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rattrt.—The Emperor and Empress are at Compiegne, keeping holi- day, hunting the stag, and receiving distinguished guests. Lord Pal- merston and Lord Clarendon, M. Kisseleff and M. de Hatzfeldt are among the politicians gathered or to be gathered together there. Count Walewski has, in consequence' prolonged his stay.

Prince Napoleon has proposed and the Emperor has sanctioned the appointment of Jews members of the Councils General of Algeria. A seat in the Legislative Body is vacant in the department of the Nievre. The five independent members of the Body, 011ovier, Fevre, Picard, Daiimon, and Henon have recommended M. Bonabean to contest the election. They say- " As long as a Constitution leaves us any rights we should make use of them. Abstention is a mistake. As to your programme, it should he re- duced to one point—Liberty. Without liberty a nation cannot have either security, greatness, material prosperity, or dignity. Appeal to all lovers of liberty without regard to their antecedents, and they will vote for you." This manifesto is especially remarkable as being an appeal to the Orleaniats, who are numerous in the department, to coalesce with the men whose names savour of republicanism.

The Prefect of the Ille-et-Vilaine has dissolved an agricultural society at the head of which was the Marquis du Plessis d'Argentrd, a nobleman of large property and legitimist opinions. He had previously withdrawn a money grant allowed by the state to societies for the encouragement of agriculture ; the members then revised their rules, and the Prefect now says that their alterations have given to the society all the characteristics of an association hostile to the Government. This affair makes a great sensation in the department.

It is understood that the trial of Montalembert will not commence until the 24th. The reason for this is the absence of M. Berryer from Paris.

If your readers wish to learn what is the orthodox view of things political L' Univers supplies the response from its oracular tripod. Being taunted by a London coreligionist in the Weekly Register with shirking the business of Montalembert it unbosoms itself thus-

" The noble Count's line of policy is but a barren shindy (an tapage sterile), where unfortunately his religious line becomes imperceptible (s'eface); he exhibits no light to the unbeliever, and affords no warmth to Catholics."

This is cool comfort ; but as the Weekly Register, above mentioned, hinted that Veuillot is secretly egging on the prosecution out of trade rivalry, and would gladly gibbet the liberal champion of illiberality, he takes unnecessary trouble to protest he has no backstairs' influence at the Tuileries, and that Ministers of State in France don't consult him.— Globe Paris Correspondent.

TOSSill—The Prussians have been engaged in the primary elec- tions, which, as already stated, are favourable to the Ministry. Berlin seems to desire all the Ministers for its representatives. The voting is by an indirect suffrage. Berlin contains no less than 80,000 electors)_ who arc divided into three (dosses : the first class, containing the highest_ ratedtax-payers, whose taxes amount to one-third of the whole sum paid by Berlin, number less than 5000 ; the second class, consisting of those who pay less taxes, but on the aggregate make up also one-third of the whole, amount to 20,000. This class includes the respectable house- holders, shopkeepers, and small manufacturers. The third class numbers no less than 55,000 voters, including the artisans and working men of this metropolis. They pay collectively one-third of the aggregate amount of taxes, and are the lowest rated ; whilst the greater part of them are proletarians, and pay no taxes at all. For these preliminary elections the city is divided into 175 sub•districts, and the number of imme- diate electors they have returned amounts to 1,529. These latter will,. on the 23d instant, have to elect the members for the metropolis for the Lower House. The election, in the first instance, may be said to be- one by universal suffrage, every adult male inhabitant who has not received public charity being entitled to vote, but persons who pay a certain amount of direct taxes form a constituency apart, and choose their own electors.

tali .—It is stated that all the powers, "even Austria," have united in pressing the Pope to surrender the kidnapped child, Mortara, but that he has replied to one and all that he is unable to do so, because it is con- nected with a sacrament.

The Civilta Cattoliea has just published a supplementary defence of the Holy See in the matter of young Mortara's abduction. It is a long and laboured document, and full of those painful perversions of scripture to which

Weir& acentitrainid fii writing,i-rinthia Side a The quaation. The writer ex- tols the wisdom and gentleness of the church, and fulminates anathemas against those who stand Up'for the astrefineas of natural relationships, Whom hessocuses, deteending m the leak' of the beasts; in•whom the parental affections predominate: Ho insists' very much that the mission of cifir-Lotal was not to send piece but a sword. Bat; as M. Paradol well remarks in Wed- nesday's _Dazes, " the only sword in your hands is the sword of France, without which, far from being able to tear a Poor Jewish child from his parents, you could not defend yourselves against your own Christian people."

