the local funds to be seized. The Russian commissariat
fix the price of provisions; and persons who attempt to
sell at a higher—that is, at the market price—were beaten
by the soldiers. Some young Wallachians had formed
guerilla bands in the Carpathians.—When the news of
the crossing of the Danube was received in the Turkish
capital it was communicated tiy the Porte to the French
and English ambassadors, who, on the same day, sent off
despatches to their respective governments. In
consequence of a conference between the French and
English admirals and their ambassadors, twelve vessels
of the combined fleet have come up to Constantinople,
and entered the Bosphorus. A Russian vessel of war,
which had run on shore on the coast of Eregri, on the
Asiatic side of the Black Sea, was seen in that position
by a Turkish cruiser, and called on to surrender. On
the commander refusing, she was boarded by the Turks
and taken possession of, with the crew. The Sultan
having decided on going to Adrianople in the spring,
and making that city the Imperial head-quarters, his
highness went in person to the Porte and officially
announced his resolution to that effect. The ministers
then signed an address, congratulating the Sultan on
his resolution. The Russian minister of finance has
announced that, in reciprocation for the conduct of
Turkey in not laying Russian vessels under an
immediate embargo, Russia will "offer free exit to the
Turkish vessels that happen to be in her ports up to
the 22nd November of this year;" also that Turkish
vessels carrying the goods belonging to the subjects of
friendly powers will be unmolested, if laden before the
22nd inst.; but cargoes under Turkish flags, although
not Turkish property, will be seized after that date.
Neutrals will bo permitted to enter and leave Russian
ports at will; and the Austrian Lloyd's steamers will
be allowed, even during war, to keep up a regular
communication between Odessa and Constantinople.

The principal intelligence from Paris relates to the
trial of the persons charged with the intent to assassinate
the Emperor at the Opera Comique, in July last. They
are thirty-three in number, and form part of two secret
societies. The plot would seem to have been in progress
since the spring; and the police assert that they have
followed it step by step, and were thus enabled, at the
last moment, to prevent its success. The first attempt
was to have been made at the hippodrome. On this
occasion the police took immense precautions; sentinels
were hidden in all directions, and the conspirators were
foiled. The attempt at the Opera Comique was all but
successful, the police having arrested the assassins only
just in time. It is stated that the object of the assassination
was to proclaim the republic, and make Blanqui
dictator. The trial was brought to a conclusion on the
22nd inst. The court condemned Folliet, Alix, and
Decroix, to eight years' banishment; Ruault, Lux,
Gerard, de Meren, Mariet, Gabrat, and Copinot, to
transportation; Monchiroud to ten years' detention;
Turenne, Matz, and Mazille, to seven years' detention;
Maillet, Denez, Jaud, Comes, and Joiron, to five years'
detention; Ribault de Laugardière to five years'
imprisonment: and Follot to three years' imprisonment.
"Detention," according to the French law, differs from
imprisonment in being more severe, having an infamous
character attached to it, and carrying with it surveillance
of the police for life. The accused heard their condemnation
in silence. They have since appealed. A number
of political arrests have been made in the provinces,
particularly at Tours and Dijon. The affair at Tours seems
likely to rival the importance of the Opera Comique
plot. The confession recently made by one of the
persons arrested there has led to the discovery at the
residence of one of the accused of 1,200 musket-balls
concealed in stone beer-bottles. Several domiciliary visits
have lately been made at Douai, and amongst them one
at the house of M. Anthoy Thouret, the ex-representative.
The reason for this proceeding has not transpired.
At Perigueux inflammatory placards have been posted.
At Gasny (Eure) last week, four seditious placards were
torn down by the police. One of them was in verse, and
proclaimed the sovereignty of the Capets.

The Moniteur contains an Imperial decree, reducing
the duty on foreign coals and iron. Coals imported by
sea from Sables d'Olonnes to Dunkirk in national
vessels, 30c., and foreign vessels, 80c, instead of 50c. and
1f.; on the rest of the coast, 15c. and 65c, instread of 30c.
and 80c. By land, from the sea to Halluin, 30c. instead
of 50c. At other points present duties. Coke, half
en-sus, instead of double. The duty on raw cast-iron
(fonte brute), 5f. and 5f 50c., instead of 7 and 7.50.
Platina, 25f. and 27f. 50c. instead of 40f. and 44f. Other
reductions are at the same time made, and those given
above are to be brought yet lower in 1855.

At Rome, a new saint has been added to the calendar,
in the person of Father Babola, a Pole, of the Company
of Jesus, whose promotion to the honours of martyrdom
and beatification has been actually effected, in spite of
the remonstrances and opposition of the Court of Russia.
All Roman Catholic subjects of the Czar residing in
Rome received private admonition from the Russian
embassy that they would do well to abstain from attending
the ceremony, which was sumptuously performed
by the chapter of St. Peter's, the Pope himself only
undertaking the still higher ceremony of sanctification.
The portrait and biography of the blessed Father
were abundantly distributed at the gates of the church,
and the expressions used in the latter were by no means
calculated to soften down any irritation already existing
in the mind of the Emperor Nicholas; alluding forcibly
to the ignorance and barbarity of the schismatics of
the Greek church, and detailing the atrocious torments
with which the Cossack officers, Zieleniecki and
Popenko, put the saint to death at Gianovia, in 1657,
on account of his zeal and success in converting schismatic
ecclesiastics, with their flocks, to the pale of Rome.

The Queen of Portugal has died suddenly in
childbirth. She expired at noon on the 15th. Her eldest
son and heir apparent, Don Pedro, is rather more than
sixteen years of age; and as by law he is not competent
to exercise the functions of royalty until he have
completed his eighteenth year, his father, Ferdinand, Prince
of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, has been declared Regent.
The Queen was in her 34th year, having been born on
the 4th of April, 1819.

The Jews in Austria have effected a reconciliation
with the government. It will be remembered that
they were recently deprived of the right of holding real
estate, a right dating from the insurrection of 1848.
This, as it was said, they resented, in league with their
brethren in the great capitals of Europe, by refusing to
accept Austrian notes. Last week, some of the leading
Jews at Vienna waited on the Minister of Finance, and
eagerly disclaimed all hostile intentions towards the
government. The minister said he believed they were
calumniated; and he procured the deputation a gracious
interview with the Emperor.

At Monte Video, a revolution broke out on the 24th
September, and the President (Gero), and the different
government officials, had taken refuge on board the
foreign vessels in the harbour—the President taking
shelter in the French frigate. A provisional government,
consisting of Freetuosa, Rivera, Laveilega, and
Flores, had been appointed. The revolutionary party
conducted themselves with the greatest moderation, and
the town was quiet—business going forward as usual.
It was believed at Monte Video that, should there be
foreign interference, the affairs would be settled to the
satisfaction of the contending parties.

It appears by accounts from Lagos, on the Western
coast of Africa, that the British have again been engaged
in hostilities there. It will be recollected that Lagos,
the stronghold of the slave-trade, was attacked and
taken by the blockading squadron in December 1851.
Kossoko, the slave-dealer and usurper, was expelled;
and Akatoi, the rightful ruler, was installed. But
some of his subjects, retaining a lingering fondness for
the slave-trade, kept up a correspondence with Kossoko,
and in August last broke out into open rebellion.
After some fighting and palavering, Kossoko joined the
insurgents with a number of canoes carrying guns and
800 men. They fired on the house of the English
consul, and he hoisted a red flag. Fortunately, Admiral