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"THUM—The intelligence from Biarritz, where the Emperor leads a busy life, is full of interest. The imperor and Empress, it appears, did visit San Sebastian on the 9th September, as announced from Madrid in the Morning Post. They

entered the bay, attended by a large suite, on board the war-steamers Newton and Pelican, about half-past three in the afternoon. They were saluted on their approach by the guns of the citadel, and received on

landing at the new mole by the military and civil authorities. A corre- spondent of Galignani s Messenger, part of whose letter we quoted in our latest edition on Saturday, gives an account of the visit in detail. " The congregated population of San Sebastian, gentle and simple, seemed determined not to lose such an opportunity of taking a good view of the man of the day' and the graciosa y amable Eugenia,' of whom we Spaniards are so proud. The Emperor's simple blue frock-coat, light waist- coat, and dark trousers, gave him the air of an English gentleman, to which a regular English-built hat contributes not a little. The Imperial cortege consisted of General Ney, the Marquis de Lagrange, Due de Cadore, Count Taseher de la Pagerie, the Prefect of the Basses-Pyrenees, and several Ladies of Honour, including the widow of M. Duces the late iinister of Marine. On landing, the Imperial party walked to the beautiful church of Santa Maria, where the Empress prayed a few moments at the altar; and then proceeded to the Town-house, in the Plaza Nueva. On appearing in the centre balcony, their Majesties were cheered by the populace who filled the square beneath. Adjourning thence to the municipal library, their Majesties partook of refreshments in that apartment; where Lieutenant March, the British Vice-Consul here, had the honour of being presented to the Emperor. This was the only presentation, I believe, which took place. A tour of the hill upon which the citadel and the picturesque British ceme- tery are situate, including an inspection of the citadel and a magnificent bird's-eye view of the surrounding country, concluded the Imperial visit to San Sebastian. The Emperor read with evident interest the English in- scriptiOn on the tombs of several officers and men belonging to the old Bri- tish Auxiliary Legion, including a white marble tablet to the memory of Sir R. Fletcher and the other engineer officers who fell in the siege of San Se- bastian in 1813; and it was remarked that his Majesty left for a moment the Empress's arm to decipher the letters better. Their Majesties evidently en- joyed their visit, and appreciated the welcome which they received. The shadows of night were stealing over the Atlantic when the Newton (what an example the French set the English in honouring merit and genius !) and the Pelican, hoisting lights at their mast-heads, stood out of the bay."

The Monitenr of Wednesday contained the following paragraph from the Court newsman.

"Biarritz, Sept. 14.—Yesterday his Excellency. Marshal Serrano intro- duced to the Emperor and Empress the Deputies from Biscay, who had come to present to their Majesties the unanimous resolution adopted by the Junta of that province, which recognizes the Imperial Prince as having the right to enjoy the titles and prerogatives attached to the quality of lord and citi- zen of Biscay. Messrs. Antonio Lopez de Belle and Jose Salvador de Le- queries, after a most flattering address, handed to the Emperor the official document. His Majesty replied, that he was most grateful to the Queen of Spain for having permitted the deputation to be presented to him ; that he was much touched at this proof of sympathy from the province of Biscay with the Empress and her son; that such demonstrations could but draw closer the ties that unite the two countries; and that he was happy to think that the Imperial Prince had also Spanish blood in his veins, for he the Em- peror had always felt for this chivalrous and warlike people as much affec- tion as esteem.'

The Basque Deputies- dined with the Emperor and Empress on the 14th, and received from the former the Legion of Honour. They are also to receive three Sevres china vases, and the portraits of the Empe- ror, Empress, and the infant Prince Imperial.

Prince Adalbert of Bavaria and his Spanish bride paid the Emperor a visit last week, on their way from Madrid to Germany. At a dinner given by the Prince to Marshal Serrano and the Bayonne authorities, he proposed this toast—" The union of France, Spain, and Bavaria" ; and spoke of the Emperor as " that great man whose reign secured the hap- piness of France ; and who merits and obtains the gratitude of the whole of Europe, whose tranquillity has been consolidated by the manner in which he has conducted and brought to a conclusion the war in the East."

Count Hatzfeldt, the Prussian Minister, and his wife, have been on a visit to the Emperor. On the 14th instant, there was a bull-fight at St. Esprit, near Bayonne ; and the Emperor and Empress countenanced this " sport" by their presence. Attempts have from time to time been made to introduce bull-fighting into France, but they have hitherto failed. Perhaps they

may succeed under " that great man," &c:Mr. Oliveira, one of the Members for Pontefract, and the Parliamentary

advocate for reduced duties on foreign wines, was entertained at dinner on Saturday by the Montpellier Chamber of Commerce and the Agricul- tural Society of the Department of Herault. M. Michel Chevalier, the well-known French Free-trader, presided at the dinner. Mr. Oliveira made a Free-trade speech on the occasion.

Some thirty persons were arrested in Paris on Tuesday night, and con- fined in the prison of Mazas. They are accused of being members of a secret society, and it is said they were devising a plan for the assassina- tion of the Emperor on his return from Biarritz. The society seems to have been formed from the " Marianne."

