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THUM—Beyond the arrival of Prince Napoleon and his Sardinian Princess among those whom at Marseilles she called her "now fellow citizens," the intelligence from France consists of rumours and state- ments more or less official. An English journal, estimating the re-sources of France for war had fixed the number available for external operations at 130,000. The Constitutionnel, in an article said to have come direct from the Tuileries, took exception to this, and came out with tabular statements showing that the effective strength of the array on the let April, provided the contingent of 1857 be kept under arms and no fur- loughs be given, will be 568,000 men ; and that on the 1st Juno, by

calling out the class of 1858, a force of 632,000 would be under arms, which would be raised to 682,000, in the event of war, by the addition

of 50,000 volunteers. Hence' it is argued, France could bring "with elute" 500,000 men into the field. Galignanis Messenger disputes the calculations of the Constitutionnel ; thinks the available force would not much exceed 130,000, and does not see how this parade of military re- sources conduces to the peace of Europe. The Gazette of France laments that such a large army should be kept on foot.

Among the rumours of the day are these—that horses and mules are sent daily towards the South for military purposes; that a large body of troops have been recalled from Africa—they are to be relieved "very soon"; that sixty-two ships of war could be sent to sea in a week from Toulon ; that two steel-plated ships, one with "beaks," are in course of preparation at Cherbourg ; that all ships of war which can possibly be spared have been ordered home from foreign stations. There is a talk of the probable resignation of M. Delangle and the restoration of N. Billault to the Home-office.

The Departments are said to be openly opposed to war, and supremely indifferent to the marriage of Prince Napoleon.

The Toulonnais, which appears to have taken local rank as a semi- official journal, thus puts an extinguisher upon the idea of a Congress—

"Several journals persist in attributing to the Emperor Napoleon the intention of bringing before a Congress the Italian question and the modi- fication of the treaty of 1815. We are authorized to declare that these state- ments are unfounded."

It is stated that a pamphlet to be entitled "Napoleon III. et r Italie," is about to be published at Paris. It is regarded as an official pro- duction. The leading idea is the "regeneration of Italy"; and the doc- trine laid down is that while the Emperor will respect treaties, they can- not prevail over public opinion and policy except on condition of re- sponding to the wants and requirements of modern society.

M. Felix Germain, author of the pamphlet "Rat-ce la pair ? Est .ee la guerre ?" has been summoned before the Imperial tribunal, to answer the accusation of having "excited to hatred and contempt of the govern- ment."

11 111.—On Saturday afternoon, Count Cavour, in his character of notary of the Crown' drew up the matrimonial contract between the Princess Clotilde and Prince Napoleon, in the presence of General Niel, •

the French Ambassador, Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne, and the grand dignitaries of the state. In the evening, a deputation of the National Guard was presented to the Princess at a monster banquet. Later in the evening, a serenade took place on the Place Royale, by the band of the National Guard, in honour of the betrothed couple, which was accom- panied by enthusiastic shouts of the people---" Viva il Re !" "Viva i Sposi !" The town illuminated in the evening, and all the "properties" used on the festivals of the " Statute" were lavishly displayed. There were the garlands of coloured glass globes and cambric fuchsias, with pistils formed by coloured crystal lamps, before described. There were trees on the Piazza San Carlo, consisting of gtumipes rising from the ground, disguised by boughs of evergreens, with branches of gas jets and ruby lamps for fruit. There were asters formed by a coloured lamp for the centre, with diverging gas jets for petals, looking like daisies from Brobdignag in a state of combustion. The next day the marriage was celebrated. The benediction was pro- nounced by the Archbishop of Verceil, assisted by the Bishops of Casale, Pigneroli, and Biala. On the same day, the Prince and Princess left

Turin for Genoa. Before their departure, the Municipality of Turin gave the Princess a beautiful silver candelabrum, and they presented an address to the Prince. At Genoa' the newly-married pair were well re- ceived by the people—the young ladies of the town presenting a bouquet to the Princess. They sailed from Genoa, escorted by three ships of war, on Tuesday morning, and lauded at Marseilles on Wednesday.

It is stated that the financial clauses in the marriage contract are nearly as follows-

" The Princess receives a marriage portion of 500,000 lire and 100,000 lire in jewels. France, on her part, promises to the Imperial pair an appa- nage of 200,000 francs a year, besides 100,000 francs to the Princess as pm- money." According to the Opinione the pupils of the Alexander Lyceum, at Milan, had refused to attend the German lecture. The professor made them a speech, in which he said it was quite time that foolish demon- strations of the sort should be discontinued. Winding up a fervent dis- course, he exclaimed with energy, "Let all good lads remain with me, and all the bad may go." To his utter astonishment the entire class took him at his word, and rushed off as fast as their legs could carry them.

