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There is a report that gold has been found in the Waterkloof; from whence, it is said, an officer has sent down a specimen of sand or soil containing particles of the precious metal. Some excitement had been raised; but the story is unconfirmed. The report of the Committee appointed by the Lieutenant-Governor to examine the indications of the alleged deposits of coal near Cape Town has decided against the existence of the deposits.

The advices from Canada state that the Provincial Assembly after a very warm debate, which lasted four days, adopted the address to the Queen, asking for power to distribute the clergy reserved lands. Mr. Young, the Commissioner of the Board of Public Works, has resigned in consequence of the government having resolved to put on American vessels passing the Welland Canal the same tolls as are paid by British vessels passing both the Welland and St. Lawrence canals, and to restore the differential duties against direct American trade by placing higher duties on goods coming that way than on those coming by the St. Lawrence. Mr. Hincks, in behalf of the remaining members of the cabinet, explained to the Assembly that the object of the new policy was to induce the United States to grant reciprocity.

In the Canadian Legislative Assembly an important bill has been read a second time for the modification of the usury laws. The object of the bill is to destroy penalties for usury, but only to allow the present legal rate of 6 per cent., to be recovered by law. Almost the entire voice of the representatives from Upper Canada was in its favour, but it was strongly opposed by the French Canadians, who consider usury a crime. The resolutions of the government for making the Legislasive Council elective have been discussed by the house, but no vote has yet been taken upon them. Much exception was taken to the details of the ministerial scheme, but all sides of the house, and marvellous to relate, even the Tories admitted that the principle of election would have to be applied to the second branch of our legislature. The proposed change is a very vital one, and the sentiments expressed upon it show how rapid has been the progress of political ideas in this province.

The parliament of the Ionian Islands was prorogued by Sir Henry Ward on the 15th of September, to the 1st of March, 1854; on the ground that the members had refused to enable him to establish measures of moderate constitutional reform. In dismissing the parliament, the Governor threatened to use his extraordinary powers "without scruple."

The news from the Australian Gold-Diggings continues to be favourable. The number of ounces of gold brought by the weekly escort from Mount Alexander into Melbourne during the last week in July was 100,000; and it was estimated that a million sterling of unemployed money was in the hands of labourers. As labour in Victoria is said to be too dear for sheepshearing, the sheep were to be slaughtered to supply the diggers with mutton. The monthly escort from Mount Alexander to Adelaide has been established; and the assay-office in Adelaide has got into working order. The total amount deposited in the office to the 25th of June exceeded 550,000l. Stocks are reported as being low, and money was finding an investment on land. A proclamation from the Lieutenant-Governor prorogued the Legislative Council of South Australia from the 1st of July to the 1st of September.

PROGRESS OF EMIGRATION AND COLONISATION. Mrs. Chisholm is assiduously engaged in holding Group Meetings for the promotion of Family Emigration in different quarters of the metropolis. One of them, held in Spicer-street Chapel, Spitalfields, on the 15th inst., was attended by a large assemblage of persons belonging chiefly to the classes of clerks and governesses to whom she especially directed an address replete with sound and practical advice. One portion of it, relating to herself personally, was peculiarly interesting:

