i forrigu rtu Cutraini. FRANCE —The Powers have now all recognized Louis

Napoleon as Emperor of the French. On Monday, Mr. Rives, the American Minister,

and several Envoys from the minor states of Germany, presented their credentials; and on Tuesday, the Ministers Plenipotentiary of Austria and Prussia were driven in French state-carriages to the Tuileries with the customary ceremonies, and gave their new letters of credence into the hands of Louis Napoleon. It is understood that the letters from Austria and Prussia both began with " mon frere." On Wednesday the Turkish Ambassador presented his credentials.

Subsequent information has oozed out, showing that the form of the Russian recognition was most severely felt ; and that on the night of Tuesday week M. de Kisseleff fully expected that he would receive his passports. Louis Napoleon himself was present at the Council of Minis- ters held that night, when a fierce discussion ensued ; M. Drouyn de

Lhuys advising his master to reject the credentials. But when morning came, it -was found that "Napoleon III" had preferred to act dis- creetly and to accept the letters. A state-carriage was instantly ordered' out, and M. de Kisseleff was brought to the Tuileries.

- -It is remarked that there is a mania for ball-giving in the court and among the courtiers. The first grand state ball at the Tuileries was to be given on Wednesday.

Some time ago we printed a speech said to have been delivered at a banquet in the Boole Militaire by a field-officer, in which he spoke of the Rhine as the natural frontier of France, and said thatthe Emperor would lead them to recover those frontiers by force if necessary. Colonel Fleury, the officer presiding over the banquet, has denied this through

the Patrie ; but the Preen remarks, as the denial is not official people will be apt not to credit it. We observe that the Constitutionnel has lately been devoutly preaching on the text that "L'Empire c'est in pain."

The circumstances of the world, we are assured, are now different from what they were in the days of Napoleon I, and war is no longer necessary. The Bdurse haa been in great agitation this week, and stocks and shares have had a downward tendency rather precipitate of its kind—the Three per Cents falling from 801. 70c. to 79f. 50c., and the Four-and-a-half per Cents from 105f. 70c. to 104f. 70c. between Monday and Thursday. It was said that M. St. Arnaud had become involved, and that M. Achille Fonld, to save the credit of the Government, had advanced money to relieve his colleague. The Moniteur declares these reports groundless and false ; but the funds continued to decline : the fall in the course of Thursday was t in the Four-and-a-half and -} in the Three per Cents.

Seam—The new Ministry has published its expected law on the press, which is to come into operation at once, but subject to future revision by the Cortes. Offences imputed to the press are withdrawn from the cog- nizance of juries; nothing printed may ho published before the deposit of copies with the.governor of the place or the fiscal of the press ; the go- Verner, or alcalde iii ton a where there .is no governor, may suspend the

publication in fhCt-eicefeitte or liii-liutlibifty, ft-Ed deem it likelftO en- danger public tranquillity. In such a case, the governor must proceed at

once to bring the peccant matter befbre a tribunal for judgment ; but the conductor of the publication may escape such trial by applying to the Government, and abandoning the incriminated production. Journals, pamphlets, and books, in which the Sovereign, the Royal Family, reli- gion or its ministers, are attacked, may be seized by the authorities, with- out the obligation of subsequent indictment ; as also may printed publica- tions of any kind, in which the facts of private life are inserted without the permission of the parties interested, although no calumny nor injury may be alleged. Editors of journals must be twenty-five years of age ; must have lived and kept house a year in the locality where they pub- lish; must be in the enjoyment of political and civil rights, pay annually 1000 reels direct taxes in Madrid, 800 at Barcelona, Cadiz, Cbrogne, Grenada, Malaga, Seville, Saragossa, or Valence, and 300 in smaller towns. The courts for the trial of offences against this law will be formed of magistrates of premier instance. Fines cannot exceed. 3000 nor be less than 1000 reels.

This new law has been illustrated. We learn that on the 8th instant several journals were seized for "violent" articles against the decree on the liberty of the press ; and that the Government, following the example of Louis Napoleon, was about to start a journal devoted entirely to itself.

Mozsamanoao.—We have no very definite news from the seat of war. The intended blockade of the coast from Dulcigno to the extreme Turkish frontier has been officially notified to the British Government. The Turks are making great preparations, the Puha of Scutari on one side and Omer Pacha on the other. It is believed that the blockade will be useless; es- pecially as the coast is a most dangerous winter-station. Reports from Vienna state that the Montenegrins have abandoned the fortress of Zabljak, at the instance of Russia ; having first destroyed the walls. Two of the relatives of Prince Daniel have been dangerously wounded, in late conflicts with the Peels of Scutari. The Turks are making desperate exertions to bring up their army in Bosnia. It is said that Russia has offered her services as a mediator, and that they have been declined.

