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HTA Anrn. 26 min. o.ft. 7—Evening 51 min. aft. 7 1.1..1T °RR " Morn. 24 min. aft. 8--Evening 0 min. aft. 9 ?NM - WEATHER—Smi OFFICE, JAN. 31. ° T HERNIOHRTER, IN THE SHADE. 4. - -higheat. since noon yesterday. --lowest thl3 morning and during the night. AI —thhil day at noon. BAROMETER, 30'21. 0 tib, N. W.—Light, with hazy, cold, frosty weather, Two OCLOCK. —Sunshine. , r -- • -7( re wo LONDON, THUIZSaAY, JANUARY 31, 1856, Never was the assembling of Parliament more opportune than at this moment. Questions of deep, almost of vital, importance are under dis cussion, and it is indeed fortunate that the chosen Representatives of the People will have so auspici ous an opprittunity of expressing their opinions and those of the parties through whose favour they are invested with the honourable and arduous cbity. It might have happened all-irnp o e, ant negotiations would occur d that the during the recess, .or a t suc h a distance that they could only , condemn arrangements, that had itnpro' iid en tl y entered into that all ee, could. h ave e ff ected they d. would be expressed by th e adage of "Shutting the stable door aft er the steed had been stolen." But happily V.lis is not the case in the present instance. The "liaht cloud " has not as y et passed from the face of th e moon, and there i s a b undant time to prevent arrangements that might entail very serious consequences on the nation. It is an old Ministerial trick, one that w e h ave repeatedly and unsparingly exposed, to assert that any inquiries are premature until every arrange_ merit has been completed, and the matter has been accomplished. Then it is too late to express an opinion ! Parliament must be contented to sanction that which is irrevocable. It may be very convenient for Ministers if they can induce either branch of the Legislature thus to abdicate its functions, and to be satisfied with merely re oistering the decrees of the G overnment. This would unquestionably be in accordance with the German models set np for English imit a ti on ; but it i s no t congen i al to the British Constitution, T HE SPECTATOR'S MONTHLY SURPLE- for which eur progenitors have so often struggled, MENT. to accompany the Paper of the week ending Saturday February 2, will contain —Political Statistics :—The House of Com- and which they sustained under the most adverse r E n le u ctio a n t th Pa O r i tY en V ogtezof.thet S co es a s o io na n i T a Thln a g t l s s t 2c . e tp a ed es as t s G h e o n w er al circumstances.ing Any plea of "convenience" should the state of the London Joint-Stock Banks, the Banks in Victoria, the Progress of Can a d a from 1800 to 1854—Agricultural Statistics of be promptly an d d ec i s i ve l y repelled by those who, r r o t tl 9 at ,cciruslicBs.s. In additi on to the Reviews of new Books, Fine for the time being, should be the faithful and Advertisements should be sent to the Publishing-office on or before Thursday even i ng , vigilant guardians of popular rights and privi leges. There should be neither a civil nor a military armistice until a final and satisfactory peace—if that be possible had been con cluded. Until that event it will be not only the privilege and the duty of every member to elicit complete information on every point, but to prevent, to the best of his abilities, any result which he may consider injurious either to the honour or the interests of their country. We are told by a morning contemporary that Honourable Gentlemen should " refrain from thwarting in London what is doing in Paris," from " carrying the spirit of free discussion into regions where foi a time, at least, the public in terest imperatively requires that they should not penetrate." We earnestly and emphatically pro test against this slavish doctrine, which may be suited for a despotic clime, but not for the British atmosphere. So far from freedom of speech and of action being injurious under existing circum stances, it offers the only prospect of escaping creditably from the serious difficulty in which we are involved. Let the voice of popular opinion be audibly proclaimed in the Imperial Palace of Westminster, and it will reverberate through all the Cabinets of Europe and of the world, and secure for Great Britain the respect which is not now obtained. Our Transatlantic brethren do not allow themselves to be thus gagged, and their freedom of speech does not lead to any untoward consequences ; on the contrary, it insures the objects which they wish to have effected. It abates what may be termed social nuisances, the sinister intrigues which irresponsible parties may be disposed to carry on for their own priiate purposes s but not for the benefit of the community. If any objection be raised, the answer is ready:—We are free-born Englishmen, not Russian or German s3rfs ; we are governed for our own betiefit, not for that of foreign rela tions 1 We wish to follow the example of "Uncle SAM" rather than of "Uncle LEOPOLD." It may be very well to ask for "generous forbearance ;" but our reptesentatives must be far more simple than their .orinstituents bargained for if they evince it in a maqter in which the safety, honour, and welfare of 'their SOVEREION and her people are so deeply sta:ed, as in the forthcoming negotiations, Great is JOHN BRIGHT of Manchester ! But greater, in our opinion, are'the people of England, and b(itween the two we must all make choice. We have long made ours, and cannot repent of it. 'lf, however, we are, as Mr. BRIGHT declares, but. gone of the modern four hundred lying pro- Phu is who are the veritable autitypes of those who, at 'SATAN'S instigation, counselled AHAB to go up tv , Ramoth Gilead to battle, of course it were vain b o expect repentance of such judicially-hardened F ;inners. Mr. BRIGHT must be thankful that he tenders his advice to no Eastern despot, other wise, since he claims, in contrast to the lying Press, to represent in his own person the faithful " MICAIAII, the son of Radar," he would surely have been fed, like a faithful prophet, " with the bread and water of affliction." His only affliction now has been—political insignificance. Afflictive diet this, no doubt, for an eloquent Leaguer ; it has obviously been rather difficult of digestion, and may account for his sending the whole Press of England literally to the —, (but we refrain from quoting too closely.) Some people may presume to question whether Micaiah, the Member for Manchester, had enjoyed any such special revelat'on as