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so at 1 I - 1ff.—The Morning Post, again foremost in reporting Spanish news, published the following telegraphic message on Thursday. "Madrid, Sept. 16.—The Gazette publishes a Royal decree which re- establishes the constitution of 1845. An additional article lays down the nature of those offences of the press which shall be cognizable by a jury. It is also stated in the decree, that the minimum duration of the session of the Cortes shall be four months • that the existence of the Council of State is solemnly acknowledged ; that the consent of the Cortes shall be necessary for the marriage of the Sovereign or that of the heirs to the crown, for the alienation of the Royal patrimony, and for general amnesties." It is stated that the Captain-General of Andalusia having suspended, on his own authority, the sale of the mortmain property, an order was sent to him from Madrid immediately to resume the disposal of it.

Reports of dissensions in the O'Donnell Ministry continue to circulate ; but no fact authenticating the disunion has been made public.

S t H l 11.—At length Baron Hubner, about whose movements there has been so much ado, has arrived at Naples. He landed at Brindisi on the 6th, and went on at once to Gaeta. In " political circles " he is said to declare that he has " no mission"; nevertheless, he saw the King within a few days of his advent. Simultaneously with his arrival, the King ordered. the renewal of the trials of the advocate Mignona and the priests, for high treason. An odd coincidence. Letters from Naples in the journals state that the King has concentrated so large a body of troops near Naples, that he could move 60,000 men on that city without taking a soldier from the garrisons. A Vienna correspondent of the Journal of Frankfort states the Aus- trian view of the King's intentions-

" According to the latest intelligence from Milan, the King of Naples appears disposed to yield to the wishes of Austria and the Western Powers. The contents of the note which the Neapolitan Government has recently for- warded to London, and which was at the same time communicated to the Governments of Austria and France, were known at Milan. The Western Powers had above all, demanded of the King a general amnesty, in which "'eerie and Settembnni should be especially included, The King of Naples has declared himself opposed to a general amnesty ; but he has given the assurance that he is willing to grant a great number of pardons, which will be equivalent to a general amnesty ; and he promises to set Poerio and Set- tembrini at liberty when the present agitation shall have died away. The Lombardo-Venetian authorities advise, is said, that the King of Naples should, after the manner of Austria: combat the Sardinian policy by ini- tiating useful reforms." The Grand Duchess of Parma issued a decree on the 7th instant di- recting that the state of siege should be raised on the 10th ; and the cor- respondents refer this act of grace to the exertions of Count Stackelberg, the Russian Minister at Turin, who has recently visited the Duchess at Piacenza. In alluding to the mission of the Russian Count, the Moni- tore Toscano supports the rumour that his influence led the Grand Duchess to raise the state of siege. These words are attributed to him-

" The Czar has felt the deepest sympathy for the Duchess on the occasion of the trials to which she has been exposed ; he takes the greatest interest in her prosperity ; he advises her to persevere in her wise and mild inten- tions; and, should she meet with obstacles, the Court of Russia is deter- mined to support her with all its influence." The Sardinian Government has granted a complete amnesty to all those who are implicated in the revolt at Genoa in 1849. The Opinion of Turin says- " There is a story current at Milan of Marshal Radetzky's having lately drunk a toast to the King of Sardinia, promising to pay him a visit at Turin next spring. In the mean time, let us prepare for the Marshal a good re- ception at Alessandria, where he must necessarily put up before he sets out for Turin. Quick travelling would not be good for him at his advanced age, the more so as we are told by the Augsburg Gazette that he can no longer ride on horseback."

The Austrians are about to place a corps of observation on the Sar- dinian frontier.

gzititrlantr.—linmediately after the abortive Royalist rising in Neufchatel, M. de Sydow, the Prussian Minister to the Federation, then absent from his post, repaired to Berne, and renewed by letter, on the 5th September, the protest made by the king of Prussia in 1848 against " all old and new violations of his rights." To this the President of the Federation replied, on the 10th, by simply acknowledging the receipt of the letter, but refusing to accept the protest, and regretting that an event so deplorable as the late insurrection should have been seized as an occa- sion to renew it. The Suisse announces that M. de Sydow has had an audience of the President of the Federal Council, from whom he de- manded that the prisoners should be treated with kindness, and that the judicial inquiry and trial should not be too hastily conducted, as such a course might complicate still more the diplomatic relations of Prussia with the Confederation, and create fresh difficulties. M. Stcempffi replied, that Switzerland was the last country to which such observations ought to be addressed, since its legislation with respect to political offences and crimes was the least severe that existed. Justice, he added, should take its course, and the Confederation was firmly determined to reject all di- plomatic intervention.

It is reported from Paris, that " Prussia has requested the interven- tion of France with Switzerland, in favour of the exercise of clemency with reference to the recent events at Neufchatel." Colonel Frei- Heroze, the Federal Commissioner, has been addressing the people, and telling them not to pay the least attention to rumours about diplomatic intervention ; for the whole of the Confederation were interested in maintaining Neufchatel in the position it created for itself in 1848 ; nor would they be deterred even by armed resistance from giving their sup- port, should circumstances require it.

