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The glide andithe Assenzblie Nationale are antago. nistic in their opinions respecting the late article in the Moniteur upon the Neufchatel question—the former expressing deep regret at the publication of such an offensive document ; and the latter great delight, because it is clear, firm, and energetic, and calculated to put an end to the demagogical policy of the Cabinet to whom the note is addressed. A letter from St. Petersburg mentions the death of General Cheremetieff, Minister of the Domains, from a second attack of apoplexy, as also that of Count Strogonoff, a veteran Russian diplomatist, who died at a very advanced age. The Emperor of the French, according to letters from Naples, has congratulated the King on his escape. As official relations no longer exist between the two Governments, the Emperor sent his message of congratulation by an indirect means, viz., by the agency of the Consul• General of France. Count d'Hatzfeldt, Prussian Minister, and charged women• tartly with Neapolitan interests at Paris, subsequently conveyed to Naples, not alone the per.onal felieita tions of the Emperor, but those of the French Go vernment. King Ferdinand replied immediately to these manifestations of sympathy ; and the King's letter is said to have already arrived in Paris. A Berlin letter in the Paris Patric says : Prince Frederick William is charged to invite the Emperor Napole , ,ii to pay a visit to the C'onrt of Berlin nest spring, and it is said that his Majesty has accepted the invitation. A letter from Coblentz of the 113th, in the Carla ruhe Gazette, says : Although there have been yet no warlike preparations, properly so called, on the part of Prussia against Switzer land, there are symptoms which show that it is intended to have recourse to military measures. In the arsenals of the Rhine supplies of ammunition are being actively pre. pared. THE VICE•CHANCFLLOR'S DECREE in favour of the proceedings of the Royal British Bank, was yester day confirmed on appeal by the Lords' Justices. Bence the money, books, &c., of the bankrupt estate will he handed over at on , :e to the official assignee. Sir Fitzroy Kelly announced that there would be a dividend meeting on the 23rd. ANOTHER HULL STEAMER, the Oscar, was lost last week in the North Seas during a heavy gale. Every soul on board perished. IiEDPATH AND KENT, charged with forgery and fraud on the Great Northern Railway Company, yesterday underwent a further examination at Clerkenwell Police court. The proceedings divulged THE PRESS. further transactions of the prisoners of a similar character to those already published. The trial is not expected to take place till the February sessions of the Central Criminal Court. EARL. GRANVILLE has been appointed Chancellor of the London University in succession to the Earl of Burlington, resigned. elution ,nttiligturt. LANARK.—Lord Eleho bas intimated to his con stituents in East Lothian that he has been ordered by his medical adviser to abstain from all business for the next twelve months, and that he is about to proceed to the Continent in order to the re-estab lishment of his health. He regrets therefore the prospect of being absent during the next parliamen tary session. SOUTHAMPTON.—AII attempts to heal the divisions amongst the Liberal party in Southampton have failed, and both sections have declared for war. It is not now doubted that Sir Edward Butler, the Conser vative candidate, and Messrs. Weguelin and Andrews, Liberals, will go to the poll, and that the contest will be one of the fiercest ever known. The address of Mr. Richard Andrews, the Radical coachmaker, and mayor, was issued on Tuesday. After stating his views, Mr. Andrews says to the electors : If they meet with your approval, I am your man. I have not sought this position, but being in it by the kindness of so large a numoer of friends who have not deserted the good old cause for which we have so often struggled toge ther, 1 pledge you my word that negotiation is now at an end, and I sin resolved to poll to the last man. GREENWICH.—Major-General Sir William Codring ton, K.C.8., is about to be requested to stand for this borough. . . _ TEWKESAURY.—The Hon. Frederick Lygon, young est son of the Earl of Beauchamp, intends to offer himself as a candidate for this borough, in the Con servative interest, whenever a vacancy may occur. Smoup.—The electors of Stroud have issued an address, pledging themselves not to vote for any can didate at the next election unless he is prepared to support every measure having the repeal of the income tax for its object. The address is already signed by about 50`► electors. Xabal nnb tilitax ntelligtnct. GENERAL SIR JAMES SIMPSON, G.C.8., General Lord Rokeby, and Colonel the Hon. Wm. L. Pakenham, C. 8., who have been for some weeks engaged in investigating the claims for the Victoria Cross (the Order of Valour), have for a short period discon tinued their meetings at the Horse Guards. We have reason to believe that their labours are com plete up to the 38th Regiment of Foot. THE ROCKET SHEDS AT WOOLWICH ARSENAL, in consequence of the fatal explosion some months since, and the recommendation of the coroner's jury that such sheds should be isolated and remote from other buildings, have been removed from the labora tory square to the Arsenal marshes. THE FLOATING BATTERIES.—On Wednesday last experiments were carried out at the Government practice range, Woolwich, in the presence of the select committee of Royal Artillery officers, in order to test the resistance of timber encased with four-inch iron plates, the combined substance being exactly equal to that of the floating batteries. The result proved that these vessels would not be able to endure a heavy cannonade of 68-pounders. A target com posed of timber and iron plates, and weighing thirty tons, was subjected in the first place to fourteen rounds of 68 pounders, fired from a distance of 600 yards. This cannonade splintered the timber, and ten rounds were then fired at a distance of 400 yards. The result was entirely destructive to the timber-work, and the iron plates made by the new rolling process were splintered and broken. The last shot fired want completely through the target, timber and iron included. The iron plates made by hammer were found the most cohesive and enduring. MAJOR-GENERALS Sin GEORGE ANSON AND NICHOLAS HAMILTON will, it is stated, have the colonelcies of the 55th and 82nd Regiments, vacant by the deaths of Generals Butler and Milman. THE LORDS OF THE ADMIRALTY have published a memorandum restricting mess expenses in the gun rooms of her Ala)ehty's ships to eight guineas en trance, and I/. 