The New York Herald Newspaper, January 18, 1857, Page 1

THE NEW YORK HERALD. WHOLE 4). 7445. ARRIVAL OF Tie) CITY OF WASHINGTON. TWO DAYS LaceR FROM EUROPE. ANOTHER WAR B+) WEEN ENGLAND AND CHINA, Bomburdment o° (anion by the English Navel ¥orees, e Advance in Tea: 1 the Enelish Market. Captain Hartetein sy Ponte Home in the Ameni- ean Su » Washington. OOTION BIGHYS sdeNCE IM WHEAT. Socount, 941-8, ke. Consols fw: ko. ip City of Washington, past 12 o'clock yesterday ‘ates to the 31st ult., inclusive. formerly run to Philedel- ing able to support a line en up, and a part thereof sent to New Yors—) © met. opolis of the Union. She brings thirt; seven cabin and one hundred steerage passengers, ul» 1,700 tons of freight, pro- bably the largest ani taost valuable cargo ever brought to New York ue steamer. She has on board tie -argo of the United States mail steamer He:maiu. which vessel put back to “Southampton Deven:!«r 15, and amongst her pas- sengers is Mr. Jobu Mvliims, bearer of despatches, and purser of the Hesimann, in charge of that ves- sel’s cargo. Tbe Cunard steamer Arabia arrived at Liverpool at 9 A.M. on the 260 of December. The news is highly important. Intelligence had quive unexpectedly been received fiom China, tha! cn tue 24ta of October, the British fleet, under Admi)a! Seymour, commenced bombard- ing the city of Canton. ‘The bombardiuent hud continued two days, and it was reported that ‘he city walls had been breached and the Basque jurts taken. The following, publisied in the New York Her- ALD of the 4th inst., gives some explanation of this sudden and unexpected movement of the English:— THREATENED Wak SETWEEN ENGLAND AND CHINA. [From tue Sug spore Times, Ost. 28.] By (he Shangbac aid Malin we bave advices from Hong Kong to the 16th inst. sot by tho Fiery Cross and Lignt- ning we have lettors io ine 18\h, Tae latter two steam- ers bring us most im .or'wni nows, namely, the probabill- ty of a rupture beiw. on tu British and Chinese govern- ments, and the threater«a ckade of Canton, The fol- Jowing particulare ¢ sou 4 us ia time for despatch by tae mail stoamer to Kurep: It appears that the Canton Mandarine seized a vccsei—a lorchts—ander Eagiish colors, and cut off th « of thecrew, An explece tion was prompily soded, but no reply was ite fo the Consul’s covamur ation, whereupon a Mandarin junk was seized by Cow »ccore Einol, of H, M.S. Sybille, and sent into Boog Kv. ¥ in the view of forcing an im- mediate repiy. Suoo ax ine bad lookout kept that the Mandéar\a jank meee | exoape during the night. Forty eight hours bad been u to enable the Chinese authori ties to reply to the © | s rcasooable demand—failing « tatistaciory reply, a je of Canton was expected. Every preparation war g made for active measures; the Admiral, acting vs ‘er ‘structions from ber Majesty’s Plenipoteutiary, # es.) yariog «© make a demonstration, A, M.'s steamer Mam 0 wiih the Eucounter in tow, lef Hovg Kongat iP 4 on toe 18th for Whampoa, accom. panied— our informa. cry*—oy a large force of marine and ema!l arms’ meof/>u he fleet. Fortunately Admiral ‘Str Michael Seymour |» a Moug Kong. and if H. E. shows the same determination be revently evinced at Japaa, we think it probadie tha’ « “reckoning” will be made with ' The new screw 1 Capt. Wylie, arrive. from Liverpool, w’ The City of Washin, phia, but that city: + of steamers, it wo the Colet| eat, we ope all old scores will be adjusted, We truss to«t Governor Sir John Bowring will notallow the opportunity to pats of cemanding freo ad- mittance into the city of Canton, agreosbly io the treaty | stipelation, for until tust step i¢ taken we can scarcely Jook for a rettled state of political, socts! or commercial relations. ‘The British government have appointed anew Minister to Washington. The name is as yet secret. ‘The Arctic ship Resolute was formally delivered to Great Britain on Tuesday, the 30th ult. Captain Hartstein left the next day in the Washington for New York. ‘The difficulty beween Switzerland and Prussia had assumed no new phase, but the latest rumors favor peaceable negotiations. A despatch dated at Berne, the evening of Mon- day, 29h of December, says:—An envoy extraordi- nary from the Emperor Napoleon has arrived. He has submitted propositions to Switzerland to release the prisoners, to guarantee their persons and pro- perty, but expel them from the Swiss territory. It is probable that Switzerland will accept this proposal. A despatch from Berne, dated on 30th ultimo, says:—The National Council has adopted unani- ‘mously the propositions of unlimited credit. This evening the commandant-in-chief will be named. The American envoy left Berne for Berlin with offers of mediation. Sums to a heavy amount have been offered by the Swiss bankers in Paris and elsewhere to enable the Swiss government to carry on the war if necessary. The London Times Paris is im formed that three of the Swiss regiments in the pay of the King of Naples will probably be recalled. The London Times Paris correspondent, writing ‘on the 30th ult., says that the answer of the Russian , with reference to the Paris conferences, ‘has been received, and that the Czar assents to all that has been proposed. A despatch from Madrid of the 25th ult. says:— ‘The news of a Mexican having arrived at Madrid to ask for assistance for Santa Anna ie false. Commerce was completely paralysed, and in the British markets a considerable rise in teas, equal “to 1d. a 144. per pound had taken place. not ae Hartatein in the Wash- mor, leo. 29) . Miss Cracroft, , Sir Roderick Mur- McClintock, R. N., Atl be hau! Re ieee and will be given up to the authorities. There will be no other on the occasion. In the after- noon the Bprig steam tender, Master Command- ing George Allan, will convey the officers and crew to ie oo og to embark there on board the Ur pall siegeaehip Wadhingion, pastes thie irons Bpithead from Hamburg, to take the British }, passengers, &c.,on board from . Sonthampton. France. The Moniteur of ree a a report from M. Billanit, the French Mi of the Interior, ask- ing a credit of three millions