The Duke of Orleans has made a present to the
Paris Jockey Club of the maguilicent silver shield which was the prize NV011 by his Royal Highness's horse Beggarman at the Goodwood Races. It is thirty•two inches in diameter, weighs more Riau 450 ounces, and is 000 guineas in value.
The Consul-General of France in Tunis, aeeompanied by the au- thorities oilhe regency, took possession, on the aath of July, of the site on which a Catholic chapel is to he erected to the memory or St. A cypress was 111011ted ()II the occasion, on the most elevate 1 point of ancient Byeso, which is hereafter to be cal led 2,1 tie Ism is Pifiti11110.
The //allover Gazelle announces that the opera; foil iif couching was performed on the Prince Royal on the 4th instant. The pupil of' the eye had been reilstablished, hitt it could not as yet be determined how far the Prince wonld recover his sight. llis Royal Highness %las as well as could be expected.
The /Prove mentions, that a Strasburg company had aceeptol a pro- position made to them bv the French Government for the purchase of twenty theusand horses in Germany ; but that this company having re- quired that they should not be held responsible for constraint put upon them by a superior force, as seizure (for example) by .sonie foreign power, in the event of a declaration of war, the Minister refused to subscribe to their condition, and the trans:mini% has consequently been broken oft The Presse adds, that numerous promotions have taken place in every department of the French army. In each infantry re- giment, from seven to eight sous-tilfieiers have received ti wir commissions as officers.
Advices from St. Petersburg of the 30th ult., quoted by the Augsburg Gazette, state that orders have been issued from the Admiralty to de- spatch from Cronstadt eighteen sail of the line thr the Mediterranean, to join the British and Austrian squadrons, the whole naval force being placed under the command-in-chief of Admiral Stopford.
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