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Jun '23, 1853. in thi4etter I have put forth nothing either impos sible a improbable, i hope—for the sake of my brothcr planters in the West Indies, the cotton growers of India, and also for the purpose of draw * the attention of the Anti-slavery Society to the subject of the rise in value of labour, from the fall in value of money, as a new feature likely to be latch in favour of slaveowners—that you will pardon tie length of my letter, and give it insertion in the fr,Ess. And I remain, sir, Your most obedient servant. July, 1553. AN 01.1) PIANTER. THE LATEST I\t►:LIJOE\CE from Constantinople is communicated by the Oesterreichische Correxpondenz under date of July 11. This despatch, received b;• elec tric telegraph, states that a conciliatory note from Reshcid Pacha was expected to bring the negotia tions very speedily to a satisfactory conclusion. This note is understood to embody the scheme of settle ment which the ministers of the four powers had previously suggested. The united fleets were still in Besika Bay. Commercial affairs in Constantinople hid assumed a greatly-improved aspect. - • A DESPATCH FROM V lENNA, ofthe 21st ult., states that. the Emperor of Russia has definitively accepted the mediation of Austria on the basis of the Anglo-French propositions. The mission of (leneral Count Oiulay had been completely successful. JASSY, July 11.—The Russians have concentrated considerable forces on the Pruth to serve as a re serve in ease of war. At the saute time they have constructed at Leowa a permanent bridge and a mili tary road leading into the interior of the country. THE YOUNG PRINCE OF BEIAM - 31, the Duke of Bra bant, and Count of Flanders, have been attacked by the measles, which seems just now to affect most of the Royal Families in Europe. The course of the disease is said to be favourable. THE PRUSSIAN MINISTER OF THE INTERIOR has just published an order interdicting any r rsons from emigrating who have not complied with the conditions of the law relative to serving in the army. Unless they can give satisfactory proof of their having done so, no authorisation will be given them to leave the country. NUMEROUS POLITICAL. ARRESTS have taken place at Lille and other parts of France. At Lille the affair is stated to be of some importance, the arrests being I.onnected with the secret societies, which are so numerous, and in many of which an oath has been taken to assassinate the Emperor. THE Madrid Gazette of the 16th publishes a Royal order to the directors of the telegraphs to proceed immediately to a general survey, with a view to the establishment of electric telegraphic wires throughout the kingdom. THE AUSTRALASIAN COLONIES, according to the latest advises, continue to prosper abundantly. The yield of gold was steady, and the average earnings of each man are quoted at an ounce a day. With regard to agriculture, the prospects of the farmers were excel lent. A discovery of valuable tin ore had been made in Yictoria. The markets, both at Sydney and Mel bourne, were almost bare of goods, and enormous profits were being realised on some articles of im port. The prices of all kinds of merchandise were rapidly rising, the consumption being enormous. Men's strong boots were saleable at 200 per cent. on London prices. Boot and shoe makers were all easily earning from 3/. 10s. to 4/. a week, which is considerably more than double the amount which they could earn in London, and treble what they would get in Northampton or the other great manufacturing towns. The colonial revenue was rapidly increasing. The receipts at the Custom house averaged LOOO/. a day for many weeks past. Much inconvenience had arisen from the scarcity of copper coin and of small silver money, and the tradespeople had resorted to a somewhat novel sys tem of currency. Pieces of paper called I 0 U's were substituted by a great many shopkeepers for pennies and fourpenny pieces, and, instead of lawful money, were given to their customers as change. The liability to forgery and repudiation attaching to this new kind of circulating medium was prodncing great embarrassment to the public. A Sinuous ExeLosioN of 6.t' occurred at Bootle, near Liverpool, on Tuesday, which resulted in the total destruction of the Sun Inn, the death of one man, and the infliction of severe injuries on two other per sons. The value of the properly destroyed is roughly estimated at 1,0001. Tut DI-CHESS OF HAMILTON has publicly avowed the fact, long suspected, that her grace has united herself with the Church of Rome. Rumour inti mates that the duke will also shortly be declared a pervert.