The New York Herald Newspaper, June 2, 1854, Page 2

‘a'titade of the German Confederation, of which Austria nothing yet to show that ‘and Prussia are the leading members. ‘The accounts from Sweden and Denmark are indicative of some movement in the Scandinavian States, in an anti ‘Russian sense. The Sth of June, which is the soniver- sary of the Danish constitution, will probably be selected for some great demonstration at Copenhagen. The Grown Prince of Sweden and Norway openly declares ‘himself favorable to an alliance with the Western ‘Powers. England and France have resolved to put down the in @urrection in Greece with a strong hand. This inteation ‘is notified by the French Moniteur, of Sunday, which ex- plains the reasons for this measure. Troops have already ‘been sent there. ‘The siege of Silistria by the Russians, has been re- mnewed with vigor. The Princes Paskiewitch and Gorts- | chakoff, had arrived at Kaiarasch. The Turks were de- fending the place with great bravery. The reports from Spain, respecting the Black Warrior ‘affair, are somewhat contradictory. A letter from Madrid, of the 9th, says:— The Spanish gevernment havo, I learn, at length sent in an answer to Mr. Soule, who has despatched the same Dy a special messenger to the United States. It is re- ‘ported that the Americsn government have offered to abandon all their reclamations against Spain, if the latter will cede her African possession, Melilla, to the United States. ‘The same writer says that the correspondence on the Black Warrior affair bad been communicated to the Eug- lish and French governments, and that they had ap- provedof the conduct of the Spanish government. This ‘is, however, only one of the many reports purposely cir- | culated by interested psrties. Aletter of the 10th announces that 6,000 Spanish ‘troops are to proceed forthwith to the West Indies. There was a grand fancy-dress ball last Friday night at Count Walewski’s, the French ambassador, at his man- | ion Albert gate, formerly the residence of Hudson, the railway king. The Queen, Prince Albert, the Dutchess of Cambridge, Princess Mary of Cambridge, and all the big- wigs, male and female, in town, were there. It was given yn the mest magnificent scale. Irefer you to the Court Journal and Morning Post, of last Saturday, for ladies’ -e-sex, diamonds, and sweetmeats. Count Walewskiisa patural son of Napoleon I, and bears a resemblance to jim. Hia wife is one of the most fashionable and agree- Abie ladies in London, and_ her soirées the rendezvous of washion, talent, and beauty. We are about to have an Austrian Arch-Duke over here to return the Duke of Cambridge’s visit. The young ‘King of Portugal is shortly expected here on a visit to ‘his royal relative Prinee Albert. This young king is in ‘his seventeenth year, and his advent bas caused quite a lutter among the court belles Lowpon, Friday, May 19, 1854. General Position of Affairs in Europe—Reportea Loss of an English Frigate—The War—Austria—Prussia— Greece — Montenegro — Bavaria — United States and | France—An American Frigate Reported at Sebastopol— | ‘The Black Warrior Affair—Bombardment of Sebastopol. The position of affairs has not changed since my last communication, and in the absence of facts we are driven sinto a wide field of conjecture. There is a report that an English screw-frigate, of thirty-two guns, has got -ashore near Odessa, and the crew surrendered, and that in consequence a renewal of the bombardment had taken piace. ‘here are also rumors of battles and victorie: but all these require confirmation. Our latest advices from Constantinople are by letter to the 5th, by telegraph to the 10th May. The Duke of ‘Cambridge had arrived at the Ottoman capital. The Sultan had paid a personal visit to Prince Napoleon—an | shonor never before paid by Sultan to any one but a | crowned head. A division of the French troops was pre- paring to leave Gallipoli for Adrianople; and it was pre- | sumed that a division of the English troops would take | ‘the same route. The greatest harmony existed between the allied troops. A Turkish squadron of twenty two sail had entered the Black Sea, to be stationed at Varna. Tn a few weeks the whole of Circassia will be swept clean of the R Large reiuforcements, money, and am- munition have been sent to the brave Shamyl. It is to | ‘be hoped that Guyon, at Kars, will be similarly support. -ed. Sovkum Kaleh, Redout Kaleh, and Anapa will soon we evacuated by the Russians. | There is ro news from the Baltic in the shape of active operations. The English cruizers sweep the sea of every: thing bearing a Russian flag, and venture within range of | the land batteries to eflect their object. The Baltic is #ill covered with ice in many parts, and dense fogs have prevailed. The French squadron has now joined Sir Charles Napier’s fleet. The more sanguine Swedes and Dauee declare that before the end of June Swoden and Denmark will have openly declared war on Russia, As regards Austria and Prussia, matters remain in statu quo. “The King of F sia has dismissed another faithful ser- vant, Baron Usedom, the Prussian Ambassador at Rome, as being of too anti-Russian opinions. Maateu(fel will go next. Austria professes the warmest sympathies for ‘the Western Powers. She has called out an additional | 95,000 men for the defence of her frontiers, and is mak- | dng quietly immense and warlike preparations. The | ‘Western Powers believe her good intentions—but are pre- pared for the worst. Whatever may be said to the con trary, the formation of the camp at St. Omer, is a coun: ‘ter demonstration to the hostile attitude of Prussia. From St. Petersburg, we learn that the houses on the right bank of the Neva have been pulled down. Monte. | negro is up in arms for Russia, and Austrian interven- tion there is expected. You may shortly expect to hear of Athens being occupied by Erglish and French troops. | Fuad Effendi, with 15,000 Turkish troops, is at Arta. The | piraciesin the Greek Archipelago are daily increasing,and it appears that King Otho has issued letters of marque to privateers. ‘These pirates seize the cargo and murder the crews. | A Berlin paper, the Kreuz Zeitung, gives the’ following story, under date of Constantinople, Ist May:— An A~erican frigate is said (soll) to have passed the Dardanelles, coming from Malta, laden with eleven steam machines for Russia. In the Black Sea it hoisted English colors, snd got close into Sebastopol, where it hoisted American colors, and got safely with its cargo into port. Some say, indeed, that the frigate was ordered in Ameri- | ca for Russia, to which both ship and cargo belong. There is no means at hand of verifying this, except, ‘that having on my table heapsof letters from various correspondents at Consiantinople, not one of them men- tions the occurrence; I therefore look upon it as an in- vention. Bavaria is said to have notified Austria and Prussia ‘that she will not join the Austro- Prussian treaty unless ‘the safety of the kingdom of Greece is guaranteed. By the marriage of the Emperor of Austria with a Bavarian princess, a cousin of King Otho, Greece and Bavaria have both acquired influence at Vienna, and this may be the means of saving Otho his crown. ‘The Paris Moniteur has two articles relating to the United States. The first is relative to claims made by French merchants on the occasion of seizures at San Francisco in 1849 and 1850. The Monifeur says:— The government of the United States has just settled a ‘ew eeries of claims made by French merchants on the feasion of seizuses at St. Francisco, to their prejudice, in B19 and 1850. Indemnities have, in consequence, been ¢nsented to by the federal treasury in favor of M. M. foche, Dupasquier, and Isella, who had chartered the denge, and of M. Pierre Fort, who had chartered the Abeille. The amount of these indemnities was immedt- <Niavely transmitted, by the care of the Department of Foreign Affairs, to the Enirne des Dv Pe ts et Consignations, e where the money will be paid to the parties entitled to | receive it ‘The other is in the shape of a letter dated from New “York, under date of 284 of April. But the fact of its in- sertion in the columns of the Moniteur demonstrates that the government of Louis Napoleon attaches im- portance to the movements of Russia in the United ‘Btates, and anxiously watches the policy of the govera- ment at Washington. The following is the letter in the Moniteur :— Russia does not appear destined to be more fortunate in America than in Europe in ber attempts to find allies. ‘The advances made by Ler ageats to induce persons to Gt out privateers hove failed, before the firm resolutions of ‘he central gove-nment and of the States to maintain the resolution which prohibits soch enrolments for the account of a foreign power; anda subject of conversa tiou here at the presen? moment is the mission with if | whieh Count de Medem is charged to the Cabinet of Washington, under the nawe of ‘Embassy Extraor i nory.’