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Friasicx.—We left President Bonaparte pursuing his journey from Be- sancon to Strasbourg ; and our Postscript indicated the increased Repub- licanism, but diminished personal antagonism to himself, which he encountered as he skirted the frontier provinces of the East. Some mis- haps on the way did, however, give the progress through Alsace a sha- dowed tone. The zeal of M. Ieckeren at Mulhausen, in endeavouring to force the National Guard to cry " Vive le President !" is said to have so irritated them that they went m masses and shouted " Vive is Repub- lique ! " under the President's 'window. He, supposing the demonstration to be a demarche against himself, took umbrage, refused to visit the factories, and hastened onwards to Colmar before the expected time. His arrival at Colmar having taken place when the authorities were un- prepared, his reception was lame and unimposing : at this he expressed a. fresh discontent, and he refused to be present at the ball offered to him. The weather too was dismal, rain pouring down in floods. At Strasbourg, where he arrived on the 21st instant, semi amend was made; again, however, with a checkering of significant incidents. The Municipal Council refused to vote a sou towards the expenses of the re- ception ; but somewhere funds were provided, which organized very bril- liant scenic arrangements ; and the inhabitants both of the city and of the Rhineland far and near seem to have come to the.fete in immense crowds.. The streets through which he passed were draped with flags, and all the

public buildings were decorated with elaborate profuseness of ornament. The mass of humeri beings abroad was so great that the ways were lite- rally impassable. Grand combinations of troops on the open places com- pleted the exhibition of state pomp. The President's cavalcade was of imperial aspect.

imperial His guard was composed of the Cavalry of the National Guards of Stras- bourg and the Gendarmerie ; after whom came about a dozen Lancers ' • and then between the Minister at War and the Minister of Foreign Affairs rode the President, as usual wearing the uniform of a general officer of the Na- tional Guard, with the grand cordon of the Legion of Honour. He rode a most beautiful horse, which had been presented by the authorities. It was most brilliantly caparisoned : the saddle was of the most exquisite light blue velvet, delicately wrought;' the holsters were of the same material, and each bore in the centre of a cluster of flowers, all worked in silver, the letter 'N.' The housings were also ot the same rich stuff and colour ; and on each of the four corners was the same somewhat imperial cipher, also encircled with flowers and embroidered in silver. It wanted but the imperial crown to complete the effect. As the President came opposite to the Hotel de Paris, he looked up to the balcony of the first floor, and taking off his plumed hat, bowed to the very saddle-bow to the Grand Dutchess of Baden, who arrived yesterday in order to witness her nephew's entry into Strasbourg. The Pre- sident rode on in the same quasi-royal state to the Prefecture. He was fol- lowed in carriages by his orderly officers, secretary, aides-de-camp, and phy- !stolen."

In the evening there was one of those wonderful displays of pyrotechnic art in which the French excel the world.

In the afternoon of the next day, the 22d instant, the President was the guest of the local Chamber of Commerce at a very magnificent banquet in the dining-room of the HMO. de Paris—the finest house of entertainment in France outside the walls of Paris. The salons were finely decorated.

" A superb fauteuil, covered with light blue velvet of the finest texture and richest fashion, was placed at the head of the central table in the large sa- loon, for the President; and behind him was a magnificent mirror reaching nearly from the ceiling to the floor, flanked also by flags and encircled with oak leaves, and inscribed, on the plate itself, with the words, in letters of gold, 'Republique Francais°. Libertk, Egalite, Fraternite,' and, under- neath, the cipher N.,' encircled with Arabesque designs in gold. Louis Napoleon had on his right hand the Bishop of Strasbourg, and on his left the Minister at War; and lower down at both sides the other Ministers present in Strasbourg. In the middle of the repast, a man, lifted up on the shoulders of the people outside, reached the upper part of the window, and shouted with the voice of a Stentor, Vive Napoleon!' At the moment the President entered the room, the whole of the guests, clerical, civil, and military, shouted out three times, Vive le President !' and it was in the midst of the loudest cheering that he took his seat."

After the banquet, M. Segenwald, the President of the Chamber of Com- merce, proposed Louis Napoleon's health, in a speech which commended his programme of government for its "promise of all possible ameliora- tions, as well as condemnation of Utopias which retard and injure real liberty in place of serving it." Amidst what in England we would report as "uproarious demonstrations" of applause by the company, the Presi- dent uttered these suggestive words-

