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r It .—At present we have only brief intimations conveyed by the telegraph of the Imperial progress to Cherbourg and the domgs there. The Emperor, the Empress, nd their suite left St. Cloud on Tuesday morning at half•past nine ior Caen, on their way to Cherbourg. The imperial train left the station of the Rue d'Amsterdam at nine o'clock, conveying Count de Chasseloup-Laubat, Baron Benoisted'Azy, Viscount Duchiltel, M. Emile Pereire M. Laffitte, M. Delessert, M. Daily, and M. Simons, directors of the Western Railway, M. de Laperiere, manager of the working, and Mr. Coindart, the secretary. A few privileged per- sons had also obtained the favour of travelling in some of the carriages. On the arrival of the train at St. Cloud, a short pause ensued, after which their Majesties took their places in one of the imperial carriages, aceum- ponied by Marshal Vaillant and M. Rouher, Ministers of War and Pub- lic Works, (Admiral Hamelin, Minister of Marine, had gone the day be- fore) ; the Princess d'Essling, Countess de Labedoyere, and Countess de Lourmel, ladies of honour to the Empress ; Generals Fleury and Niel, first equerry and aide-de-camp to his Majesty ; and the other personages appointed to form part of the imperial suite. A considerable crowd had collected in the neighbourhood and loudly cheered their Majesties. The train then took its departure, a short stay having to be made at Mantes, Evreux, and Lisieux, at each of which places there is to be a re- ception of the authorities and principal inhabitants. We quote the offi- cial accounts, none others having come to hand. " The Emperor and Empress arrived at Nantes, and were received by the Prefect of the Seine and Oise and the other authorities. They were raptur- ously applauded by the people. At Evreux' their Majesties proceeded to the Prefecture in the midst of cries of Vivel'Erupereur ! " Vive PErupera- trice !" Vive le Prince Imperial I' Their entry into Caen was a veritable ovation. The cortege traversed the town, which was wholly illuminated and with splendid decorations. At nine o'clock at night their hlajesties went to the Hotel de Ville, to assist at the public ball given there." " The Emperor, the Empress, and their suites left Caen on Wednesday at noon. They arrived at Cherbourg at five o'clock in the evening, and were received by an immense crowd with accclamations. At seven o'clock her Majesty the Queen arrived with her escort, and was saluted by the French fleet. At eight o'clock the Emperor visited her Majesty, on board her yacht, amidst remarkable demonstrations of enthusiasm. The illuminations were magnificent. An altar had been erected at the railway terminus, and a Te Dem was performed by the Bishop of Coutances, on the Emperor's arrival. His Majesty, addressing the Mayor, said= lam happy to have finished the work of Louis XIV., and to inaugurate, in a time of peace, the port which was so actively commenced in a time of var.'"

" The harbour and roadstead was crowded with steamers and yachts, ex- hibiting the gayest colours. Great enthusiasm prevailed, alai the illumina- tions last night were most brilliant and extensive."

"The Queen, the Prince Consort, and the Prince of Wales, breakfasted on Thursday at noon with the Emperor and Empress. Their Majesties afterwards made the tour of the city, and were received everywhere with the greatest enthusiasm. The weather is magnificent. The roadstead pre- sents the most animated appearance. About two o'clock yestei day, the i Queen entered a carriage with the Emperor and Empress n order to ob- tain (Syiew from the heights of the magnifieient spectacle presented by the roads of Cherbourg dressed with hags, and upon which a splendid sun was shining. In the evening they dined together on board the line-of-battle ship Bretagne.

Such are the brief items of intelligence from Cherbourg, received in London up to yesterday. The journals have not failed to supply a good deal of information about Cherbourg, past and present. Some particulars are from the pen of Mr. George Burnwell, an English engineer much employed in France. Having described the breakwater, he comes to the offensive and defen- sive works.

"There is at the apex of the angle formed by the meeting of the two branches of the breakwater a large central fort having a total development of about 509 feet, measured on the inner line of the parapet, which forms a very flat semi-ellipse. Behind this battery there is to be raised an elliptical central tower measuring 225 feet on the major, and 123 feet on the minor axis. A casemated fort, of about 190 feet front, is to be formed on the western or longer branch, and two large circular forts are placed at the extremities of the breakwater ; that of the eastern end being 100 feet in diameter, and that of the western end about 133 feet in diameter. These forts are to be supported by, or to cross fires with, the fortifications, first, of the Ile Pelee, mounting three tiers of guns, 37 in the lower battery, 22 in the second gallery, and 20 guns and 14 mortars on the platform ; second, by the batteries upon La Roche Chavaignac; third, by the fort Be Quer- queville, having 46 easemated guns and two uncovered batteries of 26 guns and 18 mortars. Behind this outer zone of defence are situated a series of small coast redoubts, and the two large fortifications of Les Roches des , Flamands and du Homet. The latter almost immediately commands the entry to the port, and has 52 guns in casemates, with a platform for 23 more.

" The total area of the roads sheltered by the Cherbourg breakwater is 1926 acres nearly, but only one-third of this area has a depth of above 26 feet at the lowest spring tides. It is, therefore, more than questionable whether the roads could shelter, at one time, above 25 or 30 sail of the line with an equal number of frigates.

