forrigu net (rennin'.

Prourc—The Emperor has returned to his wonted avocations when "at home " ; reviewing large bodies of troops, sporting, receiving no- tables from foreign parts, and holding councils. His constant reviewing is assumed as evidence that the Belgian papers belie him when they speak of his ill health. On Sunday he received at St. Cloud, General Gyulai, Military Governor of Lombardy, and General Klieredine, who brought from the Bey of Tunis the present of a cradle for the Prince Imperial. General d'Orgoni, alias M. Girodon, a Frenchman in the service of the Emperor of Burmah, is in Paris on a mission from his "golden-footed" master, awaiting his turn of audience with the Emperor. He has already been received by Count Walewski.

The Moniteur continues to publish somewhat pompous despatches froin

Marshal Randon, detailing his successes against the Babyles. Some ex- planation of this war may be found in the fact that the fertile county inhabited by the different Kabyle tribes lies between Algiers and the Eastern possessions of France in Africa. The immediate cause of the expedition was, as our readers may remember, a sudden attack made by one of the tribes on a French outpost and the garnered harvests under its protection.

Igi 1113.—A fierce controversy rages in Belgium between the Bishops of Ghent and Bruges and the Universities of Brussels and Ghent. The Bishops denounce the system of teaching at the Universities, as inimical to the Catholic faith. 'Through one of its Professors, Mr. Verhaegen, the University of Brussels replied to the Bishops, at the opening of the winter tieasion, on the 6th instant.

"He "accuses the Roman Catholic clergy and Church of having broken through the treaty of alliance and tolerance entered into at the commence- ment of the independent career of Belgium. Every one then hoped for tranquillity and happiness : but hardly had a year elapsed when 'the chief of Catholicism, a stranger to our country, to our manners, to our civiliza- tion, assumed the part of a political censor, and launched his encyclic against our constitution.' The constitution proclaimed 'liberty of conscience and of public worship' ; the encyclic pronounced this liberty to be a false, ab- surd, and extravagant principle! The constitution proclaimed the liberty of the press ' ; the encyclic replied that such liberty was detestable, and could not be held in too great horror.' The constitution proclaimed the

liberty, of association ' ; the encyclic replied that this liberty was a new cause of bitterness and disquietude to the Holy See.' From that moment the clergy had to choose between the political laws of their country and the political laws of Rome. The Bishops ceased to be Belgians, and dreamt only of a reaction which, if it succeed, will give us the tolerance the security, the riches, the happiness, so greatly to be envied, of the Roman States. The grand instrument of the Romish clergy is the education they have the opportunity of imparting in their own Universities at Mechlin and Louvaine, where they use the constitution as the law gives them free liberty to do ' ; teach that liberty of conscience is 'a false, absurd, and ex- travagant principle,' that the liberty of the press is detestable and horrible,' &c., and distort history in order to reestablish the characters of such men as Montfort, Philip II, and the Duke of Alba. The Professor claims at least equal right and liberty to teach the contrary of all this. But the Church of Rome, not content with teaching her religion and celebrating her rites without let or hinderance, insists upon censuring all rival establishments, and making herself as heretofore supreme arbitress of goodand evil. The reason is, that the Romish Church is not merely a religion, but also a political party, which assaults state after state, and sees the beau ideal of human society only in the theocratical absolutism of Rome. She clamours for liber- ty as a right for all when she is undermost, but as soon as ever she is in possession of it herself she insists upon having it as an exclusive privilege.'"

The Government sympathizes with the two Universities. The Minister of the Interior has issued a circular stating that the Government "does not intend to impose on the Professors the obligation to treat religious questions dans le seas exclusif d'une religion positive.' " S/1114.—Hardly one authentic statement bearing on the Neapolitan expedition has reached the public. All that seems to be known is, that people anxiously expected the fleet ; that Admiral Dundee had written to - make arrangements in the event of his arrival at Naples ; that a French war-ship was taking soundings in the bay ; and that an American war- ship was at anchor there. The Bing is represented as being in high spirits. "When he went to Gaeta the other day, he said to his guards, 'Adieu, Messieurs ; to our next meeting. If you happen to hear any- thing about the French and English fleets, pray be so good as to come and tell me!" Some wag, on the morning of the 5th, posted the follow-

ing,on the walls of Naples-- Two fleets have been lost in the Mediterranean. Should any one find them, and bring notice of them to a Minister, he shall be rewarded."

