furtigu att Cohnial.

,f TR U t f.—The Emperor, accompanied by the Prince of Oldenburg, went on Tuesday to the Polygon of Vincennes, to be present at some ex-

periments with rifled cannon which have undergone recent improvements. Marshall Magoon, and Generals Guiode, Leliceuf, and Frossard, directed the firing, which was so successful that the new model used is to serve for all the regiments of artillery. The Moniteur of Wednesday published a despatch addressed by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs to the representatives of France ac-

credited to the Courts which signed the Treaty of Vienna respecting the annexation of Savoy. This despatch, which is dated as far back as the 7th of April, throws no new light upon the question:—

"France accepts, so far as she is concerned, the complete execution of Article 92 of the General Act of Vienna. Nothing more can be required of the Emperor's Government ; and to admit that, if circumstances should render that provision applicable, it would seek to elude it, would be equi- valent to declaring that the Emperor's Government would not show any

greater respect for the neutrality of Switzerland, whose territory, accessible to France as well as to Germany on many important points of her frontiers, is only protected from all attack by the authority of a superior right placed under the protection of Europe, and founded on the mutual interests of the adjacent States." The Noniteur of Thursday published another note of M. Thouvenel, dated April 16, intended to show that the annexation of the neutralized districts of Savoy to France will not change the situation of Switzer- land.

The Moniteur publishes a telegraphic despatch from Chambery, an- nouncing that the definitive result of the vote of Savoy was proclaimed on Sunday, by the Court of Appeal, in the midst of the most enthusiastic cheers of the population. The numbers for annexation were 130,533, against 236 ; 4610 having abstained from voting, and 71 bulletins were null. Another telegraphic despatch from Nice also states that the Royal Court has, in like manner, proclaimed the result of the vote there. Free-trade makes some progress in France. A Commercial Reform Association has recently been formed and is so far successful. The Association has begun its work by issuing a circular to the Chambers of Commerce, in which the consequences of the delays fixed by the Com- mercial treaty with England are strikingly pointed out. " Contrary to the generous intentions of the Government, these delays which, with the view to a paternal protection, have been stipulated in fa- vour of the general interest, by rendering the ixansition easier, have every- where the effect of restricting commercial operations, and consequently para- lyzing consumption and labour. " We are justified in thinking that the terms fixed—the 31st of Decem- bers, 1860, for manufactured metals ; the 1st of June 1861, for threads and linen tissues ; the 1st of October 1861, for a great number of articles—delay or restrain everywhere the purchase of materials until after those periods. The stagnation and diminution of operations injure navigation and "the carrying-trade.

" It would seem that all who are interested ought to desire that the pe- riods at which the application of the new tariffs commence -should be abridged as much as possible."

Startled by this, the Protectionist organ, the Moniteur Industriel, has published a warning to the Chambers of Commerce. It professes to point out a manoeuvre "which the English Chambers of Commerce are carrying on with perfect unanimity, and which, if it.succeed, would do nothing less than annul, in a way the most disastrousfor us, one of the meet important clauses of the treaty. The imperial Government wished to secure a guarantee for our manufactures by stipulating that the ad valorem duties established in the maximum limit by the first article should be converted into specific duties by a supplementary convention, and that the average prices for the six months which preceded the date Of the treaty should be taken as the basis of that convention." The ex- planation is thatif the average for the last six months be taken, the duties will be twenty per cent higher than they would be, were the average taken over a longer period, because for the last six months prices have been high. The 41'oniteur also states that the project of law concerning the tariff for wools, cottons, and raw materials was on Wedesday adopted by the Legislative Body by 249 against 4 votes.

The French Government appears to have adopted extreme measures with regard to the press. There is a newspaper published at Saint- Etienne, called the Memorial de la Loire. In the place usually devoted to official communications appeared, the other day, to the surprise of its readers, a formal announcement, to the effect that, by order of the Min- ister of the Interior, dated the 21st of April, a person named Dardenne was named its chief editor. In the same spirit of anxious regard for the independence of the press, an editor is said to have been imposed on an- other paper, at Bordeaux, though the manager declared that he did not want any one for those duties. The worst of the matter is, that the per- sons thus obtruded are to be remunerated by the journal, and not by the "Administration." One or two independent journals, writing with the fear of " warning" before them, nevertheless protest against this extra- ordinary proceeding.

