fortigu nut Colonial.

Fnexca.—The ifoniteur has continued to publish the addresses of the Conseils-Generaux from day to day. Up to Tuesday evening eighty-three had been received; of which sixty-six were Imperialists and seventeen neutral. The most remarkable fact in connexion with the Councils is, that Henri de Larochejaquelin presided over the Council of the Deux-Sevres ; which, although it has not declared roundly for the Empire, rallies heartily to the existing Government—that is, as heartily as a mere nominee Council can rally. The lifoniteur published on Monday the French official reply to the article in the Timm of Saturday last-

" The Government is not moved at insults ; it does not answer them ; but, when facts are audaciously and outrageously misrepresented, it is always its duty to replace them in their true light. The Times, convicted of pre- meditated defamation, defends itself only by new calumnies. In its num- ber of the 28th of August it pretends, that after the 2d of Decemter 1200 inoffensive and unarmed persons were assassinated by drunken soldiers in the streets of Paris. The refutation of such a calumny lies in its very exaggera- tion. Everybodyknows that the official report lays the number of persons killed during the insurrection at 380: that is even too much, no doubt. As to the persons accidentally wounded, the number, 'unfortunately, amounts to eight or ten only. In the presence of positive documents opposed to false assertions, let every one judge of the good faith of the journal's*"

Emile de Girardin has got into an honourable scrape. When the Ho- tiiteur ceased its fire at the Times the Pays, or rather Granier de Cease- gnac in the Pays, continued the conflict, flattering the Elysee, and describ- ing all the opponents of the coup d'etat of the 2d December as robbers and cutthroats. Girardin, who is an old antagonist of Cassagnac, replied with the following article in La Pram

" UNIVERSAL PILLAGE AND MURDER.

"To Monsieur Grassier de Cassagnae.

"You this morning summon (in the Pays) the Government of December 2d before the tribunal of morality and reason. Such is the aim which you profess in the title of a series of articles of which that of this morning is the second. I not less than you am opposed to the separation of power into two rival branches, the executive and the legislative ; but under the express re- serve, that that which is collective shall be separated from that which is in- dividual. Yes' there should henceforth be but one sole power—the power executive; but on condition that this revocable power shall be narrowly shut up to the management of public affairs, and shall never restrain private liberty, which is the inviolable nght of all and the legitimate property of each. To justify what you call the thunderbolt' of December 2, you say— 'Considerably enfeebled in 1815, moderated in 1830,. and having, notwithstanding this, led the way tolwo revolutions the principle of the initiative of assemblies ex- panded itself triumphant?, in the Constitution of 1848. To what did it bring France in two years? To a system of universal pillage and murder, the organization of which was prepared, and the mot d' ordre given, when France was awakened at the verge of the abyss by the thunderbolt of the 2d of December.' Who has given you the right, Monsieur, to say that the elections of May 9, 1852, would have been universal murder and pil- lage? Is, then, the French nation a race of cutthroats and plunderers? Is it a nation of cowards ? Say that all the expelled, all the transported, all the internee after the 2d of December, to the number of 10,000 or there- abouts, were cutthroats and robbers, were there not, on the other side, 10,000,000 electors who would not have submitted quietly to robbery and murder ? What could ten thousand have done against ten millions ? But it is a gratuitous and unjust hypothesis which makes robbers and murder- ers of the 10,000 who were transported and expelled ; in which num- ber are the four Generals, Bedeau, Changarnier, Lamoriciere, and Leflo. I speak not of Victor Hugo to whom you owe so much. But you are not con- tent with insulting 10,000 fellow-citizens ; you insult also, in counting them for nought, the 21,000 men who compose our gendarmerie, and the 400,000 who form the army. Was not this a force sufficient to maintain the law ? If it was sufficient on the 20 of December 1851, when a universal or partial refusal of judicial or administrative support was to be foreseen and feared, how should it not be reckoned more than sufficient on the 9th of May 1852, when all that was to be performed was scrupulous observance of the consti- tution? In what respect could the danger have been greater in May 1862, with constitution, law, and magistracy, all in one's favour, (Louis Napo- leon's,) than in December 1861, when he had against him the constitution and the law, and might justly fear the judges who had sat at Bourges and at Versailles, where they had condemned Bathes and Blanqui, Guinard and Ledru-Rollin ?

" You, who today sit on the legislative benches and at the table of the Council-General—you say—you have the audacity to say—that the consti- tution of 1848 had conducted France to a system of pillage and murder. You lie, Monsieur : and this I say not of myself; it is the election of De-

cember 10, 1848, which took place in virtue of the constitution voted by a Constituent Assembly—it is the election of May 13, 1849, equally prescribed by that constitution, which speaks. In April 1848, in December 1848, in May 1849, in December 1851, in February 1852, the exercise of universal suffrage before and after the constitution of November 1848—before and after that of January 1852—show us a single fact like pillage or murder.

