The New York Herald Newspaper, March 5, 1860, Page 2

; INTERSTING FROM EUROPE, AVARIVAL OF THE AFRICA, TWO DAYS LATERNEWS fhe Unsettled Condition of Con- tinental Affairs. ANNEXATION OF SAVOY TO FRANCE. The Probability of a European Congress. RHapoiewa to Defer to the Opinion of the Great Powers, amy crial Bali at Winter Palace, Ss. Petersburg. Dre “BENICIA BOY” IN TRAINING. ‘Our -Lon@on, Paris acd Borlin Cor- respondence, &o., xe. ae, Yhe Cunerd steamship Africa, Captain Shannon, which ‘Jeft Liverpoe! at pine o'clock in the foreneoa on Saturday, ‘the IMtret February, arrives at her doek at Jersey City eerty y¥rcrday (Sunday) merning. Her attvices are two days Imterfthan those brought by the flinburg; but the ews i not very important ® iz siated that the French government had entered Mato reiations with Prussia as a member of tue Zollverem qwitt-c view lo negotiating a commercial treaty similar to ‘av-concluded with England. Pruseia is said te have “Ware tho first advances. ‘Pho official Dresden joernal publishes a despatch from ~“BerPeteredurg to the effect thet Russia had rejected the Meech propositions for the gettlement of the affairs of any. The Austrian Gazette announced positively on the 16th ~@e>ruary that the anawer of Count Reichberg to th) da atch of M. Thouvenal on the Ttalian question had no: heen “given. It also contradicted the statemont that tho Prince ‘von Hesse proceeds to 3t. Petereburg on an extraordinary ='se00. Wt was asserted that M. Thonvepal had sent a despatch to Yienna reminding Austria of ber promise coucerning TFenetla, ‘A letter from Rome !n the Nord says:— Violent measures are said to be in contemplation here ‘mmeoug the higbest persounges in the government. The ‘fest would be the excommunication of the Kiog of Sar- Winie and of the sovereigas who may assist him; next, tho -placivg of their kingdoms under interdict; then, the con oration by the Pope af a.goncra!-council to examine the qmention whether or got the fall of the temyorat power wf the Popes may pol be uecribed te the imprudent genceesicns made by ‘the Holy Sce im concordats, and ‘whetber those conceesion: ht pot to be retracted as e@evirary to the principles of the church. Such are the ‘wild projects put forwa:d by ultramontanism. Large numbers of poliical prisoners from Venetia were ‘Delng tent to Sclavoniaand elsowhere Sy the Austrian government, Im the House of Commons, on the 16th of February, a gaotion by Mr.,W. Williams to abolish flogging in the British vepmy and Davy was negaiived; and one by Sir G Na- pier for improvement in manning the navy was adopted. Mr. Disraeh gave notice of action that the House should seeusider the commercial treaty before the budget. ‘The London Post of the 17th ultimo remarks:— The recognition of tho republics ef South America in QW, the signature of the treaty im 1827 betercea Groat ~ , France and Rursia, which chad for its result the establishment of Greek independence, the recognition and support of the independence of Balgium after 1830—these Mmstances all prove that the coures taken with reference ‘to Raty has been only tn accordance with those sound tra- s@ipons of our foreign policy, to which Wellington and Oas- Mereagh, not less than Canming and Grey, leat tho sanction wf tbe high authority ‘The budget and the commercial treaty with France con- finved to be actively canvassed, and meetings pro and con were being held by the various commorcial bodies MBreughout England. ‘A motion was pending in the Common Council of Lon- don to present the freedom of the city in a gold box to Mr. Cobden, for his distinguished services in the cause of Bree trade. The German journals state that Mr. Cobden shad declined the Croes of the Legion of Honor, offered to edi by tho Emperor of the French. ‘The Liverpool Journal of tae 18th of February says:— ‘We have a copy of a despatch from Mr. Campbell, our “Kepeu) at Lagos, and well kaown to many in thie town @4 tp Manchester, in connection with his intolligent ef- ‘Warts to increase and develope the growth of cotton in ‘Weetern Africa. Respecting this, he says:—*The cotton @aported from this port in 1858 will show an increase of bout a thousand bales over the previous year, and it ls expeeted that the Ree even this year will show a satis- @actory increase of that useful etapio.”” ‘The same journal says:— Mts contemplated by the panels, me Tele- ggraph Company to a'tempt, in the couree of the ensuing @ummer, to raise the injured portiwn of the Atlantic cable Mm order to remedy the defective portion, and to bring ry apio work ng order. ‘Tho British Board of Trado returns for the month and sgpear ending December 31, 1859, were issuod, and show a Jango Wnsrease. The figures for tue month being £10,827,- 00, aghinst £10,058,000 in 1858, aud £7,148,000 in 1857. he respective yearly tolals are £130,440,000 in 1859, 116,608,000 in 1868, and £122,066,000 in 1657. Queen Victoria held her first levee of the season at St. James! palace on the 15th February. Mr. Henry A. Stone, ef New York, was presented to her Majesty by Mr. Palas. ‘The iron.masters of Glasgow had agreed to keep all ‘Meir farnaces out of blast for another fortnight. The Scouman.of the 16th ultimo saye:— Wi repmations ere being made in scientific circles for a Oreade rivnwevf scientide men from all parts of the would, to take ploce ip the month of August; and we be- Hewo that, .in a'idition to many of the continental savans, noi. us Bohobiozt (“ex itinere arricano rduz'’), Scoater dee, very many of the scientific men of Grout Britaia an Amaj.ca bave garolled their names. It ta intended to be eld gnavauy in ane of tho capitals of the world, and aus Uo. acraptage cnsuing from we British and Ameri- en S5.ociatvens for the advancement of science, aud the meeting of German patura'lsis, will be combined with be greax r_advantages resulting from we hewvape | together @f represeniauves of ecienoe froma all parts of the uni sveree. By dhe co-operation of the potentates of tho vari- @ur countries of Europe, Asia and America, the arrauge- mei.ia regarding travelliog will be such as hardly to de ‘Bar, as e-yuenthe case, the poorer follower of science from mingling in the throng of the aristocracy of intel- Yec:, it being one, cf the principal aims of the congress the ritigg yauug men of the cay should be by that # introd:.ced to public Gotice aad to the great masters Sof science. ‘The Britieh army estimates jad been published. The Me's) atownt required is £14,842,000, being a net increase last year of £1,992,078. The iand force is to number OCG men, ar increase. of (455. In addition to this , fy East Indiad establishment is 92,000, making the total “fmmpder 235,000 men. ‘The. manufacture of the Arm stegyz guns absorbs a large portion af the increased esti- ‘Thy. *ondon News of the i6th ultimo cays:— Mr, Feenan, the Amer! pugilist, be:ter known in the jProfeasicual world as the * icia Bor,’ has located nim. ‘Beit pt. a Harnhogn, adjoimng the eky of Sausbury, swhere. bo is und the rerainiog for the ~poceassary- g contest wis Sayeragor the ehampionship of fries . An offtciss investigation iato the burning of the ship En- ‘Qurion, in tho Mersey, was commenced In Liverpool on fy 1bth ultjres, at the instapes of the Board. An objec- ‘tan. x05 raisedon behalf of the Amerigan Consp/, against ‘he perindiction.of the court, on tite ground that she Endy- mion #AS an American ship, and the ingyiry was couse- «ently adjourned to the 28th Febreary. ~Bhe dpeth of the Rev. Dr. Murray, Bishop of Rocket er, © anounced, ‘The uew Whitworth guns had voce tried with sucoses. ‘Tm range etd accuracy the Armstrong gun 1a said to have een serpasmed. ‘The juurnal Bretagne, published at St. Bricuz, had been g@mppresmed. The rcason given for the suppression is the pe blication of an