of francs for the lie works in the provinces. The is fol- Piwea hy an imperial decree approving the report and granting the money. SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 18, 1857. VERY IMPORTANY FROM CHtsa, The Bombardment of Canton by the Eingitsh Fleet By way of Trieste we have advices from Alexan- dria to the 20th of December. The India mails had arrived there, with advices from Bombay to the 3d of December; Calcutta, the 22d of November; Madras, the 27th of November; Ceylon, the 29th of November; Hong Kong, the 15th of November, and Shanghai, the 6th of November. A serious collision had taken place at Canton be- tween the British suthorities and Yeh, the Chinese Governor General. A lorcha under the British flag at anchor off Can- ton was boarded on the 8th of October by a Chinese force, and twelve of the crew seized Consul Parkes proceeded on board, and was insulted and threaten- ed with violence. The remonstrances made to Yeh were treated with contempt. On the 21st ot October the: matter was placed in the bands of admiral Seymour. Hostile measwes commenced on the 24th of October. The torts of Canton were taken, and seve- ral of them cestroyed. Yeh persisted in rejecting Admiral Seymour's de- manos for satisfaction, or even an interview. On th» 27th of October fire was opened on the city walis and on the Governor's palace. ‘The city walls were breached and stormed on the 20 L of October. The troops penetrated to the pa- lace, but were withdrawn in the evening. The loss was three killed and twelve wounded. Attempts at negotiation continued fruitless, and op the 3d and 4th ef November the old city was bombarded On the 6th of November 23 war junks were at- tacked by the Barracouta and all destroyed Time was again granted to the Chinese, but no signs were given of submission. According to the last accounts the Bogue forts bud been captured. The factories had been almost totally vacated by the foreign community. Property to a iarge amount had been destroyed by fire. Commerce was at 4 stand still. (Froin the Lo, don Times, Doe. 39.) ‘The man who “drew Priam’s curtains at the dead of night and told him half his Troy was burnt,” was doubtless an abrupt and ill bred person, !ittle versed in the language of courts, and extremely distastefal to the awakened royalty of ium. He did not break the news, but blurted it out all at once. and no doubt gave his tistener a shock which he had not quite recovered from when the lance of Pyrrous put an end to his existence. Such an abrupt and upmannerly messenger is in modern times the eleciric telegraph, which, without caring whose fee ings it may shock, whose sympathies it may wound, or whose nerves it may shake, blurts out its message with blunt, unmannerly brevity, leaving us to swallow it as wellas wemay, On Sun- day night every citizen of this metropolis went to bed in the profound conviction that, thoagh things might look squally in Switzerland and warlike in Persia, we were enjoying with the Celestial Empire, at any rate, the most profound and unbroken peace. On Monday we awoke to the sucden conviction that we bad iaken and destroyed the forts, breached and stormed the walls, and bombarded the city of Can- ton, and were oy epee something more in the way of bringing our dispute with tae Chinese awhoritics to a point. Tue first feeling that every ove must experience on reading the account +o biuntly and abruptly conveyed to us of all this slaughter and desolation must be one of regret that anything should have occurred to render £0 strenuous an appeal to armed force neves- sary; and, secondly,a hope that enough has been done to revder anything more of the same kind superfluous. ‘be man who ventures to comment on a dispatch by electric telegraph is muzh ia the position of a per- son who seeks to expand or explain the bare and concise statement of some ancient author, with this difference, however, that any error he makes will be immediately detected, while the lost records ot antiquity their own secret. Without presuming, therefore, to add anything to the bare narrative we have received, we remark with pieasure that there is no appearance of baste in these transactions, and that the British Admiral appears to have acted with all proper forbearance. It was on the Sth of October that the Chinese authorities, on what pretence we are notappraised, boarded a vessel bearing the British flag anchored off Canton, took away twelve of her crew, and insulted and even ‘tened with violence the British Consul, who went on board the ship to remonstrate against their conduct. It appears that remonstrance was then made to Yeh the Governor General of Canton, and treated with the utmost contempt. That there was no un seemly haste we may gather from the fact that nego_ tiations seem to have continued until the 2ist-—that is, for a period of thirteen days, betore the matter was handed over to the Admiral; nor the Ad- miral appear to have acted precipitately,for it was ‘24th that hostile measures were com- menced, on which day we are informed that the forts Canton were taken, and several of them destroy- ed. Time was again given to Governor General Yeh 0 Secntacinel but he seems to have been ous fleets. The operations with great vigor and ptitude, and to have com- prebended in a few days almost as much fighting and destroying as took place in the course of the wholeglast Chinese war. Total... . 