The New York Herald Newspaper, January 21, 1855, Page 1

| \ een fe A pf <o—vecoc a WHOLE NO. 6722. W YORK HERALD. SUNDAY MORN AFFAIRS IN WASHINGTON. Passage of the Pacific Railroad Bill in the House. THE FESTIVITIES OF THE CAPITAL, &e., &e., &o. ‘THIRTY-THIRD CONGRESS. BECOND SESSION. Senate. Wasmincto, Jan. 20, 1855. ‘The Senate is not in session to-day, having adjourned syesterday until Monday. House of Representatives. Wasmnaton, Jan, 20, 1855, THE PURLIC LANDS. Mr, Over, (whig) of Mo., introduced a bill amenda- tory of the act of August last, reducing and graduating ‘the price of public lands to actual settlers and cultiva- tors, Referred to the Committee on Public Lands. THR RECIPROCITY TREATY. Mr. Fouier, (dem.) of Me., from the Committee on Commerce, reported a bill amendatory of the act to warry into effect the late Reciprocity treaty with Great Britain, Referred to the Committee of the Whole en the State of the Union. EXPEDITION IN SEARCH OF DR. KANE. Mr. Waukee, (dem.) of N. Y., presentea a memoria from the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, State officers, ‘and chairman and members of the Legislature of New ‘York, in favor of an expedition to search for Dr. Kane. THE PACIFIC RAILROAD. The consideration of the Pacific Railroad bill was re- Bumed. Mr. Jonxs, of Tennessee, moved to lay it on the table Negatived by a vote of 49 against 125. The House refused to refer the whole subject to a com- ‘mittee of thixteen, bya vote of 71 against 117. The que’ ‘was then taken on the amendment of Mr. Davis ot Indi fer the Grand Trunk Central Railroad and Line from some point on the western boundary 0! » Missouri or Iowa, between the thirty-sixth and forty-third degrees of north latitude, with two branches, one running to Memphis and the other to the most practicable fe int on the western shore of Lake Superior. Adopted—104 against 91, ‘The question was then stated on agreeing to the sub- stitute tor the original bill a thus amended, Mr. MoDovcar—Weuld it be in order to take action $2 any bill, to make it conform to the amendment of Mr. v The SrEaKER.—Not without unanimous consent, as the previous question is still in operation. Mr. Davis, (of Ia.)—I desire to make » few verbal amendments. Objections were raised. ‘Mr. McDovGat.—I hope the friends of the bill wilt vote Yor this measure. A Votcr.—I hope they won’t. Mr. Frorxnce, (dem.) of Ps motion to have the House Mr. Wasu, (dem.) of N. ‘tabled. Negatived—79 against 122. The blerk commenced calling the roll for members to vote on agreeing to the substitute as amended, but by direction of the Speaker, ceased the call, owing to the continued confusion. A Voicr.—Have any of the gentlemen respended to their names’ The SrxakeR.—Four or five. The Chair has exhausted all peaceable means to restore order without effect. Mr. Ricuarpson,—The confusion arises from members not understanding the proposition. ‘The SprakeR.—That is not to be wondered at. The roll call was resumed and completed. The substi- ‘tute as amended, was agreed to, by a vote of 120 againat 79. After another ineffectual motion, made by Mr. Let- ober, to lay the bill en the table, it was read a third time, the vote being 104 against 97. ., made an unsuccessful rn. +) moved the subject be Pending the passage of the bill, the House adjourned. Our Washington Correspondence. Wasuineton, Jaa. 18, 1865. A Grand Party in Washington—The Gathering at Corcoran’s—The Senate—Letter of Rufus Choate All Washington has been alive with excitement during the past week, in anticipatioa of the grand patty of the season, which came off tonight. Mr. Corcoran, the great financier of Washington, leads the people here in fashionable sociables, receptions and parties. It was a feast tonight to epicarean eyes, to look upon the rich dresses, lovely women night about three hundred gues's, ladies and gentle- men, including the distinguished and elité of Wash- ington City. In the company were noticed most of the foreign Ministers, most of the members of the Senate, and several members of Congress, being here reprecented every tongue and every clime, every beauty and every social grace, the vernacular ot the Northern Saxon and the Southern Gaul, the fairer face ef the cold- and the blond of sunnier cli th aeve ees ge Sagi ce ‘A Bye here was enough to Lint F of admiration for their individual wwhich could outrun toe other in costly ments and flashing gems. Anxious mammas, themeeives, ran on with a z2al tha: would honor to the perseverance of pot-house all about the dress of toeir pnaeiees, eee dreasmakers, the qua! een weeks of shopping taey p throu, this event; w Mee) genta looked » (it’s a tasnion for all io prey age and edifled each otner ia the dis- "a gait, valk or dress, and concluded it was em foine” or “‘howibly ” If display, however, in such affsirs as this, that is to be comm: , this party of Mr. Corcoran’s to-night may be put at tne of the list of the fashionable reunions of the capital. It went ahead even of the Presidens’s recep’ cong 4 presentatives present, w! things, said it would re- Cloud itself, or Bucking & welcome that we cussion of Miss = lize affairs of the Smithsonian [nstisate, called up into this body of tae following from Rufas Choate, ex-Senator from Masse , resigning his position of Regent:— Hox. Juan D. Baiont, Preemayt Peo TEXPORE OF Senate, and Hoy, Lixny Boyp, SPreaker ov THE Hovex ov Repaesmytatiy rs — I take leave to communicate