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‘Caussion and control—the concommitant evil of absolutism have given rise toa (deal of discussion and regret more especially in England, where more prompt aid was ‘expected. Some severe censures were let fall on this rabject by the officers who accomy I , bridge. 1s is covtatn that th ey © 3854 as completely ruined, and count at m manche in 1855, which accounts for the less a: in which the articles of the English press ar In the meanwhile the organization of the Guard and Body Guard, who a's to do dvty at the fs rapidly proceeding with rare to wear cui: rasses inlaid with the aru peror. This will | not, however, prove a nr errors that have been committed in the ot the service. Incendiary fires multiply i ents. It used to be remarked by pessin the frequency of Yolution, but this d does not appear at p The lat mer reigns that noted impending ro- | gh not impossible, The Montolem xp in ridicule, morally sp materially it still has exist- | ‘ence. The le, gshave not as yet come to a | Lead. It is sai y take a warm interest in. | Jesuit orator; on the other hand {t is Emperor now fully appreciates the e of the ed that the au afin yuevility of a vengeance founded on a scrap of stray pa- per, and will put a sto I mentioned to you, s, in my last letter, somo sions used by the Bishop of Nancy i ig pronounced at the marriage of Princ and the Princess of Wagram—expressions in which ihe learned prelate seemed to promise to the Prince the | ¢rown worn by bis grandfather. The Bishop, on leaving | Paris for his tour of visitations for the Holy Week, left his discourse, for the purpose of being printed, with M. Veulllot, the principal editor of the Univers, the organ of | the High Church party. ‘The Papal Nuncio and the Am- bassador of the Two Sicilies took measures to stay the publication by making remonstrances on the su’ 3C Drouin de L?Huys.” M. Veuillot was requested to de- lay the appearance of the Bishop's address, but refused to do 50, saying that the ¢ moner of the Emperor Possessed sufficient of his *scontidence to know what he was about. M. Drouin de 1’Huys threatened the paper with a first warning, and the publication has | been suspended until the Bishop's return. | tome sudden deaths of two immortels have left two fau- | ils 7 to the prosecution. | be i | | ‘acant in the Academie Francaise. Those who | wement of the elect | avoid great names, and ke nd decorated medioerities of certain posi- ad turned their thoughts towards M. Dupanloup, f Orleans, but he Would hardly pronounce the M. a revolutionary writer, and the first jay, however, removed this dimi- ‘overnmeut pushes the elec- dev of M. Sibour, Archbishop of Paris, a creature of Jeneral Cavaignac, and who, from a decided republican, Ins become an obsequious adherent of the present ré- Yn M. Silvester de Sacy, the estimable critic of the Jovrnol des Dévats, is spoken of for the fauteuil left va- by the death of M. Tiasot. s vlso a place vacant in the Academie des In- ns ef Belles Lettres, M. Yortoul, Minister of Put~ ruction, is desirous of having it, (although hisin- | y is notorious). He has requested M. dieror to | * to him; but the latter is determined that he it, even if it were to cost him his place of | rin the Faculty of Letters. M. Requier, Precep- tor of the Comte de Paria, is also among the candidates. | There is but little of novelty to communicate in the theatrical world, ‘The Gymnaso is now playing a comedy which avenges Messrs. Angier and Jules Sandean for the failure of the “Pierre de Touche,”at the Theatre Frangais. ‘The grand oriental piece, playing at the Cirque, has pro: duced some money, but it has not created as much furor amongst the public ae the direction anticipated. A piece of a somewhat similar character, but which is but a clumsy satire on Russian habits and manners, entitled usses peints par cux mémes,’? has been unequivo- ly damned at tho Porte St. Martin. It was conceived in such bad taste (hat no other result could have been expected. on France and nd is attended Meul France de a treaty which the Eastern question, but England will ements that will bind her to anything be- yond the eyontualities of the present crisis. There are ‘no serious obstacles, however, to its conclusion. THE WAR IN HUROPE V TREATY OF ALLIANCE BETWEEN | FRANCE AND tLAND. | {From the London Chronicle, April 18.] | Py adcepatch from Paris, we learn that the govern- meuts of France and England have exchanged copies of an offensive and defensive treaty—thus giving formal completeness to the close and intimate alliance which uniies the counsels and the arths of the two nations in the cause of European independence. The terms of this | most important international convention, which is said'to consist of five articles, we have not yet learned; but its yractical purport is sufficiently indi¢ated by the simple announcement of the fact. ‘The friends and the enemies her of the Western powers are henceforth the | and the enemies of the other; and the forces of either are available, in every part of ‘the world, for tho protection of the territory, the trade and the subjects of the other. Tn this defi ratification of the friendly H harmonious co-operation between the urope lias a solid pledge for the ulti- cause which they are jointly pledged le power of their fleets and ar we learn that Sir Charles Na- in the Baltic by declar hace of all the enemy's ports in that sea; 1 THE to maintain by the mies. In the meanwhil jer commenced operatior i kor, on the other band, is adopting precan deosures, whieh, whaterer may be thought of th Y. cvideutly indicate a strong sense of the dangers « : As Russia has established wha: ocenpation of and, she see: Aggressive on being catriod on y tho edds that whole line ¢ from Helsingfors to Cronsts is even stated that a plan for the deportation of the whole Finnish population into the interior of the empire 4 deen under discussion at St. Petersburg. It is not ficult tocomprehend the policy which dictates such measures. Secure, forthe present, against invasion by | land, provided Austria and Prassia can be induced to re tain their neutral position, Russia aims principally at ring her maritime frontier. She has long endeavor- ed, by the tenance of a rigidly protectionist, or rather probibitory, system, to render herself indepen devt of foreign commerce, ‘and it is probably imagined that, whatever disasters may befall her fleets or armies abroad, she will be able to subsist in isolation upon her own resources. Human life, too, is cheap enough in Russia; and, for a tune, the Czar will experience no great di in supplying the vacancies created by war. B game is one which ugh it may be temporarily successful, cannot answer in the end. Such expedients as those of which we have lately heard so much, may serve to prolong the struggle, but their ultimate operation must be to impair the resources, and consequently to weaken the defensive power of the em- | ond if it be true that channels have been choked 4 that rocks have been sunk in harbors, for the rpose of excluding hostile fleets, we may safely say | t Russian commerce bas already sustained an amount of injury which years will not repair. The allied squad- rons will, no donbt, do their utmost to destroy the enemy's trade; butit appears that a portion of their task bas been already accomplished without their Interference. It is possible that history has suggested the strange precaution to which we have alluded; but the precedent which appears to have been followed is singularly inapplicable. Moscow is not a maritime city, and the ports and harbors which the Emperor is said to have rendered difficult or dangerous of secess are cortainly got essential to the existence of the allied fleet. Whatever may be the truth of the rts in question, there appears, at all events, to be je doubt that a vast concentration of troops is taking place in Finland, and there is every reason to at they are foreed upon a reluctant population, evented by its weakness from showing While thus engaged in the North of advancing in the Fast, it appears that Kussia has been unable to abstain entirely from interference in the western Peninsula, It is announced that Spain and Portugal have attracted the attention of the Court of Bt. Petersburg; and, as allies are not very abundant, it is probably thought that their ‘assistance may be worth securing. Popular feeling in Doth countries sympathizes, we believe, with theWestern Powers; and it is not likely that a war professedly und taken for the defence and propagation of the Greek faith will find much favor with nations devotedly at ed toa different and rival creed. The rumor r may not be well founded; but it is cer- of observation that wherever intrigues are carried on— wherever sovereigns are excited to tyranny, or subjects to rebellion—a suspicion immediately arises that the ‘great conservative Power” is at work inthe matter, that Russian gold is being expended, and that Ras- sian interosts are being in some way or other promoted. The frnite of these machinations are Visible at this moment