" The military port of Cherbourg consists of an outer harbour, 776/ feet long by 662.1 feet wide, with a minimum depth of water of 58i feet ; the channel at the entrance is 206 feet wide at the narrowest point, and is usually 530 feet wide. The cost of this outer harbour was estimated at nearly 680,000/. Beyond it, and communicating with it by means of a lock of about 130 feet long and 58 feet 7 inches wide, is a floating basin 957 feet long by 712 feet 9 inches wide. There are on the opposite side of the outer harbour to this floating basin four fine covered building slips for 120-gun ships, and a graving dock closed by a caisson, besides some uncovered slips for building smaller classes of ships. The building slips for vessels of the line are 383 feet long by 78 feet 8 inches wide ; the graving dock is 245 feet long by about 78 feet wide, with a depth of water over the sill of about,27 feet 6 inches.

"The inner floating harbour, which is so shortly to be inaugurated, is parallel to the first floating basin, and it will communicate both with the outer harbour said the basin. It is about 2,788 feet long by about 1312 feet, and is entirely excavated out of the solid rock—a member of the transition series, extremely hard and tough. All round this marvellous sheet of water are a series of graving docks and building slips of remarkable beauty, so far as we may judge of them by their present state, at least ; and imme- diately beyond the quays are the various magazines, storehouses, sail lofts, shops, &c., which, when complete, will render Cherbourg one of the most complete arsenals in Europe. There is still much to be done, and a very great additional outlay must be incurred before this port can be considered to be complete ; but, unquestionably, when the works still unfinished shall have been executed, Cherbourg will constitute one of the most formidable military and naval posts of the world."

Another writer looks at the place from a leas scientific point of Tievt

"The military port forms the western extremity of the inner road of the bay ; it is divided from the western end of the town by fortifications, with

fosse and bastions, sweeping in a semicircle inland, and abutting an the rocky shore of the bay, which washes the walls of the part facing the harbour and breakwater. There is only one entrance from the land side, strongly fortified. Within the enceinte is the most perfect arsenal in the

world. It includes in itself all the means of fitting out an armament. A ship of war might be built from the keel, launched, rigged, armed, and manned, without quitting its basins, from which it would pass to the ocean,

quite ready to engage an enemy. The continuation into the enceinte of the

railroad from Pans, which is projected, will increase its capabilities. It may be connected with any inland camp, and the embarkation of troops become only a calculation of hours. This continuation of the road from the capital to the quays of the arsenal has yet to be made ; but, exclusive of this work, the completeness of all the arrangements is what strikes an observer, even more than the size of the place. In our different naval establishments of Plymouth, Portsmouth, and Woolwich, we have ample means of effecting the same things, but more than one of them would have to contribute to the result ; our powers are, as it is our custom to make them, or to permit them to be scattered. The French system is to concentrate means and force, and nowhere can that concentration be seen at work more effectively than at Cherbourg. A ship-of-war could be built, her guns cast, and her crew held in reserve in barracks, on the same spot of ground. The instrument is perfect."

Again, a third pen supplies a picture of the place in a free and easy style suited to railway readers. "The exact position of Cherbourg may be better described than by quo- ting latitude and longitude from the Admiralty chart,. or its bearings by

compass from Dover., information superfluous to the pilots and useless to everybody else. Briefly, then, if the Isle of Wight could cut loose from its moorings, and drift in nearly a straight line across the Channel, it would be

received in the arms of two capes, which terminate the great peninsula of the coast of Normandy. Into the bay between these points the tight little island would nearly fit and fill up the hollow. In the deepest recess of this bay, and at the centre of its shore, lies the town of Cherbourg. It is nearly equidistant from Plymouth, Weymouth, and Portsmouth ; those places would be cut by three lines radiating from Cherbourg like the sticks of a fan.

"Civil Cherbourg, or the silk, as distinct from the military port, is very provincial ; it has not the commercial physiognomy of Havre, nor the water- mg-place aspect of Boulogne and Dieppe; its proximity to England has not produced any connexion extensive enough to colour its life with our in- sular peculiarities. Relatively, Paris is more visibly and audibly An-

glicized; the English language and Allsopp's ale have invaded the Boulevards from the Madeleine to the Bastile ; but the beer and speech of Cherbourg are still native, the last struggling with all the old difficulties of orthography when it attempts to be English. Cider, for instance, that Norman produce, is announced to the puzzled Briton by the proprietor of a 'vaults' for the sale thereof as either.

"The best view of the whole place is from the heights behind it, where you have the town at your feet, the military port, with its dockyard, roofs, and bastions on the left, and the breakwater, the inner road, and the eight or nine line-of-battle ships at anchor, as the centre of the picture. To the right is the height, almost a cliff, of La Houle, crowned by a fortified bar- rack, with embrasures looking, as all the guns do everywhere, seaward.

