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London, England, 1855-02-10

BRITISH PREMIERS.

THE following is a list of the successive Premiers
who have held office during the last century. The
dates of their appointment show an average tenure of
administration for each successive Minister of three
years eight months and one day, the Marquis of
Roskingliam's being the shortest within the
period
Duke of Newcastle .. .. April, 1754
Earl of Bute May, 17142
George Grenville (father to Lord Grenville) April, l71i:1
Marquis of Rockingham . • 9. • . July, MO
Duke of Grafton . .. Aug., 17118
Lord North (Earl of Guildford) Jan, MO
Marquis of Rockingham .. .. March, 17e4

Earrof Shelburn
Duke of Portland .. .. • •
William Pitt .. • •
H. Addington (Lord Sidmouth)
W. l'itt
Lord Grenville
Duke of Portland .. .. • •
Spencer Perceval .. • •
Earl of Liverpool .•
George Canning
Viscount (Juderich (Earl of Ripon)
Duke of Wellington
Earl Grey .. .
Lord Melbourne
Sir Robert Peel
Lord Melliminte
Sir Hobert Peel . •
Lord John
Earl of Derby..
Earl of Aberdeen
Vircuunt Peltueraton

.. July,
.. April, 1783
.. Dec., 1783
.. March, 1801
.. May, 144
.. Jan., 1808
.. March, 1807
Juue, 1810
.. June, 1812
.. April, 1997
.. Aug., 187
.. Jan., 1808
.. Nor., 140
.. Aug., 1884
.. Nov., 1884
.. April, 145
.. Sept., 1841
.. June, 1848
1862
J lec., 1862
.. Feb., 1866

A LtnnAnY, consisting of nearly three hundred
volumes of books, has been fitted up on board the
hospital ship Serern, which is about to proceed to
the Black Sea. Ihe books are intended for the in-
valids on the passage between Balaklava and Scutari.
The idea of this library otiginated with Messrs.
Forbes end Marshall, the booksellers of Southamp-
ton 4 who gave a number of volumes towards it. The
rest of the books wero given by the ladies and gentle-
men of Southampton and its neighbourhood. Mr.
Pitcher, the purser of the Sewn, will actas librarian.
The library consists of light and seriously arittim
books in different languages.
IT is said that thelieutenant-governorobip of Chel-
sea Hospital, vacant by the death of General Sir A.
F. Barnard, was offered to General Sir De Lacy Evans,
but drained.
London, England, 1855-02-10

Cori anb Sastia.

The Queen came to Louden front Windsor on
Tuesday for the purpose of being at hand while ar-
rangements were pending, under Loni Palmerston, for
the reconstruction of the Cabinet. Her Majesty
gave audience to the noble viscount in the coarse of
the day, and returned in the afternoon to Windsor.
General Sir De Lacy Evans was among the guests
invited to dine with the Queen that evening. On
Wednesday her Majesty held a chapter of the Order
of the Garter with the customary state, at which the
three new knights of the order, the Earls of Elles-
mere, Carlisle, and Aberdeen, were duly elected and
invested. In the evening there was a grand banquet
in St. George's-ball.
On Thursday a Privy Council was held at Windsor'
at which Earl Granville was ordered by her Majesty
to take his place as president. The rest of the
newly-appointed Ministers were present at this
council, and kissed hands on accepting the seals of
office. The members of the reconstituted Cabinet
who attended the council were Viscount Palmerston,
the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir G. Grey, Earl Gran-
ville, Viscount Canning, Lord Panmure, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, Sir C. Wood, the Right Hon.
Sidney Herbert, and the Hon. li. Fitzroy.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mrs. Glad-
stone had a dinner party on Tuesday, at the official
residence, in Downing street. Mrs. Gladstone re-
ceived a select party in the evening.
The Speaker's first parliamentaay dinnertook ►lace
on Saturday. The guests included the chief Ministers
of State and their personal friends in the House of
Commons.

