The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-07-19 00:00:00

FOREIGN NEWS.

FRANCE.--The arrests at the Opera Comique still
excite public curiosity. The plot has been connected
with the attempt at the Hippodrome, and indeed the
chief actors ara implicated in both. Four days after the
affair at the Opera men were posted on the road to St.
Cloud with the same object, and were taken into custody.
Arrests have taken place to the number, it is said, of a
hundred, and those last arrested are lodged in the prison
of Mazas. The chief conspirators are mostly Belgians,
and so determined were they in their proceedings, that
they had even provided an ambulance, &c., for the
wounded. Had they succeeded in their attempt on the
Emperor, the cry of Aux acmes would have been raised,
barricades thrown up, all public functionaries put to
death, and, in short, a reign of terror and the Red Re-
public thoroughly established.
The Emperor and Empress purpose to leave for the
Pyrenees on the 20th inst.
Queen Christina arrived in Paris on Wednesday. Her
Majesty is accompanied by the Disc de Rianzares, as well
as by a portion of her family, and brings a numerous
retinue.
SPAIN.—The Ministry are again in the midst of a
Gen. Lersundi has, it is said, tendered his resig-

nation.
The Espana of the ith says that an understanding has
been come to between the Spanish and French authorities
as to the boundary line between the two countries near
Navarre, and consequently the troops which were stationed
on both sides the frontier to defend the respective rights
of both countries, have received orders to return to their
former quarters.
PORT U G&L.—The parliamentary session at Lisbon
has been prolonged to the 20th inst., and the Deputies are
working double time to get through the Budget.

TURKEY.—A great Mussulman movement is going
on among the masses. The price of arms in the Bezestan
has risen enormously, and the military preparations on
the part of Turkey have far exceeded all anticipation. It
seems as if the huge slumbering empire was about to
shake off her rusty shackles, and make a gigantic effort
to resist foreign invasion. As time presses, this warlike
Mussulman feeling grows in intensity, and as fresh offers
of assistance in men, arms, and money, come pouring in
from remote corners of the empire, it becomes more and
more doubtful how far the peaceful counsels of foreign
ambassadors will influence the Turkish Cabinet. At
Caesarea, where 20,000 students for the office of the
priesthood are assembled, war is preached from every
mosque. and the students parade the streets with banners,
crying, "War with the Russians ! and death to the
Giaour !" and the reports of the different Consuls in the
interior speak of the same zeal and enthusiasm for the
cause of Islam.

A private telegraphic despatch from Marseilles of the
16th gives us Constantinople news of the sth instant.
A certain degree of apprehension prevailed at Con-
stantinople. Excited as the Turks and the Greeks are
by the late political events, it was feared lest the two
parties might commit deplorable excesses.
The news of the passage of the Pruth had just reached
the capital.
The Russian army in Wallachia and Moldavia is stated
to muster 50,000 men.
The ambassadors of France and England have pre-
vailed upon the government of Greece to put a stop to
their naval armaments.

The fleets of Great Britain and France are still in the
Bay of Besika.

A letter, dated Jassy, 4th July, says :—" It will take
the Russian troops eight days to cross the Pruth. The
majority of those troops are proceeding by forced marches
to the Danube. At this date there are 30,000 Russians
actually in Moldavia."
By the recent accounts from Constantinople, it appears
that Lord Redcliffe had ordered Colonel Neale, and M.
Delacour had ordered Messrs. Barthelemy and Longue-
ville, to repair to Turnova, in the neighbourhood of the
Russians. French officers are prohibited from leaving
their ships,•as orders to enter the Dardanelles might be
expected every moment.
Lord Carlisle had arrived, but we do not bear that his
visit was at all connected with any diplomatic mission.
The preparations for war continue to be prosecuted with
the same vigour as ever, and conferences are taking place
between the representatives of the four great Powers.
The Porte has publicly notified that no foreign trading
ships shall be allowed to enter the Bosphorus during the
night, the object being to avoid anything like surprise.
The following account of the state of the Danube, learnt
from Sulina and published in the Trieste Zeitung, is
important. It begins by stating that more than 500 ves-
sels are waiting to get out at sea :—" The condition of the
mouth of the river becomes worse and worse, as number-
less fragments of wrecks are lying under water. In oases
of shipwreck the authorities are extremely negligent, and
there would be much greater loss of life if it were not for
the exertions of humane private persons."
Accounts from Bucharest state that Omer Pacha con-
tinued for more than two hours in his cabinet with the
Turkish General, Niepokoitschiski, sent by Prince Gorts-
chikoff to the Turkish quartier-general at Schumla. Two
hundred of Omer Paella's staff were present at the inter-
view. At its termination the Turkish commander sent off
two Tartars to Constantinople with despatches. General
Niepokoitschiski left the same day under a Turkish
escort. . .

