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ofram.—The Emperor and Empress have gone to live quietly at Villeneuve rEtang near St. Cloud. Thence the Emperor has gone daily to Paris to transact business.

The Moniteur of Sunday, besides the article on Germany, contained a decree ordering the apportionment among the de- partments of the 100,000 conscripts for this year of the class of 18.58. It is remarked that, while in ordinary times 80,000, and sometimes even 40,000 only, are apportioned, on the present occasion the. whole contingent is called out.

The ifimorial Diplotnatique was suppressed withoub warning on Sa- turday. Early this week the embargo was removed, because it was ille- gal. The Emperor, it is said, can suppress a journal by a decree in his council of Ministers, but not by simply sending a police agent to a print- ing. office.. On-the other hand, an Italian weekly literary journal, the (Jourrier Franco-lialien, of which Colonel G. Carini is the redacteur en chef, has received permission, by the express orders of the Emperor, to appear as a daily political paper.

It is stated that the Emperor will shortly visit Lyons. Five steam frigates, says the Moniteur, started on Thursday for different parts in Algeria. Admiral de la Graviere has been summoned to Paris. M. Artisan, the great Bordeaux shipbuilder, has been sent to England on a special mission.

Lady Cowley has departed for Baden-Baden, but Lord Cowley re- mains at Paris—very busy.

At the second sitting of the Conferences on the Danubian affairs, the representatives of Austria and the Porte, on the reading of the protocol a the first sitting, demanded certain modifications, by reason of which a third meeting will take place.

/Stn.—Pending the appeal to arms, the rumours of the day in the Italian papers are still warlike. Many journals have denied that youths of high family of the various states of Italy were enrolling themselves under the Piedmontese standard ; and a high personage, the representa- tive of a foreign court, assured Cavour that it was fabulous, and that the recruits were of the lowest class. Cavour made no reply, but invited the diplomatist to accompany him a short distance, conducted him to the cavalry quarters, and had the satisfaction of presenting to him, one by one, a great number of young men belonging to the first families of Italy who were engaged in attending to their horses. The diplomatiet must indeed be obstinate if he did not change his opinion in favour of Italy.

The Echo of the Cottian A4aft reports that the conscripts of the light • cavalry volunteers took the oath on the 3d, in the cathedral of Pinerolo, before a multitude of people, who exhibited great emotion. When " I swear" was uttered, the greatest sympathy and excitement were mani- fest among the spectators. An order of the day from °inlay to the Austrian troops in Lombardy was sent to the Opinione from Milan, summoning the soldiers in ardent terms to war with Piedmont, and exciting them to subdue her pride. Another number of the same journal attests its authenticity in answer to those who in consequence of its inopportuneness held it to be doubtful; but it still remains of doubtful authenticity. The Independents contains a notice to the effect that there are 6000 Austrians at Brescia, and some thousands in each of the Lombardi' cities, to keep the population in check in case of a sudden outbreak of war. The same journal says that the Austrians are continually march- ing and counter-marching in the country, and that the 180,000 men re- puted to be stationed there may be reduced at least one-sixth, the former. number being a great exaggeration. The Corriere Mereantik says that Austria has obtained loans from the sovereigns of Italy. It is not known what Naples, Tuscany, and Perm!' gave. But the Archduke Maximilian &Este gave twenty millions of ' Austrian lire; the Duke of Modena six millions ; the Melzi family even gave a million and a half, with a promise of giving as much more. The Staffetta reports from Milan that the municipality had received ' orders to prepare lodgings in private houses for 14,000 men and it is com- puted that the soldiers in Milan and the neighbourhood will soon amount to pretty near 40,000. According to the Unione at the railways of Lont- bardo-Venetia orders had been received to suspend the goods traffic until the 15th instant, and keep the lines at the disposal of Government for military transports. The Government of Rome, says a correspondent of the attain() d 'Asti; encounters the greatest difficulties. It both desires and dreads the eva- cuation of the foreign troops ; it equally fears congress and war, and dein` not refuse passports to the young men who wish to go to Piedmont, for fear of the consequences. The projects of forming an Irish guard, of- Spanish intervention, of establishing a system of conscription, and lastly of appealing to the Catholic states for troops, have all vanished one after the other. The Government trembles, the people exult; and the young men, among whom are not a few of patrician class, are hastening to Piedmont. A correspondent from Naples writes to the Corriere Mercantile titat • there is great agitation and disquietude in the middle and lower classes, and that all think and act as if the death of the King were at hand, as it no doubt is. In official circles a regency has been talked of. The Grand Duke Constantine is looked upon with dislike because he does not con- ceal his wish to see the kingdom constitutional.

