fUrtiglI iuiIr f c f/Iltrs.--The ilfoniteur officially conveys to the public

this import- tint intelligence.

" Up to the present time the Emperor's Government has never considered coal as an object contraband of war, and we are able to announce that it will, during the present war, continue to conform to this view of the ques- t/on."

The army of the Emit is to be raised from 80,000 to 160,000 strong. Marshal Palmier has called together his subordinates, and Marshal Magma has ordered the divisions of the army of Paris to be instructed with all possible despatch in the use of artillery. Admiral Bonat-Wil- laumez takes command of the siege fleet at Toulon, composed of thirty. two vessels and gun-boats. Rear-Admiral Dupony is to have a com- mand for cruising on the coast, and Captain La Ronciere le Nourry will operate in the rivers.

It is said that M. Talleyrand Perigord has been appointed Ambassador to the Court of Naples.

The Prefect of Police has administered a severe rebuke to the Messages. de Paris, for having published "a correspondence from Vercelli, in which the Austrian army, its General-in-chief, and even the Emperor Francis Joseph, were grossly insulted. Such outrages, happily exceptional in the French press, are the more deserving of reproof because they are addressed to a power to whom we are opposed in the field. At the mo- ment when the Emperor Napoleon commands the army of Italy in the face of an enemy, it is the imperative duty of his Government to cause his noble policy to be respected, and to repudiate publications which are contrary to the dignity of the French character." The Prefect of Police has placarded all over Paris a copy of one of the coup d'etat decrees by which any person propagating a piece of false news, whether with bad faith or not, is liable to a fine of from 60 francs to 1000 francs.

The English chapel in the Rue d'Aguesseau was opened on Sunday, after having been closed for two years. Bishop Spencer consecrated the place, and the Reverend Richard Burgess of Chelsea preached the open- ing sermon. The collections after three services amounted to 821. The chapel fund is still 3000/. minus, and appeals are made to the publics to help in filling the void.

5/Ala.—The new King of Naples seems to have had a narrow escape from the intrigues of his mother-in-law. Ile issued the following pro- clamation on his accession.

"Francis II., &c. Sze.—By the unhappy event of our august and well-be- loved father's death, Ferdinand II., God summons us to occupy the throne of our august ancestors. Adoring profoundly His impenetrable judgments, we confide firmly in His mercy, and implore that He will grant us His spe- cial aid and constant assistance to fulfil the new duties He imposes upon us, —the more serious and arduous, because we succeed a great and pious mo- narch, whose heroic virtues and sublime merits will never be adequately ex- tolled. Assisted by the protection of the Almighty, we shall be able to maintain and uphold the respect duo to our religion, the observance of the laws, the right and impartial administration of justice, the prosperity of the state ; since in this way, according to the decrees of Providence, the welfare of our happy subjects will continue to be secured. "And wishing the despatch of public business not to be delayed, we have resolved to decree, that all the authorities of the kingdom of the Two Sioi- lies shall retain their functions and continue to discharge them. "Caserta, May 22, 1859. (Signed) FRANCIS ri." The Opinions justifies the high praise bestowed by the new King of Naples upon his father on the ground of conventional phraseology and filial duty ; but it is of opionion that he milk accede to the Piedmont:am policy for his own safety, and more so that the intrigues of the Queen in favour of her son, the Count of Trani, were in consonance with Austrian views and probably carried on with the advice of that Government. The arriere Mercantile says that Franco and Husaia are acting in concert with regard to Naples, the former having promised the latter to respect the dynasty. Both demand reforms. Englana advises the King to give a constitution ; the reply being that the constitution would in- volve the cessation of the neutrality hitherto maintained. Austria strives to maintain the static quo and an alliance, but nothing is yet known of the King's intentions.

We learn from Genoa that General Klapka is at present occupied in that city with the formation of a Hungarian Legion, which is to wear the national costume, so as to form a kind of attraction for such of their countrymen as are serving in the Austrian army. The Municipality of Venice has requested a reduction of tho loan. The President and Vice-President of the Chamber of Commerce have re- signed their official positions.

