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      4 k £ T ° ~ " finally resolved on . " The Morning Po& touches for the authenticity of this , and Le Non < wifb . great confidence discredits it . The Times Pari co rrespondence of Monday contains the annexed : — ** Tfce difference which existed between the Frencl and English Governments relative to the conditions on which they would make peace with Eussia are terminated , and the propositions which Count Talen Has Esterhazy will have to communicate to M . de Kesselrode are such as are considered acceptable by ^ England and . France . I cannot state in a positive zauaner what was the real ground of difference ; wh ether , as some say , it referred to a ' material jKtxarantee' of a permanent character , or to a war indemnity ; but it is not doubtful that for some time fche English . Cabinet , or a portion of it , was unwilling to accept a settlement on the terms which this Government deemed sufficient . It is , however , certain that the difference , such as it was , has now disappeared . It is believed at Vienna and elsewhere that France is more desirous of peace than England , and this desire , perhaps too clearly and too often manifested , may add to the obstinacy of Eussia , and produce its effect on Austria . " A despatch from Berlin , of December 16 th , is as follows : — "It is currently reported that , about the 15 th of November last , Prussia addressed a despatch to St . Petersburg , with ^ n earnest request to the Eussian Government to accept the interpretation given by the Allies to the third point of guarantee . Eussia has not yet replied . " From a debtor and creditor account of the Bank of qErance , made up to Thursday week , it appears that the metallic reserve has decreased during the past paonth 18 , 370 , 334 f . in Paris , and increased 25 , 721 , 8 Olf . in the branch banks . The discount accommodation has decreased in Paris 23 , 202 , 716 f ., and in the depart-, jnents 14 , 985 , 699 f . The advances on public securities have decreased in Paris 14 , 985 , 699 f ., and in the departments 2 , O 45 , 7 O 0 f . The notes in circulation have decreased 15 , 671 , 700 f . in Paris , and 5 , 792 , 800 f . in the departments . The Treasury account current has increased l , 277 , 509 f ., and those of private persons have declined 37 , 577 , 857 f . in Paris , and 4 , 199 , 247 f . in the departments . With the new year ( says the Times Prussian correspondent ) Berlin will possess two new establishments in full and beneficial activity , for which it is indebted , in the one instance to English capital and talent , and the other to English example . The Berlin Waterworks , which have just been built , with exclujjjyely English capital , by Sir Charles Fox and Mr . — ¦ ¦ " " ¦ '' ¦ - '—i ^ aniomftr and Crcnlpton ( the' latter Deing me aoui *« ,,. ~~ ... _ . engineer ) , ore iil process of being opened . For the present only a few of the more prominent buildings , such as Mmisterien ( public offices ) , the Opera-house , and various hospitals , are being supplied with water , but with the turn of the year the numerous parties who have already made application will be supplied , . under the auspices of a company which I bear has been formed in London for the purpose of keeping Berlin supplied with that very necessary ai-ticle , water . The other establishment is one for bathing , washing , and ironing , the same as we have iu London , Liverpool , and elsewhere . The Piemonte gives the following account of the state of the prisonB in the Papal dominions : — In 1850 there were imprisoned 10 , 430 In 1861 „ 11 , 279 In 1852 „ 11 , 767 in 1858 - „ 12 , 035 In 18 ( f 4 „ 13 . 00 C Showing Oa . augmentation of 2 , 570—nearly one-fourth hi five years . On the 31 st of last August , the same authority states there were 683 persons imprisoned iu Fort Urbano , whom it divides under the following heads : — Condemned by the Sacra Consulta 21 Condemned by the ordinnry tribunals 337 Condemned by the military tribunals 191 Condemned by tho diocesan tribunala 7 Awaiting judgment 2 In transit 1 Detained as a mcasuro of precaution 121 Boulogne has been the sceno of a very extensive fire , by which the house of Mr . Barnard , of thnt port , the woll-known ousfcom-hoiise and general agent , ban been entiroly destroyed . A vast amount of valuablo property has perished , inoludiug the papors aud aocount-booka of tho agency of the South-Eos torn Company ; but tho house and ifca contents are insured . The inmates escaped with difficulty . A fire has taken place in tho Palais dea Boaux Arts , and the freaoo-paiuting by M . Delaroche , representing the history of paintiug , sculpture , and architecture , down to tho reign of Louis XIV ., hoe been dninagod . In Copenhagen ( says tho Times Berlin correspondent ) a etory is afloat , affording ample and piquant opportunities for those who know some little of Russian ways to indulge in vory unfavourable suspicions of the Eueaiun diplomatic there- It is related that oh General Cauroberfc one evening returned eomowhat earlier than usual to hia apartments in tho Hotel d'Angletorro , ho found u strange man standing ut his secretaire , which had been broken opou , or openod ¦

