The New York Herald Newspaper, April 10, 1854, Page 2

Sohn I. and Bliza J. Child, aged $ year’, 1 month, and 26 | that point, the route which seems to have been decided ‘days in G. 8. L. City, Jan. 18, of sear Gaughter of William and ‘Lovina aylor, ‘aged 1 year, 1 | month, and 20 day On the 13th, at fever, Sarah Louisa, | yonths, and 7 days, of inflammation of the bowels. In Ogden City, 0... Nov. 20. Richard and Sarah Hill, aged 85 y days. Return R. Hill, son of . 1 month, and 1} 8. Bloorsing Grove, U.T., Phebe A., daugh ter of Elder Dorr P. aud Adelia C. Curtis, aged 5 years, 2 THE DARIEN EXPEDITIONS. Safety of Licut. Strain’s Party—The Murder. ers of the Virago’s Crow Discovered, (From the Aspinwall Courier, March We learn with the most unbounded tude and joy, from the Panama Star, that two « nee arrived there on Saturday, commun.cating the important | e mnoat of news that Lieut. Strain’s party, or at loast ¢ ‘them, are safe. And, before communicating the details of Fletcher, l have to state that G. rt, having recei Cyan Bal W. shod her immediately with the glad tidings. feelings of grati thisnews, we Consul at this received despatches for Capt. Hollins of the this afternoon, forthwith chartered the Liberty, a ‘ore clipper schooner, lying in our harbor, and des- iss is the story of the gentlemen above mentioned, ‘who brought the news to Panama ,— From them we learn that about sixteen days ago, Lieut. Strain, accompanied by only two of his men, arrived at Chapigana, in search of provisions and boats for the re- Lief of the balance ef his party, whom he had left four ‘weeks before on the banks of the Chucanaque river. Tearning that Mr. Bennett had an ample su, at the junction visions at the dey the ply of pro- wanna and Lara rivers, he forthwith proceeded there, and obtain- ing the necessary supplies, hastened back. Our informant saw and conversed with Lieut. Strain on tus onst arrival at Chapigana tiou that Mr, Bennett the Sa) was goil Lieut. 8. mine days in mewr the out up. of ad Bye “Yruin on the Bckness and debi wnt have been intense, especial is {wo companions, who, in thei provisi , and gave him the informa- but did not see Lient. 8. again, as that gentleman was on hisreturndown | semj-monthly mail. She brought eighty-one passengers vanna river, from the depot, while our informant _ andi"$320,000 in specie. Her dates are Valparaiso, March But in the conversation he had with | 1, Callao 10th. learned that he and his men had been forty from the Atlantic to Point Yi 1@ Chucanagne river, on that after being out fifteen days from the At isa, Pacitic; | nal we have received, says that in politics everything is f ic their | apparently quiet; a report was current, but wanted con- Provisions became entirely exhausted, aftor which they | sirmation, that ihe crops in the South had been injured to subsist principally upon the nut of the trupa, & jes of the palm. The vineteen men left by Lieut. | canaque were mostly disabled from The sufferings of the whole party those of Licut. 8. and weakened and nearly | heusted state, had to cut their way for four woeks & wn the banks of the Chacanaque river. Lieut. Strain reports that the Indians inhabiting tho pute over which he travelled always fled on hi proach, Sast setting fire to the ranches or huts, destroying their __anoes, and carrying off all stock and provisions. At on> ‘of their settlements he found the remains of no less than five cancos, On Tuesday evening, 16th, H. B. M’s_steamer Virago arrived at the month of the Savanna, and Capt. Marshall immediately dispatched a boat up the river to communi- ate with Lieut. Strain’ . Bennett, who durii to the Virago and communi s Grrival and departure from the depot, on his return to the succor of his men. B, ol then ht came down intelligence of three o'clock on the morning of the 17th, Capt. Marshall despatchod one of his largest boats to the Chucanaque, to render such in as he might require aid and assistance to Li eut. the recovery of his men. T i eut. 8. to the depot, were | +‘arted on his return unaccompanied by a single man of | for miles. inal party women who accom pai t there sick, so that he in je at the whole party, or even a portion of it, is safe, is moat welcome news indeed, and we are momently look- NE ‘the Panameno of the een received from S a oe ih Da ‘The chief indians have been pu a inglish and Gran: alle the mi m: » time fixed for the del ne. le of April who for the Virago here, with them. We shall hail thoir val in our city with unbounded joy. WS FROM THE DARIEN—THE iF MURDERERS OF THE ViRAGO'S CREW DISCOVERED, THE RETURN OF LIBUT. FAUNTLEROY. [From the Panama Star, March 28.] We ore glad to announce the safe return of Li Fauntleroy, of the sloop-of-war Cyane, and Don Carlos trisson, who it will be remembered by for Chepo, bere on the 13th Strain and hi Bay Americans and English scour the country and four men. The ews eve they could o| inst is sek in the evening, and ri » on the morning of th in endeavoring to procure guides, to conduct them across th The intelligence they obtaine1 satisfied them that rumor brought to this city on the l2th, to the effect t a party of eleven foreigners in ~flantic, had been devoured by wild be vof the fo their utmost veng' te out large pai the death of the Vir ad becn carried up the ri , and as goon as heard at exch settlement the In living on the river abandoned t) at refuge higher up in the mountains. F few days ago, Don Carlos ani Lieut. F 2d ult. announces that letters Martha, dated the 14th of nth, stating that a tribe of Indians who resided and traded with (hose of Darien, have given infor- n that the murder of the four men belonging to the owas done by a savage ani warlike tribe. © offered to bring the murderers to the authorities of ton, whom they say are named Cunasile, Liaique, C to), and Quiipalipi, all members of the Chu f Palla, nemod Ballasar, says that the aforesaid i , to teach them to respect They , Can- anaque tribe. ‘y of the culprits is the | wril. £0, says the Panameno, we shall know er this iv an Indian tale ov a ¢ act on the part of those who gave the informa- jieut. Chas. our readers, ore they were in information as to the fate Leaving Panama at five gall night, they reached th, whore they apent nine ntelligence, as wellas | ta close jmus to Caledonia | governmen roasing from the had its origin y rinen of Captaia si’s party. Nevertheless, with the almost forlorn ot gathering some news of Lient. Strain, if they i but onee gain the interior, Lieut. Fauntleroy Don Carlos used endeavors to t Chepo, to accompany them, bat r le, from the fact that the whole of | r places and ‘nally, © prevailed on two ‘youths to carry them ina canoe up the river to the In- dian boundary, and, without guides, they started. going up the river for two days, and seeing no Indians ‘or other persons with whom they could hold communica- tion, and finding the course of the Bayano would lead them in a direction contrary to thet they wished to pur- Sue, they were reluctantly compelled to return to Chepo, ‘whence they started for ani arrived at about ten 0 nof these gentlemen removes the last anxiety | th After ‘place on Sunday morning, | lock at night. we had in connection with the exploration party of Lieut. Strain. and we are ae 5 ao’ his men, w they THE LAT“ST NEWS. (From the Panama Herald, March 28.) Ta All are now safe, or were when last heard from, | looking for the arrival here of Lieut. 