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Young; .511 a Lima K Cana.—Aad IIAUIC TOY& 111 k I. Thumpaa. —commuted T. DRITANNIA. THIN MIMS, THE or moserm . or. TS* Stook Kea Tile Capevm's Secret Mr. J. karyno4.la . Oro E Solecki, Mr. ... [mar.-01OVANNI LONDON. Mi.. Sather Jaroha. —lnd TOE II IMI" Or MI WANDEZER. MI L Clayton. HIGH vrAnot AT LONDON BRIDOL Tom ai:siii::77.lliTri;;;; est min. Tc.,-zoasow—ltsestag. it Iva .... Memos, lk 27us. LONDON, MONDAY, MARCH 19. THE accounts from the manufacturing districts for the past week report no diminution of activity, save in exceptional imances. There has been a rather decided falling-off in the inquiry for goods for the East, where the markets now exhibit dulness, after a prolonged and extraordinarily active demand ; but prices at Manchester, though betraying a drooping tendency, are still supported by the insas of orders in hand. Most of the manufacturers are fully engaged for weeks for ward. One of the most encouraging features is the sustained activity of the home trade. Owing to the steady absorption, combined with the high price of the raw material, the stocks of manufactured goods throughout the kingdom are unusually low. This is a very healthy symptom. Any unsoundness in the manufacturing trade is impossible so long as the producer finds a market ready to his hand, and sells his goods at remuners tire prices as fast as he can supply them. The difference between empty and glutted warehouses constitutes the difference between a healthy ready money trade and an unsafe speculative trade. The continuance of the present satisfactory condi tion of affairs may be implicitly relied upon, for , immunity from sudden checks is virtually afforded by the number and variety of our foreign cus tomers. As one of them gets supplied and with draws, others find themselves bare and come eagerly forward. The reports from all the woollen districts re mark upon the firmness of the market for the raw material, at the present high scale of prices. The steady demand for wool experienced for a long time pant springs front the absolute necessities of the manufacturers, and is a point of the utmost impor thxice both to the home and colonial producer. At Nottingham and Leicester and in the contiguous districts the hosiery trade continues active, ma chinery is in full work, ample employment is pre sented to the workpeople, and the prospects are decidedly good. At Belfast and Dundee business is described as very healthy. The report from Birmingham is of a similar character ; and special reference is made to the large number of orders now on the manufacturers' books. The provisions of the Commercial Treaty with France are now in full operation ; for, as the ne gotiation ham been definitively concluded by the Emperor NAPOLEON, 41 the plenitude of his Impe rial power, there is no necessity for submitting it to the ordeal of discussion in the Legislative Assembly. The introduction of French goods into this country upon a large scale has already com menced, and the notification, " Duty off," is not unemninon in the windows of enterprising shop ke, pers. The development of the new trade with France will he watched with great interest. We confess we expect much from the Treaty ; for the idea that trade between two popu lations so wealthy and chinned as those of Great Britain and France sum resume a one-sided character, is childish. All ex experience teaches us that if we consume any par ticular clans of foreign goods largely the balance will be kept right bythe foreigner consuming ours. Were it a question of a treaty with a semi-bar barous nation, the result would be different, for their wants would be comparatively few. The correctness of this view is demonstrated by all the statistics of Anglo-French trade. A parliamentary return shows that the exports from the United Kingdom to France in 1855 were 6,012,6581. ; in Kist, 6,432,650/. ; in 1867, 6,212,3581. ; in 4,863,1311. ;and in 1869,0n1y4,754,3541. Considering the expansion which commerce has imilergotui in every other direction, this de cline is perfectly unnatural, and is to be explained only by the existence of a wretched in ternational fiscal jealousy now happily repented of. Our imports from France were upon an equally restriaed wale, and this because, although we did not fellow our neighbours' narrow example in ab 'whitely prohibiting the introduction of a large number of articles of general utility, trade cannot possibly attain its full growth unless there is fnerlam on ono rude as on the other. This free dom being wanting WI the aide of France, our in terchanges with her have been stunted, whist those with the United States, whose tariff is mo derate, have largely increased, and those with Australia and India--communities under our own wtwhoa trade im perfectly free—have grown to a magnitude perfectly astonishing. Viewed broadly, all trade is only tartar. A tribe of aavog,s un the sea-coast cannot transact business with the tribe further inland unless the latter can exchange skins or some other Stitt the fish which forms the staple of the former. It Eta same with a nation as with • single tribe. cannot absorb largely the productions of unless France reciprocates with orders to oar coal, iron, woollen, cotton, and linen interests. When we are drinking a bottle of French wine, it may not perhaps strike us that payment has been made in the shape of a penknife or a pair of scissors from Sheffield or Birmingham. The movement for procuring the termination of banking business at two o'clock on Saturdays has latterly attracted a great deal of attention, and enlisted an amount of support which ought to suffice for the immediate