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London, England, 1857-12-17 00:00:00

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AMERICA,

ACCIDENT TO THE VANDERBILT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY MORNING.
The steam-ship Vanderbilt, from New York, for
Southampton and Havre, was passed yesterday off
°ark, disabled, her rudder being damaged.

PARIS, THURSDAY, Dec. 17, 8.30 a.m.

An Imperial decree in the Moniteur announces
that foreign brandies have to pay on impoitation
into France a duty of 25f. per hectolitre of pure
alcohol.

A despatch from St. Petersburg, dated the
14th December, announces that General Jeffolo
Kimoff has just gained an important victory over
the Tcherkesses—a great number of the latter
were killed In this affair a number of the villages
of the Tcherkesses were burnt.

BERLIN, WEDNESDAY.

The e xistence of a Russian despatch, addressed
to the Danish Government, on the question of
Holstein, and favourable to the demands of Ger-
many, has been confirmed.

This despatch was expedited at the beginning of
the current month (December).

It is said that this has been viewed in Copen-
hagen as a slight from the Court of St. Peters-
burg.

HAMBURG, WEDNESDAY.
The Burgesses of Hamburg have just authorised
a new loan.

The loans contracted now amount to about
40,000,000 francs.
A sum of 1,950,000 francs has beon advanced
by the Bank of Denmark to a house charged to
maintain the relations between the banks in Dan-
mark and Germany.
The attempt at Berlin to obtain a loan of
10,000,000 mares banco in silver on the part of
Hamburg has totally failed. A like want of suc-
cess has marked their endeavour in Dresden.

The commercial crisis in Norway is still very
severe. Two delegates from the Government
went to Hamburg, some days ago, with money to
support the firms there whose failure would be
prejudicial to Norwegian commerce.

The sitting of the Belgian Chamber of Repre-
sentatives, on the 15th, was very calm.
For the Presidency, M. de Verhogen is the
Government candidate. It is thought that he
will be elected.

A letter from Teheran of the 3d ult., in the
Presse of Vienna, says :—" War and rebellion
still continue in the country, near the districts of
the Turcomans. The governor has assembled
considerable forces at Mesched, the chief town of
Khorassan, one of the principal provinces of the
country, and almost inhabited by the Sunnites,
whom the Akindji of the Turkestans were exciting
to rise. The Akindji were most anxious to pillage
Mesched, where all the riches of the Imam Rizt
are deposited, but the governor-general of Ashera-
bad advanced against the Turcomans at the head
of a battalion of the guard, two battalions of the
line, a battery of artillery, and 600 cavalry, and
came to a sanguinary conflict with them near Ban-
nerie. The Persians, although having 400 of
their men placed hors de combat, compelled the

I Akindji to rectoss the Amon-Deria. Another
Persian general is preparing to march to the re-
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I tef of thegarrison of Bugiamurd, which was closely
_ _ _ _

hemmed in by a body of Tureomans. The Shah
is now residing in Teheran.

FRANCE.
PARIS, WEDNESDAY.

The Moniteur prints the postal treaty between
France and Austria. It contains 29 artides of the
usual character, a series of tables of rates of postage,
and is signed by Count Walewski'and Baron Hub-
ner, and ratified by the Imperial hand
Theindependance of Brussels says :—"The cam-
paign opened in France by the Courrier de Paris
for the formation of an opposition camp in the
midst of the institutions of the empire has come to
an end for want of combatants, after having caused
a considerable sensation in the public mind. It has
procured us the good fortune of receiving a letter
front M. Emile de Girardin. This gentleman
does not deny being the author of the articles
attributed to him in the Journal just named,
but he confines himself to rejecting the asser-
tion that he had purchased
i a part of the jour-
nal which has developed his ideas, and the inten-
tion
isaitttirvibeußteoddytoashidmepuofty for Paris. A wishing to enter the
Le
candi-
dateship, he says, was offered to him, but refused.
The Revue Municipale announcas that the muni-
cipal council of Paris has unanimously declared
itself against the adoption of the project emanating
from the Council of State for the introduction of
free trade in butch?re' meat.

The Academie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres
has elected M. Leopold Delisle as member, in the
room of the late M. Quayem ere.

midnightvßy
Cardinal Archbishop of Paris,
order of
be celebrated on Christmas-eve
in all the churches in the capital. Mgr. Morlot
will officiate pontifically at Notre Dame.
The French government, in order to prevent a
repetition of the mistake which occurred at the
Bourse the other day, in transmitting by t .legraph
the quotations of the Stack Exchange at London,
has ordered that henceforth the quotations shall be
transmitted in words instead of figures.
The Moniteur e3ntains an imperial decree
making several promotions and nominations in the
m upperote s Another decree pro-
motes osfutrigleecinnasgoisfttrhaecyfirst class in the navy
to the rank of principal surgeon, and a third makes
five nominations to the rank of knight of the Le-
gioßnouofilsilE,onour.
Dec. N.—Securities have been in good
demand, in consequence of a report that the Bank
of France would to-morrow reduce the rate of dis-
count to 6 per cent. The following were the last
quotations

Cash. ff• End of Month.
4. per Cents
3 per Centa 66 80 67
Bank Shares 3150 Credit Foncier 530
Credit Mobilier 735 Roman -
Do. Account 731 Austrian
Belgian 44 - Spanish Threes 4l
riedraontese (5) 9O Home Debt

RAILWAYS—FOR CASE.
fr. C. f r C.
0 neans
Northern 5—
Now Ditto 760 Strasburg
Lyons and Med 843 Grand Contral ...... 635
New Ditt 0...
Geneva 630 Austrian Com 678 i

THE
A
PRINCIPALITIES.
Vienna letter,
in the Universal German
Gazette, says :—"There exist now three difftreat
projects on the subject of the organisation of the
Principalities, one emanating from the Porte,
another from France, and the third from England
and Austria. The French project has met with
strong opposition on the part of the Porte, Austria,
and England relative to the election of the Hos-
, poda,rs, those powers not being willing to admit
universal suffrage in such a case. As to the other
two project 3, it will not be difficult t 3 make them
agree ; and the more so aq, in drawing up the
Turkish one the advice of M. do Prokesch and Lord
Stratford de Redcliffe
has been followed on many
points. The question on which the principal dif-
ference of opinion exists is. :hit of the princely dig-
nity being hereditary. Austria and England are in
favour of its being so,
as they consider that sys'etn
to contain the best conditions of stability. Tho
Porte is also disposed to' lender the dignity here-
ditary, but it makes its consent dependent on con-
ditions which Russia and France absolutely reject,
and which the other powers will not readily con-
sent to."

SARDINIA.
The following is the speech delivered by the
King of Sardinia at the opening of the Chambers,
the principal points of which we published when
received by telegraph :
" Senators and DaPuties,—ln again finding myself
among you, after the late elections, it is agreeable to cue
to express my entire confidence that the new legislature
will fulfil its mission with a patriotism and prudence
equal to those displayed by that which preceded it.
" I have not the slightest doubt that I shall find among
you the same energetic and loyal co-operation that I
always obtained from your predecessors for the applica-
tion and development of liberal principles, on which
reposes henceforward in an immutable manner our na-
tional policy. (These words, pronounced with great
emphasis,. were hailed with loud cheers.)
" Our intercourse with foreign powers continues to be