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FRANCE.—The National Assembly resumed its sittings on Monday afternoon. Out of 750 members only about 483 were present, and of these 53 demanded immediate leave of absence. From this it is inferred that the appetite for political haranguing has abated. There were some slight "at- troupemens " on the Pont Louis Quinze, and in the approaches to the Chamber; but on the whole the event did not disturb the general apathy.

M. Dupla took the chair at two o'clock. Amongst the early arrivals were General Oudinot and General Changarnier. Then came General Cavaignac M. Thiers, Offilon Barrot, Pierre Bonaparte, and other eminent Deputies. Business commenced with a " communication " from M. de Tocqueville—a project of law for a. supplementary credit of 140,000 francs to meet the expenses of the Roman expedition. M. de Tocqueville announced that the expedition had made a glorious campaign, but that it had not yet attained its object, and that the moment had not yet arrived when France could withdraw her troops with safety. He proposed that the projet de loi should be referred to a special Committee. This was silently acceded to. The Minister of War then presented a demand for 6,817,090 francs, as supplementary expenditure; the Minister of Marine asked 1,945,000 francs; and both demands were referred to the special Committee.

The Minister of Finance next came forward with a project of law to re- trieve French honour by paying the dowery to the Datchess of Orleans which was stipulated in 1832. The project was "received with some slight expressions of applause," says a partisan, and was referred to a se- lect Committee.

M. Napoleon Bonaparte gave notice of the following motion, with, an understood aim at the particular exile of the Bourbons-

" Considering that generosity, grandeur, and justice, are the best auxiliaries to found and fortify the Republic; considering that reasons of state can no longer be interposed ; considering that governments have never been saved by laws of pro- scription and violence; the undersigned proposes the following decree-1. The laws of the 10th of April 1832, and of the 26th of May 1848, which exile the family of the Bourbons, are abrogated. 2. The decree of the Constituent Assem- bly of the 27th June 1849is revoked. The insurgents of June, transported with- out trial, shall be set at liberty."

The Assembly adjourned without receiving an expected "message from the President of the Republic.

The second day's proceedings were as dull as the first. The sitting was devoted exclusively to the successive divisions for theari-monthly nomina- tion of the President of the Assembly, and of the four Vice-Presidents and the Secretaries; and to the presentation of a bill by the Minister of the Interior, authorizing the transport of the June insurgents from their pre- sent prison of Belleisle to Algeria.

The elections have been favoarable to Government in every instance. M. Dupin was _reelected President by a larger. relative majority than on any former occasion; the Mountain only mustering 107 votes for their candidate, M. Michel of Bourges. The Vice-Presidents and Secretaries have also been chosen from the Moderate party; and so were the Presi- dents and Vice-Presidents of the Bureaux.

Letters from Toulon, of the 29th September, announce that orders have been received for the Mediterranean squadron to put to sea. It was to sail out to Hyeres on the 30th. Public opinion connected the order with the threatened complications on the shores of the Bosphorus.

M. de Hubner, who was formerly private secretary to Prince Metternich, and who has already been charged with several diplomatic missions to Paris, is spoken of as about to return, in the character of Minister Plenipo- tentiary of Austria.

It is said that the antagonism of M. Armand Marrast is likely to be mitigated by official employment, as Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States. M. Marrast was understood to be preparing for the establishment of a new journal—the Constitution, which would add its influence to the Republican Opposition. The speedy appearance of several Red journals is announced. MM. Respell and Blanqui seek a printer. M. Joigneaux is about to publish a weekly paper, destined exclusively to news from the country districts, and to be called the Feuille de Village. A journal is also spoken of, with M. Flocon at its head, to be called the Revolution de 1848.

TIIILEET.—According to the most recent and complete accounts from Constantinople, which come down to the 17th September, the refusal of Turkey to surrender the fugitives from Hungary threatens the gravest con- sequences. The representatives of Austria and Russia are demanding respectively the surrender of subjects belonging to those states; the Turkish Government is firm in refusing, and has received considerable support from the representatives of France and Great Britain. But in order to make the actual position distinct, it will be necessary to take up the story at a somewhat earlier stage.

