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FRANCE.—It has been determined to organize a fifth division for the Army of the East ; to be commanded by General Charles le Valliant, with General de la Motto Rouge and General Couston as brigadiers. Two batteries of artillery and a company of engineers are to be attached to the division.

The Emperor and Empress were present on the 9th, the last day of the first Agricultural Exhibition ever held in Paris. The Emperor talked and shook hands with many of the exhibitors.

TIIRKEY.—The Light Division of the British troops, under the com- mand of Sir George Brown, landed at Varna on the 30th and 31st May. Detachments of French and English Sappers and Miners had preceded them, and constructed a rude pier for landing : all Varna turned out to see ; but the arrangements were so defective that the horses narrowly escaped severe injuries. The troops marched through the town and en- camped outside the Schnmla gate; subsequently they were to proceed to the head of the Lake Devna, and to take up their position there at a spot thirty miles from Schumla and sixty-five from Silistria. The telegraph informs us that the whole of the British troops had left Constantinople on the 5th June, and that 17,000 had landed at Varna. As the French troops were also on their way, it may be presumed they have arrived.

Silistria held out at the latest date, and no fresh attacks are reported. Indeed, the tcnour of the intelligence would lead to the belief that the Russians already feel the presence of the Allies. They had formed a tete-de-pont at Kalnija, five or six miles below Silistria: this secures a retreat. In the Russian account of the siege, it is stated that the corps of General Liiders participated in the operations, but no mention is made of the capture of Rassova; so that the troops leaving the Dobrudscha must have passed that position. This Russian story extends to the 21st May ; as which time the Russian losses, after ten days' operations, are re- ported at only seven killed and fifty-two wounded!

The backward movements of the Russian troops in Moldavia is con- firmed, and it is considered certain that Prince Paakiewitch would be at Jassy with his staff on the 13th instant. The German journals can only ex- plain the movement either as a preparation for the abandonment of the Principalities or a menace to Austria. The line of the Sereth connects the Russians under Paskiewitch with Panijutine'e troops on the Austrian frontier. No change appears to have been made in the Turkish position, and the very unlikely report that the Turks in Lesser Wallachia had re- turned to Kalafat to concentrate at Rustchuck is not confirmed. On the contrary, there is reason to believe that they are pressing onward.

It is not true that Massa Pasha, the commander of Silistria, has been killed by a cannon-ball. Official despatches from Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons to Admiral Dun- dee, dated May 21st and 28th, have been published in the Gazette, re- counting the results of the cruise of a steam squadron along the Circassian coast. They confirm the previous accounts. All the forts except Anapa and Soujak Xaleh were abandoned. The Russians abandoned Suchum Xaleh, and marched to Kutais, escorted by Georgians. Redout Kaleli

was found to be occupied ; and, passing onwards to Chefkatil, Admiral Lyons obtained a body of Turkish infantry and three field-pieces from

&Um Pasha. With these he returned to Redout Kaleh, disembarked,

and sending a flag of truce demanded the surrender of the place. The Russians pretended that the commander was absent ; and, after waiting

half an hour for an answer, in vain, the steamers stood in and opened a.

fire upon the batteries. As the Russians retired out of range, the Turks rushed up and captured the batteries; but the retreating Russians fired

the town—the conflagration extending about a mile and a half up each side of the river. This occurred on the 19th May ; and on the same evening Poti and Agysoo were fired and abandoned. Having assisted the Turks to put the place in a good state of defence, Admiral Lyons, leaving the Sampson on the spot, returned to the fleet at Baltchick. In the second despatch he remarks, that the Circassians thronged the beach as the ships opened each beautiful valley, shouting and firing for joy. The landing-parties were received with delight. The chiefs spoke fluent, ly and sensibly, and made a deep impression on the Allies.

"They invariably said, that while they turned towards England and. France with gratitude and admiration, as the instruments in the bands of- Providence for delivering them from their invaders, they confessed that they considered it the just reward of their patriotism and' constancy. They are certainly a fine intelligent race ; and I can readily believe them to be second to none in desultory mountain warfare."

The Sampson was left at Redout Xaleh. The Turks, assisted by detachments from the squadron, had repaired the defences before Sir Edmund Lyons returned to the fleet at Baltchick. The state of Souk= Kai& was singular. To please the Georgians, and to induce them to escort the Russian garrison to Xutais, the Russians, spared the town.. But when the squadron steamed away, a contest for its possession between the Georgians and Circassians was imminent; and the Admirals had impressed upon the Turkish authorities the necessity of sending an adequate force to occupy the place.

Before the troops had all departed from Scutari, there was a review for the gratification of the Sultan ; and it is remarked that the spectacle seemed to rouse him from the melancholy which is his common cha- racteristic. He laughed and chatted with the chief officers, and seemed both astonished and delighted : Lord Cardigan and his regiment of Lan- cers were special objects of his admiration. On that occasion a dervish stepped up and denounced the Sultan as a Giaour Padishah : he was quickly seized and dragged away. Lord Stratford gave a grand dinner on the 30th May ; when a company of the Ninety-third Highlanders marched to the British Embassy, bagpipes playing, to mount guard. The guests included Redschid Pasha, Held Pasha, the new Grand Vizier, the Duke of Cambridge, and Baron de Bruck. It is an unusual thing for the Grand Vizier to accept invitations from the Diplomatic Body. In pro- posing the health of the Duke of Cambridge, Baron de Bruck "made a very remarkable speech, in which he wished success to the Allies in de- fending the integrity and independence of the Ottoman empire."

