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London, England, 1855-08-28 00:00:00

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Atessieurs Negri and Raletti, before proceeding to
Constantinople, came to Bucharest, with the expectation
that Prince Stirbey would adopt also the reform which
he had just introduced into Moldavia, and that he would
allow two of his ministers to join them in the same
mission. After hesitating a long while, Prince Stirbey
and his administrative council discovered a middle
term, and decided upon the secularisation of a fourth
only of the revenue of the convents of Wallachia, and
this only for a limited space of time, for four years.
But the Prince, as though he distrusted his own
Ministers, refused to send representatives to Constanti-
nople, in the same manner as he had previously refused
to send representatives to Vienna. The Moldavian minis-
ters, concluding therefore that their advice would be
lost upon Prince Stirbey, thought fit to depart for their
destination alone. It appears that the mission of Mes-
sieurs Negri and Raletti has been in some degree occa-
sioned by a letter from Fund Pacha to Prince Ghiska.
This letter owed its origin to a petition from the Jews of
Moldavia to the Porte. It has been asserted that the
minister for foreign affairs in Turkey, overstepping
the limits of the rights of sovereignty of the Porte,
treated in his letter of matters concerning the interior
legislation of the Principalities.
As far as Prince Stirbey is concerned, ho is too much
occupied with his own interests, which are not tho-
roughly coincident with the interests of Wallachia, to
have much time to busy himself with the affairs of the
province. his rapacity is excited and increased by the
precariousness of the situatio❑ in which he is placed.
He turns this to profit ; for, thinking ever:e day that he
is approaching the termination of his reign, he endea-
vours to add to his stores of money with the greediness
of a man just about to fly, and eager to seize everything
that lies in his way. However, the Prince is not going
yet. His provisional reign has already lasted a year,
in spite of the incessant complaints of the inhabitants
—in spite of the reiterated remonstrances of the resi-
dent consuls at Bucharest—in spite even of the Porte
itself, whose commissary, Dervish Pasha, in a report on
an inquiry into the administration of Prince .Stirbey,
convicted the Prince of a multitude of acts of malversa-
tion, and accused him even of an attempt to purchase
silence by bribes. The only support of the Prince is the
protection of Austria ; and since this protection is suffi-
ciently powerful to preserve him in place against the •
efforts of all, he cares fur nothing else. More than this,
not only does be give himself no trouble about the Porte
and its allies, but he throws so much zeal into his devo-
tion to his powerful protector that be astounds General
Caronini himself. For every service that is required of
him he gives two. The result of this may he antici-
pated by the consideration of what has latelytaken place.
Alstria has granted to the Prince a favour which even,
fedb fe sovereign powers have obtained. She has just con-
ferred on one of his regiments the name of Elizabeth-
Stirbey. If the Prince succeeds in making of Walla-
chia an Austrian possession, he will scarcely consider
that he has acquitted himself thoroughly of his debt to
his pea .ctor.
A short time back the Prince dismissed his favourite
prefect of police, M. Rodolph Rossetti. As an excuse
for the dismissal, and to conciliate public •pinion, reports
were circulated with respect to a deficit of four thousand
Austrian ducats, which the ex-prefect had left in the
treasury of the prefecture. In addition to this the re-
ports mentioned the complaint lodged against M. Ros-
setti by the Prussian Consul, for striking one of his pro-
teges. All the world, however, knows that the appro-
priation of public money is a sine qua non for a Walla-
chian (public functionary, and that M. Rossetti was
accustomed daily to indulge in acts of brutality, much
more disgraceful than those of which he is now accused.
The true reason which induced the Prince to sacrifice
M. Rossetti is that ,the hackney coachman whom he
struck was a Russian subject, and that, In addition to
this, Austria did not wish that functionary to remain
in hs situation any longer. Austria wanted a man
of its own choice in the police. This choice fell
upon M. Demetrius Gregoire Ghiska, who —to
do him justice exercises something more even
than zeal to merit the confidence ' of which
he is the object. His office is rather in the antechambers
of Generals Coronini and Popovitsch, than in the Pre-
fecture tie Police. However, he will have some trouble
in satisfying their excellencies, for the Roumanees, whom
it was thought possible to rob because they bad been
disarmed, mado use of the first log of wood that came
in their way to defend their lives and their possessions
against the nocturnal expeditions of the Austrian plun-
derers. Armed with their large clubs, they have several
times succeeded in forcing their ferocious conquerors to
leave arms, baggage, and even their wounded, behind
them, and to take flight after a fashion truly Austrian—
bare-headed and crying for mercy. Now Wallachia is
so well supplied with wood, that if the inhabitants are
to be deprived cf these terrible arms, which they have
wielded with so much success, Count Coronini and his
lieutenant of police must set re to the whole country.
Prince Stirbey has just received an order from the
cabinet of Vienna to establish, with the greatest de-
snatch, telegraphic lines throughout the Principalities.
For some days, therefore. he has been exclusively occu-
pied in the execution of this order. It is believed here
that these telegraphs are to be at the service of Austria,
if that power takes in the Principalities a position hostile
to the allied powers. The fact is, that it would be im-
possible g toth seasyoiwl what tw alotherWallachia
niateweeistthAeluesettrriiac
lines.can have in
The single good thing I have to acquaint you with is,
that the harvest this year has been most abundant.
