The New York Herald Newspaper, January 8, 1854, Page 2

Whe Black Bea, and force them to retam to Bebas- Lapol, which port they will not be allowed to leave Will the conclusion of a treaty of peace. This is the first real act of the Western Powers in the war, Which now threatens to become European. The French government is making efficient pre- Parations for war, as the Ministry of War plans are being prepared for the organization of forty-two Wivisions, which will give an effective force of 600,000 mea. i ‘The couriers with the despatches to the sdmirals Ieft London and Paris on the 10th fuat., and will Cds quently reach Constantinople on Christmas Oye, or thereabouts. From the seat of. war there is nothing new, though it ap) ars that an attack on Kalefat by the Rus- fens. was repulsed with great logs to the Russians. Th. Home Secretaryship, vacant since the resig- Mic_ of Lord Palmerston, has not yet been filled p- Sir James Graham is spoken of, who will be teas Jed by Fox Maule in his department. Texcloee you a late sheet, containing many inte- fetir & items of intelligence. “Yon will see that MM. Soule, at Madrid—father Aud eon—have been principals in duels at that capi- tal. I enclose details. Th: following version was current in Paris:— A cvet has taken place between the Marquis de Targot, the French Ambassador, amd Mr. Soule, the American Minis ¢r at Madrid, is which Lord Howdsn acted a s0- fond t» the Marquia de Turgot. It appears that another uel >ad previourly taken place between the Dake of ibe 04 Mr. Soul, Jin, #n of the Minister, arising out Of the quarrel to which I slladed some time ago, and whiol. wk place st che French Ambssamdor’s ball. It will b. remembered that the Duke of Alba was overheard M-. Soulé speshiag cixparagtogly of the drass of as Soule, whom te compared to Mary of Bargaudy. Atth: ime, the Duke of Alba declined the car + to Bhim }y Mr. Sovlé, ea the g ound that the qarrrel was ut since them he wees to hava reo The pertiis sought with sm: to three-quarters of ap hour. At en the Dake, with the poiat of a1 . forsed hix opponeat to retrast. ara that the duel betwees the Marquis de Targot Itep: and 2. Soule, ‘sen. originated in the saue affair, #0 that ti» Dube of Alon by one joke about aa American lady's +‘ yl of dress, nus contrived vo get up two duels, The Madrid correspondent ot tne Chronile, writ- ing under date of De>. 15, gives the following version OC the affair:— Adu-ltook place yesterday, atd P, M., near the Prado, u tha Duke of Aina and Mr, Souié, jun.. son of the ates envoy at thia Court. The ssconds of the General J. do ia Coucha and the Couat of Pa Mowro-(rv; and those of Mr. Soule were Col. Milans del Boseb and Mr. Perry, Secretary tothe American legation. The parties fought with swords, but fortunately without Bither being wounces, (a far as I can leara,) and it end- iig up @ minute of the proceedings og been consnc'e anner satisfactory to the pdreputaitonof both parties. It was alaoagreed, old, that the letters waich have passed between QBow + hould be mutually withdrawn. A letter from Madrid, dated December 17, has the fellowing : In to bave to umform you that the affair to which y alluded yeste day has terminated in s meeting, in spite of the efforts of the friends ties to briag about ® peaceadle arrangemen:; mitted on ail sides that Lord Howden’s efforts fo rec «cle them have been uprewitting. The prinei, are}: .© Turgot, Freoch ambassador, wad Me Sobli Unite inten envoy at this court, The secouds of the forme ire Lord Honden, and Goneral Calter, F fomm oner on the houccary question. Mr. Sou’é atten. by General Valdez and Senor B. A ‘amii The 6 «| took place tuis morairg, with pi-tols, at twenty plows: pares meotirg at Chamartin, a league from nat balf pasteleven The frat fire toox plase with- put erst On the rreond fire, M de Turgot was abot thre: ¢ knee; he was immediately re- riieg, and bore the journey pretty isrow a z001 deal swollen; but as it ap- nevecsp was not touched, and mo principal it ic trusted that his state is not one of Mr. Soulé was not wounded. » Bremen steamer Germania has put in at Fal- for coals, haying experienced a succession of Mout Oaste ly gales. ‘The court has come to Windsor. ALBEMARLE SrReet, PiccaviLty, } Lonpon, De 53. 1, 1853. Gigon tre Viaduct in South Wales—The Currency and its Difficulties—Mechi, the Razor Maker,a Midi Farmer—Reform in the Universities—The Burial Clubs—The Coal Trade—Deaths of the Maurchioness of Welleslesy and Lady Eglinton— Theatres, &¢—The Wednesday Evening Con- cers §e. In connection with the South Wales Railway, which: i+ a broad gauge line in connection with, and main’y supported by, the directors of the Creat West. :n, a line is fast approaching completion that will un'te the towns of Newport, Abergavenny, and Here!.:d; and on this there is now in course cf con- struction a viaduct bridge which is the largest hi- therto designed in the United Kingdom, and probably im the world—not excepting even the magnificent viaduct over the Tweed valley on the Great North- ern, between Newcastle and Edinburg. TheCromp- ton v>sduct crosses the Ebbw, an affluent of the Bevern at a mean height of somewhat more than two hundred feet above the river, and the chief struc- ture crossing the nosthern valley, is 1,066 feet long, @ividei into seven spans or arches of one hundred and fifty feet each, each span consisting of four wron,! iron girders, which rest on iron piers com- posed of fourteen grouped columns, that are them: gelves framed together with cast iron girders, the whele being of such enormous strength that the woods platform above, on which the rails rest, is caleu’ sted toybear a weight of several thousand tons. This ¢.cucture may not, perhaps, bear comparison in Bovel'y and grandeur of conception, with the tubular bridge- over the Menai straits and the Wye river, near Chep:'ow; but as a viaduct, it is the fincet that has yet been brought into existence by the railway sys- tem, i this orany other country of Europe; and Consicciing its size, the estimated cost, (under £120,009.) is all but insignificant. Whcu the government, with the concurrence of most of our great capitalists and others learned in monets'y matters, established the currency system au- poriz: i by the bank act of 1844, it was thought by y ‘o be a nearer approach to perfection thanany i had gone before; but subsequent experience, sl y that bitterly learned in 1847, when consols 70g and the bank discounts rose to 8 per cent, es emp ly shown tha! in times of difficulty the Dank «! England is utterly powerless, without per- miasio. to violate the law, for saving the trading comm ity from the embarrassments, calamities and efuin 0° a monetary crisis. What happened in 1847 May cccar again; and, indeed, there are unequivo- al in: ‘cations of some great monetary crisis in the vast 1. mber of foreign loans aad foreign projects, exoet «ive trading transactions with foreign countries, and excessive investments in railway and other joint stock « mpenies, and lastly, ia the deficient crops very g: neral throughout Europe, the wnole of which are ceiculated to require a capital of nearly two han- dred 1:)/lions sterling, distributed as fullo Capita: required for foreign projects Foreico loans, wanted by France, Aus- Rassia 7,000,000 tria and +e 30,000,000 Capit::: to make up for deficient retorns Tndian and Chinese trade 5,000,000 Excers of exvorts in 1852 and 1853 15 000,000 Home ; rejects registere 70,000,000 Deficient crops . 