]foreign ant (Eolonial. Faasou.—The Moniteur Parisien of Wednesday made the

following imp,

portant announcement-

" An arrangement has been concluded by the Bank of France for the disposal. of a portion of the Government stock of which it is proprietor. On the 27th of' February last, the Emperor of Russia gave, through Count Neeselrode, orders to M Kisseleff his Chargé d'Affaires in France, to present himself to the Minister

for Foreign Affairs (M. Guizot) to inform him that the Russian Government was ready to purchase.the French Government stock of which it wished to dispose, at the medium price of the day (March 11th instant) to the extent of 50,000,000 francs (2,000,0001. sterling). This sum will be placed in cash at St. Petersburg, at the disposal of the Bank of France. " The Minister for Foreign Affairs immediately put the Charge d'Affaires of Bessie in communication with the Minister of Finance and the Governor of the Bank.

" The propositions submitted by the orders of the Emperor have been discussed and accepted ; and a convention to that effect was signed yesterday, the 16th of

March, between the Governor of the Bank and the Charge d'Affaires of Russia. This convention has been approved by the Council-General of the Bank of France at its meeting of this day.'

On the issue of this announcement, the quotations of the Funds in the Passage de 1'Opera rose from 77 francs 80 centimes (the closing price of the day at the Bourse) to 79 francs 5 centimes.

The question still most anxiously discussed relates to the supply of food. A correspondent of the Times makes an interesting communication on this subject—

"Never before, not even during the reign of the cholera, have charity and be- nevolence been displayed in a manner so spontaneous, so generous, so profuse, so effective. Money is contributed and relief is administered, not with the character of almsgiving, nor doled out with reluctance and parsimony and accompanied by reproach, but with a liberality truly admirable, and, as it were, with an earnest solicitude that the gifts be accepted, and that they produce the benefits the donors so ardently desire. One capitalist here expended, it was said, in charity, in 1832 (dunng the presence of the cholera), 10,0001. sterling. His disbursements in this year of suffering will probably amount to double that sum. This spirit of benevolence, and this energetic observance of its dictates, are, however, and hap- pily, not confined to the wealthy and the great; the whole community participates in them. Even the soldiery divide their rations with the poor. There are no sub- scription-lists nor newspaper appeals to the beneficence of those who have to give —no stimulus of any kind. Lvery man gives all that he can afford, and does it as a matter of course, with a good heart, and without ostentation. The conse- quence of this general movement will be, that few, perhaps none, will perish in France of starvation. That is the great matter; but the struggle to keep up the supply must be gigantic. "I regret to state that the best-informed persons here anticipate, for at least six weeks yet to come, increased difficulties and an augmentation of the price of bread. The price of the two-pound loaf for the last fortnight of this month, commencing yesterday morning, was fixed at 58 centimes (about 51d.)

The Moniteur publishes a report, addressed by the Minister of the In- terior to the King, recounting many acts of courage and devotion in the period of the late inundations, and proposing to grant gold and silver me- dals of honour to the citizens who had most distinguished themselves. The list fills eight pages of the official journal, and includes men of all ranks of society: and foremost amongst them are the parish-priests of the districts ravaged by the floods.

The Times begins an alarmist paper on the machinations of France in "the French lake" with this statement of facts; in themselves undeniable, but followed up by inferences far too wide- " The appointment of M. de Carne to a high office in the French Office of Fo- reign Affairs is an occurrence of some little significance, since it seems to denote a further resolution on the part of the French Court, and of M. Guizot's Cabinet, to pursue the objects most incompatible with a good understanding between France and this country. M. de Carne has attracted some attention at different times by speeches in which he has contended for the whole preponderance of France in all parts of the Mediterranean, and no longer than a month ago he pub- lished his opinions in the Revue des Deux Mondes to the same effect. These views, which placed him for some time in opposition to M. Guizot, have now opened to him the doors of the Foreign Office." Queen Christina arrived in Paris on Sunday. She made a rapid journey from Madrid to Bayonne, having stopped only once at Vittoria. Imme- diately after her arrival at her hotel in the Rue de Courcelles, King Louis Philippe paid her a visit. The Duke de Rianzares dined with the King and Royal Family.

