The New York Herald Newspaper, December 17, 1854, Page 2

Om tho horror and i adignation that dilled my soul. Mis brains wore battered out, bis bedy waa with | Dayonets from head to foot, and it was ouly with dift- culty that cognized.’” Speaking t “1 have already correspon: | jon of the Rua- tue, int that ‘it—that it was n forta, which ring an with iron | The hardships ured, hay antit; that for w changed thelr so far, outdid in se- ig he lind ever heard : » but you may rely sdurce second to none in means coming from curate informatio .n (he rumor revives that Lord Palmerston is to 1 i that, though Lord Aber- crash must eveutually most inconvenient for the ore, it would be better to s arrangement which would let down inet easily. Mr. Giad-t ne is @ serious difficulty, and he lias Sidney Herbert, brotier of Lord Pembroke, with him; the Duke of Newesstle, itis said, would do, under a different chief, taining his rervices. Tr bungled—ill. devised ant every one’s month, ax Graham, and Sir W port Lord Palmerston to Varis, evidently of a con the report also that the n, has seen its A hopes are expressed of t hat the war hi dequately support Joan Russel, Sir J lesworth, are ready to sup- The mission of that noble lord enunl nature, strengthens t, which was at one time r, and feels most anxious erviews in the highest sphere de avaiable. ate of Kuro] The Czar is ev Lo. calls loudly for a ently trying beaten and ot up a suflicient parloy with Austria to prevent vking ‘fe present very useful relations with 4 there never was a time when Lord Palmerston’s so greatly needed. Spain ble anxiety, As to Turkey, hand. ns at Balaklava, and their \ertuann in stripping the bodies and foe, have so completely sus tho heroes of in public estimation, that the prophecy of the vkers who Went on a mission of peace to the Kupe- asserted on their return that the cause of Russia, and though the war could of it ‘would soon be fo 5 he pre rented, i t speedily accomplish ought of. We all look to the war becoming ely a German question, Meantime, such is th eling of the body politic Tshould not be at ll sur. of the country being entirely thrown into the hands of the militia, that the regulars service. ” Parliamentary re- ion and free trade are now and, too, shows herself once ¢ Great Britain, and it is said a unconditional pardon. In ‘a front of a common danger old grievances are forgotten, and the war spirit ts 6o all-absorbing that but one idea predominates, namely, that of annihilating the ¢ ihe famous Forty-sixth, whose. singularities, afforded xo much food for newspaper discussion and just repre- just reached the Crimea, there, in the blood jans, to wash out the stains of luxurious peace, There is little doubt they will have their oppor- 'y, and this is no time for picking holes in our mili- he threatened Parliamentary inquiry will fall to und, the more especially since the conduct of young Perry—the cause of so much sympethy, and of a valiable subscription of £2,500—is found to ‘be » very indifferent sort of perronage, He had no sooner reached Pana, sfter his court martial, than he had the coolness to draw a check on the trustees for the subscribed fund. The check was dishonored, although Mr. Perry has at- tempted an explanation. It is evident he will meet with no more public sympathy. Mr, John Bright will lose ‘or Manchester to a dead certainty in con- f his Russian letter, These are no times for UNIVERSITY CLUB. Our Paris Correspondence. Panis, Thursday, Nov. 23, 1864. Arrival of the News of the Battle of Inkermann-- “ Effect on the Public Mind—Lord Palmerston's Visit and its Objects—The Ostend Conference-~ Spanish Affairs—Policy of Espartero—Rush of Amertcans to Paris— Progress of the Public Works, &e. bed Once more the cannon of the Invalides booms its nove of victory over the tall toweis and goodly pin- nacies 2nd magnificent domes of this falrest of cities. The Moniteur yesterday announced to its readers that, having received at length the details of the battle of Inkermaan, for which it only waited, the usual salute would, at 12 o’ciock, be fired from that ancient temple of the brave. {[ cannot say that the effect prodaced oa the public mind was at all striking; in fact, I never saw apy public event treated with less empressement. It cannot be denied that in this, asin other things, the last forty years bave made great changes. Formerly it was from the Hote! des Invalides—that superb monument of the philanthropic pride of Louis the Fourteenth— | thst anzunciations of great military and national triumphs were first made known to the public ear; acd the victories of Marengo and Austerli:z, and of those other hundred battles with which the name of the Great Napoleon was associated, were blazed forth on the astounded mind of the Parisian, with # noise and smoke that perhaps fitly represented the - strife and carnage over which the national valor had atrode preemirent; but the electric wire haa now deprived all this of its dramatic effect, and its roieeless intelligence bas neutralized the attillery’s savage roar. Henceforth those deep mouthed messengers, which in other days played so conspicuousa part in the triamphs of France, mart content themselves with # secondary ré/e, and be satisfied in registering with a loud voice great actions previously well known avd discussed. Thus, the thunder of the Invalides did not on this occa- sion cause every window to open and a rush of anxious crowds to the streets. A heavy fall of snow had during the night covered the paths and house- tops, and the cold whietling wind that blew bleak- ly throggh the city sat many a kindly heart bleed- ing for thought of the distresses of the besiegers in the inhospitable Crimes, rather than triumphing over the gicties of a dearly won battle. Nor dotho details now furnished by Canrobert im- part any essential novelty to the information alrea- dy possessed. At the commeacement of the engage. ment deserters early ap prized the allies of the enor- mous forces which, pushea into Sebastopal, had in- creased the resources of the enemy tos »mething like 100,000 men. 45,000 of these under the eye of the Cza:'s two sons, the Grand Dokes Michael and Niso- 198, sawailed the Evglish, woo had not more than x thousand men in position, the reat of their forces bring ergaged on the works. How long this hand- foi conterded agains’ sucn vast odda, before Gen- eral Bosquet’a division came to their aid, is not steted but the strugyle most bave been deadly in- deed, for Little more thau bait their number eszaped. “They valiantty,” says General Canrobert, “ sup- ported the shock nyt] General Bosquet, arriving with a part of his division, was able w lead & co- operation which determized te success o} tuir.” Qat of the seven Engli-n generals ik down, it is doubtfal, itiaes.d, whesber more than two of them will su vive. Speaking of the F ench, Canrobert states that the Algerians greatly distinguished themeeives; that