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fer this reason. In a strictly educational point of ‘Mt in advicable to enconrage literary talent amongst those eapable of writing that language, to provide the means dy which an inroad may be made upon the mass of igno- yance which unfortunately lurks amidst the recesses of ‘hat country. No doubt it will be impossible to make any material progress in this direction until they are @onversant with the English language. ‘The London Chronicle of July 23 ss Ex-President Fillmore visited the birthy of Burns en Thursday, and embarked for Belfast, Ireland, in the evening. ‘Mr. F. was to leave London on the 28th ult. for Paris. Galignani’s Messenger of July 27, says:— During the last few days @ party of men deopest black, dressed cy the ‘newest ater g het fauhion, have been observed at the Universal Exhibition, ‘the Jardin d’Hiver balls, and other pu@ic places. These ebon gentlemen are functionaries of the court of his im- Majesty Faustin I—beiter known as Soulouque. them are General Count Elca, senator, Grand @hancellor of Hayti; Viscount Elea, his son; Baron Simon, wenator; and the Count de Val, senator. The above per- sonages, with a numerous suit, lodge at the hotel in the garden of the Cercle de VExposition, | They are admitted dine at the club dinner, and may be seen almost any evening smoking segars and taking coffee on the terrace. 4 French steamer has been sent: to Malta for troops to aid the Bey of Tripoli. ‘The insurrection in that province hhad assumed a scrious magnitude. Two thousand Turks were defeated by the insurgent Arabs. It is now discovered that ihe author of the celebrated ‘war'pamphlet, attributed to Prince Napoleon, is really no other than M. Mirolawski, who figured in the Polish, Baden and Sicilian insurrections. The Duke of Newcastle and Omar Pacha were at Con- stantinople—the former in search of evidence to justify himself; the latter, it is said, to tender his resignation. ‘The condition of Itnly is extremely unsatifactory. mors of plots and conspiracies pervade the whole penin- aula. Cholera is virulent in Lombardy. In Naples nu- merous arrests of officers of the army have been made, and government is at presen! suspiciously kind to the Jazzaroni—an ill omen. ‘The village town of Chawouni, in Switzerland, been almost destroyed by fire. Half the village is in mins. Subscriptions are solicited in England to aid the sufferers. The Farl of Antrim is dead; he is succeeded by his brother, the Hon. Mark Kerr, a Captain in the army. ‘The Peruvian Minister in London. has given notice of a reduction of 5 per cont on the Anglo-Peruyian debt (3 per eent on deferred), and President Castilla is much glorified im consequence. ‘The new steamshi erpool anc running the m ates, with 57 re ew, as Habana, to run between Cuba, Liv- s made her trial trip in the Mersey. ldistance of 23{ miles in 1934 min- lutions of the wheels per minute. The clipper ship Red Jucket, Capt. Millward, arrived at Liverpool 25th ult., 84 days from Melbourne, with 138,000 ounces of gold, including two nuggets, weighing respec- tively 43 and 47 pounds. In the channel she came in ecllision with the American packet Emerald, causing the FE. to put back to Liverpool with loss of bowsprit, &. ‘The gross amount of freight and passage money of the Red Jacket, is over £12,000 sterling. The Board of 1 returns of Great Bri for the month ended on the 30th of June show that the declare. value of exports was £8,106! 5, and the total for the six months ended on the same date was £48,112,322, a total for the onding period of 1854 of £49,173, 002. The Liverpool cotton market has been quiet, at 1d. Jower. Wheat and flour quiet, and unchanged. Indian eorn in better demand. Not much doing in provisions. Lard firm, and dearer. Weather wet. Money was in more demand, but rates unchanged. Consols closed at 91. American securities active, but the recent advance en railways scarcely maintained. An impression is current that an advance of 10 per cent will be imposed on import duties, and some transactions have taken place with the view of anticipating the in- ereased tax. Cur London Correspondence. Loxpoy, July 27, 1855. The New Colonial Minister—The War—Arrival of the Red Jacket— America ani the Paris Exhibition—America and the Sound Dues—the Ultima Ratio, de. As Texpectod, and as I informed you ina previous letter, Sir William Molesworth has been appointed Minister for ‘the Colonies in the place of Lord John Russell. Sir Wil- liam will probably be succeeded by Mr. Lowe, member for Kidderminster, a very able man, and who held an under- secretaryship before. ‘The war is still most popular, and the amour propre ofthe Bation is more interested than ever in the capture of Se- Pastopol. That fortress still gallantly holds out, but inch by inch the allies are getting closer. The French works against the Malakoff tower are almost within pistol ehot; a fearful struggle must shortly ensue. Louis Napoleon has gone to the Pyrennees to join the Empress. They will return together to receive the Queen ef Fogiand on the 17th or 18th of August. ‘The recond reading of the Turkish Loan bill took place last night nem con. Probably some oppagition will be made on the third reading. Otherwise there is no news in Europe. ‘The clipper Red Jacket has arrived from Melbourne with advices to the 2d of May. ‘The Times in its money article of this morning says ‘Thursday evening an impression that the supplementary estimated to be moved this evening will show a heavy ex- penditure beyond the amount contemplated by govern ment in the earlier part of the session eaused general heaviness in the funds to-day, although there has beoo no serious decline. The continued rain, likewise, had an adverse influence. Another sitting took place at the Court. of Bankruptey yerterday, under the estate of Messrs. Strahan, Paul & Bates, but the business was principally confined to the reception of additional proofs of debt. An application was me of creditors who are claimants for securities deposited to examine the bankrupts, but it was refused on the ground that it might interfere with the progress of other proceedings. It was distinctly stated that the court and solicitor to the assignees are on by prepared to give every information for the purpose of assisting the retlement of claims, but that it is cou ered necessary to abstain from any public inquiry un- til the result of the ¢ al charge shall have been ascertained. As the balance sheet is not ready, an ad © the 9th of October was agreed to, and it is prop of that month to declare a dividend, an ea:ly distribution being, it is said, calculated to fa- cilitate the r {the estate. The amount of debts now proved is nearly £300,000; and the total of el every kind, will, ft is expected, reach t The bankrupts were in attendance in ving been brought up in custody from ion 1 nt last week of an intention of e Exchequer to propose an increase Hous . ring the advantage of the payu die., by existing Pari y be prorogued on the 15th. having been made that the United poorly represented at the Paris Exhibition, c e, the Commissiary of the York, Virginia and South Carolina, to the essed a sort of memorandum on the ficial columns of the Paris cument for perusal the refusal of captains of eand Sound dues, The # date devotes a long arti- ppears in th t you the di na vecent le poy the Sta licited the @ of 1826, diplomatic « impossible t altima rato, an mon-of-war will, a# proposed by M. Upsher in 1844, endeavor to open he aits now closed by the guns of the Danish fort of ion. Itis not made to the The D-bate promises to return to this subj Our Paris Correspondence Panis, Jal: B, 1855. Thu neh Loan—Te Popularity—Amusing Scenes a ne ription Offices—Prince Napoleon's Speech ai the Dinner of the Imperial Commission—Legitimist 4 mento Exh n Commissioners in Trouble—The Rig. way Suit—Horace Greeley—Charge of Adultery