Some further changes have been made in the Turkish Ministry. Reds- chid Pasha has-retired, on account of "ill-health" • .Chekib Effendi suc- ceeds him as Minister of Foreign Affairs, and late intro- ducer of Ambassadors, becomes President pf the Council. The detailed explanation of this change has not yet reached us.

A Prussian officer sends an account of a visit he paid to the quarters of the Seventeenth Lancers at Kuleli, near Scutari. His letter is full of the highest praise both of the horses and the men. The horses seem to have made a deep impression on him. He also inspected the heavy ar- tillery; and the chief faults he finds is that the guns are rather over- horsed, and that the men do not wear frock-coats ! He predicts, from his knowledge of the Russian cavalry and artillery, that they will have no chance against our soldiers in the field. Before the French troops left Gallipoli, they were reviewed by Marsha/ St. Arnaud : 30,000 men, with cavalry and artillery, appeared in march- ing order and prepared for action. The Marshal took especial notice of his old African regiments, frequently addressed individual soldiers by name, and bade them all take great care of their health.

A "merchant" has made a fortune at Gallipoli, mainly through the pictorial talents of a French officer. The merchant, otherwise general dealer, wanted a sign for his store, and stated his case to a French cap- tain. The captain thought over the case, and painted him a rough re- presentation of a Zouave and a Highlander, each in full uniform, grasp- ing each other's hand, and at the same time ringing their glasses together in true convivial style. The picture turned out to be ahit" every- body, British officers, Turkish pashas, Armenian merchants,—all; wanted to purchase it ; but the lucky possessor of the picture refused to part with it, and has carried it with him as a trophy to Varna. GERMANY.—The Emperor of Austria and the Xing of Prussia have met at Teschen, and the King had returned to Berlin on the 10th June.

What was done at the meeting is uncertain ; but the ifoniteur publishes a brief despatch stating that "the Austrian Government congratulates itself upon the results of the interview" ; and despatches from Berlin and other quarters describe those results as "favourable."

It is now explained, that the eight states meeting at Bamberg passed resolutions not so favourable to Austria and Prussia as the public has been led to suppose. They declared in favour of conciliation, of an ac- knowledgment of the services of the Emperor Nicholas, and insisted that the demand for the evacuation of the Principalities, if made, should be made contemporaneously with a demand on the Western Powers to evacuate the Turkish waters and territory. Their acceptance of the Austro-Prussian treaty is made to depend on the fulfilment of these con- ditions.

One of the subjects which probably occupied the attention of the two Monarchs at Teschen is supposed to have been these resolutions of the Bamberg Conference ; and it is said that the Cabinets of Berlin and Vienna have agreed upon the reply to be made to the resolutions, and also as to the means for obviating the difficulties they raise. Another report is, that the Prussian Government had resolved to back the summons addressed by Austria to Russia, and to send Lieutenant- Colonel Manteuffel to St. Petersburg with the despatch on the subject.

The more recent military news represents the Austrian army as having moved the greater part of the troops from the Danube to Transylvania. The troops ordered, forming the army of Gallicia, are to be in position on the 19th instant ; provision being made in the province for 120,000 men and 40,000 horses. An anecdote is going the round of the German papers, to which some weight is attached by the purveyors of news. It represents that in a conversation between the Emperor of Austria and the Duke of Gotha the Emperor said, "I shall at ones peremptorily summon the Russian Go- vernment to evacuate the Danubian Principalities; and unless imme- diate compliance follow, I give you my word of honour that I will forth- with declare war to Russia." The Duke asked whether he was at liberty to repeat these words ; to which the Emperor replied, that he had spoken them publicly, with a view to their gaining publicity.

The Prince and Princess of Prussia, yielding, it is asserted, to the re- peated and affectionate solicitations of the King, have visited Berlin to celebrate the anniversary of the death of their father. On the 7th June, the royal party went to the mausoleum and heard the funeral service, annually performed over the tomb, upon which the King had placed a fresh wreath of evergreens. The "silver wedding," or twenty-fifth anniversary of the marriage of the Prince and Princess of Prussia, was celebrated at Berlin on the 11th and 12th instant. In order not to give a pretext for popular de- monstrations against the King, the Prince kept his court at Potsdam. The whole Ministry, and the officers of the army, found their way to Potsdam and duly paid their respects. In the evening Berlin was illu- minated. On the following day a serenade was performed early in the morning : then followed the presentation of addresses from the provinces and the committees for establishing a sort of Prussian Chelsea Hospital, from every municipal corporation in the kingdom, and from many others, including ladies ; and all presented some gift—from the silver shield given by Berlin, to the carpet or embroidery given by the ladies. In the evening the Prince and Princess walked in the Thiergarten, and were well received.

