lump at( enigma.

"Tall fr.—The lion of the day in France is the Grand Duke Constantine. His stay at Toulon was one long fete, our lively allies making

everything pleasant. But the balls and dinners were only secondary matters. The Grand Duke appears to be intent on business. Thus, the larger paS of the accounts of his doings describes him as an assiduous student in the docks, arsenals, and armouries ; taking a note of what struck him as new, and pointing it out to Todtleben and other officers. Ho was sometimes rather brusque but never unpolite.

What struck him most of all in the docks, we are told, "were the three floating batteries which attacked the fort of Kinburn, and the gun-boats destined to ascend the Dnieper. While examining them, he observed that no conclusion could be drawn from the fact of floating batteries having reduced a fortress which had no guns of long range or projectiles of great weight ; and the experiments made with such guns have proved in Russia, -and elsewhere, that iron plates of four or five inches thick equal to those of the floating batteriea could not resist them even at great distances. As to the gun-boats, when he heard that they were fitting out for the Chinese rivers, he could not suppress a movement of dissatisfaction • and he said to those about him, 'What you are again going to take the chestnuts out of the fire there also!'"

Ho decorated a young French officer who had been captured by the Russians at Kinburn, and begged that he might act as his aide-de-camp -during his stay in France.

"On visiting the armoury on the first day, he did not at once notice the guns brought from Sebastopol, as the precaution had been taken of turning them somewhat out of sight ; but on his examining them snore closely, he found that they had belonged to Russia. Those are trophies of victory?'

he asked one of the functionaries who accompanied him. Yes, Prince,' replied the latter; but Jean show you something by way of a set-off,' pointing to a number of French guns which bad been rendered unfit for Further service by the Russian shot. 'Ah,' said the Grand Duke, that is what you call a set-off, is it ? Perhaps, it is sufficient for you by way of courtesy, but I — However, I accept it, such as it is,' added he smiling." Another account says, that "before his visit order ri had been given to hide from view the great bell which had been brought from Sebastopol. Seeing some large object, however, covered over with a tarpaulin, the Prince asked what it was ; and on observing some little hesitation on the part of the person to whom lie addressed the question, he himself raising the covering, and, see

ing what it was, gave a melancholy smile, and said, will not look at that -at present, but will return another day. ' " Ile left Toulon on the 27th April, and proceeded by sea to Ciotat, where some vessels are in course of construction for the Russian Government. From Ciotat be proceeded to Marseilles, and thence to Paris. Ile arrived on Thursday.

11111 iti r1 tub .—Aceording to the .Rend, the terms of the settlement of the Neuchatel question, as recommended by the Four Powers, are these " The King of Prussia is to renounce his rights in Neuchatel, which he elaims under the treaty of Vienna. The Canton of Neuchatel is to be an independent state, end a member of the Swiss Confederation, with the same rights as the other Cantons. Switzerland grants a complete amnesty for all political and military offences connected with the events of September, and takes upon herself all the expenses occasioned by those events. The revenues of the ceeletdastical property, incorporated with the state in 1848, and the pious foundations, such as the Pourtalas Hospital and the Pury Request, are to be administered according to the intentions of the donors. Switzerland will pay to Prussia a sum of one million of francs Nothing will be said in the treaty of the title of Prince of Neuchatel, which the l'owers had said in a former protocol that the King of Prussia was to keep. The condition insisted upon by Prussia, that a million of francs was to be paid, is not conceded as an indemnity for the civil list, or as an indemnity for anything whatever, but simply as a money payment, without any assigned reason. ' The project has been communicated to the Government of Neuchatel, and that body has signified its assent to the terms proposed. The Federal Council was to consider the scheme on the 29th April.

Mtalli.—The bill for the fortification of Alessandria finally passed the Piedmontese Senate on the 25th by a vote of 45 to 8.

A serious misunderstanding has arisen between the Piedmontese Government and the Municipality of Genoa. By the terms of the constitution, all members of the state are bound to contribute to state expenses in proportion to their means. The Genoese refused to pay their quota. The Government thereupon notified to the Mayor that they must pay. The Mayor and his colleagues then resigned. It is supposed that Count Cavour will send a commission to manage the affairs of the town. Some think that the Municipality has been piqued by the proposal to carry the naval arsenal from Genoa to Spezzia, and that they have revenged themselves by refusing taxes.

The bardinian Government has concluded an arrangement with the Victor-Emanuel Railway Cowpony for the formation of the tunnel through Mont Conic. The expense required for these works will amount to 40,000,000 franca, of which the Government will take 20,000,000 on itself.

The Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian made his official entry into Milan on the 19th April. Some of the papers say that he was warmly, others coldly received. The medium account is that the Lombards were simply "pleased to see the new Governor-General."

$1111111.—The Spanish Cortes were to be opened by commission yesterday. On Wednesday the Journal des 1),Thots published an analysis of a speech that would be read on Friday. According to this anticipatory statement, the Queen of Spain was to assure her subjects, that a "good nudes-standing" has been reestablished between Rome and her Court ; that there is hope of an amicable settlement of the Mexican difficulty ; that at home "peace and order prevail everywhere" ; and that "a veil of oblivion" shall be thrown over the past. As to the future, the Queen would recommend a bill to reform the organization of the Senate, by introducing a proportion of hereditary Senators having large fortunes ; and bills to enable the government "to establish the financial system upon the principles of economical science and the wisdom of experience." VET5i ft —It seems that the troops were embarking at Bushire for the expedition to Mohammerah on the 6th March. But if the previous intelligence derived from Turkey be true, news of peace would have arrived at Bushire on the 9th, in time to prevent any more fighting.

2uki11.—The intelligence from India is full of interest. The Government had ordered the Nineteenth Native Infantry from Berhampore to Barrackpore, there to be disbanded as a punishment for mutiny. This sentence is regarded as " inadequate " in the European circles, although every Native officer thereby loses his commission, and every Sepoy of a

certain age his pension and livelihood. The publication of the order had been delayed until another European regiment could be brought to Calcutta as a precaution against any insubordination at Barrackpore.

There has been another mutiny at Vizeiragram, in the Presidency of Madras.

"The Madrassees," says the Times correspondent, "have no caste, and their discontent must therefore proceed from other causes than the cartridge order. The truth is, we are at this moment passing through one of those periodical storms which every now and then remind us that Government m India 'sits on bayonets.' The Sepoys are restless and dissatisfied. They have no particular grievances, no particular leaders, no particular wants. A war on this side of India would at once remove every symptom of disaffection. But they are idle, and brood, like all Asiatics, over imaginary wrongs and absurd reports, till they are ready for anything, no matter what, that will break the feverish monotony of their lives. Then we have gradually reduced the number of officers, by draining them off for staff employment, till there are not enough left to manage the regiments. Sepoys require nearly as much attention as children. Under such circumstances, mutiny, unless stopped by stems and striking punishment, is apt to become epidemic. The Government is quite prepared for such a contingency ; and the next instance of insubordination will, I doubt not, be visited by a punishment that will ring through the Native army. It is greatly to be regretted that it was not inflicted at once by Colonel Mitchell, while the Nineteenth were in open mutiny. Had the regiment been mowed down by artillery, we should have heard nothing of disaffection for another decade. I am not giving you a private opinion of ray own ; this is the universal cry of the public, as well as of the official world. The Europeans in India are too well aware what mutiny means to have the slightest mercy for the criminals. There are men among us, men in every other relation of life of the highest charity, who almost wish that the disbanding of the Nineteenth may be resisted. The occurrence would relieve us of mutinies for a generation."

This writer does not, however, believe that the empire is in danger, or that there is any real dissatisfaction among the great body of the army. "The Europeans, the Sikhs, the Irregulars, the Cavalry, and the great body of the Infantry, are not simply obedient, but quite ready to crush the first symptom of disorder among their own comrades. The only real danger is lest the home authorities should neglect the warning, and refuse that remodelling of the staff system which every officer of experience has for the last ten years pointed nut as the weak point of our rule."

In the North-West Provinces, the Natives, at the request of Mr. Colvin, have agreed to contribute 1 per cent towards their own education. It is remarked that "nobody dares to impose an unpopular tax in the North-West" ; so this is regarded as a really voluntary proceeding. The English envoys sent into Affghanistan are "the brothers Lumsden and Dr. Bellew." They have reached Cabul, and passed on to Candahar. Brigadier Chamberlain has gone out against the Bozdars with 4000 men and twelve guns. The mail left him within their country, whither he had fought his way through a defile on the 6th March.

