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490 Dut to ask it. In doing #0, Sipeeneteat Phe eae oral to make the app%al OB ‘the ground of finance—of free trade, 94 as war; Os Shut he wil hit two parties at present opposed to hia, and who, by combination, might avy cay ¢ ‘amen’ Lord John Russell’s Our Paris Or P* (gis, Thursday, Feb. 15, 1858. Mission to Vienna—Sincerity of the Ausiriam Allio me Siege of Sebastopol His- a tionist and peace party. torical wee weitigd that, Lord Job Russell is togetevionns | Yoign de Div M—aapect of Paris in Winter! the as Plenipotentiary at the conferences to » ar of the Industrial Exhibition—Turkis Spina better man could bardly be Tomes ash | eee’ g the Christian Populations of the Bast it will remove Lord Jobe On ear, Thundret | pte PP antment of Lord John Russell as Minister Shas vesen thousand men are to be immediately pote” wary at the conference at Vienna, is looked Shea’ tothe army, and oa eee ex ~ a ne ce as a striking example of the de.isive character 1 0 f Prevent war ' i crolact Opinions dilfer greatly | 1." at admunistration which may be expected from the ahent Lord Panmure as Secretary at War. le isa «English Premier. That any hopes of a peacefal in- and possessed of much of character which could sable bins $0 do un. ‘sant things; but it is thoug an likewise pleattorg love. of Scotch feudality, whicd wil", opera'e on his mind against fgecernet 3 to 8 ay great extent with the aristocratic ongantzat ion of army. It is not supposed, for instance, am venture to recall Lord Ragian—and so far he ™ 4y ‘have reason—masmuch as we have not a single gener 4) worthy ef the pame te replace him in the empire; a0", Lord 4 Jan’s very faults may now by this time b’ ve educated dim into'a better man than we can fod elf gwhere, Then Mr. Roebuck’s committee is an immens*, difficulty. It ‘was, in fact, avote of no confidence ‘q the ministry— anaitremains to be seen whether the louse of Commons ‘will consider the ministry sufficiestly changed to make it nugatory. It is go thought that Lord Palmer- ston will contrive to alter the character of the commitee into one of inquiry into the management of the Horse Guards rather than im he war generally. If this can be managed the amour propre of the Houre will be saved, and Lord Palmeratoa be greatly ted in any military »eforms he may contemplate. We, none of us, have the slightest hope of peace from any conferences about to take place at Vienna, and as ‘ards Prustia, M. Drouyn de l’Huy’s late despatch Bo M. Von Usedom was accused of producing ‘n London ‘dy mistake the draft of a treaty intended for the Court of 8t Petersburg, is considered to have far too much vi- vacity im it for the war with France not to be looked upon as a fait accompli, No, the war itself will only go ‘on, we presume, all the merrier for Lord Palmerston’s accession to power, and though from time to time there may be occasional protocols, as subsidiary small arms in aid of Lancaster guna. and Minnie rifles, no one expects anything but fighting during his reign. rave men are every now and then fjund to be shaking their heads and predicting that mighty ol sin Eng: and will follow in the wake cf this war, and that the .eses will rue the day they ever advised it. which must take place in the army will, itually affect all constitutions. Your s; geniture, of bloated Episcopalianism, of Pluticracy everywhere cannot live in he rights of merit acknow.edged in the ich gentleman, distinguished both in the and literature ot his own country, writes continually dwelling with pa‘nfui interest iofyour brave army ; an iuterestinspired by the army itself, as well as by the concern + the honor and credit of your institutions. ueceed in repairing the mischief, and that h indeed seems to me next to impossible, ) or government will assuredly come out of omewhat discredited. Whatever may be results of the war, and of the herois of her soldiers, 1 have @ difficulty in be- bis will have a considerable influence, srhaps little foreseen, upon the future domestic affairs. I expect that it will ac- xe at which you appear to be departin icter of aristocratic government, accord- scceptations of that term. Your army ia ing a sort of revolution, snd @ ie conaiftution of the army will surely to the army alone.’? (conquest of the Emperor of Russia will » physically win or loose, tue alternate revolution o: .ngland. Supposing he be beaten, France and England will, in ail probability, rheads in the settlement, and then the Czar will, lixe Richard, be Rimself again. Already men—before anxious for the ‘war—begin to wince about this talk of a French army to the Rhine, and anoth-r year or two may see the Cobden ana Bright Peace Party very different to what it is at present UNIVERSIIY CLU Lonpon, Friday, Feb. 16, 1855. Meeting of Parliament—The Palmerston Cabine!—The New Appointmente—Lord John Russell Appointed En- wey to Vienna—A Congress—The Seat of War—Sar- dinia—Russian Preparations in the Baltic—The Great Reform Movement in England —Peto Made a Barone—Scandalous trials in England—The Wea- ther—MisceNancous, de. Parliament meets this evening for the first time since ‘the formation of the Palmerston ministry, You will re- member that it was Roebuck’s motion for a Committee ef Inquiry which turned out the late ministry by an enormous majerity. The question now arises:—Are we to have a Committee of Inquiry now that the men whose government was to be inquired into, have left office? ‘They are virtually dead men, and valuable time would de lost in examining vheir past omissions. Lat the government take energetic measures to remedy the past and do well for the present and the future. 5 There is grumbling already at some of the ap- pointments by the new Cabinet. Frederick Peel (secoud son of the late Sir Robert) is appointed under Secretary of War without having had any experience in.that de. partment. It was generally supposed that it would have been given fo Leyari, but the factis, Layard was too violent in his attacks upon the late goverament—many members of which remain in oftice—and his letter pub- lished some time since censuring Admiral Dundas, is a rankling wound in high quarters. Lord Panmure is a vic- tim to the gout, and Sir Jas. Gradam is quite an invalid. Lord Rokeby, who has been appointed to the command of ® division in the Crimea, is said te be as deaf as a post, and Admiral Boxer, who has been given the command of ‘the port of Balaklava, was deemed inefficient at Constan tinople. However, we shall hear more to-night, and see what support and what opposition Palmerston must count upon, One point is certain. The war will be carried on with vigor, unless a very honorable peace ix obtained. Lord John Kussell has been appointed commissioner extraordinary to attend the conferences at Viepna. Tue conferences are likely to assume the shape of a Congress. Since the celebrated Congress of 1815, no English states: man of Lord John’s eminence has been sent on missions to foreign courts. You wili remember the doabts Lord Joba threw upon the good faith of Austria at one timo, and he is so well acquainted with every phase of the Eastern question, and all the negotiations, that a better selection could not have been made. Mon are not want- ing, nevertheless, who say that it is an honorable ban- iehment from London, After his recent escapade, when be abandoned his party at the hour of danger, his post tion has been an unpleasant one. He is accompenied to Vienma by Mr. Hammond, Unier Secretary of Foreign Aleire. The other States of Europe will send special commis- sioners of higherank. From the astual seat of war there is littl: news. The intelligence is up to the 4th February. ‘he frost bad hardened the roads, and provisions and warm cloth ag were amply provided. The mortality coatianed ail the same among the English. Keinforcaments re atill going, on from France ani Englaal. Oa the other hand Russia has just ordered a geveral arm'ng ©f the whole population of the Russian empire. Germs ny is also armrog from North to Soath, aud from East to West. The report that Prussia has accedel to the treaty of the 2d December, iy not correct, but it is not doubted that when the moment of the crisis comes, she will join Austria to avoid losing her position ia Germaay. Rursia is aia? a preparations agaiast the ex pected attacks in the Baltic. All the forts along the const are being strengthened, aud every point where a landing