It is stated that an ultimatum, "moderate in form," was despatched to Naples by the Western Powers on Saturday.

"With respect to the French squadron," says the Paris correspondent of the Times, "I understand the orders are that it shall cruise off Naples, but at a distance, in order not to afford any temptation to the disaffected to revolt, and not to produce excitement among the population. The fleets will no doubt arrive soon after the ultimatum. There is no doubt of the Ambassadors being recalled, in the too probable event of the King still refusing to act on the demands of the Allies. Up to the latest date his Majesty persisted in his refusal."

The Patrie of Thursday published the following telegraphic despatch-

" Advices from Ajaccio of the 14th state that Admiral Dundas' having re- ceived a Ministerial order by way of France, had Hailed with his squadron. It was reported at Toulon that the French squadron was also about to weigh anchor."

It will be seen that this is extremely indefinite. Trhither had Admi- ral Dundee sailed ? Some light is thrown on the report by another, that fixes on Malta as the rendezvous of the fleets ; whence they will steam towards not to Naples.

It is stated that Count de Moray has read to Prince Gortschakoff a reply to his famous circular. One German paper saps that the French Government vindicates its right to intervene in the affairs of Naples ; another, that the note "is full of pacific protestations, and moreover contain; the assurance that the action of France on Naples will be of a purely diplomatic character."

tio 11 Hi 11.—The long-expected change in the Spanish Ministry has at length been effected. The Cabinet of O'Donnell resigned on Sunday last, and Marshal Narvaez Duke of Valencia, immediately formed a Ministry to replace that of O'Donnell. It is remarkable that this event was consummated within a few days of the arrival of Narvaez at Ma- drid. The new Ministry is thus composed—Narvaez President of the Cabinet, without a portfolio - Pidal, Foreign Affairs ; deijas Lozano, Fi-

nance; Noc,eclal, Interior • portfolio; Justice ; Urbistondo, War ; Gene- ral Leisundi, Marine ; General Sanz Captain-General of Madrid; Gene- ral Pezuela, Director-General of Cavalry.

The Paris correspondent of the Times, who has shown himself well- informed in Spaniah matters, gives a particular account of the new Ministers.

" In this combination we have represented the merely Conservative party, the decidedly Reactionary, and the Carnet. Of course the Progresista element is not to be found. It is superfluous to say who and what General Narvaez is. M. Pidal, now for the second time Minister of Foreign Affairs, is, with his brother-in-law M. Mon' an ardent partisan of Maria Christina. He was Minister of the Interior in 1845-'6. He is an ardent and somewhat violent partisan, as becomes a member of the Moderado party. He more than once so forgot himself in full Parliament as to speak of Lord Palmer.. stun as the principal object of his hatred. Against his personal probity I have never heard anything alleged. He was made a Marquis, I believe, for the support he gave to the Spanish marriages. He is an advocate by pro- fession. Seijas Lozano is also a member of the bar, of considerable learn- ing, though of narrow mind. He is also a Moderado, and figured in various Cabinets. Nocedal, or as he was more familiarly termed, Noceda]ite, was at one time an ardent, almost a revolutionary Liberal. He modified his opin- ions as the chances opened to him of place, and became attached in 1847 to the Puritans, or Tiers Parti, at whose head was M. Pacheco. He is an ad- vocate, of no great professional reputation. Arrazola, also a member of the learned profession has filled the high office of President of the Tribunal of Justice. He has been Minister of Grace and Justice in several Cabinets, a Moderado-Christino, and personally honest. Urbistondo was a general offi- cer in the Carlist army until 1840 • he deserted the cause of the Pretender when it was in its decline, passed over to the Christina camp, and took advantage of the treaty of Bergara. He resided on half-pay in an Sebas- tian, and was implicated in the O'Donnell plot in 1841. Private papers be. longing to him, and abstracted by a servant while he was residing near Bayonne in 1842-'3, showed that he was engaged with others in preparing the insurrection which in the latter year overthrew Espartero. He was not long after named Captain-General of the Phillipine Islands, but was recalled after the revolution of 1854. He is supposed not to have entirely forgotten his Carlist tendencies. General Lersundi figured as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Bravo Murillo 'Ministry, and was one of those who was preparing the coup d'etat. previous to the formation of the Sartorius or San Lutz Ministry. He was implicated in the Diego Leon insurrection in Madrid in 1841, when the project was to take off the Queen to France or to the Basque Provinces. He succeeded in escaping to France, where he re- sided 01 the fall of Espartero in 1843. He is a native of Guipuzcoa, served as a private volunteer in the Chapelgorris in the beginning of the war, was the protege of the Conchae, and was by them advanced to the su- perior ranks. He was made a Brigadier after the military insurrection in Madrid in 1848. He is a gallant soldier, but nothing more. General Sanz, Captain-General of Madrid, was Minister of War in the Cabinet that made the Spanish marriages in 1846, and was a member of the Senate. He was always a Moderado. He has never been much distinguished in any way, either as a general, politician, or speaker. General Pezuela, Reactionist, is brother ta the Marquis of Viluma., who is rather an Absolutist in po- litics, after having been a Revolutionist in 1819. General Pezuela, a man of gentlemanly manners, has not been much distinguished for military talents. He has filled the post of Captain-General of Porto Rico. His tastes are more literary than political, and some of his translations into Spanish verse from the Italian are of merit."

