The New York Herald Newspaper, December 20, 1859, Page 2

EWS FROM EUROPE AND ASIA. Our London, Paris, Compeigne, Ferlin and Brussels Correspondence. THE WORK OF THE EUROPEAN CONGRESS, NAPOLEON'S INFLUENCE OVER ENGLAND. Important Resolution on Bellige- rent Maritime Law, England Seeking to Abslish the Right of Search on the American Plan. Diplomatic Rupture Between Prussia and Hesse-Cassel. THE AMERICANS IN BERLIN. The Murder of Russian Sailors in Japan, The Crew of the United States,Schooner Fenimore Cooper. FMPERIAL SPORTS AT COMPERIGNE,ZPRANCE. Stag Hunt and Scencs in the Field. . THE FARM AND VILLA OF ‘NAPOLEON. ANNIVERSARY OF THE COUP D'ETAT. BASTERN, &e THE GREAT hey Ae, Our London Correspondence. Lowoon, Bee. 2, 1850, f Opinion in Engiand Me Approaching Congress—Change as (0 Her Participation Therein—Her Pr Now Considered Indispensable—Pali to be the Mot Suitable Represeniatir Rifle Corps Move in England —W hal th ormers and Politicians in General are Dor ‘The topic of the Ry an Congress, eon. voued fcr January 5, at Por Powars of Ko rope, both great and © but up to this moment the chief is to induce Dogland to jon it. ‘The moral and European scale is so und: her presence would be the play of Hamlet with th réleomitted. But when the prime objact of the Cong! as at present, to revive the treaties of 1826, to which sh Puisantly contribute?, wt er refusal to join! would render its doings but a solemn farce. This is, undoubted. ty, the view of Napoleon Ill, the mainspring of the whole movement, for he has labored incessantly of late to urge lord Palmers unite with ment of the Italian question, the priscipal view of the eoming Congress A month or so since y gland’s taking any pa wiser to let Napoleon rented in spite of ether band, these difficulties increased 0 materially al weight of m to in the settle Die “opinion wae aguust Fa a this Congrees. 4 out of the it was thonght every day that Napoleon saw clearly that unless ho had the support of Foglaud as well as the other Powers be would have reason w rue the day he ever put his foot in It ently, he has worked jon of Lord Palmerston bat he has been to certain condi- energetically to obte and his Cabmet, and he rompelled to pay the pr uous. He was made ¢) rstand that Eng- Jand would not jisteo to avy concession to nor would she lend herself to bolstering up Papal inflaence where it had been ried. No English 2 would dare hold any ¢ I have reason to think that no y acceptable ‘than those to Nape ustria out of Maly, and to put the e, though, of course, he is obliged to be th the first, to be tenderly e'vil to ti France is the oldest daughter ‘of the church, and theugh Napoleon sees the necessity of reforming the Ponedom, be must act warily, s0 as not to ‘eutrage the prejudices of bis Catholic subjects, and so risk England can play her game whilst enacting Again, itis wise for England hare in Continental poli r pregence {rom the approaching ai] to dangerous conse. quences, and accustom the Ce to act without her, and peradventure some day to combine against her. She is part and parcel of the European syetem, and itis not her policy to abdicate her functions or to iguore the mis- sion she has to perforin. It ie, therefore, deciried that England abail be represent- ed io Varig next January, and the next pomt for her to Pettle is to select the proper man to undertake such a re- spouibility. There are wany astute diplomatists here who could play their part well, but there are none who jd such authority stinctly to ux Austria, last. not to isolate bers tacs by withholds Congress. Such folly m 201 C 2 a8 the Pr ersion. Tere is no doubt.his the post, for the t Congress will provabiy shape the ‘policy of Europo for many years to come, and he is naturally proud to asyo- ciate 3 name with the events to whicis it may give emost man of the day ia Eogland his is undoubted, and noone would pre- uthis taking it. The Times was bellowing furiously against B 4 going to the Congress ouly ‘a wontl) ago, butgt has seen the wisdom of changing its views, and to day ii ap the propriety of Lord Pai- mevston appearing on th e, where he will cout ful aud distinguished actor. Tt was Lord Valmerston who erected (4e kingdom of Belginm, wuicn has targel oot almost the gonly sue cessful experiment of coustitutioual government on the Continent. My om a1 tor this result, to be d_ rejoice to Jauuary, for it is o acaped from the Antonelli wil! not the yoke. of a ‘disarmament ily true, for tue its bellieose ) pot an ead of war. In wut Yet every | see Lord Paltnerto, guarantee that Deutal threla be forced agai on the part of Englan Emperor bas disa: propensities, ant be in both countries to any Engiand, however, it is the vn ion that the country Fhould be’ prepared again: n wh apy great Continer jor it would be possible these’ dayg of steatusnips aud railroads, Re as France Yo desceud iu great force on wupret-e land and do infinite damage belore arrested. 1 or Ri under the style and title of rifle corps, re, pervacing over the country, and low—are falling clussee—bigh, me as popular a pastime iuiteor companies 10 w Yok aforce of several hundred thoa- le of the country will be or- ording to law, who will be 's hative to meet the enemy from with- dition trom wittin, ‘on, OF to put dow The mind of this couutr 8 totally engrossed by Conti- neptal politics, to the utter indillere Call domestic maiters Home politicians are at their wits’ ends to at- ‘ract a little atteution. \ lot of commervatives gob up x mect ny in London ibe oiher day, and powwowed about Protection to. the ig interest aud w restoration of the old navigation Nobody reads aush nonsense how adays, th © She reformer the Diogens himself 1h ¢ automn, week whi effort fell stillborn to tae ground. 1 wh more snecesstul. Roebuck, only once ventured te show made a speech at Bath this over who fast night d out at Liverpool, t gun, but all altompts wo the wit to see that itine- rd one of these days dhe knows that public opi- i rr usiness. Tie is looking for into the Misasury req of Stat, to keep better company tian crew of discontented politicians, who, jor the sak g in. ttle Sora whh x ts ‘ides abont reform, taxes, franebise and Cobden Tins sown bie pol.ticad wild oat, anid Le seen. dev putabie company hereal ter, o« a“ tion with nwt « 000} i wight, be | £20,000 hangs over the concern, and £49,000 or £59,900) | tore are required t9 put her In good workiag condition. NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1859.-TRIPLE SHEET. Lonpon, Dec, 2, 1859. Mr. Bright's Speec\ at Liverpool—Mi. Roebuck at Bath— He Rewals an Alarmin) Fuet—The Iris's Ingredient in the Eng’ sh Army—W uld the Irish Fight Against France —Extract from» Speech of Robert Emmett—The Mecting of Shipowners in London—The Great Eastern-Y nkee Circus Ouners Gone Farming in Ireland—Sports at the Avhambra—Theatrica’ Affairs—Mr. Rarey, de., 6c. There ig no lack of news the present week, Parlia- ment bas been prorogued by her Majesty from December 1S to January 25, the» to meet for the despatch of impor- tant business, The old Parliamentary soldiers are taking airings in the country towns, and burnishing up their arms for the coming campaign, Mr. Bright has just un- rolled one of his formidable bu/igets of statistics at Liver pool, arranged in such @ manner as to convinee the work- ingmen—the middle and lower strata of politico-geological John Bulldom—tbat they pay noarly all the taxes on their deor, tobacco, twa, cotlee, sugar, bills of exchange, &e., while my lord, with his land, his pack of hounds, his huniers and his carriages, pay very little, No one but hose accustomed ———to divide A bair “twist soath and south went sides n political sophistry can tell how be arrives at the exact fact, that of the sugar duties the rich pay precisely £1,845,- 000, ,000, and the poor £2,369,000. Iisa Bright idea coatbrim tells us, with an ex- actitude that reaches the last curl o? smoke in a burning bit of pigtail fumigated inashort clay, that the richer classes pay of the ve million sterling or more of duties on tobacco tie exact sum of £955,000, the middle classes £2,076,000, aad the poor £2,431,000. He also plays As modens, and looks down our chimneys into all our teapots, and tells us how * ‘The wives of our olts of inferior degree Will souk up repute No bohea: 0d) And al imoroces, a refinement in wrong, ‘icher and rise to Syushong. 