to the two Houser of my resignation of the office of Hegent of the Som Institution. Iti to the body which has been pleased to honor me with this trust for some years, and hae reeently con- ferred it for a new term, to may that this #tep is taken, not from any lors of interest in the welfare of that im- portant establishment, but in part from the inconveni ence experienced in atteniing the ae and in part, ‘also, and more immediately from my inability to concur ‘or acquiesce in an interpretation of an act of Congress, ituting the actual Institution the Board of Re- gents, w! ado an te 3 a 4 has been adopted, lly carried into administration by « majority of the beard. That act, it has seemed to me, peremptorily << directs a manner,’ and devises and prescribes a plan, according to which it intends that the institation snail lish the will of the donor. By the earlier law, | the b eee pe to direct such « Sosanee s04 to such a plan, and pledges of the United States that the fands rhould be applied nccoréing to such pian and such manner. In fulfilment of Shst Modge. in the performance of its inalieonbie and incommunieable duty a# trustee of the charit that body, after many yeats of deliberat from which it never sought to relieve iteeif, devolving the work upon the discretion of others, matured its plans, and es ued the iY stitution to carry it out. @f this plan tee res are aketched with great clearness leteness in the law. Without resorting i iterpretation to its parliamentary history nal \i debates, the substantial —— neers alpable and wneqaivocal in ite terms By rach ai Pe rendered quite certain. A board of regents is creat » to adminiater it. Some diseretionary pow: . are given to the board in regard of details, andio ir of possible surplusses of income which may rema'n at avy given time, while the plan of Con is being goalously and judiciously carried into efleet; bat these diseretionary powers are given, I think, fa trust for the ate oueneiy ot | Having robbed hiro of all bis money, divested him of all | his clothing, they left the unfortunate map lying in « the faith | | alleged gang was arrested | tice Connolly, at the Tom NG, JANUARY 21, 1855. act en interpretation has now been adopted which it has seemed to me these discretionary een dine atin "i ol ty will, and of Building up tn inattation paren un. like that which it intended; which supercedes and dis. places it, and in effect the law. Differences of opinion had existed in the board from its first meetiog, in regard of the administration of the act; but they were com) by a resolution of compromise, according to which a fall half of the annual income was to be even- tually applied in permanence to what I deem the essen- tial parts of the p! of Copgress. That resolution of bese ghey 2 isnow formally rescinded, and hencefor- ward the discretion of the ts, and not the act of Congress, is to be the rule CS oa Poop and that discretion has already declared itvelf for another plan than what I deem the plan of Congress, It muy be added that under the same in’ tation the office and powers of secretary are: fun tally changed from those of the secretary of the law, as I read it, and are greatly enlarged, In this interpretation I cannot acquiesce; and with en- tire respect for the majority of the Board, and with much kindness and regard to all its member, [' am sure that my duty requires a respectful tender of resignation. I make it accordingly, and am your obedient servant, RUFUS CHOATE. The whole subject was finally referred to the Judi- See enantio earn wearer eee amare what 7 ae difficulties in which this institution is involved. A Gag message came into the Semate to-day from President u the troubles with the In- dians on our western 1, CO! a re- commendation from the Secretary of War upon the subject, both of which documents have been sent to’ you. ‘There to the of the President. The Pacific Railroad bill still bangs on to Congress, and perhaps will for days to come. N Religtous Intelligence. SERMONS. Rev. Wm. James, D. D., of Albany, will deliver the Af- teenth discourse before the Young Men’s Association of the South Dutch Church, Fifth avenue, corner of Twen- ty-firet street, this evening, at 73; o'clock, the discourse by Dr. Wadsworth being unavoidably postponed to « fu- ture Sabbatb, of which due notice will be given. Rev. Pharcellua Charch, D. D., of Williamsburg, will preach in the Macdougal atreet church this afternoon. ORDINATION. Mr. William G, Scandlin was ordained as a ‘“ minister at large” in Boston, at the Hollis street church, Boston, on the 14th inst. INVITATIONS. The Congregational church and society in Stoddard, N. H., have invited Rev. Joshua 8. Gay, late of Pittston, Me., to succeed the late Rev. Isaac Robinson, D. D., in the pastorate. Dr. Robinson had been their pastor about 52 years previous to his death in July last. Rev. L. H. Long, recently of Colambus, and connected with the Associate Reformed church here, has accepted 4 call to the First Presbyterian church of Urbana, Ohio. Rey. L. Smith, who was recently a missionary in New Mexico, has accepted a call from the First Baptist church in Trenton, and entered upon his duties on the first Sab- bath of this month, Rev, has gery Bush bas received a call to the Presbyte- rian chureb at Cohoes, N. Y., which he has been supply- ing for some time past, and’ with a view to its accept- ance, has taken his dismission from the Albany (0. 