? It is said that he is to treat definitively concer ing the cession of the Russian poscessions in North Am rica, But the marked opposition in social principlos which existe between Rarsia and the United states, the sympathies which the population of the Union entertain for the polley followed by the great powers of \urope in the interest of civilization in the Fast, and, in (ine, the acd\antoges which the English and French declaration in favor ot neutrals ineures ‘0 the American flag during oh re 80 many reasons for believing, even at pre the new attempt of the Russian goverament ¢ those which have preceded is. Sumner, sent on a mission to France the government of the United States, bas arrived at Paris From Madrid, under date of 13th May, we lear: Senor Aleala jians, attached to the Spanish Foreign Office, left Madrid on the 12th, en route for Washington, with deapatehos for Senor Cueto, the Spanish Envoy. A eter of the same date says:— Mt is thor ght possible that the American government senay give up that part of their dem on tho Slack Watt ive ax cegerds the dismisses! of the Graery » exemple be # the cu tows Trtoed (oa that cise; bul fiere is nish government will make such # cont na to-day returns to Thesubject of what it calls the ‘trivial affair”? of the Black Werrior, ofa contends that the documents pub- lished show that on the Spanish side there has been no- thing but justice and ration, and om the Awerican fide hanieur apd egaression; ana it congiudes by esying that the American government mast ere this have reeti fied their first impressions and that all the noise ma in this business will die away. Soulé was about to leave Madrid in connection with this | question; but a ministerial journal says that the govera- | Sent have no news of his having taken any resolution in that sense. A decree in the Madrid Gazette reinstates Don Enrique in his honors and titles as Duke of Seville and Grandee | of Spain for himself and his descendants. Some milita- | ry changes were spoken of at Madcid. | Cordova will come in as Minister of War, in place of Gen. Blaser; another, that Gen. Pavia, Captain-General of the Phillipine Islands, has been dismissed, and that Goneral Lara or General Roncali will go out there. It is. certain, | 1 believe, that various changes and appointments have been apnulled by the government. In case of Gen. Lara going out to Manila, the Count of Vistahermosa is spoken of as Captain General of Madrid. The market for American State stocks continues ex- tremely quiet, and Messrs. Bell & Sons reported prices to be unaltered. The Paris Moniteur makes the following announce- ment: — ii ‘nance, the interest on | per pont flees ‘annum for bonds at from three to five | months date; 4 per cent from six to eleven months; and | 43¢ per cent for twelve months. ‘A telegraphic despatch, just received, announces that | the combined fleets had commenced bombarding Sebasto- | pol with long guns. Our Paris Correspondence. Paris, Thursday, May 18, 1854. The Camp at St. Omer—W hat are the Objects of its Forma- tion?—Unsuspicious and Incautious Conduct of England —The De Beauffremont Affair—1he Princess Found— Grand Sporting Match—Theatres, dc. The weather—on which, whatever may be the state of the political barometer, the happiness of the French #0 much depends—has at length, after ten days of driving rain and tempest, cleared off; and the Champs Elysées, the majestic Boulevards, and the gardens of the Tuileries, present to the casual voyageur a colossal bed of tulips. £o charming and varied are the toilets, so prismatic are the hues of those beautiful parasols, and so exquisite is the verdure of those lofty umbrageous trees, rejoicing in all the pride of their spring leaf, after the baptismal re- generation of the late sluice-gates of heaven—to see the Emperor in summer costume, and smiling with the placidity of a heart at ease with itself and all the world, drive quietly along the avenue St. Cloud—as he did at 10 o'clock this morning, without any other guard than the two grooms seated at his back—it would never be sup- posed that suspicion could light upon him as the dis- turter of a peace such a May morning as the present is emUfematic of; and yet there are incredulous men to be found who persist in believing that under that still and complacent mask he is leading all Europe by the nose. There are always would-be-wise people to be found, who affect sources of private information in the matter of palace secrets; and, under ordinary circumstances, no doubt means are often patent to the persevering. It is quite certain they were so under the first Napoleon, the abandon of whose character was proverbial. Strong in the gigantic power of his genius, no less strong im the consciousness of it, he often gave way to impulse, and stood at bay against the world. Not so with Napoleon the Third, who does not talk well at any time; who never, in his life, made a mot, and who believes, from his the ‘Th | } inmost soul, that the great buttress of the empire he has | reared consists in the absolute reserve of its chief. ‘Those nearest to his person, and whose interests and af fections sre eternally bound up with him, in their un- guarded moments do not scruple to complain that they | are mere ciphers, children in the mist, knowing and | seeing nothing but as thelr mysterious leader vouch- safes them. They are heard to say that this reserve as- | sumes daily an intenser shade in his character, and that, li erally, he never discloses to them what, an hour a‘ter- | wards, they do not see in the Moniteur. So when men ask, as both French and English are found | to do, what means this gathering of armies at St. Omer, jo close to the English coast—is it for Prussia, or is it to garrison Great Britain while her troops are ia the Fast ?—the answer is, the Emperor only knows. In vain with sparkling eyes and animated gesture men discuss | he singular position of England at this moment, divest- mies, in a lies, with all her treasures, a lamb siveping in security, while over head an ominous eagle hovers with its broad pinions, mighty to stoop if he will and carry off his prey. ‘The answer is, the Emperor is in solemn altiance with Fugland and has pledged his word! And furthermore, the wisest deponent kuoweth not. But suppose this word to be broken, and absolution to be asked from the nation— and such things have happened before—or suppose the ) of Napoleon the Tuird and a change of policy: it in the opivicn of mavy Frenchmen, a cu- rious positicn for cautious Albion to place herself in. In the meanwhile the chursh haa been called upon to add the influence of its exhortations and prayers in favor cf the national armament againat the Emperor of Rus And at Bourges, at Tours, at Bourdeaux, at Cam- brai, at Nancy, at Cap, at Viviers and at Pay, the cathe- Aral: and eburehes have rung with appeals from the cardinals and urchbishops to their respective sees, and there is little doubt some stimulus of the kind was not unneedtul, for the exneting nature of the conscription is beginning to be sorely felt in the provinces. in my Inst week's letter I mentioned the fact of the disappearance of the young, denutiful and very wealthy wife of Prince de Beauffremont, residing in the splendid family mansion situated in the avenue Marigny; and that inconsequence of the unsatisfactcry nature of his replies, he was placed under the surveillance of the po- lice, with an intimation at the same