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"I am," she said, "going, next year, to return to the colony. where all must feel that it is necessary to make preparations for females on their arrival, and, when that is done, thousands of parents will gladly send their daughters to Australia. It is to meet, in some degree, this difficulty, that I am going out in June next. I hope that many young girls will by that time be able to wash their own caps and frills for the first time. They must learn to make puddings and pies, and toss their own beds; and when they can do these things, all that is necessary to be done in a house, they will be fit for Australia. It seems that a greater number of situations are offering in Australia for clerks and book-keepers who understand double entry. There is, therefore, a better prospect of obtaining what are called light employments in the colony. Emigration was expected to do a great deal of harm; but I find it has done good to everybody. I find that the 'poor' curates, as we call them, are to have their salaries increased in Australia. You know that there is always a difficulty in finding one's relations and friends in Australia. During the time I was there, I kept a registry of every person with whom I had any connexion. I have that registry here, so that I may so far be of use to those who wish to know where their friends are. have remittances mentioned in this paper to the amount of here this evening, will be shortly leaving me for Australia. 30007. for the conveyance of 474 persons. My son, who is He is going there to earn his bread, but I have a claim on him, and his father has a still greater claim on him. For a time we want his help-that is to say, his leisure hours-and if young men would only employ their leisure hours in something useful, it would keep them from a great deal of temptation. He is for the purpose of being a link of communication between going to the diggings, not for the purpose of digging gold, but Captain Chisholm in Melbourne and myself in this country, with the view of finding out the relations of persons here. His occupation to-day has been to see wives, in order to get from them a description of their husbands. And his particular office, when he gets to the diggings, will be to look after the shufflers,' as those men are called in New South Wales who in any way neglect their wives. Many make an excuse by saying that they cannot write, but my sou will write for them, so that excuse will no longer do. Men may say I would send for you, but I feared the danger of the sea voyage, with nobody to protect you on the passage; but I will take as many wives as are sent for, and those husbands who do not send for their wives will see me every week at the diggings till they do. I know many wives might have gone with their husbands if they had not listened to the advice of some foolish friend or relative who suggested to them that it would be better for the man to go in the first instance. That is bad advice, for I know, when it comes to emigration and the bush, man has not half the energy in the colonies, no matter whether they have been 'sent out' at of woman. If any persons are anxious to hear of their relatives her Majesty's expense or not, they have only to give me the name of the party, and if I do not find him out it will be a strange thing to me. I am certain that 90 out of every 100 persons would be glad to assist their friends to go out, if they knew they were anxious to do so; but no man who lived in Australia was willing to undertake the responsibility of advising others to emigrate. If you give me the name of your friends I will send it to my husband, who will find them out, and they will no doubt send for you. They have no way of spending their money. One poor person told me she had nine silk dresses, but they were of no use to her, because somebody else got them enjoy her wealth because she had no poor persons to give it to. cut from the same piece; and another told me she could not enjoy her wealth because she had no poor persons to give it to. I can assure you I shall spare no pains or trouble till I bring about that happy re-union of families for which I feel the greatest interest."

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The Canterbury Association ceased its colonising functions and its land sales in this country on the 30th of September. The circumstances which have led to this result are stated to be:-first, a mis-understanding with her Majesty's government; and, secondly, with the directors of the New Zealand Company, to whom the association is largely indebted. The committee of the Canterbury Association, feeling themselves placed in a difficult position, have endeavoured to transfer their functions to the colonial legislature. Her Majesty's government, however, have refused to allow this, without a settlement of the claims of the Crown and the New Zealand Company on the funds of the association. The demands made are considered by the Canterbury Association to be unjust, and there appears at present no hope of terminating the dispute, except by the most summary proceedings on the part of her Majesty's government, or an action at common law between the company and the association. The correspondence between the Canterbury Association and the Colonial Secretary has been published, from which it appears that the government has refused to comply with the proposals of the committee of management, and that all friendly negociations are at an end.

The "New York Daily Times" of the 30th ult., alluding to the Immigration from Europe, says—

"On Thursday and Friday of last week 6832 foreign emigrants landed on our shores, and since that time 7321 more have arrived, making an addition, within lest than one week, of 14,153 persons to the population of this city by emigration alone; and this process is going on from week to week, from month to month, and from year to year. Can the history of modern times show anything like it? Has there ever before been a time when whole cities were emptied upon our wharfs in a single week-when ships within a fortnight brought more people among us than cities of half a century's growth contain?" During the last month sixty-two ships under government control sailed from Liverpool to Australia, carrying no fewer than 23,280 passengers, including 1770 from the emigration depot at Birkenhead. The parochial authorities of Liverpool are using exertions to obtain a voluntary rate for the purpose of aiding

deserving paupers to emigrate to the antipodes. They have recently availed themselves of a balance of an old voluntary rate for this purpose. Last week, they succeeded in sending away twenty hearty young girls, by the Catherine Mitchell. Before the vessel left the river, ten of them had been engaged as servants by families on board.

Emigration from the Western Islands is proceeding at a rapid rate under the auspices of the Highland and Island Emigration Society. Last week 400 people arrived in Glasgow, en route for Birkenhead government depot, whence they will be shipped to Australia. The greater number were from Skye; but a group of thirty-six, formed of eight families, was from the rocky and remote St. Kilda-the first emigrants thence. Already two thousand persons have quitted Skye, by means of the Emigration Society.

NARRATIVE OF FOREIGN EVENTS.

THE French journals have been filled with official accounts (no others being 'permitted) of the PrincePresident's progress through the Southern Departments. These accounts are a monotonous repetition of triumphal entries, pageants, banquets, addresses, and displays of unbounded public enthusiasm. We find among them, however, a few remarkable and characteristic traits.

