The New York Herald Newspaper, June 21, 1857, Page 2

2 Agere. As 1 wrote you before, we have quite a oumber ‘of arrateurs on board, but the only performers of an off] cial character with which our sbip bas bees provitedar a Bifer and drummer—very excellent ia their way, [have no doubt but their slections are rather Iimited, and evea a Strong pairiot and undoubted repoblean might be par oped if be got tired of hearing “Yankee Goodie” played for the 6 Victh Hime, and on the same jartrument ‘The armameot«f the Surquebanna ts complete, and is | much beavier than vessels of ber class usuaily carry. Tt consists of fifteen gans, of which three are pivot, weigh: ing 10,400 poonds each, and firiag solid shoi of sixty-five pounds Ip addition to these,she bas twelve eight imch broadside shelt guns, each weighing 6,400 pounds, and | capable of sending & shell of 49% pounds a di tance of two miles, with effec The pivot guns are 10 feet 10 inobes long, and thore on the broadside measure 9 feet each. It is pow decided that our vessel isto be employed in laying the cable after all, as it has been foand on a closer inepection that, without material camage t+ apy part of undance of space can be afforded for the coiling of hundred and Gfy miles of it in a circular form. pace required is pine‘een thoasan 1 cabic feet, instead of twenty four thousand, as was stated in a former loiter, and a mipo nation bas proved tnat there is one thousand more thao i ired. Meantime the manufac ture of the cable at the rate of about Ofiy miles a week in each of the factories, so that the whole will be completed within four weeks, at the very latest’ Av accident occurred a few days since which came near putting @ stop to the eaterorise, for this year St ieast. A are broke ont on Saturday last ia the factory of Messrs. Glass, Riliott & Co., a: Greenwich, where one balf of the cable ts being made; but tt was fertanately ex- tinguished before it reached the princi al buildings and workshops. A fe# sheds were burned dewa and some outhoures destroyed, bat beyond this the damage was no of such a character as to toterfere with the continua ce 0 the work. We are now, it ap wars, to go to Liverpoo and take the portion which is lying in the factory at Bir kenbead, the Suequehanne to accompany us as was origi nally intended In justice to Captain H idson it is proper to mention here that the space which he coal offered is that which has been accepted, and which is Dow considered suificient for the purpose, Thr Agamemnon will therefore, contrary & the etatemenut in the Loudon Times of this morning, come to Greenwich, aad in consequence of an order from the Admiralty, ehe did not start for Liverpool as was an- ticipated She hae been fitted for the reception of tne cable, and is +aid to be admirab! apted for the work in which she is to be engaged. That part of the hold in which the cable is to be eniled is about fifty feet square and fifteen feet p height, which is four feet higher than is considered neceseary—that is when the cable shall have been put on d there wal be about four feet to spare in the height. There one coil, as that, acewdwe to some is considered the safest, and when it comes to be paid out the easiest for the purpose. To prevent the possibility of accident t» the cable in the event of the sbip ing oblige to back, acage had been placed over the propeller _ The evgines, which are further aft than usual are of 800 horse power, and can be worked up, if neces sary, to 2,£00. Tbe better to tt her for the undertaking, ber masts have been taken down an4 their place sapylied by frigate’s, whicb are m rch lighter. Tn regard ‘to the Niagara being unsuited to the work for which she was appointed by our government, it is only nocessary to reiterate what! have already stated, that a minute examination has proved that she it weil adapt «li t> it, and that the cable can be taken on board without dam age to the ship other than it would be impossible to avoid iv apy vessel employed in such a work. The cable will require to be plaxed on our ship in tive separate coils— the first coi! tn the fore hold, the second op the main deck, the third on the after orlop deck, the fourth ine portion of the ward room, and the fifth on che spar deck. To make way for it in the ward room it will be absolutely necessa- Hh to remove several of the officers’ state rooms, and some iterations will be required in the steerage. From this it will be observed that whatever arrangements may have been made to take it im one coil on the Agamemnon, we have con sluded to adopt anther and a safer plan, and it ts doubtful whether the officer in command of that vossel ‘will risk its safety by having such an immense weight ia one portion of iv hold. It is probable since the new arrangement has been made ut we shall start for Liverpool someti: this week Our Landon Correspondence. Lexvow, Jane 5, 1857. A Peep at the Lodon Times Office—The Origin of the Times, its Circulation amd Influence—Printing House Square—Mwbray Morris, Esq.—Details of the Estab- lishment—A Yankee Press in London, de., de, de. Tt seems to be admitted that there is in England an inevitable tendency towards social and politica! institutions similar to those of America, and the newspaper press is the great propelling power. Tae middle and working classes are rising in the scale of general intelligence, while the privileged nobility are losing caste and infueace through the mental effeminacy of the younger members of whew order. At this time the power most felt, most feared and most obeyed in England is the press, at the head of which stands the London Times—an “institution’’ which wields more ia uence over all Europe than any of their crowned heads. ‘The columns of the morning Times furnish topics of con- ‘versation for all society during the day; while all admit tts Information is the earliest, completest and surest, gathered as itis from an army of correspondents scat (ered and stationed throughout the globe. The London 7imes made its first appearance in the year 1788, as successor to the Universal Register, & paper which bad iasued from Printing House square aimost from time immemorial. The 7imes is now in the zenith of its wer and prosperity, the necessary result of Boose qualities whi always secure Dewspa- per success in this as well as in other countries— “unflinching adherence to its object, prodigal totelleciual ability and a towering aasurance, backed by a perfect or ganizati m of its printing establishment, aad ita world wide Betwork of correspondence and reports I lately bad an opportunity of taking a peep into the ‘Times office, and after traversing several narrow, dark al leys, Icame suddenly upon a email court in the centre of “Printing House square,” upon which fro the “Times Builcing’—a plain, unpretending and irregular structure, with a blacceved exterior in perfect keeping with its an: aquiiy. One feels here as if he rbould tread lightly. He is about entering the temple whence issued the mighty power which carried the cause of Queen Caroline Amelia Augusta, of Brunswick, against Goorge IV.; which caused to be adopted the poor law system; which levellet Lord Broaghar:; waged succosstu! war on Ireland; adopted the League against the Corn laws, and “when Gorden hart be: un to despair, aunounced his triamph.' Yes, the fimes fas wriven its own history, recordet its own’ triumphs, ‘and erected & monument #* enduring as time itelf. Tha; wnostentations entrance on tbe right leads to the quiet and pisinly furnished sanctum of Mr. Mowbray Morris, the presiding genias of this wonderful estab lishwp whom 1 found to be an accom plisbed gentleman, of reSned tute and poluhed manners, and resembling a gooi deal in personal Being furnished ting office, througn crossed agin the appearance the Hon. Caleb Cushing. swith tickrte of admission to the py the politeness of sir. Morris, our ps mali court aul entered the venera je from the diazo I corner, where we were taken charge of by “ Mr neon, printer of the Times.’’ who has been oonaected and who made up the ve years lve minutes before 11 with the office for thi ty Ove yearr, paper regularly for upwards of twen We cutercd the off o'clock; and as our tickets bi we were politely shown into ihe refreshment room for five minutes—euch is the exactness with which thing is done. In this room I novice? a large n dusty, black lookiag volumes, which I ascer Parliamentery Gebates, ruoning back through of years. Here the reporters take refreshments daring the siuings of Parliament, as ghey have no opportunity of taking their meals at bome Under the kind gi idance of Mr. Johnson we proceeded Grst the reporters’ room—e long, dark, comfortless looking ball, with » ‘aie running through the centre, surrounded with heavy oaken cb and covered with a profu-ion 0” writing ma‘eriale. From this we passed next toto the Compcitors’ room, where Parliamsotary debates are put in type, and where forty.two compoxitors are employed. Adjoiving ie the editorial, news and advertieement roome, in which eighty eight compo: fitors are constautiy engaged, receiving each forty cents per thousand ems for their labor. Next came the proo’ readers’ room, where eight persons are empioyed exclusively on advertisements, and four principal and sit istant readers on edito-ial and oher matter. These se veral rooms are al! op the eame (second) floor, aod are mall and dark, with low ceilings, aud Cevoid of all the modern couvenienoes which mark our first class printing establishments. Speak to the proprietors and call attentioa to thewe facts, and they will avewer by pointing to the fantiquity of the building. The comporitors engaged on the advertisements are required to pat up aleo the reading matter for the second edition of the morning paper. The Pupplement or advertisement sheet goes to press at six evening previous to its insue. edition of the London Times, numbering rly twenty thourand less than the ew Yors Hrnstp—is printed on six presses—thres ver. ical ones (Applegarth's patent) aod three horisootal. The argent of the vertical presses throws off nine papers at of the main cylinder: the two smaller h. The taree horizontal preses ach. In order to use such « premees the office has tweaty €lectrotyped every morning. has been ordered from the United of York, will soon * of mammoth sire operating in the Times office, ao: \llostrating the saperior! ty of Yankee invention over all c mpetiion. Their presen machinery i driven by two engines of thirteen horse power each, The Times prints its own stamps by & private arrange. mont made with the government, bet to gaartea tha fraud is out of the question. The government oficer who attends each morning votes the number printed by a ma chine romewhat resembling a gas meter, but to which no one bas access but himself. In this machine is also depo gited the die. A dup fcate of the count is aleo kept by the foreman of the press room in a similar machine, Wut under this own lock and and a third copy is kept by one o dhe proprietors of the journal ‘Anew machine for wetting paper, invented and manu factured by Deane, McKay & Co., has jast been put in o on in the Temes office, and is found to work admin: A now press and Hoe & Oo, bly, saving an imum The imue of the pare ning makes a pile Ofiy fee high, Every four days it would make a eolamo as high as the London monument. The entire force employed in the Printing department is three hundred, including reporters nd proof renters The conductors cf the Time are well aware @f the influence of their journal, the tone of which has been the oscasion of comment from the official organs of the continental courts, and even the ground of diplo Matic complaint. What would the Time say is «terror in every capital in Hurope. The editorial staf hast always been made up of able mon, and now it commande ths (best pens in England, but no «riter is suffered to claim the suthorship of any paper; everything gool, from whatever b oye comes out editorially. The paper tninks for whole nation, its columns dagverreotype Gritish ideas md British understanding Bold but com NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, JUNE 21, 1667. siderate, itssails alike the peasant and the prince, and pot unfrequeptly drops a hint to Majesty itself. Such is the Londen 7imes—svob its present power and intlaenee in the Old Worl1—and yet in all that constitutes newspaper enterprise the Ames is far outstripped by the leading journals of our owa country, We boast of pro- gression, the Temes of antiqnity the essential difference ts ove is British, the other American, Laxpon, Jane 6, 1857. Visit of the Grand Duke Oonstantine—The Central American Q. estion —The Niagara and the Electric Oable—The “Order of Valor’ —Musical and Theatrical Matters, dc. ec. There is 0 little news stirring, so little interest mani fested in the goings on of the world around us, that it is almost a waste of time tosend you a letter by this mail. Whitevntide is a festive season with us, when people think more of holiday keeping than attending to business mat- ters of avy kind, Then we have had the races at Epsom, always a great event, and mext week come those at Ascot; 0 that it is somewhat excusable, tf, with bright, beautiful weather to ald us, we ecek those pleasures cockneys usu- ally seek at this period of the year, and let affairs of State avd matters political look after themeclyes for a shor, time. The Queen arrived in London yesterday from Osborne House, Isle of Wight. Her Majesty is very much improved in health and looks herself again, The visit of the Grand Duke Constantine to Osborn: House was a mighty queer affair. His Highness slipped across the Chinnel aud dined with the Queen, Prince Albert, Lord Palmerston, anc Lord Clarendon, ana then was off again, so that, in fact, he never entered Fugland at all. What a difference between this and the fétes in France! However, it is, per- haps, best as it is, for 1 very much doubt if bis reception would have been very enthuviasiic if he had made a pub- ic entrie into London. There is no malice in our hearts owsrds Russia, but, somehow or other, the penpie dislike the nation most cordially. In our boyhood days we remember the feeling Eaglishmen held con- cerning Frenchmen. Taois is wora away, and a Russian is a greater “bogie” than ever was B naparte, who in hit time was emineatly serviceable to Eoglish ma- trons as an instrament where sith to frighten their chil- dren off to sleep The nations are jealous of exch other's power, aod therefore the people are not likely to be very brotherly. The only mutval interest we have is a com- mercia; one, aod this is all we desire With Fraace things are different, and Louis Napoleon is more than suspected Of @ ceep-rooted wish to uniie bimself closely with Russia The news we get from China is by no means satisfac- tory. It appears that the “waiting” aystem ts carried out there, as itis athome. The authorities were ina great burry to commence hostilities upon any pretext, and, like hasty people iv general, they now lind that they have not force enough to carry on the war The consequence is that the Chinese boast among themselves that they have beaten us. There are very few people here who approve of this war. Some tolerate it as pecessar 7 for the protec- tion of our trade; but the majority of the people of Eag- Jand decidedly condemn it. Tae Times informed us some time ago that all great had linle begionings, asd thas justified the immense siaugnter which will ultimately ‘ensve in this Chiveee affair, origipating in the paltry mat ter of the lovcha, the Arrow—a matter now for . The war with Chiua dissolved a@ Parliament, and nearly threw out a popular ministry; bot this was an accidental circnmstance; and although the Premier tried with all bis power to effect such @ purpose, yet the China war failed to juterest even before the caudidates could reach the bustings, and the nation, true to ius liberal tendencies, returned representatives in such large numbers pledge to progress that the ’remicr found his grievance upon which he bad appealed to the county, swamped, and & vew one staring him in the face, before which he, at you now know, succumbed, The diftieuity with Ch na dissolved the Parliament au 1 gave the people an earlier opportanity than they expected of demaading an extensive reform in our representative sys'em; but the people did not permit To return more immediately to my subject. The recent news showing the war to influence their vote in any measure. Us, as tt does, that the haste used in fasteniag a quarrel upon these poor devils was indiscreet, and that our folly rebounds upon ws is mush spoken of an incroases the dis- = freely vented at the commencement of the war. ‘ery few wars have been popular with us—our India wars never. The cai generally understood, and the effects too ‘istant to be gene rally recognized. Our people care little or nothing for the Chinese, but we ure jealous 0” our good name, and do not wish the accusation of tyranviziag over the weak, while we yield with deference to the strong. ‘The authorities have put om the screw to keep down as far as practicavle all ciscussion on the Central American question, and the report is earnestly promulgated that ali will yet be well, and that it was a wise course on the part of Palmerston to deciine the amended treaty. There i¢ some anxiety, however, expressed as to the truth of the statement reed Journal tbat all your foreign represen. talives would be recalled, and that asa uence, Mr. Dalliws would leave the court of 8. James. Tae policy of Mr. Dallas has been « conciliatory one, aud