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

THE SU N, TO ARRIVE THE SAME EVENING, supplied to any STATION on the EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY, Carriage - Free, by CLAYTON and SON, General Newspaper and Advertising Agents, 265, Strand, London. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENDTG, THE GREAT GUN TRICK. After which. NEI" DIDDLE DIDDLE; or. Harlequin King Nonsense and the Seven Ages of Man. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THE LITTLE TREASURE. After which the New Comic Christmas Pantemime. entitled THE BUTTERFLY'S BALL AND THE GRASSHOPPER'S Harlequin and the Genius eftheiiifng. To conclude with ONLY A HALFPENNY. &LOYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. Cnawas KRAII. THIS EVENING, KING HENRY THE EIGHTH. Queer , Katharine, Mrs. C. Kean ; Cardinal Wolsey, Mrs. C. Kean. After which, HARLEQUIN AND THE MAID AND TM MAGPIE ; or, the Fairy Paradisa and Hanky Panky, the Enchanter. Harlequin, Mr. Cormack ; Clown, Mr. Huline ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paula; and Collin:nine, Miss Caroline Adams. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHY. proprietor, Ur. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celesta, THIS EVENING. (Jo DOMESTIC ECONOM,Y. After which, URGENT PRIVATE AFFAIRS. To conclude with JACK AND THE BEAN STALK; or, harlequin and Mother Goose at Home Again. In which MessrA. J.1314nd, P. Bedford, Madame Celeste, Miss Wyndham, and MLis E. Arden will ap?ear. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. en. Lonely,Messrs. Shepherd and Creawick. THIS EVENING PARIS IN 1792. To conclude with A PRINCE OF P TAMA ; or, Harlequin and lane Shore. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. orgat tisation, respecting which the population itself will be consulted, shall be recognised by then 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 ailhesiont to anything which the Austrian military despotic m 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 ini 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 Government 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 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 gation 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 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 cil 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. Under the direction of Mr: Payne. THIS EVENING. TUE HOLLY TREE INN. After which, HOW IS IT DONE? To conclude with lART.EQVIN BLACK-EYED SUE; or, All In the Down.; and Davy Jones's Locker• ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager. Mr. Alfred Wigan. TEII3 EVENING. THE JEALOUS WIFE. Characters by Messrs. A. Wiz ,n. G. Vining, Emery, Leslie, Dan vers, Mrs. Stirling, and Miss Marston. After which will he produced a New and doubly-moral, th,ugh excessively old, Melodramatic Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE DISCREET PRINCESS; o - , the Three Glass Distaffs. In which Messrs. Emery, P. Robson, H. Cooper, Miss Marstoi, and Miss Maskell will appear. AsTrArs ROYAL AS(PHITHEATRIL Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wm. Cooke. THIS EVENING, Th. popular and Interesting Spectacle de Roman, called WM WOOD; or, TURPIN'd RIDE to YORK. Wondrous adventures, narrow escapes, leap of a five-barred gate, death of the mare Black r: es s After which the SCE 7. , TEA in the ARENA. To conclude with a Grand Equestrian Comic Pantomime, called RARE R:QUIN AND ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON, or the Seven Champions of Christendom. neit-oftice open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W West. Equestrian Director, Hr. W. Cooke. Inn. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. The Fourth Point seems scarcely less obnoxious to the sovereign rights and privileges of the SUL TAN than those attempted to be usurped by Russia, and which led to the War. What is become of JOHN 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 ❑acity more worthy antagonists than the game preservers of St. Stephen's. They would have died game ; some 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 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 I as friend COBDEN advises, lie 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 he. The game might eat up all their corn if it would, and Russian serfs and American slaves might make good the difference—but he, Jonx BRIGHT, was not going to waste his vocal ammunition on worthless tenants-at-will. But JOHN BRIGHT did then forget what COBDEN and BRIGHT do now forget, that our farmers dare no more wag a tongue against the game-preserving Czirs 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 Mr. 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. BRIGHT 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 evet since Mr. BRIGHT beat his retreat. Now a keeper killed or dreadfully wounded—now an aristocrat shot— and times beyond number, far mere, 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 no Tim DAY—Morn. 11 min. aft. 4—Evening 3 t min. aft. 4 Tn-Nomtow—Morn. 57 min. aft. 4 —Evening 21 min. aft. 5 THE WEATHER-SUN OFFICE, JAN. 11. THERMOIfETER, IN THE SHADE. 