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excepts to is one entitling Francis II . to send a representative to plead his cause in a future congress . -The latest accounts say that the bombardment will be immediately resumed , the King of Naples having refused the terms offered for its surrender . The King had issued a proclamation calling for the assistance of all loyal subjects , to whom he offers free ancl liberal institutions . The Naples journals report that quiet has been restored in the Ahruzzi ancl Calabriaand that the movement in the province of

, Avellina hacl been partially suppressed .- General Dunne , Garibaldi's aide-de-camp in all his campaigns in Sicily ancl Naples , was shot at Naples , on the 7 th inst ., by a man said to be a Sicilian , instigated thereto by the general , haying known him to be a coward , interfering with his promotion . At the last accounts the general was still alive . A decree of the Marquis di Pepoli has been issued suppressing all the religious orders and closing all the convents iu

L ' mbria . The Government will take charge of the religious treasury , out of wliich pensions will be granted to the monks ancl nuns , who will be sent to their homes . The Government also will take possession of the ' convents , which will be transformed into barracks , hospitals , and schools . The si-rplus arising from the ecclesiastical property will be applied to religious works ancl public instruction . An important step towards the restoration of order in Upper Italhas been taken b v the organization of the mobilised National

y Guard . The project of the Minister Jlinghetti for administrative decentralisation is also highly approved by the Naples journals . The representatives of the states on the banks of the Rhine , assembled in convention , have considerably reduced the river dues . According to dispatches from A'ienna , a plan of Chevalier Scliinerliiig wil be put in execution within the next four months . According to this plan the empire of Austria will have an Upper Chambercomposed of 200 membersselected on the hereditary

, , principle , the same as our House of Lords ; ancl an Elective Chamber , consisting of 250 members , to be named by the provincial assemblies , on the plan ofthe United States of America . The agitation in Hungary seems daily to gain strength . The laws of 18-18 are everywhere recognised as the basis of government .

and an independent ministry for Hungary is also demanded . A conference afc Gran met on the 18 th , and appears to have been conducted with much moderation . A resolution to request the Emperor to grant the Electoral Law- of 1848 was unanimously agreed to . The law is of a very democratic tendency , allowing votes to all who have the right of citizenship , a right which in many instances a peasant may acquire by a purchase of land to tho value of £ 0 . The Primate in his closing speech expressed a hope of an

early convocation ofthe Diet , ancl exhorted the nation to union ancl confidence . The Primate afterwards gave a banquet in his palace , where the speeches delivered were of avery conciliatory character . Information comes from Frankfort that the English ambassadors at A'ienna and Berlin have been summoned to London to take part in the deliberations on the A'enetian question . —¦—The last accounts from Constantinople say the question of the occupation of Syria is still being discussedbut that it was likely the Porte ivould ield .

, y An angry discussion had taken place between the Porte ancl Sardinia relative to the detention of the Sardinian vessels . The ammunition in ought in them is to be returned to Genoa . The Russians have experienced further defeats in Circassia . According to the Ost Deulche Post , Russia has despatched a threatening letter to Prince Cotiza , ancl concentrated 12 , 000 men in Bessarabia , on account of the preparations making in Moldavia and AA ' allachia for a supposed rising of the several nationalities ,

embracing , among others , Hungary ancl Poland . The Persian army , according to intelligence received from Teheran , dated November 1 st , has been nearly annihilated by an overwhelming Turcoman force . It is probable that the Persians , relying on their late victory over the Turcomans , and supposing they were incapable of further resistance , were taken unawares , ancl hence the total discomfiture they experienced . CHINA AXD ISDIA . —Intelli has been received at the

gence Foreign Office , through St . Petersburg , from Pekin up to the Sth of November , stating that peace was concluded on the 26 th of October , and the ratifications exchanged ; and that on the oth of November the allied forces evacuated Pekin , and the Emperor was expected immediately to return to his capital . The terms of the treaty have not transpired . The papers from Calcutta to the Sth ult . state that the disturbed indigo districts

had not at all improved , and that the ryots were sowing clown all the indigo hinds , ancl that what little of the October crop had been sown had been eaten ancl trampled down by cattle . This state of things is attributed to the line of conduct pursued by Jlr . Grant iu interfering in behalf ofthe ryots with the decisions ofthe police and magistrates . The dearth of civil servants is so great that all furloughs have been stopped in Bengal for the year . The most important news , however , is that of a mutiny of the Sth Europeans at Dinnpore . The Bengal Ilurlcaru says a mutinous spirit had long existed in the regiment , but the officers knew nothing of it , and