8.) Presbytery. INSTALLATIONS. The installation of the Rev. J. Paschal Strong over the Third Reformed Dutch Church of Jersey City, will take place this evening. Service to commence at seven o'clock. The sermon on this occasion will be delivered by the Rev. Dr. Abeel, of Newark; the ch: to the pastor, by the Rev. Paul D. Van Cleef, and the c! to the congregation, by the Rev. Dr. Taylor, of Bergen. ‘The Installation of the Rev. Dr. Plumer, (late of Balti- more,) as pastor of the Central Presbyterian Church, Alleghany city, Pa., took place on the 17th inst. Rey. Horace Wellington was installed pastor of the Congregational Church and Society at St. Johnsbury Centre, Vt., January 4. The Rev. Samuet L.. Soathard, late Rector of the “ House of Prayer, ’ of Newark, N.J., was, on the 11th inst., installed as Rector of Jobn’s rey = Relies aed by Fad me, Rev. Bishop Delancey, of the of Western jew York. DEATH IN THE MINISTRY. Died, at Portland, on the 12th inat., Rev. Caleb B. Davis,’ late Pastor of the Baptist Church in Paris, Me., aged 47 years. NEW CHURCHES. St. Regectrlel penvangly Church, peters, erected un- der the pastoral care of the Rev. Mr. O'Neil, will be de dicated to-day by the Right Rev. Bishop Loughlin. Ser- vice will commence at half-past ten o'clock a.M. The Right Rey. Bishop of'Brooklyn will preach on the occa sion. The house of worship, lately completed as a Presbyte- rian church, near the mouth of Harrod’s creek, nine miles above Louisville, Ky., wan dedicated on the 14th inat. The Presbyterian Society at East Nassau have com- pleted a new house of worship, which was to be dedica- ted on the 17th inst. The old house was owned in com- mon by them and Baptists; about the occupancy of which there began to bestrife, They could not oa a division, and happily just then the house burned down. On the 11th inst. the Presbyterian church of the town of Richford, N. Y., was publicly dedicated to the Triune God. A new Congregational church was dedicated at South Brookfield, Mass., last week. MISCELLANBOUS. On Thursday, the 4th inst., there w: mony at the Convent of Mercy, in this city. The holy habit of religion was given to three stulants, and two novices were professed by the Very Rev ‘Mr. Siarrs, ¥V.G., who deliverod an appropriate dis- course on the occasion. The Rev. Mr. Worrall has resigned his pastoral charge of the Baptist church at Mount Holly, The Rev. KE. B. Palmer has relinquished the parochial charge of Trinity church parish, Bridgewater, and takea up his residence in Boston. Rey. J. N. Hobart, pastor of the First Baptist church in Bristol, R. I., has been compelled, from ill health, to refrain from all pastoral labors, and has tendered the re- nignation of his charge. The Rev. D. Knowlton, pastor of the South Christian eburch in Bristol, R. 1, has dissolved his connection with that society, and removed to the State of Maine. Rey. James L. Wright has resigned his pastoral charge of the Congregational Church, Burlington, Vt. Rev. Charles T. Brooks, Church in Newport, R. 1 six months; and his pulpit i Tenney, of Boston. Rev. 8. G. Clapp, pastor of Jobnabury, Vt., has asked » di tion with the church to consider his requ The Dutches: ral Conference will meet with the First Baptist Church, Poughkeepsie, on the fourth Tues- éay in January, 25d mst. : The Rey. T. D. Hunt, of the First Congregatio Chureh of San Francisco. has resigned hix connecti as pastor of that church and society, which had been accepted, to take effect on Sabbath, 7th of January. The resignation and its acceptance have been confirmed by a council of ministers, convened for the purpose. Rev. ©. C. Carr, who recently resigned bis pastorate at Horseheads, N. Y., bas been indused, by the unanimous denire of hia people, to reverse bis decision and remain with them. ‘The Presbytery of Troy have passed the following reso lation" Past whereas, it is believed that Rey. John Newbanks, a member of this Presbytery, las become at solemn cere- n street, in pastor of the Congregational igned his charge for jupplied by the Rev. Mr, South Chursh, in St. jution of his connec. nd a mutual council, Jeast partially deranged, this Presbytery no longer be held responsible for his conduct as@ minister of the gospel Police Intelligence. HIGHWAY ROBBERY. Yesterday morning, about two o'clock, a daring rob- bery w mitted in Cherry street, by three men, who, meeting s sailor named Thomas Moran, dragged -him foreibly up an alley way, and there by violence siripped him of everythinglexcept his sbirt and drawers The police to the «pot by the p. aod after bear tory, con to the station house. Immediate pursuit was made after the daring highwaymen, and one of the bemg taken before Jus- prisoner gave his name itted for examina. as Dennis Bulli Mrs. Trist’s Scu00L.—Sincerely regretting that the circumstances of her family should compel a lady #0 trained and s0 descended to re-ort to tl laborious and irksome duties of the scho)! room, cannot send forth the advertisement of ‘he estima bie and accomplished lady named above - the grand- dooghter of Thomas Jefferson—without »coompany- ing it with @ word of commendation, and with the expression of « hope that those of our readers who have daughters to educate may avail themsacives of the instruction of one mibe and example, is wo capable of im an American gen- tlewoman should be io mind and manners.