9 209,000.) And of the wealthy, ok fn imperint a friend at a snp, upowder,” blow them by dozens a'l up, (£922 000.) Bot you see how Mr. Salmagundi Irving's ballad gives | he ascending scale in @ wrong direction, for the higher | the clase the lower the nm paid. WNr. Roebuck, the ubiquitous, the fault-finding, but ever pleasant member for Shettielt, has been takins an airing and making a speech at Bath, Tho occasion was that of | giving a silver tea service to Mr. Phinn, a former mom. ber. A morning payer likens the superannuated waxering place, sacred to Beau Nash and other old girls of both ceves, to the wife of Bath, to whom, of course, Me. Arthur Way, the present M. P., is the happy husband, Mr. Roe- | buck and Mr. Phinn, former members, being flattered aad | paraded before the crowd, while Mr. Way was kept in the ek ground, was, of course, a left banded compliment to tl jatter gentlemas. ‘Now,’ adds the journal, “she (Bath) has trenched hard upon the political moralities, for she hag taken advantag’ of her lawfal spouse—one Mr. Arthur Way—to preseat a lock of her hair in a silver Jocket to her well known ancient flame, Mr. Thomas Phin. Tais buxom, inconstant old lady, docs not tate to) declare that’ she )kes ter old miveb better than her new, and she openly announces that when Mr, Arthur Way shall go the way ail political flesh, and disappear ia genoral dissolution, she will go back again to her Phinn, and live happy all sof her life, All this must be unpleasant for Way, out was very pleasant to the triumphant Phinn, So he went down with a flower in bis button hole, and Mr. Roe- buck as his best man, and celebrated in great glee that | paulo-pot future union, to the full consummation whereof | the present legal privileges of Mr. Arthur Way are the ouly impediments. Well, we suppose “all is fair in love | ana war and polities.” But what said the little member (or the town that makes bowie knives for the Yankees, aujettoes for Spaniards, poiguards for“rebellious Italiana, scalping knives for the Sioux aud Arrapahoes, and shining | biades for everybody—what said the representative of stee! whittles and broadswords? Why, he said that an ungratetul Prinee—an exiled, well treated, good for-no- thing Frenchman—Joinville, to wit—had looked at, or, in Crockett’s language, “taken a blizzard” at all the ports, | harbors, defences, forts, and weak points of the south coast of England—had drawings executed | and soundings taken, and sent them to the War Minister | of Louis Napoleon. The whole affair sounded, however, like old women’s scandal over their tea cups. It rested on no better foundation than that somebody who was dead, and whose name must not be mentioned, had de- clared that he had seen a letter that somebody else had written to some other body, that said go and so, and to all this we may add that “nobody knows nothing at all about oe ‘Yon will see a vast amount of brag in your English ex- changes respecting rifle corps, and the defences of tho kingdom. Of course the deduction from all this is that Jolim Bull is remarkably well prepared to meet his ancient evem: ¢ he is not, he really believes he is, and that roall and purposes in most matiers of defence is cqnivalent to te same thing. This subject of rifle volun- teers is not, however, witbout its ailoy, as is well known and attested in every bh nog 8 fight where Britain has borne apart during the last two hundred years, Irishmen have held a most conspicuous position. In fact, without Irish soldiers and hired Hessians, it may well be doubted if | Grcat Britain would have the partial success she has met | in her nemerous contlicts. While Ireland has only twen- ty four per Jess than one-quarter of the population of the United Kingdom, it always contributes between one-third and one-half of the rauk and file of the British army. At this jancture some ultra Catholics—editors and others—of the south of Ireland, declare that no Irish vo- lunteer regiment should stir ofe inch to defend Eagland against the Frenchman. On the other hand, a Protestant journal in Ulster—The Bownshire Protextant—states, with the acrimony of a Boanerges Stormheaven, that [rishmen, for at least another generation, are not fit to be trusted with arms in their hands, as volunteers. Au contraire, a Paris correspondent quotes from the last speech of Rohart Emmett, before Lord Norbury, sentence proving that patriotic Irisbmen are ready at all times to defend the shores of this kingcom against every foe, wud particularly Frenchtwen. ‘The patriot mart; “Were the French to come as invaders or enemies, un- invited by the wishes of the peapie, I should oppose them to the utmost of my strength. Yes, my conutrymea, T should advise you to ineet them on the beach, with a sword in one hand and a torch in the other; I would meet them with all the destruenve tory of war, and I woald an- imate my countrymen to immoiate them in their boata, be- fore they had contaminated the soil of my country. If they succeeded in landing, and if forced ty retire before superior digcipline, I would dispute every inch of geouad, burn every Diade of grass, and the last iatrench ment of Kberty should be my grave.”” A large meeting of ship owners has been held at the Lon- don Tavern this week, and they have very correctly got the -name of old fossils and ichthyessanri praying for a lormer period of the world to come roan’ and meet them. The world in its aonual and general flight has gone off and left them high and dry on some old comet, and now they complain that they are left alone. British naviga- tion is free and open to ailthe world, even to the ooast- ing trade, and, of course, ‘foreigners’ enter into a free cormpetition with the British owners of vessels. Add to this the vast increase of steamers, and it is a very natuca! regult that inferior classes of sailiog vessels should be a rug in the market. The shipowners’ covaplaint is a more beggar’s petition, and their plea is rightly met by the answer that neither the goverument nor the§people hay- ing participated in their large profits a few years ago, they cannot be called on to share their burdens now. These old fossils forget tust they are neither agricuita- rise or manufacturers; not producers of any kind, but middle men—carriors—whose sole profits consist of what they take from producers and consumers, The in- terests of al the world beeide consiats in keeping their profits down to as low a pointfas possible—aa low as or- diary competition will reduce it. They are like the wag ina madhouse who had on jugocent monomania, bat without cither bis philosophy or resignation. ‘When defining how he came there, he said it was merely a aifterence of opinion; he said wil the world was mad, and all the world said he was mad, and the majority car- ried it. The greut majority of tho world—all but one in several thousan 1¢ who own sbipa—eay that the, shipown- ers are eutitied to ali legitimate profits that they’cau make out of the carrying trade, and when competition and new pve otiens cut Into their vocation they mast do as other traters do, and submit, or make tueir ingenuity supyly th Sreat Eastern ecems approaching another cridis in nitul career, The finishing #9 at a etandstill. Toore arbitration pending with the builder, a debt of sour ‘The twenty shilling sharcs are down to ten shillings, and nobody knows what to do The upsho: of it be, probably, a meeting of the share- id & mergivg of the company in another taking present eharcs at what they will bring in the toarket. The public have little confidence inthe directory except, perhaps, the chairroan au’ Mr. Talbot, Sr. P., aad the Bourd are divided among themselves as to their fu- ture policy. The