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WHEN a "strong man armed," as the peculiar admirers of the Emperor of the FRENCH delight to call him, or, as we should prefer to put it, when a man whom the timorous servility of his fellow creatares has invested with a power of life and death over the most civilized portion of the human race, speaks in the name and with the authority of a warlike, restless, and ambitious people, with every money-market in Europe hanging on his lips, it is something to be grateful for that his utterances cause no precipitate or excessive movement in public securities, and that the most searching scrutiny detects nothing in those sonorous periods to which say precise signification can be attached. It would puzzle the moat in genious speculator to make mischief out of any one of these vague and purposeless paragraphs. Nor happily is there any particular promise for the future to be extracted from aoy single phrase of this discourse by that vulgar credulity which no experience has shaken. As a document by which the future history of the Second Empire will be judged, the Estriaoa's Speech on the opening of the French Chambers yesterday was not unworthy of the man, the place, or the occasion, and it will probably be read by a new generation of Frenchmen with tears of laughter and of shame. Living in a land where a man may speak the thing he will, it is perhaps difficult to understand the moral condition of a land in which one man only may speak the thing he will, while all the rest are bound to believe him. Suppose the Emperor of the Faimcu to be • Chairman of Directors addressing a body of share- holders on the out transactions and prospects of the Company, and the composition is a masterpiece of deliberate and confident mystification. In this sense it deserves the most respectful and admiring study. It would be pure amusement to analyse and test it, sentence by sentence, were it not a bitterly melancholy task for all but syoophants and time servers. A Master of Legions, with France for his footstool, may be excused for treating the world as his waahpot. Is it not an idle luxury of dupes to scan too closely such a daub of words, or to grapple with such a wind of contradictions! It becomes our duty, however, aa free journalists, to perform an office which our contemporaries over the water will certainly be spared, and to reduce this towering Imperial talk to the proportions of simple truth. The present session is the last of the second Legislative Corps, so the EMPEROR begins and ends his Speech with a graceful compliment to their tried and trusted devotion. It would have been ungrateful to such a Chamber, he declares, to have dissolved it before the appointed term of its labours. This compliment derives an added pungency from the notorious fact that nine months ago, before the turn of the Imperial policy on the Roman question, the act of " ingratitude " and " distrust " was on the point of commission ; and that if the decree of dissolution was not actually signed, M. DE PEHATONY'S pre parations for the construction of a new Legislative Corps were all but complete. Nor does the EMPEROR simply take credit for his unfaltering confidence in the Deputies who were trembling on the verge of dissolution last year. He compares the stability of the " masses," upon whose will the Empire reposes, with the " mobility " of the limited number of electors of former days, who somehow or other, although not a quarter of a million in number, were not insensible to the variations of the political atmosphere. Universal suffrage, as it is administered under the Empire, is distinguished, it seems, like death, by an absence of " mobility." We know not whether it is equally incapable of corruption. An ingenuous public cannot fail to note the kindly care and good fellowship with which the EMPEROR in vites the Senators and Deputies to a retrospect of their mutual labours during the last few years. It is to " what we have done together" that he points the retiring looks of these important men. It is a common folly, he remarks, to imagine that sove reigns sometimes act from hidden motives. The true secret of Imperialism is that unabashed honesty which defies all the calculations of ordi nary statesmanship. The policy of the EMPEROR is nothing more or less than to augment the pros perity and moral ascendancy of France. Let us observe, then, this very simple policy in action., Abroad, it favours the legitimate aspirations of peoples within the limits of treaties. For example, it drives the Austrians out of Lombardy and annexes Nice and Savoy within the limits of the Treaties of 1815, and encourages the legitimate aspirations of the Romans and of Italy by the occu pation of Rome and the maintenance of the Temporal Power. Again, by its consistent and straightforward dealing with the Mexican question, it " removes from diplomacy questions that have " been long in litigation, so as to take away " all pretexts for misunderstanding." It do fended the independence of Italy, but never tampered with revolution, not even when it summoned all the Italians to be " soldiers " to-day that they might be the citizens of • " great country to-morrow," or when GARIBALDI was opening the campaign of 1859 at the head of his volunteers. The HOLY FATHER was not " aban " cloned " at Castelfidardo, and the Austrians were but the enemies "of a day." The ephemeral nature of Imperial hostility will, perhaps, account to Italy for the desertion of a cause when a c3rtain amount of glory had been won, and the cleim of • couple of provinces established. The causes which might have given rise to disputes with Spain have been suppressed ; except, by the bye, a "cause " which is now