The New York Herald Newspaper, December 21, 1855, Page 2

2 ie undoubtedly of so critical a charactor that no surprise meed be felt if, by any indirect means, overtures abould be made; and it is a fict that Austria has been busily plying her offices. The language of the Czar to his gene- val, on leaving the Crimea, in which he speaks of “our brave and powerful enemy,” and then of bis joy at not finding his troops cast down, after their late admirable aetirement from Sebastopol, clearly inticates that the winter has brought its usual spirit of negotiation; but I find ne reason to change the opinion 1 have throughout ventured to express in my communications, that matters are yet far from being sufficiently ripe to engraft apon ‘them anything like a durable peace. Such propositions, 3 doubt not, are at this moment before Napoleon and Lord Palmerston, and whatever the private belief of these personages and their sincerity, the political posi- tien of both will compel them to seem to give them im- phieit credit, But Russia, though worsted, is not beaten. She holds her position im the Southern forts in a manner which extorts the admiration of her enemies; and once more the fleets have returned, with so little to boast of that Sir Robert Peel, one of the Lords of the Admiralty, ia allowed to attack the Admiralty without his chief de- mandivg his resignation. The funds on each side the @hannel rise every day, and peace 1s in every one’s mouth; but the private intelligence which reaches us gives mo, I confess, little hope of it. Lord Palmerston must have a case of good intentions to meet the British Parliament with. The Emperor of the French eannot allow the excessive cherté which at present prevails in every part of France to continue without showing his yeadiness to meet all propositions which may have 9 tendency to bring about a less profuse expenditure; his Fue, however, ix a tolerably intelligent one—‘‘Negotiate, negotiate, but keep your powder dry.’? government in reality has been rendered so uneasy dy the murmurs, deep ard strong, of the petit commerce ré- specting prices, and the consequent hardship that com- merce is obliged to endure, and contemplate throughout @ coming winter which threatens to be more than usual. Ay vevere, that it has this morning pudlished in the sfon- skur the following document regarding the price of meat and bread. It would have been as well if it had, at the same time, published a comparative table ot house rept. The mean price, it states, which for the last tortnight has served for the establishment of the rate at which meat has been sold at Paris, is, for beef, 1 fr. 36c. the Rilogramme, ( he klogramme ‘is ‘two pounds); for veai, I fr. 65c.; for mutton, 1 fr. 602, Abroad the mean price hae been as follows:— Beef. Veal, Mutton. 183 198 183 +100 1¢0 149 1 64 187 1 54 +149 183 149 +154 1¢0 181 150 150 150 +195 145 165 1 69 212 1 69 115 130 0 98 118 1 60 107 -118 1 32 113 -120 116 120 . 102 152 1 81 ot of Nice... ++ 150 140 140 Port Maurice. 100 130 == Milan, in 121 84 Rome,......... 86 88 80 Gonstantinople... 6 96 95 17 é — 100 price of bread at Paria during the fortnight ending on the 15th November, has been 59 centiaos the Mirgramme (two pounds) of the, best quality; aad dur- Gog the same period the following is the price of bread: fy Frs, Cts. Stettin . Constantinople. 67 Smyrpa...... 78 ‘Nothing seems io be going on st the seat of war but the counting and collection of the spoils on the part of the allies; while the Hessians. ensconced in their northern forts, look grimly on, In Sebastopol proper, 128 bronze eanvon and 3,711 iron cannon have been collected, There are divided into two equal lotx—one for France, the ether for England; and two magnificent piecos in bronze have deen offered to General ae la Marmora, the Sardi- nian general. Ar to the booty, it is to be proportionally @ivided according to the number of actual solaiers ruc- nished by each Power at the time. Thus the Anglo-Sar- Ginian eifective on the 8th of September was 63,745 men, and that of the French 126,705, ‘These last. therefore, take two-thirds of the booty, while the Kug:ish and Sar: dinians receive one-thire. The cannons have been valu- ed—those in iron at ten cents the kilogamme; those in bronze at 2.60c. the kilogramme, Many articles could not be divided, and bave been privately arranged—aueh as steam engines, pumps for distillation, a clock, &&. Four: teen beils had to be divided, one of which weighed 2,600 kilogrammes—about 5,000 pounds. The amonnt of wood ‘and canvas is something enormous, and the hats have been made exceedingly comfortable in consequence. I is believed in England that on the return ot the fleets to the Baltic a change in the Engiish command will take place, and many are of opinion that Sir Charles Vapier ‘will again rerume the command. Lord Palmerston has always had the highest opinion of his talents, as well ns eourage, und his lordship is so completely master of the ministry over which he ia the appointed chief thut it is not likely any Cabinet objectiens would have any weight with him, The return of Dundas, with no more success than attended Napier, bax completely recovered the nd which the latter had iost in the opinion of the ish people. His election, also, for Southwark will give him an opportunity ot saying many things with moch greater authority than he could have exercised as a merely private incividual, aud many more unlikely things have come to pass than that the old Admiral should have another chance. if he bas, no one doubts that his mistake next tine will not be on the side of “discretion,”? Admiral Seymour bas quite lost the use of his eye, from the explosion of one 01 Jacobi’s infernal machines, which uu remember was fished up soon after the arrival ot the 's in the Baltic. The word “fishing” reminds me of the most extraordl- nary success that has followed tne experiments for tne artificial production and acclimation of fish in the large reservoirs of the Bois de Boulogne. The quantity ‘of ova deporited by fish is found t only equalled by the exuberance that nature displays in the vegelable kingdom. A trout of (wo years old deposited upwards of @ thourand, out of which seventeen only proved abor- tive; es to the acclimation, fishes whose nature was supposed to require running streams are found to thrive perfectly in close pieces of water, provided the ter be periodically let off and fresh substituted. Want et the mixture of races in @ comparatively armatl en- alosure may produce, is as yet to be seen, whe her hy- bride will arise and further propagation cease, as in mules, or a thorough change ot deterioration of the race epsue. So far, however, the experiments are most satis- factory, und it is hoped thnt fish of every variety, from the salmon trout downwards, may be maintained tn pro- digiour abundance in these and other lakes, ‘The boon to France esnnot fail to be immense, for no other country w so indifferently enpplied as she js with fish, of which all Frenchmen sre so wonderfully fond. ‘The following extract from a letter fam Eupatoria, dated Nov, LI, afer tbe first reconnofasance in the ea F, gives» lively description of the adventures and is amuaing, when fo Kittle is just now gine on.’ Afier speaking of the hasly ce.reat of the asians, the writer seye:— ‘They, however, placed one of the light batteries on the other aide of the marsh and fired two or three shots: a Turkiah bat tery replied. and killed some of their mau and horwes. In the ht hey ailentiy decamped — The soldiers then, with the con nent of their enperiors, proceeded to sack (he village, and (a an nerediste shar! Unie noth bat ruins,” Chairs mall articles of furniture were carried off by the and the heavy furniture and woodwork were em. ake fires. The cats of the village were then hunted, ployed vo ‘and on being caught, were killed, cooked and eaten; the horses 4 been shot ibe previous evening were cal np, roasted and devoured, #nda camel was dressed In the same way—te men disputing sa to who shonid have the bump, which is the most deiienie portion of the animal. Fortunarely a quantity of fall was found -o searon these provisions, wud thous tue Rus fun borse hiesh was rather toagh, the men pro hat their meal was excellent. 