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    MOUNTAIN SENTINEL,
EBENSBURG, PA.
THURSDA.V, NOVEMBER 1. 1S19.
U"The Senti.ve l has much the largest cir
culation of any paper published in this county
and as an advertising sheet offers superior
inducements to merchants and business men
generally. . Those desirous of making uss of
this medium for extending their business can
do so'bu either sending their notices direct, or
through the following agents:
'-John Crouse, Esq., Johnstown.
."IV Carr, Evans'' Buildings, Third st.
Philadelphia.
Wm. A. Kinsloe, Pittsburg.
Geotge Pratt, 151, Nassau st., Xtto York.
' i-We take pleasure in recommending
those who wish to purchase cheap and!
fashionable goods to Litzingcr & Todd's
Store' where they have just received a
large and beautiful supply. George is a
clever fellow, and knows how to please
his customers. Sec advertisement.
Tariff of 1842 va3 again brought on th e
carpet in the hope of catching votes; Gen.
Taylor and Gov. Johnston travelled the
State in the vain effort to keep up the sink
ing cause of whiggery, and Henry M.
Fuller. stumped the State from one end to
the other making bargains with every fac
tion and fag end of a faction who would be
kind enough to listed, to him. But all
their efforts were useless the people were
not to be humbugged a second time. It is
a true maxim "give the whig party power
and they will break their own necks in
six months," and this has been fully veri
fied whenever they have accidentally suc
ceeded in getting control of either the State
or National Administration. This is one
of the reasons, and a very strong one, to
be assigned for our triumph at the late
election. But the News is welcome to
any excuse it can make, we are satisfied
with the triumph which we have achieved.
The Tcaclifr's Magazine
This is the title of a new; magazine just
started in Pittsburg, the first number of
which is on our table. It is very neatly
gotten up, contains thirty-two octavo pa
ges, and is edited with ability and taste.
It is devoted exclusively to moral and lit
erary education, and as a magazine of this
Susqudianna Counly Bank. character is much wanted in rennsyiva-
Wc see it renorted in the Pittsburg! nia, where every other profession has its
Morning Post that this institution ha s organ, we think the enterprising publish
fnA nnil that n 1irfrf nmnnnt nf its nntf? ! ers must receive a liberal support. The
are in circulation. Of course the poor, j editor, in his introductory, after stating
who arc ill able to bear it, wili be heaviest , that every profession has its organ, truly
losers in this case as in every other of a j remarks, why should not the Teacher
similar kind. This is only another cvi-! have his magazine? why should not the
dence in favor of placing these institutions
under such restrictions as will secure the
holders of their "promises to pay" from
being cheated out of their hard earned
jnoney. We should think that the people
ought to be heartily tired of these swind
ling shops, and that it is high time that
this legal robbery was abolished.
CaOurnew County Commissioner, J.
P. Urban, Esq., has been sworn into office
and assumed the discharge of his official
duties. lie is capable of making a good
officer, and we have no doubt he will at
tend to the duties of the trust reposed in
him by the people of the county with hon.
esty and fidelity.
Andrew Birgoon, Esq., whose term
of office has expired, retires with the good
wishes of the whole community, without
respect to party. He - made a good Com
missioner, and discharged the duties of his
office with fidelity, and with a view to the
best interests of the county.
cause of Education have its journal?
There can be no good reason given, why
the Teacher should not have his medium
of communication, or why the cause of
education should not have its avowed ad
vocate." Published monthly ot one dol
lar per annum in advance. Address J.
B. Kennedy, Pittsburg, Pa.
to an unusual extent this year among the
laborers cn the "Juniata.- The heaviest
sections, however, are done including the
deep rock cut at Newton Hamilton, and
the Tunnel.on the little Juniata, and it is
confidently anticipated: that fuither sec
tion will be opened to Waynesburg ear
ly in the winter; to Huntingdon, in time
for next spring's business; and jo . Holli
daysburg by next summer. This will
bring us by a connction Svjth the. Por
tage, within seventy miles of Pittsburg,
by the turnpike, and one hundred and
eight miles by canal..
The part of tfie western division just
put under contract, will extend .this road
20 miles further westward, and beyond
all the mountain ranges of Western Penn
sylvania. Of this distance 14 miles of
the heaviest work has been assigned to
able and respectable contractors, to be
commenced immediately, and completed
April 1st lsol. The remainder is light
work, and will be commenced in the
spring, together with an additional section
of similar character in connection with it,
which will bring us to the Southern turn
pike, at a point about 40 miles from Pitts
burg, all of which wiU be pushed so as to
be completed simultaneously by the time
above named.
