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NOVEMBER 17, 1855. All these efforts have now been paralysed. Count Buol has expressed to Bavaria his regret at it, and sent de- spatches to Paris on the subject. Austria is still willing to act as mediator, though with but faint hopes of success, as England in particular wishes the severest measures to be adopted against Greece. UNITED STATES AND MEXICO. The Atlantic, which reached Liverpool on Monday, brought dates from New York to the 31st ult. The arrival of an Ambassador Extraordinary from Russia with full powers was confidently expected at Washington, and the mediation of tho United States between Russia and the Western powers considered not improbable. Attorney-General Cushing has issued the follow ing explanation with regard to the rights of bellige rents in the United States : 1. It is a settled principle of the law of nations that no belligerent can rightfully make use of the territory of a neutral State for belligerent purposes without the consent of the neutral Government. 2. The undertaking of a belli gerent to enlist troops of land or sea in a neutral State, without the previous consent of the latter, is a hostile attack on its national sovereignty. :3. A neutral State may, if it please, permit or grant to belligerents the liberty to raise troops of land or sea within its territory; but for the neutral State to allow or concede the liberty to one belligerent, and not to all, would be an act of manifest belligerent partiality, and a palpable breach of neutrality. 4. The United States constantly refuse this liberty to all belligerents alike with impartial justice ; and that prohibi tion is made known to the world by a permanent act of Congress. 6. Great Britain, in attempting by the agency of her military and civil authorities in the British North American provinces, and her diplomatic and consular functionaries in the United States, to raise troops here, committed an act of usurpation against the sovereign rights of the United States. 6. All persons engaged in such undertaking to raise troops in the United States by the military service of Great Britain, whether citizens or foreigners, individuals or officers, except they be protected by diplomatic privileges, are indictable as malefactors by statute. 7. Foreign Consuls are not exempted, either by treaty or the law of nations, from the penal effect of' the statute. 8. In case of indictment of any such Consul or other official person, his conviction of the misdemeanour, or his escape by reason of arranged instructions or con trivances to evade the operation of the statute, is primarily a matter of domestic administration, altogether subordi nate to the consideration of the national insult or injury to this Government involved in the fact of a foreign Go vernment instructing its officers to abuse, for unlawful purposes, the privilege which they happen to enjoy in the United States. Mexican letters announced the resignation of Alvarez, and the appointment of Comonfort to the Presidency. EAST INDIES AND CHINA. Intelligence from Bombay to the 17th ult., and Calcutta to the Bth. has been received. The Santhal insurrection still continued, and the rebels were committing great depredations. Serious out breaks had also occurred among the Rohillas in the Nizam's dominions, and the religious war in Oude was by no means suppressed. The Governor-General was still at the Neil gherries. THE KING OF WURTEMBURG has conferred the Order of the Crown on Dr. Barth, the African ex plorer. OF THE SULTAN an anecdote is told which exem plifies on one hand his personal good-nature, and on the other proves the singular attention which at this moment is paid to the French at Constantinople. Tavernier, formerly French Consul at Bagdad, visited Constantinople a short time since and revived an old claim which he had against the Government, and which dates as far back as the destruction of the Janissaries, when his house was pillaged and he lost all his property. M. Tavernier visited Achmet Pacha, the brother-in-law of the Sultan, and, while relating the particulars of his loss to him, the Sultan was announced. M. Tavernier went into another room to wait until his Majesty had left, hut in a short time be was sent for, and requested to detail his claims to the Sultan. The interpreter attempted at times to translate what he said into Turkish, but the Sultan stopped him, saying that he understood perfectly well what M. Tavernier said. On the following day the Sultan sent him 800,000 piastres as an indemnity for his losses. LORD OLANRICARDE, in reference to a rumour that Lord Dunkellin was to proceed from the Crimea to India as Secretary to the new Governor-General, has expressly denied the report, and states that his son has no intention of quitting the Crimea at present. A SOLEMN REQUIEM AND MASS for the repose of the souls of the soldiers who have fallen in the Crimea during the last twelve months was performed on Tuesday last at the Roman Catholic Church, Moorfields. Cardinal Wiseman attended on the occasion, and after mass gave a short discourse. A large cenotaph, surmounted with a silver cross, and