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SmyaNA.—Great excitement has been occasioned at
Smyrna by the fatal result of disturbances, arising from
the conduct of the Austrian consul there. A certain
Captain Costa, who had accompanied the Hungarian
demagogue Kossuth to America, recently returned to
Smyrna unknown to the governor of the province, Ali
Pasha. On the 22d, whilst enjoying himself in the cafe
" British and Smyrna Club," on the Marina, M. Costa
was suddenly set upon by a dozen boatmen, and hurried
off to the Austrian brig-of.war Hussar, lying in the
roads. The arrest was ordered by the Austrian Consul,
and roused not only indignation among the inhabitants,
but on the part of the Turkish Governor, who acted with
considerable energy on the occasion. On the 23d the
American corvette St. Louis arrived from Athens, and, as
Costa had been in the United States, her commander,
accompanied by the United States Consul, repaired on
board, hoping to claim Costa as a naturalised American ;
but, in an interview, he, with some firmness, proclaimed
himself a Hungarian. On the 23d three officers from the
Hussar, one a midshipman, the Baron Hackelberg, landed
at the club, and almost immediately were set upon by
some 15 refugees ; resistance was impossible. One of the
officers succeeded in making his escape ; a second was
grossly ill-treated ; while the young Baron received a
severe stab with a stiletto, and immediately, in the hope
of escaping, plunged into tLe sea. He, however, sunk—
whether from loss of blood or some other cause can never
be known, for his corpse was, after several hours,
recovered from the water. The excitement produced by
this second event was even greater than that occasioned
by the arrest of Martin Costa, and it will be seen s
mutual case of offence has occurred. The affair haa,
however, been satisfactorily arranged. The new governor
of Smyrna has been displaced by the Porte, and the re-
fugees delivered up to justice. Meanwhile Austria dis-
claims the conduct of her Consul, who is re-called.

THE WEST INDIES.—By the Royal Mail steam-ship
Orinoco, which arrived at Southampton, on Sunday night,
we have intelligence from Jamaica to the 27th ultimo.
Affairs up to the departure of the packet remained in the
same unsettled state. No steps towards reconciliation
had been taken by the Council or the Assembly ; all
public business had been brought to a standstill, and the
treasury continued closed against all claimants. In con-
sequence of the want of immediate funds to meet the
expenses of the Penitentiary, a considerable number of
convicts had been discharged ! The yellow fever had not
abated its ravages among the shipping at Kingston, and
some fatal cases had occurred on shore. The subject of
copper mining continued to attract great attention, and
confidence is felt that the mineral wealth of the island will
ultimately justify very high expectations.
The differences between Peru and Bolivia have reached
such a point as to bid fair for actual war. The question
between France and Ecuador has been settled.
Chili is going on quietly and prosperously.
Barbadoes on the 2Sth of June was healthy throughout
—the young crop more luxuriant than had been seen for
many years. 36,000 hogsheads of sugar had been shipped,
2,000 or 3,000 more ready to be shipped, and about 1,000
to be made. Ships were wanted to take away the
molasses and sugar.
During the last month refreshing rains have fallen in
British Guiana, and the cane cultivation has quite re-
covered the late severe drought. Trade is very dull, and
provisions scarce and dear.

WESTERN AFRICA.—By the African Steam Navi-
gation Company's mail-packet Hope, Captain Bowen,
which reached Plymouth on Wednesday, we have advices
from Fernando Po to the 31st of May • Lagos, 4th of
June ; Accra, 6th ; Cape Coast Castle, ith ; Monrovia,
11th ; Sierra Leone, 15th • Bathurst and Goree, on the
19th ; Teneriffe, 4th of July; and Madeira, 6th of July.

At Old Calabar there had been an alarm of an outbreak
at Lagos, but the alarm was over when the Hope left.
Trade was very much improved, and it is averred that this
old slave station will become, if properly watched, a place
of considerable export.

No pilots were to be obtained at Bonny and Old Calabar,
and the Hope was compelled to send in her boats.
At Cape Coast Castle, the excitement consequent on
the late Ashantee invasion having quite subsided, the na-
tives under British protection had resumed their usual
occupations, being generally engaged in preparing and
planting their farms. Twenty-six Asbantees had arrived,
and 600 others, all traders, were reported en route, so that
the fear of further hostilities with this warlike people may
be considered at rest for the present, nor is it likely, after
the check they have received, that another act of aggres-
sion will be attempted for some time to come. An officer
and party of men from the Gold Coast corps are stationed
at the interior frontier for the purpose of protecting the
Ashantee traders, and preventing any collision between
those people and the allied British tribes.
The present year has been unusually unhealthy ; the wet
season set in early in May, and much rain has already fallen.
Governor Hill, having suffered from repeated attacks of
fever and from his late exertions, returned in the Hope to
Europe for the recovery of his health.
The palm oil trade throughout the coast was brisk.
It was a moat fortunate circumstance that the palaver
with the Ashantees was arranged in time to permit the
people attending to their plantations, otherwise a famine
during the coming year must have been the consequence.
As it is, there is every reason to be thanfiful for the peace-
able termination of an untoward squabble which threat-
ened the settlements with the horrors of war and famine.
The Rev. William Cornewall, the colonial chaplain of
the Gold Coast, expired on board the Hope on the 27th of
June, seven days before reaching Teneriffe. The rev.
gentleman was an invalid when he embarked.