The barrack, or fort under that name, is one of the new constructions, and its fresh white masonry contrasts well with the gray, weather-stained face

of the height on which it stands, whence a slope of bare rock descends al- most into the town. The new railway from Paris turns round the foot of this height, and the station is built, so to speak, in its shadow ; the plat- form is, in every sense, 'under the guns' of the fort. The dais now con-

structing for the Emperor, for the ceremony of the inauguration of the line, directly fronts this height of La Houlet and when the decorations are com-

plete, and the semi-circular gallenes for the spectators are filled, the mountain and its fort, rising from the station itself, will form a magnificent background to the tableau. No scene-painter could have

devised anything so effective had he been required to furnish a de-

coration expressly for the scene. Another view of Cherbourg, and also a good one, may be taken from the end of the jetty of the commercial port. At that point the ships and the breakwater are behind the spectator, the military port on the right ; and the eye sweeps over the trading vessels in the basins (of commerce always understood) and the town, to be arrested again by the La Houle mountain and fort, always the dominant feature, and the leas elevated hills that shut in the view, with their fields and woods of the richest and softest green beautifully tinged by the sunset of a summer evening. The foreground of the view from the jetty is the quays. On the one to the right, between the jetty and the distant military port, is the statue of the great Emperor, closely boarded in, awaiting its inau- guration next week, the ceremony of one of the grand days. Report speaks

well of the statue as a work of art, but only the top of the Emperor's hat is visible above the screen ; it is the hat, of course. The place of this me- morial is most appropriate, for, though something had been done for Cher- bourg before the Consulship, all the military works are the creation of Na- poleon, and his effigy fronts the greatest of them ; his right hand points to the military port and dockyards, and there is a meaning in the gesture that cannot be mistaken."

Cherbourg, in short, consists of a roadstead defended in front by a breakwater, fortified at each end and in the centre, and flanked by forts

upon the rocks of the coast. Beyond the road lie the military and com- mercial docks, the former being included in a regularly constructed enceinte. Then above them, landward, upon all available eminences, having la Houle as the key of the position, are detached works covering the land side.

Besides military details and word picture we have historical remi- niscences. Thus the lfoniteur de la Flotte gives an account of royal and imperial visits to Cherbourg, going back to very early periods in- deed.

" The first sovereign whose presence at Cherbourg is clearly known was Harold, King of Denmark. William the Conqueror was there several times. Henry I., King of England and Duke of Normandy, visited the place with his court, in 1110. The Empress Queen Mathilde, daughter of Henry!. and widow of the Emperor Henry V., landed on the coast of Cherbourg in 1146, after a violent tempest, during which she made a vow to raise a church to the Virgin wherever she might first touch the shore. Hence the origin of the chapel of Notre Dame du Vu, which was destroyed when the maritime port was enclosed, and replaced under the same name by a parish church, commenced in 1850, and not yet finished. In 1163 and 1181, King Henry II. of England paid two visits to Cherbourg. St. Louis honoured the town with his presence in the early part of April, 1256. He passed the fetes of Easter at Arranches and at Mont St. Michel. In 1278 it was visited by Philippe. le Hardt Edward III. of England presented himself before Cherbourg in 1346 to lay siege to it, but he did not enter the place. Charles the Bad, King of Navarre, who had the province of Normandy as his appan- age, visited the place twice—in 1303, remaining there two months, and in 1366, to relieve the inhabitants from feudal servitude in giving them the title of pair a baron. During his first residence he was visited by Peter L of Lusrgnan, King of Cyprus. Henry V. of England landed at Cherbourg in 1420. This strong place, which was long in the possession of the Engli* was taken from them on the 12th August 1450, and has remained ever Since under the authority of the Crown of France. Francis I., accompanied by the Dauphin, afterwards Henry H., visited it in 1532, and remained there three days. Joseph IL, Emperor of Germany, and brother of Marie Antoi. nette, going through France incognito, under the name of Count de Palcken. stein, visited Cherbourg in September 1781. It is stated, said Madame be Geniis, that in walking in the port of Cherbourg, one of the officers who accompanied him was pushing the people aside, when the Emperor said_ Be quiet, Sir ; it does not require so much room for a man to IV Pas

