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The Times of yesterday says : — " We hare received a despatch from our correspondent at Berlin , dated yesterday , which states that the fresh additional article agreed upon by Austria and Prussia on the 26 th contains the adoption of the four points , and undertakes to procure their acceptance . " Prussia also promises her assistance to Austria if attacked in the Principalities . " The Times of the previous day contained the following : — " Berlin , Tuesday . " The Russian answer to the Prussian note expresses the willingness of the Emperor to treat on the following terms : — " First , a common guarantee by the Five lowers of the rights of the Christian subjects of the Porte , without distinction as to confession .
" Second , a common protectorate of the Principalities to be exercised by the Five Powers on the terms of the treaties now existing between Russia and the Porte . " Third , a revision of the treaty of 1841 . " Fourth , the free navigation of the Danube . "'
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The Preussiscke Correspondenz , whose supposed semi-official inspirations render its views noteworthy , has favoured the political world with another article on the subject of the / our points , as ostensibly accepted by Russia , and with , special reference to the position of the German Powers . " The Prussian Cabinet has transmitted several times to St . Petersburg the expression of its conviction that a prompt and sincere acceptance of those propositions afforded prospects of a pacific solution . " Can it be naade a matter of reproach to us that we suppose it impossible that the four guarantees , now that
they have obtained the acceptance of Russia ( indications'worthy of confidence prove it ) , should meet with simple rejection , either at London or Paris , where those conditions were laid down , or at Vienna , wliere they were ready to support them by force of arms ? Or are ¦ we to have imposed upon us a new political logic , according to which propositions have no value , excepting so long as they are not accepted ? For our own part , we consider the conclusion more rational , that the Western Powers must see in the acceptance of the programme laid down by themselves a high satisfaction , and a sure guarantee for the re-establishment of peace .
" As regards the German Powers , it is evident that they could not but receive with satisfaction the acceptance on the part of the Russian Cabinet . W " have a right to assume a desire in the Federal Powers to see . a war terminated , which , in its course , may transfer to the German frontiers the theatre of decisive events . The position of the German Powers towards the belligerents lias not been altered during the course of the summer . They have proved the moral support which they gave to the enterprises of the Western Powers in the interest o the balance of Europe , while preserving their pacific relations towards Russia , which has not hitherto failed 5 n her promise of maintaining an attitude purely defensive . We are therefore entitled to suppose that all the German Powers will see in the acceptance of the programme of August by the Cabinet of St . Petersburg a suitable basis for there-establishment of peace , "
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In preparation of the worst , Prussia is raising a loan : — " The ' Seehandlung' has issued the prospectus of a now state loan of 15 , 0 ) 00 , 000 thalers at 3 ^ , repayable within forty years , and to bo issued at par . "
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RUSSIAN ENOROACBCSIENTS STUX FUJmiEB EAST . The following is from the Times' correspondent at Bombay : — " The report I mentioned in my last , that tlie King of Kokan had s < jnt to request British aid against the Russians , is repeated . The Ameer has heard from his correspondents at Peahawur that beforo the departure of the Commissioner for Poshawur , an Ambassador from tho King of Kokan arrived at that place . Whother rightly or wrongly , tlria Ambassador gave himself out to bo a ' Shahssfidnh Sookan , ' son of tho Shahza&ah Soluiman of Sluihziimnn ' H family . Ho is escorted hy about 20 horso , and ou his arrival was mot on the road
by tho Ohota Suhob of Poahawur , and entertained daily at tho cost of tho British < G ovornmont , and lodged in the liouso of Lutchmanporsftud , ox-otficor under tho Sikhs , lie hnfl presented the Commissioner with a hoiso and rich trapping /) . Ilia object in to induce tho British Government to uitorfuro and , eitlior by negotiation or force , save the dominions of tho King of Kokan from subjugation by tho Russians , ilfi nslcs for n supply of arms , and auyn thai , lm kind troutnioiit , of tho JiriLiisli Kuvoy—poaaibly Arthur Conolly ( V)—in former d * iy « gives him a claim to English frioiuWiip . 'J'ho Kokan Chief wished to go to Murroc to muo tho Chief Commwrtionor , but wus told Unit ho would bo sent for if wanted . " Tho reports that hnvo boon forwarchul 1 o Englmid during tho lottb two you , ™ regarding tiiu oquipinout , < loimrUiro , and constant progrctiij of ( . ho KumhIhii expedition to Ihi ) Oxhh nnd JuxnrUm , Imro not , J lliiiilt , roeuivisd from tho English prom * tbo attention which t . hoir con-Huiiutlvenosa and t . ho gonwul ugrooimmt of roportd arriving through such vurioua und hidxipundout channolc
