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158 THE TURKISH BLUE BOOKS. ANOTHER supplemental blue book, in relation to the Eastern question, was issued on Saturday last- It contains six documents, presenting the correspon dence between the English Government and the en voys of Russia in England, and of England and Russia respectively. The following are the final papers of the series announcing the ultimate disrup tion of diplomatic intercourse on either side BARON BRUNOW TO THE EARL OF CLARENDON. (Received February 4.) London, Jan. 23 (Feb. 4), 1834. The undersigned, dtc., has had the honour to receive the note which his Excellency the Earl of Clarendon, ttc addressed to him on the 31st of January. It does not satisfy the conditions of fair reciprocity on which the undersigned was ordered to insist in the name of his Court in his note of the 13th (25th) January. That communication, if it had deep appreciated as it deserved to be, would have had the effect, on the one hand of confining the calamities of war within limits which could be accepted by the two belligerent parties; while, on the other hand, it offered to Great Britain a fresh proof of his Majesty the Emperor's sincere desire to remove from his relations with her every cause of misunderstanding. The undersigned regrets that the spirit of good will which dictated that proceeding should not have met with intentions equally c•niciliatory. Thenceforth, his line of conduct was traced out for him by a deep sense of respect for the dignity of the Sovereign whom he has the honour to represent. Faithful to his duties, he cannot admit that her Britannic Majesty's Government, at peace with Russia, should assume to impede the freedom of the communications which the Imperial marine is directed to keep up between the Russian ports, while Turkish ships convey troops from one Ottoman port to another under the protection of the English squadron. This distinction being contrary to the rules of public law as well as to the consideration mutually observed between friendly powers, the undersigned is thereby placed under the impossibility of continuing to exercise his functions so long as her Britannic Majesty's Government shall not have resumed towards Russia an attitude conformable to the relations of good understanding and friendship which have so happily subsisted up to the present time between the two countries. The more value the undersigned attached to the main tenance of those relations, the more he regrets the obli [Winn under which he labours to suspend them. He has the honour to notify to the Earl of Clarendon, dec., that he is about to leave London, accompanied by the members of the embas , and to proceed to Germany until further orders. (Signed) BRUNOW. THE EARL OF CLARENDON TO sin G. H. SEYMOUR. Foreign-office, Feb. 7, 185 1. Sir,—On the evening of the 4th instant Baron Brunow placed in my hands a note, the copy of which is herewith enclosed, announcing that the diplomatic relations betw .ren this country and Russia were suspended, and that he was about to leave England with the members of the Russian mission. Yon will, therefore, immediately on the receipt of this despatch, inform Count Nesselrode that you are instructed to withdraw from St Petersburg, together with every member of her Majesty's mission. You will return to England, and avoid all unnecessary delay in quitting the Russian dominions. Similar instructions will this day be addressed to M. de Castelbajac by the French Government. (Signed) Ci.kRENDON. THE RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR IN PARIS. Tint departure of M. de Kisseleff, says the Journal des Debate, has caused great regret, not only amongst the political personages who had relations with him, but also in the whole of the society of Paris. He was universally loved and esteemed, and his company was sought after on account of the amusing and safe character of his inter. course. He was an essentially obliging man, most anxious to render service, and avoiding with the greatest solicitude all that could annoy any person. In society he paid no attention to political parties, being intimate with every one, and was everywhere liked. M. de Kisseleff, though still young, is among the oldest members of the diplomatic corps of Russia, and one of those who can boast of the greatest number of years of uninterrupted service. He first came to Paris in August, 11429, a few days before the formation of the Polignac Ministry. He had been sent thither as secretary of the Russian embassy, of which Count Pozzo di Borgo was then the head. But that was not his commencement, for he had already served in Persia and elsewhere. Nearly twenty-five years have since elapsed, during which time have taken place the revolutions of 1830 and 1848. M. de Kisseleff witnessed them, and beheld the consequences of them successively develop themselves before him. In 1837 Count Pozzo di Borgo, who had ceased to be Ambassador at Paris, having been sent in a similar capacity to London, asked for M. de Kisseleff as his first secretary, which WAS accorded him. The latter retnrned to Paris in 1840 with the title of councillor of embassy, and soon after Count Pahlen, the Ambassador, being recalled to St. Petersburg, M de Kisseleff was placed at the head of