The Sun. — London, England, 1853-12-23 00:00:00

. 4 e :44 , €'; A:1/11, THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. The Attractions of this great National Establishment for the CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS will be on a most extensive scale, un precedented in the annals of Theatricals for Novelty, Splendour, and mechanical wonders, embodied by the first Artistes in the world. Magnificent Scenery, Dresses, and Decorations; gorgeous excite ment, and Ballet unrivalled, forming an ensemble of talent and en chanting attraction never equalled. Mr. SMITS, the Lessee, begs to remind his juvenile patrons that this great CHRISTMAS PANTO MIME will be produced on MONDAY NEXT, DEC. 26, with a DRAMA and FARCE. Reduced Prices as usual. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Bnckstone. THIS EVENING, DEC. 23, Will be performed THE HOPE OF THE FAMILY. Cbaraeters by Messrs. Compton, Rogers, and Buckstone ; Miss E. Grey, and Mrs. Fitzwilliam. _ To be followed by A PRETTY PIECE OF BUSINESS. • Cha racters by Messrs. Howe and Buckstone ; Miss Reynolds and Mrs. F itzwilliam. To conclude with ANY PORT IN A STORM. Characters by Misses E. Ormonde and Featherstone. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CHABLIS KEAN. On MONDAY NEXT, Dac. 26, Will be performed THE CORSICAN BROTHERS. Principal character by Mr. C. Kean. After which will be produced a new Grand CHRISTMAS PAN TOMIME, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE MILLER AND HIS MEN; . or. King Salamaudar and the Fairy of the Azure Lake. Harlequin, Mr: Cormack ; Clown, Mr. Milne; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; and Columbine, Miss Desborough. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHL Propr:etor, Mr. B. Webster.—Dlreetress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, DEC. 23, Will be performed TIM THIRST OF GOLD; or, The Lost Ship. Characters by Messrs. B. Webster, P. Stdford, and Seeley ; and Madame Celeste. To be followed by WHITEBAIT AT GREENWICH. To conclude with " HOTEL CHARGES 1" or, How to Cook " A itiffln," ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. On MONDAY NEXT, DEC. 26, and during the Week, Will be performed PLOT AND PASSION. Principal characters by Mr. F. Robson and Mrs. Stirling. After which, a new historico-geographical CHRISTMAS PAN TOMIME, called HARLEQUIN COLUMBUS ; or, The Old World and the New. Harlequin, Mr. F. Moreland ; Pantaloon, Mr. W. Rochez ; and Columbine, Miss Wyndham. ASTLEY'S EUROPE'S NATIONAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. W. Cooke, Last Week of Performing before the Holidays. A New Grand Equestrian CHRISTMAS COMIC PANTOAIME, written ex pressly for this Theatre, by Mr. NELSON LEE, entitled BILLY BUTTON'S :JOURNEY TO BRENTFORD ; or, The Ladles' Favourite—will be produced on MONDAY, DEC. 26. Mr. W. Cooke's Elephants, Pronounced by the Press and all who have witnessed their Performances the most extraordinary Trained animals in the World, will appear every Evening. THIS EVENING, Dzc. 23, (And during the week), Th e New Grand Equestrian Chinese Spectacle, entitled " THE WISE ELEPHANTS OF THE EAST; or, THE MAGIC GONG. Followed by a series of Mr. Wm. Cooke'a matchless scenes of Equestrianism in THE CIRCLE, by the talented artistes of this establishment. Concluding with a favourite AFTERPIECE. Box-ofilee open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tan DAY —Morning 44 min.after 6 I Evening 10 rain.aft. 7 To-Moaaow.- Morning 40 min.after 7 Evening 11 min.aft. 8 THE WEATRER.—SuN Orruts, DEO. 23. THEBNONETEB, IN THE SHADE. 40 --highest since noon yesterday. 37—lowest this morning and during the night. 43—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29 . 85. WIND, N.N.W.—Moderate breeze, and cloudy weather. LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1853. If this, if that, if the other—England and France will consent to support Turkey by adopt ing active measures against the Russian Govern ment. " The allied fleets will enter the Black Sea if the Russians should land troops on the Turkish territory." Literally, actually that is the latest intelligence received from Constan tinople. And observe, the intimation is dated from that capital on the 12th of this present month of December. It implies a probability that, under certain contingencies, the combined. armaments may .at length be induced to pass through the channel of the Bosphorus. There is a lamentable significance in . this future tense and this conditional conjunctive—" The allied fleets will enter the Black Sea if the Russians should land troops on the Turkish territory." An inti mation, we repeat, dated from Stamboul, the 12th December. So that, as far at least as concerns the date of that notable account from Vienna there was inaccuracy in the statement that the combined naval forces of France and England, acting in conjunction with the . Turkish and Egyptian armaments, had poSitively entered the iluxine on the 10th, and steered their course in the direction of Sebastopol. According to the latest advices from the Golden Horn, this could not possibly have occurred on the 10th of De cember. The announcement, Made by way of Vienna in reference to the 10th, is contradicted by the despatches dated up to the 12th inclu sively direct from Constantinople. Whatever the truth may be among these con tradictory fragments of information—we believe in our heart and in our conscience. that it matters absolutely nothing so long as the destinies of Great Britain are confided to the ABERDEEN Go vernment. It signifies nothing, whether the fleet of Admiral DurinAs entered the Black Sea on the 10th or the 20th, or whether, instead'of that, he remained quietly at anchor in the Bosphorus. It signifies nothing, so long as the "travelled Thane" continues at the head of the Administration. Authentic advices prove, as far as dates are con cerned, that the combined armaments of France and .England, now in the vicinity of the waters of Constantinople, had not entered the Black Sea on the 10th of December. Nevertheless, they may have emerged into the Euxine from the en trance of ' the Bosphorus at some date later than the 10th of December. It is just pos sible; It is so asserted, in fact, positively by a " private, despatch (without date)" received yesterday both in Paris and London, vitt Vienna, and which declares distinctly and explicitly, that the combined fleets have entered the Black Sea— according to this nameless and dateless advice from Constantinople. Not on the 10th instant. No—that is settled—but later ! Very well, sup posing that later than the 10th instant the com bined fleets have entered the Black Sea—what therd Is not the Earl of. ABERDEEN still Prime Minister of England ? And has not Lord PAL IIIET'3ION already resigned the Home Secretaryship under that dear and excellent Statesman's Govern ment ? 1, not the Coalition of December—in spirit, or rather in lack of spirit, the Coalition of November, of October, of September, of August, of July, of June, of May, of April, of March, of February . -4 i it. not the Cabinet that has carried disgrace to the name of England by its toleration of the passage of the Pruth by the AUTOCRAT ? Is it not the Ministry that has pride, and disgraced the degraded the national reputation of its members, by not striking one blow in vindication of the rights of an unoffen d ing ally—though those rights have been more and more flagrantly outraged during the l as t eleven months, through the perpetration o f an enormous wrong by the Russian AUTOCRAT—out raged by a brutal cannonade all along the banks of the Danube, from Braila to Kalafat, and last, and most monstrous of all, by this inhuman mas sacre of the Turks in the port of Sinope ? Is not this Coalition—the Coilition of Lord ABERDEEN—is not this the Cabinet which has tolerated, during the principal portion of one de plorable year, the continuance of these execrable crimes on the part of the autocratic power of St. Petersburgh—is not this the Ministry which has tarnished.the fame of England by these miserable evidences of pusillanimity, after that vapouring review at Spithead, and the blowing of that pre posterous fanfaronade of the (Jhobham Encamp ment ? And can energy be really expected from such an Administration as this —can energy be seri ously expected from the Coalition in December, when we .remember the disgrace which has been brought by the eight or ten preceding months to the fly-blown reputation of that unfortunate Go vernment ? Energy, quotha !