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An official despatch says Warsaw is crowded with Poles of high rank, who seek an interview with the Czar• to express their satisfaction at the new policy he has adopted, and at the saute time assure his Majesty of their loyalty. PRUSSIA. Despatches from Berlin still leave the Regency question in the same unsettled state. The Queen, said to be backed by Russian influence, is opposed to the abdication of the King. Throughout Prussia the agitation on this question is increasing, and the general impression seems to be that the King ought to retire limn State affairs considering ins hopeless mental condition. BAVA RIA. A telegraphic despatch from Hamburg, dated yesterday, says : The Opposition being in a majority in the Bavarian Chawber of Deputies, the King dissolved it Olt the first they of the session. A general election will speedily take place. AMERICA. THE ATLANTIC CROSSED IN SIX DAYS. (By Submarine Telegraph.) GALWAY, Friday. The Royal Mail steamship Pacific, winch lett St. John's, Newfoundland, un the 24th ult., arrived in Galway Bay at seven a.tn. this morning, having made the passage in six days, bringing 31 first•class, 47 second, and 201 third•class passengers. She brings news from New Yurk up to the 24th ult. Cotton was quite unchanged ; the sties in three days were 2,000 hales. Flour was buoyant at 10 to 15 cents higher. Wheat and corn were firm. l'rovisions were stoat , . Sugar I►ud declined one eight cent. Naval stores were fitm. Tea and coffee were firm. THE BOMBAY AND CALCUTTA MAILS. The Peninsular and Oriental Company have re ceived the following telegram:— The steamship Euxine, with the Calcutta, China, and Bombay mails, arrived ut Marseilles at six o'clock yester day k Friday) morning. The Ilialia left for London nt ten a.m. TIIE WEST INDIA MAIL, arrived at. Southampton lust night by the Parana steamer, Captain Bevis. Her dates are—Vera Cruz, Sept. 40*; 'Tampico, August Zilst ; Havannah, Sept. 10th ; Greytown, 2nd; Jamaica, 10th ; Demerara, oth ; Trinidad, oth ; Bar. hadoes, 11th ; St. 'Thomas's, 15th. She brings 65 passengers; 1i50,414 dola. in specie; diamonds, &c., value 7,2118/.; and full cargo of cochineal, cigars, tobacco, and sundries. Ti‘s CORONER'S INQUIRY into the origin of the Are which consumed the premises of Wit.. Richard Roper, corn-dealer, of Royal-hill, Greenwich, and resulted in the death of his two infant deuAiters, on th o mowing of Sunday, the 12th of September, was resumed for the fifth time yesterday. The evidence went iv zrilslinate 411: limper, it being proved that 2, goods bad been removed just immediately be tore the fire, and that he had sent in a claim far beyond the value of the property destroyed. At half-past five o'clock he was apprehended, at the instance of the Kent Fire Insurance Company, and conveyed to the Greenwich police-station, with the whole of the furniture which had been removed from his premises. A crowd of persons assembled, and Mr. !toper, who was accompanied by several friends, appeared to feel his position most acutely. The ac cused will undergo an examination at the Greenwich police-court this day. lortipt ciorrc.spon4titct. P.utis, Thursday. Coups de thidtre are tolerably frequent among our allies, and are not distasteful to the gossips of Pans. A new one has just been executed. Prince Napoleon, the Emperor's cousin, went down last week, as you knew, to Biarritz to complain to his Majesty of the Council of Ministers for rejecting his scheme of intro ducing free trade into Algeria, and to confer with his Majesty on Algerian affairs generally. The public were somewhat curiously awaiting the result of his expedition, when, lo! they learned that his Im perial Highness had suddenly started off to War saw to have an interview with no less a personage than his Imperial Majesty the Emperor Alexander of All the Hussies. Algeria and free trade were, of course, no moro thought of by the good public,— and everybody eagerly asked: " What can the Prince have gone to Warsaw for?" To the question, a hundred sci•disant " well informed" people had answers instantly ready : " To pay simply a mark of respect to the Czar ;" " to be present at the grand military manoeuvres that are about to take place ;" "to invite his Majesty to come to Paris ;" "to solicit his Majesty's interference in procuring him some Russian or German Princess to wife ;" "to inaugurate an alliance between France and Russia on the basis of hostility to England and Austria ;" and " to prepare a plan for the joint action of France and Russia against Turkey." If, however, what I hear from a really good source be true, the first three of these answers do not represent the affair in the right light, and the last three are altogether wrong. The fact is, it appears, that the Prince has gone to Warsaw simply and solely in compliance with a gracious, and I am assured totally unexpected, invi tation from the Czar,—and the Czar sent the invita tion because, having addressed others to the Prince of Prussia, the Prince de Carignan, cousin of the King of Sardinia, several German Princes, and even, it is said, an Austrian Archduke, he thought it only courteous so to do. Undoubtedly the fact of the in vitation having been sent proves that the relations between France and Russia are extremely friendly ; but it is patent to all the world that they have been so ever since the conclusion of the war. It may be that in return for the attention shown him, Prince Napoleon has received instructions to solicit the Emperor to visit Paris ; but it is not the first time such an invitation has been addressed to the Czar, the French Emperor being, as all the world knows, bent on having, if possible, every reigning sovereign of Europe, and especially the great ones, his guest at Paris. It may be that the Czar may accept the invita tion, but nothing would be more natural, after his Ma. jesty's interview with the French Emperor at Stutt. gardt, and after the half-promise he made months ago to the Duke de Moute'rello, French Ambassador at St. Petersburg. In all this, however, in spite of its politi cal importance, there is nothing whatever to indicate that, as many persons suppose, the French Emperor is about to change his policy towards England : in timacy between France and Russia does not neces sarily mean hostility to England; and England, as the friend of both, should