adcrcsa of three deputies to the Emperor, wWeich, by lamenting that the prolongation of incertitade qroulé separate all sincere Caiholica from tne canse of the Bmpecsr, is a sort of protest against the policy of the govornguent as regards the Roman question. ‘The Pasis Bourse on the 17th ult. was firmer, and ad- anced l6c., Fentes closing ai 67 70. ‘The King of Sardinia arrived at Milan on the 18:h Feb- Wuacry, and was received with extraordiuary enthusissm., ‘Vouillot, editey of the late Univers, bad arrived at NEW YORK HERALD, MO‘Wp to make its appearance simultancously at Paris, Braccels | and Geneva, ‘The new Roman Joan hed been negotiated with Boizian | Capitaliste—tbe Thre per cente at 66 and the Fives at 93. Nine hundred Bavarians, enlisted for the Panal army, had arrived at Ancona, and others were expectad. Aurtris bad probibited the export of a large quantity of arm which were on the way to Servia through her ter- ritory. | lu the Prussian Legislature the First Chamber hed dia- cussed the governmen: Matrimonial law, and had rejected Otvil marringe in every form ‘The latest reports from St. Petersburg contain the fol lowing interesting Kemp: — Tt may be recutleoied that the telegraphic project of an American tw Europe with America acrosa the whole of As America, via Bobring’s atraits, 14 now De: ore the Rogsien powerptaent, and it ie thought *yilt be adjutted soon The onginecr® who have had cP args of | the su Kuzan to the amoo, wili be ween wiuter $4 very mild, and covseqnently wo have no cunetme ot mooalight. The weay er has been dork und cioney Th jged public debt of Russia #3 1 ,600,000,900 the ruble, 600,930.00 of this is of the governmeat ia circulation, mM ont for gold. Field Marehal Prince Baratinsky && about returning to wvCHBRS to resuMeE-command there in person. rument will ptraue the same course 1% China thatthe United States has; +. The miknian atil! hoids or ia Pekin | Bubject of wwe UP Out of the Engheh-Frouck iava tien. ‘The Kurrian treaty with Okina bas not peen ratifl sd. The Amoor quistten bothers the Chiness; hut the Rua faGOR Dave great guve there now, and steam—that eeities |] the question Messrs. D. Bell, Son & So. report Amerioan Securities as follows :— During the part week there ‘has boan more activity in tha market for Americau securities, and eome large purchases have been mate, both of the United States and soparate State stocks. been in the Michigan Cevtral eight per cont and the Pa- nama seven per cent hens, The Loudon Times of Friday, February 7, says Amort- CAD securities show pe-change of importance, and ¢wtes fales:—United States five per cent bonds, 92)<; Illinois Central sbarea, 4334 0 44. The Tentonia arrived at Southampton on the morning of the 16th of February, The Nove Scotian arrived at Liverpool at half past nine o’clock on the evening of the 16th ult., and the Circassian reached Galway on the same day. The Fulton arrived at Southampton on the 17th ult. OUR DESPATCHES. Our Londum Correspondence. Loxpon, Feb. 17, 1860. The New Enguish Budget— Proposal to Reduce the Number of Articles Liable to Duty to About Pyfleen, Comprising Articles of Lumury and of Genero Ounsumption—Effects Of the Abolion of the Duty on Paper—Gppention to the Budget and Forthcoming Speech of Mr. Disraeli—Mr. Pealody Denies Having any Vonnection with the Finan, cial Columns of the London limes—Theatrical Affairs, dc. ‘The oracle bas gpokeu. Lips that erst were sealed have uttered wisdom. The budget of the-Chancelior of the Ex- chequer, like and unlike the box of Pandora, has given us @ catalogue of goocs and evils, and to some, I fear, even hope does uot remain behind. Whether Palmerstou’s Cabinet is to be upset on the budget, or the treaty without the Dudget—but how one can go down without the other i very problematical—is a matter that will remain to be seen after cx Chancellor Dizzy has unrolled his budget of objections on Monday next. The financial state- ment of the Homeric echolar is = most compre. hes sive mexsure, and whatever may be sald of the policy of ame of its prepesitions, is one that shows great grasp of mind and emivenily statesmantke views IT I sm nos yreatly mistaken, the budget of Mr. Gladstone and the proposcd treaty will be profitable studies for your states- mev and eecretaries of the treasury im the United States: There sre various miner points tbat are matiers of groat interest bere that have littie interest in the United States— | for instance, the licensing of ai] eating houses to sell beer and wine; but the main features of the budget, unless I read i wrong, will form the car- dial points of commercial policy for great ne tions for many long years to come. Before Sir Roburt | Peel’s great measures of free trade, Bugiaud charged a | custom duty on rome four hundred articles that were im ported. He took off at one fell soup th duties from some two bundred and fifty, and they have sinee been reduced down eo that the custome revenue now comes out of abou forty-five different articles Mr. Gladstone proposes to cut them down tosume fifteen—all articles of luxary —like wine, spirits and tobacco, or of universal consumption, | like tea, coffee and sugar, And what does such | & measure sccomplish? Why, firstly, it sim. plifes the operation of the customs, Svooudly, | it relieves all manufacturers, small and large, o the burdens ana imposts on raw materisl—duties om cot top, wool, and scme other articles of great consumption | bad been abolished previously; ani then itenabies any ard all persons who have peculiar tastes, to buy their ar- ticles of fancy or utility—textile fabrics, gloves, jeweiry, watches, certain manufactures, and @ thousand other things, io avy market in the world that they prefer. By abolisbing the excise duty as well ns the customs duty ‘op paper, there is agroat burden taken eff of all pab- Ighers and makers of books and periodicals, and of course from the public; and it relieves the Manufacturers of go useful aa article from a coustaat vo- lice or exciee espionage, which 1s now kept up as rigidly as if all paper manutactorers were makers of ceunterfeit money. Then there is another consideration. The thirty Miilions of people in these inlands cat a groat deal; in fact, the climate as well as the in-iustrious habits of the people ig such, s8—I speak now from experience—to give the people very sharp appetites; and you are aware that, though there is a Beuish Firth iv the Highlands of Scot- Jape, thie country is not a perfect Beulah, The greatest capitaliatic joy nere ig maaiveated by those dealers in black diamonus, owners of colliectes. Hore- tofore France has protected the little parley vous cousin, neighbor Belgium, by making a probibitory duty against Eugiish and other coal, and only receiving Rslgias. How far Louis Napolcon is going to put the United States along with the ‘most favored nations’’ in the great reduction of duties on foreign goods, you must obtain from your Paris correrponcents If cotton mauufactures, toys, clocks, furniture, and a great many ariicles that you producs in large quantities for export, can go to France as they are to go trom England, you can afford to get your wine glasses ready for Bordeaux claret or via or’:naire, und drink » goodly quantity. But, could any one belleve how email quentities of Eag. lish wanutactuses are €x orted aunually w France. M-. Gladstone says 7,000 for machinery, aud £253,000 for other goods The intercsting feature of the budget to you will de the aboiition or large reduction of the dxties hero in Fog!and on varions articies of food and other raw ma- teriais, prominent among which is timber, Mr. Gladstoue PayB:— We propcae to abolish entirety and immediately the dat butter. « sieide £95 0.0 (cheers); the duty on tallow, w! 8) 00; the duty on cheese, which