The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-31 00:00:00

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Price Is., for JANUARY, contains - I. Sitting for One's Per-
trait—ll. Servia.—lll. Late Hours—lV. Discovery or America in productive of any advantage whatsoever. Insomuch
the Tenth Century, concluded—V. The Dark Home—Vl. Street
Names—Va. Saxon London—Vlll. A Few Words about Walter has it proved unproductive of good that, instead
savage Landor—lX. A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year—
X. Notices. of bringing matters to a pacific arrangement, as
was expected so blindly and mistakenly through-
out by the infatuated admirers of Aberdeenism—
it has unhappily fulfilled our predictions to the
very letter, it has fostered a local misunderstand-
ing into a causer of warfare for entire Christen-
.it")l"

At the Office, la, Exeter-street, Strand, London.

TIIEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE.
Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith.
THIS EVENING, DEC. 31,

Will be performed an entirely new Drama of interest, entitled
THE BEGGING LETTER. -
To conclude with SING HUMMINGTOP ; or, Harlequin and the
Land of Toys.

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
Under the management of Mr. Buckstone.
THIS EVENING, Dac. 31,
•

It is literally so acknowledged on the very last
day of this calamitous year of 1853—acknow-
ledged simultaneously by the recognised organs of
the British and French Governments. Reluc-
tantly acknowledged by them, of course—
because falsifying every one of their fair
anticipations—but still acknowledged, can-
didly, and explicitly, and unmistakeably
acknowledged. It is notorious that his Imperial
Majesty NAPOLEON 111. has all along sympathised
in heart with the cause of Turkey, that he has
all along been disposed to repel with the might
of his vast power the insidious and audacious
policy of the Russian AUTOCRAT, that he has only
consented to exhaust all the efforts of diplomacy
to bring about a reconciliation of differences be-
tween the belligerents, because he himself was
formally pledged to a pacific policy in the pre-
sence of the whole world by that glorious avowal
cc r Empire c'est la paix," made by him with such
chivalrous frankness and spontaneity on the oc-
casion of his ever-memorable speech at Bordeaux.
Well, NAPOLEON 111. has fulfilled that formal and
remarkable engagement. He has employed every
effort to bring about by diplomatic negotiations
some satisfactory arrangement between the SUL-
TAN and the AUTOCRAT. Those endeavours were
in a manner incumbent upon him—they were
honourable in him—they were the fulfilment
on his part of the solemn promises made
by him, not only in the presence of the French
nation, but under the watchful gaze also of the
whole of observant Christendom. It was not
thus, however, with the British Government.
What was comprehensible and creditable on the
part of France, was incomprehensible and dis-
creditable on the part of England. The policy
which was self-vindicatory with NAPOLEON 111.,
was despicable, and suspicious, and unpatriotic
on the part of the ABERDEEN Coalition.
That Coalition, in regard to this Eastern
Question, moreover, has hung like a clog
upon the energies of France—it has clung, like
the influence of paralysis to the arm of NA-
POLEON. Whence the pacific efforts of the
Cabinet of the Tuileries have been protracted
beyond what was in any way requisite—even
bearing in mind what has been just alluded to,
the pledge contained in the famous speech at
Bordeaux. And so—as we have all along pre-
dicted, not vaguely, but in the clearest language
possible, and with an almost painfully protracted
reiteration—these miserable negotiations have
proved one after another to be utterly abortive—so
that WAR is now, on the last day of 1853, declared
by the organ of Aber deenism to be (mark ! these
are its own words), not an alternative, but a
decision.

Will be performed THE HOPE OF THE FAMILY. Characters
by Messrs. Chippendale, Compton, Buckstone, and W Farren ; Mrs.
Buckingham, Mrs. Poynter, Mrs. Fitzwilliaro, and Miss E. Grey.
After which, a Grand CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME, called
HARLEQUIN AND THE THREE BEAR ; or, Little Silrerhair
and the Fairies. Columbine, Miss M. Brown ; Harlequin, Mr. J.
Marshall: Pantaloon, Mr. W. A. Barnes; Clown, Mr. H. Marshall.

ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET.
Under the Management of Mr. CHARLES KEAN.
THIS EVENING, DEC. 30,
Will be performed THE LANCERS ; or, The Gentleman's Son,
Principal characters by Messrs. Meadows, Ryder, Everett, 11. Mellon.
and D. Fisher; Mrs. Winstanley, Miss Daly, and Miss C. Leclercq.
After which will be presented a new Grand CHRISTMAS PAN-
TOMIME, entitled HARLEQUIN AN I) THE MILLER AND
HIS MEN; or, King Salamandar and the Fairy of the Azure
Lake. Harlequin, Mr. Cormack ; Clown, Mr. Huline; Pantaloon,
Mr. Paulo; and Columbine, Miss Desborough.

LYCEUM THEATRE.

Under the Management of Madame Patric
THIS EVENING, DEC. 31,

Will be performed A BACHELOR OF ARTS. Characters by
Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, and Baker; Miss F. Hughes.
After which, an original Fairy Extravaganza, called ONCE
-UPON A TIME THERE WERE TWO KINGS. Principal cha-
racters by Mr. Wright and Madame Vestris.
To conclude with PATTER VERSUS CLATTER.

New-Year's Day comes to us, therefore—thanks
,o our inestimable Coalition--laden with the
penalty of War to entire Christendom.
It is inevitable. Is it not ? What says the
Moniteur, the official journal of the French
Government ? Why, it gives out every indica-
tion that the momentous struggle is actually on
the eve of its commencement. What says
the Patric, the semi-official organ of the
French Cabinet ? . Why, it says, signifi-
cantly enough at this juncture, " Whatever
may happen, France has confidence in her Em-
peror." And the Times—what says the Times,
the Ministerial journal of the English Govern-
ment ? Why, it asserts this morning, in regard to
the conduct of the CZAR, that "With whatever
reluctance, the Western Powers must accept the
challenge so insultingly flung to them." And the
Chronicle—what says the .Morning Chronicle, the
semi-official organ of the Coalition ? Why, simply
and plainly it says this—" All disguise is at an
end, and nothing is now left for England
and France but to make the war which
appears inevitable as short and decisive as pos-
sible." Therefore, on the showing at last of the
official and semi-official organs both of France and
England, waris inevitable, and that war, not a war
between Russia and Turkey, but a war involving
in it the principal Powers of the European Con-
tinent, in fact—after thirty-eight years' peace—a
war of entire Christendom. Such is the New-
Year's gift to England!from the Earl of ABERDEEN'S
sagacious, energetic, chivalrous, and patriotic
Administration .

in yield, and in quality. While we write, win-
ter is exhibiting its proper character. We may
hope it will be followed by a normal spring, sum-
mer, and autumn ; and that the immense extent
of wheat which will be sown, under the stimulus
of present prices, at home and abroad, will pro-
duce a double supply at half price. Looking
forward thus, however, we can not but be reminded
how completely the most essential condition of
our comfort and prosperity is beyond all human
control.

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 5,000 bales. The market was quiet,
with very little change in prices. Railway Shares
were flat.
The situation of the Bank of England, as indi-
cated by the weekly return to the 24th inst., was
much more encouraging than for some time. The
addition to the amount of bullion was important,
notwithstanding the increase in the loans and dis-
counts, which show trade to be at least active. The
Government account also stood high, being
1,891,3821. above the highest point this year, which
was on the Ist January. The unusually large
amount is in preparation for the payment of the dis-
sentient holders of South Sea Stock, &,-c. On the 23d
July the Chancellor of the Exchequer had to his
credit not much above 1,849,0001. The bullioh ar-
riving this week is being taken for the Continent, and
that which is coming forward per Australian ships
advised as being off the coast, is expected to be like-
wise purchased for the same destination. Com-
pared with the previous week, the changes in the
Bank account are as follows :—.

