The New York Herald Newspaper, March 5, 1860, Page 4

WITER”-STING FROM EUROPE, | AJ<RIVAL OF THE AFRICA, TWO DAYS LATERNEWS “he Unsettled Condition of Con- tinental Affairs. ‘ANNEXATION OF SAVOY TO FRANCE. The Probability of a European Congress. BHapolewa to Defer to the Opinion of the Great Powers, Bmp crial Bali at Winter Palace, Ss. Petersburg. ‘WIE “BENICIA BOY” IN TRAINING. ‘nr -Zen@on, Paris acd Borlin Cor- | respondence, &o., ke, Re, "Nhe Qumerd steamship Africs, Captain Shannon, whieh eM Liverpoc! at pine o'clock sn the foreneon on Saturday, Me Wired February, arrives at ber doek at Jersey Oty arty yemicrday (Sunday) merning. Her attviows are two @ays MierMhan those brought by the Flinburg; but the Mews ie not very important. Heis stated that the French goverament had entered MmoTeiations with Prussia ase member cf tue Zollverem witre view lo negotiating e commercial treaty similar to @st-corcluded with England. Pruszia is sad ve have “Maeno tno first advances. Pho official Dresden journal publishes a despatch from ~“BePPeteredurg to the effect thet Russia had rejected the M@egish propositions for the ettlement of the affairs of The Austrian Gazelle announced positively on the 16th @eoruary that the anawer of Count Reichberg to ths da- patch of M. Thouvenal on the Tralian question had no! been “given. It alo contradicted the etatemont that the Prince ‘von Heese proceeds to St. Petereburg on an extraordinary ]i'ss00. A was asserted that M. Thonrenal had sent a despatch to Tievna reminding Austria of ber promise coucerning Feouetia. ‘A letter from Rome !n the Nord says:— Violent measures are said to be tn contemplation here femong the highest persepages im the government. The ‘fest would be the excommunication of the Ktog of Sar- Wiaie and of the sovereiges who nay assist him; next, tho placing cf their kingdoms under interdict; then, the con. ‘wocation by the Pope of a.gancral council to examine the qmestiun whether or not the fall of the temvoral power ‘wf the Popes may pot be wecribed te the imprudent gencessicna made by the Holy Sce im concordats, and ‘Whetber thoac conceesions ought pot to be retracted as eevtrary to the priucipies of the church. Such are the wild projects put forwaid by ultramontanism. Large numbers of political prisoners (rom Venetia were ‘Belong rent 0 Sclavoniaand elsewhere Sy the Austrian government. Im the House of Commons, on the 16th of February, a ‘motion by Mr.,W. Williams to abolish flogging in the British e@pmy and Davy was negaiived; and one by Sir GC Na- (pier for improvement in manning the wavy was adopted. Mr. Disreeh gave nutice of action that the House should sgunsider the commercial treaty before the budget. ‘The London Post of the 17th ultimo remarks:— ‘The recognition of the republics ef South America in WBZ, the signature of the treaty im 1827 betweea Groat 4 , France and Russia, = tated tts a getabiishment of (ireek independence, recogn! an tof the independence of Baigiim after 1830—these Instances all prove that the courss taken with reference ‘wo Raty has been only tn accordance with those sound tra- @ibuns of our foreign policy, to which Wellington and Oas- @ereagh, not less than Canning and Grey, leat tho sanction wf ther high authority ‘The budget and the commercial treaty with France con- @inwed to be actively canvassed, and meetings pro and con were being beld by the various commercial bodies MBreughout England. A motion was pending in the Common Council of Lon- Gon to present the freedom of the city in a gold box Mr. Cobden, for his distinguished services in the cause of 4free trade. Tho German journals state that Mr. Cobden yhad declined the Croes of the Legion of Honor, offered to vdbim by tho Emperor of the French. ‘The Liverpool Journal of the 18th of February says:— ‘We have a copy of a despatch from Mr. Campbell, our Seveu) ot Legos, and well keown to many in this town ged tn Manchester, in with his intolligent ef- ‘Warts to increase and develope the growth of cotton in ‘Western Africa. pecting this, he says:—“The cotton sported from this port in 1858 will show au increase of ‘@bout a thousand bales over the previous year, and it is d that the export even this ycar will show a satis- @actory increase of that useful etapie.”” ‘She same journal saye:— Ris coutemplated by the Lo agengiad the reese Tele- graph Company to attempt, in the couree of the ensuing @ummer, to raise the injured portion of the Atlantic cable, Mm order to remedy the defective portion, and to bring it apo working order. ‘Tho British Board of Trado returns for the month and year encing December 31, 1859, were issued, and show a Barge osrease. The figures for the month being £10,827,- 00, aghinst £10,058,000 in 1858, aud £7,148,000 in 1857. Me respective yearly totals are £130,440,000 im 1859, 116,608 eu in 1858, and £122,066 ,000 in 1657. Queen Victoria held her first levee of tho season at St. James; palace on the 15th Febraary. Mr. Henry A. Stone, @f New York, was presented to her Majesty by Mr. Pallas. ‘The iron.masters of Glasgow had agreed to keep all ‘Meir furnaces out of blast for another fortnight. The Scotsman.of the 16th ultimo says:— reparations ere being made in scientific circles for a @reade rivnuwf ecientiGe men from ail parts of the Weed, to take ploce in the month of August; and we be- Baws that, .in s'idition to many of the continental sauane, suck. us Bobobiozt (‘ez ttinere arricano rrduz"), Scaater, ry many of the scientific men of Greut Hritaia and Amaj.ca bave earclicd their names. It ta intended to be eld auuuauy in enc of tho captials of the world, and thus (co. acvabtage ensuing from te Britisu and Ameri- ean As.ociations for tho aGavancement of scieace, aud the moeeting of German patura'isis, will be combined with he great advantages reaultivg from the meeting together Of represeniauves of Folence froin all parte of the uni sweres. By the co-operation of the potentates of tho vari- ur countries of Europe, Asia and Amorica, the arrange meus regarding twavelliog will be such as hardly to de ‘Dar, as te-yiuen the cage, the poorer follower of science from mingiing in tho throng of the aristocracy of intel: it beigg ene. of the principal aims of the congress the rifiyg Foung men of the cay should be by that » MBPACA introdi.ced to public Kotice aad to the great masters ot science. ‘The British army estimates jad been published. The Me's) amount required is £14,842,000, betng a net increase , # lant year of $1,962,075. The iand force is to number PA HO men, ar ivercase. of 6455. In addition to this @y “ast Indias establishment is $2,000, making the total pder 235,000 men. ‘ihe manufacture of the Arm. ssteays guns absorbs a large portion af the increased esti. Thy, "ondon Nees of the 16th ultimo cays:— Mr, Foenan, the American pugiliet, beter known in the Protea: val world as the ‘Benicia # * has lncatad nim. gett pt Harnhagn, adjimng the eky of Sausbury, swhere. bo in undergoing the -gecossary-wainiog for the a hopes contest wis Sayeregor the ebsmpionahip of An offcish investigation iato the burning of the ship Ea- Qyetion, in tie Mersey, was commenced in Liverpool on fap 16th ultjnes, at the inatagee of the Board. An objec- ‘tou. as raisedon behalf of the Amerikan Consp, against ‘Meo pprizdiction.uf the court, on te ground that the Endy- mion 7A! an American ship, and the iuguiry was couse- Bently adjourned to the 28th Febraary. “Whe dpath of the Rev. Dr. Murray, Bishop of Rocker ex, announced, The wew Whitworts guns bail bec tried with suceses, ‘Bm range ad accuracy the Armatrocg gun {a said to have een serpamed. ‘The journal Brefagne, published at St. Bricuz, had been ‘Tbe reason given for the suppression is the gedlication of an ad:ircss of