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1142 This proud consciousness, however, imposes upon me the duty, while abiding faithfully by obligations already con• tracted, not to enter into further engagements, the political and military liabilities of which are not to be estimated beforehand. In the attitude assumed by Prussia, Austria and Ger many behold a valid security for the further maintenance of that independent position which is equally conducive to the attainment of an equitable and lasting peace, and com patible with sincere good wishes for all. Count Munster's mission to St. Petersburg has given rise to the Constitutionnel of Paris asserting that Prussia was making every effort to bring about peace. This assertion has been met by an emphatic contra diction in the Correspondatwe Prussienne. The Paris correspondent of the Daily News gives the following version of the origin of Count Munster's mission : About two months ago notes were exchanged between M. de Manteuffel and Count Nesselrode on the subject of a pacific issue of the Oriental conflict. These notes having led to no practical result, it is affirmed that an autograph letter was addressed to the Czar by King Frede rick William. It was shortly after the letter was written that Count Munster, having received special instructions from Berlin, saw the Czar many times, and conversed with him privately, representing the desire of Prussia to see him pursue a less inflexible policy. Afterwards, Count Munster asked his Government for permission to join the Czar, and press him more closely, circumstances appearing favorable for negotiation. TURKEY AND THE PRINCIPALITIES. Ministerial changes of some importance are ex #►acted shortly at Constantinople. Redschid Pacha is spoken of as the new Grand Vizier, while Ali Pacha is to take the War Department, vice Ruschdi Pacha, who retires. Lord Stratford de Radcliffe, accompanied by the Duke of Newcastle, had an interview on the 14th ult. with the Sultan, who received them very cordially. It was the first reception accorded to Lord Stratford since the confirmation of Ali Pacha to the office of Grand Admiral. The principalities at present are the subject of a lively diplomatic correspondence between the Western powers, Anst ia, and the Porte : It has been stated (writes the Times correspondent from Vienna) that the English and French Governments are inclined to place Wallachia and Molders under the sceptre of a sovereign taken from one of the European princely houses, but to this plan neither Austria nor Turkey is likely to consent. The Porte would probably like to place some Fanariote at the head of affairs, and Austria will strain every nerve in order to keep the present Hospodars in office until peace is concluded. The Western powers are desirous to settle the question of the reorganisation of the principalities during the winter, but Austria is of opinion that it would be better to leave it in suspense until the war is at an end. M. Turr's arrest had been followed by a violent outrage at Tergowitz by an Austrian offi'er against a French surgeon, Dr. Schranum, in the Wallachian service. The French Consul at the place had made a most energetic remonstrance to General Lalle mand, who commands at Bucharest in the absence of Count Coronini, and the affair threatened to lead to rather serious consequences. RUSSIA. The return of the Emperor and Grand Dukes to St. Petersburg, and the sudden departure of the Minister of War to Moscow, had caused the liveliest sensation in the capital. Moscow was to be fortified, and, in addition to the militia of the empire, a second force, called the Rear-Ban, was to be immediately raised. The Northern Bee publishes an article on the chances of Russia in the continuation of the war; it is entitled "The war is only beginning," and is pre ceded by some lines of Kutusoff on the burning of Moscow as a motto. A letter from the Russian frontier, dated the 22nd, in the Cologne Gazette, says : The Russian Government is chiefly engaged in three objects—the construction of railways and of steamers, and the manufacture of Minis rifles ; adding to these measures the enormous military levies, and the rapidity with which the organisation of the militia proceeds, it becomes evident that we must not give too much credit to the rumours of negotiations which are so constantly heard, but rather conclude that Russia is preparing for a long and obstinate contest. A telegraphic despatch from Berlin, dated Novem ber 29, states that the Grand Duke Constantine has been betrothed to the Princess Alexandra, daughter of Peter Prince of Oldenburg. SWEDEN AND DENMARK. Sweden and Denmark will continue to permit the exportation of corn. General Canrobert left Stockholm for Copenhagen on the 20th. The gallant general was