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The King of Prussia caught cold at Woolwich, and he was so un- well at the Hague on the 6th instant that his physicians recommended his immediate return to Berlin. He agreed ; but by the last accounts he was getting better. On the 13th he was at Elberfeldt.

The Warspite frigate, having Lord Ashburton on board, put into Yarmouth Roads on Saturday, and remained there, weather-bound. During a heavy gale on Sunday she lost an anchor and chain-cable ; which were supplied anew on Monday. She sailed again on Wednesday.

Sir Herbert Jenner, Dean of the Arches, on succeeding to the estate of the late Sir John Fust, of Thornbury, Gloucestershire, has, in com- pliance with the will of the deceased, taken the name of Fust in ad- dition to that of Jenner.

Mr. Morris, the well-known manager and proprietor of the Hay- market Theatre, died on Thursday morning. He was born in 1770. Forty years ago he purchased the Haymarket and became its manager ; subsequently paying off all the partners who first joined him in the enterprise—Tahourdin, Wilston, and Colman.

The Earl of Elgin has been appointed Governor-General of Jamaica ; Sir Charles Metcalfe retiring on account of ill-health. The Marquis of Londonderry has been appointed to the office of Lord- Lieutenant of the county of Durham, in the place of the late Duke of Cleveland.—Morning Post.

The Speaker of the House of Commons gave his first Parliamentary dinner this season, on Saturday evening. As is customary at his first dinner, the leading members of the Ministry in the House of Commons and those connected with the Government were invited.

A numerous meeting of Sir Robert Peel's supporters in the House of Commons was held at his official residence in Downing Street, on Mon- day.

The Sun says that the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel were hooted and hissed on their way to Parliament on Monday. The Standard admits that they were ; but assumes that the few who hissed were paid agents of the Anti-Corn-law party.

A bill Will be submitted to Parliament at an early period of the pre-

sent session, to remodel and place on the most efficient establishment the Militia, so as to make that force the depot for the standing army.— Correspondent of the Times.

A deputation of journeymen confectioners waited upon the Chan- cellor of the Exchequer and the President of the Board of Trade, on Tuesday, to complain of the importation of confectionery from the Channel Islands. The real confectionery made from sugar which is not taxed, competes injuriously with English confectionery made from taxed sugar ; and in the shape of confectionery much is brought in that is afterwards converted into loaf-sugar, paying only 7s. 6d. per hundred- weight duty, instead of 308. 8d. and 35s. 8d. The Earl of Ripon in- formed the deputation that Government had determined to suppress the trade as at present carried on.

The Morning Post of yesterday asserts that the French Government hold back from ratifying the recently-arranged slave-trade treaty- " M. Guizot, feeling himself compelled to refuse, for the present, to join, without reserve, in the name of France, in ratifying the treaty in the precise terms in which it has been concluded, proposed certain modifications. In these modifications Lord Aberdeen has declined to acquiesce ; being of opinion that, as a British Minister, be ought not to admit the necessity of any guarantee for the disinterestedness and probity of Great Britain in respect to the abolition of the slave-trade ; these having been already proved by sacrifices and efforts in that cause to which neither France nor any other country can produce a paralleL" M. Ganneron's motion in the French Chamber of Deputies, to aug- ment the number of " incompatibilities" or official disqualifications to sit in the Chamber, was rejected on Friday, by 198 to 190. Twenty- six placemen voted with the majority. The Opposition papers assert that several Deputies who had intended to vote for M. Ganneron's motion left the Chamber before the division, under the impression that there would have been an adjourned debate. The Courrier Francais gives the names of some of those members. A more important decision was given on Wednesday, on M. Ducos's motion to admit the second jury-list to the Parliamentary franchise. M. Guizot's speech in opposition to the proposal was very effective. In the course of it, he rested greatly on the fact of the general union and amalgamation of all classes of society in France- " The distribution of political rights, therefore, is not and cannot be an object of dispute and perpetual competition, as was formerly the case. The richer elector represents the poorer ; the interest of one is that of the other ; and those who are deprived of the political right of the vote feel no ne essity for acquiring it. They are indifferent to it. Hence clamour for electoral rights is not to be heard among the French. It is not the people who demand these rights ; they are clamoured for merely by journals and committees."

The motion was rejected, by 234 to 193. This success appears to have produced great effect out of doors. "Ministers are safe," was said or admitted by men of all parties. Its effect on the Funds was consider- able.

