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    FRANCE . In ti t * National Assembly , on Wednesday , a scene oi indescribable confusion took place . M . Dnpin lianas heen obliged to call M . Barrault to order , ths Jiouniaiu en masse declared that , the tribune being no longer free , they would take no part in the debate . Paiiis , Fkidat . —The report of M . Boucher , in the name of the committee appointed to examine the question of the duty oa potable liquors , and which was distributed yesterday to the members of the Legislative Assembly , commences by stating that the Constituent Assembl y , when on the point of separating , had passed a bill to take off the whole duty , amounting to little less than 100 millions a

    year . But the financial position of the country hai not by any means improved tn such a degree as to admit of that extensive sacrifice . The budget for 1850 , presented by M . Passv , showed a deficit of 320 millions , even when maintaining the duty in question . The present minister of finance adopted in part the estimates of his predecessors , but proposingother means of providing for the insufficiency of the ordinary resources—and by bim also the duty on polable liquors was looked on as absolutely required by the state of the finances . The committee could not suppose that it ought , under such circumstance ? , to recommend the Assembly to agree to the abrogation of the liaty , unless very peculiar

    cfrcuais- . aucw connected with its collection and effects absolutely required it . The documen t tben proceeds to show what the amount of duty is in different foreign countries , and gives an historical account of its operations in France from the organic decree of the 25 Ventose , year XII . to the hill of May 29 th , 1849 . The report enters into an examination of the different taxes which make up the duty on potable liquors , and concludes the catalogue of advantages by declaring that it produces 100 millions a year to the state ; furnishes nearly one-third of the oelyoi revenue , and gives employment to a vast number of peisons in every part of the country . The disadvantages of the duty are , that the collection is attended with a number of annoyances to agriculture

    and commerce ; trammels to a certain extent the circulation and sale of po'aWe liquors ; imposing a tax on twenty-five millions of consumers , -whilst it exempts ten millions of producers ; calls on five millions of persons inhabiting the towns to pay an additional duty , winch the thirty millions of inhabitants of ths country districts are free from ; ' and , finally , requires no direct purchases , made on a wholesale scale , such as wealthy people aloha could raaie , an amount of duty inferior to that pressing on consumption iu detail . It concludes b y recommending the Assembly not to consent to give up so large a sasi as was produced by the duty , bat to authorise the government to continue to collect it during the year 1 S 50 .

    Pabis , Satchdav . —The deoate in the Chamber jesferday was upon a motion made by several llontagaard members , for allowing a sum of three millions to subsidise working associa ; ions in the capital . T ! iC sabject was treated with ind . fierence by the Assembly , which , however , was roused from its apathy by M » oVHautpanl ascending the tribune to read the following telegraphic despatch : — * THE GOV 2 F . SOU-GSXERAI . OF ALGIERS TO THE

    MINISTER AT TVAB . ' Algiebs , Dec 2 —Zaatcha was carried by storm at eight o clock , a . ffi ., on the the 26 th ult . Bmziau and the Scheriff Si-Moussa-Bou-Amar , aud the 700 or S 00 men of the garrison , defended thera-Sflves to the last , and were all pat to tbe sword . Our loss consists of thirty or forty killed , aud 150 wounded , of whom six are officers . ' The reading of this despatch produced the deepest emotion in the Assembly , par ticularly the part ¦ which states that the Arabs dhd to a man in defence ef their post . It was some time before the agitation subsided . The rest of the day "was taken up with ths drha'e of the proposition alluded to . The Assembly decided , by a majority of 399 votes to 188 , that it sh . ;' . s ! d act he taken into consideration .

    We read in the * Paine' and * Aloniienr du Soir ' of yesterday evcuiug-. — 'The President oi the Republic has recovered from bis indisposition , but the Mate of bis health will sot jet permit hira to be exposed fur five or six hours to lbs temperature of the season . The review of the national guard and the army cannot , therefore , take place on . Monday next . ' Therumoars to the effect that the review would not take place are thus veiitkd ; the dinner at the Hotel ds Ville and the ball are to be given . It was t . i he estKcted that the government would attribute the adjournment of the review to am *

    cause bat a political one , but the democratic papers are more explicit . ' We were prepared . ' says tbe * National , ' ' for this announcement , and wa had even previously announce : ! that the revie , w wouW not fake place . It was ( huugut that the dissolution of four legions and the purifications which have been made in the companies still organised wuuld he sufficient to ensure the enthusiasm of the National Guard for the project of tbe Elysee . The information received by M . Carlier has destroyed iheso hope ? . The review is consequently countermanded . It is a new attempt , which has failed ?

