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THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDA-Y EVENING, JANUARY 26, 1855.

any part of the country. That the privilege would
offer an almost exclusive benefit to itself consti-
tuted no objection. We have seen it not
merely defending the arrangement that gave
it a priority of information, but endeavouring to
show that it was a very proper and praiseworthy
proceeding. We have seen it with the precepts
of Free Trade on its lips, but monopoly in its
heart ; ready to assail any and everything that did
not point to its own advantage, and scarcely
willing to accept a benefit for itself, if it
were to be at all shared with others. Its own
interests are what it looks to. Like HARRY
Gow, "it fights for its own hand."
Now, the notice give' with respect to public

jourials may interfere with the species of mo-
nopoly it has hitherto exercised through the
caprice of fashion. It is said that it has been re-
solved to abolish the stamp. That won't benefit

the Times, and, therefore, is to be deprecated.
But a postage payment is to be substituted !—a
payment, too, referable to weight ! ! That will
practically fall even more severely than the extra
halfpenny on the double supplement. This,
therefore, must not only be condemned, but all

those who, not having the fear of Puddle-
dock before their eyes, have assented to
the measure must be denounced before
the nation. Ministers have disobeyed the
Times, therefore Ministers must be expelled from
office. Let the country pine for cheap news.
What signifies its complaints, so that the
predominance of the Leviathan be maintained, and
no rival be admitted near the Throne.

It is become a habit with us to look for really
important diplomatic information to the pen of
M. DnouYN DE L'Eftrvs, and wo obtain it once
more from his reply to a Prussian despatoh of the
old sort, from Baron MANTEUFFXL. We need not
recall to our readers' recollection his withering
exposure in diplomatic language of the contemp-
tible position of Prussia, and of her self-degrada-
tion even in comparison with Austria. The point
to which we invite special attention is his state-
merit and implications in regard to POLAND. The
common-sense interpretation of his language este.
blishes these conclusions—first, that the Allies
regarded Poland as the most vulnerable point of
Russia ; secondly, that Prussia exerted all her
influence to prevent the Allies from waging war
there ; thirdly, and as a sequel, that she hindered
the Allied troops from marching through Ger-
many to Poland ; fourthly, that Prussia offered
as a compensation, to place a corps d'ormee of her
own on the Polish frontier ; and, fifthly, that the
Allies regarded this as intended by Prussia for a
shield to Russia and an obstruction to them.
These latter things M. DROUYN DE L'Huys states
were the propositions of a Treaty brought by M.
USEDO3I in his late mysterious mission to London,
and suggests that he must have taken out of his
portfolio the Treaty meant for the CZAR ! Lest
we might be suspected of the slightest miscon-
struction, we reprint the words of the French
Minister. Speaking of M. USEDOM's mission, lie
says :

"That mission was wrapped up in so much mystery
that its real object is not yet known in Paris. But the
more endeavours were made to conceal it, the mere wore
made to discover it. All that has been discovered is
that Prussia exerted all her efforts to prevent the Allies
from waging the war upon the ♦ulnerable point of the
enemy, and to prevent the passage of their troops through
Germany. What did she offer as a compensation ! To
place a corps d'armee on the Polish frontier ; that i■ to
say, that Prussia with ono hand would turn aside the
sword of the Allied Powers, and with the other cover
Russia as with a shield. Might one not be authorised
to suppose that M. d'Usedom had different treaties in
his poi +ro:-, J. butalC ovt by mistake the wrong one 04
London—that which was to hay, been produced at Bt.
Petersburg I"
Notwithstanding the ridicule of the late ABER-
DEEN organ, therefore, it appears that wo have
had the very highest authorities, as they are
commonly thought, on the same side as ourselves
with regard to Poland. Louis NAPOLEON, and
his confessedly able foreign Minister, consider
Poland to be Russia's weak point. France, it
must be presumed, was desirous to make an
attack where it would be most felt. Sweden was
waiting on the commencement of an attack there.
Austria, it is fair to assume, did not object, as
M. DROITYN DE L'HUYS is in this very part of his
letter putting in strong contrast the conduct of
Austria and Prussia ; but Prussia did object.
We want to know whether any one else objected.
We know that one personage of confessedly great
influence with the CROWN was educated in a
Prussian University, and born in one of the States
of that Germany through which the Allied troops
were not permitted to pass. Did the English
Cabinet side with the French Cabinet or not on
the Polish question ? The real opinion of both
Cabinets, indeed of every man who has studied
the question at all, must have been the same.
Was our Cabinet prepared to give effect to its
opinions, or did it hearken to Germany and re-
press France ?