It is remarkable that the Madrid journals of the 10th, the eve of the 'fall of O'Donnell, contained no hint of the impending change. The Epoca indeed, published a long article intended to prove the stability of the failing Ministry. And the 110as flutografas took the opportunity to state that the Emperor of the French had written to the Queen a letter highly satisfactory to her, and to the Government of O'Donnell, to whom she accorded her confidence.

As regards the influence of the French Emperor on the change, the Paris correspondent of the Globe writes-

" The Emperor was made acquainted already at Biarritz with the inten- tions of the Court at Madrid, and his Majesty then expressed his opinion to Marshal Serrano on the subject. This opinion was unfavourable to the proposed change; not from any hostility to the principal parties concerned, but because the administration of Marshal O'Dennell was a fact accepted by the country, whilst the advent of the Duke of Valencia might inspire fears of a more deadly reaction, and thus give rise to disaffection. The disinte- rested advice given by the Emperor appears to 'have in a slight measure surprised the advisers of the Queen ; but any effect that may have been produced by the Imperial counsels was speedily overruled by the influence of the Queen-Mother."

Another curious fact is, that at a grand ball on the Queen's birthday, celebrated on the 10th instant, two days before the change of Ministry, she opened the dancing with Marshal O'Donnell, and took Marshal Nar- vaez for her next partner !

Letters from Madrid tell of an wank committed by Marshal Narvaez, before he was Minister, on Senor Guel y• Rente, the husband of the In- fanta Josefa. Narvaez found him at the house of General Aleson; and although the General's wife was present, the Marshal is said to have thus addressed the Seiler Guel—" Ah ! you rascal, you coward ; turn out. You told lies of me in the Cortes. you this, and this, and this,"—suit- hag the action to the word, and striking him repeatedly. Guel did not return the blow, but sent the Marshal a challenge. The Queen, hearing of it, would not allow Narvaez to fight, and packed the Senor Guel off to San Sebastian.

5 11.—The Czar arrived at Zarskoeselo on the 6th. He was to arrive at the railway station of the Winter Palace on the 8th, and make his solemn entry into St. Petersburg on the 14th. The grand ball to be given by the nobility and commercial classes was to be on the 15th. The Daily News publishes a remarkable speech delivered by a Russian merchant during the coronation festivals, preceded by some account of the speaker.