might be effected is being fortided. Entrenched camps are established along the coast, wich commani cate with each other by telegraphic lines which are car- ried on to St. Petersburg. Ths Baltic fleet is burning to do something, and the officers are indiguant that sir Charles Napier should have complaine| of the bad Management of the strips, and the inefiiciency of their crews. Sir Charles has done for himself. The commant of the Baltic fleet has been given to Rear Admiral E1- ward Dundas, a relation, I believe, of the late unpopa- Yar Admiral Black Sea. The bold afd manly language lately adopted by the London Times in regard to the Eoglish aristocracy has | quite startled foreign governments, They say ‘England | soe eof a great revolution” ‘They are so far mean by revolution great practical re. ‘ y y 8 Pp Mr. Peto, the great railway contra:tor, who went out “ee his bn pple to bs geomtig to be male a baronet. @ great crim. con. case, Hope vs Aguado, has just ted. Verdict £200 damages, thee aa to adultery and get adivorce, The damages were given so low as it was thought the lady seduced young not, as is ay the case, the reverse. | ie haut ton have deen gloating over all the details of the case in the Morning Post, which “fashionasle”’ journal engaged extra reporters to give all the intersst- ‘img details. “case of & similar, though of a more crim‘nal Scotchman, coldness of ocecoccec mature, in which the Marquis of Clanricarie is the hi has been rounds of the papers. Really. observed an to me the other day, ‘the pa wager pers have been quite interesting of late. ‘We have glorious weather just now. A bright lear sky, warm sun, and hard frost. Yesterday a horse aleigh was driving up and down and across the frozen Serpentine—something quiet unusual here. The parks offer a very animated appearance; the ornamental wa- aqua tae ay ters and om It my hard again last night, and it promises to keep up. The navi- gation on the Thames is quite stopped. We learn by Lo yo that Omer Pacha left Varn for ‘the Crimea on the 6th inst., to commence operations. A ~ attack is shortly expected. There is a cock-and- ca that the Emperor Napoleon Ill. has the in- tention of taking » run to the Crimea, to see how things $0 wih his own ven his cousia is aboat marry & Princess of Wurtembu: In ‘the Carli ALTO ts ars on the A good many Dutch newsps bao pl = &n announcement that the i* preparing to seni an extraor- @mbasty to the Emperor of Japan, in orler to | ul that national | © | heit). | but ata lute hour ceased. At eight o'clock last night the aoare anticipated from it, 1 do not say, though the Pays has written an article pretending that the mission ig calculated to give rise to such; but, associated with his late visit to Peris and frequent interviews with the Emperor, a feeling of confidence is excited that, taxe him for all in all, no other man in Europe could have been more appropriately selected for keeping Austria up to her work or Prussia from playing tricks than Lord Jobn Russell, His failure, it is said, in a certain point of view, ia a necessary link in the present chain of poli- ey. On his return, the war will rage with increased and more justifiable fury, and events now in progr will carry with them in their developement the invaluable prestigé of popular indignation. The peace sp'rit of England—now half raising ita head in consequenze of the Crimean disasters—will be swept away by the con” victions that all has been done that could be to dispense with the necessity of further bloodshed, aad the war policy will bave attained fresh vigor in the country of an ally aa yet much too important for France to have otherwise than thoroughly earnest in the cause. The doubts which Lord John Russell has not scrupled in his place in Parliament, to express of tho bona fides of Austria, it is believed, will produce a sensible effect on that Power, and that she will at once adopt such mea- sures as will satisfy alike the Emperor, Lord John and Lord Palmerston. The first of the three ie understood to have long discarded any mistrust he might originally bave felt about the Austrian alliance, but he thinks Lord Jobn’s mission was required to increase the popu- lar assurance both bere and in England. Altogether, never since the inauguration of the great Eastern policy have I seen the public mind more sat.sGed than since Lord Palmerston’s accession to power. The news from Sebastopo) reports the siege In statu quo, though the attack is always going to begin; the tate of the roads, ing to the iast accounts, iven the French ter facilities in obtaining their supplies, and also the Russians very considerable reinforcements, In order to cool the impatient ardor of its readers, tne Moniteur this morning takes o:casion, under the form of a communication from an old soldier of the republic, to draw attention to the length and dif- ficulties of past sieges, which eventually ended in such glorious results for France. “in 1704," it nays, ‘the siege on the 14th of October by the Duc de Vendome, was pro- longed to the 10th of June, 1705, It needed. says the historian of that era, no ordinary courage on that occa- ul than the enem of Verrue, commenced sion. ‘The winter was more fea: Soldiers were frozeu to death. The: snows overpowered, stifled and engulphed them. Thee th, hardened by frost down to its very entrails, refused {o cede an inc! to the efforts of our luborers. It required fire to enable us to hollow out mew trenches. But for nearly two month that this terrific weather lasted, not a complaint yas heard, net a symptom of impatience was mani fested. = “During the winter of 1701—1795, two French armies before the towns, of Luxembourg, and Mayence had to experience equal vicissitudes, Cold and hunger the were equally subjected to, The administration of provi- sicn had the most limited resources, Corn could not reach the camp for lack of the means of transport and the state of the roads. The days on which the convoys failed, the unhappy soldiers, pressed by bunger, seater ed themselves among the neighboring villages, ao that It often happened only moiety of the troops were present at the siege, As to the officers, to this state of penury was added the diticulty of procuring themselves articles of the first necessity with = paper money who-e depre- ciation increased daily. “Then, again, at Mayence, the blockade began the 26th of etober, 1794, and was only raised the 20th of October, 1795. ‘The French army of 30,000 men gueces. sively, under the orders of Generals Kleber and Shaal, executed a line of countervallation whieh exten‘led to four leagues, Kleber formed his besieging army in 5 three lines of attack, but found it impossible to furnish food and forage for his men and horses. From this scarcity arose the most frightful diseases; for tae sol- diers, in default of vegetables, dug out of the earth with their bayonets any species of root tey might hap- pen tochance upon; and these were oftenof such a Foisonour nature that they caused either fearful deiiri- um or instantencons death “The plain in the neightorhood of Mayence became im- pasrable during the night for horses, in consequence of the innumerable holes made for this purpose by the noldiers, Wood was not to be procured, and the lis of the beniegers were frezen for lack of warmth. In the course of a very long war, adds Gouvin Saint Cyr, the historian, I have otten had occasion to see our troops suffer great privations ; but if they have been as painful, they bave never endured xo long as them. I dono! except even those of the Russian esmpaigns. Before Mayence the cold was greater apd endured longer than that we experienced a’ the paseage of the Berezina, The army before Mayencs wa what remained of it was in every respect ina stats to continue the war. It suffered without a murmur, aad with herote firmness, every kind of privation, for eight consecutive months, and its diseiplice remained intact. “One word more,’ adis the old soldier of the repadic, for whom. the official journal gives such conspicuous lace in its coluians, “and Tiave done. Vendime took errue, (he republican armies took Luxemoburg, and we held the garrison of Mayence twenty years.” After this, of course, no good Frencaman will have any sympathy witn impatient murmurs, come from what quarter they may, or entertain a doubt of the ultimate capture of Sebastopol; but such pleas in the Moniteur are not without significance? To revert ters. The