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FB.ANCE.—The papers still teemed, in the earlier part of the week, with "further particulars" of the last scenes in the visit to Paris of the Lord Mayor of London and his fellow visitors, the delighted guests of the Pre- fect of the Seine. We mentioned, in a single line of our Postscript, that the Lord Mayor arrived safely in London early on Saturday morning last. Many of the other guests prolonged their stay, but all have now returned ; and M. Sallandrouze has been seen this week in the Crystal Palace, with the Minister, M. Leon Faucher, on his arm. It is only just, internationally, to mention that the English railway company, the South- eastern, was as completely overwhelmed by the plethora of luggage on the return of the Exhibition cortege, as the French railway company was on its journey outwards : so that a collision befel one of the trains on Tuesday, through which seven or eight of the passengers, English and foreign, received slight wounds and contusions.

The mutual compliments of the visit have been gracefully wound up by a correspondence between Prince Albert and M. Charles Depth, the President of the French Committee, referring formally to the departure from London of the French Commission on the termination of its labours relative to the juries. The Prince wrote— "I fully appreciate, together with all the Commissioners of her Majesty, the great devotedness displayed by you and by the Commission over which you preside. I appreciate the incessant zeal and scrupulous attention with which, during three months, you have accomplished, together with a great number of the most eminent men of all countries, the extremely laborious and responsible duty of jurymen. The best recompense that you can receive will be given to you by the general approbation of the public, when the re- sults of your labours shall be known. The Royal Commissioners are not insensible to the readiness with which the members of the French Com- mission have conformed to the regulations imposed on the subject of the conditions on which the first medals were to be accorded, though your expe- rience of French Expositions caused you to consider those conditions as not necessary. It is scarcely necessary to say that the regulations in question were only laid down by her Majesty's Commissioners after the most com- plete consideration of the peculiar circumstances of the Universal Exhibi- tion: all their desires were to act in the best way calculated to obtain the success of the enterprise." "I cannot let this occasion pass without expressing our sentiment of the great advantage we have derived from France having formed by her produc- tions such an interesting and precious portion of the Exhibition; and at your Government having taken care to send so many chefs-d'ceuvre, the character of which will certainly exercise a happy influence on the sciences and arts of our own and other countries."

M. Dupin replied with characteristic skill in compliment to the Royal Commission, and with impressive reference to the Royal Family-

" We love to praise it for its perfect urbanity towards strangers ; an ur- banity which has been displayed from the highest officers downwards, to the garde=lice, who might well have been named gardes de la politesse." rs, and visitors of all countries, have been touched by one most gracious spectacle—the flattering curiosity and the indefatigable benevolence with which her Majesty, conducting her august family, has, during three months, pursued to completion her inspection of the exhibitions of different nations. Husbands and fathers, we have been moved while observing how happy was the Queen to add to her crown a jewel more precious than all the rest, by conquering suffrages and good wishes among the representa- tives of all nations, in favour of a work which she treasured as that of her children."

" One word" which he added " on our functions," seemed to have some special reference and meaning beyond what.was on the surface- " We, the French jurors, should have liked to see rewards of the first class given for beauty, exquisite grace, perfection, without prescriptions of any kind "; but the general tone of the succeeding passages was ele- vated above national jealousy, while still inspired by a high spirit of na- tional emulation—

"Art is, like Nature, far from showing herself exclusive. She loves to scat- ter her gifts among the children of great national families. We rejoice in this diversity, which permits us to honour on different grounds, genius, taste, imagination, reason, in nations whose brilliant variety constitutes the riches and splendour of the human race. Frenchmen ourselves, and proud of the title, we are not of those cosmopolites who suppress the sentiment of country to substitute for it nebulous abstractions and adore a tabula rasa. We are not of those who dream of a future in which all the sacred types which cha- racterize races and nationalities are to disappear. Grandeur and beauty would vanish from the earth if at a magic stroke all its mountains were brought low and its valleys exalted, while its animals, plants, and men, all be- come of one colour and stature, would sink to a miserable state of existence under the law of uniformity. 'But each nation, without affecting its charac- ter, may add to its wellbeing, its riches, its power, by judiciously borrowing from the discoveries and the improvements of other nations : and such in reality is the nature of the service which the Universal Exhibition has been preparing us to render one another. Here each people sees its products side by side with those of all others, and often sees them surpassed. Pride, which grows while favoured by isolation, is here abased, and reason profits by the opportunity. Each nation, instead of dreaming of self-sufficiency and inborn superiority, vows to improve in the future. Thus we shall see new efforts attemptteedd in every country, to ameliorate the productions of the human race."

