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Lord Morpeth will leave England for America on the 4th

of next month. He intends to visit the principal cities in the United States and Canada. His tour will extend over four months, and he expects to re- turn early in spring.—Dublin Monitor.

We have peculiar pleasure in announcing to the public a most muni- ficent act on the part of Lord Morpeth : his Lordship has placed at the disposal of the National Board of Education the sum of 1,0001., to be expended in promoting the National System of Education in Ireland.— Rem.

Mr. Laporte, whose activity, enterprise, and checkered successes are so well known to the Opera world, died, in his country residence at Corbeil, near Paris, on Saturday morning, of apoplexy. Mr. Dubourg, of the Haymarket, was with him when he died.

}Unmet Hall, the seat of Lord Dinorben, near St. Asaph, was de- stroyed by fire on Monday night. The property was uninsured ; and the loss is estimated at 35,000/. The carelessness of a lady's-maid, who left a candle too near some drapery in a dressing-room, is said to have been the cause, Tuesday's Gazette made the formal announcement that the Queen has appointed the Right Honourable Sir Charles Bagot, G.C.B., to be Captain-General and Governor-in-Chief of her Majesty's Provinces in Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, and of the Island of Prince Edward, and Governor-General of all her Majesty's Provinces on the Continent of North America, and of the Island of Prince Edward.

The appointments were also gazetted of Captain the Honourable Arthur Duncombe, R.N., to be one of the Grooms in Waiting in Ordi- nary; of Frances Elizabeth Viscountess Jocelyn, to be one of the Ladies of the Bedchamber in Ordinary ; and of John Douglas Edward Henry Duke of Argyll, to be Keeper of the Great Seal of Scotland.

His Excellency Sir James Douglas, it is understood, will relinquish the Lieutenant-Governorship of Guernsey at the close of the present year, and he will be succeeded in that office by Colonel Sir — D'Aguilar. —llampshire Advertigr,

Thursday and Friday next are each mentioned as the day on which it is likely that Parliament will be prorogued.

The average price of British wheat has fallen to 70s. 8d., and the -duty on foreign wheat has risen to 108. 8d. It is understood that more than 1,700,000 quarters of wheat came in at the low duty. The Morn- ing Chronicle, at the suggestion of a correspondent, has for some time been performing the office formerly executed by the Times, in publishing occasionally a comparative statement of the prices of food at home and abroad. On Thursday, its table presented the prices of bread in London and Paris : in London the four-pound loaf costs 10d.; in Paris the best quality costs barely Sid. for four pounds English ; the second quality less than aid.

There has been a great assemblage of troops at Compiegne, and a camp has been formed there. Louis Philippe held a grand review on Sun- day ; and, after presenting several of the new troops with standards, he addressed them in a speech. He remarked, that the total absence of all cause for apprehending foreign war left the army at liberty to direct its efforts to the repression of anarchy. The speech was much cheered by the soldiery. The Corps Diplomatique were invited almost to a man ; and they were entertained by the King with a succession of reviews, banquets, and theatrical representations.

The King, on coming near Compiegne on Friday night, says the Commerce, was for a moment in danger of an accident. His carriage came in contact with one of the diligences of the Messageries Royales ; which was, it is said, much damaged by the shock. Some days before, his Majesty, in crossing the railroad in his carriage, at St. Cloud, had a narrow escape. The vehicle had not cleared the rails more than a second when a train rushed along, and must have crushed the royal carriage to atoms had it been caught.

Although there has not been the same violence, the still uneasy state of France is proved by the galling feud which now rages between the King and a portion of the press. The editor of the National was tried on Thursday week, for a seditious libel on the King, and acquitted. The acquittal was regarded as a triumph of the Republican party, to which the National belongs. The article which gave rise to the prose- cution, we are reminded by the Morning Chronicle, was written in De- cember last, when the war-excitement was at its height, and when the passionate of all opinions were loud in their anathemas against M. Guizot and the King of the French for having preserved peace. The National drew the usual picture of France, magnificent in hope and strength, founded on the popular outburst of 1830, and resuming its place in the front rank of nations. Contrasted with this, France was repre- sented, in 1840, as degraded, humiliated, and reduced to a mere corpse. The statesmen and legislators of the day were accused of spending their energies in personal and petty quarrels-

" What are these quarrels to us ? " exclaimed the National: "What is it to France, betrayed, degraded, and ruined as she is, to hear around her the squabbles of imbeciles and traitors, blockheads and felons, and to see in all this clamour but weakness or complicity ? Yes, ye have all been accomplices. But the chief criminal (coupable)--ab, we know well what he is, and who he is. France knows also who he is, and posterity will announce it. And ye, ye are his accomplices."

