i hrtigu aub FIANCE. — The intelligence from France is brief, though important.

It records that Marshal St. .Arnaud has at length left Marseilles ; setting out for the East on Saturday last, in the steamer Berthollet.. The Prefect and the military authorities, General Rostolan and General Fancheux, with a detachment of gendarmes, escorted him to the port, through streets lined with troops ; the crew received him with huzzas, and the fort fired a salute. Madame St. Arnaud, who accompanies the Marshal to the East, had gone on board earlier in the day. The pier and the rising ground were covered with well-dressed persons ; and altogether the movement, it was observed by a spectator, "resembled a scene at the Grand Opera."

Louis Napoleon now moves fearlessly about the capital on foot. One day last week, he escorted the Empress to "the panorama of the battle of the Pyramids," and sent her back to the Tuileries, from the Hotel des Invalides, in the carriage - while he walked to the dome and Cour Vauban, and thence to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs ; subsequently he walked to the works in the Place de la Concorde and the works of the Louvre.

The French Consuls have been withdrawn from Odessa, Warsaw, and other Russian towns ; and the Russian Consuls have been directed to withdraw from French towns.

TUBXEY.—A report reached town on Wednesday afternoon, by tele- graph from Vienna, that Omar Pasha had inflicted a terrible defeat upon the Russian corps under General Liiders, " between Silistria and Rassova." Further it was said, that the Ottoman general had advanced on the 18th or 19th towards the Dobrudscha ; that he had detached a division Eastward, which on the following day, during the height of the battle, fell upon the Russian rear, " causing unexampled confusion and consternation" ; and that General Liiders had retreated towards Czema- pods, having lost many guns, much ammunition, stores, baggage-waggons, and "even the military chest." Unfortunately, there are strong reasons for believing that this report is incorrect, and that it refers to the combat at Czemavoda, fought, as reported previously, on the 20th April, at Cze- mavoda. That encounter, whatever it was, did not check the Russian advance, for they have been credibly reported clear of Trajan's Wall. Nor is this all. Omar Pasha was certainly at Schumla on the 16th April : at that date he was concentrating his forces, with the intention of waiting a favourable moment for an attack. He had with him probably from 60,000 to 70,000 men; and there was no sign of his moving on an expedition to a field sixty or seventy miles distant.

Another story is, that a Turkish flying corps, on the 20th April, crossed the Danube below Silistria, in order to destroy the Russian strand-batter- ies: that they advanced to Kalarash, fought "like lions" for some hours, and then withdrew before overwhelming forces. As far as can be judged from the imperfect accounts of the day, the Russians face Rustchuck and Silistria on the left bank of the Danube. Lesser Wallachia has been abandoned, and all the country West of the Aluta. On the right bank, General Liiders is conjectured to be marching forward from the Dobrudscha, to join in the investment of Silistria from the Bulgarian side. It is this movement which Omar Pasha is narrowly watching. The French General Bosquet had gone to Schumla. The gross breach of the law of nations at Odessa, in firing on a flag of truce, appears to have been promptly punished. According to the only account, vouched for on authority, nine vessels of the combined fleet bom- barded Odessa on the 23d April. At the date of the despatch, the can- nonnading had continued for ten hours, and was still going on. " One of the Russian batteries had been completely destroyed, and several Russian ships, which were moored in the harbour, were burnt." The latest news, but not vouched for on authority, assert; that " on the 22d of April the allied fleets destroyed, in a few hours, all the fortifications, the batteries, and the military stores. Two powder-magazines blew up, and twelve vessels of war were sunk. The merchant-vessels were saved. The loss of the allies was only five killed and six wounded. Thirteen Russian ves- sels laden with munitions were taken. The fleet left in the direction of Sebastopol."

