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bearing the motto " Emmanuel , King of Italy , " is being secretly distributed . One of the current stories is that R-ussia having demanded 200 jnillions from Austria for the expenses of the war in Hungary in 1849 , Austria , having no other means of payment ^ proposed to s 6 ll Lombardy to Piedmont , —— " Gentlemen , let us be prepared , for it may happen that next spring we shall again have to smell gunpowder ' said the King of Sardinia lately , to some of the high military officers
about him , on the occasion of a review . An attempt has been made by the French press to deny or explain away these very striking words . buttheNational Italian Society of Turin has just published a pamphlet , which states , among other matters , that the army of Piedmont , onl a war footing , consists of 112 , 000 infantry , 19 , 0 GO cavalry , and 40 batteries of artillery . The pamphlet says these statements are made in " the expectation of conflicts . " There is little doubt that a war in Italy is only a question of months . ——Mr . Gladstone arrived at Corfu on the 24 th of November , in
the Terrible . He is accompanied by Mrs . Gladstone , and his secretary , the Hon . Archibald Gordon . His arrival had created quite a sensation in the island . In the new penal code , now under examination in the Belgian chamber of representatives , the government proposes to increase the punishment against writers in the public press who should be found guilty of attacks against the laws or against
the constitutional authority of the king . ——All throughout the Pan-Sclavonian nationalities an unusual fermentation is spoken of , and letters from the banks of theVistula , the Draye , and the Save , describe the hopes and efforts of that race to amalgamate . Austrian Galicia is actively mixed up in this movement , and Moscow seems to be the central seat of commotion . New journals , written -in the various dialects of the Selaves , are daily started , and a
printing-press in the same interest has been set up at Berlin . ——The news from Constantinople announces that the Sultan had intimated his firm determination to maintain the actual cabinet , with Mehemet Pasha at the admiralty . The news from Candia is bad . The attitude of the population is still threatening . The telegraph from Constantinople to Rodosfca is in operation . ——Five men lately went in a carriage to the railway station at Bologna , at which they alighted , and demanded of the officials all the cash in the strong box . This being
politely delivered to them , they re-entered their vehicle with their prize and drove off , no one attempting to stop them . They wore masks . This occurred about two in the afternoon . ——The Emperor of Russia has not ratified the project of the commission charged to regulate the question for emancipating the serfs in Poland , on account of its being but little in accordance with the spirit which dictated the imperial decrees on the subject . It is , therefore , presumed that the rules adopted
in the other parts of the Russian empire will be likewise applied to Poland . In a recent treaty between Russia and China it is stipulated that there shall be a monthly mail communication between the Russian frontier and Pekin , the communication to be effected in fifteen days for the convenience of the two governments , The minister for the colonies has just presented to the legislature of Holland a bill relative to the emancipation of slaves in the DutchEast India
colonies . ——Great dissatisfaction prevails m Iceland , where the people are desirous of governing themselves . The committee on finance of the second chamber at Copenhagen declares that the time has arrived for according to them the right of managing their own affairs . The proclamation of the Queen , announcing that shehas assumed the sovereignty of India has been made all over India , and was received with enthusiasm by all classes . In Oude the campaign has commenced with desultory engagements between the van divisions of the British army and the rebel forces , with tile usual constant defeat of the latter . It was the general
impression , at the time the express left Bombay , that Lord Clyde had struck the first blow at the rebel power with the main bod y of his army . Tantia Topee had once more been beaten by General Michel , and again escaped capture by speedy flight . It is impossible , for hirn to hold out , and in all likelihood he has surrendered . The state arsenal at New York , which was well nigh finished , was totally destroyed on the 19 th by the collapsing of the roof , which in its fall crushed out three of the walls of the building , and did other serious damage . No loss of life was occasioned . The New Orleans . papers contain details of a hurricane in Mississippi , The residence of the Rey , J . Moody , methodist minister