50.000 wooden. spades found, and’ employed to keep up the fires. ‘The Russians looked on from % distance, but showed no disposition to come and take & hare of ear dinner, A large quanti‘y of guapowder, ball cartridges, and rockets, passed throvgh Lyons on’ Sunday to Marseilles, tor the ormy of the Kast. ‘The last cceounts from Cons Famund Lyons continues te the evs Crimea, in order to wate Kerte whom the Ruseians xppeared to bo preparing an xt uring the winter. The Roseans are fortifying Araba‘, anc concentrating in iis neigh boriood 90,000 men, while 18, (00 are uirected to Genet in order to re-establish communications between the main body of the army of Gen. Gortechukotl and Russia by the Spit of Ararat. It may be remarked, however, that the guns of the steamer and the tloating batteries of the allies can reach th Rusrian convoys throughout the wliele leagth of th pit, if the Sen of Azo be not frozen over, r The Ewprers Kegenie continues remarkably well. Her hopes and (ears as to which sex ehe will be favored wih forms » very fertile topic of conversation in drawfog: Foeme, and ii '# said in the imperial boudoir also, when ber Majesty is svrrounded by her ladies of honcr. Ever wince *he Quorn of Ergtan!’s departure a correspondencs has been kept up beiween her Majesty anil the Empress ple state that § bat what ix fhe principal topic et interest, monet be a matter of conjectare. Napoleon is said to be qnite indif- ferent whether the new comer be mele or fowale. The thirg is to make a begioning; and the Epress, haviog Deen once endowed with the honors of maternity, is young enough, he hopes, to have many olive branches rou! about his table, an’ the more bir Majesty says, the merrier, Certainly, the manner which her Majesty has hitherto sustained ‘he de feate passage of her grore-pe has furprised and delighted every one, ant everythiog eondnces to the hope that all will ultinately be weil with ber, M. Bonaparte, of Baltimore, t# a frequent guest at the palace, thongh he refrains from wearing the imperial Hvery or departing in any matter from hia routine of a Write citizen. fils modesty, atability, avd general to- rmation pon all subjects, Rave rendered hia « general favort'e wherever he is met; and the galiant conduct of Bis ron in the Orimea, where he has honorably taken his ‘bare in ali the arduous duties of » soldier, has already won him golden opinions. BERTIE Our Madrid Correspondence. Mapa, Deo. 1, 1855. The Dasques Moving in Favor of the Clergy—The Tobacso and Salt Monopoly Doomed, also the Almanac Monopoly —Treaty With the Riff Pirata—Spanish Electoral Law— Reduction of the Army Toxa—The Catalans Moving to Jmpetie the Reduction of the Tarif’—New and Important Dmeention for Security Against Collision on Railiwaye— What Retimon Costs in Spain—Sr, Oloraga—The Carlivte ‘Tho Banque provinces, which are governed by laws of their Bo, have rent a deputation to the covernment NEW YORK HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1855. asking that the law of release of the lands of the clergy from mortmain should not be extended to them. The government has answered that it will do all it can to at- tend to their petilion, in so far as it is not contrary to ‘the law voted by the Cortes—whieh is the same as saying that the release from mortmain will be carried into effect in those provinces also, as well as in the rest of Spain. They are the headquarters of the Jesuit interest, and have within their borders the birthplace and the first establishment of the founder of that society ; but how- ever much the priesthood may endeavor to work upon the consciences of the Basques, they will not be able to move them to reristance. The time when the curate or the monk ruled the village is gone by throughout Spain. A comiittee of the Cortes is occupied continually upon the project for the abolition of the monopoly of the trade in tobacco and salt. These branches of trade will be thrown open without restriction to all the world, and our tobacconists and fishermen will be the first to feel the benefit of the change. Almanac making, which was also a government mono- poly, and paid a little something to the treavury, has also been declared free to all the world. The Riff piratgs and Moora on the coast near Melilla and Ceuta have been so great a plague latterly, and have killed so many of the Spanish garrisons, completely de- feating a detachment sent out to punish them, that the Spanish authorities have actually entered into negotia- ions with them for a treaty of peace, ‘The electoral law, a draft of which bas been made by a commuttee of the Cortes, provides that onedeputy shall be elected for every forty thousand inhabitanta, and three- fifths of tbe number of deputies shall be the number of the Senate, or one Senator for every sixty-six thousand six hundred and sixty-six inhabitants, In order to be a deputy, the candicate must be & Spanisrd, a layman, and not a priest, have a fixed domicile in any town ia Spain or the adjacent islands, and be twenty-tive years of age. ‘The employés of the palace of the King or Queen, and va- rious other publie functionaries, cannot be deputies; as also thoxe who have lost their rights of citizenship. In order to be anelector, the Spaniard must pay $10 taxes, or have an income of $90, or be a professor of some learned profession, or an academician, and in 1850, be- sides these requisites, he must also know how to read and write. ‘Ihe Queen has signed the law which reduces the army for 1856 to 70,000 men, and provides that the military hospitals beyond sea shull be regulated in the same man- ner as in the Peninsula, ‘The committee of the Cortes on the general appropria- tion bill tor the coming year wiahes 10 get rid of the ex- cise tax by increasing the tax on real estate, making provision, however, that this latter svail never exceed twelve per cent of the income of the estate to any tax- payer, (€-establishing the duties at the gaies of town: Tre fact is, the committee of the Cortes and the Minis- ter of Finance are not agreed, and there are continued reports that the latter is about to resign his post. ‘Tne provincial government of Barcelona has addressed ® petition to the Cortes, asking them to vote against the plans of this Minister, in so faras they fect the manu- facturing interest; and, above all, in regard to the great reduction of the tariff on the unportation of cotton fa- brics of more than twenty threads to the square inch, The Catalans fignt hard tor the conservation of the pro- tective system which favors their manufactures, and they have seni a commission of influential manutacturers to reprorent their interests at Macrid. ast Sunday there was a trial on Aranjuez Railway of » new invention, by an application of electricity, for ayciding the porstbility of accideuts from the snock of two lecowotives, This extraordinary and ‘mportant in- yenticn is due to the labors of Don Manuel Fernandez de Cas\ro, member ot the corps of engines for mining, It is beyond a doubt that the uriel waa wued witn the most complete success, in presence of many members of the Cabinet, scientific men, deputies, journalists and others, Wha: the invention really is I have not yet been able to leurn, Thg desired effect was produced, however, and Spain will have henceforth the glory of having’ pre- sented one of the most uecessary and most useful inven- tions cf the day. The sum which the government pays the clergy amounts, for the year 1856, and first half of 1857, to 167,735,874 reals—equal to $8,386,793 70, nearly eight and a half ot dollars, This sum is enormous, covsidesing the poverty of the country, and still the clergy are crymg cut agains’ the injustice of the govern- ment. ‘The Spariarde, however, have been priest-ridden long enough. In no class of messures is the government supported more heartily and effieaciously than in those directed to lessen the power of the clan Sr. Olozaga, eur Minister to Paris, has consented to return sguin to his post, The little incident which had cccurred between him and the government has ter- minated entirely to the satisfaction of the former, and be carries with him the majority of the Cortes on every vote in which he takes # part. The Cailist fiction is dead; s few wanderers only re- main uncaught, and theauds are entirely broken up— annihilated, JUAN, Failure of Generai_Cushing’s War Efforts Hopes tor England and tne United states. From the London Timea, Dec, 4] Like the Good-natured Man in Goldsmith’s most un- justly condemned comedy, Mr. Attorney General Cushing ‘seems likely to undergo the penalty of universal repudi- ation, There is no doubt that this dexterous and in- fenious gen‘leman consicered that he bad made a good it when he made the correspondence with his District Attorney the venicle of angry invcetive and vaporing menace agaiuat;England and her'gavernment. He thought; doubles, that he was riding on the very crest of the popular wave, and seizing an opportunity for distinction such aa whole lie spent in popular arts wight not again afford. ‘The result, however, has not turned out exactly as Mr. Cushing calewlated. From tbe English press he had nothing to hope or to f theretore we take no ac- count of the severe and well merited reprobation which his incendiary elforts have drawn down upon him ia that quarter. But for the tone of the American press we rea ly think Mr. Cushing must have been wholly unpre- pared, It is another tdumph of disonssion, ano her proot of the advantage of extended publicity ‘and of the ben: liofiuence of that press which has eo few friends and so many Litter enewfes among our governing classes, that piesisély ihe came tone with regard to the Ameri. can Attorney Gevers| has been adopted on either side cf the Atlactic, aud that one may read the comments of American and Fnglish newspapers on this celicste and intiiating subject