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iraurr.—The star of Louis Napoleon is still rising, and his good for- tune seems to be constant. On the 16th March, at a quarter past three a. m., the Empress Eugenie presented her anxious husband with a large and robust boy—a prince born in the purple. The good people of Paris had been kept in a state of suspense for many hours. Official notice of the proximate advent of the child was sent early on Saturday to the Princes of the Imperial Family, the great state functionaries, and the Legislature. A notice was placed in the Bourse at half-past two. The Municipal Council of Paris assembled en permanence; preparations for an illumina- tion were immediately begun ; groups assembled in the Place du Car- rousel, and in the gardens of the Tuileries ; and the artillerymen at the Invalides stood with lighted matches. In the chamber of the Empress, the Emperor, the Duchess of Essling Grand Mistress of the Household, and the Countess Montijo the mother of the Empress, waited all day; the dignitaries of the empire were in the next room. The day passed, and the night ; but at dawn on Sunday the cannon of the Invalides woke Paris with 101 guns, and all the world knew that a boy had been born heir to the Imperial ihrone. The Empress had suffered very se- verely, but the reports described her as proceeding very favourably through the usual course of symptoms. The young Napoleon remained in his mother's room until mid-day ; when he was carried to the Chapel of the Tuileries, to undergo the pre- scribed ceremony of "preliminary baptism." Near the altar were four Cardinals, the Bishop of Nancy, the Bishop of Arras, and th'e Cure of the Imperial parish, St. Germain l'Auxerrois. The Admirals and Mar- shals of France, the Great Officers of the Household, the Senate and Legislative Body, were also present. The Emperor entered at half-past twelve. Mass was performed ; and after mass the Cure christened the child. He then placed on the table the two registries in which the bap- tismal act of " Napoleon Eugene Louis Jean Joseph, fibs de France," was inscribed. The Emperor signed it on both registers ; after which, the same formality was gone through by Prince Murat, the Duke of Alba, Marshal Valliant Minister of War, M. Troplong President of the Senate, and Count de Morn), President of the Legislative Body.

The illuminations of Paris on Sunday night were not confined to the main streets, but extended into the lanes and by-ways, and the suburb- an villages. " It is certain that for many years nothing like the illu- minations of last night has been witnessed in Paris," says a letter written on Monday. Unfortunately, rain fell profusely at an early hour, and extinguished everything but the gas. Still there was a sufficient blaze to present the effect of Paris on fire." In spite of the rain, thousands paraded the streets until a late hour.

The lifoniteur of Monday announced that the Emperor and Empress would be the sponsors of all the legitimate children born in France on the 16th March.

On Tuesday, the members of the Peace Conference—the Moniteur calls it " Congress "—the Diplomatic Body, and the great Legislative Bodies of the State, waited upon the Emperor to present addresses of congratulation. They were received in the Throne-room of the Tuile- ries. The members of the Conference selected Count Walewski as their

spokesman; in reply to his oral address the Emperor said- " I thank the Congress for the well-wishes and congratulations addressed to me through you. I am happy that Providence has granted me a son at a moment when a new (era of general reconciliation dawns upon Europe. I will bring him up imbued with the idea that nations must not be egotisti- cal, `and that the peace of Europe depends upon the prosperity of each nation."

