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which once crushed their liberties, may again be
tnade available for a similar purpose ?
Is it bccause Italy is left, to its fate, and the
quasi independent States are still to be occupied
and controlled by French and Austrian bayonets ?

earth-10,000 ! 20,000 ! 30,000 !—between
tifase horrible mud-roads to Balaklava and those
terrible trenches in front of Sebastopol ! He is
still the same humorous, delightful creature (the
House of Commons thinks)—" the merry old
gentleman," familiar to the Artful Dodgers of the
Legislature—he is still the same charming agree-
able wag—now that people are debating about the
Fall of Kars, about the agonies of famine endured
for many dreadful we3lcs by its heroic garrison,
about the infamous abandonment of General
WILLIAMS and his glorious companions-in-arms
by an irritable diplomatist and a wholly unscru-
pulous and unconscientions Government. What
a spectacle—this—for all the rational men, and
women, and children throughout Christendom !

Is it bacausa the bravo Circassians are left to
the tender mercies of the AUTOCRAT ? because the
united armies of the Crimea and of Georgia can
now operate with irresistible force against the
Caucasian tribes, and overthrow the obstacle that
so long proved a bulwark against Muscovite ag-
gression in Asia ?

I 3 it because those who, unfortunately for them-
selves, sympathised with the Allies, have been
left with the mere paper promise of an amnesty,
but without any efficient or satisfactory guarantee
against the cruel punishments to which they may
be subjected by the myrmidons of an enraged
despot ? because the Western Powers have disre-
garded their solemn obligations to these oppressed
and long suffering peoples ?
Is it because the maritime supremacy of
England has been wickedly and wantonly
relinquished ? because the rights for which
NELSON fought the battle of Copenhagen-
-1 which England maintained inviolable against
the armed neutrality of Russia, of Sweden, and
of Denmark, in defence whereof our greatest
admiral declared that we would sacrifice our last
ship, our last seaman,. and our last pound, have
been needlessly obliterated with a stroke of the
diplomatic pen ?
Is it because a princess of England has been
sacrificed as completely as IPHIGENIA at Aulis,
or as JEPHTHA'S daughter, as a makeweight, and
a further proof of our subserviency to Germanism ?
of swallowing the mysterious condiment known as
"German Paste ?" because England may at some
future time be annexed to Prussia, and placed
under the government of a Prussian Viceroy ?
Is it because Lord PaorEasrox, the new
Knight of the Garter, the recipient of the
reward accorded to Lord ABERDEEN when dis-
missed from office by an overwhelming ma-
jority of the House of Commons, has shown
himself to be no longer the Minister of England,
but the Minister of Germany, of Russia, and of
France, because he has relinquished the indepen-
dence that prompted the manly sentiment that
England has no German or Portuguese cousins ?
Is it because LEOPOLD has triumphed, because
he has elevated the COBURG influence, and may
obtain Austrian and Prussian aid, to the esta-
blishment of a kingdom of Thuringia, and the
mediatising of German princes less fortunate in
their matrimonial alliances ?
These are questions that must be answered in
Parliament this evening, before the fulsome Address
proposed can be sanctioned. There are many others
no less pertinent that will arise in every inde-
pendent mind. We have long rendered an inde-
pendent support to Lard PALMERSTON, because
we believed him to be a truly English Minister.
We deeply lament that he has abandoned his
vantage ground. When 83 scandalously turned
out in 1851, the feelings of the people were with
him. Such will not be the case the next time.
He may not have the opportunity of making an
appeal to the country, for we have seen as power-
ful an Administration summarily expelled from
office in 1834. Let him, then, be warned in time,
and, ere it be too !ate, determine rot to put his
trust in Princes, but in those who will not betray
or abandon him so long as he merits their support.

LATEST NEWS.

MARSEILLES, MAY 5, 8 A.M.

The Meandre arrived yesterday, with advices
from Constantinople of the 24th, and from the
Crimea of the 22d ult.

She could not land her despatches on accoun
of the bad weather.

They were lauded to-day, and leave at 9 a.m.
The steamer Count Cavour has arrived from
Porquerolles, with 760 soldiers.

PARIS, MONDAY, MAY 5, 8 A.M.

The Moniteur publishes a decree, ordering the
reduction of 52,000 in the effective strength of
the army.

ST. PETERSBURG, SUNDAY.

General Soukhozanet is gazetted Minister of
War, and Prince Gortschakoff Minister of Foreign
Affairs, with M. Tolstoi as his adjoint.