-A letter from Naples draws a horrible picture of the fate reserved for

Baron Nicotera. •

The King, 'says the -Writer, "spared the. life of Nicotera for no other purpose than to make hint die by degreea a terrible death. The excel:tie:ler would have taken him from suffering in a awaken; but he would have rescued him too rapidlyfrom his ferocious talons ; he wished to feed upon his agonies, and appointed trim as the victim of a slow and fearful death. At'-first, instead of imprisoning him in the Ergastolb of San Staiino, whither the law consigned him, he shut him up in the *brat datig,eon of the Vicarial at Naples ; afterwards, he threw hint into the abysses of the fearful Colombaja of Trapani; and lately—that it to say, it the beginning of October—he shut him up. m the sepalchral caverns of Faiignanti. But in describing. that den my hand becomes paralyzed, and terror takes coni- plete possessmo of me ; yet to the best of my power I will deSerib.e it. In past times that fort was reserved as a place of confinement.for prisoners of State, but out of respect to advancing civilization it was closed. Now again it has been opened, and there is buried a noble living being, capable of every self-sacrifice, every aelf-denial, whose only fault 13 that of having loved his Country and having offered himself up for its redemption.' In one part of the fort, called the Naga; just over the gate, may be read this legend, Si entra vire, e si esee morto.' One enters it. living and leaves it dead.' Four hundred steps lead from the top of the mountain down to below the level of the sea—to the infernal cavern where lives the unfortunate Nieotera, guarded at sight by two sentinels, without being able to see the sky, and scarcely to breath the scanty air which passes in by the holes through which struggles in a dim light. That it is damp•canitot be deubted, from its being in the very bowels of the earth, and from the fact that the very clothes of the prisoner become almost _rotten. in a few days. Imagine how he grieves over his existence ! Such is a paternal trait of a religious and element 'Government' which visits, continually the sanctuary, and which dt,ludes this superstitious and ignorant people with its bigotry, making use of the most holy religion of Christ, :wan ut- strument of unbridled tyranny."

lanssia.—The Russian Government has sanctioned the formation of a joint-stock company for lighting the streets of St. Petersburgh with gas. The company has been granted the exclusive right of lighting the principal streets for a term of fifty years, and has also the lighting of all the lamps in the other portion of the city. Its operations extend, there- fore, to every point were gaslights already exist. The capital is fixed at four millions of roubles, in 40,000 shares of 100 roubles each, the first instalment to be 35 roubles per share. If on the expiration of one year all the shares are not disposed of, the founders, Counts Schonlavow and Miasnikow, brothers, are bound to take the remainder, so that the pay- ment of all the capital is assured. An immediate return of 6 per cent is calculated upon.

sarkr4.—The first railway in Turkey, running from Smyrna to Aden, has been partially opened ; and on the 30th October Lord Strat- ford de Redcliffe laid the foundation-stone of the Smyrna station. lie hoped to see the time when the Ottoman empire would be intersected with railways, but before that happens prejudices and animosities must be diminished, and abuses cleared away. Ile characterized the progress of Turkey as slow, interrupted, and partial.

" I need not tell you, gentlemen, that Europe has more than ever a deep stake in the regeneration of Turkey. Western civilization is knocking hard at the gates of the Levant, and if it be not allowed to win its way into re- glens where it has hitherto been admitted so partially, it is but too capable of forcing the passage and asserting its pretensions with little regard for anything but their satisfaction. The ambition of one Power and the fear of another may easily give point and direction to this prevailing tendency, and in times of change and enterprise any incidental circumstance may serve far sooner than we exp.!et to bring on, not indeed the peaceable solution of what is emphatically styled the ' Eastern Question,' but that fierce struggle of partition which our ablest statesmen have long endeavoured to avert. What Turkey stands most in need of is a vigorous, determined will in high quarters to awake Vie dormant energies of its population, and to carry out, by means of capable agents, the reforms which have been proclaimed with so much appearance of good faith. The Sultan's authority is paramount—a real responsibility weighing on his ministers would go far to give it effect. At all events, it is due to the honour and welfare of Europe that promises solemnly promulgated and recorded in formal treaties should not remain a dead

solemnly that the treasure and blood expended iu her name for the vindication of Turkish rights should not be an idle sacrifice, and that the 'declared admission of Turkey into the great European family should be felt by the Ottoman Government as a reality in its obligations as well as in its benefits. To England more than any other power it is of vital importance that the strength of Turkey should not so decline as to warrant those evil forebodings which tend inevitably to the adoption of a despairing and en- croaching policy in the Levant. It is manifestly our business to deprecate such perverse or interested calculations, and to encourage those fertilizing enterprises which, like your railway, may help to infuse new vigour into the veins and sinews of Turkey." Lord Stratford said that in reorganizing the embassy to Constantinople he had not retired from all partic:pation in public affairs.

gtatr3.—The Europa arrived at Liverpool on Wednesday With advises from New York to the 4th.