3. en all will repair to Aspinwall, and again re unite on board the Cyane, where we are quite sure will be most welocmely received. dition to the foregoing, which we copy from the Stor cf Sunday, we have learned a few additional parti eulars from dwnded proprietor, w Cho pigana and Yavise him to his house, where —perfect £ naked, and that pe ly te pilot tra: »_Anjal Sucre, a very ho resides at Sant: He aaw Lie he gave h lescribes the Lieutenant a» alm Maria, telligont native | between Strain, ‘and took clothes and food worn toa skeleton his body covered with sores from a ed the skin. Strain told him that when fifteen days out they r Indians, who spoke Knglish, and who agreed to hain back to the Atlantic; after a two days march <hrough the wountains the Indians deserted them during the nig! When &: starting uj at. Two of the four men who accomp: .d the other two were on Suere left Yavii ied Liout. Strain rd the Viragi on the 19th, the boat the Virago was there, and a large number of eanoes were b the river to the relief of the rest of the The natives lent every assistance in their power. NEWS FROM NEW GRANADA. Serious Trouble Between the Americans and ‘the Government—The Tax on Passengers, d&c. Our advices from Panama are to the 3th, and from As- pinwall to the Sist ult. ‘Thore appears to bea great deal of excitement at As- wpinwall in regard to the inroads of forcigners, especially | Amerieans. The Panama Star of the 28th says :—‘‘Last night, about eight o’clock, news was received in this city from Aspinwall, that the government officials, who for a year or more have been allowed, on sufferance, to locate and ‘remain there, have at length been compelled to leave the jplace, and some of them are new here. There are various | prices. Spirits of turpentine scarce and high. Rice and exciting rumors in this city, none of which do we choose to publish until we can learn something from a reliable | thousand ; a small decline looked for. source.” Tue Panama Herald of the 28th says :—The Pana- ‘mero of Sunday last contains a translation of the reso- Futions of the Aspinwail Vigilance Committee, on which it makes the following remarks: — The foregoing resolutions of w th is wea!l) shows for itself nt is vi a directed this t of the provi Shorey the veil wi vt ‘Toxna. This trouble bas been caused by tho renewal of a tax | passengers erossing the Isthmus. Courier of the 30th ult. says:— on meetin, ign jul Inture and be drawn and we a American colony, or, in other word toh the Gra city. a pe executive was THE TAXATION QUESTION. ‘The authorities seem to have been as boisterous in boasting and threats, and as dilatory and weak in ‘the'r action in this matter, as the whole people genorally the: ‘sare in almost everything. ‘Their very eustenance therefore t* dependent v io sored to inflict upon t fo) therefore we had Mection of them ; but ¢ han they ion of < ing them to-4: ‘, until the re e nt at ta de illey taxa tic eu nt. held in Colot a blow has formerly atta. all find Col imilated to | The Aspinwall | rather the ultimate payment om the taxes they have en- eigners of the Isthmus— | 1 nothing would prevent | are much farther from re three months ago. | new Governos he United States gov: | # in favor of this system of un- they cannot collect ave entirely overshot the mark, and Uh axation without an equi 1x upon the passengers, (wio have rev anything. | be sentenced would be inf ere can be | has infu: ed the | mus from the sleep of a quarter of a century to be ‘he arena of immense centralizing and expanding .J—this tax upon these, their actors, they have done all in their power to enforce; ut they cannot collect it—ani if they continue to ro ow thelr vexations annoyances upon those in the sor of the United States government, matters will soon fo such @ pass thot they will be saced all trouble of no ond attempting to collect taxes, or of any adminis- ak they are beginning to understand this matter ® comnnere'al transac rs » r ¥ 4 fo of government. Pamema Railroad is prog ¥ ‘The'toad wi Geumit,” the bighe vory trust they are coming to their senses. ssing with very great Completed Ww “eae wkiy ou the ine—and from) mocnirg ADDITIONAL BY THE EUROPA. | upon for travel (until the railroad is Gnished) extends @irectly upon an old military road from Gorgona to Pa- | nama. This will be quite dry in the wet season, so that | Qyp London, there will be no difficulty in reaching Panama, over this | route, from Aspinwall, in from six to eight hours, | Paris, and Bombay Correspondence. the CONSULAR NOTICE. | nAAannnnnnshnnalllannas 7 Reg bod Wd a, } Port OF Panama, March 28, 1854, | i mae iva, at damoy 6. Swan Jn | Interesting Intelligence Relative to 1 States of America, of Paris, Ohio, vo v; j i ater county ‘Ohi, died at the Foreign Naval and Military Operations of the ) in this city, on ‘of March, 1864, of disease | don shipboard; and that his effects, duly in- | Contending Powers. ventoried and appraised, have been deposited in this , THOS. WM. WARD, Consul of the U. States. gs OBITUARY. THK DEATH OF GENERAL O’LEARY, TRE LATEST MARKET CIRCULARS, &o., &o., &e. BRITISH MINISTER AT nodora. The last mail from Bogota brought intelligence of the sudden death of General Daniel Florence O'Leary, for many years British Chargé d’Affaires to this country. General O'Leary was of Irish deacent, and was one of those who, in 1818, came out to this country to aid the people in'the war of independence. From that time until 1824 he was constantly engaged in the field, and Our London Correspondence. Lonpon, Friday, March 24, 1854. 1 Wir—Sir Charles Napier’s Fleet—The Baltic—France and the Secret Documents—The Greek Insurrection, dc. took an active part in some of the severest battles. H le-de- eg to Bolivar, whose pom omg ~ 5 : There is not much news to send by the present steamer. ly rose to the rank of General in the No message has as yet been sent by the Queen to Parlia- | NEWS FROM THE SOUTH PACIFIC. | The Probable Success of the Peruvian Revo- lution, [From the Panama Herald, March 21.] On Sunday morning, 20th ult., the steamer Bogota, Captain Hall, arrived from the South, with the usual ment declaring war with Russia, nor has such a step been taken in France; from which it must be inferred that the courier bearing the official answer of the Emperor Nicholas has not yet reached London or Paris. Until war is declared itis said hostilities will not commence. Sir Charles Napier’s flect is at the entrance of the Bultic; he himself was, at last advices, at Copenhagen, where he had requested an audience of the King. ‘The feeling in Denmark, Sweden and Norway,is quite enthusiastic for the Western Powers. So much of a similar feeling has beon ovinced in Prussia that the government there is alarmed. The people are decidedly anti-Russian, and the court trembles. Russian policy has succeeded at Berlin and at Vienna in so far as both those Powers have declared their neutrality. Until the first cannon is fired things will probably remain in this state. | We do not yet lmow what has been the effect upon | Austria and Prussia of the publication of the secret cor: respondence between Russia and the English government. In that correspondence the German Powers aro treat- ei in so cavalier a manner that the greatest indignation will probably be excited. In France the publication of | these documents has led to a short official declaration in the Moniteur, from which it appears that when the Em- peror found it was ‘no go’? in England, and that the English government refused even to listen to his wily overtures, he tried France. This will doubtless lead to the publication of some a0- eret and confidential papers by the French government; and Russia will then have to publish the private letters she has received, among which, I am toid, there are let- ters from Prince Albert. CHILI. | The Valparaiso Herald, which is the only Citilian jour- by a frost. “Constant efforts are being made to extend the educa- tional system throughout the country. A decree just pub- lished by the Minister of Instruction, provides for the es- tablishment of a depot of government educational books in every Inlendente,which are to be sold at government prices, | aud given away gratis to those who cannot afford to pay. | It is highly gratifying to see the government thus laying the foundation of a prosperity in the nation by educa- ting the people. Don Roberto Simpson is appointed Commissioner to go | to Fngiand to procure the construction of a war steamer, | for which purpose the sum of $200,000 is appropriated. The exclusive privilege of navigating the river Biobio with steamers is granted to Mr. Robert Cunningham for a period of eight years. | ‘Tho Herald suggosts that Chili offers as fine a field to | the intelligent practical farmer as any country in the | world, where, it says, that with a proper stock of modern farm tequisites for economizing labor, and doing efficient work, the agriculture of Chili offers as sure and rapid a means of accumulating wealth a8 any country now known. Labor is cheap, and not likely to exceed 3734 cents per day for many yeara. The Mercvrio gives'‘a rumor that a French company are about introducing a cargo of camels as a substitute faith in the assertions of the Emperor, that he had no designs on Turkey! We shall have an interesting debate on this subject shortly in the Commons and in the Lords. Thad a Jong conversation yesterday with an officer who passed some time in the Baltic, has lived at Cronstadt, and in many places in Russia. He tells me that if Sir Charles Napier intends taking Cronstadt he has no easy task to perform. There are artificial islands erected in front of Captain Gifford, of the brig Esperanza, was imprisoned for striking a boy with a piece of wood whom he found stealing copper