A dinner was given on Saturday by the Turkish Ambassador at Paris, to the members of the French Ministry, the Foreign Ambassadors, and other great functionaries. Lord Normanby was present, and was seated during dinner next to AL Guizot; with whom, says a correspondent of the Morning Chronicle, he was observed to converse for a long time with great apparent cordiality. The long-expected death of M. Martin, Keeper of the Seals and hlinister of Justice and Public Worship, took place on Friday morning, at the Cha- teau de Lormois, near Paris. M. Martin's illness had been long and painful. About three months ago, after dining at the house of a friend, he was suddenly attacked with apoplexy. Since that period he has had several fresh attacks, and for some weeks his limbs were entirely paralyzed. From the period of his first attack there has not been the slightest expec- tation of M. Martin's recovery; but, from delicacy to his own feelings and those of his friends, his successor in the Ministry was not officially ap- pointed, although it has been known for some time that M. Hebert was actually nominated to that office.

SPAIN.—In Catalonia Carlist disturbances increase. The Canon Tris- tany entered Tarrasa on the 7th instant, with 400 men: General Breton bad, however, notice of the attack, and sent some troops against him. They entered the town about half an hour after Tristany, and, misled by some peasants, be 'eyed that they had anticipated him. On reaching the Plaza, however, they were saluted with a hot fire of musketry; by which an officer and four men were killed. Thus unexpectedly attacked, the commander of the Queen's troops found it necessary to make an effort to extricate himself: he ordered his men to charge bayonets down the streets; and so vigorously were his orders put in force, that he succeeded in dislodging the Carlists from their entrenchments. Tristan), succeeded in gaining the mountains with very little loss. The Government accounts say Tristany lost fifteen men ; but this seems to be an exaggeration, for no prisoners appear to have been taken. On the part of the Queen's troops, the loss, according to their own account, was at least twelve men and two officers killed, and from thirty to forty wounded.

Don Enrique has fired off a document from Toulon, addressed to the Cortes. He confesses that, considering himself " isolated and cast into oblivion " since the Queen's marriage, he did venture to follow the dictates of his own soul, by contracting a marriage with Dofia Elena Castella Shelly Fernandez de Cordova. The Queen had given a " verbal per- mission"; but but notwithstanding that sanction, he was arrested in his bed by armed soldiers, and removed at the point of the bayonet to Barcelona— scantily equipped. The Prince, " disengaged from the superstitions of past days, which are in opposition to the Constitutional system," " has the honour to make known to the Cortes and to the nation, that, conforming himself to what is prescribed by the laws and royal pragmatic, he is de- cided, as a man of honour, to solemnize his marriage with the above-named lady Dona Elena de Castella Shelly Fernandez de Cordova."

PORTUGAL.—Lettera from Oporto, down to the 10th instant, state that Saldanha had made a feint to cross the Douro at Carraciro; whence he fell back to his former position. The garrison of Oporto were ready to receive him, had he really intended to cross the river. In an affair at Re- port on the 8th, twenty prisoners, chiefly officers of the Ninth Infantry, were taken by the insurgents.

ITALY.—The work of reform goes on bravely at Rome. The Pope has appointed Prince Corsini, Marquis del Bufalo, Vincenzo Colonna, and Camillo Borghese, Commissioners for carrying into effect the organization of municipal institutions. He has also called together at the Quirinal Palace the principal land- owners of the Roman territory, and told them they must cultivate their land, so as to give employment to the people. It is said that he added an intimation, that if the labourers on any property were found without work, labour would be provided for them by the Government at the owner's ex- pense. The surface of the country is said to contain 18,117 square miles; of which 16,071 are in cultivation, 1,315 neglected though susceptible of culture, and 731 incapable of improvement. The popular feeling against Austria strengthens in several quarters. In spite of repressive measures adopted by the Government, the agitation in Lombardy, provoked immediately by dearth, continued to increase. The rich families were greatly alarmed at the disposition manifested by the pea- santry. Two regiments of Croats had arrived in the neighbourhood of W- hin, and several others were expected.

The Journal des Debars recounts a more purely political manifestation at Pisa, reported in letters from that place of the 7th instant. The Archduke Ferdinand D'Este, one of the Imperial family of Austria, arrived at Pisa; and the people conceived the idea that he had been Go- vernor of Gallicia during the massacres of last year. In the course- of the same day, crowds assembled in front of the palace where he was staying, for the purpose of manifesting their disapprobation whenever he might appear in public. The authorities called out the sbirri, and dispersed these assemblages. At midnight, a loud report was heard, which spread alarm through the town: it appeared that a petard had been deposited in the cellars of the palace, which had been discharged by a train. The explosion shook the building, breaking the windows, and those of the adjacent houses. A great agitation prevailed in the town. Placards were every day posted in the streets containing offensive invective against the Austrians. The police were actively employed, and several ar- rests had taken place.