0.0.6. -86 509,000 91,931,800 We sincerely eG in our Zonet hn. coe any means to pre’ oceurrence of these paion' collisions, the effects of which, while caused the folly or insolence of the government, fall ith such deplorable severity on the wretched ple, who have no share in promot Trem. Canton, in the neighborhood of whi! we have placed onr military and naval de t sooma to be the place leaat adapted for a and Chinese int of contact between Bure tr empire. The civilization of any portion of climate is tropical and uobealthy, the oe turbn- lent and cruel, the city inaccessible to ships, and sitnated quite at the south of the empire. It is evident that our re’ations with China reqnire an en- tire and thorough readjustment, aud itis well worth | consideriag whether some sey ¢ not be taken Lo remove our settlement toa xpos nearer the dis triets where the main stajdes oF the country sce pro- duced, where the elimute is comprrucively temperate, ano our position would conumand the mouth of the great yiver. it has always been coasidered a iament- able oversight that we gave up Crusan for Houg Kovg; esthy Chinese force upon its a reconsideration the subject, it may not possibly be too late to amend «the Londor Times (Diy arvele,) Des 20) understood that tlie apecie revntttances by the sicamer, which takes om) the” Ludia and China mail on the 4th of Javua-y, will’ be large. Tbe smount already engaged is £30),000, priner ly silver, for ludia ‘The telegraphic intatligeave frou China, received to-day, may, it ts hough, par- tially hit the total to be sent im that direction. . Our London Correspondence, Lonpon, Dec. 26, 1956. Christmas day—A Murderer's Confession--Yonkee Christmas Bor— The Neuchotet Difficuh'y— The City Elections—The Christmas Pantomemes, §c. ‘The Christmas tree, (like that of life,) with ciuster- ing angels and household Gods for its fruit, has once more spread its mirthful and hospitable branches, Ict us hope o’er poor as weil as rich, for charity hasindeed been active throughout our lard, to commemorate the advent of a religion of universal’ good will and everlasting felicity. Let us bope that the re-unioas of these pleasing ‘amily circles have beem through- out your favored land as joyous as in the homes of merry England, or,as we might say, at the hearths of your ancestors. All occupation, politics and business (save in Scotland, for there the re- formation mowed down all days of commemora- tion,) throughout the United Kingdom was yes- terday set aside. Although murder’ and Jack Ketch, still ghost-like, flit and fift before us; though our ticket of leave system is a failure, aud though the sharp pangs of hunger induco to crime, (a8 in the words of the murderer, William Jackson, hung last Saturday, “I had’nt asied food for three days; a wicked thought came over me, that my two children would be better in a deep bole than sturved and cked about, especially as winter was coming on,”) letus fervently hope that the Uhristmas fes- bate ing peace, and that that of 1856 imaugu- rates it. The citizens of America have sent us a glozions Christmas box—Dezxtras dare-—let us hope that hearts are commiuglei too! Let us, let Europe; let the world accept the olive branch; let all remember Deus Major Columna. There is no immediate prospect of a conflict with the Czar. although last week danger snarled, yet this week her threatening tusks are closed in her warlike lips. It ie still said in regard to Neuchatel that the Swiss are as determined to hold out 2s is King Clicquot. It is rumored that England, at the suggestion of the United States, bas called upon the governing powers of Europe (not yet pro- nounced on the question) to use their in- fluence with the Swiss Confederation to release the prisoners. A request of this natare would of course he more paleteable and more provable of success with the sturdy m untaineers, than a threa’ trom | one or ali the continental governments combined. This advice, as itis said, coming from the United Sta‘es, from republicans to republi sans, will be most bkely ‘to receive consideration. Tho attempt is worthy of record, should it even fail, as this is the first time it has ever been thought of. The Berne news is confirmatory o: mutual pacific interest. Medietion is talked of at the seat of the Swiss government, an? aetatesman particularly agreeable wo the King of Prussia, has veea named by the radi- cal party to ¢flect directly what General Dufaur failed in effecting indirectly at Paris. Lsperons. Winter ts the whetstoze of poverty, and so with this inclemeot season of the year the tangs of hun- ger are so shorp that you will scarcely wonder at the overflow of business ir the Metropolitan police courts, or that garotting is not Kimited to the night, and that positively iast Sunday a'ternoon a young lady returning from church was nearly strangied to death, in Oxford street, the leacing and busiest thoroughfare of this modern Babylon. La /ingva batte doue il dente duole, and be must once bave felt the pain who can sincerely sympathise with the sufferer. The 22d was a busy day in the eity,as the election of Common Councilmen and other officers took place in the numerous wards. Many were the subjec.s of interest canvassed on the occasion, the poor were “‘substantially’’ remembered and local questions freely discvesed. In some of the wards the ques- mon of Jewish disabilities was very properly brought forward, and res lutions voted condemnatory of the continued exclusion of one of the city members from the House of Commons, and demanding {ron overnment that the removal of the grievance shall made a Cabinet measure. But afier all, truth to tell, the leading subject selected for corporation eloquence waa the Income tox, and sorely was the obnoxious impost attacked end denounced. Well, if we insist upon indulging (bull fighter and prize fighter like) in the inhuman luxury of war, what are "rhe dramatic world most deep! ged amatic world is now eng, in pantomimic preparations, At Drary Laue che old nursery tale of “ See-Saw, Margery Daw,’ is reported to have been turned to good account; at all events, Mr. 6 T. Smith has secured the ser- vices of two of the best clowns in Burope—Flexmore and Bolleno. The title of that atthe Princess’ is “ Alladin and the Wonder'ul Lamp.” Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean’s usual liberality in mounting pieces will be sure to secure the invariable amount of pa- tronage here, and that is bumpers throughout the year. Mr. Buckstone, at the Haymarket, has an- nounced the stunningly attractive pantomime version of the “ Babes in the Wood, or the Cruel Uncle,” for his pitce de resistance. Mr. Mordoch will resame bis it here after the holidays, At the Adel, indefatigable Mr. Benjamin Webster announces “Harlequin, Knight of Love, and the fn- chanted Whistlepipe Piccolo.” At the Lyceam, Mr. C. Dillon announces as his Christmas laughter stirring pantomime, “ Conrad and M .