in the petty kingdom of Grceee, Only a few weeks have passed since the final cessation of friendly relations be- | 7 P ion. ite disaffect Europe, and at the same time steadily tween the Porte and the Court of Athens, and we alread, find that, in the midst of what is called ‘the Hel- Jenic movement,’ the Russian party makes its influence visibly felt. That faction, it is added, wishes to raise a | Rossian Grand Duke to the throne of Greece ; and it is, we suppose, with a view to the ultimate success of this | design that King Otho is exhorted to take tho feld in person, and to commence a campaign against his Turkish neighbors. Infatuation alone ean lead a monarch so Bituated to reject the only support which can maintain his tottering throne, and voluntarily to play his adver. fary’s game, yet it appears by no means unlikely that this may actcally be the case. The expulsion of the Greek inhabitants of Constantinople has, if the accounts which we receive may be depended on, occasioned quite as much irritation against the Court of Athens, whose conduct rendered that stringent measure necessary, as against the Ottoman administration by whom it has been inflicted: and it is doubtful whether any very strong — impulses can exist in the breasts of those who, ‘iven from the spot in which their choice had fixed them, and to which their connections had attached them, | are forced back into a country from which they had been ad to make their escape. In the improved state of feeling prevalent among its own Christian subjects, the | Porte appears to Le already reaping the frait of its wise and generous concessions. THE NEW PROTOCOL OF THE CENTRAL AND WESTERN POWERS, {From the Vienna Lloyd. Yesterday the decisive step was taken. Tho Four Powers have once more, in # fourth protocol, laid down their joint view respecting the position of Tarkey and the conditions for the restoration of peace. This step i not & mere repetition of what had previously been done. | ‘The protocol of yesterday was signed after the pnsasge | of the Danube by the Russians, and after the fact that | at Berlina party which in every case insisted on clinging to Russia, was very nearly gaining the upper hand; after @ Germano-Russianized Prince had brought Russian pro Jaof pence to the Prussian Court, to sever it from Ristria aa Germany. The previous protocols left the o-operation of the Four Powers, and their joint action, to be preceded by diplomatic measures—the time for these having possed away, aad words, shown to bo in gAequate, now requiring deeds to supereie them. This | man Powers in this European crisis is now traced out | of the means possessed for impelling those wheels on- | t& tocol now guarantees that the unity ofthe Four , The epoch of peace has passed. These forty years have eee erotrail ondure until the alm they all have in view dev the greater portion of Kurope an almost shall have been attained by one common line of action. unanticipated civilization, happiness, and pros- The State document was signed yesterday, after the | perlty. Other days are now dawning, in blood, sac- rifiee, and . suffei their closing no human mind can foresee. To appearance the struggle must be terrific and general, and no nation, no government, can calculate how long they will be permitted to remain quiet spectators of a scene of war carried on beyond their frontiers. The struggle is for the most sacred—the dearest ties of socioty—its religious and | commercial freedom—the political rights of the people, | and their advancemement in civilization, welfare, and | bappinems. The petty quarrel respecting access to the chorch and yault has extended to a magnitude vast and | mmmeasurable, and the sword must not return to its | Scabbard until the tate of urope has been de:i until victory shall have finally declared for the West or the East—for freedom or for Cossack power. Itis a great idea, uttered by a despotic monarch, but y aman who built his despotism on the mass of the people’s choice—that the era of conquests has for ever seed. It is no longer the narrow-minded ness of nasties that can determine for the world the bounda- rien of war or peace, If Europe be doomed for a length ened period to forego the blessings of peace, and look the horrors of war in the face, it will always be'a satisfaction to reficet that this war is not maintained for the acquisi- tion of territory—it is the people, the most civilized peo: ple of Europe, urged by their conscience and their duty, that take arms to secure for futurity peace and order, i, once for all, to drive despotism, fraud, and oppres- sion within its proper sphere. It is a great and glorions sight to sea how the very spirit of the people has rendered the impossible possible —how the march of civilization has formed a bond of unity between two nations that have, ever since the era of the Crusades, been at war, or continually suspected ‘and hated each other; England and France, those impla- cable foos—those rivals full of bitternoss—have shaken hands across the Channel, and united in a treaty for than national vanity. Out of the differ- nd manners declaration of war against Russia by England and France, and after these ‘wo Powers had sent their fleets against | the Rossian territory, and their armies to the soil of Turkey. Austria and Prussia coulu not possibly have sanctioned this new protocol if they did not also sanction the warlike step taken by the Western Powers. That which gives to this protocol of yesterday its most y ant character is the circumstance of its having gned by the great Powers of Germany in common the new declared enemies of Russia, those Powers adopting the same basis on which the acts of France and England are founded. The neutralit of the German Powers is therefore merely nominal, and can only remain nominal a short time longer. The day concluded the alliance of opinions; | ‘ons must follow as @ consequence; but the instrument just signed differs also with the preceding | protecels in aimost important point. Jt is settled and agreed in this said instrument that neither of the four un- dersigned Powers shall enier into tany negotiations with Hivssia for regulating the chief pointt of dispute inthe East- ern question without the joint knowledge and approbation of the three other Powers. This stipulation of itself alone confers on the protocol the natare of atronty. It Is the firet virtual engagement that the two actus! belligerent pasties, and the two others not yet so, have reciprocally | entered into. It lays the foundation, supposing its in- tention to be only a negative one as yet, for a solid and firm alliance between the four Powers. Yesterday, then, the wheels of our policy was brought into a safe track, ‘The position now taken up by the great Ger- as clearly as that of the Western Powers. If a doubt still survives, it can only exist relative to the strength ward in the track they have at length fallen into, The cabinet of St. Petersburg will learn in a few days that the whole of Europe now stands opposed to it, and | that, even if the swords of all be not yet unsheathed, ita own retrograde steps can alone prevent the contest from becoming universal. It is, indeed, now probable that peace is to be attained solely through war, and yet it secms to us that the new Restos! resembles a message of peace brought by a herald. The larger the number of the Powers that stand confronting Russia with their drawn swords, 40 much the sooner mast be the reault of | Fovrta ts naa mentor furueity the contest. Tho various exc ‘of Europe instinct- ghter f a one ively view the question in this manner. As they had dl. | | In this strife—its morning dawn already risen in blood reoted their wishes and hopes towards Vienna and Berlin, | OV¢r aera eagsener of our. eee erie a fo will they now on Frankfort, Stockholm, and Copen: Sc@ndinavian \eghevetocy not a Ace bre 5 hagen, In each and every dectaration of war that may Jt may be # longer or a shorter period ‘ore : ; | the signal is" given for them to join in the strag- oo ie thoge cities, they will pereeive tho white dove | (1. tne hour has not yet arrived. They can still | sit'in peace on their rocky strand as observers, until | the period when they shall be called upon to act.’ But, although their arma yet rest, they must not be lukewarm spectators of the phages in the sirugale; the arm aym- eal whi en exhibited to discover grounds | Pathies of their hearts, their prayers, their good wishes a 1, Ghurge of bad faith agaitet the German Powers, and | ¢&1! only have one bent—only one feeling of happiness or with which rumors, which are as yet without any confir- | Joy can fill their breasts, to hear that victory has crowned i been circulated calculated to produce that | the united flags of the Western Powers, and only one ond especially so far at regarcs Prussia, In | feeling of sorrow depress them, if—which may God forbid Mher part of our paper we publish a communication | —nother fate than that of success should attend their o theattitude and the probable course which Austria | efforts, So powerfully and universally is the public opi- will be driven to, but not ‘ase we agree eithor in the | Bion expressed in Sweden, in Norway, and by our faith- ning or with the results at which the writer arr ful allies across the Sound; that not ‘one single voice will {because it puta all that can bo said in that view of | dare to raine itself with other wishes. With joy, hopo ‘ase in the ablest and most atiractive way; and, | 8Hd the sympathy of friends, wo salute from our strands over, because it contains much matter that is high: | the flags of Englandand France, and welcome them to tructive, end much reflection that is deeply inte. OF Waters. Their success embodies the promise of our resting. Tetween freedom and slavery, between the ight ot Woe ‘There {s no denying that the position of the two een freedo D : eat great German Powers fh the areieut crisis of the affairs boa i te and ~ Mesip red of Eastern Sopeeare. of Europe is one of no ordinary difficulty. On the one | With the former must our hearts’ warmost, sympathies hand, if we look to Prussia, we feel that not only must | 8% oe minds’ right ore and there is no human the personal sympathies cf the reigning sovereign be poyen ied can smot! cr ie lent but warm good wishes closely united’ with those of the Emperor of Russia, that rise in every Swedish breast for the success of the but also that the deeply-rooted traditional policy of its Just cause, and for an honorable victory to those arms government is in unity of action with Russia, There | at Sght for it, courage and security in the minds of the weak most sceptical of mortals. Their cause is the cause of humanity, and wherever the light of civilization shines the nations of Europe look towards the united Western | Powers as the bannerbearers of truth and the champions THE POLICY OF THE GERMAN POWERS. From the Economist April 15.) We are entirely at a loss to understand the extraordi- — dre, moreover, grave reasons, which arise out of terri- | peer torial considerations and geographical proximity, which | DENMARK. make Prussia regard with the greatest antipathy and | THR CAUSE OF THE RECENT RESIGNATION OF THE hesitation a rupture with so hee erful neighbor ; and MINISTRY—THE ACTION OF SIR CHARLES NAPIER | there 18 no doubt that the military spirit which so much ‘\—-NEW CLAIMANT TO THE ChO animates the governing classes of Prussia is more itenti- | ‘There are two versions given of the cause of the late fiedwith the despotic principle of Russia than with the free | ministerial erisis in Copenhagen: the first is, that the and constitutional prineiple represented by the Western | Danish Minister of War failing to obiain the King’s con- Powers,and even by their own form of government. So also sent to the dismissal of Lieut. Col. Andra, (wlio was for- with regard to Austria: the past history of Europe, the ac- | merly President of the “ Volkesthing,”” ‘and is still a tual form of her government, and especially the relation | member of tbe Landthing,”) as well as of Professor which the different portions of he pire hold to tho | Hall, the Provisional Deputy of tho Minister of Justice, central power, all furnish strong prima Jacie reasons why | as Auditor of the army, himself resigned, aw did the Austria should feel it difficult to disunite herself from | other ministers. The other version is, that the resigna- | the great guardian and representative of despotic govern- | tion was caused by Sir Charles Napier’s visit to the King. ment, and ally herself with Englaud and France, the | It was reported that the government refused to permit great’ representatives of conatitutional and progressive | Danish pilots to steer English ships of war. When Sir yolicy. Her obligations to Russia in regard to Hungary, Charles Napler threatened to protest against this per- so faras the past is concerned, the probability of her sonally to t e King, the Ministers declared that his Ma- requiring similar assistance for similar purposes in the | jesty was sick, and could not be seen. Napier persisted, Tuture, undoubtedly present strong grounds for | obtained an interview, and gained his point. strengthening her ties with Russia, rather than risking | resignation of the discomfitted;Ministry. an absolute and irreconcilable rupture. Moreover, thero | Prince Vasa, son of King Gustavus IV., of Sweden, can be no doubt that it may be in the power of Russia, on | who abdicated in 1809, has, as representative of the , the supposition that success shall attend her wild ducal line of Holstein-Gottoop, issued a protest against schemes of aggression, to offer to Austria a very the treaty of London of May, 1852, which settled the tempting bait of an addition of long-craved-for territory; question of the Danish succession. ‘The Danish govern- and there ix no doubt that every temptation which _ mentis preparing a memorandum in refutation of the such proposals would imply have been unscrapulously | Prince’s pretensions. Prince Vasa is a Lieutenant Field used to influence the Emperor of Austria, We Marshal in the Austrian army, ond is known never to are, therefore, fully prepared to admit that the | have given up his claims to the Swedish throne, which grounds fora course of policy hostile to the Western | are perhaps more apparent than those on the Danish Fowers are sufiiciently powerful not only to afford some | throne. A London paper says :—‘“In the vicissitudes show of reason for views oppoged to those we entertain, and new combinations produced by a long war, it is not but also sufficient to account for the great caution and _ impossible that these pretensions of the Prince may ac: hesitation which theGerman Powers have shown in the | quire a value and become a useful lever in the hands of negotiations which have bi a to | the allies.” any absolute declaration of the precise course which the; Be ae - will Le prepared to adopt when matters are pushed to 4 SPEECH OF SIR HAMILTON SEYMOUR, sities, and when we are fairly involved in a Laropean | LATE BRITISH MINISTER TO RUSSIA. war | On Monday night, the 17th ult., the usual Eastor enter- On the other hand, we regard it as incontestable truth, | tairment at the Mansion House was given by the Right to whieh it is impossible that either German monarchs or | Hon. the Lord Mayor of London, who presided, to a un- ‘o be alive, that whether we look to | merous and distinguished party. ‘ 4 r present political necessities or to their future safety ‘Ihe Lox Mayor proposed ‘ The Diplomatic Service of 1 independence, impossible that they can the Country,” coupled with the names of Sir Wm. long refrain from taking a decisive and active part Temple und’Sir Hamilton Seymour (Cheers.) In ro- ons of Russia, or that they can | ferrirg to the latter he might say that his i: the Western Pow- been one of singular difficulty, as he bad be hi tos sovereign whose moderation, to use {I Lord John Russell on another oceasion, was more interests of both Prussia and Austria are too decply in- | dable than the most ambitious views of other Stat volved in the desigusof the Czar; and the immediate (Hear, bear.) He could hardly condole with the ri: danger which menaces them from other quarters, were | honcrable gentleman in having forfeited the good will of they to exhibit any sympathy for Russia, are both the Emperor of all the Russians, which was shown by too’ serious and too urgent to permit German states. the detention of his —. as his conduct had in the men to be governed at such ajuncture by the per. | saine degree procured for him the approbation of his sonal predilections of individuals, however high, or | fellow-countrymen. (Cheers.) of cliques, however influential. ‘If we look to’ the | Sir Hammon Seywovm, on rising, was loudly cheered. present danger to which Prussia and Austria would | Unfortunately, he spoke ins low tone of voice, which in ‘be exposed by any particular course which they may many party of the room was altogether inaudible. After follow at this juncture, it is quite clear that it'liea allon returning thanks for the henor which they had done him | the side of their taking part with Russia. If, in the first in drinking his health, he said he could have been well Jace, in contemplating the possibility of the German | content to sit down at once, as he was not altogether Powers being brought into direct antagonism with Eng- accustomed to address large as:emblages, but that he had land and France, we look to the probable effect which such long story to tell. He might begin by remarking that a course Would have on Prugsia, we cannot fail to bear in the confidence which they were pleased to place in him, | mind the powerful and extensive democratic spirit which and the confidence they reposed in him, weredue ina great prevails throughout Germany, and especially in the Khe- measure to the system of diplomacy adopted by nish provinces, which would not only lead to dangerous the English government. That system remarkably insurrectionary movements, but which would render the simple. It consisted in a man keeping his eyes as wide whole of those districts bordering on the Rhine an easy open as he could, and in writing home