three depauses to the Emperor, which, by lamenting that the prolongation of incertitade qroulé separate all sincere Caiholics from the cause of the Bmpecsr, is « sort of protest againat the policy of the | gpeverngmnt as regards the Roman question. ‘Tho Pasie Bourse on the }7th ult. was firmer, and ad- anced 16c., Fentes closing ai 67 70. ‘The King of Sardinia arrived at Milan on the 15:h Feb- weury, sad was received with extraordiuary eothusissm. M. Vouillot, o@itey of the late Univers, bad arrived at permanent ' Jand on French paper? With peoer such as now erit ‘wey Felisbed in tho uciguborhood ef the Adoipht, j the contre of Italy woula be to destroy a!) u.o' eon | til NEW YORK HERALD, MO* to make its appearance simultaneously at Paris, Bracsels | and Geneva, ‘The new Roman Joan hed Deen negotiated with Bolzian | Capitaliste—tbe Thre’ per cents at 66 an Fives at 93. Nine bundred Bavarians, enlisted for ‘aval army, had arrived at Apcona, and others were expectad. Avrtria had probibited the export of a large quantity of arm whch were on the way to Servia through her ter- ritory. lo the Prussian Legislature the First Chamber had dia- cused the governmen: Matrimonial law, and had rejeciad olvil marriage in every form The latest reports from St. Petersburg contain the fol lowing interesting Kems:— Tt may be recatiecterd that the telegraphic project of an American Ww wate Europe with America aceosa the eof Asia to America, via Behring’s straits, iv now re the Ragsien yowernment, and it is thought *yitt be adjutted soon The engineers who have had c¥ args of |) the surtvey of he route (rom Kuzaa to the amog, will be here tooo w&h w reports, ‘Tee Hueemn winter 4 very mild, and consequently wo have no euneme or mooalight. The weay or has been de rk und cioney ndlic debt of Russie Fs 1 ,600,000,900 The wkrowldge ; Of ever TH bier 0 the rudle. 600.0 30.000 of tins is im the Dank payer votes of the governmwyat ia circulation, and at Wen por cent viscomnt for gold. Heid Marchal Prives Baratinsky & about returning to the Mavcashs to resume-command there io person The Kurian govecument will perme the sume course in Bey negotatiens with China thatthe United States nas; ip facty'ast th concert, The missicn atill holds or ia Pokia % Seq what wilt tums up out of the English-Frouca iava tion, ‘Ze Kuevian treaty with Ching has not boon ratifsd. The Amoor quisttes bothers the Chinese; hut the Raa: fagoe bave yreat gube there new, and steam—that selina | the question Messrs. D. Bell, Son & Oo. report Ameriean Securities as follown:— During the part week there ‘has bean more activity in tha market for Americau secerities, and gome large purchases have been mate, both of tbe United States and soparate State stocks. Ip railroad ‘bonds the chief bnsiness nas been fn the Michigan Central eight per cont and ths Pa- nama seven per cent hends. The Loncon Pimes of Friday, February 7, says Amort- can securities show pe-change of importance, and grotes saleg:—United States five per cent bonds, 92); Illinois Central shares, 43); 0 44. ‘The Teutonia arrived at Southampton on the morning of the 16th of February, The Nova 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. Lonpvon, Feb. 17, 1860. The New Enghsh Budget— Proposal to Redwe the Number of Articles Liable to Duty to About Bifteen, Comprising Articles of Lumwry and of Generct Omsumption—Effects of the Abolition of the Duty on Paper—Oppeetion to the Budget and Forthcoming Speech of Mr Disraeli—Mr. Peabody Denies Having any Vunnection with the Finan, cial Columns of the London limes—Theatrical Affairs, dc. ‘The oracle has spokev. Lips that erst were sealed have uttered wisdom. The budget of the-Chancellor of the Ex. chequer, like and unlike the box of Pandora, has given us & catalogue of goods and evils, and tosome, I fear, evon 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 ie very problematical—i a matter that will remain to be | ween after cx Chancellor Dizzy has unrolled his budget of | objections on Monday next. The financial astate- ment of the Homeric echolar is a most compre- her sive messure, and whatever may be said of the policy of acme of its propesitions, is one that shows great grasp of mind and emivenily statesmaniike views If I am not greatly mistaken, the budget of Mr. Gladstone and the Propoacd treaty will be profitable studies for your states. mec and secretaries of the treasury im the United States: There sre various miner points tbat are matters of groat interest bere that have litte interest in the United States— for instance, the licensing of ail eating bouses to sell beer and wine; but the main features of the budget, unless 1 read i wrong, will form the car- dial points of commercial policy for great na ions for many long years to come. Before Sir Robort 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 seroop th duties from some two bundred and fifty, and they have sinee been reduced down eo that the customs revenue now comes out of abou forty-five different articles Mr. Gladstone proposes to | cut them down toseme fifteen—all articles of luxary —like wine, spirits and tobacco, or of universal consumpuon, hike tea, coffee and sugar, And what does such & measure secomplish? Why, firstly, tt sim plifes the operation of the customs. Svooudly, | it relieves all manufacturers, small and large, o | the burdens ana {mposts on raw material—duties on cot top, wool, and scme other articles of great consumption | bad been abolished previously; ani then itenables any ad all persons who have peculiar tates, to buy their ar- Ucles of fancy or utility—textile fabrice, gloves, jeweiry, | watches, certaim manufactures, and a thousaud other thirge, in avy market in the world that they prefer. By | abolishing the excise duty as well as tbe customs duty | on paper, there is a groat burden taken eff of all pub: Iishers and makers of books and periodicals, and of course ffom the public; and it relieves the Manufacturers of so useful aa article from @ coustaat vo lice or excize espionage, which is now kept up as rigidly as if all paper manutacturers were makers of cguaterfeit money. Then there is another corideration. Tho thirty miilions of people in these itlanda cat a groat dea!; in fact, the climate as well ag the industrious habits of the people ig such, a8—I speak now from experience—to give the people very sharp appetites; and you are aware that, though there is a Bewinh Firth in the Highlands of Scot Jano, this country is not a perfect Beulet, The greatest capitalistic joy here ie magitested by thoae dealers in black diamonas, the owners of collieries. Here- tofore France has protected the Jittle parley vous cousin, neighbor Belgium, by making a Lebel, A duty against Eoghish and other coal, and only receiving Rslgiaa. How far Louis Napoleon ts going w put the United Stave along with the ‘most favored nations" in the great reduction of duties on foreign goods, you must vbtain from your Paris corresponcents If cotton mauufactures, toys, clocks, i | | large quabtitive for export, can go to France as thay are to go trom England, you can afford to get your wine glassea ready for Bordeaux claret or via or':naire, aud drink @ goodiy quantity. But, could any one believe how rmall quantities of Eng. Heb wapulactures ere exported aunuaily w France. M-. Gladstone says £217,000 for machinery, aud £283,000 for other goods " The iniercating feature of the budget to you will be the abolition or large reduction of the duties hero im Eog'and on varions articies of food and other raw ma- terials, prominent among which is imber. Mr. Gladstone faye We propcae to aboltah entirely and immediately the du Pech : fallow. luc on buner lelde £46.00 (cheers); the duty on tallow. w ¢ lemons, yielding £92 00: one wie paper 10 00d, hauoed a duersrera nute, £1 £9 000; n five articles of uve, Cne of which strikes at ‘ha princips! Ciferentiat duty, et. ceptiboae which we bare killed by ‘be French tresiy—namnely, the cuty on timber | (beer) I proncse to recuse the duty on timber froin 7. 