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FRANCE.—The provincial elections of last week turned out as uniformly favourable to the Moderate party as those of Paris: with the exception of 1f. Jules Fevre, the whole of the members elected in Paris and the pro- Winces are of that party. M. de Lamardne is now returned for two places.

On Wednesday, the Assembly gave authority for the prosecutions of three more of its Members—MM. Conunimaire, Koenig, and Cantagrel—for Complicity in the affair of the 13th June.

Vice-Admiral Bandin has given place in the command of the Mediter- ranean squadron to Vice-Admiral Parseval-Descheanes.

It is said that the Prince of Canino, President Bonaparte's cousin, arrived from Rome at Orleans on Wednesday, and was arrested there by order of the French Government.

St. Etienne was visited by thunder-storms and water-spouts on the 10th and 12th instant, which swelled the river Furens beyond its banks, and caused a large loss of life and immense destruction of property.

ITALY.—On the 5th July, General Rostolan asserted his powers as Governor of Rome, by issuing a proclamation containing these stern regu- lations—

"1. All meetings in the public ways are forbidden, and they shall be dispersed by force.

"2. The ' retreat' shall be beaten by nine in the evening; and all circulation in the city shall cease at half-past nine, and all places of reunion shall then be closed.

"3. Such clubs as, contrary to the proclamation of the General-in-chief, may not yet be closed, shall be shut by force; and the most rigorous course shall be di- rected against the proprietors of the places where they may be held.

"4. All violence, all insults towards our soldiers, or the persons who communi- este quietly with them, and all attempts to interfere with the appointments of the army, shall be instantly punished in an exemplary manner.

"b. Medical men and public functionaries shall alone pass freely during the might: but they must be provided with a free pass from our military authorities, and be accompanied from post to poet to the place of their destination." General Rostolan concluded his edict with this brief ejaculation in fa- vour of the citizens—" Those who oppress you shall find in me an in- flexible judge." The decree was strictly carried out. A writer on the spot says, on the 6th— "Last night, the order for every one to retire at half-past nine (an early hour for people accustomed to walk up and down the Corso all night during the hot months) was enforced by strong patrols of cavalry and infantry, with their mus- kets cocked and their fingers on the triggers. The satirical spirit of the Romans burst out against this exploit; and each battalion that passed was saluted with numberless cock-crowings from every possible lane, passage, or window. The student's battalion, which is recognized as part of the National Guard, was brusquely disarmed yesterday, and the officer on guard arrested. The National Guard itself still occupies its quarters, but its members are forbidden to go about armed. Steps have already been taken for laying hold of the principal authors of the late movement."

On the same day, the Pope was writing at Gaeta an autograph letter to General Oudinot. His Holiness offers his congratulations for the triumph of order over anarchy, for liberty restored to honest Christian persons to enjoy the property which God has divided among them, and to worship with religious pomp without danger of their lives. He adds, with a curl- OM diplomatic pedantry— "I think it will not be without use to the French army to be made acquainted with the history of the events which occurred daring my Pontificate: they are traced out in my allocution, with which you are doubtless acquainted, but of which I nevertheless send you a certain number of copies, in order that they may be read by those who you may think it useful should be acquainted with them. This document will sufficiently prove that the triumph of the French army has been gained over the enemies of human society, and will of itself awaken sentiments 111 the minds of every right-thinking man in Europe and in the whole world."

The Roman correspondent of the Times learns " from a good source," that the Pope had expressed a fixed determination not to yield in the 'lightest degree, and to go to Bologna or remain in concealment rather than submit to any condition whatever. The writer also hears with regret, "that the French agents at the head of this expedition incline to the same views as the Conclave at Gaeta; that they are disposed to admit the Pope's return to the Quirinal as absolute master, and that not a single constitu- tional condition is to be made by them to the Sacred Pontiff."

The latest accounts are to the 10th; and they say that the Cardinals were "gradually returning to the city, and showing their pink stockings about the streets."

Ausrnia.—The positive news from Vienna is confined to the announce- ment that Buda and Pesth were occupied on the 10th instant by the " Streifscorps Commandant," Major Wussiri, whose " streifscorps" was un- opposed by the Magyars. The authorities of Buda received the Major at the gates of the town. Pesth was totally forsaken by the enemy, who had withdrawn to Czegled.

