The ifoniteur of this morning announces that General Forey, com-
manding the Fourth Division of the Army of the East, has proceeded to the Pinens, with a view of taking possession of that port. A body of English marines, which have been placed under the command of General Forey,. form part of the expedition. [A letter from Malta of the 22d says "the division of General Foray has left today, in fourteen steamers."] The Times correspondent at renna reports, that "Austria and Prussia will now deniand the evacuation of the Turkish territory, and that ac- cordingly a draught of a note to Russia has been sent by the Conference to Berlin for the approval of the Prussian Government,"
A telegraphic despatch from Perim gives the following infortnation-
" According to advises from Frankfort of the 25th, the Ministers of Aus- tria and Prussia have-yresented Or the Diet the joint declaration of Austria
and Prussia, announcing the continued cordiality of the Four Powers and declaring that the prolongation of the struggle between Russiaend Turkey constituted a danger for Germany, and that the integrity of Turkey must be maintained. After this declaration, five protocols of the proceedings of the Vienna Conference were laid before the Diet ; the fact of the Austro-Prussian treaty was notified to that assembly, and the other German States were in- vited to adhere to it."
A private letter from Berlin states that it was on the receipt of an angry letter from the Emperor of Russia, in reply to one recommending moderation, that the King of Prussia ordered the last protocol to be signed. —Thnes.
A Greek bishop was arrested at Peeth on the evening of the 16th, as a Russian emissary, and taken to the New Building, where political offend- ers are kept. Important papers, it is said, were found on his person.
By order of the French Minister of War, the English airs "God save the Queen" and "Rule Britannia," and the march of "The Grand Sultan Abd-ul-Medjid Khan," shall in future form part of the repertory of all the bands of the army.
Intelligence was received at the Admiralty yesterday of the death of Admiral Hyde Parker, First Naval Lord of the Admiralty in the last as well as the present Administration.-2"Ones.
The Queen has been graciously pleased to giVe orders for the appoint- ment of Captain Lewis T. Jones, commanding her Majesty's ship Samp- son, to be an Ordinary Member of the Military Division of the Third Class, or Companions of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath—Ion- dots Gazette.
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