49.- highest since noon yestentay. 35 -Lowest this morning and during the night. 36 -this day at noon. But all the objections that may be definitive]; urged are far less than those that arise with 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 se contumeliously rejected, giving at the :lame time satisfactory security or " material guarantees " for their due observance, and an ample indemnity for the pecuniary losses occa sioned by her unwarranted and unconscientious aggression. BAROMETER, 29.90 a sudden rise. Wmf, N. to N.N.E.—Light, with fine, cold, frosty weather. -i-f AATni THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 11, 1856, LONDON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1856. I❑ 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 vrai,semblance 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 negotiations 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 GORTSCHAICOFF 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, hang a dog—unless, indeed, the dog on trial were as we have already remarked, when commenting a poor man's lurcher. The tendency of the game on the substance of the so-called ultimatum, is en- laws to turn rustics into criminals and magistrates tirely for the benefit of Austria, who probably into village despots has always been thought hopes to convert h er t emporary occupa ti on i n t o a by humane men their mos t fl agrant evil—the perpetual possessi on . Sh e desires the rect i f i cat i on one which should have kept M r . B RIGET to his of the Russian frontier with Turkey in Europe, work, whether the farmers would do their part or, in other words, with the Danubian Principali- or not. On Thursday we gave a notable illustra ties, which she anticipates making her own. For tion of what game-law magistrates could do, and that she is willing to give up—wha.t 7—" the how readily, in a transport of rage over th e b o d y strong places and territories occupied by th e of a dead pheasant, they could incarcerate a half- Allied Armies." Nothing is to be surrendered witted farmer's crow-boy. Sir GEORGE GREY did within the power of Austria to accede, but she is not this time interfere to vindicate the laws of excessively liberal on all points that have been ac - evidence or the rights of common sense, so Lord quired by thousands of French and English lives, LONDESBORGEEH generously and justly did duty an d millions of French and English treasure, and for the Hom e Se cre t ar y ; his five-pound-note she takes especial care not to complicate the issues by serving the poor lad's reputation quite as well any reference to the Asiatic frontiers of Turkey as a missive from the Home Office could do, or the Muscovite encroachments in any direction and serving his pocket much better. save that of the Danube. Kars is altogether HENRY HOME, a lad somewhat deficient in in ignored—and Russia may, for aught that Austria tellect, was charged with h • • eying killed a pheasant cares, possibly hold permanent possession thereof, belonging—Kee. Was the ownership proved ?)—to and obtai n an am ple e quivalent in Asia for wh a t the Hon. Member f or D over, Mr, E. R. RICE. she surrende rs in Bessarabia. Nor is there any A keeper heard a gun fired, went to the place, saw allusion to the Baltic, o r stipulation against acts the hid on a footpath on the land of the lad's of aggression against the Scandinavian kingdoms, master, and the lad, on being questioned, said he was or the establishment of " standing menaces" shooting rooks. Next morning the keeper found against their integrity or security. So far as can a pheasant dead in the cover, within shot of the he collected from the text above set forth, footpath—it was lying on the ground not con- Austria remains true to the selfish policy which sealed in any way. The keeper watched and saw with her is as " traditional?' as that of aggression the defendant first at 11 a.m., next at 3 p.m., Russia: She cares for Austria, and Austria pass near, but not notice the bird. He then only—and all other matters, albeit of "European went up and charged him with shooting it. The interest," are totally disregarded. poor lad denied it—then admitted that he shot The Danubian Principaliti es are "to receive at the pheasants to scare them away. He did an org'anisation conformable to their wi s h es , t o I not intend to kill it. He only shot at them with their 'wants:, to their interests ; and this new i atones. A magistrate, with the handle Sir to his. ' . i 4 .: _: i 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 Honig here let out a world of wit in weakness, " But there is a terrible many of them other birds, aad 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 orop. He well knew that every grain these preserved vermin scratched up and eat—(for vermin they wore to the farmer) — lost kis 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 3/. and 178. 