bearing military trophies and the flags of France and England, was erected outside the altar rails, and at the conclusion of his discourse the Cardinal pro ceeded round the cenotaph giving absolution to the souls of the dead. The church was crowded by a large and influential congregation, THE PRESS. Court anb SasOn. The Court remains at Windsor for the present, no change being intended until after the visit of the King of Sardinia. His Royal Highness Prince Albert arrived in town on Tuesday morning, and visited the studios of Baron Marochetti and Messrs. McDowal and Bailey, to in spect their works. The Queen and Prince, attended by the Duchess of Atholl, Major. General ion. C. Grey, and Captain Du Platt, left Windsor on Thursday morning, for Aldershott camp. Her Majesty, on arriving at the camp, was received by General Knollys and the staff, and inspected the different regiments, drawn out near their respective quarters. The Queen returned to Windsor Castle at half•past five p.m. Her Majesty also intends to visit the hospital and barracks at Chatham, this day, to inspect the wounded. The visit of the King of Sardinia, accompanied by Count Cavour and a numerous suite, to this country has given occasion fur the most exten sive preparations being made for his Majesty's reception at Windsor Castle. The King will inhabit the same suite of apartments occupied in the spring by the Emperor and Empress of the French—viz., the Rubens room, the King's Closet, the King's Council Chamber, and the Zuccarelli and Vandyke rooms. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, at, tended by the Hon. Colonel Macdonald, and Colonel Tyrwhitt, left town on Tuesday morning, for Paris. The Royal Duke reached the Tuileries on Wednes day, and was present at the ceremony of closing the Exposition. The Duke of Rutland has derived considerable benefit from his visit to St. Leonard's on-Sea. Lord John Manners, M.P., is still staying with the noble duke. The Marquis of Winchester is to be married to the Hon. Mary Montagu, daughter of Lord Rokeby, at St. James's Church, on the 24th inst. Mr. Locke, M.P., continues to progress very favor ably from the results of his late accident. The Right Hon. B. Disraeli, and Mrs Disraeli, are on a visit to Baron and Baroness de Rothschild, at Gunnersbury park. The Bishop of London continues to progress, though slowly, towards recovery from his late severe attack Mr. A. Stafford, M.P., left for Naples on the Bth, in the Vatican, French postal steamer. The• Bishop of Gloucester has been suffering from a severe attack of illness during the week. His lord ship is stated now to be out of danger. The Earl of Lucan arrived in town on Wednesday from Castlebar, and left on Thursday for his seat at Laleham, near Staines. Lady Emmeline Wortley, according to letters from Beyrout, was very ill at that place, and not expected to live. She and her daughter have been travelling in Syria during the hottest summer months ; their maid died of a coup de soleil; two or three different servants and couriers were obliged to leave their ser vice from their inability to stand the fatigues of tra velling in the hot season ; the daughter had a coup de solei 1, and Lady Emily, after having dislocated her leg at Jerusalem, had suffered from intermittent fever, and was suffering from dysentery. COMMISSIONERS FROM FRANCE, ENGLAND, AND TURKEY are shortly to proceed to Bucharest in order to investigate the present position of affairs in the principalities. Great preparations are being made for their reception, and ten thousand ducats have been placed by the Porte at the disposal of Prince Stirby to meet the necessary expenses. The corn missioners, on their arrival, will immediately corn mence taking efficient measures to meet the require ments of the principalities. A BELGIAN NAVY 1$ about to be created. A com mission, of which the Count de Flandre is the presi• dent, hare examined the project, and have lately visited the maritime establishments near Antwerp. The commission intend to propose to the Chambers to vote from five to six millions of francs for the first year, and from three to four for the following years, in order to commence by building some large steamers and gun-boats. THE AUTHORITIES OF HAMBURG have instituted new proceedings against parties enlisting for the Foreign Legion. Several peisons have been arrested, and among others the captain of the steamer Heligoland, who has taken many persons to the English recruiting depot. lie has been placed in solitary confinement. THE DANISH MINISTRY are said to have demanded that Prince William Frederick be excluded from the succession to the throne, for refusing to sign the new Constitution. Denmark, it is thought, is not unlikely to give up her neutrality, in order to engage the Western powers to confirm this change in the Tine of succession, 1093 'Dcttings. SIR JOHN YARDE BULIXR, BART., at the South Devon Agricultural Meeting, at ASHBURTON, last made a few remarks upon the subject of week, agricultural statistics, which, the hon. baronet observed, was a subject well worthy of consideration, and, in effect., not likely to expose the extent of a