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,fritirt.—M. de Morny presented the new penal bill to the Legisla- tive Body on Saturday. In doing so, he explained its origin and pur- port., and discoursed on the state of parties in France., M. de Moray admitted that the bill had caused considerable emotion out of that assem- bly. " Drawn up vnekr the influence of the attempt of the 14th January, it was thought to be animated with a spirit of anger and persecution, and, with an alarm more or less sincere, it was designated as the Loi des Suspects." Before defining it, he made a pointed reference to the hos- tility of the old parties. " The majority of those men 'a ho have remained attached to an ancient order of things have been men of the Government : they know the conditions and the difficulties of it ; they are not under the illusion of thinking that a fresh revolution could now take place for the benefit of their opinions; they are not ignorant that it is rather against society than against the throne that these blows are directed ; and nevertheless they prefer by re- maining aloof to for-et their oldprinciples, and to seek to weaken the go- vernment which protects them. This is a reoretable contradiction, which diminishes the prestige of men and destroys political faith in the minds of the people, and a sad situation, with which, nevertheless, a strong govern- ment ought to know how to live without too much umbrage and without violence."

He specified the Legitimists and Orleanists by name, and argued against their theories and principles. He said that the inconvenience of the dissension in the party of order compelled the Government to have recourse to exceptional means of defence, and postponed the extended practice of liberty. The bill is only aimed at the implacable enemies of society. It has been remarked that the Ifoniteur of the very day on which M. de Moray made this statement gave a different account of the origin of the bill, in the following terms-

" The measures recently adopted by the Emperor's Government to defend and consolidate our institutions had been long. decided on in his Majoiy's mind. The bill has no other object thau to give to the Government and to the magistracy the means of reaching those hardened offenders."

The Paris correspondent of the Times, to show the worth of Count Walewaki's plea that the offensive military addresses were inserted by "inadvertence" in the :Wonderer, proves that these addresses began to wear on the 19th January, and that they appeared regularly on every day up to the 29th, the 25th excepted. It is remarkable that the worst passages were in the addresses published towards the close of the period. The five Marshals have been nominated. Marshal Magnan commands the Army of the North, head-quarters Paris ; Marshal Canrobert the East, head-quarters Nancy ; Marshal Castellane the South-east, head- quarters Lyons ; Marshal Bosquet the South-west, head-quarters Toulouse ; Marshal Baraguay d'Hifiiers the West, head-quarters Tours. Nothing is said about Pelissier.

The Chambre des Miser en Accusation received on Saturday, the re- port of M. Salle, substitute of the Procnreurekeeneral, on the attempt to assassinate the Emperor and Empress on the 14th January last ; and it decided that Joseph Pierri, Charles de Rudio, Antoine Gomez, Felix Or- sini, and Simon Francois Bernard, the latter absent, shall be tried before the Court of Assizes. The name of Thomas Allsop does not appear. Lord Palmerston's answer to Mr. Stirling on the question of Cantil- lon's legacy, in the House of Commons last Friday, has not been printed in the Monikur.

An Englishman, bearing a Foreign Office passport, was arrested in Paris last week, on suspicion of being a conspirator. He was marched to a guard-house, searched in the presence of soldiers, marched off to- wards the Prefecture of Police, and suddenly set at liberty.

The usual processions of fat oxen in honour of the opening of Lent have taken place in Paris. On Tuesday, one of the big beasts was taken to the Tuileries. The Emperor, the Empress, and the Imperial Prince,

appeared in the balcony of the Pavilion de l'Morloge. The Emperor re- marking in the crowd the children of the 1st Regiment of the Guards,

made them come up-stairs, and gave them places in the Salle des Mare- chaux to see the procession. The little girl of three years old represent- ing Cupid, according to tradition, and carried by a nymph in the tri- umphal car, was, as usual, taken up-stairs and caressed by the Empress. The Emperor held up the Imperial Prince in his arms to show him to ite_erowd, ti ftifillit—A telegraphic despatch from Berne states that " the Federal Council has decreed that the refugees in'the Cantons of Vaud, Valais, Nettehretel, Ticino, Soleure, and Basle-Jura, shall be removed into the interior. The Government of Berne will see that this decree is exe- cuted, together with M. Dubs, President of the Government of Zurich, and M. Bischoff, head of the Police of Basle."

