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NEW YORK HERALD, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1855, pol stows. Aitogether, therefore, it ng improbable that the Emperor of COD: ceive the ition of things to require his own in- both Emperors well know how impor. either the tall or firm resistance of Sebastopol Just now. The arming of Rossia would appear to be some thing prodigious. The “ Imperial mobile militia ” is to be are are pions cetera on consisting companies. The Imper! \- nance creating it, declares that the corpa ia raised for J gen spire defence of the faith, the throne, and the fatherland. It is enacted that ex- from military service hitherto permitted, not apply in the present case, but that who ever is liabie to the capitation tax, or its equivalent, be liable to be called upon to serve in this Merchants, Jews, and foreign colonists who been en to settle in Ruasia, and ro- ceived grants of land frem the Czar, are excepted. Each battalion or druschine is to be commanded by it if ie 8 | meet tary subscrip- i : ii i E ; z i S i 3 | if Ee Lt 23 23 i #3 | : : i 3 5 } if E fall in battle & certificate absolving Obligations to farnisha reornit at che confirms the loss of the Semillante ita of Bonifacio, with 700 men, mea. Pieces of wreck of all it says, the bow of a tri }» @ Ballor’s hat the name of Semillante, log of that tri- femove all doubt of this melancholy event. body has qe been found. 'rench fleet in the Black Sea now consists of of the line, or first rate frigates. the exception of five or six, have fall complement of men fixed by the regulation, may consequently at any moment become ex- clusively machines of war. Supplies of ammunition have been made on the acale; the minimum for each piece being 500 or 47,500 charges for the guns of 30 only. The sailors have on board food for one hundred days, and large reserves of provi- pga in the storehouses at Kamiesch and in the Orns. ‘here is no blinking the fact that in proportion av the ion of England becomes more and more bnmilatirg, the war increases in popularity with the French. The English army is openly spoken of with undisguised contempt; even the navy, it is predicted, will be found not to be the formidable affair i aght to be, and the same want of scientific instruction so conspicuous among the officers ot the army, and in suca striking con- trast to the French, is said to be observable in the fleet. Of this there is no doubt, thas the French naval officer is a much more instructed person than his rival. He is not permitted to go to sea till at seventeen or eighteen years of age he can pass @ scientific exemination of the most searcaing charac- ter, the very enumeration of which would utterly confound an —_ sailor, in whose service cer is put afloat as early as and not later than fourteen years of his only qualifications being that he can read snd write and spell and do tbe rule of three, after which he bas a midahipman’s and a lieutenant’s ex- smination to undergo, but chiefly on matters of Fe i i PE AE a5 ; EF practical seamanship, which his early initiation afloat readily m: him fit for. But in book learn- ing, in the of his profession, such a person is necessatily very inferior to the Frenchman, and it remains to be eeen which system is the best. At first, when the yey Lesage ly Say cispodition was manifested to argue the French were being made tools of by the English; but of this we hear nothing now. (On the contrary, J find in many circles anything but friend'y tothe new regine, an expression of faith in the Emperor’s sagacity, which must be very flattering to him. It is th it that, come what vy eterergd legitimist, Orelaniet or republican hold the seat of authority ultimatels—- that the beur of France’s regeneration has arrived, and that Englaud will fallin provortion to the rise of her ancient rival. It is ssid that her weakness —alike parliamentary and military—is being mani- fested to all the nations of tue earth who have her er hitherto with dread and dismay ; that ce to France in this struggle, nugatory as it is, is a moral blot on her egcutcheon, which every one of her colonies will be quick to see—that ‘one after the other will rise to = off the yoke— that Spain and Portugal, woo have long leaned upon ‘as ® buttress, will henceforth only look to France—that intestine strife will follow aa a naturai consequence; while France, guided by ons single head, flushed with victory, and delighting in her young energy, will be ready to stretch her hand ‘across the cl to save or to smite. Indeed, Ge the same feeling at this moment seems to exhibited towards Hnogland, which England eppears d to have towards her present prime minister— she has been over appreciated ; and of all the journals, the only one found occasionally to break a lance in her favor is the republican Siecle, which, oddly enough, is now trembling for existence in the o of imperial authority. For tome time past it has been the only journal that dared to utter a word in favor of freedom, and this it did with such cleverness, that without strain- ing the law to ita extremest tension, it was not easy for the authorities to interfere; and the complimenta which from time to time made their appearance to the English and their alliance, rendered it awkward ground for meddlisg. Bat the publication of a feu- | uleton, by Eugene Sue, which was thought rather $5 nan eee morals, has fi en the govern- ment an ity it hes long been sighin, for; and to mortification of all the con- cergierie of Paris, who are the most inveterate ad- mirers of Engene Sue, the story has been brought to an abrupt conclusion, and the Seie/e itself has re- ceived such an admonition as bas very seriously alarmed the proprietary. In fact, it seems to be a a work of intense labor to keep that open mouthed machine—the press—at sli in the exact order de- sired. Even the semiofficiai journals catch it sometimes, and the Constitutionnel was anubbed the other day for putting Sardinia and Eogland as aux- iliaries of France in the same category; and tre censor himself, who prevented the conclusion of M. Berryer’s speech attacking by implication the Na- oe regume, on hia reception into the Academy, been called to order A Emperor, and the remainder of said epeech allowed to appear, as pos France. But it appears that bas got into the habit of looking to litical rather than to literary celebrity, and there a talk of giving it a thorough haul over. Paris bas been greatly excited by the trial of a een ore