The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-29 00:00:00

PERSIA.

CONSTANTINOPLE. Jan. 14.
The following is the text of the ultimatum addressed to the
Court of Persia by Mr. Murray :-
1. The government shall restore to liberty the Princess,
wife of Mirza.

2. That it shall acknowledge Mirza as Consul for the Queen
of England.

3. That the Prime Minister of the Schah shall proceed to
the residence of the English Embassy,to offer an apology, and
withdraw his offensive note.

Mr. Murray, in spite of some resistance, has left an agent
at Teheran, and has threatened to support him by an English
fleet in the Persian Gulf.

The accounts from Constantinople state that General Mon-
ravieff, after destroying the advanced works of Kars, had left
a garrison of 1,000 men in that place. well provisioned, and
ordered the main body of his army to march on Gumri.
There is at Trebizonde a force of 15,000 Turks and Egyptians,
the greater part of whom are on their way to the relief of
Erzeroum. These troops endure the most severe privations,
and more particularly suffer from the bad state of the roads,
which are much encumbered with snow.

At Kinburn the sea is frozen to a distance of two leagues;
the gunboats which are frozen up will, in case of need, act as
detached forts round tI4 citadel.

The rupture of relations between Persia and England is
confirmed. The Shah declined the mediation of France the
moment he heard of the fall of Kars. The English Minister,
on his side, refused to make any concessions, and has left
Teheran with all the English Legation. He arrived on the
6th of December at Kious, near Mossoul.
BARON SEEBACII AND THE CzAR.-A Paris letter in the
Inclipendance Beige contains the following :—" Although the
result M. Seebach had in view, in his visit to St. Petersburg,
is now iu a good way of being realised, some details respecting
this diplomatist's interview with the Emperor Alexander will
not, perhaps, be uninteresting. M. Seebach was extremely
intimate with the Emperor Nicholas, and the Emperor Alex-
ander witnessed, when very youn,,, the friendship which his
father maintained with that statesman. The latter was re-
ceived at the palace immediately after his arrival at St. Peters-
burg, which city he had not visited for many years. On seeing
him, the Emperor exclaimed, ' What grave events have passed
since we last saw each other !' and then threw himself into his
visitor's arms. His Majesty for some time showed much emo-
tion, and spoke of his father, his childhood, and of the calmer
times when he had known M. Seebach. In speaking of his
father tears ran down his cheeks. But, recovering himself with
a dignity truly imperial, he observed, ' But we haVe to speak of
more serious matters. Ah ! you are not come hoping to
weaken me.' The Emperor then expressed himself with great
clearness upon the reasons which rendered the establishment
of peace desirable, but also upon his duties as the Sovereign of
Russia, and the difficulties and exigencies of the situation.
My noblesse.' said he, `are not prepared to bow the head. I
do not deceive myself upon the gravity of the events in the
Crimea, nor upon the possible results of au attack in the Baltic,
but, believe me, whatever be the situation, and whatever may
be likely to arrive, it is much more difficult for me at this mo-
ment to make peace than continue the war. I encounter, in
deciding for war, ten times less resistance among my noblesse
and the people.' "

CIIESTEE AND HOLTIMAD RAILWAY.—The traffic for the
week ended January 20th, 1856, was as follows :—Passengers,
parcels, &c., £1,882 14s. 6d. • steam-boats, £262 17s. 10d. ;
goods, £2,109 15s. 9d. ; total, including Carnarvon traffic,
£4,255 Bs. ld. Corresponding week last year :—Passengers,
parcels, &c., £1,897 4s. 10d.; steam-boats, £256 Bs. 5d.;
goods, £1,659 12s. 5d ; total, including Carnarvon traffic,
£3,813 ss. Bd. Increase, £442 2s.