Russia herself well knows her weak point. At
the very time when the expedition was openly pre-
paring for Sebastopol, she was strengthening her
Polish army more tkan that in the Crimea, and re-
luctantly withdrew troops from the former place to
the latter. She perfectly well knew that the day
on which the Polish national flag was hoisted
would be the death-warrant of her barbarous des-
potism at Warsaw, and the annihilation of her
imperious interferencewith the liberties of Europe.
But even Lord JOHN RUSSELL does not wish to
deprive Russia of any of her territory !—meaning
by hers, not what rightfully belongs to her, but
that whieh aho has first rained br combined fraud
and violence, and absorbed even in defiance of the
Treaty of Vienna! Why does this Roble states-
max thus close his heart against the touching ap-
peals of deeply-wronged Poland, and refuse to act
on what must be his own judgment, the necessity,
namely, of an emancipated Poland to a secure
Europe ? Can it be more than over-strained
courtliness ?—a greater deference to the wishes
of exalted personages than to the wishes of his
native country and to his own judgment ? Our
brave ally has abundant men for the work, and
money more than double of what is wanted. We
have an ample supply of ships, and nothing is
needed but the will, the capacity, and the energy,
in order to land an efficient French force in Samo-
gitia, to raise the Polish standard, and thus to
convert all Poland into a mine of hopeful and
active patriotism, from which the hateful oppres-
sor must soon retrace his steps. We repeat that,
done it might be, were but the will, the capacity,
and the energy present. Prussia dares not im-
pede the determined; Austria would not wish to
do it ; and the Crimea would soon feel, and
powerfully too, the relieving effect of such a sub-
stantial diversion.

ilia Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Admiral
Dundas, and Mr. Willcox, M.P., are among the passen.
gers by the Valetta, that arrived yesterday morning at
Marseilles. _ _

A letter from Bucharest states that M. Poujade, the
French Consul-General, was about to leave Wallachia,
after a residence in the country for several years.
A. letter from Baden states that it was calculated that
14,000 persons had emigrated from that duchy in 1854,
and that upwards of 60,000 have left within the last
eight years. The population of the duchy is now less
than it was in 1846, and only amounts to 1,357,000.
Cardinal Wiseman has arrived in Paris from Rome.
lie is on his way to England.

LATEST NEWS.

VIEN N.. 1, THURSDAY EVEN/N.G.

It ig reported bore that there has been a battle
before Sebastopol, i n which the Russians were
victorious, but direct; authentic advice from Ba-

laklava received ye3tt3-7day say that nothing new

had happened.

ST. PETERSBURG, 19TH.

A ukase has just appeared, ordering the emis-
sion of four new seriell of Treasury bills for the
sum of twelve millions of silver roubles.

A letter from the fro ntier of Bessarabia, which
has just been received in Paris, speaks of nume-
rous reinforcements of Russian troops moving on
towards the Crimea. The plan of the enemy is
said to be first to crush the Turkish army at
Eupatoria, and then attack the French and Eng-
lish armies, and, "if possible," drive them into
the sea. The same letter states that the Russians
are very sanguine of muccess, owing to the debi-
litated condition of th.e) English army.

BERLIN, THURSDAY.
A telegraphic despa, tch has been received here,
dated Si. Petersburg, •the 25th of January.