Against Prince Nayolon—Rumored Postponement of Queen Vie toria’s Vivit to Paris, de., de ‘The subscription for the new loan of seven hundred and fifty millions, opened on the 18th, will close on the 20th. Heavy bets have heen made that it will amount to more than four millions; but the Patrir has positively con- tradicted a report which was current on Monday, that rpeculators had already covered the total of the loan by ameans of subseriptions of fifty francs and under. The Petri added that the whole of the latter subscription hod not yet attained in Paris and the departments fifty It begins to appear that the condi- tions of this loan are more favorable than those of the Sormey Joaps for lange capitalists, and Jess favorable thag millions of capital democratic features of the vanished, pean sense), have scarcely anything to do with the loan, except to be burdened themselves and their successors, with the additional impositions which it must entail. Most of their representatives in the crowds that have besieged to Mayors’ offices and the Treasury Department, in Paris, during the past week, have “made tail,” as they say here, only a8 nominal subscribers, or even as mere speculators on the chances of selling in the morn- ing the places which they have secured over night. In don. cured by a scheme so devised as to appeal to the pockets of ‘all sorts and conditions’? of Frenchmen, from the Senator to the chiffonier, or scavenger. A banker in the rue de la Chaussée d’Autin, who has sub- scribed largel morning to his porter that quite a pile of waste stuff from the kitchen and the bureau had accumulated in the court. with a shrug of his shoulders come to clear it away for two or three days. body else, he’s at the Loan.” offered many scenes not unlike those described as having oceurred in the rue Quincampoix, where the hunchback made a fortune by leasing his back ag a desk for the speculators who rushed to subseribe for shares in Law's at first seemed for ordinary purses, while the great heme have quite entirely “The people,” (to use the word in its Euro- spite qf all the interference of the police, (who, one night, arrested nearly six hundred persons), this kind of business has been carried on to a large extent. Even the prohibition against “making tail” before four o'clock in the morning has not prevented large crowds from passing the whole night near the approaches to offices where subscriptions are received. During the first nights of the week, men, women and children thronged together almost tumultuously. Some had to stand the whole time, others hired or brought stools and chairs, and others still contrived more or less ingenious substitutes for beds. But whether standing, sitting or lying, they must have des- paired of sleeping, and the greater number contented them- selves with chatting, laughing and singing, espectally those who had taken the precaution to supply themselves liberally with something to eat and drink, Many of these people were of the sort that sell tickets at the doors of the minor theatres, or, within doors, under the chan- deliers, help create the fame of many an actor and play- writer by well-timed (and well paid) applause. It is supposed that the success of the loan had been ranteed beforehand by the Credit Mobilier jety, and the great bankers of Paris and Lon- But several important advantages were se- to the Ioan, complained last Sunday “Que voulez wus 2? replied the porter, the chiffonier has not Like every- Indeed, the past week has ppi stock y this loan, with the other recent French and Eng- lish loans, will swell the already round sum of one milliard cight hundred and seyenty-o three thousand seven hundred and seventy francs, which, according to Baron de Reden, the celebrated economist, is terest and extine European States! nually squandered by these States in destructive war could be devoted to the arts of peace, what a blessed de- velopement might be made of the system of public loans and of credit! nillions two hundred and annually required to pay for the in- ion of the national debts of all the If but half the sum which is an- You will notice in the speech of Prince Napoleon at the dinner which was given to him and the Imperial Commis- sion on Monday last by the jurors of the Exhibition, a very distinct recognition of the democratic clement in French society. natio institutions, and, “above all, aim, workman a manuficturer; the peasant, a proprietor: the soldier, a genoral; and the whole people crowns itself in raising to the throne a dynasty of its choice.” Prince and his father, the ex-King, affect, you are this style of speech, and. “In effect,” said the Prince, ‘we are a of democracy and equality, by our manners, our by the object at which we becomes a minister; the With’ us, the employ The aware, constant to that old “-Napo- ademocratic and popular (I had almost They were not a little vexed at dines with which Marshal Castellane, when ‘idea,”” a mutilated telegraph despatch brought him, as he thought, news of the assassination of the Emperor, is said, while deploring the national loss, to have called upon his officers to rally around the legitimate heir of the kings of France, Henry V. To be sure, this story is officially contradicted; but where there is smoke there is fire; end there must be some foundation for a story that has obtained such a wide ation in Paris. ‘The fete of Saint Henri was religiously kept the other day in'the churches, and on the boulevards you met more thin one legitimist dandy with a white flower in his buttonhole. ‘The numerous recent visiis of legitimists to Clermont, and of Orleanists to Frohsdorf, have occasioned uneasy feelings to the imperialists. It is said (but I hope it is a slander) that a project is entertained of so altering the line of the fortifications that the chapel of St. Ferdinand, the shrine of Orleanist devotions, erected on the spot where the Duke of Orleans was killed, must needs be razed to the ground. This will cost at least a million francs, and would be ‘‘paying dear for the whistle.” A suit hes just been decided by the first chamber of the Tribune of the Seine, in favor of the claim of Mrs. Ridgway to a portion of the estate of the late Duchess de Plaisance, by virtue of her relationship to that eccentric and wealthy lady, whom Edmond About, in his recent work entitled ‘‘Gréce Contemporaine,”’ has made known to the world. Mrs. Ridgway is a brilliant American lady, who, as M. Berryer, the celebrated legitimist o1 who opposed her ¢laim, said “occupies at Paris, thai her fortune, and above all to the charmsand graces of person, a magnificent position.”’ Here is opulent heat age united to an already brilliant fortune. L’cau va a la iviere. 1 understand that a queer mistake was made the other day, by an American commissioner, who wished to ask the Imperial Commission for ‘a fresh supply of exhibi- tors’ tickets,’’ but who, in his haste, omitted the word tickets, and thus asked for whatis really needed—‘a fresh. supply ‘of exhibitors.” Another commissioner was ar- rested on the same day at the “buffet,”’ (refreshment ta- ble,) on account of a gold louis, which he had offered for change, and which was said to be “light.”’ His commis- sioner’s ticket, and even his commission itself, with the big government ticket, did not save him from being | between two gens d’armes the whole length alace of Industry to the police office, where the offending piece was weighed, “not found wanting,’ and the commissioner was liberated. Horace Greeley has not escaped so quickly from the clutches of French law. His case has been postponed al- ready twice, and no one can tell how many more timas it will be. Prince Napoleon’s lawsuit, the proces Vernon, will pro- bably be more easily and quickly, if not more justly, de- cided. A colonel, who does not appear ambitious of win- ning the title of general as it was won by a certain in the days of the Orleanist princes, has pr wt pg his marital rights to the chance of sp and instituted a suit against the hi P sumptive (if not presumptuous) to the imperial thron: on the charge that the latter has shown himeelf t to his wife, a neice of M. Boulay de la Meurthe, esident of the French fepnblls. The oF nt is a man of weight and gravity, at least ina phy sical sense, but his niece stands accused of undue levity. ‘The affair will probably be pushed up within the walls of the correctional poliec, but the colonel is not likely to decome «pedi ral. The Prince is himself—you have not forge faci—a general. Wek e of Cambridge is to ret eneralissime of the Foreign Legi nof the French prince general announced. It is singular that of all the Mighty Captain,” only one Bonaparte is in the Cri the delightful retreat from court festivities’ w been prepares at St. Cloud. Bat the prebably unfounded. The fele of St. Napoleon will be duly celeb all, notwithstanding the approp ion of the tate funds to the relief of the wounded the Crimea rumor is Our Madrid Correspondence. Mavnip, July 19, 18: ed to Meet the Financial Difficulties of the vrnment—The Insurrection in Catalonia—The Carliss and the Spanish Clergy—The New Spanish Minister to Washington—Affair of the Black Warrior—The Papat Legate Alout to Leave Spain—Impeachment of the Last fe., de Cabine. In ord # of this y r the deficit of $10,000,000 in the esti- v the Cortes have voted and the Queen has sane 1 a new emission of Treasury bills for $11,000,000. ‘These bills gain an interest of five per cent and are irsned for ninety per cent of their no- al value, and will be taken for their full value in pay- it for ihe lands and property to be sold under the new law of release from mortmain. If within thirty days after the publication of the bills any should remain un- taken, they may then be distributed among the tax- payers, who pay twenty-five dollars, and more direct taxes according to their means, and must be taken up hy by these favored parties. We shall see, whether by this extraordinary measure the government can avoid bank whieh is now imminent. The insurrection of the workmen of Catalonia has al- ready terminated, The proportions whieh this move- ment had taken, eansed great apprehension on the part of the government, but it has bebaved with energy and has offered the workmen to arrange the price of their la- bor with the manufacturers; and this, combined with another cause, has restored order and tranquillity to in- dustrious Barcelona and the other large towns of the old principality ‘The Catalan workmen rose in obedience. to the machi- nations of the Carlist party whieh has made a «mall and ridiculous pecuniary effort for this purpose. The Carlists have not now, nor will they ever have again, the money which they could count upon during the last war—be cause that experionce has made many of their rich part: zans cautious, and they have not the same desire to suf- fer and to perish for a cause which is disacredited al- ready. . Neverthele nate, does not in every possible way. Tb: m ruptey the clergy wing more brutal and obsti- ewnT open the govertment prisons of Catalonia are Alt cease to m or with proofs of conspiracy in their possession. All the dishops of Spain, with few exceptions, aremembers of that dark society which they themselves call by the sombre name of ‘the exterminating angel,” and almost ail are at work throwing obstacles in the way of the execution of the law of release from mortmain. Noli tangere meos, say the priests when there is any effort to deprive them of the means of their good living, which means, don’t touch our pocketa, The intention of Queen Christina and the moderados, as well ax that of the Carlists and absolutists, is to foment every clase of difficulties, in order to disconcert the liberal party and maintain a general state of inquie- tude, in pa to discredit the men of the party now in power. That other cause of the ceasing of the workmen's movement was simply that the honest part of them found out that they had many, companions whom they had not bargained for, and whom they did notknow. Ona counting of heads and show of faces, the democratic por- tion found that the insurrection was not theirs, but that ‘a large portion were fellowa who had been hired to act the thing agoing by the partiew alluded to, So they con- cluded to draw off, and left the mercenaries alone in the streets; and these last, seeing the thing was understood, finally ‘concluded to giveit up and knock under to the terms of the government. I must now inform you of an inefdent of the gravest importance, which, although involved in mystery, has come, out. and is tolerabiy’ well known. It ls soéretiy stated, but I believe reliably, that some hours before the one indicated for the departure of the Queen from this court for the royal seat of the Escorial, General O'Don- nell received a communication to the: effect that various conspirators were stationed near the door of a chureh where'the Queen would go to pray before leaving Madrid with the object of assas#inating her. Jn fact, the garri- son and the national militia were ordered to form nt a certain hour; and the Queen, in spite of the formalities announced before hand officiniy, let Madrid privately an hour or more previous. It is said that many priests have been seized as accomplices in the conspiracy; but although the present news runs from. mouth to mouth through all Madrid, nothing has been written about it cither officially or unofficially, perhaps in order not to produce agitation under the present cireumstances. Senor Fscalante will leave here immediately, to take Portesslon of his charge of Minister Plenipotentiary in ‘ashington. I have already said, in a former letter that this Envoy owes his place to the decided protection of Espartero, and perhaps of his lady, the Duchess. Senor Escalante’ is very courteous with the ladies—a thing which, if it is not worth much in business, is of value in the drawing room. ‘the press prints and the people talk about the settling up of the affair of the Black Warrior and the arrangement of the business of the tw countries, saying that this is in no way owing to the fire-cating Soule, but to his Secre- tary of Legation. Monseigncur Franchi is decidedly going, though the Gazette continues to deny it. This legate of the Pope ix off, and it is evident that Rome is drivelling with age, for she is preparing te make a fight to sustain her fantarmn- goric dominion. Spain, although slowly, is resolved to march on in the road of progress, and I imagine Rome cannot stop her. The Cortes suspend temporarily their seasion on ac- count of the hot season. The committee of the Assembly charged with examin- ing the acts of the cabinets from 1843 to 1854, have pr sented their report, proposing to exact the responsibility of their doings first from the last cabinet before the re- volution, The articles of accusation against them are 44 in number. The evidence presented will be curious enough if it reveals the rapine of all the robbers Spain hax seen with the title of ministers of the crown from 1843 to 1854. ; EL CID. Our Vienna Correspondence. Vizyxa, Monday, July 16, 1855. The Prussian Reply to the Austrian Proposal—The Prince of Prussia’s Visit to the Court of St. Petersburg—New Military Levy in Russia--Prussia Portifying ler Ports in the Baltic-—Return of Francis Joseph to Vienna— Projected Emancipation of the Austrian Jews—Commer- cial News, dc., de. ‘The speeches of Mentalembert and Lord John Russell, supporting, as they do, the policy of Austria, have given great satisfaction to the majority of the population of Vienna, and our papers have discussed them again and again, till every paragraph has been worn threadbare, ‘As you will no doubt receive accounts of these speeches from other quarters than Vienna, I shall make no further remarks upon them. ‘The Prussian reply to the Austrian