therefore, Pleasing to us; and beyond thi: he is personally a great fa- ‘vorite in Englan’, and naturally so, perhaps, from his con- nections ; there !ore, we shall be sorry to part with a cer- tainty for an cncertainty. Our parliamentary pews will not interest you, the pro- ceedings b ¢ chiefly of a domestic nature. The session will not be a very extended one, and nothing practical seerns likely to come of it. Tho reports current that the electric cable are contradicted, and it now appears this magnificent vessel will take her porion as originally intended, There is an interesting account in the Times of ‘a Viait to the manufactory of Messrs. Elliott & Glass, who f@ to produce a moiety of the wires used. The Niagara is gone to Liverpool to ship her part of the cable from the factory at Birkenhead. Some few years ago the most dificult thing for an English soliier t obtain was a medal. The Waterloo medal wat delayed as long as it coald ‘be delayed; I have myself a medal fora naval action which #hould have been worn by my grandfather, ba ‘was claimed by myself when issued, as his heir. Now i is common to see soldiers walking the streets with four or five cecora’ions, avd I do not know how many clasps. To crown this wonderful revolution her Majesty institu:ed the “Order of Valor.” or the Victoria Cross, and has an- pounced that she will personally decorate the recipients of this bonor publicly, sometime next month A while since, and our visiting frienas bed not to h, ex cepting they Lappened to see regimental colors unfurled; pow attbe present day the Grand Duke Constantine of Reswia was received by a guard of honor of the 034 High- landers, the majority of whom wére decorated witn the Crimean medal. Ail this bears a signidcance. Jullien tells us that this is England’s most remarkable | thurical year, The Handel festival, for which such ex tonsive preparations are made, is no doubt a great event; Dat it must be remembered tbat it is oply announced as a preliminary experiment—e forerunnor of greater things to be done. “Joliien ia determined to run a dead heat with the Crystal Palace, if he cannot beat them; ho bas therefore apnounced a ten daye Musical fongrea#, at tho Neyal Surrey Gardens, to come off mt the samo time ne the Bande! fertive!, and “hopes visiters from the pro- vinces, the continent ‘and the United States, efter visiting the Crystal Palace in the morning” will fied their way to hie festival at night. He is to give a Haydn festival, a Rossini festival, a Verdi festival, a Bee thovea night, a Mozart night, a Mendelssobn night, with an orchestra and a chorus aug a corps of arti+ts of unsurpassed merit. The only fear is that Mons. Juitien will give us “ too much of a goo! thing Her Majerty's theatre, under the direction of Mr. Lomley i this eeason eminentiy successful, reminding us of most palmy days Toe great event of the season is now approaching, namely, the production of II The directory, ip announcing {ts intentions, state? tia): this masterpiece of Mozart's would be produced with uausual # the promise Is to be redeemed: — ¢ MPeccolomini; Donna Anna, Mile. rin, Signor Ginglimi; Leporelio, Signor Bellet ito, Signor Corsi; 1 Commandatore, Sitoor Vialetil. Here is @ cast which may safely be called unproce- dented even th the Italian Opera annals e th opearance of Signor Corsi the other day gare ut“Nipo,” and also another proof of the extraordinary love Eoglieh peopie entertain for Italians in preference to their own artists. Mr Charles Braham, son of the veveren Brabam, has bad much experience, bas stadied in Tialy, and appeared with some success in Italian Opera at bome and abroad. This gentleman also made bis firet Appearance for the reaon in “Nino,” playing the part of Idaepe. {tit a molancholy fact that there was a clique of Englieh in the Youse to “damn” the Eoglish artist. The attempt, 1am happy to say, was unsuccessful, and tended rather to Mr. Braham's benefit than otherwise. Iam no} prepared to eay that Mr. Charles Brabam is a great singer, or that it is absolutely necessary all should admire him; be ie, however, a remarkably chaste singor with consider- able execu tou, an unexceptionable style, though not pos- rersing great power. He is, in a word, a refined, thoagh not a very effective singer—in point’ of mosical taleat superior, but physically inferior to our greatest tenor, tims Reeves; and thie is the man the critics of her Majes- ty’s theatre attempted to pat down. Madame Ristori appears at the Lyceum on Mon lay next. be red in last season, thie A great treat may be anticipated from this per- formance The Adelphi bas anotber new “Adelphi drama,” called “Gerge Darville,”” which is well played and well got up. Mr. Webster and Madame Celeste play the principal parts with that characteristic fidelity which so distinguishes these gifted artists. The piece i# rather fall of ‘the mise- rables,”” but Adelphi audiences carry a plaraiity of pocket handkerchifs, and know full well the melancholy plea sures of weeping over \¢eal woos. The “briny teara’” flow fast every night before the curtain at this favored place of entertainment, moch to the edification and proat tf the ladies and gentlemen behind it. Iebould weary you if I sent you all the doings of the ‘theatrical and masical world. So willsay mo more at pre- sent. Our Paris Correspondence. 4 Pants, May 28, 1857. Phe Elections Struggles of the Demorracy—Marked Slight Offered by Prince Napotem to the Grand Duke Constan tineKeturn of Cunt de Morny to Parit—Eifoct of M. Taurneyeoen's Failure on the French Money Market—The Grand Duke Constantine at NantesmIesson to Bsactitg Landlords, de Tt may be considered a healthfol sign that, despite the fetters which under the Napoleonic constitution enchain the limbs and enslave the apirit of freedom, ghat France should now, on the part of Ler democracy, manifert some desire and determination to use such eeant material ag she does possess for the purpose of improving the Legis- lative Chamber at its firet re election since the great coup @itat of 1851. The Siéele, ina manner which tells of the good old Ganlish 4 pirit which perpetually harrassed Onsar in the midat of his greatest successes, and made him sigh for a “quictiorem galliam,” bas kept up a continual fire of exhortation to the popular ranks to do as much as ciream- stances permit; while the legitimists, true to the genias are often too complicated to be Niagara could not ship the that and become wanierers in strange and inhospitable lands, while the spirit of France was walking like @ super natural thing over the whole face of the globe, ara re solved to neithtr make nor meddle with tha cursed thing which the Corsican descendant has set up on high in the freehold of the Bourbons, That the government is very sure of a powerful, even an overwhelming majority at the elections, no one doubts for an insiaat; but the struggles of democracy within the limits of the law—a pew thing in Fiance—cannot but be a move ment in the right direction, and may one day prove, like Dread thrown upon the waters, a source of increase. The bondage of the press is, of course, the great difficuliy. It is a pity, not only in the interest of the popular cause, but in that of the second empire, that no one of the members of the family of Napoleon should act in such a way as to dis- tract men’s minds from the perpetaal observation of the Imperial autocracy. This is a part frequently played with good effect in monarchical governments by the hetr ap- parent, whose freedom from the more cumbrous appa- pages of state, and from comparative responsibility, natu rally inclines him to greater sympathy with the masses, who, in their turn, will often submit to present ills in the hope of seeing them at some distant day remedied by the heir to the throne. Prinve Napoleon, notwithstanding the birth of the young obild who is beraidea as the fature E:m- peror, migh will perform this office here, and gain great popularny for himself and a promise of stability to the existing dynasty. He was once known as the Prince of he Mountain, and notwithstanding his changed position, might still show, to use @ familiar expreasion, that tne “oid coachman was even yet fond of the erack of the whip,”’ ‘and there is no doubt that his cousin, the Emperor, would derive advantage trom it, for tt b «des no good to his "y to be so continually the solitary star in the political horizon of France, and absorb in his identity Legislative assembly, the Senate, aflairs, the army, the navy, the monarebical syatem--io everything wi concerns the government of the country; for say what one may of the several branches, Napoleon the Third is the ‘be all aud end all’’ in all men’s thoughts, the Alpha and Omega of the system. Prince Napoleon, however, is only known to the French people as a perturbed