The New York Herald Newspaper, December 16, 1853, Page 2

tery, & body of Ottoman troops crossed the Servian froa- tier near Uschi'za, coming from Bosnia. A conflict ensued, ‘with loss of life om both sides. 1t is not improbable that Russia may induce Servia in consequence to arm against Turkey. Placed between the two, poor Servia is badly off —an independent State under the joint protectorate of two other States at war with each other, From Constantinople our latest advices are to the 17th. ‘The most important feature is the acual entrance of am Binglish squadron into the Black Sea, This is authentie, 1 bave it from two different and both authentic sources. Intelligence having reached Lerd Stratford de Redcliffe, at Constantigople, on the 15th, that the Russians were manceuvring to add to the natural difficulties which exist te the pasrage of vessels of burthen over the bar at Suli- nah, to the detrimect and prejudice of a fiset of wheat Inden vessels coming down the Danubs, most of them Knglisb, avd boanc to ports of the United Kingdom, his exoellency represented the matter to Vice Admiral Dan- dae, comm andiog the Gritish fee; im the Bosphorus, who forthwith despatched the Retribution, Samson, and ‘Viger steam frigates, and the Niger steam corvette, iato ‘the Black Sea, ore or more of which vessels will proceed to the mouth of the Danube to cee that British interests Gre vot wantonly trifed with; whilst the others will oruise along the Eurcpean and Asiatic coaste, visiting the eevers] ports, where many British subjects are estabiish- ed, and much British property is at stake, im case hostili- ties are pursued. Now, Russia declared that she would regard the on ‘Ywance of an English vessel of war into the Black Sea as a declaration of war. Nous verrons. Various naval skir taishes have taken place there, A Ruasiaa maa-of war has been captured by the Turks; and to dey we learn by telegraph that the Ru-sian steam frigate Wladimir has eo team frigate of tem guns, after a né taken her ava prize to Sebastopol, with smother Turkish vessel, ladea with pepper. jeneral Baragua ji\livrs, the new French ambsssa- | dor tothe Porte, whe replscos M “dels Cour, had arrived Ia his interview with the France was anxious for pe A, but was resolved to supp nlegrity of the Purkish empire Magnes to act as his aid de camp. A Polish and Haogurian legion is formiag. Brack, ian envoy, bas protes‘ed against Klapka re. | and What can Austria do fu this respozi The telegraphic deapateh annouas ag ths Mof Bruck amd Col, Wildesbruck, the Austriaa aad Prussian envoys, has not been confirmed, ° here w ary sal Sulian he declare be hozorad) maintenance «J th nm equested Gener Nothing. NEWSPAPER ACCOUNTS. ! We have received advices from the seat of war, dated | to the 20th of November, which oonvey the intellizence that sines the 15th of thst month it had rained along almost the whole extent of the Lower Danubs, so that wailitary operations on sny extended scale are at present | mposaible. The care of the commanders waa, these. | (ore to get their men under cover. Omer Pacha, after leaving garrisons in the different | fortresses om the right bank o! the river, has marched the bulk of his troops back to the quarters they cecu- pied before the paseace of the Danube was eifccted, be- tween Widin and Kalefat. Gortecbakeif bas imitated hie example. Some movements were. however, reported. On the 25th of November the Turks sdranced from Kalefat twelre English miles towards Krajova, and formed an entreachsd samp for 6,000 men. Large bodies of Turks at the same time passed up, and others down the Danube. On ths 26th of November the Tarks constructed » bridge between Rustuck and the Island of Mokaan. This island remains in the possession of the Turks, not- withstanding the statement tha: they had been dislodged by the Russian artillery ander General Formosolf. They hd also resisted all the attempts of the Russians to drive them from their position below Hirsova, at the confluence of-the Taloni!za and the Daoube. Advices from Galats stute that the fourth and Afth Rus- sian reserve corps are in movement. They have left Besa- arabia, and are about to entor Wallachia, The whole of the army now im Poland is to be sent to the Principalities; | snd drafts from the Russian garrisons, together with « portion of the Imperial Guard, will garrison Poland. Ths {dllowing is given as suthentic:— ‘On the might of the ist November the Turks fo the “Russians to quit the island oppo: urgovo. Two attempts ‘were made by the Russians to retake the island, bat thy are sed. e second attack Russi fe d inte the Turkish ing of the te y | night abt e passage river by the Russians at this Point is ous of the qnestion. The pontreus—(aot known whether Russian or Turkish)—bave been all sent to Hirsowa 0 commect the numerous islands with the right bank of the iver. It was reported in Paris, Nov. 30, that the project of a mew conference, to be held at Vienna, Paris, or London. to settle the Tarkish difficulties, may now be accepted aa positive. It was further said that a new Russian note hhad been addressed by Count Nestelrode to the dipiomatis goats of Russia im France and Eagland. This note de- fines the cases whieh would produce an interruptien of international relations, or » comple:e rupture betwee1 Russia and and France. 4 new manifesto from ‘Czar is also spoken of. ‘The Sultan will take personal command of the army earlier than was contemplated. Frem Adrianople he will proceed to Schumla, Widdin and Rastuck. | Several papers and letters « of a pretest that has | been mace the agents and consuls of the different powers, at Galatz, against the decrees cf Gea. Urusof, ‘who haz acted as Goveroer of Moldavia since the depar- ture of Prince Ghika. Weare not told what adjec: tionable decree refers to, but the protest states that it ix contrary to international } is an interference with the commercitl freedom of neutral States. Probably it Ys the orcer to remove tae supplies of corn to a distance of three miles inland. ‘The Ulemas have offered to furnish gold and silver from the treasuries of the church, to sia ia carrying on the war, but the Sultan has declizei,as he does not wish to give hostilities the coloring of & ‘eligious war. So it is reported from Ccnstantinepie, but it is well known that the church has already ecpplied » jarge amount from its oofers. On the 24th ult. Schamy! and Ismael Pacha were to make a simultaneous attack on the Russian lines. The result has net reached us. ‘Omer Pacha had intercepted and sent to Constantiao- ¢ a letver from Prince Menschikxoff to General Gortsch a if, him to keep as quiet as possible im the Whether this letter is genuine or not, re ade a oeasful. tl E ‘A subscription opened at Smyrna to purchase horses for the Turkish army, amounted in # few days to 269,000 piastres. The name of the Ressian steam frigate, sunk by the | Torkish forts of Batoum, was the Foudroyant; the same which brought Prince Menschikoff to Coustantineple, and remained there at bis disposal duriog his stay. Fifty pieces of artiliery had been rent to Adrianople. An Armenian arch iteet had gom at the palace at that city in repair, for t ception of the Saitan. % is not true that the Russians have seized the stores of grain in the Dauubism Provinees. They have ordered ail supplies to be removed three miles inland, but as the harvest im Wallachia was unurually productive, aad as the means of transport are aefciant; iminaise storet are ‘@waiting the fortune of war mo Brailow aad vicinity alone are 800,000 quarters. Rusaia is aid to have required from Eaglaad that Ad- tira) Slade and Captain Borlase, (both of whom hold commissions in the koglish navy,) be recalled from their commands ia the Turkish fieet. Itisto be hoped the demand w Il be promptly refured. OFFICIAL DESPATCH OF OMER PACHA. The following is the despateh r S from the Marshal commanding th 4 narrating the events of the 20, 3d, and 4th instant, at Oltenitra — Tho porscation of the island sivuste, in front of Raving been considered ble, I had off gt of ihe lat fol |, nd great conta, ‘They Lad scarcely landed. when we opened a fire on the After the first m, and the imperial troops to which is of ee /id construction, tbout loss of time, four hun jon of stall officers, from the batierios of Hons, and for which purport» 4 been miceady prepared. Ua