as Scmde , Peshawur , Persia , and Cashmere , might have fairly warranted ; and now , when the presence of a Russian force in Kokan is a fact as certainly ascertained as that of the Austrians in " Wallaehia , everybody appears to wonder how they could have got there so quietly . Yet there is really nothing wonderful in the matter at all ; on reference to your files of the last two years you will find reports of the progress of the expedition hi every stage . I think it was about two years ago since the first reports were published on the subject ; they were given en the authority of letters from an officer in the Russian service , and stated that an expedition against Central Asia , on a most extensive scale , was being equipped on the shores of the Caspian . It must
be remembered that these preparations were effected , arid the expedition started , before the Turkish difficulties had arisen and when the Czar ' s finances were in a very nourishing state . Orenburg is the head-quarters of a division of the Russian regular army . Few regular troops would , however , have been employed or required on such an expedition—the Russians understand the value of irregular or * provincial corps' as well as we do in India , and they possess such corps on all their frontiers ; a force of this sort admits of being readily and rapidly augmented on a frontier where every other
man is a Dugald Dalgetty ; the irregular corps raised on this principle on the Punjab frontier are considered the most effective portion of the native army , though provided with only two or three European officers a piece , and they were raised in a few months . It is evident that by similar meaias a Russian exipeditwxn to the Oxus might have been readily organized , ¦ without occasioning any inconvenient demand on the strength of the regular army , and it inust he remembered that the protection and monopoly of the tr * de of Central Asia and Western China , would well pay the expenses of auch an expedition . "
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EXTENSIVE AUGMENTATION OF THE FORCES . The contemplated augmentation of the army , which is expected to take place immediately after the assembling of Parliament , will , it is stated , embrace the whole of the infantry regiments of the line . The manner in which the increase is to he effected is stated to be as follows , viz .: —The regiments of infantry serving in the East , Gibraltar , Malta , and the Ionian islands , will have additional battalions of 800 rank and file respectively , to be termed 2 nd or 3 rd battalions , as in the case of the 1 st Royal and Rifle Brigade ; those regiments in the colonies and East Indies to have each a reserve battalion of 500 bayonets , and the regiments on home service to be placed , as regards their numerical strength , on the
war establishment . The regiments to have additional battalions of 800 men are the 1 st Royals , 3 rd Buffs , 4 th Regiment of Toot , 7 th Fusiliers , 9 th Foot , 13 th ditto , 14 th ditto , 17 th ditto , 18 th Royal Irish , 19 th Foot , , 20 th ditto , 21 st ditto , 23 rd Fusiliers ,: 28 th Foot , 30 th ditto , 31 st ditto , 33 rd ditto , 34 th ditto 38 th ditto , 41 st ditto , 42 nd Highlanders , 44 th Foot , 46 th ditto , 47 th ditto , 48 th ditto , 49 th ditto , 50 th ditto , 55 th ditto , 62 nd ditto , 63 rd ditto , 68 th Light Infantry , 71 st Highland Light Infantry , 72 nd Highlanders , 77 th - Foot , 79 th ditto , 88 th Connaught Rangers , 89 th Foot , 90 th ditto , 92 nd ditto , 93 rd Highlanders , 95 tli Foot , 97 th ditto , and the Rifle Brigade . The remaining regiments will be augmented as stated above . An additional battalion of Royal Artillery and eight companies of Koyal Marines are also to be raised . —Times .
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BETUKN OF ADMIRAI- DUNDAS . Admiral Dundas ' a three year * ' term of service as Commander-in-Chicf in the Mediterranean will terminate in the course of next month , when , wo believe , it is probable that the gallant admiral will return to England . We havo reason to believe it waa Admiral Dundas ' a desire , on assuming tho command , not to retain it beyond tho usual period ; and as , owing to the Ituasiun tactics , there is at present really no active warfare so far as the naval forces are concerned , lie moans to fulfil his intention of resigning tho Command-in-Chiof . — Qbbe .