The Federal Assembly opened on the 15th. Both Houses were unani- mous in resolving to reject all foreign intervention in the case of Neuf- chatel, and to defend the constitution.

ium.—The " Congres International de Bienfaisance" was opened at Brussels on the 15th, under the direct influence of the Government ; M. de Decker, Minister of the Interior, and M. Liedts, Councillor of State, taking part in the deliberations. The President was M. Charles Rogier, member of the Chamber of Representatives. The Englishmen present were Mr. William Cowper, President of the Board of Health, Mr. John Simon, M,r. Edwin Chadwick, and Mr. F. 0. Ward. M. Ha- gler opened the proceedings with a speech describing the object of the Congress : " ramelioration physique, intellectuelle, et morale, des classes necessiteuses ; les questions qui concernent la vie materielle des popula- tions—nourriture, logement, vetements, travail manna." The Moniteur Beige officially reports the speeches of the delegates from various coun- tries—England, France, Prussia, Austria, Holland. This Congress was to sit for some days. nIIIIIIIII.—The King of Holland opened the session of the States- General on Monday, with a flourishing account of the condition of his dominions. To his great joy, war has ceased. The colonies enjoy a "happy tranquillity' ; measures are in progress to ameliorate the lot of the slaves in the Western colonies, so as to prepare for social reform ; " the internal condition of the country ought to inspire us with profound gratitude " ; "everything bespeaks a good harvest" ; railway projects give hope of seeing the Netherlands covered with a network of iron- ways ; the favourable state of the finances enables them to continue the redemption of the public debt ; three measures for education will be presented to the States-General.

Ai EMU! tr.—The Second Chamber of Hanover and King George V. have for some time been engaged in a dispute respecting the finances. The German Diet had resolved that the constitution of Hanover should be brought into harmony with the laws of the Confederation. One of the changes required was that the financial laws contained in the consti- tution of 1840 should be substituted for the laws of 1848 ; that the Royal treasury should be separated from that of the State. The Second Cham- ber having refused to make the changes required, the King prorogued them, on the 4th instant, and immediately decreed the changes himself. His first act is a large augmentation of the civil list.

11155i fl.—Full accounts of the coronation ceremonies at Moscow are now befole us. For some weeks anticipatory narratives have been in vogue ; but we have thought it better to desenbe once for all what has been, than to state before the event what was to be, and describe the ceremony over again when it should have been performed. The week preceding the coronation-day, the 7th September, was a gay and busy one at Moscow—gay with receptions and private festivities, busy with processions and reviews. The first official act of the coin- nation was the public announcement on the 4th that it would take place on the 7th. General Osten-Sacken, with a body of soldiers, the Grand Master of the Ceremonies, and a herald, rode from the Kremlin through- out Moscow, halting here and there to read and distribute the following proclamation.

" Our very august, very high, and very puissant Lord, the Emperor Alex- ander Nicolaievitch, being mounted on the throne of his ancestors, which is that of All the Russias, as well as upon those of the kingdom of Poland and of the Grand Duchy of Finland, which are inseparable from it, has deigned to order that the coronation of his Imperial Majesty and his oath shall take place on the 26th of the month of August, [old style,' his august spouse the Empress Marie Alexandrovna participating in this sacred ceremony. This solemn act is announced by the present proclamation to all faithful subjects, to the end that on this happy day they may redouble their fervour in their prayers to the King of Kings, that He may spread by His almighty power His favours and blessings on the reign of his Majesty, and that throughout its duration He may maintain peace and tranquillity, to the glory of His holy name, and for the unalterablec of the empire." rosferity The people shouted, and some knelt and prayed. Having informed the multitude, the Masters of the Ceremonies drove round to the Ambas- sadors, and notified the fact to them.

On the night of the 6th, or rather from the first hour of the 7th, the Emperor and Empress watched in the sanctuary of the Church of the Assumption, wherein a few hours later they were to be crowned. Here, with a few priests, they passed the time in prayer until dawn.

The public began collecting for the ceremony of the day before sunrise. They had then accumulated in masses at the entrance to the Kremlin.

