The Express.
London, England, 1855-12-21 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1865.

LATEST INTELLIGEN

lir £O OUR SPECIAL

FRANCE AND PRUpSIA.
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Aeoordi to a report joterally.Vidtted, Frame
meat ergetlesotsilo Pnuisia, mailing that
step Ist tto eitawsee; asatrabaad of war, to
R. m, otherwise the Aped, fleets will blockade
Pruden porta.

LATBBT RUSSIAN ACCOUNTS 'rift
mum,*

The Ijso.k& Row psbliebes the following
Aide•de-Camp (instal Priam Gortahakoff bas forwarded
the followthg, leader date of the 10th of December :
Beery this; gem oar eatialsotorily is the Crinthe.
Oa the titk of Dm., Col. Oklobjio, with a small parties
of the deteekasest of the Upper &IDA, mowed the mar
lath paw whisk piths mere to the call:4d Haider. Washita
the advaseed pan of the *seep at Oerhouta sad at Bop,
mad, hulas dioledpd them from those villaele, threw
them back apes the Teiersays.
"Twenty prieween remained 1s war hoods."

IN OF THE IMPERIAL GUARDS INTO

PARIS.

The Moisieestr of yesterday announces that the
Imperial Guard and the regiments of infantry of
the line, returned from the Grimes. will make a
solemn entry into Paris on the 29th. At the Pastille
they will be harangued by the Emperor, who will
then precede them to the Plea Vendome, where the
defile will take plea.

THE TREATY WITH BWEDRN.

(mom ma "

Imperial Decree promulgating the Treaty concluded
Nov. 21, 1855, between France, the United King-
dom of Great Britain sad Ireland, and the King-
doms of Sweden and Norway :
Napoleon,
By the grace of God and the national will Em-
peror of the French;
To all present and to come, greeting :
Upon the report of our Minister of State in the
department of Foreign Affairs have decreed as
follows :
Art. I. A treaty having been concluded at Stock-
holm, on the 21st of November of the present year,
between France, the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, and the United Kingdoms of
Sweden end Norway, and the ratifications of this sot
having been exchanged on the 17th of the present
month of December, the said treaty, of which the
tenor is as Mows, will enter into fell and entire
execution.

TREATY.
His Majesty the Emperor of the French, Her
Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the King of
Sweden and Norway, desiring to prevent all compli-
cation of a nature to trouble the European equili-
brium, have resolved to come to an understanding with
the object of enuring the integrity of the United
Kingdoms of Sweden and Norway, and have named
Plenipotentiaries to conclude a treaty to this effect,
viz. _ _

.
His Majesty the Emperor of the French,
Charles Victor Lobettio, OfSeer of thelmperial Order
of the Legion of Honour, Grand Cross of the Royal
Order of the Polar Star of Sweden, Commander of
the Order of Quid and Chevalier of that of the Con-
ception of Portugal, his Extraordinary Envoy and
Minister Plenipotentiary near hie Majesty the King