se the name of Poudet, for ths death of two children, daughters of an Englishman of the neme of Marsden, in consequence of {il nsage ‘The trial jasted several days, and to the gener: t of society has ended in her formerly teen wardrobe woman the Queen of Englenc,a high testimonial from whom was pre- sevted; but auything more diegusting than the de tails and the abominable accasations she brought opine the children, has seldom disfigured a court justice. Bretis. Pants, March 1, 1855. Interview of the Ex-President of the United States with the Ex President of the French Republic— Negotiations of Mr. McLane, Commissioner to China—The Revolution of 1848 consigned to | Ancient History and Poetry —American Medical Society of Paris—Crusade against Corsets— Mystifications of the Winter Beason—A Day of Spring Sunshine—Acquittal of Alesse Doudet— Departure of Ls vd John Russell—of the Emperor — Russia and b edmont— The Spring Campaign, or War of the Three Emperors. ‘The arrival of Martin Van Buren, ex-Prestdent of ‘al re | ag my She had | of this and other countries. the United States, has occasioned a fresh manifes- tation of the conciliatory policy towards which the Emperor of the French seems inclined in his rela- tions with the Great Power of the West. On Sat- urday, before the arrival of the ex-President had become known st the American legation, a missive was received there from the Tuileries, inviting the successor of General Jackson to an interview at 6 o'clock on the following morning. Moasengers wero at once despatched to various hotels, and to the hotel of Mr. Mason, but only an accident at length revealed the whereabouts ot Mr. Van Baren at 10 e’clock on Bunday. Mr. Piatt having found him at the Hotel Wagram, burried to the Tuileries to state the fact, and also that of the impossibility of dreesing the ex-President up in a court costume at euch short notice. “Let him come, if he wishes, in his travelling dress,” said the Emperor, who, as T have frequently taken more pains than it is per- haps worth to mention, cares less for buttons and gold lace, where an American is concerned, than certain ‘‘aticklers for court costume” imagine. The two ex-Presidents (is not Napoleon III. also an ex- President of a republic?) he!d @ long interview; but what they said about the Eastern question, the rumored visit of an envoy of the Ozar to Washing- ton with an offer for the cession of the Russian ter- ritory in America to the United States, the return of Mr. Boulé, the resignation of Mr. Mason, the simoon of Know Nothingism, the revelatians”of Mr. Wikoff, and the American ball of the 22d—if so bé they talked of any or all of these topics—your deponent, not knowing, can’t aay. Mr. McLane, American Commissioner to China, hes bad several interviews with the Emperor, as well as with Mr. Drouyn de l’Huys, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, but their attention is so fully absorbed by the Eastern, which threatons to become the European, war, that they have little time to think of the revolution in Chins, and his negotia- tions do not promise to reach a speedy conclusion. Not even the Siecle consecrated a single line to the 24th of February, the date of the revolution of 1848, How many centuries have elapsed aince it took place? Did it ever take place? Or is it a Joo bape, bm the prose of Lamartine or the verse of Victor Hugo? But, at least, both the prove of the historian and the verse of the post will be immortal. A visiter interrupts me as I write, but he is wel- come, for he brings an item that will interest not a few American attended the lety at Paris. Its library is increasing. ly meetings are still at No. 6 rue des Quatre Vents, and sre attended by many foreigners of distinction, as well as by a growing number of spate" iaigeti ane hong ts & position of consideral am scientific bodies of Paris. An election held cn tues. i de resulted in the choice of the following icers :—-W. E. Johnston, M.D., (re-elected for the fourth time) ; W. A. Conway, lst Vice President ; oe ae idee, MD 2d Vice Tape Samuel a 1» ., Corresponding retary 3G A. Pearce, M.D., Recordin} Secretary ; D. .’ Holton, M.D., Treasurer ; and B. Crowell, M.D., Libra- risa. The doctors of Paris have joined the journalists in regular crusade against corsets. compliance with the request of M. Roux, a writer in the Presse, who bas lately attacked with vigor that “ outrage egainst nature”—the mi waist—and which even ecu'ptors have been tempted to imitate, forgat- ful of Venus de Milo, the type of beauty, the cele- brated M. Berres, Professor of Anthropology at tue Museum of Natural History, has elaborated an in- genious series of physical, metaphysical, moral and litical arguments ‘against the ridiculous and jeadly fasbion of wearing what Buffon used to call “‘cuirasees.” For the benefit of my lady readers, I wish I had time to reproduce the eloquent protest of Professor Serres against corsets. at, after all, tco mapy fewales whose eyes now peruse these lines can testify, from petal experience, that the evils of the corset are ‘‘ better felt than expressed.” The winter season which bas jast closeed—thank God ! it bas closed at last, aud the first spring sun | ta now sbining on my tacle—the winter season has en fruitful, as usual, in m5s:itications, Let me men- tion but one or two. A few evenings betore Shrove Tuesday, a double row of carriages drove ap to the hotel of M. end Mme. d’A., in the faabourg St. Ger- main. But the occupants of the carrisges, decked oat as they were ip full dress, wers surprised not to see the windows of the hotel illuminated as they pp rgges d. Their surprise was soon chang: ed into mortification, on being successively in- formed by the Swiss at the door that they were the victims of @ mystification—that M. and Mme. a’A., #0 far frem giving a party to which they hed all re- ceived forged invitations, wero at the Italian Opera, utterly unconscious of the practical joke that so body had played upon their five hundred acquaint- ances, At the Grand Opera, a few evenings previous to this occurrence, a foreigner attracted considerable attention from the bye standers near the stalles d’or- chestre, by his readiness to engage in conversation with them. At first but slight attention waa paid to bim; but the case was different when he sudden- ly began bowing to one atter another of the Ro- mans (the c/aguevers)in the centre of the pt, under the grand chandelier—tben nudging one and an- other of his neighbors and exclaiming, “There's