15,000,000 Tora. , £195 ,000,000 Thi. ‘ist of projected schemes may perh spa be not} & littic diminished by the bursting of many bubbles, and thedeisy of numerous speculations that will keep be: er times; but at auy rate, taken collectively, py ow the real character of the period in whish we liv:, and seem to presage a state of emdarrass- meat {rm which we may look in vain for the Bank felivve us. The fact is, that the original —e every ‘me of difficulty, has been the faitare of the ment bankers to apply their repressive powers Prep ress the evil io the first instance, instead of » at the last, in aggravation of its conse- ea. & The bank, moreover, possewing, as it the sole power of deciding on toe quantity and 3 s value of money in circclation, and so determining | cially to the boys and girls of the metropolis, aad the yalce of every insn's property, is bound, we | the foibles of the day and she stirring eveuts of the think ‘© provide some better security than itcan | past year, both home and foreign, vill be repro- famis® with its present very limited capital; nor | duced. The Grimaldi of this our day Matthews, floes is cem too much to ask that a company with | will appear as Clown, Milavo as Hor quin, Aunie | enormous power suould extend their availab’e | Cushnie as Columbine, Halord 9s Pantslvoa, acd io the full amennt of its notes in circnlation, | Mies Charles as Harlequina. t reference to tse fourteen millions which they mow authorized t circulate sver and above the 4 bullion they have in wand. Tues observa Laws been called forth by the pera-al of a short ‘ve usble review of the present state of the cnr- written by Mr. W. F. Spackman, a clever ga man, who cearly proves, more ver, that | Woflingt @ ck in trade of the bank, a other words, actes “in active circulation,” i« represented by | all the best Feats the difference between the avnouut of the» sent oat the isene department, aud the ‘ pot # i+ reserve” PY the banking Co,aitaca:, Sr tiat tae lt statement 4 the weekly made ea we commercial barometer to rards which al should direct their attention, as @ never failing index of the state of our ; hor can that powerful compapy—however Drening S980 ceasity, or however great their desire—! out one tittle of assistance to embarrassed speculators, be- yond she limit here assigned to it. We do not very frequently find commercial men and tradesmen turning themselves succeasfally to agricultural pursuita; but in Mr. Mechi, the at dressing case and razor maker of Leadenhall it, we have an example of high intelligence, as well as complete enccem in the very highest class of rural cultivation. He is evidently a man of no ordins-y mental capacity, and with an ample fortune earned in business, he has applied his talents to raise agri- culture, by his own example, to the same ievel in point of ‘science that has been attained in all the mechanical and engineering departments of business life. A year and a half ago we had an opportunity of seeing his model farm at Tiptree-hall in Essex; and delightful indeed it was to see the perfeot order and cleaoliness which prevailed throughout, and the Eee | style in which all the various operations ot husbandry are performed by methods wholly nnprac- tised by, and ina great measure unknown to, ordi- nary jog-trot farmers. Our present reason, however, for notising the subject is the delivery by this intelii- gent amateur farmer, on Weduesday, at the’ Society of Arts, of a very clever lecture on the advanta:'es of the system carried into practice by himself. strongly advocates the application of steam power to farm yard operations, which he conceives woul. thereby be reduced to one fourth their present ex- peuse, Independent of the economy gained in space and horse-fodder, and most particularly recommends the use of Usher's steam plough and Romaine’s culti- vatar; besides which, on the subject of manuring land, he shows incontestibly the superiority of liquid decomposed animal manure to the ordinary solid farm refuse commonly used to dress land. The dilute liquid manure he obtains by throwing into a huge subterranean tank all the farm refuse and dead ani- mals, and then allowing them to decompose in a large quantity of water. This liquid matter he forces ulung pipes laid underground, and discharges it over the land under ieee through Seabee baer which are capable of sending out ore hundred gal- loos a minute, and thus irrigating the land most thorougbly with the elements of growth in an extra- ordinarily short time. He says, too, that by this method he succeeded in giving fertility for prazing purposes, in eighteen months, to a piese of heavy, profitless clay land which had resisted all the appli- cations of solid manure, and had by these means clothed it with fine fattening grasses, capable of giv- ing pasture to three timea the number of animals, and causing a large increase in the yield of milk, cream and butter. The value of liquid ma- pure he states to be more and more esti- mated by farmers; and he told the meeting, by way of illustration, that a gentleman at Rugby had rented the use of the drainage of that town, at £80 a year, for twenty one years, aud had em- ployed it successfally in fertilizing 700 acres of graz- ing land. These are the salient points of Mr. Mechi’s very intereating lecture; and we think he has very clearly proved that if the farmers attend to their own interests, by improving their ms of cultivation by the aid of modern chemical and me- chanical science, they need rot fear injury from free trade either in corn or cattle; for, granting that the first outlay may be grest, the returns will re- pay them three and fourfold for their extra expendi- ture. Our transatlantic friends are aware that within the last eighteen months some very strict inquiries have been made by royal commissions into -the time-honored abuses of those great monkish estab- lishments yclept Oxford and Cambridge, which for many a long year have contributed ratner to re- tard than advance knowledge and educational train- ing in the old country; and we are glad to find that it has been with a view to some practical reform, effected not by any half measures pro by them- selves, but by a scheme prepared under the sanction of government. This is quite a Lette to the big wigs, and not a little were they shocked when, pre- paring for all the hospitalities and pleasures of ‘hristmas, at being informed, through an official communication to the Earl of Derby—the Qhancellor of Oxtord—that a measure of University reform is in preparation, and will be announced from the throne in our good Queen’s opening address. Thus we are lad to find that, with all the repr displayed by ¢ hebdomadal board of heads colleges and proctors on the one hand, and the coilege-tutors on the other, our ministers are likely to distance both by bringing out a complete scheme, ready for enact- ment, and one, moreover, that will be far less agree- able to their conservative notions thau any concocted by themselves. It is impossible to divine what it may be, but any plan that falls short of breaking up the exclusive college system, and throwing open the education and honors of the Universities to free sta- dents, without test or religious qualification, will fall miserably short of the national requirements. Nous verrons. It has long been known in large tovens, and e3pe- cially in London, Liverpool, and other gigantia congregations of human beings, that the