accompanied to the frontier by the King's aide de-camp. General Canrobert, on his arrival at Copenhagen on the 23rd, met with a magnificent reception from the people and Prince Ferdinand. On the 26th he was received by the King, and, after being treated THE PRESS. with the highest distinction, embarked on the 29th for Kiel, en route to Paris. SPAIN. The Parliamentary Committee on the Tariffs have declared in favour of free trade. The case of a Guarda Costa, having fired into and attempted to capture a British vessel almost under the guns of Gibraltar, has been the subject of a strong protest on the part of Lord Hoyden. GREECE. The Greek Chargé d'Affaires at Paris has re ceived orders from his Government to make the fol lowing statement on the subject of the late visit of the King and Queen of Greece to the Russian Church at Athens :—" The visit of their Hellenic Majesties to the Church of SL Nicodimos had merely an artistical object, and was solely of a private character." UNITED STATES. Dates from New York to the 14th have arrived. The November elections had terminated generally in favour of the Know Nothings. In Maryland they carried the city of Baltimore, and also the State. In Massachusetts, although opposed by the Whigs, the Democrats, the Anti-Liquor Law party, and the Republicans, they electefl a large majority of the Legislature and their Governor by 15,000 votes over every other candidate ; and in the State of New York they have prevailed by a majority of from 15,000 to 20,000 votes over the Republicans, 35,000 over the Soft Democrats, and 00,000 over the Herds. A Le gislature strongly Anti-Republican is elected, and the advocates of a separate Northern party are put hors de combat for a year to come. The present state of relations between our Govern ment and the United States upon the question of the Central American Treaty, which Lord Palmerston has so interpreted as to nullify its effect, is thus stated by the New York Journal of Commerce:— Mr. Secretary Marcy, weary of the unavailing delay, caused an ultimatum to be submitted to the British Government, whose rejection, he declared in substance, would effect the annulment of the treaty. That ultimatum is said to be embodied in the following propositions :- 1. The treaty of 1850 binds the United States and Great Britain equally not to colonise, fortify, or in any respect acquire or appropriate Central America, or any part of it. The American Government is bound by that stipulation not to seek to annex those States, nor to sub vert their independence. This obligation will be faithfully observed. 2. The obligation is mutual. It has been violated by Great Britain in occupying the Bay Islands, and in refusing to surrender, by a distinct act of the Government, the pro tectorate formerly asserted and exercised over the Mosquito coast. 3. A perfectly good understanding between the countries requires that these causes of disagreement be removed. To that end this Government proposes the discontinuance of the above colony, and the formal relinquishment of the protectorate. As an alternative to the rejection of these propositions, this Government would consider herself released from the equivalent obligations, and would pro. ceed to treat with the Governments of the Central American States precisely as if the treaty had not been formed. The American papers generally regarded the in crease of the English fleet as a reflection upon America which ought not to be passed over in silence; but the commercial confidence of the States did not seem at all disturbed. INDIA AND CHINA. The mail, with dates from Calcutta of the 22nd of October; Bombay, 2nd of November; Hong. Kong, 15th of October; Canton, 12th ; and Shanghae, the Bth of October, arrived at Trieste from Alexan dria on the 27th. The Santhals had broken out with greater force than before, and martial law had been proclaimed. In China the Imperialists had been defeated by the Revolutionists. TEE POPE has created a resident Cardinal, in the person of Mgr. Villecourt, Bishop of La Rochelle. The new Cardinal is stated to be noted for his piety and learning, and to be a personal friend of the Pope. GENERAL CANROBERT, who was present at the an- nual sitting of the Royal Academy of Military Sci ences of Sweden, in company with the two sons of the King, has been elected foreign member of that body. COUNT CAvoun, during his stay in London, will, it is stated, endeavour to make the preliminary ar rangements for the negotiations of the new loan of thirty millions, at present under consideration of the Sardinian Chambers. THE OPENING OF THE SOUND CONFERENCES has been adjourned for a short period, until tho Minister of the United States receives his instructions. The Danish Government does not appear to place any great confidence in the success of