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timber warehouse. and two other houses have
been destroyed. Fortunately no lives have been

| Letters from Lisbon Of the 18th inst state
that Portugal was perfectly Tranquil. The new
electoral law was decreed on the 18th inst, with
few alterations but the Cortes could not meet
!, till the middle Of October. Sir Richard Packen
ham, the new British minister to Portugal ar
rived out in the Severn (s.) and had been duly
received by the Queen; and on Saturday the
United States charge d d'Aiiaires, the Hon. Mr..
fiaddock, will have his first audience of her
majesty The convention for the payment of
American claims will bs ratified and exchanged
at once, that the General Armstrong case
alone remains pending the arbitration Of the
President Of France
The American trigate st. Lawrence arrived in
the fagus from southampton, on the 18th ult.
ITALY.
The Austrian authorities of Lombardy have
just suspended the journal the Lombardo Ve-
net0.
Marshal Radeizki had returned to Milan on
the l7th
DENMARK AND THE DUcHIEs.
From the European Times Of June 25.
The protracted struggle between the German
party IN the Duchies of Schleswig and Holsten
and the Danish monarchy, to which those pro-
vinces belong by distinct ties, has now been
brought for some months to the termination
which it would have reached at much earlier
period, If tho insurrection had not been abetted
by foreign faction, and ii the contest within the
neck of Jutland had not extended to some of the
more important interests Of Europe. The war
having been terminated by demonstration on
the part Of the federal troops of Germany which
left no further room for evasion or delay, it is
satisfactory to find that considerable progress
has been made in the adjustment of the ques-
tions that remained to be settled; and that the
Danish government has shown both in its con-
duet to the duches, as well as in its negota-
tions elsewhere, that it had laid aside all mis-
placed resentment, and is prepared to consider
with independence and good will the true in
terests of the population. BY recent ordinance
of the King of Denmark the state of martial law,
which had been proclaimed in the southern part
of the Duchy of Schleswig, has been limited and
suspended and the assembly of Notables, which
was opened at Flansburg on the 18th of June,
consisting of twenty-four influential inhabitants
of the duchies and the kingdom of Denmark re-
spectively, has favorably entertained the pro-
posals of the government for the consolidation
of the monarchy, in conformity with the Lord0n
protocol Of August last.
The fundamental condition of his arrange
ment is the establishment of one and the same
order of succession in all the parts ofthe Danish
monarchy, so as to remove the pretext on which
the ACKNOWLEDGMENT fthat State was premature
ly attempted. Holstein is still somewhat at va
rance with the government, and freely express
ses that opinion Schleswig supports the views
of the Cabinet of Copenhagen.
The principal means to be taken to 0bvate the
recurrence of this question of disputed success
sion, and possibly the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of the
monarchy, consist in the adoption of an heir to
whom all other competitors may resign their pre-.
tensions, with the assent of the great Powers of
Europe. A negotiation for this purpose has
for some time been actively carried on between
Denmark, the German courts and the Emperor
of Russia, with the concurrence of France and
this country; and there is now reason to believe
that the young Duke of Glucksburg, son of the
prince of that name, will be formally designated
and acknowledged as the heir presumptiye to the
crown of Denmark and its dependencies This
youthful scion of the royal family who is now
about eight years of age, will be the representa-
tive of the branch next in order to the attanted
line of Augustenburg, descendipgin like manner
from the Younger son of Christian iii, and his
mother is daughter of King Frederick vi. The
order of the secession is, therefore, not materially
changed, except by the acts which have caused
the Duke of Augustenburg to forfeit his prior
claims; and the age of the prince is such us not
TO place him in personal rivaly with the reigning
sovereign, whose reign many still bs long one
The assent Of the branches to the succession
thus to be established has been given in we be-
lieve, upon the representation of the great
Powers.
GREECE.
A telegraphic despatch from Athens of the 9th
inst, announces the formation of new cabinet
The list of ministers is as follows Home Af-
fairs-General Meletopulos, vice Notares. For
NJ d.,
Public nstruction-Barboglu Navy-Kresis.
Finance-Christides War-Colonel Spiro Mil
lios. 1t is expected that this cabinet will not
long remain in office.
The differences respecting the Holy Sepulchre
have been decided in favor of the Greeks by the
Sultan.
By the arrival of the Helen M'Gregor, from
st Peterburgh, we have intelligence of de-
structive fire at Archangel on the Goth of May,
old STYLE 10th of June,-150 houses in the best
part of the town, two churches and Brandts
sugar refinery destroyed.
LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
By Telegraph.-LoSpoS, Wednesday Morn'g.
FRANCE.
PARIS BoURsE, June 24--Fives SO 25 Threes
55 35.
Gold is I6 per cent. dearer in Paris than in
London--and 35 per cent dearer in London
than in Hamburgh.
The exchange between England and America
is nominally / II per cent. in favor of England
leaving n considerable profit on the importation
of gold from the United States.
ODEssAANp GALATz-Letters state that large
purchases of Wheat and Indian Corn, particular
ly the latter, have recently been made by Greek
houses in anticipation OF the wants Of this coun-
try, which are no longer likely to be SUI piled
by France. Freights were Is. per quarter higher,
and although there had been no advance in the
price of grain, the demand had caused much
frmncss. There had lately been abundant rains,
which, although too late for the hay harvest and
the winter corn, would greatly benefit all the
spring corn, and render a good yield almost GER
tain
RUSSIA
further supply of gold from Russia is ex-
pected this week; upwards of 100000 is
known to be on the way.