• Those who were privileged with tickets of admission found the greatest difficulty in pressing through the crowd ; and two correspondents of the London journals describe themselves as having literally fought out a passage. When, through this gate, an open space or outer court was reached, some 60,000 civilians, admitted by ticket had assembled. " The whole esplanade seemed paved with parasols, above which hero and there fluttered the banner of some guild" • while the military "stood everywhere in close masses." Beyond this esplanade was an inner court, much less crowded, but still full ' • and here were the galle- ries for the elite of the spectators. A general survey of the ground is furnished by the Daily Hews correspondent. " Far within the battlemented walla of the Kremlin, and surrounded by large public buildings, such as the Senate and the Arsenal, is a rather con- tracted court ; three sides of which are mainly occupied by the Uspenski Sabor, or Church of the Assumption, the churches of the Archangel Michael and of the Annunciation, and the old and new Kremlin Palaces. The fourth opens upon an extensive esplanade, which in its turn commands the Moskwa river, and beyond it one of the finest urban panoramas that can possibly be imagined. . . . . The coronation, as all the world knows, takes place in the Church of the Assumption. i According to our notion of churches, the inte- rior of the Uspeuski Sabor is small indeed, scarcely accommodating five hundred persons; but still its great height and deep intersecting arches give it a most imposing appearance, while the Byzantine pictures and gild- ing with which its walls are entirely covered, and the costly shrines and monuments which it contains, subdue the mind by the sheer force of their material splendour, and leave one puzzled as to whether he ought to smile at their barbaric taste or reverently bow to their mystic symbolism. Two or three thousand pictures of saints and heroes stud the walls so closely that no interstice can be detected between their heavily-gilded frames ; and from the centre of the dim lantern which forms the sole means of illumination a colossal half-length of the Saviour looks down benignantly on his sincerely reverent worshipers below. The roof is supported by four immense pillars, wholly out of proportion to the dimensions of the church, covered from top to bottom with the frescoed traditions of the Greek Church, lapped, as it were, in a gilded scroll continuously round the circumference. Within these four pillars stood the costly estrade upon which the ceremonial took place, and upon the decoration of which all the art, taste, and resources of the empire had been lavished. Crimson velvet, gold brocade, gems of immense value, gold and silver furniture, including the ancient throne of the Czar, contributed to swell the magnificence of this small enclosure ; and over-head hung a gor- geous canopy, suspended by numerous gold and silver cords from the lofty ceiling. A heavily-gilt and massive balustrade surrounded this estrade, within which no one was to enter but the Emperor and Empress, the Empress-Mother, the Metropolitan of Moscow, and, at one moment, the Ladies of IIonour who were to arrange the small crown on the head of the Empress. On one side was a gallery covered with scarlet cloth for the di- plomatic body; on the other, a similar one for the ladies of the great eccle- siastical dignitaries of the empire ; and at the back of the throne a third, for the haute noblesse, and such official notabilities as had the privilege of the entrée. With the church the Kremlin Palace communicates, exteriorly, by a grand flight of steps; and if you add a broad platform, extending from the base of the point of junction, and making a long sweep to include the exterior es- planade, and thus give the people an opportunity of assisting at the corona- tion of their Sovereign, you will be able to form a tolerably correct idea of the site covered by the ceremonial."

who are obliged to resort to such aids to imperfect vision. There must be something peculiar in their habits, or in the climate, which renders it ne-

cessary for so large a proportion of the military intrepid to wear glasses. In

another group near the Prince may be seen the Intrepid little naval officer Biruleff, who has received high marks of favour from his countrymen for his conduct at Sebastopol. He led no less than thirteen sorties against the Allied trenches ; and escaped unhurt till the last, when he was badly wound- ed, and retired to Moscow to reap the fruits of his intrepidity. In another spot, Prince Menschikoff, who is still a favourite with the Russians, is speaking with his usual dryness of manner to an attentive little audience. Todtleben is also in the hall ; but I cannot see him, lost as he is in the crowd of generals and statesmen. There, ,too, is the second Gortschakoff, who is as celebrated as his great relative ; and the bluff, soldierly, and in- telligent-looking Aide-de-Camp-General Luders, whose arrival with fabulous reinforcements was our constant bugbear in the Crimea. Towering by a head at least over all this assemblage, and conspicuous for his fine bearing and face, notwithstanding those horrid spectacles,Major or Colonel Stali- pine is readily conspicuous ; and, although notanany Englishmen or French- men may have heard of him, lie is known throughout Russia for his bravery and devotion on the day of the Tchernaya. He served on the staff of Gene- ral Read ; and when that officer fell, he was seen under a tremendous fire coolly walking through the field looking for his body : not succeeding in that object, he came, however, upon the place where General Mayern was

lying badly wounded, and, taking him upon his gigantic shoulders, he bore him out of the fight, and escaped, in spite of all the efforts of the French to shoot him down as he strode off with his burden."

The whole proceedings of the coronation-ceremony seem to have been regulated by the firing of cannon. At seven o'clock, twenty-one guns told the various personages assembled in the Kremlin to take up their appointed positions. This was the first signal of the day. Then came the arrival of the Ambassadors.

"Just a minute or two before nine o'clock, there is a great commotion among the people, who are closely packed in this outer court; and the Gendarmes riding gently through them make a lane for the first carriage of the French

Embassy. It comes up right gorgeously—running footmen, bewigged coach- man, grand chasseur—a regular glass coach, all gold hangings. The horses and harness are unexceptionable ; but it is rather startling to hear in the Kremlin a vigorous interpellation addressed from the dignitary on the box to the leading palefrenicr, 'Now then, Bill ! why the — don't you leave the oases' eds halone ? ' The reply is lost in the Russian cries of Attention ! ' along the line as Count de Morny descends from his carriage and steps on the estrade, where he is received by a High Chamberlain in waiting. . . . . The next carriage, which is not so showy, but is in all other respects at least as good as the Count's coach, is that of the English Ambassador; who, and the Countess Granville, descend, are received by the Chamberlain, and in like manner enter the Cathedral. Lord Granville wears the Windsor uniform ; and Lady Granville, who to all our eves is dressed with great rich- ness and taste, is quite glorious with diamonds. The horses are worthy of the best turn-out in the Park.' Que voulez vous de plus ? The second carriage contains the Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford, the Earl of Lin- coln, and Colonel the Honourable Arthur Ilardinge ; the third, Lord Gran- ville's brother and Lady Margaret Leveson Gower, Lord Ward, and Colonel Maude, Royal Horse Artillery (of the famous old I troop of Crimean report) ; the others, Sir R. Peel and Lady Emily Peel, and Lord Ashley, Lord Sey- mour, the Honourable Gerald Ponsonbv, &e. There were also in attendance Lord Cavendish, Lord Dalkeith, Captain King, Mr. Lister, Sir John Acton,