The Cittadino d'Asti says that the Liberal party at Naples, propose to draw up a programme in favour of Italian independence. A correspon- dent writes to the Nord that the most rigid examination is made of the young men who demand passports from Messina, Palermo or Naples, to Malta, as it is found that some afterwards leave that dead for Pied- mont. Strict watch is also kept over merchant vessels, it having been discovered that young men were taken on board along the coast to be conveyed to Piedmont The Duke of Calabria, adds the same correspem. dent, travelled to Naples in a close carriage by order of the Queen, amt guarded by gendarmes and police agents, as if he had been a criminal,' in order to prevent him from seeing or conversing with any person: From other Italian journals it appears that the Queen is intriguing in favour of her son on the approaching demise of the King, whose com- plaint has been pronounced incurable by five physicians. The officiat- journal, of the two Sicilies, without referring to his health, says that he"- had presided at a State Council. He is now on the point of death and prayers are offered for him at Naples and Rome.

it II .—Adviees have been received from Constantinople via Mara

Bellies to the 6th April. Delegates have arrived from Samos coma miasioned to declare to the Porte that the inhabitants of that island are unwilling to recognize the newly -appointed Governor Aristarchi. The delegates invoke their local liberties, and threaten to elect a native • Prince in case their protest should not be accepted. It is said that Eng. land supports the nomination of Aristarehi. Advices from the Danu- bian Principalities report that the Grand Duke Michael, brother of the Czar, is about paying a visit to Prince Couza. It is also announced that the commercial crisis is becoming more serious in Moldavia and Walla- chia, and that numerous firms have failed. A military camp has been formed at Sophia, destined for the surveillance of all movements in Ser- via and Bulgaria.

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5 II ki 11.—The Calcutta mail, with advices to March 9, arrived in London on Wednesday. Tantia Tepee had got as far as Bundelcnnd, hoping, it was thought, to rally the insurgents in the jungles there. A body of rebels under Hummunt Singh had suddenly fallen upon three European railway officials. They killed two, Mr. Evans and Mr. Lint- nel ; the third, Mr. Campbell, escaped to Allahabs.d. Signs of mutiny ' In the remnants of the old &Toy army were still visible. The non;rcitt ture of Nana Sahib and the successful efforts of Tantia Topee to his pursuers, have had a bad effect on the morale of the people. "C. I). L." in the _Daily News of Thursday, draws a very gloonly picture of our prospects in India, and pourtrays the state of the army and the civil administration in the darkest hues.

The Calcutta correspondent of the Times says the Government has de:• termined to double the customs duties.

"The resolution will be announced on the 13th instant. and I understand the main features of the new tariff will be as follows—Manchester goods to pay 5 per cent • tea, coffee, tobacco, spices, haberdashery, grocery, and some other articles, 20 per cent ; malt liquor, 4a. (6d.) a gallon ; wines, 2r a gallon; spirits, 3r. a gallon ; and everything not mentioned 10 per cent, ad-valorem. In exports, bullion, horses, cotton sugar, tobacco, rum, roll raw silk are made or left free, while a tax of ,2a. (31.) per maund of 2! 0 pounds, 314woispiutseedwhionchabill ngrozinb,e 4itpererniceemntbeorner ad monopoly. and 4.00. rTh. aocarsniteaot

sures, none of which involve any injury to trade or the slightest popular feeling, will produce, it is calculated, 1,300,000/. an addition of real value. The rates quoted have been adjusted with remarkable skill, and I question if there will be any public opposition. The natives do not care, and the Europeans have repeatedly expressed their willingness to see the revenue thus increased. The Government is strongly urged to add a half-farthing a pound to the salt-tax, which would produce 500,0001. at once, and to double the excise on country spirit. The first resource will not, I think, be adopt- ed, Government fearing the philanthropists who denounce a tax of a half- penny a pound on salt as an iniquitous impost. The second is more popu- lar, the natives considering taxes on spirits as not only just but in a high degree beneficial. Indeed, as every native will inform on a distiller, or, for that matter, hang him without the smallest compunction, there is scarcely a limit to this form of taxation except the means of the drinking classes. At present it costes. man exactly two farthings to make himself thoroughly drunk, and, as the number who avail themselves of the privilege increases year by year, taxation becomes a healthy moral agent. The dislike of an English Mrs. Caudle for boozing' is languid compared with the hate of a true Hindoo for a drinker or a drinkseller, but the low classes are year by year sliding into a habit which we carry with us all over the world."

t EU fa IL—The Governor-General of Canada gave his assent to the new Tariff Bill on the 26th, and it would go into effect immediately.

glutei Ala iti.—The Weser arrived at Southampton on Wednes- day, with advice, from New York to the 2d April. A great many reports have been received respecting the operations of Sir Gore Ouseley. Advises from Washington state that General Lamar's despatches to the State Department, corroborated by those received at the British Legation, announced the ratification of one of the Ouseley Treaties with Nicaragua, and, at the same time, explains the cause of the failure to ratify the Cass-Yricarri Treaty. The two instruments were originally alike, but Sir William Gore Ouseley, having discretion- ary power, consented to a slight modification in accordance with the suggestion of the Nicaraguan Government General Lamar, on the contrary, was trammelled by definite instructions which he could not exceed. At last adviees the Ouseley Treaty, providing for the relin- quishment of the Mosquito Protectorate, was under consideration. It W58 said at Washington that Sir Gore Ouseley had violated in Nicaragua the solemn understanding between the British Government and the United States, and that the President would interfere, notwithstanding the refusal of Congress to grant extraordinary powers. This is a news- paper report. Another is that Sir Gore Onseley would shortly leave Central America and be accredited to the 'United States.