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FRANCE. —Before Paris and Europe had finished their meditations on the amnesty of the four thousand of the lowest.claw, Louis Napoleon, M.

de Persigny, and M. Pietri, the Prefect of Police, planned a new coup d'etat, or razzia " as the phrase now is, upon certain persons disliked or feared by the Government. On Saturday night, it was resolved in

secret conclave, without consulting M. de Id Rupee the Minister of Police,

to arrest certain members of the Legitimist party and certain correspond- ents of the Continental journals. Before daybreak, exactly as on the morning of the 2d December 1851, separate bodies of Pollee arrested the

"suspects" at the same hour. Has many were comprised in the arrest is not accurately known; but it is believed all the correspondents of the

German, and nearly di those of the Belgian, Spanish, and Italian jour- nals. The suddenness, the secrecy, and the mystery of the surprise, added much to its terror. The prisoners were placed an secret in the prison of Maras. No charge of conspiracy, or even of hostility, was brought against them. AR that is known is, that they have been seized and locked up. General de St. Priest, the well-known Legitimist, said to have been arrested by mistake, was afterwards liberated : his papers, how-

ever, were examined ; and some swords, much prized by him on account of their donors—the King of Prussia, the Emperor of Russia, and others—

were carried off. Among the other names specified are those of the Duke de Rovigo, a son of Savary, M. Coetlogon, M. Villemessent, M. de la Pierre, editors of the Corsaire ; M. Tanski, a naturalized Pole connected

with the Journal des Debate, and the Augsburg Gazette ; M. Gerard, M. Pages-Dupart, M. Paul Foucher, and M. Carpellas, all foreign corre- spondents ; M. Planiol, of the Gazette de France, since released ; Count de

Mirabeau, a Bonapartist, arrested by mistake for his Legitimist brother

the Marquis ; and Michel Carre, the farce-writer. It is remarked that M. Paul Foucher is a clerk in the Police Department, and M. Gerard, a

clerk in the office of the Minister of the Interior. Two Italians were arrested at the l3atignolles. The officers fired on the Italians; alleging afterwards that they were armed, and would have fired on them.

The Pays has been instructed to excuse the Executive. The reason alleged for the arrests is, that the Emperor could no longer tolerate the

concoction of a defamatory and.anarchical correspondence which tends to abuse Europe as to the Government which France has freely given herself.

From day to day further particulars have oozed out respecting these arrests • but the most important are those attending the seizure of

General St. Priest. The Pattie, correcting an account given by the Assemblee Nationale, has published so many errors that the General him- self has refuted them. The Pattie states that General St. Priest and Charles his son resided in the same house ; that, as the son was accused of being connected with those who concoct false news for foreign papers, his father, wishing to screen him, said be was the person mentioned in the

warrant, and allowed himself to be taken to prison. This story General St. Priest flatly contradicts : he was arrested without much question on his own part, and discovered the error after he was in prison.

The rumours of a Ministerial crisis, which were current last week, have drawn forth an official contradiction from the Moniteur. Still it is as- serted that dissensions exist ; that M. Bineau has been denounced for not operating on the Bourse to keep up the funds ; that St. 'Arnaud refuses to quit the Ministry of War, unless he be sent with almost unlimited powers as Commander-in-chief to Algeria ; and that De Pereigny is for war as strenuously as ever. But it is believed that the differences are patched up, and the day for a decisive issue of the contest adjourned.

The grand ball in honour of the Emperor and Empress was given by the Senate on Monday, in the Luxembourg Palace. There are to be no Imperial fetes during Lent ; a decision which has disappointed the pious shopkeepers of Paris greatly.

The procession of the Beeuf-Gras this year remarkably illustrates the extent to which Uncle Tam's Cabin has spread. The devoted oxen which figured in the procession were named " Shelby," " 17nolo Tow," and "Bt. Clair"

Imr..v.—The stirring news of the week is that an insurrection broke out in Milan on the 6th instant ; of which we have had various brief and unsatisfactory accounts. The first information came from Paris on Wed- nesday; and the statement of the despatch was that the insurrection had been suppressed. Then came the following message from the English Minister at Berne to the Minister for Foreign Affairs in London-

" A telegraphic message from Bellinzone of the 8th instant, 4.30 p. m., announces that the gates of Milan were shut, and it was supposed the insur- rection, which had been suppressed, was recommenced. A proclamation from Maszini was placarded.'

On Thursday morning, copies of proclamations bearing the signatures of Mazzini and Kossuth, and addressed respectively to the Italian people and the Hungarian soldiers in the Austro-Italian army, were printed in the morning journals.

