MOORE’S RURAL NEW-YORKER: AN AGRICULTURAL AND EAYIILY JOURNAL. 
ROCHESTER, JANUARY .Rl, 1850. 
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ns are well filled with approiniatc and valuable 
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ent and industry. Wc wish it abundant success. 
Edited by Prof. J. P. Kirti.and, 8. St. John, and 
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Notices to Correspondents. 
We have received a samjilc of earth from 
G. Dcnear, which shall be examined and report¬ 
ed upon soon. Also, the filterings from leached 
ashes which had lain exposed for forty years, from 
G. W. S.MiTH, Livonia. 
J. <). The “ golden mineral ” sent for exami¬ 
nation, is the sulphuret of iron, (iron pyrites'.) the 
article used for the mantifacture of copperas, (sul¬ 
phate of iron,) and is a more generally dissemina¬ 
ted mineralized substance than any other, except 
the oxides. 
A. R. P. We cannot understand your de¬ 
scription of the machine for making ditche.'^. If 
it can be made to ojieiaie well and jirofitably, it 
will bo a verj' desirable addition to labor saving 
machines. Send a drawing, or model, and w’e 
shall be happy to give you our opinion. 
R. P. W. is wrong in his answer to the ques¬ 
tion of the throe men cariying the stick of timber. 
One quarter is the right point, as he may convince 
himself, by weighing a rod of iron or wood at 
those two points. He is not alone, as we have 
answers at his, and various other distances. 
W. B. We are unable to slate how soon after 
application is made at the Patent Office, YVa.shing- 
ton, rights may be obtained; they have been, for a 
long time past, six months or more before they 
were reached. 
We are obliged to A. (4. and O. R. P. for 
their suggestions, .and shall avail ourselves of their 
advice. 
W. Mii.i.is, Yates. Subsoil Plows can be pro¬ 
cured of Rapalje & Briggs, in this city, at prices 
varying from $;7 to iftM, according to size, finish 
and rigging. 
The O’REiLty Tei.egrarh. —Wc are glad to 
learn tliat the nexv line of telegrajih to extend from 
New York to Buffalo, under the direction of Henry 
O’Reilly, Esq., is no longer problematical. Nearly 
the whole amount of stock required has been taken. 
Congressional and Legislative. 
Synopsis cf Coagreseional Proceedings. 
The President has come out with a Message to 
Congress on the subject of the admission of Cal¬ 
ifornia and New Mexico. He avows no intention 
to interfere with their views, and thinks no ques¬ 
tion can arise on the subject to disturb the harmo¬ 
ny of the Union. A proposition has been made 
to abolish the Home Department. The Vermont 
anti-slavery resolutions are exciting considerable 
feeling and discussion. 
Mr. Clay has made a proposition for the pur¬ 
chase of Mount Vernon, the home of YVashiiigton, 
by the Nation; .also the original manuscript of his 
funeral address. 
Petitions continue to be presented for tlic reduc¬ 
tion of Postage and the abolition of the frakning 
privilege — which latter is a monstrous abuse, and 
one that .should not be tolerated. 
The French and Brazil claims for spoliations 
are under discussion, and other local subjects of no 
general interest. 
Legislature of New York. 
The Homestead Exemption is being discus.sed, 
and petitions to abolish toll on railroads, and the 
reduction of duty on foreign salt — the introduc¬ 
tion of Amsden’s Hydrostatic Scale for weighing 
freights and boats on the canal, in place of the 
expensive, cumbersome, and uncertain weigh 
locks now in use. 
Majority and minority reports on the slaveiy 
question have been submitted. YVe trust the 
House xvill wash their hands free from block on 
this subject. 
Propositions are made for renewing the Sodus 
Bay Canal charter, and for modifjing the Free 
School Law. 
Petitions against consolidating the various Rail¬ 
road Companies, and for reducing the fees of the 
County Clerk of Monroe. 
A bill has been brought into the House for 
changing the direction of juvenile delinquents from 
the Southern to the Northern House of Refuge.— 
Also, for making villages and cities (and counties 
ought to be included,) responsible for damages to 
personal property by mobs. The ten hour lalior 
laxv is now being agiuted. 