tuoi seain, ether ‘oops were sent uo retity the tete de z Ageoon a6 the im % were sent to Tastakai. mber of boate at ont dispooal haviag fai tated the gonsiruction of the bridge. we Ww: bid without delay fhe pleoe im tho fortifications twelve large guns, which wore th 5 t from Sohuml "Ra the ba 4PM, battalions t of ony age of Olten etrneted on the left bank, waited ame night I caused to be-con- x of the Argish and D: 6 A.M. yo serun to poresive * the Russian foreer, As toon aa thet marc anare' mret lion. The evening pefore t had pl ven ground ® battery of guns oal Galated to facsenhumi any attack which might to made forces nmounced to twonty battalions. thrcs | Teuiumouts of cavairy, one of Coesseks, Fixteon mounted vst terisu, and fixteen on foot. They formed in order of betel with fourtesn pieces of cannon ion andthe ogiment ot Cov-acks Jn ntie Fhuy advanced, supported bv the fre of thoir artillery, and a sa! neh a as my fag dad fesetening vur left Zaak. Marine , iniex—ecnsisting of six. bavtalions with Beene eee and having in sie roar titeo regimonts of j it | | or the north and western coast are, to back hors ith Faohs, did admirable The Russi: to thi Pee h, ‘this . ¢ sonsiderable, amounting to'1,\0) men killed, end Hs ma ber WoUun: ‘The engagement \ssted fc rae bs 3 a rae intue maee guns, menzil top, and eer a Sines = exccution om the enem: and duris intery Of their hal ” Yong as it lasted. we abstained from molesting from firing & single shot, but fo overtheless, on the feld, A private carriage, moreover, was remarked, and from the pains teken in search, we conjecture it must have been destined te receive the body of @ general of- SPM, their lines were completely broken tate. Au hour later some fow in the nei, bhoring Ines, but the remaindor find in divorcer. Some of our men pushed forward in pursuit of tiem beyond the lines, bub were summoned back by trumpet to their own quarters. ar loas amoun'ed to 106 We found on ihefield of battle 500 muskets, esca, boron, equipments 3, 4 OPERATIONS IN THE BLACK SEA, (from the London Times, Dec, 1.) The commencement of naval hestilities on the Black Sea, between squadrons of the Turkish and Rursian fleets, I be an event of considerable interest and novelty, for the naval strergth of both countries must be regarded uctried in {te present form, and there is hardly any se: the globe which has witnessed no few naval couteats the Euxine. Scarcely eighty yeare have elapsed since the Porte consented to open the Black Sea to the mer- chant fags of forelgn nations, which bed been jealously excluded frem it since the expuion of the Genoesain the Sfteenth century. The creation of the Black Sea flee*of Ruseia may be said to date from the present contw y, and when the last war between the two empires ‘ook plice, and the disaster of Navarino had recently Ceprived the Turks of ail means of maritima war fare, ‘The pasasge of the Bosphorus has been more strictly guarded by the policy of 1 dy treaty against the naval flags of the ot Powers; and we believe that, with the a short cruise of the Blond frigate, under Capt. Lyons, about the year 1829, no Eoglish shio bas entered the xine; certaiply none h tered it for purposes of | war, In epite of the extensive trade carried on by Bri- tish vessels with the mouths of the Danube, Odessa, and Taganrog. the navigation of this sea, more the Asiatic coast of it, is little known; and a now Geld in cons dering the eects tothe of an sttack to which it bas mever yet Thera {s no doubt, however, that in strist orformity to rg treaties, the Black Sea is now open in time of war, with the comsant of the Porte, to the all the Powers, end Rasiia bas go reason prise that we should avail curselves of this been exposes, press 8 y to improve our knowledge oa the subject. 1 *, while two Ruesien vessels, the Nevarin aad ibe Aurora, continue week after week to hang aboat Portemou'h Dockyard for repaira, we are bound to presume that an Epglish squadron would. in case of , find the sams hospitable reception from th» {mperia) authorities at Sebastopol. The British steamers Tetrivution, Tiger, Nizer, and Samson, unter the com- mand of Captain Drummond, bad not started on their cruise on the 16th inst., and it is possible that their movements may heve been countermanied. But the ob- ject propceed by Lord Stratfurd and Admiral Dundas was certsinly not hostile demonstraticn, and w® believe these vessels were to be sent bein | to take off Mr. Col- quhoa, our late Consol General in the Principalities, and to view the state of the mouths of the Danubsa. The Turkish ¢quadron under Maschaver Pacha—better known in the B itish service as Capt. Adolphus Slade— has seilsd with more warlike intentions, and, although {ts destination wae not known with precision, if it be true thet a Russias squadrom has come out of Se- bastopol, we have ne doubt that Admiral Slade’s destination will he wherever he can fall in with the evewy. This Turkish force consists, it seems, of 2 line of battle sbip and six frigates, with © complement of steamers, in which the Turks are better provided than the Russians, their ergines being all worked by Brglish firemen Some of the Turkish frigates are very powerfal vessels; Captain Slade'’s own ship isa | double-banked frigate of seventy two guus om two decks, # as one of our old seventy fours, puhave been at sea during = greater part of the rummer, which the larger line of battle ships have pot, and they may fairly be able te hold their own against an ba ip Russian force The discipline ond system on board sre entirely borrowed from the English mavy by the persevering exertions of Captain Slade, his preio- cessor, Sir Baldwia Wa ker, and Captain Borlase, the in- stractor in gunnery. The crews and officers are Tarkish, and are described as excellent artilierymea, though stcond-rate reamen; in that respect, however, they perhape not inferior to their antagonists. If the wea- her shoul! prove rough, and the winter set in with its accustomed severity in that climate both squadrons would probably snfier more by the sea and the extreme rigor of oold than by the enemy. Jegendary fears of smtiquity sesumulated all the monsters of the deep between the “sounding symlpe- gades”’ ard the shores of Colenis; and modern science not bad the same opportunities of observation im these waters which it posserses im other {ated doubt the terrors of this sea have exaggerated, it is pot more tempestuous than ¢ther seas; bat it is sub- ject te sudden anc dense fogs, the coast is rude and ill- provided with harbors, and the climate in winter is in- tensely cold, inromueh that the thermometer sometimes descends to zero (Fahrenheit), and the bays and estuaries ren. An eilective blockade of these con would, therefore, be au operation of great dificalty. 1¢ aeems, ho wever, to be agreed for the present by the bel- ligerenta, that ‘no restrictions are ta be ‘upon the trals, and with regard to Rassina ther ef war or commerce, we have no doubt thet tl ports of refuge, their fate woala be inevitable, unless they succeed in defeating the Turkish nave] power The political and military cons quenoes to Russia of the lose of the security she has hitherto enjoyed in the Biack Sea are incalculable. She not only csases to be in- vulzerable on her whole southern ferntier but e roist on which she is weakest lies open to direct atta -k, Mould hostilities assume a more se: ious character. The trade of the whole of Southern Russia, aud of the vast bisin waterec by the Dniester, the Bag, and the Dnieper, can be interrupted. (dessa ‘would be at the merey of the enemy. Sebastopol might be blockeied or attacked, and there is reason to believe that its seaward batverles are of inferior force to the Sap et of metal which might be brought agaicst it, while the place is ill fortified rear. fort of O.zakofl, the arsenal of Nicolaieff, a1 the boilciog yards of Cherscn are said to be very im perfectly protected, the Russians having apparently con- tented themselves with defences saflicieut te ward of the Turks. The whele Crimea is peculiar! sea, and forces Gespatched for tne defence of that pen'n- sula must cross the enc:mous steppes which divide it from Rassia Proper. The towns on the sea of Arof are oe ated only by the distis " gating that shallow inlet. Circavsia, and Georgia, snd all the country from the Tereth to the Araxes