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Eht OVOrtM Tt) )ILICE` 4 POSI/ENTB. A ' , tenni, 0.1 • it.. vnalta.ning tap lA.. •vvnine'• .. 1.1/Ittr,” 14 ptibl sh.nt every Tti.n.:ay aLtl tr.....v night, 112 IMO a.....ito•aseata intended !or "nu Lapeer." Lawlor' Iteeaisit paper. must be at the 4111,,, 10, beateatile4leeet, by Twu u'Cowit es the day of pedgfertioa. DIOR WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Teri —l4oreinl, 2b. Aftein." IL, hr. Tooiroasuw—W mint. 3k. nos Aftersoos. 7L Ma LONDOS, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4. Bv the latest enival of American papers, we et* what is the most astonishing, if not the most impor tant, incident of the Turco-Russian quarrel, in the eyes of Americans. The marvellous incident is, that the English Times has pointed out, as one of the liabilities of the war into which that quarrel may lead England and France, that their commerce will be preyed upon by American privateers under Bus- elan letters of marque. Tho conception is a bold one —so bold an one, that it suggests to the reader that there must have been a great dearth of arguments in favour of the Russian side of the question before such a supposition could be put forth as that of American vessels chasing us at sea in the in terest of Russia : the freest nation in the world rob bing the next freest, in aid of the despot whose very name stands for tyranny. The reply of the American newspapers is excellent, as far as it goes. Aware. probably, that some American doings at sea have deprived the people at large of the right to resent such an imputation with absolute scorn, the reply is in a quiet and expository tone, which is the moat manly and dignified that the occasion admits of. The first reply appearad in the New York Courier and Inquirer : and it is generally adopted by the news papers of the whole country. It relates how, during the Mexican war, when there were threats of Ameri can commerce being assailed by privateers under Mexican letters of marque, proclamation was made by the Government and people of the United States, that every privateer crew that should be captured would bo hanged as pirates, except such as could prove themselves Mexican. The arti cle proceeds to state that in case of war between England and Russia, such is the treatment that every respectable American would wish to be inflicted upon any privateer crews of his countrymen that might be caught plundering under Russian letters of masque. The mere supposition is so monstrous, so gruel,' insulting, that the writer of the article deserves credit for the calmness with which he controverts it : and the more because, at the time it was written, there wu scarcely a doubt in the mind of any American that war between Russia, France, and England would break out very soon. The excuse of the Times seems to be that the Americans have manifested a predatory spirit on re peated oceasims within a few years; and that the country which has sent out a piratical expedition against Cuba, and is known to have contemplated more, may well be supposed to be piratically in clined, whenever the temptation occurs. A very little knowledge of political and social affairs in the United States would have obviated a view so unjust and absurd; and that knowledge it is highly desir able for public writers to obtain, at a time when American intervention in the affairs of Europe is be coming a subject of deep interest to every civilised nation. There can be no manner of doubt that the sym pathies of every man in the United States are in favour of political freedom. Within twenty years there might be, and there was, an aged gentleman here and there who regretted pigtails and King (IMAGES. and the dignity of colonial office-holding ; and a venerable lady or two who prayed night and morning that the rebellious colonists might become sensible of their presumption, and humbly sue to be received again into the bosom of the parent mo narchy. Such persons so thought and prayed as a Jacobite lady here and there in England, within our remembrance, asserted in the same way the divine right of the STUARTS. But this loyal prayer has been hushed by death in both countries; and the sur vivors have to a man opened their eyes upon a new day. There is not an American who is not bound by every conceivable sympathy to the popular cause all over the world. All instruction, all asieo dation, all patriotic virtue, all national pride and vanity, all the influences of every kind to which he is subject, from his cradle upwards, combine to reader the conception of political despotism wholly monstrous in his eyes, and almost incredible to his mind. There is no point in his mental structure on which sympathy with the Casa could fasten ; while every idea that has ever been precious to his race, and every emotion that stirs within himself, is on the side of England, and perhaps yet more of France, in the existing quarrel. There are deep philosophical and political reasons why the closest bond of all should be between the Americans and the French people: but in the present case France and England are as one ; and American goodwill may be regarded as extended equally to both. "But," says the author of this romance of the privateer, " the question is not of political sympathies, but of the rapacity of an unscrupulous community." In that view, also, the surmise in wholly unjust, and would never have been hazarded by any one who had any effectual insight . into Ameriean affairs. The faults, the crimes, which have afforded 'pretext for the supposi tion are wholly canoed by the great and fearful American difficulty—the institution of Slavery. That institution is at the bottom of everything questiona ble, everything wicked, everything foolish, every thing impolitic in any way that the United States have done for a long course of years; and it is a grave political mistake to argue from what the Ame ricans have done in their own hemisphere what they would do in ours. Such censure as they de serve, they must be visited with and endure; but they are not, and never will be, in any sense or degree, the allies of European despots against the peoples of any countries on earth. The eyes of the world ought to be fixed on their restless efforts to extend their empire to the south-west ; and on their claim to drive out, or exclude from entrance, any Europeans settled, or desiring to settle, in any part of the western continents. Their Florida war, for the tacit purpose of seizing for slaves the half-breed Indian and