foreign anb Colonial. FRANCE.—There was a family gathering at the

Tuileries on Friday. The King and Queen of the Belgians arrived early in the day. Sub- sequently came the Due D'Aumale, with his young bride, and the Prince De Joinville. The King and Queen of the French, the Royal Family, and their Belgian Majesties, stood at the foot of the grand

staircase to receive the young couple ; with M. Guizot, the Neapolitan Ambassador, the Prefect of the Seine, and other official persons. In the evening there was a grand banquet of a hundred and fifty covers, the Palace resplendent with light.

Pnussia.—The Paris Siècle, declaring that it has taken great pains to verify the report, announces that the King of Prussia has definitively determined to give his subjects a " constitution "-

" Not only is this resolution taken, but it has been communicated to i

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different chancelleries of Europe. The work is not only a project, but it is already finished. The bases of the constitution are settled. All that now is to be done is to promulgate it and to put it in operation."

SWITZERLAND.—The latest revolution in Switzerland has been sup- pressed. The Local Government of Lucerne had adopted the deter- mination of intrusting the tuition of youth to the Jesuits, who had re- cently been suffered to enter the Canton ; and hence great discontent among the Liberal party, who enforced their objections vi et amis. An attack was made upon the capital town of the Canton by the Lucerne Liberals, on the morning of the Sth instant ; and another revolt took place simultaneously in the neighbourhood of Willisau, evoked by a party of volunteers from Argau. The utmost alarm was felt for the peace of the republic, as some of the neighbouring Cantons were ex- pected to aid the insurgents ; and the whole republic might again have been torn with a religious war. The insurrection at Lucerne, however, was suppressed by the evening of the 8th : two leading rebels, Dr. Steiger and Captain Auf-der-Maur, were killed ; others, Colonel Gug- genbuhler and the ex-Councillors of State Baumann and Isaac, took to flight ; and many of the obscurer sort were killed and wounded. The other revolt also was promptly suppressed. The Lucerne Government had demanded aid from other Cantons ; but it was countermanded, as unnecessary.

On the 1st of January, the seat of the Federal Government is to be transferred from Lucerne to Zurich, where it will remain for two years ; and it is expected by the opponents of the Jesuits that the transfer will favour their opposition. The Burgomaster of the Executive Council of Zurich had addressed a proclamation to the inhabitants, to inform them officially that order had been restored at Lucerne. In this proclama- tion it is said, that Zurich had called the attention of the Government of Lucerne to the unpleasant consequences which might attend the admis- sion of the Jesuits, and that it is to be regretted its advice was not followed ; but, on the other hand, Zurich protests with energy against any attempt at a violent intervention in the affairs of the State, and demands that none but legal means should be resorted to in order to obtain redress for the grievances alleged.

SPAIN.—There is little interest in the Spanish news ; the chief novelty being, that the Government have actually spared a few prisoners—Ge- neral Rengifo, Captain Garcia, and S. Avila, a surgeon, who had been condemned to death. Zurbano was still missing. In Madrid, on the night of the 9th instant, some persons unknown, out of bravado fired a few musket-shots ; which sufficed to occasion a turn-out of the whole garrison ; General Chacon visiting all the posts thrice during the night.

The English in Madrid have been scandalized by a very strange cor- respondence between Mr. Bulwer the English Minister and a Mr. Cochrane. We abridge the story.

Some years back, Mr. Cochrane travelled about England as an itinerant musician, with a guitar; and the money which he collected he handed over for the benefit of some Spanish refugees- Lately he arrived in Madrid, and showed himself at hospitals and other public places; and at the same time several paragraphs resounding his praises appeared in the Madrid newspapers: several of them hinting that he ought to receive some decoration of honour from the Spanish Govern., ,nt, for his services. He saw S. Martinez de la Rosa; who did not seem averse from granting a cross, but suggested that it ought to be recommended by the English Minister. Mr. Cochrane, who had dined at Mr. Bulwer's table, applied for his recommendation ; enclosing lauda- tory extracts from the Madrid papers. Mr. Bulwer replied, that having read all the extracts, he could not see anything in them to authorize his desire; that some were evidently written by persons who bad no knowledge of Mr. Cochrane or his services, while others appeared the production of a friendly or partial band ; and that whatever might be his own opinion of Mr. Cochrane's merits, his celebrity wi_s scarcely so extensive or so European as to have set all the journals of a capital writing in his favour with such eloquence, unless some trouble bad been taken to draw their attention to the subject and obtain their suffrages. An angry correspondence ensued ; Mr. Cochrane intimating that he should have challenged Mr. Bulwer but for the protection afforded by his diplomatic character. He also appealed to the editors of the Madrid papers to say whether he had procured the insertion of the para- graphs in his favour. The answers were various: the Esperanza, Espectador, Castellano, and Eco, more or less equivocally, repudiated the alleged application from Mr. Cochrane to praise him ; the Posdata, Heraldo, and Globe, admitted it ; the Tiempo quizzed the "eccentricity of the English "; the Clamor Pub- lico took no notice of the dispute.

