The Sun.
London, England, 1856-01-14 00:00:00

MINISTERIAL MOVE dENTS.

The Earl of Clarendon was prevented from attending
the Cabinet Council on Friday, by the serious illness of
a near relative. The noble earl remains at the Grove,
near Watford.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer was also precluded
from attending the Cabinet Council by illness in tho

The Right Hon. H. Labouchere has left town, for
Stoke-park, near Windsor. Tie right hon. gentleman
and Lady Mary come to town for the season the week
after next.

The Right Hen. Robt. Vernon Smith, M.P., left town
after the Cabinet Council on Friday, for his seat, Farm-
ing Woods, Northamptonshire.
Viscount Palmerston has returned to Broadlands. The
noble Premier and Lady Palmerston will come to town
next week.

Sir George Grey is rapidly recovering from his recen'
accident.

Viscount Villiers comes to town to-day, from the Earl
Craven's seat, Ashdown P.lrk. The viscountess will be
in town on Wednesday, to attend Sir Robert Peel'd
marriage with the Lady Emily Hay on the following
day.

Lord Panmure, Secretary of State for War, has been
suffering for some days past from an attack of gout.
The attack is a very severe one, which has affected the
right hand. A conference would have been held at the
War Department on Friday in the middle of the day, of
a committee of the Cabinet Ministers, to meet some of
the principal naval and miliary authorities, but the ill-
ness of the Secretary of State for War caused the meet-
ing to be postponed. The attack also prevented his
lordship from attending the Cabinet Council of Friday.
Despatches for the Governor of the Cape of Good
Hope were sent on Saturday from the Colonial-offine.
Mr. Gladstone will lead the peace party in the House
of Commons nest session.
Mr. Webster intends rebuilding the Adelphi Theatre
on an enlarged scale daring the summer recess.
Dr. Bruno Bauer, formerly of the University of Ber-
lin, has left Prussia, and taken up his abode in London.
The Duke of Cambridge visited the Italian Theatre,
Paris, on Thursday evening. His Royal Highness was
in the Emperor's box.
General Cannon (Behram Pacha) has arrived in town
from Circassia.
The Emigration Commissioners have advertised for a
♦essel to proceed to Melbourne, to be ready for pas-
sengers between the 25th of February and the 31 of
March next.
The Council of the Royal Society have appointed
the Bishop of Oxford as Fairchild Lecturer for the
present year.
SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, EXETER-HALL.—Mr.
Sims Reeves sings in " JU,las Ma,ceaheus," which is to
be given by the above society on Friday, the 25t h inst.
TFIE COMMAND OF THE BALTIC FLEET.—It was yester-
day rumoured at the West-end club-houses that Admi•
ral Lushington, late commander of the Naval Brigade
in the Crimea, is to command the Baltic .fleet next
spring.
THE LAND CAMPAIGN IN THE NORTH.—It is stated
to be the intention of the Allies to employ 90,000 men,
viz.:-50,000 French and 40,000 English, in a land
campaign. The latter is to be withdrawn from the
Crimea, under the command of Sir Colin Campbell.
DEATH OF THE HON. MRS. G. VILLIERS.—We regret
to announce the death of the Hon. Mrs. Geo. Villiers,
who expired on Saturday night, at the Grove, the seat
of her son, the Earl of Clarendon, near Watford, after a
few days' illness.
SAILING OF THE BALTIC.—The United States mail
steam-ship Baltic, Captain Comstock, sailed from Liver-
pool for New York on Saturday, at half-past one o'clock
p.m., with the usual mails, a large cargo, and 72 pas-
sengers.
TESTIMONIAL TO LORD CARDIGAN. —A very handsome
sword, richly chased, of the value of about
250 guineas, has been purchased by public subscription
in Yorkshire, as a testimonial of admiration to Lord CAI -
digan for the gallantry with which he led on the cavalry
in the celebrated charge at Balakle.va in October, 1854.
THE WEATHER IN THE BALTIC.—HAMBURG, JAN. 10.
—Mild weather and a heavy fall of snow. The ice has
been blown up as far down as below Nieustadt ; if no
frost sets in again, the river will be free, with the ex-
ception of the floating ice. Temperature last night 1
degree frost, with the wind at N.
The War, it appears, has eaten up all the spare
bronze. An application to Lord Palmerston for a con-
tribution of metal for the proposed statue of Newton
has been unsuccessful. The matter was referred to
Lord Panmure and the Ordr.ance Department, and
an answer has been received, to the effect that all
the bronze in the possession of Government is required
for the casting of cannon.
THE SHIPPING AT QUEENSTOWN.—For 30 years there
have not been so many British ships lying wind-bound
and for orders in Queenstown harbour as at present and
for nearly a month back. They appear to be jammed up
one against the other, from Passage down to Camden
Fort. They number over 300, with about 25 foreign
ships and 5 men-of-war, manned by over 4,000 seamen,
of whom 2,710 are British merchant sailors, 300
foreigners, and 1,600 men-of-war's-men. The N.E.
wind, now set in, is slowly mlearing them out.—Cork
Reporter.