negro children in that wild territory should not be forgotten; nor their annexation of Texas; nor their Mexican war; nor their declared avidity for Cuba; nor the disgraceful transactions in the ports of New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, in regard to Cuba and its Slam Trade. Every poli tical change, every unaccountable new law, should be studied by the baleful light of this one institution; and all will be intelligible; and among the clearest • points of the case will be the total absence of con nexion between these transactions and any sympathy with European despotism. The failure of Kossunet3 mission had nothing to do with any sympathy with Austria. Kossurtt had freed the servile elms in Hungary; and this alienated from him the whole Southern population and the slave-holding in terest in all parts of the States. Kos ecru made the fatal mistake of ignoring the whole subject of personal freedom while aigitelifg on behalf of political freedom ; and this cost him the sympathy of the whole body of abolitionists, whose social influence is now wide-spread and heartfelt beyond all Abet maid iollarnorer when admitted at iall. Kussurii thus failed with both the partienintai which the American people are really fivided, and Hungary might thus lose meek; int asaureillt, Austria gained nothing, e x cept;, in as far ai Ifun 1 Icarian failure is Austrian.fgain.. There ban bale indications since, at Smyrna and elsewhere, of what the temper is between Austria and the United States ; and there is enough suspicion of what it is between the United States and Russia to direct a good many eyes towards the Japanese Archipelago, where the two governments have taken a simul taneous fit of exploring. We do not share the expectation which seems to be seriously entertained in some quarters, that the Americans will take a part in the approaching European wars in the old-fashioned way, by sending troops to fight on the Hungarian plains, or to keep the passes of the Alps. As we understand their position, they are precluded by their domestic difficulty from this mode of action, even if it were otherwise suitable to their circum stances. The jealousy between North and South, engendered by slavery ; the eagerness of the South for western conquest and extension, for which she has not the means but by having the command of the national forces ; the abstraction of force ren dered necessary by the presence of slaves; all these circumstances, and a good many more, render it im possible at present that American armies should come to Europe, or could be rel;ed on to remain there long enough to be good allies. In a word, while the Americans keep up slavery at home, they are precluded from fighting for freedom abroad, as fighting has hitherto been done. But they have ships, of a quality of vigilance and valour, that tke world pretty well knows ; and they have diplomacy—a diplomacy which sinks into a national disgrace when slavery is mixed up with it, as when a SOULE goes to Madrid, full of curious notions and very curious langurge about the proprietorship of Cuba; and as when an EVERETT forgets the distinction between mesa and tuum on the same topic; but a diplomacy which has done high credit to the national ability, heart, and man ners, whenever the business was unconnected with that disastrous remnant of barbarism which makes a whole people barbaric in one of its aspects. Apart from that, the national testimony has ever been borne fully and freely to the principles of poli tical liberty and justice—so freely that it is as absurd to suppose that American citizens will be counte nanced in privateering in the cause of Russia as it would be to imagine the CZAR conniving at his soldiery deserting to the banners of MAzztNl or KOSSUTII. It may be as well, however, for the Americans to ask themselves if such a notion could have entered any human brain but for certain con duct of their WO. There must be some association of ideas between Americans and piracy. It may be well to look into it, and to dissolve the association so completely that not even Russia, or Russian sympathisers, can ever utter such nonsense again. LATEST FROM THE CONTINENT. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. VIENNA, Ocr. 2. The semi-official Aidarian Currespontlexce states that "a new scheme of adjustment has been agreed on at Olmutz, and will be forthwith offered for ac ceptance to the Porte." The Bourse yesterday exhibited a marked im provement :—Metalliques, 99; Northern., 223. When the Conferences proper, to which Russia and Austril were parties, had terminated, a council of ministers was held, to which the ambassadors were invited. It is said to have been here that Lord Westmoreland made his proposition of a Collective Declaration, which has been accepted. BERLIN, Ocr. 2. The King of Prussia quitted Berlin this (Sunday) evening to meet the Czar at Warsaw, with two aides de-camp. The itussia" n Baltic fleet has received orders to put into Cronstadt and be laid up in ordinary, in conse quence of the prevalent stormy weather. CONSTAiT fINOPLE, Sm. 22. The rejection of the Turkish amendments by Rus sia is now generally known, hut no disturbances have taken place. THE BLACK SEA. ODESSA, Sm. 23. Wheat is inquired for at an advance of 2s. the tachetwert. Freights are still high : tallow, ex. gr., Iles. per ton. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. From Vienna, Berlin, and Paris, we receive intel ligence of the result of the Olmutz conferences- The cardinal fact in this news is that Austria re , enters—of course with the tangent and at the desire ' of Russia—into the conference from which she had withdrawn, and the Four Powers, Oreat Britain, France, Austria, and Prussia, are again to take up the suspended work of conciliation. The Turkish question enters into a new stadium. War ships of the allies have anchored at Constantinople, and the Czar displays less indignation than when they were in the free waters of Europe. The Western Powers have plainly rejected the Russian interpretation of the note, and still they are desired to co-operate in a pacific settlement of the question. Next in importance to the foregoing fact is the expedient by which it is proposed to avoid the diffi culties which have arisen through the opposite mean ings attached to the Vienna note. According to our intelligence, that form is neither modified nor aban doned. It is still to be proposed to the Porte for ac ceptance, under the important condition that France, England, Austria, and Prussia, shall