—the energy of PAROLLES, of BOBADIL, of BOMBASTES. Why, if additional evidence be required, look at that re. , doubtable intimation already reiterated—the in timation dated as recently as the 12th instant from Constantinople. Examine it carefully— weigh it well in the balance of an impartial judgment. How does it run ? Why, simply to this effect, that the combined fleets will enter the Black Sea if—if what ? "IF the Russians land troops on the Turkish territory." After the butchery of Sinope ! After all those numerous and enormous outrages inflicted by the CZAR upon the rights of nations and the laws of humanity ! After all this--the allied fleets of France and England will enter the Black Sea IF the Russians land troops on the Turkish territory ! It signifies, we repeat, absolut e ly nothing— supposing the dateless despatch received rid Vienna to be authentic—supposing that later than that advice up to the 12th from Constantinople, the combined armaments of France and England had at length actually passed into the Euxine, after their long sojourn in the Bosphorus. Sup posing this to be the case, it signifies absolutely nothing—because the Government of England is still the Government of Lord ABERDEEN. And•so long as that Minister occupies the post of First Lord of the Treasury, it would be an utter ab surdity to look for the adoption of sa bold and chivalrous policy against the dogged arrogance and the lawless ambition of the Russian AUTOCRAT. Wherefore—supposing the allied fleets to have left the Bosphorus—supposing them to have entered the Black Sea—supposing them to have steered onward in the direction of Sebastopol —we shall hear of their cruising about those waters for the next six months, carrying lint and salves to the wounded, and picking up from time to time stray morsels of second-hand information. We shall hear of all this, and shall be doomed to listen meanwhile to a continuous babble about re newed negotiations, unless England rouse her self from her lethargy, and shake off this deplorable incubus of an effete, and spiritless, and craven Administration. The CZAR has had the impiety and audacity to cry out In ie Domine speravi, non confundar in ceternum ! Let Eng land and NAPOLEON, relieving themselves of the weight of weakness by which their energies during the last ten months have been most lamentably palsied—respond to that cry by a kindred ejacu ilation—Exurge! their watchword. Another husband has been condemned to suffer death by the hands of the public executioner fdr the murder of his innocent and inoffensive wife. Another " quiet and sober" woman has been sud denly cut off in the prime of life by the man whom she was entitled to look to for protection, but from whom she received the most brutal ill-treat ment. In the case under notice, the prisoner had not, like NATHANIEL MOBBS Or PHILIP GURNEY, resorted to a deadly weapon. The sanguinary act had not been perpetrated with knife or razor, or other instrument, calculated to take away life. He had dragged her out of bed, struck, kicked, and. trampled on her ; his violence was not so great as that of JAMES HAYES, against whom a jury, at the Central Criminal Court, returned a verdict of " manslaughter" only. And yet, at the High Court of Justiciary, in Edinburgh, on Mon day last, WILLIAM CUMMING , was most justly and properly convicted of murder, and the Lord Justice-Clerk, for himself and his learned brethren, Lords COCKBURN and HANDYSIDE, who presided at the trial, expressed their full assent and unhe sitating concurrence in the verdict ! They were well warranted in so doing ; and we must say that the Scottish jury empanelled for the trial of WILLIAM CUMMING more firmly and faithfully discharged their painful and onerous duty than the English jury who merely convicted JAMES HAYES of the minor charge. In order to constitute the crime of wilful and deliberate mur der, it is by no means necessary that the offender should have contemplated or intended the death of his victim, or that express malice should be proved against him. If death results from any unlaw ful violence on his part, .the law will imply malice, and he must encounter the consequences, however serious, of his own misqonduct. Due allowance is made for the infirmity of human nature, and, therefore, if great provocation could be shown, such as would naturally inflame' the passions to the utmost degree, the offence may be reduced to manslaughter, but that will mainly depend on the mode in which the fatal violence was inflicted— whether it was proportioned to, and a natural and ordinary manner of, resenting such provocation as had been given, and whether it was likely to lead to the untoward ter mination of the transaction. It may, however, be laid down, as a general rule, that "no words or gestures, however opprobrious or provoking, would be considered sufficient provocation to reduce homicide to manslaughter !" It is of the utmost importance that this principle, which is laid down in all the standard works on criminal law, should be fully known by the truculent mis 7 creants who vent their malignant passions on their unfortunate partners. The most trivial incident suffices to stimulate the habitual ill-temper into a pitch - of exasperation that renders the party uttetly reckless of future consequences, and to induce him to commit acts of violence that might easily cause the death of his victim, and his own appearance pn the scaffold as a convicted mur derer. Let not those degraded ruffians lay the flattering unction to their souls that all might be as fortunate as JAMES liAvEs, or that other Eng lish juries would exhibit such undue leniency as spared the life of that atrocious wretch—spared it, however, only that his remaining days maybe passed in perpetual banishment from his native land, and in the worst and most hopeless form of slavery. Many personsmay think that there was not any very that JAMES benefit derived from the indulgence, these JAMES TT AYES will endure even a more fear ful punishment an NATHANIEL MoB138) but are not the parties who would commit such acts. be The abject and cowardly wretches, who would likely to come within the operation - . of the law, would prefer life on any terms—life spent even in the cells of a " model prison," under the " energetic and painstaking," or rather pains giring, management of a governor like Lieutenant AUSTIN. Some of this class may be deterred by the knowledge of the probable termination of their proceedings if they consider how very similar was the conduct of WILLIAM CUMMING to that which they themselves are in the habit of in dulging. The wretched convict, it appears, had been for several days in a state of partial intoxication. As one of .The witnesses declared he had been " going about furious with drink !" That drink was the cause of the awful position in which he is now placed. During it he gave vent to all his evil passions. During Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, he had been almost unceasingly beating, or otherwise ill-using her. On Saturday she had not got out of bed to light a candle on his arrival home. On Tuesday he started from his sleep in a state of irritation and, without a single word, drag ge d the wretched woman from her bed, " cursing and swearing that he would do for her." He next knocked her down, "her head coming against the floor with the blow." He next "took her by the ankles and dragged her across the floor, and trampled and brizzed e . pressed) on her breast with his knees." "He also took a stick and struck her twice on the shoulder and side l" The girl who witnessed these 1 THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING DECEMBER 23, 1 53. heartless proceedings ran from the room lest she might incur his displeasure and participate in the effects of his brutality. But she called for no assistance—and when the miserable woman her self subsequently crawled to the Police-office she received none. The protection she was entitled to was withheld, and she returned to her room to meet her fate. Let other drunken husbands reflect on the fate of WILLIAM CUMMING ; let them consider on the results of his drinking bout, combined with his habitual violence and brutality, and determine