Shortly before the 15th September, Prince Radzivil arrived from St. Petersburg at Constantinople, as Envoy Extraordinary: he bore an auto- graph letter from the Czar to the Sultan, whioh on the one hand communicated to the Porte the termination of the Hungarian war, and on the other hand made a peremptory demand for the surrender of fugitives. According to the accounts first received in London, the de- mand was, "that the Polish and !Hungarian refugees now in the Turk- ish territory shall be given into the power of those Governments against whom they have dared to rebel": according to other accounts since re- ceived, the demand was one "for the extradition of all the Hungarian and Polish refugees at present imprisoned at Widdin." Both versions agree that the demand thus made was received by the Porte with becoming spirit. One writer says—" The Sultan was very much irritated by the brusque tone of the Czar's letter, and his words and manners showed how much he was displeased. Turning towards the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Sul- tan said, Tell this man, that in a day or two he shall have an answer." Another says—" In the interview which Prince Radzivil had with the Sul- tan, his Majesty did not disguise the indignation he felt at the demand of the Czar, and at the overbearing tone in which it was made." It is also agreed that "the Grand Council with one voice determined to resist the demands of Russia and to defy her threats." The Sheik-nl-Islam and the corps of Ulemas upheld this course with religious fervour, on the strength of the express ordinances of Mehemet, that the followers of the Prophet should give hospitality and protection to all who are in misfortune, with- out distinction of creed or country. Prince Radzivil, it is added, "did not hesitate to say openly, that it was the Emperor's intention to have every one of the Polish and Hungarian fugitives hanged the instant they fell into his hands ": and he "talked of the march of 50,000 men to enforce his master's demands."

The determination of the Porte was made known to the Russian diplo- matists; and Prince Radzivil was offered an interview with the Sultan, to receive the formal intimation of the refusal: this interview the Prince de- clined. The Porte then ordered Fuad Effendi, the Turkish Commissioner in the Principalities, to repair to St. Petersburg, and explain the Porte's answer in a way to remove irritation. Learning this step, M. de Titoff instantly sent a note to the Sultan, stating that this mission would-be to- tally useless, and peremptorily requiring an explicit " yes " or "no" to the demands within thirty hours. The Porte replied, that it would take its own time to consider an explicit answer. The thirty hours expired on the 16th; and at that time the Porte also adhered with firmness to its first re- solve: in consequence, Prince Radzivil set out for St. Petersburg; and M. de Titoff broke off relations with the Porte till he should have received further instructions from home.

Such is the outline given by the correspondence of the London journals: all agree in ascribing much effect to the calm, firm, and statesmanlike ad- vice given to the Porte by Sir Stratford Canning and the French Ambas- sador, General Aupick. A letter from Constantinople in the Paris Journal des Debats throws ad- ditional light on the state of affairs- " This morning [the 16th September] Ali Pacha, the Minister of Foreign Af- fairs, addressed to the Minister of France and the Ambassador of England a note, in which he puts the following questions—

"'1. Do the treaties of Kutschuk-Kaynardji and of Passarowitch give to the two Powers [Austria and Russia] the right to demand the extradition of the Hungarian refugees? " ' 2. Would the refusal of the Porte to give up those refugees constitute an infraction of the treaties?

"'3. As a consequence of a refusal, could the two Powers declare MIX against the Porte.

" ' 4. If these Powers declare war against the Porte, would France and Eng- land support Turkey with force of arms? "'5. Are the refugees claimed by Russia subjects of that Power? " ' 6. In the event that the refusal of the Porte should produce a rupture of the relations between the Divan and the two P,.,-err, and a period more or less pro- longed of coldness and bad feeling on the port of these Powers towards Turkey Should occur, would France and England ioterfere with the two Powers for the Purpose of reestablishing the relations on their ancient footing ? ' " Onreceiving this communication, the English and French Ambassadors had S meeting; and after a conference, they resolved to reply at once in a joint note, which was sent in the course of the day to the Minister of Foreign Affairs by the first Dragomans of the two Embassies, DIM Cor and Pisani. If I am well informed, the following is a resume of the answer of the Ambassador.: "To the lust question—No; the treaties of Kntschak-Kaynardji and Passaro witch do not confer that right on Austria and Russia. " To the second—No; the refusal of the Porte would not be an infraction of the treaties. " To the third—It cannot be admitted that this refusal could be followed by a declaration of war; and such a declaration could not be justified. " On the fourth—The twoAmbassadors cannot guarantee theassistance by force of arms of France and England, excepting in virtue of special instructions. "On the tifth—lt is possible that some of the refugees may be Russian sub- jects; but, in general, it is incontestible that the refugees of whom the extradition is claimed are not Russian subjects.