i fig.—The fuller despatches of the China mail arrived in London on Monday night. The general tenour of the news is not different from what was conveyed by the telegraphic despatch. At Canton, the Chinese have contented themselves with ploughing salt into the site of the Factory Gardens, and erecting some insignificant batteries on the left bank of the river, in the river with its numerous arms there has been some activity. The main branch is entirely in the hands of the Admiral. The Encounter, Hornet, and Comus, had been engaged with the war-junks ; and some they had sunk, some captured. The Auckland and Eaglet, the latter a chattered steamer armed for the occasion, had gallantly attacked a swarm of junks in Toong-Chung Bay. They were heavily armed, and defended by shore batteries. After firing for some time, the Auckland got aground. But ultimately she was able to send her boats, which, joined to those of the Eaglet, boarded the junks, and then made a deseetst on the shore. They captured a fort, but found it deserted and the guns spiked. As it grew dark, they blew up the junks, and returned to their ships. In the morning, the elders of the town made a peace-offering, and begged that the town might be spared. Their prayer was granted. The officers who led on this occasion were Mr. Ellis, master of the Eaglet, and Lieutenant de Benin of the Auckland, East India Company's steamer. The loss was one killed and seven wounded.

It appears that the Government had refused to supply a guard to the contractors' storehouses which were burnt down at Hongkong.

The steamer Queen was seized in a clever manner. While the captain and European passengers were dining in the cabin, the Chinese passengers got possession of the arm-chest, and fired down into the cabin. It is supposed that they were disguised soldiers. They also tired grapeshot from one of the guns on deck. The master, wounded, leaped out into the river, and was drowned. Two passengers, engineers, would not fight, and were killed by the others. Three or four Portuguese, with their wives, crept out of sight. Only one passenger, Mr. Osmond Cleverly, defended himself like a man. His thigh .bone was broken by a bullet; nevertheless he kept the whole gang at bay with his revolver, and killed three of the more daring. Then' throwing out a chair, he flung himself into the water. He was picked up by a lorcha, and was doing well ; but it was feared be would lose his leg.

Letters from St. Petersburg, of the 24th April, state that the Russian frigate Aurora, coining from the Mantchou coast, having anchored on the 11th March in the harbour of Hongkong, some of the crew who went ashore for water were ill-used by the Chinese population. The commandant sent a company of marines to avenge the outrage. The same letters state that the Governor-General of Siberia had sent a. body of troops to the Chinese frontier to maintain tranquillity. Details of the Chinese outbreak in Sarawak, supplied by the journals of the Straits, and a letter by Sir James Brooke to a friend in London, have filled a prominent place in the news of the week. The insurgents were emigrants, known as the Kungsi, and had been established in the country before Sir James Brooke arrived there. Ile had, it appears,

dealt rather sharply with them in suppressing opium-smuggling, and by otherwise compelling them to obey his government. Although there had been rumours of resistance to authority, the Government treated the matter lightly, and thus the outbreak was a real surprise.

Sir James Brooke says, "I had been unwell for some days, and on the night of the 18th retired early to bed. My servant was sleeping in a room near mine, and Mr. Steel and Nicholets occupied a small bungalow close by. Between twelve and one o'clock, I was awakened by yells and shots ; and, seizing my sword and revolver, I opened a window, and saw that the house was surrounded. The noise told me it was by Chinese. I opened door by door, in the hope of finding means for escape; but in vain. I told Panty [his Native servant] that our deaths were at hand ; and, ELS the last hope, went down to the bathing,room, which was under repair. The door was not fastened. I opened it gently ; and, seeing the way clear, ran across the lawn to the creek on the right hand of the house, and took the water close under the bows of the boat which had brought the murderers to their bloody work. I carried ray, sword and pistol across with me. Glad was I to touch ground on the far side, though not above thirty yards. I struggled through the deep mud, and lay down exhausted and panting in the road. Recovering breath, I got to the nearest house, and, launching a canoe, pulled up to the Datoo Benders kampong."

Meanwhile, the Chinese had taken the two forts near Kuchin, the Government town, together with the arms and ammunition. They attacked all the persons connected with the Government. Mr. Crookshank, a magistrate, was wounded, defending his wife ; and he left her for dead, amid a crowd of rebels, who cut off her hair, tore her rings off, but did not kill her —indeed, one gave her water; and finally she was taken to the Bishop's house. Mr. Middleton's house was set on fire. He escaped ; but his wife, from a place of concealment, with the burning rafters about her„, saw the ruffians "kicking about the head of her eldest child." The younkest child was murdered, and thrown into the flames. Mr. Wellington, a metallur

• t, was killed, his head cut off, and his body thrown into the flames. Strange to say, the Chinese did not attack the Bishop ; and they finally quitted the town, on condition that they should not be attacked by the Malays.

