iftiscellantous.

The daily papers make the important announcement that Prince Albert, as patron of the Kit winning Archers, is about to be presented with a superb bow and arrows by the members of that ancient society.

At the meeting of the parish of St. Andrew's, Holborn, held last week to address her Majesty and Prince Albert on the birth of the Prince of Wales, Mr. Boldock, the Churchwarden, in seconding the .address to his Royal Highness, observed, that "Of the virtues of Prince Albert he could speak from personal knowledge : a clergyman of literary pur- suits became involved : not knowing to whom to apply in his distress, he addressed a letter in Latin to his Royal Highness Prince Albert, im- ploring his charitable assistance ; the Prince immediately caused in- quiries to be made ; and these being satisfactory, a kind letter and a sum of money were immediately afterwards transmitted to the clergyman." —Morning Post.

"Is it intended, "asks the Morning Chronicle," as a mark of spite by the faction, that the Duke of Sussex is omitted from the list of sponsors at the approaching christening of the Prince of Wales ? Her Majesty surely cannot have willingly acquiesced in the slight thus passed on by far the most popular of her Royal relatives, whose life has been devoted to upholding the sacred cause of civil and religious liberty against the tyranny and corruption of Toryism."

The Duke of Wellington left Apsley House on Thursday afternoon, for Strathfieldsaye.

Lord Stanley arrived in town on Monday, from Knowsley.

Lord and Lady Howick came to town on Monday, from Earl Grey's seat in Northumberland ; and have since taken their departure for Italy, to join the young Earl and the Ladies Latnbton, who return to this country in February, in company with Lord Howick.

Mr. Edward Everett, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipoten- tiary of the United States to this Court, with Mrs. Everett and family, arrived at Upper Grosvenor Street on Monday, from Paris.

The Lord Chancellor gave a sumptuous entertainment on Tuesday last, at his residence in George Street, Hanover Square, to the French Ambassador and Count de Noailles, the Russian, Prussian, and Austrian Ministers, the Earl and Countess of Jersey, Count and Countess Crep- towitch, Count and Countess Zichy, Lord Lowther, the Earl of Bever- ley, and Lady Louisa Percy. The dinner-party consisted of eighteen. In the evening, Lady Lyndhurst had an assembly ; at which were pre- sent the Dutch and Hanoverian Ministers, the Countess of Tankerville, Colonel and Mrs. Dawson Darner, Sir John and Lady Anne Beckett, Lady Henry Powlett, Lord Lovaine and Countess, and the Ladies Cadogan, and others.

Miss Adelaide Kemble has been singineat Brighton, with great eclat. The Duke of Cleveland, who has recently been indisposed, is reco- vering.

It is said that the Right Honourable E. Ellice, M. P. for Coventry, is so seriously indisposed with a complaint in the throat, to which he is subject, that he will be compelled to reside in Italy for the benefit of the climate daring the winter season.— Worcester Journal.

Dr. Bowstead, the Bishop of Lichfield, is seriously ill.

A commission de lunatico inquirendo sat in Dublin on Monday, on Dr. Robert Fowler, the Bishop of Ossory. The Jury found him to be of unsound mind. His property in ready money and the Funds was

rzcvcd 22=4iii iëãiii Etna Engiana 8,000/. a year ; the income of his see being 5,000/. per annum.

The Earl of Westmoreland died, in his eighty-third year, on Wed- nesday night at half-past ten o'clock, at his residence at Brighton. He had been indisposed for nearly two months. The Earl had held several high offices in the state ; having succeeded the Marquis of Buckingham as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland in 1789, and held that ;appointment till 1794. Three years after his return from Dublin, he was appointed Lord Privy Seal ; in which office he continued, with the exception of a short interval, (from 1806 to 1807,) till 1827. He was for a short time Master of the Buckhounds to George the Fourth. Lord Westmoreland was twice married; first, in 1782, to Sarah Anne Child, the wealthy heiress of the late Mr. Robert Child the eminent banker, by whom he had six children; and secondly, in 1800, to Jane Saunders, second daughter and co-heir of Mr. Richard Huck Saunders, by whom he had three children. The Earl is succeeded in his titles and estates by Vis- count Burghersh, British Minister at the Court of Berlin ; who was born the 3d of February 1784.