His Excellency the Ambassador of France and the
Countess Walewski entertained a distinguished party
at dinner, at Albert gate-house, on Saturday last.
Prince Napolean, before leaving Constantinople for
France, presented Dr. Fanvel with a gold snuff-box
set with diamonds, as a mark of his high esteem for
the valuable services he had rendered him (the
prince) during his late severe indisposition.
Sir James Graham has been suffering fmm a
painful disease, which rendered a surgical operation
necessary. The operation was successfully performed
by Sir Benjamin Brodie, and it is hoped that the
right hon. baronet will soon he convalescent.
Admiral and Lady Emily Dundas arrived in Lon-
don on Tuesday afternoon, accompanied by his eon,
the Bev. J. Dundas. The gallant admiral has com-
pletely recovered his health.
London, England, 1855-02-10

SUPPLY.

On Wednesday 1,200,0001. was voted on account,
and on Thursday a further sum of 1,600,0001. for the
navy estimates ; the CHANCELLOR Of the EXCHEQUER
explaining that these votes on account compromised
no principles which might be asserted on the full
vote, when the items would be discussed.
London, England, 1855-02-10

AU STRIA.

An outrage has been committed by Russian
soldiers upon the Austrian flag, which, though
originating probably in mistake, is expected to lead
to some important consequences in precipitating the
collision between the two countries. A letter from
Galatz of the 25th ultimo thus details the occur-
rence :

Eight Austrian commercial vessels have arrived at
Galatz. They were received by the Russians with a brisk
fire, which wounded some men, and killed the pilot of the
Austrian brig Cleederwven. The ships were then subjected
to a most rigorous search. The Austrian consul had re-
ferred the matter home, and very grave consequences were
expected to follow.

The imperial decree of Nov. 2, which ordered the
whole of the army to be placed on a war footing by
the end of January, has been punctually executed.
At present, all the reserves have arrived at their
several corps. In consequence of the new arrange-
ments, each regiment has been raised from 4,600
men to 8,000.
Vienna letters state that the whole of the Austrian
army has received orders to be prepared to march.
A German journal of great credit says :—" Austria's
first corps d'arrnie consists of 67,600 men and 144
guns; her second of 121,000 men and 186 guns ; her
third of 286,000 men and 252 guns ; her fourth of
119,400 men and 104 guns; in all 594,000 men and
688 guns. Her reserve in two months could be raised
to 200,000 men, by comprising the frontier regi-
ments."
The Austrian Government is employing 12,000
men, under the direction of military engineers,
in executing a railway from Dembica to Boschina, to
join the Warsaw line. It is most anxious to have
this line completed without delay, as it will be of great
utility in military movements. General Hess has
also been indefatigably inspecting the formation of
the new railways, and the making of main roads and
cross roads. Bridges have been built whereverthey
were wanted, and all the old roads thoroughly re-
paired. At Tarnow 500 men are working on the
railroad in spite of the frost and heavy falls of snow. ,

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THE PRESS.

the country. He pledged himself to appoint no man
to any office that he did not believe the best qualified
to fill it. He asked for that forbearance in the per-
formance of his difficult task which was never refused
to those who endeavoured honestly to perform their
duty. He declared that if he found himself unequal
to that task, he should not lose a moment in con-
fessing and abandoning it.
London, England, 1855-02-10

FEBRUARY 10,1855.

The Chevalier Toggenburg, a statesinsu of Count
Staddion's school, has been appointed Chief of the
Department of Trade.
. . .

The aocouohement of the Empress of Austria is
expected to take place very shortly. Prayers for her
health and safety are ordered to be put up in all the
churches. It is arranged that the event shall be an-
nounced to the citizens of Vienna by a salute of
cannon, twenty-one guns for a princess, and one
hundred to had the birth of an heir to the Crown.
London, England, 1855-02-10

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THE CAPE.

The General Screw Company's steam-ship Natal,
arrived at. Southampton on Tuesday, with dates from
the Cape of Good Hope to the 12th of December.