" Gentlemen, accept my thanks for the frank cordiality with which you have received me. The best manner of welcoming me is to promise me, as you havejust done, your support in the struggle between Utopian schemes - and useful reforms. Previous to my departure an attempt was made to deter me from visiting Alsace. I was told, ' You will be badly received there. That province, perverted by foreign emissaries, no longer knows those noble words Honour and Country,' which your name recalls, and which made the hearts of its inhabitants vibrate during forty years. Unconscious slaves of men who abuse their credulity, the Alsatians will refuse to recognize in the elect of the nation the legitimate representative of all rights and all in- terests.' I said to myself, My duty is to proceed wherever there are danger- ous illusions to dispel and good citizens to encourage. Old Alsace, that land of glorious recollections and patriotic sentiments, is calumniated. I am cer- tain to meet there hearts who will understand my mission and appreciate my i devotedness to the country.' A few months, indeed, could not convert a people deeply imbued with the solid virtues of the soldier and the plough- man into a people hostile to religion, order, and property. Moreover, gen- tlemen, why should I be badly received? In what respect have I deserved to loseyour confidence ? Placed by the almost unanimous vote of France at the head of a government legally restricted, but immense from the moral influence of its origin, have I been seduced by the idea or the advice to at- tack a constitution which, everybody knows, was framed in a great degree against me ? No, I respected, I will respect the sovereignity of the peo- ple, even when its expression may be falsified or hostile. If I have thus acted, it is because the title I desire the most is that of an honest man. I know nothing superior to duty. I am consequently happy, inhabitants of Strasbourg, to think that there is a community of sentiments between you and me. Like me, you desire our country to be great, powerful, and respected. Like you, I desire that Alsace should resume its former rank, and become again what it was for so many years, one of the most renowned provinces of France, choosing the most deserving citizens to represent it, and illus- trated by the most valiant warriors. To Alsace, to the city of Strasbourg."

The enthusiasm which this address excited, and which could scarcely be restrained during its delivery, now burst fully forth ; rapturous applause shook the hall for many minutes ; with shouts of " Vive la vieille Alsace !" "Five Strasbourg !" were mingled with those of " Five le Pre- sident !" and "Five Napoleon !" Later in the evening, the President of the Republic was seen at the theatre with the Grand Dutchess Stephanie, in an open box set apart for them.

A feature of the numerous presentations of public bodies is portrayed by the correspondent of the Times— "The most interesting sight of all was that of the rural Mayors in their old quaint costume ; ample peasants, who had probably never heard of the Republic, but came to see Luig Bompar,' the nephew of the Emperor. En passant—I have always said that the peasantry were much attached to Louis Napoleon, and the present journey proves it. These village functionaries, each wearing his scarf of office, were in number nearly two hundred, and they were from those places the President had been unable to visit. They felt rather awkward in finding themselves in these splendid saloons, but they were soon placed quite at their ease by the goodnatured and familiar manners of the President; who had a kind word, a ready smile, and a grasp of the

hand for each. Before a quarter of an hour had ela , there they were in a group with the President in the midst of them, an' chatting away in Ger- man or Alsatian patois, which he spoke with them very fluently. They looked quite pleased at finding that ‘Luig' spoke in their native tongue as well as themselves. This interview lasted some time, for all parties seemed to like the conversation. In the mean time, crowds of visiters were throng- ing the court of the Prefecture, and an immense crowd blocked up the streets. The cries of Vive Napoleon !" Five le President!' and Vive la Republique scarcely ceased the whole of the morning."

Strasbourg is almost on the identical parallel of latitude with Paris ; on leaving that city the President's progress in regaining Paris was generally

Westward, with occasional diversions on either hand. At Saverne, still in the Bas Rhin, there was a very Republican reception. At Sarrebourg, the reception was excellent; the authorities were devoted, and the people showed a marked warmth of feeling to the President. The Prue, sign Governor of the Rhenane Provinces came to this place to pay the same compliments to the President with those offered from Sar- dinia by the Minister Della Marmora at Lyons. Lunneville showed

an amicable Republicanism. Nancy, capital of the Meurthe, was less complaisant : here for the first time persons were arrested for crying'

" Vive la Republique !" and it is notable that in this instance, as in those which occurred in Alsace, the contumacious shouters were National Guards. The accounts very emphatically contrast the reception given by the complaisant authorities with that given by the Democratic masses. At Metz, which was reached on the 25th instant, the official arrangements were effective, and the show magnificent; but there were some excep-

tional demonstrations. For the first time, President Bonaparte here took notice of some of these manifestations. The favourable reporter of the Times thus presents the incident- " As he was about to enter the Prefecture, an officer of the National Guard, stationed there, and who no doubt is a great admirer of the Presi- dent, cried out Vive Napoleon! ' This was a signal for the others to utter the counter-cry; and I understand that many of the National Guard, amongst whom were several officers of the same force, cried. out in a most marked and significant manner, Vivo la Republique !' This, in fact, was so marked, both in tone and in the manner of delivery, as to place it beyond

all possibility of doubt that insult was intended. It appears the President

felt this : he stopped for a moment, and looking fixedly at the shouters, uttered words to the following effect, or at least very nearly so—' Gentle-

men, if you mean this as a manifestation, permit me to tell you it is entirely out of place ' • if it be a lesson you intend to give me, I accept such from no one.' This he said in his usual quiet cold manner. The rebuke was not responded to."

Some 15,000 regular troops and National Guards were reviewed on Monday. As the troops defiled, many of the cavalry cried out " Five

Napoleon !" But the battalion to which the well-known Sergeant Boi- chot belonged, and which forms part of the garrison of Metz, moved on silently.