— | Natio nal Intelligencer, ls. | thieves and stripped of clothes and everything, LETTER FROM MR. SILAS E, BURROWS, nN Visit to Japan—Interesting Particulars—The Collins Steamers. TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW YORK HERALD. Sur Lavy Prerce, Hono Kona, Nov. 10, 1854. } My Dsar Smm—I have taken a trip to Japan in the ship Lady Pierce, and been treated (without taking with me any military parade or strength to resist attack) with full as much hospitality and liberty of action as Commodore Perry recetved, who left Japan fifteen days before my arrival. It is @ most interesting country, and the Jepanese a superior race ef people to any Asistics I have seen. Their coasting commerce far exceeds ours on the Atlantic coast of the United States. On two occasions I counted fleets of three hundred and thirty and two hundred and eighty junks, ave- raging, I think, about one hundred and thirty tons, and the Japanese say they have fifty thousand vessels from sixty to three hundred tons. Tae present treaty, as now made, will not be attended with any commercial advantages, and every device will be adopted by the Japanese to deter our ships from entering their ports; but I think they can be pleased, and eventually induced to open a trade with us, which will be attended with great benefit to the United States. But it will not be accom: plisbed by sending ships of war there, with that ease, in my opinion, that it will by going without military power, and showing them the advantages that a commercial intercourse with the United States would produce on the inhabitants and coun- try. 1 have never been among any people who were so soon Americanized as the Japanese; and if the Emperor had not interfered, and arrested the grow ing friendship, Jeddo bay would bave been a home to all Americans. The Japanese whom | returned to his country, named Dee-yee no-skee, perfectly charmed his a trymen by relating the kindness he received in the United States, and from me on the passage to Ja- pan; be is the firat Japanese who has returned to Japan from foreign lands, and he wil do more to- wards opening an intercourse than all the ships of war and ministers we can send. The Emperor and his minister would not confide in what foreigners say; but Dee-yee-no akee, an edu- gated man, will be believed. The Emperor sent for him to come to Jeddo, as soon as I left, but during my etay there, he was kept to aid me, by direction‘of the head men. Dee-yee-noskee was the only sur- vivor of the passengers and crew of the junk that was shipwrecked and driven near the Sandwich Islands, where he was taken from the wreck by the American schooner Emily Parker, and brought to San Francisco, and it will ever be a source of great pleasure to me that I have been an agent for my couatry in returning him to Japan. The Japanese articles you doubtless have seen in the exhibition at the Crystal Palace, were pre- | sented by Dee-yeeno-skee, who was clerk of the owner of the junk and cargo, and who died on board. There were twelve other passengers taken froma shipwrecked junk into San Francisco, the history of whom is melancholy indeed. They remained in San Francisco near a year on board the revenue cutter, without any desire to go on shore, filling various situations in the vessel, and were a most excellent and fine looking set of men. Their only desire was to be conveyed to Japan. The United States government took charge of them and brought them te this place, where they were t> return to their country with the fleet which was to be sent to Japan. lam informed that they were kept here a long time, and for some cause became so dissatisfied at their +ituation, that, knowing something of the geo" graphical situation of the country, they attempted | to travel by land from Shanghae to a port on the China coast opposite Japan, from which they could | croes to their country. They left Shangbae, and | soon after getting into China were sst upon by and returned to the port, where they were fur | nished with clothing and started again, but have | not since been heard from. One of the crew of | that junk was in Commodore Perry’s squadron when it visited Japan, but from some cause would not go on shore, although the Japanese used every influ- ence to induce him to go with them. | When I reached Japan, in my arguments of the great advantages Japan would derive from a direct and constant intercourse with California; that they could become a great commercial nation, of great wealth and power; that Japan was about equal to England, Ireland and Scotland, who had been made great and powerful by commerce; and unless | they became # commercial people their populatioa, when it became great, must die from diseases——they replied, “ But our sailors would all leave us. Dee- gee-no skee is the fitst man who has come back to | his country. Where are all the other men gone that were in the other janks which D:e-gee-no-skee tells us were in California? One of them, he knew, was in Commodore Perry’s ship, but he would not come | on shore; and till you returned with Dee-gee-no ekee, we thought none of our people would come back to us again.” Nothing can accomplish #0 much in bringing about national intimacy and friendship as returning all Japanese to their own country; and if they have been well treated when in a land of strangers, be assured the Japanese will duly appreciate it. I bave seen by the papers of the United States that a great discussion has taken place, both in and out of Copgreas, in