* the ques, or a part, from the pen of Mr. illiam Brough. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan, at chife Cussiners, re pon haf sof Young ane Hausen and in which Mr. Robson is to play a new style of part. Mr. Emery, at the Ro: lebone, wheat & very at- », and as much may be , Victoria, Queen's, Strand, Soho, stley’s, Bower, Grecian, Britanma, Garrick, Stand. ard and City of London theatres. So we shall have at least igs) ye age barlesques or extra vaganzas, other entertainments without number, th, im all conscience, for the most exacting for seasonable amusements. Our Parts Correspondence. Paris, Dee, 26, 1856 Christmas in Pario—The Swits Question, dtc, dc We baves dull Carietmas day. [rip, drip, arip, falls the rain; mud and slush and over choked drains incontt nently characterize the strecte and the now drives be yord the herriére: and the dark metancholy, Jen"\ese wees, their boughs weighed down with inesesant mow- tore, do not tend to cheer (ho Christmas landscape. We know that weather of this kind 1t more favorable to tae laborious clage than that which is termed ‘more seasons ble"’—the sharp frost, the ice bound cake, the snow capped tower, icicles on the treet and the bright nipping air, which promises a long continuance of similar weather, and theretore we should rejoice bet ope can’t help one’s epirite, and canwst be alway? morallzing oo a stool of philanthropy. With old fir Roger de Coveriey, we have a penchent for Christmas faggote, Christmas yale logs, Chrisimas ale, crackling hearthe, cheeks and noses flery red, everyboly in motion—a!! ronning or walking quick, no one, not even the most quieecent, standing still; and al) thie presup- pores frost, and snow, and a sharp north wind, however, according to Mr. Doneliy’s prediction, after the étb of January we are to bave biting cold enongh. ‘While 1 write the bells of every choroh in Paris are ring ing to prayer high mags is to be performed by the Archbishop at Notre Dame; and the Madelaine, “t. Koch and t, Eustache have thetr shrines thronged devo- tees. It stake {0 suppose there is not « large re- ligious community in this gay city, What effect that re- Vgion bas upon their practice it is not for any man to judge; but 1am quite sure that travellers are very much in the habit of under stating the degree and mature of the theory iteelf. Like all important business, the French perform ther religious duties early inthe morning. The Protestant, accustomed to turn ont to bie devotions at Cleven o'clock, and again at three, is execesively scanta lized to know that betwixt these hours the French Catho- Nie te eating, drinking and making merry, but he forgets that from six o’cloek till mid-day the population has been x to and fro to the altars of ite faith, aud diters rom fie fellow Christian, the Sazon Protestant, in colo Heaven the (pst fruits of the day, and to both, ete Sao > srre * pinte condact which the world Its meridian and surest. The great entgms to tho Bexcu Protestant ts the utter dirrogarc of tho sanotity of truth im Roman Caihcltc countries, Mt proceeds or how it cm be jantitied; but excepting ibis, it would be very usjuit not to admit that in France thore are quite as many relizio: virtues as are io be fownd im avy Protestant coum y uo der heaven Ohsrity 19, 8h soape of aims giving is 4 general virtvo, the privileged mendieaot od!ains hero + ric barveet; and ver bamae saffering or hrenan Delplentmess makes Mgeif evident, the Freuch are fro mont im the fleid, thor tears {lo apontevevusly at a tio heir time pnd labor and tonterost sympa com maiwhon’ practicat aid i required deuce herr, T have had cpperiumtivs ot Xamplemol genuine Chrietiaoity as in- noi! dermal, than | pave ever seen in the purer Catnolioiam of Kugiaod, whoxe poor ‘awe, however aumirable as @ poiltioa: inetituuca, Save & tad tenuccey Wowerds ciyipg up the springs oO; the ralt- es beers, of which aime ging may be eat? to be the ard Prussia continure to sprak Gf proparations for Pao hi Qouncl!, in additen to the measures whit deen already menuonrd, deoted at ite the 2ist, on immesiaicly coding out four diviciops to de commeand:d by generals Veil loo, Kurg, Bxie® ane Zimmerit To greatvet omu lation provetts in all the Cantons ro cerry out the présorip- Hone enjoined by ine seceral goverpment reiaiivs to oom letinw the stengtn of the differect contingents 4 oom tract bes Seem entered Into with Alvace for broad 120+. Savers Meveyeno voted by the Coupenias Borne tor gray Goet eine troops, At “Zalrtch, 160 students of the Uni Veveity and of the polyenuis school have bogaed to be organiz’d toto on academte legion at Borne. Tweive su- perior oficerr cf the staff +i as a Count ot War deveé yailng 09 tho weans of defopee of the comederasion. Tue ormy bes been ctvided ‘nto wine divisions, eas” contain ing three brigdoum. al) Swisa who are advent from tne SULITY G90 Labie to rary service have Deen recalled. | News thie, for Keng. Bombe! The Federat Couveti,waile | CopLinuing Ms preyarations shows tircl! ready to nego Hae and ‘etiors trom Berge siaie that another direct ust been made by it, im a non- tf the cabinet of Borin, bud #tbout suc- a the mesntime. is no lene active. preparations mado Yerd to have 135,000 meu on the march by the’d of Janvary. The Prussian troops ail be formes 1\9 vine divisions, each corps d'ar més farnish- ing ore UM Grohe ts to becom nap ter-in-ebief, and the commanceny of the four corps are Goneraly Werder, Wassow Bonits apy jichack. Vriace de Loeenzollern Will command the ,eservo whence | The } PRICE TWO CENTS. subject of exch general opprobrinm. but whicth has caused a sclemn Emropean covncit to exprene senti ments, and put in force meagaros of the greates! im port. Yet to hear the enthusiw ene would supyose this was believed. If, beceuse the King did not faint and take immediately to his bed with fright, his offences are wiped away, they could hardly, in the first instance, have