to profit by the severe but salutary example. Let Legislators also ask what would have been - the effect of the interference of the Police when their aid was invoked, and the administration of a sound castigation to WILLIAM CUMMING. Had he been flogged his wife would now be alive, and the use of the revolting cat-o'-nine tails would have rendered that of the still more revolting "gibbet" unnecessary and uncalled for. Dissenters owe it to Lord STANLEY and other enlightened supporters of the Church to do their own part on the subject of Church Rates. We frankly told them so when his Lordship's states manlike and Christian pamphlet appeared, and we therefore can but wish them success in all their parish vestry efforts to obtain justice for them. selves, and in all their appeals to the Government. On the 9th December, as our readers will have seen, a deputation of the Protestant Dissenting Deputies presented through Lord PALMERSTON a memorial to Lord ABERDEEN, which we gave at length in The Sun of the 15th. It was signed by the well-known S. M. PETO, Esq., M.P., as chair man ; and as a temperate, business-like, and mat ter-of-fact document, challenges the attention of all impartial Churchmen. We need not advert to all its statements, though we commend them ' all to public attention. Let every fair-minded man, however, weigh the four following facts :- Ist. According to the Report of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners of 1835, the net annual income of the Anglican Church Clergy, exclusive of fees, is three millions and a half sterling. 2d. The present dissenting places of worship, at the lowest estimate, have cost then( seven mil lions sterling. 3dly. Dissenters raise for their clergy, at the low estimate of 801. each, 1,136,0001. annually. 4thly. From a return obtained by Sir IL INGLIS, it appears that out of a population of 6,365,351 persons liable to Church . Rates, 3,519,387 refuse to pay them. I Is it then tolerable that this impost, so justly obnoxious to Dissenters, the amount of which could be so easily raised by the wealthy members of our well-endowed Establishment—is it tolerable that it should continue to be paid for a year longer by the minority of 2,845,954 ? All high-minded Churchmen must blush to look at the above four facts. Their own pockets spared to the amount of three millions and a half annually, nearly all their churches built for them at no cost to them selves, and yet to have it said that they will not keep their inherited houses in repair ! Do they deserve the splendid inheritance ? Dissenters, on the other hand, paying every na tional and municipal burden as well as them selves, spending seven millions and more in erect ing places of worship, and we have no doubt, at least, a million and a half, probably much more, in the support of their own ministers—to be taxed, wherever not strong to resist—taxed, in addition, for a worship they never attend, while, at no small sacrifices, they support the one which their tastes or their consciences prefer. Such injustice cannot last. Dissenters must no longer pay for our expenses of worship, either directly or indirectly ; and while we are tenants of churches which have cost us nothing, we grant that we deserve ejec tion if we refuse the reasonable terms of keeping them in tenantable repair. Lord ABERDEEN inti mated that his Government had a measure under consideration, which would be introduced early in the spring. We only wish it may fully come up to the proposals of Lord STANLEY. If not, from all we know of the temper of Dissenters, they will not be, nor ought they to be, cajoled by any supplications "not to embarrass a Liberal Govern ment ;" they, and others of us on other subjects, have had too much of that appeal ad miserecor diarn. Dissenters have it in black and white that the Earl of DERBY and Lord STANLEY both consider Church rates an "injustice and a griev ance to Dissenters;" and they will brook no half measures from those whose liberal professions are so much louder. Meantime, we repeat, as before, that any Government will need all possible aid from Dissenting agitation without in carrying an honest measure ; but whatever Government carries it, we are confident, from all that we have heard from many quarters,. that Lord STANLEY'S share in their success will not be easily forgotten by the Nonconformists. TEE MINISTRY. (Prom the Morning Herald.) It is positively asserted that Lord Palmerston has consented to return to the Coalition Cabinet. Should this be the fact, the noble viscount has, of course, ob tained his own terms. If orders have been given to the British fleet to enter the Black Sea, with a view to ac tive operations, and if it be true that Lord Lansdowne and the Duke of Devonshire have threatened to with draw their support from the Ministry if the main provi sions of the intended . Reform Bill are not given up— then it is not impossible that Lord Palmerston may have consented to return to the Home-office. A few hours will, in all probabillity, place all the facts in connection with this affair in our possession. THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS. (From the Morning Advertiser.) The Home Secretaryship, up till a late hour last night, was still on its begging tour. Lord Panmure, we are told, has been asked to accept it, and it is added that his lordship would be nothing loth, but for the state of his health, which, we are informed, is such as to ren der anything like continuous or arduous labour exceed. ingly dangerous. Rumours reached us last night, from various quarters, that I ord Aberdeen would be spared the necessity of filling up the vacant Home Secretaryship, in consequence of the immediate dissolution of the Cabinet. It was even said by some that a break-up had actually taken place. This we believe to be premature. We know, indeed, that so far from the Cabinet being formally die solved, strenuous efforts were made yesterday to patch up matters again. It was last night stated that much of the five hours and a half sederunt was occupied in this patch-work attempt. We have the best reasons for believing that particular influences have been, or will be brought to bear on Lord Palmerston, to induce him to rejoin the Administration ; but, of course, no consideration what ever— no matter by whom urged—will prevail on the noble lord again to sit in a Cabinet of which Lord Aber deen is the head. Lord Palmerston must never more cross the threshold of Downing-stre e t, excep t t o un d er t a k e th e d u ti es o f th e weeks,o that officeperhatphsemcaonuyntry days,n now calls elapsed, llshim and Premie rship . before his sovereign will also summon him ; for it is no secret that the Aberdeen Ministry, it Ministry it can be called, is in the last throes of dissolution. THE COURT.—Efer Majesty will receive an illus trious family circle, early in the ensuing week, at Wind sor Castle. There will be two more dramatic performances in the Rubens Room the second week in January, which will conclude the series. _ _ _ The Duke and Duchess of Sutherland will enter tain a numerous family circle during the approaching holi days at Trentham, near Lichfield. The Duke and Duchess of Grafton are receiving company at Wakefield Lodge, Stony Stratford. The Duke and Duchess of Wellington have ar rived at Florence, from the south of France. Their graces, we believe, intend to pass the winter at Rome, where till, Duchess of Northumberland and other English families of distinction are staying. - - The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield are re ceiving a fashionable party at Bretby Hall, Ashby-de-la- Zonehe. Lord de Tabley has left town for Tabley House, Cheshire. Miss Burdett ' Coutts, who has been staying at Chantilly, has returned to Paris, where, he believe, she intends to pass the winter. The tombestone and grave of the daughter of Thomas Moore, the poet, in ETornsey churchyard, have been recently repaired, by direction of the rector, the Rev. Richard Harvey. LATEST FOREIGN NEWS. