The New York Herald Newspaper, February 25, 1855, Page 2

434 AFFAIRS IN EUROPE. Our London Correspondence. Lonpon, Feb, 1, 1855. Lord John Russell and his late Ceolleagues—Opinn ions in the London Clubs on the Political Treache- ry af the Former—The Great Question of the Howr—Whe is to be Premier?—Lord Palmerston will not Acc:pt Office unless Freed from the Inter ference of the Court Party—Lord Grey's Pre tensions Discussed, Se., $e. Ifever it bas happened that a letter addressed fyom one of thoee institutions, whieh, though osten- # bly of social charaster, are the very focus of vo tical gossip, and often of intrigue, has proved ac- eeptabie to your columns, I cannot help pelieving that atthe present moment yon will vot think an apology necessary, when I endeavor to give you something resembling a tableaux of things and per- tore which now to every club in London are of such all-absorbirg interest. My letters bave from time to time apprised you of what wae approaching. No one can take an active interest in men and parties, and eit at the seat of custome watching each change of sapect, each cloud ee it rises in the pelitical horizon for some five and twenty years, without gathering a tolerable inkling ef coming eventa as they cast their shadows before him. At the same time, God forbid I should set myrel! up as a political prophet. One may be right enough in predicting the progress of a principle, though nct in defining the exact measure of ite ad- vance—tor there are the passions, interests and miz- ed feelings of individoais to be taken into considera- tien ; and these, no man can take account of, That Lore Aberdeen must fall, and Lord Palmerston re- main master of the situation, and that, too, before Ep, » & fesling pple Sh might esos ung uy, and one far more favorable to the Czar. the inscrutal Providence, all the past may have happened, that the reign of the sword, now many weeks, I knew well enough, and did wot hesitate to apprise you; but the mo dus operandi bas taken every one of us by sarprize.,, I know persone intimately connected with Lerd John Russell, who state boldly that in their Opinion, the whig leader of the Houss of C»mmons had not contemplated the step he took four and ‘twenty hours before. I heard from the lips of the Baril of Minto, myself, his father-in-law, that what- ever the fate of the government, Lord John intended ‘to sink or swim with it. In the present instance, be hae entirely departed from the usage of hie life, which is—however strong his individual opinion— te act to strict unison with his party. He has the greatest repugnance to violate party principle; and, selfretiant as he is, his adherence to it explains many of those fallings off in the carrying out.of bold regolutions and large measures, by which he has lost much popularity with the country. He has besa Deard to say that his indifference to this party prin- tiple wae the capital error of Bir Robert Peel; and, therefore, that without consulting any individual, he should havesuddenly taken boat and pulled eway ‘from the crasy ship, has astonished every one. At ‘the same time, it is said that he could net have done mamely, profligate intrigue—the act, if tt were to take piace, to be honest to Lord Aberdeen, could not Be collective; and on this ground publicopinion per- feotly acquits him. As to whether he should have held on, and confronted the Rozbuck breaker, @pinions st the clubs are somewhat more divided, and at first, decidedly, were uvfavorable; but a chenge ie even now going op, and I chould not be it ie felt, earprised to find that before eight days have elapsed, onthe bench of magistrates, among hie brother country gentlemen, impracticable and un ongenisl. As Premier he vever cou'd holds party together; bus avan energetic war mipie.er--caring for n0 #0 slive ex Dis own reations—(ne) is the ain of the Greys) and ass powerful debater in the House of Loids, it is posable Lo:d Palmerston could not find » fitter man, slth: tingulor that affeirs juct now 6! ch it is somewhat seeli from having the Robert Peel resignd on accsant is , bat could not form Cabinet, emaatl Lord Grey refosed to have for his colleague Lord Pa'mersion as Secretary for Fo-e'gn Affaire. Zempora mutantur ct nos is & great motio in politics; in fact, now-a-deys, me rage g2: vernment is totally impossible in Euglant wishont the coalition of elements spparently very discordant. on treaties hanging between wind and water, by all this, from what [ can gather, the gereral ideaie | that tre“yourg that ‘od. wil come out of itall. No one imagines | will come? that fe Bosperor of Russia has ang real notion of making peace; but, at theeame time, the energy which England ase displayed will give him aa oe i of judging of the unanimity of publis tes!- 1g in the proeecation of tye war and the disastrous: terial overthrow, novwi ‘ing ite humiliat ing effect, bas been. the means of bringing out the better of the Wreooh character in the broiber- hood ofarms. Had all things gone smoothly, and room been afforded for the aristocratic aire of the different from that which bl. decrees of after forty years, mey be prolonged, thst in the end civilization may be more amply ‘diffased, barbarous it within ite , Rationalities once peoniee eee ve Sonetot |, and Eag- land herself, so long the arbitress of the world, come to play a secondary part; that there is » growing opinion of the war policy Sorina, been hastily lopted is snindieputable fact— that we are Bow only in its first phase, the second befug a gene-, ral European cout tion. is @ reflection which you hear much more freqaently expressed than six go in for it, eo we must get out of it, Andi an quite sure thst rather than sey“ die”—rather then make an ignomipions peace--Eagland will lay down her Jast shilling. Ifthe peace , however, ever do get a head, Cobden and Bright muat change their bullyirg tone of advocacy—the Tetaes sage cially, who is so unpopular that the event of a time in domestic re' the Soviety of Friends. if the war