The funeral of Marshal Sebastian, which was celebrated with great pomp at the InTidides on Tuesday, was interrupted by an extraordinary

accident. While the ceremony was proceeding, the flame of a wax candle, through the awkwardness of an attendant, was brought into con- tact with the hangings of the catafalque, and in a few moments the rich drapery of the church was a sheet of fire. As there wore thousands of troops under arms, the flames were extinguished be- fore any of the wood-work was seriously damaged ; but France has to regret the loss of a large portion of the warlike trophies which formed the principal embellishment of the nave. The Moniker of Wednesday says, that " some of the flags taken by the French armies " have been lost ; another account says that but eight or ten " flags were consumed ; but the Journal des Debate says, that " nearly one half of the flags were destroyed." The relatives of the deceased, the Presi- dent of the Republic, a great number of other notable personages, and a vast concourse of general spectators, were present when the fire broke out ; and there was great danger of? fatal accident from sudden panic : but the Monileur states that " no one was wounded." " The funeral service could not be resumed, but the military honours were rendered to the remains of Marshal Sebastiani."

The National Assembly met on Saturday, for the last time of the ses- sion. There was some business for consideration ; but a sufficient num- ber of members to constitute a house did not appear, and the Assembly adjourned at three o'clock, to the 4th of November.

Following the prorogation, there has appeared in the Democratic jour- nals a long manifesto from the Mountain. It reviews the events of the past session ; and finds in those events reasons for repeating a former de- claration by the Democratic leaders, that the sovereign power was in the hands of a majority, " who, understanding only the institutions of the past, systematically oppose all reforms," but that " by union, perseverance, and devotedness, the people will eventually obtain the victory." It con- cludes with this declaration- " The law of the 31st May will be repealed by the Assembly, because it will understand the impossibility of maintaining it in opposition to the Consti- tution ; the reelection of Bonaparte is impossible, because it would violate the Constitution ; the prorogation of existing powers is impossible, because it would violate the Constitution ; • the Constitution dominating all citizens and all institutions—such is 1852, without disorder, without crisis. It would not be a crisis, but a revolution, which would arise from the violation of our fundamental compact—a revolution legitimate as right, holy as justice, sa- cred as liberty. In that case, we declare here, with deliberate firmness, that, under the flag of the Constitution, we would not fail in any of the duties which the salvation of the Republic might impose on us." The trial at Lyons of Gent and the other ultra-Democratic conspirators against the Government has occupied several days, and bids fair to be greatly prolonged. M. Michel (de Bourges) is the chief advocate for the prisoners. A vast quantity of documentary evidence has been read : it seems to prove the existence, at the moment Gent was arrested, of an ex- tensively ramified organization for the overthrow of the Government, and the establishment of a purely Democratic and Social Republic. The populace of Lyons are said to evince much sympathy with the prisoners : great military precautions are taken to prevent any overt display of this sympathy, but the people themselves are said to be showing a sense that the best way in which they can serve their friends is by remaining quiet.

ITALY.—The Italian correspondents of all the London journals assume concurrently a tone of the most serious apprehension that some new in- surrectionary movement is imminent throughout the Italian peninsula. In Sicily, enormous preparations to suppress outbreak are made in the way of further conscriptions ; incessant tactical marchings, and a great ex- tension of fortifications. In Rome we hear again of active negotiations to get rid of the French, and introduce a Neapolitan army for the more homogeneous management of the absolute military rule. In Lombardy, the army is made to add the functions of a secret police to its military duties. The following circular, from the Military and Civil Lieutenant of the Venetian Provinces of Austria, dated " Venice, June 7," shows the difficulties to be met, by exposing the means taken to overcome them.

