POSTSCRIPT.
SATURDAY.
According to the Honitenr of yesterday, the Council of War had as- sembled at the Tuileries, under the presidency of the Emperor. The list of the members presents the following, names- " The Emperor, the Prince Napoleon,- the Duke of Cambridge, Prince Jerome Napoleon, Lord Cowley, SirEdnumd.Lyonis Admiral -Dundee, Sir Richard Ivey, Sir Harry donee, General La .Marmora, Marshal Vaillant, Count Walewski, General Canrobert, General Bosquet, General Niel, Gene- ral Martimprey, Admintl Hamelin, Admiral de la Onniere, and Admiral Penaud."
Talleyrand used to say that a secret ceased to be a secret the moment it was known to three person,.: here are nineteen I
The scope of the Council is thus stated by the official organ- " The Council is not commissioned to arrange the plan of the approaching campaign, nor to deliberate on the political considerations which might cause one plan to be preferred to another. Its object is to enlighten the Allied Governments as to the •various military combinations which can be adopted, to foresee all eventualities, and to determine their exigencies. Formed for the greater part of experienced generals, who have alinost all taken a glorious part in the operations accomplished in the East and in the Baltic, the Council of War can only give advice, which will have been deeply weighed, and furnish proposals, eminently useful for the best em- ployment of the land and sea forces which the Western Powers are pre- paring."
Russia is also busy holding councils of war. On the 27th December, General Liprandi, Count Osten-Sacken, General Kotzebue, the chief of Gortschakoff s stat4, General Ludeni, General Krusenstern, and COinit Strogonoff, hail assembled in council and were deliberating at Odessa. '
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