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Fassez.—The Emperor has been gratified, this week, by the visit of a deputation from certain gentlemen of the City of London to present an address announcing their peaceful intentions. The Tuileries was the scene of this performance, and Monday the time. The address, signed by upwards of 4000 persons, stated to be "merchants, bankers, traders, and others," was borne into the Imperial presence by Sir James Duke, Mr. Masterman junior, Mr. Glyn, Mr. Barclay, Mr. Samuel Gurney, Mr. J. D. Fowles, Mr. W. Gladstone, [not the Chancellor of the Exchequer,] and Sir Edward Buxton. Sir James Duke, civic orator on the occasion, prefaced the presentation of the address with a speech, beginning "Sire," and expressing the "honour and gratification" of the gentlemen present at appearing before his Imperial Majesty to present to him and "the French nation" a declaration of amity "from the commercial community of the metropolis of the British empire." He added, that the document also conveyed a "faithful representation of the feelings of the people of England at large" ; and, "in conclusion," he expressed a fervent hope, that "under your reign, France and England may be always united in a friendly and mutually beneficial intercourse, and that from the friendship of these two great nations results may ensue favourable to the peace of the world and the happiness of mankind." Sir James then read the ad- dress, as follows.

"We the undersigned merchants, bankers, traders, and others, of Lon- don, feel ourselves called upon at this time, publicly to express the concern with which we learn, through various channels of information, that an im- pression exists in the minds of the people of France that feelings of an un- friendly character are entertained towards them by the people of England. "We think it right emphatically to declare, that we -believe no such feel- ings exist on the part of the English people towards the people of France. We believe the welfare of both nations to be closely interwoven, as well in a mutually advantageous and extending commercial intercourse as in a com- mon_participation in all the improvements of art and science. "Rejoicing in the reflection that nearly forty years have passed since the final cessation of hostilities between France and England, we record our con- viction that European wars should be remembered only to be deplored for the sacrifice of life and treasure with which they were attended, the bin- derances they interposed to all useful enterprise and social advancement, the angry and unchristian feelings which they evoked in their progress, and

the heavy financial burdens which they left behind them at their close,— considerations which supply the most powerful motives to every individual in the European community to avoid and to oppose by every means in his power whatever may tend to cause the recurrence of such evils. " We desire to remark, that if, in that expression of opinion on public questions which the press of England is accustomed to exercise, it is found occasionally to speak with apparent harshness of the government or the institutions of other states, the same is not to be understood in a spirit of national hostility, or as desiring to give offence. We feel, that with the

internal policy or mode of government which the French nation v think good to adopt for itself, it is not for British subjects to interfere, further than heartily to desire that it may result in peace and happiness to all in- terested therein.

" We conclude this declaration, by proclaiming our earnest desire for the long continuance of cordiality and good-will between Frenchmen and Eng-

lishmen; our determination to do all in our power to uphold the same ; and our fervent hope that the inhabitants of both nations may in future only vie with each other in cultivating the arts of peace, and in extending the sources of social improvement, for their common benefit."

The Emperor replied, " in the English language "— " Gentlemen, I am extremely touched by this manifestation. It confirms me in the confidence with which the good sense of the English nation has always inspired me. During the long stay I made in England, I admired the liberty she enjoys—thanks to the perfection of her institutions. Never- theless, at one period last year, I feared that public opinion was misled with regard to the true state of France and her sentiments towards Great Britain. But the good faith of a great people cannot be long deceived, and the step which you now take is a striking proof of this.

"Ever since I have held power, my efforts have constantly tended to de- velop the prosperity of France. I know her interests. They are not differ- ent from those of all other civilized nations. Like you, I desire peace; and to make it sure, I wish, like you, to draw closer the bonds which unite our two countries."

In the evening, some of the gentlemen attended the ball at the Luxem- bourg; and on Wednesday the deputation dined with the Emperor, in the private apartments of the Empress.

The Emperor received a deputation from the Darien Ship Canal Com- pany, on Tuesday, headed by Sir Charles Fox. Sir Charles explained to the Emperor the origin and objects of the Company, which we some time ago laid before our readers. The Company has obtained the necessary concession from the local authority of New Grenada, and has offered to the United States a share in the undertaking. It has received through- out the cordial approbation of the British Government. " Our next step (Sir Charles continued) is, with the full consent of that Government, to solicit the patronage and support of your Imperial Majesty. France, as one of the great maritime powers, has an evident interest in this great question of a junction between the two oceans. France, who owes so muck to your Imperial Majesty, will, we believe, be grateful to you, Sire; for granting your Imperial countenance and support to our undertaking; and in the name of this deputation and of the company whom we have the honour to represent, I venture to: hope for this support with perfect confi- dence, because we know that your Imperial Majesty, not only as the chief of this great nation, but also by your personal knowledge of the subject, is pre- eminently qualified to appreciate the object which we have in view and the means which we have adopted." The Emperor replied to this statement, also in English— "Gentlemen, I received with the liveliest interest the intelligence of the formation of a great company for the junction of the two oceans. 1 have no doubt that. you will succeed in an undertaking which must render so import- ant a service to the commerce of the whole world, since such eminent men are placed at the head of your company. I have long appreciated all the ad- vantages of a junction between the two seas ; and when I was in England I endeavoured to draw the attention of scientific men to this subject. You may therefore rest assured, gentlemen, that you will meet with all the sup- port from me which such noble efforts deserve."

