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RUSSIA.

The Invalide Russe publishes a long account of
Russian proceedings in the province of Turkistan.
Relying upon a report of the Governor of Orenburg,
it maintains that all the measures taken in those
regions of recent years have been necessarily brought
about by the events which have occurred upon the
Russian frontiers, and are most beneficial to the in-
habitants. In support of these statements the In-
valide quotes an address from the inhabitants of
Taschkend to the Governor of Oldenburg, in which
the citizens signing the document, while sub-
mitting the administration of their country to
the commands of the Czar, request that the
cognizance of the spiritual affairs of the coun-
try should be entrusted to the Kazy - Kalian,
their present ecclesiastical chief, subject to no inter-
ference whatever, except that of a " mediator," to
be appointed by the Russian Government ; they fur-
ther require that none of the inhabitants of Tasch-
kend should be enrolled in the army, or receive the
name of Cossacks ; that they might be relieved from
having troops quartered upon them ; they further
ask that the same privileges should be extended to
the inhabitants of Taschkend residing in other cities.
The original document bears the names and seals of
58 of the principal inhabitants of Taschkend. The
Invalide also publishes the following proclamation
of General Kryjanovski to the inhabitants :---
" The Emperor of all the Russias, Alexander
11., my master, having appointed me commander-
in-chief of the county of Orenburg, has also placed
under my orders the newly-formed province of
Turkistan, which is administered under my superior
authority by the military governor of Turkistan.
Inhabitants of Taschkend,—You know that for
many years the troops and subjects of the Khans of
Khokand attacked the Kirghiz subjected to Russia,
pillaged peaceable caravans, and prevented pacific
men from pursuing agriculture and commerce. My
sovereign gave orders that thepillage of the Khoka-
nese should be stopped, and the brave Russian sol-
diers have promptly carried out their monarch's will.
The Russian arms have vanquished in succession
the fortresses of Turkistan, Aoulieta, Tchemkend,
Niaz-bek, Tchinaz, and Taschkend; all the
other towns and fortresses will encounter the
same fate if our enemies persist in their
obstinacy. But, although the Russian Czar has
taken compassion upon these countries and their
poor inhabitants, although he has delivered them
from the brigandage of Khokand, he does not seek
new conquests, and has no need to acquire new ter-
ritories, for his Majesty already possesses more than
any other monarch. It is in this sense his Majesty
has given me orders with regard to Taschkend. In
execution of the Imperial will, and taking into con-
sideration the state of affairs I now find in the city
of Taschkend, I order as follows :—' The city of
Taschkend, with the territory extending as far as
the River Syr-Daria, shall form an independent
State. I have desired the military governor of the
province of Turkistan carefully to study the
real wants of the State of Taschkend, taking as
basis the indications I have given him, the first of
which settles that the religion you profess is to re-
main inviolable in every point. The conclusions of the
military governor will be submitted by me to the

supreme sanction of the:Emperor. You will indeed
be prosperous, inhabitants of Taschkend, if, by a
peaceful life and complete obedience to the orders
of the military governor, you prove yourselves
worthy of the bounty of our sovereign, and if you
know how to convert to your welfare the independ-
ence granted you. But wee unto those who abuse
the benefits of the great Czar, or dare to attack the
State of Taschkend, placed under the protection of
the invincible Russian army. May the Almighty
assist you for the general good in enjoying the
favours lavished upon you by the magnanimous
Sovereign of Russia ; may He aid you in establish-
ing upon the foundations of the new State a new
existence of calm and lasting prosperity.

" KRYJANOVSKI."

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

FA LM 0 UTH, Jan. 9.