"On the sixth question—Yes; France and England will interfere actively with Russia and Austria to reestablish the good relations between those two Powers and the Porte."

The Porte seemed little awed by the diplomatic rupture, but was never- theless fully preparing itself for all hazards. " All the available troops," says the Times correspondent, writing on the 19th, " have been ordered from the frontiers; the army of Roumelia, 40,000 strong, is ordered to hold itself in readiness to march at the first signal; and the provincial reelifs, or local militia, have been enibodied. The castles of the Bosphorus are to be fortified; the greater part of the fleet is armed and equipped, and can in the course of a few hours cast anchor at the month of the Black Sea, so as to defend the entrance of the Bosphorus. Nor does the Turkish Government appear to be wanting in what is expressively called the sinews of war.' It has plenty of read money with which to commence war; and the Minister of Finance has his ability to place 40,000,000 at the disposal of the Minister of War, without delay. The Sultan has offered an equal sum from his private purse; and we are assured that even the mosques of the capital, whose wealth is enormous, are pm- pared to make the greatest sacrifices to support the Government on a question which all pious Mussulinans regard as one of religious principle.

"The Sultan has countermanded his voyage to Smyrna and the Islands of the Archipelago."

A postscript to this letter states that a Russian corvette, stationed at Constantinople, was towed to Bouyudere on the 18th, so as to be in a posi- tion to gain the Black Sea without obstacle.

Iosruar Israraps.—A letter from Patras, of the 22d September, received through Malta, says—" Affairs in Cephalonia are nearly settled, although the Government have not yet been able to lay hold of the ringleaders of the late atrocities. Sir William Parker has left Cephalonia with his fleet for Corfu. We have just heard that Captain Mevenditi, of Patras and Malta notoriety, has been shot by the frontier guards, whilst endeavouring to penetrate into Greece with a few followers. His head was cut off, and. carried to the Eparch of Carpenissa."

AUSTRIA.—News from Vienna, of the 28th September, states that Co- morn had capitulated—probably on the 18th. The news was officially held back, but the correspondents of more than one English journal say that they have personally communicated with the courier who brought the report. "Haynan would not hear of any terms, while Radctzky was for granting an amnesty. Haynau apparently carried his point, and set off in triumph to attack the fortress, take it, and, as he said, hang all within. But no sooner was he gone than Radetzky exerted himself, and obtained from the Emperor the conditions which the garrison requi ed. These are—an amnesty, 800,000 florins for the notes within the fortress, and passports for those who wish to emigrate; also the as- surance that the extradition of Kossuth by Austria would not be insisted on."

Some of the Vienna papers state that an observation corps has been posted on the Prussian frontier of Bohemia, under the Archduke Albrecht's command.

ITALT.—Turin advices state that Garibaldi had not been allowed to land. at Tunis, and had therefore been landed in the Sardinian island of Madeleine. " The Sardinian Government gave him 2,000 francs for the support of his family, and allows him besides 300 francs a month; pledging itself to take care of his children for the future." The Piedmontese Senate had affirmed, without discussion, the bill au- thorizing the Minister of Finance to pay the first instalment of the war in- demnity to the Austrian Government.

INDIA.—By the overland snail, papers and correspondence have been received from Calcutta to the 20th August, and Bombay to the 1st Sep- tember.

The Punjaub continues to be perfectly tranquil; and there appears to be little immediate prospect of difficulty in Cashmere. Lord Dalhousie, indeed, is said to have "graciously permitted Gholab Singh to augment his army, and Sir Henry Lawrence to visit the capital of the province." "The benefit of his health" is the ostensible plea of Sir Henry's visit; but, of course, the local papers insist that he has "political objects. There is a report that the Court of Directors have disapproved of the raising of Sikh regiments by the Governor-General, and that the step is to be retraced and the regiments disbanded.

