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2 the minds of their countrymen in Paris, than by a peru- sal of the following communication from the pen of an American whose familiarity with our national politics is amply evinced by it. They will not be surprised if in- formed that it could not be inserted in avy Parisian journal. Even Galignani’s Messenger, which to-day de- votes no less than five columns to American affairs, could not find room for it:— ‘The thunder of the London Times has startled the com- mercial world with its awful announcement of @ probable war between England and the United States. Kor some months past persons intimate with the diplomatic circles ‘of the two governments have been apprehensive of the results of the delicate relations that existed between them regarding Central American affairs. Concerning irs # sort of patch work treaty exists, known as the Clayton and Bulwer treaty, executed on our part by a thick headed numbskull in the State Department, and ratified by the Senate, in the face af the severe denuncia- tion of the leacing statesmen of the governing interes!s. ‘A sort ot partnership operation wax entered into about the Central American affairs. Notice of a dissolution of the nership atlas was given by the present administra tion in the bombardment and destruction of Greytown, a swall commercial town on the Mosquito coast, claimed by Great Britain under @ trumped up title from am Indian chief. There is no other question between the two governments upon which England can tind an excuse tor her present menace, The writer in the Zimes (except that upon all matters touching American interests, he 1s a monomaniac) might have stated the question about which it thunders in a simple form, namely: Commer cial jurisdiction by the English government over the Mos quito territory. Why befog the matter? ‘lIreland,”” for instance, ‘A’ deseent upon Her Majesty's dommions ”? “Filibustering expeditions fitting out in the United States, known to the President,” &e., &., mot one word of which is true. Kinney and Fabens, leaders in the Central American expedition vo colonize that country, bave both been put under arrest by the American gov- ernment, They have been treated precisely as the peo- ple of Me Crampton, the British Minister, were treated for violating the neutrality laws. Is not sauce for the goose sauce for the gander?’ Cuba, in all good time, the United States intends to possess herself of. English ju- risdiction upon the Mosquito coast, unless terminated in the Bulwer treaty, cannot be terminated except py war, as no more solemn pledge can be given by her The last news from the United states was Uctober 17— money plenty, commerce flourishing, the people happy and peaceful, ‘and the government at peace with all the world, no differences existing exeept with the little State of Denmark, and that in a fair way for an amicable ad- Justment. Thus stood affairs upon the political surface until the explosive article of the London Pimes appeared on the 26th, Three months since the writer of these tines, being in London, learned, to his surprise, that at- fairs between the two governments were far from being agreeable. In various ways, since then, it has leaked out that it was led purpose of Lord Palmerston to embroil the United States in the world’s war, tha! fate seemed to have sould blood stain the history of the last half of this nineteenth century. It is a pity that the assertions of the Pies were not all as true as that which asserts that the press in America will be mdignant at the resk- less impucence, cut throat braggadocio, falsehood, malig- nant hatred to the American people and government which runs through the art Fngland talks fippantiy about a war with America ‘while throttling the Northera giant.” If we in America read correctly the accounts from the Crimea, she slipped her hola in this throttling effort, and but for arms more sinewy, officers more capa- dle, and » government more equal to the encounter, Kng- Jana would stil be begging at the door of every petty government of the earth fur a loan of soldiers to stay ‘he hand of Russia from burying her Lttle gallant band at Sebastopol in the trenche4 themselves have dug. England has neither men nor head; she has a bankor’s wealth left, that’s all! she must sustain ber commer. cial credit; that cnce shattered, London has no more derrors to the warlike nations of the earth than Amster- m. “These expeditions do not receive the sanction of the American government—but their preparation is never- thelers known to the President and his administration, and receives no might Queen Victoria be charged with countenancing a Tape upon a French griseie because committed by one of hor subjects. “It ia because we see no hope of finding in the United States a government capable of preventing its citizens from woging private war on their own account against the best friends and truest allies of the great republic, that we are compelled, even in the midst of the great European struggle in which we are engaged, to as- @ume a defensive attitude, in order to trample out the first sparks of this ‘fire, and prevent a con- firagration which, if once allowed to spread, ma; avse incalculable micery to the human race.’ You can find by searching American prison houses ample evidence of her ‘ability and wilfagnéss to protect her neighbort from lawless aggression, by inearcerating ner ‘own misguided citizens in their attempt to free Cunada from her bondage, and but for her power and will to do her duty ond fulfill all her obiigations under like circum- stances, Canada would not now be a Biitish dependence, That pear is full ripe and will fall with the sightest rene. “It is the misfortune of the American republic that she contains within her borders so many desperate and Jawless men.’ All that good schools and a humane government can do, she is doing to reform them. It is not her fault that England has spawned upon her shores so many of the , from her pauper houses and her prisons. “That which she cavnot do we are compelled, at least fo far as the lawless enterprises directed sgainst ourselves 80, to do for her,”” Not a boir of any American citizen will she permit Eng- land to touch, though he be a criminal escaped from Van Diemen’s Land. 1 quote the language of the present I’re- sident of that republic: “ The first tootprint of a British officer upon an American bottom, in pursuance of the ight of search claimed by Great Britain, shall be the sig- $n) for war.” Upon this point our people hold no di vided opinion. Our new Congress has just been chosen, mostly of new men, the offspring of a new polit that has swept like a whicwind over the country, de stroying most of the old landmarks of the two parties that have divided the people since the organization of the government, each of which pssessed strong conservative elements. ‘These new adventurous politicians will find permanence, power, distinction and giory in a war. Our President is & young men—the youngest of American Presidents—and us; his father was a soldier of the American Re volution, und two of his brothers were sia the second war with England. He himself, educated in such a family, cannot otherwise than ache to avenge his father and his country, when just cause of war exists be- tween the two countifes. Minister Cushing, the master xpirit of the present administration, is a fatalist. Tramp, tramp, tramp, he believes the ‘manifest deginy” of the American people. : Commerce has done much to ameliorate the asperity of feeling that exists in America towards England, which two brutal wars have engendered, Could a new genera- tion be permitted to grow up in peace with ail the world, this feeling would be almost entirely eradicated, It is with us as it must be with all true hearted breachmen; -we feel the rust cankering in the wound inti by the merciless hand of England. It cannot be denied that there are Americans that hate England with the bitter hatred of the offspring of the Roman Cenci. The old aman, after exhausting in debauchery and crime all his energies, conceived a passion for’ his own daughter Beatrice. She was dragged in chains before him—his hellish pur she asked a little time to reflect; she y oard, and not her br father, but that, an was tree! The United States of America may be blotted from the map of nations; this may be her lot. She is young as a nation, and conceited; it ix the bane of youth; she has no standing army, and a stall navy. Ourselves may not feel equal to the conflict; yet the children are born that will see us a nation of seventy-five milliens. Greytown is a little place; yet the Central American py thegateway between the two oceans. ell understand the advantage of i commercial tunnel of the two worlds, The £ ‘one of its articles cn this subject with a very appropriate quotation:—Olt is an émeute, a mere riot,? said Charle Xion the 26th of July, on being told at St. Cloud tha the people were fighting in the streets of Paris, “No, sire,” replied the Count de la Rochefoncauld, ‘it is a re- volution.” ; The first gun fired upon an American