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nies of a measure which is the law of the land ? dares to question their .• oyalty,—no man dark Aim their fidelity to thei overei g n ; an d, n et loyalty and fidelity, they a bound to respect', espect, the laws which are forced in the Kt e. Why, therefore, are they slandered by att slave, who has, for many years, howled in the 1 , very minister ? Oh, the thing is plain enough : bedience to orders. The noble premier wished 0 1 is needy creatures to be returned, and the peel land spurned the proposition. The reforming it—the pure whig—the non-interfering earl' :sman who delights in independence and a free assed suffrage—yes, murder will out—has been ig with the noble electors, and has failed, eithet or threat, to soften or intimidate the peers of rrood. The noblemen returned are the most Lent peers of Seotland. All the needy, all the all the M‘Sarcasms have been rejected, and he 'ulgar threats and the inflated insolence of the tt journalist. One word more, and we have done. less of this overbearing and revolutionary J . ( d be more conducive to the interests of our moil triporary. Men of all ranks are sick of it. It evil Tow and malignant feeling. It is easy to print 1 in the shape of an attack on the peerage, but , • who makes the attack is not invulnerable. repay the insolence,—but—pshaw !—it is not NO chile.—Guardian and Public Ledger. IRELAND. e proclamation of Mr. O'Connell, for so we 13 ;to "the people of Ireland," is a "state paper' dinary importance, emanating as it does, in nt alarming crisis of Irish affairs, from the hea Ecient executive of that country—under whos y a sort of national convention is now assemble Vwith the patriotic intenti on o f re li ev i ng the]) iceroy and his Privy Council from the ono of government. would be ludicrous enough, if the consequefl not too melancholy to become a subject of mil serve in the work of Irish agitation, the Si one day throwing the firebrand among the peol he next plying the water engine, as if with anxious solicitude to extinguish the flames wb d been too successful in kindling. This two-I the Irish " Liberator " performs with an enel :onsistency that would appear but dramatic hyp f introduced in a farce ; yet to those who look he surface of things it is but an apparent inconsi When Mr. O'Connell perceives that his agitatJ ies have wrought the feelings and passions of I ice to a high degree of excitement, and that it than probable they will expose .themselves to t rs of reducing seditious theory into practice, he p! character of " pacificator." He issues prod is to authorise obedience to the laws of the 10 the very sedatives which he applies by the way iracting his own stimulating potions there is alwrs iing so exciting, that the draught, which is present avowed purpose of producing repose, often e tes the delirium of the distracted patient. 11 1 esent proclamation, to pacify the rural disturbs "Green Isle," keeps perpetually in view the it topic of the repeal of the legislative Union the attainment of which, except by force, he el w is not practicable, and therefore it is vain to violence while that object is kept in view, iy consider tantamount to a dismemberment of tJ empire. be it from us to believe that• Mr. O'Connell tak asure in the dreadful scenes that now disgrace ,e the greater and fairer portions of his county , st assuredly the progress of rural outrages ke ith the energy of his agitation. Since the reb 1798 Ireland has never been in so excited and la tate as it is at present, although the great tneasu ncipation, which was said to be the panacea o f t Ireland, has removed all those galling religio litical distinctions which Mr. O'Connell and • agitators used to describe as the great cause 3ontent of the otherwise loyal, faithful, and peace'` nan Catholic population. It i s remar k a bl e eno u ;port time before that sudden conversion of If Wellington and Sir Robert Peel to the doctrin emancipationists, which will be the wonder of hi, to " Catholic Association" u se d as an argumer, it of their claims, the histori c al f ac t, th a t th e Bu ttholics gave their co-operation to the Engli r in carrying the measure of the Union ! 111 t does Mr. O'Connell now say ? Hear him in * cation. " I am infinitely more anxious for tb )f the Union than I was for Emancipation. M tl anxiety for Catholic Emancipation was becaus, ;sarilv led the way to a repeal of the Union. will the Duke of Wellington, Sir Robert Peel large proportion of the ben c h o f Bi s h o p s , wb, Pr unqualified concessions as a "healing measures inal measure, say to this confession of the secre Df Mr. O'Connell for pressing claims, the yield ' which, he repeatedly declared, would commal ing gratitude of the Roman Catholi cs , an d la.; ulation of the peace and prosperity of Ireland F admits that he only wished for the settlement ;stion as the stepping-stone to new and more dan agitation 1 eplorable that a man of the acknowledged talen )'Connell, and possessing the almost boundless a which he does over the minds of the great maSi ountryinen, does not exercise those talents and uence to produce the political repose of wind has so much need, and without which it is inr to take those wise and dispassionate measures nprovement of the internal policy of the country' , ould unfold its resources, augment its mean* lope its capabilities forthecomfort and happiness People. , The curse of absenteeism, which is 0 source of the evils of Ireland, is• aggravated q inuance of that agitation in the country