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We are enabled to state that the Earl of Derby has completely recovered from his late severe attack of illness. e foreipt dorresponbenct. l'Ams, Thursday. PRINCE NAPOLEON'S visit to the Emperor of Russia at Warsaw is the great topic of conversation this week, as it was of the last. His Imperial Highness is, it appears, highly gratified by the cordial manner in which lie was received by the Czar, and by the terms in which his Imperial Majesty spoke of the Emperor of the French and his dynasty. But, con trary to ail expectation, be failed in the main object of bis mission—obtaining the Czar's acceptance of an invitation to visit Paris. With many civil speeches and professions of regard, the Majesty of Russia declared himself unable to come to the " capital of civilization ;"—he, however, held out a promise to do so on some future day. I noticed in my last the report that was current that one of the objects of the Prince's visit to Warsaw was to solicit the Czar to grant him the band of a Russian Princess, or to use his influence in obtaining for him some German Princess. It is now said that whilst in the Polish capital the Prince made arrangements for wedding a Princess Potocki. The family of Potocki is ancient and illustrious, though not royal, and is of enormous wealth. But I attach little credit to the statement, and only give it as a piece of the gossip of the day. The Emperor has been down at the camp at Chalons. His Majesty took himself the other day the command of some extensive and intricate manoeuvres executed by the troops. You are no doubt aware that, though never having been per sonally engaged in the grand art of war, bis Mojesty is considered by competent authorities a most ex cellent strategist. As on previous occasions, the Emperor at the camp lays aside all state, and lives THE PRES S, OCTOBER 9, 1858. like a simple general in the field : his Majesty, moreover, goes unattended amongst the men, listen ing with evident pleasure to their songs and jokes ; and he lets them speak to him freely if they have anything to say. This sort of conduct is exactly what French troopers like, and it increases amaz ingly the popularity which his Majesty has always enjoyed amongst them. Sotre interest has been oxcitel in the course of the last few days by the announcement that the French Government has sent two ships of the line, the Donawerth and the Austerlitz, to the Tagus, to make a demonstration against the Portuguese Go vernment, owing to its refusal, in spite of repeated applications, to give up a French merchant ship, the Charles George, which a Portuguese cruiser seized on the western coast of Africa, as a slaver, but which the French Government maintains was " no slaver at all," only an " immigrant" ship. There is, how ever, every prospect, we believe, that the affair will be amicably arranged. There is reason to believe that the Emperor will shortly create what the French call majorats, or entails, in Algeria, in order to recompense certain distinguished military officers and high civil func tionaries ; also that ho will grant titles of nobility to individuals who may undertake to colonize a certain extent of land in that colony. The object of his Majesty is to surround his throne with a territorial aristocracy possessing the right of hereditary succes sion ; and a grander, wiser, nobler, and more states manlike object could not be conceived. To borrow a striking expression of the celebrated Count de Maistre, France without such an aristocracy is un honed. Nevertheless, considering that the French are infatuated with "equality," it is to be feared that his Majesty's sagacious project will encounter serious op position. And apropos of " equality," though the French are constantly bragging of it, as something which advantageously distinguishes them from all other people, they do not understand the legal sig nification of it, even in their own codes. It means not, as most of them suppose, the negation of all superiority, whether of birth, social position, or wealth, which is an impossible thing ; but only equality before the law, such as exists, and always has existed, in England. If matrimony makes a man happy—and it gene rally does for a few days at all events—the Duke de Malakoff will be in felicity on and after the 12th, that being the day at present fixed for his " leading to the hymeneal altar," as novelists say, the beautiful Mlle. Paniega. It was reported lately that the Puke would make his marriage a pretext for resigning the Embassy at London ; but I can state on good authority that not only has he no intention of re signing, but that he will, after a very few days passed in this country, most likely at Dieppe, hasten to London to present his bride to the Queen and to society. Utterly unfounded are all the state ments that have been made at various times, both in this country and in other parts of the Continent, that the Duke is ill at ease at London, and would be glad to be away ; on the contrary, he tells every body here that he is delighted with England and the English. I am told that the expression with which the gruff old soldier says " Its m'adorent—ces Anglais !" is indescribably naive, and has made even the Emperor smile. Of