Grass Valley telegraph., 1854-04-20

lowing gleanlngS Will De OF lnCeIeSC iA"0N0
as they show the state of feeling in Europe at
the present time
Actual operations exhibit no new features,
but every power in Europe continues to arm
France, England, and Russia on an I'M
mense scale.
ENTHUSIASM IN ENGLAND.
The Liverpool Times of the 23d ult, says:
This is an exciting day in Liverpool. The
city is all alive with the pomp and circum-
stance of war; Bells are pealing from every
spire, and banners waving from every public
building. Tens of thousands of spectators
line the banks of the river, and crowd even
the house-tops, to catch glimpse of the
troops embarking ''for the war;" A vestige
of John Bulls old martial spirit has revived,
and the cheers of the assembled multitude
testify how popular, after all, a great war is.
Nor is the enthusiasm at all diminished by
noticing the fine appearance Of the men en-
barking. To-day only 5000 bayonets go on
board, but they carry with them regimental
colors Inscribed with all spirit-stirring names
Peninsula, Talavera. and Waterloo-to
which hope already adds '.The Danube" At
the same moment that these men are being
embarked, other regiments are embarking
from Dublin, Southampton. and we have rea-
son TO believe, from Toulon and Africa. The
most skeptical have now reason to believe
that Europe stands under the shadow OF
great war, of which no one can venture to
predict the end.
Intelligence from Liverpool to noon Of the
22d ult., says:
The ship Manila and Niagara will sail with
5000 men to-day. The Cambria and Vulcan
with 1900 on Friday the Himalaya with
400 on Friday the Emu and Simeon with
1000 this day week and the Golden Fleece
and Atraton with 22OO shortly afterwards.
The Mediterranean brigade will be formed
from the 44th and Gibraltar and two regi-
ments at Malta.
The third battalion of Grenader Guards
left St. Georges Barracks, London, at 4.30
for Southampton. The crowd of spectators
was so great that it became difficult to pre-
serve passage and the troops and people
presented a compact mass. The cheering was
vociferous.
Accounts to the 5th of March are to the eff
feet that the war continued to be quite popu-
lar, although not without shade of anxiety.
The additional estimates for the army and
navy were considered moderate.
| Lord Raglan, the British Commander-in-
Chief in Turkey, was in Paris on his way to
the seat of war.
FRANCE.
OPENING OF THE LEGIsLATURE.-Thc Empe
ror opened the Legislative Session on the I'd
of March. His speech commenced by refer
ring to the deficient harvest, 1000, 900 hecto-
litres of wheat having been imported, and
more on the way. Famine has been averted,
but war is beginning. France has gone as far
as honor permitted to avoid a collision, but
must now draw the sword She has no views
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are passed. never to return. After comment
ing upon the exorbtant demands Of Russia,
the Emperor says: France has also an equal
interest with England in preventing Russian
supremacy from extending itself indefinitely
over Constantinople for to be supreme in
ConstantinOple is to be supreme in the Medi-
terraneaR. To protect this right has been for
ages the policy of every national Govern
ment in France, and | will not desert it. We
are going, therefore, to Constantinople to de-
fend the cause of the Sultan-prot.ct the
rights of Christians the freedom of
the seas. and Frances just rights in the Ne
diterranean- going with Germany, to aid
Germany-with Austria, to aid in preserving
the rank from which they wish to degrade
her, to secure her frontier against the prepon-
derance of her too powerful neighbor; are
going, in short, with all those who desire the
OA AISHO3 VI .JuoblCC dllu ClNlllZdGIOu.
In this solemn conjecture, gentlemen, is it
that shall be obliged to appeal to the conn
try. rely firmly upon you, for I have al
ways found in you the generous sentiments
which animate the nation. Strong, then, in
this security-in the nobleness of our cause
in the firmness Of our alliances. and the pro-
lection of God, I hope soon to arrive at
peace which shall no longer depend on the
power ofany one to disturb it with impunity.'
The English Press is unanimous in praise of
this speech.
Report assigns the command of the army
OF the East to Marshal ST. Arnaud and Mar
shall Valiant will succeed him as Minister of
War.
POSITION OF AUSTRIA.
The fact that Austria adheres to the Allied
Powers, was officially announced by the EN-
peror Napoleon to the French Legislature.
She will not, however, be called on at pres
ent to take offensive measure againt Russia.
but merely to keep peace on the frontiers.
despatch from Vienna of February 27th,
says the movement of troops towards the
frontiers continues. The government has de-
cded in conjunction with the Western Pow
ers, to summon Russia to evacuate the Prin-
cipalities, and. if necessary, to employ force
to compel her to do so.
Another despatch of the I'd of March from
Vienna. states that an Austrian manifesto is
about to announce that Austrans will occupy
Bosnia and Servia. There was a panic in
consequence on the Vienna course.
Russia demands that Prussia shall at least |
close her ports nearest Russia against French |
and English ships. Berlin letters say that
Prussia is not willing to accede to this de-
mand. Prussia has granted her officers in |
the Turkish service to remain.
POSITION OF SWEDEN AND DENMARK.-Rus- |
sa makes the same demand on Swedish ports. |
The reply was not known.
England and France request Denmark to
allow the allied fleets to take up their station
at Kiel. The reply was unknown.
Both Denmark and Sweden have ordered
their citizens in the Russian naval service to
return home
The negotiations between the Russian and
Swedish governments have not yet terminal
ed, and it is feared at Stockholm that Russia.
in order to give more weight to its demands