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THE PRESS, NO V EMBER 28, 1857. 1158 • TO CORRESPONDENTS. Lax—We are compelled to postpone tho insertion of this Liter till next week. ft le impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive. Their insertion is often delayed owing to • press of matter, and when omitted, it is frequently from reasons quite inde- We cannot undertake to return_communications of which.we do not avail ourselves. A4vertisements sent from the country must ho accompanied by a remittance or a reference for payment in town. pendent of the merits of the communication. Vominunicationa should always be legibly written, and on one side of the paper only. If long it increases the difficulty of finding space for them. Whatever is intended for insertion mustbe authenticated by the name and address of the writer, not necessarily for publics. tion. but WI • guarantee of his good faith. TERI'S OF SUBSCRIPTION FOB ebe lOrtss: , STAIIPID Per Annum Half Yearly.. Quarterly .. PAYABLE IN ADVANCE. Subscribers are requested to send their orders through News Aiwa; if direct to the Office, accompanied by a remittance Hdvertisementa also must have a reference or remittance oney Orders to be made payable to Mr. ALFRED IVE, 11.0 gtrand, London. .. AI _6 0 :: 013 0 .„ 0 6 6 jortign anb Colonial ]nttlligente. - 7 - 1 z p)rtOg+ LONDON, SATURDAY. NOV. •38, 1857. POSTSCRIPT. DEPARTURE OF LORD REDCLIFFE PROM CONSTANTINOPLE. A telegram has been received in town from Con stantinople announcing the probable departure of Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe from that capital, en route for England. THE PRINCIPALITIES. A note has been addressed by the Porte to the powers that signed the Treaty of Paris, intimating that, in consequence of the state of the Danubian principalities, it may become necessary to move a body of troops to the Danube. The Times Paris correspondent on this subject, remarks : The recent concentration of Turkish troops on the right bank of the Danube has given rise to so many reports, that it may be well to give the following reliable informa tion which has been received on the subject. The Porte, being aware that there is a violent political ferment in all those provinces which are inhabited by people of Roumanic and Sciavonic origin, has considered it necessary to place troops en echelon between Silistria and Widin. The report that the Turkish Government has communicated to the great powers its resolve to occupy Wallachia and Moldavia if there should be any disturbances in those provinces is incorrect, but it is probable that it has inquired what steps are to be taken if excesses on the part of the revolutionary faction should render intervention necessary. RUSSIA. Accounts from St. Petersburg represent that a strong feeling is springing up among the Russian landholders against the emancipation of the serfs, and that the Czar, who is under,tood to be firmly bent on it, will find difficulties he is at present little prepared for. AUSTRALIAN MAILS. Ihe Simla has arrived at Suez with 209,338/. in Australian gold, much later advice: from the colo nies, and the missing mail of the Emeu-110 boxes. The Simla's dates are—Sydney, Oct. 11 ; Mel. bourne, Oct. 16 ; K. G. Sound, Oct. 22 ; Galle, Nov. 6; Aden, Nov. 14. The European arrived at Melbourne on the 13th of October. Exchange on England, 11 to 3 per cent. prem. THE EXPECTED OVERLAND INDIA MAILS. The mail packet Vectis reached Marseilles yester day morning, in time for the mails to leave by the twelve o'clock train. The mail will leave Paris by special train this morning, and by special mail packet from Boulogne to Dover, and special train from Dover to London. The mails may hence be expected to arrive in time to be distr►buted in Lon don by the six p.m. delivery, and the country portion to he despatched to their destination by the evening mail trains. OPERATIVE DISTRESS. Ix appears from a return published that in Man chester, out of 233 mills, print-works, dyeworks, machinists' shops, and foundaries, 73, with 10,801 operatives, only are in full employ, whilst 18,136 persons belonging to them are on short time, and 10,394 are totally unemployed. So far the return ; but 10,394 persons destitute of employ, and 18,136 reduced to half a loaf, by no means gives the full measure of distress existing in Manchester through the present unfortunate depression of trade, arising out of the monetary crisis. There are in addition many thousands of fustian cutters and their families —at all times only one remove from pauperism—and hand-loom weavers, mostly working at home or for small masters, whose shops are not included in this return, entirely thrown out of employ. In Rochdale there are 7,835 persons working short time ; and in the district, 7,215 ; giving a total of 15,050, exclusive of 1,427 altogether unemployed. Several mills that, up to last Monday, worked full time are beginning this week to run four days only. The machinists are suffering as much as other branches of trade; for, in some cases, the hands have bean reduced nearly one half, and those at work are so for an average of three and a half days only. In the borough of Stockport (situate partly in Cheshire and partly in Lancashire) there are about 49 mills and workshops, employing about 17,000 people, and of these 35 are either stopped or working short time, and the pressure for relief at the work house has much increased. At Oldham the majority of the largest factories in the town, and the ironworks of Messrs. Platt and Asa and Eli Lees, still continue running short time, in addition to which large numbers of hands in the latter establishments have been altogether sus pended; so that the working classes are beginning to suffer severely. In Middleton and Tonge there is also a great deal of Buttering amongst the operative classes, particularly the silk-weavers, who constitute the bulk of the population of these townships, in consequence of the complete stagnation in the silk trade. At Ashton, Bury, Bacup, Burnley, Bolton, Black burn, Chorley, Accrington, Colne, Wigan all places having large populations—in the same county, the numbers thrown out of employment, of only on half-work, and the distress bears full pro portion to that in Manchester. At Leicester, Carlisle, Whitehaven, Glasgow, and Hamilton distress is also rife among the operatives. At Hamilton his Grace the Duke of Hamilton has urged forward the most active measures of relief, supplied the soup kitchens with bullocks, and sub - scribed 501. to a fund to be raised by a relief com mittee. LORD CLARENDON AND AFRICAN EMIGRATION. A DEPUTATION of the Anti Slavery Society waited upon Lord Clarendon on Tuesday in order to call his