The New York Herald Newspaper, February 4, 1856, Page 3

NEW YORK HERALD. MO NDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1856, aide bo ment seourities. .£13,413,469.. Increase £2 675 914 17,416,554. 820 4,887,000, Dect 0 ion is £19,387,300, nd the atock of bullion in 1, showing a decrease of preceding return. -£2A, 274,305 00 tnorease of 486,495, ents is £10.416,951, when compared with the Department. securities (Jacluding weight annuity) eocuritles, —-—~— 36,883,664 There has been « rather better market this week, and » stock of silver nearly cleared Gold is stil shippad siy to Paris, and although it mey not be taken direst ym the stores, ys aipictnen hain causes ness correspo! pressure on the money thet, The rate of discount isnot nominally n last week, but a doubtful, uneasy feeling i capitalists are unwilling to part with mor reign gold in bare (standard, V «silver in bare (standard), coin, Portugal is) doubloons, Patriot. “ do” Spanish igaer “ “ HE PBESIDENT’S MESSAGE IN ENGLAND. Effecton the @ubliic Mind—Opinions of the Pi ress, {From the London Chronicle, Jan. 16.] he Message of President Pierce to the American Con- for which Europe and Americs have been kept in pense more than three weeks, has at last been de- ee * * * * * * fgche disputes with England cccupy # prominent place Gocument; and on both the President taxes a newhat lofty tone, though his vaporing is confine’ to statement of clarence, The recommendation of any MWctical remedy is studiously avoided. There are two xte on which our government has the misfortune to ier from the President of the United States. That ich we have been accustomed to regard as the origin ‘our differences—the question of recraiting—is here ‘own back into quite a subordinate place; w po- ‘on of honcr is given to a question that has hardly been oted at allin this country—the construction of the \wer-Clayton treaty. It will be remembered that some ‘ago a treaty was concluded between the two coun- bs, by which bith bound themselves to abatain trom 0) mg of the regions in Central America. rély was the ink of the treaty dry till the Ameri- as insisted that we should give up the old onial possessions that we have held there for sre than @ century—an interpretation which, i: need dly be said, our government protests never entered sir minds when they agreed to thetreaty, President ree, in his Message, maintains that the American in- pretation is tent on the face of the do- nent, and thet America can cever agree to any oth truction, But it wilt not escape the shrewd iatal- of the Americans, that thereis a decided daw in the soning of theircbief, He maintaina that Great Bri- in must give up all her possessions in Central erica, with the ex ie of her logwood cutting ea- blishment ta Belise. Now, it happens that ia the treaty fa no more mentioned than any CN kes of coiemal possessions in that quarter of the world. py shouid President Pierce make an exception in favor lise, which he will not ailow in favor of a her of our colonies there? Simply besause Beltse 30 valuable to Bri’ish interests and British c:mmerce at they well know no public mau in hig eeases would br dream of abandoning it. This is, in eifest, anad- /-sion that Great Britain did act mean to give up any per present colonies, but simply bound herself not to kend her possessions; otherwise she would have taken e to draw a clear distinction between Belise, whish she ant to keep, and the others, which she meant to #2an- h, in the body of the treaty itself. Dn the question of the recruiting, Mr. Pierce takes haily high ground. We are informed that by the at- apts to gain seoruita for the British army on American i, ® gross violation of the neusrality iaws bas been pitied by British officials in nigh stations 39 much knew before, and the message does not add to our Formation. is seid about the apologies ten- -e1 by the British government being insufficient, an but further reparation as neceasary to be denapded it what the natare of the reparation is to be, is not s ich as hinted at, and we may add, the samo obseurit Ioaintained with regard to the Bulwer-Clayton treaty e excuse for this 13 to be foand in the statement tha ch subjects are still under discussion, which absolve executive from recommending immoeniate action. A same time we are preven ed from laying the flatter. fi; unction to our souls that diplomacy will disentangl: knot which itself bas woven, by an intimation of th: veidert’s own opinion that he eatertaias Ht ts hope of iving at @ satisfactory solution by means of negotia- ‘ps, and further, tuat a prolongaticn of the dispute not fail to lead to very serious consequences. Waist o be done with government which obatiaately re- kes to be satiefied, and which can neither make up its nd to war nor peace? yrom the views which the President thus vaguely an- ‘unces we appeal to the better feeling of vhe people of e Union. It is very plain that Mr. Pierce would in- ive his coun‘zy in @ quarrel with ours it he conid, d that he has put forth theso intimations as feelers the public mind. The hortils tone intimates his owao sons} opinions; the feeble and uncertsia mode in ich they are followed out indicates his fear that the uuiry 18 not with him. Jf £e felt conscious that his antrymen were heart and soul at his back, his mes- , there can be no doubt, would have rung out clear Gistinet notes of defiance. For ourselves, beileving t Great Eritain requires no more thaa tho treaty, iy interpreted, awarda to her, and that in the matter ithe recruiting out miatsters are willing to make every ology wuich ¥ can honorably tender for their blaa- r, we are delighted to see thas our brethren rosa the Atlantic sre disposed to look upon matter in the same iight What effest this wage may have upon the people of the different jtates ‘have not yet the means of arcertsiaing. Ia Congress, we have siready noticed, the docament has been re- lived in a tone anything but grateful, or even respect- i. ‘The impression seems to have deen pretty geagral re that the document bas been given to the world, not much to explain the state of tne country as w for- d the Presicent’s chances for re-election, and that his fading it to Congress ia the icregular way ne has dono proof it. Itis not for ws to enter into those domestic luabdles, and for that purpose we bave not alluded to st portion of the Messege which relates to the troubles w taking place in Kansas. The Presivent treats these a Vehtly, thoug events there seam tending to a civil ’ “We ihall de aeng, ‘ad to hear that the storm which oh " gathering in that quarter bas blown oye:, 42d ve hope t.pacilic relations between Grent Britain and Amerisa ay long survive the rule, however pften renewed, of esident Pierce. (From the London News, Jan. 16,] The President's Message vo Congress presenis a pleasing, d, we believe, an unexaggerated picture of the material enperity of the United States. ‘he circumstances under hich the message was transmitted to Congress, and tae sturbances in Kaosas, present a pictace of the sostal d poliuiea cond/iion ‘ot the Union less calculated to spire satisfactory snticipations. It is eviseat that an hvittered s:rugg'e of many discordant parties is now ling waged throughou: the States, None of theso partios suffiviently strong to commaud @ majority in the House Representatives, and the oonseqaence is that a whole nth has been lost in vain atzempts to organizy the use, Impatient of this delay, the President has taken unprecedented step of transmitting nix message to logrers before the House o! Representatives is orgaatzed; jo a majorly of the House has ex srease its rasoaumeat this step Dy an equally unprecedented vote taat the sage shall be la:d on thé table unread. Ta plata laa. the Executive, and the branch of the Legislature ich most directly represents tue people have each sumed an attitude of Lrg yee defiance, Tho peration of party spiri, ry a8 expressed at Wash. ple of that which pervades republic, Somethiag very lik vil waron a small scale has beon waged in Kansas, lugh the combatants appear to have deststed from ive hostilities for the present; and the invaders of has from Missouri command the sympathies of an im- pxe wajority of the inhabitants of the slave States, Jat the inhabitants of the Territory are chéered on bj inconsideravle party in the Nortbern States, To who have not closely and minutely stndied tho his- of the Union, and watched the progress: of contem political contests, civil war would appear to be aent, We are not diapored, however, to rogard the vicn if sash