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While the President was on his way to Avignon, an "infernal machine was seized by the police at Marseilles, on the night of the 23rd ult. The Moniteur gave the following account of the affair :

"The Minister of General Police has for some time past been on the trace of a secret society, of which the object became every day more manifest. The members had resolved to make an attempt on the life of the President. The city of Marseilles had been chosen for the execution of the plot. M. Sylvain Blot, Inspector-General of the Ministry of Police, carefully followed its development and progress. The construction of an infernal machine having been resolved on, several of the members set to work, and the machine was quickly completed. It is composed of 250 gun-barrels, and four large blunderbuss-barrels, the entire divided into twenty-eight compartments. Those twenty-eight pieces were for greater precaution deposited in twenty-eight different places until the moment a suitable place could be found to fix and put the machine together. The conspirators then occupied themselves with the choice of a situation, which should naturally be situate on the passage of the Prince Fresident. They first fixed their choice on a first story in a house in the Rue d'Aix, whither they were to remove and raise the machine on the night previous to that in which the President was to arrive at Marseilles. Some suspicions which were excited in the minds of the conspirators caused them to change their idea, and a second locality was chosen. Like the first, it was situate on the passage of the President, being on the high-road from Aix. An entire house was hired. It is a small house, composed of two stories, with two windows in front. The infernal machine was to have been placed on the first floor. It was seized on that spot. At the same moment, one of the conspirators was in the very house in which the infernal machine was found. The others were in their houses, or in the different places where the police were assured of their presence."

There is considerable scepticism as to the truth of this story, which is suspected to Be a device to excite popular enthusiasm. The official accounts describe the President's reception at Marseilles as magnificent. But an English eye-witness, writing in the Times, gives a very different picture :—

"I was stationed, at the time of his arrival, on the Place St. Ferreol, a good-sized square, close to the Prefecture, where he was to alight. The square had been very handsomely decorated, and turned into a parterre of flowers, surrounded on all sides by a compact mass of soldiers; admittance within the square being given by tickets, which were only granted to persons of known character and respectability. My chief object in going thither was to ascertain, from personal observation, the manner in which Louis Napoleon was received. I watched the populace, both within and without the square, very closely and attentively; and I can assure you that there was not any expression of feeling in his favour; with the exception of a few, very few and feeble, cries of 'Vive Napoléon!' a sullen and significant silence sat upon the multitude. The troops did not utter a single cry. The President looked most wretched, haggard, and careworn."

The President left Marseilles for Toulon, accom

The squadron saluted Toulon and its roadstead

panied by a strong fleet of war-steamers and men-of-war,
on the 27th. We are told that "the crews of the
vessels raised one sole cry of Vive l'Empereur!' and
the whole town responded.
with its thousand cannon.
presented a spectacle as imposing as magnificent."
Returning from Toulon to Marseilles on the 29th,
President Bonaparte set out at once for Aix; passing
through Rognac and Septemes. He arrived at Aix
about four o'clock in the afternoon, escorted by soldiers,
generals, prefects, and an army of official persons. Aix
was formerly the capital of King René, father of Margaret
of Anjou, and the head-quarters of the troubadours.
King René, whose mind ran on such things, invented
and established a fête called "la Fête Dieu," repre-
senting the triumph of Christianity over Paganism.
This famous celebration was suppressed by the Conven-
tion ;
revived in 1803 and in 1807. Associated with the
history of the Empire, the authorities of Provence thought
fit to revive it onthe occasion of the visit of the inchoate
Emperor. Accordingly, the old mummeries were got up
afresh; and when M. Bonaparte entered Aix, an his-
trionic procession, comprising King Herod and Jupiter,
the Queen of Sheba and Venus, the three Magi and the
three Zephyrs, besides hosts of forgotten personages,
angels, demons, bishops, and others, danced round the
imperial carriage to the music of flutes and tambourines.
This strange performance was followed by an address
from the mayor, and a gracious but insignificant reply
from M. Bonaparte. An address presented to the Pre-
sident by the Mayor of a commune in the department of
the Hérault, is a parody on the Lord's Prayer :—

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Our Prince-You, who are in power by right of birth and by the acclamation of the people, your name is everywhere glorified. May your reign come, and be perpetuated by the immediate acceptance of the imperial crown of the great Napoleon. May your firm and wise will be done in France, as abroad. Give us this day our daily bread, by reducing progressively the customsduty, so as to permit the entry of articles which are necessary to us, as also the exportation of what is superfluous. Pardon us our offences, when you shall be certain of our repentance and that we become better. Do not permit us to yield to the temptation of cupidity and place-hunting, but deliver us from evilthat is to say, from secret societies, from vicious teaching, fron the excesses of the press, from elections of every kind; and continue to make it more and more a matter of honour, the practice of morality and of religion, respect for authority, agriculture, and industry, the love of order and of labour. Amen.'

