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London, England, 1856-10-03 00:00:00

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drunken man is not itself a nuisance, but can he E PT •
be called a nuisance in au essentially different
sense to a fop, or a coquette, or even to a man
who will annoy you with low, loose, or vulgar
talk in a public conveyance. Our sentiments of
morality or propriety cannot be made the foun-
dation of coercive or penal laws. They must
rest on the basis of tangible or unequivocal injury
to person or properly. The error of the Alliance
appears to us to be, impatience of moral means.
They would force men to abstain from moral evil.
They see, not more strongly than all of us, the
tremendous mischief, the curse, the wretchedness,
the loss of character, of property, of everything
due to habits of intoxication, and they would
take the royal road to prevention. We own the
frequent temporary advantage of despotism, but
for all that, it is the curse and bane of our race.

INDIA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIA.

TRIESTE, WEDNESDAY.

The steamer Bombay arrived here this day at
2 p.m., having made the passage in 135 hours
from Alexandria, which port she left on the 25th
of September.

The Indian mail was to leave Alexandria on the

same day with intelligence from Calcutta to the
22d of August, from Bombay to the 29th of
August, and from Hong Kong to the 9th of
August, from Shanghai to the Ist of August.
Preparations are being made at Bombay for a
military demonstration in the Persian Gulf.
Cholera prevails in the Punjaub.
At Bombay the import business is quiet, the
produce market is steady, and the money market

THE ISLE OF SERPENTS.

The Berlin correspondent of a Frankfort journal states
that a second note has been addressed to Russia on the
subject of the Isle of Serpents by Great Britain, and
that its tone is more peremptory than that of the former
note ; in consequence of which the irritation which was
felt by each party has been much augmented.

is easy ; freights have advanced. Exchange is
at 2s. 12d.

Several parts of China are in a very distracted
state. Great losses both of property and life have
been caused at Canton by floods.

Exchange at Canton, is at 4s. 11d. ; at
Shanghai, 78. 3d.

The Persia had arrived at Ceylon %rah advices
from Sydney to the Bth of July, and from Mel-
bourne to the 30th of June.

The markets are quiet, but the progress of the
Australian colonies continues steady.
At Melbourne the price of gold is 3/. las. per
oz. The exports of gold for six months in 1856
amounted to 66 tons.

Gold explorations are bGing actively pursued in

Tasmania.

At Moreton Bay the Phohe Pimbar had gone

on shore.

PARIS, FRIDAY, OCT. 3, 8 A.M.

The Emperor and Empress arrived at Paris at
eight o'clock last night, and immediately left for
St. Cloud.

BERLIN, SEPT. 29.

An official account has just been received that

Russia consents to the cession of Bolgrad. It

was in consequence of the mission of Baron de
Bulow at Vienna and at Berlin having failed that
the Danish Ministers resigned.
The King having summoned M. de Manteuffel
to join him at Carlsruhe he has set off for that
plaoa this evening. His Majesty is to proceed
from Carlsruhe to the Principalities of Hohen-
zollern. Political motives are attributed to this
journey of the President of the Council. The
commission on the navigation of the Danube will
hold its sittings during the winter.

VIENNA, SEpr. 2.

Tho Austrian, Gazette contains a rumour which
had been current, that the Marquis Petrulla, the
Neapolitan Ambassador to the Court of Austria,
has again tendered his resignation. Baron de

Hubner arrived yesterday at Trieste, and wil

very shortly arrive here.

The Premderebtatt states that the King of Naples
has oaused all his most valuable property to be
removed to Gaeta, and that the population of the
capital are in a very excited state. The result of
the mission confided to General Martini, the
Austrian Ambassador at Naples, is considered as
very doubtful.

NAPLES, Sr. 29.

The arrival of the Allied squadrons is expected
daily. The English fleet has arrived at Ajaccio,
the appointed rendezvous.

The Russian circular is generally known here.
It is reported here that Prussia approves of its
sentiments. This declaration, however, has pro-
duced rather a moral than a material agitation.
The preparation of the batteries and defences
goes on ; the King, at Gaeta, busying himself in
superintending the armament of the works.
The Minister has offered a pardon to Poerio
and Settembrini, if they will solicit it at his hands.
They have refused to do so.
King Ferdinand has proposed a Customs Union
wi
with Austria,
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as to the superin-
tendence

HAMBURG, OCT. 1.

Baron Dierckinck Hohnfeld, Danish Minister
here, has been named Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary at Paris, in the room of

Oount Molike.

The Paris correspondent of the Times (second
edition) says :
"In my letter of yesterday I stated that it was
on Monday Baron de Brunow read the circular-
despatch of Prince Gortschakoff to the Minister
of Foreign Affairs. This is an error ; lam now
infouned that the communication was made ten
days ago. The paper, we are told, has acquired
its chief, if not its only, importance from the fact
of its publication, which it appears was owing
to indiscretion on the part of somebody.
Such indiscretions,' however, are not un-
familiar to the Russian Governments, and
rather please it than otherwise. But it was
not through the circular-despatch that the Rus-
sian Government first expressed its feelings on
the questions of which it treats. It is rumoured
that a letter from the Czar himself, now some
weeks ago, entered fully into the same subject.
The private communication was, perhaps, couched
in more modified terms, was more friendly in
form, and in all probability more flattering.
The writer is said to have dwelt on the diffi-
culties which lay in the way of peace, the great
drifts made to obtain it, the confident hopes to
which it gave rise of the duration of the tran-
quillity, and prosperity, and intertneddling with
the internal affairs of independent Govern-
ments, and the difficulty of maintaining pub-
lie tranquillity, if such a system were followed.
The letter is said to terminate with assurances of
the greatest confidence in the prudence and mode-
ration of the Emperor of the French.
"IL is still believed in some quarters that the
King of Naples will, when matters eome to a
point, consent to make,
if not all, at least some
of, tho contusions demanded of him.
The King
well knows the unwillingness of the Emperor
of the French to
take any step that would
lead to a revolutionary outbreak-
Once the
storm raised, who shall say what direction it
may take, and
What destruction it may scat-
ter ? That a movement beginning in the south
of Italy would soon run through the Italian
peninsula is almost certain, and, safe as France
may be, such a convulsion would, ho,rdly pass