and Sir R. King And now, amid a little battalion of bareheaded running footmen, a very fine old coach, with a poor team of horses, drives up ; and from it descends—what is this ? A very fine old gentleman indeed, somewhat gone in years, but right royal and splendid in air and attire. It is Prince Paul Esterhazy, Ambassador of Austria. He is dressed in puce silk or velvet, with a hussar jacket of the same material, braided all over with pearls. Diamonds flash forth from all the folds of his clothing. His maroon-coloured boots, -which come up to the knee, are crusted with pearls and diamonds, and on his heels are spurs of brilliants, which glitter finely in the sunshine."

These functionaries swept onward to the Church of the Assumption, and took their seats, M. de Morny sitting on the right ; Lord Granville next to him, then Prince Esterhazy, after him the Prince de Ligne, and so on. The Ottoman, Roman, and Persian Ministers, sat without the church.

About ten o'clock, the Imperial procession began to move from the Kremlin Palace. Its route lay down the palace-steps into the inner court along a pathway covered with scarlet cloth and guarded by soldiers to the Church of the Assumption. The first to appear was the Empress- Mother, crowned and robed, and walking under a canopy. She was ac- companied by a crowd of Grand Dukes and Grand Duchesses; and was received at the door of the church by the clergy with cross and holy water. Next came down the scarlet-covered stairs a procession of pages, peasants from the State domains, German colonists, serfs in the old flow- ing Russian garb, native and foreign merchants, heads of departments, collegiate authorities, theatrical managers, the marshals of the nobility, the Finnish and Polish deputies, officers bearing the sword, the standard and seal of the empire, the globe and sceptre and two crowns ; then the Grand Marshal and Arch-Marshal of the Coronation ; and at this point the Emperor. As he appeared, clothed simply as a general of division, the people raised shrill cries in overpowering vehemence. Before him marched two priests, sprinkling the pathway with holy water ; and he walked under a canopy supported by generals. Behind him came the Commandant of the Chevalier Garde, with a drawn sword; and then the Ministers. Under the same canopy walked the Empress and her maids. She wore a simple white robe, .decked with jewels ; "but her head was adorned only by her own luxuriant hair without a single ornament." The procession was closed by members of the Russian nobles, artisans, manufacturers, and a few soldiers. Within the Church of the Assumption, the sanctuary is cut off from the rest of the building by a high rood screen. Having entered the church, the Emperor and Empress inclined three times before the gate of the sanctuary, " to adore the Lord and kiss the holy images." Then the Archbishops of Moscow and of Novgorod conducted them to the thrones under the velvet canopy between the four pillars ; and music from a hidden choir pealed through the building. We borrow the description of the remainder of the ceremony from various sources. invested with the state mantle ; and here followed the most interesting fea- ture in the day's proceedings. Taking the crown, an immense one, blazing all over with diamonds, up with his two hands, he placed it on his head ;

thereby intimating that from no earthly. power, priestly or lay, did he re- ceive his sovereignty. Then making a sign to the Empress, who knelt sub-

missively before him on a golden cushion, he just touched her forehead with it, and immediately replaced it on his own head. This was a moment of in- tense interest. The Empress-Mother, who had borne up with immense fortitude, burst into tears ; and the whole of the congregation, as they fell on their knees in honour of the rite, sobbed and cried like children. What a history did not that tear of the Empress-Mother recall !" " Here, in the midst of a ceremony necessarily stiff and formal, there is sud- denly on the part of the principal performers a genuine outburst of natural feeling ; and mark its effect—there is scarcely a dry eye among the masses crowded in the church, while the feeble frame of the Empress-Mother tot- ters with outstretched arms towards the Imperial son, and passionately clasps and holds him in a long embrace ; and tears and smiles mingle to- gether as the little Grand Dukes are seen to clamber up to the side of their father and uncle, who has to stoop low in order to reach the little faces which ask to be kissed."

