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played on this occasion by Count de San Luis, and in spite of the excellent effect produced by the words of that ex-Minister, M. de Castro felt himself compelled to declare that Count de will San Luis had spoken on his own private account. and not in the to Cherbourg to ins ect the steel-clad shis Magenta an In the course of the resent month of May the Emperor If name of the lioderate party. Turning to another subject, I said to have to say that embezzlements of the State funds continue to have enno met. and witness their manceuvres The ermer is with an accident, having broken a part of her screw take place.

Lest week the cashiers of the provinces of Guadalajara and Ciudad Real absoonded, the former with piastres hile exercising. The committee of the Legislati Bod char ed to examine and the latter with 70,000. Political immorality, row ed as aard merit by the Liberal Union, has made great inroads en public the Bill for opening to the Minister of the Interior a credit of morality it is for that reason that a no former period have 1 200,000 f. in aid of the suffering cotton weavers, has receive those defalcations been so frequent as at present." several amendments, demanding that the sum shall be increased to 2.20 0 0001 committee is said to consider the proposed BrIsGIUM. The Belgian Chamber of Representatives was last week ownaddition favourably.

M. de Persigny goes ion with his campaign against the press. pied with the discussion, at times exceedingly warm, of a Bill i A legitimist journal i Brittany Journal de destined to modify the present tYgtme of foundations made in favour of public instruction. This debate, from the approach of go something worse than a warning and is held as a frightful example the next elections, which are fixed for next month, acquired a as to despise warnings. It is suspended for two months.

There certain gravity. The origin of some of the foundations in are ex amples of the suspension of a journal bei followed by ple to those publications which may be so resum tuous question involves the interests of the clergy in the question, and total suppression withou an new AS a cat plays on the other hand, the Liberal press is not unanimously favourwithl a mouse before eating him. Th crime now char ed upon able to a measure the necessary results of which, if it be adopted, the Journal de Rennes the ud es who condemn without trial, will be to centralise in the hands of the State a right hitherto exercised by private individuals entirely free from public control. and from whose decree here lies no a pp eal, is "that the article Govern. As the closing of the Chambers cannot be postponed much ontains calumnious allegations against the Emperor's thsee beyond the 15th and as there are a number of urgent went, and attacks the faith due to the lectoral oath, se affairs still to get through, great uncertainty exists as to whether an in bearing of which it misrepresent As some of our ore ign readers may like to judge for themselves how far this the Bill can be voted in the course of the session.

accus a tion is justified, we mention the date of the incriminated PRUSSIA. The Northern Bee, which, in common with all other Russian ou rnal de is April 24. The Union de I 'Guest of April 30 has received a warning for an article on M. Proudhon's papers, is subjected to the Imp erial censorship, publisher a pamphlet, in which M. de Persigny sees "an attack on the eorrespoudence from Berlin which Is worthy of notice.

It says religion of the electoral "When the Polish insurrection broke out, Herr von Bismarckoath." These recent cases, added Scheinhausen offered his services to Russia, although the latter many others, show how determined Count de Persigny is to strike terror on the eve of the elections. Power neither asked nor required them. King Frederick Wil- Several of the Pane journals comment on the decision come to ham agreed to the proposal made by his Minister to conclude a in the French Senate on the question of forei ners harin a convention; not that he anticipated that the insurrection would prove a source of danger to either Prussia or Russia, but solely ight to send petitions to the I renelt Senate. That body by passing to the Oixier of the day on the point, implied virtually with the view of doing a favour to his ally Russia, and particularly to Austria." The Northern Bee then states the ground upon I that matters might go on as they had hitherto done, thereby i ot raising any opposition to the receipt of such etitions. Some which its assertion is made.