settlement of the matter upon the basis proposed. Bankers, however, are proverbially • timid race ; and it is believed that the Committee at the Clearing-house will this day decide upon a compromise, and fix three o'clock as the future closing hour on Saturdays. This decision, instead of being considered a boon, will excite mach disappointment. The best plan will, of course, be to accept the alteration as an instalment. The difference between the old-fashioned and the modern commercial hours is very striking. Down to a comparatively recent period many merchants' clerks did not think of quitting business until eight, nine, or even ten o'clock ; yet will any one be hardy enough to assert that more work was done then than now? A great reform has taken place in the hours kept in nearly every branch of business. There are some people with whom it is a habit to be late in every thing, but it is good that their practice should be improved through the example and pressure of their neighbours. Some analogy may be traced between the practice of the banking houses and that of the Poet-office : the functions of both are essential to commerce, and must be discharged. The reform which has been intro duced in the Post-office hours forms a case in point. Time was when some foreign mails were made up in London at ten, eleven, and even twelve o'clock at night. Jaded clerks were kept hard at work at unnatural hours, and the rush to catch the last post was as eager then as it is now when all the mails are made up half a dozen hours earlier in the day. Does any one suppose that if the letter boxes were closed at eight p.m., instead of six, the crowd of letter-laden and breathless clerks would be less num*. mus than nowt Everybody is fond of postponing work until the latest moment. The boxes which are now shut at six probably receive quite as many letters as if they were kept open for hours longer. In the same way, if the public knew that banking hours terminated at two o'clock on Saturdays, they would get all their banking business done by that hour. In every depart. ment of trade—except the retail, where bad habits still prevail extensively—work is now over at an early hour on Saturday afternoon. Bow unreasonable is it, then, for bankers to adhere to the old practice, thereby setting a Tag bad example where a good one is most de sirable ! An early closing of the banks on the bet day of the week would affect the hours observed in a multitude of other trades. For this reason, it is no exaggeration to say that the deci sion about to be delivered by the Committee of Bankers is regarded with interest by hundreds of thousands of employ& We all feel that in these days of hurry and competition, the mental and physical faculties are alike overtaxed. Occasional relaxation is absolutely requisite. The rapidity with which gigantic lunatic asylums are springing up over the face of the country proves the none sity of some reform. To labour unceasingly for five days and a half in every week with that vast expenditure of energy which is demanded from every man resolved upon working his way upward is surely sufficient. At no former period did the wheels of business revolve so swiftly, throw off so large an amount of perfected work, or entail so much wear and tear. And no other nation works by any means so hard as we do. VISIT OF THE PRINCE OP WALES TO CANADA. In the Lower Howie of the Legislative Assembly (Feb. 29), after routine proceedings coneequest spa the opening of the session, the following despatch was read : "Downing4treet, Jan. 30. " Sir,--As the two houses of the Canadian Legislature will soon reassemble for the despatch of business, it becomes my duty to inform you that the joint address to which they agreed at the close of their last session was fully presented to the Queen, and was most graciously received by her Majesty. In that address the Legislative Council and Commons of Canada earnestly pray the Queen to receive in parson the tribute of their unwavering attachment to her =end to honour with her presence her subjects in North America, upon the °minims of the opening of the great Victoria-bridge, accompanied by the Prince Consort, and such member of the noel family as it may please her Majesty to attend her on the occasion. Her Majesty values deeply the attachment to her per son and the loyalty to her crown, which have induced this addreem and I em commanded to assure the legislature, through you, how lively an interest is felt by the Queen in the growing prosperity of Canada, in the welfare and contentment of her subjects in that important province of her empire, and in the completion of the gigantic work *hien is a fitting type of the successful iudiotry of the people. It is, therefore, with sincere regret that her Majesty is compelled to decline compliance with this loyal resit:it... Her Majesty feels that her duties at the seat of the empire prevent so long an absence, and at s. githt a deitauue as a visit to Canada would neecesearily re l uire. Imptemed, however, with an earnest desire to testify to the utmost of her power her warm of the affectionate loyalty of her Canadian st= t ! ° ll l ei Qiieen commands me to express her hope that when the time for the opening of the Victoria-bridge is lied, it may be passible for his Royal Highness the Prince of Walls to attend the ceremony in her !Lije.dy's name, and to wit- Dees those gratifying scenes in whirl, the Queen is herself unable to participate. The Queen trusts that nothing may interfere with this arrangement, for it in her Majesty'a sincere desire that the young prince, on whom the crown of this empire will devolve, may have the opportunity of visiting that portion of her dominions from which that address has proceecied, and may become acquainted with a in whose rapid progress towards greatnew her b Fiet ip t , i,. we i l n y common sod with urtng . her subjects yml y in Ulett MU* " I have the honour to be, sir, your obedient humble servant, " NXWCASTLI. "To Governor Right Hon. fir E. W. Head, Bart." THE POPE AND THE DUBLIN DONATIONS. Dr. Cullen has published the following letter from the Pope acknowledging the ■um of 3,000 f., part the liberal contributions— eawl to amount to 16,00W.