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London, England, 1846-12-15 00:00:00

entertained, if at all, till other preliminary reforms
have been accomplished.

By the Levant Mail intelligence has been received
from Constantinople and Smyrna of the 27th, and
from Athens of the 30th ult. The following is from
the Constantinople paper of the 27th :
"The Government:has just received satisfactory intel-
ligence from Diarbekir and Mossul. Tayer Pacha,
governor of the last-named province, has put to fligtt
and dispersed the rebels of Kurdistan, the major part of
whom have made their submission. The imperial troops
have suffered much from the advanced season, but their
constancy has been rewarded by a success which insures
the tranquillity of this distant country until the Porte
shall adopt broader measures for settling, it upon a
durable basis. The choleraihas, unfortunately, attacked
Mossul, but the mortality is not great, and it is hoped
that the severity of the weather will entirely deprive it
of its malignancy." "On Friday last his Highness
the Cheik ul Islam, Mustapha Assim Effendi, died
of an attack of apoplexy. He was upwards of eighty
years of age. The Cheik ul Islam and the Grand
Vizier are the two first personages of the empire, be-
ing the vicars and representatives of the Sovereign, one
in spiritual, the other in temporal, affairs. By an im-
perial ordonnance, dated the same day, Arif Effendi,
Grand Judge of Roumelio, was called to replace Assim.
This eminent man is distinguished for his profound and
varied knowledge. All his opinions tend towards
reform, which consequently finds in him a powerful
support."
On the 17th ult. 800 houses were burned down at
Salonica.

The Moniteur Grec of the 29th publishes an official
bulletin, signed by six physicians, which states that
COLETTI, the Prime Minister, is convalescent.

The Prussian Gazette of the 4th states, that nobody
in Berlin supposes that a war in Europe will arise
out of the Cracow affair. " England," says this jour-
nal, " will not be so weak as to allow herself to be
again duped by France.' Curiously enough, whilst
an English journal pretends that the KING of the
FRENCII has demanded a congress on the affair of the
marriage, the Berlin journal talks of a congress as
probable for the termination of the Cracow affair by
means of a convention, which will calm all excite-
ment ; and adds, " If the Cabinet of the Tuileries re-
fuses to join, it may return to the isolation in which
it has already found itself."
The change of Ministry, which had been for some
time expected in Baden, has taken place. The Mi-
nister of the Interior is appointed President of the
Council of State, and is replaced by M. BExx.
The Frankfurter Journal, in a letter from Schles-
wig of the 4th instant, states, that in the sitting of
the Diet of the 30th, the KING'S Commissioner rose
and attacked, in ironical language, the Deputies of
Galert, Fredeman, and Hansee, who had defended
the proposition concerning the suppression of the
present mode of levying taxes without the con-
sent of the States. The three Deputies replied
warmly to the attack, and their indignation was
shared by the whole assembly. The President
then communicated to the assembly a letter from
the KING'S Commissioner against the petitions sent
in on the subject, and came to the conclusion that
the Government had struck the blow with which
the Diet was menaced ; that, in fact, the right of
petition was set aside, and the institutions of the
country attacked. "We are not any longer," said
he, "either representatives of the people, or indepen-
dent witnesses of public opinion—we have sunk to
the position of a subaltern Government authority !
He concluded by declaring that the threats of the
Commissioner did not cause them any apprehension,
and that the Government would find it to be two
different things to show a ferule to children and to
beard men ! The Duke D'AUGUSTEIIBURG declared
that, considering the course which the Government
was pursuing, he found himself under the necessity of
withdrawing his note from the Council of Represen-
tatives of the people.
A letter from Frankfort, of the 6th, states that
there is no longer a scarcity of money at the Bourse
of that place, and it is difficult to obtain good paper
for discount at four per cent.

A letter from Vienna, of Dec. 10, says that the
payments of the end of the month having been made
with facility, it was hoped that the banking-house,
about which such unpleasant rumours had prevailed,
would continue to maintain its credit.

Madrid papers of the 7th have arrived.
The elections are going on most favourably for the
Progressistas. The return of three of that party,
viz., SAN MIGUEL, MENDIZABEL, and LUGAN for
Madrid, is considered as certain. The other three
representatives of the capital are Ministerialists,
viz., Mos, PIDAL, and the Marquis DEL POVAR.
Rumours of a change in the Ministry continued to
be rife in Madrid.

The Infante Don ENIUQUE arrived in Madrid on
the 6th, and was visited by his brother, the King-

Consort.

