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fram.—Very little intelligence has arrived this week from France. The Emperor was to leave Plombieres today for Nancy, where he would stay until Monday, and then set out for Paris. On the proposition of M. Billault, and at the wish of the manufactur- ing interest, the Emperor has ordered a full inquiry into the whole sub- ject of the Customs-tariff; with a view to the introduction of a bill that shall abolish useless prohibitions while protecting French labour.

pliII.—The intelligence of the actual state of Spain received this week is mainly derived from the columns of the Moniteur, and from let- ters of doubtful origin in the Continental journals. It cannot, therefore, be taken absolutely. But the most remarkable incident in connexion with Spanish affairs was the mode in which the Noniteur spoke for the first time on the subject On Sunday the Imperial organ published the following article which is generally received as the direct production of Louis Napoleon article, The Mouiteur of Sunday broke silence on Spanish affairs by publishing the following article which is generally received as the direct production of Louis Napoleon himself- " We have watched with interest the recent events in Spain- and we have approved them to a certain extent, as we fancied we discovered therein a favourable chance for establishing the Constitutional Government on a firm basis ; for France, which represents in Europe the ideas of 1789, can entertain no other wish than that of beholding a neighbouring state, in whose prosperity she takes a deep interest, avoid anarchy or despotism— those two shoals so dangerous to progress and liberty ; and, as the Espartero Ministry did not seem to possess either the power to prevent excesses, or the requisite energy to lead a great country, it ni natural to hail with sympathy a change of a nature to consolidate the throne of Isabella H.

"Some foreign journals, blinded by their unwarranted preference for a name have called a coup d'etat that which was simply a resignation of Minifiters, accepted purely and simply by the Queen after reiterated refu- sals. If the resignation had beem that of O'Donnell, they would have found it perfectly constitutional. Party spirit should never misrepresent things to such an extent, and thereby endeavour to mislead public opinion "The condition of Spain had been deplorable for two years that great country, for so long a time the arbiter of Europe, whose alliance but re- cently was eagerly sought for, had sunk into insignificance. It had neither finances, nor army, nor commerce, nor administration, nor influence abroad. In this difficult poaition, ambitious men, instead of endeavouring to give strength to what existed, attempted to overthrow it, either by flattering the passions of the mob or by attempting to realize dangerous utopias. The disorders which have agitated Spain for the last few years must be attri- buted to the fatal idea of certain Ministers, four years since, to make a coup d'etat, when Spain was tranquil and prosperous, and when there was no cogent reason to urge them to make a sudden change in the laws of the kingdom. "For a coup d'etat to be legitimate in the eyes of posterity, it must be justified by a supreme necessity, and be regarded by all men as the sole means of saving the country.

"We know those who dreamt of coups d'etat not with a view to modify some institutions, but to subvert the throne or change the dynasty, either by milting Portugal to Spain under the house of Braganza or by establish- ing a regency. We therefore give credit (nous lui sevens gre) to Marshal O'Donnell for having attempted, without a coup d'etat, to restore order in Spain, the first and indispensable basis of liberty. We give him due credit for having during the first moment of anarchy devoted all his care to the reform of the Spanish army, as -well in a moral as in a material point of view ; for it did not suffice to reform battalions and squadrons—it was es- sentially necessary to give to soldiers who are as brave as they are capable of great things the only mainsprings for the maintenance of an army, duty and fidelity to the Sovereign, and discipline.

"Let us hope, then, that the recent changes will put an end to those coups d' etat and to those baneful pronuneiamentos ; for it is our sincere desire that Spain, which contains so many elements of strength and prosperity, should resume, in the midst of quiet, the rank which is her due, instead of descending to the level of certain republics of South America, where neither patriotism nor civic virtues nor high principle are to be found, but only a few generals, who dispute the power with the help of soldiers led astray by empty promises."

The Slick had the courage to print a mild comment on the official manifesto ; expressing its pleasure at the allusion to the principles of 1789, and its difficulty in admitting that "the attempt of O'Donnell is not a coup d'etat." "The official journal has not taken into sufficient consideration the diffi- culties which beset the Admimiettatiett of Espartero, and which were uno. veiled by the sad events lately witnessed in the Peninsula. We approved the Liberal and Democratic tendencies of Espartero ; and we believe that the .Afoniteur' only recently in a state of alarm, has at this day too great a confidence in the speedy reistablishment of the tranquillity of the country of local liberties and of pronunciamientos." It is remarked, that in April last the Constitutionnel published an article which declared Spain "to be on the eve of a crisis from which the poor Peninsula could only recover through an intervention."] So far as appears, however, the insurrection against O'Donnell has been crashed in Barcelona, Gerona, Corunna, Figueras, Valencia, Se- ville, Cadiz, and other towns. The French official journal, the Madrid Gazette, and other papers interested in the coup d'etat, assiduously re- peat that all Spain except Saragossa has "acknowledged the authority of the Queen's Government," that "order reigns," and so on. But it is admitted that at Saragossa General Dulee, commanding O'Donnell's forces' was induced to give the insurgents five days to make up their minds. It appears that at Granada the National Guard, having obtained permission from the Captain-General to assemble, immediately assumed a hostile attitude. The troops sent against them "showed so much in- -decision "—that is the expression used by a party favourable to O'Don- nell—that the Captain-General felt it necessary to "consent to an ar- mistice of six days." General Blanco, who was sent down to supersede this officer, was most unexpectedly" taken prisoner at Jaen. When nearly all the intelligence comes from one source, it cannot be relied on.