Before the deputation withdrew, after the members had been presented to him one by one, he said- " I am happy to have seen your honourable deputation the very day after having received the one which, on the part of the merchants of London, ex- pressed to me the most friendly sentiments in favour of peace—sentiments with which my own feelings have always been in complete accord."

The Legislative Body gave a grand ball on Easter Monday, in honour of the Emperor and Empress, in the Palace of the Luxembourg. About four thousand persons were present. The Emperor danced with Made- moiselle Billault and the Empress with M. Billault; the other persons in the quadrille were M. Fould and the Princess Mathilde, M. Rogier, the Belgian Minister, and the Countess of Hatzfeld, the wife of the Prus- sian Minister. Several English gentlemen exhibited themselves in the uniforms of the Militia. The Duke of Brunswick was there, bedizened with diamonds ; and a gentleman, said to be Lord Orkney, in Highland costume—wearing "the knife at the garter, the hunting-horn, the plaid, the kilt, the bonnet, the sporran—all complete as Roderick Dhu or Fer- gus Mae Ivor." It was remarked that neither 31. Kisseleff nor M. Hub- ner was present.

General Count Ornano succeeds the Duke of Padua as Governor of the Invalides ; and General Lebrun, Duke de Plaisance, formerly one of the Consuls with the great Napoleon, as Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour.

Among the bills now before the Legislative Body is one for "the orga- nization of the military navy."

M. de Maupas has issued a circular to the Prefect of the Seine desiring him not to permit in future any Socialist manifestations similar to that made on the funeral of Madame Raspail. The reason alleged is, that the Socialist party seems disposed to "put itself in movement and bring itself again before the world."

Tuaxxv.—Intelligence from Constantinople, this week, has been ex- tremely meagre and contradictory. Some reports have represented all as settled, others as unsettled ; and the latest accounts, dated March 15, and received in Paris on Thursday, give colour to the latter rumour. Prince Menschikoff had not then presented his ultimatum ; and the mili- tary preparations in the South of Russia continued. Stores for an army of 150,000 men were collected, or to be collected, at Odessa. Several Russian officers had set out for the Archipelago, for Montenegro, and for Greece. In fact, direct advices from Athens announce the arrival of Ad- miral Corniloff, the commander of the Black Sea fleet. It was given out that he had come "to see the antiquities."

What the precise demands of Prince Menschikoff have been, yet re- mains unknown. But the Semaphore of Marseilles states that they in- clude not only the revocation of the firman on the Holy Places, obtained by the importunities of M. de Lavalette, but also the claim that the Greek Patriarch shall receive his investiture at St. Petersburg, and that the Greek Church and clergy shall be placed under the immediate pro- tection of the Czar.

A new bank, whose capital has been furnished from England, received the official approval of the Sultan on the 13th March.

GERMANT.—According to a letter dated Vienna, 20th March, the Em- peror of Austria had quite recovered his bodily health, and the optic nerve had regained its strength. Nevertheless, the Archduke William still continued to hold the post of Imperial Deputy.

The Tyrolese riflemen lately held a fete in honour of the recovery of the Emperor. Before they separated, some of the more enthusiastic fired upon the British armorial ensigns. It is said that our musical Ambassador has complained thereof.

The Archbishop of Milan and a deputation from Lombardy, who went to Vienna to express their devotedness to the Emperor on his escape from Libeny, were received on the 19th by the Archduke Francis. He rejoiced to see the representatives of Lombardy at the foot of the throne ; and he accepted the " act of homage as a solemn pledge that the people

It appears that the working men of Hanover, especially railway la- bourers and mechanics, have lately been in the habit of attending " work- ing men's meetings," to which the Government attach a political signi- ficance. The superintendent of the works issued a notice stating that all the men in the Government employ known to attend these meetings in future should be discharged. This notice was printed and posted within the limits of the station and in the work-shops ; but scarcely a day -elapsed before the notices were torn down, and their places supplied with portraits of Robert Blum.

ITALY.—The vaunted amnesty at Mantua applied, as it now appears, to a large number of prisoners who had been confined some months and tried for an alleged conspiracy in 1851. It is called the "amnesty Of the innocent" by the Italian journals. Count Gyulai's mode of conciliating the Lombards is peculiar. It was already mentioned that the Milanese Municipality illuminated the theatre of La Scala on the announcement of the Mantuan amnesty : the Com- mandant ordered the national hymn to be sung ; whereupon the people were compelled to stand up. The Marquis Foncino and his wife retired to the inner part of his box : the Marquis was instantly arrested by order of Count Gyulai, taken first to the city prison, and then confined in his own house.

Several Italian officers who served under Napoleon the Great have been permitted by the Austrian authorities to proceed to Paris to congratulate the present Napoleon.