without beiog able to aistivguish be- tween the toe of Mr. Cushing’s enemies and those whom he fondly believed to be bis friends. Bus least of all could Mr. Cuehing be prepared for that which bas fallen upoa him—his repudiation by his own collengues, whose cause be believed he was serving, and whose language he thooght he was speaking, Here, st any rate, he might fancy himself safe, but here also his inexorable il} tortune haa pursued him, and subj inom, according to the American newspapers, to & formal repudiation and disuvowal. Here, then, we take car leave of this unfortunate gen- tleman, whore effort to embroil Evgland and Ameriew oy an abuse of bis official position have raised bim toa momentary notoriety cf which he is by no meaus worthy, ond pruse (o examine tor a moment the state in which 1 ditlerewces, now co happily passed away, have left ws and feelirgs of beth countries. Of Evgland we can only eay—what we have said before—that wince this dispute, ns before it, che regards & rapture with the United ates wit unmixed abhorence, — beliew- ing has everything to goin by’ the ad. vance of their prosperity, aud everything to lose by what. ever may retard ov impede th ir progress, snd that, shoul, r break ous, every blow #tvuck by our hands against “he welfare of America would recoil’ with equal force upon ourselves, so that we must be doubly lovers— first, by the calamities we suller, and secondly, by thore which we inflict. No doubt, the feelfngs ot Englishmen Lave not been wholly iovensible to the parsde of Russian sympathy and the anti-E they excoumered a4 ong of freedom and the nights of wan might have ex- “pected ther an r treatinent. But we are willing to concede te our neighbors the kame liberty of criticism and comment which we so fally claim for ourselves, and have vo right to be angry if that Liberty takes « form unaceep- table to cur own prepossessions and views, With regard to, she feelings of America, we are happy to believe that tliis trausite-y diiference loaves our Teans- atlan'ie critics better disporéd (ous than it found them, watched American opinion during the cannot but be etrack with the extraor- anges whieh it has undergone, acoording aa the favor of what is right patural impolse of the people in and just or the fictitious intiuences of party spirit and Jealousy were in the ascendant, The first emotion of the ‘American people on the breaking out of the war was un- doubtedly faverable to England. Co this suceveded a Daret of ant!-Koglish jog on the part of the exiled “patriots of Erin,’? supported, 1) would seem, tor some or other, by the present Cabinet at Washington, and by whatever tnduence they night command, tidng till it resshed the culminating point in the insolent manifestoes of Mr. Cushing, the menaces launched against the English Minister, and thore other circumstances which compelled tha Kaglish overument to week for explanations from the Cadinst of Weshington. From this ime aymplome of « re-action have shown themselves, or rather, we suspect, the mat- ter has been ne fonger left te be trifed with and made cw piin! of by mere jovd g politicians, hut bas fixed the sof the American people, who n ry times fo ullow their interests ts be exdangered and (heir views mlsrey ted by sain of Jeast trustworthy of their fellow citizens. From the moment flat the Aserican nation found it worth while to lock to the matter wich its own eyes, and take it into its own hands, all serious risk oc collirion war at an end: and one is surprised to find how exactly the people of America agree with us in the very moderate, not to say disparaging extimate which we have formed of the talents and inten ticns of their own administration. The great mass 0 the two nations think alike, the only dilference being that while tbe English government ts a (air represeata- { the opinions ef the people, the Ac seetts to represent little ebe than i ering projects and the sch the wildest and moat desperate citizens, and saved from the most ruinous excesses by the direct tnter- vention ¢f that wealth and intelligence which has no live among its members. the earnestness which an escape from ro- cent danger can inspire, we would entreat the people of America to consider the pertl with which such a state of things is tranght, and the probability that by ovirg the ordinary direction of government to eligible hands a terrible risk ie fneurred of in. volving the State in aifticulties from which it may be in. sible to escape except by ® useless and sanguinary confifet. When will this acute and farsighted nation, whore individoal citizens are so pesullarly dexterous and active im the management of their private affairs, per- ceive acd act upon the great truth that it is idle to aim ot private prosperity, unless at the same time efficient mensures be taken 10 provect thowe public interests shat are common to all? When will America recvgaize in the- ory and adopt in practice that great and + eighty truth, that po Stare can long be prosperous or happy from the admmistration of whose government aod the mnaking of whore laws her best and wirest ciuens stand aloof? ‘The State, as » common parent, is entitled to the ser- vices of the ablest and noblest of her children; and, whatever be their pretence of freedom and equality, those institutions are unfortunate, and those bubits of thinking aud feeling unsound and unwise, which deter such men trom the public service, and te in their place Cemagogues and adventurers, to whom pelitics are # lucrative trade, and war or peace mere moves in the game of promotion. We have nothing to do with the 1n- ternal of America, but this practice of entrusting her roment to the hands of men iu whom she her- self has no confidence has now become a chioric disease, admitted by herself, and intimately c/uceruing those who may find their reiations with the repuolic suddenly embroiled by eauses to be sought for in circumstances over which the people of America seem to have as little control as themselves. The Peace Rumors in England—Her Supe- riority Over the Military Powers of we Continent. [From the London Times, Dee. 7.) All who have bad occasion to observe the conduct of the English public trom the beginning of the war to the present moment have been lorced to admire the good sense, firmness, and moderation which they have uni- formly displayed. They lent ne support to those who were Violent in demanding the war; they gave ro coun- tenance to those who were for averting hostilities at any and every price; when victory crowned our arms they gave way to no extravagant ‘exultation; whea disaster overtook us they did not yieid to des; ey. They insisted upon knowing the causes of our reverses, Dut they forbore vindictively to proscribe their au- thors. They endured with patience the long and wearisome " mystification of the Vienna afer. ences, and they have leoked on without mur- muring while the best months of the autumn have been tiistered away in helpless procrastination. It seems idle and supertiucus to ‘urge & poopla tried in so many vicissitudes of fortune and found uniformly equal to them all, fo nct during tle present crisis of our affairs with the like pradence and magnanimity. The people of Ynglend are not infallible, but 40 far as thelr conduct in this war has been concerned they have not failed, and there's, it may be truly raid, no greater rea- ton to apprehend apy shortcoming in the future than in the past. Yo: the circumstances are such as might well try the constancy of any nation, and, according to the ferent temper of men’s miods, unkinge their purpose or spur them on to some desperate resolution. As in March and April last, the air is once more fil led with the Tumors of peace. Weare told that the conflict is at an end, and that ina few cays the mestimable boon will be in our possession. There are few so friendly to war, or 30 hostile to Russia, that they will not hear +uch tidings with pleasure, and abandon themselves with too litue consideration to the seductions of hope. We are farfrom teying that such rumors are without foundation, but there are considerations, on the other hand, which ought to lead us to regard our present position with distrust and reserve, rather than with sanguine and high wrought expectation. ¢ best promise of a solid and durable peace would be that the terms should be proposed by Rursia herself. We have already bad ample experience how easy it is tor this dexterous «nd insidious Power to assent to terms proposed to her in the abstract, and to evade them by raising objec- tions to every propos! ion by which they could posstbly be carried into effect. Russia has as yet offered no terms, and when she does so it will be time enough for us to abandon owr minds to drvams of peace and plenty—of reduced ta duties, and gradually subsiding income tax. What is it, then, which hus sent up our fands, and ted to the general velief that all our troubles are at an end? Simply this—that now, as in the month of Dece:nber last year, we are favored withrhe offer of the good offices of the Fmperor