Tidings from Lisbon to the 7th instant show that the revolutionary movement had made considerable progress. After the outbreak at Oporto on the 27th, a Provisional Junta was established in that city, composed of the ex-Minister Costa Cabral, Baron da Ponta de Santa Maria, and the ex-Administrator-General Marcelerio Maximo de Arevedo e Mello. The business first entered upon by the new Junta was the nomination of a Committee of Finance, having the public funds at their disposal. Baron Ponta de Santa Maria was appointed com- mander of the whole of the operative forces; and three provisional batta- lions were organized in Oporto and Villa Nova da Gaix. Circulars were then transmitted to the chief civil and military authorities of the kingdom, inviting them to follow the example of Oporto in proclaiming the constitutional charter. General Baron Valloriyo, commander of the fourth military division, and General Baron de Vinhaes, commander of the fifth, acquiesced in the proposals made to them, and marched to Oporto with the forces under their command; where they were met by other bodies of troops who had also entered the city. The Admi- nistrators or Governors of Braga, Vianria, Villa Real, Averio, and Coimbra, also joined in their cause ; and at the latter place a battalion of students of the University, amounting to four hundred, was imme- diately raised. The whole of the forces were concentrated at Oporto, and had already commenced their march southwards, in three brigades, commanded by Barons Lages, Vallengo, and Vinhaes; about three thou- sand strong altogether. There was no force on the way to resist them; and the garrison of Lisbon was generally in favour of the same cause. The third division bore the heart, sword, and hat of Don Pedro.

Mr. Sarmenti, the King's Aide-de-camp, was at Oporto on a mission to undeceive the people there as to the Queen's participation in the movement, and also, if possible, to find some mode of compromise ; which moderate people were anxiously looking for.

In the mean time, the Ministry had resigned. The Duke of Palmella consented to take office as President of the Council, with the Foreign Department. Viscount Sa da Bandeira, a Septembrist, was immedi- ately invited to the War Department. He was only willing to join the Administration under certain conditions ; which are understood to be, from an authentic and well-informed source—that the command of the Lisbon Municipal Guard should again be given to the late commander, Cesar de Vasconcellos ; that the first military district of Estramadura, comprising the capital, and now tinder the Duke of Terceira, should be given to Count Avilez ; that the Count das Antas should be placed at he head of the Northern division of operations, and Count Bomfim at the head of the Southern; and that the Military Commandants of the Lisbon garrison who had latterly been frequenting the Chartist Clubs, to bring about the revolt, should be replaced by others of tried con- fidence. These conditions were not approved of at the Palace.

The mail-steamer Britannia, which lett Halifax on the 4th instant, arrived at Liverpool on Tuesday morning ; bringing papers and letters from Canada to the 27th.

Sir Charles Bagot arrived at Kingston on the 10th January. A pro- cession on foot met him on the ice at Wolf Island; and he crossed from the American side in a light boat fitted.on runners and drawn by one horse ; the ice not being strong enough to bear heavy carriages. lie- landed amid salvos of artillery and the cheers of the whole popubdion. The day was beautithlky lute sat dear. . . — • Making some long extracts from a report by the Land Agent of Maine, laid before the Legislature of that State, the New Brunswick Courier observes- " It will be seen from this document that that officer is of opinion that a new line might be agreed upon which would be mutually advantageous to both countries; and that in his opinion Maine should not object to such a course, provided she could secure some right to the navigation of the St. John, as a set-off, in part, for surrendering her claim to the whole territory."

Intelligence has been received from New York to the 1st instant. The Bankrupt Law Repeal Bill had been thrown out, by 23 to 22. The Select Committee of the Senate on the currency and the plan of finance had agreed, it was rumoured, on the principle of a pro- ject which they were expected shortly to report. In compliance with Mr. Calhoun's resolution, the President had laid before the Senate papers relating to the case of the Creole.

In the last number of the Colonial (gazette is a very able and interest- ing paper—a general view of the actual state of Canada, by a well-in- formed correspondent, writing from Montreal on the 26th January. Ca- nada, he says, is "tranquil" in the Colonial sense of the term—that is, there is no violence; but the English test of tranquillity, the withdrawal - of its immense army, could not be safely applied. Discontent is not re • moved in Upper Canada, and the Union has hitherto had no effect in de- stroying the alienation between the British and French races. There is a colour of equality of right, but the mistrust of the French is war- ranted, and indeed made inevitable by oppressive legislation on the part of the ruling race. This is illustrated by two or three facts- " I recently met with a case of gross outrage upon an aged Canadian parish-priest, (and there is not in the world a more exemplary body of clergy than the Roman Catholic priests of Lower Canada,) by a coarse fellow, a recent emigrant from England. The whole parish was incensed, but no complaint was made to the Magistrate—because there was not a Magistrate of the French race to complain to. There are scarcely any French Magistrates in all French Canada, which contains about half the population of this colony. In the next place, the road from Montreal to Lachine is the most frequented in Canada, and chiefly by French Canadians. It is managed, and has been very greatly improved, by five Trustees, all of whom are appointed by the Government, with power to levy tolls, and all of whom are English. The toll-keepers are also English, and do not understand a word of French. It happens, therefore, that constant disputes take place between these toll-keepers and the Canadian pas- sengers, in consequence of their ignorance of each other's language. I can add from my own observation of several instances, that when the toll-keeper fails to understand and be understood, he naturally swears and bullies: he is of the dominant race. This goes on all day long on the most frequented road in Ca- nada. But further, a bile British travellers generally drive two horses and French Canadians only one, the British Trustees have put a toll of twopence upon two horses and of threepence upon one horse; so that the French ge- nerally have to pay three times as much per horse as the British. Do not fancy that this is done to save British pence : the object is to compel the French to drive two horses, as being better for the snow-roads during the winter. Compulsion, in short, instead of persuasion, has been the principle of recent le - gislation for the French Canadians. And now, lastly, learn that there is not in or about the Executive Government at Kingston one single Canadian of French origin to act as a medium of communication between his people and the departments of the Government : about half a million of her Majesty's sub- jects, upon whom the British Legislature had deemed it just and wise to be- stow the right of representation in Parliament, are as much cut off from com- munication with the Executive as if they had been banished to Labrador."