    The French government has received , by telegraphic despatch , oincial news that the Qasen of S . iain is enceinte . Tbe amiouBCsraeufc appears in the official columns of the * Msdrid Gazelle . ' According to Spanish etiquette , this announcement was not made until her Majesty had arrived at the third month cf her pregnane } - . Queen Isabella completed her nineteeath year on the 10 th of October last . Pahis , Mokdat . —M . Dnpin , President cf ths "N ational Assembly , gave his grand diaucr yesterday to the President Jf the Republic Amongst other toasts given on the occasion by if . Duyin the following is one— ' To the health of the President of the Republic , and to tbe union of tbe public au- 'iorittfs for the consolidation of order at iorae sn .-I the honourable maintenance of peace aud friendly relaiir . ss v . ith other nations '

    in ? Preside :: * o ? the Republic returned thanks iu the feiUowfog wwuV . — It is a lucky omen for peace at kosic s . u < i ab . oad that this firet anniversary of the 10 : b of Deesatbsr is celebrate-1 in the midst of a great unmhs-r of ths members of the Assembly , snd ra IV . ? ^ reseuee of the Diplomatic Corps . Between lit ? National Assembly a . » d me there is a comiiiuKlry of uriziii and a community of interests . Bulb are the is-ue of popular suffrage . "We both a ^ ire to the same , ohjrct—the consolidation of society Slid !•;? ] irosf .:- ? ity ef the country . Permit roc , therefor , . : o repeat ilia toast cf your President , — ' To \ h * v . » k-s of she public authorities . ' I add , * To ths AsszKb ' y a :: d its honourable President . ' Both leasts were received with applause .

    The President of the Hepublic rede oa horseback yesterday , and as fee passed through the Champs Eiysaes , - ' - j . ^ ob , owing 10 the fin ? weather , made 2 display of equipages nearly equal to what was seen before the revolution cf February , received numerous ma ; ks of public satisfaction ( from tbe mob of aristocrat ) at Lis recovery from his recent

    indisposition-The Question of the . Reduction op the Armv was d-bated on Thursday , in the sitting of the Assembly , on account of a hill for the military contingent of 1819 . The contingent w ? s fixed at 80 , 000 men by tbe Minister of War , an < l t ' . vo amendments wer * . presented to reduce it to 40 . 000 , or at least to 50 , 030 , hat im Aisesihly adhered to the ori g inal figure of 80 . 000 . M . d'Hau'poul , the Minister of "War , has declared that ihe political situation of Europe presented the fcovernraenr from reducing tbe amv .

    J'o . vTsaM £ xr of Death . —fa the Assembly , oa Satirdsr . the discussion was continued on the proposition of M . Salvauer Larocha for the aholiti > k of tbe penalty of death . A division took place , when there a :. ;? ear ^ d , —for ths ptopusition , 1 S 2 ; against it , 400 . " Paris . W ' eosesday . —Tbe ' . Monitear' contains upwards oi sixty nominations and promotions in the order of tha Legion cf Honour . Private leilsrs from Cuiistautinople of the 25 th sit . state thai the differencts between the Russian aud Turkish governments still remained unsettled . The TsrkUh govtnrment refuse to expel the Poles who had fixed their residence in Turkey previous to the Hungarian insurrection . Major Rawlhifon had arrived at Constantinople from Bagdad on bis way to England .

    ITALY . ROUE , . \ ov . 23 . —Some ladies wfio , witf , their families and friends , were carried off by the Eoman sbirri and French gendarmes to prison , for attending a fuuerel service for the men who fell in the revolution , hare been allowed to return , but remain under arrest iu their houses , and have been oompelled to give a wris'en promise to receive no visitors ; hut tbe men have been sent to the common prison amongst the malefactors , although many of them were at ia tfae church where the military funeral service was performed . Ths surgeoa ; and medical men who assisted the wounded a : the hospitals have heen dismissed , and

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    will be prohibited from acting in their profession at the public institutions . The priests alsa who assisted the dying Republicans have been put in prison , at the disposal of the Cardinal Vicar . The Protestant missionary , Dr . Giachvto AeMUi , who was thrown into the dungeons of the Inquisition , but afterwards removed to tbe Castle of St . Angelo through the influence and personal exertions of the British Consul , is still there , and although confined for four months has not yet been examined Out be is now placed at the disposal of the Inquisition ; and if not liberated before the French quit , he will be doomed , in all probability , to die a lingering death in the prisons of the Inquisition , restored by General Oudinot .