ocen so | enormous as to warrant? the interference to which | Pranee bas been a party. And as to the voutenpti- | Me criminality of the assassin, it must be remem- dered that despots are frequently themselves omly avsassips on a gigantic seale—the splendor and wagnitude of which, rising to the snolime, shicldy thein trom the vulgarity of the crime, though the moval enormity is the same. Milano bayonet in bane, in the face of day, braving certain death, whether successful or aot,in the presence of the | King’s legions dushed forward m the hepe of hew- ing in pieces & kingly misereunt whom he believed to be curse of bis couviry, and has exviated his crime on the gallows, Eight years be‘ore, the King, whose courage is the theme of so mwuca leadation, mbbed his cowntry of a constitution whioh he had ovlemn]z sworn to preserve; he stole upon it at dead of wight, in prixoned, tortured and put to death is adherents, and by innumerable acta of perfidy and ceneity bas done a thousand thousend times worse to the best and bravest oi his-people; many, there- forz, are Gisposea to argue, possibly erronceusly, thet between the defeated seeassin, who ha» now gone to bis ecount, and a King whose lofty posi- tion s lone preserves him from #e vulgar an ap olla- tion, there is rather a distinction than a difference The Conference bas not yet commenced its sit- ting, though it was said all was to be finished by Christmas day. There are evidently immense diffi- culties mm the way, and though the Consfitutionel— whose authority & only second to that of toe Moni- deur—informs us that there is every probability of a conciliatory spirit being 80 mush in the ascendant that ny the early part of January alt wil! be amiea- bly arranged many take leave to doubt. The Per- sian und Neuchatel questions, as well as the new born sympathy for the King of Naples, present grea’ obstacles. Paris is—‘o use a valgar expression—chuck fall. The quantity of Americans is supposed: ‘o amount to vest. Russians are not in proportionate number, but And jet jew, I beliore, seriounty think thet matters wit! come to extvemitiss. ‘The Beglieh mo. lation is mach rpoken oj, ydoes not mppexr that eiihor tbe King of Prussia of the Coafore miton aro much otaposed Lo arcept. The mediation of the United Staten was at ove time pro- posid by the Swe, but this Prussia would not hear of. Attogeth or it is a blesred tasbrogite. Here is the public feelipgor England wirmiy nywpaliaing with Switzer lard whiie the eldest daughier of her Qacon is just about to make an alliance with Pro-sia’e fatare King, and while the pubhe votce is thus baokiag Switzerland, France suppor's:Prutgia, who in tits mat ter is ture of the mupport of Aurtria, who is auppor\ing Englend against France and Rosie on other quretions. Vertiy the big wiga of the Paris Conference wad its se pent irealy have leit a straage troubious sea beaind em The Monileur publiahes an tmosr! the decision of he Municips} Co the bases of the personal faratwre (; 1867. Rents below Z6uf, a year contiaue exoa the scouplers are patentees, ¢ ¢ have tisenmes {i tg on business, in which oe o thoy will baveto pay 3 por cent; rents from %50f to 499f will pay & per cont, 500f to 90", & percent; 1,000f. to 1.100%, 7 percent and «,600f an upwards # per ceat wivg of decree app Pants, Dec. 26, 1856. Mr. Buchanan's Nonojficial Programme—Senti- ments of the Emperor on the Neuchatel Ques- tien—The Moral of Royal Assassinations—All Awvrica in Paris—New System of Smuggling — Novel Use jor Ladies’ Hoops—The French Weather Prophet—Seasons of 1857, &e. 5 The non-official programme of Mr. hanan is the theme of much interest. Appearing side by side with the “last speech and dying confession” of him whose chair the successfal candidate is soon destined to occupy, it has been perased with no ordinary ou riosity,and the opinion every day gains strength that ine new President, like many of his predeces- sors, will in his administration find greater favor from those who oppoged his election than frou those who the most zealously promoted it. An idea pre- vails, possibly founded in ignorance, that the seo- tioua! difference has, however, arrived at sucha point in America that in spite of Mr. Buchanan's desire and acknowledged ability he will be utverly unable to establi-h concord uniess some common danger, some common enemy, should appear as the Deut ex machina, A protty quarrel, for instance, with a worthy foe, in which the native patrioti«m of the United States could be properly evoked, might render Mr. Buchanan the most important aid in the ; ” task which he believes to be the proper mission ot bis Presidency. But without some extrancous asst ance of this character, it seems to be thought that the late election has too deeply stirred up the lees of muke up in qnality what they lack in quantity. Theve hus been but one balt at the Tuileries as yet, that given to the Prince of Prussia previous to his departure, when about 600 were present; there were a® Americans or English invited Our turn is to come after the Jowr de I’ dn. Notice has been given taatouthe 2¢ of January the Emperor and Em- press will receive the ladies of the diplomatic corps, aud all other ladies who way dave been previously presented. It will be recollected that the same ceremony took place last year, when ell the ladies thet could be got togethe: only amounted to about 150, none of the lords of tle creation being, admit- ted. The affair was so complete a failure that it was thought the attempi would not be again re newed. ‘Phe renson then assigned was tite interest- ing state ef the Hmpress, and perhaps there may be u Skuilar one at present. Your readers are, perbaps, not aware that poul- try, like everything else, has to pay a tax per head on entering the city of Pacis, copeequently, if purchased withou: the bajrier it is somewhat eh er. Cust now there ina grea’ demand for (urkeys, an! a respeetavle tradesnian’s wife, magnificently dresse?, and a person of yrreat natural beauty was seen sweeping through the barrier de Clichy the otber day, in all the pride wf