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diously confounded. A son of Ney possesses a seat in the chamber of peers-the Prince de la Moskowa-as a tribute to the paternity. He yielded either to his own impulses of filial love and pride, or to the clamors of the press, and on the 19th instant passionately and at some length called the president to account for his reminiscence, and invoked the condign reprobation of the chamber. In the course of his speech he cried: "Does any one here avow participation in an act (the condemnation of his father) which the upright of all countries now stigmatize? If there be one sponsor, let him venture to rise, and I will yield him due credit, just notoriety, for the extraordinary proof of courage." Instantly, General Count de Castellane, a peer of military and political consequence, stood up: he had already claimed the tribune after the prince: a pause-much commotion-among the peers. The prince only observed that he did not know the trials which might await him in the chamber, and he then continued his main remon strance. When he had finished, de Castellane, whose father, a general, had voted Ney guilty, entered the tribune, and attempted to speak. The National's account of what passed at this stage is not exaggerated. I extract a part of it for you:

devoted to her cause, have seemed, on her account, | marshal and the infamous Lacomte had been stoto fear this new impetus to human activity, this universal contact of souls and ideas, as if a sensible deterioration of creeds and morals would inevitably result. Let me speak my whole mind on this topic. I do not share in such foreboding: of this I am profoundly convinced, that all the great discoveries which enlarge the old bounds and change the known relations between men belong primarily to the beneficent design and action of Providence, advancing as it does, at epochs marked by its wisdom, our poor humanity a step towards the goal fixed for us at the creation. The true origin of most of those discoveries is hidden in mysterious clouds of remote time: interrogate history for the name of the first inventor, and you remain without a certain response. It is God's secret. What, then, has religion, the daughter of Heaven, to dread from the works of Heaven? Can she admit that the divine author will contradict himself by exposing her to trials stronger than her divine constitution? If steam transports evil as well as good, falsehood as well as truth-if, as did the discoveries of printing and the new world, it should widen indefinitely the arena of the eternal battle between rationalism and faith-still, can we think victory doubtful? Has not God himself pledged his word -the truth of God shall remain forever: Wings are granted to the gospel, not less than to the doctrines called new. Light reaches our eyes by the same medium which the thunder and the storms wildly traverse."

We have various delineations of the new pope Pius IX., but not one quite authentic. Railroads he will admit; he clearly interprets-they say -the signs, and will gradually satisfy the exigencies of the time; his exterior corresponds to the dignity of his station and the amenity of his char

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"M. de Castellane had not ascended the steps of the tribune before there arose cries from all sides of the chamber of No, no!' The order of the day!' The president declared that M. de Castellane had received permission to speak, but numerous voices exclaimed He shall not have it.' He, however, though pale, was intrepid enough to speak. The storm increased, and raged on every bench. He opened his mouth, but the tumult extinguished his words. He made gestures, showing that he was determined to maintain the responsibility he had assumed in bravado. He was seen, but not heard. Nothing could be distin

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According to letters from Rome, the new Pope is particularly well affected to France, and imme-guished but a confused noise, such as the septuadiately manifested a predilection for the French envoy, Count Rossi-an Italian by the way, and late professor of political economy in Paris, in which department of knowledge his publications have repute. Our journals observe that the internal tranquillity of France even depends in a degree on papal action; not so much, however, as in the cases of Belgium, Poland, Spain, and Portugal. In no other community of the same numbers, has the Roman church more bitter enemies and fewer real votaries than here at Paris. The fact is that the papal power for secular objects, has materially declined over the world, and can scarcely commit very grave abuse or provoke distinct disorders in any country. The restraints of new origin and influence forbid its exorbitancy either at home or abroad. Every imperial reader of history will concede that, for many ages it was exercised more benificially in the correction of evil and the performance of good-with more moderation, mildness, reason, decorum, and refinement-than what legal or laical rule soever.