relation to toe Collins line of steamers, and that they had been pronounced by some of our government officials as inadequate for war sesmers. | am one of the old- est steamboat men in the United States. I have stood by the side of Fulton in bis first boat led by on the waters of the Hudson; ave built several myself; and, on board my own steamer, bave navigated the rivers of South Ame- rica, which gives me practical knowledge. From been iy inapeoted bed tiowed tho sto ave progressively inspec: fo! auc cess of most steamers which have been built in the United States corth of the Obio, (and their disas- ters,) since the first put in motion by Fulton up to my leaving you in the Atlantic for Europe. bave also travelied through a!] the nations of Europe, inspected their builaings and machinery, and have for years crossed the Atientic westward in the winter season. to witness the victory of aeam over the elements of nature. Often, when passing in the Canard line, with mortification have we Americans on board dis cussed the subject of British linen of steamers being built by American patronage, which steamers, in case of war, would capture our commerce, and biockade our barbors. I well remember the feelings which led me to believe that my country would at no distant period have rival steamers to carry American citizens and United States mails to and from the shores of America. The + of 4 had then appropriated ® milion of do! to sastain their boats American competition. When the steamer Wi peti made her firs: trip to Bremen, I was, with my family, a pasenge: on beard. and was disappointed in expectat ons of her formance in speed, and it was not until the jin steamers were running to [Averpool that the American travellers were perfectly satisfied with the « opsommation of speed, skili and comfort When | first took passage in the Atlantic with the gcod Captain West, | then said, here is the conanm: mation of Americen wishes; and the nacion, with feelings cf pride, determined that our pational live s>vnla be susta’ned by the same national protection thet England had extended to hers. 1 do not believe in giving unnecessary m ).opo its or protection to any branch of basiness, but a4 so | American traveller, now on the oppomte of the earth to you, and still no leas pi of my ecveroment, and imstitations, | believe in 1 Colltpa line of steamers by the same weasutes ‘ Sogiand sustains the Cunard line to ran into vatere, aaa national competition; and | do in ate I g gE i? i Es rf ud ‘elie = & j 5 } E: ne ae F i f t F i F g& s if stth; H & ry B 2 a withdraw their bounty, to run the Americaa line off | the route, then, and not till then, let Americans | consent to withhold the appropriation to the Collins line, which alone sustains it against the Brittsh com} and monopoly. Collins steamers being beld in readiness for the use of » and ready at ail times in case of war, are worth to the nation ten times the d, an shipa are of little use to meet oop ome pet agaio, I ia, tel we m ja, I remain, teuly, your most ob’t serv’t, Sinas K Bonacws. Our Mextean Correspondence. Tacuwaya, (near Mexieo,) Dec. 30, 1854. Anniversaries and Celebrations—I*reparations for the Grand Court Reception on New Year's Day—lroken Faith and Hollow Congratulations, etc, We have had quite a month of ceremonials and com. memorations, to the superseding of all governmental relations. It commenced with Senta Barbara, at the Profeso; then bigh mass at the Conception, The anni- versary of the reappearance of the Virgin of Guads Jupe came next, and that of the reinstalment of the Order of Grand crosses on the 20th of December. of these the gouernment officials and army are expected to participate, ar evidences of the close harmony be- tween Church and State. With the exception of some petty tenst days, in whieb confectionery was worked up | into fantastical figures, from deaths’ heads, imps and angela to virgins of Guadalupe, and sugar plumbs, which are “as thick a4 blackberries’! among the northern Goths, we have hada ceseation, to prepare for the grand oo reception of the Ist January, when his Serene Hig! condescenda ta receive the congratulations of the son from the diplomatic body and other high functi ries of State. For what is the Dictator to be congratulated? it would confound any oraterto make an appropriate address on the oecesion. He stands a usurper—who «than two years ago, ih the midst of anarchy and confusion, was, in the confiding spirit of « roun but thoughtless people, recalled frora an exile, for trusts be trayed, aud clothed with dictatorial powers for limit ed term, to restore order and consolidate the republic It was hoped that retirement and reflection had cured him of biv early and predominant instincts, and that thus unexpectedly summoned to power, he would dedi- cate the high trust to ountry’s improvement and proeperity. But two h sion of renewed i bumble ted, His Serene Hy the nation; his w { Inaco, written wg and un suspecting fellow citizens ere nothing better than his slaves, Obedience is an ebligation enforced by pains and . Tyranny, such am the darkest ages can afford ro example of, has become the virtue of this one man abeolute. Imagine the head of the diplomatic corps, oF some high tunetio § aching the Dictator and giving vent to m & new year, in fueb strain ae th from your native land recalled from that repose which advanced age and im wisdom had made more than consoling to you, In