FRANCE.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 105, 23 October 1863, Page 7

FRANCE.

i The Daily News Paris correspondent in a letter dated August' 24 shys :— •*• It is how said that the notes, of .the, three -Powers' after all, physically and v visibly placed 'in Prince 'GortschakofFs - hands, several days ago ; bul that, in consequence of the absence of the Czar, it was agreed i that th^ delivery should he considered inchoate till his return. Alexander II; is-> 'to be-in Bt .Petersburg this day (August 24).. and/t,herefore the " escrows " must be ■ by this time -effective instruments. It has been said tepeatedly that the, dfoniteur. was only waiting for thjl.news ojFthe three documents being formally in th\s hands of the Russian Govemm^itCK publish M i Drouyn de Lhuy^d-sfifMlitch^' v ;, • - The Patrie says that Prince -Napg}eon (who is new at Havre)' #ifl -probably goto Cherbburg on the Slst August to see 'tiie .experiments of-compainative speed, about -to be made with .the iron^cladv^seis now .assembled in- that porU l t _ The following -wT^M^^the,. Patrie of yesterday . evening:—^letters' fibin St. Petersburg hardly allow U^tOi'-expect that Russia will make, any; (jo, cessions; The old Muscovite party is, averse to a'temporising fiolicy. General, MourayiefF is the- hero,' of, the day.. J Public opinion pronounces- energetically against- every conI cessio^^nd-the Gbverrimeht-Svould seem rdisposedjlb, yield, tc^ the in^uenqe of.the masses, over-excited by the Old* Muscovite party. *- ; It is' asserted hy thejsame paper that the "Finsihave seirt delegates to St.-Petettßurg demanding a constitution for Finland and a separate^ Finnish 'army^ Da mentions that letters have 'been sent to Madrid from Havannah, by the principal inhabitants of Cuba, demanding'that Spa-tii -should come to an agreement "with France for the organisation of Mexico in. a strong and . durable maeper. -The sub's<;ril>e.rs . of the letters ; show that? the, interests of Havannah "are lhtiti-ately-allied with. those of Mexico.-' -• --=-—'-- — TjjyisPays says tliat nQ; cenfirmation has Yih^WinKla^of^Ge'neral Mduraviefl^assas^j •;sina|ibnW - . ' ' ■■■ ■- A'\ Twe ;^Mexiean -officers, priss'nCTS ; raC. r.war ' at'Bburges/ have been . sentenced by ai military tribunal t0.15 days* imprisonment ■ for.an. : assault upon Captain Zamora, one • of their companions in captivity. i