FOREIGN NEWS.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 48, 13 January 1843, Page 3

FOREIGN NEWS.

The Augsburg Gazette of the 26th ult. contains accounts from Constantinople of the 10th. Letters had reached that capital from Trebisond, stating that the Persian troops had suspended their hostilities along the Turkish frontier. The energetic representations of the ebvoys of Great Britain and Russia had induced the Schah to adopt that resolution; there was consequently every hope that the difference which had arisen between Persia and Turkey would be amicably adjusted through the mediation of those two powers. The Porte had transmitted orders to the army oh its way to Bagdad to suspend its march. Nevertheless, letters from Ebzeroum mentioned that a Persian force had invaded the province of Van. The Manheim Gazette quotes a letter from Berlin of the 22d, stating that a certain mystery still surrounded the events which had recently occurred in the Russian capital. The account of the sudden death of Count Orloff had .been confirmed by the report of travellers. The Sehtinelle du Jura announces that, on the night of the 7th ult., one of the glaciers of the Simplon gave way with a tremendous, noise, carrying away with it, in its fall, a number of chalets and some cattle. The shock was so violent, that tables and other pieces of furniture were upset in the interior of the houses. St. Petersburg, August 17.—The journal of the Government of Saralof announces, that

on the 31st of May (12til June) a heavy rain, accompanied with stioW, fell in the environs of Little Serboda, in the district of Petrowik, which had cooled the atmosphere to such a degree that all the large cattle in the steppe were taken ill, and 128 Were found dead. On the sth (17th) June there was a furious tempest. in the districts of Kamyschin and Faritzen. In the former 2,ooo;trees Were shattered in the forests of Madanfie Nicolajoff, arid in the second, 1,250 oaks, some of Whidh Were 10 feet in circumference at the base, were torn up by the roots, or snapped asunder in the forests of Count Orloff Denissoff. Great damage has been done by lightning in the government of Moscow. In one village 10 houses were burnt by the lightning, two in another, and in other places sheep were killed, and many buildings more or less damaged. —Journal de St. Petersburg, August 20. Letters, worthy of credit, from St. Petersburgh, state, that the joy created by the festi* vities had been damped by intelligence received from the theatre of the war in Asia, by which it appears that the Russian army has sustained a total defeat by the Circassians. There is scarcely a family among the Russian nobility who do not deplore the loss of a son fallen in the conflict. This national calamity occasioned of the court festivities; they Were therefore interrupted from a feeling which must command respect. Frontiers of Poland, August 19. —The Russian system of law, as it is styled, presents a most melancholy prospect for Poland. What is called Russian law is fortunately a thing unknown in Germany ; but unfortunately it will become a new infliction on the already severely oppressed Poles. We do not mean to say that Poland had the very best system of laws before Napoleon diffused some light over the old chaos; but our law was then sacred from historical recollections, nationalized by custom, and based on definite principles. Now, we are threatened with Russian law; or rather, we have to fear, Russian forms of law. A letter from Bologna states, that on the 13tli two floors of the Abbadia, a benevolent institution, gave way with between 700 and 800 poor workmen in them, bearing everything to the ground. Immediate aid was afforded, but a length of time elapsed before all the victims of the accident could be extricated from the ruins. Three persons were killed, and upwards of 70 wounded, some of them dangerously.

A scientific congress is to meet at Strasburg on the 28th of September next; 750 savans, from different parts' of Europe, had already announced their intention of attending the congress. Constantinople, Aug. 10.—Our Ambassador had a very lengthy interview, on the 7th inst., with the Minister for Foreign Affairs. Nothing new has transpired, but there is reason to believe that the subject of the conference regarded the Persian question, and that the result was satisfactory. There has been a convincing proof this week, of the correctness of an argument I put forward some time ago respecting the regulation for the closure of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles to mer-chant-steamers after sunset —namely, “ that it was intended thereby to injure to the utmost the intercourse of European powers with Turkey.” The Generoso, a Maltese brig, bound from Odessa, was hailed from the Castles at her entrance to the Bosphorus in the early part of the night, and ordered to anchor until the following morning. This first instance is, doubtless, intended as a feeler towards more stringent regulations. The extreme inconvenience and danger attending the regulation with respect only to steamers, I sufficiently noticed on a recent occasion; but if the measure is now to be extended to sailing vessels, it will, in a word, serve to prevent foreign ships from continuing in the Black Sea coasting trade during many months of the year. Positive instructions were early issued by the Russian authorities in Odessa, that their subjects should pay strict attention to any regulation of the sort issued by the Porte. What are we to deduce from the fact ? I have been favored with intelligence from Odessa of the 28th ult., to the effect that very recently a Russian, camp on the southern Caucasus, had been daringly attacked by the Circassians under Shameel, and 1,600 Russians killed, including 65 officers. A number of pieces of artillery were also captured, but were afterwards mostly retaken. lam not in possession of other facts, and only mention the foregoing from the superior credit I attach to mv informant.

The subjoined is from a correspondent—- (*« Musifir es Shark”) in Beyrout, of the 30th ult.:—“ Things here are in statu quo Selim JBey continues his tour in the Lebanon, employ- , iflg every possible means to trump up another petition in faVor of the superior Pashas; but assuredly it will be a worse failure than before. There are evident signs that Mustapha Pasha considers himself insecure $ yet he is not abating a whit of the policy he commenced with. Matters seem at a stand still —in interest, stale, flat, and unprofitable; the wind-up, whatever it is to be, must soon make its appearance. For myself, I am so tired of the political scene, that I start in a few days for the Aleppo frontier, to

fiear of anything going on among the Kurils! and Persians.” I anxiously wait my'friend’s, intelligence.