SIIIiiirrlank.—The Bend of Berne, which not unfrequently receives information from certain members of the Federal Council, pretends that the Cabinet of the Tuileries had offered to Switzerland a sum of fifty millions, as an indemnity for her rights in the neutrality of the northern districts of Savoy. As the Bend represents opinions hostile to France, the exactitude of that intelligence is doubted.

The Federal troops occupying Geneva are to be disbanded on the 10th of May, but replaced at once by fresh soldiers.

i alli--The King of Sardinia, accompanied by Count Cavour, General Fanti, and Signor Farini, entered Bologna on the 2d of May. "He was was received by the clergy at the cathedral "—the excommuni- cation, and a special prohibition from Rome notwithstanding, and a Te Deum was celebrated.

The King has subscribed 100,000 frances towards the building of a façade to the cathedral of Florence. A splendid ball was given in the theatre of Bologna, in honour of the King, on Wednesday. A hymn was sung by 100 of the principal lady inhabitants. The ball was crowded. The number of persons present was about 4500.

King Victor Emmanuel was at Pistoia on the 30th of April. He was welcomed with the accustomed furore by the population. His Majesty's visit was marked here by an interesting incident. The name of Castruc- cio Castracani, the nobleman of Lucca who, in 1300, was exiled as a Ghibelline, and, after serving in France, England, and Lombardy, at length reurned to place himself at the head of the Ghibeline party, is well known to history. Louis V., the Bavarian Kaiser, ultimately re- cognized him Duke of Lucca. The sword of this brave general and prince, who died in 1328, had descended to the family of the late Count Niccolo Puccini of Pistoia, one of the wealthiest landed proprietors of Tuscany, who, at his death, ten years ago, bequeathed it "to the Italian soldier who should one day deliver Italy." His executors, considering Victor Emmanuel to be within the meaning of the will, entrusted the magistracy of Pistoia with the duty of presenting it on the solemn occa- sion of his Majesty's visit, which was accordingly done amidst loud acclamations.—Globe Paris Correspondent.

The Syndics of the Romagna have presented addresses to the King, adding live millions of francs as a voluntary contribution towards the expenses of the State. The clergy of Bologna have also presented an address to his Majesty. On Thursday, he reviewed the troops, and re- ceived two other addresses from the clergy of the Romagna. The Italian Parliament will probably be adjourned as soon as the French treaty is ratified, even the discussion of the budget being reserved for the continuation of the session on the 1st of October, since the first half of the session will not extend beyond the middle of June. But the assembling of the Chambers is postponed from time to time, and it is understood that the Treaty of Cession will not be discussed until after the boundaries of the two States have been regulated with France.

It is now confidently asserted that towards the end of June or the beginning of July, the French troops will have completely evacuated Rome and the Roman territory.

The Austrians have constructed a bridge head at Borgoforte on the Po, near Mantua. The headquarters of the Neapolitan army, under General Pianelli, are said to have been transferred to Aquila, in order the better to concert measures with General Lamoriciere, who has en- camped his troops at Spoleto.

Monsignor de Merode, the new Papal Minister of War, is an old soldier, and but a young ecclesiastic. He was educated at the Brussels military school, entered the Belgian army, and having obtained per- mission to join the French army of Algeria, he served on the staff of General Bedean, and obtained the cross of the legion of honour by dis- tinguished conduct. It was not till 1850 that he took holy orders. He at once became a favourite of Pius the Ninth, who in a short space of time made him a private chamberlain and a bishop. His sister is the wife of Count de Montalembert.

General Lamoriciere " proposes to organize an army of 40,000 men, of which 15,000 arc to remain in the garrison towns, and 25,000 to be em- ployed on active service. His object is to establish his head-quarters at Ancona, whence he can prevent any invasion of the Papal territory by an enemy's army, and at the same time prevent any insurrection in the Marches or in Umbria. There is no deficiency of fire-arms, and the General is occupied in organizing three batteries of rifled cannon. Prince Chigi, Colonel of the Papal Guard, had tendered his resignation, in order to take service as a private gunner."