observations, not object of French occupation. With a people whose whole such as were most likely to please the English govern- feclings are so adverse to Russia, whose material interests ment, but such as they appeared to be to the man him- and commercial intercourse are so immediately bound up elf. "That was the aystem universally adopted by Eng- ‘With France and England, and whose sympathies woull | lish diplomatists, but unfortunately it was not allowed be so strong in favor of the cause in which those Powers abroad. In particular it was not adopted by the Russian | were engaged, no monarch or set of statesmen could government, and the consequences were what they bad all pursue such # course for a single month without leading _ seen. Had the Russian government followed the some prac- to the most fatal catastrophes. On the other hand, if we _ tice, he believed that none of the present evils would have | look to the present dangers which would menace Austria come to pass. But unfortunately contrary course was | if che pursued such a course, we are immediately remind- _ acopted; for nothing could be more inexact, nothing more ed of the position of her [tallan provinces and of Hunga. — false than the notions with regard to Europe in general that ry. Ifwe had nothing clee, those provinces might be | were circulated throngh Russia, What did they write | regarded in the light of ‘material guarantees’’ for the with regard to the provinces of Turkey? They wrote | policy of Austria. that noth ng but the greatest horrors prevailed—that the But, if we turn from the question of immediate dan- | priests were murdered at the altar—that the Christian ger, and look to the future consequences which any par- | temples were burned—that the grossert sacrileges were ticular line of policy now to be pursued by the German | Powers is likely to entail, thourh the considerations may be less obvious and more involved, yet they are not less in favor of siding with the Weatern Powers. On the one hand, what has Austria to apprehend from such a course? esting invalid the Sultan got worse and worse, that his | It may be said, that in order to retain Hungary and keep | flesh and his appetite were quite gone, and that his ob- her own subjects in subordination, the time ‘may again | stinscy was such that he refused to take the preseri when she will require to havo recourse to Russian — tions which the imperial physician was good enough to assistance. On the other hand, however, it has become | send him. What did they write from London? They quite plain that if the designs of the Czar are now to | wrote that John Bull was a very material fellow—that prove successful, it could only be at a cost to the politi- | he was immersed in the Three per Cents—that he was cal influence and independence of Austria, and ata dan- | very fond of the creature comforts, and that he was most Heuce the therto taken place, and as to ers. everywhere committed—things that made his hair stand | onend till he found that he could not trace a single word of truth in the whole relation. What did they write from Constantinople? They wrote that that inter- er to the continued integrity of her own territory, such | unwilling to interrupt his present flow of prosperity by fs would far mere than counterbalanes even the safety | meddling with sifaira with which he had no direet con- of Hungary, that she could now continue her ailiancs | cern. £0 much for Fogiand. He must say here that he with Russ Moreover, in that case, it iseven more than | was not alluding to mere diplomatic correspondence probable that long before the termination of the war | —to the despatches of Prince this or of Count that—sbut Hungary would cease to be a province of Austria. Then | to general reports sent from the country. What did they aguitt if we turn to Prossin, ie is difficuit to discover ang | write from France? Why, they represented that coun- = x bardly escaped from onezevolution or po- litiesl change, and as being only bent upon avoiding another—that the men of commerce were intent upon realizing large fortu: hat the government was impe- rial in its sympathies; and above all, the idea of a close } connection between England and France was treated a4 amyth—ar a thing to be talked of but never to be rea- Ved. (Hear, hear.) But it might be asked, what was the Fnglish Minister about all this time? The'English Minis- ier, he might te!l them, was a very small mau. He did what he could, but his ‘Voice was small, for it was not what was eaid’ to the Emperor of Russia in the English language that availed anything, but what was said to him in the Russian language; and he was persuaded that if there had been any one aniong his advisers of courage or of character sufficient to tell his Majesty the exact | truth, his Majesty would never have followed his pre- sian intrigue, and whatever the predilections of sovereigns | sent unfortunate course. The result was, that England or statesmen, it must soon beoome plain to the govern. | was now plunged into a war with » country with which uents of Auctsia and Prussia that there isbut one course | we hed long been on tho most friendly relations—a coun- which, with eitherdignity or safety, they. can accept.— | try that had many sympathies with this country, as Nor do the those two governments expose tham | might be expected when it was considered that half of its to the snapicion that they haye not arrived at # full con- | produce was not only purchased by England, but paid fore viction as to the line whioh it is equally their duty and | vefcreband; and with @ very kindly people—for he could their interest to follow. The signing of s pretocol so re- | not conceal it—that he had found there many kind hearts cently as Sunday last, the terms of which Lord Clarendon | among the people (cheers); and when the present mists has declared to be satisfactory, and the object of which | of prejudice had been dispelled t here were many friendly more to commit the four great European Pow- hands there which it would give him great pleasure to n assertion of the duty of maintaining the in- | shake. (Loud cheers.) Butif they had lost an ancient tegrity of the Ottoman Empire, and for the evacuation | ally on the one side, the circumstances of the case had of the Principslities, is a reasonable proof that neither | bad the extraordinary effect, with regard to another coun- Prussia nor Austrio desiro to retract their hostilities to | try, of wiping away the results of centuries of jealousy the projects of Russia, And, so far as Austria is con- and hostility, and of producing a state of friendly feeli cerned, we have reason to know that the position she has | which, he trusted, would be equally durable. He assumed with large body of troops in regard to Servia, | not ray that he alluded to their ally the French nation. and with the conrent of the Porte, is looked upon by | (Cheers.) In every language there were words of peculiar Russian authorities as little short of an overt act of hos- | significance and importance. Thus, when they said in ity against the Czar. | England thats nian bebaved himselftike a gentleman, they While, therefore, we are by no means desirous of = bestowed upon him the highest compliment, aud’ they dervaluing the importance which is attached to the con- 4 meant that euch 2 man would not only fulfil, but would go tion, yet, for our own parts, whether we look to what we | evila which that State bas to anticipate in the future: by now joining Uie Wesiern Powers to repress the unprinci- pled eggressions of Russia. While, on the other hand, Sup- yore Russia to be successful, we may be quite sure that the propheey of the Great Frederiok will soon be fulfilled, when he said that ‘df the Mussians ge! Constant naple, in @ week ofterwards they will be at Konigsterg,”” and that we should hare a renewal of all those efiorts which frem time to time have been mace for an extension of Russian territory along the shores of the Valtis. Tairly weighing, then, the dangers present and fature which can attend the dilferent courses which are open for (he German powers to follow, it is impossible not to see that the balance is xo enormously in favor of their co- erating with the Western Powers in order to check the inordinate snd unscrupulous ambition of the Czar, that whatever may be the,farce and perseverance of Rus- duct of the German Powers and the ~# beyond, hie engagements, Now, in tho Fronch language, reethanns eee enenat we, | the wonds toned end Iryauld Had the sane signlicant must ardas their present and their future int meaning. And, in speak of the French cabinet, he or to their professions and their actions, we Sak owe must m that, as far as his own powers of observation that we have not much anxiety as ‘othe course which | had gone those terms were peculiarly applicable to the they will finally adopt. ects of the French government, (Cheers.) As far as . oe bo had been able to observe, nothing had been more loyat | SWEDEN AND RUSSIA. —nothirg more marked by loyauti—than the procees- [From the 8teckholm Aftonbladet, Ay ril 4.) ings