of Sweden sad Norway :
Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and !Ireland, M. Arthur Charles
Mews* her Extraordinary Envoy and Minister
Plimiperentiary near His Majesty the Kiag of
SIVAS and Norway :
And His Majesty the King of Sweden and Nor-
way, M. Gustave Nicholas Algernon Adolphe Baron
itiernebio h MJahter of State and of Foreign
AMits Obsneller sad Commander of his Orders,
Grand Cross of his Orders of Bt. Olaf of Norway,
&a, &a:
These, after receiving respectively full powers,
hand in good and due form, have agreed as
fellows:
Art. I. His Majesty the King of Swedes and
Norway engage not to ode to Russia, air to
exchange with her, nor to permit her to espy
any part of the territories belonging to the Crowns
of Sweden and Norway; his Majesty the King of
Sweden and Norway also engages not to aide to
Russia any right of pasturage, or fishing grounds,
sr idler rights, as well spoil the said territories as
spas the masts of Sweden and Norway, and to repel
say pestimeion that Russia may raise to establish the
schemes ofany of the aforesaid rights.
Art. 2. In the:event of Ramie inaldng to his Majesty
the Xing of Sweden and Norway any proposition or
damsel, having for its object the obtaining either
the cession or exchange of some part of the territories
appertaining to the Crowns of Sweden and Norway,
or the power of occupying certain points of the said
territories, or the cession et the rights of fishing„l
pasturage, or any other upon theme same territoriee,l
and upon the coasts of Sweden and Norway; His
Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway engages
to immediately communicate this proposition to His
Majesty the Emperor of the French, and to Her
lilleasio Majesty; and their said Majesties will
ea their part engage to supply to His Majesty
the Xing of Sweden and Norway naval and military
forces sufficient to so.operate with the naval and
military forces of his said Majesty, is the object of
smiting the pretensions or the aggressions of Hooka.
The nature, importance, and the destination of the
femme in question. shall, the sass occurring, be
armed to with a common sword betwesa the three
Powers.

FRANCE.

Art. S. The moment treaty will be ratified, and the
ratifications exchanged at Stockholm as quickly ea
possible.
In testimony whereof the leopards* plenipoten-
tiaries hare signed it and sized their seals.
Done at Stockholm, the 21st Nov. the year of
gran, 1866. (Signed) V. LOarrane.
Annum ?declaim.
fiTIEZNELD.
Art. IL Our Minister the Secretary of State ter
the Department of Foreign Affairs is darted with
the caseation of the present decree.
Done at the Palate et the Tailleriss, Dec. 19,1865.
NAPOLEON.

(loom OVA MVO 00AAADOmpiv.)
PARIS, WIDNIIIDAT KTICII
_ __

M. Emile de Oirardin gave a grand dinner a few
days since to all the writers in the Prase, and sr
veal of hie private friends, to celebrate the proba-
tion at the Odeon of the new play Pkrywoi" of
which AL Charles Edam& meet the reireteers of
the Proms, is the anther. Prises Napoleon honoured
the eetertaimerat with his presence, sod sat next to
the esiebested Y. Woolliest.
'nay Lind, who has aver yet nag in Paris,
has, it is said, positively promised to perform here
when she leans Eaglead.
Owing to boisterous weather in the Channel, the
evening journals had not arrived at six dean this
evening.
The Tribunal of Corrtetional Polio* of Avignon
had a few days sines to try MM. Thibeend and Poe),
the director and stage sassier of the theatre in that
town, for a bran of the law of Icily, 1860, relative
to theatres. Oa the 18th of last month the prefect
bad authorised the performance of Le Quote /kr-
moms. a drama by Alitmedre.Dames, het with the
suppression of a metals passim in the het eat is
which the MI6 eammilicea mere ammtiseed. At the
reproseatatise. however. the expeissiess were used,
sod for this Ames the abeve-eamed parties wet.
each sentenced to 1001 r. be sad the exposes&

Boma midi lead with dm State meal,
By tha MORE

The Imper of the Sea* The Minister of
Misister of Zemke. Foreisei Affairs.
ABBATUCCL WAunirou.

AUSTILLI.

The decrier, Gnats petelholies the fallowing :
VIENNA, Deo. 16.
n. Austrian Government hoe ordered the sale
of se tower dies sweaty thinned herein, at preseet
attached to the artillery est lead tresepeet swiss
of the thkd est fourth may mem hi pause of se.
• deities to s.poosattellsor