crinoline. By aad by, the returned, the crinoline looking larger and stiffer than ever. Suspicion was awakenes, The lady was banded over to a matnon of che police, when lo, suspended by the neck to the mrdie ot her waist, was discovered an enormotis bliek feathered cock turkey, weighing some 15 Ibs. “he Parisians are witty chout the piquaney of a ¢ don prepared un- der suc cirenimstuaces, and it is supposed that all monstrous criuolines will,in futare, be styled no longer 4 l'Impcratrice, & ta Reine Victoria, bat au dindon! "Dbe bapless young lady, for such she real- ly was, was muleted tW0fr. for hee coal towards her domestio economy, and ber husband, whois a ha- berdasber, can onty cousole himacif py the reflec- Hon thet if crinolines aw dmeon should be tho mode, ight of paren cannot he disprted. yb O'Donnehy , auth veral works on i ly one relative to tes, ge drature of the Cirele the Gavettr de France an imere weather which is to movk the sp olm o8 precise as the celebrated * Murphy Alma- 5 Nished in England some yoara ago. Tam happy,” says the writer, wter some prefa- tory remarks, “to be able to appounve with cer- tainty, for the coming yeor one of the finesteprings that has been seen for a considerable length of thme, storting from Mareh 30 up ‘o July with the ex- ception of rome insignificant variat rm of that period. The bursting into the various crops will be uncommonly five, © 90 early portions, which daring seme yeors peted rious intluenes 1 and th back heve been al arry the season on to april ter which no danger need be apprehended to vegetation. As to the winter into waich we have jnet entered, it is now scarce worth while to make tions about it. Ihave besides te remark le to make avy ca!salations at the umn, from being obnertWise oc ca equinox in the prejudice and supposed materia! interests, as well as that the tenure of the Ghief Magistrate's office is too brief, to hope that the impending danger of an irreparable schism will be effectually warded off. From eo one hears nothing but one universal shout jadnes# at the tura which affairs are taking with cousin Jonathan. It is at this sea- son that Paris is vistted iy by the prin- cipal leading statesmen Great Britain, aad it ig im, bie to exaggerate the unanimous tone of Sratication which perades the sentiments of all when speal:ing of the hoped for healment of the last ugly sore the enlistment bill inflicted. It is aid that Palmerston especially desires vo have the op) nity of stating. at the opening of Par- Niament, in February, that ambassadors are again re- eiprocially exchanged between america and his go- vyernment. and thus have a set of egainst the oilicial intimation that England is once more at war, if not with Russia, at least with her neighbor and protege. The note pub'ished in the Moniteur respecting the ation of the government on the Neuc! i qnestion, is, as you may imagine, necessarily a topic of warm discussion. [t is universaily attrinuted to the Emj aod bya large class pointed to as a indication of that weakness and depar- ture from his once happy strength of mind which report has from time to time alleged against his Majesty. The — to a man, as may be sup- soe ‘exclaim bitterly against conduct which they | jeclare alike mistaken in policy and Meo po in morals. The Emperor, they say, has now mn | the’cloven foot he has ry tees suspected of pos- sessing; being himself a ong by sympa | thies are with despotism, to the prejudice of demo- | cracy everywhere; and on the of Quos Deus vwlt lere de 5 haughti- ness of his soul has soiled the clearness af his intellect, so that he has produced « document as for ite misstatements as flagrant it is deficient in tact and honorable gratitude. ‘The letters the able correspondent of the London #,in which the Swiss Confedora- =, with its ae a oy ry = ‘s contemptible renegade, Duc jonta- veto, and the exiled Louis Napoleon figare, bas been copied from that journal, translated and copi- ously disseminated in a private manner- of course no journal could publish them —and the effect. 1 vound to say, It is the first time that Louis Napoleon has, his elevation to power, shown evea the sem! of turning his back upon the friend of his advers! often—to bis immortal honor be it spoken—he has stood by aad shielded men who possessed no other virtue under Heaven but that in less prosperous days they stood by his fortunes. It is awell au- thenticated fact that he has carried his refined sense of honor in this im ga own stability. But suddenly, as if emulous of the fame of Austria, whose “splendid ingratitade” to the Emperor Nicholas has been landed as the mas- ter stroke of Metternich's departing light, he rises say to those small baman weaknesses which many have so highly extolled, and at ons swoop of bis ne bespatters a chivalrous country that was ready to incur the devastation of fire and sword in bis defence with contumely, abuse and ill con- am ince e cenled menace. Wel! may itzerland exclaim, with the pealmist, “f‘ not your trust in princes, i any child of mi... attempted assassination of the King of Na- , of course, another subject whereon the wm fd political men are at present exert ing Ives with considerable activity. It is a0 manifestly the interest of monarchs who, impatient of a interference, choose to absorb all unto themselves, to Ly a attempte this kind as instances of the lowest, most wretched and most detestable crime, that one is not eu to find the French court and its adherents ina very fever of admiration of the King of Naples’ courage, and of indignation at the bag Age who has just expiated his treason. As to courage, how: ever, it is suggested that the example the a exhibited can scarcely be deemed snfitcient to ex jas not only heen made the very prejudicial to the Emperor. | to a point dangerous to his | pied. I may, however, state, that as fur asa mere cursory view of the winter can warrant my speak ing, the winter will be of ordinary severity the greatest cold being from January 6 to tne end of February; tempestuous weather provailing from February % to March 20, and the greatest