being hotly debated in the Spanish Parlia ment—the cause of Spanish honour in Mexico. The little difficulty with Switzerland has been got over, with a due respect for treaties. Duty, however, the EMPEROR reminds his Deputies, and interest, are apt to clash. Thus it is with glory and aggrandisement on the one hand, and " moral " ascendancy " on the other. The withdrawal from diplomacy of every pretext for misunderstanding cannot be effected " without occasioning some " complications," such as the occupation of Rome and the invasion of Mexico, in order to favour the legitimate aspirations of the peoples in the Old World and the New towards a better future. This frank and honest policy has conci liated the sympathy of the peoples with tho esteem of Governments. The sympathy of the English, Italian, Swiss, and German, Spanish and Mexican peoples, is combined with the esteem of the Governments of Turin, Geneva, Vienna, Madrid, and Mexico. The moral ascendancy of the Second Empire is conspicuous at the present moment in the South and East of Europe. Such are the facts of a policy that respects rights and treaties, and encourages the aspirations of the peoples. Senators and Deputies will recognise, "in " spite of conflicting events," the "firmness" which declared the Empire was peace, and has been at war ever since—the firmness of policy towards Italy and the Court of Rome, and towards the Mexican Government and people. The Mexican and Cochin-Chinese expeditions re solve themselves into the " honour of France" avenged. In Mexico that honour takes the form of Jecker Bonds, negotiable in Paris. The con quest of six provinces of Cochin-China opens up an immense country to that colonizing activity which has done so much for Algeria. Altogether this account of the foreign policy of the Empire teaches us how to secure the sympathies of peoples and the esteem of governments in a surprising manner. Only it demands the style of a Luirrniorrivizitz, with its finely balanced accentuation' and its admirable science of har mony, to do it equal justice on both sides. Turning to home affairs, the EMPEROR reminds his Senators and Deputies that in order to increase their importance he had called on them to take a more directpartinthe management of affairs. Hellas "sur rounded " thoirdeliberations—notashe surrounded a National Assembly one memorable morning— but with all the guarantees of free discussion, especially in favour of the independent opposition of Five. He has given up the prerogative, " hitherto considered indispensable," of de creeing extraordinary credits, and now permits the Deputies themselves to vote supplementary credits instead—an obvious relief to the taxpayers. The finances of the Empire would be quite pros perous but for the American war, though, accord ing to M. FOOLD'S Report, it was the Mexican war that was made to bear the brunt of the deficit. For the distress in the Department of the Lower Seine an extraordinary credit will be asked for, and if report speaks true, the Second Providence in person is to descend upon the poor starving workmen with twelve millions of francs in his hands, thus giving the " masses " at once an example of self-reliance and a touching evidence of " what we have done together." The attempt at mediation in America, inspired by Mr. Sumas, and by a sincere sympathy with North and South, is deferred to a more convenient op portunity ; perhaps till the completion of the cam paign in Mexico. The concluding words of the Speech to the Chambers betray a certain uneasiness, which may be detected also in that awkward mention of the Danubian Principalities, whose union the Imperial Government had "con " tributed to cement," while the union of the Italian provinces it was " contributing" to pull to pieces. The Deputies are gratefully recommended to tell their fellow-citizens to send back to the Chamber men like themselves; and the labour of love their successors will have to perform is to avoid conflicts, accept the present regime without reserve, and fortify the constitu tion which the present Deputies, who have sat five years only, are informed is their own work. The Deputies who heard this should have short memories, and so should France. THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 13, 1863. on Loudon :—Siz months first-class credits, 2s. Old. Government securities, Four per Cents., 95 ; ditto Five per Cents., 105 i ; ditto Five and a Half per Cents., 113. Freight to Liverpool for cotton, 60s. Ebt Court. --•-- OSBORNE. JAN. 12. The Queen, accompanied by Princess Louis of Hesse, drove out this morning. Major•Geueral the Hon. A. N. Hood attended on horn book. Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office from the Governor of Heligoland, the Lord High Commie- Wooer of the lonian Islands, and from the Governors of Canada and the Bahamas. His Excellency the Austrian Ambassador has left Chandcai House cia a visit to the Marquis and Mar chioness of Bath at Looglaat, Wilts. His Excelleucy the Prussian Ambassador and the Countess Bernstorff left Prussia House yesterday morn ing for Osborne, on a visit to her Majesty. Their excellen cies are expected to return to London to-morrow. Viscount and Viscountess Castfermis° have left town on a visit to the Marquis sad Marchioness of Bath at Loftiest, Wilt& - - Viscountess Jocelyn and the Hon. Misses Jocelyn have returned to Broadlanda from visiting the Earl and Counted. of Venda= at Gorhambary. Lord and Lady Vaughan have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Croton Park, Cambridgeshire. The melancholy news hag arrived from Gibraltar of the death of Him Cagily Somerset, the youthful and only daughter of Colonel and Mn. Poulett Somerset. Sir Charles Wood's Indian