Sir James Brooke, who had sought refuge among the natives, was joined by the survivors. They immediately began to animate the Malays for a struggle. He collected a small force, and proceeded towards the town; but, finding it in flames and the enemy there, he withdrew. In the evening a steamer arrived with arms and ammunition ; and, having a base of operations, Sir James returned to the attack, drove "the miscreants" out of the town, let loose the Dyaks on them, pressed them hard, and either killed them or forced them to take refuge in the jungle. On the 10th March, however, the Chinese resumed the offensive, coining down the river well armed. They declined an engagement offered by ' the "Datoo Bandar" with a single prahu, and landing threw up a stockade. More watchful than his enemies, the Datoo first cut off their heats; then, obtaining reinforcements from Kuchin, he stormed the stockade, cut the garrison to pieces, and drove the fugitives into the jungle. "On the night of the 11th," Sir James writes, "I heard that Balidah and Simovar had been abandoned ; and, hurrying up the following morning, the intelligence greeted me that Bank was likewise deserted, and had been burned, and that the Chinese were in full retreat towards Sambas. This took us by surprise ; but our force got upon their trail on the 13th, and, after three days' desultory fighting, drove them acroas the frontier with great slaughter ; the enemy, however, making a desperate resistance in defence of the women and children, and the efforts of our people not being able to break them. Had twenty-four hours' delay intervened to allow a concerted attack, we should have had them all ; but as it is, we may be thankful, for a mere remnant of the body of Chinese men has escaped, and the capture of the women and children was not to be desired. Even now, however, this wretched mass, driven to the further side of the Sambas river, must suffer great loss, and may altogether perish in the wild jungle for want of food and from exposure. Thus the punishment has been almost as sudden and far more sharp than the treachery and first success of

this miscreant body. A thousand and more have been killed in different places,their flourishing settlements destroyed, and not a rooftree to cover

their dastard heads in the country. The numbers starved in their flight by being lost in the jungle it is difficult to reckon but it must be considerable ; and out of a population of 4000 or 5000 certainly not more than 2000 have escaped, and half this number is composed of women and children."

The loss it seems, has fallen chiefly on Sir James Brooke, Mr. Crookshank, and Mr. Middleton.

"For myself, I may say that I never knew the small value of worldly goods till I lost them. I do not pretend to any sentimental cant over my

noble library, my costly plate, or all the decorations and tokens of honour which were once showered upon me, and have been lost even more suddenly than they were acquired. Alan's happiness consists not in such things, and lie destroys the chances of finding it if he persuades himself that it does." With regard to the causes of the outbreak, Sir James Brooke has this theory

" Wherever there is a Chinaman, there is the conceit of supremacy and the desire of dominion. When associated in bodies, as in Sambas formerly, and thence in Sarawak before my arrival, this lust of rule grows stronger. The stringent proceedings of the Dutch have recently thrown many des

perate characters into Sarawak ; and the miserably feeble Government of Singapore, with its toleration of secret societies, has strengthened the Chi

nese Kungsi here, and given it advisers aware of the state of British affairs and policy. Without such advisers, the idea of encouraging trade while murdering the officers of Government would never have entered the head of any of the rude Chinese here ; and without the means of livelihood from without, and the support of the European community, so niatla project could hardly have been undertaken. To upset the Government by the murder of its principal officers and heads, and to establish other Englishmen to carry on the trade, was the suggestion of Chinese of Singapore, well acquainted with the isolated position of Sarawak, and possessed with the idea that the murder of Sarawak officers and the Sarawak Rajah would be a matter of supreme indifference to the British nation, provided that trade was continued and cottons sold. It was a high compliment to my government, that, murdering me with the intention of obtaining power, these stupidly clever Chinese desired as little change as possible. They forgot the native element ; and hence their destruction has come. It was a grand super structure, cleverly devised by men acquainted with English policy and mode of proceeding, but miserably based as regards the feelings and the ferocity of the native population.'