SPAIN.—The report of the majority of the Committee on the claims of Marshal Narvaez, which was favourable to the Marshal, has been re- jected in the Senate by 106 to 64. An attempt made to mitigate the severity of the present press law met with a similar fate in the Chamber of Deputies; it was lost by 153 to 47.

UNITED STATES.—The Cambria arrived at Liverpool on Tuesday, with advices from New York to the 15th; and the Pacific on Thursday, with advices to the 19th March.

President Pierce and his Cabinet were apportioning office to clamorous applicants. At a Cabinet meeting on the 12th, it was decided that Mr. Buchanan should be Ambassador to England, Mr. Dix to France, and Mr. Soule to Spain. In the Senate, the discussion on the Clayton and Bulwer treaty had been continued.

There appear to have been some disturbances at Greytown and in the neighbourhood. The people of that town had sent an armed force, which pulled down a portion of the building of the Vanderbilt Transit Company, hauling down the American flag, after saluting it with military honours.

From San Francisco we have news of extensive murders, committed partly by Indians and partly by a band of Mexican bandits, headed by a young ruffian named Joaquim, one of whose exploits is said to have been the killing of three Americans with a revolver as he rode through a vil- lage at full gallop. Several Chinese had also been murdered. There had been a turn-out to suppress the Joaquim gang.

The tiresome debate on the Bulwer and Clayton treaty continued in the Senate. Mr. Butler, a leading Democratic Senator from South Carolina, bad defended England from the attacks of Mr. Douglas. "We should love her," he said, "because she is our mother, and because she pours and has poured the streams of her refreshing in- telligence through the Union." Mr. Douglas retorted, that they had a good many mothers—English, Irish, Scotch, Norman, French, Spanish— every kind of descent. He did not speak in terms of unkindness towards England, but her policy, he said, has been one of hostility to the Union.

Her streams of intelligence are a stream of Abolition, treason, and insur- rection, which he thought would excuse Mr. Butler from indorsing those streams of literature under the name of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and other works—( Tremendous applause in the galleries)—libelling us and our insti- tutions' and holding them up to the hate and prejudice of the world.

The Chair ordered the galleries to be cleared ; and the debate con- tinued.

Mr. Butler had spoken of the streams which authors and orators have poured out upon them. Ile did not expect a miserable allusion to "Uncle Tom's Cabin." It was ad captandum' and not manly. Mr. Douglas—" I spoke in terms of reverence and respect of the monu- ments of statesmen in England, of 'Patriotism, legal learning, science and literature—of all that was great, noble, and admirable. I did not expect statesmen to go back two or three centuries to justify the aggressions of the present age. And when I heard the plaudits relative to the past, I thought I had a right to allude to the present enormities of England." Mr. Butler—" I should like to know how England is responsible for 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' ? If the Senator takes the sickly sentimentality of the day as an exponent of the English heart and literature, very well. I alluded to our commercial relations with England, and our connexion as a civilized na- tion; and would the Senator postpone her? " Mr. Douglas—" I would postpone her or give her a greater preference than other nations, but treat her as duty requires."

Mr. Butler—" We can find sickly sentimentality everywhere, such as the Maine Liquor Law, and all that." (Laughter.) The debate was adjourned for some days.

Private letters from Belize have confirmed the account of troubles on the Honduras coast; and that Trimillo surrendered, under protest, to the superior force of the Devastation war-steamer, acting on behalf of the King of Mosquito. Authentic particulars are wanting. It is stated, however, that Truzillo was not threatened with bombardment, in so many words, but only with "the consequences" of refusing to decide, in two hours, whether it would surrender or not.

CAPE or GOOD Horn.—The Calcutta mail brings hopeful-looking news from the seat of war. No further differences had arisen with Mosheah, the Basuta Chief. Sandilli, Maeomo, Ants, Tola, and other chiefs of the Gaikas, had sent in messengers with their submission to General Cath- cart, and had themselves crossed the Hai. The chief, Krell, sent in, on the 10th February, a written request for peace, through Umhala and Mr. Commissioner Maclean. He admits that he has been severely punished ; he pleads that the Boers have taken a great many cattle ; and he sends in 90 head, hoping the Governor will consider it sufficient Ile also begs the missionaries and traders will come back. General Cathcart has pro- claimed peace on certain conditions,—in particular, that Kreli shall faith- fully keep his engagements ; that he shall recognize the Set and the Indwe as the boundary between his country and British territory; that Krell shall keep order in his own country, and surrender on demand re- fugee robbers, murderers, and other offenders; that missionaries and traders permitted in Kreli's country must conform to such agreements as they make with Emil; that the Governor will have nothing to do with such agreements, but that he will hold Kreli responsible for the safety of British lives and property. General Cathcart proposes to fortify and hold the Amatolas, by esta- blishing a chain of posts, and encouraging the formation of townships and villages by the offer of grants of land under certain conditions ; the chief being tenure by military service when required, and bona fide residence. The proposed allotments are very small. Preference was to be given to persons who had served in the war. The occupiers were to be supplied with rations for six months, implements and seeds for immediate cultiva- tion.

Considerable reductions in the force employed in the war, chiefly of the European Levies and Fingoes, had been ordered on the 25th February.