proposal ranks as the great feature of the week, and though it has not as yet ‘ven made public, its contents are pretty generally known. Prussia refuses her support to Austria in laying the “ four points” before the Bund, but, at the same time, consi- ders it fitting that the confederate army of Germany should be maintained on 4 footing of war, and in this respect she is ready and willing to put forward her voice atthe Bund. Though the letter was received in Vienna on the 5th, no answer has at yet been returned, or if it has, the matter bas hitherto been kept most profoundly secret. What the course of Austria will be no one knows, but it is generally thought that she will abandon her purpose if she be not sure of a majority. ‘the Prince of Prt a has started on a visit to the Court of St. Petersburg, a fact which has caused much discus- sion in all quarters here, It is generally asserted that his visit is entirely unconnected with political affairs, but the statement meets with little belief among the people and the press of Vienna; and, nevertheless, it is probable it meets with as great an amount of credit as that to which it is entitled. The Prince of Prussia, how- over, if report be true, is said to be hostile to Russia, and to entertain views totally at variance with those professed hy his brother. It is generally reported t a thirteenth levy of troops is to be made in Russia. Twelve more souls out of every 1,000 are io be drawn for military service, and those who have been dismissed after twenty-five years’ duty are called on to bear arms again. Meantime Germany is agi- tating in fact for a reduction of her ari and the exam- ple set by Austria is likely to be followed by several minor Sates. “Prussia is fortifying her ports in the Bultic, and rything seems to indicate that she considers herself ikely to be involved in a struggle with the Western Powers. How far such a notion will be verified remains yet to be seen. ‘The Fmperor returned from his tour of inspection ofthe ‘4 and 11th armies in Galicia on the evening of the 9th, and has issued an order of the day in which he expresses his unqualified satisfaction at the general condition of the troops. He expresses his warmest thanks to General Hess, the commander-in-chief of the above armies, and desires him to convey his acknowledgments to the officers under his command, and to notify his general satista tion to the troops, and especially his warm approbat of the manner in which they conducted themselves du- ing the last trying winter. Vis generally suid that a grave change will shortly take place in the position of the Austrian Jews. It ix well known that they are altogether prohibited from the possession of land, and from holding office in the State of any description whatever. The subject has lately been brought under the notice of the Minister of the Interior, and it is not unlikely that all disabilities will shortly be removed. ‘The beter class of Austrian Jews are men of coccedingly good education, ond the measure will, no doubt be advantageous to the State, and meet with gene. ral approval. Baren Rothschild, the great italist, passed through Vienna « short time sin ing a sojourn of a few days which he made in that city, had an inter- view with the Austrian authorities relative to the par- ase of the railways in Lombar/y and the construction . It is said that the reply was of a very sati ter, and the Baron has consequently made al arrangements for the construction of three new lines: one through Novara, another through Lai and Cremona, and a third through Lesto and Calende. It ar from well curing the week; per. Manufactured articles low, on acd Iness of the demand. Trade in cotton, wool, oil an spirits somewhat flat. ‘The market was generally dull. J enclose the weekly Bouree. Our Frankfort Correspondence, Fraxkvorr, July 17, 1855 Austria, Prussia and the States of the Germani» Comfedera tion —The Goul Portune of Austrio—She Remoias, in Spit of Her Indecision, the Arbiter of the Pate of Europe The Austrian Propositions to the Diet Probably Wi drown=The War Going On—Diplomacy Standing Stil —The Socialist Revellion in Catalonia Suppressed, Although Austria has arrogated to herself the privi lege of putting her own interpretation on the four points, it is now pretty well understood that England and Fra will not quarrel with her, especially when it is known that the British Plenipotentiary to the rencer—Lord John Russell—was, Vienna Confe- at one time, himself a convert to the Austrian proposition. The truth, as whispered among the corpe diplomatique ia this city, iv that both Drouyn de I’Huys and Lord John were converts to the Austrian plan of pacification, and it is equally well known that if the Emperor Napoleon had agreed to it, no great dificuity would have been met with in St. Peters- burg. Lords Palmerston and Clarendon may. still fool very warlike, but neither the Queen of England nor Prince Albert have the reputation of being martially inclined, so that the conduct of Lord Jobndoes not, on closeexamina- tion, show any other weakness than a personal leaning towards his sovereign and an agreement with his French colleague, who, immediately on his return from Vienna, resigned his commission into the hands of the Emperor. It was natural enough for Lord John to hold on to office, as he has always done, as a worthy representative of the Bedford family, until it beeame untenable: and hence there is nothing new in his position. If he quits office now, it is because the war ix popular in Rngland, and be- cause the Ministers of the crown are responsible to the Parliament, and not io the Queen. The soul of the war, now and from the beginning, is and was nobody else than Louis Napoleon, “by the grace of God and the national will’ as the imperial decrees in the Monitenr announce ii—"Finperor of the French.” He and a few men in his immediate neighborhood, know why he considers the war a condition of life and safety to bin while there area great many Frenchmen who agree with hima from a sort of pf ional inetinet, thongh they are Mer ' THURSDAY, AUGUST 9, 1855. ed with-tactious priests, caught with arms in their hanis from subscribing to his doctrines in regard to govern- ment. Even the French exiles here and in Belgium, praise the Emperor for the persevergnce with which he prorccutes the war, and especially for resisting the ad- vice of Drouynde YHuys to @®nsent to the proposi- tion of Austria, So the war will go op, and the peace ministers, Lord John and the clever little Jew just named, will remain in their retirement; the former condemned by public opinion in his country; the latter, regretted by all the bankers, shopkeepers and modistes of Paris. The war is more popular in Englan’ than in France, simply because an unshackled press, not suspected of servility, pronounces it just and national, while in France, even truth is suspected when appearing in the livery of the court. The French army will fight well wherever it mects the enemies of France, but nation- al enthusiasm ina thinking, reasoning and impression- able people, cannot manifest itself and act as a motive power under gag laws. The manner in which the Austrian propositions of Count Buol were received by the French and English plenipotentiaries, who actually promised to ‘recommend and advoeate them at home, with their respective govern- ments, renders it actually impossible for either the Brit- ish or the French governments to break with Austria. Not being able to agree with her, the allies will pussue the same policy towards her which she has been pleased {o adopt toward them. ‘They will still consider ihemselves bound in some measure by the Decem- ver treaty; but the lerminusa quo will depend on circumstances and the eventualities of the war. Mean- while the tone of the press in England, and the well-known antipathy of the French Emperor, plainly indicate that the good understanding