best advice Tean give will he fora New York company to coms over here, with five or six bundyed thourand dollars, and buy her right out, form joint stock compavy of a tillion and a quarter or a mil- ion and @ half dollars, finish her up, take hor to America, exhibit her ia all the great sea ports, and thea pat her 1a. the California trade, the only trate where she would be likely to pay; or make her @ geucral passenger aud mor. chant ship to ran from Milford Haven to Aspinwall, atop pivg at New York and Havana, If #he did not cost more than a million of dollars all told, and pro efficient sip, she would undoubtedly pay to to | him, his ministers and army oflicers, | interest. eervi With the Vanderbilt on that side, rann her as a consort, the two could form a monruly four more qa the Pacific side—veasels like th steamers—would make the great®@t steam lip world, over the greatest commercial route. A Ii Vvanama to Australia—having the California five | extended to Vancouver Isiand—woatd reach all the gold regions of the globe, and concentrate them at oth) New York and London, puttmng the two in a fur and If the United States would encon- a tmail route, with a subsidy of a - it wo re fur dia ones ten: the concentratim of world at Now other movements that have taken plage sinco Fulton first launched his steamer. “et A pretended official report has come out about the con- dition of the Great Eastern, that igevory way, partial one-sided and unreliable. It was made before the creat gale at Holyhead, and before the ship left for Southampton, She rode out the gale at Holyliead that crushed the Royal Charter in three hours, half destroyed the great breakwater, and _strewo the coasts of Anglesea with stranded vessels, Then her trial trip to Southampton, through a heavy ‘was every way successful. The unfavorable reports now flying about are made for the double purpose of depreciating tnd ‘bearing the tock, and injaring Seott Russel, 19 builder, ‘The ship is the most mar structure and the greatest architectural curiosity the world ever saw, and when she moves she is as obedient to the holm and the power of her engines as the gmallest of river craft. Next summer she wiil make owes New York and show your Knickerbocker what Ball can do ia tho art of shipbuilding. ‘The London public, as usual, at this season, are crowd- ing the places of amusement. Among these the Yankees cht avery respectable gure, Howes and Cushing have bought a'farm of 200 acres in Ireland, and haye laid up their great equestrian compaoy for ‘the season They amassed a large sum. McQollum (American also) is {lil- ing the great Alhambra Circus in Leicester square nightly with his troop of horges and riders and @ wonderful per- ormingt bull, The latter is under marvellous. trainivg, nd must have been the classic Taurus, torn from tic Kies, McCollum has Robinson, the great rider, who turns a back summersauit over a horizontal flag, elx feet square, and alights again on his bare-backed horse xt full speed.’ A. 8. Denny, Fsq., has been astonishing the ma- ie loving Londoners with his calliope or steam whistle uring the Jast fortvight at the Crystal Pulave. tis soon to appear at McCollum’s ¢ireus, at the Alhun bra, Nixon, your noted circus proprietor, who has leased Niblo’s theatre for the coming season, has actually bought cout the entire stad, and hired all the performers at Ast- ey's noted Londou amphitheatre, a concern founded by the celebrated Ducrow, abd woieh, in bis hands and in those of Astley, Batty and William Cooke, has been a fix: ture in London for nearly half acentury. This does not break up because London will hot support an establishment, but because the south side of The A‘hambra will probably take the plaze of Aatle: the permanent equestrian amusements of Londoa. {hear that every imaginable species of tatent, and every novelly that can be bought or bired for money, are going to Ame: rica with Nixon, to open at Niblo's early in January. You see your amusement loving crowds are not w be Geetituts. Koowing that the universal Berarp takes & note erything that interests society at large, [stall make no apology for keeping you informed in. matters of snch great importance as the amusement and instruction of the people. n Rarey, Eeq., has roturand esful tour im Trelant t udon for a few nights n ou _ Joho on, after a most 8 Seotiand. "He opens k. in and ambition of th Viceroy has sent Mr Rarey an offer of twenty five biowl- ed horses, a8 good as bonght in Bgypt aud Aradia, if he will Come to “airo and give instruction in his art w So American ge- nis does travel, and well nizh to the ends of the Mr. Seavy, who bas been connected with tho American and the London press, has been Mr, Rarey’s agent in his Tendon apd provineial business, and probably accompa pies bim to Egypt. If Mr. Rarey conelides to go, anit will bring back a troop of Arabian pure bloois, bis atvent willbe looked for in t Tnited States with no ordinary What with camels and Arabian and Foglish horser, if the Americans cannot have a fine lot of saldlo and dranght animals, then the stock raisers of Yaukve land have themselves to blame. Our Paris Correspondence. Paras, Deo. 1, 1859. The Anniversary of the Coup d Etat and tts Reminiseences— What Napoleon has Done for France—His Influence Over England—The Disarmament Dodge—Lords John Russell and Palmerston Divided in Opinion as to the Congres- sional Mission, dc., de. Mep are busily calling to mind that to-morrow will be the eighth anniversary of the famons coup d'etat. The gradual expansion of the power of France from that gloomy epoch will be a favorite theme of the fature histo- rian, and perhaps 2 great encouragement to many a future statesman who thinks he only needs ample room and range enough to be illustrious for himself and for the mil- lious at his feet. There is certainly nothing so successful as success; and history will probably haye no brighter page in the chronicles of the world than that which records | the wonderful nerve and self-dependence of the man who by a wave of his arm awept from the political stage every obstacle to his course, ant in the shortapace of eight years raised a country which was rapidly dissolving into chaos, and exciting the undisguised contempt of surround. ing nations, toa pinnacle of grantness that now holds in astonishment and awe the boldest and most expericnced Statesmen of the world. France made #0 bad a use of the liberty she seized upon that no one commiaserates her present privations. Nay, more: all nations behold ber so contented with external glory in lieu of liberty that they are beginning to think tha’ it is her peculiarity to derive | her happiness from the one rather than the other. It must be confessed there is much to gratify the pride of a nation less given to vauity than France fn the extraordinary position this country now occupies with regard to Europe generally. Every eye is turned to France, and her lightest movement is the pendulum which regulates the world’s machinery. The secret of all this is buried in the brain of a solitary in- dividual, whom a dozen years ago no one spoke of but to deride, and whose flagraut deflan ze, in 1851, of his p'edge word and solema oath pointed him out as a itting subject for the wrath of heaven. It seems to me but yester that 1 saw him issue from the portal of the Eiysve, all pale and stern, mounted on a charger from which miny pre- dicted he would never descend alice. Then, as now, men scanned that unscrutabla vissage in the hope of discover- ing what was pasting within. Bat how different the man ner of the gaze. Them all was distrust ‘and alarta. It was thonght impostible that success could attend such a coup d'état, in the midat of an advanced civilization and a press whose journals were as numerous a8 the leaves of the Sybil. Men remembered, too, how he had twice failed before. Now the glance’ is equally inquisitive, bat it is into the victor of Solferino’s face they look, and there is no longer distrust. His ways are certainly past lading out, but