preseat system of money payments made by burial clubs acta asa direct incentive to murder. In fact it is well knewn that mothers, for filthy lucre, act as child poisoners, carrying en their plans with more impunity and security than ever Burke and Hare en- joyed, while pening their horrid traffic ia the bedies of their murdered vietims. We apprehend, moreover, that by wives, husbands, childrea—all the depraved, in fact, who subscribe to such societies— acteas revolting as these are perpetrated from the lust of gain, though it was only the other day that public attention was called to the fact by the pre- sentment of the Grand Jury of elke! ey at the last special aesizes. What is the remedy? Common sense replies, either the total abolition of such olubs, or such a restriction on their operation as to prevent the relatives of the dead from deriving pecuniary benefit from their demise. Lord Stanley, in a letter to the J'mes, recommends the latter, observing very sensibly that as the motive for such wickedness springs from avarice, that avarice would be defeated in its purpose, and at the same time the object of the club fully answered, if its officers were themselves to defray the expenses of sickness and interment, with- out allowing a sisgle penny to pass through the bands wd ata open to the temptations of such un- holy trafic. Take away the ive, and the crime will cease; the hand that held the fatal phial or admiwistered the deadly drug will bs disarmed. The evil began with the motive of horrid, filthy, beastly gain,and when once that motive is destro; the evil itself will die a quiet, natural death. We hope for the humanity of the United States that such crimes are not practised there; but as human nature is everywhere the pec ht ble a open to the same rier suggeat a remedy, which is capable of much wider perce 18 grand srinciple of our suggestien being that in all cases of crime prevention is better than cure. To euch an extent has our coal industry been deve- loped, that at the present time not leas than 37,000,- 000 of tons are raised annually, the value of which at the pit’s mouth is little less than £10,000,000 ; at places of pa including expenses of transport and other c , probably mot leas than £20,000,000. The capital employed in the trade ex- ceeds £10,000,000. About 400 iron furnaces of Great Britain consume annually 10,000,000 tons of coal, ard 7,000,000 tons of ironstone, in order to pro- duce 2,500,000 tons of pig-iron, of the value of up- wards of £1,000,000. For the supply of the metro- polis alone, 3,600,000 tons of coal are required for manutacturing and domestic purp‘se:; our coasters conveyed ini1850 upwards of 9,360,000 tons to various ports in the United Kingdom, and 3,350,000 tons were exported to foreigu countries and the British poseessions. Add to this that about 120,000 persons are constantly employed in extracting the coal from the mines, and that in some of the northern coun- ties there are more persons at work under the ground than upon i%s surface, and some approximate idea will be formed of the importance nd extent of this branoh of our industry. These subterranvan path- ways bang, and bang again, your renowned ‘‘Mam- moth Cave” in Keutucky, and with all due deference . P. Willia, (see his ‘‘ Health Trip to the Tropics”) would afford evena better theme for a new Dante's “I ,ferno’’—neither do these coal walks yeturn members to the British House of Parliament. 1 regret to announce the demise of the Marchioness Wellesley, widow of the elder brother of the Dake of Wellington, who expired on Saturday last at her apartments in Hampton Court Palace, after a short illness. The deseased, Marianne Marchioness of Wellesley,. was a daughter of Mr. Richard Caton, of ‘the United States. When the late celebrated Marquis Wellesley married her she was the widow of Mr. Richard Petterson. Her ladyship was the Marqnis's second wife. The late Marchioaess was for many years Lady of the Bedchamber to Qneen Adelaide. Many families of rank are placed in mourning by her decease. And, so that tris decease should not be entirely sing'e, we record the death of the estimavle wie of the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. She was the daugh- ter of a country gentieman of large property, Charles Newcombe, Evq., and by her amiable character and womanly virtues contribnted in »o small degree to ine honors snd clevation of Lord Eglinton to the Vice Royalty of Ireland. k The pantomime at Old Drary is dedvested espe. « item bank, ix in | | Great things are expected of the Haymarket | tomime, the opening of which is writen hy stone dimself. Mise Emity Wyndhem will, 40 says report, be the Columbine at the Olympic this Clirtst- nes. santomime is writter by Tom Teylor, the anth: qT wots and Gucrdicns,” © Peg and Passion,” &o., &e. The bas been teuly wonderful, aad boxes ore book: d up beyend ed Wijsn's little tt dits of paa. business the next month rove mehing i t ow’ have tursed ali the patsy like Ge: deus pt oy) little dnnghters Robson's impersonation of three distinct ch areoterseach ere is the greatest f | credit even to the Philvarmonic Society, He | praise is due to Mrs. A presides over the ‘see en-sct not to ween 5 hee Wks See jympic amp.” We have watched, with some interest, the pro- sees of those musical entertainments at Exeter fa, and cannot but admire the energy and enter- prise with which they have been conducted this season, showing cuminekeably the wish of the directors to indoctrinate and iliarise the English public with the higheat achool of musical art, rather than to pander to a violous taste by ee eae rea apantoed of Boas and French composers. Hence, 4 Pasiello, Auber, Balfe, and others of the like cali- bre, we have been presented with the shefr'd’auvre | of Gluck, Spobr, ay , Beethoven, Mendelasohn, and those works of Weber and Handel, with which the concert-going public are leas familiar. thoven; expecially, has had all due honors paid by the performance in a style that would do no dis- of his grandest symphonies, including ‘hé and pastoral symphonies, his overtures to the “Men of Prometheus,” and “The Mount of Olives,” and two or three of his finest pisnoforte sonatas— the last admirably played by thct wonderful iostru- ment t, Mad'lle Clauss, who has just left us for s sburg. Then, again, we have been favored elasohn’s wonderful ‘‘Italian Symphony,” _-oyvu in a style that Lindpaintaer himself could | soarcely excel—with a verve, energy, expression, | and mpidity that fairly astonishes us at the pre- cision and ‘perisstion axe attained by # well: | copdacted full band. The last evening, too, in ad- dition to three or four fine pieces froni Beethoven and Mendelssohn, we wers pomeaied with @ copious selection of the best music from Handel's “ Alexa der’s Feast,’ both vocal and instrumental, the former being executed by Misses Birch, Poole, Ter- ee Messrs. Gailes, Phillips, Herr Piss- chek, 5 The Illustyated London News has this week fa- vored us with a striking likeness of Albert Smith. This litterateur resumed his popular entertaixment of “the Ascent of Mont Blanc,” at, the Egyptian Hall, last Monday week. I take this opportunity of giving a slight sketch of our distinguished lecturer's antecedents. The books of the little quaint old church at Chertsey, in Surrey, eay that he was born onthe 24th May, 1816. He was educated at Mer- chant Tailors’ School, studied medicine at the Mid- dlesex Hospital, and became a member of the