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YrItUre.—The Emperor returned from Fontainebleau to St. Cloud on Sunday, but he did not, as on former occasions, pass through Paris. There is some not very authentic-looking talk about the retirement of Marshal Polisaier from the London embassy, and the appointment of M. Drouyn de Lhuys in his room. But the most interesting incident is an attack in the Constitationnel, a Walewski organ, upon Lord Brougham and Earl Grey for their re- marks on the French emigration scheme. " During a discussion which has just taken place in the House of Lords en the slave-trade several orators made a show of philanthropic indignation, winch might have had some pretext if it referred to the cruelties practised in the suppression of the Indian mutiny, but which was totally misplaced When :addressed to the immigration to the French colonies. There have not been, as far as we are aware, thousands of prisoners shot, hung, or blown from the mouths of guns in those establishments without any form of trial. The anti-Christian spectacle was not presented, in the middle of the nineteenth century, of towns given up to all the passions of a soldiery— that is, to pillage, rape, and murder. Our colonies are at present models of order, peace, mutual benevolence, and good government. We have abolished
slavery in them from a pure feeling i of humanity, and without a mixture, as with others, of selfish calculation. We have raised the former slaves in our colonies to the dignity of citizens. We permit them to enjoy all the rights : inscribed in our code of laws. Much more, we have added to these benefits institutions calculated to plain, the blacks in a position to profit by them. We lavish the benefits of education on them. Public relief is organized in our colonies with vast generosity. Religion is propagated in them with in- exhaustible zeal and charity. Labour is largely remunerated, provisions are cheap, liberty is complete, and poverty affects none but the vicious or the lazy. The condition of the negro population better than that of many operatives in the manufactories of E iurope. Is is above all, infinitely preferable to that of the Irish, famished, and forced to expatriate them- selves for that reason by hundreds of thousands to America. Let England examine herself—let her inquire what trade it is which supplies the slavers established on the coast of Africa with the merchandise suited to that traffic. She will learn to know herself, and she will discover that she at least di- vides with the United States the profits of that commerce." The Patric is more moderate in its language' but the Pays save—
"What! can it be believed ? The infamous butchery of the officers and crew of the Regina Cceli is approved of in the English Parliament ! And who are the men that applaud it ? We will name but one, an eminent judge, a man versed in criminal law, a man who has hitherto gloried in his sympathy for France, and who once wanted to become a naturalized French- man—in a word, Lord Brougham." In fact, the French press appears to be all but unanimous in protest- ing against what the Gazette de Prance calls an insult, publicly put upon the French nation by the English House of Lords. A Ministry of Algeria and of the Colonies has been created, and Prince Napoleon is appointed as Minister. Orders are issued to all officers belonging to the ports of Brest and Cherbourg, absent on leave, to repair to their stations by the 15th July, to be ready to meet the Emperor. Baron Adelsward, Swedish Envoy at St Petersburg, has been nomi- nated Minister Plenipotentiary to Paris.
31IIII1f nag r IL—In correction of " false reports" respecting Monte- negro, the Paris correspondent of the Peet supplies the following state- ment as " fact." "The Governments of England and France have received assurances from the Porte on the one hand, and Prince Danilo on the other, that no further hostilities shall take place. Meanwhile, negotiations for settling the disputed territory of Montenegro will shortly commence at Constantinople, probably as soon as Sir Henry Bulwer arrives in that city. It is not true, as some journals have asserted, that any secret treaty exists between Turkey and Austria, but no doubt Austrian influence prevails at Constantinople, from the fact that Russia and Austria are not on good terms."
Unit tf tidef.—The Africa arrived at Liverpool on Sunday With dates from New York to the 9th June.
The war fever had tamed down in Congress. A motion in the Senate directing the construction of ten steam-sloops of war was negatived by 24 to 20. A proposal for six was negatived, by 31 to 22. At length the Senate agreed by 18 to 17, that one paddlewheel and five screw steamers should be constructed. An amendment by Mr. Green, of Missouri, giving the President power to issue letters of marque and reprisals, was lost by the decisive vote of 46 to 6. The tone of the speaking, especially on the part of Mr. Seward and the Northern Republicans, WM far more moderate than before.
The New York correspondent of the Daily Hews rays— "The tremendous war mania in the Senate last week has expended it- self in voting five additional sloops for the navy. There is a general Im- pression abroad that the British Government will disavow the acts of its officers in the Gulf of Mexico, and the result is a general subsidence of the clamours for hostilities. The Southern members have grown remarkably meek since they heard Seward, Hal; and other Northerners come out so rampantly for war, thus revealing clearly that the more bloodthirsty of the legislators were playing a game of brag. Each party was anxious to outdo its rivals in patriotic Buncombe, but as soon althe planters found that if they went on, war really might follow, awful visions of three cents a pound for cotton caused them to drop the trumpet and blow the treble pipe of peace. The whole exhibition, however, reflects little credit on the moral tone of American statesmanship. Nobody seems to have sufficient force of character to refuse to pander to the popular taste for bluster. Even Bankers, the late Speaker of the House of Representatives, now Governor of Massa- chusetts, and one of the most rising and most prominent men in the ranks of the Free-soilers, vigorously denounced the British Government in Boston, and threatened war to the knife, without ever saying one syllable in condemnation of the shameless supineness on the part of the American au- thorities with regard to the slave-trade."
The Vigilance Committee at New Orleans held its own until after the municipal elections. The voting passed off peaceably, and the contest resulted in favour of the "Know Nothing" or American party. After the election the Vigilance Committee disbanded. They had not disor- ganized, however, but announced that they were ready to carry out their principles at any moment. The authorities arrested, but sabre- quently discharged a number of the Vigilante.
It tie.—A telegraphic despatch from Calcutta to the 18th May hair been received. It does not, however, contain much that is new. Sit Colin Campbell, leaving a strong force under Walpole, had gone to Futteyghur. The relief of Shahjehanporc by Brigadier Jones is con- firmed. He had been attacked by Khan Bahadoor and Nana Sahib but had easily repelled them. A movement upon the enemy's position at Mohumdee is spoken of as probable. Lueknow, garrisoned by 2000 troOps, not in the best state of health, had been threatened by the Beg= with 25,000 men. Sir Hugh Rose was close to Calpee. "A conspiracy had been discovered in a wing of the [disarmed] Fourth Native Infantry in the Punjanb. The conspirators were hanged, and the wing at once marched to Jullundur. The Rajah of Shunda, in Nagpore, on the Hy- derabad frontier, had broken into open rebellion."
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