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PACIFIC CIRCULAR OF RUSSIA.

A mamas, issued by Count Nesselrode to the di-
plomatist ministers of Russia abroad, gives a distinct
intimation of the pacific policy the Emperor Alexander
wishes to pursue. For the interests of peace it was
fortunate that the late Czar had accepted the basis
of negotiation proposed, as his successor can now
profess respect for his father's wishes, and can repre•
sent that the concessions he is willing to offer are
those which the late Emperor had in fact already
yielded. Thus a profession of pacific policy seems
now an act of filial duty. After the publication of
this circular there can be no doubt of the sincerity
of Russia in desiring peace. With a kind of barba-
rous sagacity, she has always known when to retreat
as well as when to advance, and has never suffered a
sentiment of honour or pride to interfere with her
material interests. The contrast between the tone
of this circular and the despatches signed by Count
Nesselrode a twelvemonth back is a conclusive proof
of the change in the disposition of the Russian
Cabinet :

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SL Petersburg, Feb. 28 (March 10).

My despatch of the 18th of February (March 2) an-
nonnced to you the accession of his Majesty Alexander 11.
I had the' honour at the same time to send you the impe-
rial manifesto issued on the first day of the Government
of our august sovereign. That document expresses the
profound conviction with which his Majesty recognises the
importance of the duties he is called upon to fulfil. Divine
Providence imposes those duties upon him in the midst of
a great trial. In ascending the throne of his ancestors the
Emperor finds Russia engaged in a struggle unparalleled
in the annals of history at the commencement of a new
reign. Our august sovereign accepts that trial, confiding
in God, inspired with tne sentiment of security in the un-
shaken fidelity of his people, with a religious veneration
for the memory of his well-beloved father. With filial
piety ho welcomes (accueille) in his succession two obliga-
tions, which are equally sacred to him. The first exacts
from his Majesty the development of all the power which
it has pleased God to place in nis hands for the defence of
the integrity and of the honour of Russia; the second im-
poses upon his Majesty the duty of consecrating with per-
severance his care for the accomplishment of the work of
peace, the bases of which were sanctioned by the Emperor
Nicholas. Faithful to the idea which manifested itself in
the last dispositions of his august father, the Emperor has
renewed the powers and confirmed the instructions with
which the Russian plenipotentiaries were provided since
the month of December, at the period when the negotia-
tious at Vienna were to be opened. In this mariner the
intentions of the Emperor Nicholas will be conscientiously
fulfilled. Their object was :

To restore to Russia and to Europe the blessings of
peace; to consolidate the freedom of worship and the wel-
fare of the Christian populations of the East without dis-
tinction of ntcs; to place the immunities of the principa-
lities under a collective guarantee ; to assure the free
navigation of the Danube, to the advantage of the commerce
of all nations ; to put an end to the rivalries of the great
powers in the East, so as to prevent the return of new
complications ; finally, to come to an understanding with
them on the revision of the treaty by which they recog-
nised the principle of the closing of the Dardanelles and
of the Bosphorus, and thereby to arrive at an honorable
arrangement for all parties.

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A pacification founded upon these bases, in putting an
end to the calamities of war, would invoke the blessing of
all nations upon the new Government.
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Nevertheless, Russia feels deeply, and Europe must
avow that the hope of a conclusion of peace will remain
fruitless if the conditions of the arrangement to be con-
cluded should exceed the just limit which the sentiment
of the dignity of the Crown traces irrevocably in the reso-
lutions of our august sovereign. The Emperor will tran-
quilly await the manifestation of the views which guide
the policy of the Cabinets called upon to solve, in concert
with Russia, this question, which is of a general interest
for all Christendom. Our august sovereign will join the
deliberation in a sincere spirit of concord. Such is the
thought which I am charged by his Majesty to express to
you in his name. The general instructions with which
you are provided trace out to you the line you are to con-
tinue to follow, relative to the direct relations you have to
entertain with the Government to which you are accredited.
The Emperor, iu confirming you to-day in the post you
obtained from the goodwill of his august father, confidently
counts upon your fidelity and zeal. It is his desire that by
your conduct and by your language you should render tes-
timony, on every occasion, to the loyalty with which Russia
fulfils the obligations which rest upon the faith of treaties,
to her constant desire to live in good harmony with all the
powers her allies or friends, finally to the respect she en•
tertains for the inviolability of the rights of all States, and
her firm resolution to maintain and cause to be respected
the rights which Divine Providence has intrusted to the
Emperor, by making him the guardian and protector of
the national honour of his country. You are requested to
make known the present to the Court at which you had
the honour of representing the Emperor Nicholas of glo-
rious and much-cherished memory.