spirit whose temper renders him utierly unable to use the taients which nature has given him. His impulses, itis suid, aro vicious ant overbearing, and the same spirit which made him the Prince of the Mountain yesterday, would render him a Ti berias to-morrow. He has suddenly returned from a suc cessful mission to Berlin, but the good he may have ef- fected there is qualified by the scandal of his conduct at the reception of the Grand Duke, to whom his departure and return, both timed so exactly with the stay of the Im: perial visiter, is fe to have been a marked spect, if ‘not an insult. Count de Morny is expected to arrive in a few days from St. Petersburg, bringing with him the new treaty of commerce betwern France and Russia. It ts not impossi- biethat the return of the French Ambassador at St. Pe- tersburg may also have something to do with his private affairs as le plus grand specalateur de U Europe, for trutb to say, the failure of M. Thurneyssen to the tune ef some twenty millions of francs, whose near relative was one of the most influential parties in the Credit Mobilier, has had a very damaging cfect, and there is a general gloom ove’ the French money market, which all wise men seem to think forbodes a crash. Itis all very well to talk of the briliiant balo Napoleon the Third invests the throne with—to ea: that within the last three years he has nad visiting hie court the Duke of Cambridge, King Dou Pedro of Port:gal and his brother, the Duke of Oporto, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, with the Princess Royal and the Prince of Wales; Victor Emmanuel, King of Sar- dinia; the Duke ‘of Brabant, eon and heir of the King of the Belgians; the Prince Re- gevt of aden; the Prince Royal of Prussia; the Archduke Maximilian, of Austria; Prince Oscar of Swedea; the Prince of Nassau; Prince Danilo of Montene- gro; the Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, and Kiog Maximilian I, of Bavaria—truty a goodly list of royal -but the time has gone by when mea are caught by notabilities, and the more beautiful tho fabric seems and the more grand its ornaments, the more do they scan the natare of its stracture and criticise its foun- dation. Emperor, however, seems to take a pride, on occasions when these royal visiters are with him, in showing how he can drive about his capital without guard or state, while leaving all the pomp of military array and ceremony to his guests. Yesterday he was seen driving quietly up the Champs Elyseés a pair of rather jaded horses not over well groomed or appointed, while he him. self, as he stooped forward with that habitual lean of the sboulder which almost gives bim an air of deformity, look ed pale and sickly, and what it is impossible he should not be—harrassed. Ten minutes afterwards followed the in- fant heir in e carriage and four, surrounded by the Imperial Guard and preceded by equerries, &2., and then came the Empress in another simi ar carriage, and Fd her, surrounded by a gorgeous retinue, the King of Napoleon is decidedly ekilful in catering for the peculiar idiosyncrasies of his guests. For the British Queen there ‘was the resuscitation of Versailles in ail the glories of the Fourteenth Louis; forthe Grand Deke Constantino there has been displayed all tho newost machinery for the de- struction of man and for mastering the ocean; and two days ago his Majesty exhibited his tact in providing for the taste of his last guest, the King of Bavaria, the mo- narch of the beautiful capitalef Munich. That the Louvre, which now forsix years has been incessantly employing thousands of workmen, and is now complete, might be seen by the artist King in al its beauties, the scaifoiding was brushed away after the manuer of a coup d’éfat, the timbers were sawed tbrough at the base, ropes were ap- piled to the top, and instead of the tedioos proc sss of dis- mantling it bit by bit, the whole fabric came down level with the earth with a crash that made the new and beauti- fol masonry tremble, and caused the colossal statues of the heroic times of the great Napoleon, which like senti nels keep watch and ward over this architectural triampb of his descendant, to totter on their pedestals. But no acct. dent bappened to life or limb, amd the coup d’ail at once presented to the King of the capital of Munich was such as to clicit bis warmest onthusiasm. The Grand Duke in the meanwhile flads other fish to fry st Nantes, where, under the guidance of M. d’ Ingles, he has been visiting its foundry. On his entry a quantity of liqvid tron was in’o moulds along tn sym- metrical order, by which 6,000 killogrammes of iron was cast. From the foundry he proceeded to the forges where he saw a block of red hot iron weighing 16,009 killogram mes turned round and round while beaten with a hammer weighing 8,000 killogrammes, every blow frem which made the ground tromble. Tnis mass was intended for the shaft of a steam engine of 900 horse Feruch Kban {s busily investigating the manufactores at Lille, and Eogene Sue is reported to be seriously indis posed. ’ Karl Cowley, the Eoglish Ambassador, bas boon summoned to England to take his seat in the House of | Peers, after his promotion from a baronetcy. The weather is beautiful in the extreme. The gay world | (stalking of nothing but the Eaux, and the attractions of sen batbing, The report from the country of the appearance of coroals and vines is favorable in the highest degree, Diappe has built a beautiful new establishment worthy of Hamburg, and every body is threatening a descent into Nor- mandy. I have no sther news of tmportance to eommaniecate ex. cept the two faets, that forther inrestigation seems to show that the silk worm—like the disease of the potato and the murrain among the cattie—is laboriog under an epide- mic which is perfectly {ode pendent of the manner of feod tng, about whish so much has lately been written; and that a few days ago some lawless tenants in the Fanbourg St. Antoine broke into the house of their landlord, and Gnd. tng him determine! «tillto maiotain his usaal exorbitant rent, forthwith applied a rope to bis nesk aod strang him up before his own door. No woud sr the rich are thinking of the salutary effect of rea air and mineral waters. ‘The Cimerrier de Lyons his published the following ad- vertisement, prefaced with & wood cut representing a steamer supported in the sir by two balloone:—* Persons Cesirous of taking ebares inthe above balloon, now con- structing in Tartp, may do so by app ying to Mosers Ma | gendie, at Lyons. The enid balioon will accomplish the joorney from Tarin to Paris in 14 hours. I'rice of shares 10f. 660." ‘Madame Ristori, who has been entrancing all the world by her magnificent tragic acting, is going, it is said, to favor us with a specimen of her’ powers in genteel comely, whieh are said to be perfect. “Cio che piace alla Prima Attrice’'—that which is moet agreeable to the principal actress—made such an impression in the dramatic world at Vienna that every one is crying aloud for a repetition of it here. Your readers are aware that this little comedy te nothing more than a conversation carried on by Madame Ristori from the stage with diferent friends scattered through the pit, who, in thelr turn, converse with other friends placed in the boxes, who again address the actroes | om the ctage. The effect is to draw ont atmirably the natural bomor of the actress, who, without declamation or theatrical display, avails herself of some happy retort to Jet fail in conversational strain anecdotes of her life, with now and then a from some dramatic author—all which {s kept up only for half an hour—the aud@encs being im @ state of pleased excitement throaghont, and at ite close the actress contrives to observe that to have kept ths audience attentive listeners go long |=,‘ indeed, that which ie mort pleasing to her "=. ¢., “Cio che piace alla Prima Altrice.” Now that the imperial visiter—eo late the tmperial foe of France—is about to quit us for the Queen of Eaglant's ma. rine villa at Osborne, a fow words on the general impres- sions he has made on French society will not be mispiaced. Fils imperial highners would seem to have more of the charactor of the Anglo-Saxon about him than any princely Visiter who as yet has visited the Court under the auspices of the revived dynasty. His mind, natarally reflective and scientific, is with diMeulty fixed, even for a few flect- jog moments, on the gold and gewgawa of court etiquette, He ja, therefore, not apt at retort, and negligent ip matters where prince-craf generally excels. But engage him on ‘any subject conne sted with — mechanics, or any. thing pertaining to the stir, bastie and activity of lifo, he Nights up at once, and his remarks show great shrewdness and indomitable enorgy. This is pot a character