vessel by the vaunted West India squadron will make wadding of a hundred millions of American indebtedness, The second will stop the further issue of cotton covers for Crimean soldiers, The third will shut the lid of our overladen corn chest—a consequence slightly inconvenient tor starving England at the present moment. ‘A distinguished American citizen, now in London, writes to a friend in Paris:—“War {s inevitable, unles the English Minister or the American Secretary back square out.” The gentleman who thus writes is inti- mately acquainted with all the affairs of American diplo maey. Your readers share the benefit of his opinion, T have scarcely room to add that the food for gossip which Don Piatt, late Secretary of Legation at Paris, bequeathed on bis recent sudden departure to the Ameri- ean village in Paris, (as fond of it almost as that ot ver American village in Florence,) has been pretty nearly consumed, and « fresh supply of it, in the form of a book which ‘they say’ he is to publish on *Diplomasy,”” will be greedily welcomed; that Mr. Mason, United States Min- at Parts, comfortably survives the attacks of certain Paris correspondents, who, {t ia to be hoped, know more of other subjects than of diplomatic etiquette; that the American ides, ‘‘the fiag covers the cargo, free ships make free goods,” has been officially proposed to the French government by our own; and that no American fitibustering expedition bas yet landed in—treland. FIGARO, Our Madrid Correspondence. MApKin, Affairs in Spain—The Cortes do Nothing—The Modifica tions of the Tariff'—Restristions on the Ezportation of Grain—Plenty of Corn but no Read—Prives going up— 1 The Treasury relieved for the Moment—The Mow the Operative Class—Hydra-headal Faction— in AbeyancemThe Flowls—The Cholera—Slagnation of All Things, There is little new or notable to communi etter. The Cortes are almost deserted. Many deputies have not arrived om account of the bad state of the roads, many more for fear of the cholera, and some because they are sick with it already. Good reason why the sessions are devoid of interest. The committees charged to study @special points of the administration and report bills, make no reports thus far, though the state of the coumtry meeds the action of the Assembly, ‘The Board on the Tariff—#hich i« a board of men sup- to be intelligent in matters of finance, and which is charged to fix the duties fo be paid on fortign ‘merchandise imported into the country—goes on little by qittle with its Iabors. At the proper time, T will write you ghe results arrived at, which will, some of them, te inter- of Ang to you vate in thi NEW YORK HF\RaLp, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1856. at ioe eee Wee eee The idea that the government will prohibit the expor- tation of grain and fiour from an apprehension that the country may come to great scarcity and want, ensoun- ters serious opposition among the grain dealers, espe- cially in Santander and in the provinces along the coast, who imagine that they should be seriously injured by such a restriction. In Spain there is plenty of corm and flour, what is lacking is the means of transporting it from one province to another, This lack of communica- tion and good roads is one great cause of the backward- ness and poverty of Spain. We are yet. waiting the result of the investigations making by the Governors of ‘the provinees concerning the quantities of grain exist- ing—meantime articles of the first necessity keep going up in price, whilst the lack of occupation for the poorer classes augments the bad state of the nation every day. ‘The asthma of the treasury has been relieved a little by the money produced by the sale of the lands of the clergy, so far as it has been and by the loan of $11,000,000, by the taxpayers, to cover the badaet of the current year. But this aid is like the Spamish adage, Which says, * bread for to-day and hunger for to-mor- row.’ ‘The question continues unsolved. The prob- Jem is to see how we can spend less. The nation is paying 4 ost of useles# servants, and maintaining a multitude ‘of burdensome officers, and so long as this cancer is not removed the pains of the treasury will not cease, The ‘expenses mest be levelled with the income, and that is not done yet, nor hae anything bee done towards it. ‘The Catalan operatives insist in demanding of the Cortes theright of assoctation, which is tenaciously denied them by the authorities asa measure of good government, as they say, seeing that the character of these working” men’s associations i that province is apt to be turbulent. The other operatives of the kingdon also will unite with them in demanding this right. Political parties are less noisy. The democrats are at work, but they geton slowly. ‘The moderados are divided into factions, and are impotent, The Carlists are making a great noise among ‘he Pyrenees. One band is beaten by the Queen’s forges; another appears within afew days, is beaten, and another in less than a week is on foot again scouring the province with the troops upon i heels—never making head against the troops, but alwa; giving them plenty of work to do to eateh them. ‘The go- Verpment must make haste to be cuiting off these hun- dred heads of the hydra, or the Carlists may get to be an evil difficult to cure, Nothing is said lately of the Palace intrigues. The scandals which I toid you of, having passed by all, has settled down into silence again. If anything is going on, it is secret; but as the servants of the royal personage are new, it is probably difficult for them to find assistants for intrigues at present. The Spanish clergy receives the instructions of the Pope clandestively, by means of a Nuncio {a Portugal, who, on hit part, it seems, is zealous in fomenting the machinations and ‘elaborating the rat-hole operations of the gentlemen of the Cus#ek. ‘The question of the alliance with the Powers allied against Russia is silent. The unprececented torrents of rain continue to cause grave injuries in the country, and to everything like trade in the interior. The ravages of the cholera in the capital for the last week have put a damper on politics. A general paralyza- tion of business is noted, and the bad aspect of things in the neighboring empire keeps things somewhat in sus- pense here also. France, it seems, is tired already of her contest with Russia: Veging to lament, and to deny her supplies to the Emperor. This affects also, to some extent, our commer: cial interests, and there is an unnataral pause in all things at this usually busy season of the year, ‘The National Militia, or National Guard ot Madrid, con- sists te y of infantry, 18,313 men; cavalry, 304 horses; ery 4 batteries, with 850 artillerymen mounted or seated on the carriages; 342 sappers; 877 engineering corps, and a company of 285 veterans. The whole force, completely armed and uniformed, is 19,557 men, They are enthusiastic in training and drill- ing, and certainly present a very fine appearance. Whether they will fight or nat remains yet to be put to the proof. JUAN. Our Berlin Correspondence. Brrux, Oct. 30, 1855. The Elections for the Second Chamber—Victory of the Ul- tras—-Expected Secession of the Constitutional Party—The King's Health—The Fitibustering Expedition Against Irdand—Romantic History of Prince Leo of Armenia— Postal Convention Between Prussia and the United States, The opinion expressed in my last communication about the probaple result of the elections for the Second Cnam- ber has been fully justified by the event. Though vic- torious in Berlin and one or two other large cities, the constitutjonals have met with an almost unbroken series of defeats in al the rest of the country, while the yltras, thanks to government influence, the clumsy tactics of their oppenents, and the abstention of the democratic party have carried everything before them. Out of 350 members composing the Second Chamber, at least two hundred are officials, staunch adherents of government, and of the Kreuzzeitung, who may be depended upon for any measure introduced by M. de Monteufel and his colleagues unless (what is not very likely) it should have a liberal tendency. About fifty more are trimmers, sensible people who invariably side with the powers that be, and are sure to support the present ministry as loag as they remain in office. The Catholics, who maintamna kind of desultory opposition against government as long as they think the claims of Holy Mother Church are not sufficiently attended to, but who, in every other respect, are more reactionary than the reactionists themselves, will muster about fifty or sixty strong. Last and least comes the anfertunate constitutionals, a mere corporal’s guard of bavely thirty men, a woe-begone lot, dispirited by defeat, andeven when reiatorced by the Catholics, totally unable to make head against the overwhelming government majority. The ultras, who were excessively tmortified at the il] success of the candidates in this city, are proportionably el at the splendid triumph that has resulted from so inauspicious a beginning, andare oniy at a loss