The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-07-26 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1853.

FOREIGN NEWS.

FRANCE.---The Emperor and Empress were to have
left on Wednesday for the Eaux Bonnes, but the expected
departure did not take place, nor is it any longer expected
for the present. Her Majesty's peculiar state of health,
it is said, would render the journey unadvisable.
Exaggerations apart, the numbers of conspirators against
the life of the Emperor, discovered by the police, are sur-
prisingly great. More arrests have been made, and such
a clue to the ramifications of the secret society, or socie-
ties, has been found that there is little doubt of the ability
which the police possess to lay their hands on the greater
portion of the members.

The Constitutionnel and the Pays have both made up
their minds that there can be no war, for the reason that
the Russo-Turkish question is now reduced to a point of
formality.

SPAIN.—M. Alejandro Castro, who had gone to La
Granja with the President of the Council, suddenly re-
turned to the Royal residence, and it was inferred from
this circumstance that the important questions which now
occupy so much public attention would not be adjusted in
the next Cabinet Council. If any serious Ministerial
crisis should occur, the Queen would probably entrust the
re-construction of the Cabinet to Count de San Luis.

PORTUGAL.—ThePeninsularandOrientalCompany's
steamship Madrid, Captain Weeks, arrived at Southamp-
ton on Sunday with the usual Peninsula Mails, and dates
from Gibraltar, the 14th ; Cadiz, the 15th ; Lisbon, the
10th; Oporto, the 20th; and Vigo, the 21st instant.
When the Madrid left Lisbon, on the 19th, Her Majesty's
steam-sloop Bloodhound, Captain Christian, from the
coast of Africa, was coaling in the Tagus, en route for
Portsmouth. There was no other foreign vessel of war in
port. A Royal decree had decided that the Cortes should
remain open until the sth of August, when little doubt
existed that the money bills, &c., would have passed the
upper house. The Queen and Court had taken up their
summer residence at Cintra, as also the Duke de Saldanha,
who vas still unable to transact business at the War De-
partment. A petition from different Portuguese manufac-
tories had been made to the Chamber of Deputies to
reconsider the reductions made in the tariff last year.
They, of course, want more protection, but make out no
case, and conveniently dispense with the demonstration of
any fact applicable to any particular trade by stating that
" all the circumstances are so obvious and generally
known as to render superfluous the mention of any of
them."

RUSSIA.—The Emperor, who has been amusing him-
self with grand military displays at St. Petersburgh, is
expected to visit Warsaw about the end of July. The
troops concentrated there, and in the neighbourhood,
amount to 70,000 men.

The Russian authority in Servia, after procuring the
dismissal of the Premier Garaschnin against the Prince's
will, now demands the removal of all state employe's who
are known to entertain anti-Russian sentiments.
The Austrian General Count Gyulay arrived at St.
Petersburgh on the 7th inst., with a special mission to
the Imperial Court.

The Cologne Gazette says the news is being confirmed
at Berlin that a proposition, made by France and Austria
to the Cabinet of St. Petersburgh, has been received by
the latter in a manner favourable enough to be accepted
as the basis of negociations, and of ulterior mediation.

AUgTRIA.—A considerable displacement of troops is
taking place throughout that portion of the military
frontier which adjoins Bosnia and Serbia. The Austrians
are edging on towards Turkey. The pontoon trains have
arrived in the Save, and Bosnia could be entered with
little difficulty or delay._ _

On the 13th Duke Constantine's Regiment marched
from Vienna to the fortress of Peterwardein, and other
troops are on the move in that direction.

The mission of Count Rechberg in Lombardy is
acknowledged to have completely failed, and the Austrian
authorities are again executing the decreed confiscation
with rigour.

PRUSSIA.—His Majesty the King of Prussia has left
Berlin for Weimar.