continues to becone , the fear is Our Paris Correspondence. Panis, Jan. 29, 1855. Skating at Paris—The Emperer’s Sleigh—Snow, Wind, Mud, and Swicides in the Crimea—Prince Menschikef’s Alkes, Generals January, Febru- Future Tense—Dislocation of the British Minis- try—Offer of the Messicurs Pereire to “Replenish the Span‘sh Treasury otherwise than by the Purchase of Cuba—American Hotel in the Rue de Rivoh—D. D. Howaed and Charles V.i—Ex- hibition ef 1855—A @ongress of Sovereigns—La Prusse, Russe: ?Autriche triche— The Rus- sian Grand Dukes— Arriva! of Prinee Napoleon and the Duke of Cambridge. The January thaw, which@ men‘{lozed last Tburs- day, was quickly arrested by sharper frost thau had melted away at ite spproach, B:fore the journals of Broseels hed reprinted the “item,” in which a ‘Lord Jobn ts to be thought to have adopted the only | Parie journal said that the thaw was changing the ecurse eft to him. That he ought to have resigned squares of the capital into lskes aud the stresta two months when Lord ihe Geclived to touching the war adminis it iH i i F | : i ety i g th i : I fe z ink ik i i Ey u ay i i i aE FF cig om toapother point—thet of LordJohn’s t ep himeelt clean hasded for another —one which nas been put forwa-d re- 4 peatedly since the denouement, I do not find that man whoss opinion i¢ worth listening to enter. ins it. A Premiership nevessarily contemplates the utmost conciliation of party support, ana jast mow Lord Jobn has, for the first time, given many bis warmes: friends = species of cold shoulder; for while in the clubs and every coterie, they hare been doing theiz best to bolster up the administra tion, their leader has taken up bia hat and gone out ef tne house. Besides, there is truth in ths report ‘bat Lord John would willingly, if possible, be re Tiwved from the cares of office; he is fond of liters- tare, and is sensible enough to know that, though ‘the country respects him asa pure and moet disin- ‘terested patriot, and is d of hie character, a very eemmon opinion prevails, that, ae a man of ac ion, be ie ‘ured up.” But whois to be the Premier? That is the qacation. Not Lord Jobn, I « t, nor Lord Li owas either, I believe, though the last is more probable; many 0 80 far ae tosay that Lord Palm:rston would prefer being second in responribility, provided he | EY into rivers, these lakes and rivers had already been covered withice, Skaters were again at play 3 3 een secure & clear stage and no favor—no court in- terference—for hisown department. But the ma jority of we'l informed persons deciiedly incline to gardens of the Luxembourg and the Tailerics, im the woods of Boalogae. I+ would acarce- ‘een surprising to have met them also avenue of the Champs E'setes and on Boulevards, ea if those promenades had besn invo frozen Dutsh canals. A tresh fali of now ia daily expected, and the Emperor miy turn ont again in hie splendid sleigh, with ita cigh:y thousand fancs worth of fare—erough to hinier regiment from freezing in the trexches of Sebas ac ey ; Ab! {tis yonder, in the Crimea, and no} here, that the rigcre of the season are dresdfal. Ua sually inclement as tie winter ie at Paris, not eveo the squatters on that strange clearing, the rue D2- lambre—eo fitly situated between an hospital ani s graveyard, and where, within three moaths past, in atriking contrast to the magnificent cons‘ractious of new streets and boulevards, have risen more thag se bundred mud hovele, with no floor but the ba-e ground—not even the settlers of thie colony, which is one of the most remarkable snomatics in the his. tery of civibzation, can have more than @ faint idea of the sufferings to which the allied troops have been exposed. [¢ ie true that the Journal de Con- stanlinoplc—ae determined 94 optimist as the Moni- tour iteelf—bae positively aaserted: ‘ In spite of the rigore of the peason, the allied armies do not eaffer in the Crimes!” end it hae enumerated the articles of food ard clothing, tre comfor's, and even tho loxuriee, with which ‘their governments have amply supplied them.” Bot the very despstches in which their Commandere-in-Chief mention the reception of & pert of these provisions have been, daring the sort of ermietice imposed by the snow and the cold, lstle else, ae it were, but wes'her glaesss. Tiese | desgatcbes, and numberless private lette-s, sad'y the belief that Lord Palmerston qill be content with | jas'ify the gloomy pictures which the official Frepea go combination which does not placa him at the | journae blame spe London Times for presenting. head of affairs. After what took place in 1851, | hie friends it is necessary to his charas- ter that be jd be so—that this, he kaos, | wik slone secure him from court moidog, and sive him that perfect freedom of action whicn is absolutely ne ersary in the present jonc'ure of af- feire. The question then whether Lord Pal strong government, without the active isflueses Lord Lansdowne, the Duke of Bedford, and o:n of the whige. From ail I hear, I suspe :t there is doubt cf Lord Palmereton’s ability to form ast-ong | government. He ie, personally, the most popular wan in te House, which goes far toexpliin the @lever manner in which, ever since his disgrace of | 3851, be haa, through every political phase, contrived | to keep himself harmless, and even to better his condition, The Derby party ever abo’ blunt arro at him, while their polsoned weapons fell like | fatumn leaves on all his cuileagues; and it is only pow, that finding he is atter a game of his own, aad ‘Will form no coalition with them, they begin to fliag stores. The great whig families, however, will axt Now shat the demoraivation, 90 undeniable, of tie oops bas extended evin to their Frenci 4insrme, the increasiog number of sui- v thet ush of the peinfnl rumors which, n spite of the comparative silecce of the press, have reached the popniar i An exp. eesion is attrib which is as significen dicates, ceria over, the line of tactics whi verioiaed. Wathou! attemptiag any im- jon, be appears