sign a common declaration, guaranteeing Turkey against all dangers to her independence which might flow from the possible abuse of its terms, but nor going beyond the pentarchical treaty of 1841, as Reschid Pacha demanded in his last circular to the Great Powers. To frame such a reassuring declaration, it is understood, is the work for which the suspended Vienna conferences are to be resumed. This mode of arrangement is not an original Russian proposition, but is understood to be identical with that proposed by the Earl of Clarendon upon the rejection of Rer chid Pacha's modification by the Czar. The assurance upon which the ambassadors at Vienna propose to return to their conciliatory labours is, according to letters from Vienna, the readiness of the Czar to acquiesce in any form of settlement which may secure peace and restore confi dence to commerce and finance, while saving his honour. The sincerity of these professions, how ever, will nut be tried until the conference presents the Czar with the result of its labours, and the con duct of that personae entitles all men to reserve the it judgments for his acts. IVhile the political question is thus remitted to diplomatists the sovereigns of Russia, Austria, and Prussia seek their peculiar gratification in mutual military entertainments. The Czar's visit to the Austrian camp at Olmutz is returned by the visit of ! emperors Francis Joseph to Warsaw. A ccor di ng to previous arrangements the two should be newoined by the King of Prussia in the capit a l o f P o l an d . The following extracts will show how the recent facts are struggling to light in the German papers. The lithographic news sheet of Berlin, of the 29th ult., says: Aeo..zats have bees received that a roof/re:tee took pike. at Chau% between the Primo of Prumia sod the two Emperors a few minutes before the departure of the Cs v. Count de Emperors, and M. de Buol-Sehauenstein were present. A courier has arrived from Minim with a letter from the Prince of Prussia for the King. •Fasts will loon prove oar prognostications that the conferences of Olmutz have established a perfect understanding between Prussia, Amu* sad Raids, ce the &stoat sesetise. . s : :1-. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 4, 18&. A printed letter from Berlin of the same date r Bev:de, the Emperor's aide-de-camp, approached M. Says: {Pips& de Beaupri, and counted out the mosey for his Welleinformed persons here are of opinion that the aces I PARIS, MONDAY ETININO. P" te g i * from Otrisqta ought to be considered rather p ee lfi e thaa otherwise. ?hey lo"k on the fact of the E m p eror Nicholas ..Tbs fo ll owing 4.o,, paragraph published by the Assem p Wise% Bt. Pet, robing, in place of goiog dimet to ; bree.a at ate, in 'arse type a t . the head of its columns, - Odessa, mc- as rather favourable. Count de Nesselrode, Coast ,is the principal topic of political conversation to-day : deßuil.Sehauenstein, and Baron de Meyenderff, were the We cannot yet enter into detail on what passed io the only diplomatists who took pa. tis the cosfereoces. There interview of Olmuts. Our information is not yet suffl were some minor conferences, it is true, amongst the other ciently complete. But we can positively announ ce et pre diplomatists, but they had but little in common w ith th e sent a great result. The Conference of Vienna IS re-ea ts . conferences, properly so-ca ll ed, which took place o n the bli s h e d b etween t h e Four Powers. The thread of neecara Sunday sad Monday. lion!, a moment abandoned, has been resumed, and a happy It has been remarked with surprise in the French and more prompt solution than could have been hoped for papers, that Lord Westmoreland should have been pre _ on an Saturday, and even yesterday morning, is probable. All the ru mours' of an offensive and defensive sent at Olmutz while the Baron de Bourqueney,. the coalition between the Three Northern Powers are false. FrenchAmbassi:der,wasabsent. Theexplanation given The Emperor Nicholas has, it is known, quitted ()laais. at Berlin is, that none of the diplomatic corps were His Majesty left r i s is thleve:in t t e of E t a te r 2s o th k.r u a l n i. cis w? his incited, and that Lord Westmoreland was present at ordinary hasap s t u ed e the courteot ravitation p :narle to him by the the manoeuvres of the Austrian camp merely as a general officer. rieste Emperor of Russia to pass one or t wo d a y s at Warsaw. The The Marquis of Lansdowne, who, as we announce d, arrived at T Gazette contains a letter fr om Odessa. Paris on Wednesday, left Paris last evening in order to which states that Prince de Ilenschikoff is still in attend a cabinet council wh o i f Cb h is to be hP a ld re t c . i hbesendayconat the neighbourhood of that town, at Nikolajeff, and Londo n . yoked o attend 1 12 ;t. me tTu bers Vic t to e ri ca a wi ll that he frequently is seen driving and riding about, leave Balmoral, and will be in London on Wednesday. often paying a visit to Odessa. Whatever foundation there may be f or th e ab o v e The Dantzic, Prussian steam corvette, anchored in the Piraeus on the 20th, from Constantinople, news, it is impossible to avoid r e ma r ki ng th a t it comes from very bad authority. The Asseniblee, whither she had conveyed the first secretary of the from the very beginning of the Eastern e r dfficulty, has Prussian embassy. She is to return to the ])aria - from constantly in the wrong, wheth it has ha nelles, and remain at the disposal of the Prussian zarded a prediction or announ ce d a f ac t. A s the legation. A highly authentic communi c ati on f rom Omer mouthpiece of the Russian emba ss y i n Paris it receives from time excusi communions Paella's headquarters at Schumla, dated Sept. 14, of such reports as time it to lve may suit Russian policy ca to ti cir ri:l Ages that preparations continue there una- culate for the moment, and its statem en t s are on no The Russians are fast increasing in numbers other account worthy of attention. at Bistro and Raters. In the Principalities, into The article of the Assembles had some, though no which the third corps d'arniee has advanced, great great, effect at the Bourse to-day. The Threes opened at alitivity prevails. A movement has also been made 73fr. 25c., rose to 73fr. 35c., and after a reaction to by the Russian flotilla in the Danube. Omer Pacha 74fr. 80c., closed at 73fr. 20c., with a rise of 33c. All Iss the 12th despatched fresh troops towards the other securities were also better. Ibises Danube, the in ordenemy r