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FRANCE.—The Paris papers were much occupied at the beginning of the week with details of the suppressed attempt at insurrection on the 13th. It would seem that the movement was more maturely concerted, and had advanced further to execution, than was at first supposed. M. Ledru- -Rollin and the Mountain party are stated to have made an attempt to con- stitute themselves as a Convention, in the Conservatoire of Arts, and to have been prevented only by the promptitude of the military movements. Proclamations and acts of assumed sovereign power are spoken of, and -some are published; but the details have an air of exaggeration. An official investigation is proceeding. M. Ledru-Rollin is said to have escaped through Belgium to England. A person was arrested as M. Felix Pyat, -but it was found that he was an innocent fac-simile of that gentleman. IL Considerant has been arrested. The Moniteur has published a decree sus- pending six Socialist journals; and has notified that the united command of the first military division and of the National Guards is united in the per- son of General Changarnier till tranquillity shall be perfectly established in Paris.

More than a dozen other Representatives have been added to last week's lists of those arrested and committed for prosecution—there are now twenty representatives in prison. It is expected that the trial of the conspirators will take place, at Versailles,on the 5th and following days to the 10th of August.

In the Assembly, a motion to remove the state of siege was debated briefly on Monday, and rejected by a large majority. On Tuesday, the report of the Committee for suppressing the Clubs was, carried by 373 to 151; the Left not joining in the discussion but giving a silent vote. On Tuesday, the Assembly declared itself no longer in permanence.

The provincial disturbances mentioned last week were everywhere put down without bloodshed, except at Lyons, where serious business oc- curred,—chiefly, it is said, through the misfortune that the weather pre- vented a prompt communication of the failure of the Paris attempt. A crowd of Democrats summoned a guard to deliver their arms, and on re- fasal attacked the; guard and endeavoured to disarm them. The soldiers fired, and killed several of their attackers; who thereupon retired, rein- forced themselves, and raising a general cry " To arms!" commenced the work of barricades. They could not be checked till next morning; and by that time were so numerous and so well-posted that artillery and some thousand troops were long engaged in subduing them. No official accounts have appeared; and the accounts of the killed and wounded vary from a total of 150 killed and wounded on all sides, to 150 killed and 600 wound- ed on the insurgent side, and 60 killed and wounded among the troops. Three officers of the Line are said to have fallen.

The city was placed in a state of siege by General Magnan, and was reduced to perfect calm on Saturday; the latest letters stating that " hundreds of the citizens had been arrested, or were flying from their homes."

There was much uneasiness in Paris on Thursday, caused by rumours of a disagreement in the Cabinet. M. Dufaure and M. de Tocqueville find themselves in too little harmony with the influence that prevails there. Statements that they had resigned were made, and were contradicted, though not authoritatively from those gentlemen. Some light is thrown on the principles in contest by a manifesto which has been published by the Cercle Constitutionnel, a club the leadership of which M. Dufaure has ex- pressly adopted.

" Thefirst sentiment of its members is:the firm determination to maintain the Constitution"; most of them neither created nor wished for the Republic, "but all have frankly accepted it, and without arriere pensh mean to preserve it." "They do not merely acquiesce, they mean to affird their firm coiiperation." "Their hopes and desires are for the Republic, and its firm establishment." "They still do not deceive themselves with regard to imperfections of the Consti- tution ; but such as it is, they think, if honestly executed, it offers all the essential .conditions of good government; and being opposed to impatient wishes for an im- mediate revision, they do not admit it can be modified by any forms except such as itself has prescribed." Therefore they strongly condemn wild and criminal enterprises, again throwing the state, under pretext that it is violated by the great powers of the state, into fresh horrors of civil war. They will not refuse the Government anything that may be necessary for it to defend society; they will only stop at the point at which resistance would become reaction; and then, in restraining the Government, they believe they shall aid it. As to Socialism, it is an Utopian scheme; but social miseries are not chimerical: " the greatest crime, perhafs, of Socialism, is its setting forth of impossible remedies for serious evils." The best sentence on Socialism is to oppose sound and useful realities to its wild ideas. The members of the Cercle again declare their firm determination to af- ford the President of the Republic and his blinistry frank and independent support, Marshal Bugeaud received the honour of a public funeral and interment in the Invalides, on Tuesday. The President of the Republic was present, 'and M. Mold and General Bedeau delivered funeral orations.

' Iraer.—The siege of Rome by regular approach of parallels and mines has proceeded with steady progress, though not without a constant and harassing opposition by the troops under the vigilant and energetic -Garibaldi. On the 12th, the siege works were so advanced that General Oudinot sent a last appeal to the Triumvirate, in the shape of a proclama- tion to the Romans, in these terms- " Inhabitants of Rome—We come not to bring you war, we come to consolidate order and liberty amongst you. The intentions of our Government have been mis- understood. The siege works have brought us before your ramparts. Until the present moment, we have replied but at rare intervals to the fire of your batteries. We are arriving at the last moment, when the necessities of war produce dreadful calamities. Spare them to a city filled with so many glorious monuments. If you persist in repelling us, to you alone will belong the responsibility of irrepar- able disasters."

He gave twelve hours to consider. The Triumvirs replied—" We never betray our engagements." They had engaged to defend the standard of the Republic, and they would do so.

It is stated that the President of the Frineh Republic received an au- tograph letter from the Pope expressing his deep grief at the idea of bow_ herding Rome: he is even said to have volunteered a total abdication} of temporal authority.

The siege of Aucona is prosecuted by Austria without marked effect The Austrian troops live at free quarter; and are accused of harrying the agricultural population unchecked. Venice still heroically resists, under the closer and more deadly range of the Austrian guns; again ratifying the dictatorial powers of Manila, and devoting herself to total destruction rather than yield.