Cel- lege of Surgeons in 1838; after which he continued his svudies at the Hotel Diou and Glamart, in Paris; and, on his return to England, practiced with his Jather as w surgeon at Chertsey. Albert Smith was then a recognized author, and his pamphlet, entitled “Arguments against Phrenology,” had-reached a fourth fedition. Between 1838 and 1840 he was a large contributor to the Mirror, the Luerary World, the Medical Times, and many other publications) and wasone of the fist writers in Punch, the suc- cess of which was mainly attributable to Mr. Smith's admirable article, generally known as “the Medical Student,” “Sketches of Evening Parties,” Ac. Mr. Smith for many years edited Bentley's Mis- cellany, whe'ein ap, “The Adventures of Mr. Ledbury and his Friend Jack Johnson,” “ Blanche Heriot,” “The Scatt Family,” ‘.The Mar- chioness of Brinsvilliers,"’ ‘‘ Christopher Tad- pole,” and the ‘“ Pottleton Legacy,” &c. During this time be also enjoyed coi rable reputa- tion as a dramatist, and wrote for the Surrey, Olympic, Princess’ and Lyceum. Next he ap- as the author of a set of amusing little books, such as the “Gent,” the “Flirt,” the “ Bal- let Girl,” the “ Idler upon Town,” ‘Stuck up Peo- ple,’ , which, by good naturedly showing up the weak points of a very large class of society, insured @ very considerable popularity. Meanwhile, Mr. Smith occasionally contributed to Blackwood’s Ma- gazine, the Keepsake, the Book of Beauty, and other annuals,~nd, for several years he was the dramatic critic of the Jlustrated London News, to which journal he also contributed many a column of picto- tial pleasantries. He also wrote several songs for John Parry, and his entertainment entitled “ Lights and Shadows of Social Life.” In 1849 Mr. Smith made an excursion to the East, and on his return home produced his clever and suc cessful entertainment of the “Overland Mail.” Next year he made the ascent of Mont Blanc, and, upon this perilous jor was founded his ‘Ascent ot Mont Blanc Lecture,” which was first given at the Egyptian Hall, March 15,1852, the sucress of which is attested by the fact that during the two seasons of 1852-'63, there paid ‘or admissions 193,754 persons, realizing the sum of £17,000. Mr. Smith is universally respected. Don Casas. Lonpon, Deo. 21, 1853. Prince Albert and the Affatrs of State—Continental Influences—Cabinet Cowncils—State Rumors— An English Ohristmas—Juvenile Crime—Artifi- cial Propagation of Fish—Theatricals. In tse Russo-Turco queation we are told, (in expla- nation of certain supineness,) that there is a certain power bebind the scenes—behind the throne. Mark what foliows. It is painful even to imagine, but most distressing to know asa fact, that at the presen: time the sove- reign of this free Protestan; country is surrounded by influences most prejudicial to her country's interests. The fart is, that through Belgiam, whose ruler is now connected by marriage relations with Austria, an influen:e is exerted in favor of the Austrian and Russian policy which, while it for a time! strength- ens the hands of the Aberdeen administration, is diametrically opposed to the general wishes of the country; andevery loyal subject and true lover of his country must grieve at the reflection that our Queen is placed in go false a position. Indeed, now that Lord Palmerston, from whatever cause, has ceased to forma part of the government, the sove- reign has not at present a single traly English minis- ter in her councils; and, though the Times wishes to gloze over the breach, and ascribe it to some paltry difference about the forthcoming measure of parlia- mentary reform, we have no hesitation in saying— and the Emperor of the Frendh believea it too— that the late Home Secretary, (the only honest man among his colleagues,) has been compelled to retire because he bol ily, loyally, and patriosically resisted the anti-English influences to which we have alluded and with the contact of which he was daily and hourly disgusted. Even the Duke of Newcastle, who was sometime ago almos\as hostile as Lord Palmerston to the influence of Germanism at Court, seems now to have besome png entangled in its meshes; and all things are wih a high hand ,to favor the views <f those who, again: will of the people, are advocating Russian Court. But tet them beware ere too late, if this unho!y alliance be once generally known to the English people, a catastrophe may possibly be pro- duced as bad as “the Spanish marriages,” and ministers will surely rue the day on which they began to adopt so ruinous a policy. Cabinet councils are of as daily occurrence ai are luncheons. It is J ed believed that Sir James Graham ac- ce} e oflice of Secret of the Home Depart- ment, and that Fox. Maule (Lord Panmure) is to be the First Lord of the Admiralty. The hospitab'e season, w! is now #0 close at hand, always eal's for busy preparation among the authors, ‘liustrators, and publishers, who cater for the amusement of our young folks. This year, how- ever, there eeems to have been more than tue usual amount of industry bestowed, and the reviewers’ tables groan beneath the weight of the many works of every varying hue and shape that they are calted on to notice. Tirst and foremost, we have a beauti- fully iilustrated edition of “The Sermon or, the Mount,” got up with lavish expenditare, by Long man’s house; then an edition of “ Gray's Blegy,' splendidly priated, amd embellished with exquisite cngravings, from the Messrs. Teyg ; thirdly, a splendid work, ‘‘ Feathered Favorites,” froin Bos- worth’s; next, a cheap three-peony publication from Charles Dickens, entitled “ Another Roand of Stories by the Christmas Fire,” con‘aiaing some eight or nine histo icttes, written just as chit- dren love ‘hem at this right merry season; again, » bundle of yay looking children’s books from Mr. Darton, that wholesale caterer for the small fry of our present population; with another lot, much ter got up avd prettily illastrated, from Addy, a new publisher in the children’s line—and it may be well to mention three or four by name, such as Mra. Batler's “Toe Kirg and the Sweet South Wind,” Vincent's very well written and pay illastrated story of “The Pretty Plate, or Honesty the Best Policy,” | Consin Alice's “All is not Gold that Glitters,” and | some very pretty ‘Stories on Natural History”— | books, all of them, which, were there no others, would make a very fair addision te a nursery Hiway. in, the indefatigable Bogue has issued a bock that #ill absorb the attention of oar boys home for the hol:days during a fortnight at leas, entitled “ Pootprints cf Famous Men,” making them ac- quainted with the early lives of such lofty-miaded avd iliustricos men as Washing:on, Burke, and Necker, liuwe, Southey, Byron, Watt, Black, Hua- ter Reynolds, Chantry, Wren—the whole chattly besutifully iMustrsted, and suited to form an companion to ttat capital old “ Boy's ” which, old as it is, is yet 80 good that ke | we can db offord its low. Sanoders and Otley have coutributea their quota of Christmas fare, im | thape of a cargo of rhyme, yolept “ Floteaa | Jeteom,” meaning wails cast ashore and collected | for the reuter's n-e, many baving befure beea pub. | Nshed in “ Tait,” the readers of which have often | before been enchanted with their merry, Laughter | moving jingle, that goes “ tumbte, tumble o'er the stones, like Anacrevna's deasken verss:." Inseed, beok, displaying no snatt . cab tee, iy coabia tte wite mob | wit and humor, provocative