I have just organized corps to make the
final revisions and improvements of the
location between the Loyalhanna and
Pittsburg, with a view of putting the'heav
iest sections cf that portion of. our line
under contract, as the Board bore to have
the meansat their command forthis pur
pose next spring. The lighter sections
will bedelayed until the heavy work has
advanced so far as to permit the whole to
be simultaneously completed, which I
think may be done by the spring of 1S52.
In the course of that year, I fully expect
that our Board will have the pleasure of
inviting the Directors of the Ohio and
Pennsylvania Rail Road Company to ride
in our cars from Pittsburg tophiladelph
ia, and I hope that the great work so hap
pily commenced under your auspices, will
be in such a slate of forwardness that you
will be able to reciprocate the invitation
and carry them on your iron river far in
to the fertile region of Centra and West
ern Ohio. I am with great respect,
Vours truly.
Edward Miller.
Associate Engineer Pennsylvania Railroad.
v Gen. Shiels Re-elected-
The election of a United States Senator
for Illinois has resulted in the re-election of
Gen. Shiels, who it will be recollected
was not permitted to take his seat last
winter because he was . not naturalized
lonjr enough. The note stood 72 for
Shiels, and 21 for Cyrus Edwards. In
the previous ballot, Breese ran Shiels
close. Shiels was nominated in caucus on
on the 21st ballot, by a majority of four.
Imporlanl Law Suit.
The important ejectment case of the
"Heirs of Somerville vs. Thomas Jack
son," in which such a deep interest was:
A Market House,
lias not the want of a market house in
our borough been felt by every citizen in
it, and also by the people cf the surround
ing country? Will it not be conceded on
all hands that it is much needed, that it
would contribute much towards enabling
our citizens to supply themselves with
the necessaries of life, and that it would
be a benefit to both buver and seller?
Then why has it not been erected? Is it
because our oorough is not large enough
to afford it, or are we not able to boast of
sufficient public spirit on the part of cur
citizens? We are of the opinion that it is
owing to neither of these causes, and that
all that is wanting to secure the erection
cf a market house is a little exertion on
the part of those who are in the habit of
taking part in enterprises of this kind.
felt throughout th
...oo 4 i ,i 3 ; All cur neighboring towns around us have
was terminated in the Court of Common I , , , , , ,
i)i,0 f i), . o i I their market houses, and surely Ebens-
1 leas OI IJInir ennn r. nn Snfiii-.l-n- m-on. J
' 1 " 'ulUiUUf 11- I. J It'll
; i, t. , I burg should not be behind them in a mat-
wl iaoi, ii uuui l itu li e ,n in f i rmir tno
f.., i- tl . r ., -er of this kind. Then let us set to work
x nv; tjctuuciu w as lor me
entire week.
recovery of a body of land with the im
provements surrounding Gaysport, now
in the occupancy of Thomas Jackson.
The case was conducted on the part of the
1'Jaintiffs by the Hon. Thaddius Stevens
and S. Steel Blair Esq., and on the part
of the Defendant by J. F. Cox, John G.
Miles, Samuel Calvin and A. P. Wilson
Esqs. A great number of witnesses were
examined on both sides, and it is said that
great tact and ability were displayed by
the legal gentlemen who had the case in
charge. The jury after receiving the
charge of the judge, retired, and in about '
and provide fur ourselves this necessary
public building. The cost of its erection
will be trifling, and can, we believe, be
readily raised by subscription in the town
nd vicinity.
We merely call the attention of the
citizens of our borough to this subject
in the hope that a few of our leading and
influential men will take the matter in
hand and give oar town the benefit of a
Market House.
Pennsylvania Railroad.
The following letter in relation to this
: rrvr,n 1 ....... 1 " : i C
nn . i-i bltai L siwsyi aura iiituru ciiieui is iruiu
an hour returned with a verdict for the tT
.m. jiiutr, me .Associate engineer, anu
is addressed to George Robinson, Presi
dent of the Pennsylvania and Ohio Rail
road Company. The progress which has
Plaintiffs. The property thus recovered!-
by. the heirs of Somerville is said to be
worth about thirty thousand dollars.
