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Louis Philippe's Queen, Marie Amelie, with the Duke de Nemours, Prince de biuville, the Duke d'Aumale, and their families, after staying a few days at Turin, left that city on the 4th instant, for Genoa ; whence they proceed by sea to Spain.

The Sardinian Government has made over to M. Blanc, the farmer of the gaming-tables at Homburg, the right of establishing similar haunts at Nice. He is said to have deposited 600,000 francs as caution-money. The reigning Prince of the little principality of Monaco is about to dis- pose of his small domain to a Frenchjoint stock company, who intend to farm the property. Monaco contains about 100 square miles of territory, and 7000 inhabitants.

Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Cassel, presumptive heir to the Elector- ate, and nephew to the Duchess of Cambridge, has left Berlin, with his young bride, Princess Anna of Prussia, for Copenhagen, to pass the winter. The visit of Prince Jerome to Stuttgardt is said to be connected with a project of matrimonial alliance between the Prince and a daughter of Mar- grave William of Baden.

The Duke de la Victoria refuses to receive the money which the Spanish Government sent him an order for, on account of the arrears due to him when Regent of Spain.

The Municipal Council of Vienna lately wished to put the same tax on the residences of foreign Ambassadors as is imposed on private houses ; but the Ambassadors sent a protest to the Government, and it decided that they are not liable to the tax.

M. Michelet, who is in a bad state of health, arising from intense appli- cation to his literary labours, is about to leave Paris for Nice, where he will pass the winter.

The different societies of artists, musicians, and traders of Munich, gave a monster torchlight serenade to the King of Bavaria on the 29th October, in honour of his Majesty as founder of the Pinakothek.

The Civita Cattoliea of Genoa announces that a song by Dante, hitherto unpublished, has been found in the library of Prince Barberini at Rome.

Madame Sontag had a narrow escape from drowning, at New York, on the evening of the 21st October. In returning from a concert at Brooklyn, she missed her footing, as she was about to step into the boat, and fell into the river. A gentleman jumped in after her and saved her life.

The former residence of Cooper the American novelist, at Albany, recently converted into a hotel, has been burned down by the act of an incendiary.

Fifteen thousand dollars has been subscribed for the erection of a monu- ment to the late Henry Clay : two citizens of Ohio have subscribed 1000 dol- lars each.

The New York Journal of Commerce says that the rumour of successive attempts to burn down the premises of Mr. G. P. R. James had no foundation in fact; the object of the various efforts to kindle a conflagration there being confined to " the removal of an old smoke-house, which the boys of the vil- lage seem bent upon, rather for sport than for the purpose of annoying Mr. James."

Dr. Pertz, head librarian of the Royal Library at Berlin, has returned from a tour in England undertaken for the purpose of ascertaining if the principal libraries contain any materials that may assist him in the further prosecu- tion of his great work " Monuments Germanise Historica." The most valu- able result of his inquiries was the obtaining a copy of the "Chronicon Pla- centinum," in the British Museum, which is of great importance for the times of the Emperors Frederick I. and H.

The Californian papers received by the Atlantic state that Madame Ida Pfeiffer, the celebrated traveller, had arrived at San Francisco from Batavia.

Mrs. Harriett Beecher Stowe has lost no time in getting her impressions of Europe ready for publication. Messrs. Jewett of Boston announce that her "Record of Travels Abroad" is about to be put to press.

The New York Herald states that its editor and proprietor, Mr. James Gordon Bennett, is an applicant for the office of Ambassador to France.

Mr. C. E. Lester, formerly United States Consul at Genoa, and now, it is bruited in America, New York correspondent of the Times, has created much animosity among the Democrats by his attacks on President Pierce in that journal. The Democrats are endeavouring to show, by documentary evi- dence, that his hostility to Mr. Pierce is a personal affair, caused by the President's refusal to give him an office.

Music appears to be quite as much in demand in Franca and America as ever it was. Cruvelli has been engaged by the Grand Opera of Paris, at 100,000 francs a year, with four months' leave. Alboni is to receive 200,000 francs at the Grand Opera. In New York, M. Jullien has wielded his baton with astonishing success : his farewell concert—the last of forty-nine—was crowded to overflowing. Miss Catherine Hayes has finished a successful en- gagement at Santiago at 2000 dollars a night ; and was about to depart for Callao, from which she will probably go to Australia.

At the General Convention of the American Church held at New York, last month, a resolution was carried, that the Bishops be requested to take into consideration the necessity of a prayer for additional labourers. A Dr. Vinten, who seems to be of the same creed as Lord Palmerston, very slily hinted that it would be as well to embody the idea that "the labourer is worthy of his reward."

A new translation of the Bible has been published in America, which en- deavours to improve upon the old phraseology. For the passage "no va- riableness nor shadow of turning," it substitutes " no parallax or tropical shadow."

The Sunday observance question appears to be exciting quite as much at- tention in America as it is in this country. The New York papers state that " The Pittsburgh Association for the preservation of the Sabbath con- tinues to bring suits against omnibus-drivers who run their vehicles on Sun- day."

The wife of a farmer at Hardat, in France, was for some years possessed, at a certain season, with the notion that she was so desperately wicked that she must be burned in hell, unless she expiated her sins by burning herself to death. This idea became at last so overpowering, that she put a quantity of faggots into the oven, the other day, set fire to them, and then crept in herself. She was so much burned before any one came to her aid, that she expired in a few hours afterwards, in great agony.

A decree reestablishing the Jesuits in Mexico has been published. Their property is, with some exceptions, to be restored to them.

A colony of monks which has recently settled in Iowa seems to have little faith in the doctrine that "cleanliness is next to godliness" : one of their rules is, that when they put on a suit of clothes, they must continue to wear it, sleeping or waking, till it falls off or becomes unfit for wear.

In spite of high wages and high rate of interest in the United States, rail- way travelling is much cheaper there than it is in England. The fare from Montreal to New York, 410 miles, by express, is only 16e. 8d. From Lon- don to Edinburgh, about the same distance, it is twice that sum by se- cond class.

The first accident since the opening of the Panama Railroad occurred at Tuberelia on the 1st October, when a trainh 600 w_t_ ___ passengers ran over an ox, and was thrown off a bridge, into a ravine sixteen feet deep. Four men were killed.

A company is projected at Boston to build an atmospheric tube, two feet in diameter, for the conveyance of letters and parcels between that city and New York—two hundred miles—in fifteen minutes.

A new process has been discovered by which cotton is rendered almost as elastic as hair or wool, and a company has been organized in New York for the manufacture of cotton beds, under the patent.

An arrangement has been made between Belgium and the United States, whereby the latter grants a considerable subsidy for the establishing of a line of steamers between New York and Antwerp, on the condition that they commence running within three months.

District post-offices in Berlin consist simply of cast-iron chests placed in the streets. The chests are so constructed that their contents can be col- lected every hour with little trouble. The gross annual receipts of the post- office in Prussia amount to 5,000,000 thalers.

The postal service in Texas does not appear to be in a very efficient state. The editor of the Jefferson Herald complains that his papers4o not reach his subscribers at London, a distance of eighteen miles, oftener than four or five times a year.