are held ebiefly by amali forse along the const, and b; pies acd reinforcements cent by ses. An enemy Ed ing ofa competent maritime fores, expecially uf steamers, anc baving his base of operatioas om the Bosphorus, would be able, ins epace of time varying from three to eight days, to stack any point on about 2,000 miles of coast, aud the facilities for carrying on such operations are in the pro portion of the diameter to the circum- ference of the Black Sea. The Rus: on the contrary, if they had thir circum’erence to defend, and had lost the command of the sea, would find themselves absolutely precluged by distance, by the absence of , and by the wild nature of the country, fro ng any concen. tration of foree. Tae policy of the Emperor Nicholas has not only roused the Turks to collect a considerable naval armament, capable, perhaps, of meeting the Raswian fieet without disadvantage, but it has brought into the Bosphorus, for the first time in history, the most powerful squadroze which England and France for many years, we might, indeed. say ever, sent to tea, Ee has contrituted to place this forse within resch of everything that is most vulaerable ia his dominions, and he has dirested the attention of Harope to points which place our relations to the Russian empire in a new light “By opening the Black Sea to foreign navies, a fer greater blow has been given to the security: f Russia than Turkey bas received from the temporary occupation of the T'rincipalities. Tha: is the present position of the game. We hope it may not be necersary to give effect to measures which cansot be executed without all the evils of war, but that aa:h measures can be executed, if neces- sary, with rapidity and success by the forces now inthe Torkirh waters it is not possible to doubt. Tnua far Rus- via hea i ned nothing by these transactions; for an evewy who can hold the nat faer has in his grasp the et interests of one half ber empire, while she is red 0 & defensive atti ani must eventa- silly yield. At the rame time, it is tho presence of the combined squadrems of Englaniand France that places Rnstia in this porition. and it is the duty of mediatiog powers fo take that no unfair advantage be taken of their support to raise impracticable conditioas or to pro long the war. [From the Paris Constitutionel, Nov. 20, According to what our correspondent ia’orms aa the Foglish frigates Retribution, Tiger, Samson, and Niger, one of them bearing Admiral J)ancas’ flag, were to enter the Black f¢a on the day on which he wrote—namely, the 16th—in ord sr to explore the Earopean const a8 far as Varra. Immediately afterwards a division of four French veseole ander the orders of Admiral Hamlio, was tomske a similar examination of tie cosst as far as Trebizom of @ later date by ons day, in- form us that i an Feglish division, composed of the four steamers which we have just mentioned, has pro eeeced to the mouth of the Sulina, where it was aid ion which has been for some time cruis- ing in the Black Sea. NAVAL ENGAGEMENTS. Hostilties bave commenced at ses. An ptian steamship is ansounced to bave captured the Russian steam-frigate Wiscimir, and the Russian ship of war Bess- arabia bes taken a Turkish steamer. The Wanderer, of Vienna, mentions that an engagement bad taken piace by treea a Turkish steamer and a frigate, pear Kule, on the coast of Ani ‘the advastege remained with the Tarkisl Perhaps this refers to the rame occurrence. An anonymous telegraphic despatch states that the Rasetan steamer Wladimir (probably a misprint for Baas- erabl returned to Sebastopol with a Turkish pas senger st arer and am Egyptian steamer as prizes—tho latter having offered a Cesperate resistance, There ac counts are contradicgory; but, at all events, naval hostili- tles have begun, THE THEATRE OF WAR IN ASIA. (From the London News, Dec 1 | The mission of the two Turkish’ armies in Asia in to bieak the cirele of irom in which General Woronzoff has for years Leen endeavoring to sonfine the Caucasian in furréotion. Ab’i Pacha, leeving Erzeroum, is to pene- te into the valley of the Rioni, ané to march stra\j before kim on Coutais, and from thence on Tiflis, Selina Pacha is charged to operate on the ooast of the Biack Hea, and to restore toSchamyl hit liberty of action and of hay . Qoitiogy and formed i tw) iace, with ad Zoot, into ech our right flank. " he centre gave the assanl th our wings. The oonteo attacka ht. ireoted fire trow our fortress st Tartatet soon dla pa teu rabt coiuma—aad the venice aredesilz (oli ot restores Tn Asta, the Cg laa in aud iurkey divice themesives, ins + of vow, ‘ato two distinet theatres of legemten” fia tes Ligh ridge, Ox rather eonentenation of ridges, sonsenting | Erzeroura by the Russiaus decided the Asiatic campaign on either side, oper- of each other. of Black Sea is intersected bys mera of rivers and mountein torrents, wg — many Di! mi positions defesee, Both the Rus- sinns and Turks ve fortded on isgertet points. In this generally broken country, (the valley of the river Rioni is the only one which forms faytntag like a plain,) a defensive war might be carried on with great suscsss against a superior army, (aa very to be tur on the land side, 01 fleets. By advancing, and, in case of need, landing troop ayer the flank of the enemy, while the army engi bun in front,a fleet might turn all these strong posi tions. one by one. and neutralize, if not destroy fortifica- tions which, on neither side of the frontier, are very res bacon Thus the possession of the Black Sea coast be- ngs to him who is master of the Sea. The country in the interior, on tha inland side of the monntains, comprises the territory is which the Ku- rates, the Araxes, and the Kur (puree) take their rise. The Turkish province of Aymenia isc the one, and the Russian province of Georgia on the other side of the froa- tier, This country, too, isextremely mountainous, and generally impassable to armies. Erzeroum on the part flis on the part of the Russians, may be two immediate bases of operations, with the lois of which the possession of the whole neighboring country would be inevitably lost. Thus the stormiag of of 1829. Bat what is the immediate basis of operation for one rty will be the direet object of operations to the other, ‘hus the roads connecting Tillis sud Razeroum will be the lines of operation for both. There are three roads—one by the upser Kur and Akhalzikhe, the other by tie up- per Araxes and Krivan; the third in the midst, between inise two, across the mounteins by way ef Kara, All ibese roads are guarded on either side by fortitied towns and posts, aud it would be diflicult to say which would be for Tarks or Russians most eligible. Suflice it to say that the road by Akhalzikhe is the one which would lead a Turkich arwy most directly apon the insurgent districts of the Caucasas, and the object ofthe Russian general would probably be to turn the adravoe of the Turks by ® corps advancing from Batun up the valley of the Tehorokh by Otiti upoa Erzeroum; the road from Batun joins that {rom Tillis, only about fifteen miles from Erzeroum, The key to the theatre of war in Asia, and on either side of the hills, ther, is Batun, aud considering this as well as its commercisi importaace, ye need not wonder at the efforts the Czar has always bsen makiog to get hold of it. And Batun is hey of the theatre of war— nay, of all Turkey in Asis, because it commands the only pavtable road from oast to the interior—« road which turns al! the Turkish positions in advance of Erze- roum, Ard whichever of the two fleets in the Black Se. drives the other back into its barbors, that feet commands Batua, Now, it ia exceecingly probable that Ceptain Slade | (Muschaver Pasha) bas ouly le?t with a division of steam: ers to support the enter prise of Selim Pasta, and wemns? | expeet to learn scom that the eastern coat is cleared of al! the obstacles which the Russians have taken pleasure in creating. Ar soon as tle Turks shall have done their duty, we wey be certain that’ Schamyl will ¢@ his, as, though abandoned to kis own resources, he has,’ for successively combatted the most rsnowned Sehamyl was born in 1797. His beard an early age, but his hatr is light, and his constitution, though xpparently weak, has been #0 well preserved and ex@rcised that he possesses almost all the advantages of Npapr He is