t statio o opned atpose th the otherem to theside grea He ter The Patrie was seized this e ven i ng as it was on of e. the point of appearing. A new edition is now print ' has given orders also to fire from Matachin, and from ing, bu will not be out till late. It is rumoured Dolan and other fortified places, on the Russian wan that the t a ws suppressed is important. beats which should pass the mouth of the Froth. . A letter from Olmutz of the evening of the 27th M Fraacis Arago, the eminent as t ronomer an d member of the provisional government of 1848, died ult. says: as At the grand review which took pl ace last night. His funeral is fixed for Wednesday. here there were present ten archdukes, and twelve Unless government should interfere to prevent a sovereign or hereditary princes. It was the day after large procession, it is expected that an unprecedented the review that the conference took place in the ins- number of per will follow his body to the grave. perial tent, between the Emperor of Russia, the Em-- fhe Duke de Casigliano and his son had the peror of Austria, and the Prince of Prussia. It honour of being received yesterday by the Emperor. lasted three hours, Count de Ncuelrode and Count The Moniteur contains an announcement, that the Buoy being present." Emperor yesterday received at a private audience M. The Russian cavalry (corps de Danube) has been Firma Rogier, Envoy Ext raor di nar y an d Mi n i s t er withdrawn to a distance of two marches from the banks of the Danube, and has been replaced by Co.- Plenipotentiary of Belgium, overeign notifying the who handed to his sacks and by infantry. This change has been induced Majesty a letter from hi s marriage of the Duke de Brabant with the Arch by the desertion taking place from the former corps. duchess Maria-Henrietta of Austria. This formal Up to the present time four corps have passed the Pruth. These carare res ctively commanded b recognition of a marria ge notoriously displeasing to the Generals Dane nb urg , Perlman, Osten Saken, and Louis Napoleon gives to thi s paragraph a somewhat y more important character than such matter of course Lockers. 160,000 men (four eorps of 40,000) should announcements usually have. now, therefore, be under their command ; neverthe- the Chromique de Courtrai says:" M. Bianchi, less, those be e t informed assert that their entire a French refugee, residing in London since Decem force does not exceed 100,000 men, those corps bet 2, 1831, came last week to Templeuve, in wanting yet fully one-third of their present ca m Belgium, to see his wife. He had been there two element. days, when the gendarmes of Pug arrested him, and conducted him to Courtrai. He wu the day after taken to Ostend, and embarked for London, any stay in Belgium being interdicted to him." FRANCE. PARIS, SrNDAT EVENINO. We read in the Correspondence of Berlin : News hu arrived that a conference took place between the Prince of Prussia and the two Emperors at Olmutz a few minutes before the Czar's departure. Conut Nessel rode and M. Buol-Schauenstein were present at this con ference. A courier has arrived from Olmutz with a latter from the Prince of Pruolia to the King. Facts will soon prove the truth of jour predictions that the conferences of Olmutz have established a perfect understanding on the suejeet of the Eastern queetion, between Praltill, Austria, and Russia. BELGIUM. —*— The Belgian Minister of War has just decided that the new uniform lately introduced into the Belgian army, and which greatly resembles that worn by the Austrian infantry, is to become the general dress of the Belgian infantry. BRUSSELS, SUNDAY. There are good grounds for stating that the French cabinet has, at last, expressed—in courteous terms it is true, but not on that account less forcible terms— its " surprise" at the irresolute conduct of the British ministry with regard to the affairs of Turkey. The marked courtesy—the by far more than ordinary courtesy—lately displayed by the Emperor Nicholas to the British ambassador at Vienna, particularly after their recent interview, has given rise to some doubts, if not suspicions, on the part of the French government. It would appear that that cabinet thinks the time is now come to give up " following the leader," and to exercise, in turn, the predominat ing influence so long—too long—tacitly conceded to the British ministry during all the past negotiations respecting the Turkish question. lam told, in a well-informed quarter, that the French government consider that they have been duped by Austria, out witted by Russia, and unskilfully led by Lord Aber deen. It is added that the Minister of War has just issued orders "of a nature to convey the impression that France must be still well prepared for any event which may arise." The Amsterdam Bantle:Wad states, in a tele graphic despatch from Vienna, that the Emperor Nicholas regards the sending of some English and French frigates to Constantinople merely as a measure having in view the keeping of the fanatics in respect. The Steele observes upon the above : This correspondence has no official character, but it is often welt informed, and often employ i d to disseminate certain ideas which governments are net sorry to have ac credited. The King of Prussia being compelled to make some account of the opinion of Constitutional Germany, did not go to Ohnuts. He merely sent his nephew, the son of the Paine of Prussia, the heir presumptive. The King of Prussia now allows it to be said that there will be no di vision among the northern powers on the eastern question, but he reserves his own opinions and his own acts. Such a reserve suits his policy as well as that of Russia. Nothing, iii truth, would be more likely to drive France and ling. land to take the most vigorous resolutions than the cer tainty of an alliance between the northern governments on the eastern question. M. Philibert Augustin Bonne, a captain in the navy, is appointed Governor of Guadaloupe, in the place of Captain Aubry Baillettl, recalled at his own request. The Pays, in reply to several journals which have remarked upon the absence of M. do Bourqueney from Olmutz, says that Lord Westmoreland was there in his character of a general officer, and that no other members of the corps diplontatique were in vited. If this observation be well founded, it would follow that Lord Westmoreland's presence at Olmutz has no diplomatic importance whatever. . . A t.ial indirectly bearing upon politics is shortly coming on at the Palais de Justice, which