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The Week
Brindisi was rent open . 'She espousals of the Duke of Calabria will probably take place at the end of January . —— -Letters from Vienna state that the Austrian war budget will undergo considerable reduction , as the annual levy , which was 103 , 115 men , is in future not to exceed § 5 , 000 , thus leaving 18 , 000 hands more to agriculture andtnanufactures . The Protestants of the Austrian empire are making every effort to have their rights recognised , and to obtain the reorganization of
their churches . —The Prussian chambers assembled m the White Saloon of the royal palace , on Tuesday . The Prince Regent took with a firm voice the constitutional oath . The president of the first chamber thanked his royal highness in the name of the country , and the president of the second chamber gave three cheers for the King andPrince Reagent- ——The Emperor of Russiahas just adopted two measures of importance relative to Poland ; one concerning the recruitment , from which the inhabitants are to be exempted for three years , to niake up for
the voids cuusedin the population by the levies en masse effected under the preceding reign ; and the other suppressing several branches of taxation . ——The conflict between the canton of Geneva and the federal authorities has been arranged . The federal council at Berne had received a telegram , announcing that an amicable arrangement had been concluded , and the Genevese council of state had consented that five of the suspected foreigners should quit Switzerland . — According to a
Constantinople telegram a National Turkish Bank is to be established with a capital of £ 100 , 000 in hard cash , and £ 3 , 000 , 000 in notes . The whole affair is in q . he hands of English capitalists , excepting shares to the amount of £ 100 , 000 , which have been taken by Swiss houses . Lord Stratford de Bedcliffe has laid the foundation stone of a building to be called the Coramemorative Temple , having as inscription the names of the soldiers who have fallen in the last war . Lord Stratford left on the 22 d ult .- —At New York it is believed that the fire at the
Crystal Palace was the work of an incendiary . An arrest had taken place in connexion with the Turkish coining conspiracy . Elections for members of congress and state officers had been held in Pennsylvania , Ohio , Indiana , and Iowa , and the returns , as far as received , were unfavourable to the democrats . In Oude several affairs are reported as having taken place with the rebels , in all of
which the latter were routed with great slaughter , and with little loss on our side . Lord Clyde was preparing for the Oude campaign . The remnant of the . Gwalior rebels , under Tantia Topee , had retreated from Seronge upon Esanghur ; and the very morning of the day on which Brigadier Smith came up to that place , they had evacuated it , with gums and elephants , and made for Chunderee . On the 2 nd oi October they made themselves master of it , and there remained when the mail left .
A combined movement was m preparation to hem them in . Advices have been received from Hong Kong to September 12 th ;—the Chinese agents for negociating the tariff are not yet come . The English Hong Kong papers accuse the Chinese court of bad faith , and state that the government is recompensing the braves , and does not publish the treaty of peace in the interior , the people believing there is only an armistice . —By far the most important news of the week is the treaty which Lord Elgin has concluded with Japan , by which another field of enterprize
is opened to British , commerce , and the intercourse , between the most civilized nation of Asia , and this great country placed , we hope , on a firm footing . One year after the . ratification of the treaty , tho ports are to bo opened to British traders . Lord Elgin was received with great respect , and very interesting accounts of the mission have been received , for which our limited space compels us to refer our readers to the daily journals . Lord Elgin has returned to Hong Kong . Accounts from the Cape of Good Hope informs us that Sir George Grey was still engaged in mediating between the Free State and Moshesh . In the colony everything was
peaceful , prosperous , and progressing . The elections for members of the legislative council had taken place , It was proposed to connect South Africa with India and Europe , by the electric telegraph , Three Kaffirs charged with the murder of the Bev . Mr . Wilson , English church minister in Bristol , Kaffraria , had been found guilty and condemned to death . It has been decided to send off every available soldier to India . — - —In the explosion at Havanna , on the 29 th ultimo , the loss of lives was 112 , and 128 wounded ; loss of property over 1 , 000 , 000 dols . —Several frightful shipwrecks , with \ om of life , hare taken place on the English