how to improve it sufficient, Their favorite scheme of con- verting the Second Chamber into an Assembly, repre- senting the various classes, or orders of society— the gentry, clergy, the civic population, and the agricultural interest—after the pattern of the me- diaval Provinsialstaende, wi probably be taken in hand, and with every chance of success. As to the constita: tionals, I understand they have serious thoughts of with- drawing from the Chambers in corpore, leaving the ma- forty to work their will unresisted und unopposed, ant nnoy them more by their secession than by The example has already been set by one of their leading members, M. de Vincke, the most elegant speaker among them, and a man who, with greater con- sistency and singleness of purpose, and lexs of aristocratic prejudice, might have played a part in the history of G many honorable to himself and beneficial to his country. Whether the whole constitutional party will resolve upon such a step, may, however, be considered doubtful, as it would require a seli-denial and inflexibility of determ'na- tion essentially foreign to their nature; and besides, many 0! them are so fond of hearing themselves talk that they could never maka their minds to an opportunity of tisPlay ing their oratory, though convinced beforehand that it will remain ut the slightest practical effect. When, in 1849, the democrats concluded upon abstaining from any participation in the Chambers, a# constituted by the royal fat, they acted upon principle, and have, there- fore, with but few exceptions, remained faithful to their resolution; the secession of the constitutionals would only be oceasioned by spite at the success of their anta- gonisis, and vexation at the results of their own short- sighted policy, and the paueity of their numbers would ve such « demonstration of the imposing effect pro- i by the keeping sloof of the democratic party, of whom it may truly be raid qu’ils brillent par leur absence. Like Achilles, they have retired to their tents, and await with gloomy patfence the renewal of the strife, ‘The King bas returned frem his journey to the Rhino, so much improved in health that he has been able to take part ina grand batiue which came olf Inst week in the royal forest of Letzlinger, and at which all the ?ruasian, a number of petty German princes were pre: Bx." nt Fillaore, who has been trrvel- n the Continent for the last two or three hs, was introdaced to him the other dny, and is said to have met with a most cordial recep- tion, I believe Mr. Willmore is the first President of the United States who has ever been in this city. It de serves to be mentioned, as a trait crediteble to the Kiag’s good sense, that he ordered a number of the London Times, containing a most violent and scurritous attack upon him- self, his family and goverament, and which had been confiscated by the police, to he given up immediately after having read it, thus im{tetiog the conduct of his ances- tor, Frederick the Grout, who gave orders for a lampoon against him, that hud been «tuck up opposite the palace, to be pasted lower down, so that the people might peruse it more at their ease, This very sensible behavior of his Prassian Majesty forma a striking contrast to tie perse- cution institute! by the British government against the editors of U Homme, for an articte reflecting on Queen Victoria and her “grest ally.” By the way, what does the Times mean by a tilibustering expedition against Ire- land, to prevent which an English fleet is to be despateh- ed to the American const? ho is the wiveacre that has discovered so egregious a mare's nest, or is Lord ’almer- ston actually trying to pick a quarrel with the United States’ One Would think he had quite enough upon his hands without that; but, quem Deus vult perdere, priue dementat. Considerable excitement has been caused here by the arrest of a mont ingenious aud audacious imposter, who has been carrying on bis operations with great suodss in various parts of Europe for the last nine or ten years, Doving ia the highest circles, and choosing his ies among the elite of rociety, This geatieman called hin- self Prince Leo, ot Armenia, the son or descendant of Loo VL, King of Atmenia, of the family of Lusignen, woo having been deprived of his paternal kingdom by the Russians, had been reduced to lead the life of an exile, subsisting on a stall pension granted to him by the Caar, in “ew of the fair provinces wrested from him by that potentate. Now, it being a historical fsct that Leo V1. departed this life towards the end of the fourteenth century, and that the kingdom of Armenia ceased to ex- ist many years before the Russian eagles penetrated to thore remote regions. it might have been thought his royal Lighness would not have ound many persona willlag to listen to so improbable a tale; but the history of Armeain not being so generally known as that of more civilized communities, and the Prince” having a remarkably pre- pearance, a fine Oriental physiognomy, all the external appendages of birth and found ready belief, and hi thising auditors, for which he probably gave them forun! payable on his accession to the throne of his forefathers. At thé commeneément of the Oriental crisis he published grandiloquent manifestoes against Russia, in which he stated the value of the estates he had been robbed of at fifteen millions of roubles or trancs, be- sides the crown jewels and other valuables handed down to hig by his ancestors from the time of the flood, and his case was quoted by the F> enet ant English papers as one of the most atriking int’ eet or ituseévite batecity, Unfortunately, like other great men, he seems to have been too susceptible to? he tender passion, ani an awk- ward affair be was inv ived in during his resigence in London having render 44 him table to heavy amount of damages, he found b’ smseif under the painful nesessity of quitting the hospit’ able shores of Britain, and seeking an- other field for Ls display of his peculiar abilities. In an evil hour for b¥ mself he came to Berlin, where he ap- peared under the name of Prince of Korikos, one cf the numerous atiasses he thooght® proper to, as. sume in the ‘sourse of his peregrinatfons. He must have forgotten— eat folks always have short memories—that he had favored this capital with his presence years ogc, and been obliged to decamp ‘with precipita- tion to ¢,vokl the consequences of some swindling transac tions be had been engaged in, The police are evidently less oblivious; on referring to their books they soon diseoveted that the pretended prince was no other than Joseph Joannis, a Dutch Jew, who having resided some time in the Fast, had acquired an intimate knowledge of Orlental manners and languages, which he turned to such account in enacting the character of an Eastern gcan- fee, No time was lost in apprehending the untucky ad- venturer, aud heis now rusticating at the Ochsenkopf, a sort of Berlin Tombs, in expectation of his trial, which, it is said, will furnish some novel and striking deve Jopemen's' of a wide spread system of fraud carried ou with a boldness and dexierity unsurpassed in the an- pals of imposture, The best joke is, that among hie papers there was found ‘the draft of a fic: titions letter from Constantinople, addressed to the Ti and Constitutionnel, containing accounts of the move- ments of Prince Leo, of Armenia, and describing them asof the highest political importaoce, which precious document hax just been inserted in both these jour and reprinted ‘in the Ind endenee Belg, with grave re marks on the provatie effect of these movements on the Oriental question. You may how amused we were yesterday on reading this letier in the London, Paris‘and Brus:els prints, after having just been informed who the “Prince of Armenia” really was. ‘This time, no doubt, in order to curry fevor with the Prussian aris- tocracy, who are Muscovite to the backbone, he repre- sented himself as having effected a reconciliation with the Russian government, and calling upon his country- men, the Armenians, to rally round the banners of Rustin in defence of the Cross against the Crescent. It is a thousand pities that the activity of the Berlia poli should have prevented him from reaping all the ad pve he mught have expected to derive from so clev ge. It may not be uninteresting to some of your readers to know that the Prussian and United States governments have entered into an agreement respecting the registry of letters forwarded by the Prussian closed mail. For a registered letter sent from here, not exceeding half an ounce in welght, an extra postage of two silver groschens (making the whole postage fifteen silver grosehens,) is to be charged, and on letters of the same weight sent from the United States to Berlin, an additional postage of five cents, making the total t» be paid at New York, if franked, thirty-five cents, A.B Our Vienna Correspondence. Vinwna, Oct. 29, 1855. Important Notification from the Czar to the Catrine! of Ber- lin—Russia Willing to Male Cons Secure Peace—Estimate of the Amount of th Forces in the Field Against the