three charges with the bayonet were made, and it was culy to the third shock thatthe enemy yielded his ground, which he lefs spread with dead and wounded Three thourand dead he left on the field, sad the “whole of his loss eannot be catimated at less than eight or ten thougand mer.” The eotie made st the same time by the Ruesians on the Frencs left, seems to have been of a desperate chara: ter, sud wus re by General Forey by no leas despezate efforts. The Russians were four toousand strovg, aod poor Gea. de Lanomel, one of the mort gallant s ints in the French army, baving routed toem, followed them to the very walls of the piace, were he feli a victim to his too chivalrous ardor. The Frevca had in their tarn to retreat, under fire of the plac, and with considerable loss. In this sortie, a theusand of the enemy were killed, but in the whole affair, the Bog: lish and French together, seem to have had put hora de combat scarce than five thousand men. Wita such victories as these, tre caunon of the Invalides well roar op listlesseava, Altogetoer, some- thing more *pecific chan the bs'tle of Lukermsan is | wented to cheer tho public mind; for wnat wita the | exceeding loom sné cold, acd gsveral morosencas | of the weiter, the absence of ail gsiety, tho man families in mourning, and the hh price of siora, Perie is the very goort of its natural sel departments « mpatbtee, hke Lake 08 the menvers of 4 whose heart is chilled; gn4 as, from time to time, any discussions on the esemplatee uni: | versal cxhitotion are ewered on @ pubdli> joarnsls, or blown into imp rarce by tte great | official orgen, it almost provokes « oy emile, | that that which originated in aa era ef per rot and | dalversai ; aace, should be persisted ia when Rs in- aaugoraticn may find a worlo in flames. | tis is (shot end Lord Palmerston’ still continues one of the aanet inlerbeting extyecte of 8 culation, and a general conclusion seems to be drawn, that | the English Cabinet would not—just after its long | and f equent councils—have despatched its most im- portapt member to the French capital, unless mat- ters of the gravest consideration were on the tapls. His pepuler'ty at tome, and his high reputation at the es court, are too important cireums-ances to be left out of sight; and the almost ostentatious evidence given, by his res.dence at the lish em. be-ay, that business, and not pleasure, ia his object, is especially observed. The skilfu) manner in waich Lord Cowley bas acquitted himself during the dia- cussion of the Eastern cifficuity, the reserved bat diguitied character of the inan, which has rendered him personally £0 acceptabia t» the Emoeror, not to menticn the fascinating qualities of the Eag ish am- hessadress, which make her the prime favorite of the court, a8 well as leader of the beau monde of Paria, are reseons Why the greatest delicacy would naturally be obeerved by Lord Palmerston in any mission now devolved upon him.’ Bat everything in Germany wears ko ominons an appearance; the rezictance “to death ” ia so mapifest on the part of Russia ; the affairs of Spain are so complex ; the policy of Ane rica so uncertain, and the necessities of a vast mo- netary disbursement so uumistakeable, that it is uite intelligible that the presence of one whom all gland has marked as the “ coming man” should be viewed with vnusnal interest. The secrets of such conclaves are, of course, hermetically sealed, and not even “our own correspondent” may apolys “ listening ear;” but it is certain such conclaves sre hourly held, and their mysterious deliberations cannot, in their result, be long withheld from pub- lic curicaity, The intelligence contained in the New York HEvALD as to the result of the Ostend conterence, seems to have taken all ‘ties by surprise, an were it not announced with so much formality, I be- lieve the geseral feeling would be one of incredu- lity. There are parties #0 sceptical ag roundly to aseer! its imposmbility, and w¥® believe they know enough of the Pane mind to declare that he will vever consent to the alleged Cuban policy of the United States ; others in say that the chaotic cosfusion which the year 1855 will witness, will throw a)) former iples into a state of revolu- tion, and that if the poasession of Cuba by America wili at all tend to render affairs less complex, France srd en msy not gainsay it. All agree, hewever, that the subject seems one too delicate to be deaided after Mr. Soulé’s feahion of taking the United States’ money er mittimus—leave Cubs with your pocket fuli of “‘ silver” or be summarily kicked out. Only think of such indignity to a grandee of Spain ! | Great bo egret isfelt in Spain respecting the Bpapish shi SEE lee! @ sbip of the line which sailed from Havana on the 22d of August last, and bas not siuce been heard of. Her captain, it is said, protested against her putting to sea on ac- | count of her being out of repair, but was obliged to obey the order given him. e French Ampaasa- dor is negotiating with the Spanish government for the establishment of telegraphic communication be- tween Madrid snd Paris. As to the resignation of Espartero, such a declaration is looked upom asa mere figure of speech. He hasade-ided majority in the Cortes, and the Queen, according to par- liamentary goverpment, can sppoint no cther. It is probable that the Duke de la Victoria only waits for this formula to be observed, before initiating euch measures in relation to manufactures, agricul- ture, ccmmeree, means of communication, credit, &c., a8 may justify the overthrow of the Sartorius admiristration, It is high time the political ball should be opened. The arrivals from America in Paris are constant. Ail the best apartments are eagerly snatched up by them, and a price paid which terrifies the ordinary foreigners. ‘rhe English have long since ceded to them the privilege of high payments, and as from the reluctance shown by the proprietors of the mauy new houees which are in pt of erection to admit of their being let furnished, the nusiber of these accommodations becomes daily more circum- scribed; and as the rich Rogsian families which might have competed with them are now, of course, out o the question, it seems as if Americans would soon be the onty foreigners of importance inhabit- ing the Queen of cities. Mr. Webb, the great house agent in the Rue Rivoli, testa that his em- ployment with Americans is as three toone, Re- ports were at one time prevalent that the Exposition Universelle was to be postponed, but I have no rea- eon to believe such a measure was ever for a mo- ment contemplated. The most energetic efforts are being made to finish, for the auspicious occasion, the more prominent works, and already tke Place du Carousel, where the new Louvre is employing so many bands, begins to wear 8 more arderly appear- taag ahd ete; eae waka evelled, and re 3 le 8 gradcally heing ramicved, and the exquisite sym- nr and beautiful