COMIUNICATION BETWEEN G WARD AND DRIVER.—
This desideratum in railway trains is secured by a new
invention about to be applied on the South-Western
Railway. Every train will have a gutta percha tube ex-
tending its whole length. This tube will be formed of
parts which are attached to each other by a spring clip,
so that the length of the tube can be made to correspond
with the length of any train. This tube is connected with
an air pump in the guard's van in front, and the guard's
van at the end of the train. By a stroke of this pump
the air is forced through the tube to the opposite end of
the train, and produces a very loud and shrill whistle at
a mouth-piece attached to the tube in each guard's van,
and to a mouth-piece which extends also close to the
engine-driver. One whistle means " Look out," two
whistles signify " Caution," and three whistles denote
danger.

TTIE LATE CHARGE OF MURDER AT PADDINGTON.—
About four months ago a man named Henry Watts, the
keeper of a beershop in Praed-street, Paddington, was
committed by the sitting magistrate, Mr. Long, from
the police-court, Mary!shone, on the charge of having
murdered his wife. He was triad, and, being found guilty
of manslaughter, was sentenced to transportation for 14
year& iubsequently to the trial the principal witness
against the accused—Sarah Browning—was tried for
perjury in a case which had been preferred by her against
the father of Henry Watts for an alleged violent and
unprovoked assault upon her. Mr. Handley, managing
clerk to Mr. Foley, solicitor, Welbeck-street, and who
had conducted the defence, used his utmost exertions to
obtain a commutation of the sentence passed by memo-
rialising the Secretary of State for the Home Depart-
ment, setting forth in as strong and as powerful a man-
ner as possible that Watts' conviction took place en-
tirely upon the strength of the statement of. the woman
Browning, who had been proved by ulterior proceedings
to be almost, if not entirely, unworthy of belief'. On
Saturday Mr. Foley received an official notification from
the Home-office to the effect that Sir George Grey had
taken all the circumstances of the case into considera-
tion, and that Watts' sentence was commuted from 14
years' transportation to 2 years' imprisonment, the said
term of incarceration to commence from the period of
hie trial and convictioain September last.

LATEST NEWS.

THE RUSSIAN REPLY.

We (Morning Post) can state with confidence
that the Russian reply to the Austrian u/timaticm
has been received at Vienna.

Russia rejects the secoed clause of the first pro-
posal, viz., the " rectification of her frontier with

Turkey."

She also rejects the fifth proposal, by which a
right of producing special conditions is reserved
to the belligerent Powers, and in virtue of which
they would demand the engagement not to re-
build Boniarsund.

Russia accepts the rest of the ultimatum, in-
cluding the neutralisation of the Black Sea, with

some modifications.

In exchange for the strong places and territories
occupied by the Allies, Russia proposes to restore
to the Porte Kars and the territory she has won

from Turkey in Asia in the last campaign.

We have reason to believe that Austria keeps

her faith with us, and will not receive this coun

terproposi t ion.

Austria, however, gives the Cabinet of St.
Petersburg the benefit of the time she had al-
ready allowed, and therefore Russia has till the
18th inst. to notify to Count Esterhazy her ac-
ceptance or rejection, without conditions, of the
Austrian ultimatum.

If Russia refuse, or if, at that date, she has 110'

accepted the Austrian ultimatum, " pur et simple,"
Count Esterhazy has instructions to withdraw
from St. Petersburg.

MARSEILLES, JAN. 12

The Carmel brings accounts from Constanti
nople to the 3d.

The campaign of the Turkish army in Imeritia
was definitively abandoned, in order to cover

Erzeroum.

The troops of Omer Paella had begun to arrive

at Trebizond.

General Mouravieff had called fot reinforce-
ments from Goumri, and fortified Kars in order

to render it the basis of his operations in the

ensuing spring.

The ground in Armenia was covered with snow.
In the Crimea numerous ambuscades of Cos-
sacks are distributed round the camps of the
Allies, but the vigilance of the Allies had com-
pletely disconcerted the attempts of the Russians.
The commission for the cutting of the Isthmus
of Suez is arrived at Alexandria on its return
from a tour of exploration.

The commissioners consider the cutting of the

isthmus, from Suez to l'elusia, as easy •f execu

tion.

The official Persian journal declares that the
Government of Persia will maintain its policy of

neutrality.

COPENHAGEN, JAN. 13,

The States Court, formod for the purpose of
trying the ex-Ministers, has again adjourned to
the 19th inst., to receive fresh documents, which
will be brought forward by the promoters of the
impeachment.