OUR ARMY IN THE CRIMEA. .. , ...THE GUARDS' PETITION:
. .
TO TSB ISITOI.
ANT.) SetW--Theivo are yet some few points in the much
CAMP, 811BASTOPOL5 Dam 8. talked 'ipt Guards' Memorial, which should be made
illustration
to the, public at large. And as a simple
The stormy and wet weather which hes prevailed' of the enormous advantages " the
almost without intermission, sines the last mail left, . Brigade "hae hitherto had over thereat of the army in
has tried the new roads very severely. They are Ithe matter of promotion, I would refer your readers
sew in many parts in a very broken lied almost im. to lot night's War-orte Cossets. In it we find a
ble condition. This is owing to the peculiar Captain of the 84th Regiment, by name William
Radcliffe, who (after a service of twenty-four years
qualities of the limestone of which they are am-
"dialed, and the varying nature of the substratum on in various parts of the world—after having pr-
ebend all his commissions, and whose corps,
which the stones have been laid. A very considerable after being. since 1842, in the Madras Presidency,
proportionoftheliinestonefound nest the surfaceofthat is now in Burmab) last night, the 18th of December,
part of the plateau occupied by the troops, is exceed- 1846, receives the rank of Brevet Major. Not one
ingly cellular and porous, 'sally friable, and readily Lay3,lbashethis gentleman been hefiersntupeoonmmhtiopnay
and yet
crumbles iato a gritty, 'abbot pulverized, condition on Guardsmen in their Memorial talk of the great hard-
the application of moisture. A moderate degreeof pees- ship of having to wait 24 years for the rank of full
sure withealleimat water, quicklyohangesthiestons in- Colonel, after having passed the whole of their time in
to a paste notualikemottar in appearance, but without London, and on a service so absurdly easy as to be
its cementing qualities. In other perm, again, the much more fitting for yeomanry, a national guard, or i
trainbands of military-inspired citizens, than tor re.
limestone is compact and hard. It can then be easily
understood how the constant rain and the bringinge soldiers.
Another point I would like to explain to civilians
of interminable lino of carts and transport animals, is this : these " mounted officers or acting majors"
have destroyed, in the new main roads, all that even- (of whom the Guards' Memorial makes so much
ness of who which they offered to view while the mention, and who are thought to be ill-
dry weather lasted. The smaller fragments have wed, because it is only a ft er three
ofears'
service as such they can obtain the rank full
been amulet" into Peels of Pleieleei which Calomel) have merely an arbitrary rank; and moreover
have formed wherever depressions in the ge- the practice of making the Senior Captains (remember,
seta level were Dearest at hand, while these officers, although Lieutenant-Colonels in the
the larger fragments have been loosened army, are but Captains in the Guards) acting field
and displaced. Another source of disturbance has officers in the absence of their superiors, exists in
sprung from
the hind, of soil it, which the road hee every regiment of Infantry id the service. 1 have
seen regiments of the Line in the colonies, where,
been laid; in some parts the bed consisting of soft owing to one Major being in England with the depot,
alluvial earth, in others of comparatively firm rock. and the other perhaps on leave, the two Senior
I. the former of course the road has been pressed Captains did for years the duties of mounted officers.
down to a certain extent, while in the latter it has Bat for this, the unfortunates of the Line—the mere
maintained its original position. The rain does not hard-working drudges of the army—receive not one
particle of advantsee in
dutyy. A Line Captain
drain readily through the peculiar surface "oil which who hoe to do ge- . h g d • if
jor a as to a Dime
is found here; on the contrary, after rain the soil as- in a horse, and to keep that quadruped out of his
sasses a tough, viscid character, snob as is only met pay without any extra allowance. As to any pro-
with in the most .tiff, argillsosons earths in England, votive advantages in regard to promotion, such exist
and the water lodges in the small hollows on its sur- not in the Line. On the other hand, in the Guards,
faro The deep di Ohm which have bees dug cm either after three years' duty as a mounted officer, a Captain
in the corps receives the rank of fell Colonel in the
side of the roads, for the purpose of carrying off the army, and starts fair in the race for the highest
water from the roads themselves, have not therefore Fades, with men who have worked their way to
proved of such full benefit as might well have been that point through the most deadly climates and the
anticipated. These are difficulties which it was not weapons of every savage lend. Such, I say, are the
