The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-01-25 00:00:00

25, 1853.

PRUSSIA.—In its sitting of January 12, the first
Prussian chamber adopted definitively and without dis-
cussion, the bill which modifies the constitution by fixing
the general elections for the second chamber at intervals
of six years, and rendering the session of the legislature
biennial instead of annual, as at present. In the com-
mittee of the first Prussian chamber, the proposition of
the government respecting the peerage was adopted by a
vote of Sto 7. A Berlin letter says that the Prussian
ministry, not being able to remove at once the difficulties
in the way of a postal arrangement with France, intends
commencing negotiations first with Belgium.

RUSSIA.—The great military activity in Poland in-
creases every day. The number of soldiers in Poland at
this moment is not less than 80,000. The cholera 'has
not yet disappeared.
The Russian Synod has determined to send the Monte-
negrins some valuable church services and ornaments, in
proof of their sympathy.

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Advices from Constantinople state that the intelligence
from the Caucasus received there, through Trebizond,
was very unfavourable to the Russians. Besides the vic-
tories of Chamil Bey, who had forced the Russians to
abandon the positions gained last year, Mehemet Arnim,
his Naib among the Circassian tribes on the coast of the
Black Sea, had collected all the provinces hostile to
Russia under his sovereignty, and had recently achieved
remarkable success. Several Circassian vessels had
arrived at Trebizond, Synope, and Constantinople, with
slaves, having forced the line of Russian vessels which
blockaded the Circassian coast.

TURKEY.—The Journal de Constantinople states
the Turkish Governor of Scutari, Osman Pasha, had
chased the Montenegrins from Piperi and Zabljak, and
driven them impetuously to within their own frontier.
25,000 imperial troops were to be assembled, and it was
believed at Constantinople that the mountaineers would
he reduced to subjection in a month or six weeks. George
Petrowitch Negosck, cousin of Prince Daniel, arrived at
Vienna on the 17th.

EGYPT.—The anniversary of the birth of the Prophet
has just been celebrated at Cairo, with the usual festivi-
ties, and the extraordinary ceremony of the Doseh was
performed on the 23rd of December. On this occasion
a number of dervishes and other mussulman devotees
place themselves on the ground side by side, as closely as
possible to each other, with their backs upwards, and the
Sheikh, or chief of their religion, passes over them on
horseback. None of the men thus trodden on showed
signs of being hurt.

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE ATLANTIC.

By the United States mail steam-ship Atlantic, Capt.
West, which arrived in the Mersey on Thursday forenoon,
we have intelligence from New York to the Bth instant.
The Atlantic brought forty-three passengers, but no
specie.

On the oth instant the Atlantic passed the steam-ship
Humboldt, and on the 17th exchanged lights with the
Arctic, in lat. 50 18 G. long. 24 VT.

A bill appropriating 519,500 to discharge the judgment
obtained against Colonel Fremont in England, while
acting in a military capacity in the service of the United
States, had passed the Senate.

The New York papers contain the official correspon-
dence in reference to the proposition of Great Britain and
France to the American Government to enter into a
mutual agreement disclaiming all designs upon Cuba and
guaranteeing its possession to Spain.
The overthrow of the Derby ministry is the subject of
much congratulation by the Liberal prints.
A despatch from Louisville announces the killing of six
firemen by the collapsing of a flue on board the steamer
John Simonds ; and from New Orleans we have tidings
of the explosion of the boilers of the steamer Fusileer,
whereby some seven or eight persons were killed.
In Mexico the revolution was still raging, and a Min-
isterial crisis had taken place. M. Mariano Yanez has
resigned his office of Minister of Foreign Affairs, and his
resignation was accepted. It was thought that President
Arista wished to form a compromise Cabinet.

The revolution was progreSsing in Tamaulipas with fear-
ful rapidity. Cardenas, the usurping Governor, has been
taken prisoner by the insurgents. Canales was in hiding,
it was not exactly known where. Colonel Basave, who
was in command of the troops sent to Matamoras by
Avolas, has surrendered unconditionally.