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FEANCE.—The Paris papers state that President Napoleon was insulted on Easter Monday, by the populace of the Faubourg St. Antoine. The journals variously colour the details, according as the evidence of the President's decline in popularity may be palatable to them or not; but all agree on the point of an open and fiercely-manifested disrespect. The Morning Post gives the incident as follows' adding that much discontent has been stirred up by a mysterious battue lately executed by M. Carlier's Police, to hurry out of Paris all the workmen who have no habitation or employment. "The President," says the correspondent of the Morning Post, "reviewed troops at Vincennes on Monday. He was accompanied by the Minister of War and Colonel Edgar Ney in his carriage ; and General Changarnier, with Ida staff officers, met him on horseback at the fortifications. On his return, before arriving at the Barriere du Trene, he was greeted with discordant yells and screeehings. Crowds of men in blouses howled out 'Vise la Repub-

lique et Sodale !' and at 'length one of the escort having slightly touched a man in order to make him get out of the way, the car- riage was at once surrounded, and the Prince was in the most imminent danger. His self-possession and pluck never deserted him for a moment. He remained as calm and collected as if he were presiding at one of his own dinner-parties ; and at length the escort made a vigorous dash, and the Prince was extricated from the clutches of cea bons Parinens."

The account in the Morning Chronicle says that some men went'close to the window and "bellowed out 'A bari le tyran !" A bas he despote ! ' " The Times gives a trait of quite a different character concerning quite a different man—the virtual President of the French.

"General Changarnier, who had preceded the President by about an hour, was also the object of insult. Changarnier who was on horseback and fol- lowed by a picket of Lancers, drew up, and turned on the crowd. There was no mistaking him; they fell back before his horse as if in terror at his very look. Amongst them was observed a drunken soldier, who neglected to pay the usual sign of respect to his chief: Changarnier slowly rode to- wards him, and removed his shako with the point, of his sword."

M. Vidal, who was recently elected as representative for Paris, was elected at the same time in the department of the Lower Rhine. He has intimated his intention of making his option for the Lower Rhine, so that there will be a new election for Paris. M. Emile de Girardin has already announced himself as a candidate for Paris on the Republican interest.

The Moniteur publishes a decree constituting a committee for the pur- pose of inquiring into the cause of the great increase that has recently taken place in the local taxation throughout France, and for suggesting a remedy. M. Vivien, the President of the Legislative Section of the Council of State, is appointed President.

The Central Agricultural Congress of France, which has been hot session in Paris, recommends the removal of the export-duty on raw s in order to encourage that branch of productive industry. It also recom- mends an official inquiry into the causes of those diseases of the silk- worms which every year cause great losses to the breeders. M. de Salvandy has been elected Director of the French Academy; and M. Alexis de St. Priest, Chancellor.

GERMANT.—The Austrian Government, has by note of the 13th March, to Count Lerchenfeld at Munich, has signified an approval of the funda- mental principles laid down in the draft of the Munich Constitution, and a readiness to take part in 'carrying it out. Its concurrence is offered, however, only on certain conditions ; the last of which will probably be the most veritable difficulty—" that the whole of the Austrian Empire may join the Confederation."

Count Dzialinski has resigned the seat in the Erfurt Volkahaus to which he was elected by a constituency in Polish Prussia ; and has stated in a letter to President Simeon, that the Polish Deputies will take no part in, and will refuse to recognize as valid, the proceedings of any German Diet that assumes a portion of Poland to be German territory.

UNITED STATES.—The North American mail, by the Canada, brings news from New York to the 20th March.

The admission of California was still under debate in Congress. In the Senate, Mr. Daniel Webster, had made a speech in support of Mr. Foote's plan of a Compromise-Committee. He pronounced against any sort of Anti-Slavery declaration in the act for incorporating California ; upon the ground that the physical geography of that region, and of New Mexico, renders the holding of slaves in gross, as at present in the States, an impossible thing; such a declaration would be but a gratuitous injury to the feelings of the " gentlemen and the people of the South." General Cass opposed either the Wilmot or the Missouri compromise, and supported Mr. Foote's plan. Mr. Foote's motion had been rejected on a division,

by 24 to 22 ; but the vote was deemed L..--11raw,•, motion wuuiu probably be carried in the. end. In the other House, the debating was as warm as it had been heretofore, and as little promising of a clear issue. the excitement seems, however, to be regarded by the Representatives themselves as somewhat spurious. " We dissolve the Union here in Washington every day," said Mr. Thaddeus Stevens ; "but it heals up again every night, and every morning is as sound and strong as if we had never dissolved it." Meanwhile, public meetings are held throughout the North in favour of the union, and the Senators of California aye formally demanded the admission of their State.

Sir Henry Bulwer has written a note demanding permission for our ships to join the trade between the East and West coast of North America, as we admit Americans to our navigation between Englandand India, &c. It has been answered that the President considers the matter a fit one for " legislative conaideration."