The Bavarian Envoy at Berlin has announced that his
government proposes to open a great Industrial Exhibition
at Munich, in 1854.
TURKEY.—TheAssemble'e Nationale says:—We learn
by a private letter, which merits absolute confidence, that
at the date of the sth of July the representatives of the
four great Powers at Constantinople, France, England,
Austria, and Prussia, were completely in accord as to the
terms of the arrangement to propose to the Porte and
Russia. This arrangement could not be submitted to the
sanction of the Sultan on account of the Ramazan, during
which official relations with the Porte remain suspended ;
but there was little time to wait to solicit and obtain the
sanction, since the Ramazan ended on the 7th. In con-
sidering, as it is permitted to hope, that the Sultan has
given his sanction, it might have been sent off to St.
Petersburgh, so as to arrive by the 15th of this month ;
and the decision of the Russian Cabinet may be known
about the 25th.

The protest of the Divan against the occupation of the
Danubian Principalities by Russia, reached Vienna on the
15th inst., having been conveyed there by Mehemet
Saftaluge. According to the Presse of Vienna, the Divan
replies most energetically to the arguments of the Czar
in his manifesto, the Sultan, on his part, protesting so-
lemnly against the reproach of having violated his word,
and calling on all the Christian communities to testify
that he has never knowingly and wantonly oppressed
them, and that whenever inferior authorities have at-
tacked their rights and privileges they have been punished.
The document enters into details on the persecution of
the Jews at Damascus, and declares, with respect to the
invasion of the Principalities, that the Porte protests in
the most solemn manner against it, as an act of violence
which nothing can justify.
A Ministerial crisis has been apprehended at Constan-
tinople. The Siecle gives a curious version of the affair.
Its statement is to the effect that, great excitement having
been caused on the 7th, by the official intelligence of the
Russian entry into the Principalities, the Sultan at once
sent for Riza Pacha, a man of great energy, and asked
his opinion and counsel. Riza Pacha advised his oppos-
ing force with force, and the Sultan being disposed to
follow his advice, manifested a desire to give his father's
favourite Minister a seat in the Cabinet. The greatest
consternation was caused among the diplomatic body
when this became known. The Sultan was implored not
to be precipitate in going to war. He yielded, but not
definitively ; a delay was obtained, but it is not known for
how long. The Ambassadors in all haste referred to
their respective Governments for instructions.

Accounts from Constantinople of the 9th instant, say
that there is no cessation in the armaments. The com-
mander of the forts on the Dardanelles has been instructed
to permit the passage at any time, no matter whether by
day or by night, of the British and French steamers.
Letters from the army on the other side of the Balkan
were full of enthusiasm. It is a great advantage for the
Porte that the season is one of the most fruitful ever
known, and everything is remarkably cheap.
A letter from Jassy of the 4th inst., states that General
Luders, whose corps crossed the Pruth at Leowa, re-
mained at Ismail, in order to be able to cross the Danube
at Tuitscha in case of necessity. 'The army of occupation
is estimated at from 100,000 to 120,000 men. It is said
that the inhabitants of Moldavia are indifferent to the
occupation by the Russians, but those of Wallachia ap-
pear to be animated with a spirit of hostility to them. It
is said that Prince Gliika, who has been living in exile at
Constantinople since the events of 1848, is exciting the
Wallachians against the Russians. He is at present at
the head-quarters of Omer Pasha.
The Russian forces entered Oltonitza on the 7th instant,
a❑ important position on the Danube, which was crossed
there in 1828 by an army of 40,000 men under the com-
mand of General Roth.

Intelligence from Constantinople to the llth states that
everything was tranquil; the preparations for defence,
meantime proceeding with the same rapidity as ever. It
appears that the statement in the Lloyd of Vienna, that
the Sultan had sent an ambassador to St. Petersburg, was
without foundation.

It is said that the American- Consul has commenced
negotiations for the cession to the United States of the
port of Marmorizza. It is also said that a sum of
e:500,000 in gold has been paid to the Sultan.