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that the outbreak was suppressed b y Serjeant Major Macniniinie , of the Bengal Artillery . A telegram , elated Bonibay , November 16 th , acids that the regiment has been disbanded . The same telegram says the combination in Bonibay against the income-tax still continued .

ATTSIEALIA . —The news from Australia by the last arrival is not of much importance . The meeting of the Melbourne Parliament had been postponed to the 20 th " of November . The volunteer movement was progressing , the force numbering 5000 men . The yield of gold hacl slightly decreased , and in the gold-fields revivalism was increasing , with its usual frightful results . At Sydney the Land Bill was under discussion in " the Assembly , and in the Council the Upper House Constitution Bill was under debate . The

news from New Zealand is to the 13 th of October . General Pratt has returned to Taranaki to protect it from the anticipated attack by the AA ' aikatos , who were expected in about a week , " AMEEICA . —According to the latest accounts , the agitation on the secession question still continued . The American President had delivered his Message to the Senate and House of Representatives . It opens by describing the country during the past year as

prosperous in all its material interests—the harvest as most abundant ; commerce ancl manufactures as yielding fair and ample returns ; and , in short , he says , no nation ever presented a spectacle of greater internal prosperity . He then asks , why is it that discontent now so extensively prevails , and that the union of the states , which is the source of all these blessings , is threatened with destruction ? ancl answers the question bascribing it to the long-continued ancl

y intemperate interference of the Northern people with the question of slavery in the Southern states , which has at length produced its natural effects , and resulted in the different sections of the Union being arrayed against each other . Should this apprehension of domestic danger extend and intensify itself until it shall pervade the masses of the Southern people , their disunion will become inevitable . Yet all that is necessary to restore ancl settle the slavery question

peace for ever , and all for which the slave states haye been contending , is that they be let alone , and permitted to manage their domestic institutions in their own way as sovereign states . The President then observes the election of a President fn a constitutional manner cannot of itself justify secession or revolution . The constitution does

not contemplate the act of separation or disunion , and therefore there can be no legal ancl constitutional secession of any state from the Union . To restore tranquillity , and furnish to all the States a guarantee for the enjoyment of their rights , certain amendments to the federal constitution are necessary , and may be proposed by Congress , and ratified by the states , " or through the medium of a convention , called on the application of the States . The President next alludes to the forei relations of

gn the States , which he says are in all instances of a friendly nature , except with Spain . The two dangerous questions arising from the Clayton-Bulwer treaty , and from the right of search claim by the British Government , have been amicably and honourablyadjusted , and the only question still remaining open is the disputed title between the two governments to the island of San Juan , in the vicinity of AA ' ashington territoryand as this question is under

, negotiation it is not deemed advisable at present to make any other allusion to the subject . The President then says the recent visit of the Prince of AA ' ales in a private character has proved a most auspicious event iu its consequences , and cannot fail to increase the kindred and kindly feeling which he trusts will ever actuate the governments ancl people of both countries in their political and social intercourse with each other . AVith Spainthe President

, says the relations are of a more complicated , though less dangerous , character than formerly , and that the numerous claims against the Spanish Government are still unsettled , and it is more than probable that the final adjustment of them will devolve upon his successor . The friendly and peaceful policy pursued by the Government of the United States towards the empire of China has produced the most satisfactory resultsand the treaty of Tien

; - tsin , of ISth June , _ S 5 S , has been faithfully observed by the Chinese authorities . The relations nith Mexico still remain iii avery unsatisfactory condition . The message concludes with some remarks about the necessity of modification ' s in the tariff for the purpose of increasing the revenue , and recommends specific in lieu of cul valorem duties .

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