The President has made the construction of artillery a special subject of study ; so his reception at the arsenal was most enthusiastic, and cries of " Five Napoleon !" exclusively were heard during the whole time he remained there. He conversed on subjects connected with artillery, and, after the manner of most " distinguished personages," " surprised the mi- litary men present by the extent of his professional information." A little before the troops filed offi each line broke up, and massed themselves in divisions. It was remarked that the National Guard of Metz encircled within its own ranks the National Guards of the rural districts, without doubt, in order that the cry of "Five in Republique I' should be the first and last manifestation pro- ceeding from their legion. The day before, they had played pre- cisely the same trick with the National Guard of Thionville, whom they cooped up within their own ranks as far as the Place de la Prefec- ture, thus forcing them to appear as if joining in the "Marseillaise." During the filing-off the National Guard cried most loudly and constantly, "Five la Republique !" but the cry of " Five le President !" also issued from the same ranks. In the evening, a grand ball was given in honour of Louis Napoleon. The managers conceived the idea of not allowing any but ladies to enter the ball-room before the President's arrival : when he entered the room, at a little after nine, he found himself surrounded by

all the pretty women of Metz. The gentlemen were then admitted, and dancing immediately commenced. The President opened the ball, and remained there until eleven o'clock. On his departure for Chalons-sur- Marne' on Tuesday morning, the demeanour of the immense crowd was good ; that of the National Guard better than on his arrival.

The following remarks on the President's tour, by the Paris corre- spondent of the Morning Chronicle, considerably modify the glowing colours of the descriptions we have chiefly followed hitherto.

" I observe that some of your London contemporaries, deceived by the flat- tering accounts published in the telegraphic despatches of the Government

in the early part of the journey, have emu to the conclusion that the feel- ing of the people of France is universally Royal, and that the country is on the eve of assuming a Monarchical form of government. This is not the im- pression here. Many who, only a few weeks ago, imagined that the Repub- lic was nearly at an end, are now convinces!, from the different incidents which have occurred in the course of this journey, that it may last a con- siderable time longer. The mode in which the Republicans have chosen to give expression to their opinions at Dijon, La Croix, Rousso, Besancon, Mulhausen, Strasbourg, and other places, may not have done themselves any great honour or improved their position in the opinion of the country ; but still, in consequence of the demonstrations, or more properly speaking in spite of them, men who judge without prejudice or passion are now persuaded that the Republican party, and more especially the party opposed to the Imperial aspirations attributed to Louis Napoleon, are much more numerous in France than they had previously supposed. The official people have

during this journey, as on other occasions, been empresses in their atten- tions; provincial curiosity has produced its customary effects ; the love of public shows and exhibitions has roused the people to an extraordinary degree

of excitement, which persons willing to be deceived have mistaken for en- thusiasm ; but, in opposition to all this factitious joy, the real spirit of the people has shown itself with universal openness, and the prevailing Democra- tic feeling has on more than one occasion broken out into acts of hostility, coarseness, and insolence. Nor is it alone on the part of the Republicans that this spirit of opposition has been shown. The President has been re- ceived by the Monarchical party with an indifference amounting almost to hostility, which has encouraged the bolder Democrats in the more candid ex- pression of their animosity. In short, notwithstanding the efforts of the local authorities to make the reception of Louis Napoleon worthy of the head of the Government, and notwithstanding the factitious enthusiasm produced on the multitudes by gay fetes, splendid balls, and great processions, it is evident that he was everywhere coldly received by a great portion of the population, and that the very efforts of his friends to raise his popularity have had a directly contrary effect. It has been remarked, that when, under former reigns, Charles the Tenth, Louis Philippe, and the younger branches of the Orleans family, made journies similar to the present in several parts of France, there never was an instance in which the official enthu- siasm was checked by manifestations of hostility similar to those which have been recorded by the journals within the last week. It has also been remarked, that notwithstanding the evident desire of Louis Napoleon to stand well with the army, nothing has been said, even in the organs of the Elysee, with respect to the enthusiasm of the troops ; and that only one instance is given in which they cried Yive Is President,' when the crowd cried Vive la Republique.' Perhaps the silence of the troops may have been in conse- quence of specific orders to that effect, but in the mean time it is set down to a feeling of indifference or even hostility."

It is stated that resolutions have been formally adopted by the Count de Chambord and twenty-eight Legitimist Deputies who were present at Wiesbaden, to abandon the policy of conciliation ; to oppose the prolonga- tion of the powers of the President of the Republic ; to consider M. Ber- ryer as the directing chief of the party ; "and to blame and disavow the acrimony displayed by the Gazette de France."

