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Fitawcz.—The moat prominent incident of French news is briefly told. Louis Napoleon is returned for the department of the Seine, by an over- whelming majority; and M. Fould only has made any show of competition with the three Communist candidates Raspail, There, and Cabet, who stand next highest on the poll. In addition, Louis Napoleon has been returned for the departments of the Moselle, the Yonne, and the Orne.

The numbers polled are stated to be—for Napoleon Bonaparte, 116,014; Fonld, the Jew banker, 80,193; Raspail, the Socialist, now in Vincennes fort, 67,852; There and Cabet, the two Communists, 65,650 and 65,460; Roger and Adam, Moderates, 64,057, and 55,904; Marshal Bugeaud, 49,411; Emile de Girardin, only 28,108.

In the provinces, the elections have proved more satisfactory to the Con- servative party. Count Mole has been elected for the Gironde; and M. Respell has been defeated at Lyons with a very narrow majority by M. Rivet, an Ex-Deputy.

The Paris press is wholly occupied with these events; which are deemed ominous of new and serious crises. The Times correspondent writes- " It would appear that we are therefore on the eve of a new straggle. Prince Louis Napoleon has been placed first among the successful candidates by the So- cialists, Communists, and Terrorists of Paris, as a means of carrying out their own projects. But they were not the 'Red' men who returned him for the Mo- selle, for the Yonne, for the Orne, for the North, or for the Charente; and we are told he has been chosen by all these. What do these facts—those six nominations —announce? what inference do they suggest? I am bound to supply the answer, but disclaiming all feeling of my own on the subject: the conviction on the mind of nearly every man I meet is, that if the Prince makes no false step he will be elected President of the Republic."

On Tuesday night there was vast excitement in the streets. The Boule- vards were as crowded as on the nights preceding the insurrection of June. Heavy patrols passed at brief intervals, but did not interfere, and no dis- turbance took place.

The same writer in the Times mentions the extensive prevalence of phy- sical distress among the working classes; and moralizes gloomily on a striking incident which he narrates-

" It is truly melancholy to witness what passes every day at four or five o'clock on the Place du Carrousel. In the part of the building formerly occupied by the Etat Major of the National Guards, is stationed a battalion of a regiment of the Line. They dine at five o'clock. Long before that hour, may be seen congregated round the steps leading to the barrack 30 or 40 men and youths waiting to receive a portion of their rations, which the poor soldiers generously divide with them; and it is painful to witness the avidity with which their donations are swallowed. If a regiment or a battalion march along the Boulevards, you will see at its head, surrounding the music, nearly as many young and elderly men and boys as the regiment or battalion comprises. This obvious misery and want of employment must be attended to and relieved or obviated some way or other, or we shall have a very unpleasant winter of it."

But the following paragraph is reassuring-

" The harvest has been an excellent and a bountiful one. The vintage will be in quality superior to that of 1846, and indeed to any known during many years. In quantity it will not be more than an average one; but this is not re- gretted, as the superabundance of last year's vintage was astonishing, and even embarrassed the wine-growers."

The bearing of the elections upon the position of the Ministry is not yet apparent; but some perils have threatened it during the week, from pro- ceedings in the Assembly. Uneasiness has been caused among the Mode- rates of the Assembly by rumours of " rapprochements " between General Cavaignac and the party of the Mountain. Last week it was reported that private interviews had occurred between members in the confidence of that party and General Cavaignac on a Government project to despatch Demo- cratic Representatives into the departments with the mission of exalting the fading spirit of Republicanism. On Friday it was resolved by the Moderate party to learn positively the truth of these rumours. Accord- ingly, M. Baze on Saturday questioned the Minister of the Interior on the matter, in the Assembly. M. Senard admitted the truth of the rumours; stating it to be the wish of the Executive. Power to found a strong ad- ministration throughout the country. The Republican officials had only been lately installed; and the object of sending Representatives of the People as commissioners into the departments was to strengthen and purify the newly-organized administration, to give the Government in- formation as to the state of feeling in the country, to revive public opinion, and, in short, to establish a political and general inspection of the depart- ments. This announcement threw the Assembly into an extraordinary com- motion; in the midst of which, M. Ban declaimed against the incendiary dangers of such a course. It would create distrust; it was an insult to the Representatives of the departments, which were to be inspected by other Representatives, who were strangers in those departments; and it would be regarded with terror in the South, where the recollection of the similar measures of the first Republic was still vivid. The Members rushed from their benches to the floor of the house; where they surrounded the Ministers, and assailed then with taunts or dissuasions. The Pre- sident at last was obliged to suspend the sitting, and the whole Ministry withdrew. In their absence, M. Marrast and some others cooled the excitement, by personal conciliations; and the following resolution of com- promise was framed and sent out to General Cavaignac and his colleagues, as an olive branch-

" The Assembly having heard the explanations of the Ministers, leaves to the responsibility of the Executive Government the appreciation of the measure they have proposed, and passes to the order of the day." In an hour the Ministers reentered, and the chair was resumed by M. Pagnerre, the Vice-President. General Cavaignac was in the act of as- cending the tribune for the purpose of resigning; but M. Marrast, Presi- dent of the Assembly, immediately ascended the tribune himself, and with- out preface read and proposed the above resolution; which was adopted by an immense majority of the Assembly, on the understanding that the offen- sive project contemplated by the Government would be abandoned. The Assembly separated amidst a scene of confusion and agitation.

