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A rumour of its being the intention of the Emperor and Empress of the French to visit London is current in Paris. The French correspondent of the Globe says that the Emperor makes no secret of his intention.

He is making rapid progress with his Imperial improvements. The wing which is to unite the Louvre to the Tuileries will be completed this year, unless it be interrupted by an early frost.

The Emperor of the French has caused a gold medal of honour to be pre- sented to Mr. Lawrence, master of the English vessel Acacia, for assistance to the crew of the Robert Surcrouf, wrecked near Cape Horn. A similar medal has been given to M. Florio master of the Austrian vessel Florio, for similar conduct towards the crew Of the French brig jeune Polletars, which was burned at sea on the 2d of July.

Letters from Frohsdorf state, that on the 21st November the Duke de Nemours presented the Duchess, together with his children and the Princess Clementine, to the Count de Chambord at Vienna. On the 22d, the Count de Chambord and the Duke de Nemours dined with the Emperor of Austria at Schonbrunn.

The Giornale di Roma states that Pope Pius has :left the Palace of the Quirinal and removed to the Vatican.

The Roman Catholic organs deny that Cardinal Wiseman is expected to remain at Rome. They say that he will return to England about Christmas, when he will resume the active duties of his bishopric.

The residence of Buffon in the C6t6 d'Or, the Chateau de litontb,rd, has been purchased by M. Desgrand, who is allied to the Montgolfier family.

M. de Bacourt, one of the executors of Prince de Talleyrand, has ad- dressed a letter to the Journal des Debate protesting against the publica- tion of certain letters ascribed to the deceased statesman, recently an- nounced. He says he will oppose it by all legal means in his power.

The statue of Marshal Ney is to be inaugurated on the 7th instant, the anniversary of his execution.

The rumour that the French Government intends to establish public gaming-houses in Paris is contradicted by the Mr. Oliveira M.P., accompanied by several influential friends, left London for Paris, last Saturday, for the purpose of conferring with the best-informed persons there on the wine question.

Mademoiselle de Petrowitch, granddaughter of Prince Alexander Petro- witch, formerly Hospodar of Wallachia, is to make her debet at the P ,ris Italian Opera, as Romeo, on Tuesday next. Mademoiselle Albini, a protegee of the Empress, is to make her appearance on the same evening, as Glatfelter,

A young Polish cantatrice, named Vestvali, remarkable for her flue yoke and beautiful person, is singing at Milan.

Henri Conscience, the Flemish historical novelist, has just received a sixth honorary decoration from Royal hands—the King of Sweden has sent him the decoration of a knight of the order of Gustavus Vasa.

Count d'Iasenbourg, who made so violent an assault on the Minister Has- senpfiug, is insane, and has been placed in a lunatic asylum.

Lord Stratford de Bedell& has left his residence at Therapia and gone to reside at Pera ; his frequent interviews with the Turkish Ministry rendering it necessary that he should be on the spot.

General Prim, Lord Worsley, Captains Bathurst and Herbert Wilson, and Lieutenant Buckley, were with Omer Paeha during the battle of Oltenitza.

General Michael Czarkowsky, who has been nominated Paella or chief of the Cossacks of Turkey, resided many years in France ; where his studies were interrupted by the war in Poland in 1831. He is said to be intimately acquainted with the manners, customs, and history of the Cossacks of the Ukraine ; having published nine works in the Polish language on that people.

An amusing fracas took place at Madrid on the fete-day of St. Eugenic. At a grand ball given by the French Ambassador there, the Duke of Alba, brother-in-law of the Empress of the French, was overheard by Mr. Saute Junior to make some contemptuous remark on the style of dress adopted by the wife of the American Minister, mother of young Soule. Her costume, it seems, was not sufficiently free and easy for the meridian of Madrid, and the Duke had remarked "There goes Mary of Burgundy." Young Soule hearing this, left the lady with whom he was walking, went up to the Duke and gave him a push, telling him he was " un canaille." Some disturbance took place, and the young man was removed ; but he is said to have sent a challenge to the Duke, which the latter declined to accept.

The London correspondent of a New York paper states that Mr. F. C. Cooper, who was sent out to Nineveh, by the British Museum, to superin- tend the excavations and make drawings of the most interesting objects there, is about to visit the United States for the purpose of delivering lectures on the discoveries at Nineveh.

The degree of LL.D. has been conferred by the University of Vermont on Mr. Horace Greeley, editor and proprietor of the New York Tribune.

Bayard Taylor, of the New York Tribune, has received an appointment as one of the corps of artists sent out with the Japan expedition.

Hiram Powers, the American sculptor, has been appointed commercial agent of the United States at Florence.

Colonel Fremont has been compelled to abandon his journey of explora- tion to California by the overland route, on account of ill health.

Grisi and Mario have obtained an extension of time for their American engagement : instead of crossing the Atlantic now they are to arrive in New York next September.

A grand musical festival is to be held at Rotterdam in July 1854, to cele- brate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Society for the Advancement of Music in the Netherlands. A building capable of holding 6000 people is to be erected for the occasion. The building of model houses for the working classes in Copenhagen is going forward on a large scale, under the direction of a committee. Some two or three hundred of them are to be erected, in nine blocks, with gardens attached. The rents will be expended at first in providing additional ac- commodation of the same kind.

Dr. Mercer of New h Orleans, as given 13,000

dollars in land and 35,000

dollars in cash for the establishment of a home for destitute females, to be called the "St. Anna Asylum," in memory of a deceased daughter. The home will accommodate from 400 to 500 inmates.