the strange success which attends them has already inspired such confidence in bis judgment or wisdotn, or whatever elge it may be termed, that the Em peror is now above the rules of ordinary life. The aizanigo power he has exhibited in doing what he likes with Evgland, from the moment of his assuming the chief power, seems to be still the same. There are those who do not acruple to say that, were the Emperor left aloue to get out o! the Italian mess, the quagmire would prove too deep for him. If such is. his own op‘nion, he is practicing precisely the same forbear. ance which induced him for two years after the coup @Gtat, in spite of a! the wrath and contumely of the Eng. lish pres, to conciliate England by every species of cour. tesy. The result. was the English and French alliance against Russia. Evyentaalities an Italy reader the co ope- ration of Eogland once more important to him. Ais yelp. ing press is therefore immediately whipped off, all men are desired to speak handsomety of the great country be- yond the Marche, and Lord Cowley, the British Ambassa. dor, is made to belicve that the Emperor is only anxious for a mutual disarmament which promises eternal pace— only—only let England meet him in Congress, ‘The proposed disarmament was exactly the project to mislead aman like Lord Cowley, and it was, of courae, ‘to this that his lordship allnded when he atated, just ba- fore his departure last week for Eogland, that he went and the government proposed to remove every obstacle in the way of its co-operation with France. Of course the Proposition found no favor in Eugland, por, it may fairly be presumed. aid the Emperor expect ‘it todo so; but it looked conciliating, aud was calculated to case discus- sion and perhaps division in a Stave governed by a Cabi- net Council, Ihave heard from what I congider unques- tionable nuthority that Lord John Russell gave the Dalance of bis mind against going into Congress at all. Lord Palmerston was disposed in a contrary direction. THE IMPERIAL SPORTS OF FRANCE, Our Compiegne Correspondence, ComPinaxe, Nov. 29, 1859. rip from Paris to the Vla—Hoyalty on the Road —Kussian Veneration for the Reigning Fimily—Description of Compiegre—Its Farms, Gardens ant Village—Memento of Cardinal Richelieu — Military Ornamentation of the Halls at Present—Dinner and Theatricals—the Emperor Enjoys Amusement and Works at the Same Moment—Morning of Ue Grand Stog Hunt— Visits to the Horses amt Hounds— Reorynising on Ugly Canine Poe— The Mount,and Costume Of the Fidd—Appearance of the Empress, and Napoleon's Care for Her Safety—A Yankees in a Difficulty, and His Ingennity—An Unexpected Lauh— Incidents of the Day— The Dead Stag—Benevolnee of Eugenie, and a Matrim- nial Compliment—-Health of the Royal Family First Bat- tles of the Imperial Prince, de., &e. In my last letter J announced my intention of relating to your readers the details of a grand stag hunt at Com- piegne, and I shall now proceed to make good my pro mise. ‘A day or two ago I started for that favored place, as 1 was informed that a hunt would occar the next day, and hat their Majesties would attend. A ride of two hours and a half in the Chemin de fer du Nord transferred your correspondent to Compiegne, and as Tarrived at midday Thad ample time to devote to the inspection of the cha- teanx and the surrounding grounds. 1 was so fortunate as to go down in the train that | transported some fifty invited guests of their Majesties— among whom J particularly noticed the Grand Duchose Maria of Russia, Her Highness was accompanied by her children. She is afine looking woman, and would be de. cidedly handsome were it not for 4 somewhat unromantic | embonpoint. The children, a son and two daughter , are very fine repregentatives ot Russian royalty; the eldest girl is a beanty, and, a® f was informed by a Rassian gen. tleman present, is the exact image of what her mother Was at | The Russian J refer to seemed to have the ae » and admiration forgthe Grand Da told n th ex eo her i ceding complacency thut be kpown her sir ancy, and that her tleman’s enthusiasm, and told him I entirely agreed with him ip his admiration of her Highness, ‘Upon arriving at the depot at Compiegue, Court car- riages were in waiting for the guests, and soon the whole party was fairly housed and getting ready for the dinner, which takes place at half past seven, and which is, in my humble estimation, the event of the day. Allow me here to give a brief description of this cele- brated place. Compiegne has long been the favorite resi- dence of the sovereigns of France; Tam assured that this partiality dates back as far as the days of the Merovin- gian kings, a fact which greatly increases my respect for the place, Without, however, going back #0 far, I may state that Louis the Eleventh laid the foundation of the present building, which was afterwards enlarged and adorned by Louis XIV. The first Napoleon added mach to the splendor of this residence, being attracted to it by the salubrity and agrecableness of tho place. It was at Compiegne that the Emperor Napoleon the First, met M.- ria Theresa, when she came to share his throne. ‘The chateau is not, in appearavee, by any means a royal or imperial residence; it 8 more like the couutry soat of a wealthy nobleman. The effect of the baildiog is that of elegance and harmony, rather than geandour and nodle- poss, It ts a large, roomy, pleasant country seat, admira. bly adapted for its purpose as a retreat, Where their ma jestics may lay aside the cares and pomp of their high station, aud Where they may enjoy the pleasures of a country life hke any seiigneur. During the last few years, and since the advent to power of Napoicon IL, Compiegné bas been greatly improved, Wuile, to add to the pleasures of a residence here, his Ma jesty has caused some maguiticent English gardens (jar- dins anglais) w ve laid ont in the forest of Pierrefoud, which is near Compiegue. Your readers will no doubt remember that the chateau ot Pierrefonds is the Unest in Europe, and that tho wily Cardinal Ry uu, tocripple the power of its mighty lords, who Were always revoiting against the king's au- thority, caused the solid massive wails to be spit down to the earth atter he had succeeded in taking the chate by starving out the garrison. These walls have been r built by order of the Emperor, and the work haz beon done with such care that it is impossible to kaow the old from the new stone, A corrosive substance which has been applied gives’ to the new portion the ume worn mouldering appearance of the old wall. ‘The palace of Compiegne has undergone lately repara- tions that greatly enhance its splendor. Among the most remarkable improvements ig the new arrangenfat of the Salle des Gardes, ‘This spacions and richly decorated apartment bas been embellished with ea superb panoviies of chased steol, inlart with gold and ‘They are formed of armor won by the kuights of the miodie ages in France, Spain, Germany aud Eag- and. ‘The whole of th grouped with ma taste, the arme dofensive and offensive which were the rom each armor ced by this species of ornamentation is increased by the magnificence of the uniforms of the Ia. perial Guard that is always in waiting in the hall. The dining room is quite a handsome one, and the sight presented when the court and the guests are at theix meals is really a most splendid spectach On the eveniog of my arrival at Compiegne there was a grand performance in the Salle de Spectacle attached vo the chateau. The performers of the Gymunase tueatre had come from Paris on tho occasion, and gave 2 repre- septation of a new play in four acts, by M. Meiihac; en- tied “Le Petet ils de Mascarille.”” ‘The plot of the comedy is this:—An adventurer attempts to marry a re- tired mercbant’s daughter by impressing upon the old geptleman that he can procure for him a politi:al nomi Ration, The olf man isrich,and would willingly pay dcatly for bis hobby. ‘The adventurer is at last, when upon the point of success, batlled by the honesty of his