fforeign anti Tolonial.

FRAteCE.—We are happy to state that the Princess De Joinville was, at half-past twelve last night, safely delivered of a Princess, at Neuilly. Her Royal Highness and the infant Princess are both going on favourably. It is a curious coincidence that this is the anniversary of the Prince De Joinville's birthday. He enters today on his twenty-seventh year.— Galignanrs Messenger, Aug. 14.

Although the fact is almost incredible, the affair of the dotation is the only one which occupies the inhabitants of the Palace of Neuilly. The visiters to that palace, who are not numerous, are condemned to hear this important subject discussed ; and they can only avoid by a hasty retreat to hear described the necessities of the Duke De Nemours, who at this moment is travelling through France on the business of the state, but at his own expense.—National.

The correspondent of the Times mentions a curious trait of the French Anti-Anglican feeling: in 1832 and 1833, a Mr. Pritchard, then in Paris, was charged with some swindling and immoral conduct ; and now the Parisians lay that conduct at the door of the Mr. Pritchard whom their countrymen have warred against at Tahiti, and who has never been in France at all!

The Vigie de r Ouest publishes a letter from the Gambier Islands, dated 25th February, confirming previous reports that Admiral Dupetit Thonars had taken possession of that group in the name of his Go- vernment. The letter says that the people had embraced the Catholic religion, and that the chiefs agreed to place themselves under the pro- tectorate of France. Monocco.—The reports received in Paris are very contradictory, and change their aspect with every mail. Telegraphic despatches from Tangier, of the 2d and 3d instant, announced that the Emperor was travelling towards that place, in company with Mr. Drummond Hay, the British Chargé d'Affaires ; that he had appointed the Governor of Larache to negotiate on his part ' • that the Prince De Joinville had ap- pointed M. de Nyon ; and that hostilities were suspended. A despatch from Gibraltar, of the 5th, states, that in fact the Emperor had promised Mr. Hay that France and Spain should have the jest satisfaction which they demanded ; and that the French fleet was about to sail from Tan- gier for Gibraltar. On the other hand, the Toulonnais says that Marshal Bugeaud was preparing to take the offensive, with an army of 15,000 men ; and that he had ordered the Prince De Joinville to bombard Tangier at the pe- riod fixed by the ultimatum; while a letter from Port St. Mary says that the bombardment actually commenced on the 2d, and that passen- gers had gone in a steamer to see it ; a Cadiz journal of the 3d adding, that the sound of firing had been heard in that direction.

Meanwhile, according to the papers, France has made another move- ment on the Northern coast of Africa. On the 8th instant, orders were received at Toulon, that three ships of the line in that port should put to sea ; and they did so in twelve hours after the receipt of the order! At first it was assumed that their destination was Tangier ; but after- wards it was understood to be Tunis. The Paris Globe explains the reasons for the expedition- " The journals sonic time since mentioned that a Turkish fleet had left the Dardanelles on a cruise ; but since that time they have been lost sight of. This fleet, composed of seven sail of the line and four frigates, it appears, had made their appearance on the coast of Syria. When there, the Capitan Pacha sum- moned all the pilots on board his vessel, and inquired in a hat time they could take his fleet before Tunis, and on what points of that coast it would be pos- sible to effect a landing of troops. A short time after this consultation, the fleet left the coast of Syria, bearing away to the Westward. The Porte has for a long time entertained a wish to dispossess the Bey of Tunis, and to substitute for that independent sovereignty a Pacha appointed from Constantinople. France, on her side, has loudly expressed her intention to support the Bey of Tunis, and to prevent Turkey from establishing herself on the frontiers of Algeria. Hitherto the Porte has never dared to carry her plans into execution, but may at length have decided on it, thinking to take advantage of our dis- pute with Morocco. If such has been the idea of Turkey, she %ill again have reckoned without her host. The French Government, informed by telegraph of the departure of the Turkish fleet from the coast of Syria, sent orders for four ships of the line to sail from Toulon, under the command of Admiral Parseval Deschutes, to cruise before Tunis, and await the arrival of the Turkish squadron. The instructions given to the Admiral are in conformity with the constant policy of France : she will oppose the landing of any Turkish troops, and any attempt of the Capitan Pacha against the Bev of Tunis. In the event of the Turkish fleet making its appearance there, the French Admiral is ordered to make known his instructions to the Capitan Pacha ; to order him to keep off from the coast; and if he refuses, to bring him to action imme- diately."

