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$TRUM —T h e loan has been far more successful than any one anti- cipated, and the facts stated in the following report of the financial mi- nister have caused astonishment on all sides.

" Sire—I hasten to render an account to your Majesty of the subscrip- tions to the loan of 500,000,000 francs. This operation opened on the 7th and closed on the 15th instant, at 5 o'clock in the evening, conformably to

the programme traced out in the Ministerial decree of the 3d; it alined while a considerable number of persons were still in witi6eg, who were compelled to retire without being able to subscribe, notwithstanding the zeal displayed by all the clerks employed. The following are the provi- sional results as yet known to the administration • they cannot differ very materially from the definitive amounts which I shall hereafter have the ho- nour of laying before your majesty- " The number of subscribers will exceed 525,000, divided as follows— Paris, 244,129 ; departments, 281,000 ; for 10 francs of rente, 375,000; for larger sums, 150,000.

The capital subscribed for amounts to 2,307,000,000 francs, namely— for Paris, 1,547,000,000 ,francs, for the departments about 760,000,000 francs; 10 francs of rents, 80,000,000 francs ; for larger sums m 2,227,00,000 francs. The sums deposited the coffers of the Treasury by way of guarantee amount, without reckoning the sums paid by anticipation, to 230,000,000 francs. The subscriptions of 10 francs of rents, which are exempt from reduction, go little beyond 80,000,000 francs, so that more than 8-10th of the loan, 420,000,000 francs will have to be divided propor- tionally among those who have subscribed for larger sums. " It was your Majesty's desire, by the conditions of the present loan, to favour the small capitalists without discouraging any class of subscribers ; that object will have been completely attained, as each will have his legi- timate part, and that part will be a little less than the fifth of the sum sub- scribed.

" Everything, Sire, is remarkable in this imposing manifestation of pub- lic opinion, the number of subscribers exceeding by more than 215,000 that of the last loan, which was itself so extraordinary ; the capital subscribed, which is nearly five times more than the sum asked for; the national cha- racter of the capital, which is exclusively of French origin ; and the enor- mous amount of the sum paid in a few days, equalling almost one-half of the loan, without any disturbance being thereby caused to the ordinary progress of commercial affairs. " Such results, Sire, speak for themselves so loudly that it would be superfluous for me to comment on them at any length. Obtained under existing circumstances, and immediately after food, monetary, commercial, and political crises, which have disturbed the world, and caused the strong- est positions to totter, they bring out in strong relief the solidity of our financial system, the wealth of our country, and her power and patriotism. They show to every eye the close union which exists between France and the Emperor, the entire confidence of the nation in the force and wisdom of the Sovereign who presides over its destinies, and the security inspired by the temporary power confided to the firmness and the exalted intelligence of the Empress-Regent. I am happy in having results of such immense im- portance to make known to your Majesty. " I am, Sire, &e., P. Mamie."

The French Government has adopted three resolutions of great import- ance to all persons interested in trade—the first is the prolongation of the treaty of commerce with Belgium for two years from the 12th May, the period at which it would have expired had it not been renewed by an Imperial decree. The second is the publication of an Imperial decree, adjourning indefinitely all inquiry into the prohibitive system. The de- cree states that the Government had intended in the month of October next to examine on what articles of commerce the prohibitive system might be abolished without opposition from the French manufacturers, and that in the next session a Bill on the subject would have been sub- mitted to the Legislative Corps. During the year 1860 an inquiry would have been instituted relative to the articles to which the French manufacturers insist the prohibitive system should continue to be ap- plied. But the Government, convinced that the recent complication of foreign politics renders the examination of the Customs' tariff to be in- opportune, has naturally adjourned the inquiry. The third important commercial resolution adopted by the Government within the last week is the revival of the sliding scale regulating the duties on foreign corn imported into France. The army of Lyons has received orders to proceed to Italy, where it will form the Sixth corps. There is also to be a Seventh corps, formed of ten regiments of infantry, two battalions of chasseurs, and eight regi- ments of light cavalry. Pursuant to the orders of the Minister of Public Worship, the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris has issued his mandate directing prayers to be offered up in all the churches of his diocese for the success of the French arms. In this document his grace admits that nothing has been neglected to guarantee the " security and necessary independence of the apostolic see."

6frmaa4.—The Prussian Diet closed its sittings on Saturday, and was then prorogued by the Prince Regent in person. After enumerat- ing the several subjects of domestic interest which have occupied the at- tention of the Chambers,' ho referred to the great foreign question.

