Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1855-01-03
Crimea. The health Of Prince Napoleon was
improving.
(Signed) CANRoBERT. !.

Crimea. The health Of Prince Napoleon was
improving.
tSigned) CANRoBERT.
DECEMBER 4.-RUssIAN ACCOUNT.
Prince MsnschikoH telegraphs 10 st. Peters
burg that to the 4th December nothing new
had occurred ct Sebastopol excepting some
triting lRussianl sorties, without success.
An English letter says that, on the 23d, a
party OF British spiked sixteen Russian guns
No details given. The besiegers third parallel
is completed. storm In the sea Of Azoff has
wrecked forty Russian vessels.
| VARIOUS ITEMS
| The Empress Of Russia is sick, and lies at
the point Of death.
A letter from Constantinople, OF Noyenybeir
80, states that the ministerial crisis continued.
The Minister of Finance had been deposed,
and the dismissal of the Seraskier was impend-
ing.
| The advanced corps Of the Russian guards
already touches the Austrian frontier.
The King OF Prussia is sick and confined to
| his room.
An absurd story had appeared in some pa
pers, to the effect that General Canrobert had
announced he would fight great battle on
December I'd.
| The DANUBE.
| A letter from Bucharest, under date 18th,
mentions that Omar Pacha that morning left
Bucharest for Varna, where the remainder Of
the nineteen Turkish battalions ordered to the
| Crimea were being embarked Thirty-fve
thousand men are to be sent.
! Of date the 9th it is stated that the whole
Turkish army has recrossed the Danube.
Sadld Pacha was occupying the Dobrudscha,
and Kalareseh and Guirgevo had received
Turkish garrisons.
The last ships of the feet are under weigh
| for England.
Queen Victoria speech was published in all
the Paris papers, and was fayorably received.
The embarkation of troops and military
| stores continues with greater activity than at
| any period since the commencement of the
war.
An imperial decree promulgates the treaty
| concluded July TO- 1853, between France and
| the Argentine Confederation, for the free nayi.
cation of the rivers Paraguay and Uruguay.
As stated, per last steamer, Admiral Hame-
lin has returned to France, and has resigned
the command Of the French feet in the Black
sea.
Germany.
On December 9th the Germanic Confedera
ton unanimously adopted the additional arti.
Gle to the treaty concluded between Austria
and Prussia on the 26th of November. Aus
tria is thereby secured on the side of Germany.
dispatch says that, to 18th instant, Prus-
STA showed no disposition to accede to the
treaty of the I'd.
Bavaria suggests conference of the secon-
Diary powers, with an eye to peace.
Spain.
The news is not important The ministerial
crisis appears to have blown over.
The following news telegraphed from Madrid,
9Th, to the French and English press.
A conspiracy in Cuba has been suppressed.
Two United States packets have been seized
at Havana, for having conveyed arms and
sedtious proclamations.
The principal conspirator is q native of the
United States, named Scott The proclama-
tons comprised seditious publication of New
York, named La Terdad.
Denmark.
A new Cabinet has been formed, consisting
of the following members:-M. Won Scheel,
from Pinneborgen; Holster, Foreign Affairs
dd interim, in the absence Of Count Plessen,
Envoy ut Stockholm; P. G. Bang, (former)
Minister of the Interior and ad interim for
Schlesing; Prof. Hall, Minister for Public Wor.
ship; Colonel Andra, Minister of Finance
Colonel Luttichau, War Department; Comman-
der Nicholson, Marine; NJ. Simony, (former)
Minister of Public instruction.
India and China.
TRADE DULL.-THE RESURRECTION SPREADING.
The India and China mail is telegraphed from
Trieste with dates from Calcutta, November 8; |
Madras, 18th; Shanghae, October 18th Annoy,
I'D; Hong Kong, 18th; Canton, 9th; Bombay,
November l4th.
An envoy from Kokan, and another from
Dost Mahomed, had arrived at Peshawur, the |
Afgan chiefs having decided on an English |
instead of Russo-P Persian alliance. Lord F.
Fitzclarance, commander:in-chief at Bombay, |
is dead. Trade in India was dull, and money
scarce; exchange at Calcutta Is. lid The |
price Of opium has declined to 400 rps. in less
than year.
Trade in China was also dull Exchange at |
Canton All, with few purchases Of teas
The instruction was gaining ground in the |
North. 1t is asserted that, two days distance |
from Canton, the insurgents seized lS chops Of |
congous and destroyed 6.
LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
The duration of the present session Of Par
lament depends on the progress Of the Govern.
ment measures, Out IL VIII PROBABLY adjourn IN |
about a week.
General Ostensacken has arrived in the
Crimea to take command of Dannenbergs
division.
private letter says that the ratification Of
the treaty with Austria was exchanged at
Vienna on the l4th
If the negotiations now pending do not pro-
duce peace, Russia will call out l6 men per
l,000--equal to a million of men---to take the
field as early as possible.
Cherib Pacha is appointed Turkish Minister
Of Finance.
The text of the Russian note which Prince
GortschakoA addressed to Count Buol at Vienna,
on the 18th, was as follows: "The undersigned
is authorized to declare to M. Buol that his
Majesty the Emperor accepts the four PROPOSE
tons Of the Cabinet Of Vienna, to serve a. the
starting point Of negotiations for peace"
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