ef the French government. ie did not wish to go | Tho cie is cast. The Western Fowers have at iength | inio any personal affairs, but there was one sli . dcelared war ezainst the Ce comstenee which occurred to bim-elf, and w political progress, bas eventual thought, na regarded the eonduct of tho French govern- test of a patience that aj pear: ment, Bad not attracted the attention it deserved. sword against bar Among the arts that were wsed—dodges, he ved, tion, and the curt was the raoders words (laugh'or)—to separate the Eng- | of universal history, th Yexercice | livhond the French governments, the Kussion exbinet am e met ut ® very d'ffere eatroont to the English Eurcpe ica fagm what was awarded ty the Fiench | | Gallipoli at the beginning of this month, and with them | General Pes | established at Garvan. Minister. For instance, he (Sir Hamilton,) received one fine winter’s the agreeable intims- tion that his back was more agreeable to the government than his face—that his passports wore ready —and that it was desirable he should set out from St, Pe- tersburg as soon as possible. Nothi.g of the sort was done to the French Minister. But it happened that this littie act was foreseen and discountenanced at Paris ; and it so happened that when the French Minister heard of this, acting upon his instructions, he wrote to the Rus- sian cabinet, requesting that a similar passport might be made out for him, and so off he went. (Cheers.) It was therefore possible, and he hoped it was probable, that the long centuries of hostility that existed between France and England, might now be succeeded by as many centuries of peace. ‘Before sitting down, let him endea- vor to point out the ditierence between the first and se- cond empires, ‘The one appeared to him to rest upon war and upon a disregard of national rights ; the other rested upon an extreme deaire for peace, as long as peace could be preserved upon honorable terms, and upon the great- est respect for the righta and privileges of other nations. There had lately resounded through the streets of Paris the cries of ‘ Vive la Reine Victorie!’’ “ Vivant les An- aed Ld speaking the universal sen- He believed he wa iments of his countrymen, when he said that Englishmen would respond to those cries with the shout of “Vive la France—vive le Empereur —wite le defenseur de les droits de UEurope.” (Cheers.) He would not-detain them longer. If any observation had appeared in his speech tinged with as- yerity, he hoped they would excuse it. He dared to say at many of them, in travelling, had experienced the discomfort, when arriving at a station, of finding that they had left an umbrella or a carpet bag behind them, and they would theretore excuse any annoyance felt by & poor traveller like himself, who Tort behind him the whole of his luggage, and who therefore naturally ba ae ie excitement on the subject. (Cheers and ughter. gills Lox Maxor then proposed “The Foreign Embas- 8.7 Mr. Sickums, of the American Embassy, returned thanks. Adverting to the presont warlike state of af- fairs, he declared that ever sinco Turkey had protected the exile from the oppressor, the United States had felt s lively interest in her destinies, and that tho citizens of * the States were all anxious for the maintenance of her | integrity and independence. (Cheers.) Several other toasts were proposed, and the company separated at a late hour. RUSSIA. The Journal de St. Pelersburg of the Sth, contains the following :— ‘To A1pB-DB-CaMP GENERAL Count Worontsorr— Prince Michael Semenovitch—Having received your re- Porton your giving up to General of Cavalry de Read, of he administration of the Caucasus, and of the command of the brave troops there collected, I fully appreciate the sentiments with which you have left that country, and not less than you I regret it—knowing that an urgent ne- cessity could alone oblige you to quit temporarily, under present circumstances, a carcer to which you have do- voted nine years of indefatigable. activity, not loss sig- i ‘our feats of arms than by your administ: tive acts. The useful enterprises already executed by you should be a consolation to you; but, notwithstanding your bad health, you have prepared local measures for meeting the events which are now being developed, and hea have drawn up MR ones instructions, which ve convinced mo that all your views are in conformity with my intentions. In repeating to you the assurance of my most sincere gratitude for your brilliant services, aud for your exemplary abnegation, I cordially desire that after the re-establishment of your strength, you will soon return to the Caucasus, for the welfare of that province and the interest of the country. ever, your affectionate st! Petersburg, March 29, 1854. To Am-pE-Camp GENERAL PRINCE GORTSCHAKOFF:— Prince Michael Dmitrievitch—By the brilliant passage of ihe Danube, effected on the ult., you have crown- ed the Russian arms with new glory. The troops under your command in person effected on three points tho pas- sage to the right bank of the river, and took by assault several redoubts of the enemy. Alarmed at our bold attack the Turks fled, and abandoned to us, without | striking a blow, the fortresses of Toultcha and Matchin, which been defended by ; arrisons of fifteen thousan men. Seeing in this exploit a pledge of our future suc- cesses against the enemies of the holy religion and of the country, I charge you to express my most sincere ratitude to our brave troops and to their valient chiefs. feat the same time conferring on you, in testimony of my cordial gratitude for your distinguished services, my ortrait enriched with ‘diamonds, to be worn at your Butt hole, I remain unchangeably your affectionate St. Petersburg, April 3. NICHOLAS. The Russian government hav! ordered that all sol- diers who had received unlimited furloughs rhould im- diately return to the serviee, the Chief of the Police ‘saw published a proclamation on the 8th, declar- ing that any inhabitant giving refuge to a soldier of this class attempting to conceal bimself, shall be severely punished if be does not immediately denounce him. OPERATIONS ON THE DANUBE. The Russians are intrenching themselves at Hirsova. As Omer Pasha bas issued orders to the troops occupy’ the second or Balkan line of defence to begin their march towards the Danube on the 10th, itis supposed that some positive assurances relative to the arrival of the allies must have reached him. ‘Ten English merchant vessels, laden with provisions and ammunition, arrived at Varna on the Ist of this month. On the €th’ an “order of tho day”? was published at Widdin, that the samo military honors were to be paid to English and French as to Tark- ish officers. Up to the 9th nothing new had occurred on the Lanube. ‘ihe Turks maintain their various positions between Trajan’s Wall and Silistria. Two thousand four hundred of our countrymen were at I remain for- NICHOLAS. af the vanguard of the French troops, under Captain Excel- mans. According to the correspondent of the Wanderer, ienersl Canrobert will remain for a time at Gallipoli, but | t, with his staff, will at once co to the Danube. Tho hotel of the Russian embassy at Constanti- neple is under the protection of Ausiria, and consequent. ly the reports of its having been seizod by tho Turkish government are incorrect. The Presse of this evening contains a questionable account of a hostile collision be- tween the allied and the Russian fleets not far from Sebastapol. Extreme activity prevailed emong the Turks at Orsova April (th, and it is believed that important events would | occur abut the 20th. THE RUSSIAN PASSAGR OF PIT DANUDE. (From the Supplement Extraordinary of the Journal of St. Petersburg.) This journal of the 6th April contains a long rej the Fmperor from General Prince Gortachakof, com- manding the 9d, 4th, and 5th corps of infantry, ‘giving the details of the occupation of the right bank’ of the Danube by the Russian troops. The report commences by enumerating the troops employed in the operation. It states that the passage before Galatz was entrasted to Aid-ce Camp General Luders, who had at his disposal twenty-four.and a-quarter battalions, eicht aquadrons, six sotnias, and sixty-four pieces of artillery. Prince Gort- echakolT gives the following as the total of the troops un- der his command:—Fourteen battalions, sixteen squad- rons, six sotnias, and forty-four pieces of artillery. Ho then proceeds to stat: = “Lieutenant Gene the passage of the Danube a little above the promontory of Tchétal, to carry the Turkish batteries established op- Fee e that promontory and after having securely ep- blished himself on tle right bank, to assist by demon- atrations againct Tultecha and Isaktcha, the operations of the troops to be directed upon Galatz and Brailow. The time for the passage before Galats, Brailow, and Ismail, was fixed for the night of the loth of March. The order was given to proceed to the construction of bridges as soon as the landing of troops upon these three points had been effected. In order still more to draw away the attention of tho enemy, Colonel Zouroff received orders to make, on the th, a strong demonstration against Hirsova, with a de- tachment of two battalions of infantry, two pieces of eannon, six pieces of Wallachian artillery, two squadrons of the regiment of Iancers of Olviopol, and two pieces of light horse artillery. ‘This demonstration was attended with full success. 