The debates on the Constitution continue. The question of the " right to labour" received a sudden solution, without settlement, on Saturday. M. Dufaure proposed this amendment-

" The Republic owes fraternal assistance to necessitous citizens, whether in procuring them labour in the limits of her resources, or in giving, in default of family, the means of existence to those who are not in a state to labour."

His proposal found unexpected favour from all parties; other amend- ments were withdrawn, and intended speeches prevented; and the motion was adopted.

The suffrage clause was discussed briefly. Among the amendments, one by M. Detours, declaring that universal suffrage is a " preexisting, sove- reign, and imprescriptible right, which could never be suspended, altered, or restricted by the Assembly," was rejected by a majority of 533 votes to 180. The 8th article was then adopted as a whole, and the debate on the preamble of the Constitution closed.

The clauses of the Constitution itself were then discussed. An interest- ing debate arose on the 5th clause, which abolishes capital punishment in all cases of political crimes. M. Athanase Coquerel, the celebrated Pro- testant clergyman of Paris, proposed to expunge capital punishment alto- gether from the French code; appealing to the example of the Frankfort and Berlin Assemblies. M. Victor Hugo spoke on the same side with fervid eloquence. M. Vivien, on the part of the Committee on the Constitution, declared that the only reason why the Committee had not at once abolished the penalty of death in all cases was, that it thought the penitentiary system ought in the first place to be reorganized and reformed. The debate was continued and adjourned to Monday, when it was pushed to a division. The Government opposition to M. Coquerel's amendment was then sup- ported by 498 to 216. Boulogne has been during several successive days of this week in a giddy whirl of entertainments under the name of a "national and fraternal fete given to the National Guards of the neighbouring towns and the strangers in Boulogne." There have been grand processions and reviews of the Guards, balls, races, and regattas; and the English packet and railway com- panies have given their assistance by offering cheap trips to London. Some hundreds of National Guards availed themselves of the opportunity and have been seen parading the streets of London in full uniform. The Journal des Debats had this paragraph—" The Government, in order to obtain an exact account of the respective strength of each party in France, has ordered to be drawn up, in every department, a general list of all the citizens who have been named members of the Municipal Councils, indicating the opinions of each. This demand, which is imposed with

great urgency upon the Prefects, lays down the four following categories— viz. Legitinists, Conservatives, Ardent Republicans, and Moderate Repub- licans."

The edema' news is still of double aspect; and the future uncertain. On the me hand, Government is said to have ordered the reduction of the Army. of the Alps by one-half, and the discontinuance of all preparations for war On the other hand, it is said that orders have been sent to the naval commander of Sicily to prevent the continuance of hostilities in that island,and to the naval commander in the Adriatic to prevent the occupa- tion o' Venice by the Austrians."

General Cavaignac has published a long letter in the Moniteur, refuting two calumnies directed against the memory of his father by the dfemorial Lordelais. M. Cavaignac the Conventionalist was charged with having seconded a motion made in the Popular Society of Auch, for the purpose of bringing to the scaffold a number of members of the Convention. M. Cavaignac, as chairman of the meeting, had put the question; and hence it was inferred that he had approved and supported it. General Cavaignac cites, in vindication of the memory of his father, the debate which took place on the subject in the Convention, on the 13th Prairial year 3 and which completely exonerated him from the charge. The Memorial Borde- /air had further asserted, that whilst the Conventionalist Cavaignac was on a mission at Dax, in the department of the Landes, he had imposed dishonour on the daughter of M. Labarrere, as the condition upon which the life of her father would be saved. General Cavaignac adduces two contradictions of that report, printed in 1816 and 1844; and thus con- cludes— ', It is notorious that Mademoiselle Labarrere, who, according to certain bio- graphers, had. disappeared from Dax a few days after the death of her father, and had never returned thither,' never quitted that town. She there contracted a very honourable marriage; and in 1835, her son, protesting by his proceeding against a calumny that had embittered the domestic repose of his mother as well as that of my father himself, came spontaneously to offer my brother Godefroy the assistance of his talent as a lawyer in his trial before the Court of Peers, and grounded that offer of service on the necessity he felt to repel in common an atrocious imputation."

