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FRANCE.—Rumours, believed to be well founded, are current in Paris respecting a probable modification of the Cabinet. Already the Ministry of Police, in which it is said M. de Maupas has been too zealous, finding plots constantly where no plots existed, has been suppressed ; and M. de Maupas is spoken of for a diplomatic appointment. Then, M. de Morny and M. Fould are for preserving the peace of Europe at any risk; while M. de Persigny and M. Drouyn de Lhuys are for enforcing respect to treaties even at the hazard of war. On the other hand, it is stated that M. Fould only will retire ; that M. de Persigny will be made Minister of State, while the astute Be Moray returns to the post he occupied on the 2d December—the Interior. Other movements are mentioned ; notably the retirement of St. Arnaud, and the appointment of General Canrobert, whom rumour declares to be favourable to the banished Generals.

The Emperor reviewed the troops at Satory on Monday. He com- manded throughout the evolutions ; and it is said that neither the generals nor the troops knew beforehand what orders he intended to give.

The funeral of M. Garibaldi, the late Papal Envoy, was celebrated with great pomp on Tuesday, in the cathedral of Notre Dame. Lord Cowley attended as chief mourner.

TIUMEY.—The letters from Constantinople are still not later than the 9th instant. At that date the armaments had advanced greatly. Varna and Shumla were garrisoned ; the artillerymen being sent from the castles of the Dardanelles. Both these important fortresses are stronger than re- cent Russian reports describe them ; and they are the supports of the Balkan line of defence. The militia of Rouraelia, consisting of trained soldiers who have served their turn in the army, were fast mustering. On the 13th the English fleet anchored in Besika Bay, according to the telegraph. This bay is near the mouth of the Scamander, whence the ships obtain water, and about seven miles below the first castle of the Dardanelles. Admiral Dundee, after a run of five days, arrived before the French fleet ; which either subsequently entered the straits or cast anchor near Tenedos.

A telegraphic despatch, dated Vienna, June 19, and received yesterday, says, according to the Pram of that city, that if the Russian troops had not passed the Pruth, it was owing to the overflowing of the Lower Danube and its confluent streams. The plains, it continues, are trans- formed into lakes ; and the mouths of the rivers are so encumbered with sand that the commander of the flotilla has declared that the passage would be attended with the greatest danger.

Russu.—The Gazette of St. Peters'nzry has published a circular note on the differences between Turkey and Russia, addressed by Count Nes- selrode to the ministers or diplomatic agenls of the Emperor. The note is very long and very diffuse ; a mixture of history and accusation. Count Nesselrode declares that there is not one word of truth in the pre- tension which the newspapers have tried to fasten on Russia, that she desires "fresh territorial aggrandizement," or seeks "the ruin and de- struction of the Ottoman empire."

The Emperor Nicholas, it is affirmed, has aimed at nothing "which would have a tendency to exceed that [protectorate] which we exercise, in point of fact and traditionally in Turkey, by virtue of previous treaties." And "as far as regards the protection of the Russo-Greek religion in Turkey, we have no necesaity, in order to secure its interests, of any other rights than those which are already secured to us by our treaties our position, and the reli- gious sympathy which exists between 60,000,000 Russians of the Greek per- suasion and the great majority of the Christian subjects of the Sultan; in- fluence immemorial and inevitable, because it exists in facts and not in words ; influence which the Emperor found existing in full force when he ascended the throne, and which he cannot, out of deference to the unjust suspicions which it awakens, renounce without giving up the glorious in- heritance of his august predecessors."

