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London, England, 1856-01-19 00:00:00

A despatch from Berlin of Thursday states :

It is officially known that in consequence of the attitude
of Austria, and her pressure at St. Petersburg, Russia
revoked on the ovening of the 16th her resolution of the
12th, and has accepted the whole of the alliel propositions
pure et simple. Conferences at Paris or Brussels are ex.
petted shortly.

From Dresden a telegraphic despatch of Thursday
states :

The Dresdcner Zeitung says that Russia has accepted,
without reserve, the whole of the conditions propounded
by the allies through the medium of Austria.

Advices from St. Petersburg, vii Berlin, state that
General Luders will take the supreme command in
the Crimea, and that Prince Gortschakoff will suc••
ceed Prince Paskiewitch as Stadtholder (Viceroy )
of Poland. General Kotzebue, hitherto head of the
staff in the Crimea, is appointed to the command of
the sth Infantry Corps.

Accounts from Constantinople of the 7th state
that the Generalissimo (Omer Pacha) was concen-
trating his forces at Usurgette.
An English war steamer has received orders to
proceed from Sinope to Soukam-Balch to bring
Omer Pacha to Constantinople.

At Kertch an attack was expected from the
Russsians.

THE PRESS.

The influence of Russia at Teheran, at the date
of the latest advices, was increasing in a manner to
excite uneasiness.

The Hon. A. C. Murray left Teheran on the oth
December.

A despatch from Turin on the 16th states that the
bill for a loan of thirty millions of francs was that
day adopted by the Chamber of Deputies by a majo-
rity of 109 to 28.

Letters from Madrid, Jan. 16, state that the
Government has announced to the Cortes the nomi-
nation of M. Escosura as Minister of the Interior ;
of M. Lujan as Minister of Public Works ; and of
M. Arias Uria as Minister of Justice.

The Gazette of last night publishes a recent Bel-
gian law, regulating the importation and exportation
of certain articles. Cereals, farinaceous articles, and
cattle are admitted duty free ; while exportation of
the two former is forbidden.

A French Imperial decree (regulates the import
duties upon prepared hides.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon
at the Foreign-office.
A Cabinet Council was also held on Wednesday
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 Clarendon,
Mr. Secretary Labouchere, the Chancellor of the
Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R.
Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right
Hon. M. T. Baines, and the Duke of Argyll. The
council sat three hours.

His Excellency the Hon. P. C. Scarlett, Minister
Plenipotentiary to the Court of Brazil, will leave
this country in the course of the ensuing month,
to enter on his diplomatic functions.
Sir Thomas Mitchell, Surveyor-General of New
South Wales, died on the sth of October last year,
aged 6-1. His vacancy has not yet been filled.
Mr. Phinn, it is reported, will succeed Mr. Ser-
geant Adams, as Chairman of the Middlesex
Sessions.
Mr. W. J. Broderip, F.R.S., who has for the
lengthened period of thirty-four years discharged the
duties of police magistrate at the Thames and
Westminster Courts, has retired, owing to declining
health. Mr. Paynter, of the Wandsworth and Ham-
mersmith Courts, will succeed him at Westminster,
and Mr. Dayman—who was called in 1829, and has
been many years practising upon the Western Circuit
—will fill the vacancy thus caused.

Mr. Roebuck, M.P., has undertaken to present the
petition of the Civil Servants of the Crown since
1829, praying to be put upon an equality with their
fellow-servants as regards the scale of superannua-
tion, and the abolition of the oppressive tax upon
salaries.

Mr. Woolrych was elected Clerk to the Metro-
politan Board of Works, after a severe contest,
yesterday.
Colonel Fraser has resigned the office of Go-
vernor of the House of Correction at Wegttninster,
he having been selected to be chief officer of the
Berkshire constabulary now forming. The chief
warder is to act as governor pro tem.

A REPUBLICAN POLITICAL MOVEMENT, of some ex-
tent, has lately been discovered in France. MM.
Cusin, Legendre, and Duchesne, have been arrested,
and are at present au secret in the Mazes. The
police are extremely active, for the movement is be-
lieved to have extended itself widely in the pro-
vinces.