"To the Military Commanders in the Uwe of Public Order. " When you are requested to furnish information respecting any /meson with the qualification of special, you must exactly supply concerning that person all the following indications.

" 1. His nation, place of birth, parentage, age, &c. 2. His personal de- scription. 3. His intellectual culture and talents. 4. Ills character and humour. 5. His sentiments in politics, religion, and other matters. 6. His social position and education. 7. The estimation in which he is publicly held, and the extent of his influence. 8. His manner of living—as, what he habitually does or omits to do ; whether he is much or little at home-, and, if he goes out, where he usually goes, with special indication of the names of the public places, private houses, and families he visits ; and whe- ther he goes to them in the day or in the Light, frequently, seldom, or periodically; also, with what company he ordinarily spends his time. 9. What are his usual topics of discourse in public places. 10. With whom he keeps up a correspondence, and whether frequently, seldom, or periodically. 11. Whether he is in the habit of travelling, where, and on what pretext; and whether he does so frequently, or periodi- cally, or seldom, alone or in company, and by what means of conveyance. 12. His means of subsistence; whether there is a due proportion between his income and his expenditure ; whether he is lavish, economical, or parsimo- nious; and whether he lives from day to day. 13. In what special relations he stands to his parents, his family, his friends, and his mistress. 14. What part he took in the revolution, and whether by actions or only in thought. Was he an enthusiast or a cool-headed calculator ? Did he in public or in secret aid the revolution under the mask of neutrality—when, where, and in what spot especially ? 15. If he took no concern in the revolution, did he refrain on principle and from devotion to his lawful sovereign, or from fear, prudence, apathy, inertness, or calculation ? 16. In the changes of party fortune, did he remain always the same, or did he turn as the wind was blowing? And by what facts might his change of sentiment be proved ? 17. In fine, a biographic sketch describing all the antecedents of his history..

"The Military and Civil Lieutenant of the Venetian Provinces. "Gonersnoituewsxv."

The Vienna correspondent of the Times says that the danger of an out- break in the Italian provinces of the Empire has become so imminent that Ministerialists no longer make a mystery of the subject. "A con- siderable number of persons belonging to the higher classes of society have been arrested in Verona ; and nearly every night domiciliary visits are paid by the police. As the excitement of the Italians is stated to have attained the highest pitch, and the military authorities will show no mercy if a rising should be attempted, a repetition of scenes like those of Arad is not impossible." GERMANY. —A Berlin correspondent of the Morning Chronicle giveathe 'text of the official reply of the German Diet to the protests of England and France against the admission of all the Austrian lands into the Ger- man Confederation. If this document is authentic, the Diet has declared that in those protests it can only see "a foreign interference with the in- ternational affairs of the German Confederation, and a tendency to usurp rights and attributes which never can be granted, as they are in opposi- tion to the treaties of the Congress of Vienna." In accordance with these views, it has formally stated, that "it does not deem it necessary to enter into further explanations upon the subject."

Case.—The American correspondence brought by the steam-ship Asia, which arrived at Liverpool on Sunday, contains statements that an insurrection has broken out in Cuba, and been attended with some suc- cess. The accounts, however, are of doubtful authenticity. On the one hand, it is stated that the insurrection has taken place at Puerto Principe, on the North side of the island; that a battle had been fought, and the Spanish troops been defeated with a loss of two or three hundred men to themselves, and a loss of only two or three men to the insurgents. On the other hand, there is mention of "movements" which resulted in the flight of "the Patriots" to the mountains, after defeat from "want of arms." It would seem that some insurrectionary movement has taken place at Puerto Principe—the publication of a manifesto by three leaders, and the marching of some armed men against the local troops ; but the real nature of the facts cannot yet be known.' The New York Spectator of the latest date, July 28, says that its New Orleans re- porters have sent forward the crowd of Southern reports on the subject, but it refuses to insert them in its columns.

" All these averments are made on the authority of private letters, from -whom and to whom is not said. Such reports are of no value whatever; and we must decline using them, because they lack authentication, especially in -view of the fact that advises have been received from Havana twelve days later than the alleged outbreak, from known reliable sources, which throw discredit upon the whole affair."

