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bought and sold as such, we should be inclined to say
that she was far inferior. Yet it cannot be denied that,
as regards mere physical resources, Russia has advan-
tmges unknown to Turkey, as also to most other
European kingdoms ; and it is precisely because this is
the case, and because also the St. Petersburgh Cabinet
is shackled by no considerations of justice or honesty
—being remarkable only for the Punic quality of her
faith—in pursuing her career of self aggrandizement,
that we have felt it our duty, whenever occasion served,
to encourage a spirit of national distrust towards her.
Not a European State, England especially, but has a
deep interest in watching her every movement ; for let
her but once get a secure footing in Turkey, and there
exists not that European Power, whose financial re-
sources she would not vitally affect, and whose means
of retaliation she would not be able to set at defiance.

The whole of the Paris Papers of Sunday have
been received. They contain the copy of a telegra-
phic despatch received by the French Government from
Bayonne, dated October 27th, which states that on
the 20th General RODIL was at Santa Cruz de Niu-

dela, and in communication with General ALAN a
Baylen. GOMEZ was at Fuencaliente, but nothing
was known with respect to his plans. General AL-
vAREz, who had been appointed to succeed the traitor
PEON, formed a junction with the Portuguese division
at Leon on the 17th. SA NZ had then returned into
the Asturias, having failed in his attacks on Leon and
Oviedo. On the 26th the Carlists were actively en-
gaged in carrying on the siege of Bilboa, and had made
several ineffectual attempts to bar the river.
Such is the substance of the Spanish intelligence,
contained in the French Journals of Sunday. In the
African correspondence of the National, we find the
following letter from Algiers, dated October 21st :
" Extraordinary occurrences are taking place here. General
Davremont arrived on the 15th in Algiers, to replace Marshal
Clausel ; yet this very day, the 21st, the Marshal is still Go-
♦ernor of the French possessions in the north of Africa, and an
order of the day, published in the Mozziteur Algeria:, enjoins
General Davremont to go and take the command of the pro-
vince of Oran. The explanation of this imbroglio of our
African policy is this :
" Some time ago Marshal Clause!, supposing the new Mi-
nistry little inclined to fulfil certain engagements taken by the
former Cabinet in regard to Algiers, despatched to Paris his
Aide-de-Camp, M. de Rance. This officer publicly stated
that he was the bearer of an ultimatum of the Governor, re-
quiring immediate reinforcements, to enable him to collect
10,000 men at Bona for the expedition against Constantine.
We did not mention this circumstance at the time, knowing
from experience that little or no attention should be paid to
declarations of the kind. It appears, however, that M. de
Rance believed in the reality of his ultimatum, and that, on
being refused those reinforcements, he told the Ministry the
Marshal would relinquish his command. The Government
accordingly sent off General Davremont to fill a post which
he had every reason to suppose would be vacated by its occu-
pant. But the Marshal, see►ng his successor arrive, disowned
his Aide-de-Camp, and kept his situation. It appears (he
says so at least), that M. de Rance had misunderstood h►m.
Be this as it may, there must have been a want of understand-
ing on the one side, or of good faith on the other. We shall
not, however, take on ourselves to decide the question."

In reference to this passage, we have only to ob-
serve, that the King of the FRENCH is by no means
satisfied with Marshal CLAUSEL'S long continuance
in r-1 frica. His most Christian MAJESTY fancies he
discovers in the veteran warrior an ambition worthy of
himself—that, in fact, the testy old Marshal conducts
the affairs of the infant colony as if it were his right-
ful patrimony. The KIN-0 will have some trouble in
displacing the Marshal, who is a great favourite with

the army.
The Ministerial journals deny that the Spanish
Government commanded M. LAZES the spy to quit
Madrid. They admit that he left that capital, but
only of his own accord, after his services were no
longer required by the French Ambassador. This is
not the fact.