The Treaty of Peace is published.

A circular has been issued by the Minister of
the Interior, exhorting the serfs to obedience to

ITALY.

their owners under penalty of the Emperor's dis
pleasure and a severe punishment.

KONIGSBERG, MAY 3.
A reduction of the Russian fleet is effected,

Three divisions will be stationed in the Baltic.
The Pontus fleet will retain the denomination of

amnesty on a large scale is exp"eeted

the fleet of the Black Sea. (Tschernomorique.)

BERLIN, SUNDAY.

The King has conferred the Order of the Black
Eagle on his Majesty the Emperor of the French.
The King closed the session of the Diet yes-
terday. His Majesty said that owing to the mo-
derate pretensions of the belligerent powers a
treaty of peace, so ardently desired, had been con-
cluded, in concert with Prussia. Peace had al-
ready diminished the dearness of food, and there
was a likelihood that an abundant harvest would
restore cheapness and plenty. He complimented
the Chambers on the activity they had shown in
the conduct of their legislative labours, and con-
cluded by advising them to cultivate concord
among themselves, so that the country, in friendly
rivalry with other nations, might ba enabled
more and more to develope the resources of peace.

The Russians have commenced the evacuation
of the fortresses of Renai and Ismail. The jour-
nals of St. Petersburg publish a circular addressed
to the heads of Governments and to the marshals
of the nobility, recommending them to seek out
new branches of industry, at the same time that
they maintain the serfs in their obedience to the
tobles.

AUSTRALIA.

PLYMOUTH, SUNDAY EVENING.

FRANCE.
PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING.
The Moniteue of Sunday contains a letter ad-
dressed to the Prefect of Police by the Minister of
the Interior, in obedience to an order of the Em
peror. It is there said that since the powerful
impulse given to national industry by the Emperor,
a class has arisen of men who mingle in affairs and
undertakings for which concessions are necessary,
and pretend their great influence in high places,
their secret intelligence, the power of raising diffi-
culties or causing them to disappear. Of these pre-
tended personal influences, it is said, a complete
trade is made, The Emperor desires the public to
understand that in matters which concern the na-
tion personal influence is proscribed, and he de-
sires that the police will use all diligence to bring
under the operation of the penal code persons
offending as described.

"GERMAN PASTE."

Oar English glory is c.a9rmel, our triumph ratigol,

Princ© Oscar, who has already left Stockholm,
will, after visiting a portion of Germany, arrive in
Paris to be present at the baptism of the Prince
Imperial. '
Bouass, May 3.—The following are the last
quotations :

Cash. fr. e. End of Month.
li por Cents 94 —f. —c.
3 per Cents 74 90 75 20
New Loan
_7_ 5--

Bank Shares 3,950 Roman
Credit Mobilior 1,763 Austrian
Belgian Fives. 93 Spanish Throes
Piedinontest (5)

THE SUM. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 5. 1856•

dividend,. These enterprkel give rise to well-founded
expectations of the future prosperty of those tracts of
country.

" Inthe same way the law for introducing one stan-
dard weight for the whole country will be of most ad-
vantageous results, not only to internal traffic, but also
our eornintrcial relations with the rest of the Zollverein.
"By means of the arrangement that has with your
consent been come with the Bank of Prussia, thisgrand
national monetary institution will be enabled to meet
the requirements of traffic and commerce, while at the
same time the credit of the State is protected against
the danger.; which, in unusual conjunctures, might be the
result of a large unfunded debt.

"For the -Hohenzollern territory, the prosperity of
which, as our most recent acquisition, is the favourite
object of my special care, you have discussed and passed
various special laws, which will contribute to the im-
provement of the state of things there, and serve at the
same time as a fresh proof of the unremitting solicitude
of my Government.

"You have subjected the Budget that was laid before
you to a careful and thorough investigation. In giving
your constitutional consent as you have to the various
estimates without alteration you have recognised that
the expenditure has been apportioned with conscientious
economy to the wants of the State. The same con-
sideration has led you to vote the extraordinary ad-
dition to various taxes for this year also. In the in-
terest of the tax-payers my Government will willingly
relinquish the continuance of this additional tax, if
the preservation of the balance between income arid ex-
penditure can be maintained in the budget without in-
crease to the National Debt.