6d. und 166. to the coiontal rate of ls. and 28. (Chee ) Yo jay pot have much timber to snare, but the lum. ber wen of Maine. Rap ud Virginia and Fiorida, will be ‘on the same fovting a6 Canada and New Bruvs- wick. and ni ithe American farmers and dairymen can produce a good article of cheese, jet them show their bands in it, for Jobo Bull is # great choeso sater, aad cbeese here bring+ @ high price. Tae American cheescs are gencrally too large and too soft for the Eogish taste Perbape the most straightforward and etatistical assount of the bucget i in Punch’s poetical version:— ‘ben comes the treaty Jnier lis France will soon let in ‘Ai p. © 30) Sogar cryetal, Inco, coal aud rase wire and dye Wood, chin&, gluse, collon and elth and soap, Hosiery. steel and carriages, machinery, brandy rope, lat of ther thitgs to hammer, driny or ruaeh; LT very much regret to add. ehs will wot Mt in Lan). We, on ibe other Rad. propoan to tet tn, duty free Bu phurte acid, agaten, ares. corks and emi y. reeks, gloves bare, canes, quirine, brocade, raw feuite and ‘thna ware, Gis ard piance, perfumes, grapes, and all things made of hair. Then, as to wine, we'll Jet it in at duties much drought down, Three bob a gation for tha bat that cap be hoaght io town: Brandy at etgbt ata tnppenge tr the riritieh shore aha! cosas, Ardihe eume duty fail on Freveh as on coioalsi rum. He thinks pow aud then there will be some eelitsh cur- Mudgrone, like the great brewore, who will make a gross fuee because their own tors are trodden on. For gueh ohieciors T must ony feel, Lal's cut up private fatted calves and belp tbs Common Weal, Gcod wholesome wines of Franee let's bring to everybody's Let bim who never drank itdrink, who drieks driske qj! the He propores to allow every ‘keeper of a refreshaon sajoun”’ or eating houre—Avglice, “licensed victuailer’— to have a beer and wine licenso, withoat ang fee beyond their orig'pal license fee, ani with no 4 ©” Oppos.uca. as nearly ail the public houses in Loudon where beo- is sald are in the hands of the croat brewers, whose pi ofls are: ebormous ard whose beer is abomiuable, the opoast thaw by these adulterating monopoliste will be tremeadous ‘Their Organ, the Daily Advertiser, or. ae ths Times once dubbe J it, the Morning Tup-Pub, boils over with wrath | daily; Put their doom is ssaled, and the stomacls of “i souls” will be greatiy assisted to their digestion | when New arrangements go into effect. The measure, however —the seal sop for the Car bet of the p:ress—ts the removal of auother restriction. j | | profound sontemot I fee! As Mr. Punck makes the Chancellor say:— fo row I'li burst 2:00 you Ike a roaring boer or Apsr— upon—and which ie not always be ten sheets that will not exes two pos'ages. With the b furniture, and @ great many ariicies that you produo in | b: = - 9 only madelr Dat which can- Procared B@F® 7 oan sand you a letter of @ne ounce in weight, or et Engtiah paper I can get, ny seven shes:s, or an cua -fe4 the postage ninety ex couts ia- Stead ot forty BOY sents —there boing pe division of post. ages boyond th’, fret ounce, except by ovacer, or two postages 84 2'sime. There is mo triple rate The whole Bubject of Testage across the Atlantic 1 most uunatistas- lory, €Fcegt in the matters of speed aad regularity. Mr. Gladstone showed the chickory tmporters a piers of sha) pracuoe in bit budget speech. He took the val PY aing a duty of six shillings a cwt on chickery, tust “wight, to take «flect at once, amd it passed. Chickory hat Deen free for some time, and ase duty was expected, large quantities were coming up the Thames Ths next moreing Gitven veegels loaded with chickory were onler ed, apd met the Custom House officials win a duty of Deerly a peony a cound on ali their cargoes, amaauting & B00 or 3,006 tom letters to you usually ey weigtt, aud that m- . I bear there 18 to be & tremendous oppasition to the ‘udget, but 4 1 DO way certsin taal it will De suiticwatly powerful to upset the Ministry. If it te, thes provanly Paimersion will appeal to the Country aud dicaolce Paria ment We bali see, Oa Monday evenieg next Mr Bou jamin We rae lt wili deliver one of bie most rife suve speech €#. sod the cheers will them be om the other Hide of the Hovee,-among the tories. Fwaneisi atlairs bere, daring the time the great aa Burrs of the treaty and (he budget are uuder Jisoussio , Gre ina rather uncertaip and ductuatiog stave. Te!kiag flusuce apd fipavciers, 14m reminded that Mr. Googe Peabody state that some remarks in a lector or wo ia the Hkwxrp from some of your correspondiente, w>out bis Private affairs aud public opinions, were aot correct He declares that be does not edit the faanciat cohuau of the atfect its opinions He says he 1s not oa with the writer of the city articls a’ore: Toneon Times, terms of ivum said. Mr. ¥ oma te bones here by means of his help, shat! aduse bim ar much an be liken He saya he bas paver had ovcasion (0 find fault with mis parwuers. Mr, P. dora no. court pabhic Attention or uotoriety im any form, but aitends bis own private banking, benevolent aac educationsi projects. Certainly, there are communities in the Unitet States that are largely indebted, and will ba throagn a long future, to two American bankers ta Loadon—M- Yeabory and Mr. Joshua Bates, of tne firm ot Baring, yo’. & Ch —for their endowment of hterary aud educa Uoral estabitehments in Baltimore, Boston and Danvers The 224 of February i@ coming; but whether the annual bupknm and “epread-eagleism” will “oom ow!” here by a little crowd of Yankees, thie desovent faith pot, as he knoweth not. Before Mr! 1. E Sicaks wert into tbe political and gunpower line on your he succeeded in putting @ atop to some very agrecad! fumptuons and privce!y banquets, go? up by & well kbewn American Dapwer bere, and on the heels i! got organized m very weak American Asfoctation What goo? thoy co themselves or others, or bow much gas Locy mapu acture for the market here, I have no meaus of in forming you, but l presume it ie “some” Theavrical aifaire are flourehing. Mr. Harrison aad Mise Pyne have the Covert Garden, and they fill it aight ly. When the great crowd of Americans begins to stream, over here i July—Londoa fashiouabie eoasou—they will be enabled to sce tu the new Covent Garden iboatre an edifice, with decorations, scenery, eplen‘tor of effect and operatic verformaucer, Which caBoot de forind on the west side of the Atlantic, even at Havana = Until [ ebsites tt the firat time, a fow weeks tince, Thad ao hes of it magal- tude or magnificence Tee Christmas pantomime of Puss in Boots’ 16 on @ grand ecale, and bids fairs ron, in eon- Recuon with the Opera, for several monthy to come. Loxnoy, Feb. 17, 1840, The Trial f Whitwxrth’s Rifld Caanon—Probarle Dufex! S the British Ministry—Louis Napoleon ant the Ut tramontanes— Disagreement of the Directors of the Great Kostern—Her Next Captain—Subscriptions for Captain Harrison's Widew—A Great Mercantile Law Suit-—Lady Franklin's Visiters—Cheap Newspapers —Washin,ton's Birtsday mm Londen— Bffects of the Wine Dubies Reduc tion—Theatr‘cal News, Law S sits, Bc, dc. Tet us call your special attention to the Southport cor- respondent's letter (Mr. Woou’s), first favorably known the author of the “Crimean Letters” in the Eoodon Herald, in the Tim:: of to-day, on the tial of Mr, Whit- wor.h’s rifled canpon. Mr. W. Howard Russell, the pub- le s own special correspondent, was