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FRAN-cr.—The Emperor and Empress left St. Cloud, and arrived at Dieppe, on Saturday. All the country-side flocked to see "Napoleon et sa dame," as the rustics phrased it. There have been great rejoicings, but the Municipality of Dieppe rather broadly hinted to the Emperor that they were too poor to pay for the illuminations; so his Majesty paid for them. He was to stay there a week, and desired to remain as quiet as possible. After leaving Dieppe, he will visit the camp at Helfaut.

Prince Jerome Bonaparte, his son, and Prince Napoleon, have been staying at Havre; whence they joined the Emperor at Dieppe. Queen Christina and her husband have also been at Havre.

BELGIUM—The Austro-Belgic alliance has been celebrated this week at Brussels with great pomp and popular festivities. The young Duchess of Brabant was received, on Saturday, on a plot of neutral ground near Verviers at the Prussian frontier, by King Leopold and the Duke of Bra- bant. She had been escorted from Vienna by a noble company, in- cluding Prince Schwarzenberg, Count Richard Metternich, and a troop of royal-liveried German Archer Noble Guard. As soon as the Duchess had been delivered into the hands of ,the King, he led her to a balcony, and the dense crowd below shouted "Vive le Roi !" "Vive la Duchesse de Brabant!" the band striking up—" Oa pent on etre mien' qu'au sein de sa famine." Having partaken of a repast, the royal party entered the train, and the Duchess made an affecting farewell to her Archer Guard, which stood in rank, clothed in scarlet and gold. With her new protectors, the Duchess proceeded to her future home ; passing, on her way to Brussels, through Verviers, Louvain, and Mechlin. At each station, festoons and garlands of flowers, and speeches of congra- tulation, and huzzas from the people, welcomed her. The Brussels sta- tion was thronged with the leading persons of the town, the state, and the army ; and the Burgomaster—a fine elderly gentleman, who stands between Democracy and the Throne—gracefully reminded the young bride that she was come not merely to be the heir of a throne, but the worthy successor of a Queen who was beloved by all Belgians. In consequence of a temporary indisposition of the Duchess, the simple ceremony of the civil marriage, fixed for Sunday, did not take place until Monday morning, a few hours before the performance of the religious rite. The young couple were married in the fine old church of St. Gudule. De- corated with all the pomps and vanities of the Roman Catholic ceremonial, blazing with thousands of wax-lights, perfumed with rich incense, and filled with a crowd representing all orders in the state, from the jewelled ranks to homespun industry, the scene was one of impressive solemnity. The Cardinal Archbishop of Mechlin officiated, under a canopy of rich velvet. The bride was robed in white and diamonds; the bridegroom was dressed in the uniform of his military rank, as a Major of Grenadiers. In the evening, the people thronged the streets in holyday clothes, and Brussels was refulgent with illuminations.

Next day there was a procession, seen in all its glory nowhere so well as in old Flanders—a grand historical and allegorical cavalcade, re- presenting the Flemish trades, corporations, communes, municipalities, and costumes of the sixteenth century.

"Some seven or eight nations' were represented; each of those nations' comprising several trades, enlisted, in the olden time, under the banner of some favourite saint—for example, Peter, John, Christopher, Giles, Law- rence, Our Lady. The costumes were remarkably correct; and any one with a little imaginative power might easily fancy himself in the scene of other days —those days when the cities and towns of this again flourishing kingdom were the most wealthy and the most thriving in Europe, and when the trade of the world was transacted within their walls. The halberdiers of Charles-Quint again appeared, as it were, on the Belgic soil ; and the very language still spoken by the majority of the inhabitants of the city, the Flemish, con- tributed to keep up the delusion. But the industry of our own times was not forgotten. The lace-trade and the carriage-trade, for which Brussels is stilljustly celebrated, were duly honoured, each having its allegorical car ; and the ' press,' typified by all its implements on a towering carriage, flung amongst the assembled crowds copies of the programme of the day. The car of the Belgian Constitution drew forth enthusiastic plaudits whenever it came in sight • a hint, perhaps, that the Austrian alliance shall not exercise any undue influence over the liberal institutions of this country."

HOLLAND.—There seems some probability of the settlement of the ecclesiastical dispute in Holland. The Pope has consented to modify the oath to be taken by the Dutch Bishops. They may in future take an oath of fidelity, in civil matters,-to the King and the laws. On Monday the new Ministry carried a bill relative to the inspection of religious houses, by 41 to 27.