quantity of snow which hi surrounding country within the last two days has been very considerable, and towards the nerth of France the weather has been still more severe. The suow, in the country around Paris, lies a fot deep, and a further fall is probable. The weather is delighttul, however, for walking exercise, ¢ the air being clear and bracing, and not too cold. The aspect of Paris, when clothed, as at present, in its wintry b, is most striking. ‘The outlinss of the churches and Public. buildings are, brought out benut- fully by tYe snow, which has lodged on them, and their fine proportions can, perhaps, never be better judged of than when they are all covered with white. The pubsic gurdens, the Champs-Elyaces and the Boulevaris— wherever, in fact, trees are standing and receive oa thyir outstretched branches the thin lines of snow, which xo quickly freeze on them—otler a thousand studies to » painter’s imagination, since actual sketching ia such weather as this must be considered quite oat of the question All’ day yesterday crowds of persons were to be seen in gll the public thoroughfares, enjoying the Leen, dry air, and medical men encourage us by saying that ‘no weather is better calculated to remove sickness. The thermometer of M. Cherallier stood at six oclo yesterday morning, at 7 deg. 2-10th cent (19 Fahren- belt), and at noon At 6 dag. 4-10th cent. (4234 Fahron- At three o'clock tae sa0% was falling stesily, therinometer was a little below freezing point. A subscription in favor of the French troops ia tha Fast bas just been realised at the Paris Bourse. It amounts to 5,000 tranes, no very great sam! A bridge, ia course of construction below Chaillot, has just offi clally received the name of Pont d’Alma. Great eiforts | are made to divert the public mind from present political | Exposition wh subjects, and stir up some excitement about the Grand ‘h the month of May is to inaugurate; but the war is so absorbing, that this is no easy matter, aud the slow progress made in the fitting up of the gr fabric which is to contain so mapvy countless treasures, acts as a damper upon public feeling. An idea is preva. lent that the opening cannot take place unti mn the month. I went to visit yesterda: 4 good account of the M. for the purpose of giving you n de Diner de l’Exporition, in the Rue Lepeliier, w ix attracting such general attention just saw, I con: have some doubts of its popularity lasting. The reom is handsot ough in ite way, though not overpowering in its megnificence. The most unique thinj ‘an elegant room appro. priated for coflee ani liquoura, adjoining the dining- room, which it overlooks by an ‘elevation of some hali- dozen steps. Of the quality of the cuisine Tam not able to speak, as I did not dine; but I procured the bil of fare for the day, which I sen} you. You are provadly already aware that the new principle adopted is tuat nothing else except the articles on the carte is cooked during the day. The earliest hour for dining is five— the latest eight o'clock. The price, which includes a bottle vin ordinaire, is five franca, ‘The following ia the bil of fare—another day the articles would be varied, but the number the same -— geeeecoccccecoescoesoccces Potage—De Sauli. —Hors d’Anore, ¢—Gigot de Pris Sali: Jardeniére. Entrie—Mayonnaise de Homaud. Pot—Houge de Rivii-re. Salade—De Saison. Legumes—Choax de Braxelle, Kntremot—Pommes au Riz. Dessert. co Rel ecessecocec® eoccoooeeccoooeceseoseocos The domestics were all dressed in purple plush breeches and white cotton stockings, and an effort was made to give it the air of a London club longo intervalio. The most objectionable thing to me spperred the impossi- bility of having a table to one’s self, If the thing were | bona fide a table d’hote we should understand it; but each table holds four or six, ani unier such an ar- rangement it seems to me that you do have a cable d’Aote, thorn of ite variety and privacy if you please, To tweaty persons you need not open ae lips; But to one or two, eating, As it were, out of the same same would not be so easy, and thas a disagreeable acquaint ance might somehow come to get fixed on to you. How ever, Lunderstand its salle ¢ manger is in great request, and though over the way is the famous table dhote o the Hotel des Princes at the same price, an! another gredlient one on the Boulevard de Italiens—the Hots] es Italiens for & franc lew—namel new attraction still holds its own, Abeasipecciay in consequence of the death of the Dy: the ball at the Tuller A de could have vant of his friendly dispositions towards Kuro- the r a The Buten vernmen: the tyrant who tle of commerce more advantageous ears woal: Bw. Baron de pe ane of the King’s aides-de-camp, ecutions ty 30 to accompany the expelition with magnificent presents | take pl ald breathe from his Majesty. | hie last, that at all evente there might be some wr Funde are heavy. | faces, The present alliance of the lan houee wit! assurecly sensibly reduced; but | NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCA 4, 1855. France may te very favorable in a political point of view, but in consequence of the moi it has rice to from ibe numerous family deaths at a when dressmabers desired to be otherwise emp'oyed, and now againits causing the postponement of a ball, when ia comeequence of the war, such fillips to trade have deen so few and far between, it is certain! pasion precens moment very unpopular in Paris, and some good folks go so far as to say, now that the Sardinian State te raning thie sail epainst the. Fone in matters ef ecc! ‘ica! mperty the next death we may expect to hear of, will Be that-cf the hing bimeclf, A letter from Ccnstantwople, dated the Ist of Febra- ary, Bays:— The Intelligence from Asia is anything but satisfac tory. Throughout nearly the wholeof Kurdistan, par- ticularly in the mountainous part, the Christian popula- tion, and even the Mussi , have risen rather through exasperation at the exactions and cruelties of the Pachas and other Turkish functionaries than from Deing instigated by any intrigues of Russia, who, how- ever, will naturally not fail to profit by euch an occa- sion to embarrass stil} more the attairs of Turkey in that part of Asia. BERTIE. Panis, Feb. 15, 1855. Seovet Cause of the Interruption of Court Festivities—The Emperor at the Camp of Boulogne—The Emperor Vol- ing Alone for the Liberty of the Press—Administra- tion of the Siécle—Mare’s Nest of a Conspiracy—Pierre Dupont and George Sand—Odillon Barrot and Dupin, Prince of Weathercocks—Ialian Flags in the War with Russia— Will a Daughter of ex-Queen Christina be Queen of Poland. In my last letter I mentioned the @eath of Prince Fer- dinand, Duke of Genoa, as the cause assigned for the in- terruption of the festivities ot the French court. I have since been assured that it was a mere pretext, and that the real cause is the gloomy character of Gen. Niel’s re- port, which was communicated on Monday to a council of war, over which the Emperor presided. Gen. Niel, you remember, was sent to examine the state of things in the Crimea, and his report, it is said, omly tends to confirm the statements of the Lonpon press, which lately provoked so strong a censure from the Moniteur, onaccount of their alleged exaggeration. Of course, the precise contents of his report have not been made pub- licly known, but the indefixite postpanement of the im- perial ball is presumed to indicate sufficiently their dis- couraging tone. However this may be, there is a gene- ralexpectation of prompt amd radical changes in the military plans of the Emperor and his British allies, It is considered unquestionable that whatever means may be devised by Lord Palmerston to follow up a sterile and disastrous campaign with a fortunate and produe- tive campaign, the action of the British army must be subordinated to the military conceptions of the Cabinet of the Tuileries. The Emperor, it is said, al- though the Moniteur does not state it, left Paris yester- day for a visit to the camp of Boulogne. And now that all negotiations with Russia are again virtually suspend- ed, conjectures are rife as to the eventualities of what called “the approaching campaign.’