Many accounts from Wiesbaden concur in stating that a complete schism in the Legitimist party has been caused by M. de Larochejaque- lin's letter. A letter in the Ordre thus describes the rupture— "M. de Larochejaquelin, whose Monarchical devotedness does not exclude a certain Republican frankness, and who has a strong feeling of his personal value, showed a pretension to play a principal part. After the arrival of the Prince he held a second rank. Apartments had been reserved by order of the Count de Chambord in the Hotel Duringer for M. Berryer and several other leading members of the Legitimist party; but M. de Larochejaquelin was overlooked. This gentleman afterwards wished, without waiting for the advice or the convenience of the Count de Chambord, to proceed to prescribe the conduct which the Legitimist party should adopt. He was given to un- derstand that he showed himself too impatient. A short time after, the Count de Chambord formed a sort of privy council, with which he proceeded in long and .private conferences to that examination on which M. de La- rochejaquelem pretended prematurely to bring on a discussion. This privy council was composed of M. Berryer, General de Saint Priest, M. de Vati- me D evil, M. Benoist d' Azy, and the Duke de Noailles. M. de Larochejaquelin did not form a part of it. That gentleman was deeply hurt at this exclusion, and abruptly left Wiesbaden without taking leave of the Prince. After his departure, the Count de Chambord said before several persons, I regret for M. de Larochejaquelin's sake that he has left us in this manner.' I have dwelt on these facts because they explain the state of things declared by the Count de Chambord. The Prince has loudly declared himself, both by his acts and by his words, in favour of the prudent, circumspect, and conciliatory policy of M. Berryer and against the aggressive one of M. de Larochejaquehn and the Gazette de France. Contrary to the opinion of the ultra Legitimists, the persons engaged in the conferences at Wiesbaden asserted that before all it was necessary to defend and save material order. It was to that work that for the last two years MM. Berryer, de Vatimesnil, and Benoist d'Azy, have devoted themselves • and their conduct has met with the entire approbation of the Count de Chambord."

A new or rather an old pretender to the throne of France has reap- peared in the field, apropos of a piece, called "Louis XVII." which is about to be played at the theatre of the Vaudeville. M. Paul Ernest is to play the part of the Orphan of the Temple, who died at ten years of age. The Comte de Richmond, it seems, has not renounced his character of pre- tender ; he is about to bring an action against the director of the Vaude- ville, for producing a piece in which he is made to die at the age of ten

i years, whereas he is still alive, in perfect health, and ready to assert his claim to the crown of France.

FIUNILFORT.—The Peace Congress has assembled itself at Frankfort, gone through the forms of its quiet propagandism, and dispersed. The place of meeting was the Church of St Paul, lately made notable by the assemblage in it of the Frankfort Parliament under the defunct Regency of United Germany. The church is a handsome circular building, with a gallery supported by marble columns. The assemblage is thus cha- racterized by the correspondent of the Times; whose animated description of the proceedings also we principally adopt "The central circles of seats are devoted to the members of the Congress itself,—a very miscellaneous body, as it appears that numerous members come here with unlimited power to increase the force ;and even give out in- vitations to join their cause. The outer circles are devoted to visitors ; so also is the gallery, but this was chiefly occupied today by hearers of a lower class. Certain seats in the outer circles are appropriated to ladies ; but as the church has been by no means full, the regulation for separating the sexes has not been strictly observed, and ladies might be found dotted about through the whole assembly of visiters. Altogether, the society in the body of the church was of a very quiet respectable character. The numerous doors allowed every one to enter without the slightest inconvenience, and entrance and egress continued all day long without the slightest rumple of a silk vestment The majority of the party were those who spoke the English language, including a great number of Americans. Next, I should say, came the French, distinguished from the English and Americans by their having the appearance rather of fashionable Montagnards than of plain Puri- tans. Last of all I should put the Germans. The way in which the speeches were received tested this enumeration. Every speechgiven in English fell with an aplomb that showed it was delivered in the vernacular tongue of the assembly. The French speeches were loudly applauded by a more select body. The German speeches were grave, and fell comparatively flat. What I have said, of course, implies that every one spoke in his language. However, when an oration was considered unusually important, a resume of it was given in two other languages by competent interpreters."

" e first proceeding of the meeting was the election of a President and Vice-President; who took their places on the throne surmounted by the Dark Eagle. The former was Dr. limp, of Darmstadt, a venerable-looking country parson sort of gentleman. He recommended the opening of the meeting with a silent prayer; which was duly offered up by all the members."

As each member entered the church, a copy in three languages of six resolutions was put into his hands. By these resolutions the Congress declared that recourse to arms is condemned alike by religion, morality, and reason, and that it is therefore the duty of its members to labour through the pulpit, platform, and press, to eradicate international hatreds and hasten the abolition of war; that an effectual means to this end 'would be the adoption of arbitration by all governments ; that foreign loans to assist nations in slaughtering each other are to be reprobated ; that states should commence a system of international disarmament ; and that it is the sole right of every state to regulate its own affairs safe from intervention : finally, they recommended the friends of peace each to prepare public opinion in his own country for a Peace Congress. Of these texts, the first two engaged attention on Thursday the 22d, the first day of meeting • the Reverend John Burnet of Camberwell, M. Emile Girardin, and gr. Cobden being the marked speakers.

"Mr. Burnet is one of those half-facetious orators who can always season a sentiment with a joke ; and the moral or religious wag is ever a favourite with pious assemblies. His argument against the employment of weapons was based on the fact that man is born without tusks or claws. Tigers,' quoth the Reverend Mr. Burnet, have claws ; therefore they were made to

fight. Men were made with none, therefore they are bound to keep the peace.' Waistcoats and pantaloons might have been abolished' -by the same course of reasoning ,• but, nevertheless, the sophism took amazingly and PM ap- plauded to the eeho. It was, moreover, preceded by a graceful allusion to the edifice in which the meeting was heldd ; the destination of the Paulskirche in its successive phases of church, parliament-house, and peace-house, being touched upon with a degree of sentiment not the less interesting for being a little obscure."

