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The Week.
Roman States . The last accounts from St . Petersburg consider as nearly concluded the loan with Messrs . Rothschild which has been under negotiation for some time past . It is to amount to thirty millions of roubles , and tlie basis of the transaction is said to be already agreed on . The riotous conduct of the students at Moscow has no sooner been appeased than news has arrived of similar conduce at Odessa , Avhere the students have hissed the curator of the university for bis martinet treatment of them . It is thought thafc the students
ivill in the end carry their point . Iu Cireassia , Naib has condemned Colonel Ladiensk to be hanged . -In Constantinople it is asserted that the civil list has contracted another loan of thirty millions of piastres . The Sultan is about to marry his daughter , the widow of Gbalib Pasha , to hia favourite , Osman Bey , who would then replace Riza Pasha in the ministry . Mehemet Kybrisli Pasha has refused to replace Djemal Bey as ambassador at Paris . He will probably be appointed grand vizier ; and we are told of the following changes in the
ministry : Fuad Pasha , it is said , will be minister of finance , Djemal Bej or Savfet Effendi , minister of foreign affairs , Mehemet Ali Pasha or Mehemet Rouchdi Pasha , minister of war . The official journal of Constantinople declares the election of A . Conza as hospodar of Moldavia to be contrary to existing treaties . A resolution has been adopted in the United States senate , calling on the secretary of the treasury for information relative to the palm oil trade of the coast of Africa . The house of representatives have
taken action decidedly adverse to the , prosecution of the Pacific Railroad . The purchase of Cuba and the tariff were still under deliberation . Fraser river was irtzen below Foit Langley , and it was feared that great suffering would be experienced by the miners . A successful revolution has been inaugurated in Hayti against the Emperor Soulouque . A republic was publicly proclaimed on the 23 rd of December , and General Jefferd . ivas named provisional preside'it . The insurrection is spreading north and south . All political prisoners had been released , and a decree deprives Soulouque of all nower . Additional advices
from Mexico of tlie 9 th ult . state that Juarez had refused to listen to the commissioners frcni Robles . Zuloaga before his fall had approved the propositions Iroiii France and England for a settlement of the Spanish question , and the Spanish authorities had expressed their satisfaction that there were five French , four Spanish , and three anglish men-of-war vessels atSacriricios . Indian papers and letters by the overland mail reached London on Thursday . The Eurlaru says : — " AVar there is none left , and nothing but a dangerous , fierce and scattered hunt remains . The rebel leaders who succeeded in bursting through our
cordons and in crossing the Gauges were Feroze Shah , Luckur Shah , Peerjee Mossal Ally Khan , Golab Shah ( who passes himself as a European ) , and Fazel Huqq , the Monlavie . This news is derived from government authorities . The Nana was stated to be ivith the fugitive chiefs and to have crossed the Ganges on the ( 1 th of last month , in broad noonday , at some spot between Fnttehghur and Cawnpore . Bufc the telegraph wire was cut by the rebels , and all exactitude of information prevented . The insurrection as an organisation is
over . The duties of a rural constabulary have fallen upon generals , brigadiers , and majors . Lord Clyde himself has become but a chief of police in a disturbed country ; while the more pugnacious chiefs fly hither and thither , and the Ntuu squats in a jungle negotiating terms of safety for his family , and reading the English newspapers . From China we learn that the governor of Macao was said to be about to proceed to Siam to enter into a treaty for Portugal . The state of affairs ac Ningpo is alarming . From Foo-chow-ibo and Anioy
reports are favourable . A rather alarming fire broke out in the centre of Hong-Kong on the oth of December , and only by the most extraordinary exertions were the premises of the Oriental Bank Corporation kept from destruction . One fine ouilding , the residence and godowns of Messrs . Schajffer and Co ., merchants , and the offices of Mr . Tarrant , solicitor , were totally destroyed , together with four other houses . Mr . AVakley and his jury assembled last Tuesday , to conclude the inquiry into the accident at the Polytechnic . The jury found that the death was accidental , and thafc the fall of the staircase was occasioned by cutting the steps for the insertion of the trellis work . A
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The Week.