M. BREKNIER has been refused permission by the
King of Naples to export corn, but is allowed to pur-
chase and export bullocks for the use of the French
commissariat. in the East.
OFFICIAL DELINQUENTS of high rank in Russia
will, it is said, be shortly exposed and degraded.
Letters from St. Petersburg state that the Minister
of War has laid before the Emperor " a judgment
pronounced by a council of war, which, when it is
published, will excite as much sensation as the pecu
lations of Politowski did, who had embezzled 1,000,000
roubles from the funds of the Invalides." The par-
ties affected are seven members and the president of
a tribunal of commerce in the south. They are
understood to have made very free with the State
treasury, as well as the funds of the tribunal itself.
PRINCE GHIKA has forwarded to the Sultan his
decided resolution not to continue in his post of
Hospodar longer than the period fixed for the office
in the treaty of Balta Liman. According to this
stipulation, his t3rm of office will expire next May.

SATURDAY,

(From_a Correspondent.)

PARIS, Thursday Evening.
Rants is in a state of the wildest excitement. It
would be impossible to depict the scene which
ensued when, at midday, an atfiche appeared at the
Bourse notifying that Russia had accepted, "purrs
et simples," the propositions of the allies. It may
be truly said that never has there been so universal
a feeling of delight among all classes as is expressed
by the citizens of Paris ; and I believe that in this
instance it will be discovered that " Paris c'est la
France." The event is as yet so new, and the ex-
citement caused by it so tempestuous, that people
have thought of little or nothing beyond the fact--
the great Pact—that we have Peace. To-morrow,
doubtless, the terms will be scanned, and the seer::
ficas made by Russia minutely examined. As to
their nature and extent there will, of course, be
various opinions; but upon one point all must be
agreed—namely, that the mighty war has been
waged for the last twenty months, that that contest
has cost the three great powers engaged in it mil•
lions of treasure, and torrents of their best and
noblest blood. The first campaign succeeded in
ejecting the Russians from the principalities, and es-
tablishing in their place the Austrians ; that a
second campaign has terminated in a peace from
which neither of the three great powers derive any
advantage than must arise from the consciousness

of handsomely rewarding the policy which has
characterised Austria from the commencement of
the struggle. " Avec le nouvelle frontiere, c'est
l'Autriche qui gagnera." "La cession de la Bessara-
bia ne regarde que l'Autriche." Such have been
the phrases in every one's mouth for the last two
days when it was supposed that this was the hitch in
the negotiations.

Virtue has its own reward, and if for nothing else,
at least for her marvellous success, Austria deserves
all praise. "Mail on revient toujours," we must not
complain, we have peace, that most inestimable of
blessings, peace, restored to us. At another less ex-
citing moment considerable attention would have
been bestowed upon an article which appeared in the
Moniteur containing a lasting censure on the Senate,
and which has led to M. Drouyn de Lhuys resigning
his Senatorship. His resignation was not accepted;
but he has sent it in again, and the result is not
known. But this and everything else is merged in
the one great fact of Peace !

M. DE NDIADD, the Professor of Literature at the
Sarbonne, was subjected to a second charivari. The
students, who appear somewhat incensed against
the learned professor for an alleged change in his
political opinions, refused to hear him, and a riot
ensued, which ended in some forty students being
taken into custody. A further disturbance was
threatened, but preventive measures were taken by
the authorities.

THE PRESIDENCY OF THE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES at
St. Petersburg will, it is said, be probably filled by a
woman. Count Ouveroff has lately retired, and,
besides two male candidates—M. Noroff, Minister of
Public Instruction, ani Baron Kroff—the Grand
Duchess Helen is a competitor. The Grand Duchess
Maria is already president of the Academy of Fine
Arts. Once hc.fore, in the days of Catherine the.
Second, a woman, the Princess Dashkoff, was ar-
pointed to the office now sought by the Grand Duchess
Helen.

THE BEDFORD-ROW MURDER.—The inquest upon
the body of Mr. Waugh was opened yesterday
morning at the St. Andrew's workhouse, Gray's Inn.
lane, before Mr. Watley. Mr. Wren, the surgeon
who examined the body, deposed to the cause of
death being from a pistol-shot right through the
heart. The ball had passed through the left side of
the right ventricle, through the right side of the left
auricle, and again through the pericardium, when the
trace was lost in the cellular tissue behind the heart.
After some hours' search, the ball was found lodged
in the right groin. The evidence of Mr. Whitefield
who witnessed the whole affair and first seized the
prisoner, was being taken, when the jury suggested
that the presence of the prisoner for identification
would be desirable. No orders having been issued
to that effect by the authorities, the inquest was ad
journed till Monday next. At the close of the pro-
ceedings, Mr. Mitchell, a former partner of Mr.
Waugh, banded a statement to the coroner, entirely
exculpating the late Mr. Waugh from any legal
ill-treatment of the prisoner.