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. By telegraph from Vienna, under date of the 22d, we have advices from Constantinople, of the 12th inst., which state that the Porte has demanded the support of the fleets. On the 10th, the Am bassadors held a conference on the subject, and re solved to await instructions. The Persian Ambassador has broken off relations with the Porte, and proceeds to Bagdad. The anniversary of the birth of Mahomed was celebrated on the 11th. The Retribution and Mogador brought back 110 wounded from Sinope. One party is intriguing to get Ali Pasha made Minister of Marine. Our despatches from Constantinople inform us that the dismissal of the Captain Pasha was con sidered probable. The allied fleets, it was said, would enter the Black Sea if the Russians landed troops on the Turkish territory. A great tempest in the Black Sea had taken place. A firman confirming the privileges of Servia had been issued. Some fanatical demonstrations had been made against the Christians at Smyrna. It is said that the reason why part of Luders' corps went to the Crimea was, that there was an insur rection there on the 29th of November in favour of Turkey. A letter from Malta of the 15th states that the commandants of the Russian forces in the Black Sea had given orders that the foreign merchant vessels going to ports of the Ottoman Empire shall be subjected to search. Several German journals publish a report, which is said to have been current at Vienna, that Russia has consented to send a plenipotentiary to the new Conference. The journals, in giving this news, state their opinion that it is not well founded. The Dresden Journal contains a letter from Vienna of the 16th, which says :—" The two brigades which had received orders to hold them selves in readiness to proceed to the Turkish fron tier have not as yet quitted the city, and it is gene rally supposed that they will remain here unless some untoreseen events arise." Another letter of the 18th, in the Cologne Gazette, says :—" For some days past our journals have given accounts of bat tles which are said to have taken place on the 2d, 3d, and 7th of December near Kalafat. All these accounts from Transylvania and the Danube are without foundation. The only piece of intelligence is that stating that the Russians have concentrated their forces at Krajowa to the extent of 30,000 men." The following is from the Paris correspondent of the Times, dated last evening, 6 p.m.:-- " In the absence of any new incident or reliable intelligence connected with the state of affairs in the East, the principal topic of the day is the alleged difference of opinion between the English and French representatives at Constantinople. To the latter, as has been seen, was attributed the fact of the combined squadrons not entering the Black Sea when the tidings of the Sinope disaster reached the Porte. On this point the accounts are so contradic tory that, at such a distance, it would be hazardous to venture an opinion. I may say, however, that in one official quarter it was stated, no later than this morning, that that delay is attributed to the French Ambassador, in opposition either to Lord Strat ford de Redcliffe or to the English Admiral ; and so far as I can understand, some dissatisfaction is expressed on that account. The dispatch of the order to which I referred yesterday looks as if this version was the correct one ; though it is strange that General Baraguay d'Hilliers, from whom ex cessive discretion was certainly not expected, should be the timid or the hesitating party. lam very slovi to give credit to rumours of dissensions between the representatives of England and France at such a moment as the present, aware as I am that the partisans of Russia leave nothing undone to produce such an impression on the public ; but it is-no less a fact that more than one private letter from Constantinople alludes to such dissensions. Rumours of a Ministerial modification perfectly similar, with one exception, to those which were rife some months since, and which have been since then revived, were afloat to-day. It is the same story about the resignation by M. de Persi g ny of his present office, and the nomination of M. Billault as his successor ; the continued dissensions of the former M. Fould, &c. The more immediate cause of the anger of the Home Minister is said to be publication of the paragraph in the Moniteur relative to Lord Palmerston's quitting office, and which offended M. de Persigny, both because it had been done without his consent or knowledge, and because the terms in which it was drawn up were not those he would prefer." The following is from the correspondent of the Morning Chronicle, dated Constantinople, De cember 8 :-40 " The Retribution and Mogador, the two ships despatched to Sinope by the British and French Admirals, to investigate the affair that has taken place there, in which the Turkish squadron sta tioned in that port has been the sufferer, have not yet returned. Until their return the real state of things cannot be known. According to the state ment made by the commander of the Taif (the Turkish war steamer that made off at the com mencement of the engagement), the Turkish fleet was in flames. This view, however, may be exag gerated. Great fears are now entertained that the Christian population of Sinope may have attempted a rising against the Turks, and the town have be come the scene of a massacre. _ _ "The following are the names of the Turkish ships that were in the port of Sinope when attacked by the Russian fleet :—Frigates—Nizamie, 60 guns ; Kaid- Zafer, 54 ; Navik, 54 ; • Aon-Illah, 54 ; Dimiet, 54 ; Nessim, 54 ; Fagel-Illah, 44. Cor vettes—Nesmi-Fechan, 22 guns ; Faiza-Maabud, 20 ; Gullu-Zefid, 20 ; Fregli (steamer), 6 ; and the Taif, the steam-frigate that left during the engage ment. All the Turkish line-of-battle ships are lying in the Bosphorus. Yesterday a council was held on board the British flag-ship Britannia, at which the admiral in command of the French fleet attended. Lord Stratford de Redcliffe was like wise there. " No fresh 'lbws has reached here of importance, either from the Danube or Asia. The Turks are much irritated at the disastrous occurrence of Si nope. They cannot comprehend the passive atti tude of the combined British and French squad rons. There • were some violent scenes in the councils held at the. Porte after these bad tidings. Two members of the Ottoman Cabinet very nearly came to blows. Far from having a tendency to calm the Ottomans, the destruction of a portion of their fleet will, on the contrary, only rouse them to resentment. " The news from Persia is very unfavourable to Turkish interests. I can assure you, upon the most unquestionable authority, that Ahmet Effendi, the Turkish ambassador to the Court of Persia, is on his way back to Constantinople, having broken off all intercourse with the Shah, in consequence of the success of Russian intrigues at that Court. Mr. Thompson, her Britannic Majesty's charge d'affaires at.Teheran, has likewise broken off all relati' ns with the Persian Court. As already stated, the Russians .have promiSed Persia support, to raise the Affghans against British rule. The debt of 50 millions due from Persia to the Russian Govern ment will no longer be claimed ; but Persia must side in th(ygoming struggle against her fellow in faitli,Ahe Ottoman. This may prove an awkward entrezOt ift the 'Oriental . question, and contribute largely towards 'rendering the attitude of Great Britain more marked and determined. " The arrival of recruits at Constantinople con tinues unabated. Several thousands have come from the provinces this week. These men are not enlisted, but join the army of their own will. The stock seems inexhaustible. The British steamer Furious, and the Heron (French), which were de spatched to the Black Sea on Sunday last, are lying at Varna. "The Greek Patriarch and the Metropolitans of the Greek community of Constantinople have re quested permission to accompany the Sultan to Adrianople in the spring. This is a very impor tant step. They have presented the following address : 'His Majesty the Sultan, our august master and benefactor, has just declared, by an Imperial firman, that it is his intention to proceed to Adrianople next spring. We, his servant, and the Metropolitans, mdui bers of the Synod, prostrate ourselves before the Throne of the Almighty, making ardent vows day and night ; and in conformity with our duties of fidelity, we pray God to mercifully appreciate the courageous intentions, the laudable will, and the good dispositions which his Imperial Majesty, our legitimate Sovereign, shows for the integrity of the glory and honour of his great