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At La Teste, a deputation of young girls was introduced to the President by the mayor of the town. They were all dressed in white, and wore the high cap of their district. They carried in neatly-woven baskets the products of their part of France-namely, fish, oysters, shells from the basin of Arcachon, fruit, honey, and One of them, Mademoiselle Monpermey, ears of rice. presented the following address:

"Monseigneur,-Allow us to offer to your Imperial Highness, in the name of the maritime and labouring population of La Teste, with the expression of our unalterable devotedness, this slight tribute of our Landes, and of the beautiful basin of Arcachon, which one day attracted the attention of the Emperor, and which our country would have been so proud to show you.

said:

The Prince was pleased to accept the offering, and "You are yourself, Mademoiselle, the fairest product of the country. I thank you for your gracious attention." He then spoke for some time to the young visitors, and asked a number of questions concerning the articles which they brought, saying something kind to each. The fair deputation had already withdrawn, when the Prince had the Mayor and Mademoiselle Monpermey called back, and then went himself into his bedroom for a magnificent brooch, which he presented toj the latter as a remembrance. Monseigneur," said the young girl, visibly moved, "I had no need of this jewel to cause me to remember you, for your image will always remain engraven on my heart." The Mayor of Sèvres has published an address to the inhabitants, calling upon them to sign a proclamation of the Empire, which, he informs them, is lying at the Mairie for that purpose. The civic magistrate's address is a gross mockery of religion:

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Certain minds seem to entertain a dread of war; certain persons
say, the Empire is only war. But I say, the Empire is peace;
tranquil. ["These words," according to the published report,
for France desires it, and when France is satisfied, the world is
"uttered in a firm voice, and with strong emphasis," produced a
magical effect: enthusiastic bravos were heard from all sides.]
Glory descends by inheritance, but not war. Did the Princes
who justly felt pride that they were the grandchildren of Louis
War is not made for pleasure,
XIV. recommence his wars?
but through necessity; and at this epoch of transition, where by
the side of so many elements of prosperity spring so many
causes of death, we may truly say, woe be to him who gives the
first signal to a collision, the consequences of which would be
incalculable. I confess, however, that, like the Emperor, I have
many conquests to make. I wish, like him, to conquer by con-
ciliation, all hostile parties, and to bring into the grand popular
out profit to any one. I wish to restore to religion, morality, and
opulence, that still numerous part of the population, which,
though in the bosom of the most fertile country in the world,
can scarcely obtain the common necessaries of life. We have
immense waste territories to cultivate, roads to open, ports to dig,
rivers to render navigable, a system of railroads to complete;
assimilate to France; we have to bring all our great Western
we have opposite to Marseilles a vast kingdom, which we must
Ports into connexion with the American continent, by a rapidity
of communication which we still want; lastly, we have ruins to
restore, false gods to overthrow, and truths to be made triumph-
ant. This is the sense which I attach to the Empire, if the
Empire is to be restored. Such are the conquests which I con-
template; and all you, who surround me, and who, like me,
desire your country's welfare-you are my soldiers."

current those hostile streams which now lose themselves with

This speech has been printed and extensively circulated by the government. 50,000 copies have been ordered to be distributed among the miners of the basin of the Loire.

"Inhabitants," he says, "Paris, the heart of France, acclaimed on the 10th of May for its Emperor him whose divine mission is every day revealed in such a striking and dazzling manner. At this moment it is the whole of France electrified which At this moment it is the whole of France electrified which salutes her saviour, the elect of God, by this new title, which clothes him with sovereign power. 'God wills it,' is repeated with one voice-vox populi vox Dei. It is the marriage of France with the envoy of God which is contracted in the face of the universe, under the auspices of all the constituted bodies, and of all the people. That union is sanctified by all the ministers of religion, and by all the Princes of the Church. These addresses, these petitions, and these speeches, which are at this moment being exchanged between the Chief of the State and France are the documents connected with that holy union; every one wishes to sign them, as at the church he would sign the The President returned to Paris on Saturday the marriage-deed at which he is present. Inhabitants of Sèvres, as the interpreter of your sentiments, I have prepared the deed 16th, when he made a grand triumphal entry into the which makes you take part in this great national movement. capital. Preparations were made for quite an imperial Two books are opened at the Mairie to receive your signatures: reception. Hugh triumphal arches, garnished with imone of them will be offered in your presence to him whom I from perial devices, were raised along the route to the this day designate under the title of Emperor. Let us hope Tuileries. Tuileries. Some were shrouded in laurels-green being that he will deign to accede to the supplications which I shall address to him in your name, to return to the Palace of the Emperor's colour; some were covered with crimson St. Cloud through our territory, by the gate of honour which we cloth, studded with golden bees; others with green possess. The other book, which I shall present for the signature velvet. Ornamental canopies were decked out with of the Prince, will remain in your archives as a happy souvenir shields, escutcheons, eagles, armour, and the initials of this memorable epoch. Let all the population, without dis-"L. N." The inscriptions were of this kind—“ La Ville tinction, come therefore and sign this document; it sets forth de Paris à Louis Napoléon, Empereur;" "Vive Napothat which is in your heart and in your will.” léon III. ;" "6 L'Empire c'est la Paix ;" "A son Altesse Imperiale Napoléon III., Empereur des Français." At the entrance of the garden of the Tuileries, a magnificent arch bore this inscription