—0f the Dublin Roman catholic• : (Translatiou. I "TO ors VICRIAII.II . 11110THER PALL, DUBLIV. " Venerable bother.—Heilth and Apostolic beasdic tion.—lt is sleep with welcome we Meek e your letters, as we have a special regard far you, well knowing your ex alted virtues, as well as your pest veneration, love, and respect tovranla se, sad thin hely opedeile see. But your letter, dated the 24th of last atosth, wee most gratifying to no, as we again learned from it that your faith ful clergy and people most fervently played to sod sup plicated Almighty Clod, in accorthesse with oar desire+. We are ounfulent that the clergy sad pork will sever C 0... from offering up most fervent perm to the most clearest Father of Mendes, britashaig like to awwwuad the triode and dr am, owl kiwi shwa the wan op ow* wisbod for, dam*, ki helyehmeli twat PU maw Etta eaksokke, mint/ft it wlVi sow and immeshes triumphs, sad giving lwiredsasweilim is all our tribulations. It s ear w4ll twat you ream in our name, and in the warmed Wm" sor Amon thanka to your faithful clergy and people kr de Gird won of a thous; d potted. which they hose awed le as through you. he conclusion you may Ma 1100111.011 tart war attachment to you, your cling sad bathe 1•1111111eet kind, sad, ate a swot certain we snot you, reasrulde lirother, and the committed to your mre, our apostolic benediction, ?taut ..or Moroi heart, sod with our beet unties fur your true happiume. n Rome, at Mt. Peter's, the Bth day of March, is the y, le(4, the 14th year of our pontificate." 'Pius PP. LE." 9 1 ourt. I - -, M~ Of3BORNIL, Mattes 17. The Queen and Prince Consort walked oat yes terday afternoon. The Tad at at. Gagman; Lord Steward, and Viscount Ceditlereme, Vice-Chamberlain of the Hoesehold, arrived this morning from Loudon, with addresses to her Majesty from Loth Houses of Parliament. MARCH 1& The Queen and Prince Consort drove out yesterday, so eompsnied by the Princess Helena. The Marchionsi of Ely and Lord Alfred Paget attended. Prince and Princes Leiningen arrived on a visit to her Majesty. The royal dinner party in the evening included Prince Alfred, the Princess Alice, the Prince and Princess Lei aingen, Major-General the Hon. Sir J. Barlett (commanding South West District), Vice-Admiral Bruce (Commander-in- Chief at Portsmouth), Sir James Clark, Major• General the He C. Grey, and Major Cowell, RE This morning the Queen and Prince Consort, Prince Alfred, Prince Arthur, Princess Alice, Princes Helena, Princess Louisa, and the Prince and Princes Leiningen, at tended divine service at Osborne. The Bev. G. Prather° officiated. The ladies and gentlemen in waiting were also present. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday at the official residence of the Irust Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. It was rttended by Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Argyll, the Duke of Newcastle, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir Charles Wood, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Duke of Somerset, Sir George Grey, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, and the Right Hon. K Cardwell A deputation, conairting of Mr. S. Gurney, M.P., Mr. Brett, Mr. Bortherick, and Sir James Carmichael, had as interview with the Right Hoa. T. Milner Gibson and the Right Hon. W. Hatt on Saturday, at the office of t►e Board of Trade. . The C. P. Villiers, the President of the Poor lew Bawd, received on Saturday a deputation from the par‘b of Christchurch, Spitalfields, consisting of the Rev. J. Paterson (Rector), Mr. Bruahheld, Mr. Joseph Jones, Mr. A. Nisbet, Mr. J. T. Hart, Mr. Hyam (Vestry Clerk), Mr. Tangoes, Willaume (solicitor) ; and also • deputation from the Wycombe Union, consulting of Mr. Hunt (chair men), Mr. C. Brown, Rev. G. Broadhead (vice-chairman), Rev. G. Phillimons, Mr. Gibbons, Mr. Oliff, and Mr. Her. lean (clerk). A deputation on the subject of the Minas Inspection Bill, consisting of Mr. Nicholas Wood, Mr. Matthews, Mr. Peace, and Mr. J. W. Day, transmuted business on Saturday at the Hemewilke. M Deepp tchea were received on Saturday at the Colonial odice trona the governors of Hong Kong, Ceylon, and the West India Wanda. Yesterday being the anniversary of the birthday of her Royal Highness the Princess Louisa, at noon a royal salute was arid from Isar Majesty's ship Victory, flagship of the Commander-inZhisf, at Portsmouth, in honour of the occasion. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston entertained his Excellency the Belgian Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, his Excellency the American Minister and Ma. Dallas and Hiss Dallas, the Marquis of Lanadolnie, the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury and lady Victoria Ashley, Lard sod lady lerveden, the Bight Hon. Sir George and lady Grey, Sir John Lawrence, Hon. Evelyn Ashley, the Eight Hon. William and Mrs. Cowper, Mr. Oliphant, and select party, at dinner on Saturday evening, at their mansion in Piccadilly. lady Palinesston subsequently had a re caption, which wan attended by all the leading foreign di plomatic ministers, and a long list of the members of the aristocracy. Lord John Russell is suffering from a severe cold, et his residence in Chceham-place. It is not likely to inter fere with his parliamentary or other public dutiful. His Excellency theAmbassi;dor of France and the Countess de Persigny entertained a select circle at dinner last evening at Albert•gab House. The Countese Apponyi will have an assembly on Wednesday evening at Cando House. The Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe and Lady Charlotte lopes-Her have left Herniates Clarendon Hotel for Brounouth Part, Dunbar, N.B. The Duchess of Inverness will have a grand dinner and an assembly this evening at her apattments in Kensington Palace. . . The Duchess of Dalberg and Sir John Dalberg Acton, Bart., M.P., left Brighton on Saturday last for Aldenham, in Shmpshire, preparatory to the funeral of the late Came's Granville. The Duke of Hamilton has left town on his re turn to Paris to join the duchess and family. The Earl and Countess Delawarr and Lady Arabella &arias West will shortly leave town for Bock hunt Park, feassez. The fart and Ledy Constance Grosvenor have taken poesession of their new mansion at Prince's Gate, Knightsbridge. The Earl and Countess of Fife have left Groave aortresoent for St. Leonardo-on-Bes fora few days. The Earl of Dudley has arrived at Dudley House, Park-lane. Lord and Lady Ebury and Hon. Miss Grosvenor have arrived in Park-street from Moore Park, Herta, for the semon. A diplomatic dinner took place at the residence of the British Minister at Berlin, Lord Bloomfield, on Wednesday. Among the guests were the Prussian Minis ter for Foreign Affairs, Baron von &Melaka ; Count Hohenthal, Count Carolyi, Count Bray, and the English ministers at Hanover and Dresden. _ . _ An entertainment, is the form of a theatrical representation, took place at the palace of the Prince Frederic William, Berlin, on Wednesday night last, at which the Prussian royal family and many other German princes and dignitaries were present. A little comedy was first played, in which Count Furrtenstein, Count Lotions, the Countess Holienthal 1., the Countess Sholunburg, aid Count Hasler took part ; and the second part of the enter tainment was a farce, in which characters were represeffied by several other persona of distinction. Mr. Maguire, M.P., in the Cork Examiner, ex presses his opinion very bluntly upon Lord Canipden's con duct:—" The conclusion to be derived from the correspea• dance in reference to the county election is that Lord Cowden's part would have been more creditable had be maintained no entire silence. For the rake of getting old of election expenses he has thought proper to cost a number of reflections and aspersions which he has now found it ne cessary to retract." The following British insurance offices are stated to be heavy losers by the fire at Berbadoes :—Northern, Bun, Royal of Liverpool, Phoenix, and Imperial. The par ticulars cannot yet be fully ascertained. The lecture at the Royal Institution on Friday evening was delivered by Hr. H. T. Heaters—the subject being "On the Relation between the Abnormal and the Mental Formations of Plants." The interesting collection of English pictures, the property of the Rev. Henry Scott Trimmer, deceased, view of Heston, the intimate friend and executor of J. ➢f. W. Turner, 8.A., including a number of beautiful original *- tures and sketches by Hogarth, Sir Jahns Reynolds, R. Wilson, and Gaissborough, chiefly presented by the Ratite to Mr. Joshua Kirby, author of the well-known work an perspective ; and others, presented by King George M., late the property of the authoress, Kra. Sarah Trimmer— was disposed of on Saturday. Professor Owen delivered the seventh of his course of lectures oa " Fossil Mammal a" at the !lime= et Practical Geology, on Friday. Fomilelephants, the remains of which are famed abundantly in the upper tertiary shat► of England, formed the subject of the lecture. Friday evening was the wood of the two extra nights which ware promised by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kean at the dose of their recent brilliant engagement at the Queen's Theatre, Edinburgh. The house sins an immense sus, the ;ramps being crowded to overflow ; and e►en the orchestral soars were invaded by the ►udience, the musi cians having to perform behind thu curtain between the acts. It has been proposed at Edinburgh that a public euteradatnest should be given to the 78th Highlanders in recognition of their susissut *anises in India. A prelimi way messing will be held on Wednesday on the subject, at w hi c h Sir John R'Neill, Sir W. Gibsoweraig, said Sir J. G. Bawd, are expected to be present. M. Maurice lludevant, the sou of Madame George Sand, is putted ► Chevalier of the Legion of Honour is yesterday's Mo►sieur. • NING, LATEST ThtTELLIGENCV AOCEPTANCE OF THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE ROMAGNA BY MEG VICTOR EM- I MANIIEL __ __ TURIN, SUNDAY, MUCH 18. Signor Farini arrived here to-day at 12 o'clock, and was presented to the King at 4 p.m. Signor Farini said : " I have the honour to place in the hands of your Majesty the legal documents containing the returns of the universal suffrage of the people of 'Emilia. May your Majesty deign to receive them with favour as a token of gratitude and confidence." The King replied : "This manifestation of the national will is so universal and so spontaneous that it confirms to Europe, at a different time and under altered con ditions, the vote already expressed by the National Aasemblies of &mills. This plates the proofs of the order, patriotism, and wis dom by which those peoples have merited universal sympathy and esteem. I accept their solemn vote, and henceforth