ITALY.—Letters from Florence state that it was again,
rumoured that the Grand Duke Leopold of Tuscany in-
tended to abdicate in favour of his son. The marriage of
the latter with a daughter of the King of Naples was con-
sidered to have been a preparatory step towards that re-

solution.
DENMARK.—The Asiatic cholera has re-appeared in
Copenhagen, where cases of it have existed, proving ra-
pidly fatal, ever since the middle of June. From that
period the disease has been slowly but steadily increasing ;
and the official return for the Bth of the present month
states that on that day there were 51 new cases and 18
deaths. From the first appearance of the disease there
have been registered in all 270 attacwhicks and 142 deaths, so
that this formidable pestilence, h for several months
has been lingering in St. Petersburgh, has now approached
to within less than 500 miles of the coast of Norfolk.
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AUSTRIA.—The young Emperor is much vexed at
the course taken by Russia. He had written an autograph
note to the Czar, which has been little heeded.
Austria continues to concentrate her troops on the
frontier of Bosnia. From Peterwardein, the largest
garrison town in the neighbourhood of the frontier, the
Austrians are descending the Danube, and going up the
ne, in order to take up some position on the frontier
Itself.

RUSSlA.—Prince Gortschakoff has issued a proclama-
tion to the people of Moldavia, announcing the occupa-
tion of those territories by Russia, asserting the desire of
the Czar to avoid an aggressive war on Turkey, and call-
ing on the Moldavians to keep to their agricultural Tabours
and commercial speculations, to be obedient to the laws
under which they live, and to look tranquilly to the future.
A circular despatch from the court of Russia to the
European Powers has been published, dated St. Peters-
burgh, June 20th (July 2nd), 1853.
After recapitulating the contents of the circular of May
30th, and the ultimatum proposed to Turkey, the despatch
proceeds to comment on the refusal of it by Turkey, as
well as on the conduct of France and England :
The despatch goes on to protest that the intentions of
Russia are pacific, that she does not wish to reduce the
subjects of the Porte from their allegiance. The terms
on which the occupation is to cease are thus expressed :
" From the moment when Turkey shall have accorded us
the satisfaction which is our due, and when, at the same
time, the pressure which the attitude of the two ma-
ritime Powers produces upon us shall cease, our
troops shall return within the frontiers of Russia."
Wilt) despatch neat declare: that no oppression shall be ea-

ercised towards the inhabitants of the provinces occupied Freights nominal. Exchange closed firm at 293., discounts
by the Russian troops ; and argues at great length that the Bto 10 per cent.
refusal of the Porte is a virtual annulling of ail its obliga-
tions previously recognised as to its conduct towards its
subjects of the Greek religion. The idea of a political
Protectorate on the part of Russia is altogether disclaimed
as a misapprehension, and the assertion is repeated that
Russia desires nothing more than the recognition de novo
of the ancient Status of the Greek Churches in Turkey.

INDIA OVERLAND MAIL.

Intelligence has been received by overland mail from
Calcutta to the 3rd of June, and Bombay 30th of May.
The final interview between the Burmese Envoys and the
British Commissioner took place at Prome on the 7th of
May. The Burmese tried to put off giving a definite an-
swer, and asked for a second period of 30 days for deli-
beration. This was refused them. They were told that
they must give a categorical answer at once; but, it is
stated that, to induce them to give a favourable reply, the
British Commissioner offered to remove the proposed
frontier line still further to the southward. Such con-
cessions however were of no avail. On being pressed for
a definite answer, the Burmese Envoys refused explicitly
to sign away a single rood of the Burmese dominions on
any consideration. On this they were given twenty-four
hours to reconsider their answer, or to quit the territory
occupied by our troops, and they did so depart within ten
hours. It is stated that the Burmese Envoys did not
evince any anxiety to bring matters to an accommodation.
Immediately after the departure of the Burmese Envoy
the Medusa and two gunboats were sent up from Prome
to Meaday, to strengthen our advanced post there, and to
blockade the river, with a view of preventing the transit
of rice from the lower provinces to the capital.
It is not yet certainly known what steps will be taken in
consequence of the breaking off of those negotiations.
General Godwin is understood to be in favour of an im-
mediate advance on Ave, but he has written to the
Governor-General for instructions. . .

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India west of the Ganges is quiet, even the hill tribes in
the far north- west have been pretty orderly of late.

The Nizam has acceded to 'the demand-of our govern-
ment for the assignment of territory yielding 36 lacs of
revenue yearly, to be held for him, but in payment of the
contingent and the liquidation of his debt.