intended dupe, and the daughter marries, instead of the adventurer, the man of her choice. Of course this is but the skeleton of what is a most charming and spirited comedy, that kept their Majasties and their guests in con- stant Mughtor during the evening. ‘The theatre is @ tine oe, built as our American theatros | are, with but one large dress circte and agallery above. | The Emperor and Empress occupy arm chairs exactly in front of the stage. On the rightand left of their Majesties ure sented the princes and princesses of the Imperial fa- mily and the then guests in due order as to rank and sta tion. In the gallery above, the Emperor's Aides-de-Camp and the members of the Imperial household are seated. The salle de spectacle is richly hung with blue silk and gilt hangings, ana bas on each side salons most magnificently decorated, where the Emperor aud ing the enfre acts the more favored of tho visiters, ‘On the ing in question | observed that three or four times during the performance the Emperor received and read despatches, which he at once answered by writ- ing something on them ip pencil. He is always more or less engaged, and never allows despatches to be kept back from him. ‘At the end of the comedy there was a fine feu d’artifice set off on the Jan in trout of the chateau and then, at- ter partaking of a supper the guests retired, with the de- termination of being up bright and carly for the grand stag hont of the next day. ‘At an early hour on the morning of the eventful day, I was up and Was allowed, through the kindness of a friend | who belongs to his Majesty’s household, to visit the sta. bles and kennels. Ladmired the horses, and after hay- ing proved by some profound horse talk that I knew all about the merits of those usetul quatrupeds, IT expressed a degire to become better acquainted with the hounds that ‘Were to chase the stag. Tentered the large house used as a kennel for the pack with some misgivings, having a lively recollection of a misadventure in the imperial Kennels at. Fontainbieau, on which occasion the wind blew the door to, leaving ‘m3 | alone with the pack, one of which, an ugly old one-eyed dog, evinced a savage desire to come to close quarters, very much to my intense disgust and to the unkind amusement of the keeper, who came in just ia timo 1 prevent my becoming dog meat—a sad fate, even if the | dogs be those of his Imperial Majesty. On this | occasion, however, I suffered no inconvenience, save a | renewed feeling of disgust in recognizing old one-eye. The Imperial kennel contains one hundred English dogs and twenty-five bloodhounds, the latter being French | dogs, belonging to the breed called “Briguet d’Artois.”* | The personel of the hunt consists of the reneurs or hunts- | men, whose duty'is to attend to the hounds, and the cheps | d'ecurie aud grooms who have charge of the horses. Tae reneurs are of two classes, those of the first class are | mounted (ralets de chien a cheval,) those of the second claes are on foot (valets de chien i Having visited the house and hes, started to meet my friend at the chateau, and found himn all’the glory of his hunting suit, which ig that ofthe reign of Louis XV. While epeaking of the magniticence of bis appearance, it all atonco flashed acrogs my mind that I had no sach a hunting cos- tume and that Icould not appear at th@ hunt except only attired ala TouisXV. Here was an embarrasment, I had ahoree but no costume. My friend kindly undertook to Procure me one, and finally succeeded in borrowing the hunting suit of one of bis companions who was not to ac- company the hunt. He triumphantly bore back to me the much desired garment, which I at once donned, meeting with no difficulty injso doing, as its owner is at least six feet high and large in proportion, while [ am a small man. Twas determined to witness the hunt, however, and the size of my costume could not deter me. At about noon ithe cavalcade left the chateau for the meet in the forest, and most splendidly did it look. ‘The Emperor and Empress rode along eide by side in front; near their Majesties was Prince Metternich, who rode by the side of General Fleury, the Emperor's fa- vorite aide-de-camp. ‘The Empress looked most beautiful in her natty and most becoming costume, while the lovely Princess Anna Murat attracted universal admiration, Ishal! not attempt giving you the names of all the beautiful ladies present, contenting myself with reiterat- ing that the cavalcade that started from the chateau Com- piegne to the Mect in the foreat was a most brilliant one. Arrived atthe meet, we found the hunting horses and the doge ready, while the venurs were anxious to begin what they call sport. I thought of the Wisconsin and Jowa prairies, of stags that I bad bunted and killed in those prairies, ani I looked upon the present hunting with frolimga of good natured superiority. Some time clay: (ere the hunters could all be suitably mounted, whi the ladies, of couree, required unusual looking after. Lobeerved that the Emperor was particularly attentive as to the secure fastening of the Empress’ saddle, taking Lold of it himself to asaure its safety. At last all were mounted and were ready, and ata sign from the grand renurs, away went the dogs, horses, and consequently majestirs and gaests. What a magnificent sight was this start! The bright rays of the sun gave increased splendor to the glittering gold lace adorned costumes, while the barking of the dogs and the quick tramp of the horses made me for. get in the excitement of the moment the unpleasant fact of my being lost in the folds of my voluminous hunting it. In lees time than I conld recount it, the hunters and dogs had diganpeared, und I remained striving and strug- glibg with my obstinate brute of a horse that would not go, but kept backing and turning round and round, with adegree of composure that rendered me frantic. "I was taken ato disadvantage by the beast of a horse, owing to the large size of my trowsers and the fact that my coat covered me Up, 80 as to almost deprive me of the use of wy limba. But Yankee ingenuity is hard to beat, and by gently striking my penkuile into the horse I etarted him off at a pace that soon brought us up with the foremost of the riders, and which was kept up, until I was far in ad. vance of the hunt, and lost in the mazes of a forest totally upknown to me, Having accomplished this feat, my horse became more reasonable, and I managed to stop him. I had not waited long ere Theard the horns off In the distance, and was enabied thus to rejoin the hunting party once more. Doing 80, I met with the following adventure: Galloping up an avenue, I saw before me a nuanter who ‘was slowly walking bis horse, and whose head was bent forward in a reflective mood. Fired with the ardor of the chare, I deshed towarde the recreant hunter, prepared to ut as I passed a loud “ tally ho,” or something to that effect, for the purpose of arousing bim to a consciousness of the hunt that was going on. This resolve wus some- what cbangea by my recognizing, a4 I neared the bnater, that it was no Icss a personage than Napoleon III, Empo: ror of the ae - As I emery rom the avenue aright met re that ‘Drought me to a stand still at once. You al porhace imagine that ‘twas a fine ten antlored stag at. bay, sur- rounded by the flercest of the pack, gr these same fiercest were pulling down the stag they had just over- taken, No; "twas afne long table, covered with ulent Innch, und maoy, very many bottles of wine, * which had the peculiar long neck observable in nce felt my ardor for the chase '¥ pore, and I gladly consigned my horse to t servant, Not far from the table Thave mentioned, was a smalte one reserved for thelr Majesties, und those they might invite to partate of their lunch. Tobserved as a curious noe that just about this time almost all the han- } ters, male and female, arrived at tue place 1 had go un. expectedly Miscovered, and that coon no yostigs of the h remained—violebt exercise docs give one each an lent appetite, after a brief repose the hont began again, and by ve o'clock the dogs succeeded in rauning wh a fine Slag, which was ohatesa ut in tare | © mplegne tov cour tyar t i ort re nor lees than wk inr tar bonfires wt Ley beast, whitch 4 Vile te bands o On the refer to, balcony over wore om the the cureé, while the crowd that outside up constant and. moat deafer “Vive ’Empereur,” “Vive Tere trice,”” Je Prince Imperial:” Mak 70 of imperialism being with his parents on the balcony, and returning thanks for the evidences of his pore! by a constant bowing and waving of his little id to the crowd, ‘The Emperor and Empress certainly seem to much en- Joy their stay at Compeigne. They frequently walk out upattended, and are treated by the people in the environs of the chateau with just that shade of respect accorded to the seigncur of the locality. ‘The following anecdote was related to me as an illustrs.