whirl 3oth life and property insecure, and not only pre' )ital from flowing into it, but actually drivesawai in of substance, who prefers safety in a foreign he perilous patriotism that would expose him t 9 if terror at home. and great, indeed,.are the abuses to be co rr ectee! ternal polity of Ireland. For centuries no Turk' i nee was worse governed. It was an unhappy' t in the present administration not to have se' medial measures for that country immediately it coming into office. It would not then have essary to have such measures preceded by pour' eat a military force into the country as if, after g dominion there for six centuries, Great Bri , dit necessary to reconquer it. It was also $ le error of government to oppose the proposi . statutable provision for the poor of Ireland, short-sighted policy that preferred the sordid f a few Irish landowners to the general welfare )ple. Much might have been done, also, to give ent to the population of a country where about of the land is yet uncultivated. If experience, the government wiser, we hope Ireland will the substantial proofs fit by such measures 04 ated to withdraw an unemployed and excitable n out of the hands of the agitators, who m ake ;vances the materials on which they erect their rues of desperate and destructive ambition.'" 1 Herald. . . The plac e -hu n ti n g whigs and the-slavish supporters of the [Misters affect much complacency ofmanner with respect ) o the Ireland. Whenever the revolutionary zd tldiej y sitleaframirs of bering proceedings of O'Connell are alluded assume an air of confidence and hauteur , and point Overwhelming majority in favour of Ministers in he n ew P arl i ament. " Th e demagogue and his family," V they, " will have no power or influence in the House ',' Corrunons--their. propositions will be promptly reject - . '-', and the question of repeal set at rest." If these mi- Listerial calculations could be relied upon, the reasoning Pllnded upon them would, to a certain extent, be plausi if ?le enough. But is an overwelming majority in favour the Government a matter of d certainty ? It was only on Monday last that three out of the four members for the city London took orders under the . movement party, and /Wed themselves the advocates of those measures to ich the Ministers, are, decidedly opposed. Messrs. rote, Wood, and Key were the most active partisans r id the most useful tools of Lord Grey's administration wring the passing of the reform bill; but now they have i auled down the ministerial colours, and hoisted the red r rg of independence. They' have separated themselves ? ‘ 4 l the whig admiral,. and cruize on their own account. hey have resolved to fleece Lord Althorp of a portion of 48 Money, although, God knows, the noble lord has none B Pare—to curtail the septennial lease of Parliament , pave the way for universal suffrage and vote by bal -1 It is not these honourable members for the city only [4:l I,'o are in this condition. There are not fewer than "I or sixty English and Scotch representatives who will ,compelled by their constituents and their pledges to Yin the movement faction. These men, with about se enty of the Irish members, independent of the tory par + will form a rather formidable opposition to the mea res of his .Majesty's Ministers. But even admitting that the Government will be able muster a considerable majority, still what would this ount to—what would this settle—if the peace , of the ited kingdom is to be left in peril—is to be continually stracted by the factious and incendiary proceedings of i 'Connell and his gang ? It is now plain to the meanest Rilderstanding that it is not on the floor of the House of 'morons that the battle has to be fought, but in the ' ehis of Ireland. If these demagogues are permitted to 'rganize the peasantry, and form clubs, and enlist volun e,ers, and levy contributions, it is mere silliness to talk 'f the moral force that can be brought against them in e British Parliament. While the members are debat ng, the armies of rebels are at morning and evening drill, 'xtending their ramifications and hammering their pikes. I ti the mean while, the timid measures of the Govern " eat, and the apathy apparently or actually prompted by ear on the part of the executive, only serve to encourage e discontented, and spread far more widely the system (11 terror. O'Connell would tell them that their Saxon °PPressors are willing but afraid to strike—writhing with r age but quailing before the united voices of seven mil lions of people. In this state of things the dead weight °f Ireland upon England would be increased—she would 1 2e a heavier burden to us, and a greater curse to herself. Aot onl would the church be more remorselessly plun dered, and the landlord robbed of his rent, and the indus , t rious farmer murdered merely because he .was industri °its, but an effectual stop would be put to the cultivation ?I' the soil, the green fields would be upturned by nightly bands of savages, and all that is fair and fertile converted 14 to sterility, realizing the fiction of olden times, by mak 111.g barren the foot-marks of the homicide. If this state of insecurity, crime, cruelty, and devasta tion is to be tolerated, even for six months longer, merely b ecause Ministers have an overwhelming majority in the 'louse of Commons, we say at once that it would be laurch better to remove the Protestant population of Ire 'and altogether—much better to send them to Siberia— '_tkd after driving back to their father-land the demoralized hordes of Irish labourers, who eat the . bread of the Eng , 'Jai labourer, and add millions to the amount of the poor ' r ates—it would be much better to cut the painter, dissolve the connection, and leave Ireland to her fate. It would. I be an awful alternative—it would be a measure of sur f Passing enormity and injustice ; but it is a choice of : ! vils-- - --a sacrifice made at the shrine of expediency from hard necessity.