time, that unless all suspicious circumstances connected with the lady’s mys- terious departure were cleared up by a given day, he would be committed to an apartment of somewhat more limited proportions than that which he inhabited at pre- | sent, in order to take his trial. | ‘The Prince, alarmed at the serious aspect which affairs It was reported that Mr. | One is, that Gen. | | Bisek aver that she | | | | | were beginning to assume, sent for some of his most in- | timate friends, to assure them in the most solemn man ver of his innocence as to whatever mi; his wife. That they bad, for some time past, lived un- | happily together he did not attempt to conceal; but that, with regard to her present disappearance, he was in the most perfect ignorance. The friends, on hearing this, put in requisition every available means consistent with secrecy, of finding out the lady’s hiding place. All the convents and religious seminaries in France were communicated with, and en- treated to anve, by ever so reserved an admission, the Prince from the fearful consequenceswhich might oth- erwise result, ‘Time was, however, wearing on, and the day approaching ‘when stern justice was absut to lay hands on the ill-starred husband, when a post letter from Versailles was placed in the hands of one of the Prince's friends. It was from the missing wife. In it she apnouneed the fact of her retirement to a convent at Vertailles, in the privacy and retirement of which she should have for ever remaiued, but for the perilous situ ation of her husband. She stated, however, that so harsh and cruel had been his conduct towards ‘her, that no power or persuasiyn could induce her ever again to live with him; that not content with tyrannizing over her in all matters becoming her station, he had, notwith- standing the enormous wealth she had brought him, miserably limited her expenditure, and had not seru even to strike her, and often with such violence that she lived with him in fear of being murdered; and he the matter for the present rests. The Prince is longer under surveillance, and eats his dinner in his yaiace halls, with what appetite he may. Tt appears that the lady let herself, down at midnight from her chamber into the garden, by means of a knot ted rope; that she opened the small garden gate leadiag into the Champs Flysces_ with a private key, and walke! up to the Are de Triomphe, where she found n voiture de place, which took her as far as St. Cloud, but where also the horse knocked up; and that then’ she afterwards Walked on, though in great fear and trembling, the re- maining eight miles to Versailles. The sporting world of Paris hi cited in consequence of a bet of Marquis de Croix, that his mare, Impétususe, of bited, by both sire and dam, would go and wi three hours and a half, twenty-one French lesgues, of fifty-one Erglish miles, the ground being from tle Arc de Triomphe to the at at Chantilly. The affair came off on Monday, the boisterous weather and the heaviness 0 been unusually ox the roads. | | were erroneous to confound Spanish tr She started at five o’clock, reached Chantilly withont | fatigue, rested a few minutes, and regained the Are de Triomphe at sixteen minutes eight o'clock. To complete the exact distsnce she was obliged to mak turn round the Are—over two and a half measured mil Everything went on well till, on making this detour, the | mareé was wanted to enter ona road which contucted to Chantilly. The segacious animal resisted the notion, of which she supposed was @ second expedition to that piace, and not till after a long struggle with her rider would she be induced to do so; the consequence was the Marquis de Croix lost his wager, the mare arriving at her cestination just thirty seconds too late—the time, in fact, lost by her resistance, She arrived without any signs of distress, and, as it is, the exploit is one of the most remarlable on record. ‘But for her hesitation at the ia question, there cannot be a doubt that she would have accomplished her task with facility. Among the English who were present was Lord Charles Weiles- Ivy, the second son of the late Duke of Wellington. The piesent Duke is warried, but has no children, and Lord Charles has one ron and one daughter. He himself is stasing at the English Embassy, in order to consult che, she grest French occulist, who gives him very ¢ hope of recovering his sight, which, about nine ago. without any aosignabl® cause other than a ing in the water when fishing, So the cbance of a lineal representative of mous Duke of Welling from the Baltic informs me that the eral in the fleet that an attask will be made ediately on Cronsiadt. Nothing can exceed rtiness and good will fora fight which every @ are all on the q ane et Paris en 15 pe hit of with to boa momber of the rama ix to sppenr very ona. entitled 1 Forché are The sath | must be, which it is to be hoped may be avoided. INTERESTING FROM SPAIN. The Black Warrior Affais—Sparish Troops for Cuba—The Condition of Spain—Views of the Emperor Napoleon. Our advices from Madrid are interesting. In addition to what follows, we refer our readers to our London let- | ter for further intelligence from Spain. The Paris correspondent of the London Times, writing May 15th, # During a recent interview granted to a foreign dip- lomatic agent, then on his way to a distant mission, | the Emperor, Louis Napoleon, is said to have ex- d himself very openly ‘and carnestly on the ion of the project of aggrandizement attributed Americans and directed inst the Spanish Emperor spretat ice derided dis- ‘of that ambitious and encroaching spir- characterized the American government, all re ican as it ti declared that so far as his foreign policy was concerned, it should be the same in the West as in the Kast—that policy was based on the faithful observance of treaties, and was op- posed to attempts on the part of any Power to take ad- vontage of the weakness of a neighbor to rob it of its | territory; and I rather think that assurances were given that Spain bad nothing to fear about Cuba. What will be the period of the war with Russia no man can with fee ey say, but whenever the Eastern question be re- solved, I should not be at all surprised if a Western question were to arise which may also require the inter- ference, perhaps the active intervention, of the Powers. The enormous extent of a republican government may be as dangerous to the of the world as the unbound- ed and unprincipled ambition of a single despot, and the South American States may before long require protec- tion from their powerful republican neighbor, as the Ottoman empire from Russia. The Madrid (May 18) correspondent of the London ‘Himes says:—There are many rumors afloat of changes in the higher departments of the State, but it would be at Teast premature to attach credit to them. Gen. Blaser, Minister of War, who bas more than once given offence to the court, or’ to “the ruling influence’? there, which is the same thing, by refusing to comply with requests of ‘promotion and favor for its personal friends, is re- ported to be about to resign his post fo General Cordova, who is a friend and companion of ‘the influence,” and whom, moreover, ministers may be glad to secure, as it has been said that he was coquetting with the O'Donnell party, since he had found that he had not weight or ability to oust M. Sartorius and take his place. I am exceedingly doubtful, however, as to the truth of the report that he is to have the War Office. It is quite laughable to observe the number of men here who axpire to the premicrship. So many have been ministers, that nothi: less than the first | place of all will now satisfy ambitious aspirants to ower. It will soon become impossible to form a de- cent ministry here, becaure everybody desires to be shief of the Cabinet. 