sa‘letied with awaltia us effect ot she weather upon the allie: arnite: Letonr soldiers repose,” ne ia sald to hive exclaimed, ‘Generals January, February avd March will do our work for us better taan any porrible att. Vely Pac! » the Ottoman ambassidor at Parts, is | to be made Governor of the islaud of Candia. Hy wilt be replaced here by Mehemet Ali, the eldest ron of Reecbid Pecha, avother of whose sone, you mber, married a daigbier of the Sulan. id Pachs hava third son who is now a lieu- ut in tae army of txe Crimes, with every chance @esert Lim, even though their favorites may no} |-ot speedy promo ion. occupy the position they might desire. Tne Poel | Po'jtical quid: unce at Paris are 80 much occrpied ites will perhaps gradually take rank with the | in speculating upon the possible consequences of tories, though even this is not expected; bu’, on | Mhe dislocation, aa they term it, aud the imminest the contrary, that the old coslition will again be dissolution cf the Britieh ministry, and cf tae r- re-constructed, with @ man of undoubted energy at | spective attitudes of Ans rie avd P. assia in relation ‘We bead, namely, Lord Palmerston, wh», it is ua- | a, is quite prepared to dissolve Parliameat to Roesla and to France aod Hoglacd, that they pay bot slight attention to the important ficancial qaes- and appeal to the constituencies if ho should bs | tion that is wot unlikely to agitate Sain, as it is Thwart d in the energetic meseures the ovcasion re | already sgitating Piedmont—the question of e2cte- quires. When I say old coalition, I speak only of | si#stical ah age The doable lose, by King Victor principles, not of men. As to an appeal to the con stignencies, should that be neeessary, there can be no doubt of the rerult. Engiaad would give him an overwhe! majority on the war policy. She is etung to ees by what hes taken piace ia tho C:imea, end a feating of humiliation js so prevaleat im all clavwes, that it would be positively dangerous for the Court at this moment to indulge in any pre ine to Lerd Palmerston’s disadvantage. The does not like toe high hand with which he bandiea foreign affairs, and was desperately earaged with him for h's haste t> ackno’ 0 Napoleon af- ter the coup d’é’at; but if it be wise, it will reflect that that very circums!arce is a reason wry tis noble lord ia the fittest Fre to revresent tue country in the intimate alliance with France which has since arieen. Lord Palmerston has bren heard te say, “I don’t care who jcios me: I know | have the whole country at my back.” The next personage whom the prasent® polit >a! by the ulte clerioal to divi y the ultra clerical party to divine vengean:o, on account of the agitation of this qarstion in Pled- mont. In Spain, nether her Catholic Majesty Laa- belis, por the invinciole Duke of Victory, will be leclined to encourage M. Madoz if this new Minis. ter of Finence (the second or third within two | Months,) s' ould be tempted fo recommend a similar provecation of divine ven, 08. his mother and his wife, is attribated Pmile and Isaac Pereire, the Parisian bankers who bave been kmigtted by the Emperor of Aus tria_on occasion of the contract which be has con- cluded with them for farming out the railways, consle, mines, &c., in his dominions, have provose i, it is eatd, to undertake the hquidation of the S:an- ish debt on corditions similar to those of that con- tract. Their proposal athe Gate be more accept able thn the offer which United States govera- mevt wos ready to make, to replenish the Soanish treasury by purchasing Cabs. Toe Poreires bid ferment bas flung up is Lord Grey; and some of the | fair t) become as famous and a3 rich as the Foald Grey party, euch as Sir Charles Wood, Sir George | and the Rothschild. They are, I believe, among tae Grey ard others, bave besa anxious that he ‘should | principal pr prietors of that vast American hotel be sent for.” A more able man tham Lort Grey | which ie ra idly rising im the rue de Rivoli, aad fa not to be found on oe atavesmea | whi hb will be sure to succeed, if they are fortanste fatal of the day, but he has one Ea ein hts thet ee pa” | Tm which reqaires intense jeation, be will bring to tt an amount of talent, tepkd Gigestive speci tues will be pide ny Ap | —he o1 enough to indace Mr. Howard, the for Het. — we of the pee House and prine of hoste, to tisten to their ts Tinantl x pame to their gigantic epterprie®. Bat he is an ec- poison pas and Like Charles the Pitth, ia his rich el j bat put him at the counsl | and Board, he is crotchetty, self. willed j ions, and lend the Prestige of his summon titteen hundred guests to such dinners a3 would satisfy even hia cancidions sua prodigious sp- tite. ean while, af marve lous nies ct fomaarane “everywhere 7% COMP! fashioned restaurants of the Boulevards of the rue jes Siqortee Palias Royal. fhe nid seem to tara on | among these new claimants for gusteoromical two men who were formerty 80 antagonistic that | but they are al! ateractive, it would seem, irom the they prevented Lord John Ra: honor of abolishing the Corn bill, It will be rewem- dered that when ir g amount of custom which cured 20 early in advance of the Grest Exhibition. When that feirly opens, what @ clatter of kaives of bie conversion to free trade, Lard Johu was | end forks, what a popping of corks, will deafen the Simultencous with the great Exhibition, it is said & Congress of eovercigns will be held at Paris, to which the chiefs of every nation represented at the Exhbi ion wil! be invited by ror of the French. ne Czar, is by mo means likely to receive ‘As to the effect produced at 4t. Petersburg, aod | an invitation, of course. Will the Kiog of Prussia beprevent? Ig {ft yet certain ”’ Emperor of Austria A few months will ana wer these For the present, I must adhere to that the Germsn ¢ mplications of the Eastern ques tion, which an emixént diplomatiat presentsd when be eummrd up bis opinion of Austrian and Prussian ‘ae olicy by this play upon words—La Prusse Russe— state cf the army