10s. per month. No wines but sherry and port, or "of the value of sherry or port," to be drunk. CHAIMES LAMB, Esp., 'half-brother of the Earl of Eglinton, died at his shooting quarters at Lochflne side, on Thursday week. His remains have been in terred in the cemetery at Greenock. His body was followed to the grave by the Earl of Eglington and Viscount Ingestre. 111 r. Lamb died from the effects of injuries received by the bursting of a shell ♦bile he waa serving as a volunteer before Sebastopo!. SATURDAY, RUSSIAN NOTE ON THE REASSEMBLING OF THE CONFERENCES. THE Russian memorandum on the Bolgrad and Isle of Serpents questions, made public last week, was originally communicated to Count Walewski, the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, accompanied by the following note, in which the French Government was invited to promote the reassembling of the Con. ferences:— Monsieur le Ministre,—By order of the Emperor my august master, I had the honour of addressing to your Excellency a note, under date of Sept. 19, repeating the invitation already verbally given, that you would be a- good as to propose to all the Cabinets that signed the treaty of l'aris to reassemble their representatives in conference at Paris, fur the purpose of definitively regulating the ques tions which remain in suspense concerning the execution of the treaty of March 30. The Government of his Majesty the Emperor of the French, acceding to this request, did not fail to make it known to all the Courts which had signed the treaty of Paris. A month having since elapsed, in expectation without any result, 1 have received orders to place before the eyes of your Excellency the inclosed memorandum. which gives a complete summary of the situation of affairs. It states anew the high importance which the Court of Russia at taches to a prompt and complete solution of all the points in dispute, explains the course this Court has taken in order to legally arrive at this conclusion, and points out, lastly, the serious inconvenience which would result from any furthur procrastination. In fact, the demarcation, of the new Bessarabian frontier, defined in principle by a preliminary convention signed on the 30th August, awaits a final decision only on two local difficulties that require solution, so as to complete the task along the entire extent of a line three•fourths of which are already traced. But it is not only the execution of the 20th article of the treaty of peace that has remained in sus pense. This European transaction remains unfulfilled in more than one of its essential conditions. In virtue of the 11th article the Black sea is neutralised. Its waters and its ports are formally and for ever closed against the military flag, save the exceptions mentioned in the 11th and 19th articles. The 10th article in the Convention of the Straits annexed to the treaty maintains the ancient rule laid down by the Ottoman empire, whereby the Straits of the Dardanelles and of the Bosphorus are closed against foreign vessels of war so long as the Porte is at peace. The additional and transitory article added to the general treaty establishes that the stipulations of the convention aforesaid shall not be applicable to vessels of war employed by the belligerent powers for the evacuation by sea of the territories occupied by their armies ; bnt it expressly de clares that the said stipulations shall resume their entire effect, so soon as the evacuation shall have been completed. Now, down to this day, three months after the evacuation by sea has been terminated, all these stipulations still re main without effect. Finally, the Articles 23, 24, 25, and 27, relative to the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia, remain unexe cuted, by the fact that a foreign armed force is present in the Danubian provinces—a military occupation which is not in accordance with the regulations of the 81st article, con cerning the entire evacuation of the Ottoman empire. The term of six months, before assigned for the carrying out of this evacuation, dating from the day when the ratifications should be exchanged, has expired. The expiration of this term now reminds all the con tracting powers of the obligation, imposed upon them in common, to take care that the salutary work of a general pacification shall be maintained, which has become a new pledge of prosperity and repose for Europe. The Emperor my master orders me to perform this duty, and to appeal with confidence to the Government of his Majesty the Emperor of the French, with the view of hastening the moment when the representatives of the Courts that signed the treaty, reassembled in conference at Paris, shall have to deliberate with common accord for the faithful carrying out of all the stipulations in the treaty which have hitherto remained unexecuted. I have the honour, &c., (Signed) liticNxow. THE lIET. ARTHUR PENRHEN STANLEY, Canon of Canterbury Cathedral, has been appointed to the office of Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History in the University of Oxford, vacant by the decease of the Rev. Robert Hussey. AN ECCENTRIC PHILANTHROPIST, named Boulanger, a gentleman, residing in the Rue d'Alger, at Paris, died a few days ago, and in his apartments were found no fewer than ninety five different wills, or codicils of wills, written on scraps of paper, on the backs of old letters and circulars, in the most in formal and confused manner. By these documents, M. Boulanger bad bequeathed a large part of his fortune, which was considerable, although he lived in a very parsimonious way, to a number of persons who were not connected with him, and whom he had never seen in his life. It was his habit, when ever he heard, or read in the newspapers, of any remarkable instance of virtue or self-sacrificing courage in real life, to take his pen and immediately to write, upon the first piece of paper thet came to hand, a bequest in favour of the person named; and he laid the strictest injunctions upon his executors and heirs, to take care that these legacies should all be paid without dispute or delay,