3JA part of the Turkish position was d@stroyed by the fire of our artillery, which disabled threo of their pieces of can- non, and they removed the rest. The storm raged so heavily upon these three points jy rn necessary to defer the passage of the river till e 11th. Lastly, in order to lead the Turks into error upon the precise point of the passage of our troops, I gave orders on the 10th, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, for our batte- ries established on the left bank of the Danube and the Island of Vyndoia to open a strong fire along the arm of Matschin. “There batteries had been erected with re- able taleut by Aid-ce-Camp Genoral Achilders. | In addition to the cross-ftring the gun-sloop No. 22 was brought on the 10th to the point of the Island of Vyn. | doia, in order to fire against the right bank of the Dan- ube, above the arm of Matschin. ‘The unites action of these two batteries was successful. The batteries of the enemy opposite the atm of Mats- chin were much injured, but althongh their fire was diminished it was me'ntained potil nightfall, Ou the 1ith of March, at daybreak, General Luders Logan the passage before Galatz. The Tarks did not ex- yect vs in thet aizection, so that upon this point the opersiion did not meet with any resistance. A post of Turkish horvemen, established upon the right bank, im- mediately took to ight. At the village of Asakli, ‘upon which the advanced guard of our flank directed ’ them. selves, there were only fifty horsemen, and in a skiriaish whieh tock place with them a Cossack was wounded. As soon an the first body of troops had A before Gola‘z, steps were tuken for the construction of a bridge, but tke operation could not be finished till five o'clock in the morning of the 13th, in consequence of the vio- lence of the wind. On the 12th Gen. Luders gave orders to his advanced ard, under the command of Lieutenant-General de rotenhjelm, to proceed in the direction of ‘he village of Garvan, but without detaching from the banks of the river the main body of troops, which were being gradu- ally transported in boats, until the formation of the bridge, which oj tion oe very slowly in conse- quence of the violence of the wind. On the 18th the bridge was ready, which enabled the troops to bring their equipments, and their forage and provisions. The advanced guard reached Garvan with- cut obstacle, and entered into communication with the troops of the detachment of Brailow, which aiready oc- cupied Matschin, the 4th the greater part of the detachment was On the side of Brailow, two battalions of \ofantey Spe of the regiment of infantry of Praga, and one of of the Chasseurs of Zomose,) were appeinted to defend the island of Vyndeia, All the troops upon that island were er the commani of Major-General Prince clonging tothe suite of your Imperial Mi josty. The cannonade of the 10th of March, by deter- mining the jion ef the enemy’s batteries, gave us the oj porteni'y, by reason of the delay of the passago till next day, (0 increase our intermediate batteries on the islond of Vyndoia during the night of the 10th. On the morning of the 11th of March a cannonade was exceuted, but I caused it to be stopped imme hiately af terwards, ar the Turks did not reply to It. At 4 o’:lock in the afternoon, our batteries having ro- commenced the fire with redoubled activity, proceeved to force the passage. The aitack’ was intrust ed to thecomm:nd of Aide-de Camp Cene.al Kui zebue, chief of the staff. At So’cieck in the afternoon three batlalions of the Regacent of Chaseenrs of Zamorc, two eentpantes of the d Dattalion o: Sepjers, four piece of tue light battery No. 8, and fifty Cossacks of the Regiment No. 25 of sacks of the Don de Zaroubine, who had been that it might have been pletely abandoned their fortifications. ‘Aide-de-Camp General Kotzebue formed, under the command of Major-General Veaselitzky, a chain of sharp- shooters with the first men who landed, so that, covered by them, the infantry who landed might form ‘columus by companies. Preceding this chain in person, he ad- vanced upon the road to Matschin. fSimu'taneously with this movement, he sent Major- General Boutourline, who acted as Quartermaster-in-Chief, with a few Greck volunteers, to a battery abandoned b; the encmy on ihe left of the route, in order to recomnoi- tre the territory. The Turks preserved the silence of death, and not one ed hinself ; but hardly had Major-General Boutourline entered the battery with his yolunicers than the enemy, concealed in a ravine behind the battery, snd in the deep intrenchments which con- nected it with the other batteries, opened » murderous fire ef musketry. By order of 'Aide-de-Camp General Kotzebue, our chain of sharpshooters halted and returned the enemy's fire. ‘The censtruction of the bridge, which was confided to Major-General Stolpakoff, commander of the 1st brigade of the 3d division of light cavalry, was commenced at the time of the departure for the attack. + The enemy having perceived the movement of the see- tions of the bridge towards the point for its establish- ment, direeted upon the latter acannonade from the rinclpal battery of the bank towards the Danube, which K was impossible for us to silence, in consequence of the disposition of the place. ‘Then our artillery, which had been landed, was sent in edvance, and, joinin sia es {that of the vatterias of the island of Vyndoia, n to pour grapeshot upon the batteries of the nearest bank, behind which were posted men armed with muskets and the infantry of the enemy. put the same time arrangements were made to complete eo ize. ‘At 6 o'clock in the evening two battallions of the regi- ment of Chasscurs of Lublin and two pisces of cannon were sent to the right bank to reinforce the three bat- talions which had already landed. riod of the night, sending prapoaiot and bulls agalont pe ni of lets arainst The worksand the bridge. [sree this, at two intervals the Turks, having formed the line of battle on their right flank, opened a fire of musketry, which did not do us any harm, a8 much bocause of the distance as in consequence of the position of our infantry, which was so posted as to be covered by small ravines. ’ During the wholo night the detachment remained in observation, while a portion of tho troops were ongaged in the construction of the bridge. During the same night two piecos of the light battery No. 8 were transported to the right bank. “‘The gun sloops which had proceeded along tho left bank before the commencement of the descent, were employed to clear that part of the right bank where the Isnding was to be effected. While it took place those sleops were placed acrose the river, in order to cover the establish- ment of the bridge, and to retain the pontoons, the a chors of which would not hold in consequence of the violence of the wind. After the first landing of the troops, the steam vessel the Pruth gave efficacious assistance in the construction of the bridge, by towing the pontoons and assisting in the transport of troops and artillory. ‘The establishment of the bridge having proceeded very slowly in consequence of tho contrary wind and the strength of the current, the two ba ions of the regiment of Chasseurs of 1 were tr rted on the 12th of Marc! eak, to the r bauk of the Danube, by 5 In the e 11th to the 12th of March, the enemy evacuated his batteries, and retired upon XM radyanced poats were sent forward, and our pied the batte: bandoned by the enemy. In the »icht from the 12th to the 18th, having received from tie island of Vyndoia a report from Major-General Frince Ourousofy, belonging to the suite of your imporial sty, announcing that the enemy had evacuated fatschin and were marching towards Hirsova, I ordered at 7 o'clock in tho morning, the transport, by means of Doats, ef the last batialions from the right bank, and that ‘thoy should assemble on the left bank as soon as the bridge should be formed, and also the transport of the regiment No. 9 of the Cossacks of the Don of Lieut. Colonel Fomine, and three squadrons of the regiment of Lancers of the’ Archduke Albert of Austria. At half- | ory 8o’clock in the morning the bridge was finished. ‘he ¢ Cossacks passed first, them the Lancers, and I then advanced towards Matechin with four battalions of in- fantry, two companies of sharpshooters, a platoon of sappers, three squadrons of lancers, and eight piecos of the light battery No. 8 of thé fifteenth brigade of arti- ry. ‘he clergy, with their crosses, and the primates of {he town, with bread and salt, came forth to most our ops. After having occupied the town and inspected the for- tifications, I entrusted the tommand of the troops des- tined to form the garrison to Major-General Vesselitzky. ‘Our loss