will, it is expected, throw some light upon an interesting period of modern history. A provincial legitimist journal, the Gazette de Rendre et d' Artois, lately made some quotations from a book published three years ago by M. Ch. de In Varenne, upon the events and the men of February 24th. This M. de La Varenne, formerly a Sardinian officer, boasted in 1848 that he had contributed to the overthrow of Louis Philippe. He was one of fourteen persons who entered the Hotel de Ville vic torious from the barricades and received the title of "delegate of the provisional government." His opinions, however, underwent one of those speedy and radical changes which have long ceased to ex cite astonishment. His book is a string of libels upon the provisional government, and he went lately to the fetes of Brussels as a correspondent for the legitimist journal the Union. The passage from his book quoted by the journal above mentioned accuses M. Cremieux, the minister of justice in 1848, of hav ing misappropriated a portfolio belonging to Louis Philippe which he found in the Tuileries. M. Ore mieux has now brought his action for libel, and in tends, it is said, to make as much noise about the case as possible. Although, or perhaps because, a distin guished advocate himself, he will not plead his own cause. He has engaged AL Chaix d'Fat Ange. The newspaper has retained M. Berryer and M. Aurdlien de Sae. MM. Lamartine and Arago, in their char acter of colleagues of M. Cremienx in the provisional government, will, it is reported, be called as witnesses. The Mayor of Nismes has issued a decree which, if it be strictly obeyed, will prove that the hot-blooded inhabitants of that southern city have been drilled into a marvellous state of discipline. For the space of a whole month trial performances are to take place at the theatre by candidates for admission to the lyric and dramatic company to be definitively formed. During all this time the public will be admitted, but, in order that the candidates may neither be flurried nor elated, the audience is to listen in silence, and neither by word or gesture to give any sign of approbation or disapprobation. At the end of the month a final performance will take place, at which the public will be free to clap and hiss as much as it pleases, and universal suffrage will be consulted as to the admission of every candidate. The plebis cite, however, may be either ratified or overruled by the municipality, whose chosen judges will be ex pected to " bear a wary eye" throughout the proba tionary month. The following interesting anecdote is told by the Journal de Coitus : When the Emperor received the authorities of Calais, Count Victor du Hamel, the Prefect of the Pas de Calais bagged leave to present to his Mvjesty the senior member of the Municipal Council, M. Pigault de Demspre, whom he described sa one of the most honourable men in the de partment. M. Pigault de Beaupri, stepping forward, said to the Emperor, "Sire, I have nothing to ask from your Majesty ; but I venture to invoke your benevolence in fa vour of an old soldier, 84 years of age, the sole s u r v i vor of the regiment of Husaards de la Mort in 1792. His name is Pierre Len's, of Frithun Canton of Calais. He went through the campaigns of Holland, of Germany (where he was one of General Moreau's orderlies), and those of Italy, in which he was severely wounded at Verona by the bursting of a howitzer. He was afterwards discharged without a pension. Now solitary and miserable, this poor old soldier has nothing to live upon but the three kilogrammes of bread allowed him by the commune. Your Majesty will not blame me fo. bringing to your notice this ruin of our old glories." The Emperor answered, Very well, sir, bring the man to me." A few moments afterwards a man in a blouse, bowed down by age, and almost carried by M. Pigault de Beaupre and one of his sons, advanced slowly towards the imperial throne. As soon as he saw him, the Emperor said, "Is that your man ?" "Yes, sire." " Very well, I grant him a pension of 300 f. fur the kat pox to be paid in advance." On the instant Colonel ITALY. Letters from Rome of the 23rd tilt., state, that Cardinal Antonelli, the Secretary of State, and General Monreal, tho Commander-in-Chief of the French troops in the Papal States, had each re ceived a despatch from Civita Vecchia, announcing that the inhabitants of that town had revolted. One of those despatches was sent by the Ab-Legate, and the other by the Military Commander of the town. Although the 40th French regiment is quartered at Civita Vecchia, General Monreal thought it his duty to send reinforcements. The revolt was caused by an announcement that the government had proposed to suppress the free port. The Secretary of State announced that the project was abandoned, and order was immediately restored. NAPLES. The King of Naples has just signed a decree authorising the construction of a railway between the capital and Brindisi. It will be executed at the expense of the state, the work to be done by the army, and superintended by the superior officers. All the rails and materiel will be manufactured in the state foundry at Portici. GERMANY. A Vienna correspondent writes :—" Among the many considerable personages present at Olmutz during the recent conferences, the Vienna papers mention the names of the Barons James and An selm Rothschild. We may be pretty sure that the opinions of these gentlemen, so far as they were in vited, were decidedly for the maintenance of peace. The Austrian Minister of Finance builds all his hopes upon a pacific issue of the present differences. The reduction of the army will not, however, take place in anything like the extent announced by the newspapers. The treasury is in a state of great em barrassment. THE PENINSULAR MAILS. -.- SOUTHAMPTON, TOLIMA! Mousisio. The Oriental Company's steam-packet Tagus, Captain John R. Joy, arrived here at 4.45 a.m., and landed her mails under the charge of Lieut. James Inglis, R.N., Admiralty agent, which were forwarded to London by an early train. Her dates are : Gibraltar, Sept. 25th ; Cadiz, 2Gth ; Lisbon, 29th ; Oporto, 30th ; and Vigo, 30th. The Tagus brings 20 passengers, and 18 ship wrecked manna. Her cargo consists of 7 packages of specie, value 3,0234, 41 cases eggs, 10 casks wine, 4.33 boxes lemons, 1,836 boxes grapes, 173 boxes raisins, 2 boxes dates, 34 boxes pomegranates, 19 boxes tomatoes, 15 boxes quinces, 2 boxes saffron, 1 horse, and 68 packages of sundries. At 11 p.m., on the 18th, the Tagus carried away one of the paddles of the port wheel, and was detained three hours clearing the wreck. Weather during the voyage homeward : Moderate brazes from N. L. to N. AV., with occasional fogs off the coast of Portugal and Spain. At Gibraltar, her Majesty's ship Vesuvius. At Lisbon, at 3 p.m. on the 28th, a rr i ve d h er M a j esty ' s ship the Odin, from a short cruise. At Gibraltar, the Portuguese corvette, Porto; arrived on the 25th, at 6 a.m., the French steam-vessel Euphrates, from Oran, and sailed at 10 a.m. for Algesias. At Cadiz, the Spanish steam-vessels Francisco de Asits and Vulcan. At Lisbon, the 1 Petri', and the Portuguese !squadron. Mo'•ements of the Oriental Company's Packetii.