The Sun.
London, England, 1855-01-16 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1855.

A strong impression prevails in Vienna that
our diplomatists have again " made a mull of it"
—that, by the vague generality of their proposi-
tions, they have afforded a considerable advantage
to the wily representative of Russia, who has no
hesitation in assenting to propositions through
any one of which he could drive a " coach and
six" at any moment that he thinks proper to open
a fresh scene of confusion and turmoil. No per-
son, whether friendly or opposed to the Muscovite
cause, fancies for a moment that there is the
slightest chance of a satisfactory termination to
these various conferences. Every one, whatever
may be his political predilections or prejudices, is
satisfied that NICHOLAS is merely laughing in his
sleeve at the Allies, and that the proposed Con- '
gress, if carried into practical operation, will be
neither more nor less than a solemn farce, which
can only cease to be ridiculous from the gravity of
the interests involved in the result.
Meanwhile, in order to add to the complica-
tions, Prussia asserts her right to take part in
the settlement of the great question now at issue,
and demands the admission of a representative on
her behalf to any Conferences that may be held !
This is certainly a very modest proposition. The
Government of FREDERICK WILLIAM has deli-
berately chosen its part. It has preferred a state
of isolation to the retention of the influence which
under more manly and wiser councils it would
unquestionably have possessed ; and it cannot
now justly complain at the consequences of its
own misconduct. It had, in fact, ample warning.
It must have known the inevitable consequences
of its vacillation or deception, or probably a mix-
ture of both. It not merely hung aloof from
France and England, but, whenever it was en-
abled to do so without bringing down vengeance
on its own head, it thwArted their efforts, and
lent powerful, though covert, assistance to Russia.

Why, then, should it be admitted to any Con-
ference ? That it may be enabled to render fur-
ther aid to the AUTOCRAT, by sowing dissensions
among the other parties ! or procuring delays
very prejudicial to the interests of the Western
Powers. It must have some such motive, and
therefore we should sturdily refuse our assent to
the insidious proposal, which would merely be
providing the enemy with a powerful weapon to
use against ourselves.
The moment Prussia declined to interfere in
the contest on any but " German" grounds ;
the moment she professed her intention of looking
only to German interests in the settlement, co
instance she forfeited her claim to be regarded as
one of the great Powers of Europe. It was her
own Ministers that thus narrowed the foundation
On which her rights were based, and she cannot
complain of the natural consequences of her own
acts. All she demanded, in the first instance,
was to be allowed the observance of a strict and
perfect neutrality, and that neutrality constitutes
an insurmountable obstacle to the attainment of
her present wishes.

But Austria, if her intentions be bona fide, and
that she is really desirous of bringing about a
permanent and honourable peace, has still greater
cause of complaint against Prussia than either
France or England. In every point she has been
opposed by Prussia, and not merely so far as the
War was concerned, but in her attempts to obtain
the friendly co-operation of the minor States of
the Germanic Confederation. Whatever point she
advocated, Prussia adopted the opposite views.
Her avowed objects being not so much to act for or
against Russia, but to limit the influence of Austria
—to prevent its obtaining honour or benefit.
In everything she hasproved an intolerable incubus
to her German Confrere. t Even where she entered
into treaties, she showed that her sole object in so
doing was to cripple its action and paralyse its
energies. Fortunate it is for Austria--that is to
say, provided that she be really honest in her pro-
fessions—that an opportunity is afforded of shaking
off the modern " Old Man of the Sea;" and it
would be an act of political imbecility if she
suffered him to regain the position from which he
had fortunately been removed.

For every reason, then, and in every quarter,
by England, by France, and more especially by
Austria, the demand put forward by Count
IVIANTRUFFEL on behalf of Prussia should be
rejected with the contempt it so eminently
nierits—no hand should be extended to rescue
FREDERICK WILLIAM from the slough in which he has
precipitated himself and his country. He chose
his own part, and must abide the natural and
inevitable consequences of his own proceedings.

