The Moniteur of yesterday publishes the despatch of Count Nesselrode,
dated June 29, in reply to the Austrian representation ; with a comment by M. Drouyn de Lhuys, to whom the document had been officially transmitted from Vienna. Neither throws any new historical light upon the position. The Russian Minister, in language of studied courtesy and covert threat, suggests that Austria had better accept the status quo ante bellum ; while the French Minister, ably but easily disposing of the Count's sophistries, advances stronger suggestions for keeping Austria to the conviction that great modifications must be made in the status quo. The telegraphic despatches brought forth by the morning journals are less plentiful than usual.
" Dantzic,Thursday, Aug. 10.—The Nieolai has just arrived. She left the fleet at Ledsund. Three thousand French troops landed at Bomaraund. The Russians deserted eight cannons."
[A later despatch gives a different version.]
"Dantzie, August 11.—Three thousand,French soldiers and six hundred English marines landed at three points on Aland, with little interruption, and no loss, on Tuesday last. The forts have not been attacked, but were to be on Wednesday. Admiral Napier is in the Bulldog at Bomarsund."
".Dresden, August 10.—Prince John, brother of the late King, has issued a proclamation, which is countersigned the Ministers, announcing his ac. cession."
" Alexandria, August 2.—Said Pasha has abolished the duty on the ex. portation of cereals. This will exonerate the Fellahs from the imposts en pasture and the wheat harvest. The quantity of produce thus thrown open to unrestricted commerce is estimated at 600,000 ardebas. M. Konigs, the former French master of Said, is appointed to the Chief Secretaryship; and Mr. Green, an Englishman, is nominated Director of the Transit Depart- ment. Foreign officers will again be employed for the training of the arm which, although very numerous, stands much in need of instruction. They; debt is to be liquidated by the sale of the depot of merchandise. Cairo has been illuminated for three days."
On the authority of a letter from Hamburg, dated August 7, the Belgian IndePendance publishes the following account of the narrow escape of the Grand Duke Constantine.
"The Grand Duke, accompanied by his aide-de-camp, Prince Galitzin, and four rowers, was in a boat on the Neva going from (lranienbaum to Cron- stadt. The boat, under the influence of a violent wind, capsized, and all who were in it were precipitated into the water, which runs very rapidly at this part. The Duke was sinking, when he was taken out by the hair of the bead by the crew of another boat; but it was found impossible to am Prince Galitsin or either of the rowers."
Among the charges brought against the Queen Mother of Spain, is that of indebtedness to the nation. Thus the Tribune makes out a little bill for seventy-one millions of reale- " Doha Maria Christina de Borbon is debtor to the state—twenty-four mil- lions, which she reoeived unlawfully as Reins Gobernadora, from 1834 to
1840, having married a second time shortly after the death of her first hus- band ; twelve millions, which were paid to her on her return from Frame for the three years which she passed out of the country ; and thirty-five millions, the difference between the money of Spain and America, for the ten years that she has drawn her pension on the treasury of Cuba; making a total of seventy-one millions of reals."
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