of bearty, merry, tear 5 subject has now been gravely, and, we trust, stecrieehs some inhand bya reat number of our most distinguished champions for the reformation of the lower ‘lnsoee-—each as the Farls of Harrowby and Shaftes! , ard Calthor-e Sir Toke Pakinet*z, Sir A. Goodrich, Mr, Matthaw sone Nae oS nagyeety Hill, (the Recorder of Birmingham,) G.F. Muntz, M.P., C. B. Adderly, M. P., Monckton Mills, M. P., Mr. Joseph Sturge, and many others—and on Tues- day there was such nes ing of the enlighteued friends of humanity in Birmingham, that we veutare to predict the accomplishment of some great and comprehensive measures for reforming those wretch: ed little creatures whose erimes result from parental neglect and bad example, or the apathy of the world at large to their condition, Prather than to any fault of their own. There can be no doubt, indeed—as it is very justly stated by the Select Committee of the House of Commons—that a large proportion of the prevent aggregate mass of crime might be prevented, and thousands of wretched beings, who, under the pactentaystem, have no prospect before them but a careet 01 Wickedness and vice, might be converted into virtucus, honc’t and industricus citizens, if due care were taken to fesuce neglected, destitute and criminal children from the dangct® and temptations inetdent to their position; and thé county imperi- ourly calls for legislative sanction to encotrags Te formatory schools for children convisted of crime oF bavitual vagrancy; sehools that should be supported a8 well by Socal funds as contributions from the State; and it isto be hoped tbat, in the ensuing session, powers will be given for raising the necessary loval rates. Atthe same time, however, it seems neces- tary—in order to prevent giving any encouragement to Nosbeni negligence—that some portion of every childs’ cost at a reformatory school should be re- coverable trom the parents. ‘These principles being established, we think, with the promoters of this conference, that all schools for this peewee that are already in existence, founded and supported by yoluntury charity, as those of Mr. Matthew Hill, Mr. Joreph nie Ge Miss Carpenter, three long tried actical philanthropists, should as much a3 possible te encouraged; and, until larger institutions of the kind can be set in operation, the government and local authorities should empowered to contract with the directors of such schoels for the maintenance and education of criminal children, suoh schools to be subject to government tion. And there is one otber point insisted upon at the conference, to which we would cal! particular notice—that means should be provided, in the case of deserving boys, to ap- rentice them, or provide for them in such a way, on leaving the reformatory schools, that they shall be ensbled, as it were, sa eais life afreab, as honest, industrious lads, promising to be worthy and reputable citizens. We bave the emvodies of the principal sub- jects discuseed, and discussed they were with a serious earncstness that argues well for the success of the measures proposed; and we really savguinel; hope and almost expect that, az in New York an Pniladelphia such schools stcceeded in reforming three fourths of the criminal children sent to them, we, too, shall ere long be able to reduce our fiftys to tens apd our tens to zero of the little vagranta and thieves who are now a pest and a curse to Great Britain. Such measures as these will do more to re- prees crime than all the prisons, and treadmills, and pene settlements that were ever invented to punish ignorance as crime. ‘The mode of artificially propagatin, fish was, we believe, first practised by the French; but it appeara that the Scotch people are applying themselves to it with their usual earnestness of purpose, in the hopes of improving the salmon fisheries of the Tay, | in which for some years previously there had been lamentable deficiencies, much to the regret of the lords and tenants of thote fisheties, This is effected by meais of boxes, in which the impregnated ova are such time as they are able to provide for their own safety against the trouts and water-oveels, which ordinarily destroy and swallow eighty or ninety per cent ofall the ova that are impregnated. About 200,000 ova have thus been reacued from destruction by this ingevious prosess below one single ford at e mouth of the river Almond, in Perthshire; and what, we ask, would be the produce of the fisheries in two or three years if the ova were thus preserved till they became healthy, well-to-do young salmons, in allthe fords and spawning places of the Tay aud other great calmon rivers of British islands? Our transatlantic friends, we rather think, are not quite fe per ns these processes; but possibly their tresh virgin streamsecarcely require those schemea of reja- venescence that are re quisite forthe piscatorial rivers of blazé.used ap O}d England. In the theatrical world—though the houses are early all closed—all is life, bustie and activity, giv- ing note of preparation of forthcoming pantomimes. Great things are ex; ofthe Haymarket—Buck- stone, leasee—and the Olympic—Wigan, lessee; and be assured that Iwill, per Tuesday Sails post, give you a fall, detailed account of the boxing-night's doings at all the houses. On that afternoon I dine with my frater and some literary celebrities, under the understanding that we separate immediately after dessert in Lest : wate to visit a rch After- wi m in at supper, YuunG nicks CON Csr, Our Paris Correspondence. Pants, Dec. 15, 1853. The Naval Battle off Sinope—The English Minis- try—The Season im Paris—Fashions, §c., §:c. The confirmation contained in the Moniteur, of the affair at Sinope, which I gave you in my last, has produced the liveliest seneation in all circles, whether domestic or diplomatic. In fact, Paris—from the hotel of the Minister to the meanest cabaret in the snburbs—may be sa‘d to be full of but one subject — that of imminent war with the Cossack. Times of agitation have occasionally as much geographical as human importance, and the small aquare town of Sinope, placed on a jutting isthmus of the Black Sea, is just now an instance of this. It was, to be sure, the birth-place of Diogenes and the capital of Mithridates; but, ag a town, it has long been only known as containing some 8,006 or 10,000 inhabitants, living among houses and fortifi- cations whore ruinous condition scarcely afforded shelter, much less defence—but it certainly now bids fair to be famous in the latter half of the nineteenth century. The official statement is, as you are aware, that on November the 30th the Russian Admiral, Nachimoff, at the head of six ships of the line, forced the entrance of the port of Sinope, and de- stroyed in an hour's combat beven frigates, two cor- vetter, one steamer, and three transports; that the frigate, the least damaged, which the Russians were taking back with them to Sebastapol, was obliged to be abandoned at sea; and that Osman Pacha, with his officers and men, was removed to the Russian Acmiral’s vesse); that, moreover, an aid-de-camp of Prince Menschikoff breught the news on December 5°h to Odessa, whence it arrived at Paris by telegraph; that it was confirmed, from Bacharest. To those who interpret this announsement in its most literal rense—and by far the larger majority are disposed to do so—this is viewed as an event of surpassing gravity. It wes only on the 23d vlt. that M. de Bruck