The document is as follows:

"Proclamation of the Empire. The town of Sèvres, obeying of its sentiments of affection and of gratitude for Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, the Envoy of God and the elect of France, her saviour and her glory, proclaims him Emperor of the French, under the name of Napoleon III., and confers on him and on his descendants hereditary rights.

"Done at Sèvres on the 7th of October, in the year of grace and resurrection, 1852.

(Signed)

"MENAGER, Mayor." The President dined on the 9th with the Chamber of Commerce of Bordeaux, when he made a speech which will be commemorated in the history of the period.

He said :

"A Napoléon III., Empereur.- Sauveur de la civilisation moderne. Protecteur des sciences, des arts, de l'agriculture, de l'industrie, et du commerce.-Les ouvriers reconnaissans. Constitution de l'an S. Constitution de 1853. Conversion des Rentes. Credit foncier. Travaux d'utilité publique. Chemins de fer. Continuation du Louvre. Rue de Rivoli."

Balconies and galleries, covered with crimson cloth and fringed with gold, had been set up before many houses. Early in the morning crowds assembled on the Boulevards and outside the Orleans terminus. By noon "I accept with eagerness the opportunity afforded me by the the windows filled with spectators, and traffic was susBordeaux Chamber of Commerce for thanking your great city pended for the day. Soldiers, horse and foot, regiments for its cordial reception and its magnificent hospitality; and I of the Line and National Guards, lined the streets. am happy at the end of my journey to communicate the impres- Bands of market-women and trades' deputations, with sions I have received. The object of my tour, as you are well green sashes, bearing banners resplendent with golden aware, was to make myself acquainted, by personal observation, with the beautiful provinces of the South, and to ascertain their devices and golden bees, were marching to the Place de real wants. It has, however, led to a far more important la Concorde. At two o'clock, a gun from the Barrière du result. I may say, indeed, with a candour as far removed from Trône announced that the President had arrived at the pride as from false modesty, that never did a people more terminus. The bands of the National Guards began directly, more spontaneously, more unanimously testify a deter- playing the old imperial airs; the battery at the mination to free itself from all uneasiness respecting the future, Barrière du Trône fired a continuous salute of 121 guns; by `placing in the same hands as heretofore a power which the bells rang out; while the veterans of the Grand sympathises with its feelings. The people has now at last learned to value at their price the false hopes with which it has Army passed on their way to the Place de la Concorde. been cajoled, and the dangers with which it was threatened. It The President was received at the terminus by all the seems, then, that in 1852 society approached its dissolution, grand dignitaries of state, the judges, the bar, the Archbecause each party consoled itself with the belief that amid the bishop of Paris and his clergy, and a host of functionaries, general wreck it might still plant its standard on the floating in brilliant uniforms. He was addressed by the Presifragments. Now that its eyes are opened to absurd theories, the dent of the Municipal Council of Paris, and by the people has acquired the conviction that those pretended reformers were mere visionaries, inasmuch as there has always been a dis- Prefect of the Seine, who implored him to yield to the proportion and a want of consequence between their expedients "wishes of an entire people,' entire people," and to conclude the and the promised result. At present, the nation surrounds me mission intrusted to him by Providence "by resuming with its sympathies, because I do not belong to the family of the crown of the immortal founder of your dynasty; the ideologists. To promote the welfare of the country it is not and declaring" it is only under the title of Emperor necessary to apply new systems, but the chief point, above all, is to produce confidence in the present and security for the that you can accomplish the promises of the magnificent future. For these reasons, it seems France desires a return programme you addressed to attentive Europe at Borto the Empire. There is one objection to which I must reply.deaux." The President then mounted his horse and

proceeded to the Tuileries, preceded by squadrons of National Guards, by their staff, and a body of mounted Chasseurs; he rode alone fifteen paces ahead of his staff, in the full uniform of a Lieutenant-General. The Boulevards were lined with troops; a strong mass of heavy cavalry followed the staff; and as they passed, the regiments that kept the ground closed in and joined the procession. In this way he proceeded to the Tuileries; flowers falling at his horse's feet, and women breaking the line at intervals, encouraged by M. Bonaparte, three to present him with bouquets, one with a paper. After he had entered the palace of the Tuileries, he reappeared on the balcony, to bow to the acclamations of trades' deputations. The same night he repaired to the Elysée.