storms from the Sth to the Isth of Febreary. The lowest temperature will be felt about this last named period. It will be well to avoid the sea during the ten days just mentioned, which wiil be fo:-lowed by a week of cold, damp weather, with the sky conmantly over- cast. This announcement is intended for lati- tude of Paria. Switzerland. Brag, Tuesday Evening, Dee. 26, 1866. Coancilor Furrer's journey to Frankfort was oc- casioned by a telegraphic message from the 7. ventatives of the German governments, convened for of devising means to prevent a conflict. ‘ederal Council replied telegr ally an- nouncing the despatch of Conneillor Purrer, who will also visit the Courts of Soothern Germany. The new French proposal was nod made by an envoy, but through M. Rarwaun, whe was authorized tor pose by the Emperor. The steamers on the lakes of the Four Cantons. ace armed with artillery. All the Swiss fortresses and castles are put in a state of defence. The merch of Prossian troops through Wartem- vurg bas been refused. Srovraarr, Deo. 30, 1856. The Moniteur official pubtishos the report of the Commission relative to the passage Prosian ps. The Commission relying on the positive Ls mad allies retuses the demand of Prussia as a po- titical intrusion. Indian Opinion on the War with Persian, [From the Cawotta +: giiehmar v3) The proclamation, amounting te a declaration ot war against Persia, appeared in an extracrdinar, ee Soyo The = government accuse an act of open Ly Lye Great Britain. The Raesion war was pi ly axpected by the Shah to last long ah to permit the com- pletion of the conqnest of the long coveted of Herat, and it cannot be doubted that encourage- ment was given by the Czar to measures which would fayor his ulterior objects, Herat in the bands of the Persians would be almost a Ressian prov With steamers on the Volga, and the entire command of the Caspian Sea. Rusela can at any time land an army as ‘Asterabad before her plans coukd even be suspected by the other Buropean Powers From Asterabad to Herat is a march ef about four hondred miles, chiefly through a fertile country where no opposi- tion would te given to the invader. The valley of Herat is stated by the most recent and im travellers to capable of eaneertine any force which the Rassians might estab there, and thea bow long would they be in advancing to our fron- | tier and keeping the whole of the nortowest in a | constant state of elarm’ | _ Friendly remonstrance with Persia has failed, says | the proclamation, and therefore the British goverm ment ie about to convince the Persian that its | ments cannot be violated with impunity. The force assembled at Bombay is to proceed to the Gulf and to be guided by instructions. Of course, and also to secure guarantees against further breaches of faith, in the shape, ft as supposed, of sundry cities and towns to be held as long as it may | Yoconvenient. As for the of Persian Princes, all of which may be bad in an: somber for the asking, they are of ever. It is te be hoped that the example set by Ras pote phigh i Fay will be com- pelled to pay the expenses war | external commerce of the country must paas through | the hands of British officers, and the usual duties | shonld be levied for as many years as may be neces- | sary to repay the cl incurred. | _ So after a peace about seven months, Great | Britain is again at war, though not with so formida | ble an as Russia. It is nevertheless - | sible that the Czar may pull the wires of the Por- sien puppet, and give the Bombay expedition no remarks of some, | ' expedition wil! pd pee 20,000, ard house agents ave reaping @ plentiful her- | | emall trouble te obtain the effectual genrantee re- uired. q {Fron the Caleutte Engiishman Nov. 6 | ‘The Bombay Timea ts of oyuien that the Persien by the peopte of En; land # gigantic and stupendous blander, not eatikely to endanger the existence of the minissry. Hf it isa blunder, it is not #0 because gigantic, bab because not large enough. If it should fati from insaffivient | foree, it will do great misebief, and make the Per- | sians confident in continuing their aggressions =To | endeavor by rational rneans, proportioned to the'ob- | ject, to prevent this vaewal of Russie from thrextm- ing our frontiers, does mat appear to be a blanderiug: policy. Jt moght indece be good for India that the Rusiwons chovid be firriy extubhshed at Hers, or even at Caubul. it would promote the cause of liberal and henest goverament moto than ony number of votes ct ether Honse of Pat- liament With the Rossiane- alwaje ready ty tae advantage of amy Oisailectioy, the company woul have to make things pleasand to the people in a manner vever yet attempted. But looking at Indix merely athe Directors do, in Arab ohrise, a thing given them to be eaten, it woul? be miserable policy to stand stit! and see a path levelled to our very “ges rather than make an effort to force upon our Yestern ne ghbors the observance of setema troa- ties. We doubt much whether the expenition will afford a gooe*point of attack against the ministry, uniess indeed it should fail froa owt being strong enough ertrorm being go restricted by instructions from home 38 to be useless, ‘Te feelings wich which the people of Engiand regerded the peace of Paris have not yet subsided, and they will not be unwilling to ‘see that’one object of the tate war to%lly neglected by the abied forces is likely to be actomplivhed by their own arms. The Bombay Pines says that ‘bis is an European, not an Indisn war, and in one rense it isso; but we fear that the expense, hike that of Sir Joh Hob- houge’s Afghan war will fal! upon poor India. It would be kind, however, of Hngiand, to do as neuch for us as she did for Austria add for Turkey, and allow our home rulers to bercow what is required on bos Stock Exchange, with a Parliamentary guaran- ee. : Movements of the Anglo-Indtan Army. ‘Fow the Bombay (tx raor toary) Gee Me Joo 1 Ta consequeace of instructions received from Bom- by electric telegraph late yesterday evening, & sudden order was issved for the immediate march of the First