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US telegraph apprized the whole country on Thursday evening, that at three o'clock on that afternoon the Princess Frederick William had given birth to a Prince in her palace at Berlin ; and that both mother and son were "doing well."

The Prussian people showed considerable interest in the happpy event, and the Regent and his consort appeared on the balcony of the palace, and, amid vociferous cheering, thanked the populace for their sympathy.

frafiff.—The Ilfonittur of Monday morning contained the following paragraphs apropos of the new family compact.

"The intimate relations, which have for a long time existed between the Emperor of the French and the King of Sardinia, and the mutual interests of France and Piedmont, have induced the sovereigns of the two countries to draw closer, by a family alliance, the ties which unite them. For more than a year, negotiations with this object in view have been carried on, but

the youth of the princess delayed the fixing of the period of the marriage until now. Yesterday General Niel officially demanded the hand of the Princess Clotilda in marriage with Prince Napoleon. The King gave his consent, and the ceremony will shortly take place at Turin.

The rumours of war have not ceased, and the fluctuations on the Bourse have corresponded with their publication, contradiction, and re- vival. Thus— Monday afternoon—" A rise has taken place in all funds. Continual agitation and fluctuation in prices. Different interpretations are put on the 3foniteur article of today respecting the alleged treaty with Piedmont. Rentes, 68f. 600." Tuesday afternoon—"A rumour is current that reinforcements will be sent to Rome. Tendency heavy. Rentes, 68.4.5." Thursday Afternoon.—Rentes subsequently rose to 69 francs 10 cents. Bourse is rather firm and animated. A reaction has again taken place, and Rentes close very flat at 68 francs 85 cents for money, and 68 francs 80 cents for account."

The article alluded to in the first paragraph is the following.

"The Union has not scrupled to republish the following lines of the Independence Beige : " It is affirmed that King Victor Etnimanuel only consented to the mar- riage of the Princess Clotilda with Prince Napoleon on the condition that an offensive and defensive treaty should be signed between France and Sar- dinia. It is added that this treaty was signed the day before yesterday.'

"We regret to have to point out and contradict such an assertion in the columns of a French newpaper, not less because the statement is completely false than because it is insulting to the dignity of the two Sovereigns. "The Emperor must desire that his family alliances should accord with the traditional policy of France ; but he will never make the great interests of the country depend upon a family alliance."

The Constitutionnel has been denouncing "those wicked men" who spread false rumours. The-Journal des Dads has come out as the ad-

vocate of an European Congress in an article that has attracted very

general attention. It is from the pen of M. de Secy. The Paris corre- spondent of the Morning Post says, that "there seems to be a proposi- tion, or rather a suggestion, emanating from one of the great Cabinets of Europe, to hold a Congress to take into consideration the political condi- tion of Italy. But there is a difficulty about who is to assume the ini- tiative."

Orders have been issued to put in a state of commission eight screw liners, ten steam-frigates, one steam-corvette, three steam-transports, and one floating-battery, now at Brest. This order is explained to mean that these ships should be rapidly completed up to the point when, with the shortest delay, they can be put in commission and sent to sea. Five screw liners are already in that state. Three screw liners have been ordered from Cherbourg into the Mediterranean.

It is unquestionable that the French naval service is very active just now in the Mediterranean ports and at Brest.

The Agricultural Societies of Rochefort and Tournay have memorial- ized the Government for free trade in corn.

Prince Napoleon, as the Minister of Algeria and the colonies, has di- rected the Governor of Reunion to "adopt the most stringent measures to forbid any engagement of labourers either on the Eastern Coast of Africa, or Madagascar' or the Comorea, as well as the importation into Reunion of immigrants from those places, or from St. Marie, Mayotte, and Nossi Be." This is giving up the scheme of "compulsory free" emigration.

Sig ifl.—The marriage project advances apace. On Sunday last, in the cathedral of Turin, after mass, General Niel, in the name of the Emperor of the French, demanded from the King the hand of the Prin- cess Clotilda in marriage with Prince Napoleon. That evening there was a gala representation at the court theatre. The next night Count Cavour gave an evening party. Prince Napoleon was the lion on both these occasions. It is remarked that the "high aristocracy" held aloof from these festivities, and that the Prussian Minister was absent. - The marriage was to take place at Turin tomorrow.

Prince Napoleon has reviewed 1000 veterans of the Grand Army, all decorated with the medal of St. Helena. He said- " I thank you for the eagerness which you have shown in assembling here to meet me. I am deeply affected by it. Noble and glorious remains of our army! you are an additional bond between France and Piedmont, which, as well as our dynasties, are and will be allied in future. I shall inform the Emperor of your ardour, and I thank you in his name. Vive l'Empereur ! Vive le Roi Victor Emmanuel!" The address of the Piedmontese Senate in answer to the speech from the throne, is very calm, and breathes an anti-war spirit of a very marked character. The concentration of troops towards Austrian Italy has gone on. They are drawn from the French frontiers.