M. Bonnet, the pastor of the French Protestant Church, then went logic- ally, but somewhat lugubriously, through the categories of morality, religion, and humanity. Mr. Garnet, a Negro orator, followed him with a speech on the same topics, in a more popular tone. " The latter seemed a sensible man : though he merely uttered pious commonplaces, his words had evi- dently been chosen with singular care, like those of one who has laboured hard to form a correct style in the face of some difficulties."

" The appearance in the tribune of M. Emile Girardin was the signal for loud acclamations on the part of the French auditors. He was the repre- sentative of France par excellence, and his distingue appearance contrasted strangely with the primitive look of many of his fellow orators. His speech was equally different from those of his predecessors. Biblical allusions were not in his way, but he came in as a propounder of philosophical abstractions, which he pointed off with French epigrammatic neatness. The idea of ' unite' was to be carried out-' unite ' in everything ; and every time he said the word unite' it was with remarkable gusto. Then he got into universal history, and, declaring that certain conquerors of the Old World were named Alexander, Caesar, and Napoleon, added that the victors of the New World were named Fulton, Watt, and Wilberforce. Civilization was the great gain of modern Europe, and t)Te and steam are now to do what was done heretofore by fire and sword. All this, delivered with an uniform style of gesticulation peculiarly his own, told with great force ; and he could retire with all the satisfaction of a brilliant Frenchman who had ex- hibited 'son talent.' " Mr. Cobden's appearance on the first day was a volunteered favour, not in the programme : after a withdrawal of the Congress, at about one o'clock for refreshment, the reassembled audience was sensibly thinner ; perhaps Mr. Cobden came forward to arouse a drooping interest. If so, he effectually accomplished his aim, by a bold slashing address, abounding in arguments and illustrations which everybody could understand. "In calling attention to the second resolution, ho said that he did not wish to interfere with the work of the diplomatists, but merely insisted on the adoption of an interna- tional umpire when other peaceful means should fail, protesting against war as a nuisance which every people had a right to stop in defiance of the ex- isting governments. If no better peaceable plan could be found, the govern- ments were bound to adopt that proposed by the Peace Congress; and if any government refused to adopt a plan of arbitration, the people should repu- diate that government. This was pretty strong language ; and the vehe- mence of tone and gesture with which it was uttered stood out in strong re- lief against the sharp epigrammatic manner and jerking action of M. Emile Girardin. A symbol had been furnished to Mr. Cobden on his journey up the Rhine, and the comparison of the union of the Rhine and the Moselle with that dell mankind in universal brotherhood was pleasing to the audience when they rested from uproariously applauding more peppery displays. An allu- sion to the presence at the meeting of General Haynau, as an evidence that even the warriors themselves had become averse from their profession, brought the whole oration to a showy conclusion."

M. Victor Hugo was to have been a spokesman on Thursday ; but a letter stating his illness, as well as his zeal for the cause, was received as a sub- stitute. The remarkable figure of Elihu Burritt, the Polyglot and olive- bearing American, was one of the most striking objects at the meeting; he was evidently regarded as one of the lions. The second meeting, on Friday the 23d, went off more briskly than the first. The resolution touching standing armaments and the necessity for reducing them was the great point d'appui of the oratory.

"Mr. Hindley, of Oldham, was one of the conspicuous speakers. He commenced by speaking from the throne, instead of the tribune placed in front of it; and when, in obedience to the hint of a suggestive missionary, he descended to the latter, a titter ran through the assembly. The military he attacked on the ground that he had seen maimed soldiers in the streets, and that a man with two lege was a better member of society than a man with only one. With anecdotes he was rather copious; and he narrated with remarkable unction how he had once met Lord Brougham, and how Lord Brougham had told him that the members of the Peace Congress were the greatest fools in the world.' Forgiveness of injuries is of course a fun- damental maxim with the Congress, and the notion of being called fools' seemed to tickle the audience so much, that Mr. Hindley dwelt on the word ' fool,' and worked it backward and forward as much as M. Girardin worked the word unite' the day before. Mr. Hindley would have settled the American war by referring the quarrel to Washington as arbitrator." " Girardin speaks on every question, but his oratory does not greatly im- prove on acquaintance. The Paulskirehe is completely round, and without the nicest management of the voice the words of the orator are easily drowned. There has been more vehemence today than yesterday in the tones of M. Girarclin, and even the French audience have some difficulty in following him. The Gallic star' of today was decidedly M. Gamier, one of the Secre- taries of the Congress; whose clear enunciation and very logical form created universal admiration. He laid it down as his fundamental proposition that a standing army is the cause of war, and carried on his reasoning with a pre- cision so great that it might almost be called pedantic."

"The neat close speech of M. Gamier gained not a little by comparison with sundry rambling orations ; and a very sentimental Rabbi, who im- mediately preceded him, and merged his words in the echoes of his voice, was no bad foil. The Hebrew gentleman was, however, very well received. He belongs to the Synagogue of this city."