It sufficed the Royal advocate to read the article in order to point out the object of its attack. M. Marie, for the National, took a very adroit line of defence. The National, he said, in those articles, how- ever strong, did but express the current ideas and complaints of the epoch, and added but very little strength to the opinions expressed by leading men at the tribune of the Chamber. He then quoted the speeches of M. Thiers and other members of the Coalition of 1839, who represented Count Mole as the mere creature of the King, and who insisted on the necessity of having a responsible Government in- dependent of his will, that personal will being the great influence which humbled France before Europe. M. Marie, in addition to the speeches of the orator, added articles from the moderate Constitutional journals of the time, all attributing the humble politics of France to the King's personal influence and opinions. The Advocate-General, in reply, pointed out to the Court that the line of argument adopted by the National admitted that the offence was directed against the King ; and claimed, according to the letter of the law, a verdict against the de- fendant. The Jury withdrew, and returned in a very few minutes with a verdict of complete acquittal. The National of Friday recorded this triumph with a renewal of the libel. It says-

" We wish that all France had assisted at our trial before the Assize Court yesterday. The discussion, eloquent, animated, and profound, by the admis- sion of the presiding Judges, presented all the interest of the highest _plitical questions. The article prosecuted had been written in December. Wearied then with the mutual recriminations of MM. Thiele: and Guizot, we stated boldly what all the world allowed, that the personal influence of the King was the cause of that policy which degraded and ruined the country. We told MM. Thiers and Guizot that they were accomplices ; but that the principal culpable, we knew where and who he was, France knew it, and posterity would know it. Our words were prosecuted as an offence against the person of the Ring, and a breach of his inviolability. The Advocate-General, with ability, stated our words to have the following meaning,—namely, that the policy of the last ten years was one of shame, degradation, and ruin ; that Ministers were not responsible for this, being but accomplices ; the principal culpable was the King. The Advocate-General easily demonstrated that we were guilty of the double crime imputed to us, and argued as if our advocate would try to screen us by some subterfuge. But this did not suit the character either of our ad- vocate or of our journal. Our idea was evident. It was the King we meant— our readers could not mistake it- To deny it would have been to insult the good sense of the Jury. We disdained a lie. It was the King we aimed at, and the circumstances in which we were placed gave us the right to do so, and justified our attack. Such was the thesis that M. Marie developed. The .Jury, in ten minutes, acquitted us on every point."

The National was seized on Friday, as a preliminary to the prosecu- tion for this renewal of the original libel ; being the sixth prosecution which has been instituted against that journal within a few days. The Moniteur publishes two circulars of the Minister of Justice, ad- dressed to the Procureurs du Roi throughout the kingdom, directing the strict enforcement of the law against the press and politikal agi- tators. The first enjoins the Procureurs du Roi to examine attentively all publications on political subjects emanating from the press in their respective districts, and, without regard to failure in prosecutions, to apply the laws in every case in which it should appear they bad been violated, as the time had arrived for 'vindicating the monarchy, "the person of the Prince, his family, and his constitutional authority.' The second circular refers to the Reform Societies of the kingdom, and declares them illegal. It directs that all persons who shall continue to belong to those associations be immediately prosecuted, "especially at this time, when sedition is fomented in the country through illegal associations." The circular concludes by observing, that it would be impossible at such an epoch to exercise too much vigilance.

Within two days, the Judicial Tribunals of Paris had tried one hundred and nine persons, implicated in the late disturbances forty-nine were condemned on Friday, and sixty on Saturday, to an imprisonment varying from live days to eighteen months, according to the gravity of the offence.

Intelligence has been received from Madrid to the 22d instant.

Don C. M. Onis has been appointed Ambassador to London.

The despatch of a Government messenger, with permission for Don Francisco de Paula to enter Spain, served as a basis for a variety of conjectures. The Memorial Bordelais speaks of the marriage of Don Francisco's son, the Duke of Cadiz, with the young Queen, as the matrimonial alliance approved of by the British Whig Government.

