ENGLISH NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 17, 4 December 1861, Page 5 (Supplement)

ENGLISH NEWS BY THE MAIL.

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lac Press has lately published wnat it terms '**■ Important reye/atidris, communicated from an ■■jiafchoriItative".sat\rce ? ".'itb the effect that, during the recent visit;pf' tHe King 'of Sweden, .a seerct agreement lias been come to with the Emperor Napoleon, % viriuc of" which the Finns are to be encouraged to. agitate fo,r reunion with Sweden, the Emperor, uiidertaking to assist them if necessary, with the- same cliivalric disinterestedness which .marked his intervention, in Italy. -The ■intrigues to tliis end have already commenced, for the Pays a few days since informed us that '»* the deputies ■ sent front- Finland to Stockholm, to demand its separatiou from Russia, have been arrested by the Russian authorities on a charge of treason!" Other signs arc not wanting to show that there is a growing alienation between the. Governments of Paris' and St. Petersburg. A correspondent 'of the Morning ■ Chronicle states that, iv a recent conference with Prince Gortsd.akoff, the French ambassador dropped some hints to the effect that Russia would do well-to give lip Poland, on condition of receiving territorial concessions elsewhere. The politic prince not only deigned no reply, but he affected not even to understand what was said.

fn Poland and the adjacent provinces the aspect of affairs becomes every day more gloomy ami dangerous On the 4th inst, at Wilna, there was a sanguinary collision' with the troops. At Cracow, on the 16th, perilous, demonstrations took place. At Posen, on the 12th, the agitated condition of the. town led to a temporary declaration of a state of siege. While, at Warsaw, on the, 7rh, being the anniversary of the Emperor's coro-; uiition, and consequently, an official fete^ about 100.000 persons assembled iv the different churches, to attend a funeral service for tlmPoles who died, arms in hand, in defending Warsaw against the Russian army in 1831.