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London, England, 1854-04-15 00:00:00

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FRANCE.
The Duke of Cambridge, accompanied by Lord
Raglan, Lord De Ros, Colonels Steele, Tyrwhitt, and
Somerset, and Majors the Honourable James Mac-
donald and `Wellesley, crossed from Dover about
midnight on Monday, and reaching Calais a little
after one a.m., proceeded at once to Paris, where
they arrived about nine on Tuesday morning. His
Excellency Lord Cowley and Marshal Vaillant, the
Minister of War, were in waiting at the station to re-
ceive them. A guard of honour was stationed at the
terminus, and Court carriages were in attendance for
the Prince and his suite, who were conveyed at once
t) the British embassy. At one o'clock three impe-
rial state carriages were in waiting to conduct them
to the Tuileries, under an escort from the regiment
of Guides. They were heartily cheered during the
passage by a considerable crowd assembled in the
streets, some of whom cried "rive les Anglais !"
On leaving the Tuileries the Duke of Cambridge,
Lord Raglan, and suite proceeded to visit Prince
Jerome at the Palais Royal. In the evening the
Royal Duke, Lord Raglan, and the principal officers
of their respective staffs dined at the Tuileries.
On Wednesday the Emperor, accompanied by the
Duke of Cambridge, reviewed in the Champ de Mars
the army of Paris, the effective force of which
amounted to 25,000 men.
Prince Napoleon left Paris for the East on Sun-
day, and Vely Pacha, the Turkish Ambassadoi, ac-
companied him to the place of embarkation. The
Prince arrived at Lyons on Monday evening, and left
next day for Valence.
At the last Cabinet Council held at the Tuileries
orders were issued for the formation of a fifth divi-
sion of the expeditionary army, to be placed under
the command of General Renault. The total of the
expeditionary force to the East will not be limited to
50,000 men. Before the war is brought to an end it
will probably be augmented to more than 100,000,
some think to 150,000.
It is officially announced that a corps de reserve
will be stationed in Marseilles, and the adjacent de-
partments. The corps will be composed of 12,000
men : the head-quarters is to be Toulon.
To meet the exigencies of the Baltic fleet a new
regiment of marines is in course of formation at
Brest. There are at present three regiments cif ma-
rines, consisting of about 3,000 men each. The 4th
regiment now to be created will be drafted from the
Ist and 2nd, and will comprise the flower of the
force in the depots.
The new 100-grts ship, the Turenne, will be
launched at Rochfort to-day (15th).
The Emperor on Sunday received in private
audience M. Mavrocordato, Envoy Extraordinary
and Minister Plenipotentiary of the King of Greece,
who presented to his Majesty a letter from his
Sovereign.
Rear-Admiral Dundas, brother to Vice-Admiral
Deans Dundas, the commander of the Black Sea
fleet, has arrived in Paris.
The French Government has taken advantage of
the war in Turkey to get rid of a considerable num•
ber of Polish and other refugees who have long been
a burden upon it. All refugee volunteers are allowed
a passage gratis to Constantinople. Those who go
as common soldiers get a present besides of 100 f.,
the subaltern officers get 500 f., and the superior
officers I,ooof.
A farewell dinner was given on Monday evening
at the Trois Freres PrOYellc&III to Mr. Sandford,
late Charge d'Affaires of the United States in Paris,
by his countrymen, on the occasion of his return to
America. More than 100 Americans from all parts
of the Union took part in this festivity, which was
presided over by Mr. Mcßae, the Consul of the
United States.
DENMARK.
All the Ministers of the King of Denmark have
resigned, excepting Bluhme, 111, and Scheel, who are
absent. This fall of a Cabinet which was favourable
to Russia is stated to have been owing to the ap-
pearance of the British fleet in the Baltic, and the
impossibility of carrying out a Russian alliance.
PRUSSIA AND AUSTRIA.
A despatch was forwarded from Berlin on Satur-
day last to St. Petersburg, announcing that the King
had used every exertion to induce the continental
powers to enter into new negotiations;, but that be
had failed, and could obtain nothing till the Russians
should have evacuated the principalities.
On Monde/ a commissionsft appointed to settle
the details o the military nvention entered into
between Prussia and Austria. The following mem-
bers composed the commissione—The Prince of
Prussia, Generals Bonin and Reyher, and Baron
Hess.
By subsequent accounts we learn that the conven-
tion has been refused by Austria. The cause is not
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to Russia had been inserted by the Prussian Mi-
nister.