? Where will Napo- leon lead his troops and those of his allies? Commanding in person, will he rely more upon his own thorough mili tary education than upon the experience of the officers by whom he will surround himself? Even if he fails to evince the military genius of his illustrious uncle, he may have inherited the rare tact of that greatest of ge- nerals for discerning and employing the talents and ekill of his asrociates, He may more easily dispense with what the youth and inexperience of the Emperor of Austria will require, should the latter place himeelf at the head of his army as he intends to do in the event of a war with Russia—an Adjutant General, an alter ego like Feld- rengmtister Von Hess, to act for him “in pressing cir- cumstances? Nor is it probable, notwithstanding al! the rumor to which I have already alluded, asto the appcintment of a regent of the empire to act in his absence from France, that he will depart from the precedents of bia uncle, who used to rign his decrees as readily wherever he happened to be, as if he were at St, Cloud or the Tuileries, Napoleon Il. will persevere in faithfully imitating Napoleon I.; but, he doubtless hopes to avoid the errors and escape the reverses of his mighty exemp.ar. While planning anew Russian campaign, he cannot, must not, forget the retreat from Moscow. In resisting the recent importunity of the Stcle, for restoration of the liberty of the press, the Emperor showed that he remembered the expressien of his uncle : —‘‘It I were 10 give the liberty of the press, my power would not last three days.” But, it is due to the shrewdness of the nephew to state, that the Sidcle owes its eseape from a formal warning to le vote which he cast acainst the votes of all his mini ‘4 in council, to punish that journal for ita ‘ sudacity.” ‘The Emperor is too well aware of the 1mportance of se- curing, during the war with Russia, the sympathies of the vast middle class, representea by the Stccle, to incur the risks of such an excitement as, under the circum- stances, a ‘warning’? could scarcely have failed to provoke. A private remonstrance has sufficed to mode- rate the polemical violence of the Stécle. The recent violence of certain articles in that jonrnal has scandslized the liberal party itvelf as well as the g>- vernment, although for quite a different reason. M. Bavin, its chief political editor, has assumed a tone and air of opposition to the government, which might give the impressicn that the press stillenjoys a sort of libert, to agreater extent toan is really the case. It woul have been wiser as well as more prudent, it is thought, to imitate the dignified silence of the Journal des Debats. Now there are two parties in the camp of tae trimmers who can with difficulty be distiag ordinsry time rervers, and actually render more service to the government than either Gruff Granier de Cassa- guac or Me! dela Guerronitre, with their whole ites; and, on the hand, those who jutely faihful to their old liberal predilec- tions, The latter, if they cannot speak, deem it better to keep their mouths shut than to mumble in in. ey have, therefore, proposed the election uf a well known demccrat, M. Curnot, Minister of Public Instruc- tion under the ‘inional Government, as a member of the Committee of Supervision of the Sifcle. If he fills a vacancy, which is to take place in April, hi once will doubtless constrain M. Havin to give his ‘journal not a more aggressive but a more reserved attitude. The rumor that M. Jules Bimon, who was dismissed from his professorship, on account of refusing to “take the oath,”’ ia to become the political editor of the Siécle, is wntounded, I dwell upon these details relative to the adminis- tration of the Sitcle, it 1s because of the prodigious im- portance whick a French journal, even in these days of Testricted l.berty, possesses as a tramer and director of pubtic opinion, ‘In the United States, a journal, pow- erful as its influence may be, is chiefly important as a reflector of public opinion. ‘It holds, as ’twere, the mirror up to society,” catches every breath of rumor; and, better still, retains photographic impressions of ali that parses before it, Several editors of the Siicle have lately been cited as witnesses in the affair of Madame de Jercy, who, you re- collect, was arrested ard secretly imprisoned shortl; after Christmas, on a count of a correxpondencs whic! she bad mamtained, it is alleged, with a voluntary exile at Bruxelles The Iatter had sent to Madame de Jercy, who is 2 wealthy lady and resided near Neuilly, severa copies of a pamphlet which he had published, with a list of the names of persons to whom they were to be dis tributed. The pamphlets and the list were discovered by the police. Those whose names were found on the list have been summoned for explanations—Pierre Dupont and George Sand among them; but as they can easily show that they are not responsible for an act which any stringer, as well as the exile in Bruxelles, might have done, fair will not assume the formidable propor tions of a conspiraey, at first assigned to it, In alluding to the election of Odillon Barrot as a mom- ber of the Acaderay of Moral and Political Sefences, { did h i not mention a freeh instance of the utter inconsistency of that old politi athercocs, Dupin. the elder, ex President of the National Assembly, It appears that when he heard of the candidacy of Onllon Barrot, he had the brass to volunteer to introduce him to’ the Academy. His offer w lly declined, from reasons which any oue of more delicate «usceptibil.ties thaa him self would have anticipated. Now, you kuow that the ex President of the National Assembly, althoagh hia ‘‘adhesion”’ was not thought worta making him a Senator, still appears not only at the ba'ls of the Tuile- ries, but at every other oilisial entertainment, even in the parlors of Count de Morny, President ot the Legisla- tive body, in the fame palace from which he and the Assembly were anceremon ously ejested by this Count De Morny in December 1851. | Nor does M. Dupin neglest to pay bis court to Mime. Lehon; and it was at the house of this lady, a few days after bis offer to Odillon Barrot had been a ed, that he heard M. fropiong, Presi- dent to the Ser and M. Miebel Chevalier, Ex-St. Si- rofessor of political economy anit imperial Hen violence, the ith more moderation bat equal firmuess, the pro- oned romination of the new cindidate for the Academy. je immediately joined in abusing Odillon Barret, and out-Troplonged even Troplong himself, Neither talents, wit, eloquence, high stations, nor even gray hairs, have taved Dupin from the disgraceful eminence which his in- consistency has won for him above a whole generation of political gironeties and changelings. uies de Lasteyrie, son-in-law of Lafayette, and ex- member of the National Assembly, over which Daj presided, exhibits an honorable ecnt: fo hie old Uberal eonvieticns: cle from his pen, su by of Eardinia ‘vita France, in the war with Russia, that occasioned the recent danger of « collision between the government and the Sicle ticle, which appeared in that journal, concluded thus:—"While the alliance of jute powers, while accept- © pi ing in in their turo they might offer us. may be the actual form of our ought we then to forget that w of the French Revolation! Our true all ‘the peoples.’ Let them be with France, and whatever happens, we shell have confidence in the future of our country, hopes for the | berty of the world ” This style clansi: mon ance a# sincere the co operation which and whatever of writin; ical as it may be, is 0 to the part of the rhetoricions Of au empire, which. If we are to believe them, has imposed an eternal barrier to revolutions haps u ch cannot bat follow #) oung and chi valrous’” Prene of Austria, But will Sit breve the alliance of ‘* Peoples 1’ Will Poland lift also ite revtored banner, and ‘mingle in the fray?’ On which side w.il it combat? Withone of the Russian Grand Dukes at its head as King, or the ton of Prince Czartoriska, aad husband elect of Miss gl tg) ap ag ox — Christica, the mother of that you , even «i caonot sitively a fg Bat fouvtioes she bas her hope So has rab THE WAR IN EUROPE. LORD PALMERSTON’S STATEWENS. In the House of Commons, on 16th of February, on the motion for into "tom ‘tee of Supply, “< PALMERSTON it weuld expected that shoul state what had led to his assuming the office he then jatement would be very brief, because, ct icipated by a noble friend io the ‘yther im stated by the axl of Dery that when her Majesty called upon him to form a g°'vernmen pe ae him to oim, and added, thas he wished him aleo to communicate with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Mr.S. Herbert, He told -the nobie lord that be would public emec- wer until he but this he bands cf Lord Clarendon. He immediately afterwards in. commupicated with the Marquis of Lansdowne, and soon afterwards he infor Lord Derby that he did not tkink his connection with his government woud add any material Sree: £9. it.. Her Majescy was then pleased to call upon John Russell aod charged him with the duty of forming an admiaistration. Lord J. Russell called upcn him to assist in that; and he said that, feeling the importance of the crisis, he would render the noble lord any assistance ia his power; and if he had succeeded in forming an sdmicistration, he would have assisted him with the greatest possible alacrity. That attempt failed, and her Majesty then caliea upon him (Lord Palmerston) on Saturday, and on Tuesday he was able to report to her arg a t he bad succeeded in forming a government which he thought would be en- abled to carry on public affara. He trusted that that govamment containid sufficient administrative ability, sufficient political sagacity, sufficient liberal principles, ficient patriotism and determination to justify hit in ling to the house and the pcre for support in sent critical state of our national affairs. (Loud cheers.) The noble lord having referred by name to his colleagues, proceeded to say that there was one great difficulty which at the outeet scared them—he alluded to the committee which had been moved for and ob- tained by Mr. Roebuck, and which stood for Thursday fe held that that committee would not be in ac- ith the true and just principles of the consti- he trusted that the House, when it refle:ted upon cumbrous machinery and the tardy result that might be expected, would suspend the appointment of that committee, in the confidence that the govern- ment would undertake the conduct of the war with vigor. He presumed tbat the object they bad in view who supported the motion, was to compel the govern ment to make certain administrative changes at home, and certain improvements abroad, and he would therefore sketch out, ones not in detail, what it was the intention of e government to do. It would be seen that he had not thought it his Cuty to appoimt a Secretary at War, because he thought the offices might be amalgamated, and that the civil departments of the Ordnance might be under the control of the Secretary for War. (Hear, ‘The Secretary of the Admiralty had established a boar: to superintend transport service at sea. We were engaged in warlike oparations with France ally but we had not the means of sending so many men iato the field as France, and it was but (air that we should make some return to France in the shape of additional naval airangements. ( He was convinced that the establishment of that would lead to increased economy and increased efficiency in that department. Well groundea.complaints had been made in reference to the condition of our war hospitals, so that it was in- tended to send oat three civillans for the purpose of making good sanitary arrangements for the hospitals, camps, and ships. anticipate the greatest ad- vantage from their scientific labors Lord a Jan had received instruction to send persons daly qualified to cleanse the camp, and to take other measures tending to promote the health of the troops. Many complaints bad been made of want of organiza- tion in the eee department. A commission, of whom Sir John M’Niel would be at the head, was going to examine into the defects of the commissa- Hat Gepartusent, and will have full power to set them all to rights. In the British army there has notexisted an offi- cer tuch as the ‘chief of the staff’ in the French army, and the consequence was that all complaints had been made to the Commander-in-Chief. To remedy this defect adier Simpson was going out in that capacity, and he had no doubt that Lord Kaglan would readily attend toany suggestions he might make with regard to the medical de- — He might say Lord Panmure was going entirely the medical department at home, and an hospital was about to be estabiirhed at Smyrna. Lord Panmure was also about to propose to-night to the House of Lords a bill enabling persons of more advaneed life to enlist, apd for @ shorter period than had hitherto been cus- tomary. Hitherto the commissariat abroad had been chargei, not only with the issue of provisions but with the duty of transporting them. That gave rise to reat difficulties, but the two duties would henceforth fi separated. During the short period the government had been formed there things been done and were Colne: and he was perfectly convinced that the results would be much sooner known than the conclusions of committee to inquire and make known the results to that house. No means would be omitted to reinforce the army in due time. Charged a3 Sea government was with the interests cf a great nation, that they had to look not only to the means of carrying on the ith great vigor, but it was their duty to take all measares in their power to put an end to the war by an Ifonorable treaty of peace. They had been informed that certain arrange- ments baving been agreed tu between England and Franc had been submitted .o Austria, and had been agreed to by the basis of negotiation. In order that these negotiations might be mos! solemnly conducted, they posed to Lord John Russell to undertake the duty, ing convinced that when the negotiation was placed the hands of a man so generally respected at bome, and so well known throughout Europe, if their ef forts should fail they wouid stand ecquitted from diame. Lord John Russell at once underwok the duty, and no one & did himselt more honor than did noble lord in tabing upon himself duties of 0 creat ni- tional but European importance. The noble lord would first proceed to Paris, mce to Berlin, where he would be in communication with the King of Prussia, and al- though some time might elapse before his arrival in Vienna, the time he spent in those two capitals would t be thrown away. If the government succeeded all would be well. but if they fe! they would carry on tke war, throwing themselves upon the justice and gen- erorlty Of the house and the country. He trusted that all party spirit would be thrown on one side, and that England would present the moble.an glorious spestacle that smongst a free people, with # constitutional government, there was a life, a and an energy, a power of endurance, and a vi of action waich were vainly to be sought for un jotie rule or ar- tway. (The noble lord res his seat amidst loud cheers. ) Mr. Dirraxui referred to the negotiations which had taken place between Lord Palmerston and the Earl of Derby. He said it would have been frank and straight- forward on the part of the nobdle lord to have apprised Lord Derby of his intentions at the outset, and not to have continued negotiatio: the part of friends whose adhesion to Lord Derby was of course dependent upon the connection with that government of Lord Palmerston himself. Lord Derby had failed to form a strong government. Whether Lori Palmerston had jcceeded or not was of course for time to determine. It would have appeared from the speech of the noble jord that ! government which was he aaid re. markable for inistrative talent and F geo aoga- city, com men who had bern for some time past in political obscurity, whereas it was com pored of the men who had brought upon the country universally acknowledged calamities, for which ihe house and country had censured them. He thought it woul have been discreet on the part of the noble lord to speak only of the present. not of tae future, without venturing at all upon a consideration of the future, He (Mr. Disraeli) admitted that the improve- ments determined upon by the noble lord were very de- rirable, but they were a tremendous satire upon th» late government, who up to the last hour denied that aay causes for inquiry existed. He protested agaiast the House of Commons stultifyicg itself by departing from position whieh, but few nights ago, it eo trium- phantly occupied. He (Mr. Dirraeli) was determiaed to maintsin the decis'on af the house, end the wholesome opinion of the couutry that there should be a parliamen tary inquiry into the condition of the army before Sebas- topol, and of those branches of the government whica should have prevented the present lamentable condiiton of our tioops. SIR CHARLES NAPIER AND SIR JAMES GRAHAM. In the