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FitexcE.—The King having sent word to the Chateau d'Eu, that he should return from England on Tuesday, he was anxiously ex- pected. A tent was erected, over night, at the entrance of the pier of Treport, for the accommodation of Queen Amelie. At nine o'clock in the morning, a signal was made that one of the vessels of the squadron was in sight ; on which the Queen and Madame Adelaide, accompanied by M. Martin du Nord, Minister of Justice, the Arch- bishop of Rouen, and several officers, civilians, and ecclesiastics, re- paired to Treport. A numerous military guard of honour had been drawn out, and all the people of the town were on the sea-shore. The vessel proved to be the Elan ; whose Captain hastened to land, and pre- sented a letter to the Queen, and she communicated its tidings to the bystanders. In it, the King told the Queen of his altered route ; said that he should land in France before she received the letter; and named three o'clock as the probable hour of his arrival at Eu. Her Majesty went to meet him on the Abbeville road, accompanied by Madame Adelaide, M. Martin du Nord, and Lieutenant-General Friant. More than one estafette passed them on the way, ordering relays of horses. At Bernay, they found that dinner had been ordered there at seven o'clock ; and the Queen waited. At seven, arrived another estafette, on his way to Eu, with a note for the Queen : it contained only these 'words- " My dear friend, I landed today at half-past two o'clock, in excellent health and spirits."

The King and Dim De Montpensier reached Bernay at ten o'clock ; looking quite well. They arrived at Eu on Wednesday morning. It was understood that the King intended to remain there a week.

SPAIN.—The Cortes were opened at Madrid, by the Queen in person, on the 10th instant ; her fourteenth birthday. The procession of car- riages from the Palace to the Senate comprised Queen Isabella the Second, the Queen Mother, the Infanta Luisa, the Infant Don Francisco de: Paula, and many officials ; a large escort guarding the cortege. The Queen and her sister wore the melancholy expression of face that indicates delicate health ; Queen Christina looked well and animated. The Queen's speech began by declaring that she could not celebrate her birthday better than by assembling the Cortes. She congratulated herself on the friendly assurances of Foreign Powers, particularly naming the Sublime Porte as having sent a special envoy to felicitate her. The dispute with Morocco had resulted in a treaty, obtained by the media- f401.1 of France and England ; good offices which are suitably acknow- _ ledged. A measure of " constitutional reform" will be submitted to the Cortes by Ministers- " I promise myself that you will dedicate yourselves with zeal to so import- ant a work, since the least delay might occasion incalculable evils, frustrating the hopes of the nation, which desires to see the field of political discussiou closed as soon as possible, and the institutions which are to rule it secured for the future. In order to give more robustness and force to those institutions, it is necessary and urgent to endow the nation with organic laws which are in conformity with the constitution and facilitate its action and movement. For this reason, I hope you will contribute, in accord with my Government, to re- pair a fault which the nation has been lamenting for many years." Several measures of administrative and financial improvement are promised. The army, in spite of the seven years' civil war, is announce& to be in a state of excellent discipline. A plan of creating a powerful marine is contemplated, but it will be a work of time ; and time also is. demanded for a fundamental reform of the administration of justice.

The Queen returned to the Palace as she came. There was very little cheering. Afterwards there was a levee ; and at night the Queen went to the Circo theatre. The city was illuminated. S. Mon had issued three decrees capitalizing a number of bills, andf thus setting free various branches of the revenue from charges upon them ; offering to the holders of the bills Three per Cent Stock at price of 35 or 40; or, if discontented, the option of waiting to see what the Cortes could do for them.

When Mr. Henry Bulwer was at Seville, last month, he was enter- tained with a magnificent serenade, performed apparently by the- Liberal party. Afterwards he published a letter in the Diario do Comercio, dated 28th September, thanking the inhabitants, as Spaniards, for their courtesy,, but repudiating the supposition that he interfered in the internal politics of the country— "1 think it my duty to say, that as it is the province of the Spanish people— so renowned for their spirit of independence—to choose their own government,. make their own laws, and intrust the sanction of royal authority to such as they deem most deserving of their confidence, the foreigner who might attempt to meddle with those acts would prove that he is as ignorant of his position as of the national character of the Spaniards. A diplomatic agent who should thus act would be still more deserving of censure. • • • Far is it from my Government to pursue that Machiavellian policy which encourages the dis- sensions of other states, and takes part in them. England knows no parties in Spain." A misunderstanding has arisen between certain Spanish and English authorities. The Rayo, a small vessel of the Spanish navy, pursued a smuggler into the waters of Gibraltar. Two shots were fired at the Rayo from an English battery, and then a third from a larger gun, which sunk the vessel. The crew were saved. The English say, that the guns were fired to make the Ray° show its colours ; the Spaniards aver that the colours were shown from the first. Mr. Bulwer has in- terposed, and the quarrel must soon be settled.