Mining operations occupied the entire attention of
the colonists, and large discoveries were continually
being made. At* a meeting of the Eagle Mining
Company 11,000 applications were made for 5,000
disposable shares. The crops in the neighbourhood
of the mines looked well. In Namaqualand they
were never better. The granaries of the colony were
never in finer promise ; all throughout the crops
were most abundant an 4 in excellent condition.
From Port Natal is no political news, The
colony was tranquil and healthy. On the frontier
matters wore a more encouraging aspect, and no
fears for an outbreak were entertained.
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up to the point which our owners (for such they counted
themselves) might think it expedient for their own purpose.
In a word, the lordly and dainty-fingered Whigs found us
twieftil in doing their dirty work against the Tories, in con-
junction with Dissenters, Radicals, and other lean and
hungry expectants.
Of the other contents we need only say that they
are devoted to advance, in various ways, the interests
of the Roman Catholic Church.
The Art-Journal commences in its present num-
ber the publication of the plates of " the Royal
Gallery." The impressions, though clearly pro-
duced, are of course much inferior to those in the
Gallery itself, which, from being printed on India
paper, with exceeding care, have the appearance and
value of proofs. The contents of the journal on all
matters connected with art are full and interesting.
An exact description is given of the state of
Crawford's great work at Rome, " The Progress of
Civilisation in America." A notice of the works of
E. M. Ward, with illustrations of his best pictures, is
the most prominent paper. This artist is certainly
improving. His " Royal Family of France in the
Temple" is perhaps his best work ; but it is quite
erroneous to give him the praise of all his figures
being " naturally studied." lie has a tendency to
exaggeration, which we hope and believe greater ex-
peninee and study will soften down. The article on
" A:hert Durer" is also most attractive, and there are
the usual variety of papers on art and art-manu-
facture.
In the second number of the Statist, for
this month, we are glad to see a more concise
table of contents, and a more extended treatment
given to the subjects, than was adopted in the first
number of this new periodical. The tabular returns
of the cholera statistics for 1854 will be found to
offer sme remarkable contrasts to those of the year
1849. The effect of wide streets and general im-
provement in the dwellings of the poor is exhibited
in a remarkable manner in the St. Giles's and other
districts. In 1849 in this district 1 in 185 of the
population died of cholera; in 1854 it was 1 in 403.
Again, in Shoreditch in 1849 it was 1 in 128, while in
1854 it was 1 in 452; but in St. James's west, which
includes the most infected neighbourhood of 1854,
while the deaths of 1849 were only 1 in 620, in 1854
they rose to 1 in 73, the population being slightly in-
creased in the district. The present is a great
improvement on the previous number, and the ma-
gazine will no doubt be‘.,ome an established perio-
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The third number of the Martins of Cro' Martin
is exceedingly lively, and the story improves in in-
terest, and promises well for Mr. Lever's reputation.

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ITALY.

The discussion on the treaty of alliance between
Sardinia and the Western powers commenced on the
31d inst. in the Turin Chambers, and has since pro-
ceeded favorably.
The co-operation of the Piedmontese contingent
in the war against Russia will be very speedily
effected. It is stated that an arrangement has been
entered into between France and Austria by which
the Sardinian troops will be allowed to pass through
the Austrian territory. Count Kiverel arrived on the
28th ult. at Constantinople, to organise the reception
and passage of the Piedmontese army. General La
Marmora, who is to command the contingent, is daily
expected in Paris to arrange plans in common with
other military commissioners of the allies.
The Holy See has sent a monitorium to the Pied.
montese Government concerning the proposed
monastic laws.

The Queen of Naples was safely delivered of a
princess on the 21st ult.
The Grand Duke of Tuscany has, by a decree of
the 28th ult,, ordered a levy of 2,0(X) men.

Above twenty participators in the last revolutionary
intrigues of blazzini were arrested at Verona on the
Ist inst.

SPAIN.

The Ministry presented to the Cortes on the sth
inst. a project of law, proposing the complete sale of
the estates of the clergy, regular and secular. The
measure was received with approbation.
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No. 93.—VoL. 111.

ress.

LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1855.

PRESS OFFICE.

Friday Night, Feb. 9.

Ansa the resignation by Lord DERBY of his
commission to form an Administration, Lord
Jour; RUSSELL, at the latter end of last week,
was invited by her Majesty to attempt that
result. The refusal of the Peelite section to
serve unaer his Lordship, and the discouraging
replies of his former Whig colleagues, obliged
the Noble Member for the City of London
speedily to relinquish the task, and on Sunday
Lord PAI.MERSTON was authorised by the Queen
to take the necessary steps, which, it was
understood, would result in the return to
office of the Coalition Cabinet reduced in
numbers.