Amidst the upsetting and reconstruction of
parties and Cabinets, the year opened auspiciously
upon the country. Food was at half its present
price, employment in every branch of trade, and
commerce abundant, gold pouring in from our
colonies, people emigrating, not to escape poverty,
but to win riches. Workmen were content, and
masters accumulating capital to employ them yet
better. Workhouses were emptied and workshops
filled, and it even seemed as if the Celtic Exodus
itself would be stayed or diverted. And still,
even at the present prices of food, clothing, and
firing, trade is wonderfully brisk, and commerce
hardly able to provide itself with the means of
transit. The great blight on our prospects has
arisen amongst the workmen themselves. Unable,
like too many of their betters, to bear the rapid
access of good fortune, they took, and are still
taking, the short cut of " strikes " to get what
they deemed to be their share of the general pro-
fits. Every branch of trade has suffered, more
or less, from this cause, and well will it be if
capital be not driven to competing countries which
ought to employ English labour.
To make the matter worse the strikes became
more general in proportion as the prices of food
rose. While it was becoming apparent that we
should need large supplies from abroad ; while
our shipping was so busy in the Australian trade,
and elsewhere, that its scarcity enhanced the cost
of foreign supplies by very heavy freights ; while
the consuming powers of the community were
obviously diminishing, their means being absorbed
in the purchase of food ; and while other European
countries were all competing with us for the first
necessary of life—under these circumstances our
operatives were seduced into an ill-advised and
bitter war with the capitalists who employ them.
Nothing in the course of the whole year, de-
pendent on the human will, do we regret more
than this. The life of our prosperity is confi-
dence, and if confidence in the reliableness of our
operatives be sapped, capital and prosperity will
flee from English manufacturers ; the next step
would be an English Exodus, as miserable as the
Celtic one.
Of Parliamentary achievements, the great one
unquestionably is the Succession Duty. True, it
is in mortifying contrast with the amount of the
two Legacy Duties (one of them paid immediately),
levied on personal property, but it is the
greatest step made in our system of taxation since
the repeal of the corn laws ; and much as we have
often differed from Mr. GLADSTONE, we have no
doubt that the financial historian of England will
always record with eulogy his victory over the
reluctance of our landed aristocracy to part with
their unjust feudal immunities. We have also to
set to the credit of our Legislature permission to
wash free of duty, a Customs' tariff, and laws
much improved, the smallest item of the taxes on
knowledge repealed, and assessed taxes simplified,
and in some cases equitably reduced or aug-
mented. Whether a seven years' income tax,
or the promised termination of it at the end
of that time, is to be regarded as a boon or
an infliction, our readers must decide for them-
selves. India, too, must rejoice or mourn accord-
ing as she remembers the little done for her by
Sir C. WOOD, or the much left undone, which,
but for sheer incapacity or obstinacy, he could so
easily have done. Jews still lament their exclu-
sion from the House of Commons, finding consola-
tion, perhaps, in Austrian loans. Canada, how-
ever, with the Clergy Reserves in its own power,
and our Australian colonists delivered from con-
victs, have cause for unmingled satisfaction. For
Cab Laws, and many minor mercies of a like kind,
we desire to be unfeignedly thankful, and, on the
whole, to own that, at home, the Coalition which
entered office nearly with the year itself, has
not worked so badly.
We wish we could say as much for foreign
affairs. Two ill-conceived colonial wars, the Kafir
and the Burmese wars, have closed during the
year with little credit and great cost to us, and no
prospect whatever of permanent peace in either
country. It is, however, iti a strictly foreign
affair, one which Lord ABERDEEN and his col-
leagues have most jealously kept to themselves—
one on which they doggedly refused all informa-
tion to Parliament--one in which England's part
has been kept religiously to courts at home and
abroad,—it is just in W.. that the year has closed
with all the prospects awl [lost of the evils of war,
combined with the certainty that manly conduct
in June would have saved the Danubian Provinces,
the cowardly slaughter of Sinop°, the exhaustion
of our ally, and the disgrace of two Cabinets
being gulled or bullied, or both, by the pet Des
pot of German Courts. We close the year out-
witted by a semi-barbarian Power, befooled by a
bankrupt one, and ashamed before Europe of the
poltroonery of pur Cabinet. We have it indeed now
in our power to annihilate, for many a year, the
might of Europe's great enemy in the Black Sea,
and to render the world the same service in the
Baltic next Spring. A little time will show
whether the New Year will dawn upon us with a
policy deserved by Russia and honourable to
England.