Chips and Shavings of Ngyvs, &c. 
gathered with pe.v and scissors. 
Meteorological Abstract. 
BY L. WETHERELL. 
Jan. 1850. 
thermo.metep. 
RAIN. 
WINDS. 
MIN* 
MKAN. 
15 
30 
16 
25.66 
0.05 
s. e. 
. 16 
37 
31 
34.00 
0.10 
W. N 
17 
39 
33 
36.66 
s E.N W’. 
18 
32 
30 
31.00 
N E. N. 
19 
32 
24 
27.00 
N. W. 
•20 
27 
12 
21.33 
K. 
21 
37 
33 
35.33 
0.41 
S. E. 
00 
31 
30 
30.66 
0.73 
w. 
■23 
:i6 
23 
29.66 
•S W S 
24 
:i9 
28 
35.00 
S E 
25 
41 
37 
38.66 
0.01 
s 
26 
42 
30 
37.33 
S K S 
27 
41 
36 
38.66 
\V 
28 
32 
28 
30.00 
K N r; 
REMARKS. 
January 15—Cloudy; grows warm; signs of a storm. 
“ 16—Cloudy; snowed a little la.st night. 
“ 17—Continues cloudy and warm. 
“ 18—About 4 inches of snow fell to-day. 
“ 19—Very fine day; good sleighing. 
“ 20—Cool; good sleighing, lunar halo. 
“ .21—YY’ann; rains in the evening. 
“ 2'2—Cool; a little snow last evening. 
“ 23—Delightful morning; eloiidy at eve. 
“ 04 —Cloudy; began to rain about 1 P. .YI. 
“ 2.3—YY^arm and rainy. 
“ —q'he snow is melting rapidly. 
07 —Snow nearly gone; honey bees out; 
chick-weed nearly ready to hlo.ssom; 
lilac buds considerably enlarged. 
“ 28—Cooler; began to snow between 9 and 
10.4.-M.; good sleighing at evening; 
5 or 6 inclies of snow. 
Late and Important News from the Salt Lake. 
A letter has been received at St. Louis, Jauuaiy 
18th, dated Salt Lake City, Get. 18th, which says 
that the Mormons from California brought much 
gold. 
All kinds of merchandise were scarce, and com¬ 
manded high prices. There were only' two small 
stores ill ihe valley, to supply a population of 
l.'), 000 . 
Snow had fallen 011 The mountains around the 
valley, and at the South-west Pass it was four feet 
deep. 
Rumors jircvailed that the Missouri emigi'ants 
had killed some squaws of the Snake tribe of 
Indians, and that they were, consequently, hos¬ 
tile to the whites, and were committing depreda¬ 
tions wherever an opportunity offered. Subse- 
quemly they had a battle with another party of 
emigrants. 
Ylessrs. Living.ston & Kincaid, traders of Salt 
Lake, liad cleared $20,000 in two weeks. They 
had sold all their merchandise that was to arrive. 
Mr. Rose, of New York, had also sold .$5,000 
worth of goods in two days. 
Grain crops had been good: the jiro.spects of the 
country were fine. 
Ohio. —Governor Ford delivered his annual 
mes.sage on the 18lh inst. He shows that the to¬ 
tal amount of payments into the State treasury 
during the year 1849, xvas $2,511,119 37. The 
amount disbursed was $2,176,681 04. The total 
amoulit of Domestic Bonds redeemed and cancel¬ 
ed during tlie year 1849, was $199,386 25. 
The receipts from the Canals and Public YVorks 
during the year ending December 15, 1848, were 
$773,554 37. The receipts from the .same .source 
during the year ending Nov. 15, 1849, are $731,- 
173 50, making a difierence of $42,380 87. 
The new Court House. —YVe understand, 
says the Deinorrai, that the new Court House in 
this city, is to be 85 feet in front and 70 feet deep. 
It will be constructed of brick, with a dome, and 
with Ionic columns of Lockport stone. The site 
will be a little further back than that of the old 
Court House, leaving 70 feet between the rear 
wall and the Fir.st Presbxlerian Church. 