policy was very freely bandied at a meeting of Halifax operatives last night, and, with one diasentient, a resolution was adopted expressing the "indignation" of the meeting at the "incompetency sad obstructive policy " which the rigtt hon. baronet has made the feature of his Indian Secretaryship. Sir Charles speaks in Halifax tonight, aid judging by the proceedings of last night, his reception will be a warm one. The Naples correspondent of the Times, writing on the 7th, says :—" Among the festivities of the week has been • brilliant reception at Lady Strachsu's on Monday last, at which were present all that are noble or dii►tinguished of Italians or foreigners now in Naples. The great attraction of the evening was the beautiful Duchess of Sutherland, who was present, together with the Duke, and the Duke and Duchess of St. Arpioo. Of nouns, there were shoals of Marchese., Marchesinis, and Conies, and all the rest of the small fry of Italian nobility. On the same erasing Retort performed at the Fordo in Blisalvtla ddC hogAilterra. The house was very full, and the enthusiasm with which the great actress was received was very great. Last evening Titian. sang for the first time do Leerezia Borgia at San Carlo. She arrived here on Friday last, and entered on her first prom on Saturday. She finds, I be ! lists, all the arrangements of that much vaunted theatre most defective, and labours under the additional disadvan. tags of being illsupported, for the company is wretched. Without being crowded, the house was full, and the per formance of Titian. was a great sumer, the audience call ! iag for her after every act, and greeting her with shouts of applause." Accounts from Cognac state that the demand for bmady is becoming less every day, and nevertheless the price is firmly maintained. It appears that Nome of the principal houses of Cognac propose to export their stock on hand to England, in hope of obtaining a good price for home cosiumptioa. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. THE OVERLAND MAIL. CHINA. Calcutta papers of the Bth ult. have oome to hand, but they contain no news of importance. The Oyer/and China Mail of the let nit. has the following : In Japan, the departure from Jeddo of the Dairnios and their families still goes on. Consequent upon the breaking up of so many sumptuous establishments, large quantities of valuables and curiosities are being sold in the capital, and the houses themselves taken down. In Pekin everything is quiet. From the three northern ports there is no news of ion. portance. We hear that Mr. Morgan, who has been for some time acting-consul at Tien-trio, proceeds to England by neat mail. In the course of a month communication with the north by sea will be closed for the winter. With regard to the rebels we have to record an soma meat at Fero-kong, a large village about 12 miles north-east of Taing-poo, on the road between that city and Kah-ding. Colonel Burgevine (Ward's successor), having been informed that a large force of rebels was encamped in that direction, proceeded with a force of 1,000 of his drilled Chinese, on the 12th ult., to look out for theenemy. On reaching Pao-kong• it was found that about 10,000 Taepings had entrenched themselves strongly in a camp of 15 stockades. Nothing was done on that day, but on the following day four guns and two mortars were put in position, and the place was gallantly carried after an hour's firing. The storming party was led by a brave young Chinese officer named Wongee• poi, to whom Admiral Hope had presented a sword for gallantry. This young soldier, however, was mortally wounded. The Taiping chief, Wo-wang, was also killed after be had rallied his men several times. The rebel Ices is set down at 2,300 killed, and that of Colonel Burgevine at five killed and 15 wounded, This looks like exaggera tion. An English surgeon attended to the wounded men• This is the most effective display that has yet been made by unassisted Chinese troops, and it confirms the opinion expressed by almost every English officer who served in the North during the campaign of 1860, that, under proper training, the Chinese would make most efficient soldiers. The great movement at present in contemplation by the imperial force' is the capture of Nankin. The Bastian" are said to have offered their assistance ; and we hear that the Tartar General Toh, of the garrison of Ching-chow, in the same province as Hankow, has been ordered by the government to join the besieging force at Nankin ; he has just gained some victories over the Shen-si rebels. From Shanghai we hear of further alarms of rebels in the neighbourhood. Cholera still continues to rage in Shanghai. AUSTRALIA. The Melbourne Argus of the 25th of November Gays : The shipments of gold still show ► felling off, and there is now no chance of the amount reaching the quantity pro duced by the miners during last year. The difference will not be very great, still there will be a deficiency, which we cannot expect to see made up during the few weeks remain ing, and wider circumstances anything but favourable. A want of water is becoming very general on the goldfields, and many of the puddler have been obliged thus early to leave their machines and claims until the rainy season comes round again. While water is plentif al • greatextent of ground can be worked with profit which is quite valueless without, and there is now little chance of the supplies being renewed for six months at the least. The stability of one of our local establishmenta—the Colonial Bank of Australasia.