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formation of the breakwater decided on in 1781. Louis .K visited the works in 1786; he arrived on the 22d of June and left on the 26th. Another great work, the establishment of a military port, consisting of vast docks cut in the rock to a depth of eighteen metres was decreed in 1803. Napoleon, having resolved to inspect this colossal enterprise, entered Cherbourg on the 26th of May 1811, accompanied by the Empress Maria Louisa, Prince Eugene, and a numerous suite. He remained there till the 30th. The Empress Maria Louisa, Regent of the Empire returned to Cherbourg in 1813 to preside over the inauguration of the military port. Her Majesty arrived on the 25th of Augus.t and stayed till the 1st of Sep- tember. Charles X. and all the Royal family, banished from France by the revolution of July, embarked with their suites at Cherbourg on the 16th of August 1830, in two American packet-boats, the Great Britajn. and the Charles Carol], which were freighted at Havre. Don Pedro L, Emperor of Brazil, and the Empress his- consort, daughter of Prince Eugene Beauharnais, being expelled from their States by a revolution, were taken to Cherbourg in the English frigate Volage. They landed on the 10th of June, 1831, with a small suite. Their daughter, Donna Maria, who died Queen of Portugal, having been brought to Brest the State vessel Seine, rejoined them on the 23d of July. Don Pedro afterwards proceeded to Paris with his family, and thence to London. Louis Philippe visited Cherbourg on the 1st of September, 1833, with his sons, the Duke be Nemours and the Prince de J'oinville, accompanied by Marshals Sena and Gerard, and Admiral be Rigny. Queen Marie Amelie, the Dukes d'Aumale and de Montpensier, the Princesses Marie and. Clementine, and Madame Adelaide, the King's sister, arrived there the same night. The Royal Family remained at Cherbourg four days. Lastly., the Emperor, when President of the Republic, honoured the town with a first visit in Ma He made his entry the 5th of September, in the evening, and remained until the morning of the 9th, after having examined the breakwater and arsenal.' The following is the programme drawn up by the civil and military authorities for the reception of the Emperor and Empress, and the cele- bration of the several days of their stay in Cherbourg— "August 4.—Their Majesties will be received at the railway station by the authorities, civil, naval, and military. The keys of the town will be presented to his Majesty by the Mayor and the Municipal Council. The benediction and inauguration of the railway will take place in presence of their Majesties. All the land and sea force will be under arms; they will be placed in rank from the railway station to the hotel of the Prefecture. The arrival of their Majesties will be announced by a salute of artillery. All the ships of the squadron as well as the forts of the road, and Forts Ouglet and L'Amiral, will be decorated with flags ; all the builclings of the port will also hoist their respective flags: On the arrival of their Majesties at the Prefecture, the Empress will receive the wives of the principal offi- cials, and the young ladies deputed to offer her Majesty a corbeille of flowers and lace. The public offices, the ships of the squadron, and the breakwater will be illuminated every evening during the stay of their Majesties. The officers and public functionaries are requested to illuminate their residences and decorate them with flags. "August 5.—This day being reserved by the Emperor and Empress for the reception on board the Bretagne of her Majesty the Queen of England, a future order will be issued as to the proceeding of the day. The regatta will take place in the road of Cherbourg, in the presence of the united naval force and the Royal Yacht Squadron. "August 6.—This day. their Majesties will visit the ships of the squadron in the road, and land on the Breakwater. "August 7.—Their Majesties will leave the Hotel of the Prefecture in

the morning, and pass through the town and environs. At noon their Ma- jesties will proceed to the military port to open the grand inner basin of the works. In the evening a ball will be given to the Emperor and Empress by the town of Cherbourg at the Hotel be Ville.

"August 8.—At nine o'clock in the morning the Emperor will inaugo- rate the equestrian statue of Napoleon. The departure of their Majesties is fixed for two o'clock p.m.

The French and English Governments are about to send commission-

ers to Jeddah, to watch, in concert with the Commissioner of the Porte, over the full and entire execution of all the measures agreed on between the Ottoman Government and the Courts of Paris and London. The Duchayla steam corvette is about to leave Toulon for Jeddah, to lend her cooperation in concert with Her Britannic Majesty's vessels of war to the commissioners and agents of the Ottoman Government The Sultan has anticipated the Western Powers and informed them that measures have been taken to punish the guilty. It is stated that 200 persons have been arrested at Jeddah.

The annual election of the council of the order of advocates took place on Tuesday. MM. Marie, Berryer, Bethmont, Plaque, Lionville, Lacan, Leblond, Jules Fevre Leon Duval, Allen, Desmarets, Gaudry, Cremiens, Templler, Desboudets, Lachaud, Landrin, Caignez, Rivolet, Paillard de Villeneuve, and Thureau were elected. M. Mario, who is at the head of the poll, is the eminent jurist who was a member of the provisional go- vernment of 1848, and it is a curious fact that almost all the others are also republicans. M. Berryer, the legitimist, is an exception. The council will proceed next week to the election of a bdtonnier for the year %tie:Z.—The Chamber of Representatives has rejected the Govern- ment p for the fortification of Antwerp by 53 to 39. A calamity of national importance to the Belgians has just oonuived at Antwerp—the famous Bourse was burned down on Monday. A letter written at half-past two on that day gives a lively idea of the scene. "At the moment I write an immense disaster IS mewing in our city.

The Bourse of Antwerp that place to which so many glorious souvenirs are attached, and which' by its late improvement, its fairylike covering, had become the admiration of all foreigners, is nothing more than a heap of rubbish and smouldering ashes. The glass roof fell with a frightful crash, and the enormous pieces of the metal framework broke like glass on falling to the ground. Every part of the building, in fact, is destroyed, and. it was with great difficulty that the neighbouring houses could be preserved. The civil and military authorities, the troops, the firemen, every one, in- deed, did their duty, but nothing could be done as to the Bourse, which will be burnt to the last fragment of wood. "The fire appears to have arisen in an upper room, on the side of the Courte Rue des Claires. It was there, at least, that the flames were fast hour the place was enveloped in fire. The Bourse • din

thehlaChaTber of Commerce the Tribunal, and the Record-office, the▪ Bp:Laical Chamber of the Stockbrokers, the Syndical Chamber of the jultwerp Brokers, and the Telegraph Bureaux. Nothing, absolutely nothing, ic saved-. All the archives of these various bodies arc lost I have just returned from the scene of the disaster, and, in spite of the united cods of a crowd of workmen and the engines, the fire continues. The • - es which surmounted the arches of the interior galleries have just caught fire, and part of the turret on the side of the Place de Meir has fallen." Staitgrlad.—The Federal Assembly of Berne have elected as Federal President M. Strempfli by 68 votes against 61 given to M. Emi- l-loose. The latter is elected Vice-President. The Federal Assembly is dissolved, and will meet again on the 10th January 1859, M.M. Shempfli and Frel-Herose have accepted office.