—Record. THE PRESS. (From Last N iglit's (i azettt.) ADMIIISUrY, Ju Corps of lioyal Marines—Scrotal Lieutenant George Naylor to be First Lieutenant, vice William Hutchinson, caahiertstl. COMMItiSIoNS ET THE LORTO-11E1'11:NANI.4. Colonel Charles Leslie, to be Deputy Lieutenant, July 11. North Lincoln Militia—Major Richard Ellison to h. Lieutenant-Colonel , vice the Hon. Charles Henry Eger ton. resigned; Captain Weston Cnwroft to be Major, vie(' Ellison, promoted ; Edward Farr Broadbent, Gent., to be Assistiud-Surgeon, July W. West Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—Thos. ltelsey Tomlin, Esq., to be Captain a n d Adjutant. %ice NI alter, resigned, July I:). Royal tiloucestershire Regiment of I I assay Yeoloaor— Frederick Newton Dickenson, tient., to be Cornet, %ice Calabar's... promoted, July :to. (This article is substituted for that whi c h a vi al iev,i t o th e - - - Gazette of the If►th instant.) Regiment of Royal London :it ilitio—Lieniestaint Jolin Iltinition Allan' to be Curtain, lice James Iterkle•y, re. signed, July 11. Tilt: CANTURDI'IIY SETTLEMENT.—DINNIA: vu 1.. Goo. Es4l.—Tlio return of Mr. Godley, whose service.% in connection with the establishment o f the Canterbury set tlement ors' so well known, was celebrated on Wednesday last by a public d' I. at the Trafalgar Hotel, Greenwich. I mill Whauvelitfe presided. awl annotagA the el oil:pally we Sionteagle, Lord leyttelton, Right Sir .1. Pakington, 'M.P.. Sir W. dames, Bart.. Sir I berms , St. Paul, Bart., Sir F. Hopkins, Bart., Hit. Mr. 11011.. 1 . Dilly, Hon. E. Twisleton, lion. Captain Denman, R.N., Messrs. W. Monsen, M.P., A. Stafford. M. 1., Col. Taylor, NI .I'..J. Somers Cocks, M.l'., IL Pahater,ll P.,M. 11 gins,C. 14. Adderley, M.P.. Messrs. Aytoun.T.Choltutotatleley. AV, Forsyth, Self' Self... W. 11. Gregory, Imgata..l. S . sin, S. Lewes, R. S. Rintoul, .1. Ball M.l'., Edward Wakefield. After the usual loyal toasts had been given, the noble Alumnus, in proposing the health of Air. Galley, observed that they were sitting there in the old hemisphere, and it might be said that they were not the best judges of the proceedings of Mr. Godley in New Zealand. But on this point he could cite the address which was mad at the en tertitimuent given to NB% (Smiley ton the opposite oveasion of his leaving New Zealand. which expressed the confi dence of the colonists there in his zeal awl ability. The Canterbury Associati had done their duty in the solve- Bon of Mr. Godley, as proved by the manner in which he had twrfonned his arduons and responsible duties. Mr. Godley, in the course of a long and admirable speech. which was received with repeated cheers, gave an *labo rite detail of his operations in New Zealand as the agent of the Canterbury Assoeiat' , together with ample illus trations of the successful issue of their experiment. though in some partieulars their design had been modified by eir enuastantees they had not anticipated. He Memel to the part he had taken in colonial polities, and stated that, thanks to the energy and liberality of Sir John Pakington, the colonists of New Zealand had now obtained a constitu tion which had been joyfully and thankfully received in every part tof the colony. lie concluded by declaring that the 7anterbury Association had done its work in laying the fooothiti )))) of a great and happy people. " Success to the Colony of New Zealand" was then proposed by Lord Monteagle, and responded to by the Ho tttttt ruble Mr. Chapman, who in taint proposed the health of Lord Lyttelton. Lt the costrte of his lordship's speech he stated that no Canterbury colonist, since the landing of the first hotly. allowing for a lies eseeptiunal eu.e s, had had half a day to seek for any soffite of the church he de sired to attend or from am early taTiod a school suitable for his children; and this was re than could be said for any colony founded within the last 1511 years. The healths of the noble Chairman and of Sir John Pakingten, the latter coupled with " Success to the Constitution of New Zealand." were gi%en ill succession, and the party thereupon broke up, and retnrned to town by u spesial train which had been provided for the occasi tt ll . THE MURDER OF AN AUSTRIAN NoBLEMAN, Baron Adelburg, has excited much consternation at Smyrna. The cirrutnstances attached to this event are singular and disastrous. A Captain Costa, an exile with Kossuth in Turkey, who followed him as his secretary to America, had returned to Symrtet unknown to the governor of the maims.. On the 22nd ult., whilst in the cafe "British and Smyrna Club," on the Marina, M. Costa was suddenly set upon by a dozen boatmen, and hurried off to the Austrian brig of-war Hussar, lying in the roads, after a desperate resistance. The arrest was ordered by the Austrian consul, and created much indignation among the inhabitants. On the following day three <dicers front the Hussar, one a midshipman. the Baron Adelltrg, landed at the Climb, and almost immediately were set upon by some fifteen refugees : resistance was impossible. One of the officers suc ceeded in making his escape; a second was grossly ill-treated; while the young baron received a severe stab with a stiletto, and immediately, in the hope of escaping. plunged into the sea. lie, however, sunk, whether from loss of blood or some other cause cannot be known, but his corpse was, after several hours, recovered from the water. 