On applying, however, to the Peelite section,
unexpected obstacles were experienced by
Lord PALMERSTON. An opinion was expressed
that if the Coalition Cabinet returned to office,
it was both logical and just that it should again
be under the superintendence of Lord ABER-
DEEN. Without, however, insisting upon a
point which might be esteemed an interference
with the prerogative, it was distinctly an-
nounced by the Peelite section that its mem-
oers could not form a portion of Lord PALMERS-
TON'S Cabinet unle3s Lord ABERDEEN had a
seat in it, and should fill at least the office
recently occupied by Lord JOHN RUSSELL. It
was, as we have been informed, even added,
in a tone not less peremptory, that the only
reason that the condition of the presence of
the Duke of NEWCASTLE also in the Cabinet
was not made, was the determination of his
Grace to accept no public post at present
• The ground upon which this demand was
urged was, that Lord PALMERSTON had agreed
that no change in the policy of Lord ABER-
DEEN, either foreign or domestic, should take
place.

As Lord PALM ERSTON, however prepared to
follow, in every particular, the course of the
Aberdeen Cabinet, was aware, as a practical
man, that the presence of Lord ABERDEEN in
his Cabinet at this moment would be imme-
diately fatal to its continuance, a strong, and
eventually an uncompromising, opposition
was offered to this project, and on Monday
evening it was understood that the Peelite
section had formally declined to become
members of the Palmerston Cabinet.
On Tuesday they surrendered their point,
and the Palmerston Cabinet was formed ;
that is to say, the Cabinet of 1853, condemned
by an overwhelming majority of the House
of Commons, returned to office with the
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LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1855.

POSTSCRIPT.
HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY.
The House met at twelve o'clock.
Mr. RAINER stated that he should within tho fort-
night move for the reappointment of the committee
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SATURDAY,

HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION
AND DISEASES OF THE CHEST: instituted Iola;
incorporated 1850.—The Committee of Management have the
pleasure to announce that His Grace the Duke of RICHMOND,
the president of the Institution, has kindly consented to take the
°hail at the FESTIVAL to be held in Commemoration of the
Opening of the New Wing, on Wednesday, the 9th of May next,
in Willis's Rooms, St. James's.

The Committee, in expressing their earnest hope that upon this
occasion the friends of this charity will give their influential sup-
port and attendance, beg to notice, that thirteen years ago there
was no Hospital for Consumption, nor any shelter to be found
for the victims of a national disease ; that since the opening of the
first portion of the new building in 1R46, no less than 3,295 in-
patients and 28,306 out-patients have been treated, and in many
instances the disease has been successfully overcome; that.so
great le the demand for admission, the names of 165 persons,
upon an average, are always upon the books as unable to be taken
in for want of room ; that this.painful circumstance, continually
pressing itself upon the notice of the Committee, has determined
them, in full reliance upon the necessary increase of public
support, to throw open in the course of a few weeks the whole of
the new wing, which will accommodate 130 additional patients;
that, in taking this decided step, a vast addition of responsibility
is about to be incurred, and upon this ground the Committee
earnestly appeal for kind and special consideration at the pre-
sent very important period in the history of the Charity.
A donation of 311. 108. constitutes a Life Governor, and an
annual subscription of 31.35. a Governor.

Subscriptions and donations in aid of this Charity are received
by the following bankers :—Barclay and Co.; Cocks, Biddulph,
and Co.; Coutts and Co.; Drummond and Co.; Glyn, Halilts',
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GERMANY.

The Vienna conferences, according to the latest
statements, were to reopen on the '23rd inst.
The Intlipendance states that the Emperor of
Austria has no wish to be appointed Generalissimo
of the anticipated "Federal Army." In that situation
he should be subjected to the dictation of the Mili-
tary Committee of the Diet. The Emperor of Aus-
tria will command his own army, and accept the alli-
ance of any German contingent that chooses to rally
round the imperial banner.
The report of a separate treaty having been con-
cluded between Prussia and the Western powers is
denied by the Berlin journals.
The Gazette d'Augsbourg announces that Prussia
addressed, on the 2nd inst., a new circular to its
agents at foreign Courts, stating the resolution of the
Prussian Government to pass, at the decisive mo-
ment, from the military," war footing " to the state of
" mobilisation."
The King of Hanover is hastening on military pre-
parations, and letters from Vienna state that he has
empowered Baron de Stockhausen to conclude a
separate treaty with Austria. Brunswick and Nassau
have also sent declarations on that point of a very
satisfactory character for the Austrian Cabinet.
London, England, 1855-02-17

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COAST OF AFRICA.