The Grand Duke of Tuscany, it is said, had resolved to augment the troops of the line.

BANARLL—A letter from Munich in the Nuremburg Correspondent men- tions the significant fact, that when the King visited the theatre on the evening of the 7th instant, with the Queen, he was very well received.

The subjoined epistle, "from the fair danseuse who has lately played so large a part in Bavarian politics," and addressed to the editor of the Times, was published in that journal on Thursday-

.• Munich. March 11, isa.

"Sir—Having had a copy of your paper of the 2d instant sent to me, I trust you will, in justice to myself, insert the following short account of the real state of affairs here, and which at the same time will be a contradiction to the numer- ous articles which have lately appeared in the French papers.

"I left Paris in June last, on a professional trip; and, amongst other arrange- ments, decided upon visiting Munich; where for the first time I had the honour of appearing before his Majesty, and receiving from him marks of approbation,—which you are aware is not a very unusual thing for a professional person to receive at a foreign court. "I had not been here a week before I discovered that there was a plot existing in the town to get me out of it, and that the party was the Jesuit party. Of course you are aware that Bavaria has long been their strong-hold, and Munich their head-quarters. This naturally, to a person brought up and instructed from her earliest youth to detest this party, (I think you will say justly,) irritated me- net a little.

" When they saw that I was not likely to leave them, they commenced on another tack, and tried what bribery would do; and actually offered me 50,000 francs yearly if I would quit Bavaria and promise never to return. This, as you may imagine, opened my eyes; and, as I indignantly refused their offer, they have since then not left a stone unturned to get rid of me, and have never for an instant ceased persecuting me. I may mention as one instance, that within this last week a Jesuit professor of philosophy in the University here, of the name of Lassault, was removed from his professorship; upon which the party paid and hired a mob to insult me and to break the windows of my house, and also to at- tack the Palace: but, thanks to the better feeling of the other party, and the devotedness of the soldiers to his Majesty and his authority, this plot likewise failed.

" The late change in the Ministry that you allude to was a spontaneous act of his Majesty, and you pay me too great a compliment in supposing that I was a party to such a measure; but, from what I have seen and heard of his Majesty, I should think he had very just grounds for taking the step which he did.

" Since my residence here, 1 can safely say that I have in no way interfered in any affairs not concerning myself; and as I intend making it my future abode, it is particularly annoying to me, hearing so many scraidalous and untbunded reports which are daily propagated. In justice to myself and my future prospects in life, I trust that you will not hesitate to insert this letter in your widely-circulated journal, and show my friends and the public how unjustly and cruelly I have been treated by the Jesuit party in Munich.

" Knowing that your columns are always open to protect any one unjustly ac- cused, and more especially when that one is an unprotected female, makes me rely upon you for the insertion of this; and I have the honour to subscribe my- self, your obliged servant,

" Loh& Monvxz." The King has ordered the discharge of all the persona who were impri- soned for participating in the disturbances on the late change of Ministers.

RUSSIA.—The Paris Constitutionnel is the first to report sanguinary ex- cesses in the Government of Mohilew, a department of White Russia- " Massacres, recalling those of the circle of Tarnow in Gallicia, deluged several villages with blood. The signal of these disorders appears to have been given at a farewell banquet of the officers of a Russian regiment, which was changing its quarters, to the principal inhabitants of the town they were quitting. At that banquet, toasts of a most hostile nature for the Government, and even for the person of the Emperor, were proposed and received with acclamation. The report on that incident, addressed to the superior authorities, by an official personage present at the banquet, ascribed solely to the too copious libations of the orators

the turbulent spirit they had manifested. Nevertheless, several officers of the noanodonrendtonc:d totahemralikleowf simplethe soldiers. peasants residing on "Inentthweemre time, accounts the estates of several noblemen charged with opposition to the Government had risen against their masters. These peasants, formed into bands, and intoxicated with brandy, plundered the castles, killed their owners, vociferating 'Long live the Emror!' and murdered even those of their own class who refused to join them. Troops, despatched from the chief town of the government, speedily ar- rested those scenes of bloodshed and devastation; which, however, were renewed on different other points."

Other accounts represent that there was no connexion between the two facts thus mentioned conjointly; one of them having occurred in a central government of the empire, and the other at Saratoff, close to the Asiatic frontier.