— At Gibraltar, 9 n.m., 25th, arrived, the Peninsular ' and Oriental Company's steamer Douro, from Con stantinople, and sailed at 3 p.m. for Southampton. At 11 a.m., arrived the Ripon; sailed at 3 p.m. for Malta and Alexandria ; on the 29th, at 2 p.m., passed the City of London, steaming S.S.W., Rock of Lisbon S. by W. 22 miles. BRAZILS. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. The clipper ship Swordfish, Captain Cobb, arrived in the Mersey, yesterday, after another very rapid run. She loft Pernambuco on the 3rd ultimo, and consequently made the trip in 28 days. The general news by the Swordfish is quite devoid of interest. The rate of exchange on this country was 27:. Freight : Sugar in cases, 455., and bags in propor tion; cotton, to Liverpool, Id. to 5-16 d. The Royal Mail steamship Tay, from Southampton, arrived at Pernambuco on the Ist, and left on the 2nd Sept. for Bahia and Rio Janeiro, with 60,0004 in specie for the latter port. From Bahia our dates extend to the 31st August. There was little or no change in commercial matters. Sugars were said to be getting very scarce. Ex change was quoted 2sd. Freights : Sugar, 40s. to 355. to the Channel and Mediterranean ; cotton, to Liverpool, lc.; rosewood, 40s. per ton. We have also advises from Rio Janeiro to the 25th August. The Prospero, from hence, arrived at ltio on the 16th. No news of interest. Exchange, 28d. Freights to the United States ruled at 50c. CANADA. -41.--- The Montreal Gazette of the 14th ult. says : "Yesterday Lieutenant-Colonel Hogarth and Capt. Cameron, 26th Regiment, were arrested upon the affidavits of thirteen soldiers, for murder committed by giving the word to tire to the two divisions of troop. drawn up on the Haymarket on the 9th of June last. They put in bail, each in 1,0001., and two securities (Lieutenant-Colonel Pritchard and H. Judah, Esq.) in ,1001. each. On the other hand, the men have been placed under arrest by their commander on a charge of perjury, and the evidence in the case has been sent home to the Horse Guards." THE CUBAN SLArE TRADE. lIAVANNAII, Srrr. i. The steamer from Vera Cruz arrived yesterday morning, and is to leave at 3 p.m. for Southampton, rio St. Thomas. By this vessel we have intelligence that Santa Anna has in progress the organisation of an army of 80,000 men, and that the drafts are made to cover all ages from 16 to 50 years. We also have definite information of the capture of the cele brated Lady Suffolk, slaver, after she had left the harbour of " Leguna de Terruinos," by a Mexican vessel of war, and that she was on the way to Vera Cruz with a Mexican marine force on board. This case has been one of open shamelessness on the part of the Spanish authorities. The cholera upon the estates in the interior has been of very malignant type, and it is estimated that from twelve to thirteen thousand slaves have fallen victims to the scourge, besides many of the Asiatic apprentices, and white enipkyr's. Some estates of force, from 250 to 300 people, have been reduced to 80,100, and 120. Though a little more prudence will mingle with future operations, yet there is no purpose of desisting from the trafic in slaves . ; and under the pressure of lost labour ma terial this year, most strenuous exertions will be made to fill the demand within six months from the African coast. A well known agent for the Portu guese Brazilian Company, located at Trinidad, south side, is now expecting five cargoes—looked for daily from the coast—and tor which he has made the pre monitory pecuniary arrangements with the local authorities of the several municipal jurisdictions, which he may be compelled to use, for transit of the property to the estates of the proprietors. Another agent and chief director of the Portuguese Brazilian Company has been for several months in the city of New York, procuriug and despatching vessels for the coast—all first class, fast sailing ves sels, and of capacity, according to the Spanish custom of negro stowage, of carrying from 400 to 1,100 and 1,300 persons. This gentleman is expected here, having concluded plans to embrace the im portation of from eight to ten thousand, ac cording to circumstances that may attend the ven ture.: and after having arranged here for reception and disposition of the cargoes as they may arrive, he will leave for Brazil, and probably to visit the coast. In this connexion, it is here well understood that a screw-steamer is being built in New York, for service on the coast of Africa, that will be adapted for towage, for taking off cargoes to vessels in offing, and for evading the cruisers of England. We have rumours of two or three small cargoes landed since my last advice, but I have not been ' able to obtain the data necessary for a report of the facts, and in this way, at remote points, many negroes are landed, unknown to the government but not unknown to the subordinate authorities of the locality, who by concealment defraud the more ele vated functionaries of participation in the bonus paid. When discovered they are made examples of by removal and reprimand—not for dereliction of duty, but for forgetfulness in rendering four-fifths of the plunder. The Asiatics brought here as ap prentices under the sanction of the government are in much worse condition than the negroes, for the ' simple reason that the planter's only in terest is the amount of money paid for seven years' service, and they are tasked with more severity than the blacks in field labour, and in food stinted to the least possible amount consistent with almost constant labour; while for shelter and clothing they are far from meeting so much con sideration as is extended to the black. General Canedo seems to be very anxious to establish himself more favourably in your public opinion, and, for some local differences, he had a healing dinner