• Another letter, by Sir Henry Bulwer, remonstrating against any in- crease of the iron-duties, and giving the reasons,—among others, that such augmentation would, at a moment when our measures have con- ceded so much to the commerce of the United States, "produce a very disagreeable effect upon public opinion in England,"—has caused a Par- liamentary explosion. Mr. Cooper, a warm Protectionist Senator from iron-producing Pennsylvania, protested against Sir Henry's " interference With the domestic policy" of the -Union, as "obtrusive, impertinent, and deserving of rebuke." Several speakers counter-protested against these sentiments, especially Mr. Henry Clay, and General Cass; and Mr. Cooper met with no effective sympathy.

The suspended relations between the sister Republics of the United States and France have been resumed, with mutual complimentary re- ference to past times of sympathetic aid and feeling. M. Ernest Andre Olivier Sain de Bois-le-Compte was presented to the President, as the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary from the French Re- public. The American papers afford some miscellaneous gleanings.

There are several " strikes" of carpenters and other trades in New York for her wages.

total amount of California gold-dust received at the United States mints had been officially published as follows—

Total California dust received at the Philadelphia Mint 9,475,000 dollars Branch Mint, New Orleans 1,904,129 dollars Total 11,379,129 dollars.

An appalling accident had occurred near Montgomery, Alabama, in the burning of the steamer St. John. More than thirty persons were burnt to death or drowned., (fifty are rolasing,) and about 350,000 dollars in money and California gold-dust were lost. In the interior of Louisiana the cholera is very fatal. A terrible fire has ravaged the very heart of Buffalo—loss 300,000 dollars ; another at St. Louis—loss 160,000 dollars; a second at Buf- falo, which destroyed the Exchange Hotel and railroad station—loss 80,000 dollars ; and a conflagation at Fredonia, New York, which consumed 50,000 dollars' worth of property. The Fayetteville Carolinian gives an account of a shower of flesh and blood near the residence of Thomas Clarkson, Sampson County, North Carolina. A similar phenomenon was recorded in Tennessee some years ago ; on which occasion the " flesh and blood" were supposed to be a vast swarm of red insects, the aphis.

Barium Nonni Avvarca —The Halifax mail of the 23d March brings papers from Montreal to the 16th March.

There had been three Canadian elections, indicative of public feeling on Annexation. In the county of Sherbrooke, (in Canada East,) Mr. Sanborn, the Annexationist, had been returned by a majority of 34 in a total poll of 1,448; both parties claiming a triumph. In Montreal, such of the municipal elections of the city as were contested gave Annexa- tionist candidates, in two cases with very large majorities,—" Annexa- tion" and "Connexion" being the battle-cries of the two camps. In Upper Canada, Mr. Wettenhall, a member of the Ministry, had been de- feated by Mr. Hopkins, one of the " Clear Grit " party,—that is, the Ultra-Reform party who have seceded from the present Ministry, and who "favour," though they do not join, the Annexation movement. This last election is important, and might lead to a Ministerial crisis.

The question of constitutional government is agitating the Legislatures of Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia. The Assembly of Prince Edward Island met on the 5th March ; and adopted, by 17 to 3, an amendment to the Governor's speech, implying want of confidence. In the Assembly of Nova Scotia, resolutions on the subject of constitutional government had been negatived by the narrow majority of 11 to 9. Re- solutions subsequently moved for reducing the salary of the Lieutenant- Governor, and for making the Legislative Council elective, were under debate.

INDLL—The overland mail from Bombay, of the 2d March, has brought a budget of news more varied and interesting than any received for some time past.

The leading incident is a military enterprise against tribes in the Peshawur, which has ended in what resembles a defeat. Some Affreedie tribes inhabiting the Kohat hills attacked a party of road Sappers em- ployed there, on the 2d February; killed several of them, and carried off all their tools. Their object probably was to prevent the perfecting of those means whereby our Government would be made more prompt and complete ; a consummation distasteful to the natives both as haters of foreign rule and as objectors to any rule whatever. The seriousness with 'which the authorities regarded the business is shown by their teking till the 9th February to prepare an adequate expedition. On that day a brigade of about 3,500 men, under Colonel Bradshaw, was set in motion ; and Sir Charles Napier himself, with Sir Colin Campbell, accompanied the expedition. The artillery was provided with 100 rounds of ammunition, and the whole force took fourteen days' provisions. The villages were prepared for a bloody defence. The passes were slowly but very steadily 'won from them by skirmishing parties, who gradually got possession of the flanking heights, and by the skill of the artillery discharge; the natives nowhere waiting for close quarters with the infattry, but still obstinately holding all the points difficult of access._ In two days the English destroyed six villages, and a great nu Wider of the enemy ; but found it necessary return to Peshawnr,:on the 11th. On the 14th, a force was sent to regain the passes, :aid hold them for the passage of a still larger force, intended to loss is said to have beea e2:-ry out a wider scheme of operations. Our 160 killed and wounded. Ensign H. Sitwell, of

the Thirty-firstT:engal Native Infantry was killed, and Lieutenant Ml- hail], eF 't,ne Twenty-third Bengal Native Infantry, very dangerously wounded. The former young officer was surrounded, and was cut to pieces fighting gallantly; his arm was hacked off his body, and paraded aloft on spears as a triumph.