all | ADDILIONAL NEWS THE CANADA'S MAILS. THE SIEGE OF SEBASTOPOL,. Despatches of General Canrobert and Lord Raglan. IMPERIAL RUSSIAN MANIFESTO. ANOTHER PRUSSIAN NOTE. Interesting Autograph Letter from Queen Victoria. The Spanish Auaitiary Legiow not Fortheoming. OUR LONDON AND PARIS CORRESPONDENCE, &., &., ko. Our Leadon Correspondence. Lonpon, Jaa. 5, 1866. Progress of the Siege of Sebastopol— The long talked of Assault—Coming Events Cast their Shadows before—Canrobert’s Despa'ches— The Timer and Lord Raglan—Retern of Admirals Dundas and Hamelin—The Royal Campsigners—The Vienna Conferences- The King of Prussia Ignored at them ~-Seperate Treaty Between France and Austria. ‘We are again indebted to Prince Menschikoff for the latest news frony the seat of war. His Excel+ yency informs his Imperial Majesty the Czar, that up to the 26th December nothing of importance bad taken place before Sebastopol. He makes. the ex- ception of two sorties which took place on the 21st December, in whieh he says 11 officers and 32 sol- diers were made prisoners. He does not, however, say whether the loss was on the side of the allies or the Russians. This despatch is so far important as there was a current belief that Sebastopol was to be stormed on Christmas Day. It is now amid thatthe 28th is the dey fixed for the attack; but we have no news upto to that date. The report that General Liprandi hed made a second attack upon the, Hnglish lines at Balaklava is not true. His troops, on the contrary, have with- drawn to the north ol the Tcherna ya, and from a despatch from General Canrobert, which you wiil find in the London papers of this day, we hear that both English and French have made a reconnots- sence to. ascertain whether this retreat was real or sham. Canrobert attributes it to the news received of the landing of the Turks at Kupatoria. General Canrobert also states that the siege operations are going on satisfactorily, that they bad a large num- ber of guns ready to open a terrific fire, and that the entrenchments were gradually encircling the city. Much disease and discontent seemingly pre vailsin the English camp. The attacks upon Lord Raglan and the staff, by the Times, are kept up, and there is quite a polemic war just now in the London journals on the subject. Admiral Dundas andAdmisai Hamelin have arrived at Constantinople en route to England and France. The fleets remain ander the command of Admirals Lyons and Bruat, The health of the Duke of Cambridge lias fe proved. He has left the Hotel d’Angioterre, and has Pera. The Sultan paid him along visit the other He is desirous of returning to the Crimea, but Gen eral Caprobert ob; fhe Prince's bh —the real trata is, [ bevieve, that Canrobert was so disgusted with toe overbearing conduct of Prince Napoleon, that he ordered him to leave the army, and he now opposes his return. Coming events cast their shadows before, and there is such « coptident opinion here that the 28th | wae fixed for the assault, that | the news official. There was such an awful big sha- dow cast though, immediately after the battle of the | Alma, that I am loth to give credit to amything that | bas not « tangible form. The politicians of Europe bave been occupied one tpe last week with the negotiations at sna. | _ You will remember that by an article in the treaty | and Austria, it is declared that if Itussia does not | come to terms by the end of 1454, steps will be taken by the other Powers to make her do so. On the 27th and 28th December long conferences were held at Vienna, onal at the hotel of the Bri- | Mish embassy. Count Baol, Baron de Bourguenily and Lord Westmoreland submitted the conditions they demanded to Prince Gortechakoff, the Rassian envoy. He replied that the could accept, and demanded fourtesa days time to receive ructions from St. Petersburg. After many pros and cons those additions! fourteen days were granted. People in to think thet Lord Joho Russell was not so far wrong when he maid | this treaty with Austria was of a nature that Aus tria could back out of it at the last moment if she chore. The accounts from Vienna, however, are | very warlike, ands regular offenave and defensive | treaty between Anstria and the Western Powers i: | spoken of as most likely, believe it who will. the Prossian Ambaseador, Count Arnim, waa not | sdmitted to the conferences. Prussia is not admit | ted, and the King is horridivy annoyed at thia. The | King of Praseia is ignored by the other Powers. A curious Prussian ch has jast come to light. It fe addressed by Baron Mantouffel, the Prussian Prime Minister, to the Prussian envoys at Paris and London. It is dated Berlin, December 19. ‘The gist of this document is that Prosda is quite willing to join the Western Powers and Austria, provided she bas explanations ho# the four guaran- tees demanded of Russia are to be interpreted. ‘The vaciliating conduct of Prossia was never beter | Mastrated than by this document. ‘There are rumors which, | am able to wtate, are not entirely devoid of toundation, to the effect that | a private treaty bh as been signed between France | and Austria. According t tue terms of this con vention, France is to guarantees to | Italian possessions, that is, if Austris de lares war against Kuesia, and the latter power endeavors to e pe of Srenson on the free tongue. You fraternwed with the Mother ch and bowed to her infallibility. You of and fasted for your coun’ ry’s