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FRANCE.—The Duke and Dutchesa of Montpensier arrived at Pau on the afternoon of the 29th October. They were received with acclamation.

Having graciously responded to an -address presented by the Mayor, the

bridal pair proceeded to the chateau. Here the young ladies of Pan pre- sented the customary basket of flowers; Mademoiselle Castelnau, -the

daughter of the first Deputy Mayor, delivering an address. As her Royal Highness could not speak French, she was forced to resort to the language love, saluting the fair spokeswoman on the check. 'The travellers had of reached Bordeaux on Saturday, and were received With the same welcomes; official and popular. In the evening, the Prince gave a grand dinner to the principal public functionaries, and afterwards went with the Dutchess to a ball given in honour of .their arrival by the. Municipality and the merchants.

A Royal ordinance, published in the official Honiteur of Friday, allots a sum of 300,000 francs to the Foreign Office for unforeseen and ex- traordinary " secret expenses." This announcement has caused much ex- citement amongst the journalists; who seemed to think a second "extraor- dinary credit" more_than extraordinary.

The Conservative party, which had always had a majority of two-thirds of the members in the Council-General of Paris, sustained a complete dee

feat in the election of the President and Secretary of that body, on 'Mon- day. M. Arago, the Opposition candidate, was returned President, by 20 votes against 17 given to M. _Aube; and M. Lejemptel, Secretary, by 22 votes. " This result," observes.the " was the more significant as the Prefect of the Seine had used all his influence to prevent the nomination of MM. Arago and Lejemptel."

The return of the waters to their proper channels, and the consequedtt reopening of the communications, have further disclosed the horrors of the late inundation. Of ten floods recorded between 1755 and 1845, none equalled in height and force the recent one.

Official documents declare that the loss.of houses carried away, at Dianne alone, amounts to two hundred; and the record of the number is daily augmented. Not fewer than two thousand persons are without food or raiment; and to this amount must be added sixty families belooging to the neighbouring communes.

The little commune of Epercieu St.-Paul,-near Feurs, has lostforty-two houses out of ninety-one. Upwards of forty important domains have been ravaged be- tween Montfrond and k'eurs, on the two banks of the Loire. At Yanchetto, all the inhabitants of the lower .grounds were forced to fly; and scarcely had they esca when their houses were inundated. The water was in general three feet big than in November 1790.

The King, Queen, and Royal Family, have placed 120,000 francs at-the disposal of the Minister of Comtherce for the use of the sufferers. The journals publish many liberal subscriptions, including one from the Hank of France of 25,000 francs. The. Archbishop of Paris has called onabes clergy of his diocese to make collections in their churches. The Moniteur publishes a 'Royal ordinance authorizing the Minister of Finance io open an extraordinary credit of 200,000 francs to be applied-in

reorganizing the service of the mails interrupted by the overflow of • the Allier and Loire, and indemnifying the postmasters who suffered most-from the inundation.

The Minister of Public Works has received a general estimate of the probable cost of the rebuilding of the bridges which have been carried away by the inundations, and of the works.that will be necessary to pre- vent the recurrence of -similar-disasters. It is said-that the sum necessary will be 65,000,000 francs [2;600,0001.]

The Marseilles Courtier of the 29th October. makes the following statement- " The favourable weather of yesterday has brought into our port a ems iderabie

number of vessels laden with-corn. In the course of the evening 18 entered on quarantine, and 28 with a clean bill of health. 'Letters from Constantinople, by the last packet, state that 115 vessels, laden with corn, had sailed-for-Marseilles.

Seams—The most important news from Madrid is that of an unsuccess- ful attempt at insurrection in Saragossa on the 26th October. The details, however, are of no interest. There was some firing, -but no damage.to life or limb.

There were rumours of a hfinisterial_crisis; but implicit reliance must not be placed upon reports emanating from parties _having an interest in making the -worst of matters.

The Duke of Saragossa had been superseded in the command of the corps of.Halberdiers; and-the correspondent of the Times-mentions the fact that both the Duke and Narvaez had subscribed to the -hind for erecting at monument to record the victory gained over the.French at Baylen, as in- dicating that they disapprove of the French alliance.

Among other 'Palace gossip, it may be mentioned that "-the Queen-mo- ther does not reside under the same roof with the Queen; and that her visits to the. Palace have for some days .become rare, owing to one or. two of her [bastard] daughters being laid, up with a cutaneousdisease which is .contagious."

.Two sums of 0300,000 reals are stated to have been sent as a-subsidy to Portugal; and troops were .gradually concentrating on the Portuguese -frontier.

-Among the incidents of the return from the marriage-feast, must not be omitted an adventure which befel the popular fenilletoniste--

-" M. Dumas, with some brother artistes, left Toledo the night before last for Aranjuez, on an understanding with the mayoral of the carriage they had hired that they were to sleep at a place called Villa Mayor. On arriving at Villa Mayor at midnight, shivering with cold and hungry as mere mortals, they were informed, to their dismay, that they could not be lodged there, and they must continue their pilgrimage. In the mean time, they observed a part' of men who were amusing themselves at cards, or who were pretending to do so, in the posada, before whose inhospitable doors they were standing. They also remarked that the mayoral turned aside, and remained in earnest conversation with them some mi- nutes. On leaving for Aranjuez, three of the voyageurs set of on foot, leaving the others to follow with the carriage. They were armed, and had not proceeded far onwards when they heard a load shout for assistance, and their own names repeatedly called. They turned back, and found their carriage upset on the road-side, broken to pieces, and some of their friends struggling to get disen- tangled from the harness. As they approached, they saw a party of six men suddenly make their appearance, armed with guns. On seeing the Frenchmen also armed, and being inferior in number, they neither attempted to commit vio- lence nor did they wait to have it committed on themselves: they made off as fast as they could, without attempting to do anything. M. Dumas and his friends took the mules from the csrmuge1 and made the best of their way to To- ledo, without staying to cast a glance behind them. The mayoral went off with the men, who were no doubt his accomplices, without even asking for fourteen dollars, the amount of the carriage-hire."