"Among the feasts at Moscow by which the late coronation of the Czar was attended, was one given by M. Basile Kokoreff to the deputations of peasants and merchants assembled from the principal cities of Russia. B. Kokorelf was formerly a peasant, but is now one of the wealthiest merchants in Russia, and has made himself singularly popular throughout the empire by his profuse generosity and enthusiastic patriotism. The last occasion upon which his name was brought prominently before English readers was in connexion with a grand banquet given by him at Moscow to the soldiers and sailors returning from the defence of Sebastopol. At the late dinner to the merchants he delivered a speech sufficiently remarkable to repay trans- lation. 'It is not long since,' he said, that at this very place, Moscow, the heart of the Russian nationality-, the Muscovites feted. the welcomed and heroic defenders of Sebastopol. 'We were then expecting peace, and were consoling ourselves with the hope of soon profiting by its happy results. Today peace is no longer a hope, it is a reality ; and now again, in the same city of Moscow, we are celebrating, heart and soul, the holy coronation of our beloved monarch, the author of the peace and so many other blessings. Here also are united the representatives of the whole nation, as well as you also, gentlemen, the delegates of our bourgeoisie. Let US, therefore, manifest ill unison the sentiments which we feel at the advent of these recent blessings. Our gracious sovereign has been pleased to order that our children should henceforth frequent without any restriction the University course. He has ordered the revision of the relations between government and commerce; and the revision of the tariff, which cannot fail to quicken our industry. All our relations with foreign nations are rendered easier. His Wiest/ has also been pleased to authorize the foundation of an industrial society,

under the direct patronage of the heir to the throne: Happy the people and

d its future when its princes apply themselves betimes to the sacred uty of learning its wants and studying the means of satisfying them ! ugly, in the midst of all these events, the Society of Navigation and of the Commerce of the South and of Russia has been establish- ed, the aim of which is to expedite our relations with Europe, and to facilitate our exports and imports. Russia has always been able to confess her faults as well as recognise her merits. 'Let us, therefore, frankly de- clare, gentlemen, that in point of commerce and industry we are in many reepeqts rather behind. Our merit at present consists in the desire to im- prove ourselves by intelligent practice. It is a fact, that in the industrial life of a people, certain and complete success is less easily obtained jay the theoretical precepts of books than by a continuous contact with other peo- ples. By this contact we acquire experience, ideas' taste, and establish new relations, which are sure to be maintained because they rest upon common interests--the only stable securities for treaties of peace. In order to arrive at this end, the surest means is facility and rapidity of communication with foreign nations. The question of steam-boats and railways is at pre- sent a question of human interest, because it is by their means that nations can be united in a community of interests and in feelings of fraternity. In regard to commerce, there exists amongst us the most contradictory opinions. Some still speak of a Chinese wall; others of free trade. But be certain, gentlemen, that such questions are never resolved by extremes : their true definitions can only result from an international exchange of ideas. When by means of steam we shall be able to unite ourselves more closely with fo- reign merchants, more expert than we are in point of industry, and exchange with them our ideas, then we shall arrive at the exact and true definition of the very principles of commerce,—a definition which is deeply interesting to the whole of Europe. It will then happen that we shall see here in Mos- cow, the centre of the internal commerce of Russia, as well as in the other cities and ports of the empire representatives of the principal commercial houses of Europe. We shalethen be able to learn every day here in Mos- cow, and at a fixed hour, the progress of business in Parisz London, and other places, and be able, when we are assembled as now, with the glasa in our hands, to learn by telegraph the health of our children, who may be placed in foreign countries in Russian houses of commerce. When I review in mind all the pregnant consequences which must infallibly result to nations from their union by means of commerce—a union based on common interests —I cannot refrain from proposing to you, gentlemen, to drink at once and unanimously the following. toast, To European commerce, to foreign mer. chants, our elder brethren in industry, and to my honourable colleagues the merchants of Russia.' The above speech was received by the company with loud and repeated hurrahs. The personal appearance of M. Kokoreff, while delivering this speech—his long beard and hair cut a la moujik, and his warmth of manner—did not by any means lessen the effect of his words."

Full and authentic details have been published on the grand Russian scheme for evading the treaty of Paris and maintaining a steam fleet in the Black Sea. The scheme consists in establishing a company to be called "The Russian Steam-boat and Trading Company." This company is to be maintained by high bounties paid by the Imperial Treasury. There will be eleven lines of steamers ; eight starting from Odessa. The greater part will ply in the Black Sea, in the Sea of Azoff, up the great Russian rivers, and up the Danube ; three lines will run to Alexandria, Trieste, and Marseilles. It is calculated that 300 steamers will be thus em- ployed. All the land, wharfs, quays, and warehouses, required by the company in Russia, they are to have rent-free. The Government, besides paying a high mileage bounty, will pay 64,000 silver roubles annually for repairs. The capital of the company is 1,000,0001.; the Government subscribes one-third, and abstains from taking dividends for five years. No foreigner can hold shares in the company. The Government no- minates two out of six directors. The founders of the company are two Government officials.