Tan CAPE 07 Goon Horn.—The news brought from the Cape of Geed Hope by the Propontis mail-steamer, which arrived at Plymouth on Monday, is still most discouraging. The accounts from Cape Town ex- tend to the 3d of July, and from the head-quarters of Sir Harry Smith, at King William's Town, to the 21st of June.

The general tenour of the news is briefly summed up in the statement that " Sir Harry Smith was on the frontier, engaged in keeping back the rebels." The details disclose additional defection of allies ; insufficient means at the disposal of Sir Harry Smith to prevent the Caffre chiefs from carrying out their plan, "that their people should enter the colony and subsist in it by plunder during the winter, which had just commenced with unusual severity "; the loss of "many valuable lives" on our side; but nevertheless, in reference to the future, "preparations for an important movement," by which it was rumoured that Sir Harry Smith still enter- tained " the hope of being able to bring the war to a close." Our ope- rations appear to be, the continued despatch of " strong patrolling parties," with the object either of keeping the Caffres out of our limits, or else, in the alternative, of intercepting them as they retreat with the cattle they have captured, and recapturing the spoil, with as much damage to them personally as we can inflict. The loss we inflict in this way is "believed to be severe," but " nut at all commensurate with the injuries which the colony suffers." Field Cornet Gray, of Lower Albany, Field Cornet Roberts°, commandant in Albany, and Field Cornet Bouwer, of the Kaga —all of them most energetic and skilful leaders of the Burgher levies— are among the dead; while Captain W. Stubbs, of the Graham's Town Rangers, a very famous and efficient leader, and Commandant Woest, of the Ilitenhage Burghers, have been so badly wounded as to be "incapable for further service this war." A picture of the injuries, " incommensu- rate " with our retaliations, which the colonists suffer, is presented by the following extract from the letter of a correspondent nf the Times in Gra- hani's Town,—the town which Earl Grey proposes to make the seat of

government and legislation. The correspondent writes on the 24th one. " During the month which has elapsed since the departure of the last packet for England, the Tambookies have been committing fearful ravages in the Albert district Sheep have been driven off by thousands, and valu- able droves of cattle, and several hundred horses, have fallen into their lands. Twelve farm-houses, some of them extensive substantial premises, have been burnt by these incendiaries, and many valuable lives lost in the oft-repeated contests that have taken place between these savage despoilers and the distressed colonists. Accounts from the Class Smit's River say that the country in that field-country is nightly lit'up by the flaming homesteads .of the refugee farmers. In this district no military posts are maintained, nor any organized force stationed, save a few native auxiliaries in flying camps. The defence of the district has therefore devolved upon the Boors themselves; who, assembled in laagers, or camps, see their position becom- iug hourly less tenable, and are making the most pathetic appeals for assist- ance • but with little hope of relief, as the Commander-in-chief has not suf- ficient force at his disposal to detach any portion from the army in Caffre- land. Consequently, many of the Dutch farmers are flying from the border to seek refuge in the more settled parts of the inner provinces, whence they bad expected their countrymen would have gone to meet the enemy in the front. But this not being done, no alternative remained to those in ex- posed situations but to seek to save their lives by flight.

" These remarks apply alike to the Winterberg, Mancarana, Kaga, and other localities which border upon the districts of Cradock and Somerset ; .also to the Fort Beaufort and Stockenstrom districts generally, and to Vie- to:ia ; in all of which, combined bands of Caffres and rebel Hottentots, both mounted and on foot, in strong parties, roam the country as they list, and commit most appalling ravages, and have already perpetrated more murders upon Europeans than the total of those who fell in the war of 1846."

But the most unfortunate occurrence of the month—" and next to the 'Nat River revolt the 'Most unfortunate in the war"—is an insurrection of the Hottentots of the Theopolis Mission station in Lower Albany, near the sea-coast, and about thirty miles South-east of Graham's Town. That is, to say, nearly as many miles further into the colony than Gra- 's Town.] The summary of the Cape Town Mail supplies the parti- culars—

" These Hottentots had been previously joined by some deserters of the Cape Corps ; through whose counsel and assistance, it appears, the insurrec- tion was concerted and carried into effect. At daybreak on the morning of the 31st of May, the Hottentots suddenly fell upon several Fingoes, who re- sided at their station, and murdered them. They then loaded their waggons '-with their families and goods, and moved off towards the Bushman's River, sending, at the same time, to one of the Caffre.chiefs to ask for assistance, Theopolis, it should be stated, although considered a station of the London Missionary Society, (and having been, in fact, the seat of one of it, earliest ' institutions' in South Africa,) had been for two years without a resident missionary, being only occasionally visited by the missionary resident at Gra,. ham's Town.