Another current report is that the batteries at the Salina month of the Danube have been bombarded by the fleets. At Kostendje, the Sidon and the Magellan, British and French war- steamers, cast anchor; and the French captain, longing for a little shoot- ing, took some men with him, and went ashore. Penetrating into the country, lie fell in with some Russian cavalry, had a skirmish with them, killed two men, and retreated to his boat. This is from a French ac- count ; which goes on to say that the boat was stranded, and for a mo- ment could not be got off. Fortunately, the Magellan's people were looking on; and in the nick of time, they dropped first a shell and then a few round shot among the pursuing Russians. The captain and his men shoved oft, and returned safely to the ship.

Accounts from Constantinople up to the 20th April state that six Bri- tish regiments were in the barracks at Scutari. They were the Forty- first, Thirty-third, Forty-ninth, Seventy-seventh, Forty-seventh, and Eighty-eighth. The Turks rushed in crowds over to Scutari when the first regiment, the Forty-first, arrived. They are said to have looked on the precise movements of the troops, such as shouldering arms, march- ing, wheeling, &c., with amazement, and to have cried " Inshallah ! " at every new movement. We hear no more about bad accommodation, scanty food, no comforts.

Lord Raglan must by this time have reached Constantinople. He left Malta, in the Emu,. on the 24th April. The Duke of Cambridge is also on his way, via Trieste and Corfu : he left Vienna on the 30th April.

The Reverend C. M. Torlesse, Vicar of Stoke-by-Nayland, has sent to the Times the following letter from a corporal of the Forty-fourth Regi- ment, to his father, one of Mr. Torlesse's parishioners. It throws a new light on the condition of the troops at Gallipoli.

"Gallipoli, Turkey, April 15.

"Dear Father—I take this most favourable and blessed opportunity of addressing these few lines to you, in hoping to find you quite well as it leaves me at this present time, thank God for it, dear father. I have to inform you that my regiment left Malta on the 4th of April to sail for Turkey, and we was six days on board the Steamer. We landed at Gallipoli on the 11th of the same month, and I have to in- form you that it is as fine &country as ever my eyes did see ; and as for cattle, bul-

locks do all the work that there is to do here, in the place of horses; and as for beer; and mutton, and bread, they are cheap. Yon buy a fine sheep for 2s. and 2s. 6d., and the very day that I write this letter, I see a sheep sold for 5d., but they were very young.

" But I have to inform you that there is no inhabitants in the place where my regiment, and the Fiftieth, and Forty-third, and Rifles, and Forty-second are. There is no more English troops come up yet ; but plenty of French troops lay with us, a thing that was never known before ; English and French troops together, and drink- ing and going on as they are now. " Dear Father, I suppose that you remind the time that there was pressing. They used to take a man from a waggon when going on the road to market. Well, that is the very same way with the Turks. If a man have two sons and one girl, the two sons was taken from bin; and any man that was fit to use a firelock was taken to the war. They are hard at it about eighty miles from where we lies at present, but we expect to be in it red hot in about another month.

Dear Father, I can tell the price of a few articles. Coffee is Is. per lb., and bread is Id. per lb., and tea is Sid. per lb., and tobacco is 61d. per lb., peat, 2d. the real best ; but you cannot get a pipe under ld. per pipe, and as for beer and porter there is none. Black wine and coffee you can buy ready-made, and as for shoe- makers there is none ; and there is no one to work the ground, the finest land that ever you did see ; and as for water, the best water that ever I did drink, and as for game there is plenty of all sorts. Our officers go out a shooting every day, and bring plenty of game home with them ; and as for trees I never see less than what there is here.

" Dear Father, I must now conclude, by remaining your affectionate Son,

" ARrIIEn WARNER."

The Greek insurgents have suffered defeat recently. The town of Arta has been retaken by the Turks ; and 3000 insurgents, under Ka- raiskakis, have been defeated by Osman Pasha : they have also met with a defeat at Metzovo. Their head-quarters, Peta, had been taken by storm. All the Greek waters arc now sharply watched by French and British cruisers ; but it is said that pirates have begun to show themselves in the Archipelago.

