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chievements, holds out promises for the future, appeals, menaces, and concludes by leaving on his hearers the desired impression that in every matter of peace or war, in the construction of a railway or the establishment of an empire, there is only one master in France, and that is Napoleon III. The English press generally find little to commend in the Emperor's recommendations. He is "bewildered." The Paris journals generally applaud the speech. The London Gazette publishes a dispatch from Earl Russell, dated October 20, addressed to the British Ambassador at St. Petersburg. It is short, and commences by stating that her Majesty's Government have no wish to prolong the correspondence with the Russian Cabinet for the mere purpose of controversy, and concludes by asserting that "the Emperor of Russia has special obligations with regard to Poland, and that the lights of Poland are contained in the same instrument which constitutes the Emperor of Russia King of Poland.
account of the principal disasters is not complete. The work of incendiaries commenced at the end of April, in the Government of Kalonea, by the destruction of fifty-four houses; next at Ok Hanska, two hundred and four houses were burnt; at Seabrook, four-fifths of the town were destroyed; at Mozir, one-half of the houses; at Mologa, more than two hundred, and at the fair of Nijui- Noogorod, fifteen hundred booths and one hundred and forty-eight houses; at Patrofsk, there were six fires in June, and entire quarters of the town were consumed. The powder magazine of Nazan and that of Okhta, near Petersburg, were blown up. At Riga, two fires occurred; the same at Tunlen, where the finest quarters of the town were consumed. At Orenburg, six hundred houses were burnt, and Baki is only a heap of ruins. Four conflagrations took place at St. Petersburg; six at Simbirsk, a town which, as well as Yaroslavi, are now in ruins. Previous to April, two imperial cannon foundries were destroyed.
Russia. amalgamation of Poland with Russia.--All the existing provincial governments are suspended, and the several administrative departments are henceforth to be only branches of the ministries at St. Petersburg. Poland is to be divided into twenty-seven departments, each of which is to be under the control of a perfect. The post of governor is to be suppressed, and the functions of this office are handed over to the chief of the civil administration and the commander of the troops. Vessels destroyed by the Shenandoah. Advices from Cape Town, in England, dated January 12, report: The Iroquois, United States corvette, has arrived here from Tristan d' Acunha, where she took on board twenty-three men of the Edward, whaler, of New Bedford, and four men of the Lizzie M. Stacey, schooner, of Boston, which had been burnt at sea by the Shenandoah, rebel cruiser, the former on the 4th of December, in latitude 38 S., longitude 12 W., the latter on the 13th of Novembe