gunera'ly tulted to Frenchmen, with whom the pelits soins of the salon are among the most important of life's affairs. As Little, too, has his imperial highness succeeded with French Indios; his heart is evidently at home, and his beautiful wife is more in hia thoughts than all tho bright eyes aod gorgeous toilettes of France. I shou'd be inclined to say, then, that the impression the Grand Duke is to leave be: bind here i rather one of respect than admiration. There is about him a sternness of sentiment ever and anon making iteelf felt that strongly reminds one of the Em peror Nicholar, bis father, and which is as wide as the ies from tho temper of his brother Alexander IT. Should he ever be called upon to ‘ake an active par: in the govern. ment of Russia, it may be hazarded that his conduct w Il be cold, arbitrary and resolute, and that the model he will always have before him will be that of his fatner. Hs» has evidently been greatly impressed by the character of Na- poleon, whore sympathies are porbaps not altogether dis etmiiar to his own, combined with greater warmth cf feel- ing and imperturbability Panm, Jane 4, 1857, Preparations for the General Rlection—Government Require. ments in the Ballot—Position of the Republicant— Another Pamyphia— Visit of the King of Bavaria— Lord Brougham’s Travels—Iniended Visit of Prince Napoleon to Manchester—Ejfects of the Brussels Riote—The Money Mark-t—How Lowis the Eleventh Paid his Tailer and Shoe maker. While you are doubtless celebrating another anniversary which in the great revolution made them sbandon alj " ofthat independence which renders you the envy and ad- miration of the denizens of the Old World, we in France are preparing for a general appeal to the people, which, under the name of universal suffrage, is the greatest mock ery of liberty the world has yetseon, Nine millions of electors have the privilege of voting for 267 representatives, constituting the Chamber of Deputies, and the ballot pro tects them. But, with such large powers given to the people, the government, who is responsible for that people’s well doing, cannot be expected to be left without some means at its disposal, and accordingly it takes upon ttself to indicate the candidates which, in its opinion, are most competent to discharge the responsible duty of protecting the privileges of the people. The possessors of the suffi: are free to put up any candidates of their own, and a free and loyal vote is requested from all the electors. Bat see how all this fair show dwindles into nothing on a near ia” spection. Each of these opposition candidates, before a court of judicature, (which {s purposely not specified,) must first submit a copy of his circulars—in other words, the programme of his opinions—which court, of course, will exercise its authority as to whether they may be posted or not for the benefit of the electors. No elector either must canvass for a candidate, or distribute placards, unless the signature of the candidate indicates his authority for so doing. It is especially inquired of M. Billault, the Minister of tho Interior, whore this court which is to exercise its privilege of political scrutiny is ivuated. The truth is, the authority of the prefects and their subordinates is at presont so boundless that in the rural districts where the struggle of the government is said to lay, all this apparent privilege of univerral suttrage becomes a nullity; the individual opinion of each elector is known, and woe be to him if he dares to array himself against the powers that be. Ground to the 4 high prices, and mechanical i ments wi absence cf large agricultural investment only increase his misery by dispensing with his labor, his lightest word is registered acainst bim. The republicans very properly, bowever, are disposed to make an effort and to show there is still some epirit left in them, but the screw is too com- post's in the hands of the government to enable them to o more than make a faint demonstration. The legitimis's continue true to their original determination of washing vbeir hands of all participation ina constitution and em- pire they profoundly despise. Whether with any political object or not, M. Gra- pier de Cassagnac, has taken the opportunity of pableting,.& work entitled ‘ Histoire de ite du Rot Louis Philippe; de Ia République do 1848, et du Ré établiesement de |’Empire.” The roia- tions of M. Granier de Cassagnac with the Constitutionnel, and consequently with the Court, are well known, aod without a mot d’ordre itis not likely he would have hit upon ibis particular juncture for publication, Some of the detsiils be gives of the coup dat of 1851 are new. It appears that five days before, namely, the 26th of Novem- ber, General Magnan got together all'the Generals of the army of Paris at his residence, and gave them an inkli of what was ex of them “ for the salvation of France.” They were in alltwenty-one, and without a moment’s hesitation ratified and endorsed ail that the Com- mander-in-Chicf said as to the necessity of military action when the civil powers got out of order, and at once asseat- ed to his proposition of binding themselves by a solemn oath to keep the communications of his sentiments a pro- ‘ound sesret—a secret which the author alleges he is now the first to make known. It does not appear, however, that even General Magnan, the Commandant of the army of Paris, had any knowledge of the time when this mili- tary action would be expected of him and his brother Generals. This was only communicated to him by St. Ar. saud when the services of himself and his confrires were actually required. The feliowing extract is interesting, though not new:— “At ball-pastl0, December 1, 1851, the drawing room of the Elysée began to thim, and a’ 11 o’clock the doors were closed. Then it was that four persons, the actors in the dra- ma of the morrow, met in the cabinet of the Prince Presi- dent, viz.: St. Arnaud, Minister of War; Count de Morny, pow named Minister of the [nterior; M. de Maupas, Prefect of Police, and Col. de Beville, of the staff and one of the aides-de camp of the President. Tho parts to be played by these four persons were distinct and precise. Count de forny, after having countersigned the decree for the dis- solution of the Assembly,’ was to take the initiative and re- sponsibility of ail measures of security at Paris and in the provinces. General St. Arnaud was to combine and di rect the action of the troops, in order to prevent resist- ance, or put a stop to it. de Maupas, recently appoint ed to the Prefecture of Police, had to perform a difficult task which required as much discernment as resolutioa— ot rd Cee = A rapidly the jpeg erg eon and of providing general measures for the vation public order; whilst to Colonel de Beville was coutlod the mirsian of conveying to the national and of baving printed under his own eyes, M. de Saint Georges, director of the establishment, the special documents constiwting the énsemdle of the measure of December 2—the decree of dissolution, the appeal to the people. Such were, with M. |, the ‘s secretary, the persons who received last instructions ofthe President of the republic. At the same hour Pa- risian society, dispersed in theatres, was carcleasly await- ing its ealvation from time and chance. j amount of salvation has yet The King of Bavaria must ha it time of it, for the Fm ap example to all oflicious hosts who usualy i the visit ef their guest by overdoing the rites of —1 aves the run of the Tuiieries, while ho himself retires to St. Cloud. He may bo said, in Foe ilgety employe Smet lmpedayororag x ently employs ng there is te be comm, and tha! not after the manner crowned heads in general, but in a simple, unostentatious manner, looking for all the world very much like an Eng- lish cozntry gentleman, visits museums, theatres, church- es, galleries of intings and whatever there is of curious or i in art, while ever and anon he oy foot in stirrep aad rides to a review. The other day ay one of these gatherings took place in the new race ground at Long —% instead of the Champ de Mara, and every one see! delighted with the innova- tion. The beautiful n sward, the picturesque ground and situation, the higher order of spectators in all the va riety of Ly score equipage and toilete, gave the scene a far more lively aspect than is usually observed in the low dasky plains of the great Mavortian arena. Lord Brougham bas jast through from Cannes. He has bad a very hard attack of influenza, but, notwith- t reutly as clear aa in bis pal zost with which he devotes himself to works of science ‘fare characteristic of that political vivacity which former- ly mace Bis lightest word a trampet th: out Britain. His accent in yo" very Scotch, and w! atall ox- cited his voice is lou Prince