em pire, as also for the welfare and tranquillity of the trust ful subjects who are under his beneficent protection. " As the absence of our august master and benefac tor from the capital of his empire will cause the greatest grief to the inhabitants of Constantinople, and especially tb his servants, we humbly pray his Imperial Majesty to accord us, as a mark of special grace, the permission to follow him wherever he may go. " To solicit this grace of his Imperial Majesty, we have taken the liberty of presenting this humble address to his Majesty.' " The Neue Munchner Zeitung, which, as an Ultra- Conservative paper, probably has genuine and au thentic news from St. Petersburg, learns that Rus- It under-valued,is felt i n E sia us i s s ia arm th i a n t g t w h i e th T ni ur ig k h a t h a a n v d e main. and preparations for the spring campaign are I therefore being made on a grand scale. The order for calling in all the men on furlough has been given, and this measure will increase the army by 180,000 veterans. The 6th infantry corps, which had been placed near Moscow as a reserve, has re ceived orders to advance nearer to the seat of war. The waggon builders of St. Petersburg and Moscow have been directed to supply the army with 400 waggons by next March. Within the last few days large sums of money have been sent from St. Petersburg to the two armies. It is worthy of mention that trade is unusually brisk here just now, as very large consignments of all kinds of manufactured goods have been made to Transyl- for which remittances are made in Russian gold imperials. The Weekly Medical Gazette has a long letter of the sth from the seat of war. The troops between Salafat and Turna are suffering much from ague, which is endemic, typhus, dysentery, and a spurious kind of cholera. In consequence of want of shelter, a great part of the men have been withdrawn to the right bank of the river. Ophthalmia is very pre valent among the Rumeliote and Albanian troops, and the numerous Italians, Poles, Hungarians, and Greeks are beginning to be affected by it, " which is the more to be lamented, as they are the very soul of the army." We now learn that three great columns are to cross the river as soon as the floating ice will permit. The greatest part of the artillery, cavalry, and baggage trains is directed towards Silistria. Wounded men are continually brought in from Rustchuk, as the out-pickets of both armies persist in firing at each other in spite of positive commands to the contrary. " Deser ters, of all nationalities, who come in great num bers .from the left bank, keep us well informed of the Russo-Wallachian plains." The head-quarters are at Rustchuk, but the troops are kept in readi ness for an advance. The Balkan army has received a further reinforcement of 15,000 men, who are principally Asiatics. The Patrie contains the following contradiction of the Russian Admiral Nachimoff's account of the engagement at Sinope " It is not true that the Turks bad in that battle three frigates of 74 guns, one of which carried the Admiral's flag. Ile commanded a frigate of 50 guns. It is not true that. the Greek quarter •at Sinope was spared. All the houses without distinction and without necessity, were burned. The town was not defended, and nevertheless, after the action ceased at sea, the Russian ships continued to bombard the town. It is a positive fact, moreover, that at the conclusion of the fight the Russians sunk several unarmed transports, and ill-treated in the most unworthy manner, the brave Turkish Admiral, who was dangerously wounded." The Constantinople letter of the Wanderer is calculated to send the blood into the cheeks of every Englishman who has the least regard for the honour of his country : " Even the Greek population asserts that there is a secret understanding between the British and Russian Governments. Lord Stratford still attempts to force the mediatory proposals on the Porte, but the Turks turn from everything English with disgust." The Triest Zeitung says that the highest func tionaries, who speak with great bitterness of France and England, much fear that the allied fleets are only intended to act as a check on the Porte should it obtain any signal advantage over the Russians : " The Sultan must either continue the war with Russia or make war on his own sub;ects. The fearful sacrifices made by great and small, rich and poor, would be per fectly inconceivable were it not well known that the Turks are convinced that it is a question of life and death for them." It is still a matter of doubt whether a battle has been fought near Kalafat, and the probability is that if any rencontre took place on the 2d and 3d they were little more than skirmishes between re connoitring ,parties. No pains have been spared to get at the truth of the matter, but at present no one can either confirm or refute the reports of the Transylvanian papers. Austrian news there is little or none, excepting Government has at length resolved on granting concessions for branch rail roads to private companies. Had the interests of the country been properly understood, this would have been done long since. The Invalide Busse of the 11th contains a circum stantial account of the battle of Sinope, and this account, compiled from the statements of persons who were present at the engagement,. is to the fol lowing effect : " Vice-Admiral Nachimoff, while cruising off the coast of Anatolia, saw in the harbour of Sinope a division of Turkish vessels of war, He would have run in on the following day, but his intentions were frustrated by foul weather. He despatched the war steamer Bessarabia to Sebastopol, to announce the presence of a Turkish squadron in the har bour of Sinope. " When this news reached Sebastopol, the Ville de Paris, Grand Dake Constantine, and the Tri Sviatitelia, of 120 guns each, were placed under Rear-Admiral Novosilski, and ordered to proceed towards Sinope, and effect a junc tion with Rear-Admiral Nachimoff 's squadron. In the meantime a favourable breeze had sprung up, and Admiral Nachimoff went with three men-of-war and one brig to re connoitre the harbour of Sinope. He ascertained the exact position of the Turkish Squadron, which consisted of seven frigates, one war sloop, two corvettes, two transport ships, and two steamers. These ships lay at their moorings in a semicircle along the coast, but prepared to form in line at any moment, no matter from what quarter it might blow. Five batteries were on the coast ; their position corre sponded with the distance between the Turkish vessels. "The junction of our two squadrons, under Admiral Nachimoff and Novosilski, was effected in the course of the night of the 27th of November, and on the 28th Ad miral Nachimoff issued an order of the day, in which he declared his intention, as soon as the weather should allow it, to attack the enemy in two columns. The column on the right was to be under Admiral Nachimoff s command, who hoisted his flag on board the Empress Maria, and who besides this vessel, had under him the Grand Duke Con stantine and the Tchesme ; while the column on the left, under Rear-Admiral Novosilski, was composed of the Ville de Paris, Tri Sviatitelia, and Rostislaff, men-of-war. "At 9 a.m, on the 30th a favourable breeze spanc , up. It blew from east-north-east, and the Admiral signalled to the fleet to clear for action and run into the harbour of Sinope. The vessels of the two columns, with all their canvass spread to the wind, bore down upon the Turks, who, owing to a dense fog, saw them only when they had advanced to within half a mile. Vice-Admiral Nachimoff, on finding himself at the distance of near 250 sagenes or toises from the two Turkish fleets, dropped his anchor. The Vile de Paris anchored at the same time, and the rest of the squadron, each vessel in turn took the places which had been assigned to them. The Admiral had scarcely dropped his anchor, when the Turkish ships and batteries opened upon them, the firing was terrible, 'and did much execution among our rigging, but our ships returned the, compliment with a continued and well directed fire. In less than five minutes the Grand Duke Constantine had demolished the battery which was next to her guns. The Turkish frigate which lay off that battery, and which she bombarded with the Paixhans ;uns of her lower battery, was blown up. Shortly