It is reported in Paris that the President intends to
celebrate the anni- versary of his election, the 10th of December, by a general amnesty. On Thursday, the Versailles Court sentenced M. Ledru-Rollin end thirty other accused persons, absent from the trial, to transportation for life. We are assured that the question of a reduction of' the French army has been seriously discussed by the Ministers of Louis Napoleon, but that the reports of the Prefects of the departments were not such as to justify any proposition for reduction, except to a very small extent. The Prefects will not guarantee the maintenance of public tranquillity if there be any dimi- nution of the regular armed force.—G/obe.
Friday .eveuing's lettere announce that M. Guizot had arrived iu Paris.
In the Spanish Congress, on the 9th instant, Seiler Fidel, Minister of Foreign Affairs, announced that the Government had given orders for the zeturn of the Spanish troops from the Roman States.
On his tray to Paris' the aged General Pepe was detained at Turin to receive the homage of his countrymen. Pepe—last distinguished by the 'defence of Venice—has passed a half century in the armed service (if his -country, or in exile for his exertions in her behalf. Had. his counsel been followed, Ferdinand the First and his treacherous son would not have been, able to cajole Naples or cheat Sicily; for Murat would not have sacrificed his threne to the schemes of Napoleon; or even if he had, the Neapolitan Bourbons would have been duly controlled. M. Lucien Murat, the French Ambassador at Turin was among the -first to greet his father's faithful compaaien in arms. It is said that the most influential members of the Ieibesitl majority in the Piedmontese Parliament asked the General to seize theoccasion of an interview with the King, for the purpose of conveying to his Majesty an assuranee that they will always lesd him their support, and will noeeltive the Government into any extreme position that might prove dangerous in the actual situation of Italian affairs. General Pepe arrived
Parie,tin Wednesday.
e wedish Consul has communicated to the Secretary of Lloyd's a 11.111%clamation issued in Stockholm, announcing a measure recipro-
oete4 ;new Euglish Navigation law admitting Swedish vessels to be treated in thesame manner as British vessels in all ports under the British .eniVflfrio eie
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