" Dr. Buller, a tall thin American, with white hair, and purely Transat- lantic features and countenance, made a great hit, with a speech that seemed to have for its secondary object the furtherance of peace, but for its primary purpose the exaltation of the United States in the eyes of the natives. America, he told the Assembly, needed no standing army ; it worked on in a system of brotherly love ; and then he took care to convey to the inhabi- tants of such dots of country as England, France, and Germany, how big was the territory of the United States. I told you how Mr. Cobden alluded yester- day to the presence of General Haynau. The American was determined to trump that success, and told the meeting, that though Austrian officers might attend Frankfort peace meetings, the first general in the United States went about as a peace-preacher. This was rather too strong a dose for the Br-dith- ers, and a peace-maker in my vicinity whispered very sensibly, ' Then, why does not he throw up his commission ?' " " When in our country," he con- tinued, " we find ourselves involved in war, our own citizens take the field, and afterwards return to cultivate the great land which they inhabit. And why may not Europe, if it must fight, do the same ? We have a territory larger than all Europe, but where is our standing army. ? Look at our rail- roads, our numberless seamen ; these could not have existed had the marrow of our country been eaten out by a standing army. Will not the swarms of emigrants who settle day by day in our country send word to their friends in this old country how we live without soldiers; and shall not this narrative have its effect ? Let the Irish come to us and they shall have meat, not merely three times or once a week, as now ; our workers can eat meat every day, for no standing army consumes our wealth." Dr. Buller retired amidst universal applause. " Seemly leas successful was Mr. George Daimon of Birmingham ; who attaeked the military profession much as George Crulkshank attacks intem- pomace. He went to work from the domestic point of view, at the same time avoiding sentimentality; and he depicted the life of a soldier, which he characterized as a fuss of activity,' with a great deal of quiet humour. I saw an old Prussian officer roll with laughter at the ridicule with which Mr. Dawson treated the membera of his profession. If the American was anxious to prove that his country was large, Mr. Dawson was equally patriotic in re- presenting that we Britons are not ' shabby.' He was evidently afraid that Borne acute Frankforter would think that the professed horror of war was -only a horror of its expenses; and therefore he boldly told the meeting, that Englishmen, to get rid of war, would double the National Debt ; nay, many of them would even go on foot (sic) from Frankfort home,—a geographical observation that excited some little mirth. With some unwillingness Mr. Dawson confessed that he was not quite without military feeling. War he hated, but he found a well-drilled regiment a pleasant spectacle, and loved to see the country gawky transformed into the elegant militaire." But " what giant works might have been achieved had the military been taught to perform some useful labour with the mine regularity and skill as they dis- play in their evolutions and exercises ! Let them imagine a brigade armed with spades, in order to overcome the sterility of the enemy's ground, what wonders in cultivation and order might be brought to light. Europe's mis- fortune was her system of diplomacy, that mystery of trickery and conceal- ment. The words of Napoleon must be realized, and our leaders of war be- .come directors of industry, and the people one family." Mr. Cobden on this topic showed his usual tact in seizing on objects im- mediately within the grasp of his hearers. The presence of an American 'chief, in the character of a missionary, afforded him the opportunity to con- trast our excessive savageness with that of the American aborigines, as shown by our infinite expenditure on the instruments of mutual destruction during time of peace; whereas the Indian at least buries his tomahawk when he ceases war. Apropos to a remark by M. de Girardin, that liberty and stand- ing armies are inconsistent with each other, he ran over the progress of stand- ing armies in England, in such a strain that you might imagine liberty had been rapidly declining since Lord Chatham's time and is now entirely extinct. An allusion to M. Girardin and to M. Cormenin (also present) as two of the most eminent French litteniteurs of the day, was one of those compliments with which the peacemakers happily abound, and was warmly acknowledged. In one respect Mr. Cobden ventured to touch what seems a weak side of the cause : he remarked on the scanty attendance of German professors. "The -Congross is indeed geographically held at Frankfort, but," says the writer we quote, "whether it has a moral influence there I very much doubt. As there are in London French hotels quite free from the operation of the Eng- lish inhabitants, as when I enter the Paulskirche I fancy myself out of Frankfort, in some kind of Exeter Hall, where Englishmen and Americans are talking to each other, diversified by a little sprinkling of Frenchmen and Germans. Of the members of the Congress only forty are Germans, while two hundred and fifty are English : and in accounting for this circumstance, Dr. Spiess, is enumerating his compayiets, assigned the present political state of Europe as a reason for this rarity.

The meeting on Saturday, notwithstanding there was an autumnal pour of rain from an early hour, was well attended, and the proceedings closed with considerable éclat. The nonintervention resolution was the one principally discussed.