Active circulation
_ Increase ...

£20,810,155
204,530
15,819,041
375,785
Increase
Public Deposits 9, 365
Increase
Other Deposits .......................
Decrease
Seven-Day and other Bills
Decrea5e.......... :
Government Securities No alteration.
Other Securities
Increase 16,643,651
Notes unemployed 406,5468,318,280
Increase
194,175
Yesterday afternoon there was an improvement
'n the rates at which bills of exchange were nego-
tiated upon some of the continental cities. Paris,
90 days, was taken at 25 274 to 30 ; Hamburgh, at
13 41 to 41 ; Amsterdam, at 11 15/ to 16 ; Frank-
fort, at 1184 to / ; and Trieste, at 11 38 to 42.
We gave yesterday a rapid glance at the statistics
of 1853, and the following, from a correspondent,
to whom we have been indebted on former occa-
sions, may be interesting, as showing the past in
another view :—" A year of no ordinary interest
closes with this day. We anticipated under this
head in The Sun, at the opening of 1853, that the
results of the gold fields of Australia would have
a paramount influence, not only on the welfare of
the Queen's southern possessions, but also on all
mercantile transactions in every section of the em-
pire. Time has fully borne out that anticipation.
Land in New South Wales, and Victoria especially,
has risen beyond the records of fable, and fresh
gold deposits have been lately reported. And such
reports may be fully corroborated, surpassing the
imagination of the Eastern writers. Although, as
we also prognosticated in our remarks on the Ist
of January, gold mining by associations has not
proved to be such an unerring and remunerative in-
vestment, as the Gold Companies, without excep-
tion, had caused the public to expect. The un-
initiated in Colonial commerce have, in many
instances it is to be feared, made losses by their ill-
assorted indents to Australia ; but the regular
traders to that market have, we have reason to
know, made very satisfactory returns. Perhaps
the late shipments may not have sent home
more than ' cost, freight, and insurance ;'
but if the average of the year be taken, as already
stated, the returns, we understand, are very satis-
factory. High priced corn, above averaged priced
cotton, and the expectation of an Eastern war end-
ing in an European conflagration, have been so
many barriers to what might have been a year of
unparallelled prosperity. As regards the prospects
of 1854, up to the latest advices of the corn sowing
in this country, and the cotton planting in the
United States, all is so far favourable. Australian
accounts never read better. We have free trade with
France ' looming in the future,' and if it were not
the black spot on the commercial horizon—the
Russo-Turkish question—the new year would open
as full of the ingredients of prosperity as charac-
terised the beginning of the year about to
close. Whatever may betide the old cowl-
! tries, it is certain that the onward pro-
gress of the people of the embryo empires in
America and the South Pacific can only be
checked, not stayed. They, therefore, must con-
tinue to be large consumers of our fabrics. With
the intended public works in Australia, and the
reduced duties in France, the staples which enter
largely into the formation of railways appear to
have every chance of an average trade under
any eventualities in Europe. It is to be observed
that the making of railways in the gold-producing
colonies will act differently on our monetary ope-
rations now than it would have done if they had
been undertaken prior to the discovery of the
gold deposits, when the value of the increased
exports from the parent country must have been
represented by debentures, instead of payments in
' hard bullion.'
"It is a fact at the present time that loanable
capital is as cheap in Sydney and Melbourne as in
London. The gold will not be sent here to be
warehoused, but only in payment of debts, or to
cover purchases, and since the production is much
greater than the exportation the balance seeks
colonial produce for investment. Thus it is that it
finds an outlet in the foundation of roads and docks,
and the purchase of land, both of which cause the
volume of exportation to be expanded, since a large
portion of the material for the formation of the
former is imported from, and many of the owners
of the latter reside in, this country.
" Taking all things into consideration, we are
by no means inclined to look unfavourably on the
mercantile prospects of 1854."
The amount of the precious metals exported from
London direct during the week to last Thursday
was 150,000 ounces in silver and 5,400 ounces in
gold, all to the Continent.
The Stock Market has given way to the extent
of 4 per cent. within the last hour, and numerous
sales have been pressed. Consols for the opening,
ex dividend, have been quoted 93i /, and since
934 to g. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents. have been 95k, and are now 944. The
Three per Cent. Reduced, which were 934 /, have
declined to 93g. Exchequer Bills are ss. to 8s
premium.