It announces that the followinz aespatch had
been received from piirkeo Menechikoff, dated the
17th of Januar3'

The siege eperationFt do not advance.
Two successful nigh.-1 sorties were made on the
13th and 15th of January.

We took fourteen English and nine French
prisoners. The Allies lost a considerable number
in killed.

Arab deserters say that the Turks are treated
with very little consideration by the Allies, who
employ them to carry projectiles, provisions, and
other loads from Baltalava to the camp.

MARSEILLES, TuunsDAY.
The Telemaque, with advices from Constanti-
nople of the 15th, Ilan arrived.

The Government despatches and the Indian
mail left by a special train. at 11 a.m.

Letters from the Crimea of the 12th state that
the Flagstaff Battery had been mined by the
French, who only waited a favourable opportunity
to blow it up.

Sickness was on the increase in the camps.
General Pelissier, in command of the Ist corps
d'armee in the Crimea, and Generals Rivet and
Devillierd, have just taken their departure for
Sebastopol.

CHRISTIANA, JAN. 16.

Prince Oscar, the second eon of the King, is
appointed commander-in-chief of the Swedish and
Norwegian navy ; and Prince Nicholas Augustus,
his younger brother, captain of the Norwegian
Rifle Corps.

TOULON, JAN. 25.
M. Forth-Rouen has arrived here in the
Chaptal.
Th. Roland, with Prince Napoleon on board.
had been obliged to put into the Piraeus, on the
14th inst., for some slight repairs.
Prince Napoleon was still weak, and intended
to rest at Malta.

The indepcndance Beige of Wednesday says it
has reason to know that, although Prussia is de-
termined to maintain its refusal to mobilise, at
the Diet, yet that if the demand of Austria ob-
tains a majority, it (Prussia) will submit, and
will mobilise its Federal contingent of 80,000

bility already signed, and that it will speedily ap-
pear in the Moniteur.

"We have received by our private correspon-
dence," says the Siecle, "a piece of news of
the highest importance. It is that, indepen-
dently of the explicit demand presented by M.
Yon Prokesch to the Germanic Diet, the lan-
guage of that representative of Austria leaves,
it is said, no doubt as to the offensive alliance
of Austria with the Western Powers ; and, if we
are well informed, the diplomatic agents of the
Austrian Cabinet in the different courts of Europe
employ exactly the same language."
The Moniteur promulgates the law lately adopted
by the Legislative Body and approved by the
Senate, for the levy of 140,000 men of the class of
1854.

An Imperial decree, dated the 6th, issued on
the report of the Minister of War, abolishes the
rest-fictions imposed in the concessions of mines
in, Algeria previous to the law of the IGth June,
1851, and establishes uniformity between the
concessions in that colony and those of Fran: e.
The report represents that this reform is not only
great in itself, but will be advantageous to mining
enterprise, and will encourage colonisation.
The Ilion iteur publishes the nomination or pro-
motion, in the Legion of Honour, to 16 officers or
privates of the army of Africa. It also gives the
names of 15 others, of the same army, to whom the
military medal has been accorded.
It is stated in a letter from the camp at Sebas-
topol that General Canrobert, since the departure
of the preceding mail, had distributed 1 cross of
officer in the Legion of Honour, 7 members of the
Order, and 9 military medals.
The Emperor has appointed M. Raoul do Gram-
meet one of his equerries.
The Princess Joachim Murat has just been safely
delivered of a daughter.
The Emperor has ordered that, in compliance
with the prayer of the Prefect of the Gironde, a
bust in marble of Marshal St. Arnaud shall be
evo,aited at the expense of the Ministry of State,
and be placed in the hall of the council-general of
that department.
General Viscount Cavaignac de Baragne, ex-
Peer of France, died the day before yesterday at
his residence in the Rue Jean Goujon.
General Jussuf has just been appointed to com-
mand the Algiers division in Algeria' vice General
Camou, nominated to the command of a division
in the army of the Crimea.
General de Brigade Bizot, commanding the engi-
neers in the army of the East, has just been pro-
moted to the rank of Commander in the Legion of
Honour. He has been 48 years in the service, has
gone through 10 campaigns, and been an officer in
the Legion since 1841.
Mr. William Hope has just died at his splendid
hotel in the Rue St. Dominique.
The French Government has accorded its exe-
quatur to M. Alcain as Consul-General at Paris
of the Republic of Guatemala, to M. Garrigues
as Consul of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg
Schwerin at Cette, and to M. Jouvo as Vice-Con-
sul of England at Toulon.
The Conseil Imperial des Prises has declared
good and valid the capture of the Russian vessel
tee Alexander 1., which was effected in the Archi-
pelago in September last by the Solon steam advice
boat.'