The Government contract with the Bank of San
Fernando has been renewed by the Minister of

Finance.

MADRID BOLSA, DEC. 7.—The Three per Cents.
closed at 34; cash, 34*, paper offered; the Four per
Cents., 21; the Five per Cents, 21; Debt without In-
terest, Gi; and Coupons, 19i.

We have received the Paris papers of Saturday and
Sunday.
The weekly reception of K GUIZOT was attended
on Friday evening by the Marquis of NORMANBY,
Count D'APPONT, and all the other Ambassadors, for
the purpose of showing that their absence from the
file given to the Bey of TUNIS did not arise from any
coolness to M. GUIZOT.

We find the following in the Presse, on the subject
of the resolution of the BET not to visit England :
" The presence of the Bey of Tunis in Paris appearsto have seriously occupied the attention of Lord Pal-
merston, even in the midst of the cares demanded from
this Minister by the marriage of the Duke de Montpen-
,ier and the Cracow affair. England is very touchy
about all that relates to the Mediterranean ; and the Bey
of Tunis, the neighbour of Algeria and the ally of France,
would have been seen with great pleasure at the court of
Queen Victoria, where everything would have been done
to snatch him from the exclusive patronage of the French
nation. But an obstacle occurred. Scarcely had the
Bey arrived on the French soil, when he was treated as
a sovereign prince, and England, which has not yet re-
cognised his right to that quality, was not inolined to
consider him otherwise than as a vassal of the Porte.
Lord Normanby was, therefore, charged to negotiate
this grave affair with M . Baffo, and to prove to him that
interest
his master had a greatin showing consideration
to Great Britain ; that hitherto the Bey had been
animated with intentions equally favourable to all
nations, but that he appeared at present inclined to
change his policy, and give himself up entirely to France,
which fact would be completely evident if he did not con-
sent to go to England on the conditions proposed to him.
The Bey, not being convinced that he ought to give up the
prerogatives of reigning princes, M. Eatfo informed Lord
Normanby of the refusal expressed by his master. Lord
Palmerston, considering that he ought not to rest satisfied
with his first effort, a few days back sent a dispatch in-
tended to be read to M. Raffo, declaring that if the Bey
proceeded to London he should be received with great
cordiality, but that the British Cabinet had duties to
perform, and obligations to observe, which would prevent
it from admitting this Prince to the Queen, unless pre-
sented by the Turkish Ambassador. The Bey, it said,
ought to bear in mind that he has other countries near
him besides Algeria, and that he ought not to conduct
himself solely with this latter consideration in view.
This new advance was not attended with any greater
success than the former, as the Bey persists in his reso-
lution. It is even announced that he leaves Paris on
Tuesday for Tunis, whither M. de Lagau, the Consul-
General,is to accompany him."
The Presse is wrong in saying that the English
Government invited the BET. The BET expressed a
wish to visit England, and was given to understand at
once that, in the event of his doing so, he would be
received as a vassal of the SULTAN, and not as an in-
dependent Prince. The following is the conclusion
of the article in the Debuts on the subject of tariff
reform :

" B. y a decree bearing date the Ist of March, 1793, all
of every description
treaties of commerce were annulled, and British produce
Was rohibited. The law of the
10th p
Brumaire, year 5, was conceived in the same spirit,
with the hope of inflicting 'a mortal wound on Pitt and
Coburg.For the same reason the National is at pre-
sent opposed to the application of the principles of com-
mercial liberty. Napoleon, having been created Empe-
ror, wishing to prepare the üblic mind for a continental
blockade, and yielding to the suggestion of unenlight-
ened fiscal authorities, instituted by a decree of the 17th
Pluviose, year 13, a new tariff. By this measure the
duties on coffee, sugar, cocoa, and tea, imposed by the
tariff of 1791, were increased fivefold. Some duties on
articles of luxury were increased tenfold, and even me-
dicines were highly taxed. The decree of the year 13
was about to be converted into a law in 1806, when the
Emperor, in a fit of fury against England, without con-
sulting the legislative body, prohibited every article
composed, in any part, of cotton. .At a later period, in
1810, Napoleon, when his hatred against Great Britain
arrived at its paroxysm, endeavoured to exclude colonial
produce altogether by raising the duties. He fixed the
duty on raw cotton at 880 francs for 200 pounds weight.
The The Levant cottons, by favour, paid 440 f., and if they
arrived by land 120 f. ; raw sugar was taxed 330 f. ; tea, I