will be proud to call them my peoples. In uniting to my ancient provinces not only the States of Modena and Parma, but also the Romagna, which has already separated it self from the Papal government, Ido not intend to fail in my deep devotedness to the Chief of the Church. lam ready to defend the independ ence necessary to the Supreme Minister of religion, the Pope ; to contribute to the splendour of his court, and to pay homage to his sovereignty. Our parliament, in receiving the representatives of Central Italy, will assure pros perity, liberty, and independence to Vie new kingdom." The Officio/ Gazette publishes a royal decree an nexing the provinces of Amilia to Sardinia. The city is en fete. A royal decree convokes the electoral assemblies of the Amilian provinces for the 25th of March ; another decree appoints fifteen new senators. THE KING OF SARDINIA UNDER THE BAN OF THE POPE. states that the Pope haa ad- dressed a monitory to King Victor Emmanuel, inti mating that henceforth all relations between his Holiness and the royal family must be considered as broken off ; that his Majesty will understand that he has openly violated the laws of the church, and is formally excommunicated. The holy father reserves to himself the duty of taking into considera tion the interests of the universal church and the good catholics of Piedmont, before proceeding to severer measures which in any event weigh from henceforth upon the person of the king. TUSCANY. The Pattie contains the following note : We learn from Turin, under dated the 16th, that the negotiations relative to Tummy are actively going on, and thet the affair is in a way of arrangement. We are assured that the system proposed is to reconcile the two principles by creating a vice-royalty in Tuscany, with which Prince Carignan will be temporarily invested. The prince will reside in Florence, where he will have a bril liant court, and this city will thus continue to be a capital. Tuscany will send deputies to the Turin parliament, and will moreover have a special assembly for internal affairs. She will keep her Leopoldine laws and certain special privileges required by the habits of her people. This planohould it be adopted, will enable Tus way to enjoy all the political advantages of annexation, while at gni same time retaining her autonomy. We pub lish this information as we received it from our correspon dent, who manures us that the plan exists and is accepted as authentic in the best informed circles of Turin. FLORENCE, Masai A solemn religion" ceremony has taken place on the occasion of the publication of the result of the vote. The Archbishop intoned the Te Delon. The city is en fete. Shouts of " The Bing for ever !" " Ricasoli for ever !" are general. 7 4.0.0:. mr I t ", 4ARCEU 19, 'i I 4 '' `. HOLLAND. PRUSSIA. 'UNITED STATES. contahmod is Octant Rechberg's despatch of. I'M February, would continue to observe non ntion in the affairs of Central Italy. The Austrian government has despatched its reply direct to Paris. The Austrian note says that since the interview at Villafranca the Emperor Francis Joseph has made too many sacrifices for the maintenance of peace to be able to recommence a struggle which would soon become a European war. Eat, although keeping a merely observant attitude, Austria believes nevertheless that she must draw the attention of France to the secret intrigues of Sardinia' agents in Venetia, as well as to the con tinued provocations of the Piedmontese Ministry, and she repeats most distinctly that the Emperor Francis Joseph would not hesitate to make the greatest sacrifices in defence of his rights over Venetia. THE PAPAL STATES. ROMA !Lace 16. This morning a great manifestation in favour of the Pope ham taken place at the Vatican. THE TWO SICILIES. NAPLES (vii Gem*, MAWR 14. Six Neapolitans have been sent into exile; other Neapolitans have been informed that they may re main at Naples. The court of Vienna has disapproved of the severe measures which were intended. An Austrian general has arrived at Naples. _ _ - The ambassadors of the Western Powers have given advice to the King. The Communal Council of Amsterdam has re solved to raise a loan of three millions of florins, for the purpose of making a canal to connect Am sterdam directly with the Northern Sea. BERLIN, SATURDAY. The despatch of M. Thouvenel explaining the motive for the annexation of Savoy was received here yesterday. Its contents have been communi cated to the Prussian government. THE GERMANIC CONFEDERATION. ntianuroar-m-TirremuNE, &Tummy. In to-day's sitting of the Federal Diet Prussia gave her vote in reference to the affair of Electoral Hesse. Prussia demanded the re-establishment of the constitution of 1831 after being submitted to examination by the Federal Diet. The committee of the affair of Electoral Hesse presented their report to-day. The majority of the committee proposed that the petition of the Second Chamber of Hesse should be dismissed, stating as reason the incompetency of the Diet. The minority declared that it could not join in this ProPogid• _ QUEENSTOWN, Itoinuor. The Royal Mail steam-ship Europa, Captain Leitch, has arrived. She left Boston on the 7th and Halifax on the 9th March. She brings 44 passengers, 90,000 dollars in specie for England, and 5,000 dollars for Havre. She landed all the mails, and proceeded on to Liverpool. The Europa passed the America, from Liverpool, on the 10th of March. The rejection of the treaty with Mexico by the Senate was anticipated, in which event Mr. M'Lane, the American minister, will not return. Troops were under orders for Texas and Mexico. The black crew of the Itritish ship Aramingo bad muti nied. Onc of the mutineers was shot, and the others were arrested at Charleston. The Runt= fleet bad sailed from Honolulu for Cronatadt. Mr. Nelson was in California. The news from that place is unimportant. Business was dull, owing to a large number of arrivals. Havannah &dykes Ito March 1 state that the steamers I General Mirsmon and Marques left for Vera Crux on the 27th ult., under the Mexican flag. Sugar steady ; stock, 90,000 boxes. Freights unaltered. Advice, from Victoria, British Columbia, to the Bth ult., state that 82,000 dollars worth of gold bad been exported in the month of January. New Yoga. Itasca 6.