Russians—Activity in the Russian Dock Yards—Eneryetic Character of the Grand Duke Constantine—Difences of Nikolaieg—Affairs of Greece—Diplomatic Movements, dc., Le. ‘The Paris correspondent, of the Austrian Gazette, again sees peace beaming in the horizon. The Cabinet of Berlin, we are given to understand, has received notice from St. Petersburg that the Cabinet of Russia is willing to make considerable sacrifices in order to bring about a renewal of the blessings of peace. Tho interviews which have Intely taken place between Count Walewski and Count Colletti are said to bave reference to this matter, and it is further added that Baron Bourquenay will spend a few days in the city of Berlin, while on his road to Vienna, and will seize the opportunity for holding communication with the Prussian Minister of Foreign Affairs respecting this very important subject. It may be as well tos:ate that this is corroborated by a second correspondence of the same paper. The whole affair has a very stock- jobbing aspect. As nearly as can be ascertained the allied forces in the Fast are at present disposed of as fol- lows:—45,000 men at Batoum, under the command of Omer Pasha; 18,000 at Kertch, under Waflifand William Parker; 18,000 in Trebizonde, under Selim Pasha; and 12,000in Er- zercum, under Vely and Hafiz Pasha. The main body of the Western Powers, situated on both sides of the Tcher- neya, numbers 95,060 men; the camp of General d’Al- lonville, at Eupatoria, 60,000 men; the camp of General Vioni, at Kertch, 16,000 men; the camp of General Ba- zam, at Kinburn, 12,000 men, and the reserve, at Mar- lak, 10,000 men. We thus have a total of 276,000 men actually in arms against the Russians, From Varna, under date of the 17th, »we learn that Prince Czartoryski, arrived there on the 12th, in company with a number of officers belonging to the Turkish Cos- sacks. The Polish legion will not be sent either to the Crimea or to Asia, but is destined to operate solely in Bessarabia. As regards the enlistment of the men, the greatest care is taken, none being admitted except such as are known to be of character, and to entertain m7le- rate opinions and views. An individual, who gave him- self out to be a Prusso-Polish refugee, made application for an officer’ commission, which, however, bajng re fused him, he took his departure for France, The no- tion of enlisting Bosnians and Servians in the ranks of the Polish legion has been definitely avandoned, in con- requence of the unwillingness with’ which the Southern Sclavonians mix with the Poles. ‘The last Levantine mail seings us intelligence to the effect that Kars is still blockaded, the Turks having been unable to follow up their victory, by reason of their want of cavalry. Letters trom Odessa speak greatly in praise of the as- tonirhing energy of Prince Constantine. At five in the morning he receives the reports of all the Russian gene- rals, and immediately afterwards proceeds to the works where the new Russian ships are building. Three screw frigates are already completed—one of them, the Vetjas, having been fitted with the engines taken from the stranded Tiger. These vessels are not yet armed, but will be so early in the spring. Two vessels of the line are in course of construction, of 120 and 130 guns respec- tively. ‘The latter bears the name of Nachimoff, and the former is to be styled Alexander, in honor of the Russian Emperor, Five hundred~cannon boats will shortly be ready, many of them being already finished. The great- est activity is being displayed in the dockyards, and a number of workmen have been brought from Cronstadt especially to assist at the work. We have little more news from the Rasslan empire, Tt ix said that no fears are entertained for Nikolaieff, the stream of the Bug having been so completely blocked up by surken vessels and other obstructions, that no ship Whatever can foreo a pasenge. ‘The wholo of the drus- chines of the first order of the empire have been ordered to unite themselves with the southern army, under the command of General Luders. rom Bucharest we learn that Prince Ttiskey is fast recovering from his very severe illness. He has, however, determined to resign all affairs into the hanés of the go- vernment until such time as his health shall be com- pletely re-establiched. Letiers from Athens inform us that great satisfuction is expressed by the Greek people at the present minis- try. The Ambassadors, however, of England and Franze are said to be very discontented at the turn which affairs have taken, and ‘were net #t home” when the newly ap- pointed Ambassadors ealied to pay their offictal visits. ‘The cholera wan raging in dilferent districts with the greatest victence, From Constantixople we learn that preparations are being made for the receipt of a part of the allied fleet as well in the harbor of the Turkish capital, as in the bay of Beicos, The inhabitantgof Pera ace much rejoiced at this circumstance, as thé French and English officers will form st ble addition to the company at the balls which are always given during the winter season. ‘The appointment of Baron l’rokosh. to be internun Constantinople, has now been officially contirr we are given to understand, this statesman w Stamboul immediately after his return from Frankfort, which will take place about the end of November next. Count Rechberg Kothenlowen is expected at Frankfort to- morrow, When an extraordinary sitting will most proba- bly be held for the purpose of installing him in bis seat. Baron Brunow has been appointed Ambassador Extraor- dinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Frankfort, by the cabinet of St. Petersburg. Virwna, Oct 30, 1865. Effectof the Times’ Broalsides against Amerien in Vienna~Im. prutent avd Unfounded Character of its Assertions generally— Relations between Austria and Surdinia—The Tuscany Difi ently, Ge, $e. English journalism has reached a very fearful climax of absurdity. The 7imes—that monstrous “ leviathan of the press ’’—has recently come out rather strong in this line. The American public will have been delighted with its thundering leader against the “Yankee buccaneering expedition,” the immediate object of which is supposed to be a ‘direct descent upon Ireland.’ One hardly knows whether to weep at the barefaced impudeace of this self-evident lie, or to smile at the ineifable credulity of the British public, who read and gulp it down as some- thing that must be, more or less, true. And why’ Be: ‘cause the Times, forsooth, has put it forth. The citizens of the United States, however, may comfort themselves by the fact that the American goverument and people are not the exclusive objects of the ruthless and shame- ful attacks of that journal par excellence. The Austrian government and poople are, for instance, equally favored with the constant inflictions of the most odious imputa- tions which the proprietors and writers of the Times con- coct. Under these circumstances it may not e unin- teresting to your readers to know that the cry which has recently been got up in London, that ‘ Austria is trytag to pick a quarrel with Sardinia,” and that she has for that laudable purpose been ‘using very offensive lan- guage to the Sardinian Charge d’ Affaires at thie place, in the matter of the pending squabble between the Piedmontese and Toscan Courts,’ is quite as un- founded as the ‘‘ thundering leader upon the American expedition aguinst Ireland. The trath of the matter is, that up to the present moment Count Buol has not ex- changed as much as a single syllable with the Sardinian Chargé d'Affaires upon this subject. In fact, Austria ab- solutely declines to meddle in it. Some of her statesmen mal ibly have stated fn ‘‘ private conversations’’ thet Kireinia's threat not to resume diplomatic relations with Tuscany is supremely indifferent to this country. And what is there insulting in that? In 1849 the King of Wirtemberg said that he would never succumb toa “Hohengoller,” whereupon the Berlin cabinet recalled the Prussian ambassador from Stuttgart, and full five years elapsed before bis Pruseiag Majesty thought fit to send another representative to the capitol of Wirtem- burg. If in the meantime Prussia had complained of the inconvenience of this state of things to any of the other great Powers in Europe, would she not have got for answer:—‘‘ That's no concern of ours?” And need Aus: tria trouble herself about. the re- idence or non-residenc ofa Sardinian minister at Florence? But what are tho real merits of the dispute between Piedmont and Tusea- ny? Permit me to tell you, and to premise that my in- formation is authentic; the pa ges) of Tuscany simply claims the right to be his own master in his own house, It is the boast of freemen that “ their house is their castle,” and why should the sovereign of Pusca- ny not have the right to exclude from his presence and from his court all persons objectionable to him ? The case stands thus:—Some six months ago the Sir- dinian Chargé q’Affaires at Florence notified to the Tus- Minister for Foreign Affairs that Count Casati, Jr., had been appointed Attaché to his