at Sebastopol ie cause of the 'Autriehe treche. The'two Rossian Grand Dokes have retarned to the Crimea. The two Princes of the allied armies will, beps, return there aleo—in the spi spoleon arrived Iset evenin,; on Setarday evenug Panis, Februsry 1, 1855. The Ministerial Crisis in England—Louis Napo- leon’s Openiy Expressed Desire to see Lord Pal- merston Premier—Affawrs of Spain—Her Finan- cial Diffcultiese—Rumors of a Large Carlist Loun—Deplorable State of Things at Sebastopol— Deermind Warlike Spirit of the Russian People—The French Industrial Evxhibition-— Theatrical and Fashionable Gossip, §c., ¥- It is bardly possible to exaggerate the almost overpowering interest which the existence of the months ago; but every man feels that, as we have | politi al crisis in England exercises upon the public t mind. The telegraph is in a state of perpetual ‘The greatest bustle and excitement is going on at all the embassies; for each is the posi- tion of political affairs at the preeent janctare, such the refined mechan’sm of Europoar policy, thata dissolution, he will eatanly heave to spend some |} screw loose in Eogland paralyses the entire action. Sores The sweeping majority in Parliament against the not what Rossia will do, but how the settiement will | ministry hes taken away people's breath, aid mis be arranged satisfactorily with France. Bagland, few friends in the world, and oncs she | gay, is overmatohed by her ally, with ber insular position existing but in name, what may follow God only knows. University Cvs. givings thas had ceased yesterday are revived to- The prospect of Lord Grey’s accession to power, considering the opinions he has expresesd against the feud with Rossia, has alarmed many, thongh others take hope from the advice he has always given, that the war, if adopted as a pelicy, should be carried on with the utmost vigor and vigilance. Altogether, however, I really be- Meve nothing short of an internal revolution—of a ii état— so stirred the i Aaah est ine Rca cis lint tes ig le yeaa gy the Parisians. Every boudoir, se every salon, every comptoir of the agents de change, a8 every pillar of ths beauti- fal portic> of fhe Bourse, het dircussion as to possibilities and probabilities. In fact, physically ae well sa politically, France and England are now in such @ state of rapprochement that one cannot tremble without the heart of the other paipitating, nor # cloud pase cver the brow of the one without some indignation being evinced by tte other. The Emperor, it is known, does not dis- guise bis ardent wishes that Lord Palmerston may ‘be called upon to fill Lord aberdsen’s place, and in thie he ie supported by public feeling. Lord Pal merston'e sympathies have not always been recipro- cated on this side the wsser, but there fs much in character of the man—hie off-hand style, Lis ready eloquence aud donhemie, that finds anecho in French sensibility; and {t ta certain if the present policy is to be persisted in, and the French are to feel assured of the fact, no mare popu- lor Promier can be called to Queen Victoria’s coun- cila then the noble Jord. The state of Spain holde the second place fn pub- lic interest at this moment, when great events are expected to arise. Money cannot be ob‘ained, and the nation hovers on the very toreshoid cf bank- mptcy. The National Gasrd is in thie respecte very millstone round her neck; for, hevivg all ite a. | *ympathies with the people, it is at all times to bresk than enforce the laws. dion are, it wil be remembered, now tappocased bp a-vote of the Cortes, tor that ‘part which oomes to the page that comes to understand. Ifthe tex, 3 akogether; it cannot be jast for upjust for two-thirds chre to pay spyihing at all—nor are the Guard inclined to bayonet them foran which themeelvea — Pienns | > Ap aang conse ‘ the Central governmont-—in the drafta which it draws for it, but to res is ® scene of in | the dashing cannot be made the communes—has notring dishonored, and behold in- Non rife and rampant. Collado and Ser- villono, both mem of | , nave bsen com has the slightest hope that M. Madoz successful where shey have failed. While in France, a demand for aloan of 500 millioas baa brea with a reeponse which more than qnadruples the required sum, Spain finds ite efforts to raise ten mil- lion replied to by s return cfone milion, lesa by a fourt). Now is the time to bold up tue money bags of the United States. Had M. Soulé laid carried himself sofily over the corns of amour propre, there is no say! bave run in and won at such @ A M. Infante bas been elected President of the Cor- ter in oppositi n to M. Olozaga, by 134 votes to 90; and it seems the general expsctation that tae mi- nistry capnot sand as at present cons:ituted. A Carlist loan of from forty to fifty million of frarca is said to Lave been negotiated jag house.of Hope, amaterdam, a part to be paid at once, and the remaisder when the Carlists have gained poszeasion of some important fortress. Vio lent disturbences bave broken out at Saragossa, a3 well t@ in all the provinces of Malaga, and though ut down for the moment, private letvera, which I ave seen, declare that the state of public feeling forbids the hope of saythiog like The proposition of M. Minieter of Finacce, carried by £10 votea to 13, to sei] the civil and ecsiesiastical proj mu h a6 v aiting for the to have criven thousands into the disaffectei Car- lista who would not othe-wise have s.irrei. Consideraie intereat, by tue way, is felt justnow in Paris as tohow the Cabine Sut in that business of the Sitka wih the Russian | prisoners. The parties were eumm. ned by qrit, at | Bav Francisco, to appear on tle 27th of September, = Eogti#b Commodore set sail with his dis- TO} , Frsnoidco ori and neutrals in this case, Letters bave been received fron Sxbastopot by ths French government from General Caurobe:t, dated the 10.0 instant, which repressnt every tiiog, if pot exactly couleur de rose, at least in a very fa vorsble point ot view. Every sortie on the par: of | garrison is repulsed with immenve slangnter, and the French riflemen are so expert that eight of them ere eq7al to some hundred Rasei ins. neral ssye, the sasgalt will be com- men.ced, snd he does ot doubt of the reault. | th exposing bis army to xome | led them to use the road, and to | materiel, and eve:y thing, therefore, is as it should be. If it is so, itis a strange contrast | to the condition of their i to furnish & second edi of the horrors of Mossow. Never was wi 80 deplorable, avd so bomitlistiag to Eng nese. Its aristocratic army, whose nurascy boatt is al ly @ beggar, 8 for crambs which fall from toose same Frenchmen’s table. ore butthe morale, and that is fas: on the wane; i im; oemble it can stand mach longer against the combined assaulte of penaty, raw food, ditch bela, abserce of fuel, and ardent spirits, counts axe that the Guard: pani how he might permanent trau- adory, toe new at Wessington will the prisoners, on the 266. & neutra) port, it remaips to be seen | taken of the rgote of bell gereats tevere weather, 6) euffering, haa evabl Who certainly bids m. on @ emal! ecale, 8—the bousebold troops—- the common soldiers of which are, many af them, sone of gentlemen, were #aikieg over the slow with solelees shoes, and that the 46th, the lase exco:ted f om the shores of England. originally 900 strong, bad not thirty men for effective service. Ta k, fudecd, of Russia being left a grat power, acd suing for peace | Jt eeems not improbsble that an attempt will be wade to prreuade the Germanic Confederation nei- ide with Austria or Prowsia, but to rema'n reutal, ite troe polly betog the defensive. S:ould Pioreia be able to acovmplish thir, abe will indeed deve served the Czar ; bat it is not likely. The jion of the Prin ipalities and the Danube oan never be a matter of ce the Confederation, snd take par’ NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1855. 5 trates tteclf there, and the decision of tag Diet will be big with the fate of millions. The Duke of Camb-idge left fz; England yeater- dey; he hed more tran one | cont with the Emperor, who \y isforming himeelf of the state of at the Sap such Sipe ws oven GaEee The menifeato of 26th of December, in which the Czar said some thing aboutdis anxiety tostop the shedding of hicod end eo forth, and whith was looked upon by the san- noire ven of weekneve, seems to have reg ip Ser apother | by the most influential clase in Rageis— the vobilisy—who rather cone‘dered it as an 1 ogy RoR gan Rosia as @ war similar to that of 1812. Some of tha nobles, for example, of the government of N! imme- Gistely after it appeared, sent an address +o the or, in wi they pray him to allow yoomney be on their pater of the ci or 4 own a general defence of et cay sim‘iar 1812, orim any other his Majesty may order. conse , of tern past of the em- Birguet bong els to en 7 the Lum or of rout be 7 of the regulation age atatare, decived thes : det eye mip in his present p. pls yg mepie ft Kirghis, “re aaily ol are being ht ncoa from Asis in to carry 0 & 4 im etter from Dire, in tho’ Bfeniteur, states tak extens:ve preparations a:e being made io Swit: land for our g-end Uni Ex vibition. C tees have been formed at Berne, Zurich, i i Ly 's from Basle, muslins and embyoidery from Appsn- zek, instroments of Secteen i coteen from Geneva, Neuchatel, Vaud and the Ji cotton and ‘siraw artisles from Argan a From rasta always sic, to heve broken out wi)! Power —are come 385 apeciea of cotton and woollen tissuse, 74 machin 185. of furniture and decorations, ani ippomer otber things, not one of which will, obabi, ¥ of 4. Gerard de Norval, whose trave- lation of “Faust? and whose novels, “Femmes dn Cairo,” “Nuits du an,” “Lory,” ‘and “Las Filles de Feu,” are 20 well known, took place at the cburch of Notre Dame yesterday. Tae body was attended by upwards of 500 persons of note. At Pere Le » M. Francie Wey, President of the Stcieté des Gens des Leitsea, pronounced over it an oration, which dwelt on the dissinguished literary attainments of the deccased. The weather st present {s und: ing a euiden and most rapid thaw. But yes.erday, thousands vpon thousands cf persons were collected in the iis de Boula, 2 Z A shige ene to witaase A one the exercise sketing, among whom was press, in @ car- ely Ss By what wae on. traction was 9 skating race betwetn two French baal for 1,500 Chg WAR - distance was — ae and a quarter, w! winner accompli tue a 2-6the, beating his competitor by 26 se- conds. In the way of theatres Verdi’s opera of “ II Tro- continues to run its successful course, and after no less than fourteen re) ntations increases if possible in public favor. only drawback is that Mme. Bozio, the great favorite of the day, has not quite enough to do in it. Bhe ie however, short to apvear in Pacini’s Gilarabi Nelle Gallie, ime. Borghi, Mamo, MW. Baucordé, and himeelf has the rebearsals, bavirg come to Paria expressly for that pur ose, and the decorations, &°., are al) new; 20 public expectation in the theatrical world is on tip-toe. The duel betwixt Lola Montes andt*e Ca'iforsian editor hes tickled the Parisiaue amszingly. As Lola bas set the example of horsewhipping ungenial ch gentlemen said to be ~ Panta, Feb. 1, 1855. The French Press om the English Mintsterial Ori- vis—The Struggle Between Austria and Prussia in the Germanic Die-—The Turks Painted by Thamselos—Arvical of a Corps of American Surgeons at Sebastopol—Rachel’s Visit to the United States—Succession to the French Imptrial Throne, $e., Sc. The ministerial crisis in Eoglend is the main theme ofcomment in tne Pariy as well asthe Ion don journa's. The former, with the exception of the Seécle and the Presse, while rejoicing ix the probable vigor which the change will commanica‘e © the conduct of the war, seize the occasion to Diame the violence of the attacks of the T'imrs, and other orgazs of the Eyglish preas, wiich have been soirstramental in effecting it. According tothe Pays—tte Journal de l’ Empire—the statements of the Ziimes, in