1 could name at least eight or ten ro sone—most of them of very ordinary capacity—who hold themselves in readiness to accept that post, which the; are convinced will be theirs before very long. General Lara, Captain General of Madrid, 1s understood to be one | Es Loe and is said to have refused, on that account, the | who at present commands in that colony, whither he was sent to get rid of him, because he was intriguing with the King to be made Prime Minister, is, Iam as- | sured, dismissed from his post, in consequence of hia al-administration and of his unwarranted removal of high officials to replace them by his own friends and creatures. His conduct, as reported, | has been flagrant, although hardly worse, in some res pects, than that of his brother governor, General Pezu- ¢la, the redoubtable antegonist and conquerorof the Warrior. This officer, on his arrival at Cuba, pro- ceeded to ba in office there, and to replace him by a near relative of his own, a bankrupt mer it, inexperienced in the duties of the post. Another of his relations was set over the Custom House by! gloria and er changes | of the kind were made, said to be so umealldt fox sides much disapproved by the government here, that his im- mediate recall has been ta'ked of. Ithall be very much surprised if this occurs, since at the present moment | occur, say those persons who believe | month expires. It has been so" lo: great many laugh at the idea, and declare that it will never take place, I shallot be surprised ifthe Tnugh- ers have the best of it, nor shall I, in the least, if the events prove them to be in the wrong. All that I have rearon to know, and can answer for, is, that there is s plot on foot. Whether it will be carried out or miscar- ry, is another question, O'Donnell and his friends are far from idle, and the Ministers know, or suspect ag | much, and are by no means free from anxiety. The Count de San Luis sent a day or two ago for a Senator— aman of mark and disinction. “You are in the habit of seeing Gereral O'Donnell?” he said to him. “I am | 0,” was the reply. “Has he been ill’ “He | has #0.” “Is he recovered!” “Yes; but ask me no more questions, for I warn you that | I shall not answer them?” M. ” Sartorius then broke out into vehement expressions of blame of O'Donnell, saying that it was unworthy of a man of his rank and standing to be thus lurking in concealment in Madrid, &e. “ay opinion is different from yours,” said Senator, “but I shall say nothing more upon this ct’? And so thé conversation ended. Should the projected insurrection take place and prove succeasfal, I have grounds for believing that it is intended to have a grand Lattue among the intriguers and unwhole- some couneillors who at present infest the palace. A cleaa sweep will be mae of these gentry, and the Queen will th tt, before this talked of that a be surrounded with members of the present opsosition, | who will act as a cheek upon her, and restrain her in some of her extravagances and impropriettes. She will not like this, but she will probably prefer it to being sent off to the frontier after her Minis‘ers, who, if thay are wise, will make for that direction the very moment they see things going against them and power departing from their hands, since, if they remain here, they will assu- recly be punished for their misgovernment, and it will probably go very hard with.some of them. During their seven months’ tenure of office, the only instance in which their conduct has met with pnblic sympathy and approval is in the affair of the Black Warrior, a question wherein the national pride is concerned, and that in- volves no conflict of interests among parties. I find a very general expectation prevails that the American government will give way, and remain satisfied with the remission of the six thousand dollars fine and expenses. ‘As far as I can trace its source, this expectation and hope is in a great measure founded on the reply to Mr. Soulé’s last note, and on the instractions just sent to the Spanish Minister at Sefeorge baal who has been fur- nished with all the data and uments necessary to place the matter in its true light before the government of the United States, and to convince it of the injustice of its demand: A belief i ainly prevalent here that Mr. Soulé has not conducted the matter in the way best adapted to wromote its amicable settlement, and that it ma; terminated at Washington than at Madrid. Until the public shall be ms quainted with the contents of the various notes that have passed, it is impossible to decide whether this belief has any foundation beyond acrimo- nious rumors, and the disposition that has existed here ever since the arrival of the present representative of the United States at Madrid to look upon him as one un- friendly to Spain, and sent hither for the express pur- | Fore, Of intimidating and annoying its government, Jpon the other hand, I know, from excellent authority, that Mr. Soulé wholly repudiates any sueh hostile ten: dencies, and declares himself to have acted throughout the affair with the tenderest consideration for the sus- ceptibilities of the Spaniards. A short time will doubt- less enable us to decide between these conflicting state- ments and opinions. ‘The Madrid correspondent of the London Times (May 10) says:—The 6,000 men ordered to the West Indies will sail in three divisions of 2,000 each, under their regi- | mental officers, and without any General in command, as they are merely to reinforce the garrisoi® of colo: nies already amply provided with officers of high rank. Their destination is Porto Rico, the garrison of that island proceeding to Cuba, probably because the men, inured to the climate, will be less liable to disease, conrequently more immediately efficient than, the new comers. The Spaniards declare themselves determined t> make a good fight in ¢ of Cuba, if fighting there are in hopes, if not of coming victorious out of the treason at least of inflicting severe punishment on the aeres sor, and of rendering the conquest, when achieved, less profitable to him than he anticipates. The reinforce- ment about to be despatched will raise the strength of the army of to nearly 30,000 ba | men. Under the ministry of General Lersundi a very large number of Paixhan guns were sent ont to strengthen the defences of the island, and great reforms were introduced in the arms of the infantry, previously of an antiquated and unserviceable description. I am assured that some of the best troops in the Spinish army aro now in the island of Cuba, Finn far from over. rating the value of Spanish troops, having seen enough of them both in the field and in quarters to estimate them at what they are worth, and Ido not believe that they could cope, on anything like equal terms, with English or French armies, nor do / think they would hace much chance in the long run against the i/l-diseiplined but well-armed. utterly fearless, inteVigent, self-relying wolun- teers with whom the United Ssa'es are won! to operats when at war with their Spanish American neighbors. pas 3 wit! Mexicans—the most cowardly and worthlrsa of eoldiers—or to doubt that the former will fight well upon oceasion, and would always do so if properly trained and officered It is my belief that throughout the Spanish army, now and at most times in the present century, the officers are and have been in- ferior to the men in the qualities required to fll their spective stations. Nor is this surprising, since the higher you ascend in the observation of the social sesle in Spain, | the greater is the moral and physical ¢ upon arriving at the grandees—! me: stock, and not those of modern creation, elthough some of theee have little to boast of—you witness a really piti able degradation both of mind and body. Iam quite con vinced that among the officers of the army are to be found men who would acquit themselyve: ereaitably, and even achieve distinction in any service, but these, fear, neracy, until, compose but the smali minority, insuificient to leaven the | 1! moss, which is deficient in military odgo, amt ia the qualities essential to ieypire confidence in soldiers end eficiently to¢ommand them. Dut ta return to Cuba, 1 (hinde it extromely Uikely that a stout defence would be mate, and th! the possession of the forts expevtal’y, would cost the Americons very ear. A cool deal would dopend on the artillery practice of thejspomiards, of the excellence of which they express { seinsclves cont no means unlikely to} an srta-to which creat al in Spain, and much pa'os are token wi location of its officers. The chief defence must be mare by