between the Western Powers and Austria would not be of long duration—if they could help it. Here, in Germany, the general desire is for peace, and that for two reasons: first, because the liberal party know their weakness, owing to the ineffable imbecility of those who ruined their cause in 1848; and second, be- cause the princes and nobles are impoverished and in debt, and not in a condition to measure swords either with Russia or the allies. Germany, you may rely on ity will remain a quiet spectator of the war, though not an indifferent one. ‘There is a feeling of apprehension throughout Germany at the threatening preponderance of Russia, and a hope that something better may yet come from France. It is feared that Germany may even- tually be Russianized, not by conquest, but with the con- sent of her own princes, who, with few exceptions, are partizans of the Russian mode’ of government. It is hoped, therefore, that if the allies are not able to “ hum- ble” Russia, they will at least succeed in prevent- ing her from acquiring additional powers and influence. These sentiments, however, are but cau- tiously expressed in the German papers, and never otherwise than by indirection, so as not to pro- yoke the eye of the Censor. It is not the official opinion of Germany, and serves as no basis of action to the govern- ments, ‘Ausiria and Prussia are both bent on preserving the peace of Germany for their own sake, Austria has suc- teeded in acquiring the reputation of a peacemaker, and Terelves credit for her got intentions, though she failed in the attempt. The very small extent to which she is supposed to have aimed at the limitation of Russian powerin the Black Sea, is nevertheless gratefully ac- Knowledged in Germany, where Prussia appears as the ally of Russia, and the hereditary enemy of France. The course of Austria, however crooked it may appear to the allies, is still more national ant more honorable ay re- gards Germany, and in this respect Austria has gaine, fot lost, in public opinion, She has gained what Prussia has lost) for Prussia does not even represent the opinion of Prussians. No where, not even in England, is the Cause of Russia more unpopular than in the Bal- tic provinces of Prussia, notwithstanding the mo- mentary commercial advantages which these provinces derive from the war. Whether the conduct of the King of Prussia is governed by his relationship to the Czar, whether it is fear of the Hberal influence of France and Fogland on the affairs of Europe, or the old jealousy of ‘Austria, know not; but even now Austria and Prussia are not going hand in hand, and the proposition of Au trin to maintain in Germany the military establishment of last year meets with secret and unworthy opposition on the ‘part of the Cabinet of Potsdam, Had Austria deen sustained at the German Diet, she might have been emboldened to go further with the allies; as it is, she yet Greads the material preponderance of Russia, ’and ‘de- clares through her official organs that she considers her- self still an ally, with this distinction, however: that the casus belli has not yet arrived for her. In this respect the Ausirian government pays more deference to the public opinion. of Germany and Hungary, than Prussia Goes to that of her own provinces, and it is for this reason that Austria is nore popular at the Diet than Pruss Had she a bold statesman at the head of affairs, and were the less afraid of revolution, she might have become the the arbiter of Europe, and with the approbation of France and England, the ruling Power of Germany. Instead of this she is content to temporize— tokeep-on terms with the allies and with Russia, and lastly with Prussia. herself. What she demands of the Diet has been so often modified, according to the objec- tions made by Prussia, that it is doubtfal whether she will make any proposition at all. This very morning it was believed that the Austrian Minister would make his propositions on the 19th inst.; but instead of submitting them to the Diet, they. were first, in the regular course of diplomacy, submitted to Prussia, (copies of the same having been previously scnt to Parik and London;) and decause Prusria did not entirely subscribe to ther, Aus- tria was willing to modify; but unwilling to modify so as to suit Prussia, she may ‘not make any proposition at all. She wanted money for the support of her troops in the Principalities. (This was hazardous proposition in the present state of affairs.) ‘Then she wanted the confede- ration to adopt the Four Points, as she understood them at the Vienna conference; finally, she wished the German States to keep their respective armies on the war footing, This was merely pro forma; for it wox well understood that the army registers alone were to be kept on that footing, and that the smaller States would be permitted to grant extensive furloughs, Insignificant as all these’ propositions must appear in the eyes of a great country, tley would, if conceded, have had their influence on public opinion in Germany, and prepared the way for future action, It would have been something for the States of the Germanic confedera- tion to fix any hmit whatever to the extension of any Power in Europe beyond which they fel: bound to protest with the sword. It would have established a rule of ac- tion in certuin cases; but the German princes have no notion of committing themselves to any policy, foreign or domestic, and things will remain another year in stata 110. TT really seems as if luck were bound to do more for Austria en she is ever able to do wilfully for herself; for even now she appears ahead of every governient in Germany—tie only one which at all acts in her capacity asa European Power of the first rank, and which, being however remotely allied to the West, represents the ide. of progress. “Austria, in spite of her vacillating oliey, is still the only Power of Germany whic has showm any capacity or disposition for tion at all. She has occupied the Prineipalities and still hokis them. from being anally of Russia, against which the Prussian relation- ship and the personal disposition of the King of Prussia might furnish but feeble guarantees, and rhe manages, in spite of her ind n, or rather, her temporizing policy, to still remain the ally of England and France. | This is the light in which Austria and her conduct are looked upon here and throughout Germany. Among the blind, the one-eyed is k Who would of Austria was a fugi years subsequently, after breaking down th bellion theougnout the Empire, he would W resent the liberal party in Germany—the pi terial progress, at least, an of national union? “The his- torical reminiscences of Germany have always been in K- wave thought, when, in 1848, the Emperor tive from his capital, that a few pirit of favor of Austria: the mediatised Princes, of wisich F Metternich was one, and Prince Schwarzenberg another, were in like manner attached to her from ha- tred towards the upstart of Brandenburg, and now the national sentiment, which involves the liberal sentiment of ‘alto on her side. There was a time when t of Hapsburg increased its power by marriege, (Tu Kiliz Austria nube; As it by the blunders of all Europe, of that Power, (Prussia,) whi genius of one man, (Freder 0 formidable rival at her own gates. The English press may now rave at Austria, the !inperor of the Freagh moy secretly curse her, Russia ani Prussia may be bent on her destruction, her own folly may lead her to the brink of dissolution, yet with all that she remains a great Power with an influence equally felt from the Black Sea to the Rhine. ¢ has bad enough of the di ivision, end wou! rrow be smemberment of Austria as much as the of Turkey. There is no other great Power to pit against Russia in the Fast of Europe but Austria, and if Austria will hot «llow herself to play such @ part, her quiescence in still fo all important an object to the Western