Mr. Sergeant Arabin, who died on Wednesday night, was one of the Judges of the Central Criminal Court, Judge in the City Sheriff's Court, Deputy Judge-Advocate, one of the Verders of Epping and Hainault Forests, and the holder of several smaller appointments ; enjoying an aggregate official income of about 10,000/. a year. He was called to the bar nearly forty years ago. Mr. Ryland has been men- tioned as his successor in the City Sheriff's Court.

Mr. Philip Courtnay, a barrister, died at the Adelphi Hotel, in Liver- pool, on Friday night, from the effects of an overdose of morphine. He was in his fifty-seventh year ; and he had been in the habit of taking such medicine for some time without medical advice. On the Thursday night, it is supposed that he swallowed a phial of acetate of morphia and another phial of muriate of morphia. At an inquest which was held on the body, the Jury returned a verdict describing the cause of death.

A letter appeared in the Globe last night, signed Charles V. F. Towns- bend, protesting against the assumption of the title of " Earl of Lei- cester" by the, Member for Bodmin ; a title • which would belong to the eldest son of Marquis Townshend, the writer's eldest brother, if he had male issue ; which is denied. The following are given as the facts to show how far the Member for Bodmin is justified in assuming the title- " The Marquis of Townshend was married in the year 1807 to the present Marchioness, formerly Miss Sarah Dunn Gardner. A separation took place in May 1808; since which time they have never cohabited. The Marchioness subsequently dropped the Marquis's name and title, and went by the name of and passed as the wife of Mr. Margetts. The Marquis, in answer to a suit in Chancery in 1814, on his protestation of honour as a Peer, deposed to the above facts ; and further positively denied that the present Member for Bodmin, (who was born in July 1811,) or his next brother, were his issue. There are several other parties passing in the world as the children of the Marchioness, but they were born after the institution of the suit before alluded to. The Member for Bodmin was at Westminster School for several years by the name of Margetts. He subsequently assumed the title of Lord John Townshend,— a step the reason or grounds for which I do not understand ; and he has finally adopted the title of Earl of Leicester."

The Bishop of Norwich gave a substantial dinner to four hundred persons at present in Norwich Workhouse, last week, to celebrate the birth of the Prince of Wales. The Bishop himself presided. Mrs. and Miss Stanley, with several other ladies, were present, and they evinced much interest in the comfort of the guests, especially of the children.

The Lord Mayor stated at the Mansionbouse, on Monday, that he had received forty guineas for the Spitalfields subscription, and five guineas for the Mansionhouse poor-box, from the Bishop of Durham ; and a five-Pound note "for the benefit of the Spitalfields weavers, from Eliza G—."

The Bishop of Gloucester has given 10/. towards the relief of the distressed operatives at Paisley.

The Duke of Newcastle has given 1001. for the relief of the distressed operatives of Nottingham.

The Earl of Pembroke has give 100/. to the fund now being raised to celebrate the christening of the Prince of Wales at Salisbury.

Jones, the intruder at Buckingham Palace, is reported to be in a ship at Liverpool, having just returned from a voyage. About three months back it was said that he had been sent to Brazil.

Tuesday's Gazette contained the formal documents ordered at the pre- vious meeting of the Privy Council ; and among them the proclamation further proroguing Parliament to the 3d February, and summoning it to meet on that day.

The Gazette announced the appointment of Captain Atkins Hamer- ton, of the East India Company's service, to be Consul in the dominions of the Imaum of Muscat.

The Queen has presented the Reverend Francis Wylie to the church and parish of Elgin, in the presbytery of Elgin and county of Moray, vacant by the transportation of the Reverend Alexander Walker to the church of Urquhart.

