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1TheFrench Emperor has named Prince Napoleon President of the Exhi- bitioss of' 1855.

-BY-deeree the Emperor has named the Abbe Gerbet, Honorary Vicar-Ge- neral of Paris and Amiens, to be Bishop of Perpignan, in place of Monsignor de Saunhae Belcastle, deceased.

A mass was celebrated in the chapel of the Tuileries, last Thursday, the anniversary of the arrival in Paris of the remains of the Emperor Napoleon. Prince Gaston de Montmorency died this week, at his residence in the Rue de Varennes, Paris.

Count Joachim Murat is expected to be the Government candidate at the approaching election in the department of the Lot to fill a vacancy in the Corps Legislatif.

The Giornale di Soma announces that the Pope has appointed Cardinal Wiseman a member of the Congregation of Immunity—whatever that may

be. .

The Pope was to hold an allocution at Rome on the 12th instant, for the purpose of giving his sanotiou to the creation of one archbishopric and two bishoprics of the United Greek Church, for Sclavonia, Croatia, and the Southern districts of Hungary.

The Prussian Court removed from Potsdam to Charlottenburg on the 10th instant ; to remain until the middle of January, and then return to Berlin for the season.

The Chevalier Bunsen, who had received an invitation to spend Christmas with the Court at Berlin, has been obliged to postpone his visit on account of indisposition.

The Prince of Saxe Coburg, nephew of King Leopold, arrived at Brussels on Sunday. The Prince is on his way to England. The Duke and Duchess of Brabant were present at a recent sitting of the Royal Academy of Belgium.

The Duke of Brabant has been named Lieutenant-Colonel of Infantry, and the Count de Flandres Lieutenant-Colonel of Cavalry, by their father. Petro Petrovich, uncle of Prince Daniel of Montenegro, is said to have been engaged in a plot against his nephew, which was discovered, and the uncle is now a fugitive at Cattaro.

It ie said that two of the first victims of the impending coup d'iStat at Madrid will be the Duke de Montpensier and General Narvaez ; the first be- cause he is still a formidable rival to Queen Christina, the second because he is no favourite of Louis Napoleon.

The closing ceremony of the reign of Donna Maria, the breaking of the royal shields of arms, took place in the public square of Lisbon on the 3d instant, and was followed by a solemn dirge and mass for the repose_ of the poor Queen's soul.

The son of the Duke of Casigliano, Minister of Foreign Affairs in Tuscany, has died of typhus fever, on the eve of his marriage with a daughter of the notorious Queen Christina. The bride's fortune was fixed at three millions of francs, and that of the bridegroom would have been ten or twelve mil- lions of franca at the death of his grandfather.

Mr. Oliveira has had long interviews with M. Drouyn de Lhuys and M. Duces on the subject of the wine-duties ; and he hoe been presented to Louis Napoleon and the Empress, by Lord Cowley.

The Paris Academy of Sciences has elected M. Elie de Beaumont as per- petual Secretary, in place of M. Arago.

The post of director of the Observatory of Paris,. left vacant by the death of M. Arago, will be given, it is said, to M. Levemer.

It is rumoured in Paris that M. de Rothschild offered to accept the terms proposed for the Turkish loan, or even to advance a larger sum, provided a mortgage was given him on Palestine.

Mr. Dion Bourcicault is lecturing at New York, on European Society.

M. de Lacour, lately the French Ambassador at Constantinople, has ar- rived in Paris.

It is stated that another new dramatic production of hi. Alexandre Dumas, entitled Olympe de Cleves, has been refused by the Paris censorship.

It is said that M. Scribe derives, as the profit of the pieces he has already written, the enormous income of 12,0001. per annum, by a percentage on the gross nightly receipts of every theatre in France where his pieces are played. In Paris alone, six plays of M. Scribe are, on an average, played every night.

Alexandre Dumas has written to a friend in America, with the following request—" Find for me, on the borders of the St. Lawrence, the Hudson, the Delaware, or the Ohio, a' corner where I may spend my last days, and die in tranquillity under the sun of liberty." The New York Tribune states. that Dumas has already confided several manuscripts to the hands of his agents, who have established a publishing-house in New York.