" This was the culminating point of the ceremonial. Then came the anointing ; the administration of the sacrament, to the Emperor in both forms, the Empress in one ; the mass, and other ceremonials purely. re- ligious ; and, finally, the congratulations, which the Emperor received with great dignity and self-possession. At the same time, his coun- tenance wore a careworn and saddened look ; and he seemed like one who felt oppressed with the sense of an awful responsibility. Now came the moment for which 70,000 people outside had been waiting with exem- plary patience. A. gorgeous procession issued from the church-door. In front was a splendid canopy, under which walked the Emperor, with the im- perial crown upon his head and wearing the imperial mantle." . . . . " There, in the rear of the Emperor, walks the man now famous through- out Europe, the young and gallant soldier, the defender of Sebastopol,. the intrepid Todtleben. His carriage is noble and full of herolike decision ; but his step falters, and he limps on with the aid of a cane, which tells how sorely he still suffers from a wound received in the trenches before the town which his genius so long defended. His countenance is full of intelligence, yet mild and modest ; his chin, the most remarkable feature in his face, is finely developed, and bespeaks the iron will which belongs to the great sol- dier. All eyes are upon him. There too walks the friend of the Emperor Nicholas, the guardian of his son, the negotiator of the treaty of Paris, the upright and gallant Orloff." "There were the standard, the seal, and the sword of the empire ; the great functionaries at a respectful distance be- hind, and the dismounted gardes a cheval, in their golden cuirasses, lining the way. From a hundred bands pealed out at once the national anthem- ' God save the Czar' ; and the shouts of the people formed a tremendous accompaniment to the music. The countenance of his Majesty was most solemn : he bowed repeatedly, but never smiled ; and the cheers seemed to die away for want of the Imperial sympathy. It was a strikingly Oriental spectacle : the pagoda-like canopy, the great Czar, with his immense crown of diamonds blazing in the sun, the many Oriental costumes, and the bearded mujiks, all formed a picture which I shall not soon forget."

After the ceremony in the church, there was an imperial banquet in the Throne-room. The Emperor sat with his mother on his right and his wife on his left. The dishes were carried in by the state dignitaries; and when the Emperor called for wine, all the foreigners and spectators departed.

Moscow was illuminated with great splendour on the evening of the coronation. The streets were so crowded that no vehicles of any kind were permitted to drive through them.

The most important act of the Emperor was one consequent upon but not included in the coronation-ceremonial. It is the promulgation of a " manifesto of grace," intended to mark " in an especial manner the solemn day on which he assumed the crown of his ancestors." The Journal of St. .Petersburg published on the 10th so much of this mani- festo as might be of general interest to "foreign readers "; remarking, that many of the thirty-eight articles of which it is composed relate to local concessions.

"His Majesty's first thought attached itself to the grave events which marked the outset of his reign—upon those days of trial, and at the same time of glory, in which the Emperor received such memorable and such unanimous proofs of prowess, of love, and unshakeable fidelity from his subjects. For the purpose of perpetuating the remembrance of this noble conduct of the Russian people during the whole duration of the formidable conflict which has just been happily settled, his Majesty, as a recompense for these exploits, and also as a souvenir, has deigned to institute a commemorative medal, which shall be worn according to the regulations, on the riband of St. Andrew, St. George, or St. Vladimir, by all those of his subjects in the civil or military service who took any part in the events of the late war. This medal, similar to that which the Emperor has conferred in particular on the heroic defenders of Sebastopol, who have astonished the world by the lonsest and the most stubborn defence that the annals of nations have re- tained any record of, will recall to the most remote posterity the military and civil virtues of which all Russia has given proof in the grand national trial which she has just passed through.

" The military, who had shed their blood for their country—the militia, who rose in an instant from the soil of Russia—the clergy, whose eloquent words and unbounded charity have never been wanting to the national cause —the illustrious Russian aristocracy, which, in imitation of its ancestors, has again shown itself foremost in the ranks of valour and devotion—the commercial, industrial, and operative classes, in fine, who have made such great and such noble sacrifices for their country menaced—have all an equal claim on the gratitude of the Emperor, who thanks them this day, and in- vokes on the entire nation the blessing of God the Merciful, in the hope that it will soon be granted to his Majesty to efface even the last traces of the public and private sufferings that Russia has borne so worthily. " In the accomplishment of this sacred purpose, the Emperor commences by granting great immunities to the provinces of Tauris, Cherson, Ekate- rinoslaff, and Archangel, as well as to the whole sea-coast of the Baltic, and in general to all the provinces that have more particularly borne the brunt of the late campaign. Furthermore, and in order to extend as far as pos- sible the circle of his liberality, his Majesty has been pleased to confer on the whole empire the benefits of a general boon, the importance of which can be measured only by the immensity of the sphere it embraces. The Emperor most graciously dispenses the whole of Russia from every burden of military recruiting or conscription for four consecutive years, unless„ which God avert, the necessities of war should interpose obstacles in the execution of this measure.

" In strict conformity with this same idea, the Emperor, in his solicitude for the welfare of his subjects, has instructed his Minister of Finance to set on foot immediately a new census of the population of the empire, so as more equitably to assess the burden of the capitation-tax, which may pos- aibly weigh disproportionately on certain classes, whose numbers have been more or less sensibly diminislied by the war and by the epidemic scourges that have raged more parbicularly among them.

" Furthermore, his Majesty orders, that the different arrears of taxes, alto- gether amounting to at least 24,000,01)0 silver roubles, as well as all pecuniary fines, shall be graciously remitted to the debtors. Finally, the Emperor deigns by the same act to abolish the tax hitherto raised on passports for foreign parts ;

reserving only a stamp-duty, to be appropriated to the bene- fit of the Invalids. "His Majesty further extends his sovereign clemency to those who have become obnoxious to public justice, and grants to all repentant criminals whose conduct has been irreproachable since their condemnation either the entire remission of their sentence or a considerable commutation of their punishment.

