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FEANCE.—The accounts received from Paris on Saturday last, respecting the change of Ministry, were not exact M. Ferdinand Barrot alone has retired. M. Rouher has neither retired nor changed his portfolio of Jus- tice for that of the Interior, resigned by M. Barrot. M. Baroche, the Procureur of the Republic, has succeeded direct to the vacant Ministry of the Interior; but it is thought that this arrangement is temporary, that M. Baroche will shortly succeed M. Rouher as Minister of Justice, and that some Moderate politician of mark will succeed to the Ministry of the Interior.

M. Ferdinand Barrot has been named Minister Plenipotentiary to the Court of Turin, in place of M. Lucien Murat, the period of whose mission has-expired.

M. Baroche has been succeeded in his office of Procureur-General by M. Royer, Advocate-General of the Paris Court of Appeals, and a very able lawyer. In the Assembly, on Saturday, M. F. de Lasteyrie, a Moderate Re- publican Member denounced the conduct of the journal .4esemblie Na- tionale in publishing the names of shopkeepers in the fashionable quarters who voted for the Socialist candidates ; with the object of withdrawing from them the custom of the wealthy. Such conduct was calculated to exasperate political opposition, and was moreover a violation of the law of secret voting. The Minister of Justice raised a storm in the Mountain by a contemptuous allusion to the "mock conciliation exhibited in the coalition to which the results of the late election were due." After vio- lent uproar, and the exchange of epithets and charges—" brigand," "pro- voker to civil war," &c. —the Minister proceeded to refer the shopkeepers to the law of action against the individual newspaper, as Government could not be called on to interfere. M. Baroche, the new Minister of the Interior, supported this declaration; reminding the complainers that there had been so much oPen boasting of the way in which votes had been given against the candidates of Order, that there had been no violation of secrecy in the simple printing of names.

The National and the Voix du Peupk newspapers of Thursday besought their Socialist partisans to maintain a most guarded attitude on the pub- lication of the election returns ; warning them that " an infernal trap had been laid for them "—that a plot was on foot to bring them into col- lision with the military force. On Friday there appeared in the Patrie exclusively, and on Saturday in the Clonstitutionnel exclusively, a state- ment that " the Procureur of the Republic has ordered proceedings to be instituted against the above parties, as guilty of exciting a hatred and contempt of the Government of the Republic."

The Voix du Peupk and the Democratie Pact, lgue of Friday declared, that " considerable sums had been adventured in expectation of a rise " after the return—regarded as certain—of the Moderate candidates ; the speculator being " a rich Jewish banker, occupying one of the most ele- vated positions in the Government, and above all, closely connected with the President of the Republic." The journal also says, that " the in- terests of a high personage" were "gravely compromised by the result" The Procureur of the Republic has in consequence demanded leave to prosecute the publishers, on charges, " first, of insult to the person of the President of the Republic, and secondly, of exciting to hatred and con- tempt of the Government of the Republic."

- The cure of Dourdan, in the department of the Seine and Oise, thus exhorted the poor of his congregation in a late sermon- " Come to me when you suffer ; for I am the advocate of the poor, and I owe you my advice. The rich hold their fortune from God; who has given it into their charge only that they may distribute it to the poor, whose rights are consecrated by our religious laws. The poor, therefore, with the gospel in their hands, may go and take the superfluity of the rich, without owing any thanks for it, for God has ordered it."

Most of the cure's hearers withdrew, shocked at the principles enoun- ced: some, however, tendered him their gratitude, and urged him to hold fast those doctrines and repeat them in his discourses. The Napoleon states that Struve the German Republican had passed secretly through Paris towards Geneva, intending to be present at a great meeting of the refugees there, on the 15th instant.

Brom—General Cordova arrived at Barcelona from Italy on the instant ; and was to be followed, within the next fortnight, by the whole of the Spanish expeditionary force remaining in the Papal States.

GERMANY.—The Erfurt Parliament assembled on the 15th, despite the opposition of Austria, the protests of several minor states, and the diplomatic course taken by Russia, who ignores that Prussian project. Prince Gortschakofl a Russian Plenipotentiary, arrived at Frankfort at the end of February, and has been officially recognized on the conditional terms under which he was to give the official sanction of his Imperial Court. The conditions were, says the Times, "that M. de Bulow should first be duly received as the Plenipotentiary of the King of Denmark, as Duke of Holstein and Lauenburg, and that the due performance of the conditions of the [Prussio-Danish] armistice, and the preliminaries of the 10th of July should be secured."

The Deutsch Reform has published diplomatic correspondence showing that Prussia and Hanover are at rupture with each other. Each power has withdrawn his ambassador from the other ; Prussia declaring that Hanover's secession from the treaty of the 26th of May is "unjustified," and stating that " friendly relations " no longer lie in the hands of Prus- sia alone.

The King of Wurtemburg opened his States on the 15th instant, with a speech calculated to hasten the crisis of the German Unity.

Obeying the duty imposed by the position of all Germany of using the greatest frankness, he said, that "since the events of March 1848, Germany has not ceased to be the football of the passions and ambition of factions..'