from off his vessel; at the instance of the American Consul he was liberated. The governor of the province of Chiloe has published a proclamation tending very strongly against the sale of ardent apirits. Some of the Chilian journals are against the measure, but the Herald supports the governor's course. The government has given pecuniary support to an es- tablishment for the improvement of pottery; the experi- ments made have been successful, and a superior article has been produced with the clay of the country. PERU. From the Peruyian papers we gather but very little information relntive {0 the revolutionary movements | now going on in that country, headed by Gencral Ramon Castille and Pon Domingo Elias. This is easily account- cd for when we remember that the press is controlled by commanding the other | which prevent veseels of any sizo from getting up close. | There will be very severe fighting. The object of the | Emperor cf Russia to get out of the ico was, I beliove, to make a coi) @ main on the crown batteries belonging to Denmark, oxi which command the entrance through the | Sound into the Haltie, Happily, he could not cut through the existing fovermnent, and does not publish any ree | tno ice, and the pl lie? ie expression of Opinion. “Tt is true that occasionally the | ‘2 foe andthe plan was failure. She preparations, jroctemation of a revolutionary General, or the protest | Doth by sea and land, by Russia, for offensive and defen. | bf some city, is published; but it is only when the matter | sive operations, are immense. Iam informed, from a | ¢ that it cannot longer be kept secret, and also the yovernment an opportunity of abusing the te porty. The Heraldo de Lima, a paper devoted rninent interest, throws actually no light up- | @ siute of aifairs, and all the reports con- is so pul to | oppo to the well informed quarter, that the Russians are yery desirous of striking a great blow on the Danube before the English and French troops arrive out. The 21st of this month tained in it difler materially from the accounts received has, jieea mantlonpsag the day apes whictt Shey: would here from private sources. | attempt to force a passage of the Danube. From all we can gather from the papers,as wellas | The accounts of the Greek insurrection are very con from private information, we are assured that the party | of General Cantilin is every day growibg stronger, and | ‘dictory. It musteventually be suppressed. It seems that the rcle of President Echenique is drawly quickly | that the English and French governments ave hinted at Arica and Tacna have declared against the , an armed occupation of Greece if necessary. Arequipa has now, for some time, held out Gladstone's Dill for increasing the income fax has been against Gi ‘orrico, who won't fight. General Mo- “ rin is most opportunely sick, and the government ison | Tread a third time, oh its last legs —_— President Echenique is still at Lima, which place he Our Parts Correspondence, Cares not lea and it is thought that General Castilla muzch against the capital, when it will declare in his r. There will be no fighting; the war will be con hned to bombastic proclamations and big words, and some fine morning General Echenique will be non est, and a now President, perhaps no better than he, will control the destinies of the country until a counter revolution or a recreation of public feeling, or, more possibly, private Panis, Thursday, Match 23, 1854. The Secret Correspendence will Rouse the French Against Russio—Ezxvitement in Paris after its Publication— Opinions of the People thereon—An Official Warning given to the Union—Praclamation of War Expected— Marriage of Prince Murat—English Dragoons Expected | interest, turns him out. 'The Limenos do noi dread a | —Zroops at Kalefat—Decline of the Greek Insur'reo- ight in the present struggle, but they are much afraid | yi;n_Ruscia’s Military Preparatione—Provisions for of the lawless desperad rho may take advantage of 7 ; . “ i. the want of government to rob and commit all i | the Families of French Sailors During the War. | aggressions | Jn the meantime the peste rages with increased vio- ¢ in Callao and Lima, and de‘les the eiforts of the icians; numbers die daily, and many physicians It is impossible that anything more deserving of the name of a God-send could have befallen the cause for 7 which the Western Powers are allied, than the publica- ave fallen a victim to it. ‘The state of the country i, | tion of the “secret an‘ confidential correspondence” be- preset lage aga! ose —— eng we greatly fear | tween the Courts of St. James and St. Petersburg. ~aan Fife lie Baleaoe tee? | So far from haying confirmed tho suspicions, which Our Chili exchanges contain little news of import- | little pains were taken to conceal, respecting the good ance. The following items we take from the Valparaiso fait and straight-forward policy of England, it has wrung from all parties the admission that in this in. stance, at least, la perfide Albion has been truce. Some- Tes 4 ing is apparéntly quiet. | ‘There are rumors of. serious damage to the erops in the south by a frost. It is disputed by some, and we do | not altogether credit it. Business is reviving to a limited extent,’ but not suffi- ciently to move off our beavy stock of imports, so as to | relieve our market at all. Bioney is very scatce. Very illsat twelve months have been discounted at 134 per month. ror of Russin’s allusion to tho disasters of 1812 was cer- tainly not altogether without its effect. For a moment the national mind showed a hasty spark, but straightway was cold cgain. Now, however, cowes the unmistakea- Vie evidence of Russia’s cheap ostimation of the rights, aswell as opinions, of France, The “correspondence” niay possibly prove the blast of a trumpet throughout the land. * Nover since the stormy days of the last revolution and the coup d'état, do I remember such a sale of the public journals, and such eagerness in perusing them At the Bourse, on the Boulevards, in tho different passages, of arcades, all along the Champa Elysées, grows of twenty or thirty persons were cither reading or hearing read, y advices of the prevalence of yel- | low fever at Lim | Don Domingo £lias ap) ars to be gaining ground very fast emong the peop! ru, and already ‘Tacna Arica have declared in his favor. It is reported that deen oifered the assistance of the French and Ch iaus to take possession of the Chincha Islands. VALvARAIsO, March 11, 1864. | |. The month of February being short, and the Bogota sailing the day after her arrival, cramps us for time. | Miske Hauser, the great violinist, has ‘set this town | on fire’ with his inimitable bow, until most of us are ' ready to swear he is a magician, or has three hands, like Signor Blitz in his famous hat’trick. His first concert as well attended, and we trust he put a liberal sum into his pocket On the 24 instant Madam Biseaccianti makes her début before a Valparaiso audience in the “Somnambula,”” and from present appearances she will have a crowded house to welcome her. We hear she is almost a rival of Miss Catherine Hayes, the charming Swan of Krin, and of course everybody is going to hear her. Business would be good if we had a few vessels to carry off our ores, nitrate, &c.; but there is but one vessel for | freight in the foreign tonnage, and we hear she has re- fused £7 to Australia. The last two charters from Cal- dcra and Huasco to Swansea, England, were £10, £6 could easily be had to-day. The railroad, with its two to three thousand laborers, is progressing rapidiy, bonded warehouses nearly fini | ed, and the new breakwater of Waddington advancing | with Yankee strides, the neighboring hills falling before the uncompromising pick and shovel. ing letters. Those portions of them whore the Czar is rop- resented as saying—‘‘Iand England together ean do as , without regard to any other State,’ and “ whatI say or think, eo docs Austria , we are one and the same,” | seemed to excite the most vivid and intense indignation; and certainly it isfortunate that the English Cabinet comes through the ordeal so well ‘This good has arisen: It has shown that however the French interference with “the churches” might have os- tensibly stirred up the quarrel, the matoriuls wore al- | ready elaborately arranged. That Turkey had already re- ceived sentence of death from the great Autocrat, who stood beside her; and that it was not impossible tat if France were not now in arms to defend Turkey, by the side of England, she might have becn, by citcumstances, | attracted, perhaps, by baits similar to those whieh Eng MARKETS. | Innd has refused, in alliance with Russia against Eng- Vatranarso, March 1.