the first horseman, the first markeman, the first swimmer of the Caucaa though in that country able horsemen, swimmers, an marksmen abound. But Schamyl {s not only an exoel- general; he is also a most able administrat.r. Reli- is, in his hands, an instrament ef rale, acd also an itrament of moralization and patriotism. Since at when he succeeded Chasi Mollah, who cied at his side al the breach of Himry, im an engagement with thr Rus- siavs, not a single sct of weakness can be alleged against him. Sober, chaste, active, Rte geri hin Mind taro he bas never employed the power with which he is in: vested for the ratisfaction of his nal passions. The sect of which he is the obief is called Muride, and its ob- ject is to destroy the schism .which existe between the followers of All, of Abou Bekr, 40d Omar. Ho has nearly prec hee Ceneasns 3 snd of one hundred tribes, differen: tg tions, and, to s oe: degree, My. language, he ifermed & people ready to die for | their ‘aith and their country. [+t Selim Pscha give room for operations, and let him supply emmunition to such a man, apd Russia wili soon feel all the conquests which during the last fitty years sbe han made by cunning, {n- trigue, and peda Ate in ties Fay) Gouria, and Geor; ieee in her hands, and slip from them alto- gether. . SUCCESSES OF THE TURKS IN ASIA. The Turks have gained farther successes in Anis. They have not only defeaced successfally the fort St. Nicholas, but have captured the fortresses of Usurghetti and Sou- The Georgians favor the Tarks. Two new regiments of marine artillery are form ‘ng, t> be employed on the cont, between Sino; and Trebizonde. Soukam- kalch iso large fortress of the first class, considerably to the porth ard west of Redout Kaleh, and its capture shows that the Turkish forces sre mating ¢ecided pro- gress in the exact direction which renders the Russian frontier in the Caucasus less secure than ever. We await with anxirty the details which the mall will bing of the teking of thia important stronghold. Austrian fugitives will not be yermitted ‘o serve in Ea- rope, bat au office bas been formed at dcutari to enrol the ames of those who wish to nerve im Asia. A corps of Christian cavalry 1s being formed, to be un‘ er the com mand “i Zaika, whose dismissal Russia formerly de- manded. Letters from Trebizonde of ths 6th November cenfirm or rather Circas- ninv, successes at Ti state that the Russians had 15,000 men in the action, and the Ct jane 20,000—a manifest exaggeration |The ron of Prince Gosriel, who has fallen 0 the hands of the Turks, is called the Prince of Malachia. IMPORTANT POSITION OF SERVIA. , {From the Londen Ties, Dee. 2.) coording to the latest intelligence from Vienna, it ap- pears that Servia has demanded of the Porte;the return of M. de Moukhine, the Russian Consul General, recently expelled by the Pasha of Belgrade, and this significant fact alope wou'd show that the present position and future conduet ef that Principality involve considerations of the higheet importance to the questions now pending in the east of Earope, both as to the fature course of the war, the security of Turkey on the right bark of the Danube, and even as to the neutrality or intervention of other powerr, In the war between Russia and Turkey, which was terminated by the treaty of Bucharest, in 1812, the Servians had taken an active part a their. Suzerain, the Porte, ard the peace Russia stipula ed for the province that it shou'd retura to ita allegiancs on condi- tiog of receiving » general amnesty, that the Porte should grant to \he Servians the seme advantages enjoyed by her subjects in the Archipelago hat the adminis- tration of their interval affairs should be left to them in considerstion of the payment of a fixed tribute of about £200,000, a year. These privileges have been confirmed and extended by subsequent treaties and by hati scherifs granted by the Saitan in the years 1829, 1883, aud 1838, The reault of there measures has been that’ the Principality ot Servis enjoy: a constitution of ita own; that it bas even elected its Prince, who receives in- vestiture from the Porte; and that is is in possession of virtual independence. The only rights which the Porte bas reserved to itself are the titular sovereignty of the coantry, the tribute above mentioned, and the right of holding garrisons in six fortresses. The effect of these in- stitutions, which bave now been in operation for upwards of twenty years, in that Servia has made considerable pro- grear, and \s the best regulated State among the provinces which have been placed under these’ anomalous semi-in- dependent relations to the Ottoman empire. A strong feeling of nationality has grown up in the Principality, and, although the entire nation is jealous of the rights conceded to it by the Turks, and would not tolerate s Mussulmap on its soil beyond the stipulated gerri of the fortresses, the influence of Russia has S a. Yeen held im c' by the independent spirit of the people, It will be rememvered that one of the very ‘first measures reeulting from Prince Menschikcft’s mission in the spring was to obtain the re- moval of M Garaschaoin tbe patriotic Min\ster of Ser- vis, who fell from office in Belgrade about the same time that Fuad Efendi was compelled to retire at Constanti- nople, Even now the Ruseian party is by no means pata- mount ‘in Servia, acd more cspesially not with Prince Alexander Georgiewitech, the ag sovereign, whose polley is to preserve hie neutraliy in the present contest, in the interest of his own indspenience and the welfare of bis territories. But the feeling of the psople is deci- dedly adverse to the:r old masters and enemies, the Turks. The Servians, in common with the Christian populations of all the provinces south of the Danube, know that of all governments that of a Mussulman ruler ts most intol- erabl; ‘and the slightest infraction of their iadependence would throw them entirely en the side of the enemy. Already it would appear that an attempt made by a de- tachment of the Turkish ‘cet, or of the Bosnian militia, to cross ® pert of the Sarvian territory from the Drins, has been resisted by the inhabitants, and that » skirmish ensued near Utachitzs. The organi; laws regulating the condition of the country do not confer upon the Porte the right, in the event of war, to march forces into the Priueipali y other than troops intended for the service of the garrison at we are net surprised to find that in the pi esent emerzency the Servians, who have ‘ap army of about thirty-five thousand men of their owa, are not disposed to concede this point. But the Porte unquestionably possesses the fortresses; and the castle of Belgrade, manned by a Turkish garrison, and commanded by fet Pacha, » man of energy, who Tecently governed Tripoli, holds in cheek the eapitalof the province, and overawen the wavering resolution of the Servian govern- ment, It was this circumstance, and the peremptory Jangnage of the Turkish Governor, which compelled i de Moukbine, the Russien Ov) ul Gt noral, to lower his flag and to orcos the river, when he attempted to assume his functions as diplomatic sgent in Servia after the declara- tion of war between Raseis and the Porte. t, if we may believe the telegraphic advices from , the arat consequence of this expulsion has been a demand on the artof the Servian government for the return of the tensul General, whore exequatur in also insisted on, This step, and other reasons, which depend rather on Rusia than Servia, may render it impos- sible for the Fervian Geen to maiotain the difficult nation of a neutral State between two powerful empires. a © neutrality of Servia would be the most ‘avorable cir- curptance for Turkey, for it ia highly improbable that the Serviana will ever consent to assiat the cause of the Saltan; nor could the Turks, wh» do vot permit the Caris. tian subjects of the Porte to bear arms, place reliance oo ® fores of so doubtful # character as the Servian érmy. ‘The neutrali'y of Se as long as it can be secured, co- vers the right wing of the Turkish ao abhoeeianie a the Russian from crowing the Danube above Windin, 50 as to cpera'e along the valley of the Morawa, tarning the Kalka, and advancing upon Sofla and Roumelia, But there can be no donbt thet if Russia in led to prolong this contpet, aud to it sorors the Deuude ane will om vi very