afterwards the bombs which were thrown by the Ville de Paris told on the other Turkish frigate, and blew her up. The latter had, however, succeeded in cutting the cables by which the Empress rons and the Tri-Sviatitelia held on ; but these vessels had another set of anchors and cables clear, and anchored again under the fire of the enemy. " At 2 o'clock p.m. the guns of the Turkish ships were silenced. Three frigates, one of them of 74 guns, with the admiral s flag on board, were burning, and of the two s t u r a n n k s p t h o t m s . n o t T h h i n e g T could be s hu s a e r e t n e r b o u f t s t i h n e 0 m p ea wassts . We in flames, it d and at 2.30. p.m. the adpiiral stopped the firing, and sent an officer with a flag of truce to tell the authorities of Sinope that if another gun was fired, either from the town or the strand batteries, he should certainly bombard and utterly destroy the town of Sinope. The officer landed, and stayed above an hour, but he could not find the Turk ish authorities. He did not see a single Turk; they had all - taken refuge in the neighbouring villages. " When the combat commenced, and agreeably to the admiral's orders the two frigates Kagoul and Koulevtcha , remained under canvass to cut off the retreat of any Turkish vessels that might seek to escape. They joined the squad ron at the close of the engagement, and acted against the corvette and the sloop which lay in the rear of the Ros tislaff. " On the 29th of November, as soon as the war steamers Odessa, Crimea, and Chersonese could get their steam up, the Adjutant-General Kornileff steamed them away from Sebastopol to join Admiral Nachimoff's squadron at Sinope. On the 31st, at 12 o'clock, the Odessa, com manded by Adjutant-General Kornileff, perceived across the isthmus on which Sinope is situate the commencement of the engagement, and the steamer made incredible efforts to hasten up to the rescue. When they made the Cape of Sinope they saw a Turkish steam-frigate of 20 guns, the Taif,. which, during the engagement, had got her steam up, and sought to escape from the general defeat. Adju tant-General Kornileff hoisted his flag on the Odessa, and ran her down on the line of the Turkish frigate, but his intention was seen, and the Taif wore round, and pro ceeded along the coast. The Odessa, advancing to within gunshot, opened her fire, but, after an hour's firing, Adju tant-General Kornileff, to his great regret, found that the Taif was faster than the Odessa, and that, although three times stronger, she would not stay to accept the engage ment. Adjutant-General Kornileff abandoned the chase, and steamed towards Sinope, to join Vice-Admiral Nachi moff's squadron. He was followed by the Crimea and the Chersonese. These two steamers were ordered at once to tow away the vessels which lay within range of the strand batteries, in case the enemy should resume the engagement in the course of the night. The Odessa was ordered to take the frigate Damietta, of 50 guns, in tow, and to re move her from the coast. That vessel had least suffered from our fire, and yet we found on board of her above 50 wounded. The captain and the officers had abandoned her at the commencement of tho combat. They had taken all the boats and consulted their safety by an ignominious flight. "In the course of the evening the gnus of the burning vessels went off, one after another, as the fire came near them, and their balls came in our direction without, how evei, doing the least damage to our ships. At last those vessels exploded, and their burning fragments were hurled upon the Turkish quarter of Sinope, which they set on fire, and about midnight the whole of that quarter, which is surrounded by a stone wall, became a prey to the flames, while the conflagration respected the Greek quarter of Sinope. On the following morning nothing was left of the 12 ships of the Turkish squadron but the Damiette frigate, which had been taken in tow by the Odessa, and the sloop and the corvette—mere hulls--in the northern portion of the bay. On being examined, the Damiette was found to have her hull torn by 17 cannon balls, and her rigging, &e., were in such a state that she conld not be taken to Sebas topol. She was run on shore, and burnt. Orders were also given to burn the sloop and the corvette. The officers charged with the execution of those orders found on board the sloop Osman Pasha, the commander of the Turkish squadron, who had a wound in his right leg. They found also two captains and 10 bailors. The prisoners were at , once removed to our ships. On that evening not a single Turkish vessel remained in the harbour of Sinope. " The combat was scarcely over when . our brave crews, who so well had worked their guns, commenced with a fresh ardour repairing damages. The Empress Maria, the Tri Sviatitelia, the Grand Duke Constantine, and the Rosti sleff, were found to have suffered most from the fire of the enemy. "The whole of Admiral Nachimoff's squadron left the harbour of Sinope on the 2d of December. The damaged vessels were taken in tow by the steamers, and on the 4th the Empress Maria, the Tri Sviatitelia, and the Grand Duke Constantine anchored in the roads of Sebastopol.". FRANCE. The French Government is making quiet but efficient preparations for war. At the Ministere de la Guerre plans are being prepafed for the organi sation of 42 divisions, which will give an effective force of 600,000 men. One of the great difficulties is to find the money necessary to carry the mea sure into execution. The Council of State is at present engaged in drawing up two important decrees ; one is for the throwing open of the butchers' trade, which is at present a monopoly, the number of butchers in Paris being limited to 500, with about the same proportion in the provincial towns ; and the other for the establishment of a bakers' bank on a prin ciple similar to that of the butchers' bank at Poissy. Our correspondence from Paris, up to Wednes day, states that engineers are engaged in making the surveys for a line of railway round Paris, but at a distance of 100 kilometres (60 miles) from the capital, so as to form a communication with all the great lines which start from it. Orleans ' Chartres, Evreux, Amiens, Epernay, Mo n t ereau , Sens, and Auxerre will come into this new line. Notice has been given that the houses comprised between the Rue des Poulies and the Place du l'Auxerrois, opposite the Louvre, are to be expro priated for public utility, and pulled down in April next. This is the first part of the vast ploject which in its ensemble comprises more than 200 houses, suppresses 15 streets courts, and passages, and -the expense of which it is estimated, in the plans, at 22 millions of francs. Bya decree of the Emperor, Admiral Le Pre dour is appointed to replace in the mixed commit tee of public works Admiral Bruat, nominated to the command of the Atlantic squadron. An imperial decree authorises the establishment of a discount bank at Senegal, with a capital of 230,000 fr., to be formed in conformity with former decisions of the eighth part of the indemnity ac corded to the inhabitants of that country, in con sequence of the abolition of negro slavery. The Moniteur publishes a decree modifying the regulations of the Mortgage Bank established at Paris. It declares that whenever the average quotation of the 3 per Cents. Rente has been for three months together' below 86fr., the Mortgage Bank can raise for all future loans, to sf. 95c., the annual sum to be paid by the borrower, that an nual sum to include interest, running expenses, and sinking fund for paying off the debt in 50 years. For loans of less duration, the annual sum shall be determined proportionably on the same bases. Whenever the 3 per Cents. Rente shall have been for three months together at an average quotation of 85fr., the maximum of the annual sum already spoken of shall be reduced to sfr. 65c. for loans of 50 years, and proportionally less for loans of shorter duration. The subven tion of 10,000,000 fr. accorded to the Mortgage Bank established at Paris by the decree of Dec. 10, 1852, is reduced to 9,700,000 f., to be paid successively in the proportion of the 20th part of the loans effected. The remaining sum of 300,000 f. is to be appropriated in equal proportions to the Mortgage Banks of Nevers and of Marseilles. When the amount of the loans