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FRANCE.—Although the health of the Empress is stated to be much im- proved, all festivities and gayeties at the Tuileries have been suspended. The Emperor takes no part in public amusements, and it is said that as soon as the season is sufficiently advanced he will carry the Empress to the Chateau of Henry the Fourth at Pau in the Pyrenees, and thence to Lea Eaux Bonnes.
A mass in honour of "Napoleon the Great" was celebrated at the Tuileries on Wednesday, in the presence of the Emperor, his Ministers, and great officers.
By a decree, printed in the Itentieur of Tuesday, the import-duties on three articles of colonial produce are repealed or diminished- " Fruits preserved on the system of M. Appert—that is to say, without sugar or honey—are to be exempt from duty. Orange juice, and the juice, of other fruits not especially denominated in the tariff, are also exempt. The duty on fish preserved in vinegar or oil is to be reduced from 100f. per 100 kilogrammes, and the duty on vanille is to be reduced from 2f. 60c. per kilogramme to lf. ; but in these cases it is specially declared that the first three of the articles thus favoured must be the produce of the French col.). nies, and that the fourth must be the produce of the Island of Bourbon."
GERMANY.—Beyond one fact we have nothing but rumours from Ger- many. The Emperor of Austria gave public audience on the 29th April, for the first time since the attempt on his life. On these occasions any one can have access to present a petition. That is the fact. The rumours are, that there will shortly be a kind of congress of Sovereigns at Vienna, at which the Kings of Prussia, Bavaria, Belgium, and Greece, will be present. The King of the Belgians is already on his way to Berlin, it is said ; and his visit to the German Sovereigns is connected with a threatening " note" alleged to have been sent to him by Louis Napoleon, reproaching him with coldness towards France and amity towards other powers.
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