Areerure.—The last news from the seat of war is important, if wholly true. It is stated from Vienna and from Berlin, through different sources, that the Hungarians under Georgey attacked an advancing force of the Austrians under the Swiss General Wyss on the 13th; totally routed it, taking Wyss prisoner, broke: into the Russian camp under Rudiger on the island of Schutt, and discomfited the whole force, on the 14th; and ad- vanced upon Oedenburg on the 15th—a distance of forty-two miles from Raab. Vienna was in consternation. The movement, if wholly authentic, threatens the present Austrian and Russian lines in flank and rear, and will force them totally out of Hungary to protect Vienna.

Bem having beaten the Austrians in Transylvania, and been again and again attacked by them returning with recruited strength from within the Turkish dominions, sent word to the Governor of Bucharest that he took the shelter thus given as a hostility, and threatened to cross the frontier. The matter was referred to Constantinople; where the Austrian and Rus- sian Ambassadors had demanded even more open help, and the expulsion of the Hungarian Count B. Teleki, and of an Englishman, Mr. Brown. 13y the advice of Sir Stratford Canning, the matter was compromised: the Austrians are no longer to use the Turkish frontier to further their hostile manoeuvres, and the Count Teleki and Mr. Brown are sent out of Con- stantinople.

GERMANY.—The fraction of the National Assembly, sitting at Stutt- gardt, resolved, on the 16th, that the Archduke John is guilty of illegal usurpation in continuing to exercise the functions conferred on him on the 12th July 1848, but revoked on the 6th June last; that neither the go- vernments nor citizens are bound or warranted to pay him obedience; and, that the Regency ought to oppose his usurpation by all means in its power. They afterwards adopted a bill authorizing a Volkswehr or general arming of the people, and referred to a Committee on Finance a demand by the Regency for a credit of 5,000,000 florins for the months of June and July.

Subsequent letters from Stuttgardt announce that the Wurtemberg Go- vernment has prohibited the further meeting of the fraction of the National Assembly, and forbidden the Wurtembergers to take part in the Volkswehr.

The Republicans of Baden and South Bavaria under Mieroslawski offer a stouter resistance than was expected to the large body of Prussian troops drawn around them. On the right of the Rhine, and on the Neckar, the Prussians have advanced to Ludwigshafen; whence, on the 16th, they bombarded Manheim on the opposite shore, producing a warm cannonade in retarn.

UNITED STATES.—The Caledonian steam-ship arrived at Liverpool on Monday, from Halifax on the 9th instant; with electric or express news from Washington of the 5th, and New Orleans of the 3d instant.

General Taylor and his Cabinet have appointed their chief Ministers and Consuls to foreign countries. Mr. Abbott Lawrence, " an accomplished merchant," has been offered the mission to England, " which Mr. Bancroft is perfectly willing to make vacant." Mr. Rives of Virginia will return to Paris; where he was Minister in 1830, and contributed much, it is said, by his negotiations with Lafayette, to the elevation of Louis Philippe. Mr. Marsh, "a fine speaker, a ripe scholar, and a man of scientific acquire- ment," will go to Berlin "or" Constantinople. The great crevasse above New Orleans was not stopped on the 3d, and all prospect of stopping it had disappeared; but the river was itself sub- siding rapidly. Two-thirds of New Orleans were under water to the depth of from one to four feet. Among the unexpected consequences of the flood, is a plague of poisonous snakes, which have been driven by the waters from their retirements, and have swarmed into the houses and caused many deaths by their venomous attacks.

Lieutenant Beale has arrived at New York with despatches from the United States navy on the California coast. His personal narratives are said to surpass all previous accounts of the gold abundance; and he has brought earnest of his words in a considerable number of extraordinary lumps. A large amount of gold-200,000/.—is said to have "arrived in the Crescent City from Chagres."

CANADA.—The American arrival has brought telegraphic news from Montreal of the 3d instant. The Canadian Parliament was prorogued on the 31st May, by General Rowan, the new Commander of the Forces; the Governor-General remaining in solitary state at Monkland, with a guard of 100 soldiers round his house. There is no palpable agitation, but the corre- spondence abounds in hints of secret societies, and in declarations that se- rious things are brewing. One communication gives a climax to the ru- mours, by asserting that John Van Buren is in correspondence with parties in Montreal who have managed to bring several thousand muskets over the frontier within the last ten days; not, however, without quiet observation and precautions of the authorities.

WEST INDIES.—By the Severn mail steam-ship, which arrived at South- ampton on Thursday, intelligence is brought from Demerara to the 19th May, and from Jamaica and Barbados to the 29th.

At Demerara, the supplies were still stopped, and the public officers un- paid. Considerable reductions in the police force had been made by Governor Barkly. A bill for liberalizing the franchise and better regulating its ex- ercise had been introduced in the Court of Policy.

At Spanish Town, in Jamaica, a great meeting was to be held on the 24th May,—the Bishop of the island, and Santa Anna the late Mexican Dictator, being leading promoters,—to consider the effect produced on Jamaica "by the non-observance of the treaties for the suppression of the slave-trade, by which Spain and Brazil are bound to her Majesty, and the devising of such measures as may tend to promote at once the great in- terests of humanity and the relief of the intertropical possessions of the Crown from the deep distress in which they are now involved."

The Bishop lately escaped a fearful death. While on horseback, be fell down a precipice 250 feet deep, but was saved by the branch of a tree into which he fell, and which he clutched.

In Barbados, the Import-duty Bill continued suspended. Smallpox had been ravaging this island.