Journeymen Printers’ in California, have 
established the jirice of work at $50 per week, 
which is paid. The Placer Times says it paid 
$100 a week to each man, the highest amount 
ever given to Journeymen Printers’ since the dis¬ 
covery of tlie art. 
Cai.ifornia Gold. —The coinage of California 
gold at the Philadelphia mint amounts to over 
.$ 6 , 000 , 000 . 
Fresh shad, green peas, and tomatoes, are 
among the delicacies served up at some of the Phil¬ 
adelphia hotels. 
Kossuth is believed to have embarked for 
the United States, under the late arrangement for 
tlie exit of refugees from Turkey. 
I..ARGE Mail. — The steamship Canada took 
out 64,361 letters. This is the largest mail of let¬ 
ters ever taken by a steamship. 
Miss Bremer, the famous Swedish author¬ 
ess has visited both branches of the Massachu¬ 
setts Ijcgislature. 
Iron, chalk, and bituminous coal have 
been lately found in considerable quantities in dif¬ 
ferent parts of 4'exas. 
The Trustees of the Gerrit Smith Dona¬ 
tion to temperate landless and poor persons, have 
already distributed two thousand four hundred dol¬ 
lars to" women, in sums of fifty dollars each. 
Some of the friends of Mr. Calhoun as.sert 
that he xvill never again, in an)’ reasonable proba¬ 
bility, be able to take an active part in public af- 
fair.s, his health being completely prostrated. Mr. 
C. is now more than seventy years of age. 
Hand.some DoNATtoN. — Alexander Duncan, 
Esq., of Providence, formerly of Canandaigua, has 
given $20,000 to the Butler Ho.spital for the insane 
of Rhode Island. 
YY'isconsin. —Tlie Governor of YY’iscon.sin takes 
ground, in his recent message, against the estab¬ 
lishment of Banks in the State, whether under 
general or special laws'. 
Great Mortality at Ska. —The British .ship 
Olive Branch arrived at Boston (piarantine ground 
oil Friday, with about 200 passengers. Forty died 
on the passage. 
During 1849 there were erected iu the three 
principle cities of the Union, the following number 
of new buildings: New York, 1495; Philadelphia 
city and liberties, 3000; Baltimore, 1894. 
New.sraper Success. —The YVashington Re¬ 
public, of the 29th ult., states that it has attained 
a daily, tri-weekly, and weekly circulation of 
twenty-three thousand copies since it was started 
six months ago. 
Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge Co. —The 
Hamilton Gazette states that another quarterly div¬ 
idend of three per cent, per share has been declared 
for the quarter ending first January' last, paj'able 
on the first of February. 
Ten thousand steamer.s landed at Cincin¬ 
nati during the past year. 
Got his Hands Full. —An exchange says that 
the Troy and Schenectady Railroad is in the hands 
of the Sheriff. 
Can ada. —The Hon. Robert Burn.s, of 'J’oionto, 
has been appointed to the vacant Judgcsliip. 
The Hon. Robert Baldwin, who has been very 
seriously indisposed, is so far recovered as to aftbrd 
a hope of his speedy return to public business. 
Alabama. — The Committee of YVays and 
Means of the Legislature of this State, has reported 
adversely to the proposition to reconstruct the Cap¬ 
itol, recently burned. The reasons alleged arc, 
the expense, and the probability of the removal of 
the seat of government to Tuscaloosa. 
Mumcirai. Elkctiions in Canada. —The mu¬ 
nicipal elections in Canada, .so far as they have 
been ascertained, have resulted in the return of 112 
reformers and 6b toTiCs. TJie reformers, as a gen¬ 
eral thing, are supporters of Lord Elgin and his 
administration, though not all opposed to annexa¬ 
tion to the United States. 
Makyi-and. —The bill to repeal all laws impo¬ 
sing restrictions upon the introduction of slaves 
into Maryland, was passed by the House of Dele¬ 
gates on Tuesday last, by a vote of yeas 26, nays 
21 ,— more than one-third of the members being 
absent or not voting. The hill is looked upon with 
much disfavor by a considerable portion of the 
press of the State, and its final jiassage will he 
warmly opposed. 