ornamentations of the new building brought to view. The new street of the Rivoli, or rather its continuation, will soon be finish- ed, and haps some of the workmen who have hitherto found such ample eg: fea in the city, May prove ambitioue of labor of a more exciting character beyond the frontiers. Our weather is a mélange of dense fog, deep snow and deluging sleet. Berrie. Pants, Monvar, Noy. 27, 1854. Incessant Preoccupation ef the Emperor with th: Affairs of the War—His Sympathy with the Suf- ferings of His Troops—His Subtle Policy Work ing Out its Ends—-Objects of Lord Palmerston’s Visit~—Dissatisfaction with Lord Raglan’s Appointment—Arvival of Wounded Officers in Paris from the Battle of Inkermann—Project of « Great Western Loan, §c., &€¢. The Emperor is incessantly occupied on the sub- ject of the war. Marshal Vaillant, the Minister of War, sees bim the firat thing in the morning, and is his last visiter at night. Hie Majesty is perie.t master of the most minute details, and woe be to him who neglects or slackens in his duty just now. He has publicly notified that ere this the army at the Crimea has been doubled, and he has written letter of thanks to those who have been straggling againat such fearful odds, in which it is easy to see that ke pcurs fourth the warmest sympathies of his soul, What a thing it isto be known to havea kind heart! And with this conviction in men’s minds, how differently will his words read from those of some royal personages who, esconced in the prestige of hereditary descent, know nothing of the people but by hearsay! There isnot mania France, what- ever his political opinion, that doubts the Emperor in this respect. His whole heart is wi'h his suffer- ing soldiery, and the year 1855 will not pass over without his person being there to. General Canrobert has a carte blanche given him to reward distinguished merit on the spot, and coite qui ccfite, the whole military weight of France is to be thrown into the scale, rather than this enterprise shall fail. As the details of the battle of Inkermann become more and more ascertained, a perfect fary of zeal is let loose; even the sneerera of the tial interests of the two nations wereas closely unit: | first empire, who have been hitherto shrugging their shoulders, half contemptuously, ai the mere brashes (battles miscalled,) that have taken place, are fain to confess that the affair at Inkermaan is totally unprecedented. It is trae that the general- ship does not escape most severe crisicism; but the nature of the engagement, its flerceness, its astound- ing inequality, ita opetinacy and unmitigated bsr | barity, are admitted to be utterly unexampled by enyof the most formidable passages in the grea wars of France. It seemed really to require some startling eccurrence, some original phase of warfare, such as this, to adequately rouse a nation which with all its military antecedents and amour proprs | after a lull of forty years seemed to have com paratively little desire for the field. But the urexampled resistance of the English against such terrific, such fabled odds—the striking manner in which the fact has been commen ded in the offi- cial org: it is easy to see bas stimulated a noble jealousy, and ees fire to a slumbe: ardor, which you may expect to bear of before der ali before it. The rothiese barbarity of the Rus- siana, corfirmed by private lettera which are daily arriving, isa godsend to Napoleon. He who from the first moment of his ascént to has had but one thought—whose darling ae ‘has been, to employ the exact usage of his Idées Nupo- | leonnes—Wo revive the lostre of tue French arms—is | almost accused of keeping back the spirit he in his wecret soul so dearly cherishes. On both sides the | channel be is admonished not to let his laudable | Cesire for peace mar av ente: on which the character, vay, the very life, of Western civilization | is stsked. Cromweli being entreated to become a | king is nothing to this. is in an indication of | the wonderful subtlety by whioh this extraordinary | men goins bis ends. Silently, stealthily, like | ® me distant ¢ moves in the orbit he has | appoizted unto himself, and the elements of | bcmsnity seem of themselves to do bis work. And “nullity” which Lord Brougham in his | celebrated pemphiet described all France as madly | mopning after! It is worth while to contemplate for & Moment the striking position he occupies. The | TmoOwt absclute dominion, military and civil, is in dis bards, an¢ Louis Sbilppe ard the National Assembly were for bim what ttie inse t is that forms the coral rock—the urc Ascious constru of his gi entic power. He found all Karope frowning u em, boya”’—a sort of Saar Sgr treatment of the * patient, which can eventually end but in gne way. ere Not a word ora millable not for a moment was his face clouded in the pre | tence of those English whose national voice seemed raiced in one general anathema sgairst him—the very genius of silence filttei noiseless'y slong its mysterious path—and suddenly, as by the wand ot a necromancer, the storm asbates, the howling witds are a zephyr breath, the billows of tke beisterous ocean become still, or pore ase rippling brook stream, the fae of a’) nature ia chenged, and there is a great dela—a celm only broken by one load chorus of praise in hoxvor of the man—who bas apparently only kepthis movth ebut. Nay,more, that Bosiard who unceas- | ingly bombarded bis dynasty, who proline im- prisoned its hezo of a hundred fights on an inbos- pitable isle in the far, far Atlavtic, and there bated ard worried the noble soul, whose very vame had been a nursery terror, to death—that Eogland whom it is difficult to believe a Nay Bonaparte can | ever Jove--is tow stripping if asa new born | babe to carry out his behests—is dismectling her oa risons, despatching her fleets, and adjorivg him y the memory of Austerlitz, and Marengo—battles lost by thé men she subsidized—toarm more and { more—to make his whole empire resound with mar. | tial furor, and to take from her hands tbe flower of | her youth, and the veteran troops of her colonies and most renowned poste and fortifications, that to: | — they msy struggle, qpnguer ordie. Itscems | ifficult to besieve that he wish for more. But | more he will have. Lord Palmerston is still here, | end the 1 ecessities of the strife now going on in the | | Crimea, it is generally understood, have compelled | him, on the part of the English government, to en- | terinto an srrangement tor the payment of French | troopa, and Parliament is to be called on | the of December to ratify it. There were two evils tohoose from—eitter to dismantle Gibraltar, or subsidize France; and the last, it is gene-ally be- | | lieved, has been determined ti] such time as the English armaments can be made more efficient. | Without some judicious lanation in the Com: mons, there is no doubt that this measure will be | very distasteful in England; but anomalous