We are informed that the Duke of Portland baying resigned his office as Lord-Lieutenant or Custos Rotulorum of the county of Middlesex, the Marquis of Salisbury will be appointed in his place.—Times.

In consequence of the recent promotions in the Army, Sir Frederick Smith gives up the appointment of Inspector-General of Railways, and assumes an important command at Chatham. The new Inspector- General is Major-General Pasley, of the Royal Engineers, so well known among engineers as Colonel Pasley.—Railevay Magazine.

Colonel Palliser of the Ordnance Department, Plymouth, is ap- pointed Secretary to the Ordnance Board of Correspondence at Wool- wich.

Mr. Lawrence Peel, it is said, has been appointed Chief Justice of Bengal.

The Courier of last night says that Government has come to a deter- mination respecting the measure for the settlement of the Scottisit Church question. As a preliminary, the seven de2.1.s.7.T' Strathbogie are to be restored ; and awn, if Parliament concur, a legis- lative sanction is to be given to what is called the liberuni arbitrium, or power to the Church Courts to act in the settlement of vacant benefices and in all other matters resulting from it. The Courier scarcely believes its own story.

The Globe makes a revelation, which is important if true : the Morn- ing Post copies it with a sneer, but without direct contradiction- , The plan of the Ministry for the future regulation of the import of foreign corn has at length been suffered to tran.pire ; and as it is supposed to have re- ceived the sanction of the leaders of the agricultural party, we may presume it will be adopted by them when the Parliament assembles. The sliding scale is retained, but under a modified form, the duty fluctuating only to the extent of 14s., the maximum being 18s. per quarter' and the minimum 4s. per quarter, rising or falling Is. for every fall or rise of Is. in the average price of wheat ; the pivot being 54s. per quarter, or undcr, for the highest rate of duty, and 63s. or over, for the lowest rate. The plan also embraces some wholesome re- gulations for taking the weekly averages, with a view to remedy the trickery which is now practised by interested parties in making their returns of sales and prices. We need not say that we think a fixed duty would have been pre- ferable to a sliding scale; but after the violent hostility displayed against this proposal by the dominant party in Parliament, we despair of seeing it carried at present. Therefore we gladly accept this modification of the sliding scale as an instalment of what we claim. It is a very great improvement upon the old system. It will insure a certain amount of revenue from corn, the average duty being lls. per quarter, the mean between 4s. and 188.; it will reduce the temptation for forestalling, and also for making false returns ; it will insure a more steady trade in the article, regular supplies, and less fluctuation in prices."

At an Anti-Corn-law meeting in 51arylebone, on Thursday, it was suggested that the people should seek compensation for the injury in- flicted by the Corn-laws, in the shape of a bounty on the introduction of foreign corn until it should have paid back the loss under the Corn-law.

Several reports are abroad respecting the Exchequer Bill affair. The course which Government intend to adopt with respect to the forged Bills is said to be this : no definite answer will be given upon the subject at the Exchequer Office to any of the many inquirers about the impounded paper ; a message, however, will be sent from the Crown to the House of Commons, soon after the meeting of Parliament, request- ing the Lower branch of the Legislature to take the subject into serious consideration, with the view, if it think fit, of relief being granted to the parties who have advanced their money bond fide upon forged Ex- chequer Bills in the ordinary and regular course of their business. Another report is, that the business connected with the issue and pay- ment of Exchequer Bills will be transferred from the present office to the Bank of England. Ministers, it is said, are already in possession of the terms upon which the Governors of that establishment will un- dertake the management and risk of this important security ; but no arrangement can be definitively entered into until the meeting of Parlia- ment. The Standard explains the abrupt termination of the proceed- ings against Rapallo- " Acting upon their own professional and official responsibility, the Attor- ney and Solicitor General advised a prosecution of the principal party accused ; and, as necessary to the success of that prosecution, they, still upon their own responsibility, advised that Rapallo, a supposed accomplice of the accused, should be admitted as a witness fur the prosecution, upon the usual under- standing that he should be himself discharged of all accusation. The impor- tance of Rapallo's testimony is shown by his eagerness to evade a committal

in the first instance, by the care and determination evinced by the pro- secutors to secure his person, and still more clearly shown by the plea of guilty entered by the accused as soon as he knew that Rapallo was to appear against him. That plea of guilty rendered it impossible to produce Rapallo as a wit- ness; but surely it did not acquit the Crown of the promise that he should not be prosecuted."