—has been put to a severe test. A run of extraordinary rapidity, while it lasted, began on the 11th Mat., and lasted for an hour or two on the next day, when it died a natural death. In the markets a steady and healthy condition of business has ruled throughout the month. NEW SOUTH WALES. (From the Sidaty Herald of Nov. 21.) But few events of importance have occurred during the put week. The mail strainer Bombay left on Wednesday, alining a further donation of 2,5001. in aid of the distressed operatives in the manufacturing districts. This contribution makes the total amount already forwarded from New South Wales come up to 21,0001., and therein Mill a balance in hand towards another remittance by ,the next opportunity. Among the passengers by the Bombay were tbelion. W. C. Wentworth (late President of the Legislative Council), and family. The hon. gentleman,who contemplates returning in the coarse of two years, was accompanied down the harbour by the members of the government, the Hon. the Speaker, the new President of the Council, and a large num ber of friends and admirers. Our goldfields maintain a steady average yield. The *snorts which arrived on Thursday at the Mint brought down in all 11,176 ounces from the western, northern, and southern districts. PRUSSIA. Ad vices from Berlin state that, in all probabi lity, the King will not open the session of parlia ment in person to-morrow, but that Count de Bis mark will be selected as a royal commissioner for that purpose. • The Berlin journals state that the King has sent • letter to K de Vincke, the well-known politician of the moderate school, summoning him to an in terview at Berlin. There is a great deal of talk in Germany just now of a letter which the Duke Ernest, of Saxe Coburg Gotha, has addressed to the King of Prussia, point ing out to him that the conflict with parliament will be most dangerous to Prussia and all Ger many, if not soon brought to an end. AUSTRIA AND ITALY A Verona letter, in the Press of Vienna, aaya : . _ The stiffness of the relations between Austria and Pied mont seems to be gradully relaxing. Conflicts on the frontier have entirely ceased, and both parties now behave courteously to each other. A proof of this occurred two days since, when an Austrian patrol, having lost its way in a thick fog, entered the Piedmont... territory, and was met by a Sardinian patrol. Some weeks ago they would assuredly have fired at each other ; but on this oixesiou the meeting was quite friendly. The Piedmont... put the Austrian patrol into the right road ; they then took a glass together and parted on good terms. During the late files numbers of Piedmontese officers visited this town, some of them Venetians by birth, and they met with a kind reception from everybody. (RECTERN TELEGRAM& ) FRANCE. PARIS, JAN. 13. The Moniteur of to-day says :—" The letter of King Leopold inviting Don Ferdinand of Portugal to become a candidate for the throne of Greece has met with no better success than previous efforts for that purpose. King Ferdinand :HUI de termined not to accept the crown offered to him." SPAIN. MADRID, JAN. 12. The debate on Mexican affairs was continued to day in the Congress. Senor Morro Lope; one of the committee on the address, discussed the causes of the discord which bad arisen between the English, French,and Spanish plenipotentiaries. The first, he said, arose from the refusal of the French to explain their conduct which made the other plenipotentiaries suspect some secret intentions. Senor Lopez defended General Prim against the accusation that he had been guided by personal interest and unjustifiable ambition. Rumours of an approaching ministerial crisis are still current. INDIA. BOMBAY, Die. 27, Oa gua.). The Contract Bill has been withdrawn in the Legislative Council. A commercial treaty has been concluded with Darman (1 Burmab.) COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. Shirting, feuding upwards. Cotton firm. Copper dull. Opium, Malwa, 1,47511, Igichigva CALCUTrA, Dm EL Shirting' firm. Mule twist advancing. Linseed quiet. Rice firm. Exchange on London :—First. clues credits, 23. Old. Government securities, Five per Cents., 1061. THE_ BOMBAY MAIL The following telegtansha; been received at Mr. Reuter's office from the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company : ALEXANDRIA, JAL 12. The Vectia, with the above mail, sailed for Mar seilles at noon this day. The Ellora, with the heavy portion of the mail, sailed at 10 &m. on the 11th, for Southampton, where she may be expected on the 24th inst. The Salsette brought the mail to Suez, arriving there on the 9th inst. LADY LECTURERS IN FRANCE. We read in the Temps of today:—" We have the good fortune to be able to cite • new instaime of the precious tutelage in which bureaucracy seeks to keep the French mind. Madlle. Royer, the young lady who lately addressed to us such a remarkable letter, and to whom the Renaissance would have opened the chairs of all the uni versities—Madlle. Royer had intended to deliver at the circle of the learned societies at Midaquaia Quay four or five lectures upon the eighteenth century. The circle of the learned societies is • free institution, • private establishment. Doubtless it is on that account that Mad He. Royer was warned that she must procure an authorisation from the prefecture of police. She solicited this at the beginning of November, and awaited the result. On the 24th of November she was sent for to the prefecture of police, and informed that her request bad been forwarded to the Minister of Public fostruction. She again waited. On the Ist of December she was questioned by en inspector of the Academy. From the ministerial bureau her request passed to the table of the Imperial Council of Public Instruction. The Imperial Council deliberated ; and cc January 8, that is, more than two months after her first step in the matter, Madlle. Royer