company Mirst battalion of Earopean artillery and the reser re detatla, which arrived the other day from Ahmednoggur, and they according- ly left Poona at a very early hour this morning for Oolwa, en route to the Presidency, to join the force proceeoing to the Persian Gulf, The company, with light field battery (six twelve pounders) attached, consists of one hundred and sixty-six men aud drivers, and two buudrea and atiy borses, and is commanded by Captain Hateh. ‘The squadron of the Poona irregular horse, under the command of Major Tapp, will leave Seroor on the btn inst. Positive orders to this effect have been forwarded to Major Tapp by express. The 4th rifles, under command o: Colonel Hon- ner, are ordered to leave Poona for the Presidency on Saturday morning. ‘they will proceed from Cam- to the Presidency by railway. ‘~~ companies of the sappers and miners will -vona cither on Saturday or Monday next, tain Blake's (the 3rd) troop et hore illery start fomorow morning. The tormer will be taken trom Campoolee to Bombay by rail, what the latter will proceed to Oolwa from woence they will becon- veyed across the harbor in boats Dhe reas yn ot this is that the railway authorities are noc preoared to con- vey the guns nm wegons by the trams. ‘The ore ‘a were issued at 10 o'clook ceipt of msteuctions by electric telegraph. ‘The troops under orders to Join the expedition bave for some days past been thorouglly equip, avd ready to start at at a moment's notice. = are inthe highest «pirite at the amd all are rejoiced Shing cold weather prospects of Uie apprd we, reached us that the force to be from the Lombay Presidency »ne, is to be increased from five to tiiteen thousand men It is rumored that the orders for thes» movements of troops have been fesaed under inatractions re- ceived hy the ning by electric of iadia baw rec home wathorities for the Gevpatch of the expedition, by the last overland It would also a that the despatch contaloing the declaration of war ersia Was sent through our ambassador at I ange thet duplicates of sout to tue Bombay gov- Bomon WANT OF CHARTS POR THB BYPRDITION. extioned some tlme back that a want of charts for the Persian Gulf expedition bad been ex- pelienced, and suggested that there was time enough tor lithograpne to be provided, into which the cor- rections and improvements our exper'ences during the past thirty years permitted of, might be enter- ed— short suing directions being written on the border. The sugRestion bas not been acted on; sufficient ruppiies of the old chacts having been ob- tained from Calout d Madras. The opportunity of so large @ squadron = together would be va luable for botue log obs tel to throw a bottle overboard at noon and mid- bight, v3 considerable portion oagnt to be pick- ed ap, ny this means we sball not only have an indication of the true eurronts ta the northern por- tion of the Arabian Sea, but probably obtsia infor mation of iwportane as to the manner in which corrents braveh off and diverge from each other. ‘The fleet under the expected man-of-war arrange- ments will at no time provably be saffered to over rea of more than twenty miles in diame: which in the open ocean be regarded as pretty nearly a point. Abundance of botdes trom such a space would give us some idea both of the breadth, strength, direction of dierent currents, and in a feet of transports there ought always to be abun- danee of leisure for work of this sort ou ‘The Phitesophy of the lo-Perdan War. wm tbe Loveun Mo Der 1) Russian patience and Russian gold have certainly accomplished as rauei io Persia in 1566 aa im Turkey in 1529, andas in Hongary in 1549. How the surrender of Herat wos last obtained we bave come from Persian sources. Any one who has been in that lnckless country, however, well knows that “Persian tales” are as rifo in real life in Iran as those rome called Persian whieh we ha read in boyhood. is no which draws more on iss fancy for ita facta certain flowery and not a thousand mountains of XKhorassan. It may be true, indeed, that Herat surteudered from waot of provisions, aa we are told by the Persians; but it i not at all aa likely, from “the fact that no excesses of any kind were committed, and that there were three days’ rejoicing at Teheran, that other causes contribated to the result. Be this as it may, Great Britain has followed pretty much the decisive course pursued by Lord Auckland in 1837 and 1s38—a man so mili and gentle in his natore that he would never have re- torted to extreme imeasares, onless snch measures were necosary for the honor and interests of hie country. The expedition seat by Lord Auckland we believe, consisted of five ships and two thousand two hundred men; and if the foree bo some what larger now, it is not more than the neces sity of the case demands. Extreme taeasures, rays De Retz, who bad as much shrewdness and eepacity as ony politician of his day—and he lived in the stormy period of the Fronde— should be rarely resorted to; but they ave the only tafe measures when they are necessary. We wore not quite inactive when Mabommed Shah besieged Herat with an army of sixty thousand men in 1337 or 1838; but had we then exhibited more vigor and jaterfered more actively we might have less to.per- form than we sball bave to effect in the course of 1867. The intrigues and dings of such men as Zizianof, Perofsky, Vicovitch od Simositeh, ome of whom bad troops, and all of whom had Rossian gold, unlimitedly at command, are not to be Metena overturned by professions of and rose water de.larations of amity «la ( It ia we)l to remember that Simoniieh not only advanced the Shab fifty thousand tomans, ont joined the Par- ander the walls of Herat, and efforded it ‘the aid of his ate ped and ‘nce in the eld, Vicovitch intrigued with the Afighan Princes, A oh Shah tailed to satisfy them might rely on the Czar, and everywhere proc that a gonna rising of the Mohammedan population of India would coon take place. Ye} this man, wha against Great Pri- 5 Court of the Shah have acquired an ascendancy which they bave turned against Great Britain. The