Napoleon is going to the Manchester Exhibition, nnd afterwards is tomake the tour of Ireland. His Imperial Highness affects to be partisularly anxious to be absent from France during the elections. {do not find that the disturbances at Brussels ha’ at all alar the authorities her King Leopold deca not eseape sharp criticisms for having per- mitted bis Ministers to bring the State into so pori- lous @ pwition, but Majesty’s subsequent con- duet in dissolving the Chambers seems to meet with very general approval. The Emperor Napoleon who. it is said, {s not sorry to see the ultramontaine party of the Catholic church meet with a check, took the precaution, however, to bave it tntimated through Marshal Vailiaat that possibly large bodies of troops might have to move towards the Rbise, and ali the northern garrisons were on tho qui rive—indeed, are still ro. The organ of the extrema Catholic party, Le Univers, ie furious at Leopold's condact. Heaviness continues to be the ruling characteristic of our money inarket, and although a little rally took place inthe course of yesterday, prices showed a decline on previous rates. Three's were quoted at 68f. 95c., and Mobilier de- clined 45 frances. If one may place faith in the various accounts received from the provinces, the promize for the en*uing harvest is of the most abundant kind. The vines are uninjored by the late frosts, and the growing corn is full of luxariance and freshness. Yesterday great seandal was bronght upon the anciomne régime of France by the sale of two very curious parch- ments, one being a receipt given by Louis Xf.'s tailor for the suim of 20 sols for puiting a new pair of old leather pourpoint of his majesty, and cept from the royal shoemaker, for 15 hisbing a box of grease for the king’s boots. Our St, Petersburg Correspondence, 'Sr. Perensncne, May 17, 1867. Birth of Another Grand Duke—Success of the Railway Sub- coriptions—Mania for Speculation Amongst the Novility— American Engineers Engaged on the New Lines—The Black Sea Steam Navigation Company—The Russian Press on the Treaty Between Great Britain and Persia. On the 11th of this month the booming of the cannon from the Citadel of St. Peter and St. Paul announced the birth of a Grand Duke, of whom the Empress had been safely delivered the same morning at Tearskoie Sclo. He Is the sixth child and the fifth son of the imperial couple, and {s to bo called Serghei or Sergius, in honor of the Saint of that name, who is respected more in Russia than even St. Nicholas himeelf. & Sergius was a hermit who aboat the middle of the Fourteenth century founded a monas- tery seventy versta from Moscow, which became famous in history under the appellation of Troitekaya Iavra, or Convent of the Holy Trinity, In the middle ages it wasa strong fortress, sustained several sieges against the Poles and Tartars, and was used occasionally as a place of refuge by the Ozare of Muscovy, when flying from their enemies or their rebelious subjects. Ever since then it has been customary for the sovereigns of Rusia to perform a pilgrimage to the shrine of St. Sergius at least once during the coarse of their reign, The present Emperor visited {1 immediately after the fall of Sebastypol, and, being very devout, or affecting to be #0, he probably ascribes the escape of Holy Russia from the embarrassing position in which sho was placed at that time to the intercession of the saint whose patriotism has been displayed on many oveasions, and whose influence with the Bogomater (Virgin Mary) is equally well authen- ticated; in acknowledgment of which the youngest hope of the house of Romanoff is to be christened after him. The new born Grand Duke is the first porphyrogenatus among the Emperor's children, all the rest having been born before the accession of their father to the throne. He has already been appointed colone! of the Tobolsk regiment of infantry, and entered as enfin de troupe in several other regiments, one of the many ridiculous customs in which we barbarians have imitated the civilized nations of Wee- tern Europe, and which should be more honored In the breach than the observance. According to the Inst bulle- tine the Empress and her infant were doing aa woll ag could be expected. ‘The great railway subscription has paseed off with un- common success, ‘ly 320,000 shares having been ap- plied for, instead of the 160,000 allotted to the Rasaian au soribers. There was quite a rash at the government offices, re e——C to Presented an aspect seltom seen in St. Peteraburg—where everything is too spacious for the amount of populatioa—that of a crowd, elvewing, pushing, squeezing and every one trying to outstriy neghbor. In consequence of the excere of subscriptions it has been found necessary to make @ distribution of the tbares among the applicants Small subssribers, of less than a hundred sbares, are toget the whole amount, others only balf or one third; those who required from three to six thousand, one fourth; and those who subscribed for more tban six thousand, only one fifth. If, therefore, part of the shares reserved for the London aud Paris market are not yet disposed of, Mersrs, Baring an‘ Pereire could easily find purchasers for them here. The fact is, there is ‘a good deal more capital in Russia than is generally imagived, but unfortunately for the country it is not em- ployed as it oughtto be, Of the nobility, who are our chicf capitaliste, there are many indeed who have estab- lished large manufactori eam navigation companies, &c., or erected hospitals ‘schrols, and devoted large sums to scientific purposes; but a large proportion squan- der their moncy in endless extravagance at the gaming tables of Hornbourg and Wieslgaden, or in the saions of Paris, and have nothing left for useful undertakings. ‘The merchants are content to go on in the old jog- trot way they have been accustomed to for the last haif century, and—with a few favorable exceptions, among whom the Siberian gold finders, the Zotoffs, Popofl:, ko. deserve especial mention—ecem strange rs to the extended views and the spirit of extension that are so characteristic of the present age. It must be acknowledged, however, that a great change bas come over them lately, and pro- jects thata year or two ago would have been received | With coldness and inaitference, are now discussed with eagerness, and entered into with avidity. Just at present nothing is so popular as railways, and, encouraged by the success of the Grand Réseau, people are beginving to tell of lines to the U to Orenburg, tothe Caucasus—nay, even across Siberia tothe Amoor. According to the last accounts from Irkotsk, two Americans, Messrs. Coilins and Peyton, had passed through that city, and although they re reseahte oaty simple travellers or mercharts, they are seriously believed to be engineers, evguged in survey- ing the ground for the future Pacific railway. Of course these are idle dreams tha; cannot be reatized for maay a year to come; but there is not the slighte-t doubt that Karo- pean Russia will ere long be intersected by a system of roo roada extending from the Baltic to the Black Sea, and from the Volga to the Vistuia. At tho St. Petersburg- Warsaw and Moscow.Warsaw railroads they are hard at work already, having commenced operations at both ex- tremities simultaneously. It is expected they will he finished in about three years. The Riga Donebourg line will be constructes by an Eoglish company that had un- dertaken it previous to the war, and whose charter has been renewed since the and at Odessa an associa- tion has been formed, com| of the first bankers and merchants of that emporium and the leading nobility of Little Ruseia and the Ukraine, for the purpose of building @ railway from Odesea to Kieff and tbe Austrian frontier. Be: sides these, there are several ‘ess extensive lines Up. pro ed—for instance, one in Finland, to be constructed at the expense of government, and onefrom Riga to Silau, in which the Riga merchants are particularly interested. Another scheme which has met with great favor here, is the Rlack Sea Steam Navigation Company. Tt was e3 tablished laet autumn on shares, which were all taken ina few days, and the firet instalments paid up immediately. Some of the Black Sea steamers belonging to goverpment, which bad escape. the Sebastopol catastrophe, were pur- chased by the company, and ove of the directors, Captain Arkas, proceeded to France and England to erder the rest There will be twenty-four iw ‘A telegraphic despatch received the other day from Odessa, aan unces the arri val of five of them from England, and they will forthwith commence their trips to Galatz, Varna, Kertech, Arepa, Redout-Kalé, Trebizond; Constantinople, and subsequent, to Fgypt, Greece, Mareeilles, &c. This 'will be a desirable addition to the commercial