The Welshman

JUSTICE TO LORD JOHN. Ir is universally recognized that in breaking up the Wretched Aberdeen Cabinet, that Lord John Russell has rendered a signal service to his country. It is true that a ministry constituted like that over which the "antici- pated imbecility has so unfortunately presided, could ot have existed much longer, but a few weeks more of its baneful career might have produced mischief beyond Calculation and beyond repair, and thus bringing its ex- istence to a rapid termination cannot fail to be considered as a very commendable and praiseworthy act. But it is said the fatal blow should not have come from one of its OWn members, who was as responsible as any one—Lord Aberdeen alone excepted-for the misdeeds of the whole crew. Moreover, it is observed that the seceding member has assigned no sufficient reasons for his conduct, but left It to be supposed that he acted simply upon the principle of a rat forsaking a drowning ship. With rpspect to this charge, we may remark that in abandoning drowning ships it appears to us that rats show an instinct more worthy of Praise than blame but leaving this piece of natural his- tory and casuistry to be settled by others, it may be con- tended that an honest ministry would not have attempted to fight against such a motion as that of Mr. Roebuck, but Would have frankly admitted the necessity of a thorough investigation of our whole military system with a view to its immediate reform. There were certainly other courses before Lord Aberdeen and his colleagues besides that which they chose, and when they announced their deter- mination to rely upon effrontery and brazen faces, any better disposed member of their body was fairly entitled to secede. But the public must not suppose that they have the whole truth, or near it, in the explanations and recriminations which have taken place. Far from this, we believe the more important reasons which induced the Whig chief to adopt so peculiar a course have been concealed. Our readers know that we despise Whig principles, and have no liking for Whig persons, and therefore in defending Lord John Russell we stand clear of any imputation of prejudice or partiality. Indeed, we limit our defence to his one act of going out at a critical, and peculiarly useful moment, and have no desire that he should escape condemnation for what we can only call his scandalous conduct in supporting an individual like Lord Aberdeen for so long a time. In the first place, the certainty, fiT Very high degree of probability, that his secession would lead to the destruction of the Cabinet, while at former periods it would only have incommoded it, affords to our mind sufficient justification for selecting the occasion of Mr. Roebuck's motion. It cannot for a moment be pre- tended that up to that time Lord John had been upon terms of complete agreement with his colleagues; on the contrary, the fact of his disagreeing with them has been notorious for months, although the extent of the diver- gence was not known, nor its precise cause but we may mention that so far back as last July, he made serious efforts in the direction of army reform, and was opposed by great persons, who said they would not have a palia- Ineiitary army. We have often pointed out tc our readers very remark- able discrepancies between the speeches made by Lord John and by other members of the Cabinet, and for months past a rupture has been foreseen. But there re- mains the important question whether at the moment Of his action extraordinary reasons exhted why Lord Aber- deen should be immediately displaced—and to this we reply unhesitatingly in the affirmative. Lord Aberdeen's last acts have been those of concession to Russia, and this to such an extent that his supporters felt confidence cf peace-that is to say, of a peace which would have filled all England with rage and shame. From such a pence there was a chance that Louis Napoleon would save us, but for the honour of our country and the safety of the French alliance, we believe it was absolutely necessary that Lord Abredeen should be at once driven from a posi- tion which he has so long disgraced. Of course, we make no pretensions to be in the confidence of Lord John Russell or any:other Whig person, and therefore we cannot affirm that these considerations determined his conduct; but inasmuch as they render that conduct of peculiar value to the country, we cannot deny him our contribution of gratitude and praise. With all his faults, and they are many, Lord John Russell is an Englishman, and far less likely than any member of the Cabinet to go to extreme lengths in sacrificing the interests of England to those petty German dynasties whose preservation is an object of such unfortunate solicitnde to most of the people whom our defective constitution permits to influence our affairs. Fro.n other members of the Cabinet we have heard much of the "cordial co-operation of German powers," and this at times when Lord John Russell contradict ed their assertions, and let us remember that from our unhappy entanglement with these German powers all the mis- fortunes of the war are to no slight extent due. We held aloof from the support of Turkey and encouraged the aggressive attitude of Nicholas for fear of hurting these -1 German powers." We declared war against Russia— with no intention of doing her any serious injury—for the sake of saving these "German powers" from that revo- lutionary movement which must have over-whelmed them had we left Turkey to follow her own plans and seek assis- tance from the Hungarians and the Poles. For the sake of the "German powers" we admitted Austria into the Principalities, obstructed the progress of the Turks, and thus set free a large Russian army to march to the Crimea and slaughter our fellow-countrymen. For the sake of the c. German powers" as one of the Aberdeen advocates tells us, Lord Palmerston was not allowed to be Minister of War, because such a step might have given offence to Austria, and thus placed her mischievous alliance in de- sirable danger. For the sake of "German powers we did not act strongly against Russian trade and stop the shipment of Russian goods from Prussian ports. In fact, from beginning to end, German powers and their cor- dial co-operation have been our bane and blight. Against the German people we have nothing to say, except that we pity them for the toleration they show to their incapable and wrong-headed princes; but against these princes we must record our conviction that they are sadly in the way of all useful and rational movements in Europe. They belong to an absurd, antiquated, and unjust political system, to support which has become the tradi- tional policy of the English Government, and it is with no disrespect to particular individuals we say, that if, from the days of George I. down to the present, the alliances of this country had been with Japan and not with Germany, an enormous amount of misery for ourselves and Europe might have been easily saved. Secret diplomacy is the means by which the "cordial co-operation oflGerman powers" constantly victimises this country. But our object now is, not to exhaust the German question, but to remind our readers that at the present stage of the war and of diplomatic negotiations, it was of all things'neces- sary to be quit of such a man as Lord Aberdeen, who has no one element of British character in his composition, and therefore as a correction to the foreign policy of our Government, we again thank Lord John for destroying a Cabinet incapable of English action or of English though to-Atlas.