ot Austria. This time iast year be agreed, if Russia dic pot wake peace, to deliberate. This year we are told thas, having deliberated, he is ready, if Hussia will not make peace upon certain folid and reasonable conditions, to recall his Anbusrador. ‘his is but a sandy ‘foundation on which to rest such towering hopes, and yet though the fund may be a quicksand, it may also cover @ rock. Aus- tria may at last have risen somewhat nearer to the level of her duties ynd her pretensions; she may at 14s have begun to feel that, though true to the letter, she has deen false to the spirit of the treaty of the 24 of Decem- ber, and, weary of a position which is neither neutral, hostile, ‘nor friendly, she may think the time hus ar- rived to seek for herself a position at once more secure and more Cigna’. It may be that the terms she proposes to offer to Russia bave been already secretly settled be- tween her and the Czar, and that she is able to satiafy the Inglish and Frexch governments that nothing but their acceptance is needed to movld them into the form of a treaty. She may be ready, in case of their rejection, to follow’ up the demonstra- tion of withd:awing her ambassador by actually drawing the sword and cvercing her unruly neighbor into a more peaceful and orderly demeanor, or she may confine her- telf to threats, and yet even her threats may have power enough to overcome the humbled pride and broken self. conficence of Russia, She may propose to Russia all our terms, and make the concession of those terms absolutely exsential to peace. She may doall or any of these things; all that we can say is that as yet rhe bas done none of them jand to juild more than hipes on auch a basis is, for the present, at least, to feed ourselves with illusions. All is as yet uncertain; ‘the past bids us to be anything but san- ine, and the future, however bright it may be, is yet ppenetrable, Happily for us, however, we have within ourselves sources of hope and confidence which the adhesion of an ally cannot give, nor the defection of an aily take away. ‘We may say it with pride, though we trust not with ar- rogunce, that England 1s'no tecondary luminary in the European syster,thines by no borrowed light, and moves on a course little purturbed or affected by the attraction of other bedies, “What we are to-day we were yesterday and shall be to-morrow—a nation laying no claim indeed to the character of a military monarchy, but a Power whose resources Legin to dectlope themselves just at the timerhen those of her rivals are exhausted. Not havicg wasted ber strength by keeping up during a long peace an immense army, nominally for the defence of the country, but reatly’ for the repression of literly, England enters into a’ war at some disadvantage, and cannot all at once create armies worthy to represent her wealth, her valor, aud her uncosquerable spirit; but just as the Powers that spend all their tives in ardiiing ‘and drumming beginto feel the weight of wor England is begin- ning to put forth her real. strength, and hence it happens that, though few Powers have carried on wars with more checkered and varied fortune, none bave, on the whole, concluded them with greater glory than che. We may successee we have already achieved against Ruesia and to the mighty preparations making for the ec ming campaign—grounds which cansot deceive us; and so long as we do so we can afford to wait patiently for the upfoldine of German politics, #8 a people ready for peace, but confident in the result of renewed war. {From Tendon Globe, (Lord Pakmerston’s Organ) Dee. 7.] The peace rumors which bave been so pxgvalent for some days past are not entirely without foundation bat we should warrant an extremely erroneous impression if we described that foundation as possessed of the solivity with which some capita‘ists and others bave iuvested it, and upon ¥hich they would appear to have built the mos: tangvine expectations, Russm has herself made no pro positions for peace, and whether she is now disposed to offer such terms as the Western Powers would accept 14 only to be estimated by ber character for pradence, and Ler wish to form a correct apprectation of her own ‘mili- tery rerources and these of her opponents. Judging ot her intenticns by tris light, we own that they do not ap- pear to us as likely tc leae todny prompt solution. inthe early part of this yéar, doubtless confiding in iver military power, she refused terms which could not be considered as injurious to ber true dignity. she over-estineted her power, and the arms of France and England acccmplished in ‘a few months what diplomatic artemp's kad failed to effect. If she deceived herseli then, we do not see why sbe may not also coceive herself new, and atiempt in another campaign to regain the moral position which she bas lest in Europe and Asia, and retrieve the material damage which she has sus- tained in the Black § Russia having made no offer of ferms of peace, it ean- not, of course, be stated what precise terms the bellige- rent Powers would be willing to consider, It is obvious, however. that these governments must be sensible of the grently difievent pesition in which they now stand trom lbat ‘in which they were placed last April; and the people of this country have a right to expect, aud may fully expect, that. the terms wbich would be now considered as somirsable, a8 regards satisfaction for the present and security tor the future, will be greatly in advance of those which were deemed worthy of conside- ration when Sebastopol anda Russtan power in the Black Sea exivied. ‘The terms which will be entertained will be only ;ach as sflord a complete guarantee against future oggrestions. Of this the English people may rest rutisfiec. Whatever may be the indirect attempts made to termi. nate hostilities, there will not be the lexst cessation on the part cf the Foglish government of the, we may suy, gigantic prepara'ions now on foot for the ensuing com: paign. If the Fmperor cf kussia could be brought ton fuil appreciation of thore preparations, we should indeed hove hopes of peace. We some thine ago showed that with the spring of 1956 Englond would be representes in the Crimea by an army of more than 70,060 fighting men m admirable condition; and we believe that estimate will turn out to be a good deal too medernte. She will be represented in the Baltic by a fleet of not far short of two hundred and fifty ves- sels, of which by far the greater portion are being 7 cially constructed fer the service required of them. We a longer experimentalizing. We are no longer ap- prentices in the arts of war; and in 1856, for the first time in this contliet, will the strong right hand of Eng- land be raised to eiike with ber own proper vigor. Our allies are acting as becomes the greatness of the contest. Js fat as huwan caleulasions go, we can see nothing but we sny if deliberately—appalling disasters to Russia from the next campaign. it is entirely forfitussia to avoid or invive those disasters. News stom Russia, VIGOROUS PROSECUTION OF THE WAR DETERMINED ON—MILITARY REWARDS AND CONFERENCES—THE #LERTS AT CRONSTADT AND SWEABORG. {Berlin (Dec. 1) Corres; ondence of Loncon Times. ] All corresponcence from Russie that is spcken of here ax coming from wil informed sources expresses jaston- ishment at the rumors of preific overtures, &e., current in (he press; the only fuets tre letters contain paint w energetic preparations for a renewal of the war in the epring. ‘They talk of the Crimea being supplied by that time with a force of 860,(00 men, and of tae position at Kertch being wrerted from the allies as soon as the Sea of Azoff is frozen over sufficiently strong for th of teeps. ‘This Intter position ia looked. upon aa neatly as voluad eas thet of the vorth side of Sebastopol. Great efforts are being made to increase the flotilias of row beats at Cronsiadt, Swenborg and on Lake Ladoga; & portion of the cews of the Biask Sea fleet is being dravghied to the North for the porpese of helping to this end, and it is expected that there will shorily be # second vevy of seatuing men with the same onject in View. The regient ot sbarprhooters raised from the domains of the imperial family is to be divided into three purte: 1,000 men are to be dexpatched to the Crimea: 1.00 to remain under the orders of General Luders; and 1600 are to he put uncer General Chomoutof, Nicholaiefi is Ceseribed ax having teen put into a state cf celence very satisfactory to those interested in its not Boing taken, sot it is inended that the winter shall be turned to good accouct in further strengthening it, as well ax Crovatadt, It ix to the nobility of the gowern- ment of Cherron, a¢ it appears, that the army in the me he per sibility of maintaining iteetf in ite fall feree in the Tourian peninaula rince the destruction of the Russian communications ty way of the Sea of Azoff. rr... ‘Since the Empercr issued his ukase for iucorporating the militia im the body of the standing army the drusehines have entered upon their seve al cantonmea's, as is evident