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London, England, 1856-01-26 00:00:00

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LONDON, SATURDAY, JAN. 2t;, 1856.

POSTSCRIPT.

Letters from Constantinople, of the 14th, hare
been received.

Conferences have been held in order to adjust the
first and fourth paints relating to the principalities.
The persons who took part in these conferences were
Aali Pacha, Grand Vizier ; Filed Pach, Minister for
Foreign Affairs; Prince Calliinaki, M. Thouvenel,
Lord Stratford de Redcliffs., and Baron de Prokesch.

From the Crimea the intelligence is up to the 9th,
and states that :

The firing continued on both sides of Sebastopol.
The allies have blown up two more of the docks.
The Russians are taking up their winter quarters at
Simferopol and Ilaktchi•Serai.
The news from Kinburn is to the effect that the Rus-
sians had 30,00 men in echelon, between Petrosska and
Otchakoff, and that, in consequence, fears were enter-
tained of an attack on the fortress of Kinburn.

The garrison had bean reinforced by troops under the
command of General Lebceuf.
The floti la was frozen in, but would aid in the defence,
if the Itussisns should attempt the place.
General Vivian, fearing to be attacked at Kertch, has
called for officers of infantry and artillery to be despatched
to him from Constantinople.

The following is the text of the ultimatum ad-
dressed to the Court of Persia by Mr. Murray :-
1. The Government shall restore to liberty the Princess,
wife of 11iirza.

2. That it Eliall acknowledge Mirza as Consul for the
Queen of England.
3. That the Prime Minister of the Shah shall proceed
to the residence of the English Embassy, to offer an
apology, and withdraw his offensive note.
Mr. Murray has left an agent at Teheran, and has
threatened, if necessary, to support him by an
English squadron in the Persian Gulf.

By letters from Hamburg of the ':4th, we learn
that an Imperial ukase has been promulgated at St.
Petersburg, decreeing the issue of ten new series of
paper money, each of three million silver roubles.
At the same time, eight series formerly drawn are
renewed, making altogether fifty-four

Letters from Copenhagen state that the news of
the Russian acceptance had been coldly received
in Sweden, and by the ultranational party in
Denmark.

The English Government had forwarded a second
peremptory application to the Danish Government
for winter quarters for a small steam squadron. No
answer has been returned t) the application.

The Australian mail-packet Champicn of the Seas,
with 124,000 ounces of gold on board, arrived off
Liverpool yesterday afternoon. She reports the
James Baines as having reached Melbourne, seventy-
seven days out.

The Belgique steam ship, of the Belgian Steam
Navigation Company, after leaving Plymouth for
New York, returned to Southampton on Thursday,
with five feet of water in her hold, the passengers
and crew being nearly exhausted by the exertions
they hal undergone.

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THE PRESS.

Her Majesty, it is stated, has signified her intention
of opening Parliament in person.
The Address in the Commons will be moved by
the Hon. G. H. C. Pyng, M.P. for Tavistock, and
seconded by Mr. W. E. Baxter, M.P. for Montrose.
The Address in the Lords will be moved by the
Earl of Crosford, and seconded by the Earl of
Abingdon.

Lord Palmerston has issued the usual circular to
his parliamentary supporters.
A Cabinet Council was held on WPdnesday after-
noon, at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present
were—Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor,
the Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Granville, the Earl
of Harrowby, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Claren-
don, Mr. Secretary Labouchere Lord Panmure, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the
Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alder-
ley, the Right Hon. M. T. Baines, and the Duke of
Argyll. The Council sat three hours.

i-Cabinet Council will also be held this afternoon
at the Foreign-office. _ _

The Connell of Education will meet this afternoon
at the Privy Council Chamber, Whitehall.
_ . _

The members of the War Council at Paris—his
Royal Highness the Poke of Cambridge, General
1)e la marmora, Gen. rul Airey, Sir Harry Jones,
Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons, and Admiral Dundas—
arrived at Dover on Tuesday morning at 5 a.m., on
their return from Paris, and proceeded direct to
London by the express mail train.
The Right Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpole has ac-
cepted the office of Archbishop's Church Estates
Commissioner, vacated by the decease of the Right
Hon. Henry Goulburn. The income attached to the
office, which is in the gift of the Archbishop of Can-
terbury, is 1,0001. a year.
The Duke of Argyll has been offered the Green
Riband of the Order of the Thistle, vacant by the
death of the Marquis of Aylesbury.

Mr. J. Clementson, well known-to the members of
the Legislature as Deputy-Sergeant-at-Arms of the
House of Commons for the last fifty years, died
on Sunday last at his residence, Felcourt-lodge,
Torquay.
The Crawford Peerage is about to be claimed by a
farmer in Montrose, who traces his descent from the
head of the house of Lindsay.
Cardinal Wiseman, on Wednesday last, was elected
a member of the Royal Society of Literature.
The Metropolitan Board of Works met at the
Guildhall Council Chamber yesterday, for the pur-
pose of considering the several new appointments.
The election of an engineer was proceeded with, the
list being
.at once reduced to four principal candi•
dates,—Messrs. Bazalgette, 11,mrick, Rawlinson, and
Booth. The contest was very close, and resultsd in
the appointment of Mr. Bazalgette to that important
office.