The Diamond Company's steamer Albany, Ed-
ington commander, arrived here this evening from
the Cape of Good Hope, having left Algoa Bay on
the 3d of December; Mossel Bay, sth ; Table Bay,
9th ; St. Helena, 17th ; and Madeira on the 4th
inst., brings 11 bags of mails and the following pas-
sengers and cargo :—Mrs. Chitterton and child, Mr.
and Mrs. Early and infant, Mrs. Niadorff, Mr. and
Miss Limber, Miss Cooper, Colonel Travers, R.A.,
Messrs. A. P. Smithy, Fox, Jerrell, Mortem, Hor-
wood, Daley, Smith, and M. Bovet, first class ; and
Mr. and Mrs. Trill, Messrs. Fitch, Barchell, Lorie,
and Briggs, second class ; total, 24 ; 1,644 bales of
wool, 352 bags sugar, 42 cases of arrow-root, 8
cases of ostrich feathers, 276 elephants' tusks, 80
rhinoceros' horns, 75 bullocks' horns, 158 bundles
of hides, 3 bales of sheepskins, 6 bales of goatskins,
2 bales of Angola hair, 1 bale of cotton, 11 cases of
muskets, 1 case of mantles, 5 bales of buchie leaves,
1 box of ivory, and 11 boxes sundries.

Her Majesty's ship Valorous was in Table Bay,
and the Spiteful in Funchal Bay.
Trade had somewhat revived at Algoa Bay in
consequence of the favourable wool season.

There had been continuous and destructive
drought in many districts of the colony, and distress
among the unemployed in Cape Town.
The war between the Orange Free State and the
Basutos continued in a desultory manner without
any definite result, the British Government not in-
terfering. A conference had been held between the
authorities and Tambookies, the latter being unwil-
ling to remove from the borders of the colony across
the Kei, as proposed by the Governor.
The Union Company's steamer Dane was wrecked,
with entire loss of cargo, at Cape Recife, Algoa Bay,
on the Ist of December ; passengers and crew saved.
The coasting steamer Kadie and the bark Etheld-
rida, from Samarang, had been wrecked, as well as
the bark Esterias, at Bowie Harbour.
The Simla, from Bombay for Liverpool, was
sighted on fire, supposed to be from spontaneous
combustion of jute, in lat. 4 N. 20 W., by the Star
of India, which vessel remained by her for some
time, and took off her crew and transferred them off
the Cape to a French brig bound to St. Helena, at
which place they were landed on the 16th of De-
cember ; all well.

The Commercial Treaty between England

and Austria.

The London Gazette of last night contains the
Treaty of Commerce between her Majesty and the
Emperor of Austria, and the Final Protocol signed
at Vienna on Dec. 16, 1865 ; ratifications exchanged
at Vienna on Jan. 4, 1866. The provisions of the
Treaty have been already given ; the Final Protocol
is as follows :---.

Upon proceeding to the signature of the Treaty of
Commerce concluded this day between Great Britain
and Austria, the Plenipotentiaries of the two Powers
made the following Declarations :

I. The Plenipotentiaries of his Majesty the Em-
peror of Austria declared that in virtue of Article
XIII. of the Treaty of Customs and Contributions
Union of the 23rd December, 1863, between Austria
and Liechtenstein, the Treaty of Commerce con-
cluded this day would apply equally to the Princi-
pality of Liechtenstein, and the British Plenipoten-
tiary accepted this declaration.

11. In order to avoid any future doubt as to the
intention of Article 111., the Plenipotentiaries of
the two Powers agreed to thefollowing explanation :
In the construction of a Tariff of specific duties
by weight within fixed ad valorem rates, it is neces-
sary to determine what shall be the unit of value to
which each specific duty shall be applied.
In adopting the basis of value established by
Article 111., it is understood that it is not intended
to depart from the general principle of the Article,
viz., the application of certain maximum ad valorem
rates of duty to all articles of British produce and
manufacture, but to guard against the necessity of
making separate provision for every variety of each
article, thereby creating minute and inconvenient
subdivisions in the Tariff.