Unhappily, the inhabitants have to regret the time that
they have spent in getting it in, for exportation is
forbidden. Austria gave out that it was about to send
its vessels to watch over the free navigation of the
faptthrien
cimipma
Lower Danube, only for the purpose of preventing the
Allies from sending their own vessels to Salina. It
is impossible to conceive a more unfortunate idea thanh
that of entrusting Austria with the police of the mout
of the Danube. In fact, if there were no ether
ob-
stacle, Austria would create one itself, so much
is it interested in preserving its exclusive monopoly of
the produce of Moldo•
France are soon about to send to Sulina smallaIt is believed
toconbfiendfoebunetnliayg
squad-
ron, and a corps d'armee into the Principalities. How-
ever,ths and years are passing away, and. nothing
months
might almost affirm that a magical circle
is done. One
Principalities, and renders there surrounds the Principalities,.
.ern unap•
Allies, for it cannot be believed seri-
ouslyproachable to the
that the. Allies be .
re-
sources which are
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prevente rom entering them by the fear
that they are
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calamity. It
Claltedseoenmias,
that a large vessel, called the Erimissia, manned by a
crew of 50, left Callao in April, with 650 Chinese coolies
on board, bound. for Sydney. She prosecuted her voy-
age in safety until the Bth of May, when she struck on
a sunken reef, west of New Caledonia. Such was the
force with which the vessel struck that in about twenty
minutes she broke in half, and the mass of human beings
on board were struggling in the water. Of the entire
number only seven were saved, who took to one of the
boats, and after great sufferings succeeded in reaching
New Caledonia.
A THIEF IN FEMALE ATTIBE.—A German, passing
by the name of Maria Brown, was brought before the
magistrates at Manchester, yesterday, on suspicion of
committing omnibus robberies. There was no special
case against him, but the police had been in search of
him, by description, for picking pockets in omnibuses,
nearly two months. Ho wore a white straw bonnet,
trimmed with white sarsenet ribbon, outside, and having
a false cap with artificial flowers inside. The dress was
of brown stuff, with black silk mantle. The boots were
of cloth, and he carried a parasol. His hair is black, and
of great length, and dressed according to the latest
fashion. Tho breasts being well padded, and the beard
and whiskers well kept down by means of pnmicestone
and prepared chalk (which were found in Maria Brown's
dressing-case), the make-up was good, and ninety-nine
persons out of a hundred might be excused suspecting
the sex. He was remanded until Thursday, and int
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meantime the magistrate directed that a proper suit f
clothes should be provided.

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creases in all its features every day. In Moldavia, tL*
Austrian occupation keeps up the Russian regime in all
its rigour; nevertheless, the situation of this Princi-
pality is—l can scarcely say better—but at least ler*
miserable than that of Wallachia. Prince Ghiske„
though excessively timid when doing good is the quer.
tion, is nevertheless not quite so hearty as his colleague
Prince Stirbey in oppressing and crushing the country
which he governs. The press in Moldavia is in the,
enjoyment of a certain degree of liberty. In Wallachia
it has always been kept down, and many measures
which Prince Ghiska has just taken justify us in
entertainiug a belief that liberty of action jathei
than sincerity of intention is what the Prince
required in order to effect the amelioration of the
condition of his suhjects. He has made to the
Societe du Credit Mobilier an offer of the most advan-
tageous kind—perhaps, alas ! too advantageous when .
the interests of Moldavia are taken-into consideration—
for the construction of a railroad, which, taking
.Galatz
as its point de depart, will meet at Tchernowitz, on the
Buecovina, the Austrian Railway. The wealthy com-
pany at Paris accepted eagerly the Prince's offer, and
sent to Jassy their engineer, M. Bonaut, who is noVi on
the point of concluding an agreement with the Molda- •
vial' Government. Prince Ghiska, at the same time, has`
acted in a patriotic manner by proposing to Prince Stir-
bey to join him in assuring an annual income to the
Roumanee Chappel, which the worthy and courageous
Rautnanee prelate, tho Archimandrite Josaphat Snago-
V3OO, founded two years ago in Paris, in which city
the Greek ritual had up to that time no other place
of celebration than the Russian embassy. But au-
other whiCh Prince Ghiska has lately taken is of if
the greatest importance, and relates to the seculari-
sation of two-thirds of the revenues of the convents.
This proposition was unanimously adopted by
the administrative council of Moldavia. The prince—
entrusted his counsellors, Negri and Raletti, with the.
mission of conveying to Constantinople the account -
the important alteration -which he has just introduced 'k
into Moldavia. In this account, of which I have re-
ceived a copy, there occur these remarkable words :
" We have been obliged to take these measures for the
purpose of increasing the resources of our treasary, and
putting it into a condition to meet the extraordinary ex•
penses which are incurred by the Principality on ac-
count of its being occupied by a foreign army ; for the
inhabitants of Moldavia can only by the greatest exer-
tions succeed in supporting the burdens which now
press upon them, and our conscience will not permit us
to oppress them with new burdens."