TCrIIKET.—There are accounts from Constantinople to the 27th of Feb- ruary. It appears that Tahir Pacha had been dismissed from the govern- ment of Adrianople, for having sided with the enemies of reform against Redschid Pacha. The new Minister of Finance, Sarim Pacha, was de- scribed as a warm partisan of England and of reform.

The Porte, it appears, still insisted that the Greek Government should make a distinct apology for the insult given to M. Mussurus, the Turkish Ambassador.

A postscript by the correspondent of the Morning Herald, appended to his letter dated 27th February, announces that " a conspiracy had just been discovered, in which Hafiz Pacha, lately Minister of Justice, and a great many influential pachas, were compromised. Numerous arrests had been made, but no particulars had got wind. Great excitement pervaded all classes."

UNITED STATES AND MEXIC0.—The mail-steamer Cambria, which left Boston on the 1st instant, arrived at Liverpool on Tuesday.

The intelligence from Washington was not very important.

" In Congress," says the New York Courier and Inquirer, " nothing is yet decided as to the Three Million Bill, nor as to the bill for increasing the revenue; and yet on Wednesday next this body must adjourn by constitutional limitation. There seems little probability that any change should be made in the tariff. " A message was received from the President,[on the 13th of February,] ask- ing provision to be made for the appointment of field-officers under the Ten Regi- ment Bill. Mr. Polk recommended a tax on tea and coffee, and a reduction in the price of the public lands, in order that liberal provision might be made for the vigorous prosecution of the existing war with Mexico. He likewise recommended the acceptance of the continued services of the volunteers already in the army in Mexico, whose term of service may expire prior to the cessation of hostilities."

There was some disputation on a special point in the Three Million Bill. It contained " the Wilmot proviso against the institution of slavery in any territory that might newly be annexed to the United States. To this Mr. Calhoun had made strong opposition: the time had come, he said, when the South ought to know its own position; and he moved a string of abstract resolutions, declaring- " 3. That any law which would deprive the citizens of any State from emi- grating with their property into any territory of the United States, would be in derogation of this perfect equality, and in violation of the constitution, and tend to subvert the Union.

"4 That the imposition of any condition upon a State, in order to its admission into the Union, other than that its constitution shall be Republican, would be a direct violation of the constitution, and conflict with the principles on which our system rests."

Mr. Calhoun found a fierce and unexpected antagonist in Mr. Benton; who said that a firebrand should not be thrown into the Senate. The affair was still in litigation.

In the Albany Legislature, Mr. Rutherford offered a resolution calling on Congress to pass a bill appropriating 500,000 dollars for the relief of the poor in Europe. It was agreed to unanimously. The bill releasing canal tolls on provisions and bread-stuffs destined for Ireland, when trans- ported on railroads, was decided to be lost in the Senate, for want of a two- -third vote-17 to 5. An appeal from this decision, taken by Mr. Spencer, lay on the table.

From the seat of war the intelligence was important, but imperfect. Advices had been received, stating that General Kearney had seized the Pass() del Norte, on Christmas Day; which made his way open to seize Chihuahua: but few particulars of the engagement which obtained that success are given. The Mexicans had a force of 1,000; of which 480 were regulate, commanded by Vidal; and the Americana had 400. Before the commencement of the engagement, the Americans demanded a parley; 'which was refused, and the fight immediately commenced. At the com- mencement, about half the Mexicans were thrown into disorder, and took to flight.

An outpost of American volunteers (cavalry) had been surprised and captured in advance of Saltillo, by the Mexicans; and an officer of the regular army, with an escort of ten dragoons, bearing despatches from General Scott at Bragos Santiago, to General Taylor at Monterey, had been out off.

A transport also, with a regiment of volunteers under the command of Colonel De Russey, was wrecked off the coast of Mexico, near Tampico. The survivors of the regiment, on reaching the land, were soon attacked by -a superior Mexican force; but at the latest accounts the result was not known. General Patterson, commanding at Tampico, had despatched a brigade to extricate this regiment.

From Mexico itself there is nothing distinct. Santa Anna was at San Luis Potosi, with a destitute army. The attempt to make money by the appropriation of ecclesiastical property had failed: the property was of the kind called " real," and in the actual state of the country it could not be " realized " in cash. The Government at Mexico blamed Santa Anna for inaction; he loudly complained of being left without the means of action.