"The news of this insurrection spread with great rapidity, and caused the utmost excitement in Graham's Town, and throughout the neighbouring country. Major-General Somerset happened to be at the time in Graham's Town. The Seventy-fourth Regiment, which recently arrived in the colony, had reached Graham's Town on its way to Fort Hare only three days before. The Major-General at once ordered about 300 men of that regiment to pro- ceed towards Lower Albany, in order to intercept the insurgents ; he himself preparing to take the command of the force which was to surround and crush them. The Graham's Town Mounted Rangers, however, pushed on before the Infantry, and, being joined by some mounted Burghers from Lower Al- bany and Uitenhage, made an attack upon a party of the rebels, about 100 strong. A desperate conflict ensued ; but the rebels were at length driven from the field into a neighbouring ravine, leaving their waggons and oxen, and seven of their number killed. " This action took place on the 3d ult. On the 6tb, earlyin the morning, Major-General Somerset, having assembled a force of shout 600 men, pro- ceeded to surround the stronghold in which the rebels had taken refuge. This was a covert enclosed by dense bush in a bend of the Kareig,a River. The rebels were partially surrounded, but through some unfortunate mistake or mismanagement they were allowed to escape at an unguarded outlet. They fled, leaving some waggoas and about 600 cattle in the hands of the troops. Immediately afterwar4 in obedience to orders from head-quarters, General Somerset and the Seventy-fourth Regiment proceeded to Fort Hare. • The rebels, after burning the buildings at Theopolis, retreated into Caffreland."

The Cape Town Mail adds, that soon afterwards it was found neces- sary to disarm the Hottentots residing at Oliphant's Hoek, on the border of Albany, and about twenty miles from Theepolia

"It was discovered that they had been in communication with the rebels at the latter place. From the evidence received from various quarters it has been ascertained beyond a doubt, that a plot had been formed among a considerable number of the frontier Hottentots for exterminatine' or expel- ling the British colonists from a part of the frontier districts, and establish- ing an independent commonwealth in that territory." If these two rebel stations had succeeded in their concerted rising, they would have formed a hostile cordon in the rear of Graham's Town, tend- ing to cut off that proposed seat of government from the rest of the Oolony, as completely as King William's Town itself has been cut off from Gra- ham's Town oftener than once in the course of the present war.

Beyond the Orange River, the British Resident, Major Warden, was still engaged, on the 17th June, in collecting a force, with the view of intervening for the suppression of the hostilities among the native tribes. The farmers of the Sovereignty and the Griquas showed little disposition to turn out for such a purpose.

The suggestion made by Earl Grey in a recent despatch, relative to the removal of the seat of the Colonial Government from Cape Town to Gra- ham's Town, has drawn forth several widely different expressions of opi- nion, in different parts of the colony. The inhabitants of Graham's Town, and those of the villages of Fort Beaufort, Somerset, and Salem, in its vicinity, are naturally gratified with the prospect of the removal. Those of Graaff-Reinet are averse to the measure, and pray that the proposal may "be left to the decision of the future Representative Assembly." The inhabitants of _George Town are of opinion that the proposed change is uncalled for, and that "the interests of the entire colony would suffer" by it; but if the seat of government into be removed, it should, in their opinion, be placed at George Town. The inhabitants of Port Elizabeth have pronounced no opinion by public meeting or petition, but the local press strongly in favour of the neighbouring town of triteelage as a suitable site for the seat of government. A petition to the Queen has been numerously signed in Cape Town and the neighbouring districts, praying (like that of Graaff-Reinet) that no change be made, or that the question be referred to the decision of the future Colonial Legielature,