lordship's attention to the fatal effects of the new French scheme for obtaining " free African labour " for their West Indian possessions. The deputation, on the authority of authentic reports from the west coast, characterised the scheme av nothing less than open slave-trading, and called upon Lord Clarendon to use every effort to put a stop to so injurious a measure. The Earl of Clarendon is reported to have ex pressed the gratification it afforded him to receive so large and influential a deputation : Such a deputation was very encouraging to the Govern ment, which, he need scarcely observe, was in possession of the fullest information on the subject of this " new system " of obtaining labour : one be did not hesitate to designate as the slave-trade, unmitigated and undisguised. The whole question, however, had been submitted to the consideration of the French Government, which he be lieved had not foreseen that the result of attempts to obtain immigrants from Africa would be the revival of the slave-trade ; and he felt quite sure nothing was further from the wishes or the th)ughts of the Emperor of the French than to reopen this execrated traffic in opposition to the polby of the leading civilised powers, and to the well-known national sentiment of this country. The evils could scarcely be exaggerated that must arise from the checking of the legitimate commerce which, in many parts of the African coast, had totally superseded the trade in slaves, and in others was rapidly extinguishing it. This was a point which bore intimately on the commercial interests of this country, and to the importance of which the Government was fully alive. The deputation would be encouraged to hear that the attempts of the French agent to obtain immigrants had been so unsuccessful, he (Lord Clarendon) thought ho might venture to say that, even on this account, the speculation would be aban doned, at least for the present, and no effort should be spared by the Government to prevent the renewal of a traffic between which and the slave-trade there was no appreciable difference. He assured the deputation of his cordial sympathy with the objects of the Anti-Slavery Society, and his concurrence in the sentiments set forth in the memorial. FRANCE. The Emperor presided at a Council of Ministers held on Thursday at the Tuileries. The resident representatives of the powers who signed the Treaty of Paris met on Thursday at the Foreign-office, to exchange the ratifications of the treaty relative to the boundaries of Bessarabia. M. Dupin is to be installed as Procureur General of the Court of Cassation this day. The speech, which, according to usage, he will pronounce on that occasion, is looked forward to with considerable interest. M. Daubigny, the Government candidate, has been elected in the Sartlie by an enormous majority. He polled 18,000 votes against 4,000 given to M. Jules Fevre. A Pope's bull, authorising certain modifications in the Liturgy, has just been received in Paris, and will be promulgated immediately. The bull ordains the simple substitution of the word " Emperor " for the word " King" in the French prayer•books—a change the Legitimist priests have refused to make in the Domine Salvum. The Bank of France has reduced its rate of discount to seven per cent. for bills having thirty days to run ; eight per cent. for bills of sixty days; and nine per cent. for bills of ninety days. BELGIUM. The new Ministry has issued a manifesto. It is a temperate document, and very completely vindi cates the course taken by the Ministers against the attacks of the Ultramontane party. The policy of the new Government, says M. Rogier, is to be thoroughly national, conservative, and progressive ; and it will preserve the integrity of the rights of the State and the independence of the civil power, while maintaining the separation between public worship and the State, which separation, says the manifesto, "is one of the bases of our wise constitution." This manliest° bears the signature of fourtyfour gentle men who were members of the Chamber of Repre sentatives last session. The pregnancy of the Duchesse de Brabant is now un fait official. The layette of the royal infant has just been bespoken at a magasin in the Rue de la Montagne. THE DANISH DUCHIES. According to the Aftonbladet of Copenhagen, Mr. Ward, the English agent, who has gone through the Duchies to institute a kind of inquiry, has ad dressed a report to Load Palmerston on the result of his mission, in which he proposes a triple solution of the question. The first is to extend the Danish monarchy as far as the Eider, incorporating Schles wig with it, and leaving the Duchies of Holstein and Lauenburg out of it; the second is the division of Schleswig in such a manner as that the southern, or German part, shall be annexed to Holstein, and the northern, or Danish part, incorporated with Denmark; and the third is the union of Schleswig and Holstein in oue State. Mr. Ward declares against the first of these propositions, and recom mends the British Government to choose between the other two. TURKEY AND THE PRINCIPALITIES. Ten battalions of Turkish troops have been con centrated ou the Danube, in the direction of Widin. The Divan ad hoc of Wallachia has decided on declaring its incompetency on the subject of the solution of the questions of the internal organisation of the province. It has also resolved on demanding authorisation to send a representative to the Congress of Paris. A Vienna letter in the Elberfeld Gazette says : Prince Callimaki has lately had several con'erences with Count Buol, during which he declared to him that Ins Government had no intention of occupying the Princi palities with a military force. The assemblage of troops on the frontier had, he said, no other object than to guard against eventualities, and to maintain order in the pro. vines on the right bank of the Danube. On the same subject, the Augsburg Gazette, under its Vienna head, says : The existence of a confidential note from Tnrkey, which was delivered at the same time as the second Turkish cir• cular of the 28th ult., appears to be admitted. In it the Porte calls attention to the necessity of taking measures of ptecaution in a military point of view. It is, in fact, known that Turkey has already adopted some measures of the kind. Redschid Paella has forwarded to the representa tives of the different powers a memorandum, in which he claims from foreign ships an addition' due for the maintenance of lighthouses. Against this demand the Embassies protest. A circular note from M. Manteuffel of October 10th reflects strongly upon the conduct of the Porte in renewing its protests against the political union of the Principalities. F