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| SP SSS: EER TAS SE SS SS SSSA SSS SS SS SS SSS SS SSE SESS SSS SSS SUS SS SS SS ES SESS SPS En SS SS SE ES SSNS SS SS tS EERO Pho Gossip of London, Paris, and Hong Kong, OUR RELATIONS WITH CHINA. &o., ke, &. Our Chinese Correspondence, Hona Kona, Feb, 25,1853. | American Trade in the East—Commissioner Mar- shall and Commodore Aulick—Interesting Pro- ceedings—Position of our Navy—Probable Fuil. ure of the American Mission. As the New York Heap enjoys a world-wide reputation, it may not be uninteresting to you to occasionally,hear a few words @om this quarter of the earth—the more so as the giant strides of com- with this subject—Commodore Aulick denies a ship to Mr. Marshall to await him, but himself takes the Plymouth as a conveyance to Canton for his own private purpozg. ‘ O tempora, O mores.” . Commodore Perry is expected here by the Ist of April, but it can hardly be possible for the expedi- tion to get off this year unless he starts with dimi- | nished force, which will, of course, take much from the success of the enterprise. The Susquehanna bas broken her air pump shaft—{s unfit for astive or steady steaming. It would hardly be prudent to start for Japan after Angust, as the typhoon season is at its height at that time, and the Japan coast is very dangerous, particularly in winter, and to a fleet in- tended to produce such important results. How- ever, no certainty can be indulged in until the event does take place, when the eyes of the world will be | opened to this hidden and mysterious object. merce are opening a passage to the hitherto closed Celestial Empire, and daily making the Middle King- dom of more importance to the civilized world. All eyes will shortly be turned upon Japan and China, and various speculations are already rife as to the results of the new American policy in the Kast. As regards China, the first steps have already been taken. The topic of the last week has been the miseion of the Hon. H. Marshall, and various affairs growing out of it, the naval squadron by the mis” management of its commander being mixed up with them, court martials, arguments, &., being the or der of the day. The case stands thus—Mr. Marshall in the latter part of January proceeded to Whampoa, in the Saratoga, and thence to Canton, where he opened a correspondence with the Celestial Commis- sioner, Sue, preparatory to his delivering the auto- graph letter from the President of the United States to the Emperor of China of which he is the bearer. Some days after, and before an answer had been re eeived from Sue, Commodore Aulick returned from Manila, and upon finding the Saratoga absent from this anchorage immediately ordered her to join him, and at the same time severely took her commander to task for having, unouthorized, carried the minister to Canton. The Suratoga at once returned to Hong Kong, where a court martial was held upon th eaptain, for disobedieuce of orders, &c., the principal question mooted was, “Did Captain Walker perform an important public duty in escorting the United | States Commissioner to the exercise of his iastrac- tions?’ In the meanwhile, the authorities at Can- | ton, as soon as they had heard of the withdrawal of | | | i the war junk, informed Mr. Marshall that he could not | be received at Cauton—that Sue was absentia the in- terior, and that no oflicer of the Kuang Tuang pro- vinces was of a grade high enough to receive him, dc: and other exeuses of tbat nature, cvidently intending, to those who understand the tricks and diplomacy of the Chinese, to shufile the matter, and evade a direct answer. Mr. Marsbail was thus reduced to the neces sity of leaving Canton ; this he was obliged to do under Jess imposing circumstances than thewe with | which he had entered. Mr. Marshall made his requi- sition upon the Saratoga to convey him to the near- est port where a Celestial Commissioner was to be found, for the purpose of carrying out hie instrac- tions, and to add importance to his embassy, and to assist him in retiring with dignity if unsuccessful. This very contingency occurred; the sudden removal of the Saratoga left Mr. Marshall at Canton alone and unprotected—be was obliged to depend upon | private assistance to enable him to leave at all. He is now at Macoa, lying on his oars ; but intends, I understand, to go to the North when he can get a @onveyance. Captain Walker, of the Saratoga, in the meantime, Las been tried and honorably acquitted by 8 coort-martial, which has recorded 2 solemn re bake to Com. Aulick; indeed this officer seems to be peculiarly unfit to be entrusted with important inte- Tests, as from the very first he has been in difficulty. He was most unfortunate in his intercourse with the United States Minister at Brazil, and now the “new Cowmissioner to China,” upon his very ira: effort to open negotiations with the Chinese, finds Liimself frustrated by the very officer who, from his high position, and the powers entrusted to him, should bave had the common sense to know what action on his part the interest of his country required; but such conduet only supports the assertion made eleewhere, that the rapid progress .! our country in every art and knowledge has left the “ old school men” too far behind to warran’ their employment in the execution of important national trusts, and it will always be the result where men imbued entirely with a senge of their own importance, and governed by pique and temper, and uot by the dictates of sound jndgment and correct knowledge, are placed in positions where the exercise of such feelings may at any time, in a remote station, bring them into col- Ksion with the best interests of their country. As this matter has beeome the subject of common soreip in the English colony of Hong Kong, there is no reason why the American people should not be put in possession of facta which interest them so deeply. | ‘The weakness and imbecility of the navy depart- ment, as couducted by the late administration, is glaringly evident in the way in which the affairs of the United States squadron in these seas have been conducted. Fifteen months ago, upon representation made to government by the United States minister to Brazil, the commodore of this station was removed ostensibly from his command, but in reality left in quiet enjoyment of the honors and emoluments of his high dignity. Last fall a commander was sent out to the Susquehanna, and, to show the trifling and blunders of the navy department of that time, the said commander was the bearer of an order to the | commodore for him to give up his command and re- turn to the United States; but, by the same mail another erder came, dated a few days later than | that borne by the commander aforesaid, ordering the commndore to remain where he was until he was re- lieved by another order. The two orders reached him within an hour of each ether. In the mean- ; while, about the same date—during the fishery ex: | eitement—Mr. Marshall, the then appointed Com- missioner to China, was directed by the President to communicate with Commodore Perry for informa- tion and assistanee in carrying out his mission. He | did so, and Mr. Marshall arrived in Ohina the bearer of a letter from Commander