THE MAP OF EUROPE. It is the test of the most ordinary chess-player that he can see three moves forward but there are few politicians who can stand that test. It is most usual to look only at the next move, and the one move beyond is quite enough for those who consider themselves far-seeing. In the crisis of 1814-' 15 the bugbear of Europe was Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Einpire to extinguish Napo- leon was thought to be worth a trifle over the seven hundred millions that we had already expended. A few millions more for Russia, Holland, or anybody that asked it, were clieetfully thrown in and the genuine interests of England were unhesitatingly sacrificed as the price of the conspiracy to put down the Antichrist of the Holy Alliance. If the herd of emperors, kings, diplomatists, courtiers, and ladies, assembled at Vienna in congress, could look one move further, it was, possibly to discern that some of the Great Powers, imitating the example of France, might aggrandize themselves at the expense of the rest. Hence the anxiety to establish the balance of power" helicf the almost blind eagerness to re-construct the map of Europe so as to patch up minor states which it was thought would be independent and would serve as barriers against the encroachments of the Powers- for Powers are addicted to encroachment. There were other motives at work in the Congress. Napoleon had humiliated Pius the Seventh the first gentleman in Europe," who seems to have regarded him- self as the one antagonist of Napoleor), resolved to re-exa t the Pope, and, by special stipulation of the Prince Regent, Cardinal Gonsalvi was admitted to represent the Pope at the Congress of Vienna. Murat was there by representati ve, in virtue of his defection from Napoleon. England was represented by Lord Castereagh who no doubt was hampered by the professed principles of the Tory party, which naturally placed them in co-operation with Divine Right, with the Holy Alliance, and so far with the Absolutist Monarchs who overruled the advice of England. This perhaps, was one of the difficulties which prevented Castlereagh from pursuing his really honest purpose at the Congress. In a speech on the annexation of Norway to Sweden, opposed by Earl Grey and his friends early in 1814, Lord Castlereagh said that the great evil of Europe had been the modern wars of ambition, and his object was to strengthen the second-rate Powers. This object he evidently intended to pursue and it was with this object that he joined other statesmen in endea- vouring to counteract the schemes of aggrandizement which Russia was already furthering through her hold upon the balance of power. The Austrian statesmen foresaw this as well as the English, and Talleyrand was not blind to it but the fears of the herd were turned in an opposite direction. How the real danger was even then foreseen, might be shown by innumerable passages, but one will suffice. In a note addressed to Lord Castlereagh, the Duke of Saxe Coburg Saalfeld says that Russia and Prussia cannot be divided, because their personal relations and their united interests are too strong for separation. Prussia," says the Duke, will be supported by Russia in her projects of aggrandizement in Germany, and she will on her side support the designs of Russia on the Ottoman empire." So early and so distinctly was the present position fore- seen. But Russia was not the bugbear for the mob repre- sented at the Congress. On the contrary, the Emperor Alexander was hailed as a deliverer from the grand enemy -as the common preserver. The very height and im- posing mien of his person assisted his art in representing the dignified, the kindly champion of order. He rode into Paris as the friend and protector of the French he moved about in the Congress as the patron of reinstated or readjusted sovereigns, and if the idea of reconstructing minor states as harriers against encroachments of the larger was adopted in terms, the fear of the barrier- builders of that day was directed towards France and not to Russia-towards demorratic, subversive movements, and not towards the encroachments of an autocrat. The boundary map of Europe was entirely reconstructed; but with referrence to reestablishing the order of princes, and without the smallest reference to the wishes of the in- habitants of the states disposed of. The kingdom of the Netherlands, the compound kingdom of Sardinia, and the kingdom of Holland, were amongst those patched up each state being despoiled for the benefit of some other, and compensated by new spoliation. To Holland, for instance, was ceded Java, with the English guarantee of the Russo-Datch loan. Italy, which might have adjusted itself into a federation of states, was parcelled out by the royal mob and with the re-enthronement of the Pope. Great Britain helped to restore a local standing-place and a material rule to that domineering church which has subsequently created difficulties in Prussia, France, Ire- land, and indeed wherever her spiritual authority has been recognized. The designs of Russia, as we have said, were already perceived but only by the few. The three Powers who are now united against that one, perceived the danger so distinctly, that on the 3rd February 1815, a secret treaty was concluded between Austria, France, and England, offensive and defensive. The Russian Emperor even then showed his teeth he hinted to the Alliance, that he might evoke a Alura-,ist opposition to the Bourbon family, a Beauharnais alliance, German complications, and so forth. England endeavoured to resist him, to strengthen the barriers against him, and particularly to secure the restoration of the independence of Poland. But Russia persevered, and events were precipitated. Parliamentary duties called Castlereagh home leaving as his successor Wellington, who was not then keen-sighted oil the subject of Ruasia. Napoleon broke bounds from Elba the readjustment of the European map was hastened it was concluded a few days before the battle of Waterloo, and ratified in Paris, the seat of the overthrown domination that had been the terror of the Congress. Old Europe had disappeared; and although the Jupiter Tonas of the Parisian Capitol had been overthrown, old Europe could not be reinstated. The old Roman Em- pire" had gone, and the feeble "Bund" had taken its place. Bernadotte occupied thc throne of the Wasa the Romans had been given to the Pope, for the benefit of Catholic Europe Norway had torn from Denmark against the will of the Danish King and (If the Norwegian citi- zen Poland had been compromised into the evanescent Duchies"; the Netherlands had been made a barrier. But even during the peace the results have not justified the masonry of these Powers, who had no sooner accom- plished their work than they felt the necessity of consoli- dating the Holy Alliance" of arbitrary power against the natural instinct of independence in nations. A premature revolution ended in the total disruption of the barrier, Poland. The kingdom of thp Nethelands has fallen to pieces and Belgium is probably a more secure barrier by itself than when it was submerged in Holland. Irritated by a precarious possessson of her alien provinces, Holland would have been more inclined to fall back upon Russian support than she would be now, that she views her posi- tion in Europe from an independent position. Revolu- tions have touched almost every part of Europe. The one thing that remains untouched and unbroken is that me- nacing power of Russia which was foreseen by the few at at the Congress, disbelieved by the many. The barriers which were set up against the Great Fowers have proved worthless for their purpose. The royal families, who appear to hate exprcted that they could secure their thrones better by setting one nationality against another, have almost universally been shaken by the jar and con- cussions of their disunited foundations. France ha3 seen two dynasties since the one re-established by all the Kings; and there is not a state that has not learned, by its reverses, the truth that undying popular disaffection is a bad foundations for the stability of thrones. England then used her influence for the advancement of arbitrary power. She abandoned her colonies, her millions ster- ling, her advantages on the Continent, to procure con- cessions, always in favour of the Holy Alliance. She took no real guarantees for herself; and we find her now, forty years latter, discovering the necessity for taking guarantees against the encroachments of the patron who was even then suspected. The attempt of Russia upon Turkey, with its accompanying disclosures, has called practical attention to her encroachments, discerned in 1815, but continued since that date. Even the memor- andum of 1844 had scarcely awaken suspicion the do- minating influence exercised by Russia in 1848 positively allayed doubt but the insidious approaches to the sick man" at last did the wor k. At the end, as at the begIn. ning, we find Prussia the vassal of Russia, bound to her service by intereets, personal ties, and a certain refine- ment of servility again we find Austria forced in self- defence to fall back upon France and England and the prediction of the Duke of Saxe Coburgh Saalfeld is ac- complished on the very field of the Ottoman empire. In the brief sequel, the diplomacy and the armed agres- sion of Russia upon the Danube were exposed; and the work, of which Castlereagh, as well as Metternich and Talleyrand saw the necessity in 1815, was commenced in 1853. The events of the subsequent interval are too fresh in the recollection of the reader to need recapitulation. The Government which is quitting office has, in connexion with that of France, done an immense amount of work in a few months. Austria, who seemed but a little while ago the vassal of the Czar, is now canvassing amongst the German States for a league in case Europe should be divided, with Russia and Prussia as a united enemy; the Viennese Government offering for its royal recruits their share in the gains of war"! In other words, the Three Powers, in conjunction with Piedmont, Turkey, perhaps Switzerland, almost certainly Belgium, and such of the German States as choose to join, are preparing to take up arms for reducing Russia to a safe restraint un- less she will at once accept tile ticeeseity. It is a question how far all this great work is undone by our Ministerial crisis how far uncertainties in our own Cabinet will sap the confidence that has rendered the Alliance possible- will introduce despondency or indifference in Paris or Vienna-will throw us back to the compromise of 1815. and replace Russia at her advanced starting point of 1853, looking out for the other sick men .Spectator.