There is no news of any interest from Switzer-
land. Annexed are extracts from the papers of
Sunday :
PARIS, OCT. 30.—Contrary to what has been several times
asserted, and especially by the Morning Post two days ago,
we read this morning in the Gazette des Tribuneaux :
" It is in vain that the family of M. de Polignac has soli-
cited him to make an application to the Government, which
might authorize his being set at liberty. M. de Polignac has
remained inflexible, and declared that he disavowed all solici-
tations that might be made in his favour."
A letter from Bourbon Vendee of the 26th October says—
" M. de Saint Hubert, condemned to death by default, as ac-
cused of haring taken part in the insurrection of La Vendee,
presented himself yesterday before M. de Sainte Herminie,
Secretary-General of the department, acting as Prefect, to
make his submission and surrender himself prisoner. M. de
Saint Hubert, by his name and rank in La Vendee, is one of
the most considerable of those who were implicated in the
troubles. His submission, one of the last that remained to be
made, proves how the last hopes of the party vanish, which
bad in vain endeavoured to foment civil war in the West."
We have no news from Madrid later than the 22d. The
courier with the Speech at the opening of the Cortes, is ex-
pected every moment.
In the absence of other news, the Phare, a journal favourable
to the last Spanish Ministry, explains the recal of the division
of Narvaez to Madrid, by the discovery of a project of the vio-
lent party, the object of which is nothing less than to over-
throw the Ministry by means of an insurrection. It is also
feared (says the journal) that disorders may take place in the
choice of the Ministers of the Regency.
General Espartero (says the Phare) having received from
Madrid reproaches on occasion of the Order of the Day, in
which he announced that officers of the army which he com-
manded professed opinions hostile to the Constitution, an-
swered by the tender of his resignation ; it is not known whether
it has been accepted.
A letter from Ainhoca, of the 25th, says that the Carlists
mean to employ 33 pieces of artillery in the siege of Bilboa,
which will bombard the city at five different points.—Journal
du Commerce, Oct. 30.
PARIS, OCT. 29.—A letter from Madrid says, that the ne-
gociations for a loan between M. Mendizabal and the English
bankers arc so far advanced, that the Minister will be able im-
mediately to lay the result before the Cortes ; so that if the
miter of the letter may be believed, nothing but the sanction
of thst assembly is wanting, to enable the Ministry to prose-
cute the yvar against the Carlists with vigour.
We have information respecting the sitting of the Swiss
Diet on the 26tt..-
The last letters oi" our correspondent, dated the 25th, in the
evening, say that it was rt.:ported at Berne, that the French
Government had transmitted to M. de Montebello a note in
which it enjoined him to make a friendly intimation to the
Members of the Diet, that France was ready to terminate, as
speedily as possible, its differences with Switzerland ; to attain
this object it would be content with explanations of such at
nature that the honour of its diplomacy, and that of the Diet,
might be equally safe.—Messager, Oct. 30.
In the Journal des Debats of Sunday we find the
following among the latest intelligence from the Spanish
capital :
" If general report may be trusted, the first dissuasions of
the Cortes will dwell upon the abolition of the Council of Re-
gency,
vthe exclusion of Don Carlos and his heirs from all
right to the Crown, and the appointment of Maria Christina
as sole Regent, in the name of Isabella 11. It is thought that
Ministers will have a majority on those questions and others.
" Government is actively engaged in negoelations respect
ing a financial arrangement with the bank of San Penned°.
It is said the bank is to advance seventeen millions, imposed
upon Madrid as its share in the forced loan,
" Disturbances of the most serious nature are said to have
occurred at Malaga. A republic has been proclaimed, upon
the mangled corpses of two Members of the Junta, shot with-
out any sort of trial, and the anarchy has been such as to in..
duce the merchants to remove their goods on board the ships
in the roads. We trust that the disturbances have been
magnified.
" Gomez left Cordova on the 14th, and arrived on the same
day at Pozo Blanco, as if he were descending into La Mancha.
On the 15th he turned to the right, and reached Villa Nuevo;
de la Jerre, in the interior of the Sierra Morena, On the 16th
he re-ascended towards the north, at Fuen-Caliente, on which
side Rodil expected him ; next he re-descended towards the
south, by the valley of Lasgeguas, which leads to Andujar, es
if he wished to move towards the Sierra d'Alcaraz.
" Thus, during three days, he has manoeuvred in the thick-
ness ex leaguessspfthe from Cordilleras, having Rodil before him to the north,
Alaix in his rear to the south, but both keeping at five or
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away, in order to carry
to other parts his ravage and disorganization,
always avoiding
the Queen's troops, for his task is
not to combat corps d'ar-
mees; as for the Queen's Generals, their task is, on the con-
trary, in particular to seek the enemy, and attack
him, arid not
to follow him methodically, at a distance of one or two stages.
From the movements of Gomez in the Cordilleras it is
seen that he has successively gone to exhibit his tete de co-
lance at different issues, to deceive the Generals, and return
afterwards to some passage stupidly neglected.
" Since the 16th nothing is known about him. Rodil and
Alaix thought that be was mancetwering to recros the Cor-