Courts OF CoNCiLi urioN.—Governor Fish has 
proposed to the I..egislaturc of New Y'ork the estab¬ 
lishment of Courts of Conciliation, by means of 
which parties disposed to a just settlement of their 
difficulties can do so amicably, jiromptly and with¬ 
out the cxjieiises of lengthy and tedious suits at 
law. 
A Good Sreuulvtion. —The ladies of Piltslbrd, 
Monroe Co., held a Fair last Spring and dispo.sed 
of nearly every thing of value except a quilt worth 
some five or .six dollars This they' could not sell. 
A gentleman, Mr. YYL, who was about starting, 
proposed to take the quilt with him and remit the 
avails when sold. The quilt was taken to Califor¬ 
nia. A few days since, the ladies received a re¬ 
mittance from Mr. YV. of sixty dollars, a.s the 
proceeds of the sale of the quilt. 
Banking in Michigan. — The Stale Treasurer 
of Michigan has made a report to the Legislature 
of that State 011 the afl’airs of the Peninsular, In¬ 
surance and Farmers’ «fc Mechanics’ Banks. 
The hisitrance Bank reports a circulation of 
.$165,610, and an equal amount of State Stocks 
in the hands of the State Treasurer, and $.32,- 
937 92 in coin in the vaults. 
The Peninsular Bank reports ,$48,205 circula¬ 
tion, $.57,775 State Stocks deposited, and $9,535 
iu coin. 
The Farmers’ and. Mechanics’ Bunk reports a 
circulation of $224,795, and $20,274 iu coin. 
Usury. —At the recent session of the Legisla¬ 
ture of Connecticut, a law iu relation to usury was 
passed. It limits the forfeiture to the usury itself, 
and protects the lender for the amount of his loan, 
and the legal interest. 
In Rhode Island, a law has been iu existence 
since 1844, which gives to the creditor the right to 
recover prineijial, legal interest and costs. 
New Orleans, Jan. 15.— The receipts of 
flour thu.s far are very light ni>to this lime, being 
onlv 275.138 barrels," while at this time last year 
wc" received .557,876 barrels; falling short this 
sca.son over 282,000 barrels. Ohio and St. Louis, 
,$.5,37i to .5,;50. Of Corn there is also a great 
falling"oft'. YY’c received last season at this time, 
740,339 sacks, and we have received this season 
only. 383,.559; leaving a deficiency of 356,780 
sacks. Tilts article is selling at 47a48c. But ve¬ 
ry little corn .seems to have been .shipiied North, 
thfll? far this season. 
Cotton and Corn. — A friend at the .South 
writes to us concerning the .short crop of cotton, 
which he puts rather lower than most of the cal¬ 
culations, and adds—“ I am told that this year the 
planters arc so intoxicated by’ the high jirices ru¬ 
ling, that they are plowing up their barnyards and 
gardens to put in cotton seed — calculating, if 
their present stock of corn runs short, to buy next 
year. If the coming season, therefore, Ls favora¬ 
ble, look out for cheaper cotton and dearer corn. 
In the mean time, cotton will be yet higher.”— 
Boston Courier. 
Foreign Intelligence. 
The Niagara has arrived. j 
The cotton market buoyant; the sales last | 
week 69,000 bales, of which speculators look 49,- 
000. Prices are up all round a quarter of a penny 
per lb. 
Breadstuffs are dull and .slightly declined. 
Of Provisions the prices and demand are better. 
Sugar, coll'ee aud lard, have decidedly advanc¬ 
ed. 
Money extremely abundant. Consols are 97a 
97§. American stocks are firm and iu good de¬ 
mand. U. S. sixes are lOS^alOO. 
The political news is iiiterestiug but not speci¬ 
ally important. 
The steamer Niagara, Capt. Ryrie, arrived 
this morning at 2 o’clock, bringing about eighty 
passengers, and a full freight of French and other 
goods, and advices two weeks later from all parts 
of Europe. She sailed from Liverpool on the 
morning of tho 12th inst., and has had an unusu¬ 
ally pleasant passage. VVe are under especial 
obligations to the gentlemanly purser of the Ni¬ 
agara for the prompt delivery of our packages. 