NESSZLEOLE.

THE TOMB OF THE LATE EXPEIIOR NICHOLAS faces
that of Peter the Great. Mentioning this fact, the
Journal de St. Petersbourg exclaims " Symbolical
situation, awakening a world of thoughts ! On one
side the tomb of him who dispelled the darkness of
ancient Russia; on the other the tomb of the great
sovereign who raised it to the apogee of glory and
prosperity."

THE PRESS.

SEBASTOPOL INQUIRY COMMITTEE.
THE subjoined extracts convey the more important
details collected by the committee doling the past

Examination of Di. ANDREW SMITH resumed:—
When the two Departments of War and Colonies were
separated no communication was made to witness on the
subject. The moment the army arrived at Constantinople
he approved of the establishment of a hospital at Scutari .
Had not recommended a general hospital. All our hospi-
tals up to the time of the army lu-riving at Varna, our
hospitals abroad and in the colonies, were regimental hos-
pitals. He recommended Mr. Ward as purveyor, in the
first inatauce, and, upon Mr. Ward being found inefficient,
he recommended Mr. Wreford to the Minister of War.
Mr. Wreford, who was sixty-four years of age, was the
youngest man they had in the purveyor's department. If
them were no medical comforts or insufficieut supplies at
Scutari in November and December, he could not tell how
that could be when they were duly acknowledged to have
been received. As to the question if the authorities made
applications for these things, why did not the medical
officers supply them? Ho begged to ask, were the au-
thorities ever applied to? The persons were to blame
who, possessing these thing*, said they did not possess
them. It was a gentleman attached to his deparuneut in
the War-office who purchased the comforts sent out. If
the articles were bad, the person purchasing them was to
blame to a certain extent. As to the port wine, it was ap-
proved of by the board. One or two bottles, perhaps, were
sent in as samples ; and if any parties put in a quantity of
wine which was bad, there was no means of ascertaining
the fact. With regard to bedding and stores of that kind,
they were supplied by the Ordnance, but be had no officer
present to see that they were supplied. When he supplied
the medical stores and comforts he had no officer to see
them put on board ship, as that would be " going beyond
his last." His opinion on the good state of the hospitals at
Scutari was founded on the letter of Mr. Heed and a dis-
penser of medicines there, but that opinion was only as to
the sufficiency of medicines. It was on the authority of
those letters that he gave a positive contradiction to the
statements in the newspapers that there was a want of me-
dicines. He was still of that opinion. There was also a
sufficient supply of linen. if the hospital linen could not
be washed by contract, there was a power given to the pur-
veyor to employ persons to do so, and keep the hospital
clean. If it was not done, the purveyor was to blame. He
had power to hire under the regulations any number of
persons to do what was required for the cleanliness of the
hospital. If the regulations had been properly attended
to, he thought that every power was given to the purveyor
to do whatever was required. Mr. Wreford, in a letter,
dated Feb. 24, to the witness, declared that the necessity
of a washing-establishment had never been made apparent
to him, and iu illustration of that assertiou appended a
table showing the quantities of pieces washed in Novem-
ber, December, and January. The pieces washed in No-
vember were 4,832; in December, 14,844; in January,
23,402.
By Lord SETWOUR.—No mention was made in the re-
ports forwarded to him as to the cooking, the state of the
utensils, or whether the provisions for the patients were
examined. They did not refer to the kitchen or the cook-
ing. He was constantly trying to get young assistant-
surgeons to go out. The pay was 10s. a day, 40/. for outfit,
3s. a day salary, making in all, with pay and allowances,
11. a day. (iot from 120 to 200 of these young men. Had
had reports of their conduct out there. They were satis-
factory.
Mr. LANARD read a letter received by a medical gentle-
man in London from another medical gentleman now
serving in the Crimea, dated the Ist of January, stating
that there were hen in the Crimea no medical stores, no
warm clothing, no medical comforts, or any proper means
of conveying the dysentric sick, for when they reached the
seaside they were laid down on the sand and were left, in
danger of being overwhelmed by the advancing tide. What
had he to say to such a state of things as that described ?
Dr. Smith said such a statement did not agree with the
reports that he had received. He promoted several medical
officers from merit alone.
Colonel LINDSLY said witness had stated that a large
quantity of medical stores had been ordered for the army in
the East ; did be know if they had all been sent ?
Dr. Smith said he believed that they had been sent, as
firmly as be believed in his own existence. He knew that
he had ordered them, and he also believed that many of
them had been received at Balaklava. He had the state-
ment of a gentleman who was on board the ship that the
articles were sent ; and he had received acknowledgment
of some of them having arrived at Scutari.
Dr. MENZIES examined :
Held the situation of deputy-inspector-general of hospitals.
Had served since 1827. Went out to the Crimea in April
last as staff surgeon cf the first class. Was at Scutari and
Constantinople the whole time. The general hospital was
established in June, when Dr. Barrow was inspector-gene-
ral. Dr. Barrow left a considerable time before the army
arrived. Witness had the superintendence of both hospi-
tals from September. Was satisfied with the general
hospital to a certain extent ; it was very defective in many
cases. In his reports of the number of beds and accom•
modation, he reported to the commandant ; sent those re-
ports also to Dr. Hall, and one to Dr. A. Smith. Previous
to the battle of Alma had twenty-one medical officers.
Considered that one medical man was sufficient, on an
average, for fifty or eighty patients, in slight cases. After
the battles of Alma and Inkermaun, could not say what
number of medical men they had, but he received assistance
day by day, and should say after those battles they were
pretty well off. and medical officers were arriving from Eng-
, lend. The chief difficulty was immediately after the battle
of Alma. The witness read his statement of facts, from
which it appeared that when first appointed to the hospital