Much excitement has been caused at Calcutta by the revelations before a Committee of inquiry into the organization and working of the local police, and very startling evidences of corruption have been obtained. They are thus summed by a local writer-

" Two out of the three Magistrates were largely indebted to an influential Na- tive, named Baboo Mutty Lall Seal; who was universally supposed to hold the worshipful Bench,' as well as the Police corps, under his finger and thumb. Bribes were accepted by the underlings, right and left, for hushing up forgeries, sales of girls for purposes of prostitution, and other little infractions of the moral code. One of the Native Police employes was the head of a flourishing gambling establishment. The money and other property received from thieves, or which otherwise came into the legal possession ot the Police, were deposited in a chest, of which no ons had regular charge or knew who kept the key. No account was furnished of these assets, and it was quite a common thing for the Police Inspec- tors to borrow watches, chains, &c. from it, for their own personal use and adorn- ment. One European and his wife are said to have employed themselves regu- larlyat night in melting down silver articles, and disposing of them to a Native recipient of stolen valuables. In fact, there never perhaps was a public establish- ment so deeply or extensively tainted with corruption." The sentence of the Dewan Moolraj has been commuted to transporta- tion for life, to Singapore. The local journals comment on the sentence, as severer to a Hindoo than death; and state that the Dewan himself has sorrowfully declared that he would have preferred being hanged. WEST INDIES—The Medway arrived at Southampton on Monday, with the West Indian mail. The Medway has made the quickest passage known, and brings late advices. Jamaica news extends to the 7th September. The Assembly met on the 5th; and the strength of the Country party was directly manifested by the dismissal of the former Speaker, and the election of Dr. Morales, one of their prominent Members. The Governor delivered a speech of consider- able length, the chief portion of which consisted of a review of the colony's financial position. The gist of his statements is contained in this passage--, " The whole general expenditure for the twelve months ending on the 5th at

July wt appears by these returns to have been 213,0004 including the expenses' of Minting the revenue; and of that sum more than 10,0001. were paroshial charges, temporarily thrown upon the general treasury; and nearly the same amount consisted of grants of ao occasional and contingent character; so that al- though on the other hand the Receiver-General has not had funds sufficient-to pay the interest upon the loan from her Majesty's Government, which is 6,400L per annum, the inference appears to be fairly deducible that the general and ordi- nary expenditure, including the cost of collecting the revenue, and the interest on every description of public debt and liability, but exclusive of any payments of principal, and of expenses of immigration, and of all other occasional and other grants, and of all parochial charges, might, by due care, and with an accurate system of accounts, be kept down to about 200,0001. The receipts of general re- venue for the twelve months ending on the 5th of July past, appear by the Re- ceiver-Generals returns to have amounted to 186,5001. ; but more than the dif- ference between that sum and the sum of 200,0001. is accounted for by the falling- off in the collection of the rum-duties and of the taxes on stock and carriages and of the quit-rent and land-tax, or by the postponement of the payments of the taxes which was effected by the act of 18-17 which provides for the collection of them; and it seems to result plainly from the returns, that if the revenue had been reestablished on the footing on which it stood during 1848, and if it had been fully collected, it would have amounted to more than 200,0004 and would have been more than equal to the established and ordinary general expenditure which I have specified.' The Governor supposed that the ordinary sources of revenue would not be less productive for the next twelve or fifteen months than they had been during the quarter ending July 5; there was a positive increase of 4,000/. over the corresponding quarter of last year. He stated that a revenue of 200,000/. would certainly not be adequate to the payment of any considerable portion of the principal of the public debt; and as the credit of the island is not sufficiently good to allow the raising of any money upon Treasury certificates, he recommended application to the Im- perial Parliament for the guaranteed loan which was offered towards the accomplishment of other objects.

Sir Charles nevertheless made hopeful references to future prospects- " The situation of the colony is one of embarrassment and difficulty, but it is not desperate. Your finances are susceptible of adjustment and renovation, and I think, without the imposition of any greater burdens than the island has hitherto borne, if the present favourable state of the markets for its produce should be sus- tained, and if, as we may hope, the temporary pressure of unfavourable seasons should be mercifully withdrawn, and if public faith be preserved inviolate, and if all branches of the Legislature can be brought to act together. "As it is manifest that the whole of the usual revenue will be required to meet the exigencies of the next twelve months, I earnestly recommend and request that you should pass the ordinary revenue bills in the ordinary manner; and I shall, be disappointed in the opinion I have formed of the good feeling and loyalty of the inhabitants of Jamaica, if, at the outset of a new Parliament, when their re- presentatives are as yet neither fettered by resolutions nor distracted nor inflamed by party contests, this request, which I make in the name of the Crown and as its principal officer and minister within the colony, should be refused. Whatever time may appear to any of you to be required for the consideration of the details, or for any amendment of these bills, would be much more easily and conveniently secured by passing them with a proviso that they may be amended during the session, than by withholding them beyond the date at which the action of them will be required for continuing the existence of the revenue, or by offering to pro-. long them i in any form which s likely to involve the present Parliament in the same contentions as the last."