navy of Russia, and is especially patronized by government, the Emperor himself, together with the imperial family, having subscribed for a large numer of sbares, It is strange that while so many bew undertakings are springing up on all sides, the oldest commercial association in the country—the Russian Ameri- can Compan; pears to be on the decline. After a prospe- rous career of nearly sixty years, its existence waseeriously threatened during the late war, when its rettlements on the Northwest coast and in the Aleutian archipelago were atthe mercy of the British and French fleets; but it got over this crisis very cleverly, and with very little loss, by means of atreaty of neutrality concluded by its agents with the Hudzon’s Bay Company, the advantages of which were entirely on the side of the Russians, as the territory ot the English company had certainly not much to appre- hend from hostile attacks. Since the peace, however, its sbares, instead of improving like those of other associations, have been falling continnally, without any apparent reason, excepting a rumor that the Company’s charter will net be renewed after its expiration, (in 1860, I believe,) and that the fur trade in the Northern Pacific will be throwa open to general competition. As farasIcan learn there is no valid foundation for this report, bat it has had a disastrous effect w the American Company’s shares, which are quoted lower than they were previous to the conclusion of Pethe Northern Bee, in speaking of the treaty between expatiates as usual op the grasping ther Russia, E FE} = Beaux, May 19, 1857. The Legislative Session Prorogued—Prince Napoleon's Visit —The Join! Stock Mania. The Chambers were prorogued on Tuesday afternoon by & royal meesage delivered by Baron Manteuffel, in which His Majesty thanks them for the patience and assiduity displayed during the course of their arduous and protracted deliberations, but regrets at the same time their having found themselves unable to come to an understanding with his government in reference to certain measures required by urgent necessities of State. The truth is tha! ts impos- sible to imagine a greater failure than that of the flaancial schemes brought in with such a flourish of trumpets at the commencement of the session, An hour or two before the two houses wore closed the tax upon licenses bad gone the eamne way as the house and galt tax, the Commons having negatived the amendments proposed by the Lords, upon which the latter rejected !t altogether. On Thursday morning Prince Napoleon took his de. Parture from Berlin, after being treated with the utmost distinction by the King and the whole royal family. Before be lef he was invested with the order of the Biack Exgle, in rewrn for which the Prince of Prussia isto get the Grand Croes of the Legion of Honor. In public he excited greatattention through his resemblance to his uncie. In other respects it must be confessed there is nothing very attractive about him. He is short and squat in figure, and very ungracefuily on horseback, and though only thirty-five he looks a good deal older. Aliogether he re- mindsme very much of the parody on “artant pour la Syrie,”’ which was sung, or rather whispered, some years ago in Paris, and begins:»—Partaat pour la Turquie le Jeune et gros Plomplon,”’ &c. ‘The statement in the Monifeur that he was received hore with cries of Vira I’ Empereur is quite in keeping with the characier of that notorious depository of offic it ig stil asserted that bia Imperial Highvess is on a matri- monial expedition, and that Princ sss Sidonia, eldest daugh- ter of the King of Saxony, is the fortunate fair one des. tined to fix his roving inclivations. The saxon Princess is firet cousin to the Emperor of Austria, who was geacraily expected to marry her, but was crue! enough to jilt her for another ef his cousins, the present Empresa. Since then she has worn the willow, and for want of a better might not be unwilling to take ‘up with Prince Napoleon, uu though he be. Afer ail, the Prince bas got royal jvod in bie vein, being related ‘maternally (through the Wirtemborg family) to almost all the reigning dynastios of Purope, particularly to those of Prusssia, Russia and RE fe ca the pame be bears will make up for any aw in bie Thave alluded in rome of my letters to the associations formed here on the plan of the Crédit Mobilier in France, some of which are doing business on a large scale, and aro trying to get all the most extensive manufacturing con- cerns into their hands. One of Principal industrial establishments in Berlin--the great iron foundry of Bor- sig——was pul the other day by an association con- stituted for that purpose, for the eum of 6,500,000 thalers, Beni, June 2, 1867. Pravl for Pleasure and Health—Court Recreations —Teck- lenburg Annexation F¢ies—Hisiory of the Measure—Ram- bles of the King—Rzhibition at Sicttin— Evangelical Oon- vention— Deputation to the King—Dowry of the Princess Royal of England—Kxcelient Kifects of Palmersom’s Liberality, de., de. ‘The travelling season has begun and is already in full force, After a continuance of cold, dreary, unspringlike wonther during the greater part of May, it became beau- Ufully warm and pleasant towards the end of the month, and immediately a general emigration commenced, fash- fonables and unfashionables rushing forth tn shoals to seek health and pleasure in various directions, the former pro- ceeding to the watering places of Bohemia and the south of Germany, to Switzerland, France and Italy—the latter to “Saxon” Switzerland or the Hartz mountains, which the rail bas brought to within a fow hours ride of this city. ‘The court is frisking about with more than usual vi- vacity. Ever since the close of the Chambers the King bas been osciliating between Berlin and the several provinces of his monarchy, presiding at /étes, making apecchos, and doing hit best to win tho applause of the many-hended, In tho first place ho made « journey to Tecklenburg, in West sbalia, to be prerent at a festival held in commemoration of the fact that one hundred and fifty years had elapsed since that country bad the happiness to become annexed to the crown of Proseia, It was originally oné of the independent sovereign States of the Holy German Empire, and be- Jonged to the ancient family of the Counts of Tecklenburg, who became extinct in 1556, when their poasoasiona were inherited by the Coun# of Bentheim, who seld ther 1699, to the Counts of Solmes, from whom they were pur- bared, in 1707, by by the first King of Pruseia—by which \t appears that the honest Tecklenburgers have been bought and sold pretty often. However, they are pretty good Prussians now, and received his majesty with great enthusiasm, A day or two after bis return to Sans soual, he went on to Siettin, where there is a great cattle show and exhibition of the agricultura! and manufac- turing productions of Pomerania, for which the pat- ropage of royalty was solicited and graciously com, ceded. No sooner bai he ‘dene’ the Pomeranian oxen and manufactures than he hastened off to Schwerin to assist at the inauguration of a palace building for the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg, who bas the honor to be the King’s nephew. The Grand Duke being a very small prince, is naturally anxious to havea very large palace, and bas accordingly erected a magnificent chateau in the Gothic style, to which Buckingham House is a more cot- tage, and in which, with a little crowding, he might man- ‘age to Gnd room for the whole population of his dominions, or at least for a8 many as will be loft in a few years, if the emigration to America goes on in the same ratio as it has done lately, How he will coutrive to fill it without some comprehensive measure of the kind is a mystery to all be- holdera, wh» are quite dumbfounded at the spectagle of an edifice on such a Brobdignag ecale in 60 Lilliputian a State, However, the inauguration weat off with great éclat. fhe King treated the company to one of those neat little orations for which he is famous, wisbing the new castle might be occupied by the Duke and his deecendanta in saoula saculorum. There was no end of morry-making, and plenty of esting and drinking; oxen (which areas much respected in Mecklenburg as they ueed to be in Egypt—the Grand Duke having a bull’s head for his coat- of arms) were roasted whole, and wine and beer served out with an uneparing hand; th» only failure @as the il- lumination—the lights having been eatinguished by a sudden gust of wind that caused sad havoc among the hate aod bonnets of the and spectatresses, and sent them ploeading home in sootian darkness. By all accounts the exhibition at Stettin { quite a bril- Nant affair, and attracts visiters in considerable numbers, pot only from all of Germany