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there were MO cases, with only seven medical men to
attend them—namely, three staff surgeons of the second
elan, with four assistants. Having represented these facts
to Dr. Hall, he gave him authority to take as many medical
officers u could be spared from the third division. The
division was on its way to Gallipoli, so that only one officer
could be spared. Considered the difficulties be had to
encounter were theconsequence of the then purveyor being
totally unfit for his office, and his being assisted by very
young and inexperienced clerks under him. These circum-
stances had been noticed by pers.ms in office before him.
The case of Mr. Ward, the purveyor, was submitted to a
medical board, and he was found to be incapable of per-
forming his duties, but he was not relieved till the time of
his death, in December last. He complained, among other
things, of the delay from the want of transport ; that he had
reported to the commandant the want of fixed establish-
ments. There was not sufficient bedding, from the neg-
lect of the purveyor. There was a want of regularity as to
the dietary, from the want of orderlies. The statement
contained a further detail of difficulties and embarrasments

in respect to the management generally of the hospitals,
dro. All the points alluded to would be fouud iu the
reports to Dr. Hall from time to time. They hail not es
many beds as they required. He reported the want of
beds to 1)r. Hall, and those reports had to go to him in the
Crimea, and afterwards had to be returned to England
before those wants could be remedied. Under the iiistrue-
dons the purveyor was bound to attend to the cleanliness
of the hospital, and he ordered him to keep the hospital
clean ; but still the place was in a very filthy state. The
cleansing and a good deal more might have been done,
if the purveyor had been active iu the discharge of his
duties. Mr. Ward and Mr. Wreford, the purveyors, both
had apartments in the hospital at Scutari. When Mr.
Wreforti came, he could not say the defects were put in a
satisfactory state,as they were too extensive to be remedied.
After Wreford came it was his duty to attend to the cleans-
ing of the hospital.
The CHAIRMAN.—Was not the barrack hospital a com-
plete disgrace to the British nation ?
Dr. Menzies said he believed that the account of the
filthy state of the hospital had been very much overdrawn.
The CHAIKMAN.—Was it nut a fact that the wards near
the beds of the men were covered with offensive matter?
Dr. Menzies had never seen it.
Lord SaTMOUR.—And yet., when it was tested that there
was a deficiency of things for the comforts of the men, you
wrote, in answer to a letter from Dr. Smith, that you bad
everything that was wanted, and that the stores were in a
very satisfactory state.
Dr. Menzies had au impression that they had an adequate
supply of medicines, as he was informed there were plenty
of both by the officers in charge of the medical and pur-
veyor's departments. In answer to an application from
Lord de Iledcliffe, he bed stated that nothing was required
for the comfort and sustenance of the patientr. As in-
spector of the hospitals he visited the general hospital
every second day. Visited the barrack hospital once or
twice a week. Perhape the men bad not sufficient for
their comfort and sustenance. Was given to understand
that they had all stores in hand, and that many were ex-
pected from England and Varna.
By Mr. LATARD.—Men, whilst in hospital, had the
greater part of their pay stopped. They got supplies, he
presumed, to the amount of the pay stopped. They got
what the medical officers considered to be necessary—
sometimes more, sometimes less.
By Lord Suirmoue.—Was not aware of a patient dying
fur want of proper comforts. Men possibly might have
died for want of the oorumou necessaries of life without his
knowledge. No man could lie in the hospital without his
knowledge. Men might be carried away on board ship in a
dying state.
The CHAIRMAN.—When the transports arrived with the
Rick and wounded from the Crimea, what mode had you for
having the sick removed to the hospital, or who were the
