,fintigu anti tutunial.
FRANCE.—The session of the Senate for the year 1852 was closed by a decree in the ifoniteur of Tuesday, "given at the Palace of St. Cloud," the 5th of July instant. President Bonaparte is going to make a tour of the departments ; and some rumours have had it that he is going over to Algeria, to explore if there be any military glory to be cheaply gained there by a personal command against the Arabs. There is talk, for the fiftieth time, of an intended modification of the Ministry,—M. Baroche, to displace M. Casablanca as Minister of State, and M. Achille Fould to regain the portfolio of Finance.
The Corsaire has been suspended by the Minister of Police, for two months. Even the discreet Galignanis Messenger has received "a first warning" from the Minister of Police—at least so says a Belgian paper.
The weather has been so frightfully hot in Paris, that the Parisians are making it the chief subject of their tongues and pens,—forgetting their standard jokes at us English for our habit in this respect. The thermo- meter has been 93 degrees of Fahrenheit in the shade, and dogs have gone mad at an alarming rate. A correspondent writes— "Several persons have been bitten; and one lady, who had been so at- tacked, ran about the streets on Monday last, attempting to bite every per- son that came in her way, and shortly afterwards died. It may be men- tioned also that a child was taken yesterday to one of the hospitals, having been almost half devoured by one of these rabid animals." The infernal machine "plot" of last week seems to be already for- gotten.
Swrrzearatstn.—M. Thiers has been ordered by the Federal Swiss Go- vernment to leave his residence at Vevey, and either convey himself into the interior or leave the Canton. M. Thiers preferred the latter, and on the 2d instant was about to quit Switzerland altogether, for Florence. 'This measure, practically resulting in the expulsion of M. Thiers from the Swiss territory, is said to have been resolved on by the Federal Govern- ment on the representations of M. Salignac Fenelon, the French envoy at Berne. It is deemed the retaliation of President Bonaparte for his own extrusion from Switzerland, at the demand of M. Thiers, as Foreign Mi- nister of France under Louis Philippe.
The Duchess of Orleans, who is at Baden in the Swiss Canton of Ar- govia, has procured a formal statement in the Basle Gazette, by Dr. Minnich, that she is residing there only for her health; receiving no visitors of any political importance, and expecting none.
.S.sitnLvis.—The Chamber of Deputies at Turin, in its sitting of the 3d instant., adopted the Civil Marriage Bill up to the 29th article, in- cluding the 20th and 21st, which more particularly contain the principle of the measure,—namely, that marriage may be celebrated before a civil magistrate.
GAPE OF GOOD Flopz.—The mail steam-ship Bosphorus has brought home news from Cape Town to the 29th of May, and from the war fron- tier to the 25th of May. The military news is almost nothing. The accounts say—" No casualties of any moment have occurred during the month, but there are several in- dications of the unsubdued attitude of the Calfres." General Cathcart had removed his head-quarters from King William's Town to Fort Beau- fort, towards a line connecting the Waterkloof and Amatola mountains; and he was so arranging his forces as to form a connected chain of columns across the whole territory, which, as the last mail told us, he had an- nounced his intention to clear of the enemy by driving the Caf- fres beyond the Kea', and banishing them from the colony for ever. This saenie, however, appeared difficult to early out ; for the Caf- fres had slipped through the links of the chain in several places, end in one instance had been discovered in alarming numbers camped in the Kowie bush close to Graham's Town. In several places single herdsmen, and even small weak parties, had been cut off, or at- tacked and roughly handled by the Caffres. Governor Cathcart had not, however, completely organized his plans. He was endeavouring to levy a force of Burghers to act as scouring-parties witbAtt his cordon; and was offering the pay of 5s. a day for privates and 7a. 6d. a day for officers— "considered very liberal." graph— The nature of the Governor's plans with regard to the hitherto neutral chiefs has been partially disclosed. It appears that his Excellency proposes to subsidize them, under certain conditions, and that some of them have already been paid sums of money under the new arrangements. Much ap- prehension, however, is generally entertained of the intention of the T'Slam- hie tribes ; and strong symptoms of disaffection and a desire to join the enemy are said to have been of late manifested among them.
Andries Botha, a Hottentot field-cornet, had been tried at Cape Town, for high treason, and after eight days of proceedings had been found guilty and sentenced to be hanged.
There is no news of any mark of a non-military nature. The Cape Town Mail says-
" In the Western portion of the colony little has occurred during the month to call for special notice. The most perfect tranquillity continues to exist. The excitement which the mutilation of the Constitution Ordinance by the effete Legislative Council naturally occasioned has entirely subsided ; the colonists feeling assured that her Majesty's Government will never vio- late the solemn promises held out to them by sanctioning the measure in its present useless form."
UNITED Suass.—The Whig Convention at Baltimore has nominated General Scott as candidate for President, and Governor Graham of North Carolina as candidate for Vice-President of the Union. The choice was unexpected. There were fifty-three ballotings, and the votes continued steadily the same, one or two more or less, for all the three nominees, till the forty-seventh ballot—about 136 for Fillmore, 134 for Scott, and 29 for Webster. But from that point the Fillmore men gave way ; and on the fifty-third ballot the numbers were—for Scott 158, for Fillmore 112, and for Webster 21. The nomination is the most remote from unanimous that has ever been known, for a Whig candidate. The twenty-one who voted for Webster would probably continue to withhold their support, and the nomination would probably be adopted unwillingly in many of the States of the Union. The result, it was thought certain, would be, that the Democrats would carry the election of General Pierce for President by a great majority.
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