The Hibernia arrived at Liverpool on the 9th, 
and her news from New York created a good 
deal of excitement in tho cotton market. Early 
in the week preceding the departure of the Niag¬ 
ara, it was discovered that the Committee of Bro¬ 
kers had made a serious mistake in under-esti¬ 
mating the stock of cotton to the extent of 80,000 
bales, yet notwitlislandiiig this fact the market 
during the past week has been extremely buoy¬ 
ant, and prices have advanced a quarter of a pen¬ 
ny per pound all round. The committee’s quo¬ 
tations are: Fair Orleans OJ: Mobile l^p- 
lands 65 . 
The corn market has been dull throughout the 
kingdom during tho week. Indian corn has de¬ 
clined sixpence per quarter, and now sells at 30s 
for prime white, and 29s for yellow. 
Best brands Philadelphia and Baltimore flour 
command 25s to 25s fid; western canal flour 23s. 
Beef continues depressed, and there is but little 
demand for pork. 
Bacon and lard active. Jjalter improved Is 
per cwt. 
Rice—Yloro inquiry and Carolina commands 
19s fid. 
Coffee—Good demand at advance price. 
Sugar—Prices have advanced sixpence to one 
shilling, and holders are looking for still higher 
rates. 
Tobacco—Full prices and firm market. 
Turpentine is in better demand, and prices fid 
higher. 
Metals—Tin has advanced £2 per ton, and a 
good business going forward. The market for 
British iron aud Scotch Pig has increased, and is 
firmer, with a good business. 
Money Market. 
The Money Market continued to increase iu 
buoyancy. The bullion in the Banks has slightly 
decreased. Consols are still going up. 
The Bank rate of discount it is expected will 
.soon be reduced. American Stocks, firm and iu 
fair demand; New York State 95; city 93; Penn¬ 
sylvania 5s, 83; Massachusetts5s, I03al04; Ma¬ 
ryland 5.S, 89. 
]4iig;laiid. 
Parliament meets for the despatch of business 
on the 1st of February, when it is expected tiiat 
some important change in the Monetary system, 
will be la d before it. 
President Taylor’s message, which reached 
England by the Hibernia, has been extensively 
published, and largely commented upon by the 
English press. The general expre.ssion of public 
semimeiU is very favorable. The London Times 
says: 
“The tenor of the Message is pacific, and we 
learn with pleasure that there is no disposition on 
the part of the American Cabinet to magnify the 
difference which were supposed at one time to 
threaten its relations with the most liberal Euro¬ 
pean powers. The contention with France had 
originated in the impatience of M. Poussin and 
the irregular vehemence of Mr. Clayton. 
Riot in England. —The English papers tell 
us of an alarming riot at Stafford, which grew 
out of great anxiety on the part of tho Agricultu¬ 
ral community to support Jjord Talbot. 'I'he peo¬ 
ple of the town of Stafford are opposed to those of 
the county, the latter being free trade and tlie for¬ 
mer highly protective. A meeting took place at 
the town hall, and on J.iord St. Vincent attempt¬ 
ing to address it, he was driven by hisses, etc., 
from the hustings. Lord Newport had no better 
fortune, and Lord Talbot attempting to speak for 
himself, a stone was thrown which missed his 
Lordship, but knocked down and severely wound¬ 
ed a reporter named Fowler. The riot lasted 
about half an hour, during which time the paving 
stones in the street were torn up, a general row 
took place in and out of tho hall, and things were 
conducted iu regular Tammany style. Finally 
the police told his Lordship they could not pro¬ 
tect him, and he went his way. The Mayor of 
Stafford would not interfere, stating that it was 
the duty of the county magistrates to protect a 
county meeting. The Times says: 
The mob, finding that they were now quite un¬ 
checked in their violence, commenced battering 
in the doors and windows, in the most determin¬ 
ed manner, stones vreighing from 40 lbs to 50 lbs 
being thrown in amongst the meeting. 
