On the 23d of August, the health of Prince Metternich
was so far improved that no apprehensions of a fatal result were any longer en- tertained.
The negotiations between the French Government and the Texian Envoy, General Henderson, for the recognition of the Republic of Texas, which a month since appeared on the point of successful termi- nation, have assumed an unpromising aspect. The French Govern- ment has, I am told, become so exacting that the Texian Envoy and Mr. Hamilton, who arrived here from London some days since to aid General Henderson with his counsel, feel indisposed to commit their Government by acquiescence. Hence the affair may for the moment be deemed suspended.-Paris Correspondent of the Times.
The French Government has just ordered an examination to be made of the claims raised by the English merchants, owing to the blockade of Portendic. It is disposed to acknowledge that an indemnity may be due to them to the amount of near 60,000 francs. This is all very well. If we owe, we must pay ; but let us, at the same time, hope that Minis- ters will not forget that our commerce has also compensations to re- quire from the English Government. Its agents have caused it, espe- cially at Sierra Leone, serious damage, for which they are responsible. `When the respective claims are balanced, it will turn out that if we be not the creditors of England, we shall at least not be her debtors.-
Le Temps.
According to recent accounts front Circassia, a severe battle has taken place. The Russians are said to have remained masters of the field, bat have paid so dear for their victory that it was as bad as a de- feat to them. They have also lost a ship of the line and two frigates by a violent storm on the coast of Circassia.-Sad of .4farscilles.
A dreadful fira broke out in .14 the Christian quarter" of Constanti- nople, on the 9th August. The Paris papers contain flaming accounts of the Prince de Joinville's performances in putting out the conflagra- tion.
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