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LXD 191110 PEAS

CONSTANTINOPLE, Fit. 16.
Tho enrolment of Turks in a British auxiliary corps
has commenced by authority of Lord Rodoliffe.
A number of steam-ships have been appointed to
mime is the Bea of A:off.

The French troops that were at Constantinople
have been ordered to the Crimea.

The two mortar battery destined to play on the
fort of Sebastopol will be ready before the end of
this month.—Daily AVIDS.

MARSEILLES, SATtranmr.
• The affair of the mine, mentioned in a Russian
despatch, is explained by advice" from Constanti-
nople of the 13th. A Russian countermine was
driven into a French mine on the night of the 4th.
Only two French were killed.—Daild Next.

BERLIN, FRB. 24.

Colonel Olberg, who is attached to General
Wedell's special mission, returned here the day
before yesterday from Paris. Although the chances
of a treaty being concluded between Prussia and the
Western Powers appear to augment, great doubts
nevertheless continue to prevail on the subject. It is
not known on what grounds the Right of the
Chamber has rejected the application of government
for further supplies, but its vote does not appear to
have been concerted with the Left.—Da.!y News.

We have received tbs Monttera of yesterday; it
contains the following despatches:

Pena, Fan. 14.—Tee wields are still eoatherly, and
our transports sail rapidly through the Stra:ta. A great
assay vessels end previsions of every kind have arrived
at Easiest& this week.

The following from Vice Admiral Brut :

Morrrtnru.o, KAIIIIISCII, F.B. 13.—0 n the 11th,
Teen But arrived at Kansieseh from Eapstoria. Oa the
1211, the Tait, Inflexible, Niretde, sod Psyche, coming
boa the Bosphorus. Oa the 13th, the Labrador, Chander-
sager, and Beesley. All these ships have brought troops,
ordnance, end lenge. The Togs pomaded at the entrance
of Ku sub Bay, but was gut off without damage. The
siege weeks avant* slowly on account of the unfavourable
weather; the enemy is fortifying his right. and transporting
fresh gum from the Quarantine side. General Niel em-
barks to- day le the Reims Hortense.
A telegraphic despatch from Bucharest, dated Feb. 23,
asuouness that on Saturday, the 17th, at 0 in the evening,
the Russians, to the number of 40,000, under the orders of
General Liprandi, attacked Eupstoria. After a combat of
tow bows, they were vigorously repulsed with mosiderable '
lose by the Turks, under the command of Omer Pasha. The
Turks had 16 men killed and 3d wounded. The Egyptian,
Sideman Pasha, was killed. A battery rammed by the
Frneh lest Isar mem. A French steamboat, that left
ismieseh on the 20th, brought no news of importunes down
to that dam

RUSSIAN DECLARATION OF WAR
AGAINST SARDINIA.

'fhe following is the text of a earnlar jut ad-
dressed by Count Nesse'rode to the Russian agents
abroad :

The Court of - will share, we do not doubt,
the judgment of the Emperor upon the policy of his
Majesty the King of &Miele, at a nonfat when that
sovereign, without avowed motive, without real (denim,
without the appearasos even of the least injury having
been eeramitted upon the direct interests of him country, is
about to pat at the disposal of England a corps ifeontle
of 15,000 rata for the purpose of being seat to the Crimea.
la table( t►is detargaisation the Sardinian pversaseat
appears to have left to the public newspapers the teak of
warming us of an aggression not attempted to be justified
by a deolaratioa of war.
We undentand the motive of this silence.

The Cunt of Turin, we admit, would have found some
trouble in harmonising its policy with the asthma' sestinsoat
of its country; it would bays found an elual difficulty in
putting its pressat conduct in harmony with the ancient
soureuire of the hones of Savoy.
In consulting the annals of its history, it could have cited
the .sample of a Russian army mosaic the Alps; bat it
woe, it is true, to defend Piedmont, net to invade it.

In the councils of the European cabineta under t►e reign
of the Emperor Akender, of glorious memory, it is still
Rands who has lent its faithful aid to the indepen-
dence of fierdiais at t►e time of the re-establishment of the
house of Savoy upon the throne of its megaton.