bat even from foreign countries, es pect: England. Pomerania has always had ‘the reputa ion of being a first rate grazing country, and i¢ is no wonder, therefore, that it makes a vory reputadle display of horses and horned cattle; but its progress in the arts of industry seems to have been much greater of late than was generally anticipated A variety of machinery was exhibited that excited the admiration of the Commissioners—among the rest a looo- motive of improved construction and superior workman- ship, apparatus for distilling and sugar refining, fre e1 steam pumps, high and low pressure eteam engines, the model of a screw ste@mer ona new pian, &c., ko. One of the specimens of Pomeranian ingenuity is a self-acting machine for cutting sausage meat, which is expected to form quite an era in the sausage mak:ng line, and to turn out whole cart ioads of that succulent edible which every true German is 80 devotedly attached to. Then there are elegant pianos, organs, articles of sculpture and moeatc, carriages, watches, furniture, porcelain and glassware, surgical instruments, inclucing a patent lancet which bleeds you without your being aware of it, real moers- chaum and amber tipped pipes, fabrics of india rubber ana gutta percha, swimming shoes so buoyant as to enable even thore most ignorant of the artto “ walk the waters” without yisk of drowning, and many other articles too numerous to mention. The exhibition will com- tinue open for some weeks longer, and be ended, as usual im such cases, with a plentiful distrib.tion of prizes and medals. The good peuple of Stettin flatter themselves that the King, who ts very partial to the Pomeraaians, will eee abe to bed sagan at the closing scene, and to ute rewar propria persone. While the fashionable and commercial classes of are pursuing their several vocations, the religious circles are on the move. too, and as actively engaged as any of them. Here in Bertin we are looking forward to a great meeting of the Evangelical Alliance (Briti«h branch), one of whoee representative men, Sir Culling E , formerly Sir Cullirg Smith, was bere last year and had Bn audience with the King, who gave bis cordial approval and permis- tion to the meeting. The other day a cepatation arrived from England, consisting of the Rev. Mr. Glyn, a clergy- man of church, the Rev. Dr. Strave, dissent the Rev. Herman Schmettace, for tb fixing the exact time of the meeting, whi will be made public hereafter ; however, Exterrios bs teemnecencergeee ‘was most kindly received, e Heat alllance assured of his countenance and protection. It has often been asserted that the King was a Catholic af heart, and hints have even been thrown out,that he had actually returned to the fola of Mother Church; but such rumors are entirely without foundation. He isa staunch Protestant, though rather inclined to Puseyism, and it is not bis fault if bis subjects are not allas ‘as himself. His zeal in the cause of evangelical Chi nity is evinced by his support of the Protestant bish of Jerusalem, to which be contributes ten thousand thal per annum, and a bacebergar™ ero bl England. The meet- ing tn question probably come off about the end of the and Protestants of all eects and 5 e. ly, the Baptists are to bave a genoral mecting at burg, Nchiah ts to amemibte cn tee'30 Sopt., and last about The ii of the British House of Commons in tothe dowry of the Princess Royal has made a very good im- the facility with weve phan Le magnitude are The Prussian Chambers are not #0 ready ib their money, and for many years past the sovereigns of this country have ing off their princesses out of their own private funds rather than apply to their sub- Jecta for such purposes. £40,000 in a lump, and £8,000 year, make a very respectable figure in Prussiaa thalers, and as it will be mostly spent in Bertin, the court shop oom gay expect to realize oy handsome profits, and are Jond in their praises of John Bull and his munificent done tions. Apart from such considerations, howe match is universally popular; it is recollected that the mother of Frederick the Great was an English princess— that is to say, her father became King of Eugland some time after her marriage, although she herself was born # Banover, and bad never been in England in ber life—anc it ts hoped that this matrimonial connection will lead to + closer alliance Detween the two great Protestant Powers 0 Fashions for June, [From Le Follet of Paris.] The fashions for the summer season may now be seen ti all their novelty and frerbness. Steel color and white aur black checks of a/i dimensions are very much worn fo negligé dresses, which are made with high bodies, eithe with or without baequee. In the former case the banque are made very long, balf covering the ekirt Tae lancle basque is generally preferred as being the most gracefi Plain ekirts are worn in neglige, but those ornamente with velvet, arranged en quilles, or with moire ribbon t loranges, or in simple stripes, are more usaaily adopted Dov ble skirts, although they have not yet succesded t annihilating founces, are greatly in favor. They are vor much ornamen‘ed ia various siyles. Om @e upper skir sometimes a deep fringe, the same c: dress, | ‘on the edge, or raches o' a ‘calored rit arranged in stripes from the waist ‘dress. 1 fact it is almost impossible to describe all the varieties « trimmings now adopted. Muslin dresses have not Fy been much seen,as w have had se few days of really warm weather. e may however, describe a few, for the sake of those of our fw readers who are preparing their summer toilettes Tt ground was white, with small checks of malachite gree Crossed with very fine thread, It was made with lain body, witha berthe of the same material as U ress, caged by a pompadour trimming. Tho basqu and the sleeves, composed of two bouilions, were trimax to matsh, and on the skirt were three pompadour fvuace For mantles the shaw! shape is at present the favorit that isto say, they are rather pointed behind, or el made to appear so by the arrangement of the ornament Black taffotas is the most material; and as to v trimmings, an almost endless vartety is seen. Sometim they are made to match the dress, but these are not ge erally adopted. Biack silk, richly embroidered, has very gooa effect. White embroidered muslin mantles a large doubie shawls of plain muslin trimmed with bro Ince, are also im great favor. Derhaps nothing is mo elegant than the rich biack lace and chantilly mantles young ladies. Bonnets still continue te be worn very small, but * vance more over the forehead, The curtains are not wo #0 extravagantly on andemall round crowns are much worn as the ing ones. Fringe is much used trimming. In the inside of the bonnet ts placed a br dean, composed of flowers or a plaitcf ribbon or velv this accessory, although it may appear of small imp tance, is most On the crown \* placed, accor ing to the taste of the wearer, wreaths or buaches flowers or feathers, and in some cases small wreaths t carried round the front, meeting the flowers that fail ov the curtain. All kinds of material, as well as every vart of color, may be employed. For négligé, fancy stra triromed with taffetas and straw. Colored stra: or brown, and a mixture of crinoline and black will be much in vogue, as they are light, fresh and: quets, Dress bonnets are mado of crapo and taifetas, tu rice straw, and spotted or beaded talle. Ha much "in demand, either of white bea , or even of straw. They are placed at the edge of net; 1a the trimmings; and even atthe slightest blond Tho idea is curious, but as it is becoming will no dou successful. Medical Missionary Soctety In China, The promren Py annual meoting of this society was by In Macao, agreeably to public notice, on Saturday, the + of February, at IL o'clock A, M., at the house of American Legation. Prosent— Hie Excell Potor Parker, 8. W. Willia LL.D; Rey. Wm RB. Beach, Rev. J. B. Freoch, James F don, Feq., and Wm. Kane, M. D. His Excellency Peter Parker, tho senior Vico Presid: took the chair, and the notice in the oy papers sal the meeting on this day was read by the Secre The minutes of the last annual meeting having b read and approved, the society proceeded to the elec of officers for the ensuing year, which resulted in chotce of the following vere President—Thomas RK. Colledge, M. D., F.R.S.E., = y. Vee His Excellency Poter Parker, 9. Williams, L1.D.; Sit John Bowring, LL.D.; Robert 8. © is, John’ Dent, Jobn Heard, G. . Nye, Jr. hor, F, 0. Bridgman, D. nN. Faqa, Right Rov. W. J. Boone, 1) D., (in China;) John 0, Gre W. & Wetmore, D. Olyphant, J. N. AL Griawold, D Spooner, Rags. , (in United Staton.) — and Recording Secreary—Rov. Job Treasurert—Mossrs, Rusaell & Co. Auditor—Jobn Heard, Eaq. As the Tr 7 ncciderial sight, wat wok ready Wo Be Guile, on maton tbe 8