At the deliberation of the peers respecting the forms of the trial of Lacomte, the assassin, the question emerged whether he could be permitted to wear his military insignia; Duke Pasquier observed that there was a precedent in the instance of Marshal Ney, who was not allowed to appear with them on his arraignment. The duke meant no slur probably on the memory of Ney, but the remark supplied the opposition, and in particular the revolutionary journals, with a rich topic of complaint, as if the

genary vaults had never before given out. Amidst the rappings made with the paper knives upon the desks, the stamping of feet on the floor, and the vociferation of The order of the day,' three or four generals arose, and cried out in indignant terms, It is infamous!' One said, 'It is abominable!' 'Come down from the tribune!'" Enough, enough!" 'Too much!' General Roguet, who was below us, could not resist his feelings; his eye flamed as if he were in battle; his old blood was up, and his voice as if in the midst of conflicting armies. We more than once thought he would rush forward as if mounting to the assault, and make a breach in the dress of his colleague. This extraordinary scene lasted more than ten minutes; all the dignity of the chamber was lost. During this time M. Pasquier stood behind M. de Castellane, now addressing himself to him, now appearing to be struck dumb by the tremendous explosion. He endeavored to obtain silence, but all his authority was gone; the chamber would not allow any one of its members to exhibit the scandalous attempt to show any adhesion, however remote, to the infamous deed of which it had been reminded."

The general published the next day all that he intended to express; he asserted the patriotic spirit and sense of duty which actuated his father, and his own readiness to abide all responsibility. Too many of the judges of Ney remain in the Chamber; and the subject of the judicial murder grates or probes too sorely and excitingly the na

One commander in pursuit reports

that the Emir, though once a lion, is now only a fox to be tracked; another, that he was nearly caught on the first of this month. The Russians are preparing a new expedition against the moun taineers of the Caucasus. They have their Abd el-Kader in Shamil, the Imanm. The recent and pregnant debates in the British parliament are margined for you in my copies of the Times and Morning Chronicle; but you are too heavily laden to accept a fresh burden. In the recess of Congress, you may be able to admit a general survey of the session of that body, and another of the British ministerial and parliamentary history since the autumn. Permit me to direct your glance at present only to the debates in the House of Lords on the customs' bill, and on the question of bonded corn, (22d instant,) in which are various references to American production, trade, and manufactures. Note Lord Dalhousie's exposition of the tariff reform system, and the subjoined matter quoted by Lord Monteagle :

