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London, England, 1855-01-24 00:00:00

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LONDON. WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 24.

LATEST •
NEWS FROM ABROAD

SWEDEN PREPARING FOR WAR.
($T NONWLAINI AND NIIROPIAN TILIONAPW)
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STOCKHOLM, 'As. 23.
Orders have been given for placing the entire
Swedish army upon a war footing.
The niessure is to be executed with the greatest
promptitude, as it is required to have the troops ready
to march.—Duly Ness.

r. lAst. 22.

The bill for effecting alterations in the Funds-

modal Act has passed the VI

The Moniker publishes the following :

News.

The Minister of the Marine and the Colonies has
received from Vice-Admiral Bruat, the Commander-
in-Chief of the Mediterranean squadron, the follow-
ing telegraphic despatch :

.. MONTEBELLO, Luc 13.

The Descartes arrived on the 4th from Constanti-
nople with 1,100 men, munitions, artillery, and fiat-
bottomed boats. The Trident and Megrim arrived
on the 9th. Omer Pasha came in the afternoon of
the 4th to Kamiesch; he was golog on to Balaklava.
The Primanget is returning to Prance.
The cold has been rather severs the last few days.
Since yesterday the weather has been milder, and
the snow has melted, although the wind still blows
from the north.

During the night between the 7th and Bth of
January the Russians made a sortie against the
parallel in front of the battery No. 19. Waited far
by our soldiers till they came up breast to breast,
they were ♦igorously repulsed, and left eeverai
deed behind them.

During the night between the 11th and 12th one
hundred and fifty Russians attacked oar lines. After
a hand-to band tight that lasted a few minutes, they
were repulsed, leaving in our works seven dead and
two wounded prisoners. Our loss amounts to seven
wounded.

A letter of the 19th, from Vienna, says :—" The
embarkation of Turkish troops for the Crimea has
proceeded with such activity, that on the 14th the
last transports had set sail."
Russian news from the Crimea is to the 14th of
January. At that date nothing important had taken
place before SebeatopoL—Daily News.

BERLIN, JAM. 20.

The Sardinian alliaace with the Western Powers
is disarmed by our semi-official press in a spirit of
great bitterness. Our statesmen feel that the active
participation of a secondary European state in the
war is making Prussian neutrality impossible. A
new note was sent to Vienna in the middle of the
week, protesting against the course taken by Austria
and the Allies.—Daily NMI.

We are informed from Vienna that on the 16th

another note wu sent by Count Boiol to Berlin,
calling upon the Premise Cabinet to fulfil its obli-
gations, under the treaty of April,to mobilise its army.
The Irsdependanee of Brussels ham telegraphic in-
kersation that in this note Austria informs Prussia
that should she not obtain a majority in the Diet on
the question of mobilisation she will proceed under
the 42nd article of the Federal Pact, i. e. will accept
the active alliance of such Germania States as may
choose to join apart from their federal obligations.

The Correspondence of Berlin mays that hopes of
peace become more faint. The transformation of the
definitive treaty into an offensive one was proceeding
naively at Vienna It was considered as certain,
that the war would be continued with all the *new 1
possible, and that negotiations for peace on the part
of Austria approached their conclusion.

Voss's Casette states, that at Vienna prepare.
time for war are being continued with undiminished
energy. It is added that the negotiations for con-
verting the defensive treaty of December 2 into an
offensive one, are now drawing to a close, and that
probably a diplomatic act will announce the fasts
sooner than many resew anticipate.

The Manifests, referring to the article of the Con-
gaWinne*, reap/ding Prussia, to which a Paris cor-
respondent of the Daily News called attention yes-
terday, says:

A karma published yesterday s note addressed ea the Lt
el April. 1813 to the Prudes esvoy by the Deka do Bea-
ems, Miaister of Foreign Affairs. It assenspoaded tide do-
mment with rellessiese, ars tendency of w►ich was is show
as melon hawses the state of slain at that period, sad
at Mutat. This ensaparisea is gully inopperinao sad
i 11.11104. At that tines the cabinet M Barba, by &lag
the afoul of a rapture, band support I. the asthma Mel-
ia, whisk it hod sameedod is meitiag. At the present
day. if we sway rep* ems hesitation and kardisim I. the
adheres*, of the Presidia pertinent to the polka of the
Weems Powers, at Lit it is notorkam that the petal@
eithat mesatry speaks out warily in timer of osm
caeca. Tho ..acid is, therefore, W abeam for marhp
the mama or meats whisk .as hem ao other effect ear
tW if iblaisaing the eathudastie sympathy sahibs le-
Mem the two madam

Tira ametenrs of Puliamentery sparring will be
disappointed this morning. Thwe wu uo "est•to"
last night in either harm—nothing but announce-1
went, of matebes to "eau off" ow some inters
day. In the Peers, the Earl of ELL/1180110MT

aid Earl OAST have given notice of motions
respecting the conduct of the war; is the Coto-
nou', Mr. ROZBUCK has intimated his inten-
tion to move for a committee of inquiry, and
some half dozen members have given notioeggsf
modems or questions. Indeed, there is a prevalent
belief in a suspension of hostilities in the Legislature
throughout the current week. Mr. Dmsu still
lingers in the rural abides; and, had there been mir
chief In the wind, he would have wanted it, and
winged his way to the seen of action, with sa sure
an instinct as vultures lock to the field on whioh a
great battle is about to be stricken.