IdcTli is really amusing to see the man
ner in which the whig editors throughout
the State are ransacking their kno-ivledrc
bo xes for excuses for their recent over
whelming defeat, and even our neighbors
of the Johnstown Xeics, comin"- in at thelbut for a consilJaMe distance into
heel of the hunt, were guilty, last week, ofiMatc of0mo-
been made must be highly satisfactory to
all friends of the measure, and gives prom
ise that in the course of two years we
shall have a direct railway communication
not only from Philadelphia to Pittsburg,
the
i .
cnucavoring to enlighten their whig friends
as to what brought about this awful catas
trophe to whiggery. But the explanation
of the News, like all the rest, is a very
lame affair, and we would advise the edi
tors to be candid, aud acknowledge tlia t
their recent defeat was brought alout by
the ditgust naturally produced in the
minds of the people by the course pursued
by the present National and State Admin
istrations. The party which breaks its
promises and violates the pledge it fave
before an election, cannot expect that the
people arc to be led a second time into
the same trap, and it is all nonsense to try
to account for their defeat on any other
grounds. It is folly on the -part of the
vhigs to attempt to disc the fret that
T1-Cy m.idc everv cll'urt
Pittsburg, Oct. 20 1819
Ggn. War. Robisox, Jr., President of the
1'ennsyivania, and Ohio Itailroad
Company:
My Dear Sir: In answer to your in
quiries concerning the late letting on the
Western Division of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, and the policy and prospects of
me company, l am nappy to iurnish you
with the following information.
You are aware that the Pennsylvania
Railroad has been opened to the public
between Harrisburg and Lewistown, a
distance of sixty miles, which is now suf
ficient to command a largo share of the
Western travel. On this section is the
great budge over the Susquehanna river,
which alone cost 200,000 but notwith
standing these drawbacks, the road earns
now equal to o per cent, per annum
its cost.
Above Lewistown the read
on
Official Vole for Canal Commissioner.
Gamble. Fuller
Adams
Allegheny
Armstrong
Beaver
B edford
Berks
Blair
Bradford
Bucks
Buder
Cambria
Carbon
Centre
Chester
Clarion
Clearfield
Clinton
Columbia
Crawford
Cumberland
Dauphin
Delaware
Elk
Erie
Fayette
Franklin ,
Grqene. ; ., -
Huntingdon ...... .
Indiana
Jefferson
Juniata
Lancaster
Lebanon
Lehigh
Luzerne
Lycoming
M'Kean
Mercer
Mifflin
Montgomery
Munroc
Northampton
Northumberland
Perry
Philadelphia City
" County
Pike
Potter
Schuylkill
Somerset
Sullivan
Susquehanna
Tioga
Union
Venango
Washington
Warrren
Wayne
Westmoreland
Wyoming
York
125G
5103
1937
2022
2579
6827
1310
2687
4657
1941
1375
756
2093
1238
1851
891
1001
2113
2183
2909
2108
1311
258
1369
2615
2665
2047
1330
1230
870
1099
4224
1788
2594
3149
2130
365
2018
1305
5081
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2982
1874
1419
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14680
654
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1681
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4035
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11729
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2867
1730
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4432
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490
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3359
Awful TrajeJy.
This morning s mail brings us the intel
ligence of a most awful tragedy which
took place in Barnums Hotei, St. Louis,
on the night of the 29th. We have not
room for the particulars, but we will give
a condensed statement of the facts which
we extract from a telegraphic despatch in
the Pittsburg Post of yesterday. It ap
pears that a few days since two young
French gentlemen, calling themselves
Counts Ganzales and Raimondde Monte
squien, arrived in St. Louis form Chicago
and put up at Burnum's Hotel.
Nothing particular was noticed in their
manners until last night, when, about 10
o'clock, P. M., as Mr. Barnum (nephew
of the proprietor,) and J. J. Macomber,
the steward of the house, were retiring,
one of the Frenchman came to a window
on the gallery, and tapped lightly. Bar
num pushed the curtain aside, when the
man on the outside fired a gun, a ball from
which passed through Barnum, and two
buckshot passed through the arm of Ma
comber. At the report of the gun, Albert Jones,
a coach maker, on Third street, who oc
cupied an adjoining room, rushed to the
door of the gallery, when he received a
shot through the head, and fell dead. Two
gentlemen, who had also entered the gal
lery, were struck with buckshot II. M.