particular, relative to the situation of the British troops in the Crimea, are greatly exag- gerated, and even if they wera true, ought not to bave been made. The™ optimism of the I'rench official sheets is ns remarkable as ever. The vews has reached here to-day. that ths de- wand of Austria for the mobilisation of the army bas been rejected by the committee to which it had been ‘referred by the Diet, aad had consequently been withdrawn by Austria. Prussia, it is added, bas proposed a sort of middie tsrm coffer, whica may be accepted, to the effect that the Diet willhold itself ready to vote for the mobijization should it evevutually prove necessary. So you ste that the temporizing policy of Prussia still holds the ascen. dency in Ge:mavy. A}l accounts agree that the demoralization of the Turkish ermy in Asia is extreme. I should jadge that they must be correct, from the narrative which I bave beard given by Nesain Boy, of bis expericns9 while attached to the staffof Gen. Gayou. Neasin Bey is the name under which & graduate of West Polat, and ex officer ot the United States army, who ie now in Paris, has served with distinction in the Turkish army of Asia during the last year. He has broug bt to Paris wich hin an admirable Ar to which he is doubly hd, both on acccount of its rare qualities, and ite hevicg, he saye, saved his life on one perilous o.cssion. A note is lying on my table imforming me of the safe arrival a: Sebastopol, of Dr. Isaac Draper, sud the little corpe of Amo icaa surgeons who accom ranied bim trom Poris. Tae Doctor has been to Ode acd Simferopol, aud as he says, bas “finaliy breught up a§ head quarters.” These adventarsus yeung feliors will have had a vastly betver cuance to study surgery, and practise it, 100, as well as to eee the wortd aud “human natur,” tnan if they had orly “followed the hospital” in Paris for two or three years, Before they retu'n they will also have have learned more about Russia, probably, than if they bad been contented wita stadyivg it here, nader the direction of Soribe, in his “‘Hzoile da Nord,” at the Opera Oomique, and bis “ Ozarine” at the Theatre Fran gaia. This leet piece of Scribe, the “Czarine,” will have, what they call here, 9 success of curiosity, bat it is destitute of literary snovers. Only the racollection of tue eminent services which the aathor haa alresdy rendered to French dramatic literature, preven*ed it from bewg at ence damnei asa failure. Riche! displays in it scarcely any other talent than the one she has indeed cultivate’ to perfection—that of dretsirg herself admirably. The costumes sae wears oe the beroins of the piece are superb. She had spared no expense in getting taem up. A ig tod in the greeo room, to the effect when the bill for these expenses was sent into the the: ite high figure, 6,000 france, excited objection. “ Vory wall aeid Rachel, on being informed of it; “aa they please. if they won’t pay for them, I'll pay myself aud carry them to America with me. The renowned tragedian, it seems, ia bound to tothe United States. And the stories that her jiends have circu’stsd as be protease sume whicn she calculates upon from sculation, have | gathered volume aa they rolled like a sno¢ ball, until, from pure fan, the journalists of Paris have marred them into @ com avalanche of presen- sions that crush to insignificance all that the entire troop cf artists, from Fanny Elisier, Ole Ball, Jenny Ling, tt tuiti quanti, ever received, or Mario and Grisi once hoped for. One of the “puffs ext-aord'- nery” states that 600,000, another toa’ 1,500,000 franes ere to"be deposited at pams bankr’s, or at the Depot de yey ores + in Paris, ae earaest money, to fi of abe should be sbipwre-ked on her passage to the United Btater, or should die before the expiration of the two years, over which ei term of «1 = s 4 teed, | fin ot Gok ft i He it ! el i hi J i ifr if *T aif i i 4 iF i ag 1 ny 14 iH ‘i fre ; t i i Hy E ef i i g ti ife B s ff aj i 3 i i Ee re vf : age “ttf ga8 oe aS if Ff Hi is i i i Le i i fe E Pra lived three years conveniently long can kegolly claim, at the erta to wi brother, and France knows how aay bis cleime as such bave besn sa- As for the two sons of the Prince de Cantino, the Pattereon Bonapartes, and thoes direct descendents of the great Napoleon, Coant Walewski, Ambas- sedor st London, and Cvunt Leon, ink manufactarer at St. Denis, I must reserve their claims to adoption for future consideration. Ti e funeral of Gerard de Nerval, one of the most brillisnt end original of the lighter French writers, who hung himself last Las night, was attended on Tuesday, at the cathe Notre Dame and the cemetry of Pere la Chase, bya crowd of 2ele brated artiate and men of letters. Figaro, Panis, Feb. 8, 1855, The Eastern Question Reviewed—Prospect of a General European War—Death of De Nérval—The @uitlo!ine— Parinan Amusements, dc. ‘The prognostics of a general European war continue to multiply. Even if the omission of ail allusion to the return of Prinee Napoleon to the Crimea in the spring, in that pathetic official account of his firet interview with his imperial counsin, which I have already men- tioned—even if this oraission can be possibly consirued into a sign that the siege of Sebastopol may be raised before the imperia] eagles are planted on the walls of that formidable fortress, {; cannot be conjectured that the Allied Powers of the West ‘will give it up so.” On the other hand, if Prince Métischikoff ia letting his sol- diere repose, while those boasted allies of his, Generals Jspuary, February and Mareb, are at work for him, it is not unlikely that before winter and disease are weary of their task, Le may sga'n summon fire and steel to their assistance. In thie moment of comparative imaction of a military hind, the diplomatists are busier than evcr, But aside from their conferences, all sorts of preparations for war are in progress on every sido. The ostensible jobject of the diplomatists ie peace, it would now seem that if it ia not attained before