During the day a decree was posted in the streets of Paris, reducing the octroi-duties on salt, pork, and bacon, fifty per cent. The senate is convoked for the 4th November. The reason for this step is "the striking manifestation which has just taken place throughout France in favour of the re-establishment of the Empire." The work of the senate will be to adopt a Senatus-consultum recommending the Empire, and submit it for ratification to the French people.

The President has restored Abd-el-Kader to liberty. He visited the old Emir personally to communicate his intention. During the interview Abd-el-Kader swore on the Koran that he would never attempt to disturb the French rule in Africa, and that he would submit without any ulterior design to the will of France. He is to reside in future at Broussa, in Turkey.

procure their supplies of fresh water from the continent, and a schooner called the Citerne was employed for the purpose. One day, when this vessel was as usual about to discharge its cargo, several convicts resolved on the execution of a plot to possess themselves of it, and to sail away. As its crew was very small in number, it is probable they would have easily succeeded in their design; but the man-of-war, the Dugueslin, of 80 guns, at anchor in the roadstead, perceived what they were about, and sent several boats against them. The convicts resisted, and force was employed to subdue them. Several of them were wounded; two were stabbed so seriously by bayonets that they had to be conveyed to the hospital, and died in a short time.

At Madrid, on the 7th inst., funeral honours were paid to the memory of the Duke of Wellington, who was also Duke of Ciudad Rodrigo, and a captain-general of the Spanish army. At twelve o'clock the entire garrison of Madrid, in full dress, assembled before a mausoleum erected for the occasion, and there rendered all the honours to the memory of the Duke which is paid to a deceased captain-general. The troops afterwards defiled before the Captain-General of the Province, who was accompanied by the military governor and a numerous and brilliant staff. There was no religious ceremony, in consequence of the Duke having been a Protestant.

At Vienna, funeral honours have been paid to the memory of the Duke of Wellington, who was a fieldOn the evening of the 22nd the President went in state | marshal in the Austrian army, and decorated with the to the Théâtre Français. The house was splendidly order of Maria Teresa. The whole garrison of Vienna ornamented with trophies and emblematical decorations, assisted at the ceremony. The drums were muffled, the and crowded with a vast assemblage of spectators. The flags craped; the Emperor appeared in mourning at the Prince was received by the director, M. Houssaye, head of his generals; and twelve batteries fired three by whom he was conducted to his box; he was dressed rounds over the imaginary bier. Lord Westmorland in plain clothes, and wore the Grand Cordon of the was in attendance on the Emperor. A deputation conl, Legion of Honour. The President was accompanied by sisting of a whole officer's corps, headed by their colone Marshal Jerome Bonaparte, M. Drouyn de Lhuys, are to be sent to London to attend the funeral. A the Minister of Foreign Affairs, General de Saint deputation will also be sent from the 27th Regiment of Arnaud, Minister of War, and Generals Roguet and de Prussian infantry, which the Duke commanded. Lourmel. The Princess Matilda occupied a box on the Letters from Vienna speak of shocking barbarities first tier; and most of the ministers and great officers of perpetrated in the Austrian dominions. Every eight state were in the theatre. On the President's arrival or nine days, On the President's arrival or nine days," says one account, "the second column of the acclamations and plaudits of the audience were loud the Wiener Zeitung' contains what is here commonly and general, and all the passages in the play, which was called the 'bill of fare' of the Military Court, and the Corneille's "Cinna; ou la Clémence d'Auguste," that last which has been laid before the public is even less. could be made to bear any allusion to the position of the inviting than usual. Public opinion has so energetically Prince President, and passing events, were eagerly and repeatedly condemned the system of flogging women, seized and warmly applauded by the audience. A little that the following extract will hardly fail to excite as after the tragedy had terminated, the curtain rose and much indignation abroad as it has done here :-' Elizadiscovered Mlle. Rachel clad in white, with her waist beth Hickmann, a machinist's wife, twelve stripes with encircled with laurel to represent the Muse of History. a rod and eight days' arrest in irons in the military The whole of the company was ranged behind her, and prison.' It appears, on inquiry, that the person subat the bottom of the stage was a flag on which was to bejected to this severe and ignominious punishment had seen an imperial crown with the name of Napoléon III. The great tragédienne then advanced, and, bending lowly before the Prince's box, recited stanzas, composed by M. Arsené Houssaye, for the occasion, entitled "L'Empire, c'est la Paix." The verses were not remarkable for anything but their very French tournure, and the extravagant fulsomeness of their adulation. The Prince is about to pay a similar visit to the Opera. Favourable accounts are given of the commercial state of France. In Paris, manufacturers, shopkeepers, and tradesmen of all kinds anticipate an unusually brilliant winter. The country traders are making larger purchases than they have been in the habit of doing for some time. One sign of the good state of trade is to be found in the fact of the Paris manufacturers increasing the wages of their operatives in order to have a sufficient number of hands. It is, however, remarkable that no rise, at least none to any extent, has taken place in the value of the raw material, and whenever an attempt has been made it has been defeated by foreign competition. The improvement of trade in the capital and the provinces has been turned to account by the ironmasters, and reports relative to that particular branch of industry are favourable.