" And who are you then' Monsieur, that thus stigmatizes universal suf- frage ? Must I recall that it has made you what you are ? Must I urge, that if you are a Deputy and member of a Council-General, you are there only by universal suffrage ? Must I tell you, that if the nephew of the Emperor returned to France in 1848, and is in 1862 the chief of the state, this is only due to universal sufftttge—in other words, to the will and wishes of the people whom you hold up before Europe as a nation of plunderers and cutthroats ? Shame, that the journal which, calling itself the Pays, can thus calumniate France. No, no, a thousand times no ' • the elections of May 9 would not have been pillage nor murder. First, because France is not a nation of plunderers and murderers. Secondly, because the immense majority of electors had the greatest interest in maintaining order and upholding the Republic. Thirdly, because it 'would have been the honour of the Elect of December 10 intrepidly to defend public order and universal suffrage if they had been attacked. Fourthly, because in every commune the gendarmerie would have done its duty, and no peril would have been too great for its courage. Fifthly and lastly, because the army has shown to what point it carries the spirit of military discipline and the practice of passive obedience. Army, gendarmerie, president, administra- tion, magistracy, suffrage universal, electoral body, reckoning more than 10,000,000 voters, all unite to tell you that when you write the elections of May 9, 1852, would have been universal robbery and murder,' you calum- niate and you lie. EMILE DE Giatertnnx."

As might have been anticipated, the Preen received next day a " warn- ing " from M. de Maupas. This is the second, and the Presee may now be suspended at any moment without a warning.

President Bonaparte is to start on the 15th September for a tour through the Southern departments ; returning to Paris on the 16th of October. It is whispered that this is to be the last Presidential tour ; the Empire to follow close upon the Usurper's return.

General Hayman, who retired on Paris after his defeat in the Brussels Vauxhall, dined at the house of a "great capitalist" on Sunday. Seve- ral French officers were present ; and one of them, in offering up the in- cense of French compliments to the General on his military skill, alluded to the flogging of Madame Maderspach. General Haynau IS said to have presented the following explanation— "I had intended to leave to history the task of doing me justice; but I am thankful to you, Sir., for giving me this opportunity of contradicting an is

infamous calumny. It quite true that a lady was flogged. The Countess —, on the abdication of the predecessor of my Emperor, in order to ex- press her joy, had a figure representing him dressed up, and, with her entire household, went through the farce of interment, with the most outrageous insults to that illustrious personage. The captain chef d'eseadron who was in the place, hearing of the affair, arrested the Countess, and ordered her to be flogged. This is true. But I declare, on the honour of a soldier, which I hold sacred, that when this occurred I was at a distance of sixty leagues from the place ; and when I heard of it I expressed disapprobation of the conduct of that officer, and placed him under arrest." General Haynau grther denied that he had exercised any severity in- consistent with his duty. He held that the best sort of humanity in a civil war was that which would hasten the triumph of one of the contending parties : for that reason, he did not interfere to stay the execution of the eighteen Generals shot at Arad.

Theatrical representations have often afforded Paris the means of ex- pressing its opinion. On Monday, a new piece was performed at the 'Vaudeville Theatre, founded on Guy Matinering. When the Meg Merxilies of the evening sang the famoua song about the return of Harry Bertram, the words "11 reviendra " often recurred. Then the Legitimists ap- plauded. But when the villain Glossin reversed the Bertram device and declared that might was right, the audience was convulsed with applause. Next morning the piece was suppressed, and its title was removed from the playbills.

France apparently agrees with England on the Lobos guano question. The Minister of Commerce has annonneed to the shipowners of Havre that the Government cannot protect them in loading guano in the islands of Lobos, off the coast of Peru.

BELGIUM.-By a Ministerial decree of the 25th August, M. Nogent, Professor of the Athenee Royal of Ghent, was "suspended from his functions." M. Nogent had imprudently read extracts from Napoleon le Petit to the pupils of his elsqs. This is a striking instance of the dread of President Bonaparte which prevails in the Brussels Ministry.