in the palace, where were found at his unusual hospitable spread Salvador Sama,and others of theslave trading fraternity, who had not quite comprehended his imprisonment of Julian Zulneta, and the policy associated therewith. Since commencing this letter, I have ascertained that one of the vessels which was purchased in New York by the agent or director of the Brazilian company, Abreu, was the American clipper-built barque Republic, very much resembling in structure the ship Lady Suffolk, having more curvature than slope in her eutwater, and of the same appointments and deck conveniences for her business. It is well understood in Havannah that the organisation of the above-named company here, in the United States, and on the coast, is very perfect : that an active agent is always sta tioned in the city of New York to pur chase or hire there vessels most suitable for the slave trade, or in the neighbouring cities as may be most convenient; that on the coast there are several, under the control of one of the principals of the enterprise; and that Don Salvador Castro, at Trinidad, has the principal charge of management for the island of Cuba, having his subordinate strikers at every point where it may be necessary for safety to run a cargo, the favourite spot for consummation of this piracy being the " Rio Zarza "—River Zarza, near to Trinidad. I learn from excellent authority that General Canedo, in a late report to his govern ment, stated that several vessels which had been re ported as slavers were actually engaged in honest and legal traffic, naming the Spanish Cora and the American barque Jasper; the first having been seized after abandonment and condemned by Spanish justice, having on board the material, water casks, and berth decks which designated her character; while the second has three of her sailors, Ameri cans, yet lying in prison, charged by Gen. Canedo, or his immediate representatives, as being employed on board of the Jasper as part of her crew while occcupied in piracy as a slaver—the same vessel having also been reported as discovered near to Millen sunk, where the landing was effected by an officer of the government. 'these misstatements will only servo to make the odium of his official faithlessness more permanent. The speculations of this dark character are alto gether confined to the old Spain Spaniards; the Creole planters want no more introduction of slaves, considering both the value and the safety of their present property. Nothing but the meet energetic measures on the part of her Majesty's government will restrain or break up this infamous trade. Ziy Court. --,. al and Pri g . res e i t:. r .e i : e ue e n " 1 41 " ill VI. II 41.1 :. 1 -...- BALMORAL. 0, r 2. th e residence of Mr. and Mr.. Fatquhatson. Ti. e V iscount., i s ler Alice, i a d i r e o li s t . e Y ' y .7 . 4 t i c t . irld the q - Canning was in attendance ti,.un her Majesty. Piince Albert went out deer.stalking. The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess of Km sod suite from Abcrgeldie. Mr. Frederick Dundas had an interview with Vi•CORAt Palmerston yesterday at the Home-office. The Chancellor of the Exchequer arrived at his offi e w residuum in Downinc•street yesterday evening from lisp warden Castle, Cheshire. Despatches were sent to the Governors of Ceyi.m sad Hong Kong yesterday from the Colonial-office. Desot e l las were received from the Governors of the West India lslan4 i and the Governor of Canada yesterday. HARVEST HOME ON TILE ROYAL FARMS NEAR WINDZWIt —Oll Saturday afternoon "the long-accusternsd feast of harvest home" was celebrated on the Nortelk, Flemish, and Baphot farms, all of which ate in the occu pation of his Royal Highness Prince Albert. The whole sy the regular labourers and b -men, numbering alto gether about 10i), were regaled with a substantial repast oy prime roast beef and plum-pudding, in a spacious ban, aa Norfolk•farm. Mr. Brehner, the Prince Consort's farrn, bailiff, presided. The rustic banquet was greeted by tke presence of Colonel the Hon. A. N. Rood, clerk•uur:hsl to Prince Albert, Lady Mary flood, and their youthful family. ADJUDICATION OF WS ROYAL HIGHNEss PRINCE ALDERrs PRIZES, AT ETON COLLEGE. Yesterday afternoon the award of his Royal High ness Prince Albert's prizes was read in the tipper School. Those prizes were founded in 1841, when the Prince con. sort was pleased to give the yearly sum of 50/., to be dis. posed of by the provost and head mater, according to the judgment of competent examiners, " for the protuotton of the study of modern languages." For the German prize there ware 11 candidates,all of wheat were placed in the followi ng or d er o f merit:-1. Baring; 2. Tottenharn—prizemen. 3. Lord Hinchinbrook. 4. Palk. 5. Whitting, K .S. 6. Lambtun. 7. Wagner. S. Pullen. 9. Edgar. 10. Dive•t. 11. Grove. 12. Burton. 13. Ames. 14. Thomas. Lord Ilinchinbrook was so near being occuod, that he loot it only by two' marks. Examiner, Albert Whatzer, of King's College, London.—For the Italian prize there were four candidates, the two following of whom were placed:-1. Swinburne. 2. Antrobus. Examiner, Salva tore Ferretti.—Fur the French prize there were 23 candi dates, and it was adjudged as follows:-1. Sy/inhume. 2. Lord 11. Cecil. The fdluwing were honourably men tioned, and placed theta in alphabetical order : — Antrobus, Cleasby, Hon. Mr. Egerton, Elwes, Farquhar, Butler John atone, Latnbton, Hon. Mr. Loge ,Lloyd, Puller Hon. L. Stanley, Tottenham. Examiner, C. de Lille, French ' ma.der of St. Paul'. School, Loudon. The examination commenced on Monday, the 26th ult., and created consider. able interest. FREEDOM OF THE CITY OF EDINBURG!! TO MR. GLADSTONE. . - - .IP. - After the meeting of the Lord Provost's committee last week, says the Edinburylt Courant, when it was unanimously agreed to recommend the Town Council te offer the freedom of the city to Mr. Gladstone, the Lord Provost—who had seen iu the newspapers that the right hon. gentleman was soon to leave Dunrobin Castle —wrote to him, mentioning the resolution of the c o mmittee, and requesting to be favoured with his address tor any letter which might be posted un Tuesday last. hlr. Gladstone wrote the Lord Provost in reply, on Monday, that it would be out of his power to be in Edinburgh. The letter was delivered in town only by Wednesday night's post, and, from accidental circumstances, it did not reach the Lord Provost's hands till Thursday morning. The following is a ropy of the right hon. gentleman's communication : " Turbot-house, Sept. 26, 1353.