The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-02 00:00:00

FOREIGN NEWS.

FRANCE.—The movements of the Emperor and Em-
press still form matter for speculation. It is reported that
the Empress will shortly repair to Trianon, while the Em-
peror makes short excursions to the northern departments
and the camp, which is to be removed from Helfaut to
Boulogne, on the very ground that was occupied by the
famous camp of Napoleon.
On Monday a note from the Russian Government was
presented to M. Drouyn de Lhuys by M. Kisselef. Its
terms amount to an intimation that Russia is willing to ne-
gociate, but upon the condition that all her demands
should be complied with. M. Drouyn de Lhuys showed
the note to M. de Persigny, who instantly set out alone to
St. Cloud, to lay it before the Emperor. The French Go-
vernment is highly indignant.
Monet, ex-Municipal Councillor and Officer of the
National Guard has been convicted at Grenoble of the
murder of Viscount Dampmartin, the Mayor of Uzes, on the
30th of September last, and is sentenced to death. The
circumstance of the murder may be briefly recalled. The
Mayor was shot on the threshold of his own house, at an
early hour of the morning, as he was about to start for
Nismes to meet the (then) President of the Republic. The
characteristics of the proceedings at this trial very strongly
remind one of the notorious Peytel case, so vigorously fol-
lowed out and commented upon by the English writer
Thackeray. Several witnesses saw the assassin fire the
shot and run away, but could not identify his person with
that of Monet. The authorities, therefore, caused Monet
to dress as he was supposed to have dressed on the pre-
sumed occasion of his firing the shot, and compelled him
to discharge a gun, at the same place at the same hour,
and at the same stage of the moon. The hesitating wit-
nesses were then asked whether the " impression" created
by this rehearsal of the scene was that which they felt on
the morning of the murder. Some of them answered in
the affirmative. Two who could not be got to do so were
arrested in Court. Monet has, since his sentence, at-
tempted suicide in a very singular manner. He broke a
bottle of wine, and with the pieces of glass stabbed him-
self in several dangerous places.

ITALY.—Faenza is in a state of siege, in consequence
or the late attempts on the lives of the Governor and
Gonfalioniere of the town. Collins, a Papal functionary,
residing Laetween Faenza and Imola, has been murdered,
together with his wife and family. This circumstance
has rendered the state of siege at Faenza still more strict

than before.
A letter from Rome, dated Jul 12, states that the y
health of the Pope is becoming more precarious. He is
suffering from a severe attack of asthma and general
debility. The Pope is 61 years of age.
Telegraphic advices from Ancona state that the expor-
tation of grain had been prohibited in the provinces along
the Adriatic.
PRUSSlA.—Accounts from Coburg state that the
reigning Duke has been attacked by the measles, and
that the symptoms are violent. The Duchess is conva-
lescent.
9holera is advancing upon the Lower Elbe, through
Schleswig. At that place two cases ofmild character
have been declared to the police, and a
people a re prepared
for a sharp visit.

AUSTRIA.—For some days the Austrian journals have
teemed with accounts of a conspiracy against the life of
the Emperor. Some persons of mark were among those
arrested at Vienna, namely, a son of a Councillor of the
Empire, two sons of M. Trombella, and members of a
great Italian family. However, latest accounts say that
the plot is reduced, on inquiry, to an illegal Students'
Union. _

—'Troops, consisting for tile most part of light infantry,
left Vienna on the 18th, to form part of a corps of otser-
vation on the frontier of Turkey.

DENMARK.—An active exchange of notes is taking
place between the Cabinets of London and Copenhagen,
relative to the Eastern question, England being, it is
said, desirous to persuade Denmark to conclude a treaty
with her for all possible eventualities. The cholera con-
tinues to make alarming ravages at Copenhagen.
NORWAY.—Another " free local synod" has been

held, this time in Borgesyssel. The -proceedings were
most interesting, and drew numerous hearers. A petition
to the King was adopted, praying His Majesty to assemble
a general Synod of the whole Norwegian Church.

state of the greatest
bustle and animation, owing to the steps which are in
progress to make up the Egyptian contingent for the ser-
vice of Turkey. The Alexandrian dock resounds day and
night with the strokes of hammers and the busy hum of
voices. Hundreds of artificers may be seen docking,
caulking, repairing, and fitting out men-of-war ; the
banks of the Nile are covered with soldiers from Upper
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EGYPT

Alexandria is in a

and several thousand labourers have been taken
frO-nz. the Egyptian railway to man the fleet of the Pacha
for the expected war against Russia.

The Egyptian fleet, composed of three three-deckers,
four frigates, two corvettes, one brig, and two steam-
frigates, under the command of Vice-Admiral Hassan
Pacha, was in a fur, oi readiness, and would
sail for the Golden Hqrn about the middle of July.
Fifteen thousand u.lder Selim Pacha, are
expected at Constantinople. The Viceroy of Egypt has
given the troops three months' pay in advance.