The mail steam-ship Candace arrived at Ply-
mouth on Monday with mails from the west coast
of Africa. Matters on the coast still continue
satisfactory. Trade was improving, and the dif-
ferent native tribes quiet. The Candace brought
on freight two thousand ounces of gold, five hundred
casks of palm oil, and other African produce. Among
her passengers was Lieut.-Colonel Hall, the Governor
of Sierra Leone.
London, England, 1855-02-17

EGYPT.

Accounts from Alexandria have arrived to the
sth inst.

The Viceroy of Egypt has abolished the customs
duty hitherto received. He has only excepted Suez
from the measure.

The Duke and Duchess of Brabant had arrived at
Alexandria.

Sir George Anderson, ex-Governor of Ceylon,
arrived at Suez by the Bengal on the Ist inst., and
is to remain at Cairo for some time to recruit his
health. _

The first detachment of the 10th Hussars, from
Bombay, was hourly expected to arrive at Suez, and
every arrangement has been made by Said Pacha for
their transit through Egypt.
The scheme of the canal across the Isthmus of
Suez is no longer talked of, and it is believed
that Said Pacha has received from Constantinople a
very unfavourable answer to his communication
about it. _ _ .

The railway between Alexandria and Cairo, a dis-
tance of 130 miles, is now complete, with the excep-
tion of the three bridges on the two branches of
the Nile and the Delta Canal. The communication
between the two towns may be kept up by the line of
railroad by crossing the river in boats, but it will
not be available for traffic and passengers until
after the bridges are completed—five or six months
hence. The most important bridge is the tubular
one which crosses the Damietta branch of the Nile
at Benha, and which is well advanced towards com-
pletion.
Although, when ➢ir. R. Stephenson made his
arrangements with the Viceroy for the construction
of the railroad, he stipulated that the native work-
men should be regularly paid, they are, and always
have been, very grossly ill-treated and neglected.
They are taken away by force from their villages,
conveyed to a distance to work, and not only are
they not paid, but it happens often that not even
bread is provided for them, so that they are fre-
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clover_ from the fields to appease their hunger. To
be prevented from running away, they are kept
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closely penned together, or huddled into barges
moored in the middle of the river.
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THE PRESS.

on the present King ; that the reigning King had not been
our enemy ; and it was the last King who had created the
war. To which he was informed, in reply, that it is not
against the person of one king or another that the British
have been engaged, but against a country that has pro-
voked hostilities.

With these uncomfortable assurances the Burmese envoy
can now return whence he came. The grand finale, we
confess, does not at all take us by surprise, though we have
an impression that the ambassador was quite conscious how
futile and absurd it would be. We have little doubt that
an obligation was laid upon him to make this demand, and
that he dared not to return to Ave without having made it ;
but, with a discretion for which we give him every credit,
he reserved the demand until the last moment, and only
brought it forth when everything else was concluded. He
will return to Ave having seen enough to convince him that,
while the British power exists in the East, Pegu is for
ever lost to the throne of Ave.

The Khan of Kohan has been permitted to bor-
row native officers to drill his troops against the
Russians.

The intelligence from Bombay states that an
insurrection had broken out in Cabul and Candahar.
The rebels had acknowledged the suzerainty of
Persia.

Twelve thousand Persians besieged Benderabas,
in the territory of the Imaum of Muscat, and had
sustained a murderous conflict with the besieged,
who still continued their resistance.

From China we learn only that in Canton affairs
were still ominous, and trade quite depressed.
Admiral Stirling was watching Caaton and im-
peding the progress of the insurrectionists.
London, England, 1855-02-17

INDIA AND CHINA.

