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London, England, 1855-02-03 00:00:00

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE.

Tuesday, January 31.
BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.— C HARLES BRADLEY, Tipton
and Great Barr, Staffordshire, iron dealer.
BAN KRUPTS.—lionsiir Dittimosin SULIVAN, Great Yarmouth,
Norfolk. shipowner—Gro atm Bore, Belitba Villas West, Barns-
bury-park, wine merchant—JAMES DANIEL, Bugbrook, North-
amptonshire, coal merchant—WlLLlAM ROBERT SCHWONILE,
Union-court, Old Broad-street, City, commission merchant—
Thomas MASTERS, Norwood, Surrey, hotelkeeper—WlLLlAM
RAVEN and JOSEPH RAVEN, Fish street•hill, City, wholesale
stationers—GEOßGE HALL, Brighton, Sussex, upholsterer—
WILLIAM HDoazS, Sbelten, Staffordshire, builder— JOHN
LATIMER, Newoastle-under•Lyne, Staffordshire, draper-oEolton
BAILEY, Walsall, Staffordshire, iunkeeper—WlLLlAM GRAINOER,
Dudley, Worcestershire, builder—EDMUND LLOYD OwEN,
Wolverhampton, mineral inerchaut—JoHN PHILLIPS, Drimpton,
Dorsetahire, baker—Jour liaaais. Torquay, Devonshire, grocer
—THOMAS KLMSDEN and WILLIAM BRADFORD BAXTER, Bitalffe•
bridge, Yorkshire, worsted spinners—THOMAS HODSON Hopson,
Pecaforton, Cheshire, cattle deaIer—WILLIAM RENNIE, JAMES
JOHNSON, and WILLIAM RANKIN , Liverpool, shipwrights—
JAMES SIDEDOTHAM, Manchester, grocer—JOHN RICHARDSON,
Manchester, umbrella manufacturer.
tieoiCH S EQUESTRATIONS.—JOHN IVGLAsuan, Glasgow,
merchant—Donau) l'it'FaatLan, Oban, baker—WALTER Low and
JAMES BEATTIE Low, Arbroath, drapers.

Friday, February 2.
BANKRUPTCY AN NU LIED. RICHARD DERBYSHIRE,
Liverpool, merchant.
BAN KRU PTS.—tlomt WATNEY, Wimbledon, Surrey, baker—
W [WAY SH MILAN, Manchester, baker— J AMEt CLAPTON, Exeter,
proa•iaion dealer—JOHN HIRT, Gull hills, Gloucester, paper
manufacturer—'SAMUEL SHEPPARD IRELAND, Brighton, cabinet-
maker—HENßY GEORGE CARLE, Goswell-street, Clerkenwell,
draper—HENßY BUCXELL, l'Ortaea, draper—JAMES SWANN,
Coventry, hardware anti general dealer—Wm. BERants, Birming-
ham, sodawater deaIer—WILLIAM HARVEY FLETCHER, Kidder-
minster, auctioneer WILLIAM BROWN NASH, College-hill,
Caption street West, City, wine merchant—UDWAßD HODGES
Newman-street. Orford-street, Middlesex, sculptor—
JOHN lIEAI:MONT, Sell., and JOHN BEAUMONT, JIM., COnllllolCill-
place, city-road, coschumkers.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.—JAMES FORD, Edinburgh,
provision merchant, J/O.—,TORN SMITH, Coweaddetta, Glasgow,
draper—Al.l-I,ANDSX WHYTE and Co., Glasgow, merchants, ac.

FEBRUARY 3, 1855.

lortign Olorresponentt.

FRANKFORT, Jan. 30.

