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LONDON, WEDNESDAY, DE0831321 23.

Turn is, we believe, not one iota of truth in the
reamen,or rather in the mentions,which,originatieg
With the Austrian press, have been copied into the
journals of the rest of Europe, that there has been an
accord upon the IWombian question; that France
has relaxed in her inertias'; or that any Power has
adopted the scheme which Turkey has propounded.
The several Powers, we believe, remain unshaken in
their convictions, and unyielding in their determina-
tions; and, coasequently, the Congress of Peri'
cannot meet. For that body to meet in order to
quarrel, 'operate, and do nothing, would be •
spectacle so little edifying to Europe, that we may
rest certain that this at least will be avoided, and the
great questions which it ought to settle remain in
indefinite abeyance.
Them is one Power that moat be highly delighted
at such • state of things, and that Power is Ramie.
Roane has opposed the anti-Unionists, hes lent its
aid to overcame the intrigued those who sought to
and. the voice of the Principalities; but Russia has
carefully avoided committing Ilene!f to support the
project of a Vision of the Principalities under •
tonics prince. She still, however, enjoys the credit
of not being hostile to it, and by this reserve main-
tain' • certain interim over the population of these
ee•atrise,whieh England, by her unaccountable oppo.
altos to national desires, has lost.

To prolong this situation, to adjourn a definitive
settlement, or to sere in a temporary settlement
that will adjourn every thing and decide nothing—thie
must be the wish and the policy of Russia. To keep
the Provinces divided. dissatisfied, with no certain
prospects or reliance for the future—ruled over by
Hospodan without character, and Governments
without consistency—such a result of the war of the
Crimea and the Treaty of Paris, Russia will delight
to point to, ass proof of the incapacity of her allied
foes to build anything in the place of what Russia
established and they overthrew.
It is to mire at this result that Russia is manceuvr-
lag, and it is tide very result that Eagliab agents above
all others are labouring to accomplish. They boast
that they are doing a great thing, and defeating
Russia, by thwarting the wishes of the population.
and rendering the Union impossible; while, all
the time. they are simply doing what Balla
most desires, ■nd leaving firm and ready the step-
ping-atones by which that Power hopes by and by
to advance to the final acquisition of the Principa-
lities. The arguments of thew gentlemen, including
those of Lord Ps Di taring , are that the Union would
lead to the subjection of the country to Russia. The
plain answer to this his in the debates and votes of
the Divans or National Assemblies. In these, we
mast say, the country was most fairly repremmted.
Every elm sent its delegates. The peasants sent
theirs t so did the Bayard*, the lesser proprietors of
land, the holders of capital, the shopkeepers, the
clergy, the Priam@ who had ruled the country.
and many members of the families of those
Princes. What do all these persons openly and
zealously declare? They say, that with a mainte-
nance of the separation, end the continuance of
the old Hoepodarate government, there is no change,
no reform, no modification or amelioration, that can
be of the least use. Under this universal sentiment,
this profound conviction, the Divans refuse to enter
upon the consideration of minor questions. Be-
cause, they say, if the present necessarily week,
temporary, and corrupt Government be not replaced
by a national one, all the constitutions in the world
will fail, and every code and every charter come to
noeght.

To soma or to assert that the Roaraan people
have come to this great resolve, from a wish to put
their necks under the Russian yoke, I. to suppose or
newt an absurdity.

A c ten appiared among oar Law reporta of yeater-
day which may fairly be taken either way—ae a
warning to British spinsters, or a caution to foreign
Counts. The Hon. MW Maur JONES, a sister of
Lord lissaunn's, claimed to recover back from a
certain as disang Count WOUXOWBII the sum of
lOW. as money lent. It appeared that the lady, who
is so keen in the earliest bloom of youth, and the
gentleman, an interesting exile of eight•and•twenty,
happened both to be lodging, in the latter part of
last year, at the same hones in Ebury-street. An
introduction was soon effected, acquaintanceship ra-
pidly pumped into friendship, and friendship kindled
into love. The gentleman, like so many other foreign
noblemen, had led a life of heroic adventure. The
mature Desdemona "seriously inclined" to bear
. his travel', history." The gentleman, like so many
other foreign noblemen, was under a cloud of tem-
porary embarrassment. The sou of Prince Vlcn-
.