A similar style of writing is adopted by all the Russian organs in reference to the Prusso- I of the journals consider this course as exceedingly liberal and quite satisfactory, whilst others are of opinion that as nothing has Russian Convention, and they are unanimous in stating that been pecifically declared the discussion amounts to little. spect Prussia in her zeal was desirous of bringing about, and had The Nord states that, at the request of Napoleon 111., the actually proposed, a triple alliance, but that Austria was wise Austrian Government has consen te to the transfer of tho ashes enough to reject it. The Augsburg Gazette contains a communication from Berlin, of the Due de Reichstadt to Fr an ce ue sday being the 42nd anniversary of the death of the stating that M. de Bismarck has not only refused to unite with mpero Napoleon 1., a funeral service was performed at the the other three Powers, but that Prussia would even declare Chapel of the Tuileries, and another at the Invalides. war against France if a French fleet should attempt to pass M.

Block, the able political economist, in a review of the north of Memel with a view of getting to the cost of Samogitia Upon this the Temps remarks, "We do not know what credit official re turns just published with respect to the trade of France during the first three months of the years 1861, 1862 and 1863, ought to be attached to this news; but in any calm there is no be concernedabout 't A I the is cord much concern i long as observes that they are worthy of serious attention. The first ecasK which exists between the Prussian Government and the public remark to he made is that French imp orts are raduall deopinion of Prussia shall continue, the projects which M. de Bise crewing. They amounted to 561,000 000 f. in 1861.

the declined to 515,000,0001. in 1862, and to 498,000,00 0 f. in 1 8 63 while the marck may conceive need not be regarded as very serious." had xports as regularly increased. The reception given to the Russian regiment which increased. The exports amounted to to 490,000.000 f.

i recently to effect a stampede across the Prussian frontier was 464,000,000 f. in the year 1861, they increased the subject of a question and a Ministerial explanation in the in 1862, and to 588,000.000 f. 1863. Another fact worthy of observation is that in 1861 the value of the imports Chamber of Deputies, Berlin, on Monday. The Minister, Count exceeded Eulenberg, acknowledged that the fugitives were billeted on that of the exports by 97,000,000 f.

in 1862 by 25,000,000 but that in 1863 the value of the exports exceeded that of the imports Prussian territory, and were not disarmed. But the former act, by 90,000,0601. he said, was merely a private arrangement, and there was no law which required that Russian troops entering Prussian terrine War Department had been forced to lower by a few cenbe timetres, the standard required for the old regiments and it is tory should disarmed. In the whole affair the Minister feared that if the numerical amount of the conscription be main- argued there was nothing Prussia, he ought tamed at its present rate (100,00 0 a further reduction will to have added. become indispensable.

The Nord Deutsche Zeitung denies that Prussia, simultaneously Count Walewski, the Independance states, has just given a with the second-class German Powers, had been invited by France to join diplomatic action in reference to the Polish quesfresh proof of his solicitude for literature, by granting a pension of 3,000 f. to 51. Theophile Gauthier. ton. The same paper denies the rumour that General Goltz has been dispatched upon a mission to Paris, and declares totally M.

Provost Paradol has republished as a pamplet his articles unfounded the intention attributed to Prussia of inviting Austria in the Debats, which lately obtained the honour of a warning. to join in the Prusso-Russian convention, as stated in the blue The object is to give the opportunity to the Government to try the question, as pamphlets cannot be proceeded against save book recently laid before the House of Commons. "For some days past," says the Augsburg Gazette, the King judicially. of Prussia has driven out in a carriage drawn by horses harnessed A pamphlet by Proudhor. is forthcoming.

It is to bear the piquant La Loi de l'Empire et l'Empire de Is Loi." in the Russian manner, and driven by a coachman wearing the A detachment of Spahis, belonging to the 3rd Regiment of national Russian costume. His Majesty is always enveloped in a that arm, stationed in the province of Constantine, has arrived cloak, with a military helmet on, and is never accompanied by in Paris. It is composed of 30 men and as many horses. It is any person. commanded appears from the Cologne Gazette that the Prussian authocommanded by two French captain and native nties are as vigilant to obstruct the passage of news unfavourable lieutenant.

Detachments from the Ist and 2nd Regiments of to the Russians as they are to receive and succour the defeated Spahis, quartered in the provinces of Algiers and of Oran. are Russian columns. The Colongo paper published on Sunday last likewise expected in Paris. They will form altogether a squadron of 180 men and horses, which is to be attached to the garrison a notification addressed by the chief of the central telegraph of Paris. When the railway train conveying the Spahis arrived station at Cracow to the manager of local station in that city in at the Paris terminus the Colonel of the 3rd Regiment, in full reference to a telegram delivered at the latter by Mr.