—Since last reports business has land. Two things, say the French, are mae tolerably not generally improved. In dry goods the market is over- | clear by this remarkable correspondence: 1. That the stocked ; as the season for autum advances it is expected | Czar bad planned and fixed the dissolution of the Otto- that the depression at present felt will be removed. The | man Empire. 2. That England could not, and would not, interruption of the Bolivian trade still continues to pro- | have permitted it—was it possible, thercfore, for Franee, long the stagnation. Brandies, claret, sweet wine, and | with her interest in the Mediterranean, to be neutral? is, are wanted, and saleable. Lamp oil, plentiful ; | No! , wanted. “Ale and porter realizing fullest market | The Union has received an official warning for one of its attacks on England, friendly warnings having been without effect. Wheroupon the said Union publishes = ol | coffee scarce. Candles, tar, pitch, beef, and pork, abundant. Coals, no transactions. Lumber $75 per | another article, more fierce than ever. The reste, too, In the native ex- | bas received a second worning for baying publiebed @ letter from M. Manin, ex-President of the re i ports four is quoted at $7 75 per bag of two quintals ; he stock is not large, and no decline is looked for ; hold: | ers of favorite brands are firm at $8. Wheat is quoted at | $5.00 per fanega ; the opinion of a somewhat diminished crop begins to prevail. Barley is held at $2 per fanega. Peans of all kinds scarce and high. Wool in request, $10 per quintal for common unwashed, and $16 to $16 low merino in the grease. Copper in steady demand $20 50 to $2075 may be quoted as the lowest current ices. Nitrate, at Tquique, no vransactions noted ; some Venice, reflecting on Austria in regard to al : ressions, ‘This publication, eays the warning, which is in direct opposition to the policy of the government, has for object to sow distrust between the Powers which are united ina great cause.” | It was expected that © proclamation of war would have appeared in the Moniteur this morning, as it was Knewn a diseussion—of which this was to be the object-— | was to take place in the Senate yesterday; but none bas 7,000 quintals are on hand, for which 19% reals waa | appeared. The Bourse has pattiolly recovered from its asked, but it is thought that present high freights and _ state of feverish agitation; but great excitement prevails, favorable rates of exchanges will force hollers to accept | ‘The beginning of the end’ is felt to be wpproachiny a lowor figure. To-day the granddaughter of one of Napoleon's een most famous generals—Marshal Berthier, Prince of NEWS FROM AUSTRALIA. Wagram—is to be married, in the chapel of the Pa- lace of the Tuileries, to o grandson of snother general, nae whose deeds of war the world will sing of for many | Seve Wedel ‘Stimuan MelbournchE:migra= | ¢%h¢rstions yet to come, namély=Joachim Kurat, King peas ‘News, | of Natles and the Two Sicilies, Prince Murat, aon of the ex-King, married an American lady, and his son— ethaps, on some future day to bear on his brow the Sicilian diadem of his grandsirc—is to wed this day the f | Princess de Wagram. Everything bas been done to give The »\camer Harbinger is advertised to sailon the 14th, | iraperial prestige to the nupticis. ‘The Viaperor takes the and the Australian on the 28th, for England. ,| fortunes of the young Prince en‘ircly on himself, A dinner We have also the Argus of the 6th of the same mouth. ‘| #t the palace and afterwards » ball, which the bride will Tteontains a very strong leading article against the | oven,are ali arranged to do apecial honor to the o- * William Denison, whom it calls a | on, of which, in my next, I hiope to give you some abs and concludes by saying, “If we are to bo | stiacts, The marriage is one, | may ter eminently | insulted by his presence the worst fate to which he could | to the swtisiaction of all parties. ‘The lady'is twenty- } one—the ar younger. The young a May He, trae as the nis her exch moraing ore while she, Hike 8 the (onder petals ashes in a vase of the veasare? in some hal- of men has never (From the Panama Herald, March 25. | | | ,,We hove received by way of Callao the Melbourne | | Morning Herald of the 12th January, being fourteen days later than our dvices. “mere jailer dus os he has In speaking of immig temporary sto; and, acter r and lat poge in the emigration ning upon the cause to the conciusion that nt work, first rate w ‘y industrious ar and laborer who come io it, and there is hardiy any assignable iber of such workers who could find im- mployment in it.” = gold market remains dull, and the quoted at from £3 15s, 6d. to £8 16 At the Bendi- BO markets flour was quoted at £42 to £45 per oo a arama cavemen rte canal brifge about one hundred a nt We | 8 icing in the with a louquet of t some pries‘ess of t! hey withor aud consequence “there is ample | # es, gud a certain dared to glance, Aleut Kev thousend FP | and one thousand of the | are com Peris towards the end. of the month, fe proves eMac, fe Hes and Toulon, by Lyons and tho Rhine. ihe juke | of Cambridge and Lord Ragien will aceompony them The I rench are loo} ing forward to the event. wit con erable interest, T).c guédes are to make room for them, e Tent time such a ¢'rcuinstance ccourred was after the s ow (ry ces {he musty adage ay alry (the dravoons) price may be r 1 fifty foot | iy | miles from Provid nee, was destroyed by fice on Friday | }); Sy, Tempera mutamtor, ot nee mutamur 1 It is, to say the least, surprising that, with these docu- | ments in their desks, the English statesmen put so much | it, supplied with the heaviest artillery, one fort or island | Moreover, there aro shallows | | Grot | return of ihe friendship we and our fellow exiles at large | your country rests. thing was wanting, as I said in my last, to stir up the | slumbering embers of the French spirit, and the Empe- | throughout the whole of yesterday, these most interest: | | | | mone of the Bri | sent most eficiently | republican Amer | bear upon them” fifty pieces of pistons, pad siztr fell posse, Treen are tor day aes out In one of the late sorties, Mr. O'Reilly, a young Irish officer, who commands three squadrons of Turkish cavalry, had a narrow escape. ‘The head of his horse was carried away by a cannon ball, without injuring its rider, A re-inforcement of 15,006 men had just arrived there by the Inst accounts, and everything preaages an approaching battle. | In the non-official part of the Moniteur of this morning it is stated that the Greek insurrection is already wearing itself out—that fifty villages bed sent in their submis- sion to the authorities. Rumors are everywhere afloat that Russia refuses to vive a categorical answer to the summons on the part of he Western Powers that she should evacuate instanter the Principalities; but thet, in the meantime, she is everywhere making prodigious armaments. ‘The families of those sailors who are called out to serve | the State are to be provided for by the revival of an an- sient statute of the Republic. Act 31 of the law of Bra | maire, year 4, declares: “There shall be accorded monthly allowance to each of the children, of both sexes, helow ten years of age, of every sailor on active service in the State”? Three francs per month is, therefore, to be allowed to each ebild. Our Bombay Correspondence. Bomnay, Feb. 8, 1854. Arguments in favor of an American Line of Steamers be- tween China and Bombay—Growing Preference in Bom- Lay for the ‘‘Stars and Stripes!’ —The Harbor of Bombay —Rates of Freights, Import Duties, ée. Having frequently been applied to by companies and | individuals in the United States for information regard- ing the establishment of an American line of steamers from China to Bombay and intermediate porta, I think I can do no better than send you the enclosed papers, pub- shed in various ports of India, by which your readers may learn, if yeu copy the articles I have marked, the exact wanta of the trade, and the public feeling towards an American institution. The want of o new line of Indian steamers has long been felt, though it is only recently that the press has taken hold of the matter; and should the want be not soon supplied from abroad, the slumbering energies of the people will be roused to action at home. I would advise those companies in America who have bad the enterprise in contemplation to send us a pioneer at once, already built and equipped for service, to take pos: session of the field. There is no risk to incur in regard to the profit of an American line. The interpostal trade of India is free to the vessels of all nations, and there is 8 growing preference manifested, not only hero, but in China, for American improvementsand American spirit. The “stars and stripes”? alone are now-a-days a very good recommendation for any vessel, in lieu of better. Bombay, with its safe and commodious harbor, splen- did dry docks, dock yards, Xc., &c., is certainly the de- pot for all steam lines in India, and the inbabitants will not be bebind in affording substantial support to a Yan- eg opponition. Send on your steamers, countrymen. There is a wide field open here for your enterprise, and I for one will | give you my hearty co-operation and’ infuence in West- | ern India. I would mention that the universal rates of freight | charged by the P. & 0. Co’s steamers upon opium is 20 | rupees per chest of 133 Ibs.; and the whole amount an- | nually exported averages about 27,000 chests. Coal is imported duty free to India, Newcastle and Cardiff: rang- ing from tweive to fifteen rupees por ton. There has, I learn, been a steam line instituted be- tween California and China, and I think I am not very far astray when I predict that two years will not elapse | before there will be a continuous line of American steam- | ers around the world. Tsend you my name, which you are welcome to give to | ail inquirers; and hoping that it will not be long before Bombay is as familiar a name to Americans as Aspinwall or Fanams, I beg leave to remain, your obedient er- | vant, : Letter from Ledru Rollin, Mazzini and Kos | suth, to George N. Sanders, on Hearing of His Rejection by the United States Senate. a8 N. SANDERS, LONDON. Dear Sir:— ‘We just learn from the public papers the astounding | and unexpected news that the Senate of the United States declined to confirm your nomination to the United States consulate at London. We are prompted to express this our regret not only | from private feelings of affection, which we are owing in havo experienced from you, but we are likewise prompt- ed. to do Ko on weighty considerations of a public char- acter. Sir, while the European cabinets combine against the triumph of the republican principle, we consider it, as well from community of interest as also from consis- tency, not {o say from a due remembrance of the assist- | ance reccived in trying days, to be the political duty of | ropublican “America to countenance the democratic | principle, aud to lend, if not more, at least her moral aid | to the republicans of Europe. This expectation, sir, is so conformable to nature and 40 logical that it enters in the apprehensions of the mon- archical cabinets and in the hopes of the oppressed na tions equally. However, though popular manifestations of public opinion in the United States, and presidential messages, and corresponding resolutions of your legislative govern- y certainly justify the expectation, sir, yet itis oubted that it is the ipceentie agents of the | ted States in Europe who are called upon to repre- the power and vitality of the repub- lican prireiplo in the very eyes of monarchical Europe, and to assert its competent juxtaposition as well in 50° cialag in pol ards, provided they always act, pub- Kiely as well as 7 , in accordance with that ‘same | republican yrineiple apon which the very foundation of Unfortunately, sir, it was until now but by rare praiseworthy exceptions that public opinion in Furopo ‘was gladdened by the view of such a representation of republican America—a fact certainly neither advan- tageous to the interests of republicanism in general, nor adding to the consideration abroad of republican Amer- ica. But in you, sir, we had the high gratification to see a gentleman perfectly cousistont in the representation of jour country’s democratfe character—such, ina word, ax ropean democracy wishes to aee the representatives of true not only in their official ac- heir social life, to the character of tivity, but alec Americ Besides, sir, it is a duty on our part thankfully to ao: | knoy ledge your prompt and hearty readiness to advance the cause of democracy in Lurope with all the means tent with the duties inevinbont on your official position; and while we can but appland the discretion ‘ou never fail to use in paying due regard to the estab- ished ralations of your government, we in the aame time beg leave to assure you of our grateful appreciation of all the valuable and important services you have ren- Gered during your & tay amongst us, as well to ‘he cause of demdcracy in general as also to many of its rep resentatives in particular—services the more important and the more valuable as it is obvious that the political conjunctures of Europe have come to an essential turn ing Point, when that concord and union which, amongst other particular services, you so happily succeeded to cement between the different fract ons of European de- mocracy, cannet prove but vitally beneficial to the cause, And it is at such a moment, sir, that the vote of the Senate of the United States reverses the leaf, and gives | full scope to the misrepresentation that it is preaively on account of the marked sympathy yor have shown to the democracy in Europe that your confimation has been withhe That is e hard and mischievous blow at the prospects of that democracy just at this moment, dear air; we re- gret to say that it will cause great rejoicing in all despotic quarters, but will also cause in democratic quarters a re- gret and a discouraging disappointment, such as ours is. ‘We cannot believe, dear sir, that such could have been the design of the Senate of the United States; but sure it is that is the lamentable effect, and we cannot forbear | to hoye that the knowledge ef that lamentable bearing | may yet induce a reconsideration, which we most fer- vently wish. Yet, however that be, dear sir, we are on the eve of great ‘eventa; some of those who now nddreee you as exiles moy probably soon be called upon to act with the authority of their triumphant respective nations; and in that event, «'r, we beg you to be assured that there will be more than one amongst us who shall we to you tLat the republics of Europe are not forgetful of received services, and know how to appreciate their true friends- In the meantime, please to accept once more the ex- pression of our profound regret, a3 also the araurance of our high appreciation and sincere thankfulness. (Signed,) LEDRU_ ROLLIN, JOSEPH MAZZINI, Tonden, March 1, 1864. L, KOSSUTH. Gperations on the Baltic and White Seas. [From the London News, March 25.) On Monday, Sir Charles Napier was at_ Copenhagen; on Twerday letters for the gallant Admiral, forwarded by the Lritish Consul in Tinmburg, reached ‘Kiel, and were to await his arrival there, any confirmation necessa. ry of the statement {hat Kisl Sound is to be the second Hoge of our Paltie heet—as Wingo Sound was its frst— this latter feck would affordit, We av, therel Feet hourly to Lear that the bulk of the ‘he fect under Sir Charles Napier Frecerick, while (ue ovt-stragglera are plough waters of the Sound and the Belts. The next stage will in ali likelihood be a longcr one. ‘he frat decided opera: tion of the flect will probably be the occupation. of the grent island of Aland, off which there is good holding ound and tolerable thelter. A ‘ong gatrigon Teen maintained in that isian a, but the re totally inadequate to resist {he weight of metal the British fleot, with its French auxiliaries, can bring to ‘The naval forces of the Allied Powers, once in possession of this important station, will effectu: ally commona the Gulfs of Bot nia and finland. bu the part of the Crar there is a mighty, bDusiling note of preparation on shore. Tho best points tenable by troopa are recciving strong reinforcements; and if the news frcm St. Petersburg, hovel, and Riga can be credit- ed, he is doirg his utmost to persuade the inhebitants of the Palle provinces tai the English are a sort of Ogres, their adimial being the worst of the lot. With the lodg- ing hose keepers and traaesmen of Revel—the Brighton of St. Peters burg—Le may suceced; but the rest of the occupants of {ue Baltic provinces know better. Of course tley will remove from all places likely to be the sconce of actu ting—but simply to get out of the way of shovand cl, not from any mistrust of the Engliah With all this alaciily of defensive preparation the Czar farries long with Lis reply to (he last peremptory sum- roverument, That reply indeed is momenterily expected. Couriers