In the mean time, the official prints say that Espartero has remained in unmolested quiet at Madrid ; and that the Queen wrote to Narvaez that at present she would prefer that he should remain in Paris. Certain it is that the Marshal went to the frontier, and went back again to the French capital.

The Queen has granted "a bounty of one month's service" to the garrison of Madrid which suppressed the insurrection.

tai.—There has been a slight outbreak at Massa-Carara, in the Duchy of Modena. A number of young men crossed the Sardinian fron- tier on the 25th July, and entered Massa-Carara. The particulars of the transaction have not been made public. The result, of course, was the suppression of the emeute and the arrest of a score of the rioters_ It seems that several political prisoners had just before been sentenced to various terms of imprisonment, none less than for ten years. What connexion there may have been between these two incidents is not traced.

The Cologne Gazette states that a telegraphic despatch was sent from Vienna to Gratz on the 22d July, "ordering 3,000,000 of ball-cartridges to be sent from the magazines of that place to Italy. The Minister of War, at the same time, countermanded the orders for reducing the cavalry and :Irtillery to a peace footing. All the troops stationed in Istria, Krain, Steyermark, and Kceernthen, have received the route."

Signor Mazzini has circulated an English version of a letter addressed to Daniel Mani; which he entitles "The Piedmontese Question Stated." It is, however, rather a statement of the Republican question as opposed to the Piedmontese question. The writer says he does not seek to im- pose the republic on Italy ; but that the country ought to be first aroused, and then to be the judge of its own destiny—sole umpire of competing propositions. He accuses Signor Manin of seeking to impose a monarchy on Italy. It has been affirmed by many of the most influential Liberals of Italy. that the Republican party has shrunk to an inappreciable frac- tion: several passages in Signor Mazzini's letter unconsciously tend to confirm that averment,—as, for example where he says, "The country, Mania, lies even yet inert and unmindful of its duties, beneath the halter and the rod."

Vortagal.—The King of Portugal closed the Cortes at Lisbon on the 19th. In the course of his speech he referred to the necessity for public -works-

" Convineed that increased facilities of communication by means of good roads and of railroads is now as imperious a necessity as it was always of the highest convenienee you did not hesitate to vote the supplies which my Government proposed for that object. I thank you, and trust that my wishes and your own will be fulfilled by the uninterrupted progress of public works upon the largest possible scale, in order that the oountry may in the shortest possible period enjoy the immense benefits resulting therefrom."

lansfin.—All is now preparation for the approaching coronation the Emperor at Moscow ; and the Ministers from the great Powers are hurrying to the old Russian capital.

Prince Menschikoff has this year fulfilled a term of fifty years' public service. The Emperor recently addressed him at a jubilee held on the occasion, and gave an outline of his distinguished career from 1813 to 1855. Prince Menschikoff was an aide-de-camp in l813-'14-'l5; in 1828 he took Anapa and commanded the fleet at the siege of Varna ; and in 1854-'5 he commanded in the Crimea.

tri Mtg.—The last despatch relating to the British invasion of the Crimea is from the pen of General Codrington, and records the final evacuation of Balaklava.

"Constantinople, July 16, 1856.

"My Lord—Finding that all arrangements would be completed for eva- cuating the Crimea on the 12th instant, I wrote the previous day to the officer in command of the Russian troops a Colonel of the Gendarmerie, at Kamiesch, that I should be ready to hand over the dockyard of Sebastopol and the port of Balaklava on that day. Her Majesty's ship Algiers had en- tered the port of Balaklava on the 7th instant ; the Fifty-sixth Regiment embarked in that ship on the evening. of the llth ; the only troops remain- ing were one wing of the Fiftieth Regiment, which formed the guard of the town that night. The following day, the 12th, at one p. m., all the re- maining stores and establishments having been embarked, a company of the Fiftieth was posted outside of the town to receive the Rus- sian troops, and on their approach =oohed in with the Russian Guard, composed of about fifty mounted Cossacks and a similar number of Infantry Cossacks. The usual form of salutes took place ; the Russians placed sentries where they wishedand the four companies of the Fiftieth marched on

I board the Algiers. embarked with my personal staff at the same time. "Although the weather was unfavourable, we were enabled to quit the harbour of Balaklava that evening. Admiral Sir H. Stewart and Admiral Fn3emantle were at anchor outside the harbour ; they weighed, and we all sailed for this place ; where I arrived today.