Already the applications for the New French
Loan of 500,000,000 francs exceed a inilliard and
three-quarters of capital, or ono thousand eight
hundred millions of francs. No less than seventy-
two millions of pounds sterling have .thus been
freely and voluntarily subscribed for, when (ma.
CHANCELLOR of the EXCnEQRER could not obtain
applications for quite two millions, of which half
a million, or five hundred thousand pounds ster-
ling, was subscribed by a single company that
had largely profited by Mr. GLA.DSTONE'S " abor-
tive conversion project," and who were, therefore,
in a Peeitioll to give expression to their sense of
gratitude for what was very profitable to them-
selves, although deeply
injurious to the nation.
What renders the fact the more remarkable is,
that each subscriber has
given
gua-
rantee "for his sincerity _ a "material
by the deposit of ten per
cent. on the amount applied for.
r rendered
The operations
of the Cervine fraternity are thus
im-
practicable, and a class are effectuallyendgot rid of
that constituted a large proportion f
STONE'S subscribers to the two milli)oialsIlof
quer Bands.

The French people have thus nobly responded to
the demand of their EMPEROR. The confidence
with which he appealed to their patriotism and en-
thusiasm has been amply justified. We thought
that the glorious spectacle of last year could not
be exceeded. It has, however, been cast into the
shade, but by the very mon who were then the
actors. Yes ;• the EMPEROR and his people may
well be proud of each other. They are both en-
gaged in a noble cause, and both aro displaying
the most unequivocal proof of the chivalrous on•
thusiasin by which they are actuated.
The recent display of French patriotism and
liberality' is, we believe, absolutely unparalleled
in the monetary history of any nation. There
has been no dealing with any selfish eapi-
talbst no prolonged haggling as to terms

—no mutual striving to obtain the best
of the bargain. The Financial Minister of
France offered terms which he conceived to be
just and equitable. He did not seek to obtain
any advantage over the unwary by keeping the
price a secret until offers had been put in. He
did not refuse to accept tenders for less than
25,000 francs (1,0001.), and thereby exclude the
industrious classes, who could only offer their tens
or hundreds, and were unable to bring in thou-
sands or tens of thousands. The success of the
operation was in a great degree ascribable to the
fair and equitable foundation on which it was
based—a matter which our own Financial Mi-
nister should bear in mind when about to contract
any further national loan. But it was the in-
domitable spirit of the people that rendered it so
completely and triumphantly successful—that
compelled the French Minister to refuse more than
a moiety of the sums freely tendered. The spirit
displayed was rather that of children flinging
their pocket-money into the lap of an indulgent
and dearly loved parent than of men of the world,
yielding to doubts and suspicions, or conceiving
that the magnitude of the demand and the exi-
gency of the situation would enable them to ob-
tain better terms and higher interest for the
money which they had at their disposal.
Honour, then, to France, and to its gallant and
high-minded inhabitants. All honour to those
who have shown their readiness to fling their all
into the common fund, to stand or fall with their
common country. There can bemo danger to the
credit of such a nation. The display that has
been made should send up the public funds
to an elevated position, materially improving the
quotations. It has done so to some extent ; but
the effect must be still greater when the magni-
tude of the operation is thoroughly understood,
and duly appreciated. Thus will the men who so
readily respond to the call of their SOVEREIGN
reap the well-merited reward of their disinterested
and noble conduct, and the extraordinary and
almost miraculous spectacle be afforded of the
national funds of a country materially improving
in consequence of the creation of a large addition
to the debt—an addition amounting to no less
than twenty million of pounds sterling.

T.LIE SULTAN'S BAT HUMAYONN AND
FIR MAN.

THE HAT HUSIAYONN.