authorities under whose control they were removed?
Dr. Menzies.—The commandant arranged about the
landing, and when the sick and wounded arrived be had a
medical man sent down to the shore to see them conveyed
to the hospital. That was the invariable rule, but I have
been there repeatedly, and I think, as far as circumstances
would allow, that ditty was properly performed ; but there
was a deficiency of stretchers.
The CHAIRMAN.—WouId there have been any difficulty
in Constantinople in buying stretchers!
Dr. Menzies.—l think the materials for making them
I could have been obtained there.
The CHAIRMAN.-16 that the most positive answer you
can give—that the materials for making them could have
been obtained there?
Dr. Menzies.—The wood was there out of which they
could have been constructed.
Mr.Livsan.—ls it not done by two pieces of wood, with
a piece of canvas nailed between them ?
Dr. ]Henries assented.
Mr. M UCWEI.I. said :
He was one of the commissioners sent out by the Go-
vernment to inquire into the state of the hospitals at Scu-
tari. He was offered the secretaryship, but objected, and
was then made a commissioner together with Dr. Spence
and Dr. Cnmming. He left London on the 23rd of
October, having previously bad an interview with the
Duke of Newcastle on the nature of the duties which he
had to discharge. The duke informed bim that the Oce
!ferment desired to have a must searching inquiry.
When the commisssionere reached Constantinople, which
was on the 4th of November, Dr. Spence was ordered on
some special business to the Crimea. His absence com-
pletely paralysed the commission. Ou the 19th of Novem-
ber the news of Dr. Spence's death arrived, when he and
Dr. Cumming consulted as to the course it would be
advisable to adopt. They offered the vacant commissioner.
ship to Mr. 8. O. Osborne, who declin d it, and Dr. Lang,
a sass surgeon, was appointed. The commissioners am.
to work the neat morning after Dr. Lang's appointment.

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The subject was new to him and rather complicated, but
they commenced by calling for full explanations with
regard to medicines, medical comforts and stores. The
commissioners demanded returns from the medical
officers and the storekeepers, but no returns were ob
tained. The commissioners had only power to report,
not to remove. The commissioners waited two or three
weeks to ascertain whether the returns were forthcoming.
Finding that they could not obtain the necessary informs.
Lion, he went down and inspected the apothecaries' book,
in which he found that no entry had been made from the
21th of September until the 28th of November. Up to the
time he left the hospital he did not believe the apothe-
cary had any idea of what he had in store. The report he
had made stated generally these facts, and he believed the
evil was there traced to its source.
Captain DRAKE said—

He went ont as a supercargo on the 17th of August in
the Courier, 386 tons, a sailing vessel, laden with a cargo
of beef, preserved meats, broths, vegetables, and all sorts
of provisions. She arrived off Balaklava about the 19th of
October, but he was not allowed to go into the harbour for
some time. The harbour wus then very much crowded,
and the vessels were lying at sixes and sevens. He
offered the whole of his cargo at Malta, at Constantinople,
and in the Crimea, to the English authorities ; they de-
clined the offer, and he sold it to the French. Mr. Com.
missary Filder told him that he did not want provisions.
He offered it for sale at a reasonable price, and the French
bought it for the sum he asked. He had occasion to visit
the harbour of Kamiech, and he found it in capital
order.
Captain Emasow, the commander of the Avon, was
next examined :
He deposed to that vessel having been, while at Bala-
klava in November and part of December, converted into
an hospital for the accommodation of between 300 and
400 sic& and wounded, and to the deplorably filthy condi-
tion in which they became from want of proper medical
attendance, and especially of orderlies, until Lord Raglan
instituted an inquiry into the subject, and caused their
grievances to be removed.