are held in readiness to stort fer the Levant and the Paltic as soon as itis re- ceiver An unfaverabie repiy will be immediately followed by | | At Kaloat tuece ore tiily-Gve beiteliong of teoops, | an appeal io Farismeut by the Queun, All yostorday | chored off Alsnd, to allow one “unnecessar | by conquest. Northward and westward of St. Petersburg | were the principal strongholds occu | by a tra | pee the answer was looked for, and ere we go to it may have arrived. But the Cahr may send oo answer. He may abide by his shuffling ‘policy of delaying—may affect to refuse to reply, on plea that is no Pritish Minister at St. Pelersburg with whom he can com- municate. This game will be rent; i played on the assumption that the Allied Powers will EEMh slow him ‘to dally and waste Swe as hitherto--eili not strike a blow till they have had further parley; and thus he may calculate on postponing the evil day of fighting, and strengthening his hold on the Danubian Principalities. But surely France and England will not be so infatuated as to waste the brief northern summer | in waiting till the Czar pleases to declare explicitly wheth- er he will be honest or not. It will be little short of lunacy, after the fleet has an- moment to elapse before earnest steps are commenced. What the governments of France and England have in contempla- tion it is of course impossible to conjecture; but what they have not in contemplation seems pretty obvious. Cropatadt, though strong, must nevertheless fall if seri- ously attacked by the combined fleets; but its capture would be of little value, unless as a first step towards the occupation of St. Petersburg. That would, however, require a strong military force, and the omission of this | element on board the ships sent to the Baltic seems to indicate that the Czar's capital is not, in the first instance at least, to be menaced. In the presence of the strong naval force of the allies that will soon rendezvous at Aland, however, there is another means of sensibly crippting the Russian govern: ment inthe north. It must be kept in mind that to the north of the parallel of latitude of Novgorod all the ter- ritories appertaining to the Russians have been acquired ¢ Russianelement in ber population becomes rapid, lese prononcé and influential.” ‘This “4 holds true, to # con- siderable extent, even in the Russianized vinces of Olonetz and A) gel, but indisputable in jand and the German Duchies. The original occupants of the Scandinavian Peninsula, and of the Russian territories north of Novgorod, Kazan, and Tobolsk, and as far east as the Jenisei, appear to have been all tribes of the Fin- nish rade. In Sweden, and Norway, and Finland, these aborigines fied before, or mingled their blood with, or hecame tributary to the Swedes and Norwegians || to the eastward of Finland, and north of a line drawn from the mouth of the Neva to Tobolak, they succumbed n like manner to the Russians. In the German Duchies now subject to Russia, the ascendancy of the Germante race wos established by the Teutonic knights and the Hanseatic towns; before these perine under the Russian sceptre, they were divided between Sweden and Poland, but by both these powers the German na- tionality was respected. ‘The three predominant nation- alities in the region we have been passing in review, the {bree types of civilization that have preponderated in them are, the Scandinavian (Swedish and Norwegian) in Scandinavia and Finand; the Germanic in Estonia, Liefland, and Carland; the’ Russian in tho countries to the east'and southeast. Wherever the Scandinavian and Germanic civivilization or nationalities are in the ascend- ant, Protestantism, with its accompaniments—more rational and purely spiritual views of religio rations after civil liberty were introduced al ly period, and have atruck deep root. In Sweden and Norway the work was promoted by the struggles of either people for national independence; in the German Duchien by the influence of the Hanseatic towns, and of the free nobles (or knights) impatient of clerical domination. In the Russian provinces, the mer- ciless subjugation and destruction of Novgorod extin- guished the free spirit which had been awakened by con: nections with the Hanseatic league; and the zealous pat- ronage of «merely ritual and thought repressing church, by the governments of Moscow and St. Petersburg, has contributed to keep the mass of the people at the very lowest point of intelligence and morals possible in & country presided over by rulera who have made some advance in civilization. The moat persevering and un- scrupulous efforts have been made by the Russian gov- | ernment of late years to reduce the intelligent and self respecting populations of Finland and the Gee- man Duchies to the low Russian standards of reli- gion, morals, and knowledge and love of clvil rights. prruption, intimidation, exclusion of foreign ltera- tures—all ’ conceivable ‘means have resorted to. As yet the taint of Russianism is not widely diffused or inoraidicable, though it is rapidly aprending. | In Fin- land there are upwards of 100,000 Swedés doggedly cling- their nationality, and the Finnish population sym- pai with them ; in (he German Duchies the educa- ted and wealthy clags is (with the exception of gove ticnt officials) intensely German. Now, in countri where the feelings of the intelligent, the educated, the enterprising, are so decidedly antagonistic to Russianism, ied by the allied forces, there can be litile doubt that the inhabitants at large would be well disposes to assert thelr independence, These pinions, plucked from the wing of the Russian eagle, would effectually mar its fight for the future ; would annul all its usurpations north of Poland since | the days of Peter the Great, How to dispose of these provinees would be best indicated by the circumstances attendant on their disruption from Russia. The warning example of Felgium aud Holland ise pregnant lesson to consult the wishes of the people themselves, and not to attempt tofuge incompatible nationalities into one by for- eign compalsion. Finland would probably wish to reunite itself to Sweden, f.om which it bas been go recently torn; the German duchies may possibly be influenced even yet iS tionary remerabrance of theirformer connection with Sweden, and tke conviction that Sweden is the wer moat favorably sitaated to support them against ian aggression. When Steckl:olm was the capital of inland and the German provinces now subject , it was the centre of a powerfulempire. As the place of govcrnment for Swedes, Fins and the inhabi- tnn:s of these Germanic provinces, all stamped with the canon character of Protestantism, and aspirations & (cr parliamentary government, Stockholm might again Lc come the seat of a government able to hold Russia in check, But to accomplish this desirable end must be the work of these populations themselves; the allies can ouly pfiord them an opportunity to commence it. In intimate connection with these considerations is tht acivel position of the Swedish goverament. Russia sic, after much reluctant delay, to have recognized its neutra Let us see that this ‘neutrality is ho: 1 ely carried out, in s0 far as the allien, and en. Great Britain, are concerned. Tie question of Preteciion for our Criney and other northern fieherie-, mooted last night in the House of Commons, has 9 elo.