I NOTES AND QUERIES. I All flesh is grass." Modern physiology points to-the vegetative functions of man but we could least have ex- pected to find the military profession treated most es- pecially on vegetative principles. Yet it is so. Officers are cultivated by simple growth. Men, says Lord Grey, "rise to be General Officers, not by service, but merely'by living on half pay." As you put a bulb into a pot, aiio apply the proper materials to it, so you put a man into commission, manure him with half-pay, and he rises from being a Lieutenant-Colonel to being a General] Officer. You grow a white-headed veteran, just as you grow a cauliflower. The Prussian Minister states that his Royal Master's conviction" (on the subject of his self-exclusion from the conferences at Vienna) is the point of departure for his future attitude." Picture King Frederick Wil- liam, coregraphically "stans pedc in uno" Oil one of tyis own convictions John Reeve as "Cupid" on a sun- flower is too gross a type of the design. It is more like John of Bologna's Mercury, standing gracefully on 'a put! of wind, with eyes sanctimoniously cast to heaven. Or still more like Titian's miraculous Bacchus, in the Ar- iadne picture for the convivial god actually stands upon nothing. The public burns with curiosity to know how it was that Lord John Russell appeared as a Minister in the early part of the Tuesday evening and was not a Minister by midnight ? But the public will not he informed until we have the biography of Lord John completed—be the day far distant ? The closer the curious public looks, the more unaccountable does the case appear. No sign of resignation reaclict-I tlip House while the noble statesman was acting as leader of the Commons. No breath of such a put pose escaped to be borne upon the breezes of Pimlico on the way home from the House and any brother in office who accompanied the Lord President homeward can say whether, in that cheerful journey, the slightest hint of such a purpose escaped. Every man's house is his castle, and we will not penetrate, even to ask whether Lord John's free and independent decision somehow or other preceded his arrival and opening of the question whether IBut we tremble even to mention the queries that we will not ask, lest reply should as it were drag us, involuntarily, within the sacred threshold lest some Mr. Smith" should blurt out the real state of the case, with which so universal a personage must be acquainted. Who shall tell what motives govern a man ? We can- not even tell who govern a state. We all know the story about the little boy that governed Athens by ruling his mamma, who ruled Themistocles, the ostensible leader of the Whig party in that ancient commonwealth. But the reference to the child is sustained by very imperfect evi- dence. We have the story as it stands, indeed, from the right honourable gentleman himself; and we may believe all that came within his own knowledge. But the asser- tion respecting the boy is no better than hearsay evidence; while the statement respecting Madame Themistocles i, at first hand, and we believe it. Statesmen are divided into those who, like Julius Cfcsar, govern everybody, the ladies included; and those, like Themistocles, who are governed by their ladies. It is difficult to trace the motives of the latter class. But we have to note a distinction between the Athenian age and our own. Madame Themistocles had no press at command. Even in drawingrooms there were difficulties and restrictions unknown to our days of polite and pious liberty at all events, Madame had no gentleman con- nected with the press to catch iuspiration in the seventh heaven of a fair political (It-a,,ing;)oni no organ in which to urge her views mingled with the daily news. The con- trast of the two epochs is complete—as broad as that be. tween Thcmistocles, unjustly suspected of treachery, ex- pelled fiom goveriimeiit, ind standing in the presence of the Persian King, and Themistocles not unjustly suspect- ed, self-expelled, on the bick benches -,Sl)ectator.