yielde £44,000 (oheare); lemons, yieldi ‘oD nute £7 UO; = . £1,L00;_ paper. ‘various other mioor articles the to itious amounting ty £382.00) 1 propose, line- a Ave articies of great iaport: nuts, £9-000; dates, tal of these abo. wise, 8 reduction of duties w great - auce, one of which strikes at ‘he prine!pal differential duty, ox. cept ihoae which we have Killed by :he Frenob tresty—namely, the auty on timber (Oheera) I om timber frou 7a. éd. und 1ée. to (Cheeys > Yor may pot have much timber to snare, but the Inm. ber men of Maine, Georgia, Virginia and Fiorida, will be ‘on the same fovting us those in Cansdaand New Bruvs- wick. nd now, tf the American farmers and deirymen can produce a good article of cheese, jet them show their banée in it, for Jobu Bull is a great choeso oater, aad cheese here brings a bigh price. Tae Amerioan are gencrally too large aod too soft for the Fogiish taste Perbaps the moet straightforward and statistical assount of the budget i in Punch’s postical version:— ‘ben comes the treaty Jnr alia France will econ let in (ALD, 50) sogar cryatal, Inco, oval and rags wire and dye wood, china, glass, cotton and eloth and 1 and carriages, machinery, brandy rope, {Proncse to recuge the duty e coiontal rate of Is. and 24, Dy And 8 Jong ‘fat of ther thitgs to harimer, drink or muash; LT very much regret to add. ehs will uot let tn 2 We, on ihe other band to let in, duty Bu phuriec acid, agates, tree corks and embroldery. Ciceks, gloves, Bate, canes, quitine, brocade, raw fraite and China ware, Ole ard pianos, perfumes, grapes, and all things made of hair. Then, as to wine, we'll Jet # in at duties much Drought dowa, Three bob a gallon for the beat that can be hoaght fo town; Brandy at etght acd tupponce to the Hritied shore shall comme, Ard ihe eame duty fail on Frepeh as on coivaisi rum. Le thinks pow aud then there will be some seliish cur. Mucgrone, like the great brewore, who will make @ groat fues use their own e trodden oo. For such objectors I must exy profound contempt I feel, Lats cut up private fatted calves and belp ths Common Weal. Good wholesome wines of France let's bring to everyhody's | ing £02.00 on exas, £82,000; 00 | Re noice! upon—and whieh ie only * « France, which can- net always be groceres eke maa a letter of ten sheets that will not exoer g™l oun send you s letior of two pos’ages. With the b ketters to you usually er weight, abd that me" (40t Engtieh paper I can get, 2Y acetal coven sheets, or an vanes {a . ee tage ninety #1x cents ia- mana of forks seita—there being bo division of post s beyond tb, Arst ounce, except by ovoces, or two postages ®& B'sime. There is no triple rate. The whole _Testage acrogs the Atlantic i most yusatisfac- lory, cet iu the matters of speed and regularity. Ir, Gladstone showed the chickory importers a pier of hay p practios in bis budget speech. He took the vale PY cpg w duty of six shillings acwt on chickery, tast “uight, to take «flect at once, and it passed. Chickory hat been free for some time, and a6 a duty was expected, large quantities were coming up the Thames The next moreng Oiteen vessels loaded with chickory were enter ed, and met the Custom House officials wan a daty of peerly a penny @ pound on ali their cargoes, amaaating w 008 Sons. . I bear there 18 to be @ tremendons oppnsition to the Dudget, but 2 is DO way certain that it wil De sulficieatty powertul to upset the Ministry. If it i#, thes prodanly Palmerston will appeal to the country aud dissolve Paria ment We abali see. On Mouday evening next Me Bou jam we raeli will deliver one of bie most etfersive speech és, kud the ecbeers will them be om the other aie of the Hovee,-among the tories. Fwencisl allure here, daring the tims the great moa sures of the treaty and the budget are under iiscussi0, are im a rather uncertain and fluctuatiog Taking fluence and financiers, 14m reminded that Mr. Gao'ge Peaboay state that some remark @ lettor or eWo. ta the HExALD from some of your correspondents, a> rut his Prrvaie affatrs aud pubiic opinions, were ast cyrrect He declares that be does pot edit the flaancial cobuuau of the or affect ite opinions He mays he 1s not oa. y with the writer of the city articl» a’are faid. Mr. Peabody is alno perfectly willing that to» Florida Senator, who could not negotiate Fioriza ra.lrowd bonds here by means of his help, shat) abuse bim ar Touch aa be likes He says he has never had ovcasion 10 find fauit with mis partners. Mr. P. does no court pubhe attention or notoriety im any form, but aitends t» bis own private banking, benevolent aad. educauonsi projects. Certainly, there are communities in the Unite ‘States that are largely indebted, ant will be throagh a lopg future, to two American bankers in Loadon—M: Yeabocy and Mr. Joshua Bates, of the firm of Baring, Tp railroad ‘bonds the chief basiness oas | Bro’s &Co—for their endowment of literary aod educa Uoral establishments in Baltimore, Boston and Danvers The 22d of February i@ coming; but whether the annual bupkom and “spread-ragleism” will “oom ol” here by a little crowd of Yankees, thie depovent saith pot, as he knoweth pot. Before Mr. D. E Sicchs went ito tbe political and gunpowder line on your aide, he succeeded in putting @ stip to some very agrecable, sumptuons and pripcely banquets, gor up dy a well kuewn American bapBer bere, and on the heels of i got organized & very weak American Association What goo? they co themselves or others, or bow much gas tocy mapu acture for the market bere, I have ne meaus of in forming you, but I presume it ie sou”? Theatrical affairs are flourishing. Mr. Harrison aad Mise Pyne bave the Covent Garden, and thoy fill it aight When the great 4 of Americans begins ty stream over bere in July—Londoa fashiouabie eeasou—they will De enablea wo see in the new Covent Garden theatre an edifice, with decorations, scenery, splen‘tor of wifect ant operatic performances, which canoot be found on the west side of the Atlantic, even at Havana Until [ cisited tt first time, a few weeks tince, Thad no ilies of ia tude or magrificepse Tye Christmas pantomime of in Boots’’ 16 on @ grand scale, and bids fairey run, in cop- nection with the Opera, for several months to come. Tarpon, Feb. 17, 1840, The Trial of Whitwcrth's Rifted Cannon—Probable D-fex! of the British Ministry—Louis Napoleon ant the Ut tramontanes— Disagreement of the Directors of the Great Kestern—Her Next Captain—Subscriptiona for Oapiarn Harrison's Widow—A Great Mercantile Law Suit-—Lady Franklin's Visitert—Oheap Newspapers ~Washinyton’s Birtiday im Lemdon—Bffects of the Wine Duties Reduc tion—Theatrical News, Law S$ sits, de, dc. Tet us call your special attention to the Southport cor- respondent's letter (Mr. Wood's), first favorably known as the author of the “Crimean Letters” in the Loodon Herald, in the Time; of to-day, on the tial of Mr, Whit- worh’s rifled cannon. Mr. W. Howard Russell, the pub- lic s own special correspondent, was there; 80 we may cx pect what we shall seo in his Army and Navy @aveite, o; to inorrow, Saturday, the 18th. The Far] of Clarendon, who just left our bureau, says, that it is just probable the Ministers will be defeated on tho budget. The Irish and Fuglish Catholies, mightily dis pleased with Louis Napoleon, and his conduct to the Pove, talk of coalition, and if joined by the oonservative par. ty, you may infer the reeult. We think the budget will pass after a great deal of talk irrelevant and to the pur- pose. ‘Thero Beems to be a want of unanimity among the newly elected directors of (he Great Steamship Company. Qap- tain Mangies 1s said to be backing ont, and the Marquis of Stafford is thought not @ be easy m his seat; so that he imsy probably retire. Apropos of this big, and biibarto unfortupate craft, about £2,000 have