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f Moniteur of Wednesday announced that the letters of

invitation to the several Powers who are to take part in the Congress were issued on Tuesday. It is said that the first sitting of the Congress will take place on the 5th of January, 1860. It is remarked that on Monday Prince Metternich and Count Walewski had a long interview. They were, aided by telegrams from Compiegne, removing the final difficulties.

The Papal Nuncio, Monsignor Sacconi, has gone to Compiegne, having received a special invitation from his Majesty to stay there four days. The Emperor and the Empress will prolong their stay at Com- piegne until Saturday next, when they will return to the Tuileries.

4 It is said to be in contemplation," says the Moniteur du Calvados,- " To establish a direct service of steamers between Ireland and France. An Irish company would, report goes, undertake the line. Some indecision

is as yet felt between making Havre or Cherbourg the starting point, but as the latter is nearer to Ireland, it is thought to have a better chance of being selected."

The steel-plated frigate Gloire was launched at Toulon at half-past eleven on the morning of the 24th of November, in presence of an immense concourse of spectators. A vast multitude, anxious to see the launch, occupied every point from which the dockyard of the Mourillon is visible. The harbour presented a most animated appearance. Thou- sands of boats formed a line to hail the Gloire on her passage to the sea, which she accomplished with perfect success.

A telegram from Liverpool mentions a curious fact—if fact it be.

"Liverpool, Wednesday.—It is stated that four merchants of this place, who had written to Napoleon III., in order to express their feara on the sub- ject of the unsatisfactory relations between France and England, hare been honoured with a reply from his Majesty."

The Opinions Nationale has been warned for attacking the temporal power of the Pope - and a provincial journal for preaching too warmly

in favour of the Italians. M. Emile de Girardin and M. Levy are be-

fore the Paris tribunals, the one for writing, the other for publishing a pam- phlet entitled "Napoleon III. and Europe." M. de Girardin is de- fending himself manfully by purely legal arguments. It is remarkable that the pamphlet was really seized before it was published. This M. de Girardin contends is illegal.

Some troops forming the China expedition have embarked. Among the volunteers is the Duke of Albufera, grandson of Marshal Suchet.

The Moniteur of Thursday publishes a decree, placing the Prefect of Police under the authority of the Minister of the Interior, who is hence- forth charged with the general direction of the Public Safety, and the offices of the Ministry of the Interior forming this division are placed under his control.

h ;Hi .—The war in Morocco has begun by fighting in front o Ceuta, held by General Echague. There have been three encounters The first was a mere skirmish, a sort of weak protest by the Moors against the Spaniards throwing up field-works. The second was more severe. The Spaniards lost 7 men killed and 30 wounded. The third is described in Madrid telegrams—

"Madrid, November 26.—Yesterday more than 4000 Moors attacked for the third time the redoubt before Serolla, and were repulsed. Their defeat was complete. The Spanish troops showed great bravery during this en- gagement. The expeditionary corps d'arm4e is crossing the Straits ; froth regiments have disembarked at Ceuta." "Madrid, November 29.—Advices received from the seat of war state that a sharp engagement took place on the 25th instant between the Spanish troops and the enemy. The losses of the Moors were heavy. On the Spanish side the casualties were 80 dead and 400 wounded." A French ship had been fired on by a Moorish fort near Tetuan, and had repaid the attention by demolishing the fort. The Moors say they mistook her for a Spaniard. The Spanish people are still said to be most enthusiastic in favour of the war, but there are a few who are not carried away by the fever.

Stalq.—The difficulties raised by Tuscany in the matter of the Regency have been partly overcome. Baron Iticasoli had no personal objections to the Commendatore Buoncompagni, but he considered, out of respect for the National Assembly which voted for Prince de Carig- nan, that he ought not, in conjunction with those equally responsible towards the National Assembly, to accept the Buoncompagni Regency without consulting the National Assembly. It is now said that Bnon- compagni will be pro-Regent; and that in a proclamation from Florence he will declare in what way these countries will be organized. We think they will form two Governments—a transapennine and a cisapen- nine—both under the direction of one central Government, the seat of which will be at Florence. The local Governments will keep their leaders.

The Monitors Toseano announces that Count Henry Moretti and M. Viviani, who had been charged by the Government with a mission at the Courts of St. Petersburg and Berlin, returned to Florence on the 24th instant. These gentlemen have received everywhere during their mis- sion assurances of the excellent disposition and lively sympathy of Russia and Prussia regarding the cause of the peoples of Central Italy. General Fanti had determined on a change of garrisons. The head- quarters of General Rosselli, which since September last had been esta- blished at Rimini, were to be removed to Ravenna. The 25th and 26th Romagna Regiments, together with the Brigade of Forli, were to follow them. Ribotti, who is at Parma, had been ordered to replace Rossolli, so that Rimini, Ricciano, La Cattolica, Mercian, Cessna, Forli, Faenza, and Tinola will be garrisoned by the less ardent Tuscan divisions. Pi- nelli's Brigade will proceed to Parma, and that of Mezzacapo will march back from La Cattolica and Ricciano to Bologna.

Several officers have resigned their commissions since Garibaldi re- tired. For that or some equally potent reason Garibaldi has issued a manifesto to his companions in arms of Central Italy. It is as follows-

" Let not my temporary absence cool your ardour for the holy cause that we defend.