Perry toa eaptain in tho | squadron, a8 senior officer in command, ordering him to assist Mr. Marshall with a ship or ships in fulfill- | ing the views of the government ; but Mr. Marshall funds a higher officer in actual command, or, in fact, the anomaly of two commoderes and one captain in | command of one squadron, and hence a scene of con fasion, mortification and difficulty occurred, when all should have been harmony—all owing to the blandering and want of energy on the part of tle navy department at Washington; and thus the China mission, 80 importan', and looked to with so much faterest, has received a blow it will not easily re- cover from. I understand Mr. Marshall attributes his fail- ure #0 far entirely to the diseourtesy with which he | has been treated by the commander-in-chief of the squadron, which was 80 reported to Washington, The Japan expedition, if no better organized and carefully instracted, is likely to fall through, and cause merriment and ridicule. The above facts have been elicited by the court martial lately held upon the commander of the Saratoga, and the disclosures | which were mado by Mr. Marshail have aroused Commodore A.to a sense of the false position he has for so long a time occupied; and he has now made ap his mind, it is said, to return to the United States by the next overland mail. The new administra. | tion will have o curious investigation in getting at and sifting the whole truth of this matter; and it fe sincerely to be hoped that in future such a contre: temps may not occur. These things are much to be deplored by every well wisher of hjs country. Bat 80 much legislation and idle talk is so constantly going on about the navy, and so little is done, that those who have the interest of the navy at heart are | heart-sick of the subject. Time may, of itself, correct these things; but one thing is certain—let a few more palpabie mistakes of this kind take place and a radical change will be tho result. I should men- dion an instance of admirably connected 4 | out of parliament as had been anticipated, though | credit of no mean talent in the preperation of hig | for no one could ever find out why that country has | exempted. But there are two points with respoct to | ment of a Commission, and we believe that its resutl gT08s , ment displayed in every single section of the busi- | ness committed to its charge. In fact, it is a nest of | most uproarious reception | on the other hand | considerablo numbers, on the silly pretext of sedi- | nor, while he is thus re Aen J the liberties of Our London Correspondonce. ALBEMARLE Sraeer, Proapiuiy, Lonpon, April 23, 1853. i Latest Foreign News in London—The Gladstone Budget—The Maynooth Commission—Afiuir s in the Dockyards— Prospects of Mrs. H. B. Stowe in London—The Pope and the Dutch Government —Affairs of Italy—The Funds—Markets—Thea- tres, &e., $c. News from Constantinople has caused the French funds to recede considerably. From the Debats we learn that a despatch had reached Paris from Vienna stating that the great- est excitement prevailed at Constantinople. It was aseerted in that capital that Prince Menschiko® was urging the Divan toa decision, and that he threat- ened to withdraw if that decision was any longer delayed. The French squadron was at Salamis—the Eng- lish fleet still at Malta. Troops were being concen- trated at Gonstantinople, by order of the Turkish government. War steamers had been stationed on the most important pcints along the coast. Mischief is brewing. News of a riot and fearful conflagration at Con- stantinople is now being circulated in some second editions of the morning papers. ‘The first feeling of satisfaction exhibited on the announcement of the ministerial proposals on finance has not proved so general or so permanent all parties seem agreed to award Mr. Gladstone the scheme. His proposition of extending the income tax to Ireland mects with very genera! approbation, been heretofore so preposterously and thanklessly this most unpopular impost that are much com- mented on, and will no doubt raise a storm of oppo- sition in the House. Firat, itis proposed to extend the income tax to incomes of £100 a year, which, though the rate he 5d. instead of 7d., will force from pockets that can least of all spare it no leaso sum than a quarter of a million sterling. And, secondly, no attempt whatever is made to remedy an evi so long felt and denounced—the indiscriminate levying on al! incomes, whether fixed or precarious, based on solid bona fide property, or resulting from the exercise of skill and intelligence. Property, as fixed capital, ought to bear its fair proportion of the pub- lic burdens, because it can best afford to do so; and ithas been very distinetly shown that bys very equitable arrangement on this subject no alght )Or- tion of the entire taxation might be borne by an - ists, without any real injury to them, though to the immenee relief of the oppressed millions in the leas wealthy classes. Mr. Gladstone bas no objection to saddle a million or so of poor with a tax they were exempt from before; but he fears to meddle with the over-wealthy few, and, rather than adjust inequali- ties, and do an act of justice, would get rid of it alto- gether by @ sliding scale of diminution, to expire in six years. The proposed relief from the soap and tea duties, and the lightening of taxes on many arti- cles of food, will no doubt give very general satisfac- tion ; nor will the trading portion of the community be displeased with the lowering of the advertising duties and the stamp duties, which have so long been felt an annoyance and check to business; but, then, as an offset for these, we have the removal of certain taxes that need no repeal whatever. Persons who keep ca es and servants are to be relieved to the amount of £182,000 per annum, and that, too, at the expenre of men who, no matter what their fa- milies, are to be taxed 5d. in the pound out of in- comes amounting only to £100 earned by the sweat. ce reo brows or the exercise of their mental fa- culties. The long vexed quest'on of ihe yearly grant to the Catholic College of oUs Was on tionday night brought forward in the House of Lords by the Earl jected to the Commission of ow cheleca, ; inquiry proposed by the government, as not bein, peared: wh powers to insare a searching, conn plete, and honest investigation of the abuses in that establishment. That rabid Orangeman, the Earl of Roden, warmly supported the mover’s statements eee the seditious spirit of the Catholic clergy ( Meynooth, and he was further backed by that staunch Protestant and humanitarian, the atl ot Shaftesbury, and the wal) aed Duke of Argyll. The | government, however, persevere in thes ‘appoint. will be to satisfy the foople, and remove their dis- trust of the teachers in that college, as well as to in- sure its continued operation, within due limits, for the benefit of the Catholic clergy and people, who form more than seven-tenths of the population of Ire- land. We are sick, however, of the subject—tho- roughly sick of it—and it will, at any rate, be some . comfort if this sop for Cerberus, in the way of a com- mission, should fora time stop the mouths of the valiant Protestant orators who are so fond of making