From Sicily, we still have perplexed accounts. Certain it is that except at Palermo and Messina, and the smaller coast towns, the insur- rection has not been suppressed. The Neapolitan Government continues to say all is quiet ; but the garrison of Palermo, although numbering nearly 20,000 men, apparently feared to proceed into the interior. They had driven the insurgents from Beide and Monreale after smart combats, and they had stormed and sacked Carini after a fight of three days, in- volving the loss of 300 men to the royal troops. They had burnt, battered, pillaged the villas of the nobles near the town, and had marched a number of nobles in chains through the streets on their way to the dungeons of Naples. They had shot thirteen men on " the presump- tion" that they were insurgents. The latter returned their first pri- soners, but when they heard of the execution of the thirteen, they slew twenty-six Neapolitan soldiers whom they had taken. The royal troops had committed " grave excesses " upon the " inoffensive population ' of Messina, to use the language of the consular body, whose energetic protest saved the town from bombardment and pillage. They had arrested hundreds of persons. At Messina, for some days the bulk of the people lived in the mountains. But the insurrection is not suppressed. " We have positive intelligence," says a letter from Florence, " that Garibaldi, ever ready for self-sacrifice, embarked a few days ago at Genoa, on board a steamer manned by two hundred of his most venturous followers, bound, as it is supposed, to the coasts of Sicily, or of the neighbouring southern kingdom. Appalling as such a report has been to all the lovers of the Italian cause, and to the personal' friends of the heroic guerrillero, there are many sufficiently confident in the fortunes of that daring patriot, that in the prestige of his name and of the effect of his landing both upon friends and foes, to anticipate for him a better fate than that which awaited Murat on the Calabrian shores. Garibaldi has Medici with him,—a prudent and wary counsellor, exercising great influence on his old companion in arms, who, it is well known, long withheld his consent to the daring scheme, and who people think, would not have embarked in the expedition had he considered it as perfectly hopeless." " I learn at this moment," says the Paris correspondent of the Morning Post, " that General Garibaldi and his staff have set out for Sicily." " Volunteers' " says the Gazette of Milan, " wishing to leave for Sicily can apply to the bureau of this journal for instructions."

SilLti II.—Marshal O'Donnell has at length returned to Spain. He arrived at Aranjuez on the 30th of April.

The most surprising statement from Madrid, is that the Count of Mon- temolin and his brother Ferdinand, has formally acknowledged Queen Isabella as Queen of Spain. It is stated that a general amnesty has fol- lowed, and that the two princes arc about to quit the country. Another statement is that the Princes would take an oath of allegiance, and re- sume their rank as princes of the blood-royal at Court. The Cortes meet on the 25th of May.

urtng al.—The new Ministry, says a Lisbon telegram, dated May 2, has been formed as follows :—President of the Council, Senor Agtu- lar ; Minister of War, Viscount da Luz ; Minister of Marine, Senor Vargaz ; Minister of Finance and Foreign Affairs, Senor Card Ribeiro.

MUM 4.—Austria is busy fishing the secret of the great frauds,

and reconstructing the machinery of Government. A letter from Vienna says—" It is impossible to imagine the consternation in high places originating in the investigations which the Emperor personally conducts with regard to State frauds. Every hour discovers some new swindle of officials. But the mostalarming feature of the inquiries appears to be the amount of paper money issued by the Government, which far exceeds the statements of the budget." The papers of Baron von Bruck were seized after his death.

A full account of the investigation into the circumstances under which Baron von Bruck died, leaves little doubt that he took poison at night, and, finding that the dose was not quick enough in its operation, that he then got out of bed and opened the veins of his wrists and his throat. He was, it seems, found alive, but he died before medical aid arrived. The only member of the corps diplomatique who attended his funeral was the Turkish Ambassador. A friendly hand had strewed the bottom of his grave with flowers.

