LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

Colonist, Volume II, Issue 166, 24 May 1859, Page 3

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

Various rumours are afloat: in Paris. It is said that * the Lyons Railway Company has received orders to keep its line in readiness for the* transport of 75,000 men. It is also asserted that the squadron which recently left Toulon is to proceed to Algiers for the purpose of embarking troops at that place. It is further reported that the conferrences for examining the election of Prince Couza have been adjourned to an indefinite period. - Lord Cowley arrived in Paris on March 16*. The Paris papers publish the following, which they take from the Havas Correspondence. The Debuts says :—" We leave to that correspondence the responsibility of the statement:'"— "Berlin, March 12. " There is a" report in circulation to-day which, if confirmed^ will lead greatly to strengthen the

hopes of fche friends of peace. It is asserted that Baron Budberg, the Russian ambassador here, has communicated to fche Minister of Foreign Affairs a despatch from Prince Gortschakoff, in which the latter pronounces himself in a pacific sense, and promises to support Prussia and England iv their endeavors to procure a peaceful solution of the pending difficulties. " The Russian cabinet admits the necessity of the maintenance of treaties, but advises a revision of the separate treaties of Austria with the small Italian States. •It is added that young Prince Gortschakoff, who recently passed through Berlin on his way from Warsaw to Pari., took a despatch to Baron Kisseieff identical with the one communicated at Berlin. The. visit, of Prince Souvarow to Paris is attributed tothe same cause. " We hear from St. Petersburg that an imperial decree, dated March 10, prohibits the exportation of horses from Russia and the kingdom of Poland across the European frontiers. , General Jeffdokimoff has laid siege to Schamyl's capital in the Caucasus." ,