House of Commons on the 16th uit , in reply to Captain Duncombe, Sir James Grabam raid that he could not follow the speech of Admiral Napier at the Minsioa House without betraying des >atches and other commu. nications which would be disadvantageous to the pub- lis service, and he preferred submitting to the obloquy which had been thrown upon him by the gallant officer rather than endanger the public service. It was alto gether untrue that the fleet under Sir Charles was ill maraged and worse disciplined. The only foundation for the statement that he had been doprived of his com- mand was, that he bad been called upen, en the ser- vice in the Baltic terminated, to lower g, for which there were precedents, He recommended ber Majesty not to take any notice of the speech at the Mansion & Hovse, #0 that might not dub himself a martyr as well as a hero. AUSTRIA, THE PEACE NEGOTIATIONS—AN ALTERNATIVE FOR ENGLAND. The Berlin correspendent of the London Times, writing on February 11th, sa; Kreus Zeitung has favor- ed us with the following hint:—I{ the negotiations for in Vienna should, as we have all along expected, in still probable, lead to no result militar; n, the rtisulations of which are now being set- tied bythe three Powers, (France, Austria, and Englaad,) will be at once concluded. Nothing is at’ present known of the stipulations; but we cannot expect that Austria, without claiming any co ition, will carry on the war with from 00,000 to wo men, and from 800 to 1,000 guns, whilst Produces only 35,000 to 40,C00 men In the a ent of the conditions, the fleets of Franse and England will doubtless be taken into account; but*if the latter does not supply more men, the Allies will certainly require of her something in their stead, viz:, money. LaTEST FROM THE AUSTRIAN FRONTIOR. The Independence Belge publishes the following letter, dated Hamburg, 10th ult, :— Our accounts from Cracow of the 8th make no men. tien of the order, supposed to have been sent from St. Petersburg, to withdraw the Russian troops from the Avstrian frontiers. This fact would not certainly have escaped the Austrian commanders at Cracow, under ex- isting circumstances, if it was well founded. It was ovly known there that, in order to relieve the in- habitants of some villages; where there had been too reat an accumulation of Rusman troops for the st two months, the latter bad changed their canton. ments, to occupy othera at a few leagues distance, in Icon exhausted losulities. The maia force of the Hus: sians, a4 I bave already stated, ie echelionned along the Vistula an far as Warsaw, reating on Lublin, which has been of late considerably fortified, and upon Zamose, the citadel of which, thanke to ite old and new works of defence, may be today a & fortress of the fret From those pointe the Raseian army par | ticmiasly menaces the Austrian frontier of Gallicia. most numéro" 4 Russian force is stationed at present on rg iwe brigede ef infuntey, aight equsarons of 10 fantry, aqui £ doa Tour batteries of igitsas each. The banka a wo rivers Pilica and Warts are so lined with works of defence, that the Austrisn army would find it dificult © penetrate into Poland on tbat side, even after a vic- tory. During the last three months thousands of men were occupied in erecting earthworks along those rivers. Thore defences are now covered with guns applied by: the pa: tabliehed in 1854 in the vicinity of Revel and Riga, and which became available after retreat of the allied fleet from the Baltic. Ths towns of Radom and Sandomir have been likewise fortified, and are now able to resist the attack of wading army. The m li- constracted afficiently spacious to coptain each adivi-ion of infantry. Thove camps, surrounded with high ramparts, communicate wi: Racom and Sandomir, and form part of the new works of defence of those two tgwns, On this side also would the Austrian army of Gallicia, even after a victorious «ncounter with the Russians, experience almost tnsupe- rable obstacles. In the presence of all these powerful means of defence which Russia opposes to the Austrian army in Gallicia, it is not astonishing that Austria should have demanded in turn the co-operation of tho Prussian forces, and those of the Germanic Confedera- tion, an? ultimately the support ofa French army of 100,000 men. RUSSIA. A despatch from St. Petersburg, dated Fe The hard frost which has sev in is hail ith joy, an the old and true ally of 1812 comes once again to tho aid of Russias. Pictures are published in which the French and English are represented as bivouaciog in the greatest misery before Sebastopol, and the populace are taught that the ice ard snow and desolating blast are sent from God in answer to the prayers of the ortho- dox, and for the annihila’ ion of the enemies of the holy ause. ~The St. Petersburg Journal saya:— ‘The report of Aide-de-Camp General Prince Menschi- koff, of the date of the 16th (28th) January, states that the situation of affairs before Sebastopol had undergone no change. From time to time the enemy throw bomb- shells into the city; and in the night, between the 15th and 16th, (27th and 28th), some fusces of great calibre were thrown from the French trenches, without, how- ever, doing us any harm; and the general loss from the fire of the besiegers is insignificant, Our artillery re- plies with success to the enemy’s batteries. —, On the 10th, (224), the French war transport Ajax was thrown on a bank near Kupatoria, Notwithstand- ing a steamer was sent to ber rescue, the captain and tix of the ere re obliged to surrender themselves prisoners to a demi squadron of lancers, despatched to the sce: 'Y, under the f the shipwreck, with two pieces of horse ar- ommand of Captain Taitovitch, of the SARA: The 1 itself, ano its cargo of hay, was arnt. ‘The news of the illness of the Grand Dukes produced ane peaeiess consternation at Court. see Daynicias of the Emperor was ordered to set off imi iately to join them. Some foreign journals have several times an- nounced that the Lg eee would leave St. Petersburg to visit the army, but I can assure you that noting is known of {t in well informed circles. The report that General Dulgorukeff, the Minister of War, is shortly to go to inspect the army, is also an invention. NEWS FROM ODESSA. Aletter from Odessa, of the 30th January, in the Fremdenblatt of Vienna, says that the weather had im- roved at the above date; all the foreign vessels had {t the port. ‘The foreign consuls were to have an ia- terview with the commander of the blockade squadron. The Rursian treops in the Crimea were badly provisioned, and the governors of the southern provinces could not furnish them with the requisite necessaries as punctu- ally as before. Sixty thousand men are now concen- trated on’the borders of the Pruth. By an imperial ukase supplies of flour and mre ordered to be kept ready and transported to Dubazary on the Dniester. The yori le have been transported from Kisheneff to jeana. THE BRITISH BALTIC FLEET. ‘The following chief appointments have been made to the Baltic fleet:— Rear Admiral the Hon. R. 8. Dundas, C. B., second paral Lord of the Admiralty, to be Commander-in- ief. Rear Admiral Seymour, Captain of the Fleet last year, to be second in command, Rear Admiral Baynes, C. B,, just promoted te his flag, tone on. LS Pelham, Coy tain of the Fleet. fon. I. 0 Flee Admiral Berkeley, at the carsest desire of the Cabinet, continues as chief naval Lord of the Deere The new Commander in-Chief is in the 54th year of his age. As captain of the Powerful, 84, he commanied we uadron in the Mediterranean under Sir William er, . LATEST DE3PATSHES. Pera, Feb. 5, 1855. Fine weather has returned, and gives assurance that the temperature in the Crimea has become milder, Gen. Pelliier hea arrived here, and is about to start for the imea. The London Neus states, but without mentioning the source, that to the 6th ult, nothing of importance had is Moniteur, of 16th of February, says that foreign journals have publinbed injurious reports re- garding the discipline of the Crimean army. re- ports ari ithout foundation. The discipline of th army h: er been interrupted. On the contrary, the troops not ceased to show, on all occasions, their entire devotion and obedience. Vienna, Feb. 15, 1855. The mail steamer from Constantinople, of the oth bas arrived at Trieste to-cay. Riza a be will represent the Porte in the approaching confer: ences at Vienna. Everything was