The first overland mail ,of the year has arrived
with dates from Calcutta to the 10th, Madras 14th,
and Bombay 17th of January.
The mission of the Burmese envoy to Calcutta bas
terminated in rather an unexpected manner. The
following account is given by the Hurkaru :
On Saturday the ;th of January the Burmese envoys had
an interview with the governor-general to take place pre-
vious to their departure for Ava. The scene was remarkable,
and will be long remembered in the annals of the Indian
Foreign-office. We believe we may assert without exag-
geration that both the governor•gcneral and Major Phayre
were completely taken by surprise by the unexpected turn
which the conversation took. It is often at parting that
people's real feelings and affections are displayed, and it
was completely so in the farewell interview between the
Burmese ambassador and Lord Dalhousie. After a little
of the usual complimentary language had passed that is
stereotyped for state interviews, the Burmese envoy pro-
claimed that he had coma by commanl of the King of Ave
to seek restitution of the whole of the captured pro-
vinces in Burmah !
Such a startling climax to the conversation filled the
commissioner with amazement. Here was an issue to the
embassy of which no one had ever remotely dreamt. We
are informed that despite this unforeseen explosion the
governor-general stood calm and collected, and at once
desired Major Phayre to make the following reply, or words
to this effect :
" Tell them that as long as the sun shines in the heavens,
the British flag shall wave over those possessions."
If the Burmese are capable of being embarrassed, we
should imagine they must have been so on receiving this
reply ; after which the interview, we are informed, was
brought to a speedy termination. Among other things, the
ambassador suggested that it was not well to make war
London, England, 1855-02-17

FEBRUARY 17, 1855.

LAST NIGHT'S DEBATE.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRJDAT.

The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH hoped that the pre-
sent Government would not neglect the pledge given
by their predecessors in granting a clasp for
Balaklava, and rewards to the seamen at Sebastopol,
more especially as the French Government had
already conferred the Legion of Honour on those who
bad distinguished themselves in the Crimea. He
recommended that a medical gentleman should be at
once despatched to Constantinople and the Crimea to
inspect and report on the health of the troops.
Lord PANMURE was fully aware of the importance
of the pledge given by the late Government. He
referred to what was now doing—an officer of inspec-
tion had been sent out, a chief of the staff appointed,
and a bill prepared to permit the enlistment of
persons between twenty four and thirty-two years of
age to enlist for one, two, or three y ears. He ex-
plained some further intended appointments.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY was glad that at last
something was to be done, and the Earl of HAM
ROWBY lamented that the ordinary business habits of
the country had done nothing before.
Adjourned at half-past six.
London, England, 1855-02-17

VRESS.

cry of " Viva Napoleon " in the Rhine lands will be
an awkward sound, and at the slightest sign of
duplicity or overt bearing to Russia by the kinglets
of Germany the French will march right over them—
a German promenade. The King of Prussia jocu-
larly remarked, over a beaker of Steinberger, that he
could not answer the Eastern question. He will
have to set it to music, in which his old friend Lord
Westmoreland may assist him, and then he will have
to dance and pay the French piper for playing the
Strauss artillery.
J. E. L.
London, England, 1855-02-17

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RUSSIA.

A new manifesto of the Emperor Nicholas, pub-
lished at St. Petersburg on the 11th instant, orders
a general arming of the people throughout the whole
extent of the Russian empire. An additicnal force
of 300,000 men would thus be obtained and sent to
the Crimea. The Government had also ordered an
extraordinary recruitment of Cossacks in Lesser
Russia.

The Warsaw correspondent of the Journal de
Francfort writes that it will be next to impossible for
the Czar to levy a war contribution, as the resources of
the proprietors cf land have been all but cut off by the
prohibition to export grain. Deprived of their natural
market, the corn producers have been compelled to
sell their wheat for the use of the army at prices far
below its value.

--..
Accounts from Odessa state that 60,000 Russians
are concentrating on the Pruth. The bead-quarters
will be transferred from Kischeneff to that town.
..