declared at Coustantineple, on the part of the Cacr, that, regretting sincerely matters bad already proeceded eo fur as the shedding of blood, he should, nevertheless, limit himself entirely to a de’ensive ac tion; whereas, as the fact above mentioned stands recorded, it is one of the most violent examples of aggressive warfare that can be perpetrated. Sivope, wretchedly neglected as it has been, is, with the exception of Constantinople, the only naval areenal of Turkey. It is there that she bailds her ships cf the line, and the adjacent country supplics it with timber of a quality superior to any other in ber empire. It s the best harbor in Asia Minor, From the fact of ‘its running out into the sea as a species of promontory, it constitutes, in reality, on ita cast and west sides, two capacious harbors; aad, deprived of this important resource, the Turkish communication between Trebizond axd Batoum is iuterrupted, aud also with her army in Asia. If, then, it is urged, Russian shipa of the line, ssiling out from Sebastopol to this port, ard situated three hunirei wiles from the Boaphorus, have deliberately ani of purpose forced an entrance into the roadstead, and destroyeda Turkish squadron qu etly ridi: g at anchor, they have deve that which no sabsequent state of warfire can exceed. It iv, it is said, only the climax to ® long avd elaborate tirsie of wy to terra auch a proveed- ing © acting en the dev “ene it is incon whent on Bee white, Wf Eagtund deena? combine to neness of imagery and pienty of | tep forward and vindicate the po'icy te which ane edged herseit. Tae Cossack is, therefore, de, ited, and kept, when they come to life, till | the peasants were only kept from rising on their Russian taek masters, by the want of arms; and to supply them with these, more than one attempt had bed made by the Turkish convoys. On the 1dth, ult., it is believed that three frigates and two smal! steamers entered Trebizond, ooming from Constanti- nople on their way to Batoum. Their oargo was arms and ammunition, and their intention was to ef- fect » landing on the Circassian coast. It is thought that they were successful in this attempt, and that on their return they were sighted, ehased and cap- tured by Russian cruisers, Of course, if this little orpetrn should prove to be the fleet in question, the whole effair will assume another complexion, and a casualty of this nature would have befallen the Turks only in the ordinary reprisals of such a warfare. te eorvany goes, on the face or if, Se! fnaproveble that with the united pavalforce of Psauseans Sacland in the Bosphorue, Peres eager yor vid shea | in violation of her recently pledged assurance, an thus beard the lion, ata moment when, apparently, she hae just shown a Siepasitien to parley with it. But it must be confesed that many well informed persons aré inclined to look upon the affair in its most disagreeable aspect. They believe that Russia has sei the oceasion of avenging the disasters she has met wiih on Jand, by what she is pleased to term a great naval victory. on point to the circum: stance of Prince Menschikoil’s immediate departure to convey the intelligence to his imperial master, sa significant of the great importance attashed to the event. They point also to the fact of two steamers from Constantinople being despatched forwith to Si- nope, and to the opportunity the capture of such pee affords to the Czer of rendering nugatory the late success of the Ottomans in Asia. They believe, moreover, that but for the presence of the English and French fleets in the Bosphorus, Nicholas would have even attacked Constantinople itself, and that, in tbe exultation of his devouring ambition, this notthern Napoleon thinks to make the Black Sea a Russian inxe; and fo they lift up their voices and ery aloud for the most energetic measures. Indeed, iv generally understood that General Baragusy d’Hiliers, at ali events, bad in his portfoli> fustruc- tions of euch a pature that, suppos'ng the ambassa dor from Epgland was at all similarly advised, the the combined fleets may be already in tho Black Sea, and perbaps on their way to Gewacgiiee A rumor prevails that this event nroance? a vn in the English cabinet that might possibly brirg about a ministerial crisis. If, as there seems bot fittle doubt, Lord Aberdeen has been lef away by his respect for the charaoter of the Czar, it ia not improbable that a umatance of this kind may cause alinost as a commotion at Bt. James’ 33 the broadsides of the autocrat occasioned at Sinope. Be this as it may, there seems to be a probability, under any circamstanoes, should the event remain uncontradicted, that the British Parliament will be summoned at tae earliest opportunity. * abet fa pee it ss rempepieeed that oe Rus- sians should tal rmanent possesoion of Synope, they have it in thar wer to render it a species of Gibraltar en the Turkish coast of the Black Sea ; that, established in such a position, they might land considerable bodies of troops, keep check the centre of Asia Minor, and cut off all commavieation between Constantinople and Erzeroum, the im- portance of this place ina strategic point of view cannot beoverestimated. It appears that ao far back as 1808, when an attempt was made upon Constanti- vople by the English Admiral Duckworth, the French “ ambassedor of that day, General Sebastiani, seeing the importanse of Sinope, sent some French officers to improve its fortifica tiovs, and a battery was erected at the point of The promontory, in such a manner as to command both sides of the peninsula, at the entrance of the road- stead. The Rustians bad once, in 1507, made an attack on Trebizono by sea, and were repulsed; and the Turks, seeing that nothing was ever attempted at Synope, have, with their usual carelessness, suf- fered everything to fall to ruin and decay for the last forty years, and it may easily be conceived that such @ place, with ite miserably dila, d ram- parts, would be easily knocked to pieces by the beavy broadsides of aix ships of the line playing upon it for an hour. Viee Acmiral Nachimoff, who commanded on the occasion, bas under him the fifth division of the whole Russian fleet. Osman Pacha, who was for- merly a considerable time in Paris when a captaia, is one of the vice admirals of the Ottoman fleet. Altogether, this report, even should it turn out to be less impertant than is geverally supposed, ig not without its use as showing distinctly highly it flammable nature of the political atmosphere. After a repose of almost forty vears, the sluggish element, in spite of an occ revolution, was too preduwinant to be roused at once; but the last ten months bave been busily applying to the public mind a species of alow blister, the angry effect of which is now fairly beginning to develope itself; and matters which a year would have been considered trifles, are now cient to set all France in arms. The entente cordiale with England for the present is perfect. Nothing can surpass the politeness of two nations towards each other who, eighteen months ago, were ap} cay ready to fly at one another's throats; their joaraa is reciprocate bland sentiments across the nel with exemplary Christian feeling; and there is even a talk of an Imperial visit to England, whose Queen and consort are, in return, to honor the exhibi- tion of 18566 with their presence in Paris. The statue of Marshal Ney, too, is ui , atti: tude of command; and the Times, who, on any other occasion, would