Dr.simen.x.—In order to prevent the celebration of the anniversary of the constitution in the capital, the Danish Ministry issued a number of vexatious police regulations ; and the people on their side, determined not to break the law, made preparations for holding their festival six miles out of town. There on the 5th June, in a wood on the plain by the royal hunting-box, called the Hermitage, they set up a pillar crowned by the Danebrog, and an immense platform at its base, with a colossal bust of the King, made by the sculptor Bissen for the occasion, placed beside. The police-regulations ceased at four o'clock ; then the guilds, trades, students, unions, &c., arrived on the ground with their banners, forming a great crowd. Singing and speaking followed; the speaking tame in tone, everything being sacrificed to a peaceful policy. Later in the evening the mass broke up into separate groups, and there was a good deal of vigorous speaking. There was also dancing by the light of an illumination of coloured lamps. The English and French Ministers were present.

RIISSIA.—Although little dependence can be placed on the stories of travellers circulated by the German papers, yet it is worth while to state that Frenchmen quitting Russia report that their motive in doing so was that "the country is on the eve of a revolution." Da.the.autlaosity of private letters from Erzerouni; -the 'atie declares that the rupture between Persia and Russia is complete. "The late Per- sian Ambassador at St. Petersburg had arrived on his way to Teheran," and Russian subjects were quitting Persia.

GE.EECE.—The new Greek Government had at the latest dates issued a Proclamation pointing out the unfortunate situation of the country ; an- nouncing that the King had pledged himself to neutrality ; and calling upon the people to attend to internal improvements, the development of the 'constitution and to keep faith with external powers. It also stated that the Ministry impatiently waited for its President, Mavrocordato. The names of the other Ministers are Canaria, Kalergi, P. Argyropoulos, Riga Palamides, G. Payne, and P. Calligas. One of the first acts of the Ministry has been to recall the insurgent chiefs.

There is now no doubt that a considerable body of insurgents, under Hadji Petros, did defeat with great slaughter a body of Turks whom they had hemmed in among the mountains of Thessaly near Colabacca. The Turks lost five guns, two colours, some munitions of war, clothing and tents. This Hadji Petros has been recalled. In other quarters the Turks have been successful.

MONTENEGRO.—Aecording to letters in the Moniteur, the Montenegrins, acting on the advice of the Russian Colonel Kovalevsky, have adopted a mode of war which will give some trouble. They descend in small bodies into the neighbouring districts which are bare of troops, and seize convoys of ammunition and provisions. Thus they captured an ammu- nition-train within fifteen miles of Mostar. On the Albanian side they have not been so successful, but have been met and repulsed.

Thump Sravra.—The Franklin arrived at Southampton on Thursday, with advices from New York to the 3d June.

The President has issued a proclamation, which, reciting that informa- tion has been received that certain citizens of the United States are organ- izing an expedition to invade Cuba, declares that such expedition would be an infraction of the law of the United States and a violation of treaties; warns all persons that those who are unmindful of the honour of their country's flag will be prosecuted ; and states that full powers have been given to the officers of the United States for the purpose of preserving peace and maintaining authority. The fugitive slave case at Boston had ended in the condemnation of the slave. He was escorted on board a revenue cutter by a guard of foot, horse, artillery, and police, through a crowd that took no pains to conceal its detestation of the transaction. The stars and stripes were draped with black on the occasion.

Lams AND CHI:CU.—The overland mail arrived on Monday, with ad- vices from Bombay to the 10th May, and from Hongkong to the 22d April.

There is very little news. Dacoity still manages to exist in our Bur- man territories, under the chief Goung-gye ; and several skirmishes are mentioned. Lord Harris arrived at Madras on the 28th April ; Sir Henry Pottinger had departed a few days previously. The electric telegraph from Calcutta to Delhi was to be opened on the Queen's birthday. The line between Bombay and Indere is completed ; the first message was received at Bombay on the 9th May. The defences of Bombay were un- der repair ; operations being quickened by a report that the Russian squadron was near Singapore. But it was felt that the Anglo-French force in those seas was fully adequate to deal with the Russians. The Chinese "patriots" are still making way Northward. It is even reported that the young Emperor had left his capital, at the head of 2000 horse. On the other hand, the Pekin Gazette records several defeats in- flicted on the " rebels " in the metropolitan province. Sir John Bowring arrived at Hongkong on the 12th April, and on the 13th was sworn in as Governor and Vice-Admiral of Hongkong and Chief Superintendent of British trade in China.

The Imperialists besieging Shanghai had been defeated by a combined attack from the rebels and Europeans. The latter interfered because tho Imperialists wantonly insulted and robbed some Englishmen and refused reparation. The European forces were taken from the Queen's ships Encounter and Grecian, and the United States ship Plymouth. The insurgents took advantage of the attack made by the latter, and the result was the rout of the Imperialists.

According to a journal published at Singapore, there is no need to fear that the Russian Pacific squadron will do any damage there. At that date, the war-ships Spartan, Rapid, Lily, Baracouta, and Rattler, were in the roads ; and the Sibylle was on its way from Trincomalee and the Saracen from England, besides a French corvette and war steamer.