been already aud. ecribed to the fumd for the reltef of the widow of the late Captain Harrison and histamily. The supporters, Mesers. J. H, Dilloo and others, in this just cause, Srmiy /Wlieve that the good friepdr of the lamented Ceptain tn America (Sew York and Boston especiaily) will one aad all be giad to subscribe. We understand that subscriptions will be received with you by Mogsrs, Duncan, Sherman & Oo. The future captain of the Great Eastern will be, it is thonght, Captain Jobn Vine Hall (thaa whom sone moro competent), who formerly oommanded the Crovgus and Golden Fleece, belonging to the General Screwship Com- peny We regret to learn—and, but that it will soon be made public, should not have attended to it—that the share holders of the Kuropean and American Steamship Oom- pany (as a company, under the Limited Liability act, do- Tonct and insolvent) bave instituted au action agains: that worthy gentleman aud merchant, Mr. T, Rodney Croskey | for the eum of £600,000, being the entire amount of the money received by Messrs. Croskey & Co. during their management of the company, on account of the shipa. It appears to be a dispute as to matters of accouuis, and the rea! sum at iseue is about $40,C00. Tus will come to wisl and be Jeft for a jury to decide. 1) has previously (this case of dispute) been referred to arbitration, and broke off by Mr. Croskey, who had cause to think he was not being used fairly. Many commercial wen think it will go in favor of the shareholders. Mr. Margetson, the great warehouseman, is Mr. Croskey’s principal opponent. We were, on Tuesday evening, right glad to wel- come back to London Mr. Cornetias Grinnell, acuin- panied by his sister, on @ visit to Lady Franklin, at Ler houee ip St. James’ place, Green Park. Mr. C. C ell is staying at the mausion of Mr. Andrew Arcudcckns, $5 Aibemarie street. The name of Grinnell stands high with us, and deservedly 0, and, be assured, whenever ibe father comes again to Lnciand, be will be welcomed by ail capable of sppretiaing his sterling worta. Fravkiin’s gravtude ismbounded. By the way, or is here Got, an overland arclic expedition a! organized in America ? e are told--and aithough it is pot the Ist of April wo are averse to being foolet—shat the London fine wili Woukin’t the per: The reai truth st, w bo lowered in prive 89 ¢ the beneilt of $40,00. will save by thers a year—the sun the “Taun duetion of the paper duty morning Mr. G. W. “Mf. Rey rold’s, the proprietor of Reynold’s Lay (crrcalstion 156 ceo week and Reymolil’s Miscellany (circuiation 287 OLO week!y) that, the paper duty off, and he willspoedi'y be inastate of auriferousness. Lucky Me. G. W. Avd serve him right. It will no doubt be an immense boon to papers, miscellanicn, reviews and Pun, Once a Week and All the Year Round kind of publications. Puyers like the Londoa S'ar, 2cl-graph aud Sanda wih @ daily circulation, joiatiy, of over 140.000, mast immense gainers; for they must, in that perticalar, imitsie the London Times, anc give their purchasers the bened: There i every prospect of a numerous and well selec’ meeting cn the 220, when “The American Association a! Louden” bold bigh festival at the Freemegon's Tavern in memory of the immortal Washington. We have not coca « tint of the stewards, but we hosr that Commodore Arcs decknc, Messra. J. Rouncy Croekey, Oakford, A. H. Sibley, Penjamin Moren, and Keliog (he ciinent patater) are atueng them. Wo ebail be there, of course, baving al- rvacy paid our guinea ana secured onreest. Indeed, we always pay wherever we go, leaving us free to speak tue truth of what we reo— Mie et fudurd. If the wine duties are reinced, Moers. Markweil & Sen, ber Majesty's wine merchants, will renzive & drawback on 6,907 gallons of port,’ 4.350 gallons sherry avd 4,050 gailona of other wwes:the former cleared witbin the isst two years, and the latier within the jasi six montbs, betnz the quuntiiy uueold comaining in their etccke This retara of duty will, it is theaght, erst the government over two milliona. There’ bave been im our conrta two important thea rical trials tis past week. Lord Ward, now the Far of Dudley (wherefore go created, we 'kaow not, kaye that he ie rich), versus Mr. Lumley, and Mr. Frecerick Gye (the proprietor of Covent Garden), versus Mr. Bughes, a tulie:tor. The former was an action brought by the moneyed aristocrat to recover £4,600 from Mr. Lamiry, the ex-director of her Majesty's theatre. There = sume meh beth aby enlio PlainwiT and the letencant Mi yerdd tf oles, one going iD for black and the other for white—pinintit ‘yetag acted by his attorney, of course had the best of tho oath bys: ees, and #0 secured a verdict. ‘The eccond trial was an action brought by Mr. Gye to door, Let bim who never drank it drink, who drieks drinks qi the | recover £5,000 of Mr. Hoghes, which tad been pald by He proposes to allow every “keeper of a refreahmen saloon” or cating houre—Anglice, “hcensed victuailer”— to have a beer and wine licenso, without ang fee beyoad their origipal Jicense fee, ani with va delay or opposiion. As dearly all the public houses in Loudon where beer is sold are in the hands of the great brewers, whose pi ofils are: ebormous ard whose beer is abominable, the opoost tia by these adutterating monopolixty wil! be tremeadous. Their Organ, the Daily Advertiser, or. ax ths Time once | dubbe 4 It, the Morning Tup-Tub, botis over with wrath | | } daily; Put their doom is ssalod, and the stomachs of ‘thirayy Souls’? will be greatiy assisted io their digestion when she new Leg ore 80 into edfect. 2 ‘The great Measure, however—the real sop for the Cer. bert the jress-—is the removal of auother restriction, As Mr. Punck makes the Chancellor say:— yon you Ike a roaring boer or Apsr— vo. cnt 1 bomeat mea, ‘The Pen Goes Justice to &” all-—do Justice to the Pea. you how end mtwy others avs pereon- interested in the nbdlition & rl ii He | ni rife : ¢ 4 tad eit 4 g i oe E: i the plaintiff to the defendant on a contract for a lease of her Mejesty’s theatre. The entire of yesterday having ecu ecoupled in bearing the witnesses on es, Ho jury, without waiting for bis lordehip’s summing once, and very properly, returned a verdict for the ui for £6,730. dir. Edwin James, ihe ewinent Queen's countel, and member of Parliament for Marylebone, wag Mr. iye’s es aoe Mr. and Mrs. . Kean have just finished a fortnight’s exgagenent at Edwburgh. Mr. Wendham, tho manager, agsuree us that he cever made FO much mogey; this, wo, after giving tho Keans for their share £78 nightly, Not bad for a country theatre. Tast Monday evcuing those accom piished artista and unusually respected peopla, Mr. and dire. Alfrea |, commenced a vtarring engage: mout at the Royal Adelphi, in ono of Mr. Tom lor’s mavy translatone, entilied “The Houre and the Home.” Seal deat: they will bg ina pew piece, said to be origin (euch things, like uniceros, are very scarce now- Mr. Watts Phillips Mr. pha ‘That first rate astor, Mr Webster, the lessee, plays the ame evening as the Wiguns, »3 well as Mia Woolgar (ire. Melion), and Messrs, J. L. Toole (now our beat ow vomedien), and the tminortal Paul Beoford Useless W bay the Ade!pb) is crowsed pightly. Next Monday Me, and Mis. Charles Matbews will replace Miss Amy Sedgwick at the Haymarket, and will appear 1 a new piece by Mr. Tom Taylor. Since Ure production of The Two Cities,” and the match jess pastomiume, Madame Celeste bas been very forte nate at the Lyceum—po gett ng in, uniess plucerare well secured beforehand. The eame may, in truth, ba aavd at Covest Garden, where Miss Pyno and Mr Wo oH. Hiret son Save not had an tudifferent bouse #inos the firet might of the reason. We are all agog for the production of Papace’s opera, “Sarline.” “Tae Gailery of Uustra. tion ” iB quite w centre