HAS ENGLAND LOVED COALITION GOVERN- MENTS. No greater inaccuracy perhaps ever fell in the course of debate from the Leader of the House of Commons, than the vaunting assertion of Mr. Disraeli—when, on the fatal night of December, 1852, he saw the whole intellectual power of Parliament arrayed against his principles of fi- nance—that "England had not loved coalitions." The history of our Parliamentary Government has on the con- trary, most justly sanctioned every fusion of parties which did not involve a compromise of principles. Nor could any other course satisfy the real ends of public life. For it may be fairly aske d whether our statesmen should enter upon the area of politics with a view merely to the perpe- tuation of the traditional jealousies of party, or whether they should do so with a view to the benefit of the nation ? If the former object were Mr. Disraeli's view of the end and aim of popular Government, undoubtedly, in his opin- ion, coalitions should never receive the sanction of the country but if, as we suspect, the latter be the rightful aim of public men, the necessities of the State must often justify their existence. It is certain, moreover, that with- out the continual formation of Ministries by means of a coalition of parties-and the crisis of the hour serves to illustrate the truth of our reni,(irk.-the very principle of Government by legislative majorities would have passed away. For it is the perpetual tendency of political assem- blies to recognise fresh party divisions, while those divi- sions,d are seldom imperceptibly m?rge. Unquestionably the m--t powerful and famous Ad- ministrations of modern times have arisen, in a greater or less degree, from such a fusion of parties in the State. Even the Administration of Sir It. Peel, in 1841, in- cluded the secession of three of the most eminent mem- bers of the Whig Ministry. The celebrated Cabinet established by Lord Grey in 1830, which reformed the constitution of Parliament, depended for its existence upon its Tory members. In that Administration, the seals of the Colonial-office were held by Lird Goderich, who had been Mr. Canning's successor as First Lord of the Treasury, and who had held the post of Chancellor of the Exchequer up to the close of the Tory Government of Lord Liverpool. The seals of the Foreign-office were meanwhile held by Lord Palmerston, who had been Lord Liverpool's Secretary-at-War and the seals of the Homc- office by the Conservative Lord Melbourne. The Admin- istration of Mr. Canning, in 1827, was formed similarly by a junction of the Whigs with the more liberal Tories. In the long Administration of the Regency, Lord Liver- pool, who had been so prominent in the Addington Administration, stood at its head, while Lord Castlereagh, the disciple of Pitt, was leader in the Commons. Eldon, who had been Lord Chancellor under Addington—and Addington himself, since metamorphosed into Sidniouth- sat. side by side with the especial represen'atives of the traditions of Mr. Pitt. This coalition, indeed, had been in some degree exemplified in Pitt's second Administra- tion. The coalition again of the party of Lord Grenville with that of Mr. Fox, in 1806, was as complete as any other that has since transpired nor was iL ever assailed as unjust or dishonest in its formation. The original difference in the opinions of those statesmen exhibits indeed a striking similarity to the distinctions in the politics of Lord Aberdeen and of Lord John Russell. But it may be demanded, perhaps, why, if these illustri- ous preceden s be fairly drawn, did not the Administration of Lord Aberdeen exhibit a durability and strength pro- portioned to the justice of the motives which dictated its formation ? We answer that such attributes are wholly independent of each other. We know of no Government that was ever called into existence more ably constituted, or possessed of fairer prospects of durability, than the secor.d Administration that arose under the auspices of the Marquis of Rockingham. Lord Rockingham's Ministry was supported by Town and Country, by the aristocracy and the people and it had to contend simply against the Parliamentary influence of the Crown, and the odious fac- tion still headed by Lord North. Yet scarcely had this Ministry—which was, beyond comparison, the most ca- pable and splendid that had governed England since the famous Administration of Lord Bute and the elder Pitt- existed for six months, when it fell to pieces, on the death of its chief, through internal disunion. No coalition was ever probably more complete in respect of political opinions, than that which was formed by a junction of the Liberals with the Liberal-Conservatives in 1852 although the two parties may not have been moulded, in any greater degree than those of the Rock- ingham Administration, into one homogeneous whole. There had been a gradual approximation between the friends of Lord Aberdeen and those of Lord John Russell. Even prior to the divisions of 1846, the Conservatives had ignored the old Tory traditions which Lord Derby then re- vived, and the Liberals had widened the line of demarcatiou which separated them from the Radical body. When, therefore, a settlement was effected in the great questions agitated in 1846, the barrier which had separated the two parties was merely a barrier of tradition. Their coa- lition, at a time when the overthrow of the Derby Ministry, in spite of all its electioneering corruptions, had left the country without an Executive Govtrniretit, was thus at once a natural and inevitable course, justified by an identity of opinion, as well as demanded by the necessi- ties of the State. But if we were to grant that censure was fairly to be attached to the circumstances of this coalition, that stigma would inevitably fall on Lord Derby and his friends. For, having in 1846 broken up the dominant party in the State upon differences of opinion which, on their attempted assumption of power in 1851, they were clearly ready to ignore, and which, in 1852, they totally repudiated, they rendered inevitable, on their resignation of office, a coalition between the two other great parties which divided the country, in order to secure a maintenance of the principles of Parliamentary Government. The Derby Administra- tion was happily free from any possible charge of a coalition of principles for it entered upon power with no opinions whatever Derbyism was fairly stated to have been an abstract entity, to which no conceivable ideas were to be attached. But it may be fairly questioned whether a suppression of principles, such as that which founded Lord Derby's Government, was not equally culpable with, as it was less ingenuous than, a compromise of conflicting opin- ions. And it is certain that no Government, since the odious coalition of Lord North with Mr. Fox, which fairly and just- ly ruined for life the Ministerial ambition which dictated the temporary junction of those statesmen, ever exhibited so reckless an indifference to the principles which it might espouse, as that which bore Lord Derby's name.—Morning Chronicle.

I NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. An Artillery Camp of 4,000 men is to be formed at Scutari. The sailmakers at the Devcnport dockyard are ordered to work to 7 o'clock in the evening, to expedite the manu- facture of 1,000 hammocks and 1,000 sling*. The Foreign Legion will assemble for drill, &c.t at Heli- goland, and Lieutenant Lempriere, with a detachment (,f Royal Sappers and Miners, will leave Woolwich for Heli. goland in the early part of the present week, to erect huts for their accommodation. COMMAND OF THE ARMY TN IRELAND.—The Evening Mail announces that Sir Edward Blakeney, after some 20 year's service, retires from the command of the army in Ireland. lie is now succeeded in his high office by General Lord Seaton, Colonel of the Second Life Guards, ind better known to the military world as Sir John Ctjiborne. A court-martial was held on board the flagship Waterloo, at Sheerness, oil Friday, at which Captain-Superintendent Christopher Wyvill presided, and W. W. Hayward offici- ted as Deputy-Judge Advocate, to try Mr. Charles J. Pulfer, second-master, on the following charges—viz., for absenting himself from the Janus paddlewheel steam- vessel, he at the time being commanding officer, and for bringing spirits on board, the said vessel, contrary to the orders of Lieutenant-Commander Colin C. A. Kane. Com- mander Kane prosecuted, The Court were of opinion that the charges were fully proved, and sentenced Mr. Pulfer to be dismisseel Her Majesty's service. A number of test:. monials were put in by the prisoner. The recruiting for the line is actively going on in the various districts of South Wales. At Swansea, Cardiff, Carmarthen, X-c., the recruiting sergeants have been very active, and have succeeded in securing a large number of voting men. At Merthyr 17 were enlisted in one day, and at the other hill localities colliers and miners have been enrolled. In Newport there are no fewer than six recruit- ing parties for Artillery, Marines, and the line, the 45th being among the latter. In Gloucester and adjacent localities the recruiting has been successful in that city a large number of recruits have been attested for the line and the militia. Portsmouth again resounds with the din and bustle of preparation for the approaching naval campaign in the Baltic, and all hands" are busily employed from morning until ilivlit, and long after the usual routine" hours of labour in several of the Government departments. Night and day are the ovens at work at the Clarence victualling establishment, which it would be impossible to have more efficiently worked. Portsmouth dockyard never was in greater activity Indeed, so much work is there that the Duke of Wellington cannot be refitted there, but is ordered to Key ham, and the Dragon was lately ordered to Plymouth from the same alleged cause. The General Screw Steamshipping Company's fine screw transport Mauritius, Captain Stewart, wert alongside Portsmouth dockyard on Saturday afternoon to land her invalided and wounded soldiers, their wives and children, and passengers. Dr. Odell, the newly-appointed staff- surgeon of Portsmouth Garrison, with the Biigade M*jur and attendants, went on board, and noted the most urgent cases for removal and these, ten in number, were speedily released from between decks, and removed to hospital quarters. The women and children were then removed in omnibuses to the Camber Hospital, especially prepared for them. But while this was goin-, on a (litticulty" arose nothing less than a mutiny of the ship's crew on hearing that it was contemplated to send the ship to Chatham, they struck, and refused to work. Captain Stewart, with the utmost promptitude, had them mustered, and lead to them the articles they had signed, whereby it was clear they were bound to go in the ship wherever ordered during the term of the contract (12 months.) To this they paid no heed, and some saucy remarks were made, ending with cheers as they went forward. They ultimately went over the side, and most of them escaped out of the dockyard before they could be stopped by an order from Captain Ste ed to) the police it the doclivli-d gate. On a muster of the residue afterwards taking place on the poop, only about 20 answered to the ca 1, and eight only out of 23 able seamen remained faithful to their aiticles. A telegraphic intimation of this state of thing. was made at once td. the Horse Guards through the Admiral Supcrin- tendi nt, asking for directions how to dispose of the invalids in this emergency hut. although the reply was received in the course of the evening by the military authorities, those on boqrd the ship hall heard of none up to 3 o'clock yes- terday afternoon mcanwhiie, there the sick lay, to the number of about 110, on board without a crew, except about half a dozen hands, even the firemen ha\ing struck.