—Flour and corn firm, and prices tending upwards. Provisions quiet. fiagars heavy. Coffee quiet. Iron and docks firm. Meld% 6.—Eiales of Cotton, 18,000 bake. Middling, 104 c. to 11c. Sales in three days, 42,000; re ceipts, 26,000 bales. Freights to Liverpool, id. Exchange, 74 to 84 premium. SAVOY AND NICE. Baron Greffii, the president of the Savoyard deputation, had a long interview with the Emperor Napoleon on Saturday. His Majesty asked a great many questions about Savoy. Preparations for taking possession are said to be going forward with the utmost activity. The Minister at War has appointed a commission to settle the mode in which the Savoy and Nice con , tangents are to be incorporated into the French army, and to enable the inhabitants of the annexed provinces to " enjoy the benefits" (sic) of the French system of recruiting. The Avenir of Nice publishes a scheme for a reorganisation of the French departments adjacent to the county of Nice. The city of Nioe is to be come the capital of a new department of the Var, which will be divided into three arrondissements-- those of Nice, Graeae, and Castellane, and will comprise 210,000 inhabitants. The present depart ment of the Var, enlarged by the arrondissement of Digne as a compensation for Grasse, will take the name of Est... Si-el or Verdon. The lest of the department of the Upper and Lower Alps (with the exception of. the arrondissement of Forcalquier incorporated with Vanelnse) will become " the Department of the Alps," with five arrondissements and 176,000 in- THE NEUTRALITY OF A despatch from Vienna announces that Austria will pronounce herself against any violation of the rights of Swiss neutrality guaranteed by treaties THE LATE DISTURBANCE AT PESTH. The Wiener Zeitung (official paper) gives the fol lowing account of a political demonstration which was made at Perth on Thursday last : According to advioes from Pestli about 200 students, who bad in vain attempted to force their way into Normal chwehee in the course of the morning of the 15th of Yank, went to the cemetery in the Francenadadt. The crowd was Endre& quietly to disperse, but, as no attention was paid to Um official summons, the police, in order to prevent further enemata, wee obliged to arrest several persona. In consequence of this measure the crowd begin is march towards the Kerepesch Cemetery, and as the arployes of the police sought to prevent its effecting its purpose the officer of police and his men were derided (ter /sant). This conduct rendered further arrests indispen sable, and the police wem et last obliged to make use of their anus, as an attack was made on them with the intent to liberate the prisoners. Unfortunately, some persons were wounded. The inhabitants of Peeth had nothing whatever to do with the affair, and, as the peace of the city was in no other way disturbed, the soldiers of the police were able completely NW without other assistance to enforce the law. In the evening the students tried to keep the public from entering the national theatre, mid the interference of the authorities and mounted police proving ineffectual, a "division" (two companies) of regular troops was called out, which clearest the place. The peace of the city was not again disturbed. FRANCE AND AUSTRIA. VIENNA, Yawn The French ambaasador, the Marquis de Mons tier, informed the Austrian government a few days ago of the approaching evacuation of Lombardy by the French troops, and in the name of his govern ment expressed a wish that, after the departure of the French troops, Austria, in accordance with the TWO DAYS LATER FROM NEW YORK BY TELE- GRAPH TO HALIFAX. NW Yon; MARCH B.—The loss of every soul on board the Hungarian is fully confirmed. Stocks in improved demand, and slightly dearer. Cotton steady, sales in the last three days 9,000 bales. Middling Uplands, Flour and wheat rather dull, and better grades somewhat easier. Provisions steady, excepting pork, which is somewhat easier. ORIZANN Karim 7.—Cotton unchanged. Sales to-day, 16,000 balm Sales in the previous two days, 29,000 balsa. BOMBAY MAIL. The Madras reached Suez on the 11th instant. The Veetis left Malta for Mane'nits at 9 a. m. on the 113th instant. The &minty letters will probably be delivered on Wednesday morning. . . The Delia left Malta at 11 a.m. on the 18th inst. for Southampton, where she may be expected about the 27th. The &MIMI arrival at Aden, en route for Australia, on the 6th mat. A letter from arghorn of the 12th says :—" A friar, in his monastic attire, stood up yesterday morning in the Piazza di Palazzo Vecchio, at Florence, and began preaching against annexation in words belonging to the fire and brimstone style of eloquence. The people laid bold of .ad ho oxistit hero some to riot had it not been for the timely interference of respectable citizens—among whom was the secretary-general of the government, Celestite) Bianchi, who rescued the maniac from the fury of the justly incensed people." In ancient usage, which dates from the time of Henry IV.