the Meynooth graut their favorite stalking-horse within the walls of parliament. Even in the rottenest borough of England under the old regimé never was there anything more ob- jectionable, or a perversion of the freedom of election, than the abuse of theadmiralty Leer at elections for the representations of our naval po! Chatham, Portsmouth, Devonport, and all the other dockyards, are, at election times, all of them made the arena for the most unblushing corraption, in the way of appointments expressly made, and numbers, too, for Purely P the electors in favor © government candidates. We are extremely glad, therefore, that Sir Benjamin Hall bas succeeded in getting a committee appointed to inquire into these disgraceful abuses—glnd, too, that he has been supported by a plain spoken, inde- endent member, like Sir James Graham, whose former eae has given him such ample opporta- nities of ascertaining their existence. The admiralty, indeed, wants well looking to, for we doubt: whether there is any department of the government—not even the Colonial Office excepted—in which there is such extra orance, and mismanage- e in great itical purposes, to swam| Wagance, ign abuses, involving all belonging to it, from the first lord to the lowest clerk of that establishment, Oh! reform it altogether. The canny Glasgow le have been giving a the abolitionist pro- phetess, Mrs. Stow and her party, at their rat City Hall; and i’ faith the lady scems , uO means adveree to these public exhibitions. ertainly she has not spoken herself as yet; but she bas @ husband and a brother, whom abe has trained to be pretty effective’ mouth- [ate ond if thorough-paced abase and unscrapu- lous arsertions will serve their cause they seem to have enongh and to spare at their command. In another week, however, we shall have to record her doings with the benevolent ladies of Stafford House, and her sundry appearances oh the platform of Exe- ter Hall, and we shall then be ablo to ascertain from personal observation whether, whatever her cause, she bas any true metal in her. She has taken a bold step, and though the crowd may for a time be blind- ed by the popularity of her Wook, she must expect hard rubs trom some who will think for themselves, have had the means of ascertaining the real fac’ and will unmask the deceptions and exagge tions which have been practised for party pv | ao on the subject of slavery. She comes as # lion— jet her beware of the ass in the lion's skin! Republicanism and Bowrbonism alike suffer from the persecuting spirit of Napoleon, whe grants no quarter to any who are not precisely of his way of thinking. Thue we find that his worthy minister, M. de Maupnas, has sent four commissioners and twelve hundred Pad agents into the provinces, for the purpose of putting down all latent Beurbon- ism, whether of the vee or the younger branch; and » the repnblican party, i Paris and the provinces, aro Tail bette eet in tioua writings and proclamations. the uneasiness of the Em distrust either of the mej the people i All thia showa ror's mind, and his entire its of his own cause or of whom ke has taken on himself to rule ; pot lens ects and gagaia i mouth of public Opinion ie gain popularity party by the, mirerable expedient of sananine granted from time to time to pegnie of little note mong the multitudes proscribed by hi hi cession to power? The "Moniteur, indoed, tella ce that the 197 prisoners relieved comprise several notaries, lawyers, physicians and teachers, butit cag not’ it out one} who, like Cavaignac, or others we might name, has earned a title to be called a det @ admission of @ Romish hierarchy into Hol- land, with the consent of the roverument, is not only causing great atic excitement, but stormy debates in the Chambers or the States- General, many of the members in which have per questions to the government which they find it very difficult to answer, though they main- tain that although they have consented to the appointments of the bishops made by the Pope, yet | they have given those bishops no power that will ‘in- terfere with the great constitutional principle that every religious community shall regulateas it pleases | its own internal affairs. We apprehend, bewerey, that giving permission to the Pope,as a foreign power, to introdace his emissaries in an official capa- city, will by most persons be construed to mean something very like the permissive intrusion of Popish doctrines into a country whose spirit and people are thoroughly Protestant—in other words, what they call non-interference is allowing an in- terference of the very worst character. Radetzky and his satellites in Austrian Italy fon contianing their -iron sway in Un mane territory, and carrying on a system of espionage that entirely prostrates all arnt at the cae sion of opinion. Every Italian’s mouth is gagged, and even his personal liberty not safe ; while in the prisons the ‘unhappy victims are put to torture to make them speak, whether or not they have ought to divulge. Itis very difficult to get any information, s0 close are the age po- lice in their movements ; but there is no doubt that the direst cruelties are daily inflicted, and most needlessly, for the purpose of ag tae vanquish- ing the people’s spirit and making them subservient tothe Austrian sway. Radetzky delights in blood- shed and barbarity as much as ever Haynau did ; nor would it surprise us if, in Napoleon’s fashion, he were to hatch up a few conspiracies for the pur- oe of getting vietims on whom to glut{his butcher- like propensi| ies. Faugh—the very subject is loath- some! At the Royal Italian Opera the immortal Julia Grisi last night made her renirée as the Priestess Norma. For the first time the house was crowded to excess. The appearance of Grisi,with the vervain wreath and golden sickle, was the signal for a heartfelt burst of SEpause of at least five minutes duration. She was looking well, beautiful, though somewhat thinner than last season. She is and has been for twenty ears past the only Norma. Her reception was en- thuslactio throughout. Tamberlik was the Pollio, and Herr Formes, the giant basso, Oroveso. A ballet followed, which barely escaped condemnation. The services of the celebrated Madamoiselle Doria are, it is eaid, secured for a limited number of nights by the | management of this theatre. The haditucs have | great cause of congratulation. The opening of Her Majesty's Theatre now appears beyond a doubt. Lords Clanricarde and Warde, | backed up by the subscribers, have advanced the ne- | cessary funds to Mr. Nugent, who is named director. | The engagements include Lablaehe avd son, Madam- | } oiselle Lablache, who some months since made a suc: | cessful débit at St.Petersburg, MesdamesViardot G: cia, Cruyelli, Persiani, and Augri, Signors Cabrolari, | Tamburini, Gardoni, Beletti, amd Massol. The “Pro- | phete” will be the first opera produced. The ballet is articularly strong, including Cerito, Plunket, Car- lotta Grisi, and a host of deservedly popular artists. It is expected that that universal favorite, Mr. Alfred Wigan, will turn his lesseeship of the Royal Olympic | theatre to a favorable account. Mr. Borcicault is en- ‘aged to write two dramas, and Miss Wyndham and ir. Samuel Emery are already