passib to le avoid; for, with the exception perhaps s. zisting rules of the service, and reay when men
ask tor more," as the Guards have donlle., the patience
that there was not generally sufficient convexity of the public will hardly endure the impudence of
given to their surface, the roads were constructed on the request.
the beet principles amain the most substantial manner. Knowing as Ido scores of veterans who have re-
A large body of miners and labourers of the Army spectively for more than a quarter of a century been
Works Corps are already actively at work, and in two working their way up the list, and who have nosi-
er three weeks, should the weather prove st all favour- fiord health, comfort, family ties, and fortune for pro-
Ole, it is that the damage done to the motion, the cool impudence of the Guards' petition
expected
be fills me with indignation. If any man thinks I speak
read. by the late mine will in a very greet degree too strongly, let him t.ke up " Hart's Army List,"
repaired. It has been a matter of surprise that that and read over the list of officers in any of the follow-
part of the Woronzoff road which run across the log corps—the 9th and 12th Lenore. the 14th Do-
should have so long maintained its efficiency; goons, the Bth, 10th, 24th, 27th, 29th, 35th, 37th,
ea:eta:it highway bad acquired firmness from age 43rd, 52nd, 53rd, 60th, 61st, 64th, 70th, 74th, 75th,
sad constant attention—shown by the care in its 78th, 81st, 83rd, 84th, 88th, 87th, 98th, Ceylon Rifles,
drainage, and the heaps of broken stone placed at or either of the West India Regiments, and then
'Wain intervals by its side, to effect repairs as soon compare. the period the senior officer of each
as required, on its fleet occupation by the Allies-- rank in these battalions has served, with
said, moreover, was never subjected to the wear and the time those in the Guards have borne
tsar by the passage of animals and vehicles, in such her Majesty's commission. I will take one single
numbers as the wants of the armies almost minter- instance, that of Lieutenant-Colonel Williamson, of
rapidly demand, in their respective routes of tons- the 27th Regiment. This officer has been thirty
pet sad sosonsiestios. It also has become greatly years in the army; was never on half Pay i has
est 'I repair since the late raios. served in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America; has
The erection of the wooden huts has advanced purchased all his commissions except the last (which
, setwithatanding the unfavourable weather. he obtained when the regiment was augmented in
inGrins mums have been devised to prevent the May? 1854, to go to India), and yet he will not
leakageorhish is greatly oomplained of, and is indeed obtain the rank of full Colonel until May, 1857.
• serious drawback on the other advantages offered Compare this gentleman's claims with those of the
g leammore secure shelter and protootion of these ill-used Guardsmen. In the same corps the two
bursa-rooms as compared with tents. One Majors have been respectively 30 and 26 years on
emeug the latest means adopted is the conversion of full pay, but neither of them are Brevet Lieutenant-
the tope used in the Russian batteries either for work. Colonels, and the senior Captain has been 18
lag the guns or in the construction of their rope man- ars on full pay, but is not yet a Brevet
lets, into oakum. Certain quantities have been distri. Major; in fact, he would only rank with
bated among the various divisions of the army, the subalterns of the Guards; and now allow
and it is to be part of the employment of me to draw your attention to another circumstance
the prisoners undergoing punishment to pick this respecting this mob talked of petition. It is now
shape for the desired parpose. The hots in maps. certain that Prince Albert, the Duke of Cambridge,
ties have been testa in respect to their stability by and Lord Strafford—the three colonels of the three
maw very high winds. Donner the night between regiments—have signed the document. Of the latter
the 6th and 6th instant a strong gale from the south nobleman I would speak with all the reverence due
prevailed, and some very heavy squalls posed over to a soldier who has served his country for sixty-
the camps last night; but though on the first-men. three years, and who consequently cannot be a young
ironed ooession several toots were blown over, no hut man. Let his age, and the Peninsula as well as
which was completed was moved, much leis over- Waterloo decorations which he wears, be his excuse
thrown. A few hum only partly erected, set. for what he has done, and our apology for silence
fared from the gale. A little before midnight on respecting him.
the 4th instant • portion of the camp was As regards the Prince Consort and the Royal Duke,
startled by an alarm of fire, which broke out in one of is not their acting as they have done a lamentable