as auch & proceeding seems in the policy of England, there weuld appear to be no help for it. Russia is pouring in her legions by thousands; the besiegers ‘re now the besieged; the “leap in the dark” is found to be one of the most yawning, the | most sund, that history ever told of. Eag- land saved from the consequences off it | nolely by the pluck, the obatinscy, the Saxon grip | of ker srmy. Generalsbip, strategy, high military | gevios, hive hed mo more share in it than Lord berdeen’s ce speeches; but this is a store which is anything but inexbaustible, and from ori- | vate letters I know that a feeling is abrosd in Eng- | land which must upset the present ministry. It is believed that Lord Aberdeen is thoroughly aware of i it, and conscious that be can no longer hold the reins. Families high in station and political influ- erce feel that their blood has seen sacrificed by mitmspagement, that the war from the commence- men: has been foully handled, that a mealy-mouthed, thin-skinned Premier, in sparing Odessa, in co | quetting with Austria, in postponing energetic ope- rations till a late period of the year, and even then striking out at random, has jeoparded the national honor. With all their respect for the private char. ter of Lord Raglan, for the simple, single-miaded ambition which indaced that noble lord to accept the command, the Enoglieb ate evidently not juite satiefied with it. The Russians come to the jeld in masses, evidently led on by military know: ledge of no mean character—the luck bas been against them; but ell their dispositions have been mace with great ability, while the Engiish do not seem to have found anything better in their com- manders than a universal “Fix bayonets, and at will, therefore, be some very plain speaking in the English Parliament, which wil! hold its sit- tirg till Christmas, then to separate till the 12th of February, 1855, by which time it {s most probable Lord Paimerston will be at the head of affairs. The attention he has met with in Paris has been unre- mitting, and perhaps nothing speaks more for the geniaa of Napoleon than that in numerous confer. ences he should be able to hold his own against a veteran diplomatist, who, with all the energy of youth and the talent of his best days,is ata game which he played with distinguished ability when the Emperor was in embroidered slippers at the feet his mcther, Queen Hortense. To-dey there is a review ix <ié presence of tke Emperor, and in-honor of Lord Palmerston. I sap- pose that the latter may have ocular proof of the ‘rench can furnish the English with for their money. ‘The Monrteur states that the deep solicitude of | the Emperor had already forezeen and provided for casualties to the fleet in the Biack Sea, and that two new ships of-war, the Turenne and the Dona- werth, have siresiy been deepatched from Toulon \ on the 6th inst., qnd thst, favoied by a Bc Win “troope, with provisions, sud every. species of 5 8, with provi }, aud every 5; of war material. It likewise adds thar: he storm of the 14th had happily been corfined to the Black Sea, ard that the numerons'vessele in the Me diterranean and Archipelago, fall of reir torcements axd provisions for the army of the East, have been able to continue their pasaage without m >lestation ; that others sre about to follow, among wuich the 'rince Jerome and the Fleurus, both of a bundred guns and 650 horse power, are worthy of mention, as being sbout to replace two similar ships wit! sails, and that these will set out in eight days at farthest. Paris is full ef English officers, wounded and otherwise invalijed, from the battle of Inkermann. Their statements are perfectly harrowing,and far ex- ceed any of the published 1¢ Hohe Beat en, profourd sensation here. Miss Nightingale, the ex- cellent lady who has organized a train of devoted women to act as nurses, ficds herself completely un derbanded, and has written home for more help. It is, in one sense, fortunate that the experimental Pe ring found such ample employment immedi- at ly on its arrival. Its present success is iadubi- "2. ‘There is no question, I believe, that one obiect of Lord Palmerston’s sojourn in the French capital is to eound what may be the substantial difficulties in the way of acceding to a proposition which the Em- i is known to have at-heart, of a great Western Soe Maher in Ex gland 4 at such a ae eig! ry not supposed such a proposition would be ther unpopular, but tataletecs wib, perbaps, have a better knowledge of French faith in money matters than the majority of Hnglish re-. presentatives, are naturally cautious of committiag themselves in a matter of such grave impor tance. What the result of the noble Lord’s experience on the present occvion is, is of course, known only to the initiated in Cabinet secrets; but the general belief is, that he has given the scheme his partial concurrence. A teeler came out in the Pavs, which, next to the Moniteur, is known to have excellent information, of which ths substance is— now that Eoglsnd and France have stood by each other in the {mminent deadly breach; now that the strongest cordiality of feeling bas been proved by | Months of mutual campaigning, by hardships o’er flood and field—only one thing is rejuired to cement the Union—“namels, thet it may reccive its conse- cration in economical matters.” “Io men,” it says, “consider what this alliance would be, if the mate- a8 are at present their moral ixtereste; if, as they comming! the; ehould mix together the essencial elemects ot their public fortunes in a common effort; if, in fact, ey were to make their cummon finan-ial fortune | to co-operate in the triumph of tie princivies,” ete. ew. The English cf all of which, as John Bail will cay, is not very d ficult. By crder of the government, sixty soldiers may | Volunteer from every regiment for the Crimea. Tre | Volanteering from the regiments of the garrison at Paria tcok place on Saiurcay. The number of | the volurteers was so great that the selection had to | take place by lot. hig Sag to morrow. | ,1 bave left myself but little space to speak of | theatricale, the most interesting feature of which is | the re-appearance of Cruvelli at the Grand Opera. | When sbe came on the stage, there was at first a | glum silence; but as her syren voice rose and | swelled throughout that spacious ensemble, it | easy to ree the gradual melting of obdurate beasts ; | and when she re acted that part of the opera (the | * By ") where the Queen of Nevarrs sd- dresses her :—“ Dis moi le rerultat de ton hardi age,” the audience broke into a universal tit | tering, which Cruvelli herself could scarcely help | participating in. A joke is an excellent thing to begin with in certain circumstances ; but when the exquisite songstress burst upon the delighted listen. era with “ Powr saueer du trepes une tete so’cher6," | her triumph waa complete, overwhelming, Barrix, } Pants, Nov, 27, 1854. | The Victory