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fraiu t.—The French correspondents of the London papers are still occupied with the doings of the Grand Duke Constantine, and speculating on the motives that sent Prince Napoleon so suddenly to Berlin. One explanation is, that he carried an autograph totter from his cousin the Emperor to the King on the Neuchatel question; another, that he vehemently desired to quit Paris during the stay of the Grand Duke there, and that Louis Napoleon allowed him to go lest the Prince should show some disrespect to his Russian guest. The Grand Duke, it is stated, has not produced a favourable impression at the Tuileries. However this may be, he has not been outwardly neglected. On Monday he went with the Emperor and Empress to.Fontainebleau to hunt and enjoy the country. It is said that the Empress is hurt at the absence of the Grand Duchess. The Grand Duke is to leave Paris today; and after visiting the West of France, he is expected to arrive at Osborne on the 30th.

mu/I.—Prince Napoleon reached Berlin on the 8th. He was received at the railway station by Prince George of Prussia and several Generals, and by them escorted to the palace at Charlottenburg. In the evening, he appeared at the opera, in the King's box. After the opera, , late as it was, the Prince waited on Baron Manteuffel, and remained with him for sonic time. It is conjectured that the subject of their conversation was Neuchatel. The usual routine of festivities—dinners, balls, ! the opera, a review—followed. On Wednesday, he quitted Berlin for Dresden. The Berliners do not forget that this is the first visit of a Bonaparte to their city since Napoleon I quitted it after a victorious campaign. The Prussian Chambers closed their session on Tuesday. The President made no mention of the Neuchatel question in his address on the occasion.

MUT—The Emperor of Austria is visiting his Hungarian subjects in company with his wife. He arrived at Pesth on the 6th, and made his entry in great state. It was remarked that the complimentary inscriptions displayed were nearly all in the Magyar tongue. Indeed, one of the earliest acts of the Emperor was to sanction the revised statutes of the Academy of Sciences, and to aignify his opinion that it should be the task of the Academy " and d disseminate learning and literature, and, at the same time to develop and enrich the Hungarian language." His Majesty was very well received by the lower orders, and with politeness by the nobles. In reply to an address from the Primate of Hungary, he said— "It affords me pleasure to have been able to come again, in order to show this beautiful country to the Empress, and to examine in person into the condition and necessities of my well-loved Hungary. It is my continual endeavour to increase the general wellbeing of this country and of the whole of my empire, and thereby to satisfy my loyal subjects." The Emperor has received a great number of deputations, and replied to them in Magyar. Shortly after his arrival at Pesth, he published an amnesty, pardoning all persons in custody, whether under sentence or awaiting trial for the offences "insult to majesty, insult to members of the Imperial Family, disturbance of the public peace, exciting to sedition, as mentioned in paragraph 300 of the State Laws, or aiding and abetting in the commission of one of the abovementioned acts." nil H.—Advices from Mohammerah by letter have been received to the 29th March, and by telegraph to a later date not specified. The latter are of a painful character. "Ass truly tragic episode of this war, we have to mention the death, each by his own hand, of General Forster Stalker, Commander of the Forces, and Commodore Etheridge, of the Navy. The verdict on General Stalker's body was, that he came by his death from a pistol-shot inflicted by his own hand in a fit of temporary insanity. There was no paper left to indicate this, and he was merely heard to complain that the Third Cavalry was not given him; and he was also uneasy about the responsibility of sheltering the European troops during the approaching hot weather. The verdict on Commodore Etheridge was, that he destroyed himself with his own hand while suffering under mental aberration, brought about by long-continued anxiety connected with the duties of his command." The epistolary advicee relate to the capture of Mohammerah. The force conveyed to the Chatt ool Arab consisted of 3500 men. A similar force under Colonel Jacob was left at Bushire. Some of the transports had assembled in the Chatt ool Arab as early as the 10th March, but the North-west winds delayed the arrival of the remainder. It was not until the 21st that Sir James Outram joined the expedition with the warsteamers. On the 24th, the operation began by the moving of the force up the stream. On the 25th, a raft was constructed capable of hearing a mortar battery, and concealed behind a barge laden with hay. The fire from this battery was opened on the 26th, with great effect. It was soon followed by that of the steamers; which, moving up, did not return the fire of the Persian batteries until they had obtained commanding positions. "The enemy fought bravely and well" at their guns, but two hours' cannonade nearly silenced them; and the troops were immediately landed. After this, the Persians offered no resistance, but fled, leaving 18 guns one mortar, and stores of ammunition, in our hands. It is stated that Sir James Outram intended to take up an advanced position between Mohammerah and Shuster, outside the limits of the district of the malaria. Mohammerah is a pestilential place and as the troops will have to remain in Persia for three or four months, it is absolutely necessru-y to provide healthy cantonments. A further letter from Mohammerah, dated April 6, briefly describes the expedition to Ahwaz , on the Karoon. After the retreat of the Persians, 300 British troops were carried up the river, in three steamers, to Ahwaz. The enemy occupied a strong position on the right bank; the British landed on the left bank, and marched to Ahwaz. The fir of the guns from the little steamers was sufficient to send the enemy, 8000 strong, in full flight towards Distal, followed by plundering Arabs. The little British force, having secured or destroyed much grain, and embarked a number of mules and sheep in the steamers, returned to Mohammerah on the 4th. Next day, news of peace arrived, checking an advance of the troops to Shuster. Rada $t Stn.—The City of Washington arrived at Liverpool on Wednesday, with advices from New York to the 30th April. According to a statement in the Daily News, "the foreign appointments are now under consideration at Washington. The President has determined to replace all the United States ministers and agents abroad at the expiration of their four years' service. It is said that the President has determined to consider the whole state of the foreign relations of the Government about the middle of June, and that he has resolved upon opening a new system of policy both at home and abroad.'' The speech of Lord Napier at the dinner of the St. George's Society, New York, which we only mentioned in our last Postscript, deserves a more extended notice. "Her Majesty's Ministers," he said, "will be highly gratified when they learn that their names and their officers are held in such esteem,.regard, and memory by their fellow countrymen residing in the United States. I myself, gentlemen, in my own personal capacity, am sensible that I am undeserving of the acclamations which you have deigned to bestow upon my name • but I see in the manner in which you have received it a warm revulsion of those feelings of sympathy and regard which may be suspended or obscured for a time, and by accident, between America and England, but which are ever deeply founded on the affections and the interests of the two countries. 'fhe office which I have the happiness to fill, and in which you have done me the honour to wish me well, is one which has been familiar to my hopes and wishes from a very early period of my life and services. I may still maintain that there is not a more grateful, a more glorious, or a more useful employment than this employment, which I share with my venerable friend, the United States Minister in London—the employment of holding aloft the ensigns of peace and friendship between the two great branches of the English race. I feel that I entered upon that employment here at a most auspicious period. I