powers that important concessions will be made to it. ‘The same process is repented in Germany, Austria per ee is unpopular with the masses; bat she is more popular than Prussia, and there are no other European Power. .a Germany but the two. Austria put down liberty in Hun- gary and Haly; but neither one nor the other is a Gert province, and the act appears less atrocious than tha’ committed by German princes against their German sub- jects. It is exeused on the principle of self-preserva- tion, if on no other one. Austria has no where suppressed German nationality. She has drawn the sword for it. She has fought all her battles for German ascendency and appears now its only champion, So reason German philosophers, professors, and diplomates, and so reason princes, nobles, editors and the people. It is unfortunate for Germany, and her influence European politics, that Prussia, in all her histor reminiscences, should be so blindly opposed to France! It seems as if she saw no danger except on the Rhine, and that Russia was rather looked upon as a corps de reserve than a foreign power. It is aaid, that on a late occasion, seme very offensive words were exchanged betwoen Prince Napoleon and a well known Prussian representa- tive in Paris. The battles of Jena and Waterloo were introduced into the conversation. The Prince alluded to the former, the Prussian representative to the latter: forgetting that the battle of Waterloo was won by the Prussian jointly with the Englixh. Certain it is that Jeon, Imean the Emperor, should ever think of turning his eagles ‘inst Germany, Prussia, not Aus- tria, will be the object of bis attention. We shall then see whether Prussia will be able to make her cause that of Germany. The preparations for a renewed onslaught on the great Redan end the Malakoff tower are pent drawing to ‘a close, and important results must soon follow. Diplo- macy ‘ywhere etanding «till to watch the ren of the war, ond the future depends entirely on the sword, Ww ie tolonie ie suppressed. The cut jentifi re .) had raised into a most jon of Poland. it {K§ THE WAR. AFFAIRS BEFORE SEBASTOPOL. ‘The following are the daily despatches from the Cri- mea :— Ivz¥ 10,—Gen. Simpson encloses the return of casual- ties to the &h of July; regrets they are xo heavy in killed and wounded; states the general health of the army is geod, and announces that at five o'clock on the morning ci the 10 ees oe eee ee the Redan by the ‘Itty 11,—Gortechqkoff telegraphs :—The enemy has re- newed a vigorous cannonade. Yesterday, at 8 P. M., Ad- miral Nachimoff received a severe wound, and died. Until further orders, Admiral Panfiioff is appointed to succeed the deceased as commander of the naval gar- rison, and Port and Military Governor of Sebasto] JvLy 13.—The Times correspondent writes:—Last night the Russians kept up a tremendous fire. Iam sorry to say that the battery which the French tween the Mamelon and the Malakoff, has been knocked to pieces by the powerful fre ofthe latter fort. Acolonel and thirty officers and men were put hors du combat, and the siege works have received a decided check. In fact, as the allies advance to the actual defences of the 4 they must expect to meet more elaborate works and ob- stacles heaped on one another with all the care which many months of preparation admit. Even now the ene- my are strengthening the Malakoff every day. It is not what it was on the 18th of June, and a fortnight hence it, will not be what it is now. The battery at the White Works, however, still goes on, and its effect will be proved in a few days. Jury 16.—Prince Gortschakoff announces having made two sorties, on the 14th and 15th, before the bastion Kor- nileff, which were satisfuetory. Nothing of importance had occurred in other parts of the Crimea. IULY 28.—Gen. Pelissier telegraphs :—The enemy ap- peared to have taken alarm last night, and opened a very brisk fire on the right and left of our lines of attack. Our batteries replied successfully. Ihave good intelligence from Yenikale. Everything there is going on well under the direction of Col. Osmort, who has taken measures to establish order at Kertsch. ‘This day Gen. Pelissier inspected the French troops on the Tehernaya, and found them in an effective state. IuLY 25.—Pelissier telegraphs:—‘After a brisk can- nonade the Russians made a sortie, about midnight, on the left of the little Redan. As we are now close to them, it did not take the enemy one minute to reach our gabionades. The Russians were promptly received, and were repulsed, lexving some wounded and eight dead; the darkness enabled them to carry off the others. General Bisson was on duty in the trenches. Jury 25.—Gen. Simpson telegraphs :—Cholera has not inereased since my last report, and the general health of the army continues satisfactory. PROGRESS OF THE SIEGE. [From the London Times, July 26.) Although several weeks have now elapsed since the oc- currence of the last great events at the siege of Sebasto- pol, this interval of time has undoubtedly served to con- solidate the position of the allied armies in the Crimea, to remove many of the causes of apprehension excited by the return of summer, and to advance by slow but. cer- tain steps the operations of the siege. Of all these grounds of satisfaction the most important are thehealth of the army, the success of the sanitary measures adopt ed in the camps, and the favorable climate we have found in the southern districts of the Crimea. Among the ex- agecrated perils and objections which were at one time conjured up in this country to bring the Crimean expedi- tion Into disrepute, it was roundly asserted that the cli- mate was of Arctic severity in winter, and postilential in summer: whereas it was perfectly well known to those who had examined the subject that this region enjoys the average temperature of the southern coast of Great Britain. The army has, of course, ac- quired a degree of stability and vigor in campaigning, which was not to be expected when first it took the field; and we ure confident, from the numbers, the condition, and the valor of these troops, and the large amount of their field artillery, that the allied armies are able to en- counter with the most confident expectations of success any force the enemy can by possibility bring against them. The delay which has occurred has had the advan- tage of converting our invasion of the Crimea into an oc- cupation of several of the most importont points in the peninsula. Eupatoria,, Kamfesch, Balaklava and, Yeni ale are now fortified stations, which we shall hold the whole continuance of the war. We apprebend that the Russians themsclyes can entertain no hope of renewing the attack of Inkerman, or of shaking off the grasp which the iron hand of war has placed on one of the richest portions of the imperial dominions. Had Sebastopol been carried last autumn by a coup de main, we should at once ha effected our primary object in the destruction of that fo tress, but we should not have proved in so remarkable a manner the inability of the whole power of the Russian empire to repel the adversaries who have now established themgclves on the Crimean coast. We trust, however, that this firm position of the allies will enable them at no distant period to extend their active operations heyond the Belbek, and that it is merely a question of time at what moment it may be most expedient to commence such a movement against the encampments from which the enemy still continues to throw reinforcements and munitions of all kinds into Sebastopol. ‘The temporary silence of the batteries, which has suc- ceeded to the furious bombardments anil assaults of the first half of the month of June, denotes that the besiegers are conducting their approaches to the key of the posi- tion with greater caution and regularity, and that we shall probabiy hear no more of a profuse expenditure of life until our guns have