mission. To’ this notification a reply was sent ‘simply acknowledging its receipt,” which implied, according 10 diplomatie. usage, that i contents were tot approved of, But this hint the Sardinian Minister entirely disregarded, with or with- out design, and reported to his government that the mat- ter was quite “in order.” The! government heard no more ot it until young Casati, sone three months afterwards, made his appearance at Florence, when the Grand Duke refused to reoeive him at his court, because, strictly speaking, he is still an Austrian subject, nis fatner, Count Casati, being a political retugee from Lom- hardy, residing at Turin, in open rebellion against: is legitimate sovereign, the Emperor Francis Joseph. It must also be borne in mind that the Grand Duke of Tus- cany is at the same tims an independent Italian monarch and an Arch Duke of Austria. The Sardinian government, on the other hand, apparently glad to pick a quarrel with an Italian neighboring State, took up this refusal to receive young Carati at the Tuscan Court as an unjustif- ablo insult, and consequently broke off all diplomatic re- lations with the fame. Lord Normanby, the English Ambassador at Florence, has declared that the Grand Duke is perfectly in the right; but now the Times informs us that his lordship fs to have a wrap over the knuckles for making this honest declaration. Why? Because Sar- dinia, being the ally of England in the war against Rus. sia, must be supported by England, through sick ond thin, through right and wrong. Besides, Sardinia must be petted, for sooner or later the extension of her domi- nions in Italy ix to be secured, as a compensation for her participation in the present war. For that reason her disputes with the neighboring Italian States should be fomented. This, you will agree, is a pretty apecimen of the present degenerated policy of “Old England.” But the Zimes, in its spurious wisdom, will have it so; and the English people are sunk #0 low heneath their own dig- nity as to look up to the Times for the order of the day. Our Stuttgart Correspondence. Srorriarr, Oct 81, 1855. Renewed Egorts of Austria to Change the Organization of the Germanic Confederation—The Continued Dualisin Botwoon Austria and Prusia~The Friends and Opponents of Russia in Germony—Russian Diplomacy in the Sualler States ~The Sentiments of the German Princes and Nobility Decidedly Rwsian—Opinion of the Middle Classes—Their Fear of So- ciatiem— Their Hope in Louis Napolam and the insupicicacy of the Cossack to Protect Social Order—Denmark and the Sound Dues, &e. At last the German papers and the German govern- ments have come to the conclusion that the States of Germany, and especially Prussia, have committed a great blunder in remaining entirely inactive waiters on Provi- dence during the present war. They seem to be astonish- ed at the resolution of the Western Powers to carry on the war and to Hiring it to a successful conclusion without even so much as communicating with the Germanic Con federation on the subject. With truth say now the Aus- trian official organs, the continuance of the war is to be ascribed to the drowsy, lazy habits of the Germans, and to the indisposition or incapacity of their govern- ments to establish themselves as a European power. Had Germany, at the commencement of the war, thrown her weight on the side of the Western Powers—had Prussia established an army in the Grand Duchy of Posen when Austria established one on the frontiers of Gallicia, Rus- sia would have yielded, the four points demanded by the Allies would have been conceded, and Russia would still be in the quiet possession of the Crimea and the Pon- tine flect. It is now very evident that the Western Powers, emboldened with their success, will not be satis- fied with the four points, and it is equally certain that France and England will have a private understanding as to what they shall consider an acceptable proposition of peace. Neither Austria nor Pruesia, nor all the German States combined, will be asked as to the future plans of operation, so that while Germany, like every other Euro- pean power, cannot escape the eonsequences ot the war, she has now neither the power of stopping it or giving it a direction favorable to her interests. Austria now says the Germanic Confederation 1s an obsolete institution, only serving to weaken the political influence of Germany, but utterly incapable of defending it gainst her external or internal foes. The power and influence of Austria weakens that of Prussia, and vice versa, while the minor States of Germany are only a clog on the action of both. Had Prussia sided with Austria only so far as to express her dissent from the pretensions of Russia, the war, even after its commencement, would have terminated. Nay, it would terminate now but for the inertia of Prussia. Austria, therefore, is willing to de- mand # remoéeling of the constitution of the Germanic Confederation, and to promote and advocate any such demand made by one or more of the inferior States. ‘This is surely thrown out as a feeler, to ascertain whether, in the event of a war, she may count on the active sympathy of the minor German States, or as a means of intimidating Prussia, who is actively engaged in opposing, by every possible means, every proposition of Austria likely to result in the advancement and con- solidation of that power. It is, however, certain that the period for effecting a change in the Germanic Con- federation has not yet arrived, and that Austria will not prevail with her proposition at the Diet. Austria will, nevertheless, gain one material point by making the pro- position: she will satisfy the Western Powers—France and Fngland—that she has done all she could do to fur- ther their cause; that without securing the co-operation of Germany she cannot do more than she has done to show her good faith to the Allies, and that to go farther would even be to endanger their success, It is certain that, as far ax public opinion is concerned, the friends of Russia im Germany blame the conduct and present position of Austria, while they entirely ap- prove of that of Prussia, and that in this respect the demarkation is 80 distinct as to admit of classification. In the nobility throughout Germany, from the raling princes down to the humblest sprig of the noblesse embodied in the unitorm of a lieutenant of the Guards, the senti- ment is Russian. Prince Charles of Prusia is more of a Russian than Field Marsal Paskewitch; while the Prince of Pruasia’s hostility to the Czar hax very much abated since his late prolonged visit to St. Petersburg. The no- bility of Germany cannot forget the year 1848, and as their own institutions offer them no certain guarantee that it will not return, they look with contidence to the semi-Asiatic power of the Czar to protect them in the enjoyment of their privileges and the above-named lieu- tenants’ commissions in the Guards. Only a smal) por- tion of the property interests of Germany share this Ravstan feeling; because their conservative nstincts loo: to commerce and manufactures as the means of giviug value to property. Russia has only recently throw: open certain provinces of her vast empire to the exchangy of commodities with Germany—the Hussian Graen:aperre (closing of her frontiers to the gots of foreign coun tries) and tyrannical custom house laws being the principal cause of the hostile feeling towards her which exists in the provinees of Eastern Prssia, and especially those which border on the Baltic. { feel certain that T exaggerate nothing when I give it to you as my honest conviction that the mojority of merchants, bankers, manufseturers and tradespeople of all descriptions, are heart and soul with the Western Pow- ers, and the masses are so beyond the power of contr diction. If it were not for public opinion in Germany, (always excluding the nobility and the lieutenants of cavalry,) Tam certain Prussia would have attempted to give the Czar material aid and comfort. Austria could net have dene it without sacrificing all her interests in the commerce of the Levant and the Adriatic. To sum up—the people of Germany, the immense majority of the industrious classes and the troops, from the privates up to the sergeants major, are French and English; all the rest, including the machinery of government, is Itus- sian, If, therefore, the German princes have not taken part for Russia, it is because their treasuries are empty, and they were afraid of their own people and the chances of a revolution. Germany has, indeed, been garrivoned by Russian diplomatists ever since Veter the Great. Not a German town where a Russian private gentleman, (who is, in fact, a counsellor of legation or a Russian spy,) has not taken up his abode, charming everybody ‘with the Iberality of his sentinients and his table. At every one of the petty courts of Germany Rus#an diplematists are aceredited—not single persons, but droves—and every- where they spend their money with open hands, marr; into the most respectable families, and entertain wi true Russian hospitality. Take, for instance, the