an alarmist spirit. We have seem so by threatening political storms of this “flerce demo by’ blow over withous material damags, that we convinced the framework of the constitution will this one also, With regurd to the pactivs to the dy war in Washington, there can be little deabt of 5 praltay ioe w the be dacp spicita {Red settled regions, their struggles always remind us Jersark made by the late Kari ot Durham after bis rn from Canada, Ina company where the Earl was nt agentieman adverted in disparaging terms to wuliar eta’e of socie y in the new settiomon's of ‘nion, “What axtonishes me,” said Lord Dar- “ie, that there should be 4 Iai on is merel) wholg of the 3 Pint oflawlersnoss in there districts, but that there nid be so mueh of rettie’ government and respect ler, all the flaw. t reckless Along with many respectsble sot! its of the Union flock thither. and ness ‘wenkoess of the central them entirely their own masters. d government #l ces, is s remarkable testimony to the capacity of the ican people for self government.” We quote from nory, after & lapse of many years, and fear that wo done injustice to Dutnam’s expressions ; but ty in that we give tae sense of wast hosa'd, In 3 and even amid the most nl excesses of North American border life, wo cherish ed convistion that all will come right in the long ‘With the surcease of the outrages in Kansas, the nt sympathies of the partisans of the contending Hes throughout the Union will be « Isyed, and the ooa- ‘will lose much of ita present aarming appearance re are, therefore, entirely free from apprehensions of Immediate danzor from the present fleroy war of pi in the United states, At the same time, we canuot eal from ourselves that there is something at the bot- strife which may breed danger hereafter. Tae in Keuses are the natural and seoopery juen 6 of the growing convictions pene wory On one 10. the Southern eeey oling to thas ene pg the bre We on see ates argued the quest negro slavery to be requ torepeat our views of it now; bu’ ia common. with ths ter part of enlightened and reflecting Amorisaas, we feel convinced that the ultima‘e abolition of aegro slavery throughout the Union, asin the colonial dominions of ‘itain aud France, is inevitable. The only mysus of preven’ ss the recurrenge of such painfal ouirages dave recently been witneused ia Kansas is the liberation of the negro race. The supporters of negro alavery in the United States have no ‘iternative but to yield, with the best grace they , to the irresistible progress of humane and enligh: views, or to make up their miads ton series ot struggles which may ultimately read the Union asunder. There is another source of danger to the federal Union. The ambition of territorial extension whicu animates so conside-able a section of the population, threstans not only the stability ot the Union, but the very exis'enss free government, So long as tne “filibusterism’’ of the Union does not interfere with the rights and security of the free colored population of the British dominions, the interests of Great Britain are in noways affected by it. There is no envy or jealousy in Great Britain of any poa- sible aggrandi-ement of the North American repa lis. The people of Great Britsin look ‘upon the ‘extension of the deates with all the calmness of men watching g the tical solution of an interesting political pro Bae it is otherwise with the cidzens of Inited Sta Every new State or Territory added to the Ual. addy’ to the patronage of the central government at Wi ; io words, to its powevaf poliiies! cor ruption. It is well known bow unser: the hold- era cf power at Wavhington, for the being, are ia of using their Deleonage ‘tn order to strengthen their party. In exact proportion as the mamber of States and Territories in the Union is increased does it more easily possible fora well orgsniz:d to perpetuate its po ver in defiance of the people. If tha process can be carried on for an indefinite iod without & disruption of the Union, the institutions of therepuolic must become mere empty forms. The United States will become a despotism in the garbof a republic. But to avid a disruption under such circumstances seems impos- aible. The manis for extending thelr territory, which animates the ‘ filibuaters,” cannot fail, sooner or later, to bring them into hostile collision with some powerfal State. Victorious or defeated, the expenses of the contest thus provoked i _press hoon on the American citizens, and the Northern and North- western States will feel that this preasure is imposed upon them to attain objects which no way concern them. The discontent thus created will compel them to withdraw from Union in which their real interesta are entirely disregarded. With whathumiliating regro'a will American patriots look back after such a coasumma- tion to the glories of their infact republic! With waa’ despondency will the friends of lberty all over tha world regard such a vermination of tho great American exgeri- mens ot self governmeat | As sincere frienda and wall wishers of the United States, wo feal it our duty to invite the attention of their citizens to these considerations at the present crisis. It appears to ua not improbable— from the tone both of the public journals in America and Of our private correspondence—tnas not afew who are biesapering él opposed to the aims of the “filibua- ters’’ are more half inciined to promote them, at the risk of a bootless and discreditable war, ia order to allay internal dissensions, by concentrating the attan- tion and sympathy of the whole people on an external conflist. The adoption of such a short sighed policy would necessarily prove destructive to the liberties of the citizens, if not to the permanence of the Union, It ‘would be to commit the same blander that was commit. ted by the English government when it threw itself into the scale of despotism by tal ng part ‘agains’ emanci- pated France, in the wars of the first French Revolution. [From the London imas, Jan. 17.) ‘This is not the time to take a triamphsat or even indi’- ferent view ot other people’s troubles. Woe ara aulferin, at oe, oint of the compass from the social faults aac internal disorders of other States. Sorfdom, fanaticism, whether Christian or Mahomedan, despotism, the want of public opinion, degrading vices. ‘and a long list of na- tlonal peculiarities, contributed to the eas of the war, In which the best blood and treasure of this country are p ured out like water. Who can say but what ths ‘little cloud” which a late minister aaw in Oregon may show it- self one day in the ‘ domestic institution” of Amerisan slavery? The days may come when an indecisive and temporizing knot ‘of British statesmen may drif: int> a war on benalf of ‘Uncle Tom” and his cabin and hia very judicious friends, ending most _philanthropically in the extermination of the race, and the slaughter of an equal number of white cl:izeas and gubjests. Nobody now remembers that the present war of prinsiple, which has already cost not much less than a million lives, began in a squabble about the keys of seme holy’ places. So far from civiization diminishing the tendensy to war, it seems to put more gunpowder ty 0 walk tenderly on the smouldering cinders of American controversy. The Java is sill hot under us, and will bear no heavy tread. But, with this feeliag on our side, testified by years of silence on the point, wo cannot conceal our surprise at finding the whole contro- verry raked up in the Presideut'a message. With a par- tisanship strangely at variance with our notions of royal impartiality, the Presicent reviews the history of the ‘domestic inatitution,”’ from the days of the conferation through the tuccessive annexations. He expresses him- self freely, and with mighty little heed of hostile preju- dices, as to the successive acts of Congress for the tolera- tion or re triction of slavery. He boldiy puts it asa quarrel between the North and the South; and shows, with al] the zeal cf a protectionist recounting the bur- dens on lund, or of a liberal enlarging on the priviliges ot the aristocracy, that the supposed concessions to the interests and ideas of the Southern or slaveholding Statsa have tenced equally to the aggrandiz»ment of the North, In almost every paragraph of this discuasion the burnii brancs of con‘roversy are hurled about, as we shoul searcely expect even to find them in the fervid pages of an abolition or anti-abolition journal. At all evants, it is tne man who speaks—not the abstraction that flits be- hind the generajities of an ‘address from the throne.’’ Imagine Queen Victoria accusing whole portions of her realm, Scotland, for example, of uncoastitutional con- duct, impertinent interforence, spurious humanity, du- plicity and the jike ! Bat, apart from the warm language of the President, wo eerfously regret that he has evidently lost sizht of a far more important question than the existing rights of the slave States and the conduct of parties. Admit ever; word, and more than every word that hessys. Admit tha: the Congresa acted against the constitution in at- tempting to prescribe domestie laws for the newly an- nexed States, Admit that the efforta of the abolitionists, Inasmuch as in the case of independent nations they would certafoly bring on foreign wars, 89,10 the case of federal States, they tend t> civil war. Admit the noto- rious absurdity in the Northorn States, utterly unwilliag and unable as they are to raise the colored man to actual equality, leaving their own missry unmended to aggra- vate the misery of their neighbors. Admit it all; there remains the farther question, the only practical one—how is slavery to be kept within bounds, brought to a quiet old age, and éecently interred some hundred years henso? ‘At that distance of ime american statisticians tell us the yalation of the States will be at least hundre millions, faltof them cither Europeans or tne immediate descend ants of Euro) At that date what will +‘ the domestic institution” ‘come to? It must diminish every year in proportionate buik, and as it diminishes so also must influence wad the territory of the stave States. On the other hand, there can be little duubt that the zeal and the fanaticism ot the aoolitionists will not nave absted, fed as it will be by the perpetual intro- Suction of European elements. Turm your eyes from the past, Mr. President, as we poor Engiishmen are forced to do on # burared questions; forget tue angry onslaught, the insolent demeanor, the treacherous wiles and the atrocious hypotrisy of party. Let bygones be bygones. Be deaf to the storm now raging about your head. Look forwazd to the day when some cool blooded nistorian of your Union ‘will be considering how far President Piercs could forecast faturity, or whether he was simply a man Can anyboay reaily imagioe that slavery will flourishing institution, standing tts grouad ~iust some seventy or eiguty millions of opponents? ete js charity to hope that tong ere that day it will rely .° * Pspanivion or attained some quist euthanasia. have Meee ©. ssop is one thing, ultimate extinction ano- instant apoli. “ nattle rages upon the former ot these palais, While the vg ct have a thought of the darters yot oints, nobody “se ts the former Is tne tople ot ue FAbble, the latter the duty of statesinen, % We, in the Old World, make bay little way ini the ours of our own social evils, so it woula "@0Ome us to pre- ertbe for slavery. The manner of our own *90lition was no model for any State, least of all for one tatt had its slavery in its own bosom. Yet we may venture to no- tice the omission of ail attempts to scan the fature of slavery in the message before us. We doubt much whether the next eighty years of its history wil: ba like the last. There is one important novelty of a nature to affect it, and that is the immense infusion of the ds- pressed classes of Europe into the barat 7 population of Amerisa. ‘The social difficulties of the Union have al- ready a more European charac'er than a few yesrs ago. In questions of education, religion and crime, one may every day see com} sons between Manchester and New York; ; and an English philanthropist would find himself quite at home at say groat city in the Union. This state of things must spread, and, as it is (difficult to conceive ve population in London, in Lancashire, or any other part of these isles, we conclude the day must dome when slavery will be a moral impossibility in the United 3sates. But, if this be only probable, common sense suggests that the policy of the States, and of the Union also, as far as it can be done without offence, is to pave the way for the gradual and pencefal exit of slavery. On this side the Athntic it would be presumptuous > frame the pro- policy for this Figen but there can be no prasump- m in just quietly American statesmen to con- sider whether i obae is to exist, and, tf 0, to what extent and in what form, in the Union, in the year 1950; and how far it will thon'affecs the peace and comfort of 8 hundred million citizens? The smallest miagiving as to the probable state of things at that date should enter into the present calculations of Liars A pretending to beastatesman. Slavery, in our humble opinion, will then either have ceased to exist, or exist as an intolera- bie evil, and the ‘bane of American politics. Thore too, another con! cy im view, more familiar, per- haps, to Furopean than to American minds, and that is, the gradual meliing of the States into « closer unity. Either peace or war, either mutual forbearance or aagry controversy, will tend to tke entire ation of com- munities 80 similar and so closely united. Bat every ate towards that amalgamation must tell agsinat the conti- nuance of an Institution tolerated in some of the States and abhorred in the rest. Affairs in Russia. CHRISTMAS FRTES—THE SAXON AND AUSTRIAN PEACR MISSIONS—IMMENSE WAR PREPARATIONS—COUNT NESSELRODE’S FEELING—OFFIOIAL OHANGES AND PROMOTIONS, pies. (Jan. 14) Corres of London fairs ia probably owlng to intervention of the Carist- mas holiday in St. Polorsburg that I have no more resent 6th inst., at which the thoughts of most is reemed to be {arning away from politics and rds the festivities of that evening (Christmas eve) and the beri Ne dy The Russian Christmas day (Jon. 6) has, in addi ion to ite religio importanse, also & historical significance; it is celebrated in commemo ration of the expulsion of the French from Russia {a the of his da: then ve ne ty the dey is always marked by salvoes of artil- ny*from the walls of the JowerPaul lta end the court attends Divine service ia stats. All tha: teres of the army and fleet arc commandei to at: in the chapel of the Win er palace, both gentiemen and ladies in national costume. After Divine service aud cae hold- ing of & parads the more etal. shacepien. nf oe 7 wmences, which geuvrally provides ample exercive for the patience» and for! rangy of the efusr 5 On the 7th the Princess Alexandra of O:denourg wis to be confirmed im tse bosom of the Grmvo-Russiaa Vaarch, ‘ious to her solemn betrothal to the Grand Bake Risholss on the following Gay. The igh Siemert crane ; Court .f Oldenburg, Baron you Freit had arrived io St. Petersburg towards the clove of Last, monvh for the angiog with the Russian Caamberlain ail ive that shuld accompany theas ao's of con berrothal aad marriage; che la:ter is expected beaten ond. "The Iavalids nar avoaayevarnest ao imi 4 already contat al ‘the details of the ceremonies to. be oheerved on the sion of the confirmati=n, to which great importen pears to be attached, involving, as it dues, the Princess's entrance into the psie oc the State ohuroh; the bewrathal of the folio wing day consists of the ex‘easion of che bless- ing of the church to the actual betrothal, which took place some time back. 4s soon as the ceremony of ad- oes in’ the Greex Church bu taken place the Dow- ‘ager Empress leads the young vriacess up to the holy relics for her to kiss th and from thee moment she bears the name and title of ‘Orthodox Priaceas Aiexan- drina Petrowns " In no St. Petersburg letter that has come ioto my was there any indisation of the result of tha two missions of Seebach and Esterhazy, but nearly all coin- cided in the Belief that the year 1886 boars. in 1ta wom’ as littse chance of pacification as 14 predecessors, Baron Pres age in St. Lipski sort of Dacem- , a on same eveni P fa‘her-in-law, Count Nesselrode, a visit. His offtcial reseptioa tool Rises om see ‘Slat of December. the two following ya he had also lengthy comtereaces with the Ohanoal- Jor, and at the ‘acter of the two Count Esterhasy yas also prveeat, Op to the 2d inst. neither of the diploma- tiste had had any audience of the Emperor. As the Rus. sian anawer to the Austriaa proposals has been alresly published in Vienas, and is doubtless knowa to you b; Uhia time, I need not repeat any of the crajactuces ‘orm: in St. Petersburg as to the probable result of the mis- alons—the less so as all these Russian correspondents confers to being entirely uaiuformet a3 to any fasta. What little is bruited about here pene ‘a3 to the re- sult of the Seebach nmitasion ia, that it has been by no meane fruitless, and that the Baron has, on the contrary, been empowered oy the Ruasian Cabinet to continae to exert bumeelf in Varia for the attainment of panes, but on the 1 principles already put forward by him in St. Tg. Tt appeats now to bea settled thing that M Fonton, the Russian Miaister ia Hanover, takes the place ia the Ministry of Foreiga Aifairs lately ocsupled by the lato ML, C) . The Russian government continues to devore miaute attention to the miitary organization of the Balss pro. ‘vinces, 80 as to be prepares for ali eventualities in that quarter. General Schultz, who had a command in Se- baw'opol. and was subdsequeasly second Commander in Nicholaieff, bas been nominassd Commander in Ouns- rounde; Ganeral Nozdwastrang has been attarxed to the Commanc-in-Chief in Finland; and Colonel Furubjelm, formerly Aojutan' to General Bocise ia Bomarsuad, has deen sent futo Ficland as Governor of ons of the dis- tricts there, for the purpose of completing the milicary Organization of the population. Priace Menashizoff iA still detained in St, Peteraburg by inaisposition. A g:eat number of appoinementa, distributions of troops, Be took place whije General Sigwors was atill in St. Petecs burg; he bas nw left for Mitau. The Neva batteries are to be'streng:hened and lengthened om both fisaks, and the result of this ang of a Variety of other military arrangements in and about the capital ist» priduce aa agitation of feeling among the people, as though the eno- my were just about to appear bef.re the towa. Add to this the warlike fanatical tone of the jouroals that ataud nearest the court, and we see what an uogenial soll the pacific missions of the German Powera fait upon. Vari- ous correspondents describe tais excited state of exacec- bated feeling as perfectly overpowering, and drowaing the secret yearnings that ev--y memoer of tho upper classes undoud'edly eatertains alice A correspondent of the Kreuz Zeitung, writing from St. Petersburg, January |, deacrives it as aa impossibility for Russia to make pease as long as a toreign soldier still stands on Russian roll, aud adds with regard t> the pos- sibility of the Austrian proposals being ascepted:— Least of all <.s any concess:on to ba thought of towards any demand tede by Eogland, for you nave n» coacep- tion of the hat.#d that has panetrated through all clasaea ofthe Rustian wation against Kog'and. We will pay no tribute of any sort any longer to tnat country, We will have no Lord Redoliffs over us here, We will not have their ships any more in our ports, not even after a peace, which I suppose will some day or other bs mado. The uznatura) alliance of France and England will not last for ever —our firm determination will last much longer in no case to let England prescribe laws for us, ant tha’ the English og see clearly when their martial heat has all evaporated. ny previous communications from this correspondent did not betray that he was insane, we must assume that this rabit frenzy is the reflex of Russian feeling, at least in his circle. The continual nominations that are petng, made to the crews of the Black Sea will serve as 4 convincing demon- stration how ht le the government ts tainking of renoua- cling the jeg: of restoring the lost fleet to its former power. An evidence. also, of the determination of the government to suppress the spirit of peculation and cor- ruption that appears to be so intimately intertwinod in the Russian administration, is to be found also in the frequent exposure and punishment of dishonest emplovés that are now taking place. fhe Marine Jonrnal a few days back published the radation ot an officer of the Com- missariat of the ficet of the Black Ses, for ‘aiding and abetting in the getting up of false dosnments.” St. Petersburg letters mention also that the Minister of War has laid before the Emperor ‘a judgment pronounced by @ Council of War, which, when it is published, qill ex- cite as much sensation as the peculations of Politowshi did, who had embezzled @ million of roubles from the funds of the Invaliden.’’ The partigs affected are seven members and the president ofa Trisunal of Commerce in south. They are understood to nave made ver free with the State Treasury as well aa the fan of the tribunal itself. Tnts affair is, doubtless, the same as that mentioned in advices trom ‘Odessa, accordiag to which the President of the Tribunal of Commerce there, Staaterath Hamalei, in consequences of abuses that nave arizen from bis negligence, aa well as excess of power arrogated by him on several occasions, bas veen «is missed the service, with the prohibition of boing ever employed again. ard c ndemned at the same time to three months’ imprisonment in a fortress; he is further suspected ot having made use of the capital of the Tri- bunal of Commeree for his owa profit and aivantage. Four cther members of the same Court are diamtised the service, and ceclared to hav3 lost the confidence of tne verntnent, and to be incapable of further employment. rember ot other persons ure mentioned, amounting in a1 to about reven, for different degrees of culpabuity, de- graded and eoncemned to various degrees of punishment; one of them is the treasurer of the Circle of Odessa, who is condemned to serve in the army as a private. The amount defictent im doth the treasury of the Cirele anu the fonds or the Tribunal ot Commerce, are described to be very conriderabie, We extract the followiog from a letter in the Constitu- tionnel, cf Paris, dated St. Pex rabarg Jan. 6:— Thave already informed you that Count Valentine Es- terhazy had two or three interviews with M. de Nessel- 6, without any satisfactory result. Since tues Count Esterbazy bas had an interview with the Emperor Alexender IL, who said nothing formal respecting the ‘Austrian propositions. He subsequently paid a visit to M. Seniavin, of the Foreiga Office, where he met with a very cold reception. Baron de Werther, the Prassian Minister, had meantime arrived at St. Petersburg. He paid a visit to the Chan- cellor, who asked him ina brusque manner whether he had come to say a word for the Austrian Plentpoteatiary, and to support the ridiculous preteasions of Austria. Baron Werther replied that hoe could not support what he was not cogvizant of. To Count Esterhazy, whom he visited afterwards, he said that be bad mo instructions from his government on the nudject, Barcn de Seebach, the Saxon Minister at Paris, arrived at St. Petersburg on the evening of the 20th December. He went direct to his tather-in-law’s, Count Nosselrode’s, where he passed the evening. On the following morning he paid # tong visit to Count Valentine Bsterhs zy. On the ist of December Baron te seohach wad pre- ta the Baptror; Mhe audieves lasted two hours, pee not able td aay whet sed, but it is certain that tfter she interview Count Nesselrode modified his tone, and him that a compromise might be effected. The volley of ams. teFation anc coneiliation brongat by M. de book bas to iad & poverfal support in the person of pA ch nes fo. son, who made known thet M. de S9- M. Relix de Fon. ™ the faithial organ of the Germsn ‘ile opinion generally throughout Gatnis gee of Pat wwod by the appeal addromod to ‘neh. bd? weight the Emperor of the Pr ""'on hes the mare ith eon bers LA Fo. “at he resided for many be . Hotersburg Cabinet, - vaneillor of Embassy, years at Berlin and at Vienm av Oy when pablte opt- and had just left Hanover ata momen’ Tits Dod) ate nion in Germany, stirred up by the poten, ? nuned by Tae speech of the 18th of November, prom, 7nced, live energeticaliy against Russia. Passing throag.