17erren STATES—The Africa arrived at Liverpool on Sunday night, bringing advices from New York to the 29th December.

The Courier and New York _Enquirer publishes a reply to the Anti-, Slavery address of the ladies assembled at Stafford House; entitled the "Affectionate and Christian Address of many thousands of the Women of the United States of America to their Sisters the Women of England." This address does not attempt to controvert the Stafford House statements: it is not in fact a reply, but an able recrimination, A common origin, faith, and cause urge them to address the English lathes on-" the enor- mous social evils which still prevail so extensively, and, even under kindly-disposed rulers, with such frightful results, in every part of their country." -

"'We approach you," they say, "not with fiction, but with_ fact—notfact as evoegerated, perverted, and discoloured by the novelist's imagination, but fact . as presented in its naked simplicity by Parliamentary documents, or other' statistical writings which are regarded in your land as of standard authority." They forbear to speak of the "flagitious and bloody modes" by which Eng- lish dominion has been extended in Southern Africa, Southern Asia, and the Southern Seas. They will say nothing of the Opium war in China; nor of the miseries of Ireland ; but they speak only of the ignorant, poverty- stricken, and degraded population of Britain—a land "filled with slaves,- —slaves to ignorance, slaves to penury, and slaves to vice.". They quote

from Mr. Joseph Kay's book on Education, to show how little there is of. it in England; to show that while the average of poor-rates has been 6,000,0001. a year, the whole amount spent on education has been only 600,0001. ; and that whereas one-third of the population of New York are educated in the public schools, only one-eleventh of our population enjoy a similar advantage. They tell the ladies of Stafford House, that in London there are more than "1,000,000 immortal beings who are never seen hi 'the house of God" ; and they quote Henry Mayhew to show the deplorable con- dition of journeymen tailors, needlewomen, and persons who gain a living in the streets. They show that the manufacturing and the rural districts are overrun with immorality. And they ask how far such a state of things is in accordance with the merciful spirit of the Christian religion. "Now, sisters, we do not shut our eyes to the difficulties that might be- set the sudden elevation of your degraded population to the rights and the dignity of manhood. But, nevertheless, we cermet be silent on those sys- tems of your society which, in direct contravention of God's own law, deny in effect to the poor labourer the sanctity of maniagewith all its joys, rights, and obligations ; nor can we be silent on that awful policy which, either by law, or by the absence of law, precludes any race of men, or any portion of the human family, from that education which alone can enable them to un- derstand the truths of the Gospel and the ordinances of Christianity. We- appeal to you as sisters, as wives, and as mothers, to raise your voices to your fellow-citizens and your prayers to God, for the removal of England's shame from the Christian world."

Such is the substance of this effective counter-allegation.

Sacramento was rebuilt within a fortnight of its destruction ; at least, such is the hopeful assertion of the Sacramento Union of the 27th Novem- ber. Shops and stores were opened, and business had recommenced; but we are informed in the same column, that "in six months the entire num- ber of buildings destroyed will be replaced." San Francisco has gene- rously assisted its rival with kind words and capital.

WEST INDIES.—The news brought by the Magdalena from the West Indies is still mainly of the ravages of the yellow fever. It had not ceased at 'Barbados on the 4th December, although it had gradually decreased in intensity. The unfortunate crew of the Dauntless have suffered most- severely. Sixty men andthir teen officers, including Colonel O'Brien, had died of the fatal malady ; and 180 men had been landed and "placed un- der canvass." At Se Thomas the sea-service were the chief victims. Martinique and Guadeloupe were very unhealthy ; but St. Vincent and Grenada were free from the disease.

In the Court of Policy at Demerara, there had been discussions on the subject of East Indian immigration : the feeling was decidedly against giving guarantees of back passage to Indian immigrants. It was ex- pected that a limited importation of Chinese would be made early this SPASM

CAPS OF Goon HOPE.—Governor Cathcart had arrived in the Orange Sovereignty, with a force of 2000 men, when the Australian left Cape Town, on the 1st December. A proclamation declared that he had come not to make war but to settle all disputes, and to establish the blessings of peace ; and he commanded all to remain quiet and abide his judgment. He had with him "sufficient of the Queen's troops to enforce

obedience, and to punish with rigour and severity any chief, clam, or tribe, who might dare to resist his lawful authority." He also warned Certain traders, who had "presumed to meddle and interfere in political matters concerning the government of or relation with native ehiefa," that if again, guilty they should be expelled the territory and declared out- laws.