BOURSE, JAN. 25.—CLOSING PRICES.
Cash. fr. c. End of Month.
41 per Cents 95 —f. —c.
3 per Cents 6B 67 90
Credit Mobilier 773 75 Roman
Credit Foncier 535 Austrian
Belgian Fives — Spanish Threes —
riedmonteso B4 35 Home Debt 3O
RAILWAYS—FOR CASH.
tr. c. fr. e.
Orleans .. 1,180 Lyons , 1040
Western 675 Rouon 1062 50
Cette
Mediterranean — Havre 571 25
Nortkoru ... 852 50 Cherburg

vity prevails throughout Austria in all the manu-
factories of arms, and nothing leads to the belief
that peace is expoOted."

GERMAN Y.

BRUSSELS, JAN. 24.—Letters received to-day from
the German capitals bear witness to the uneasy
feeling caused throughout Germany by the re-
fusal of the Prussian Court to act cordially, or
indeed at all, with Austria in the present crisis
of continental affairs. The last despatch of Count
Buol, which has reached us simultaneously from
Germany and. England, has brought this opposi-
tion into strong relief. "We hear, on good autho-
rity that there is a further despatch, addressed
immediately to the Prussian Court, renewing the
demand of mobilisation. We aro also told that
Austria has signified her resolution, in case she
should not carry with her the majority in the Diet
at Frankfort, to accept such alliances as she can
find in Germany, leaving the non-active members
of the Confederation to take the consequences.
This is bold language, supposing it to have been
held. The realisation of such a threat would ex-
pose the worthlessness of the Germanic Confedera-
tion as an expression and instrument of German
unity in a most instructive and useful manner.
We are assured by the Wursburg Gazette that
Hanover, Brunswick, Baden, and the two flosses
have declared for Austria. Saxony and Wurtem-
berg are against mobilisation ; and Bavaria is un-
decided.

The German Journal of Frankfort, of the 23d,
says :—" The different committees of the Diet held
an extraordinary sitting, yesterday 'to deliberate on
the proposition made by Austria, relative to plac-
ing the various contingents on a war footing. M.
Bismarck Scohnhausen, the Prussian representa-
tive at the Diet, who has just returned to Frank-
fort after an absence of several weeks, was present
at the sitting."

A letter from Frankfort, in the Cologne Ga zette,
dated the 22d inst., says :
" We learn from a well-informed quarter that confiden-
tial communications have taken place between the Court
of Viennaand some of the other German Courts respecting
the choice of a Commander-in-Chief of the army of the
Confederation. These steps hare not been taken t ,rough
the usual diplimatic channels, but through the medium
of confidential persons. The plan, namely, is to place
the young Emperor of Austria at the head of the army
of the Confederatien, although it is not quite clear how
he, as reigning sovereign, ca❑ fulfil the 14th Article of
the Federal Constitution, which implies an oath of
allegiance and obedience ; and Article 15, which says—
the Commander-in-Chief is personally responsible to the
Diet, and can be tried by a Court-martial. Or does the
Diet intend to make an exception in his favour l"