menos ia her povet, by fomenting the divaf fev'iwe of Vue Servians ¥ the Peg, aud possibiz by 06 tual tnrasion, to turn this important in Servia by the expulsion of M de hine will on dieses Dae oem een cioetiy tesa over to this I Pay e Russians retain eanpncins Se winter, it isin Danube he vill probably cause a whole Ser- vien people; if be eee the Ru asians may cross the river and turn @ left. only securit, inat this danger is the neutral Prinoe of Servis, and his ability to matatain {i Kara Georgiewitsch has addressed to the Porte a letter. of the 6th of November, in which he declares that Servia can take no part in a struggle between the two powers Which protect the Principality, as if its relations ts ite sove- , the Porte, were on the same footing with its rela- tions to Russia; and, he adds, thaton this principle of neu- trality and impartiality, the Servian government can allow no of troops to cross its frontiers. Probably this is the sincere desire of the Prince, who ia not only in considerable danger from the resentment of the two belli- — but may be exposed to the attack of # part of js own subjects, and to the loss of his country’s inde pendence. The intluence of the English and French Coa- suls at Belgrade has been energetically and wisely ex- erted to indnoe the Servian government te assume this neutral position, and to resist the pressure applied by Russia and her adherents, But we can feel no conf- dence that this atate of things will last; and, if hostili- ties continue, it is ncarcely posible that Servia should remain untouched by them. At t) @ time it iscer- tein that the court of Vienna shou! % view with in- difference such an event as a croachmeat by Rassias cn the Servian territory beyond the Danube; and before the Emperor Nieholas commands so serion to be made, he will probably reflect that Austrian army of observation, under General Schlick, is about to be formed in clos* proximity to the scene of these oc- Gurrences. According the Augsburg Gazelle the following is the re ply of Prince Alexander to the demand of the Porte to Geclare his position, If this be authentic, the a'titude of the Servinn government, in relation to Tarkey, is suf. ficiently defined :— KraouKenartz, Nov, 6, 185%. InpertaL Masesty—I believe i: right to make tho follow- ing reply to tho latter whioh the Miuistor of Foreign Ailairs of your Majeety nddrersod so ecm tho 26th ult.: overnment will always be disposed to much at As existing mit submis to which m bing patible with iteduty. Such a ciroumstance pr ‘At this moment, in toe sad dissension which b between your Majesty and the powerful Czar, cause this conflict to turn to the advantage of But the Servien goverament ca ake prrt in the conflict between the two powers that protest Servia. It ean only adopt a policy of neutrality avd iapactislity. It resaltefrom that that the Sorvian covornment canueb permits body of troops to cross its er. ‘That would Le contrary to the Policy which circumstances command. The government of our oaven our Majesty, lajesty will be obligeito admit that in se aciiaz the fervian government cnly follows the counsels of moderation, and that thoy will always serve itas a guifi. To make its policy of neutrality more energetic, it has xivem orders to all the inhsbitante of the Principality to hold themsolves in roadiness to exeonte all the orders itmsy transmit. Let your Majesty receive, as héretofore, the nssuranee of my pro- found deveteinces. ' ALEXANDER GEORGEWITSCL Itis not bnown what resolution the Ottoman govern- ment has formed on the receipt of this reply. It is pro- bable, however, that it wili be contented if Seivia will cerely upon its professions, and observing a strict neutrality itself, presexye its territory invi; late IMPORTANT FROM SWEDEN. ‘The fellowing teleg:aphic intelligence as to the apeech of the King of Sweden ig important, a8 showing that the concentration of troops in Russian Finland, and the paval squadron stationed at Helsingfora, have excited the apxiety and apprehension of the 8» Srocknorm, Nov. 24, 1853. Tho King opened the Diet to-day in pe: speoch contained the following demands of my royal duty and of Kurope, I will enuse to o stem of cofence. Such » systom in order to place the country in a di moe, AUSTRIA. A NEW QONFERENCE PROPOSED—ACTION OF AUS- TRIA THEREUPON. i js important statement comes in private letters from ns. It is stated that Austria, becoming each day more em- barrassed by the posicion in which her r; lations with Re have placed her, has demanded, with an earnest- ness that proves her sincerity, the opesing of a confer- enoe either at Paris or London, in order to regulate final- ly the affairs of the Esat. Should the p oject be accept- able to the four Powers, Russia and Turkey will be fa. vited each to send a representative to Jay befors the con fererce their respective grievances. , According‘o the beat informed sources, Austria’s line of coné uot will be something like this :—If this last effort in favor of a settlement Coes no: succeed, Austria will consider herself freed from her engagements to Russia, and willremain neutral, even if that neutrality sha!l fa- vor the Porte; and if the conference Austria proposes shall succeed in obtaining concessions from 'Tarkey te Russia, Austria expects that Russia will accept it as pay- ment in fall for her aidin the Hungarian war. This statement is the more passer copeaet that we bave rumors confirmatory of it from don and Paris, with the additional. report that the conference was ac- tually decided upon by Great Britain and France. Austria in the mean time continues active in concen- trating an army on thy Transylvanian frontier. [t's ced under the command of General Schlick, whose \dquarters are at Klausenburg. ; THE SPRING CAMPAIGN. The Liverpool Times of December 2 publishes the fol- lowing letter from its correspondent at Warsaw:—Private letters which have srrived state that the Russians are making preparations on the most extensive sosle for the nag campaign. Marshal Paskewitech has announced at he ineans then to take the commani of the army in the Molco-Wallachian provinces; but be’ore doing > he hopes that it wild be composed of at least 200,090 men, ready to take the field, and of a reserve uf 100,000 men, He i getting up his‘ staff on @ corresponding scale, Ho bas already selected the officers who are tose:ve as his aides-de-camp, and bas appointed General Abramovitsch, forme: ly cem- mander in chief of the gendarmerie in Poland, as the commandant of his headquarters. This appointment is consi¢ered an undoubted indication of the commence ment of an important campaign. THE TREATY BETWEEN FRANCE AND ENGLAND. { The Paris cerrespondent of the London Times, under date of November 29, says :— Private letters from London, dated yesterday, mention in rather positive manner, that a convention was signed the day before yesterday in that city, specifying the means to be adopted for # combined intervention of France and England in the affairs of the East, I canaot vouch for the accuracy of the statement so far as the actual signiog is concerned, but I have more than once mentioned that a negotiation has been going on between the two governments, with the view of co! and fat a combi: ed action in any oonflist that may become imminent in eonrequence of ihe war between Turkey and Russia. How far the renewed efforts to avoid the most terrible of all calam'ties—the extension of the war tothe rest of Earope—may be attended with success, it would be usele@ tc conjecture. We have besn so often on the very point of attaining that object, and so often bafiled, that we can only leave the solutien to time; but even at this late hour we are assured, and by none more # rongly than by the friends of Russia, that the Emperor Nichol bas the m dent detire for . The fasion between Ojleans and the head of their house would ror, or, at all events, to punish him, foy hia sap- aris Turkey and bis adhetion to the polloy of Eag- rt The Paris correspondent of the London Times, writing November the 30th, refers at more length to the report of & peaceconventionin Londoe. He says:—The isforma- tion obtained in various quarters to-day seems to con- firm what I mentioned yesterday respecting the projected conference, to be held either at Vienna, London, or Paria, for the settlement of the Turkish question, and