• If the heir expectant to 40,0001, a year, be
had somehow costrired in this shop-keeping and
matter-or fact country to get into certain ignoble dim-
collies with • number of small tradesmen. lie had
victimised a tailor or two, and " kept his pawnbroker."
This combination of misfortune and mystery was, of
course, irresistible. The Hon. MART Jorms, premed
by his ardent and honourable suit, breathed the
Irrevocable monosyllable. She did more I she west
It ewe to her bankers. Across the counter of
)11/1//16. DIUMMONDS 1001. of "good and lawful
seteey of Great Britain " was paid into those fair
and henestalle heads, and transferred forthwith to
Se patina of her adorer. The honourable as.
stnald slaty naive the little downy as a loan, sad
laided spa drawiag tip $ pony receipt stamp for
alMemme. The Nut, ito wit to state, wee
dileetesde as lesineseet ea le awl L eenideace to
a nines% srhe e betrayed lime at the Mal, that,
be ha/ tam MVO le eve the alterarlaireest as
• we.., etswee fits yes bunk eldtsber.
led wi w dlds hips reireet be erns. Every-
this( see reseeded peespiessety. Thefor ihe
esidies see !zed I the be 4101111 w 411141•1111•••
ettill ermine, the Cease erre@ se. tresestmei J

bmis—a melancholy memento of the peat i all
teatarrrl as a marriage bell dB the time onto kr
the lawyers and the settlements. Then, alas, it was the
eld story: the obtuse men of parchment insisted that
the lady's whole fortune should be settled on herself.
The foreign nobleman, overflowing with generous
disdain for the mercenary habits of the British,
thought this outrageous, and so fee forgot his
gallantry as to declare that he would not take the
lady anima he got with her hall tho fortune. The
lawyers were firm, it is not impossible that the lady's
friends interfered ; at all events the match was
broken off.

There, u far as the Hon. Miss Joyce was con-
cerned, the matter might perhaps es well have
rested. One hundred pound• hardly seems en ex-
travagant price to pay for getting quit of such a
husband as M. CHAILLES FREDERICK ACOCIFFIIII
WOSZKOWSKI. The best way, surely, to treat ►
' mess like this is to follow that advice of the great
Jerry' Deems, which the elder Mr. Busnnv was
so fond of quoting "to wipe it up, and may nothing
" about it." The legal advisers of Miss Joins, pos-
sibly for good reasons of their own, have taken a
different view of the matter, and their client, at
whatever cast to her own feelings, has certainly
entitled herself to the thanks of the " mothers and
" daughters of England," by having contributed to
expo*e the career of a thoroughly discreditable ad-
venturer. Under the pressure of a cross-examina-
tion, managed by a consummate master of the craft
" Count" Woszzowsu was compelled to furnish •
ch►pter or two of • somewhat curious autobio-
graphy. 'The Hon. Miss Jorge had been by no means
the Brat of his conquests. To live by lovemaking—
to gale, to sigh, to declare, to be accepted, and to be
paid off—such appears to have been the professional
career of this interesting and accomplished Pole.
We have so space here for the long enumeration of
the widows and spinsters of these islands, whom, as
the Count was obliged to admit, he had led captive
and spoiled. The CHIEF BARON was evidently
alarmed at the prospect before him, and checked the
orossexamining sober of Mr. EDWIN JAMS. by the
intelligible hint " that the ladies of Great Britain
" constituted • wither numerous clams." We, of
coarse, don't mean to insinuate that the triumphs of
this foreign conqueror were absolutely conterminous