secured. Mr. and Mrs. Wigan form a host in themselves. Macbeth travestie, at the Strand, is a trump card for Mr. Allcott. The house is nightly crowded to suffocation. A farce, with the singular title of “ A. S. 8.,"_is underlined for Saturday, at the Lyecum. Mr. Charles Mathews enacts the principal character. Misses Robertson and een take their joint benefit at this theatre on Wednesday, when two new pieces are to be produced. M. Joilien has retarned from Brussel, having suc- ceeded in securing the services of the celebrated ophicleide player. Faithfully, Don Cassar. Our Paris Correspondence. POLITICAL. ‘ Parts, April 21, 1853. The Emperor's Birthday—His Health and Powers of Endurance—Movements at Court—The Repub- lican Democracy—Arrests—Another Refugee to London—Termination of the Newspaper Law- suits—The Budget Voted—Napoleon’s Tomb— Installation of a Cardinal—A Socialist Funeral —Republican Prospects—Foreign Politics in Parts—American Offcials—Ships, §c. The Emperor of France entered yesterday into his forty-sixth year, for he was born on the 20th of April, 1808, in the same palace of the Tuileries where he now resides. The anniversary of his birthday was celebrated by a grand dinner, to which seventy per- sons were invited. This festival was also a sort of congratulation day for the recovery of Louis Napo leon, who had been quite sick, as I reported in my last letter, owing not only to an ereption of biles, but also to an attack of albwmineria, to which he has been quite subject for the last seven years. Two of the biles, which were enormous, were so painful that a surgeon was called to cut them open. The same sergeon, Dr. Tobert de Lambualle, thought it prudent to perform a slight operation of lythotritie on the Emperor, by which, it appears, he was totally re- lieved. Louis Napoleon supported the painful opera- tions with the utmost energy, and the muscles of his face were not even moved by the pain. As an example of the courage of the Emperor daring pain- ful operations, I was told by one of my friends, who is an attaché to the Court of the Tuileries, that during the journey of Louis Napoleon in the south of France, in September last, the Chief of the State, ar- riving at St. Etienne, was suddenly attacked by neuralgia, to which he is subject. The only remedy which he uses for his relief is an immediate ap- plication of blisters, The attack began at half- past one o'clock in the night, and having rang the bell to call his servant, he immediately sent him to an apothecary’s shop toprocured the wanted reme- dy. During his absence, which lasted half an hour, *Lonis Napoleon took a candle and applied its burn- ing wick to one of his legs, with the idea of making an immediate blister, when his valet arrived with the cantharides and pomatum. There was a large wound, upon which Louis Napoleon placed the round blister, and on the next day, though he had much pain while walking, he boldly proceeded through the whole ceremony of presentation and official pageant. ‘The Emperor, as I have said above, is now fully re- covered from his last indisposition. On Saturday last he began to go out of the Palace of the Tuileries and to promenade in the gardens in company with his generals and ministers. Sunday last he went through the ceremony of receiving the Archbishop, Cardinal Morlot, with much courage and imperturbility, and since that time he has been out in hia carriage in company the Empress. They have also both visited the grand opera and the French comedy. The intentions of Louis Napoleon are to spend the month of May in the country. It had first been said that the fmperial court would go to St. Cloud but this project has been left adide, and Fontainbleau has been selected to be the spring residence of the Emperor and Empress. A series of fetes, in the grandest style, will take place at Fontainbleau, to which the dignitaries of the empire—the distinguish ed diplomats ‘and foreigners, will be invited each in their turn. Another member of the Bonaparte family, Princess Charlotte Bonaparte, Countess Primalis, arrived terday in Paris, where she comes to be initiated into the amusements and dignities of the Bonaparte fa- mily. Countess Primalis is the third daughter of Prince Charles Bonaparte. On Tharsday last, whilst I was writing my letters to the Herat, a silent meeting of 1,500 workmen was taking place at Pasay. These owvrters had as- sembled to proceed to the funcral of one of their comrades, named Lebon, who was a republican. They took his remains to the Montmartre Cemetery, ond there, despite the presence of policemen, five democratic speeches were delivered over the grave of Lebon. After the ceremony more than sixty of the assistants were arrested and taken to the Pretec- ture of Police. On the next day, another great num- ber of people were also arrested near the barrier of Vontainbleau, in the Faubourg St. Jaque, and the | motives ot theee inearcerations was attributed to the discoveryfof a socislist plot, instigated by the refi geea of London. It was even asserted in certain quarters that Louis Blanc and Felix Pyat had been seen on Sunday last in Paris; the police went im- mediatelty to their search, but till now they have not yet been arrested. No doabt that in case these conspirators have come to Paris they had means to escape the discovery of their asylums. Speaking of conspiracy, it is said in the newspa- pers of the Imperial government that the District Attorney of Marseilles intends Pai gi farther into the lawsuit relative to the io which was iscovered last at Marseilles, ing the fnge of Louis Napoleon, on his visit to that city. The “would-be” author of the ry or who was eaid to have sought for s refage at is now in 4 @ matter of course, this interest, and afford Ey have much _It is a positive fact that the public treasury is nearly | will remain under the monument of to the French public, who have had enough of these plots, conspiracies, and wes affkirs. te ‘The lay directed C correspondent residing in Paris, who been accused of pot 6 against the Imperial government, was ended on Fri- day last, in the following manner:— Messrs. Vallié and Regis de Chantel were set free; Messrs. Alfred de Coétloyon and Auberton, (both absent | from France,) were sentenced to one year imprison- | ment and 1,0@ francs fine; M. Anatole de Coét- loyon to six months of prison, and a fine of 200 francs; Messrs. Virmaitre and de Planhol to a flae of 100 francs and three months of prison; Mr. Charles | Flanden to one month of prison and a fine of 100 | francs; Messrs. de Rovigo and Lapierre, each to one | month of prison and q fine of 100 francs, wader the | accusation of having used ill language towards | Louis Napoleon and the Empress, and of having in their possession weapons and arms of war. This arbitrary sentence has been much blamed in Paris, and I am told thatthe gentlemea upon whom it had been pronounced, have signed an appeal to have | it revised 4 another jury. Another list of 157 persons who were under the eye of the police since the 2d of December, after the coup d'état, has been published in the Monitewr, and they have been amnestiés. Among then | will articularly mention Dr. Yvan, ex-representative of the National snenbiy, who had won a great