THE THIRD POINT.

THE following is the interpretation given to the
third point by England, France, and Austria, on the
27th of December :

The object of the revision of the treaty of July 13, 1841,
should be more completely to attach the existence of the
Ottoman empire to the European balance of power, and to
put an end to the preponderance of Russia in the Black
Sea. The arrangements to be made in this matter depend
too immediately on the events of the war for their bases to
be settled at present. It is sufficient to have indicated the
principle.
Subjoined is the form of Prince Gortschakofes ac-
ceptance of the same on the 7th of January :
Revision of the treaty of the 13th July, 1841, to attach
more completely the existence of the Ottoman empire to
the balance of Europe. Ido not refuse to come to an under.
derstanding in formal conferences for peace on the means
which the three Courts may propose to put an end to what
they call the preponderance of Russia in the Black Sea, on
condition that, in the choice of those means, there be not
one of a nature to infringe upon the rights of sovereignty
of my august master on his own territory.

MR. ELLIOTT, member for Candlewick Ward, has
given notice of motion for the next court-day of the
Common Council to the following effect :—" That in
the conduct of the war there has been grievous
official mismanagement exposed before all Europe,
causing great misapplication of the public money,
waste of food, clothing, and stores, and great misery,
disease, and loss of life; that this national dishonour
and these calamities arise from no want of valour,
discipline, or hardihood among the gallant troops
themselves, but they are entirely attributable to bad
civil and military organisation, because the superior
authorities and other salaried public officers who
have bad the direction of the vast expenditure of the
war are unfitted by previous intellectual and moral
education to manage public business in a competent
and trustworthy manner ; that a committee be ap-
pointed to prepare a petition to her Majesty, praying
that she will exercise her prerogative and cause such
a reorganisation of the public service as will insure
more competent appointments, and prevent evermore
a recurrence of such disgrace and disaster from
similar causes."
ki ALTOGETHER upwards of 300,0001. will be ex-
pended at Aldershott in military lodgings, and, as
20,000 militia will go into the huts, while the bar-
racks, when completed, will be occupied by 10,000
regulars of all arms, infantry, cavalry, and artillery,
some 30,000 troops may probably be massed together
for a considerable period, and 10,000 stationed there
permanently. For the future, it is intended to col-
lect our troops as much as possible in large barracks.
ODE. ANDREW SMITH is no longer Director-General
of the Medical Department of the Army. Amongst
the reforms in course of preparation in the several
departments of the War-office, it is contemplated to
place the Army Medical Department, as well as the
Ordnance and other Boards, under the more direct
and immediate control of the responsible Minister
for War. The Army Medical Board will, amongst
other changes, be reinforced with an accession of
civilians, who will be men of business, acquainted
with the general conduct of its executive affairs,
apart from mere professional ditties,

THE PRESS.

fortign gorrtsgotthutt.

FRANKFORT, March 28.
THERE are three subjects that at this moment com-

pletely engross continental attention. The speech of
Lord Lyndhurst on Prussia, the few significant
words of Lord Palmerston on Poland, and the fatal
and desolating inquiry on the mismanagement of the

war before the parliamentary committee. They be-
come of direct and serious importance from the effect

they may have, and indeed actually are producing, upon
continental politics. It were vain to deny that the

prestige of England has been affected by the Aber-

deen Administration; there is, however, a conscious-
ness everywhere that the country is sound and
patriotic. But such an amount of evil has been
perpetrated by Lord Aberdeen and the Coalition,
that it will take years, long years, to regain the con-
fidence of the Continent in our Ministerial action.

Lord Lyndhurst, in his statesmanlike résumé of
Prussian policy, has dealt a greater blow to the
Hohenzollern than any which that dynasty has lately
received with such unsparing liberality. M. de Bis-
marck may say, if he so will, and he did say and
does say,' On se moque bien de l'Angleterre," yet
the time is not far distant when that expression will
have to be explained. Prussia, of her own free will,
has abandoned her Europee.n position of independence,
and the very fact of her ready and agreed vassalage
to Russia has mooted the necessity of a Poland. The
conduct also of the house of Saxe, royal and ducal,
has brought forward the question still more promi-

nently.
The observation of Lord Palmerston has electri-
fied even the phlegmatic German. " I have no hesi-
tation in saying that Poland, as at present consti-
tuted, and as at present occupied, is a standing
menace to Germany." These words are in every
mouth. At Munich, Stutgard, Dresden, and Berlin,
they are whispered in discontented accents, whereas
in the universities of Bonn, Heidelberg, Manbeim,
Jena, &c., they have been loudly repeated amid grate-
ful acclamation. The" Burschenshaft," who had been
prostrated by the republican misdeeds of 1848, have
acquired the vigour of regeneration, and are about to
adopt publicly, and not secretly, the common bond
of the Palmerston principle, which in its own good
time will work out the most serious results. Then
will be tested the value of the words uttered by M.
de Bismarck. _ _