in forcing the before Brailow was very unimportant: we had six men killed. Among the wound- | od was Major-General Doubensky, who unfortunately had his left leg carried away above the kneo. Thirty men, also, were wounded. Msjor-General Veaselitzky, the se- cond captain of artillery, Poloubinsky, and six men, re- ceived contusions, the former not of a serious nature. On the 11th of March, at daybreak, Licutenant-General Ouscbakoff began to force the passege of the Danube. ‘The gun-sloopa and two bat:eries on the bank opened & fire, which was prolonged til! 11 o’cloek, and silenced the Turkish battery. The Turks having ceased their fire, th bouts for the landing emerged from an arm of the Danube called Kilia, entered that of Sulina, and doubled the Capo of Tehétal, without any loss, although the batteries of the enemy began to fire upon them as soon as they were perceived. Two battalions of the Infantry Regiment of Mohileff, two battalions of the Regiment of Chasseurs of Polotsk, and four pieces of the 7th brigade of artillery, wore first transyorted to the right bank, where the other troops fol- lowed them. ‘the brigade of Chasseure of the Seventh Division of In- fantry was directed to the left, towards the arm of Somo- Yo, and two battalions of the regiment of Mohileff pro- geeded to the right, toward a Turkish battery, which formed an obstacle to the establishment of the The Chasseurs reached the arm of Eomovo without an obstruction; but at that point they encountered an obsti- nate resistance, the opposite bank being oceupied by th enemy. Lieutenant General Ofschakoff then ordered t! infantry to halt beyond the range of the guns, and d rected the sharpshooters to occupy the of’ the arm of the river. The urs then advanced rapidly, and the enemy preeipitately took flight, without having had time to destroy the bridge. After there incidents the two battalions of the Regi- ment of Mobile! who had advanced towards the enemy's battery on the shore, to take possession of it, were ceived with a fire of musketry and artillery. Our sold advanced with heroic bravery, the officers in front, and the first enclosure was immediately carried by the bayo- net, but behind them were five entrenchments, shielded on one ride by the Danube, on the other by’ marshes, and beyond them was a strong‘closed fortification. ‘The Turks defended this point with desperation. The Lattalions of the regiments of Mohileff boldly rushed to the assault one after the other. Three battalions of the regiment of Smolensk were sent to strengthen th tuck. The firing and the combat at close quarters lasted till 9 o’elock in the evening; but at last all the fortifica- tiens of the enemy were carried, and nine bronze can- non taken and 160’ prisoners, among whom was the com- mander of the battery. The rest of the garrison, with the exception of those who succeeded in escaping, were put to death with the bayonet. On our side we had 400 mon killed and wounded. Among the latter are Colonel Tisjelnikoff, commander of the regiment of infantry of Mohilef, and Lieutenant- Cclonels Amantoff and Vornessensky. Five subaltern officers were killed and seventecn wounded. On the 12th of March a part of the flotilla was towed along the Danube to Cape Tchétal, and the establislment of the bridge was commenced. The Turks, alarmed at the loss which Reo had experi- enced on the preceding evening, evacuated Tultscha, and retired upon Babadag. The brigade of Chasseurs of the Zth division of infantry occupied Toltscha, as well as the Turkish fortifientions surrounding the town. It was thus that the passage of the Danube was simul- taneously effected upen three points by our troope. Tconsider ita sacred duty to bear witness before your Imperial Majesty that all the troops who took part in the operation, from the General to the simple soldier, were full of ardor and intrepidity. All crossed the river, and ced boldly towards tle enemy, to the joyous sound yoge,and our national and’ traditional ery of “Hur THE RUSSIAN FLEET IN THE BLACK SBA. (From the Invalide Russe.) After the occupation of the eastern Sea in the last war against Turkey, the government had directed its attention to the suppression of the infamous treffic in women and children, who form the principal article of commerce between the mountaineers of the Ccucasus and the Turks. With this object it had erected al! along the coast between Ghelen‘jik and Gagri a series of (emporary posts, and established cruisers by means of galleys of a particular construction, manned by Cossacks from the rea of Azoff. Thanks to measure, fearless- ly executed by the Cossacks, the object of humanity which the government bad proposed to itself had been until now achieved. At present, the circumstances under which these posts had teen built having ebanged, it became necessary to corsider that in consequence of their position they had no land communication with each other, and that their tarrixons, therefore, left completely isolated from the inain body of our forces, could not be of any service in the general system of our future 0 tions. On these grounds the Aid-de- p General Prinee |e myn on wine gusts suppress these posts, after ing withdrawn sons. Trince Menschikoff has accomplished this service with the success which rccompanies all the operations of the fleet in the Black Sea. On the 84 of March he despatched from Ghelendjik the steamer Molodeta, under the fing of Vice-Admiral Séré- braikofl, towing rowboats; the Crimea, under the J of Rear Admiral Panfiloff, towing the Mamai transport ship; the Odessa, towing the saa the Chersonese, towing the Gostogai; ihe Boiets, towing the Kodos; the Mogoutchy, towing the Tsémes; and the Argonaate, towing rowboata. In coasting along the shores of Cireassia, and whenever they arrived opposite » post, they left tho vessels neces- sary for the embarkation of the garrisons; bat on ap- ores of the Black proaching Navoghinsk, two steamers—the one French, the other English—were sigualied. The embarkation was suspended, and measures were taken to prepare for ction; however, the enemy’s ebips remained in the sfling, pasced before ours, and the embarkation was re- aumed. In the meantime, opposite the post Véliaminoff, these two steamers stopped the hired transport Deyb; two offl- 8 Lailed her and addressed to her commander, Lieut. t lowing questions. hat steamers have you seen near the post of Ne kr? Answer— Some Russian steamers of war. “What are they deing at that pefnt?”? Answer—"There n admiral there, aud he bas not told me his instruc- “Who is burning the posts, you or the Circassians ?”” Arswer—“We? is you burn them?? Answer—"Because such is the order given.’ “Where is your fleet?” Anawer—T don’t know, but 1 belicve it to be at nea, and very wear.” After baving received these answers, the two steamers Geparted, having described themselves as the Mogador and the On the Sth the wholo expedition anchored at Novoross- lisk, where it disembarked the garrison of the posts of Nevaghinak, Govoline, Lasaref, Veliaminof, Tenghinsk, jovotroitek. Storms had prevented the squadron of Rear Admiral Voukotitch embarking the garrison of the post of St. Esprit, The removal of this garrison took place between the 9th and 10th, by means of the steamer Gromonos- sets, aboard which was sent Colonel Skolkof, aid-de-camp of the Emperor. From all these posts, besides the garrisons, which make up eifective force of 5,000 men, they embarked ilies of the soldiers, the workiuen, and a great Part of the stores of the Crown. The rest, as well a Bieta? were burnt, and the fortifications were Our military resources have thus bes entod by an important body of picked troops, potion ig od by long service in the centre of an unsubdued countey. THE BLACK hii THE BLOCKADE OF Vanwa, April 1—Tho fleets have left in the direction of Sebastopo! dived St oe cea April 6.