    In the order of the day , addressed to the French troops by General Baraguay ri'Hilhers , there is an important expression—i . e ., ' that they must not consider their mission as at an end ; aud that if they should be called upon to meet an enemy in the field , he calculates and can depend upon their courage and discipline . ' This looks rather warlike . NAPLES , Nov , 24 . A gloom bangs over tbe Pope ' s camarilla , and despatches from France are looked for with anxiety and fear . His Holiness' gaolers have again changed policy—the prisoner is to remain at Portici or Gaeta until the political atmosphere assumes a clearer aspect .

    Since my last communication bis Holiness has again visited churcnes and convents , which events have been recorded with the usual ecclesiastical flourish in the journals , that nothing but endless prosperiiy and happiness can possibly attend a people wl o have received so many blessings from Christ ' s vicegerent on earth . The state trials are still suspended , and as arrests continue , I suppose so many persons have been'dtnounced for their constitutional opinions , it is found necessary to net more game before legal proceedings can begin .

    Several persons have been shot at ^ Palermo for concealing arms . I cannot give the names , but I know they belong to tbe poorer classes . The island is described to be in a discontented state . A regiment of Swiss has left Naples on that account . I have already alluded to tbe general disarming of the population which is now taking place , but having witnessed lately something of its operation and effects , I think some farther notice of it may bs welcome . In the first place , the most remote nooks arc subjected to it , and rocks tenanted b y birds and mariners and a few native sportsman who thur gain their livelihood , are sought out and disarmed by the lynx-eyed police of Naples . This week

    General Statella , with a company of mounted gendarmes and several companies of infantry has been enforcing this unnecessary and detested measure on the coast from Naples to Massa . The guns are taken , no rece ipt men , and are thus lost to the owners . If refused the recusants are marched off to prison , as happened , I am told , to the district judge in one place . At Torre del Greco , an Englishman ( Afr . Driukwater ) who has been t-stablished in that place for sSme time , on being applied to tor his arms positively refustd to give them up , and referred the general to Mr Temple as the only person who bad any right to interfere . A communication was made to Naples of this fact , and instructions were received

    to deliver up his arms to a Frenchman who had already consigned them . So that from this I infer that the decree does uot extend to foreigners . Consistently , too , with tbe demoralised habits both of people and government , this disarming lias offered a fine opportunity for the gratification of malice and vindfettaeness . Persons have been denounced as having arms which they did not possess , and the denunciation has , as usual , been sucked in with a ready ear , so that the unfortunates in several cases have been compelled to buy guns at a small jjrice , and present them , in order to escape threatened castigation or imprisonment . Apropos to this is the case of a count , who had a friend whom he treated with

    great kindness and confidence . As a return , ihe friend robbed him , and was immediately dismissed by ( he court ; but here , so influential is tbe occupation of the informer , that malice has always a ready mode of gratifying itself . The count was denounced by his quondam friend , as having arms and ammunition in his possession ; his house was searched , and he himself thrown into prison , where he lay for a long time , and was liberated , I am told , only ou condition of exih . At Amalfi , I was to ! d by an Amalfitano , that , to the annoyance of having their arms taken from them was added , in some cases , the supeifluons insult of a kick from one of the commission , aud an order to haveiheu- beards cut off .

    PIEDMONT . —Ihe RUorgimento' of Turin of the 3 rd announces that Silvio Pellico , the celebrated author , has come forward as a candidal at the next elections of Piedmont , having hitherto kepi aloof from all political affairs .