" War, which the unrelaxed and honest efforts of my Government strove in vain to prevent, has broken out in Italy. The gravity of this event has rendered it necessary to place the army on a war footing, a measure which has also been extended to the navy, for the ulterior development of which you have voted the necessary supplies. The unanimous manner in which you have voted the heavy sums required for the eventual mobilization of the whole army is an additional proof of the spirit of patriotism which prevails in the country. Accept my warmest thanks. The nation has not been be- hind you in its zeal. All the reserves and all the militia have joyfully re- joined their colours. The attitude of the army and the spirit which ani- mates it fill me with confidence, whatever may be the events which the future has in store for us. I know that when the country shall require its services the army will not remain behind the deeds of arms and military prowess of our fathers. Gentlemen, Prussia is resolved to maintain the bases of inter- national law and the balance of power in Europe. (Preussen ist entschlos- Ben die Grundlagen des Europaischen Rechts-Zustandes, des Gleichgewicht Europas zu wahren.) It is her right and her duty to provide for the safety and the defence of the national interests of Germany. She will not relin- quish the guardianship over those. Prussia expects that all German Con- federates will stand firmly by hex side in the solution of this task, and will place their confidence in her desire to act for the common country."

The Prussians are slow at reporting. The account of the debate on the money bill which enabled the Government to place the army on a war footing only reached us with the news that the Diet had closed. But some of the speeches are of great interest. M. von Vincke began by remarking, that no Prussian heart could conceive of Prussia joining Louis Napoleon against Austria. Prussians should never forget that Austria formed a German nucleus, and that they were bound to Austria by the sacred bonds of the Confederation.

(Cheers.) He had no enmity towards France. Traditional hatred had passed away. Behold the Anglo-French alliance ! Another danger exists in the= tea actually in force in France—a system developed in 1839 in the Napoleoniennes, according to which the war in Italy is but the first as` el tie drama. The others will be played upon the Rhine, then in England, then in Russia. He could not blame the Austrian ultimatum, as it had been blamed by the Government. If Austria has commenced the war, she was driven to it. After alluding to the Emperor's words to Baron Hubner on New-year's Day, to the Sardinian , the alliance with Piedmont, and the armaments of France, M. de Vinckealluded to Lord Derby's very unpar- liamentary expression—(Loud applause)-:-' the aggression of Austria ' ; which was only excusable on electioneering grounds. The Congress was no- thing more than a subterfuge to give France time to complete her armaments. As in all probability Prussia would have shortly to stand side by aide with Austria on the field of battle, the sooner the disapproval of the Government of the policy of Austria is dropped the better. (Great sensation). He did not think the moment had arrived for Germany to send an army to Italy. The domination of Austria in Italy had no sympathies in Germany. He severely censured the despotic acts of Austria in Italy and her secret treaties. Moreover, Austria would never forgive Prussia for her influence in Germany, her Protestantism, her freedom of public instruction, and liberty of the press. But it was very important to Prussia (though of no direct- interest to Germany) that the power of Austria in Italy should not be weakened to the advantage of France and Sardinia. If it was true that France had concluded • an alliance with Russia, then it was Prussia's duty to t arni to the teeth." It would then be requisite not only to mobilize the army, but to arouse the spirit of 1813. He believed that Belgium, Holland, and Switzerland would stand by Prussia ; that England would remember she was a great European Power, and that it was her interest not to tolerate the existence of a military Power that threatened her naval preeminence. The ghost of Chatham would rise to warn her M. Henri von Arnim said that, according to the 46th article of the final act of Vienna, the present war in Italy does not concern the Ger- man Confederation.

But according to public opinion here, as well as in the rest of Germany, the war touches us nearly. The final act of Vienna his the value of a fun- damental law of Germany. But the great public voice of German nation- ality is a fundamental law of her national existence in a much more ele- vated sense, and this war, though only as yet touching the non-German provinces of a confederate state, may become a danger for the Confederation and for Germany. Does that mean to imply that we should enter Italy to assist Austria' in preserving her Italian provinces, her influence over the rest of Italy, and, perhaps in stifling the constitutional life of Italy ? No !

assuredly not. But Prussiaought to be prepared for every eventuality. Her calling is to defend the interests of Germany.

M. Simeon, ex-President of the National Assembly at Frankfort, de- dared that he had no sympathy whatever for the present system of go- vernment in France. , The man who has broken faith cannot re- store it." The end cannot justify the means. Since Sardinia had thought fit to join the revolution and call in foreigners into Ititly she had lost all claim to respect. Prussia and Austria were at variance on many points. But Austria counted 8,000,000 Germans among her sub- jects; there was therefore a German interest to support Austria. But the time had not yet come.

At the sitting of the Federal Diet on Thursday, Prussia declared that, although she still adhered to her protest against the proposal of Hanover to form a federal corps-d'armee of observation on the Rhine, yet she did not object to its being discussed as a matter of form ; and the proposal was accordingly referred to the Commission for Management of Military Affairs.