of Inkermann—The War Spirit in France—Chauvinism—Feeling of the Trading Classes as Regards the Wav—The Fine Arts— Govetp of the Salons, &c., $c. The cannoa of the Invalides, announcing the bloody victory of Inkermaan, nced the futile gorsiping of Parielans. In coffeo houses, in green. Tcome, at every fireatde, and even at tie public bails, scarcely anything but war is taiked of, All Freaoh- men must echo the praises with which the Haperor extola the devotion and intre@iity of the Esstera army in his letter to its Commandertn-Chiet, Gen. Canrotert, Bat, with the Emperor also, they must recogniee the check which the allies have expe rier ced in comsequence of the “ obstinate defeacs” | of Sebastopol and the “ reinforcements of the Ras- le their soldie’s on the field of battle, | } portent reinforcements will soon share their tolls, their perils, and their glory—thst a strong diversion is to be operated in Bessarabia—tha’ ‘‘ Europe sees | without alarm our eagles, 40 long banished, now so | gloriously unfolded, because she well knows that | we combat only for her independence’—and that Gen, Montebetlo is charged with the honor of con- | veying to the army of the Crimes the rewards which it bas so richly merited, It is obvious that there is at present a kind of suspension of active hoatilitics, which is likely to last until the arrival of the rataforcements now on their way. It would be difficult otherwise to under- ttand the absence from Sebastopol, on the one hand, of the two Grand Dukes, and on the other of the two allied Princes—the Duke of Cambridge and ths Prince Napoleon. Both of the latter, doubtless, in- tend toreturn to their posts aa soon as the arrival of the reinforcements shall give the signal for the aseault, The rumor to which a private despatch to the London Times bas given currency, that a new en- | gzagement took place on the 13th, has not been con- firmed. Indeed, it ia positively contradicted by the despatch of Prince Menschikeff, who, I must add, is leas frequently called Prince Munchausen, even at Paria end at Lordop, than a few weeks ago. Those | who believed Omer Pacha’s Tartar moat readily, | now carefully weigh even the official despatches of the allied generals with those of the Russian Prince, before p'aying “up” or “‘down” at the Bourse, on their faith in either. To these apeculations at the Bourse, and to the newspapers which you will receive by this mail,I | must leave the details of the new diplomatic phase that the Eastern question may take in consequence of an intimation by the Correspondence Prussienne, & semi-official journal, that the cabinet of St. Pe- tersburg, by voluntarily accepting the four points of guarantee indicated at the outset of the contro- versy, by Drouyn de |’Huys, would leave; no doubt of its intention to make sacrifices for the’ attainment | of peace. The Correspondence believes sthat the Western Powers do not refuse to accept negotia- tiors for peace on this basis. But the four points | ing were only four among many at the out- | set, and their name would haps be legion now. You aek if this war inthe East ia popular im | France? Havethe cannons of the Invalides, suc- ceasively announcing the victories of Alma and of Inkermann, ewakened the enthusiasm of the French for the imperial eagles? Are all Frenchmen ‘“ Chaa- ving," i.e., ardent Napoleonists? Without answering your questions directly, I may remise that the alliance of the English and | rerch governments bas prodigiously strengthened end elevated the position of the ror of the | French. The consummate ability with which he ard his Minister of Foreign Affuirs, M. Drouyn de l'Ruys, conducted the diplomatic discussion of the Eastern question, has been acknowledged jy as las himself, as well as by all Europe. Nor was | it the fault of Napoleon [Il. if anything delayed the vigorous execution of the plans upon which he hed resolved for the conduct of the war. Moreover, | history has rarely presented a spectacle of more | thrilitg interest than the scene of which the Crimea is now the theatre. No Frenchman, no man of any nation, can remain unmo' by it. Those. who are at once spectators and actors in it have reflected new glory upon the | mesian, the | highest a qualities of which the Frescbman and the Englishman can res e.tively boast. The Frenchman's keen spirit of emulation in jactont od bas never been sharpened to such 8 point before. Naturally enough, their countrymen at bome watch their se gle sympathetic ad- | miration. In their ranks are the brothers and sons of men of ail the old parties at home, and it is no doubt true—-tt would be strange if it were pot— that the gallant army of the Crimea is looked upon by all with an interest that is not vgoctanale 8 sip- ge party consideration, I heve before alluded to e applause M. de Saivandy’s eloquent tribute in honor of the army, elicited at the Academy, that refuge of ex-Parliamentary leaders, whose political | rather than literary claims seem of late to entitle them to academical honors. Bat, in spplauding the army, did the ex-ministers who were Te Bere or would Guizot, Lamar- tine and Victor Hugo, who were absent, signify a disposition to ralJy around the im: rial throne? | The exile of Jersey would auaner indignantly enough if an answer were necessary. Certain fusionist journale, which ce Barbés | as an “incursstle revolutionist,” claim to be, and | doubtiess are, as warm “‘Chanvinist” as be avowed | bimeelf to be, and im the same sense, that of en- thusiasta for the glory of French arms. But they are not more likely to be “Chaavinist” in any other sexse than he was found to be when the Emperor opened bis prison doors on account of the letter in which he mede the avowsl. There being, of course, no of republican sentiments in the French empire, you must seek for their expression elsewhere—i jum, for exam ple. In those Belgian journalain which Paris cor. respordents may indulge the republican sympathies which they fo: retain, you often find a curious revere of the 1 daily exhibited by what they style the Decemberist journals, They sre ‘‘Chau- vinists,” to be sure, |, but no more than | he was--that is, their patriotic prayers for the suc- cess of the French arms are aot with cries | of *‘God save the Emperor!” They are even die- | courtecus enough to allude with irreverence to the | colics which have sffiicted ‘General Piouplon,” as | they persist in calling the ex-Prince of the Moun‘ tain, who ia now convalescent, it is said, at Con- atthe assault upon Sebastopol, as he oer at) Alma, at least the courage ocmmon to French | soldiers, if not the high military genius which is a:sociated with the name of Napoleon. The Priace kept his seat on horseback all ey bt the battle of Inkermann, and did not jield ur’ to the orders of his physician to seck a few days of | repcse at Constantinople. | A spirited evgraving has appeared, in which Mar- shal de St, Arnaud is reprecented, mppotee