Sir Charles Grey concluded with these references to his own position-

" I am under restrictions which do pot leave me at liberty to bear you company in any devious course. I have received no subsequent instructions which author- ize or which would justify me in-disobeying the command of her Majesty, com- municated to me by the aespatch of the Secretary of State for the Colonies of the 16th of April, which was laid before the late House of Assembly on the 28th of Jane. These, in the language of that despatch, leave me upon certain points no discretion. If the difficulties and dangers to which I have adverted should be avoided on the onset, there are indeed many objects of legislation, of higher and more solemn importance than revenue, which would demand your attention, and which might reward the labour of a lengthened session. More than one of the in- stitutions of the colony require improvement, and is susceptible of a restoration, or of a greater approximation to a constitutional and English model ; and if im- perfections and defects are perceived in any particular quarter, instead of seeking to remedy them by some counteraction of a more faulty and unconstitutional de- scription, the new Legislature of Jamaica would apply itself to the enforcement of regular methods, and upon a constitutional plan of the institution in which the defect is first felt and complained of, I am sure that these efforts would be crowned with success: and in such efforts I, at least, should be a willing fellow labourer."

The Assembly replied with guarded distance—.

"We shall be prepared to give the fullest consideration to the important returns to which your Excellency refers, whenever they shall have been laid before us. Until, however, we are afforded an opportunity of considering these returns, we do not feel ourselves in a condition to offer such an opinion, either upon them or upon the state of the public finances, as would become us in the responsible posi- tion in which we stand."

The Governor's remarks about retrenchment they answered in their former style of argument and remonstrance. "A desire to reduce the expenditure com- mensurately with the public means, must tend to give confidence rather than to engender distrust; whilst the continuance' on the other hand, of an annual expen- diture involving a yearly accumulation of debt, must necessarily tend to diminish confidence in the resources of the co!ony, and materially to affect the public credit." Touching a specific proposal by the Governor, they said—" We regret that cir- cumstances should have arisen in the late Assembly to cause the suspension of the ordinary parochial revenue: we cannot, however, agree with your Excellency that it would be wise to confer on the Justices and Vestry, or the freeholders of each parish, the power of levying a discretionary tax on the parishioners for parochial purposes. We are strongly of opinion, that the distinction which has hitherto been recognized between public and parochial taxation, except for the purposes of providing for the wants of the church and poor, should be abolished; and we hope that we shall be afforded an early opportunity of considering by what means this salutary change can be most advantageously and economically carried out."

In conclusion, they reiterate their declaration of the pressing necessity fur searching economy in every department; while nevertheless they would be willing and ready "to give due consideration to all such measures of legislation as are necessary to the public good, for the protection of life and property, and the sup- port of public credit; and we shall be teady to grant such supplies as may be necessary for these purposes, so far as the diminished resources of the colony will warrant."

A general feeling prevailed that there must be another dissolution, oti i prorogation till the Governor ehould obtain histrnctions from the Imperial Government.

The accounts from Demerara extend to the 4th September: they are- without interest ; the Court of Policy having adjourned-pending the election of the new members in room of those Whose resignation Wan descriled last week.

The Trinidad news extends to the 6th September. The Board of Co.. eil had, after a three-days debate on the estimates, agreed, in consequence of the distressed state of the island, to resolutions recommending consider- able retrenchments in the fixed expenditure, with a revision of the civil list, a redaction of the salaries of officials, and the abolition of certain, offices; which, would effect a saving of more than 3,0001. per annum to the colony. Besides these recommendations the non-official section carried another, that there should be henceforward one Judge instead of two; one Judge being held to be fully sufficient to perform the whole judicial busi- ness of the colony. The sum of 4,0001. had been placed on the estimates. to meet the further expense of Indian immigration.

In Tobago, whence the advices reach to the 5th September, an order of the Queen in Council, recently promulgated, confirmed a local enactment authorizing the appointment of Commissioners empowered to borrow from. her Majesty's Treasury, either in Exchequer-bills or cash, a sum not ex- ceeding 50,0001.