Among those who have been drawn into the Oxford controversy about the Professorship of Poetry, is Lord Ashley ; who thus states his reasons for refusing the request of Mr. Roundell Palmer that he would give his vote to Mr. Williams— "1 have found that he is the author of the tract entitled 'Reserve in Com- municating Religious Knowledge.' There is no power on earth that shall induce me to assist in elevating the writer of that paper to the station of a public teacher. I see very little difference between a man who promulgates Skim doctrines and him who suppresses the true. I cannot concur in the approval of a candidate whose writings are in contravention of the inspired Apostle, and reverse his holy exultation that he had 'not shunned to declare to his hearers the whole counsel of God.' I will not consent to give my support, however humble, towards the recognition of exoteric and esoteric doctrines in the Church of England, to obscure the perspicuity of the Gospel by the philosophy of Paganism, and make the places set apart for the minis- tration of the preacher, whose duties must mainly be among the poor, the wayfaring, and the simple, as mystic and incomprehensible as the grove of Eleusis."

A clerical association is about to be established in the Metropolis, de- voted to the advocacy of the "Church principles" of the Reverend J. IL Newman.—Globe.

The Morning Post, alluding to the trouble and insecurity which annoy the traveller by railway in respect to his luggage, says-

" They manage these things better in France, or at all events in Belgium, which comes pretty much to the same thing. There you deliver up your lug- gage when you come to the railway, and you get a receipt for it. If beyond a certain weight, you pay something for the surplus; but you have your receipt, and feel quite comfortable about your trunks. There is a luggage-apartment attached to each train ; and your trunks are deposited therein, each box or bag having chalked on it a number which corresponds with that on your receipt. The luggage is numerically assorted in the apartment assigned to it, and a guard is appointed who attends to the luggage and nothing else. Surely there is nothing in this so difficult but what it might be copied in England ; and the additional comfort in travelling would be very great. We entreat the managers of our railroads to take this matter into their serious consideration. We know they need not do it if they don't like, for they have their acts of Parliament and their exclusive right of way.' But if they would be pleased to like to do what the public would like to have done, they would set about reforming the luggage grievance directly."

We understand that in consequence of the ruinous effect of the Great Western Railway on the business of Thatcham, forty-five houses are at this time untenanted in the parish.—Berkshire Chronicle.

Although the weather has been altogether better daring the last week, it has been very changeable ; and the country still suffers in ...,icuart parts from the floods, caused by the rains of the two preceding Although the weather has been altogether better daring the last week, it has been very changeable ; and the country still suffers in ...,icuart parts from the floods, caused by the rains of the two preceding

weeks. On Tuesday morning, several mails had not arrived at the General Post-office by twelve o'clock. Additional men are employed and extra engines have been used on the Southampton Railway to propel the trains up and down. In various places on the Great Western and Birmingham Railroads, the waters have the appearance of a canal. The bridge at Maidstone was overflowed on Monday. At Watford the roads in the neighbourhood were three feet deep in water. Great num- bers of cattle have been drowned in various parts of the country.

After some coquetry, M. de Lamartine has consented to be put in nomination for the Presidency of the French Chamber of Deputies.

The Moniteur contains a long and most important report addressed to the King by Marshal &tilt, in which he recommends a reduction of the army to the extent of one company per battalion. Acting upon this recommendation, the King, by a Royal ordinance, dated the 8th Sep- tember last, but published only in the Moniteur of Monday, directs that the army be reduced to the amount and in the manner so suggested; together with a reduction of 15,000 horses. The number of men thus to be reduced is 89,000, or rather more than one-fifth of the present force of the army. The saving to be effected by this measure is esti- mated at 30,000,000 francs (1,200,000/. sterling.)