" With respect to state prisoners, both those who belonged to secret so- cieties discovered in Russia at various times, and those who took part in the Polish rebellion of 1831, the Emperor ordains—that as regards some, their lot shall be considerably alleviated in the place to which they are banished ; as-regards others, they shall be permitted to settle in the inland provinces of the empire ; and as to the rest, that they may be entirely restored to free- dom, with the liberty to fix-the place of their residence in any of the towns of the empire, as well as of the kingdom of Poland, with the exception of the two capitals, Moscow and St. Petersburg. Finally, as the crowning point of his clemency, the Emperor deigns to grant to all these state pri- soners their rights of nobility, and also to their legitimate children born since the condemnation of their parents, whether they be already dead or still alive.

"His Majesty being desirous of extending to the very furthest limits of his empire the benefits which he has deigned to confer on his people on oc- casion of his coronation, has been pleased further to confer on the population of his Western provinces certain special favours of peculiar importance. In conformity herewith, the Emperor, in two supplementary ukases, addressed to the Administrative Senate, prolongs the temporary legislative measure which hitherto has regulated the entrance into the service of the state of the nobility of the Governments of Wilna, Kowno, Grodno, Minsk, Volhynia, Podolia, and Kieff. Henceforward, and in consequence of the gracious decision of his Majesty, the conditions of the public service will be the same in the Western provinces as those which are in force for the in- habitants of all the other parts of the empire. "His Majesty's subjects professing the Jewish persuasion, have also been the objects of the generous clemency of the Emperor, who has deigned to relieve them from the special burdens which the conscription has hitherto entailed upon them. "Finally, the children of soldiers, sailors, &c. (cantonists) who have been born during the period of their fathers' service, and who hitherto have belonged to the army, are henceforth to be restored to their parents, and be at liberty to enter upon any station of life that they may choose for them- selves."

The same number of the official journal contains two more orders,— one an address to the soldiers on the institution of the new medal ; the other an announcement that provision will be made for the augmentation of pensions to wounded officers.

It is stated that M. Isaac Pereire and M. Auguste Thuraneyssen (a Paris banker, representing the St. Petersburg house of Steiglitz) have left Paris for St. Petersburg, to negotiate the concession of the Russian railways ; that at Berlin these gentlemen will meet M. Hottinguer of Paris, Mr. Baring of London, and M. Sine of Vienna, all of whom are intended to be in the direction of the contemplated undertaking ; and that the whole party will proceed together to St. Petersburg.

%Ur kt11.—The continued occupation of the Principalities, and the delay in the assembling of the Commission to settle their constitution, attracts a good deal of attention. The Austrian troops seem as firmly fixed in Wallachia and Moldavia as ever. The pretext is the non-set- tlement of the Bessarabian frontier. Sir Henry Bulwer on the part of England, and Baron Koller on the part of Austria, have arrived at Con- stantinople ; and the Commission is now complete. • It is remarked that the Moldavian Kaimakan and the whole of his Ministers are partisans of Austria or Russia.

Accounts from Constantinople, of the 8th instant, state that, in con- sequence of the steps taken by If. de Boutinieff and the other Ambassa- dors, the Porte has abandoned its intention of undertaking an expedition against Montenegro. The affair is now to be regulated by the Conference of Paris.

'tt1ri Elam—The Africa arrived at Liverpool on Sunday, with aavices from New York to the 3d instant.

The Army Appropriation Bill passed the Congress, and was signed by the President, on the 30th August ; and on that day the extra session catoe to an end.

This result had been anticipated. The Republicans, it is said, felt that the Buchanan and Fillmore men were getting too strong for them. The time during which several of the latter had paired came to an end, and they were "whipped" up by the Administration. Then the Re- publicans were alarmed by the measure of the Government in dismissing the workmen at the Springfield Armoury,—a first step in the discharge of all the Government workmen throughout the Union engaged in works connected with the War Department. It seems that, on the 30th Au- gust, Mr. Campbell of Ohio brought in an Appropriation Bill to which was appended only that portion of the proviso prohibiting the President from using the army to enforce the laws of Kansas. The bill passed the House of Representatives ; the Senate struck out the proviso ; the bill was returned to the Representatives, and they now concurred in the amendment of the Senate, by 101 to 98. " The greatest excitement prevailed during the call ,• and when the re- sult was announced, a general congratulation prevailed over the whole House ; the Republicans, if possible, showing the greatest joy, and many rushing from the Capitol to prepare for leaving by the evening train. While the vote was being taken in the House on the final passage of the bill, the Senators left their seats and came over in a body to the House. The Re- publicans could, if they had chosen, have killed the bill. Messrs. Welsh of Connecticut, Idillward of Pennsylvania, Miller of New York, with Speaker Banks, would have defeated it; but they evidently were anxious it should Pass. After the passage of the Army Bill, the House refused to consider any other business, and at once fixed the hour for their final adjournment- half--past three o'clock."