The will of the late Thomas Cubitt, Esq., is said
to be one of the longest on record, extending to 386
Chancery folios, covering thirty skins of parchment.
The personal estate exceeds one million (termed in
law of upper value), and is charged with the highest
amount in the scale of probate duty, the stamp
being 15,000/. The widow has an immediate
bequest of :20,000/., and an annuity of 8,0001.

Lord Howden, at Madrid, received the intelligence
of Russia's acc.-mtance of the Austrian proposals in
the midst of a diplomatic dinner. His lordship im-
mediitely announced it to his gaests.
An important fact is announced, with due em-
phasis, in the Post Ampt Gazette of the 21st. "Count
Benkendorff, the Russian Military Commissioner at
Berlin, at the Grand Opera ball in that city, last
Saturday, ' danced' with Lady Bloomfield, the wife
of the English Ambassador." This is considered by
the Post Ampt Gazette as the most satisfactory step
towards a pacific solution of the causes of difference
between the two countries yet observed.

THE Suriris is busy preparing magnificent presents
of great value for the allied sovereigns. His Impe•
rial Majesty's MiniAers, it is said, lately called the
attention of the Sultan to the enormous expense of
these presents, and the impoverished state of the
Turkish finances, to which lie is reported to have re-
plied that the brilliants have not to be purchased, as
they form part of the treasure of the Crown, and
that he thought no better use could be made of them
than in offering them as a feeble mark of gratitude
t his august allies.
PRINCE GORTSCHAKOFF is said to be in anything
but good odour with the Austrian Court. At a late
audience of the Emperor, his Majesty it was ob-
served maintained a marked coolness towards the
Russian Ambassador. The unfortunate speech at
the dinner to Baron Hess, in which Prince Gortscha-
koff praised the Austrian generals at the expense of
the Austrian Government, is said to have given great
offence to the Emperor Francis Joseph. The Prince,
moreover, is extremely annoyed at the success of
Count lino], upon whom the Russian diplomatist
always affected to look down.

SATURDAY,

THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS.

THE negotiations continue to progress favorably.
The telegraphic communications hitherto received
have necessarily outstripped the slower delivery of
the State documents themselves. Meanwhile the
latest information received from St. Petersburg con.
tinues to be of that character which must lead to a
speedy pacific solution.

RUSSIAN DECLARATIONS.

St. Petersburg, Jan. 21.
The Journal de St. Petersbourg says that out
of consideration for the general wish of Europe
the Russian Government has not sought to impede
the work of reconciliation by accessory negotiations,
in the hope that due account will be taken of its
moderation.

Berlin' Jan. 23.
M. de Budberg has this day received a circular
from Count Nesselrode, by which the Chancellor
makes known to the representatives of Russia in
foreign countries the motive for accepting the pro.
positions of Austria, and gives an exposh of the
intentions of the Russian Government in reference
to the future negotiations.

The circular of the Russian Government declares
that Russia has made concessions with a view to the
re•establisliment of peace, out of deference to the
representations of friendly powers, but not at all
because the interest of Russia calls for the conclu-
sion of that peace.

Berlin, Wednesday.
The acceptance of the Austrian pr•'position has
been published officially at St. Petersburg. The
announcement states that the chief condition is the
neutralisation of the Black Sea, to be secured by a
treaty between Russia and Turkey. Russia is ready
to discuss the other points. _ _

T3erlin, Jan. 18.
According to the most recent accounts, the docu-
ment signed by Count Nesselrode constitutes a real
attestation that Russia accepts without reserve the
Austrian propositions, and will suffice to authorise
Prince Gortschakoff to sign a preliminary treaty of
peace. _ _ _

Berlin, Jan. 18 (Evening).
Count Lobanoff has arrived with despatches from
St. Petersburg. The participation of Prussia in the
conferences for peace is under discussion. Russia
has only accepted the propositions of Austria
with the reserve of their being discussed at the con-
ferences. The King has to-day held a chapter of the
Order of the Black Eagle.

Letters from Berlin of the 23rd assert that orders
were sent to Prince Gortschakoff in the Crimea on
the 18th to suspend hostilities.

Despatches from Berlin of the 24th assert that the
question of the participation of l'russia in the
future conferences had been discussed in a Cabinet
Council presided over by the King. It was there
decided that Prussia should take no initiative in the
matter, and should make no concessions susceptible
of changing her actual position.

Count Orloff and Baron Brunow are mentioned
at Vienna as the Russian Plenipotentiaries expected
to attend the approaching conferences.
M. Messimo d'Azeglio, it is said, will represent
Sardinia at the conferences.

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Tuesday, Jan. V.

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