Vic- tor Hugo! Lamartine looks well to-night, don’t be? What good friends Jules Janin and! those two editors of Figaro are—see them 4 banda,” ete., etc. In the course of the animated conversation that ensued the stranger Gag neg himself upon having enjoyed, during h's »! reai- dence in Paris, the society of almost ali the literary notabilities of France, He had been fortunate enough upon his arrival to make io gs japon ot gentleman who had of great service to him in selecting aod furnish- ing his hotel. Better still, in procuring for him @ complete and msgnifivent library—and Fetter still, again, in brirging to his table not a few of the authors of the books in it. ‘‘ But the rogue,’ vontin- ued the eccentric foreigner, “ reserved my greatest pleasure forthe last. I noticed, day before ir day morning, the name of one of the most {llustri- cus of your writers on the backs of a whole set of my most splendidly bound volumes. | had heardso much said about tais writer, al‘hough I had not yet | read his works, that I was seize 1 with an inexpress- ible desire to see him. I communicated this wish to my friend, ard last evening, for the first time, Cha- at dined with me. He's a very funny fel- ow! An explosion of jhter naturally followed this an- nouncement. But on inquiry it appeared that the joke bad its serious side. T!e stranger nad falleninto the bands of ja chevalier d'industrie, who had actuall pervnaded him that he was daily receiving the ‘“il- lustrations” of French literature. The chevalier bad flattered himself that he bad opened a new mine, which might be profitably worked to almost any extent hed’ ed period of tae approaching ex- bibition. The e nego to yield as richly as another, which bas mn exhausted—perhaps! A Fregch journal aays ‘those ostentatious Americans who made « great show once are quite gone out of fashion. You remember their pretensions to re- ceiving only sn exquisite portion of bigh society; a“ always found tome complaiaant titied individu: who used to charge himself or herasif to conduct the beau monde to their parlors, and who did the honors of their Leuse to his, or ber, own friends.” Is this mine quite exhausted’? | wish it were. Celestine Doudet, tried for alleged injuries to an English pupil, which resulted with, or witout an intent to kul, in death, has been acquitted, but she is not yet discharged from prison. She will be «ub- jected, persepe, to a trial under another indictment. Gres’ rise has been occasioned by this acquittal, but the jury is not, it is thought, exposed to the reproach ot having yiel testimony of nobie and royal witnesses to the honorable sntecedenta of the accused. All that testimony cennot shake the public impression that ber antecedents were sadly contradicted by her barbarous treatment of the ir little girls of Dr. Marscen. Mile. Doudet was Comeriy in the service of the Queen of England. undne weight to the | Lerd John Rassell has left for Berlin, on his way | to Vierra. ‘The Emperor left yesterday for the camp of Bou- | logne. This time his departure is announced in the pers. “ Roseia bas declared war against Piedmont, and thin is Lad as of ba orien, of ha ll betoken- ing @ speedy open: ¢ #pring campaign, which is already named “the War ibe Three 6 > al FIGARO. Death of the Emperor of Russia, COMMENTS OF THE BRITISH PRESS. {From the Liverpool Times, March 3. This event was announced to Varilament last night by re of the Crown as having taken which it produced in both brane ter than that which it w/ rope and the world. peror's death no doubt need be entertained. Lord John Russell, who is now in the Prusman capital, first telegraphed home that he had been struck by apoplexy son ant of death, and had just taken leave of family, is waa shortly followed by another tele- graphic message from the British Minister at Berlin, to the effect that he actually expired at St. Petersburg esterday morning, at one o'clock Tt is berdiy ible to overrate the importance of the extinction in single life in the present circumstances Ita effect mast be great and immediate, nad it (* more than probable that the bloody ecruggle impendicg before Sebartopo!, in which thou- | the Allied Powers. of Ri whose will or millions ot peaples tne while dies wi 3 the restoration of peace under the circumstances, less a matter of bt than of certainty. ‘The fate which has overtaken this great but unscropu- lous monarch, sup} him to have died a nati and not like many of his predecessors, violent death, ble manner, how demonstrates, in the strongest feeble the most potent become when unsustained by that moral power which is stronger thea cannons or bayonets, or the most deadly instruments of war. Twelve back, before the declaration of hostilities, Nicholas Romanoff, who now lies # mass of clay in his ancestral halls on the Neva, was the most proud, the most powerful and the most arrogant sovereign on this planet; but this smal interval of time bas served to re- cuce him to acondition more pitiable than the humblest of bis serfs; for in his nefarions attempt to ai jugatea weak and @ near neighbor, he outraged ji tice, provoked the hostility of the Western Powers, stirred up resistance throughout Europe to hia dicts tion, ana lived long enough to discover that the pared strength of s long and almost boundle: pire was utterly futile in the pursuit of » bad purpose. @ most conservative ruler in the world fell almost literally by his own hand when he pushed his agressions on the property of others beyond the bounds of endur anc © violation of the commandment which told him to respect his neighbor's property ended in his des- truction—in that prostration of the mental and the physical powers which superinduced apoploxy. Although our enemy, it is useless to deny tha the dead Crar_ wash great man’ ae well’ nn mighty potentate, Notwitbstanding tbe melai eboly fact of a quarter of a million of human creatures having perished, one way or anoth since this war began—sacrificed in point ef fact, to the imaatiable ambition of am unscrupulous ruler, yet he had many fine qualities of head and heart and to such of the British nation as settled in Rus.in he was extremely partial, and always paid them the most marked attention, The lion preys not upon carcasses, We can afford to do justice to de worth even in the person of a foe, and it is not toc much to say that if he had terminated his career without the Turkish ag- gression which produced this war, bistory would have evrolled him amongst the mont intellectual and success- ful