In the French Assembly, yesterday, M. Flandin read his report
: it pro- poses an extraordinary credit of 1,600,000 francs for expenses of the Presi- dent's installation. It will probably be debated on Monday.
General de la Hide announced that the British Cabinet mounted, "for the adjustment of the attain of Greece," " to return to the treaty of London, by substituting for the clauses of the arrangement concluded at Athens, which have not yet been executed, the corresponding ones of the convention agreed to in London "; and the French Government " accepted that solution as far as it is concerned."
The electric telegraph announces the arrival of the Asia steam-ship at Liverpool, with advices from Boston to the 12th and Halifax to the 14th in- stant. General Lopez had been arrested at New Orleans, by order of Gene- ral Taylor.
The Prince of Prussia arrived this morning at Buckingham Palace on a visit to Queen Victoria, and in order to stand sponsor for the infant Prince. The Dutchess Ida of Saxe Weimer, and the Duke of Wellington, are to be the other sponsors.
This day at one o'clock about a hundred Members of the House of Com- mons attended at the residence of Lord Palmerston, and, with the most " enthusiastic circumstances, presented to Lady Palmerston a full-length portrait, by Partridge, of her husband, value 500 guineas, "in an evening dress." 1 he Globe says that the noble Lord in effigy "has a very fine effect, being placed at one end of the splendid rooms of his Lordship 8 mansion. Lady Palmerston was "much affected " ; and so, says the Globe, was his Lordship. "Lord Palmerston, in his reply, said that his great object was to preserve friendly relations with all foreign countries us far as was consistent with the honour and interests of England ; enthusiastic cheers greeted the addresses of both the noble Lord and her Ladyship."
In the Common Council, yesterday, a resolution was carried by a large majority-, that it be referred to the Freedom Committee to consider and re- port what amendments, if any, they would recommend in the City of Lon- don Amendments Act of 1849 ; a motion which presages a considerable en- largement of the municipal constituency.
At a meeting of the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers, yesterday, Mr. Pete explained the condition of the Metropolitan drainage question. The Commission has definitely resolved to carry out the principle of preventing the pollution of the Thames. The plans for the district South of the Thames are finally settled. No sewer at all will discharge itself into the Thames from Nine Elms to Deptford. Westminster can be drained, down to Per, Wharf, by natural falls ; the plan for the rest of the Northern part of Low- den is still under consideration, and the same principle of non-pollution of the Thames will there be carried out; but for this remaining part it will be impossible to do without mechanical aids.
The public will beosratified to learn, that all the preliminary arrange- ments are completed for erecting a building on a site of the Rolls estate, sufficiently large to contain the existing public records and archives, . . . and those which may accrue for the next twenty years.—Globe.
We understand that the Committee appointed to conduct the proposed ge- neral meeting upon the present aspect of Church matters, which was to have been held on Thursday the 27th, has come: to the conclusion that it will be more decorous to postpone it till after the decision in the Court of Each( uer, upon the rule Nisi obtained by the Bishop of Exeter, is made public.— ww- ing Chronicle.
The House of Lords yesterday read a second time the divorce bill in Chi- pendu.11's case, which has been promoted in forma pauperis.
The latest accounts respecting the loss of the Orion state that the lives saved have been about 130, and yet there is reason to fear that more than 100 persons perished. The master was in bed at the time—where, it is said, he properly was—and the ship in charge of the next officer. There is no doubt that the course taken was a palpably erroneous one, and that serious responsibility rests on some person. All the crew were saved but the steward, the carpenter, and a boy.
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