The cause of humanity is not bounded by terri-
torial limit. And here let it be said in justice that
everywhere on the Continent, except in Brussels,
the horrors attending the mismanagement of the
Duke of Newcastle and Mr. Sidney Herbert are
lamented ; and the nation is absolved from all
apathy, disloyalty, or error, except in not having em-
bodied a more determined and national remonstrance
against the Ministerial abuses of Lord Aberdeen.
His name is for ever linked with transactions that
will eternally discredit that small portion of English
history. The assertion of Sir De Lacy Evans that
the army of the East was not intended to go beyond
Malta, and was, therefore, unprepared with military
material, is a point much canvassed, and that directly
against Lord Aberdeen. It is the want of sincerity
in these earlier episodes of Coalition disgrace that
are detrimental to the old attribute of bluff candour.
" Est it possible ?" This is the universal remark
on the awful revelations of Mr. Stafford, Dr. Smith,
Dr. Menzies, and the Rev. S. Godolphin Osborne
The favourite mot of the husband of Queen Anne
is again getting into vogue. One thing is certain,
and one opinion is prevalent throughout Europe,
that the inquiry must have a result directly crimina-
tory and judicial, otherwise the responsibility of
constitutional government will become a by word.
Fifteen thousand soldiers killed by administrative
delinquency, and not by the sword, is a lapse that
must bring down merited visitation. This is not a
random expression, but one seriously and sorrow-
fully repeated everywhere, and in every grade of
society throughout Europe.
The conferences of Vienna are more rapid in their
developments than the " quidnunca" of the Diet had
expected. The Russian has very fairly implied that no
interference will be permitted within the bound of
national jurisdiction, meaning the dictation to reduce
a fortress on Russian ground. It can have no other
meaning, and therefore the point of honour has already
been conceded by Lord John Russell. If a disgraceful
peacc, concluded by a Whig Ministry, should termi
nate a war made disastrous by the Coalition, the climax
of clique•infamy will have been reached. These are
not English observations. It must be remembered
that the officers of Austria and Prussia, here garri
soned, and the Germans of all classes and castes
openly publish this opinion. And M. de Bismarck
will say, as he has said, "Je Pai preuve des le com-
mencement" on se moque Wen de l'Angleterre."
di LL.

SATURDAY,

jut* aio Colonial (Inttlligente.

FRANCE.

The Moniteur of Thursday contains an official an-
nouncement that Queen Victoria has invited the
Emperor and Empress of the French to the Eng-
lish Court, and that their Imperial Majesties
expect to arrive in London towards the middle of
next month.
The French journals now frequently refer to the
departure of the Emperor for the Crimea. A palace
at Balta Limen is prepared for his MAjesty and the

Empress.
M. Drouyn de Lbnys, the Minister for Foreign
Affairs, is about to proceed to the Vienna Conferences,
taking London en route to the Austrian Capital.
Detachments of the Imperial Guard depart for
Toulon every day. The whole are expected to reach
that city by the 10th of April. In the course of a few
days another 10,000 of the elite of the French ,army
will have left for the seat of war.
Colonel Beville is at Constantinople making at
rangements for a large French army of reserve, which
will leave France as soon as transports can be found
to convey the same.
A circular by M. Duclos invites captains of mer
chantmen to enter the Imperial navy, offering them
the rank of Enseigne de Vaisseau.
General Forey leaves the command he held in the
army of the East, and proceeds to take the command
of the Oran division in Algeria.
GERMANY.

Accounts from Vienna state that the Bing of Prus-
sia has invited Lord J. Russell to spend Easter at
Berlin.
The Cologne Gazette of the 23rd inst. contained a
very short summary of Lords Lyndhurst and Claren-
don's speeches on Prussian policy, delivered in the
House of Lords on Monday week, and for this the
entire impression was confiscated. The Government
agents siezed all the papers before they had well left
the press.