monarchs of modern Europe. Perbape it is as well for the future peace of the world that this outbreak of Russian rapacity took place when it did, for guarantees will now be enforced which will effectually prevent its repetition. The fangs of the wolf will be drawn, and the lesson which he bas been taught will tell upon his suc- censors for centuries, Czar was born on the 6th of July, 1796, and if he lived uptil summer, would have attained his ffty-ninth i He diea not of old age, but of a broken heart—of ¢ disappointment caured by the utter failure of all his schemes of seeceuiiomment, prostration of all bis ible example of ects of unhallowed Bofore a great event like this, all the other foreign af- faire of the week fade into insignificance. the Manchester Examiner, March 3. The lege yenterday morning announced that in- telligen ad been received from Berlin of the danger- oun of the Emperor of Russia, Thia was the first intimation that had been made of even the indisposition of the Czar, Tidings rapidly followed of the fatal ter- mination of his illness, When the House of Lords met last night, Lord Clarendon made the astounding atate- ment that he had been informed by « telegraphic mes- sage from the British Minister at the Hague, that our imperial foe, the great Autocrat of all the Russias, had been suddenly seized with apoplexy, and w: % Lord Palmerston made the same announcement to th House of Commons, and there can be no doubt that the intelligence is authentic, This sudden and unexpected event will unquestionably exercise a most important oe over the future course of European politics. We aball not presume to speculate on the peanitin modifications which it may produce in the other great powers of Europe. The close of the career of such ® potentate, in the midst of agreat con- test that threatened such disasters to the world, will not fail to arouse conjectures and suspicions as to the means whereby his life had been so suddenly terminated. ‘The cause of his death in said to have been apoplexy; and when we remember the fact that he has long been supposed to labor under disease of the heart, aud how preatly the toils and anxieties of the past year must ave pressed upon bis mind, we can readily believe that his career has been cut short by an apoplectic seizure If bix death should tend in any way to facilitate psace, it will prove a great blessing to the world, and we can only hope that hin successor may seize the opportunity of inaugurating his reign by frank aasurances of his de- termination to give every reasonable security for the maintenance of ble relations between Russia and Lord Palmerston’s Reconstructed Cabinet. {From the Assemblie Nationale, March 1.] ‘The success of the new ministerial combination will depend altogether on the governmental qualities which Lord Palmerston will bring to hiv task, He would be prime minister. er at his side any colleague in a situation to divide with him the honor and the danger of the struggles which awaltbim A great minister, a consummate statesman, 8 firstrate orator may suffice perhaps for a single under- taking. For our part, we have never been of the opinion that Lord Palmerston had the qualifications necessary to elevate bim to such a height of power. even his friends appear quite prepared just pow to acknowledge that they have exaggerated the powers which the. tributed to him under the guive of a badly acquire pularity, The more he ascends, the more dors he realize and justify the judgment passed upon him by Mr, Disraeli. He owes bis chief parliamentary popularity in Kog Jand to the fact of his having been the auxiliary of i the revolutions of the continent, and in having prom to cover Europe with constitutional monarchies. ia people are prodigiously for the latter thempe! experience having proved bem that, like their minister, it is well tor themt be on good terms with every government, but becaua they are accustomed to feel that English influence is connected with the progress of constitutionaliam; and revolutions are always agreeable to those whom they en rich. Just at thie moment there is something lie » turn to this apecies of prop ism in England, and even this folly hax succeeded another, namely, the war spirit, which bas turned all the beads of the nation in « sort of deiirium. If Lord Palmerston has not all the tnlents which constitute a great minister, it cannot ne denied that be is the man of this situation, the natural representative of this exaltation of the natioual «pirit which he bas done «o much during #0 many years to ge nerate, to foster, aud to support Why England Failed in War Detatis. THE GOVERNMENT OF AN OLIGARCHY—PURTH. PRESSION OF DEMOCRATIC SENTIMENTS LY LEADING NEWSPAPER OF LONDON, (From the London Times, March 1.) We are vot going to repeat just at this moment the thourand and one stories of wonderful mismanagement in this remarkable war. We could atd to them by the down, Everybody you mert has a fresh instance of ab furdity. Indeed, it bas only been by accident that vernment—we beg to use the word without distinction of part or present, or this minister or that—happens to be right We bave already dwelt on the gigantic extrava gance described by Lord Hardwicke on Tuesday night, in which, simply from not knowing the usual terms on which steamers were engaged, hundreds of ands of pounds were flung ° Th 1 of constitutions EX: THE nidition, hardly more exposed to general ce predation, than the highly respectable, cooacientious and painstaking gentlemen who are colng the business of this war. The worst is, that when a great coup has t meed of public coogrataia’ 2 abt suddenly obtrades itself th after The Balaklava and Sebas topo! Railroad with universal acclamation. Long before a rail hind parsed through the Bosphor Mr. Veto wan a baronet, and the only fear was that th gentlemen of the Staff in the Crimea might feel too jealous of the civilians. It ix now said, on very good authority, that « plank road, which was,’ indeed ested in these columos, would have ‘been m thin time, and weuld have answered the purpose quite a well ip every renpect, except only one—viz., that it would bardly have carried a baronetey, We mention thin by the way, Confessing ourselves to share much of the perplexity that must attend the eonduct of » new war under extraordinary circumstances after « very long inte to contemplate for a moment this huge and deplorab con- ia fact—-ihis immense fusion, bewilderment, bluaders, aud crosspurposes high quarters, We beg our