In reply to each address, the Emperor made a speech, containing something of mark. To the members of the Senate he said, touching on a delicate question- " The Senate shared may joy when it learnt that Heaven had granted me a son, and you have hailed as a happy event the birth of an enfant de France. I purposely make use of this expression. In fact, the Emperor Napoleon, my uncle, who applied to the new system created by the Revolu- tion all that was great and noble in the old regime, resumed that old deno- mination of enfants de France.' And in truth, gentlemen, when an heir is born destined to perpetuate a national system, that child is not only the offspring of a family, but he is truly, also, the son of the whole country, and the name indicates his duties. If this was true under the old monarchy, which more exclusively represented the privileged classes, with how much more reason ought it not to be so today, when the Sovereign is the elect of the nation, the first citizen of the country, and the representative of the in- terests of all ? I thank you for the good wishes you have expressed for this Child of France and for the Empress." To the Legislative Body his reply was more comprehensive- " The expression of your sentiments on the birth of the son which it has pleased Providence to grant me has touched me nearly. You have welcomed in him the hope, which .it is flattering to entertain, of perpetuating a sys- tem which is held to be the surest guarantee of the general interests of the country; but the unanimous acclamations which surround his cradle do not prevent me from reflecting upon the fate of those born in the same place and under similar circumstances. If I hope that his fate may be a happier one, it is that, first of all, confiding in Providence, I cannot doubt of its protection when I see it restore again by an extraordinary combination of circumstances what it was pleased to overthrow forty years since, as if it wished to mature by martyrdom and misfortune a new dynasty issuingfrom the ranks of the people. History has, moreover, lessons which I shall not forget. It tells me, on the one hand, that we should never abuse the fa- vours of Fortune ; on the ()this, that a dynasty has only then a chance of stability when it remains faithful to its origin, and when it occupies itself solely with the popular interests for which it was created. This child, whose birth is consecrated by the peace under preparation, by the blessing of the Holy Father, brought by electricity in an hour after he saw the light of day, and finally by the acclamations of the French people, whom the Emperor so much loved,—this child, I say, will, I hope, be worthy of the destinies that await him."

The Council of State received a briefer acknowledgment- " The Council of State, that intimate Council of the Sovereign and of his Government, which is initiated to all his thoughts, and which associates itself with all his acts, would, I was sure of it, take a lively participation in the rejoicing of the present and in the hope of the future. None labour more than yourselves, gentlemen, towards the consolidation of that future. Strong in the grand traditions of the Council of State of the first Empire, you elaborate the laws which, while they con- secrate the grand principles of the Revolution, pacify the country, consoli- date the rulmg power, curb factions, and prepare the peaceful reign of a wise liberty. r count, therefore, upon the talents and patriotism of which you have already given me so many proofs to render easy to the child who has just been born the accomplishment of his future destinies." All the Emperor's speeches were received at the close with cheerin and the usual cries.

The daily bulletins of the health of the Empress are very favourable. It is now stated that Prince Jerome is "convalescent" Generals Canrobert, Bosquet, and Randon, are made Marshals of France.

The ifoniteur states, that the Emperor has resolved, on the birth of a prince, to permit all persons in exile to return to France, provided " they Will make a declaration to submit loyally to the Government the nation has selected, and will give their word of honour to respect its laws. Already, at the inauguration of the Empire, this generous appeal was made; the Emperor has ordered it to be repeated. The only ex- patriated men will be those who obstinately refuse to recognize the national will and the monarchy it has founded."