The Methodists of Maine are taking measures to raise 25,000 dollars fat the establishment of a Female Collegiate Institution.

The mineralogical department of the New York Exhibition :is the most interesting and complete of any in the building.

The Mormons intend to surround Great Salt Lake City with a wall, ts protect themselves from the attacks of the Indians.

The inauguration of the railway round Paris will take place on the 12th instant, in presence of the Emperor.

The Verona and Brescia railway has been inaugurated : a train traversed it in two hours and a half.

A paper published at Nashville in the United States reports that a plan has been invented and put into operation for the prevention of boiler-explo- sions, by an arrangement of valves which causes water to run upon the fire after the steam has attained a certain pressure.

It is proposed to construct a high-road across the Little St. Bernard: it would be of immense service to the valley of Aosta.

The last advices from Geelong mention preparations for the immediate commencement of a railway to run from that town.

The formation of the Madras Railway is now proceeding with great vigour.

The Paris manufacturers who work for the German markets have made scarce- ly any sales during several months. The Russian merchants, who continued their ordinary purchases up to the end of September last, have now ceased altogether, and the principal orders received in Paris are from the South Of Europe and America.

Messrs. Wolff, of Paris, have placed before the French Institute some spe- cimens of photography on linen, oil-cloth, chintz, 8co. Such pictures can be cleaned by wiping, and even washed ; and specimens can be forwarded by post.

, Chevalier Bonelli, of Turin, has invented an "electric loom." It has I been inspected by two of the Sardinian Ministers and some foreign notables. At the "fish manufactory" of Huninguen—an establishment for pro- ducing fish artificially—there are 200,000 eggs of the Rhine salmon, and 100,000 at the College de France in Paris, all duly fecundated; which are to be distributed in divers departments where fish are to be reared on the artificial plan.

The Austrian Government is endeavouring to impede the emigration move- ment which has taken possession of the people, and it raises numberless dif- ficulties to the granting of passports.

In Southern Bohemia emigration "goes on increasing." Numbers of na- tives have removed to Prussian Poland.

The Provincial Government of Bohemia has forbidden Jews to give their children Christian names or to keep Christian servants. _ It is said that the King of Denmark has been advised to veto the bill which allows countcy bakers to send their bread to the famishing towns during the present dearth, °ethos ground that it interferes with vested inte- rests.

In New York there are 7103 places for the sale of alcoholic liquors.

The Norwegian Morgenblad has committed a laughable oversight : it com- pares the number of drunkards arrested in Christiania and in London, and draws a favourable conclusion for the sobriety of its own country,—only for- getting that London is sixty times larger than Christiania! Rectifying this mistake, there are rather more female drunkards arrested in. London than in Christiania, but infinitely fewer of male topers.

The Teetotalers of Carlshaum in South Sweden have been making a rather ominous physical-force demonstration. Having marched in immense crowds to the distilleries, they extinguished the fires in the boiling-rooms, and de- manded that no more corn and potatoes shall be converted into "hell broth" (as they call brandy) while the famine lasts.

The exportation of cattle trom Winning to England continues on a large scale, and is exercising a great influence on the agriculture of West Den- mark.

The proprietors of the Cumberland Iron Works, on the Cumberland River, Tennessee, have engaged the services of twenty Chinese coolies, who are said to be very expert in working iron. China seems to have become the store- house of human labour for the whole world.

The pillory, banished from England, yet lingers in the United States. At Dover, Delaware, a culprit was recently placed in the pillory for an hour, and then whipped—with a willow switch, the humane Sheriff declaring he would not use a cow-hide on any white man.

A horse has trotted at New York a hundred miles in four minutes less than nine hours; and what is more surprising, the horse did not die of the effort Timber-sawing in Van Diemen's Land is more remunerative on the aver- age than gold-digging in Australia. Orders have been sent to England for fifty

At Melbourne, at the end of August, cabbages were from 14s. to 20s. B dozen, carrots 6s., butter 4s. 6d. a pound, and cucumbers Is. 6d. each. Wages were somewhat in proportion—blacksmiths 61. a week, bullock-drivers on the road from 3/. to 4/. a week, with rations, and so on with other em- ployments.

In a lecture on China, which he delivered at Bolton the other day, Dr. Downing said it had been calculated that if all the bricks, stones, and masonry of Great Britain, were gathered together, they would not be able to furnish materials enough for the Wall of China ; and that all the buildings in London put together would not make the towers and, turrets which adorn it.

Dr. Bowring thinks the census taken in China forty years ago was correct; that gave a population of 360,000,000.

A Chinese rebel who had killed an Imperial soldier, in a late skirmish, dressed himself in the coat of the dead man, to which he added several but- tons that were wanting, and went into the Imperial camp to ask for some am- munition. In putting on the buttons, he hacl unfortunately sewed on one more than the regulation-allowance ; he was found out, and, beheaded in- stantly.

The population of the Sandwich Islands has been decreasing for many years. In 1832 the people were reckoned at 130,313; in 1849 at only 80,641. While the natives decrease, the number of foreigners is continually augmented : it is believed that there are 3000 in the islands now.

The last accounts from Singapore report the continuance of that rapid in- crease of trade for which it has been noted ever since its foundation. Front 1846 to the present time the increase was 40 per cent.

In 1852, the English coal imported into France amounted to 664,633 tons of 1000 kilogrammes; pig-iron, to 15,002 tones