there; 90 we may cx pect what we shail see in his Army and Navy @azeite, of to. inorrow, Saturday, the 18th. The Farl of Clarendon, who just left our bureau, says, ‘that it is jnet probable the Ministers will be defeated on tho budget. The Irish and Fuglish Catholics, mightily dis pleased with Louis Napoleon, and hia conduct to the Pone, tak ef coalition, and if joiued by the opnservative par ty, )ou may infer the reeult. We think the budget will pace after a great deal of talk irrelevant and to the pur- pote. ‘There Beems to be a want of unanimity among the newly elected directors of the Great Steamship Company. Oap- talp Mangies is said to be backing ont, and the Marquis of Stafford w thought not @ be easy in his seat; #o that he may probabiy retire. Apropos of this big, and hitherto | unfortupate craft, nbuut £2,000 have been already sub. ecribed to the fund for the relief of the widow of the late ‘Captain Harrison and hisfamily. The supporters, Mesers. J. H, Dillon and others, in this juat cause, firmly !glieve, | that the good friends of the lamented Ceptain in America (New York and Boston especially) will one aad all be giad to subscribe. We understand that subscriptions will be received with you by Messrs, Duncan, Sherman & Oo. The future captain of the Great Eastern will be, it is thonght, Captain Jobn Vine Hall (thaa whom sone more | competent), who formerly commanded the Crawus and Goiden Fleece, belonging to the General Screwship Com peny We regret to Jearn—and, but that It will soon be made public, should not have attended to it—that the share holders of the Buropean and American Steamship Oom- pany (as a company, vuder the Timited Liability act, do. Ionct and insolvent) have instituted au action agains: that worthy gentleman aud merchant, Mr. T. Rodmey Croskey, for the eum of £600,600, being the entire amount of the money received by blessrs. Croskey & Co. during thetr management of the company, on account of the ships, It appears to be a dispute as to matters of acoouxia, and the rea! sum at issue is about $40,000. Tue will come to triol and be icft for a jury to decide. 1) has Previously (this case of dispate) beem referred to arbitration, and broke off by Mr. Cros! who had cause to think he was not being used fairly. Many commercial Teen think {t will go in favor of the ebarehoiders. Mr. Margetson, the great warehouseman, is Mr, Oroskey's principal opponent We were, on Tuesday evening, right glad to wel- come Vack to Lom Mr. Cornetias Grinnell, accu panied by his sister, on a visit w Lady tia, at houge ip St. James’ place, Green Park, Mr. C. Coin of Mr. Andrew Arcodeckas, ame of Grinnell stands high with us, and detorvediy go, and, be assared, whonever Vhe father comes again to Lociand, be will be welcomed hy ail capabie of 3) his sterliog worta. Lvly Fravklin's grautade is tet. By the way, is there, E , ab overland arclc expedition about beiug organized in America? We wre told--and nithongh it is not the Ist of April we ere averse to being foolet—shat the London fire wil: be reduced twopence. Wowkin’t the panny ps ii euch were the The reai truth, w. es 35 Ajbemarie etre: tthe Time: wilt only bo lowered in price 89 that ihe jolly public may derive the beneit of $40,00; @ ycar—tbe suru the “‘TaunJerer’’ will save by we Cuetion of the paper duty Tuis moraing Mr. G. W. % Rey noli’a, the proprietor of Reyri Ly (circulatiia 156,000 weekly) and Reyneld’s Miscellany (ctrouiation 287, OvO weekly) that, the paper duty off, and he will spoediy be in astace of euriferonsne:s. 1 Rey noi Avo serve him righ It wil no doubt be an immense boon to papers, migcellaninn, reviews and Jun. Once a Werk and All the Year Hownd kint of publication Payers like the Londoa 8'ar, Telegraph aud Stand: with @ daily circulation, jolutiy, of over 140,000, mdat immense gainers; for they must, iu that perticalar, imitaic the London Times, anc give their purchasers the benel:, There is every prospect of a numerous and well selec"? meetivg cn the 22d, when “The American Association a! Londen.” bold bigh festival at the Freemeaou’s Tavern in memory of the immortal Washington. We have not co“ list of the stewards, but we hoar that Comaodere Aros decknc, Mesers. J. Roancy Croekey, Oakford, A. H. Sibiey, PRenjamin Moren, and Kellog (tbe eminent patater) aro ge ihem. Wo sball be Wiere, of course, baring al- ‘paid our guinea acd secured ‘our gost. Indeed, wo always pay wherever we go, leaving us free to speak tho truth of what we seo—PYde et fuductd If the wine cuties are reanced, Messrs. Marzweil & Sen, ber Majesty's wine merchants, will restive @ drawback on 6,967 gallons of port, 4.350 gallons sberry avd 4,050 gailona of other wwes: the former cleared witbip the inst two years, and the latier within ky Me. G. W. x tke inst aix months, being the qua: unsold romaining in them etceke This retara ct duty will, it is cest the government over two millioza. There have been im our courts two important thea rica! trials tis wees. Lord Ward, now the Fari of Dudley ‘wherefore 80 created, we Kuow not, eave that he le rich), versus Mr. Lumley, and Mr. Frecerick Gye (the proprietor of Covent Garden), versus Mr. Hughes, a evlie:tor. The former was an action brougnt by the moweyed aristocrat to recover £4,600 from Mr. Lumiry, the ex-director of her Majesty's theatre. Toere ‘was sume bard swearing, in which the plainu and the detencant highly distinguished themeolyes, one going 1m for biack and the other for white—piaintil boing backed by his attorney, of course had the best of tho oath bist nets, and wo secured a verdict. ‘The eecond trial was an ection brought by Mr. Gye recover £5,000 of Mr. Hoghes, which tad been paid by the plainiff to the defendant on a contract for a lease of her Mejesty’s theatre. The entire of esterday having been occupied in bearing the witnesaes on both eides, te jury, without waiting for bia Lordehip’s samaing up, at ‘pce, and very properly, returuod a verdict for the Ui for £6,730." Dkr. Edwin James, che owinent Queea’e peel, and member of Parliament for Marylebone, was Mr. Gye's loading conse! Mr. and Mrs . Kean havo just finished a fortuight’e exgegerent at Ediuburgh. Mr, Wendham, the manager, assure us that he cever made fo much mogey; thia, two, alter giving the Keans for their share £76 nightly. bad for @ wountry theatre. Iaat Monday evcuing #hosg, eccom pished arcets and unusually respected people, Mr. ent dirs. Alfrea Wigan, commenced a rtarring mont at the Royal Adelphi, ia ono of Mr. Tom Tay! a trapelatiune, entilied “The House and the Hone,” Nexé week they wili appear ina now piece, said to be I mean, my bora, abvtshing the duty Nyon paner. =o things, | ¢ UNcoros, are Very Scarce nOw- ‘There tailiion—never mind—Jet's act lig) bomest mea, ry rom ihe pen of Mr. Watte Phill Mc. Wigeo ‘The Pen cows joabice wo w" all—do to the Peo. sensthir the patter. 