was informed that she was not authorised to carry out her project. We do not know whether in China her request would have had to go through such a labyrinth ; but, frankly speaking, we think she would have got through it with better success. Whither do they wish all these regulations to lead us? Where are we going? Have we returned to infancy that they should put us thus into leeding-strings ?" The Augsburg Gazette states that the ex-Queen of Naples has at last decided to return to the world and rejoin her hueland, Francis the Second ; but, in accordance with the wish of her relatives, she will not par at once from the cloister to the troubled life of a court, and will consequently stay for some weeks with her family at Munich. The inhabitants of the Quai de la Tournelle have paid dearly for the excitement which the funeral of the Archbishop of Paris afforded them. There was not a whole window pane to be found in any of their dwellings on Sun day, u all had been shattered by the report of the twelve salvos of artillery which announced that Mgr. Morlot was consigned to his last resting•place. The damage which was thus cm:mimed is enormous, in consequence of the large number of shops in the neighbourhood of Notre Dame which have plate-glass windows. The crash of glue at the Hotel Dien was last Thursday, it is said, frightfuL A new journal has been started in Copenhagen, having the peculiar feature of an English summary and an English leading article. The journal itself is daily, but the English columns will only make their appearance once • week. A letter from Wesel (a Prussian fortress of the Rhenish provinces) to the Rhine Oazdte says :—" A sentinel was lately surprised asleep at his post by a lieutenant of our garrison. The latter in a moment of impatience awoke the sleeper by several violent slaps on the free, and then reported the transgression. The sentinel was condemned to 110010 disciplin►ry punishment, but the ill-treatment to which he had been subjected having trans pired, the officer was in his turn brought before the military tribunal, and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in a fortress for having struck a soldier on guard." From official returns, it appears that there are published in Austria 122 political journals, of which 73 are is German ; 6 Scla►ouiau ; 4 Polish ; 2 Serrian ; 13 Italian ; 16 Hungarian ; 3 Rottman ; 2 Greek ; 1 Sloracdc, and 2 Hebrew. The non-political are 312 in number. A letter from Bagdad, in the Moniteur, says : a The excavations carried on among the ruins of Babylon, under the direction of the French consul at Beaded, have redrafted in some interesting discoveries. In the Minuend Mourid, which wan visited by Mr. lanyard i 91840. were found four bas-reliefs of colossal dimensions, each sculp tured on a large slab of stone, and representing allegorical figures. The greater p►rt of these ban-reliefs bear long in scriptions in cuneiform characters, mil are remarkable for their date of preservation. A certain number of other sculptures of smaller dimensions, representing scenes of Assyrian life or warlike episodes, have also been discovered. Those artistic treasures are on their way to France." The British steamer Scotland, the pioneer of a British line of steamers which is to run monthly between Chins, Japan, and California, arrived at San Franciaoo in the middle of last month. She brought 700 tons of freight from China, and 300 tone from Japan, chiefly teas. She touched at Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Kanagaw►. The charge for freight is two guineas a ton, and for pueengers 501. each. PRESIDENT DAVIS'S RETALIATORY PROCLAMATION. —Mr. Davis ought also to remember that, though England and France have conceded to the Southern States the posi tion of belligerents, it behoves them to exercise their belli gerent rights with the utmost forbearance and moderation. We have not scrupled to express our sympathy with the South in their gallant struggle for national independence, and so stroog has been that sympathy that it has over powered the repulsion inspired by the institution of slavery. But the South should remember that they were the first to draw the sword in this quarrel, that they rose against an established government in the exercise of its legal Guoa tions, that they obtained by the agency of traitors in that government a considerable supply of arms and money, and that that union which they seek to dissolve is, as events have proved, the dearest wish of every American heart. These things are provocations of no ordinary magnitude. and in some degree extenuate, though they can in no de gree justify, the outrages which have followed the solitary Northeru success, the capture of New Orleans. Better to bear a little longer even such iniquities as those of which they complain then to aggravate the horrors of a contest already sufficiently dreadful by licensing a system of murder from which neither party can reap any possible advantage, sod which can only teed to envelope the American name in ever lasting ignominy. No doubt it may be suggested as an excuse fur the South that they have the fate of St. Domingo before their eyes, and have the most dreadful apprehen sions of the lot which may overtake their homes, their wives, and their children in cave of a oegro insurrection. But this iv one of the chances of war which they must have well weighed and considered before they raised the flag of insurrection. Their own valour and success have created the danger by driving the North to despair, and they ought to meet it with the calmness of men resolved sod prepared, not with the fury of surprise and panic. If the North, which we will not yet believe, should carry out ita dreadful threat, the evil will not be averted by killing the officers who may be detached on a service which is not in itself contrary to the usages of war. They will not be deterred from undertaking it, and, should they be slain, their death will be bloodily avenged. lastly, Mr. Davis ought to consider whether it is worth his while, in order to gratify the justly-incensed feelings of the South, to cut off from himself that European sym pathy which he now possesses, and to appear before the civilised world as the first to convert an honourable contest Into a war of extermination. We earnestly hope to find that this plan of retaliation has remained ursexecutel, and that the horror of mrutaacres in cold blood may not be added to the miseries of a contest between men of the game language, the same lineage, and the same country.