The Independence Beige publishes a statement of the duties modified by the recent treaty- " Belgian books which now pay in France a duty of 107 francs 60 centimes and 160 francs the 100 kilogrammes, according to their nature, will only pay 20 francs. White paper, now subjected by the French tariff to a duty of 160 francs, will be charged 25 francs ; the same duty will be charged on coloured and mo- rocco papers which now pay 86 francs 50 centimes and 97 francs, according to quality. 'On engravings and lithographic prints, engraved music and geo- graphical maps, the duty is reduced from 317 francs, 60 centimes, to 20 francs. The duty on printing types imported from Belgium is reduced from 212 francs 50 centimes to 30 francs, and that on printing ink from 65 francs 50 centimes, to 25 francs. In the Belgian tariff the duty on books, which is now 31 francs 80 centimes, is reduced to 10 francs. The duties on paper and the other articles above-mentioned remain almost unchanged, except as re- gards printing type, on which the duty is lowered from 25 francs to 15 francs ; but for these different articles the duty, instead of being charged ad valorem, will be by weight. The duty on hops, which now pay 75 francs the 1N kilogrammes, is reduced about 50 per cent; cotonettes and pantaloon stuffs, which are now kept out of the French markets, will henceforth be admitted on payment of a duty of 26 per cent. Cattle from Luxembourg may also be imported into France on terms similar to those recently granted to Sardinia. These different advantages are granted to Belgium without any special com- pensation." Ausalua.—An additional postal convention has been published at Vi- enna, between Austria and the German States of the one part and Great Britain of the other part. It took effect on the 1st of August. All letters passing from Austria to England and Transatlantic countries via Prussia and Belgium, are now transmitted for the reduced sum of? twenty-one kreutzers ; and newspapers at four kreutzers per ounce. A letter prepaid in England reaches Vienna for eightpence ; and all letters may be re- gistered. The Vienna Gazette of the 27th of August officially announced the 1st of September as the day on which the new press law would come into operation. This law transfers jurisdiction over the press from the mili- tary to the civil authorities, even in towns still under a state of siege ; and it applies to the whole empire.

HVROART.—One of the fruits of the Emperor's journey through Hun- gary has been a commutation of punishments. The last batch consists of fifty persons of all classes of society ; including Duschek, Baron Ni- colas Yay, Keeper of the Crown, John Vidats, leader of the Pesth stu- dents, common lionveds, lawyers, and clergymen. In most cases these men were sentenced to "death by the rope," and their sentences are com- muted into imprisonment for terms of years varying from twenty to two years. Scone half-dozen have been fully pardoned. The heaviest punishments fall on the Honveds.

RI:sm.—Accounts from St. Petersburg record a Russian razzia in the Caucasus. The inhabitants of three villages on the Argun, above Sehatil, having much disturbed the population subject to Russia by their incursions, Lieutenant-Colonel Prince Tsehelokagem collected 750 men, including four Don Cossacks, surrounded the villages, and, after a sanguinary conflict, took and burned them to ashes.

INnia.—The usual mail, and the "missing" mail, have both come to hand.

No news of moment has been received from Rangoon • whence the dates are to the 22d of June. The troops continued in goodhealth. The Proserpine had made her way up the Irrawaddy nearly to Prome, and had performed signal service in intercepting large boats of rice intended as supplies for the Burmese army assembling round Promo. The rest of the news is speculative. General Godwin, it is said, demanded 12,000 more troops before he would undertake to march an Prome • and Lord Dalhousie, anxious to judge for himself, was about to proceed to Ran- goon.

The cost of the war, up to the 1st of July, was estimated at 500,0001. From the North-western frontier the intelligence has some interest. In consequence of repeated differences between Sir Colin Campbell and the Military Board, Sir Colin had resigned the Peshawur command. He appears to have thought the force at his disposal too small for effectually carrying out the wishes of the Board, who desired that he should march on Laflpoora. The latest news from that quarter would seem to indicate that diplomacy had precluded further war. According to the Mofussilite of the 16th July, it is proposed to surrender the territory to the Momunde, for which they have been fighting, on condition of their paying tribute font.

UNITED STA-mg.—The Niagara arrived at Liverpool on Sunday, with mails from New York to the 17th and Boston to the 18th August ; and on Wednesday arrived the Pacific, with advices to the 21st.

The fishery question was revived in the Senate, on the 14th; and Mr. Seward took advantage of the occasion to speak in defence of the Fill- more Administration. Before he delivered this speech, Mr. Seward had interviews with Mr. Crampton and Mr. Webster; which gives it addi- tional importance.

Mr. Seward showed that the British naval force on the North American station, instead of being greater than it was last year, was less by thirty- three guns. He explained away the issue of Mr. Webster's famous paper of the 6th July. "The President and Secretary of State, acting entirely upon unofficial in- formation informed the country, under date of July 6th, that it appeared the British Government was about to change its policy, and to insist on the resisted construction of the treaty ; and it was written to put American fish- ermen on their guard. It contained no admission or concession to the Bri- tish construction. The Mississippi was sent to the scene, and there the whole matter terminates. No negotiation has been entered into—no com- munication with a view to negotiation has been received or made—no over- tures for negotiation on the subject have been received or made, by this Go- vernment or the British. No negotiation is going on under the cannon's mouth, nor has anything been negotiated away under British duresse. All, therefore that had been said on these points was at an end. No change had been made on the part of Great Britain of the policy heretofore pursued with respect to the fisheries, except to reduce her national force in these waters." In short, the whole gist of Mr. Seward's speech was to shift the blame of the dispute equally from the American and British Governments, and to lay it upon the shoulders of the Colonies. He even carried this view so far as to back up the assertion of a provincial paper, that Admiral Sey- mour was not sent to enforce the rigid reading of the treaty, but to pre- vent the colonists from doing so.