POLICE OFFICKRS FOR THE CRIMEA.—It has been decid- ed to send two thousand police oiffcers to the Crimea as a transport corps .—There are t<> be 1.400 drivers at a pay each of 3. per day, and 2s. (H, each for the lowest class clothing and rations to be given in addition. The officers' emolument is to be £100 for an outfit, but the candidates must in every respect be efficient characters, capable of and fully qualified to hold her Majesty's commission, and to associate with the officers in the British army. The sum of 28, per day is to be added for field allowance beyond the of 2s. per day The principal officer is to be allowed a horse rcgutar pay. of his own selection at cost price to tie government. The chief officer in command is eiffered to an inspector of the metropolitan police. His standing salary is 8s. 6d. per day. Pensions are also to be allowed to the men who may be engaged in the event of their receiving wounds whilst on duty in the East. It is proposed to raise 800 second- class drivers, who arc to be officered by about 100 men of the different grade of non-commissioned officers. It should be stated that every man who goes, independent of his regular pay, will receive his daily rations and outfit. IMPENDING EXCOMMUNICATION" OF PIED-.IONT.-It is to be inferred that the harangue now in the Quirinal press is a direct and unceremonious excommunication. That tremendous anathema is usually preceeded by a warning forerunner, termed a monitorio, giving notice that if the measures complained of by the Holy See are persist- ed in, excommunication will follow. The usual period granted for repentance and amendment is three weeks. Hut it appears that the harangue of the 2211d is not even to be considered as a nionitorio, but rather as a preparatory and solemn exhortation to the King, parliament, and people of Piedmont to turn from the evil of their ways, and to bridle the financial yearnings which point in the di- rection of broad church lands. A PRIVATE SOLDIER'S LETTER. Extract from a letter written by a private in the 1st Battalion of Rifles, to his sister, dated Camp, Sebastopol, Jan. 10th :-1 am sorry to say "e have made no further progress towards taking this place but we are all in hopes that another month will see something done—but the best or rather the worst part of the winter will then be over—it has been very severe lately, but I hope the worst is over. The Russians have been very quiet lately, for sometimes we do not hear more than a dozen shots fired in a day, and the sentries are that close, that they can speak to the Russians if the could un- derstand them. As long as it is dark they do not interfere with each other, but as soon as it is daylight they would fire at one another if they had the oppoitunity, so each one has to mind himself. The Russians come almost every night to give themselves iii) they say that the soldiers and inhabitants were in a wretched state in the town, and would give themselves up if they had the chance, but they are threatened with death if they are caught. They seem a great deal more tired of the war than we do. They think after the battle of Inkcrmann that it is of no use to light against the English and French. Some of the men re getting medals for good conduct, and together with the warm clothing we are getting, we cannot much grumble at what the Government has done for us, and I am sure the country cannot grumble at what we have done; and if God spare us, Sebastopol may quake the day that the men get at it every one is anxious to get a chance at the enemy. COXGREVE ROCKETS VERSUS ARTILLERY. The heaviest carcass rockets may be brought into action by men, each man carrying a 32 pounder carcass rocket, so that by a very ordinary besieging army ten thousand carcasses, each in combustible matter equal to a 10-inch spherical carcass, might be thrown into a town in the course of one night, without trenches, battery, mortars, or any of the delays of a regular siege, discharging in a few hours as much con- fl igrating matter as could be thrown by ten thousand rounds of 10-inch mortars in a protacled siege of a month. I ? t-- and of cOllre-ith a propornonabty mcreasea encc? as me time is thus reduced. Yet in all this most powerful mode of bombardment there is no burd(-n of apparatus to be carried, no mortars, mortar-beds, platforms &c.; one or two slopes in diReren"t parts, or, what is still more simple and equally efficient-a few holes bored by the common miner's borer, at the required ange in the ground to re- ceive the rocket-stick and thus to pomt the rocket for fire- in; and yet, with all this dmplicity of application, t ee_ extreme range of these rockets is not less than 3,600 ards. Here, then, let us pause for a moment, to consider the enormous differences in the transport as well as m the power of this weapon, a. compared with every other know means, and let us more especially direct our view to it wIth reference to its immense importance where difficulty of the transport of artillery, especially o heavy artillery is great. In fact the importance of this facility holds in aU difficult and mountainous eciuiiti-ies-and in all expeditions, not only where long marches are necessary, but where a land- ing on an enemy's coast is involved.—Congreie s Treatise on the Rocket System. The fine estate known as Wentworth s, situate in the pic- turesque vicinity of Virginia-water, Windsor-park has re- cently been furnished as the future residence of the celebrated Carlist chief, General Cabrera. The General married an English lady, the daughter of a banker, residing at Eiiglefield- green, and the property stands in the parocyial rate-books as belonging to her, under the Spanish title. It is understood that the purchase money was about £ 22,000.

I MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. I The father of Mr. Savage senior wrangler at Cambridge, was once a Baptist minister he is now a Unitarian, but does not preach. Others of his sons have distinguished themselves at King's and University Colleges. It is said that the Hornsey accident will cost the Great Northern Railway Company £ 20,000. The expenses of accidents of late years has become frightful. Brigadier-General James Crauford has been appointed military Commissioner at Vienna, in the room of the late General Du Plat. Cardinal Wiseman had an interview with the Emperor of the French on Sunday. The Count de Renneville has been appointed by the Emperor of Austria on a military mission to the Emperor of the French. The accounts from the French manufacturing towns are more cheerful than those from our own: they have even got orders from Australia. The moral state of the population of Sydney has greatly improved—life, property, and order, are respected. In the half year en ing the 10th October, the 'imports at Sydney were E3,223,741, against only £ 1,500,000 of ex- ports. An arrangement has been made by which Messrs. Rogers and Co are to pay 15s. in the poundrto their creditors, by instalments; this wiil probably leave them a balance. Their liabilities are £ 162,000. Said Pasha has, on the application of the French, pro- mised to buoy the entrance of the port of Alexandria; a boon iepeatedly refused by Abbas Pasha. There has been a fierce collision between diggers and Chinese at Bendigo springing, no doubt, mainly from the ill-will generally felt towards the Chinese seekers of gold. By the last advices, about £ 4000 has been subscribed at Melbourne for the Patrioric Fund. On the 24tli October, no less than X3000 had been re- ceived for admission to the Victoria Exhibition—the col- lection which is to be sent to Paris. A plant of brocoli has been shown at Melborne which weighed no less than 50 pounds. The Solicitor-General for Scotland, Mr. Thomas Mack- enzie, will, we have reason to believe, succeed to the vacant seat on the Scotch bench, caused by the death of Lord Robertson. The Pope has appointed "the Honourable and Very Reverend Monsignor George Talbot, at present Secretary and Chamberlain to his Holiness," Roman Catholic Bishop for the Western district" of England. The new prelate is the brother of Lord Talbot de Malahide. Four of the officers of the Biggage and Land Transport corps have started for the East. Colonel M'Murdo and others will follow. Colonel Napier is to remain at home, with a staff, to superintend the recruiting and the formation with a stan, to superintend the recruiting and the formation Mr. John Mitchel has resigned the""editorship of the Citizen, for various personal considerations," among which lie mentions a rapid failure of eye-sight. He intends in future to contribute literary articles only. The Refutation of Spinoza, by Leibnitz, discovered by the Comic de Careil in the Hanoverian Library, has been re- cently translated by the Rev. Octavius Freire Owen, M.A,. F.S.A., and is about to appear immediately, published by Messrs Constable, of Edinbnrgh. Miss Catherine Hayes reaped a rich harvest in Sydney ere she left that city for Melbourne—some X7000 from nine concerts, besides presents of phte and jewels. Her visit was one continued triumph—the Queen of England could hardly have received more attention." Music evidently hath very powerful charms at the Antipodes. Lord Raalan's staff is made up of nephews. Lord Rag- lan has Lieutenant-Colonel Somerset, the son of his brother Lord Charles he has the Honourable Lieutenant Cal- thorpe, Lord Raglan's niece having married Lord Cal- thorpe he has Captain Iiingscote, Lord Raglan's niece having married Mr. Kingscote. Of the other two, one is Lord Burghersh, son of I Lord Westmoreland, and conse- quently nephew of Lady Raglan; and the other is the Honourable Lieutenant Curzon, son of Lord Howe. Miss Martineau, with a desire to instruct by information regarding the political and social aspect of the Russian Government, has lately been giving a series of lectures in the Lake district, illustrative of what she considers dan- gerous to the peace and well-being of Europe and the world. Cardinal Simoneti's place as Secretary of Alenioriali;, which is important, inasmuch as it gives its occupants an opportunity of holding regular and confidential conversa- tion with the Pope, has been conferred upon Cardinal Altieri. The Toles residing at Lyons caused a funeral mass to be celebrated on Saturday, in the cathedral of that city, to the memory of Lord Dudley Stuart. The foundation stone of a synagogue was laid in San Francisco on the 23d July. I don't know what you mean by not being an Irish- man," said a gentleman, who was about hiring a boy, but you were born in Ireland." 11 Och, your honour, if that's all, said the boy," small blame to that. Suppose your cat should have kittens in the oven would they be loaves of bread ?" Madame Dudevant (George Sand) in her memoirs just out, coolly states that women—be they ever so pious or high-minded—will generally dual at cards, and be dis- honest in the settlements of their money affairs Up to the 1st of December the Admiralty had expended £ 6,793 in maintaining Russian prisoners of war. A Melbourne publican has returned in the Great Britain steamer worth £100,000, and a Belfast man with £ 20,000. The subscriptions of the city of London to the Patriotic Fund amount to £ 77,221. A stonemason of Reading, named Oliver Cromwell, and said to be a remote descendant of the Protector, enlisted into the Grenadier Guards a few days ago- The City of London Markets Committee have received an intimation from Lord Palmerston that he approved of Tuesday for holding the metropolitan cattle market, instead of Monday' as the committee had determined. During the last twelve months nearly 30,000 British sub- jects, who had emigrated to America, have returned to their native land. A house, four stories high, and altogether of cast iron, is about to be erected in Paris, on the plans of two engi- neers, one French and the other English. The family of Marshal St. Arnaud is about to publish a volume of his private letters. This collection, certain to be interesting, independent of his literary merit, will com- mence with La Vendee, and terminate with the war in the Crimea. It is feared that in Blackburn all the cotton mills will soon be compelled to run short time. Many persons are out of work. In advices received on Friday from the Pacific, mention is made of a further discovery of guano on the island of La Plata, and another deposit on an adjacent group of isles. The West India Company have just given £50 to a boat's crew of the Avon, who volunteered to go outside Balaklava harbour to save lives during the great storm in the Black Sea on the 15th Nov. last. The Poles residing at Lyons caused a funeral mass to be celebrated on Saturday, in the cathedral of that city, to the memory of the late Lord Dudley Stuart. On Thursday, the 25th ult., the Bishop