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ST Ital.—The principal events in France will be found elsewhere; but some remain to be chronicled under this head. Thus the Finance Commission of the Legislative Body called upon the Government to say whether the budget is seriously meant as a peace budget, as they could not be expected to occupy themselves with any but bona fide estimates, and they cannot believe that they will be called upon to vote supple- mentary credits. They repeat they cannot believe that any addition to the ordinary expenditure will be demanded, particularly as they know of no just cause and of no just pretext for war. The Commission is named by the whole Chamber, and the Chamber is assumed to represent the nation ; we may therefore consider the declaration of the Commission as the ex- act expression of the wishes of the country.

The Meniteur of Saturday contained the following curious paragraph.

"Public opinion in forei_,,n countries does not clearly understand the pre- sent regime of the press in France. The belief appears to prevail too gene- rally that the journals are subjected to a previous censorship, and thus an importance is ascribed to them which is unfounded. The administration it ought to be known, has no preventive action as regards the press. The public should, therefore, be on its guard against the inductions founded on the language of the journals, Whenever a grave question presents itself, or an important act is accomplished, the government addresses itself directly to the nation through the official journal. That is a duty which it has al.

wars imposed on itself, and which it will accomplish the more scrupulously under present circumstances, as public opinion Is now more than ever taken unawares and misled.

Considering the interference of authority in all that concerns the press this is rather a strong statement. Does the French Government expect that it will be believed?

M. Rouher has succeeded Prince Napoleon as ad interim Minister of Algeria and the Colonies. The Prince had named M. Chasseloup Lan- bat for the post. It is said that the experienced politician has not ac- cepted the offer.

Sill 11.—Some general items of news are furnished by the Italian papers. A military school for the youth of other states has been opened at Ivrea in Piedmont. Two schools have been closed at Milan, the lads proving umanageable. It is said that many parents of fugitive conscripts have Chinese fashion, been made responsible for the flight of their sons, and Les have been imposed upon them. The Austrians are fortifying Pavia, Piacenza, and the line of the Ticino and aceumulating heavy guns there. Fugitives from other parts of Italy continue to arrive in Piedmont. Garibaldi is organizing the National Guard. The Sardinian loan has been subscribed in Piedmont itself with the greatest ease.

The Opinione says, that so numerous were the subscribers to the loan at Turin that many retired after having waited all day. Among those who offered themselves were patricians bankers, merchants, eoclenastice, military men servants, and every class of citizens, so that the sub- scription is truly national. We learn from the telegraph that in the provinces the subscriptions are numerous and considerable. The Corrimw Mercantile reports the same of Genoa, and calls attention as an unheard of fact, with regard to public loans, to the small quotas of mechanics and persons of the lowest condition.

The Pope, it is asserted, is striving to reconcile Naples and France. He talks of relying upon Swiss bayonets for protection.

The Corriere Mercantile reports, through a Neapolitan correspondent., that the state of the King is still involved in mystery and every one is afraid to speak of it. His complaint appears to be Inflammation of the heart passed into a state of serosity, or degenerated into hydrothorax. The road from Naples to Bari is still lined with troops of gendarmerie to the annoyance of passengers. The Minister Carafe, who like the other Ministers was simply an employe of the King, keeps himself retired, and and receives no one, not knowing what to do for fear of displeasing the King. The affairs of Government are in complete disorder.

SEnttIIII4.—The son of the Prince and Princleas Frederick William was baptized in the Chapel of the Royal Palace at Berlin on Saturday. The Prince Regent held the baby at the font while his mother witnessed the ceremony from the door of a room opening on the chapel. The name given to the boy was Frederick William Victor Albert. Several princes of the house of Prussia and Saxe-Coburg were present. The name of the Emperor of Russia, is but the name of the Kmperor of Aus- tria is not among the list of sponsors. In the evening the town was illuminated; 30,000 jets of gas blazing before the Hotel de Ville. The Prince and Princess have issued a very graceful and affectionate note of thanks to the Prussian people.

A letter from Dresden says, that "the Saxon military administration is actively employed at present. Orders have been given for 20,000 pair of boots, and other articles required by the troops. All the soldiers on leave of absence, who are by trade either tailors or shoemakers, have been ordered to rejoin their regiments."

6111i iftrlant.—The Federal Council in the sitting of the 6th Mardi unanimously decided upon defending and upholding by every means in its power the integrity and neutrality of the Swiss territory. A resolution was also voted to extend the measures for defending the country, in case of need, and in accordance with the treaties to such part of Savoy as might be found necessary, in order to maintain the neutrality and in- tegrity of Switzerland. Communications relating to these resolutions are to be addressed to the different European Governments.

ntia..—The fuller details of the Bombay mail of the 0th February add some particulars not in the telegrams. Lord Canning has returned to Calcutta, and has assumed the title of "Viceroy and Governor-Gone- ral of India." Mr. Montgomery has been appointed to the Lieutenant- Governorship of the North-west Provinces, vice Sir John Lawrence, who returns to England by the first mail in March. It is expected that Mr. George Campbell will succeed Mr. Montgomery as Chief Commissioner in Gude.

Travancore has been the scene of serious caste disturbances. The population is composed mainly of two classes, the Soodras (Nairs) and the Shanars. The former are the chief landowners, and monopolise nearly all offices under the Sirear, to none of which is a Shanar, how- ever intelligent, ever admitted. As a body, though no doubt there are a few honourable exceptions, the Soodras are proud, oppressive, corrupt, and cowardly; ignorant in the extreme, scarcely ever leav- ing their own district, and treating the lower castes with great inso- lence and tyranny. On the other band, the Shanars have been for years increasing in intelligence wealth, and general respectability. Many have availed themselves of the education offered them, and many have put themselves under regular Christian instruction. In Southern India it is the custom for low caste females to go naked from the waist up- wards, and the Soodras have thought themselves justified, under the terms of the recent proclamation, in attempting to force Christian women of the Shanar caste to conform to the general practice. The attempt was very properly resisted under the advice of the missionaries, and the consequence is that many of the mission chapels have been burnt down, and an attempt made to strip Shanar women in public. The resident's bungalow at Nagercoil, some houses of Shaman at Tittoovilly, north of Nagereoil, amongst others that of the resident's gardener, have also been burnt But the worst affair that has happened is the burning down of between seventy and eighty houses inhabited by Roman Catholics, at Kotar, near Nagercoll. A woman and her child are said to have perished in the flames. The Army in Gude has been reduced from a total force of 35 regi- ments of infantry, 11 of cavalry, 28 companies or troops of Artillery, and 6 of Sappers, to 20 regiments of foot and 8 of cavalry, 17 companies or troops of Artillery, and 3 of Sappers. The Gude army is thus di- minished by more than one-third. The troops remaining are posted at

Luelmow, Seelapore, Fyzabad, Roy Barmily, Gazeepore and Gorrnek-

Fore. (Accra can now obtain furloughs, and the soldiers' curse, the stock," has been formally abolished. • *Mirk St a irL—Advices from New:York to the 22d February state that " Captain " Conic, the owner and commander of the yacht Wan- derer, who recently landed the cargo of slaves in Georgia, has been sum- marily expelled from the New York Yacht Club, of which he was a mem- ber, and the yacht erased from the list of the squadron. The resolution by which this act of justice was performed at the same time stigmatised the traffic in very strong terms, and .Corrie's conduct in Sharing in it in still stronger.