The accounts from Peshawur mention camp-robberies by the Affreedies as being of almost hourly occurrence—conducted with consummate finesse and boldness.

One marauder was killed on the 10th February. " On the night of the

11th," says a letter, " there was popping going on all night in some direction or another : one man was killed, but, unfortunately, one of our own, by mis- take. He was a Coolie, or a tent Lascar, of the Sappers ; and having Impru- dently left his own lines, was going towards those ;I the Seventy-first Na- tive Infantry, and it appears was followed by one of the plundering tribe. A Sepoy sentry saw the two, and challenged them ; the .A1,7roeclie ran away, and the Coolie followed, it is supposed, to catch the thief ; and in the chase the sentry, thinking both of the bad sort, fired at the wrong n. an, and mortally wounded him."

At 1Jmritsir, the Court of Inquiry into the mutinous protseedialls of the Sixty-sixth Regiment of Bengal Native Infantry had closed N labours on the 7th. It had brought to light that the conduct of the men had not been characterized by any of the personal resistance to the EuropeaL\ officers ascribed to them in former accounts; nor had any of the commi ssioned or noncommissioned Native officers shown even a mutinous spirit : thedis- content, and mutinous defiance of orders, was confined to the privates, and among them seems to have resulted more from the example of the den.se: cratic rule of the Sikh army than from habitual discontent. The EngliaLl officers behaved admirably ; it was owing to their personal ascendancy that serious extremities never occurred. The delinquents were meeting a severe reckoning : they were 170 in number ; of these a Court-martial had sentenced sixty to dismissal from the service, thirty to imprisonment for six months, twenty-one to be imprisoned for seven years, three to la, bour on the roads for fourteen years—a sentence equal to death in the eyes of the native. The worst cases had been kept till last, and had not yet been tried.

At Lahore there was apprehension of continued plottings against our rule. It is said that Sikhs had attempted to mine the wall of the Nuzoree Baugh, which was garrisoned by European troops,—why that fort in par- ticular, or why it alone, is not stated; but the plot had been overheard, discovered, and frustrated. The intended razing of the walls of Lahore was begun on the 1st of February. General Ventura was at Lahore in the middle of February. It is stated as a surmise, that Sir Henry Dundas is bringing home the Koh-i-noor diamond of Runjeet Singh. Further gossip has it, that Queen. Victoria refuses the gift, as too large a subtraction from the Army prize- money, and that " John Bull is to be recommended to purchase it as a Crown jewel." From Calcutta intelligence arrives that the Sikkim affair has been wound up. Short work, without compunction, seems to have been made of the Rajah. We have annexed the Southern districts of his dependency. The "Terrace of Sikkim" and the district round Darjeeling, which we have thus absorbed, have an area of about 626 square miles, [the English county of Hertfordshire has 630,] stretching from the district of Purneah to the Runjeet, on the North, and to a river called on the maps Konkiyi, on the West. They comprised one-fourth of the whole of Siddrim, and were nearly the whole of its fertile land; their revenue is about 2,200/. a year; and, as an additional blow, the English have stopped payment to the Rajah of 6001. a year which was paid for Darjeeling as a sanatorium. Through our new territory lies the road to Kanchinjinga, described as " the highest point on the surface of the earth." There has been a serious disturbance in the Northern provinces of the Nizam's dominions, in which the town of Mulkapore and the neighbour- ing villages have been burnt to the ground. The Governor-General reached Point-de-Gallo, Ceylon, on the 7th of February, and started for Singapore on the 9th. It is stated that the Government of India has at length resolved on adopting a comprehensive scheme of national education. There is a probability, say Bombay letters, that the great gun at Ber- japore will become one of the ornaments of the London Parks ; a propo- sition for its removal to England being now before the Bombay Govern- ment. This gun is the "largest in the world for its calibre" ; which is that of a solid iron shot weighing 2,646 pounds—two dozen times the weight of our largest solid shot.

Sours AIISTRALLL—The Adelaide papers bring a document rather re- markable in itself, and still more so in the circumstance that it is pub- lished by the order of the Governor. Sir Henry Young. It is a draft of resolutions which the Honourable John Morphett was about to submit to the Legislative Council, foreshadowing a new constitution for the colony, in the shape of a declared opinion. The resolutions manifest the opinion of the Council—that a constitution for South Australia should be based on the principle of municipal government after the model of Great Bri- tain ; that affairs of local concern should be left to local jurisdiction ; that the Legislature should consist of a Governor, an Hereditary Chamber, and an Elective Chamber • that the members of the Hereditary Chamber, in order to enter the Chamber or remain there, should be bound to establish his permanent possession of landed property to a fixed amount ; that local acts passed by the two Chambers with the assent of the Governor should at once become law ; that there should be an Executive Council, liable to removal on a vote of want of confidence ; the Governor himself being irre- sponsible, but to be removeable on an address to the Crown by both Houses ; that the Colonial Government have absolute power over the waste lands, one-half of the purchase-money being absolutely reserved for purposes of immigration ; finally, the draft resolutions deprecate any General [Federal] Assembly for Colonies so various as those of Australia.