have sneered at the insinua- tions of M. Dupin’s oration, writes an article ssarce ly less laudatory than felicitous in expression in honor of the hero whom the great Wellington might have saved from a fate as cruel as it was unjast. Everything is, far the nonce, couleur de rose; and all who wich that the last half of this century may be as beneficial to the cause of progress as the last has been, will pray that such may long continue to be the case. Meanwhile we wait the solution of the Eastern enigme. An engagement has taken place, it is said, between Kalefat and Kragova. The Turks were commsaded by Ismael Pacha—the Russians by Kynvit:b: The battle was severe, but a drawn one —the Russians retiring behind entrenchments at Kragova. By way of cistracting the public mind from the gravity of Eastern effuirs, the Bey of Tunis has ex- cited a perfsct furor of fun by his ludicrous lamenta- tiona for the loss of his wives. As Ben-Aget, his former minister, bad Path his treasury, the Bey, in reqpital, plunders his harem.and, bringing the in- mates to Paris, gecures them with bolt aod bar, not omitting the argus eyes of the police. But as well try to prevent the limpid element so welcome to the parched voyager of the desert from finding its level, arexpecta daughter of Eveto rest under durance vile in Parts. If lovers were indicted, the jealous Bey could not object that the ladies of his harem should receive contaners, and plenipotentiaries from that queen of taste, Madame Camille, and from that wonder-working modiste, Madame Laun, whose de- licious bonnets, eo fairy like and so gossamer, seem the spontaneous offspring of nature's own bidding. But the result has eomewhat surprised him. Bolts and bars have dissolved in air in presence of tue Pa- risian ccstume ; the eyes of the police were dazzled and dimmed by the last effort of such celebrated ar- tistea ; and the ladies of the harem, bonnetted, coifed, mantilaed, and robed after the most ap- proved fashion of that c#y—the Bey is in despair, and Paris convulsed with laughter. The Emperor has his first reception to night, at which foreigners who have not yet had the honor of @ presentation are to be introduced by their respec- tive ambassadors. This is preparatory to the jour de Cen, at which none will a who have not pre- v ously been favored with this initiation. A dispo- siti n’ reems to be evinced to put forward young Jerome Bon much more than before; at the in- anguration of Marshal Ney’s statue Louis Napoleon did not assist as was expected, nor at the ped of the Boulevard de Strarbarg, in both of which instances his cousin Jerome represented him. It may hap- pen that, despairing already of secing « lineal descendant of bis dynasty, he is anxious, in case of sccident, to secure as much favor as possible for Jerome. Hitherto that personage, without seeming distasteful to tae public, has en; a especies of pepniarity. The part be Toobin the National Ae sewbly has been less ascribed to principle than to tons Tapert postey ‘has aot timproved the popu: 18 ion ‘i larity of the Prince of the Mountain. Still, ithe as. eosiates meet with his ote! big At loses A opportunity of ‘showing they are ings toh, he may yet wie # iden opinions, for in on a Europe strange desires doth edge its princes. sepsa' Pants, Dec. 21, 1853, The Affair of Sinope—The Alliance of the Four Powers—The Position of Persia—Affaurs on the Continent—Caribaldi— The Italian Opera, §c. The excitement produced by the affair at Sinope, to which I drew your attention in my last, has not been allayed by the intelligence in relation to it which has since reached us. It is known that on Wednesday, December 14—that is, immediately on the arrival of the news—a messenger was despat:hed by the French government to Constantinople, with positive orders to take the shortest route, and to travel with all possible speed. The natare of his errand bas not transpired; bat no ove doubts that the time for prompt and decisive measures has defi nitive y arrived. In England, too, as I ventured to hivt might poeeib'y be the case, a micistertal crisis bas occurred; for the resignation of #0 impor- tit a member ofthe Cabinet as Lord Pa'merston con he termed nothing lesa,ard on ether side the Cinaiswer hue eas vd GAY pul elas watever be ai l¥e 20 ordinary degree. * tha combined | Dibba long mer wh gp iain ‘The batietin placarded on the Bourse at Odessa, dated December 6, statea that Admiral Nachimedf encountered a Turco-Egyptian fleet of eighteca ships in the Biack Sea, near Sinope; that he at- tacked, burnt, or sank them, slaughtering 6,000 Turks; that several English and French officers were om board. The sensation produced hece by the reading of this piece of telegraphic ioformation it is not easy to describe. A regular panic seized the Bourse. The intelligence that four frigates, twe. French end two English, had immediately set out for Sinope from Constantinople in pact allayed it. But the government has been oom- pelled to issue most stringent orders to the press to be cautious in the commentaries it may ermit iteelf to make. The Siecle no sooner veu- jared to suggest that, for any benefit the Ottomans seemed to have derived from the English and French alliance, up to the present moment it might be a oe ion whe = ¢ absence” oP —suor Uae . cota altogether could not have been more advantageous to them than ita presence, than it received an avertissement. A pretence waa certainly put forward that it referred to another matter, but the true reason was well understood. In fact, affairs are in that narrow, fidget:y atate that the government cannot afford so much a8 that a spark of ridicule should fall on its acts or counoils, for fear of an expan, doubtless, and feels its thunders are only sleeping. At the date at which I write, nothing is accurately known. Despatches arrive by way of Vienna, and experience has shown that that is a medium not always trustworthy. The fact itself is ascertained, but details have yet to be furnished. A belief prevails that the La thee amounts to as much a8 6000 or 7,000, and that the capital de- stroyed is not less than twenty millions of frames. The Russian statement that the fleet has encountered is not credited. The Turkish squadron could not have beep, it is argued, an expedition on its way, aa hae been insinuated, to attack Sakum Kulsh, for this place lies so completely in the line of Russiaa de- lence that to nave attempted such an eaterprise would have been palpably to have ran into destruc- lion. [tis rather supposed to have been a convoy about to proceed to Batoum, with the view of landiug sup- plics and reinforcements for the Turkish force there stationed. On this errand they did n t encounter, but wele deliberately sought out, ene puree by an over. powering Russian force, which drove thew into the roads of Sinope, and there utterly demolished them, This being the case, the ships must have beea en- cunberea by stores, troops and ammuuition, in a ttaie so cr wded and embarrassed 33 to have pre- verted the poeettny of anythiag like effectua! re- sistance, and, it is argued, to have thas attacked them, shows @ murderous spirit, utterly unexampled in the annals of civilizea warfare. In reality, a feeliog 1s beginning to spread, which may render a more prolonged passive action on the part of the goverDment not without hagard. it was only yeeterday that a Selographic despa'ch arrived, Teporting “that the Turks had been deteated at Akal- sik, on