Henderson was wounded on the forehead,
W. II. Hubble, of Liber ty, on the arm.
The assailants were immediately pursu.
ed to their room and after a severe struggle
were secured.
cannot recover. Their trunks were open
ed and letters found in them which proved
them to be Parisians of wealth and family.
Together with splendid equipments, they
$1500 in German gold coin. They arc
evidently insane; both fired the fatal shots;
both refuse to employ counsel, and say
they will plead their own cause, justified
by the order of God.
finitely preferable to specific duties, or du
ties levied on goods according to quantity,
weight or measures. In this later way, a
thousand cigars, that were purchased in
Havana for $100, pay no higher duty than
cigars that were bought at $10 a thousand
Acask of Claret that cost 6200 in Bord
eaux, will be charged with no more duty
at the custom house than a cask that cost
$15orS20.
This plan is manifestly unjust. It fa
vors the rich man, because his luxuries
are taxed no higher than the poor man's
necessaries. Thus tea at S5 a pound pays
no more than tea at 50 cents the same
thing of sugar, coffee, wines of all kinds,
cigars. Cannel coal at $2 a barrel pays
no more duty than the common quality
used by blacksmiths.
Mr. R. J Walker, in one of his reports
to Congress, puts the case of the State law
which should exact the same amount
of taxation on a marble palace that is ex
acted from a poor man's dwelling that was
built for $200. Extravagant as this sup
posed case may seem, it is really in strict
accordance with the principle of specific
duties.
SI Louis Convention
The proceedings of the St. Louis Rail
road Convention possess but little interest
to the general reader. On the 18th Judge
Treat of Missouri, offered the following
resolutions which were adopted:
Resolved, That as an important means,
as necessary and preliminary to the con
struction of a great trunk railroad to the
Pacific ocean in California, it is the first du
ty of the American Congress, immediately
on its assembling together, to make pro
vision for the establishment of military
posts, from the western coufines of our
western States to the Pacific ocean. That
these posts should be established numer
ously in all proper places, not far distant
from each other; and that civilized and
productive settlements should be encour
aged around them by liberal sales or grants
of the public lands, and by extending am
ple protection to the settlers.
Resolved, That the Congress of the U.
States be memorialized to construct, or
authorize the construction of a national
line of telegraph along the route which
may be determined upon by national au
thority for the great railway to the Pacific
said line of telegraph to be constructed
in connection with the military posts
j - .i i: - ,J t.
Barnum is still living, but; nameu m uic precceuiug -
' t f- r micMnr ta inn m n ipii n n ri s p:i r u i
practicable.
All Sorts of Paragraphs.
tSThe national debt of Austria was,
in 1848, about one hundred and five mil
lions sterling; the wars, which have dislo
cated almost every province of her domin
ion, must have enormously augmented her
liabilities.
J5It is estimated that in little more than
twenty years, the export of cattle from
Aberdeenshire to London alone has amoun
ted 150,000.
rtn It " Ci1
-r jl ne .Mississippi oiavcrv conven-
tion have passed a resolution endorsing
the views set forth in Mr. Calhoun's Ad
dress, and recommending a Convention of
the slaveholding States, to be held at Nash
ville, on the first Monday in June next.
133111
Gamble's maj.
Kimber Cleaver's (Native) vote is as
follows: Philadelphia city and county,
2513; Montgomery, 82; Berks 2; Dauph
in 45; Allegheny, '523; Northumberland,
62; Wyoming 1; Total 3228.
Madame Rachel who was engaged to
play in Jersey, refused to visit the Island
because she would not be allowed to give
one of her performances on Sundcy.
The sisters of Charity at Detroit
have refused to take the proceeds of a benefit
at the theatre in that city, for the purpose
of assisting in the erection of a hospital.
EST Ex-President Tyler has lately writ
ten a letter upon the proviso, to Judge
Huntingdon, of Indiana, in which he holds
that that measure as applied to California
is a mere abstraction, and that free soil is
now just as secure in New Mexico as it is
m Minesota.
GGaribaldi. the late leader of the Ro
man Republicans, was a Venice at the last
accounts, and his family with him safe
and sound, so th e report of Madame Gar-
lbaldt s death was incorrect.
OTwo men were suffocated near Lou
isville Ivy., last week, while engaged in
digging a well. They had often been
compelled to resort to blasting rock, and
in descending the well after an explosion
they inhaled the impure air and were suf
focated. CaA letter from Rome of the 8th says:
'Affairs will be arranged, and quicker
than you, perhaps, imagine. Already
they begin to say atGaeta that the diffi
culties are now insurmountable.'