GERMANY.—The Prussian Government has officially announced the definitive establishment at Erfurt of " The Federal Court of Arbitration," determined upon by the three Powers who agreed to the new German Con- stitution. It consists of these seven members, all of them personages emi- nent for their abilities and erudition as jurisconsults: M. de Duesberg, President, Count Rittberg, Dr. Dirksen, all of Prussia; Dr. Gunther and M. de Weber, of Saxony; and M. de Pape and Dr. Franke, of Hanover.

DENMARK.—On the very evening chosen by the Danes for their over- whelming sortie on the Schleswig-liolsteiners besieging Fredericia, the 7th instant, general conditions of peace were agreed on at Berlin, and initialled by the Plenipotentiaries of Denmark and Prussia. These conditions were definitively settled on the 10th. The terms are these: an armistice for six months, and six weeks more if not renewed; the troops of Prussia to with- draw from Jutland, and refund contributions; the blockade to be raised, and prizes restored or paid for; a boundary-line to be agreed on by the mulitary commanders, from Tondern to Flensburg; Prussia to retain 6,000 troops South of this line; Denmark to occupy with 2,000 Swedish troops, at her own cost, the part of Schleswig North of this line, and to retain her

occupation of Alsen. For the government of the Dutchies during the armistice, a Commission to be formed, of one person chosen by Denmark and one by Prussia, and in all cases of disagreement an umpire by the Queen of England. The Commission to govern in conformity to the ex- isting laws. It is empowered to repeal all laws enacted since the 17th of March 1848 of which it does not approve.

The rest of the German states are to be invited to accede to the armis- tice; and on their accession they are to be admitted to the benefit of all its provisions. The ratifications are to be exchanged within eight days.

CAFE OF GOOD Hoex.—By the arrival of the Childers from the Cape of Good Hope, we are in possession of newspaper files to the 24th of May- and accounts have been received to the 28th. The excitement on the Convict question has risen to a great height, and it pervades every printed or written account. On the 24th, " the largest meeting ever held in South- ern Africa "—it numbered upwards of 5,000 persons, and included men who had travelled hundreds of miles to be present—was held on the Parade at Cape Town, under the presidency of the Honourable Mr. Ebden. The speaking was deeply earnest, but the conduct of the meeting was calm and decorous throughout. Among the nine resolutions passed, was one de- claring that Lord Grey's course in transporting the convicts to the Cape is a direct violation of his pledge to the people and his instructions to the Governor; another, by which the colonists of all classes " solemnly pledge their faith to each other not to employ, admit into their establishments, work or associate with, any convicted felon "; and others conjuring the Go- vernor, by his duty to the Crown, and his word gone forth to the people who have given him so many proofs of their confidence and affection, to "suspend the publication of any order in Council on the subject which he may receive, till her Majesty's final determination be known "; and mean- while, to " detain the convicts on their arrival in some place of security,"— the colonists undertaking to pay the demurrage of the ship and all ex- penses incurred by the Governor in such faithful discharge of his duty. The Governer had been ill, but was convalescent. It is stated that he had prevailed on Rear-Admiral Reynolds to remain in Simon's Bay with his squadron, until the result of the arrival of the convict-ship should have manifested itself.

WESTERN Aearca.—A letter from Major S. J. Hill, of the Second West India Regiment, gives an account of an expedition up the river Gambia against a " rascally Native King," who had " offered violence to our Go- vernor" when on a friendly visit, and given "his Excellency a narrow escape of losing his life." Application to Sierra Leone for troops being un- successful, the Governor and Commander Hill were left to their own re- sources: these amounted to about 200 Regulars, 33 volunteer Pensioners, and 32 volunteer Militiamen; one howitzer, two six-pounders, and three rocket-guns. The expedition marched seventy miles up the Gambia, from Bathurst; and, on the 6th May, attacked a fortified town, battering the strong stockades at ten paces' distance, and trying to take it by breach and storm. These efforts failed, from the strength and cool defence of the be- sieged; but the town was set on fire by the rockets and burnt to the ground, and the retiring enemy was slaughtered in great numbers both by the grape from the guns and the bayonets of the skirmishers. On the 7th, the chief town of Keeming was attacked. The enemy was cunning and resolute, and the attack by breach again failed; but rockets again suc- ceeded: the town was set on fire at both ends, and the greater part of it was burnt. The enemy drew out his infantry and cavalry: the latter was " rocketed" and sent off; but the foot stood their ground with courage, till broken by the grape and canister. A wood was contested inch by inch, and the enemy were driven out at the point of the bayonet. The slaughter was again very great. The burning one town and nearly de- stroying another were thought castigation sufficient, as there were wounded to carry, and but a small force to fight the way back. A strong position was taken up for the night; and next day the expedition retired, as orderly as if on parade, to Tendebar, the point of embarkation; the enemy " fight- ing us the whole way, in rear and on both flanks, and suffering great loss from the grape and canister." " As luck would have it," not a man was knocked down on the retreat, though twenty had their caps shot through. In the whole affair, we had five killed, and two officers and twenty men wounded.