the borders of Turkish Armenia, aod that they had left 4,000 slain on the field ;"’ aud though im- plicit credit was not yielded to it, the pubiic pulse has not been the less feverish. Lhe Journal des Debats, in regard to the coafer- ence of the four Powers, publishes the following aa the great “collective note :”’ “fhe undersigned, representatives of Austria, France, Grea® Britain and Prussia, assembled ata conference of Vienna, have received instructions to declare that their reapeate governments behold with a profound regret the commencemeut of hostili- ties between Russia and the Porte, aud desire ex- ceedingly, by intervening between belligerent pow- ers, to prevent any fresh effusions of and to put anepd to a state of things which menaces.seriously the peace of Europe. Russia having given au assu- tance that ste was disposed to treat, and the under- signed not doubting that the Porte is animated with the same spirit, they request inthe name of their respective governments to be iutormed on what ous- ditoffs the Ottoman Empire would consent to nege- tiate a treaty of peace.” But I am bouad to ivform you tbat the opinion ia almost unsnimons here, that no favorable results are to be looked fcr from th's conference. If expecta tions ever did exist that good would come of it, it is felt that late events have dissipated them. Constam- tinople is known to be already in a flame at the dis- astrous reports which have been received,and should, as is most probable, the confirmation of these reports artive about the same date as the cuilective note, the pacific spirit of the Sultan may possibly not be ia- prove?. I have only this morning seen a private ler ter from Bucharest, in which the writer states, that if in England or in France any hopes of the repose of Europe are founded on the power and iofluence of the conference they ought tu be of very slight character, for that from al kuowieaeeat the coast, tbe camp, and the Russiaa society iu geueral, he is able to assert thatthe Emperor has vot the smollest intention of listening to anything bu: the most abject submission on the part of the Sultan, and that the Ruasians asa people are prepated to support Lim to thedeath—that they consider the present war su boly war—aaa crusade, in which it 1s aa act of piety to join, and that tue greater the isolatioa im which their autocrat may be placed, the more im- plicit will be their dev: tohim. Tae writer— «nd he is one whose word aud Mee, semanas may be relied eco on to state that he has spent months amoug the Russian army, and never at any time bad be seen exthusissm sv intense as was displayed among all ranks. He believes the whole business of the confezence a ‘‘ delusion, a mockery and a snare,” got up by Ley et well-meaning people, whose fears of the dreadfu! consequences of war have hocdwinked their finer perception, and that so | as the Western Bebaty con dnue to practise to: the Emperor of Russia the same sysiem of delicate forLearance which has hitherto distinguished them, so long will he persist in his encroachments; and, over, that the sincerity of the French and Ei ish al liance is not credited, and that its duration is believed Oren so exaggeration wing for the writer and the inferences he is to draw, it cannot be denied that opinions —— to his are prevalent. It is calculated that, what with pri era, with wounded, and slain, the ‘Parks must siresdy be minus the services of some 20.000 of their troops, and the maticnal pride is offended that such 8 lors should have been sustained, under the guns, 88 it were, of France. Persia, too, has éec! war with the Ottoman, snd we expect every day to hear of a combined Russian and Persian expedition aie | on o Turkish position. The position of the Persian territories, conterminous with the Asiatic provinces of Turkey, the Trana- Caucasian provinces of Rassia, and the wi.d regiona of Affhanistan, gives its governmen’ unusual facilities for making diversions in one or other of these direc- tions, and if its mi itary strength is small, its advan tages of situation are sufficient to counterbalance this deficiency. Therefore the conduct of the Court of Teteran atthe present juncture is considered te have added increased perplexity to the state of affairs. In the midst of all our anxieties, the news of Lord Palme:ston’s resignation has been as oil to the smouldering embers. It is useless, worse than use- less, for the London journals to attribute this cir- cumstance to the refi bill, propoced to be intro- duced by the British Cabinet; no one will believe it to have originated in any other motive than that of his tote! want of confidence in the foreign admiais- tration. The French papers are unanimous in repu- diating any otber plea. verse with whom you will, military, civil, or diplomatic, but one commen- tary is made, that the cause of Palmerston’s resig- pation is the pusalinimity of Aberdeen. It is thonght that in the prevent state of affairs, a nmimstry cansot ge on in England withuut Lord Palmerstcm, and that therefore that nobleman will be called again to the m’s couacila Ldcr very different auspices—that, in fact, he wili be required to form an administration of his owa, holding, at the same time, the seals of the Cg office. If, however, Lord Jobn Russell should till the vacancy made by the retiring Secretary for the Home Department, the minis ry would, doubtiess, meet the approaching Parliament, in which case, under aby ciroumstances, they are sure of a ma- jority. should the Cabinet full to pieces, it oa ‘only be from thore iuternal dissensions which the state-of foreign relations will have induced. But there isa public opinion grovieg up without the wals of Parliament, which no winistry, however strong its majority, can affurd to despise; and re- cent circumstances have given an Impulse to this, which cannot fail to make itself felt. And if it should turn out, as is ee that an English merchant- man trading in Black Sea has been really boarded and eearched by a Russian man of-war, it will re- quite a stronger man than Aberdeen or any other lord iv the pam administration, to resist the pressure that will be brought to bear on the councils of the nation. ‘ To return to Lord Palmerston. however. It ia not to be believed that hia objection to the oF ps og a re form bill could have eeriously inflaenced aim in ten- dering his resignation. Under present circumstances, fhe House could have con-en‘edto the postpouemeut of any measure of the kind till another session, and no one better than Lord Palmerston must have known this. The general opinion is thathe has cec- tainly not forgotten bis dismissal in 1851, but that he was utterly disinolived to become the defender in Puri ment of a foreign policy sg entirely at variance with that which be bas himiself so succeasially pursted, In the preeent state of the political atmosphere the British residents at Paris have with such god earnest sought to evince their he with the enterte cordial, that they have collected a sum of 10,000 france fora tablet «@ the memory of Lie Beltot, who perehed in the late Arctic Expedition t search of SirJobn Franklin, Lt is somewhat curiova to observe, hcwever, that Frenchmen, if they posse-s, do not exhibit their enthosiasm ia ao eolid a fashion a2 good tempered Joby Bull, tor ail chat the Freodh committee bas collected todo boner ta Mier ord Comptes man te a seme bes Ors Jen franca Abu Sue 1) ig tied neo, been avecdone, hew: bat the thing bas altoget