HAYTI.—Singular news is communicated by the Feuille du Commerce of Port an Prince: the title and dignity of " Emperor " has been conferred by the Senate and Chamber of Representatives on President Soulouque. The proceeding originated in an address to the Legislature "covered with sig- natures," which " demanded, in the name of the people, the title and dig- nity of Emperor for the President of Hayti." This took place on the 24th of August: military petitions, signed by the general officers colonels, and subordinate officers, who were in the capital, seconded the address, on the 25th.

"On the same day, [the 25th,) the Chamber, after having examined the pe- tition, brought in a bill conferring the title and dignity of Emperor on the Presi- dent of Hayti. The day after, the 26th, in the morning, the Senate adopted it

"Immediately thereafter' that body went to the Palace, where the Representa- tives and civil and military functionaries were already assembled. The Emperor and Empress did not delay in making their appearance. The President of the- Senate then placed the imperial crown on the head of the Chief of the State, and placed a cross of gold at his button-hole. Next he placed around the neck of the. Empress a chain of great value; after which the shouts of Viva l'Empereur!' reechoed in the hall. M.Larochel delivered an address to the Emperor, to which he briefly replied.

"The public functionaries then accompanied their Majesties to the parish- church, where a Te Deum was immediately chanted. For several evenings sub- sequently the city was illuminated." The new Emperor's first proclamation to his subjects must be kept as a curiosity.

"Liberty, Equality. "Empire of Hayti. "Proclamation Co the People and the Army,ky Faustin Soulouque, Emperor of Havti. "Haytians! The faithful organs of the nation, the Chamber of Representa- tives and the Senate by a spontaneous vote have conferred on me the title of Ern-.

peror. The slave of country which has confided to me its destinies, for whose glory and happiness there is no sacrifice I am not ready to consummate, it is my duty to accept without hesitation, but with thp deepest sentiment of devotion, the new burden imposed upon me. "Full of confidence in the Suprems Will,- which on two so/emn.occasions has evinced for me its benign solicitude, I preserve the happy hope of being able ear- thily to respond to your expectation, by maintaining all the institutiops which guarantee the rights of citizens, by causing order and peace to reign in the em- pire, by assuring the triumph of the principles of liberty and equality, and by maintaining at the price of all possible sacrifileS the independence of the country 'Ind the integrity and indivisibility of its territory. " Haytians! The Legislative body will at once be called on to engage in the revision of the constitutional compact, in order to put it in harmony with the new order of things. I will observe its prescriptions, and cause them to be observed;. I swear it betore God and man.

" Haytians! Let the new sera which opens before us be marked by the most complete fusion of hearts; let it cause all passions to be silent, if any still exist among us; and let us all join the hands of reconciliation on the altar of the- country.

" Vivent Liberty and Equality! Vivent Union and Concord ! Viva lode- dependence! Vivo the Empire of Hayti, one and indivisible! " Given at the Imperial Palace, Port-au-Prince, 26th August 1849, in the forty-sixth year of independence, and the first of our reign. "By the Emperor, &c. S0111.011413E." In a postscript, of the 17th, the writer adds-

" Yesterday, after the receipt of the collateral note of the English and French Ambassadors, a Council of Ministers was held; when it was unanimously resolved, that nothing should be changed in the resolutions previously adopted. The pro- ce.s verbal of the deliberations, signed by all the members, with the exception of the Physician-in-chief Abduthag-Effenal, who is devoted to Russia, and who was not present, was immediately sent to the Palace, and approved and confirmed by the Sultan. Thus the refusal of the Porte to yield to the ultimatum of Russia and Austria is definitive•' and General Aupick today sends off an express packet to meet the Telemaque at Athens, and convey intelligence to his Government of- what has taken place."

