... A USTRIA. (mo0M OUR OWN COORRSPONDSNT.) VIENNA, JAN. 18.- There can be no doubt that the number of special couriers received and sent off by the different embas- sies here within the last few days has been very great;' and, among others, probably the arrival of the Marquis de Chateaurenard, the secretary of the French Legation, from Paris, in an incredibly Dbrief time, has given rise to the ...

... PRUSSIAN TACrICS DESZRIBED BYF MS. DROUYN DE LHUYS. We had recently the satisfiaction of giving thet earliest itttelligence of the claim lately pat; forwfar l, by Prussia to share in the settlement of the great ' European quarrel, from the dangers of which she g has kept carefully aloofi. To these pretensions M. d Dronytn do Lhuys has just replied in a despatch to the Marquis de Moustier, ...

... Tuesday, January 9. War-Oflice, January 9-7th Royal Fusiliers: Lieut.-General Sir G. Brown1, K.C.B. from the 77th Foot, to be Colonel, vice General the Right Hon. Sir E. Blakeney, G.C.B. removed to the Ist Foot-36th Foot: Lieut.-Geueral W. R. Scott to be Colonel, vice Lieat.-General Lord F. Fitzelaretoce, deceased-77thi Foot; Lieut.-Generat G. L. Goldie, C.B. to be Colonel, vice Leat,.-Generat ...

... A MAN BURIED ALIVB.-It will, no doubt, be remembered that a well-sinker was buried near Lyons by the falling in of a mass of sand while be was at work, and that after twenty days' confinement he was extricated, though he shortly afterwards died. A similar accident has recently befallen another well-sinker, at Saint Vigor le Grand, near Bayeux, but we regret to add that, in spite of the efforts ...

... LONDON, MONDAY, JAZN 15. A GENERAL European Congress begins to be talked a of in diplomatic eircles. As yet it is little more than o vaguely hinted at; but it is certain that the question has been mooted. The time has not yet come for a o Congress, but it appears to be rapidly approaching. I Sardinia is understood to have drawn nearer to the t Western Powers, though in what manner, and to I ...

... The Madrid journals of the 2nd contain accounts of disturbances at Malaga. For some time past it appears that a good deal of agitation has existed in the city. In the morning of the 28th ult. the go- vernor caused a proclamation to be stuck up on the walls, announcing that the examining magistrate had ordered the detention of certain persons who were concerned in some disturbances that took ...

... SIR GEO. BONHAM AND THE SHANGHAII I DUTIES. CU TO THE EDITOR OP THE DAILt NaWn. to &R,-In your issue of this morning you publish a 1 In letter from Mr. Joseph Hume upholding, as it appears to i le me, Sir John Bowring, at the expense of his predecessor, Sir George Bonham. I do not think Sir George is, from what I know of him, at all likely to take up the cudgels, in and I therefore enclose for ...

... (o'uoasOu own owncaRs~rolDwzcv.) 1 . PARI1S, SATrU5D10 EVENINGe. There is a reanonr this evening, so, well- accredited as to deserve -notice, that the Frankfort Diet, con- trary to all expectation, has voted the mobilisation of a federal army of' 280,000 meen, jang.that Prussia voted with the majority. . The great rise at the Bourse, difficult to explain in the face of the threaten- ing aspect ...

... C~o v .- dl I (rOX OUR OWN CORAZOPONDENT.) ti PARIS, SUNDAY EVENING. E Some details, which I believe to be correct, have 0 been comnunicated to me of the recent negotiations p at Vienna. On Jan. 6, as you are aware, Prince si Gortchakoff suddenly declared, that he had orders to p accept thq four points (which had 'so recently beent declared iscompatiblewith the dignityof Russia)and d that he ...

... TEE~ :WA - ?? BERLIN, JAN. 25.. The Premier's peculiar orcan, the Zeit, has an artiele entitled sEurope and Prussia, mnaintaining that Prussia has no interest either'way' in the pre- idpmninanc6eoP Russiai in the Block Sea t that is simply the affair of the maritime powers. Prussia' has a IEuropean dutyr to perform in 'opposirlk'tbe seizure of ,a part of the 'Sultan's territory' by Ruspia a9 ...

... ,EXTRACT OF A PRIVATE LETTER FROM Af OFFICEFR OF THE LIG HT DTIVISION. I-- I anuarv 10, 1855. I wasted a day yesterday in going to 'Baiskiava. I will give you the particulars;* it will show you how matterstare managed here. We got atn order that t: two vessels, the Niagara and Colombo, having d arrived from Varna with horses-one vessel also-lbav: r ing.50 bfttnlen, the other 87, namues ...

... TheDiarioESpanol of the 29thult.ultstates that the ministry, in pursuance ofthe promise that it had given, was endeavouring to effect economy in every depart- ment of the state. In the foreign department, the lega- tions of Denmark, Parma, Tuscany, Switzerland, and Saxony are to be suppressed, and those of Mexico, Turkey, Piedmont, and Naples are to be of the second class. In the other ...