The official papers at Vienna say that Count Buol was compelled to resign from failing health, and that no change will take place in the po- licy of Austria. But others regard the appointment of Count Rechberg to the office resigned by Count Buol as a victory by the war party. The Vienna _Gazette says that Sardinian merchant vessels which were in Aus- trian ports having been allowed to leave free and unhindered, the Aus- trian Government distinctly expected that Sardinia would grant similar liberty to Austrian vessels in Sardinian ports. According, however, to advices received, this expectation has not been fulfilled, and therefore, in the meantime, and until further orders, provisional directions have been given to sieze Sardinian vessels in Austrian ports.

Government has asked for a Lombardo-Venetian loan of 75,000,000, at 5 per cent, payable in silver. The loan is to be repayable also in silver, and the price of issue is to be 70. The house of Lutteroth has failed at Trieste.

The mobilisation of the 8th Federal corps d'armee is completed. The Commander-in-chief of it is Prince Frederick. The corps d'armee of Wurtemberg has been placed under the command of the Minister-of War, General Miller.

The Fremdenblatt announces that the Ausirian army now counts the following German princes among its generals—The Landgrave Ferdi- nand of Hesse-Homburg; Alexander, Prince of Wurtemberg ; Alexan- der, Prince of Hesse ; the Prince of Schleswig-Holstein ; and the Princes Gustavus and William of Hohenlohe-Langenberg. Prince Nicholas of Nassau has arrived in Vienna on his way to join the Austrian army in Italy. Prince William of Schaumberg-Lippe, son of the reigning prince, has just entered the Austrian service.

Staill.—The Italian journals contain graphic accounts of the terror of an Austrian reconnoitring party which had come up from Biella to ob- serve the left flank of the Dora Baltea line. The people showed such a firm countenance, and the invaders were so terrified thereat, that they ran away Turin also has had its little alert, and has called out its Na- tional Guards. Count Gabrio Casati, senator, who lost a son in the Crimea, has offered his services to the hospital at Alessandria. By a de- cree of the 11th May, the Provisional Government of Tuscany trans- ferred all power to Buoncompagni, the commissary of the Dictator, Victor Emmanuel. The priests of Lucca have published an address ex- *Ming their desire to see Italy liberated. Naples is in a very critical state. The troops are confined to quarters. The bulk of the people knoW nothing of what is going on elsewhere. The King is on his death bed. There are intrigues for the succession. At Ancona the Tuscan Consul hauled down his flag, and the French and Austrian agents pro- tested against the fortifications in progress. Austria has officially recog- nized the neutrality of the States of the Church.

• Spai it.—The Madrid official Correspondaneia Autographia says that the Portuguese Government has proposed to Spain a treaty of alliance offensive and defensive, but that the Spanish Government has refused to fall in with this proposal, alleging that the treaty between Portugal and England might compromise that liberty of action which Spain intends to preserve. 1154i11.—The Nord states that the Russian Government has given orders for the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th and 6th corps d'armee to be placed im- mediately on a war footing, with the whole of the artillery and cavalry belonging to each. The reserves are to be called in, and all soldiers on furlough to rejoin their colours, to be ready to march within three months.

Sea 1.—The following telegraphic despatch has been received at the India office, dated Bombay, April 26.

"Tantia Topee was tried by Court-martial on the 15th instant, at Seepree, sentenced to death, and hanged on the 18th.

"A body of rebels under Adil Mahomed Khan, was surprised near Futteh- pore on the 19th, and routed with a loss of several killed and wounded. " Intelligence has been received by telegraph of the occurrence on the 15th instant, of an outbreak at Nuggur Parkur, north of Cutch. Troops have been despatched from Deese for the reduction of the insurgents. No particulars are given. With this exception the Bombay Presidency is quiet."

Tantia Topee died with firmness and dignity. He denied that he was implicated in the Cawnpore massacre, and he asserted that Nana Sahib had nothing to do with it. He imputed all the cruelty to the Sepoys. Who Tantia Topee was or whether that was his real name, none seem to know. Whether he was born in the Deccan, or at Poona, or in Calpee, or whether he was or not a pensioner of the Indian Government, none know. All that is known is that he was a Brahmin, that he took service under Nana Sahib, and after the 'mutiny commanded the rebels at Agra, in the Doab, and at Calpee, and that he subsequently made those astound- ing flying marches all over Central India which we have been recording for the last fifteen months.

There has been some more fighting in Oude. The rebels have striven to break out of the Terrai into Gonda, but have been met at every point and driven back.

Sir Charles Trevelyan has rejoiced the heart of all India by resolving to revise the old and horrible system of correspondence.

t I II !att.—The Canadian Parliament was prorogued on the 4th of May. Iii the opinion of the Governor-General, it had accomplished much useful work. Before they separated, in order to prevent the re- moval of the seat of Government to Quebec, the Legislative Council had refused the supplies.