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The- electric telegraph is not now half so fertile as formerly in rumou4 and we may presume that a more judicious selection of news is made bY' the correspondents. This morning the batch is small, but interesting. "Vienna, Saturday Morning.—The French reply to the Austrian pro- positions has been received, but not the English. France still insists on the limitation of the Russian fleet".
"St. Petersburg, May 26.—An ukase in completion of that of May 6 orders an extension of the thirteenth levy. In the governments of Kharkoff, thonia, Grodno, Ekaterinoslaff, Kiew, %own°, Courland, Livonia, Minsk, Mohilew, Podolia, Poltowa, Pskow, Tschernigow, Wilna, Witepsk, and Vol- hynia, all the serfs on the domains of the state between the ages of thirty and thirty-five are to be sent to the army. Cases of cholera have become more numerous and fatal."
"Madrid, May 31.—The Cortes have accorded, by a vote of 124 to 49, the special powers demanded by the Government. Twenty-five rebels have been taken at Dierense, and twenty-five more have surrendered' at Gaspe."
Intelligence from Darazic, of the 30th May, states that the fleet had moved up the Gulf of Finland and anchored within twenty miles of Cronstadt.
The Gazette of last night contains a despatch from Lord Raglan to Lord Panmure, enclosing a letter from Captain Montagu of the Royal Engi- neers, now prisoner at Simpheropol, returning the names of twenty-six soldiers who have died either in Sebastopol or on the road to Simphero- pol. Captain Montagu says- " I have been given to understand that the prisoners who are sick in hog. pital have received equal if not even greater attention than their own sol- diers from the authorities, and are constantly receiving presents, &a. from visitors. There are five or seven men who will be sent the first opportunity to Odessa, for the purpose of being forwarded to England, they being inca- pable of serving again."
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