The news of the resignation of Lord John Russell
arrived here by the telegraph, and forms the all-
engrossing topic of discussion. The Russian and
Prussian party were not prepared for this, and view
it as a most untoward event. This resignation, with
the astounding fact of the French loan, have depressed
the Russian adherents, and they are awaiting with
anxiety for the result of the parliamentary doings.
Whatever may occur, they are conscious that the
war party is paramount, and this has already had a
material effect upon the very high and mighty
Princes, and their august councillors. The pecu-
liarity of the success attending the French loan has
disposed of all uncertainty as to the sympathy of the
nation with the Emperor and his Government ; and
the imminent peril of the Aberdeen Ministry, with
the advent of Lord Palmerston to the Ministry of
War—the least of threatened evils—has given a dis-
agreeable turn to affairs in the Russian interest.
Yet the well-informed of the Anglo-German-Russians
believe, and are taught to believe, that Lord Aber-
deen, backed by a high power and its representative
" de facto et de jure," will cling with desperation to
office, and endeavour to retain it at every hazard.
With a packed majority in the house, be will only
succumb to the " force majeure" of public opinion.
The animosity of the Russian frondeurs is chiefly
turned against Lord Palmerston and Mr. Disraeli.
The name of the latter has been seldom mentioned
hitherto, not from an ignorance of his political value,
but from the jealous care not to raise the question of
so dangerous an antagonist. They hold Lord Derby,
Lord Palmerston, and Mr. Disraeli, to be the incar-
nation of anti-Germanic and anti-Russian policy ;
and they imagine, not unwisely, that should their
views of foreign affairs prevail in Parliament, the
union with France and with the Emperor and his
army will be complete and perfect—all hope for the
house of Orleans would vanish—and Germany be
ultimately devastated by an internecine conflict.
Trifles have often a salutary value ; and the fact of
General Canrobert having supplied the English
army with 10,000 " capotes," and that the English
are now fighting in French uniforms, has made an
impression far greater than might have been sup-
posed. The asperity towards England is steadily in-
creasing, for every advance in the "entente cordiale"
with France is supposed to be a step backward in
retreat from German connection. If Austria can be
induced to be sincere, or can be forced into a right
path, she may now regain a strong position ; but by
a middle course she will be inevitably ruined. Every
misdeed of Prussia is in her favour. Since the latter
country has been ejected from participating in the
approaching Congress, her agents have not consi-
dered themselves bound to withhold their opinions,
and have expressed themselves openly. They say
that should Sir Hamilton Seymour be sent to
Vienna to assist at the conference, Russia has no
chance of justice. They are satisfied with Lord
Westmoreland, not so with M. de Bourqueney, and
still less with M. de Morny, should he be appointed.
This may afford a clue to certain political passages
in the visits of Lord Palmerston and Lord John
Russell to Paris, the results of which are apparent
enough. In the meantime the Emperor Napoleon
has not transmitted an order to Vienna to negotiate.
There is a strong mercantile party here, and a
little curious gossip took place lately with some of
the leaders. It appears that the head of one of the
Frankfort firms was a short time since in London,
and in an interview with two of the most eminent
bankers of the city the conversation turned on the
financial position of England. Both bankers spoke
with the highest respect of the personal character of
Mr. Gladstone—withholding, however, alt confidence
in his fiscal arrangements. They said that he was
considered unsafe and an adventurer—that he would
not submit to be advised, or to listen to any remon-
strance against his own projects, to which he clung
with obstinate tenacity—that one wild scheme was
followed by another, and all were more or less deter-
mined failures. It was also asserted that Mr. Glad-
stone has by nature a most inaccurate memory, and
that the retention in his mind of the particular de-
tails of financial operations was a work of labour;
and, in fact, that his memory is, and has always
been, organically deficient. So long as he remained in
office, they added, the market would always have a
tendency to remain tight. Mr. Disraeli was very frankly
eulogised by these persons, and they affirmed that
no greater financial display had been achieved for a
long time than had been exemplified by him in the
defence of his budget, single-handed and without
assistance. The expression of the Frankfort mer-
chants in giving their opinions was, " l'etait son pre•.
mier coup, mail c'etait un coup de maitre." The
bankers landed his willingness to acquire informa-
tion by every possible moans, and to listen def.-

THE PRESS.

rentially and with urbanity to those whose lives and
fortunes had been passed in the study of financial
affairs. They said he was comprehensive in his
views of State finance, and masterly in the arrange-
ment of details, and they also quoted the correctness
of his judgment of Mr. Gladstone's fiscal abortions,
which have followed exactly in the manner he had
predicted. The Emperor of the French appealed to
France for twenty-five millions, and obtained in-
stantly eighty-five. Mr. Gladstone petitioned the
English market for eight millions, and failed. Can a
more startling proof be given of a want of financial
ability, and an absence of confidence on the part of
the moneyed public? _ _

J. E.

:onion an 4 (colonial 3ntelligettre.