with the limits of the sex, as it exists in these
islands; but it is clear from the distinguished
stranger's own account of the matter that he scarcely
ever met a woman without offering his hand, was
frequently accepted, and almost always, on the in-
terference of friends, induced to salve the pangs of
subsequent rejection by the substantial solatium of
cash payment. One of his most distinguished con-
quests in this way appears to have been Mrs.
SWTNIVI, the heroine of the great will case of
Swysrem v. Bert:ars, which about a year ago
made so much noise in Westminster Hall. The
wealthy widow seems to have purchased
.immunity
tram her rash promise for the moderate sum of 3001.
To keep his hand in, however, the heir of Prince
VICIIIINSTLIN occasionally condescended to lowlier
suits; it woe only just before his affair with the
Hon. Mks Ides, that be lied proposed in turn, bat
without his asnalsooorm, to the two daughters of the
Mousy-street landlady.
A London Jury are not romantic, and these
and many similar passages from the history of
the adventurer's life, hardly disposed them to look
with much favour upon the set-off or counter-claim
which the Count pleaded in bar to the action. This
aet-off was one of the funniest things in the whole
case. The pleader who drew it has evinced in its
conception a degree of grave impudence which
would have won the heart of the Widow Bluchacre.
He has put down as debts incurred on behalf of
Miss losses, the cost of the clothes which that bene-
volent lady lent her admirer the money to purchase,
and the price of redeeming the jewels which her
cash enabled him to release from pawn. Among
the items was a guitar—a very necessary property
in the "make up" of a distinguished foreign exile—
the wedding cake, still uneaten; 14s. for the wed-
ding ring; end, to conclude the whole, Ss. for the
Count's photograph. The jury declined to take the
view suggested by M. WORZICOW4KIN legal advisers.
They refused to deride that the expendi-
ture by the Count, for his own purposes,
of Miss JONES'S money could possibly constitute
an answer to that lady's claim for re-payment, and
they found a verdict against the unfortunate Sarma-
tian for the full amount of 1001., and costs. Of
course Miss loses won't get her money, and of
course the Count will have to go to Whitecross-
street for a season. But we are much mistaken if
his career is over yet. There is a mysterious law of
sympathy--the new American sect of the Free Lovers
call it, we believe, "an alfinitative attraction "
between the widows and spinsters of Britain
and the " distinguished exiles " of Poland. When
the foreign noble is on the sunny side of thirty, and
the compassionate Britonese—on the other, the force
of this natural law.is singularly intensified. Dunes
and damsels, who ought to know better, will still,
we fear, persist in making the most unfortunate
foreign investments of heart and hand. They will
still mistake pinchbeck for gold, confound voluble
imposture with heroic misfortune, and pick up paltry
swindlers with sham titles for patriot nobles and
sailed princes. " Count " WOUKOWSKI, there is too
much reason to apprehend, ms) have many a chance
yet, notwithstanding the tragedy of Miss "KILMAN-
BEGGe in the ballad, and the tragicomedy of Him
loxes in the Law court.

Moe! Dnuorn FOR NEOROEB.—The Council-
General of Guadaloupe his just voted an address
to the Ministry of Marine and Colonies, praying the
imperial government to furnish that island with
10,000 fresh immigrants ; and, with a view to pay
for their introduction, has laid an additional duty
on the admission of tobacco.

Farther oorreepoadeetw hat taken place relative
to the ear-draw Wry repealed by the Earl of Derby Is
the arse of lads, elociiing Mr. Verson Smith'. sileged
*roar of ass err gurats made by hie rhos with the
rearealar sod Odors! Company for ma) ivy the overloud
rear available for the traresilaroo of troupe. la erre to
lagahles host the ladle Board, Mr. Howell, re of the direc-
tors, steer then as ere to the etke of the company remem-
bers say lea resew se was rederred to befog sent to the
sin; mod Mr. Allea, soother of the directors, Jives tie the
aorta of the every—that "lo the coarse of or of ths later-
Are were be bid "with the authorities of the
Drarbormea," r mordod the details of the pka
Or re orarrysese of Weals or Egypt, it wee
eralireed then a reerrelseelsa bed been neared at the
Las Hero tram re Ilesed of Centrol, "r Isar so I ea-
demised it," logokkg es ee the prselksbility of main the
oreird route magi r korport of treys to lode►
nirespos Mr. Yemen heft *vim of Mr. Mambo,
M.P., as brag orresert lath all that peril between the
Wilk boar sod lades Bred, whether say or at the India
Mora read hers say inikeenly ter the eaery. Mr. %maks
replies la the direr repave, sod she sap eke be WOW
SSW XL ARM der* as mom of the rgellatior with
the Porraler mad Orkedelempsy wierostag the coter-
ies= of troops Is Idle by ark work.