to whieh Ruseia and Turkey would be invi:ed to send plenipoten- tiaries to explain the fiaal conditions on which those two Powers would consent to an arrangement. Tha fact negotiations for a comventim between France and England, with a view lo establish the sonditis and extent of a com- mom intercertionin the affairs of the Hast is again slated as positive, It in alao reported that’ a new Russian note has been addressed by Count Nesselrode to the diplom: agents of the Czar in France and Eogland. This note de- fines the cases which would produce an interruption of iuternational relations, or a complete rupture between Russie and those governments, and it is also said that it announces @ new manifesto from the Emperor of Russia. THE LATEST NEWS. Gatatz, Nov, 14, 1853. Four ba‘talions of Ruasisn infant h tweaty pieces of cannon, are just entering this » AD head of the troops are three generals and several other officers; this detachment is on its way to Brailow General Lude passed through Galatz on the 12th, en rowe for Wal- lachia. Buonarest, Nov. 19, 1863, The Administrative Council entered a protest agaicrt the incorporation of the Wallachian militia with the Rassian regime: Political dircusabons are strictly prohibited. Oxe of the B ‘ds who were lately arrefted has been sent to the fortress of Bender. The Tarks bave for some nights past been bombarding the Russian position at Giurgevo. They oocupied the island of Moknan, but was dislodged by the artillery, under General Formosoff, The Turks have, however, resisted all tke efforts of the Russians to expel them from their position below Hirsova, at the confluence of the Talonitza andthe Danude. Lat- tora from Galatz state that the fourth and {th Rasian rererve corps are ia movement. They have left Bess- arabia, and are about to enter Wallashia. Onsova, Nov. 21, 1853. General Firchback, at Krajovi 5 has been recelving re- inforcements from Bucharest, and his force, which when taken place within the | to is, this ciroumetance {sa atandisg ground of disse tiefacticn; and were it not a seriou: ortxis, one might be Gisposed to mile on hearing the fugitive Boyards and merchants ask, with the utmost naires, why the Tarka and Rarsians select their unbappy land ana battle field, and do not fghi it out to the south of the Danube or the east of the Pruth. Consranmiworte, Nov. 21, 1863. Gon. Baragusy d’Hilliers had a splendid reception, In his addreu tote Sultan. he expressed a wish for the prevervation of pence, but alae for the intopendence and integrity of Tur ‘The Sultan briefly replied in s sen cvmewlent Wilk ibe coud ict aod Porte i The ago iq A pet gent. ‘The the of the French ships hare tom ethaeewn. awe the says that the Servians have forcibly prevented passing through Servis on thelr way Pacha’s army. seven thousand Bosnian and Albantas Catholics ‘& free corps, and are about to join the Otto- Another corps of Christians, Cossacks, is at Constantinople, from the descendants of the refugees in the days of the Csarina Catherine. Vimwxa, Thursday noon, Dec. 1, 1853. dviees from Bucharest of the 28th November state that om the 26th the Turks threw a bridge across from the right bask of the Dapube to the Island of Mokanon. A telegraphic despateh from Kalisch states that the ssian troops in Poland reovived marching orders on the General Aclersberg bad established marching com- missaries at Kalisch. Regiments from the north replace ‘the troops leaving Poland. Via, Thursday 4 . 1, 1853. Advices from Bucharest of shat ian EF i > yy evening, the 29th state that the Rus- wi ‘ar steamer Wisdimir. on @ cruise in the Black had returned to Sabastopol with two prizes—a Tarkish assenger steamer, with a cargo of Pepper, ‘and the Egyp- ten gun steamer Pervazy-Sahri. The latter offered a parate resistance. The Russians had two killed and wounded. This thentic. From Constantinople we learn that the Russian steam frigate Wladimir has been taken by an Egyptian war steamer, The whole of the Polish army marches tothe Princi- ities. Invalids ont of Russian fortresses aad part of 6 Imperial Guard will garrison Poland. Servia har demanded of the Porte the return of the Russian Consul General, and that his exczualur shall be granted to bim. The Bevsarabia has taken a Tarkish steamer. It is positively aiserted that Count Buol Schauenstein will retain office as Mivister for Foreign Aflsira. The ex- Covsul of Russia, at Belgrade, has arrived at Vienna. ‘The Torks are stillin Ka: they have evacuated the island of Mokan opp stuck. Baron Budberg, the recently appointed commander-in- chisf, is still in St, Petersburg. Pasis, Deo, 1—6 P. M At the Bourse the settlement of acsounta bas b-en #atis- factory, ama consequently the funds rose. The three per cente closed at 74f 50c. for the end of the month, and the four and a half per cents, at 100f. 260, ‘The latest accounte from the Danube ounce that a large body of Coracks having passed the ri: bove Tar- tukai during the night, to recopnoitre, were surprised by the Turke and cut te pieces, Ttis stated A pees authority that the French go- ve:nment hae received the answer of the Emperor Nicho- las to the lat of the pacific propositions which have ema- nated from Austria. In that aonwer the Czar’ declares that he cannot acceptof any project of arrangements that does not irsue direct from Turkey, and that henceforth the fate of arms must decide the question, Private let tera from St. Petersburg, dexoribe the Emperor as graatly irritated by the late oveats in the I. and they declare, on the authority of those best acquainted with his inten- tions, that he will not now enter lato any negotiations or Uaten to any proposition for » compromise, THE VERY LATEST. RY TELEGRAPH FROM LONDON TO LIVERPOOL, FURTHER NEGOTIATIONS REJECTED BY RUSSIA, ETO. Lonpow, Saturday merzing, Dec, 3, 1853, Vienn4, Nov, @ —The Austrian cabinet lends its most strenuous support to the Servian declaration. The Porte does not sanction that nentrality, and has informed the Servian governmént that, if necessary, the Saltan would make use of his power at Suzerain, and march his troops through Servis. The Tarkish government has ia’ ued a strict prohibition agtinet the granting of letters of marque. Bucharest letters state that the Russian army was ex- pected to be soon in a condition to take the offensive. With respect to the contradictory accounts of the re- sult of an engagement between s Russian and Egyptian steam frigate, the version that the latter was) captured appears to be correct. A British steamer has arrived at Varna to take off the Britieh Consul to Constantinople. The Sultan will arrive at Adrianople towards the end of February. iy The London weekly paper, The Press, contains the fol- Jowing:—“We have suthority to state that the Court of St. Petersburg has addressed s brief and conclusive note to the governments of England and France, announcing that no further negotiation with respect to the affairs of the East will be listened to—thet the part of Russia is definitively taken, and that that part is ‘La Guerre!” The Times has @ leading article on the subject of the reported advance of the Turks from Kalefat towards Kra. jeve, and remarks that this advance, coupled with the activity of the Turks along the whole line of the Danube, renders it evident that we are only yet at the beginning of the Wallachian campaign. The Annexation of the SanYiwich Islands. (From the Lendon Chronicle, Nov. 30.} The King of Owbyhee and its dependencies—a potentate lorg celebrated in » popular Britieh melody—has in these latter times been converted to Christianity; but, spiritual advantages a) we imagine that he would bea hap- pler man if is cominions still retained the title of the « Capnibdsl Islands,’ and if bis name still with Hokey-Pokey. Kamel XIl.