that vouchsafed to the Hebrew prophet ; no such doubt crosses his mind. He has lifted up his eyes, and behold he sees the lying spirit inspiring all the journals, and all the tsliabitants of England scattered on the moun tains as sheep having no shepherd. Rumour speaks of a Manchester penny journal to be pub lished in London, which is even to eject the Times from its throne. As it is designed to con front and rebuke the universally lying papers, we should suggest that its Manchester godfathers bap tise it after their Member by the name of "MICAIAH ; or, the Lying Prophets Rebuked. Price ld." The Peelites and the Society of Friends will take some thousands daily fur gratuitous distribution. It were wearisome work to debate the question with our MICAIAH whether our utterancestave all been wrong and his alone right. We cannot feel much interest in convicting him of error when none of our readers believe him. We can all stand and listen to the rushing torrent of his peculiar eloquence with interest, but it dashes by, and all is over. It has modified no conviction. We perceive that the speaker could, had his passions been en listed on the oth©r side, been equally fluent and vehement. One instance of his violation of all fair ness may be sufficient. He laboured to show that the present Five Points were no advance on the Four Points of last year. Now we have our. selves been ready enough to expose their insuffi ciency, and to show howmiserably they fall short of our fair demands, even in the present position of things. Yet even we have never denied that the difference is substantial and great ; if carried out honestly very great. If the Black Sea ports are dismantled, if Nicolaieff follow Sebastopol as a naval arsenal, if a fleet of frigates be reduced to a few light vessels for each Power, if the Aland Isles be neutralised, these things, added to the cession of Bessarabia and the Swedish Treaty, are surely a very different thing to the Four Points of last year. They include, moreover, the great difference that Russia is now compelled to confess defeat. Before the fall of Sebastopol GORTSCHAKOFF wrote " our fortifications suffer"--and before the Conferences the EMPEROR'S journal wrote officially, that the " threatening aspect of the coalition," and the "sacrifices which continuance of the War will impose on Russia," are her reasons for not delaying to accede to the proposed terms. isTo dissatisfaction with the terms will prevent honest men from perceiving that the difference is great. Mr. BRIGHT'S lengthy illustrations of the cost and the miseries of the War were effectually answered by General TlioarPsoN, who avowed that he did "like to see something like a general polic e in Europe, which should do as we did when down, not we heard o f thieves in Market-street, put them saying that because we lived in St. Ann's-s quareWehad nothing to do with the matter." The question one of wheth er to of war was simply th e mitorial burglary should con tinue to be the con rse of Russia, or should cease for ever in Europe. With much said at the meet ing on the mismaregement of the War, and the base counsels which attacked the Crimea only, in stead of Poland also, we, of course, heartilyconcnr. We believe the cNief reason why pea ce i s now clutched at by 011 the Statesmen of the occasion, i s their fears lest another campaign must bring them into Poland ; and then the dirty in• terests of Germany in Polish slavery would, 0.1 7 eourse, be touched. We have but too often hat Ito insist on the reluctance of our statesmen to , aim at noble soul-stirring ob jects in the pre!. ent War, but we do not on that account think a 4 we have done th rown away. Russia has received a military check which will surely curb her ambition in that line for long to come; and there is much reason to hope that the tens of thousands of her martyred serfs are *liar 'tyrs not only to the madness of their CZA.R, but to the future commercial civilisation of their country. Thrown upon the course of internal improvement by the rebuke of this War, Russia may become deeply pledged to peace as the largest exporting country for raw material of Europe. The Manchester and Reelite party are no doubt well pleased to enter on a peace-making rather than a war sessions of Parliament. We shall have them furious with our Cabinet for every- firm de mand. They will lament over every port and arsenal which Russia is called on to demolisb.— over every efficient guarantee required of her. They will probably cabal to overturn Lord PAL MERSTON'S Cabinet if it first makes the best peace attainable with the present preliminaries, and then watches sedulously that they are complied with to the letter. There is one motion, however, which Mr. BRIGHT ough t himself to bring forward at the earliest period. He entertained his audience on Monday with the whole history of the rise and progress of our National Debt, compared it with the trivial one of the United States (only omitting the nu merous heavy debts of the several Sovereign States), and predicted the sad consequences of the addition of 100,000,0001. more to ours. If he be honest, let him then move " that an address be presented to her MAJESTY, informing her that no peace will be acceptable to this country which does not include the repayment by Russia of th• entire expenses of the War." " The loss of Calais will be found engraven on my heart." The language of an English Queen, to whom, among other possessions of her royal sires, the custody of that English stronghold in France had descended by inheritance. " The loss of Calais will be found engraven on my heart." With such bitter royalty of feeling did she regard that apparently disastrous event. It was a wo manly sentiment the words conveyed ; for the speaker was of the right royal race of the TUDORS. What will history have to record of the fall of Kars ? The loss over which she pondered, it is true, was the loss of part of her inheritance ; but the grief that weighed at her heart was for her sul lied renown. Kars never formed a part of the British territories ; but it was the key of the finest possessions of our Ally the Turk, and he had confided the vindication of his rights and the safety of his territories to the direction of his Allies, and they suffered him to lose so important a stronghold. How bitterly he may ponder over the event, we are unable to say, but the fall of Calais was not more disgraceful to the royal Tudor than the fall of Kars is to the Allies, and more especially the British Government. Into