The alleged intention to regulate the dresses of the French female nobility has been abandoned. The proposal was, that duchesses should wear velvet embroidered with gold ; countesses, satin with gold; baronesses, satin with silver ; and so on through the inferior grades.

A noted Belgian artist, hi. Fr. Van Eycken, has just died, in the prime of life.

M. Van Nouhys, one of the most distinguished writers of Holland, died lately, at Amsterdam. One of his works was the historical romance of L'Arnsurier et son File.

Thomasso Grassi, author of "Marco Visconti," and the intimate friend of Manzoni and Massimo d'Azeglio, died recently, in the sixty-fifth year of his age.

According to the Paris Sieelet Abd-ol-Kader lives retired at Broussa in the bosom of his family, and his leisure hours are employed in the education of his children. His principal occupation both by day and part of the night is that of the study and composition of poetry.

The Earl of Mountcashel has arrived in New York, after a long tour through Canada and the Southern States of America.

Governor Elliott arrived at Bermuda, from Halifax, on the 17th of last month. Until his arrival, Major Oakley had been the acting Governor.

When Lola Months passed through Sacramento, she had these " parlour or- naments "—a piano, a parrot, two dogs, and a grizzly bear.

Mr. Smith O'Brien is said to have succeeded in making his escape from Van Diemen's Land. As he was not at large on parole, he must have evaded his keepers.

Matilda Dominguez, long a favourite actress at Havanna, has been mur- dered by her husband, Jose Francisco Valdez ; who tried also to kill himself. Valdez seems to have accused General Canedo as having led to the tragedy ; but Valdez had long lived upon the infamy of his wife, himself compelling her to obtain money thus.

Mrs. Margaret Douglas has been tried and convicted at Norfolk, Virginia, for teaching Coloured children to write. She was her own advocate, and spoke eloquently. On being found guilty, she was fined one dollar ; but the Judge, in passing sentence according to the statute, will condemn her to im- prisonment for not less than six months.

The two girls named Fox, the noted " rappers " of the United States, are said to have reaped very substantial fruits from their spiritual powers ; they have just purchased an estate.

A slaveowner from Kentucky went to Canada, and. urged some of hia fugi- tive " property " there to return to the blessings bestowed by the "dbiha ' institution" on Blacks,—good treatment, provision in old age, and alcacesta The Blacks kept him in talk till they had a good opportunity, and then1f4iasi ened him to a tree, and gave him one of the Southern blessings-ruskka$d lashes with a stout raw hale ottifera L rta, an aeronaut, sent up a young girl in his Montgolfier balloon ; it fell at Montesquieu, and the girl was killed. Lartet was tried at Mont-de- Marsan for causing her death by want of proper precaution. The Court ac- quitted him of all imprudence, but found that he had broken his engage- ment in Bending the girl into the air by herself ; and therefore sentenced him to be imprisoned for three months, to pay a fine of 50 francs, and 600 francs damages to the girl's relatives.

The Paris Ifeniteur states, that during the last sixty years there have been in times of trouble abstractions of papers from the archives of the Marine of France, the recovery of which is greatly desired, ohiefly for purposes of his, torical research. " These writings being often in the handwriting of eminent men, have in many cases, no doubt, found their way into the collections and museums of collectors. The restoration of such papers, or authentic copies of them to the Department of the French Marine, will be very acceptable to the French Government."

Engineers are making the surveys for a railway round Paris, at a distance of sixty miles from the city, so as to form a communication with all the great lines which start from the capital.

A telegraphic line is to be established between Antwerp and Flushing.

The construction of the Panama Railway is pushed forward vigorously. The last advices state that 1700 men were at work upon it, and two ship- loads of Irish labourers were expected.

The Egyptian railway has been much damaged by the rise of the water of the Lake Mareotis : the embankment for four or five miles will have to be increased in height.

Twelve thousand men are now at work on the Illinois Central Railroad.

New cars with patent spring-seats have been built for the Philadelphia and Baltimore Railway, to be used as ladies' sleeping-cars.