TITRILEY.—A " sensation " was created in Constantinople, on the 27th November, by the sudden departure of Sir Stratford Canning, the British Ambassador. It appears that he had demanded satisfaction of the Porte for certain pecuniary claims of British subjects, for the ill- treatment of a Greek subject by the Pacha of Trebisoud, and som other grievances ; and the Turkish Government being tardy, he had gone on a shooting-cruise to the Dardanelles, as a sort of earnest that if he did not soon receive a suitable reply he would take his departure altogether.

UNITED STATES.—The mail-steamer Britannia, which left Halifax the 3d instant and Boston the 1st, brings intelligence from New York to the 30th.

The result of the Presidential election had been what everybody ex- pected : Mr. Polk's final majority over Mr. Clay was 65. The new Congress, the twenty-eighth, was to meet on the 2d instant ; and the President's message would be delivered on the following day. The papers are very barren of news ; and we find nothing of greater interest than the following extract of a message by Governor Steele, of New Hampshire-

" Not many years since, it was confidently said that without a national bank the currency would be ruined, and exchanges from one section of the country to another would be disastrously disordered, if not rendered impossible of being effected at all. Time has proved these confident predictions to be wholly unfounded. A sound and wholesome trade has effected that which the United States Bank failed to do, and has gone far towards convincing every one open to conviction, that trade, left to itself, will regulate its own concerns much better than any artificial power can do it. Such also will be the fate of the present tariff-predictions. The tariff, left as it now stands, will work the de. struction of the interests involved in its immoderate protective clauses. Pro- tective duties have the effect of enhancing the price of the articles protected, and in proportion to the rise of prices will be the profits made by the producer or manufacturer. If those profits are large, the inducement to capitalists is greater to extend such profitable business; and this is often done so hastily that prudence is lost sight of. A rush takes place, the business is overdone, and the home market overstocked. To remedy the evil, a foreign market may be resorted to; but this cannot be done unless at a sacrifice ruinous alike to the business of the manufacturer and all other interests necessarily connected therewith. That we are fast approaching a crisis, I cannot doubt. Manufac- turing establishment. are being erected or enlarged with such haste, that time is not given for the damp walls of the building or the paint on the machinery to dry. Machines of all kinds, new and old, are eagerly sought after, and as eagerly set in motion. The late land-speculations were scarcely conducted with less deliberation or judgment than is the erection of mills or purchase of stock in mills already built. if the concern can show large dividends, no matter how made, no matter what the construction or durability of the buildings or ma- chinery may be, they are rarely, if ever, examined or inquired after—present gains alone control the decision of the purchaser. The result is inevitable; protective duties cannot save interests thus situated from a revulsion which must sooner or later bear heavily on the operatives, and force them either to add to their already burdensome hours of labour, or submit to a large reduction of wages, perhaps both."

MEXICO AND TEXAS.—The New Orleans papers have intelligence from Mexico to the 2d November. The Chamber of Deputies had re- fused to vote the loan required for carrying on the war against Texas. The Clarkesville Northern Standard, a Texan paper, confirms the re- ports of pacific tendency- " By the Western mail we learn that President Houston has received an- other communication from Santa Anna, which is said to be of a pacific cha- racter. It is stated that the contemplated invasion of Texas is abandoned ; and we believe it is settled that England and France have offered to obtain an acknowledgment of our independence, on condition that Mexico shall have the right to renew the war whenever we offer ourselves to the United States. " It is rumoured that President Houston intends immediately to convoke an extra session of Congress."