can assure you that I have met, upon the part of the President of the

• , United States, upon the part of General Cass, upon the part of all the Min' isters and functionaries of the United States with whom I have been brought ' into contact, every manifestation of that cordial and friendly disposition I which animates the Government and the community of Great Britain. I There are no questions involving any degree of anxiety or apprehension pending between the two countries; and I am sometimes clisposed to hope I that-the time may soon come when there will scarcely be any subjects of official correspondence at all. If I may not flatter myself with this agreeable prospect of official vacuity—(Laughter)—if I must1ook forward to my fair and natural share of discussions and debates—surely., gentlemen, we have in the experience of the past the best grounds for believing that there can never be a question so difficult or so complicated that it may not meet with a

I prompt, with a peaceful, and with an honourable solution But,

I gentlemen, I desire more than cordiality—I desire cooperation. Now, gentlemen, I do not wish to alarm the citizens of the United States who are here present by raising before their averted eyes the phantom of ' entangling alliances.' (Laughter and cheers.) Entangling alliancee, gentlemen, are a kind of political spectre which seems to have descended with undiminished

terrors from the period of the Revolution to the present day. There may be mutual cooperation where there are no written engagements ; and, gentlemen, where the heart is wanting, there may be written engagements without mutual cooperation. -All, then, that I wish to e.ay is, thatour respective Brovernments should perpetually make an early and sincere declaration and avowal to each other of their views and intentions with respect to all subjects which involve the common interests of the two countries— whereby they will have the benefit of mutual good -offices and mutual comaeel, and whereby they will be able to avoid those ohesided resolutions and those startling announcements which are apt to disturb the confidence of commerce and calculated to excite the sensibilities and jealousies of two highspirited nations. Gentlemen, the only entangling alliance which I i