FRANCE. •
Two decrees of Napoleon 111. have been published
in the Suisse, one, ordering the formation of a second
Foreign Legion, to be assimilated in all respects, like
the one already existing, to the French troops of the
line. All the officers are to be foreigners, and the
pay and allowances for officers and men are to be the
same as in the French army. The other decree ap-
points Colonel Ochsenbein, lately head of the mili-
tary department in Switzerland, to the command of
this new legion, with the rank of general of brigade.
The number of the French army for Austria is
limited to 80,000 men. It will pass through Lom-
bardy, and prove to the Italians the reality of the
alliance of France with Austria. General Schramm
is spoken of as likely to command under the Em-
peror, who, it is rumoured, will take the field.
A fifth battery of the Artillery of the Imperial
Guard is now being organised in Paris. Each regi-
ment of that arm is to furnish twenty men, two non-
commissioned officers, and a trumpeter, chosen from
among the best conducted of the corps.
Prince Napoleon, accompanied by his father,
Prince Jerome, has arrived in Paris at the Palais
Royal.
The Emperor has ordered that, in compliance
with the prayer of the Prefect of the Gironde, a bust
in marble of Marshal St.. Arnaud shall be executed
at the expense of the Ministry of State, and be
placed in the hall of the council-general of that de•
partment.
GERMANY.
The Wanderer of Vienna says :2—" The ambassa-
dors of France and England have received despatches
from their Governments, in consequence of which
the conferences between them and Count de Buol,
for some time interrupted, were resumed. These con-
ferences relate to the military measures to be taken
in accordance with the treaty of Dec. 2."
The Turkish ambassador received on Wednes lay
special powers to attend the conference on behalf of
his Sovereign. Like powers were expected for the
Western ambassadors, hut had not arrived.
General Count de Renneville is designated by the
Emperor of Austria for a military mission to the
Emperor of the French. The Count left Vienna for
Paris on Tuesday last.
It is said that the military stipulations are agreed
upon between the three powers, although no mili-
tary convention has, as yet, been concluded.
M. de Bruck was expected to arrive at Trieste on
Thursday en route for Vienna.
The King of Prussia has determined to make
another attempt at separate negotiation. Lieutenant-
General Wedel is about to proceed on a special,
mission to the government of the Emperor Na-
poleon.
The Post Ampt Gazette says :
The mission with which General de Wedell is charged
by the King of Prussia to Paris has for object to point out
in a precise manner the public right of Prussia to take
part in all conferences of the great powers as called for by
the place she occupies in the European concert.
A number of Prussian ship-carpenters and other
artificers had been engaged for service in their
respective callings in the French dockyards. The
police, however, refused to give them passports or
permit them to quit the country, alleging it to be a
breach of neutrality. Prussian surgeons are at the
same time allowed to take service in the armies of
the Czar.
A proposition to mobilise the forces of the Confe-
deration was brought before the Federal Diet at
Frankfort on the 25th ult., by Austria. The propo-
sition was opposed by Prussia. On Wednesday last
the Austrian proposition was rejected and withdrawn
at the sitting of the committee of the Diet.
Prussia's motion on the preparations for war on the
same day was accepted.

ITALY.

The Sardinian treaty of alliance with France and
England, and also the two coventions annexed, were
signed on the 26th ult.
The military convention made by the Piedmontese
Government with England and France stipulates as
follows

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The King of Sardinia will provide a corps d'arolie o
15,000 men, organised in five bngades, forming two divi-
sions and a reserve brigade. He will keep up the numerical
strength of this corps d'art's& by the regular expedition of
reinforcements.

The Sardinian Government will provide for the pay and
provisioning of these troops. France and England
guarantee the integrity of the Sardinian States, and will
defend them against any attack during the war.
The President of the council of Ministers presented
on the 28th to the Turin Chambers : —l. The act of ad-
hesion of Piedmont to the treaty of alliance concluded
on the 10th of April between France and England.
2. The military convention concluded with the two
Western powers for the sending of 15,000 men to
the Crimea. 3. An additional convention with Eng-
land, relating to a loan of twenty-live millions of
francs to be contracted by Piedmont.
The French cavalry had arrived at Genoa, where
it has been received with demonstrations of sympathy
on the part of the army and population.
• • ka SPAIN.
M. Madoz, the new Minister of Finance, has a?.
pointed M. Cantero, who was Minister of Finance in
the Olozaga Cabinet, to be Director of the Bank of
St. Ferdinand. M. Pinilla has been named Director-
General of Taxes.