The Vienna correspondent of the Times countenances the opinion that Russia bears a grudge against Austria; and illustrates passing politics by a reference to another period.

• "The Viennese are highly indignant if it is hinted that Russia has a much greater dislike to Austria than she has to France or England ; but information has reached me which places the matter beyond all doubt. At first the reception given to Prince Esterhazy was icy cold • and when the Muscovites did thaw, they never lost an opportunity of letting him feel that the attentions shown him were ad personam. Even in the presence of the Ambassador and his suite the Russians made no secret of their deadly hatred towards Austria, and of their hopes that the day would soon come when they might balance accounts with her. When the foregoing communica- tion was made to me, the words used by Count Medem, who was Russian Minister here in 1849, immediately recurred to my memory—' Austria has only one friend in Russia,' said he but fortunately for her his name is Nicholas.' The remark was addressed to a Foreign Minister, who was well inclined to Austria, and by him communicated to me."

Surkeq.—The Journal des Derbats states, that the Czar, who backed the claim of Moldavia to the islands of the Danube has given way to the Cabinets of Vienna and London which supported the claim of the Turks. The same journal states, that "the pretensions raised by Rus- sia with regard to the Isle of Serpents have been abandoned. Russia has given way, and the Isle of Serpents will again become a possession of Turkey." But "the Bolgrad difficulty remains in all its force."

The French Ministerial journals have been busily expressing their " surprise " at the bad faith of Austria in continuing to occupy the Danubian Principalities.

The following telegraphic despatch is from Vienna, October 16.

"The Journal de Constantinople of the 10th instant announces, that, in a battle fought on the river Labs, the Russians left 16 guns and 800 pri- soners in the hands of the Circassians. It is also announced that the Rus- slaw have been driven back from the river Kuban, with the loss of many men and guns."

[The Laba is one of the effluents of the Kuban. Its sources are in independent Circassia, but it flows through a part of the country held by the Itusaians.]

iiei attli.—The Kangaroo arrived at Liverpool on Thursday,

with advices from Philadelphia to the 2d October.

A great meeting of the friends of Fremont at Pittsburg in Pennsyl- vania is thus described by the Daily News, from American sources- " When people woke that morning, they mistook it for Sunday. No raills were going, and scarcely a factory or shop was opened. When, in August the Appropriation Bill was bandied from the one House to the other at iVailington, the Cabinet caused the stoppage of all military works and manufactures, and needlessly turned off the mechanics, as an election ma- nceuvre on behalf of Buchanan : but the metal-workers of Pittsburg are not the less supporters of Fremont, and they made holiday in grand style on the day of the Convention. The fact is, some of the Free settlers in Kansas were from Pennsylvania, and the murder or mere maltreatment of one such fellow citizen is found to excite a whole township or county. The old friends of Mr. Hoyt, who was so infamously murdered in Kansas, assem- bled before his house, in the beautiful New England village of Deerfield ; and the performance of a dirge before his porch, while the multitude stood uncovered, is said to have excited a perfectly overwhelming emotion. Thus it has been in Pennsylvania, wherever a settler from Kansas has appeared to tell the story of his wrongs, or the mere name of some murdered victim has arrived by telegraph. One consequence was, that the Pittsburg pro- cession, on its march to the ground of the Convention, was from seven to nine miles long. There were eight (some say ten) thousand men in it, and 100,000 were present at the Convention. The shows of the procession, new as they were, were like nothing modern, and especially nothing American. A hideous band of well got-up Border Ruffians led the way ; these were fol- lowed by personations of Mean Whites,' shivering and starving under wages of 10 cents a day ; by a representation of the Border Ruffian camp, with its whisky-bottles cards, weapons, and blackguards ; and by a hideous workshop, under the Buchanan conditions of industry—the ruinous place with its broken windows, the half-starved people, the bad work and total cheerlessness. On the other hand, the press was carried aloft, vigorously worked, and triumphant. The ship of the Constitution was in full rig, and showing cannon from all her ports. The Buchanan Administration, with civil war, prostration of industry, and political servitude, was exhibited on the one hand ; and the Fremont policy of free labour, peace, and Republi- can independence, on the other ; while the press put the case before the na- tion for decision. The place and the circumstances give an importance to this Convention which can hardly be overrated; and the world will not now be surprised if the Republicans carry Pennsylvania itself, and the Union in its train."