Roman States . The last accounts from St . Petersburg consider as nearly concluded the loan with Messrs . Rothschild which has been under negotiation for some time past . It is to amount to thirty millions of roubles , and tlie basis of the transaction is said to be already agreed on . The riotous conduct of the students at Moscow has no sooner been appeased than news has arrived of similar conduce at Odessa , Avhere the students have hissed the curator of the university for bis martinet treatment of them . It is thought thafc the students
ivill in the end carry their point . Iu Cireassia , Naib has condemned Colonel Ladiensk to be hanged . -In Constantinople it is asserted that the civil list has contracted another loan of thirty millions of piastres . The Sultan is about to marry his daughter , the widow of Gbalib Pasha , to hia favourite , Osman Bey , who would then replace Riza Pasha in the ministry . Mehemet Kybrisli Pasha has refused to replace Djemal Bey as ambassador at Paris . He will probably be appointed grand vizier ; and we are told of the following changes in the
ministry : Fuad Pasha , it is said , will be minister of finance , Djemal Bej or Savfet Effendi , minister of foreign affairs , Mehemet Ali Pasha or Mehemet Rouchdi Pasha , minister of war . The official journal of Constantinople declares the election of A . Conza as hospodar of Moldavia to be contrary to existing treaties . A resolution has been adopted in the United States senate , calling on the secretary of the treasury for information relative to the palm oil trade of the coast of Africa . The house of representatives have
taken action decidedly adverse to the , prosecution of the Pacific Railroad . The purchase of Cuba and the tariff were still under deliberation . Fraser river was irtzen below Foit Langley , and it was feared that great suffering would be experienced by the miners . A successful revolution has been inaugurated in Hayti against the Emperor Soulouque . A republic was publicly proclaimed on the 23 rd of December , and General Jefferd . ivas named provisional preside'it . The insurrection is spreading north and south . All political prisoners had been released , and a decree deprives Soulouque of all nower . Additional advices
from Mexico of tlie 9 th ult . state that Juarez had refused to listen to the commissioners frcni Robles . Zuloaga before his fall had approved the propositions Iroiii France and England for a settlement of the Spanish question , and the Spanish authorities had expressed their satisfaction that there were five French , four Spanish , and three anglish men-of-war vessels atSacriricios . Indian papers and letters by the overland mail reached London on Thursday . The Eurlaru says : — " AVar there is none left , and nothing but a dangerous , fierce and scattered hunt remains . The rebel leaders who succeeded in bursting through our
cordons and in crossing the Gauges were Feroze Shah , Luckur Shah , Peerjee Mossal Ally Khan , Golab Shah ( who passes himself as a European ) , and Fazel Huqq , the Monlavie . This news is derived from government authorities . The Nana was stated to be ivith the fugitive chiefs and to have crossed the Ganges on the ( 1 th of last month , in broad noonday , at some spot between Fnttehghur and Cawnpore . Bufc the telegraph wire was cut by the rebels , and all exactitude of information prevented . The insurrection as an organisation is
over . The duties of a rural constabulary have fallen upon generals , brigadiers , and majors . Lord Clyde himself has become but a chief of police in a disturbed country ; while the more pugnacious chiefs fly hither and thither , and the Ntuu squats in a jungle negotiating terms of safety for his family , and reading the English newspapers . From China we learn that the governor of Macao was said to be about to proceed to Siam to enter into a treaty for Portugal . The state of affairs ac Ningpo is alarming . From Foo-chow-ibo and Anioy
reports are favourable . A rather alarming fire broke out in the centre of Hong-Kong on the oth of December , and only by the most extraordinary exertions were the premises of the Oriental Bank Corporation kept from destruction . One fine ouilding , the residence and godowns of Messrs . Schajffer and Co ., merchants , and the offices of Mr . Tarrant , solicitor , were totally destroyed , together with four other houses . Mr . AVakley and his jury assembled last Tuesday , to conclude the inquiry into the accident at the Polytechnic . The jury found that the death was accidental , and thafc the fall of the staircase was occasioned by cutting the steps for the insertion of the trellis work . A