* Vit. to! M, de Fonton thse lesrat the disposition of Any. “"\* 10. wards Russia, and the tenor of the propowala Austra about to cond to St. Petersburg. M. de Fonton gave at Warsaw a faithful noconnt of the state of public opinion in Germany to Prince Paskie- witsch, secretary be was tormerly, and the Prins recommended him in hfs own name, and in virtue of his authority as Field Marshal of the Ruesien armios, to con- jare the Cabinet of St. Petersburg to double any eee no, after all, vith, the rest of in anxious to seo peace re ental Duke George of Mecklenburg-Strelits, necompsnied by bis wife, the Grand Duchess Catherine Mic! daughter of the IateGrand Duke Micuael, and of the Grand Duchess Helena raulowna, has left Germany. The Duke, who is « general of artillery in the Russian service, has often been intrusted, since the commoence- ment of the Eastern question, with mirstons to the Ger- man Courts, and especially to that of Prussia. In this instance he has no official mission, but # number of offi- cious missions—namety, to keep the good King of Prus, sia in his philo-Russian ideas, and togain over the Grand Duke of ‘Hense Darmatadt to the Muscovite cause, for it ay that the Grand Duke Louts IIT. makes no secret oF hts Aus:rian sympathion in his letters to his daughter, the Em; Marie—s fact which causes some annoyance ptuous suite the Michael Prince Bebutoff will take, provisionally, the chiet command of the army in the Caucasus, and of the Trans- cauearian expeditionary army, Aid-de-camp-General Mouravieff will be appointed to fhe chief command of the army in the Crimes aud ta Aid-de-camp-General Prince Gortechakvff will be plared et the head of the army of the South, aad will he nls beadquar-ers at Kischeneff. Rc ag i will have the command of the army ia General Oston-Sacken will remain at Nisholaief and Cnerson. Paniutin will have his headquar- Aid-de-cam *Gurismas has bee ies m celebrated with great ceremony. The traditi sal 7 Dewm was shan‘ed taall the chu-ohes celebrating the deliverance of Kasse trom the hordes of Napoleon (such is the name given to the Grand Army) forty yours since. It isa curious mode of celebrating tue _ The Bank of France. [From the Ulroular to Bankers, Jan 12.] ‘The returns of the Bank of France, made up to the 10th inst., preseat the following results when compare! with tne previous returns,— Cocidn A Side, = Dee. 18. Jan. 10. Specte......... .++.£8,756,080 7,984,410 771,650 Dec, Discounts, 16,706,670 reer 180 1,161,110 Inc. Advances on public seouriiies........, 1,676,170 1,903,020 226,850 Ino, Divto on railway co- TIU08,...+++.00404 2)216,900 1,814,270 402,680 Dec, Advance upon bullion 182,290 190,020 7,730 Tac. 1 ebtor Side Notes in circulation, 28,714,210 24,317,500 603,290 Inc, Treasury account current... 2,896,950 2,064,900 841,060 Dec. Private deposits. 4,654,537 6,227,770 673,238 Lac. The avove returns exhisit a very tai dimiaution ia the specie, and indicate the contiaued drain for the pur- poses of war. Tbe discounts, which had diminished ia the previous retarn to the extest of £1 627,000, nave again incteased, notwithstanciog the high rate of ia- terest charged by the bank fhe advances upon public securities show & aiight increase; out the advances upon railway seourtties show « diminution to the extent of ), which reduces them to nearly ne half the sum at which taey stood on the Stu of November last, On tae other ride of the account toe circulation hes increased upwards of £603,000; and the Treasary account curreat decreased £841,' reducing it to little more than £2, 000,000, ‘Tne private deponivs, which in the previous aaa decreased £1,661,000, show an increase of These returns, of course, will not be regarded as being favorable to an improvement in the mo markets of London and Paris, ye, they are only auch as could be reasonably anticipated in the preven’ state of Europe, and under the aspect which the war nas assumed, [he necessities of the government will doubtless oon have to be made known by appealing to the country for another loan; for France, as weil sa land. is unable to obtain the necesrary supplies without having recourse to syoh anexpedient. Tnere is, however, nt ce slightest doubt that she will be able to command all that she may re- uire in this respect, Nor is there anything alarming at amouat of the pubitc it of Franse when the re- sources of the French empire are taken into considara- tion, The decision has gune forth that the amoition of Rusela must be crushed effextually, if t¢ cannot be de- stroyed; and France is su @ to susiaia her honor ia the cause, 1a ® manner that {3 worthy of hor lofty position as a European Power. - French #inancial Report. The Moni‘eur puolishes the tollowing report, addressad to the Emperor:— Sire—We have reached that period of the year when it is customary for the Minister of the Fiaances to render an account to the Emperor of the general state of the finances. The exceptional c{:cumstanses which during the yeara 1854 and 1855 were of a nature to influence ths public in- come and expenditure, and the opera dons of the reasury, considerably lighten my duty tu day. Your Majesty w'li see with satlafaction that, if in those two years the eae the foe ee da ri bod im- posed great ascrifices upon tate, it may at least be asserted that the sources of putlic. wealth have by no means deen weakened, and that, especially in 1855, com- metceand industry attained a developement which no ‘one could have antic{pated, even in the most prosperous times. Badget of 1854.—In my tast report I had the honor of informing the Emperor of the principal causes whioh, ex- clusive of the extraordinary cemanca of the war and navy, placed heavy supplementary credits upon the Dbucget of 1884, to the amount of 120,009,008 The general statement of accounts, pu rished last May, showed the provisions! conaition of that budget with a bable excess of expenditure of nearly 100,000,000f, ace then that resuit has sensibly dim(aished. { can now announce with certainty to your Majesty that thie deficit of 1854 wit! not reach 70000 000f. [ must even add that it the budget bad not specially provided for the completion of the great public worke, in addition to the general resources allotted to them by ® supplementary credit of 72,000,000f., the definitive balance between the ordinary receipts and expenditures woula have been in fa- vor of the reoripts. Budget of 1866.~The estimates of the budget of 1855 hare been modified by unforeseon circumstances. tance given to the communes, the arrears of the last two loans, ths discounts for antisipated instal- ments, the necessity of recocstituting one larger basis the stores of the tobacco manufactories to put taem on a footing with the increased consumption, the increase of premiums to exportation resulting from the activity of our industry, the expenses ot the Universal Exhibition, the Plan iy to public works, are so many accidental causes which led to the vpening of numerous credits, and imposed upon the budget supplementary charge of pt 4 This sum appears heavy, but I beg the Emperor to ob- serve that a portion of it—that of the p:emiams, amount- ing to 17,000,000f—is only the restitution of duties le- vied: that another portion—that of the tobacco, exseed- iog 15,000,000f.--ia not a real expense, but a simple transformation of property (valeurs); and that, finally, the great public works have taken 52,000,000/. of the or- dinary revenues. Such an amount imposed upon the present for the ad- vantages ofthe future cannot be considered as money lost to the State; on the contrary, it is certain that it is the most useful and most profitable of all investments, ‘The experience of the last twenty yeara proves in the most incontestable manner that the funds devoted to the completion of reads, to the perfesticn of navigation, to the works of ports, to the developement of railways, are productive in the highest degree, and by facilitatiog commerce and industry they al rays bring & correspond- ing pregress into the revenues of the treasury. ‘At no period, sire, have great works of public utility reseived so great an impulse asin the last foar yer ‘at no period, also, was the inorease of indirect dutie le and in this latter respect no year can compete with pt ‘The most conclusive proof is given by tho tables re- cently published in the Moniteur. To approciate fally the value of that document, it is necessary not to con- found the duties levied in virtue of former tariffs with the xew duties resulting trom lawa passed in the last legis- lative session, ‘The new duties have given 33,000,000t. ‘The old teriffs having also beea 10 foree in the two ears 1854 and 1859, alone offer elements of comparison. They show 10 the advantage of 1855 an enormous mnorease of nearly 70,000,000". which brings to 917,080,000/. the total produce of the old duties, and proves that, thanks to the confidence inspired by your Majes'y, not only has all the lost ground of 1848 been ed, but that the year 1846 itself, the most remarkable under the preceding government, is elready exceered by nearly 100,000,000f. ‘This wonderful result of the national activity is not the only cistinguishing mark of the year which has just ArKO. Penne direct contributions, thanks to the increase of the number of patentess, have given a sarplus value of 4000-0008. The iacili’y of reosvering has made addi- tional progress. The sums received ou the Slat of Decem- der exceeded by nearly 16,000,000f. the amount estimated, and the costs of collecting had undergone » new and no- table reauction. The State fo: ave been soli at prices quite un- hoped for, The c'esrings estimated at 21,800,00uL. in the budget of 1865 produced 30,000,000. ‘an these augmentations ana some probable annalments of gredit will, in all probabilivy, reduco ths difference of 18E5, despite the 160,000,000f. ot supplementary asiloca- tions, to ® deficit of abont 50,000,0008 Tais figure, owing to the extraordinary wants which it was nocessar; to babe for, wil appear very satisiqctory, especiatly if it is considered that it ra ne — vi dies provided for 6 extraordinary works and for bacco reserves; cad tha‘, therefone, properly speeking, it does not make a deficit. Your Majesty will allow me to observe on this subjrct, ina general manner, that for many years the regulations of the budget would be balanced, if, as formerly, the ex- penses of extraordinary works were entirely covered oy special resources falling at once upon the present aad upon the future. Budget of 1956.