Inman R.—Flowery narratives of the festivities at Berlin in honour of the marriage of Prince Frederick William continue to be written and published. One of the most noticeable scenes was enacted on Saturday last. More than a thousand students formed a procession, and marched through the streets, fantastically dressed, bearing torches, and singing after their fashion. A deputation waited on the bride and bridegroom. After the procession they had a supper, and made a collection for the dismissed functionaries of Schleswig-Holstein. The Prince and Princess gave their first soiree on the 11th. Above two thousand persons were invited. The English residents have presented an address of con- gratulation. The King of Denmark has declined to make a change hi the con- stitution of Holstein and Lauenberg at the demand of the Germanic Diet. The Diet is to send in an ultimatim. It is remarked that the troops of the states forming the tenth corps d'armee meet this month, 26,000 strong. These states are Hanover, Holstein and Lauenberg, Brunswick, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, and Olden- burg. Nominally, it is said, they meet for ordinary manceuvres, but really for preparing to occupy Holstein and Lanenberg.

S11111.-110 trial of the accused at Salerno continues. When it was found that Watt was insane an application was made to the Court to allow him to be sent to an asylum. The Court debated the question a long time ; it was doubted whether his madness was real. The Presi- dent was of opinion that the simple fact of a man in his position refusing to appear in court was the strongest symptom of mental aberration. At length it was agreed that medical men should report upon his mental

state ; and the result was that Watt, under the charge of the British Acting Consul, was sent to the English Hospital at Naples. Count Cavour, learning that the Cagliari was captured on the high seas when proceeding to Naples to inform the Government of what had happened, has demanded immediate restitution of the ship and the libera- tion of the crew. The demand has not been complied with.

Snb if( .—Intelligenee has tome from India this week by telegraph and letter as late as the 24th January. But the information from the seat of war is very scanty, and carries us little further than the tele- graphic despatches of last week. So far as appears, Brigadier Walpole had formed a junction with the forces of Colonel Seaton at Mynpoorie. The whole road down the Doab was clear of rebels. Sir Cohn Camp- bell, reinforced perhaps by Walpole's brigade was about to cross the Ganges at Futteyghur.

General Outram had engaged the rebels three times. On the 22d Ja- nuary, he anticipated and frustrated an attempt on their part to take possession of the road to Cawnpore. On the 12th January General Outram was attacked by 30,000 of the rebels ; who were repulsed with the loss of 400 men. The post of Alumbagh was again assailed on the 16th, and the attack lasted for eleven hours ; the enemy beingleaded by a Ijindoo fanatic, who was wounded and taken prisoner. The insur- gents were driven back with severe loss. Alumbagh was plentifully supplied with provisions. The news of Jung Bahadoor's success at Gorruekpore, and of Captain Osborne's success at Myhere is confirmed. Tho Bhopal Contingent were disarmed at Sehore on the 12th January, by the force under Gene- ral Rose. About 150 prisoners were tried by court-martial, and shot by musketry ; and many others were killed in attempting to escape. Saugor is the present destination of Sir Hugh Rose. The Punjaub is again safe : it has been quaking for some weeks, the people fancying from the extreme delay in the arrival of the troops that none were coming. Three regiments of infantry, one of cavalry, and a strong body of dragoons, were expected at Lahore on the 1st of January, and troops have been rapidly arriving at Bombay. The want of money is now the greatest evil with which the Punjaub has to contend. Sir Colin Campbell has forwarded the following curious despatch to Lord Canning. " Head-quarters, Camp near Cawnpore, Dec. 20. " My Lord—I have the honour to bring to your Lordship's notice an omission, which I have to regret, in my despatch of the 2d of December ; and I beg to be allowed now to repair it. " I desire to make my acknowledgment of the great difficulties in which Major-General Windham, C.B., was placed during the operations he de- scribes in his despatch ; and to recommend him and the officers whom he no- tices as having rendered him assistance to your Lordship's protection and good offices. " I may mention, in conclusion, that Major-General Windham is igno- rant of the contents of my despatch of the 2d of December, and that I am prompted to take this step solely as a matter of justice to the Major-General and the other officers conoerned.

" e have the honour to be, my Lord, with the greatest respect, your Lord- ship's most obedient humble servant, "C. CAMPBELL, General, Commander-in-chief." Lord Canning "hastened" to give this despatch publicity; and re- marked in a general order- " It supplies an omission in a previous despatch from his Excellency, which was printed in the Gazette Extraordinary of the 24th instant. Ma- jor-General Windham's reputation as a leader of conspicuous bravery and coolness, and the reputation of the gallant force which he commanded, will have lost nothing from an accidental omission such as General Sir Colin Campbell has occasion to regret."