the secrets of royalty we have little desire to penetrate, but we make bold to say that the British nation is stirred to its depths by that crowning disaster of the War, and chafes with universal bitterness of feeling over it. Hitherto Her Majesty the QUEEN has been celebrated for her sympathy with her people, and in the insti tution and vigorous prosecution of a real and not sham inquiry into the fall of Kars, we are pre pared to recognise an equal share on her part in their present regrets, and resolution to have the secret causes of the disaster anatomised, and ren dered palpable to observation. As we all but too well know the prosecution of the War, if prosecution it can be called, had won us little honour, though it had cost us much treasure and blood. The dread artillery of our fleets, before one-half of which in olden times all oven es f inn J. 00:1 lied, had been paraded almost as innocuously as a "raw head" before the unintimidated . foe. The inadequacy of our preparation to meet assault, and the rottenness of our military system, had been laid bare to the whole world. We had struck up an alliance with an old enemy—our enemy, we trust, no longer— as it were but to show him what a bugbear it was that France had held in awe. Our commanders had demonstrated their utter want of scientific generalship, and our Statesmen, up to the advent of the present Premier, the shallowness of their heads the hollowness of their hearts, and the wanton exaction of their hands. Sinope grimly upbraided our supineness. Odessa stood a monu ment of our folly. Inkerman glowed with the needlessly spilt blood of our heroes. The exhala tions of thousands of our gallant dead rose dreadly before Sebastopol ; and the curses of the Princi palities thronged in our ears. The tribes of the Caucasus waxed impatient for the kicking of the beam. Persia was quick with treachery, and the naval powers of the North looked on for an oppottunity to strike home at our foe. Nothing but one-half of Sebastopol, a few easy captures, the proved devotion of our men, soldiers and sailors, testified to our present great ness as an offensive Power, and but hurried prepara tions, whatever their magnitude, to the immensity of our resources, when the defence of Kars be came the theme of every tongue —a defence glo riously conducted by one of our countrymen in the teeth of every conceivable obstacle, and in which he had received no aid, though he had eagerly sought for it. But little exertion was re quired. An efficient force could have been sent to raise the siege and relieve the exhausted strength of its half-starved defenders ; but none was sent, and Kars fell, a prey to famine rather than the sword, laying open Syria itself to the march of the Muscovite invader, and avenging the ruins of Sebastopol. The nation may be ex cused for having entertained the strongest desire for the rescue of Kars on all conceivable grounds, and for being sorely disappointed and ag grieved by its fall. Surely it has a right to be informed of " the reason why," and resolutely to insist on being so. Right or not, it will. PARLIAMENTARY GOSSIP. It is said that Mr. Roebuck will move an amend ment to the Address. The rumour of the intention of Ministers to ad journ Parliament for a fortnight is without any foundation. —Post. law in Great Britain and in Ireland will be pro \ posed to you, which will, I doubt not, receive) your attentive consideration. Upon these and all other matters upon which you may deliberate, I fervently pray that the blessing of Divine Providence may favour your councils, and guide them to the promotion of the great object of my nnvariing solicitude, the wel fare and the happiness of my people. At the conclusion of the reading of the Speech her Majesty and suite left the house. Their Lordships then adjourned till five o'clock. HOUSE OP COMMONS.—(This Day.) The Speaker entered the House, attended by the officials, and took the chair at half-past one. Shortly after that hour the Deputy-Usher of the Black Rod appeared at the bar, and sum moned the members to the House of Lords to hear her Majesty's most gracious Speech from the Throne. The Speaker, in obedience to the command, left the chair, and, attended by nearly all the members present, proceeded to the bar of the House of Lords. After an absence of about ten minutes the Speaker returned, and again resumed the chair. The House then adjourned till a quarter before four o'clock. THE CONFERENCES OF PARIS. The Conferences of Paris will open as speedily as possible. The protocol of Vienna, which records the acceptance of the Austrian proposals by Russia, and provides for the opening of the Conferences, stipulates that they shall meet within three weeks at latest from the signature,of the protocol. The only delay which is likely to arise may be caused by the shortness of the time thus allowed to the special Tdrkish Envoy, who will have to travel the long journey from Constantinople to Paris.—Post. REPRESENTATION OP NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE. -- Sir Montagu Cholmeley is named as the probable successor of Mr. Christopher HaMilton, in the representation of North Lincolnshire. THE REPRESENTATION OF NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE.--We are enabled to state that the Hon. F. W. Campbell, son of the Lord Chief Jnstice, and late Member f or Cambridge, y es t er d ay left London, for the purpose of starting as a candidate for the vacancy caused in the re presentation 6f Newcastle-on-Ty ne b y the ret i rement of Mr. Bl ac k ett. HIGHLAND BALL—The annual ball o f th e Cl u b o f True Highlanders was held last night at the Freemasons Tavern, and was well attended. There was a fair at tendance of gentlemen dressed in the garb of Old Gael, and dancing, to the animated strains of the bagpipe, was kept up to a late hour. OPENIN G OF PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OP LORDS.