of attraction; afternoons we have there Mies Poole (the sweetert baliad singer ever remam- bered) and Mr. Ramsden, in Mr W. Cagppel's {P.S A) entertainment on tbe anetent matic of Fngiaa 1—one soug Dearing date 1230. Tn the evening Mr aud Mrs Ger Reed (Miss P Hortoo) give thelr spari aud ele Bunt entertawment ax only two such acoompiisied artists could do Thus, you see, we are not badly of for amurementa. All theatres and every kia of eutertsin- ment prosper at presen Mine. Pepita Gassier will be the prims donne of the Royal Italian Opera, Covent Garden, tha seatun, aad Mone, Louis Gassior the principal barntove of the Royat Drury Lave. e Messrs. Lyster have arrived, aod have beeu cor- dialiy yecerved by Don Cieear ahd others. Tey ay to be ina fair way of seeing all that there is to > avon fear they wil pot succeed in taking any warbliog no- to the States, weather has set in quite mild after the froet, so that we Dave plenty of mud aad mire. Our Paris Correspondence, Panis, Feb. 16, 1969, Fuling in Paris in Regard to the Commercial Preaty— atti tude of the Protectionists— Reaction Amongst Them—The Working Classes Quici—The French Clergy—Duaily In- create of the Papal Army— Anticipated Conflict in the Ro- magna—Independence of the Duchies—Eifecta of Javour’s Impoiousnesz on Italy—Will the rench Troops Leave Kome— Will the Pope Atuack the Legatons— Proba ribity of Another Struggle with Austria—Marshal Vaill.nt Not Removed—The Telegraph Agent at Liverpool Distinguish- ing Himself os Usual—Rusia Dissat:sfed— Proposed Oon- ference at Paris—Amsrican Interests—Reforms in the Autrian Empire—The Emprest and the Queen of Spain— Parisian Gayety—Heatth of the Emperor and nis Family, de , de : The debate in the Englicb Parliament as regards the adoption of the commercial treaty between France and England not having as yet taken plaee, the Parisians are 1 precisely the same state of anxious expectation that I mentioned in my Jast letter. It seoms almost a universal Detief bere that upon the fate of the treaty hangs the al- hapec. It is apprebended that its refusal by Eugland will sadly sheke the enlente cordial. The tories have evinced a decided hostility against the treaty, and are to oppose it. Ae yet nothing indioates on which sige vicuory will hang ber banner; but I really beleve, from information re- cetyed from reliable sources, that the Palmerstonians will triumph, and that the treaty wiil, with the rest of the budget, outride the contest, In Fratce affairs wear a grave look. The protectionista are domg a)i in their power to defeat the accomplieh@rat of the new custom measurcs, but the Emperor bas evinced 20 great a cetermination to carry out his present policy ibat the machinations of the few agalust the interests of the many bave been, up to the present time, harmieas The protectionista were made to understand that auy at- tempt at producing, by their misrepresentations, acts of vielence on the part of the working ciavses, wovld be dealt with in as moet severe and summary manner. The resilt bas been a cessation of all rumors of insurrection or insubordination among the operatives. In the meaowhile the treaty has been pubbebed and the public enabled to jadge for itself that the interests of all parties were eared for therein, A consequent reaction, even among many of the hitherto violent protectioniats, has taken place, and the govern- ment may now count upon an easy transition ints wiser and more liberal commercial relations with ail the world, should not the unprincipled and absurd policy of the con- servative faction of England succeed iu overthrowing a treaty that is but the forerunner of sim‘lar treaties ith all other commercial nations. I said that in Fraoce affairs wore ® grave look I refer thereby to the machinatione of the clergy, who are insti- gated in their opposition by no less a personage thaa his Holiness, the should be meek and lowly successor of St. Poter—the really raxcuneux and flory Pius 1X. The poor man is gentle enough himself, but he no longer has any control over hisown actions. He is the amedamur of Antonclli, who urges him on to acts of violuacs aya ox- hibiticns of rage that injure deeply the cause of sue church. Esch day the ranks of the Pagal army are swelling, und each cay the conilict grows more abd more imauaont between these ruthless mercenaries and we people of Romapva. ‘The Pope, bees his agents, manages to inapire the French clergy the desire tor op; to the éempo- Tor Napoleon, and with the desire to bring about a state of wparchy and confusion. Little do the sharchmen I rof tocare what mistortunes occur, 80 that they save the power of Rome from avy deterioration. Bat Napoleoo IT. 8 @ mort determined man, and he s.eadily aud cousiantly pushes forward. He seems to care naugut for the dagger bornbe or pistols that the church prepare tor bis especial Denefit. He keeps on in his course of liberality wwards Ttaly, ana evinces his determiuation of bringtag a>ont the independence of the Duchies. Cavour aiso seams de termined upon that subject, aud he wilt ao doub: aid powerfully toward its accomplishment, providiag ne manages to keep down his overwoeniag desire to control ol! the affairs himeelf. It is this tmperiousness tat pre- vents his being as useful to italy ag he would vtherwise De. King Victor Emanuel diglikes toe Counts abrup: manner of preceeding, and rather objects to nus seizing and hvid- ing alone the reins of State, It may be, nowever, tbat the Count’s fall from power has somewhat wonified nis tendency towards governing all mattera himself, and that be will protit from hig late experience. Excuse this digression, and let me return the clergy in France. They are at a ina for Gisreminatmg their violent abuse of the Pope's enemies. Journa’s cannot publish thom, aud the publisher will not. ‘They do not care to bring upou then- telves the discontent of the government. Tne priests dare not shock good taete by railing egavie! the Emperor in their pulpits, and 80, as a last resort, they vooupy them: celves in writing letters; but that ig slow work, aad many of them are oppored to violent exerci8e; 80 the privatly opposition is gradually calming down, and tne Emperor at present naught to fear from bis clergy but aasasst. on. Let ug hope they will ehrink from ths commitial crime that will fnevitably recoil upon them. When Napoleon IIL is gone, France will then appreciate nim at bis just value, and all nations will wonder at and admire his giguntic plans for her advancement und glory ‘The affairs of Italy are merely what may be ‘ered a = of the politics of France, and until wey aro settled Tance muet More or lees be agitated aad diatuchod. Tne _ anxiety now ie, will the French troops ieave Rome? ey Will not do go abruptly unloss the Pope, urgot on by his cvil counsellors, should attack Romagas. Sich an event would at once break off all iuicreourse be! voen the governments of France and Rome, and Pias 1X would dod imate! without that protector that has for so waay yeare kept down his people. The Pope murt kaow that the Romans, diegustea by the profligacy of the Caycinats, would goon clear the Eternal City of them, as weil ag his Houiness, were they not restraned by the Freosn bayo- wets. Onve the troops gous, out mutt march Pops aud followers; and this they knew. So they will refram from attacking the Legations untii they feel certuin taut the French troops are to be replaced by those of the King of or the Queen we, al to such troops enter them. ave the outlines Of a most .droadt tial pexeons residing in deem spother siroggie with Avetria ipovital thy preparing for such an event. Accoraing to my information, bart hele not have pasted sway withous the inhabitants of the hies having invade! Vensiia on alleices. Takivg into consideration