the huts in the Second Division. The unusual sounds instance of the utter ignorance which (in high pleas)
of drums beating the " fall in," and bugles sounding prevails respecting public opinion in this country P
the " assembly," at that, hour,:coated a general stir; If there are in all England two men who are eagerly
but the picquets were on the alert, the men were catching at every occasion to make themeless popular
quickly at the spot, and the fire soon extinguished. with the poblio at large, those two are Prince Albert
It occurred is the camp of the 47th Regiment, and and the Duke of Cambridge. It must be obvious to
broke out in a hut used by the quartermaster as a all, that had they had the slightest idea that the
store. Very little damage was effected. knowledge of this petition being even prepared
The prevailing wind since the last mail left has would have called forth the storm of popular in-
been southerly, and the temperature has been re- digestion which it has aroused, neither one nor the
mutably mild. The snow, which had appeared to other would ever have lent his name to the un-
cover the distant mountains in very extensive patches, dertaking. And yet every person in the middle or
and some of the higher ridges entirely, has disap- higher classes would, if previously questioned, have
peered altogether. The valley of Inkermano, and been perfectly able to foretel the certain cones-
the adjoining lower part of the Tchernaya valley, quenoes of any such attempt to foist the private
are now converted into a shallow lake, and from the interests of the "upper crust" above those of the
borders of this water an impassable marsh extends army at large. How such men as Colonels Wood,
between the Fedokine heights occupied by the Preach Upton, and Monerieffe, the three Lieutenant-Colonels
on the one hand, to the foot of the lower Mackenzie of the Regiments of Guards, were mad enough
heights, occupied by the enemy on the other. either to sign or sanction the petition, is truly a
Of the Romans and their movements, if they are marvel.
making any, we know nothing in our camps. Their I bad written thus far, when a letter by the last
neighbourhood is rendered sufficiently apparent by mail from India reached me. The writer is an old
the fire which they continue to maintain from the and valued friend, who after serving his country for
has and batteries on the north side. The execution twenty years in the East, and having paid for all his
deal continues to be chiefly against the rained various oommisslone, finds himself still a Captain,
baildiogs and tottering walls; warmly any casual- and, although able and willing to purchase, without
ties occur among the few soldiers and strangers who any hope or prospect of promotion. One portion of
occasionally visit what is left of the city and its hie letter is so apropos to my .abject, that lam sure
suburbs. The hats of the Russian detachments and you will hold me excused for quoting it entire. It
outposts above InkeraanD, and along the Mackenzie would almost seem as if by some magical means the
ridge, appear to be occupied as fully as they were writer, though stationed in the Upper Provipoea of
used to be; and the Coesacks who watch the move- India, bad been made acquainted with the preten-
meats of the Preach videttes among the hills near alone now put forward by "the Brigade," and had
Guthman, do not indicate any signs of falling back determined to show how the working portion of the
from that direction. army look upon the privileges which this most
favoured corps already enjoys. Here is the extract
from his letter—the italics are my own :
It is reported here that a amber of Queen's regimens
are to be sent from India to the Crimea this cold weather.
Of course we all look forward to the chance of meeting a
European enemy with so little pleasure and asaisty ; but
sail there are some eoesideratioas respecung soak a memo,
which to old soldiers like myself are by so means sonaoliag.
What w.nald the pest WOOS I. and sassy othses beirmit-
isg to the my,' army is Lulls sas be of, suit me
Is 'MC:Amos ? Am yes keew, I was under Lord Emma, is
M Ent Althea eampaign ; nailer Pollock, at the taking of
Cohan ; leader Gough, at Goober: and is the Puniest)
eisipeigte of 1814 45, as well as 1818 49. ()mot 20 yeas'
service I have spent but two at hose, sad of moo two wee
obliged to do twelve mouths' duty at the depot. I ham foer
medals on my breast. and two of these have clasps. All my
patrimony has been emended in purchasing my commis-
Mons, and my brother Is sow ready to buy me a majority.
Yet if I go to the Crimes / should nut dm thanes, if
ilMosted, mail a surly of tlis Foot Gwen*, of bony oast-
mesdod by boys lobe tattered LA. strew after /obtained my
posse me rasa. To soy walking of the doubts proosotsoss Miss
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awards these was Nelms Mats sass* Lboutsamet tab an