With this view, it beeomes necessary to group
together those different qualities and descriptions of
the same article or of similar articles which, from
their approximation in value and general resem-
blance in character, it is found possible to include
under one and the same denomination in one posi-
tion of the Tariff.
But it is understood that in fixing the denomina-
tions in each position of the future Austrian tariff,
they shall be so arranged that the duty affixed to
any one position shall not exceed the " maximum,
rates fixed by Article 111. of the Treaty upon the
average value of any kind of goods of commercial
importance included under any one denomination in
such position, unless by common consent it is con-
sidered expedient or necessary.
111. With reference to article IV., the Plenipo-
tentiaries likewise agreed that if it shall be found
that the prices of any kinds of goods have been es-
sentially disturbed by exceptional causes during the
12 months of the year 1865, the CommAsioners of
the two Governments shall endeavour to find such
a basis of value as shall be considered to correspond
to a fair average value for future years.
In the case of textile manufactures (the prices
of which have been seriously deranged during the
late war in the United States of America), it is
agreed that if the average prices of the year 1865
be taken as the basis of value, either contracting
party may claim a revision of such valuation after
the Ist of January, 1868.

IV. The British Plenipotentiary then declared
that—

Her Britannic Majesty engages to recommend
to Parliament the abolition of the duties payable
on the importation of wood and timber in the
United Kingdom, and also the reduction of the
duties payable on wine in bottle to the amount
of those payable on wine in wood upon importa-
tion into the United Kingdom.
V. The Imperial Austrian Plenipotentiaries on
their part declared that--

The duty upon the export of rags from the
States and possessions of his Imperial and Royal
Majesty shall, from and after the Ist of July,
1866, be reduced to two florins the zollcentner ;
and that—

The duty upon the importation of salted herrings
into the States and possessions of his Imperial and
Royal Majesty shall, from the Ist of February,
1866, be reduced to 50 kreutzers per zollcentner,
gross weight.
In witness whereof the undersigned Plenipoten-
tiaries have drawn up the present protocol in du-
plicate form, to which, after it had been duly read,
they affixed their signatures.
Vienna, this 16th day of December, 1865.
(L.S.) BLOOMFIELD.
BERNHAUD BARON WULLERSTORF,
C. Admiral.

ALARMING FIRE AT MESSRS. WOOD'S TYPE FOUN-
DRY.—This morning, shortly after midnight, police-
constable No. 240 of the City force, in passing along his
beat discovered smoke pouring out of the premises belong-
ing to Messrs. Wood, the typelounders, carrying on busi-
ness at 89, West Smithfield, City. After the fire engines
arrived a splendid head of water was immediately obtained
from the mains of the New River Company, and the fire-
men went to work, and happily succeeded in confining the
flames to the second floor back workshop, but that part of
the building and its contents was considerably burnt, but
not to such an extent as to retard the business from being
carried cm as usual.

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HER, MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Tuesday.

Her Majesty and Princess Louise -walked in the
grounds in the morning, and in the afternoon her
Majesty drove out with Princess Beatrice and
Princess Hermann of Hohenlohe.
Prince Arthur rode on horseback.

Princess Leiningen arrived at Osborne, and dined
with the Queen and royal family.

The Prince and Princess of Wales at
Holkham.

HOLKHA3I7 Tuesday.

In consequence of the recent death of the King
of the Belgians, the present visit of their Royal
Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales will
be, by his royal highness's command, strictly
private, and the gaieties at the house will not be
carried out to such an extent as they would have been.
Not a little astonishment was occasioned yester-
day among the country people who recognised the
heir to the throne riding on the railway engine.
Besides his royal highness were the Hon. T. De
Grey, M.P. ; Captain Tyler, C.E., of the Board of
Trade ; and Mr. J. S. Valentine, C.E. The object
of the prince was to see for himself the state of the
line and the nature of the works that have had to
be carried out, and it is understood that consider-
able interest was manifested by his royal highness
in the various matters explained to him by Captain
Tyler and Mr. Valentine.

