Arguelles, Calatrava, Olozaga, Beres, and Otway and Southern of the
British Embassy, says a letter from Madrid, decided at a dinner that a gold medal should be struck to preserve the memory of Lord Clarendon's late speech in the House of Lords on the Spanish question.
Mr. Henry Lytton Bulwer, Secretary of the British Embassy at Paris, has transnutted to Louis Philippe the letters which accredit bin as Minister Plenipotentiary of her Majesty during the absence oa leave to England of our Ambassador, Lord Granville.
M. Thiers is at Ostend, and takes a promenade by the sea-side every- day. towards noon, sometimes alone and sometimes with Madame Titters. Ile has several times met the King of the Belgians, who is' also there ; and they have conversed at great length. Ile dined with the King on Wcduesday. M. Thiers works a great deal at his History of the Empire, and without the aid of any amunuensis.
Paganini has just arrived at the Baths of Vernet, accompanied by Dr. Lallemand. He is so exhausted that he is but a shadow. He has lost his voice, and expresses himself only by his eyes and gesticulation. --France Musicak.
The King and Queen of Hanover are both indisposed, and the re- ceptions at Court are suspended.
Prince Metternich is dangerously ill, and the sacrament has been administered him. " Princes must die like other men ;" and the great politician, identified with Europe's history for half a century, cannot live for ever.
Since the beginning of the fine season, the number of travellers along the Rhine has been so considerable, that the steamers convey daily about 1,200 passengers to Mentz, most of whom are proceeding to Frank fort.—Conimerce.
In a letter received from Oporto last week, the heat is said to have been so excessive as to prevent the inhabitants from bathing. [They were apprehensive, we presume, of beiug boiled alive.] At midnight the thermometer stood at 80.
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