prepared in the Crimca for an a proaching assault. Favorable weather is anxiousl expected. The French have ¢xtended their position to the ex- treme right. The British army and the Imperial Guart will form the reserve corps, and also will be charged with the defence of Balaklava. The New Cabinet and the Irish Catholics. ‘Ihe Lonion Zimes of 16th ultimo says :—A Limerick per, which reached us day, announced that Mr. 1iliam Monsell, one of the county members, hal re- post of Clerk of the Ordnance. Accord , Mr. Monsell abandoned place because not,’ consistently with his principles and opinions, held office under an administration frow which tmmeasurably less is to be expected by the Catholics of the empire than from the late government.” Whether the reason be the right er the wrong one, it would appear from later advices that the main fact’ is true, and that Mr. Monsell is no longer connected with the minitry. English Failures and Mecting of Creditors. ‘The Liverpool Times of the 17th ult. has the follow- ing:—lhe failure of Messrs. Kirk & Furness, general merchants, of Liverpool, has been annouuced. ‘This firm has been brought cown by the previous suspension of other houses. Their trade wes chiefly with Nova Seo‘ia, and their liabilities are presumed to be considerable. The failure also bas been announced of Messrs. Keen, Rippin & Co. warehousemen, of London, # young but very respectable firm, with liabilities of between £50,000 and £60,(00, Their assets will prove good if time be ‘iven fur realization, At a meeting of the creditors of leser#, Carter & Co, of London and Liverpool, held on the 14th inst, My. Quilter read a statement of their affairs, ‘and gave explanations respecting the same, from which it appeared that thers gen- tiemen’s liabilities amounted to the sum of £95,634 lls. (including liabilities to the amount of £15,000, which ougnt to be paid by other parties,) and that their assets amounted to £96,296 84. 2d., and he informed the meeting that they considered themselves able to pay all their crecitors in fuil, with interest, if time were granted them, and that they proposed to pay by instal mente, in the following manner:—viz., du. 4d. in one mepth, Se. 4d. in months, Js 4d. in five months, Ss. 4d. in seven month, 3s. 4d. in nine months, ant 3s. 4d. in twelve months, all from the lst of March. It was resolved upanimourly that the estate be wound up under the inspection of Mr, Pitcairn, for the pursose of carry- ing out the foregoing proporition. At a meeting o° the creditors of Messrs. Swanwick and Johnson, of Manches- ter, calico print the liabilities of the firm were shown to amount to £27,000, against arsets valued at £26,000. It was resolved that they should wind up under ins pe: tion, and 15s, in the pound is ultimately Tooked for. Spain. in continues to preserve the permanent coatrast between its course in pursuit of freedom and tust of Piedmont, In the Cortes, on the Sth ultimo, M Ruix Pons moved an médment on the clause in the consti- tution which recognises the Roman Catbolie religion »s the religicn of the State, and forbids any public act re. pugvant to the observances of thet religion, Vie amend lent more positively recognized liberty of consi but it was summari'y rejected. Orense and otber mem: bers of the Cortes supported another revolution to secure religious liberty, but this was rejected by 139 to 73 Freedom must always be precarious for that people which is not prepared to secure for ite freecom of thinking and talhing. ‘A stormy scene took place in the Spanish Cortes ou the 6th ult, ihe ministry declared that in vrtue of the 16d clause of the constitution (which bad just been veted) they would submi; to the Qasen the laws already youd. This led to » scene of disorder, the democrats furiously protesting against this formality. But Expar- tero wan frm, exclaiming, amid applause, “Abolish all government if you will not allow a ministry to govern.” EMIGRATION FROM IRKLAND CHECKED. The Baliinasioe Star says:—During the last week nu- merous ktters have been received in this neighborhood from New York and other American cities, bringing in- telligence whieh will undoubtedly tend to check the tide of emigration to that quarter, Destitution prevails to an alarming extent. There is no employment in New York, and tho is of the poor Irish are undergoing an orceai worse than that ocoasioned in their own coun- try by the famine and pestilence of 1846 Wehave been permitted to inspect some of the letters received in this town and its vicivity within the last few days, and really the details they give are of a most fearful de- The soup-kitchens have been established, Ye aha) of the redundant population are last few have a disastrous effect upon local si connection with this, we are to observe that the Ameri- can Congress have under coosideration a lay which will very much restrict emigration to that country in future. along the Atlantic for t ears, could not but Something like the i nystem is to be instituted; at least fettlers wil be obi to take with them certi- ficates respecting their characters and past lives. At all events, we need not aniicipate yduring the outing season such « drain from our shores as has depopulated, in a great measure, many of the best districts of the west of Ireland. The fact is, that many, individuals wto, fortunately, were ¢nabled to do so, have re- turned, end we understand that many cthere will foliow their example. The advice in every | | theatre, on Satu VOL. XX. . Lonpon Money Marker, Feb. 16, noon.—The funds opened to-day with heaviness, but the qlosing prices of yesterday were well supported. The in to thear- my estimates for the further augmentation of our land forees bas added dullness to depression pre- vailing; but as the additional cost for such a meces~ sary measure has been long snticipated, it can only have ® temporary effect on the market. There is little antici~ pation of much improvement in prices until active rations recommence in the Crimea, an‘ the new ministry exhibit some show of those vigorous measures of reform in the conduct of the war so loudly called for the country. Consols were firat quoted at 90%; to 90% for money, and 904 to 90% for the 8th of March. No change in, Joreign securities. ‘Two O'Czock, P. M.—The funda have declined 3, and contiuue inactive and depressed. Ccpto’s are now uoted at 903 to 9054 for money, and 90% to 9034 for the 8th of March. Havr-past Tanke O'Crock, P. M. ~Phe funds evinced a firmer disposition towards the termination of business, ‘and consols recovered to the opening prices, the last uotation being 9054 to 903¢ for money, and 90% to 90% for the 8th March. Reduced Three per Cente rallied to 91, and the New Three per Cents closed at 9114. HERMANN COX AND CO.’S QIKCULAR. Livenvoor, Feb. 16, 1855. Corrox.—The sales this week are 35,320 bales, inelu. ding £30 on speculation, and 1,750 forexport, Prices are unchanged, and we quote— Upland. Mobile. N. Orleans. Middling. 5d. bd 51¢0, Fair, . bd. 5ogd. bigd. In tie ‘abieae of any ‘news calculated to ssimulate the demand, holders have continued free tellers, and buyers have confined their purchases to small lots for their immediate wants, The wind keeping Kasterly, very few veseels have arrived, and the stock haa decreased to 1 American, and 378,770 of all descrip- uantity afloat {1 estimated at 340,000 bales. jay the market cloass quietly, wits sales of 6,000 Money is unchanged in vi Conols have ceclined during the last few da: nd clone at 9034 to 7%, Lord John Russell's mission to Vienna is the only new feature in politics. The opening of the Peace Conference will pow be no longer delayed, but it is generlly thought negotiations will lead to mo result, ucless Sebastopol is taken, and, judging be from present accounts, the capture Will very distant. ely experienced in the Manchester mar- J, and lower prices are accepted in order Exporters do noxt to nothing; the foreiga markets are dull and drooping, and the existing state of things offers no encouragement to shippers, Spinners have already commenced working short time. Naval Srorrs.—Common rosin is in improved demand at week’s rates. 8 been for:ed off by auc- tion as low as 12s, 6d. per bariel. Spirits oft tine are offered at 35s. 6d. to arrive, but find no buyers. There has been rather more inquiry for tallow, but prices are unchanged. In lard a fair amount of ‘busi- ness has been dene, at 50s. to Sis. per ewt. No trans- actions in logwood. A few hundred barrels of ashes have teen so d at 29s, to 30s. per cwt. for both kinds. Breapsturrs.