—Guardian and Public Ledger. THE PORTUGUESE BUSINESS. The Marquis Palmella has, it appears, resigned his 'unctions and retired from the service of Don Pedro, as almost every man with any pretensions to character had done before him. The partisans of the ex-Emperor are l i,ow reduced to a miserable handful of adventurers , b rench and English, who, cribles de dettes, as our neigh , Ours say, and better known than trusted at home, were DLit too happy to be allowed an entrance into this or any other refuge for the destitute, where testimonials or good character and conduct were neither necessary nor sked for. The Marquis, we have reason to believe, has long felt his position to be anything but an honourable and the attempt on the part of the government of "Porto to make him the instrument of that novel species 0 f imposition, that is, the loan based upon 5000 pipes of Vine, the robbery of which had to be effected, and the i revenues of an island which at some future time was to be stormed and pillaged by the discomfited heroes of "Porto, completed the long catalogue of injuries inflicted. 11 Pon a nobleman long honourably known as well as es tenied in his diplomatic career, and strained to a point Of tension so rigid as at length rudely to snap the cord a sunder,—the ties of devotion and loyalty which, through we and through evil report, had too long bound him to tue fortunes of a weak and wicked prince. The British c abinet , indeed, and notably Lord Palmerston , who was . .e chief hand in getting up the miserable and abortive Ptrigue comically styled the . liberating . expedition to °rtugal, are mainly chargeable with plunging the mar quis into a course of lawless enterprise and dishonorable I b llaehinations. We congratulate the noble marquis on Is emancipation from the odious shackles which have too Ong manacled his energies and compromised his high sending.. among his fellows. He has largely sacrificed ` 0 a high and perhaps chivalrous sense of duty—he has, kith a weakness almost unpardonable in a 'public man , /l o▪ ng surrendered his better judgment to the controul of i nferior minds—he has now made the first step towards ourstin g the bonds which. have enthralled him, and to ,lr.ards redeeming a fame .which nothing so effectually as his late associations could have tarnished. , L Vile fate of the joint adventure of Don Pedro and Lord a• linerston no longer, it may now be considered, trembles in the balance. The beam . has been kicked so heavily that it can h ar dly ri g ht it s elf again. W e know indeed t hat. the noble lord has thrown up his cards, and virtually declared t h at no t a c han ce , r emains for Don Pedro. The f allure is a severe blow, and to a statesman of graver pre tensions would be a mortal. one. But the elasticity of 'tie self-satisfied vanity of the. light-headed, light-heart e(,and light-heeled Foreign Secretary will, we doub t not, I re bound from the shock, and speedily recover its buoyant 411(1 imposing tone. Whether the long abandoned .project for concili atin g a tters and patching Up Portuguese affairs by the mar riage of Don. Miguel with . Donna Maria da Gloria will su cceed or not, it is not now our business to investigate. nere .w - as a time . when such a proposition would have be en welcomed. But it is a question no w whether Sir Str atford Canning, who has at lengt h reached Madrid, backed by Louis Philip with his Brest s q uadron, will be „ , to accomplish it, unless Lea Bermudez can be con ciliated in it s b e half. Our own opinion is , th at Don Mi guel would do well to close with this m eans of terminat ing a harrassing.warfare. He owes a heavy debt of gra- THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. titude to the heroic nation which in his cause has made sacrifices so,enonnous, and has endured miseries so. gall ing, towards the full acquittal of which the immolation of personal feelings and considerations, and the abatement , of certain pretensions, would go but a short way indeed. The Portuguese people have claims upon him which he ought never to forget, and which it would be dangerous as well as base in him to slight for one moment. Don Pedro, it is clear, is. cast overboard by all parties. Well may he exclaim to his allies in Downing-street — God preserve me from my friends !—Guardian and Pub lic Ledger. DELUSIVE POLICY OF RUSSIA. While the powers in the. west of Europe are occupied with the differences between. Belgium and Holland, the Russians have, we understand, been collecting a large naval.and military force at Sebastopol, in the Black Sea. This is the force which they have kindly offered the Porte to employ in defence of Constantinople against the Egyp tian army. The Port has, as we stated yesterday, de clined the offer, and the Russian agent has in conse quence of that refusal gone to Alexandria to negotiate with Mehemet Ali. We understand that one corps of the Turkish army, of 30,000 men, remained unassailed and unbroken in the late conflict. Prince . Metternich's attention is directed to the move ments in Italy, where it is continually feared that in con sequence of the mis-government of the Pope, a revolution will break out, which may endanger the Austrian pos sessions. England and France are still occupied with the affairs of Holland and Belgium, and while this con tinues to be the case the Emperor of Russia sees no pro • bability of interference either from Austria, England, or France, in the prosecution of such plans as may be sug, B by the present movements in Turkey. . Politicians who b have long watched the movements of Russia with suspicion do not hesitate to declare their opinion that the possession of Trebizond, and an island in the Medi terranean with a good harbour, are the objects in view. If these opinidns should prove to be well-founded, it will not be difficult to account for some of the recent proceed ings of the Russian agents in foreign countries.