An attempt to escape has been made by some of the convicts stationed on the Isles du Salut, at Guyana. These islands, it appears are obliged to

been guilty of impertinence to a policeman or a soldier. This is the first time that a Vienna court-martial has sentenced a married woman and a mother to be flogged. It is but just to observe that even military men of the very highest rank are heartily tired and ashamed of a system which, to use their own language, 'can lead to no good."

The opening of the Vienna Customs Congress, appointed for the 20th, was postponed in consequence of the absence of several delegates. M. Von Stockhausen, the new Hanoverian minister at the Austrian court, was admitted to present his credentials on the 21st. The Hanoverian government appears fairly to have sat down to wait the issue of the events now taking place in Vienna and Berlin. Its commissioner to the Zollverein conferences at Berlin was recalled on the 30th ult., and his post has since remained vacant. Letters from Hanover state, moreover, that an equal reticence is observed towards Austria, the invitation to send a reprethe Vienna conferences having been sentative to declined. The Vienna papers publish accounts of yet more extensive damage from the inundations in the south of the empire. At Fiume the American mill has been carried clean away by the flood, the proprietors sustaining a loss of 200,000 florins. The tobacco manufactory and the hospital also stand in the water. The district of Posavura is said to have suffered in a higher

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degree than any other.

Letters from Croatia state that the peasantry are reduced almost to despair.

By the intelligence from Berlin, it appears that the tariff question, between Prussia, as the head of the Zollverein, and of the German free-traders, and Austria, as patron of the Coalition States and the German protectionists, is at length approaching a crisis. The Coalition States are unwilling to carry on the negotiations any longer in the Berlin Conference, which has been sitting since May, as they differ with the Prussian ultimatum on vital points. But the Zollverein treaties have more than a year to run, not expiring until January, 1854. A note from the Coalition, or Steuerverein, not yet officially presented, appears in the journals; and Baron Manteuffel, writing on that information, definitively states that Prussia is willing to negotiate with the Coalition States, if they will only place him in a condition to do so by agreeing to the Prussian notions of the tariff, as contained in the declaration of the 30th August.

Accounts from the Roman States state that twentyfour persons have been executed at Sinigaglia, who had been sentenced to death by the Sacra Consulta at Rome, for political offences committed in 1848. The total number of prisoners implicated in the affair was sixtyfive, of whom thirteen have succeeded in making their escape, and twenty-eight have been condemned to the galleys for life. The remainder, who were executed, underwent their punishment with great fortitude, crying Viva Mazzini," and singing the Marsellaise. There was but ne person among them belonging to the educated classes, Simoncelli, the merchant, who was first lieutenant of the civic guard, and had been nominated president of the Secret Tribunal, or Vehme. He had expected to the last that he would be pardoned. Some relatives of the Pope interested themselves in his behalf, but in vain. Before his death he requested the officer in command to order the soldiers to fire at his breast, and not his head. These sentences were executed, not by Austrian soldiers, but by Swiss troops of the Papal

The sentences on the persons tried at Naples, accused of being engaged in the insurrection of May, 1848, have been published. Seven have been condemned to death, six to be imprisoned in irons for periods of from thirty to twenty-five years, and twelve to various terms of imprisonment, from nine to two years. Thirty-seven more still remained in prison.

