A Berlin correspondent states, that Prince Puckler Moskau is ex-
pected shortly at his estate of Muskau, in Prussian Silesia. Immedi- ately after his arrival, a wager of 1,000 louis, which he has laid with the Baron de Biel, that horses of pure Arab blood will bear snore fatigue than those of pure English blood, will be decided. The parties will mount the horses themselves ; that of the Prince is from his own stables, and came from a celebrated stud, near Alexandria. The horse of his adversary is front Somersetshire. It is proposed to ride over a great portion of Northern Germany.—Golionerai's Messenger.
The French papers are daily filled with accounts of outrages, rob- beries, and attempts at assassination. It is dangerous, after dark, to be in the by-streets.
The widow of Nourrit, the well-known French tenor, who destroyed 'himself at Naples some months back, expired at Paris a few days ago. M. Rougemont de Lowenberg, the eminent banker, died in Paris on Wednesday last.
In reply to a memorial from the owners of vineyards and the makers of brandy in the D0partotents of the Chareate and the Charente has- rieure, Marshal Soult states, that-
" Ills Majesty's Government, anticipating your wishes on this subject, has proposed to the'English Government to renew the negotiations which had been opened in Paris at the commencement of the present year, between the Com- missioners appointed lay both countries, with the view of escertaining what changssmight 1)0 iut ro:loved into the Customhouse tariff, so as. Cu, give a pro- gressive development to the intercourse, both as to commerce and navigation, between France and England. I have no reason to suppose that the British Government would refuse to take these proposals into us n,,ideration ; and you may rest assured that we shall continue to make energetic renumstranecs in that quarter, in (woke to obtain a eonsiderable reduction of the duties upon brandy imported for British consumption, as the elder recompense 11:r the fa- vours whirl we in our turn will grant with respect to English lir:elect: ; for it is scarcely iweessary for me to observe that this question eaunot be viewed in an isolated forum"
Advices front Martinique and G'uadaloupe to the end of May, allude to the long-continued drought which has prevailed there as in the British West India islands. Both the sugar and coffee plantations had suffered extensively by it. The decrees of the Governors, permittiog the free exportation of sugar from those islands, whether under the foreign or French flag, had given great satisfaction and relief to the dis- tressed colonists, and caused a rise in the price of that article.
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