—(his Day.) Owing to the stirring events of the past year connected with the war in which we are at present engaged, and the probability of peace being con cluded sooner than was anticipated, the opening of the present session of Parliament has been eagerly looked forward to ; and an intense inte rest manifested by all classes of her Majesty's sub jects as to the future course to be adopted by the Ministry in bringing to a termination the present war, in the course of which, notwith standing the difficulties our troops have had to contend with, they have shown that indomitable courage and bravery in the field which have ever attended the British arms, and by which they have been so many times victorious in the present war over numbers far exceeding their own. The weather was very cold, and the sky much overcast, occasional flakes of snow falling during the earlier part of the morning, yet a large con course of persons had assembled along the line of route from Buckingham Palace to the House of Lord; to obtain a sight of her Majesty as she proceeded to open the present eventful session, and who greeted her with enthusiastic cheers of loyalty and affection; but we regret to add that his Royal Highness Prince Albert did not receive so cordial a reception as he has received on former occasions. The attendance of Peeresses and ladies in the magnificent chamber of the Legislature was greater than on any former occasion within our recollec tion-----every available seat, whether in the body of the house or in the galleries, being occupied. The members of the corps diplomatique occupied seats at the back of the Ecclesiastical bench. The attendance of the,:respective Foreign Courts was very large. The Lord Chancellor took his seat on the wool sack at half-past one o'clock. Her Majesty entered the House of Lords shortly after two o'clock, amidst a flourish of trumpets and a salvo of artillery. The house presented at this time a most brilliant and animated appearance, owing to the beauty of the ladies and the brilliancy of their attire, the colours and rays of which were of every hue that the eye can conceive of, and being most tastefully, almost artistically, interspersed, had ,a most pleasing effect. Her Majesty having graciously requested the assembly to be seated, commanded the fisher of the Black Rod to summon. the members of the House of Commons. The Speaker, attired in his robes, shortly after appeared at the bar of the house, attended by a great number of members. HER MAJESTY'S SPEECH. THE RUGELEY MURDERS. The Lord Chancellor then handed the Speech to the Queen, which was as follows Ity LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, Since the dose of the last Session of Parliament, the arms of the Allies have achieved a signal and important success. Sebastopol, the great strong hold of Russia in the Black Sea, has yielded to the persevering constancy and to the daring bravery of the Allied forces. The naval and mili tary preparations for the ensuing year have neces sarily occupied my serious attention ; but while determined toomit no effort which could give vigour to the operations of the war, I have deemed it my duty not to decline any overtures which might reasonably afford a prospect of a safe and honourable peace. Accordingly, when the Emperor of Austria lately offered to myself and to my august Ally the Emperor of the French, to employ his good offices with the Emperor of Russia, with a view to endeavour to bring about an amicable adjustment of the matters at issue between the contending Powers, I consented, in concert with my Allies, to accept the offer thus made, and I have the satisfaction to inform you that certain conditions have been agreed upon which I hope may prove the foundation of a gene ral treaty of peace. Negotiations for such a treaty will shortly be opened at Paris. In conducting those negotiations I shall be careful not to lose sight of the objects for which the War was undertaken ; and I shall deem it right in no degree to relax my naval and mili tary preparations until a satisfactory Treaty of Peace shall have been concluded. Although the War on which I am en gaged was brought on by events in the South of Europe, my attention has not been withdrawn from the state of things in the North, and, in conjunction with the Em- peror of the French, I have concluded, with the King of Sweden and Norway, a Treaty contain ing defensive engagements applicable to his Do minions, and tending to the preservation of the balance of power in that part of Europe. I have also concluded a Treaty of Friendship, Commerce, and Navigation with the Republic of Chili. I have given directions that these Treaties shall be laid before you. GENTLEMEN OF THE House OF COMMONS, The Estimates for the ensuing year will be laid before you. You will find them framed in such a manner as to provide for the exigencies of War, if Peace should unfortunately not be concluded. MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN, It is gratifying to me to observe that, not withstanding the pressure of the War, and the burthens and sacrifices which it Las unavoidably imposed upon my people, the resources of my Em pire remain unimpaired. I rely with confidence on the manly spirit and enlightened patriotism of my loyal subjects for a continuance of that support which they have so nobly afforded me, and they may be assured that I shall not call upon them for exertions beyond what may be required by a duo regard for the great interests, tho honour, and the dignity of the Empire. There are many subjects connected with inter nal improvement which I recommend to your attentive consideration. The difference which exists in several important particulars between the Commorcial Laws of Scotland and those of the other parts of the United Kingdom, has occasioned inconvenience to a large portion of my subjects engaged in trade. Measures will be propoied to you for remedying this evil. Measures will also be proposed to you for im proving the laws relating to partnership by sim plifying those laws, and thus rendering more easy the employment of capital in commerce. The system under which Merchant Shipping is liable to pay local dues and passing tolls has beer/ the subject of much complaint. Measures will be proposed to you for affording relief iu regard to those matters. Other mportant measures for impriking the Court of Queen's Bench—(This Day.) (Sitting' in Banco, before Lord Chief Justice Campbell, Justices Coleridge, Wightmati, and Crampton.) THE QUEEN V. MR. PALMER-THE RUGELEY MURDERS. Mr. James, Q.C., and Mr. Hawkins appeared on the part of Mr. Dean, solicitor, in the prosecution in two of the murders charged against the prisoner —that of his wife and brother—to shf9w cause against the issuing the writ of cc-rtiorari, obtained in the case on Tuesday last. Mr. Huddleston and Mr. Scotland appeared for the relatives of Mr. Cook, also to show cause against the rale. Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and Mr. Gray supported the rule. Mr.'Jameg, in the absence of the Attorney-General, said that from a communication he had had from the latter learned gentleman it was nut his intention to make any opposition to the issue of the writ if their lordships thought it ought to issue, because it could not be doubted that at Stafford and its neighbourhood great excitement prevailed, and the Crown were of opinion it would be safer both for the prosecution and the prisoner that the trial should not take place at Stafford. Mr. Huddleston opposed the issuing the rule, not, he said, from any factious motives, but from the difficulties which he said surrounded the application and the want of jurisdiction of the Court, both of which he explained. Lord Campbell said the question the court had to de termine was whether two certioraris should issue—one to the coroner, to return the inquisitions, and another to the assizes, to return to the court any indictments that might be found. He was of opinion that in this case the ends of justice required it should be done. His lordship said he hoped that, pending the trial, no further public discussion would take place on this case. It was most improper to do so, and was much to be deprecated, and if it could be proved that it was done with an improper motive the parties so offending would be liable to punishment. Rule made absolute. ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. ----An accident, eel tainly not of a serious description, occurred yesterday morning about 1 o'clock, by the down goods train getting off the line, or break down, a few miles south of Warrington. The down mail train, which followed somewhat quickly, was con sequently detained until the luggage wa s go t away. We believe no inj ur y t o lif e or limb was sastained by any ono. The cause of the accident was not made known. THE LATH ACCIDENT IN THE MEDWAY.—On Tuesday a third body was discovered in the river Medway, near Sheerness, which, upon being taken to Brampton Bar racks, was identified as that of Ensign Battine, East India Company's Engineers. To-day the body will be interred at Gillingham ' with milit ar y h onours. STRANGE CASE or SToriDITY.--A gentleman, whose name it is at present unnecessary to mention, yesterday lost 2001. in the following singular manner :—He went inta one of the local banks to deposit about 4001., of which 2001. was in notes, and the remainder in gold and silver. While engaged in counting the gold he placed the notes on the counter beside him ; a person standing near, the bank being crowded at the time, touched him on the shoulder, and, on his looking round, called his attention to the beautiful effect of the decorations of the ceiling. The gentleman looked up, in obedience to this emely suggestion, and, having fully admired the artistic effect, looked down again. His feelings underwent a very disagreeable change when he discovered that his notes and his polite acquaintance had both disappeared. Every inquiry after the notes was in vain ; they had positively disappeared, and the admirer of ornamental architecture was likewise gone. No trace whatever of the notes or the person who is presumed to have taken them has yet been discovered. —Liverpool Daily Thum THE STEAMER BELGlQUE.—Sonthamuton, Jan. 30.-- In accordance with the request of the Mayor, the com mander of the Belgique, Capt. Tack, accompanied by the Belgian consul at this port (Mr. Lefevre), attended before the magistrates this morning. Mr. E. A. Smith, Government officer, Mr. Pocock, solicitar, and several of the passengers were also present. In the course of conversation Mr. Lefevre said that inquiries had been prematurely made, and until a survey of the vessel had taken place the captain could not say whether the pas sengers would proceed to New York by the Belgique or not. It was the intention to have the cargo got out as soon as possible, when an examination of the ship would immediately take place. The company were pre pared to take care of the passengers on board in the interim. Mr. Pocock said that the passengers complained of the want of comfort in theship, and that they could not sleep on board. One of the officers of the ship was com pelled to sleep at an hotel in the town, being ill from the bad accommodation on board the vessel. What the passengers required to know was whether or not an ar rangement could be made for them to sleep on shore. Capt. Tack said that he bad received no complaint from any of the passengers with regard to the sleeping ac commodation since the vessel had been in dock, or he would, if necessary, have made other arrangements. A passenger here stated that, in consequence of the hatches being kept open all night at each end of their portion of the ship, the draught was very great. In fact, it was sufficient to kill either man or beast. He had asked for redress, but could not get it. It was true he had not gone to the captain, but he had made complaints to the officers. After further conversation Capt. Tack promised that the sleeping accommodation of the passengers should be improved, and Mr. Lefevre having stated that a survey would be made by Saturday, the magistrates postponed further inquiry until that day week. THE LATE MURDER NEAR BURNOPPIELD.--We a short time ago stated that 501. reward was offered for the recovery of the watch stolen from the person of Mr. Robert Sterling, who was murdered nearißurnopfie'd, on the Ist of November last. Since the appearance of that paragraph, Major White, the chief constable of Vie county of Barham, has received a letter from Messrs J. and W. Todd, of Glasgow, correcting a mistake made in the former description of the watch. As this inad vertent error on the part of the watchmakers may have been the cause of the hitherto unsuccessful endeavours of the police to recover the lost watch, the corrected de iacription is herewith annexed, which is taken from an e reedy similar watch furnished by the Messrs. Todd, now in the possession of the chief constable :—" De scription of the watch silver patent lever, engine turned, with silver dial, with black hands, and nume rals. The silver face, within the gold figures, is en circled by an engraved wreath; except where interrupted by the seconds dial. No maker's name. No. 3,846." The fallowing articles were also taken from the person of the deceased by his murderers, and any information regarding them should be immediately made known to the police—viz., a portmonnlie bearing on ono s id e a photograph o f t h e D u k e of Wellington, and which ma y be perf o r a t e d b y s h ot ; a dark-coloured' pocket-book, with steel clasp, containing several unanswered letters and memoranda ; two