the land army; as to aval squadron, aithough in numbers it appears re spectable and is to be reinforced by a portion of the ves- sels now in the Meditter though + ple here expect ereat things fr most of its vex Are small, and the Amecicans coald quickly muster a force that would swcep i’ from the sens if it ventured from under the guns of the land batteries Admitting, however, that the gactison of the iskind does ite duty gallantly, hut flute itve'f avermate it te not imprebab's that the penlants world are first the molations, who are name. cus, aad alle ae), if Liven to ¢x ity, » portion of tain Generalahip of the Philippines. Gen. Pavia, | t rid of the Colonial Secretary, who had been | it would manifestly be looked upon as knocking under to the United States. If he is removed, it will ly be | before the Pending dispute is settled. There is still talk here of # military Insurrection, to better | those of the old | the United States, and combine tives to make them pause before my into a corner, and compel him at ; but, the war once doubt that the Americans persist, at any price, ane point, and finslly would attain their ob- ject, unless Spain found aid from allies more powerful than herself. The same correspondent says:—I am informed that the substance of the reply to Mr. Soulé’s last note was, that the ie wernment consider General Pezuela and the Cuban authorities to have acted in a perfectly regu- Jar and legal manner; that, out of consideration for the United States—not as an acknowledgment of right—the fine of six thousand dollars has been remitted, but that the demands made ope Spain by the Argerican Minister here are destitute of foundation, and wholly inadmissible. £0 categorical an answer ought to bring this unpleasant affair to a crisis. decided in the document than what I have been told and hear repeated, it leaves the American government little choice but to declare war or abandon its claims. I hear that a courier leaves the American Embassy to-night with despatches for Washington. ‘The Madrid correspondence of the London Chronicle, (May 8,) says:— The Spanish government have sent copies of all the bendy! So yerng which has taken place on the Black War- rior affair to their Ministers at London and Paris, for com- munication to the English and French government | whose good offices they hope to obtain in the present | emergency. Inthe meantime six thousand tional troops are to be sent out to Cuba. Mr. Soulé’s last note was sent in, I am told, on the 28th ult., and has not yet been answered. Indeed, I be- Heve that one of the American <igeiets,? and bably one of the most valid, is that they get no sul a answer at all, but are met either delay or evasion. In the present case of the Black Warrior, which is the only one which Mr. Soulé is instructed to press at this mo- ment, although there are many more claims inthe back- round, the merits seem to lay strictly with the Span- | ich government, whose custom-house tions were undoubtedly violated by that steamer, and, indeed, the petition of the consignee to the Queen for a remission of the fine as an act of grace isan admission of that fact; but lcoking at things Smpately, and considering that so many previous yaa been made in the same way, and doubtlers with the knowledge and consent of the Custom House authori it might have been better, as I have heard even Spaniards admit, for the Ca; General—to whose determination to put an end to th abuses and corruption which prevailed at the Havana the seizure was owing—to have considered that fact, and to have contented himself with inflicting a nominal fine on that occasion, with a warning that vessel would be weized_and confiscated, together with itscargo, if the | Customs regulations wereagain violated. The Americans, ibdeed, contend that within twelve hours after the entry of the Black Warrior, which they say was the period alowed by the regulations of the port for emending the manitesto, that was offered to be complied with, while the Santee oe that in the | firet place the term ‘mejorar el manifiesto”” has no ap- plication to a total alteration of the same, such as is im- | plied in designating» ‘vessel na in ballast at one time, and | with cargo at another, but refers to any mistakes which | might be made in the description or quantity of cargo, declaration ‘be . Secondly, that the having been made | on the 25th of bes the consi that the | Black Warrior would enter and depart , for which the usual licenses were applied, the twelve hours allowed for making the alteration dated from the time of ase that gorse! the consignees bei Perfectly cognizant of the subject. I have stat at there are many other American cl in the | background; some of them arise out of injuries | inflicted on American commerce through the Spanish | quarantine regulations, and a considerable number, I | believe, out of the act of the Spanish government an- eo Be 1844 or 1845 a resolution taken by the au- thorities of Cuba to admit Se corn and other pro- | visions free of duty for six months, in order to alleviate | the scarcity appre! led there, owing to the destruction | of nearly all the crops by the hurricane which had de- vastated the island. The Captain General and Superin- | tendent of Cuba, in issuing a decree to that effect, and which decree was published by their authority in the Washington Gazette, added, of course, the usual clause, “subject to the approbation of Her Majesty’s vernment,’’ and the Spaniards contend that this feft the question of speculating in the supplies rent to Cuba under the decree entirely at the discretion of the furnishers, who have no grounds for claiming compensation because the government here annulled the decree of the colonial authorities; the fact must be stated, however, that the latter, on the ground of the urgency of the care, put the force from the date of its publication, and numbers of American, as wellas other vessels, were allowed to enter under it, and it had been in force for four months be- fore the counter order arrived from Madrid by which the decree was annulled, and the American and other ves- eels which arrived after that period were excluded from its benefit, and many cargoes had to be parted with a For this compensation is demanded by some Eng- lish ss well as other merchants, and our government | have been endeavoring for iy ‘3 to procure it. Tae fear of the whole-ale de: is which will be made on | them oT the United States, and which could not be re- sisted if the few English claims were acknowledged and Fy having elapsed, Iam told, in one instance before a note | on the eubject recoived an answer. THE BLACK WARRIOR AFFAIR IN THE BRITISH PAR- LIAMENT. In the House of Commons, on May 19th, Mr. Hetcmxs asked the noble member for the city of London whether the government had received any correspondence from Madrid relating to the affair of the Black Warrior, and whether they were prepared to place all the information from there and from Her Majesty's Minister at Washing- ton upon the table of the house. Lord J. Russet stated that the British government had taken no official part in the transaction. The communi- cations which had taken place on the subject were merely of the kind which always occur betweer friendly governments on matters of interest. Under these circumstances, he could not undertake to lay the corres} ce on the table; at the same time, he was happy in having it in his power to state that the last ac- | counts justified the expectation of an amicable termina- tion of the affair. (Hear, hear.) THE EUROPEAN WAR. OPERATIONS OF THE RUSSIANS IN THE DOBRUDSCH [From the London Times, May 19.) When the Russian army under General Luders entered the Dobrudscha, about’ seven weeks ago, different opinions were formed in Europe of the nature and object of that operation. By some it was believed to be the commencement of a direct attack upon the chief posi- tions of the Turkish army, intended to take advantage of the earliest moment adapted for military operations, and to anticipate by a bold and skilful advance the heats | of summer, the pestilential effluvia of the Davubian marshes, and the arrival of a more formidable enemy. By others this movement was conceived to