the tre tre: jaments of Austria, lately made in that provings, oma ckn but foresee @ fearful contlict should these realized. I ovcssioual gloomy progucstications be jy ece the Austrian Ambaesador here, aui us sims imbued with the firm conviction that Austria iii never give up Venetia until forced te do go by great reverses upcn the battle tleld. ‘A strange aseertion, and one totally unfoan-e, appears in the American journale that reached us lant week. I refer to the pretended removal of Marsha! Vaiiians as commancer of the French forces in Northera Itsiy, aud bis being § replaced by Marshal Mcmahon. No aucn thing vas cecurred, apd one only wonders how ech unioun ted statements find thelr way iuto toe Amezican paps Lelievo tt is the Liverpool. at the ‘Yhe late Italian ef cauge for 80 doing. alike reports as resuliing from ill will,so totaly ua- ‘o.rded were they. week the American journals ariive m Europe containing the most unfoonde! reports vyon European affairs. Some one is to blame, and should be token to taek for unpardonabie negligen: Ap aduress was presonted a few days since to iho Eua- ieror Napoleon, signed by promtnent citizeus of the Papal provinces still under the dominion of the Pops. It thus terminaves:— “Co over town and country, count the trees and the in- babitante, their manufactures, their buildings, svldier: veseels and railroads, aud you will see what a destructive viest bas swept over the country. No responsibility in thoee @ho govern, no pablicity in the administraiion, no va‘: tard before the tribunals, canon law aduve the civil coin: these are the inevitable consequences of « govern- reo at the bead of which stands a prince who, bound by eciig ous ties and declaring himseif infailidla, is {ree from aicouol. © * # itis, therefore, eviient, ou, sire, that (0 such evile there can be but one efficacious remedy. We iad scflerings tn common with Romagna, ant «' is but jestice that wo should partake of tte inte. W. wry be the future eettloment of Italy, it is just le©, a8 Byem bers of the great Itallan family , 8 (idee with it. All modification of an easeniia! tem would be frusiews. Principles may be co sous n ay be changed; but the intrinsic patare ui « nam neither of correction nor change. The © eyites i8 incompatible with tho eurstome and « ot ibe prevent day; to endeavor to amen ve a corpee. If it be coriredto px to recuse the tranqi of Furope, thi done ottil cur provinces have been duiy 1; I 068 negligence of the telegrapn aeut at le is the individual that Tulle wad. disgraced Marebuls in the French army duriag and always without a shadow ‘the Toke upoa tess AY, MARCH 5, 1860.—TRIPLE SHEET, ‘parts. * * * To cay ee ely, such i your mission, ob, Bi fave well uncersicod that this cannct be gone exon: ating the chicf of the Cathouc 1 ‘worldly cares that force him to acts incompatible with bis dignity. The address concludes witb expressing regret Uret no- thing shoud be cone for Rome, and a-hope that °4 Til 1 his wisdom may find an expedent for eaadliog ihe Speen to belong to Italy, while Rome belougs to ° Pope.”” The French government has just received the intimation that Russia i+ by no means satietied wich the proposal of Evgland af regards the solouoe of Italian ‘aftira, The | Rutsion government advocates the holding at Paris of a Conterence of the Five Great Powers. The members of the Conference t) be the resident Minister of these Powers | at Paris, The French government bas nowtled that of | Russia of its entire wilingocss w adhere to the prop»si- ton. Some tn daye ago, the Paris special correspooden’ of the Murniny Chronicle, of London, suggested the holding of just such a meeting of diplomats, as less imposing, ‘a meeting wBich was quite as serviceable as the long taik: ec of Congrees Tho Ohronicl has been attacking, vithia the past few days, the \ory party, and haa founded tis Aitacks upon the Cocnment that I enclosed in my last letter. The tory organs have not ventured to repiy. The Chow ivle baving them disadvantage, a8 they cannot deny the authenticity of the memoraodum. Lord Darby even assured the members of the conservative party thet lerdey at bis lordship’s dwelling, that the tory party dic not intend attempting the overthrow of the pre- tent Engieh Cabinet, they merely desired 0 defeat the propesed budget. Frem Austria & gieam of good news dawns upon tho deep black of her political horizon. We are ageured that re t de granted. Every proviece will receive copstitution and adminiatration according to of the different nationalities. Tocse reforms Fhould thoy really be grapted, will be the resuls of the Dreatepmwe attitéde of the Huogarians aa well as of the wee, woo have also been most e1 io 1a thew prot statiwne as regards the pysent wauner wih which they are goverped. Allow “me to refer again to tha subject of the proposed conierence im this city o the five great Powere of Europe. We should send adiplomat t aitend the meeting ip case it tates place Many ques tions migbt arive wherein American interests are concern: ed, apa under such circumstances there should be s0.ne one ready to speak ou! for Brother Jobsthan. Ae regar’r the commercial re 8 between the United States an’! Fravce, itis only pecessary that some able American political ecanomist should commense by proporing, oa the partof our government, a revision of tho preacnt stata « affairs, be would meet with a hearty reception by the goverumnt. J know from good authority that I am oor rect in muking this statement The Quren of Spain, to show her appreciation of Mar bal O’Donnell’s services during the present wer with the Moors, apd more especially to recognize his latest expicit— the taking of Tetuan—nas appointed bim Dawe of Ttuan The title isto descend tohis heirs. We are now assure i chat the Spanish troope wi'l roarch at once on Taogier, as th: Emperor of Morocco doea not seem inclined to take the hint afforded bim by the defeat inflicted upon bis troep at Tetusn. He beeds more decided reverses to bring hia to his senses. So be will most likely lose more of his large and important cities. A report has besngolng the rounds of the viah anc Belgian journals, to the effect that peror Napoleon bea telegraphed’ hia felicitations tothe Queen of Spain when the news of the Jato victory of the Spanish army reached bere. This isa mistake. The Emperor bas ba ho communication with Queen Ieapelia Il since be ra ceived from her Majesty the intimation of her settled pur ay Tegards the defence of the Pope’s temporai powe Is was the Emprees Eugenie that congratulate! the Que. of Spain, wot officially us a sovereign of Franca, bat roevely as @ pereon taking great ioteraat in the welfare of Spanish interests. The Empress has also remittet from ber privy purse large sums of money applicable for the wounded Spanieh eolviers Paris ie very gay at present. A large number of foreign ers are here, and balls, concerts and theatricela flourish. On the 19th, (Sunday,) another court ball taxos place a the Tuileries. Its beipg on Sunday night was sore ani rplexing affair for the Englisn who recetved invitations mat the majority have concluded to go, but not arriv: there until after twelve o’clock. Of course, po! ono o them but what wil be dancing away at a great rate by fen. The ladies—Ddiess them !