The Official Venice Gazette of the 26th January annbunces that, in consequence of orders to that effect, the University of Padua is to be im- mediately reopened. Students wishing to be readmitted must apply for permission to the provincial delegation of Padua. Count Cavour has written to Count Buol a remonstrance against the exclusion of Piedmont from the benefits of the Customs union between Austria and Modena. It appears that in 1851 Austria and Sardinia re- ciprocally agreed to extend to each other all the benefits of a reduced tariff which they might accord to other states, but that either state might enter into a Customs union" without infringing this principle. Austria entered into a customs union with Modena and Parma in 1862. It endured five years. Now Parma has receded, and Austria has continued the union alone with Modena. Count Cavour contends that this is not a complete customs union—it is an ordinary treaty of com- merce.

"In this state of things the King's Government consider they are in a position to demand and obtain from the Austrian Government all the facili- ties and favours which have been granted to the Duchy be Modena by the convention of the 5th of October. These favours have to oe accorded on the instant and gratuitously, as expressed in the 15th Article of our treaty of 1851."

This was written in November. As yet no answer has been received.

111512.—Letters from St. Petersburg state that the financial position of Russia is excellent.

"The great Russian Railway Company had announced a new issue of shares to the amount of 15 000,000 roubles, with interest at 4i per cent. i Capitalts immediatelysubscnbed for ten times the amount. The shares of the Moscow and St. Petersburg Insurances Companies were all sub- scribed for within a few days. An issue of shares is announced for the con- struction of a railway from the Don to the Volga and for the establishment of steamboats on the Don and on the sea of Azotf, with a capital of 8,000,000 roubles. Although this undertaking is not guaranteed by the Government, its shares were immediately bought up." Some time ago, the Russian Government ordered two large steam- tugs, destined for the navigation of the river Amoort at the establish- ment of Messrs. Cockerill and Co. of Seraing, near Liege ; The Indg- pendanee Belga now states that the engines of the vessels have just been finished, and are on the point of being sent overland to their destination, together with a number of skilful engineers, engaged by the Russian Government. The Belgian paper, on giving these news gets quite en- thusiastic about the newly gained possessions of the Czar in Asia. "The course of the River Amoor is not less than six-hundred and seventy-five geographical miles long," exclaims the Indipendance, "and while its waters are bathing China on the one side, they touch Siberia on the; other."

S 011111—Sir John Young sailed for Corfu on the 26th January. Be- fore he departed he was entertained by the officers of the regiments at Corfu. All persons of note took leave of him' and M. Dandolo made a speech. Crowds collected to see him embark. We have as yet no details of the opening of the Legislature ; but a telegraphic despatch from Trieste, based on information from Corfu to the 29th January states that- " The Ionian Parliament, after having unanimously declared for union with Greece, passed a resolution to elect a Parliamentary Committee for the purpose of considering what further measures should be taken. Mr. Glad- stone, in consequence, addressed a message to the Parliament, stating that this resolution was contrary to the Constitution, and advising that the Com- mittee be merely empowered to address a petition to the Queen of Great Britain. The Members of the Ionian Parliament have handed over to Mr. Gladstone the address of the Committee to the Queen' with the request to lay before the Great Powers their desire for union with Greece."

A letter written by " Athanasios, Metropolitan of Corfu," has been published, for the purpose of vindicating him from the charge of enter- taining views contrary to the national feeling. He says he is for the union of the seven islands with their mother, free Greece ; and he cha- racterizes his opponents as " Septinsalar Pharisees."

'uifrhStatt9.—The Alps arrived at Liverpool on Saturday, with. advice, from New York to the 18th January.

The special committee of the House of Representatives on the Pacifia. Railroad had voted down all propositions looking to its construction, leaving to be acted upon by the committee only Mr. Stevenson's resolu- tion, 'that is impolitic to embark in the construction of any railroad at this time."

The President had sent a message to Congress, stating that there was, no correspondence with Spain regarding the purchase of Cuba which has, not been already communicated to that body. He restates his opinion that large appropriations are indispensable to the success of any nego- tiations.

The Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, on the 18th January, voted. to report in favour of a bill giving the President 30,000,000 dollars to aid. in the purchase of Cuba. General Wilson, the Massachusetts Anti-slavery co-labourer of Charles Sumner, in the United States Senate, has been reelected to office for the six years term. By an act of the Legislature of Kansas, approved by Governor Medary, the town of Lawrence is henceforth to be the capital of that territory in- stead of Leeompton. It was rumoured at Washington that a proposition had been received from Mexico for the sale of Sonora and Chihuahua to the United States for 16,000,000 dollars.