be one of a | | | Ee defensive character, for the purpose of prevent- ing the Turkish forces from outflanking the Russians in Walla and from threatening their base of Cig ile it strengthened the Russian command | of the river by the possesrion of the forts of Matechin | and Isakstcha, so as to render the Lower Danube more difficult of acceas to the steamers and gunboats of the combined fleets. But, however these conflicting opinions may bave been contradicted or confirmed by subsequent events, no one thought it possible that the Russian genérals should propose to themselves to remain stationary in such a position, which has all the defects a military station can . Itis atonce insalubrious and unsafe, inaccessible except to the enemy who com- 4 | mands the coast, and communicating by one or two roints only with the main body of the army on the oppo- site shore of the ri All supplies of food, ammunition | and reinforcements must be sent by ballock carts for upwards of sixty miles from the bridges near Galatz a Brailow to the scene of operations. The country pro- duces nothing, and hardly furnishes any water that is | not brackish or infected. ‘The Turks, on the contrary, remain within comparatively easy reach of their heal: quarters; the deticiencies of their advanced guard may ve easily supplied; and, even in case of defeat, they ly have to fall back on the best part of Omer | position the Russians bave remained since tl of March, a delay only comparable to the blu: | the fatal consequences of the Walcheren expedition; aad we now tegin to receive some of the particalirs to which such astate of things hos given rive. A letter of the 30th of April, addressed to the Vienna Metical Ga by one of the medical officers serving on the spot, w be fonnd in another part of our coluinns, and well de serves anattentive perusal it furnishes the most au thentic information that can be obtained of the hard | ships to which the Russian troops are subjected, of the pestilential vature of the district, and of the extra- | ordinary energy with which the Turkish outposts have defended their lines. ‘The ambulances in the Dobrad seba fill with such rapidity that consignments of sick and wounced must be made twice s day to Hirsova | and Matschin, and from those places to the left benk of the river.’ Even there, how- | ever, it is impossible they shouli fiod prover accom- | modation, for seven horpitals in the miserable adjacent | towns are already overcrowded, and, further, bed | modation has been ordered for 2,000 more patient: number of wounded in the Dobradscha since the passage, is stated to be 2,600 men, which implies a killed and wounded of double that number. In the month of April, 81 per cent. of the wounded died in hospital—a | very large Rroportion, even sceording to the averages as | published by the Russian meical staff. Although, therefore, we know little of the details of those ope. tions, it may be considered certain that incessant atta have been mode by the Russians on the Tarkish line: t they have been generally repulsed, and that the Russian losses Lave been most severe. We have aleo in | formation of a later date than this letter, which | states that early in May the symptoms of the | epring fever, well known to Muscovite armies | by its terrific ravages in former wars, . had | begun (o show themselves among the troops, and had proceed a greater consternation than the resistance of the enemy. Reporte of thé ravages of this peculiar epidemic in the campaigns of 18% 41829 have beea published by Dr. Seidlitz and others, who were attached to the medical staff at t ntful pleture of the virulence of th , in +ome eases, be compared to the pligue itself; and there is no doubt that it annihilated a very large proportion of the Ru army in those years, The fact that it nov seems to bw recisely the samo season is well Ceserving of attention; and it reems almost incrodi © Ue that a general should bay division of bis amy in the very position where they are most exposed to this deleterions inflnence, The nearer the Russions wre (o the courte of the Danube the more they i Liber ground ay excaye them aitugetyer, If there be nothing less distinct and | | carried on for helpless, ignorant, and miserable victims of an all-power- ful sovereign—inspires us with a stronger sense of the brutal enormity of these crimes, and brings home to the im: tion great evil of war multi in a thou. of individual suffering. gality of human life in these Russian enterprises which not even palliated, as it was in the wars of Napoleon, by the splendor of military success. The Russian go- vernment must already be aware that nothing can be made of its present military position. It has failed to overcome the Turks singlehanded, and already, in addi- tion to the there are 40,000 of the finest troops in Europe within a few hours’ If so much as an at- tempt be made on the passes of the Balkan, that is, as we understand it, even on Shumla, Austria and Prussia have both bound themselves by treaty to make it a case of war against Russia, To advance under such circum- possible, to retreat may soon become almost equally cult. Emperor Nicholas cannot delude himself with the idea that he and his forces are in a condition to give the law to the East in open defiance of the recorded will and of the fleets and armies of the rest of Europe. All the evils he is about to inflict upon his people from this time are purely gratuitous, and can lead to no result favorable to his honor or dignity. He alone, in all his broad dominions, bears the responsibility of this war, and nobody believes that the war would be another week if he ceased to direct it. He endeavors to im n public opinion; but ere long the extravagant of his bulletins and the affected fa- naticism of his manifestoes must be found out. His ap- — to his people are like everything else he has said on his question—untrue; and we cannot doubt that when these disasters become better known, as tor must be even in Russia, they will exercise a benefi effect on the duration of the war. OPERATIONS ON THE DANUBE. ‘The considerable time that has elapsed since the re- ceipt of any news of im) nce from the Danube, is itself a fact of some significance. It will be remembered that the Russian army, under General Luders, effected the passage of the Lower Dan- ube on the 24th March, and succeeded, in the course of the next few days, in taki e small Turkish fortresses of Isaktcha, Toultscha, , and Hirsova, while the Russian advanced posts were pushed forward with- a FeCROGAEE AAT serious foo! see as far as Trajan’s all. Jn the course of the month of April, Prince Paskiewitch having taken the chief command and reached the scene of operations, the right wing of the Russian army made sudden retrograde movement, and evacuated Little Wat chia, thereby denoting that the plan which at one time threatened to turn the Turkish left by an incursion into Servis, and an attack on Widdin, is abandoned. This de- cision may be attributed to three causes— First, the ition of the Turks at Kalefat was too strong to be forced without tremendons loss, and behind Kalefat and the Danube lies Widdin, which could only be reached bye regular siege. Secondly, the vance of the Russians on this point would probably have led to an immediate counter move- mahidly: thet the Bente thus opposed by the ly, t , thus 0) tl Turks and threatened by the eee was sorapel to contract its line of operations within narrower limits. The Russians, to the great astonishment of all Europe, have remained ve in the Dobrudscha, for more than five weeks, thus giving time for the sickly season of May to break out, and for the land force of the allies to take up ‘a position of formidable hostility. es, even, has not been laid siege to, although the possessicn that fortress is indispensable to the success of Oy opeche tions against Shumla, Varna, or che Balkan. is im- portant fortress has, as yet, been only assailed by a fire across the river, at a distance of one thousand yards, and the damage done has been little. The entire force with Luders, on the right bank, is insufficient to carry on ® regular ex: as the besie; would be to be attacked by coe body of Omar's forces, while