8 virteses stock Ceuber (moro a Shall I tell you how aud ntwy others are person- | :eara ans than a unicorn or an original piece), bavi Of the daties Rere ia Eag- Pelaebes to deliver, which we fear ‘That figet rate actor, Mr Webster, the heseee, plays the same evening au the , a8 well ac Mies ear (ire. Melon). and Messrs. J. L. Toole (now cur beat low comedien), and the tminortal Paul Beoford Ussless W sag the Adelpb} is croweted nightly. Next Monday Me. and Mis. Charles Matbews will replace Miss Amy Sedgwick at the Haymarke?, and will appear 10 a new piece by Mr. ‘Tom Taylor. Since Ure production of +The Two Cities,” and the match: fees partomime, Madame Celente bas been very forts pate atthe He eiga 9p ng in, uniess plaserare well secured beforehand. eame may, in truth, ba aard at Covest Garden, where Miss Pyne and Mr WH. Harct son Rave not had ap fudifferent bouse #inos the fret might of the searop. We are all agog for the producton of Wallace's opera, “Sarline.”” Tue Galery of Uustra tion ”” ig quite = centre of attraction; afternoons we have there Mies Poole (the sweetert baliad singer ever remam- bered) and Mr, Ramsden, in Mr W Cagppell’s (FS A ) entertainment on the apejent matic of Engiaa 1—one song Dearing date 1230. In the evening Mr aad Mrs Gee aan Reed (Miss P Hortoo) give thelr sparkling aud ele- GAvt entertaivment ax only two gach scoompiisied artists conld do Thus, you see, we are not badly of for amurements. All theatres and every kind of enteriia- ment prosper at present. Mine. Pepita Gassier will be the prima donne of the Reyal Itatian Opera, Covent Garden, tha season, aad . Louis Gastier the principal bariteve of the Royal Opera, Drury Lave. The Messrs. Lyster have arrived, aod have beau cor- dially yeeerved Dy Don Cseear ahd ‘others. Taey appear to be in a fair way of seeing ail that there id to > ay ‘Wo fear they will pot succeed in taking any warbliog no- y to the States. (he weather has set in quite mild after the frost, 90 that we Dave plenty of mud aod mire. Our Paris Correspondence, Panis, Feb. 16, 1869, ing in Paris in Regard to the Commercial Treaty— atti. tude of the Protectionists— Reaction Amongst Them—The Working Classes Quiet—The French Cleryy—Ouaily In- create of the Papal Army— Anticipated Conflict in the Ro- magna—Independence of the Duchies— Effects of Davour’s Imperiousnas on Italy— Will the Hrench Troops Leave Iome— Wilt the Pope Atiack the Legutrons— Proba vibity of another Struggle with Austria— Marshal Vaill.nt Not Removed—The Telegraph Agent at Liverpool Distinguish- ing Himself as Ueval—Rumia Dissat:sfied— Proposed Oon- Serence at Paris—Aamsrican Interests—Reforms in the Austrian Emyire—The Emprest and the Queen of Spain— Parisian Gayely—Hoealth of the Emperor and nis Fam:ly, de , de. 4 The debate in tho Englicb Parliament as regards the adoption of the commercial treaty between France and England not having as yet taken plaee, the Parisians are ip precisely the eame state of anxious expectation that I mentioned in my jast letter. It seems almost a universal Detief bere that upon the fate of the treaty hangs the al- hanee. It is apprehended that ita refusal by Eugland will sadly sheke the enlente cordia‘e. The tories have evinced @ decided hostility against the treaty, and are to oppose it. Ae yet pothing indicates on which side victory will hang ber banner; but I really believe, from information re- ceived from reliable sources, that the Palmerstouians will triumph, and that the treaty wiil, with the rest of the budget, outride the contest. Tp Fratce affuirs wear a grave look. The protectionista are domg a)! in their power to defeat the accompleharat of the new custom measurcs, but the Emperor bas evinced 20 great a cvtermination to carry out bis present polic; tbat the machinations of the few agalust the intercets of the many have been, up to the present time, harmiens. The protectionista were made to understand that any at- tempt at producing, by their misropresentations, acts of vielence on she part of the working ciayses, would be dealt with in @ moet severe and summary manner. The rescit bas been a cessation of all rumors of insurrection or insubordination among the operatives. In the meanwhile the treaty has been pubbebed and the public enabled to judge for itself that the interests of ail parties were eared for thereia. A consequent reaction, even among many of the hitherto violent protectionists, has taken place, and the govern- Ment may now count upon an easy transition into wiser and more liberal commercial relations with all the world, should not the unprincipled and absurd policy of the con- rervative faction of England succeed in overthrowicg a treaty that is but the forerunner of similar treaties with all other commercial nations. I said that in France allairs wore a grave Wok I refer thereby to the machinations of the clergy, who are insti- gated in thelr opposition by no Ices w parsonage thaa his Holiness, the should be meek and lowly successor of St. Peter—the reaily rancuneuz and flery Pius IX. Tne poor man is gentle enough himself, but he ne longer has any control over his own actions. He is the amedamer of Antonclli, who urges him on to acts of violuaca ana ox- hibiticns of rage that injure deeply the canse of tne church, sch day the ranks of the Pagal army are swelling, and each cay the contlict grows more abd more imminent between these ruthless mercenaries and we pevple of Romapra. ‘The Pope, through his agents, manages to ivapira the French clergy the desire tor oppusition the empe- ror Napoleon, and with the desire to bring about a atate of wparchy and confusion. to care what mistortunes occur, 80 that they save the power of Rome from avy deterioration. Bat Napoleon II. 38 a most determined man, and he s.eadily aud coustantly ypurhes forward. He seems to care naugnt for the dagger borobe or pistols that the church prepare tor bis especial benefit keeps on in hs course of liberaity towards Ttaly, ana evinces his determination of bringtag wont the independence of the Duchies. Cavour ais sens de- termined upon that subject, avd he wil ao doud: aid powerfully toward its accomplishment, providing ne manages to keep down his overweenlag aeaire to control ail the affaire himeelf. It is this imperiousness wat pre- vents hie being as useful to italy 2e he would utherwise De. King Victor Emanuel diglikes the Counts abrup! maasser of preceeding, and rather objects tu hus seizing hoid- ing alone the reins of State. it may be, now the Count’s fail from power has somewhat ie tendency towards governing all matters Limseif, aud that be wil! profit from his late experience. Excuse this digression, and let me return to the clergy in France. ‘They are at a Ima for cisceminatng their violent abase of Pope's enemies. The ma's cannot publish them, aud the publisher will not. They do not care to bring upoo then- telves the discontent of the government. The pricets dare not shock good taste by railing in their pulpits, and £0, as 2 last resort, they vooupy tnem- celves in writing letters; but that ix alow work, wad many of them are oppored to violent exercike; so the privatly opposition is gradually calming down, and tne Emperor has at present pavgbt to fear from bis clargy but assassi pation. Let us i they will shrink from ths commitsal of acrime that will inevitably recoil upon them. When Napoleon IIL is gone, France will then sppreciate him at bis just value, snd all nations will wonder at and ade his gigantic plans for her advancement and gior ‘The affairs of Italy are merely what may be ‘ered a pee Of the polities of France, and until they ars suttled Fance muet More or less be agitated aad diaturtiod. Tae great anxiety now ig, will the French troops eave ftom? ey Will not do go abruptly unless the Pope, urged on by bis ‘cvil counsellors, rhould attack Romageas ich ap event would ai cuce break off all luicrouurse beivsen the governments of France aud Romo, and Pias 1X would flod himee:t without that protector that has for #2 waay years kept down his people. The Pope must kaow that the Romans, diegusten by the proliigacy of he Carwnats, would ecun clear the Eternal City of them, as weil ag his Hoinees, were they not restrained by the Frousn bayo: Lets. Onve the troops gous, out must march Pops aud followers; and this they knew. So they will refram from attacking the Legations untii they feel certun iat the French Woops are to be rep: by those of the King of Naples or the Queen of 3; ‘Should ths bs 2, al Italy will be at once in a conflagration, for I a. rod on good authority that the King of Sardinia will signi to the Pope his intention of invaling the Papai dom)i0a the Moment any such troops enter them. Wo thus have the outlines of a most .droadt which can but terminate by the utter prostrati cr the other of the aivergarics. 