A Milan correspondent of the opinione states that the city is tranquil, much to the annoyance of the police who would be glad of a pretext to excite the populace. Domiciliary visits continue to be made every night, but the citizens keep quiet in expectation of an opportunity to rise. All are anxiously listening for the sound of cannon. The police are making all the old soldiers of the Empire remove their Saint Helena medals. The payment of taxes was delayed to the very last day by the Milanese in the hope that they might soon have to pay them to Piedmont or not at all. But the latest day for settling them arrived and they were forced to pay. The Stafetta says that the reserve corps; are all called out in Lom- bardy. According to the Tuscan Monitore the Patriarch of Venice has com- plained to his Holiness because the Austrian lieutenant of the kingdom has sent a circular to the priests of parishes, rectors, 6ce. requesting a list of the plate possessed by the churches. The Opinions quotes the address of Prince Napoleon to the Tuscans

upon his arrival at Leghorn, in which he comments upon the fixed and generous intentions of the Emperor with regard to Italy, and thus re- iterates them • "Napoleon III. has declared that he has no other am- bition than that of seeing the holy cause of independence triumph and is in no degree guided by family interest."

The Gazetta di Genoa reports that the Modenese troops had hastily abandoned Aulla and the two forts of Madonna Degli Angell and S. Ber- nardo. Some soldiers of the National Guard quickly arrived from Sargana to occupy the forts evacuated by the soldiers of the Duke. The Monitors Toseano says that the Duke of Modena is preparing for departure, and keeps his carriages and baggage ready to set out at any moment. Meanwhile he is oppressing the country with exorbitant taxes and exactions, and injustice of every description. The Corriere Mercantile publishes an edict of the Roman Government prohibiting the exportation of grain, although there are large stores in the country, and the harvest promises to be very abundant this year. ltrmanii.—The Emperor of Austria, General Hess, the Archddsake William, and the Grand Duke of Tuscan', quitted ViennadonveSrsunss ony, and journeying by the Lombardo-Venetuur railway, rocs

Monday. He must, therefore, be now in the front. General Schlich has appeared at Trieste.

The Dresden Journal of Tuesday professes to know that the negotia- tions between Austria and Prussia for the purpose of arriving at an un- derstanding in the interest of Germany, have dining the last few days made satisfactory progress.

The Prussian Government announced on Wednesday the conditions under which the new Prussian loan at 5 per cent is to be issued. The

issue is to be made in coupons of from 50 to 1000 thalers, the payment of the interest to be half-yearly, and the redemption of the debt to commence from 1863 by the payment of 1 per cent per annum. No re- duction of the interest is to take place before 1870. The subscription to be received from the 6th to 11th June. In case the subscriptions should exceed 30,000,000/. thalers, those above 250 thalers are to be proportion- ally allotted. On subscription a deposit of 10 per cent must be made, by the 8th July 30 per cent, by the 22d August 25 per cent., and by the 8th October 30 per cent. For this 95 per cent subscribers will receive 100 per cent nominal value, bearing 5 per cent interest from July 1, 1859.

It appears that the Austrian regiments passing through Munich are re- galed by the citizens. "Every soldier," says a letter from the beery capital, "who arrives is treated to a good warm dinner, plenty of beer, lots of cigars, and other little luxuries. At the expense of the town, a sort of camp has been fitted up at the railway station when the troops arrive, and the whole population is there from morning till night, receiving the diffetent regiments with open arms, and treating them to a great deal more beer than the poor fellows can stand. At the same time the worthy, burly Munichers, do not fail to set their Hun- garian brothers a most laudable example. It is really a sight altogether, and sinuses us vastly. Imagine an immense crowd of ladies, gentlemen, officers, soldiers, working men, children, &c., gathered together on an awfully dusty plain, and all drinking beer, except when a train comes in, when all begin to shout till they are hoarse, and then drink beer again, fraternizing most enthusiastically with the Hungarians ! " Baron Kiibeck has been definitively appointed President of the Federal Diet.

The Augsburg Gazette has published a letter from North Germany, entitled "What are we waiting for ?" It breathes the most fiery spirit; points out that Germany is prepared France unprepared ; that no better time than now could come for the recovery of Alsace and Lorraine and the capture of Paris ; that Russia is too exhausted to move, and that she would be awed by a march on Paris ; that by such a course alone could help be obtained from England. If Germany hesitates to draw the sword she will have to fight on the Rhine against the French, and in Hungary and Poland against revolution.

Sil ala .—The rumour, to which some of our contemporaries give credit, says the Fenix, that the queen has engaged to send 30,000 men to the Roman States is absolutely false, and has been positively denied by the cabinet. The two battalions of chasseurs in the rifle school of the Pardo practised yesterday in presence of General O'Donnell ; giving proofs of their dexterity in the use of the minie. At 600 and 600 metres they-put 60 out of 100 balls into the target, sustaining a fire of files by companies.