"A further portion of the 30,000,000 raised to meet
the extraordinary requirements of the army has been
spent this year for the purpose for which it was raised.
When you next meet again the necessary accounts of
the expenditure shall be laid before yow. And, at the
same time, your consent will be asked for the definitive
application of the ba'ance that may remain available
after the army has been restored to the peace footing.
"Gentlemen,—You will now return to your homes,
and on the approaching celebration of the peace you will
with my whole -people offer up to the King of Peace
thanks and praise, that He has put an end to a baneful
war, and has in mercy preserved our country from its
miseries. Do you all of you, each i❑ his own pecu:iar
circle, strive that with peace and unity a conciliatory
and a brotherly spirit may obtain more and more, so
that our fatherland may in rich and ample measure en-
joy the blessings of peace, and in enlightened competi-
tion with nations with whom we are connected by the
ties of affinity and amity impart to it a life•;iving deve-
lopment. Let this, illustrious, noble, and dear Sirs,
let this be our prayer, let these be our resolutions on the
festival of peace!

" For your faithful and unremitting labours receive, in
conclusion, my thanks and my grateful acknowledg-
ment."

TURIN, May 3.—The Official Gazette of Parma
denies the fact of any augmentation of Austrian
troops in the Duchy of Parma.

Tae ruches% Regent has gone, leaving the exer-
cise of civil authority in the hands of the Austrian
military commander.

The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa says that the
differences between Naples and the Western
Powers are in course of arrangement, and that an

SPAIN.
MADRID, MAY 2.—The Gazette publishes the
statutes of the CAtalonian Credit Mobilier.

The Duke of Victory, after haying inaugurated
the works of the railway from Valladolid to Bur-
gos, has left the latter city for Logrono and Sara-
gossa.

The Vienna Gazette publishes the treaty of peace
in its number of the 30th April. The decree which
renders the treaty obligatory for the Austrian em-
pire is drawn up in Latin. The treaty itself is
published in French and in German.

Notes will be exchanged between the Belgian
and French Governments on the subject of the
press in Balgium, and no doubt with reference to
the observations of M. Walewski during the con-
ferences on the same subject. Indeed a visit from
King Leopold to Paris is not considered unlikely.

It appears that the Woronzoff Palace of St.
Petersburg has been engaged for three years for
the new French Ambassador. Count Orloff was
so good as to act on the occasion, and secured it
for his friend and admirer, M. De Morny. The
rent of the palace is for the first year 50,000 f., and
for the last two 40,000 f.

The ship Ellenborough, Captain George Has,
was off this port to-day. She left Sydney 21th
January, with 141 ounces of goldqtast,
Cargo, consisting of 2,500 bales of wool, hides, tal-
low, &c., for London.
She rounded the Horn February 25 and crossed
the line March 25 ; spoke February 28 the ship
Nimroud, out 42 days from Sydney, for London ;
March 7, barque Hero, 42 days from Launceston,
Van Diemen's Land ; March 20, barque Albro, out
9 days from Rio Grande, for Liverpool; April IG,
ship Statesman, out 82 days from Melbourne, for
London ; April 27, Mitch barque Christina Agate,
out 113 days from Batavia, for Amsterdam ; April
30, barque Cainerton, oat 37 dvs from Jamaica,
for Landon ; and May 3, ship Alma, standing to
the westward. The Statesman is in the Channel.

A. little English has gone —1 few brave cam havo died ;
But "Articles of PO:l3e " aro signed, aui form a paint)" ea ;a.
Whore, like the "Happy Family," all nations lose their raga.

'Tis curious to watch the "Bear" bow down with courtly stoop,
Ind let tho gallant etigie strat around him " cock-11-NV:lO3p ; "
'TisstrAnge to see the Lionstretehel, likalamb on flowery plain,
WhilePrussiannatsandA as,!ricta,Catsare playingwith his mane,

'Tis whispered there's a secret in the mixture of their foe 1,
Some patent charm that cuanin;ly affects their real blood ;
And shrew.). men have suspicion that tits " secret" is a taste
Of that mysteriom condiment well known as "German Paste. "

So satisfying does it prove, so soon it yields enou;h,
It seems a pity that our "store 4" did not oontAin the staff ;
Tint English man and Eaglish steels, on Bllaklava's waste,
Could eothavehad theirlivos s:tv.id by a little "Germ in Paste."

PerhapsJohnßailinayask to know how this s,arne stuns madc,
Perhaps he'll find that this same stuff affords a Royal trade.
Perhaps at last his genuine and honest roast•baef taste
Will"stop supplies" for bills of fare made up of "German Paste."
MARCO.