- tion of the manner in which the Empress manages to pass hor mornings, ‘The story has, I believe, already boon told, but will not from that fact lose its interest—the more £0, as it only occurred last week:— 4 few days since, her Majesty was walking in the forest with some of the guests, when a little girl of aboat nine or ten years of age, neatly but poorly dressed, met the im- perial party. Ob perceiving the Empress’ the child ut- tered a shout of joy, rushed up frantically, and threw her arms around the neck of her Majesty. Tho Empress _re- turned her embrace, and then inquired kindly alter her mother. “She is better,’ said the little girl, ders when you are coming to see us agi “T shall come soon,” said the Empri her this for me; and au revoir.” ‘The ladies and gentlemen of the party wer@ anxious to know how the Empress could have discovered those poor people, who live quite at the extremity of the town of Compiegne, Without the people themselves knowwg who ‘was their benefactress. They afterwards found out ‘hat the Frpress was in the habit of rising at an early hour and going, quite unattended, into the poor quarters of the town to distribute alms to those in distress. Ever since her first visit to Compiegne she has done this, and had it not been tor the accidental meeting of the little girl who explained to the ladies and gentiemen that the “lady” pointing lo the Empress—had been a bon ange to them aud to many others in the village, this act of charity would have remained unknow: Iwas assured that the E ror on the discovery of this* additional evid' uoble spouse’s generosity of heart, kissed her hand in Presence of all the guests, declaring thut every veloped some ew and charming trait in her character, Their Majesties returned to Paris on the third of Decem- ber. The Emperer has bad a cold, but is otherwise in most excellent health, walking and rising or driving each day. ‘The Empress’ locks quite well, and, like his Majesty, tukes a great deal of out-coor exercise ‘The young Prince may be seen at any hour in the day, running about the town, as happy aud healthy as any four year old. His ittle Imperial Highness hos everal companions of his own age, who are ded democrats, to judge from their manner of eating their Imperial play fellow; he is, I notire, how ever, quile ready to take bis own part and battle most Sand often won- in, chere dane. j Mantully for hws tra on the mechanical horse, which runs around with one of the boys on bis back, or for any any of the numerous playthings that ar Gisporal of the children, The young Princ the look of his father when serious, although he ri bles the Empress while smiling. Hoe is quite a linguist as he manages to make himself undorstood in French, Enghsh and Spanis. ‘The last day's shooting at Compiegne is thus record The Emperor, 127 head of game—that is, 3 deer, 6 19 rabbits, 90 pheasants and 49 partridyes; Prince a Motkowa, 89: Baron de Rothschild, 20; Baroa Dupin, 28; the Duke ¢e Leachtenbonrg, 48; Duke de Ia Force,’ 72! Count Sowalotf, 35; Duke de P'Eperre, 69; the Marquis de Toulorgeon, 60; and Count de Meawerkerke, $8. Our Brussels Correspondence. Bess Noy. 30, 1859. What Wilt the Buropean Congress Do?—Proposat for a Grand Diplomatic Work—Relations of the Metternichs of Austria to France and her Rulers—The Amnesty in Aus- tria—Finances of Francis Joseph—Phe Beluian Budget. A® to the labors of the Congress, are they to embrace merely the Italian question, or will they settle the difficul- ties which have arisen in Wallachia, and discuss the limits of the temporal power of the Sovereign Pontii’? Will the Swiss States lay before the Congress, as they said they would, the neutrality of the territories of Fanciguy and Valais? Will not the treaties of 1815 be remodelled? These different points ought, in the interest of order and public security, to receive a defnitive solution; for, so long as the representatives of the great Powers have not Pronounced their verdict, these questions will remain answered, and may, at any day, engender diplomatic conilicts, and maintain Europe in that state of uncertainty which has oppressed it for so many a year, and given a fatal blow to all great mercantile and manufacturing in- terest. A grand work for the Congress to undertake would be the elaboration of a uniform political righ; for all nations— this code to be copsidered as the law W all difficultios pendant between nations, Every instant conflicts arise, | particularly with regard to navigation. Would it not be urgent to possces a maritime right, of which it would sut fice to apply the articles in every contingoucy? This would be a really great service for a Congress to render, and one of the surest means to prevent the tranquillity of Europe being periodically disturbed. The Austrian government has dofinitively appointed to the port of Ambassador at Paris, Prince Richard of Met ternich, eon to the famous chief of the Austrian diplomacy. It is worth observing that Prince Richard, like his tather, ‘was at first Minister at Dresden, a post which he exchang- ed, a8 did his tather, for the embassy at Paris. Fifty years ago, Prince Metternich (the first) wove rovad about Na- poleon (the first) a web, which may bo styled an admir- uble political combination; namely, it united every con:li- tion of dissimulation, treachery aud ingratitude. While Napoleon, allied to the imperial family of Austria by his | marriage with Marie Louise, thought he had nothing to apprebend from that government, Prince Metternict or- gavized a new league, encouraged dissaffeetion among the allies of Franco, and, at Jength, after a glorious and blooty struggle, brough the empire of Napoleon to a close. This is what happened half a century ago. There $8 onco more a Napoleon throning in the ‘ailuries, and a Metternich to represent the court of Vienna; notwith- Stonding thig, the young diplomatist is welcomed ag though his name brought with it no remembrance of the past. ‘These facts, so completely in opposition to the footings of rancor which fester in men’s hearts, howsoever great they may be, lead one to suspect that the intimacy now subsist. ing between the imporial houses of France and Austria is only a snow. In the treaty of peace signed between Austria and Pied- ‘mont, it is said that a full amnesty is granted to all per- fons compromised in the political affairs of the present year. ‘The Emperor of Austria was not slow in executing thie generous clause of the treaty . He immediate- Jy ordered all prisoners incarcerated for political offences to be set at liberty. By these acts of morcy, governments or partics gain more partisans than by severe and cruel meacures. Itshould appear, moreover, that the home policy of the Austrian government is to undergo a com- plete transformation. Tet us examine, in the first instance, what relates to the preee—the power and necessity of which are so well un- derstood in America, but too often unknown among the different peoples of Europe. Whereas, in the United States, the papers are placed on the level of a public power, and coneidered as the safest instruments of progress, gome governments