readers to note that ignorance and helplessness is not merely in the art mass ignorance, purely military affairs, but commerce, in busin tion of the most me: like nation in the world. It not only Obtains, it grows, itextepda its dark c obscure the whole official 1 flatter themse they now found more igi clerk you may meet in Insiead of taking a gloomy Netous view, end instead of attewpting to theory of our own, we will content ours ing the attention of our philosophers and sevans—if there are apy in this common-sense, eommon-place matter of-fact country—to this very proper object Of speculation. ‘There are many such fects in the world, and have been many in times pext—that ia, facts of exactly the characterand facts of exactly the opporite characte; but having & common re ference to the comparative mechanical and commercia knowledge of the goverp ing and the governed classes, For trample, our renpeetabie allies, the Turks, though they aprear t bave some inkling of mil rtyleef thelr own, are yet dependent Aimenians for trade, art superiority to cadets, if they proved, if not a the condition o' © war, they can col they ean © ateriai, they can | establish magazines, they can make forced marches, vot, indeed, without suffering, for they have deserts some mes to traverse, but, ate! ents th « soceew far above that of their bart wie te Tow i» our cose in India. It ie the cave of the French im Algeria It was generally the case of (be Roman. wherever they | went, and their superior hucwieige in the commercial end mechagical business cf we: contribntel as much to their universaldomiaion aa thelr discipline as¢ valor. Tt was very much the cane of the Saracens It was the cave of the Normans, for they vere ws tupericr io | ert end eclence a ts arms, would certainly be sacrificed, be | these free te gene rapes, ewe ‘the Emperor hs e existing relations between Russia and | He is alone; or at least he bas no long: | it i i ual betwoen this body surrounding population? The fumctionary know some small matter of business or mecha- not only is be at a loaa himself, but positively know where togo for instruction or aid, Whom ask? His colleagues, his fellow governors and re of high and low degree are ali equally ignorant. But be ia obliged to give orders and enter into negotia- Homa with the outsiders—that is, the governcd claanses. fameten they are all in a conspiracy to cheat him, like @ party of hotel keepers or guides coucerting the pluncer of the wealthy Englich tourist. Can he get one or them to peach on the rest? But the maa who be- HE se i bE 5 s = z cy fear of ‘rt | into some job or committing some #poi taneows biunder, which may cost half @ million or. « and, what is worse, leave the work undo bi mos| fatal course in that exeoasive minisier or a subordinate functionary sus- pect every body, reject all advice, and confound the pat riot and the rovue, the timely suggestion aad the naxod job. We sbail We did not proposs he offictal “Hix.” Tt ina , & great commercial, bu- shipbuiltiog, railway-making, provision. erythiog-manufacturing nation, governed by set body of men, who know of these things. any more than they know how to cook their dinners or to make their own clothes, Lord Lucan and Lord Raglan. ‘The following in » copy of the letter addreasad by Lord to Lord Raglan compiaiving of the expression used im Lord Raglan's dewpatch describing the charge at Balaklava:— BALaKLava, Nov. 30, 1854 My Lord—In your lordship's report of ths cavalry ac- tion of Bal ‘a of the 26th ult., given in the papers which bave just arrived from |, you opserve “ that from so1we misconception of the instruction to ad- vance, the lieutenant-general considered that he was bound.to attack at all bazarda, and he accordingly order- ed Lord Cardigan to move forward with the light bri pede.” Surely, my Lord, thie is a grave charge, and an yputation reflecting seriously on my professional cha- raster. Tcannet remain silent. It is, I feel, incumbent on me to state those facts which I campot doubt must clear me from what I respectfully submit is altogether unmerited. The cavalry wax formed to support an in- tended movement of the infantry, when Uaptain Nolan, the aide-de-camp of the Quartermaster General, came up to me at «peed, and placed in my hands this written instruction :— = Lord Ragian wis! front, fo ry to advan to prevent jow the enemy emune. horse artiller uch cavalry is on your left alee After carefully reading this order, I hesitated and urged the uselesanens of auch attendii tone,atated that they cavalry should atiack immediately, “Where, and what to do!” as neither envmy nor guna were within sight, He replied in mont disrespectful Dut significant manner, pointing to the further end of the y, “There, my Lord, is your enemy; there are our guns.’’ So distinct, in my opinion wan your writ- = instruction, ano ro positive and urgent were the or- ders delivered by the aide de-camp, that I felt it waa im- ative on me to obey, and 1 informed Lord Cardigan hat he wae to advance; and to the objections he made, and in which I entirely agreed, I replied that the order was from your Lordship. Having decided, against my conviction, t2 make the movement, I did all in | my Power to render it aa little ' perilous ax pos- sible. I formec the brigade tn two lines. and led to ite support two regiments of heavy cavalry, the Scots Grays and Royals, and only halted them when they had reached the spot’ frem which they could protest the retreat of the Light Cavairy in the event of their bein, pursued by the enemy, and when, having already low many officers and men by the fire from the batteries and fort, any further advance would have exposed them to destruction. My Lord, I consider at the time—I am «till of the same opinion—that I followed the only Aw a Lieutenal peral, doubtieas, I I asked him, olevated pr marding the batteries and ti position of the enemy, would have been nothing len than direct disobedience of orders, without any other that I preferred mv own opinion to that of nd, in thi instance, must have exposed cavalry to aapersions against which it might Cifficult to defend ourselves It should also be remembered that the aide de-camp, well informed of the intentions of his General and tue objects he bad in view, after first insisting on an imme diate charge, then placed himself in front of one of the leading equadrons, where he fell the first vic- tim, 1 Cid not dare 80 to disobey your lordship, and it in the opinion of every officer of rank in this army to whom I