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FruarcE.—The Dutchess of Aumale gave birth, on Monday, to a Prince.
ThC"Moniteur of Tuesday published several Royal ordinances; of which the first, expressing regret at the ill health which prevented Marshal Soult from continuing to fulfil the duties of War Minister, decreed that he should relinquish that office and retain the Presidency of the Council. Other Changes followed as a matter of course: a second ordinance appoints Lieu- tenant-General Moline de St. You Minister of War; a third appoints the Baron Martineau des Chenez Under-Secretary of State of the War De- partment; a fourth raises General Moline de St. You to the dignity of the peerage; a fifth appoints General Baron Gazan Director of the personnel and military operations of the Ministry of War, in place of General Moline de St. Yon, and Major-General Count De la Rue Director of the affairs of Algeria, in place of M. Vauchelle, who resigned. Of the new Minister of War the Morning Chronicle says-
" M. St. You will be remembered by many as the French Commissary who so hog accompanied the British Legion at San Sebastian and elsewhere. He was then Captain and Colonel, and was considered the peculiar agent of Marshal Soak. In that memorable revolution whioh overthrew Espartero to put Narvaez in his place, and superseded the Constitutional Ministry of Calatrava by the influence of Christina, the active agents—French they were, it is now past a doubt—were those rather of the French War-office than of the French Foreign-office. They were French military agents who tampered with the Spanish officers, and Marshal Souk knew far more of that intrigue than did M. Guizot."
A letter from Toulon in the Reform mentions the intention to send, shortly, an expedition of 8,000 infantry with marine artillery to Madagas- car; and in the spring, a naval division under the Prince De Joinville to Morocco.
The Constilutionnel announces, that the Mandarin who was imme- mediately concerned with M. Lagrange in the conclusion of the commer- cial treaty between France and China, has been nominated a member of the Legion of Honour.
At0Eata.—According to recent accounts from Algiers, Abd-el-Kader has fulfilled his intention of carrying away several of the disaffected tribes from the territory of Algeria, and has established them in the Morocco territory; where, according to the French reports, they are preparing to make war in favour of Abd-el-Kader against the Emperor of Morocco. An- other report is, that five tribes of Morocco have revolted and joined the Emir.
The Akhbar has a curious tale of General Lamoriciere's Draconian seve- rity. If we may believe the journal, Abd-el-Kader offered to exchange the 200 French invalids who surrendered at discretion; but the General re- plied—" Keep the prisoners; do with them what you please: they had muskets, and 3,000 cartridges; they surrendered without fighting, and are therefore for ever struck off the list of Frenchmen."
The Semaphore of Marseilles has this strange and improbable statement- " We have been assured that a letter written by Abd-el-Kader, and forwarded to Paris by General Cavaiguac, had struck terror into the heart of an august personage, and sadly complicates the embarrassments of the situation. The Emir is said to have declared, that during the last ten years he had constantly held in his hands the lives of the Princes and Generals who had fought in Africa; that he bad under his orders 1,200 fanatics, ready to suffer martyrdom, who were most anxious to repeat the scene of Kleber, and purify themselves in the blood of the Christian Generals; that he had hitherto restrained the religious ardour of these sectaries of Mehemet, but that in future he should he guided by the attitude -which France would assume towards him. It is added, that at the moment when this alarming notification reached Paris, the departure of the Duke of Montpensier I been agreed in council, but that the tears of the Queen caused it to be ad- journed."
SPArN.—By advices from Madrid of the 8th instant, we learn that, on the evening of the 3d, an attempt at revolt was made in Valencia. The Girona Regiment was surprised, and its commander was wounded; pro- bably, though the official accounts do not mention the fact, part of the regiment itself mutinied. The revolt, however, was suppressed, and Cap- tain-General Roncali had declared martial law.
The Memorial Bordelais publishes a decree, dated the 28th October, which authorizes the Consuls of Spain in France to deliver passports to all officers, non-commissioned officers, and other adherents of Don Carlos, permitting them to return to their own country, on condition that they take the oath of fidelity to the monarchical institutions of that kingdom. SwirzeraLano.—One Jacques Mailer, of Slechestein, has acknowledged that he assassinated M. Leu, a Catholic of Lucerne; and he said that be did so at the instigation of Dr. Pfyffer, a Member of the Grand Council, and others of the Liberal party. Dr. Pfyffer has been arrested. The Liberals aver that Mailer is an infamous witness, and that the charge against Dr. Pfyffer is incredible. The Grand Council, however, is hostile to him.
On the 1st instant, the Jesuits were solemnly installed in the ancient convent of the Cordelliers at Lucerne; that being the place of residence given to them by the Government.
BELGIUM.—King Leopold opened the two Chambers on Tuesday. Hie speech gives little information. It mentions that a treaty of commerce has been concluded with the United States; that, "by virtue of a recent ar- rangement, which will soon be finally sanctioned, Belgian commerce, se far as China is concerned, will be placed on the footing of that of the most favoured nations"; that the corn harvest has on the whole been good; and that the measures adopted to mitigate the injury arising from failure of the potato crop have worked well.
GEruitaxr.—The new tariff of the Zollverein, as settled by the conference held at Carlsruhe, to replace the old one from and after the 1st of January next, was published on the sixth instant. We notice some of the principal changes effected by it.
The finer articles of bard-ware, and articles made of metals connected with ala- baster, ivory, fine stones, imitation jewels, and the like, which have hitherto paid an entrance-duty of 17 florins 30 krentzers the quintal, will now pay 87 florins 80 kreutzers. [ Sixty kreutzers make one florin: the florin is worth a little more than 2a.] Ribands of half silk, which now pay an entrance-duty of 96 florins 15 kreutzers a quintal, will henceforth pay 192 dorms 30 kreutzers; being the same as that put upon silk goods in general. Important alterations are blade in the duties on woollen goods and the finer tissues of a heavy kind. Tissues of pure wool, goods figured or embroidered, shawls, buttons, stuffs of gold, silver, and the like, are to pay 87 florins 30 kreutzers the quintal; other woollen goods, 52 florins 30 kreutzers; carpets, 55 florins the quintal. There are many reductions,—sulphur, from 52 florins 30 kreutzers to 8 florins 45 kreutzers; raw caoutchouc and resins, from 52 florins 30 kreutzers to 17 florins 30 krentzers. Some goods are newly exempted,—as flax, and wool manufactured from refuse. A very important con- cession has been made in the transit of merchandise through the South-western countries of the Zollverein; so that, for all those on the left bank of the Oder, the general transit-duties are reduced from 52 kreutzers to 35 kreutzers the quintaL At the same time, all the special duties upon wool and cotton, and woollen and cotton and other tissues, are suppressed.
A Berlin letter of the 1st says—" The new tariff of the German Customs Union makes no change in the duties in the different kinds of thread; but the Prussian Government states that the question of change is merely postponed."
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