tional sensibilities to admit, as yet, of that serene | considerable was a principle of humanity; it retrospect, and that solemn rehabilitation which the caused revolt to despair; it precluded vain and marshal's descendants should one day or other de- frequent efforts at resistance; no formal incorpomand and obtain. "The Republic," remarks a ration was necessary; extensions of territory were paragraphist," murdered Louis XVI." the Em- not decreed and proclaimed, they executed and conpire, "the Duke D'Enghein; the Restoration, summated themselves. Thus lectured the philosoMichael Ney; these are three odious stains on our pher and professor; while generals, hardened in history: silence and resignation for the present the field, and eminently qualified to decide on the are preferable to outcries. The Revolution of nature and course of the war, honestly shuddered, July, thank God, is free from such abominable re- and invoked the disgust, the frowns, and the actions." The war in Algeria, however, remains shame of their brother peers. The havoc made and expands on the escutcheon of the July gov- with the rights, morals, and lives of the poor naernment; its horrors are so uniform and familiar, tives of Tahiti might also beget some shame and and so obscured, indeed, by national foibles and compunction. Marshal Bugeaud, in a late propassions, that they are seen and felt by compara- clamation, reckons the number of Arabs, prisoners tively few of any class of Frenchmen. In the in France, at four or five thousand. In the official chamber of peers, yesterday afternoon, the bill of bulletins, Abd-el-Kader is styled l'insaisable, the appropriations for Algeria induced a discussion of unseizable. the case, highly creditable to some of the orators. Count Boissy, d'Anglas, General de Castellane, General de Cubieres, Baron Merilhou, denounced the fell razzias and the whole character and result of the hostilities. The first said: "Must the French nation, that was wont to protect the weak from the strong and practise magnanimity in the use of its superior might, must she, now, changed from her former self, under the sad influences of the policy of July, pursue, with fire and sword, the very same tribes to whom she proclaimed, when she reduced the city of Algiers, that she came not to conquer them, but to deliver them from the tyrants by whom they were oppressed." The second, de Castellane, said: "The razzias are a terrible and barbarous means: they cast immorality into the heart of the soldier; he fights and ravages on his own account; his officers are unable to restrain him in the multitude of enormities which he perpetrates before their eyes. If we had, with this system, two hundred instead of our present one hundred thousand troops, they would perish alike in the same gulf." He advised a Viceroyalty in Algeria, in the person of one of the king's sons. Merilhou instituted a comparison or contrast between the processes of colonization and territorial acquisition in the United States and those in Algeria, vastly to the advantage of American legislation and practice. He recommended the formal incorporation of the conquest with France, that civil policy and guaranties might prevail. The Marquis de la Place contended that the French generals and troops were right and glorious in all their measures; that the hundred millions of francs spent annually, and the one hundred thousand men kept in Algeria, were matters of congratulation; they corrected the effects of a thirty years' peace on the French martial nature; he admired the patience, the forbearance of the army, considering the acts and dispositions of the Arabs! Villemain, the celebrated author and exminister of public instruction, handled the theme like a rival orator to the poet Lamartine, whose eloquent reprobation of the war I have already reported. Villemain regretted the late risings of the Arabs, but the repression of them fortified French domination. It was quite and specially providential that there was an Algeria so near to France, nearer than Carthage was to Rome, where France could soon found and accomplish what Roman energies and legions achieved only in the course of centuries. Any system must be good that consolidated French rule on the African soil: France must be powerful for the sake of humanity and civilization; the employment of military forces so

"The evidence of Messrs. Ashworth and Greg, two eminent manufacturers examined in the committee of their lordships' house up-stairs, fully explained the views entertained by the manufacturing interests of this country with respect to the effects of competition. That of Mr. Ashworth was as follows:

"Do the Americans run you hard? Yes. In many places they beat us. I believe in almost all parts of South America and the Brazils.

"Do you not think that if the protecting duty were taken off, you would be exposed to their competition seriously in our colonies? I do not know, nor do I care for that. I do not anticipate any injurious competition, or that the American people will ever become exporters of manufactures to an extent to do us serious harm. We are not afraid of them in any market in the world. We have nothing in our skill, we have nothing in our position or manufacture, to make us afraid of any country. We have railways, we have canals, we have river navigation, we have coal, we have iron, we have skill and industry; in fact we have every element to make cheap goods, and we rather challenge competition than otherwise."

The evidence of Mr. Greg was to the same purport:

"In coarse goods, from her water powers and the raw material, America has great natural advantages. She will beat us on her own soil; she will beat us on common ground, and probably will beat us in our own markets. But, when capital, skill, and labor come into large operation, as they do in the finer descriptions of goods, then we

shall beat America in this country, and in every | September next at Marseilles. Among the themes common country in the world, and, if she opens propounded is this: "Had not Dante once the her ports, in her own markets likewise. I think idea of composing the Divine comedy in Roman America and this country, will both be benefited Provençal?" Thank God, he did not pursue the by the exchange; we shall get a larger proportion notion-without meaning to disparage that dialect of coarse goods, and she will get a larger propor- or its poets. tion of fine goods; both will be able to get a larger proportion of what they want. Yet these gentlemen had been held up as authorities to show that the English manufacturers, under a system of free trade, would be beaten by the foreigners. Could there be a more extraordinary misapplication of evidence? [Hear, hear.]"