270 FIZoM THE LONDON GAZETTE. Acidity, July 19. Ita.A3au , % %h.t 1. Picea'hill . . coal merchant Ill: %WM R o Li.r, Snd ItcArrov Wont', tittekville-hirt . ..t, talllol , -4;:.01:41E DEII ru, Palitu, Surrey. corndealia--- 81 ,1 1 , 1dm 1. Jovct:, Old Bruail-st met. merchant •- Eritit it Ni I. EEVN. Ite% is Marka, wholrrßlr clothier -- lli ttt cu. a• , St. sa ithinsti-latie„ att:d t'ro don. *Ma merchant HEN EY 11 N DIM EK, Muurgatc-atreek atatiourr—ltEttai i.ha-e-der-LetTaCe. Hyde l'atk-gardetsl4,llollllll. 1.;M10., 110 110 U, •41;11111CP—S/A11 Et. CLAERE. I . Nelt'l' MIA .1.01111.111 y, t0)1111411-110111 1:1 RUM 11. P;;JUlt111011 Kul Seaford'. Liateashire. builder. Friday, July ItANKRI'litcY ANM:I.I.I:II I .—FDANcts II chehas• (MA trINW vv. BAN PTs.--s 11AvEN, Brighton, itnetr--EnwAvrpi Tutim%%, Elitiry..treel, Pimlico, builder—AS.l , lllM Illommek, IntllinfitClUrer--MATt II I'M I'UTII %lOW, Wl!Ware. denier—WILLIAM HAIIiINtI, Cheltenham. grnetT--. 1 01 1 % l`:‘ ANN, Tsly !WWI. 1111111111itoll C‘lUri. hotel kooper luny ltl:t.A N 11, Killil*Intl•IIII011•111111, drapar— 1108011 PIN 111:1t, York, grocer m u t lea.desier. Ilyssits. LITTLE Am) l'AitsoNs, member' of thy' Assembly Al NeWfollll4lllllllll, have arrived in London. It appointed delegates, to communicate Terminally with the colonial authorities on the ntrairt of the colony. A Commos; II Ali. of the Livery of the City of London was held at the titillation yesterday, for the purpose of electing a Sheriff Of London and blithllesex, in the room of .1. 'hamley, Esq., who had been elected, hut refused to Nene. The I.4trit Mayor. however. announced that eircutostances bed trans pie' 1 which rendered it advisable to adjourn the pro (Petting. end the election was aecontingly postponol. TRU STAR CLUB will hold their lust meeting fertile present season at the Star and 611.1101% RIOIIIIOII4I. 011 WedllPSlllly, :Irtl of August, when a large muster of the corps diplomotique is expected. RS well tis molly members of the 'louse of Commons. Tin: Hos. E. V. Itimin, having been appointed to till a diplomatic orrice in connection with the British Embassy at Berlin, will nut appear as a ettudidate NL the ensuing election for Canterbury. t:w CAII LAW.—The working of the new cab law does not go quite to smoothly as might have been wished, and it must he yonfeseed that the authorities more immediately coneerniql are themselves chiefly blameable for the defective operation ; since they lone set the law working without the machinery ue ressary for their own share in executing it. They h a ve is s ued e nactments and s tringent. rules for magistrates to inkjudicate on subjects of disputed distances, and have not given the standard for measuring the distances. Thug is fares," drivers, and magistrates are all in some c o n fusion, it elves that Al of them have made mistakes. That Mr. Fitzroy's bill efleets considerable improve. meat in the nrrangement of piddle vehicles there is no 1101111 t. It has already had some practical work ing, and it experienee could suggest amendments there might be yet time to embody them in a supple• mental bill which might even pass this liessum. For all our attachment to the present liovernmetst cannot conceal from us the feet that many men who use these pithily conveniences look forward with may to a winter in Imildon with a deficiency of cab accommodetiiin. It is not a tinily question, how tner ; the stability of the present tiovernment is not involved in the cab question, and we are convinced that Mr. Fitzroy himself would be as willing as any man in Parliement to adopt praetical yuletide( of his useful llWRSllll`.—Globe. AN EXTUIifitHINIIIV CANE HE THREATENING luau 014'110141 rise magistrates of Cornham, Wiltshire. oc• casioning some protracted investigations. The pro sectunr wlt4 the Rev. Dr. llorlock, vicar of Box, and the prisoners were Henry Sprague, son of Sprague, late of Box, end Benjamin Bullock, sexton. Anonymous letters of a most insulting end threaten ing kind had been, for IL length of time, mysteriously conveyed to the vicar and his family, and to persona in the IllighltolllllGlNl. I hie cons a dd r e sse d to a y 01111.4 women named Elizabeth Smith, " If you will make a cake, end buy at a chemist's one drachm of arsenic, and put it in it, and send it to Miss Horlock. with a note from yourself, I will give you lilt?.. which will make you and your relations quite rich, and you will never not remain in senice no longer." A similar letter was sent to another woman. A number of witnesses were called to Kiwi, the handwriting; mid the magistrates, after a private VIIRSIIIWRIR, charged Bullock, and committed Sprague to take his trial at the next assizes. sToms Perms.—The bolls Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury have caused Mr. Wilson to nequaint the l'contnissioners of Customs that their lerdships, on lull consideration of the matter, are of opinion that the duty upon iron and steel orna mental matinfactnres should he equalised et 15.. per cwt. ; and it is, therefore, their desire that the commissioners will cause this duty to be charged on those articles from the date of the communication. Mr. Wilson was further directed by their lordships to state that the said equalisation of duty will be pro vided fur in the bill now pemiug before rtuiistueut.