FMr. Buchanan goes to New Orleans
in a few weeks, on a visit to his friend
John Slidell, and returns, via Alabama, to
visit his other friend in that State, Hon.
W.R. King.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Turkish Character
It was said by Gibbon, most truly that
the Turks have, since the period of the
Conquest encamped not settled in Europe.
They amount to a fourth or a third, at the
utmost of the population ot thatpartot the
Sultans dominions. They are scattered
in very unequal proportions over its sur
face. In some parts they forma tolerably
thick agricultural population; in others as
at Constantinople itself, they are engaged
in the trades and manufactures of a large
city.
But nowhere do they exercise those ex
tended operations of skill and thought,
which bring men together, cause them to
rely upon each other, give them the habit
of combined peaceful action, and impart to
them the intelligence and energy on which
alone a strong commonwealth is built up.
The Armenians are their bakers; the Jews
are their dealers; the Greeks are their
merchants. The very organization of the
people seems to have denied them those
finer qualities, both mental and corporeal
which fit them for the superior branches
of industry. A I urk s fingers, Dr W alsh
quaintly observes, seems to be all thumbs;
he has no manual dexterity for any delib
erate employment, and his mind is as unfit
for subtile operations of the body.
The Turks neither write norprint (with
the exceptions of bombastic poetry and
more bombastic history.) They do not
build but destroy. 1 hey show no wish
to adore the soil which they inhabit, or to
connect in any way, the existence of the
present generations with prosperity.
Their object in this world seems to be
mere animal existence, as completely as
that of the beasts of the field. The reli
gious sense is deep, enduring, exalted, but
it is a religion which deadens andstupifies
the intellectual faculties.
has been
to sucerrd. 1 ir i ,jvi;iyc j hy sickucss which lins prevailed
Id Valorem vs. Specific Dalies The Difference
in a Nutshell.
The New Orleans Courier thus shows,
in brief the difference between the work
ing of the Democratic and Whiff Tariff
system
Youncr ccntlemen who would . prosper
in love should woo gently. It is iiot fash
ionable for ladies to take ardent ttpirits. land equitable that can be devised, and in-
riie whigs seem to be determined on
altering the features of the revenue of 1846
They find fault in a special manner with
the principle of collecting duties on impor
ted goods in proportion to their value, or
as they are usually called, ad valorum.
We cannot, for the life of us, perceive any
reason for annulling this mode of collecting
the revenue. It strikes us as thr. most fair
Napoleon's Tomb.
The tomb of Napoleon at St. Helena is
for sale! It is offered to the highest bid
der, through the columns of the St Helena
Gazette, in the following advertisement:
"Sale of Napoleon's Tomb. Valuable
Landed Property. For sale, the estate
called Napoleon's Vale, comprising the
dwelling house and the tomb, with about
twenty -eight acres of fine arable land, the
whole formerly let on a lease, to Mrs. R.
Tarbell, at one hundred and ten pounds
per annum, with about three acres siiuated
near the tomb, and entered upon from the
Longwood Road, well-known as The
Grand Marshal's Retreat.' " We presume
that the removal of the body of Napoleon
has deprived the tomb of its value as a
show. No one cares to look upon the
place where the dead emperor is ho,
when it is so easy to go to Paris ana see
his magnificent mausoleum in the church
of the Jnvalides. Yet after all, it seems
like desecration to put even the empty
sepulchre of the 'foremost man of all his
time' up at auction. This, however, is a
utilitarian age. The bones on the field of
Waterloo were sold to make manure of,
and why not sell the tomb of the chief
whose ambition strewed them theref
Meanwhile the Napoleon that is, is court
ed and complimented by bis uncle's old
foes, thus fulfilling the adage that 4a living
ass is better than a dead lion. yoah.
SEVEN DAYS LATER
FROM EUROPE!
ARMYJl OP THE EDROPi.
rFJiP Til rJci th T. fit . r
- - "-'"wiujaum rr ar Lxtrp,
Number of War Steamer in the
phorus Sailing oj the English Fl
for the Dardanelles Official Dechra.
tion of England in Behalf :pf .Tur
Favorable Financial fitielligertce-Z.
State of the Mafketsv &a 4c
. Sackville, OcU;v23--8 o-'cloct .