Surkni.—Letters from Constantinople state that the Grand Duke Constantine, whom we last heard of at Jerusalem, was expected at the Turkish capital on the 26th May.

"The Sultan has held a review of 25,000 soldiers. The reserve will be immediately despatched to Roumelia. The Porte will send troops and ships to Albania. Two thousand Servians, with artillery, have departed to reinforce the Montenegrins. Prince Milosch ignores this fact, but the atti- tude of the Servians inspires fear. Letters also assert that the Porte is about to send four ships, four frigates, and two avisos to the Adriatic, under the command of Mehemed Pacha, who in certain emergencies would exer- cise his command under the orders of an English admiral. The garrison of the fortress of Belgrade has been reinforced. Omer Pasha remains at Bagdad, being detained there in consequence of the threatening attitude of Persia."

.WL III id t if8.—The Anglo-Saxon arrived at Liverpool from Que- bec, bringing two days later telegraphic advices from New York; that is to the 20th May. A Washington telegram of the 19th says that "the first instalment of 100,000 dollars of the debt as ascertained and adjusted in the treaty recently concluded by Minister Reed with the Chinese Go- vernment, and due by it to certain American citizens, has already been received, The administration has recently received such evidence of the good faith of Great Britain as to satisfy it in the belief that she is sin- cerely disposed to fulfil all her engagements with this country in regard to the Central American question.'

We hear from Washington that the British Government has informed Mr. Buchanan's Cabinet, that it disapproves of the convention concluded by Sir William Gore Ouseley with the Central American States, and has directed 'him to act upon his original instructions. Mr. Appleton, formerly Secretary of the United States' Legation at London, is about to retire from the post of Assistant-Secretary of State in the Foreign Office, which he has held since Mr. Buchanan came into power. The vacancy is not yet filled. Several persons have been sug- gested for the place ; among others, Mr. Squire, formerly Chargé to Cen- tral America.

The New York correspondent of the.Daily News says the excitable Net Yorkers were all agog about the war. "The feeling of sympathy with Sardinia and France is general and very strong. The past offences of Louis Napoleon are all forgotten in the pity for the sufferinfs of those whose cause he takes the field to defend. Every one agrees that it is monstrous to ask of Hely to remain quiet one minute longer than she can help, and that any change in her condition must of necessity be a change for the better. Even if Louis Napoleon be not sincere, and his real object be the conversion of Italy into an appendage of the French crown, Italians can have no hesitation in choosing between French and Austrian domination, and everybody knows that there is in reality no com- parison between them. Most people on this side of the water consider it samewhat cool of the English press and Parliament to preach patience to a people who have for forty years submitted in silence to an oppression of the most odious kind, and which so far from undergoing any mitigation was much less endurable last year than in 1816. It is even less excusable, it Deems to us, to ask the Italians to sacrifice themselves to secure the balance of power, than to ask them to go on trusting blindly to Providence and the future for an amelioration of their condition,. It is easy enough for people whose backs are always safe from the lash and who are themselves safe from the dungeon, whose houses and papers are not liable to nightly inspection by the pollee, and whose sons are not liable to be consigned to the ranks of a hated foreign army, to admire that nice adjustment of European forces and influences, by which each state is enabled to hold the others in check. It wears no doubt a charming aspect in Eaton Square, but at Milan it is quite another thing. Very possibly it is absurd to suppose that Louis Napoleon will secure free institutions for Italy, seeing that he takes good care that Prance shall not enjoy them—but there are various degrees of freedom as well as of happiness The sympathies of the United States are un- mistakeably with them both, France and Sardinia, and the best friends of England, here are pained to see her hanging back in doubt or indifference when the cause she has so long professed to have at heart is making a great effort for life."

The State of Massachusetts has adopted an amendment to its constitu- tion, depriving naturalized citizens of the right of voting at State elec- tions for two years after naturalization. It is intended to prevent the practice, which is, unfortunately, too common, of manufacturing voters by the thousand on the eve of an election, out of raw Irishmen and Ger- mans, by a lavish distribution of naturalization papers. The foreign element is indignant.

(apt IllSunk BIlitr.—We have received files of Cape journals to the 21st April. The colony was tranquil. The inhabitants of British Kaffraria had resolved to petition against the annexation of that province to the colony, as suggested by the Home Government. The first sod of the Cape Town and Wellington Railway was turned on the 31st March.

Mr. Murray, Civil Commissioner of Victoria, Western division, and a field cornet, were murdered by two Kaffirs.