Archdeacon Cagnazzi, one of the accused in Naples, for the events of May, 1848, died a few days since in that city. He is known to Italian literature by several esteemed works on finance and political economy. The archdeacon left Naples when the reaction commenced, but from an invitation of the government returned. The police authorities then took him in charge, allowing him to remain in his own house, guarded night and day. The religious congregation to which he belonged refused to bury him, fearing to incur the displeasure of the authorities. To such a point is intimidation carried in Naples.'

The case of the Madiais, a man and his wife, who have been condemned at Florence to four years' imprisonment with hard labour for having read the Bible, has excited a great sensation. They are described as an honest and industrious couple. Madiai had been a travelling courier; his wife a lady's-maid, many years in the service of English families. In the summer of 1851 they had set up, with a little capital saved out of their wages, a boarding-house in the Piazza Santa Maria Novella. There, from their English connexions, being suspected of a Protestant bias, they were suddenly arrested on the charge of heresy, and their little establishment broken A Bible was found under a sofa-pillow, and for preup. suming to have read it to others, after a mock trial, they have been condemned. There was no suspicion, charge, or implication of moral or political criminality attaching The public prosecutor frankly declared at to the case. the trial that there was no such accusation whatever, and that the prosecution was wholly and avowedly for the religion of the Established Church of Tuscany.

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The Shah of Persia has narrowly escaped assassination. While he was hunting near Tehrân, on the 15th of August, six ill-dressed Persians, belonging to the sect of Babi, a religious chief put to death some time since, approached the Shah with petitions. Having presented them, they demanded redress for the insult to their religion. Two seized the bridle of his horse; and before the attendants, who, according to the Persian custom, were waiting at a distance, came up, two of the assassins fired their pistols. The Shah was slightly wounded in the cheek and thigh, but retained his seat. servants arrived at a gallop, cut down two of the assassins, and pursued and captured one. escaped; but they were afterwards found in a well, and cut to pieces. Next day, thanks were offered up in the grand Mosque of Tehran for the escape of the Shah, and in the evening the city was illuminated. All the Corps Diplomatique waited on the Shah to congratulate. him. Hajee Suleiman Khan, accused as the instigator of the crime, was seized, his body carefully drilled with a knife in parts which would not at the moment cause death; pieces of lighted candles were then introduced into the holes, and, thus illuminated, carried in procession through the bazaar, and finally conveyed to the town gates, and there cleft in twain, like a fat ram.

The Swedish journals publish the following narrative. About ten days ago, a Madame Nilssen, wife of a brewer of the highest respectability, at Odesta, feeling that she was about to die, sent for Mr. Ringk, the Lutheran clergyman of the parish, and, having caused every one to leave the room, confessed, with much anguish of mind, that about twenty-five years ago she and her husband had murdered their infant child. She said that Nilssen had seduced her, and that they subsequently married contrary to the wish of their parents. As in Sweden a young unmarried woman who has acted improperly with a man is profoundly despised, even though she marry before a child be born, her husband proposed to her to kill the infant. She received the proposition with horror; but he insisted, and she at last The Neapolitan Minister of Police, Peccheneda, and consented. They retired to an isolated house, at some principal agent of the present government, is dead. He distance from the town, and there she was delivered. left the scene of his cruelty, detested and despised, on Her husband suffocated the child, and buried the body the 2nd of this month. He held a subordinate employ- in a field. She described the precise spot where the ment under government from his youth, and was once interment took place. A few hours after stating these imprisoned for his liberal opinions. Peccheneda ap- facts, she died. Peccheneda ap- facts, she died. As in the Lutheran Church confessions peared whenever a government wanted an instrument are not considered inviolably secret, M. Ringk informed of persecution. He was called to the councils of the the authorities of what Madame Nilssen had said. A king when the reaction took place, after 1848, and search was made in the field, and the skeleton of the entrusted with the portfolio of minister of police. From child was found. Thereupon M. Nilssen was arrested. that period, although at a very advanced age, he He has filled the highest municipal offices in the town, vigorously employed himself in persecuting the consti- and has always been noted for his benevolence. tutional party; on the simple word of his spies, he has thrown thousands into prison, and ruined hundreds of families, besides doing infinite harm to the king and the monarchy. He had enriched himself by the spoils of his victims, and has left a fortune of 120,000 ducats. He had great influence with his Sicilian Majesty, whom he kept in perpetual fear of his life, by inventing plots which were too readily believed in.

New York papers have been received to the 9th inst. They are chiefly occupied with questions of domestic politics, especially the approaching presidential election. The candidates are General Scott, Mr. Webster, and General Pierce. General Scott appears to have the most favourable prospects.

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