Din a .—Advises from Canton to the 29th December contain some account of the operations which resulted in the capture of that city. The official statement is conveyed in this hurried despatch from General Van Straubenzee to Lord Panminc.

" Canton, December 29, 1867. My Lord—I have groat satisfaction in reporting that Canton city was escaladed and captured this day at nine o'clock, with a more trifling loss than could have been expected. Great emulation was displayed by the whole Allied force, among whom the greatest cordiality and good feeling exists.

' We have to deplore the loss of Captain Bate, of the Royal Navy ; also of Lieutenant Hackett, of the 59th Regiment ; Lieutenant Bowen, of the same regiment, has been seriously 'wounded.

" All is still in confusion, and the mail leaving ; I must therefore defer further details till the next opportunity. 0. T. VAN STRALIBENZEE, Major-General, " Commanding Troops in China.

" Fort Gough is now being occupied."

The ships began to assemble in the river on the 23d, and to warn off the floating population. Honan was occupied by the English and French as early as the 15th. On the 26th, the Allied commanders noti- fied to Yeh that they would grant him forty-eight hours more to deli- berate. They extended that to seventy-two. As Yeh gave no answer, it was determined to begin the bombardment on the 28th. Early on that morning, the gun-boats, ships, and batteries, opened a slow but heavy fire of shot and shell upon the walls and defences. About noon, a body of troops, mainly English, but partly French, landed on the East side of the city, and soon captured Lin's Fort. All night rockets were fired at the houses near the walls, causing a fierce conflagration and the destruction of many frail tenements. Next day, the troops successively stormed the five-storied Pagoda, the Magazine Hill Fort, and Gough's Fort. The fighting continued until dark, and the mail left the river on the 29th December before it had concluded.

gum( s1a1Y1.—The Kangaroo arrived at Liverpool from New York on Wednesday, with advices to the 4th February.

The New York papers report that the 2e1 February was a day of much excitement at Washington.

"The Lecompton (Kansas) constitution, accompanied by a message, was sent into Congress by Mr. Buchanan. The President says that a great delusion seems to pervade the public mind in regard to the state of parties in Kansas ; that the dividing-line there is not between two political parties, both acknowledging the lawful existence of the Government, but between those who are loyal to this Government and those who are en- deavouring to destroy it by force and usurpation ; and that their efforts would have been aocomplished had it not been for the troops of the United States. The President further states, that a large portion of the people of Kansas have been in a state of actual rebellion ever since his inauguration, and that the Topeka Government is in direct opposition to the one presented ' and recognized by Congress. So far as regards slavery in Kansas, the Pre- sident asserts that it exists in, that territory by virtue of the -constitution of the United States ; and that Kansas is as much a Slave State as Georgia or South Carolina. Mr. Buchanan advocates the speedy admission of Kansas as a State, as the :only means of restoring tranquillity to that dis- tracted territory. An animated and excited debate ensued in the Senate upon the motion to print the message, which continued until the hour of adjournment. In the House muchexcitement and confusion prevailed." General Walker had appeared before the United States District Court at New Orleans. He was told by Judge M•Caleb that there was nothing against him, the Grand Jury having refused to find a bill against him. Walker then asked to be put on trial for violation of the Neutrality Laws - which the Judge refused, as the district attorney said there was nothing against him, unless new instructions were received from Washington.

tsnatra.—Advices from Toronto to the let February have come to hand. United Canada found a great difficulty in agreeing upon the site of its capital, and the Legislature referred the selection to the Home Go- vernment. Mr. Labouthereron behalf of the Queen, has fixed upon Ot- tawa, sometimes called Bytown, as the seat& government. This town is situated on the river Ottawa , it is to the North of Kingston and West of Montreal, and about equidistant from the two. By the Ottawa it caumni- nicates with the St. Lawrence ; by the Rideau river and canal with Lake Ontario. It has a population of 10,000 persons. As a military position it is said to be very strong. The'selection. of Ottawa for a capital has given considerable dissatisfaction. The Toronto correspondent of the Daily News says it is thought that the selection will be rejected, and that the final choice will fall upon Montreal. By this writer Ottawa is described as " a small place, unable to afford accommodation to the army of clerks which accompanies the government. It is not easy of access ; it has a frightfully cold climate, even for Canada ; and it has a turbulent, un- educated population of lumbermen around it."

The settlers on the Red River have sent a strong petition to the Ca- nadian Legislature praying that such "measures may be devised and adopted as will extend to us the protection of the Canadian government, laws, and institutions, and make us equal participators in those rights and liberties enjoyed by British subjects, in whatever part of the world they reside."