Reuter's correspondent, and containing news of a defeat of the Russians dress, went to meet them, and the Arabs seeing him from the were conveyed in b. by the insurgents. The following is the notification referred windows, saluted him. The horses, which a stable waggon by the same train as the men, were landed, Your telegram, No. 508, to London cannot be forwarded, watered, and quickly Raddled.

The detachment, commanded by by reason of paragraph 11 of the regulations of the Prussian telegraph administration. Inform under. (Signed) Vox the two officers, and having at their head two trumpeters, rode from the railway terminus to the Bastile, thence along the Rue Ce nt ral Station. N.B.—We shall endeavour to dispatch the St. Antoine, the Rue de Rivoli, the Place du Carrousel, the telegram yid France." It is evident from the above that the Pont-Royal, and to the barracks on the Quai d'Orsay.

The Prussian authorities have decided not to permit the passage over Spahis, followed by an immense crowd attracted by their their lines of telegrams containing news unfavourable to Russia. eingular costume, gazed with admiration at the public build- Paragraph 11 quoted in the notification merely prohibits the disings. Their dress consists of a haick of white and strived patch of any telegram dangerous to he safety of the Prussian Tunisian stuff, tied round the head like a turban with a state or prejudicial to morality whereas the telegram stopped string of camel's hair. The haick falls on each cheek like contained nothing but intelligence of events at the theatre of war. a lady's head-dress, it is then thrown over the scarlet If we may believe a Berlin journal which is the organ of the Prussian reactionary party, there is such a fermentation among dolman, and afterwards attached round the waist.

A white the Polish population of Posen as to render it not improbable burnous with a hood is thrown over the haick, and a scarlet cloth mantle over the burnous. Their trousers are made of sky- that the Prussian Government may proclaim martial law in that blue cloth, and are as wide As those of the Zouaves. They fall province. over a kind of boots of red leather, which are encased in AUSTRIA, babouches of black leather, to which long spurs are attached. The Oat-Deutschc-Post contains the following: The Empress of Austria takes lesions in the Hungarian language daily from I A belt of red weal is tied round their waist.

Among the native 1 Spahis one rode at their head wearing a black mantle in place of Professor Homoky. Her Majesty her she has recently taken into service a femme de ca is so fond of this languag of the troop. Their arms consist of a long musket, called a a scarlet mantle, like the others. This was the Arab lieutenant that native of the district of Raab, who speaks nothing but dragoon's musket, and an ordinary cavalry sabre. A pistol is ilTign ri attached to a red leather belt buckled round their waist.

They The remaining 40,000,000 florins of the Austrian Lottery Loan 1 860 have been allotted. The house of Messrs. Rothschild, carry a cartridge-box slung over the shoulder. Their saddle is 1021 th highest bidder. chair, the Turkish fashion, with a back as high AS that of an arm.

having ffered. was The dep uties of the Austria Reichsrath have just chair. The bridle is furnished with winkers, which force the assembled at Cracow to consider attitude to be assumed by horse to look straight before him. The stirrups are made of them in the approaching session. Thegen eral 'd wrought iron, and very wide, in the form of a crescent.

After opinion is said to the the Spahis took possession of their barracks they placed them- have been in avour abandoning system of abstention. Letters from Venice, from Padua, from Verona and from selves at the windows, to admire the Palace of the Tuileries and the splendid view up the river. Mantua, agree in stating that just at the moment when liberal reforms are being spoken of at Vienna, the Austrian police are The adulterous murderess Madame 011ive and her accomplices becoming more and more annoying in Italy. Strangely enough, arc all found guilty, but with extenuating circumstances. The too, they are especially strict with women.