from the reporta of their va:ioux comamad: ers. The itis of Jaronlaff will winter 14 Poand, that of Novogorod in the Baltic provinces, under the com mand of ral Sievers; that of Viadimir is atrached to the central army under Paniutin. fhe druxchives of Tumboff have been acvanced in‘o the land of the Oos- sacks of the Don and the casts of ‘he Sea gf Az ff; those of Koursk are in the Crimea; those of Ksfoogs ocsupy the government of Cherson; the Smoleon militia is dis- tributed over Bessarabia; and the drusc’ines uf Mosiow ccoupy New Russia, The militia of Mchil- ff is to remain for the prerent where it is. The first and second bacta- hons of the regimen's of the active army ure to be made up to ther full complement by the fusion into them of the fourth and fifth battalions. Janeaslniey, after the arrtval of the Emperor at Tzars- ko-Seie, om his return from the south, not only Count Nesselrode, with his assistant, Seniavine, the Secretary of State, Coust Papin, Count Rudiger, and varioun Sena- tors repaired te the ‘Imperial residence there, but also the Adjutant Gemeral Count Orloft, Count Aclerberg, Ba- rop Lieven, and fringe Sariatinski, who had all sccom- panted the Emperce on bis journey. This latter circum Hance excludes the idea of the abuve named personages having betahen, themselves thither for the mere purpose cf welocming the Emperor on his resorn. What the re- sult of the cunferences held on this ocearion may have deem bas not in any ime. So mueh, how- ever, bes transpired as regard: tae Emperor's state of feeling since his visi: to the South, that ne is understood ‘to bave brought back with him avything byt a lukewarm Octermination to prosecute the war. The time whieh the allies have equired to get posses- rion of Sebastopol has evadled the Russians to torufy n.d strengthen s number of poritions, which seem to thave be) the Exoperor and his sutre with grea: con- fidence in the power of Prince Gortschakoff to hold them under all emergencies. ‘The Fmperor Alexnnder has addressed the following let- ‘ter to Prince Gortschakoff. It is dated November 12:— During my sojourn with the army of the Crimea, 1 obsérved with greut satisfaction that the soldiers main- tained their vigercus and contented sppearance, despite the uvbeard of hardshij pier het te suffer during the siege of Bebaate , eee tepartnent ‘that order upon which the 0 tion of an army reats, had vot been in the least distur ed. Thi of the army iss proof of the solt- jgable labor by which alone it was pos- sible for you toattain that object, and that at a momen: when all'your activity, all your thoughts, were directed upon a powerful and brave enemy, sparing no sacritive, and who had to be fought. Connterioe ae. posite. given to Pebastopol by nature, in fallirg back before the ‘enemy step by step, and adopting thre wise views whica ought to be the guide of an experienced leader, you have aply left to the envany rune dearly oooght ut the price of the blood that has been shed. ving withdrawn the troops by a road bitherto unknown, you are again ready to meet the sneniy, and tofight him with thut courage which you have always dixplayed in leading your regi- ments under fire. Invencering full justice to your sigual services, it gives me pleasure, atter having dope #0 per- sonaily, to express to you my sincere gratitude. [again beg of you, Prince, to believe in my invariablekindly feet- irgs towards you. Yours, sincerely attached ALEXANDER, Inactivity of Marshal Pe)issier—Situation of the Altes in the Crime: (From the London Times, veo. 5.) * ® © ‘They bad justacbieved a victory at which the world stood amuzed, and ia comparison with which everything else seemed easy of accomplisnment, What hus been cone with this splendid army and this gloriou- situation-—these elements of triumph, these materials of almost certain success? Let us see, Umer Vasba hes been gent to Asia to rouse Christian populations agsinst Christion Ku tia, without a single biigade of the allied troops to bear him company and counteract the preju- dice of the inhabitunts against the Tarks. Yet, even 80, his success has been far greater than anything achieved by the alites. Kinburn bay bern taken, sut no attempt has beén mace to advance from the basis of operations unus obtsined upon Cherson or Nichoinieff. Frem Eupatoria, a ylace fortified with so much care and cost as if for the express purpose of tarowivg our- selves upcn the communications of the Russian army, the operations of vhe allies have been ludicrousty ineffec- tive and inadequate. After ove sharp cavalry action, ia which just encugh was done to show bow mush more was porsible, the allics have contenteo themselves witn advencing towards ibe Kursian position three or toar times, and then returning by the way they came without honor and without loss. Equally ene:getic has been the conduct of the main army, It has walked into defile ond fastnesses only to walk out of them agaia, and after & veries of objectlees manceuvres finds itself, afver a wilful waste of ten invaluable weeks, jusc where it was when the Malakoff fell into its power. ‘The Russian communicstions are not interrup‘ed, and they are left, by a fcree of two hundred thousand men, and a fleet of unexampled strength. to make their prepa: rations as best they may, against the coming of the winter—the only enemy they have to diead, and the rigors of which ure applly not under our vontrol. Meanwhile our fleet is coming home; our marines—a force fully ¢qual to any we posses:—are being landed in Fogiend; the Imperial Guard has returned to France; Malta, Scutari and Pera are looking forward to a winter enlivened by the prerence of many a Crimean hero; snd our cavalry, having done nothing at the camp, are abont to sepeat the same process in the suburbs of Constantinople. Koad makiog and hut building have been the occupation of the victors ¢uriog the Lest searon of the year, and the sterner pnrsvits of war are gieeubly relieved by theatricals and steeplechases. Fxcept for the enormous cost—except for the great anxiety, for the risk of disease, und the possibili:y of «wamities like the great explosion of she 16.n of Novem- der, this mighty land and naval armament, adequate in cum petent hands for the conquest of the world, might, as well have been anywhere since the 8th of September as in the dominions of our obstinate and vigilont adversary. We tatk at heme of “the vigorous prosecution af war,” and here everybody is in earnest, but since the 8th of September that great business ecems to have stood en/irely still. Who is to blame for this miserable and lndicrous fifth act tothe greet and glorious tragecy, the first uct of which wae Alwa, the second Inkermann, the third the repulse of the 18th of June, the four:h tne battle of ths ‘Tebernaya and the storming cf the Malakoff? There is no diffeulty in answering the question. We have never been elow to censure the English commanders; bat with the English commarders, in this instance, the blame Goes not rest. ‘The recall of Gen. Simpson followed so im- mesintely after the 8th of Sep'ember, that it necessarily parelyzed all exertion on his part, and Genersl Cod- ripgion has been so short a time in commano that it were utterly unreasonable to censure hit inac- tion. But Marshal Peiissier was encumbered by no such hindrances, ‘The t phic wire that brought to Paris the news of the full of Sebastopot, bore back to bim for answer the bdion of a marshal. He med the confidence of his government and of his army, men, material, boundless resources and opportunities, aud irom the 8th of September to the present day he has done nothing—nbdsolutely nothing. Was the season too far acvanced? On the 2d of December, exactly fifty years 8g0, Napoleon, with an army which he had marched trom Boulogne to Austerlit, fought and wen a great bet- tle, a portion of the conflict actually teking place on the foe. Were bir forces inacequate? In how msny of the great battles of the world has one-half the force at the ¢isporal of the allies in the Crimea ever been brought into action? Did he dresd au at- tock from the Russians? On the 16th of August a few thoussnd men defeated on the Tchernaya wih ease the attempt of five times their number to force his lines. ‘Then they had Sebastopol to fight for; now they could pope nothing beyond a barren and moxt improbable vic. tory. We have waited till the last moment in hopes that scmething would be done. There is hardly any enter- prise in which the French General had not a fui¢ chance ef success, or in which. had he failed, we should have ventured to blame him; but to attempt nothing at ali— to waste two months and @ half of valuable time in utter inaction—to give the enemy time to recover, and the enthuriam of his own troops time to evsporate—to stand ‘on the defensive when s thousand means of offensive war- fare were open to him—to play a losing game when a winning one was in his hands, are faults so grave that we can no longer keep silence, or pretend to acquiesce in the propriety of line of conduct so fatal to our troops and so irglotious to our arms, Commodore Breeze at Constantinople. TERRIBLE FUSS WITH THE ENGLISH FLEET. {Conttantinepie (Nov. 22) Correspondence of London Times.) A United States steam corvette, whose complicated pame, borrowed from some transatlantic stream, es- capes my memory, arrived here the other day, bearinj the flag of the renowned Commodore Breeze.’ She di not salute, but on coming te an anchor senton board the Admirai’s ship to know why he had not salated. It was politely intimated—so the story runs—to Brother Jonathan that it was his place to have first. saluted the efficer of higher rank, “By no means.” retorted this gentle Breeze ..rom across the water, “a Commodore, being the bighest officer in the American service, ix of equal rank with an English Adwiral,”’ The cousequence was that nobedy saluted, and the powder was raved, But then arore another difficalty. wae first to call upon the othe the Commodore on the Admi: ¢ the Admiral on the Commodore, who esteemed himself his bs ad tm knotty pomt, demanding grave deliberation. ff 1 am rightly informed—bot I rake every reservation when peat on 80 grave a subject—the difficulty was at inst settled thus:—The Englirh fleg lieutenant paid bis re- epects on board the American mesmer; the American fing captain called on the Englich flag captain, who re- turred bis visit; the Commodore then ¢a/led on the Ad- miral, and the A¢misal called on the Commogore. Thus were a) conflicting mterests and points of etiquette ratistactorily reconetled, and there is no present daogsr, lam happy to ray, of a war between Great Britaio and the United- States arising out of the susceptibilities of Commodore Breeze. The Latest Financial News, [From the London Times te Article), Dec, 7. Yesterday wos account day in English fants, and, although cons ls opened with stesdiness at the cloriog prices of the evening previous, and subsequently ad- vanced toa point higher than any revently attaived, a succen snd very considerable reaction occurred oefore the close of business, from which there was no recovery. The firet quotation was 904 to 44 for money. and there wae on absence of any material variath n antil the mid- ole of the day, when the market assumed an appearance of increased buoyancy, and transactions took place at 90%. Two or three parties engaged in the late xpscula- tive porehares then came in as sellers, and the conse- quence was an almort immediate full ‘of five-cighths per cent, the final operations being at 90 to 4; for money, ord 903%; to % for the 10th ef January. The fact of the recent evrrent of speculation having rested en- \irely on rumors which have been questioned in many quarters, and which still remain without even a par- tial spn of official confirmation, nees a remarkable degive cf sensitiveneys, which is ineiantly meniferced * ver an Sant tie Geet 0 cao re tn the part of those with whom it eom It was not understood, however, anything new had actually transpired, and much of the decline may promably have been attributable to the ordinary course of fla tuation, in connexion with an unvsually heavy settlement. There ‘was net avy particular preesure for money, but the rate ecntinved high, 534 per cent Raving been generally paid for loans om government securities till the Deginnleg of Jamuary. - Which I thought was the result of a bruis Foreign recurities were influencea by the fluctuations ip he ae funds, and cloned at a decline. The fall was equal in several cases to about a half per cent, the specuiators having incrcasec their sales towards tue ter- mination of Dasien ‘the clocing quotations of the French Three per Coats in Bour last evoaing were 66f. 35¢, for money, oud €6f. 95e. for the account, showing no alteration from the reducticn of a balf per cent. ‘The Freeh mail did not arrive till late yesterday af- terncon. ‘there had been no material alveration ia the rate of exchunge, the quotation being still maintained, owing 10 continued purchases by Messrs. Rothschild of ail the short bills on lon, for the pur) of remitting em spain>t Australien gold. All the letwrs allude to the heavy rates of interest pai¢ by the speculators during the monthly sett ement juat concluded for carrying over thelr purchases to the next account, and at ‘the same time express fears as to the serious reaction to be appre- hendec in case the political reports in circulation shoald prove unfounded. THE SUMNER CASE IN BOSTON. The Shawmut Avenue Homicide=Examina- tion of the accused “arties, END OF SBCOND DAY'S EVIDENCE, CONCLUSION OF THE TESTIMONY—COMMITMENT OF THE PRISONER. {From the Boston Chronicle, Dee. 20.] Dr. J. D. 8. Jackson conducted the 18 mortem exami. nation on the body of Mr. Sumner. ternally tae budy was unusually livid; below the eft eye there was a macs. which I understood beng cag to @ bruise; made no examination of it; the was first examined; benween tbe sealp and the skull there was a little effused blood, inside uf tas rkult there was an unusual appearance of the membraae +f the brain; there was noihing unusual sn the head ‘xcept lite increase of the quantity of blood in ths f vessels of the orain; the chest and abdomen wae vextexemined; the muceléa, wherever seen, were quite dark, and most of the organ#contained more dark hivod than usval; the blood ia the heart was quite dark an! liquid; there was an adbesion bebween the lower part of the right luvg and the part beneath the, result of some old pleurisy; upon the right hand side and lewer part of the windpipe were the remains of an old tubercular direose rituated in the glands, but there was no ochar tubercular disease found in any A a the langs were then removed, and with them the parts about the throat; the inner surface of the very upper par: of the threat was in a state of ulceration, the result eviden ly of an acute inflammatien; the inner surface f the nostril ‘Ubst was saponed during the examination, aiso the inner susface of the throat, were covered with a consiiecable quantity of a very viscid musus, also owing toa very scute inflammation, but there was no ulceration except atthe upper part of the throat; in the windpipe tnere war also found on one side much viscia mucus; this being opeque, as that inthe throat, was transparent; whece the windpipe bifurcates, its two great divisions cootained viscid mucus, the glands upon the left sideof the neck aud towards the upper part were inflamed; the stomach contained » considerable quantity of Hquid black eal-ret bile; the lining membrane, to a considerable extent. was ot a deep red color, and I regarded it, at the time, as 10 & state of ecchymosis (bruise); the spleen was of & very dark red color, much enlarged, and quite sot; a portion of the intestines, the liver and kidneys were found heslthy. ag were alao the lungs and heart; the back part of the chest and other parts were found to be quite livid éid not think the lividity arose from violence: auch ap: pearance i: common afer death, though not to such an extent; the direct cause of death was inflammation of the air vessels; cannot ray from the appoarance ot tke corpse what was the first cauce of the inflammation; Dever saw such an intiammetion in the toroat caused by un injury to theeye; saw nothing except the appeurance of the eye to denote external violence; there wax nothiog in the appearance of the muscles to indicate violence, Question by Cooley—Did you at this time, from your exomination and from what you had heard of the case, form an cpivion as to the cause of the death? Parker objected, and @ long argument ensued as to the propriety of the query, which was finally ruled ont by the Court. ‘the witness was then asked if he heurd the evidence of the physicians yesterday under oath, He replied he did. Ciesla Dare 708 &n opinion on the primary cause of the death fori upon the opinion of the physicians yesterday ? Answer-—My opinion is that the inflammation whica caured death would not have ensued had it sot been fur externa! viclence; I do not say that the inflammation might novheve otherwise occurred, but I think exteraal violence was the, primary cause; 1’ have the impression thar the deceased had received a wevere flogging; wny opi- nion is, f-or all] know, that Mr. Sumner would not have hed that inflammation of the throat, of which he died, had he net been beaten. Questicn by Parker—Suppose the deceased had been imprudent, suppose be suffered pain and remorse of mind, wuppore be bad since his hurt « in active sports, would not this have greatly tended to produce such fu: flammation ‘Apsser—Such things would have very much so tended; Sumner’s ails might have proceeded from exposure; as to ebrenic diseese, nothing sufficient way found on ‘the post mortem to lead me to suppose that death resulted trom any such disorder, Jorinb Porter—Hove been sometimes in the habit of visitis g Mr. Fera with Mr. Sumner; had not seen him on the 17th of November; have seen Agnes Keenan there (at Fera’s); the ¢eceased was a cousin of mine; Mr Sumner was in my office the Thursday succeeding the Lith of isc- vember; saw marks of violence under