M. de Hubner has been suddenly summoned to Vienna. It is re- ported " that, as soon as the reorganization of Hungary is completed, the Archduke Maximilian will be placed at the head of the administration of that kingdom. It is stated that this office was proposed to him during his recent stay at Vienna, but that he declined to accept it at the mo- ment." A number of new Councillors of State have been appointed, in- cluding Germans, Hungarians, Bohemians and Italians. Among the list are the names of the Princes Schwarzenberg, von Lichtenstein, von Auersberg, General Haller, Count Apponyi, Barons Vay and Mailath, Clam Martinitz, the President of the Chamber of Commerce, Trenkler, and Count Moncenigo. The Government still persists in trying to carry out the Patent of September. A decree of the Emperor has placed the ecclesiastical affairs of the Evangelical portion of the army under the management of military chaplains of both the Augsburg and Helve- tic Confessions. In each of the military stations of Vienna, Verona, Ofen, Lemberg, Prague, and Hermannstadt two military chaplains, one of the Augsburg and one of the Helvetic Confession, are to be appointed, who will occasionally inspect the surrounding districts. In time of war, two Evangelical military chaplains are to be added to the clerical esta- blishment in the hospitals of the operating armies. Another decree an- nuls the clause in the Civil Code, according to which it was necessary for foreigners who were the proprietors of any business requiring a re- gular domicile in the country to become Austrian subjects.

In the sitting of the Berlin Chamber of Deputies on Thursday, a de- bate took place in reference to the Schleswig-Holstein question. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Baron von Schleinitz, in his speech on this subject, said :— Having in view the present state of things in Schleswig, the Federal Diet could hardly neglect any further its duty of examining what Germany is entitled to demand in consequence of the conventions concluded in 1851 and 1852. We cannot accept the acts of Denmark as a fulfilment of the ob- ligations she had undertaken. Prussia takes the interests of the German Duchies to heart, and both as a Federal and a European Power she will do for them all that lies in her power."

nngarlj.—General Benedek has issued a proclamation to Hungary. He says:— "As a faithful veteran, and as a native of Hungary, I will conscienti- ously carry out the benevolent intentions of the Emperor. Confidence is necessary to the successful development of the organization of Hungary, and I will, therefore, in the interest of the country, oppose with firmness and decision any attempt to disturb the minds of the people by means of demon- strations. I count on the cooperation of every man of honour in my t fforts to serve and benefit my dear native country and the empire_ at large. '

The requiem of the late Count Stephen Szechenyi on the 30th of April, was concluded without disturbances. Great numbers of the inhabitants were present at the ceremony. The vault has been closed, 'M ng flags were exhibited in the WaizneFrasse ; and IO,Mitirteons: sembled on the occasion in the_principal square of the'rown.

lass i 8.—A conspiracy in St. Petersburg is reported by the Paris cor- respondent of the Morning Port. He says :—

not without in-

" I have read an official despatch from St. Petersburg tenet. There seems-tube nb doubt that a conspiracy had lately been or- ganized against the life of the Emperor, or, at all events,. with a view of obliging hisImperial Majesty to abandon his praiseworthy policy of eman- cipation of the slave populatiOns.—Lread of the arrestof some-ISO or 200 persons at St. Petersburg;:chielly amongst the Noble -Guard. Certain sus- pected regiments were sent out of the City, and replaced.by troops perfectly innocent of all politicaL:feelizig. In iddition, artillery .was. planted An various. quarters' of-St.; 'Petersburg, in order to check, if necessary, this planned. military ,revolt. I have seen the names of the accused, but I- am not permitted to publish them." The offielid Cratetta of the-kingdom of Poland publishes an ukase of the Emperor' Alexiinder;'whieb extends to the inhabitants of Poland, on the occasion of the majority of the heir apparent, the pardons as regards con.; fiseation'of property, inflicted on those who took part in ;he insurrection of '1831. No one can fail to approve of this act of justice and of clemency which, effaces the, traces of a painful past. A-duel at St. Pete..ishurg has made a great scandal. "The St..Ntersburg papenannounced lately, without giving any other in: formation, that LiontenaultMeyendortf, of the Horse Guards, and a student of the University namedalemidoff, were to be tried by.court-martial for hiving fought a duel. As muck IMIS been said about this duel, I must tell you the particulars. Beeen-Moyendorff, eon of the Emperor's first Equerry, was at a grand.hell given by ouut Bergh. M. Demideff, aephew of the husband.: of thitt.Bvineeis Matilde, was likewise there. He is immensely rich, and siv7eit himself airs which are by no means agreeable to his com- rades. M. Demidoff was speaking in a loud voice in very disparaging terms to the Princewillahheen of an absent person. The Baron de Meyeqdorff, though at a distance, heard him, and politely requested him to cease to speak ill of one of his friends. M. Demidoff replied that be would speak as be );leased, without any apology to M. Meyendorff. The latter told him again tp desist, and at the same time, the Princess Galitzen said to if: Repair/off, Are you Sfraid ? Now is your time to show yourself.' M. Demi- deffthen challengetl-Baron Meyendorff: 'They fought the next day with pistols, at fifteen ),aces.. The signal had'not been given when M.:Demictoff *Wand missed his antagonist. The Baron then said tq him, 'Last night pe you were im' rtieeat, and today you have proved yourself to be deficient in both honour and courage!. lie then fired, and shot M. Denddeff in the kg. The affair made great noise; the Emperor heard of it, and commanded that the duellists should be tried by court-martial."