—that of giving agricultural lectures on Sunday, after maaa—hag lately been revived in some communes of France, under government patronage. UNITRD STATES AND CANADIAN MAIM —LI VER. root„ YAWN 17.—The British and North American Royal Mail steamship Arabia, Captain James Stone, took her de about 4 o'clock this afternoon for New York direct, tak. outparengerasodthe mails for the United States, Canada, kc. the Montreal Ocean Steamship Company's new straw steamer Canadian, Captain Ballautine, will take her de parture on Wednesday, at lam a.m., for Portland (Maine), via Queenstown, taking out passengers and the United States and Canadian nails. The Liverpool, New York and Philadelphia Steamship Company's screw steamer Kangarun, Captain Broils, will also take her departure on Wedneday, at 11 a.m., for New York, via Queeustown, with passengers and the United States mail. Telegraphic despatches for all parts of the American continent, will be received at the OIL* of the American Telegraph Com pany, 10, Exchange-street East, for any steamer within a few minutes of her departure. The box at the Liverpool post-office will he open on Wednesday fur the receipt of letters, &c., Intended to be forwaried by the Canadian, till 0 am, and rid Queetudown until 9.30. p.m. TILE OUTWARD WEST INDIA, PRNINEWLA., AND AMERICAN MAIM —SOUTHAMPTON, MATC !MAT. —The Royal Mail Company's steamship La Plate , Captain Weller, sailed hence today, at 2.30 p.m.. with the fortnightly mail s for the West Indies, Pacific, California, and Central Ame rica. She took 56 passengers, and on freight, specie, 5,1201.; jowellet7, 4,7501.; diamonds, 300 f.; quicksilver, 42f.; and a full cargo of French and English merchandise, The Peninsular and Oriental Company a steamer, Tagus, Captain Hall, also sailed hence at 2 p.m., with the Iliad malls for the Peninsular ports, 9 passengers, and a general cargo, chief y English manufactures . The Hamburg and American Company's mail steamship, Bavaria, Captain will sail tomorrow (Sunday)with the German and English mails for Nor York direct. She takes out a very large cargo, and - upwards of 450 passengers. The Prninsulat and Oriental Company's steamer, China, Captain Joe, is preparing to take out the East India and China mails cif the inst. CUM- EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom , con ow coartisrommr.) PARIS, SUNDAY Evrtn4c. M. Anselme Petetin—a gentleman who, it in un derstood, has promise of a prefecture in Savoy --signs an article in the Opinion Nationale, which, in spite of oratorical precautions and an affected moderation, is in substance a defiance to Europe, and au ostentatious declaration that the French go vernment would like nothing so much as a general war to revenge Waterloo and Leipaic, and to rally disaffected subjects at home to the Emperor's dynasty. After speaking of the "bitter team" which, according to him, France constantly sheds for the humiliation suffered at the periods stereo typed by the two battles referred to, and regretting that the Republic of 1848 did not stretch out its hand to take, not only Savoy, but Belgium and the Prussian provinces of the Rhine, this representa tive of the aggressive policy of Napoleon 111. goes on to say : If in a period of profound peace you were to talk to people about the necessity of conquering the Rhine fron. tier they would laugh at you and think you • fool. But— [and here he betrays the motivefor the tentative, provoking, ambiguous policy which keeps the world in • state of constant alarm and suspicion]—if whenever she makes • natural and legitimate movement France feels that she is watched and threatened—if a popular conviction is formed that there exista against us • tacit concert, a perpetual con spiracy of malevolence and compression ; if France is brought to discover that the antipathies against a certain power which reigns over her is extended to a hatred against herself ; if the affront of her defeat is to be eternally brought up against her and made the basis of public law— then do not doubt it, France will one day return to her ambitious views, but it will be your fault. Then she will take in her heart a resolution to become strong enough to suffer no more insults: and to resume with entire trnn. quillsty her pacific tabours after having by an overwhelming revenge dewed that insult which she had endeavoured but was sot permitted to forget. In thinking continually of Leipsic she will perhaps force you to remember Jena, and in forcing us to this revenge, the glory and horror of which may heaven awe us—do you know what an incom parable service you will have rendered? It is all very well to be a legitimist; but Frenchmen do not repudiate the flag under which their sons fight and become illustrious. [Here we have distinctly laid down the necessity under which the Emperor of peace it placed to carry on foreign wan, in order to prevent divi. done at home.] You will have accomplished around that victorious flag that fusion, that reconciliation of classes and parties which we have vainly sought since 'B4, and which was never in the way of realisation, except under Napoleon L, and under the pressure of peril from abroad. You would have already had an inkling of this miracle after the recent war in Italy, if fatality had not brought in the inter vention of • foreign element. But in the case supposed, you would see this miracle complete, and in all the fulness of its fecund and beneficent splendour, and on that day France will have recovered all her strength, and will be able to despise all hatreds. - - The Duke of Magenta (Marshal M'Mahon) is appointed to command the Chalons camp, which, according to some reports, will be augmented to the strength of 100,000 men. The Emperor will review the