of Lincoln de- livered his fifth of a series of lectures to the working- classes of Nottingham, on the evidences of Christianity. The South Shields seamen, at their anniversary, held in that town on Friday, subscribed JE50 to the Patriotic Fund. A man hawking spectacles recently called at a house at Patrington, near Hull. The mistress, who was in the house alone, refusing to buy from him, he rendered her insensible by a blow, and robbed the house of £ 14 and a quantity of linen. Cardinal Wiseman and two other Roman Catholic pre- lates returning from Rome to England, were, on Monday, received by the French Emperor at the Tuileries. A pauper named Mauner has recovered P,75 damages in the Court of Queen's Bench against Moser, a contractor for paving in the borough of Southwark. One foggy night Mauner fell over a heap of paving stones where Moser's men were at work, and displaced his knee cap, so that he will never recover the use of his leg. A Mormonite in London having been convinced of his error by the tracts of the Religious Tract Society, has been the means of causing more than 100 persons, through the tracts against Mormonism, to rcuounce 1tlnrmonlsm; and this has so weakened them that they have been obliged to give up two of their places of meeting in Bermondsey- street. The iron screw-steamer Great Britain has passed into the hands of a joint-stock company, with a capital of 9400,000 in EIOO shares. She has at present been taken up by the Government fur the conveyance of troops to the Crimea, but another large screw-steamer is being built for the com- pany, and will be on the berth for Australia early in the spring. Galianani says In the Champs Elysees, yesterday, an elegant sledge, drawn by two large dogs, was drawn up and down several times, and attracted great attention. The dos have been brought from the Crimea by an officer on sick leave. They carry the head high, have large eyes full of fire, and seem very intelligent. An attempt is now being made in the neighbourhood of Vienna to naturalise a plant which grows without cul- tivation in California, where its bulbous roots are used as soap. CURIOUS COINCIDENCE.i,nere are living in the small village of Leyton, Essex, four persons of the name of John Swan, not at all related, and all with wooden legs, although not one has been in the army or navy. New York Journal of Commerce, oneofthe moist influential of the United States' papers, complains of the misrepresentations put forth in England and on the continent with reference to the feelings of the Americans on the present war. After stating as one cause of bitter feeling in England and France towards America, the prompt recognition of the doctrine that free ships make free goods" to Russia, while the two naval powers only make a partial and temporary concession, it con- tinues— Another reason why American feeling is totally misapprehended in England is, that we are mainly viewed through the medium of our very worst and most unprincipled newspapers. The New York Ilerald, the avowed organ of every rotten iniquity which the scum of popular feeling pro- duces, and no more the representative of respectable thinking Americans than is the Satirist of London, is quoted to the exclusion of respectable journals. The 2\ew xork Journal of Commerce then goes on to admit that there are many in America who hate England, and that their entire Irish popu- lation is anti-English; but that "four-fifths of the inhabitants of the United States share the hatred of the western powers against Russian despotism; that every arrival from Europe which brings news of defeat to the arms of the Czar is re- garded by them as good news, and any cloud over the pros- l perity of the allies as deplorable intelligence which they hope I may be remedied or dispelled." I

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. offered thrSw^IVidera ^Colo^V? HBE°nglish Government bu offered the SWISS Feral Colonel Bontems the rank of Lieu- tenant-General w? theZd ^of the rank ofLieu- WhICh he has accepted. foreign legion, '*1 Sl'emJca Tidnigen), of thJ 231d ulf^ declares there ^noT word °S tfUth in report of Sweden being disposed To ?conclude an alliMlM with the West against Ls?a THE EARL OF CALEDON. We are  aple tc..?e that Lord Caledon L J • V 'S•S KleSr THE FALL OF THE; DERDEEN }[l1nSTRY.-On Thune  were Thu? on the Green Fort, and a large number r>f « W"e X '?? 8atisfaction at a resignatio^^E^ Abeen. GEXERAL Sm DR LAcy EVANS.-We are informed the Lkiftenant>G^>v^rm?orship"of" Chelsea^HosSn^ }Bfor,nedf the death of General Sir A. F Ban??r?d ?& <f ?? ?  gallant member for Westminster, but ?Was declined. Sir James Graham is suffering from a painful disease which has rendered a surgica OPER^IO^ was successfully PERFONN^W Brodie, and i is hoped that the right h?'hv L,?-*?o be convalescent. r?t ?"* ?' Sadyk Pacha, Commander of the Cossacks in the service of the Sultan, and of the advanced guard of theOtt?n army, has issued a proclamation t? the Moldavians wd ? .nach.ans, m "hich, aftr anlOuncing that political and military arrangements require him to go elsewhere, h. con- gratulatcs them on the noble manner in which they have discharged their duties to the Sultan, and shown their af- fection for his army and exhorts them to persevere in the same line of conduct. He adds that the Sultan will never ceaseJo watch over their prosperity. A letter from Turin, of the let, in the Conatitutiowl says The monitory of Pius IX. has just arrived, anel nothing but this great event is talked of everywhere. The Sovereign Pontifl' qualifies the ConTent Suppression Bill in very severe terms. The epithet of depredator is said to be employed with respect to it." EEHLIX, Feb. 3.-The Preuissiche Corretpondent says— It has been almost with one voice stated in the organs of the press that the Government of tb8 Emperor of the French had demanded to be allowed to march French troops to Poland through Prussian territory, and the Prussian Government had refused this permission. It certainly is a very correct feeling which prompted the press to designate the compliance with such a demand on the part of the Prus- sian Government as out of the question and impossible. We can, however, give the assurance that, as yet, no de- mand of this nature has been in any war cxprewed by the French GovernmeHt." The Augsbul'glt Gazette says: Some journals of the Russian party aisert tIPat the total Corce of the Runjan army, consisting oAbe armies ofGene?f? Rnr wers, Paskiewitch, Gortach Mens? cSf ?S?? we If. amounts to 695,000 men will bt organis;d. But it M known also that all the soldiers thus S down on p"r, ? ? ?'?'  are scattered about from the Mthe us ? ?"?- ? S ??' that it would very difficult to uniR ?T?' '? ofTensive operation To this aru? o?