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PARIS, July 2, 1846.

Reinaud, of the Institute, has translated from the Arabic, and published in two small volumes, authentic and curious Arab and Persian travels in China in the ninth century. The Anthropology of Bossu-the Influence of the Passions on the Economical Order of Communities, by VilleneuveBargemont; Béchard's Abuse of Centralization in France; the Penitentiary System, by Dr. Fourcault; the Treatise of Medical Nosography, five octavos, by Bouillaud; the fourth and last volume of Pictet's Paleonthology; the second royal octavo of the principal French Political Economists of the Eighteenth Century; the Report of the Royal Academy of Medicine on the Plague and Quarantines, large octavo; Baron Henrion's General History of the Catholic Missions, are among the new French publications, for the value of which I could undertake to vouch.

Louis Blanc, author of the History of the Gov

La Revue des Deux Mondes, issued on the first instant, contains no political article of significance, but much interesting literary matter. According to its political chronicle at the end, the AngloSaxon race in our Union is destined to become a small minority of the population; the French in the South, the Irish spread every where, and hating the native Americans," and the immense German emigration will absorb that race. Then will come the Mexican generations to cross the breed again; yet" the fusion of the various Euro-vernment of July, which has passed through many pean nationalities is a singular-admirable fact," by which Providence must intend some glorious issue. If there be anything really wonderful, it is the assimilation of all the nationalities to the American type; the final predominance of the Anglo-Saxon nature, by which we see the formation of a national American spirit and unity beyond the mountains, upon which we may rely more than on the motley semi-foreign character of the seaboard. In the chronicle of the preceding number of the Review the military means and prowess of the United States are invidiously belittled, and they are cautioned against attempting to establish themselves now in California, lest they should not prove able to maintain their foothold against Europe.

A French traveller has contributed to La Revue thirty-two curious and engaging pages on the women and the slave-market of Grand Cairo. Whoever would learn what the bondage and general condition of the Fellahs, and what the government of Mehemet and Ibrahim are, must consult the new volume (Egypt in 1845) of Schoelcher, the philanthropist, who travelled to the East in order to determine whether there existed a slavery worse than that of the negroes in the western world. You shall have from me some account of its details and conclusions.

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Honor seems to me due from all Americans to an octavo in French, beautifully printed, which I have just received from Brussels, with the title Enquiries into the Situation of Emigrants to the United States of America," by Baron A. S. Ponthoz, first secretary of the Belgian legation at Washington. A notice of this fair, sensible, authoritative work, the fruit of personal investigation in an extensive well-chosen tour, and of truly humane and patriotic dispositions, which I read in a Belgian journal, induced me to enter the title some weeks ago in my memorandum-book. It entirely corresponds in modest desert and pertinent usefulness to the expectations which that favorable notice raised. It is not often that the leisure of diplomatic secretaries is so happily employed. Mr. Brantz Mayer set a good exampie in his Mexico.

A congress of savans is to be held on the is

editions, has in the press a History of the French Revolution, in ten volumes, to supersede or rival that of Mr. Thiers, of whom, certainly he does not fall very short in capacity or vogue. We have an octavo, entitled Oregon, a geographical, satistical, and political survey, with a map of the Pacific coasts, by Mr. Fedix, who explored British archives. It is quite a handsome volume-rather late. A few days ago the two extant volumes of the Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Dietionary of Spain, by Don Pascual Madoz, came within my ken at Baudry's establishment. The author is a distinguished man of letters and politician; the volumes (in Spanish) sustain the old renown of Madrid for beautiful typography.