Poirrucar,.—The progress of the revolution in Portugal is characterized by the usual feeble inefficiency. At Lisbon everything was quiet. By the help of a loan of 70,0001. from the Bank, the Queen's-Volunteers had been organized. The object was to liberate the regular troops for action against the insurgents. The King has received the appointment of Commander- in-chief of the army. The Prince of Portugal and Prince of Porto, aged respectively ten and eight, have been converted, the former into a soldier, ander the title of Honorary Colonel of the Queen's Grenadiers, the latter into a sailor of the • Guardia Marinha. The accounts to the 24th describe the Queen and King to be firm; her Majesty even speaking at times of placing herself on horseback at the head of the army!

Four regiments, under General Vinhaea, were marching against Oporto. In that city the insurgents were strengthening themselves. " The Supreme Junta of Government" and the Conde das Antas had issued manifestoes calling for the dismissal of the present and the restoration of the former Ministry. An armed corvette had arrived at the mouth of the Douro, sent from Lisbon to form a blockade. The Duke de Terceira and the other liriseners had been moved from the Castle of Foz to the Relaseao prison, within the city.

Coimbra, Evora, Faro,Braza, and Penafiel, had all "pronounced" against the Government: at the two latter places the popular declaration was in favour of Don Miguel.

There appeared reason to doubt the disposition of the army. It was said that only six regiments of infantry out of sixteen could be depended upon by the Queen; of eight regiments of caeadores, only one; the cavalry, consisting of' eight regiments, was equally divided between the Queen and the people; and of two out of the four regiments of artillery who supported the Queen, one was described to be in a bad state of discipline.

A report was current that the Conde des Antes had entered Coimbra on the 20th, with 2,500 men, and that he was marching against the capital. It was also rumoured. that Viscount Sit da Bandeira had joined the insur- gents. Advices to the 30th October, however, mention that two considerable actions had taken place between the Queen's troops and the insurgents, in which.the latter were defeated. In one of these encounters, at Vials, the Queen's troops were commanded by the Visconde de Setubal. Baron (laza was the leader of the other victorious detachment from Tras-os- Mentes. He was to advance on Oporto on the 27th instant.

By a decree published in the Diario, the Queen leas divested Louie, Das Antsts, Sit da Bandeira, anclFornos, noble insurgent leaders, of their titles, ',dignities, and decorations. ' Orders are said to have been issued by the Marquis of Saldanha to seize and detain the Canals as prisoners, should they be found on board the Hoyal Tar steamer. Admiral Parker, with the whole of his squadron, had entered the Tagus.

Swiersur-elen.—The last accounts mention that the Grand Council of Geneva' had refused to accept the resignation of the members of the Pro- visional Government. It had approved all the acts of their administration, and invited them to continue in the discharge of their duties. On the other hand, the Governments of Lucerne and Zurich had notified to the other Cantons that they did not recognize the authorities established by the Revolution of Geneva.

GERMANY —A letter from Posen, dated. the 17th October, mentions that an association formed in that place, under the patronage of the !Mg of Prussia, for establishing Jewish colonies, has purchased land to the value of 25,0001. The number of Jews who have demanded per- mission to be received is about 3,300; several of whom have some funds of their own.

Tunny.—Accounts have been received from Constantinople to the 17th October. The proceedings in reference to the Armenian priest to whose case we have already referred has led to a serious misunderstanding between the Porte and the American Legation. It will be remembered that the American Minister had afforded protection to an Armenian priest who had been delivered up to the Austrian authorities for conveyance to Rome. The priest escaped, however, at Smyrna, and took refuge in the house of an American missionary, by whose aid ho has since got away to America_

Wear Innres.—By.the mail-steamer Thames, which arrived on Wed- nesday, advises have been received from Havannah of a tremendous -hurricane which raged on the 11th of October. Out of some hundred sail, the Habanero, Spanish brig-of-war, the Thames, the English brig William Rushton, and two or three others, were the only vessels riding in safety at the termination of the gale. Eighty-eight were wrecked or damaged; the list of vessels destroyed including three French war-ships, and nine Spanish 'brigs or schooners of war. The sheers at the Navy Yard were blown down-' the wharfs torn up and covered with wrecked property. The city suffered comparatively little; but the suburbs, especially the Cerro, .Holmon, Colon, and San Swam, very severely. In -Regis, the damage done was frightful: from the rains of one house were dug eleven _corpses. The total -number of lives lost could not be 'known, but it is_ guessed at about one hundred. Many must have been drowned. At

the height of the gale the barometer was down to 27.70; in the hurricane of 1844 it was 28.42.

In Jamaica, the question of the Sugar-duties had been taken up with warmth and spirit, but at the same time with considerable temper. There appeared to be a strong feeling that there ought to be an alteration of the Navigation-laws and a reduction of local taxation. A disposition was evinced to meet the altered state of things by new exertions, to cultivate on the best principles, and to effect such a change by a reduction of local charges, freedom of shipping-laws, and improved agriculture, as should enable the colonist to compete with slave-produce.

Rio DE ids Peam.—Letters have been received from Rio Janeiro to the 15th September. Mr. Hood was at Monte Video, making preparations for his departure; his mission having been concluded, and it was reported ath tisfactorily so, at Buenos Ayres. Some slight difficulties arc said to have occurred at Monte Video; but there was every prospect of an arrangement taking place.