A great sensation was created by the appearance in the tribune of the Re- verend Mr. Copway, a native chiek of the North American tribe of the Chip- peways. He was dressed in a dark blue frock, with a scarf across his shoul- der, after the old French Republican fashion, and the metallic plates round his arm gave apeculiar character to his costume. He began to talk some- thing after a style which may be called " Cooperish," and was abundant in '.his allusions to the " Great Spirit," his " pale-faced brethren," and so forth. Soon, however, he dropped the purely national style, and launched • out into general morals and literature ; stating how, while walking round the gardens of Frankfort, once covered with military works, he had con- trasted the blessings of nature with the evil works of man ; and linking to- gether as eminent men of mind the German poet Schiller and the American poet Longfellow. His oration was delivered in a grandiloquent style, but ate effect was rather upon the eye than the ear ; the great point being the unwrapping of a mysterious implement which he had carried about him. 'When he deliberately took off the linen wrapper, and discovered something -which looked rather like a eat-o'-nine-tails, but which he presented to the Pre- nident in the name of his brethren as the Indian pipe or calumet of peace, ornamented with feathers, the acclamations were tremendous. This was his grand scenic effect. He should have stopped here; but he did not, and pro- duced an anticlimax. A very wholesome regulation, published by the Con- gress, limits the time during which a speaker is allowed to "keep the floor," to twenty minutes; but the " stoic of the woods," luxuriating in the sound of his own voice, doubled the time.

Two Germans, Dr. Bodenstedt and Dr. Weil, gave in their speeches an of- ficial confirmation of the opinion formed from the previous aspect of the as- semblies. They spoke one in French, the other in English in order to be intelligible in the midst of Frankfort. "This is a striking fact which needs no comment. The President, Dr. Jaup, is universally respected as a man of learning and integrity, and Germans keep dropping in from hour to hour; but any one who watches their faces can see plainly enough that they are merely idle gazers, with little practical interest in the affair ; zeal being most conspicuous in the portly English Quakers, the sharp-visaged Americans, and the smartly-dressed Frenchmen." Dr. n

Bodenstedt, of Berlin, recom- mended to the Congress, to take the Schleswig-Holstein case in hand, and did not doubt that by the influence they enjoyed in their own country the members would succeed in conducting the question now disputed in arms on the Eider to a peaceful solution. He believed that, by publishing its views on this subject through the press, the Congress would he able to raise up an opinion not to be resisted. Not only on the interests of peace, but on those of right would the question then be decided. The speaker was proceeding to comment upon the relations of Schleswig-Holstein and Denmark, when the President called his attention to the sixth minute of the standing orders, -which runs thus—" Since the aim of the Congress is of perpetual and uni- versal interest, every speaker is requested to avoid digressions to present political events." A long discussion in French, English, and German en- sued ; which Mr. Cobden closed with the declaration, that if Denmark and Schleswig had sent deputies to the Congress, men would have been found capable of giving a decisive opinion upon the question in debate.

" Mr. Edward Midi, well known as the opponent of Sir William Moles- worth at Southwark, distinguished himself by taking a new tack. From the first the orators have been uneasy at the appellation of 'Utopians,' enthu- siasts,* and the like ; and various attempts have been made to show the in- appropriate nature of such names. Mr. Will, instead of adopting the de- fensive in this respect, boldly declared war against 'practical men,' who he said ought to be reduced to their proper level. Practical men, so called, mistook difficulties for impossibilities. Those he loved not ; but he liked real practical men, such as him who said that if he had the writing of the na- tional songs he would not oaro about the peers. The practical working of the Peace principle should be the diffusing of congenial sentiments. This distinction between the true practical man and the sham practical man was cleverly laid down, in a hard dry manner; the military condition of Frankfort was designated the dark background to which the group in the Paulskirche was the bright picture. "But," continues the Times reporter, "whatever the other orators mar do or however clever they may be, Mr:Cobden is the favourite. People ask which is Mr. Cobden ; make up their faces for his jokes, and are anxious to get out of the church when his discourse is over. He endentlysees his hold on his hearers, and is not a little gratified, but wields the power with infinite good-humour. Today, when the all-important hour of one o'clock drew near, Dr. Jaup foresaw that a retreat was at hand, and stopped the moves meat by declaring that Mr. Cobden would speak after the gentleman who was then occupying the tribune, and who was thus admonished of his own lesser power of attraction. Mr. Cobden felt that honour was thrust some- what violently upon him, and raised a roar by declaring that he intended to disappoint his hearers by making a very indifferent speech." The principle of nonintervention, laid down in the fifth resolution, had been previously treated by M. Girardin in his favourite fashion of seizing on one idea and working it in all its bearings. This, he had said, was the great principle on which the chief edifice of peace was to be built. Mr. Cobden admitted this position, but hinted that the doctrine lord created a little difficulty even in the minds of the Peace Committee. Some of his French colleagues had sug- gested that this point of nonintervention should not be urged too much, and he therefore detected something like the old system still lurking in the hearts of the chosen.