small lancets in a wooden case, one end of which has been repaired with gutta-percha; a bunch of keys, and a small brass padlock attached to a steel ring ; and a penknife with a white handle. A letter from Berlin, of the 24th, in the Hamburg Correspondent, says :—" The English Government has followed up the note which it had addressed to the French Cabinet, on the in terpretation to be given on the fifth point, by a second document on the same subject. It IS lii the form of a circular despatch, addressed to the English legations, in which it makes the neces sary communications on the position of England as regards the question of peace. England ex presses much satisfaction at the unreserved accep tance of the programme of peace by Russia ; bat she. will not consider the object of the war as at tain ed unless Russia consents to a series of other cond)tions which England had previously m a d e know); to the Allied Powers, and with a view to which the fifth point was reserved. These poi n t s have L eon already mentioned, and every one asks whetht Ir Nicolaieff will be comprised in the for tresses to be suppressed in the Black Sea." The 54 Military Society of Prus s i a ' celebrated on the 24th at Berlin the anniversary of the birth of I're derick the Great. The King and princes of the Royal family were present, as were also M. de H um b o ldt, Generals de Wrangel and de Groben, the Miaister of War, and other superior officers. The King's historiographer, M. Preuss, _delivered a suitable speech on the occasion. A letter from Vienna of the 25th says :—"Barou de Born queneY and Sir H am il ton Seymour yester day had .% long conference with Count Buol. Later in the day, the Russian Ambassad or a l so h a d an interview with the same Minister." ft r_. M. DE LAMARTINE. A new periodical, we observe, is announced. t° appear almost immediately from the hand of 0: : illustrious man---a monthly se r i a l, t o b e entitl Cours Familier de Litarature. The character ui ' the und er t a ki ng i s di st i nctly enough foreshadoleci through a d ver ti sement. It will be a publicat> ~ so says the prospectus, designed to promote it , study of universal literature in every aget,,,, every count r y, i n every language ; and to do n, at once with care and intelligence. It is prop by M. de Lamartine, through this new ere! of his opinio ns as a man of letters, that he OP-,56 from time to ti me , th rough its pages, eriticioli the more remarkable works of all times, of lands, of all tongues—and illustrate them bf w o , propriato com mentar i es. The great eutm,,g striving by these means t o i nspire the taste $7l regulate the judgm en t o f even the more ill it e rs among his contemp orar i es. A noble designl design not unworthy o f the genius, an d tbe patriotism, and the eloquence of M, de Le o ; tine. An ambition b e fi tt i ng the poe t o " Jocelyn," the historian of the " Gli t aB ° dins," the crea t or o f " Raphael," .'bio Tribune of February ! An apparently feas l enterprise, this is, moreover, this same scheme, er a monthly ma gaz i ne t o b e ent i tled Cours Foos , de Litterature---Par Lamartine de r Aeade° Francaise. Feasible, we mean, as an i nstruc tor ° i vast masses of th e F renc h popu l at i on, both lettered and unlett ere d. F or t h e subscriptions are at no more than twenty francs altogether ! that the periodical will be within the reach of" lp most everyone. Withi n th e i r reach—and tem p t 11! grasp by h ow many attract i ons! For exarar It will be written entirely by the hand of LO A ; tine ! L amar ti ne , i n other words, is to be ni3O merely the proj9ctor, or editor, or conductorl e ; is to be th e au th or, the exclusive author of entire production. It is to be published it!, administered by hi mse lf alone. It is to be se t lectually, as it were, bone of his bone and fi; 'of his flesh—the direct emanat i on of 11 genius, already productive of so many re ai ; terpieces. It i s t o b e not so muc h course of rhetoric as a oourse of taste $ ll discriminati on . It w ill b e written thro ugh°,t/1 in the style o f f am ili ar conversation, that stfll of all the most pli an t an d plastic, and universaelf adaptable. It w ill b e, , i n effect, a series o " gossips" between the writer and the readt de omnibus rebus--to appear be it said briew --a " chat" a month ! The work, alreed,f l penned to th e ex t en t o f several volumes, 0 11! be continued d ur i ng at least four years fr°.. the date o f it s commencement. The first swat''' ' ment, we are informed, is to appear immediately May the seed thus thrown into the furry fructify —may it rise and flourish perennially M. de Lamartine seated in health, and honoe r ' and happiness, as beneath the shade and the fruitfulness of his own fig-tree, during many fair, sunshiny season to come, under the Oro: shadowin g l eaves o f hi s own popular Cours Foie tier de Litterature ELECTRIC AND INTERNATIONAL TEO GRAPH COMPANY. 56. LATEST NE VIENNA, WEDNESDAY, The Austrian Government, acting in the inte rest of Germany, will immediately lay the Ester; Lazy propositions before the Frankfort Diet, and propose their official recognition as preliminaries of peace, with a view to obtain a representation of Germany in the Congress. CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. 2 Baron Prokesch has notified to the Porte the acceptance by Russia of the Austrian proposals. On the 9th of this month the Russians ad vanced over the ice in order to attack Kertcb, but the vigilance of General Vivian disappointed the enemy's project. Though the gulphs of Odessa, and Kinbourn are frozen, the temperature in the Crimea has be- come milder. TRIESTE, JAR. 30. Accounts from Constantinople state that, not withstanding pacific appearances, General Shirley has sent orders to Schumla to prepare quarters for troops who are to be despatched thither in the spring. WARSAW, JAN. 29 The Council of Administration decrees the provisional extension to Poland of the prohibition relating to fresh, salted, and smoked meat, hither to valid in Russia. Orders have already been given to tho Customs officials. HAMBURG, JAN. 28, The Invalide Russe contains news from the Eastern side of the Black Sea, and states that Iskender Pacha was seriously wounded on the 23d Dcc. Lieut.