bave shown your instructions that {t was not possible for me to do 40 J hope, my lord, that I bave stated the facta temper. stey and in a becoming and respectful manner, ay it bas been my wikh todo, Tam confident that it will be your cesive todo me jastice. I wili only ask that jour lordabip should kindly give the same publicity to | this letter that has been given to your report, ax f ara rensitively anxious to satisfy my sovercign, my mill tary superiors and the public, that I have aot oa this unbappy occasion shown myself underery hoenes or uniting the comman! w iW 1 have the b Lic utenant-Ger = 8 5 5 bordination, } naple correspondent of the Me tiv he should © *torthing, and! to declare that unless given at once they themanives would ttack forthwith. The General tried to reason | with them, but they only became more obstinate and | cetermined. Seeing rome deci'ive atep must be taken to preserve authority and prevent insurrection, Conrcbert ordered our the 47th regiment of the line, aud a battery of field artillery, and laving seized the ring. | leaers in ti demand & ta Zouave, shot twelve of them | in presence of the whole camp—a pirce of energetic ac- ticn whieh bad at once the happy effect of rendering the forvivers much more aatiafied with the conduct of the rirge. and lean disposed to try the resisting power of Fort Constantine and ite sister batteries, on their own account. ‘This affair (says the correapondent) which I | bave every reason to believe real, was, of course, mach as porsible hushed up in the camp, butthat ft is | pita mere lula romor I may venture to assert. having heard of it from @ source not likely to be misinformed. | rim by that deeiai ‘The General Arming tn Rassta, ‘The Invalide Kusse publishes the regulation prepared by the Directing Nenate, and ratified by the Ucar, for the organization of the “Imperial Mobile Militia,” as the new corps decrred in the recent manifesto a to be called, The ordinance ided into nine sections and ninety even paragraphs, and in the original fills seven folio Columnr, ‘The first clause of the document declares that the corps {+ raived for temporary service, in defence the faith, the throne, and the fatherland. It is en acted that exemptions from military service hitherto pprittet, shall not apply in the present case, but that never jk liable to the capitation tax, equivalent, aball be liable to be called upon to serve tn this corps Merchants, Jews, and foreign colonists, who have been encouraged to settle in Russia aac receive grante of land eptec. The corps will be divided 4 by @ staff aptain, 1,000 In order to four captains and a b-fhorrs and roldiers, oluntary ') sub serptions jeb the committees wl! open list perrons are summoned to contrilute. The bjects of the Emperor are adjured by their love of | thet the names nad sub I be published. The nobles, ¢ deliberated aceoriing v the diree ing, are to repair to their reveral localities exert thempelves in forwarding the enrollment. The ire must pot be younger than y, nor olier orty five years of age. In the formeton of com es, inhabitants of the same village are to be kept to é as far on possible, Those who have uo Orearme of thelr own are to be furnished with a mustet and bayonet. The employment of the militia is to be at the ywanure of the Czar; and upon the termioation of the or, oll persons serving io the corps will be : back to their bomes. Should * will receiv tion to furniah if eeruit at Rasta and Sardinia. + following is @ translation of the circular ad @ by Count Newnelrode to Kussian agents in fo States, notllying that Russia leat war with fr Presenters cf he pe at & moment wher without apy extensible motive, w of compaint, ao4 witout ev. est infringement apon the dire try, baa pinced at the cot lh OO men Feb 4S sermne * nations 4 have erperiencet te present cou nie f the house of « anoals of ite history » Russlen t mat et army ervasiog the Alpe $ wae to defend Medmont, and not ty io but, it ia tree reige Of the Emperor Alersnder of glor sagoin Rustin whe lent ber faithful euppert to the in lepratence of Fariinia, whee relaet ated on the throme of it ancestors | | | vase | Js the Counriia of the Cabineta of & | * house of Bavoy was Most @# Goally recall to mim thet, »t the sume period If Gonos one re emited to the kingtom of Kaatimia it a beenune Ube Imperial Cabinet recogeiret tne macecaity of aevnring at the pame time the pumercius prosper ty nd the gresiness of the consiry te arms of aes had Comtribwled We deliver from s forviga yoxe’ | | M Pro sia bas the conscientious satisfaction of knowing was not provoked by her. ‘The attitude thus assumed by Sardinia, without « formal declaration of war, as we have stated, would make ua doubt what name we ought to give to tle auxi Lary troops destized to iavade our frontiers under the flsg of a country with which we have hitherto been liv u in peace. er, if the Court of Turin loner sight of the prio ciples and customs consecrated by the law of nations ax the immutable rule of the internation»! relations of Statex, the Emperor, for hia part, is resolved to observe them, With thin intention, his Imperial Majesty feels it in cumbent upon him to declare that peace is de jure and defacto broken by this flagrant act of hostility, the whole blame of which recoils upon the Sardinian govern: ment. We leave it to boar the entire responsibility thereof in the face of the opinion of its country and of all Europe. It behoven especially the allied powers to appreciate the conduct of the court of Sardinia when it hi 1 it opportune and toyal to turn ite arms again very moment when the imperia! cabinet mplishment eon strangely In fact, while tood by the cabinet at Turin rnments @f Central Europe wisely interposed their legitimate authority W prevent one 0) the belli gelent powers from recruiting its legions in the States which insiton baving their neutrality respected, the Serdinian government, lees chary of the blood of Italy, consents to pour it out for a cause foreign to the politi cal and religious interpsta of ite nation, For, in good faith, it capnot be pretended that by unfolding ber bas ner by the ride of the crescent, Sardinia fancies sho server the cauwe of Christianity Nor can it be affirmed that «he seeks to defend the weak againat the strong wien she joins her arma to these of France and England It im thin latter Power, if we are rightly informed. which takes the Sarcinian troops under its command — we will not sy in its pay, as we with to abstain from wounding