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Fr/Amt.—The Parliamentary Clubs of Paris continue in a state of ac- tive agitation upon the revision question ; and the movement is carried on in the departments with great vigour. It is remarkable that the Bona- partist Club of the Rue des Pyramides at its latest deliberative meeting signed a petition for the simple revision of the constitution, leaving out the word total." This has created a division in the majority, as the other two Clubs go for total revision. The consistent Legitimists, es- pecially, are disgusted at what they call a desertion. In the mean time, the debates in the Chamber are carried on amidst great excitement. Upon every political question the passions of each party are called into play. Every political division discloses the Monarchists in compact order arrayed against the Republicans. The numbers on each aide bear the same relation to each other upon all occasions—the minority ranging about 220; the majority about 400. The prominent topic of discussion this week has been the bill for the reorganization of the National Guard ; a bill which will place the citizen- soldiers entirely in the hands of the Government, restrict the right of car- rying arms to the middle classes, and practically disarm the workmen. The oratorical incident of the week is a short speech which M. Leon Faucher delivered in reply to an observation made by General de Gram- mont, that it was doubtful whether the approaching crisis would termi- nate peacefully. " Who then is master here ?" exclaimed the Minister of the Interior. "Is France not the mistress of her own destinies ? Have we not had the expe- rience of several revolutions ; and have we not arrived at that age of man. hood in which nations are able to give a legal and pacific solution to the questions which arise ? For my part, I reply, in the name of all the con- sciences which will be the echo of mine, that the ambitions of party at the solemn moment of the final decision will not dare to approach this tribune. (Cries of " Very good ! " from several Members, and among them from H. Jules Favre.) I say that the will of the country will show itself, and that it will prevail. (General approbation.) I say that this Assembly will im- pose silence on personal sentiments respecting ancient and recent opinions, and that it will inspire itself with nothing but the necessities of the coun- try ; that it will endeavour to save the country, and that it will save it." (Universal acclamations.) M. Baroche has unhesitatingly declared that the Ministry will hold fast by the electoral law of the 31st of May. There is no new light thrown% upon the intentions of the President of the Republic • only a faint indi- cation from the Constitutionnel, that to obtain the repeal of that law it is, not disposed to break with the majority. The debates are now so fiercely conducted that two duels are expected' to ensue in consequence of the insults which fly from Right to Left. The expected combatants are General de Grammont and M. Baune, and Charles Lagrange and Leo de Laborde.
PoirrumiL.—The Portuguese revolution has advanced one step towards the restoration of legality of action. Saldanha entered Lisbon on the 15th instant, with three thousand troops. His entry was an ovation:. In the evening he went to the opera : the King and Queen had arrived/ before him and had been scarcely noticed, but when Saldanha entered, the Ministerial box, there arose a storm of hearty shouts for the Duke- Marshal, " for the Charter reformed," and for the " regenerating Army."' He succeeded in getting a Cabinet together by the 22d ; but could not in- duce Fonseca, Magalhaens, and Lavradio, to take part in it. Saldanlin is President of the Council and Minister ofWar ; Jose Ferreira Pestana, Minister of the Interior ; Felipe de Sours, of Justice ; Marquis de Louie, of Marine ; Marino Miguel Franzini, of Finance ; and Jervis de Atto- guia, of Foreign Affairs.
It will be seen that this Ministry is mixed Progresista and Chartist- Don Miguel Ximenes has published a short but explicit note, in which he asserts that the Portuguese people repel with disdain the calumnies
and injuries contained in the letter to Saldanha, written by " that sown.pushed defaulter, infamous embezzler, and proved thief, the Count de
Thomar."
GEnicurr.---The movements of the Monarchs continue to attract great attention. The King of Prussia was to leave Warsaw on the 27th and reach Berlin on the 29th. The Czar is on his road to Olmiitz ; whither the Emperor of Austria was proceeding to meet him. Arrangements are made on a grand scale for the reception of the Czar and the host of mili- tary men invited on the occasion ; Haynau, it is said, being an exception/. Baron Bruck, Austrian Minister of Commerce, has resigned, and is suc- ceeded by M. de Baumgartner : an honester perhaps for an abler man, in a department where neither knavery nor even honesty can hope for success.
GREECE.—King Otho reached Athens on the 15th, in the Austrian war- steamer Vulcan. He was received with the customary ceremony of ad- dresses and the " loudest acclamations."
UNITED STATES.—The " States Rights Convention' " in South Carolina, has adjourned without doing more than talk about Federal aggressions. They did not meet with that sympathy which they counted upon from the other Southern States. Senator Butler mourned over the prospect of the Northern triumph ; but he did not venture to propose secession.
It is still doubted whether the piratical expedition of the Southern* Yankees against Cuba is abandoned. The Federal Government are pre- pared to put down any attempt made from the Florida shore. The President was to be present at the opening of the railroad from New York to Lake Erie, on the 13th. This line, as yet of one track only, has cost twenty-five millions of dollars.
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