lta in.—The " outrages " committed by the gunboat squadron on the look out for slavers in Cuban waters have been the subject of " com- plaints " from the Court of Madrid: A semi-official journal published in that capital says-

" The English Government, with an uprightness which does it honour, eas just given satisfaction to the complaints of Spain on the subject of the Insulting conduct of the commander of the English cruiser Buzzard, who "visited vessels in the waters of Cuba. The English Government, which on the first news of what had taken in hastened to declare through its representative that it disapproved in the most formal manner the conduct of its cruiser, has just nobly confirmed in writing that declaration, and in a manner the most satisfactory to Sin. As if nothing should be wanting for the satisfaction of our national dignity in this affair, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the United States has addressed to General Dodge, the American Minister in Madrid, a note, in which he proclaims that the con- duct of the authorities of Cuba could not have been more worthy or amicable than it was to the Government of America. This must tend to draw closer the relations between that country and Spain."

eftfi1all11.—The Germanic Diet, Hanover protesting, has declared itself dissatisfied with the course pursued by the Danish Government in regard to the Duchies. The "compliance" of the Danish Court is de- scribed as "insufficient." It is directed to make more precise declara- tions. Hanover desired delay ; it was refused ; and the representative of that Court said that his master would appeal to the co-federate Govern- ments.

Austria has determined to concentrate a corps of observation, 30,000 men, upon the Turkish frontier, and to place it under Count Coronini, of Wallachian memory.

1111111.—The Ring of Naples has commuted the sentence of death passed on the seven men in the Sapri affair ; the commutation for Nice- tera and two others is the galleys for life, and for the four others twenty- five years' imprisoment in irons.

In some comments on the late trials at Salerno, the Times correspond- ent volunteers some well deserved commendation on the advocates who defended the prisoners. "Vigilant and fearless they have never omitted an opportunity of oppo- sing authority when it 'militated against the interests of their clients, and the true nobility of such conduct can be appreciated only by those who well understand the political situation of the country. Francesco La Francesca, the first of this distinguished band, was latitante' for three months last year. It is a term well known in this country, and de- scribes one who flies and conceals himself for fear of persecution. Why was he menaced ? God knows • ask the Government. Francesc.a was the coun- sel for Captain Sitzia and his crew, and they can never forget his devotion. Raffaele Carelli was counsel for the mass of the Ponza prisoners, and de- fended them bravely. Two years only have passed since he was confi- nate in Naples for four menthe, to the injury of hiiprofessional occupa- tions and the interruption of his social peace. Diego Tajani, counsel for

Nicotera and his sixteen associates in one of the most daring and ill-judged enterprises ever undertaken, was eonfinato to Vietri at the commencement of the trial for fifty-five days, was prohibited from bringing a dying wife to Salerno, and even now is compelled to return every night to Veitri. Anto- nio La Mee, a young advocate, who also defended the Pours prisoners, if he has not suffered persecution himself, belongs to a family that has been, and that is, marked by the.police yet both he and the other advocates above

named have never shrunk frOm duty, but have given proofs of civil courage which have awakened the admiration of all who have witnessed their con- duct. Of Michele Sergente, another advocate, I do not say a word where I cannot say.a good word; nor of Petrelli, where he is not worth one. Of r Tajam, who has lost his wife during the trial under the circumstances ribed above, I have yet to add that he is exposed to two processes—one, for having gone to Naples at the end of June without a passport ; another, for having made a report to Count Gropello, the Sardinian Charge d'Affaires, in favour of two of the prisoners, Who were Piedmontese. The person charged with the investigation of this question entreated Tajani to settle the embroglio by withdrawing his report, but he nobly refused to do so."

The Turineorrespondent of a Brussels paper thus refers to an interesting meeting at Baden as evidence of the entente cordiale between Piedmont and Prussia.

"We have heard with great pleasure that Count Cavour has passed some hours at Baden, and that he there encountered Baron Manteuffel, who pre- sented him to the Prince of Prtuisia. It is added that the Prince received King Victor Emmanuel's first Minister with the most distinguished friend- liness. In the evening Count Cavour had the honour of dining with his Royal Highness and with the Grand Duchess Helena. The news of this reception has been received here with gladness, for the Piedmontese profess strong sympathies with Prussia, and view with pleasure all incidents tend- ing to draw the two countries and governments closer together. At the Congress of Paris excellent relations were established between M. de Cavour Slid K. de Manteuffel; since then the Sardinian Minister at Berlin and the Prussian Minister at Turin have done all in their power to improve the re- lations of their respective governments. The visit to Baden puts the seal to the cordial understanding between Prussia and Sardinia." • ill.—The fuller despatches from Bombay contain some interesting intelligence. First it is to be remarked, that Lord Canning has so far Obeyed the instructions of Lord Ellenborough as to issue a proclamation of amnesty in these terms.— "The Right Honourable the Governor-General hereby notifies, for the information of all those concerned in the present rebellion, his ultimate views and intentions regarding principals, seconds, and followers engaged lathe same during the past twelve months.

