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PRANCE.—M. Bonaparte has made another royal progress. Early on Saturday morning, he passed along the Boulevards on his way to the Strasbourg railway station, accompanied by four Generals. He was met at the station by all the Ministers. A showy saloon had been fitted up, where the President and his suite, all in gorgeous uniforms, partook of refreshment. At twenty minutes past nine the train set off; Nancy being its destination on the'first day. The moment Louis Napoleon quits Paris we lose sight of hint except I through the official medium of the reports of Prefects and the permitted accounts published in Oalignant's Messenger. Accordingly, we describe the progress as it appears refracted by the official atmosphere. All along the line, the " authorities" turned out to meet the President. At Meaux, the Prefect told him that nowhere would he find a more faith- ful population. The Bishop, just warm from Rome, delivered a message from the Pope, expressing his happiness at the sentiments of the French Government and the present state of France. Here the waiting-room was only decorated with flowers, but at Epernay the thing was done in a way "regardless of expense." At Chalons, the President was received by the Bishop, who was an old officer in the Imperial Guard. M. Bona- parte reviewed the garrison. We are told that the "acclamations" were loud and " most sympathetic." Bar-le-due emulated Chalons. The Presidential carriages passed at a walking pace through the streets to the Prefecture. Every house was set out with green boughs, tricoloured flags, garlands of flowers, and festoons of silk. Eagles crested triumphal arches. Commercy looked like a flower-garden, so profuse were the gar- lands. Young girls, dressed in white, "complimented" the President ; and the crowd cried, "Vive l'Empereur!" A curious scene was acted at Toul. The President, in a tent "composed of military trophies, each crowned by an eagle with outspread wIngs," received a body of young girls dressed in white, who brought flo vers. The leader recited an ad- dress, telling Louis Napoleon how Joan of Arc, a poor girl of Lorraine, who " had the good thought of trying to save the country," went to Toul to be inspired, and, "with the aid of God, succeeded in her enterprise." "You," continued the address, "determined to save France when me- naced in her simplest institutions ; you also will execute well your de- sign." Louis Napoleon reviewed the troops ; who cried, "Vive Napo- leon!" "Vive l'Empereur !" and he set off again under "an avalanche of bouquets." At Nancy, he went to a ball. The town was illuminated. Louis Napoleon is officially described as "perfectly contented." The President arrived at Strasbourg about noon on Sunday. One hun- dred and one guns were fired on his arrival. Everything was conducted according to order, as it was laid down in a programme of ceremonies, in which we find passages like these— "At five o'clock, a cortege of villagers, with cars, ornamented with flowers and verdure, containing young girls, and escorted by horsemen, will defile

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before the President." A deputation of young girls will proceed to pay their respects to the Prince at the hotel of the Prefecture." " The Prince will review the troops " : "a sham forced passage of the Rhine—bridge of boats on the Rhine thrown over by the pontonniers."

Louis Napoleon was met by the authorities, and the keys were given up to him. The Bishop then performed divine service in a large pavilion near the station ; blessing the railroad and the locomotives. Thence M. Bonaparte proceeded to the Prefecture, extremely well-guarded by sol- diers. The population filed past him, and in the evening Strasbourg was in a blaze with variegated lamps, Bengal lights, and fireworks of all kinds.

On Monday morning, he reviewed the troops. The bridge was thrown over the Rhine, and M. Bonaparte, accompanied by the envoys of Prus- sia, Baden, Wurtemberg, Hesse, and Switzerland, passed over to Kehl; where he reviewed the garrison of Baden. Having returned to Stras- bourg, he set out on Tuesday for Baden-Baden. After he had crossed the frontier he refused a military escort.

The Grand Duchess Stephanie of Baden, having shared in the festivities of Strasbourg, returned to her territories with Louis Napoleon. Rumour runs that the main object of the President's visit to Baden-Baden was to see a fair relative, who might possibly some day become his wife. The lady is a daughter of Prince Gustave do Vasa, now an officer in the Aus- trian army, and granddaughter, by her mother, to the Duchess of Baden: her name is Stephanie de 'Vasa.

SPAIN.—The journal El Barcelones was suspended on the 11th instant. The editor bad been tried and acquitted of the charge of publishing an article held to be dangerous and subversive of order ; but the Ministers met when the acquittal was known, and by royal decree suppressed the journal found guiltless by the jury.

ITALY.—The Opinion of Turin reports fresh arrests in Lombardy. The Austrians pretend that they have the clue of a great conspiracy, but they affect to believe this as nothing new, as "conspiracy may be regarded as permanent in Italy." In the province of Mantua about sixty persons, among them the Arch-priest of Revers and six clergymen, have been arrested. On the 13th instant, Count Tancred Mcisti, a moderate Consti- tutionalist, was arrested at Fosse d'Albero. Six young men of noble family have been imprisoned in the citadel of Ferrara. In the Roman States, great resistance is offered to the taxgatherers; and conflicts between the bailiffs and the people are not uncommon. It was rumoured at Rome, that about 2000 men, infantry, cavalry, and ar- tillery, forming part of the French force in Rome, will be sent home in' August; and that a proportionate force of Austrians will evacuate the Roman States at the same time.