—The budect of 1855 only commencing, it 1» fmporsdble to state tho results beforehand. Bel the majority of causes which, in 1865, led to suppiement- ary credits are not likely to be reprcauced, and it may therefore be reasonably expected that the facts will come much nearer the provisions. Budge’ of 1867,—The budget of 1867 aztually submitted to the examination of the Council of State, is balanced by an exores of yeoelpts of 15,000,000, To'give to this estimate, according to the Emperor’s intentions, the atest possible character of sincerity, and to diminish the unfavorable chances of unforeseen circumstances, some changes have been introduced into the basis of the estimates. On the one hand, in fixing the expenses, more account has been taken of the experience of pre- eding yeors. I may quote thé éXpor: premiums, the Peon bad opel ways hitherto insuificteut, I have imeres “C4 By 12,000, 0008. ¥ ‘As regn 78 the receipts, contrary to the course usually followed, tn0Y havo been estimated according to resulta otiained, and according to the provisions of 1856, with- out regard to ulterior augmentations. This almost cor- tain increase of neat gat ental vide for the ‘appears to me to be not to discount the future, and to keep eventual receipts to cover unforeseen expenses, TREASURY. I carnot speak of the condition of the treasury without calling your Mejesty’s attention for a moment to the pro- the extraordinary duce of the losis, acd to was pat to. ‘The Joan of 260,000,000, fs completely paid up. Gn the Int of January of the present yer 476 000, 0008, ‘wore realized on the loan of 500,000, At the eame period we had received 394,000, 000f. on the 1780,000,000f., the amount of the last loan and of the sup- nt, namely :— Miler the 10th part and the tnstalments due, which were peid up with exactitude, 234,000, 000f. For i ¢ saticipations, 160,000, 0008. in 120,000, 000°, * ‘The expenses estimated on the loans amounted, on the Blast of ber, for the two yea's, 1654 sud 1855, to nesriy 1,000,000, 06ct, Teratore, atthe provost momecr abc 0000 000 fa, ¢! a t moment al , 000, "This excens, dded te 416,000,000", ‘which remain to be recovered on the last two loans, forms a disposable total of 686 000,000f. for the extraordinary wants of the war in 1666. {t is true that some expenses of 1835 have atili to be settled ; but the same fact must necessarily tell upon tne expenses of 1866, of which @ portion can only be rettied and payed in 1857. Thanks to the anticipation of the reseipts on these expenses it expenses, the T.easury was enabled to defer until withia the last few deye, to the great acvantage of bastness, the increase of interest of tne bonds, and to support with- out embarrassment the advances made by the Bank of Deposits ond consiguments to the Army Dotation Funds. floating debt, properly called, bas found itself re- duced to 652,000 ‘ooo! —that is to say, 121,000,000f. below the figure of’ Inst year, amd the treasury boods have been reducet vo 168,000 oo0r. ‘This estimate, which eoonomized the ordinary resources of the Treasury, has the incontestable advantage of leay- ite very large margin for its ulterior wante. ‘0 resume, Sire, the simple sketch of the principal financial events of the past year shows us ® commercial activity without a patalel; uoheard of progrosa in con sumpti.n; two enormous ioans, paid up wich the geeatest regubartty, end in a great measure before the payments were cue; the loans, more than 135,000,0001., a sum which had never before been known t3 have been employed in the purchase of rentes, for the departmenta the direct contribations paid by anticipation, and almost without expense; a well-balanced budget; the floating debt reduced; and allthis despite the war, despite the criata in, the high price of food, despite the very consider: able outlay which acoidental circumstances imposed upon us, What greater proof could be tality and richness of the country and fs capable of under a Popular gorerumeat, with euch re- sources wisely employed ? Extravagance alone might be feared. Your Majesty will know how to obviate that dan- ven of the vi- all that France ger by your prudence, by firmly opposing the iaconsi- derate temptations cf specu'stion, and the interest of the enter already ccunmenced, all those which do not bear the evident mark of urgency. Tam, with the most profound respect, Sire, your Ma- Jesty’s’ very obedient and faitnfal subject, Panm, January 15, 1856, P, MAGNE. Queen Vice Convention between her M torla and the Kmperor of «Se [From the London Gagette, Jan. 10.) by adjourning, in | CONVENTION BETWEEN HER MAJESTY AND THE EX- | PRROR OP JAPAN, SIGNED AT NAGASAKI, IN THB BNGLISH AND JAPANESE LANGUAGS, OOT. 14, 1854, RATIFIOATIONS EXOHANGED AT NAGASAKI, OCT. CONVEMTION FOR REGULATING THE ADMIASION OF Surman SurPa Ria INTO THE PORTS OF JAPAN. Admiral and Commander-in Cnief of the ships and vessels of her Britanle Mejoaty tu the East Indies and sous adjs- cent, and Mezi-no Chekfusno Kami, Obunyo of Nagasaki, and Nagai Evan Ocho, Omedski of Nagasaki, ordured by bial {mperiat Highness the Emperor of Japan to act herein, 1, The porta of Nagasaki (Fisen) and Hakodadi (Mats- mat) shall be open to Britth ships for the purposes of effecting repairs and obtuintng fresh water, provisions auc otner supplies of any sort they may absolutely want for the use of the ships, 2. Nagasaki shall be open fcy the purposes aforesaid from and after the present date; and dakodadi from and after the end of fifty days from the Admirat’s departure from this port. Tho rules and regulations of each of these ports are to be complied with. 3. oN ships in distress from weather, or unmanage- able, will be permitted to enter other ports than those specified in the furegoing articles, without permission from the Imperial government. 4. Beltish ships in Japsmere porta shall conform to the laws of Jepan. It high offisers, or commanders of ships shall break apy auch laws, it will lead to .ho ports heing closed. Shouid inferior persons break them, they are to be delivered over to the commanders of their slips for punishment. 6. In the ports of Japan, either now open, or which may hereafter be opened, to the ships or subjects of any foreign nation, British ships and subjects shall be entitled to adm‘ssion and to thé enjoyment of an equalit; of advantages with those of ihe most favored nation, al- ways txcepting the advantages accruing to the Dutch and Obineye from their existing relations with Japan, 6. This conventiomshall be ratified, and ratifications shall be exchanged, at Nagasaki, on'dehalf of her Ma- jesty the Queen of Great Britain, ‘and on behalf of bis fighness the En peror of Japan, withia twelve months from the present date. 7. Whea this convention shall be ratified no high offl- cer coming to Japan shall alrer it. In witnesa whereof, we have signed the same, and have affixed our eeals thereunto, at Nagasaki, this 14th day of October, 1854. JAMES STIRLUG. N, B.—The Jepanese text was signed by the Japanese jase teem ee “xposition ofthe Articles of the Convention of Nagasaki of the 14th ot October, 1854, agreed to on the 18th of October, 1865, by thelr Excellencies the Rewr-Admiral Commanding-in-Chief and the Japanese Commissioners. 