The British ambassador, Lord Cowley, has just returned to this capital from a visit to London. His errand-according to the French press-was to vote for Sir Robert Peel's grand measure, and to consult with Lord Aberdeen, after conferences with Mr. Guizot, on the policy of Europe in regard to your Mexican war. The Paris Siècle of yester day says: "Lord Aberdeen has returned to Paris to involve the French cabinet in a joint mediation. If this be refused, England will submit to the annexation of California, and perhaps of Yucatan, as she did to that of Texas." Some of our journalists decide that the necessity or extreme expedi ency of the incorporation of Texas is demonstrable by the very Mexican war and the Oregon settlement. The propositions of war made by the Mexican cabinet to their congress; the hostile proclamations of Mexican presidents and generals; the formation and march of invading armies; the attacks by the Mexicans on the Rio Grande--are all cited here, as complete exoneration of the Washington government from the charge of aggression. It is wondered how the British editors can venture to prefer this charge, immediately after their vindication of the government of British India in the case of the Sikh conflict, there being a singular parity of alleged circumstances. A journalist adds that the United States are so strong and advantageously situated that they may resolve to settle their own affairs on the American continent, without ever admitting or undergoing European mediation.

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Conformably to arrangements between the late pope and Czar Nicholas, the status of the Catholics in Russia is to be satisfactorily determined and secured. The Czar has appointed a committee, at St. Petersburg, to investigate their grievances, rights, and general situation; and one of the members is a Catholic. Nesselrode is the chairman; which is thought of the best augury. O'Connell may lose one of his favorite topics of invective against Nicholas.

from him letters which indicated confidence in the accomplishment of new labors in philology, the branch of science in which Europe could hardly signalize a superior to a Pickering, within her numberless circles of learning and authorship.

The ministry here have refused to license formally and entirely the new society or free-trade league; but they allow it to organize itself and transact business, provisionally. It would be recognized, were not the elections so near at hand. It has an able temporary bureau or committee, consisting of eminent savans, peers, deputies; pro- The main paper of the latest bulletin of the fessors and authors in political economy. Paris Geographical Society is the report of the It is noted that Ibrahim Pacha receded from a distinguished committee of five, on the annual tour in Ireland, when he had got to Belfast, not-prize for the most important discovery in geograwithstanding O'Connell's fond interview with him phy. The committee restrict themselves to the of three quarters of an hour. The Liberator's enterprises and labors executed or terminated in antipathy to slaveholding disappeared in this in- 1843. They record several very useful expeditions and works. A liberal paragraph is bestowed on Lieutenant Fremont's performances, and Mr. Jonah Gregg's excursions are described. Nor is Mr. Thomas Falconer forgotten. Particular mention is made of Schomburgk's exploratory travels in British Guiana; M. de Wrede's and those of Captain Haines in Arabia; Don J. de Garay's examination of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec; and of the travels of Theophilus Lefebre and Dr. Beke in Abyssinia, between whom the annual prize of the academy is divided. In the beginning Don Henry, the candidate the most popular in of the seventeenth century the Portuguese had Spain for Queen Isabel's hand, has just dined at great influence and considerable factories in Abys the Tuileries, after formal presentation by Marti- sinia. There existed then a great number of nez de la Rosa, the Gallico-Spanish representative. Christian churches, dating from the fourth century. Don Henry is regarded as passing under the scru- Their creed was, in substance, the Roman Cathotiny of Louis Philippe-the Neapolitan match lic, with some difference of rites akin to those of having become forlorn. We have another lion in the Duke of Soto-Mayor, ambassador for England, on furlough, son of the late Marquis of Casa Yrujo, and grandson of the late Governor McKean, of Pennsylvania. When his respectable uncle, of that state, a few months ago, called on him in London, he threw his arms about the relative's neck, and reminded him endearingly of the sports of his childhood in Philadelphia.

The public schools maintained by the state, the departments, and the townships in France are more than forty-two thousand. There are seventeen thousand private schools. The aggregate of pupils is about three millions. The budget for primary education is nearly two and a half millions of francs.