—Tieses. J EPPERSON BILIcK. —Thu unyielding and unde moostrative courage of Major Pelham, his composure under the deadliest fire, have long made him conspicuous, but were his noble qualities the subject of more glowing eulogy than upon this occasion . General Lee exclaimed. ; I "It is inspiriting tow such glorious courage in one soyousg" : (Major Pelham is not more than 22) ; General Jackie° ' remarked, "With a Pelham upon either dank I could van quish the world."—Special Correspoode at of the Tina with the Southern Army. On the Bth of November Inat there were twenty , eight steamers and 178 sailing ships lying at the port of Shanghai in China. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. THE EMPEROR'S SPEECH. (nom ova OWN 0011.115PONDIXT.) PARIS, MONDAT EVIIIING. The leading feature of the Emperor's speech (as it strikes me upon a first reading) is the reticence in regard to the two questions which, with the exception of the distress in the cotton districts, are, more than any others, of immediate and palpitating interest—those of Rome and Mexico. As to Rome it is only alluded to incidentally, in the course of a recapitulation of the events of the last five years. We are simply told that France defended the independence of Italy without making any " pact " with the revolution, and without abandoning the Holy Father, "whom our honour and our past engagements oblige us to support." There is a vagueness in these phrases, which, while the friends of Italian unity will evidently not be contented with them, afford but small comfort to the clerical party. Many " solu tions " have been ventilated which would satisfy Italy without doing violence to the words "abandoning" and " supporting" as here used. The naked "status quo" is vindicated without a hint of the course likely to be taken in future, and not a word of explanation is vouchsafed as to the reasons for dismissing M. Thouvenel and putting M. Drouyn de Lhuys in his place. Perhaps, however, any allusion to a change of ministry would have been infra dig. in a speech from the throne, and more over the omission is supplied, as far as it suite the government purpose, by*. a paragraph in the " yellow book" this day furnished to the members of the Senate and Corps Legialatif, which says that owing to the " resistance on the one side" (that of the Pope) and the "exigency" on the other (that of Italy) " the Emperor had thought it desirable to call to his assistance men who, not having been parties to previous discus sions, were in a more favourable position to resume the work of conciliation, the bases of which were indicated in the imperial letter of May 28." That is the official explanation of the reason for dismiss ing K Thouvenel and K de Lavalette, who had been made the instruments for making promises and holding out expectations which the Emperor either never meant to fulfil and gratify, or, at any rate, subsequently repented of. It is not wonder ful that the proverb, "Least said soonest mended," should be thought applicable to this matter now. The speech as respects Rome amounts, therefore, to just nothing. The same may be said in regard to Mexico, which is only spoken of parenthetically and jointly with China and Cochin China, in a paragraph vaunting the power of France to punish insults to her honour even in the uttermost parts of the world. The speech begins with an allusion to the fact that with this session the present Corps Legislatif will have lived out its utmost legal time. The Emperor takes credit to himself for not having dissolved it for two reasons, one by no means de mumble, and the other palpably false. In the first place, he says a dissolution would have been an act of ingratitude to the present chamber. That may be admitted to the fullest extent. A more servile body of men he can never hope to get together again. But the second reason, i. e., that a dissolution would have shown dis trust of the country, is so obviously untrue as to be ridiculous. Ever since the liberal decrees of 1860 and 1861 it has been constantly pressed upon the government by the independent press that the present chamber, nominated as it was in the early days of the empire, and before the Em peror's celebrated confession that his government "wanted control," was not in harmony with the new and, as it is fondly hoped, improved order of things. It is, in point of fact, notorious that the general elections have been put off to the last pos sible moment because of the fear that, in spite of all the pains taken to " regulate " universal suffrage, nothing can prevent the present opposition phalanx of five members from being augmented to twenty or thirty. However, the speech, ignoring this well-known fact, pretends that if the govern ment had not dissolved parliament it was because, confident in the un changing support of universal suffrage, it could afford to wait for the natural end of the chamber by