The sole point of interest in the trial of Quenisset and his fellow- prisoners is the position of M. Dupoty, the editor of the Journal du Peuple, a violent Republican paper. The ground upon which M. Du- poty was accused was a letter sent to him by Launois, another prisoner, telling him that Quenisset had betrayed them all, and asking for the advocacy of the paper. The ground taken up by the Attorney-General in urging a conviction was, that the tendency of M. Dupoty's articles was seditious, and calculated to foment such conspiracies as that of Q,nenisset. On Saturday, M. Ledru Rollin entered upon the defence of M. Dupoty, "improperly brought before that Court "—

" Either," said M. Ledru Rollin, "my client is guilty of a misdemeanour, cognisable only by the ordinary tribunals, or of high treason. If guilty of either, it is clearly only of the former. Why then, emulating the infamous Jeffreys in England, does the Attorney-General seek by a subtle, or rather an obvious perversion of law and justice, to bring Al. Dupoty within the mean- ing of the laws of September ? My client is not indicted for an offence against those laws. He is not charged with a seditious libel; for such would be re- ferred to a jury. He is charged with being an accomplice in a conspiracy, of which not a tittle or a shadow of evidence has been given or has existence." This brought the advocate to the only thing offered as proof of his client's connexion with the conspiracy,— " Of what does that proof consist ? Of a letter written to him in his quality of editor by one of the persons in custody for that attempt ; which says, 'The scoundrel Pappart (Quenisset) has sold us all ! ' Who P—All the persons in prison—all those any way committed in the plot? Admitting, for argument sake, that a letter written to a man could legally compromise him, what was there in that vague expression in it, 'us,' which implicated M. Dupoty ? If ' us ' meant all who bad any guilty knowledge of the conspiracy, the writer of that letter would necessarily have concluded that all were in the hands of justice, and would not, consequently, have written for aid to a fellow-prisoner. The natural inference from those words was, that Launois meant to complain to Dupoty that Quenisset had turned upon his associates and confederates, to solicit the assistance of M. Dupoty in those circumstances, as he did that of the editor of the National, of whose name he was ignorant, and who by that omission escaped being also prosecuted. Moreover, Launois, in a letter tos woman (Madame Denfosses), uses the very same words."

Then the inference which had been drawn from the agreement in general principles between M. Dupoty and the conspirators-

" The Attorney-General has rather illogically contended, that Quenisset and Dupoty, being both Reformers, must have gone hand in hand in guilt of all kinds. Can any doctrine be more monstrous than this?" M. Ledru Rollin here introduced a quotation from a speech of " no less a person than the Pre- sident of the Court of Peers himself," the Chancellor, Baron Pasquier, deli- vered in that identical hall in 1827; in which he said, on the subject of elec- toral reform, "Perhaps the day may arrive when other qualifications for the elective franchise may be admitted than the mere payment of a certain amount of direct taxation."

The trial still proceeds.

TI•e National, after announcing the acquittal of all the prisoners re- moved from Toulouse to Pau to be tried for participation in the riots of the former place, (with the exception of M. Rouzil, who was sentenced to three months' imprisonment,) says—" Among the prisoners were the independent journalists of Toulouse, who were led with chains round their necks before the Court at Pau. They were, nevertheless, every- where and constantly. received by the people with sympathy, and the conclusion of their Journey was a real triumph. This remarkable occurrence, coming after so many others, proves that the system pur- sued by the Government is disapproved everywhere."

The Journal de I 'Eure has been acquitted by the Jury of the Eyre= Court of Assizes, in a trial for two seditious articles on the troubles of Clermont Ferrand and the Quenisset affair.