Anglo- French troops could be landed with the utmost expedi- tion and safety at Varna, only sixty miles distant. Under these circumstances it is difficult to foresee what are Paskiewitch’s plans. The Russian reserves were taking ition on the line of the Sereth, a river which fiows from the Bakovina, decree in | | The loss | rons of Spahis had arrived at Gallip sofer by thee fevers, while the troops stationed on | | im evading the vigilance of the Bri rettied, has probably impelled this government to resort | to the system of putting off the question, three years | paaliel to the frontier of Transylvania ; and the relations tween Austria and Russia are, at the present moment, such that the Russians cannot advance into Turkey with- out the risk of adding the Austrians to the number of their enemies. A prubable supposition is, therefore, that the Russian commander will refrain from under- taking any important offensive operation, but will con- fine himself to retaining his hold on the Principalities. MOVEMENTS OF THE ALLIED AND RUSSIAN FLEETS IN THE BALTIC. On the evening of the 10th of May the French fleet un- der Admiral Parseval-Deschenes, eleven sail, was off the Irlard Romsol, in the Great Belt, four leagues to the north of hee The English fleet was, on the 7th of same month off the Island of Gotteka Sandol, north of Gotbland. The reason assigned for the hasty putting to sea of the English fleet was the information that the Rus- sian fleet bad run out of Helsingfors; but it was doubtful if this information was correct The Russian ship Otho, Captain Lauren, had succeoied h fleets. She left the Aland Islands on April 29th, with a cargo of timber, and ran into Kiel harbor on the th inst., and anchored there. ‘Acting on the recommendation of the Swedish govern. ment, France and England have agreed to permit the trade’ cf the Norwegian fishermen of Finmarx with the Russians, that trifling commerce being the oaly resource of the dwellers on that stormy coast. We hear more of the submarine batteries that are pre. pared for defence of the harbors of St. Peters)arg, and it said, of Sweaborg and Revel. They consist of caissons of gunpowder that are to be sunk in various parts of the cbanzel, and connected by wires with galvanis batteries onshore. Two telescopes are adjusted so that the bisec- tion of their lines of sight will correspond with the 5; where caissons are sunk. The moment when a ship be- games visible to both observers will be the moment for exploding. {ters from St. Petersburg, Oth May, state that the British fleet had been seen within twenty-five miles of Cronstadt, and bad captured a number of gunboats. The Stettin letter of the 15th May, alladed to above, men.ions that it was the object of Sir Charles Napier, to vent this junction of the Helsingfors division of the ussian fleet with that lying at Cronstadt. Advices from St. Petersburg to the Sth May state that one American and two Russian ships had arrived at Cron. stadt, and the navigation, therefore, must have been completely open. “The American had her cargo waiting lor her. From Odessa letters are to the 5th May, and great sur- rise is expressed that no blockade bas been established. hips were being laden at Odessa, and several had been seat to the sea of Azoff, where cargoes were awaiting. ‘At Riga, also, a large fleet was taking in produce, and at Archangel a number of ships were expected. OPERATIONS IN THE BLACK SEA. Advices from Constantinople of May 5th, state that the Turkish fleet, consisting of twenty sail, left the Bospho- rus on the day preceding, for the Black Sea. The following notice has been issued from the Russian Consulate:— Gatatz, April 26, 1854. In obedience to directions from Prince Paskiewitch, the undersigned Consulate informs the quarantine board:— Ist. That all vessels uncer British ov French flags are to be sequestrated. 2d. All neutral vessels laden with corn, or in ballast, must depart for the Black Sea within eight days. 4. The same Is applicable to Greek vestels. 4th. At the expiration of this period, all vessels of friendly nations entering the Danube, must for their own security, p to a given spot at Ibraila. (Signed, ) KOLA, Russian Consul. ‘The damage done to government property at Odessa, by the bombardment, was far greater than at first sup- ‘The Russian journals announce that in virtue of of the government, the military stores, batter- ies, and other works of defence destroyed by the allied squadron, shall be re constructed at the expense of the city of Odessa. The papers add that the government, in taking that course, merely accedes to the patriotic de- mand of the inhabitants ct the city. Twenty-two Russian merchant ships have been cap- tured since the bombardment of Olesen. By the Aria we learn that the Turkish fleet had entered | and St. Petersburg was opened on the pi day. the Black Sea. is accurate and a tic. It was further reported that the Russians had ‘ ag at Silistria, but the news requires con Jt is not tru Sil on the Tanda a aon the Russians have invested topes st Shumiee still employed in concentrating b mo fat, an engagement squadrons of sod five of Radoan, on the 4th of May. The and lost sixty horses, two guns, and 188 defeat men killed. Froas the oamhp ta Auta there had! heed news cam) wng'reae ry there no d ‘orts of Novorosai and Geler coast, had been ovacuated by ray Sor Kale was almost deserted. An English officer sent ona special mission to Schmayl: ug th arms sent to the gallant mountaineer by oe eee ex. sl ac stated) is a plentiful supply of re- THE GREEK INSURRECTION. The Paris Monileur states that the latest news fi Epirus is sat . The revolutionary party losing ground every day, and the greatest number of th villages in the distriot of Prevess had rent in their sab. Faud Effendi had 15,000 men at Arta. 8,000 mus of Belgian manufacture, and destined for the Greek in. surgents, had been seized near Malta. A later account says that Maeedonia is inyade:! by 8,00 Greeks under Chanis former aid-de King Otho. They have committed the most at excesses. In one place they shut up 150 Turks, men,| rae ot ins mosque, and burned them hath. ‘The subsidy given by the Czar to the Greek go amounted toa million drachmas per month. The! sion government is reported to have given letters peraey te ie Cate eee at are now infesting th evant. Advices from Munich mention a letter from the ex: ing Ludwig to his son Otho ef Greece, conjuring hii not to intermeddle in the Greek revolt. Otho’ his it was 80 unfilial and unsat i has plonged the whole royal family of Bavaria into late fount grief. ‘The re-commencement of piracy on the Egean Sea is matter of grave im . The southwestern sbor of Asia Minor and the neighboring , quarters of the pirates, and in Tepper of the pum-| ber of piratical vessels out, itis considered unsafe fo merchant ships to leave Sm: ‘The robbers who infested are being rapidly hunted down. hali, of Stellio, has been taken, and to ‘save bere his-oom Greeks expelled from Constantinople| e num! during the month of April was 14,000, and 2,000. others| had become Ottoman subjects to escape the operation the decree. The Easter ceremonies passed off ARMY AFFAIRS. The domestic news is almost a total blank. The various| rumors of the war we have elsew! The report was false that changes were impending in| the Cabinet. The Moniteur contains a decree entirely abrogating the ordinance of February 8, 1826, which prohibited the im-| portation inte France of Asiatic, African or American products loaded from lish bonded ports, and which| ‘also prohibited the importation, under an English fag, of| European products loaded from any other ports ‘thore of Britain or British possessions in 5 The Moniteur has a very severe article on the conduct, of the Greek government in fostering insurrection the Turks. ‘The scope of the article is to recall re- collection of the benefits which France has so bestowed upon Greece, The establishment of Gi in. dependence increased the French national debt Lice) a = eee doom a of 'rench people have at the present guaranteed and has Fy paid the Gree organized the National University and Library. stood the steadfast friend ther di with Greek pea sony oe of seven nguinat Tecien