effluxion of time, and was not forced, like pre ceding dynasties, who were so unfortunate as to have only restricted suffrage to rely upon, to lay hold of any " happy accident " to dissolve and get a majority. The argument is, perhaps, after all, entitled 'to more credit for ingenuity than I am disposed to attribute to it. Those who are familiar with the real state of things in France can ill judge of the effect which a plausible statement, promul gated by the highest authority, may have upon the public mind abroad and upon the ignorant multi tude at home. The Emperor commences his review of the last five years during which he has had the concurrence of the present chambers by his favourite complaint, that " people will not understand him." The public will seek in the acts of sovereigns " hidden motives and mysterious combinations." His policy is, he says, very simple ; it is " to increase the prosperity of France and her moral ascend ancy, without abusing as well as without weakening the power placed in my hands." That is a very "simple" definition, no doubt, but it is too simple to be comprehensive. In fact it explains no policy at all. It means at the utmost, "Let me do as I like, and I will pro mise to do for the best." Every tyrant is always ready to say as much. Beyond the barren allusions to Rome and Mexico (noticed above) there is not much to remark upon, and little, as it strikes me, to object to iu the Emperor's review of the last five years of his government. He very fairly takes credit to himself for his commercial reforms, the increase of influence conceded to the Senate and Corps Legislatif, and the renunciation of his pre rogative to surcharge the budget with supplemen tary credits. His unsuccessful attempt to induce Russia and England to joie him in putting a stop to the American war is alluded to in terms which add nothing to the knowledge on the subject already in possession of the public. He announces that a credit will be demanded for the relief of the cotton distress. [The amount is rumoured to be 12,000,000fr.1—There is nothing in the speech which I can construe as confirming the idea that the senators and deputies are to be prevented from speaking their minds as freely as they did last year. One remarkable passage really seems to point cheeringly towards the much-looked-for "crowning of the edifice." The Emperor admits that "much remains to be done to perfect our institutions, to propagate true ideas, and to accustom the country to rely upon itself." These are truly golden words —self-reliance is, according to the testimony of all enlightened Frenchmen, the quality which France most wants. But nothing is so conducive to the growth of this virtue as that liberty of the press, and liberty of public meetings, which it has been hitherto the policy of the empire to re press. Even now the Emperor exhorts the deputies to tell their constituents that he will ever be ready to "accept whatever is for the interest of the greatest number," but that they are to avoid " conflicts " in the new elections, and study "con. cord." I am afraid this means that the people must look out for squalls if they do not meekly return the candidates indicated by the Prefects. Iu the imperial vocabulary "concord " means sub serviency, and " conflict " free action and din . cussion. ~..........-. The new Archbishop of Paris may be said to have been nominated by his predecessor. He is the executor and universal legatee of Cardinal Morlot. Ills appointment is, I think, as good a one as could have been made, and one that will not by any means please the ultra-catholic party. A memoir of him says : Mgr. Darboy, formerly Vicar-General of Paris, a man of talent.. is probably recommended to the choice of the go. veroment by marked opposition to Ultramontane theories. His conduct on the occasion of the Immaculate Conception is well remembered in governmental circles. It is also well known that it was he who drew up the famous pastoral letter of Mgr. Babour, Archbishop of Paris, spinet the doe tripes of the Univers. The Bourse has been very heavy—not, as I appre hend, owing to anything in the speech—but on account of the financial situation. Rents fell 30c. and 25c., closing at 70tr. 10c. and 70fr. 15c. The Arab chiefs who were lately guests at Com piegne are now making a tour in the south of France. The Journal des Pyrenhes °lien&les gives a long account of a ball at which they were "feted" by General Durrieu, the commandant at Perpignan, and of their visit to K Durand, the deputy, at the Masden vineyard, of which he is the proprietor. They are represented as abounding in admiration of everything they saw, pointing out to admiring grooms the merits of horses in the imperial horns, and declaring that the country which, in this won derfully mild season, exhibits a rare show of aloes, pomegranates, fig-trees, &c., reminds them of their native deserts. It is not stated whether they so far forgot the prompts of Mahomet as to taste the /deaden wine. M. Sardon's new play, Lea Diable Noire, which was to have been brought out at the Vaudeville, is definitively prohibited. Up to the last moment it was hoped that the Emperor, who on many occa sions has loved to show himself more liberal than his agents, would personally interfere on behalf of an author one of whose recent pieces, Nos Intinies, was played before the court at Compiegne. This expectation has not boen realised. The piece is said to reflect upon a class of Tartuffes now greatly patronised by one section of the court, and which has been severely handled already in Les Pile de Giboyer. I am told that Count Walewski, in announcing to the author his irrevocable decision, said, "And now, if the Emperor orders the performance, I