—Globe. The following is part of a leading article in this clay's Times : "Wc are quite aware that Russian influence and intrigue, which are at work almost everywhere in. the south of Europe as as well as in the north,—in the east as well as in the west,—are not idle at Constantinople. We are fully apprised that the government of the autocrat is looking with pleasure in the present divisions of the. Turkish empire,—that Roman diplomacy has advised the legitimate Sovereign of the Sublime Porte not to treat with his insurgent Pacha,--and. that the Russian eagle it again prepared to take a flight across the Danube, under Pre tence of scaring the Egyptians from .the prey on which he him self is ready to pounce. But such a hypocritical pretext for intended usurpation must not be allowed, and we have little doubt that France arla England have already come to an under standing to protect the integrity of the Turkish empire, or at least to preventits,dismemberment by Russian ambition," So ministers have at length discovered that the conse quences of the violation of the Treaty of Vienna in the cases of Poland and Belgium are beginning to develope themselves—they find that for the erection of the valu able kingdom of Belgium, so particularly valuable to Great Britain, all they have to pay [in addition to a few millions of money] is, the ruin of the gallant Polish nation, and the gift of Turkey to Russia. Great Britain and. France—what can Great Britain and France, sup posing her to be honest, which she is not, and never was what can Great Britain and France do to prevent the march of a Russian army to Constantinople .with the ap probation of the Sultan ? . • The time to curb Russia was-during. the Polish-war ; but then we were protocolling, and the Emperor Nicholas was quite willing' to let us indulge in that innocent pas time. Russia will now have all that,she ever wanted to render her the naval rival of England, an open to the Mediterranean. , Perhaps Lord Grey will send, as he did once before, an expedition to. the Dardanelles. — Standard. BAVARIA. MUNICH, Jan. 16.—We learn from Naples, that his Majesty King Otho, and his Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Ba varia, arrived there on the 3d January. On the 14th, the corps of troops enlisted for the Greek ser vice took the oaths of allegiance on the sword of the commander, and at nine on the morning of the 15th it set out on its march for Trieste. (The troops already embarked at Trieste were se lected from the regular army. Those spoken of are volunteers.) The Greek squadron of Hulans formed the tan; the infantry, consisting of two companies of grenadiers, the centre; and the artillery the rear. A regular post between Bavaria and Greece will soon be es tablished by means of an English steam-boat. The letters may be sent every three weeks (by way 'of Trieste and Ancona al* ternately,) from Napoli to Bavaria, and vice versa. The convoy with Bavarian troops, which sailed from Pesano on the sth instant, consists of 35 transports, '23 under Austrian, and .12 under Greek colours only.; three were still remaining on the Bth, in the harbour of Trieste. They are under convoy of the Madagascar, English frigate, Capt. Lyons, the Cornelie, French frigate,- and the Russian frigate Anna, Captain Sabin arwoff.. The Commander-General, Van Herding, is on board the latter. The Madagascar has steered direct - to Brindin, to take on board his Majesty King Otho, and the Greek regency. —Nuremberg Correspondent, Jan. 18. SPAIN. Accounts have been received in London, by way of Paris,. . 1 of the sailing of two ships of war on the sth instant, from Cadiz, with sealed orders, on which a good deal of conjecture has been exercised. Some have imagined that they are to enforce the order said to have been given at Madrid some time back for admiral Sartorius and his squadron to quit the port of Vigo, .while others, who have an interest in viewing the affair in a light favourable to liberty in Portugal, have assigned them the Tagus for a destination, and concluded that they are meant to enforce the mediation which is understood to have been proposed on the part of Spain, France and England. The fact, however, is all that can be relied on in this case; - the commentary on it only proves the anxiety which is raised in the city on the affairs of Portugal, now presumed to ,be drawing to a crisis. The letters from Madrid which came with the above are of the 11th instant. Sir Stratford Canning having only just arrived could not have entered on the important objects of his. mission. He had, however, an interview with Lord Hervey, then recently returned from Lisbon, and received his repbrt relative to the prospects of the offered mediation in the affairs of Portugal. ft appears that the resignation of M. 