€ bearing upon it, “At Archangel there are a few ships of war. there is also a rather numerous mercantile nave, end it may enter the head of the Czar to issue letters of marque. “Now, the northern districts of Norway are al- most exclusively supplied with provisions (especially with meal and flour) from the Russian ports ia the White Sea, and in consideration of this, extensive privileges have been conceded to Russian fishing and merchaat vessels in the northern Norwegian ports. ‘The admirable anchor- ages on the west coast of the Scandinavian peninsula, ; among the fiorda between Drontheim and the North Cape, must not be allowed to become stations where Russi cruisers and_ licensed pirates may lic in wait to pounce upon our northern fishermem; perhaps to make bue- cancering descenta on our northera coasts, Sir James Graham and the Admiralty will of course soe te this. Operations of the Russions in Asia. {rom the Paris Moniteur, March 22. The Russian journals have published, and the foreign fournals have ‘copied, under the head of ‘News of the D8 Aral, in Central Asin” en article relative to the attack on the fort Petrowski by the troops of Khokhan. A feeble garrison, it iy affirmed, repulsed with success, in the menth of September last, the efforts of from twelve to thirteen thousand cnemies. The following are some pre- cise details on the position taken by Russia in that expe- dition to Khiva, of which so much inystery and so much noise bave been made. And first of all, that denomina tion, which would lead the World to suppose that tho ex- ‘tion was directed as far as the capital of the Khanate- ‘va, is calculated to lead into error. The fort of Pe- troweli, #0 named not long since in honor of Gen. Count Petrowski, and which is no other than the fort Akmesijid, commands, it is true, towards the southwest a vast ex: tent of country, of which the Khirgis tribes are partially subjected to the Khan of Khiva; but its occupation by Russia has quite another importance from what it would have if relating ay to the country of Khiva. It is even to be presumed that this name of expedition to Khiva has been designedly accredited for the object of misleading public attention. In fact, since 1 period of (he first expedition to Khiva, Russia on that point, by the Take of Aral, easy and communications, and it is no ionger towards the east that she has thought of extending her influence by possession of territory. It is easy for any one to be con- vinced of this by glving a glance ata map of these inter- esting countries of Asia. It will be seen that the fort- ress taken es the Russians last year, is situated on the Sir-Deria, ee point four lines be drawn south, and the southeast, near] one from the other, the first will the Mon-Deria, (the ancient Oxu: haa, the third at Samarcand, and the fourth at Kho- kLon, These four towns and their territcries, remarkable {i'r their wealth and commerce, form a net- work, the importance of which, by its immediate # uation between the Russian power and the Eng- leh rule, has no need to be demonstrated. The choice of Akmedjid (Fort Petroweki,) has consequently been better combined than that of any other position nearer to the west or tothe Khanate of Khiva. Itis by roc tae for many Fhentd have passed the cara- vans, whieb ¢eming from Bokhera go up as far as Pe- ng oo nas Akmeadjid is besides a station on the toad to Pokhara, which heopa Up frequent communications with Kbiva, Semarcat the country of Khokhan, connected itself with the North by Tounkat and Turkes- tan, not far distant from Akmesdjid. Petrowski was only a ruin, comy of a few walls, a few habitations and & morgue, w the Russians planted their pie in 1853. They at once executed some works of fence there, by the aid of which a fecble garrison repulsed 10,000 natives in December last. The commercial rela- tions of Russian with these countries date from a yery disiant period. Benkenson sent in 1858, under the Czar Ivan I. by the English company of Moscow, to Bokl found that the commerce of Russia with ra was al- ready rather important: he speaks of the great number of ii + Forsian, and Muscovite traders who imported into nace, . *-saicn productions. Under Boris GodounoT, thet country i... «nd Eokhara eameto Moscow to ge\era) envoys of Khiva., s= that time the Rokha treat of commercial matters, Fro. ore Eh rian traders cbtained privileges in Russia, an" the Car, , Alexis Michaclowiteb, accorded some also to the Hindoo merchents from Astrachan. A Russian work, published | et St. Tetersburg. in 1792, under the title of “Book for the Great Map,” describes an old map of Russia remade in 1657, and which dates probably from the 18th cen- | tury. his werk contains geographical details relative | to ihe steppe of the Kirghie, and some curious iaforma- tion whtch proves that the Museovite government pos- seseed tolerably exnct notions cencerning these coun tries, and kept up relations with € Asia at that the ancient laxartes,) and that if from that Lowirds the southwest, the at an ual distance eriod, Itis well known that Peter 1 Jed to estab- | [ich » direct communication between lls #t (es and Hin- | doston, and Le wented, in order to cceed in that prejcet, to the Kirghis into subjection, ani to | extallich Lie rule over the countries which have fast | been described. His death prevented the accomplish- mentof that design, Since Peter the Great Russia bas never ciscontinued having her eyes turned towards that part of Avie, and keeping up relations of friendship and ecmmeyce with the various Khens who govern it. The tiede of Bokhara, above all, from the outset, contributed to keep up that intercourse In 1104, the submiseton to Russia of the middling and petty Kirghis herdes, under the Khans Cheminka and Zen! Flair, wee exeerdinely imporinnt far that com- meres, An war the construction of the fortress of Uren- burg in 1742. Russian tiaders were secustomed to go to | @arméc of Orenburg, on the banks of the Lake of | “"} Bokhara and Khiva; but the very frequent which had taken place in the steppes of Fee te Fife ced (oom awey.froca tast, asngerdus Pokhara itself, turned them away from that commerce. However, the Euivans continued to trade | with the Rusgians, and (hese latter formed, in oe Antrachan, a company of traders destined to’ re-esiab! the trade with Khiva. It was in that same year that a Khivan envoy caine to Russia, and anotber arrived im 1703. The following year the Empress Catherine IT. seut to the Khav of Khiva the physician Blankennagel, who published at his return a description of that Khanate. nce then ihe commercial relations of Russia in the Khiva, have continued, without any other interruption {ben the pillage of some caravans by the Khirgis. In 1820, M. Mousaview was sent to Khiva by General Jer moloff, He returned safe and round, after having incur red great dangers, and he published a narrative of his journey, whieh was translated into French. As to the rckbagans, one of their caravans’having been pillaged in 1762 by the troops of Pougatchew, on the frontiers of the government of Orenburg, the Khan of Bokbara sent an embassy to Russia. From that period until 1819, eleven Bokharan envoys succeeded each other in Russia, and ob- tained privileges for the commerce of their country with that empire. In fine, in 1820, the Bokbaran envoys ex- vessed to the Emperor Alexander the desire to see a Russian embassy sent to Bokhara. That wish was favora- bly received. The Froperor thought that in carrying out the project submitted to him, it would be pos: sible to give not only more developement to the com- merce which united the two countries, but also to obtain exact information relative to countries still i fectly known. In consequ he named uncillor of State, his charge d'affaires to the Khan hara, and adj to him Baron de Meyendorff, who wrote an account of that curious mission. The town of Bokbara contains 70,000 inhabitants. The finest of ite ™ schools) was built with a gift of 40,000 rou- bles, sent for that purpose to the Khan by the Empress Catherine II. Its aspect isin every respect that of an Eastern town, such as ure seen in Egypt or in Morocco. M. de Meyendorff saw there a mollah to in the public — by order of the Khan, of Alexander the Great. dependent on = hara. The Khan of Bokbara, on his accession to the it rey at the throne, goes and seats himself with Samarcand on an antique throne, which was that Kbans of Samarcand when that town was independent. The by money y tarry in Europe and Asia. cfr ied Chronicle of March 25.) hong ti Soeemea toe from Omer Fates, which appeared in our columns yesterday, confirms accounts which we bave published from time to time of the recent operations on the Danube. A large Russian force was, it appears, directed on Kalefat, for the pur- ee of storming the entrenchments and driving back the rks from the bank of the river. Different opinions have been expressed as to the judgment displayed by the Ottoman commander in the occupation of a position at the extreme left of his line; but his decision seems to bave been say justified frie exertions which th» enemy has to possess himself of Kalefat. Princ: Gortschakoff has sacrificed many of men, ani 3 pent several months in movements which would not been neceasary if the hostile armies had been every- jeparated by the Danube. Unless Omar Pacha had pg enough to march upon Bucharest, there is every reason to think that no operation could have caused more supcgence to the Russians than the of the river at Widdin. Nor is it a slight advant from the very cominencement of the campaign, the inva- ders have been deprived of the possibility of establishing communications with the disaffected party in Servia. It a peers that, as had been conjectured, the recent ghirm mn the eft bank were secesefully planned by ¢ Ottoman General for the purpose