the mission as charge d'affaires, which post he still held when the revolution of February broke out. In 1819 or 1850 he was raised to the rank of minister plenipotentiary, and in 1853 received the title of envoy extraordinary. M. de Kisseleff had consequently passed half of his life among the Parisians ; and it may be affirmed that it is in France that he has gone through the various degrees of his career. It is affirmed beyoni a doubt that he loves France and the French by taste and by gratitude, and that he saw with a real grief the differences which arose between the two Governments relative to the Eastern question. He did not at first foresee all its consequences, THE PRESS. and long hoped that European diplomacy would succeed in overcoming all difficulties. Ills personal efforts have not been wanting for that object. Even his departure is not considered es equivalent to a declaration of war : it is as yet only a suspension of relations, and will not prevent the four powers at the Conference of Vienna from pursuing, or resuming, their negotiations for the maintenance or re• establishment of peace. If the storms which obscure the political horizon clear away, the numerous friends of M. de Kisseleff at Paris, after having accompanie him with their regrets, will be all happy to see him again.d THE NEW REFORM BILL. THE following are the schedules attached to this measure. It will be seen that the schedules of dis franchisement, A and B, would vacate 82 seats. With respect to additional members, Schedule C gives 46, Schedule D 10, and Schedule E 6; total 62. The number of seats created, therefore, exactly balances those disfranchised SCHEDULE A.—Boroughs totally disfranchised, as having less than 300 electors, or less than 5,000 inha bitants :—Andover returning 2 members ; Arrindel, 1 ; Ashburton, 1; Calne, 1; Dartmouth, 1; Evesham, 2; Harwich, 2 ; Honiton, 2 ; Knaresborough, 2 ; Lyme Regis, 1; Marlborough, 2 ; Midhurst, 1; Northal lerton, 1; Reigate, 1; Richmond (Yorkshire), 2; Thetford, 2 ; Totnes, 2 ; Wells, 2 ; Wilton, 1. Total, 19 boroughs ; 29 members. SCHEDULE B.—Boroughs having less than 500 electors, or 10,000 inhabitants, now returning two members, and to return in future one member only : —Bodmin, Bridgnorth, Biidport, Buckingham, Chi chester, Chippenham, Cirencester, Cockermouth, Devizes,Dorchester,Guildford, Hertford, Huntingdon, Leominster, Lewes, Ludlow, Lymington, Lichfield, Maldon, Mahon, Marlow (Great), Newport (Isle of Wight), Peterborough, Poole, Ripon, Stamford, Tamworth, Tavistock, Tewkesbury, Tiverton, Wey mouth, Windsor, Wycombe (Chipping). Total, 33 members. SCHEDULE C.—Additional members to counties and divisions of counties containing a population of more than 100,000, at present returning two members, for the future to return three members : Bedford ; Chester, southern division; ditto, northern; Cornwall, western ; ditto, eastern ; Derby, northern ; ditto, southern ; Devon, northern ; ditto, southern ; Durham, northern; ditto, southern ; Essex, northern; ditto, southern ; Gloucester, western ; Kent, western ; ditto, eastern; Lancaster, northern; Lincoln, parts of Lindsey; ditto, parts of Kesteven and Holland; Middlesex ; Monmouth ; Norfolk, western ; ditto, eastern ; Stafford, northern; ditto, southern; Somer set, western; ditto, eastern; Salop, northern ; South ampton, northern ; Suffolk, eastern ; ditto, western ; Surrey, eastern; Sussex, eastern ; Warwick, northern ; Worcester, eastern ; York, East Riding ; ditto, North Riding. Wales.—Glamorgan. Total, 38 new seats. Divisions of counties returning two members to be subdivided, and each subdivision to return in future three members. Lancaster, southern ; York, West Riding—S. Additional members, 46. SCHEDULE D.—Cities and boroughs to return for the future additional members. Cities and boroughs containing more than 100,0(X) inhabitants, at present returning two members, for the future to return three members each :—Birmingham, Bristol (city), Brad ford (Yorkshire), Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester (city), Sheffield, Southwark, Wolverhampton-9. Borough now returning one member to return in future two members :—Salford-1. Additional mem bers, 10. SCHEDULE E.—Unrepresented places to return members in future. Towns containing more than 20,000 inhabitants to return in future one member each :—Birkenhead, Burnley, Staleybridge-3. Inns of Court to return in future two members. London University to return in future one member. Addi tional members, 6. The following are the new franchises common to counties and boroughs granted by the new bill:-1. Persons in receipt of salaries from pub lic or private employment of not less than 1001. per annum, payable quarterly or half-yearly. 2. Persons in receipt of 101. per annum derived from Government Stock or Bank or India Stock. 3. Per sons paying 40s. per annum to income or assessed taxes. 4. Graduates of any University in the United Kingdom. 5. Persons who have for three years possess& a deposit of 501. in any savings bank. New franchise for counties.-0. All occupiers rated at 101. per annum residing elsewhere than in repre sented towns. New franchise for boroughs.