'Lea Ber mudez had not been accepted, and that that Minister remained in office, with every likelihood of continuance. He did not possess, however, a paramount influence, but shared it with his colleague, the Count Ofalia. The overthrow of the recent miserable attempts at insurrection on the part of the Carlists had given great strength to Ferdinand's Government. The course taken, at least ostensibly, in regard to Portugal, was Presumed to spring more from the desire not to irritate that party than from the real feeling of the Court of Madrid, and, on the whole, there is nothing in these accounts to threaten a check to the progress of improvement in Spain.' Accounts from Madrid represent that city as perfectly tran- More arrests had taken place, of persons implicated in the late Carlist conspiriacy which broke out at Toledo. It is said to have originated within the walls of the palace at Ma drid. Two of the Chamberlains of Don Carlos have been arrested; and papers have been found upon them, the contents of which have implicated several other persons of distinction ; among whom are the Conde de Negri, General Maroto, and - Otal y Villela—a member of the Council of Castile. The Queen has acted throughout with considerable energy. One of the guilty Chamberlains, Don Sacaneb, has been tried, but ,the sentence was not known.—The health of the King was very indifferent. Don Carlos disavows, of course, all connection with the conspirators, and keeps aloof from the Court. One of the principal Ministers, the Count Ofalla opposed the calling together of the Cortes, and he was supported by the:King ' - and thus, for the present, there seems to be little likelihood of a Constitutional government being established in Spain, notwith . 'standing the late defeat of the " Apostolicals."—These parti culars are extracted from the Correspondence of the Morning Herald. RUSSIA. The Augsburg Gazette, of the 18th instant, contains the follow. ing of the 13th from Vienna:—" It is asserted that the Count de St. Aulaire wishes to remain at Rome, and will not accep . the embassy to our court. Marshal Maison has, it is said, de. clued all diplomatic employment for the future, as he prefers a post in the army. Letters from Semlin state that the Ru ssian eneral Muravieff, who has arrived on a mission at Constanti nople, is furnished with extensive powers for the purpose of intervening between the Porte and the Paella of Egypt, and also of calling to the immediate assistance of the former a con siderable number of troops and vessels, in case the Sultan should require aid. It is thought, however, that the Porte, in consequence of the late retrograde movement of the Egyptians, will be able to resist their further advance. A great many troops are collected at Constantinople to be sent to Asia. Should the Grand Vizier be able to maintain his present posi tion, he will be safe, as he will shortly receive reinforcements from Rumelia and the fortresses on the Danube. It is well known that the best Ottoman troops are always placed along the Danube, on account of the vicinity of Russia. But now, Russia being looked upon by the Sultan as a friend and pro tectress, a part of those troops can be safely removed. The mission of General Muravieff will, at all events, have a favour able influence upon the affairs of Turkey; for, even in case that direct assistance from Russia should not be required, the offer of it contributes towards the consolidation of friendly relations with the court of St. Petersburg, and encompasses the Porte, in the opinion of the people, with a powerful guard." In another number of the Augsburg Gazette it has been stated that the principal object of M. Pozzo di 1361-go's journey to England was to induce the British Government to consent to the incorporation of Wallachia and Moldavia with the Russian empire, the final possession of these two principalities being claimed by the Emperor of Russia, in consequence of the Sul tan's failure in fulfilling that part of the last treaty of peace which bound him to the payment of a certain sum of money by instalments, and authorised. the Russians to maintain military occupation of the two principalities until payment of the whole was effected. If there is any truth in this statement, the visit of M. Muravieff to the Ottoman capital is more likely to refer to claims not agreeable to the Turkish Government, than offers of rendering it a friendly service at a moment of distress. It is certain that the Sultan has not yet paid the last instalment to Russia, by which he has in a great measure forfeited his claim to the repossession of Wallachia and Moldavia, and there would be nothing surprising in the Russian Government's desire to avail itself of the forfeiture, after all the great efforts of Russia within the last hundred years to make the Danube its frontier, from the Black Sea to the extremity of the. Carpathians, near Belgrade. But the difficulty of so doing at this moment does not consist in objections on the part of the British, so much as that of the Austrian Government. l'he Court of Austria, , though it has long ago considered as inevitable the annexation of M6l davia and W' allachia to Russia, has always most decidedly ob jected to its own eastern frontiers being.entirely surrounded by Cossacks. If it yields to such an evil when there is no longer any possibility of keeping it off, Austria would not fail to stipu late for an indemnity, by the appropriation of Servia, or some other adjacent province; but as, under existing circumstances, there is no pretext for any such partition, means will probably be sought to satisfy the claims of Russia, or at least to put oil the calamity with which the Sultan is threatened on the Eu ropean side of his empire.