the time of the murder. It is not known that he had had any previous connection with the other pri soners. A detective officer, from London, has been in the neighbourhood during the past month, but, we un derstand, has not succeeded in obtaining any material evidence in addition to what has already been made public; it is, however, confidently expected that the statement of Simm will lead to the unravelling of the entire plot of this barbarous murder. GENERAL FEELING IN RUSSIA.--A correspondent writing from Hull, on Monday night, says :—A gentle man of long residence in Russia arrived here en Saturday last from St. Petersburg, which place he left on the 12th Dec. From his own observation and constant intercourse with the Russians, it is certain that (with exception of naval and military officers and Government officials) the masses of the people are heartily sick of the war, and cry out, as loudly as they dare, " for peace at any price." The same gentleman on being asked if the natives of the interior volunteered into the army, as has been repre sented, replied that nothing could exceed the dejected and forlorn appearance of the poor creatures who are brought into the city by carts from the interior. The militia of the empire is also stated to be a miserable apology for soldiers, being composed of men who evi dently dislike the task imposed on thew. THE CLERGY AND THE PEERAGE, &C.—The following clergymen have seats in the House of Lords as lay peers :—The Rev. Augustus Edward Hobart, Earl of Buckinghamshire ; Rev. Francis North, Earl of Guild ford ; Rev. Win. Nevill, Earl of Abergavenny ; Rev. F. T. Wykeham Fiennes, Lord Saye and Selo ; Rev. Jas. Douglas, Lord Douglas ; Right Rev. Robt. John Eden, Lord Auckland ; Rev. Henry Win. Powlett, Lord Bay ning ; Right Rev. Thos. Plunkett, Lord Plunkett, and the Rev. James Saumarez, Lord de Saumarsz. Among the baronets of England there are 29 clergymen :_The Rev. Sir Brooke W. R. Boothby, the Rev. Sir George Burrard, the Rev. Sir Edward H. V. Colt, the Rev. Sir Win. H. Hope, the Rev. Sir Geo. Wm. Crauford, the Rev. Sir Win. Lionel Darrell, the Rev. Sir Hy. Robt. Dukinfield, the Rev. Sir Chas. Farnaby, the Rev. Sir Richard Fleming, the Rev. Sir Henry Faulis, the Rev. Sir Geo. Lewen Glyn, the Rev. Sir Charles Hardinge, the Rev, Sir John Warren Hayes, the Rev. Sir Wm. Robt. Kemp, the Rev. Sir Jas. Walker /Lee the Rev. Sir Charles Macgregor, the Rev, Sir William Vesey Ross Mahon, the Rev. Sir John Barker Mill, the Rev. Sir Thomas Miller, the Rev. Sir Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley, the Rev. Sir Philip Perry ng, t h e R ev . Si r George Prevost, the Rev. Sir George Stamp Robinson, the Rev. Sir Charles John Salushury, the Rev. Sir J. Hobbouse Celine Seymour, the Hon. and Rev. Sir F. Jarvis Stapleton, the Rev, Sir Henry 'Thompson, the t ii he th n e ari S u c s o Peerage there are no Rev. Sir Erasmus H. Williams, and the Rev. Sir John appear in the list of clergymen, Page Wood. b but rho ottfisthhre Scottish baronets : the Very Rev. Sir W. Cockburn', the Rev. Sir William Dunbar, and the Rev, Sir EL Mon crieff. In the Irish peerage there are three, b.sides Lord Auckland, who is an Irish as well as an English baron : the Very Rev. /Leary De Montmorency, Viscount Mountnorres ; the Right Rev. Ludlow nelson, Lord Riversdaie ; and the Very Rev. Henry Vesey Fitz gerald, L ird Fitzgerald and Vesey. Among the Irish harontts there are six clergymen : the Rev. Sir Edward B,,rrowes, the Rev. Sir N. Chiunery, the Rev. Sir Hercules R. Langrishe, the Rev. Sir William Macart ney, the Rev. Sir Richard Musgrave, and the Rev. Sir H. J. Walsh. " Apprehensions for the future, founded upon remem brances too well known to need repetition, and entertained by the obstacles made by Russia to a satisfactory regu lation of the border relations in the northern provinces, were increased still more by the manifestation of ideas of encroachment of that Empire in the East. Under other more favourable circumstances those ideas might obtain a development in the north which would be of a na ture to cause us serious embarrassment. France and 1 England having proposed to his Majesty a defensive treaty of alliance, destined to assure the integrity of the United Kingdoms, the King felt that it was his duty eagerly to accept a guarantee, the utility of which is as patent as it is incontestible. No one can say what eventual contingencies are not hidden in the womb of ' the future, and in such difficult circumstances as the present it is the duty of every Sovereign to look after the maintenance of the independence and to assure the welfare of the nations entrusted to hie care by Providence. It was in this idea that the treaty was concluded on the 20th of last month at Stockholm be tween the united kingdoms on the one hand and France and England on the other, the text of which you will find annexed to the present, and which was ratified at Stockholm on the 30th, at London on the 29th, and at Paris on the 28th of the same month. "Desirous that this act should be brought to the knowledge of the friendly and allied Governments, the King has ordered a copy of it to be sent to you to be communicated by you to the Government to which you have the honour of being accredited. " You will observe, sir, that the terms of the treaty are too precise to admit of any misinterpretation. The alliance which has just been concluded is a defensive one; it will depend upon Russia to prevent its application, as this would not occur unless caused by an aggression on her part. Let Russia respect our rights—let her cease to inspire just cause of alarm for the maintenance of the balance of power in Europe —and this Treaty will not be of any prejudice to her. You will also observe, Sir, that this Treaty does not imply any change in our actual position —our declaration of neutrality still sub slats, and will continue to be adhered to as has hitherto been the case. " I flatter myself with the hope that the Government will render justice to the intentions which have eel- Lated the Government of the King, and that it will be convinced that, far from wishing to add to the actual complications, the King only thoeght of anticipating eventualities which might be the source of future ones. " This treaty of affiance has also been communicated to the Cabinet of St. Petersburg. 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