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the 01111911= el hos ales Maoism Lonitarosta. sate. by
eiras. e dn. key Pad Offmers, out coolosaast at tAo
resstrhoo or .basher. mans ir& tows coposioss Wont time
yeorsystore Al! sabost Neyas there are is the Qesea's
troops is Ingle very soy IMMO who bars been a lose
time is the jester nabs. a great deal of diecuetsut
Incubi he sensed mare we mists the semy ha the Crimea. The
seems of the Liao who haveact brevet reek rises the
war broke est are quilts of a t list. TAsir good fee.
lets no use .4e ... Ise it hue boa fairly achieved • but
_-...:di.-" —A letter from Argos, in the Swam the Coeds won of seem that is as tames. Wattles is
,se Dares. sap :--ii The prima at Sao. is this Gaston, the east Of tie army. it Is by tisk doubly steps--by that
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tea Captains In the 9th Lancers eight have had upwards
18 years' service, and of these eight but two are Brevet
Yam, which they pined by being mentioned fie se
orders, sad, with one reuse on, all the ten have bee, is
action over and over spin. 8o of the 14:b Drawer, is
which all the Captains save one have been repeatedly is me
field against the enemy, but of which no one holds Mesa
rank, sithoegh they have to a men been each upwards of
twelve, end acm• more than twenty years in the meg,
Compare this with the Guards, many of whom, although
but Lieutenants in their corps (Ind who but seven map
ego were at oehool), are now Brevet Majors, aid would
command men who have nearly a quarter of a century.,
SIZZIIis shows that great reforms are wanted in Ms
genies—Mat he Mips**, prioileyee of the Goer& theta
be dose meal with—if we want en army in which every
good officer nen have the same chasm of winning the piste.
In times of peace we heed not the advantaps of ise
favoured regiments; hut in war, when every officer loom
forward to rising in the service, the injustice of Wag
shoved aside by moo who started years later in *a mos, ti
too glaring, too insulting to common cease.
Such are the opinions of one of the best officers and
most gallant soldiers now holding her Majesty's
commission, and I am certain that the sentiments he
expresses are held by ninety-nine men out of every
hundred who are serving in the Cavalry or Infantry of
the Line. if the hundredth officer does not thigh
like the others, it is because be hope• by his interest
to pass from the Line to the Guards.
Would that the public at large—the people who
pay the army—could be roused from their apathy
t ing military matters and persuaded to impure
regarding
more respecting the system. Inquiry is all
that is needed, in order to expose the thorough rat-
tenons of the whole system from top to bottom.
Take one of the facts which the discussions upon this
petition have disclosed. The entire patronage of the
Gaud. is in the hands of the three Colonels of "the
Brigade," and Guardsmen themselves acknowledge
that until the promulgation of the new wamintrather
more than • fair share of their body obtained the
rank of General Officer. It follows, then, that
the greater number of our Generals are virtually
the nominees of this triumvirate. This may be
pleasant enough for all parties in times of peek., but
tiering a great war no wonder that we ars-sorely
panted where to look for commanders. •
To all who are interested in the question Sit army
reform, I would strongly recommend a not veryexpen.
mire work called " Hart's Army List." It is published
by Murray, of Albemarle street, and costs snip five
shillings. In it the enormous advantages which the
Guards as a corps, and individual officers who in
ether corps belong to the "upper cruet," enjoy over
their leas fortunate brethren, will be directly and
sisterly seen. Oat of evil good often comes; and I
believe that this attempt of the Guards to regain those
advantages which, by long-endured abuse, they t 0,..
seri, poeseesed, will result in larger measures of
=reform than twelve months ago any
have hoped for. Where the service of tile:::
is oemesened, no advantages of either puree arsenal
pseilien should for a moment be considered. ,rank
It we
Rest have a brigade of Guards with doubly
at each step, let the officers consist entirely d
wish as have previously distinguished thew
eaves in the Line, and who, in consequence
of their gallantry, have obtained prociotka
into the household troops. The present privileges
these corps possess, and the way in which inch are
distributed, might have been thought very right and
c(lanais
sin 1687 (the date when the Captains of the
were made Lientenant-Colonels in the army);
bat at the present day they are about as much out d
place as the arquebus. of a century and • hell age
would be in the hands of • modem foot soldier,:wesr-
kg his scarlet tunic and " Albert hat."
ONE WHO HAS SERVED SIX YEARS
IN THE CAVALRY, AND THE SAME
TIME IN THE INFANTRY.
London, Deo. 19.