t ail ite—The Independence Beige hazards the statement that the Princess Royal of England will be the wife of the heir to the crown of Prussia. Prince Frederick William, says that journal, has "solemnly i demanded of the King his uncle the consent indispensable to the pro- jected alliance with the Princess Royal of England. This consent was granted in the presence of the whole Court, and no doubt whatever exists as to the analogous disposition of the Queen of England." The details of the Berlin duel are still full of interest. Herr von Hine- keldy was the organizer and director of the centralized police existing at Berlin. He extended the large powers intrusted to him to a supervision of the gambling proceedings of the young officers of the army and others, and thus gave deadly offence. The duel was provoked by the unwearied persecutions to which the reactionary party subjected not only Hinekeldy but his wife and daughters. At length the affronts received reached a climax; and Hinekeldy, resigning his post, challenged Herr von Rochow, one of the most active of the set banded against him. Rochow accepted the challenge, and chose pistols ; which weapons, it is said, Hinekeldy did not know how to use. The parties met on the 10th instant. The ar- rangement for fighting was that known by the name of the "barriere." A space of five paces was marked off in the centre of the line of fire as ground not to be encroached upon ; and from both ends of this barriere another distance of five paces was measured off for the combatants, who thus stood fifteen paces from each other. When the signal is given it is competent for both combatants to fire at once, or to reserve the fire, ad- 'saucing slowly, according to a marching-time called out by the um- pire. The shot must fall before the party oversteps the barriere. On this occasion, according to the umpire's account, both parties advanced .equally, and both fired at the same time : or, according to the ac- count of Hinekeldy's second, Hinekeldy fired first, and missed ; the other returned the fire, and "shot him through the right breast in the heart." He stood for a few seconds, and then fell dead into the arms of his second without having uttered a syllable. Rochow repaired immediately to Berlin ; reported himself at the Commandant's and at the Ministry of the Interior as having shot the President of Police in a duel, in which he was himself the challenged party ; and was permitted to go at large on parole, but was arrested in the evening by the criminal police, and shortly after given over to military arrest. Subsequently he was admitted to go at large on parole. In announcing the duel to the Upper House, of which Rochow was a member, the President was full of sympathy for Rochow, but had not one word to say for Hinekeldy. Had Hinckeldy killed Rochow, a relay of young men was prepared to fight him. Herr A. von Rochow of Krahne has put forward, in the North Prus- sian Gazette, a statement intended to exonerate his brother, Herr von Rochow of Plessow, the duellist. The letter is parallel to another state- ment which has been published, which is much more explicit, and there- fore 'more intelligible. Hinckeldy's interference with the Jockey Club had been the subject of a complaint to the King, that it was unjustifi- -able ; land the Ring probably met the complaint with some palliating answer of an equivocal kind;] Hinckeldy still pressed the search after sharpers ;. Yon %chow asked for his authority,' and [probably to stop the opposition] he named " the King." Von Rochow carried this to the King. Hinckeldy now perceived his indiscretion—that he ought not to have dragged the King into the affair : he disclaimed having done so— denied his words ; and in so doing, [apparently unconscious of Von "Itochow's having taken advantage of his indiscretion,] he persisted in the denial, so that Von Rochow became by implication the stater of a ' falsehood. He retorted that aspersion on Hinekeldy, and not without literal grounds; the challenge to fight with pistols was the consequence.

The excitement in Berlin when the result of the duel became known was extreme. Multitudes of people gathered in front of his house next day.

" The lower orders here," says the Rules correspondent, " recognized in him with instinctive tact their own protector and benefactor: it is pre- eminently said of him by the lower classes that he wasjust' ; that is to say, he exercised his power with equal hand towards high and low. This was true of his life, and has-been the cause of his death. I know cf no . event, short of the. murder of the King, that could have produced such a sensation in the lower classes of society as this duel and its result have. In the middle classes the excitement is the same in degree, but different in its nature • not so much regret for the Police President as firm hatred against the exclusive and overbearing oligarchy that is now grasping all power in Prussia."

Though the late Director of Police used his power tyrannically towards all classes without exceptfon; he had done many useful things. Berlin

_ is indebted to him for clean streets, an improved sanitary state of the . lodgings of the poor, a fire brigade, with a network of electric telegraphs all over the town, the waterworks lately erected by an English company, the baths and waahhouses for the poor, an admirable system of employ- ing criminals beneficially and profitably in the open air, and many more similar improvements. Hinckddrs successor is the Baron Zedlitz von Neukirk—a man of business habits and engaging manners, and a mem- ber of the old noblesse. • He had been recommended by Hinckeldy.

No explanation has been published of the reported violent deaths of Count Canitz, and Herr von • Hammer; except the meagre assertion that Canitz did not die by his own hand, but was killed in a duel, the cause of which is studiously concealed, as well as the time, the place, and the antagonist.