VIENNA, MONDAY MORNING, JA v. 14

The Emperor of Austria displays great firm
ness, and insists on the unconditional acceptance
of the proposals of which Count Vaientine Ester-
hazy was the healer.

The Independance Bggc publishes the following

;olegraphic despatch :

BERLIN, SUNDAY, JAN. 13.

It is asserted hero that Count Buol having

been made acquainted yesterday with the reply
brought by the Russian courier who left St. Pe-
tersburg on the sch inst., informed Prince Gorts-
chakoff that the whole of the Austrian Legation
would leave St. Petersburg on the 18th inst.

THE ARMY IN THE CRIMEA.
( Front the Times correspondent.)
CAMP BEFORE SEBASTOPOL, Jan. 1.
There can hardly be a more perfect example of a
sinecure than the office of a newspaper correspon-
dent in the camp before Sebastopol at this present
time. There seems little chance of the Russians
meddling with us at present. With the ground
in its present state, it would be difficult to move
artillery. The men are well clothed, well fed,
the quarters are as good as circumstances will per-
mit, they appear contented, and have every reason
to he so.
The weather continues frosty, but not so severe
as it was. We have haft white frosts the last two
nights, and the sky looks very like snow.
It is expected that the docks we have mined will
he blown up this week, but no day is as yet posi-
tively fixed.

THE ARMY IN THE CAUCASUS.
(From the Times Correspondent.)
REDOUT-KALEIT, DEc. 20.
The terrific storms of the last week have obliged
all the steamers to get under way and seek at Batoum
that shelter which the open roadstead here does not
afford. Thus no opportunity has occurred of send-
ing letters since my last date. It was not without
difficulty that I made my way down here through
25 miles of mud. The army has gone into winter
quarters at Choloni, four miles to the rear of
Ziewie, where the formation of the country offers
great natural advantages of position. Unless the
weather improves, the communication between the
camp and the coast will be maintained with con-
siderable difficulty. In order to relieve the trans-
port service, part of the army has been moved to a
village half way between Choloni and Redout-
Kaleh, to whioh point there is water carriage by the
river Chopi. Omer Pasha has established himself
here for the present, and is engaged in completing
his winter commissariat arrangements. It will re-
quire all his highness's power of organisation to
meet the exigencies for which he is called upon
to provide. . Meanwhile the enemy had not been
idle. Finding that it was useless attempting to
harass the main body of the army, Prince Gregoire
(the brother of the Princess Dadian), at the head
of about 500 Georgian and Imeritian militia, sur-
rounded Sugdidi and, forcing the unfortunate inha-
bitants of the neighbouring villages to take up arms,
under threat of burning down their houses in case
of refusal, he led an armed mob into the town in
the middle of the night, and surprised an unfor-
tunate garrison of 180 Turkish soldiers, who had
been left there invalided. Three or four of these
were killed, and 32 taken prisoners in their
beds, before the alarm had thoroughly aroused the
remainder. These assembled hastily in the square
before the Princess's palace, and not only offered a,
stout resistance, but charged their numerous enemy,
who crowded the narrow streets, with such determi-
nation that they killed Goof them, among whom were
8 boys, and utterly routed the whole force ; after
which they barricaded themselves in the palace,
from which place a messenger was despatched to
Omer Pasha, asking for relief, at the same time as-
suring him they were provisioned and prepared for a
long resistance. Gregoire finding it was hopeless to
attempt to dislodge these brave men, turned his arms
against a Mingrelian Bey who had taken up arms
with the Turks, and obliged him to fortify himself
with his retainers in his fortress, which crowns a
hill-top, in regular feudal style. He, too, has ap-
plied for assistance, and Spender Pasl!ia, was sent to
the relief of both parties. That enterprising General,
getting information of the presence of the enemy
within a few miles of the camp, went out to meet
them with a regiment of cavalry and a battalion of
rifles wader Colonel Ballard ; placing the rifles in

ambush he advanced with his cavalry upon Prince
Gregoire. Seeing the small force opposed to him
the Prince charged the cavalry, which retreated un-
til the enemy was fairly in the trap, when the order
was given to fire, and a storm of Minie bullets chip-
tied a hundred saddles on the spot ; the remain-
der precipitately took to their heels. Skender
Pacha then proceeded to Sugdidi. This summary
chastisement will, doubtless, produce a wholesome
effect upon the enemy, but it is more difficult to
know how the people of tiae country are to be
treated. Their position is most unfortunate.
Forced on the one hand by the brother of their
Sovereign at the point of the sword to take
up arms against the Turks, subject on the other
to the immediate vengeance of these (the pre-
sent possessors of the country) if they are caught
with arms, they see no means of escape from the
dilemma in which they are placed, and which in-
volves the destruction of all they hold dear to them.
It is most earnestly to be hoped that the policy
of Omar Pasha in these difficult circumstances
will, during the ensuing winter be such as may Int
estrange the inhabitants of the country, but by
leniency, tempered with discretion, render them
more faithful allies, in anticipation of more ex-
tended military operations in the coming year.

