The 2foniteur of yesterday announces. that Baron de Bourqueney, Minister
of France at Vienna, has been charged to present the Grand. Cordon of the Legion of Honour, in the nanie of the Emperor Napoleon,, to the Emperor of Austria.
We believe we may state with confidence that his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge is expected to anive in London within a very few days, from Constantinople.—Noreing lost.
Lord Cardigan arrived at Marseilles last night, and set out at once, on. his way to London.
A letter dated Batoum, the 5th December, reports* that the 'Russians had made an attack on Redout Kale with a.force of 2000 foot and 300 horse. They were vigorously repulsed by the garrison of the place, sup- ported by 660 men who had been lauded that same . morning from the Mansour, a Tunisian steam corvette.
The Government of Russia has just issued an ukase levying an an- nual tax of 500 silver roubles (nearly 800 on all manufactories of to- bacco and cigars; and in order to restrict such fabrications from being carried on as hitherto in private houses for their domestic consumption, a tax of 300 silver roubles is imposed on such private establishments.
According to the Mon iteur, the Governments of Turkey and Greece are on the point of concluding a treaty of commerce, and a convention for the suppression of brigandage, which has so often led to conflicts between the two states.
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