1 am wssured », tial pereons residing im Northern Italy that the people deem another stroggio with Avetria tpavitatic, and that they ate preparing for such amevent. Aveoraing v9 my information, the spring will not have pasted away withous the inhabitants of the Dachies having invade’ Veusia on alleices. Taking into contiveration the tremon ious ar- gerd of Austria, lately made in that provinos, ona cén but foresee @ fearful conflict should these gleomy progucstications be reaiized. 1 ovcssinual jy ece tte Austrian Ambeesudor here, aui us soins ot oe Ei ag ‘that Austria tii nevar ive up Venetia until forced te do ao by great reverses than the battle field. ae A assertion, and one totally unfoanlel, appears I the pretended removal of Marsha} Vaiiians ag T of the French forces in Northera Itaiy, aad k replaced by Marshal Macmahon. No ruc ting , apd one only wonders how ecch unioun ted ements find thelr way into tue American papers. I ie ea the telegrapn agent at in the American journals that reached us last werk refer to com Liverpool. He individual that killed ud dugrace: aif the Marsbals in the French army cur : Vhe late Italian can and always without a shacow cf caure for vo doing." The Lokei upoa tess aite reports as remliing from ill wili,so wtaily ua- so.rded were they. week the American journuls ariive m containing the most unfoande! reports cy on Ruropean affairs. Some one is to blam. be token to teek for unpardonabie negligen- Av aduress presented a few days since to ins En- ieror Napoleon, signed by prominent citizeus of the Papal provinces still under the domsinion of the Pops. It thus term inaves:— E ‘o over town and country, count the trees and the in. babitante, thelr manufactures, their buildings, suldiers, vesetls and railroads, and you will see what a destructive ‘viest bas swept over the country. No reaponeibiiity in thoee who govern, no pnblicity in the administra:ion, no sa’. tard before the tribunals, canon law aduve the civil core: these are the inevitable consequences of « govera- meni at the bead of which stands a who, bound hy soli ous tes and declaring himseif infallible, is {rae from aicatwol. © * * itis, therefore, evident, ou, sire, that 10 such evils there can be but one efficacious remedy. We :ad scflerings in common with Romagna, anv! is but jeatice that wo should 0 of Ite fate. Whatever wry be the futore settlement of Italy, it t4 just tha: we sue, a8 Dvem ers of the great Italian family , eat by and should ot ibe preeent ay; po tw palverve 8 corpee. Conired to pac fy to secure the tranquility of Furope, ths © |! tone cttil cur provinces have been duiy + ‘To leave ae focus of discore ani Little do the charchinen I refer | NDAY, MARCH 5, 1860.—TRIPLE SHEET, em | ten. The Iadies—Ddless them !—have very elastic oon. done a Hs ether’ * To eave oc rvering ht ae mission, ob, Bi have well uncersicod that this cannot be Fee: ating the chief of the Catho.c world from ail Worly cares that force him to acts incompaubdle with bis dignity.” ‘The adaress concludes with expressing regret that no- thing should be cone for Rome, aod e-hope that “apo Tit wp his wisdom may find an expedient for euadliog “tbe Romans to belong to Italy, while Rome belougs to the Pope.” The French government has just received the intimation that Russia ie by no means eativtied with the proposal of Fogland ax regards the solation of Italian affairs. Tha | Rutsien government advocates the holding at Paris of a Conterence of the Five Great Powers. The members of the Conference t) be the resicent Minister of these Powers | at Paris. The French government bas noufed that of | Russia of ita entire wil ingness wo adhere to the propyi- tion. 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 lees imposing, a mcetivg wich was quite as serviceable as the long taik. ec of Congrees Tbe OAronicl has beon attacking, withia the past few days, the ory pa: aod has founded iv Attacks upon the yept that 1 enclosed in my last letter. The tory organs bave not ventured to reply. The Chr ite bavidg them at a disadvantage, as they cannot deny the authenticity of the memoraodum. Lord Darby even arsnred the members of the conservative party thst met yesterday at bis lordship's dwelling, that the tory party did Lot intend attempting the overthrow of the pre- fevt Engikh Cabiuet, they merely desired to defeat the propased budget. From Austria & gieam of good news dawns upon the deep black of ber political horizon. We are agsured that reforms are to be granied. Every provivce will receive Beparate constitution and aaminisfration according to the wan's of the different nationalities. Toxse reforms should thoy really be grapted, will be the re of the Dreasenms attitude of the Huogarians as well as of the kee, who have algo been moat energetic ia their protcetatine as regards the pysent manner wih which they are governed. Allow “we to refer sgain to tha subject of the proposed conierence in this city o the five great Powere of Europe. We sbould send adiplomet attend the meeting in case it tates place Many tons might arive wherein American interests are concer: ed, apa under such circumatences there should be s0.n: one ready to speak out for Brother Jobsthan. As regar’+ the commercial relations between the United States an’ France, itis only necessary that some able American political economist should commence by proposing, oa the partof our government, a ravision of ths present state « affairs, be would meet with @ hearty reception by the goverumnat. J know from good authority tbat I an cor Yect in mukipg this statement The Queen of Spain, to show her appreciation of Mar sbal O’Dounell’s services during the present wer with the Moors, apd more eapecially to recognige his latest expiuit— the taking of Tetuan—nas appointed bim Dake of T tuan le is to denornd to bi: ra, We are now assure i dha! ° nish troope witl march at once on Tuogier, as th Emperor of Morocco doea not seem inclined w take tox bint aflurded bim by the defeat infircted upon bis troep at Tetusn. He needs more decided reverses to bring hia his seveer. So he will most likely loee more of bis large important cities. A report hes sags Nery rounds of Belgian journals, to tbe effect tha! the,Emveror Nepoleo Daa telegraphed bia felicitations tothe Queea of Spai hen the news of the late victory of the Spanish army reached bere. This isa mistake. The Emperor bas ba: no communication with Queen Ieabdelia Il since he ra ceivea from her Majesty the intimation of ttled pur a8 regards the defence o* the Pope’s temporal power the Emprees Eugenie that congratulate the Ques. ot ally o# a sovereign of Franc», bat merely pereon taking great interest in the welfare of Spanish interests, The Empress hes also remitte! from ber privy purse large sums of money applicable fo: th wounded Spanish eolviers Paris ie very gay at present. A large number of foreign ers are here, and balls, concerts and theatricela flourish. On the 1$th, (Sunday,) another court bail taxos place a the Tuileries. Its being on Sunday night was sore an! perplexing affair for the English who recetved invitations at the me; have concluded to go, but not arriv: there until after twelve o’clock. Of course, po} ono o what wil be dancing away at a great rate by the ee anc eciences ss regards dancing. Allow me, ere closing my letter, to announce to your readers that the Emperor ‘s quite well; that b» cate, and takes bis usual outdoor exercise, and that no fearfu! wysterious malady troubles him, the