on, either side on horzeback, at the battle of Alma. ‘The srtist has succeeded in depicting not only the , etrife of battle, but the conflict which the fiery con- | rage and iron will of the Marshal sustained in the midst of it, with death masked as disease. The last aceres of the Marehal’s life have cast into shadow, | as I have already intimated, certain of its earlier and less honorable sceses. But bow far the Pari- sians are from baving forgotten or forgiven the Iat- ter—how far, in short, br are from being ent)usi- astic admirers of Chauviniem, inthe perscm of an | eponent of it, who owed his Mat ’s staff to the 2d of December, may be inferred from the success of a mot which had been buzzing about like a w: zom perior to parlor in Paris ever since his funeral. This mot is attributed to a distinguished lady, | who, on hearing several cf her visiters one | evening speak about the selectiongof an epitaph for the monument to be erected in memory of the | deceased Marshal, proposed the following:-—“Crimée | Somt Asnaud”—the name of the theatre of his | Jast exploits and bis own name. If you had heard the lscy pronounce the two names aloud, with a tone of voice and look equally “ anerchisl,” you would have perceived at once the severity of the | thrust. | This snot is not ket eet have been repeated in | tLe ears of Lora Palmé.sten, at any of the name- rous dinners to which he has-been iuvitsd during the pact week, the guests at those dinners being in dispatable Chanvin:sts, so long, at least, as the | @usse of empire runs smooth. Bi way out of parlors into the streets (not, of course, phan Bovighs «eth ot bid r ot hn forgot. tenby # le, who, lotically ad as tl are a the voccens of ir brothers ‘ata 8 sons in the Crimea, are nevertheless forced by daily necéssition to court the cost of glory in the shape of high prices fcr fue), lights, rents, food, and leaseniag cemands for jabor. They do not even share ike extravagant ho; with which the pros- pects of ti exhibi‘ion of 1855 have inspired 60 many keepers of hotels, restaurspts, ccffee-honses, shops and factories. The six inches of snow that fell tho other day, and the fogs and frosts that have since prevailed, are not the only signs which predict in eyes a severe and dismal winter. They are amused by bearing of the cate and kittens which the Zeuaves have cured of their traditional local attachments; they are teuched by hearing of the tenderness of huge, rough grenadiers to a babe res- eued frem the smking ruins of s Tartar hut; and they thrill with admiration {at the recital of many a startling epieode in the history of the Crimean ex- pedition—but, after all, the le cannot forget to “ocunt the cost,” to think of the expenge of blood ag well as of treasure, which the exvedition has al- ready oocasioned. If 1am not greatly mistaken, s painkil sense of the evils of war is quite general enougain all classes of the French eer, 7 edify Fsiend Bright, or apy other membertof the Peace Society. AB for the trading classes, they shrog their shoulders and inwardly groan at the bee of being #0 far removed from the dato of that blessed after dinner when the empire re c'est la Pair!” forthe fell ot Fons ecpe! before giving the signal for the usval tivities of winter scarce ly any private balls have taken piace, At cue of them last week, @ comically serious cena aeaid to bave been occasioned by an Italisn wife, who snatcted from the head of a rival the aubara treewes, luxuriant but false, which hai bewitched cer busbard to her own dark curls. The dis- actions that balla do not cifer are sought for at the sian army.’ May thoy be confitent, like tre Em- peror, that this check is but for " wn moment” —but momeatery? Time will show, Meanwhile, ho en im, end England rin ray him toe red ve aholl of its daily press, He ccaeges the aciliers, by acauring them that im operas or at the theatres, which a’e nightly crowded, A sale cf the furniture of ax actress of the Va- ‘teties, Mle Constance, whoee ee a marriage with tro Mazqguis ce (., now in the Fast, has caused +o much acancel, attracted a large crowd of " suri vas” the other day, and aot a few femmes honnetie | reigners, stantinople. He hopes to recover in time to display _ after the victory, | Ii | forbide us thus to jut it has found its | galery grated by 8 di caine in ndirg on ry of crticlen of fomale ewelry, the fo! loving item—“ Quatre epingles d’homme en or” (four men’: breastpins in gold). The apartment of the future Marchioness (poestbiy) was 8 complete curiosity shop. Among the statuettes were one or two by Pradier. Nesburg, the to whom I have ca ital bust of Mr. McRae, the Unite at Paris, It is to be put in marble. bust of Mr. McRae; the medallion of Mr. Good ich, fore alluded, bas just fiaished a States Consul | ‘oung sculptor from New Oriesns, | What with the | the la‘e Consul; the portrait, by Healy, of Mr. Ma- | son, American Minister at Paris, and the admirable photographic portreit, by Thomyson, of Mr. Soulé, ‘American Minister at Madrid, American representa: tives abroad re not likely to be deprived of the aid — of ait in conferring immortality. My informant was mistake: vast week in making Mr. Scott, the Consul at Rio Janeiro, bail from Vera Cruz, and Mr. Barnwell, the Consul from Amaster- dem, hail from Rotterdam. Mr. Scott has jast left Paris, but Mr. Barnwell still remuins here. Figaro. | Phe American Legation and Mr. Peabody’s Dinner. | firm defenders of General ¥. COLBURN ADAMS'S DEFENCE AGAINST THE ATTACKS | OF DANIBL E, SICKLES. Lonpon, Nov. 20, 1854, Pugnacious diplomacy (otherwise called the bone and sinew of Mr. President Pierce’s appointments), is neither dead nor sleeping—no, liks a devouring giant, it has risen from the ashes of its own little world of etiquette and quibble, to spread its genius before the commoner hemisphere of mankind, and annoy it with its vain glory. We know not whether Mr. Pierce fully estimates the value of this species | of diplomacy, now letting ts genius loose apon the world and threatening the peace of very peaceably- inclined citizens, but we do know, that with that proverbial vanity so dear to the corps, and with | which it so often struggles to keep ita own existence in remembrance, it has latterly made daring at- tempts to dazzle Christendom with its gorgeous fancy, and prove to credalous minds how many functions it were capable of administering—all of which, proving dimigutive failures, have reflected po great credit upon his present administration. Never outdone, diplomacy would have all outside its own doll vortex know that when boundary dis putes no longer remain for settlement; when fishing questions ceasé to keep alive a happy uncertainty; when court formalities and breeches questions no longer afford amusement to the outaide world; when | the transforming of kingdoms offers but dull pastime for bold spirits; when church reforming seems rather | beyond the reach of its elastic powers; and