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FRANCE.—The congratulatory address by the British residents and visitors of Paris was presented to the King on Saturday, by the Duke of Montrose and the Committee. His Majesty replied in English: he was deeply sensible of the kind British sympathy, but the warmth of his feel- ings prevented him from giving that utterance which he could have de- sired. Having noticed that the Queen's name was included in the address, the King commanded the Aide-de-camp in waiting to repair to her Ma- jesty and make this known to her. The Queen appeared, and the Com- mittee were presented to her by the King individually. After the King's reply, her Majesty addressed the Committee, expressing her gratification in the most feeling manner.
The Queen of the French entered her sixty-fifth year on Sunday. Ibraham Fuchs arrived at Paris on Saturday. On Monday he was re- ceived by the King at the Tuileries; on Tuesday a military review was got up for his amusement. It is reported that Ibrahim is accompanied by several Frenchmen who have embraced Mahometanism.
Sunday being the fiftieth anniversary of Marshal Souk's marriage, several Ministers, Peers, and Deputies, waited upon the venerable soldier and offered their congratulations. The journals are remarkably silent on the subject of the regicide Le- comte. All that is communicated is, that since his arrival at Paris he has undergone several examinations; and that, having refused to choose a
lawyer for his- defence, the Court of Peers had appointed ex effici, M: Duvergier, the head of the Parisian bar, to act as his counsel.
A small granite pyramid is about to be erected on the spot where Lapointe fired at the King, as a memorial of his Majesty's escape from the hands of the assassin.
PORTOGAL.—The Northern provinces have been in a state of insurrec tion. The movement commenced in the province of Minh°, and rapidly extended to the adjoining districts. The Minister of Justice had arrived at Oporto with a detachment of troops; and had gone to meet the insur- gents. The habeas corpus was suspended on the 20th April, and martial law proclaimed. The cause of the rising is reported as follows by the Lis- bon correspondent of the Morning Chronicle, writing on the 21st April-
" The province of Minho has been the scene of agrarian outrages for the last twelve days, arising from the attempt to put in force the new system of taxation bT repartition, and to levy imposts in the agricultural districts, under the new bill of health, particularly burdensome and oppressive. One of the first tumults was caused by a refusal of the local authorities to suffer the burial of a poor peasant to take place without obtaining a certificate from a medical officer, who is empowered by this oppressive law to exact a sum for his signature little short of ten shillings sterling. The friends of the deceased in vain pleaded their in- ability to pay the sum in question-__The_rites a burial were refused, the women of the district rose en masse; the troops were marched against them; resistance was offered; and it is stated that several women and children were shot by the valiant soldiery, but not before some of the latter were routed by these exaspe- rated women.
According to the same authority, the peasants of the districts of Gal- mantes, Prado, and Pamella, revoked on the 14th, entered Braga, and sus- tained a severe repulse from the soldiery.
SPAIN.—The insurrectionary movement in Galicia is exciting some un- easiness at Madrid. The Madrid journals of the 28d April contain a report from General Conchs, dated Orense, the 19th, stating that the rebels who had been laying siege to Orense had fled, and that he was only waiting for the arrival of reinforcements to follow up the successes he had obtained. The Phare of Bayonne, of the 26th April, states that the whole of the pro- vinces under the Captain-General of Burgos have been declared in a state of siege. The insurgents were in possession of Lugo, Tuy, Vigo, and Pontevedm; in each of which Juntas had been established. The Presi- dents are said to be of the Espartero party.
UNITED STATES.—By the Packet-ship Roscins, which arrived at Liver- pool on Sunday, we have accounts from Washington to the 2d April, three days later than the news by the previous arrival. From New York the dates were to the 5th.
The Oregon debate was still going on in the Senate. On the 31st March, General Cass delivered a war speech; contending inter &fa, that the proposal to compromise the dispute on the basis of the 49th degree had arisen from a misconception of the treaty of Utrecht. The General said, that if it could be shown that by that treaty the 49th degree was meant to be the boundary between the then French and English colonies, he would not say another word upon the matter. Mr. Benton, an influential Sena- tor, took the General at his word; and on the following day, "demonstrated, that the treaty of Utrecht contemplated, intended, and in fact established, the 49th parallel as the true boundary to the Pacific Ocean between the French and English colonies." (The Times has "demonstrated" the ab- surdity of this fancy.) Mr. Hannegan fellowed in a violent speech. On the 2d April, several brief speeches' chiefly in explanation, were made by General Cass and Mr. Benton; the General again contending for 54 deg. 40 min, and Mr. Benton that the treaty of Utrecht inferred 49 deg. Gen- eral Cass commented on the "recent" convictions of Mr. Benton as to the treaty of Utrecht and 49 deg.; and Mr. Benton replied that he had known it for twenty years.
The Sub-Treasury Bill passed the House of Representatives on the 2d April, by the large majority of 124 to 67. -
Canana.—An important debate is in progress in the Canadian Legisla- ture as to the operation of the proposed reduced English Tariff on that colony. It has been resolved in the House of Assembly, that an address be agreed to "praying for the reduction, to the lowest specific sum, of the duties in Britain on Canadiar-elieWt, fddr,-peas, oats, and barley."—Norn ing Chronicle.
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