6d. costs, Or ONE MONTH'S IMPRISONMENT WITH HARD LABOUR Poor MARRY- I work for." " I have no money but what Sir B. BRIDGES—" It :will be a very good warning for you." Poor HARRY— Chairman—" No." Poor HARRY—" I have got 10e." Chairman—" That won't do." " Will you allow me any time ?" 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 for six months ; but starvation and liberty were the choice of a half-witted English lad. What shall we say for the heartless abuse of jus tice for the sake of a cock pheasant by a Bench of English Magistrates ? Lord LONDESBOROUGH, 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 HARRY a 5/. note. Never since five-pound notes were invented was ene better 'used. It goes far to redeem the character of the order—Couaty 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 these 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 gnorance 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 and 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 further from the regions of light than is the lowest poverty from the heaven of the soci.sl scale. Yet •how much after suoh a tour remains to he 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 triumphs, 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. Russ Em. 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 subjects, 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 of 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 o religion, and to whom the name of GOD and of CHRIST was unknown." Having established the truth of his assertions by a reference to the 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 Y 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 ner 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, we come to his dernier resort ; and that is, fur nishing the lower classeswith such means of educa- tion, that their children need not grow up in a _ - state of ignorance so gross and deplorable, 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 daily work which GOD had ordained to be the lot of man, and by which alone they might hope such amelioration might be effected." Einpient, 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. THE DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE AT WINDSOR CASTLE. (From the Court Newsman ) WINDSOR, THURSDAY. A dramatic performance took place this evening, in St. George's Hall. The pieces selected were Mr. Chas. Dance's comic drama, entitled A Wonderful Woman, and Mr. Ozenford's farce of Only a Halfpenny. The following was the programme : A Wonderful Woman. The Marquis de Frontigaac Mr. David Fisher. Viscount de Millefleurs Mr. G. Everett. Rodolph (a young painter) Crepin (a cobbler) Tailor Servants ( Mr. Brazier. Mr. Warren. Madame Hortense Bertrand (a rich widow)... Miss Heath. Cecile (her niece) Miss M. Ternan. Maid Miss Collins. Only a Halfpenny. Mr. Stanley Jones , Mr. Buckstone. Mr. Fitzroy Plantagenet ...... Mr. Chippendale. Henrietta Miss Swanborough. Bridget j Mrs. Edward Fitz william (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 nesses the Duchess of Kent, the Princess Royal, the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Alice, the 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 Yel►erton, Lady Fanny Howard, the Baroness de Speth, the Right Hon. the Speaker and Mrs. Lefevre, the Right Hon. 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 Barnelle, 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 GOLDSC.HMIDT'S CONCERTS. A miscellaneous cones t, the first of a series, was given last night at the Hanover-square Rooms, 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, awl 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 se 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. Nimmo, 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 Cherubinrs overture to Medea, and Jenny Lind then sang the Preghiera from the Frcischutz, " 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 Il Seraglio, very beautifully. M. Otto Gold schmidt next performed Beethoven's fourth Concerte in G major, and showed himself to be a fine performer. He gave a pure and correct reading of the text, and played with a firm hand and brilliant finger. He was more successful in the bold and forcible passages than in those phrases of eantibile melody which demand a legato touch and a vocal quality of tone. Madame G oldschmidt con cluded the first part of the concert by singing the scena " Ab, mie fideli " from Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda ; a composition of little merit. Into the aria, "Ma la eola," 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. Mme. Goldschmidt'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 the was here before. It is quite a musical curiosity, one of the strangest and wildest things imaginable —a singular mixture of grotesquecess and beauty. We need scarcely add that the fair singer was received with all the accustomed enthusiasm, and that M. Gold schrnidt's reception likewise was most cordial. Exeter Hall will be the scene of Madame Gold schmidt's next appearance, on the 21st inst., and a Second Miscellaneous Concert will be held at the Hano ver-square Rooms, on Friday, the 25th of January. The Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter are receiving a distinguished circle at Burghley House, near Stun ford. 