Count Nesselrode repeats that the mission of Prince Menschikoff " never had any other object than the arrangement of the affair of the Holy Places." He insists that the Emperor of Russia was not the first to raise the question; that the concessions of the Porte to France, the " tergiversation and dupli- city " of the Porte in carrying the finnan on the Holy Places into execu- tion, especially the " most flagrant violation of it,' " the delivery of the key of the principal church at Jerusalem to the Latin Patriarch" —that this open breach of faith, aggravated by the derisive words of the Sultan's councillors, justified the Emperor in demanding ample satisfaction. For this purpose, Prince Menschikoff was sent to Constantinople instructed to obtain a new settlement, and " an authentic act," which would be " reparation for the past and a guarantee of the future." The Emperor wished to conciliate France, and the now arrangement was agreed to without any opposition from the French Ambassador. But then an act was required to render this new arrangement valid. " To this guarantee the Emperor at- tached so much the more importance, as it constituted the only reparation for the outrage offered to his dignity by the breach of faith on the part of the Ottoman Porte, especially after the circumstances which had rendered this yet more notorious." Count Nesselrode contends, that there was nothing unusual about the " convention" by means of which Priuce Menschikoff endeavoured to ob- tain this act. He denies that it would interfere with the independence of the Sultan, any more than the treaties between Catholic and Protestant states guaranteeing immunities and liberties to the Protestant subjects of the former interfere with their independence. " For' in principle only, it is of little consequence to the independence of the Sultan whether an act applies to a more or less considerable number of his subjects on whose be- half a right of foreign protection was to be exercised." Count Nesselrode then argues, that the right of surveillance and remon- strance was implied by the treaty of Kaynardji in 1774; that Russia had not abused that right; that had the Emperor cherished designs against Turkey he would have left the West to settle its own distractions in 1818, end have turned his attention to the East. "Surely, if we had been disposed to make a bad use of that right, as is supposed by those whose suspicions are incurable, we could not have wanted the occasions for doing so in the course of this long period of time ; and such occasions would specially have presented them- selves within the last years, when Europe was a prey to anarchy, when its governments, paralyzed by internal contests, were engaged in or distracted by the revolutions of the Occident,.leaving the Orient open to the ambitious views which are ascribed to us. If ours were the intentions which some per- sons are pleased to suppose in us, we should surely not have waited until peace was reestablished in Europe. Should we, with such intentions, have disposed our forces in such a manner as to offer a moral and a material sup- port to our neighbours ? Should we, as we have done, have strained every nerve to reconcile our allies and to remove every obstruction to the intimate union of the European Powers ? On the contrary, in such a case it MS clearly our interest to do all we could to perpetuate their differences. We should then have left the governments alone to fight among themselves or with their rebellious subjects ; and, profiting by the embarrassments of their position, we could have attained, without any difficulty, that point which persons persist in designating as the goal of our encroaching policy. At pre- sent, when social order is fortunately reestablished in every country, and when the states of Europe, each set firmly on its basis, have the free disposal of their actions and forces, such a policy on our part would be thoroughly out of season." All along the Emperor has been animated by moderation and forbearance. He has endeavoured to untie the Gordian knot peaceably ; but "it appears that we are to be compelled forcibly to break it." That is pain- ful to the Emperor's "conciliating disposition," but Russia cannot yield another step unless it be at the cost of her political importance. Should the peace be broken, "it is not on our shoulders that the responsibility for such an event would rest."

The Emperor of Russia, on the 12th instant, visited the harbour of Cronstadt, where the Baltic fleet is concentrated.

A Maltese paper reports a recent victory obtained by the Circassians over a Russian force of 40,000 men and 36 guns. Schamyl drew the Russian army into a position from which they could not extricate them- selves. He captured twenty-three guns. Five battalions of Poles went over from the Russian army to the Circassians.

GREECE.—The Greek journals do not betray any desire for Russian domination. On the contrary, the latest manifestations of Greek opinion • through the press point to the establishment of " a great Hellenic state," a "reconstruction of Greek nationality," with Constantinople for its capi- tal, as the only safe barrier to Russia.

UNITED STATES. —The Atlantic arrived at Liverpool on Tuesday, with advices to the llth June.

Political news is still stagnant. It would appear that some difference exists between Mr. Buchanan and Mr. Secretary Marcy as to whether Washington or London is the better place for conducting the negotiations on the Fishery and Reciprocity treaty pending between Great Britain and the United States. Mr. Marcy is for Washington. In consequence of this difference, apparently, Mr. Buchanan did not come by the Atlantic. It would appear that the information recently transmitted to this coun- try from Washington respecting the views of the United States Govern- ment with regard to the Mecilla Valley has been incorrect. It is now stated that General Pierce supports the claim put forward by Governor Lane to the valley ; that Santa Anna will dispute the claim by force of arms ; and that war is imminent. Certain it is that a policy antagonistic to the United States is to be looked for from Santa Anna.

The Earl of Ellesmere and the English Commissioners to the Now York Exhibition arrived at New York, in the frigate Leander, on the 10th June. Each Commissioner has a separate mission, and the general scope of their inquiries will comprise the industrial resources of the United States.

C....Num.—There has been some fearful rioting at Quebec and Montreal, arising out of two attempts to deliver lectures by Father Gavazzi. On the 4th June Gavazzi gave a lecture at Quebec which was listened to quietly, but with symptoms of insubordination. The trustees of the church re- fused him the use of the building for a second lecture but he found quarters in a Scotch Free Church on the 6th. About half-way through the lecture Gavazzi charged the Irish priesthood with heading the Riband lodges. "It's a lie!" shouted a voice ; and immediately a savage assault was commenced by some persons who entered from the street. They stormed the pulpit; Gavazzi and his secretary man- fully defended themselves—Gavazzi using a bench. But he was over- powered, and flung from the pulpit ; his face and head cut. By this time the police arrived ; and Gavazzi found his way into a cellar beneath the church; whence he escaped. For an hour or two all was quiet. The troops were called out; but beyond parading the streets and smashing windows, the crowd did no damage. However, they serenaded the Sheriff and another person who were said to have introduced Gavazzi to the town. From Quebec the Father went to Montreal. There, on the 9th, he was proceeding to deliver a lecture, when a mob stormed the church ; but they were repulsed with the loss of three shot dead. Shortly after, in the streets, a disturbance arose; and the troops, firing, killed seven per- sons and wounded sixteen, six of them mortally. The Mayor of Mon- treal was blamed for ordering the troops to fire without sufficient cause. VAN DIEXIEN'S LAND.—By the overland mail advices have been re- ceived from Van Diemen's Land to the 14th March.