      \ t with a false key , and so busily occupied in examining 2 his papers that he did not observe the General ' s s entrance . In high indignation , the latter is repre - sented to have seized a candlestick , or , as others say l some sharp-cutting object , and to have flung it at his 3 head . The stranger , turning round , received a severe 3 wound in the head , in the neighbourhood of the eye , - or , as others say , had his eye knocked out . That is s the story ; the fact is , that the same evening a valet de place was conveyed from the Hotel d'Angleterre to ! the hospital , where he seems to be under some danger of losing his eye from a hurt he has received . " The Invalide of the 8 th inst . publishes officially that the betrothal of the Grand Duke Nicholas with Princess Alexandra , the eldest daughter of Prince Peter of Oldenburg , took place November 26 th , the Grand Duke having first received the blessing of his mother , the Dowager Empress , and the permission of his brother , the Emperor . It is stated that the English Government has demanded from the Court of Vienna an explanation of the motives which have induced it to reduce the Austrian army . The organisation of the militia will be extended in the spring to the Polish provinces . Eumours have reached Bordeaux of the death of Mademoiselle Eachel in Philadelphia , from inflammation of the chest . The report , however , is not yet confirmed . The Gazette des Tribunaux jmblisb . es the constitutive act of the London General Omnibus Company , for a period of sixty years , and at a capital of 25 , 000 , 000 francs ( £ 1 , 000 , 000 ) , divided into 250 , 000 shares of 100 francs ( £ 4 ) , each . Messrs . Arthur M ' Namara and James "Wilking , of London , and M . Nicholas Felix Carteret , formerly member of the Council of State of France , are to be the directors of the company . The contemplated canal from Eassova to Kostendje has , it is said , been abandoned . An . appalling description of the Bagnio prison , on the Pera side of the Horn at Coustautino 2 > lo , has been communicated to the Times by Mr . S . G . Osborne . I The writer was conducted down a dark passage , ob-| scurely lit by a lanthern which his guide carried . " In this darkness existed a number , I kuow not bow large , of my fellow-creatures—chained , for we heard their movements—probably chained to one spot , for the path was clean . The stench was almost intolerable ; there must have been many . We were saluted witb yells from each side of ' Bono Johnny ! ' 'No Bono !' Their eyes , habituated to the darkness , could make US out when we could scarcely perceive the outlines of «• iv . aTO I am inclined to think , on another I any oi i , ~ . — ¦ * —«• - ground , tnat mey « ere . nZC- t ? particular * . ^ we had only two guards , and a stick seemed their only weapon . " Having visited an ancient Greek chapel at the end of this passage , " we had to retrace our steps through this abode of the ' chained iu darkness . ' As we went , we were again greeted with that I horrible chorus of groaning , laughing , and I presume cursing , with its accompaniment on the irons and chains of the poor wretches as before . I can scarce say I saw a single prisoner ; guessing with the eye , one fanced one made them out , but then it was only a sort of shadow of moving bodies , clothed or unclothed . " Barou do Scjeunc is to set out for Teheran in order to ratify a treaty of commerce and amity already contracted betweon France and Persia .

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      NAVAL AND MILITARY NKWS . ClIAI'MAK Ol' " ClIAI'MAW ' rt 1 UTTCIIY . " -Colonol Chapman , ' U . K ., ^ illlll > , ! " achievement * in the Crimea are woll Known , haw been receive . ! by tuo m-ImbiinntM of Tiiuiitoii with tho utmoM . oonliulity . A bunquAt vvuh given him ; and , in r « tiirniii « ihimkH for tho to ,. » t of hi » hoalth , ho wild , with rofi . rt . iiuo to the war , that it would be wuiicconmu-y for In ... t « , » xi » atmto on itaovontH , Ijoouubo thuy l » wl nil mul oi them in

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      OBITUARY . Samuel Eogers . —This veteran poot and lovor of art , who has outlived so many generations of men , and about whoso age ho many witticisms have been shot forth for tho lant thirty years or ho , has at laafc succumbed . Mr . Eogers died early on Tuesday morning , in his ninety-sixth year . lli « Iiouho in St . JamoB ' s-placo was the boouo of his demise . The life of Mr . llogern spread over ho large and so important a period of time that it proHontu within itself ono of tho most extraordinary hoi'ioh of historical , personal , and literary tableaux ever contained within tho career of ono man . Tho Times , contemplating this marvellous panorama , nays : — " Lot ua take tho rnont notable hi » torio drama of tho century—1793-1815— -the riHO , decline , and full of Napoleon Bonapurto . This wan but an episode in tho life of Samuel Ilogci-H . Ho was a young man of Homo standing in tho world , fully of an ago to appreciate the meaning and importance of the event , when tho KtatoH-Gonoriil wore an-Bornbled in Franco . If wo remember right , ho actually was present in 1 ' arJH at or about tho time , and may have hoard with bin own earn Mirahoau hurling defiance at tlio Court , and noon Dantoii un < l ItobeHpiorro whinporhig to each oLhor that tlioir time was not yet ooiuo . Lot uh go back to ot . hor evontn an HtundardB of ndmoanuroniont . Ah tho war of tlur Fronoh Revolution and that ugainnt Napoleon Bonapurto were opcodes in tho rijio manhood , ho wa » tho American war an opinodo in the boyhood of Eogor . i . Ho ' woh of an ago to approdafco the grandeur , if not tho political moaning of evontH , when Rodney won hit * naval viutoriof untl when ( Jonoral Elliott mioooHrifulIy dofondod Gibraltar . Ho could rmucmhov our