in Europe have wished to enslave the prees and deprive it of the liberty of speaking openly. ‘This is annihilating the mission of journalism and robbing the country of one of its principal means of intellectual emancipation. Austria was ig? those governments who did not understand that the liberty of speaking and pete, Noga: cad thought and civilization. For mauy years cabinet of Vienna used measures of-rigor agaist ‘the German and foreign papers; at present the Ministry of the Police, under which is placed the press department, is more tolerant, or, in other words, more intelligent. Ina financial point of view, you know the Austrian goverment is ma melancholy conditign. A few figures Will elucidate the matter. Since 1831, twenty budgets have closed with deficits, arising to the total sum of 1,128, 835,000 florins ($6¢4,000,000) and elght budgets only have yielded a surplus ot’ 49,058,000 fiorins ($25,000,000) , giving, therefore, for the twenty-eight years a clear deficit Of 1,070,286,000 tlorine ($539,000,000). It is owing to the necessity of making up these differences that the public debt bas arisen from 700,000,000 florins ($350,000,000) in 1831, to 2,243,968,000 florins ($1,122,000,000) in 1868, in- cluding the ‘floating debt, and ‘the gum required for the payment of the {nterests of this debt was not inferior to 95,963,000 florins (forty-eight millions of dollars) in 1858. It is chiefly on account of the impor- tance of the sums which, every year, the government bas to pay for the interest of the public loans issued, and the enormous expenditure of the army, that the finances of Austria are in 80 piteous a condition It is, therefore, on the Ministry of War that economics must be effected. What appears certain, is that the Emperor Francis Joseph has formal intention of pursuing vigorously the finan- cial reform; be has, to this effect, written to the Minister of Finances an autograph letter, by which he commands the formation of a commission who will have to examine and lay before the Emperor the meang best calculated to reestablish the balance of income and expentitare. Lastly, important reforms ure to be introduced into the commercial régime of the different provinces of the em- pire. ‘The Austrian empire does not form one homogene- ous whole; on the contrary, it consists of provinces dif. fering from one another in manners, religion and laa- guage, and which anciently formed small detached king- coms, or were ge! by dynasties unconnected with the Hapsburge. Thus, Botiemia, Hungary, Vonotia, Gallicia, which are now under the yoke of Vienna, are compelled to live under a government moat obnoxious to their feelings. What was and is the result? Risings and revolutions: namely, the Hungarian insurrection in 1849, the war in Lombardy in 1869. According to tho latest. news, it ap: pears that the imperial government has understood that each province is to be administered agreeably to its cus- toms. With this view directions have bsen forwarta wo the Governors to form committees of the notable iahuvi- tas. In thie manner it is probable the Acetrian do- minicn will be able to maintain itself without further cries, Jn Belgium the discussions in the Chambers of Repre Fentatives are now confined to the budgets of the various ministries, This is the annual and indis] ible labor of our Parliament. The projects of new laws and er discussions are commonly postponed till the end of the session, for the government ever takes care to have the Indgets voted at the opening of the Chambers; that is, he credits necessary for the regular march of the minis: crial departments, Our Berlin Correspondence. Bexux, Nov. 30, 1859. Diplomali: Rupture Between Prussia and Hesse-Cassel— Agitation for Constitutional Righte— What is Thou jht of the European Oongrese—Prussia to Move an Inportant Resolution om Maritime Search and Capture in Warne. Marcy's Resolutions of 186% a Basis for tion—-England Suggests the Idea Her Ury. Doing om amervean Thanksgiving Day Tue Heestoa Amb ne UI UI ntIDIE Stat SSSA mmememmeeeeee eee ronemeene ene sunaersnaanee cere lip, in consequence of which the Prussian Ambassador has quitted Cagsel. The public are but moderately alarmed ‘at this diplomatic rupture, which will hardly lead toa “war between Prussia and the powerful Electorate of ‘Hesee; but it shows tbat the bearing of the policy latery | adopted by this government is per‘ectly understood in | all the members of the “Bund,” | | that quarter, and resented accordingly. The Elector of ‘Hesse is furious; and not content with breaking off his diplomatic connections with the Cabinet of Berlin, he has addressed a memorandum to the German Diet, complain- ing of the attempt now made to rovive the constitution of 1831, Which has been set aside with tho free consent of cluding Prussia herself, ag incompatible with the “monarchical principle.” To give the devil hib due, it must bo admitted that the reproaches of the Elector are not quite unfounded, the Manteuffel Ministry having undoubtedly “gone the entire ‘animal’? in the way of reaction, and co-operated as zeal- ously in the destruction of tho Heesian constitution as the Elector himself could desire, This places the present a: ministration in rather an awkward position, and the have to suffer in some measure for the sins of their prode- cosgors; but they deserve all the more credit for haying entered upon a liberal conrse of action, which, though ik ecures the sympathies of the nation, exposes the govern- ment they represent to the charge of inconsistency, and affords their adversaries a pretext for assuming tho airs of offended innocence. Pubhe opinion, however, is so manifestly on the side off Prussia, and the stand she is now making for constitu- tional rights is so eminently calculated to extend her influence in Germany, that even in the opposite camp: it has been thought advisable to yield to the force of cir- cumstances, and to bid for popular favor against hor. ‘The Ministers of the second, third and fourth rate States, have just met in solemn couclave at Wurtzburg, under the: anspices of the mighty kingdoms of Bavaria and Saxony, to deliberate upon the conaition of the fatherlaad, aud to consider what reforms may be required for the better ing of tbe federal institutions. Austria takes no o3- tensile part in these conferences, but itis not the less. certain that she is behind the scene of the fartocetné whom she has g The Sa: Premier, M. de Beust—tho Talieyrand of this miniature Copgress—is known to be devoted, body and soul, to the Court of Vienua; and the Austrian and philo-Austrian press} ieutly received orders (© pull it off in ew vable manner, and to expatiate npon the be rily arise from its deliberations. The reforms, they say, whicls are concluded upon by the smalier States will have no: other object than the welfare and security of the country at large; whereas thoge suggested by Prussia only aim at establishing her predominauce in Germany aud reduciag all the other States to the rank of her vassals, Itis eyi- dent from this that the reaymotive oF there conferences is. to effect a diversion in the interest of Anstria, and coun. ternet the policy of Prussia, but it is not impossible that after all, their actual result will be favorable to the latter, By admluing the necessity of reforms they practically abandon the theory of the absolute perfection and impee- cability of the federal constitution, which was go strenu- ously” insisted upon, until ‘quite lately, by ta anti-Prussian party; and it only remains w be seen now what kind of reforms they really mean to bring forward. If they aro such ag are likely to promote the politieal unity of Germany, to put an end to the conflicting aud separa- tistic policy’ of the various petty governments, to give full effect to the paragraph of the federal act that prescribes. the introduction of representative insututions ia every State belonging to the confederation, aud to protect the liberty of the subject against the arbitrary encroachments of irresponsibie