At the Aix Court of Assizes, the Crown has been more fortunate. Out of fifty-four accused for the Marseilles Republican conspiracy, fifty-one have been condemned and sentenced; eleven to five, six, and seven years' imprisonment for conspiracy ; seventeen to five years' im- prisonment for conspiracy ; and twenty-three to confinement of periods of ,one year and six months for being members of secret associations.

A soldier was convicted and sentenced to death by Court-martial in Paris, on Tuesday last, for striking his superior, a sergeant. This is the third sentence of the kind in the course of a week.

The Moniteur publishes a report addressed to the King by the Minister of Commerce' in which he describes the ravages committed in fourteen Departments by the overflowing of the Rhone and Saone, and proposes to apply to the relief of the sufferers a sum of 850,000 francs still remaining in the Treasury out of the fund of 5,000,000 francs voted last year for the same purpose. This report was followed by a Royr.- ordinance granting the request of the Minister.

The widow of General Count Rapp had since his death been in the receipt of the usual military pension assigned to the relicts of officers of his rank ; but in consequence of her subsequent marriage with the Duke de Melfort, in 1831, the Treasury refused to continue the payment, on the ground that her present husband was a foreigner, and thereby she lost her quality of a Frenchwoman, and with it her right to the pension. An application was made to the Council of State ; but as a question was raised as to the nationality of the Duke de Melfort, (who Is the direct eldest descendant of the rirtimmonds, Dukes of Perth in Scotland and Melfort in France,) the Council referred it to the Tribunal de Premiere Instance. The case came to a hearing at the sitting of yesterday ; when it was proved, that the present Duke, though a descendant from James Drummond Duke of Perth, who came over to France with James the Second, the family of the present Duke had long acquired the quality of French citizens, which they had not forfeited by any subsequent act ; and therefore the marriage of Countess Rapp with the Duke did not deprive her of her quality or rights of a Frenchwoman, notwithstanding it was celebrated in Eng- land. The Tribunal gave a decree accordingly.—Galignanis Messenger.

A law is in force in the island of Jersey by which the persons and property of debtors are allowed to be seized for debts before they are due. This law has lately been exercised in the case of a Mr. Andrews, a harness-maker, who was compelled by a creditor to pay a bill not due, under threat of imprisonment. The following day, another creditor de- mauded security for the payment of a note-of-hand for twenty-three pounds, not due till the 20th January next. Mr. Andrews was unable at the moment to give the security ; and so his stock in trade WM sealed up, his books were carried away to be examined, and his shop was closed for two whole days, until his solvency could be ascertained. Any person possessed of landed property cannot be treated in this manner.

Intelligence has been received from Madrid to the 9th instant. By a decree of the 7th, the Regent had suppressed the whole of the infantry and cavalry of the Royal Guard, the officers of which all belonged to noble families. Those corps are to be replaced by two regiments of infantry and two of cavalry, to which very significant names had been given : the first were called the regiments of the Constitution and Espana, and the others of Sagunto and Pavia. It had been resolved that, hereafter, the guard of the Palace should be intrusted in turn to the different corps of the garrison.

Apartments were preparing for the reception of the Infante Don Francisco and his family.

It was expected that the municipal elections, both in Madrid and in the provinces, would be carried by the Democratical party.

The Ministry had prepared a Municipal Bill, which was said to be extremely liberal, and no doubt was entertained that it would meet the approbation of the Cones. Several other bills, equally important, were also on the point of receiving the sanction of the Cabinet ; and among them were one relative to the cottons of Catalonian manufacture and another regulating the corn-trade.

Paris letters of Friday state that the British Cabinet had officially made known to the Government of the Regent-

" 1. That Great Britain not only would not suffer an armed intervention in Spain, but that she would not even permit any considerable military force to be concentrated along the Pyrennean frontier. "2. That she would not oppose any arrangement for the marriage of Queen Isabella the Second, provided her intended husband should not be a French Prince.

