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Subscribers are requested to send their orders though sews &ftvo!s; if direct to the Office, accompanied by a remittanc I Advertisements also must have a reference or remittance Money Orders to be made payable to ➢lr. ALFRED TVZ, 110, strand, London. ijt VTOO+ LONDON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1858. POSTSCRIPT. PORTUGAL. The Morning Post of this day publishes the following : We understand that the Channel fleet has been ordered to Lisbon. THE " CHARLES GEORGES " AFFAIR. M. de Piennes, who was charged with despatches for the French Minister at Lisbon, arrived in that city last night, and delivered his instructions to the Marquis de Lisle, who was to put himself in com munication this day with the Portuguese Minister for Foreign Affairs. M. de Paiva, the Portuguese Minister, was to arrive this day at Lisbon. THE EAST. A telegraphic despatch from Constantinople says.— The Montenegro Conference held its first sitting on the 14th. Kiarnil Bp, has arrived at Bucharest with the &man of the elections. Lord Stratford de Bedeliffe will probably leave on the 19th. fhe Skonptschine, or meeting of the national re presentatives, is adlourded till May. The news brought by the last mail that the Montenegrins had put the Turks to flight and occupied the quarantine building of Sutorina is confirmed by the Journal de Con• iitenlinople of the 13th instant. According to letters received from the Principalities, there was a rumour that Prince Daniel was marching against Grahova. Difficulties have arisen which have suspended the set tlement of the Montenegrin frontiers. Turkey and Austria refuse the cession of the boundary near Podgoritza. An explosion is imminent in Candia. The Albanian troops are exasperating the Christians. INSURRECTION IN BOSNIA. An insurrection has broken out in several points of Bosnia. The insurgents are Christians. In one place fourteen Mussulmans were massacred ; in another village several Mussulmans were put to death. The Pacha had marched to the scene of the insurrection with a large body of troops, A MONSTER PIECE OF ORDNANCE was brought on Wednesday from Woolwich to Windsor Castle, by clmmand of her Majesty, and plac e d on th e North• terrace, where it will be inspected by the Prince Consort, and a suitable situation selected for its per. 'manent position. The gun was taken during the bite war from the Chinese, and brought to England by the ship Sibyl ; it is an admirable piece of work inanabip in brass, and weighs 7 tons 31 cwt. 81b., ite length is 13i feet, girth 7 feet 3 inches, and 12 inches in the bore. It requires upwards of 301 b of powder to load it, and it will carry a ball of tomb weight. The value of the braes stone is estimated et petweep 51)01, and WV. I jortign gorrtsponblnte. PARIS, Thursday. No decisive step towards a settlement of the Portu guese question has been made since my last ; but a satisfactory solution is more than ever certain of being arrived at. M. de Paiva, the Portuguese Ambassador in this city, left Paris last week to submit personally to his Cloyed:Mien( propositions of arrangement, and it was believed that this very day a telegraphic despatch would have been received from him announcing the acceptance of them ; but it appears that he met with some unexpected delay on his journey, and in consequence the despatch is not now 10 - iked for before Saturday or Sunday. What he will propose, is, it is understood, the imme diate restitution of the Charles George, the release of her captain, and the grant of an indemnity, and it is said that the French Government will not consent to any thing less, come what may : it is added that it requires the first two points to be at once conceded, hut consents to allow time to treat about the precise amount of the indemnity. Such, at least, are the on dits of Paris political circles. The affair of the Jew boy Mortara is assuming considerable gravity. The French Government has represented, in very serious terms, to the Pope that it is absolutely impossible that, in the middle of the nineteenth century, the Roman Catholic Church can be allowed to kidnap an Israelite child, baptize him, and shut him up in a convent away from his parents. But his Holiness has answered the famous Non possumus —" Such is the law of the Church, and I cannot, dare not, will not alter it !" The French Government has been deeply hurt at this response, and is now pressing on the Pope to reconsider it. In the meantime, the affair is creating a profound sensation in France. Public opinion pronounces decisively and indignantly against the conduct of the Papal See. The Ultramontane party, however, de fends that conduct with all its usual violence. As the matter stands, it is not easy to see what will be the issue. The Pope cannot, evidently, give up the child without rendering the canon subservient to the civil law, and without, in the eyes of fanatical Catholics, abandoning a soul to perdition ; but the indignation of the French, and it may be added of all civilized Europe, will never let the little creature remain in the Papal clutches. It is seriously re commended by many eminent personages that the French Government shall make its troops at Rome rescue the child by. force. Prince Jerome, the Emperor's uncle, has been rather seriously ill. No announcement of the nature of his illness has been vouchsafed to the public, but I hear that he has had a slight attack of apoplexy. The Prince has arrived at an advanced age. If what is said in well-informed quarters is to be credited, Prince Napoleon, as Minister of Algeria' proposed to the Emperor a few days ago to make the well-known M. Emile de Girardm Prefect or Algiers; and it is added that the latter, notwithstanding his Republioan antecedents, was most anxious to obtain the place, not for the sake of the salary—he has no need of that—but to be able to carry out some of those famous schemes of social regeneration about which, in times gone by, be made so much noise in the world. The