"Commander-in•Clitef of the Turkish Army, and my
faithful Muchir, Omer Pacha—The noble exertions you
have made on all occasions, up to this very moment,
have gained for you the highest reputation and glory ;
and by the firman attached, you will see that they have
increased my favour towards you. Moreover, the
faithful conduct of the generals, officerd, and soldiers of
my Imperial armies, placed under your command, con-
duct which evidenced that zeal, fidelity, and valour
which are innate in my people, has given me boundless
satisfaction, and received my highest approbation.
" Once more go forth with all the magnanimity and
zeal of your heart, and do your deeds of honour in the
Crimea ; place your whole reliance upon the compassion
aid aid of the Lord God of the universe, that you may
do good service to the State, and so doubly fortify our
favour towards you ; seek Him that in every way pos-
sible you may be at perfect unity with the generals, offi-
cers and privates of the two mighty Powers who are
allied with me upon the question which is, oa all
hands, allowed to involve the right of my empire, and
let your prayer daily be that you may give new proofs
of your innate valour, of your undeviating attention
to the execution, under all circumstances, of the great
laws which guide armies, and of your sincere devotion
towards your Sovereign and country."

THE FIRMAN.
"Prom the moment that my Imperial high cypher
shall have reached you, know this, that to defend the
Power and independence of my empire and faithful sub-
jects, and to maintain their prosperity and tranquillity,
are for me aid every wise and intelligent person who is
devoted to his Government, the great and glorious ob-
ject to be aimed at. Know further, that the praise.
worthy exertions which you have evidenced from the
commencement of a most successful war, by the intelli-
gence with which you are endowed, have not only
merited my praise and approbation for so noble a rule of
my army, but have drawn my Imperial favour closer
unto you ; further, my victorious Imperial troops who
are under your orders have shown to the world- at large
that faithful and self-denying conduct which is the re-
sult of their natural zeal, fidelity, and valour, and have
proved that they are the brave descendants of those
heroes who, in the time of our ancestors, shed their
blood and sacrificed their life to strengthen the founda-
tions of the empire, and gave prosperity to their country.
Yes, this they have proved, and even more—they have
shown that the confidence which we place in them,
under trials of every severity, which they will ever pa-
tiently endure in defence of the independence and glory
of their country, is based upon the truth of existing
facts ; and in that our troops have acquired for their
country the highest military honour, we cannot but feel
the deepest satisfaction, and offer them our grateful
thanks and praise.
" In our prayers, before the throne of the Great God,
we ever remember thy intelligent person as well as the
generals, officers, and soldiers of all ranks of our Impe-
rial army, and never do we cease for one single moment
in personally endeavouring, with a spirit of love and
compassion, to soothe the trials and increase the happi-
ness and well-being of one and all of them ; and let them
be assured that wherever my Imperial army shall be,
and on whatever expedition it may be engaged, my
favour and earnest attention will ever accompany it.
" Now it is that the service of my empire indispen-
sably requires that a sufficient portion of my Imperial
army of Rournalia, proceeding with you to the Crimea,
shall join themselves with thy victorious troops who
have already been there landed, and with the two mighty
Powers—the sincere and devoted allies of my empire—
to fight against the common enemy.
"My eyes are fixed upon you. Put your trust in the
aid and compassion of the Lord God of the universe,
and add to your mauy deeds of glory, by worthily up-
holding the cause of honour and of your great ration.
Be, above all things, careful to walk amicably with the
generals, the officers, and soldiers of the two great
Powers, my allies, in defence of a cause which the world
at large acknowledges involves the best rights of my
empire. By such conduct strengthen my Imperial fa-
vour towards you. Give fresh proofs of your innate
valour, of your well-known respect for the fundamental
laws of warfare, and of your sincere devotion to the
person of my Imperial Majesty.
"It is with the full purpose of honouring you, and
my Imperial troops placed under your command, that
my present Almighty rumen has been expressly given
from my Imperial Divan, and ornamented with my gra-
cious Hat Humayonn ; to declare in person my hearty
satisfaction, and my high Imperial will, one of the great
officers of my empire, Mahmoud Bey, Moustechar of
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has been sent to you.
On his arrival, hasten to proclaim and make known my
supreme will and lively Imperial satisfaction to all the
generals, officers, and privates, who are under your
orders, and night and day attend, as you have ever
done, most earnestly to their well-being in everything.
" Know this also, Trust in my noble sign ! ' Given
in the first decade of the month of Rebiul-Akhur, 1271.
"To the Muchir of my Imperial Army of Roumelia,
my Commander.in-Chief, Omer Pacha."