of We Mortgage Bank shall have reached the sum of 250,000,000 f., the maximum of the running expenses, fixed by Art. 71 of the statutes at 60c. for every 100 f., may be reduced by the Government to 45c. If by the Ist of Jan., 1857, the loans effected by the Mortgage Bank do not amount to 200,000,000 f., the Govern ment reserves to itself the power of authorising, concurrently with the Mortgage Bank, other simi lar societies in various parts of France. Besides the 200,000,000 f. of bonds issued in execu tion of the convention of November 18, 1852, the Mortgage Bank cannot affix prizes to sums it may borrow, unless with the special authorisation of the Government. The statutes of the Mortgage Bank are to be modified in conformity with the present decree, but should a general meeting of the shareholders not give its approval within the space of two months from the present time to the modifications thus specified, the Mortgage Bank shall be deprived of the benefits arising from the present decree. The fourth quarterly drawing of the bonds of the Credit Foncier has taken place. No. 121,764, the first drawn, gained 100,000 f. ; No. 41,305 and No. 126,952, 50,000 f. each ; No. 89,300, 40,000 f.; No. 12,034, 30,000 f. ; No. 123,262, 20,000 f. ; Nos. 14,464, 12,861, 103,868, 120,717, 170,467, and 178,838, 10,000 f. each ; and N 05.113,936, 128,329, 60,134, 160,230, 65,627, 16,954, 70,551, and 98,420, 5,000 f. each, making together a total of 390,000 f. We learn from Lyons that a military demonstra tion took place in that city on the night of the 20th inst. The Salut Public of Lyons states that in con sequence of instructions from the refugees at Lon don preparations had been made amongst certain disaffected parties at Lyons to attempt a rising on the night of the 2nd of December, but that not finding all the readiness that they had anticipated, they determined to postpone their attempt to the night of the 20th. The civil and military authorities, aware of what was passing, could, says the Sa lut Public, have allowed the rising to take place, certain of being .able to put it down whenever they pleased, and to arrest the ring leaders in the very act of insurrection ; in that way, the punishment of the guilty parties would certainly have been more' signal, but, on the other hand, the peaceable inhabitants of the city would have been disturbed, public tranquillity troubled, and human blood shed. In consequence, the authorities determined to take preventive mea sures, and accordingly on the night in question the police were strongly armed; all the posts doubled, and the troops of the garrison kept under arms. The agitators, seeing that there was no probability of succeeding in any, attempt at a cop de main, prudently abstained from their intended outbreak, and everything remained perfectly quiet. The Bourse opened heavily yesterday. The Three per Cents. were first called at 74f., 60c., and fell to 74f. 40c. After two o'clock a report was circulated that an armistice had been concluded between the Russians and Turks. This report brought the Three per Cents. up to 74f. 80c., at which they closed for the end of the month. The Four-and a-Half per Cents, closed at 101 f. 10c. ; Orleans Railway shares, 1,185 f. ; Rouen, 1,055 f. ; Ha vre , 500 f. ; Great Northern, 885 f. ; Paris and Stras burg, 828 f. 75c. • Paris and Lyons, 917 f. 50c. ; Lyons to the dediterranean, 770 f. ; Western of France, 690 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 623 f. 75c. ; Great Central, 520 f. • Lyons and Geneva, 520 f.; Shares of the Bank Credit Mobilier, 760 f. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 17th are, like those of preceding days, destitute of news of interest. The Gazette contains a notification that persons who are to attend the Queen's accouchement are not to appoar in black, and that the Court mourn ing is to be suspended. The Heraldo says that there is not the least foundation for the statement that a, treaty. of alliance, offensive and defensive, has been entered into between England, France, Piedmont, and Spain. The same journal says that the Balearic Islands are to be put into a state of defence, and that troops have been sent to increase the garrison. The Three per Cents. were done at 43l the the New Three per Cents. at 22} ; the Debt of the First class, at 81 ; and that of the Second, at 4g. ITALY. Accounts from Rome, of December 14, state that the Pope has sanctioned the understanding to which his Government has come with the Govern ment of Great Britain with respect to certain reci procal advantages to fe conceded to vessels in the ports of either state. At Turin, on December 19th, the Parliament was opened by the King in person. The solemnity took place in the hall of the Senate. The ceremony commenced by the new senators and deputies taking the oath of fidelity to the King and the Constitution. Curiously enough, the first name called was that of Count Vitaliano Borromeo, one of the principal sufferers by the recent Austrian act of sequestration. The second was that of the late Premier, Massimo d'Azeglio. The following is the royal speech :—' "Senators and Deputies—ln opening a new legisla ture, I record with just pride that the sixth year is about at an end since my august father inaugurated constitu tional liberty in this ancient monarchy. "The nation hailed that liberty with joy—used it with wisdom ; and, advancing in the closest and most trustful union with its King, it showed itself conscious of its true interests, and worthy of its destinies. "To this indissoluble union, rendered yet more splendid by the noble attitude of the country, we are in debted for the growing sympathy of the most civilised nations, and the constantly more intimate friendship of the most enlightened Governments of Europe. " From this union my Government has gathered suf ficient strength to preserve intact the national dignity, under painful and difficult circumstances ; and to up hold against every attack the noble principle of indepen dence, which is uppermost in my own and in your affections. (His Majesty pronounced these words with unusual emphasis and feeling, and was warmly cheered.) , " The Chamber, elected in 1849, had already tra ve-scd apr racted and laborious career. Called upon to repair the consequericJs of grave and unmerited disasters, it had with the assistance of the other branch of Parliament, fulfilled its difficult mission, by sanctioning such taxes as inevitable necessity com pelled my Government to demand. But it at the same time agreed to equitable economic reforms ; strengthened and accelerated the industrial and commer cial movement ; and inaugurated the opening of that great network of railways which now unites the Ligurian to the Piedmontese people, and which will remain a per petual monument of the power and greatness of Italian genius. (Applause.) "Upon the Parliament which I am this day about to open will devolve a duty not less important. After com pleting the edifice of the all-but-recruited finances, I will proceed with alacrity in the path of economic re form, now placed beyond the reach of danger by the light of undoubted experience ; and extending to the produce of the soil the fruitful principles of free trade, will secure to the owners of land a rich compensation by means of the reform of the system of assessment, and by means of institutions of credit calculated to put an end to usury. " The independence of the civil power being assured, it will continue, in the sphere of action traced for it by the constitution, the reforms already undertaken ; these being directed rather to increase than decrease the affec tion and reverence of the people for the religion of our ancestors, and to render more efficacious, and not to weaken, its salutary influence. "It will have to bring into better harmony with the new political institutions the administration of the corn mimes and provinces ; and to complete the reform of the codes, to provide for the preservation of public secu rity, to reorganise the magistracy, and to improve the various branches of public education. " Our valiant army, which continues to signalise itself by fresh improvements, will equally form the object of your solicitude. " Senators and Deputies,--In fulfilling this mission, I confide in God, in the wisdom and concord of the great powers of the State, and in the good