A further instalment of cattle had been sent by Kreli ; and Chopo, the Tambookie, had forwarded his complement of 100 guns.

But the war is not quite at an end. The enemy had reappeared in de. Inched parties and worked mischief. Captain de Villiers was proceeding from the Chunne Camp to the Keiskasama Hoek, on the 9th November, with a party of horse, twenty in number. They dismounted, the bettor to ascend a steep hill, Suddenly they were surprised by about 100 rebel Hottentots, and put to flight, leaving ten horses and five guns in the hands of the enemy. When a rescue came from the Chumie post,. the Hottentots had disappeared ; after leaving ten men of Armstrong's horse hidden in the kloofe and the water, Two or three similar affrays have oc- curred; and spoors of the enemy had been found in the Fish River Bush, near Committees Drift, and on the mouth of the Nat River —the old battle- fields. A body of Hottentota had also attacked and carried off twenty- four oxen within sight of the post at Keiskamma Hoek.

INDIA.—The following telegraphic despatch from Trieste, in anticipa- tion of the overland mail, was received on Thursday.

" Pegu was taken on the 21st November, and will be annexed. The cara- paign may lie considered at an end, unless the Burmese forces should invade our new territory, which they will probably do, In such a case we should march on Ave."

Ausreetae.—The Legislative Council of South Australia has passed an address to the Queen praying that a branch of the Royal Mint may be -established at Adelaide. But the great business on hand was the revision of the political constitution of the colony. This has been the first duty urged on the members of the Council by their constituents. Captain Bagot placed certain resolutions on this subject on the notice-paper on the 24th September ; but they never came on for discussion. Mr. Fran- cis Dutton was more fortunate ; and the discussion of the following reso- lutions was still pending on the 5th October.

"1. That it is expedient during the present session to amend act No. 1 of 1851, entitled Au net to establish the Legislative Council of South Australia, and to provide for the election of members to serve in the same.'

"2. That it is expedient to introduce into the amended act the following alterations :

"a. To extend the franchise to every male inhabitant of this colony of twenty-one years of age who shall not be legally disqualified, and who shall be registered for six months in the electoral district for which he seeks to exercise his vote previous to the day of such election taking place.

"b. That votes for the election of members of Council be taken by ballot. • e. That the qualification of members elected to serve in the Legislative Council be abolished.

- "L That the time for which members of the Legislative Council are elected be limited to three years.

"3. That an address be presented to his Excellency the Lieutenant- Governor, requesting that he will instruct the Law-officers of the Crown to prepare a bill during the present session introducing the above amendments." After two days' debate, the first resolution was affirmed by a majority of 16 to 7; the Colonial Secretary and the Advocate-General voting for the motion. Addresses to the Queen had been agreed to, strongly pray- ing that the Legislature might have the control of the revenue arising from the land-sales.

In New South Wales, great satisfaction was felt when the despatch from Sir John Pakington, placing the gold-revenue under the control of the Legislative Council, was received by the Australian. For some weeks there had been warm debates on the question of suspending the supplies. Mr. Wentworth, the day before tho Australian hove to, had given notice that he would move that the Committee of Supply be de- ferred until the gold-revenue should be placed at the disposal of the Coun- ciL When, next day, the despatch was reported to the Council, it was received with cheers ; and the amendments to defer the supplies were withdrawn.

A petition to the Queen praying that the order in Council of the 4th September 1848, establishing 'Van Diemen' s Land as a convict colony, might be revoked, and that transportation should cease, was agreed to by the Legislature.

NEW ZEALAND.—Coal has now been discovered at Wangarai, as well as at Waikato and Nelson. The vein is said to be of good quality and of considerable extent. Copper has been found near the Dun Mountain, about eight miles from Nelson. It was thought that the great current of emigrants setting towards Australia would only last for a time ; and that compensation for the loss of population would be found in an increased demand for New Zealand products. In fact, many vessels from New South Wales and Victoria had arrived and were loading with provisions. The now constitution, at least the clause giving the New Zealand Com- pany a lien of five shillings per acre upon waste lands, was generally con- demned.