The Constantinople correspondent of the Times will have it that
Prince Couza, Hospodar of the Moldo-Wallachian Principalities, is becoming a tool of France. Vast quantities of arms are, it is said, introduced into the country and forwarded to the Austrian frontier and to Servia, there to be stored against a day of general com- motion in the Turkish provinces. The Roumans are arming also, the Prince having for some years expended the property of the convents, secularized by decree, in buying arms. The Porte has of late demanded compensation for these convents, threatening to employ force in case of refusal, and the Prince has this week agreed to allow them two millions sterling. It will be remembered that the Wallachian question was one of those proposed by the Emperor of the French for settlement by a general Congress.
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