Of SIM t.—The latest advices left Captain Watson's squadron of five ships at anchor in the outer harbour of Faro, on Saturday. The sea was full of loose ice, and the inner harbour at Fain was completely frozen over. The Euryalus joined the squadron on the 12th. Although she anchored only 200 yards from the Imperieuse, Captain Ramsay was nearly half an }emir cutting his way through the ice in one of his boats, to report his arrival to Captain Watson. The ships were to weigh for a cruise in a day or two.

On the 13th instant, the Danish Minister Scheele informed the Council of the Kingdom that the Government of the United States of America has proposed to extend by two months the treaty now existing relative to the Sound dues, and which would expire on the 2d April. The Go- vernment of the King has consented to this prolongation.

SUSSIS.—Letters from Odessa, published in the German journals, state that typhus fever prevailed in that city at the end of February ; that 20,000 troops were then in the hospitals, and that thousands have died.

"Despite the greatest exertions, it is extremely difficult to find accommo- dation for so many patients. Hospitals have been established in the very midst of that part of the city which is inhabited by the better classes, and thou- sands of patients occupy them • but physicians and proper nurses are want- ing. In one week twelve military physicians and four medical men in pri- vate practice died. Among them were two Americans, who were about to return home. The typhus has committed terrible ravages in the whole of Southern Russia, and particularly in those places which are near the theatre of war. Bakshiserai, Simpheropol, Kherson, and Nicholaieff are almost empty. It is estimated that this pestilence has already carried off 100,000 men. It is gradually spreading over Bessarabia."

ffiljt eri MEL—Lord Panmure announced on Thursday, that he had received intelligence from Sir William Codrington, dated March 15, to the effect "that the armistice had been signed by the Allied Generals, and that the exchange of documents would take place on the 16th."

Previously to this event, as the letters from the camp inform us, the officers and men of the French and English armies had established such amicable relations with the Russians near the mouth of the Tchernaya,— some of the French even crossing the river on an improvised bridge, and both sides exchanging little gifts,—that a general order was issued by the Chief of the Staff calling upon English officers and men not to overstep the line of demarcation, except on special duty. The Times correspondent, writing on the 7th March, says that the latest report was "that the Third and Fourth Divisions are to move down to Inkerman and the Tchernaya, to relieve the French, who suffer greatly from sickness. The mortality in the French army is said to amount to 170 men a day; and, although the exact number cannot be positively ascertained, there is strong reason to believe that the above statement is near the truth. I am assured that in three days 570 men died. There may be exaggeration in this, but it is certain that the num- ber of sick is very large, and that the French Commissariat is badly off. This severe and fickle weather must be trying to an army which is chiefly under canvass, and, as I believe, insufficiently rationed." It is also stated, via St. Petersburg, that the Russian army in the Crimea was still suffering dreadfully. A medical commission had been appointed to remedy pressing evils."

%nrItni.—The news from Constantinople is peculiar. The French hospitals are now the subject of complaint. At the latest date they were " going on a little better" ; but M. Baudens, the Inspector-General of all the Hospitals, who had just departed for the Crimea, "carried with him a letter from Miss Nightingale to Marshal Pelissier, in which she offers, as a private gift, port-wine, lime-juice, beef-tea, and bedding, for the irench hospitals in the Crimea."

tatts.—The Asia arrived at Liverpool on Tuesday, with advices from New York to the 5th March.

A letter appears in the Washington National Intelligeneer, signed by Mr. Crampton, who states that he was not instructed by Lord Clarendon to submit a proposition to arbitrate the Central American question, but only to inform Mr. Marcy that such a proposal had been made to Mr. Buchanan.