President Buchanan had issued a proclamation warning citizens against joining the Fillihustering expedition preparing against Nicaragua under Walker, enjoining all officers of Government to vigilance in repressing these illegal practices. The following is a special despatch from Wash- ington, 29th October, to the New York Times- " Mr. Buchanan expresses his astonishment that any respectable journal- ists should suppose he possesses any power to protect the Nicaraguan Tran- sit beyond the range of the guns of our navy. That protection be can give —beyond that he is utterly powerless until Congress acts. The rumour that the British fleet will interfere with the American Fillibusters is entirely a fabrication. Our Government has no information of such intention, nor would it be permitted by the Administration under any circumstances what- ever."

The British steam-frigate Valorous, Captain Sir W. C. Aldham, K.C.B., left New York on the 27th October, for Greytown, with Sir Gore Ouseley and family, and Secretary of Legation. Sir Gore Ouseley

goes out as.Britlf JExtraordiniki and Minister Plenipatessary. on a special teiC teal America:- -- The United States troops have completely defeated the Spates and Peloitse Indihni in Oregon and have 'recovered the property captured foal Colonel Steptee. The victory was decisive and led to negotiations aot peac'en

The New York Herald states that it has received " a copy as long

letter from :President Boma of Liberia, to the Secretary of the la York State Colonization, Society, Diu regard to the • -charges 'mails by Captain Sitium -of thelFrench bark:Regina Orli, of Connivance on rho part of the Liberian Government, Billie new French slave-trade. pas sident BertSon pronotmees as Wad the assertions that either he or thee°, verhuient of Liberia had any Complieity with, or consented to, the illego operations of Captain Simon, that the Government received 1364 dellas as passport money, and that some of the emigrants were Amerieo-lals. rians. He states that Captain ,Simon paid only thensual tonnage ditty on his vessel and import duties on the.goodatolas landed,. amounting is all to 369 dollars : .that no passport• money. was received, and that Captain Simon was allowed to -ge to the coast to seek emigrants only on the -ekplieit understanding that. he .would. return to-Monrovia to have them :examined and to.olear. , President ;Benson's letter isvery el direct in its statements, .end ho promises tO•pahlishsatta Tearlyedfy, the full documentary evidance,•whioh will completely exoulpate the Liberian authorities•-frout the charges of -Captain Simon." • .

An incident, says one of the :C OW York correspondents, one of the many which now and then occur—which.took place lately in Indiana has caused intense exasperation on the northern side of the border. An old men named Bell, living in Louisville, in that state, was sonic time ago seized, by a baud of ruffians who came across the Ohio from Ken- tucky, and carried over to Kentucky and lodged in gaol, .without any warrant, upon a charge of having aided fugitive slaves, Application was made for . his release on bail, but the amountfixed by the Keats* judge was so exorbitant that he was unable to raise it, and lay there for some months. One of his sons, who was' in California, heard of it, conic home at once, and, assisted by some friends, rescued his father. The son was himself seized in Indiana Without a warrant, and carried off in a similar Mariner week agO, and is now lodged in prison in Kentucky, without any apparent prospect of his immediate release. The excitement in Indiana consequent upon this outrage has been so great, that it is with difficulty that an tatined party has been prevented from crossing the river, and commencing a Civil war. Mr. Douglas has been returned for Illinois.' Massaehnesets has re- turned Republicans. • It was anticipated- that the opposition would carry the state of New York. The opposition, will be Ma large majority. Mr. Buchanan is said to be in favour of specific-instead of ad referee, duties. There are free traders in the Cabinet.

A dispute has arisen between the Government of Hayti and that of the United States, the facts of which are thus stated by the city writer of the riMe8.

"About a year back a party of American citizens established themselves in the island of Navaza, about. ;thirty , miles from the Haytian coast, and which is claimed as a dependency of that country. Their object was to ship cargoes of an inferior kind of guano found: in great abundance thore. On learning the fact the Haytian Government sent two commissioners to examine. They found a regular establishment, consisting of a wharf, boats, houses, and fifty workmen, provided with a couple of four-pounders and other weapons, and that guano was; being actively collected. There- upon the Haytian Government sent a formal protest to the American agent at Port-au-Prince to be forwarded to Washington, and waited the arrival of orders to the interlopers to withdraw. On the 15th of August last, however, two American men-of-war, the. Saratoga and another, visited Hayti and notified•that so far from the Washington Cabinet having any intention to comply with the request:tied°, the vessels. had come to protect the alleged intruders, and to warn the Government of Hayti not to interfere with them, The ground assigned was that by an Act of .Congress of the 18th of August 1830, the American Government had been authorized to protect citizens of the UnitedStatcs who may discover guano in any island ' not within the lawful jurisdiction of any other Government: Raving given this notice, the Saratoga, without waiting reply, sailed off. The Haytian Government then sent a new protest to 'Washington, and in this position the affair at present stands."

The settlement of the question it is surmised will he pacific, and that, should Hayti prove its legal right to the island, the Washington Govern- ment wilt give way.