"nave, &c., W. J. CODRINGT021, General Commanding. "Lord Panmure, &c."

EM IL—Unwonted intelligence has been forwarded by telegraph from Athens, under date July 26—

" Brigandage is suppressed in Greece. The four united bands which still existed have been completely destroyed. Sixteen brigands were killed e..t seven captured."

i t N.—The Baltic arrived at Liverpool on Wednesday, with adviees from New York to the 19th July.

On the 14th July, the House of Representatives took the case of Pres- ton S. Brooks into consideration. The first motion simply expressed " disapprobation" of the assault of Mr. Sumner, and of language per- sonally offensive to individuals—in other words, disapproved of both Sumner and Brooks. This was negatived by 174 to 35. Then the House was asked to declare that it had no jurisdiction in the matter ; but this was negatived by 145 to 66. Next came this proposition—" That Preston S. Brooks be and is hereby expelled from this House as a repre- sentative from South Carolina." Carried by 121 to 95. As, however, this was not " a two-thirds majority," the Speaker decided that the House had- refused to agree to the motion. Mr. Brooks now attempted to speak ; and, after some heated altercation, he was allowed to do so, although out of order—Mr. Giddings giving way, to satisfy his friends. Brooks defended himself as he had done before,—saying that Mr. Sum- ner had insulted his State and his relative; that he, Brooks, knew the consequences of assaulting Mr. Sumner; that he might have killed Mr. Sumner, but did not ; and he threw out a challenge to the whole Repub- lican crew to come and take the life which they said he deserved to lose by assaulting Mr. Sumner. In one part of his speech he said— "When the people of the Great North speak of me as a bad man, they will do me the Justice to say that a blow from me at this time would be fol- lowed by revolution, and they know it. (Applause, seemingly anffined to the galleries.) But no act of mine shall favour revolution. I eel not wil- ling to see the constitution wounded through me."

The Speaker was obliged to threaten the persons in the gallery with expulsion, in order to keep them quiet. Brooks's last words were— Mr. Speaker I announce to you and to the House, I am no longer a member of the Thirty-fourth Congress." During the applause which ensued Mr. Brooks retired. An attempt was made to censure Keith and Edmund- son, who "assisted" Brooks ; but it failed.

The Free State men of Kansas assembled in convention at Topeka on the 5th July were dispersed by Colonel Sumner, at the head of five troops of dragoons. Two pieces of loaded cannon were pointed at the building, and the gunners stood by with lighted matches. Sumner said he acted "under the authority of the President's proclamation" ; and that he had just been sending "home companies of Missourians." The meeting dispersed.

The impression produced in the States by the non-dismissal of Mr. Dallas seems to have been very favourable to the British Government.

"Fortunately," says the New York Times, "this perplexing and menacing dispute is also settled—settled amicably, we are free to say, only in conse- quence of the magnanimous and manly temper in which it was met by the English Government and the English people. We have not the slightest disposition to exult over the sacrifice of pride which the British Government felt constrained to make. We regard its conduct in the adjustment of this irritating dispute with feelings of admiration—as a noble sacrifice, by a great and powerful nation to the interests of peace and the welfare of hu- manity. Our only apprehension is that in this rivalry of common sense— in this high-toned magnanimity, 1;y which small prejudices and petty feel. ings are surrendered to great interests and high considerations of the ge- neral good—England is to have the field alone. ' "The British Minister,' adds the Journal of Commerce, "has acted proudly, but not with false pride ; he has acted with dignity, without being arrogant ; and while he has nobly asserted the honour of his own country, he has fully acknow- ledged what is due to the honour of ours."

A number of citizens of Philadelphia, headed by the Mayor, have signed an address, adopted at a public meeting, in reply to addressee from Manchester and Liverpool strongly opposed to war between Great Britain and the United States. The Philadelphians fully reciprocate the British feeling.

The Washington Jury have not been able to agree in the ease of Her- bert the Californian representative who killed the waiter. He has been warned by the Vigilance Committee not to return to California.