repu- tation, not only as a doctor, but also as a politician. ‘The legizlative body has voted unanimously the law relative to the entire settlement of the budget for 1850 and 1851. It Spuears that there is a deticit of one hundred seventy-six million two hundred seventy-three francs for these two years, which, added to the preeent low condition of our finances, will indebt the country in the most horrible manner. empty; and, despite the care taken by the govera- ment to prevent the universal propagation of this news, it is a well known fact that many of the ublic works thave already been stopped owing to ie want of funds to pay the workmen. Besides this, the chief of the government is daily receiving letters from all classes requesting from him offices, situations, money, &c., &c. Louis Napoleon haz, till now, replied in the affirmative to all these demands, | with the desire to augment the number of his parti- | zans, but he has also emptied the treasury so much | that his twenty-four millions are already gone. What next? The ceremony of the inauguration of Napoleon's urave and raausolemn in the Church of the invalids | is decidedly postponed to another occasion. It had | heen whispered, within a few weeks, that Louis | Napoleon had manifested his intention to have the | remains of his uncle trausported to St. Denis, among the bedics of the kings of the French nation. Such is not the case. I know it, asa positive fact, that the coffin brought back to France St. Helena Visconti, and be inaugurated as soon as the building of marble and bronzework can be com The heart and entrails of Napoleon, w! placed aside, in a leaden box, when bh ly embalmed, will be brought to St. Denis, aud a mo ment will be erected there to commemorate name of the hero. A great ceremony took place on Sunday last at the Tuileries just after the mass. Monseignor Morivt, Archbishop of Tours, a relation to, Messrs. Morlot, who are importers in New York and in Paris, re- ived from the hands of Louis Napoleon the red chapeau of cardinal. The new pontiiex member of the conclave delivered in the Latin language a speech | to the emperor, who replied to him in the french dialect an answer short and good. All the distin- | guished members of the Catholic clergy were present in their ceremony costumes, and the sight of that crowd of chasubles of all gaudy colors, spotted with gold, and silver embroidery, offered a superb coup | dai, | Rossini, the renowned author of so many illustri- ous operas, has just been named Commander of the Order of the Legion of Honor. M. Pousard, a French poet, author’ of ‘ Lucrée,” “« Charlotte Corday,” and “ YHonneur et l’Argent,’”’ has also been named Che- valier of the same Order, pleted. We receive from the island of Jersey, where many | socialists and demagogues of the last revolation in | France are actually residing, the horrible intelli- gence relative to a burial of one of those insane in- dividuals, named Louis Helin Destaillis, during which his surviving “ brothers” exhibited the folly and shame of their principles. They not only com- elled the minister of the Uatholic religion to super- ited the funeral, but they accompanied the coffin to the cemetery, preceded by the red flag with black crape. The was thrown down the gravo and covered with e the cry of “Vive la republique wnverselle, democra- tique ct sociale.” Several speeches of the most violent | kind were also delivered, and the language used was so incendiary and blasphemous, that Messieurs Vic- tor Hugo and Pierre Leroux, whose intention was to deliver a speech, retired disgusted and in silence. Asit may be seen, these demagoguic and auti-social | exhibitions are always turning agaiust their authors; and I think it is opportune to mention here that the | moderate republicanism is daily progressing in France, aad making numerous proselytes. Cavaignac, Lamartine, Crémieux, Marie, and tbose other wise | membérs of the Provisional government, are again considered as the real and genuine leaders of pro- 188 1 ae in France in favor of a republic be sure that the model of the United States will be followed in all respects, and with all respect due to their wise and liberal institutions. + The Marquis of Valdegamas, Ambassador of Spain to Paris, is quite sick in his hotel. Though this ih rea gentleman is suffering much, [ um told | that his life is not in danger. We receive from Madrid a budget of news which is of the most serious order. It appears that the revo- lutionary principles are quite in vogue in the Penin- sula, and they may be compared to a volcano, on the eve of bursting. The minister, headed by General Roncali, Count of Adcoy, sent their resigna- tions to the Queen, which were immediately accepted. General Lersuggi was then commni-sioued to form a new cabinet, #d having succeeded in filling the different offices, he immediately began writing a list of proscription, at the head of which he placed the following persons:—Generals O'Donnell, Serrano, Manzano, Kos de Olanno, Concha, Duero and Prim, Count of Reuss. These gentlemen, all senators, fearing for their heads, succeeded in making their escape, and arrived at the frontiers of France on Sun- day Will the new ministry quiet the excitement of the country and establish peace in Spain? No | one cam tell as yet. More anon. In Germany everything seems to be quiet for the present. ‘Chere is only a curious fact to be men- tioned, which is relative to Bavaria. {t appears that in that kingdom the hatters have made a peed to the Municipal Council of the city of Munich, to know what form they would be allowed to give to the hats to be sold to the public. The recent seizures which have been made of their hats @ la Kossuth, or of the ey style, have placed them in the utmost lexity. Asl Pported A my last letter, the French fleet was at Salamis, where it arrived on the 4th of April. The appearanee of the French squadron in the Ar chipelago has produced the best effect upon the population of that country, which is quite sympa- thetie to the French people. From a paper published in Greece, it appears that the Emperors of Russia and Austria have lately dis- cussed among themselves the pretended rights they assume they have over Greece. ‘I'he last Emperor of Constantinople, Constantine IX. , Paleologne, killed by the Turks on the walls of Byzautium, in 1443, who died without leaving children, had a brother, Thomas Paleologne, who escaped and took refuge in Rome. This prince, direct heir of the Emperor, died in the pontifical city, le four children—Helena, Zoe, Andrea, and Manuel. Manuel returned in secret to Constantinople, and died there. Andrea remained at Rome, and ended his lite in 1502, He bequeathed to King Ferdinand and Queen Isubella the Peloponesus and the Byzantine [im- { ‘The daughter of Ferdinand and Isabelia, | ire. jeanne, married the Arehduke Philip of Austrit and gave birth to Charles V. ef Spain, founder of the Spanish family of Hapsburg aud of Ferdiwand 1, Emperor of Germany, whose relations have reigned since then till now. Such are the titles of the family of Hapsburg-Lorraine to the Byzantine dominions. Russian pretences date from Zoe Paleo- logina, second sister of Manvel and Andrea, daugh- ter of Thomas Gy yg eee mother to Constan- | tine