"Elihu Burritt came out for the first time in this discussion. His speech, a history of the progress of the Peace theory, in which he was particularly anxious to show that the idea did not originate with America, but was bor- rowed from France and Germany, was delivered with gravity and eloquence but without that flashy quality which has such an effect on audiences like that in the Paulskirche. The project for a perpetual peace, which is one of the smaller works of the great Immanuel Kant, and which proposes a sort of arbitrating Congress, had previously been referred to by Dr. Kreutzner, Hebrew gentleman who acts as German interpreter to the meeting, and ;lais gave Mr. Burritt an opportunity for a German allusion. "Some of the orators went off dully enough ; but the audience was ac- Wally astonished into applause by the speech of Mr. Chipple, of New York, who with his strong American twang began in a most unpromising manner; but made one of the smartest displays yet heard. He took the ordinary com- monplaces of the Peace doctrine, but he worked them in a new way, with a most effective mixture of Yankee humour and fervid eloquence. The steam- engine he called the great shuttle, which was to unite nations together. Then he quoted the words of a Transatlantic statesman, whose motto was Be sure you are right, then go ahead.' Then came the Exposition of works of Industry in 1851, and governments are challenged to exhibit the horrors of war as their works of industry. The style and the metaphors were novel and striking ; and so admirable was Mr. Claipple's management of his 80310.- SOILS voice in a place where loudness is almost synonymous with indistinct- ness, that an old German said with delight, that though he did not under- stand a word the gentleman had said, he felt that he was a good orator. "When the resolutions on the list had been carried, an additional one against duelling was passed ; on which M. Cormenin and M. Girardin both spoke, the latter being received on this occasion with marked applause. Then came a vote of thanks to the municipal authorities of Frankfort for their kind reception of the peacemakers ; and Mr. Cobden caused infinite delight and astonishment by acting as fugleruan to an English Hip, hip, hurrah 1 ' demonstration of gratitude. Most of the Germans stared with great eyes to see the portly pietists of Great Britain waive their hats and handkerchiefs and utter such strange shouts, while Cobden beat time a la JuLlien. One youth, who anticipated every word of Cobden's as something eminently droll,

said, enraptured by this exhibition, is always full of humour.'

"A resolution to publish the proceedings at three kreutzers (say twopence) a copy, and a vote of thanks to Dr. Jaup, accompanied by new Cobdenish fun and additional English honours,' terminated the third and last session df the Congress." " As a good-humoured meeting, where a number of worthy life-enjoying persons say civil things to each other, it is a decided success; but the uninitiated, including some grave disbelieving soldiers, who stalk in and stare, evidently regard it with silent wonder. The meeting next year is to be held in London, and the peacemakers hope that the Germans will at- tend numerously. May they not be disappointed !"

UNITED STATES. —The intelligence from New York extends to the 16th instant The question of boundary between Texas and New Mexico, and the question of the admission of California to the Union, each so im- practicable when comprising parts of the Compromise Bill, have speedily passed the Senate ; and each has almost an assurance of passing the House of Representatives. The Texas boundary measure was made suc- cessful by the concession to that State of a further area of territory about 200 square miles in extent. Since the bill passed through the Upper House, a caucus of Representatives, encouraged, one supposes, by the re- wards of previous truculence and pertinacity, have resolved to stand out for a still further extension of the boundary—to the parallel of 36.30 North latitude, the extreme limit of Slavery pretension at its most paramount iera ; but the lists of the divisions in the Lower Rouse on the separate provisions of Mr. Clay's bill leave not much doubt that the present bill will be tarried as passed by the Senate.

Meanwhile, a special and adventitious interest has been given to the question by the development to a sort of crisis of certain negotiations between the State of Texas and the Federal State, which commenced under the presidency of General Taylor. Rendered apprehensive by the movements of the New Mexicans towards obtaining a territorial govern- ment, Texas had memorialized General Taylor on the encouragement to those movements given by the Federal officers left in charge of its mili- tary government since its conquest in the Mexican war; complaining that their political movements prejudiced the position of the legislative ques- tion. Governor Bell had at last intimated that he should march Texan troops, and take possession far his own State, pending the legislative de- liberations. President Fillmore had intimated that the disputed territory now held by the Federal State would be so held inviolate, and that any attempt by Texas to invade it would be repressed by all the military and naval power of the Union. The President's roeassre communicating these developments, . and Mr. Secretary Webster's despatches embodying the Federal case, are much praised for their decision of tone and fine style.

Two of the Ministers originally selected by Mr. Fillmore declined office—Mr. Bates the Interior, and Mr. Pearce the War department: their places have been definitively filled by Mr. Mackennan of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Conrad of Louisiana. CANADA.--Torento papers of the 10th instant communicate the pro- rogation of the Provincial Parliament by Lord Elgin on that day. One hundred and seven bills were made law by the Queen's assent. The list includes seta for the transfer and management of the Provincial Post- ed:nee; to equalize assessments; to establish free banking ; to impose twenty per cent on foreign reprints of English copyrights ; to incorporate a company for the settlement and moral improvement of the Coloured population; to make the selection of juries by ballot ; and to give mtmi- cipalities power to issue or withhold tavern-licences. The ceremony of prorogation had some eclat given to it by the invited visit of the authori- ties of Buffalo with some two hundred citizens from that industrious centre of Yankee enterprise. The visit seems to have been very pleasant to both parties ; and accounts say with naivete, that Lord Elgin is grow- ing popular again—he received several cheers, some of theta from the Tory party.