—bave very eiaetic oon. sciences ss regards dancing. Allow me, ere closing my letter, to announce to your readers that the Emperor 's quite well; that 3 eate, see and takes bis usual outdoor exercise, and that no fearfu! mysterious malady troubles him, the sensation writers to the contrary notwithstanding. I had the pleasure of rkat ing yeetercay near his ty, and ‘that he was y, and cut bie cireles and went backwards and furwards justar though he never had had extraordinary spinai @iseares or fearful Solferino visions, while his elasticity Touted all ideas of secret mail shirts and hidden armor. ‘The Empress and Prince Imperial are also in excellent done &, tp Panis, Feb. 16, 1860. Improvements— Boulevard Scbastopol— Proposed New Park— Visit of Bev, C. H. Spurgeon to Paris—The Fu'e of Pre sents Sent to the Evapcror—Usefut Information—The “Anglo Americans from the Rocky Mountains’ — Profit: f Dramatic <Authorhip in France—Celedration of Washington's Birthday, de. ‘Whatever may be the ultimate fate of his dynasty, Na poleon III. means to leave his mark upon the good city of Paris in such an ineffacable form that, in no event, avy future Louis XVIII. can melt up his monuments, as the former one did the statue of the first Napoleon which capped the column Vendome. I do not refer here w we thousand letter “‘N's’’ which are chiselled in among the fine lacework, the entire length of the facade of the new Louvre, and which could only be removed by destroying she whole friege, but to those more useful memoriais which, in the form of boulevards and parks, are being opened and established under his auspices. Already the Paris of ten years since,in some of its most popalous parte, is so changed that one who then threaded its nar- row, dirty, dingy strects would scarcely recognise their locality in the fine, broad boulevards which have now taken their places. The most beautiful of these, the Boulevard Sebastopol, which already extends from the Strasbourg Railway station to the rue de la Harpe, ie be ‘mg rapidly pushed to its complction and its proposed end, at the Barricre d’Enfer. The buildings on the rue a’Enfer, on the side of the Garden of the Luxembourg, are already in procees of demolition, and that magnificent groand will form, for half a mile in extent, one side of the new boule. vard. But bolder project of improvement than any which bas yet been adopted has, it is said, been decided upon by the Emperor, and that the plans have already been adopted and the Municipal Council instructed, through the Prefeet of the Seine, to adopt the measure when it shali come before #t, and to vote the neccasary supplies. The plan ie to demolish ail the buildings upon the “ Lc de la Cite,” with the excepiion of the Palais de Justice and its dependencies, and the Cathedral of Notre Dame, and con- vert the whoie island into a public park. If this is done, it wili accomplish several desirable objects. It will cause the removal of large number of old, dilapidated bultd- ings, and will make a large open space in the part of Paria which is now made up of dirty narrow streets: it will ex pose to view the fine old facade and towor of Notre Dame, ix ae ée ae mo the ani front = she Saint Chapelle, now al en amongst the mass of dwellings which cover the islaud. The proposed tmprovement wii! cost an ispmente deal of money, and the laboring people of Paris are alreauy grumbling at the annual expenses, but I tink there ts no doubt that the ect will be oar- Tied into effect. It is true that 16 le not entirely witha view t the salubrity of the city toat the Emperor canses the boul varce and equares to be openea through avd amonget the most compact portions of Paris. He knows the Parisian people, and he knows the danger, under “certain circumstances,” of sharp, angular corners where barricxces can easily de erected, too, under “certain circumstances,” of broad thorong! fares end open spaces, which could be swept by troops and artillery. Vartly to his knowledge of the habtts and amueements of tbe Parisian people, too, may prodably be attributed the fact that all the principal streets are now macadamized. ‘Tho old copble stone could be dug up, and bse been Ov sundry vecasions, aut converted into @ for midable weapon, while macadamized ways will furnish nothing more powerful thaa mud, Rey. str. Spurgeon bas just closed an “engagement,” I was going to say, bere; aad, judging from the audienoas aud the criticiems pazsed opon his style of preaching, { ehouid ezy that movt of those who went to hear him did 40 flow: mere motives of curiosity, jast as they woald w see and hear any other celebrity. 1 heard him three times out of she five he preached here; and, jadging of aim as “ove of the wicked,’’ in a critica!, artistic potutof view, Tebould he was a mao very much over: ated, or elee that ne did pot do justice to hineelf or his reputation while in Paris, Perhaps not having ‘the hang’? of we American chapel and tho Church of the Oratoire, in which be held forth, might have had somot toco wita it; ‘dnt 1] moet aay that | have beard several woo lt and Camp meeting preachers, who, to use a somewnhst vulgar atd perhaps siigttly irraverentexprrssion, could “preach the hide off of bim;” anc, ia point o” finished eloquence, be cannot be compaie.! to Chapin, or in point of power Erccher. He porsesses a clear and musical voice, whe io.¢rasions are very pleasing, and bis eaauciatiyn ts por- fect. He is fluent, also, but often coarse, and by no meaas choice in bis expresriong, and his geationlation Ws very un. ceceful. I delieve he is thoroughly in carmest av-i be. eves fully ell he snyt, end ali he says carries this mark ef sincerity. Occasionally he drops some etrikingly bs. tifp] gems and suys ome very teliing thincs. The bright. the former which I observed in th= sermous I heard him preach was a reference w tho crown of the Saviour, a3 ‘“hodight with rubies ‘bis own vetns,”” and of the latter the following, Teally a ‘good thing:""—‘You say is thea, enter. fresh which I should bat the road to Heaven pa apa don't fill up the pathway. Ten’! blocks it up, toe, with your poruly body amdprevent was some poor stuaer from coming in.” Spurgeoa proach ed every time to crowded audiences, principally, of course, composed of English and Americans, 2nd the collections wbich were taken up at the cloee of each service, in ald of the tund of £10,000 which is etill required to complete = thew tabernaole fn London, must have been very satis. factory _Happeping Into the American Legation s day or two since, be of was arge volame addressed to “The Emporor & Third,” which had just arrived from New Yore, iplag. Teen the ond W's gent to the care of the American Legation. Ia former Cay articles addressed tn this way to the Sove- reign pcvertally reached bim, but inttorly have been suca ee ne eee sent to the Legation that Judge Mazen, from the ‘that such under an intimation ee - by a ar ee nae P that fome other means of communication thin through the American Legation. I can well iumagine how the whole thing had become a bore to all the parues ¢oa- cerned, except the senders. Mr. Wilour, the assistant Scoretary, informed me thata sbort time 9 they re- ceived from somebody in Counectiout au immose pia- ware, and in- sn seat from hel ° coast, and wbich bad on it naturally engrave pyre alex letter “N.”