-UNITED STATES AND CANADA.—By the Boston mail steam-ship, dates from New York to the 4th, and Montreal to the 1st instant, were brought to Liverpool on Sunday. The most prominent feature of the news is the increase of cholera throughout the States. Notwithstanding all the sanatory efforts of the authorities in New York, such as pulling down or clearing filthy houses against the will of the inhabitants, the disease was spreading. The cases were more numerous, and the proportion of deaths was greater, and more equally divided amongst the several classes of society. The deaths range from 20 to 40 daily. In Philadelphia the daily deaths were from 10 to 25. In both cities, at the suggestion of their Boards of Health, public celebrations, both civic and military, announced for the 4th of July, have been postponed, or abandoned altogether, from apprehension that any great public excitement must tend to augment the disease. In the Western cities the pestilence is far more fatal. In St. Louis, the deaths were from 500 to 700 a week. At Cincinnati, the deaths ranged from 100 to 150 per day—chiefly among the German and Irish immigrants. At Louisville, there were 17 cases in two small Irish houses, and 15 deaths! The steam-boats on the Western rivers arrive at the different ports partly freighted with the dying and the dead. The track towards California from Independence, Missouri, across the prairies, is no longer marked alone by the foot-prints of men and horses and the ruts of wheels, but "dotted and lined on either side with newly-made graves." Sun-strokes are also fre- quent, and fatal, throughout the South. A writer thus pictures the con- dition of the immigrants at New York on the 3d instant- " Upwards of 3,000 landed in this city yesterday. They are pitched upon our shores in the last stages of destitution and physical weakness: they are dirty, ragged, and careworn; their clothing contains the effluvium of years of accumu- lated filth; they meet the direct rays of a sun which indicate from 105 to 120 degrees of heat; and they rush to the common drinking-houses to spend their last sixpence for spurious liquors. The Irish, even after they have been in the country some time, resist all the advice of their friends and the execution of our sanatory laws. Four persons died the other day of cholera, out of one house, and belonging to one family. It was discovered that they kept a quantity of pigs un- lawfully concealed in their cellars; and the odours were perfectly unendurable by the police who made the discovery. This propensity to raise pigs remains with the Irish to the last. I have taken some pains to relieve one of these poor fami- lies, and find their destitution has but oae solace with its sufferings: they have two litters of pigs, for whose support the man, his wife, and three children, fol- low, from habit or choice or both, a regular system of begging from house to house. It does not seem possible to imbue them with a desire for regular em- ployment. They prefer trailing a little waggon from morning to night through the streets to pick up offals. By the blessing of God,' they say, they have some pigs, and that is enough for them." Father Mathew had arrived at New York in the Ashburton, and had been honoured with a public reception by the civic authorities. He had been provided with accommodation at the expense of the city, and invi- tations were pouring in upon him from all parts of America.

There are reports, not well authenticated however, that the settlers in California had broken into the most serious state of outrage at Francisco, on learning that Congress had made no provision for the government of the territories. From Canada the public correspondence is scanty, and it gives no idea of an excited state of popular feeling; but private letters are written in a tone of alarm at the under-current of agitation, and contain credible state- ments that arming and drilling continue on such a scale as to bode serious occurrences at no distant period. A Court of Inquiry has for some time past been sitting at the Government House in Montreal, and an immense number of persons have been examined before it. The arrests expected to be made, which exceed fifty, include many men of the British party. The Quebec Gazette announces that the leaders of the French party were about W establish clubs of their own, after the fashion of the British American League. There is a doubt as to Lord Elgin's movements. Some accounts "report," and others " state," that he had left Montreal on the 29th, for Niagara, in so private a manner as to provoke much conjecture; but a tele- graphic despatch of the 2d July ignores this fact—" The Governor is still here, and has said he will remain."