Emperor, however, fearing that so bold an innovator would do mischief instead of good, positively refused to accept him. To soothe his wounded vanity at this rebuff*, M. de Girardin has, it is said, been allowed by the Prince to recommend one of his most intimate friends for the appointment. At last the Emperor has resolved on carrying out a measure which, as previous letters have informed you, he has long contemplated, and which is the natural consequence of tho monarchy he has re established, and also of the law against the usurpa tion of titles which ho lately cattsed . to be passed. His Imperial Majesty hag had presented to the Council of State a project for establishing an Im perial Order of Nobility. The Order, it appears, is to consist of dukes, counts, and barons—no mar quises, the title of marquis having, from the ridicule of Molitme and other dramatic wags, and From the exceeding silliness of the major part of its possessors under tirs aneten 4 inu, fallen into contempt, TtP > l Jivt DA44I - Or *duke' obe trIMOd Sit its 23, 1858. appears, the members of what is called the Privy Council, who are to act as a regency in the event of the Emperor being cut off suddenly. They are not more, if my memory does not deceive me, than six or eight, and Count de Persigny is one of them, Count de Morny, President of the Legislative Body another, M. Troplong, the learned Chief Judge of the Court of Cassation, a third, and the respected ex-barrister, M. Baroche, Vice-President of the Council of State, a fourth. Marshal Pelissier also belongs to the Privy Council, but he is a duke already. Counts are to be created from amongst Ministers, marshals, and ambassadors, and barons from amongst Councillors of State and other high public functionaries. In re-establishing an aris tocracy, the Emperor will not only cast eclat on his throne,bnt *ill render a service of immense importance to the country—the complete destruction of the order of nobility as a political institution, in the great re volution of 1789, having shaken Frc.nch society to its very centre, and been one of the great causes of the numerous revolutions that have since occurred. But is his Majesty quite right in transforming into nobles men who, though possessing great talent un doubtedly, are after all only high placemen, and have no fortunes, except what they have been able to amiss from the savings of their salaries or from suc cessful business speculations ? The late King Louis XVIII., of gastronomic memory, used to say, "1f you want to make bashed hare, take a bare !" and, in virtue of the same homely principle, most Eng. lishinen, if they bad the privilege of speaking on the subject to the Emperor, would respectfully re mark, " Sire, if you want to found an order of nobles, begin with men of gentle birth and territorial pos sessions." . _ Off to Compiegne go the Emperor and Court on Sunday, and in the extensive forest of that place stags are to be hunted with much of the pomp of the olden time, whilst in its palace there are to be high rejoicings. People are be invited by a score or a dozen at a time to visit the Imperial Majesty; and everybody, male and female, who is admitted to the Imperial presence is in a flutter of anxiety as to whether he or she will receive an invitation. And yet it is no small thing to the moderately•fortuned and economical French to be bidden to the palace and the bunts of Compeigne ; fur the ladies are expected to figure in at least one new dress daily, whilst the men are required to don the Imperial hunting cos tume of green embellished with gold lace, and cocked hat also laced, and high-mounting patent leather boots, and pendant from the waist a sort of short sword, with which to give the coup de grace to the stag. My last paragraph is exclusively for ladies : It was said soma time ago that when the Queen and the Empress met at Cherbourg their Majesties had a solemn deliberation on the grave question whether or not the doom of crinoline should be sealed, and that the august personages came to the conclusion that at the end of the winter it should be. Whether this on dit were true or false, 1 cannot take on myself to affirm ; but I have beard on excellent authority that the Empress and some of her ;allies have lately been engaged in making all manner of experiments on dress, as regards form, and develop ment, and colour; and that the result is that they have determined before long to inaugurate a violent reaction to the present style,—that is to say, to have dresses short enough to display the foot and ankle, instead of trailing on the ground ; to diminish im mensely their prodigious development; and in place of colours more or less staid to have the brightest and gayest hues imaginable. THE PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT took place On Tuesday with the accustomed formalities which are imposed by strict constitutional rule, but without any of the interest with which that event is ordinarily associated in the public mind at the close of a leng thened and laborious session. The Royal Commis sioners were the Lord Chancellor, who was accom panied by the Marquis of Salisbury, Lord President of the Council, and the Earl of Ilardwicke, Lord Privy Seal. The Royal Commis sion having been read by Sir J. G. Lefevre, K.C.8., Clerk of the Par liaments, the Lord Chancellor further prorogued Parliament to the 19th of November next, and, as the significant words " for the despatch of divers urgent and important affairs " were not added, the mewing of Parliament on that day will again be of a purely formal character. Tim SOCTAL SCIENCE CONFERENCE Was brought to it successful termination on Saturdayi last. A grand banquet took place on Friday ght, when several sprightly speeches, chiefly of a oomplimentary character, were delivered. On Saturday morning Lord John Russell read the paper on jurisprudenc e which the Lord Chancellor of Ireland wo uld have read himself, as the president of tha t section, had he atAnoll,llll 9tteea's permission to 3esvo, Roland • :1