At Richmond in Virginia, Mr. Wise, the Governor of the State, had made an extraordinary speech at a Democrctie meeting. Here is a spe- cimen— " I love the Union of the States better than any Black Republican does' I know of but one thing worse than disunion—but one and that is dis- honour. If Buchanan is elected President of the United States, there will be no aggression upon us by the Government, and you will have nothing to do. You have only to go on and keep the peace. Sit still under your own vine and fig-tree, and all will remain happy and united, and your blessings—so far as Government protection and executive action are con- cerned—will be left unnaarred. At all events, we shall have a respite. But the fearful alternative is what will you do if the Black Republican candi- date is elected ? If Buchanan is not to be elected, God grant that Fillmore, as he is a man of patriotism and principle—for I take great pleasure in tes- tifying to his being s good man, though on the subject of slavery an Aboli- tionist, as I know him to be from nearly eleven years' service with him in Congress—I say, God grant that he may be elected if Buchanan is not. But, sir, he is out of sight in this race. He will serve to distract and divide neighbour from neighbour in the South, and to fuse foes in the North. . . . But if Fremont is elected, is it a wrong, they will ask, that one man is elected instead of another ? Never will we say that that is a wrong. Fremont is nothing, he is less than nothing in my estimation. Ile is but a mere personation of Black Republicanism—the bearer of the black flag. The question will not be, Shall Fremont reign over you and me ? ' but it will be, Shall the black flag be erected—shall the higher law be executed by the President of the United States over the reign of the constitution and the laws ? Shall property be invaded with impunity ? ' Yes, you will find hundreds that will say—they begin already to say—' Oh, waft, wait for some overt act ; wait for him to do some wrong.' Tell me, will any person, entertaining feelings of self-respect, having the spirit and courage of a man, wait to prepare for war while its cloud is in the horizon, until after the de- claration of war is made ? Tell me if the hoisting of the Black Republican flag in the hands of an adventurer, born illegitimately in a neighbouring State, if not ill-begotten in this very city—tell me if the hoisting of the black flag over you by a Frenchman's bastard, while the arms of civil war are already clashing, is not to be deemed an overt act and a declaration of war ? I would preach peace. I would vote for peace—peace and honour. Look up to heaven, or, turning, look down upon the earth of our native land, and ask yourselves, tell yourselves the answer to the question which is everlast- ingly occurring to me—What will you do if this proclamation of war is made' I am making no threats. I will remember the oath I have taken to preserve the constitution and defend the right of the people. I will fight for them, if I must fight, to save, not to destroy. War is a terrible thing ; and we all have to remember, that If it begins it will not only be the North against the South., it will be a civil war of neighbourhoods for liberty against despotism—for right against .power. Our enemies will remember, that if they have a minority in Virginia we have a minority in New Eng- land, New York, and Ohio, and everywhere North. If they have their 50,000 or 60,000 left them in the State of Virginia, in every Northern State we have hundreds of thousands of arms that are with us. You have more than your own power at home. The saddest reflection to me is, that in such a crisis there will be found many traitors among us. But if we may have enough to do with these few at home, the Black Republicans have enough to do with the thousands that are still left in the Northern States to battle for the Union and the rights of all. Virginia has not depopulated herself without some return of the bread she has east on the waters. There is many a heart in every State of the Union that has gone from the home of a Vimnia„ family—many an arm that was conceived in the womb of a Virginia mother that will, when the dogs of war are let slip, be raised in vindication of her rights. We have friends across the water, too, as well as foes, who will cry havoc in such a war. What they consider our weakness we will prove to be our strength. With a proper knowledge of military discipline, I will [prove that our faithful slaves can and will repel the Black Repub- licans and their traitorous allies who may invade us."