GABOON.—Reference was made in the House-of Commons, last week, to the proceedings of the French at Gaboon, on the coast of Africa ; and Sir Robert Peel spoke slightingly of the complaints made by British merchants. The facts appear to be these. For upwards of a century British subjects have had factories there, and for upwards of thirty years the place has been considered a British possession ; its ebony, beeswax, and tortoiseshell, being admitted by our Customs at the differential du- ties allowed to such articles if imported from British colonies. The British flag has been hoisted there for many years, and it was still flying on the 5th April last. In March arrived Baron Daurican, in a French war- ship ; and he tried to obtain King Glass's sit-nature to a treaty of ces- sion ; but his Majesty declined to relinquish hissovereignty. M. Amo- roux, the master of a French merchant-ship, undertook to procure the required autograph: he landed with a bottle of rum, sought the mo- narch, and returned with the treaty signed. Next morning, being so- ber, Glass disavowed the treaty ; and, backed by his chiefs and subjects, he has appealed for aid against French aggression.

Ecyrr.—The following telegraphic despatch has reached the French Government ; but it needs some further explanation-

" Alexandria, 27th July.

.• His Highness the Viceroy has just abruptly left Alexandria; declaring that be renounces for ever Egypt and public affairs, and that he retires to Mecca. Ibrahim is at Alexandria ; which city is quiet."

The Malta Times, under the date of Beyrout, 16th July, makes this statement concerning our relations with Egypt ; and the korning Post " has reason to believe it to be correct"— "The Geyser brought us news that Sir H. Hardinge bad in three days com- pleted a treaty with Mehemet Ali, that the English Government guaranteed to himself, as well as to his descendants, the government of Egypt; and that no other power should interfere with him. In return, Mehemet Ali has treated, that the English Government should do as they liked in the country, and to protect all English subjects : he consents, moreover, to allow troops to go through Egypt whenever necessary. The railways from Cairo to Suez are to be commenced without loss of time ; and, in fact, the Pacha has become a com- plete Englishman." Hussein Bey, the son of Mehemet Ali, and Ahmet Bey, son of Ibrahim Pacha, have arrived at Marseilles, in the Egyptian steamer Reschid. They are under the care of Stephan Effendi; and are sent by the Viceroy, with thirty-six other youths of good family in Egypt, to be educated in France.

MALTA has been agitated by a case of scandal, in which questions o morals, religious and social, and of law, ecclesiastical and civil, have been mixed up in admired confusion. We abridge the tale from a longer account, which appeared in the Portaluylio Maltese ; premising, that the hero of it is condemned or excused by different papers accord- ing to their bias, and that by the Malta Ti»tes, an English Evangelical journal, he is treated as a persecuted man. Ten or twelve months ago, Don Michael Angelo Camilleri, a Maltese Roman Catholic priest, about thirty-five years of age, suddenly abandoned his country and his family ; and at the same time a widow, named Emanuela Fleri, also a Maitese Roman Catholic, and the mother of two young children by her late husband, Pubblio Fleri, likewise left the island. it was soon known that these two persona were united in marriage at Gibraltar, according to the rites of the Anglican Church. After their return to Malta, the right of constituting her- self guardian of the two children, in order to bring them up in the religion of their late father, was claimed by the paternal grandmother, .Evangelista Fleri; a right which she possesses by law. The case was decided, in the first instance, by the Judge of the Royal Civil Court, in favour of the grandmother; which decision was confirmed by the Royal Court of Appeal, by three other Judges. The sentence was now to be enforced; and the Marshal, Carmelo Spiteri, under a warrant issued by the Court, went to the house of Emanuele Fleri, to demand that the children should be delivered over to their paternal grand- mother, now become their guardian, according to the enactments of the law. The darshal did not expect resistance, and was unprepared to meet it. " The Reverend Michael Angelo Camilleri, however, after having acknowledged the commission of the Marshal and his assistant, seized a thick stick to strike them ; but, the stick being wrested from him after a scuffle, he called for his arms. The mother of the children (who, notwithstanding her tears and la- mentations, natural enough in a mother, would probably have obeyed the law had no one interfered or encouraged her) produced a gun, which was handed to a man-servant, who had by this time been called to the assistance of his master. It may easily be conceived what was the confusion and alarm when we state that this gun was loaded and had powder in the pan. Luckily, the officers of justice took it away from the servant without any accident ; and the Reverend M. A. Camilleri being put under restraint, the Marshal succeeded at length in the execution of his warrant. The orphans were then quietly de- livered into the hands of their paternal grandmother ; to whose house they were conveyed with every care and attention." The Marshal reported the affair to the Judge ; who ordered him to bring. it before the Police authorities. " On the following day, the facts were proved in the Police-court, in the pre- sence of the Reverend M. A. Camillert, who cross-examined the witnesses; and he was sentenced by the sitting Magistrate to undergo the very moderate punishment of twenty days' imprisonment." Even this punishment, however, censured in Malta for its leniency, was not carried out ; for the Executive in- terposed, and the Reverend M. A. Camilleri was released on paying the nomi- nal fine of 1/. 7s. 9d.; an indulgence, it is understood, obtained by the inter- cession of the Protestant Bishop.