Sir James is hopeful under his disaster, and anticipates a speedy revival of fortune. When too late, a Dutch war-steamer arrived, sent by the Dutch authorities at Sambas on the first intimation of danger.

giliitt htitts.—The Arid arrived at Southampton on Thursday bringing advicee from Now York to the llith April. The reported appointment of Mr. W. B. Reed of Pennsylvania as American Minister Extraordinary to China is confirmed. It is under stood that he will not proceed directly to Canton, but visit on his way flint London and then Paris. After conferring with both the Governments, he will travel overland to China. The New York correspondent of the Times says— "The main object of the American Government is to keep itself clear of an'entangling alliance,'—a .Phrase which has produced a policy now become traditional, but it still has a power over the national sentiment,. and that it might safely be departed from in some cases is not yet fully pert:towed. Adhering, therefore, to this policy, the Administration will not enter into any formal treaty with either England or Franco, or both combined. At the same time, it feels and admits that the success of the English arms in China would promote the interests of America in that quarter of the world, in common with those of all the Western nations. As much coOperation, therefore, moral or physical, (in case of neeessity,) as may be consistent with the national policy, will be furnished. The necessity, of course, will only arise if any Chinese outrage should endanger American life or property. The American squadron, though judiciously reinforced, will not, as a matter of course, immediately count in ' if there should be fighting going on when the Minister arrives in which the ships already. tit, Canton have not joined. These are contingencies, and the chapter of aceidents may render the policy of what inay be called a coiiperative neutrality' impracticable. At any rate, au armed force, and the authority that can direct its use, will be on the spot; the rest is in the domains of time and events. Report speaks highly of the abilities and character of the new envoy, and the arrangement by which he will take London and Paris on the way to his destination is a very judicious one ; from his own Government he will receive powers, those of the belligerents will furnish him with information."

The report of the joint Committee of the New York Senate and House of Representatives on the Dred Scott judgment has come to hand. It declares that the doctrine of that judgment "is a violation of the sacred principles announced in our Declaration of Independence, hostile to the spirit of our institutions and the age in which we live, a departure from the liberal doctrines of the common law, and opposed to the weight of judicial authority. in this country and England." Chief Justice Tansy having said, in delivering judgment, that "the Coloured race has no rights which White men aro bound to respect," the Committee "cannot forbear to characterize this proposition as inhuman, unchristian, atrocious--disgraceful to the judge who uttered it and to the tribunal which sanctioned it. The most censurable part of the conduct of these five Pro-Slavery Judges rot remains to be stated, and it is this : the five constitutional questions above stated, which were not involved in the point before the Court for decision, and upon which, in violation of judicial decorum and established precedents, they volunteered opinions, have within the last two years become political and party questions, have divided the two great political parties of the country, and that division, unfortunately, has assumed a sectional charncter. These five Judges are all located in the Pro-Slavery section, and identified with the Pro-Slavery party . . . . They have destroyed the confidence of the people in the Court, by stamping upon it a black mark of sectionalism and partisanship. They have, moreover, placed themselves and the Court they control in the front rank of Pro-Slavery propagandism and offensive aggression upon the rights of the Free States."

The Committee recommended the following heads of a bill to secure freedom to all persons within the State.

"Sec. 1. Neither descent, near or remote, from an African, whether such African is or may have been a slave or not, nor colour of skin, shall disqualify any person from being, or prevent any person from becoming, a citizen of this State ; nor deprive such person of the rights and privileges of a citizen thereof.

"See. 2. Every slave who shall come, orbs brought, or be in this State, with the consent of his or her master or mistress, or who shall come, or be brought, or be involuntarily in this State, shall be free.

" Sec. 3. Every person who shall hold or attempt to hold in this State in slavery or as a slave, any person mentioned as a slave in the second sec

tion of this act, or any free person of colour, in any form, or under any pretence, or for any time however short, shall be deemed guilty of felony ; and on conviction thereof shall be confined in the State prison at hard labour for a term not less than two nor more than ten years. '

A similar report, and bill founded thereon, have been presented by a joint Committee of both branches of the Ohio Legislature.

Mr. Drummond, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Utah Territory, has resigned his office, because the conduct of the Mormons has rendered it impossible for him to execute his functions. In a letter to the Attorney-General, he charges the Mormon Governor, Brigham Young, with treasonable practices. 'fiat worthy, it would seem, directs the grand juries whom to indict, whom to acquit ; in two instances he has pardoned murderers, to show his contempt for the federal authority ; and he has caused the records of the court to be destroyed. According to Mr. Drummond, the late Chief Justice Shaver and the late Secretary Babbit were murdered by a secret society, called the Danites, whose members take their orders from Brigham Young. In short, the federal

authority is quite powerless in Utah. Mr. Drummond says that "the Democratic party," with which he has always acted, and which is now in power, "should be held responsible for the treasonable and disgraceful state of affairs that now exists in Utah Territory." He thinks that a Governor not a Mormon, and a body of troops, would do much good.

It is reported that the Government are about to send 2500 troops to Utah.