Is it necessary, in doe, to recall the fact that, if (lines at
the um* speck was re-salted to the Simplon of llar-
dicia, it was blesses the Imperial Cabinet recognised the
necessity of assuring at ono* the commercial prosperity and
the greatness of the country which tho arms of Buda had
contributed to free from a foreign yoke

To-day, casting Sao oblivion the teachings of the past,
the Court of Turin is 'bolt to send spinet us, from this
same poet of Genoa, as hostile enterprise which Susie is
well conscious of not having provoked.
Its attitude this taken by the:goverameat of Sardinia,
without, as we have stated, formal declaration of war, has
left as in doubt eves as to the name we most give to sat-
Him melding destined to invade oar hoiden sada, the
lag of a smudgy with which we have esatiaued main saw
to live in peers.
However it the Court of Turk leen debt of the mind-
*. mad sieges sousatiated by the rights M satins as the
inamtablo rule of the isteematienal relatives of states, the
Buss! for his porsr ve *born dim.

ialeatios, lie baptist Nelesty believes It right
brekes defers sad do facto by the act et
t►. blame .t which reels solely with the
glisessest.

w take the impassibility beer» the *plum
aid Were make Imps
espeetally to the Allied Posen to MI".
-rgs se the Sardinia& Coast skis it hu teased
"porton. to taro its arcs spigot so at as'

very seemed w►en the Imperial Cabinet eaten at
Vienna num adeliberstios Weeded to epos the way to the
re-mtablishatent of peace (dalls& d meth' beef* me refa-
Misused de la ?six).
The wishes whisk tend towards the acumplishassat of
this work of palliation seem to have bees strangely Ls-
udenteol by the Court of Turin ; for whilst the govern- 1
seats of central Rasps have wisely latirposed their lee-
dents authority to prevent one of the belligerent powers
from rtereitiag its legions In the interior of states whisk seek
to maks their neutrality and entire independence respected,
the Sardinian goes/swat, lees sparing of the blood
of Italy, ooziest/ to shed it kr a cases fo-
reign to rho political and religious interests of its
nation. For, candidly, it will not be pretended that in dis-
playing its banner by that of the Crescent, the house of
Savoy has the honour of serving the Gann of Christianity.
Neither will it be affirmed that that house has bad at heart
the cause of defending the feeble against the strong when
It unites its arms to those of France and Ragland.
It is this last Power, if our information is comet, which
takes the Sardinian troops under its command—we do not
say in its pay, for we will abstala from wounding the
national sentiment of a country with which we regret to
find ourselves at war.
In spite of this neesesity, the Emperor will know hew
still to pretest the private interests of the Sardinians who
have long held commercial relations wit► Russia. The fault of
their government will not fall upon them. Their property
will be respected. They will be free to remain in the
empire in full security ander the protection of our laws as
long as they conform to them.
Bat the Sardinian flag will henceforth cease to enjoy the
privileges which belong to the merchant vessels of neutral
powers.
A terra will be filed for the departure of Sardinian ships
which may be toned actually la the ports of the empire.
From the present time the exeroshir will be withdrawn
from the Sardinian mauls is Eawie_

The Russian agents residing at Genoa and at Nies receive
also the order to suspend the exercise of their functions,
peace between the two oonntries baying been broken by
Sardinia, from the instant when that power acceded to the
treaty g alliance concluded an the 10th of April 1854, be-
tween Cheat Britain sad Freese.

The limper* has deigned to charge me to communicate
them resolutions to a.l friendly powers.

—Daily News.