" We think it would be well," says the New York Herald, " for some public mass meeting to appoint a large committee of men of all parties to wait upon the President for the purpose of a definite understanding of what he now means to do in Kansas; and we also think that it would be advisable for the Fremont party to send out to, Kansas a committee of men of character and high standing to overloOk the administration of affairs

there for the next two months, and to report to the next session of Congress the results of their observations. With some such precautions as these, an armistice at least may be secured in Kansas between the belligerents : but without some such precaution, we fear that the passage of the Army Bill will only serve to kindle the combustibles collecting in Kansas into a con- suming fire."

The Western Christian Advocate contains a long story of Missourian outrage. The narrator and one of the victims is the Reverend William Sellers. According to his statement, he had proceeded to Rochester, near Mobile, for the purpose of holding a series of meetings. Soon after his arrival, three persons waited on him " at Brother Stork's store," and, in the name of " the citizens of Rochester," ordered him not to preach any more. He refused to give any promise. A mob collected ; some were armed with revolvers, others had knives and clubs, some stones." Mr. Sellers was dragged into the street from the midst of his friends ; while a shot from the crowd killed " Brother Holland," and another wounded Brother Stork. "They also shot at Brother Beattie, but missed him; and he then knocked down two or three of them, and escaped at the inick-door." The mob in the street wildly consulted on the fate of Sellers ; some were for cutting his throat, others for shooting him, and one for scalping. At length they concluded to tar " him. Next there was a dispute as to the mode of tarring. They determined " to put on the tar with a broad paddle " without stripping him. The ruffians plas- tered him all over—face, eyes, ears, neck, hair, clothes. " Then," says he, " they let me up." " I was so sore I could scarcely stand on my feet : but oh, the agony of my eyes ! they appeared like balls of fire, and I thought they would burst out of my head. Although it was noon, and the hot sun was beaming upon my head, I groped my way as at midnight. After I arose to my feet, one fellow said, He has one minute to leave town"; another said, He can have five minutes, and if he is not gone in that time he shall be shot.' I groped my way into the street ; they followed me with their revolvers cocked, telling me to step faster, at the peril of my life. I was in so much misery I knew not where I was going. I could see objects, but could not distinguish one from another. By the time I got across the street, between Brother Stork's store and stable, the tar had melted some, and I could distinguish between males and females. Hero were the female members of my flock in Rochester, over whom I felt the Holy. Ghost had made me an overseer, some of whom had ventured out in the midst of this mob to rescue their pastor from their bloody clutches. Some had fainted, others were crying and wringing their hands in excessive grief. I thought of the patriotic women of the Revolution, and that their thiughters still lived to lend a helping hand in behalf of suffering humanity. I found my horse in the yaiA with the bridle on ; and with the assistance of one of the mob I got the saddle on, and started to go to some place on my work as quickly as possible to get the tar washed out of my eyes. The mob followed me, how- ever, turned me back, and made me go towards Savannah. As I passed out of town, I providentially met Brother Chamberlin and his wife, who were coming to my meeting. (I hope he will write and tell you how they served him.) When I came up to them they did not know me. After I told them what had been done, Brother Chamberlin asked me if I thought I could stand it go to his father-in-law's, a distance of twelve miles. I told him I thought I could not endure such a trip, but was willing to try it. We rode as fast as we could, not knowing that the mob was in pursuit of us. When we turned off from the main Savannah road to go to Brother Miller's they were not more than fifteen minutes behind us. After riding so far in the hot sun in my condition, I was nearly dead when we arrived ; but, through the attention of Brother Chamberlin and my kind friends at Brother Mil- ler's, in a few days I partially recovered from the injuries received. May they receive a thousandfold in this life, and in the world to come life ever- lasting ! Walker's position in Nicaragua is represented as very critical. Rivas has intrenched himself in Leon with a force outnumbering Walker's. Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Honduras, arc said to be planning a com- bined expedition with the object of driving him from the state. Walker has shot a Colonel Salizar ; and in revenge, the confederates opposed to him have shot Mr. Livingston, the acting United States Consul at Leon. Meanwhile, Walker has dismissed the British Consul, Mr. Manning, for

i interfering in local politics. A strong British naval force continues to make the harbour of Greytown its rendezvous.

e tilt-Ult.—Sir Henry Ward opened the Legislative Council of Ceylon on the 30th July. In his speech, he congratulated the Council on the satisfactory state of the revenue. The income of 1855 exceeded that of 1854 by 68,2311. ; the excess of revenue over expenditure amounted to 70,6631. ; and this added to the surplus of preceding years left a clear available balance of 124,9561. Sir Henry laid on the table, "copies of a despatch from her Majesty's Secretary of State, and of an agreement en- tered into by him with the Ceylon Railway Company, for the formation of a railway between Colombo and Kandy. This agreement is a pro- visional one, but it becomes a contract, legally binding upon both parties, if confirmed by ordinance within six months from the date of its sig- nature." Under this agreement, the construction of the railway will be intrusted to the Company, subject to the strict supervision of the Go- vernment.