INDIAN MAILS,—The Peninsular and Oriental
Company's steam packet An, Captain Field ; Admiralty
agent, Lieutenant Hay, R.N., arrived at Southeraptea
yesterday, with the heavy portion of the India melt. Het
&etas were—Alexandria, Dee. 6; Malta, Dec. 10; Gibraltar,
Dee. 16. She brought 26 passengers, amongst whom were
Lientenant-Colonel Law. Majors Brown, Lynch, sad
Abercrombie, Captains Faulkner and Symms, Mr. Afar,
sad Sir Lawrence Peel, Bart.; Mesdames Samuel,
Connolly, Brown, Cookson, die. Her cargo eoasiited
of 109 bales of silk 219 bales of gum in different peeing*
685 boxes of raisins, 1,240 bags of wheat, 27 packages of
elephants' teeth, 9 aloe of wool, 39 barrels of tallow, 18
eases of orange', 27 barrels of dates, 180 packages of our
dries ; total number of packages, 2.449. The Ave expert.
Wed lastesewards variable weather, but genenlly fits. la
the Cleamasi she met with strong south-easterly winds, with
heavy sea. She signalled the Fairy echconer off Vigo, en
the 17th lost., steering to the eastward. Oa the lie
December there were at Malta her Majeatj's ships Ribald*,
Algiers, and Stromboli ; and on the 16th, at Gibraltar, the
steamer Promatkess. Th. American frigate Corgrem wm
at Alexandria on the 6th December. The Penissular sad
Oriental steamer Tagos was at Oi -welter on December 16.
The native disturbances in the district of New Ply.
mouth, aro a serious affair, and will require the atmot
caution and forbearance on the part of the gamest
settlers to avoid being drawn into the cocain. Ws Wm
that the troops for Taranaki had embarked at Ainklaadoa
the Bth Aorta. The division consisted of 250 tank wails
of the 65th Regiment, ten officers, thirteen nooseennie
sinned offieers, and three drummers, under the otimmead
of Major Nugent. The defachment was seam
peeled to the place of embarkation by umbels
of the citizens. The men embarked in high spirits
and in admirable order. It is ciao years and •
half since any similar embarkation took place. Oa that
occasion it was on a much more extensive scale—two feiptes,
Castor and Calliope, one steam stoop, Driver, and two *air
ports, Stains Castle sod Victoria, ,being employed for the
conveyance of a large forte to put down the sweeties' al
the natives at the south. Happily this time the troops
depart on no hostile mission. They are despatched fax mtee
in the character of an armed police to preserve pens and
good order. And es they are to be assisted be ea nail
force et the 66th Regiment from the province of Wellingtee,
we trait they may be enabled to carry out their peseefil
purpose is a satisfactory meaner, and speedily name
their headquarters crowned with honourable bat bloodies
laurels.—Arearelion and New Zealand Ga:eite.
TELEGRAPHIC Eason?.—M. Gloxin, a banker at
Strasbourg, Dent is May, 1854, • telegraphic daps* tohis
stockbroker at Paris to purchase 100 Lyons to 11ledictrar
neon railway shares; but in tbe traosmisoiou of the &sesta
the word Mediterraneen " was accidentally omitted b/
the telegraph people, and the agate de change somedniZ
leathered Lean shares. This mistake caused • lane
Oloxin of 3,916 fr. Some time alter he brought easel*