A German Unity is the most dangerous of delusions; and all attempts to real- ize it will but further the contrary effect, of divisions and dismemberment of the body-compact The preservation of the independent individuality of the principal races will be the real unity and strength of the nation, and a fede- rative constitution the single practicable political form. "Impartial history will one day point out the objects and passions which led to the convention of the 26th of May." [The Prussian Bund.] It is an insiduous Sender- bond, founded on political suicide of its members, and impossible of execu- tion without a wilful breach of European treaties.

His Ministry had opened negotiations with Bavaria and Saxony to concert a German constitution with success ; and moreover with the subsequent sanction of Austria, formally received. This attempt would adhere to the " old right," to something positive, traditional, historical—which cannot be denied, which again and again takes its ground, and forcibly maintains itself. "Myself and the governments which act with me in this question will preserve to the nation its right of the representation of the whole body- compact ; we will have no new political structure built with the disjointed rafters of our old rights, but an improvement of the hitherto existing Bund [the old Confederation] according to the exigencies of the age ; we will make the just demands of Prussia harmonize with the interests of the rest' of Germany ; we will not offer up on the altar of our country our particular interests to this or that specific power, but only for the common welfare • we will neither be Austrians nor Prussians, but are and will remain, through and with Wurtemberg, Germans, without other distinction."

GREECE.—Advices from Athens, of the 5th instant, communicate tho arrival there, on the 1st instant, of M. Le Gros, the French Envoy Ex- traordinary, and the formal termination of extreme measures. Mr. Green, the British Consul, on the same sdi. issued a notification to this effect- " I am instructed by her Maje s Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of Greece, to inform you that her ajesty's Government, having good hopes of obtaining a satisfactory settlement of their demands on the Greek Go- vernment, through the good offices of the Government of the French Re- public, have given orders to Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker' to suspend, for a reasonably limited period of time' the coercive action of her Majesty's squadron ; but, nevertheless,. to retain the Greek vessels actually in lus pos- session, as pledges in deposit, until a final arrangement shall have been made. Orders have consequently been given by Vice-Admiral Sir William Parker to allow for the present the free ingress and egress of all vessels not actually in possession of her Majesty's squadron."

Nine AND CHINA.—The overland mail brought to London on Thurs- day news from Bombay to the 16th, and Calcutta to the 8th February; and from Hongkong to the 30th January. The event of importance is a mutiny of a Bengal regiment of Native Infantry, at timritsir, on the 2d February.. The men had for some time shown symptoms of insubordination on. account: of the Seinde batta, " which they., said pressed hard on them, considering the high prices of food and their distance from their homes." Major Troup addressed them on the 1st, in explanation of the order; and was doing so again on the 2d, when the men openly refused to obey orders. Some , precautions,. however, had been taken : the men had piled arms; a company of cavalry " showed " at one of the gates of the fort ; the mutineers ran to their piled arms, but the officers and the armed cavalry anticipate4 and pre- vented them ; and after some rough struggling, .they were mastered, and turned out of the fort. Stanch reinforcements- arriving, the mutinous regiment was " arrested" en masse, and placed for custody on the glades of the fort, under the muzzles of the guns loaded with grape-shot.

From Calcutta an expedition had started, or Darjeeling, against the Rajah of Sikkim, to call him to account for the outrages against Ds. Hooker and Dr. Campbell. At Macao, the Portuguese had given up the Chinese soldiers taken pri- soners in their attack on the forts after Governor Amiral's murder ; and in return the Chinese had yielded up the head and hand of the late Go- vernor. These relics had been well preserved, and were both immediately recognized: the skull had been fractured, and the ring-,finger removed.

Unmet) STAva8.—The mail steam-ship Europa has brought intelligence from New York to the 5th, and from Halifax to the 8th instant.

The admission of California, and its previous question the Slavery dif- ficulty, were tinder full discussion in both divisions of the Legislature. In the. House of Representatives, many days had been spent in heated de- bate on a resolution by Mr. Doty to admit California as she is—that is,. with a constitution denouncing slavery. The Southern speakers had, as. usual, been profuse in declarations that the Union was imperilled, and that civil war was imminent ; and it is said that a little band had mu- tually engaged to "die on the floor" rather than let an adverse vote be taken. But the resolution had been withdrawn, and an expressibill had been in- troduced; and, in the prospect of a fresh debate over the whole subject again, there was a lull in the excitement. In the Senate, Mr. Henry- Clay's compromise resolutions, and a number of amendments, were still under debate. The leader of the South, Mr. Calhoun, had registered his opposition in a mode possessing a melancholy interest : he has become so weak from disease of the lungs that he could no longer take personal share in debate, and an oration against Mr. Clay's resolutions, characterized by Calhoun's brilliancy and ingenuity, was read for him by a brother Senator, on the 4th.

It has been rumoured in Washington, that a difficulty had been caused in the Cabinet by Mr. Clayton's negotiation with Sir Henry Bulwer on the Nicaraguan question, which was disapproved of. It was said that Mr. Clayton had tendered his resignation, but that President Taylor had returned it to him.

A fortnight's later news from California—to the 15th January—com- municates another great calamity: the valley of Sacramento had been deeply flooded over its whole extent, and the town of the same name had been wholly destroyed ; one house, built on raised poles, alone remained. The loss of property is calculated at 1,000,000 dollars, including immense herds of cattle ; no loss of life is mentioned.