been brought so near the walls as to subdue the fire of the enemy. The report of Prince Gortschakoff on the action of the 18h of June is a care- ful, though not, strictly speaking, un accurate account of that operation, The Russian General overrates the forces engaged by the French and English armies and the losres they sustained; he does not clearly show that the failure of the attack by the French column was main|; caused by the want of simultaneous action, and that the engagement on the extreme right, in which General May- ran tell, was, in fact, over before the columns under Gen. Brunet and Gen. Autemarre advanced. He entirely omits the remarkable fect that the attack of General Eyre's bri- gade on the extreme left enabled a handful of British troops not only to penetrate into the houses and garlons at the bottom of the ravine, but to remain there all «ay; but, with these exceptions, the report gives a tolerai'y connected view of this action, and it enables us to form a morecorrect opinion on one or two points of the means of resistance of the garrison. It clearly appears, in the first place, that in all the preceding instances, the Russians succeed the bombardment in re-establishing the line of defence of Sebastopol in its primitive state, and, though it is not denied that the works were severely Unmaged by the fire of the besiegers, means have constantly been found to repair the lines and to construct new batteries, even under a heavy fire. This is one of the principal circum. stances which distinguish the siege of Sebastopol from all other sieges in history, and which show the uncommoa skill with which the Hussian engineers avail them elves of the new sysiem of fortification they hav the Russian troops dieplay equal energy in th these plans. Sebastopol may be aaid to be detien spadeas much as by the sword, and repeater experien now shown that in works of this nature the utmost damage caused by a bombardment from siege trains even of unexumpled magnitude and power may be repaired within a few hours by an active and resolute garrison. That, of course, is a peculiar advantage which works re- vetted with masonry can and the contrast which has lately been drawn by a writer in the Edinburg hetween the py of the towers of Bomar. intance of the rthworks of durin, 3 ¢ instruetive lesson art of defence. Jor the bombardment of Seta pol ef any ise at all as a preliminary to the place, it must be followed instantly “by the for the interval of a single night i to counterbalanee the one of the-e gigantic operations. On the 18th of June, ver, the Ru ancther resouree, for which they deserve it. Although the capture of the ¥ d the French ¢ allies do xa ing Bey, ov © Tth of June mand the Care and opened a » where their reserve w ded to the same cireun n the part of 1 the defence (hat th the enemy should little doubt that. t of a far greater range ‘ehave vory established in and that it such @ manner as to command the port will then be practicable to sink or barn from the hh liaries of 0 go rrise fi : of the command linetf attack, the com the northern side of the harbor, from which the most important supplies, will become tm t.and the shipping which is still afloat ougt ed. Although none of the 1 n, and a t both extre ion of th: fie altogether d that have yet decisive ebar: v he the tuken exhausts and and this steady progress of th been thrown back by any postti of the enemy. The only advantage, indeo?, which the Rursions can boast of is that of jeving resisted our at- tacks; but they have failed themsélves in every sortie, in every attempt to force our lines, and in every attempt since the 1ith October to subdue our fire, Our military efforts, like our political resolutions, require only to be conducted on the principle of Lord Lyndhurst’s wise and brave advice—‘ Persevere.’? On many accounts the Cri- mean expedition is highly favored by the salubrity of the country and the efficiency of the army; the supplies re- jsite for the troops are now thoroughly organized, an the lessons of the past year are not thrown away. We therefore expect the result with patience and contidence, persuaded a8 we are that the expedition only awaits the direction of its leaders to bring this great enterprise to a victorious termination. SEA OF AZOFF. DESTRUCTION OF THE BRIDGE OF BOATS. A despatch from Gaptain Hewett, of the British ship Beagle, announced that he had sent his boats to examine the communication between the town of Genitchisk and Arabat Spit, and found it to be by means ofa ferry of two large flats and hawsers, Both the hawsers were cut and the flats turned adrift by the ships’ boats. On July ada pe fe re hed bad to the beach and opened a fire of mus at about eighty yards, but without effect, while the “sh and beats Be grape on the ex: troops and inflicted much loss, ‘The Ruesians are fortifying the Spit of Arabat. Since the bombardment of measures of de- fenee have been adopted. The aris of the Don have heen closed and rendered inaccessible, Batteries bave been stroys some porti bes suee rected on the coast, anda flotilla of gunboats catab- lished on the river. There is alse rong body of Cox- sacks and other troops, under the orders of Gen, Bago- vert, collected near Nicolaief. Strong fortifications are being erected at Rostoff, and the channel of the Don is ob- structed. THE PRINCIPALITIES. PREPARATIONS FOR A CAMPAIGN ON THE DANUBE. ‘Aletter from Silistria, of the 11th ult., states that Ismael. Pacha had announced to his troops the approaching open- Danube, and the force now quartered from Shumla t+ Babadagh is called 45,000 men. The Russians do not ap- pear to fear any attack in the Dobrudscha. vere making at Varna for the expected arrival of a French and fnglish foree early in August. ‘The English are collecting large supplies at Sinope., THE WAR IN ASIA. [From the London Times, July 27.) Of the three roads or lines ef operation by which the: Russians may have hoped to advance for the overthrow of the Ottoman. bod ata two are for fagh cong effectual- ly closed against . The time is already long past when a Russian army occupied the Danubian fies, Ud! so fo threaten the lines bg . of invasion is equally s| against the Rus- Han Beets, which used to hover alaag the Turkish coasts, and might have thrown an a into Roumelia or Ana- tolia. The eastern frontier of Asia Minor alone remains seuaparedi ely, unprotected, and there it must be confess- ed that a more powerful or ic enemy might have Carts a eat nied with a rospect of advantage. The Turi army collect- in the frontier of the Pashalic of Kare has. deen throughout the war in a very pitiable condition.. lts commanders showed a total want of military skill’ and courage in the engagements which took in the last campaign, and were most relu compelled to submit tothe moral ascendency and superio activity of the bach reine who had joined their camp al- most as volunteers. Thetroops lost all confidence in ir native officers, and they were scandalously, neglected by those who ought at least to over their interests. Colonel Williams, who had acquired considerable topographical knowledge of the country while employed on the survey of the Persian frontier, Was appointed by the Influence of Lord Stratford de Red: cliffe to attempt the reorganization of this foree, but it has been found almost impossible to obtain from the Porte those reinforcements, stores, and supplies which are indispensable to the prosecution of the war. ‘The chief cause of the astonishment we feel in look- ing to thix remote part of the theatre of war ix that the Turkish army hus not suffered more decided _ reverses. the outbreak of hostilities Prince Woronzoff proposed to the Emperor Nicho- las to march at once upon Exzeroum, which might at that time have been practicable; but the Court of St. Petersburg refused to sanction this enterprise. Since then the events of the war have materially weakened the resources