It is pretty confidently stated that Lord Malinesbury has written a note to Sardinia intended to divert her from the dangerous path she seems willing to follow ; and also a note to Austria containing a warm exhortation to the Imperial government to remedy the serious grievances of Italy, thus destroying the causes and pretexts of the threatened war.

It has also been officially communicated to the Court of Turin that the Prince of Wales will go there in the spring, on his return from his Italian tour, to visit the King of Sardinia. The announcement has been responded to in the most courteous and friendly terms. The health of the King of Naples is much improved. It is stated that the Count of Trapani will be married to another sister of the Austrian Empress, the Princess Matilda of Bavaria.

There is a talk at Napes of forming a camp on the Roman frontier. The political prisoners, Poerio and the rest, have been put on board the Stromboli—a war-ship converted into a prison. They are to be taken to Cadiz, and shipped thence in merchant-vessels for New York.

• illSitiff.—A telegraphic despatch from Vienna, on Monday, reports 's.th an "it is said" that "the Emperor, in an address to the deputa- tion of the National Bank, expressed himself in terms calculated to tran- quillize the public mind on the present position of political affairs."

'uihh i ate . —The America arrived at Liverpool on Monday, with advices from New York to the 11th January.

Intensely cold weather had set in throughout the northern and middle States. The 10th of January was considered the coldest day for eleven years. A curious circumstance was observed that morning at New York. The mercury stood at 8° below zero at sunrise, and after sunrise fell to 10° below ! So intense was the cold that even old stage-drivers and rail- way-conductors—men who had encountered the severest weather in past years—were obliged to abandon their posts for fear of being frozen. One driver was taken off his box helpless, another dead. Many persons had their ears, fingers, and toes frost-bitten, and one woman was frozen to death. The sudden cold caused the water in the rivers to seethe, as if boiling, and a fog hung in a cloud to the height of a hundred feet over the streams all day. At six o'clock in the morning, the thermometer (Fahrenheit) at New York was at 8° below zero, at eight it was at 10° below, and at twelve o'clock noon it stood at 3' below zero. As an evi- dence of the intense cold further north, it may be stated that the mercury was 38° below zero at Ogdensburg, on the St. Lawrence at sunrise on the 10th instant, and 38' below zero at Rouse's Point, Lake Camplain, at the same hour. It was at 3' below zero at nine o'clock the same morning in Philadelphia. A bill for the organization of two new territories, Arizona and Dace- tab, had been agreed to by the committee on territories in the house. The bill for Colons, a territory to take in the Rocky Mountain country adjacent to Pike's Peak, and to be called in honour of Columbus, was rejected. A bill for the organization of Nevada was also pending. Da- eotah lies north of Minnesota. Lord Selkirk's settlement of Pembina is in it. Its nbrthern boundary is the line of British North America. Arizona is the country lately added to the United States from Mexico by the "Gadsden purchase."

A reorganization of the postal System had been determined upon. It is at present almost worthless—probably the most disgraceful in any ei-iilised country. The recent importation of Africans meets with general condemnation in South Carolina. The Winsborough Register calls for the prompt punishment of Corrie and his fellow pirates. That journal says that the citizens "must denounce any .attempt to profit by subjecting these Afri- cans to servitude," and should deliver them up to be disposed of as the President has prescribed. At a Teeting of the Rock Creek Baptist Church held on the 1st January, amlng other resolutions, passed unani- mously, was the following : "that' to bring untrained negroes from Africa, and land them upon any portiog of the soil of South Carolina, for the purpose of making slaves of them, 'sleets our unqualified disapproba- tion, and we will oppose it with all Ate legal means within our power,"

concluding with a call upon their sister Churches to coOperate with them in this laudable purpose. The schooner Susan had been wrecked off the coast of Honduras. Her crew and passengers had been carried back to Mobile in her Majesty's sloop of' war Basilisk. It was proposed at Mobile to publicly entertain the officers of ILK sloop Basilisk for bringing the shipwrecked filibusters of the Susan back safely to that port ; but the doubtful honour would scarcely be accepted. The Mobile papers publish a list of the Basilisk's officers, prefaced by some questionable compliments for their "admirable hospitality to the wrecked emigrants of the Susan." Mr. Morris, of Perms, had given notice that he would bring forward an International Copyright Bill, and press its passage this session of Congress. After years of defiance of the Government, Brigham Young, the leader of the Mormons, on the 5th of December last, civily attended the Utah District Court as a witness, in ready compliance with a subpcona served upon him by the Marshal. This is an unexpected proof of his submis- sion to the United States.

Sat ill.—A mail from Calcutta has arrived this week. The intelli- gence it brought had already been anticipated by the Bombay mail of last week. It is, however, stated that Lord Canning would return from Allahabad to Calcutta by the 14th January.

Cage of funt Inft.—Advices from Cape Town to the 22d De- cember, inform us that, under the mediation of Governor Grey, the Free State and the Basutas have made an equitable treaty. The foreign trade of the colony was in a flourishing state. "The total imports for the year ending the 30th of September are valued at 2,524,2421. ; exports, 1,814,4741.; showing an increase of nearly 200,0001. on each over 1857. The Customs' duties received amount to 254,0001.—an increase of more than 20,000/."