The Paris correspondent of the Daily News states, as an
eye-witness, that President Bonaparte was greeted with cries of "Vivo l'Empereur!" from the Carabineers and Lancers at the great cavalry review on the Plain of Satory, last Thursday. The Committee of Permanence were there, spectacles on nose, to inspect and check ; but the cries were raised in their very faces, and with an air of marked defiance to General Chan- gamier. The sausages and wine entertainment was repeated. As General Changarnier left the field, says the writer, "I never saw him look more crestfallen " ; " Louis Napoleon, on the contrary, looked radiant with sa- tisfaction." The crowd also raised the cries of " Vivo Napoleon !"Vive l'Empereur!' Had I read this in the Gionstitutionnel I should have placed
little credit in the report ; but I was on the ground and witnessed these manifestations, and you may therefore receive them with implicit re- liance."
Letters from Hanan and Cassel, to the 8th instant, state that the depu- tation of officers, under Colonel Hilddbrand, who went from General Haynau's presence to remonstrate with the Elector at Wilhelmsbad, had been treated with the utmost brusquerie, and had returned without effect- ing any amelioration of the crisis. The Elector is said to have told them, that, "should the Hessian troops prove unworthy to execute his orders, he would dissolve the entire army, and call in the friendly aid of his brother Sovereigns " The Judges of the High Court had also been treated with si- milar contempt. They personallyattendedthe Elector, and by their chief, M. Schotten, were setting forth their sacred duty to interpret and enforce the law, when he cut them short by exclaiming—" Then the servants of the State make laws, and the Prince obeys ! Let me hear no more of it." All of them but one returned to Cassel in despair. Justice Elwers re- mained, and obtained a second interview in the evening; and it is said that he " hopes to detach the Ministers Baumbach and Haynau from Has- senpflug's policy."
The 1st of the month was a day of great rejoicing in the city of Pesth and its neighbourhood. On that day came into force the decree -for the removal of the customs-frontier between Austria and Hungary ; and henceforward, with the exception of tobacco and salt, every article of fo- reign or native agricultural manufactured or colonial produce may be transported into Hungary from Austria, and vice versa, duty-free.—Vienna Correspondent of the Daily Hews.
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