Many ladies of the sentence on her and two of the suborned assassins is imprisonment upper and middle classes have been rigorously searched and with hard labour for life. The fourth gets off with eight years' questioned. The Italian Government has, at the same time, imprisonment, been informed that the Austrian police have sent spies and Some surprise was created at Marseilles a few days since by agenti prorocatori into Lombardy and Naples. Austria pretends the arrival there of 150 convicts from Cayenne, their period of to be afraid that some Wow against her Italian possessions is Punishment having expired. They had been landed at Toulon being prepared in Switzerland; and that prepftrations are being from a ship-of-war, and had arrived at Marseilles on their way to made is true enough, though the Helvetic Government denies the place allocated to them for their future res id en It was it; but Austria has her agents there, and, perfectly aware of necessary that their passports should be signed at Marseilles, and er ything that is going on, is waiting with ardent desire for as this formality required some time they amused themselves in something to happen which may furnish her with a pretext, in visiting the town.

It was easy to recognise them with their faces good time and season, for injuring the Italian Government, bronzed with the tropical sun of Cayenne. They had the appear- ITALY. ante of having freely indulged in wine. One of them, who had According to the Pungolo, of Turin, the Italian Minister of saved a sum of 800 had nearly fallen a victim to the cupidity the Interior has Mimed a circular to the Prefects, complaining of one of his companions, but the police interfered and arrested that popular meetings in favour of Poland have been made a both. pretext for agitation and for obstructing the action of the SPAIN.

Governrnent, and, therefore, directing that every political meet- The Grenada Court of Appeal has just sentenced Matamoros ing of a character to endanger public order shall be dissolved. i to nine years of heavy imprisonment for offences against religion, The Cabinet of Turin has announced to the Federal Governwithyears' the deprivation of civil rights. In the winter of 1861 these merit that it will now withdraw the Italian troops from the Swiss frontier, since, after the arrests made in Italy. appropoor men were sentenced to seven years at the galleys. The hensions are no longer entertained of the lazzinian expedition.

Queen then orde re her satellites to appeal against the misplaced leniency of the judges, and seven months past the Tribunal of Letters from Florence are eloquent in praise of the King, his the Audiencia increased the penalty originally imposed by one affability, generosity, and consequent popularity. The King and year, and the Grenada judges have just confirmed this sentence. Pr in ce ca gn have been together several times to the studio The pri soners ave th i ht appeal. of a Piorer i thl a eartist, who is painting a picture of the battle of In Monday's sitting of the Senate, Marshal Narvaez defended Palestro in which his Majesty jumped off his horse and charged the course which he had followed when at the head of the on foo With the French Zouaves, who made him a corporal in Government, against the attacks of the Progressist party tha corps, for "distinguished conduct 111 the field." His General Prim replied in a speech violently attacking the ad- Majesty 'ty is' hig hly pleased with the picture, and pointed out to ministration of Itlarshal Narvaez. the delighted artist the spot where his righthand man fell, shot In the Congress on Monday a Royal decree was read suspending through the thigh, and tho place where he himself so narrowly the sittings of the Cortes.

The Progressist party had the inten- escaped being taken prisoner. When at Sienna, Victor Erntion of continuing on Sunday next the celebration of the national in a speech to the municipality, fairly broke out of the ile of the 2nd May. The Government, however, being opposed chains of pdi lo cy and, as his Majesty is apt to do, spoke his to this project, the Progressists determined to abandon it. The 'd the king of Italy, "all my reports current of a Ministerial modification are devoid of foun- dest point 'All my sai dt the liberation of the whole of int direct ly an only dation. Italy, to create one great united free country.

I was on the eve A Madrid letter, in the Messager of Bayonne, under date of of effecting this, when A spromonte spoiled everything. We the 2nd, nays Some rather remarkable incidents have taken are surrounded with enemies at home and abroad, but I can place in the two last sittings of the Chamber. A member of sure uou that the destiny of Italy is now secured." His the onserva ti ve i nor it roug ht orwar a com pl li of I Ma esty further added, "Yes, I believe all will now be arranged. the avours con erre ars a ll O'D onne ll on th ma or ity in 1 I have confidence in the star of Italy and in conclusion he led, "I should be unworthy the name of Italian if I did not the Congress who had given him their support. Those favours mount in number to shameful amount, and which is a complete my work." mark of ig nom i as 'M.