The guests staying at the hall comprise the Duke
and Duchess of Roxburghe, the Marquis of Bow-
mont, Earl and Countess Spencer, the Countess of
Dunmore, the Earl of Dunmore, Viscount and
Viscountess Powerscourt, Lord and Lady Suffield,
Viscount Hamilton, M.P., Hon. T. De Grey, M.P.,
Hon. Edward and Mrs. Coke, Lieutenant-General
Porter, Hon. Colonel Coke, Hon. Captain Elphin-
stone, Admiral Sir Henry Keppel, Captain Stephen-
son, Mr. J. Powell, and Mr. Edward Tredcroft.

This morning his royal highness went out with
the Earl of Leicester, and shot in the covers on the
west side of the park.

_.6,,____

His Royal Highness the Count de Paris, who
arrived on Saturday at the Chief Secretary's Lodge,
Dublin, from visiting Count and Countess de Jarnac, at
St. Thomas-town, on Monday left the Right Hon.
Chichester Portescue, M.P., and the Countess Franca
Waldegrave's residence, for York House, Twickenham.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess
d'Aumale are expected to arrive on a visit to Franca
Countess Waldegrave and the Chief Secretary for Ireland,
on the 17th inst. ; and on the 19th the countess will give a
grand ball at the Chief Secretary's Lodge.
The Duke and Duchess of Somerset arrived at
the Admiralty, Whitehall, on Monday evening, from
Stover Park, their seat in Devonshire.

Lord and Lady Londesborough arrived at their
new residence in Grosvenor-square on Monday evening,
from Grimston, near Tadcaster.

Lord Overstone is entertaining a shooting party
at Overstone Park, Northamptonshire.

The Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer
arrived in town yesterday from Hawarden Castle.

Mr. and Lady Charlotte Schreiber have left Lang-
ham House for Cheltenham.

DEATH OF TEIE EARL OF LIMERICK.—We have
to record the death of the Earl of Limerick, which took
place on Friday last, rather suddenly, from an attack of
bronchitis. The deceased earl had not mixed much in
society of late years.
DEATH OF THE DOWAGER LADY CHURCHILL.--'
The venerable Dowager Lady Churchill died on
Sunday at the Ranger's Lodge, near Charlbury. Her lady'
ship was the widow of Francis Almeric, Ist Lord Churchill,
youngest son of George, 4th Duke of Marlborough, whom
she married 25th November, 1801. The deceased lady
was the fifth daughter of the 3d Duke of Grafton, and
was mother of the present Lord Churchill, Hon. George
Augustus Churchill, Lady Clonbrock, General the Hon.
Robert Charles Churchill, Sic.
DEATH OF MISS BREMER.—The Stockholm
papers announce the death of Miss Frederica Bremer,
the celebrated Swedish novelist. Miss Bremer was born at
Abo, in Finland, in 1802. After spending several years in
Norway and Stockholm as a teacher, she devoted herself
entirely to literary pursuits. Her first novels, The Pre-
sident's Daughters" and the "Neighbours," had a great
success, and were translated into most of the European
languages. Miss Bremer travelled a good deal, and visited
Germany, France, England, America, Italy, and the East.
PRESENT FOR THE EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA.—A mag-
nificent Hungarian mantle, trimmed and lined with ermine,
is being made at Pesth for the Empress of Austria when
her Majesty enters Hungary. It is to cost £4,000.