-General Prince Audronikoff has been removed from leis post of Governor of Tiflis, The Independance of Brussels states that the signature of preliminaries of peace will be de- ferred until the representatives of the severa: Powers meet to commence the definitive negotia tions. Meanwhile the new ground won to diplo macy will be immediately registered in a protocol, or by an exchange of notes. This, it will be re membered, was the course taken last year. FRANCE. The majority in Paris continue to believe in peace, and too many forget the vast sacrifices France has made, and the great interests which are at stake. The funds are still disposed to rise, owing to the confidence which large speculators have in the pacific issue of the approaching Con ferences. The latest intelligence from the Crimea says, the Russian batteries Bilboquet and Gringalet con tinued their lire. It is supposed that the Russians have abandoned the idea of attacking Kertch ; but an army still threatened the garrison. BOURSE, Jan. 30.--The following were the quo tations : Cash. ff . a. . 4i per Cents 95 3 per Cents —•••• 71 50 New Loan .... 70 70 Bank Shards -- Roman Credit Alobilier—.... 1500 --85 Austrian 40, Piedmontese(s)...... 88 Home Debt RAILWAYS—VOR CASH. fr. c , fr. C. Othans ... .......... ... 1225 W es t orn BlO Northern ... 905 Strasburg Lyons. ........ 1200 New Ditto ........... nediterranoan ...... Grant! Contra] CLyons Geneva ...... 717 50 Tato etto ................ .. -- -- Austrian Cora 872 50 End of Month. —f. 71 AUSTRIA. A letter from 'Vienna, of the 2Gth, says :—" A courier of Count .Esterhazy arrived yesterday from St. Petersburg with the text of the Russian accept ance of the Austzian conditions, and with detailed despatches from him. It is thought that the pre liminaries of palco will be signed as soon as the Cabinets of Paris and London shall have become acquainted with Cie docuMents now brought. As regards Prussia, negotiations respecting her ad mission to the Conferences are still pending, and it is probable that Colonel do Manteuffel, who is very active in the natter, will not leave Vienna until the beginning of next month." RUSSIA. A letter from St. Petersburg of the 20th, in the Debats, says :—" U,p to the present date none of the journals of this capital have given either the text of the propositioys of peace drawn up by Aus tria or oven an analysis of them. In the meantime, other journals certai-aly will not hesitate to publish this communication, which exceeds the most pacific hopes that had been entertained, and has caused the greatest joy here, where no one anticipated the possibility of so speedy a peace. The dearness of provisions and the distress, which every day increases, added to. the exhaustion of the finances, will have mainly contributed to the resolution which has: been come to. I have already mentioned the last ukase relative to the finances. According to that decree, the total amount of the treasury bonds bearing interest in circulation is now 85 millions of silver roubles (340 millions of francs), whereas, in 1843, it was only 60 millions (240 millions of francs.) The amount of paper money which does not bear inte rest cannot be so easily calculated. At the end of 1844 it amounted to 336 millions of roubles, and is now calculated to amount to 400 millions. To the above must be added the last loan of 50 mil lions. The winter season has not been very ani mated this year. There is almost always at every ball some wounded officer from Sebastopol on leave, who generally monopolises the attention of all pre sent. Prince Augustus of Wurtemberg has arrived here from Berlin." ' GOVERNMENT AND BANK NOTES. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN'. I SlR,—Excuse me if I say that in your very able lead • in , articles about money affairs you have not yet shown • the difference between a Government note and a Bank note, and, therefore, not put this question into a suffi . aiently clear light. ' The directors of the Bank of England have of late acted very prudently and correctly, and the cause of the present money pressure arises from a quarter, which they will not confess, viz. —that besides Bank notes, we ought to have Government or National notes in cir culation. whicThe Bank, with a limited capit a l, i ssues a paper, h, of course, must be convertible at any time, and the different Acts of Parliament to force her to this have, therefore, been very judicious. But, if we had a broader basis, that Parliament had sanctioned a National note, issued by Government, and receivable in all its offices for taxes, duties, excise, post ages, &c., this note could and ought to be an inconver ' table one, as ther e i s no necessity for its convertibility, the whole empire serving for its guaranty. These notes can never be at a discount, if not surpassing one half the yearly expenditure of the country, and the amount ought to be fixed every year by t egture, in a ccor d ance with the requirements ofthe nation, and would, without the least risk, produce the following advantages : A constant suffloieney of circulating medium. A. low discount and, in consequence, general pros• purity. A liberation of all the gold required for a war. The saving to this empire of one or two millions every year by reducing the issue of Exchequer bills. The naving to Legislature of again interfering with the Bank Charter. The Bank of England being a mere company like the other banks ought not to be deprived of it's charter, although of its monopoly. Nations that are comparatively poor excel the Eng- Egli in the arrangement of their Government paper money, for instance—Russia and Prussia. On the Ham burg Exchange Prussian Government notes stand often one eighth per cent, better than Prussian silver dollars, and we never hear of money crises in Prussia. Where would bo the misfortune if we went here with Govern 1/. notes in our pockets instead of sovereigns, often sweated and too light I shall feel obliged if you will permit a foreigner to state his little insight, as far as it goes, in such an im portant matter, hoping you will grant it your consi deration. —Always your obedient servant, A. NOBILING. Howford-buildings, Fenchurch-street, Jam, 29, 185 G. The half-yearly meeting of the proprietors was he r , yesterday at th e company ' s office, Lothbury ; Maio General Wylde, C. 8., in the chair. The SECRETARY (Mr. J. S. Fourdrinier) read the polit e convening the meeting. After the usual preliminaries, e/ The CHAIRMAN laid upon the table the balance-ehe, and statement of receipts and expenditure of the compil e ', for the half-year enclitic, Dec. 31. He regretted to eel that he occupied the chair that day in consequence I s the resignation of their late chairman, Mr. Ricardo, J., might nut be universally, though it was