will be the first to go and him it." The Daily News of Saturday is seized. SOCIETY AT CANNES. We(Galignani) hear from Cannes that the weather in that favoured spot during the month of December was such as to satisfy the moss exigeant of it. visitors, there having been twenty-four consecutive cloudless days. Though there has been some slight degree of frost at night—it has not been severe enough to cut off the flowers—many of the houses being covered with • profusion of the scarlet passion. flower in full beauty. The number of English visitors in. messes every year, and though the church hen been enlarged during the past summer it is still too small for the congre gation, end • further enlargement is in contemplation. Amongst the residents and visitors at Cannes, in addition to the venerable Lord Brougham, to whom the French inhabitant' of the place facetiously ascribe the discovery of Cannes, are the Marquis sod Marchioness of Easter and Lady Victoria Gail, the Earl and Countess of Donoughmore Red family, Lord Kensington and family, Lord Lumley, Lady Creaky and family, Lady Henrietta Harvey and family, Admiral • and Lady Mary Saurin and family, and Lady Orford. The Bishop of Gibraltar has lately paid • visit to Cannes, it being situated within his jurisdictioe, and confirmed ten young persons. A collection, in four instalments, is in the course of being made amongst the English in behalf of the Lanoishire Belief Fund; two remittances, amounting to 3W., have been already made—the other two instalments will follow at the beginning of February and March. The number of visitors would probably have been doubled or trebled were it not for the utter inadequacy of the house and hotel accommodation for the requirements of the numbers who arrived with the intention of speeding the winter, but were obliged, for this reason, to pus on to other places. THE POPE AT HOME. A resident at Rome furnishes the following in formation relative to the domestic habits of the Pope : " His Holiness rises about six. At seven he says mass in a room adjoining his bedroom. Almost all the cardiards and the Roman bishops follow the same custom. Whim a prelate at Rome hires a furnished apartment, he brings with him a small portable altar and says mass at home, and it dose not unfrequently happee thet a foreigner who hires an apartment which has been previously occupied by ► per late finds some of the remnants of those altars. The Pope is served by a cameriere, sod by a prelate, priest, or deacon. There are at the Vatican ten secret camerieri, more or less„ closely attached to the Pope according to their age. At the head of them are Mgrs. Stella, de Mitrode, Talbot, and Ricci, who are always near his Holiness. They keep hier oompany, amuse him, and make him laugh, which is sot very difficult, for in private life Pitts I.C. is smiling and happy. At 8 o'clock his Holiness takes his ooffee and some trifling refreshment ; Mgr. Stella alone is present at that meal, as he opens the letters which have arrived, and reads them to the Pope. At 9, wbeo the repast is over and the letters read, Cardinal Antonelli makes his appear. asap from the floor above. He is always gentle and mild— ' Holy Father,' here ; ' Happy Father,' there ; he praises the genius of the Pope, his knowledge of sffairs, dtc. That is the way in which the Cardinal always addresses Pine IX. Cardinal Antonelli consults him on everything, and is his moat humble servant. This political conversation and business of the Sovereign Pontiff with the minister lasts for an hour or two. About half-past 10 or 11 the audiences commence. The Pope, dressed in white, is seated in a large arm chair with a table before him. He says two or three words to all the persons who are presented to him in the language which they speak—French, Italian, or Spanish, but if English or German be spoken, au inter preter becomes necessary. Sometimes during the audiences he signs appliutions for indulgences which have been made to him io writing. The Pope williogly signs those applica tions, writing at the bottom of them, • Foot Pio None At 2 o'clock the pontifical diaper takes place. From 3to 4 the Pope takes his siesta, as everyone does at Rome. If you call at the house of a Cardinal at that hour, the answer invariably is, Eminence is reposing'.' The Pope does neither more nor less than others. At ii o'clock hie Holiness takes a drive in a carriage, escorted by guards, esimerieri, and monsignori. At 7 the Pope sups, and after wards plays a game of billiards. At 10, all the lights at the Vatican are extinguished." " Pius 1X.," says a letter from Rome, "has ex pressed his intention to rolioquiab for the future the use of the ended geAtatoria, carried on men's shoulders. It most sot, however, be inferred that LIU+ ancient usage Is to be abolished as incompatible with the spirit of charity and humility becoming the servant of the servants of God. The Holy Father has come to this decision from motives per sonal to himself, as the unpleasant oscillation produced by that mode of conveyance produces on bim an effect similar to sea-sickness." The Mix/nig/err des Arts states that the Prince Napoleon has enchained his Roman villa in the Champs Elyw:es with Prince de Detnidolf, fur the domain of San Martino, in the Island of Elba. It is well known that Prince de Deinidoff bad formed, in the house in which the Emperor resided daring hie exile, a very curious Napoleon. Lin museum. A letter front Smyrna states that the ceremony of laying the first stone of the Mimeo catholic cathedral in that city took place on the 27th ult. with great pomp. Hsar.Ailmirel Toucher& who commands the naval squad. mu in the Levant. sent the Mouette steam frigate to Smyrna on the occasion.