power, Prussia will be well satisfied to assist in carrying out measures that coincide with the ‘views she has herseif expressed. If, ou the contrary—as it auch more probabie—the preteuded reforms should prove to be mere shams, invented for the perpetua- tion of that system of military and bureaucratic rule which forms the basis of the present federal Union, and which bas hitherto enabled its members to set at. naught the wishes of their subjects, the nation will be more convinced than ever that they have nothing toex- pect from these little despots, and they will turn witn re- newed confidence to Prussia, which has apparently the will,and certainly has the power, to relieve them. Iam inclined to believe, therefore, that whatever may have been the intentions of its originators, this move will ulti- mately rather tend to accelerate than to impede tne de ‘yelopement of the German question. ‘AS to the great European Congress which has been so: long looked forward to, apprehensions are expressed that, instead of accomplishing its pacific mission, it will’ only give rise to more serious complications. "Tho sudden and ostentatious digplay of frieudsbip op the of the Freneh Emperor towards his quondam ally, is re- garded here with great suspicion; in fact, iis generally feared that the Congress will lead to an open " between France and England, in which Prussia may pos- sibly be involved. It is, perhaps, in view of such an event that the government has uctermined to submit a. posal to the assembled Powers, the importauce of which can hardly be overrated, and which, if accepted, will inaugurate a new era in naval warfare. ‘If my ifor- mation be correct (and it is derived from asource in which I have reason the utmost confi. dence), Pruséia will propose that in future private property of ail kinds is to be exempt from capture on the high seas, not only by privateers, bat by armed vesse's of every denomination, with the excop- tion of contraband of war, the articles constituting vhich- are to, be determined by general agreement. It will be recollected that a proposition of a similar nature, which. coincides with the doctrines laid down by Secretary Marcy u his celebrated deapatch, was made at the Conlerences of Paris in 1856, but declined by the British Plesipo:en- tiaries, who, though {willing to discontenauce privateering, which the enormous naval jforce of Englaad rendered suprecegatory, were still desirous of retaining the pow it afforded her of paralysing the resources of her enemi by cutting off their trade. Atpresent, however, marked change has taken place in the circumstaaces of the case, and far from opposing the motion of Prussia, England’ wou!d not only support it, but is even believed to- have suggested and'advised it. The immense developement of the French maritime power has placed Eng- land in a position of comparative inferiority, which would be severely felt in the event of a naval war. With the French navy on a par, or nearly go, with her own, she would be unable to detail armed ‘Vesse!s in sutli- cient number to convoy her fleets of merchantmen which are dispersed over the ocean ‘ from Indus to the Pole,” and they would fall an easy prey to the French cruigers,. who would be hovering about in every direction. Un der the present system, therefore, a naval war with: France would be ruinous to the commerce of Englaad; ber intercourse with her colonies would be interrupted, her splendid lines of packets would either have to rot in their harbors or be captured by the enemy, while the Freoch- mercantile navy is so insignificant that she would not even hage the pleasure of retaliating the- losses inflicted upon her. It seems F eroreays enough that such considerations may induce England to abandon: her traditional policy, aud to acquiesce in an mnoyation. which she has always scouted as long asit was only urged: in the name of humanity and civilization, but which she now finds agreeable to her own interests. Russia and the- other Eu States will, of course, be delighted with 2. p which would have the effet of placing their trade: beyond the reach of piratical attacks either of the overgrown naval Powers; but it is doubtful whether France will be equally ready to adhere to it. Up to the present time, indecd, she has constantly stood up for the liberty of the seas and if she did not adopt the principle advocated by the United States, it was chiefly out of deference for England, with whom she was then on terms of the amity. AsI have just. stated, however, the case is altered now-a days, and it is @ great question whethor she would consent to forego a weapon she has been forging with so much assiduity to annoy and injure her former ally. On the other hand, she could not openly reject such an arran, it without incurring the charge of grosu: inconsistency, and drawing down upon nereelf the wdig- natiol juences of © mn of the whole civilized world—the which a man like Louis Napoleon, who is well aware of ‘the value of public opinion, can scarely fail to appreciate. Itmay be hoped, therefore, that if a motion of the na- ture alluded to should be offered by Prussia at the ap- Proaching Congress, it will not be seriously resisted by any of the dominant Powers, and that naval warfare wii! be purged from a relic of barbarism which converts the open and honorable contention of rival nations into a sys- tem of license#l rapine, which, if pursued on dry land, in- ont Oe [ood high seas, would cover its perpetrators with merited ign 3 On Thuraday, the 2th inst., Thanksgiving Day was ke by the Americans residing in, or pie through Dorks. at the Kronprinz Hotel, where dinner was served toabout feventy native or adopted citizens, The United States Minister, Mr. Wright, and the mem- bers of the legation, attended. The health of the President ‘was drank .with enthusiasm, as was that of the royal family of Prussia; and the utmost hilarity and good feeling: prevailed among the company. Interesting from Japan and China, THE UNITED STATES SURVEYING SCHOONER FENIMORE COOPER—HER CONDITION BEFORE THE WRECK. [From the Overland Obina Register, Oct. 13.) A friend has been good enor to placa at our disposal the following letter from a gentleman on boa'd the United: States Surveying schooner Fenimore Cooper:— Yox1ama, Jajan, Sept. 12, 1850, We had quite a pleasant cruise to Kanagawa and made- some good surveys. But our work is interrupted by the- discovery of rotten timbers in the vessel’s frame—forty- one of her timbers in that condition, only seven sound. The keleon rotten at the atop of the foremast; to repair her- would be equivalent to rebuilding the vessel. On the 2a ultimo we had @ cyclone, and the achooner etriking in four fathoms water, Mr. Thorborn beached her to savo the lives of the crew, instrnments, &c. Her keel was injured, but tho repairing sould not have re quired more than a week or ten days, as the Rassian- Commodore offered every assistance in ripping up the ceiling. Preparatory to repairing we discovered tno rot- ten tim! or Coenmh Pie's ihe point at Yokiama. e Powbat ‘expected, and it is probable that she ‘will take us to Hong Kong, thence two shall go by clipper” to ‘ono of ihe crow of the e Crew ¢ Fenimore Cooper was wounded afew days since by the accidental discharge of a pistol, but is now doing well. , ‘We havo had two cyclones since our arrival; the bo'- ing ground is good, and though most of the vessels drag- ged, none struck. The Japaneso treat us very kindly, but our sitnation i= not a pleasant one. I haye much to write, but the steamer leaves early to-morrow morning, 89 I must clowe,”” THE MURDER OF RUSSIAN SEAMEN BY THR JAPANESE. {From the North China Herald, Sept. 24.) ’ We have been furnished with the following authentic: account of an ontrage on foreigners in the neighborhood ot Yokiama, one of the pew ports of Japan:— ‘On ihe evening of the 26th of A was committed in the strects of erected by the Japa: The vietim Commodo consisted some Itzebor boon cugaged in purchasi ans belonging to the pot, then Jyingg in they ty