_ ;`Te all parties immediately concerned in the murder of Christian British Subjects no hope of pardon, on arrest, can be held out • they must pay the forfeit the laws of this and every civilized country have decreed to a mere

brutal and gratuitous slaughter of the unprepared, the defenceless, and the innocent; they are out of the pale of humanity, and the magnitude of their offence while they live will ever call aloud for retribution. With these the British Government can make no terms.

" To all those who have offered asylum to refugees or others, being the murderers of Christian British subjects, and known to them to have been such, or who have been leading movers against the authority of the British Government, and have persistently acted throughout this rebellion against the constituted paramount power of the land, the Right Honourable the Governor-General can offer only terms of life : their punishment will be proportioned to the offences they have committed against the State. All those who shall surrender on or before the 30th day of September next will have their lives guaranteed to them ; after which date, should they still continue in arms or in opposition to the Government, their several cases shall be summarily dealt with by the authority into whose hands they may chance to fall, whether civil or military.

" To all others seconds or principals, reminders, Sepoys disbanded, fugi- tives throughout country, or any person whatsoever in arms against the Government, not acting on his own free will and authority, but aiding and abetting some principal, the right honourable the Governor-General offers at once a general amnesty. Let them return to their homes and pursue their ordinary avocations, using their best endeavours to maintain peace and quiet. Their estates shall be guaranteed, and a veil of oblivion thrown over the past. Should they, however, still continue to bear arias against the British power, they must bear the consequences of their own acts. The time for clemency will have passed away." It is remarked that this proclamation guarantees to the reminders their estates ; another concession to Lord Ellenborough.

The military intelligence consists almost entirely of details of the re- capture of Gwalior. It appears that Sir Hugh Rose united his troops at Sassowlee on the 15th June. On the same day Brigadier Smith coming from Antree, and Brigadier Orr marching from Jhansi united at Dutteahs In the meantime the rebels had shown great insubordination. They de- manded pay in advance ; and Ameerchund, chief officer of Seindia's treasury, gave up his treasure to the rebels. But no sooner was it distri- buted than desertions became numerous among Scindia's revolted troops; and the old Bengal Sepoys and the Gwalior Contingent men found them- selves almost alone. Tantia Topee and the Nawab of Banda departed from Gwalior soon after they had captured it ; but the Ranee of Jhansi, clad in male attire remained to lead the rebels in battle. At this time Scinclia had left Agra and had joined Colonel Riddell's force encamped on the left bank of the Chumbul. Sir Hugh Rose broke up his camp at Sassowlee on the 16th, and marched towards Gwalior.

"Three miles to the eastward of the city and fort, and therefore between them and Sir Hugh's advance, lies the lloorar Cantonment, formerly the head-quarters of the Contingent. On reconnoitring the station Sir Hugh found that it was occupied by the enemy in force. An immediate advance was ordered. The enemy's fire was at first smartly sustained, but the First Brigade turned their left flank, silenced the guns, and drove them through the whole length of the cantonment in rapid rout. Emerging at the other end of the lines on their proper right, the Second Brigade were upon them, and as they fled towards the city Horse Artillery, Cavalry, and In- fantry, followed in hot emulation. For the two former arms the ground was little favourable, but the infantry, advancing in skirmishing order, made play with their rifles, and in one part of the field were engaged, if on a small scale, yet most desperately. A party of the Sepoys had taken refuge from the pursuing Horse Artillery. in a deep and narrow nullah, out of which they kept up a fire from their muskets. A company of the 71st came up, and went straight at them. Wyndham Neave, leading the Highlanders, was shot dead at the edge of the ditch, but the next instant his men were down among the rebels, and his death was sternly avenged. Steadily the European bayonet bore down the native tulwar. The wounded Sem hugged the fatal steel, to deliver with his failing strength one last cut at his opponent. All that hate and despair could do was done, and in vain. Not a man left the ditch alive. The corpses numbered 43. Of the Highlanders, besides poor Neave, three were killed and five more or less severely wounded by sword cuts. No other loss is reported on the English side, and that of the rebels was light. But the Moorar Cantonment was occupied, and, in anticipation of further and complete successes, an express was, as I have said, at once despatched to Scindia to bring him down to the scene of action. Meanwhile Brigadier Smith's column—wing 8th Hussars, wing Bombay Lancers the 95th, Bombay 10th Native Infantry, and a Bombay troop of Horse