1, The ports of Nagasaki The first article of the (Fizen) and Hakodadt (Mat- convention opens the ports smai) shall be opento Brit- of Nagasski and Hako‘adi ish ships for the purposes of to Britiah ships for repairs effecting repuirs and obtain- and supplies. It opens the ing fresh water, provisions, whole and «very vart of avd other tuppiles of apy thove ports; but ships must sort they may absolutely be guiced in anchoring by want for the use of tho the directions of the local ships, government. Safe and oon- venient places will be aa- signed where ships may be repsired. Workmen, materi- als, and suppiies will be provided by the local goverament according to a tariff to be agreed upon, by on, also (the moces of payment will be regulated. ‘All offi sia’ commu- nications will hereafter, when Japanese shail have time to lsarn English, be mide in tuat language. A British bwying ground shall be set apart on Medsume Sima, fenced in by a stone wall and properly protected. 2 Negasski shall be The second article pro- open for the purposes afore- vides that at each of the sald from and after the pre- porta of Nagasaki aad Ha- rent date; and Hakcdadi Kodadi the port regulations from and after theend of 50 shall be obeyed; but the days trom the Admiral’sde- Japanese ment will parture from this pert. The take care that they shal! not rules and regulations of be ofa nature to create em- each of these ports are to barrassment, nor to con- be compiled with. tradict in any other way the general tenor and intent of the treaty, the main object of which is to promote a friend:y intercourse between Great Britain aad Japan. 8. Only ships m distress third article declares from weather, or unmanage- that only ships in distress able, will be permitted to from wenher, or ums. enter other ports than those nageable, shail enter other specified in the foregoing porta than Nagasaki and Ho- articles, without permission kadadi without permiscion from the Imperial govern- from the Imperial govern. ment. mont; but ships of war have a general right to enter the ports of frlendly Powers in the unavoldabie performance of public duties, which right can neither b? waived nor restrioted; but her Majesty's sbips will not enter any other than open ports without necessity, nor without of- tering proper ¢xplanation to the Imperial authorities. 4. British ships inJapan- ‘The fourth article pro. ese ports shall conform to vides that British ships and the Jaws of Japan. If high subjects in Japanese ports officers or commanders of shail conform to the laws of ships chal break any such Japan; and that if any sub- laws, it will lead tothe ports ordinate British subjects being closed, Should infe- commit offences against the rior persons break them, laws, they shail be handed they are to be delivered over’ to their own officers over to the commanders of for punishment ; and that their sbips for punishment. if hign offi vers or commat era of ships shall break the laws, it will lead to the closing of the ports specided. All this is an it should be; but it 1s not intended by this article that any acts of in- dtyiduals, whether high or low, previously unsuchorized or subsequently disapproved of by ber Majesty the Quesa of Great Britain, can set aside the conveniion entered into with her Mejesty alone by his Imperial Highness tho Emyeror of Japen. 5. In the porta of Japan, either now open, or which may heresf er be opencd, to the ships or subjects of avy foreign nation, Buitish ships and subjects ball be en- titled to admiseion, and to the enjoyment of an equali- ty of advantoges with those of the most favored nation, always excopting the ad: vanteges accruing to the Dutch and Chinese from their existing rglations with Japan. The fifth article secures in the fullest sense to Bri- tish ships and subjects in every port of Japan, efther now orn or hereafter to ba ned, an equality in point of advantage and aco »mmo- dation with the rhips and subjects or citizens of any other foreign nation, ex- cepting any peculiar privi- leges hither'o conceded to the Dutch and Chinese in the port of Nagasaki. Tf, therefore, any other nation or people be mow or here- after permitted to enter o‘her ports than Nagasaki and Hakodadi, or to appoint consuls, or to open trade, or to epjoy any advantuge or privilege whatever, British ships and subjects shall, as of right, enter upon the Saigon of the same. %. Thi gonyention sball be ratified, and the ratifice- ity the Queen of Great Britain, and on behalf of his Hianges the Emperor of Japan, within twelve months mt] ent date. fm ! ate tom apglt be ratided, no high es cer coming Oia sball alter ii, ARBANGEMENT REGARDING STAMPS. An arrangement made subsequently to the convention requires that British ships intending to virit Japan shall be ided with a documentin roof of their nationality, check*apon the conduct of vessels in Japanese ports; and her Majesty’s ent has directed a form of certificate ot registration to be adopted, wiich has been accepted as satisfactory by the Japanese authorities; and merchant = arriving in Japanese ports are to submit their certificate of registration to the officers to be appointed by the Japanese authorities, ani to permit them to make such extracts from it as may seem good to them before such rhips can be admitted to obtain re- ge and supplies. Her Majesty's ships cf war will not te lied with such kom mag eae officers in céMningand, upon proper app! wi ford all reason- able information regardirg their ships. REGULATIONS FOR THE PORT OF NAGASAKI, COMMU- NICATED TO REAR ADMIRAL SIR JAMES STERLING BY THE GOVERNOR OF NAGASAKI, OCTOBER, 1854. STANDING PORT REGULATIONS, Articie 1. Ships ahall anchor within two sims, and there await the direction of the Governor. Art. 2. Nofirearms to be discha rged. Art. 3. No person tolend on any of the islands. ; ar ke Soundings to be taken, nor boats to be pall- about.” nat 5. ipo toe poh — aetna weir desired, a boat of upper officers at ft no communication thai! be held with merchant boats, and ne excbanee of articles take place, or trading of any sort. ‘The above being according to the law of Great Japan, commanders other officers shall obey the same, and orders sball be given to the crew that the aforesaid law shall not be broken. No regulations for the port of Hakaded! have yot bee communicated. ae mihi ces Important from India. TRE FALL OF TERAT CONFIRMEB—ENTRANCE OF PERSIAN TROOPS INTO THE OITY—ENGLAND’S sen [perteopeainas vt the London Siete, Te) the Lordon Bomnay, Dec. +h, 18655. Since the fall ot Herat into the hand’ of the ‘Persians and their nominee and creature, Prinoe Yusuf, of which 1 last such detatis ax bad then reached part from sources that ren- usual. It bears upon tt, however, no stamp of improbabllity, either in mgard to ‘the apprehensions of Dost Mahomed, the ferocity of the | tion shall be exchanged at Nagasaki on behalf of her agreed between Sir Jamon Stirling. Kuight, Rear | victorious party et Herat in its hour of triumph, or the subsequent quarrels of its leaders among You may recollect {t being stated that upon the occu a tion of the city by the Persian troops the lite of the de fpenrungs Sadek Khan wes spared, and tret and his principal adherents were treaced with res vet and consicerstion. Indeed, for an Oriental revolul m, it apoeared to be a singularly bloodless one. This st: of things, we sre now told, did not long continue. a homed Ssdik was put to death, togecher with the wh: le family of Yer Mehomed, his father, wich the ception of one woman, spared for the sake of her wes { to produce which she was tortured by the most approv and recondite methods. A later report mentions thats quarrel bad ‘taken place between Prince Yusuf sad ous of his followers, im the courre of which the former was severely, ifnot mortally, wounded. At Cabui and Candabar the occupation of the frontier town of Herat by one of the exiled royal race of the Sud- Gozyes with the :upport of Persia appears to have laid to sleep the jealouses of the Baruckzye brothers. Relin- uishing, or postponing his own views on Candahar, ot Mahomed wrote urgently to his surviving brotners of that place, entreating them to joia himain sinking their family disputes, and in forming « powerful oppo- sition to the common enemy. The Candehar chiefs as- sented to thelr brather’s proposal, and proceeded to call togetber the c'ans of their territory. The Ameer did the same, and itis said that the whole force it uaited, and joined by Hyder Khan's troops at Baikh, 10,000 stromg, would emoun: :o scme 70,000 men with 86 guns. Aw advance upon Herat is not apprehended, but rather such. a demonstration In force ax shall deter Persia from taking aggressive measures, in the even’ of sucn being con’ empiat Whether any application for aid has been {« rwarded by lies, or