wake, You raised y to subdue disaffection—y venemeritor, Grand Cr you established a 4 cow dy army, and revel’ed in all the gorgewus oatentation which sof government a fort of optical panoramic dela nd the people, as they ever should be, mere pup peta in the show, We op this commencement of a new year, on these rich oun fruits of an energetic 5 neerity of Castilian courtesy y that you may live 1,000 y ow TORY Raver be leas. DIOs ¥ Lt Personal Intelligence. ARRIVALS. rom Charleston, in steamabip Marion JL Athos, H Young, Joho Dow 1 Young, A Teylor, John W Ke Jobe Martie, = KR Vac Dusen children, 8 M Mitehooek, P Zatgin, € t davghter, MD Field—25 IN Sear Daniel J Shaw Fe K Hi) JW Me lady, WD Chap steerage Dev ARTO RES. For Sevaunab, in the steamanip Kmonvill- Mory H Doren: fareh Do Bois Dorem Norfell, Petersbore anit Jimestore—W BR 1 . Richmond, in the eteeme ‘ m! steernes. David Wetern, W omen, Wim MH Seok. Arther I, Amdrew Roots, Jobe Hill well, Mrs Coby aad pon, ratulate your Aerene Highness | get up a ristog in Lombardy, France will lend Au» trie troops to quell it. Toe announcement that su-h a treaty bas been actuaily signed \« incorrect, but | | believe it is on the tepia There are various ramors bere of an approaching change in the ministry, bat, at all events, nothing decisive bas transpired on the mibject. The foreign States ere objecting wo their mbjects enlisting into the yy foreign legion. Promia | baw forbidden it, Fi Seine Connell has | come, it ie aald,to a similar resolation. A legion | will, severtoeless, be formed, composed protably of | men from all nations. The French have s legion of thia description actnally in the Crimes, known a General Bosquet’s divimon; they behaved very well at Alma and at Inkermann. Bir de Lacy Evans bas arrived in town, Lord on bis way bome. othing elee stirring in Karope. Our Parts Correspondence Panm, Jan. 4, 1855 The New Loan--The French Patrictice Pund Private Gifts lo the Army of the Fast—The Siege of Sebastopol Paris under its New Year Anpey Theatrical Gossip—Gr and Industrial Brhilntion of \456. The new year opens perrpectives gloomy encugh. War snd rumors of war furnish « aniversal theme for every peu and every tongue. All have abeo- doned the hope thatthe Eastern war would be re stricted to the Mumite st firet amigned to it. We march,” + xclaims one journal, “ towards a alition of Buarope entire against Homis.” The most mo guine indoige in no antictpeti mn that the dip! omats labors which bave been costinaed in persever's paraileliom with military action, will speedily rere in @ pacific polation of the Kasern q sestivn Meanwhile the public Ws learning sow!ly & count the cost of the gigantic enterprise in which the | Wertern Powers have eogared againat the Ulowos | Cardigi There ROM EUROPE. taken up his quarters at the British Embassy at | day. Prince Napoleon is still at Constantinople. | ty, abit might be injurious to | | signed at Vienna between the Western Powers | were not auch as be | Auatria ber | of the North. The loan of 500,000,000 fr., to bs | taised by national eabscription, will supply figures for the calculation. Thie sebecription will be opened On the 3d inst., ud untli the Idth. Among the re- cent decrees published in the Bulletin des Lots, io one that raises to 350,000,000 fr. the emtlesion of Treasury bonds for the service of 1854-6. Ane ther which opens, in addition to the estimate of the Budget, a supplementary eredit of 7,465,0% fey and still anotner, which opens, on the excens af’ 1864, a supplementary credit of 4,199,552 fr. The Bulletin publishes also a decree forthe fabrication of gold pieces of 60 france and 100 trance each, and proscribes that of 40 franc pieces. Apropos of credits. The Imperial governmeat naturally finds tt easier to open little than large credite, such, for instance, as that whieh-last moath devoted 100,000 franon to the collection and ar- ranging the correspondence of Napoleow the First. The manicipal authorities, in their way, are equally gencrous, as may be judged from the %000,000 france, in round numbers, at which they lately fixed the sum of indemnities for the appropriations re- quisite for piercing new streets and prolonging the Rue de Rivoli, A second credit of 1,000,000 francs has been opened, moreover, in order to complete the janction ot the Louvre and the Tuileries. The too marrow space assigned to the Palais de i'Industrie has necessitated the expense of erecting three pa- laces of industry instead of one. But the Parisians count upon being indemnified for this latter outlay by the profita that will accrue to them from the great affiuence of visiters to the exhibition of 1456. The private subscriptions of the French in bebalf of the army of the Hast, will oun Miah. ever quiring uader the republic for taking in acting spontancously, that | was more surprised at their being tempted to liee and start a private subscription, than I elected chief of the nation was bound particularly te take care of the wounded, the special objecta of na. tional gratitude, private gifts for those who are not | Wounded would be not only allowed but oncouraged. | It ia probable that the wounded themselves will not | be prevented from sharing in the New Year's gifts | which have swelled the voluntary contributions of | the French; for the Empress is not alone in devot- | ing a part of each day to the preparation of lint, | With her own hands, in aid of the good Biators