GERMANY.—The Emperor of Austria has announced his intention of marrying Elizabeth the daughter of Duke Maximilian of Bavaria. To grace his birthday, the state of siege at Vienna, Prague, and other places, is to cease on the 1st September ; that in the Lombardo-Venetian pro- vinces is modified; and it is even said that the siege in Hungary will be raised.

The Austrian Government have issued a memorandum to foreign courts regarding the Kossta affair at Smyrna. It charges the captain of the United States ship with an infraction of the law of nations, in menacing with violence the ship of a sovereign state in a neutral port. His con- duct is described as infringing the right of declaring war and making peace, reserved by the constitution of the United States to the President.

TUDKEY.—We are still without authentic intelligence as to the fate of the note to which the Four Powers and the Emperor of Russia have given their assent. The latest telegraphic despatches from Constantinople intimate that the Sultan had referred the note back to Vienna, to undergo slight " modifications."

The state of affairs in Servia has, assumed a serious aspect. Prince Alexander is a friend of Turkey, with aspirations after independence. It is alleged that both Austrian and Russian emissaries have succeeded in troubling the repose of his state ; and that a strong party in the Senate are known to be in favour of Prince Miloseb, a tool of the Northern Powers, at present living in Austria. Prince Alexander has retired from Belgrade to Nisaa ; he has declared that he will resist either a Turkish or an Austrian invasion, whether it be ostensibly to restore order in his name or in that of his rival; and he has called out the militia, appointing Kincanin as his General. The Pasha of Belgrade has advised the Aus- trians to remove Prince Milosch from the frontier, if they really desire the preservation of order. Baron de Bruck, it is said, has demanded the expulsion of all the re- fugees now in Turkey. This is a consequence of the Kossta affair. A letter from Constantinople, dated August 11, states that a collision was probable between the advanced guards of the quasi-belligerent forces on the Danube. The Russians were about to send a war-steamer up the river, as far as the confluence of the Danube and the Pruth ; and Omer Pasha had given notice to Prince Gortschakoff that he would resent this further infraction of the treaty. All accounts from Turkey are incon- clusive and bare.

Russts.—The news from Gillet; dated August 12, states that the third corps of the Russian army had passed the Pruth, under the command of General Ostensacken. This does not look like peace. Nor is the other intelligence from the Principalities peaceful. The Boyards held a meet- ing at Bucharest on the 9th, when the firman recalling the Hospodar was read; and it caused very great excitement. The Boyards are said to have petitioned the Hospodar to remain ; a request to which he consented. Upon this the Consuls of France and Great Britain immediately suspend- ed their relations with his Government. The French Consul has placed his countrymen under the protection of Greece ; while the British Consul declared to the English residents in the Principality that he could not any longer protect them, since the Hospodar opposed his Sovereign's commands.

The passage of the Danube at Sulina is said to be in a worse state than ever; but, apparently roused by public complaints, Russia has despatched commissioners thither to inquire into the means of removing the mud and sand.

Irstrran STATES.—The Asia arrived at Liverpool early on Sunday Morning; with advices from New York to the 10th instant.

The chief point of interest is a " portentous " story published by the New York Herald, and derived by that journal from its Washington cor- respondent. "A new element," says the New York print, "most extra- ordinary in its character, and of portentous aspect, has been introduced into the great controversy about the fisheries.' The writer proceeds to tell how an American company has been formed, "including, it is said, amongst its members a distinguished statesman, one of the most promi- nent bankers of Washington, a former assistant-secretary of the Treasury of the United States, and several leading capitalists in Wall Street." This company modestly claims all the fisheries now in controversy between Great Britain and the United States, " under title derived from Alexander Earl of Stirling and Dovan, Hereditary Lieutenant-General and Lord Proprietor of Canada and Nova Scotia.' The charters confer the right of fishing over three thousand miles of coast six miles from the shore—" precisely the coasts which we have relinquished."

The great proprietor, Lord Stirling, is described as " a man of venerable appearance, some seventy years of age ; of dignified and courteous man- ners, and of well-established personal honour and integrity. He is ac- companied by his son. Lord Stirling claims as heir of his ancestor, Sir William Alexander, of Menstrie, Scotland, Viscount of Canada, Viscount and Earl of Stirling, and Earl Of Dovan; to whom royal charters under the great seal were granted, which were recognized and confirmed by net of Parliament in the presence of King Charles I." These charters arc stated to be all on record at Edinburgh, and their dates are given by the Washington writer. They gave the Earl of Stirling " vast political and administrative powers "—among others, that of appointing one hundred and fifty Baronets, "called Baronets of Nova Scotia, who were to take precedence of all other Baronets." The first Earl made one hundred: " nearly fifty of the present Baronets of Great Britain hold their titles from patents granted by the first Earl of Stirling !"