LORD RAGLAN AND THE INHABITANTS
OF MELT ON MO WBRAY.

The following is an ans-wer from Lord Raglan to
an address, most numerously signed by the inhabi-
tants of Melton Movbray and the neighbourhood,
complimenting him, not only on his own services,
but upon the gallant exertions of the army under
hi 3 command, and expressing, at the same time,
sympathy with their sufferings :

"Before Sebastopol, Dec. 28, 1854.
" Gentlemen,—l ha.vt had the honour to receive the
address of the inhabitants of Melton Mowbray and its
hamlets, which you were so good as to send me on the
let instant ; and I beg to request that you will be so
kind as to convey to thern the expression of my most
grateful thanks for this tattering recognition of my ser-
vices, and the equally the
acknowledgement of
the gallant exertions of the army under my command.
"I hope you will also assure them that their deep
sympathy in the sufferings and privations which the
troops have had to endure, is warmly appreciated, and
that nothing is more prized by the soldier than the gra-
cious approbation of his 4overeign and the estimation
of his countryman.
" With the blessing of Divine Providence, I trust
that the future operations of the army may bo as suc-
cessful as those which, it is a satisfaction to me to know,
have gained for it the confidence of the inhabitants of
Melton Mowbray.—l have the honour to be, gentle-
men, your most obedient bumble servant,

" RAGLAN.
"To William Easson, Egq., Town-warders."
Thomas Baker, Esq.

ADMIRALS DUNDAS AND HAMELIN.

Tho Moniteur of yesterday gives the following
letters of farewell exchanged hotween Admirals
Dundas and Hamelin :

" On Board the Furious, Bay of KaraLeh,
December 19, 1854.
"My dear Admiral—l cannot resign my command
without making my adieux to the fleet placed under your
orders, in whose operations I have co-operated so long
with pride and pleasure.
" I shall carry with me to England, and I shall
always cherish, a reminiscence so dear to me. I beg
you, if you see no objection, to express my sentiments to
the officers and seamen under your command, with the
assurance of my constant wishes for the brilliant realisa-
tion of their hopes.

"Accept for yourself, my dear Admiral, my hearty
wish that you may find, on your return to your own
country, all the happiness that you can desire.

--
"J.*. DEANS DIINDAS."
" Montezuma, Kamiesh, Dec. 22, 1854.
"My dear Admiral.—l have the honour to inform
you that to-morrow, December 23, I give up the com-
mand of the French squadron to Vice Admiral Brunt.
"At the moment of separation from yourself and the
squadron placed under your orders, I beg you, if you see
no objection, to express in my name, to all your officers
and seamen, how delighted I have been with the con-
stant concord and good feeling with which wo have
carried on together all our naval and military opera-
tions; since our entrance into the Black Sea. Though
far from them my heart will be with them, and longing
for their success ; and the memory of the time we have
passed together will be one of the pleasantest reminis-
cences of my naval career.

"For yourself, my dear Admiral, take with you my
wishes for your happiness, and be pleased to accept tho!ex-
pression of my most affectionate and devoted good feeling.
"Thu Admiral of Franca Commantling- in-Chief of
the Mediterranean Squadron,
" IiAmELIN."

THE SUN, ILON DON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1855.

LATEST NEWS.

CAPTURE OF THE AURORA
AND DIAN A.
( From he Second Edition of thc Morning Post. )
PARIS, TUESDAY.
Accounts from Calcutta, of the sth of Decem-

ber, state that the Russian frigates, the Aurora
and Diana, had been captured by a combined
English and French squadron.

VIENNA, JAN. 15 (NIGHT).

A Russian detachment, which had crossed the
Danube on the 'lth and Bth, repassed the river on
the 10th, and entered Ismail.
The Emperor, when receiving a deputation
from the Bank to-day, expressed his hope that
peace would be re-established.