GEaMANr.—The Frankfort news is of increasing interest.

On the 16th instant, after a sitting of' eleven hours, the National Assem- bly resolved, by a. majority of 258 to 237, in effect to recall its vote of the 5th instant, which went to annul the armistice of Malmoe; and affirmed, by a majority of 257 to 236, these propositions- " 1. That the execution of the armistice shall not, so far as is possible, or as the actual state of affairs will permit, be in any way prevented. 2. That the Central Power of Germany be requested to come to an understanding with Denmark to introduce into the terms of the said armistice the modifications which Denmark herself has declared admissible."

The populace assembled around St. Paul's, and threatened an attack on the majority as they retired; but did not execute their threats.

On Sunday, there were meetings of the Left; and the people were ad- dressed from hotel-balconie% with flaming harangues against the majority, ass traitors to Germany. They were told to prepare for serious work, but to hold in till the Left had cogitated the situation and resolved on a plan of action. On Sunday, monster meetings were held on a common outside the town, at which large numbers of Democrats from the neighbouring towns appeared; and it was discussed by the orators whether it were more patriotic for the Left to resign in a body, or for them to call on the ma- jority to do so, or whether. the Assembly should be straightway " purged " by forcible means. Ultimately, these resolutions were carried—

it This meeting declares the members of the majority who ratified the in- famous armistice of Malmoe to be guilty of high treason against the majesty, liberty, and honour of the German people. 2. This resolution shall at once be communicated to the German people. 3. A deputation shall tomorrow inform the members of the majority of this resolution."

The Senate of Frankfort sent word to the Regent that they could no longer guarantee order. The Regent induced part of his late Ministry to resume office provisionally: Schmerling took the combined Home, Foreign, and War departments; and provided with sang froid and decision to vin- dicate order,—bringing Austrian, Prussian,. and Bavarian troops into Frankfort.

On Monday, these measures were violently condemned in the Assembly by-the Left; but it was- evident that the Revolutionists were awed. Ont- side, the populace began to stone the soldiery and raise barricades. A de- putation hastened to the Regent, and declared that the rioters should not yield unless the troops were withdrawn. He replied, "Gentlemen, it is yourselves who have always said I was a puppet, a papaw: very well, then, I can do nothing—go to my Ministers, if you please." They went; and Schmerling sent them off, with a short denial. He declared the town in a state of siege; and having brought into it more troops, and some artillery, he ordered the barricades to be summoned, or carried by force. This was done- the soldiers behaving with forbearance, but unflinching gallantry. A sharp fight was made; but the rioters had not the burghers on their side, and were ill armed: so, short work was made of them. By midnight every point was in the hands of the-troops. But the pleasure of the friends of order was dashed by this grievous inci- dent, narrated by the Times- " Prince Lichnowsky and his friend Major Von Auerswald, (a brother of the ex-Premier of Prussia,) both members of Parliament, left the town on horseback tomeet the artillery that was to arrive at a quarter past five o'clock. It is possible that this object of theirs was guessed by a party of insurgents: a number of mus- kets were discharged at them just after they had passed the Eschenheim gate and turned into one of those charming allies which surround the town. A bullet en- tered the back of Major Auerswald's head, coming out above his-right eye; another atm& the young Prince through the body. The first dropped from his horse al- most senseless, the latter was pulled from his, and both were most cruelly beaten. The old Major soon breathed his last; the Prince was left in the dust with both his arms hacked.by a hatchet. He was carried, under M. Bethmann the banker's care, to a hospital; where he was reported to be still alive an hour ago, but in a desperate state."

The Times correspondent adds these sketches of the men thus miserably butchered. Of Lichnowsky- " Nobody who has followed the affairs of Frankfort during.the last months can withhold his grief at this most unexpected fall of so eminently gifted a man. He was the son of a distinguished historian, whose volumes form the most complete storehouse for the Austrian annals. He was brought up at Vienna, where his father was occupied with those compilations. When he became of agp, the test part of his property was sold, and he settled in the Prussian province of 1-lesia, on an estate near the ancient town of Batibor. His spirit of enterprise led him to join the cause of Don Carlos; where he became Chef de l'Etat Major. Since that period—which forms the subject of a very spirited little work of hie-- the handsome cavalier, who had all the characteristic features of his Solavonie race, was to be seen wherever gay life and genius were united. All the capitals of Europe had something to say of the Prince's original incessantly good= humoured behaviour. At Berlin he was the champion of the Liberal party in the Upper Chamber of the Parliament of 1847; where he sat as proxy for the Prin- cess of Sagan, Peeress in her own right-

" His friend and comrade in this disastrous scene, Major von Auerswald, was a most respectable character. His military acquirements were turned to account in the Committee for Military Affairs, as chairman of which he introduced the bill for raising the armed forces of Germany to the height of 2 per cent of the popula- tion, or by about 40,000 men. His speeches were sensible; his manners straight- forward and gentlemanlike."