—Paris Correspondent of the Times. k:xtract of a letter of the 31st ult. from Odessa :—" Orders have been transmitted to Admiral Greig to fit out a fleet in the Black Sea, to consist of 36 vessels and 0,000 men. It is thought that this considerable and expensive expedition is destined to act against Mehemet Ali, and that it is organised with the con sent of the other powers. In order to further the equipment of the fleet, the Government has despatched General Muravieff to Sebastopol. He hastens the armament so much that the men are obliged to work a part of the night, both at Sebastopol and Nicolaef. As the river Bug is frozen over, provisions are con veyed by carts, which causes a great expense. Old sailors, dis charged from the service long since, have again been engaged, from the scarcity of men to complete the crews of the vessels. Foreign sailors, who are willing to enter the service, receive high pay. Admiral Greig will have the command of the fleet, although another admiral is said to be on his way from the Bal- tic. It is reported that he is either to supply the place of Ad. miral Greig at Sebastopol, during his absence, or to proceed immediately on a mission to Constantinople with a frigate and two brigs. Besides the Neva steamer, which has been refitted, two other steamers, recently built at Nicolaef, are-destined for a regular passage between the Russian ports and Constanti nople. Count Woronzow, who set out a- few days back for Bessarabia, is to pass through Nicolaef for the purpose of in specting the preparations for the expedition—Timei. /:‘G=L;EGS 2UNITELLIGEE'CIiij. HOLLAND AND BELGIUM. ANTWERP, JAN. 18.—Strangers continue to come in Brea number to our city to visit the citadel and the works of the besiegers. Yesterday morning at ten o'clock some Belgian workmen were employed in raising the dike of the Polder of Calloo opposite Liefkenshoek. The fort fired three guns ; two of ours placed near the spot answered, by firing at the fort, which-ceased firing after the ninth shot. We fired eight, and had neither killed nor wounded. It is reported in the City, that our ministers have notified to the King of the Netherlands that they will compel him to open the Scheldt. This may be true, but we suppose that his Majesty will not attend to such notification unless the embargo is taken of 1; if even then.—London. Standard. Le Phare (of Antwerp) says, "We arc informed that an American ship, bound to Antwerp, is now detained at Flushing by the Dutch. The captain has repeatedly demanded to be allowed to proceed to Antwerp; but it seems he has been told that could not yet be, but he might go to Ostend or any other port. He has refused, and is said to have protested against the illegality of the measure."—Brussels papers, Jan. 21. FoRT Lim,o, Jan. 17.—Our situation here continues the same, except that we are again surrounded by military posi tions occupied by an ignoble enemy. They are strengthening their posts, and approach nearer the forts, particularly at night. Yesterday they were at Geslecht; we thought we saw them at work, but a few shots from Liefkenshoek soon made them take their usual part. This morning, at eleven o'clock, these heroes seemed to resume their task, and some twenty pounders were immediately fired at them. They returned our fire, from six pounders, and one of their balls fell into bastion No. 3, and another lodged in the breast work, but did no damage; the firing soon ceased. The division of gun boats under the com mand of Capt. Ketjen, which had taken its winter 'position in the channel of this fort, has again returned to its former posi tion on the Scheldt between Litlo and Liefkenshoek. Nothing can be 'more admirable than the excellent and. indefatigable spirit and disposition of the garrison,Uotvvithstanding the haras sing service.—llandelsblad (Dutch paper.) THE HAGUE, Jan.2o.—Accounts from Limburg of the end of last week say that Hasselt was occupied by 200 Belgian in fantry, and Hechtel by two squadrons of light horse. JAN. 22.—Accounts from Liefkenshoek of the 19th say that all was quiet there. Great efforts were making to render the whole of the works as strong as possible. Some movement of troops had been observed the day before at the Kruys-schaus (fort La Croix.) The Belgians 'there are very busy pulling down the houses, and, as it seems, building a block-house. On the 18th ten of them came to the cut in the dike,_ but were soon driven away by the musketry of our troops.—The inhabitants of the Hague have already contributed 8249 florins for the soldiers who have been taken prisoners iu this campaign. Ad ditional donations are daily received. Lord Palmerston has, up to the present moment, withheld from the Belgian minister the content s o f the last despatches from Holland. It is, of course, inferred that they are not satis factory to the Belgians. We understand, from a respecta ble source, that Lord - Palmerston and Prince Talleyrand differ in opinion as to some of the prospects of the King of Holland; Lord Palmerston is for accepting them, Talleyrand says they cannot be accepted by the French ca.binet.—Speetater; Satur day, Jan. '26. BREDA Jan. 21.