UNITED STATES AND CANADA.—By the arrival of the Niagara at Liver- pool, -on Tuesday, advices are brought from New York to the 19th Sep- tember, and from Montreal to the 17th. From New York the Matter of chief political interest is a sudden interruption of diplomatic relations be- tween the United States and France. The New York Herald states with brevity and clearness the origin and progress of the difference. Soon after M. Ponssin arrived in Washington, he opened a diplomatic corre- spondence with the then Secretary of State, Mr. Buchanan, on two points,—" first, a more intimate and beneficial commercial treaty between France and the United -States, on the basis of a generous reciprocity, which might increase the, trade of the two Republics beyond what it has been of late years; next, a claim-put forth- by certain French citizens in Vera Cruz, whose property there, during the bom- bardment by General Scott, had been injured or destroyed, amounting to 860,000. dollars by one estimate, or 2,150,000 dollars by another estimate. The old Admin- istration, that of Mr. Polk, received these propositions with courtesy, but referred M. Poussin to the new powers, who were soon to come.in with General Taylor."' On the accession of General Taylorand the appointment of his Cabinet, the negotia- tions were renewed. "Nothing of any consequence took place on the subject of a coin- mercial treaty ; but a very bitter and sarcastic eorrespoodence was the result of the notes on the claim put forth for the loss of French property destroyed by the bombardrnentof Vera !Una under the command of General Scott. Mr: Clayton, on the part of our ,Governmept, refused to admit the claim: M Pottisin Maisted on its validity, and interspersed some yerypungent allusions to the 'hornier and honesty of the French Government in paying up the American dolma onTranee seine years ago, after the insulting correspondence. of Mr. Riven ;towards the French Government. At these allusions Mr. Clayton teols.ffra, and, Ander ad- vice, made a direct .cenanunication with the Freoch Government thrppgh opt Minister in Paris, demanding of Louis Napoleon that :hi ihoiactrecall M Penssina or the American Government would hold his passports in readiness _for his am_ ceptance. To this demand and intimation the French President fired up, and has Oven a negative reply, and may probably treat Mr. Rives as we are going to treat

M. Flamm. Louis Napoleon is satisfied with the conduct of his Minister here, and will not recall him. No alternative is left to the Government at Washington

from the first stand taken; and of course M. Poussiia will receive his passports and return to France. M. Poussin, accordingly, who has been in this city up to easterday, went to Washington in the afternoon, and will reach the capital today, 'tolearn what further steps to take." The &raid says the quarrel is simply about etiquette and courtesy, and "by any two men of common sense in any honest business street, would tc settled, even without oysters, in half an hour." "If Mr. Clayton and

the Cabinet think they can make themselves popular with the American people by quarrelling with the French Republic on a paltry claim, or sym- pathizing with the despotism of Spain in Cuba, they may make the greatest blunder they have yet done. At best, all this is but a tempest in a tea- pot." The "Cuban hunters" assembled at Round Island remained in their encampment, but without probable chance of keeping their expedition much longer on foot. The advices from Havana are of the same contra- dictory character as by last mail,—rumours of insurrection on the one hand, which on the other hand are unnoticed in the papers and correspondence of the places mentioned as insurgent. The rumours are considered to be "expeditionary inventions." The activity and preparation of the Cuban authorities have, however, been commensurate to their idea of the danger; and the prevalent impression in the United States was that the whole af- fair was defunct.

Californian news of the 31st July is brought by the United States mail. From the letters of the Times's "own correspondent," which now regularly

arrive, we have authentic relation of the continuously developing mineral wealth of the country. "I have conversed," says this writer, "with several gentlemen, some of whom I have known in other parts of the world for years, just returned from the gold regions, and must believe their reports on the subject. They all agree in assigning to the country vast if not in- exhaustible wealth in gold." The lawless proceedings of the "rowdies" and "hounds," which have been spoken of at former dates, had lately re- ceived an effectual check from the orderly part of the population in San Francisco. A gang of the "rowdies" made an unprovoked attack on an encampment of Chillana, under pretence of a national grudge and hostility; the Chilians were seized and beaten with savage cruelty, and one old man was killed on the spot; all their property was destroyed or carried off.

The steady part of the populace rose next day, and made an organized pur- suit of the band who had committed these outrages; upwards of twenty were captured, lodged in the American frigate Warren, and put upon trial.

The prosecution was regularly conducted, with counsel against and for the prisoners: it ended in the conviction of several of them, and their sentence to periods of long imprisonment with hard labour. At the departure of the mail to America, an organization of volunteers was in progress, to preserve order. - The Canadian papers state that Sir Alan iiil`Nab had arrived, bearer of the [apocryphal] intelligence that the English Government had granted several millions of money for railroads and public improvements. One writer mentions as a good thing, that Lord Elgin had arrived at the Niagara Falls without any disturbance or "