Verdueo who was for a short time a I The ceremony of the unveiling of the facade of Santa Croce at member of that majority, justly Amerved. The other important Florence took place on Sun ay. Prince Carignano, Signor incident is that Count de San Luis called on the Government to Peruzzi, and many senators and deputies, were present. An remove all the doubts which might still exist as to its intended immense crowd assembled on the occasion, and there was much Policy. Notwithstanding the extreme prudence and talent die.

cheering. The oldest of Italian patriots, the venerable Ruggiero Settimo, has just died at Malta. This eminent man was President of the Government of Sicily in 1848. When the expulsion of the Bourbons in 1860 allowed the Kingdom of Italy to be formed, Count Cavour, by a graceful act, appointed Ruggiero Settiino President of the Senate. The office was merely honorary, as the great age of the patriot rendered it impossible that he could discharge its duties; but he accepted the title tendered as a tribute well deserved to his character and services.

The Italian Gbvernment has sent a frigate to convey the body of the Nestor of Italy to Palermo. Signor Alberto Mario, one of the editors of the Nuova Europa, of Flot once, was tried on Monday before the Assize Court, with the publisher, for his letter to the electors of Modena declining to accept the seat in Parliament which they had spontaneously placed at his disposal. The defendants were acquitted, the jury being unanimous, and the Nuova Europa proposes to republish the letter. The brigands continue to commit daring exploits, but the authorities are adopting such measures as cannot fail to succeed in putting a stop to them. The brigands on Roman territory, I after havaig assembled in the valley of Pietro, divided into small bands, which are preparing to cross the frontier, near Avezzano.

The Royal troops have taken up positions which will enable them to cut off their retreat. It is asserted that the documents collected by the Committee on Brigandage fully prove the complicity of the Pontifical Government. The Opinione of Turin contains the following article, which the Prose quotes as important, it being official The Opinion Nationale, in the hypothesis of a war with Russia, reckons as allies of France, Sweden, and perhaps Denmark and Italy. This journal forgets that Italy is in an exceptional position which diminishes her power abroad. Let us suppose that Italy were invited by France to join her with an army of from 80.000 to 100,000 men.

What would be our situation! With 80,000 occupied in the Southern Provinces, with the Pope and Francis 11. on the Tiber, with Austria on the Mincio, can we feel ourselves secure? It results that France has made a great mistake in not doing her utmost to constitute the kingdom of Italy in a definitive manner. Although Italy cannot be against France, she can only ally herself with her on condition of treating on a footing of perfect equality, and obtaining guarantees of a nature to secure Italy against a coup de main from Austria." By a decree of the Minister of Public Instruction, the educational institution of San college under the management of the Ignorantelli," or Brethren of the Christian to be immediately closed; only sufficient time being left for the parents, many of whom are in distant parts of Italy, to receive intelligence of the fact, that they may transmit directions respecting the place to which they may wish their children to be removed. It is understood that this decree will be speedily followed by another entirely suppressing the order. It was high time to take some such measure, fel the popalar might almost say rising to a dangerous pitch.

The correspondent from whoile letter we take the statement, adds that it will scarcely be believed that with the full knowledge that depositions by the dozen on the details of this disgusting affair are in the hands of the police, the reverend editors of the Jesuit journal, the Armonia, attempt to brazen it out, and to represent the whole affair as a fresh instance of the persecuting spirit evinced by the Italian Government towards the ministers of religion The influential lay Ultratnontanists whom they represent, or rather lead, have even, in some cases, been persuaded to address the Government praying that the schools might not be suppressed, so convinced were they of the excellence of the system therein pursued That may seem bad enough; but what are we to think when, not content with this, the reverend fathers give insertion in their columns to a declaration professedly coming from certain of the scholars themselves (they refrain, however, from giving their names), in which these lads are compelled tofurnish their spontaneous testimony to the morality and religion of their "Brethren of the Christian Schools FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. ROME. Letters from Rome state that the Pope is about to make a journey through the southern part of his dominions, which will occupy six days. He has determined, we are told to avoid every spot on the frontiers where his presence might occasion any kind of manifestation on the part of the Italian troops. The Gtornak di Rom states that on the 27th ult.

the Pope paid a visit in state to Francis 11. of Naples and Queen Maria Sophia. After the interview the Pope admitted all the members of the Royal household to kiss his foot. Their Majesties afterwards paid the same homage to his Holiness on accompanying him to his carriage, and received the apostolical benediction in return. The Pope then proceeded to the palace of the Queen Dowager of Naples, who received him surrounded by her children.