—We learn from Zealand that the head quarter of. General de Kock are to be transferred to Middle burg. The ships belonging to the squadron iu the Scheldt are all in the dock at Flushing, and five gun-boats are in the har bour of Viere, where they arc to remain till March, till which time the men, if they wish, can have furloughs to visit their familes.—Handelsblud ( Dutch paper.) The Prussian State Gazette of the 19th contains the following article BERLIN, Jan. 18.—The occasion having ceased which in duced his Majesty the King, according to the declaration in the States-General of the Ist Nov. last year, to order the assem bling of a corps of observation on the Meuse, His Majesty has now issued orders for the dissolution of that corps, and the return of the troops to their garrisons. GERMAN Y. . Extract of a letter of the 15th instant. from Carlsrube:— " There is a political sect in Baden, residing at Hamenstein, to the south of the Black Forest, towards the Rhine, a province formerly belonging to Austria, and amounting to 1,200 mem bers, calling themselves Saltpetremen. Their communications are entirely confined to themselves; they take no oaths, they furnish no recruits, nor do they pay taxes until distrained upon. In a remonstrance they presented on the 30th of December last they expressed themselves in the following terms We ack nowledge no rights, nor laws, except those imposed upon us by Prince Ferdinand, with which he transferred us to the Grand Duke of Baden, with whom we have nothing to do, as we know no other hereditary Grand Duke than Prince Ferdinand, of the House of Austria. We cannot submit to the ordinances of the : States-General, nor to the elections, till they are sanctioned by the Minister of War of the Emperor of Austria; and unless we are treated according to the laws of the principality, as above pointed out, we demand permission to appeal to our Austrian S'overeign.'" PRUSSIA. A letter from Berlin mentions, that although the King, by an Order in Council, has ordered the return of the Prussian Corps of Ob s ervation on the Maese, yet, as the French troops remain on a footing to be re-assembled, the Prussians are also taking such measures that in case of need they may resume their posi tion with a force even more numerous. The new proposals made to Holland by France and England have created uni versar astonishment in Berlin, and nobody believes that .they would have been thus framed if an adjustment had been seri ously. desired. If the public papers speak of any place in which the neociations are to be renewed by the powers that. consti tuted the Conference in London, this is. premature, as nothing has transpired as yet that Prussia, Austria, and Russia, would take part in them. The foregoing . is from a source worthy of credit. From Paris, a letter mentions, that from Vienna It is stated, that the principle is established of a formidable alliance between Russia, Prussia, _and Austria, and that these powers appear to be inseparable. The Turkish affairs bring new com binations, but it appears that Russia and Austtia, who are most interested in that question, are. perfectly d'accord. All minor points of difference will be sacrificed by them in order to sup port the great principle of legitimacy in Europe. The talked of Congress of the powers will not take place, for it is perfectly understood, that the allied monarchs will never meet under the same roof with Louis Philippe.—London Standard. GREECE. In.a private communication from Napoli of Dec. 8 (in the Leipsic Journal), there is the folloWing passage : " The Greek Senate with all its arc - hives. went on the 17th (29th) November to Spezzia, and then to Astros, and has there formed a separate government, with Colocotroni at its head, who on all occasions has distinguished himself by acting in his own way, and has commenced with an insulting proclamation 'against one of the three allied powers." Nothing but the speedy arrival of the regency can put a stop to such scenes. The present general Gueheneuc, coin mandin,,,o• in the Morea, has presented, in the name of. the Wench - goVernment, 2000 fraticSlO the — Military School and to the Orphan house at Egina, both of which were in the great est distress. The commander of the French artillery has in like manner presented to the arsenal here 1500 francs to pre vent the sale of some arms. .-- • - Intelligence has arrived from Constantinople to the Ist inst., front which it appears that on the 21st ult. the Grand Vizier having attacked Ibrahini Pacha, in the plain behind Koniah, , the action lasted the whole of the day, and several corps of the Ottoman troops fought with the greatest intrepidity, but the main body of...the.Turkisia army having 2,-Iven way L the Egyptian ar tillery and cavalry overcame all further resistance, and effected a complete rout. The Grand \ izier was wounded and made pri soner, with many of the Pachas, amongst whom were the titular Pacha of Koniah, and Bosnak Ali Pacha. The Egyptian army which - before the battle was 30,000 strong, experienced consi derable losses, and it is not known whether it made any further advance. Of the Ottoman army, Mehemet Pacha and Achnset Pacha remained, the one at Ak Cherh and the other at . Eski Cherh; endeavouring to collect the scattered forces. The Porte had sent into Asia - ail the recruits that could be mustered, and the Seraskier was on the - pint of setting out. In the mean time, the Turkish government contemplated sending an agent to Alexandria to treat with Mehemet Ali, and it was said that some conferences had taken place on the same subject between the Grand Vizier and Ibrahim Pacha.—Nouvalliste, French paper. 