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 noon. 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 Calogan and the Ladies 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 °Nem; 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 Cottenham 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 Cran• 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 bei n g the first day o f terns, a f ter w hi c h 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 Hon. W. E. Gladstone, M.P., and Mrs. Gladstone come to town the week after next from Sir Stephen Glynne's seat, Hawarden Castle, Flintshire, for the meeting of Parliament. The Hon. William Bathurst has left town for "Wake field Lodge, ou 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, Wm. Butcher, and Benjamin Long, all salesmen, and deputed by the market to wait on the Honourable the Board of Trade, had an 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 Board of Trade against the Corporation of the City of London, 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 lion. Mr. Robertson, member of the Legislative Council of the province of New Brunswick, had an in terview with Mr. Secretary Labouchere, yesterday, at the Colonial-office, ou the subject of railways in New Brunswick. Sir A. Perrier, Mr. Trines, and Mr. Archibald had interviews, yesterday, with Mr. Secretary Labouchere. THE RECTORY OF 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 recordersbip 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 I leaving England, have the honour of knighthood con fared on him by her Majeety. —Pip/out/4 Marl, LATEST NEWS. 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 more, Marshal Vaillant, Count Walewski, General Canrobert, 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 cf the con dition of the _Bank of France and the branch banks up to Thursday, the 10th of January : .A.ctive.—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., 210 ,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 railwayshares 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 (immettbles) 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, 92 0,570,505 ft 83c. IPasssive.—Capital of the Bank, 9 1,250,000 f. ; reserve of the Bank and branches, ex-banks, 12,980,750 f. 14c. ; reserve immobiliere (fixed re serves) of the Bank, 4,000,000 f. ; bills to bearer in circulation of the Bank, 512,432,000 f. ; bills to bearer in circulation of the branch banks, 95,505,550 f. ; 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, 23,888,114 f. ; dividends due, 4,217,121 f. ; various discounts and interest at, Paris and in the branch establishments, 2,815,713 f. ; commission on deposits, 4,353 f. 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- ratter, and that Russia admitted modifioations. FRANCE. PARIS, THURSDAY EVENING. Orders have been given to make preparations ai 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. Not less than 110,000 tons are to be sent to the former port, and 224,000 to the latter. 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. General Niel, aide-de-camp to the Emperor, aid who had directed the works of attack at the siege of Sebastopol, proceeded to the Place de la Bastille to meet these brave 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 de la Bastille, and, pro ceeding along the boulevards, received just as cor dial a welcome from the inhabitants of Paris as their companions in arms had done on the 29th of December. 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 a fter being received by Marshal M agnan 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 horseb ac k, accom p a nied by Marshals Vaillant and Magnan, Generals Canrobert, Bosquet, Forey, and Espinasse, Col. Fleury, the aides-de-camp and orderly officers of his Majesty, and a detachment of the Cent Gardes. The Emperor was received with loud shouts of " Vive I'Empereur !" and on the Empress appear ing on the balcony, repeated cries of " Vive l'lm peratrice !" arose. His Majesty rode along the line, addressing the officers and men in most eulo- i gistic language, amidst tremendous cheering from ti the soldiers, and then, on his placing himself in 81 front of the Pavillon de l'Horloge, the troops filed 131 off before him, his. Majesty saluting frequently, , 8 ! the Empress waving her hankerchief, and the men cheering loudly as they passed. The whole pro- d c ceedings terminated at half-past one. A vast crowd filled the streets and th e Pl ace d u Carrousel t n to witness the passage of tho troops, and every thing passed off in the greatest order. BOIMSE, JAN. 10, Two o'clock.