—The bnainess continues exceedingly limited, and prices are a shade lower. JOBN ATHYA AND CO.’8 CIRCULAR. Giascow, Fen. 16, 1855. Our pig iron market opened rather flat this week, and on Monday business was done at 628 for mixed Nos. warrants, six weeks fixed, and a few shipping parcels sold at 62s. to 62s. 3d., cash. On the 13th the price fell, es, to 60s., anda con- rallied slightly on the receded to 60s., and be- re made at 59s, 9d and the latter price. No.1 place i under the influence of forced. stles, to siderable business was done, It 14th and 15th, but to-day fore the close of ‘Change closing rather rie Theatres and Exhinitions, . ACADEMY or Mvsic'—Donizetti’s beautiful opera of {Lucie a Lammperoaoge a annoanced for, te morrow evening, when Signor 0] appear, for time in America, as Edgardo, Signor Badiali, who is » general favorite, will sustain the character of Ashton, and’Mad Rertucca Maretzec as Lucia. Thin cast cannot fail in drawing a good house, Max Maretzeo, who bas always pleased the musical people of New York, will conduct the orchestra, ERoapWay THRATRE.—Miss Makeah will make her fi appearance at this theatre to-morrow evening, in the ble play of ‘Ingomae,’”? in which she will be aa- sisted by Mr. Conway, who has returned from his tour in the Southern States, in the ipal character. The ccmedy of Bona Fale Travellera” will also be per- formed. ny Turaree —The popular Dutch comedian, Mr. 8. W. Glenn will represent the Persecuted Dutebman’ to-morrow evening, and Mr. R. Johnson will appear for the firet time a4 “Jack Cade,’ in the fine play of that name. A new crama, called’ “The Avalanche,” isin preparat ion. Benton's Tearke —Throo capital pieces are on the rogramme for to-morrow evening, namely, va ing Sam, ‘The Black Swan’ and the langable farce of the ‘Wandering Minstrel? In consequence of the | Bia demand for admission on the evenings of the per- formance of the ‘Serious Family’? and ‘* les,”’ the management has ret apart two days in every week for their representation. WALLACK’s =TuzaTRE.— Mrs. Centlivre’s admirable comedy, entitled “The Busy Body,” having been greeted with euch decided success on each evening of ita sepresentatiop, is announced again for to-morrow even- ing. ‘The farce of the ‘‘ New Footman ”’ will likewise be played. On Tursday evening ‘The Poor Gentleman,’” and ** Glari, the Maid of Milan,’’ will be repeated. AmERCIAN MustuM—The afternoon and evening per- ormances prercrt many very attractive features. “ Kisa ip the Dark’ and 1s Black Eyed Susan” will be represented in the afternoon, and the play of “Love's sacrifice’ in the hina om Hay or Design, 663 ADWAY.—This evening there will be @ very good sacred concert, comprising various instrumental and vocal performances by M’lle Camille Ure, Mr. Seide, Herr Wedemeyer, and Miss Mar on Ma- cartby, from Burton’s theatre, Wooo’s Minsteris.—Shakspeare’s ‘Macbeth’? will be burlesqued here to-morrow evening. A good Ethiopian coneert will also be given. Bvckiey’s SkkENADERS.—The laughing song and the “Two Pompeys” will be perf to morrow evening, THE FINALE OF THE SPYGLASS CASE IN NEW [From the No Crease Desk Feb. 13 ‘rom the New cent, Feb. x Maser, De Bar yesterday wer] before corer right, am & praiseworthy apirit of fo: \e- sired to withdraw his ‘fide a party marine gentlemen who disturbed tl on Saturday night, by making war upon the opera glasses with their telescopes. This desire on his was in consequence of the very sincere apologies they subrequently made to bim, and some very excuses which they gave for their conduct. Recorder Bright, however, would not dismiss the charge, considering the affair to bave been too gross a violation of good manners, and an insult to respectable ladies and geatlemen, to Pass unpunished. The following is Mr. fe Bar's a. javit -— B. De Bar, of the St. Charles theatre, having beon duly sworn, doth depose and eay, that on Saturday night, Pebra- ary I, 1855, at tio St. C varies thoatre, in this siatelet agd city, parish of Oricans, @ man named Dickinson, the mate of came to the said theatre—of whieh depo- ud manuger—in company with several other ted out, with the Intent to cronte s i nee, and vy tl by making use of teleseop: e re nescwdle r actions did eroate a disturbance os, ke., much to the scandal of the to their annoyance ; rr to°deporent’s dan re with eee J committed a brea peace and dignity of the State, Mr. Dickinson, the mate of the Africa, was arrested and arraigved on the above affidavit, and required to» give $500 bail for his app arance on Thursday, by which jime the Recorder expects to pave the remainder of the party arrested, so that he may dispese of them all at once. gives the following re- The Crescent of the 16th in port of the conclusion of the alfair Messrs. John R. Dickinron, Benaiah Hull, James Ken- ney, Edward H_ Pomroy, Robert Godsoe, Joha R Feagan, and Jobn H. Kinnard—ail mates, boatewains, ete., of difierent ships ig port—were brought before Recorder Bright yesterday, upon Manager De Bar # affidavit, charg- ing them with disturbing the peace of the st. Charles night last, by usin Though the party was much larger, the that could be arrested, they haviog been ecnepieuous by the elegance of their dre: cupying the {ont seats inthe dress circle, that the offi- cers had identified them readily and posltively. They weres manly, fine looking crowd, quite different from any that have been before the Recorder for some time and smiled at the whole proceedings asif they considered ita sort of legal joxe. Hen De Bar, and several gentle men who had left the theatre im high dudyeon on Satar- day night, appeared as witnesses agains: them, but all appeared ‘to do #0 with reluctance, Officers Farrell, Busby, and Nixon, identifed the whole seven of them, and gave correct statements of the seene in the theatre; all testifying that inevery other respect than using the telescopes, the party bad behaved with order and deco- rom, and that the excitement was all with the other pertion of the audience, Farrell testified that several of them told him in the lobby that they had « perfect right to use their inetruments, and would resist any attempt to put them out; also, that an attem st would have been made by the audience to oust them, bat for the tlmely and good humored speech of Mr. Dickinson on the occa- i Mr. Frazier appeared as counsel for the prisoners, and asked the witnesser aumerous puzzling questions as to the precise seats oocupie by his chents, the cut and solor of thelr whiskers, ant the shape an dimensions of the other glasses used on the occasion; aod was proceeding in a flat-footed defence of the Fight to use ve 410 theatres, when the Recorder “chopped him off,” by re- Leda | that he knew what he wished to say. It was urged in defen: 40, that as soon an Mr Rar re- quested the party, from the stage, to demst, they did so, and shut up their instraments. The rscorder asked them if they bad anything to say in their defsmoe, add- ing that he would listen willingly and patiently to what- ever defence they might make, as he did net wish them to find fault with him or talk about him after be should pass sentence. None of them had boy ng 3 to say; and we were somewhat disappointed that Mr. Dickinson, the er, aswell ap the \dsomest man of the te the communication in defence of the telescope made th ch in th silent, for we bad got our sy non should remain mn read ive an impar tal r pert of whathe might sy. ‘The Recorder, atter complmenting Mr De Bar for desire to withdraw the charge, etated that it was a duty he owe! to the public to to preventa recurrence of such a disturbance, by fe ly puniabing the authors of the firet one; and that the grotlemen, thongh they might be good Americans and good citizens in every respect, had no right to throw ridicule upoa the manners and customs of a sommut in which they were strangers, and injure the business of a theatrical manager, just for their transient amuse- ment. He therefore fert thar the least be could do, would be to hold the gentlemen to bail in $300 each, to keep the pence for hree months, and to pry Gnes of 815 enc! J tyne Whatever may have been the conduct of the jelly tare at the theatre or elsewhere, their bebavior in court, and the readiness and good hamor with which they paid their fines and furn'sbed security, reflected erecit upon them