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atilo Soft rearks arra= ear ills weddeg cause at
Noe* MA all Ibilltai• D. amok lkoreas Ran.
kiasepa& Darla Lattorss, Jak. C. Hareem,
mod elllew Cladoes.bovecepookte preach as tato Ira

ebt Court.

WINDSOR, Die. M.
Coast Platen bad an audienee of her Majesty laat
evening to deliver his medentialaistez from the oots•
of Sweden and Norway.
Pernkh Khan, attended by his mite, had an audience this
aresting, to take have of the Queen on his return to Peril&
noir Excellencies were introduced by the Earl of Claren-
don, hoe Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign
Ales.
lard Waterpark and Major-General Berkeley Dnunatond
eon in attendance as Lord and Groom in Waiting.
Her /dajemy's dinner party, yesterday, included the
Durham of Kent, the Prince of Wales, and the Primes
Royal, his Excellency the Persian Ambeasedor, Ferokh
Khan; the Count and Countess Platen, the Earl of Claren-
don, the Hon. Mrs. Grey, the Hon. Colonel sad Mrs.
Phippe, Mr. Baillis and Mr. °thin. Alec Meerut Zentans
Khan, Mews Kamm Khan, Nereman Khan, and Captain
Lynch, the suite of the Persian Ambeaesdor.
The Bend of the Scots Fusilier Guide win attendance
in the Castle, and played during dinase the following Woe-
non:
Pas Redouble Dolan Bright.
Overture, "Oberon" Weber.
Vales, Fleer de H. Booed.
Selsotion, Emend Verdi.
Polka, Puny Bloke Pehrback.
Her Majesty's Print. Bend afterwards performed In the
drawing-room.
The Persian Ambassador, Fatah Khan, end him suite, sad
the Swedish end Norwegian Minister end Counties Plates,
returned to London this forenoon.
Lord Clarendon remains on • visit.

His Excellency Ferukh Khan, Persian Envoy
Extraordinary, returned to Claridge's Hotel yesterday from
rieiting bar Majesty at Windsor Castle. Ills excellency,
accompanied by hbt nits, was present at the pia
at Astley's Ampbithastre last evening,

The Duchess (Dowager) of ➢eaufort and the
Ladies &marmot have left town to join We family efevL et
Badminton Park.

The 'Marchioness of Bath and Lady Louisa Thyone
Sie expected to town neat week, to be present et the nuptial.
of Mies St. John Madmay, niece to Bir H. St. Jobs Mild-
may and Viscount Bolingbroke, and grind-oleos to the Earl
of Radnor.

The Marquis of Anglesey has entertained a select
party, including Sir lobe V. Shelley, Captaia Little, /dr.
Oeo. Payne, de., during the past week at &modem near
Lichfield. The diets swami on Saturday. The noble
marquis will receive company clueing the holidays.

The Marquis and -Marchioness of Salisbury are
passing the imam at Hatfield Home, where the, will on-
WWl' company daring the Christmas Norm
The Earl and Countess Granville have left town
on a visit to the Right Ham Sidney and Mrs. Herbert at
Wilton Hoaae, near Salisbury.

The Counter of Lichfield gave birth to a goo
yeeterdey at the family !widow. in Oromenonsquare. 711,
countess and infant am both programing favourably.
The Earl and Countess of Westmoreland have
returned from Brighton to Apthcepa, where they Weed ts
entertain company timing the holidays.
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The Earl of Shelburne left Lansdowne House yob-
terday, tojola the circle mumbled at &mood.

Visoo Unt and Viscountess Combermere are enter-
taining a succession of visitors at Combermere Abbey. The
following distinguished guests have recently left the abbey
—Lord and Lady Delamere, the bfarehkesse of Dosaalthe
end Lady Alice Hill, the Earl of Hirebomeati, the Eerl
Talbot, Lord Robert Cl,nton, the Margot@ end lifarthioness
at Cbolmondelry, end Sir Wollontiby Cotton.

Viscount Althorp arrived at Althorp Park, a few
days since, from America, where his lordship h.' beau
making stour for some mouths pe.