By direct order of the Emperor, Prince Paskie-
witsch has forbidden the export of brandy and other
spirituous liquors to Austria.
The Russian Government has published and rati-
fied the convention for telegraphic communications
between Russia and Prussia, and the following States
which belong to the Austro-German telegraph
union :—Bavaria, Saxony, Wurtemberg, Hanover,
Baden, and Mecklenburg Schwerin.
UNITED STATES.
•

The Swiss Government has effected a compromise
with Mr. Philipps, a citizen of the United States, who
was arrested some time since in mistake for Mazzini,
to whom he is said to bear a very close resemblance.
Mr. Philipps demanded 25,000 f. for his live days'
detention. The United States envoy reduced this
claim considerably, by striking off the last figure ;
and the authorities finally managed to settle the
matter for 2,0001., so that Mr. Philipps gets 400 f. for
each day that he was a detenu.
London, England, 1855-02-17

SANDWICH ISLANDS.

His Majesty King Kamehameha, alarmed at ru-
mours of filibuster invasions, issued a proclamation
on the Bth of December, proclaiming that he accepted
the proffered aid of the United States, Great Britain,
and France, in support of his sovereignty.

THE BOARD OF TRADE has hired an extensive
and convenient house at No. 14, Rue de Cirque, in
Paris, for the offices of the British section of the
Universal Exhibition. _ _ _

THE winter is very severe in Switzerland. On the
Alps of the Valais, on Mount St. Gotherd, at the Luk-
manier, on the Splugen, in the Tyrol, and even at
Milan, the snow has fallen to a depth rarely seen in
the most rigorous seasons. Nevertheless, the traffic
on the road from Mount St. Gothard has not been
interrupted for a single day. Owing to the great cold
and the fall of snow, birds of prey approach the habi-
tations of man. In the canton of Appenzell, a few
days ago, a vulture of the Alps seized a dog in a farm-
yard, and the owner of it had to best the bird with a
stick to drive it away.

Court anb Sa4iott.

155

Her Majesty, with the Court, arrived from Windsor
at Buckingham Palace on Thursday afternoon, for
the season.

Saturday lart being the anniversary of the royal
marriage, the day was celeorated at Windsor with the
customary observances.
On Wednesday Lord John Russell arrived at
Windsor, and had a lengthened audience with the
Queen.
The Court mournings which would have terminated
on Thursday, has been prolonged another week for
his late Royal Highness the Duke of Genoa, brother
of his Majesty the King of Sardinia. The Court
will go out of mourning on Thursday next.
The marriage of Viscount Ingestre, the eldest son
and heir of Lord Talbot and Miss Cockerel!, the
eldest daughter of the late Countess of Eglinton by
a former marriage, was solemnised in London on
Thursday last.
Viscount Palmerston gave a dinner to the Cabinet
Ministers on Wednesday evening, at his residence in
Piccadilly.
A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday last at
the Foreign-office. The Ministers again assembled
in Council on Monday and Wednesday at the residence
of Sir James Graham in the Admiralty. The
right hon. baronet is now convalescent, and re-
sumed his place in Parliament last night.

Lord Stratford de Redcliffe has given a farewell
dinner to Baron Bruck, who leaves Constantinople
for Vienna.

It is reported in Paris, that Prince Napoleon is
about to be married to one of the princesses of the
royal family of Wurtemberg.
The Indipendance of Brussels states that a
marriage is in coutemplation between the second son
of Prince Czartoryski and the eldest daughter of
Queen Maria Christina and the Duke de Rianzares.
M. Usedom has so far recovered from his recent
indisposition as to be able to leave Brussels. He
arrived in Paris last week. _ _

M. Soule, late American Minister at the Spanish
Court, has passed through London on his way to the
United States.
London, England, 1855-02-17

LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1855.

THE formation of the Palmerston Cabinet has
been a triumph for the Emperor of RUSSIA, if
for no one else. The Czar must see with infi-
nite joy the Aberdeen Administration recon
stituted, freed from the odious suspicion
which attached to Lord ABERDEEN'S name,
from the blundering diligence of the Duke of
NEWCASTLE, and from the inquisitive que
rulousness of Lord JOHN RUSSELL.
Had Lord ABERDEEN never been Premier we
should never have had a Russian war. The
Emperor NICHOLAS was prompted to assail
Turkey by a fixed belief that a cordial
alliance of France and England against him
was impracticable, and that our party divi-
sions, embittered by still impending Reform
Bills, would prevent us from ever opposing
him with vigour and success. His first expec-
tation was defeated by the wise foresight of
Lord MALMESBURY ; his second has been coin
pletely fulfilled by the selfishness which for
two years past kept together a band of poli-