VIENNA, TUESDAY, JAN. IG, 9 A.M.

Baron Baumgartner, the Minister of Finances
and Commerce, tendered his resignation on the
I ltb. It has been accepted.

It is said that Baron Bruck will be Finance
Minister, and that Baron Prokesch, now at Frank-
fort, will succeed him at Constantinople.

WARSAW, JAN. 12.

By a new decree, the exportation from Poland
of wheat and all other provisions of which the ex-
port is not already prohibited is strictly forbidden.

COPENHAGEN, JAN. 15.

Bishop Monrad, Bregendahl, Hansen, Larsen,
and their party have just laid before the Volk-
thing a bill for the impeachment of the former
(Oersted) ministry.

VARNA, JAN. 9.

Omer Pacha, is expected here.

Accounts froth Vienna state that Prince Men-
schikoff had demanded a reinforcement of 40,000
men ; and that 35,000 infantry and 500 cavalry
had been sent to Bessarabia from the army of the
North.

BERLIN, JAN. 12.

Baron Manteuffel asserts the right of Prussia to
take part in the settlement of the Eastern ques-
tion, and will demand the admission of a Prussian

plenipotentiary to any conferences that may be
held. As one of the parties to the treaty of
1841 Prussia will not recognise any modification
of it to which she is not a party.

Telegraphic accounts from Vienna, of the 14th,
state that another conference of diplomatists, the
first since the 7th, was held on the previous day.
The result is not known. A great charge in the
public appreciation of recent diplomatic transac-
tions is reported in private telegraphic advices as

well as disclosed in the daily quotations of the

Bourse. The incompleteness and the informality
of the late proceedings of the ambassadors, the
fact that the measure of Russian power for the
future in the Black Sea remains still to be deter-
mined, and, more than all, a doubt whether a real
basis for a settlement of the Eastern question has
yet been. gained, aro indicated as the ground of
distrust, and the explanation of the flatness of the
market.

AUSTRIA.

INTELLIGENCE OF THE CROSSING OF
THE DANUBE BY THE RUSSIANS.

Despatches from Vienna, transmitted on the
13th, state, that according to news from the Do-
brudscha, dated in the beginning of the month, the
best troops of the Ottoman Danubian army were
at that time marching for Varna, and that the in-
tended concentration of the remainder in the Do-
brudscha had not been nearly completed. In
Vienna no doubt was entertained that the chief
object of this new irruption into the Ottoman
territory was to detain the troops which were on
their way to the Crimea.

No movement of Austrian troops has been yet
provoked by the advance of a Russian corps into
the Dobrudscha. It is not correct to say, as a
French Ministerial journal has said, that the treaty
between Turkey and Austria obliges the latter to
guard the Dobrudscha. The engagement includes
only the Turkish territory on the left bank of the
Danube. The treaty of Dec. 2 with the Western
Powers leaves the responsibility of territorial
guardianship where it was before, unexteided. It
is only to the spirit of the alliance that an appeal
for Austrian action cam. be addressed. _

The Vienna papers of the 11th report from Galatz
that at the end of last December there were only
3,000 Ottoman It edifs at Bahadagh. The number
of the Tnxkish army on the Danube and in the
Dobrudscha, was estimated at 40,000, besides ca-
valry. Ismael Paella was at that time expected to
remove his head-quarters to Matschin on the 12th
inst. One of Omer Pacha's aides-de-camp arrived
at Ibraila on the 26th ult., to urge on the despatch
of troops at Varna, where the embarkation was to
be completed by the 15th inst.

