The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1851-10-03
Foreign Items,

Lord Palmerston has had it in contemplation TO
send out Commander Forbes, late of the Bonetta,
another mission to the African sovereign, King
Dahomey, with the view of securing his co-opera-
ton in the suppression OF the slave trade. II is now
arranged that Captain Forbes shall proceed to the
coast Of Africa in the next mail packet to Sierra
Leone, and during his mission the gallant officer
is to be borne in the flag ship Penelope, as an add
tional commander.
Documents seized in the late arrests in Paris
implicate the London Central Committee most
gravely, notwithstanding their avowals of entire
innocence touching the late conspiracy.
II is reported that more than five hundred for
eigners, nearly all Germans and Italians, are al
ready on the books OF the police as being too dam
gerous to be permitted to remain in Paris. Dissen-
sion ia increasing in the party OF order.
The mercantile advices from Vienna OF the 10th
continue to give unfavorable indications regarding
the loan, and those who had sent in their applica
tions already calculating upon discount
The subscriptions at the bank thus far amount to
ES70,000
dissolution. The Minister of Finance has declared
the impossibity of meeting the expenses of the
State with the present revenue. Nj. Fortunate,
the Minister of Foreign Affairs, has sent in his re-
signation, and refused to attend the late cabinet
council at Gaeta.
The Florence paper, Constitutional" ofthe 18th
September, states that Mr.. Temple, the English
Minister at Naples, has been suddenly summoned
to London, by the Foreign Office, on matters of
importance.
meeting had been held at Chaux de Fowles,
Switzerland, to discuss the question whether it was
not desirable to form grand league Of the people
against the sovereigns The speeches were in
French. About ten thousand persons were pres
ent, and about one thousand attended at BAN
quet.
most frightfu accident has happened at the
Chateau de Laroche Guyon, France. The Dow
ager Duchess de Mailly, who there visit
to her friend, the Duchess dc Rochefoucault, was
accidentally burnt to death.
II is thought by wcll-iniormed persons that the
treaty recently concluded by Ruesia with the king
dom Of Hanover will lead to the breaking up of the
whole German Zollverein. The Austrian papers
are decidedly of the opinion that Bavaria, Saxony,
and Wirtemberg will secede from the league. In
the mean time il lie generally anticipated that the
Hanse Towns will follow the example of Hanover,
and consent to become free for the Collective
Union. Mecklenburg and Brunswick and still
more, Oldenburg and Schaumburg, will also pro
badly accede to the proposal made them TO Join
this movement, which Prussia has headed.
An article has appeared in the London Morning
Post detailing the state Of the relations with Per.
STA, and pointing out the aggressions of Russia at
Actrabad, and the southern coast of the Caspian
Sea. Here, il seems likely, will once more be the
seat Of warfare between the contending parties.
Its position as the intermediate country between
Russia and the British India territories, gives TO
this quarrel an Importance OF the highest character
The Russian camp established between Kane
metz, Podolska, Cholym, and Jampol, on the Dnes-
ter, is composed of twenty FIVE thousand infantry,
six thousand cavalry, and sixty pieces OF artillery.
These troops will be continually occupied with
military manWuvrcs. IL at first said that
these we're destined to march against France, but
now it is stated that an expedition into Turkey is
in contemplation.