the contrary notwithstanding. I had the pleasure of nkat ing yeetercay near his Majesty, ani observed that he was y, and cut hie cireles and went backwards and furwards just ar though he never had had extraordinary spinai diseases or fearful Solferino visions, while his elasticity routed all ideas of secret mail shirts and hidden armor. The Empress and Prince Imperial are also in excellent Panis, Fob. 16, 1860. Improwments— Boulevard Scbastopol— Proposed New Park— Visit of Heo, C. H. Spurgon to Paris—The Fale of Pre sents Sent t the Exaperon—Usefut Information—The ‘Whatever may be the ultimate fate of his dynasty, Na poleon Til. means to leave his mark upon the good city of Paria in such an ineffacable form that, in no event, aby future Loula 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 the 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 be whole friese, but to these more useful memoriais which, in the form of boulevards and parks, are being opened and established under bis auspices. Already the Paris of ten years since, in some of ite most populous parte, is go changed that one who then threaded its nar- row, dirty, dingy streets would scarcely recognise their locality in the fine, broad boulevards which bave 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 ing rapialy pushed to its completion and its proposed end, at the Barriere d’Enfer. The buiidings on the rue d’Enfer, on the side of the Garden of the Luxembourg, are already in procees of demolition, and that magnificent ground will form, for balfa mile in extent, one side of the new boule vard. But @ bolder project of improvement than any which bag yet been adopted has, it is said, been decided upon by the Emperor, and tbat 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 #, and to vote the neccessary supplies. The plan ig to demolish all the buildings upon the “Ue de la Cite,” with the excepiion of the Paiais de Justice and its dependencies, and the Cathedral of Notre Dame, and con- vert the whole island into a public park. If this ls done, it wili eccomplieh several desirable objects. It will caus the removal of jarge number of old, dilapidated build ings, and will make a large open space in the part of Paria which is now made up of dirty narrow stress: it will ex pose to view the fine old facade and towor of Notre Dane, the Valais de Justion, and the gi'ded front of the Saint Chapelle, ow all hidden the mass of dwellings which cover the islaud. The proposed improvement wii! Gost an immente deal of money, and the laboring people of Paris are atreaay grumbling at the annual expenses, but I think there ts no doubt that tha project will be oar- Tied inty effect. It is true that it ie not entirely witha view W& the ealubrity of the city toat the Emperor causes the boulevarce and equares to be opened through avd amongtt the most compact portions of Paris. He knows the Parisian people, and he knows the danger, under “certain circumstances,” of sharp, angular corners where barricices can easily be erected, and he koows the vaiac. too, under “ certain circumstances,” of broad thorough- faree end opea spaces, which could be swept by troops and artillery. Vartly to his knowledge of tbe habtts and amueements of the Parisian people, too, may prodably be attributed the fuct that all the principal streets are now macacamized. ‘The old covble stone could be dug up, and bag been Ob sundry ovcasions, au’ converted into « for midable weapon, while macadamized ways will furnish Loihing more powerful thaa mad, Rev. str. Spurgeon bas just clozed an“ t,”? f was going to say, be 1, judging from the audienos acd the criticiems parsed opon bis style of preaching, J ehouid exy that moxt of those who wert to hear him did 60 from mere motives Of curiosity, jast as they woald to tee and hear any other celebrity. 1 heard him three times out of ihe five le preached bere; and, jadging of him as “ove of the wicked,” in a critical, artistic tof view, Tehould say he was a mao very much over: ated, or elee thas ne did pot do justice to himeelf or his reputation while in Paria, Perhape not having “the hang” of we American chapel ana tho Church of the Oratowe, in which be held forth, might have had something todo wita tt; Dnt 1 most aay that | bave beard several woo ls and Camp meeting preachers, who, to use a somewhst vulgar and chaps wigttly Nay ics pigeon Ss agelth e 0d ekxpnence, ih.¢rasons are very pleasing, and bis eaavciatiyn ts por- fect. He ia fluent, also, but often coarse, and by nom-acs choice ip bis expressiong, and his gesticulation x very un ‘socal. Tdelieve be is thoroughly in earnest avi be. eves fully all he eaye, and ali he says carries this mark of sincerity. he drops some etrikingiy bs.u tife) geme and says 'y toliing things. The bright. eat the former observed in ths sermons wuieh J heard bim Phere was @ reference to the thorny crown of the Saviour, as ‘‘hedight with rubwe free rom bis own veins,” and of the latter the following, whieh Ishould was really a ‘‘good thing:""—‘ You way Lat (be road to Heaven is & narrow one. Go on, thon, ava don't Gl up the pathway. Ite gate te hard to cnter. Deo"! it up, toep, with your portly body amtprevent tome yor stuuer from coming in.” Spurgeou proach ed every time to crowded audiences, principally, of course, competed of English and Americans, and the collections wbich were taken up st the cloee of och service, in ald of the fund of £10,000 which is still required to complete Lis new tabernaole in London, must have been very satis. factory Hapyeping into the American ®& daylor two since, | received & prece of information whieh may be rome *alue to those of your readers who may ba ambi- ticus of bringing themee!ves to the notice of the Emperor of the Trene! : on hap ancien was iping @ arge volame addressed to ‘The Emperor Napo- Teen the Third,” which had jost arrived from New York, g sod W's gent to the care of the American Legation. Ia ‘orm daye articles addressed ta this way to the dove- we been leon | ceived from somebody in Counectieut an im ae a eras Emperer and Emprees, that thoy pees od some ‘aa commupiostion = American Legation. imag | | the whole thing bad be a bore tallies poo oa Mr. Wilour, the ussiatant) cerned, except the sender: Secretary, informed me thate sbort time sinos whey re- sone pin- Pompe Pagapencmdrdogiring about ® toot square, and in-| tended as & present to the Empress. ae inan som from Florida's shell which be had’ pleked up ou pe ean coeat and which had on it naturally engraved au almost perfeot| letter “N."? It is not uncommon to recetve sets of bare ‘ess, Spure, &c., apd one man from away out in Missourt tent a barrel of bacon over for bis Majesty's lurdur, & matter of precaation since the Orin affair, 1 take i, the Emperor bas been a little careful about opsning pask- ages. Some one of these harm|ess looking boxes might ooa- tain torpedoes enough io biow the Napoironc lyuasty’ into # great state of uncertainty, and they taight possibly, too, be semt from America by some of ths fauaics there who believe in the ‘holy right of aesass amuble young Germun, ‘Perhaps, who, atter tbo f 0 of Orsin! mpt, offered, through the columas Of & jew York journal, to complete Orsiui’s work for a rea able consideration. The theatrical rage, now that the “Pere Prodigus’’ of young Dumas is pearly played out, is conoanteated up & company of American *gymoastic perforinera, who have been engaged at the Gaicth Nuver’ have exvavegantly puffed way set of artistes been #0 a8 these bave by the Parisian papers, who miautely de- re really very suscess- soo,” by ubaty scribe their performaptes, which a ful, and are new here. The most surprising of these p3r- formanoes is that of the ‘‘perche,” and