Upon leaving the shire hall. Lord Talbot and 
his friends proceeded to the Swan Tavern, where 
he was followed by a mob of nearly one thous¬ 
and oerions. YVhilst his Lordship was iu the act 
of crossing tho road, some miscreant struck his 
lordship in the breast with a brick. This was the 
signal for further destruction, for the mob imme¬ 
diately commenced smashing the windows of the 
hotel "where his lordship and his friends were 
staying. His lordship, on receiving the blow on 
his breast, coolly told the mob that they were act¬ 
ing very unlike Englishmen. From the hotel 
the mob made their way to the railway station 
where they received the farmers, as they came 
down to go by the several trains, with showers of 
bricks aud stones. Upwards of one hundred per¬ 
sons are more or less wounded, some with black 
eyes, some with broken heads, &c. One gentle¬ 
man, who was going down to the station in his 
gig was so severely pelted that the horse took 
fright, and the driver was thrown out. 
France. 
The Assembly has been occupied during the 
past week in debating the policy of sending out 
more troops to the River Platte aud also with the 
provisions of a new Education bill. It has deci¬ 
ded that no more troops shall be sent to the Platte. 
Various proclamations have been i.ssued against 
all kinds of clubs, and political associations. 
The National announces that 25,000 men, of 
the army, employed in restoring the Pope to his 
throne, are to remain at Rome, the government 
having concluded contracts for the maintenance 
of that force, in the Pontifical domain, during 
tho Ist quarter of 1850 
A new paper, called Napoleon, and said to be 
the organ of the President of the Republic, has 
just been started in Paris. The following article 
from its pages is supposed to indicate the inclina¬ 
tions of the President: 
Of two things, one, either the Repttblioans 
have deceived the people in preaching to it for for¬ 
ty years that the application of their principles 
would lead to the cessation of all political compli¬ 
cation, or they deceive it now in telling it that tho 
application made by them ot their great princi¬ 
ples have changed nothing in the vices and abus¬ 
es of the monarchial regime. 
YVe defy them to get out of this dilemma, bat 
the truth is that for many the Republic was not an 
end, but a means of how, without that, to explain 
their conduct since Dec. 10. 
Tho republican opposition to the old Bourbons 
of their livings, of the divine right of Louis Phil- 
lippe, that representative of Royal and Parlia¬ 
mentary usurpation, may be conceived, but it 
cannot be comprehended with respect to Louis 
Napoleon Bonaparte’s election, proclaimed and 
recognized as the head and President of the Re¬ 
public. The reason is that the Republicans of 
the Vc'dle, not very consistent with their former 
convictions, are sore with rancor, and it is not 
without bitterness that they behold authority again 
in the ascendant. 
Austria and Hungary. 
Advices have been received from Vienna to 
the 26th. At that date it was rumored that in 
January the Emperor would publish a proclama¬ 
tion suspending mero motu the Constitution for 
two years. 
The Austrian Cabinet has been frightened 
from its propriety by tho rumor of an alliance be¬ 
tween Prussia, France and England. 
Tho Austrian Ministry, in its poverty, is cast¬ 
ing a longing eye on the va.st estates of Prince 
Czartorysky, in Galicia, and the forgery depart¬ 
ment of the Austrian Chancery is busied in con¬ 
cocting documentary evidence of a fabulous con¬ 
spiracy with which Prince Czartorysky is to be 
connected, in order that he may be robbed of his 
estates. 
Serious disturbances have broken out in Croa¬ 
tia, and three priests, who preached obedience to 
the Emperor, have been seized and hung by their 
congregations. 
A reception was held by the Emperor of Aus¬ 
tria on the 23d ult. it was remarked that not a 
single Hungarian notability attended the recep¬ 
tion. 
M. Palacky, chief of the Tschoch (or national) 
party in Bohemia, has published a protest against 
the dangers of centralisation in Austria, and rec¬ 
ommending the creation of a federal state, in 
which all the nationalities shall be represented on 
a footing of perfect equality. 
The itew Austrian constitution was solemnly 
proclaimed in the Senate House at Pesth, on the 
26th, in tlie presence of a large body of people. 
IlHSsia. 
The Globe learns from Petersbiirgh that by tlie 
proposed revision of duties upwards of 23 of the 
articles now subject to custom charges will be ad¬ 
mitted free, and some raw materials, at present 
contraband, entered for consumption at either a 
fixed or at an ad valorem Aaly, without having ac¬ 
cess to the tariff tables. 