Mr. Moseley's pamphlet in favour of Russia has
been translated, into French at St. Tytersburg, and
forwarded to Berlin for distribution anti sale.
200,000 Austrians, under Archduke Albrecht, have
been ordered to enter Servia. The Porte consents to
this movement.
The Hamburg Senate has by decree prohibited
the exportation of contraband articles of war.
Similar decrees will be issued at Lubeck and
Bremen.
The representatives of the four powers signed a
protocol at Vienna on Sunday last, containing a re
capitulation of the principle of the integrity of the
Ottoman empire, and comprising the evacuation of
the principalities.
ITALY.
The Dechess Regent of Parma has issued a decree,
dated the 3rd, restoring to the civil hospitals of
l'arma, and to the patrimony of the State, the pro-
perty which had been taken from them by a decree
of 1853, and annexed to the domains of the royal
household. The tinchess has also suspended the
forced loan, and limited the civil list to 500,000
sena
The Official Verona Gazette contains an order for-
bidding the exportation of arms and ammunition for
the Turkish provinces.
On the oth inst. the Duke de Valentino* Prince
of Monaco, presented himself in the town of
Menton, the capital of Monaco, attempting to re-
establish himself as sovereign. About twenty persons
joined him, but the body of the population gathered
round him and cried, " Down with the Prince! long
live the King!" (of Sardinia). The carabineers of the
King of Sardinia, who have occupied the town since
its incorporation with Piedmont, made their appear-
ance and took the duke into their care, when the
popular feeling subsided. The principality of Monaco
was long under the control of the King of Sardinia
before 1848, when it was annexed to Piedmont. The
prince spent nearly all his time in Paris, and was
chiefly known to the world by the heavy tax he levied
upon travellers passing through his petty State.
The duke has since been confined in the fort of
Villefmnche at Nice. Several arrests have been'
made at Menton.
Madrid journals of the oth state that the agitation'
at Barcelona had ceased, all the workmen having
returned to the manufactories and shops on the Bd,
in obedience to the proclamaticn of the Captain-
General.
RUSSIA.
The Czar has formally conveyed to the Austrian
and Prussian Governments assurances that the
passage of the Danube was purely defensive.
The St. Petersburg journals officially announce
the appointment of Prince Paskiewitsch as Com-
mander-in-Chief of the armies of the Danube. The
ukase orders that Prince Liortschakoff shall act
under him as chief of the staff, except when he is
not present, and then Prince tiortschakotf is to
exercise the command in chief. Prince Paskiewitach
arrived at Bucharest on the sth inst.
The Emperor has ordered a line of telegraph to '
be constructed from St. Petersburg along the
Finnish coast up to Hango Point, between Helsing-
fon and Abo. In Helsingfors there are ton and
in the rest of the ship-building yards on the Bay of
Finland there are forty gun-boats building.
The movements of troops continue in the Baltic
provinces and in Finland. A St. Petersburg letter
of the 31st says :—" Whilst the guards were setting,
out on their march, the battalion of chasseurs of the
reserve of Moscow and the battalion of sharp-
shooters of Helsingfors were arriving here. The
Emperor reviews the troops as they arrive."
TURKEY.
The first convoy of French troops, consisting of
1,100 men, under the command of General Canrubert,
arrived at Constantinople on the Ord inat.
The declaration of war by France and England
was known at Constantinople, and had caused great
excitement.
A deputation from Sebamyl to the Sultan arrived
in the Turkish capital on the 31st of March.
A despatch of the sth inst, vie Marseilles, an
nonnces that Constantinople had been illuminated
for a victory over the Russians.
The Porte, on the 3rd inst., ordered all the Greeks
in Constantinople to leave within the next fifteen
days.
Fatma Hanouni, a Curdisli lady of distinction, at
the head of about five hundred eavalierA, had made a
sort of triumphal entry into Constantinople. This
motley band was decked in every variety of costume
and armed with sundry antediluvian implements of
war. The streets were thronged with spectators to
witness this novel and exciting spectacle. The
guards turned out and presented arms, the multi-
tude cheered uproariously in passing along the
Curdish Joan of Arc, and she distributed various
sums on her way to the quarters at Daont Path*,
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THE SEAT OF WAR.