The brief sitting in the Commons was not, how-
OW, mainly devoid of interest. Lord JOHN
Rassztes statement in relation to the attempted
renewal of negotiations at Vienna is important.
Distinctly and repeatedly Lord Joni declared that
these negotiations have not yet begun. On the 28th
of December, at a meeting of the ambassadors of the
Western Powers and Russia, with :the Austrian
Minister, Prince Gorrouxorr, after fruitlessly

attempting to persuade the ether diplomatists
to receives memorandum in explanation et the sense
to which Ruda understood the basis of aeptiations,
accepted the four points without reserve. Nevertheless,
the Ambassadors of France and England have not
yet been empowered to treat. It would appear from
this that the Western Powers have reason to distrust
the purposes with which Rossi& proposes to negotiate,
and are resolute not to allow themselves to be caught
in a net of aimless protoeola. Meanwhile everything
looks warlike—nay, everything looks like preparation
for a great and protracted struggle. It seems
childish to expect immediate intelligeses of any final
or decisive action. All the movements of the

Allis—France's augmentation of its Foreign
Legion, England's construction of a railway in the
Crimea, Turkey's despatch of an army of 60,000
men to that Peninsula, with the leisurely motion
which defective organisation imposes on it—all
present the aspect of an extensive combination,
which requires time to admit of its completion.
Even the words of Sir Di LACY EVANS at Folke-
stone tend to corroborate this view. "No such
war," he is reported to have said, "as that in
which they were now engaged could possibly be
finished in so short a time as some were unreasonable
enough to expect." In fact, we can scarcely be said
to have ens, as yet, the serpent beginning of the
draggle. All that we have hitherto witnessed is
little more than the first trickling of a few snow-
flakes on some Alpine summit which preludes the
rush, and roar, and overwhelming downfall, of an
avalanche. We must look beyond the Crimea, to
the mustering of forces which is in progress through-
out Europe. Turkey was first assailed by Russia
England and France then rushed to the rescue ; now
Austria is arming ; Piedmont has thrown itself into
the scale of the Allies; Sweden has all but openly de-
clared for them ; other powers will follow in rapid
suoosesion. The bitter tooe in which the semi•ofcial
journal at Berlin speaks of the Piedmontese accession
shows how bitterly the feeble, faithless, and vacil-
lating Government of Prussia already feels its jar
lation from the oouncils of the European Powers.
Europe is rising from the slumber of forty years into
which Russian blandishments have lulled it.

The Governments of Europe cannot help themselves ;
the time is past for patching up a hollow trues of
some few years with the Muscovite; Europe must
I be secured against inroads from the permanent camp
pitched by the armies of the Czsa on its eastern
frontier.

We have alluded to the speech addressed by Sir Da
LACY Evans to the deputation which welcomed him.
at Folkestone. Most sincerely is it to be desired that
the health of the gallant General may enable him to
take part in the impending debates on the conduct
of the war. He is a ripe and approved soldier, and one
who can feel for his brothers in arms from the highest
to the lowest. The calm but firm manner in which
he repelled the tasteless and ill-judged attempt
of the spokesman of the deputation to draw him into
a premature disclosure of his opinions respecting the
management of the war, and the liberal and candid
manner in which be spoke of the commanders in
he Crimea, are a warrant that any attempt to
make him an instrument of factious attacks upon
them will be is vein. At the same time words
dropped from him which show that he is prepared
frankly to represent the real condition of the army,
with a view to the improvement of the conduct of the
war. This is exactly what was to be expected from
Sir DE LACY Evans, from all his antecedents. We
have not forgotten his chivalrous enterprise, in bygone

years, in behalf of Constitutional Government in
Spain. We know that he feels for the soldier u a
military chief ought to feel. We remember the
frank and forward courage with which, at a perilous
crisis of the Reform Bill struggle, he declared that,
"if an attempt was made to govern by the sword,l
he would resist it with the sword." A high-minded,
generous gentleman—an experienced soldier—a
fearing spirit—that is thi man who is wanted to
bear true and soothfast evidence to the actual state
of our army, of whose deeds, and sufferings, and
position, he has been an eye-witnees. Should his
health permit, his words will be listened to in the
Rouse of Commons with respectful attention ; and
he will be able to check, on one side, the unscrupulous
apologists of red-tape inefficiency; on the other, the
empty declamation of ignorant ambition, seeking to
make political capital out of the mistakes and short-
comings of men in ofliow.—Daily News.