RUSSLL—The Emperor has issued another manifesto : it appears in a supplement extraordinary to the Journal de St. Petersbourg. "By the grace of God, we, Nicholas the First, Emperor and Autocrat of all the Russias, King of Poland, &c., to all our subjects make known— "Since the commencement of our difference with the Turkish Govern- ment, we have solemnly announced to our faithful subjects that a sentiment of justice had alone induced us to reestablish the violated rights of the or- thodox Christians, subjects of the Ottoman Porte. " We have not sought, we do not seek, to make conquests, nor to exercise in Turkey any supremacy whatever that might be likely to exceed that in- fluence which belongs to Russia by virtue of existing treaties. "At that period we already encountered distrust ; then soon a covert hos- tility on the part of the Governments of France and England, who endea- voured to lead the Porte astray by misrepresenting our intentions. Lastly, at this moment, England and France throw off the mask, regard our differ- ence with Turkey as a mere secondary question, and no longer dissemble that their joint object is to weaken Russia, to tear from her a part of her possessions, and to bring down our country from the powerful position to which the hand of the Supreme Being had exalted it. "Is it for orthodox Russia to fear such threats?

"Ready to confound the audacity of the enemy, shall she swerve from the sacred purpose that has been assigned to her by Divine Providence? No ! Russia has not forgotten God ! It is not for worldly interests that she has taken up arms. She combats for the Christian faith, for the defence of her coreligionists oppressed by implacable enemies. "Let all Christendom know, then, that the thought of the Sovereign of Russia is also the thought that animates and inspires all the great family of the Russian people—this orthodox people, faithful to God and to His only Son, Jesus Christ our Redeemer.

"It_is for the faith and for Christendom that we combat ! " God with us—who against us? '

"Given at St. Petersburg, on the 11th day of the month of April, in the year of grace 1854, and the 29th of our reign. NicuoLes."

War-taxes are levied at St. Petersburg. Tradesmen and merchants of the first guild pay 300 silver roubles ; of the second guild, 160 roubles; of the third guild, 106. Housekeepers are assessed ten per cent on the actual rent.

Griricticr.—The Austro-Prussian treaty or convention recently nego- tiated by General Hess at Berlin was ratified there on Tuesday. It is anticipated that the treaty will be communicated to the Western Powers. Having satisfactorily accomplished this task, General Hess was next to make Frankfort the scene of his diplomacy. The Prussian Chambers closed their sittings for this year on Saturday last. Baron Manteuffel addressed a final speech to the First Cham- ber; which contains nothing more remarkable than the renewal of the declaration, that, in accordance with Austria and the other great European Powers, Prussia would continue to strive for "the maintenance of peace." Count Schwerin, President of the Second Chamber, closed the sittings of that body by a much more striking demonstration. Since the Parliament first met, he said, the dangers of the country had greatly increased. The money demanded by the Government had been granted by a vast majority, because they were fully convinced as to "the direction the Government would here- after pursue in its foreign policy." Whether peace could be maintained or not, one thing he might declare, "that if anything great is to be done, this alone will be possible when the confidence between the Government and the people is more firm, and when the Government can rely upon the whole force of the nation." But they could only cooperate to that end by free space being given for the development of the constitution through- out the country. These views drew forth marks of assent from the Cham- ber, but they greatly offended the Russian faction.