SVMDEN. In Saturday's sitting of the Diet debate took place on the motion in favour of Poland. Count Manderstriim, Minister for Foreign Affairs, stated that the Cabinet had dispatched notes on the 2nd and 7th of April to St. Petersburg, in reference to Poland. The nobility and clergy voted the order of the day expressing strong sympathies for Poland, and confidence that the Government would do all in its power for Poland with regard, however, to the maintenance of peace, unless the public interest should require war.

The members representing the citizens rejected the reservation in favour of peace, and only expressed their sympathies for Poland, and their confidence that the Government would be inspired by the feeling which they knew to exist in the country. The representatives of the peasants also adopted a simple vote of confidence in the Government. The Aftonbladet, of Stockholm, states that meetings in favour of Poland continue to be held in parts of Sweden. One which recently took place at Mariestad was attended by a number of influential persons, and very energetic speeches were made. The Stockholm Dagblad contains an article advocating the opinion that a foreign war would be very advantageous to Russia, because it would strengthen her by bringing all the contending factions under one banner.

If Russia remains at peace with foreign Powers there is every probability of a revolution in Russia itself, and the consequences of a revolution would necessarily be beneficial to Europe and civilisation. The reacquisition of Finland would be of no advantage to Sweden; the sea would be a better bulwark than Finland against Russia. Sweden ought not to take the initiative in a war with Russia, as she has spent too much in such warlike expeditions since 1720. Several other Swedish papers approve of this article. RIISSI4.

A communication from SCPete7.3l;urg gives the following as the text of the Emperor's reply to the address presented to him on the 45th anniversary of his birthday, the 291.11 by deputations from the nobility of the governments of Moscow, Novgorod, Twer, Courland and Livonia I thank you, gentlemen, for your congratulations, and especially for the expression of your patriotic sentiments, provoked by the disturbances in Poland and in the western provinces, and by the cupidity of our enemies directed against the ancient patrimony of Russia. Your addresses, and those which I receive daily from all classes of the population, console me in the midst of my anxieties. With you and for you, I rejoice over the unanimity of those sentiments. That unanimity is our strength, so long as it shall subsist; and, as we shall trust in God to aid us, lie will never forsake us; and the unity of the Russian empire will remain unshaken. Our enemies hope to find us disunited, but they are deceived.

The moment that danger appeared to threaten us, all classes flocked round the throne and testified to their Sovereign that confidence on which he sets so high a value. I trust that events will not plunge us in war, but if it should be so, lam persuaded that with the help of Heaven we shall he able to defend the empire and the provinces joined to it by indissoluble bonds. I repeat to you my thanks for the expression of your devotedness, on which I rely. Have confidence in use also, and be persuaded that my life has but one happiness of our dear country, and the constant development of its institutions. In the execution of this task all precipitation would be not only useless, but injurious and even criminal.

I rely on your unanimous co-operation and support for the important works which remain to be accomplished. Leave to me the care of their development, and the choice of the moment. Our mutual confidence is the pledge of the future prosperity of Russia. May the blessing of God attend you! I thank you all once more with my whole heart." Letters from Moscow state that such crowds of people flocked to the churches there on tho Emperor's birthday that numbers could not gain admission. The people, therefore, requested the Archbishop to have a Te Deem executed in the open air; he consented, and the hymn was sung to the sound of the bells, and followed by the enthusiastic cries of the multitude.