—My Lord,—l have had the honour to receive this day, on my way southwards frost Dunrobin Castle, the letter which you have kindly addressed to me. I need hardly say that I should value very highly the gift of the freedom of the city of Edinburgh. But I think it my duty to apprise you that circumstances put it out of my power, at the present moment, to visit the me tropolis of Scotland. lam obliged to study the mode and direction of my journey, and likewise to reach England during the present week, with a view to spending the neat one in London on public business. On Friday only I propose to rest at Drumlanrig (Thornhill). I think it probable that, even if the Town Council of LIM. burgh should, in other respects, ba disposed to adopt the very flattering proposal which is to be made to morrow, the circumstance of my inability to come to Edinburgh might affect their views, and I therefore lose no time in apprising you of ; while I likewise tender to your lordship my cur ' dial and respectful acknowledgments for the favourable in tentions you had entertained towards mt—ackuowledg ments which I would also offer to your c dleagues on the committee of the town c o un c il. I have the honour to be, my Lord Pravoat, your very faithful servant, " W. E. GLADSTONE. "The Lord Provost of Edinburgh." RELEASE OF iIfIRTI.V KOSST.I. The steamer Asia on Sunday brought news from New York that the Russian, Prussian, and Austrian minis ters had given in a protest at Washington against the con. duct of Captain Ingraham, the captain of the St. Louis. United States frigate, who so energetically took the pan of M. Koasta at Smyrna a few months ago when that gentle man had been violently seized by the Austrians. Yester day letters from Constantinople brought intelligence that M. Koasta had been released from the interim custody of the French consul. This event has taken place with the concurrence of the Austrian Internuncio, M. de Bruck, and of his government. On the 19th ult. Mr. Brown, the United States charge d'affaires at Constantinople, left for Smyrna, where he would see M. Koasta put on board an American merchantman, which was to sail for New York from Smyrna in a few days. The Austrian government has displayed a singular prudence in this step, sad, having betimes conceded all the substance, may safely assume a higher tone than ever in her paper contest with the United States. THE TEMPERANCE LEAGUE. Mr. J. B. Gough, the American orator, was an nounced to deliver at Exeter Hall, last evening, the first of • course of four lectures, to be given by him in various parts of the metropolis this week, on the subject of tempe rance. The ball was well filled. Mr. George Croikahank having been called to the chair, Mr. Gough commenced his lecture. His object, he said, was to enlist their sympathy in behalf of the temperance cause, and to remove any pre judice, if any existed, regarding it. He then, by way of illustration, referred to his own experience, he having been a drunkard before 1833, when he was induced to sign the pledge; in Worcester, in the United States, by the mvita lion of a man who met him in the street, and who °tiered to introduce him to some respectable people. His motive, be admitted, was a selfish one, but the act was good. He then proceeded to enlarge on the necessiiy of endeavouring to reform drunkards, not by treating them with scorn, bat by sympathising with them. But a reformed drunkard wit not a reformed man. He felt himself that he could not withstand temptation an hour without the restraining in fluence of the grace of God, end it was on this principl that he advocated abstinence from all that could intoxicate. Mr. Gough was proceeding to enlarge on this 'abject, when he stopped rather suddenly, saying he was labouring under severe illness, and the meeting was in consequence brought to a close. TIIE MIDLAND OBSERVATORY.—The Lords of the Treasury have signified their determination to grant 2,0001. towards the proposed Midland Observatory, Oa certain conditions. As a preleminary step t.,ey obtained reports from Professor Airy and Sir John Henchell, from which it appeared that comparatively little public be nefit, so far as regards astronomical observations, would be derived from the observatory at Nottingham. The Lords of the Treasury have, nevertheless, decided that on other grounds they arc justified in applying the public money to its establishment. Sir C. Trevelyan in trans mitting their determination says:— "It is, however, strongly stated that, in regard to meteorological pursuits and inquiries, such an establishment might prove of the greatest value in a national point of TIM; and, moreover, it is shown by Sir John Herschel' that Nottingham possesses some psculiar advantages for observations of this kind. It is represented that, im portant for the purposes of agriculture and other national objects as this branch of science is compared with astronomy, it is, nevertheless, much behind, and has been compare ' tively neglected. With regard to this branch of the sub ject, my lords advert to the continued efforts which are about to be made by the government of the United States, represented by Lieut. Maury, and by her Majesty's govern ment, under the sanction of this board, in order to obtain meteorological observations at sea for maritime purposes; and although their lordships cannot look for much aid to that particular object from observations made at Nottihp ham, yet they will not be wholly without value, even In I relation thereto. My lords are, however, prepared to look " for more important national advantages, as regards the interests of agriculture and other pursuits, which are much affected by climate and weather, from such an establish ment at Nottingham, provided meteorology may be looked to as the main and most important objoct to be attained by the establishment. My lords ate therefore prepared to ask ' parliament to sanction a grant for this national object, 10 the extent of 2,000!., in aid of the private subscriptions, provided the remaining 8,0001. can be raised otherwise, and provided also that my lords are satisfied that funds will be forthcoming to maintain the establishment, when once started, and that no application will be made to this board for such purpose. My lords would repeat that it wen chiefly with a view to the meteorological pursuits of the proposed establishment, and on an understanding that tbol will claim an important tortiou of its attention, that thine lordahips have arrived at this conclusion."