The Globe believes it is intended to put a duty 
of £4 10s. upon the imports of wrought iron, and 
the consequence will probably be a large export 
of Russian iron to this country. That great op¬ 
position to this measure has been experienced from 
vested interest will no: excite surprise, but if the 
efforts of interested parties are sufficient to pro¬ 
cure a twelve-months’ delay in its promulgation, 
and it should not have appeared as intended on 
the 1st of the present month, there is little doubt 
of its becoming lower at some period of the ensu¬ 
ing year. 
Turkey. 
Letters from Constantinople, received at Malta, 
stated that everything was quiet in the political 
world, and that only some secondary points re¬ 
mained to be settled. 
Three thousand Hungarians have accepted am¬ 
nesty; fifteen hundred are to remain in Turkey; 
and about fifty are to be sent to Greece, providing 
that country will accept them. Constantinople is 
full of troops. Strong reinforcenients are sent to 
Varra. 
The correspondent of the London Times, un¬ 
der date of Constantinople of Dec. 19th, says;— 
A carrier has arrived here from St. Petersburg, 
with the Emperor’s answer to the last communi¬ 
cation made to his Imperial Highness by the 
Sublime Porte, with regard to tho question of the 
Polish and Hungarian Refugees. In a former let¬ 
ter 1 told you that the Turkish Ministers were will¬ 
ing to consent to the expulsion of all those Poles 
who had been concerned in the late Hungarian 
insurrection, but that objected to the expulsion of 
Polish refugees who were resident in Turkey pre¬ 
viously to that event, and who were provided with 
French or other foreign passports. The Czar has 
agreed to the terms proposed by the Porte, and 
Dembinski and the other Poles who served in 
Hungary are to be expelled, and their countrymen 
resident in Turkey who were not concerned in 
that insurrection are to remain unmolested. 
ITALY. 
TIic Itomau .States. 
The Giornale di Roma publishes a notification 
of the Previsional Municipal Commission, dated 
the 18th of December, in which it is decreed, in 
consequence of the heavy expenses caused by the 
presence of foreign troops, that the land tax shall 
bo increased by 15 centimes, except on vineyards; 
that wine, vinegar, and beer shall pay 56 centimes 
a barrel; brandy, spirits of wine, rum, and liquors 
shall pay at the rate of 5 francs a barrel; and that 
the tillee mineral waters, called Vergine, Felice, 
and Paolo, shall be subjected to double their pre¬ 
sent tax. 
The French Moniteur du Soir announces that 
the banking house of Fould and Oppenheim, of 
Paris, is about to contract a loan of 30,000,000 
francs for the Papal Government. According to 
accounts from Rome, received by way of Toulon, 
the 20lh French regiment had embarked for Al¬ 
geria, and three other regiments were about to 
return to France. 
The Pope has published a very lengthy and a 
very violent encyclical letter, in which he anath¬ 
ematises Socialism, Republicanism, and, above 
all, Protestantism, as the root from which every 
other evil tswi springs. 
The Commission of Cardinals has thrown into 
prison fifty priests, for having administered spiritual 
consolation to the wounded Republicans in the 
hospital during the seige. 
A letter from Rome, of the 30th ult., iu the 
Conslitutionnel, says.—A few nights back, simul¬ 
taneously in all the principal town of Romagna, 
the druggists’ shops were broken into and all the 
poisonous substances carried off; nothing else wm 
touched. 'Phe quantity of poison thus taken is 
sufficient to kill all the inhabitants of the Pontifi¬ 
cal Stales, and great apprehensions have been 
produced by the act. An arrest has, however, 
just been made, which may lead to a discovery of 
the parties concerned in the matter. The Advo¬ 
cate Salmi, Governor of Fesi, has been arrested 
and taken to Anconi. There were found at his 
residence an enormous packet of cockades, two 
tri-colored flags, several pairs of pocket pistols, a 
great number of poinards, three of which were 
prepared to receive poison, and lastly, a corres¬ 
pondence in cipher with the chiefs of tho Italian 
revolution. 