Lancers, as I have said, by Orr and his men of the Hydera-

bad Contingent, was advancing from Antree, where the junction had taken place. Early in the morning of the 17th the Brigadier was at Kota-ki-Serai, ten miles from Gwalior, on the little ricer Oornrar. Beyond this point the road crosses or winds among successive ranges of hills till the plain in which Gwalior lies is attained. Below, and in front of the first of these ranges, the enemy's pickets were observed from Kota-ki-Serai when morning broke. Skirmishing parties of infantry were thrown across the dream, and a squadron of the 8th Hussars followed to reconnoitre, when they were fired upon from a concealed battery. An advance in force was now ordered; the cavalry charged and took the battery, of three guns, and the infantry carried and occupied the first range of heights. On our side Lieu- tenant Reilly, of the 8th, was killed or died from sunstroke, and Crealonk, of the 95th, and Anderson, of the Bombay Lancers, were wounded. On the side of the enemy is credibly reported to have fallen no less notable a person than the Ranee of Jhansi. Either by the bullet of a rifleman or a fragment of a shell—for reports differ on this point, as they are likely to do—this determined and valiant, if cruel and abandoned woman, met an end not unfitting her soldiery qualities. Her body was not found • was burnt at once, it is said. The effects which she had saved from the general wreck at .Thansi fell to her rebel confederates."

On the 10th, Sir Hugh Rose, by a flank march to his left, joined Brigadier Smith. The rebels held possession of a range of heights in their front. On the 19th, a reconniassance was ordered. While it was in course of execution the enemy attacked fiercely and a general battle ensued.

"The whole force advanced—the 86th in skirmishing order on the left, the 71st similarly on the right, the 95th, and Bombay 25th, and 10th Na- tive Infantry supporting. The 86th took the troublesome guns and the heights opposite them—the 71st were equally auccessfuL All the high ground cleared, the force appeared at the edge of the plain of Gwalior, about a mile broad. Cavalry and Infantry were here in numbers ; but, as the Hussars and Bombay Lancers and the Infantry skirmishers advanced, they fled in all directions, pursued by the Cavalry. Here, Cornet Mills, of the Lancers was killed. By three in the afternoon, after a running-fight of more than five hours, the town of Gwalior was occupied, and the enemy were in full flight, leaving twenty-seven guns in the hands of the victors. Orx loss from the enemy has been trifling, though many had suffered se- verely from the sun. Two other officers, however, than those I have men- tioned, were wounded,—Colonel Raines end Lieutenant Seaton, of the 95th." The remainder of the news does not carry us farther than the tele- graphic despatches. Brigadier Napier swiftly and effectually pursued the rebels on the 20th, and on the same day Scindia was formally rein-

stalled. •

"One mournful event marred the joy of the day's success. The famous fort of Gwalior was reported to be evacuated, but a shot fired from its walls at the cavalcade proved that it was still occupied. That this was the ease had become known during the morning to Lieutenant Rose of the 25th Bbmbay Native Infantry, stationed at the Kotwalee in the town. FindingW inquiry that the enemy still in the fort numbered only ten or fifteen men, Rose proposed to Lieutenant Waller, of the same corps, who was with him, to go up with their party of Sepoys and take the place by storm. The other agreed. A blacksnuth forced the outer gate for them, and they with their men rushing up forced five gates in suc- cession, and gained the top unhurt. Here they separated their little band of about twenty into two. betties, and while Wailers attacked and shot the men who had worked a gun at the assailants during their ascent, Rose's out up another small party of the rebels after a desperate hand-to-hand fight. From this encounter Rose escaped unhurt; but immediately after- wards, while advancing a few paces alone, he was shot through the body from behind a wall by a Pathan—said to have been Rahein Ali, of Bareilly, who, then emerging from his concealment, rushed upon Rose, and gave him two more wounds with a sword. He then advanced upon Waller and his party, by whom he was shot down. The fort was taken, but poor Rose's wounds. proved rapidly fatal, to the very great concern of the whole force, to whom he was known as an excellent officer."

The Governor-General issued the following "general order" on the capture of Gwalior.

Foreign Department, Allahabad, 24th June 1858.

"The Right Honourable the Governor-General has the highest gratifica- tion in announcing that the town and fort of Gwalior were recovered by Major-General Sir Hugh Rose, on the 19th instant, after a general action, in which the rebels, who had usurped the authority of Maharajah Sciudia, were totally defeated. "On the 20th June, the Maharajah Scindia, attended by the Governor- General's Agent for Central India and Sir Hugh Rose, and escorted by British troops, was restored to the palace of his ancestors, and was welcomed by his subjects with every mark of loyalty and attachment. "It was on the 1st June that the rebels, aided by the treachery of some of Maharajah Seindia's troops, seized the capital of his Highness's kingdom, and hoped to establish a new government under a Pretender in his High- ness's territory. Eighteen days had not elapsed before they were compelled to evacuate the fort and town of Gwalior, and to relinquish the authority -which they had endeavoured to usurp. "The - promptitude and success with which the strength of the British Government has been put forth for the restoration of its faithful ally to the capital of his territory, and the continued presence of British troops at Gwalior to support his Highness in the reestablishment of his administra- tion, will afford to all a convincing proof that the British Government has the will and the power to befrienethose, who, like Maharajah Scindia, do not shrink from their obligations or hesitate to avow their loyalty. "The Right Honourable the Governor-General in order to mark his appreciation of the Maharajah Scindia's friendship, and his gratification at the reestablishment of his Highness's authority in his ancestral dominions,

pleased to direct that a royal salute shall be fired at every principal station in India.