The Portafoglio, which usually abstains from religious controversy, and treats the present case as an invasion of civil rights, observes- '. The impunity of the Reverend M. A. Camilleri, because he has become a Protestant, is a blow aimed at the institutions of the country, and the religion of the people, and will call down upon the Bishop of Gibraltar the odium of all classes. ' * • His Lordship may afford his protection to as many unhappy wanderers as he can press to his bosom, and he will never hear a word from us, as long as he does not trample upon those institutions upon which our security depends. We have no doubt that his Lordship possesses all those virtues for which those ecclesiastics of the Anglican Church who have hitherto resided among us have been always conspicuous. They have all ac- quired the esteem of our countrymen by their exemplary life, the love of their fellow-creatures, and the moderation and tolerance of their intercourse with our fellow-countrymen. In fact, for nearly half a century Catholics and Pro- testants have lived together iu Malta in the most perfect harmony; never has religious dissension been known among us. But the present attempt against the regular course of justice cannot be allowed to pass unnoticed."

IT..u.r,—The uneasy state of Naples is betrayed in the severe mea- sures taken to suppress popular feeling-

" We have under our notice," says a Maltese paper, " two decrees of the 18th and one of the 19th of July, by which the Neapolitan Government places the provinces of Calabria Citeriore and Ulteriore Seconds under the immediate power of the military, in consequence of the powerful force of the armed in- surgents ; authorizing them to adopt the most extraordinary and rigorous mea- sures. The simple departure of an individual from his own commune is con- strued by the local authorities as expressive of a desire to become a delinquent, and suffices for the insertion of his name in the list of those out of the pale of the law ; and any one bearing arms in the two provinces will be judged and punished by a council of war, or rather, he will be brought to trial before a drum-head court-martial."

PRIISSIA.—King Frederick William, on his way to Vienna, has issued this address to his people, touching the late attempt to assassinate him- - Eidmaosdorff, 5th August 1844. " I cannot quit the soil of my country, though only for a short time, without publicly expressing, in my own name and that of the Queen, the deeply-felt gratitude which fills our hearts. It is excited by the innumerable proofs of affection to us, both verbal and in writing, which we have received, and were called forth by the attempt of the 26th of July; that affection which loudly greeted us at the instant of the crime, when the hand of the Almighty averted the deadly shot from my breast. Looking up to my Heavenly Preserver, I proceed with fresh courage to my daily work—to complete what is begun, to carry into execution what is prepared, to combat the evil with increased cer- tainty of victory, and to be to my people everything that my high vocation lays upon me as a duty, and which the love of my people deserves.

"FREDERICK WILLIAM."

A Hamburg paper tells an anecdote of the assassin Tschech-

" He lately asked a bookseller, whether he would be willing to publish his very interesting memoir of his life? The bookseller, to whom he was a total stranger, replied, that in the first place he most see a specimen of the work before he could decide. It is said that Tschech, the day before his criminal attempt, sent him not merely a specimen, but the whole manuscript, and with a note to the effect that 'the bookseller should not allow himself to be put out of the way, even if the next thing he heard of him should be that he had died in prison or on the scaffold.' Almost at the same time as the manuscript, the news of the attempt on the King's life reached the bookseller ; who, it is said, has thought fit to send the manuscript of Tschech to the criminal court of Berlin."

NORTH AHERICA.—The mail-steamer Hibernia, which left Boston on the 1st instant and Halifax on the 3d, arrived at Liverpool on Tues- day morning. Political interest was absorbed by the forthcoming election of President; an exhausted subject for all but those engaged in the coatest. Mr. Robert Tyler, the President's son, had recommended Mr. William Lyon Mackenzie, the Canadian refugee, fora public office ; but, it was supposed, without success. The hubbub canoed by the riots at Philadelphia had ceased; the arrest of ringleaders and legal inquiries having produced a salutary effect. The Grand Jury were still at work on the preliminary examinations. The Native American party ex- hibited more moderation. Two rioters had recently died of wounds received from the mob.

There was some continued excitement at Nanvoo, the " holy city " of the Mormons ; and Governor Ford of Illinois had made a requisition to the Federal Government for 500 troops, to prevent any sanguinary outbreak. Samuel H. Smith, the eldest surviving brother of the dead Prophet and " President " of the Mormons in Boston, had issued an announcement that he should take upon himself the office of his brother Hiram, " as patriarch in the church, according to the ancient custom of God's people." Two Mormons had recently been shot, one at Warsaw, the other at Illinois.