[This speech was interrupted by bursts of " enthusiastic " and " tre- mendous " cheering.] There is no fresh news from Kansas. The report is confirmed that the United States troops frustrated the Border Ruffians in an intended at- tack upon Lawrence, and that Governor Geary has prevailed upon them to withdraw from the State. The Free-Soilers are under a like compres- sion: they must disarm, or retire.

At Baltimore, on the 30th September, an affray occurred at a board- ing-house in South Street, between two young men, David Harris and Edward Spencer, growing out of a quarrel about an umbrella. Harris was stabbed to the heart, and died in five minutes. W. R. Taber, editor of the Charleston Mercury, was killed on the 29th September, in a duel with Edward M'Grath. There were three exchanges of shots, the last of which proved fatal to Mr. Taber.

Three of the persons implicated in the frauds on the Northern Railway Of France have been traced to New York, and there apprehended, by the aid of Mr. Goddard, lately one of the chief officers at Bow Street. The names of the prisoners are Eugene and Louis Grelet and Auguste Parrot.

Carpenticr, the chief criminal, has escaped. They arc now in the hands of the New York Police. It is doubtful, however, whether under the extradition treaty between France and the United States they can be surrendered, as the clause of the treaty- under which they have been ar- rested only provides for the surrender of "public officers" charged with embezzlement. The question to be decided is, whether railway servants are public officers within the meaning of the treaty.

According to the New York Herald, Grelet makes no secret of his crimes. He is represented as haying confessed them to a reporter of that paper who visited him in prison ; as having described how he managed to abstract the shares belonging to M. Rothschild; and as having implicated ethers in the transactions, which spread over several years. "'If we are compelled to go back to France,' said Grelet, I will die- close several matters that will compromise the very men who now persecute me, and even great financiers who now hold their heads so high on the Bourse.' In the year 1846, when the railway company was first chartered, Messrs. Grelet and Carpenticr were employed as cashiers in the concern. 4 My first speculations,' says Grelet, were always entered into with cash, and it was not until 1852 that I borrowed the shares of the company. I hoped to be able to replace them by lucky ventures ; but, being without any ready cash, Carpentier and myself were always unfortunate in our speculations.'"

According to Grelet's statement, the company paid double dividends on 4000 of M. Rothschild's shares ; the company paying him, and those who held the abstracted shares, without question. Grelet is also said to have made some damaging disclosures as to the mode in which the "large fish swallow up the small fly" in Paris—that is, how the great speculators eat the little ones.

Walker is reported to have made peace with Costa Rica. He has granted a monopoly of the transit across Nicaragua to "Charles Morgan" and "Cornelius K. Garrison," and has invested them with the property of the Accessary Transit Company. Hundreds of emigrants have sailed from New York for Nicaragua.

.ittti a.—The fuller despatches of the overland mail do not throw much light on that part of the telegraphic summary relating to the Per- sian expedition. It seems, that up to the time when the mail was made up it was not publicly known in Bombay whether the Persians had entered Herat or not. All that was known there was that the preparations for the expedition had not been countermanded, but that they were going on -with considerable rapidity, in order that all might be in readiness for the expected order from England to set sail. If, as was anticipated, the order reached Bombay on the 20th October, "the expedition would sail about the end of that month or the beginning of November." Already— that is, up to the 12th September—about 9000 tons of private shipping had been taken up as transports. Ten steamers will be supplied by the Indian navy, and a number of gun-boats were in preparation for acting in the shallow waters of the Persian Gulf. Large quantities of ammu- nition for flint muskets are to be sent up the Indus as a supply to the .Affghans, with whom it is probable the Indian force would cooperate. The Bombay papers speak in high terms of the Persian artillery, and esti- mate the Persian infantry at 80,000 men, "more or less regular, and for the most part well drilled by European officers, or after the European fashion." It is anticipated that the British force would occupy Kur- rack, and capture Bushire, as a beginning of the war.