The accounts in the papers respecting the state of the fishery question are very various. A correspondent of the New York Herald at Washing- ton represents matters as ominous of further difficulty. He says that it is believed by "many leading and distinguished men" there, that Eng- land has determined upon carrying out' what he calls her "offensive attitude."

"The official advices received by the last steamer by Mr. Crampton it is stated, upon what I deem good authority, confirm the opinion that the British Government are determined to press the offensive construction of the treaty, as interpreted by the Crown officers, upheld upon all occasions by the Earl Derby whilst Lord Stanley. The English Government will not listen to any negotiations for opening the fisheries, unless such negotiations alai embrace the whole subject of reciprocal trade with all the Provinces." And further he ventures to prophesy, that "when the subject comes up again in the Senate, it will be seen that recent information has greatly embittered the feelings of that body."

On the other hand, the writer of a letter from Washington to the cor- respondent of the Horning Chronicle at Philadelphia--a writer whose let- ters have been generally very accurate—reports a totally different state of affairs.

"We impose a duty of 20 per cent on fish brought to our market in fo- reign vessels. Now the colonists are willing, and so is England, I learn from excellent authority, to throw open the whole fisheries, shoal and deep sea, to us, equally with their . own fishermen, provided we admit fish to enter in British bottoms upon equal terms with our own vessels. And the American fishermen will cheerfully acquiesce in such an arrangement." It is to be remarked, however, that the correspondent of the Herald wrote on the 20th of August, whereas the other letter was written on the 15th; so that information may have reached Washington altering the pre- vious complexion of matters.

Meanwhile, Commodore Perry has steamed through the fishing-grounds, and found, it is reported, American fishing-boats everywhere within the three-mile line ; so that his business consisted chiefly in warning off the boats of his own countrymen. At all events, the commander of the Mis- sissippi has made a great sensation at St. John's, and even at Halifax. At St. John's a ball was given in his honour, on the 12th of August ; the ball-room being decked out with the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes. At the supper-table, the names of the Queen and the President were coupled in a toast ; and the officers of both countries exchanged compli- ments. Commodore Perry was off Halifax on the 18th, and was reported due at New York on the 1st September. Two steamers fouled in a fog on Lake Erie on the 20th; and one, the Atlantic, was so damaged, that, after steaming about two miles, her fires were put out by the water, and she went down. The other steamer, the Ogdensburg, followed, and saved many of the passengers; but it is re- ported that two hundred were drowned. They were chiefly German and Norwegian emigrants, on their way to Quebec. One touching anecdote is told of a rescue from the wreck. The Atlantic sank, at first, all but her stern ; and some Illinois passengers were clinging to a rope attached to a floating mast up to their shoulders in water.

"As soon as the shrieks of the drowning passengers were hushed, the voice of a little boy was heard ; and it was then first discovered that a child about eight years old was also clinging to a rope a short distance off. The little fellow, talking to himself, was Baying, Oh, I can't hold on much longer. If papa was here, he would hold me up.' A man from Illinois, a fine powerful fellow, immediately moved along a rope, and seized the boy as he was about to sink. At that moment the boat of the Ogdensburg, loaded to the water's edge with rescued passengers, passed, and Mr. Blodgett, first mate of the Atlantic), who was on board, jumped out and swam to the rope, took the boy off, and returned to the boat with him." The others also were saved.

ECUADOR.— General Flores .who had long been planning an expedition to overthrow- Urbino, the President of the Ecuador, has bee totally de- feated, and his ships and troops have been dispersed. He marched on Guayaquil in the beginning of July ; but he was driven back ; his Chi- liens revolted ; one of his ships of war blew up, another sailed off; and then the English and Americans got away as well as they could. Urbina remains triumphant. Flores took shelter at Tombez in Peru.

PRRU.—In consequence of despatches received from the Peruvian Chargé d'Affaires at Washington, on the 28th of July, the Peruvian Go- vernment had ordered another war-ship to proceed to the Lobos Islands. There are therefore three ships of war and a garrison now at the Lobos. Soerterz 'ans./mg.—The latest accounts, via San Francisco, state that Queen roman has abdicated in favour of her children. Her eldest son is to be King of Huahina, and her daughter Queen of Bolobolo - while negotiations were on foot to marry this lady to Primo SamehaMeha, of the Sandwich Islands.