'3. That Great Britain was determined to take no part in any European Congress convoked for the adjustment of the Spanish question ; and that if such forcement of all coercive measures, and of all other resolutions of such Congress which should tend directly or indirectly to interfere with the rights and dignity of Spain as a free and independent nation."

We have been favoured with the perusal of a letter from Mr. Hind- ley, M.P., giving an account of an attack made by a band of robbers upon the malle-poste when within about twenty miles of Madrid. Mr. Hindley, who was accompanied by his lady, two children, and two ser- vants, was robbed of what money he had with him ; and a Government courier was also rifled. The robbers returned Mrs. Hindley's watch, but kept that of the courier. The postilions, conductor, and the male passengers, with the exception of Mr. Hindley, were obliged to lie down with their faces on the ground while the diligence was rifled. Although violently threatened, however, none of the passengers sustained any personal injury.—Morning Chronicle.

Advices from Lisbon of the 7th instant confirm reports which have seemed too extravagant to merit notice, that a project was entertained of revolutionizing Portugal. It is said to have been the intention to force the Queen to abdicate, and appoint a Regency under Spanish in- fluence, which would proceed to negotiate a marriage between the Prince Royal of Portugal (a child four years old) and the Queen of Spain ; and it is believed, that although the scheme would probably come to nothing, and was intended only as a blind, the result of the revolution would have been, that for a dozen years at least the government would be in the hands of the Spanish Minister and his friends ; so that Portugal, although nominally governed by an independent Regency of its own, would in fact become a province of Spain. The Correio Portuguez, a new Ministerial paper, states that the general fact of a conspiracy of the kind was matter of common report in Lisbon and over the kingdom. M. Passos had openly declared his sentiments in favour of a union with Sfain, and was thought to have a fair chance of the Regency in case of success.

It seems, says the Morning Chronicle, that the " fusion " between Russia and Poland is to be completed. The line of customs between the two countries is to be abolished, the Code Napoleon replaced by the Russian Legislature, and the laud-tax by the Russian poll-tax. The military commanders and officers may and of course will fill the offices of Mayors vitt Justices of the Peace, hitherto held by landed proprie- tors. Thea„tissian tongue is to be alone taught at schools and used in public acts. Jejs. and all others are to be subject to the conscription. All confiscated goods are made over to the bank to be sold, the profits of the bariklOtiik into the Imperial treasury. Sibylle, the mansion of Prince Czartiiriski,-.is converted into a public establishment. Several emigrant French officers have received commands in the Russian army, such as St. Simon, Duroc, St. Aldegonde.

Referring to the articles on Eastern affairs with which the Paris papers are filled, the private letters of the Times state, on "excellent authority," that "Lord Aberdeen, influenced by a desire to maintain the existing friendly relations between France and England, had noti- fied to the Ottoman Porte that no expedition against Tunis would be suffered ; and that if attempted, a combined French and British fleet would interfere and prevent the sailing of any Turkish naval force with such an object from the Dardanelles."

According to the Augsburg Gazette, which has accounts from Con- stantinople of the 24th November, the Porte is about to send a com- mission to settle the quarrels of the population of the Lebanon. The Mussulmans of Damascus were much moved by the combats taking place so near them between Christians and Mahometans, and their zeal was not easily kept down. The Porte has received a most conciliatory note from Athens. The further march of troops to Thessaly was counter- manded; but it had always been the intention of the Porte to reinforce its garrisons, and that will be effected.

The Halifax mail-steamer Caledonia has arrived at Liverpool, with papers from New York to the 30th November. There is no news of importance.

The inhabitants of New York had been giving splendid entertain- ments to the Prince de Joinville and Lord Morpeth ; and a second dinner was about to be got up for the latter after his return from Boston, whither he was about to proceed at the departure of the packet. On the 27th, the French Prince and the English Lord met at the same public festival. The Americans are much struck with the distinctness and neatness of Lord Morpeth's speeches, and they especially mention the absence of haste in his delivery.

It was rumoured that Mr. M`Leed had got into new troubles; that he had been seized in Canada for some pecuniary defalcation.