    GERMANY . The Acquittal of Waldeck . —We reported in our last the acquittal of Waldeck . On the verdict being given tbe defendant was immediately surrounded and embraced by his ancumt parliamentary friends and colleagues , who had remained on purpose to hear the end cf the proceedings . Meanwhile the joyful news had spread abroad in the immediate neighbourhood of tha court , where a large concourse of respectable persons were waiting for tbe decision . Preparations \ tere immediately made for carrying Waldeck in triumph to bis borne . But the late prisoner , wishing to avoid anything

    that might give offence to the autnorities , left the court-house with his friends by aback entrance , and had nearly succeeded in escaping in a coach ready in waiting for him from tbe noisy demonstrations which were intended for him , but he was no sooner discovered than the whole stream rushed after the carriage . The mob succeeded in arresting its further progress when it reached the bridge on which stands tbe equestrian statue of tbe great Elrctor ; the horses were immediately taken off , and a triumphal procession formed , which proceeded past the Schloss and the palace of tbe Prince of Prussia , and down . 'he Unter dcr Linden . Hers Waldeck succeeded in

    escaping from the honourable ovations which the thousands assembled were casting at his feet . It was a scene such as Berlin has not witnessed since the revolution . Very soon , to ;> , the flying venders of pamphlets end papers made their appearance , notwithstanding tiie ban under which Maiitenfful has placed them ard the threats of the constables . A ballad , commenced with tiie words ' Waldeck is free , ' was for a short time oifcred for sale , mid the aristocratic streei of Unter den Linden , during that short space , bore such an appearance that one might have believed oneseif transported back to the days of the revolution . But the dark spirit of the great Afanleufffl still hovered over the merry scene , aud it had lasted barely an hour when a body of constables in close order swept the streets clean of all appearance of democratic anarchy .

    That I may not insult Waldeck by passing at once from his trial to the proceedings of the Second Chamber , I will add here that very important and interesting explanations of tbe proceedings of the extreme rcctionary party are expected to result from the new trial of Ohm . Having had torn from his face tbe mask of a martyr , it is hoped that Ohm will not hesitate to name the parties who have employed him . The scoundrel did not exhibit to-day the same degree of impudence and Cire ' . essness which he displayed ou the previous days ; the workings of a disturbed csnscience was apparent iu every feature of his pale face , and he will no doubt prove himself rascal enough to involve in his own destruction those who have destroyed him—that is to say . if he is not more closely watched than be was in the house of the faiiiiful , careful , ami most honourable president of police , Herr von Ilinkehler .

    Berlin , Dec 4 . —Tbe excitement consequent upon the acquittal of Waldeck , and which pervaded the whole city until late in the evening , resulted in some parts in tumultuous disturbances In the more distant parts of the city , which are the virtual strongholds o ) the democratic party , many of the houses * ere illuminated in honour of " the result of the trial ; but the constables forced an entrance into all the houses so illuminated , and extinguished tbe lights , whereby , of course , the most violent struggles occurred , and numerous parties were arres ' . ed . In the sweet , too , in which Waldeck lives , crowds of persons , d : sirous of testifying their respect to the acquitted , though in a somewhat noisy fashion , gradually collected , and several violent scenes occurred , in which the armed power did not hesitate to use their side arms .

    Waldeck was presented this morning with a silver civic crown : the patties by whom this present was made are the leaders of the . democratic party , of whom a deputation waited upon him for the purpose of presenting him with it . Nothing has yet been heard of the arrest of Goedsche . The impudent vagabond has published a letter to-day in one of the papers , in which he savs that he shall not be content with calml y waiting for proceedings to be taken against hira b y the public prosecutor , but that he himself demands an inquiry . SAXONY . —The strength of the democratic part

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    in the Dresden Chamber is a token that tha Saxons tre by no means inclined to abandon without a struggle the ground which they won in 1848 . Tbe political feeling of the people in that monarchy is not smouldering as in Prussia , nor indifferent as in Austria , but active and unrepressed . There is in fact no force there on which the government could depend for earning out such a system of intimidation as that up held by the great German powers . The Saxon military do not regard a laced coat and cross-belt as p lacing an issuperable barrier between them and tlteir families j and had not the greater part of the army been absent in Sehleswig-Holstein

    during the affair of May , the Prussians would have been forced , perhaps , to remain on the ri ght bank of the Elbe , and tbe insurgents have triumphed . In the meantime the Prussian and Austrian governments regard with equal displeasure a fermentation , which canno t fail to spread beyond the Saxon border into their respective dominions ; and the occupation of the Bohemian frontier by an Austrian army shows that , in case of an opportunity for intervention , the taik this time will probably not devolve on Prussia . Of the speedy occupation of Saxony by Austrian troops there can hardly remain any doubt . The Chamber will be dissolved , and the black and vellow

    flag be called in to establish the same regime of terror which reigns-under its auspices in . other places . The snow still continues without abatement . For the vfhele week this unprecedented storm has endured without pause . The watcrmills are everywhere stopped . A great number of barges laden j vith fuel have been icslocked . All ni g ht Jong companies of workmen are in the streets , attended by lorehmen , hewing with mattocks at the hardened snow , which is carried off in carts . OLDENBURG . —The Diet of Oldenburg has retired , by twenty-two votes against nineteen , to ratify its adhesion to the Federal State . The ministers have all tendered their resignations , and the Grand Duke has prorogued the Diet to the 28 th December .