Bullion..

Increase

Rest

THE MATILDA WATTENBACH.

This clipper ship, which sailed from the Mersey with
the November mails for Australia, under the command
of Capt. Clare, on the 4th instant, was seen by the
Gannet (s.s.), from Lisbon, at anchor in the Tagus,
with fore mainmasts gone, on the 19th instant. It
will be remembered that the American paddle-wheel
steam-ship Golden Age, Porter, left Liverpool a few
days after the Matilda Wattenbach, and much interest
is attached to both voyages, many bets being laid upon
the superior sailing qualities of each vessel. It is
thought probable that the General Screw Company's
steamer Crcesus, which is to sail with another mail on
the 10th of January, will be instructed to call at Lisbon
and to take her letters.

Prince Leopold of Saxe Coburg, first cousin to
Prince Albert and the Queen, who is now on his voyage to
Portugal to visit the King Regent, his near relative, will,
on his return to Lisbon, pay another visit to our Sovereign,
and then proceed on a visit to the King of the Belgians,
at Brussels, en route to Germany.
The Duke of Devonshire is passing the holidays
at his marine villa at Kemptown. His Grace's usual
Christmas bounties have been distributed at Chatsworth,
Derbyshire, Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire, Hardwicke-hall,
Shropshire, and Lismore Castle, Waterford.
The Earl and Countess Delawarr and a family
circle are passing the recess at Buckhurst Park. Tho Hon,
and Rev. Reginald West left the noble Earl's in Upper
Grosvenor-street yesterday, to join the circle.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Breadalbane
are entertaining company at Taymonth Castle. The noble
Marquis is expected at Breadalbane House, Park-lane the
third week in the ensuing month, to be in attendance on the Queen as Lord Chamberlain, on the meeting of Parlia-
ment on the 31st. and which it is expected will be opened
in person by the Sovereign, with the usual speech from the
Throne.
The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield's seat,
Bretby Park, Ashby--de-la-Zouch, is the scene of much
gaiety during the holidays. His Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge is honouring the Earl with a visit.
Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli arrived at Grosvenor-
gate.
sea Park son.-lane, on Thursday, from Hughenden, Bucks,
for the
Commodore Sir Charles, and the Honourable
Lady Hotham have arrived in town, from Paris, en route
to embark for Melbourne, South Australia, of which
colony the gallant Commodore is appointed Governor.
The Countess Dowager of Donoughmore, the
Ladies Hutchinson, and suite, have arrived at their resi-
dence, Merrion-square, Dublin, from Belmont, county
Wexford.
The Right Hon. the Lord Chancellor of Ireland
has left Dublin for London.

Foreign Stocks are very inactive, and prices are
heavy generally. Danish 5 per Cents., are lower,
being 102. Russian 5 per Cents. have declined to
112, and the 44 per Cent. to 974 and 98. Spanish
Deferred Bonds are quiet at 22. Dutch 4 per
Cents., after being done at 974, receded to 96j.
In other Stocks no business has been transacted.
Railway Shares are quiet, and there is a general
depression in values, owing to the decline in Con-
sols. Caledonian have fallen fully 11., Great
Northern about 155., Lancashire and Yorkshire 55.,
North-Western 11., Midland 10s., North British
55., and South-Eastern 1/. French shares are also
weaker, but with few dealings. Paris and Lyons
are fully 10s. cheaper, and Northern of France are
similarly affected.
Rather more has been doing in Gold Mine Shares,
and at steady prices.
In the Joint-Stock Banks- the only transactions
have been in Australasia, at 11. to 21. decline.
Australian Agricultural Shares aro about 21.
lower, and the South Australian, after being 37,
have dropped to 36. Peel River are also flatter.

(BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.

( From the Oficial List. )

3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities - TitiOneg. done
934
Now 31 per Cent. Annuities 44
Consols for Opening 18th Jan. 95.1
g
Exchequer Bills, ld.
£lOOO
£5OO ..

It is stated that Dr. Bowring will succeed Sir
George Bonham as Governor of Hong Kong and Chief
Superintendent of British Trade in China.
Sir Fitzroy Kelly is now named as the M.P.,
entrusted with the arrangement of the details of a contem-
plated Tory Reform Bill.

5 8 p
5 8 p
5 8 p

The Cologne Gazette, in a letter from Berlin of
the 25th, mentioning the death of General de Radowitz,
adds that before his death he had had time to finish the edi-
tion of his complete works.

PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent
Ditto 5 per Cent
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £ St ll2
';;Ditto 4i por Cent 97i 8
Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent. 22
Dividends on the above payable:in London.
Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Guil
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certifieates .

The French Government, through the medium
of the Count de Lowenhielm, the Swedish minister at
Paris, has just presented the Royal Library at Stockholm
with a copy of the " Chalcographie du Musee Imperial,"
composed of 85 volumes. The Royal Library has, in its
turn, sent to the Imperial Library at Paris 100 volumes
of manuscript and rare printed works,

TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols for Opening 18th January,,,.,,,,, 93i a d

ONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 31, 1

853

About 200 women, belonging to the district called
Cassein Pacha, which is chiefly occupied by the
families of sailors, had been to the Admiralty, had
broken the windows. and had made such violent
threats against the Minister, that he had deemed
it prudent to escape in disguise. He had been
warned that he would have to appear before the
Council of Ministers, to explain his conduct.
In the event of his being dismissed Ahmet
Pacha Kaiseli was spoken of as his successor.
The Ambassadors of England and France,
supported by the Ministers of Austria and Prus-
sia, were energetically pressing on negotiations
for peace, and it was confidently asserted not
without hope of success ; but the Sultan, though
entertaining a great horror of war, was afraid that
any project of an arrangement would cause pro-
found commotion in the Empire—the catastrophe
of Sinnpe having caused immense irritation. Be-
sides this, it was expected that the effect produced
on the Western Powers by the disaster of Sinope
might be such as to effect an entire change in the
situation. Details of the affair at Sinope were
eagerly listened to, and they all tended to prove
that the Turks acted with heroic bravery. Not a
single vessel, as already stated, would yield ; two
were blown up by their captains ; a small one,
bearing sixteen men and three guns, fought till
nightfall, and the Captain Edhem Bey only
quitted her with his men when she was sinking.
The captain of the Navik, Sman Oglou Ali Bey,
one of the vessels blown up, sent all that re-
mained of his crew on land before he set fire to
his powder magazine, and perished with his ship.
Amongst the pieces f wreck found floating in the
water was a mast with a flag nailed to it. It was
the Turks who commenced the battle. It was ne-
cessary to amputate several of the wounded who
were received on board the Engiish and French
steamers—they uttered no cry, made no complaint,
but displayed heroic indifference. Accounts from
Asia had been received, but the details had not
been published—it was, however, stated that the
Turks had gained advantages, over the Russians ;
that, for example, the Russians had been repulsed
in a new sortie from the fortress of Alexandropol ;
that the Turks who were besieging the citadel of
Akiska (Achalzick) had succeeded in destroying
the aqueducts ; that Selim Pacha had gained a
brilliant victory in the environs of Saffah ; and
that Daniel Bey had defeated the Russians in the
Terek. The news that Persia had broken off with
Turkey, and had resolved to second Russia, had
created great sensation. She was assembling
an army of 50,000 men to march on Bagdad.
She owed 60,000,000 piastres to Russia, but
the latter had agreed to abandon the debt. The
Turkish Ambassador at Teheran had arrived at
Bagdad on his return to Constantinople. The
English Minister at the same place was also ex-
pected at Constantinople. On the other hand,
Dost Mohammed, Sovereign of Affghanistan, who
is an implacable enemy of Russia, strongly opposed
the policy of Persia, and even threatened to invade
her territory to avenge the Turks. General Ba-
raguay d'Hilliers gave a second grand dinner on
the 14th, to which he invited the Admirals and
most of the principal officers of the two fleets ;
and Lord Stratford de Redcliffe was to give a grand
dinner on the 15th to all the Foreign Ministers,
the Admirals, and most of the Ministers of the
Porte. The weather was very bad in the Black
Sea. On the 13th the Belgian vessel Eugenia,
Captain Hegeirch, was lost at the entrance of the
Bosphorus. An English merchant ship from Tre-
bizonde had brought tidings that a Russian ship
of the line, that had been towed greatly damaged
from Sinope, had gone down about 90 miles from
that place. The Divan had given orders to fortify
sixteen important points on the coast of Anatolia,
on the Black Sea.