—The whole fleet is now in the lack Sea, ‘The above are the only authentic announcements re- ceived of the movements of the fleets, but our informa-~ tion is eked out by private despatches. It was rumored that the bulk of the fleet had gone to Sebastopol, but it ‘was more likely it had gone to Odessa. Correspondence from the latter port says, of date 1st.:—“We arc here in a state of gront excitement. For several days we have seen many French and English sails. They probably intend blockading us, for they don’t leave the spot, but keep Seige is sight. Large’ masses of troops are being concentrated here. Our garrison here is at bd moment 20,000 strong, and f1 men arrive evory VICTORY IN THE CAUCASUS, The ish steamer which had been sur- veying on the coast of Circassia, returned to Constanti- nople on March 21, bringing tidings of a complete vie- tory gained by the Circassians over the Russians. in March the Circassians, provided with arms and ammu- nition, attacked the Russians, and after a severely con- tosted'battlo, drove them into their castles on the coast. dly attacked during four continuous days. Finally, the od iestine, to be cut to Blew up their ines sought shelter in their ships. The Sampson furthor re- ports that the Circassians fell on the garrisons, who were retreating from two hill forts, and put them to the sword. The Gscasslan claus nat Present free from the enemy. The castles were surrounded and repeate THE WAR IN ASIA. Kans, Feb: I arrived here on the 27th inst., early in ti after a very pleasant journey, the season and all being taken into consideration. I was most kindly re- ceived by General Guyon. With military sans fagon he asked me to dine with him. Every mo he at the council, which sits ~— day since the arrival of Haireddin Pacha. Nothing will bo done here inall proba- bility for two months, but my trip to Kars will be repaid by all the true information gathered on the s You have no idea how the peopleat Cons‘antinople, bizond, and Erveroum, are wittingly or unwittingly mis- informed. At the present moment the troops quartered here do not outnumber 15,000; of these one-half are Isid up by sickness, caused by privations, cold, bad and scanty 29, 1854. morning, food, &c., and the typhus. deaths are thirty-two to thirty-five a day. G Guyon has been doi his and is truly greatly l by the subaltern officers and the men. He has established » cordon of outposts and detached sentinels all around the city, at the distance of some fifteen or sixteen miles, They extend in a demilune over some hundred miles of ground, the farthest ones being only separated by a small river from the advanced sentinols of the Russians, and all being reliéd in good military style with the town. The Turk id no idea ef any such thing before, and pains were necesrary in order to mako then unders! she usefulness of this most important partof milt craft and warfare. The thing was a last accomp! by the united exertions of Guyon aud the foreign officers on his staff, and they all unite in saying that tho Turkish soldiers, when once you have explained to them what they must do, do their duty well. It is useless for me to expatiate op the worn-out theme of the incapacity, ava- riciourness, and peculative propensitics of the Muehic and other gros tonnes here. Suffice it to say, that all we have heard avout them is perfectly true, and, for onee, ho exaggeration (simply because impossible) has takem place, I wish you could 5 meral Guyon. He is indeed the beau ideal of a soldier, in his manners, conversation, and everything. I shot say he is from 88 to 40 years old, middle-si fine, ample brow, and auch clear, soul-reading blue eyes. He bas a knack of looking at you from time to time, with ick, sharp, penetrating glance, that seems to go 8 aight through you. He exercisos a rea! fascination om all who approach him; and all of us newly arrived, gene- rals and all, are completely won over to his side. By oar advent the foreign officers here have reached the number of twenty-threo, and I enclose lisi of their names. Bien that we officers compose all the society here, as not a single civilian from Europe graces this lace. None of the common superfluities of life are to met with here—nothing but the necessary is to be found, and even that nea Tntrigues are of coarse the order of the day here. We have twenty-five pachas at Kars, each one working on his own private hook. The arrival of Haireddin has seized them all with terror, and time will show if he is an honest aud capable man or not. To-day it is said that tho Mustashar Lffendi, of Er- zeroum, is named Muchir. Everybody is waiting for the post with the greatest anxiety. FOREIGN OFFICERS AT KARS, Po.rs.—General Brianski (Schahan Pacha), General ‘Aslan Pacha), Colonel Gostchiminslt Lestchianovski Rufan Bey), Colonel Pacheck (Ilderim Boy), Major Jor- Can (Jordan Bey), Major Vinrusky (Mehiemet Refic), Ma- or Choskoveky (Adam Emir), Adjutant-Major Tagmin {Toustot), Adjutant Major Sopebinskt (Moussa), Captain oskovsky Jean (Omer), Captain Farnese (Arif), Captain Perkovski (Rabia), Licutenant Prorock (Achmet), and Doe’ or Narkievith. Houngakiaxs,—General of Division Gu ie Pacha), General of Brigade Kmetty (Ismail Pacha), Major Schelienberg (Rehir), Adjutant Major Schimler (Voly Lieutenant Mandel (Selim), Lieutenant — ( 4 and Lieutenant —— (Selim). Trais4N.—Captain De Coelis (Hoorsehid). AMERICAN. me captain, I forgot to tell you that there is not one single desort- er here from the Russian army—mueh less three or four thousand, as Sadik Pacha said in Constantinople. The Polish generals and everybody else are wuiting for news from Constantinople. All depends upon the first cou- rier. Fes, 29—11 P. M. To-morrow morning we are all off to the outposts for @ few days. We received our orders from General Guyom this evening. One hundrod and thirty-two villages are to be explored, so as to see where accommodation can be found for ten ‘more battalions and squadrons of cavalry and infantry that must be quartered there. The fall Achmet and the elevation of Zarif Pasha, present Gover- nor of Erzeroum, to the Muchirlick of Kars, was ofl cially communicated to us this evening, and everybody rejoices at the change. Accounts from Erzeroum atate that Zarif Pasha, Gene- ral-in-Chief of the army of Anatolia, arrived at Kara om the ith March, and bad been received with the greatest enthusiasm. ‘The army was being supplied with money, ammunition and clothes, so that the ensuing cam would open under better auspices than that which 80 disastrously in December. Artillery was to be sent as carly as the state of the roads would permit; but at pre. sent, with some feet in depth of snow in the valleys and. the face of the country @ mass of mud and melting jee, operations were impossible. Kurschid Pacha, (Gen. Guyon,) was still earnestly occupied in disc the forces. {tis stated that the whole Russian army concentrated at Gumri, (Alexandropol,) which they are fortifying very strongly, so that should the Russians confine themselves to defensive warfare, the capture of Gumri must all attempts at aggressive move- ments on the pers of Ottoman commander. voluntary rervicoof 4 band Kurdish tribes is ally offered to the service of the Sultan. EGYPT. Accounts from Alexandria to April $4, state that the Consul General of Austria, to whom the protection of Russian subjects had been confided since the departure of their own consul, had officially informed them thas he should cease to protect them after the 29th inst., that they must propare to lesve Egypt by that date. The rupture of diplomatic relations between and Greece leads to the belief that the,Grecks at dria will also be compelled to leave. Such would eause great purturbation in the commerce of city, as the Greeks are very numerous there, phe, | a acne. The bey ow) it sideral a ion among: Greeks, both tCairo andgt Al THE GREBK INSURRECTION. The expulsion of the Greeks from Turkish territory ie , going on, but a private despatch states that Greek sub- jects who profess the Latin faith will be allowed to re- main. From Syria, April 8, a despatch states that the Greeks had poh Gare ‘at Amiro, where they lost three hundred in killed. Dissensions prevailed among their leadera, who begin to accuse each other of treachery. M. ex Minister at Constantinople, had arrived at Athens. Neither lee ented anagen nor Swedish minis- ers assisted at the Zr Deum, on April 6, tho anniversary celebration of Greek independence. THE RIGHTS OF NEUTRALS. {From the London Times, April 19) The question put to the Foreign Office the de- claration of war, might be resolved ee eae #8 to what the eflects of the Inws and usages of war would be on the relations of British subjects and their Property in the enemy's country. The answers ere questions by the legal authorities toa fmt a — what the laws tye t war tats 4 when last @ were exercised reat Britain, they are aia down in the memorable decision of Lord pot hy @ By that standard of ; Weee Sal loubt that these answers were truethat, _ according to the laws of natious, as interpreted by the British and American courts in former wars, the neutral fiag does not cover the eneimy’s perty; that all trading with the enemy is subjects the merchandise so traded in to cont and that even the power of removing the property own subjects from the enemy's country has Genied by some decisions of the American Sech was the law,-nnd such, we must add, the law of nations; for it is undoubtedly com; to the crown which declares war to insist, as think fit, on these extreme and sometimes gerous rights. The law officers of the crown, whea in~ ‘terrcpated on there points, could only lay down the law as they knew it to be. Bu ming this to be the state of the law, a question of policy and national interest aiiscs wholly distinet from that which the crown lawyers ‘were asked to solve. Jt rests with the statesmen wha / cvern this country to determin how far they connie A one ii u fal it to be jurt and necessary to insist on these For, although the crown has no power to a to the code of restrictions whieh civilised nations hay agreed to recognige ax a of the usages of war, crown has undoubtedly the power to remit, as far way think expedient, Any portion of thove rights. decd, an enlightened sovereigu is morally bound to do for all these acts of force are inconvenient and pile. \ 4]