The conflicts which have taken place between the Absolutists and the Progressists, both in the Imperial Council and in the Chambers, have, it is said, caused the Emperor much disquietude. Vague reports are circulated of an approaching Palace revolution. Complaints are made of the want of determination in the authorities at St. Petersburg and the lack of judgment displayed by the Government in Warsaw. The Inralide Busse confirms the statement that the Emperor had called in all the privates on furlough with the object of in.

creasing the strength of each battalion of the infantry reserve divison to 1,000 men. Much popular excitement prevails in St. Petersburg, and revolutionary placards, headed with the words "Down with the Romiuroffs," 'Down with the Germans," are occasionally found posted up in the streets. The Nord states that the Imperial ukase relative to corporal punishments completely exempts women and some classes of individuals "among whom civilisation is most extended," as, for example, teachers of primary schools; persons who have finished their education in district colleges and other schools; peasants exercising elective functions; and lastly, curates of parishes. The nobility and the merchants of the first two guilds have for a long time been exempt from corporal punishment.

The peasants and bourgeois who do not belong to the categories thus enumerated will only be subject to the lighter corporal punishments in certain cases specified by law. The knout and the morgue are definitively erased from the penal code. The other punishments are sensibly diminished. Analogous modifications are introduced in the penal code of the army and navy. The soldiers and the sailors newly incorporated and those of old standing who have been distinguished up to this time by good conduct will not be subject to corporal punishments except under the decree of a tribunal, and the power of the officers is sensibly limited in relation to the punishments of soldiers and sailors.

The punishment of whipping with rode, and of the kochcki in the marine, are definitively abolished. Letters from St. Petersburg are almost entirely taken up with accounts of the military preparations which are being actively carried on in Russia. One correspondent gives the following details: day before yesterday I was at Cronstadt, and was surprised at the activity and bustle which I saw in the pork the arsenals and barracks. Ships traverse the sea from all quarters.

It would seem a if the navy department was actively engaged on the armament and fortification of the maritime ports, and the fortification of a fleet to cruise in the Baltic. The Ronwek, the Chabry and the transport Artetschtsebek have already left the roadstead. The transport Krannaya-Gorka, the screw schooner Kornpor and the steam-ship Ychors have got their machinery and equipment on board. The corvette Dayan, the ships of the line Hanggend and Emperor Nicholas, the steamfrigates Olaff, Smelys, Kamtchatka and Wladimir, as well as the three frigates Oley, Penwell and Alexander-Newski, will soon be completely equipped. It is positively stated that the Emperor, accompanied by the Grand Admiral, the Grand Duke Constantine, will come to inspect the fleet as soon as it is ready to weigh anchor.

All the sailors on leave along the coasts of the Baltic and White Sea have been called in. The activity of the Government is not altogether confined to the navy, great attention being also devoted to the army. By a decree, dated the 18th of April, the three battalions of the regiments of Grenadiers, who are not ordinarily organised on a war footing, are to be so immediately. The four battalions of the Ist, 2nd, 3rd and 4th divisions of reserve are about to be organised as regiments of reserve, each of them to be composed of two battalions of war and a complete battalion of reserve. The regiments of Grenadiers, which form part of the reserve, are to be completed and put on a war footing.

By a recent order of the Emperor, all the men on indefinite leave from the Ist, 2nd, 3rd and 4th active corps d'armee, which have been placed on a war footing, have been called in." The outbreak in Poland excited the spirit of patriotism to a state of enthusiasm. Young and old, great and small, are prepared to shoulder the musket and meet the enemy, whoever he may be. This feeling has extended itself to all classes. The nobility of Moscow, in a recent address to the Emperor, begged to be permitted to be the first to take the field should it be necessary to uphold the integrity of the empire. The merchants have placed their property at the disposal of the Government.

The orthodox party, who were said to be ill-disposed towards the Administration, have also offered the sum of 40,000,000 roubles. The Cossacks of the Don propose to raise 100,000 men, and even the nobility of the three eastern provinces have just presented an address expressing their loyalty. In St. Petersburg, demonstrations, manifestoes, deputations and addresses are the order of the day. This extraordinary display of enthusiasm is caused by the Russian Government, which avails itself of every opportunity to excite public opinion against the Polish insurrection and against those parties at home who may favour the grant of a Constitution.