infantry of the Imperial Guard in the court of the Tuileries on Tuesday next, and at the same time will inspect the 56th Regiment in the new uniform in which it is proposed to dress the whole of the line. M. F. de Lessee makes known, in his journal, L'istkese de Suez, that he has received an autograph letter from the Emperor of Abyssinia, offering to support the canal scheme with " all the resources of his empire." _ _ - PARIS, SATURDAY Evomm. I hear from a private source that the treaty for the cession of Savoy was signed on the 15th. French troops will certainly occupy Savoy imme diately. It is ooufidently stated that the Pope has asked the Emperor to withdraw his troops from Rome, and that the Emperor makes no other ob• jection than that he wishes first to be assured that Austria will not attack Piedmont. On the other hand, it is said that Austria will not object it Piedmont will promise not to attack the Pope. All this probably covers diplomatic fencing which will not, I think, lead to the evacuation of Italy by the French army, but there is no doubt that negotia tions of great importance are going on. The Opinion Nationale says : We are assured that the Prince de la Tour d'Auvergne, the French ambassador in Berlin, has received instructions to declare, in OEM of • protest on the part of Prussia against the annexation of Savoy, that France will follow a similar course in regard to this annexation to that taken by Prussia and Austria when the French government protested against the absorption by the latter power of the free ritir of Cracow —that is to say, France will simply Nix notice of the protest. The italics in which the Opinion printa the word take mean that France will take Savor as well as take notice of the protest against her act. The same journal says, in a leading article : If we were the French government—that government which went to war to deliver Italy, and which would desire to see that fine country definitively emancipated without being obliged to shed more blood—we should oome to an understanding with England to assure respect for the prin. ciple of non intervention in the Peninsula ; we should then withdraw our troops from Borne and Lombardy, and we s:iould leave the liberalism of the north and the despotism of the south to settle their quarrel among themselves, not rmitting any European power to throw a sword into the If such a course were strictly followed, and not departed from or account of some unforeseen or distasteful result, the Opinion foresees that Austria, finding it hopeless to keep up her influence ia Italy, would at no distant day abandon Venetia as a useless burden to the House of Hapsburg and a stumbling-block to the peace of Europe. The Bourse was unfavourably influenced by the , fall in Consols and the protest of Switzerlana, to which it is understood that Prussia and Engla nd have adhered. The Route fell 25c. and 20c., closing very heavily at 67.80 f., both for cash and account. Mobilier fell 3.75 f. Railways were 1 firmer than the Rents, but fell from 1.25 f. to 2.50 f. ' The trial of the Bishop of Orleans is again ad ; jouruud. I learn that M. Chair d'Est Ange threw the Slide overboard, but supported the action by " the heirs of Bishop Rousseau. ' Poor Jullien is dead, and was buried to-day. ' A young English lady, who, under the profes ' 1 sional name of Kidlle. Persiui, met with great success at several theatres in Italy at the beginning , of last year, but whose engagements were suddenly I broken off by the war, was enabled by the kindness ' . of K and Madame Peyser, who lent their splendid I mansion in the Avenue Montaigne for the purpose, • to give a brilliant concert last night, preparatory ~ to her departure for England. The debutante has , a clear soprano voice of touch power, and has evi -1 dently been educated in the best Italian school. She was well supported by an old London favourite, , Madlle. Favanti, who has just returned from Italy. Sts JAlta nuouus—We understand the total Nam realised by sulsouriptiom for this gentleman amounted to 9,0001. His health is still very indifferent, and Captain Brooke has proceeded to 11m-two as chief of the &weak government, and representative of Sir James. All effort* to induce the Bettie!' government to purchase the settlement are now relinquished. --Lorodou nod Chime Tekornoit. Tu EAST Dl.t HoCSE LIBRARY AND MUSEUM.-.. It cannot be mid that the authorities are dilatory in making the arrangements for the trailer of the India-office to the West-end. If (viol diligence were noel in all drimttmeniss on every occasion, thin;* would come as near perfection as is possible in madam, matter'. Of the thousand tons of records Ave hundred, r0n.i..4 of duplicates and ueivovioaial trifilicktoo, have been void at a fair rate, mai nvkliAivf, we :ffe inforrned, altogether something under r.,U00/. The pipets so sold, by • pr' Teo* well known to the trade, will have the ink removed fr om them, and will worke d into I,lp and remade into papers which will fetch oloulde the prtee given for them s the arr. The library .4 the East India Offirv, a, rich in Oriental manuscripts, is to be transferred, we tinderrtatill, to the Board of Conti-oi. To the mune idnec will go, perhaps, the valitabin collection of in•huitrial laviuwav, 'will:qrs even the museum of annual& Ara...riling to emir, however, this latter collection will be aunt to the British ]lowan. *Mb a comae we world I etallt.tiy iieprevate. The maw .4 .trtiche at tee British Museum is alnvaly r. pmligions no to defy oupereisionr. be sides, it is very desiralr'.o to retain .11 the Miran colic tieris in one spot, mid that spot the most smossible to Ones.'4 students.—Horue ontrd . - "