    Bbblin , Dec 3 . — -Another note has been addressed to the Prussian government by that of Austria . In it tbe Austrian government declares that it entertains fears for the public peace of Germany , if the Erfurt parliament should really be assembled , and that it is determined to interfere to prevent any such disturbance of the peace . The note , then , is not directed against the assembly of the Erfurt parliament , but against its probable consequences . I am assured that the Prussian answer is worded

    equally energetically ; somewhat to the effect that Prussia sees in the convocation of the Erfurt parliasuent not merely no source of fresh troubles , but , on the contrary , the best means of preserving lasting tranquillity in Germany ; i : declares the fears of Austria to be perfectl y unfounded , but supposing even , what is really improbable , that disturbances should arise , Prussia has already shown that it possesses the power of restoring peace' aud order , aven at a time when Austria was prevented from rendering it any assistance .

    ill . Eichler , one of the leaders of the Democratic party , who has long been concealed in Berlin , and has escaped the vigileuce of the police by an adroit use of disguises and concealed residences , has just been arrested . A letter was found on him , referring to the late trial of Waldeck , which it is . considered contains treasonable matter . The authorities of several of the towns in the province of Posen have lately observed , with some surprise , that , in spile of the ravages of the cholera among the Jewish population , which it is known suffered severely by the disease , the male members

    of the families did not appear to be decreased in number . Tin ' s led to some inquiry , and it has been found that the vacancies , as they occurred , were filled up by an immigration of Jews from the Russian territory of Poland , who took the name of the deceased , and lived with the family , of course by a private agreement . They thus become absorbed among the subjects of Prussia , and escaped the severe Russian military proscription , which the Polish Jews detest , and avoid by all possible devices . The number of . these substituted for persons known to have died of the cholera is stated at GOO .

    Konigsbkrg . —The trials for political offences here hare brought to light another plot against the liberty of the subject . One of the parties accused of high treason , Herr Motzkus , a government official , has been acquitted , as it appeared clcaily from the crass-examination of ihe witnesses for the prosecution , that the indictment of the accused , who is a wellknown democrat , was the result of a formal plot concocted by three members of the Prussian Union . Prussian ? bbedom . —The following advertisement appears in one of the Berlin papers : — ' To protect mv fellow-citizens from injury , I think it right .

    to . give notice , that fur reporting the arrival of my nephew , J . Stand , from Augsburg , one hour and a half after the legal time , I have been fined five ibalers , three groschen ; and in default of payment eight days' imprisonment . —J .-G . Stand , Berlin . ' Nor is this strictness confined to its relations to the public : the oldest and most severe regulations of the police disci p line are enforced occasiouajlyamong its own agents . Even words that caw be construed into ' disrespect to the uniform' arc severely punished . A constable iast week had the good for . tune to win 25 , 000 tbalers in tbe lottery ; he was on dutv when the news was communicated to him .

    'Then , thank Heaven , hessia , 'I can . throw off this coat ! ' The words were reported , and he is at present undergoing an imprisonment of six weeks as an expiation for forgetting the sacredne-s of the roval cloth .

    AUSTRIA . A telegraphic despatch , dated Vienna , Dec . 6 says : — ' The Minister of War has sent orders by the telegraph to the in antry regiment Alexander , quartered at Tbetesienstndt , in Bohemia , to be under marching orders for Saxony within four-and-twenty hours . AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY . Fifteen sentences have been cuudemucd hy the military court sitting at Arad ; two of the political offenders were sentei'ced to ten years' fortress arrest , and thirteen to be shot ; the i roperty of all was confiscated . General Ilaynau has commuted the punishment of death into thirteen years ' confinement in a fortress . The unfortunate men were formerly in the Austrian service .