when to the uninitiated eye the sublime spectacle of tran- | quillity presents itself, and international good feel- ing had well nigh won its way to genial and lofty tellowship—when all these, we say, had worked their way to a happy union, and diplomacy seemed to have exhausted the means wherewith to get up an excitement, that the world might know it yet had being it launches boldly out to prove the world mueb mistaken, and with valiant freshness proves its creative powers by springs, with like UC git upen thecitizens-of ite own inten che it id devour with wanton invectives, were they not far too formidable fcr its devouring appetite. A youth of the ry , when advised by a veteran of the profession made with his Sey eee cates eel ae | count as he a | matist, que tly, bat with more TOMANOS, replicd his mind was already occupied ere | “Frepch ahd the Polka,” two indispensable an mote necessary qualifi We this scion a debt for the above trite remark, the truth of which ‘was 80 apparent that the veteran of national rules and observances retired in mute contemplation; notwithstanding this, could he have seen that at no very diatant dey diplomacy would add to. these re- fining requisites the remarkanie fanction of pick- ing quarzéla with its countrymen court to which it is accredited, them up as fit objecta of ridicule, tecting and extending toward 1) amenities which make them how much more asf norance be might have e: worders, and what yesterday seemed fabulous ary, becomes the reality of today; at least, such is ven by American diplomacy at this Cuurt, where it bas adopted the jast nemed tuno- ti nas the best means of Raat American in- terests and keeping slive a knowledge of those lofty ninciples upon which the honor of the corps is sed. It is with this new and very elegant function we have to deal out a few words in our own defence. In a document Spee a diplometic character, 18- sued from the ‘‘Umted States Le; ”? at this Court, dated Oct. 20, 1854, and to whish the name of one Daniel E. Sickles is attached—but from which the seal of the nation has been withheld—we are vely charged with being the “agent” of Mr. Gecege Peabody, under whose eanction and patron- age we wrote reports of his Fourth of July festival, for the London press. Such is the quotation from this piquant State Le ing mg allude to Mr. Acams, the writer the reports for the London j urnais. Forthese you were suppos ed to be responsible. That they were gotten up un- der your patronage we ee constitutes we?) were aseured by evidence which excluded doubt. They contained a gratuitous insult to the ident of the United States, (the italics are ours,) in the falze statement that some Americans were slow to rise when Le was proposed; and as the individuals were not beg Te this involved a re- proach upon all the Americans at the table. The sketch of Mr. Buchanan’s remarks misrepresented what he aaid in a manner that was offensive to him. , of course, expected that you would at once cause the reports te be corrected. What, was our astonishment to learn that not only younot 4%) done so, but*that you red and circulated several bundred copies of them, here and in the United States! These facts rest upon authority you will not be inclined to ate; to which may be adced one yet more iag—that Mr.-Adams avowed to you that his motive in making the alle- ations in Fe; to the President wafin retaliation for my cmit: Fd Sale We cheera feb deunk, apticipath g the impression might be conveyed to Washington that I was one of those who were “ slow to rise” in response to the Presidential tcast,” ke. The above diplomio literary’ effusion, ocmbit so maby loore and undefinable state- ments, ag it does, speaks but too plaisly the despicable straits to which Mr. Daniel B Sickles (an individual whose diplomatic exploits in a bad caase have for some time annoyed peace-loving citizeos) is diiven for means to sustain his special pleading. With ail de:erence to this little fanctionary,we can- not forbear expressing our ontempt for this most gratuitous tissue of misrepresentation, made doubly culpable by the author’s knowledge of the contrary. We admire Mr. Sickles’ inventive gentus as mnch as we dislike harsh words, to avoid whieh we would fain call these innocent romances the fruits of a crocked memoty wanting better employment; but 80 palpable is the intertion, and > malicious the spirit in which they are clovhed, that our conscience nor them. Of the crime of writing the reports, (sch it bath been ceclared in grave diplomatic counciis,) ‘o which Mr. Sick'es refers, we unhesitatingly plead guilty ; bat had we for a moment supposed they ccntained matter offensive to the legation, and in which it could find means of displaying 80 muc) b34 feeling the frivolous occupation would not have found us drawn into its coil of trouble. We were a guest stthat festival, made so unforiunate by Mr. Sickles’ erratic censures, when it was su, ited by several Techs Nea Peabody was not of the number) that t would be gratifying to thoee as well as have a good effect in an int senso, if the friendly iterchat of feeling, and orton fi recults of the ent ment, were noticed by London preas. That it would be particularly grat > ful to the Americana, the feeling expressed lef: us no reason to doubt; nor, with one or two excep- tions, did we converse with any who did not view the readiness and kindliness with which the Queen contributed what ehe sapposed would be a gratifi:a- tion to those present, as a gracious and tady-like act, worthy the appreciation of every right minded map. Royalty was, indeed, showeiing more favors y en unostentations American citizen than diplomacy had been wont to receive; if we mistake not—and we make the insinu- ation modestly~berein lies the tittle: jeal- ouey that has caused all this dinner difficulty. “Bat we would ask Mr. Sickles (whose gailautry no one would think of putting to the test), if it were over- ste; ping the bounds 0: common courtesy to make dignified acknowiedgment? On this point we fear our gallant Sec: quarrels with good manners. Diplcrvacy, finding itself outdone, stands with lash in bard ready to 1¢ek ita spleen upon those unwil- ~~ to join with it in the play of porker. Len the festival had ended, and a3 we were abcut to leave Richmond (the vecital of such thiags must cecut as triviel to the reader as they are paia- jul to our feelings), we met Mr. P ly, with whom and Col. Lawrence we conversed some time on the scenes of the day. 1t was thea, moved by the feelings wo bad beard expressed, we intimated to Mr. Peabody that if the speeches and minutes of the precee were iced, we would transmit them to cur friends, editors of certain London jour- rele, wih @ ceqnest that tieir reporters would write them outforinsertion. Our intimscy and influence with theee anfficient guar: feotsget pense ot feproval, | Joust be permitted Mo iporvect meare re, |, we sey that Col. Taw nace, eirce brooding ander the wirgs of the pulligerents, where be ore sppearance xpressed by Mr. Peabody. By this, we ti will not be so stupid a to suppose hie neme would figure thereio. (Oaro are extremely modest on such matters.) We cd those speeches and papers on the foilo through the hands of a friend of Mr. Peabod: of transmitting them for the repo tock upon ourself the task of preparing the press.