5000 tons measurement of merchandise, and will have
500 cabins for passengers of the highest class, with
ample space for poops and lower-class passengers. It is
computed that her structure will enable her to pass
through the water at the velocity of fifteen knots an
hour; and by the great speed, combined with the absence
of stoppages for coaling, the voyage between England
and India, via the Cape, may be accomplished in thirty
or thirty-three days, and between England and
Australia in thirty-three or thirty-six days. It is said
that the ship will be of sufficient strength to meet any
strain to which it can be subjected; and will consist of
so many distinct compartments that no local injury,
however serious, will affect its buoyancy to any
dangerous extent.

The Wyvern schooner yacht, the property of the
Duke of Marlborough, which sailed from Portsmouth
for Melbourne a few days ago, has taken out a general
cargo, consisting of sheet lead, shot, nails, clothing,
boots and shots, brandy, wines, ale. cider, &c. The
value of the whole is about £5000. The duke's second
son, Lord Alfred Churchill, goes out in her, acting as
supercargo—an unusual office for the son of a duke to
fill. It is understood to be his intention to sell the
yacht on arrival at Australia, should a favourable
opportunity offer.

NARRATIVE OF FOREIGN EVENTS.

CONSIDERABLE excitement has been caused in France
by the apprehension of a dearth of corn. The government
has abandoned the scheme, at first adopted, of
undertaking to supply the country with corn instead of
leaving that operation to the exertions of private enterprise.
The Moniteur, in making this announcement,
does not deny what the government has actually done,
but declares that for the future "it is not preparing to
make purchases of corn." It is stated that an understanding
has been come to between the government and
the trade, that the corn actually purchased by the
government shall be employed as far as possible in
providing for the army, and that the remainder shall be
sent to market, and sold according to the prices of the
day. The agitation in the provincial districts is very
great. In one of the country towns in the department
of the Ardennes a riot has taken place between the
peasantry and the working people of the place, the
latter having attempted to pillage a wagon loaded with
corn which was entering the place. In a great number
of towns the 2lb. loaf, which is fixed in Paris at 40c.,
has risen to 45c., 46c., and even 47c. At St, Pol, in the Pas
de Calais, the bakers having declared that they could
not sell their bread at the price fixed by the prefect,
one-half of the bakers' shops in the place were closed by
order of the police. At Montreuil, in the same department,
several of the bakers have also refused to sell at
the prices fixed by the prefect.

There has been a great military camp on the plain
of Satory, near Paris, similar to ours at Chobham. The
Emperor went to the camp of Satory on the 20th, and
put the troops through a variety of manœvres. The
Empress, attended by the ladies of the Court, was
present. The Emperor delivered the following address
to the troops:—"Officers, non-commissioned officers,
and soldiers!—At the moment when the camp of Satory
is about to be raised, I desire to testify to you my
entire satisfaction. The three divisions which have in
succession occupied it have manifested that discipline
and confraternity, and that love for the profession of
arms which keep up the military spirit so necessary
for a great nation. In fact, who is it that in difficult
times has supported empires, if not these assemblages
of armed men taken from the people, broken into
discipline, animated with the sentiment of duty, and
who preserve, in the midst of peace, when generally
egotism and interest in the end enervate everything,
that devotedness to the country founded on self-denial,
and that love of glory which is founded on a contempt
for riches? That it is which has always made armies
the sanctuary of honour; and, consequently, as long as
peace continues, there exists a community of sentiments,
I may even say a sort of esprit de corps, between us and
foreign armies. We love and esteem those persons who
in their own country feel and act as we do, and as long
as political events do not turn them into enemies we
are happy to greet them as comrades and as brothers.
Receive, my friends, with my encomiums for your good
conduct, my thanks for the marks of attachment which
you have given to me and to the Empress. Reckon on
my affection, and be certain of this, that next to the
honour of having been three times elected by a whole
nation, nothing can afford me greater pride than to
command such men as you."

The Note containing the basis of a settlement of the
dispute between Russia and Turkey, transmitted by the
Congress of Vienna first to the Czar, by whom it was
accepted, and afterwards to the Sultan, by whom it was
accepted with modifications, is in the following terms.
The passages marked in italic type are those to which
the Turkish objections were made, and the figures point
to the specific emendations.

"H. M. the Sultan, having nothing more at heart
than to re-establish between his Majesty and the
Emperor of Russia the relations of good neighbourship
and perfect harmony (entente) which have been
unhappily disturbed by recent and painful complications,
has carefully undertaken the task to find the means to
efface the traces of those different points.

"A supreme iradé, of date——, having made known
to him the Imperial decision, the Sublime Porte, &c.,
congratulates itself at being able to communicate it to
H. E. Count de Nesselrode. If at all times the Emperors
of Russia have shown their active solicitude (1) for
the maintenance of the immunities and privileges of the
Orthodox Greek Church in the Ottoman empire, the
Sultans never refused to confirm them anew by solemn
acts, which attested their ancient and constant benevolence
towards their Christian subjects.

"H. M. the Sultan Abdul Medjid, now reigning,
animated by the same dispositions, and being desirous
to give to H. M. the Emperor of Russia a personal proof
of his most sincere friendship, only listened to his
unbounded confidence in the eminent qualities of his
august friend and ally, and has deigned to take into
serious consideration the representations (2) of which
H. E. Prince Menschikoff rendered himself the
interpreter to the Sublime Porte.

"The undersigned has consequently received the
order to declare by the present that the Government of
H. M. the Sultan will remain faithful to the letter and
the spirit of the stipulations of the treaties of Kuscuijki-
Kainardji (3) and of Adrianople, relative to the protection
of the Christian worship (4); and that H. M.
regards it as a point of honour with him to cause to be
preserved for ever from all attacks, either at present or
in future, the enjoyment of the spiritual privileges which
have been accorded by the august ancestors of H. M. to
the Orthodox Church in the East, and which are
maintained and confirmed by him; and moreover, to allow
the Greek worship to participate in a spirit of high
justice in the advantages conceded (5) to other Christians
by convention or special agreement.

"Moreover, as the Imperial firman which has recently
been given to the Greek Patriarchate and clergy, and
which contains the confirmation of their spiritual
privileges, must be regarded as a new proof of those noble
sentiments; and as, moreover, the proclamation of that
firman, which gives every security, must dispel for ever
every anxiety as regards the worship which is the
religion of his Majesty the Emperor of Russia, I am
happy to be charged with the duty of making the
present notification. As regards the guarantee, that in
future nothing shall be changed at the place of visitation
at Jerusalem, it results from the firman provided with
the Hatti Houmayon of the 15th of the Moon of Rebbi
Ulakir, 1268 (February 1852), explained and corroborated
by the firmans of——; and it is the formal