WEST INDIES AND PACIFIC.—The Royal Mail
steam-ship La Plata, Captain C. G. Weller, arrived on
Sunday, at Southampton, with the West India and Gulf
of Mexico mails, and also mails from the West Coast of
South America, received at Panama by the Pacific Steam
Navigation Company's ship Bogota. The La Plata bad
on freight specie to the value of $701,576, or say £140,316
sterling, of which S-613,500 is in silver, and S-88,076 in
gold.

This packet brings further accounts of the progress of
the insurrectionary movements in Venezuela. The latest
ailvices state, that the city of Maturin had been retaken
from the insurgents, or rather, that General Sotillo, with
700 cavalry, and Colonel Antonio Thomas Rojas, with a
division of infantry, having made their appearance in the
neighbourhood of Maturin, the insurgents had no alter-
native but to retire before so overwhelming a force. Ge-
neral Monag,as, with 3,000 men, was marching on Cumana,
to which point the forces under General Rojas were
ultimately destined. Ihe inhabitants of Cumana, who
first originated the revolution, Lad so thoroughly com-
promised themselves that they had no alternative but
to fight it out or lose all their property. A sanguinary
struggle was therefore immediately inevitable.
The West Indies generally were more healthy, and the
yellow fever was apparently quitti7g the westward islands.
At St. Thomas the fever had assumed a much mildertype._

From British Guiana we have advices to the 10th of
July. Since the last packet a continuance of rainy
weather had been experienced. The most promising
hopes were therefore entertained of the next year's crop.
The general trade of the colony was by no means in a
healthy state. Country provisions were scarce and dear,
and salt fish in limited supply.
Captain Hall, commanding the Pacific Steam Naviga-
tion Company's ship Bogota, reports, under date Panama,
3d of July, the commencement of hostilities between
Bolivia and Peru, and when his ship called off Cobija
on the 19th of June it was found that the Peruvians had
taken possession of the town several days previously.

TURKEY.

The accounts from the East are so varied and contra.
dictory, that to attempt to reconcile them one with
another would be altogether a fruitless task. Their general
tone, however, seems to be pacific.
The armaments at Odessa are proceeding with extraor-
dinary rapidity. The town has quite the appearance of a
camp. It is probable that the Russian Councillor of Le-
gation, Ozeroff, has arrived at Odessa.
Omer Pasha is constructing a fortified camp near
Shumla. The mountains, which form a semi-circular
amphitheatre around the Bulgarian city, are being crowned
with walls of earth Me tsoF..c ,rhic7l give so much trouble

.o the Russians in 1828. On the 9th, Omer Pasha sum-
moned the Servian Government to send its contingent,
with General Kuicanin, to his head-quarters. The Hos-
podar demanded three days for consideration.
Accounts up to the f.lr.)h have reached Paris from Con-
stantinople. A protest had been issued by the Sublime
Porte against the Russian invasion of the Principalities.
The substance of the document, which is of great length,
may be gathered from the following abstract :—The Porte
states that it is difficult to reconcile the invasion of loyal
and tranquil provincw, with the pacific declaration from
St. Petersburgli, and the treaty of 1841. It says that
Prince Menschikoff's negotiations were at first con-
ned to the question of the Holy Places, and that
not until that rinestion was settled in a manner
satisfactory to all partieE, that another demand was
put forward. The reasons, already so well known,

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are then given, and the
solemn and spontaneous guarantees of the Sultan,
for the immunities of the Greek Churches, are referred to.
It is incontestably evident, (continues the protest) that
the independence of a sovereign state is null if among its

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attributions is not preserved that of refusing, without
offence, a demand which is unauthorised by treaties, and
whose acceptance would be at the same time superfluous as
to the ostensible object, and not less humiliating than
injurious to the high r-1-7- which declines it.
The Porte re-asserts its determination to uphold the
privileges and inscaunitl-, of the Greck religion. But, if
a Government contractci. on the rights and privileges
which from its own movement it has accorded to the
churches and priests of a nation of so many millions of
souls submitted to its arllicritY, exclusive obligations with
another Government, it would be to share its authority
with that Government; it would be nothing less than the
annihilation of its own independence.
The treaties between the Porte and the Czar, do not,
says the protest, authorise the sending of troops by Russia
into the Principalities, and this aggressive proceeding can
only be considered in the light of a declaration of war,
giving to the Porte the right of employing armed force in
return. It protests, therefore, formally and openly,
azainst that act ; and, in the conviction that the Powers
that signed the treaty of 1841 would not give their consent
to such an aggression, it has given them an explanation of
the circumstances, and meantime maintains an armed
attitude for its defence.