—we canno! uite be ai sure of his sppelation, for the dynasty is not mentioned in the Almanac de Gotha—haa not Corel Os aers deprived ofa variety of barbarian ind it bas had in- flicted on him that last blessing of civilization—a written constitution. American ministers of religion are th wipinters of his Majesty—his parliament consists of Ame- | rican misstonaries their converts. The former are rerponsible to the latter for the royal condu bal ce, at the head of the acts deemed censurable by Legislature, figures the attempt to walk out on Sun- jay. it is a reasonable conjecture that the constitutionaz strait waistooat fits protty Kamehamehs, ac- eording'y, has got tired of bis tly, Hah iv; a sim) fy eating pers Cotes eomp! 1g acoup a’ or out ransivg, SeAsAks Sor tiapetatad icaee he camion te cane his eae He the United States for what is called an honorable An ignorant observer would renounce bis Majesty’s expedient more sovel than effeo- }; but Kamehameha knew Bis American friends— knew the American ple—knew the American govern- ment. Some sgents of American trading houses, residing in Owhyhee, at once spapped at ;, and an snzexationist party was immediate! ed, to the immense dirgust of Dr. Juid, the leading mis- sionary and Minister of Finance, who has not the least fancy for sbdicatiog the porition of perma- nent Premier, and stamping it round the Sandwich Islands as @ candidate for high office. It is true that there are some slight difficulties in the way of {he suz- ted transfer—e trifling clause im the constitution, for instance, and a bagatelle of a treaty; and on these con- eiderati ‘the Consuls cf England and France have pro- inst the traneaction. The poor old savage hands the protest to the Araerican Consul General, Mr. Severance, and that fanctionary retarzs whist 3/ characteristic letier, in which, while disclaiming the intrigue om bebaif of his government, he quotes the Jaw of natioss, cites last pagel fapenemart enlarges on general principles of morality, affirms the advantages of universal annexation. The news reaches home; the American newspapers, to ase their own execrable phrase- ology, endorse Mr. Severance’s itiona; the organs of the government hint approval; and thus, in leas than a fort. ae the project of annexing the Sandwich Islands is os) wen of the Lone Star have grown logical, and are ‘ter pt ‘to place on record & publia admission that, if gree of proximity in the Atlantic gives righta to the United States over a neizhbor- ing island, the same distance has the same effect in thi Pacific? Or is it that the respeotable population of Cali- « forria, shut eff from Caba by the breadth of a continent, are desirous of some private filibusterism in their own seas? Neither the one nor the ether. The simple ox planation is, that nobody, except a few mischief makers who began movement in Owhyhee, is in the least sin- cere in the matter. The motive which has {ph the acte of all parties is the worst form of civil cowardice— the fear of uopopularity. Mr. Severance did not approve of the scheme, but, when it was oached, he was at ‘ ee potenen ae ae 4 mejor CH org American newspapers nee ing, they are afraid Ne expend. it. Nine-tenths of the Ameri oan Je care not a straw forthe Saadwish Islands; but esch man is afraid to compromise himself or his party by declaring against their annexation. Consul, press, and people—one follows another, because the cur- rent cant, originating nobody knows where, affirms ubi- quitous extension to be the ‘manifest destiny” of the United States. It is bad enough when moral timidity de- tersa whole nation, aa in the oase of Cubs, from being indignant at what they know to bea crime; bat the symptom in still worse when it keeps them from laughing at what they see to be ridiculous, What worse eould wo asy of the Toited Stater, than that scarcely one men in ten dares to smile at a proposal for fetehing a couple of Senators from Owybee to Washington, and for giving a Congressional repreventation toa constituency of mat- clothed, cocoanut eating savagest It is a comfort to have the wera i aspects of the Ouban business a little relieved by this ludicrous carica- ture. Looked at by itself, we know no sadier spectacle under heaven than the unavowed conflict between Spain and the United States for the poasession of the Queen of the Antilles. Blood has been shed, and, a* our correspon, deni’s postaoript shows us, in destined yet to fow i, tortents, in a dispute of which it is mot the least repu sive pectliarity that one cannot analyze or describe 1, without reversing the sense of the most sacred names. Law, order vested right, have arrayed them- selves on the aide of « worthless and corrapt go- vernment. Patriotism has yoked itself to gross and shameless cupidity, and the cause of freedom has agreed to run in the same leash with the interests of nigger- driving, Nothing but an inveterate habit of acquicscing in political watchwords and party cant—e habit whish eg, aged Giscredit on free institutions than aay other of their consequences—could bave induced one of the largest sections of a God revering, law respecting ¢om nu- nity to remain patient while moral complicity in the con spiracy of the filibusters was fastened on them by their ress. Wili the Americans ever shake off that osrelesa ertness ¢f opinion which ia destroying their character before the world? They have al a pretty sam- ple of the mew foreign polley otiations with the King of the Sandwich Isls and ins few days Lord Howden’s letters will enlighten them aa to the groesness of the impostures practised on them by thore who would drown their honesty in their yasstona, It is high time that the government hed the means of judging the troe direction of public sentiment. President Pieroe, if cur New York sontemporaries are to be believed, has’ already penned large portion of his mensage an the the assumption of the truth of thoss re. porta whfch Lord Howden has proved to be false. Of courre, the charge of Afrisanizing Caba caunot atanl; bat as few mon like to aacrifice their rhetorio—and the rhete rical Prea‘dent of the United States aa littl: ag any otvers=who knows that he may not be forapted simply to scratch out “Cuba” and pat the Sandwich Islandsin “<p place? It wil! ba 29 trivial pagivhment for those «ine of omisstea with which slone we firmly hslleve the Amog.qno people te de abargvadia, It tua forma! moeage of the Chief trate of one of the most powerful as? Sees should be received, from one eed of to the other, with » general guifay England. CONSECRATION OF RISHOPS—MERTING OF THE PRO- TEST. LLIANCE. oF aga ie Dre o mews. m home politics and \e ment’s intentions in Tastera iain ore nee Pesomenm wae censors Duhop of Natal, aad yy. Dr, Arm as Bisho) Ser Meo aes dehdienas a ‘estan iance a t the 49th ult, to m-morialise the forerament tums aspect of Po towards British Protestants abroad. The Esrl of Shaftesbury was in the chair Lert Shaftes- bnry also presided, on the 28th, at a meeting of the Lon- fon een, Society, to send additional missionaries to China, The manufacturers at Preston have held a moctiegea® decided that the prospects of trade will not permit to recede from their previous terms, but ia the meantime will accept pro} from their operatives te resame work, On the 29th ult, the anniversary meeting of the Polish the Hanover Square yeiation. - Seg te Late al pc — Lonéo ir. Worcell, # Pole, presided. meoting was summoned by the Polish Central Demooratie Committee, and tho assistance of Koglish, French, Italian, German, Hungarian, Russian aud other democrats, was invited.’ The meoting was largely attended. The address bey committee was read in English by the sécretary, . Linton, and slso io Polish and French. Mr. A. Here xen Mr, Linton, Mr. Ruge, Dr. Darosz, Dr. Roney, J. Wat- fon, B. Staplewlos, and Ledru Rollin addressed the maet- ing, and letter of apology for non-attendance on account, of illness was read from Mazzini. The proceedings ware very barmonio ig the next four months Russia has to remit te England, for dividends, Xs., from £300,000 to £100,000, or nearly one half of the amount that Nicholas has eo summarily yithcrawa. France, REPORTS OF ACCIDENT TO THE EMPEROR—MISSION 7@ ITALY—MORE BOUREON CONFISCATIONS—-JUSTION TO THE MEMORY OF NEY—POLISH ANNIVERSARY+ Several alarming rumors were circulated in Paris dur- ing s {ew cays, to the effect that the Emperor had met with dn accident at Fontainebleau. Bome said that am attempt bad been soade to assassinate him; but the whole story was groundless, On the afternoon of Wed: 3 uOth ult., the court returned to Paris, the Emporor in usual health, The Secretary-General of the department ef For Affairs is about to set out ons mission to Italy. He im- tends visiting Tuscany, Piedmont, Rome, and Na; ‘There waa a report that the Count de Chambard’s pro- perty in France will be sequestrated for the use of the State, as the Orleans propart ion were, ‘The