    The ' Cologne Gezitte , ' iu an electric telegraphic message from "Vienna , dated the aih insl ., announces a ministerial crisis in consequences of a misunderstanding between Prince Schwarzenbsrgh and Dr . Bach , the minister of the interierj the latter wislud to resign . Skow Stiiums in German ? , —The communication between Berlin add Vienna is interrupted , the mail being ' snowed in . ' Tbe journals from Silesia are foil of nothing but snow ; such a fall has not been known even in the memory of that

    respected referee , the ' oldest inhabitant , ' whose opinion has as much weight there as in England . The communication between neighbouring towns is stopped , tbe roads not bfing passable to hoofs or wheels ; it is not said whether the people bad tried sledges , which have begun to appear in Berlin . Th » posts are all irregular , some being off for days together . On the Vienna Hue of rail the irregularity has not been created by the elements ; it is merely increased . In Ratiber and other places tbe snow has beeen falling for eight days without cessation .

    Adolf I'ischhof occupies a rack among the Austrian liberals little inferior to that held by Waldeck among the Prussians . This deputy , whose voice was one of the most powerful , on the 13 th of March , iu demanding free institutions for his countrymen , failed not lo draw upon himself , in the hour of reaction , the full wei ght of ihe court ' s displeasure . Fis ' cbhof has "been imprisoned for nine months , aud is now at last set at liberty , nothin « whatever having been found against him , ' after no stone has been left nn unied to implicate him in some punishable offence . The rcenibers ' of Kossuth ' s famil y , consisting of women and children , who were in arrest , have been liberated .

    THE HUNGARIAN REFUGEES . Constantinople , Nov . 15 . —From the contents of a despatch received yesterday from ? aud Eit ' endi , there is every reason to believe that diplomatic relations will shortly be resumed between the Porte and the cabinets of Vienna and St . Petersburgh . The only remaining obstacle is whether the Hungarian refugees shall settle in Turkey or not . The English ambassador has had long and frequent interviews with the Grand Viser and the Minister for Foreign Affairs . The ministers for Austria and Itossia have also had conferences with the latter official .

    A letter from Shoumla of the 1 st states : ' On tha 28 th ult . 1 , 5000 Poles from Witldin arrived here , commanded by Prince ISamoisk y , They were very kindly received by tho Governor , and supplied with all things necessary for their subsistence . They had suffered greatly during their march , and three perished on the way from fatigue . ' CoxsTXsriSQVLE , Nov . 21 . —It seems to be tho

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    nneral opinion hero amongst well-inform ed people that tbe Emperor of Russia intends to f low the difference existing between himself and the tone to remain unsettled until the spring , when he will be able to commence hostilities . At present there is not the slightest prospect of friendly relations being re-established between tbe Sultan and the Czar . It is true that the demand for the extradition of the Hungarian refugees has been g iven up , and that the Austrian cabinet has even condemned the precipitate manner in which Count Sturmer But

    suspended diplomatic relations with the Porte . the fresh demand made by the Russian ambassador for the expulsion of all Polish refugees resident in Turkev since the revolution of 1830 , is as little likely ' to be complied with by the Sultan ' s ministers as that made by Prince RadziviL The refusal of the Porte to expel the Polish refugees , as well as the delay it must occasion , was of course foreseen by the Czar . The note of the Turkish cabinet on tbe subject baa been sent to St . Petersburg !! , and six weeks or two months will elapse before M . de Titoff can receive fresh instructions from his

    government . In the meantime , diplomatic relations continue to he suspended between the allied imperial powers and the Porte . The same irritation and anxiety prevail as before , and the Turks continue with the same energy their preparations for defence . As I mentioned in a former letter , M . do Titoff objected strongly to the presence of the British fl < : et in the Dardanelles . He said it was a violation of he treaty , and that the renewal of friendly relations between the Porte and Russia was utterly impossible whilst Sir Wm . Parker remained in the " Straits with his squadron . The French and Enelish ambassadors have , from the commencement

    of the present question , advised the Porte to adopt as conciliatory a tone as possible towards Russia , and to avoid all measures calculated to cause unttecesfary irritation . The Turkish ministers , therefore , showed a willingness to wake any concessions , consistent with national dignity , which would facilitate the renewal of diplomatic relations between this country and the allied imperal powers . In this they met with the concurrence of the representatives of Eng land and France . As a preliminary step , Sir Stratford Canning consented to the withdrawal of the British fleet from the Dardanelles . The British ambassador wrote to that

    effect to Sir William Parker , and the admiral a few days since sailed from tbe Straits anil anchored outside . Sir Stratford has visited the fleet at its present station , and has had a long conference with the commander-in-chie f . Alter every concession made to the Russian envoy , he raises new oh stacies , which prevent an amicable arrangement . M . de Titoff ' s object , indeed , seems at present to be , ' to keep up the irritation caused by Prince Had * ami ' s mission , lie now boasts of having driven the British fleet from the Dardanelles , of . having forced the English ambassador to consent to his demands , whilst at the same time he treats the

