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prepared for the reception of the Duke of Cam-
bridge and Prince Napoleon. A French regiment
and a detachment of one of the Highland regiments
bad gone on to Adrianople.
From the army of Asia accounts had arrived that
4,000 men refused to march from Erzeroum to Kars
on account of their arrears of pay. A firman against
the excesses of the Bashi Bazouks was expected.
A great many Greeks have already quitted Con-
stantinople, to the dismay of the mercantile world.
Trade was completely stagnant. All kinds of provi
sions are continually rising in price. Turkish ves-
sels convey the necessary provisions and coals to the
combined fleets. _ _

The news of the new Turkish loan made by
Namik Pacha, in London, with Rothschild Brothers,
for the sum of 2,200,0001., at 85 and 86 per cent.,
has been received in Constantinople with much
pleasure. Money was sadly wanting. The Sultan
has given orders for three nishans (decorations) to
mark his gratitnde—one for Baron Lionel, one for
Baron James, and the other for the Baron Alphonse,
the son of the head of the Paris house.
RUSSIA.

The Journal de St. Petersbourg contains a notice
by which the Minister of Finance allows English
and French vessels six weeks from the 10th of April
to clear out of Russian ports in the Black Sea and
the Sea of Azoff, and six weeks from the 7th of May
to clear out of Russian ports in the Baltic. Enemies'
property in neutral bottoms will be regarded as in.
violable, and may be imported into Russia. The
subjects of neutral powers on board enemies' ships
will be unmolested.

The Cologne Gazette states thas the Emperor of
Russia has completed a scale of the rewards which
are to be paid for the capture of French, English, or
Turkish vessels by his cruisers. It appears that he
is ready to pay as prize-money double their ordinary
value for ships of the line, frigates, and steam cor-
vettes, and for smaller steamers their ordinary value.
Steam vessels burnt or sunk will be estimated accord-
ing to the number of their guns.
An ukase of the 18th directs that, before the 20th
of May, a naval force, composed of volunteers for the
defence of the coasts of Finland, shall be organised.
All sailors on leave of absence are required to return
to duty forthwith.
By another ukase the Emperor orders the construc-
tion of telegraphic lines between Bucharest, Odessa,
and St. Petersburg.
Some of the Russian nobles are said to have made
great pecuniary sacrifices. Count Anatole Demidoff,
whose revenues are enormous, is stated to have
placed them at the disposal of the State for the
duration of the war, while Baron Stieglitz, the Court
hanker, has voluntarily contributed fioo,ooo silver
roubles (60,0001.).
At Odessa as at Revel the Government have
required all who could to leave the city and seek
security farther inland. Women and children had
complied with this request, and the men would follow
the more readily as all trade was suspended, the Ex-
change closed, and the Bank removed to Jeka-
terinoslov. This stoppage of trade had made bank-
ruptcy a daily phenomenon.
The Sulina mouth of the Danube is again the ob-
ject of attention on the part of the Russian en-
gineers. According to letters from Odessa, some
monster dredging-machines had been conveyed
thither in tow of British war steamers, whence it was
inferred that they were going to deepen the Sulina
channel. Heavy Russian batteries have for some
time guarded the entrance of the Sulina channel ;
but General Schilder, believing the entrance not per-
fectly safe, has ordered the Russian engineers to sink
boats loaded with sand on the already shallow bar.
It was expected that a sanguinary contest would soon
take place at the Sulina mouth.
The last accounts from the banks of the Danube
describe the Russian army in the Dobrudscha as
suffering considerably from sickness. Entire com-
panies were daily carried off by dysentery, and the
mortality was so great in several newly-arrived
regiments that they were ordered to recross the
Danube.

SATURDAY,

the 10th ult. Calcutta is about being lighted with
gas, which has afforded much satisfaction. The
neutrality of Persia has been fully confirmed, and
officially notified to Lord Dalhousie.
The news from China, both political and com-
mercial, is unimportant.

THE WAR.

THE ARMIES.

The Duke of Cambridge reached Vienna yesterday
week, and left on Wednesday last en route for Trieste
and the East.

Lord Raglan sailed from Marseilles for the East
on Saturday afternoon, on board the Curadoc, bear-
ing the flag of Rear Admiral' Boxer. His lordship
arrived there on the previous Thursday, but was un
able to leave sooner in consequence of the boisterous
weather.

Major-General the Earl of Lucan arrived on Sun-
day at the Hotel des Princes, on his way to the
East. Brigadier-General Rose has also arrived in
Paris. Major the Hon. St. George Foley has been
appointed his aide-de-camp.
Colonel Rose, so well known for the important
part played by him at the commencement of the
Eastern question, has left Constantinople for Candia,
to organise the hospitals in that island.
The allied troops have begun their movement to •
wards the true seat of war. A French and a High-
land regiment have marched for Adrianople. On
the 25th General Bosquet left Constantinople for
that place for the purpose of fixing there his head-
quarters. 20,000 French and 8,000 English have
now landed at Gallipoli. The troops to remain there,
under command of General Sir George Brown, are
the 4th, 28th, 44th, 50th, and Rifle Brigade. All the
remainder are to leave for Scutari.

Generals Evans, Ccumpbell, Eyre, and Penne-
father arrived at Malta on the 22nd. The 88th, 7th,
23rd, 95th, and 13th Regiments had left. Three
battalions of the Guards had also sailed for Scutari.

The Himalaya is to carry cavalry to the East.
After taking troops from Malta to Constantinople in
sixty-three hours, she is now on her way to South-
ampton to be fitted for the conveyance of 500
cavalry.
The 38th Regiment embarked on Tuesday at
Chatham on board the screw-ship Melbourne for
Gallipoli. The head-quarters of the 14th Regiment
and 17th (Lancers) have also embarked, the former
at Cork and the latter from Portsmouth. Two more
companies of the Bth Hussars have sailed from
Plymouth on board the Shooting Star and Meclora
transports.
A fourth detachment of the 89th Regiment em-
barked on board the Bombay at Queenstown on
Tuesday evening. They were under the command
of Major Barlow, and are, as well as the 14th, bound
for the seat of war. The 17th Regiment has arrived
at Cork from Templemore, to embark for Malta.
Drafts of the 3rd, 9th, 62nd, and 68th. are ordered to
embark at Cork for Malta.

The 42nd and 79th Highlanders, now in Ports-
mouth garrison, are under orders to embark—the
79th on the 4th proximo, in the Hydaspes, and the
42nd on the Bth, in H.M.S. Simoom, for the East.

The following six sailing-vessels, which have been
for some time past at Liverpool, fitting up for the
accommodation of horses, are expected at Kings-
town :—The Glendalough, the Tyrone, the Asia, the
Warelaud, the Panola, and the Paraniatta. Imme-
diately on their arrival the 11th Hussars, who are
under marching orders, will embark for Malta, en
route to Gallipoli.

It is determined to send out to the East another
1,000 horses, for which steam-transports are to be
provided; 400 of this number, it is stated, can be
carried by the General Screw Company's 2,700-ton
steamer Prince, engaged by the Government; and it
is said the great 3,500 ton steamer Himalaya will
come home and take most of the remainder.