ticians who " only agreed to differ," and now
by the infatuated ambition of the man who
fills the post of Premier of England.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL has himself declared,
with the greatest deliberation and distinctness,
how impossible it was that the war should
prosper under Lord ABERDEEN'S direction.
This week Sir DE LACY EVANS bears witness
to the same effect, and openly proclaims that
Lord ABERDEEN was "wholly and entirely un-
" qualified to perform the duties of Premier,
" so as to insure a proper and energetic con-
" duct of the war." What else has this journal
said from the first hour when the rupture was
threatened?
Never was there a time when it was so
greatly for the interest of the nation that
leading statesmen, not directly compromised
by the failure and mismanagement of the War
Department, should forget petty differences
and join together to form an Administration
which would be certain to receive the support
of the Legislature and the confidence of the
country. The favorite philosopher of Sir
WILLIAM MOLKSWORTH has said that aman may
see himself in the faces of others better than
in his own glass. Ask any intelligent poli
tician of the Continent what administrative
combination would prove most formidable to
Russia, and he would reply, Lord DERBY,
Lord ELLENBOROUGH, Lord PALMERSTON, and
Mr. DISRAELI. Had this combination been
achieved, the flush of joy with which the re
ports of our daily decreasing strength at
Sebastopol were hailed at St. Petersburg would
have changed to the palor of apprehension, and
dread would have sunk to the soul of the Czar
that at last the might of England was about to
be aroused, that " her meteor flag " was to be
freely flung upon the breeze, and that the peal
of popular applause which hailed the construe
tion of a strong Government was the signal
for the discomfiture of his legions.
London, England, 1855-02-17

SARDINIA.

The treaty between Sardinia, France, and Great
Britain, has been adopted in the Turin Chambers by
a majority of forty-one votes. The numbers were-
-101 for, and 60 against, the measure.

A Turin letter of the 7th inst. states :

It is not probable that the Sardinian contingent will
embark for the seat of war before the middle, or perhaps
end, of next month; but General La Marmora, who is to
command it, will proceed to Paris and London imme-
diately after the treaty has been ratified, to take counsel
with the military authorities there as to the measures most
advisable with regard to its destination, the amount of
particular arms, and other minor details. According to
the terms of the convention it will amount to 15,000 men.
It is supposed there will he 10,000 or 12,000 infantry, from
1,000 to 2,0(10 cavalry, about 600 artillerymen, a company
or two of Sappers and Miners, if required, and a strong
force of waggon, train, and ambulance corps, which they
possess in a very efficient state. Profiting by their own.
and our experience with regard to the latter departments,
there is not likely to be any lack of carriage for the
wounded, provisions, or forage. A recent invention has
been adopted in packing cooked provisions, by which
means a cart attached to each battalion carries rations for
SOO men for three days, an invaluable accessory in cases
of protracted reconnoissances. The Mime rifle is now being
introduced throughout the service, both land and marine.

TURKEY.
Accounts from Constantinople, of the sth, state
that the 9th division of the French army was under.
orders to embark for the Crimea. Its commander,
General Brunet, was to leave on the 6th. The Eng-
lish had engaged workmen to make a railway from
Balaklava to Sebastopol.
' A great fire had broken out in the arsenal, and

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FEBRUARY 17, 1855.

some magazines of provisions were destroyed. The
fire was quickly extinguished.
Kosrew Paella, ex grand-vizier, chief of the Rus-
sian party in Turkey, had died at the age of ninety.
M. Bourre, ex-consul in Syria, has left Constan-
tinople for Persia, charged, in concert with the Eng-
lish ambassador at Teheran, to induce the Shah to
send troops into Asia against the Russians.
The firman prohibiting slave-dealing has caused
much discontent in Circassia.

The Kars correspondent of the Danube writes that
Schamyl has made another bold and successful
stroke. The Russians had lodged nearly all their
prisoners in Tiflis, and during the course of lest
month they were sent thence into the interior of
Georgia; but Schamyl attacked the convoy on the
way and released the whole of the prisoners.
Despatches fr3m Damascus of the 25th ult. men-
tion a report that the Kurds had taken Zakku and
massacred the inhabitants. The Pacha of Bagdad
was preparing to put down the revolt.
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