of Russia in the Transcaucasian provinces. ‘The loss of the sea and of all the fortresses and roails along the Circassian coust renders it difficult for her to maintain military communication with Georgia, except y end and the Corpien sea. ‘The are applied to every other part of the empire has ot course rendered it far more difficult and dangerous to throw an important: corps d’arnve into an outlying province, where it was wholly unable to co-operate with the other forces of the Czar. Indeed, although it is still asserted that General Mouravieff commands an army of 36,000 men, we suspect the larger portion of this force consists of the Georgian militia, capable, perhaps, of defending | its own territory against an undisciplined enemy, but wholly unable to undertake so great an expedition as the conquest of Asia Minor. The Russians in Georgia are, moreover, incessantly menaced by the highland tribes on their northeastern frontier, who have frequently advanced in their marauding excursions tothe Beighibor ood of the Teflis. ‘This diversion has proved highly advantageous to the Turks, for more than once has it seemed probable that one of the border fortresses would have fallen, if Schamy! or his followers had not called off the attention of the enemy. According to'a recent report General Mouravieft has thus been again compelled to abandon the siege of Kars, and if this state- ment be correct, we must infer that although the Turk- ish army in Asia has been grossly neglected, the Russians have not strength enough to take advantage of its 3 feebled condition. If this be the case, it might be éx- ted that if the Turkish forces were raised to a. state of olerable efficiency, either by employing the Angio-Turk- ish Contingent there, or by supplying the primary wants of this army, it might even assume the offensive, and shake the hold which Russia still retains on these coun- tries. ‘The whole condition of Asia Minor, however, cannot fail to press more and more directly on the consideration of the allies and friends of Turkey. It is from the Asiatic provinces of the empire that the Sultans have continued to draw the principal elements of their revenues and their military power; yet, it is there that the decay of the authority of the Porte is most perceptible. “The country is excecdingly insecure. Even the neighborhood of Smyrna is infested by robbers, who levy a regular plack mail’? on the inhabitants. The tribute of the sha is unpaid. The conscription has thinned the ranks of the male population among the Mussulman’s, while the Gree}. and Armenian races are agitated by the conflicting hopes und exciiements which pervade the empire. For all the ordinary purposes of government we question whether there is a country in the world, unless it be Spain, in which more hopeless confusion and weakness’ prevail at the present time than in Asiatic provinces of ‘Turkey. Even under our own colors, the Bashi-Hazouks, who are fierce adventurers collected from all parts of the empire toform irregular troo ve recently broken throw the re- straint of military discipline, and are said to have com- mitted acts of griat brutality, which our officers were compelled to repress by main force. It is by no means improbable that as the war continues the state of these Provinces will become still more unsettled, unless it be found practicable to support the authority of the govern- ment by the presence and power of a more regular force. But, while we urge the importance of improving the military resources of Turkey in Asia Minor, we by no means agree in the view of those persons who have re- commended the employment of European forces on the southern shore of the Euxine. ‘The Russians, we know, cannot make any considerable advance into the interior of the country, because they would run the risk of see: ing a deiachment of the allied armies intercepting theix base of operations by an advance from the ibility of such an event suffices to pre its occurrence. ry account it is most undegirable that any part of the allied armies should be diverted from the great object of the enterprise in which. they are engaged, or sent, under any circumstances, to H i el make war npou the Koor and the Araxes. Hostilities will be doubtless carried on in that region, but we believe they will continue to be of on undecisive character. War par takes of the nature of the country in which it is carried on, and it be irregular, and straggling ima district to w te of civilization have never F penetrated, although it claims to be the cradle of the man race. To convey supplies, arms, ammunition, and reinforcements to the ‘Tarkleh rmy ig therefore all that can be expected uuived. We hope the Porte willnow have the means of providing these necessaries, and that the British and Freach anthorities will take care to su perintend ¢ ion of a portion of the funds to be raised fi , this purpose. There, more than any. where, the rerources of t fe Turkish army should be em. ployed, and the abuses which have heretofore prevailed to an dlarn.ing exient should be redressed. We find In the Jn the following letter from Vienna, dated the 20th of July:— Whilst the oiies are discussing the expeliency ofa Lowes Danobe, the Russians are execu appears to be much more seriour its consequences. The last ac je confiria my previous state- evoum were in’ the greatest dan- re goining ground in nor. very Moura- 36,000 men, is blockading Kars, ovps are 1 upon Erzerour the Turkieh army, which should ‘oum, was driven into the fortress by General Niro’, Should Kars of Anatolia a. The gar country is e nev Minister ions of General cing it on a@ respectable foot aign of the Rnesians in Asia judicial to the Crimean end to the pensable to the army besieging © the allies then heir attack dn 1 thelr side, are heir new order vt the Russians, \ from what has transpired ey have not less than nine {irom north to sout The Ist and 3d and the 24 in und. Nine di gth, 10th Vth, 16th and Crimea, wher Rortly be joined Hihand Ith. Be t thie y the 1th division. The Lith and 18thare operating In Asia, ond the 19th, 20th, and 2st, which no. longer belong to the active army, are likowise stationed titute the epectal corps of the Caucasus, vision of infantry {s provided with cavalry and In addition to the re the Guarts, who have preserved a passive attitude. The first division iors is ersployed in Finland, and the iad ia, and eo of the corps of ¢ td ond dd ase now marching to the Crimea. If to the F vided the reserves of the corps of grenadies yard, a8 well as those of the active army ane the militia, it will be found that Russia can oppose op every point a respectable force to her enewies, THE ATTITUDE OF AUSTRIA. There is renson to believe that at the present moment the attitude of Austria occasions some anxiety, if not positive disquietude, to the Western Cabinets. Ever sinee the rupture of (he Vienna Conference, the numerous Rus- sion agents at Vienna have labored with redoubled energy to detach Austria completely from England and France During the past fortnight much progress has been made, but particulorly during the past stx or eight days the re- solts are more and more observable. At St. Petersburg the most friendly social eg are again extended to the Austrian Ambassador and his countrymen, who were previcusly treated with more than hauteur. ‘There ix no truth in the statement recently put forth that France and England had sent a circular to the Ger man courts, announcing that the Western Powers no Tonger consider themselves bound by the treaty of De- tootre, of the four points of guarantee, in consequence of the rupture of the conferences of Vienna. It ia true that what passed at those conferences ix regarded a* nen arvenu—as having never occurred, by reason of their rupture. but the guarantees hold good, and are still re garded x» the basis of future negotiations when ever the time may come to renew them. They