The troops in the Punjaub have suffered severely from cholera—espe- cially the Seventieth (Queen's), the Eighty-filet, and the Artillery. But the pestilence is reported as subsiding. From Scinde comes news of an important invention by the well-known Colonel Jacob, of the Scinde Horse—" a rifle shell of a conical or cone- spherical form." At twelve hundred yards this shell, fired from a rifle, exploded an ammunition-waggon packed in every respect like a field battery.

The Calcutta and Bombay correspondents of the Times give some de- tails respecting the new loan. "By a notification dated the 30th of August, the Supreme Government has opened a new Four-and-a-half per cent loan. The new lean is unlimited in amount, and no part is to be paid off for ten years, and then not without three months' notice, to be issued any time after the 29th of June 1866. Upon this notification being made public in Bombay, the Four per cents fell, and the Five per cents advanced but slightly. it is said that the moneyed interests of India will not subscribe to the new loan to any considerable amount." From Calcutta comes a similar statement. "The terms offered are not sufficient to tempt dealers. The old Fours are at 12 per cent discount, and no one therefore will subscribe to the new loan. Up to yesterday [the 7th September] less than one thousand pounds had been paid in." But the writer thinks, that whether the money is paid in Calcutta or not, "the loan will gradually fill in the interior." From the Indian correspondents of the London journals we derive a fact of great interest to Hindoe students—

"A very remarkable address has been presented to Mr. J. P. Grant, Mem- ber of Council, by a large body of Hindoe gentlemen. In it they thank him for his exertions in behalf of the act permitting widows to remarry, and urge him to continue his efforts for the abolition of polygamy. Petitions by the dozen reach the Legislative Council on this subject. They are all of one tenour, praying for the abolition of polygamy by penal statute. A more remarkable movement, perhaps, never occurred among an Oriental people."

An incident at Calcutta had caused a ferment. Three tickets of ad- mission to an "Inundation ball" were given to three ladies not be- longing to moral society. The tickets were traced to Lord Dunkellin, the Governor-General's military secretary and nephew. The wives and daughters of Cakutta, thus outraged, were loud in their complaints, and Lord_ Dunkellin had publicly apologized. Writing to the stewards of the ball, he says-

" The tickets were, as I informed you, given by me without one mo- ment's reflection, for persons in whom I was and am not in any way in- terested. I shall feel obliged by your making this statement public in any way you may think fit" lustralia.—Adviees from Melbourne, to the 9th July, have been received this week. The public business of the colony was the election of Members for its Parliament. Each of the six provinces will return five members to the Upper House, and ten members to the Lower. But such was the political apathy, that only ten candidates for the Upper and some thirty-seven or thirty-eight for the Lower House had come before the public. The secret of this apathy is partly traceable to dissatisfaction with the constitution, and partly to the high qualification —50004 worth of real estate—required for each member of the Upper House. It was thought that the squatters were holding back in order that they might at the last moment "rush" the Upper House,—a sport- ing phrase, that implies a waiting race and a severe push towards the close. The Melbourne correspondent of the Times states that there is "a large party in the country against State aid for religious purposes," fa- vourable to an abolition of the property qualification, and universal suffrage, equal representation, and triennial Parliaments. In fact, "a Reform Bill in some shape is the staple of almost every candidate's address." An attempt had been made to unite the popular party with a view to carrying its candidates at the elections. But the party split mainly on the two great questions, "State aid to religion" and "compensation to squat- ters," which the majority desired to leave "open" questions, and which the minority distinctly condemned. The minority represents the ultra- Liberal section, the majority the comparatively moderate Liberals. Both parties share in common a strong opposition to property qualification, long Parliaments, and the present restricted suffrage; and each expresses its opinion that the time has come for the establishment of a Federal As- sembly empowered to legislate on all intercolonial questions.

There is a "No-Popery" cry in the colony, which embarrasses the Liberal party. It is shown in the fact that Mr. Gayan Duffy refused to act with Mr. John Fawkner, "one of the very earliest settlers," because the latter had raised "something like a cry of 'No-Popery' against Gavan Duffy." The exports of Victoria continue to exceed the imports ; the exports for the first six months of the year being 7,726,0701., and the imports being 6,143,7831.; leaving an excess of exports to the amount of 1,618,2871.