A personal question between General Webb and General Cass bringg out an interesting fact. When the French alliance was formed, Lord Clarendon made a speech in the House of Lords, in the course of which he remarked on the perfect concord which would thenceforward exist between the two countries in " all parts of the world." General Cass, considering that this could only be a " menace to the United States regarding Cuba," stated his opinion openly in the Ame- rican Senate, and denounced the speech. General Webb was then in London, and meeting Lord Clarendon in society, pointed out the fact to him. Webb said that he did not believe Lord Clarendon intended to imply that any arrangement had been entered into regarding Cuba, but at the same time the language used, he thought, appeared to justify the -construction put on it by General Cass ; and he added, Cass's speech "will excite alarm and anxiety throughout the country, and ultimately make our people dread the success of the Allies as the signal for their interference with the United States." At a subsequent interview, Lord Clarendon told Webb that he had explained to Mr. Buchanan, and had also written an explanatory letter to Mr. Crampton to be read to Mr. Marcy. Webb smiled at this, and explained his smile to mean that the Pierce Administration would not be at all desirous of correcting the error. At Webb's suggestion, Lord Clarendon wrote him a letter saying that there was not a particle of foundation for Cass's imputations ; and that, in his speech, he had in his mind Paraguay, Buenos Ayres, &c., not the United States. Webb sent the letter to a distinguished member of the Senate, but it was never used against Cass • and Cass twice after- wards repeated his statement without being corrected by Marcy. In the Senate, on the 3d March, General Cass referred to the matter, and asked, if Lord Clarendon's language had been misunderstood, why did he not explain it in his place in the House of Lords, instead of leaving it to be explained in a private letter, which few perhaps would see or hear of ?

On the same day, the Senate passed a bill authorizing the construction of ten sloops of war, each vessel estimated to cost 507,000 dollars, in- cluding equipment and steam machinery. During the debate, it was

elated bi a member that the bill was unanimously recommended by the Naval Committee, not founded on any existing alarm on the subject of war, but merely for the protection of commerce. The Americans are looking to their coast defences. The Secretary of `War has submitted to the Senate a report on the fortifications at and around New York. He recommends that a fort be built on Sandy Hook;

the rebuilding of Fort Tompkins, Staten Island; a fort on the East River, opposite Fort Schuyler. The total estimated cost for the fort at Sandy Hook is 1,500,000 dollars.

5uti 9.—The overland mail arrived on Tuesday, and brought advices from Bombay to the 16th and Calcutta to the 8th February. The Indian Government issued a proclamation on the 7th February, announcing that the kingdom of Oude would thenceforth be " vested -exclusively and for ever in the Honourable East India Company." The proclamation sets forth in detail the reasons that have led to this step. By a treaty concluded in 1801, the East India Company engaged to pro- tect the King of Oude against every foreign. and domestic enemy ; while the Ring of Oude " bound himself to establish such a system of ad- ministration, to be carried into effect by his own officers' as should be conducive to the prosperity of his subjects, and calculated to secure the lives and properties of the inhabitants.' " The British Government, it is alleged, have faithfully performed their agreement ;

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but the pledge given by the ruler of Oude in 1801 "has from first to last been deliberately and systematically, violated." The British Govern- ment therefore "might long since have justly declared the treaty void" - but it was " reluctant to have recourse to measures which would be fatal to the power and authority of a royal race, who, whatever their faults towards their own subjects, have ever been faithful and true to their friendship with the English nation." Nevertheless, the British Govern- ment has earnestly endeavoured to deliver the people of Oude .from "grievous oppression and misrule." Many years ago, Lord William Bentinck formally declared to the Court at Lucknow that it would be- come necessary that he should assume the direct management of Oude ; and only eight years ago, Lord Hardinge repeated the menace and warn- ing. Remonstrances and threats repeated for more than fifty years having proved ineffectual, and the Government still continuing corrupt and violent, the time arrived when the British Government could no longer tolerate these evils and abuses. They invited the King to enter into a new engagement, vesting the government of Oude exclusively in the East India Company, and securing ample provision for the dignity, af- fluent*, and honour of the King and his family. Wajid All Shah de- clined ; and the fiat deposing him went forth. All who decline to yield obedience are to be declared rebels and subjected to penalties ; the re- venue is to be determined on a fair and settled basis; gradual improve- ment of Oude is to be steadily pursued, justice measured out with an equal hand, and protection given to life, property, and right& The troops entered Lucknow at the end of January. The Xing withdrew his disarmed his garrison, shut up his palace, and on the 7th Fe- bruary ceased to reign. This is the third of Lord Dalhousie's conquests. Etude contains about 24,000 square miles, between 3,000,000 and 4,000,000 inhabitants, and yields about 1,000,000/. revenue.