From all appearances Congress would reject the bill to construct a railroad to the Pacific. The Post Office Committee of the Senate had re- ported a bill to increase the postage from three to five cents, and to abolish the franking privilege. The first proposition was generally dis- approved by the country. A resolution had passed both Houses granting Mr. Harris, United States Consul at Japan' and his interpreter, permission to accept snuff- boxes from the British Government.

The annual messages of the Governors of many of the States had been published. We glean from these some interesting facts respecting the public schools. The number of children in Massachusetts is 223,304, of whom 218,198 were in attendance upon the public schools during the year, being an increase in attendance of 15,167 pupil; on the previous year. The educational expenditure was 1,478,488 dollars. In 1850 Ohio had a population of 1,980,000; it has now 2,420,000. In 1853, the common schools of the State were 5984; they are now 12,500, and Governor Chase bears glad testimony to their efficiency and use. The young State of Wisconsin contains 264,078 children. Of these 167,110 were in constant attendance upon the public schools during the year, at a cost, for teachers' wages, of 334,000 dollars.

While the weather was intensely cold in the North, it was unusually mild in the South. Green peas and other early vegetables and fruits were plenty in Florida; and the orange trees were in bud in South Carolina. 'There was a succession of thunder showers, with lightning at Charleston on the 7th of January, and the weather was so warm at Tampa, Florida, that several cases of yellow fever had resulted fatally.

11 J nutiago.—A revolution has occurred in Hayti, and an amusing account thereof, as well as of the antecedents of the late Em- peror Soulouque, has appeared in the papers. "The island of St. Domingo is divided into two separate States—that on the west side being the empire of Faustin the First, the ex-negro Emperor, and known as Hayti ; and that on the east side comprising the independent (Spanish) republic of Dominica, of which General Santana is the Pre- sident. In the year 1791 the negroes of Hayti revolted against their French masters ; and, under Toussaint L'Ouverture, in 1803, obtained their inde- pendene,e as a free republic. The eastern side of the island, which consti- tuted the old Spanish colony of St. Domingo, took no part in this servile insurrection nor were the slaves there liberated until 1821, when President Boyer, of

insurrection, rendered that portion of the island subject to the sway of

the Republic of Hayti. Up to 1844 the island remained under one Govern- ment, but the cruelty and ill-treatment which the white races received at the hands of the negroes, who are largely in the ascendant, drove those of Spanish and Indian blood into insurrection, when, after two or three deci- sive conflicts, the soldiers of Hayti, then commanded by. the present Em- peror (then General) Soulouque, were driven back to them own side of the and the new 1 ?public of Dominica was proclaimed. The leader of this revolution was Pe o Santana a native of Seybo, in the eastern part of the island, where he slant his early life among the herdsmen of that pro-

vince. lint in his retirement he cherished the idea of redeeming his coun- try from the brutal tyranny of the negro race. Santana, with a handful of men (about 500), rose in arms, engaged and utterly routed the large army of Soulouque at Carreras, and from that time an incessant war long raged be- tween the two rival nations," as they are styled by an American news-

paper now before us. The Republic of Donnnica has, moreover, been a

prey to civil war. Santana and Baez have each been in the Presidential seat three or four times, and as often in prison or in exile. General Baez has but recently passed through New York on - way to exile in Europe, and Santana has been restored to the Presidency. Thu., while the new republic was ruin- ing its awn prospects by internecine feuds for the last ten or twelve years Soulouque was also plotting its destruction by conquest. In the year 1847, Soulouque, who was born a slave on the plantation of M. Vailler, was, al- most by an accident, elected President of the republic of Hayti. The con- tending candidates were about even, and enough of the friends of both united at the last hour upon Soulouque, as an available man, to succeed in electing him. It was then supposed that he was a man of no strength of character, and might become the tool of his party ; but, like Louis Napo- leon, (of whose political history Soulouque's is a ridiculous burlesque,) he proved himself not a slave but a tyrant; and his unfortunate people have been since mercilessly dealt with, and his dominions reduced almost to ruin. After being President of the republic for two years he was declared Emperor in August 1849, greatly to the astonishment of every one. It cannot be forgotten that soon after his elevation to the throne he instituted several orders of nobility, after the fashion of European monarchies, created a lot of princes, dukes, marquises, and knights out of his burly negro friends, and gave them pompous, loud-sounding, and sometimes ridiculous titles, such as the Duke de Lemonade, the Duke de la Marmalade, and so forth. In 1852, he caused himself and his Empress to be crowned, with great show and ceremony, at Port-au-Prince, his capital. Never having acknowledged the independence of the Dominican republic but always avowing that it was a portion of his empire, he undertook to reduce it to subjection in 1855, and in the month of December of that year advanced with an army of 5000 men to the frontiers of Dominica. Here the Dominicans, under the Libe- rator Santana, met him with a most inferior force.