> We did this that they might be mor 1e t, as well as'to make such remarks as sidered proper, in which we bad no otber than that of doing an act of kindness, or lend helping band in a good cause. Corditatity w: spirit of the dey, end to distribute its geni: ence was not then considered a on d iH their cclumns to a Feng, ss 2 nage vem a —— oe ese journals-—-now the object ir. mony—have ever been warm advocates of can policy aud American institutions; both Pierce's tary of the co mately effect of these, his little vagaria fore em. Proper respe’ may be itted to advance the advice) for | mete friendship’s sake. for r we ould as soon think of Posbody'n responsibilty tr cur writings written. ‘not one word would we change fo George Peabody or any one else. Merck the legation well know this. What, then these articles contain, to give so much o ~-to so shork the patriotic sensibilities o without diaturbing the collective other Americans present? We cannot con Sea as al fee ‘4 reflection, di Phioh G four months for juring which we jiven the tenor of these infectious reporta mo consideration, we are st a loss to discove say it with all deference to the ingenuity of th gation, 80 happily displayed in getting up ej ments) one word or sentenve—except a n . Buchanan’s speech, to which we shall pi refer—we would were the same dut rformed over again. We can excuse ly’s remarke on the subject in his letter editor of the Boston Post. Such we must naty consider & praiseworthy effort to smooth o marked distaste forthe person of the exeo shown his countrymen when the “P of the United States” was proposed. To a g man placed in Me. Pt ly’s position it more then a debt of politeness he was bound " Free such obligation, we when President was ig epes there manifest unwillingness to rise; in a word,e0 was it that it were impossible {t should esc notice of amy one present, unless, forsooth, his were contemplating some belligerent exvicit. it “slow to rise,” or what yon will, the fact treason manifesting iteelf can be ol whose genus is mu's of long soft cars. This singular disresp General Pierce, exhibited on such an ocsasia his fellow-citizens, we are to admit, did sent a curious picture to English eyes and fee’! but it waa nothing new—the very same thin curring in several‘ other plsces, which, sino Bickles forces us to the alternative, we desar: cumbent to recount, however painful it may b The Queen’s birthday was bei yee board s Cunard steamer ing celeb croasing the when an English Comers rose to propo second toast— The President of the Ui States”—but had not Ba peinsrrno ton per, h Meant no offence, and begged his American would name the manner and style in which ceive the toast. The of * The office! o office!” sounded simultaneously from se’ ton; , which, being a sort of test, brou; their feet two valiant supporters of the Ge demanded the o: toast or cause, who Provit g to be the very softest of softe, their voic overruled, the “office” receiving an round of applause. At Berne, the quiet ci historical associations, three Americans and Iedependence right merrily; ut uot ove aft nce right me: 3 but not 076 of th mer would permit a toast to the President; gave Washington, Jefferson, the “ Glorious Fou and—shall we speak it?—“ A respectable m next President of the United States.” Among] ruins of Pompeii, those hailowed monamen oe ae tuled, sat at noondty o: arth of July three Arrericans and one Ea, man, cor¢ially “celebrating Independeace;” not even among these crumbling incitemen: Tiotiem could a response to“ Presiveai rawn. No, the Americana spurned the toast would drink to aught but the office, which the: with three times three, and one hearty cheer. pames of the last py we are at bi to git they sre the Rev. John Pierpoint, Edvia Par and Edward Paddieford, Jr., of Savannah, Gs. Sighting Sesretary mig'st bave saved us the re these visible sigrs, which we regret with e earnestrers but less display than nimaif. We the deplorable pesition of Mr. Pierve, who is forced to seek protection at the hands of one with all tse enthusiasm of a reregade, ¢ forward to war for his praive, forgetting bis sti est sid is that which would bucry him soonest disrepute. Ifever man, in his agonies, had re te cry cut, “save me from my friends,” toat is General Pierce. Again: Mr. Sickles ssys, in reference toourse “Theat Mr, Adams avcwed to you (Mr. Peab that bis motive in msking the allegation in ra; othe President was in retalistion for my onit to rise when “the Queen” was dronk, sntiq ting that the impression might be conveye Washington that I was one of those who were ‘ torise’” Now, we not for a moment question Sickles’ satisfaction at veeing himself represen’ te attitude of performing bis littie vag: then the gods would have rejoiced ; but this, fo own sake, as wellas the regard we hive fo feelings of our readers, wechooss not to do; urther, beg to infprm bim that b* more than skes himself iv supposing acything of the The feeble vanity #0 oem Mr. Sickles’ Ip could only bave given life to suck @ supp Wition| he bas not yet become s) ali im, es to claim such distinction for himself; Teflection might have removed vain pression from our Secretary’s mind. [a all friend regeaah Behe trate cactous ad' toe lees parti; a pecan cost} inke ‘and moore love of America’s dignified of his creative, he bas forgotten that social ‘and comity which has so exalted his count: were he to copy the unostentations manners of person cn whom be bas fastened this ludicrous q Tel, the effect would net be bad. Again recurring to the reports, we will hers that the decorations of tha ball were correct! scribed—the apeeshes of Mr. Peabody and Sir Kd son Tennant were inscited precivsly as given td ror have we seen & reason for aitering the laaga or sense of whet we ssid in refer: nce to pereons bi “slow to rise;” we nave only, thea, to refer to remaining offensive portion—Mr. Buchanan’ merks. , The uniottiated render would indood find it cult to disccver anything we pnt into the mq of Mr. Buchanan, matter at which a grave d matist might take cffence; but diplomacy fovnd the point and “ risen the quibble.” A » of delicacy, however, did cause a: to omit cor] fons of Mr. Bachanan’s remarks, inasmuc hey would neither reflect credit on his lite’ taste nor add to tie union of that large puiloso end gorgeous fenoy whioh bas exalted his a bigh among stateamen of the present day, acoth, we know him too well to coabt for a mon but that the sppearance of his remarks io er: 4 Goda that wl | would, in calmer mompots, Save been extro: iii allie in |