lied and cheered up at the bare idea of a prompt
return to their foyers. The happy arrangements'
moreover, made by the officers for their reception,
contributed 110 doubt to produce these good 01'0001
and I trust that the dictates of humanity may be
fulfilled without compromising the hygiene of our
ships. During all our melancholy labours on. shore
as on board, I feel the highest satisfaction in de•
Glaring how much I am indebted to the onerell
zeal and assistance of our ship's crew. I furnished
before quitting this port a provision of lint, linen,
&c., to the surgeons destined to attend remaining
sufferers, and who had escaped from the catastrophe
to the neighbouring villages.

"PIRATM,
"Surgeon-Major of the Mogador.

FRANCE.

At the hour of going to press, the Paris papers
of yesterday had not arrived.
The following has been received by electric
teleA.apli, dated Paris, yesterday evening :
Lord Cowley attended to-day (Friday) at the
first meeting of the Commission of the Greet
Exhibition, and assured the members of the cc
operation of England in this great undertaking.
The Prince Napoleon, as President, thanked
Lord Cowley in behalf of the Commission.
An Imperial decree closes the College of St.
Michel au Montant, on account of the occurrence
of factious demonstrations, which were not repressed
by the authorities. •

Four officials, employed on the Orleans RailwaYl
who were prosecuted for negligence on the occasion
of the accident at Beaugency, have been condemn
to six months' imprisonment and 300 f. fine each•
According to Vienna advices, of the 26th, the'
Ambassadors of France, England, and Prussia had
on the 24th a fresh conference with the Austrian
Minister of Foreign Affairs on the Eastern question•
Count Buol communicated to them a second der
spatch from Baron Bruck, which confirmed tile,
hope entertained of a pacific arrangement.
Advices from Bucharest, of the 23d, bring no
news.

The Vladika of Montenegro has addressed 11
letter to his uncle, Petrovich, in which he justifies
his conduct, and begs him to return to Monts.
negro, and afford the Vladika the benefit of hi
advice.

- Petrovich replied that he would never retail
till his nephew had banished from Court those
had plotted against his life.
The Bourse was heavy yesterday (Friday),
all securities declined. The Three per Cent'
closed at 73f. 800. for the end of the month, and.
the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. at 101 f. 23c.