the JX., last iperor above mentioned. ‘This princess maitied Yvan I., great sovereign of Moseow, in 1472. The dson of Yvan 1. was Yvan, named the Terrible, who married Anasiatia Remanowna, sister to the grandfather of Michel Romanoft, chief of the Romanoff fumily of the Rurik branch, now represented by the Czar, Nicho- Ins I, Such are the claims of the two Emperors over the LY oe dominions, Who will be the last conquerors At Constantinople the arrival of Lord Redelif, the British Ambsssador, has created much“excite- ment in the city. This diploraat was received with great honors. ‘Che demand ef Prince Menschikoff is beiter understood now than it was before. it ap- cars that Russia would desire to sign a treaty of of- Sastre eat ceanae VA od pen ae the treaty which was signed in 1798, when a Russian fleet, ander the command of Admiral Oushakotf, passed through the Dardanelles to go to the rescue of Egypt, then attacked by General Bonaparte and the Kiench army. It appears that the new treaty was on the eve of being signed, when the news of the arrival of the French fleet at Salamis arrived at Constantinople, and changed the plan of the Minister of Abd al Medjid. M. de Lacour, the French Ambassador, is now ved at Constantinople. The late news, received by a telegraph despatch, is of a eculiar order. It is said that a sort of riot had aken place at Constantinople, made up by a few fanatic Turks, which had soon been oe down. At Boussa the Christians had been attacked and badly treated. We have no particulars. | In the meantime we receive the intelligence that armaments have been Es wny Ma! d, nothe despatch received from thas tanomneen aad ee Noracanett of Picknomt , while the assistants uttered | Europe; and ifever the wheels of fortune | had requested the House to grant a credit of 400,000 francs, to assist the emigres whose proper- ties had been seized in their country. Madame de Cormenin, wife of the Councillor of State, whose nick-name of Timon is so well known in France, died on Friday last, and was buried with great honors. Mr. Cass, minister of the United States at Rome, arrived at Genoa, on his way to Marseilles, Paris, and home. The United States frigate San Jacinto was last week in the port of Marseilles for repaira to her ma- chinery. The Catholic missionaries were on board, and were soon welcomed by a few Irishmen, who ap- peared to be quite glad to see one of their priests. But the captain, seeing that the missionaries had some influence on board, refused to let them have access among his crew. Nevertheless, two of his officers, whose names I cannot unveil for the present, took the decision to become Catholics, and after a short time spent at theeetechism of the church, they fey wi nae Protestant religion for that of the Ro- man iaith, GOSSIP OF PARIS Paris, April 21, 1853. Grand “Moving” Day in Paris—A Frenchman's First of May—The Annual Exhibition of Painting—American Artists—The Weather and Spring Sports—Oficial Balls and Rewnions— Dhe Fashionable Soeiety of America Abroad— Another Statue of Napoleon—Contributions to our Crystal Palace—Important Invention—Re- lics—Trade—Theatricals—Emigration, §c., §c. We had a great sight on Friday last in our large and populous city. Never for a long time was such a movement witnessed in the streets and boule- vards of Paris, It was the grand ‘Moving Day’— the New York Ist ofjMay of the French capital—and this year, owing to the increase of the “renting houses,” the moving movement was a hundred times more extraordinary than before. Never, I dare say. had such @ quantity of furniture been promenaded from one end of Paris to the other. The atmosphere ‘was filied with a disagreeable smell, the ways were dotted with little pieces of furniture lost by the un dertakers of moving, the sidewalks were crowded with beds, mattresses, chairs, armchairs, and every kind of furnitare—in short, Paris appeared to my eyes as a city taken by storm and filled with plun- derers. It was really a curious sight for a foreigner; and as I was promenading with an American gentie- mau we had many occasions to observe, which were | quite awusing. On the same day, the exhibition of paintings, which takes place this year at the Palace of Menus Plaisirs, was to close the reception of the | Works of all the artists, and many connoisseurs were scen coming from all directions and directing their steps towards the Menus Plaisirs, carrying on their shoulders the pictures which are to be exhibited this year. Iam told that we shall have a magnificent dis- play of chef d’cuvres of ail sizes and subjects. Se- veral American painters have sent their works to the gallery, and I will take great pleasure in noticing them as soon as I shall have the opportunity to do so, ‘The spring season is decidedly coming—the wea- ther is clearing up, the atmosphere is warmer than two wecks ago, and though it is to-day raining in torrents, Lam induced to believe that “spring bas come again.” The trees in the Tuileries garden are blossoming, and the ficwers are blooming out. Moreover, the spring races of the turfat Lamarche | are takivg place every Sunday, and these fashiona- | ble amusemeuts must attract by all means. On Sunday last the lower part of this splendid rac: ing ground was covered with amateurs of all | Tauks of society. The most nificent carriages, | drawn by full blood horses, and filled with the female | aristocracy of Paris, had invaded the two sides of the | turf. The tribunes and stands were as variegated as | a garden filled with radiant flowers, and the jockey club en masse had emigrated thither. The sport was really admirable. The first stake of 300 francs, which wos to he run for by seven horses, for a distance of 5,500 metres, with twenty-four barriers to leap over, was won by Quickstep, a superb horse, whose ele- | gant form, stug-like feet, and fine neck, were much admired. ‘The second; part of the chase was called | Prix de Consolation, and was run for 5,500 franca. There were eiguteen leaps to be made, and the vic- tor of the race was the horse called Bedfort. On | Sunday next the races of the Champ de Mara, the moet favored of the Parisian population, will begin, | and no doubt they will afford much pleasure to the amateurs of the turf. The prevalence of rainy wea ther is decidedly increasing in France, and we ar | row nothing interior to our neighbors of England i that line. ‘The Lamarche races, as I was told by | gentleman who goes every year to England, were a | splendid as those of Epsom. | _ The dancing parties, of course, are breathing their | jast. ‘The most magnificent to be mentioned, among | thore given in the official circies, is the ball of th | Minister of Poliee, M. de Maupas, which took plac: | on Thursday last, the 14ti inst., at his hotel, rue de | Varennes. “The splendid apartments of the ministe. | bad been enlarged by an additional apartment, built on the garden of the hotel, whieh had been trans- formed into a splendid houge, on the same style as that of the ball of the Legislative corps. The { following members of the imperial family were pre- ' sent:—Princes Napoleon Bonaparte, Louis Lucien | Bonaparte, end Princess Mathilde, as also the Prince of Hesse and the Duke of Brunswick, the two | lions of