sense and patriotism of which the nation has recently given such noble proofs. Have faith in me (in pronouncing these words, with deep emotion, his Majesty put his right hand on his heart), and united we will put the last touch to the great edifice which was raised by my father's hand, and which union will ever defend and preserve. The last words of the royal speech met with the most enthusiastic applause. The whole speech was remarkably well received ; and the phrase containing the allusion to the attempt of Austria to wound the independence of Piedmont in the affair of sequestrations, has produced an excellent effect. - Count Paar and M. Zulant, the Austrian charge d'affaires and secretary, were in the diplo matic box, and must have had an opportunity of reporting to their Government the unmistakeable feeling of the Crown and nation. In the diplomatic box also was Baron Brenier, the well-known French diplomatist ; who, it is rumoured, is on a confidential mission from Napo leon to the Government of Italy. He arrived at Turin on Saturday, and was soon to take his depdrture for Florence. M. Brenier must be well acquainted with Italian questions, as he w as for some years French Consul at Lehorn. At all events, his mission is on this account not looked upon with disfavour in Turin, and elsewhere in Italy. DENMARK. The Cologne Gazette, under date of Berlin 19t119 says :—" The authorities of Dantzic, Stettin, and Schweldt, have, on the occasion of the anniversary of the accession of M. de Manteuffel to the Presi dency of the Ministry, voted him the freedom of those cities, which were yesterday presented to him by_d.eputations. The first Burgomaster Grod beck delivered an address, in which he pointed out the misfortunes to Dantzic in consequence of the interruption to peace in 1846, and expressed the wishes of himself and his fellow-citizens for the maintenance of the peace of Europe. M. de Manteuffel in his reply said : " Material interests have acquired a great stimulus, but it is necessary that they should have a greater de velopnient. Dantzic is placed at the head of those towns which will contribute to it. It is true that it is necessary for peace to be preserved, and I hope that it will be possible, whatever may be now the threatening aspect of affairs. I maintain, and the King has approved of my view of the subject, that Prussia ought not to meddle in affairs which do not concern her, and 'I hope that she will remain aloof from political complications. But I can never forget that she must maintain intact her hon Our and her position, should events render it necessary." • BELGIUM. The Chamber of Representatives of Belgium has just adopted, by a large majority, a bill on patents. It is favourable to inventors—it fixes the duration of patents at twenty years, and declares that there shall no longer be forfeiture if the inventions be not carried out within a limited period - it imposes a tax of 110 fr. for the first ye ar , and 20fr., 30fr., &c., for succeeding years ; and enacts that there shall no longer be any distinction between patents of invention and importation. AMERICA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, FRIDAY, 3 A.M. By the United States' steamer Baltic we have advices from New York to the 10th inst. She has brought 87 passengers and upwards of a million in specie on freight. The Baltic experienced strong easterly gales the whole passage. The steamer Niagara, from Liverpool, arrived at Boston on the 9th inst. The report of the Secretary of the Treasury bad been issued. The imports for the fiscal year of 1853 were $267,978,647, and the exports $230,452,250. By telegraph from Boston we learn that Messrs. N. Cunningham and Co. had suspended payment, with liabilities estimated at upwards of $150,000. The receipts of cotton at the southern ports were 441,000 bales short of the receipts for the same time last year. The steamer Crescent City had arrived at New Orleans from Havannah with advices to the sth inst. . . The new Captain-General arrived there on the 2d, and was immediately installed. Two steamers , had arrived at New Orleans frosty California with 16 days' later news. The steamers George Law and Star of the West sailed from San Francisco on the 15th ult., for New York, with about $3,000,000 in gold dust on freight. - In - consequence of the wires being out of order, the details of the Californian news had not been received at New York. There was no change to notice in the New York stock or money-markets. Exchange on London, 1081 to 1091 ; Paris, 512 2 to 5 15 • Amsterdam, 41a to 41i • Hamburg, 37 to 371 ; Bremen , 81 to 81i , ; Frankfort, 41i to 41i- Cotton in good demand at firm prices. The sales of the week were 12,460 bales. In consequence of unfavourable advices from England, holders of flour had been ready sellers 11 a decline of from 12c. to 18c. per barrel. Whea t has also declined. Indian corn in good demand for export, without material change in price. Previsions in food demand, at firm prices for beef, pork, and lard. Scotch pig iron was selling at $36 for six months. Freights to London.-----Tobacco, 60s. per hhd. ; flour, 4s. 9d. per barrel; turpentine, ss. per 2081 b.; heavy goods, 455. to 60s. per ton. NEW ORLEANS, DEC. 9. The sales of cotton to-day were 7,000 bales, and for the week they got up to 35,000 bales; middling is quoted at 91 cents. The decrease in the receiPt B at all the southern ports, compared with the Po e date last year, is 465,000'bales. RATES OF EXCHANGE.—The commercial advices fr° ll3 the continent continue wholly without interest, but the rates of exchange remain steady at most of the principal places, and there is, consequently, no apparent tenden c y to a renewal of the drain of specie from London. THE WHEAT TRADE.—The demand for wheat for tlc' portation promises to continue' prices in France being still above those on this side. DETERMINED SUICIDE IN DRURY-LANE.—Yester d4 on Thomas Wakley, Esq., the corone r , re ceived informs ti of the death of Robert Harvey, aged 37 years, No. 3 1 Ashley-place, Drury-lane, who com mitted self - des truc tion under the following melancholy circumstance s. Th e deceased sent his wife on an errand, during whic h tim f e he drove a nail inside the door, and his wife , on : turning, being unable to get in, called the assista nce of T Butler, 13 F, and Inspector W. Mayes, of Bloom sbury : Sergeant T. Butler having procured a ladder, god up to the window, and saw the deceased hanginl. to a clothes peg in the room. He sent the wife r e the deceased into the next room, broke open tu , door, and then cut him down. Mr. Faulkner, surgeo_no Drury-lane, was sent for, and promptly attended, 10 used every means to restore animation, but life was,rl u s ` ct. extinct. No reason has been assigned for the ° The directors of the Royal Investment InsT: which was established some time ago to enabl ; 0 7 middle classes to obtain an advantageous rate galltievi: for their savings, have opened an office at 23, " where deposits are received, after the manner of savi o 77 ll. banks, in sums ofl/. and upwards, for which a rate e, 'd uet i terest is allowed varying from 34 to 5 per cent., ac_ ited , ing to the period for which the money is deP e °: l The funds of the society being all invested on Te most curity, this institution may be deemed one of tl' important mediums of investment that the . A t affords. The rules and tables are certified by authority authority on investment societies, Mr. Scrateh7......, isrot- THE GENERAL HOLIDAY ON MONDAY NEto close the withstanding the refusal of Lord Palmerston ceinniercial various public offices on Monday next, t..e. employes their ewe world at least seem determined to give ent-street, holiday on that day. Messrs. Nicholl, of ileg establish • g their have declared their intention of closing branc h ouea branc market ments, not only in London, but all their in the various provincial towns. —........_______ A l l pr comm The sale s o " t ibiated at a 5OO Sura n• The x / i it hout 4 ,000 ar end,t tuleric . ti an, at a h ici : Aer lb, Raili a d r, °`74 , w ard t and pri s ugar prices h t par h ave ev re ee lee are su u lliest, and at higher of t al - stler rat e risei ngrain . sore,lo COttC -4 11 10 re i n , Jut e has The ad v , ih e last 1 0 thi s day arw, 11 014. stock a P et cent. ~,, ()ea. 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