whe'her the ap the Ameer to his Bri ish al tion, if made, in Itkely to be favorably received, I have af prerent po foformation. There has been. as was natas ral, some revival of the reports touching the despatch of force to the Persian Gulf These, no doubt, are pre- mature, but I have good reason to believe ‘that the papers ‘connected with the last expedition have been uncer official consideration. With regard to - quests tor assistance, the appearance st Kurrachee of young chicf of the Candatar family may, it has been suggested, be ocnnected with acme such piece of diplo- macy. The person in question is, however, ostensibly on his way to Mecsa, and it ia probable that the tom» o the Prophet and not Bombay is his real destination. The Suez Canal it. [Alexandria (Juze 4) Correspondence of London Tinass, The international commission for cutting a cei through the Isthmus of Suez has just termiaated its ia- vestigaticns on the f'gyptian soil ani given in the comolu- | sion of ita report to the Viceroy. The commission left Suez on the 21s+ of December, after having studied the roadatead. It crossed the Isvoraus from south to north, examicing on its way the sound oge and levels which have been executed during the last three months, and whicn willensdle the course of the Projected marisime canal :o be traced out, The ocmmission encemped on the 28th of Dec?mher om the shore of Pelusium, where it embarked on th» #}!-t on board the Fgyptiam steam trigate Le Nil. This vossei and been cruising for 2 month in the bay, accompanied by « tender with coala on board. On its first arrival at Alexandria,the commission had left instructicns with M. Larousse, the naval engineer, wbo, with remarkable activity, had completed a survey of fort;-four kilometres of the aoast. Seconded by M, Darnaué, engineer of the Viceroy, and by M. Cignel: an Italian engineer, he was enabied to present a detail plan cf that portion of the bay, the study of whioh had been intrusted to him, The fllowing are very ‘avorable, and it may be sai@ unexpected, reaults of the observations made Opposite the ruins of Pelustum the soundings gave 6 meires at the distance already known of 7,500 metres from the shore; but, taking a westerly direction, that depth of 8 metres gradually nears the coast, and i; to be found at a distance of only 2 360 metres, in a contiawrus Une, running parallel with ths coast for 20 kiometres. ‘This was an immense advantage; the Karopexn engincera could not fail to take advantage of it to fix the point for the mouth of the future canal into the Mediterranean, On approachirg the coast on this line of 20 kilomet: extending between the mouth of Omfareg and thet Gamileh, the soundings gave, with an excetlent bottom, a depth of 6 metres st 750 metres, 6 metres at 1,600 me- tres, and 7 metres a1 2 200 metres. The depths of 9, 10, and 12 metres, and more, were successively obtained ab distsnces of 3,000 and 6,000 metres. It results from these important fects acquired to hydro- graplies, that the jetiies of the canal in the Bay of Pelu- sium, the water cf which, moreover, is_porfectty limpid, need not be balf so long a4 was at first supped. Tes same will be the case in the Suez roadstead, which was just as little kvown as that of Pelasium. The International Commission, in 1's report to the Vies- roy, pronounces itself in favor of the direct line, whick it eae as the ovly solution of the prob em of the junc of the Red Sea with the Mediterranean. It una- nimously declared that the execution was easy and the success certain, < REPORT TO HIS HIGHNESS MOHAMMED SAID PASHA, VICEROY OF RGYPT. His Highners called us to pt to study the question of cutting a canal through the Isthmus of Sues. Pro- viding us with the means of judging upon the spot the merit of the different solutions proposed, he invited usto submit to him the one most easy, moat sure, most ad- vantageous to the commerce of Fi rope. Our investigations, favored by desirable weather, fa- cilitated and «brid by the ample means placed at our disposal, are terminatec. @ nave found innumerable, or rather insuperable, obstacles to directing the canal on Alexandria, and uo- Sie facilities for establishing a port in the Gulfof Pelusium. A direct canal f:om Suez towards the Gulf of Pelusium is therefore the only solution of the problem of junction of the Red Sea and the Meditterranean. The execution thereof is easy, the success certain, the re- — pret for ii coeert, of the world. jur opinion in this respect {a unanimous; we purpose give our reasovs in a detailed pamp! aco mpanied bydrographics! plane of the vaya of Suez and Pelu- slum, with a map of the conformation of the ground throvgh which the canal will run. The compilation of this pamphlet will take some time. We ret about it at once, in Europe, 80 as to be able te prevent it to bis Highness 'a few months hence. For the moment we give the f llowiog conctusions:— 1, The line on Alexandria is not admissible in a tech- nical and economical point of view. 2. ‘The direct line offera every facility for the execution of the maritime canal, properly called, with @ branch te the Nile, and the usual difficulties for the creation of the two porta. 3." That of Suez will open upon a large and sure road- stead, scceasibie at all times, wita eight motres of water at 1,600 metres from the shore. 4. That to be formed in tbe Gult of Pelusium, which the first plan placed at the ena of the Gulf, will be placed. 18 kilometres more to the west, where there are eight metres of water at 2,300 metres from the shore, with good anchorsge, 5. The expenses of the cans! cf the two seas and of the works conrected with it will not exceed the aum of 200,000,000 f , as put down in the estimate of the ongi- neers of the Viceroy. F. CONRAD, President. A. RENAUD, NEGRELLI Lirvssoy, Secretary. J. M'LEAN, Members ot the Internal Commis:ion for eusting » canal throngh the Isthmus of Suez. Alexandria, Jan. 2. > Common Pieas—General Term. Present Hon. Judge: Firs, 2.—The following d Richard C. Gutiredge vs. Jehn V R. Siingorland— Judgment uffirmed, with costa. John Alwaise vs. George M. Munson.--Jadgment af- firmed, with costs. Robert L. Tilton vs. Leiser Silberstein.—Jucgment af- firmed, with coats. Luther Chaffee vs. Richard Cox.—Judgment reversed, with costs. Albert Journeay ws. Daniel S, Hough.—Judgment re- versed, with cos!s. Simon Waldhein vs. Solomon Lickel.—Jucgmont re versed, with costa. Wm. C. Hoegiand vs, George F. Holmes.—Judgmens reversed, with costa. Geo. D. Cantine vs. Henry Matret—Jucgment reverved, with costs. Washington M. Thurman vs, Joseph B. Thayor—Judg- ment reversed, with costa. Alex. Gardner vs, Wm. and Jas. Tapscott-—Judgment rec Orbe Timothy Casey et al—Order Michael O’Brien vs. Timo! ot ap- pealed from affirmed with ten dollars costs. J. Beekman Fish and Another v« “ - Motion denied, without co#*~ = vaatles Woote Alex. Denniste~ one --« vt @l vs. the New York and New Haves Railrre? .-«w Om pany—Order affirmed, with ten d: costs, G66."W. Shannon va. Joba Bute dade ee to nix cents, and affirmed for thet amouat and prsein below, and reversed as to residue without ote a“ ram Y: va. J EB - : perry Ae bf john Robinson, impl.—Jaigment Joka Fitzpatrick vs. James Murphy, et al.—Jadguent Gerard De forest us Fc I. srwed win ‘01 ‘vs. Geo. C, Byrne—Judgment af eda vs. John McMahon—Judgment affirmed, Thos, Forster vs, Samuel Capewell other: 2 lag Caine ‘with costa, ik “oe Betis ‘eo. Hubbell vr, Garrett D. Clark—Judgment affirmed, with cont arr Clark—Ju + aff elty ‘erguson vs. Hughes & ins—Jadgment affirmed, with costs, ite on The Sun Mutual Insurance Company, ve. a4 Dwight, Jr.—Order appealed from affirmed, with ual r— Judgment affirmed, Henry Gourdeer ye. Wm. oun ye - ‘M. Thorp and another—Judg- T. P. Saunders va. MM. another—Order Hall and Srgeciod treat aemed, ith $10 conta. trick McAnany vs. Michsel Up cpm it ees ha new trial ordered on 13th preted ah the mare tare. Moses Frankinatein vs. Charles Fox—Judgment affires- = Bon Pe cats bell vs. Thos. W. Higgins—Judgment re- . P. va. 08. W. i vam cine vs. Sylvanus 8. Ward—Judgmeat re ve. . versed, with cots. pido Kdward W. ment affirmed, with conte. James B. Brady ys. Julius Peiper.—Judgment afirmed, with costs. wn Peter Primont.—Judgment afirmed, * ‘Thomas Whitiook, et al, vs. Francis Baeto. Judgment affirmed, with costs. Oakley Beach ve, John Olendorf.—Judgment reversed, with costs. Peter Poillon vs. Henry Coulter, ¢t al.—Judgment af- firmed) with costs, firmed, with coute. Wm. K. Tattersall va Richard Heas.—Judgment at- firmed, with costa,