The Chronicle of this morning mentions "singular rumours" which are afloat, to the effect that the Emperor of Russia means to restore the nationality of Poland ; and the paper promises further revelations on the subject.

The Levant mail brings intelligence from Constantinople to the 7th instant. The Sultan is said to be restored to perfect health ; he takes much exercise, and attends to business with the greatest assiduity. The convention signed at London on the lath July was ratified at Constantinople on the 2d instant, and sent off by an extraordinary courier to London, where the exchange of ratifications was to take place. The British steamer Acheron arrived at Constantinople on the 3d instant, to take Lord Ponsonby and his lady on board; they were to leave on the 15th or 16th, although some doubt existed whether he would leave so soon.

Advices from Alexandria are of the 6th. The Pasha of (Egypt was busying himself with peaceful occupations ; selling his crops at an ad- vance of 20 to 35 per cent, on last season's prices. The Nile was very high ; it had eighteen days more to rise, and fears were entertained of mischief ensuing. The Manzari Shark contains a letter from Beyrout of the 30th August ; which states that that port and St. Jean d'Acre will shortly be entirely abandoned by the British troops, and Saida by those of Austria. The King of Naples is likely to be punished for his restrictive policy in attempting to make a monopoly of the Sicilian sulphur-trade : ex- tensive strata of sulphur have been discovered at Tripoli, of good quality.

The Columbia mail steamer arrived at Liverpool on Thursday even- ing, with intelligence from Halifax to the 19th September, and from New York to the 16th.

The United States were in a ferment ; President Tyler having vetoed the second Bank Bill which had passed Congress. He seat a concilia- tory message to Congress explaining his reasons; but he had been burned in effigy in several places. The veto was followed by the re- signation of the whole Cabinet, with the exception of Mr. Webster ; and he says that he only remains in office to conduct toa pacific close some pending negotiations. The general cause of the resignation of the Ca- binet was the want of confidence exhibited to them by the President : Mr. Ewing, late Secretary of the Treasury, bad publicly given that reason for his resignation. He stated, moreover, that at a Cabinet conference the President approved of the very bill which he vetoed when it had passed Congress without amendment ; that the bill was specially framed to obviate the President's objections. The President had nominated the following Cabinet—Mr. Forward, of Pennsylvania, to be Secretary to the Treasury ; Mr. Upshnr, of Virginia, Secretary of the Navy ; Mr. M`Lean, of Ohio, Secretary at War ; Mr. Legare, of South Carolina, Attorney-General ; Mr. Wickliffe, of Kentucky, Post- master-General. These nominations were confirmed on the 13th, as well as that of Mr. Edward Everett as Minister to England.

Mr. Van Buren had published a letter, in which the conduct of the new President in rejecting both bills for the establishment of a "fiscal agent" is applauded to the echo. Congress adjourned on the 19th. M`Leod's trial was to come on at the session which began at Utica on the 27th. The prosecution would be conducted by the Attorney General. A general feeling appeared to prevail in favour of Mr. M'Leod's release. The United States Government had taken measures to prevent his maletreatraent by private violence. Mr. Webster had addressed letters to the Sheriff and First Judge of the county in which the prisoner was confined, informing them that he had received intima- tion from parties entitled to belief, that an attempt would be made to execute upon Mr. M`Leod the summary process of Lynch-law, and directing them to be on their guard to defeat any enterprise of the kind. Mr. M`Leod himself bad received letters to a similar effect. The sub- ject of his arrest bad been alluded to in Congress, in a better spirit than before; and Ex-President Adams bad expressed himself strongly against the grounds taken up for his detention.

The United States Bank of Philadelphia has ceased to exist. On the 4th, a final assignment of its effects was made for the benefit of the creditors generally. The amount of property thus assigned is from 12,000,000 to 14,000,000 dollars ; consisting of debts secured by mort- gages, bonds, and receivable notes, &c. About 12,000,000 dollars had been previously assigned to the trustees appointed in June last, to meet the circulation and deposits of the Bank.

The most interesting news from Canada is unfortunate. Lord Syden- ham had fallen from his horse, breaking his leg just above the ankle, and hurting his knee. He was otherwise indisposed, suffering from gout and want of sleep; but he was getting better.