Hurioanr.—The Austrian Emperor continues his journey. On the 11th he was at Buda-Pesth ; and, accompanied by " forty Generals," among whom was Ban Jellachich, he inaugurated an iron monument to Henri, the sturdy old Swiss who was killed defending the fortress from the Hungarians under Gorgey. Medals were distributed to the soldiers engaged in the defence. On the 13th the Emperor left Buda for Semlin. One incident, which is related as having occurred before he reached Perth, throws some light on the internal state of Hungary—.

"In Stuhlweissenburg, it is said, the violence of an officer—a General, completely scared the people. On the arrival of the Monarch, the country- folks, who had assembled from all parts, were so intent on getting a good sight of a real Emperor, that they forgot to doff their hats, until a hint from the Obergespann reminded them of what was proper. In the principal Place the same thing occurred ; but instead of employing his tongue, the before- mentioned officer used his sword, with which he knocked off the hats of the gaping Magyars. This specimen of military tactics put an end to the 'El- lens ' at once."

UNITED STATES.—The funeral of Henry Clay was national. We gave an outline of the route of the procession last week ; additional informa- tion enables us to add some incidents which characterized this as a great Republican ceremony. Baltimore was dressed out in crape : a lady threw a magnificent bouquet of flowers on the coffin as it passed. Will- mington, says the report, "never looked so mournful before." The corpse arrived at Philadelphia in the evening, and a vast crowd, lighted by three thousand torches, attended the car to that hall wherein the De- claration of Independence was first read, in 1776. There was a solemn tolling of bells, and a feeling of respect and awe pervaded the town. An enormous procession, " an hour long," filed past the hall, uncovered, by the lurid light of three barrels of tar. New York was in mourning : flowers in profusion were scattered by the ladies on and around the coffin ; mem- bers of the Clay Association " were observed to weep." Everywhere guns were fired. At Concord, New Hampshire, General Pierce delivered a funeral oration in praise of Clay. It was felt to be a national event, and the feelings of the people rose to the occasion. It has been noted that far more "pomp and circumstance" attended the funerals of the Presidents Harrison and Taylor, but that there was nothing like the same amount of deep and reverential feeling.

That General Scott does not suit all the sections of the Whig party is a fact strongly corroborated in the last reports. It is thought that his

views upon the Slavery Compromise measures are not "sound,"—mean- ing that he might be induced to disturb the compromise ; and there is a proposal running through the papers to start Mr. Webster on the "inde- pendent ticket." An enormous meeting to welcome Mr. Webster to Bos- ton was held on the 7th instant. On the previous day, the largest meeting of the Free-soil party ever held in Massaohussetts took place at Worcester. They are called a "formidable third party " by the journals. The usual civic and military festivities celebrating the 4th of July are recorded, There were numerous accidents at New York. At Staten Island, a bridge connected with the landing-pier gave way, and about a hundred persons fell into the water : many were drowned. The decision of Commissioner Brigham on the case of Thomas Seines

the Irishman charged with the murder of a farmer named Balfe in Ire- land, came before Judge Betts of the Circuit Court, on the 9th instant. The Judge sustained the decision of the Commissioner, surrendering Keine to Great Britain.

Morrraw..—The Pacific arrived at Liverpool on Wednesday. When she left New York, on the 10th, a huge fire, which had broken out in Montreal on the 8th, was 'supposed to be still burning. From the brief telegraphic messages which had reached New York, we learn that 300 houses were burnt down ; including Cornwall Terrace, the Bishop's Church, the Market, and the Cattle-market. Another report says that the Barracks, the officers'quarters, the Theatre, and several large hotels, are destroyed. "An Eye-Witness," who had reached Boston on the 9th, says the fire began in a block of houses inhabited by some poor French Canadians ; that there was very little water to be had ; and that within an hour there was " half a mile of flame," the houses disappearing before it " like brush heaps," the flames "licking up furniture conveyed away in carts." When he left the place, no stores had been burnt—only the houses of the very poor.

PANAMA.—Mr. Alexander Wylie, the chief engineer of the mail-steamer Trent, who visited the works in June, reports that the railway across the Isthmus of Panama is satisfactorily progressing. The line begins on Manzanillo. Island, in Navy Bay ; crosses a narrow channel to the main-. land ; proceeds thence, on piles, about seven miles over a complete swamp to Gatun ; and onwards through thick forests to Tavernilla, a distance of twenty-five miles. Its destination is Panama, and the contract requires the completion of the line by the 1st of August 1853. Mr. Wylie has no doubt but that it will be completed by that date.

VMKEZUELA.—An unusual fight came off at the town of Caracas last June. Mr. Michelena had been lately appointed Ambassador at Madrid and Rome, by the Government of Venezuela. Before he set out, he called on the French Charge d'Affaires, Baron de Viemars, to bid him " fare- well." But the Baron met the Ambassador with abuse of the Venezuelan Government ; his passion rising with his words, to such a height that he fell upon Mr. Michelena bodily—the French Minister kicked the new Ambassador, and with the assistance of servants turned him out of his house ! A challenge followed, and the " parties " had adjourned to the Weybridge of that region, the Tortugas Islands, when the mail came off on the 18th of June.