the theatrical writers go into ecatacies about it and the @amaron palk performances of Rochette, who is oue of the troays. The bilis them a little and cenominat+ tham “Ap )o-Americans from the Rocky Moantains,” while the oriuc of the Siecle says they are geaticmen who own a ozen houses in Philadelphia They nave beea perform- ng in the principal European cities for a year past, and arrived bere from Turin about « fortnight sino. Upoo trriving in Paria they went to the Circus proprietors aud odes to procure an engegemens, but were refund, and it ‘oppeared tbat there was no opening for them, when ove evening, on the occasion of @ benefit as the = ey’ vommuteered. their services, whica ‘were ncsoed” ‘The result wasthat before their performance’ waa over the manager, seeing that they were a ‘good card,” en- geged them at their own terme. and they are now d tpg crowded houses every night and getting one thi the gross receipts as their share. A litie dotgs has resorted to in order to show them at the Gaieta, wi @ theairical and not au equestrian or gy muastic went, and the Cireus, having the movopoly of pro’ performancespf that uatore. But the manager of the ‘swhipe the devilaround ibe «tump,”” by protuciog » called the ‘Mendicant,’’ tn woich th’s trouve is introdus ihe character of « band of strolling performers, and (weir represen’ Decomes part of the vlay. The sireus: people have oifered them tmmenee terine, but they are now bound to the “Gaite,” and if the present rush to see them continues, they gill make asmall fortune before they get through. Parisian theatres are the Mariposa: of play-writers, During the past year no Wes than 1,01! 578 france hus been paid .by the diferent opera hous7s an: theatres to- authors of operas and plays—of thie the Opera Comique- hae paid the largrst sum, 134.110 franca, ani the tle pan- tomime theatre, Funambules, the jeset, Gfeen francs. ‘The Porte St. Martin paid 87 526, Comerie Francaise 77.950, . Palais al 72,785, Varlenies 22,028, the Vaadevillo 69,249, and the Geite 68,241. {in 3816 the theatresia Parte a jepartmente ouly paid as authors’ per centage 300,000 francs In '836 it amounted to 550,0.0, aad now the appual expenaiture for new pieces more than - 1,600,000 francs, or three hundred thousand dollars. What: s'fon'é for some new Shakspere, Mobere or Racine. ‘The usus! pub: of Waahingtea’s birthday by the in Paris will not take piace this yoar. Inetead of is, however, Mr. Spencer, oor Consul, gives a-| ball in commemoration of the day on the evening befa it. The Twenty second ot February this year comen . Wednesday, and Mr. Spencer, bsing @ good effected the bappy compromias between his retigion big patriotiam, of ipvitiog bis frien-is to celebrate the birth. ‘ey of the Father of hie Ceuntry aud Mardi-iras on: the aw evening. I shail be there and shall let you knox about Our Berlin Correspondence. Barun, Feb. 15, 1600. The Reorganisation of the Prussian Army—Skeich' @f 4 Government Project—The Standing army and Navy: Kept in Readiness for War—The Present Organisp and that of 1813-!4—The Italian Question—Aussia . news her Proposition of Settlement by onferences Five Great Powers—Austria Anztous to Ooncil Late Knemy— Prospect of the Meeting of the “ongress, Bc. On Friday the project for the reorgsnizationof the- srmy was laid before the Second Chamber by:the Pren- dept of the Council, Prince Hohenaoliern, 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 population, and the feeling had been deepened by Tecent events into the coriviction that it would be danger- ous to defer it any longer. Not oaly the political changes: on the continent of Rurope, but the social chenges in Prussia herself, had contributed to render it imperative... Government had devoted the utmost care to the examins- tion of this important question, without being influenced by preconceived opinions or individual bias. Ii was a. question om which the interests of government and of the nation were identical, and expected that/ the representatives of the nation would lend heir cordial assistance in effecting ite solution. F It would occupy too much of your valuable space to- Give the government project in extenso; ‘il contont my- self, therefore, with rapid sketch of :'¢ chief features. The entire male populstion of Prussia between their eventeenth and forty-ninth year, is auojeoted to the mill... tary service. The armed force is composed of the the navy and the keéeen mass. The army {a divided int@| the standing army and the landwebr, the absolute relative numerical strength of which is regulated aceorg-/ ing to the population. The standing army and navy ajo. to be kept in constam readiness for war. Tno= termi service in the same ie ‘fixed at eight years, but 1 four years’ service in the cavalry or three in the oher wing, the men are passed over to the resewe, and bave oaly to appear twice a year at the military ea” dezvous. Young men of education whe find their ews accoutrements, and recoive no pay or rations, mag be wansferred to the reserve after one year’s servisade. ‘The service in the landwehr extends over eleven years, and commences with the time of dismissal from therega- | lar army. The men are only called out for annual inille, however, during the first four ycars, after which they re-- ceive an unlimited furlough, which is not withdrawn ex- cept in the event of actus! war. Tne landsturm,a levy: em maste, is. reserved for extreme cases, such aa the inva sion of the by a for ene and is then. > posed of ‘lrable bodies f ebo at seweek the agua of tale ty-pine (when they aro finally from ube land- ae “bine. AB soon asa enters hie - fiftieth year the dispenses with his further serviews: Pursuant to this scheme, which is to takeeffect beween the lstof May and Ist of Octobur, the Prussian standing army wil be composed as follo Infantry, nine regi- ments of guards and seventy-two of the line, of three battalions each; a dattalion of the Old Guard (five regi- mente) to be 646, of tho new (four regiments) 4a strong, each batialion of the old { regiments ¥f the jin: 638, of the thirty-two new ones, 418 frank and file R:flemen— Ten batialions of 602 men each. Tae akelctous of 116 batialions of landwehr infaniry to garrison the fortreases. Cavairy—Eight regiments of guards (two now oacs) and forty-eight of the line (eighteen new ones), each to have four squadrons (troops). The old landwebr cavalry to be dissolved. Artiilery—Nine segments om fort artiliery, three battcrics of horve artulery, tao - divisions of siege artillery, &c., to which mast be added sappers and miners and the ba; t in nine It is calcalated this Dew arrangement will increase the numerical of the standing army by about 60.000, that of the by 150,600 men; the additional expenditure will be at and a half million per anpum. From this analysis it will be parcetved that the propa» organization ig not a radical reform, but mereiy au al tuon or modification of the present system. tance of the landwehr is greatty diminished, but it 13m abolisbed a term of service |n the reserve is lengthened by two years, that in the landwehr re. Guced by as much—a distinction not merely cccasioaal, fiace it Will bave the effect thet in case of a monili te! curtailed, up tothe preent time every one unter See been Table to ht; bat this alteration is cf much lees consequence than the former, as the winie “Japdeturm’”’ inatitution bee never bad any exis cept upon paper. The mcet important new law is that which states that “all 5 exception, are bourd to take part iu the defenc? of The eame principle bavivg been the edict of September 3, 1814, ore wt country.” epnounced by ‘be apt to consider Its repetition eupercrogatory: bat ot Is sHise | iis! He { in 1