poor and diminutive Duchy of Baden, with a population leas than that of the city of New York—has it not» full Rus- sian Minister, with Secretary of Legation and numer- ons altachés, among whom is even a_ prince of one of the noblest houses of Russia? With many of the German houses Rustia has relations of plood. Thus the Crown Prince of Wurtemburg has married the Grand Duchess Olga, sister to the pre- sent Emperor of Russia, A princess of Hesse Darmstadt is now on the throne, and in Oldenbarg and Denmark Russia may even succeed to the throne, The Dowager Fmpress of Russia is a sister of the King of Prussia, and Bavaria is collaterally connected with Russia through the Duke of Leuchtenberg. If the Grand Duchess Olga is not now Queen of Bavaria, it is simply because the pre- sent King Maximilian ILL. ran away trom her sixteen years ‘ago, and eseaped on a private tour to England. “With such relations in Germany it was impossible for Russia not to have a party here; but it is a party which expects succor from Russia rather than granting it support, The Russian party in Germany has go idea of conquest it is opposed to the war from principles of sound economy, and hates to do anything that is at ali likely to disturb the status quo at home. It is, therofore, a party which does not aid Russis, nor weaken the Wesjern Powers, It is altogether deceptive in its position and action, and may. at any time, yield to the popular impulse below, shoula their situation demand such a movement as a means of preserving those who now hold power. A crisi« in Franee—an event which may happen—would com- pletely change the whole attitude of Germat ‘There is yet another view which I must express on the subjeot, and which I think of sufficient importance at this period. The middle classes of Germany, by which Imean what in England woul! be called the “ wealthy commoners,’” have no confidence in the power of the pre- sent governments of Germany to protect them against the ee eee em socialist tendencies of the age. They saw these govern- ments, in 1848, onesafter another tuiable iato duet before the popular rage, without Russia doing so much as move a finger to protect the ruling families. It was only when the Hurgorian insurrection. by its ramification with I’ threateved the safety of Rursta herself, tnav Russia in- tervened in tho affairs ot Austria by force of arms. Rus- sia then felt very little concern for the status quo in Germany, despite the many dlood relations of the Czar among the German Princes. She only interfered to pro- tect hersel!i—she sew Prussia demoralived withuut moving a finger—Wurtemberg almost absorbed, without using a threat. Perhaps she thought a general confusion in Germany, like tbat which once ruied in ancient Poland, favorable to her interesis—her ambitious designs. Per- haps the confusion was not great enough to make the people of Germany hail the Cossack as their ¢eliverer, Be thir as it way, it is certain that the re-establishment of order in Germany is rot due to Rassia—to the conser- vative power of the Coxsack—but to Cavagnac ant to Louis Napoleow. Had the barricades of Paris triumphed against Cavagnac Mood would have flown like water threugh the streeta of every German city, and it is more than probable that the biooa of German princes would have mingled with it. And so in 1952, if Napoleou not arrested the progress of the socialists hy a coup d’élat, Socialism onee crushed in France, that of Germany died a natural death; but it died without receiving a blow from Rossia, The revolution in Hungary was not a so cinlist revolution; it was a re-kindling of Magyar nation olity—an attempt at independence, claimed as a legal na- tional right, on the the basis of international treaties end rolemnly entered engagements. The rising in Hungary was a dynastic movement, and was, in spite of the heroic grandeur ef the struggle which followed, s*ill more in the nature of an episude in the great socialist and com- munist movement of Western Europe. £o reason the wealthy manufacturers, merchants and monied men of Germany. Their hopes are centered in France. If Louis Napoleon, or any government that may succeed bim, has the power of keeping down the socialists, red republicans and communists, "ie are safe; if not, they will be overpowered and stripped loog before the unwieldy power of Russia, which is ways low and di- latory in her movements, can pull a tigger, or fire a cannon. With public opinion and society thus divided in Ger- many, you will easily comprehend why her postion should be one which neither inspires fears nor hopes, respect or contempt, but imply @ feeling which is but a reflex of that which prevails in Germany itself—that of profound indifference. ‘The status quo in Germany will not be changed till the Germanic Confederation is established on a new basis; and this will not be done until she is threatened by one or the other belligerents, and forced to become a party tothe present war. That Germany may yet be forced to abandon her present neutrality in "neltae- fence is the fear of all her princes, including thoxe of the House of Hapsburg; hence their incessant attempts to induce new negotiations of peace which are as quickly abandoned as it is perceived they are unacceptable to the helligerents. The situation of the German princes re- sembles that of @ person who sees the flames issuing from his neighber’s house, and perceives the éanger of his rit- uation, without being able to make up hia mind whether he had better lend a hand in pniting them or stay at home to prevent his own habitation from being set on fire. Itis a very uncomfortable situation, you may rest assured, and one Which is not likely to be’ long enjoyed with security, The matter of the Danish Sound dues occupies the Ger- man press from one end of Germany to the other; but I have not yet seen a single paper which attempted’ to de- fend or encourage Denmark. Prussia, especially, wishes these dues abolished, and, indirectly ‘at least, supports the views taken by the government of the United States, All German powers, however, will eventually submit to the capitalization of the’ dues as a matter of etiquette and respect for the historical remnants of bar- barous ages. France and England have received the Danish offers very coldly, exhibiting much indifference to the fate of Denmark, ‘should the latter power be in- volved in unpleasant difficulties with the United States, ond Pointing plainly to the war in the Fast, and eape- cially in the Baltic, as something that Denmark has over- locked when counting on the friendly intercession of these powers. In other words, France and England are rejoiced at the threatening attitude of the United States, ard in hopes that it may lead to an alliance, offensive and defensive, not only with Denmark, but all the Scan- dinavian Powers. I doubt whether at this moment the Russian legation in Washington is not employed in re- monstrating with Governor Marey on the extreme harshness of his proceedings, and advising a more lenient treatment of Denmark than is laid down in his instruc- tions. If Denmark and Sweden join the Western Powers against Russia, their joint maritime power would be suf- ficient to defy the world, F. J. G. The Anglo-Amenican War. STATE OF FEELING IN MANOHESTER—HOW A WAR WOULD AFFECT ENGLAND'S MANUFACTURES. {From the Manchester Examiner, Oct. 27.] Are we or are we not in of a war with the United States of North America? This is a question which has just been raised by two singular articles in the leading columns of the Times and the Morning Post, both of which journals are known to be in close, if not. confi- dential connection with the Palmerston administration. One of the chief daily contributors to the columns of the Times ia a» member of the government, and that cause, probably quite as mush as from any influence or status he may have acquired as the representative of Kidderminster in the House of Commons, has won for himeelf a seat on the Treasury Bench. The Morning Post, tor several years, has been notoriously the organ of Lord Palmerston, and from this fact has derived a factitious importance, due neither to the position it holds among the metropolitan press, nor to its merits as «daily moath- piece of public opinion. On these grounds, it may fairly be taken for granted, that whenever such announcements as those which have this week been made through the medium of these nals take the public by rurprise, the government has, least, certified the facts, if it hay not actually suggested the tone which characterizes their formal communica- tion. On Thursday last, the Times, in an article saturated with that reckless and bullying spirit which it invariably assumes towards the American pecple and their govern ment, proclaimed to the world that preparations are in progress for a powerful demonstration of force on the other side of the Atlantic. The English government, we are told, is omitting no opportunity of reinforeing the Wert India squadron, and thus interposing powerfal fleet between this country and the North American con- tinent. No formal disclosure is made