It is further alleged that competent courts have established the lineal descent of the claimant ; that his titles have been officially recognized ; that his name is on the great roll of Scottish Peers; that he voted at the general election for Peers for twelve years; and that he was " not only recognized by his Peers and the Magistrates and Courts of Edinburgh, but that the Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst, Earl Grey the Prime Minister, and the Lords of the Committee of Council, in the King's name, corre- sponded officially with the Earl of Stirling, and addressed bin; by his title."

" John L. Hayes, Esq.," continues the correspondent, "counsel for Lord Stirling, states that in an interview had with the Honourable Robert J. Walker, late Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Walker said, that prior to his departure for Europe, he had, at the request of Lord Stirling, examined the case : and although his multiplied engagements prevented his having been professionally employed as counsel, as Lord Stirling desired, ho (Mr. Walker) entertained an undoubted conviction, which was confirmed by conversation relative to the case with several distinguished persona during his late visit to England and Scotland, of the heirship, identity, and legal rights of Lord Stirling." [Such is the story. It had not, however, been circulated twenty-four hours in London before our busy journalists had raked up some of the antecedents of the so-called Earl of Stirling. It appears that in 1839 a person was tried under the name of Alexander Humphreys, or Hum- phreys Alexander, before the High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh, on a charge of forging documents to assist him in substantiating his claim to the earldom. The charters were proved to be forgeries ; but the guilt of the defendant was " not proven." He was believed by some gentle- men of high character to be honest ; in proof of which, it is related that the late General D'Aguilar stood by him in the dock throughout the trial.] It appears that, on the night before Mr. Soule left New York for Ma- drid, some five thousand members of his party assembled, and marched in procession through the Broadway bearing banners inscribed with the mot- toes and devices of the Order of the Lone Star. Mr. Soule appeared at a balcony and received them. He was addressed by the Secretary of the Cuban Junta and others ; and one of the speakers expressed a hope on his return a new star would be shining in the sky of Young America. Mr. Soule replied-

" The doctrines I have ever advocated in public life were doctrines ema- nating from my heart and based upon the fixed idea of my life, which is, not to believe that this mighty nation can be chained now within the nar- row limits which fettered the young Republic of America. You have al- luded to the high mission which I have been called upon by the Executive of my. country to fill. I am grateful for the honour conferred upon me, fully impressed with its responsibilities, and, I hope, keenly alive to its du- ties; but I yet see nothing in that mission incompatible with my sincere sympathy for the hopes of suffering peoples, their aspirations for rights, and the throbs of hearts pulsating for freedom. It is not becoming in me to speak here more fully of that mission, but I may state my belief—which is, that an American Minister does not cease to be an American citizen, and that, as an American citizen, he has the right to listen to the throes of an- guish which move the downtrodden peoples of the Old World. What a noble career is before us ! At this moment, when the greatest kingdoms of the earth have their present interests and future welfare suspended in the balance of peace or war, it may be that a small whisper from this country will decide their fate more potently than the decrees of Emperors or the fiats of Kings and Princes. Ibis is the mission of America ; this mission I shall support as far as I am able."

INDIA AND Cunse.—A telegraphic despatch from Trieste was received on Tuesday, giving a summary of the Eastern news. The dates were Hongkong July 7, Bombay July 20. "The King of Ave, being starved into submission, has sued for peace, set the British prisoners at liberty, and requested that the river blockade may cease. The Governor-General has assented, and proclaimed peace, although a formal treaty has not been concluded.

"In China the Imperialist forces had attempted to regain Ching-Kiang- Foe, but without success, notwithstanding foreign aid."

AUSTRALIA.—The Legislative Council of New South Wales was openel on the 10th of May, by Sir Charles Fitzroy, in a speech of unusual length. The two points of interest were, the satisfactory state of things, surpassing any previous state ; and the concessions of the Imperial Go- vernment. Sir Charles announces with "lively satisfaction," that the necessary measures have been adopted to redress the grievances com- plained of in December 1851. The colonists have now the administra- tion and appropriation of the revenue arising from the Crown lands ; and they have also a power of altering the amount and distribution of certain sums reserved for the expenses of the Executive, without appealing to the home authorities.