Panssaa.—The Ministerial crisis continued at Berlin on the 17th. The Moderates feared that the King would be forced to call Stein and Waldeck to his counsels. Some military riots had taken place at Potsdam, of a Democratic character, but had been put down without difficulty: the Mo- narchists seized the occasion of a review that had since occurred, to reas- sure the King by enthusiastic demonstrations.

A Belgian journal, Le Precurseur, of the 16th instant, has the follow- ing paragraph on the Prusso-Danish question-

" It appears that the Earl of Westmoreland, immediately after the arrival of the intelligence from Frankfort of the first decision of the Diet relative to the armistice, sent a note to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, stating that he believed that he was acting according to the wish of his Cabinet in declaring that the Queen of Great Britain, in her quality of guarantee for the armistice of Malmoe, would adopt every requisite measure for the maintenance of that armistice, even if it should involve an active defence of the rights guaranteed to Denmark by the convention; and that he would send a definitive note to this effect as soon as he was informed of the resolutions of Lord Palmerston."

Ansrrus..—Serious commotions have occurred at Vienna. The accounts are consecutive to the lath, but the papers of the 14th and 15th suddenly become inexplicit. One Herr Swoboda had founded a Mutual Help Com- pany, in which the populace largely took shares; encouraged, it is said, by the personal example of Herr Dobblhoff, the Minister. Distrust ante; the people assembled on the 11th in excited crowds, and demanded the guarantee of the State for the undertaking. The National Guard Wag called out, and some collisions took place; but ultimately the people dis- persed, on assurances that the matter should be officially considered. On the 12th, the Minister Dobblhoff issued a proclamation, styling the society " Swoboda's private undertaking," and refusing the required guarantee. The populace became outrageous; the students of the University joined them, and turned the movement into a political one. The official residence of the Minister was attacked, and its archives seized; the employes and IL Dobbllioff himself escaping with difficulty, by private exits. The National Guards and some of the troops were found to be fraternizing with the po- pulace; and the excitement was with difficulty allayed by a public notifi- cation that the Government yielded the guarantee of the Mutual Help Society's notes. On the 13th, there was some renewal of the political commotions; and a deputation went from the students to demand of the Assembly the reconstruction of the " Committee of Safety "; which was re= fused, after a stormy debate. The papers of the 15th seem to be pub- lished under fears, and simply state that the Ministry was on the point of resigning.

IvaY.—Authentic details of the fall of Messina are still unsupplied. The Neapolitans have undisturbed possession of the town, and had assem- bled nearly 20,000 troops there on the 11th. The Neapolitan journals give no official accounts of the capture; but they charge the Messinese with unparalleled barbarities, alleging that they roasted and devoured some Swiss captives.

SwITZEunAND.—A letter from Berne, of the 12th instant, says—"A salute of one hundred and one guns, and bonfires on the hills, have this moment proclaimed the definitive adoption of the new constitutioa by the Swiss Confederation." Switzerland is tranquil.

UNITED STATES.—The Britannia arrived- at Liverpool on Wednesday morning, with papers from New York of the 5th instant: they contain no news of much interest.

The election of the President is the all-absorbing topic, and its chances have become more complex. It is now announced that a section of the Whigs have determined to nominate Mr. Clay in preference to General Taylor. Mr. Webster has declared, unwillingly, for the latter.

The news from England by the Hibernia had perfectly quashed all the Irish " sympathy," and made the Confederates a general laughingstock.

Much alarm was felt in New York, in consequence of the yellow fever having broken out at Staten Island.

The New York Gas-works were totally destroyed by fire on the 30th August, and a large portion of the town thrown into nightly gloom.

THE LIBERIAN REPUBLIC.—The United States of America some time since elevated into independence of the mother-country the settlement of Liberia, formed by it on the East coast of Africa. The Morning Post an- nounces the arrival in England of Mr. Roberts, the first President of the young Republic. " His object is to enter into treaties with the Euro- pean Governments; and we understand that an interview which he had the other day with Lord Palmerston was most satisfactory. His Lordship was prepared at once, and without the smallest hesitation or reserve, to enter into the view of Mr. President Roberts. The Black community of Liberia and Great Britain may be considered, therefore, to be from the present, time in intimate and friendly relations with each other. The formalities of office only require to be gone through to cement the proposed connexion." Mr. Roberts is a man of colour, who by persevering self-tuition has- made unusual acquirements in classical, historical, and political literature.