the and treacherous excitation friend of Prance. And France de } by ingratitude only equalled by ite only eq: y the only support ich hitherto bas never failed Gen. Foley, it was generally said, would be appointed to the command of 12,000 men destined for the occupation of Greece. The occupation seems ay! determined Pat meets with the approval of many of the Greeks selves. ‘The Moniteur denies that the English Cabinet advised the French government to disavow the recent difficulty between General Baraguay 4’ Hilliergand Redechid Pacha. ‘The difficulty was satisfactorily settled without English advice. Moniteur also denies that the Prussian gov- Cne hundred thousand men are to be encamped in the Yas de Calais, namely, 60,000 around Boulogne, in four camps, 25,000 at Helfant and St. Omer, and the cavalry in the villages nearest to the sea coast. The destination of this force is unknown to the public. Officers of the army are forbidden to make a) for admission into the Imperial Guard. The War will select such as wanted. The serew line of-battle ship Ulm, 100 guns, was launched at Rochefort on the 13th. An allowance is granted to the consuls and ministers who have been forced by the war to return to Fraoce— 50,000 francs for ambassadors, 15,000 to francs for ministers, and 2,400 to 14,000 francs for ‘agenta. There is rather a malicious ramor afloat that the Em- Eugenie, on account of the liestion | \nister of peror intends to divorce probable failure of issue. RUSSIA. REPLY OF THE EMPEROR TO GENERAL OSTEN SAO- KEN—BHIS MAJESTY’S OPINION OF THE BOMBABD- The following decte blished in the St. Petern- ¢ fol ree was pul Imeatide Russe ¥ Ey On (a ENERAL OSTEN SACKEN :— when the inhabitants of Odessa, united in their orthodox temples, were celebrating the death of the Son of God, crucified for the redem of mankind, the allies of the enemy of his holy name attempted crime agninet that city of peace an that city where all Europe in her of always found open granaries. The of Frauce and England bombarded for twelve hours our battertes, the habitations of our ful citizens, as well as the poriaeend shipping intl : ravtnse wpa preted person, and penetra! ry in the Zapreme Protector of Justice, the attack of the enemy against the soil, whic! tolic times, received the raintly precursor of tian religion in our holy count ‘The heroic firmness and 4: ed by your exemple, success; the city the hee A tote com for 80 der of St. Andrew. St. Petersburg, April 21, (May 8.) DISSENSIONS IN THE FAMILY OF THE OZAR—TH WEATHER, ETC. Letters from St. Petersburg of the 7th of May state that the Grand Duke Alexander is livin, much re- tired, while bis brother Constantine is oa perintending naval matters in the Baltic. A less amount of attention reems to be paid to military affairs just now at St. Petersburg. Perbaps, the hereditary isnot ‘ectly pleased to see his own inheritance for the furtherance of ambitious projects, jh are more particularly connected with future of his younger brother. It was believed that General Grunwald brought back unfavorable accounts from Vienna, as important orders | were immediately despatched to the Danube. Ferik Ahmet Peeha is in chief command, an! FHassan | Pacha (Fgypt an) seeond The fleet had on boar 5,000 men, 50,000 stand of a 8 ores for disembarkati at Abasia. Mushaver Pacha ) cannons, also money aad | greatanxiety Was (Capt. Slade, was on boa d as Vice Admiral. Sefer Pacha, | the celeb:ated Cireassian chief, accompanied by fo foreign officers, among them Major de Giorgis, of the | accompanied the expedition. rrying 1,030 guns, and was to bom: bard Redoat Kaleh, Souchum Kaleh, and Anapa; also to Aivermbark a land foree under Sefer Pacha, to effect a Jonetion with the Circassians. Five Turkish, one English, and two French shipa o war were cruising off Provesa. Three Greeo Russian shipa in the port of Santa Croce, near Ragass, were watched by a French frigate. MISCELLANEOUS WAR ITE King Jerome Bonaparte has received a despateb from his non, Prince Napoleom, dated. Constantinople, May. 5, which announces that at Forkshant, the general depot o the artillery and stores of the Russian army, had beon burned by the inhabitants, from a feeling of revenge. as been immense. The Duke of Cambridge and Marshal St. Arnawi had arrived at Constantinople. Marshal St. Arnawl is the ‘otal loss in | only officer in the East to whom is confided the plan of the campaign. ‘A large quantity of French artillery and four sqasd i. foray into the Her- Six hundred Montenegrins mad zegovina, and killed several Turks. Namik Pacha is appointed Turkish Minister at Paria, and Maslam Pacha his successor a8 Minister of Com- merce. Vely Pacha is made Governor of Candia. A troop sbip with horses, had been attacked by Greek ate Tiger, 16 guns, pirates. The Dritish steam frig ashore near Odesta, and was taken and ) Russians, The crew made a gallant resistance. Captain Gitferd, in command, was wounded. Jovreph Varndy and Franz Rartalis, agents of Kossuth, were hanged at St. George, in Tranaylvacia, on the 20th of April. Two of their associates were sentenced to eigh- teer. years imprisonment. Lighten thousand Russians have beea put hors de: com- y fever, since the occupation of the Dobrudacha. Fl lfawee Pacha, seventeen years of age, son of the Viecroy Abbas Pacha, of Egypt, left Alexandria for Con- stontinople, on May 4, in the steam yacht Parl Geiaad, on a state visit to the Sultan, and the Saltonty daughter, his bride, In consequence of the tightaena vf money, the idegroom could only «craps together about asa present to his father-ialaw, which sum, will be very ecomial. enc, troops left Toylon reception On the 13th of May, 1,009 Fr b for Ercece. The fleot | Fnglich Consul, passed tl conriderably lees than expected, makes it doubtful | © Letters from St. Petersburg of the éth ult. state that the weather was warm, and nav'gation between Cronstadt Steamers had commenced running. Nothing was known of the state of the ice beyond, and felt for news from sea. AFFAIRS IN THE PRINCIPALT TIES. A correspondent of the Afontteur, from Bel; 1, ‘mentions that on the Sist ult. Mer. Colqaboun, the }, May hrough Belgrade, com! Wallachia, on @ special ‘mission to govion, and to Montenegro; ‘Bosals, the ‘The object of his missi revent any armed. tHelng fe those provinces against the Turks "A letter from Vienna states that it was reported at Puebarest that the ViaJiker of Montenegro deciined to | make war on the Turks, having received strong recom- men¢ations, on which he had acted. AUSTRIA. IMMENSE LEVY OF TKOOPS—CHANCE OF A RUPTURE WITH RUSSIA. Important events are brooding over the Austrian pire. Vienna Gazette states that im consequence the great concentration of Russian troops oa the north- eastern and eastern frontier of Austria, 96,000 ditional troops will be raired. This measare must be considered as an open deciara- tion of the resolution of Austria no. longer to be bullied by Russia. “An order bas been signed for the ooeupation of the Ga- pa. licinn frontier by two army corpo 43.50.00, With regard to the mew Aust the amounts subseribed are said to.have beon £2,00u, ot Amstordam, and £600,000 at Fr E GERMAN POWERS. rear ecndon Times, May 18.) The accounts which ba eer eae oe Oy eon inaction of tha Russian arnnes is tbe in- hemsion that they will goon bare toon ries than the Tart ark o Thom the banks of the Daaube to those the seat of from the bai war tr the Sereth or the Dmiester. The Austrian govera- pent bad at firet assombled ite chief forces, under the nd of the Archdwke Albert, on the frontier of nd the line of the —_ and v4 screen 4 aoe y undowbtedly cerved to strengthen the Tarks in their position At Kalafat, and te defeat the scheme of invaring Servia, where the goverament of Prince Alexaa- + Cer Was Vigorousiy Kupported ygainst the Russian emia- sories by the agents of all tbe other Powers. Butwhon this movement of the enemy had been pre vonted, and thes Ruesions hed retired from Little Wallachia, the inte Jom ( the campaign passed to anaiher quorter. Tt beonme kkvewn at Vemma that the Russians, instead of harrylag ov all thete avatlaite troops and _reinforeemante te the Irs ube, were forming considerable depots aad crate Ser | Ay | ere: Oi