The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1842-01-24

the regiments of the Constitution of Espana, and
the others Of Sagunto and Pava. IL had been re-
solved that, hereafter, the guard OF The Palace.
should be ntrusted in turn 10 the different corps Of
| the garrison.
| Apartments were preparing for the reception OF
| the lnfane Don Francisco and his family.
| II was expected that the municipal elections both
in Madrid and IN The provinces, would be carried by
| the Democratlcal party.
The Ministry had prepared a municipal bill, which
! entertained that it would meet the appreciation OF
the Cortes Several other bills equally important
were also the point Of receiving the sanction OF
the Cabinet and among them were one relative TO
the cottons OF Catalonia manufacture, and another
| regulating the corn trade
Madrid journals of the l4th December. publish
| despatch from the Captain-General OF Cuba, an
nouncsg that fifty negroes employed in manufac-
tory in the island had revolted and that it had been
necessary to send detachment Of troops against
them to reduce them to submission. They defend
| ed themselves obstinately with such arms as they
could put their hands ypon, and the result was SIX
| killed and ten wounded. Order was soon after
| wards restored.
We have intelligence from Madrid to the 23d of
| December Nothing further OF Importance had &C.
cured, except somewhat serious difficulty between
the government and the ambassador as TO the man.
ner OF presenting his credentials The former insist
that he should present them to Espartero the regent
and the latter being instructed to present them to the
Queen.
The French journals contain letter from Vienna,
stating that the commercial and financial crisis hav
ing compelled the undertakes of railroads to inform
the government that they must either suspend or de-
lay their labOrs, the Austrian cabinet, which attach
es the highest Importance TO the termination of the
railroad between Trieste and the Danube has come
TO the decision to aid the contractors. dssrming
| has consequently been ordered a great scale
Thirty thousand horses are Immediately to be dis
| posed of, and the arising from this sale, and
from others connected with the disarming are to be
exclusively applied to public works, but especially
to railroads.
The French Minister of War has received from
General Bugeaud a dispatch, dated Algiers,, Dec
q, containing the intelligence that seven tribes on
the banks of the Tafna have been sent to the mouth
of that river TO convey their chiefs to Oran This
news was announced to the Governor General, in
letter from Colonel Tempourrc, commandant of
Oran, who, with General Mustapha and one hun
dred native cavalry, had gone to meet these new al
lies at distance of twelve leagues from that town.
Colonel Tempourre had also sent word that Ben
Hammedi, Abd-e-Kaders Kalifa at Tlemcen, had
allied the French, and had been forced to retire
towards the frontier of Morocco with only 250 horse
men that this regular battalion had been so much
dispersed thatsthe men had disbanded and retired 10
their homes that al his baggage had been plaged,
as had also been the town of TIemren, by the
Arabs, and that this place had been completely
evacuated by ABIDE -Kaders adherents. Gen. Be.
deau had sent word from Mascara that the Benz
|
the Chelif near its mouth, were in open revolt
against the Emir.
General Changarnier had made another sortie
from Bldah into the Atlas, and had brought IN some
tries between Algers and Metidja was perfectly
ranquil-natlves continued TO come over to the
French in A|giers, and some had reported that Ben
Salem had been again defeated by Ben Olaf, Kafa
of FL Mokrani, who is the chief of the Medjana,
and allied to the French. Lieutenant Pelle had re-
turned to Alglers from razzia among the tribes of
the east. He had brought in 500 sheep, and i 800
cattle, and had killed 20 Kabyles.
Russia and Clrcassia
Intelligence has been received at Coustantinople
| by way Of Trebizond, OF victory gained by the
Circassians the Russians; the most signal and
decisive, it is said, that has occurred since the be-
ginning of the war.
large expedition, consisting of thirty thousand
men, had been disembarked on the coast with a
vlew.of destroying the grain, which had been col
lected by the Clrcaseians after the harvest, when
a storm having suddenly risen drove the ships from
| their anchorage.
| The Circassians, avang themselves of the OPP
portunlty, assaied them fercey every side and
the Russians, separated from their stores, which had
been carried out to sea, were compelled 10 COM
mence disastrous retreat through a country con-
ssting entirely Of mountain, forest and defile.
With the exception of two thousand who escaped
to Anapa, the whole of the thirty thousand weie
killed or made prisoners; such are the accounts
| celved from Trebizond. Further details of this
tremendous disaster Of the Russians are eagerly ex.
ptCttu HeIc
Turkey and the East.
By the Levant mail. we have advlc,s from Con-
stantinope 10 The 9Th. Alexandria to the 18th,
Smyrna the 10Th, and Athens the 3Oh November.
The armauens sill continue at the porte without
any rational cause being assigned for such demon
STATIONS. Jealousy Of Greek intrigue, and vague
apprehension OF the future, appear be The only
| motives for tae Sultan induging in so much unue.
cessary expense. Khrosrew Pacha is living in a re.
tired manner, and apparently is DESTROYS Of again
entering into the councils OF the porte.
Sel,m Pasha, with an army of 5000 men, has
| iorclby pacted the Marbuies of Lebanon but the
Drnses retired into the mountains and defied him.
The Chief features of the advices brought by the
Levant mail were the change of ministry at Con.
stantinop,e. and the appointment of lzzet Mehemet
Pacha to be Grand Vizier IN succession to Raouif
Pacha. Accounts from Athens had reached Malta.
| announcing that the King of Greece had declined
the mediation of the three powers to whom the
Porte had addressed complaints, declaring himself
| the head Of an independent state
| According 10 the Turkish accounts, the number
oil troops concentrated in Asia amounted TO 9OOO 600
men, who were for the most part directed towards
Adrianople, Sllstrla and Sophia. A hostile move
ment on the part of the Sultan was daily appre.
hended IL was indeed rumored that the Turkish
fleet would direct its course towards Greece in
| few days.
The Journal Smyrna of the 9th al, announces
under date Beyrout the LIST. that the energetic mea-
sures taken by the Turkish authorities, had put an
END to the calamliies with which Syria visited
during the last two months Redschid Pasha at
liable, In time 10 prevent the victorious Christians
from re sortng to cruel reprsas against the Druses.
and to repress all further hostile movements on
either side.
Troops sent from Damascus replaced in that posi-.
ton those commanded by Redschd Pasha, part of
which occupied Dere-Kamar, and the rest returned
to Beyrout. The Pasha of Damascus succeeded in
saving the Christians of that city from the fury of the
Mussulman population Detechments of troops pa
lrolled the streets day and night, and maintained
public tranquility
Several Mussumen, convicted Of having burnt
two Greek churches, had been sentenced to the gal
leys, and to the payment of the costs of their re.
construction. The Greek patriarch having inter.
coded in the favor of the offenders, had Obtained
remission OF the first part of the sentence. On the
I'D November, an English war steamer reached
from Malta with orders for the British 10 evacuete
Syria. All the officers, detached here and there
throughout the country, had in consequence, been
Immediately recalled.
The park Of artillery landed from the feet, and