'Well-informed people are anxiously turning their eyes towards Constantinople. The news of the success of the Egyp tians, after having been kept secret for two or three days, has at.last come out, and every body expects great consequences to flow from it. I have heard in a wZill-informed quarter that a treaty is, if not signed, at least ready to be so between England and France to oppose Russia, should she take advantage of circum stances to possess herself of Constantinople: the same person added, that Austria would, after some hesitation, join the two other Powers to prevent the extinction of Turkey. I know not what to think of all these assertions, particularly the latter one, but I give thei . to•you as I heard them ' • at all events, it would be the happiest turn affairs could take here ; for depend upon it if, on one hand, a general war—a war of principles—is to be avoided as endangering, the present government, on the other no man of reflection will consider that establishment safe so long as a war of a common nature, such as Constantinople might furnish us, has not given a current to what will other wise, sooner or later, shake us at home.—Times' Paris Curves pondorat. VAN DIEMAN'S LAND. Launceston papers to the 17th of July, and Hobart Town papers to the 31st, haire been received. A meeting of the inha bitants of Sydney, had been called by the Sheriff- for the 13th August, with a view of obtaining a Legislative Assembly, in stead of the system of representation conferred on the colony by the last act of parliament. Thirty lots of crown lands, averaging about 750 acres each, had been sold at Hobart Town on the 30th July, at from ss. 6d. to lie. per acre, which was considered a good price. Great embarrassment existed in Van Dieman's Land from want of money, which was exceedingly scarce. A long continuance of wet weather had rendered the roads of the colony impassable. CAN ADA. QUE'BEC DECEMBER.—The season continues mild along the coast of the United States; 250 vessels of all descriptions entered Boston on the 30th of November. The arrivals at New York were 539. The Governor-in-Chief transmitted to the House of Assembly the annual account of the revenue and expenditure of the pro vince for the year 1832. The amount of the expenses of the- civil government is £1,504 6s. The following is an account of some of the missing ships:— " Captain Vanden, of the brig James, thence for Newfound land, had arrived from Coudre Island; the cargo of the James had been landed at Coudre, except the beef and pork, which remained on board the vessel in safety. The Sir John Beres ford and Rosalind were at Coudre (the latter distant about two miles from the James, on the south-east end), and were dis charging night and day. Captain Yanden left them on the previous Monday, at 2 and crossed to St. Paul's Bay, at the imminent risk of his life, where he safely arrived at 12 o'clock at night. Captain Yanden brought letters from Captain Collins, which report favourably of the situation of the Sir John Beresford, and the Rosalind was supposed to lie in a safe place.—Quebec Paper. SHOOTING A GAMEKEEPER, BY POACHERS.—On Saturday last two men, named Charles Carter, and William •Westoot, underwent a final examination at. Stow, in Glocestershire, be fore Mr. Pins, a magistrate, charged with having shot at, with an intent to murder, an under gamekeeper, in the service of the Earl of Harrington. It appeared that poaching to a con siderable extent had been earned on in the woods and preserves attached to his lordship's estate, near Cheltenham, and, in order to detect the dpredators, Hill, the head gamekeeper, accompanied by three assistants,, entered the woods at 4 o'ciock • on the morning of Saturday, the sth instant, it having beta • agreed that they were to take separate routes and join company at a given signal. One of the under gamekeepers entered Kingston Wood, and had not proceeded many paces,- when he observed three men within a few yards of him. Two of them levelled their guns at hint, and almost immediately fired. .The contents of one lodged in his right arm, tearing the coat, and lacerating the flesh. Perceiving that the other gun was aimed at bis head, he had the presence of mind to stoop, and part of the contents of the gun, which was loaded with shot, lodged in his cheek. The poachers immediately fled, and Hill and his assistants hearing the sound of fire. arms, ran to the spot, and found the unfortunate man weltering in his blood. Information having been forwarded to Bow-street, Mr. Flails instructed Stevens the officer to investigate the transac tion, with a view to bring the guilty parties to justice. On arriving at the Earl of Harrington's estate, the officer com mented his inquiries, and on the 11th instant, he succeeded in apprehending the prisoners, together with a third man, named Charles Allgood, who was subsequently admitted King's evidence. From the confession of - this man it appeared that Carter and Westoot were the two men who fired at the keeper, and that he (witness) was in their company at the time, but unarmed. The prisoners subsequently confessed their guilt, and it appeared that they both took deliberate aim, one wou n a ( t i e t a h e man,he a d of lt p in er a , a n ve d ry th i e ve o a t k he s r t a at t e, hisatbteondvae. attended the examination of the prisoners on Saturday, and swore that,. to the best of his belief , t he y were the two men who fired at nim, The'prisoners were fully co mmitted to take their trial at the eii swaig . a ssiz es.althime.igkhee . .