The severe cold which has prevailed in Paris for
some days past has been felt in various parts
France. The thermometer fell at Arms and 3J.
Valenciennes to 19 degrees below zero. Snow feu
in such quantities at Lille that, according to letters
from that town, it will cost 50,000 f. to clear the
streets.
The Seine is frozen over between the Pont Notr!,
Dame and the Pont Royal. It is expected that, if
the frost continues without a thaw for two or three
days more, it will be possible to cross the river ee
the ice.
At the Council of Ministers which assembled on
Wednesday, it is said the war party appeared to
have the advantage, M. Fould being obliged to
yield on several points to M. de Persigny.
rd°
further resolution, however, has, it is said, been
come to, matters being left as they are for the
present.
The Emperor received on Wednesday at a public'
audience General Francois Solano Lopez, who pre"
sented to his Majesty his credentials as Envoy •S
traordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the
Republic of Paraguay. M. Solano Lopez was 000"
veyed to the Tuileries in a Court carriage.
An Imperial decree appoints M. Cornudet, Conn'
cillor of State, to be a member of the Mixed Com'
mittee of Public Works.
Captain d'Herbinghem, aide-de-camp of the
Minister of Marine, who has been appointed to the
command of the steam-frigate Vauban, has left
Parts for Toulon, to take the command of his ship.
Four new regiments which have recently arrived
in Paris for garrison duty were reviewed on Thurs-
day, at half-past 12 o'clock, by the Emperor in the
Place de Carrousel. The E . peror, who was on
horseback, put the men through their movements,
after which they defiled before him. The cries of
" Viva l'Empereur !" were frequent.
It is was generally expected that the Moniteur
of Thursday would contain an article explaining t
the actual state of the Eastern question, the posi-
tion of the Powers, the acceptance by Turkey of
the proposition for sending a
plenipotentiary to the
Conference; and the terms on which she may con-
sent to treat. The silence of the official journal
has produced a very unfavourable effect ; and it is
taken as an indication that the difficulties still in
the way of an arrangement without a European
war have grown more serious, and that such an
arrangement is as remote as ever. Almost every-
thing connected with this question has been my-
sterious and confused from the beginning ; but, if
anything clear and palpable now appear, it is the
perfidy of Russia, and the double-dealing of
Austria. This last Power may yet pay the penalty
of her bad faith, and even at the present moment
it is doubtful if she is better appreciated by Russia
than she is by England or France. It is said that
the Emperor Nicholas has very recently—since the
signing of the protocol—expressed himself in angry
and contemptuous terms of that Government,
which has not the courage either for good or evil;
and it is doubted if the most earnest and most
humiliating protestations from it would inspire
him with confidence.
•
It is right that it should be known that in Paris,
as well as in St. Petersburgh,- the Austrian and
PruAian ambassadors attended at a Te Deum per-
formed there to celebrate the great and glorious
victory gained by the Russian arms over Turkey at
Sinope and other places. This will serve as well
as any other straw to show how the wind blows.
It is useless to deny that in Paris an amicable
settlement of the Eastern Question is considered as
all but hopeless, and war on a large scale as all but
certain. Public opinion is in this respect the same.
as that of the Government ; and as matters ap-
proach nearer and nearer to a crisis the most des-
perate efforts are made by every partisan of Russia,
native and French, and by her agents, from the
highest to the lowest class, to create discord be-
tween France and England, to excite jealousies
and hatreds which no longer exist, and to throw
doubts on the good faith of both. These persons
are not discouraged or daunted by the ill success
that has hitherto attended them, and they return to
the task as if it were one of honour, of humanity,
and of patriotism.
If Louis Napoleon wishes to bring to a prema-
ture end all the conspiracies formed against him,
whether in the salons, the chateaus, or among the
defeated parties, he would have only to publish a
declaration of war ag iinst Russia in the Moniteur,
and it would be hailed with enthusiasm by cer-
tainly nineteen-twentieths of the people of the
country.

SPAIN.
The Duchess de Montpensier held, on the 22d
inst., a grand levee at the Palace at Madrid. The
corps diplomatique, the grandees of Spain, the au-
thorities, the chiefs of the army, the judges of the
different courts, the senators and the deputies, and
other pers3nages, presented their congratulations
to her Royal Highness on the occasion of her
arrival.

The position of the Marquis de Turgot was as
satisfactory as possible, and it was hoped that be
would be able to rise in a few days. The Ambas-
sador was to be represented at the Queen's confine-
meat by M. de IVlontherot, First Secretary of the
French Legation.
One of the most distinguished men in Spain,
Don Alvaro Flores de Estrada, died on the 16th
inst., at Novena, in the 88th year of his age.
According to he returns of the revenues of the
island of Cuba, the Customs' receipts amounted
in 1850 to 100,960,200 reals ; and in 1851 to
108,979,040.

The most perfect tranquillity prevailed through-
out the whole monarchy.
The Three per Cents. were done at 434 ; the
New Three per Cents., at 22 ; the Debt of the First
Class, at 8-g ; and that of the Second, at 41.