April, the sword must replace the pen, and « genera] Huropean war be inevitable. Meanwhile the Emperor of the French continues, in spite of the almost unanimous invocation of the French Press, to withhaid what would be a tower of ntrengsh in @ content with the Quar, the liberty which he more ‘than half promised—describing it ae the crowning act of ‘the political and social edifice whieb he aepired to build. ‘This tower, indeed, might chance to prove us formidable against the Emperor of the French as against ‘his geod friepa”’ the 12; of all the Russias. But if the Bephew ofthe mighty Na whose glo! : i i E HB F is ze E : E ft E snd redeem and deta. dn with a hol re ing it with his own memory—the name of bis illustri- pin Non ad ae children say, thie may b8 “too good oe ie. As it in, the issues of a war of dynasties, transforming ftaelf into a war of resus, and thes curasiug = ey be dag must be eee, @oubtfal. Le pationa ma; "Ave contictelike tees of savage (ibas of savage tribes ines in Asia, in or Ties, to beexbibited? What the the Blavenian, the Goth, the and the Cott respec: Lively playin this new fume, which, after all if the pore oe are to be cre “po bs an VJ not unlike! oe oe io is « fighting accordin, Hobbes, by his very nature. How he ‘orgets civilization, and even Christianity—not dom, however, pleading both as pretexte—to follow his old instincts! leon may not hare erred in antici. pating both s war o’ races and a war of vain in the contest into which Europe seems to be entering, when he predicted—if he really predicted (and this is dis- pated) —that “within fifty years Europe would be either wack or repubMcan.’’ He anticipated it, doubtless, At present, the tern question, as it is still called, tm spite of the unexpectedly enormous proportions whielt §t hap assumed, offers only certain political aspects to the statesmen of the day. Scme of i: religious features. have, indeed, dimly been discerned, of necessity; but o*y nee sre egupparativel lost sight ¢ f the smoke o! ‘ttle an ec ol plone’ 3 and scarcely any notice has yet been pals To be goorilian of race, i deeply underlying it, are in the eternal lays natuie, These ews, however, ate sure to protrude in such convalsions as Europe bow has reason to expect. How often, to the confusion of diplomacy, have they prevailed, as they will yet prevail, ‘over prot and dynastios’ But now the diplomatists of Europe are abrorted in their old trade of treaty making. Those who completed the treaty of the 2d of December are content- eély rejoicing over the crosses and ribbons which the governments of Austria and France bave liverally dis- tuibuted among them. They have thus found their trade still profitadle, at least to themselves, and they encourage their employers to count upon great gains irom it in the future. Lord Palmerston, at the head of hisnew ministry, and Napoleon the Third, aro doubtiess equally confident, at in the imme: diate resulte, of an alliance between Celt and Sexon againts Sarmatian, and would fain hope for the co opera- tlavonian. Neither the Congress of yon the First ever took lesa account Viewna por Ni than they jake of the wild work whieh sometimes race may—must—meke of political geography. Several circumstances bave suggested a suspicion that Gerard de Nerval, the brilliant and centric writer, whore funeral I mentioned in « recent letter, did not comi\t enicide, but was merdered. An investigation + deen set on foot by the police to discover the facts in the care You @il}, vot read without a shudder the account in the papers cf the etruggle of Leseure with his execu- tiontrs, duriog the few terrible moments which preceled hin being guilotined, Inet week, at the prison of La Re- quette, in Paris. Lescure was eondemned to death for four areasrigations, accompanied by theft. In the sudden and brief struggle beicre bis execution be nearly bit a finger off one of his executioners. But his bead way ecarcely forced beneath the fatal knife, bofore it was se- ered from his body. You are aware that a new*im- | elites srahea$ this dreadful machine, the guillstine, an trebled its warprising accuracy and for not, perheps, awere that the guilloti ita deadly purpose in en to pieces and packed within @ 1 pase, and sent to any distance. It was sent back from one of its fatal visits to the country, im order to serve at on of this tailor, Leecure, which wae retarded occasioned by recent enows im the arrival y train. What « horrible travelling com- panion # guillotine mort be ! Neither executions by the guillotine, nor suicides, nor politics, arrest the Porisians im their pursuit of amusemente during carnival. Not « few who saw Lae cure execs ted, who attended the funeral of Gerard de Nerval, will meet all the diplomatists im Paria, and crowde of women more or lesa,besutiful than hours Vely Pachs’s great ball on Saturday night Vely would rather stay here than be Governor of Brouses he must yield hie place to Mehemet Bey. FIGARO. Our Prussian Correspondence. Bruwin, Feb. 6, 1555 Prunian Diplomacu— Austria Checkmated tn Germany by Prussian Influence—Present Porition of Affaire— Prussia Master af the Sitwatton—The I'vench Army in the Crimea, de , de. A diplomatic victory bas just been obtained by Prussia, which may be of more consequence than many & bard fought encounter in the field of battie. The pro- posal made to che Diet at Frankfert by the Austrian go- yernment, for plasing the troops of the German Con- federation in a state of readiness to Ausivia io case of that Power being involved tilities with Russia, bas been negatived, at the instigation of Prus- sia, by a great majority, who have signified their sdber- ence to the kystem adopted by thie country, via, an armed neutrality—at liberty to throw ite weight into whichever scale it may think most conducive to its in- This ifeat—the firet sustained by Austrian s during the whole dark and tortuous cotree | What wonder that he surrcunded hi: a pending and seeompanying the present | straggleis undoubtedly the more galling