      difl'or-, j ences with our American colonies and the battles of 5 Bunker ' s Hill , Brandywine , and German Town , as - well as ^ a man now in manhood can remember the , three glorious days of July and the Polish ini surrection . " The Daily Netos , writing from i a similar point of view , remarks : — " He heard ' the talk of the town' ( recorded by Dr . Adams ) on Johnson ' s Letter to Lord Chesterfield ; and he lived to see the improvement of the copyright law , the removal of most of the taxes on knowledge , i and so vast an increase of the reading public as has rendered the function of patron of authorship obsolete . Samuel Eogers lived through the whole period when the publishers were the patrons , and witnessed the complete success of Mr . Dickeus ' s plan of independance of the publishers themselves . He was a youth of fifteen or thereabouts when half ' the town ' was scandalised at Dr . Johnson ' s audacity in saying what he did to Lord Chesterfield , and the other half was delighted at the courage of the rebuke . It was not long before that the 'Letters of Junius' had burst upon the political world ; and Eogers was quite old enough to understand the nature of the triumph , when the prosecution of Woodfall failed , and the press preserved its liberty under the assaults of royal and ministerial displeasure . His connections in life fixed his attention full on the persecution of Priestley and other vindicators of liberty of upeech ; while he saw , in curious combination with this phase , that kind of patronage which even . tho 1 ' riestleyn of those days accepted as a matter of course . Ho saw Garrick , and watched the entire career of every good actor since . All the Kemblcs fell within his span . He heard the first remarks on the ' Vicar of Wakeneld , ' and read , damp from the press , all the fiction that has appeared since from the Burneys , the Edgeworths , the Scotts , the Dickenses , and the Thackeray h . " Both the Times and the Daily News bear hearty testimony to the many generous actions of Rogers ; but the latter journal shows the dark side of the picture in representing the combined servility and caustic bitterness of his character , adding : —" Whether ho cvor was in earnest , there in no surt of evidence but bis aotn ; and the consequence wns that hia flattery went for nothing , except with novice * , while his causticity bit uh deep an he intended . He would begin with a norios of outrageous compliment * , in a measured ntyle which forbade interruption ; and , if ho wan sdlowed to finish , would go away and boast how much ho had made a victim swallow . A multitude of his Hayings are rankling in people ' s memories which could not possibly have had any-other origin than the love of giving pain . . Some were ho atrocious as to KuggesA tho id « a + * . « +. he had a sort of psychological curiowity to boo " - .. a : _ 4 .: ^^ F . xiieuii ilia " ' 'Irl bear such iiuuv - - how pcu } Pic oo— ¦ 1 # 1 —~ worship paid to the Railway King for his weaiwi , nu know of nothing in modern nociety so . extraordinary and humiliating an the deforoiico paid to Jtogera for his ill-nature . " ColonelSiimiour . —This eccentric , but thoroughly honest embodiment of old Toryism , died at tho latter cud of last week at Lincoln , tho city with which he was connected by birth , and which bo represented so long in Parliament . " Tho deceased gentleman , " Bays the Times , " was descended from an ancient family settled upwards of a century and a half at Canwickhall , near Lincoln , many of whoso members front time to time have represented that city in Parliament . His father , the late Mr . Humphry Waldo Sib thorp , sat for several years at tho commencement of the present century . Charles Dolaot Waldo Sibthorp * , tho deceased Colonel , was first elected in tho high Tory intorost in 1820 , and with tho excoption of the brief Parliament of 18 : 38-4 , chontm under the excitement consequent upon tho panning of tlio Reform Bill ho continued to represent Lincoln to tho day of his death . Colonel Hibtborp wan for many years a magistrate and deputy lieutenant for tho county of IJncoln , and in 1852 was gazetted to the . Colonelcy of the South Lincolnshire Militia . Ho Htrenuously and c . wflifltontly opposed in all their Htngen Catholic Emancipation , tlio Reform Bill , an < l the Abolition of Jewish DiHnbilitioH , and was ono of the minority or fifty-throe who ooiwurod froo trade when Lord Derby was in oflicciu November , J 8 fi 2 . " Tl . o Colonel for many yearn performed the part of merry-maker to tho JiouHO—an oilioe which hu » recently been partly occupied by Mr . Henry Drummond , by whom tho cap and bollH will now bo entirely cngroHHod . I ) r W . F . Ciiamhkhh , late physician to tlio Quoon , died , on the 10 th innt ., at his residence , JlorrUoHouHO , near Lymington , Hiunpului * , hi the Hixty-oighth year of Iuh ago .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 22, 1855, page 1219, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2120/page/7/