This division of races has not been counteracted by any close amal- gamation of parties ; for Lord Sydenham, though skilful in breaking up parties opposed to him, had no idea of forming a powerful party out of the ruins which he made- " The Cabinet, called the Executive Council, which he left in office, consists of heterogenous materials it wants coherence; it wants uniformity of opinion and purpose ; it wants a leader ; it has, as a body, no self-reliance ; and as most naturally follows, it cannot face the House of Assembly with any sure prospect of commanding a majority. It was a good Cabinet for Lord Sydenhtun, who was his own Prime Minister and a capital manager of colleagues; but for a Governor-General who wishes to play the easy part of representative of the Crown, and therefore to govern through responsible Ministers, or for one who would govern in person, but who possesses neither the Canadian experience, nor the active, fagging, managing qualities of Lord Sydenham, the Executive Council which Lord S)denham left is a most defective instrument."

The difficulties bequeathed to Sir Charles Bagot are not altogether unaccompanied by facilities ; one of the most important of which is, the ease with which he may conciliate by furthering internal improve- ments.

Considerable sensation has been created among the English in Paris by an impudent but unsuccessful "bold stroke for a wife"; and the interest has been communicated to London by the oozing out of some names connected with the affair. The Globe tells the tale. A young lady of fortune in Devonshire met at a friend's house with a married couple, who paid her great attentions. Observing her spirits to be depressed, they importuned her to take a trip with them. At last she consented, and made one of a party for Paris. Her friends had pre- viously introduced her to a young man, who joined the party ; and there were besides a gentleman and two young ladies, seemingly his daughter and stepdaughter, and Lord and Lady William Paget : only the initials of the other persons are given. Lord William's name is men- tioned by his solicitor in a letter to the papers. The single young gentleman was made caterer for the party ; who lived in splendid style at the Bedford Hotel, with four carriages and many servants. One night, the hero of the story treated the young lady's three servants to the play, and a supper after it at a restaurant's ; but the lady's-maid returned before the supper. Her mistress retired to her bedroom about half- past twelve, and sat there till past two ; the lady writing, the maid working. They then went to bed, together—the lady's feet being cold : soon afterwards they heard a noise, and the lady saw a man in the room. He had been concealed there the whole time that they had been in it. It was the caterer, playing the port of a Don Juan of real life. In spite of his efforts to prevent them, they raised a distm bance, and broke from the room. Tbe gentleman who had induced the lady to travel threat- ened; that night, to shoot his treacherous friend "like a sparrow "; but next morning "gentlemen and ladies" such is the vague term in the account before usl begged her to forgive him and grant him an inter- view. She refused, and placed herself under the protection of Mrs. Lawson, the hotel-keeper's wife ; and she returned to England next day. The lady declares that she had never encouraged the intruder as a suitor. He had received 178/. as the lady's share of the expenses; but it never passed to the hotel-keeper : on the contrary, the latter WU made to pay a heavy floe for arresting the adventurer on a charge of fraud, just as he was decamping for Belgium—the arrest being faulty in a point of law.

A Court-martial was opened, on Wednesday, on board the St. Vincent flag-ship at Portsmouth, to ascertain whether any blame was imputable to Captain Nicholas for having allowed his ship, the Vindictive to run agrouud on the 26th January. The vessel was moving from one anchorage to another, when it grounded on a shoal, and was not got off till next day. The main questions seemed to be, whether it was prudent in Captain Nicholas to get under weigh at the time, as the weather was rough, and whether the vessel steered a proper course. Witnesses varied in opinion as to the first point ; as to the second, there was con- flicting evidence whether or not the compasses were out of order. The case for the prosecution closed on Thursday. Captain Nicholas read his defence yesterday, and began the evidence on his side. He seems to hint at incapacity in some of his subordinates. The Caledonia mail-steamer, which left Liverpool for Halifax on the 4th instant, has put back into Cork, disabled ; having encountered dreadful weather from the 7th to tht: Ilth, in the outward passage. She was on her way back to Liverpool on Thursday, to refit. The Acadia is to be despatched today, with the passengers and mails; and an extra mail has been made up expressly for the occasion.