"By order of the Right Honourable the Governor-General of India, G. F. EDMONSTONE,

Secretary to the Government of India with the Governor-General."

Sir Hugh Rose had withdrawn from the command of the army in Cen- tral India on sick leave; and it was anticipated he would resume the command of the Poonah division.

It is remarked that certain mutinous Sepoys had offered to surrender Mohamed Hossein to Mr. Wingfield, Commissioner of Gorruckpore, on condition that their lives were not taken by the British. This was agreed to, with the reservation that, if any of the said Sepoys should be proved to have been guilty of murdering a Christian British subject, his life should be forfeit.

The famous Moulvie of Lucknow fell in an encounter with a body of natives under one of their own chiefs. The Moulvie assailed the Rajah of Powanee in his fort. A battle ensued, in which the Moulvie was slain. His head was cut off and sent in to Shahjehanpore.

'guitar hiatrg.—The African arrived at Liverpool, on Monday, with advice, from New ork to the 21st July.

- Letters from Washington state that the British Minister in Mexico had received orders from his government to suspend diplomatic relations with the Zuloaga government, unless a better disposition was evinced with regard to making reparation for the claims of British subjects. Advice, from Salt Lake City states that General Johnston, with Cap- tain Marcy and the remainder of the army from head-quarters, entered the city on the 26th June. The Mormons were still rallying at Provo, although they had been urged to return and take possession of their former homes.

One of the many rumours that reach New York by telegraph from Washington says that "there is good reason to believe, from recently received information, that our Government is now in a fair way to ac- quire the Island of Cuba. This is derived from an unquestionable source."

Mr. Elliot, the defaulting store-keeper at Weedon has been arrested in America. He was travelling with an actress, Miss Sinclair under a variety of aliases.

General Quitman, member of Congress from Mississippi, died at his residence near Natchez on the 17th July. He played a prominent part in the war between the United States and Mexico, and was regarded as the leader of the school of Filibusters, having been actively engaged in the attempts against Cuba.

frightful picture of the state of Mexico is drawn by the city writer of the Times founded on advices received by the last West Indian mail. "There are at least half-a-dozen chiefs in the field, each with his special programme. In fact, every professional brigand is now at the head of an army of his own, claiming a legal position as representative of the people, and levying for the service of his 'Government' all sorts of contributions. In Sonora, the richest province as regards latent mining wealth, a General Pesqueira has set up an independent republic. In Chihuahua, which ad- heres to the old constitution, troops are being collected to harass the neigh- bouring State of Durango, which has pronounced for the central authorities. Zacatecas and Ialisco are overrun in turn by the Government forces and those of Vidaurri, who enjoys the um' atey of the Texans across the froi, tier. They alternately sack and ravage the various cities and respectively shoot their prisoners as rebels. The same is the case in Tamaulipas, where the Government hold Tampico, their only port, and General Garza hems them round and exercises command in every other part. In the State of Sinaloa a General Yana by siding with neither party, seems thus far to have pre- served comparative quiet. In Michoacan an organized rabble of 4,000 men carry on plunder in all directions, assuming the banner of Constitu- tionalists. San Luis Potosi has been exposed to devastation, but is for the Moment in the hands of the Government. Puebla is also nominally on the Government side, are the fortress of Perote holds out for their oppoients, tied all its roads are choked with robbers; who lie in wait for cargoes of goods. The State of Vera Cruz' the most important of the whole, from its commercial and military port, has defied the reactionary Government from the first, and latterly even the rural population of the district, reputed as the least dishonest in the country, have associated themselves in bands with the view of plunder. The little territory of Tlaxcala sends forth gangs of robbers, 100 in number, to stop the merchant trains, and on the other side the old and remorseless General Alvarez, who overthrew Santa Anna, and who, as Governor of the State of Guerrero, is always formidable from his influence over thelndians, and his determined animosity to the purely Spanish residents in Mexico, threatens at any moment to advance upon the capital, and again dictate his own form Of rule. It was in a great degree from the proceedings of this chief a year or two back that the reclamations of Spain for satisfaction had their origin. And while the white population are thus tearing each other to pieces, and ceaselessly resorting to every act of murder, violation, and rapine, the Indians roam through all parts, de- stroying plantations, driving off grain and cattle, killing the farmers, and carrying.away women and children at their pleasure. Indeed, the land max now almost be considered to have relapsed to the sway of these people, whO, less degraded and not more ignorant than the white pepulation, 'show a power of cohesion which entitles them to be their masters. 'Even this fact, however, does not complete the chaos. The forces of nature are at work on the same side, and the country has just been visited by one of the severest earthquakes experienced for many years. At Guadalajara, while one part of the town was in conflagration and another was being sacked, ..a fight was going on outside the walls, and the place was at the same time visited with a shock which for a moment caused all parties to suspend their' work of and butchery. The extinction of Mexican nationality may be look upon as already complete, The only question is as to the further number of months or days during which the Saturnalia must be allowed toproceed before the diplomatic measures can be ripened that shall allow of their being put under restraint by the strong and willing hand of their neighbours."

From the United States we learn that another Mexican. war, at no dis- tant date, is held to be "on the cards."