of the specitic causes fore premmed rupture with the United States; but the public is led to infer that Ameri- can designs on Cuba, or the mad enterprises of some portion of her filibustering citizens in other directions, are on the eva of precipitating a quarrel be- tween this country and the government of Washington. ‘The American people are so free that they will not be controlled by a government of their own creating, and therefore it is, says the Times, that we are about to assume a defensive attitude on their coasts, to resist their lawless en- terprises, and overwhelm their ‘wild and desperate schemes. Not one word is said throughout the article on any other subject of difference between the two governments than the threatened filibustering expeditions against Cuba, or the anarchical States of Central America, The alleged misunderstanding or quarrel between the government of the United States and our ewn is represented as resting entirely on these grounds, and a column of the fiercest invective is poured forth in vindication o! the policy we are about to enforce for the protection of the out- raged rights of nations. It the object of the Zimes had been to provoke those very passions which are most likely te lead to war with the American people, it could not have found language more suited to #0 fiend-like a purpose. To fling such a tissue of foul abuse in the face of any civilized people would be enough of itself to raise a storm of indignation calculated to blow whatever clements of strife may be in prospect into irreconcilable vehemence. No filibustering fire- brand of the press in America ever condescended to the coarse vituperation which the Zimes hazards with such unscrupulous audacity. And the object of all this bru- tum fulmen is deliberately to mislead and deceive public opinion in this country as to the real source of the dan- ger that threatens our relations with the United States. Weare the agyrésors, not the Americans. The Times has raised a cloud of cust to cover the real cause of all the Ayficulties that are likely to embroil us with the Ame- rican government or people, The {quarrel is a serious ene, and the chances of its becoming much more serious will be greatly aggravated by the insulting and wanton bravadewith which the Imes has striven to exaxperate the Americans. The Government, no doubt, has feit this, and accordingly, Lord Palmerston has made haste fto meet the natural anxiety of the public for more information, by authorizing the Morning Post to communicate a more authentic version of the grounds on which the differences between the two wernments have arisen. The tone, however, in which ord Palmerston’s journal descants on the pending rup ture is not calculated to allay the apprehensions A have been created by the vague deciamation of the Times. We have bad ample experience of the overbearing and dictatorial superciliousness invariably assumed by Lord Palmerston in his administration of our foreign policy, and we are not without our fears that, ia the present critical conjuncture, he may display more boldness than discretion in the pending dispute with the American g ernment. That dispute has originated mn a distinct lation by the British Minister at Washington of the constitu- tonal laws of the United States, It is not the lawless ag- ession, threatened or actual, of American citizens on Cuba that has precipitated ‘the quarrel, but the at tempt made by British emissaries ‘engaged and authorized by Mr. Crampton, our Ambassador to the United States, to enlist American citizens on Ame- rican soil as soldiers in the British army. Tho laws of the United States distinctly prohibit this species of enlistment, and yet, in violation of these laws, & regularly organized system of enlistment was plannod and carried into effect, with the cognizance and compli- city of the British Ambassador at Washington. The American Government arrested one of these agenta, ani ‘it was proved on his trial that Mr. Crampton was a party to and a principal in the whole procerdings. It is understood that the American President has demanded the reesll of Mr. Crampton on these grounds; and as Mr. Crampton was only the representative of the British cabinet, his withdrawal would be tantamount to a confession on the rt of the British government of a wilful violation of the ws and constitution of the United States. This is the cause of the quarrel as it stands; we know nothing of the reply which has been made by the British government to this’ requisition of the American President, but the in fraction of the laws of one sovereign State by the repre- sentative of another is an offense that could not be disre- garded by the chief of the executive, responsible for the maintevance and enforcement of the laws of his country. Lord Palmerston has rent what the Morning Pot calis a formidable fleet to Bermuda, and we are on the eve, ty all appearances, of a great eomplication that may even- tuate in disaster. Nuthing could tend to arouse the na- tional susceptibilities of the American people more effec tually than a bullying demonstration of our naval power on their coasts at such a juncture. We are loth to be- lieve that war between two such nations can be hatched out of such a paltry squabble. But when we see the tone in whieh such bility ta met by the Times, and the rancorous malignity with which such an occasion is seized for inflaming international animosities; and with the evidence before us of the determination of the government to carry matters with a bigh hand, we confess that we are not without some miag as to the result, Vague ‘and incomplete as the infor- maticn now before the public may be as to the ac- tual state of our relations with the American go- yernment, we are all the more om that account appre- hensive of the fatal consequences to committed before publi * opinion has Pp to | 4 nounce # judgment on the question in dispute. We will not take for granted what both the Times and the Morning Fort treat as the almost certain issue, But, what a mon- strous reflection upon our boasted government of public opinion is the fact that, at this moment, we ma; been actually committed to war with the United States without even any definite cognizance of the causes which huve led to such a calamity! 4 war with American would, be desolation to every interest in Lancashire; and surely it behoves the organised representatives of those interests to make known to the Government the fearful suspense and anxiety which has beea aroused by the sudden dis- closure of the dangers that overhang us. Wild the Manchester Chamber of Commerce and the Commercial Association remain silent or inactive, while secret diplomacy is perhaps signing the death warrant Sor years of our social and civic prosperity ? {From the London Atlas, Nov. 3.] There is a feeling of uneasiness throughout the country of our relations with America; but we t believe thet either our government would be so- fowlish as to quarrel with the Americans, or that their overnment Would be so foolish as to quarrel with us. Nevertheless, it is well for the people to take up the mat- ter in time, and to give Lord Palmerston’s cabinet the enefit of a “bit of their mind,” ‘The geographical posi- ion of Cuba is sufficient to make the Americans want it, and the corruption of the Spanish government quite enough to force a portion of the Cuban population into revolt, and thus give some pretext to the schemes of fill. bustering adventurers. Beyond tnis, it is highly proba. ble that the United States Cabinet does not wish to. sto) tbe piratical attempts of its go-ahead subjeste; but if It become a question of whether the Americans should steal Cuba, or we should go to war with them to prevent it, ek the former alternative would be by far the accept. It may - raid that ifwe fight see eae stop er thieving propensities, we are equally bound to fight agaist Brother donat han to stop his—but this isa is whose force we do not admit. We onght most certainly to protest ore ony Cuba-stealing efforts, and it would be us well ifwe enforced upon Spain the necessity of stopping them by adopting a just system of rule in that important island, but we deprecate the ides of fighting in any such cause, The case of Russia and that of 4 ca do by no means coincide, because while Russia’s ai quiring Turkey would di all the best interests of Lurope, there would not be the least harm to any good interest whatever if America obtained possession of Cuba, in an honest way. The probability ia that remonstrances of the right sort would check the filibustering for the precent, and for a final solution of the difficulty it might e recommended that Spain should sell Cuba to the Americans, and employ the money in paying off her debts. ‘The Spanish goverment ought to. bevable defend them~ selves without our help aga net yiratical attacks, and we fear that if the Palmerston cabinet does not mind what it is about, its imprudence will excite an amount of animosity that may be dijjicull to deal with, The sad mi nent of the war aud its obyious antagonism to European liber- ty have done much to