The National Register.
London, England, 1818-01-19 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANcE.

PARIS, Jaa.o.—The Committee chosen from among the
members of the French Academy to make a report to the
Minister of the Interior respecting the re-organization of the
French theatres, have finished their labour. It is said that
they propose to establish a second Theatre Francois, a (*-
coed Theatre d'Opera Comiite, and not to allow more than
one theatre for vaudevilles, and two theatres for melodramas.
6` On the 30th of December, bet weeii 7 and 8 o'clock in this
morning, was found dead in his chamber, 11w Count Witt-
genstein, Colonel of the Legion of Hubeuluhe, in garrison at
Valence. 'This officer bit w out his brains with a pistol, charg-
ed with several Mills. A few moments before he executed
his purpose, he gave some directions to his domestic with his
customary calmness. The motive or this desperate act is not
known.

RUSSIA.
The following is an extract of a letter of the 12th nit. front
St. Petershurgh ;—" Advices from Georgia of the 13th
state, that on the 21st of October, an immense avalanche fell
from the mountain of Kasbeck, anti covered an extent of three
wertts iu length, to the height of 50 fathoms. It eu^npletely
dammed up the rapid river of Tcrek ; which, kowevei, on the
third 'lay, worked a passage for itself underneath the rasa
of snow. This accident for some time intenupted the
com ttttt nication with Georgia. Fortunately there were no
travellers passing when it happened. Nine yea's haste
elapsed since the last avalanche occurred ; though, according
to the reports of the iithabitants, they generally take place
onec in seven years, and in the summer season. The follow-
ing article appears in Our Court calendar : Three hundred
and fifty-five y ears have elapsed since all the Russian provn't re
were united tinder one Government, during whichlllNlmil 11,14
Russian frontiers have been from time to time extended,
without a single instanee in Russian history of a cession of
territory. The acquisitions of territory made by Russia took
• place us follows :—Siberia, in 1573 ; Little Russia, ill 1614 ;
Livonia, and Esthonia, in 1710; White Russia, 1772; nit
Crimea, in 1783 ; Lithuania and Cute land. iu 175 ; the re-
mainder of Poland, in 1795; Georgia, in 1801 ; Bialystoci in
1807 ; Findland, iu 1809 ; and the Duchy of Warsaw, iu
1815.! ,' _ _

PETF.RSBURMI, Dre.l6.—it is known that the great era.
pire of Russia has laboured nude. a total want ot coal, hot
hopes are now entertained of some having been found in this
environs of Tonle, a manufacturing tosau, IVs utiles fr•an
Moscow. The Emporor has, through the aeeney of hi. Am-
bassador in London, the Count de Liecen, engaged a Scotch-
man, M. Cepostki4K, with it great timber of workmen, fraut
Whitehaven runt Newcastle. They et London on the
October, and have already arrived at Nloseow, whet,. they
will pass the winter, and Collinictivt: the wort ..£ ToUi.t in WO
approaching spring.
The Emperor, constantly occupied with whatever may tend
to the encouragement ot letters in his vast empire, has ins tied
front France two orientalists, in order to est:things and propa-
gate in Russia the knowledge of the oriental languages, which
has been too much neglected among us. The ioilividuLts
are M. Demange, and M. Charmoy, both of them pupils
belonging to the special school of oriental languages, at Paris.
The first will teach Arabic and Armenian ; the other Persian
and Turkish. M. Demange has likewise studied Sanserit,
and can teach that branch, so important as Asiatic literature.