rejoice rather than take offence at seeing the two countries united. As to Austria, it is certain that Russia entertains great animosity to, and that France has but little liking for, her; but seeing the tremendous consequences that would ensue from war, it is not at all likely that the two powers, however closely allied, would em bark in a course of active hostility to her. With regard to Turkey, it is possible, from all I hear, that the Cabinets both of France and Russia are desirous of coming to some sort of understanding as to the policy to be pursued towards that country ;—the accounts which reach them being of a most alarm ing character—representing, fur example, that the ex asperation of the Mahomedans against the Christians is daily increasing, and that the former are everywhere purchasing arms and ammunition as if on the eve of a grand outbreak for the Faith. But it is very improbable that Prince Napoleon has been charged to treat on such a very weighty matter in the course of a flying-visit to the Czar : more improbable stil, is it that the course which the two powers may re' solve on, if they jointly resolve on any, will be adverse to the policy of England and Austria, or the integrity of Turkey. On the whole, then, I think you may come to the conclusion that the unexpected visit of the Prince Napoleon to the Czar is not of the immense impoytion political circles on the ' 7 i Continent are representing it to be, and that it will certainly not be followed by an alteration in the prevailing alliances and policy of Europe. The Emperor and Empress have this day arrived at St. Cloud from Biarritz. English society is manifesting a great deal of in terest in a case which has occurred at Pau, anti which is really of considerable importance. A young Frenchman of respectable family in that city some time ago made the acquaintance of a young English girl, and fell in love with her. She represented that she was of highly respectable family, and had a fortune of some 4,0001. deposited at Coutts's bank. He went to England, and was duly married to her in the English form at a place called Ledbury. But it turned out that his wife was of low origin, and had not a farthing in the world; and the poor husband was not only arrested for debts she incurred, but placed himself in a serious predicament by drawing on Messrs. Coitus for funds she did not possess. He was undoubtedly scandalously duped, but never• theless he remained her lawful husband. His family, however, took legal proceedings to have the marriage set aside, and the Court of Pau has de. cided that it was null and void, inasmuch as ►t was not in accordance with the French law—it not having been published in France, and the consent of the young man's parents not having been obtained. Thu moral of this case is, that the parents of English girls who marry Frenchmen must take care that the formalities of the French as well as the English law aro observed. 6ltttion REIGATE.—The vacancy in the representation of this borough, which has been caused by the nomination of Sir H. Rawlinson to a seat iu the Council for India, will he contested by the Hon. Mr. Monson and Mr. W. A. Wilkinson, the late Liberal member for Lambeth. The election is not postponed till Feb ruary, as stated in several of our daily contempo. raries. The legal notice of the issuing of the writ will appear in the Gazette immediately. GREENWICH.-otl Monday evening Mr. Alderman Salomons made his appearance before a large as sembly of the inhabitants of Greenwich, convened in the Lecture-hall, as a candidate for the vacancy in the Parliamentary representation of the borough caused by the retirement of Mr. Townsend. He was accompanied by General Thompson, M.P., and several of the moat influential inhabitants of Green wich, and was enthusiastically cheered on entering the room. Dr. Prior Purvis, of Blackheath, acted as chairman, and briefly congratulated the audience on the recent alteration in the law which enabled a gentleman, whom the constituency had once before under memorable circumstances sent to represent them in Parliament, to present himself again for election with the certainty of now being able to sit and vote in the House of Commons in the event of his being returned. Mr. Alderman Salomous then addressed the meeting at considerable length in explanation of his political views, after winch a vote of confidence in the candidate was carried with great unanimity.—Mr. Angerstein also addressed a crowded meeting of the electors at Depttord, and in the course of his speech said he would support a wide extension or the suffrage, but was opposed to the ballot and the unconditional abolition of the church rates. He would vote for a measure to relieve the Dissenters, but considered that the fabric of the Church should be supported. He was a friend to education, and entirely opposed to the taxes on knowledge. He was, therefore, happy to find that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had promised to repeal hal f, it not the entire of the paper duty. If they returned bon to the House of Commons they would find him acting with the Liberal party, although he would support good measures if proposed by the Conservatives. In reply to questions, Mr. Augerstein stated that he was opposed to opening places of amusement on the Sabbath, and would support the assessment of public establishments to the relief of the poor.Mr.A resolution approving of the political principles of Angerstein was carried. THE EARL OF ELGIN, K.T., has been appointed an extra member of the Civil Division of the First Class, or Knights Grand Cross, of the Order of the Bath, in recognition of his services in China. lIER MAJESTY has been graciously pleased to make the following appointments !---Captain William Corn wallis Aldham, R.N., Captain George William PreedY, lt.N., and the Hon. Frederick William Adolphus Bruce, her Majesty's Agent and Consul• General ►n Egypt, to be Ordinary Members of the Civil Division of the Third Class. Philip Francis Little and Bryan - Robinson, Esqrs., to be Assistant Judges of the Supreme Court of the Island of Newfoundland; and George James Hogsett, Esq„ to be Attorney• General, and John Hayward, E•q., to be Solicitor-General, for the island. Charles Young, Esq., w he Attorney" General, and Witha►n Swabey, Esq., to be Registrar Of Deeds and Keeper of Plane for the Island ut rijacb tdward, •