Iraty.—The Constitutionnel contains some notice of an insurrec. tionary movement
in Piedmont. An attempt to revolutionize that part of Italy is not unlikely to be made, but the feeble proceedings and in. significant numbers of the revolutionists in 1821 allow us to entertain very little 'expectation of success on the present occasion—Times.
ROYAL MARRIAGE.—The Prince Albert of Prussia was married to the Princess Mary of Orange on the 14th, with great pomp and re- °icings.
Civic BANQurr.—One of these entertainments (which, like some other things, are better managed in France than among ourselves—with much more regularity, less swilling and gorging, and more attention to the purpose for which they are got up) was given in Paris the other day to M. Isambert. We notice it principally on account of the parties who gave it—the persons of colour in Paris. This, we apprehend, is the first time that that highly respectable class of men lave ventured on so public an expression of their sentiments. We rejoice to perceive, by so unerr- ing a symrom, that the aristocracy of the skin, as Alexandre de La. borde calls is, like other aristocracies, founded on vain or unjust dis- tinctions, giving way. The toasts given were—the King, of course; Lafayette, we may say of .course also ; M. Isambert. That gentleman gave the venerable Gregoire, who forty years before Wilberforce and the other English philanthropists, was the first to plead the cause of humanity with Lafayette." It is of small importance to mankind who shall first have pleaded a good cause, and we have no wish to quarrel with M. Isambert on that point ; though, as it is now forty years since Wilberforce first pleaded the cause of abolition, his dates must be wrong, or Lafayette was the most precocious advocate that ever the world saw.
PERSON or TALLEYRAND.—In his personal appearance he is oneof the most singular men in existence. It is, in short, impossible to look upon him without immediately coming to the conclusion that he is a most extraordinary personage. The Duke of Montebello is reported to have said, that you might be looking Talleyrand steadfastly in the face at the moment a person kicked him from behind without being able to know from his features that anything had happened to him ; this I take to be literally true. His face is, in fact, a face of stone, with the exception of his eyes, which are remarkably brilliant. His person appears like that of a skeleton dressed after the fashion of times long passed away. His upper garment is very loose, and partakes of the form of a robe rather than a coat. Such was the costume in which he appeared at the soiree of Lafayette, last Tuesday evening. his presence there was not at all expected by the crowds of people who weekly pay their respects to the most consistent and the most patriotic manof the age. The announcement of his name, as may be easily imagined, excited no little astonishment. A passage through the company was made fer him by the attendants, and every eye was intensely fixed upon him as he moved along the suite of apartments, like the statue of a withered old man to which had been given the power of locomotion.—]Horning Herald.
SPANISH PATRIOTISM.—A letter dated Madrid, 2nd of September, mentions an attack at Emilia, in Andalusia, on the Preventive Service men, by the Royalist Volunteers and the country people. Two of the Preventive Service were killed. The object of the patriots was to smuggle a quantity of goods. These are the gentlemen who talk of liberty and law ! When the Peninsula has got rid of its King, the next step towards regeneration will be to get rid of its people. By the time it is purged of humanity, it will be lit for occupation.
VALUE or SPECTACI.F.S.—The poor man who was cast into prison because he did not perceive that the person in whose company he ven- tured to sit down was the King of Portugal, had not been released on the 28th ult. He is now stated to be of English parents, though born in Spain.
SAMIAN SAGES.—A correspondent in one of the American papers states, that at Samos, he met with a family, the father of whirls was 135, the mother 132, and two sons one 110 and the other 105, all hearty and well and working in the fields !
It is expected that the Duchess of Kent will remain at Malvern until the beginning of October. Prince and Princess Esterhazy have taken Mount Pleasant House of Mr. Beard, and are expected on Monday.— Worcester Journal.
PLEASANT EFFECTS OF THE CONTINENTAL CILANGES.—There has been lately a great influx of foreign capital into England. It is said that ninety new banking accounts have been opened at the Bank of England within the last three weeks in the names of foreigners.
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