Mazzini's proclamation rims in this fashion- " Insurrection ! Let the grand word leap from city to city, from town to town, from village to village, like the electric current. Arouse, arise, awake to the crusade fever, all ye who have Italian hearts, Italian arms Sol- women, youths, people ! Let us have for the moment but one heart, one thought, one desire, one cry in our emits, one cry on our lips—' We will have a country ; we will have an Italy ; and an Italy shall be.' . . . . One only be our flag—the flag of the nation. In pledge of our fraternal unity, write on it the words God and the People : they alone are powerful to con- quer, they alone do not betray.' It is the Republiean flag which in '48 and 49 saved the honour of Italy ; it is the flag of ancient Venice ; it is the flag of Rome—eternal Rome, the sacred metropolis, the temple of Italy and of the world !"

Kossuth's is lees spirit-stirring : these are passages- " Our war is the war of the liberty of the world, and we are no longer alone." "In this war no nation fraternizes more with the Hungarian than the Italian. Our interests are one—our enemy is one—our struggle is one. Hungary is the right wing, and Italy the left wing of the army I lead. The victory will be common to both No nation yet rewarded its brave sons so liberally as the Hungarian nation will reward here. After the victory, the state property shall be distributed among the army and the families of the victims of patriotism; but the coward and the traitor shall die." Later accounts, derived from the Swiss journals which reached Paris on Thursday, state that the Austrian Government discovered a conspiracy on the' th at Milan, and that numerous arrests were made ; that on the .5th whole families were flying across the Ticino ; and that on the 6th the insurrection broke out, when some three hundred were killed and the insurgents suppressed.

It is almost needless to state that these accounts are not to be entirely relied on, as there was no complete communication between Milan and the Swiss frontier.

An Austrian detachment has marched on Rimini in the Roman States ; and it is conjectured that an outbreak was the cause. Two additional French regiments were expected at Civita Vecchia.

Piedmont was tranquiL Hurresas.—For some time past the accounts of Hungary coming through Vienna have spoken of the distracted state of the country ; of the great want of confidence in the Austrian Government ; of capital punishments said to be executed upon robbers and murderers ; and ge- nerally descriptive of anything but a stable condition of affairs. The Tanta correspondent at Vienna, writing on the 6th instant, gives us a glimpse of the state of feeling among the only class from whom Austria can expect sympathy.

"The day before yesterday, a letter penned by a most faithful subject of the house of Hapsburg was placed in my hands. After observing that the authorities can have but a faint idea of the true state of Hungary, the writ- er says—' The recent juridical-political ordinances have exasperated the Conservatives in the highest degree, and the state of public feeling in this unfortunate country is such that Government must be prepared for the worst. No one doubts that a revolutionary net is spread over the whole land. If France should break the peace, what would become of us ? The masses, which have learned nothing by experience, would act as they did in 18482 Mention is also made of a prevalent rumour that a superior commis- sary of police and seven postmasters had been arrested, though no one could guess why. From Croatia no information so direct as the preceding has reached me ; but it is notorious that the inhabitants of the South Sclavonic provinces are as discontented as -their Magyar neighbours, and perhaps even more dangerous. The latter have blood as fiery as their wine ; the Sclavonic races, though of a much colder temperament, are both crafty and revenge- ful."

Monitationo.—Reports from the seat of the war are obscure and con- fused ; the facts that can be gleaned from them are very simple. Montene- gro is invested on all sides by a Turkish force, now amounting to 44,000 men. Both parties have met with reverses ; but there has been a steady gain on the side of the Turks. Alarmed at this, and perhaps desirous of effecting Other objects, Austria, under the pretence of protecting her frontier, has despatehed thither large bodies of troops, mainly from Vienna. The march of the Russian corps for the scene of action is also confirmed ; and other Russian forces are expected in Wallachia. Omar Pacha has ad- dressed a proclamation to the insurgent districts, informing the Monte- negrins that they have themselves to thank for the war : they may, how- ever, purchase peace by submission. He offers them religious liberty, with the right of electing their own judges and magistrates, subject to the control of the Pacha of Scutari; and he promises that no taxes shall be imposed except to maintain these officials, whose duty it will be especially to protect the poor ; while the Montenegrins will be expected to protect the frontier. There is nothing in the proclamation about giving up arms. Meanwhile, until he receive answers, the Seraskier suspended operations. Among the unconfirmed rumours, some are interesting. It is said that George Petrovich, the Vice-President of the Montenegrin Senate, who left Vienna about a week since, was persuaded that it was not advisable that his countrymen should push their resistance to the utmost; on the con- trary, Prince Daniel was advised to seize the first opportunity of effecting a decent compromise. Another version is, that a division arose upon a summons from the Turks to surrender before the 31st January ; that thereupon one party aided with Prince Daniel, and the other with Pero Petrovich, his uncle. It is reported that the well-known Servian Stratomirovich, who he- roically defended Titel during the war of independence, is raising a free corps, which he purposes leading to the assistance of the Montene- grin' s.