of Charity. Lint, linen, medicines, medicaments, cor- | | dials, preserves, wines, liquors, segare, blankets, clothes, books, journals every imaginable kind, as well as money to be com- verted iuto provisions, have been liberally supplied. The house of the widow of the lave Marshal | Mognan, in the place Vendome, was, | am told, ea- | cumbered on the very day woen that lady published her readiness to seceive gifte for the easters army, | ithe peice vaclety oC actlcles (hao t, exatvited | Dy even a couatry grocery store in the Vaited Gtates, The beggage trains of the Lyons railway have been | laden heavily with the gifta,which Paris alone sends to the east. And in addition to the vessels which | ore continually transporting men and munitions, many & vessel now eastward-bound Is a floating ve- riety store. What « h<terogevecus mass of articles —from snuff to powder, from pins to cannon, from sugar plums and plum pudding to o railway— | have been sent to the Crimea! Five vessels will wuftice to carry the men and the materials for the Baleklave ae Ra 2 Seeaatopels ‘Ga thats de ene AAABA AI . their the Rueeiane have doubtless been reinforced with men and pro- visiows. Omer Pacha will bring 20,000 men to | aid of the allies st Sebastopol! The shook will | terrible when the hostile parties ope | tect. It ts anticipated that about the | month, or certainly before ite end, a decial will be struck. [f Sebastopol does not it i not impossible that the may | rily raised — thet an attempt will be made by ing the Russians wherever they can be encow to drive them from the Crimes—-and if this | proves ruccessful, that acorze d’armée will be | p seeiar dogg i allies may —. tw the topol, which, It is thought, thus isolated | by land and a, must surrender. So much confl- | dence in #t'll reposed here te the irresistible ——e of the allied army, that if recond Tartar were bring the news of the fall of Sebastepol, not = few Parisians would now eagerly believe it. And they might not err if the #kill of the alliee generals were equal to the valor ae by thetr ogg A large portion of the ctremets, or Your's | gifts, exhibited in the shop windows of Paria, | the traditional mili tastes of the Freach, from tiny soldiers in chocolate, which costa two ajus, to the mip pen — which costa one france, al) sorts of military toys are eagerly bon If the military instinct ia Los inmate in tas Presse: man, it is implanted in the earliest in! , ood fostered by son been born at Paris, he would bave son learned to long for # helmet like that of bia sire. Io walt ing from the corner of the rue de Richelieu w that of the rue de la Palx, along the , Ute ornieg, | counted no jews than nine diminative riots, ail lene thar seven years old, 4 sf Eyer Figs i ) Hi slong in complete military uniiorms, One the bilt of his eword in his right band, and = stick of candy in hla lett. His somewhat older brother, sithough more pacifically secoutred, had obviously pot jos! the martial ardor with which be leo had been fired in the nursery, for he was his inemma to buy that new and popular The Blege of Sebastopol, lah is to be found at wyrbop. The Varis journals ting the umual changer on the variety and elegance and splendor of the treasures displayed by the grea: shops of the capital et thin aren of the year. The cachemeres of the roe ae Hichelieu, the fans of Davelleroy, the candies and wweetinents of Hower, the chocolates of ale, the myriad forme and colors that Russe, and f. ° and Giroux knpart to articles de Porw of simot every kind, annually tempt the pens of writers like Amedée Achard Theophile Gautier to rival the fantastic <a 5 and beauty of the objects wal-h they dencribe, whieh 46 each bifh honor w the ertutic okiil of the Paris workman. | . The distribution of New Your's gifts will, it is w | be hoped, givean air of gaiety w I's hich | bas not lately presented. This desirable Os lhewine be increased by the festivities of toe Imperial receptions give the signal | Beveral of the theatres add t their ordinary trections those comical reviews of the past year which it is castomary to give at this sonsoe. The | mest amusing of these ‘reviews’ hae been far Dlabed, aa owns), at the thestre of the l’alale Royal. Resites the table Albam of Sirsa st the Grand Opera balls, the facovu wade of Maserd wil weekly Ue resumed at the liallan Ocers bala With Moserd on Weduesday cignt, and Streow on Getar- | day nixbt, the carnival ought w pans merrily. ladame Stolz, it is hoped, will be reconciled with the “powers that be a! the Opers, slthoagh her ruptore with them wae marked even more violeper than thet of Mile. Crevelll. Bo long as recon ciation = pombe, tbe Vane pablte te not solicrieus shout the meaner, if the rewuit secures to them the presence of (hese eminent artivte, Mile, Fortanets, (a Spanien singer, baw déruté dew go a Chee a the cpers. fiece the departare Mie. Nan, no chanteas lager’, may Yon erties, bas been found wh wnites #9 many charming qnalities and cam render a! wervicrs oe M'iie, Portematl. She will ad te y rep ace Mile. Naw an the Quecs of Navarre, n the ” Hegunota, M me. ‘igaide has been eothosatio ny wetoon »i ol her retarn to the Opers Comiqne, efter aa ab. oce of eighteen monies. [racing tle mm rval ber fine voire bas been greatly imorovred. M tie. Iropres bas recovered from the in) «positive whieh Tarily vorpended the repreemtetion of tae | én Nerd’ | “fh Trovatere,” in which Bancerds haw débutt oq