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INCIDENTS . More Indignation ahout Odessa . — " A true Briton , " corresponding with tho Times , urges that Odessa is tho head-quarters of troops and supplies for tho Crimea ; that its wealthy inhabitants supply donations very valuable to our foes ; that we cannot afford to bo courteous , and that wo are not acting humanely to our own army . 8 , 000 , 000 / . or 10 , 000 , 000 / . worth of Russian ways and means might havo been destroyed , and we only chipped bits from tho faces of tljo forts . Hiovhnonh a Nos Moutons . —Wo read in the Salul . Public of Lyons , that for Iho last few days uguntB had boon engaged buying up at tho butchers Htalls all the shcopHkins on sale , having a contract to deliver ii « an short a puriod as possible 80 , 000 preparud skims for tho ubo of the French army in tho KllHt . ¦ UisvokYiautt ai Luw » b . ~ -A Times correspondent
complains , sensibly enough , that whilst our fo rces are suffering dreadful hardships , the Russian prisoners have had their wives brought over to fvfQ with them , and are receiving large sums from nahhjmen and gentlemen to purchase luxuries . They arje also selling the toys they manufacture at large prices We read also that an officer on parole purchased , $ Colt ' s revolver , and a dozen more were soon ordered . The gunsmith -was loyal ; he took " an opiimn , " which made the affair known , and the officer was promptly deprived of his purchased Colt . POPPLAKITY OP THE ANGLO-FRENCH AlXIA 2 TGB ,-= > - A correspondent of the Times , writing from Paris , gives cheering intelligence of French enthusiasm for British valour . He gives the following anecdotes : —
" I waa purchasing a cigar a day or two since in a shop on the Boulevards , when a cabman came in p buy tobacco . ' Is it true , ' said he , addressing a Frenchman , ' that 8000 Englishmen kept the field ^ gsiftfit 45 , 00 . 0 Russians until Bosquet came up , and that jji company with our soldiers they charged the eueniy jand killed 9000 ? ' ' Yes . ' ' Then , although I have always hated the English , and thought them false and perfidious ,, if an Englishman were now to fall into the Seme , J would jump after and try to save him , though I can'fc swim a , stroke . Here are heroes ; why the Old Guard could never have done more ; and to think they . are Englishmen , whom I have been hating all jay life ! But it is never too late to learn . '" — - Several English
officers , wounded at the Alma , lately passed through Paris , and ventured in . undress uniform ( their jonjy elothea ) into the Tuileries gardens . With shattered bodies and tarnished embroidery they looked as becajne men who had been fi ghting for their country . The people pressed round them in all directions , and gave most hearty signs of their sympathy , desiring to shake them by then- undamaged hand , for most of them had one arm in a sling , ' Voila d&s Anglais , des blesses , < je VAhnnj was heard , in all directions , mingled with words of good-fellowship from the men , and of pity fnom ifre softer sex . One old man , more practical than tie rest , judging from the condition of their uniforms and their honourable scars that they must want money , offered to
supply them with anything they required , and was quite grieved that they had no occasion to avail themselves of his generosity . "— " The Charivari contains a picture of a Highlander standing sentinel at his post ¦ with a precipice and the sea immediately at his back . A French soldier and a Tartar peasant regard him from helow . ' What folly , ' says the Tartar , ' to place a sentry Ln such a position . ' ' There ' s no danger , ' repliesthe Chasseur , c ces soldats-la rie recideia jamais . '' And this in the Charivari , written by some of the most consistent ^ Republicans in France , and so long bitter against England and all connected with her ! The gallant
stand made by ' that astonishing infantry' has received a full meed of justice at their hands , and over and over again I have been met with the remark , ' How proud you should be to be their countryman ; ' to whicJi I have replied , ' Yes , as you to be the countryman of those whp so nobly flew to their assistance . ' ' How cowar . dly in the Russians , ' say many ; ' they always attiick the English , force , knowing it is the weakest . Howover , we should not regret it , as it has shown us of what stuff your army is composed , and how implicitly we can roly upon it . ' A "veil seems to have passed from their eyes , and tho jaundiced huo with which they regarded England and her institutions has been , changed to cot / faitr de
rose . " Patriotism at Cork . —Thomas Mason . Tones lias been expelled from tho Cork Chamber of Commerce for having expressed a wish that tho Russians would be successful in the Crimea . He was not kicked I Throwing Shicjlls Five Miles . —This has not been done , but Mr . A . M . Perkins , son of tho inventor of the steam-gun , says in a letter to the Times , " That he is prepared to supply tho Government with steam-guns , which would throw shells of a ton weight , five miles . He thinks such ji gun in Brunei ' s 10 , 000 ton ship , would destroy Sevastopol without the loss of a man . " Whataro tho representatives of Captain Warner about ?
The Wounded ojp Inickrman . —Tho -wounded havo arrived at Constantinople and Scutari . They number 3000 in tho two hospitals . Thero is mucn suffering , but no complaints . Mies Nightingale and her attendants prove most valuable . There is aomo talk ^ of turning tho palace of tho Russian linibassy into an hospital , for thoy are quite crowdod at present . Coats in the Crimea . —It is not for the offloora only , as stated , that his lloyal Highness Prince Albert has ordorod winter oloUiing , but we understand that tho Prince has glvon in « tructions to provide , at his expense , sealskin coats for liis owa regiment , the Urcimdior Guards , aarving in tho Crimea . This Son of " tiim Tuaitoh . "—The Times correspondent in tho Crimea sayH : — " I hear that Captain Pcol , of the Diamond , left his ' blue juekato ' on ( , he . Oil ) , and wont right in among tho thickest of the fight , whero hu joined tlio rod-coats , nncl Blushed away with hi « regulation sword , wherever tfo ® intflfo was florcoet . "
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December 2 , 1854 . ] THE LE ADEE . 1131
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 2, 1854, page 1131, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2067/page/3/
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