JANUARY 19, 1856.

Nittraturt.

Pereonal Narrative of a Pilgrimayo to El-
Metlinah and Meccah. Vol. 111. By Lieut.
Burton. London: Longinans.

FEW men achieve success or reputation by
means beyond the scope of ordinary people
without exciting envy and incurring disparage-
ment. It is the peculiar province of medio-
crity to sneer at such claims. No man ever
yet by one happy stroke obtained •that little
scrap of fame for which we arc all so bitterly
struggling each day of our lives, without find
ing, after the first brief flash of success had
passed away, that his failings were exaggerated
and his merits disallowed. The malicious
spite with which, as Byron said, some good-
" natured friend " writes a good-natured cri-
tique upon your achievements would be in-
credible, if human nature were not so prone to
" envy, hatred, and malice." Even so humble
a person as Lieutenant Burton, who in the
land of Mohammed only travelled farther and
saw mote than most other Christians before
him, is not free from the spite of these

esprits du dernier ordre,
Qui n'etant bons a rien cherchent a mordre.
His courage and energy have been sneered
at, his statements questioned, his acquain-
tance with Eastern customs distrusted,
and his whole knowledge of Eastern life
doubted, if not denied, because here and
there in his two former volumes an Arabic
word is spelt wrong, or previous a'ithorities
are set right. No man who has really seen
Eastern lite can doubt the authenticity of
Lieut. Burton's sketches. To judge only by
the statements of previous Eastern travellers,
Lieutenant Burton, in his narrative, gives one
of the most careful, interesting, and accurately
descriptive accounts of the country he
traversed, and of the peculiar customs of the
people he was thrown among. To assume the life
and manners of an Oriental, daily deceiving so
sagacious a people for so long a period, and to
succeed in reaching Meccali and Medinah as a
pilgrim, was alone a feat, tested by the fact
that so few have ever achieved it, re-
quiring no ordinary courage, the most per-
fect self-possession, thorough endurance, and
all the higher attributes of a great traveller.
To these qualities Lieutenant Burton adds an
extensive acquaintance with Oriental languages,
infinite tact, and a personality, to judge from his
portrait in the first volume, thoroughly Eastern.
Combining so many personal requisites for
success, his narrative, he may rest assured,
has secured for him the place he deserves,
an undoubted pre-eminence among Eastern
travellers It is to such men, risking health
and fortune, and sacrificing their ease and plea-
sure for a life of hardship and danger, that the
material interests of a country owe much fur
their advancement, that trade and commerce
are led into new sources, and civilisation spread
over the world. Let us, therefore, do honour
to these pioneers of civilisation, these makers
of history, and in this land of recognised but
unrewarded merit rather bear willing witne3s
to the hard-won honours of a bold and adven-
turous spirit, than with petty and contemptible
censure seek to disparage such efforts of suc-
cessful enterprise.
In this concluding volume of his narrative,
Lieutenant Burton details his various adven-
tures from Medinah to Nleccah, and his resi-
dence at that city during the great festival of
the year. With all the spirit of a " true
believer," he undergoes every preliminary
with scrupulous care, and performs every
ceremony of the day with a tact and success
remarkable to a degree, bearing in mind the
certainty of a cruel death being surely be-
fore him if detected. His cool courage,
perfect self-confidence, and thorough know-
ledge of his position, carried him tri-
umphantly through every ordeal. Suspicious
eyes in vain watched him keenly at each
stage of the proceedings ; he never faltered,
or, if he did, cleverly evaded inquiries, and
succeeded with marvellous skill in baffling the
most astute Arabs. The long, dull journey
of the pilgrimage is characteristically de-
scribed. The utter weariness of being carried
by night at a slow pace upon the back of an

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stage of the proceedinE
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by night at a slow pace