Dutchess of Orleans bas promulgated through the Pronkfort Gazette that she did not to, and does not recognise the late “fusion” between the branches et the French Bourbons, but still maintains her own and son’a claims to the French thrcne inviolate. Pe Cholera is waking rome progress in Paris, Fifteen easea per day are now reported, The ‘statue of Marshal Ney was to be insugurated om the 7th inat., acd the railway around l’eris on (ue 12th. M. de la Cour, Jate Minister of France st Constaati- nople, was at Trigste 30th ult., on his way home, The twenty-third anniversary of the Polish Revolution was cele brated at Paris 20th ult., by two religious servieas, one at the Church of the As+uioption, in the Rue St. Ho~ nore, and the second at the Church of St. Elizabeth. were both well attenied by Poles A Polish banquet was to be held in the eveni«g at the Rue de Grenelle was probibitea by the police. There will be no fiz on the anniversary of the 24 Des. The only officially recognized fee is that of the 16th of August, Tt was currently reported in ‘Paris that a project for am allianoe, defensive and offensive, between Engiaad, Franee, Piedmont and Spain, is in contemplation. The Emperor of. Russia lias sold out his shares from the Frenca funds in the game manner as he last week closed accounts with the Bank of Kogland. Germany. OPENING OF THE BAVARIAN CHAMBERS—THS Be FRACTORY PRIESTS OF BADEN— CUSTOMS REGULA- TION. The Bavarian Chambers were opened at Munich Ne- vember 26, by royal commission. ‘The government of Baden had decited not to proceed harably agaicat the priesta who circulated the encyetieal letter of the Archbishop of Fileburg. They are to be fined ten florins each, and bo Warned to reapeot the gev- ernment in future. This lenity will tend to aliay the grest excitement that exists in Duchy. The custo a conferense haa decided to establish bead- ing warehouses at the German ports. Portugal. REPORTED INSURREOTION—-DON MIGUEL PROOL AIMED. Statements have been current of the outbreak of m Miguelite revolt in Portugal. A ‘The news came te England in letters from Madrid ef date November 24, stat that Don Miguel Kad been claimed in Oporto. The ico has a letter Badajoz, Nov, 21, of infantry had risen the Douro, and that many Miguelites had joined its ranks. {ctr Foreign Department, opin was suspoeded eat British 2 ment, opinion was sus; receipt of further intelligence. Prussia, SPEECH OF THE KING TO THE CHAMBERS. The following is the "8 speech, read et Baron Maa- tevffel at the opening of ‘bers on the 28th ult, andcf which we have already published the summary re- ceived by telegraph at London from Berlin:— GuvTLeMEn Ov THE First aND Sxconp CaaMnuns:—Eiie Majesty the King, our most gracious master, has charged: me, by # sovereign order of the 26th Nov., to in hie pame, the session of the Chambers. Slave t your last deliberations, various it oecupied your labors, have received the royal others, the organic law of tho cities, of the 20th —_ eastern cs a state Ys prov! o regular and legal state, asceptibie ‘of ulterior The government of king hopes, with your e- Cee ej fee soon the other , whieh will be laid before you, relative to the of the —s of the distric' mation of the 7th May, 1863, has wade his Mujesty consider it advisable to convoke again the actual members of the First Cham ber, in the patriotism ef which his Majesty places eoafl- dence. His Majesty the King has been ‘able, with sinesre satisfaction, to give new proofs of his paternal solicitede towards the country by inauguration of new railways im tbe eastern and western provinces. The com oe the lines from Posen to Glogau, and to Breslau, is assare® without additional e: vo the treasury. Commani- cations will be made on the subject to the Chamber. Thanks to the common efforts of the government of his nboring States, the ved ® developement Majesty, and of those of the institution of telegraphs has ry which already assures a considerable revenue, at the at it facilitates our relations by ite vas® ramifications, and accordii uniform prinel; Tadustry, commerse and navigation, have taken a advance, notwithstanding the regretable perturbations the present moment, which cannot be denied. The coal industry and iron produce have an extension, waielt gives reason to hope that in a few years all the wants of the country in raw iron can be supplied at home. A cea- siderable smount of capital has been applied te the differ. eat branches of active industry, especially for the forma- tion of companies, and we behold therein s proof of the continual cevelopement of the powers of the country. The government of his Majesty regrets greatly the which the momentary dearnessof of provisions im; upon the poorer classes of the population. There ever, every reason to hepe that the free im; the mert indis; ble articles or: by his M and especially the maintenance of free trade in pect, as well a the provident toa el of the it oe i Feit fpr hem ot beso ge Rivsh ye tween the different classes of socicty, 7 great distrevs before the ext harvest. The ‘budget of the State for 1854, which will be submitted to your deliberations as noon as posible, will give as in eaeeing years, a clear aud ‘ise idea position of the country. Your serious efforts, gentlemen, will tend, like those of the government, te ameliorate it and consolidate it. Varioun other bille will be presented to you, whose object is in part to supply the deficiencies existing in the legislation, and ia re mecy errors that have been discovered in the diferent branches of the admidistration; to protect enterprises of general utility which have sprang up, and to give a character, The government of his Msjesty gives iteelf up to the confidence, justified by your activity, that you will devote your attention to these la- bors, as well as your impartial and tes zeal, and that the result ef your deliberations will be new benefits for the country. Gentlemen, your Isbors recommence ata moment when fears exiat that the peace of Bui so happily and so long ‘maintsioed, may be troul by difficulties which re arisen ia the Kart. overpment of his Majesty the king, cannot aad ‘oes not wish to dissimulate that these fears are founded upon facie, Nevertheless, the’government looks conf dently at the fature. Prussis, relying upon her owm strength, in whith she has full conficence, will con' as heretofore, to in all directions her sincere active efforts to lend to the cM@se of yeace and modera- tion in this question, pregnant with consequences, a lam~ guage independent as Finpactials Nevertheless, whatever turn events may take, Providence has placed the Ki our gracious master, at the head of a people really anit and maintained by patriotiam; and the government of hia Majesty—be convino-d thereof, gentlemen—in all that it 6 to undertake, will take as the exclusive ite efforts and cf its acte the true intsrents of the country, which are inseparable from those of the throae, Ia virtue of the powers conferrei upon me by the King, 1 declare the session of the Chambers open, Italy. AUSTRIAN SEVERITINS—CORN [IMPORT INTO LOMBARDYTS At Milan the most unheard of precautions are takes & by the Austrians to guard against @ supnosed conspira~ 7. Guards wore doubled in most of the streete’, and. fhe'r ports are defended by stockades. The officers bor ia the theatre is fenced off from the others. and ne ome is admitted at the doer of the hous» without exbibiting pari , OF carta di tecuresea. Evevy dwelling house must losed at midnight, under penalty of arrest and fine of the inhabitants. Radetaky has extended the period for the free imper~ tation of corn to the end of March, 1864. ‘We have nothing of importance from Tasoamy or the Reman Statea. The Convention between Great Britain and Na) the extradition of deserters was published om the li Africa. J The African mail steamer Charity hed srrived at Ply- month with the mails from Lagos of 3lst October. Some itema of the news are interesting. The colonial armed ship Dover waa setting out to explore the river Gambia to the head of asvigation. King Avatoi, of Lagoa, died Sept. 3, and waa auoceeded by his ron, Dosemo, Om besring of his cousin Akatoi’s death, King Kossake sent yord to the British Qonenl and to the panple of f. that he intended to resure the throne trom which ha bad poea drivea, A apall British fares was theretogg tee uit,