The Vienna Presse gives a Prussian officer's description of Omar Pacha. "The Seraskier is about forty, tall, slender, of a pale complexion, a some- what flat nose, and black monstacbios. His body and eonetitution are

like iron, and as if made for war." He speaks German well, though with that Solavonic accent peculiar to the natives of the Austrian military fron- tier, where he was born and bred.

GERMANT.—it is now confidently asserted that Baron de Bruck, who has been a long time at Berlin engaged in negotiating a tariff treaty be- tween Prussia and Austria, has at length succeeded ; and that a treaty, to remain in force for twelve years, will shortly be formally signed.

There has been of late a great deal of discussion in the Prussian Cham- bers. The two main questions have been the constitution of the. Upper Chamber and the communal law of 1850. It has been resolved that the Crown shall nominate the Peers, as in England. The communal law, however, which created elective municipal corporations throughout the kingdom, has been repealed. This law was approved in the Rhenish Provinces ; but in others, where the feudal element still lingered, it was intensely hated by the nobles. Hence its repeal. This is another victory gained by the reactionary party.

SpAnc—The Ministry, up to the latest dates, had defeated the Opposi- tion, and carried their candidates at the elections ; in Madrid by great majorities. But this is explained by the fact that no opportunity was given to the Opposition candidates of communicating with the electors. Secret addresses were circulated, some implying that the Progresistas were doing all they could to render hopeless any reconciliation between Narvaez and the Roncali Ministry.

UNITED STATES.—The Arabia arrived at Liverpool on Monday, from New York. This is her first trip home, and she made it in ten days three hours and a half. She brought advices to the 27th January. The Senate had continued from time to time to discuss the resolutions of General Cass reaffirming the Monroe doctrine. Mr. Soule of Louisi- ana, Mr. Case, Mr. Hale, and Mr. Mason, had spoken ; the two former in favour of the resolutions, the two latter against them. The point of dif- ference between the contending orators is the extent of the application of the doctrine. Mr. Soule and General Cass insist that President Monroe's declaration against European intervention in American affairs was in- tended to be the foundation of a permanent policy ; and General Cass cited Jefferson's authority in support of his views. Mr. Mason, on the other side, contends that the doctrine only applied to the suspected inten- tion of the Holy Alliance to assist the King of Spain in subduing his re- volted colonies in South America.

There are no fewer than a dozen projects for a Pacific railroad before Congress, and one scheme for an electric telegraph to San Francisco. The journals publish a document signed " L. Napoleon," containing his decision on the claim set up by the United States against Portugal in the matter of the privateer General Armstrong, captured by the British during the war of 1814, in the neutral port of Fayal. Louis Napoleon decides in favour of Portugal, on the ground that the American captain did not at once seek the protection of the Portuguese Governor, but per- mitted a conflict to begin between the American and British sailors. The Seminole Indians in Florida have refused to emigrate, and have declared war. As a great deal of money has been spent on this tribe without result, a war of extermination is threatened.

The Secretary of the Treasury had published the annual report. At the end of the last fiscal year there was a balance of 14,632,136 dollars in the United States Treasury. The estimated receipts for the present year are 85,932,136 dollars, and the estimated expenditure 60,660,066 dollars. The public debt of the Federal Government is 65,181,692 dol- lars. The annual value of the agricultural, mineral, and manufacturing productions of the United States, is stated at 3,000,000,000 dollars. The imports last year amounted to 27,109,788 dollars; exports, 166,967,490 dollars. Imports of specie during the year, 5,503,544 dollars. California being a State of the Union, gold from her is not of course noticed. Ex- ports of specie last year, 42,674,435 dollars. The Philadelphiamint coined last year, 52,405,569; and the branch mints, 4,700,000 dollars. The ex- ports of cotton last year amounted to 87,935,732 dollars. The exports of tobacco were worth 10,031,283 dollars ; of rice, 2,470,029 dollars ; of bread-staffs and provisions, 25,856,337 dollars. The exports of domestic merchandise and produce show a deerease of 24,349,585 dollars, as com- pared with the previous year.

Irrms.—By telegraphic despatch from Trieste, received yesterday, we have important news from Burnish. "The proclamation for the annexation of Pegu, dated December 20, con- cludes with the intimation that, in case the Burmese Emperor should refuse to make an immediate peace, or should molest our new territory, the whole empire will be subdued, and the Emperor dethroned. The Burmese, how- ever, make no sign of acceding to this proposition, and an advance on Ave was considered inevitable. The advance will probably take place as soon as the necessary means of transport have been collected."