AMATEUR PERFORMANCE IN AID OF THE DO-
MATIC COLLEGE.—The club of amateurs known as the
Wandering Thespians announce a performance for Tues
day, the 23d inst., to be held at the St. Martin's Hall, ju
aid of the funds of tne above deserving institution.
THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE AND THE FREEMASONS
OF NOTTS.—The installation of the Duke of New:
castle as Provincial Grand Master of the Freemasons ee'
Nottinghamshire took place yesterday at the Mechanics'
Hall, Nottingham. The noble duke was invested with the
insignia of the order by the Rev. W. H. W. A. Borryol7
rector of Clapham, and Mr. E. J. Wlntyre, of London,
Grand Registrar. There was a good muster of the fraternity
from the neighbouring counties. After the installation the
noble Grand Master presided at a collation held at the
School of Art, at which masons only were admitted. I:
the evening the Duke of Newcastle and other chief officer
of the craft patronised the new theatre, a prologue having.
been written for the occasion I4y Mr. Walter Montgomery
To-night there will be a grand masonic ball.
A MARBLE MONUMENT is about to be erected to
the memory of Edgar Allan Poe in the Presbyterian
burial ground, corner of Fayette and Green-streets, Bald"
more, in which city the poet was buried.
SIGNOR MARIO continues to draw crowded houses
to the Madrid opera. After "Faust" he appeared in "
La
Favorite," with Madame Csillag, and both artists were re;
ceived with the greatest favour, Signor Mario, lade'
being the object of the most boundless enthusiasm. l‘llss
Laura Harris made her first appearance in the "Sonny
hula," and had an extraordinary success, being called
teen times.—Musical World.

THE SKULL OF BEN JONSON.—A statement ar
peared in the Times of November 11, 1865, fr°11.1?:,
lecture delivered at Hull by Dr. Kilburne King, to tu"
effect that Ben Jonson's skull had been extracted frouaest-
tninster Abbey on the occasion of the interment of Di%
Hunter's remains, and was now in the possession of 01
private individual. The whole story has been just set
of
rest by a lucid description of the circumstances nut a
which the story grew in an interesting work just published
by Mr. Fliank Buckland, son of the late Dean of Wrest:
minster-1(' Gleanings of Natural History," third series, 11°,,,
6, pp. 141-189. It there appears, with much curious dets"
that the skull of Ben Jonson rests, beyond question, sey3„4
°
12 or 18 inches beneath the triangular stone which bet"
his name in the north aisle of the nave of the Abbey in
place in which the remains were found in an upright of
tion (according to tradition) at an accidental opening uf
grave in 1849.
THE GREAT FIRE at St. Katharine's Docks Prf;
sented many points of interest untouched by ti°
reporters. The sight itself was wonderful beyond 1;
scription, but the lounging crowds who collected to see,
presented as curious and in some respects as awful aspeoef
tacle as the fire itself. The greater part of them Whir
the lowest labouring class—men willing to work for
living, but getting little to do. Among these not one :iv
pression of regret was to be heard, though the women g 0 Do
times asked anxiously whether any one was likely t°nd
hurt. The men looked with interest on the Speettieleloa'the
were sorry that they should have to move on when ht
night slops come out"—that is to say when the n' e 0
police were turned out to help. But the feeling most °w
oe
monly expressed was this of an old woman " s
there will be work for poor men." A fire like this ins
et,,o
plenty of work for labourers. No one ignorant of tlijs.
neighbourhoods can understand the weight of those wetwo
Day by day, year by year, hundreds of men—a score ors in
at the different gates of the dock—may be seen Iraitli'Zgo
stolid weariness for the chance of a day's work - the to
of which is half-a-crown. When a foreman comes t°
gate to take on a few hands the press of the mon snod f the
faces— hungry, eager beyond description—make one et of
saddest of the sad sights to be seen even at the el to
London. We make no suggestion as to the cause 0e for
fire, though that ono should break out twice in shops
months in the same warehouse looks ugly.—[For the.,istef
impressive and significant paragraph, with th° sire in
suggestion thrown out out at the close of it, W 0
8'
debted to a recent number of the Pall Mall Gazette.]
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GLASGOW, Jan. 6.—Cotton.—The cotton ID 'ava
has been firm and steady during the Week, ',,,nros•
prices have had an upward tendency. Goods and keep
—The market has been quiet this week, but Prieetosive
very firm. Iron.—We continue to have a veil eic „,py
business in warrants, and the op9rators seem in ""eryet ;
daunted by the adverse turn taken by the money 1n650
the prices for the week have ranged from 64s 9d Woocriog
cash, and the close to-day was firm with buYers so, lt
65s 3d. No. 1, g.m.b., quoted 65s ; No. 3,
64s ad ;
Gartsherrie and Coltness, 695.