THE FALL OF KARS.
The Journal de Constantinople of Jan. 3 con-
tains the official report of the defence and fall of
Kars, published in the Turkish official paper.
It is as vague a document as any ever written
by a Turkish Kiatib ; if it is to be believed it
must be Kismet (fate) and (under its auspices) the
Allied Powers to whom the fall of Kars is to be at-
tributed.

After paying a well-earned tribute to the
bravery of the garrison, this document says, " un-
fortnnately, bravery alone was not sufficient, and
as the place was invested, it was not possible
to throw in provisions." Then it pretends to
give a short resume of the siege, and exposes all the
good intentions which were entertained for the
relief of Kars. How, as soon as the Porte heard
of the state of the garrison, it took immediate
measures to send reinforcements and mate-
rial to Erzeroum, and how it ordered the diversion
by Batoum as the most effectual means to attract
the farces of the enemy, and relieve the town.
" Such," the document proceeds,—
"Were at least the dispositions taken by the Councils
of War held at Constantinople. Unfortunately the
views of the Turkish Government could not be carried
out, the Imperial troops being encamped around Se-
bastopol, and the great events which have signalized
the last period of the campaign, which ended in the fall
of Sebastopol, having not yet taken place, it was impos-
Bible for us to send our forces from there to Asia. On
the other hand, in order not to diminish the political
importance of our presence on the Danube, we could
not take troops from the army in the interior.
Thus the time passed until the Sirdar Ekrem (Omer
Pasha) went in all hate in the direction of Georgia, at
the Fame time that Selim Pasha was sent to organise a
reserve in Erzeroum."

The document describes then the good effect pro-
duced by the disembarking of troops at Batoum, me-
nacing, the rear of the Russians—namely, by in-
ducing them to attack the place—and it attributes
to the knowledge ihe Russians had of the famine
prevailing in Kars that they did not abandon the
place after their defeat.

- Then comes a curious paragraph :
" During this time, in consequence of unfore'een
circumstances, which it was imposs:ble to control, the
concentration at Batourn was retarded, and the ope-
rations destined to save Kars were drawn to such a
length that the garrison cou;d no more count on this
means of relief."

AMERICA.
THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.
LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MORNING.
The Royal mail steamer Asia has arrived, with
advices from Boston to the 2d inst.
President Pierce, notwithstanding the non elec-
tion of the Speaker, presented his Annual Message
to Congress on the 31st ult. 'We gather the fol-
lowing summary from the Hew York Courier and
Enquirer of the Ist inst :
" That part of the Message which was looked for
with the greatest interest was that which touched
upon our foreign relations. It was anticipated that
our difficulties with England would not be treated in
a very assuring tone—nor are they. The British con-
struction of the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty is pro-
nounced inadmissible, and the determination is ex-
pressed to insist upon the rights of the United
States. It is stated that negotiations are not yet at
an end, and yet little encouragement is held out that
they will produce a satisfactory solution, and we are
told that the question cannot mush longer continue
open without seriously endangering the friendly relation
of the two countries. So far as regards the view of oar
Government that tinder the trcaty the British have no
right in Gentr4l America, except at Belize, we appre-
heed there be no difference of opinion among the
American people, but we believe it morally certain
that England will never follow her pretensions to
arbitrament of the sword. The battle will not be
suffered to leave diplomatic ground, and it will
probably not be determined there before the internal
civil and commercial changes of that part of the conti-
nent will have superseded and made obsolete every ma-
terial point in dispute.
"In regard to the difference with England arising out
of her violation of our neutrality laws, by the attempt to
raise recruits within our borders, the President presents
no definiti►e view of the case. He bas demanded of the
British Government not only a cessation of the wrong
but its reparation, yet nothing specific is disclosed con-
cerning the chazacter of the reparation demanded or the
disposition of the Engli-h Government to make it. The
subject is yet under discussion.

"In reference to the Sound Dues at Denmark it is
stated that the invitation to our Government to go into
a convention with the representatives of all European
States, for the capitalisatio❑ of the dues, has been de-
clined, though a willingness is expressed to compensate
Denmark for all of her outlay in improving the naviga-
tion of the Sound or Belts.

"Our difficulties with France, Spain, and Greece are
all pronounced settled or nearly settled,"

In the House of Representatives on the 31st ult.,
after a fierce debate and much squabbling about
Parliamentary rules, it was decided by a vote of
126 against 87 that the Message should not be read
until the House was organised.