Both chambers have agreed to the appropriation of three hundred thousand francs for the publication, under ministerial auspices, of the work of Botta and Flandin, on the remains discovered on the site of the ancient Nineveh. It was reported, and chiefly advocated in the chamber of deputies, by the Jewish deputy and lawyer, Cremieux, who said: "Luckily, this is a matter of rivalry between France and England; British consuls and artists have been digging, and are preparing a similar work you cannot refuse." The argument prevailed at once.

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I know not to whom I am beholden for the sketch of the Life, Character, and Writings of the late John Pickering, of Salem, contained in the Boston Daily Advertiser of the 10th June. For me it was both welcome and melancholy; I honored the whole being of Mr. Pickering, and my duty will not be fulfilled until the sketch has passed into the hands of some member of the French Institute, by whom it may be used for that body. America possessed few such scholars; his productions and name are of high repute and authority in this meridian. The learned world that appreciated the savant should know what the man was-how worthy of equal esteem and regret. It is only a few months since I received

the Greek church. The same religion subsists in a certain number of towns and other inhabited places; it is held sacred so far as to render them inviolable.

Mr. Rochet is thanked for having brought from the kingdom of Choa a considerable quantity of the plant Brayera anthelmintica, which most efficaciously expels the tape-worm. At Montpellier, Toulon, and even in Paris, the tea-plant has prospered, to the delight of the Royal Society of Agriculture. The traveller Hellert's accounts of the geography of the Isthmus of Darien are commemorated as precious and exact. A member of the French mission to China contributes to this bulletin a minute description of the island of Basilan, the largest of the Solo or Holo groupe, and he represents it to be superior in soil, climate, products, and commercial facilities to any other of the Archipelago. The London Morning Chronicle of the 26th ultimo dwells on the value, for Great Britain, of the island of Labuan, as a naval station or harbor of refuge. You may accept the first paragraph of the Chronicle's article of alarm:

"Events appear at length to be assuming a character in the Indian Archipelago which must command the attention of the British government. Every maritime power is actively at work there but ourselves. The Americans, hitherto, may perhaps be said to be only on the look-out; but the Dutch, whose position gives them many advantages, are proceeding with the utmost vigor and energy to appropriate to themselves all the commanding points, whether for commerce or for political influence. Their projected expedition against Bali will, if successful, give them an undoubted ascendency over a rich and fertile island, containing at least one million of inhabitants, and supplying the materials of a most lucrative trade. Other encroachments, still further east, are secretly contemplated by them-we mean against the native chiefs, who have neither injured nor molested them."

Viscount Victor Hugo pronounced a magnilo- mission of Mr. Hood for a compromise. The quent exhortation to the government to endeavor crops of every description in France are likely to at once to repair and arrest the ravages of the seas be excellent. Nothing fresh from the new pope. on the French coasts, especially northward and in Portugal a chaos; Spain, volcanic; Germany, the channel. They are changing, with grievous progressive; Poland, subdued; Switzerland, disdamage, the whole configuration. Banks, houses, tracted; Italy, quiet, though malcontent. Sir villages are washed away. Here and there a Robert Peel has left an arduous programme for his lonely church shows only the steeple and upper successors. windows. From the mouth of the Somme to that of the Seine, the devastation is dreadful. Havre THE case of Count Léon against the Countess and other ports, Dieppe above all, may soon be de Luxbourg was heard again by the civil tribunal ruinously invaded. The fishermen are driven off. of the Seine. The circumstances of this case A peer wished to know how the Mediterranean must be fresh in the memory of most of our readcould be prevented from receding, as it does, from ers. It may not be amiss, however, to briefly the French shores; as the ocean from Newfound-retrace some of the leading points. Count Léon land. Within the ten years past the French gov- is the reputed son of Napoleon by the Countess de ernment has appropriated about a hundred and Luxbourg, formerly Mme. Denuelle de la Plaigne. fifty-six millions of francs to the improvement He was provided for and educated by direction of (amelioration) of the maritime ports. the late emperor, and a considerable sum of money Of the proceedings on Thursday, the most inter- was invested to create an annual income for his esting part was, first, a harangue of one of the support. The count, having expended his probureaus of the Free Trade Society, on the wisdom perty, applied to his reputed mother for the means of a revision and modification of the French tariffs, of subsistence, and, not meeting with success, he in which I mark these sentences: "Remember the brought an action against her to compel her to admirable preambles to the ordinances of our kings allow him 6,000fr. annually. This has been reon liberty of trade in grain. That of 1774, which sisted chiefly on the ground that there was no embraces all the elements of the great doctrines of proof of his being the son of the countess. The Adam Smith, preceded by two years the first pub-count, therefore, has since brought forward a numlication of his work, the Wealth of Nations, that has served as a text for the repeal of the British corn laws. Gentlemen, let us restore to our country what belongs to her; let no one of her glories expire by non-assertion." The other important contribution to the debate was from the Baron de Bourgoing, Minister of France for one of the German kingdoms, who related how the troops for the suppression of the Polish insurgents were sent by the railroads, proving the facility of conveying any number of all arms, with the utmost despatch. Seven hundred infantry were placed in twentythree cars in five minutes, and travelled six leagues