Thus deputations and addresses urging the Emperor to make any sacrifice rather than that the Polish prbvinces should be separated from the empire are favourably received and the promoters rewarded, while the promoters of those addresses having in view the grant of a Constitution meet with a very indifferent reception, and are in some instances prosecuted. It is stated from St. Petersburg that within the last few days the first number of a new clandestine paper has been issued there and distributed amongst a great many persons. The title of this paper is Wolnose (Liberty), and it proceeds from the same revolutionary committee which published the proclamation with the motto Zemla, wok (land and freedom). The committee state that they have succeeded in uniting all shades of opposition in one society, the object of which will be to resist the autocracy of the Czar, and to establish a Constitution.

This paper is drawn up with much more tact and prudence than has hitherto been usual in proclamations of this kind. Two members of the revolutionary committee of Pakow, a student and a retired captain named Lukin, were arrested a few days ago at the railway station. GYLZICZ. The Nord of Wednesday If our information be correct, the second conference relative to the affairs of Greece was held yesterday in Londdn. As in the first sitting, which was held on April 29, the Ambassador of France, the Ambassador of Russia, and Earl Russell were to discuss the different questions relative to the accession of King George I.

to the throne of Greece in connection with the consent of the Danish Court and the refusal of King Otho to abdicate. It is thought that the third meeting Will not take place before the 15th instant. The Greek question may, therefore, be regarded as nearly settled, and the diplomatists look upon it as amid decided." TEN FRINCII IN MEXICO. The France publishes in conspicuous type the following news from Mexico It is announced that a dispatch received by the Emperor from the Captain-General of Havannah brings most important news from Mexico. General Ortega, the commandant of Puebla, finding resistance impossible, made proposals to General Foray for a capitulation; but the conditions offered by the Mexican General not being acceptable, were refused.

The next (lay the oesieged, to the number of 12,000 men, made a sortie, and were repulsed with such vigour that the check became a positive rout. After this attempt the municipality supplicated General Forey not to bombard the town. He replied with the dignity which becomes a French General that a bombardment was not necessary to assure victory for France, and that considerations of humanity were never separated in his mind from the rights of war. When the boat left bringing this news, which we trust will be confirmed, the unconditional capitulation of the place was considered certain." The Paps says that news has arrived that Puebla was taken on April 7. Adriees received at New York, rid San Francisco, from the city of Mexico, to the Ist instant, and published by the New Ye' journals, announce that the French had bombarded Puebla for 10 days.

having been twice repulsed. The French had captured the San Xtirvier fortifications, taking 150 prisoners. They hold all the outside fortifications round the city. The bombardment continued, and the peincipal forts still hold out. General Foray's head-quarters were at Santiago Church, inside the Garita.

Comonfort was at San Martin, with 10,000 troops, and Ortega in Puebla with 25,000. The French had cut the communication between Ortega and Comonfort. The New York journals publish an official dispatch from General Ortega to Comonfort, received in New Orleans, giving details of the battle before Puebla, in which the French are stated to have been routed. Letters received in Monterey state that the French lost in the battle 60 pieces of artillery and 8,000 The Mexican news rnl San Francisco is up to the Ist of April, and is considered more reliable, but not much confidence is given to the correctness of either report. The French corvette arrived at New York, on the 25th, from Vera Cruz on the 7th.

Her commander states that the reports of a French defeat at Puebla are erroneous. All was quiet at Puebla when the Bertholet left Vera Cruz. ANOTHER DEATH THROUGH CRINOLINL an inquest ou Tuesday evening before Mr. Payne, at Guy's Hospital, it appeared that a young woman, named Catherine Odell, aged 26 years, in service with a Mrs. Doggett, at Elizabeth Cottage, Bt.

James's-place, Kent-road, went en Friday last into the coal cellar with a candle, which the on the ground while she stooped to get some coals. Her crinoline distended her dress and pushed it aver on to the flame of the candle, and she became Instantly in a blaze. The cellar step was steep and difficult to get up, and before her shrieks procured aid she was terribly burnt over tho whole body. she was ultimately conveyed to Guy's Hospital, where death put period to her sufferings on Monday. A verdict of Accidental death" was returned.

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