"In separating myself from you whom I love as the representatives of a sublime idea—the idea of Itahan deliverance—I am excited and sad ; but consolation comes in the certainty that I shall very soon be among you again, to aid you in finishing the work so gloriously begun. "For you, as for me, the greatest of all possible misfortunes would be not to be present wherever there is fighting for Italy. Young men who have sworn to be faithful to Italy and to the chief who will lead you to victory, lay not down your arms ; remain firm at your post, continue your exercises, persevere in the soldier's discipline. "The truce will not last long; old diplomacy seems but little disposed to see things as they really are. Diplomacy still looksupon you as the hand- ful of malcontents which she has been accustomed to despise. She does not know that in you there are the elements of a great nation, and that in your free and independent hearts there germinates the seeds of a world-wide re- volution if our rights shall not be recognized, and if people will not allow us to be masters in our own home.

" We desire to invade no foreign soil; let us remain unmolested on our own! Whosoever attempts to gainsay this our determination, will find that we will never be slaves, unless they succeed in crushing by force an entire people ready to die for liberty.

. "But even should we all fall, we shall bequeath to future generations a legacy of hatred and vengeance against foreign domination; the inheritance of each of our sons will be a rifle and the consciousness of his rights ; and, by the blessing of God, the oppressor will never sleep soundly.

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Italians, I say again do not lay down your arms ; rally more closely than ever to your chiefs and maintain the strictest discipline. Fellow- citizens, let not a man in Italy omit to contribute his mite to the national subscription ; let not one fail to clean his gun, so as to be ready—perhaps tomorrow—to obtain by force that which today they hesitate to grant to our just rights.

" Genoa, November 23." " GARIBALDI."

Garibaldi has addressed a letter to Count Belgiojoso, Podesta of Milan, in.which he states that far from arresting the progress of the subscrip- tion for 1,000,000 muskets, it must be pressed on more energetically than ever.

It is now 'confidently stated that Cardinal Antonelli will represent Rome in the Congress.

firmatur.—Austria has condescended to renew diplomatic relations with Sardinia. The first Minister sent to Turin will be Count Edmund von Hartig, whose father was formerly Governor of Lombardy. A whole battalion for the Pope's service has been raised at Vienna by a bigoted general once in the Austrian service.

Hungary is as troubled as ever. A remarkable pamphlet, privately circulated among the Hungarians, and published since at Leipsie, en- titled the "Hungarian Question," has been prohibited in Austria and seized. It had been submitted to the Government privately by Count Francis Zichy as a document highly approved by the Hungarians. The Protestants continue to meet, in despite of prohibitions, and to vote peti- tions to the Emperor. All classes join in the movement, and Roman Catholics and Protestants arc found side by side.

A goodly number of Conservative nobles, the elite of the party, are engaged in urging the demand for a restoration of the old Hungarian constitution.

The Prussian Minister of War has resigned his office. It is said that General Herrmann will succeed him. Some trouble is brewing between Prussia and Hesse CasseL " Baron Wilkens-Hohenau, the Minister of Electoral Hesse at Berlin, has received orders to proceed to Dresden for the present. The Prussian Minister at Cana, Herr von Sydow, is gone on leave to Berlin. A formal recall of the two Ministers by their respective Governments has not taken place."

Vtumark.—Councillor Rottwitt has been instructed to form a Cabinet. The Government has proposed that a Committee appointed one half by the Danish Council the other by the Diet of Holstein should settle the Holstein question. Prussia objects to this plan.

SU Iflf11.—Intelligence from Constantinople to the 23d states that during the preceding week storms of unparalleled violence have prevailed in the Euxine. All the vessels out at sea have been driven on shore, and about eighty vessels have been lost. The coast is strewed with wrecks, as well as hundreds of corpses. The inhabitants of these in- hospitable shores have stripped the survivors of the wreck of their pro- perty. Tug steamers have been sent to the Biaar de?' cal order'tlilLi assistance 111 the recovery of property wrecked. __- The Grand Vizier is said to have given a very good reception toliffde Lesseps. $1, et- . E. 14 Riffle( Oillif5.—The Vanderbilt arrived at Cowes on Wedneaciayb with advices from New York to the 19th of November.

The excitement in Virginia, arising out of the Harper's Ferry affair, seems only abated for the instant, to revive with augmented energy. On the 17th ultimo the most alarming accounts were forwarded from Charlestown to Richmond, to the effect that a movement for the liberation of Brown was hourly anticipated, and that various barns and sheds had been fired by confederates of the incarcerated martyr. This exciting news produced the effect that was to be anticipated. Large bodies of troops were at once placed under arms at Richmond and at Alexandria, with orders to move next morning upon the scene of con- templated hostilities. The panic throughout the State suddenly attained the wildest stage. Indiscriminate arrests were made ; the eye of partial justice fixing itself more especially upon the pedlars, who are to be found in every village and upon every road. Several of these were imprisoned; and the pursuit of them appeared to be universal. A despatch from Baltimore on the evening of the 18th says-

" There are now a thousand men under arms at Charlestown, and no

enemy to be found to encounter. The troops from Alexandria arrived at Charlestown this afternoon. Those by way of Winchester are expected to- morrow morning. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company have sent Colonel Shutt with an armed posse to Harper's Ferry, to guard the bridge and the property of the company at that point. There is much dissatiefse- tion, both here and at Charlestown, at the precipitate action of Colonel Davis, in sending despatches for troops, instead of first sending out a posse to inquire into the cause of the fire. They think they have been made to appear ridiculous before the country." It is said that the accounts from Baltimore. based upon the latest in- formation advanced from Charlestown, assure us that the moving cause of the extremely violent popular emotion was the conflagration of a haystack ! At Washington the " affair was rated at its proper value."

ea It fafff.—A party in Canada is anxious to break up the union of the two provinces, and to reconstitute the colony on the federal principle ; two or more states, each supreme locally, and a federal government for purely general affairs. This cry arises out of the conflict between the French Roman Catholic Canadians of the Lower, and the British Pro- testant Canadians of the Upper Province.