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her of documents to show that he is the son of Napoleon, and that the Countess de Luxbourg is really his mother. Amongst the papers produced by M. Crémieux, his counsel, was a letter written to the count in 1845, by the Prince Canino, brother of the Emperor Napoleon, in which he speaks of the count as his relation, with an enclosure, being a letter of recommendation from the prince to a female cousin, in which he calls the count his nephew. The court declared that the defendant was the mother of the plaintiff, and adjudged her to make him a provision of 4,000fr. pendente lite, reserving the question of 6,000fr. per annum demanded by the count.

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THE Coronation of Oscar I. and his consort Eogenia, daughter of Prince Eugene de Beauharnais, as King and Queen of Norway, is fixed to be held on the 15th October next, on which occasion the Storthing will be convoked.

THE Minister of the Marine, convinced of the Enclosed are eight pages, de omnibus rebus, writ-advantages of the galvanization of iron, has ordered ten at Versailles, yesterday and the day before, in a 20-gun brig and another vessel, now being built my early morning leisure. At this moment the of iron at Brest, to be subjected to this process. weather is too hot for the preparation of a formal A LETTER from Vienna states that M. Negrelli, epistle. What remains in my note-book of his inspector-in-chief of railways, was to set out torical and political interest you shall have by the few days to examine the line marked down by the steamer of the 19th instant. Let me offer you the engineer for the Great Gallician Railway, which is compliments of the glorious anniversary. Our country has never had stronger motive or ampler be about 350 English miles. to be commenced in the spring. Its length is to reason to rejoice in its independence and growth. The Americans in this capital are, I believe, all satisfied with the terms of the Oregon convention. The Paris writers decide that our government has achieved, on the whole, a capital bargain. All the London organs profess to be more or less content. The Paris papers of this morning furnish no comments on American matters. I must except the Siècle, which repeats that Lord Cowley returned in all haste from London to arrange a joint mediation in behalf of Mexico. As Russia has considerable interests on the Pacific coast, she is solicited to unite in guarantying the Mexican territory. If the Czar should consent, Mr. Guizot will adhere, and the three powers then proclaim a European concert for the maintenance of the American equipoise. No disquisition yet in the THE France says: "We are able to state that, Debats on the Oregon adjustment. The British in September next, there will be a meeting of the and French cabinets are understood to have grown three sovereigns of Russia, Prussia, and Austria, sick of the La Plata mediation, and to rely on the]at Vienna.”

THE quarantine question will be seriously discussed among the other important inquiries to be entered upon at the meeting of the Scientific Congress of Italy.

THE Chambers of Commerce are about to be called upon to examine the propriety and advantages of establishing a French factory at Canton, with branch offices of agency at Macao, Manilla, and Java.

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