Paris during the last wimter. The distin- | guished literary geuttemen of France, Messra. Scribe, ; Bousard, Angier, Mery, Goslan, Ste. Beuve, &c., | were algo invited, and many distinguished foreigners | besides. Btrauss, the renowned orchestra leader, | was on the spot, with his magic musieal wand and | excellent band. The sotrée of M.de Maupas was superb, and wiillong be remembered by those who | had the lucky chance to be invited. M. Troplong, President ot the Senate, also gave, | Jast night, a grand ball, at which more than 3,000 persons were P pepeie No incident of a peculiar sort and worth noticing took place at the Luxumbourg. Mrs. Ridgeway, the elegant Ameriean belle of Paris, opened, ou Monday last, her parlor and suit of reoms, in the rue de Varennes, and gave a splendid “soirée dansanic.” No doubt there were present a great number of fashionable people. Mrs. Monroe gave also a party ei which had the same elegance and cciat as of the Phikdelphia beauty, bat among the five hundred guests present there were only sixty Americans. The empress has given special orders to have a grand ball ready at the Tuileries by the end of next week. It will be the last of the season, and the splendor and paseautry of the fete will eclipse all preceding balls given by Louis Napoleon and his wife. ‘The scandal occasioned in Paris among the Amer- icans living here, by the elopement of Miss * * * * will soon be appeased by the marriage of the young | lady with her pale lover. This person had for a long time retused to the lady if the unfor- | tunate father did not consent to give a sum of $100,- | 000 to his child, but after many negociations the whole affair was to be settled yesterday. In the | United States the father or the brother of the young | lady would have blown out the brains of the seducer, | but here in France the Jaws are not the same, and ' people must bear their trouble with much more | patience. | a A sum of 80,000 francs has been voted for th immediate on in Gt neuen o ar Crystal Palace, in the am) es, of an immens bronze rtatue of ‘Napuleon. The artist who will make it is not yet named. M. Fould, the Minister of State, exhibited on Fri- day and Saturday, in his apartments at the Tuileries, a superb collection of Sevres china, which is to be sent, part to the grand exhibition at Dublin, and part to the Crystal Palace of New York. Ther: were alec several magnificent tapestries, of the mana facture of Beauvais and Gobelins, representing fruits and flowers and pictures, which excited univer sal admiration, I the extreme pleasure of beii chit ee Gok ayes ea a - Jeasure in anticipating for my readers the tay a have te ace ‘at the display of these nimitable works of art On Saturday afternoon, M. Simon Sicard, the in- ventor of n process with which a man can visit the bottom of rivers aud lakes with ns much case as if he was walking in Broadway with his cane and hat, ve an exbibition of bis discovery at the islandof the wana, below Paris. M. de Grandchamp, covered with a dress of india rubber, and the head adorned with a helmet of a certain peculiar form, with two large glasses before the eyes, and a lantern, in which bad been placed a light made with a certain pre ration, went down to the bottom of the river, at five different times, and brought back several parts of an old bark, which had sunk in the Seine five hh ago. 1 am told by several savants who are much interested in the discovery of the process for subterranean ex. ploration that till now M. Sicard has wou the palm. At Vendhnice, in the department of Asine,an agri- cultnrist, in digging his ground, lias made the extra- ordinary dikcovery of tecth weighing three, four, and five ponds. There was also a gigantic tooth weighs ing nine pounds, These specimens of the ancient cateology me har sent to the museum of Paris What can they be The trade of coal in France amounts to seventy- five million of quintals, (Freneh tons,) and the pro- duce of the French mines only amounts to forty-five millions. The English and Bel coal is tauch need in Paris. But I think that the anthracite coal, which is totally unknown in France, would be much esteemed here. Why not the coal dealers of Ameri- ca try the experiment? Qut n'essaye rien n'obliewt war. be dear next summer, owin; to a Rita winter whe we have had here_and L do not know as yet that our American ice trader ® have tried to import their frozen merchandise in any ur Three hundred and fifty Germans through Paris on thelr” wa) rp rey Argo Died Bates: They were al healthy and fine look ez people. ‘the ¢ catricals of this week are not very im) tan. Atthe Grand Opera, Mde. Fanny Cerito pee in the splendid Icel let of Orta,” and was rewarded with mnch applause and splendid bouquets. She is decidedly the bast danseuse of Europe and the world. At the Theatre Francais, M. Samson, one of the excellent comedians of the French stage, took his benetit on Friday last, and matie by the bargain a clear profit of 20,000 franca. Dille. Plesay Arnoult, who was formerly attached to the Comedie Fran- cais during the time of Louis Philippe, and fled to St. Petersburg, reappeared for that occasion at the Salle Richelieu, aud was received with seating euthusiaem. he was considered more beaa her best days. Mlle, Rachel rerforted Atdremnaque er best days. e. Rachel perfc with her usual magnificent talent. The boxes and stalls of the theatre offered quite a brilliaat coup del. The boxes were filled with all thp aristoera- cy of Paris. B. H. R. AMERICANS AT PARIS. Edward Bowers. Faltimore. &. C. Masset, San b> 8. E. Burrali, Jr., N. ¥. ‘A. Leggett, New York. F. A. Burra do. J lomty, 40. 1 et G. A. Seon do. , J. Prumb. do. D. P. Kidder, New York. D. Chadwick do. ©. ¥. White, do. P. 8 Kintwer, Kentu: HL B. Wateon, frigate Oam- G. Gerard, Philadelph: ‘Derlaod. J. Van Arsdale, New Yerk. J. Thompson, New York. W. B. Jobuston, Georgia. M, Kearney, R. Stebbins, Massachusetts The New Territory of W: ing ecw relating to It. [Yrom the Wethiogton Republic, May 7. ‘The Sage eey of Warhington has been of the northern portion of Oregon, It lies prit between the 46th and 49th degrees of north latitude, and the 11th and 125th of longitude, weet from Greenwieh. It eatends from the Rocky mountains to the Paside, and inoludes the waters of Puget Sound, equal‘ia the fi cence of its acenery aed in its secure and _ bors to the waters of San Francisco bay. neouver’s Island aud the Gulf of Georgia indent its merthwestere xtremity. Itis on the same parallel with Ganade em he east, but poreesres a milder climate. 