farmer's property too freely to the Government : He knew there was a feeling abroad that the system would bring the property of farmers too disagreeably under the surveillance of the Government. (A voice—" No, no.") He (Sir J. Buller) would agree with the gentleman that it would not have that effect ; but even supposing that it would, the Government was not a despotic Government, and what harm could it do to be in possession of the de sired information? They were all represented in Parlia ment by members of their (the people's) own selection, and they (the represeutatives) would do their duty, and protect the public from any sinister use of the statistics : and if they did not perform that duty, they were amenable to their constituents for their conduct. (Hear, bear.) But it would be desirable that first the subject should be dis cussed in the country at large—it should, to use a vulgar expression of the day, be " ventilated " throughout the community. They might then candidly weigh the objec tions against the advantages of adopting the system, and if, as he was inclined to think, they should find that the hitter preponderated over the former, then they should set about devising some plan by which the statistics might be fairly and honestly laid before the country. In conclusion, the hon. baronet observed that ho believed if correct agricultural statistical returns were at present to be procured, the difficulties which the existing high price of corn tended to create among the poorer classes would be easily explained; and while declining to prejudice his hearers one way or other by the expression of his decided opinion, Sir John Buller remarked that he would be happy to hear any objections to the system, and then give his judgment in full. THE WAREHOUSEMEN AND CLERKS' SCHOOLS ANNIVERSARY DINNER took place on Monday even ing. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, who was in the chair, in proposing the "Army and Navy," made a few remarks upon the bravery and fortitude which our army had displayed in the Crimea : They would all remember that when privations of every kind—cold, and want of fund and clothing—had re duced the physical strength of that army, yet that its spirit and courage had sustained no diminution. At the battle of lnkermann that spirit and courage had been triumphantly displayed against five and six times the force of those who stood resistless and unconquered upon that hill. (Cheers.) But, however much they might honour the daring of those who had fought these battles, they must still more admire the unabated courage I nd firm discipline of those who went night after night into the trenches with no chance of encountering an enemy face to face and hand to hand, but who stood there exposed to all the danger of the artillery of the enemy, and feeling disease creeping upon them from the cold and wet in which they were placed. (Cheers.) However great had been the courage dis- played by our army in the battles of the Crimea, the ex ample of that fortitude was still higher, and would be honoured to all future time. The noble lord, on proposing the toast of the even ing, " Prosperity to the Schools," spoke at some length mien the objects of the institution, and entered into various details. With regard to the term " working class," Lord John Russell considered the term rather a misnomer, as all classes, more or less, should strive to claim the appellation of a working class. The health of the noble chairman having been proposed, Lord John Russell, in a brief reply, observed that, he should be the last to complain if any person present, or if the whole country, should differ from him. There was no use in our free institutions if men were not to form their own opinions. He would only say that in all the opinions he had expressed his chief object and reward had been the welfare of the country. Totally mistaken, no doubt, he had been on many occasions, but he had always said on those occasions, "If I am wrong, lea the opinion of the coun•ry set me right and direct me." Meanwhile, all be could do was to follow his best judgment, and to thank them fur the kind acceptance of his name. (Cheers.) Other toasts followed, and, before the noble lord left the chair, the total amount of subscriptions nearly reached 1,1001. AT the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of the new National Schools at Luni.oiv, last week, the Very Rev. the Dean of Hereford preached a brief sermon on the occasion, and made a few remarks upon the subject of the " Education of the Labouring Classes." Having adverted to the variety of talents and gifts intrusted to a Christian body, the prea cher remarked that one of the main ditties of a Christian was to give the means of education to the lower classes : Many persons thought that more than reeding and wri- ting was dangerous for working people, but his own expe rience went to show, that the more the lower classes were educated, the better they were fitted to fulfil the offices of life. Some said, " %Vio was the net of so much educa tion?" He would ask, what was the use of so much ignorgiAce ? If okcittiou X 8 LLD sofeguird to society, 1 r