SII i 8.—A telegram from Marseilles, on the authority of letters re-. ceived there. to -the, 11th of April, says: that " orders Lad been. given in Bombay and Madras to suspend the despatch of troops to China hopes being entertained -Of-an-amicable arrangement of the 'pending diffi&il- ties." It is-addedthnt 't‘ Khan Bahadeor had 'been hung, The. distur- binees among the Native-indigo planters appeared to be subsiding." - :The following telegram, without date, has been received at the-India office :—"The Governor-General's Camp will break up on the 10th in- slant ; and the Governor-General and the Commander-in-Chief will reach

Simla on the llth.". _ .

tuit ftf Silt tP5.—Adviees from America to the 21st of *April'haVe 1*ou received.-1 A resolution bad been passed in the Senate at Wailing- ton for inquiring into the expediency of raising the Sardinian mission to

one of the first class:: • , .

The Attorney .General. Mr. Black, had received and deeliaefi a chal- lenge from ex-Governor Walker.

The Charleston Democratic Convention was the topic which absorbed public attention. The Powhattan; bearing the flag of the gallant Commodore Tatmdl, a name for ever dear to Engliihmen, arrived at San Francisco qn the 27th

ofMarch. She brought with her two Japanese Princes of the higheat' rank, ambasaadors to the President of the United States, and two nobles,' who 'are associates, together with a suite of followers. -The Ambassadora are Simme, Prince of, Boozen, and Mooragaki, Prince of Avradsi. :They -have arrived in good 'health, and, highly pleased with their voyage ; of course they have been treated on shore with the greatest respect and at- tention. They were to proceed to Panama, thence to Aspinwall, and then in the war steamer Roanoke to Washington.

We have lost another of our old writers, Mr. James K. Paulding, who- died on the 4th, in: his eighty-first year. He was a New Yorker, and

belonged to afamily that has two centuries of American life, which is a' respectable antiquity for us.' So long ago as the beginning of I807,- when an American writer,wati'a tare animal, Mr. Paulding Was an author of some note, being associated-with Washington Irving and Ids -brother: William in the production of Sa/tnagundi. For thirty years, he continued` to and to publish, and produced a variety of works—histories bio- graphies, novels, fairy tales, sketches, poems, plays, satires, .parodies, books of travel, letters, defences of slavery, and so forth. He appears-to have thought himself equal to anything, and therefore came very near being good fin--nothing. Of the fifty volumes he gave to the. world, the world will give a permanent place to only about a tenth part, the rest being' even how almost as dead as if they lined trunks and covered cheeses. As early as 1814, Mr. Paulding was made Secretary to the Board of Navy Commissioners, was twelve years Navy Agent at New' York, 'and Secretary of the Navy during the greater part of Mr. Van Buren's Administration, 1837-41. Latterly, he lived in retirement? and that he was alive. until last week was news to most people, who believed him to be dead, so utterly was he -forgotten. The peculiarity of his opinion was that he was a life,long• defender of slavery ; and, when even the South was ashamed of that institution, he was writing of it as of something that deserved the warmest applause of mankind, canting about " Negro equality," and holding up the horrors of amalgama- tion." William' -Irving was married to Mr. Paulding's sister, which made Paulding a connexion.of Washington Irving.—LetterfromBoston.

!Ufa .—The news from Mexico is, that the British-Minister had prevised a truce fer air months, and the election of a Congress by the' different States, to beheld at Jalapa, which is neutral ground, under the Protection of the 'British Government, The Congress Ei frame a new Constitution, which should then be enforced. The clergy oppose this proposition. If his proposal is not acceded to, the British Minister will demand his passports to Vera'Crnz, and will reCogniz-ellie GoVetnifent of Juarez.