Paris yesterday was agitated by increasing reports that secret Democra-
tic and Socialist societies are busy about some machinations, to explode on the 1st of October.
The Berlin Chambers have been debating the octroyed constitution. The Revising Committee of the Second Chamber proposed to restore the right of taxation to the people, by omitting the first seven words of the 108th article. On the 25th instant, this proposal was carried, against the opposition of Ministers, by 212 to 93. On the same day, the first Chamber came to a resolution also modifying the octroyed document. Thereupon Manteuffel, the Minister, made a declaration which was regarded as a com- promise on the point; but it was so ill received, that the majority against Ministers was expected to be greatly increased.
---Them has -been a talk of a loan cordiaCted "by the Pope for withdraw- ing the paper money and the false money which the Roman Republic put into Circulation. It has been said that the bankers of Rome had offered to take up the revolutionary monies, in return for the concession of the monopoly of salt and tobacco. These statements are inexact. The Em- peror of Russia has offered a loan of 5,000,000 crowns, guaranteed by the King of Naples, to be repaid by annuities, and bearing only 2 and 2i per cent interest. We are assured that this offer will be accepted.—Constitu- donned.
A banquet in honour of Marshal Radetzky was given in the Ridotto Hall at Vienna on the 22d instant. The hall-panels were inscribed with the names of the scores of battles in which Radetzky has been concerned, from those of Voltri and the Trebbia in 1796, to those of the Lombard cam- paigns in 1848 and 1849. The Marshal himself took the centre of the table: on his right was Haynau; and next to him, in singular contrast to the soldier's-iron aspect, the venerable Servian Patriarch Rajachich, with silvery beard and picturesque costume. On the Marshal's left was Prince Schwatzenberg; and then the Ban Jellachich. About 400 guests, and up- wards of 1,000 lady spectators, were present. The toast of " Father Ra- detzky" was received with " tremendous cheering." The veteran returned thanks in a voice inaudible from the excited applause which was main- tained. Haynau was " loudly cheered." But the toast " a'he chivalrous Ban Jellachich" raised such sounds as were " never before produced by the htiman throat"; and the ladies agitated themselves with applause in a man- ner "no less flattering to the Ban as a man than as a soldier."
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