"Two battles—those of San Tome and Canbronal—ensued, each lasting about five hours. Victory at last declared for the Dominicans, Soulouque sustaining a defeat which, like that of Napoleon the Great at Waterloo, was tantamount to a total overthrow. For a time Soulouque was regarded as dead—physically as well as politically—but he at length found his way back to Port au Prince, and recommenced his oppressive and tyrannical rule. The interference of France and England, however, and the bold at- titude of the Dominicans themselves prevented any further aggression on the part of their swarthy enemy, the 'Emperor' of Hayti, and an armistice of three years (which expired on the 15th of January) was granted. Mean- while Soulouque himself has lost his copper crown, after a manner as much the reverse of dignified as old Louis Philippe when he slunk out of the Tuileries by a back door and fled from his capital in a hackney coach. After the late commercial crisis in Hayti want and misery became so great that the fpeople murmured openly and evinced much discontent ; the en- lightened portion of the people soon perceived that the moment was propi- tious to throw off their yoke, and with one accord decided on the overthrow of Soulouque, which they have done so far that half (the French part) of the island is in their possession, and in the following manner.

"On Wednesday, December 22, the General—Fabre Gefttard—sailed from Port an Prince in a small sailing boat, with his son, Mr. Ernest Roumain, and a Frenchman, and landed at a neighbouring town ; they were there joined by some confederates—Mr. Aime, Legros, and others' and having procured horses these five persons rode into town, pistol in hand, crying Viva la Republique ! Viva la Liberte !' No one stopping them they ar- rived at the chief guard-house, where the soldiers, either from fear or from being favourable to the cause, beat the alarm as desired. Pursuing their way they reached the Governor's house ; but before arriving they let all prisoners loose that were working in the street, telling them to shout Viva la .Liberte—and which they were but too happy to comply with. The Go- vernor at first hesitated to accept the cause, but being a very old man, and wishing also to prevent bloodshed, he at last accepted, and with him all the functionaries. The next day General Geffrard was solemnly proclaimed President of the Republic of Hayti, and General Soulouque condemned to be judged before the High Court of Justice on several accusations.

After this formality the President repaired to church, where a solemn Te Deum was chanted, and a most impressive and stirring appeal made to the people by the Reverend Abbe Gerdolles in favour of the cause. The President also made a very eloquent speech, in which he stated the causes for the revolution, and promised that a thorough reform should be made to insure the welfare of the country.

"On Friday, December 24, he left for St. Marc (a well fortified town), the commander of which joined him immediately, and gave his adherence to the cause. Well and firmly established there with two regiments he awaited the submission of the other towns, and soon Cape Hayti, Plaisance Port de Pair, Limbo, St. Michael, &c.—in fact, the whole of the north—acknow- ledged him as their ruler, and they are now waiting but to concentrate troops to march at once to the capital, where it is expected not much resistance to his entry will be made. "General Geffrard is nearly a black man, of fifty years of age, possessing a great deal of intelligence, and most gentlemanly in his manners. He is beloved by the army and people, and has always shown himself friendly to foreigners."

Srt]i t. —Intelligence from Rio de Janerio of the 18th December in- forms us of a change of Ministry there but not the cause of it. The new ministry is thus composed. President of the Council and Minister of Navy, Viscount Abacte ; Minister of Interior Chevalier de Macedo, late Minister in London ; Minister of Foreign Airs, Senhor Paranhos, 'who occupied the same position in the Parana Cabinet ; Minister of Jus- tice, Senhor Nabuco ; Minister of Finance Senhor Torres-Homen ; Minister of War, General Souza e Mello. he outgoing Cabinet was at its close very weak and unpopular, and the new combination was fa- vourably regarded. As the Chambers do not meet until May, it will have ample time to prepare its policy. The new Minister of the In- terior, M. de Macedo, was resident for several years at this Court, and is well known and highly esteemed in London.

instratia.—Advices from Sydney to the Ilth and Melbourne to the 18th December have come to hand.

The Victoria Legislature had adjoutned to the 11th of January. The bill to increase the number of members of Assembly had received the royal assent. A resolution had been proposed to the Assembly to sanc- tion the purchase of the Geelong Railway. The Council sent a message to the Assembly, asking the attendance of the Chief Secretary and the Attorney-General to be examined before a committee of that house, formed to inquire into the appointment of magistrates. Ministers re- sisted the demand as unconstitutional, and after a short debate, it was rejected by the Assembly. Timely rains have saved the harvest

At Sydney, Parliament was prorogued on the 26th of November, and re-assembled on the 8th of December. The Electoral Bill had received the royal assent ; the only amendment on principle retained by the Assembly on returning the bill to the Council was the addition of a member to represent the University.