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bearing the motto " Emmanuel , King of Italy , " is being secretly distributed . One of the current stories is that R-ussia having demanded 200 jnillions from Austria for the expenses of the war in Hungary in 1849 , Austria , having no other means of payment ^ proposed to s 6 ll Lombardy to Piedmont , —— " Gentlemen , let us be prepared , for it may happen that next spring we shall again have to smell gunpowder ' said the King of Sardinia lately , to some of the high military officers
about him , on the occasion of a review . An attempt has been made by the French press to deny or explain away these very striking words . buttheNational Italian Society of Turin has just published a pamphlet , which states , among other matters , that the army of Piedmont , onl a war footing , consists of 112 , 000 infantry , 19 , 0 GO cavalry , and 40 batteries of artillery . The pamphlet says these statements are made in " the expectation of conflicts . " There is little doubt that a war in Italy is only a question of months . ——Mr . Gladstone arrived at Corfu on the 24 th of November , in
the Terrible . He is accompanied by Mrs . Gladstone , and his secretary , the Hon . Archibald Gordon . His arrival had created quite a sensation in the island . In the new penal code , now under examination in the Belgian chamber of representatives , the government proposes to increase the punishment against writers in the public press who should be found guilty of attacks against the laws or against
the constitutional authority of the king . ——All throughout the Pan-Sclavonian nationalities an unusual fermentation is spoken of , and letters from the banks of theVistula , the Draye , and the Save , describe the hopes and efforts of that race to amalgamate . Austrian Galicia is actively mixed up in this movement , and Moscow seems to be the central seat of commotion . New journals , written -in the various dialects of the Selaves , are daily started , and a
printing-press in the same interest has been set up at Berlin . ——The news from Constantinople announces that the Sultan had intimated his firm determination to maintain the actual cabinet , with Mehemet Pasha at the admiralty . The news from Candia is bad . The attitude of the population is still threatening . The telegraph from Constantinople to Rodosfca is in operation . ——Five men lately went in a carriage to the railway station at Bologna , at which they alighted , and demanded of the officials all the cash in the strong box . This being
politely delivered to them , they re-entered their vehicle with their prize and drove off , no one attempting to stop them . They wore masks . This occurred about two in the afternoon . ——The Emperor of Russia has not ratified the project of the commission charged to regulate the question for emancipating the serfs in Poland , on account of its being but little in accordance with the spirit which dictated the imperial decrees on the subject . It is , therefore , presumed that the rules adopted
in the other parts of the Russian empire will be likewise applied to Poland . In a recent treaty between Russia and China it is stipulated that there shall be a monthly mail communication between the Russian frontier and Pekin , the communication to be effected in fifteen days for the convenience of the two governments , The minister for the colonies has just presented to the legislature of Holland a bill relative to the emancipation of slaves in the DutchEast India
colonies . ——Great dissatisfaction prevails m Iceland , where the people are desirous of governing themselves . The committee on finance of the second chamber at Copenhagen declares that the time has arrived for according to them the right of managing their own affairs . The proclamation of the Queen , announcing that shehas assumed the sovereignty of India has been made all over India , and was received with enthusiasm by all classes . In Oude the campaign has commenced with desultory engagements between the van divisions of the British army and the rebel forces , with tile usual constant defeat of the latter . It was the general
impression , at the time the express left Bombay , that Lord Clyde had struck the first blow at the rebel power with the main bod y of his army . Tantia Topee had once more been beaten by General Michel , and again escaped capture by speedy flight . It is impossible , for hirn to hold out , and in all likelihood he has surrendered . The state arsenal at New York , which was well nigh finished , was totally destroyed on the 19 th by the collapsing of the roof , which in its fall crushed out three of the walls of the building , and did other serious damage . No loss of life was occasioned . The New Orleans . papers contain details of a hurricane in Mississippi , The residence of the Rey , J . Moody , methodist minister