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The Week
Brindisi was rent open . 'She espousals of the Duke of Calabria will probably take place at the end of January . —— -Letters from Vienna state that the Austrian war budget will undergo considerable reduction , as the annual levy , which was 103 , 115 men , is in future not to exceed § 5 , 000 , thus leaving 18 , 000 hands more to agriculture andtnanufactures . The Protestants of the Austrian empire are making every effort to have their rights recognised , and to obtain the reorganization of
their churches . —The Prussian chambers assembled m the White Saloon of the royal palace , on Tuesday . The Prince Regent took with a firm voice the constitutional oath . The president of the first chamber thanked his royal highness in the name of the country , and the president of the second chamber gave three cheers for the King andPrince Reagent- ——The Emperor of Russiahas just adopted two measures of importance relative to Poland ; one concerning the recruitment , from which the inhabitants are to be exempted for three years , to niake up for
the voids cuusedin the population by the levies en masse effected under the preceding reign ; and the other suppressing several branches of taxation . ——The conflict between the canton of Geneva and the federal authorities has been arranged . The federal council at Berne had received a telegram , announcing that an amicable arrangement had been concluded , and the Genevese council of state had consented that five of the suspected foreigners should quit Switzerland . — According to a
Constantinople telegram a National Turkish Bank is to be established with a capital of £ 100 , 000 in hard cash , and £ 3 , 000 , 000 in notes . The whole affair is in q . he hands of English capitalists , excepting shares to the amount of £ 100 , 000 , which have been taken by Swiss houses . Lord Stratford de Bedcliffe has laid the foundation stone of a building to be called the Coramemorative Temple , having as inscription the names of the soldiers who have fallen in the last war . Lord Stratford left on the 22 d ult .- —At New York it is believed that the fire at the
Crystal Palace was the work of an incendiary . An arrest had taken place in connexion with the Turkish coining conspiracy . Elections for members of congress and state officers had been held in Pennsylvania , Ohio , Indiana , and Iowa , and the returns , as far as received , were unfavourable to the democrats . In Oude several affairs are reported as having taken place with the rebels , in all of
which the latter were routed with great slaughter , and with little loss on our side . Lord Clyde was preparing for the Oude campaign . The remnant of the . Gwalior rebels , under Tantia Topee , had retreated from Seronge upon Esanghur ; and the very morning of the day on which Brigadier Smith came up to that place , they had evacuated it , with gums and elephants , and made for Chunderee . On the 2 nd oi October they made themselves master of it , and there remained when the mail left .
A combined movement was m preparation to hem them in . Advices have been received from Hong Kong to September 12 th ;—the Chinese agents for negociating the tariff are not yet come . The English Hong Kong papers accuse the Chinese court of bad faith , and state that the government is recompensing the braves , and does not publish the treaty of peace in the interior , the people believing there is only an armistice . —By far the most important news of the week is the treaty which Lord Elgin has concluded with Japan , by which another field of enterprize
is opened to British , commerce , and the intercourse , between the most civilized nation of Asia , and this great country placed , we hope , on a firm footing . One year after the . ratification of the treaty , tho ports are to bo opened to British traders . Lord Elgin was received with great respect , and very interesting accounts of the mission have been received , for which our limited space compels us to refer our readers to the daily journals . Lord Elgin has returned to Hong Kong . Accounts from the Cape of Good Hope informs us that Sir George Grey was still engaged in mediating between the Free State and Moshesh . In the colony everything was
peaceful , prosperous , and progressing . The elections for members of the legislative council had taken place , It was proposed to connect South Africa with India and Europe , by the electric telegraph , Three Kaffirs charged with the murder of the Bev . Mr . Wilson , English church minister in Bristol , Kaffraria , had been found guilty and condemned to death . It has been decided to send off every available soldier to India . — - —In the explosion at Havanna , on the 29 th ultimo , the loss of lives was 112 , and 128 wounded ; loss of property over 1 , 000 , 000 dols . —Several frightful shipwrecks , with \ om of life , hare taken place on the English