OUR NEW

(ailiaid) In

The Government is said to be at length recon sti-
toted. Lord JOHN RUSSELL has consented to be
named as Secretary for the Colonies; Lord ELOIN
is to be Secretary of the Board of Control; Lord
STANLEY Or AL DERLEY is to be President of the
Board of Trade ; Lord SEYMOUR is to be Chancellor
of the Duchy of Lancaster ; Lord CARLISLE is ap-
pointed Viceroy of Ireland, with Mr. RORSMAN for
Secretary ; and Lord DustuaN is to be &Lord of the
Treasury. This is indeed affecting to Nettle matters
in a most lordly style, and would be ludicrous if it
were not lamentable. We say lamentable, because
at a crisis of the national fate so perilous as the pre-
sent we think it deeply to be deplored that any set of
men should be found capable of so wanton and deli-
berate a defiance of public opinion.
We have once more a purely Whig Administration.
After three weeks of ineffectual attempts to set the
dislocated joints of Coalition, Lord Peumarron has
abandoned the task as hopeless. Whether some more
skilful hand may yet be found to perform anew that
delicate operation, we need not here determine ; it is
enough for the present to observe, that finding
the members he most relied on had suddenly
become still and immoveable, the PREMIER has
resorted in more than one case to substitutes
made of wood. We draw the widest distinc-
tion, as we have ever done, between Whigs
of the calibre and the character of Lord JOHN
RUSSELL, and those who are capable of serving no
other purpose than that of crutches to a lame and
halting policy. In combating against the wrong
and scandal of exclusiveness, we have never been
ourselves exclusive. So long as an opulent and noble
hereditary clam exists in England, we desire to see
its members aspiring to the honours of the State. We
never wish to see statesmen of the great experience
and great ability of Lord JOHN RUSSELL absent from
the councils of the Crown. We viewed with regret
the omission of his name from the first list of admi-
nistration formed by Lord PALMERSTON, and we
ventured to prognosticate—what has since happened
more speedily and more signally than we could
have anticipated—that without his aid no Govern-
ment would, in the present state of affairs, be able to
conduct the hulloes' of the country. The deplorable
spectacle of the last week has abundantly vindicated
our anticipations. The Whigs have been unable,
either with Aberdeenite colleagues or without them,
to guide or govern the House of Commons; and in
their perplexity and panic they have actually been
obliged to arrest on his journey to Vienna, by their
urgent supplications to return, the man whom a
few days since they were chuckling at the notion of
having god rid of for the session. The Minister
whom the Vows denounced not a month ago as one
whom his political friends could no loner defend or
associate themselves with, and as having bean guilty
of conduct " that ought to remain a lasting ground
of exclusion from the confidence of the =docent the
Crown," is already sent for in hot haste by the very
friends who lately had the ineffable folly and mean-
ness to hear him libelled and abused, without
venturing to utter a syllable of remonstrance or
dissent. No secret was made of their delight at
having got rid of the beet and ablest man amongst
them ; and the mission to Vienna was laughed at
openly by every bureaucratic blockhead as a perilous
service that would probably keep Lord JOHN out of
the House of Commons for months to come ; and now
they are only too glad to be assured that he is likely
to be back by Easter, and to be permitted in the

meantime to take shelter under the shadow of his
name. Whatever be the result, we for our parts
shall always rejoice at seeing the conduct of a great
department, like that of the Colonies, placed in such
capable, heads ; and if halfa-dozen such men could
be found amongst the Whip, we should heartily
rejoice to see them in equally important posts.
But it is vain to try to conceal the disappointment
and discontent with which the country will receive
the announcement that the Government is once more

to be monopolised by the members of a few great
families, their retainers, and nominees. With the
exception of four or five individuals, the Cabinet, u
now re-oopetracted, consists entirely of persons
wholly destitute of the mental vigour or personal
weight that we have a right to look foe under any
circumstances, but more especially in the present cri-
tical poetise of affairs.
It is said that Sir GEORGE C. Lzwia, whose recent
speech against the policy of the present war we took

Occasion to comment on, has been offered the Chan-

oellorship of the Exchequer. There is certainly
nothing like an effective contrast ; and in this in-

stance the friends, of Mr. GLADSTONE will assuredly
have no right to complain. The critics of the out-
going Minister have been accustomed to taunt him
with gradually modifying his opinions in a liberell
sense. The severest censor will be unable to find
any similar Nun of accusation against the right
hon. baronet. He too, indeed, has gradually drifted
from the professions of his youth ; but it has been
from those of Radicalism towards those of Conserva-
tism. At ens time be was all for the Ballot ;at
another, for overthrow of the Irish Church ; but of lets
he has booms a proselyte to more aristocratic opi•
nions—he votes against any change of ecclesiastical
monopoly, and against any curb being pot upon the
power of landlord intimidation at elections. Sir

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