FRANCE. -
PARIS, SUNDAY, 6 P.M.
This being the last day for receiving subscrip-
tions to the national loan (it closed at 5 o'clock),
the crowds zi,t the mairies, even in the more distant
quarters of the city, are proportionably great. In
one quarter iu particular, the Place St. Sulpice,the
line of persons established there the whole of this
very cold morning, and who had very probably
passed the greater part of the night in the same
spot, in order to secure an entry to the offices
at the hour of their opening, was most numerous.
It resembled the queues which are formed at the
entrance of the more crowded theatres on the
evening of some remarkable piece, or of the ap-
pearance of some popular actor—not, however,
the queue of one theatre, but of several joined to-
gether. From various provinces we to-day learn
that the peasants flock into some of the towns,
with drums beating, to subscribe ; many of them
seem to be under the impression that their
subscriptions are intended for the personal benefit
of the Emperor himself, and they thus hasten to
prove their devotion to his rule by confiding to him
their savings. The ancient Monarchical parties,
Legitimist and Orleanist, who had, both in the
origin of the first loan of 250,000,000 and of the
present, predicted its failure, and denied its pro-
gress, until facts showed the contrary to be the
case, now profess themselves unable to explain such
a phenomenon, except by the existence of a cupidity
or inordinate desire of gain, by which they allege
the nation was uncontaminated in the purer days
of the last reign. The few Republicans wham
France still boasts do not deny the main fact, but
they accept it as a proof of the increasing demo-
cratic spirit of the people, and of the unpopularity
of the Government. The supporters of the pre-
sent regime, on the contrary, point to it trium-
phantly in evidence of the devotion of the na-
tion to the Bonaparte dynasty, or to the person of
the Emperor—as, in truth, the most complete vote
of confidence that has ever beea give* to any Go-
vernment as an approral of all its acts ; and, while
comparing it to a second vote for the establishment
of the Imperial. Government, they challenge their
opponents, Royalists and Republicans alike,
to produce anything like so substantial a mani-
festation under the Bourbons, or under the
Republic. I have little doubt that the Emperor
himself is much of the same opinion. It is certain
that with the more patriotic motives which influ-
ence the subscribers is mixed up the natural desire
to profit by the advantages which are offered by
the loan. Advantages were also offered under the
Republic of 1848 to those who might be disposed to
relieve it from the financial difficulties which pressed
upon it ; but, though the moment was most criti-
cal, and though a finance minister of the day was
urged to fill in this way the exhausted coffers of the
State, and thus test the Republicanism of the
nation, ho did not dare to make the appeal which

is now made ; and he admitted that if he did he
could scarcely get a score of people to listen to it.
Nothing can be said as to what the disinterested
and affectionate attachment of the nation would
have done for the Bourbons, as I believe no such
experiment had ever been made of them. But
whatever bo the proper explanation of the readi-
ness and abundance with which we aro informed
the money comes in, the result is not the less
satisfactory. It is admitted on all hands that the
amount already exceeded that required, and bets
are freely offered that it will not be less than a
milliard. Some go as far as to say that it will reach
1,300,000,000, and even 1,500,000,000, but there
is little doubt that it will be far beyond the original
demand.

Letters from Lyons of the 12th inst. state that
the 47th, 52d, and 63d Regiments of the Line, be-
longing to the division of General d'Herbillon,
were installed at the camp of Sathonay. The
huts will be all constructed at the end of January.
The first detachment of the Imperial Guard ar-
rived at Lyons on the 11th. An immense crowd
had collected at the station to see those fine troops,
who continued to be the object of sympathetic
curiosity on their march from the suburb of Vaise
to the interior of the city. The 93d Regiment of
the Lino had embarked on the Rhone for Toulon,
and was to be replaced at Lyons by the 37th, com-
ing from l'Orient. The Ist, 35th, and 84th Regi-
ments of the Line, which form part of the Third
Divisiox, had arrived at Lyons.

BOURSE, JAR. 15.—CLOSING PRIORS.
Cash. fr. c. End of Month.
4:1 per Cents — —03 f. 40c.
3 per Cents — 67 40
Credit Mobilier 740 Roman
Credit Foncier — Austrian ; —
Belgian Fives 1 Spanish Threes —
Piedmontese — Home Debt --
RAILWAYS—IPOR CISH.

fr. c. fr. c.
Orleans 1,170 Lyons... .... 1027 50
Western 660 Rouen 1020
Cette 5BO Strasburg . . . BO2 50
Mediterranean B9O Havre 540
Northern -