The Dowager Lady Foley and the lion. M',s
Foley have monied to toms from Bath.

The Dowager Lady Raglan and the Hon. Mir
Somerset left toaa yesterday on a visit to the Karl end
Countess of Weetmorelasid, at Apthospe Pr•k, North-
szeptoashim.

The Count and Coonteen d'Altone hare left the
Bt awls ick Hotel, Bt. Junes's, for Perla.

Lady Abercromby and Mir Abercromby hare
left the (lucre. Hotel, Upper NOTWOOd, ter tows. Captain
and Mrs. Roebuck have attired at the ea are eerstalkinest

There e•e now staying at Brighton the Countess
ot Dolt= end her youthful family, Lady Caroline
Howard, Sir C. Blarney, the Cornteie of Kerry, hie
Kimlimey the Smitten Atubmeedor, Sir W. end Mee
De!yell, Lady Georriena Hamilton, Lady Steeling, Yr.
Yams Smith, Lord George Beencierk, Sir John Hurling-
ton, Lieut.•Colocel Tr "oda, and the Rev. Dr. Goalbws.

Lady Havelock has returned to Germany with her
family.

We ( Olasgose Daily Mail) understand that the
Queen has appetated the Kee. Norman )CLsod one of
her cheplathe foe Scotland in room of the late Principal
Mecherlen.

MUSIC.
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ST. MARTIN'S

UINRY LESLIXI

CHOIR.

The second concert of this season was given by
Mr. lealie• Choir, lacer avaniag, at St. Mart Instead
of the Haeoear-aquers Rooms, their usual place at perform.
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see. The change era. for eta better. This hall, bea la
acsentioll properties, is pendently ffttad far ahead hananry,
sad Its large dimensions give full deeelopunsat to the alias
produced by a numerous body of voices. Hance this stint-
table cho,- was never before heard to so much adesatege;
sad, as the performance attracted • very great aremblage,
must have a powerful effect in rwairtsb thaws concerts gess-
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The programme of the performas• was as follow.:

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From thin our musical readers will be able toappreolate the
quality of the selection, which included ea they will perceive
many of the tidiest gems of our English vocal hennoay. And
we can truly at'd that the performance was worthy of the
saris, gad that there was not • ringlet madrigal, glee, or
part-song, to which ample jurtice was not done by the choir.
They were all applauded %lib enttatudaam, sod a number Of
ties were encored. This compliment wee pad fu partlcaler
PenemEs pretty part-song, -0, who will o'er the dowse
Sofres," an instance of the effect which may be produced by
plain, u•turel, unaffected writing, erre without • grata*, origi-
nality ;to Lealie.• " Soca to Me, morning," anew compseitioa
full of charming freshen, ; to lloteley's " By Celia's Arbour,"
the most beautiful glee of any living composer, and rung an
we have not heard • glee rung for many • day ; to Wilbyes
famous " Flora gave me fallen dowers ;" to Henry Bowes
doe part-song, " The ilhephrrd's Farewell ;" and to Hoary
Leelies spirited chores arrangement of " Bola, Britannia.'
By their execution of flees, end indeed the whole pieces in
the programme, the choir have Wend gained tt. golden
opinions," es the effect of this cermet will undoubtedly
show.

The road mask ma intermixed with two pianoforte per-
formances by Bias Arabella Goddard—megoilksot perform-
WM, we need scarcely add„ end received se this young
Loire di.p4t■ of Went never fan to be noilmel„
Hail's Prelude and Togas, which she played Ant, Is not
ass at the lamas " Forty-eight," um is it egad, we &ha,
to the generanty of those inimitable pieese, It hid some-
thing a the efeet of an antl-enmax, the prelude being mu-
May sad beautiful, white the Fugue fell ikon of the promise
giros by so sine as latroductica. Mks Goddard afterwaris
played Tbalberge arrangement of "Home, sweet home ;"
and thi. being emceed, she obeyed the null, Irish futile., by
playing the seine oempaser's fantasia on the besatifal air,
" • Is, 0 emu 1 Ike iteritani.

Vas nest ,a is to net. plitos at St. Ikeda's
San, as the SW el Jemmy, when Handel' a Fumed Mawr
I le be thesatith