to. itu beimg inflicted by « Power so often their jj @upe, and which they have been so long accustomed to treat with comtumely. Their mortification must be enbanced by the consciousness that the failure of their plans is owing, not so much to the skill of their antago- against the Czar, unless assured of the support of Prus- sia and theGerman Confederation, and claims this sup- agsinst the Cear, their great pattern and ally, apd Aus- ‘tra is told very politely that the danger sho professes to be in is purely imaginary, and that, consequently, the Federal does not consider itself Bound to | ober ite ; ‘The results of this vote, if skilfally followed up by | li | fF E SERgF H E Ey As i & if i a Faas ne Hf a tell i ¥ ie Fy: ie ie ils ‘ ii sft A i j i i af eH i pe > =e" seu already finds much diffcaly in desling with. In Prossia Je ‘master of the situation,” and, m be considered the arbiter tsi om her anteoedenta, it ips ‘tobe vant z 4 a8 in the extreme, and seem to a frightful Th condition of healed arn i ly, a8 Lord Joho unaell atated it to be, not only painful, but norrible and. heart-rending, the French troops do not appear to be Feeley Fach ad ) although the press in *; effective! a Soca iru acomtortable ey could bear the taiguee . 5 ‘were ex] wiibest food or shelter, to the petting of), the storm.”’ But the frost setting in. bas pro- duced a marked and unfavorable + French {) ee bear, a Kussan wi i come of 3612 begin’ to ‘shirede weanssives ing Po nos eo mmres ry open 08, enow ond ia enough to it men;! sad te) ie the ioceogaat on = 4 who attack or sortion enemy, Elif ‘of the i ik | FI i on for three successive years, -1851,) against the! Great countries of Germany, with © population, of over’ forty-five milliove of inbabitants—passing this war, let’ us take into perious consideration what the people of; Denmark did in 1848. When the revolution wie at ite! highest pitch in France—when the King of Prasia kept! ‘the soldiers shooting down the citizens of his espital—, when all the monarche of Europe were trembling on their throes, then procosded the Danish people with! ccolness and with sensible aud thoughtful m’nde, peace-! ably to the government, and obtained in the most friend- ly way what other nations, with sacrifices of bloed and + have not obtaned—a free #0 ‘platform that the United States ie hs oaty | country in the world that can boast of the posession of ise siater, People and government passed frendly, hand ‘Hanged | in hand, until last year, when the government cl their view about the censtituttonal platform, and Roseian and German influence threatened to take the’ Nberty from the prople, and to let it go back in. the old chain gang ‘Then rose the peopl-, for th 4 time, |) in earnest, loudly claiming of the King to nd him: | self with a new government in possession of the confi- dence of the people; and Frederick VII.—cailed the | “Kind-hearted”— has always chown himself a friend of the people, «true, uprig] dismissed his Minivtry withes of the people; & same Jay these things happened be received besperking tétimony from the people, that any King of Denmark had re. | orived, A procession of more than twelve thousand men, all with toreblights, and a depu‘ation sa- luted and expressed their kind feelings Jor the beloved bing, and addressed him in the name of, the peo- ple,, Hila wotto in That he finds his etrength im the jove cf the people,’ and they showe: to th» that Frecerick was in possession of their love, + won. der that he feels himself etcong in the midst of his fel- tow citizens? He is king in name only, not in mind and not in words. He is fo plain in manners and cus toma that he married a daughter of « poor, but wor- thy citizen of Copenhagen, after he had bee div: twice from Indies of the rosal blood court His household ir like that of ‘one with the gevt'ne friends of freedom and liberty? In the middle of last month the House of Representa. tives in Copenhagen passed the following re Enacted amd Resolved, That the last Dan! ministry, the isting of the following Osreted Secretary of Sta: Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of For ign Affairs, Secretary of the Treamnry, eretary o° War, cretary of the Navy, Sheil be impeached, tried and star’ charged to anewer for their Inst unlawfol administration of their reepective porte Seuilles; and further Fnacted and Revolved, That if found guilty to be pun. ished strongly after the existicg laws. (1 followe ye numerous charges proterred against them ) It may be added thet all these men be blest, richest and most influential families have the highest rank and orders o! Connt t ponneck Lieut. General mor of he rame. These operations will and a new triumph to he blessings of Wberty. By opening t mas of your wide-spread valuable paper for this will oblige, yours, truly, aw. Fall of Mont Blanc. The Bcho du Mont Blanc publishes the follewing from & correspondent -—At stx o'clock in the evening <f the som aored De tof the mountain betweon ov o snd and ta ave. way and fot! with « fright‘ul crash, Tus crenata caused the houses of village to sake for more than t minutes We thought that we were aboat tu be ewallow- ed up by an earthquake When things became somewhat calm I saw & mass of stone, sund and earth, earmounted by a cloud of aust, filling all the valley, and stone, earth and rand continued to fail for seven minxtes.’ From time to time the fall recommenced, but with leas noise ‘The first fali shook all the houses om the other side of the Arve; but it appears that no one was injured. # in a wood have been broken down. marsh, which are between tbe and the movotatn, are covered fora of upwards of 108 yards, and a width of about 26, with stones of all sizes, and with earth to = depth of more than ten feet. It is calculated that the fall cook place from near the village of Pernabs, at » height of about 607 yards. There ino provability that a further fall will take place; but it is not likely to endanger the village of . Huon Paror or Prsovscor 8a1X0N-—A of