my Lord Normanhy's "Year of Revolution," a French translation has been brought out in this city; and it is just now one of the topics of the day. The work is exactly such a one as people who knew anything of the noble lord when he was Ambassador here expected on the subject of which it treats—that is to say, full of spiteful things against individuals, and of bitter animosity to M. Guizot and Louis Philippe, who outwitted him so completely in the Spanish marriage affair; displaying a woeful lack of political sagacity in his manner of viewing the tremendous events which made the year 1848 for ever famous; proving that though it was his duty to know everything that passed in political circles, he knew even less than the ordinary reader of newspapers. Remembering that the book was a sorry failure in England, some persons here express surprise that a translation of it should have been attempted. Thu fact, however, is that the Whig marquis fancied that the publication of it in Paris would make people at home think that both it and he are of far greater political importance than has lately been supposed ; and that it would be gall and worm wood to certain French politicians whom, notwith standing the lapse of years, he cordially dislikes. SECOND EDITION. SATURDAY AFTERNOON. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. FRANCE. (By Telegraph.) PARIS, Saturday Morning. The Moniteur of this morning publishes a decree, by which the exemption of the navigation dues for cargoes of corn, flour, rice, potatoes, and vegetables in general, is prorogued to September, 1839. PRUSSIA. The following telegram has been received at Mr. Reuter's office, October 9th, 9.50 a.m.:— Bawds, Saturday Morning. The Minister of the Interior, Herr von Westphalen, has been dismissed. The President, Baron von Flottwell, formerly Minister of Finance, has been provisionally appointed in his place. Baron Flottwell has already arrived in Berlin. THE PRUSSIAN REGENCY. BERLIN, Friday. It is officially announced that the King has empowered the Prince of Prussia to carry on the Government with independent powers and according to his own views until his Majesty shall be perfectly restored to health. The needful documents are to be published forthwith in a constitutional manner. The Chambers are convoked for the 20th instant. AUSTRALIA. The following telegram has been received from Corfu, Oct. 8: ALEXANDRIL, Oct. 5. The Cambria sailed this morning with the Australian mails, and gold valued at 165,0331. The dates of intelligence are Melbourne, 16th, Sydney. 12th of August. The May and June mails reached Melbourne on the IA and 13th of August respectively. The following are the departures of gold•ships : July 21tb, the Agincourt, for Loudon, with 70, 760 ounces. August 14th, the Lincolnshire, for London, with 105,612 ounces. The contract between the Government and the six banks for the negotiation of the railway loan was signed on the 16th of August. The export trade very dull. The import-market continued overstocked. The banks were selling exchange at Ito premium. At Sydney the supplies of wool were very small. A fire at Auckland had destroyed a large portion of the city. THE WEST INDIES. The Royal Mail steamship Thames, Captain Gilles, arrived at Southampton yesterday from St. Thomas's, which port she left on the 19th ult. The island was healthy, every trace of yellow fever having disap peared. The La Plata, with the outward mails, arrived at St. Thomas's on the evening of the 10th. The Thames experienced on the passage fine weather and fresh winds. She spoke the American ship Russell, of Boston, with emigrants, steering westward, in lat. 40.13 N., lon. 18.50 W. Also ex changed signals with the British ship Continent, steering westward, in lat. 40.20 N., lon. 18.35 W. The Thames comes home for repairs, having been engaged in the intereolonial service for two years. ADVICES RECEIVED AT LLOYD'S, from the outports, report the loss of about twelve vessels, for the most part coasters, attended in several cases with loss of life, arising from the severity of the gales from south west. Many ships have likewise experienced con siderable damage, and found it a task of much difficulty to reach ports of refuge in time to avoid the most violent part of the gale which prevailed. THE WILL OF THE HON. AN!) REV. CHARLES GEORGE PERCEVAL, rector of Calverton, Bucks, was proved in London by Sir Charles Edward rrevelyan, K.C.B. the sole acting executor. The personalty was sworn under 35,0001. He has devised the freehold to his sr, and the personalty, saving specific bequests, ttt his wife for life, and afterwards to his son an. daughter. The painting of " The Family 01 Darius before Alexander" he bequeathes to , the National Gallery, which he considered unfelt be acceptable for the staircase or vestibult in the new building that has been Wiwi! of. The family portraits he bequeathes to his brother, Lord Egmont, to be held as heirlooms ; and should his gallery of pictures be sold, that from the produce 1,0001. be given to his widow, and 1,0001. to the Bev. Chase; and from the remainder one-third to go to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, and the rest divided between his ch ildren. 'f he will was made in 1849, and two codicils in 103.