lower our character in the United States; and if the Americans find Palmerston bullying them, while he truckles to Austria, and dare not even fight Russia in a stroightforward way, a strong feeling of reseniment must ari ihe purpore of Lord Aberdeen in declaring war against Russia was clearly to prevent the Turks acting so as to cause @ revolution in Poland, which must have spread to Hungary and Italy. It was 4n intense hatred of the re- publican principle that made our oligarchy virtually guarantee Russia the cafety of her Polish dominions, and which has made them the abettors of Austrian misrule. ‘These things are no secrets iv America, and have pro- duced their effect. We have not forgotten Prince Albert's speech at the ‘Trinity House against the legitimate workiog of consti- tutional government, nor the venemous falsehoods which members of the administration and their friends have uttered against Italian patriots, who would rather imi- tate the institutions of America than our own; and we fear that, without intending actual war, the Premier and lis colleagues may like the opportunity of producing ill- feeling be.ween the people of this oomntey ‘and the United States, whose inexpensive government, extended suffrage, i happy immunity from @ State Shurch, they mi view with vexation and alarm. If the int and in- tegrity of the conntry were represented in the Cabinet we rhould have no fear; but we have an infinite belief in the folly and dishonesty of our oligarchy, and think it weil that they should know at once how a severe reck- oning awaits them if they make a quarrel between our- selves and our kinsmen on the other side of the sea, TO THE EDITOR OF THE LONDON NEWS. Tread with sutistaction the able article in your Tues- day’s edition of the Daily News on the course our go- vernment is pursuing in regard to the United States, and especially your protest inst that secret diploma: ey which may force us into collision with that country. N save an attack on the honor of England will ives. Justify war with the American people—a of the ame blood. language, and religion a1 o Pe rl ment should promptly be called together; and if not, public meetings should be held to protest upon so fatal a Proceeding. Lord Patmerston, as is his wont, is carrying the coun- try to the brink of a precipice, which mast either involve usin war, er force us to withdraw our fleet ignomini- ously. The Ameriean people will not tamely submit to a tleet of liners being sent vo their coast without good reason, nor should they. Have we not alveaty esough upon our hands, that we should seek to irritate a proud and powerful people? What would be the result of a conflict with the United States, even were we to come out of it victoriously? Our commerce and manufactures would be erippled—our monetary affairs in inextri- cable confusion—the coast swarming with priva. teers—a million of our industrial population out of employ-—ihe cost of all. the necessaries of Ifa greatly enhanced. ‘Truly it would be ‘the beginning of the end,”” and most likely result in civil war and social revolution. Better that the United States should s Cuba and our West India Islands into the bargain than we should risk such calamities. Better that the present, or s score other administrations be driven from power than they should be suffered to use their secret diplomacy for sue! fearful results, ANM.P. November 1, 1855. Last wovh we were informed by the Times, in a leading article, that an invasion of Ireland wos meditated by certain parties in the United States, Will the imes give its authority for this iotelligence? If not well fo % its promulgation may do much mischief. hen the writers In the Times assume bility, they should sign their names. I deprecate the zinience ‘of an anonymous government irresponsibly issuing ite edicts and its news from a back room im Print- ing house square. AN ENEMY TO IRRESPONSIBLES GOVERNMENT. November 1, 1855. The Capture of Kinburn. From the London Times, Nov. 2] We can add little to the graphic narra' which ap- pears today of the fate of Kinburn, Thie episode in the war incurs the danger of being neglected from the very brillancy and promptness of the victory. The cap- ture of a place after afew hours’ cannonade conveys the feeling that the exploit was easy, and, even though im- portant, yet not interesting, and hardly to be called glo- rious. But the story to-day given to world 1 one of complete preparation and profound foresight, followed by immediate success, The allies “came, saw, and conquer- ed,” because nothing had been omitted which could ob- viate mischance or celay. The capture of Kinburn and the occupation of the Dnieper estuary ought not to sink in the estimation of ¥urope he skill of possibility of a the commanders precluded the long defence. The first feature in these opera- tions which calls for notice is the feint of am attack that at last we bave learned that something mor daring has always been thought necessary in w d that “stra is a word syno- nymous with “generalship.” For two days the com- bined fleet lay ina thick fog close in to the town of Odessa, The church bells sounded through the gloom, while the signal guns of the fleet were listened to with dread by the inhabitants of the seemingly threatened city. When the mist rolled away, the citizens of all ranks were dis- cerned watching the’ movements of their enemies with curiosity and apprehension, Cossacks scoured the coun- idiers labored at earthworks—all denoted the expectation of an immediate attack. The wind was high, the short swell of the Black Sea tossed the mighty fleet, and for three days longer it lay opposite the’ fair city of the enemy, which it could so easily Lave crushed. At "Inst, on the Mth of October, the whole fleet weighed and stood to the eastward, It need hardly be repeated that Kinburn stands at the extremity of a narrow spit of land which forms the southern shore of the liman of the Dnei- per. The allied troops larted to the east of the town, in order to cut off the retreat of the gar- rison. This operation was completed without op- position. The French placed themselves on the left, so to undertake the assault; the British landed to the east of their allies, and prepared to resist any attempt of the enemy to march to the rescue, ‘The French were not long before they began the work. In the night they crept up to within 700 yards of the place and opened their first parallel, But Kinburn was too much exposed to the sea tofequire the slow approaches of a siege. The allied fleet poured in a deadly fire from two «ides. The cannonade yas louder and more incessant than oe jottest conflict at Sebastopol. A fing of truce , Jit was answered, and the firing ceased. The 2 rehed out, and half of it is on its way to Spithead. Kinburn remains to ua something more than the ‘blood stained ruins” in which Gortachakoff boasted that he had lett Sebastopol. We may again congratulate the country on this impor- tent conquest. No event of the war is likety to be pro- ductive of more lasting good, While Marlborough was win- ning brilliant victories, an Admiralnamed Rooke seized a rock on the coast of Spain. Little was t of the ac- uisition, and the seaman was unrewarded. Yet, while emheim and Ramilies are merely & remembrance, Gi- braltar remains @ reality. So the establishment of the allies in an impregnable position at the emboachure of the Dnieper and the Bug may be a wound to Russia deep er than was inflicted at Alma or Inkermann. The place cannot be wrested from a power which holds the sea, while its guns command the narrow channel which passes close under its wa ls. If it be true that communieations have been kept open between Ofessa and Nikolaieff, in spite of blockading fleets, these communications must now cen se. The whole bay for thirty miles is in our possession, and the further defences of the enemy must now begin at the mouths of the two rivers themselves. All that remains is to prevere for the operations of the coming spring. ‘The liman is frozen for about two months, but early ‘np March it will be as free as now for the gunboats and mor- tar vessels of the allies. That Cherson and Nikolaief are now in danger, must be evident tothe Czar aed his advisers. The defence of the latter city and” its vast building yards is entrusted to Todtleben, the young engi neer of Sebastopol. An advance against this place will no doubt form one of the acta of the great drama of the war, although the date of such am enterprise cannot be predicted. It can, however, ly be averted by the con- clusion of hostilities, and, if undertaken, its sucomss t« certain, for the allies will not be impeded by the do. ficiencies, nor will they fal! into the errors, which mark- ed the early campaign in the Crimea. uch & respousi- ——<<—$—$———_—_—_ Srravtar Verpicr—At the Court of Common Pleas at Lowell, Mass., in the ease of John Flanagan, of Charlestown, for violation of the quor iaw, the jury found: that'the facts in the complaint are true, and leave it to the court to decide whether those facta c tute an offence, and that the jury did not agree as to the law.”