SWEDEN.—King Oscar was crowned" King of Sweden and Norway and of the surrounding provinces, he and no other," on the 28th Sep- tember, in the cathedral of Stockholm ; and at the same time his con- sort, Josephina Maximiliana Eugenia, was crowned" Queen of Sweden and Norway, she and no other." The scene was imposing. Two thrones were erected in the church, for the King and Queen ; and an ancient silver chair served as the coronation-seat of both. Their four sons, fine youths, the eldest eighteen years of age, and their daughter, an interesting girl of fourteen, were present. In allotted seats were the Four Estates,—the Nobles, in their uniform of blue and gold ; the Clergy ; the Burghers ; and the Peasants, looking very like English peasantry in their" Sunday best " ; the orders of knighthood, in fanci- ful dresses ; official persons, in uniform: the diplomatic corps, in every variety of gorgeous costume ; ladies, all in white dresses ; and squeezed into the unappropriated part of the church, a miscella- neous host of citizens. After the ceremony, the three eldest Princes took the oath of fidelity ; kissing the King's hand, while his Majesty kissed them on the cheek : the same ceremony being repeated before the Queen ; who embraced her sons with tears. The Four Estates repeated the oath simultaneously. The ceremony concluded with a long and curious process of homage—.

"The Four Estates, passing down the aisle man by man, stopped between. the thrones, and bowed, first to the King and then to the Queen ; the saluta- tion being graciously returned to every individual by their Majesties. This was a very striking spectacle ; and the most interesting feature of it the body of peasants—honest, sleek, hard-working, but well-fed-looking labourers, their hair divided in the centre, and combed smooth, who made their best bows in all simplicity to King and Queen, and not unseldom, with native gallantry, to her Majesty first They were the chief of them dressed in long black coats ; all of them their hats, and most of them their umbrellas in their hands. Altogether, it was amusing to witness the different indications of character which this simple but nervous ceremony elicited from all ranks; the confidence and the timidity, the grace and the clumsiness of the various bowers. Some few so fan lost their presence of mind as to hurry past without any demonstration of respect; and some (fewer still) we were sorry to remark, in a land where the preservation of liberty gives too much impunity to licence, purposely omitted it." As the morning was bad, the chief personages had come to the church. in carriages ; but the weather cleared, and the King and Queen, each in a separate procession, returned to the Palace on foot ; the Royal party repairing immediately to the apartments of the Queen Dowager to offer their homages, and receive her gratulations.

In the evening there was another specticle-

" The city was brilliantly illuminated; the narrow streets, with their lofty houses, reflecting a mutual blaze, looking like long tunnels of light ; while the beautiful site of the city was distinctly traced in lines of brilliancy, which rose and fell with the varying heights, and were all reflected in long quivering forms in the waters of the Meeks Lake. While the illumination was at its height, a line of torches was observed to issue from the Palace ; and the King andl the Queen, with their family and court, in their carriage of state, passed slowly through the principal streets, attended byan immense cheering concourse."

UNITED STATES.—The mail-steamer Britannia, which left Boston on the 1st instant, and Halifax on the 3d, arrived at Liverpool on Monday evening.

In the United States, attention was still engaged with the affairs of the election of President. It is said, however, that Mr. Calhoun had been investigating all the questions at issue between England and the United States, and that he was prepared with measures for their settle- ment, to be submitted to Congress.

At a meeting of the Whig party at Boston, on the 19th, Mr. Web.

ster made a long and effective speech. Alluding to Texas, he advised that she should continue to be an independent nation, and repudiated the idea that England would seek to acquire any special connexion with Texas. He spoke of the fixed determination of the British Go- vernment to discountenance slavery ; on which a voice in the crowd exclaimed, "They are all slaves in England!" Mr. Webster turned quickly on the speaker, and indignantly asked what blood the citizens of the United States inherited ; whence were the first guarantees of the liberty of the subject derived ? He proceeded to say, that Mexico had a right to regain Texas if she could do so speedily and promptly ; but otherwise a war of petty depredation must be put a stop to by the Great Powers. His course on the subject of protection would be the principle, "If you will trade with me, I will trade with you." He would, how- ever, have the band labour of America protected against the cheap labour of the operatives of Europe. A new line of packets, consisting of the St. George, 1,000 tons, Pacific, 800 tons, and Seymour, 1,000 tons, was about to be established between New York and Liverpool. The St. George was to sail on the 8th of October.

Mr. Macready had taken his farewell of the American stage in the character of Lear. In addressing the audience, be alluded with satis- faction to his own success, and to the American appreciation of Shak- spere, not only on the stage, but in the library and the drawingroom.

A singular murder is reported to have taken place in Wilcox county Alabama. A Mr. Rivers was engaged to be married to a Miss Sarah Tait, with the consent of all the lady's friends, except her brother, Dr. Tait. The brother, in front of his father's house, before the marriage, shot Rivers ; who was taken into the bride's dwelling, and there the ceremony was performed ! The murdered man died immediately after.