01 its physical characteristics we have much to learn. than been penetrated and oocupied by persons of vari- ous purruits, but they have ip gener: a e the rafer and more frequented channels of travel and of abode, xnd the haunts of the red man are im many parts comparatively undisturbed. Tt has become nece:snry, however, for eur people te enter upon the full possession of this territory, and to this end Congress hss provided fer its ctvil territerial goveroment Colone} John P. Andersou, the United States Marshal, bas already departed for the theatre of his future duties, and will at once proceed to take the census, preperatory to the organization of the pres: ment. In there labors he wi soon be jetmed the Governor Major isaac L Stevens, late of the United States army, aod by the Secretary of the Territory, Golo- nel Robert Farqubarson. Although other and exesed- ingly important 4 ities have been committed te Geverner Stevens, there will iu copsequence thereof be no delay in the con-ummation of this purpose. The presise bhound- aries of the territory will be established, the distrieta formed, and ihe Legirlature elected and convened. ‘the seat of the government has of course mot yet been designated, nor are we aware that Gevernor Stevens has expressed any preference ov this subject; but it is tht opinion of many of the best informed per: whed vlows we have been enatiled to certain, that Glyaapin ‘a town at the mouth of the Tenulquets er Shute’s rit whieh flows into the doutheyn extremity of Puget in the forty eighth degree of latitude, will prove the med eligible poiut, But the general Uap inate has wisely enteusted Governor Steycus the discharge of other and highly int rtant functions also. By a recent act of th ‘ar Department was authorized to survey the sewral proposed routes of a railroad frem the Misaisalpp! river to the Pacific ocean: and, in pursuance of thia autherity, the Secretary of War has placed under the charge Governor Stevens the exploration and survey of a route from ihe sources of the Mississippi to Paget. 3 ‘Lhe first thing to be arcertained in the survey of this route, is the practicability of the undertaking ; and we are well ascured that this will be determined by —— = eense sponsibility rest n them. crs tbat way be involved. iv the discussion of the merits of the several proposed routes, it ie know nothing. Their labors will relate only to upon whish they are to be and theirreperts will be of those things alone that are sought for by the de- partment under which they are to act. ‘The officers of the army sppointed to assist Governor Drover Gayiain Geerge'B, MeCellua,‘uagoed to dehy ae! Brevet in George B. arty nty ac- ht t Johnson K, cording to his brevet rack, Second Lientenan’ Duncan, third artillery; Second Lieutenant Rufus Saxton, Jr., fourth artillery; ad Lieutenant Cuvier Grover, fourth artillery; Seeond Lieutenamt A. J. corps of engineers; Brevet Second Lieutenant Jobn Mullsa, Jr., firet rulers; DociorsSuckley and Cooper, surgeons and Baturaliste. ‘The eeientifie corps will aoa wes sows twelve or rage teen persons. We may name Jol aan the expedition; J. Mw Svauley, Eaq., artist; G. W. Stevens, and A. Remenyi, Ksqrs., avtropomers; A. W. Tenkham and F, W, asta Esqrs., Civil and John Lam- bert, draughtsman. The escort consists of ten non-commissioned officers, artiticers and iyi of the engineer company, under the command of Lieutezant Donelson; one two corporals, one tmusisinn and sixteen privates company D, first cragoons, under the command of Captain Japtain McClelland will depart from Puget Sound for the ae of exploring the Cascade range, with two officers turoished him by the Brigadier General in command en the Pacific, and thirty men, and eastward. A portion of the main party a SJeutenant Donelson will leave St. Louis in a steamer about the 15th iast., and a+cend the Missouri river to Fort Union, at the of the Yellowstone, the place of rendezvous en the i where they will be joined by the remainder of the party, under the immediate command of Governor Stevens. wilt embrace the prominent features of the eountry, the mountain ranges and passes, the windings of rivers and rtreams and their dividing. ridges, the prairies everything necessary for the construction of amap ef the country. This wili comprehend the importeat points of the Missouri and Columbia rivers, the débouches of the preses of the Cascade and Rocky mountain ranges, the fixing of the latitude and longitude of all im points, aud all the facts bearing upom the eonstruetion of the road, including the natural facilities for portation of iron, euprlias, ke, required crossing rivers the height of the banks will be neted. the depth of the water, the out highest word ¢ nature of the bottom on which abutments ' must rest, the width between the banks, and all tion leading to correct estimates of the means carrying a road over the stream. k i Rocky mountains, shail be thoroughly examined and a practicalavanue die- covered. Itin proposed to construet a general map from the head waters of the Mi-sissippi river to the Pacitlo cvsan, a mep of Washington Me ied aud thence eastward te head waters of the Mississippi; maps of the Qaseade range, Reeky mountains, and other critieal pointe of the route and of the ountain Asit will be necescary te determine the of the adjacent country to supply materials for the of the road, and of the Celumb‘a amd Missoori rivers their tributaries to trai them, attention will b given to the geography termediate region; to the seasoms and the freshets; to the a continuanes of if rains and snows, erpecially in mountain 5 its geology in arid regions, keeping {n view the of water to the surface by means of artesian wells; the Leth satura] history, andagricultural and minera, reources; 5 i 3 z z a por! corps as will not be needed in the operations toward the Pacific will be despatched homeward order to objain atill further of the country; and it is hoped that » aks preparation and oyu ot "tain expedition ba © preparation an pment ve ‘been well considered, and every man, from to the irae [range Be ae fee enoe to bis peculiar fitness for luty sesigmed The most effective means have one | ma conciliate apd secure the good will tribes inhabiting the regions to be tra demopstration of an oppesite feeling, welll Prepared. The Hudson’s Bay bio has manifested s laudable dispenition to render eve: id im ite power the operations of the expedition, amd the posts, and the friendly offices of ita agents may be ed upon ‘Thongh rome of the Indian tribes of this territory reputed to bs ferocious and it in character, are generally superior to those of their race with whom we are betier acquainted. in industry, thrift, and intel- ligence, they far excel the eavtera tribes. To set ju: towards them, and to merit their reepect and x will be the policy of Governor Stevens and his eompa- pions; in commendation of whom wo might ey mueb, did we pot know that they possoan the entire of the odministration and of the country. Their duty is one of some peril, by be bop con Abii reat : tions and hardships. Often, we dow ‘apparent im- PS ase will azine before them in such form a would leter fyresolute men from tho consummation of the task aeigned thew. But the reality of euch sppearanecs wil undoubtedly in each instance be fully tested by this chosen band, in whose safoty and welfare, and in the tri- nunph and success of whose enterprise, their whole coun- are § try will feel the deepost interest, A Sramrupm—The ‘Underground Railroad’ would seem to be in excellent order. A conpans, of twenty eight slaves from Kentucky reached hore oa a dey evening last, and were safsly oon 1d to the Canada ff BT and women, none over x for whore recapture, we hear, liberal offers sre preelaim- ed travelled by wagons through Sant Cartatan Herald. Ee ie ine Ce Ps delivered of a Reaithy have to father this obit ‘The Concord, N. H., man, convicted at the oe wan > on ca ‘The Biato will, of eourte,