    Turkish government with utter contempt . He refuses to re-establish diplomatic relations , and 3 ^ et when it p leases bim be has interviews with tbe grand vizier and the minister of foreign affairs , and has conferences with the representatives of powers in friendly relation with Turkey , and all this with tbe ceremony and etiquette of an accredited ambassador in the full exercise of his functions . He made a very angry complaint the other day , because Kossuth and his fellow refugees had made a sort of triumphial entry into Shumla . The guard presented arms as the refugees entered the town , and the militarv bands played and flags were flying

    as on days of a high festival . This enthusiastic mark of sympathy from the garrison of Suurala , for Kossuth and his companions , has given great displeasure to the Russian ambassador , and , though he has uot renewed diplomatic relations , yet he demands an explanation . The Turkish ministers do not seem disposed to give any explanation , and here , therefore , is another and not very trifling cause for deepening the already existing misunderstanding . The Porte is justified iu refusing the

    explanation which M . de Titoff demands , as they cannot recognise his official character in the present state of relations ; and the haughty tone in which ths demand was made did not much incline them to adopt a flattering manner towards the Russian envoy . From the condtut of M . de Titoff , since the arrival of Fnad Effendi ' s despatches , containing an account of his interview with the Czar , it will be seen that there is . good foundation for the opinion that the Emperor Nicholas ' bides his time . '

    1 he ' Wanderer' of Vienna publishes a letter from Constantinople , dated the 21 st of November , from which we extract the following : —• 'Russia now demands that Bern , and all Poles who have turned Mabomedans , shall not only be sent away from the frontier and not admitted to active employment , hut that they shall be arrested and treated as prisoners . The Porte , in reply to this demand , states in simple and decisive terms that the above persons , by their convenion to the islam faith , were not only under the protection of the Tui Irish government , but had become subjects of the Porte , which alone had the right to give

    orders respecting them . This reply , which had b ? en communicated to the English and French ambassadors , was sent to MM . Titoff and Sturmer , the Russian and Austrian ambassadors . M . de Titoff returned the document , with the following marginal note : — ' The word e ^ wfsfoa and not removal must be applied to the Polish refugees . ' Ali Pacha refused compliance , and intimated as much to the French aud English ambassadors . At the same time be forwarded M . de Titoff ' s marginal noUs to Fuad Effendi , the Turkish envoy to St . Pctersburgh , with instructions to state that the Porte could not accede to them . '

    RUSSIA AND POLAffD . Posen , Dec . 2 . —We have received the followin g intelligence from tho kingdom of Poland : —The export of grain , with the exceptions of wheat and peas , is prohibited from the kingdom of Poland after the 1 st December . There can be no question this measure is adopted for the purpose of furnishing supplies at a cheaper rate to the large Russian army now in-the kingdom . In the empire its «! f no regulation of the kind has \ et been passed . In the second place , the city of Kelesch is to be fortified aud converted into a station of the first rank .

    NORWAY . The winter has set in , not only early , but very severely , The harvest has not been good , especially the potato crups . The merchants and shipowners are not much better off than the agriculturists . The blockade has injured the herring trade with the Russian harbours , and the crisis in France the timber trade . The early winter has now closed the navigation , and cut off all communication with

    abroad . Our manufactures , which from the absence of a capital and speculation , are very insignificant , have however improved . Cotton spinning , weaving by machinery , iron foundries , and machine manufactures , are slightly increased , and great advantage will accrue from the carrying out of the projected railway from Christiana to Miosen , wherebv the best district of Norway will be brought near the capital .