The foundation of the large tower for supporting the tubular bridge of the Canadian Grand Trunk Railway across the 10ttawa over has been completed. The length of this bridge, extending over two branches of the river, will be nearly half a mile.

A man who owned a building. which was situated on land belonging to the Michigan Central Railway received a letter from the superintendent of the railway last spring, ordering him to remove the buildMg. After some months, thq superintendent, finding that the house was still there, took the man to task; when it turned out that the note was so illegible that he could not read it, but, supposing that it was a railway pass, he had been riding back and forward all the summer on the strength of it.

Mr. Horace Bliss, a civil engineer, has left Valparaiso for the purpose of making a survey from the port of Coquimbo to the city of Serena, with a view to the construction of a railway.

The Emperor of Brazil has granted to Senor Barreto, ex-President of the Chamber of Deputies, a concession for constructing a railway from Bahia to Joezemo, with a guarantee of 5 per cent.

The Brazilian Steam Packet Company's steamerPernambucana was wrecked near St. Katherine's, in Brazil, on the 11th October, and upwards of forty persons drowned. A Black sailor performed unparalleled deeds of heroism in saving the remainder, who were afterwards conveyed to Rio. A large sum was subscribed for their assistance ; the Emperor and Empress heading the list. It was proposed to erect on the Bourse a statue of the Black through whose instrumentality so many lives had been rescued from destruc- tion.

The Emperor of the French has granted a sum of 25,000 francs from his private purse for the establishment of four markets in Paris for the sale of meat by auction and by retail.

Notice was given on Sunday of the " expropriation " of upwards of two hundred houses near the Palais Royal and the Louvre, to make way for far- ther improvements at Paris. The cost of these houses is estimated at twenty- one millions of francs.

Three gentlemen of Paris purpose to establish hotels on the American plan, huge in dimensions and complete in all accommodations, with an eye to the influx of strangers to the Great Exhibition of 1855. They have purchased one site at the entrance to the Faubourg St. Honore% There was a great fall of snow at Vienna on the 15th instant : snow is rarely seen there before Christmas.

From the manner in which the musk rats have been fortifying their habi- tations, the Canadian Indians predict a severe winter.

Thick foga are not peculiar to London and Britain : the navigation of the Rhone has been suspended for a week by the thick atmosphere which has covered it.

Both Berlin and Paris send bitter complaints of the bad state of general trade, arising from the absorption of the whole means of the masses in ob- taining the mere necessaries of life at their present high price.

The harvest in Prussia has not been so bad as was expected, and there is no fear of scarcity. From most parts of Germany the report is the same.

There are bad accounts of the vintage in Cognac. The brandy is so inferior that some of the principal houses have resolved not to quote it in their lists : old brandies will be "looking up" in oonsequenoe.

Scarcity. prevails in Portugal. Brandy has risen to the enormous price of 451. per pipe in Lisbon ; and oil, an article of universal use, to 801. per tun.

A proclamation of the Burgomaster has been placarded in Brussels, calling on the wealthy inhabitants to come forward with voluntary subscriptions for the relief of the necessitous—bread having reached a famine price.

The people of fever-stricken Bermuda take every opportunity afforded by passing vessels to emigrate to Australia.

Cholera to an alarming extent is raging at Teheran, Tabreez, Broumia and other parts of the Persian territory.

No sooner has the yellow fever ceased its ravages in New Orleans than a fresh scourge has broken out in the shape of cholera. Up to the latest ac- counts it had carried off 214 persons.

The Belgian Minister of Finance has presented to the Chamber of Repre- sentatives the promised bill relative to the duties on foreign coal. The bill authorizes the Government to reduce, suspend, or reestablish the duties.

A decree in the Afoniteur authorizes the admission of China crape shawls into France, duty free, under certain conditions.

Instead of straw, a trial is now making in the garden of the Luxembourg, of cloth prepared with caoutcbouc to preserve the statues from the effects of frost and other atmospheric influences of winter.

Coffee-planting appears to be making progress at Natal. One gentleman states that he has no fewer than 100,000 coffee-trees, many of which promise to bear well this year.