its proposed scheme, SATURDAY, Crud anb lastitin. Her Majesty and the Court have remained at Windsor during the week, where preparations have been hurried forward with every despatch for the reception of the King of Sardinia. Her Majesty, accompanied by Prince Albert, and attended by the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, the Hon. Flora Macdonald, Major-General the Hon. Charles Grey, and Captain du Plat, left Windsor by a special train of the South-Western Railway at ten o'clock on Wednesday morning for Chatham. On arriving at Strood her Majesty was received by Colonel Eden, commanding the garrison, who conducted the Qneen and Prince the hospitals of Fort Pitt and Brompton, when her Majesty inspected a large number of invalids, and returned to the castle in the afternoon. , His Highness the Maharajah Duleep Sing (attended by Sir John Login), Viscount and Vis countess Hardinge, Colonel Sir Thomas Trou- bridge, and General Sir James Simpson, arrived on Thursday, on a visit to her Majesty. The dinner party in the evening included her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, with the guests at the castle. The Duke of Richmond remains at Brighton until the departure of the principal portion of the Royal Sussex Light Infantry Militia, of which corps his Grace is colonel, for Chichester. Lord and Lady John Russell, with his lordship's son and daughter, paid a visit on Thursday to Dr. and Mrs. Humphreys at the Cheltenham Grammar School. The Bishop of London lies in a very precarious state. His lordship's life is considered in danger. His Excellency the Marquis D'Azeglio, Sardinian Minister at the Cuurt of St. James, left town on Wed nesday for Dover, to be in readiness to receive the King of Sardinia. The Marquis de Cambry has left the Clarendon for Paris. The Earl and Countess of Wilton, Lady Katherine Grey Egerton, and the Hon. Captain and Lady Elizabeth De Ros, have arrived in Grosvenor•terrace, from Melton Mowbray. Mrs. Willoughby Moore, Lady Superintendent of the officers' hospital at Scutari, and widow of the late distinguished Colonel Moore, who perished in the Europa, has lately died at Scutari from the effects of diarrhoea and fever. THE NEW CONCORDAT is regarded so unfavorably in Germany, that the heads of the Church have ordered their subordinates to act with extreme circumspec- tion, and gradually to accustom their flocks to the new order of things. The clerical party make every effort to prove it is the death-blow of the revolutionary party in Italy, but the people regarJ it more as a precursor of the certain downfal of the Austrian empire. M. OLOZACIA, Minister of the Interior in Spain, with reference to his late quarrel in the Cabinet, has de. dined to withdraw his resignation. The Queen has refused to accept it, and it is expected that a pacifica tion between M. Olozaga and the Minister for Foreign Affairs will be ultimately arranged. M. DE LESSEPS, with the members of the Inter national Commission for exploring the Isthmus of Suez, has left Marseilles for Alexandria. The Pacha of Egypt has ordered every preparation to be made for their reception at Alexandria and Cairo. The line of the canal from Suez to Peluze is marked out, and the borings are said to have proved the subsoil to be favorable to the operation. M. DE GOPCEVICH of Trieste, who, it will be remembered, was announced as having obtained the permission of the Russian authorities to load vessels with corn in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azoff not withstanding the war, upon arriving at Odessa dis covered that the Russian Government would not permit the export of grain. THE EMPEROR ALEXANDER in his late visit to the southern provinces of his empire is said to have personally satisfied himself of the way matters aro carried on in the various departments of the army, and several important "radical administrative changes" are spoken of as about to take place. Notwithstanding the war, active preparations are also being made to unite the different parts of the empiro by a network of railways, the Russian Government intending, it is said, to grant concessions to foreign companies for this purpose. SIR HAMILTON SEYMOUR, according to letters from Vienna, was expected to arrive in about ten days at that capital. His Excellency has engaged a new residence for the Embassy. THE PRUSSIAN GOVERNMENT addressed energetic remonstrances to Austria upon the case of the Pastor Borzinski, who was lately arrested in Austria for having quitted the Catholic Church and embraced the Protestant faith. Before these remonstrances, warmly supported by the English Ambassador at Vienna, could have resulted in much, Borzinski, while closely confled in a monastery, happily effected • his Gesso, and is now safe in Prussia. qp.,.... ,....7. - ....y.