shall venture to recommend to your adoption s the submarine cable between this country and England. (Great laughter and cheering.) . . . . "Gentlemen, it was some time ago observed in England, and it was repeated in some quarters in America, that the members a the regular diplomatic profession of Great Britain were not qualified by their previous education and experience to contend with the stubborn and masculine elements of American polities. It was supposed, gentlemen, that we were so inured in the petty acts and in the dark practices of Cabinet intrigue '—that we were so accustomed to humble ourselves in the twilight of military courts—that we were not qualified nor disposed to meet a free people in the light of day. Gentlemen, did you observe any symptoms of this intellectual decrepitude in Sir Richard Pakenham or in Sir Henry Bulwer ? I have not the honour of having ever served with those distinguished personages, but, in honour to the profession to which I belong, I ant justified in alleging that in my friend and my former chief, Sir Hamilton Seymour, I never observed any want of vigour or capacity. And, gentlemen, I never observed any want of vigour and independence in my later master,i Viscount Stratford de Redeliffe, who has passed thirty years of his indefatigable life in contending against the embition of arbitrary power in one country and in mitigating its abuses in another. Gentlemen, I do not wish to say anything unduly and ungratefully depreciatory of any country or of any government. I have had some experience of despotic governments. I have lived in Naples, in Turkey, and in Russia. There are elements of happiness in them all. Fortunately, I say, there are elements of kindness, of culture, and of happiness which no political system whatever can exclude from the face of nature and from the hearts of men. But neither the retrospective glories of the Italian scene, nor the ancient repose and the picturesque associations of Oriental life, nor the splendid enchantments of social life which have risen in their most agreeable form upon the borders of the Neva, can ever make an Englishman undervalue or forget those principles of freedom which have been cherished by our common fathers at home, and which by them were sown broadcast upon the soil of the great American continent. "Gentlemen, I have since my arrival, sometimes observed an impreasion in the United' States that the development of this country is regarded with jealousy by England. That is an erroneous opinion. You will bear me out in the assertion that the last vestige of former prejudice founded on the animosities of two unhappy wars is being very rapidly extinguished. The peaceful and legitimate expansion of the United Staters forms a matter of satisfaction and pride for every. reasonable Englishman. That expansion forms the best resort and relief for our superabundant population ; it forms the best market for our increasing industry ; it is the triumph of our labour and our arts, of ourlanguage, our religion, and our blood. No thoughtful Englishman can contemplate this unparalleled spectacle of future predominance without emotions of thankfulness and praise. No thoughtful foreigner can regard it without a sigh, because Providence has not reserved the future empire of the world for his own tongue and his own race. These sentiments of sympathy and good-will, to which I give a feeble utterance, are, believe me, not rare or partial in our country, nor do I derive them from obscure authority. I have gathered these sentiments in the benevolent pages of a Carlisle, in the wise conclusions of an Aberdeen, and in the eloquent declarations of an Elgin. I have heard these sentiments declared and enforced from the bench of the Government, and I have heard them echoed back from the benches of the Oppoaition. These sentiments have been inculcated upon me with sincere and careful emphasis by the Earl of Clarendon, and by that noble Viscount who is first in the councils and the hearts of the British people. Finally, gentlemen, I have received these sentiments as a faithful trust from the hands of my Sovereign, and I will not lay up this profitable talent in a diplomatic napkin."

The State Senate of Pennsylvania at Harrisburg has declared that the judgment of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott case is a violation of the plain provisions of the constitution of the United States. The Senate also declares that the five Judges who concurred in the judgment made a wanton attack on the sovereignty of the Free States, an impotent attempt to nullify the established laws of the country, and by extrajudicial action caused unnecessary excitement in the public mind in regard to the subject of slavery, and thereby forfeited the confidence and respect due to their exalted station.

In the Mormon territory of Utah the militia is organizing, and infantry and cavalry practice are taught in the schools.

Mail auIi ilna.—The telegraphic summary of the contents of the overland mail arrived in London from Trieete on Thursday night. The latest dates are—Bombay, 17th April ; Hongkong, 29th March.

"A mutinous spirit still prevails in the Bengal army, especially, in the Thirty-fourth Native Infantry. "At Bombay the banks have again reduced their rate of discount 1 per cent.

"This mail brings no news of importance from China, no active operations having been undertaken by Admiral Seymour. The arrival of troops a Hongkong by the Sir James Brooke and East India Company's steamship Zenobia, from Madras, had tended to give confidence ; and business was pretty lively, both imports at Hongkong and exports from Macao having been considerable. The exports of tea this year are 51,426,600 pounds, against 67,796,900 pounds at the same date last year; and 61,807 bales of silk, against 33,638 last season. Exchange on London at Hongkong was 48. 8d. to 48. 10d. At Shaughae, up to the 20th of March, a large business was done in silk ; of which the total arrivals amounted to 80,000 bales, and 77,009 were settled for. Exchange at Shanghae was 68. 11d. to 78."

Cap if Sigh I . —We have received files of the Cape Town Mail, to the 12th March. It appears that the Caffres are again troublesome.

"The affairs on the Caffre frontier," says the Cape Town Mail, "have become more complicated than ever, and recently assumed so serious an aspect as to render it necessary for his Excellency Sir George Grey to Moceed thither. The opening of the Cape Parliament basin consequence been postponed till the 20 of April. Owing to the unsettled state of the country beyond the harden, the German Legion, the whole of which destined for this place have now arrived, have been placed on full-pay, and are thus at once available for defensive operations, should such be found necessary. As a body they have been more orderly than was anticipated from previous re

ports from England, and appear likely to prove a valuable auxiliary force. One of the German officers, Captain Ohlsen, has been murdered, near King William's Town, by the Caffres, while riding out alone after dark. A soldier of the Eighty-ninth Regiment has shared the same fate ; when his rades, in revenge, burnt the whole of the Caffre huts in the vicinity." Thieving was frequent ; solitary Europeans were assailed by the Caffres ; and Colonel Maclean had warned both the soldiers and traders against wandering incautiously about the country. On the Northern border matters were on a good footing. Two of the sons of Moshesh were at Cape Town for their education.