—The uiarket opened with a slight improvement in consequence of a report th a t 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. 90c. Railway Shares offered. Closing prices. Cash, fr. e. End of Month. 44 per Cents 9l 25 —f. -c. 3 per Cents 62 75 62 93 New Loan 63 75 Bank Shares 3150 Roman Credit Mobilier 1220 Austrian Belgian Fives. ..... .. Spanish Threes — Piedmontese B6 - -Home Debt 341 RAILWAYS—IPOR CASH. fr. c. a Orleans Lyons .... .. 1100 New Ditto. ........ ... 730 Mediterranean ...... 1222 51 Grand Central 555 Loons Geneva ...... 662 50 T es t e . • Cette .......... 660 Austrian Com. ...... 710 AUSTRIA. 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 attaché, 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 Bund 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 au army of 150,000 men somewhere in the neighbourhood of the Rhine, and England blockade the Prussian ports of Stettin, Stralsund, and Dantzic. 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 Bourqueneym 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 de Manteuffel. It is, however, important to know that it has been agreed on between Austria and the Western Powers, that if ttie 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 Decemb er . Thi s i s 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 government will be able to confine itself within the bounds of neutrality. In order to impede the progress of the Cabinet of Vienna, the same game is now resorted to which was attempted in the months of November and December, 1854. 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 22d ult. Then, as now, Russia accepted in 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 for 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 the 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 susceptibilit y o f R uss i a . I n other words, the Court of Berlin returns to the singular idea of imposing the mediation of Germany both cm 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 destined to overpower Muscovite obstinacy. RUMOURED DEATH OF MR. SERGEANT ADAHS.—A rumour was prevalent this morning amongst the mem bers of the legal profession at Westminster Hall that Mr. Sergeant Adams, Assistant Judge at the Middlesex &ssiens, 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 residence. Nothing of any consequence occurred in any of the law courts up to the time of our going to press. Lord Eglieton was on Tuesday afternoon robbed of twenty 5/. notes as he was leaving the National Bank in Edinburgh. THAMES 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 Westmine ster, a railway throughout the same route, and a °on.. nection on the Surrey side between the South-Western and South-Eastern railweys were submitted to P r i nce Albert, in presence of th e dount 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 meme hers of the college were admitted to the Fellowship at a meeting of the Council, on the 10th just. --Messrs. , Richard Robert Midden, Rathmines, Dublin ; William Slyrnan, Newton, Montgomeryshire ; Charles Holding, Ne v Bridle-street ; John Otley, Maidstone ; John Parsons, Bridgewater ; John Robinson Wells, Russell. pace, Fiizruy-square ; Charles Maynard Frost, Lad le, ok square ; William Della Husband, York ; Arthur Martin it Beckett, Sydney ; Richard Forester Wells, Artilierv.place ; John Henry Rogers, East Grinstead ; Alfred Snore, Finsbury-circus ; Henry Halkyard, Old• ham ; Valentine Walshman Blake, Birmingham ; Henry J din Brown, Wilmington-square ; Edward Halford, Hammersmith ; William Henry Ashley, Nottinghill John Crouch Coristophers, York-street, Portman square ; and William Henry Scales, Madras Army. At the same meeting of the Council, Mr. John Atoherley, of Liverpool, a Licentiate of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, was admitted ad eundem member of the c• liege. 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, Esq., 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, E-q., M.P., J. Montgomery, E q., county Down ; the Count de Sails, Colonel Taylor, M.P., and Thomas Verner, Esq., Belfast. It appears from a recent report of Mr. 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 in custody at the county gaol here, charged with the murder of the old woman, Mrs. Dorothy Bewicke, 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 had been assisting in harvest operations about Matfen at the time of the murder. It is not known that he bad had any previous connection with the other pri soners. A detective officer, from London, has been in the neighbourhood during the past month, bet, 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 •f naval and military officers and Government officials) the masses of the people are heartily Fick 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 thee/. THE CLERGY AND THE PEERAGE, asc.