generally, knoll,: to the shareholders present, that it was to Mr. Ricer% they principally .wed the formation and existence of the company. (Hear.) It was owing to his talents, al t . ., energy, and perseverance that they were able to oyh come the obstacles that presented themselves in the first instance, and to obtain the act of incorporation to ford ; the compa n y. N o d ou b t he was ably assisted by tri_, gentlemen asso c i a t e d wit h h im, but still great obstacle: and difficulties were overcome, which could not bay' been surmouktted were it not for the talents, perseverance' and energy ',bleb he brought to the task. He should ale ° mention that the obstacles and difficulties, as they must be aware, were greatly increased in consequence of the ventiou being one that was new to the public, and be cause neither th e ra il w a y companies, the commercial pay' lic, nor the public in general, in the first instance, were a• all aware of the advantages that were offered to thew' The increase in the number of messages from year to yea r clearly pro ve d thi s , and he did not believe that they ha d arrived at the maximum yet. (Hear.) He thought , however, ho had said enough to justify the regret he felt at Mr. Ricardo having resigned, and to justify the shareholders to join with him in that regret. Th e The chairman then called attention to the half-yearly report of the engineers, showing the progress o f the works. He moved the adoption of the balance-210 1 and statement of account,. Several questions having been put with respect to the accounts, to which explanations were given by Mr. cardo, the motion was agreed to. A dividend of 14e. 3d. per share was declared. The retiring directors and auditors were re-elected. resolution Mr. ITENCEICIAFFE moved a the e f f ect that the proprietors of the company desired to record their sense of obligation to their late chairman (Mr' Ricardo) for the services which he had rendered to the company, and also proposed that a suitable testimonial should be presented to Mr. Ricardo. (Applause.) Mr. COOKE (a director) rose to second the proposition. He said that he should offer to the meeting an explana' tion of his reasons fvr doing so. It was the first time that he had publicly avowed it, but he did now avow it , that he was the original inventor of the practical tele graph. He said that, principally to the energy and talent of Mr. Ricardor assisted by a n em i nent engineer then pre sen t (Mr. Bidder), was to be attributed the establishment of the electric telegraph as at present existing in the United Kingdom, and extending itself over the coiitinent and in America. He had met with better fo-tune than that which generally befel vent( is, in ( btiining the munificent and enlightened a , ;sist;,,.ce of Mr. Ricardo, and had to confess his a nd la telegraph', obligations to that gentleman, S. confessed himself a partisan iu the matter to a certain extent, bet he was yet convinced that all who had bad an opportunity of witnessing Mr. Ricardo's adminiora t ion during the ten years of his chairmanship would de sire to join in presenting him with some testimonial for his exertions, labour,, and talents, more substantial than a mere vote of thanks. He only differed from the hon. proprietor on one point, He thought that the money for a testimonial should riot be voted from the company's funds, but should be raised from a fund to be formed entirely of private and al:together voluntary subscriptions, and he begged, while seconding the motion, to propose that a committee be formed from the shareholders and directors to carry the proposal of presenting a suitable testimonial to Mr. Ricardo ir.to effect. (Cheers.) Mr. RAWSON, Manchester, said that although he dif fered from Mr. Ricardo regarding some practioal ques tions, he was happy to bear his testimony to the era , tions he had made for the company. The motion was then unanimously agreed to. Mr. J. L. .Rioanno, after expressing his acknowledg ments, said that whatever labours he had gone through were amply recompensed by so gratifying a compliment. That those labours had been great he mutt admit, and at one time so extreme were the difficulties that he al most despaired of success in bringing the telegraph to its present proud position ; indeed at one period there were but ten shareholders left, and they had bought up all the shares that the holders e. ere endeavouring to get rid of. They wen, then losing 3001. per week. In seek ing rest from the labours of his chairmanship, he was gratified to think that he left the company in the best possible position. Their prosperity would go on in creasing, because the telegraph was only in its infancy. (Applause.) The meeting then separated. MARKET NEWS. —(This Day.) ____ CORN EXCTIANGE: GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the week ended Jan. 37,186,, , made upfront the Returns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns in England and Wales per Imperial Quarter. W3EAT. BARLEY. 1 OATS. I S. I BEAM 1 PEAS. 76i 111 38s 41 2 51 81 541 YS 81 45s 31 431 4d THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGE. WHEAT, I 1 BARLEY. I OATS. lE. BEANS . PEAS. 77s 01 3 8s 101 2 6s td ) 53s lid 1 47s 6d I 4tl.s 3il QUANT ITIES OF GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK. Wheat, 111,243; Barl 2 ey, 110,730 ; O a t s, 21,87 G ; Bye, 567; Beans, 5,44; Peas, 2,154 quarters. MEAT MARKETS. NERTGATE AND LEADENTIALL. - The general demand was firm, as follows :—Beef, from 3s 2d to 4s 4d ; Mutton, 3s 2(1 to 4s 6(1 • Veal, Is Od to 5s 4d; Pork, 3s 4d to Is 10d per Sibs, by the carcase. SOUTHALL, Jau. 30.—We hacl a much better trade here to-day, and prices generally were higher than last week. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 10d ; Mutton, 3s 4d to 58 Od ; Veal, 4s 4d to 5s 4c:; Pork, 3s 4d to is 8d per 81b8, to sink the offal. Rouronp, Jan. 30.—The trade ruled brisk, as follows : --Beef, from 3s 4d to 59 Od ; Mutton, 3s 6d to 5s Od ; Veal, 4s Od to 58 4d ; Perk, 38 4d to 43 8d per Blbs. Quar ter-old Store Pigs, 21s to 28s each. HAY MARKETS. SMITRIPIELD.—Meadow hay, 418 s to 61 Os ; clover ditto. 4/ 15s to 6/ 18s ; and straw, 11 58 Od to 11 103 Od per load, Trade firm. CIIMBEBLAND.—Meadow hay, 4/ 10s to 6/ Os; clove/ do., 41 lOs to 61 16s ; and straw. 1/ Gs to 1/ 108 per load. A short supply, and a steady demand. WHITEOHAREL.—Meadow hay, 4/ 6s to 6/ Os; clover do., 4/ 15s to 6( ; and straw, 114 e to 11 /Os per load. Trade steady, --- , • whe and th e Itos 403gi p o lo 1114tz