before the Civil Tribunal against the Director of the Ts*
graph-offies at Paris, where the mistake oceerred, sad
against the Minister of the Interior, as responsible for Mar
to mover that amount. When the action came on eke
Prefect of the Seine, in the name of the 'Moister, rad the
technical objection that the tribunal could not entertain iS
inasmuch as being brought against the government, it fell
within the category of what the laws call administrative
eases, os whisk the Council of State could alone 4seld•
But the tribunal decided that it hid full jurisdiction. Ms
prefect then appealed to the Council of State, and thacum
was heard yesterday. The council decided that the piefsaik
objection was well founded, as the Civil Tribunals eases'
authority over government functionaries for alleged MA'
peat committed in the discharge of their duty.
THE " CAT."—The United States Commissioner at
Baotou (II S.) has decided that whippings avanoi wit!
a ropes end is not Hogging. within the meaning d tbe
• statute. Flogging is a technical naval act, pet loresed3
the proper officers, according to certain formslities, t
inflicted with an instrument known as a " ca."
RECENT EARTHQUAKES. —lt appears that lb.
shocks of earthquake have completely cooed if difinld
Vasa. Thew terrible phonemes& lasted fear wie!Ati
exactly the same peeled as in 1765. It his been reoel".
that ices the Ent shock on the 25th July, reptiles esonw
avoided taking refuge in creases of walls or mums stases
At the some *peat the swallows had also abaudoesd tad
sisal newt, the castle of Virg*. Tee sheets of el
which neatly took place at Bordeaux, ins aleerewf
severely he the chain of the Pyrenees. At Fos, GP
f
Spanish frontier, the houses shook, and several stooge
how some edam chimneys. The shock lasted bat new/
short tame, and was in the direction of north to loelt
Shocks wen also felt at Agee, Tarbes, and Sagan" "
Ladies.
• Diana's DESCENDANT.—The Leeds contribotioa
M this grateful fund turns out to be quite respectable**
onapsrad with the total amount received by Mr.
v=
Keight, is Loudon. We understand that the
other of flbskapsara bas received altogether
promise of 201. from a sable marquis knows for his *AS
grew to airdeen, sad that he has bees able to sears N•
Allingootneeiptiose, le oddities to the 91. 15, 14"111.:
thmeg is a team sambar of the AflTOStry. WO hae.._
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antiewsee the following FebeeriPtine• as rile' • pas
from Wworpkgis of Miran, Rowlandeen. and Cti.;ft;
a Prised ; 4a. collected at Kiss Luahirree, Kaani•
trioiCkristien ; SS. is smaller same; teal,
Smita Floar.—ln December, 1854. and iagsT;
whthe thermometer rarely fell below the freesia pt..
ereas this month tiles have only hese out or Meal=
la which it lea wet fallen below that point. It he
uses at 111 degrees. case as low as 19, sod es T0ew1if......41"
it minas row as 18, which is, of Mune 14 doer blfin;
die dressing point This was the case with • the •Trsg.
suripeaded cis yards from the ground: en instramed_n.,„
within a foot or two of the ennead
the gnat
4Cranak saw degrees lower. Yesterday b "9"ra
met Nasal wisboal say malaria' of its eseerity•—•,---
she lisaares.