    CAPE OF GOOD HOPE . REPORTED RIOT AT CAPE TOWN . By the Mary Ann , Captain Darke , arrived off Portsmouth yesterday , we have received intelligence to the 19 th October from the Cape of Good Hope , at which date the colony is represented as being in a state of great excitement . It is asserted that a reactionary feeling has taken place among the labouring classes , the coolies in particular , induced by there being na work for them , as business was at a complete stand , and every house and store closed . An anti-convict association meeting was to have been held on the 18 th

    outside the town-hall , but as the feeling of the labouring population was going against it , and as danger was apprehended , the Governor forbade the meeting . On the following day ( 10 th ) an immense mob attacked , at Green Point , Cape Town , the house of Mr . Fnirhurn ( the leader of tbe anticonvict association , ) broke into and completely gutted it , nearly killing Mr . Fab-burn . A shot wag fired from a window upstairs by a servant , a black boy , ami took effect in the shoulder of a coolie . Ihe not was only suppressed by very energetic attacks of the police on the rioters , many of wham were very severely wounded , and seven made

    prisoners . Orders had been received from England placing he Dee , steam troop ship , at the disposal of Sir II . Smith and t ^ Pantaloon , brig , left the Cape on the 17 th to recall the Dee from her cruise in the Mozambique . Provisions of every kind were still refused to the government , and on the 17 th Sir Harry issued a stem proclamatio n pointing out the cruelty of the colony attempting t 0 8 tarve hira and his troops , that he should use the force at his disposal with great reluctance , but he would not starve and told them that « b y one stroke of my p „ " can proclaim nifirl , nl-law . » and he trusted sS cS means would no longer be maintained ,

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    MILITARY EXECUTION "IN INDIA . Peshawuk , Oct . 9 , 1849 .-The »« £ »« £ death passed upon private Benjamin Alexander M obsman , of the 1 st Bombay European Regiment , Fusiliers , was carried into effect yesterday morning st sunrise , on the parade-ground of that regiment . Nothing could surpass the mournful solemnity of tbe ceremony throughout . The whole of the troops at Pesbaffur were assembled there , and formed firee sides of a square , as follows;—Rig ht Face of Square-Bengal Horse Artillery ; Bengal and Bombay Foot Artillery ; 1 st Bengal Light Cavalry ; 31 st and 70 th Regiments N . I ., Sappers and Mmnars , Bengal and Bombay . Left Face of Square—Bombay

    Horse Artillery ; Scinde Irregular Horse ; 13 th Irregular Cavalrv ; 3 rd and 19 th Regiments Bombay native infantry . Centre Face—Her Majesty's GOth Rifles ; 1 st Bombay European Regiment , Fusilier ? j her Majesty ' s 61 st Regiment . All mounted corps paraded on foot , and the troops were directed to march to the place without music , and in returning home none to be played till the rear of the regiment was 200 yards from the scene of execution . The whole had not been long formed up when tbe prisoner appeared—a man ot pleasing and intelligent appearance , and attired in the usual undress of the regiment . His arms were fastened behind him ; a man was on each side of him . On coming to the

    square , the procession moved slowly along thefront of the whole—the band of the regiment playing theDead March in Saul—in the following order : —Provost-Marshal ; band of the regiment ; coffin , covered with black , and borne on the shoulders of four men ; half the escort ; the prisoner , supported by a man on either side of him ; and last , the other half of the escort ; the whole presented a most mournfully grand sight to the spectator . It was wonderful to see with what firmness he marched , and the fortitude of manner displayed by hira the whole time . Having marched all round , he took up his station in front of the gallons , while the coffin was laid before him ;

    when the brigade-major proceeded to read his crime and tho sentence of the court-martial , in an audible tone—and afterwards the warrant for his execution . When all was finished , he was conveyed behind where he ascended the platfom by means ' of a ladder , the jirovost-marshal followed , who proceeded , according to his instructions , and placed a white cap over his face . The prisoner having , witb uplift eyes to heaven , breathed a prayer , was launched into eternity . The drop was not great , and be struggled a little ; but in two minutes all was over , and life ex linct ! The troops marched past the body , and then moved off to their respective quarters .

    PORT PHILIP . REFUSAL TO ItliCEIVB KXU-ES . The Randolph , Mi tons , W . Dale , from Woolwich 28 th April , with exiles , and a detachment of the 58 th and 11 th regiments , arrived at Port Philip on the 8 th inst ., and notwithstanding an order had been given by Mr . Latrophe that no convict vessel should pass tbe Heads , the Randolph was anchored at William ' s Town . Intelligence has arrived iua Launceston , that public demonstrations had been made against . their landing , and it was reported that £ 500 bad been subscribed to defray the cost of conveying the exiles elsewhere , and that the ship was to proceed to Sydney .

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• Citation
  • Northern Star (1837-1852), Dec. 15, 1849, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_15121849/page/2/