The Eurppai:Capt liott, with 125 gas.
sengers. and intelligence one weekV.ljj
from all parts of Europe,': r arrived at Kali,
fax to-day," and was to have left Jbr Bos
ton at-about one o'clock. .v. ... .-.,'v
She -brings the . announcement ofer
own arrival at Liverpool, on the -7th iss
with five days. later intelligence from Jiew
York than that by the s'tearaer Wasi.
ton, which arrived at Southampton oathe
6th inst.
The Turkish and Russian Dijlcutl
Pending the decision'of the Emperor e
Russia upon the ' a ppeal "made to hira re
specting the extradition of the Hungarian
refugees, the English papers containmany
reports respecting . the probabilities con
cerning the issue, but of course nothing
definite can be arrived at until the resolu
tion of the Emperor and his Imperial
Council shall be made known. The re
ply of the Emperor, which was expected
with the most intense anxiety, would.it
was thought, reach - the Turkish Capital
obout the 10th or 12th October.
Apprehending that the decision of the
Czar might be a declaration of war, the
Porte was exceedingly impatient to learn
the effects produced upon the Cabinets of
London and Paris, by the bearing of .their
representatives at the Sublime Porte.
A large fleet of steamers is collecting in
the waters of the Bosphorus, and ta the
harbor of the Golden Horn; and between
the entrance of the Black Sea aud the Pro
pontis, and the Sea of Marmora, there are
twelve ships of the line, at anchor, fully
equipped, and plentifully supplied with
arms and provisions.
In the army of 100,000 soldiers assem
bled around the capital, drilling and re
viewing were going on from daylight to
dusk.
A letter of the 25th ult. states, that, be"
fore entering the Turkish territory, official
assurances were given to Kossuth, that he
and his fellow refugees, were welcome,
and should be allowed to proceed to any
part of the world.
A considerable number of refugees have
been put on board of American corvettes
and the French steamer L'Averin. Their
destination is said to be Greece.
Kossuth has written a very eloquent
letter on his present position to Lord Pal-
merston, which is published entire in the
English journals.
rrom Widden the news is somewhat
startling. It appears that Amillah had
V- A. A
been sent to urge the refugees to embrace
lslamism, and has not been unsuccessful.
Kossuth, Dembinski, Guvon. Zamovski.
and others, all swore that no person should
induce them to apostacy. Bern had no
such scruple.
The most unwelcome feature of the
news from Turkey is, that those pashalics
in Europe, which are partly Greek and
pardy Turkish, are in a state of great fer
ment, in consequence of the threatened
rupture between Turkey and Russia.
Under the influence of the Russian emis
saries, chiefly members of the Greek
church, these vassals of the Sultan betray
ed a serious intention of taking advantage
of the present opportunity, to get up a re
volt. The greatest activity prevails in the
sending of couriers to and from all the
principal ports of Europe; but the general
firmness of the public funds indicate that
the prevailing opiniorl is, that no serious
results will arise.
The correspondent of the London
Times, writing from Paris, says that a
note, addressed by the English government
to its Ambassador at St. Petersburgh, on
the subject of Constantinople, couched in
firm, moderate terms, contains not a single
threat calculated to wound the susceptibil
ities of Nicholas, whilst it announces the
determination to support the Porte against
exigencies that would compromise the dig
nity of an independent sovereign.
Lord Palmerston has, likewise, sent
proper instructions to Sir S. Canning, and
has placed the Mediterranean fleet at his
disposal, which has, by this time, sailed
for the Dardanelles.
I have also reason for repeating, that
France has imitated the conduct of Eng
land, and that the most perfect unanimity
exists between the two powers.
Austria and Hungary.
It has been rumored that the Hungarian
refugees near Widden, the leaders except
ed, have applied for leave to return to the
Austrian territories, and their request
would be granted.
The statement that Gorgey had been
shot at Kagenfahl, by a brother of Count
Zichy, who was executed by the Hunga
rians, has been contradicted. Several
Hungarian leaders, besides Kossuth's
mother and Guyon's wife, are kept inclose
imprisonment by the Austrian authorities.
Previous news relative to the surrender
of Comorn, is fully confirmed, after the
patriots, who held ! possession of the for
tress, succeeded in making very favoraoie
terms with the Austrians.
Italian Affairs.
The Erench. government had received
advices from Rome to the 4th inst. :
- A letter from Rome states that "the ef-