Castards.—We have Quebec and Montreal papers to the 27th Sep- tember. By a proclamation dated on the 23d, the Governor-General had dissolved the Provincial Parliament ; which was summoned to meet at Montreal "on Tuesday the 12th day of November next, then and there to have conference and treaty with the great men and Legis- lative Council of our said Province." The colonists seemed to look with some apprehension to the "active electioneering" which in Ca- nada is so apt to involve even sanguinary violences. The Quebec Gazette observes- " We suspect that both parties are over-sanguine in respect to their success at a new general election. If it take place in time to meet within the latest period allowed by law, the 9th December, the elections will be held at a very inconve- nient season for the great body of the electors, the closing of the agricultural labours of the season, and the breaking up of the roads."

The Toronto Examiner announces that Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Small had thrown up their silk gowns, after the example of Mr. Lafontaine and Mr. Morin. In a correspondence with Mr. Daly, which had been published, Mr. Lafontaine and Mr. Mode jointly assign their reason for the step. In reply to an address from inhabitants of Drummond county, Sir Charles Metcalfe spoke of the proceedings of a party tending to the separation from Great Britain, and also of the " designs" of the late Executive Councillors ; putting which together, those gentlemen con- strued the two remarks as an aspersion on their loyalty. Sir Charles pointed out that they had omitted a passage in his reply, which limited the " designs " that he condemned to an attempt at making the Go- vernor-General subservient to party ; and he invited them to recall the resignation of their gowns. They replied, that they still held them- selves to lie under the aspersion, and persisted in resigning. The Quebec Gazette laughs at this tardy exhibition of sensitive conscience ; since the silk gowns sat so easily on these gentlemen's backs" during nine months under dozens of published answers to addresses precisely similar to that of the Drummond address, at which they have taken offence. Is the public to infer that the loud complaints put forth by their organs, that the places rendered vacant by their resignations were not filled up, was merely that they were not recalled to power by the 'Governor, and that the present stir is because others have been ap- pointed?"

There had been some rioting among the students of Victoria College, at Coburg, and the inhabitants of the town. The students lowered the British flag and tore it into fragments, afterwards hoisting the Ame- rican; which was speedily hauled down by the citizens. No serious damage resulted; and the loyal party were completely triumphant.

MEXIC0.—Papers had been received at New York from Mexico to the 4th September. President Santa Anna had recently lost his wife. He was at issue with Congress in consequence of some tardiness to vote the necessary funds for an attack on Texas, the active ope- rations of which, however, had actually begun. Important despatches for the President were on their way from Texas, the United States, and England; all, it was understood, of a pacific tendency.

The town of Matamoras had been nearly destroyed by a hurricane. Some hundreds of lives were, lost ; but the overthrow of buildings was general, and the population were mostly living in shanties. The damage, it is said, cannot be repaired in six years! The President had ordered relief to be sent to the sufferers.

PERM—There has been a:revolution at Lima ; and Domingo Elias, a private citizen, has been set up as President.

CURA.—Mr. Wolf, agent of the American Mining Company in -Cuba, and several English and American miners, have been arrested, charged with a participation in the recent slave-insurrection. The Go- vernor has offered premiums for the settlement of White families in that island.

Temerx—Letters of the 8th of May have been received in Paris, seve- rally conveying the very contradictory intelligence, that tranquillity had been completely restored, and that a formidable insurrection was brewing. The inhabitants of Eimeo had refused to trade with the French.

The Constitutionnel of Friday copies from the Oceanie Francaise, an 'official journal of Tahiti, the report on the battle of Mahahena, by Cap- tain Bram, "Governor of the French Possessions in Oceania." It does not differ materially from previous accounts ; only making out the victory to have been more easily gained by the French. The native force, estimated by the English writers at 1,000 men, is said by M. Brunt to have been reckoned even at 1,500. He states that the English missionaries, with his authority, made a final attempt at media- tion; but unsuccessfully. The female chief Teritoua bad before" de. dared, in the name of all, that they would not accept of any arrange*, ment, and that the multitude would not disperse." " It then ap to me to be absolutely necessary," says M. Bruats- "to profit y presence of the Charte to strike a blow, which might prove to natives that not only we had nothing to fear from their attempts our establishments, but that we could reach them in the positions which they had themselves chosen and fortified." Hence the attack on the fortified position of Mahahena.

Divers versions of the affair of Lieutenant Rose have been received in France. One, in a Caen journal, representing Mr. Rose as apolo- gizing to his detainers, is manifestly erroneous. Another, in the Eman- cipation of Toulouse, seems to complete the English account in a very probable manner.

" The Commandant of the guard-ship sent a Midshipman to invite the Eng- lish officer to come on board. At first he refused, but afterwards said he should 7ield to superior force, and offered his sword to the Midshipman, who received it without having any orders, and the officer came as a prisoner. After expla- nations, the English officer was sent to his own ship, and the Midshipman put under arrest for having exceeded his orders. The chief of the staff afterwards went on board the English sloop to make apologies." The Annoricain of Brest states a new grievance—Lieutenant Hunt, of the Basilisk ketch, bad refused to dress his vessel on King Louis Philippe's fête-day, on the pretext that England had not recognized the French possession of Tahiti. The Armoricain remarks, that " the commander of the Basilisk ought to know that there are certain acts of politeness which are duties."