Arkansas true Democrat., 1858-04-20
Synopsis of the Foreign News.

From England the news is unimrortant.- Several changes have taken place in the ii plo- matic service. Champion has been selected to % to Russia
 The war feeling appears to have moderated hat the following article from ;he London Times, may De considered fair exponent of the existing state of feeling there:
 From th London Times, March l2
 Now, if we said cartwright that we were drift ing into war with our great neghbor and ally we should give needless alarm to those who thought our opinion worth a straw. But what is 1t to dri;? if collier breaks from its moor in-ss in the Pool it will eventually find itself at the More, worse, before long, unless some. thing be done. If q ship in drift in the chan nel 1t will certainly soon be ashore on one coast or the other most probably 10 its injury or loss A government has inst been turned out by a war vote and none joined in that vote so hear 1 tily they who have constituted themselves i apostles of peace, as they who particularly rep resent the commerce of the country, as thev | who stand up for the interest of the landowner and the farmer, as the champions and spokes- men of the church, the dissenting interests and the high morality of the country A motion was devised, the purport of which was. that ' our sage old Premier and his rather elderly coll leagues had tllnched, and parned a blow with out returning il: that they had been rather more Christian than answers in real politics. For this an otherwise popular government has been disgraced and deposed; and another one is put in its place for the express purpose of as suming more manly attitude before France Now We are glad to see that these men. at all events, understand their own position. The very first thing they did. upon finding them selves m o1hce, Was to ascertain the state of our national defenceS. That was the first question Lord Derby sent to the Admiralty and the war oilce Finding the answer highly gratifying and, it must be added much to the@ credit of the late ministry, they took the earliest oppor- tnnty of telling the world, and all whom if may concern, how well provided we were for defence and offence. Mr. Disraeli only let out what was uppermost in his own mind when he reviewed our army, militia and navy. for the benefit ol his Bucknghamshire constituents In the like spirit, and openly recognizing the fact that we are nearer war now than we were month ago, though We hope and trust still very far oil, we will adj that we never were so well provided with soldiers, artillery and other eoujp inents, with ships, guns and sailors, since the year l8lo. With twenty four hours notice we could either prevent any landing at any access sble part of our coast or crush any force that might be landed. With fortnisht's notice we could shut up any fleet that might be assem- bled Tn the harbors of our neighbos. and it is confidently believed by some of our best autbo- rites, steam in and destroy everything afloat in the harbor of Cherbourg. Our new govern. ment, very wisely. does lot mince matters neither shall we. The late government tried to mlnce matters, and the result is they are out.
 Russia appears 10 be suspciously active and IS watching the relation between England and France, with great interest The Russian navy is to be fully manned She will not accept any British or French consuls to ports on the Black sea- There was great agitation in consequence of the opposition of the nobles to the emanc- patton of their serfs. Many families had fled to St. Petersburg, for fear of their lives.
 From India we learn that Sir Colin Campbell with fifteen regiments aided by General Trnk. with twelve thousand men, have marched to attack Lucknow.
 In Mexico, Gen. Osollo is uppermost now. Alter capturing several cities he was marching to the city of Mexico, where he will be declared president.
 We might as we'll declare here, at once. that