—The following clergymen have seats in the House of Lords as lay peers :—Th e R ev . A ugustus Ed war d H o b art, Earl of Buckinghamshire ; Rev. Francis North, Earl of Guild ford ' • Rev. Win. Nevill, E ar l of Abergavenny_; Rev. F. T. Wykeham Fiennes, Lord Sap) anti Sele ; Rey. Ja s , Douglas, Lord Douglas ; Right Rev. Robt. John Eden, Lord Auckland ; Rev. Henry Wm. Powlett, Lord Bay ping ; Right Rev. Thos. Plunkett, Lord Plunkett, and the Rev. James Saurnarez, Lord de Saurnarez. A mong 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 Wm. H. Hope, the Rev. Sir Geo. Wm. Crauford. the Rev. Sir Wm. Lionel Darrell, the Rev. Sir g y. Robt. Dukinfiel4, the Rev. Sir Chas. Farnaby, the Rev. Sir Richard Fleming, the Rev. Sir Henry Faulis, the Rev. H Sir Geo. Lewen Glyn, the Rev. Sir Charles arding°, the Rev. Sir John Warren Hayes, the Bev. Sir Wm. Robt. Kemp, the Rev. Sir Jas. Walker King, th e R ev . 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 Perryng, the Rev. Sir George Prevost, the Rev. Sir George Stamp Robinson, the Rev. Sir Charles John Salusbury, the Rev. Sir J. Flobhouse Culme Seymour, the Hon. and Rev. Sir F. Jarvis Stapleton, the Rev. Sir Aenry Thompson, the Rev. Sir Erasmus H. Williams, and the Rev. Sir John Page Wood. In the Scottish Peerage there are no clergymen, but the names of three appear in the list of Scottish baronets : the Very Rev. Sir W. Cockburn, the Rev. Sir William Dunbar, and the Rev. Sir H. Mon crieff. In the Irish peerag e th ere a re three, b es id es Lord Auckland, who is an Irish as well as an English baron : the Very Rev. henry De Montmorency, Viscount Mountnorres ; the Right Rev. Ludlow Tonson, Lord Riversdale ; and the Very Rev. Henry Vesey Fitz gerald, Lord Fitzgerald and Vesey. Among the Irish baronets there are six clergymen : the Rev. Sir Edward Borrowes, the Rev. Sir N. Chinnery, the Rev. Sir Hercules R. Langriehe, the Rev. Sir William Macart ney, the Rev. Sir Richard .Musgrave, and the Rev. Sir H. J. Walsh. 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 selrode'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 they did not depart 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 bad guaranteed to Austria in case she should be attacked in the Principalities. THE PRINCIPALITIES. cc w e have spoken," says the Presse d'Orient, g , 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 come to superintend the opera tions are about to return to France. 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 b ear i n m i n d th e 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." • SCANDINAVIA. The following is a translation of the circular ad dressed by Baron Stierneld, the Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs, on the 18th ult., to all Swedish envoys, respecting the recent treaty with the Western Powers :--- " S'r,—My last letter bears date of "The disastrous struggle which still continues between Rtissia and the Western Powers has been in its origin as n ! I ts develop ment the source of the most serious reflec• io to the Government of the King. The more the 1 t ggle gained i n ext e nt the nearer the inconveniences r it ar approach our shores, the more had we to con ,id r the d angers i t might bring upon ourselves. From 1 co mmencement of hostilities the Ki ng o p en l y de :la ed the li ne o f act i on h e i n t en d ed to follow, and lu ing the course o f now near l y two years his Majesty leer deviat e d th ere f rom , f or h e h a d carefully we i ghed ,h political circumstances, and r ecogn i se d t h a t th e in ter, sts and tranquillity of his kingdoms indicated the line of conduct which, in concert with his august neighbour the King of Denmark, he had adopted, and hitherto P! 1 maintained. But, while observing the regulations of a strict neutrality, the King could not do othertiise 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 ardent wishes. I " Apprehensions for the future, founded upon rement bi ances 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 thosi ideas might , obtain a development in the north which would be dans- tore to cause us serious embarrassment. France and 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 andto assure the welfare of the nations entrusted to his care r 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 sists, 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 ani mated the Government of the King, and that it will be convinced that, far from wishing to add to the actual complications, the King only thought of anticipating eventualities which might be the source of future ones. "This treaty of alliance has also been communicated to the Cabinet of St. Petersburg. " STIERNELD." THE BRAZILS. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING. The Royal Mail Company's steamship Tay, Cap tain Revett, with the Brazilian and River Plate f mails, has arrived. The Tay's dates are, Buenos Ayres, Dee. 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 arid 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, 271 to 28. 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