It is stated that Mr. Bushby, the British Resident at Hyderabad, has drawn out a vigorous plan for the settlement of the Deccan—the last na- tive state of any magnitude in our dominions. His proposal is to lend the Nizam 4,000,0001. wherewith to pay his debts, get rid of his turbu- lent soldiery, and pay for British troops. As security for the loan, it is proposed that he shall cede territory yielaing 300,0001. a year.

The Sontals are again giving trouble. Some of them, hitherto quiet, broke out, but were quickly suppressed, after some fighting. As they are starving, danger was still apprehended.

Lord Dalhousie has issued a final order in "the Colin Mackenzie af- fair." It may be remembered that Brigadier Colin Mackenzie inter- fered with a religious procession during the Mohurrum at Bolarum in the Deccan ; that some soldiers took part in the riot, wounded the Bri- gadier,. and committed other mutinous acts. The Governor-General re- primands Brigadier Mackenzie ; declares that his " wounds " will compel him to leave Bolarum ; but refuses to exculpate the men. Those ac- tually present at the assault are to be tried, and the whole of the native officers are dismissed. The order has given general satisfaction.

Lord Dalhousie was seriously unwell at Calcutta. On the 5th Febru- ary he telegraphed to Lord. Canning, then at Bombay, to hasten on to Calcutta. Lord Canning arrived at Madras on the 14th February.

riti s j eniana.—A fanatic, known as the " Angel Gabriel," has excited a religious tumult in British Guiana. It appears that the "an- eel," whose real name is Orr, carries his antagonism to Roman Catholics to the length of sedition. Some Portuguese immigrants are in the co- Iony, ; they were offensive to Orr because they were Papists, and of- fensive to the Negro population who were envious of their prosperity. Orr succeeded in inflaming the population, at Georgetawn and other places, to such a pitch,—preaching, in one case, from the town-pump, 44.ger in hand,—that cries soon arose of " Down with the Portuguese !" and attacks were made on their shops and houses. The police, horse and foot, were called out, and Orr was arrested and committed for trial. But this did not suppress the sedition, and riots spread into the interior. The Court of Policy met and took measures to restore peace. The mi- litary were called out and posted in different parts of the colony ; and two persons caught rioting were publicly flogged. Still the insubordi- nation extended : it turned out that the insurgents had been led to be- lieve that they were only carrying out the orders of the Governor. For a week more or less the colony was in confusion ; but at the de- parture of the mail, on the 28th February, all was quiet.

%Mall ia.—Advices received via Melbourne to the 10th December, bring information of the pending quarrel between Sir Henry Young and the Legislature of Tasmania with respect to the privilege of the House to summon witnesses before Select Committees. The address in reply to the Governor's speech protested against the arbitrary and un- justifiable mode in which Sir Henry had seen fit to prorogue the Conn- ell. It further stated, that a bill which Sir Henry had "caused to be laid on the table of the House, providing for the attendance of witnesses at the bar, or before Select Committees, is not one which can, in our judgment, be accepted by this House ; as it does not appear to us in any way necessary to define, by enactment, those rights and privileges which we have contended, and still contend, are inherent in us as a re- presentative Legislature." In a memorial to the Queen, the Legislature

describes Sir Henry's conduct as calculated "to bring the Legislative Council and the principle of legislative representation into contempt and disrepute ; and above all, to endanger the respect and attachment which have hitherto so long and so completely pervaded all classes of your Ma-

Besty's subjects in Tasmania, for the government and institutions of the ritish empire."