/ ?? u? ?rr \?? can oppose one which is scarcely less formidablfe Her firit  f '? corps d armee consists of 67,600 men nnrt iT v second of 121,000 men and 186 guns- her tl htrl 28fi 'WW men and 252 guns her fourth of 119 400 m,   Her reserve iii two months could be raised to 200 000 men, by comprising the frontier regiments. The Moniteur publisb c?s the fol1owin letter from tU FranlcforMonrnal, dated V ienna, JaT^•-1 No doubt, can be entertamed of tbe authenticity of the vc;y confidential despatch ofthe Austrian the 14th ofJanuarv.evcn ifthe?S???'i??? ?? a few expressions differing from those of the despatch ^wS has been.pubhslied; fori may be questioned Set he? the Austr.an.envoys to the German Government for whL it was meant were authorized to leave a copy of that document with the respective Ministers of ? Pa?? Anairs. This was why the onmunication of that doc? nient to Governments and individuals for whom it was not intended could only have been made by persons of the high- est emincncc, who did not possess an authentic copy, ut who had kept the contents in their memory. Hut, making every allowance for any difference which may exist between the original document and that which has been published, any one who has carefully followed the progress of events cannot be mUth sul-priseat the step aken at las by Austria. The AuX ? =.t th< c? have eonSned itself to the ordinary p?th of negotiations as long as the great interests of Germany like those of the empire of Austria, were not iinmediately threatened by dan- gers arising from the irresolution of some of its German confederates, and from the tergiversations of others, in con- sequence of a false appreciation of the situation of Europe. But the a titude which Prussia has now assumed, an atti- tudc which was foreshadowed clearly enough in the Prussian despatch of the 5th of January, and which if it called upon the Majority of the German Diet to reject the well-known propositions of Austria, ought to be at once considered as a formal diversion made in favour of Russia-that attitude forced Austria, in consequence of the important interests thereby immediately menaced, to hold herself also ready far such a case, and to make known to her German confederates what would take place when it had occurred. What proves how judicious Austria acted in doing so already on the 14th of January is proved by the circular despatch issued a few days later by the Berlin Cabinet, and in which it puts forth quite a new condition under which alone the engagements taken towards Austria in the treaty of April, and the additional article of November are to be recognised, as valid by Prussia and the other German Governments, and which has already hinted at (said innuct) in the Prussian dispatch of the 5th of January; anti when looked closer into, the latter document contained really an ill-concealed menace, although the allusions to the swafr of a great Power (Prussia) were not thus interpreted in tho reply of A ustna. rep,,ly It is thus shown how Austria was driven to take the step designated in the confidential despatch of the 14th of January by such an attitude of Prussia and in this respect, it must not be overlooked that this attitude of one of the great German Powers towards Austria-an attitude which indicated ulterior views-becomes gradually more promi- nently defined at decisive periods. PARIS, SUNDAY, FBB. 4. The Mouilellr publishes telegraphic despatches reeeiftt by the Minister of War from Sebastopol, dated 28th ult. The weather had improved, and the troop, supported with patience the unfavourable climate. The batteries were progressing with activity The Toltigeurs of the Imperial Guard, under General Ulrich, had arrived. The troops were full of enthusiasm. General de Niel andVaube. t de Genii, had likewise ar. rived. The following despatch has been received by the Minis- ter of Marine from Admiral Bruat, dated from the Monte- bello, Jan. 28:- The weather is fine. The battcrie. have received orders to be ready to commence their ifre. The sorties of the Russian garrison have ceased. 2,000 men have reinforced the French army with the voltigeurs of the Guard. TURIN, FEB. 3. The discussion on the treaty Of Alliance has commented. The deputies Farina and Brofferio advocate the alliance. Torelli and Durando disapprove of it. An admonition from Rome has been published. CONSTANTINOPLE, JAN. 26. Riza Bey will probably be designated al representative of the Porte at the Conferences of Vienna. The French Guards have arrived. VARNA, JAN. 27. Omer Pacha has withdrawn his resignation. Ismail Pacha continues under his orders. Orders from St. Petersburg command a speedy attack oa, and the destruction of, Balaklava and Euphoria. Osten Sacken, supported by the Grand Dukes Michael and Nicholas, wrll therefore probably attack the Alliet ere long, and whilst the weather is propitious. BUCHAREST, FBB. 2. Ismail Pacha arrived at Ibraila on the 31st January. He had issued a proclamation announcing that a great contest would speedily take place on the Lower Danube. MARSEILLES, MONDAY, Fn. 5 Yely Pacba, Turkish ambassador at Paris is r' I Mchemit Pacha, a son of Reachid Pacha. V elep Pa *?* appointed governor of Brussa. yea The heavy falls of snow bad weakened som* nf x. before Scbastopol but they were being acti ,e of e -GrX. The 3d French division have taken the ve y nf Ew nglii- shu in the trenches, and continue the works place of the EncliJh 12,000 British are now before Scbast' I TT? h hospitab are crowded. opo. The boepitala A thousand English and French are about to leave Con. stautinople for the Crimea. about to leave Con. British reinforcements, with three ?an»v„i arrived at Con8tantinopl. neraJJ5, had uriyod ST. PETEnsnURG s  Prince Menschikoff has addressed & 'f'??'?BB.4. ? ?' ?"?' dated Sebastopol, Jan 28, stating thateport to be Czar, had occurred np to that day.  importan 0 ??' ??' ??' Within the last few days all the Au t DESSA., JÂN. 31. port have put to sen, notwithstanding thatSi a t erc Was ice. ".1RIESTE M  6. Baron Kopler, the new Int?rnuncia'?Gf??'?' ? ? the Cartatone for Constantinople. eft "? yesterday by t.. VyltOlqA, FED ? Above 20 participations in the last revoluutiolalry illtriguel. of Mazzini have been arrested here. volunhonary intriguf!l The vigilance of the authorities is awaken The "J[01l1'(('ttl' of !fonday contains th f, The .MbM?w of Monday contains th« t 11 l•n? ?— The Empeior honoured, on Sunda olloftinJ:- audU ence, Count de Hatzfcldt, the Prsi;th.a pnnte audi., General De Wedel, who was connded ?-.?"??sador, Md handing to his Imperial Majesty lettersWl}h the mission of Prussia. rolU the King of The Emperor likewise gave a private e ? ?*?" de Dornberg, Minister of the Electorate of W?' ? ??" ?'? de honour of handing to his Majety the esse, of his RSi'al Highness the Elector to the letter of r a'iiwer of his Royal j count Serurier. addressed to tis- The Minister of War, Marshal Vaillanf vaddressed & report to the Emperor on the mil'nt, haa addrelcd of Algeria. organisation of In the Bavarian Chambers several n* i0r> advocate an alliance with the Western PoweM. ??or< advoette Ml A subscription for the French armv in i la opened in Brussels and Antwerp. ln the East haa been already contributed, accompaniedbv?f? couaterpMM, MO kilos, of tobacco, and 5,000 eigm. counterpane., 230 1 n