The marriage ceremony of the Austrian Emperor with the Princess Elizabeth of Bavaria, performed in the Church of St. Augustine on the 24th April, was exceedingly magnificent. The church was ornamented with

crimson silk velvet hangings, and lighted with ten thousand wax candles. Around the high altar were disposed three Cardinals and eleven Arch- bishops. A splendid company of nobles, ladies, diplomatists, and state functionaries, occupied the body of the church ; and among the foreign visitors of distinction were the Duke of Cambridge, the Duke of Saxe- Gotha, and the Prince of Schleswig-Holstein Gliicksburg. The bride was arrayed in a robe of white embroidered with silver and gold, on her head was a diadem of brilliants, and a lace veil fell over her shoulders. She was led to the altar by her mother, the Duchess Louisa of Bavaria, and the mother of the Emperor, the Archduchess Sophia. The new Empress is only sixteen years of age. A week of festivities, including a review and a ball in honour of the Duke of Cambridge, followed the marriage. The state of siege has been raised throughout the empire. Marshal Radetzky has received the grand cross of St. Stephen, the only man in the empire in possession of that order ; Ban Jellachich has been made a Count, the Minister Bach a Baron, and Count Buol has received

the grand cross of St. Leopold. It is remarked, as unusual, that the Em- peror returned the visits of the Duke of Cambridge, with punctilious regularity, on the day following that on which they were made.

Gm:me-E.—The Greek Government has issued a circular to the European Powers, giving its own version of the proximate cause of the departure of the Ottoman Ambassador from Athens ; remonstrating against the ex- pulsion of the Greeks from Turkey ; and taking great credit to the Go- vernment of King Otho for not having imitated this:conduct. A letter from Mr. Wyse and M. Forth Rouen, the English and French Ministers, addressed to the Greek Government, has also been published. It severely rebukes M. Paikos, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, for having put forward accusations against the Turkish Govern- ment directly the reverse of the truth, as established by strict investi- gation. In his letter to Nesset Bey, on the 7th March, M. Paikos complained that a corps of Albanians, 500 strong, had passed the Hel- lenic frontier on the 26th February, pursuing the Christian peasants near Arta. The truth is, that Lieutenant-Colonel Skilodimos, commanding a battalion of Greek light troops, joined Karaiskakis in a conflict under the citadel of Arta, and therefore on Turkish territory. The note asks who are the authors of this perversion of facts ? and formally protests against the violation of Turkish territory. Moreover, M. Paikos is charged with having kept from the knowledge of the Chambers and the Senate the col- lective note of the four Powers destined to support the grievances set forth by Nesset Bey, and with not having transmitted any reply to the Ministers.

The French war-steamer Heron has stopped a Greek vessel, near Chalcis, having on board 205 barrels of powder and 120 boxes of car- tridges, which had been shipped at Nauplia and were intended for the insurgents in Epirus and Thessaly. Bodies of men, levying contribu- tions as they go, continued to make their way over the frontiers. Many crossed the Gulf of nitres' but this had been in some measure checked by the presence of a French war-steamer.

MONTRNEGRO.—Prince Daniel issued a manifesto on the 28th March, calling upon all brave Montenegrins who do not fear to die, to join him as volunteers, and fight for the holy cross, the orthodox faith, and their country. All who are not prepared to look death in the face are peremp- torily told to remain at home. " Are we not, my dear brethren," says Prince Daniel, " the children of those ancient Montenegrin conquerors who at one and the same time defeated three Turkish Viziers, beat the French troops, and stormed the Sultan's fortresses ? " This movement is said to be due to the counsels of Colonel Rovaleffsky, the Russian officer who figured so prominently in the troubles of 1852. It is said that Prince Daniel can raise 20,000 men, and enter at once Albania and the Herzegovina. Austria views this rising with alarm ; and will, it is said, intervene to crush it.

JAMAICA.—Advices from Kingston, to the 10th April, have been re- ceived. By a majority of one, the Legislative Council had passed the Rwwrisible Government Bill ; thus accepting the provision agreed to by the House of Assembly for a judicial establishment under the civil list : nevertheless, they passed the bill under protest. Within half an hour after its passing the Council, Sir Henry Barkly gave the assent of the Crown.

There was a smart but very brief shock of earthquake at Kingston on the 1st of April; and the comet was visible on the 2d. The cholera was on the wane, and had become sporadic.