A division of the Turkish fleet, under the command of
Rear Admiral Osman Pacha, proceeded to the Black Sea
on the 12th ult. He fell in with a Russian frigate at sixty
miles distance, but she put up all sail and disappeared in
the dircctim of Sebasl,.,,
The enthusiasm is not confined to the Turks. On the
12th inst., a deputation Bollaralees was received by the
Minister of War. AI., ....,gged and fierce looking

men, preceded by a green flag, presented themselves in
the name of 3,000 Boharalees, and offered their services
as volunteers. They were admitted as irregulars and
were to he drilled in the plain of Scutari. The Headman
of the Dobrudga Cossacks also offered the services of 8,000
men. A celebrated Derebey of Damascus, Hetet Efendi,
wrote to be permitted to proceed with 12,000 Arabs to any
part of the empire that might be menanced by Russia.
He offerred to defray the whole expense out of his own
resources. . _ _

The latest accounts from Constantinople state that a
proclamation from the Ottoman Government to all Mus-
sulmans was soon expected to appear. The armaments
continued with the same activity. The contingents of
Tunisand Tripoli, calculated at 20,000 men, were expected.
Abbas Pasha had placed at the disposal of the Sultan 14
ships of war (four of which are steamers,) 15,000 men,
and a sum ammounting to 25,000,000 of piastres. Three
Egyptian transports had arrived at Constantinople with a
part of the troops. The Porte had decidedly refused the
offers of service of the refugees, and had only accepted a
small number of foreizners.
Advices had reached Vienna on the 28th instant from
Constantinople, stating that Baron Bruck's mediation had
been accepted. It provides for the evacuation of the
Moldo-Wallachian tcreties.

THE PRINCIPALITIES.-40,000 troops and 144 pieces of
artillery had already passel through Jassy on the 15th,
and proceeded by forced marches towards the Danube.

A letter dated Galatz, 11th July, of which the following
is a translation, is of interest Yesterday morning the
first Russian troops, to tl,e number of 1,000 infantry, and
40 cavalry, entered our town. Others are expected, but
whether they will remain here or continue their route into
Brailoff, is not known. Prince Gortzakof, with many
generals, among the nutnbmr General Dannemberg, com-
manding the 4th corps, has been for the last week at
Jassy. On the 3rd instant a Russian war steamer came
in. The consul went on board, and remained for an hour,
then landed, and the steamer took her departure. A re-
port was circulated that the Prince Menschikoff was on
board, a fact which was subsequently verified. More than
10,000 cavalry have already traversed Fockchain, on march
to Bucharest. Fockchain, partly in Moldavia and partly
in Wallachia, is the ordinary route for troops from one
principality to the other, and is distant seven posts from
Galatz."

A private letter from Bucharest to an official gentleman
in Paris says, there are not less than 75,000 Russians close
to the town.

A telegraphic despatch from Vienna, dated 29th July,
says :—" Advices from Constantinople state that the Porte
and the representatives of the Great Powers have accepted
the arrangement proposed by Baron Bruck. According
to the terms of this arrangement, the fleets of Great Bri-
tain and France are to withdraw from the Dardanelles,
while the Russian troops evacuate the Danubian princi-
palities.

INDIA OVERLAND MAIL.

We have intelligence by overland mail from Calcutta to
the 16th of June, and Bombay the 20th of June.
There is little news from Burmah, although two
steamers have arrived thence lately. Nothing has been
done, little has been said, and we remain at sullen peace,
and not on speaking terms, with the Burmese. It is con-
jectured, however, that, after all, the Ava plenipos will
come back and make another attempt at negotiation—a
thing quite as probable as the result, further delay in a
satisfactory settlement by arms or otherwise.
Sickness is still rife among our troops. The Indian
public has been startled by the announcement that,
according to official returns, 54 officers, 1,353 European
soldiers, and about 2,000 Sepoys, have fallen victims to
disease during our occue.tion of the country. Several
officers have died there recently—Lieut.-Col. Coote, 18th
Royal Irish ; Lieut. R. Pilmer, 51st ; Lieut. R. H.
Montgomerie, 80th ; and Lieut. H. Vaughan, Madras
Engineers.

The fine ship City of Poonah lies a total wreck on
TSahe vesselbeach.ugorwas
ho
The cause
boseoufnd the loss is yet unknown.
with a full cal-fp.
The Governor-General and Sir Henry con-
ltainnude
is at
Calcuttapoonab, and
w Ahrearderaalssroesapreeeivr
' Bell—the latter,
the 0
el
, . Lord Falk-
rnmander-in-
I chief and junior member of council,
too, being severely indisposed. The only member. of
government at the Presidency is Mr. Blane' v,h
suffers from indisposition, and on whose shoulderso also
us
devolve the whole duties of the administration.
The Commander-in-Chief of Bombay has for some time
past been in a very alarming state of health, but is aetting
better. The Commander-in-Chief of India, Sir William
Gomm, is said to have ordered the discontinuance of the
improved system of drill and discipline recommended by
his lordship. The monsoon, which held off nearly ten
days longer than usual, and was not preceded by the
thunder-storms which usually herald it in, has just come
with unusual violence, nearly 20inches of rain having fallen
betwixt the Bth and 20th, with every appearance of

continuance.
CHINA.—We have intelligence to the Ist of June,
The state of affairs about Canton, so far as we know, is
quiet: Reports are current that, within a day's march of
the city, large bodies of rebels are ready for attack at a
given signal ; and, considering the suddenness of the de-
monstration at Amoy, it behoves foreign residents to keep
a sharp look-out. It is greatly to be regretted that we
have not such a steamer as the Phiegethon or Nemesis