of har: enemy, and impeding the attack upon Ralefat nits Prince’ Gortschakoff was hurrying backwards and for- wards, a be learned that hostilities were directed different points of his line, the works at Kalefat were completed, and the reinforcements brought up; and, for the present, it seems that the assault is indefinitely post- poned, In the meantime, the numerous corsbae and affairs of outposts which have taken place have given the Turkish soldiery a wholesome confidence in their own superiovity. Omer Pacha states that they show their contempt for the Russian artillery practice by walking on the parapets of their fortifications in the midst of the cannonade; and Lhe enemy’s flotilla appears to have been Lefiled, at ‘every point, in its attempts to silence the ‘Turkish batterive, ‘The Ottoman Commander-in-Chief confidently states that the Russians are not 5! enough to carry the wer into Bulgaria. It may, therefore, be aascnedl ham the number of troops in the Principalities has been eat] exagcerated. Even if the complicity of Prussia should render the army ordinarily quartered in Poland disposable for active service, many months must elapse before the reserves can arrive on the banks of the Dan- ube; and there ecems to be nothing to prevent the allied forces from anticipating the completion of the hostile armaments. ‘The report that the Russians will maintain the defensive in the Principalities is probably not un- founded, but it inust not be assmmed that they will be allowed to retain their cooky even during @ compaign. The base of their operations on Lower Pruth is within reach of an enemy can at any moment receive reinforcements by sea; and it might be found practicable to in- vest’ Braila and Galatz, and, at the same time, by a force disy between the river and the mountains, to intercept the line of retreat from Wallachia into Mol- Gavia and Bessarabia. On the declaration of war, it will be in the er of the allied fleets to detach a sufficient number of vessels to clear the Lower Danube from the Russian flotilla; and as soon as an adequate force of river steamers is provided, the Ottoman or auxiliary troops will be able to concentrate them elves at pleasure on any point of the line. When the left bank is made perfectly secure from attack, a largo portion, of the gar- risons from the different fortreases will become available for operations in the field; and, under such circum- stances, the position of the’ Wallachian army would be 80 precarious that it would scarcely occasion surprise if Prince Gortschakoff anticipated defeat by voluntaril evacuating (he Ces! ote st In that event, it wo Lecome necesenry to find some vulnerable point of attack within the Ruesian dominions. ‘here is every reason to hope that the firat movements of the spring campaign will isolate the considerable im- perial force which occupies the provinces beyond the ‘aucesus. As the resources of Russia will be severely taxed by the necessity of providing defence for her fron- tiers towards the Danube’ and on the Baltic, moet, ina jt measure, be left to itself; and the Cir- cessians will not fail to profit by an opportunity of which they have long despaired. e defeats of the Sul- tan’s Asiatic forees in the autumn were suffered under cireumstances whith, it may be hoped, are not likely to recur. Since those misfortunes the delinquent comman- ders have been recalled, and General Guyon has Poe the iscfpline winter in unremitting efforts to organise and di the army. For several months past, abundant supplies of men and of stores have been forwarded from Constan- tinople to the ccast of Asia; and the new Commander-in- Chief is a man of resolution and some experience in war, while he bas the advantage of being surrounded by able European oficers. | “ cetd. ae 6 accounts of \e progress the ihsurgents in Epirus and Thessaly are contradictory, and it would be premature to anticipate the early termination of the dis- turbances. If, however, the Turkish authorities find difficulty in emi with their revolted subjects, it become necessary for England and France to take strong measures against the petty government which countenances the rebellion. ie excuses put forth by the Court of Athens would of themselves justify the most brdenl se coercive proceedings; for, if the Greek govern- ment is really unable to control its own officors and civil functionaries, it forfeits all claim to be regarded as inde- pendent, Wiien England and France took « part in the experiment of establishing.a free Greck kingdom, ¢ incurred the peecoue ee protecting the Porte again: the new neighbor whom they placed on its frontier; and the necessity of interference ia the more urgent when the arins of Greece are employed in favar of the invader whom the Western Powers are about to repel. The appeals which have been made to prejucice the sentiment in favor of the Christian subjects of the Sultan are wholly irrele- vant as excuses for the attacks made by the independent Greeks upon Turkey. No provocation has beon offered by ibe Porte which can serve as a pretext for hostile in- terference. Those whoinfiluence the Court of Athens hope, probably, under tend the limits of the ki Thessaly Epirus, if notas far as Constantinople; but the secret corres: ponéence will, perhaps, satisfy even the Greeks that the aggrendizement of their nation forms no part of the im- we 9 On the other hand, itis well that King ho should understand that his obstinacy is more like- ly to involve the loss of = crown than to be re by the eequisition of a province. pect, seonaeie might readily be made, w! would afford the Greek nation at Teast Snowe prospect of improvement to that wi they at rope Fe ig) and no regret would be felt at the legiostons inction of a dynasty which has hitherto disappointed all expectations. It apy that the separate act for the emancipation of the Turkish Christians was signed on the 12th of this month, All classes of the Sultan’s subjects will hence- forth be e poo entitled to hold land, ene to fill civi military em; voeagig oe bad op Ao other ae ts and privileges. agents of si on wi I hig gee fig og (Sener as an attem| part wera compete thi Mager for bing band Christian representation could be more uted fost to the truth, The Emperor informed Sir Ham' 4 “ayinour that his kereditery connection with the Eastern Christians entailed upon him trou! and unwelcome duties; but it ina remarkable circumstance that the eman- ipation of his co-religionists was never even ited by their officious patron. Russia required, not a free and con- tented population in Turkey, buta massof oppressed and ditaffected neighbors, who might be converted into profit- able clients; and the new charter of freedom wilt be found in many respects incompatible with those peculiar clerical privil which Prince Menschikoff undertook to uarontee as they had existed ab antiquo. Long before he commencement of the present dispute the English government had been steadily and successfully urging the Porte into that course of reform which has led up to the bse gion | act of the establishment of civil eq a ‘The wise and liberal measures thus adopted by the Sultan were ‘ the superficial French reforms’? which the Czar menioned with a sneer as nmong the causes of the im- pending dissolution of Turkey; and it was to prevent their completion and to anticipate their effect that the in- * ves and armies of Russia were set in motion. Noclass thy. the Ottoman dominions has any reason to re- erect ty. asa friend or as a protector. . gard the invade, apatches, The Jatedt Pn. arch 7, 1854, i fo the Vhuos oF Schorart- Major Tors, Austrian atta y Tuoe or © ra, cv the staff of Prince Coftseincket, for the pur- cof surveying the movements of the Russians, has Ther Leen recelied by Is governmont. This reeall has produced a great sensation among the Rassinns, Tt las been considered as a firet step towards aruptare between Avairio and Russia. The Austrian Consul how said af Fivcbarest that the doy on which the Russian a se the Danube the Austriens shoul’ pass tho , for the purpose of occupying Wallachia, Conru, March 18, 1854. ‘The Tonien Parliament has been prorogued for six months. The agilption continues. The exportation of in has been prohibited. vit ; ‘Toe Hacer, March 20, 1854. Thegovernment has replied by a note to the observa- tions made in one of the sections of the Second Chamber, en the Vill demanding an increase to the war budget, that the complication of affairs in. the Fast impressed it with Ube Conviction that 8 mate of War Has blo, baa vie~ cumpieaces and the intercat of ‘the defence of the coun