? It is not uncommon to recetve sets of har-| best, Spura, &c., apd one man from away out in Missouri tent a barrel of bacon over for bis Majesty's larder, & matter ot preceation since the Orein affair, 1 take it, the Emperor has been a little careful aout opsniag ages. Some one of these harmless aking boxes might con-| tain torpedoes enough to biow the Napoironic iyaasty into @ great state of uncertainty, and they might posaibly, 100, be sept from America by some of fauatics there who believe in the ‘holy right of agsass vation,” by uate amiable young German, perhaps, who, alter we faiuro of Orsivi's ailempt, offered, through the ooiumas of York journal, to complete Orsiut’s work for a rea- je consideration. “Pere Prodgas’’ of young Dumas is nearly played out, ts conoantea'ed upon & company of American *gymoastic performers, who have been engaged at the Gaictt Never have wpy set of artistes been so exiraveganvly puffed these have by the Parisian papers, who miautely. de-| soribe their performanter, which » ily very suscese- ful, and are new here. The most surprising of these par- formances is that of the “‘percte,” and the theatrical writers go into ecatacies al it and the Cameron palt performances of Rochette, who is ove of the trouys. | The bills Barnumize them a little and cenominat tham An ¢lo-Americans from the Rocky Moavtains,’’ while the luc of the Siecle says they are gentiemen who own @ ozen houses in Philadelphia They have beea perform- ‘incipal European cities for a year past, and arrived bere from Turia about @ fortnight sins. Upon «rriving in Puris they went to the Circus proprietors aud «Méeavored to procure an engagemens, Dut were refused, and it appeared that there was no v,eniug for them, when one eveding, on the occasion of @ benellt as the ‘& they volunteered their services, which were pons ‘The reeult wasthat before their pertormance’ waa over the manager, seeing that they were a ‘good card,”” geged them at their own terme, aad they are now ing crowded houses every night and getting one the gross receipts as their share. A littie dodgs has resorted to in order to show them at the Gaiata, @ theatrical and not an equestrian or gy muasuc ment, and the Circus, having the movopoly of pro’. performan thatuatore, Butthe manager of the “whips the devilaraand ibe stump,” by protuciag » the ‘Mendicant,’’ io wdich th’e trou ye 1s introd: the character of « band of strolling performers, and \eir representation becomes part of the play. ‘The sircus people havo oifered them immense tering, but they are- now bound to the “Gaite,”” and if the present rush t2 see them continues, they gill make @ small fortune before aR Periien hoata he res are the Mariposa: of writers, During the past year no las than 1,91) Sih iranoe hae been paid .by the diferent opera housn and theatres to- authors of operas and plays—of thie the Opera Comique has paid the la:gret sum, 134.110 francs, and tha It le pan- tomime theatre, the Funambules, the ivaet, Gfeen francs. ‘The Porto St. Martin paid $7 526, Comesie Palais al 72,785, Varlosies 72,028, the 69,243, apd the Geite 68,241. In 1816 the theatres in Pare- ond all the departments only paid as authors’ per centage 300,000 francs In !836 it amounted to 510,0.0, and now the appual expenaiture for new pieces $ more than- 1,600,000 francs, or three hundred thousaad doliers. What 4s fund for some new Shakspere, Mobere or Racine. The usual pubiic colebration of Washingtou’s birthday by the Americans in Paris will not take piace this year. Inetead of it, however, Mr. Spencer, oor Consul, gives a. ball in commemoration of the day on the evening Twenty second ot February this year comes picked uj Ash- Wednesday, and Mr. Spencer, bsing & good eifected tho bappy compromise between his reli big patriotiem, of ipvitiog bis frien:is toceiebrate birth. . sey of the Father ot his Country and Mardi-Gras on. the same evening. Ishail be thero and shall let you know about it. ie Our Berlin Correspondence. Barun, Feb. 15,1800) ‘The Reorganisation of the Prussian Army—Stetch: of Government Project—The Standing army and Navy. Kept in Readiness for War—The Present Organisab and that of 1813-'4—The Italian Question—Aussia |, news her Proposition of Sctilement by Jonferences Five Great Powers—Austria anztous to Late Bnemy— Prospect of the Meeting of the Congress, dc. On Friday the project for the reorgsnizationof the- army was laid before the Second Chamber bythe Prem- dept of the Council, Prince Hohensoliern, ana the Minister> of War, Gen. Von Roon, The necessity of such a reorga- | nvgation, said the latter, was acknowledged by ail classes . of the popelation, and the feeling had been deepened by Tecent events into the coddviction that it would be danger- _ ovs to defer it any longer. Not oaly the political changes. on the continent of Furope, but the social changes in Pruesia herself, had contributed to render # imperative... Government had devoted the utmost care to the examina- tion of this important question, without being infmenced by preconceived opinions or individual bias. 1 was a. question om which the interests of government and of the nation were identical, and they confidently expected wat) the representatives of the nation would lend sheir cordial! assistance in effecting its solution. ; | It would occupy too much of your valuable space to- | give the government project in cxtenso; 1 will comtont my- self, therefore, with a rapid skotch of its chief features. | The entire male population of Prussia between their | eventeenth and forty-ninth year, is subjected to the mili- tary service. The armed force is composed of the army, the navy and the kvéeen mass. The army ia divided the standing army and the landwehr, the absolute Felative numerical strength of which is regulated sceord- { ing to the population. The standing army and navy ave to be kept in constant readiness for war. The- termi service in the same ie ‘fixed at eight years, but four years’ serviee in the cavalry or three in the ober wing, the men are passed over to the resewe, and bave oaly to appear twice a year at the military 2a" dezvous. Young men of education whe find their wn accoutrements, and receive no pay or rations, may be transferred to the reserve after one year’s serveade, The service in the landwebr extends over eleven years, and commences with the time of dismissal from the rega- lar army. The men are only called out for annual drills, however, during the first four ycars, after which they re-- ceive an unlimited furlough, which is not withdrawn ex- cept in the event of actual war. Tne landsturm,alkvy > em maste, is reserved for extreme cases, such aa the inva- sion of the by a foreign enemy, and is then com-. posed of all able ied citizens between the agus of wbir- from une land- y dispenses with his further servieee: Pursuant to this echome, which is to takveffect beween the lat of May and Ist of ber, the Prussian standing army wiil be composed as followe:—Infantry, nine regi- ments of guards and seventy-two of the line, of three Rett) tobe El, tho now (nr Fog) ae ron, 3 Dew (four iments) - each Datialion of the old forty tegimebas uw hs dine 638, of the thirty two new ones, 418 frank and file. Riflemen— Ten batt 8 Of 602 men each. Tae akelctous of 116 batialions of landwebr infaniry to the fortresses. Cavairy—Eight regiments of gaaras (two new oncs) snd forty-eight of the line (eighteen new ones), each to have four squadrons (troops). The old landweht cavalry to be dissolved. Arttilery—Nine segiments fort artillery, three batterics of horse artulery, two divisions of ’siege artillery, &c., to which mast be added sappers miners and the dbaj tr in nine It te calcalatea this Dew arrangement will increase the mt of the stand f anpum. From this analysis it will be Gaeenived ‘that the propor organization is not a radical reform, but mareiy au alte tuon or modification of the present system. The imp tance of the landwehr is greatiy diainishod, batt 13m pipeee liners The term of service !n the reserve is lengthened by two years, au: that in the iandwehy re. aucea by as much—a distinction not merely cccasioaal, eigce it will have the effect thet in case of a mopilizaton' Institution bes never bad way existence, capt vpon paper. The mcet important raph of new law is that which states that ‘all jy wi exception, are bound to take part in the defenc: country.” The eame principle baviug been epnounced by the edict of September ‘de apt to consider its repetition eu; be ssine time, the numerical strength been fixed at a certsin figure, and the population of kingiom has increased since then at least fifty per ble propertion were always enabied Be bat of the army a ty, will be @: nately none of rent and radical which, in the