The commercial accounts are favourable. " The condition of the country," says the New York American, " continues prosperous in all its pursuits. The weather for the harvest has been all that could be

leaked, and the yield of all grains superabundant; and the Indian corn, the great crop which is still growing, promises to equal the others in productiveness. The activity of the internal trade also continues."

The annual statement by the Secretary of the Treasury on the com- merce and navigation of the Union had just been published. It com- prised only the three quarters ending in Jane 1843, according to a new law. The domestic exports for 1841 were 106,382,232 dollars ; 1842, 22,963,996 dollars ; 1843, 77,793,783 dollars ; the total amount of ex- port for that portion of 1843 was 84,364,480 dollars. Of domestic articles, 60,107,810 dollars was exported in American, 17,685,964 dollars in foreign vessels. The imports for the nine months were 64,754,799 dollars; of which, 49,971,875 dollars was imported in American, 1=4,781,924 dollars in foreign vessels. The tonnage of shipping was, entered—American, 1,143,523, foreign 534,752 ; cleared—American, 1,268,083, foreign 523,949. The returns of cotton exhibit a remark- able increase of quantity and decrease of value— In 1841. In 1842. In 1843.

' Quantity (pounds) 530,204,100 ... 584,717,017 ... 792,297,106 Value (dollars) 51,330,341 ... 47,593,464 ... 49,119,806 Showing, in 1843 as compared with 1841, an increase in quantity of 262,000 000 pounds, and a decrease in the money paid of 5,000,000 dollars. The sale of public lands in the past year had produced 2,055,054 dollars. The estimates of cotton destroyed by the overflow of the Mississippi range from 100,000 to 400,000 bales. The papers report a conflagration at Brooklyn, opposite New York ; which destroyed twenty-six houses and much valuable property. In Arkansas, about a year ago, one Mr. Aquila Barnes was hanged by a mob, on suspicion of having committed a murder : it now turns out that he was innocent, the actual murderers having just confessed.

The news from Canada is unimportant. Sir Charles Metcalfe had notyet accomplished the formation of a Ministry. The accounts of the crops are excellent : the yield in Canada itself alone is estimated at 750,000 bushels—larger than it had ever beep before. The crew of the ship Saladin, which was lately seized at Halifax on a charge of piracy, had been tried. Four were first pat upon their trial, and convicted. Next day, all of them pleaded " Guilty " to the charge of murdering Captain M'Kenzie. They were sentenced to death, and were executed on the 30th July.

Cuss, at the despatch of recent intelligence, was tranquil ; but the quiet is ascribed to terror produced by the recent execution of some insurgents. A letter, dated the 16th July, describes the death of Placido, the chief conspirator-

" Nothing was positively known of the decision of the Council concerning him, till it was rumoured a few days since that he would proceed, along with others, to the chapel for the condemned. On the appointed day, a great crowd was assembled ; and Placido was seen walking along with singular composure tinder circumstances so gloomy, smoking a cigar, and saluting with graceful ease his numerous acquaintance. Are you aware what the punishment of the chapel' means ? It is worse a thousand times than the death of which it is the sure precursor. The unfortunate criminals are conducted into a chapel hung in black, and dimly lighted. Priests are there to chant in sepulchral voice the service of the dead; and the coffins of the trembling victims are arrayed in cruel relief before their eyes. Here they are kept for twenty-four hours, and are led hence to execution. Can anything be more awful ?—and what a disgusting aggravation of the horror of the coming death I Placido emerged from the chapel cool and undismayed, whilst the others were nearly or entirely overcome by the agonies they had already undergone. The chief con- spirator held a crucifix in his hand, and recited in aloud voice a beautiful prayer in verse, which thrilled upon the hearts of the attentive masses which lined the road he passed. On arriving at the fatal spot, he sat down on a bench, with his back turned, as ordered, to the military ; and rapid preparations were made for his death. It was well known, that in some affecting poems written by Placido in prison, be had said it would be useless to seek to kill him by shooting his body—that they must strike his heart to make it cease its throbbings. And now the dread hour had arrived: at the last moment he arose, and said ' Adios, mondo,' ('Adieu, world,') and sat calmly down. The word was given, and five balls entered his body. Amid the murmurs of the horror-struck spectators, he got up, and turned his head upon the shrinking soldiers, his face wearing an expression of superhuman courage—' Will no one have pity on me ? ' he said : here ! (pointing to his heart,) fire here I ' At that instant two halls pierced his breast, and he fell dead whilst his words still echoed in our ears. Thus has perished the great leader of the attempted revolt. Nineteen were shot at the same time with Placido. They all died miserably."