-7. All occupiers rated at 6/. who have been resident within the borough two years and a half. SOME of the old portraits of kings and councillors in the Bristol Council-house have of late been undergoing a re novating or cleaning process, in course of which, according to the Bath Chromick, a poor daub of a picture was washed entirely off one canvas, and a picture disclosed beneath which is believed to be one of C. Van Steen's, and worth 400 guineas ; while in another instance aportrait of Charles 11. resolved itself into another representative of his prede cessor, Jones I. Irellllo. THE ACTION BROUGHT BY Miss MARGARET CANT WELL against the firm of Messrs. Cannock, White, and Co., for false imprisonment and malicious prose cution, was concluded, after a four days' trial, on Saturday last. The Lord Chief Justice having summed up decidedly in the plaintiffs favour, the jury retired, and after three hours' deliberation re turned a verdict on the first count, for false imprison ment, 3001. damages and Od. costs for the plaintiff ; on the second count, for malicious prosecution, the jury could not agree, and were discharged by con_ sent of both sides. THE ROYAL IRISH AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY have arranged to hold their meeting for 1854 in the city of Armagh. ARCHBISHOP WHALE has addressed a pastoral to his clergy, in which he calls on them to make a census of the people in their respective parishes, distinguishing Protestants from Roman Catholics, for the purpose, as he says, of showing that the numbers of his spiritual subjects have not been di minished in the proportion generally stated. A JEW N.kMED COHEN, who followed the trade of a pencilmaker, and for a great number of years had been a resident of Dublin, died about three weeks since at an obscure house on the outskirts of the city. Although living, to all appearances, in a state of utter wretchedness, he was known to be possessed of wealth. As yet the exact amount is not ascertained, but it is believed that the sum will prove to be not under 00,0001. With the exception of some trifling annuities to two poor relatives in England, and another of 1001. a year to the Jewish congregation in Dublin, the whole of the property is demised to the Hebrew charitable institutions of London. A brother of Baron Rothschild is the executor of the will. AN ACTION was tried in the Dublin Court of Queen's Bench, brought by a physician named Fleming against the executors of an old lady named Megan, who had recently died, leaving the whole of her property, some 12,0001., for Roman Catholic cha rities. The plaintiff, who was a distant relative, had been attending her for several years ; and to remu nerate him for this service a sum had been paid into court, but in addition to this amount the jury gave him 2001. damages. THE REFORM BILL FOR IRELAND, according to Lord J. Russell's announcement in the House, will not be ready for some weeks to come—probably not until the end of March. Meanwhile the Irish jour nals are publishing and proclaiming statements of its nature and effects. According to the most proba ble of these foreshadowings, given by the Dublin Freeman, the following seventeen Irish boroughs will be disfranchised, viz., Athlone, Bandon, Carlow, Cashel, Coleraine, Downpatrick, Dundalk, Dungar van, Ennis, Enniskillen, Kinsale, Lisburn, Mallow, New Ross, Portarlington, Tralee, and Youghal ; and in compensation the following constituencies will return three instead of two members each, as at present, viz., city of Dublin, counties of Armagh, Cavan, Clare, Cork, Donegal, Down, Galway, Kerry, Limerick, Londonderry, Mayo, Roscommon, Tippe rary, Tyrone, and Wexford. There is also a rumour that the Irish bar will be represented as a body by a member of the House of Commons. THE RUSSIAN VICE-CONSUL IN Dtiermi has received a letter from his Government, dated 6th inst., stating that, while diplomatic relations between Great Britain and Russia are for the present suspended, such will not cause any alteration in the commercial transac tions between the two countries. 61trtion ittelligturt. The Sount STAFFORDSHIRE election terminated on Saturday last, and on Monday the result of the poll was officially proclaimed by the High Sheriff at the Lichfield Guildhall. The numbers were—For Lord Paget, 4,328; Lord Ingestre, 2,709: majority, LW). Lord Paget took his seat in the House of Commons on Tuesday. The WEST Sussex election came off on Monday, when the Conservative candidate, Mr. H. Wyndham, was returned without opposition. Mr. Whitehouse was proposed as an advocate of the ballot by a Brighton chemist, and seconded by a Sussex farmer, but his nominators would not demand a poll. In SOUTH DEVON the vacancy caused by the death of Sir Ralph Lopes, Bart, was filled up on Tuesday by the return of Mr. Lawrence Palk. The return of Mr. Fortescue for LOUTH is stated to be quite certain. The Tenant• League candidate, Mr. Cantwell, is hardly expected to go to the poll. An important document has appeared, emanating from Catholic clergyrr • n, and signed exclusively by them, which replies with great power and effect to the calumnies of the agitators against Mr. Fortescue. Colonel Powell has announced his intention of re signing his seat for CARDIGANSHIRE. Sir William Heathcote has been spending the week at OXFORD, where he arrived on Monday on a visit to his constituents, SATURDAY,