his eye and on his ear; the ciscoloration under the eye was apparent under a platter which he had there appiied; did not notice the ears particularly; they were red aud’ somewhat black 1 was izjuzed at Coburn’s house about noon on the 17th; I was irjured by Coburn and Walton; have been in company with the wives of Coburn and Dalton with Mr. Sumner; have been into Mr. Fera’s shop with Mr. Sum- ner some two cr three times a week for tuiee weeks. Cress-examined—Usnaily found, or went into this shop with Mrs Dalton and Mrs. Coburn; when I wont in the ¢ ~ithout these iaaies, [ expected to find them there; bave also seen Sumner in Mr. Vinton’s with these ladies; at one time, in Mr. Vinton’s, ove of the ladies beckoned to Mr. Sumner, and be went and spoke to her; saw the ladies first some time previous to the agricultural fair; all four of us once rode in from Cambridge in a carriage; wa came through Brighton; arrived in town about 6 o'clock in the evening; at this time met the lacies in Harvard strect; we stopped at « hotel in Brighton, (Wils»0’s); we had wine; we stopped there because the coach wanted mending; Sumner showed me lettera from Mrs. Dalton, and al:u scme of his answers; 1 saw these letters aud au- swerg in my office; I never saw Sumner make any pre- sents to the ladies; be had a ring which he Mrs. Daiten had given’bim; ke said at another time (before the 1ith) that ithad been returned; I was mot present when the riog was returned; can’t ay how many letters T ever saw; old not see the direction; knew the ludies to be Mra. Dalton and Mrs, Coburn; Mr. Sumner tired the cariiage we used at our ride; ter of the ride was arranged betorehand: we took up the ladies in the street about four or five o'clock; do not know the date of the day on which we tock the ride; the ring Mr. Sumner bad was a gold one, with a white stone bearing the letter 0). Rufus B. Samner, called—Am father of the deceased; my son’s bealth has alwsys been unusually good; he was injured on the 17th of November, before this he hai never sustained injury; when he came home on that day he ap- peared hurt, ma seemed very much injured; dia not ex- owine his hurts; his eye was swelled; ft this time he complained continually of being unwell; he complained of yarns in his bead and stomach; was about the house until ‘Thenks givin, ; the fever commenced on, Saturday the Ist of December, although on this date he was yet about the bouse; the eye on this day was more in flamed than asunl; don’t know that he had exposed himself; since the afluir he had never been out of the house more than an hour at a time, except once, when he came to Boston; never beard of the deceased receiving avy intury after the 17th ef November; he came into Boston on the 224 of November; his eye was badly inflamed at that time; after the 17th he took a gun in his band and went « few rods cut of the hovse; there bad been quails near the house; went Gut once Thanksgiving day; was gone about an hour; cannotesy that he ever improved in health « ter the Lith; thought at times he did, bat am pot certain of it; Go not know of his having kicked toot pall on Taanka- giving day; he tried on the day befose Thaukagivin: to nuildown @ carpet, but gave it up because it caused a pain in his head; ‘this is the only labor ho attempied since his injury. Crose-examined—Sinco the 17th of November I ha been at heme most of the time; during my son's illne he bad much delirinm; at lucid ‘intervala be conversed with me; be never taid to me that he had done wrong, never begged my pardon, or said he had been in bal company; the report of my testimony befors the Cor. ner’s inquest, ss inthe papers, is incorrect to the best of my recollection; my son said that if he liead to get weil be never would get into such a scrape again; have heard my wife ray tohim that he must be carefal and not take cold; my son tld bis mother that he was hurt by Irishmen; I heard him say 80, and at the time he suid +0] believed bin. A recess was here taken nntil three o'clock. © AFTERNOON SESSION, Mr. Rutas P. Sumner re-called—Mr. Parker read the record of his testimony ax given before the Coroner's jury, and asked the witness if the record of his language ‘as read was correct. Mr. Cooley objected to the question, but in = form somewhat medified the question was allowed. Witness new stated that the report of his previons testimony was tubstantially correct. This testimony we have already rinted. Mir, Fdward Sumner, brother of the decease’, was next calleé—This witness testified that his brother said he had been burt by the car door strikiog him; also heard hia soy (hat he bad had trontle with two Iricamen; he told beth stories on the evening when he arrived home on the night (f the cay when the allsir happened; in other ros- ects the testimony of this witness corroborated that o hie father, except that he stated the games of footoall which the deeeased engnged in on Thanksgiving day were more numerous than [supposed hie father. Thin wit ners ttated that Fix genes wore played, in ail of which his brother engeged with more or less vigor. R, Wiilard Bumner, also a brother of the deceased, tes- tified to mach the rame rtate of facts as did his brother ‘The witness was much affected while on the stand, and tis evident grief elicited the hearty sympathy of beth Court and wudience. In his cross-examination, however, thir witness denied that his brother Wilham played any gemer at focthall wha'ever, He «tated that he (nis bro- ‘ber, merely kicked at the ball once or twice, and then ‘went into the heuse Dr. J. B, Bill was sworn—Sew Mr. Sumner on the Fri- cay after the 17th of November; he came to my office; ‘as on olf frlend of mine; he appeared much dejected; { noticed that his left ear wae injured, and that his neck under the ear was also hurt; | examined him in a casual marner, and aa I my hand over his throat and chert, it xeemdd to pain him severely; I thought at the time ‘he bad been badly hort somewhere; saw nothing about him that indicated bis ha: taken cold. a stated that he should, with this testi- mony, rest the case for the ment, Mr, Parker then ee been sustained by the government evidence; still, perha; the Court did iniend to exercise fall SJurisdistion a this time, and if so there would be no use in his pro- ceedirg with bis rebutting evidence. He could prove, he contended, that the death was produced by pain and re- morse of mind acting upon » sensitive frame; but as the delerce do not know whether the Court intended to act ee eee te and assume the responsibility of full jurisdic they Were somewbat at & loa what cours: tonne? Tey aecuset counsel would like to be enlightened on this ~ : Mr. Cooley replied that the usual course in the inferior courts iu such cases was to determine whether any pro- bdable guilt could be artached to the defendants, anid f not to hear conflictig testimony, but to refer the matter to the higher tribunals. Justice Cushing remarked that ita probable ease was made out It war ususl in this court vo send up the case, and this procedure he shoul¢ continue. Contiicting tes? timony was not here fu this court usually heard in eases of such moment, if the government mace out anything of « plausible case. in answer toa further inquiry of Mr. Parker, the Court remarked that it could not attempt to deciée whether the care was one of murder or one uf map-siaughter. ss ier Parker bei inquired of the government attorneys wy Were willing 10 rest the case here without argu- ment dn ether es ate Tere eae Se ir. Coley replied that the government were not so wibing, al hough the argument would be made more with a view to @ tui discharge of cuty than from any opwion oF its necessity. He tuen apoke in favor of the committal of the prisoners on the charge of murder. He — recapitulated the evicenee adduces, wue ai the sa © that acase of extreme probavility had been made cut by the government, to show that the death of Willinm Sumner was caused by disease incident upon vio- lence inflicted upcn him by the detendants. Mr. Cooley spoke about three quarters of an hour, and was eagerly higtened to by the spectators. ‘The Court held, hat in its Cee the evidence of the pbysicinns was sufficient to show that persoval violence ‘was the primary cause of the disease which resulted io the death and that the other evidence :ended to show that this violence was inflicted upon Mr. Sumner by tha delenants. the Court therefore ordered Coburn and Dalton to be committed to jail to answer to the charge ot murder ut the bar of the Municipal Court. Thus ended the exami- nation, and now the court adjourned, When the order of the Court was read to the prisoner & the clerk, they stood up without) any manifest emo- ion and heard their committal unmoved. Coburn asked leave to see his sister hefere remanded” te jail, and this Tequert was, of course, at once grauted.