A very extraordinary state of things existed in California. The Vigilance Committee remained in power, and were actively carrying on the exe- cutive government of the State. They had 8000 men under arms. Their head-quarters were defended by sandbags and cannon. Their mode of action seems to have been very decided : suspected characters were ordered to depart; if they did not go they were seized and sent away. The organization of the Committee was so perfect that no one knew the leaders or the Secretary—a most important officer. The Governor, after having ordered the Committee 'to lay down its arms, had encamped out- side the town with such force as he could assemble.

Walker has deposed Rivas, and procured his own election as President of Nicaragua. Idedenounces Rivas 88 a traitor, who not only ungrate- fully withheld from the Americans compensation for their services, but had excited the people against their "benefactors." Rivas is declared guilty of "the enormous crime of instigating the people to civil war"! and Walker reigns in his stead.

A horrible and shameful "accident" " happened " on the 17th, a few miles from Philadelphia. Early that morning, an excursion-train, con- taining 600 persons, chiefly school-children, started from Philadelphia. They intended to picnic about fourteen miles from the city. As often happens with excursion-trains, this one was late in setting out. The track was a line of single rails. From an opposite direction came a regu- lar passenger-train. Instead of waiting on a siding until the excursion- train had passed, the conductor of the passenger-train held his way on towards Philadelphia. To make up for lost time, the driver of the ex- cursion-train was rushing along at full speed. Both trains came into swift collision.

"The two locomotives were locked together in one undistinguishable mass. Three of the cars on the excursion-train were ground to splinters, and the unhappy children crushed beneath the ruins. The next two care were thrust forward over the ruins ; and into this mass of broken iron, splintered wood, and mangled limbs and bodies, fire from the locomotive fell, igniting the whole. Then ensued a scene too horrible for description. The dead were charred and burnt so as to be beyond the recognitiou of their friends. The agonies of the dying were made more excruciating by suffo- cating smoke and heat, while the wounded and mangled, pinned by the firm masses which covered them met a slow death by fire. The total ;lum- ber of the victims by this whole/ale slaughter is not yet ascertained, but it is supposed to exceed 100. No excuse is offered, as, indeed, none could be

wade. The guilty conductor, whose recklessness caused this destruction, t an end to his own life by arsenic."

S tibia Ink CY intl.-The overland mail arrived in London on Wed- nesday, with advices from Calcutta to the 17th and from Bombay to the 26th June.

The insurrection which had broken out at Simedy, a place in the North of Madras, had ceased as suddenly as it began. The insurgents, not meeting with any support, slunk back to their villages. An irre- sistible force was close at hand.

For some years the municipal government of Calcutta has been based on the elective principle. It has proved a failure, and the Government were about to create a nominee corporation. Mysore was sequestrated in 1831, in consequence of the misgovern- ment of that country by the Rajah set up after the destruction of the power of Tippoo Saib. During the last twenty-two years, the revenue has nearly doubled under British administration, although the Commis- sioners swept away 769 items of taxation. Besides paying its own ex- penses, and the pension of the deposed Rajah, 120,000/. per annum, the Commissioners of Mysore have annually forwarded 240,000/. to Madras. The population has increased one-half since 1831, and the results of the sequestration have been most favourable. Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy had retired into private life. At a public meeting held in Bombay, Lord Elphinstone in the chair, it was resolved that a statue should be erected to commemorate him.

" Sir Jamsetjee," says the Bombay correspondent of the Times, "has expended in public benefactions alone no less a sum than the equivalent of 250,0001., and in private charities it is supposed about as much. Among the former, are a large native hospital in Bombay, for the re- ception not of Parsecs only but of natives of every caste and creed ; a causeway between the islands of Bombay and Salsette, which cost nearly 20,0001.; and a bund or dam across the river at Poonah, for the purpose of husbanding the water, of which the expense was about the same as that of the Mahim Causeway."

Four young Parsees wished to abandon their faith and become Christian. When it was known that they had asked to be baptized, they were beset by their friends with all sorts of arguments. Three, on a promise that their religious scruples should be respected, returned home, but the fourth abided in the mission-house, "continuing to believe that he does most justice to his convictions and spiritual wants when he seeks the society and encouragement of the followers of that faith to which his own studies and inquiries have led him." The Chinese insurrection was again looking up. In Kiangsi the Im- perial troops are said to have been defeated by the rebels, and to have lost 3000 men, among them seven Mandarins. In the North the insur- gents appear aso to have met with much success, and the town of Ning- kwo-Foo has been taken by them. This place lies about 100 miles Westward of Hooehow, the centre of the silk district. Parties are said to have approached Pun-new-Chiu, and cause much alarm at Soochow. These disturbances had affected trade at Shanghai.

IIE f MI It t.-A bill has been presented to the House of

Assembly, by the Governor, authorizing the Government to raise a loan of 200,000/. for the purpose of promoting immigration from Europe. [Is it under this measure that the Foreign Legion is to be provided for ?]