The accounts of engagements in the Dobrudschs
and elsewhere are frequent and not less conflicting
than usual. On Saturday last it was reported in
Paris that on the 4th instant a great battle was
being fought, whose result was still uncertain. No-
thing authentic has, however, since arrived respecting
this battle, although vague boeonnts were received in
Vienna on Sunday that the Tarks in the Dobrudscha
and Schamyl in the Caucasus had gained greet
victories over the Russians. On the other hand, the
Mottiteur of Sunday mentions the report of a Russian
victory on the banks of the Danube, but adds that
the Government has received no intelligence through
an official channel of this alleged victory, nor even of
a battle having been fought.
The latest itecoutits from Bucharest state that
large bodies of Russian troops continue to pass the
Truth. Between the 30th of March and the Ist. of
April 100,000 Russians are said to have entered the
principalities.
On the :flat General Luders stood with the right
wing of his corps before Tschernawoda, his left
before Karassa,• in front of Trajan's Wall. At the
same time a brigade of General Osten Sacken's
corps was about to enter Kustend.je, and so oomplete
the line of occupation from the Danube to the Black
Sea It was said at Bucharest that the Turks a‘.
Kustendje could not reckon on the help of the allied
fleets because the port was too shallow to admit of
anything larger than a boat. The Russian gunboat,
flotilla had passed up the Danube beyond Hirsova,
and was near Tschernawoda on the 20th ult. That
fortress has since been evacuated by the Turks, sad
the Russians are said to have forced the intreneh-
ment at Trojan's Wall and marched on ltassove.
According to the best authorities the Russian in-
vading force was on the 23rd ult. :10,000 strong, and
had since been considerably reinforced, not from the
principalities, so as to weaken the army there, but
from Bessarabia. A direct communication between
the Dobrudscha, below Hirsova, and Wallachia, has
been secured by means of a pontoon bridge across
the Danube. From Kalaraseh it is stated that
40,000 men and 130 guns are preparing to attack
Silistria. General Schildor was ou the spot directing
the operations. The heavy siege guns anti the
rocket batteries had arrived. The garrison of Silis-
tria is stated to be 10,000, including two Egyptian
regiments.
The garrison of Kalafat, according to intelligence
which has reached Vienna, made a sally on the
30th ult. 10,000 foot, 2,000 horse, and 00 guns
advanced against the Russians, who were posted in
force at Skripetz. After a sanguinary engagement,
which lasted four hours, the latter were routed and
pursued to a considerable distance. The loss of the
Turks is given at 200, and that of their alversiusee
at 600 men. From the 28th of March up to the 2nd
of April there were engagements of greater or less
severity.
l'he Turkish corps at the command of Muetapha
I'acha, who at the last dates stood at Karassa, con-
sisted of 45,000 or 50,000 men.
Advices from Orsova of the oth April state that
Omar Pacha has received instructions from Constan-
tinople to undertake no important operation until
the arrival of the allied forces. 'l'he English arid
French declaration of war against Russia was read
to the troops at Kalafat on the oth, and was received
with tremendous applause.
At the date of the latest advices from the Black
Sea the combined fleets were before Kavarna.
The English brig Anne, from the Danube, while
in tow of the Crescent steamer, was fired on by the
I.
Russians. Both brig and steamer were damaged.
A barque (English) had also been sunk by the Rua • ,r
shuts while leaving the Lambe Wks
Her name was not known.
Advices from Athens of the 7th April state that
the insurrection is making no progress. Armiro has e
not been taken. Turkish reinforoemsata had arrived.
at Prevesa and Volo.
The news of the defeat of the Greek insurgents..
near Janina is confirmed by accounts received in''
Vienna on Tuesday. °rives was retreating with hitt
followers in disorder.
The whole Greek force in Epirus, as well as
Thessaly, does not amount to more than 7,000 of
8,000 men. Of these, about 1,200 went from Athen ,
1,500 from the Peloponneitsus, 1,000 or 1,500 from, •
Missolonghi and its environs, 00 from Salonas,
Lauda, Chaleis, Negroponte, suer ther Greek di
Uicts adjoining Thessaly. To these must be tulded..
about 1,000 Greeks from the Turkish territory
under various petty chiefs.
AMERICA.
The Cuban authorities have surrendered t
steam-ship Black Warrior, whose detention
caused much excitement in the United States,
the payment, under protest, of a fine of 8,000 d
and was to leave Havaunnah on the 24th for he
York. Her cargo was released at the same
The excitement in the Union had almost died airs e
respecting the seizure. - T,