\, Adelaide: Coburn 4 remains at! home Cote , ustice Curbing, io bis summing uj evi on wileh:be besod bis opinion, bare seey Lard upon toe prt soners, stating that to his mind there was no doubt that if the defendants did not actually intend to kill Sumner, they intended to beat him to the very verge of «afety. ‘The evidence for the defence, which is said to be trong upon some points, bas not yet been produced, the de- eve counsel reserving it until the case comes before e jury. News from Kansus. GREAT EXCITEMENT AT LEAVENWORTH—ATCHISON, STRINGFELLOW AND EASTON AT HEAD OF THE INVADERS. [From the Missouri Democrat, Dec. 17.] By tke pr liteness of a gentleman in this city, we have been shown a private letter from Leavenworth City, uncer date of Lecember 8, giving the following startling inetlligence :-— The people of Leavenworth are greatly excited. Pandg of Missourians from the border counties, kaown here as ruffians,” have cowe over into Kansaa, and are threat- evirg Lawcence witn destruction, A company of some fifty, hesded by a man called Fastin, editor of the Herald, of this civy, all drunk, and a majority of tiem border Mirsourisns, started from here and marched off for the seat of war, w+ our sister city is now called, The origin of the grave calamity which now threatena to stir up strife was #s folows —A private didicalty arose between tw inciyiduals about the rights of both to aclaim, ‘The upshot of the matter was, oue of the two got killed. A false rumor, from this circumstance, reached the ears of the Governor that the Sherif was re~ sisted in executing the laws. At this time no writ had been issued and no complaint made by which to arrest ine person supposed to have been guilty of vivleting the jaw. Thy ‘ze who bore the report to the ears of the Governor, howéver, knew thetr wan; and as he had blustered a good deal st the nustings’and on the stump, that he woul enforce the awa, and so on, he weizea tha occasion, onthe taith of w flying and partisan report, without making ioquity tus @ prudent man would have done, to learn how the difficuty was, foclishly and hurriedly t> order out the militis of the Territory, and to publish » terrible proclamation, calling upon “law andorcer men’? to nid in enforcing ihe law, ‘The prociarativn of the Governor did the work it was intences to co by thore who were instrumen'‘a! in having him jssoe it. It was intended a3 cover for an attack long Fince meditated on Lawrenee by the fire-eaters. has swept the scum of the border counties of Misvouri into our Territory, vowing death to every man in Law- rence. ¢ Gen, Richardson, o well disposed man, and of some rominence in our Territory since the excitenen', has en to Lawrence snd bed. @ telk with her people. He) reports that they decla.ed that they were always and are now ready to deliver up to the authorities any one of their number for whom thore authorities had « writ; but refused, a8 rensible men would. to sutfer one of their number to be arrested by an irresponalble mob, It ls perfecdy understood here that Governor Shan-_ non’s proclamation and bluster were intended to ply | into the hands of Atchison, Stringfellow and gang. Vol-|_ untesr companies were rained in the border couaties of | Missouri with wonderful aluctity, immediately upon its) | Vil of It is said there are now encamped near awrence from one to two thourand armed men, and! other companies are hurrying oh to join them, Most of, them are revident Missourians, and Atchison and String- fellow ace out urging an attack. The Lawrence men stand nrm, and will not yield till) they are forced. ‘Tuey have nicely calculsted their | strength, and they hold to the belief that it will take three thourand men to iake Lawrence. and even then with the loss of much blood. The Lawrenge men are én- treuched, have exycrieuced commanflers, wad are well armed toa man, They are calmly and resolutely wait- ‘ng an attack. Colonel Lane, of Lawrence, has sent a Cespatch requesting ard from this city, He says a fight is mevitabdle. Colonel Sumner. e-mmandant at the fort, is awaiting erders from Washington. Richardson, commander ot | the militla, bay been striving to bring about an amicable settlement; but Stringleliow, Fastin amd yang nay 00. Although the Lawrence men bave shown a disposition to do what is right, it seems that they must fight, or take the alternative of being massacred. | Lawrence haf at this time 500 men under muster; their ‘weapons of defence are Sbarp’s rifles and revelyers. It is raid that the Missourians have five pieces of cannon im adcition to their email arms. These cannon were got by them in the following man: ner:—About 100 of them broke into the arseual at Liber-) ty, Clay county, Mo., secured the man in charge by tyii bim, tock the canucn, shells, &., on haad, and marche off to Lawrence, Cl. Sumner has sent a torce t9 recove: the arma stolen, and to protect the arsenal from farthe: plunder. Atchison, it is said, fa encamped with some men, about fitteen miles from Lawrence, waiting for rein~ forcements. ‘There is a report afloat that Shannon is much afituted, and is trying to advise to Missourians to go nome—hay- ing at last convinced himself that this is the onl y way ta avoid a collision. He 1s obliged. however, to aivise with’ Atchison and Stringfellow, and they, I believe, require the Lawrence men to sucrencer their arms, This they. consider as equivalent to laying down their lives, and of course they will mot conse Negotiation sad comproe mise thus jar have been fruitless. | It is thought that the crists in Kansas affairs has come st last. The fight is expected to-day or to-morrow; and, if so, it murt be # bicody one, for the Lawrence men will fight with no expectation of quarter. It is thought b the free State men here that toe Missoursans will attacl this city, whether successful or not, at Lawrence. They have vowed the destraction of the Regisler press, and moy throw it into the river, as they did the Parkville Luminary. Possibly Colonel Samner, in endeavoring to retake the ‘arms stolen trom the artenal, may bring about a eollisior berween the United States troops and the border rulfians In the prevent coucition of the public mind, a tritle may turn the strive into quile @ different channel from that anticipated by thore who originated it. To give you an idea of the excitement in this piace, T need only sta t« that business is entirely suspended, and groups of mer are on the streets talking of the war, as if a terrible ca, lamity vas impending which cannot be averted. eh ‘The St. Louis Intelligencer of the 14th inst. says —a) letter that we bave received from one of the oldest set tlers in Kansas—one who was there long before the or} | gaviza ion of that lerritory was seriously thought of writes te ua that Wilson Shannon has “ not one humdre ot the actual citizens of Ransas to back him in his war o the rights of ihe people.” Newsn from Venezucia. OUR MARGARITA CORKESPONDENCE. Pauravon, Margarita, Nov, 23, 1858, Health of the Island—Salt and @uano Produce—Engl Avarice—Shipping Report. ft The bark Cordetia, for New York or Philadelphia, » (Et rail to-morrow, by which I send a few lines, apprie you that this little gem of the ocean is healthy, fer end peaceadle. We make a good deal of salt, and our fruit, water | egriculture ate extremely fred, and thy guano fou the neighboring islands of Venezuela will material bance the procucts of Margarita. Speaking oat guano, the islands in the Caribbes abound with the precious and fertilizing material in » bupdance. and nniese the United States governmen niterpore kngland witl bave all the fat, which ina ©) IDfesure Fhe DOW HORsEsses, ' ‘The bark Gazel ¢, tor New York via Bonaire, ant Atalanta, for New Haven, will sail in afew days, | Several foreign men-of-war pay transient vinits, y 7 are at all times plessing and profitable. Vil VIRU IMPORTANT DECREE OF PRESIDENT MONAGAL {From the Caracas Diario de Avisos, Oct. 1 Joex Tank Moxacas, President of the Republic of ¥ auela, &e.:— j Consicermng the dreadful epidemie of the cholera |i] ves of the wublie is partioul filicts several provi inging smong the poorest portion of the inhabitaay Ye country; that cne of the fatal conequences of ra colamity is the mse ef price of grain aud breadat erpectsily on account of the invasion of the epids baving teken piace Jast at the time of sowing " gathering the harvest of staple producta; that it beco the sacred duty of the government to relieve, as far a ir within its power, thé affiletions of the people; in of the authorization conferred to me by the legisiatiy decree, dated the 4th May Inat, 1 do decree— P Art.', Rice, In: ian corn. oats, peas, chick pens, bean it Kidney beans and lentils, tmported from foreign cou) | tries through the custom houses of La Guaira, Py Catello and Ciudad Bolivar, will be free of ail or and extra cuties until the Slat of May, 1856. Art. Il. The Executive power reserves to iteslf the 4) Pproroguing the term fixed by the Lg aape Tay case it may be so required to reduce the r bore named provisions. ee Treasury is ordered « enforee thia cecree. Given under my band, and with the seal of ¢) Executive, and endorsed by the of Sta JOBE T. Oni of the office SS oe of of October, . By order of his Excefleney the Secretary