the ations! teslings of @ country with which, to our regret, we are about to be at war. Notwithstanding thin necessity, the Emperor will «till afford protecticn to the private yinterests of Sardinian subjects who entertain ancient commersial relations with Russia, They sball not suffer from the errors of their government. They are at liberty to remain ia the em pire in full security under the protection of our laws #0 long aa they do not infringe them. But the Sardinian flag will henceforth cease to enjoy the prerogatives accorded solely to the mercantile wavy of neutral States, A term shal ve fixed for the departure of Sardinian veesels that may be actually in Russian ports. The exe- quator will be at once withdrawn from Sardinian consul» n agente at Genoa and Nice will also receive reise of their functions, peace having been broken by the rdinia from the moment it acceded to the jance concluded on the 10th of April, 1854, Great Hritain and France The Emperor has deigned to charge me to communi cate these determinations to alt friendly powers, NESSKELRODE. The Prussian Negotiations in Parts, GBN. VON WEDELL'S INTEKVIKW WITH NAPOLEON— WHAT THE KING OF PRUSSIA AGREKY TO DO. PRUSSIA APPROACHES THK VIENNA OONPREENCK— NO LIBERTY OF DEBATK PERMITTED TO It {Paria (Feb. 2h) Correspondence of London On arriving in Paris, M. de Wedell had an with M. Drouyn de I’Huys, and then with the Emperor. He was well received by both, and neither appears to have found any fault with his language. They both that is, the Emperor h they saw with plows made by the of Prurs that thay ‘ jon the over: tures proposed by t me of the King and that they we od t treat separately and directly with Prussia, who might thus #ucceed in aasum- ing ber place in the conferences at Vienna; but they, st the same tims, intimated the engagements they ahould require from Prussia, and which would enable her to take part in the treaty. The Emperor and M. Drouyn de I'Huys spoke of a treaty which sbeuld be analogous to that which France and England had signed with Austria on the 24 of Becember, while at the same time recog nizing that there might be reason to take into coo tideration the interpretation which hay been given to the four conditions of guarantee in the protocol of the 28th of December, and the acceptance of that interpretation by the Eanperor Nic The lan guage employed on these two sions was, I am assured, cordial and #incere, though not without leaving something til unexplained, The protocol of the 2th of December pave & vague and general interpretation to the third cor of guarantee. pamely, that which refers to the revision of the treaty of July, 1841, reepeeting the re-establiahines equilibrium of Kuropo and the limitation fluence of tavor of th between Gene Loy preliminary eon the Fmperor they agreed cn thi disclaim all ides o! énired the treat the protocol, that Pros: rences of Vienna immediately afte ‘¢ nature of the treaty: that on the one wide, as oa the other, the treaty should be prepared, and that negotie tions should be subsequently opened with the deciding in com orm. oth parties # werk wt once Li drew up hia project, and nde Lhoyahisown. The General sent tis to Kerlin, in order to assure himself tuat he had not devi ated from the intentions of the King, who authorised the General to epter into negotiations, taking the pre ject an bin point de depart Tuat sorization wan brought to the General vy Colonel d/Olberg, who arrived in Varis on the loth of F ry. While the Colonel was on bis way hither, M Vrouyn de Lbays, instead of communicating his project eral de Wedel), rent it on to Berlin ty the Feoneta bh torn, and without uffel. ‘This lered in one tingle but that point w @ conference, med to act in the ae ate in the exeenti yahoull adopt, That Ws previously ob ige Pras- apd make ber subsrdinate to the conference. According Ww the pro majority of t ect of General de Wedel, Prussia should, on contrary, enter into the conferences ‘with taking any p engagement and with the plenitude of the ri troditions bute to the same conference whieh usage ond diplomatic ower united in one and ference, you percnive grea! and itis the one which bas divided the cobineta of Kerlin and Yaris, The Courtot Parlin declares tha in ready to engnge itself, with wome slight exceptt within the limit of the treaty of the 24 December conequently to deliber be taken to attain the + the re estab iehment of th ot the protocol of guet, but tt requires pince in the couterences A Vienna, the rest. apd ut Vienna, I'r literate like (he other Powers and Ure neceeary to lliance—nately bat there hat propor y of action you ying Irmand and ler into the comferences only om condition that 7 opinion or, at least, you shall aet with us as Uf you were of our opinion The Russian Squadron in the Paerttic. BURFICIOU® MOVEMENTS OF FIVER WAM WIPR—CON JECTURRD CAPTURE OF TWO ENGLION TRADKRA 1) Times Jan. ¥ ptain Permlie 2th Deowr A Correspow five, « #teamer, We give the report readers to clear up oneeln emalier ahipe cmatanee if they ean to be in the Waele the Aurore pauices| when the « the Vallee and Dwine, accor frew Vieweh miamonarie Amout of Sogalin, but Hamer we bave not breaking out of Vatavia write Of the Kae at ejuedtron left ona . that place ne | were housed over im the ri © wheres te hear war me near cok wunpiebone Grace Lome pe) wt pearly {4 quite poss bie that they have teen eeptn The Hengalore left Glasgow Anguat 1th, ant om the Decemvet rhe was out 1M deye the Grace Long eft Giargow om Avgurt 26th, and hed not been ont n lab duye The following s4¢\\ional commoanication, the same peper eye in amother place, having been mate to ws, we {hina it well worth poblieh ng On the ith of January, instant, am unknown eteamer parsed by our toads from the weet to the easteard Um | the 2)et witime the emoke of & etenmer wee meee from the lookout bere (Batavia) from the paneer gere whe arrived her On tne came arrivet here The 6 are seen Om the wight bY, (our vesaeie oll peering rtahip of this hip re ore, by clear war came cour wile lee brig and a steamer, the 2lat was that of the steamer belonging to squadron. Cape of Good Hope. MUTINY ON BOARD AN AMERICAN SIIP—#EKI008 ATTACK ON THE CAPTAIN AND OVFIORRS BY A 6AL LOK HIB ARMEST. ‘The Cape (Cape Town) Monitor of December 30th, “ays —An unfortunate alfair occurred om board the Ame- riean ship Meaford. About ten days before her arrived in Table ay a dispute arose betwoen the captain amd One of the seamen. The part of the latter was taken another sailor, a Swede. The quarrel ran bigh, om whi the Swede weut to the forecastic aud armed himself with sLowieknife He afterwards returned, and the aiapute between bom and ¢ words followe bead, a dangerous on arm.’ The first and second office: for hia rescue, when the for one pattiouierly on the wr probably disable his hand for life, the i with » rerlous wound om the abd: ngerously miling, The Sw ‘, end nately reou noe, Such Jer and the Heeting fur 0 duabled state both of the brough troma, y by order of the U. 8. Consul, Capt Holmes, He will be forwardes either by the Med= ford of some other opportunity , tor trial to the Usited States Great Coubts are entertained of the recovery @ ‘one ot the poor rufleroes Particulars of the Wreek of the French Fri- Kate Semilt ‘The Paris Moniteur of the Lat inetant confirms the toss of the Semillante, After mentioning that its information in based on the accounts sent in by the military and maritime authorities of Cor it adds — Vieces of wreck of all kinds, the bow of @ frigate, sailor shat, bearing the name of the Semillante, the leg of that frigate, &c., having been washed ashore, re mover all doubts on this melancholy event, Only one body bas yet been found, The Semiliante was a fine frigate of 60 gues, and waa commanded by Captain Sugan, she left Toulon oa the 14th, having om board, in addition to her regular crew, ‘try. The weather was rough when the Semi. ried. but there was no reason to ay, that 1 had reached only a few leagues (rom ant, a violent tempest would come on and desroy hee, Driven by the violence of the gale from the southwest into the Bt { Bonifacio, she is supposed to have atruck on @ sunken rock, and to bave instantly Glled amd nk. Among the akon, the numbers on which indicate tl whieh they bei , alao a letter written to tl the carpenter; and the hat of one of the sail ‘The soutane of & haa also been picked up, murt have belonged te the chaplain of the Rigate All these things were washed ashore on the small island of Lavesri. apd in now in cw Fashions for March. po la Follett ) The variety {n ball dresses in so great that it isdiMcult to nelect, bol we must cile » beautiful evening toilette af rolerie, worked with velvet follage. The coiffure seoem- penying it ls composed of Pe ae velvet vine leaves, with silver wtalky and tendrils, They have all low bodies. ir placed ip fiat bavdeaux, slightly covering the 4, a broad plait of hair is ey , forward, and has a wreath of vine leaves twisted round tt, and unequal distances a bunch of grapes droops @rncefally. For ' ° groveriy eb ge of the front with a band jet {ul design of vine leaves amd Iready being paid to th n lately of black t, trimmed round the deep basquines de voile, th alted, instead of being plain, as for ta that they are merly Honds of plush on flounces of taffetas dresses have become too common to be worn by any lady of tree hion Spotted tulle much worn by young ladies, Double shirts with flounces, are universally adopted. Some very pretty dresres are inade of shaded gray, piak or bloe taffetas, with founces trimmed with wreathe of peacock featvers interlaced in a moat beeutl- The b o trimmed with amaller foa- © over the other 0 om arm by rosettes of ribbon of the shadee A row of rosettes in placed Hpenking of feather trimmings, majored of partridge feather hare mont uted on tolletter megtiges, ly pretty on gray, black or deap blue An elegant dress is peel of ati « the ekirt trimmed with three floune « ind with very narrow violet velvet the ipaide of th of the feathers fromt are, and A ate velvet heartseane in placed aterch polnt of the The bx i nleeven to mate, and bouquets of the enme hanging foliage orpament the shoule body form the sleeves et venta are much they fit the figure closely and have very Derquen, embrordered with jet beads, represemting rime leaves and prapes, and are open in frout, The sleeves are very laige, and a var m in the Greek atyte; being open to the hemi of the arm, and trimmed with the border of Jory. Vlain covered bonnete are the ‘ashion, ond will be so during the winter, The onlj : Wide blonde novelty just now € cuptinues to be su t the edger of the bomneta, forming narrow { prolucing & very eisgent are always trimmed with mb « h used and Je of fronts oft the in blonde, mixed flowers and ribbons, The head drewes are particularly recherchis, Rose leaves are much in favor, Affairs in Mexteo, OCK VELA CMU COnMBATON DENCE. Vins Cove, Moreh 6, 1886, Winding-up of Santa Anna's Dictatorship—His Hopeom Necessity for a Line of Steamers to New York—Patlure of the Agent of the Royal Mall Packet Steambig. Company—Absence of Santa Anna, de Tembark by the Kaglish steamer, and from New Or- keane you will hear mare of my doings Kecandon w but rematna for the the treatment of the English com He in the maa to arrange aving sjuersed some millions out of Santa Apne he made the blunder of elvancing hime to go with w Orinabe, » wander does not sult him busines, and after the last three millions, for which he ie in « tight Ox new, Like vultures, be aed other worthies leave the carcass because nothing ele but the bones remain, and ae Dewrly all seems to be and the Dictator will soom give Ube geome up in ir joes wot think i very tate to be found im the capital at the hour of judgment, people having the w swith to hang bim from bie baloony He will part maof his (ll gotten gains, tf be con wis shington ap at the bait, aad hand over to his three millions He dove . Mt accomplishing hie object, being of o a that money works wonders at Wash ington, sud it remaine to be seen whether this be trae or not It would be t eh it were, for not only would our country prived of having so many Mexicam speliations ret m of whieh axe im the ba 1 been assured), but ome « age of coneluting a liberal treaty, « & tariff granted, to allow our produce » wool boat create «eam com. now pr » come in ty to the penple ot large thon between Yo many other & n of each proceedings, rabe (ook abera G400,000 at t irieane had got the me bree millions, which, ia + the’ bowndary y vill comeetve the tunity «lip Vrvugh { which the inet Syocate thie by all wll be eelonishe’ ot ws One chance andl will tol om Pocket Company at ae the com. sly for the proclamation of et to be o bers) man, nad aly merchants am Cneees wens change, be loneee of inst your here been ltnmense 5 Vayaltons are going om with renewed vigor Ixouwerty.—A friend informs ws that thurpros belli rus on the Andres. ee | 8 tle pow the par a“ Wal bows —Unford (Me) Demoer at sis sr