POSTSCRIPT.
FRANCE.
THE Paris correspondent of the Globe states :
"The Commissioners charged with regulating the ultimate settle-
ment of Mexican liabilities for France is de Saligny ; while Spain nominates, in the person of Don Jose Quali y Rente, a personage known to be free from any sympathies with Miramon or his party, and a thorough Liberal—an appointment which goes far to dissipate the apprehension that the entry of Spanish troops on the territory would be merely a reactionary movement for the restoration of the old abuses, against which the country had been struggling for near a quarter of a century." He also gives the following important intelligence from Russia: " In addition to Russia's troubles about her serfs, her University of Petersburg, and her Polish recalcitrants, there is on foot an agita- tion not only in her Baltic provinces of Finland, at Helsingfors, Abo, Vasa, Wiborg, &c. &c., but all along the coast of Courland, Livonia, and Esthonia—German-speaking provinces, full of commercial spirit, rich in agriculture, and far more advanced than Muscovy proper in all that involves civilization. At Revel, at Riga, and Mittau, the de- mand for constitutional privileges and provincial assemblies is rife ; and a letter from Stockholm, Oct. 24, in the Frankfort Journal, de- scribes the movement as progressive. It was the mad Czar Paul I. who abolished these local immunities, and the present Russian Go- vernor, Italiski Saawarrow, has reported on the necessity of restoring them."
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