The Legislative Council was called together on the 8th March. The second session had only terminated on the 5th January ; but the Council baying declined to vote more than three months' supplies for police and gaols, "until her Majesty's gracious answer to their address of 1852 against transportation should be received," this early session became ne- cessary. The Queen's speech indicating the prospective cessation of transportation "at no distant day" had reached the colony about the lat- ter end of February, and had diffused almost universal satisfaction. The Governor, Sir William Denison, in his speech on opening the ses- sion, alluded to the subject in the following words- " Her Majesty's speech on the opening of Parliament submits this import- ant question to the wisdom of the Legislature. When I meet you again at the period when the annual session of Council usually takes place, I trust I may be able to lay before you some precise information on this subject, and be able to suggest such steps as may insure to the colony such a supply of free labour as may lessen in some measure the pressure on the labour-mar- ket which a change of policy on the part of the Home Government may possibly entail." A Select Committee, consisting of the Colonial Secretary, the Solicitor- General, the Speaker, and three of the representative members, was forth- with appointed to prepare an answer to this speech. In answer to the above-cited passage of his Excellency's speech, the Address says— "Whale we regret that your Excellency is not in possession of any informa- tion from her Majesty's Government in reply to our addresses to her Ma- jesty on the subject of transportation, we rejoice to find that her Majesty has been pleased to submit the question to the consideration of the British Par- liament; and we trust that your Excellency may be able to inform us at a later period of the session that transportation to the colony has for ever ceased."

In bringing up the report of the Select Committee, it was announced that this address had been unanimously agreed to ; no objection to the above paragraph having been made by the two official members. It was also unanimously adopted by the House, with the addition of the follow- ing words, on the motion of the Solicitor-General- -" and thus a matter has been set at rest which has of late years been productive of much anxiety and discussion." On the 11th March, Mr. Gregson, Member for Richmond, moved an address to the Queen, expressive of the Council's grateful thanks, and adding- " This intimation, so expressive of your Majesty's regard for the welfare of the colony, has diffused universal delight among your Majesty's loyal and dutiful subjects of Tasmania; and furnishes us with a well-founded confi- dence that the great evil which has exercised so disastrous an influence upon Its highest social interests is about to cease." A vague and feeble amendment was proposed by Sir William Denison's private secretary. This amendment was negatived, apparently without a divon; and the original address carried by a majority of thirteen re- presentative members against the four official members and one "nominee." The Council having voted four months' supplies for police and gaols, in order to give ample time for the settlement of the great question, adjourned to the 12th July.

INDIA AND CHLVA.—The fuller despatches brought by the overland mail give little additional information. Beling, as was stated, had been recaptured, with the loss of thirty killed and wounded ; but one of the leaders of the insurgent Burmese who captured Beling, Pang-tha, escaped. He sought the assistance of a chief; but this prudent gentleman, think- ing to conciliate the English, sent the head of Pang-tha, "preserved with . salt in a box," to the British Commissioner of Tiding. The disturbed state of the district is shown by the fact that Sitang was also threatened. In this case, however, succours from Shoygyn ariived in time to save it.

The Burmese Commissioners have been allowed thirty days to sign a treaty of peace, revised in some points in favour of the Burmese. It was supposed that, should the Burmese fail to sign the treaty, an immediate advance on Ave, by water, would take place.

The news from Bombay is to May 23. The Nizam had consented to cede Berar to the British Government, in lieu of his debt and annual payment. Berar is the great cotton district of India, and immediately joins the Company's collectorate of Kandeish and Ahmednugger. Mr. Grant had left Bombay for England, and Mr. Le Geyt had set out to take possession of his judgeship at Poona. The Native bar and Native gentlemen had presented an address to both, expressing high respect and esteem for them ; and also a memorial to the Governor and Council simi- larly, framed. Mr. Grant had declined a parting entertainment offered by the Native community. The "false position" assumed by the Born- bay Government in this matter is new generally recognized. Ile hews from China is still of the same questionable character. The latest date is Shanghai the 12th April, and Hongkong 22d April. Nan-

kin and another city were reported to have fallen into the hands of the insurgents. The British authorities at Shanghai had declined to lend any support to Nankin, or to take any other part in the war except such as may be necessary to protect British property. The Susquehannah had grounded in attempting to reach Nankin.